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A44640	A warning from the Lord unto the rulers of Dover And so to all men which stand guilty of the like practises, that all may know a day of repentance before it be too late; for the night will come when as no man can work, in which the son of man will come as a thief unto all such the workers of iniquity, and give to every man according to his deeds done in their body in their life-time. Then wo to the eveil-doer, for it will go ill with him. Also, the Christian man's plea for his liberty, as he is so indeed and in truth: and also, as he is a free-born English-man, he lays claim to his birth-right, by way of expostulation with the rulers of Dover, who rob him and many others of it, refusing to shew us any order for their so doing. Together with a true testimony born to the Light of Jesus, the power of God, yea the power of the endless life, from everlasting to everlasting: by Luke Howard.	Howard, Luke, 1621-1699.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2988; ESTC R215380	18,231	25

A WARNING FROM THE LORD UNTO THE Rulers of Dover And so to all men which stand guilty of the like Practises that all may know a Day of Repentance before it be too late for the Night will come whenas no man can work in which the Son of man will come as a Thief unto all such the Workers of Iniquity and give to every man according to his deeds done in their body in their life-time Then wo to the Evil-doer for it will go ill with him Also the Christian man's Plea for his Liberty as he is so indeed and in truth And also as he is a free-born English-man he lays claim to his Birth-right by way of Expostulation with the Rulers of DOVER who rob him and many others of it refusing to shew us any Order for their so doing Together with a true Testimony born to the Light of Jesus the Power of God yea the Power of the endless Life from everlasting to everlasting By LUKE HOWARD Isa 57.20 The wicked are like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up Mire and Dirt. How ever it be yet God is good and his mercies are sure to Israel yea they endure for ever Prov. 24.15 Lay not wait O wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous spoil not his resting place Prov. 28.10 11. Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way he shall fall himself into his own pit but the upright shall have good things in possession Prov. 10.6 Blessings are upon the head of the just but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked LONDON Printed For Robert Wilson and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle and Windmill in Martins l'Grand 1661. A VVarning from the Lord unto the Rulers of Dover and so to all men men which stand guilty of the like Practises that all may know a Day of Repentance before it be too late c. ON the third day of the 8th Month 1661. in the night-watch upon my Bed of Straw and Chaff * Yet I and he rest of my friends did offer the Marshall to give him as we gave in other Prisons 8. pence a night for two Beds fitting for men to lye upon and that our friends as in other places might come at us but he refused it in the Common-Goal of Dover-Castle as I lay in a sweet and a comfortable sleep and rest the hand of my God fell on me and his sweet and comfortable presence awaken'd me and so continued with me unto the Morning-Watch in which time the living presence of my God was with me and the comfortable fellowship of his holy Spirit accompanied me so that my soul was filled with his living presence as with a mighty River which did overflow the Banks so that nothing appeared but joy and gladness and the Streams of his everlasting Vertue run through me exceeding swift and as the dew from Heaven refresheth the tender Grass so was the Plant of God's Renown refreshed in me and gave glory to him that sitteth on the Throne the Ancient of Days and to the Lamb for evermore even so faith my soul and all that is within me yea praise ye the Lord for he is worthy And as I thus lay with my mind staid on his Holiness and my heart awake in his Life and Light the Word of his Eternal Power came to me and from the God of Life it run through me in these words the which I was to write as from the God of my Life to the Rulers of Dover A Spoil a Spoil a Spoil is in you a Spoil a Spoil a Spoil is in your hearts yee blood-thirsty men John Golder Mayor George West and all which are agreed with you whose hearts are filled with envy a Envy is the ground of murder and it is murder in Gods sight as saith the whole Scripture to destroy a man and his Heritage yea men and their Families the judgments of God are against you and the righteous vengeance of the Almighty is gathering together in his heart against you and the Revelation thereof is near at hand to be poured forth As your iniquities ripen to a head and your envy against the righteous is fully accomplished come you forth and stand up before the righteous God of my Life and let the God of Truth be judge in the matter and his living Witness b For that wil plead the cause of the just and innocent in secret between God and your own consciences in all your Consciences give Answer between us and this Word of Life run through my heart from the righteous God to write unto you in the Word of the Lord even the Lord God of Life and Light of Righteousness and Truth the God of Heaven and Earth whose dreadful presence wil make the strong to bow and bring the lofty down and rebuke the wicked devices of the heart of man strike through the Liver of the Oppressor as with a Dart and none shall shift his hand before whose glorious presence all must appear and all flesh must be silenced before him This is my God I have waited for him and his appearance to me and mine is as as the Morning without clouds and his beauty hath taken my heart and his comeliness hath ravished my soul and his exceeding Riches hath he adorned my inward man with c The Kings Daughters are all glorious within and his everlasting strength is my