AN ALLARM TO The Inhabitants of the Earth That they all may be awakned and shake off their poluted garments and meet the Lord with speedy repentance before his wrath break out against them and none be able to quench it And here is a true declaration of the wrath and indignation of God which shall certainly fall upon the Priests and all that joyn with them And here is a warning to all Rulers Magistrates and men in Authority that they all do that which is just and right and that they all take heed how they joyn in persecution with the Priests and Dragon against the Lambs of Christ lest they perish together Also a salutation to the children of Light who are turned to the Lord especially to them in Dorcet shire By T.W. A Wake awake O inhabitants of the earth high and low rich and poor noble and ignoble and prepare to meet the Lord your maker by speedy repentance and cast off all those filthy garments wherewith you have long been covered even with the robes of darkness Cains robes and Ishmaels robes and Hammons clothing have your hearts been covered with for all you Priests Rulers and people of all degrees that live in envy and wrath and cruelty and oppression you in whom these things abound you live in Cains nature and with his robes you are covered and even as he was a fugitive driven from God so are you fugitives and alienated from the pure innocent life of God and all you that live in scoffing and scorning and in light-mindedness and in whom vanity and folly is found you are of Ishmaels stock and in his nature you are standing and in his race you are swiftly running and your end will be destruction woe and misery except you speedily repent and turn to the Lord and forsake the evil of your doings for your sins have ascended upon high and the just is grieved with your wickedness O how scorning tearing and reviling and wickedness abounds in all cities towns and streets in England it is even grievous to behold and the people both old and young delight in vanity and their tongues talk of folly and their lips and mouth utters forth perverse and foolish things and their mindes are grievously corrupted through wicked devises and their hearts are gone a whoring from the pure fear of the Lord after evil inventions O how pride and hautiness and high mindedness abounds and superabounds through all parts of the Nation in all cities and towns steeplehouses and through all parts of the Nation in all cities and towns steeplehouses and markers it is even woful to behold yea even as Lots righteous so I was grieved with the Sodomites wicked conversation even so is the souls of the children of the Lord grieved at this day to see and behold the wicked conversation of the people who profess themselves to be Christians but walk quite contrary to the life of a Christian for they that are Christians they have received the spirit of Christ and by it they are led and guided and through the effectual working of the same spirit in them they are become new creatures But with the Priests and they that are under their discipline and such as own the hirelings to be their Ministers it is not so for among them the old sin of Sodom is found yea all manner of uncleanness is found among the Priests Congregations in which they pray and sing yea all people that are not bewitched and blinded with their sorceries may see the wickedness of the Priests for their fruits do demonstrate what spirit they are of and their covetous practises and their casting into prisons and suing at the law such as cannot put into their mouthes doth plainly manifest that they are not of God nor sent by him neither is the people come to the knowledge of the truth by hearing them and therefore let all who have desires after God and his truth turn away from them and not partake with them in their sins lest you pertake with them in their plagues for certainly they have a terrible cup to drink yea the cup of the sore vengeance and fiery indignation of the Almighty God of heaven and earth is prepared for them to drink and drink it you must priests as sure as God is true yea the rod of God you shall feel assuredly for by you have the souls of many been starved and their blood will the Lord God require at your hands and your portion shall be in the lake that burnes for ever and ever and your sorrowes shall greatly increase and of your pain there shall be no end and this shall surely come upon you as surely as ever you were born into the world except you repent and humble your selves before the Lord God of heaven and earth whose name is greatly dishonoured by you both Priests and people that take the name of the Lord into your mouthes and live in wickedness and in unrighteousness in pride and vanity and in covetousness envie wrath and bitterness fraud and deceit and all manner of wickedness yea what sin was there in Sodom but that there is the like in the Priests and their hearers they are the spiritual Sodom and Egypt in whom the Lord Jesus is crucified a fresh and put to open shame ye the pare witness of God in them they trample upon and when it ariseth at any time to judge or to condemne them for any of their wickedness they kick against it and call it a temptation and so put light for darkness and darkness for light and bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter but now is the pure day dawned unto many and the true light shines glory be to the Lord for ever and with it you are seen Priests and comprehended from whence you sprung and what stock you are of and you and your father the Pope must go down into the pit from whence you did arise for I bear forth my testimony before all people that the hand of the Lord is against you and my testimony is true and shall stand for ever and all your prayers you offer up from your corrupted hearts are an abomination unto the Lord and all your singing in your steeplehouses and assemblies is an odious thing unto the Lord it is even like the yelling of Draggons in the desert and the Lords soul is burthened with it and he is now arisen and arising to take vengeance upon his adversaries that oppress his seed and he will power forth his wrath and indignation upon all them that will not have his son Christ the light of the world to reign over them but do still go on in the frowardness of their wayes surely the Lord will be avenged on such a people as this And therefore all people high and low rich and poor men of all degrees return unto the Lord with speedy repentance lest he suddenly break forth upon you in his wrath and fiery indignation and none be able to quench it
