Judgment is come and no more worship the Beast Do you fear God in Truth and in Sincerity Then are you fearful of offending the Lord and tender of God's Glory then are your Hearts kept clean then are you wise to Salvation and so you can glorifie God indeed otherwise your Prayers and Praises are not Evangelical in God's sight But tell me O ye Gospellers is the Hour of his Judgment come to you Is it begun at your Houses yet How do you feel it Hath it broke your Hearts Hath it contristed your Spirits Have ye known the Godly Sorrow The Chastisements of the Lord and Rebukes of the Almighty Hath his pure Eternal Word divided yet betwixt your Souls and Spirit the Joynts and Marrow Have you ever been weary and heavy laden with Sin Hath it been a Burden to you Did you ever cry out in the Agony of your Spirits yet Men and brethren what shall we do to be saved O! who shall deliver us from the Body of sin here and the wrath to come the Travel of the holy Antients if not you are yet strangers to Christ and his Kingdom And if you die in that state where he is gone you shall never come For Sion God's City must be redeemed through Judgments and her Converts through Righteousness Yea the House of God cannot escape it wherefore said one of old If Judgment begin at the House of God where shall the ungodly and sinner appear O Wo to them that live without the Judgments of the Lord Wo to them that cast his Reproofs behind their Backs and live in earthly Pleasures fatting up themselves in their Lusts and Pleasures as for the day of Slaughter and treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath O the Antient Saints lived not thus they worked out their Salvation with fear and trembling yea they gave all diligence to make their Calling and Election sure Which way do you work out yours Habakkuk that holy Prophet his lips quivered and his belly trembled that his Soul might rest in the day of trouble Is this your state Or are you not rather Worshippers of the Beast at this day Lovers of the worldly sensual voluptuous Life walking in the lusts of the Eye the lusts of the Flesh and pride of Life like Rebellious Israel of old forgetting God days without number But this know that All that forget God shall be turned into Hell Oh! what is become of the Fatherly Visitation made to your Progenitors those good beginnings sow'd in Persecutions and Martyrdoms Have you answered the Loving-kindness of God therein Have you advanc'd in the Way of Righteousness Are you become an holy Nation and a peculiar People to God Zealous of good Works But have you not betaken your selves to the Wisdom and Learning of this World to make Ministers and deserted the Spirit of the Lord and fled to the Power and Policy of this World to defend and protect you and not to the Name of the Lord which hath always been the strong Tower of the Righteous Nay are you not divided one against another and turned Persecutors for Religion your selves denying that Liberty to others you took for your selves Ah! Where is the Royal Law of Doing as you would be done unto Thus have you decayed and degenerated into a Worldly Clergy and a Carnal People holding and maintaining Reformed Words in an unreformed Spirit Yea are not the same evils Pride Passion Malice Wars Bloodshed Persecution Deceit fleshly Lusts Wantonness vain Pleasures and Sports yea all manner of Worldly-mindedness to be found in you that were in the Persecutors of your Fore-fathers and against which your most serious and best Ancestors faithfully testified So that the difference now is about Words and Sentences and not about the Life Nature and Spirit of pure and undefiled Religion and Men are to be known now by their Denominations and Subscriptions to certain Human Creeds Man-made Faiths and Forms and not by the Spirit and Image of Christ Jesus by the nature of the true Sheep and by that holy Vnction that was the Bond of the heavenly Fellowship of the Saints of Old And you that are called Reformed with the rest of the Subdivided Sects what better are you for your Names Are ye Regenerated yet Are you Reformed from the Lusts of the Eye the Lusts of the Flesh and the Pride of Life from the Devil and all his Works Are you born of the incorruptible Seed that liveth and abideth for ever And are you come out of the corruptible things and doth Christ lead you Is the Government of your Souls upon his Shoulders Tell me is it the New Birth that which is born of God through many Tribulations the New Man Created in Christ Jesus that calleth God Father in your Prayers and that maketh mention of him in your Preachings Or is it the first Birth of