salvation even the Son of his Love which was from everlasting to everlasting the same yesterday to day and for ever by whom he will judge the World in righteousness and the men thereof in truth and no covering d VVo be to him who is covered with a covering and not of the spirit of the Lord. of falshood shall then hide any but all must stand naked and bare before him and his holy Angels and mighty Host of Redeemed ones the hundred fourty and four thousand e Then shall the Lord be admired in his Saints honored in his chosen and glorified in and among his people his own which he hath redeemed from the Earth who shall sit upon the holy Hill of Sion with new Songs in their mouths and everlasting Praises in their hearts which hath followed the Lamb wheresoever he hath gone and have not loved their lives unto death These are the generation of the Just yea the general Assembly of the first born whose names are written in Heaven The Just men whose Spirits are made perfect being washed in the blood of the Lamb yea the Lamb of God that hath taken away their sins and carried them into the Land of forgetfulness so that they shall never be remembred more against them A new song of Salvation is put into their mouths and joy and gladness is in their souls and everlasting praises is under their tongues and the voice of Melody is in their inward parts and the voice or shout of a King is in the midst of them for

evermore so that great is the shout of the living Host which giveth all our glory and praises unto the Ancient of Dayes and to the Lamb that lives for evermore even so Amen Amen saith my soul and my Spirit sets to its seal in the presence of my God who is the everlasting Father and Prince of Peace of whose Dominion and Government there shall never be an end but he shall reign for evermore before whose seat of Justice f Where nothing wil speak peace but a Conscience void of offence both to God and man and no cover hide but the spirit of Life which hath overcome death in all it covers and Tribunal of everlasting Righteousness I say again all must stand naked and bare and no covering shall be able to hide the least Iniquity but Judgement from the righteous God must come on all and I say again all flesh must and shall be silent in his presence and all tongues confess to his righteous Judgements and all knees bend before him and all hearts fail in his presence for strong is the Lord that judgeth the righteous and true altogether is the Lamb that passeth sentence which saith Go ye cursed into everlasting torments prepared for the Devil and his Angels for ever and come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World for I was a hungry and ye fed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in Prison and ye came unto me and you shall not lose your g The Lord taketh notice of all mens actions and will assuredly reward all men accordingly Reward that have given but a Cup of cold water to a Disciple in the Name of a Disciple forasmuch as ye did it unto one of the little ones which believed in my Name ye did it unto me Come ye blessed of my Father enter into rest and partake of my everlasting Life and Love for ever and for ever world without end And go ye cursed you that have cast into holes and Prisons into endless pains wo and misery for ever and for ever world without end for you have been so far from visiting me in my Lambs and Babes and little ones in prisons that you have cast them in and blasphemed my holy Name my Power in them calling it the power of the Devil and Delusion to wit h This is the condemnation of the world that Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil my Light which they make mention of and speaking all manner of evil against them falsly for my Names sake and have made lyes your refuge and under falshood have hid your selves among men like unto yourselves to bring your wicked purposes to pass against my holy Nation and chosen people for though in your Envy you have falsly charged them and by so doing evil entreated them yet what have you found against them justly to deserve such usage from you as they have had Yea are they not clear and innocent Have not you searched them again and again proved them again and again and still what have you found Even nought in them but a lying heart i Through the whole Nation how often even over and ever have they been falsly charged and so much searched nothing to 〈◊〉 day can yet be proved because they are clear in all matters in your selves and the deceit thereof hath turned you aside so that justice hath been turned backward and Equity hath fallen in the street Judgement hath stood afar off and Truth it could not enter because the best of you have been as a bryar and the most uprightest of you sharper then a Thorn-Hedge yea your Mercies have been but Cruelties to them for he that departed from iniquity you made a prey upon and eat his flesh as a man should eat bread and took not pity upon the needy but strengthened the hands of the k This is the portion of the servants of the Lord in this world from the men thereof wicked to turn him out of the way This hath been your carriage and behaviour towards me in them O ye strong Okes and tall Cedars whose tops I will lop off yea and whose root I will pluck up for the evil you have acted against me in my servants in your life-time when you should have feared my Name and have met often together with those which did meet to wait upon me and call upon my Name which is everlasting Righteousness and Truth Life and Light which whosoever walketh therein walketh safely and is free from harm in a strong Tower of Defence but on the contrary you have broke up their Meetings and sent them to Prisons and cast them in holes and all hath been for obeying me and walking in my Light your condemnation and assembling l They which feared the Lord in the dayes past met often together a Book of remembrance was written and so it is now themselves together in my fear to wait upon me to receive of my fulness