and bloody intents and so he will do againe and though you in England and the potentates of the world should yet make farther confedracies and decrees against the People and children of God untill Gods decree be accomplished which you will do yet know that God will in spite of you and all the powers and Priests of the Earth execute his judgements written which are herein declared And as for you the People and Povvers in England c. You have made strange idols and acted contrary to your oaths vows promises protestations declarations Letters and proclamations and thus have you hitherto dayly provoked God by your neglecting to heare his voyce and in contemning the word of God which commeth out of the mouths of his sons and daughters Now thus have many of you in England already discovered your selves in making Ship rack of faith and of a good conscience which is a shame for that will not in the least help to save you in the day of Gods vengance nor will your making havock of the people and flock of God do you the least good in the world as to your preservation and deliverance when God shall make inquisition for true Royall and innocent blood Though many of you may be yet suffered to go on in your Road plotting and designing and others of you persecuting killing and imlprisoning the children of light a while longer yet know that God is and will be just who will call every one to an account for all his or their deeds done in the flesh whither they be good or evill and for you that oppress the seed of God in your own particulars also in others take heed of so doing for in so doing you have grieved persecuted and smitten the just one for which Gods controversie hath been and still is with you that so do for such things have been and are grievous in Gods sight And while you thus misuse your selves and abuse others you your selves defile the Temples of God within you for which the Lord God Almighty if you so continue will you destroy for it was written by the Prophets of old as well as now Them will God destroy that defileth the Temples of God Woe woe woe therefore will be unto such as so doe and now I am assured that Heaven and earth shal pass avvay before one Iot or tittle of Gods vvord thus revealed and spoken in and to mee shall fail and as sure as the Lord liveth there vvill that come upon many of you in poore England c. of a sudden that repent not and turn not unto the living God that vvill amaze you and Astonish and confound many elswhere and doe you all the world over what you can deliverance must and shall come unto the remnant of Iacob and this the Eternall God hath sealed unto me with much of the manner way and method Thereof Therefore is this sent forth amongst you the sonnes and daughters of men as another invitation and warning Believing and knowing that some thing els will Ere long follow wherein the wickedness of the wicked in England c. will be further discovered and laid open with a farther demonstration of the mystery of things and for what the judgements of God have been executed and are executing upon the inhabitants of the whole Earth And in the mean time be still all ye children of light and mourners in Sion for God seeth beholdeth your conditions will deliver you And now rejoyce in God all you that can and in the Lord Jehovah make melody in your hearts when you see this I say againe in the strength of the Lord God rejoyce for the Lord Jehovah is nigh at hand to judgment and for it he is worthy of all prayse glory and honour now hence forth and for evermore Amen let our conditions be what they will out of sin Feare not therefore little flock for it is our fathers good will and pleasure to give unto us the Kingdome that fadeth not away That Kingdome which cannot be removed it s as mount Sion And as for the mockers scorners scoffers persecuters plotters blood suckers c. a sad and lack day is come and coming upon you as well as a day of redemption and deliverance in God for Gods poore dispised and innocent people the fight whereof from God hath often times made me to rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory And to water my pillow many a time with tears of joy also the lamentation and mourning from God that I have been made to take up for thee and for thine inhabitants O poor England c. have been more then I shall at present perticulerly express for some of your destructions will be little inferiour unto that off Sodom Gomoroah and Jerusalem Friends you in England not long ago were a field of blood since that your mercies have been great ye as great as ever any peoples nations Kings or Kingdomes was and you in England may be said to be a people and land flowing with milk and hony Though many of you now there have viz spent Gods creatures upon your lusts c. O how evilly and unjustly have you requited the Lord God for all his mercies to you wards and how evilly have you in England Ireland and Scotland and else where intreated Gods poor and innocent people let the God of heaven and earth and all sober people unto whom I do Appeal be judg yea and the witness of God in your selves and in the consciences of all men yea in the wickedest and vildest men that are for that if not seared will speak And now take heed of lusting revenge lying hardnes of heart and unbeliefe for that will carry you the children of men into confusion c. and make you that yield thereunto to run farther and farther from the living God into sinne untill you are seared and wholy given over unto destruction Mark that Againe take heed all you professors as well as prophane for there is yee a great fault amongst you all your yee is not yee nor is your nay nay therfore is God angry with you and displeased at your doings ye at the evill of your doings and practices Friends this is plain dealings with the Children of men and Counsell for a King as well as for a Bagger much of it being from the Lord God through a poor Earthen vessel and one that is a servant of Jehovah who is Redeemed from death to life by the power and Spirit of God in the blood of Jesus who subscribes himselfe your Friend Emmanuel Israelite Which by Interpretation is God vvith me God vvith us in vvhom there is no guile 1662. A letter of Comfort and consolation unto the whole flock of Christ wheresoever they be Dearely beloved A By de stedfast in mount Sion for they that so do shall never be removed for the Church in God is the ground and piller of truth from whence I am moved of the Lord God everlasting to
