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A85251	A few words to the people of England, who have had a day of visitation, not to slight time but prize it, least ye perish.	Fell, Christopher.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1659. A warning to all the rulers in these nations.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1659. A warning to all the world.; T. W. (Thomas Wooddrove). A lamentation over all England.	1655 (1655)	Wing F840; ESTC R206651	13,069	16

A few words to the people of England who have had a day of visitation not to slight time but prize it least ye perish O England England many precious days of visitation hath the Lord thy God let thee see Oh that thou hadst but known it the Lord thy God hath been very gracious unto thee O England above manny Nations of a long time he that created the Heavens and formed the Earth hath made manifest his love unto thee to that in the conscience of thee thou people of England I speak who am also a witness of the Lords dealings with thee I am the light of the world said Jesus Christ which hath lightned every one that comes into the world with which light O people of England thou hast seen the deceits that people in thee and other Nations have lived in and by that in thy conscience O people of England who was of late but little in thy own eyes hast thou seen the deceits of them that were in Authority before thee both the Bishops and their Prelates and their Prelaticall Authority and the persecutions they used over the people of God and their usurped Authority they used over tender consciences that then were living in thee thou wast not ignorant nor it was not unknown to thee O thou people of England how the Bishops with their Prelaticall Authority and usurped power did fine imprison banish and lay wast thy people O England who for conscience sake could not bow down to his Idolatrous worships as thou then rightly calledst it And O people of England it was not hid from thine eyes neither was thou ignorant how others who were called civil Governours and had the Authority of Majestracy in thee O England did usurpe Authority over mens persons estates and consciences And to thee O people of England it was discovered what corruptions those and all other in Authority lived in that then were heads of the Nation and then thou couldest have cryed The Judges judge for reward the Prophets Prophesie falsly the Priests beare rule by their means and my people love to have it so but what will ye doe in the end thereof was not this thy cry in that day when thou wast in distresse O people of England to that in thy conscience I speak Was it not a griefe to thee when thou wast kept low yea the griefe of thine heart to see people persecuted mocked and imprisoned or banished under names and titles given them by their enemies wherewith to cover their bloody enterprises and I call that in thy conscience to witnesse if thou didst not languish under their tyranny in those days and how many prayers and tears hath it cost some and how much imprisonment others and how much banishment others and in these thy languishing days of sorrow hast thou with tears and prayers and with hands lifted up entreated the Lord that he would be pleased to pull down that Authority which did then usurpe and bear rule over tender consciences in this Nation and them that did uphold it and how many vows promises and ingagements didst thou make in thy lownes and distress if ever the Lord would give thee power and strength to overthrow the Tyrants that then bare rule and if ever the Lord would bring those Tyrants and their laws into thy hands thou wouldest utterly destroy persecution out of England for ever and make England a free Nation was not this thy ingagement and promise O people of England when thou wast under and in distresse to that in thy conscience I speak O that thou wouldst give it leave to answer me that thou mightest come to see where thou hast been and repent for here thou wast that in thy conscience will witnesse for ever And now O people of England the Lord God by whose hands the Heaven and the Earth was made hath granted thy request to the full the Lord hath not been slack but hath given thee what in tendernesse thou didst desire What darest thou charge the Lord with that he hath witholden from thee which in freenesse in thy days of sorrow thou did desire the Lord hath brought under thy feet the necks of them that did oppresse thee and the Lord hath brought into thy power their Authority and their Laws and subdued them all under thee to the full request of that which then breathed under did desire to that which condemns the d sobedient doe I speak which is an eternall witnesse to thy face before the Lord how thou hast performed thy Covenant which thou madest with the Lord in the day of thy calamity Consider take heed to that in thy conscience return the living witnesse for God will not be mocked with words nor shews to the light of Christ in thy conscience look and it will let thee see that the same Laws which thou in thy adversity and lownesse didst promise to pull downe are standing still are not oppressive Laws to compell men to pay Tithes to the maintaining of coveteous hirelings and tithe-mongers standing in as great force as ever and many of their outward estates spoyled by these oppressive Laws which thou promised to take away and this is not done by an enemy of thine but even by thee who didst professe to be faithfull in performing thy Vowes to the Lord Thou faire professing people of England who hast made so many faire promises to take away oppressions to the light of Christ in thee I speak which will witnesse me and condemn thee for holding up these things which thou promised to the Lord thou wouldst pull down except thou repent with speed and let the light in thy conscience judge if these persecuting Laws under names and titles be not standing yet in as great force and power as ever they were in thy fore-fathers days which the Lord by thy hand hath destroyed and thou dost now exceed thy fore-fathers in persecuting the innocent under names and brands which thou dost put upon them that the truth may appeare odious and that persecutions done by thee may be supposed to be punishing of errours as thy fore-fathers ever did as at this day is plainely made manifest in many places of thy Land O faire promising people of England and many people tender and dear to the Lord in in many a Town and City of thy Nation is imprisoned without any Law or cause at all nay not so much as Queen Mary the Papists Law to alledge against them was there ever such things done by thy fore-fathers which I have destroyed before thee hast thou allready forgotten that the Lord pleaded the cause of the innocent with thy fore-fathers and overthrew them O call to remembrance what the Lord hath done to thy Predecessors in former time who persecuted the innocent and tender hearted ones who hardned their necks and would not regard the counsell of the Lord which was and is the light in all consciences which light once shone in thy conscience by which thou sawest them which lived in

my heart is moved with pitty towards them that I can hold my hand no longer but suddenly powre forth my hott displeasure upon thee for I will not alwayes strive with thee but will come quickly the Cup of thy fornication is full and the Cup of my wrath is full also and now expect fulnesse for fulnesse this is thy portion wrath for pleasure thou shalt receive I the Lord have spoken it whose word is without repentance and now people thy time is short and draweth very nigh except thou wilt be warned This was I moved of the Lord to write in the name and power of the Lord to be a warning to all who love to see Jesus Christs reigne that either have done or countenanced the hard-hearted Generation of persecutors Now I have cleared my Conscience to thee in the sight of the Almighty not desiring the death of any but rather that thou wouldest turne and be saved in love I rest a Friend to that which the proud and selfe-exalted Lords over and for my love to them by them in scorne am I called a Quaker whose earthly name is Christopher Fell. A warning to all the Rulers in these Nations ANd now ô Judges Rulers and Heads of the people in these Nations you may reade your Cloud of Witnesses who are your example who persecute the Innocent and turne aside the needy for a thing of naught You may reade in the Scripture what they were and what manner of Princes Kings and Rulers they were who were persecutors in all Generations and doe not you say in your hearts you are Christians and walke in the same footstepps of them who persecuted the Prophets and them that were sent early and late to forewarne them and stood in the gate and declared in their Townes and Cities against the abominations that were committed and Jeremy they put in the Dungeon that his feete sticked in the mire and put his feete fast in the stockes and Micha in prison and Daniel in the Denn of Lions and Herod and Pilate were made Friends in the persecuting of Christ and they sett him at naught and the Priests and the Rulers conspired against him and sought to entrap him in his words and the Apostles they put in prison in the stockes and whipped them and scourged them and commanded them to depart out of their townes and villages and Cities and called them seditious and pestilent fellowes and said they bred tumults in the Cities when as they were tumultuous themselves and persecuted and mocked and shamefully intreated And now you that are found acting in those practices are found acting the same you may reade your Cloud of Witnesses and your example and be ashamed ô England England and Ireland is this the fruite of the great profession you have made so many yeares and now when you are proved the best of you is as a brier and the most upright sharper then a thorne-hedge What is become of the promises you made in the day of your Calamity when sorrow and feare and oppression compassed you about on every side Hath the Lord broken the yoke from all your necks and is your finger becoming heavier then their loynes Was there so great oppression and cruelty acted among the Bishops and Prelates Was prisons so filled was there such ginnes and trapps laid for the Innocent when their High Commission Court was upp O shame shame that ever it should come in the eares or be reported in other Nations that ever you should requite the Lord thus for all his love and mercies that he should breake the yoke from off your necks and scatter your enemies on every side and cut them off in his wrath and hath given you their habitations to dwell in and the power into your hands Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that hewes therewith and will ye requite the Lord thus for his love Surely these things are come before the Lord and a booke of remembrance is written and all these things shall stand as witnesse against you when the booke of Conscience is laid open But you may be will say you know no such that suffers for Conscience sake Turne but your eare and listen but to every Goale and prison in every County and there may you see many of your poore Brethren stopped upp in holes among murderers and theeves and transgressors even they