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A77973	A vvarning from the Lord to the inhabitants of Underbarrovv, and so to all the inhabitants in England, where it shall meet with them, who holds up the false teachers, and false worship, and who beats, stone, stock, and persecute, and hail out of their assemblies, those who are sent by the Lord, to speak his word freely; with an exhortation, that they hast to meet the Lord by true repentance, by putting off the works of darkness, lest the Lord cut them assunder, by his sword, which is already drawn and put into the hand of his servants. Also, a word to my brethren, and companions in tribulation in the kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ, who is by the world scornfully called Quakers. With the manner of my passage through the dark world, (wherein the simple ones may see the deceits of the man of sin in his actings like the true spirit) to warn all to follow the true light within, which leads unto God, & to beware of the voice, lo here & lo there, by one who is a labourer in the vineyard, who is not known to the world; (though named of the world) Edvvard Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6057; Thomason E733_5; ESTC R206899	28,263	40

of Faith which is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that Preaching we do own for Faith comes by the hearing of this Word Preached and the Prayer with the Spirit of truth we do own for that is not in word to be seen of men but led to that not by Custom Form and Tradition but by the eternal Spirit which proceeds from God which hath free recourse to God which God heareth and doth accept for there iniquity is purged out of the heart and is not regarded for he that regards iniquity in his heart God will not hear his Prayer but the Preaching and Praying of your Hireling I do deny for they are abomination to the Lord for his Preaching leads from God stands in his own Will in his own Time in Form Custom and Tradition and your Souls are not refreshed by it neither is true Faith known among you for how can he being evil speak good things A corrupt Tree cannot bring forth good fruit said he Who cried Wo unto them that said and did not in which generation he is how can he teach and direct toward true Religion being he denies the Corner stone the first Principle of Religion which is the foundation which no other can any lay the Light of God which hath enlightened every one that comes into the world which he denies to have enlightened every one poor people I do pitty your souls God is my witness to see you lie in darkness in ignorance and blindness and in deadness under your dead Hireling and under his dead traditional Preaching your wisdom reason and dark minds is only fed and strengthned by his preaching and you all are but building upon the sand hearing but not doing and we who have suffered the loss and have witnessed the destruction of that building do now Declare freely against it where it is standing for we know the depth height and breadth of all your Profession and of all your carnal Worship and Observances and the Word of God is as a fire which will burn up and as a hammer which will beat down all your imagined Worships and carnal Ordinances And his Praying is abomination to the Lord for it is as theirs was which the Son of God cryed Wo against which stood Praying in the Synagogues and which made long Prayers and the Praying of all such we do Deny for their Prayers is as the Scribes and Pharisees was who were called of men Masters as they are now and who were sayers and not doers as your Hireling is therefore all you people consider and diligently weigh these things If I Declare to you the Truth own it without respect of persons if I speak a lye let me be accounted as accursed for ever and all you simple ones who are seeking the living among the dead who are in the simplicity seeking after the truth and yet are bewitched to observe that which God never commanded and to seek God in that way which he was never found in for Christ alone is the way to the Father and he is but one from generation to generation in all generations for your sakes do I lay open the deceits of your Hireling and chief Priest who is in the way of Balaam following the wages of unrighteousness and do advise you as from the mouth of the Lord to cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils and to cease from all your customary carnal Observances which God never commanded but is only an imitation and an imagination your souls are kept in death under the power of Corruption Pride Drunkenness Covetousness Oppression and Earthly-mindedness Wantonness and the lustful Nature ruling is head in you and among you are that generation that draws neer God with their mouths but your hearts goes after Covetousness and are far from the Lord ye Worship an unknown god and are persecuters of the true God and of his Servants as ever it was in all generations by Priest and People as it is now with you and your Priest they that professed truth in word persecuted them that witnessed the Power the horrible filthy thing is committed among you and you love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof you are in the generation of your forefathers who spoke good of the false Prophets but persecuted the true Prophets so it is now among you he that hath the Word of the Lord from the mouth of the Lord to declare unto you him you revile and mock and scorn and persecute but he that speaks the imagination of his own heart from the Saints conditions him you own and hear and here you shew your selves to be them which Christ spoke of which would receive them that come in their own name but will not receive him that cometh in the name of his Father Repent and turn to the Lord lest his judgments come upon you