for verily verily a great and terrible controversie hath the Lord God determined against the inhabitants of the whole earth and woe woe will be unto all them whose hearts are fixed in the earth and erathly things and take delight therein more that in the Lord that made them and gave all men life and being and therefore consider all people and see what your hearts are taking delight in whether in the Creator or in the creatures which will fade as the grass and perish in one day for all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man is as the glory of the field and suddenly vanisheth away even as the smoke before the wind and all the proud and haughty ones and all the careless ones who are at ease in the flesh whose hearts takes pleasure and delight in vanity they shall all be as stubble ready dryed before a mighty and unquenchable fire in that great and notable day which now draweth nigh wherein the Lord God will reveal himself from heaven in flames of fire rendring vengeance upon the head of his enemies and upon all them that slight and neglect the day of their visitation wherein the Lord waits to be gratious and hath mercy for all those that return unto him in the true integrity of their hearts and do in meekness and in lowliness of mind in the pure fear of the Lord waite upon him them the Lord will deal gratiously with he will take care for them he will feed them with pure food and he will water them with sweet pleasant does he will fight their battels for them he will subdue their enemies both within fight their battels for them he will subdue their enemies both within without he will break down the mountains and he will make the rough waies plain before them and they shall not be hungry neither shall they be thirsty neither shall the heat smite them nor the sun make them faint for the Lord who hath compassion on them he will lead them to the springs of water where they shall drink and be refreshed and their souls satisfied and this is already witnessed by thousands of them who are returned out of the darkness vanity and pollutions of the world unto the Lord and are joyned unto him in the covenant of light life and peace and are now become followers of the Lamb of God who is the light of the world and do follow him through the suffering state mockings and reproches and revilings of wicked and ungodly men yea moreover cruel whippings bonds and imprisonments casting into dungeons and filthy noysome holes and in all this we feel the word of patience which carryes us through all tribulations and so are willing to suffer with him who is a man of sorrows that with him we may also reign and this I certainly know that none can reign with him but they that suffer with him yet every one according to his own measure and not all alike but every one according to the proportion of the gift that God hath given unto them so all who are in the covenant of life joyned unto God do feel and witness the measure of the sufferings of Christ fulfilled in them and as their sufferings doe abound so they feel the joy and the peace much more to abound and the pure love of God they feel wherewith they are relieved and comforted in the time of great adversity when wicked and ungodly men rage and fret and the enemy makes his assault both within and without then the Lord he reveales his pure power into his children who trust in him and with it they are made bold and valient to the amazement and confounding of their enemies and so it is not by their own strength that they get the victory but by the power of God onely by which the Lord God keeps and preserves his children and servants that diligently in his fear do wait upon him who by the world are called Quakers to receive of his wisdome and to be filled with his power which is the sword with which they make war in righteousness and with it strong holds are broken down and principalities are spoyled and with this sword the power of God they do prevail and shall prevail and no weapon formed against them shall prosper for they are the seed which God hath blessed and all that do or shall rise up against them shall be broken and snared and confounded for of a truth the Lord is with them and his arm compasseth them about and though all the powers of darkness be stirred up against them in the Priests ungodly Rulers yet they shall never be overcome nor the gates of hell shall never be able to prevail against them for the Lord he is with them who is greater then all and hath-power over death and hell and wo will be to all them that seek to quench the appearance of the Lord in his people and therefore all people take heed how you strive against the Lord and against his truth which is now made manifest and declared by his children who are hated reviled and evil spoken of all take heed how you joyn any longer with the Priests and seek to hold them up for all that strive to build up them they strive to build up that which the Lord will throw down ye this will the Lord do whether you can hear it or not the thing shall certainly come to pass and their downfal hastens and the day draweth on wherein they shall fall and shall never be able to rise any more And therefore all you rulers of the earth and ye that are in the place of Magistrates and men in authority be you all warned that you all do that which is just equal unto all men even as you would that men should do unto you for this is right this doth the Lord require of you all I warn you all in the fear of the Lord God that you all take heed how you joyn your selves your power with the Prince of darkness the Priests whom the wrath of God is against to persecute these innocent people called quakers that hath done you no harm neither have they done any violence or wrong to any man but for the testimony of a good conscience and for witnessing and declaring against the ungodliness of the Priests and people and for testifying against that great abomination Tithes which was first instituted by the Popes authority among those called Christians have we suffered all this grievous oppression and afflictions which have been inflicted upon many of us by casting into prisons and dungeons and filthy places not fit for good dogs as the jayler of Evesham said to H. S. and I who were at that time in the dungeon which was not a fit place for a good dog he said besides cruel whippings stockeing and stoning in your streets and many have had their goods spoyled and in all this the Priests have
