when fruit is sought there is none found on you you are they that cumber the ground The Lord is coming into his vineyard to hew you down all you lustful ones you drunkards all you railers and false accusers all you covetous oppressors cumber not the ground The glittering sword is drawn it is fourbished for the slaughter The Lords eye is opened and his hand is stretched out against his enemies Now woe woe unto ye wicked ye have despised trembling and quaking Tremble tremble tremble and quake O all ye nations for the whirlwinde is gone forth that you shall be scattered as chaff the day of the Lord is appearing that shall burn as an oven that you shall be consumed as stubble and the trumpet is sounding out of the holy mountain that all the inhabitants of the land shall tremble and the Lord is uttering forth his voice before his hoste and the day of the Lord is grown very terrible who can abide it Drunkard swearer lyer thou cannot hide thy self witchcraft sorcerers scorners cheaters dissemblers the Lord will finde you all out all your pretence of God and Christ shall stink heavy in your faces you dissemblers for God will not be mocked with words wo and misery a day of howling amongst you lofty ones a day of howling among you lustful ones your throates will be be drie parched and woe is thy portion thou lustful one thy lust shall not be fed who hath devoured the whole creation A day of howling amongst you covetous oppressours taksmaster who hath devoured the creation and doth devour it some creatures are destroyed for want of ordering and upon your lusts some creatures are destroyed for want of creatures You are them that cumber the ground and the Lord is coming with his whirlwinde to sweep you away and the earth shall yield her increase and come to enjoy her Sabbaths and the righteous shall inherit it and the land shall be cleansed of evil doers Sion is threshing and a fan is come to fan and the Lord is at work in his vineyard and the arrows of of the Almighty are shooting forth against the wicked and hell hath opened her mouth to receive all you workers of iniquity and hell gapes for you Tremble and be astonished you heathen that knows not God for you are all heathens that know not God and the land is full of crooked waies the land is full of rough places the land is full of hills and mountains the land is full of bryers and thorns dogs and swine fighting and barking snarling and biting one another for the husks and for the earthly creatures Therefore all people repent repent while you have time for the mighty day of the Lord is coming therefore hearken to that which shews you sin and evil there is your teacher loving it there is your condemnation hating it THe word of the Lord to all ye fruitless trees ye dry trees ye oaks ye tall cedars ye fat bulls of Bashan ye thorns ye briers ye wilde asses which snust up your noses in the top of the mountains the Forrests ye high-way-ground ye stony-ground ye goats ye wolves ye dogs ye swine ye serpents ye vulterous ones ye beasts ye lyons ye strong horses neighing up and down walking after your lusts this is not railing this is the Scripture-language Own your names every one in your place with the light ye are all seen and your names comes to be known so every one bears your name according to your nature ye are them that cumber the ground ye are them that are not of the light ye are them that are to be condemned with the light ye that are unjust ye cumber the ground Woe unto you drunkards ye cumber the ground woe unto you hypocrites ye cumber the ground woe unto you lyers ye cumber the ground woe unto you scoffers ye cumber the ground scorners and backbiters ye cumber the ground dissemblers ye are them that cumber the ground the hand of the Lord is against you To that in your consciences I speak which shall witness me eternally ye drunkards ye cumber the ground ye rotten hearts ye false-hearts and dissemblers ye cumber the ground ye oppress the creation the land mourns because of such ye devourers ye murtherers ye are they that pollutes the earth ye cumber the ground Fear fear the Lord God tremble before him ye that make a profession of Christ and God and live in deceit ye are lyers ye cumber the ground ye are of the devil ye abide not in the truth for you do not abide in the life that gave forth the Scripture so you are not what you profess in life and power but hath the words the form and makes a trade of them Woe unto you devourers that devour the people and make a prey of them ye lustful ones which follows pleasure rioting feasting sporting drunkenness guttony hawking hunting Elau-like ye cumber the ground ye are the place for the dragon ye are as the wilderness fruitless And to you this is the word of God To that in your consciences I speak as you love it it will arise in you and you will see your selves and see the Scriptures ye ungodly ones ye covetous walk after your ungodly lusts ye vain talkers ye cumber the ground ye are as the caterpillers ye are as the locusts that go without a King which are turned from the light ye are for the sword to be slain ye which mindes earthly things whose mindes are turned from the light which walk after your own ungodly lusts ye defile the flesh ye cumber the ground ye careless ones the