the earth earthly the old Man the corrupt and unregenerated Nature that which is born of the Flesh that is to say of the Seed of the Evil One the Father of all the fleshly Lusts Inventions Imaginations and Traditions of Men that taketh pleasure in the vain and wicked Sports and Pleasures of this Apostate World that forget God and turn his Grace into Wantonness reproaching nick-naming and persecuting the Children of Regeneration with scornful Names and cruel Punishments calling God Father as the Jews did and Crucifying Christ afresh by a vain Conversation at the same time O you Degenerated Christians of all sorts yea all the several Sects in Christendom that have deserted your first Love and degenerated from the Life and Power of Primitive Godliness with the Light of Christ Jesus in your Hearts examine your selves God hath lighted your Candle search and try your selves see how it standeth with you as to your Eternal Condition before you go hence and be no more in this World Consider are you in the true Faith of Christ or no For without true Faith none can please God and without pleasing him no Man can be saved The Devils believe yea and tremble too that is more than Thousands called Christians do and so far they are short of the very Devils Have you Faith Let 's try it in the Name of God What is it for Faith Doth it overcome the World Doth it live and depend upon God Can it forsake Country and Kindred Turn out Ishmael Offer up Isaac Live a Pilgrim a Stranger in the World Doth it work by that love which can forsake all for Christ's Names sake Doth it fight against the Devil Resist his fiery Darts Overcome his Assaults and Temptations And finally purifie the Soul to God's use Is this your Faith O you carnal outside-Christians No such matter for you live in the flesh fulfilling the Lusts thereof and your care is what you shall eat drink and put on and how you should get the Mammon Friendship and Glory of this World Examine your selves and prepare for the Day of the Lord hasteneth upon you And have a care
A CALL TO Christendom In an Earnest Expostulation with Her to prepare for the Great and Notable DAY of the LORD That is at the Door By William Penn. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street and at the Crooked-Billet in Holywell-lane near Shoreditch 1694. A CALL TO Christendom AWake O Christendom Awake and come to Judgment for the Great and Notable Day of the Lord is drawing apace upon thee prepare to meet him thou and thy Children for the Hour of his Judgement hasteneth upon you as Travail on a Woman with Child in which all your Works shall be tried and that by Fire For the Day of the Lord shall burn as an Oven and all the proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble Yea by fire and by sword will the Lord God Almighty plead with all flesh with all fleshly Worshippers and Workers who live after the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof And with the Spirit of Judgment and the Spirit of Burning that is with Spiritual Judgment and Burning will he visit all Ranks and Regions upon the Earth Yea his holy Terrors shall take hold of the Rebellious and Anguish and Distress shall fill the Souls of the Guilty The Faces of Nations shall gather paleness and their Knees smite together because of the Anger of God that is kindling against them and his fierce Wrath that is revealing from Heaven against all the ungodly but more especially against the Children of the Mystery of Iniquity 'T is in this day that the Kindreds of the Earth shall mourn with a great Lamentation O Christendom Thou hast long sate as a Queen that should never know sorrow Great have been thy Pretences and large thy Profession of God Christ Spirit and Scriptures come let me Expostulate with thee and thy Children in the fear and presence of him that shall bring every word and work to Judgment God is pure and the pure in heart only see him Now are you pure Do you see him God is a Spirit and none can worship him aright but such as come to his Spirit and obey it Do you so Christ is the Gift of God have you received him into your Hearts Does he rule there Then have you Eternal Life abiding in you If not you are not true Christians The Spirit of Truth leadeth into all Truth and the Children of God are born of it and led by it But are you led into all the holy ways of Truth born of this Eternal Spirit Then you follow not the Spirit of this World nor do your own wills but the Will of God You profess the holy Scriptures but what do you witness and experience What Interest have you in them Can you set to your Seal they are true by the