Rule in and over them the mouth of the Lord off Hosts hath spoken it unto me O Remember remember therefore all ye Sons and Daughters of men yee that drink Wine in Boules and go on in your forgetfullness of God and his mercies you that sport your selves in your ovvn lusts yee in the lust of your mindes the lust of the Eye and the pride of life vvhich is the flesh the World and the divell I say remember that Tophat vvas prepared of old for such yee for the Rebellious and disobedient though they were never so mighty and great and novv learn to knovv that God the Lord of Hosts is no respector of Persons and for Bishops that are not as the Bishops spoken off in the Scriptures of truth vvere They are a loathing and an abomination unto God for such God hath allready spevved out of his mouth and so vvill he do again And for all you that are novv in prosperitie take heed least that glory you novv have be stayned againe by your slaying more of Gods poor Babes and Lambs and Sheepe of our Fathers pasture O that ever fulness of bread and plenty should cause great men so to forget God and that ever Gods goodness and mercie should so puffe up men as it hath novv in this generation done many vvho not long agoe had scarce Bread to eat or Garments to put on Verily friends vvhosoever you be that vvill not turn to the light and living God but vvill goe on in your fins ' abyde in your filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit God vvill judge you and at last destroy you Youridols Temples cannot nor shall 〈◊〉 you the decree of God is gon forth and sealed against such as vvorship idols and vvill not turn unto him And for you that vvill and doe but truly turne from the evill of your vvays and come unto God God vvill love and imbrace you in his everlasting armes of kindnes and cover you as vvith a garment and then you shall by little and little see the glory of God in the Land of the living and perhaps you shall as others have done before you see Gods wonders in the deep for so did King David vvho after his great abominations and turning unto God again and so have some others done after there returne unto God their maker insomuch that their whole lives have been lives of hearty sorrow and of everlasting praises And such can never sufficiently nor enough admire God and as David saith in the 107. Psalme so say I. O That the Children of men would but admire God for his vvonderfull works done unto and amongst the Children of men And in the conclusion of that Psalm the writer thereof saith Who so is vvise let them observe these things and they shall see the loving kindness of the Lord And so say I though they be Kings And when God shall raise up such a King to beare rule amongst any people let it be where it will the Lord God of heaven and earth will bless and prosper such a one while he shall faithfully continue and abide in God and then all his works and undertakeings for God on Earth shall prosper and such a King shall be blessed for ever and ever And then none can nor shall make such a one affraid for if he doth well who then shall harm him but if he doth evill while he so doth sin will continue and lie at his doore yee at Kings doors as well as at others For such as wee sovve such usually do we reap yee some times double and what measure men meet it is usualy measured unto them again Therefore leave off all your Idoll-Gods for shame all ye Kings and pretended Christians leave of say I all you High priests your superstitions Cerimonies Surplisces Pipes singing-boyes and sursingles for they are all a loathing and an abomination unto God plaine down right Popery against which the vvitness of God is gone forth And now take heed I pray and beseech all you Kings Priests and People of the Earth for the Lord sake of praying or finging out of the Spirit of God for that is but a deceiving of your selves and others that is a mocking of God and whither you see it or believe it or no it is so and where you will hear or forbear it is all a case for Gods word and witness is true and it will in his owne time prove so and you the powers of the Farth shall assuredly know and feel it so to be And for you that scoffe at the light you Ignorantly or knowingly scoffe at that vvhich you live move by for by the light all men have their moving living and being even while they dvvell in darkness and in the shadovv of death do doe the deceivers vvork upon the Earth for light hath shined in darknes but the darknes comprehendeth it not Take heed therefore and bevvare of Gods heavie judgments all you that laugh and scoffe at Gods people that vvalk in God are turned to the light and at their praying in the Spirit or by the spirit for such their have been and novv are that have been and are vvhole days in the Spirit yee and nights too vvhom the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath heard and ansvvered And though you the povvers of the Earth should combine altogether and make never so many decrees against such a praying People as Daniel the Prophet c. vvas yet they vvill vvhile they have life pray as Daniel did and some such do certainly knovv that God vvill at last break all your cords in sunder and in the mean time preserve them And novv vvhile you the povvers of the Earth doe make such lavvs and decrees against Gods praying Spirit in man the mouth of the Lord of Hosts vvill be against you I say in God that God hath determined that his People must and shall pray unto him in the Spirit yee and vvorship him in the Spirit