to your deeds done in your bodies And this dreadful day is hastening upon all flesh which hath corrupted its way before the Lord for his own Name sake and for his Elect seed sake wil he cut it short in righteousness which hath long groaned and cryed unto him under the heavy burdens and cruel oppressions of the ungodly to be delivered from the bondage of corruption which hath long overspread the whole Earth and to be set free in the Paradice of God in the glorious liberty which is at his right hand where is joy and pleasures for evermore yea durable riches and righteousness from whence Adam was driven into the Earth by disobedience and so into darkness ignorance and confusion having eaten that which was forbidden and drank of the flattering Harlots Cup which hath since become a great Whore and made all Nations drunk and sate upon them and reigned over them even Kings of the Earth multitudes tongues and languages and the Garden of the Sluggard or sloathful wicked drunken servant hath been all grown over with thorns and thistles and Nettles have covered the face thereof and the best have been as a briar and the most upright as a thorn hedge pricking stinging tearing killing and warring against the Lilly and the Apple-tree as it sprung up in all Ages as it is written They all have lain in wait for blood they hunt every man his brother with a net Thus it was in Micahs days * Read Mic. 7.1 2 3 4. and the Sacrament of the Altar in the Martyrs days the Oath of Allegiance in these days see if the net be not found the mischievous desire wrapt up now among the bryars and thorns whose end is burning which caused sorrow to come upon him in the consideration and sence thereof and in Jeremiah's days Jer. 5.26 c. And thus it hath been from Cain unto this day persecuting about Religion Worship and Sacrifice but for the Elect sake as I said before these days shall be shortned and this is the Word of the Lord unto you all Mat. 24.22 Therefore hearken diligently and hear all ye Rulers Governors and People of the Earth who are the sons of Adam in transgression the fall and consider well in what state you now are and what knowledge of God your Creator you have and see whether you are not shut out of the Paradice of God in which man was made a living soul and whether you are not drove into the Earth even as Adam in transgression afraid of God and hiding your selves from his presence in which state you have no true rest but are separated from the enjoyment of the Life and Unity with the Eternal God in whose presence no worker of iniquity can endure therefore doth God in his eternal love call unto you to come out of Babylon and he hath appointed a day of visitation unto the children of men in all ages that in it they should seek and meet him by returning every one from his evil ways and look unto him from whom they have gone a whoring who is the alone salvation and Saviour of all them that repent and turn to him with their whole heart and that is the sacrifice which he requireth of all that make mention of his Name for it is not a talk or profession of Christianity and godliness that will stand in stead in the day of death or in this day in which the great deeps of the mysterie root and ground of all things which have been since the foundation of the World are manifest even unto Babes in Christ Jesus who is the Wisdom of God and the Power of God which none of the Princes of this World knew I say the secrets of the Most High are with them that fear him whose dwelling is in him that hath given them a measure of that pure discerning Life in which Adam gave Names unto Creatures and Things according to their natures while he was in Paradice before transgression was even in this Life through this Life is the living God bringing many sons daughters to that glory which was with him before the World began and is drawing with the Cords of his Love which is stronger then death many followers after him who cannot be satisfied in the Earth into which they were driven by transgression and polution which is not their true resting-place as it is written Micah 2.10 Therefore we being awakened are returning toward our Native Countrey in which we were created in Adam before transgression or separation was and we have given up our hearts minds and spirits bodies and souls to wait upon our God to receive from him strength and power to be translated into his own image and likeness wherein our salvation is wrought out with fear and trembling Therefore ye Rulers and people of the Earth do you ponderously weigh and deeply consider what you are doing by endeavouring to hinder us in the narrow way of our passage to the Heavenly Holy-Land or Paradice of God's rest which he hath prepared for the poor in spirit and tremblers at his Word who are not satisfied with an outward profession or name to live whilst not enjoying the eternal inheritance and possession of the Life and Substance which is at the right hand of God for evermore In which passage we resist no man or fight with carnal Weapons for our Warfare is spiritual but are calling to those who are our Brethren in Adam to turn their minds and affections with us to seek after our Native Countrey where our Father is again found and known and his voice heard