work of the same Spirit in you that gave them forth in the holy Antients What 's David's Roarings and Praises to thee that livest in the Lust of this World What 's Paul's and Peter's Experiences to thee that walkest after the Flesh O you that are called Christians givâ— ear a little unto me for I am prest in Spâ—rit to write to you Read with patiencâ— and consider my words for behold what I have to say unto you concerneth your Eternal Good GOD hath so loved the World that he hath sent his only Begotten Son into the World that those that believe in him should have Eternal Life And this Son is Christ Jesus the true Light that lighteth every one coming into the World and they that abide not in him the Light dwell in Darkness in Sin and are under the Region and Shadow of Death Yea dead in Sin and see not their own states neither perceive the sad Conditions of their own Souls They are blind to the things of God's Kingdom and unsensible of true and spiritual Life and Motion what it is to live to God And in that state are alienated from God without true Judgment and living Knowledge and under the Curse For in Jesus Christ the Light of the World are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge Redemption and Glory they are hid from the wordly Christian from all that are captivated by the Spirit and Lusts of the World And whoever would see them for therein consist the things that belong to their Eternal Peace must come to Christ Jesus the true Light in their Consciences bring their Deeds to him love him and obey him whom God hath ordained a Light to lighten the Gentiles and for his Salvation to the ends of the Earth Light and Salvation are joined together and none can come to Salvation but as they come first to the Light and submit to the manifestation of it which leadeth to Salvation For the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the Light of the Lamb Christ Jesus Light and Sanctification are also joined together If we walk in the Light as God is in the Light the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son shall cleanse us from all sin And Light and Life Eternal are joined together For in the Word that was with God in the beginning and was God by whom all things were made that were made was life and that life the light of men And this is the Testimony of Jesus I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not abide in darkness but have the light of life Yea it is Eternal Life to believe in him in Christ the Light to receive embrace and to follow him And this is that true Light saith the same beloved Disciple that lighteth every man that cometh into the world Now this Light shineth in Darkness in the Children of Darkness in their dark Hearts in their black Souls and defiled Consciences but in this Darkness they comprehend it not Neither can man know the Nature and Benefit of it whilst he rebelleth against it for the Virtue and Excellency of it is shut up and hid from the Children of Disobedience To as many as received him of old gave he power to become the Children of God and they that did his Will knew his Doctrine to be of God and of Power and Efficacy to their Salvation But this is the great Condemnation of the World at this day that though God hath sent his Son a Light into the Hearts of all Men and Women to manifest and reprove their evil deeds and to save them yet they love Darkness they love the Lusts and Imaginations of their vain Hearts better than this holy Light that is given unto them for Salvation They chuse Barrabas rather than Jesus Yea they have set up other Lights than Christ Jesus God's great Light and other Prophets than Christ God's great Prophet and other Priests than Jesus the High-Priest of the New Covenant But they are dark Lights false Prophets and blind Priests All that came before me saith Christ are Thieves and Robbers And all that Pray Preach Sing Worship c. and not by the Light and Spirit of
