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A86654	The visitation of the rebellious nation of Ireland. And a warning from the Lord proclaimed, to all the inhabitants thereof, to make their peace with him before hislong [sic] suffering come to an end. With a lamentation over its unfruitfulnes and rebellion after so many visitations. And an exhortation to all the honest hearted, to meet the Lord by repentance, while the patience of the Lord continues. Or the sealing of the Lords testimony unto all sorts of people in that land, by his servants, after their several months sore labours, and travells, and sufferings therein, who loved not their lives for the seeds sake. Also some particular papers, written in that nation, to severall sorts of people. I. A warning, to the heads, and rulers, and people of Dublin. ... VII. An invitation to all the poor desolate souldiers, to repent, and make their peace with the Lord, and their duty shewed them, what the Lord requires of them. By them who are sufferers, for the seeds sake; waiting for the building of distressed Sion: F.H. E.B.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3188; Thomason E880_6; ESTC R202550	29,686	40

nature and likenesse that your souls may be satisfied therewith and all that hunger and thirst after righteousnesse shall be filled with the true food Therefore wait all you that fear the Lord and meet together in his counsell and wait for his Law that you may walk therein and lay aside the works of darknesse which are made manifest by the light and also condemned in all that come to Sion Spend not your time in the vaine deceits of the world nor follow not the delights thereof for according to your works must you be judged in the day of the Lord Depart from iniquity and all the works of the flesh pride and coveteousnesse lying swearing and double-dealing and all the fruits of unrighteousnesse let them be judged and let the time past be sufficient that you have wrought evill and now returne and work righteousnesse in God by the light which all that lovees works in God And deceive not your selves with a deceitfull covering of selfe making and selfe righteousnesse professing the Scriptures in your carnall minds which was given forth by the Spirit and is not understood but by the same Spirit while the first nature stands alive in you you cannot please God but is in the enmity against him humble your selves and come down to the light and search your hearts thereby Woe unto the lofty and high minded who will not be instructed but hates reproofe Woe is unto all lyars and swearers and whoremongers and vagabonds and prophane persons such cannot inherit the kingdome of God nor enter to within the gates of the City but are to be troden in the wine-presse of the wrath of God for ever and ever Therefore awake awake ye carelesse and unbelieving and fear and tremble ye children of disobedience who hates the light and loves your evill deeds and upholds your false Prophets whom God never sent and will not own the Lord to be your teacher the light in your conscience is your condemnation for this is the condemnation of the world that light is come and men hates it So be you warned all people the day of the Lord is at hand and now he calls therefore hear his voyce and hearken to his light which is of Christ which onely is needfull to salvation and there is no other name given for salvation And if you will not hear and receive this day of visitation which in love appears unto you you shall hear in the day of visitation of vengeance and behold the Lord comes quickly make straight his pathes the light is your teacher if you love it and your condemnation if you have it Written from London to go abroad in the Nation of Ireland as a visitation to all sorts of people and is the sealing of the Lords testimony unto that land as moved of the Lord in love and pitty to lost soules by Edw Burrough A Warning to the Heads and Rulers and people of Dublin HEar the word of the Lord oh ye Inhabitants of the City of Dublin ye Rulers and Magistrates Governours Collonels Captains and Souldiers and all ye people of the City and ye Inhabitants of the Land of Ireland my word is to you all saith the Lord Oh thou City of Dublin in the day of thy calamity when sorrow fear paine and tribulation was upon thee when thou was compassed about with adversaries who cryed ah ha we will make thee as a plaine and as a wildernesse as we have done the rest of the Nation And they said in their hearts none should be able to deliver you out of their hands but said we will cut off and destroy at once that our selves may be exalted I the Lord who changes not was as a fortresse and as a bulwark about thee and made thy heart couragious against them and delivered thee out of their hands even from a people whose hands was full of blood and whose mercies were cruelty and whose hearts were hardned against me and had sould themselves to work evill in my sight and counted it their glory to despise my name and to abhor all righteousnesse in their hearts And in that day when they opened their mouths wide as a Leviathan to swallow thee up and make thee a heap of stones and a desolation Then I made thy walls as iron and thy gates as brasse and thy batteries strong and guarded thee and compassed thee about with my strength and I made thy face as an Adamant against them and delivered thee by my out-stretched arme and by my power out of their hands and brake the teeth of thy