who have borne a part with you in the sufferings with the Nations in the heat of the day and if you say they have transgressed any Law why doe you not execute it upon them but some kept in prison two or three yeares and never calld to know what is the matter But friends know this many suffers now for the transgression of no knowne Law but may be have cryed out in your Townes against iniquity or have declared against the blindnesse and ignorance of some who goe in the way of the false Prophets and in the errour of Balaam O the Land is full of such Deceivers as have flattered the people and her Princes till the Lord bathed his sword in their blood and now they are flattering you and sowing pillowes under your arme-holes If you say as the Pharisees said Wee have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye if you execute those Lawes and stand to those Lawes which were made by them that oppressed you the same shall come upon you as came upon them and God will breake the yoke from off the necks of the oppressed and the yoke shall be laid upon yours who makes a man an Offender for a word and therefore consider a warning to you all and be you warned from the Lord God to cease from oppressing the Innocent nay you are left all without excuse for I know you are not ignorant of these things and further I say unto you uphold not them by your power who are flattering the Nations and crying peace and daubing the people with untempered mortar and telling them they are Christians when they are Heathens and live in that nature that puts Christ to open shame for the hand of the Lord is against them and prophanes hath gone from them those Teachers that use their tongues and say he saith when the Lord hath never spoken to them and therefore the people are lost for lack of knowledge and there is not one among them that is able to turne any from his Iniquity and therefore I say unto you stint not nor limitt not the Lord by your wills nor your Lawes made in your wills for if you doe he which rents the heavens and makes the earth reele as a Cottage will breake you and your Lawes together and there shall be none that shall be able to deliver you out of his hand who is pure and holy just and true and will not give his glory to another for he alone workes and who shall lett and will bring his owne worke to passe and none shall hinder and therefore take heed you strive not against the

Lord and so be broken upon the stumbling Stone to peices A lover of righteousnesse and a Friend to all just power Francis Howgill A warning to all the World WOe woe unto all the Inhabitants for the Lord God of power is coming in Power and great glory with ten thousand of his Saints to judge the Earth and to make a desolation and an utter overthrow and a Consumption shall come upon all flesh and its glory shall be stayned for all flesh hath corrupted its way and gone a whoring after other Gods and hath commited fornication with strangers and whoredomes with the uncircumcised and the Land is filled with monsters and the living God is departed from the Lord is grieved the Lord is weary with forbearing and will no longer forbeare Now is he arising to execute his Judgement in the Earth and to sift the Nations and all shall now be put into an even ballance and the wicked shall be as dust and as chaffe which the wind blowes away and shall be scattered and never more gathered for a fire is come out of Sion it s before the Lord of Hosts and its tempestuous round about him Coles of fire are kindled by the breath of his nostrills to burne upp all the stubble and chaffe even by the breath of his mouth the Lord hath uttered his voice before his Army for his Campe is great as a Lion and is greedy of his prey as a young Lion he will not spare but devoure and destroy all the uncircumcised and cutt off from the Earth even all the abominable Tremble tremble O Earth before the Lord and all ye carelesse Sonnes and Daughters that live at ease in the flesh in wantonnesse and in mirth a day of howling is coming upon you a day of sorrow and lamentation Howle howle and weepe ye that spend your dayes in vanity in lust and pleasure killing the Just ye Drunkards your throates are as an open Sepulcher your throates shall be dryed upp and parched with the flame of the Lords indignation the Lion shall be famished Dives end is your portion you covetous greedy Deceivers oppressors lyars swearers proud envious contentious quarrellers ye vaine aery light minds ye are as dust and will have your portion in the lake that burnes Tophet is prepared Hell hath inlarged her selfe the grave stands open to receive you the Pitt hath opened her mouth the Deepe shall swallow you upp ye rebellious and stiffe-necked Generation who feares not the Lord but addes sin unto sin behold the day is coming ye shall wish the Mountaines to fall upon you and the rockes to cover you and shall seeke death but shall not finde it the Arme of the Lord is stretched out the band of the most High is against you you fruitlesse trees that cumber the ground you shall be cutt upp by the rootes and cast into the fire ye lyars swearers cursed speakers ye proud and covetous double dealers and hypocrites which say in word what you are not in deed and make a profession of the name of God but departs not from iniquity the trumpett of the Lord is blowne out of Sion the Alarum is sounded out of the holy Mountaine let all the Inhabitants of the Earth tremble a noyse of warre and rumor of warre is heard his sword is furbished and brandished to make a great slaughter and the slaine of the Lord shall be many O ye potsheards of the Earth will ye