World nor according to the Inventions and Traditions of Men Neither do they Conform themselves to the Customs and Fashions of this World nor will they bow to the Glory of this World or the God of it But having seen him whom they have pierced with their vain Conversation in Times past they mourn and are in great bitterness because they have done despite to his holy Spirit of Grace that strove so long with them for their Redemption And being called by his Spiritual Call in their Hearts to come out of Babylon the great City of Will-worship Confusion and Darkness that is in the Earth do chearfully resign up all to follow him in the narrow Way of Self-denial as his holy Disciples did of Old And such have learned by good Experience that Without Christ they can do nothing Though in these days scarcely any thing is done with him or by him For he is resisted in his Spiritual Appearance in the Consciences of those that make a Profession of him with their Mouths and therefore he doth not many mighty Works in them Yea he is smitten spit upon Crown'd with Thorns Pierc'd and Crucified of all false Christians through their Rebellion and Wickedness O Wo from the Great and Just God that made Heaven and Earth upon all People that work Iniquity and forget God! Wo to you Kings and Princes that have Crucified the Lord of Life and Glory yea you have Crucified him in your selves and helpt to Crucifie him in others He lyeth slain at this day in your Streets For you have not Ruled for God as you ought to have done but for your selves to please your own Lusts and have not sought the Glory of the Lord nor the Prosperity of his Work in the Earth so much as the Greatness of your own Names and to enlarge your worldly Dominions often Oppressing the Poor and Persecuting Consciencious Dissenters but suffering almost all manner of Vice and Vanity to go unpunisht How doth the Lust of the Eye the Lust of the Flesh and the Pride of Life reign in your Territories Are not your Courts the very Schools of Vanity and Nurseries of worldly Lusts and Pleasures which War against the Soul and lead to Eternal Destruction O! you have much to answer for before the great God at the Day of his Terrible Tribunal who have Power in your Hands to chase away Wickedness and to reform the World It is written A King upon his Throne of Judgment scattereth all evil with his Eye O! that the Kings and Princes of the World knew this Throne of true Judgment That they had this Godlike Majesty that they would purge their Lands of Evil-Doers that they and their People might escape the Wrath and Vengeance of God that is ready to be poured forth upon them And Wo to you Nobles of the Earth that spend your Estates in Pleasures and your Days in Vanity that like those of old Drink Wine in Bowles and stretch your selves upon Couches of Ivory That invent Musical Instruments for your Mirth but remember not the Afflictions of Joseph neither consider of your latter End What Pride Lust and Excess lye at your Door What Spoil and Waste do you make in the World You live as if you should never die caring only what you should eat what you should drink and what you should put on how you should trim perfume and beautifie your poor Mortal selves and at which Plays and Sports you should divert and spend away that troublesome and melancholy thing called Time as you esteem it instead of Redeeming the Time because the days are evil and preparing for the Eternal Judgment Is this the way to Glory Did Jesus give you this Example O! He is Crucified by these things This is far from the true Nobility and Christian Honour that cometh from above Wo to you Judges of the Earth who pervert Judgment for a Reward that Oppress the Poor and despise the Cause of the Needy who regard the Mighty and the Rich in Judgment and delay Justice for the Fear or Favour of Man That subject the Laws to your Wills and Righteous Rules to your Passions and Interest Repent and be just for God the Just God the great Judge of Heaven and Earth shall Judge you all according to your Works And dreadful shall that Day of his Reckoning and Tribunal be to all the Workers of Iniquity But especially to Vnjust and Corrupt Judges And Wo to you Lawyers that refuse no Cause for Money but will plead even against Law Truth and Justice for Advantage teaching your Tongues to Advocate for a Lye and your Mouths for Gain to plead the Cause of Vnrighteousness raising unreasonable Wealth unto your selves by the Folly Ignorance and Contention of the People O the Equivocation Deceit Falshood and Iniquity that is in your Profession in which you let your Consciences out to hire at every Summons for all sorts of Causes Insomuch that 't is the Money and not the Cause that prevaileth And the worst Cause most commonly is most desired because the Client doubtful of his Success is usually the most Liberal to you This also is for Judgment And Wo to you Merchants and Traders that have not the Lord's Fear before your Eyes whose God is Gold and Gain that neither Buy nor Sell with regard to his just Principle in your Consciences that use vain and deceitful Words and that are not come to the just Measure and the righteous Ballance but use Frauds for Advantage That neither Eye the Lord's Providence by Sea nor his care by Land but Day and Night cast about how