and destroy you with an utter destruction the day of the Lord is terrible and dreadful which will come upon the wicked and upon all the workers of iniquity Be ashamed ye Heathens you maintainers of the greedy dumb dogs and upholders of the horrible filthy thing the persecuters of the righteous seed the contemners of the Just the generations of Serpents who cries Let Barrabas go free ye generation of Hypocrites who professes God but persecutes the Son of God where he is made manifest of this Generation in which you are Shall all the righteous blood-shed be required even from Abel Repent and cease from all your former waies and doings from Pride Drunkenness Covetousness and Oppression from Lying Swearing from Mirth and Wantonness and vain Pleasures for the day of the Lord cometh that shal burn as an Oven and the Proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble fully dry for the Lord will be avenged of his enemies and render vengeance in flames of fire upon all that know not God and that obeys not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Who can stand when he appears Who can dwell with everlasting burnings Even he that doth righteously and that is purged from iniquity But then wo unto you all Hypocrits and Professers and to the wicked and profane ones ye shall all partake of the righteous Judgment and drink of the Cup of the Lords Fury and Indignation for your iniquities are seen and your transgressions are not covered from the Lord all your Profession will not hide you from the presence of the Lamb for in your Sacrifices are found deceit and in your Offerings lodges iniquity the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it therefore be ashamed of all your Profession and of all your Glorious Carnal Ordinances for the Lord is coming to uncover you and to make you and your profane Hireling manifest for God is pure and holy and no iniquity dwels with him nor none that

works wickedness therefore stop thy mouth thou Hireling who Preaches for hire Devines for money and leans upon the Lord and useth thy tongue and saith he saith it when the Lord never spoke to thee Thou art in the Generation of the Scribes and Pharisees and be ashamed ye upholders of him for now every tree that brings not forth good fruit must be hewen down the Lord hath said it his word is as a fire which will burn up all the wicked his Word is sharper than a two edged sword which will cut down and wound the head of the wicked ye Mockers Scorners ye Swearers and Liars ye Proud Covetous ones ye Merry-hearted and Wanton ones dreadful is the day that shall come upon you the Lord will make his power known and glorifie himself in your destruction except you repent and turn to the Lord Ye hard hearted ones and rebellious ones the Plagues of God is to rest upon you therefore prise your time and repent and fear the Lord God Almightie and lay aside your vain wicked waies and confess your sins and forsake them for such shall find mercy All ye People mind the Light of God within you and hearken to that which shews you what is sin and evil which shews you your proud minds your carnal coveteous desires and affections which checks and reproves you for your ungodlie deeds this Light shines in darkness but the darkness cannot comprehend it this is the Light which hath enlightened every one that cometh into the World which Light is Christ he that follows this Light walks not in darkness but hath the Light of life he that hates this Light stumbles and walks in darkness ignorance and blindness as you do turning the grace of God into wantonness which same grace is the Saints Teacher this is the free Grace of God which hath appeared to all men which in all Generations taught the Saints to denie ungodliness and wordlie lusts and led them into puritie and holiness This Grace do we witness praised praised be the Lord to be led by it which ever was the Saints leader and through the teaching of this Grace do we denie your Hireling and all such Pharisees and Hipocrites who makes a prey upon the poor people and if you stop not into their mouths they even prepare War against you as the false Prophets of Israel did and dailie are we taught by it in the waies of God to do his service praised be the onlie Lord of glorie for evermore who hath gathered us up to himself to be taught alone by his grace out of the mouth of your Hireling who once made a prey upon us but eternal praise and glorie to our God who in his Light hath discovered unto us his nakedness and his shame his hypocrisie and deceit in the eternal Light of God do we see him and all such to be blind guides and leads the poor blind people in darkness and in ignorance and none is able to come to the true knowledge of the eternal Truth in his Ministerie for he is no Minister of God but an Anti-Christ denying Christ to be come in the flesh denying the Light to have enlightened everie one as several times he hath done to me but my Father who is Light and Glorie hath now made him manifest and in that Light Christ Jesus do I see him to be one whom hath run whom God hath not sent therefore doth he not profit you at all nor puts no difference from the precious and the vile in you nor leads you to discern the clean from the unclean the pure from the impure in you but speaks the Divination of his own brain feeding your dark minds and from the eternal Light made manifest in me from God the Father who is over all and above all do I Declare against him and against all Hirelings and greedie dumb Dogs that seeks for their gain from their Quarter as he doth freelie do I declare as knowing them to be deceivers and blind guides For the simple ones sake among you who are insnared and kept in ignorance by him under his dead drie barren sloathful Ministerie Repent ye people who lies in the Captivitie