that so the Spirit of enmity which came of the Serpent and the Whore might no longer remain in God's Creation from whence the strife and contentions wars and fightings comes but be cast into the Lake for ever Why should you thus abuse your Brethren or what reason can you shew to hinder us in the way of our passage to our own Native rest of our weary souls seeing we have no other end or aim in our eye but the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus who is gone before us into Paradice from whence we were driven by transgression the cloud of separation Read Isa 59 throughout And though you should yet more grievously oppress us and smite us and even put heavier yokes upon our tender necks or cause us to make brick without straw as our brethren did yet we cannot but sigh and groan and cry to our God whom we delight to worship though it be in the Wilderness under the grievous burdens of our oppressors For we being awakened and quickned from the deep sleep of sin and death which hath covered mankind cannot but look to the Rock from whence we were hewn and press forward in the patient sufferings through the strait gate and the daily Cross into the Heavenly Kingdom and Dominion of the holy God into which no worker of iniquity or unclean thing can enter So whatever
to rain by your power Will the ice and the snow melt at your command Will the fierce Winds obey your voice when it issueth forth of its treasury and whirleth up and down the Earth Or do you know whence it cometh or whither it goeth Wil the thunder and lightnings be staid and the noise and brightness thereof cease at your command If these things and the like you can do then will I confess unto you that you may go on and prosper and prevail against the Heritage of the Most High whom he hath blessed with everlasting blessings But if you are not able to do these things then in vain do you strive to set bryars and thorns in battel against a consuming fire For I tell you again in the Name and Authority of the Almighty God the Jehovah of Israel That if you still proceed in persecuting his people and dear children as you have done he wil dash you in pieces like a potters vessel and confound and scatter you with destruction upon destruction till you are become as the chaff of the Summer-threshing-floor and as the ashes of the Dunghil which the Wind driveth away and your place shall be no more found and your remembrance shall be a hissing and abhorring to Nations This is God's Word of Life and Truth unto you Remember Cain the Pharisees Aegyptians and Sodomites whose Works you are doing your Name of Christianity stinks before God and men and is even a proverb of reproach among Nations afar off The Pharisees who were persecutors said they were Abrahams Seed and had one Father even God c. and yet were doing the Works of the Devil vvho was their Father ye hypocrites whose state this is shall not God's dread fall upon you Wil ye not tremble before his pure eye of jealousie which beholds all your doings thoughts and words though never so secret Will you still say is not the Lord among us no evil can come upon us Will you untempered-Morter-daubers promise the Wall shall stand and the daubers thereof be established when God hath said The Wall shall be no more nor them that daub it is there not a lying spirit and deceitful tongue in the mouth of all these Prophets whom the Lord never sent And are they not crying peace to the wicked to whom is no peace from God and preparing war against the just that cannot put into their mouths And are not these the greedy dumb dogs that never have enough and cannot bark to awaken the Witness of God in peoples consciences that they may arise from the dead and stand up that Christ may give them light and life in which they may see the thief and be able to withstand the Robber Did ever Christ Jesus or his Ministers Apostles or Disciples persecute about Religion or Worship or run to the Priests of the Earth to uphold their Ministry Or east men into Prisons for their bellies or went to Law for tythes or took treble damages as you call them and rob people that did refuse to hear them as you have done Mention one example in all the Scripture or else be confounded for ever and your tongues cleave to the roof of your mouths for ever Or were not the Prophets Apostles and Disciples of Christ always sufferers and persecuted and imprisoned for their Testimony and for righteousness sake by the Powers of the Earth chief Priests and Rulers in all ages Were they not haled out of the Synagogues and brought before Rulers Governors and sometimes beaten and stoned whipt and charged to speak no more in the Name of Jesus Was not this their portion from the great men and chief Priests and Counsells And yet did not they learn in all Estates to be content But are not you discontented who cast such into prisons for fear of losing your belly-god And were not they unlearned and ignorant men in the Laws and Languages of the Rulers chief Priests and Doctors c. And had not they Latine Greek and Hebrew that persecuted and crucified the just And did not Christ say to his Apostles or Disciples when he sent them forth to Minister Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of Wolves be ye therefore