to raise to your selves a great Name and Estate to exalt your Nests and rank your Families among the Rich and the Noble of the Earth The Lord will also plead with you Repent and Fear before God Wo to you Farmers and Countrymen that reward the Lord evil for good who giveth you Increase of all things in their proper Seasons yet you discern not his Hand you regard not his Care you live without God in the World Yet no Life is fuller of the Lord's Providence who preserveth and prospereth your Flocks who increaseth your Wine your Corn and your Grass instead of remembring his Goodness with Reverence and in your Harvests praising him with Fear you Sacrifice to your Lusts and rejoice only in your Fulness making Merry at your Harvests without the Fear of God or looking to him that giveth you to Increase Repent and Fear before the God of the whole Earth But above all others Wo to you Scribes Pharisees and Hypocrites you Priests and Pastors who have taken a Charge that God never gave you who run and he never sent you who say Thus saith the Lord and he never spoke to you or by you That steal the Words of the Prophets and Apostles and with them make Merchandize to the People not knowing the pure Word of God in your Hearts to be as an Hammer a Fire a Sword to destroy Sin and to
purge redeem and reconcile you to God but boast in other Mens Lines and speak things made ready to your hands That Teach for Hire and Divine for Money who seek Honour of Men and love the uppermost places of Feasts Who speak Peace to the Wicked and sow Pillows under their Elbows for Reward Pleasers of Men more than Pleasers of God Wo to you in the Name of the Lord that counterfeit his Commission and deceive the People requiring their Money for that which is not Bread and their Labour for that which doth not profit At your Doors lyeth the Blood of Souls in which you have traded O you Physicians of no Value whom have you Cured Where is the Seal of your Ministry Is it not an abominable Cheat that you take Money to Cure yet cannot Cure that have no Medicine to Cure and at last maintain that the Disease is incurable You are they that will neither enter into the Kingdom your selves nor suffer others For when-ever we have seen your Delusions and deserted your Assemblies presently a Pacquet of Letters must be sent to Damascus The Magistrate must be called upon to be Goaler and Hangman for the Priest What Wars Changes and Persecutions ever befel the World since you had a Being in which you have not been at Head or Tail O your Practices shall more and more come to light And the day hasteneth that your very Name and Calling as now held shall be had in Abhorrence by the Nations O you numerous Off-spring of the great false Prophet that hath been a Lyar from the beginning hereby is it known that God hath never sent you that you have not profited the People they are God's Words by the Prophet Jeremy Weep and howl for the day of your great Calamity hasteneth upon you Your Father and Mother are come into remembrance before the Lord the Hour of their Judgment is at the Door God will fill you the Cup of his Fury you shall drink it at his Hand O! I cannot but cry aloud to you all of all Ranks and Qualities from the highest to the lowest that walk not after the Spirit but after the Flesh daily fulfilling the Lusts thereof That you would Repent and be saved O how hath Christ's Religion been Prophaned and his Holy Name Blasphemed by the lewd Life of profest Christians The very Heathens are scandal'd and the Nations round about have you in scorn and derision Arise O God for thy Name 's sake O what Tremendous Oaths and Lyes what Revenge and Murders with Drunkenness and Gluttony What Pride and Luxury What Chamberings and Wantonness What Fornications Rapes and Adulteries What Masks and Revels What lustful Ornaments and enchanting Attires What proud Customs and vain Complements What Sports and Pleasures What Plays and Romances What Intregues and Pastimes Again What Falsness and Treachery What Avarice and Oppression What Flattery and Hypocrisie What Malice and Slander What Contention and Law-suits What Wars and Blood-shed What Plunders Fires and Desolations And 't is not only committed by Christians in general one against another but by Christians of the same Faith Sect and Church one against another praying to the same God to destroy one another and singing Psalms to God when they have wickedly destroyed one another O the Rapes Fires Murders and Rivers of Blood that lye at the Doors of profest Christians If this be Godly what 's Devilish If this be Christian what 's Paganism What 's Anti-christian