Life and Love and to walk therein yea to their and my Enemies as is fully made manifest to such which have sought by the Power of Darkness to rout out my Name and cause it to be forgotten among the Sons of Men among whom I will be glorified by setting of it up saith the jealous God for I will march through you O you bryars and thorns m Wicked men are unto the Lord as bryars and thorns are unto the fire consumed must they be if they repent not and will burn you together and set up my Name of Everlasting Righteousness for by it am I known to my chosen and so must I be to the sons of men for evermore And this is the Name by which they shall know me and by which they shall call me the Lord our Righteousness for I will be glorified in them and they shall sanctifie me in their hearts n The true israel of God their fear towards God is not taught by the Precepts of man neither do they fear him but the Lord though they be accounted as sheep for the slaughter for it and make me their fear their dread and not man as my Flock of slaughter hath done in the day of their afflictions when the wicked have made long furrows on their backs and accounted them as sheep for the slaughter even all the day long Ah! shal I not visit for these things Yea assuredly and my hand shall be avenged on their oppressors for Vengeance is in my heart and the day of recompence is in my reins and everlasting contempt is in my bowels and I am filled therewith and I must be eased and that on my Adversaries my Flock-oppressors that have set themselves against me to destroy my Heritage and scatter the sheep of my Pasture and have endeavoured to make them forget their resting-place in me so that they should

take off the heavy burdens and set the oppressed free by undoing every heavy yoke and unrighteous Decree which my hand hath been set to and help to lay on for in this am I now satisfied and that from the Lord by his Witness x Gods witness in the conscience teacheth all to deny themselves in evil that loves it and is led by it to wit the Light in my own conscience that he which doth not do even to all as he would have another to do to him is no Christian in nature whatsoever he is in name neither can he fulfil the Law of God which is to love our enemies and also our neighbours as our selves and unto this state of life must all men come that ever know true peace with the Lord and he which is not here is out of the life which all the holy men of God were in in all ages past and is under the curse as saith the Law and denies the Faith the power of God as saith the Gospel of Peace and so is a servant to the power of darkness which rules as Lord in the hearts of all men which hateth the Light which shineth therein to shew them the desperate wickedness thereof for all wickedness proceedeth out of the y The heart of man is the very seat of all Evil whilest he hateth the light which shineth therein evil and wickedness of the heart the seat thereof and the pure Light of Jesus the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world shineth therein also as saith the Scripture for to make it manifest to man's clear understanding unto which all men shall one day confess to the glory of God and that is God's everlasting love even to all men which do receive it in the love of it and that is the Grace of God which appears to all men yea the same Grace which bringeth salvation even to as many as believe in it for he which believeth in the Light wherewith he is in his heart lighted shall not abide in the darknesse which first ruled in his heart and is made manifest by the Light but he shall have the light of life yea the same Life which gives him power over those deeds of darkness and evil which the Light makes manifest to his clear understanding to be evil so that he which doth well and takes good heed to the Light in his own heart shall have little need to ask another what is good and what is evil hee may know it plain enough in his own Conscience by the Light as he watcheth to it and this is the same Grace which the Lord unto Paul in his doubting estate gave his full Testimony unto saying My grace is sufficient for thee and Paul found z He which receives the grace of God the light which shines in his heart in the love of it grows into the knowledge of the Lord which is life eternal and to the fulfilling of the Scriptures it so to be and testifies to it saying By the grace of God I am what I am And he gives forth the same Testimony of its bringing salvation in his Letter to Titus in these words saying The Grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us Mark that to deny all ungodliness and worldly lust and to live soberly and godly in this present world So that this is a true Testimony by the Spirit of the Lord born unto all men that all which loveth it as it shines in the heart from the Lord the Fountain of Life and Light they are taught by it to deny all ungodliness as Paul and the rest of the Christians in their dayes were and all which hates it are not taught by it neither can they receive it whilest they hate it for no man's heart can be joined to the thing which in his heart he hates but first man must feel a springing of love to the thing he receives and something must appear to him to beget his love to spring Now Light in it self is lovely a All men must love the thing they receive aright therefore love the Light aright that you may know its vertue which is life to the eye which can behold it now the eye which can behold the Light of the glorious Gospel the God of this World hath blinded or the power of the creatures hath stole away the affections of the heart from the Creator who is Light so darkness comes to rule as God in the heart Now that which sometimes even as it were darts into man's heart in secret that is Light and Love from the God of Light and Love and as this is taken heed unto the power is felt which reacheth unto the seed of God which witnesses to the truth which the Light and Love declares in the heart so