and honour him and all men in the Spirit for God himselfe is head over all yee over all principallities and povvers and Spirituall vvickedness in high places and thus God hath and vvill rebuke Kings for his ovvn and Peoples sake the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it And novv the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in him our Father hath required commanded and in abled us 〈…〉 to pray against Spiritual vvickedness in high places and for all them that are in Authority over us that so under them vve may live a godly and peaceable life vvhich vvee the People of God doe and shall doe Farther I am sure that God hath novv made some of his People vvatchmen in Israel vvhom he hath commanded and required to give him no rest untill he hath made Ierusalem the praise of the vvhole Earth And this the Lord our righteousness who is life light povver and glory hath raysed up Prophets and children unto himselfe to pray unto him in the spirit
A FEW LINES MORE For thee O ENGLAND And for thy Lofty ones in thee And for all others of thine IN HABITANTS vven forth and sent abroad into the world with two letters for the comfort and consolation of the persecuted Church in God and for the tribulated Flock in Christ and mourners amongst them wheresoever they be 〈◊〉 the end the Children of Light and all they that hunger and thirst after righteousnes may be comforted and refreshed in God in the middest and depth of all their persecutions tribulations sufferings and afflictions that they may yet meet withall from wicked cruel and unreasonable men who take delight to crucifie the Lord of life light and Glory a fresh and put him to open shame in his people Also a few lines for the wicked People and powers of the World with some wholsome Councel and good advice given unto me from the Lord God Almighty to give unto them especially unto the people and powers of England Ireland Scotland Holland and Germany where the name of God hath been and is so emenently professed and so great a reformation pretended that so they may all hearken unto hear and obey the voyce of God and so live in love and peace out of persecution and at last sit down in the Kingdom of glory with Abraham Isaac and Iacob And therefore and pray that can that ye enter not into temptations for a work of wonders is the Lord my God farther a doing in and upon the Earth And for all you Loftyons of the Earth that rebell against God know that except you repent you shall likewise perrish Luke 13. ver 3. and 5. And the Lord shall cut of all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things Psalm 12. ver the 3. as he hath hither to done An Epistle to the Reader LEt this serve as a warning and as an invitation of love for all people great and small high and loe rich and poor old and young professors and prophane to turn you all that are not yet turned unto the living God for it is brought forth to publique view in its appointed season and time part whereof is already fullfilled and the remainder is fullfilling apace yee in our dayes and age Watch therefore and pray that can that you enter not into temptation for the Lord God Almighty hath not forgotten to be gracious nor hath his compassions at any time failed any of the sonnes and daughters of men that have turned unto him and walked and abode in his light life and dostrine And because some of you in England c. have misspent your precious time in makeing a mock of sin And have made an ill use of your stewardships in the ill management of your affairs so mercifully friendly and favourably put into your hands therefore is this most principally directed unto you to let you know that God is angry with you and that he will ere long be avenged on you for you in England hath the Lord God began vvithall first And there vvill the Lord Jehovah make his name famous and everlastingly Glorious also God hath and vvill vvork vvonders there as vvell as in other places and none shall let or say vvhat dost thou Friends be not angry nor partial vvho ever you be that hear or read this And be not deceived God is not mocked Gal. 6. ver 7. But in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ see vvhither you have not almost sinned avvay your most precious time and trifled away the dayes of your visitation in all manner of excess And for you that have not so spent your precious time that Gods spirit hath not done striving in you or vvith you and you are not become as Pharoahs then turn you unto the light within you and obey the voice of God in you for that is it which vvill lead you into the living life if you be found faithful to God for that light in you vvhither you knovv or believe in it or no is of God it is that in man vvhich shevveth man good and evil and it vvill one day Judge you and if you doe but a little consider it will now shew you vvhat you are And what you have been and then if you or any of you that have been and are abominable sinners shall in the true light and sence of your conditions cleave unto God and for sake your sins and all your abominable doings then shall you soon know a curb to your lusts and wicked wills and such of you as shall thus truly turn unto God and follovv him you shall quickly come to know feel and see a bridle to your Tongues and vvhat it is to be made partakers of the glory of the Lord in the Land of the living for the living be they that shall praise thee o God vvhen the dead though alive and them in the grave though once never so mighty and great cannot for the dead be they that shall hear the voyce of the son of God and they that hear and obey God shall live forever and ever vvorld vvithout End Amen And now my Friends every vvhere Arise from the dead and come forth and sing all ye that dwell in the dust for God is Just and the Avenger he is of the cause of the innocent who hath often times sealed the deliverance of his people unto mee and I am sure that God is rode forth Conquerring and to Conquer all the vvorld over and to make a short