But to make God a Party to their Wickedness O Prophanation O Blasphemy What need is there of any other demonstration that Christendom is foully Apostatized from the Doctrine and Example of Christ Jesus and his true Followers who saith If ye love me keep my Commandments by this you shall be known to be my Disciples if you love one another Whosoever doth not love his Brother is of the Devil and whosever hateth his Brother is a Murtherer and ye know that no Murderer hath Eternal Life abiding in him And it is not to be supposed that they kill one another in Love For Murther is not the effect of Love and brotherly Kindness but of Malice Envy and Revenge O Christendom how art thou and thy Children degenerated from God and fallen from the Doctrine of Christ whose holy Name thou professest Thou art become a City full of Uncleanness committing Whoredom under every Green Tree following other Lovers than Jesus whose Spouse thou professest to be O thou Rebellious City thou Cage of unclean Birds thou and thy Children have filled the Earth with a stink of your Abominations O how expert have you been in these Impieties How Ingenious to work Wickedness and how fruitful in your Inventions to gratifie the Lust of the Eye the Lust of the Flesh and the Pride of Life O how hath the Heathen-Nature as an evil Leaven prevailed and leavened the great Body of Christians at this day as if the End of Christ's Coming into the World had been to furnish us with a New Profession but not to give us a New Nature to learn Men to Talk and not to Live to cry Hosanna but in works to Crucifie him What did the Heathens that Christians have not done Yea the same Lusts Vanities and Impieties that reigned among them are to be found improv'd among Christians So that 't is Paganism made free of the Christian Profession or Heathenism Christian'd And not to conform to the Heathen in the Christian is not to be a Christian but an Heathen O the Ignorance as well as Wickkedness of the present Christian World Verily the Christian Life is opprest under this Mass of Darkness and Impiety found in the Conversations of Apostate-Christians even as Christ was grieved and burdened with the Darkness and Obstinacy of the Apostate-Jews And as the Hard-heartedness of the false Jews Crucified him outwardly so hath the Hard-heartedness of the false Christians Crucified him inwardly Which hath fulfilled what is Recorded in the Apocalypse viz. That the Lord was Crucified in Sodom and Egypt spiritually so called For the false Christians are the spiritual Sodom and Egypt who love and live in Sodom ' s Sins and Egypt ' s Lusts and Pleasures Yea they are of the Race of them that stoned the Prophets and Crucified the Lord of Glory Of the same Nature and Spirit O the Blood of Jesus lyeth at their Doors shed spilt and trod under foot of them and will one day cry for Eternal Vengeance against them if they Repent not with unfeigned Sorrow and turn to the Lord with their whole Hearts Certainly Wo Anguish and Tribulation shall be their Portion for ever That which they have grieved shall grieve them and that which they have bruised and resisted shall reject and torment them yea it shall be a never-dying Worm and an endless Pain to them O Wo to the Worker of Iniquity in that day Wo to the Slothful Servant Wo to the Mocker and Scoffer Wo to the Drunkard and Vnclean Person Wo to them that
spend their Days Vanity and their Life in Earthly Pleasures Wo to the proud Pharisee and disdainful Scribe Wo to the fearful and unbelieving Wo to Idolaters and Lyars Yea and Wo from God to all the Cruel Persecutors of the Innocent Lambs and Sheep of Jesus for their pure Conscience to him For they shall have their part in the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimstones which is the Second Death O that you might escape this great Damnation And I testifie to you in the Word of the Lord that God giveth unto you all a Day of Visitation in which you may escape the Wrath to come For this end God hath sent his Son a Light into your Hearts 't is He which manifesteth all your Thoughts Words and Deeds unto you 't is he which checks and reproveth you yea 't is he which expostulateth and striveth with you 't is he that knocketh at your Doors and awakeneth you to Judgment Who condemneth every unfruitful Thought Word and Work in you Repent I exhort you Turn to him hear his Voice and harden not your Hearts but while it is to day and the light shineth and the Spirit striveth O humble your selves bear his Judgments love his Reproofs And though his Word be as a Fire in your Hearts and though you are even scorched within