enemies and put a hook in their jawes and brake them before thee as a potters vessell and powred out my indignation against them as a flood and my wrath as a stream swept them all away and I gave their carkases to fall by the sword and for the fowles of the aire to feed upon and hath made them perish in my wrath and cut them off in my sore displeasure and made their names stink in the Nations and their Princes are cast out as a withered branch and are perished with the uncircumcised and their glory and renown is turned into reproach and everlasting infamy and are rotten and become as dung and as mire to tread upon in the streets Therefore thus saith the Lord unto thee oh Dublin and to thy Inhabitants O Nation of Ireland take heed and beware least thou be lifted up in thy heart and say my hand hath done all this but give glory and honour to me saith the Lord who am the God of the living who dwells in the light and now beware that the same root of bitternesse spring not up in thee as did in them whom I cast out before you And oh you Rulers and Heads of the people I have sent to try you and this I require of you Doe justice love righteousnesse and ease the oppressed and take heed of seeking your selves and your own honour and glory and renown in the earth nor Lord it not over your brethren who have born a part of your suffering and the Nations in the heat of the day Lift not up your selves as the Gentile Lords whom I cast out who exercised dominion one over another and did grind the face of their brethren and made them as slaves and intreated them shamefully and because of this I cast them out and hath given their dominion to others and their houses and lands you possesse which you builded nor planted not Now therefore take heed unto your selves and be of a perfect heart before me For my righteousnosse is to be revealed in the earth and now I am about to declare my name and my power and my glory will I reveal in the earth and will poure out my Spirit upon my sons and my daughters whom I have and will send abroad to publish my name and declare my cousell to the ends of the earth that the Nation may know me whom for many generations they have worshipped ignorantly Therefore be

THE VISITATION Of the Rebellious Nation of IRELAND And a Warning from the Lord proclaimed to all the Inhabitants thereof to make their peace with him before his long suffering come to an end With a Lamentation over its unfruitfulnes and Rebellion after so many Visitations And an Exhortation to all the honest hearted to meet the Lord by repentance while the patience of the Lord continues Or the sealing of the Lords testimony unto all sorts of people in that Land by his servants after their several months sore labours and travells and sufferings therein who loved not their lives for the seeds sake Also some particular Papers written in that Nation to severall sorts of people I. A Warning to the Heads and Rulers and People of Dublin II. An Information to the Heads and the ground of the Law laid down to the Judges and Justices and to all that handle the Law through that Nation III. An Exhortation sent to the chiefe Commander and his Councell and the just cause of the Innocent laid before them IV. The unjust suffering of the just declared and their appeal to the just witnesse of God in all mens consciences V. A Challenge to the Priests of Dublin to try their God and their Ministry and their worships VI A Discovery of the Idoll dumb Shepheards in that Nation and a Lamentation over their starved and strayed flocks VII An Invitation to all the poor desolate Souldiers to repent and make their peace with the Lord and their duty shewed them what the Lord requires of them By them who are sufferers for the seeds sake waiting for the building of distressed Sion F. H. E. B. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the West end of Pauls 1656. THE VISITATION OF THE Rebellious Nation OF IRELAND ALas alas woe is me for thee thou desolate Nation of Ireland thou art to be pittied and lamented because of thy backslidings and rebellion against the Lord thou abounds in iniquity and thy transgressions cannot be numbred O thou art a fruitlesse habitation and barren of righteousnesse and mercy and true judgement even from the head to the taile thou art corrupted and thy wickednesse is marked before the Lord thy Rulers and Teachers and people are all gone out of the way and are disobedient children having backslided from the pure wayes of the Lord God a deceitfull heart is found among them and a lie is in their hand even the best of men are as a bryar and the most upright among men sharper then a thorn hedge a cursed seed hath taken root in thee and fruit of a cursed tast is abundantly sprung forth thou art turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto God and are become abominable in his eye thy vines brings forth a soure grape and the Lords soule hath no delight therein thou art altogether untilled and thy flowers gives an ill smell thy inhabitants have set themselves to doe wickednesse they imagine mischiefe upon their beds and brings it forth in the morning cruelty is their weapon against the innocent and hard heartednesse is their defence against the upright Woe is me for thee thou desolate Nation who hath rejected the counsell of the Lord and neglected the day of thy Visitation wherein the Lord would have gathered thee but thou wouldst not How often hath the Lord spoken unto thee and thou wilt