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A few words to all people concerning the present and succeeding times.
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Raunce, John, 17th cent.
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1662
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All whoredoms drunkenness and Oaths in these are thy delight And all that God and good men loaths is pleasant in thy sight Oh! England do not so forget God's mercies towards thee A little time is left thee yet that happie thou mayst be If thou dost suddenly repent and from thy sins depart Embrace God's truth which he hath sent and it will change thy heart But if thou stubbornly go on yet hear what I do say The Lord will not let thee alone but he will bring a day Of bitter howling over thee in which thou shalt lament The time which can't recalled be that then thou mayst repent Against thee then God will reveal his wrath shal thee destroy In his displeasure with thee deal then perish shal thy joy For with strange plagues sword famine the Lord will with thee plead Yea then thus he will examine thee suddenly with dread Oh Land thou fruitful thou shalt pine thy Cities must decay Thy people proud who are so fine their glory shal away Oh London great shal be thy wo who shal lament thy case For in thy streets 〈…〉 grow God will thee so debase For thy oppression and thy pride for thy backsliding state For that the truth thou dost deride and goodness thou dost hate For that thou dost God's servants beat imprison and misuse The simple-hearted thou dost threat and innocent abuse Religion now with thee is vain Idolatry hath place Lukewarmness is imbrac'd again and all that may disgrace God and his truth Christ and his Lambs it may be found in thee And all that can increase truths bands by wickedness is free Who is opprest save righteous men who in vile prisons lie Arise O God for these things then yea loud now is the crie Of thine Elect in every place How long Lord Holy True Wilt thou not hasten on thy pace against the wicked Crew Yea this I say let all awake the day is very near In which God will in vengeance shake the Earth that all may fear Let Kings and Judges now be wise let all men soon repent Let sinners from their rest arise the night is now far spent The great day of the Lord 's at hand who shal abide his ire Or who before him then shal stand who is devouring fire Then Kings and Captains bond and free shall at his presence quake Then all into dark holes would flee when he the Earth shal shake Then in the ragged Rocks and Caves you 'l seek a place to hide Who use God's People worse then slaves then they not you 'l abide Even then when Earth in fire shal burn and Elements melt with heat When heavens like scrowls away shal turn God's anger then shall threat Because his patience then shal cease to all his enemies And onely judgments shal encrease to all Eternities Where gnashing teeth with weeping cries for evermore shal be To such as do God's truth despise and follow vanities Oh now dear suffering friends rejoice Redemption will not stay From us who have made Christ our choice before the evil day When Prisons Sword Gallows and Fire shal compass us about He will help us when in the mire and guide us when we doubt All tender Friends I dearly greet you in the Lord of Life And in his patience which is sweet fare well where is no strife Yea in that Love which suffereth long for ever let us dwel And in God's Truth let us be strong in this I say farewel The last day of the 4th month 1662. JOHN RAUNCE
A few Words to all People concerning the present and succeeding Times WHoso is wise amongst the People Consider what I say Great things to pass the Lord will bring In this the later day For now out of Captivity shall little Judah walk And poor oppressed Israel with all her feeble folk Yea now while Pharoah doth oppress the Seed which now must reign And Herod killeth with distress yet all their work is vain Though Chaunting Priests with forgeries poor silly souls delude Yet oft God's Witness doth arise against what they intrude Though many people do backslide from that which once they knew And with the wicked now deride God 's servants who are true Though we lâ—ke sheep appointed are to suffer at man's will Yet dying we the Truth declare though men our bodies kill It is God's â—â—â—ness in each man in secret shall arise To plead for us when no man can for Conscience peace devise When we in Prisons are opprest and from the Rulers sent God's Witness then doth break their rest to move them to repent Oh! happy now dear friends we are who have obey'd the Light Which doth for us our cause declare when we are out of sight Yea this I say for ever blest and none shall take our Crown Nor yet deprive us of our rest by treading of us down Let now Jerusalem rejoice her children shall be free They now do hear the Bridegrooms voice and Zions King they see Who doth the Prison-doors unlock down in the Dungeon deep He pierceth through the hardest Rock that he our souls