strive against the Lord will ye sett bryers and thornes in battell against him who shakes the Heavens and makes the Earth reele as a Cottage which dryes upp the face of the deepe and cutts off all the fresh Springs and makes the Cedars fall and powres downe snares upon the wicked fire and hayle storme and tempest and pillars of smoake this shall be your portion to drinke the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it O foolish people and unwise when will you seeke after Wisedome Wisdome hath lift up her voice in the streetes but you have stopped your eares as deafe Adders and say in your hearts we will not have righteousnesse to rule over us but we will walke as our Fathers and worship as other Nations doe and as them whom the Lord hath cut off out of these Nations as untimely fruit and are perished with the uncircumcised Feare feare tremble tremble ye Careles ones ye hard hearts ye rockes shall be broken ye Cedars shall fall ye strong Oakes shall be cut up by the rootes your roote shall perish ye Mountaines shall melt ye wild savage Creatures that are as wild Asses upon the mountaines a moneth is coming wherein you will be found And a day is at hand wherein you shall see him whom you have peirced yea behold the Judge of all the World stands at the doore even of the quick and the dead and he comes in the Clouds with power great glory and every eye shall see him and every heart shall melt and all faces shall gather palnes and all knees shall smite together and every tongue shall confesse his Judgement just when he shall execute his wrath upon you and sweep you into the pitt and blow you away with the whirlewind of his wrath and then you shall be judged out of the booke of your Consciences therefore feare feare repent repent and prize your time while you have it and mind the light of Christ Jesus that shewes you your Iniquities and sinnes and it love and it will turne you from sin and unrighteousnesse to Christ Jesus from whence the light comes and it love and it will judge all your vaine actions and bring condemnation upon all the deceipt and lead you to true confession and forsaking and to know the Lord is pure and holy and nothing that is evill can dwell in his sight and so remember you are all warned in your life time least you be swept away into the pitt and perish for ever and ever and there be none to deliver you and unto you this is the word of the living God whether you heare or forbeare F. H. A Lamentation over all England who are yet under the curse are yet in their first nature and shut out from the presence of the Lord. THere was a time when Christ wept over Jerusalem so do I even lament over thee O England for the same nature bears rule in thee now as was in Jerusalem then for thou art persecuting them now Mat. 23.37 38. Luke 13.34 who are sent to forewarne thee of the evill of thy doings O England how would the Lord have gathered thee together as a hen gathereth her chickins under her wings and ye would not but hast gone on contrary to the light in the conscience therefore your habitations shall be left unto you desolate Woe be unto you Scribes and Pharises hypocrits for you build the Tombs of the Prophets and garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous and you are saying Mat. 23.29 30 31 32 33 34.

if we had been in the dayes of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets and so you are witnessing that you are the children of them that murthered the Prophets and ye are fulfilling the measure of your fathers O serpents the generation of vipers how shall yee escape the damnation of hell behold I send unto you Prophets and wise men and of them shall you kill and crucifie and of them shall you scourge in your Synagogues and persecute from City to City and in thee oh England is this Scripture now fulfilling O England England that thou didst but know the judgements that hang over thy head because of thy disobedience and because of thy going on still contrary to the light in thy conscience O England be obedient unto the Lord in this day of thy visitation O that thou hadst an eye to see where thou standest for thou standest upon a slippery standing Rom. 15.2 as a Sea of glasse with fire ready to fall into destruction thou art for thy disobedience unto the Lord thy God O returne returne all you that are in the first nature going on in your sins in lying swearing scoffing jearing pride coveteousnesse back-biting envying cozening cheating and all manner of wickednesse Gen. 3.24 O you are shut out from the presence of the Lord and the flaming sword is turning every way to cut you down Rev. 12.12 so that you cannot come to the tree of life Woe be unto the inhabitants of the Earth and of the Sea for the Devill is come down unto you having great wrath knowing that he hath but a short time therefore returne unto the Lord and seek him whilst he may be found for this is the day of the Lords love unto your souls now while you have time prize it least ye be cast into utter darknesse there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and there sinners that dye in their sins shall be tormented for ever Mat. 25.30 I cannot chuse but lament for thee O England O that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of tears that I might weep for thine inhabitants O England who proceed from evill to worse and they have not known me saith the Lord But let every one take heed of his neighbour and trust ye not in any brother for every brother will use deceite and every friend will deal deceitfully and every one will deceive his friend and will not speak the truth Jer. 9.1 for they have brought