wise as Serpents and harmless as Doves and take no thought what ye shall eat c and what is set before you eat asking no question c. then not to go to law about the in bellies if not ask a question about such things And did not the Apostle say such were enemies to the Cross who minded earthly things whose God was their belly which caused him even to tel of it weeping among the people and said their and was destruction c. and that grievous Wolves would enter in not sparing the people after his decease and hath it not been so these sixteen hundred years Have not the people been grieved robbed and spoiled by those Wolves that soon got the sheeps clothing the Apostles and Disciples words and turned against the life and the sheep and grieved them and these Christ prophesied of before his departure saying False Prophets shall rise and deceive many and love would wax cold and iniquity abound c. by their fruits ye shall know them they have the sheeps clothing but inwardly ravening Wolves Here is the true character of the false Prophets and false Apostles and by this ye shall know them Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles Can you expect a harmless Life in a grievous Wolf though he have the sheeps cloathing is not his nature greedy and ravening and devouring among the sheep and lambs Do his covering change his nature Hear this O ye Priests and Prelates Bishops and the rest of your Brood and consider and see who are the Thorns and the Wolves and the greedy Dogs that have never enough the biters and devourers tearers and renders of the sheep and look about you and behold your selves and see if you live in the life of what you speak whether your inside agrees with the sheeps covering the Saints words of which you make Merchandize for God is renting off all deceitful coverings and you shall appear as you are to the view of Nations and no hiding-place shall be found for the worker of iniquity though he profess and say Lord Lord yet he is cursed Now if you say you are of Christ's sending let it appear by abiding in his Commands and Doctrine let us see you are sheep indeed by your harmless life and your contentedness in all Estates not seeking the peoples goods and money but the good of their souls and the glory of God by bringing forth good fruits in the sight of men by which your Light so shining they may glorifie the Lord of Heaven and leave grieving the people by minding your bellies what you shall eat and drink and wherewith you shall be cloathed c I say eat of that bread which comes down from Heaven and don 't so much mind the earth
Kings of the Earth over multitudes tongues people's and languages they are the Waters Rev. 17.15 on which the Whore sits the unstable people in the unstable state tossing up and down in confusion restless full of stirs a tumulcuous City these are the Waters the swelling the roaring the foaming the tossing the Wicked are like the troubled Sea which cannot rest whose Waves cast up mire and dirt and there is no peace to the Wicked saith my God these are the Waters on which the Whore sits this was Cains state who had drunk the Whores Cup and killed the Just about sacrifice drove from God a Vagabond no peace but great punishment greater than he could bear and the Wicked foam out their own shame like the raging sea drunk with the Cup of the Mother of Harlots and all abominations of the Earth then mad upon their idols as the Prophet said persecuting and killing about VVorship and Sacrifice This hath been the state of the Drunkards of Ephraim in all ages this is Cains way and the Whores way which is become great and have reigned over Nations Tongues Multitudes and Peoples and Kings of the Earth Babylon Mysterie Babylon the original of All Abominations and Mother of Harlots riding upon a scarlet coloured Beast full of Names of Blasphemy deckt with Gold and Purple Pearls and precious stones having a golden Cup in her hand but its full of abominations and filthiness and she is drunken vvith the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus and the beast is scarlet coloured vvhich carrieth her having horns mark that the Povvers of the Earth Kings and Rulers have been made drunk vvith her Cup and have committed fornication vvith her and she hath sate and reigned over them and the beast hath carried the VVhore and they have made war with the Lamb and the Saints and killed them this is Cains way vagabond from God in wrath and envy whored from God killing about Worship and Sacrifice killing just Abel killing the Prophets Saints and Martyrs of Jesus This Whore hath sate and reigned upon Tongues Multitudes Peoples and Kings of the Earth This is the great Whore that hath glorified her self in her abominations sitting as a Queen saying in her heart she shall never see sorrow c. But this is the Vine of Sodom her grapes are grapes of abominations through the spreading of her boughs the whole earth hath been corrupted and by her dominion the Lamb hath been slain blood hath cryed against her from the foundation of the World even from Abel to this day the Land of uprightness hath mourned while the wicked have born rule and lamentation hath dwelt upon the Tabernacle of the righteous darkness hath covered the earth and gross darkness