then a springing begins to be felt from the Seed of God towards the Light and Love which is in it self of a begetting nature and then as the Light is still taken heed unto the springing of the love of the Seed encreases so the eye comes to be open which can see a beauty in the Light that it should be desired for Light is lovely in it self and still as the Light is taken heed unto the love of the Seed encreases as the love encreases b This is a true growing from one degree of Grace to another in the Lord who is that Spirit and as he comes to rule in the heart so comes liberty strength and power is felt to stand over that which the Light maketh manifest to be evil and as a measure of power is felt to deny some evil which the Light reproves then the power of darkness appears to make war against the Power of the Light and this is the true warfare between the flesh and the spirit and in this state most men cry out O wretched man that I am because sin now appears out of measure sinful yea that which man formerly thought to be no sin he now sees to be great and so the ground of sin appears and the whole body of iniquity stands up with which he is now to make war in righteousness and now he seeth his strength though it be but small to stand wholly in the light and love which hath begun the Work in the Spirit to war against the flesh And this is the time to wait on the Lord c He which waiteth on the Lord shall not be ashamed but shall renew his strength in the Lord dai●y to feel the living hope to spring yea the exspectation of the Seed which loves the Light to receive power in the Light from the Fountain of Life to overccome the whole Body of Death and he that hath this hope purifieth himself as God is pure and although he meet with many encounters with the power of darkness yet the hope stands fast in God the Fountain of Life and Light from whom he daily expecteth a supply of

into my heart and moved me to declare it in writing from the place of my abode for the Testimony of a good Conscience unto God in the House of Cruelty in Dover-Castle Common-Goal but a place of Comfort and great Joy unto us in and from the Lord whose Mercies and loving-kindnesses I hope and pray may never fail unto me his servant LUKE HOWARD Here is also a small Paper the which a Necessity fell upon me to write for the clearing of my Conscience in the Matter it speaketh of THis is in my Heart to clear my Conscience that the Guilty may bear their own Burthen unto all sober-minded-people which have not given over themselves to work wickedness with greediness and cannot join themselves with such against the Righteous God and his peaceable People to destroy them and their Families by preventing them of providing for them by their Labours in which they are willing to abide in obedience to the Lord to work and get their own Bread their Wives and Childrens and to be helpful to others which by reason of Age Sickness or Lameness are not able to help themselves And therefore O you people of Dover be yee my witnesses that have known me from my Child-hood unto this day that I have lived all along by the sweat of my own face in honesty and therein I have through God's blessing provided for me and my Family which the God of my Life hath set me as a Steward over Therefore be yee my Witnesses in my last imprisonment in Dover for the Testimony of a good Conscience if I did not take all opportunities to labour and provide for my Family according to my duty both to God and them but it seemeth that was not punishment bad enough to bee hindered in part in the eye of the angry-destroying Spirit which seeks to destroy honest men their Wives and Children all at once for John Golder the Town Mayor said to us whom hee sent for to his house the twenty second day of the seventh Month 1661 in his angry threatning spirit That wee should not have such imprisonment as wee had the last time so it seems plain by him hee thought it too good and why except it was because we could work a little to provide something for our Families after small and low Rates unto which it would be hard for him to come but truth teacheth us to live so and content to us is very precious Therefore this is wrote to clear my conscience in the sight of God and man that if I remain here under this Restraint for ought I can see or any man can shew me and I have well considered of it that my best way is to let my Workmen cease from working for if they continue working and I continue in Prison as I am that then my damage may be greater then if they work not as men of understanding in our Trade will confess so for my men to forbear working that must I chuse and that in obedience to the Lord whose fear is before my eyes in it and whose presence is with me and the Word of his Patience runneth through me to bear all losses for his Name sake with patience in the feeling of which I shall chuse rather to part with all outward things yea life it self then sin against the God of my Life whose love is great to me unto whom I shall commit my cause and the care of my Wife and little ones who are dear and near to me whose care I know is over all that put their trust in him and his just hand over their oppressors to deal with them in due time according as they deal with others to the fulfilling of the Scriptures of Truth and so shall every man have from his just hand according to their deeds done in the body whether good or evil and then a Conscience void of offence to God and man wil be exceeding precious in which I rest in peace and love to my Enemies a Prisoner for Conscience-sake in the House of Bondage in Dover-Castle Common-gaol but a Free man in the Lord in the freedom of Jesus which is best of all and more then all Even so Amen Luke Howard Written the 28. of the 7th Month 1661. FINIS