hand of the Lord is against you ye which follow foolish boasting foolish talking foolish songs and spends your time in such wayes O woe and misery is coming upon you how do you spend your time and how have you lost your time hell gapes and opens her mouth to receive you where all the wicked are turned into Stand still a while and see whither all ye must go To the light in you I speak that with it ye may see your selves remember your selves and with it you may see no unrighteousness must enter the kingdom of God and this which shews you it is the light of Christ within you and loving it it will lead you from all such actions and practices as are contrary to it and with it all such things are to be condemned This is your teacher the light this is it will bring you to witness Christ who is the way to the Father and this is it that will bring you to yea and nay in all your communications and this will teach you good manners to deny all evill communication and this will bring you to lay aside all deceitful merchandise all lusts pleasures filthy practices which the world lives in and this is it which is pure and teaches pureness and holiness without which none shall ever see God You that are proud and lofty cumbers the ground ye are
much of the earth give over your murmuring and reasoning fretting and grudging for all your want is for the want of God the righteous God is coming to give to every one of you according to your works now the works of ye all must be tried you that have appeared unto men beautiful outwardly will be found in the generation of murtherers and ye that have pretended to worship your sacrifice will be found to be Cains which God hath no respect to O ye high ones which spread your selves appear fair tall and strong you know not God nor your selves to be oakes O ye tall Cedars ye know not your selves to be so the Lord is sent to look for fruit in his vineyard among you it is full of wilde Olives and their wilde Grapes that many are drunk with the juyce of the wilde Grapes and so the vineyard is full of bryers and thornes that the lambs and sheep cannot pass but they are tangled among the bryers and the thornes and the Land is as a wilderness that part full of Serpents and the earth is overgrown with with weeds and nettles that there is no feeding for the lambs till the earth be dressed and overturned Howle ye vinedressers a day of howling is coming among you who have been pretenders of the dresser of the vineyards which is overgrown with weeds and nettles and thornes and crooked wayes the lambs and sheep hath been scattered and devoured amongst the bryers and the thornes and no discerning you have had betwixt a lamb a goat a sheep a wolf Now the Lord himself is gathering his lambs and his sheep where they have been scattered this cloudy dark day and some are torn and some are trampled upon with the horses of Pharaoh but the Lord his hand against you and his sword drawn the battel is begun and the sword drawn which must not be put up till it hath made a separation in hewing down and the Lord himself will have the praise and the honor and the renown and all who rules O how beautiful hath thy Harlot been O how full is the land of Inchanters O how full is the land of Sorcerers witchcrafts the mystery of her hath deceived many through her whoredoms Green was the grass fresh was the flowers the bay-tree spread it self and the haw-thorn but the time is coming of fading the flower will fade and the grass will wither and the whoredom and the inchanter must come to judgement the Lord is risen and riseth as a swift witness against the inchanter against the sorcerers against the whoremongers and the covetous The glittering sword is drawn to hew down you fruitless trees which cumber the ground ye lustful fleshly ones you have not seen your selves to be these trees which cumber the ground ye heady high-minded ones you have not seen your selves to be these trees which cumber the ground ye who live in the flesh ye do not see your selves to be these trees which cumber the ground ye scorners ye lyers ye dissemblers false hearts ye do not see your selves to be these trees which cumber the ground but the Lord is risen against you the earth stinks with the dead that is upon it and the pollution of the polluted The Lord is risen with power and sending forth to bury the dead and to raise up the dead all who are immortal this may see may receive Repent for the day of the Lord is coming Awake ye worldlings hearken to that in your consciences which shews you sin and evil that will guide you unto God loving it Awake ye drunkards and lustful ones who follow pleasures consider the wayes you walk in for you who act such things must never inherit the kingdom of God for you act contrary to that in your consciences which will be your condemnation pride and ambition selfishness and self-will stands up which the plagues of God are due unto silence all flesh who lives in your conceit and deceit thieving and stealing in the night what the Saints spoke making your selves drunk with it and then sells it to drunkards and then are jovial eating and drinking with drunkards Howle ye drunkards for ye shall want the staffe of bread a day of howling is coming upon you lay aside all deceitful merchandize