the people death and destruction hath reigned the Devil the Murtherer from the beginning hath been the God of the World for ages and generations and the true God hath been unknown and his appearances a Mysterie hid from them and a Covenant hath been made with death and an agreement with Hell and man hath been separated and driven from God as far as the East is from the West and the abomination which maketh desolate hath stood where it ought not iniquity hath abounded and love hath waxt cold the whole World hath been like a Wilderness wickedness hath sate in the Ephah and unrighteousness in the Judgement-seat the adulterated spirit from God the great VVhore hath sate and reigned over all Nations and Kings of the Earth which hath oppressed the Creation and grieved the good Spirit of God and made war against every appearance of the righteous Seed and the Lamb hath been slain from the foundation of the World the Dragon hath cast out his Floods of persecution after the true woman in all ages which brings forth the Man-Child the Heir whose right alone it is to rule the Nations but the Nations of the Earth have been angry and the great men and chief Captains at the birth of this Child and have always sought its life even when it was young as in the days of Herod and the Beast Whore and false Prophet hath made War with the Saints and persecuted imprisoned and killed them and the Scriptures are fulfilled The Devil shall cast some of you into Prison and you shall have tribulation ten days The Kings of the Earth have set themselves and the Rulers take counsel together against the Lord against his annointed saying Let us break their Bands or Meetings and cast away their Cords from us If you have ears hear O ye sons of Adam and his first-born in transgression killers about Worship and Sacrifice the Lord hath you in derision and he will vex you in his sore displeasure and break you as with an Iron Rod and dash you like a potters Vessel Be wise therefore now and fear and tremble before the Lord God These things have been and have overspread the Earth and darkned the Air the Whore hath sate as Queen and the true Woman hath fled and been hid in the Wilderness and been in great sorrow and hath brought forth in sorrow and great tribulations in all ages for the Dragon was alway ready to devour her child as soon as it was born yea every appearance of God and of his Truth and Way of Righteousness have been opposed as you may read from Cain to this day but still the Child was caught up to God and they mist their end when they said This is the Heir let us kill him and the Inheritance will be ours and in the days of Pharoahs persecution of Israel which was lest they should multiply and become great in number the Midwives feared God and Moses was born and hid from them who was appointed to lead Israel out of Egypt and in the days of Herod when so many young children were killed he was hid from them till He was dead that sought the young childs life How great was the Whores and the Devils rage in those Rulers to destroy so many innocent babes the thoughts of which will make our bowels to move that fear the Lord and in the days of the other Herod chief Priests and Rulers Scribes Pharisees and Elders Herod and his Men of War set him at nought and mockt him because he answered him not a word to his many Questions and are not we mockt so now when we are becom fools for his sake whom the Princes of this world never knew Consider these things for God will not belong mocked by Cain nor Herod neither but will give every one a reward according to his doings And when they had crucied him and put him to death he rose again and is yet hid from them but to his Disciples he is manifest and is come the second time to salvation and the grave cannot hold him nor never could nor never shall for he was before the grave death or persecution was and shall reign over it all for ever and ever and the Whore Beast and false
Prophet shall be cast into the Lake and be tormented day and night for ever and ever and the Lamb and the Saints shall rejoice over her with songs of triumph and Halelujahs for evermore Amen Rev. 19.2 3. So now you may read and see that the seed of evil-doers the birth of the flesh or spirit of Whoredoms did always persecute the birth that was born of the Spirit after Gods Image in all ages And here is now no new thing happened under the Sun but the same controversie as was between Cain and Abel though greater shall the Work be then ever in these last days But this is Cains and the Whores Mark in all ages and the Beasts that God and man takes notice of or knows them by Persecution about Religion Worship and Sacrifice c. as Christ said of the false prophets By their fruits ye shall know them Do men gather grapes of Thorns prickers or figs of thistles Read these things in the fear of the Lord God for they will add to the weight of the Milstone when Babylon sinks which day hastens as a Woman in travel and the wo must come upon all you who are found in Cains way and Balaams way and the Whores way as you may read Jude 11. ver But what will ye now do O ye sons and first-born of Adam in transgression God is raising a thousand Abels and Enoch is born again and Moses and Elias is come and the