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

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

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

persecuting and oppressing the seed of the Lord in its arising and appearance and people that in thy conscience is witnesse against thee that thou art left without excuse and also that in thy conscience the light is witnesse against thee that thou hast built the Sepulchres of the Prophets and garnished the Sepulchres of the righteous and whited them over with faire words and promises and thou sayest if I had been in the days of my fathers I would not have been partaker in the blood of the Prophets and yet thou art filling the measure of thy fathers iniquities and the same wrath curse and judgements of God waites to be poured upon thee except thou repent and be warned in time many warnings hast thou had from the Lord that in thy conscience can witnesse by the hand of them that are and have been persecuted by thee and imprisoned by thee but thou hast cast them behinde thy back as all the persecutors in all ages have done before thee who by the power of the Lord were destroyed and now O faire saying people of England by the same power thy destruction comes for truce breaking with the Lord and let that in thy conscience judge if thy judgement from the Lord be not just upon thee which will appear in the day of thy misery and overthrow though thou for a while tread above it but if thou have not totally put out the light and if any spark of light be in thee thou mayest see thy selfe going the way of all bloody persecutors into perdition for ever and ever except thou repent and remember that thou art once more warned and no more warning can I promise thee whether thou wilt choose or refuse And againe heare the word of the Lord thou people of England if thou wilt not be warned nor repent but wilt harden thy neck against the tender Lambes of my pasture Thus saith the Lord because of the Cry of the oppressed and the many prisoners which contrary to my Law thou hast imprisoned for no other Cause but because they cannot worship thy Idoll Gods which thou hast sett upp and the Idoll Gods which thou hast sett upp are many for thou hast promised many faire promises to take away Idolatry Superstition and Oppression and all Lawes over the Consciences of men that I the Lord might be worshipped according to my owne will which I have made manifest in my Childrens Consciences and that my Gospell even the word of eternall life might have free passage through thy Land ô England but now I see the sinnes of Jeroboam which caused Israel to sin are held up by thee Yea the high places which are in thee ô people of England and the Priests of thy high places beare witnesse before my face against thee which thou hast sett upp contrary to my Will which I have made manifest in every mans Conscience and for what end did Jeroboam sett upp these high places and those Priests was it for this end that he was afraid that the people of Israel should returne to the Temple at Jerusalem to worship which then was Commanded of God for his people to worship at And now O people of England thus saith the Lord who pittied thee when thou little in thy owne eyes and put a sword in thy hands to cut downe Idulatry high places usurping Priests made of the basest of the people and corrupt Lawes wherewith they did tyrannize over the Consciences of my people and pride and respect of persons which then I let thee see to be before destruction and thou wast bearing but now hast turned thy sword against them who are brought out of those things and witnesse against them and now I the Lord thy God in visitting thee and thy worke have found unfaithfullnesse in what thou promised to me in the day of thy Calamity and unfaithfulnesse in thee in what I looked for at thy hand for now I see that thou O people lifted up dost hold up the very same high places and as bad a generation of Priests as thy forefathers did and the same usurped Lawe over mens Consciences and the same persecuting Lawes even the Lawes of Papists wherewith to imprison my servants yea not respecting persons is made a Law for thee to imprison many of my servants and many of my servants are imprisoned by thee because they cannot breake the Commands of Christ and many of my deare Children are imprisoned by thee because they cannot pay Fees for being imprisoned and kept many moneths without any just Law broken as at this day there are many Witnesses of my deare servants whose witnesse thou dost refuse because they abide in my Doctrine and dare not sweare at all but their witnesse have I received against thee because I know their sufferings and their Cry is come before me and this is the Cause why thou holdest up these things even the sinnes of thy forefathers which made England sinne for which I will plague thee with all my stormes Thou people of England art afraid that if liberty be graunted to worship me according to my Will which I have made manifest in my Childrens Consciences that then the hearts of people which thou wouldest have to serve thee and feed thy lusts will be turned unto me and then thy covetous hireling Priesthood which in all ages I have cryed against will fall downe and thy pride will famish and wither and thy oppressions will cease whereby a great part of thy wickednesse is upheld and thy honour will depart from thee and returne to me and thy respect of persons which thou art so mad on which I have and for ever forbid and denie and for feare that those and the like things should come to passe upon thee to that in thy Conscience which is of me which thou hatest doe I speake which will witnesse me and condemne thee for thy stiffe-neckednesse that this is the cause that thou dost so torment my tender Lambes and because thou dost these things and will not be warned but wilt still provoke me to jealousie by thy Idolls I even I which plagued thy forefathers will proceed against thee by my sword I will plead with thee by and with the fire of my jealousie till thou that wouldest not obey my Councell which I did give in thy Conscience be utterly laid wast and desolate and I will blott out thy name as I have blotted out the name of thy forefathers who held up the same thing that thou dost and I will gett me honour in destroying thee as I gott me honour in destroying thy fathers before thee and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God whose hand is not shortened but is strongly stretched out to destroy and slay all that will not that I should reigne over them therefore expect my plague for it is neere at hand to come upon thee and my hand will I hold no longer for because of the Cry of the oppressed and the many prisoners who unjustly suffers

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