had a hand and the Rulers have been very ready and attentive to the Priests to help them with their assistance as your steeple-houses stocks and prisons will manifest to all sober people that are honest hearted but this do you all know assuredly that the Lord God who is just and righteous in all his wayes and will not suffer the oppressour to go unpunished he will call you to an account for these things and will give unto every one of you a just reward according to your doings yea even as you have afflicted and scourged the innocent lambs of Christ so shall you be afflicted with a sore affliction and shall be scourged with the rod of Gods wrath yea even as you have thirsted after blood blood shall you drink and even as you have cast the members of Christ into dungeons and filthy holes so shall you that joyn with the Priests and the old Dragon their Master against the Lords people be cast into the lake that burneth for ever except you repent and turn from your wicked wayes and own the light of Christ in you which reproves for sin and ungodliness and will lead into soberness and meekness if you obey it and to do unto all men as you would they should do unto you and to this pure light of Christ Jesus in all your consciences which judgeth and reproves you in secret when you do that which is evil unto this must you all bow and bend if ever you know peace with God or salvation from sin and in vain do any expect salvation who are not turned to the light of Christ in them which makes manifest sin in its first appearance and it doth not onely discover sin but it also leads out of sin all them that love it and obey it and now all them that are not yet turned to the light they are in the darkness and in the alienation and are strangers to the light of righteousness and these are them that hate and persecute those that do walk in the light unto which they themselves are not joyned for darkness cannot have any communion with light but they that walk in the light they have unity one with another and they persecute none neither envy they any man for the children of light never persecuted any but they were alwayes in all ages persecuted by Cains generation and out of the same nature that was in Cain in which he slew his brother doth all the persecution arise from the foundation of the world even unto this day for there is but two generations to wit the children of light and the children of darkness and the children of darkness alwaies persecuted the children of light and therefore look back all ye persecutors and see whose stock ye are of and the witness of God in you will tell you that you are of Cains generation whose of-spring you are you are of Hamons seed whose envy was almost as great against the poor scattered Jews as yours is against the Quakers yet the Lord he delivered them out of his hand and brought destruction upon their enemies and the Lord he is the same God as he was then and as mighty in power as he was then and he will deliver his people out of their enemies hands and will assuredly bring his plagues and judgements upon all them that seek their ruine as ever he did upon Hammon and the more you strive to overcome them the more shall they increase and flourish for as the persecution doth abound so much the more their consolation with Christ doth abound and the more abundantly is the power of the Lord made manifest in them and in it they lie down in rest and peace in a quiet habitation into which the unclean cannot come for the power of the Lord compasseth them about and in it they rest in safety and none can make them afraid From him who is aâ— one of the lest of the Lords servants is this written and sent abroad among all people as a warning to them all that they all repent and turn to the Lord with speed before the wrath of God breaks forth upon them for these things which are here declared shall certainly fall upon all the unrepented ones Thomas Woodrove A Sallutation to the Children of light who are turned to the Lord especially to them in Dorset-shire ALL you children of the light who are turned to the Lord lift up your heads and rejoyce and be you bold and valient for the Lord and for his truth and all walk wisely and circumspectly in all times and in all places that the name of the Lord may be honoured by you all and all keep down to the pure meek and lowly principal in you all and then shall you never want bread to feed upon nor water to drink but your bread shall be sure and your springs shall never be dry and your light shall alwayes shine and your sun shall never go down and your moon shall never be eâ—lipsed nor be hid but the Lord will be your everlasting light your rock and your strong fortress and the Lord God Almighty who is rich and large and bountiful unto all his children that hunger and thirst after him he will crown you with strength and honour as you keep faithful unto him and all the powers of darkness shall never prevail against you for the Lord is with us and he is greater then all and his power rules over all and he hath the hearts of all men in his own hand and he can do with them as he pleases and unto him all shall bow and all the high Oaks and all the tall Cedars shall bend themselves before the Lords pure presence who is now arisen for the redemption of his own seed from under its grievous oppression and cruel bondage and now must that which hath held the Lords seed captive goe into captivity and this is the mighty work that the Lord hath and is bringing to pass and therefore let all the living praise his name for ever and ever and all walk worthy of your calling whereunto the Lord hath called you and all prize the Lords rich love towards you in that he hath visited you and made known the way of life and salvation unto you and hath in a great measure redeemed you from the pollutions of this world and from under the chains of darkness under which you had long been bound and hath pulled the feet of many out of the mire and clay and hath set them upon a rock where they stand sure O endless rich love glory glory honour and prayses be unto thy name Lord God Omnipotent for thou art worthy And all friends every where let not the gratious dealings of the Lord towards you be forgoten but let it be had in a perpetual remembrance and all walk worthy of the Lords rich love and mercy towards you and let not the name of the Lord nor his truth be dishonoured by any disorderly walking but all keep in the fear of God and there the power of God you will feel and in it be preserved but out of the fear of God out of the power of God so all dwell in the fear of God and here the power is known From him who is a Babe in Christ or as one of the lest of all that have believed yet to the truth and all that live in it I know my love is not the lest T. W. Written in the 3d. month 1659. London Printed in the 3d. month for M. W. 1659.