of Babylon under your Babylonish Merchant now is the Lord leading his Sons and Daughters out of Egypt out of bondage and now he that hath led Captive is led into Captivitie praised and honored be the God of Saints for evermore who hath redeemed us out of the mouth of your Idol shepheard who feeds himself with the fat and who hath enlightened our dead Consciences and hath shined in our hearts in his eternal Light and of this have I received freelie and from this do I let forth freelie to the laying open the deceits of your Hireling Now is the day of your Visitation wherein the Savior of the World stands at the door and knocketh if anie open to him he will come in therefore prise your time and hear the Word of the Lord and lay aside the works of darkness Lying and Swearing Mocking and Scorning and beating of your fellow Servants Wo unto you ye Strikers who hardens your hearts against the Lord and against those who declare to you the wickedness of your waies the Lord will come when you are not aware and give you your Portion with Hypocrites and Unbeleevers and cast you into utter darkness Repent and turn to the Lord your God with mourning and lamentation and cease from all your former waies and doings cease from Covetousness and Oppression ye aged people and cease from Lightness Vanitie and Pride ye yong People and from all your Priests and Steeple-houses for there your Lightness Pride and vain minds are fed and nourished and the enemies of the Lord are strengthned Dear people there had I once fellowship with you in your Pride Lightness and Vanitie and there was once my joy and delight but now am I chosen by the Lord out of all these things praised be him for ever to serve the Lord in declaring against all these abominations in whom they are standing For Wo unto the proud and light vain minds who are tripping upon the mountains and whose hearts are not subject to the Lord against all these abominations do I Declare as from the Lord and do advise you as from him to depart out of these abominations for the day is coming when you must be separated from all your lovers a day of darkness and miserie therefore prise your time and hearken unto the Light of God within you which reproves you for your filthie and ungodlie deeds and words this Light will lead you to God out of all filthiness obeying it this will separate the clean from the unclean in you and will lead you to be taught of God and to have unitie with God and with the Saints for it was in the Light

which Light shall be your Condemnation because you love darkness rather than Light ye are returned with the Dog to his vomit and with the Sow to the wallowing in the mire your latter end is worse than your beginning and the Parable is fulfilled upon you for lying against the Truth will the Lord plead with you and wo will be your Portion for ever for the liars shall not enter into the Kingdom of God therefore all people fear the living God and prise your time and see where you are his servants you are unto whom you do obey all must give an account to the living God and must receive according to what is done in the Bodie in such an hour will the Master come which you are not aware of and will take account of your stewardship for God hath given unto everie one a Talent therefore spend not awaie your time in wickedness and in a deceitful Profession of God feeding your dark minds with the dead formal Preaching of your dead carnal blind Pharisee but hearken to the Light of God within you and improve everie one his Talent the good and faithful servant improves his to the honor and riches of his Master but the sloathful servant hides his in the earth living in the filthiness saying he hath no power now see which servant you are and read your selves within how you stood covered in the presence of the living God for wo unto him that is covered but not with the Spirit of the Lord the servants of God brings forth fruit unto God bears the image of their Father and the servants of the Devil brings forth fruits of darkness and bears the image of the Devil which is glorious to the carnal eie and feeds the carnal mind The Seed of the Woman is but one in all generations and the Seed of the Serpent is but one which ever was is ruling and reigning in the Children of Disobedience who are disobedient to the Light of God within them and betwixt these two Seeds is Enmitie the one against the other each Seed is known by its fruit the old bottle pours out old Wine the new bottle new Wine therefore all people sink down to within and call in all your wandring thoughts imaginations and affections and desires and see which seed is head in you and see what your desires and affections goes out after for where your hearts are there is your treasure see what you do possess of God in your Souls and what you are made witnesses of for he that believeth hath the witness in himself and Faith is the Victorie over the world he that can receive it let him Dear people I have freelie Declared to you the Truth and from the love of God shed abroad in my heart to your Souls and for the Seed sake in you which lieth in death captivated under your Wisdom and Reason have I spoken the Word of the Lord which if you own it and abide in it shall be the savor of Life and in eternal joy shall you witness me to be true in what I have Declared but if you harden your hearts and kick against the Truth and against what I have Declared shall be the savor of death unto Death and in eternal torment and miserie shall ye witness me in what I say for to that which should exercise the Conscience do I speak in everie one of you and to that in you have I cleared my Conscience and have freed my Spirit this is the day of your Visitation the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Remember that you have been shewed