vvork in righteousnesse upon the Earth And God it is in Men Women and Children every vvhere that calleth them to a turning unto himselfe and to repentance from dead works and to a seasing from sin that so they may serve the living God in newness of life and vvalking uprightly before God in true holinesse peace and righteousness all the dayes of their lives vvhich many have promised God so to doe in the dayes of their distresses but some of them have forgotten that and so have sinned against light as well now as formerly in runing a whoring after their own inventions lusts and immaginations c. And thus they have and doe provoke the just and Iealous God of Heaven and Earth to vvrath against them who is not slack in justice and judgment And therefore I plainly tell you who ever you are that your going on in sin have and will be your missery your not seaâ—sing from persecution superstition sin Idolitry is that which have provoked the just and jealous God to wrath judgement and indignation against you I say God is now as well as of old jealous of his name in the children of Men and his Glory He will not give to graven immages though many now adaies so do mark that For such do dayly persecute and afflicting the children of the most high God that God which heareth and answereth prayers who hath heard and answered his people and God the mighty Iehovah hath diverted as well as revealed many of your secret
write a few lines unto you And to the whole Israel of God and though I have a long time forborne it and have as it were strugled against it yet my life and love is with you and amongst you all the world over and in the Eternall light and love of God do I dearly salute you all Friends your lives in God are a joy and refreshing unto me even in the midest of all that unhumane and unceasonable dealings that you do And vvee may yet farther meet vvith all in this present evill earthly vvorld from cruel marciles and unreasonable men vvho have no mercy Therefore O Lord God everlasting keep us thy babes and lambs and preserve us pure that so our offrings unto thee may be as they are vvhen thou callest for them a continual svveet savour for in thy life do vve live and in it is our unity O Lord our all is offred up unto thee Thou art our Saviour Redeemer and deliverer vve are thy people and heritage plead thou therefore O Lord thine ovvn cause vvhich thou hast ingaged us in vve must die And because thou livest doe vvee therefore live vvith and in thee and so shall vvee do novv and for ever and ever vvorld vvithout end And novv vvhile vve are here do cary about in us a body of clay let us in the life light povver and strength of God be ever doing our Fathers vvill and as much good on earth as vve can All flesh is as grass and fadeth avvay our strength is to sit still God is vvith us and in us of a truth and he vvill deliver us I am sure Look not out therefore any of you O my dear friends brethren and sisters But sinke dovvn sinke dovvn into the depth of the Lord God of life and therein stand stedfast and plead in and vvith him for as God hath so vvill he asuredly here and ansvver his people and deliver us and confound our enemies as he did of Old For the Prayers Sighs Grones Suplications Cries Tears and oppressions of the poor and innocent have ofttengon up unto the Almighty and they do dayly reach to heaven and God is come and coming down to deliver us his people and to save us in the midest of all our tribulations God is risen to plead our cause Be therefore valiant in the Lord strong and of a good couradge so fare yee well yours in truth Emmanuel Israeliete Friends and Brethren this inclosed have laine some part of it as a thing lost buried hid for some time as you may see but it is now come to lightagaine And is sent unto you Therefore do with it O Lord God of hosts as seemeth good in thine own eyes thy seerets O Lord of Hosts God of Life are with them that feare thee and thy wisdom is given unto thy chosen ones to direct them the Spirit of the Almighty is free in his people that walk and abyde in his light to counsell guide lead teach and direct them in all their wayes and undertakings for God and as you find freedom in the Eternall Spirit so let this be done with all Either to imbrace it or not Friends I'am and shall be in the Lord a fellow feeler and sympathizer with you in what so ever you do and suffer for the Lord for in God alone is our victory over all in which victory let us stand triumph and rejoyce and there in shall we trample on and tread under foot our greatest Enemies yee Sathan the Father of them all And as it is written so shall it be the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death and vvhen our vvorke is done vvee must goe from hence and vvee shall be changed but not dye and that in a moment and twinckling of an Eye And in the unchangable God dearely beloved Brethren doe I dearly salute you and remain your friend and Brother in the unity of the eternall Spirit and life of God vvhere I shall for ever be and remaine your Friend yee and a Friend to publicans and sinners poscript Friends Golden snares and bayts are laid and laying for you to lift you up out of the deapth Holiness and vvisdom of the most high even vvhile the flesh and the lusts therein doe fortifie and fit it selfe for your bodily destruction Abyde still therefore in the dominion of God and he vvill not only give you to see vvhat is a doing on earth against you but vvhat he is also a doing in heaven for your preservation and deliverance vvhich is and must be in God over all That being unto God a dayly delight and a joy for God in us is and vvill be unto them that love us not a burthensome stone that vvill fall upon our enemies and breake them in peices and grind them to povvder vvithout our using of any Carnall vveapons O live therefore the life that 's everlasting and abyde in it for therein shall you Raign over all that is evil for ever and ever And novv let none make us affraid for vvhen any do