hearts of the children are turned towards their Father and the hearts of the Father toward the children and many are leaving the World and the Earth and travelling toward Paradice the garden of God again where Mount Sion is known and the King sitting upon his holy Hill Therefore let not the Heathen rage nor the people imagine a vain thing for it is so God is gathering his Seed from the four corners and quarters of the earth and his sheep from off all the barren Mountains where they have been scattered in the dark and cloudy day without a shepherd and he will feed them himself and the false shepherds shall no more make a prey upon them who have fed themselves and cloathed with the wool and eat the fat and pusht with shoulder and horns till they have scattered and not strengthened the diseased Read Ezek. 34. And who shall disannul his Decree or make void his promise and purpose The dry bones must be raised and become an exceeding great Army and Babylon must full and this is now doing with great noise and shaking Read Ezek. 37 7 8 9 10. And by the lightning the Earth with the power and glory of God Rev. 18.1 2. Which day is come and more and more approaching though you see it not who are in the night it comes like a thief upon you and will overtake you as a snare for so is the day of the Lord come upon all them that dwell in the Earth 1 Thess 5.2 3 4. Therefore in vain do you strive against God O ye Rulers and Teachers of the Earth who are in Cains way and Balaams way for his marvellous Work and Wonder must be brought to pass prosper and be perfected through the whole Earth in these last dayes It is not your Prisons Courts killings banishments or Inquisitions shall hinder or make void God's Eternal Decree which is established in the very Heavens Don't you remember how the grave could not hold him under whom your Fathers crucified and had from Prison to Judgment in the days past who is now again risen among us and is in the midst of us who gather together in his Name And this is the Word of the Lord unto you he is risen among us called Quakers and is come and coming in ten thousands of his Saints to convince the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds and hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him and to execute his Judgements upon them Read Jude throughout and this the whole Earth shall know in the day at hand for our God is risen to deliver his people and to lay low the haughtiness of the terrible ones and to scatter the proud in their imaginations and to make the Whore nake and desolate as a Widow without children and to exalt Truth and Righteousness Justice and true Judgement in the Earth that Judgment and mercy may meet together and Righteousness and Peace may kiss each other this is God doing this hath been wanting mercy and justice have not been found in the Judgement-seats but false judgement respect of persons injustice and oppression hath met together there pride rage cruelty vanity wantonness hypocrisie hath kissed each other there the poor hath been oppressed of his Neighbour and the rich hath had many friends this the evils under the sun hath prospered and spread like a bay-tree and equity hath been the low tree and unrighteousness the high tree exalted over all the great Whore hath reigned with the Beast and false Prophet the true Woman hath been in sorrow the Lamb and the Saints in great tribulations in all ages but now she is coming up out of the Wilderness leaning upon her beloved and not her own understanding and the Lamb and the Saints must get the victory and all coverings and veils will God rent off from the face of all people and there shall be no place of darkness nor shadow of death wherein the worker of iniquity shall hide himself but death and hell must be naked and give up the slain that is in them the Dragon must be chained and the Beast Whore and false Prophet must be taken and cast alive into the Pit or Lake that burns for ever and ever This will be a woful day for you persecutors false worshippers idolaters whoremongers hypocrites unbelievers fearful and abominable Merchants of Babylon and all you Seamen of Babylon who hath strengthened her Mast and spread her Sayle and traded with her when she shall lie as a wrack in the midst of the Sea and sink like a Milstone and be found no more at all you that have gone so often aboard her in the boat of deceit and drank the Wine of her Fornications in the mysterious sealed Cabines of her VVhoredoms which she hath set cht from the Land of Witchcrafts and gathered from the Vine of Sodom and prest in the Fat of Confusion and held forth in the Cup of Hypocrisie howling and lamentation will come upon you fears and amazements will possess you when you behold the smoak of her torment Alas alas standing aloof off for fear will be your song vvhen you shall see this great City in one hour brought to nought No fig-leaves will hide in this day no sheeps clothing will cover the false Prophet but you must all appear in your own likeness and image before him that seeth in secret and be ript up and seen as you are before God Angels and Men no vizard of Profession shall excuse you from receiving a just recompence of reward according