the Deceits which you live in and have been warned of the miserie and desolation that shall come upon you except you lay these things to heart and turn to the Lord Farewel By him who is dispised and had in derision among you who is not greater than his Lord and therefore is contented to be called a Blasphemer and a Seducer as he whom I serve was by them of your generation E. B. TO all you my Countrie people of everie degree who are Inhabitants in Vnder-barrow have I cleared my Conscience and have freelie Declared to you the Word of the Lord and have laid open the Deceits of your Deceitful Ministerie and Minister and have directed you to that in everie one of you which leads unto God and which is the way to the Father which is the true Light which hath enlightned everie one that comes into the World which light all who loves and follows walks not in darkness but walks up to God out of the Fall from under the Curse into the Being but all who hates this Light and follows the imagination of their own brains and of the divination of their Hirelings and Pharisees this Light shall be their condemnation because they walk not in it even this Light which is come into the World in everie man even the witness in the Conscience which is placed by God shall for ever witness against you and against all your false worships and Hirelings and shall bear testimonie to what I have in this little Volume declared to be true when the Book of Conscience shall be laid open for to everie mans Conscience am I made manifest in what I have to you declared as concerning your Hireling whom God hath never sent but is in the way of the false Prophets and Pharisees for he that abides not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God 2 John 1. 9. but is an Antichrist and of the Devil And as concerning the Light within you that Light will bear witness to it self that everie one of you to whom I speak hath this Light which shews you sin your lying swearing pride and wikced waies covetousness and wantonness to be sin this is the true Light which is as ever was foolishness and a stumbling block to the wise ones This is the Light which your Pharisee denies to have lightned everie one and this Light shall for ever witness me to be true and shall witness this poor people among you who is despised contemned by you scornfully called Quakers to be the servants of God whom I do own as my Brethren in the sufferings of Jesus who are my joy in the Lord Now all people everie where to you all a word from the Lord though I have spoken in this small Volume as moved by the Lord of Heaven and Earth to the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow as declaring against their false Teacher and false Worships which they uphold now freelie and plainlie do I declare against all thy Teachers O England who are one in the same generation with him in the Seat of Christ and of his Apostles professing themselves to be sent of God but walking contrarie to his commands in the same footsteps which the Scribes and Pharisees walked in which were persecutors of the Son of God and which he cried wo against they who said and did not

as all these thy Teachers do who are called of men Masters as they were and have the chiefest place in the Assemblies as they had and Praied standing as these thy professed Ministers do Now the same Light which ever was the Saints did which is Jesus Christ is now born and made manifest which is witnessed among the saints in which Light I see all thy Teachers O England to be drunk with the Wine of her that hath deceived the nations who sits upon a scarlet coloured Beast and is arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and precious stones and hath the golden cup in her hand full of abominations whose name is writen in her forehead Mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and abomination of the Earth And in this Light do I declare against them all which are in the generation of the false Prophets of Israel which seeks for their gain from their Quarter and which steals the word from their neighbor and have taken the words of the Prophets of Christ and of his Apostles and selleth the divination of their own brain upon the Scriptures which the holie men speak forth freelie to the poor blind people and teacheth for the fleece and if ye stop not into their mouths they prepare War against you and which are called of men Master which Christ forbids Against all these freelie as from the Lord I do Declare to be no Ministers of Jesus Christ but are Seducers and blind Guides and are Antichrists and leads the poor blind people in the waies of death and destruction for they are no Ministers of Christ that abides not in the Doctrine of Christ these have run but hath not been sent by God and therefore is not your Souls profited by them but are in the dark heathenish nature as by your fruits is made manifest leaning in the imaginations and not in the counsel of the Lord and in lying swearing drunkenness covetousness and oppression and according to the course of this world these iniquities are ruling among People Priests and Rulers in this Nation from the least of them even to the greatest everie one is given to covetousness from the Prophet even to the Priest everie one deals falselie All your Hirelings and greedie dumb Dogs I do denie and all who are of God denies all such and are taught of God in the waies of God which ever the world derided All thy Teachers O England is denied of them who are taught of God and whose Teacher is the anointing needs not anie man to teach them And by thy Teachers who are in the way of the Pharisees art thou blindlie led in the waies of darkness and ignorance and all thy carnal worship which is in everie part of thee upheld which is to Read Sing and Preach upon the Saints Conditions