let in fear that bringeth the righteous into snares Be therefore terrifyed in nothing for you are Gods and God is yours to his everlasting praise doe I speake it and rest Your Friend Emmanuel Israelite A Letter for the persecuted Church in God and for the tribulated flock of Christ where soever they bee and for the mourners amongst them O Sonnes and Daughters of Sion lift up your hearts heads and hands unto the holy Lord God Almighty and in his pure and everlasting life light power and strength crie aloud day and night unto the most high for the holy and righteous God is Jealous of his name in you and blessed are all they that are not offended in him and are not at ease in Sion while there are any mourners therein And if it be so with any of you as I know and believeit is that many of you are already entred into your rest as God is entred into his rest then shall your worke and Labour of love in the Lord not be in vaine but it will be taken notice of and accepted of by the Lord and then shall you be more and oftener in the service of the living God then ever as I hope and believe you will be and you that can for get not the Angell Gabriel whose work and service is not unknowne Oh watchmen watchmen what of the night le ts give our God no rest untill he hath brought up all the mourners in Sion unto a continuall rejoycing in the one eternall and everlasting unity where there is nothing but the unutterable Ioys of heaven and that in the closest hardest and most dificult service for the living God that is Oh my Friends the battell is ours all ready onely our Father is will and must be supream head and Governour And therefore he will be sought unto night and day by the house of Israel and by every individuall member therein watch therefore in God and in
one Jot or tittle of these things shall faile for such hath the Lord God Almighty raysed upin the midest of you in these latter dayes that have told you fore told you from God vvhat vvould come and vvhat is coming amongst you and upon you and out of the mouthes of babes and sucklings vvill God perfect his prayes for through such hath the Lord God Almighty often spoken to the former Powers Priests and People of England c. As vvell as unto you And unto you the Powers Priests People of Eng. that now are hath God spoken these things that are come and coming upon you and vvhilst Gods judgements are upon the earth the inhabitants thereof should and ought to learn righteousnesse for the Lord God hath sent you in this ages as vvell as them in other ages many vvarnings by his servants the Prophets though you the Priests Powers and People of the Earth have not heeded them as you ought to do mark that as vvell as vvhat follovveth For novv the Father of faithfullnesse God hath made and is making good his vvord spoken by his Prophets of Old to vvit that old Men should dreame dreames also that young men should see visions and that God vvould in the latter dayes povver forth his Spirit aboundantly upon his Sonnes and Daughters and inable both Sons and hand-Mayds to Prophesic speak and vvrite also that some in seeing should not see and in hearing they should not understand as God the Father of faithfullnes hath spoken so hath he made good his word spoken in all ages and as God did of old speak in unto his servants the Prophets even so hath did he speak in tome at sundry places and at several times in this latter age in these particulers to wit in speaking to in foreshewing me the dovvnfall of the old King of England Charles the First and many great ones more the Rice and Fall of the Cromwels the ruine of the Parliament and Army telling them hovv often God vvould have gathered them to himself even as a Henn gathereth her chickings but they vvould not Novv marke and see vvhat follovved thereupon nothing say I but destruction And as the High-Priests Seribes and Pharises did even so have some latly done in England I say they have given up the innocent People of God into the hands of Rulers and rude People to be hardly dealt vvith all Such vvere they that Crucified and killed Christ as had joyned them selves unto idols and vvere vvedded there unto and resolved they vvere to goe on in there idolletry and vvill vvorship untill God came dovvne vvith his severe judgments upon them And though the vvicked may doe vvickedly for a vvhile in labouring to keepe the ignorant and simple People in sin superstition and idolletry ye and in blindness and darkness c. Yet knovv that God vvill not allvvays be so mocked Therefore frends take heed all you that drive on so Iehu-like in persecuting the People and Children of God for it vvas once vvritten from the Spirit of the holy God that the Rod of the vvicked should not all vvayes rest upon the back of the righteous mark that For vvhosoever they be that have yet in this latter age gone about to Lord it over Gods heritage and thereupon have persecuted and smitten the Babes Lambs and little ones Children of Light and they that have thereby had thoughts to vveary out the Saints and children of the most High God they have hither to been broken and have broken one another to pieces and many of them that so did are allready ground to povvder O vvicked Generation of vipers that have in all ages thus risen up against God and his povver life light and truth made manifest in Gods people have you not been often vvarned to fly from the vvrath to come by the Prophets and have you not been desired to decist from your bloody and cruel intentions and from the evill of your vvays in killing and Crucifiing the Lord of life light and glory a fresh and of puting him to open shame againe and againe in his People and have you not been warned to fly from such abominations as these and to seek reconciliation with God and Man yee with God and good men while you have a day and time and not to destroy such as feare the Lord but it seems you will not stay your hearts in God nor restrain your hands from blood cruelty perfecution and so forth But you will