not hear his call By judgement hath he spoken and by mercy hath he drawn but thou refusest to returne and wilt not be reclaimed but continues in thy Rebellion against the Lord and forgets the work of his hand in ages and generations past even since the beginning hast thou been a Land of wickednesse and a people of a cursed seed drinking up iniquity as an Oxe that drinks up water and fild up the measure of Transgression till the Lord was forced in grievous judgements to deale with thee even his wrath in a day broke forth upon thee and the fire of indignation was kindled in thee and thy Princes were cut off in fury and thy inhabitants fell by the plague and sword in great numbers and thou was given up to be a prey to thy enemies in thy treasures and the cruell hearted took the spoyle thou wast laid levell in the dust of deep misery and confusion and thy lamentation and sorrow was heard among the Nations and the stroke of the Lords hand was heavy upon thee and his judgements was just upon thy head and he gave no rest unto thee for many years but thou wast as a trembling leafe and as a forsaken bough and thou wast made desolate and comfortlesse and misery girded thee about and then thy stout heart was brought down into sorrow when the Lord contended with thee but now thou hast ease from thy bitternesse and a day of rest from thy sore trouble yet hast thou forgotten the day of thy distresse and art againe more abundantly exalted and thy sins are much more encreased the pride of thy heart is become equall with Sodome and thy transgressions are encreased to her number and thy rebellion against the Lord is grown more high and through mercies and deliverance art thou waxen fat and now thou kicks against the Lord and in thy heart sayes Who is he O when wilt thou consider what the Lord hath wrought when wilt thou call to minde his just and righteous dealing who hast forgotten the day of thy former visitation and is becoming more vile in the sight of the Lord by thy secret hypocrisie of deceitfull profession then thou wast in thy open prophanesse when thou layest naked in thy open sins O Desolate Nation the Lord once and againe hath stretched forth his hands unto thee in pitty for thee and he sent his servants and witnesses to warn thee of these thy transgressions and to call upon thee to awake thee out of thy carelesnesse and he gave thee a glorious day of visitation and free tenders of salvation wherein thou mightst have made thy peace with him and repent thee of thy sin And his servants were faithfull in thee and lamented over thee and gave themselves to be spent for thee and gladly suffered the reproach of the heathen and the cruelty of the wicked that thereby thou mightst be reclaimed out of thy Rebellion and wickednesse and they gave their back to the smiter and loved not their life unto death nor prized not their liberty unto bonds but diligently in sufferings and labours and perplexities called unto thee and through thy Townes and Cities proclaimed the visitation and message of the Lord concerning thee and was accounted as sheep for the slaughter that they might finish their Testimony to the gathering of thee but thou wouldst not but hast to this very day stopped thy eare from counsell and hardned thy heart against reproofe and contemned the day of thy visitation and hereby added to thy measure of wickednesse in dealing cruelly with the Lords servants who rewarded them evill for good and entreated them

sealed in their cruelty against the innocent with our blood if thereunto we be called Dub. 26 of the 12 Month 1655. Francis Howgill Edw Burrough A Challenge to the Priests of Dublin to try their God and their Ministry and their worships WE the servants and faithfull witnesses of the most high God called and chosen of him and redeemed out of Nations kindreds tongues and people who are Ministers of the word of life and reconciliation and messengers of glad tidings and salvation unto captive and weary souls our glorying is onely in the Lord and not in our selves who are by the world in scorne called Quakers who are at this present in outward bonds for the testimony of Jesus Christ in Dublin and who have been in the labour and travell of the Gospell of God this six months and upwards in this Nation of Ireland according to the will of God ordained hereunto and moved and commanded by his eternall Spirit into this his work for the Seeds sake which is not of this world to the gathering of it into the fold of everlasting peace and to the clearing of the Lord from the bloud of his enemies that they may be left without excuse by his powerfull word given unto us and uttered by us and herein we are a good savor to God both in them that perish and in them that believe and for this cause have we denyed our dearest and nearest Relations and loves not our lives unto death that our testimony we may finish which is committed to us of the Lord and because of this are we labourers under many burdens and travells in many afflictions and sufferings and are abundantly reproached and our Lords truth of which we bear witnesse greatly infamed by many slandering and back-biting tongues especially by the Teachers and professed Ministers in the eares of their people and hearers slandering us with being Jesuits and deceivers and seducers and hereticks and blasphemers and witches and such like and we of those false accusations being clear and our Lords truth the testimony which we hold wholly innocent