you because of the Heat thereof yet bear the Indignation of the Lord in that you have sinned against him Wait Watch and Walk in the Light of the Lord Jesus that in his Blood you may feel Remission of Sins and Sanctification unto Life Eternal That you may no more walk after the Flesh to fulfil the Lusts thereof but in the Spirit of Holiness that you may be Sealed unto the Day of Redemption O the Peace the Joy the Pleasure and the undeclarable Comfort that is daily met with in the holy and righteous Way of the Lord O this riseth powerfully in my Soul that his Form hath no Comeliness in it that will please Flesh his Way and Worship is most remote from it Flesh and Blood have no share in his Worship the Will and Runnings of Man have no part in his Way 'T is neither at the Mountain where one sort runneth nor at Jerusalem whither another sort goethâ— but in Spirit within the Vale hid from Flesh and Blood Yea there it is that his Worship is known and performed Any Form is more pleasant than this His Visage is more Marr'd than any Man's All Will-worship all Human Invention findeth Acceptance where he cannot find a place to lay his Head on O this is a bitter Cup to the Creature few will drink it They are hard to be perswaded to Sit still and patiently to Wait for the Salvation of God to let him Work all their Works in them and for them They know not what it is to have the Mouth in the Dust to have all Flesh silent before the Lord that the Voice of God may be heard that he may prepare them and that the Will of God may be brought forth in them O this Mystery of Iniquity how hath it wrought and how doth it yet Work It claimeth a right to the Living Child but she hath no Right to it She is the Womb of Death and can bring forth no Living Fruit to God All Nations have drunk her Cup But the Hour of her Judgment is come She is seen disvailed and condemned by the Living Spirit of God that is felt and received and obeyed by a Remnant who are gathered from the Mouths of Idol-Shepherds and all the Errings and Strayings of false Prophets that have no Vision and are come to the Lord to know his Law in their hearts and Fear and Spirit to be in their inward parts and are taught and led by him And these follow the Lamb and are his Host this day that fight under his Banner with his holy Testimony against the Whore false Prophet and Beast And behold they shall prevail For greater is he that is in them than he that is in the World O this is a great Mystery but a greater Truth Moses the Servant is externally more Comely than he Yea the Prophets were as pleasant Singers and as delightful Instruments of Musick their Visions Sights and glorious Prophecies of the last Days and New-Covenant-times were says one of them of old as a pleasant Song But the Son the Substance when he came no Beauty no Excellency no Comeliness What 's the matter The Way is Narrow for Flesh and Blood there is a Cross must be taken up a bitter Cup drunk and a Baptism yea of Blood gone through Man must die to his own Will Affections Imaginations and Carnal Conceptions he must wait and watch yea continually His own Religion and Righteousness is as odious as his Sin and Iniquity yea in a sense more dangerous 'T is no Outside will do not that which pleaseth the busie active Will and Mind of the Creature that gratifieth the External Senses that have prevailed against the Soul O no 't is an hidden Life an hidden Temple an hidden Worship and that in God's time yea an hidden Manna an hidden Supper not discernable by the vain Sects in this World Of this Tabernacle is Jesus Builder of this Covenant and Worship is he Author of this Altar is he Priest To this did he gather his of old and to this is he gathering the Nations And the Bride saith Come and the Spirit saith Come and he saith Come And blessed are they that Come and See how good he is But Such who like Sodom of Old go on to grieve the Spirit of the Lord to rebel against his Light and vex God's just Lot that liveth in the midst of them persisting in their Lusts and Abominations God's Angel shall smite them with blindness The day of their Visitation shall pass away and the forbearance of God shall be at an end and Fire from Heaven shall devour them Which with my Soul I fervently and tenderly desire you may all escape whom God hath taught to hate your Sin deny your Glory and separate from all your false Worships by his own Light Spirit and Truth and to follow his Dear Son in the Way of Regeneration whose Love to me hath taught me to Love all Mankind and to seek their Salvation Amsterdam the 20 th of the 8 th Month 1677. William Penn. The END