fight against the witness of God in your selves and others and so forget the sure mercies of David untill the judgments of the Lord God almighty overtake you againe Friends have not you the Backsliders in heart every where been the greatest persecutors you that of old promised better things then these and have not you the Backsliders in heart been filled with your own ways and have you not often times been confused as it were confounded with the wicked devices of your own hearts in almost every thing and have you in these last 20 years Revolutions learned no more no better things then these have your persecutions and suffrings taught yōu no more good yet what think you vvill become of you vvhile you are thus found fighters against God and the mercies that you have had vvhat vvil become of you that think to eat up Gods children like Bread and to scatter drive his flock upon the Mountains by your vvolfuish actions tovvards them as if they vvere not creatures of Gods ovvn making or your fellow creatures Give over your persecution in time I pray you least at last you dig a pit and be buried therein your selves And novv O Lord passe by the innocent blood that hath been allready spilt in poor Ireland England and Scotland O hovv did the bloody Papists at the first Rip up the poore Protestant Women great vvith child in many places in poore Ireland and all from the instigation of sathan and the Blood-sucking Priests vvho pretended for a moderate Episcopal Clergy there such vvere they that had a hand in that Bloody Massacre at the beginning of the late Warre in that place and in Englands former and latter Martyrdoms Be novv therefore convinced of your sins in time and learn to knovv that God 〈◊〉 have the hearts of Kings as vvell as Rulers and People in his ovvn hands Therefore O Lord of Hosts turne the hearts of Kings as well Rulers and People if it be thy vvill that so they may in time come and stoop unto they Septer for all the powers on Earth must come and bring their glory and honour unto God or else they vvill Perish For ever and ever For novv the hand of the Lord God Almighty is stretched forth over all and none can hinder God from makeing good his ovvne decree revealed sealed unto mee vvhich in the General is that he will breake all the Kingdoms and People of the Earth in pieces that vvill not have Christ to
whole Earth Friends these things have been wonderfully revealed and made manifest unto mee from the Lord God Almighty in so much that I have often times been made to tremble before the living God in the seeing and beholding thereof And Verely true it is the Lord God Almighty is just in bringing thee O King of England with others in over your enemies it being according to his revealed word in and unto me long before it came to pass And as true it is that God the Lord of Hoasts is a rewarder of every man according to his or there workes and deeds done in the flesh wheither they be good or evell And wheither canst thou O Man O King flye from the presence of the Lord God Almightie Lord of Lords and King of Kings Verelie I knovv not vvheither thou canst flye from the presence of the great God for fly whethersoever thou wilt God will follovv thee vvith his judgments untill the measure of thine iniquities are full This have I seen and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it unto me Forther I have in the light of God seen terrible and dreadfull things that shall come upon the Earth some of vvhich are not as yet lavvfull for me to utter but vvhat is lavvfull and layd upon me to signifie unto thee and unto the children of men I have and shall freely doe it marke therefore vvhat followeth I have often times seen acertain number of men nigh thee O King of England I say I have certainly seen a number of men nigh thee O King severall times in consultation counselling thee to doe the things that are not good neither in the sight of God or man viz consulting together hovv they with thee might rid thy Territories and Dominions so called of an innocent harmeles quiet peacable people that hurt you not nor vvill they harm any body Though the bloody minded of all sorrs doe goe about to make thee O King and others believe other ways of us But my God vvill Ere long revvard all such with the evell of there ovvne doings For there vvill yet be greater tribulations upon the Earth then ever Also I have in the light of the Lord seen great Lightnings and Thunders that shall be the tirribleness thereof shall make both men and beasts affraid insomuch that they shall not know what to do nor whither to goe to hide themselves from the presence of the Almighty I have also seen other dreadful and tirrible sights vvhich shall be seen upon the Earth such things when they come as will amaze terrifie and confound many of them that believe not in the living God For Signes and Wonders there must be for a while that so the unbelievers may believe and know that Gods Word is true which he hath spoken in these last dayes by his Servants and Prophets Now in this Book is part of Englands dome to come Demonstrated Therefore do I once more according to the Requirings of God made manifest in and unto me beseech you the Povvers and People of that place not to harden your hearts any longer least more of you become as Pharoahs And do not you blind guids of the Earth Hirelings of any sort go about any longer to make your Masters and People believe that there are no true Prophets novv upon the Earth for in your vvillfullness darkness blindness and ignorance of God and of his misteries Christ being unto you a misterie I say in your ignorance and blind Zeal you have hitherto gon about to make both the Povvers and People of the Earth believe a lye and you have insenced both the People Povvers of the Earth against the Children of Light Servants and Prophets of God vvhom God hath raised up to bear testamony unto his name and truth as it vvas in the begining and it vvould have been better for you if you had not so doné sure