and are willing to be tryed and proved and made manifest to the Inhabitants of this City and Nation in the sight of God This therefore am I moved to give forth and hereby in the name of our living eternall God of heaven and earth whom we serve and worship in that way which is called heresie doe send it abroad as a Challenge to all you Teachers and pretended Ministers of what sort and forme soever and to all you people whom it may really concerne and especially to all you in the City of Dublin and places elsewhere in Ireland to whom this may come that you meet us in the City of Dublin at some publique place at a conveniant time appointed by you at which place and time if the Lord permit by the permition of the Counsell of Ireland whose prisoners we are we shall you meet then there to have a faire and sober dispute in the presence of all people who may desire to be informed or satisfied concerning us and you in these things whereof you can accuse us and also of those things by way of sober questions which we have to propound to you not for any end to our selves not to set up a kingdome of our own God is our witnesse but that the way of our God may be made manifest and all deceit and errour discovered and all people may be informed the way to salvation and as you are true to your God and will answer for him and are willing to be made manifest in your way of worship and doctrine and Ministry you are not to neglect but hearing to answer our desires and the desires of many hundreds that you and we may be made manifest in the sight of God to all mens consciences who are in truth and who are in errour that shame and condemnation may come upon the guilty and truth may be exalted over all deceit Given under our hands who are prisoners for the testimony of Jesus whose names in the flesh are Francis Howgill and Edw Burrough You are desired to send your Answer of these Propositions to us and if you consent to meet us let sufficient notice be given abroad that the Inhabitants of the City and country may know five or six dayes time before Sent forth the 23 of the 12 Month from the Sergeant at Armes his house in Dublin This was sent to the Priests of Dublin but no answer to this day have we received from them whereby it is manifest that they are not true to their God nor willing to be tryed and made manifest but loves darkenesse and hates the light and back-bites in secret and cannot give a witnesse openly but falls before the tryall and truth reigns over them and is exalted over their deceit A Discovery of the Idoll dumb Shepheards in that Nation and a Lamentation over their starved and strayed flocks THe day of the Lord is approaching and the day of account draws near upon you the Inhabitants of the earth the time of your Covenant is expired made with death and hell and the Lord God will plead with you and reckon with you and give unto you a just reward every one according to your deeds even the condition of your Bond Ye Shepheards and Pastors of the flock and Teachers of the people what account will ye render to the Lord in the day of his appearing Should you not have gathered the flock and fed them and taught them in the way of righteousnes preserved them from straying abroad but instead thereof you have scattered them upon the barren mountaines and have starved them and have strayed them and led them into by paths of idolatry and made a prey upon them and have fed your selves of them and the heritage of the Lord hath been wasted by you and the pastures of the fold eaten up by Wolves and devourers and Lyons whelps which made the flock afraid driven them into secret corners of darknesse leannesse and poverty where they are dead for want of food O ye Shepheards your account will be wofull and miserable in the dreadfull day which is hastning upon you not one lamb have you brought forth to perfection to lie down in peace in the fold but have nourisht it into the nature of a dog and a wolfe and you have fed them with swines flesh and with the husk and milk they have not received from you thereby to grow up unto God in his Image and not one fleece hath the Lord gathered from all your flock you Teachers Shepheards and Pastors your debt of wickednesse is a grosse sum of great abomination in the Record of account you have taught innocent children into subtle hypocrisie out of uprightnesse into guile you have taught lies instead of truth and thereby hath the people been instructed into error sects and false opinions and not one child have you taught perfect in the way of the Lord neither

wind of the Almighty shall blow them all down root and branch and all your strength in which you trust if you take counsell at Aegypt will become as a bowed wall and as a rotten hedge and God will make them that exalts themselves against him as a dunghill and as the Princes of Gog of Mesek and Tuball which are all perished among the rest of the uncircumcised Oh ye potsheards doe you think you can limit the Lord will he be instructed by you he that reproves him let him answer it Can you command the wind that it blow not upon the earth Can you stop the waves of the Sea and say unto them be still Can you stop the bottles of Heaven that it raine not If you cannot all be silent and strive not to resist the Lord in his own work which he is bringing to passe in this his own day he will confound the wisdome of the wise and bring to nought the honourable of the earth and make all as a plaine before him who