strength to deny the evil and so he feels the body of sin to weaken and this is true purifying of the heart by faith and these experiences come to be witnessed of God's power the hope is confirmed which makes not ashamed but the shame of the daily cross begins now to flee away and here is strength in God known now to take up the Cross and despise the shame and now the Cross is known and felt to be the power of God which crucifies to the world and the affections that have been in it and after it they now are felt to be wounded d Here the Scripture comes to be fulfilled and the hope stand fast still as the Anchor of the soul unto God that in due time the body of death shall be slain and now comes the watching to the light against fainting to be known for still the enemy will seek to perswade the mind against overcoming e VVhich is the doctrine of the Devil and his Ministers saying in the heart The time is long and the work is tedi●us and thy streights are many and strength is small and how shalt thou get through will he in the heart be ready to say when the watch to the light is neglected for then is his time to work f The Lord sows the good seed of his word in the field of the world which is in mans heart as saith the Scripture and whilest man sleeps the evil ●●●sons ta●es in the darkness or night whilst man neglects to watch and so sleeps Therefore I say watch ye to the light and when temptations comes in yea great and many look not at all at them but look to the light which makes them manifest and watch to the power to withstand them and so the Seed which at the first loved the light will now feel its strength encrease and its power abound over the temptation and here is the Victory even that which overcomes felt and witnessed and now the pleasant fruits of Righteousness comes to be brought forth and the fruits of the obedience of the Spirit which are joy and peace and now a measure of conquering comes to be witnessed through Jesus Christ the Light of men and the Power of God by whose Blood and Life Victory is witnessed and now all self-righteousness self-strength or power is denied and the righteousness of Jesus Christ the Power of God g The Lord is the strength of the righteous it s he which worketh all our works for us and in us alone given glory unto and honor and everlasting thanksgiving for ever and evermore for he is worthy who is the Light that was the beginning of the work and is the Life and Power of God to bring to the end and accomplish the work over the power of Hell and the Body of Death and so to give entrance into the Rest which remains for the people of God through believing in him that is the Light and Power of God to save from all which by his Light he condemns and now comes the peace to be felt which passeth the understanding of all which rebel against the Light which shines in the heart to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ the which all know and feel which live in the faith which gives the Victory and keeps in the same and serves the Lord in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the Letter which the first Nature can make a profession of in the enmity as Cain the first-born could do yea offer outward Sacrifices with that heart and mind which he could murder his Brother in which many can do now even profess God and Christ and Scripture and yet live Enemies to the life of God and Christ and Scripture and Cross and so in Cain's nature h And must have Cains reward a Vagabond from God and so marked until repentance be witnessed are seldom but angry with such as live in the faith by which Abel offered a more acceptable Sacrifice then Cain did And when the power of their anger moves in them then are ready to murder as he he did and even desire in their envious hearts for a Law to do it by being ashamed and also afraid of their own lives to do it without But let all such know and that from the living God that they stand as Murderers in the account of God i For he which in his heart envies is a mans slayer and that this is true of that Spirit which cannot live but in sin and yet will cover it over with a profession in the oldness of the Letter You may take a view of New-England which have drunk very much of the Blood of the Faithful of late days and in Old-England too many thirst after it and are in the plain steps for it to cast the faithful into Holes and Prisons as they do boasting in the Evil and Pride of their hearts of a Law before it be made of Banishment after much other cruelty is used and cast into Prisons before-hand as if it were to be ready for it but this is our Joy and Confidence that we know in whom we have believed even in him by whom Kings reign and Princes decree Justice and for such as will decree unjustice and cruelty by Law we fear k Christ Iesus our Saviour our Example our Captain our Fore-runner our elder Brother was put to death by a Law leaving us an example that we should follow his steps saying if they did so to the green tree what will they do unto the dry But remember what befel them and also whether such can escape which do it to his Members and Body the Church which is in God the Father whereof Christ the Light is the Head So in this be ye all warned them not but shall commit our Righteous Cause to the God of our Life the God of Justice and let him plead it for us which I am assured of will be too strong for his and his people Enemies in the end and this is the Counsel he hath given us and wee have taken it blessed be his Name for ever not to fear man whose breath is in his Nostrils but to fear the Lord alone and to sanctifie him in our hearts and to make him our fear and our dread for evermore Even so be it saith the hearts of all the faithful ones the Heritage of God and sheep of his Pasture and Lambs of his Fold and Labourers in his Vinyard and Garden into which he is come to ear his pleasant fruits and to walk amongst his Lillyes Praises Praises be unto him for evermore yea everlasting glory be unto the ancient of dayes our God and our Father from everlasting to everlasting even so Amen saith all the upright in heart for ever and for ever And thus have I cleared my Conscience in faithfulness to God and man as the Lord put it