whether the Dragon that would devour it be not the Devil that rules in the hearts of the children of disobedience the false Christians stirring them up to persecute murther about Religion Worship seeing Cain that did so was of the wicked one the Murtherer from the beginning the blood of all the Prophets Saints is found in the Mother of all abominations which is carryed or upheld by a Scarlet coloured Beast Mark that Rev. 17.3 9. And whether the spirit of this Beast which carrieth this great Whore do not go downward to the Earth and feed upon the earth and the things of the Earth and minds the earth its pleasures pride covetousness and ambition and is pushing with its horns like the false Prophets Ezek. 34. ruling with oppression and cruelty and persecuting and afflicting about Religion and Worship minding honor below storming and raging for fear of losing the Devils Kingdom his works which the Son of God the true Womans Seed is come to destroy in whom is known the Spirit of a Man which goes upward but dust is the Serpents meat and upon his belly he goes all the days of his life and no higher there he feeds and out of his dark holes he creeps spitting forth his poyson and venome against that which is always caught up to God out of his reach though he cast out his fiery-like Floods after the Woman and her Child and makes war with the remnant of her Seed which are this day in being which keep the Commandments and have the Testimony of Jesus Mark the Child whose Life the Dragon Beast Whore and false Prophet seek to destroy is caught up to God out of their reach and ever was and ever will be And this is the Word of the Lord God unto all persecutors and Earth both Teachers and Rulers about Religion Sacrifice and Worship you tread the outward Court the Serpent bruiseth the heel mark that and not the Head the Head is in the holy City where the dogs the biters whoremongers and murtherers cannot come but beware how you sport with the Vessels of the Lord for they are holy that bear them left the hand-writing on the Wall appear against you and you be smitten with a final destruction Dan. 5. throughout and fear before the God of Daniel who is persecuted for worshipping his God at this day among his Brethren for he was a trembler at God's Word Dan. 10.11 So remember you are once more warned as God's Witnesse shall answer on your death-bed if you go on in Cains way you shall have Cains portion banished from God's peace and rest with greater punishments then you wil be able to bear and if you are in the Whores way in which the Pharisees was professing of Religion and making long prayers and yet persecuting about it you must partake of their woes judgements and if you are in the Beasts Dragon and false Prophets way and Balaams way minding earthly things greedy of filthy lucre casting into prisons for your bellies pride covetousnesse and Earthly Honors sake the innocent followers of the Lamb the true Womans Seed that keeps Christs commands you must be cast into the Lake of fire in Gods wrath and vengeance to be tormented for ever and ever as it is written Rev. 19.19 20. 20.10 14.19 20. c. Therefore try your selves of what birth you are whether you are of Cain or Abel of God or the Devil of the true woman or Church of Christ in deed and in truth walking in his steps in the self-denial bearing witness for the truth led from prison to judgement for the Testimony which you hold and for the word of patience for this declares his generation Isa 53.8 Or whether you are the Seed of the Adulterers and the Whore which Isaiah speaks of chap. 57.3 and John in the Revelations which drunk the blood of the Saints Read your state and see who is your Father and Mother for there is no daubing in God's sight with untempered morter you must be of the one or the other of Jerusalem the holy City or of Babylon the great VVhore the false Church or the true you are of therefore let no man deceive you with flatteries smooth things for this Testimony wil stand before God Angels and men and J am thus far clear of all your blood and you will be left without excuse whether you hear or forbear W. B. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tryed and ye shall have tribulation ten days But be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a Crown of Life Rev. 2.10 Have respect unto the Covenant for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty Psal 74.20 Matt. 7.15 16. Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves ye shall know them by their fruits Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgement-seat c. Jam. 2.6 7. He that loveth his brother abideth in the Light and there is none occasion of stumbling in him but he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes 1. John 2.11 For this is the Message that ye heard from the beginning that we should love one another not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother and wherefore slew he him because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous Marvel not my brethren if the world hate you we know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren He that loveth not his brother abideth in death Whosoever hateth his brother is a Murtherer and ye know that no murtherer hath eternal life c. 1 Joh. 3.11 12 13 14 15. THE END