may seâ—k Into his bosom now return all ye that with me weep And do in secret with me mourn the Lord our soul wil keep Let no high thought in us be found lest it lift up our mind But in true humbleness abound for here true peace we find In Aegypt's darkness wise men talk who do the Light despise While we in Goshen in it walk in whom it doth arise That which the Prophets did foretel and good men pray'd should be Now in it with the 〈◊〉 we dwel in measure as we see Our boldness great and confidence in weakness doth arise As we do keep in the true sence which doth the World despise When we before the Rulers stand none think what then to say The Lord our strength is near at hand to guide us in that day Yea when the Lord doth stop our speech we waiting in his fear Our patience shall God's Witness reach when men no words shall hear For Christ in silence like a Lamb did to the 〈…〉 come And as a sheep 〈…〉 the shearer so did he then stand dumb False â—udgemens on him wise men gave thâ—â— did his life condemn In scorn they brought him to the grave and did the Truth contemn God's Martyrs dear in every place like sufferings under-went When they were used with disgrace yet they abode content Now is the time of suffering begun in the last day Which shall the Beast to ruine 〈…〉 and'â— Kingdom must decay Although destruction be in hand for us a people poor It wil bring darkness o're the Land in which shall die the Whore And Antichrist with all his train with toyle themselves shall vex For they shall see their Labour 's vâ—in God's servants to perplex All Babels Rulers sore shall grieve At that which they shall see When none their City can relieve destroyed it must be Strong is the God that wil annoy thee with his vengeance sore And in his fury thee destroy where thou shalt cry and roar The time is short thou hast to reign though thou sit'st like a Queen Yet thou shalt perish in disdain the like was never seen Thy Kingdom now is very dark and blackness doth abound It 's now too late for thee to heark repentance can't be found When sentence past none can reverse the Kâ—ng of Heavens Decree Thy scoffing cannot make it less what he wil do with thee At his approach thy strength shall fail thy stubborn heart shall mourn With horror then thy self bewail for thou shalt be forlorn Thy lying mouth shall then be shut thy vaunting turn'd aside Thou from thy Lovers shalt be cut then down shalt come thy pride Thy wise men and thy Captains all together so combine That ye together all may fall within a little time The Work is such you do oppose so weighty and profound The like before it never rose your wisdoms to confound No Weapon forged now shall stand against God's chosen One Whose iron Rod is in his hand For he must reign alone Yea all that will not bow to him in shivers must be broke For he will shatter every Limb with his destroying stroke The Child is born this Work shall â—â—e effâ—cted in this kind And suddenly these things shall be for little is behind Yea many are the Children young who shall these things behold And are the Nations yet among but God wil all unfold And to his little ones reveal his wonders great and strange What he will do that he may heal the Nations at their change How Kings and Princes shall bow down their glory then forsake And at their feet shall cast their Crown that they may now partake With him and those who have been poor and whom this World despise Yet of true Riches they have store though they walk in disguise The Jews who would Messiah know and are as yet behind In them the Light now dawn will shew where they they the Christ may find The Gentiles who in darkness have been buried in their sin Shall now come forth of that dark grave where long time they have been Now is the time for Jews to turn and Gentiles to awake In many hearts the Light doth burn which shall all Nations shake Yea Kings and Kingdoms they shall reel Light shall their Powers rent Great strivings in them they shall feel to move them to repent No Laws man makes can Light arrest nor Prisons it contain No Banishments can it oppress In Conscience Light must reign The Gallows Sword Faggots and Fire these Instruments are vain With which man may himself out-tire yet still the Light remain God's Witness true in this last age by whom he wil contend With Kings and Rulers in their rage that so they may amend And set his captive people free their Conscience to enjoy That they may have their liberty and none may them destroy Oh happy Nation where thy King and Rulers shall bow down Unto the Light which now doth spring they shall receive the Crown Of immortality and bless which never shall away Their honor then shal be endless and glory not decay But England yet into thine ears this dreadful voice I send That thy destruction's very near if thou dost not amend All Sodom's sins in thee are found the old world's wicked way Iniquity doth now abound God's people to destroy Nothing thou dost so much neglect as truth and righteousness God's ways thou wholly dost reject and lovest wickedness