I am if the Testamony of Jesus be the spirit of Prophecy as I both knovv believe it is Then God hath many true Prophets novv upon the Earth who have and do in Gods Name Authority Power and Strength Prophecy yea and they have foretould you the People Priests and Powers of England c. what would come upon you part whereof is already come to pass and the remainder is comming and such dare not Preach Lies in the Name of God and Christ as the false Christians blind Guides and Hirelings of the Earth do vvho Preach for Hire and Divine for Money and so Ride both Povvers and People even to Death And now had not the Lord God Almighty given such his servants 〈…〉 of things to come they durst not have so spoken and vvrote as they have Novv vvould the former King Povvers Priests and People of England but have believed that vvhich vvas said unto them from God by his servants vvho vvere Inabled both to speak and write unto them sure there had been no more Innocent blood spilt after the first War in England was ended but they vvould not believe nor take council of God by his Children but in stead thereof they to wit the greatest and vvisest of them vvould do as many Great Mighty Wise and Noble novv do laugh jere scoffe at them vvhich God had inabled comanded to speak to them vvho from God did positively fore-tell them of their ruine destruction as they do of yours novv if you repent not and turn not unto God For there vvill yet be greater trouble upon the Earth then ever vvas Also there vvill be Earth-quakes in some places of the World that vvill svvallovv up many if not vvhole Countries Farther there vvill be a Nation born in a day These things hath the Almighty God given me a perfect and clear fight off as if they were already past vvith many more vvhich as yet I have no Authority nor command from on High to publish but this my God and Father hath already assured me that whatsoever of it shall make for his Glory and for his Peoples good he will in his ovvn time give me povver and strength to declare it and for that vvhich doth particularly concern some men I shall in Gods time faithfully signifie it unto them Novv blessed are the Mercifull for they shall find Mercy in the day which is nigh at hand when God will poure forth the Vials of his wrath judgment and Indignation upon the disobedient for Gods determination is so to do also God is staining the Glory of all flesh that so none may glory any more in the flesh but in the Lord aloan who is Head over all Now judgment is not only begun at the House of Gōd but it is gon and going forth against Sathan and his Instruments every where and all such as are found in Rebellion and Disobedience against God shall have no true comfort rebellion against God being as the sin of witchcraft say for all such as shall be found in this iniquity of rebellion against God and in truth and
peace-breaking and in blood-guiltiness persecution sin superstion Idolitry shall have but little quiet for God hath determined vvonderfull things to be And these things herein called Englands dome hath been from God often times signified unto me to be that which vvill surely come upon Englands Inhabitants so sure vvill they come as that which is allready past for none shall hinder the decree of God Now vvhen the Lord God Almighty first began to open these things unto me great vvere his mercies and infinit was his loving kindnes in and unto me insomuch that if I had the tongue of men and Angels I were not able to express and declare it I being but as a child and one as vvith a stamering tongue hath in the strength of my God 〈◊〉 made manifest vvhat God hath at present required at my hands this being written from the requirings of God the latter end of the yeare 1661. I say this called Englands dome vvas then vvritten but the other things vvere vvriten at other times Novv the mightie vvonderfull and povverfull appearances of the Lord God of Wisdom were such in and unto me for days and nights that had not God in his mercy and goodnes tovvards me borne up my Spirits I had then laid dovvn the body for vvhen God thus opened revealed these things in and unto me and gave me thus to behold see his great and Glorious presence I then had a cleare sight of all these things herein mentioned and then even then I beheld and savv dreadfull and terible things that the vvicked of the Earth should in a little time more be found doing of against the Godly further the Bloodsheding misery Calamity and confusion that in the light of God I then savv coming not only in upon poor England but else where vvould make the stoutest Kings Princes Priests and People of the Earth there harts to tremble and quake to behold and see it as I have done And this sound of the Spirit of God have often passed through mee O what would I do to save this people So that through mercy I can truly say testifie to the vvhole world that God is good to Israel unto them that obey him are of a pure and upright heart also that this Gods wonderfull dealings vvith me is not for naught for in the middest and deapth of all our tribulations suffrings and aflictions that vvee the People of God and sheepe of our Fathers pasture may yet meet vvith all I say from God that in the hight of all our enemies fury towards us God the Lord of Hoast vvill deliver us his poor innocent and oppressed ones that abide and trust in him these things hath my God opened and perfectly shevven unto me againe and again yea and sealed them unto and in me to the end that I should publish them unto the sons and daughters of men that so all the People of God on earth may be comforted yee and be made to abyde stedfast and unmoveable allvvays abounding in the vvorke and service of God in the middest of our greatest suffrings And novv vvhile the vvicked doe vvalke on every side and the vildest of men are exalted let us the People of God be ever more found doing our Fathers vvill one Earth as it is in Heaven and as much good to our enemies as vvee can for in our so doing