which were witnesses of God All this I do denie and freelie declare against as from the mouth of the Lord to be no worship of God but imagination and an imitation of the Worship of God And the living eternal God of Heaven and Earth is but mocked by you in your imagined worship for your reading of anothers condition and singing of that which you live not in and preaching that which is gathered from without by imagination and conceiving upon that which the Prophet Prophesied or which Christ spoke who was and is the substance and which the Apostles witnesses this is carnal and heathenish and was never commanded by the Lord nor is no worship of the true God and against this worship I do from the Lord declare as in the eternal Light of God seeing it to be deceitful and abomination to the Lord being I am Redeemed up to God by his eternal Spirit and to worship in Spirit and in Truth and am not limited to a day place or time neither at Jerusalem nor in this Mount c. and am freed and redeemed out of this fallen mans invention and tradition which is but Cains sacrifice which God doth not accept but is abomination in his sight praised be the Lord for evermore And O England I do declare against all these thy Teachers and against all this thy Worship as from the mouth of the Lord as moved of the Lord to speak this word unto thee Thou hast spent thy money this manie Generations for that which is not bread and thy labor for that which doth not satisfie thee all thy imagined formal Worships and carnal Traditions and Ordinances of man is the Lord risen in his servant to declare against And the same Light which ever made manifest deceitful Worships and the deceitful Hirelings and them that cried Peace peace to the people when the Lord spake no peace is now risen and speaketh in thy ears O Nation the same everlasting Light which the true Prophets lived in who cried against them that sought for their gain from their Quarter and that cried against the horrible filthie thing which is upheld in thee O England this same Light is made manifest in the despised People called Quakers in this North part of the Nation O People your Teachers hath beguiled you and have taught for the fleece and fed themselves with the fat but your souls are hungred by them for they are in the Generation of them that said and did not they love the wages of unrighteousnes and follows the Error of Balaam for reward and have devoured souls for dishonest gain but the onlie true God is arising to beat the mountains to dust and to cleave the rocks asunder In thee O Land will the Lord make manifest his power and will stretch forth his arm for the deliverance of his Chosen and for the redemption of his two witnesses which hath laid slain in the great City in this Land which they that dwell upon the earth have rejoiced over and made merrie and triumphed in their slaughter the Lord is arising to require his flock at the hands of the Idols shepheard O ye Idol dumb Shepheards the Lord will be avenged upon you for you have scattered the sheep of his pasture and have fed your selves with them the Lord of Hosts is grieved with you and have shaken his hands at your dishonest gain and ye shall no longer wear Garments to deceive ye have long deceived the simple by your lies and by your lightness but now you are discovered and made manifest in the eternal Light of God and the mysterie of Witchcraft is not hid now from the Saints Therefore O England hear the Word of the Lord Thy Prophets are light and treacherous persons thy Judges Judges for reward and thy Priests preach for hire and thy Officers imprisons the just and thy Rulers are evening wolves which seeks for the prey and the Lord of Heaven and Earth is grieved with these things Therefore O Land tremble at the presence of the Lord God of Jacob for Esau shall become a place for Dragons and shall be disinhabited in the day of mourning and lamentation is

A VVARNING FROM THE LORD TO THE INHABITANTS OF UNDERBARROVV and so to all the Inhabitants in ENGLAND Where it shall-meet with them who holds up the false Teachers and false worship and who beats stone stock and persecute and hail out of their Assemblies those who are sent by the Lord to speak his word freely with an exhortation that they hast to meet the Lord by true repentance by putting off the works of darkness lest the Lord cut them assunder by his sword which is already drawn and put into the hand of his servants Also a word to my Brethren and Companions in tribulation in the Kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ who is by the world scornfully called QUAKERS With the manner of my passage through the dark world wherein the simple ones may see the deceits of the man of sin in his actings like the true spirit to warn all to follow the true light within which leads unto God to beware of the voice lo here lo there By one who is a labourer in the Vineyard who is not known to the world though named of the world EDVVARD BURROUGH London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. A warning from the Lord to the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow and so to all the Inhabitants in England TO all you the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow profane ones and Professors you my neighbours and Country men according to the flesh but strangers as in the spirit to you all who are in the customary formal traditional worship of heathen and under the barren dry and empty ministry of man which stands in the will of man and have proceeded out of the carnall inventions and imaginations of fallen man and is not according to God nor to the practice of the Saints in former ages and generations To you all do I clear my conscience in the presence of God by declaring to you in writing being that I can not have freedome