And all ye Star-gazers who are gazing among the Stars wondering after your imaginations doing the works of darkness in whom lodgeth the Spirit of witchcraft Silence and come down all ye that ride so high that do bestir ye as Jannes did and Jambres at the coming of the children of Israel out of Aegypt through the fire and the sea ye cannot come Silence all presumptious talkers of God who sees him not but are presumptious boasters who live in envie crossness and perversness and vain contention which proceeds from corrupt mindes who mindes the earth and earthly things who are enemies to the cross of Christ who glories in your shame whose end is destruction whose belly is your God who do not see God are not come so far as Moses for Moses saw God face to face and death reigns from Adam to Moses and all that sees not God death reigns in you To that in your conscience I speak which Christ hath enlightned you whithal which calls you to repentance which shews you your evil deeds which will be your teacher owning and loving it your condemnation hating it Now you have time prize it this is the day of your visitation George Fox A Warning from the LORD to all Hawkers and Hunters THe word of the Lord to all you Hawkers and Hunters who are carried up in the flesh vapouring vaunting up your selves swelling in your vanities boisterous glorying in your strength lifted up exalted puffed up lofty and high minded This all is contrary to the way of God and all such they that dwelt in the life of the Scriptures declared against and all this which is acted out from the nature which is contrary to the light is to be condemned with the light and all that will fade and wither away Lament and repent and turn unto the Lord God all ye that follow such courses actions and practices while you have time Esau was a Hunter he despised his birth-right and after fought it with wars and there was no place of repentance found To you all Hunters who are lifted up who are prophane as your father Esau was he became a place for Dragons and a Wilderness and desolate and barren Dragon is a devourer Therefore O take heed and be warned Now to that in your consciences I do speak which he hath enlightned you withal it will let you see your prophaness your hunting ravening minde your destroying minde which destroys the creature and destroys the creation upon your own lusts and the whole creation groaneth with that bondage of corruption nay you take pleasure in destroying the creatures and make your selves sport in destroying them running to Alehouses drinking healths and tempting one another with
beer and he that doth not pledge him doth not love him and all this love is in the lust O! woe woe is your portion what will become of you in the end O consider whither ye must go Remember Dives remember Esau your father the Hunter remember Nimrod the cunning Hunter the beginner of the building of Babel whom God confounded into many languages which your teachers tells you Is the original but he that comes before Babel was comes before many languages was and before Nimrod was Here you and all your languages are raced out and all ye Hunters which turn from the light which Christ hath enlightned you withal which devours the creation and you are to be hewen down with the word which was in the beginning In the beginning was the word as you may read in John the word was before Babel was Therefore to the light in your consciencess I speak which Christ hath enlightned you withal that with it you may see your filthy mindes and filthiness and prophaness and with it all may be judged down and out for from God it is judged all and from them who are of God and from them who love the light of God and so all prophaness and cunning Hunters which are turned from the just which devours the creation upon the lusts and burthens and grieves the creation prophane persons all you who are prophane Esau is your father you cunning Hunters and not Jacob who was a perfect man and dwelt in tents he was not prophane but it was Esau that was prophane the cunning Hunter which despised his birth-right So to you all which turn from the pure in you the just which chuse the earth before the pure you are the Esaus you are the prophane you despise your birth-right To that which is just in you all I speak that with it you may see when you mindes go forth and what they go after after your dogs your hounds your hawks glorying and taking pleasure in the creatures more then in the Creator You are such as the Apostle speaks of and with that in your consciences it will let you see the judgement from God is upon such things Therefore to the light in your consciences I speak that with it your mindes may be guided to God that you may come to know the right use of all creatures and to be used in their place and service as servants to the glory of God who has created all things to be used in their place and to praise him Therefore whatsoever you do let it be done to the praise and glory of God Now when you swear and curse and drink healths and quarrel and fight and are deboist and devours the creation upon your lusts your sports which God has created to be used in their place and service to his glory where will ye appear before the Lord O ye devourers of the creation fear