can withstand him Oh ye potsheards feare and tremble before him who is a consuming fire to all the ungodly who is visiting the transgressours with vengeance dread and fury and putting into their hands a cup of trembling and making Jerusalem a burthen some stone all that meddle with it shall be wearied they shall faint and bow themselves and sink under it and be crushed as with a cart wheel to pieces and their names shall rot from under heaven and all shall know our God is the living God yea the God of gods yea there is none like him and know this no power you had of us except it had been from above we were with you in the City of Dublin near three months some of us and none laid hands on us but the time was not come and till the testimony of the Lord was near finished which he sent us to doe none could lay hands on us and know this though this be a time of temptation and tryall yet it shall be for the furtherance of the Gospell of Christ and though you think in your hearts by sending us out of your Nation that so all will cease and deceit will stand without molestation I tell you nay even the children who are yet in the womb shall be brought forth and bear witnesse against the deceit of this generation And know this there is a stump which is but little which is bound about as with iron and brasse and out of it shall spring fire that shall be kindled and flame to the torment of all them who worship the Beast and have received his mark and to the tormenting of all the fals Prophets in the Nation and it shall burne and none shall be able to quench it many shall bear witnesse unto us that we came not in our own names but in the name of the living eternall God who by his power hath accomplished his own work for his own glory and many shall blesse us in the name of the Lord and all our opposers shall gnash their teeth and gnaw their tongues for paine for the torment that is coming upon them all that have resisted the counsell of the most high God and have gaine-sayed the Lord they shall perish in their gaine-saying and we are clear and free from the blood of all men in this Nation thus far yea of every City Town and Village unto which we were moved to goe and the blood of all the rest be upon those that have resisted us and a good savour we are unto God in them that have believed in his name of whom we have borne true witnesse unto and in them that perish we are clear in the sight of God And oh thou City of Dublin thou art as Moab at ease and art lifted up in thy heart and rejoycing in thy spoyle and art making thy selfe merry in the abundance of thy delicacies oh how full of prophanesse art thou oh how full of pride and vaine glory of deceit and unrighteousnesse of lust and filth lying and swearing and full of bryars and thorns a carelesse untoward people Oh your abominations is loathsome to all the children of light professing God in words but in your lives and works denies him oh that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belongs to thy peace a crooked generation you are the yoke must be laid upon your necks will neither plague famin nor sword bring thee into subjection unto the Lord will neither mercy nor judgement take place in your hearts Oh how long shall the Lord bear with you how long shall he spare you his long suffering is near at an end his patience is near out concerning you and then woe woe to him that shall see the day which will come the Lord will arise as a Lyon and will rend and tear you and his sword shall be bathed in the blood of his enemies and he shall be wrath as in the valley of Acor and as in the dayes of Gibea and will bring ye down the mountaines and levell you ye hills and will make his name known in your overthrow except ye repent and they that are round about you when they shall see calamity coming upon you this shall be their Proverbe This is the City and people that despised the counsell of the Lord and contemned the instruction of the most high God and provoked the Lord to wrath till his patience was worne out and his long-suffering came to an end and therefore is this evill come upon them Therefore gird your selves in sackcloath and pour ashes upon your heads houle and weep ye carelesse people misery is coming upon you the dreadfull God will visite with a scourge and will make you know he is the Lord blessed is he that hears and considers and repents and turnes from his iniquity before the decree be sealed against you which will never be altered This is the day of your visitation and if you contemn it woe unto you for ever and so we are clear in Gods sight of you all from the highest to the lowest and your blood if you perish will the Lord require at your own hands from this time forth and for evermore Dublin 24 of the 12 Month 1655. We are friends to all just power and are subject to the highest power for conscience sake but witnes against all deceit and unrighteousnes and against all that holds the truth in unrighteousnes who are prisoners of the Lord for the testimony of Christ our consciences bearing us witnesse in the Holy Ghost Francis Howgill Edw Burrough The unjust suffering of the just declared and their appeal to the just witnesse of God in all mens consciences TO all ye Collonels and Commanders and Officers and to all the honest hearted in the City of Dublin and else where to whom this may come Hereby we the prisoners of the Lord for the testimony of Jesus and for the exercise of a pure conscience doe lay down our