our God and Father vvill be vvell pleased vvith us and he vvill delight himselfe in us to the perfecting of his praise for us and by us And for all you Kings Princes Rulers Preists People and Povvers of the Earth of the Earthly mind Flatter not your selves any longer and suffer not your selves to be deceived and flatred withall fauned upon by your high Priest blind guids for such doe but sevv pillows of downe under you vvhich vvill deceive both you and them at last I say deceive not your selves nor them that you have povver authority over But turne you unto the light of God vvhile you have a day and time and ceace from sin you little and lofty ones of the Earth and do good and be yee all found in Moderation and in the vvorks of holines rightousnes peace and truth for the Lords sake other vvayes it vvill goe very hard with you all I doe assure you And novv vvhosoever you be that shall be found in the path of righteousnes peace and truth and in vvell doing also in moderation it may then be trulie hoped that such people doe knovv that the Lord God Almighty is nigh at hand to judgment for sin And for all you Kings Rulers and people that shall be found in the exercise of the things that are good you shall have true comfort therein and the tryal of your faith and patience in your so doing vvill be of much more comfort unto you then all your Earthly crovvns yea then al your gold honour that perisheth now that true honour which cometh from above is first pure then peacable it is also gentle and easy to be intreated it is also full of love good vvorks and vvhat not that is of good and of honest report and sure I am that all they that live in this moderation be they Kings or others they must needs knovv good from evill and avoid the one and love the other And novv friends did you but knovv vvho it vvas that came from Bozero vvith his Garments rouled in blood sure you would tremble for he it is that is come and comming to judge the Earth yea to judge both the quick and dead or did you but consider as vvell as knovv that some men for sheding of innocent blood have already payed deare you vvould then seace from blood and never do iniquity more Novv doe you not knovv that blood is a crying sin and that the cry thereof hath often reached unto Heaven And hovv God remembreth it and that he vvill be avenged thereof Have you forgotten that God judgeth amongst the Gods and do you not knovv for vvhat God hath cast dovvn some and raised up others and hovv he giveth the Kingdomes of men unto vvhomsoever he pleaseth and that he is no respector of persons and vvill you yet go on in your sins sure you that Rule over men ought to be kinde loving mercifull and just I say unto you vvhosoever you be that thus hunger and thirst after innocent blood God vvill give you blood to drink again at last bring you into confusion vvoe missery torment and trouble for there is innocency in many vvho thirst not after blood and vvrath in the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the vvorld on their behalfe and God my God vvill in a little time more manifest it and make it apeare unto all thevvorld And then you that have seen this Testimony vvill say that this vvas a plaine and faithfull vvarning as vvell as a loving invitation foresight and 〈◊〉 for the healing of the Nations and People of the Earth especially them of England And now I tell you in England c. make vvhat confedracies you vvill vvith in your selves vvith Death and Hell that tends to blood the Lord God omnipotent God over all vvill reveale and discover it God in his own time vvill blast you it that shall be found therein Also make vvhat conjunctions confedracies you vvill vvithin your selves and vvith other Nations vvho are infatuated as vvell as you it shall all be for the fullfilling and accomplishing of these things herein spoken off and treated on Friends novv learn to knovv that God is he vvhich maketh all things manifest Therefore wait patiently in God all ye children of light and be still and think not much any of you at your sufferings for God beholdeth it and taketh care of all you that trust in him For through suffrings must redemption come Also knovv if any shall say he or they hath a Revelation or Prophesie and commeth in the name of the Lord and speaketh falsly the Lord God will reward such with the evil of their own doings therefore let no man destroy such also if any man shall draw back from the service of the living God my soul saith God through me shall have no pleasure in such let no man therefore now neglect to do the service and requirings of God Friends I say again wait patiently in God and see what a fevv yeares more will bring forth and be not impatient but watch and pray that can and as it is said before so doe And now take no care when you or any of you shall be had before Kings and Princes for his name sake or before other Rulers for the Lord careth for you and remember that it be the patient and the meek that do and shall iuherit the Kingdome that cannot be removed in which Kingdome is the Crownimmortall which fadeth not away its Gods Kingdome And for thou O King of England let this folowing Counsell be acceptable vnto thee amongst the rest Break thou of thy sins by Righteousness and thine Iniquities by showing mercy unto the poore if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillitie But if thou shalt yet goe on in the fullfilling of thy lust and in suffering the truly Inocent peaceable people of God to be worrowed brused abused and beaten a while Longer as they have bin As heavey a hand from the Lord God Allmighty will fall upon thee and them that cause such Greiuious and abominable things to be don as hither to hath bin don and Inflicted upon Gods pore babes Lambs and little ons As ever fell upon King Nebuchadnezzar Belshazzer or Darious For Great Babelon is still in Remembrance before the Great God of heaven and Earth whose reward is nye for all There Creueltyes don unto the saints and people of God The End