the Lord God and turn from all your evil wayes and wickedness To that in all your consciences I speak that you may all see what ye have acted and do act there is your teacher to God if ye love it and your condemnation from God if you hate it To that in you shall I be made manifest when your condemnation is come You are them that cumber the ground prophane persons cunning hunters drunkards and losty ones which exercise Lordship one over another you are out of the doctrine of Christ you are them that stains the earth but the Lord God of might and power is coming the sword of the Almighty is drawn to hew you down fruitless trees that cumber the ground and to sweep and cleanse the land of evil doers that the earth may enjoy her Sabbaths All ye that are prophane are in the nature of Esau And all you that are proud are in the nature of proud Haman who was out of the truth from God and you are abomination to the Lord though you may profess Christ in words and yet are workers of iniquity to you I say Depart from iniquity that names his Name And all ye that are scoffers you are of Ismael Isaac did not scoff nor Jacob was not prophane Therefore to all you that are turned from the light and are scoffers and prophane you are to be condemned with the light from God from Christ and all the holy men of God And to you all this is the word of God And to you all that love the light walk in the light that it may lead you from all such actions contrary to it up to God the Father of light and to condemn all that is contrary to the light CUmber not the ground ye fruitless trees ye proud ones ye scorners cumber not the ground ye drunkards ye cumber the ground ye cumber the ground ye lyers cheaters and cozeners ye cumber the ground who use deceit ye mockers and lustful ones which devours the creation ye are the fruitless trees that cumber the ground you fair outside professors and teachers you cumber the ground who lives in high swelling words but in pride and oppression and you are the trees that bear leaves but no fruit so ye are they that cumber the ground The Lord is coming in power to sweep the land of evil doers and to hew you down you fruitless trees which cumber the ground The fields have been overgrown with thistles and nettles and the vineyard is spoiled for want of dressing and labourers but now the Lord is sending forth labourers to dress the vineyard A day of howling amongst you The mountains and hills and great ones must be threshed and beaten down the Lord hath spoken it she hath sent into his vineyard to gather fruit And every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit must be hewen down and cast into the fire A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit such as the tree is such is the fruit Drunkard swearer cursed speaker thou art this corrupt evil tree whoremonger envious one fighter quarrellers malicious ones scorner mocker reproacher thou art this corrupt tree that cannot bring forth good fruit thou who livest in pleasures and lustful wayes lofty and high-minded thou art this corrupt tree thou cannot bring forth good fruit dissemblers cheaters cozeners thou art this corrupt tree which cannot bring forth good fruit scorner scoffer who lives in the dissimulation and with craft and hypocrisie thou art the corrupt tree which cannot bring forth good fruit and all that profess God and Christ and Prophets and Apostles and lives in sin and iniquity you are the cursed tree which cannot bring forth good fruit for saith Christ Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity All you that pleads for sin Priests and people are this tree which cannot bring forth good fruit and pleads for your own master whose dominion you are and the blood of Christ doth but serve you to talk of all you corrupt trees have but boughs a fair shew you make but
VIALS OF The Wrath of God Poured forth Upon the seat of the MAN of SIN And Upon all professors of the WORLD who denieth the light of Christ which he hath enlightned every one withal and walk contrary to it with it they are condemned AND A VVARNING from the LORD to all who are walking headlong to destruction in the lusts of the flesh and deceits of the world that they may repent and turn to the Lord lest the overflowing scourge sweep them all into the pit By him who is called George Fox LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the black spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1654. The Worlds PROFESSION without Foundation With Several precious Notes to Great men and Rich men ALL profession of the world is without ground and the foundation for the light is denied of the world and hated professors Priests and people and all who hates the light their deeds are evil and they will not bring their works to the light lest the light should reprove them they know their deeds are evil thou wilt not bring thy works lest the light should reprove them drunkard thou knowest thy deeds are evil thou wilt not bring thy works to the light lest the light should reprove thee there thou hast learned thy condemnation which is the light Lyer thou knowest thou shouldst not lye there thou hast learned thy condemnation the light and swearer and railer thou knowest thou shouldst not swear nor rail the light within