their tongue to speak lies and take great paines to do wickedly their feet are swift to shed blood their throat is an open Sepulchre under their tongues is the poyson of Aspes their habitation is in the midst of Deceivers because of their deceit they refuse to know me saith the Lord Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts Behold I will melt them and try them for what shall I else doe for the daughters of my people their tongues shute out and speaketh deceit one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth but in his heart he layeth waite for him O I lament for you to see the miseries that are coming upon you without ye repent therefore returne returne O England unto the Lord and he will heal thy backslidings and love thee freely Return saith the Lord and I will not let my wrath fall upon you but thou hast rebelled against the Lord thy God and hast scattered thy wayes unto strange Gods under every green tree but ye would not obey my voyce saith the Lord Jer. 13.6 O ye disobedient children returne againe for I am your God and I will take you one of a City and two of a Tribe and will bring you to Sion if you be willing and obedient Therefore O England yeild up obedience unto the Lord and he will make three the glory of the Nations wash thine heart clean from wickednesse and hate the evill and love the good and establish righteous judgements in thy Gates and the Lord will be mercifull unto the Remnant that hath escaped the dark and cloudy day for the long night of Apostacy is over and gone and the bright morning Star is risen in the hearts of the Sons and daughters of the most high praised be the Lord that it was his good will and pleasure to leave a seed in thee O Englnnd O returne returne repent repent why will ye dye O house of Israel Now there are many that desire the day of the Lord as they call it the laying down of their flesh in the earth and they are yet in their sins and they think they shall be purified after death but there is no remembrance of thee in the pit Eccles 11.3 there is no calling on thee in the grave for if the tree fall towards the South or towards the North in the place the tree falleth it shall lye Therefore woe to such that desire the day of the Lord what have ye to doe with it Amos 5.18 19 the day of the Lord is darknesse and not light as if a man did flee from a Lyon and a Beare met him or went into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall and a Serpent bit him O therefore you that intend that your souls may live or enjoy the presence of the Lord yeild up obedience to the pure light of Christ in the conscience and returne with speedy repentance for the day of the Lord it is nere hasteth greatly even the voyce of the day of the Lord the strong man shall there cry bitterly that day is a day of wrath and a day of trouble and a day of heavinesse and a day of destruction and a day of desolation and a day of obscurity and darknes Ephes 1.14 a day of clouds and darknesse a day of the Trumpet and alaram against the strong Cities and the high towers against those that are strong in their fleshly wisdome and high in their earthly imaginations Jer. 30.7 for the world by wisdome knows not God neither indeed can it because it is spiritually discerned O England thou hast long been led by thy blind guides Joel 2.11 which have told thee that the steeple house is the Church but they are l ars the Church is in God O turn you turn you turn your mindes within to the pure light of Christ in your consciences that so you may come to witness a seperation between the precious and the vile in you Cor. 2.14 so you may come to have the old heart taken away and a new heart given you that may bring forth the righteous then shall you come to say with David thou hast made me wiser then my teachers there you will come to see the inhabitants of the Earth houl Thes 11. and low places of the Earth rore for the company of Merchants are destroyed all they that bear Silver are cut off so with the light of Christ within you you may come to witnes your Jerusalem searched with his light within you Thes 1.11 so you may come to see your barren ground to be broken up which hath long layn fallow in steed of Grapes hath brought forth wilde Grapes O England thou hast long lost thy key of knowledge O now repent and do thy first works thou wast created holy but through thy disobedience to the light in thy conscience thou hast been shut out from the presence of the Lord because thou hast not walked humbly before him O break up thy fallow ground sow not amongst thorns be circumcised unto the Lord and take away the foreskin of your hearts for of man as he is in his first nature is deceitfull above all things and desperatly wicked who can finde it out Therefore now return your mindes within seek no more the kingdome of Heaven in outward observations prove your selves whether you are in the faith examine your own selves know ye not that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates therefore now see by that light that is within you see who it is rules within you and come to see whether that small seed be not buried within you which lyeth low even in the dust for the kingdome of Heaven is compared to a small thing even to a graine of musterdseed which is said in the Scripture to be the least of all seeds now be ye obedient to this small seed which lyeth low within you therein it will grow to be the strongest of all seeds so keeping your minds stayed upon it to wait upon the Lord to be guided by his counsell From the Dungeon of Easham by a lover of your souls and a prisoner of Jesus Christ Tho Wooddrove FINIS