through the subtilty of the serpent who doth work alwayes to prevent the living truth to be declared and the deceits of himself to be discovered and made manifest to declare in word among you I have been sent by the Lord moved of him to come and to declare to you the word of the Lord to the directing of your minds where to wait to attain the true knowledge of the Lord and of that one thing needful the eternal welfare of your souls and to lay open the deceits of the serpent who doth work in the cursed deceitful Ministry which is uphold by you whereby your souls are kept in the death and only your dark minds fed and nourished by the painted and serpent-like expressions and declarations coming out of the carnal wisdome and brain-knowledge of your hireling who walks in the way of the false Prophets of Israel which the true Prophet called greedy dumb dogs four several times hath the Lord by his eternal spirit working in me moved me to come into the Congregation and Assembly he himself is the witness that I came not of man nor by the will of man but contrary to the will and desires of man wherein stands the true Ministry of God now as it was ever the true Prophets Ieremiah and Ionah witnessed the same and the Apostle Paul and as it is known to you unto whom I speak that I could not have liberty to declare to you the truth from God who came not to you with entising words neither what I had gathered out of the Scripture from without me neither to speak my own imaginations and conceivings as your false hireling doth but to declare the Word of the Lord to the convincing of your dark understandings that you might see the deceits by which you are and have been led that your souls might have been redeemed up to God out of the imagined worships of the world to worship in spirit and in truth hear ye the Word of the Lord ye people all your carnall traditional ordinances and observances is abomination to the Lord all your praying and praising is odious in his sight for all your worship is an imitation and an imagination of the dark mind of man and was never commanded by God therefore consider all ye people what you are doing and reject not the Lord nor his everlasting truth but prize your time and now seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon his name while he is near your souls are kept in the death under your dead Minister and under his dead doctrines dead reasons points and uses which he speaks from the Saints conditions and experiences but is an enemy to the substance and to them in whom the same conditions are made manifest in the power of truth and he doth make manifest himself to be in the same generation of them who had the form of Godliness but denies the power having the Letter as the Pharisees had but persecuting the substance as they did All people consider whether he be not in the generation professing God and Truth in Word as the Scribes and Pharisees were but persecuting the Son of God who is the substance of Truth where he is born and made manifest he is in the generation of them who professed Abrahams freedom and that God was their Father but were of their father the Devil for his works they did they said and did not as he doth as it is made manifest he is a whited Wall a painted Sepulcher which Christ the Son of God cryed wo against who was and is the Light by which all Deceivers Hirelings and false Teachers are discovered cryed out against The Light which is Christ do I witness to be made manifest in me from God the Father of Light daily leading me up to him to live in purity and uprightness praises be to him for ever in which Light I see your Teacher to be a hireling a greedy dumb dog seeking for his gain from his Quarter one that God never sent but hath run and was not sent therefore doth he not profit you at all and from this Light which is Christ do I declare against him as knowing him that he hath not the Word of the Lord but the Letter Freely do I Declare against him as knowing him to be a Deceiver and an Antichrist being once I was deceived by him but now through the rich Love of my Father who hath made himself known to me and hath shined by his eternal Light in my heart do I see him and all such to be Antichrist and no Minister of Christ From the mouth of the Lord I do Declare it That you are led blindly by him your blind guide and you are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the living Truth by his Ministery he layes heavie Burdens upon you he is in the generation of them who had the Law and the Prophets

that the Saints had unitie this Light will lead you out of your Hypocritical and deceitful carnal Worships to Worship in spirit and truth this Light will lead you to the true Baptism out of your deceitful imitation of a Baptism which your Hireling upholds among you this Light will lead you to the true Church in God out of your formal imagined Church and to the true Communion of Saints and true singing to God out of your heathenish Communion and Singing Therefore all ye people mind the Light for the Light hath enlightened everie one which is the Savior and Redeemer of him that loveth it and bringeth his deeds to it but is the Condemnation of him that hateth it and walks not in it therefore all people mind this Light which is of God this will lead you up to God this is the way to the Father and none comes to the Father but by me said he who was and is the Light this Light loving it and walking in it will free you from all the burdens which the Pharisee lies upon you and from all the taxes of Pharaoh's Tax-masters and will lead you into the mysteries of the Kingdom of God to know him who is invisible and is present everie where yet hidden from all dark minds who lives in the imaginations and imitations as you and your Hireling doth If you love this Light and walk