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A37665
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Signes are from the Lord to a people or nation to forewarn them of some eminent judgment near at hand.
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Eccles, Solomon, 1618-1683.
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Signes are from the Lord to a People or Nation to forewarn them of some eminent Judgment near at hand Thus saith the Lord Jesus Christ I and the Children which thou hast given me are for Signes and Wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts who dwelleth in Mount Sion Isa 8. 18. And when the Lord saw that Isaiah had walked long enough mournfully in Sackcloth he then commanded him to loose the Sackcloth from off his Loins and put his Shoos from off his Feet and he did so walking naked bare-foot three years And the Lord said Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and bare-foot three years as a Sign and Wonder upon Egypt and Ethiopia so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners and the Ethiopians Captives Young and Old Naked and Bare-footed with their Buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt Isa 20. Ezekiel was commanded to lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem Three hundred and ninety dayes he must lie on his left side and bear the iniquity of the house of Israel and Forty dayes on his right side to bear the iniquity of Judah And after this he must shave his head and heard and cast part of it in the fire and part into the air And the Lord said I will do in thee that which I have not done and that which I will not do the like the fathers shall eat their sons in thee and the sons shall eat their fathers and I will execute Judgment in thee and the whole remnant of them I will scatter into all the winds Ezek. 4th and 5th chapters Now therefore by the same Spirit hath the Lord raised me to go as a Sign to this dark Generation who are as black within as the Ethiopians were without yea and more wicked than Sodom and Gomorrah it self Therefore let all beware and repent speedily for of a truth The Lord God is coming with all his Saints about him to execute judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoke against him I can truly say this That I have strove much and besought the Lord that this going naked might be taken from me before ever I went a Sign at all but the weight lay on me still and when first I had given up to go and was obedient the word of the Lord came to me saying Look that through the mighty power of God thou art carried through this work I was glad to hear this word from the mouth of the Lord. This was in the Year 1659 when I was made to go into Calamy's Steeple-house for which I was imprisoned the space of eight months The next time I was raised to go was before the Pagents were set up in the Streets and the power of the Lord did rise in me to go thorow the City and I would have put it by though I felt the Living Power present yet having no word I did conclude to stay till the next week but the Voice of the Lord was in me saying To morrow to morrow So I durst not withstand but gave up and went from this side the Barrs in White-Chappel to the upper end of Cheapside in the good Power of the Lord and I received three or four Lashes in or about the Stocks and I turned about and said The Lord forgive thee R. Brown was then Mayor I was committed prisoner to Bridewel and there was cruelly used the Lord lay it not to their charge and six moneths Imprisoned The next time the Lord appeared to me to go with Fire and Brimstone on my head Naked and I had much trouble in me as to that till the Word of the Lord came to me and indeed at that time I was in great distress For the Light made manifest that I must go but where and when I knew not Then came the Word of the Lord and Commandment saying Thou shalt go and I will make way for thee And as I was going through Bartholmew-Fair so called not thinking any thing going onely to see a Friend the Lord caused me to stand still and beholding their filthy Tricks upon Stages with Fools and Monsters in ugly shapes to draw the minds of People from the Lord my very Bowels were pained in me I then did admire the patience and forbearance of the Lord and said within my self How greatly is God dishonoured by this provoking Generation And presently a weight fell on me to obey the Higher Power and I was given up to the work with a good heart and the dear Friend W. G. who was with me twice before who was as my right-hand assisted me in the work and so in the faith of Jesus Christ I was above the fear of men and the Lord found me out some place not in any house but in a yard where I stript me and had the Pan of Coales and Brimstone then did I speak forth these words Repent speedily for God will not be mocked Remember Sodom and Gomorrah who are your Examples they do endure the vengeance of Eternal Fire And I went thorow the Cloysters and thorow the Lame-Hospital and down Smithfield to the place where I desired the Lord that I might pass that crew of Players that they might see what should be their Reward for their work And I sounded forth those words there and I had the end of my desire to a step Then suddenly did one throw off the Pan of Coals from my head and I felt the service over And a Friend having a Coat coming after me put it on me and so I passed thorow Bartholomews-Close into Little-Britain and had no hurt hardly a mouth open against me so I went home unto my honest imployment And this was the first time I was a warning to those Players and Spectators The next year I passed by that way again and did behold their filthy Shows at which the Power of God rose in me against that cursed Practice I did immediately prepare to lay down my Body a Sacrifice for God which was my reasonable service and then coming forth in the Power of God I passed into the midst of them the Pan of Coals on my head burning with Fire and Brimstone and I spake forth the same words as the Year before and I was clapt and beaten and afterwards whipt by one who said he had twenty lashes at me I know not the number but when he hit me two or three Lashes I was made to stand still in God's Power and he hit me several Lashes more but in God's strength I was made to bear them all and when I felt he had done I turned and said The Lord forgive thee Presently after that time I was sore put to it and had much a-doe to come off with my Life for I was so cruelly worried with the Butchers and wicked loose Men that I could neither stand nor go Yet out