thee lets thee see thy deeds are evil and it makes thee confess thy deeds are evil there thou hast learned thy condemnation the light Ye devilish mindes who are hatching mischief plotting together to do mischief in Alehouses and upon your beds something in your consciences tells you You should not do so there you have learned your condemnation the light ye cursed speakers envious ones quarrellers fighters stoners wrathful malicious ones there is something in your consciences tells you All this to be of the devil there you have learned your condemnation the light that Christ hath enlightned you withal which lets you see your deeds are evil when you are sitting in Alehouses drinking carding shovelboording swearing by God or your Soul or your Faith or cursing and provoking one another to wrath fighting and abusing one another so you are them that defiles the flesh there is something in your consciences tells you All this to be of the devil there you have learned your condemnation which is the light which lets you see all the works of darkness Now therefore hearken to the light which may lead you up to God the Father of light it lets you see you should not lye not steal not commit adultery you should not walk in unclean act on s and all you that do you know your deeds are evil by the light in your consciences which is your condemnation the light in your consciences which should exercise it and all you wanton lustful ones sporting your selves who gather your selves together to spend your time in vanity there is something in your consciences tolls you All that to be fally foolishness and madness Laughter is madness faith the prophet and who is grown solid and civil and denies such practices that is counted madness with you who live in folly there is that in your consciences lets you see your deeds to be evil you have learned the condemnation the light which when the book of all consciences is opened you will all witness what I speak To that in your consciences do I speak then the time will come that you will wish you had not been born into the world Now you easeful ones are at ease and you professors Priests and people have set you nests so high as though none could reach you and all you conceited ones who rest in your conceits and you worldlings who are drunk with the cares of this life and you covetous ones who devour one another for the creature for the earth the time is coming when the poor despised ones shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and a cry will be among all you and an howling a wishing you had never been born Lyer thou are for the lake that burns unbelievers you are for the lake drunkards and scorners you are for the lake that burns and shall never inherit the kingdom of God who act such things drunkard thou hast cast the Law of God behinde thy back and you that minde earthly things your end is destruction whose God is your belly who glories in your shame who live 〈◊〉 the lust drunkenness gluttony devouring the creation a time will come that you will wish ye had never been born for you have all known in your dayes that your deeds have been evil and that you have done contrary to the light in your consciences there is your condemnation the light for you wicke will be as the chaff which the winde driveth away and all you proud will be as the stubble the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it This is to be scattered among the ignorant simple and blinde people led by the God of the world and drunkenness and lust that the witness may arise in them against these ungodly deeds that they may be left without excuse who have had a time and a visitation to call to repentance Now you have time prize it you have light which Christ hath given you to it I speak which lets you see all your dees to be evil hating it it will be your condemnation To all manner of people I speak it will eternally witness me and condemn you Some are drunk with drink sitting together to invent mischief to shed blood to destroy the innocent Another company Priests and people are got together drunk with rage and persecution as drunk as the other are in rage and madness plotting and inventing together against the righteous to shed innocent blood some you get into prison and you are worse then common drunkards for you stock and cause the innocent to be imprisoned Therefore awake all drunkards and sear God and turn unto the Lord while ye have time Pharaoh thou oppressor pharaoh thou taskmaster Pharaoh thou proud one which lays heavy burthens upon the innocent and righteous seed and opresleth the just plagues and woe is thy protion as was Pharaoh's who taxes and oppresses and causeth the just and righteous seed to labour under thee who bindes with oathes and compels to swear by that which is a declaration of Christ who saith Swear not at all and He that doth not abide in the doctrine of Christ hath not God but is of the devil O ye earthly minded men give over oppressing the poor exalt not your selves above your fellow-creatures for ye are all of one mold and blood you that set your nests on high joyne house to house field to field till there be no place for the poor woe is your portion The earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof And you that have not so