in this Light it will bring you to be witnesses of the Scripture and of the Saints Conditions which you are but talkers of this is the ●ight from which they spoke that spoke the truth of God and from this Light did Isa. cry who lived in the obedience of it against the greedie dumb dogs that sought for their gain from their Quarter and did Jeremiah Ezekiel Micha and Malachy cry against Hirelings and against those that said The Lord saith it and he never spoke to them and against them that Preached for hire and that Divined for money and that taught for the fleece and yet leaned upon the Lord as your Pharisee doth saying Is not the Lord among us And from this same Light do we Declare against all such and seeth them to be abomination to the Lord now as they did then praised praised be the Lord for ever for now the abominations of the whore is made manifest that sitteth upon manie waters that hath made all Nations drunk with the Wine of her Fornication and now is the Judgment of the Whore come and the day wherein she must reckon to drink the wine of the Wrath of God and he who was and is this Light cried Wo against then that said and did not and against them that had the chiefest place in the Assemblies and that were called of men Masters this same light do I witness to be made manifest from God the Father of Light and am not ashamed to declare it before men for he that denies Christ before men he must be denied by Christ before the Father and this Light lived the Saints in and spoke from who were called Mad-men and Deceivers of them that professed truth in word but persecuted them in whom the Son was born and made manifest in which generation you and your Priest dailie makes manifest your selves to be therefore repent and come down ye high minds and lifted up spirits for the Lord is against you and hearken to the Light of God in you and wait in it according to measure and cease from all your formal customarie traditional worshipping and from all your dumb Teachers who are Antichrists and denies the Light as having enlightened everie one this Light is the onlie way to the Father which all must who comes to God follow and walk in for he that walks not in this Light walks in darkness and stumbles and knows not whither he goes and there are all Priests and people in darkness and ignorance who walks not in this Light therefore love the Light and obey it it will separate you from all filthiness and corruption and lead you into puritie and holiness without which none shall see God and here is your Teacher alwaies present with you which teaches to denie ungodliness and the wicked waies of this world he who walked in this Light by this Light saw all the world to lie in wickedness but said they were of God and all that were of God heard them who dwelt in the Light but he who disobeyes this Light follows the blind guids of the world as you do and sets up Teachers to themselves having itching ears and that Ministerie is of man and by man called to the Ministerie by the earthlie powers by earthlie Magistrates or at Oxford Cambridge or Newcastle all this Ministerie who is here called is by man and their Gospel is of man which the true Gospel is not and he that hath the Word of God to declare from God his Call is not by man neither doth he go to man to be approved for he that Preached the true Gospel consulted not with flesh and blood and so it is now the same thing do we witness and to be Ministers of the everlasting Gospel called not by man but by God praised be the Lord for ever from generation to generation who hath revealed himself unto Babes and hath hid himself from the Wise and Prudent of this World stop your mouths ye Ministers which is by man which Gospel is according to man for now the Lord is arising whose Angel is gone forth Preaching the everlasting Gospel Sing praises to the Lord for ever ye Redeemed ones who are brought from under the emptie dead deceitful Ministerie which is by man to be true witnesses of the true Ministerie which is of God therefore be ashamed ye upholders of the deceitful Ministerie which is but the Ministerie of witchcraft by which your eies are darkned and under which your souls lieth in blindness and ignorance under the power of witchcraft and sorcerie Be confounded ye Back-sliders who once heard the Word with joy and received it who were once among us yet not of us who hath chosen the glorie of this world rather than the everlasting Truth and hath sold your birth-right of the everlasting inheritance for the satisfying of your earthlie minds with the earthlie treasures Hear the Word of the Lord ye sloathful Servants who not abiding waiting upon God eats and drinks with the Drunkards and beats your fellow servants and are now become haters mockers and revilers suddenlie will the Lord come and cut you all asunder and give you your Portion in the Lake that burns with fire except you repent Repent you Back-sliders and consider ye that forgot God now while you have time before the Lord swear in his wrath that ye shall not enter hearken to that which convinceth you of your filthiness the Light of God within you which shall eternallie witness us to be true

coming upon thee for that which the Lord hath not planted will he pluck up and everie corrupt tree shall be cast into the fire All thy corrupt Judges and Officers and Rulers will the Lord cut off utterlie from the face of the earth and will restore to his people Judges as at the first and Counsellers as at the beginning the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Therefore O Land prepare to meet the Lord thy God by true repentance by putting off the works of darkness thy Pride and thy Oppression O Nation is seen by the Lord and the cry of the Oppressed through thy pride and tyrannie is heard in the eares of the Lord of Sabbath and he will avenge the Cause of the Poor and needie that is Oppressed by Priests in their Tythes by Lawyers in their Fees and by Officers in their unrighteous dealings and the Seed of Abraham shall go free and Israel shall no longer be subject to Pharaoh nor to his Tax-masters O England in the North part of thee is the Light of God arisen which shines clearlie and which discovers the abomination of thy Teachers and of thy Worship and we are bold to declare against them and against all thy corrupt Officers Judges and Rulers and this Light shall shine through the Nation and shall be spread over Kingdoms and the fire is to be kindled which the Lord hath promised which shall burn as an Oven and the proud and all that do wickedlie shall be as stubble This fire shall proceed out of the mouth of the two Witnesses as it did before they were slain and shall devour the enemies of the Lord the sword of the Lord is drawn in thee O Nation and put into the hands of them which is hated and despised by the Rulers and Officers which is scornfullie called Quakers but they shall conquer by the sword of the Lord which the Lord hath put into their hands over Countries and Dominions For O Nation the Lord is with them and thy unjust Rulers and Officers cannot hurt them not a hair of their head shall perish without my heavenlie Father It is for a testimonie of their Fathers love to them that they suffer shame and reproach and some of them imprisonment by the unjust Rulers and for a witness against them that some of them are brought before them the Lord is chusing the weak things of this World and he is making manifest his Counsels to Babes and revealing his Counsel and eternal Truth to Children and keeps his hidden Treasures from the eyes of the Wise and vulturous ones Praises praises be to him for evermore For the Lion of Judah is opening and hath opened the Sealed Book let all his Saints rejoice for evermore This is the day of thy Visitation O Nation wherein the Lord speaks to thee by the mouth of his Servants in word and writing therefore return to the Lord thy God from whence thou art fallen Now will the Lord gather his Jewels and Chosen ones out of thee and will raise up the dead which lies slain under thy Teachers and Pharisees which makes a prey upon the people which was never sent by God to speak unto thee O Land Hear the Word of the Lord Depart from all thy Teachers for the Lord hath drawn his Sword and lifted up against the false Prophet and the Vials of Indignation shall be poured upon him and upon all that hpholds him in his Whoredoms and Witchcraft by which he deceiveth the simple therefore lest thou be partaker of their Plagues depart from them And all people mind that measure of Light within you which the Lord hath lightened everie one of you withal for the Lord is risen to teach his people himself and he is fulfilling his prophesie in thy ears O Nation they shall teach no more everie man his neighbor and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the Lord for I will put my Law in thine inward parts and write it in their hearts Jer. 31. 33. The Lord is about his great and wonderful Work in thee and all the Wars and Contentions in thee O Land hath but been a making way for this Work of the Lord and hath not been the Work which the Lord hath purposed This Work is made known to them that feareth the Lord and abideth in his Counsel The Lord will overturn overturn the Nation and will create new Heavens and new Earth wherein shall dwell righteousness in which all the Chosen of the Lord shall rejoice for evermore And all the Kings and Nobles shall cast down their Crowns before this Glorie And all the men of War shall lay down their Armour and Weapons of War And Nation shall not lift up a Sword against Nation any more For the Lord will establish Righteousness and Peace this will the Lord bring to pass in thee O England through the destruction of that which now liveth and through the Resurrection of that to Life which now lieth in Death Hear O Land give eare O People for the Lord of Heaven and Earth is now turning the World up-side down all old things shall pass away all things shall become new by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh and the slain of him shall be manie corrupt Judges and Officers will the Lord sweep away and their name shall no more be found in the Nation the fire is kindled and the sword is drawn happie is he that keepeth himself from fighting against the Lord in this his Work happie are ye O Brethren that stands faithful to the end to see these things accomplished great shall be the battel it is now begun many shall see death shall yet live to see these things TO all the Despised and Contemned ones who are Persecuted and shamefully entreated by the Generation of the Chief Priests and by them who liveth in the highest Profession in the Word outwardlie ye who are the scorn of the Nation and the derision of all the Heathen and are called Quakers you are my brethren children of my Father have been brought forth by the same Womb and have sucked the same Breast Ye are chosen out of the world out of all worldly glories and earthlie excellencies and are not of this world and therefore the world hateth you you are brought out of the broad way of the flesh are separated from all the world in their waies worships and forms of religion and are redeemed out of the mouths of all idoll dumb shepheards and hath one Shepheard and are gathered from all the mountains and out of all the desolate disinhabited places and are come into the pleasant sheepfold where is green pastures and fresh springs of living waters By Faith with Abraham are ye come out of your native Countrie from among your kindred and out of your fathers house And with Moses have you forsaken the glorie of Pharaohs