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spirit_n	abide_v	life_n	zion_n	21	3	8.8298	4	false

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A66857	From the shepherd of Israel, to the Bishops in England with some queries and councell to all courtiers, and judges, &c, that they incense not King Charles against the Lords heritage : also, the breathings of the seed, and crie of his own elect, that his people may be preserved, which he cannot but hear, because of the incercession of his spirit, poured out upon his off-spring : this I believe, therefore I speak : also, the arise of the beast, false prophet, and anti-christ, and who they are, and what their work is, declared : and the everlasting gospell preached again to all nations, kindreds and people, and the beast and false prophet, which deceived them taken and destroyed, the accuser of the brethren cast out, and judged / given forth by Humphry Woolrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3292; ESTC R15081	14,691	16

will give them Repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth and that they may Recover themselves out of the Snare of the Devil who were taken Captiveby him at his will Ver. 10. Therefore saith Paul I endure all things for the Elects sake that they may obtain the Salvation that is in Christ Jesus with Eternal Glory And now ye Bishops Doctors and Teachers and all such that handle the Law Do ye all stand still awhile weigh your selves in the true Ballance measure your selves with the Measure of the Spirit that God hath freely given to every one of you that by it ye may be saved from Sin and led into all Truth I say all confider is this the Crown ye aim at the Salvation of the Immortal Souls O that there were such a heart in you that was in Christ Jesus that Bishop or the same mind in you that was in Paul Titus and Timothy that laboured watched day and night that they might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus for whose sake saith Paul I suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ and be found in him yea those things which were gain I counted loss for the excellency of the knowledge that is in Christ Jesus my Lord Phil. 3.8 Saith he That I may be found in him marke in him whose Kingdom Power and Glory is not of this world Not having my own Righteousnes that is of the Law but that which is through the Faith of Christ Ver. 10. That I may know him and the Power of his Resurrection and the fellowship of his Sufferings Mark him that was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief and had not a place to lay his head in Read Isa 53.3 Luke 9.58 being made conformable to his death but Paul with weeping complaineth of some Phil. 3. ver 18. that were of another mind Whose God was their bellies who minded earthly things and did glory in that which might have been looked on by them as their shame whose end was destruction but saith he ver 20. Our Conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for the Saviour O Friends Do nothing without consideration and a little consider this great matter Is this the end ye take these Offices of Bishops upon you that ye may watch for the souls of the poor scattered Sheep and save the afflicted and dispised Lambs of Christ by them that are at ease O this is a great work if ye leave it not undone Or is this the Prize ye run for and the Mark ye aim at then would the Lord stablish you and the most Highest himself will be your Shepherd and a Shelter and hiding place unto you But if the world its Honour and Glory be coveted after by you as the Nation feareth it is too much then will the Lord arise for your destruction and as a Whirl-wind from the most highest Shall it suddenly come upon you and as a mighty Tempest great and terrible against the wall and as a sweeping Rain that leaveth no food and his Lambs will he save and his People and Heritage he will himself deliver your portion shall be as in the book of the Psalms It is written Acts 1.20 Psal 69.25 Let his habitation be desolate and let no man dwell therein and his Bishoprick let another take Now this was Judas the Traitor that was both a Bishop and Minister for the work is one For he was numbred with the Apostles mark Judas numbred and chosen by Christ and took part of the Ministry with the Apostles a thing that ye never came to as yet but he cared not for the soul the poor were dispised by him but like Balaam and many now adayes that are falsly called Ministers of Christ he loved the reward of Iniquity and with that he purchased a field which is called the field of blood to this day And falling down headlong he burst asunder in the middest and his bowels gushed out Let this be the reward of the wicked from the Lord and the Recompence of the Persecutor from the God of my Salvation but the Righteous let him be saved by the Lord with an everlasting Salvation from my God because he is poor and despised and abhorred of men and hath no deliverer in the earth O Watchman of Israel O Shepherd of the Sheep that have followed thee and for thy Names sake have been willing to lay down their own lives that in thee and thy life they may be found blameless and preserved spotless O! Do thou arise thou great Shepherd of the everlasting Covenant save thy-people preserve thy Lambs and in thy Armes carry them that are young preserve the feeble and such as be of a contrite Heart and Spirit that none may touch thy hidden and anointed ones so as to harm them in their inward parts or wound them in their hidden life O! Be thou abiding place unto them in the Storm and a Light in their Tabernacles when darkness covers their Enemies that so in their Spirits thy Sons may sing together and the morning Stars make Mellodie unto thee in their hearts and the inhabitants of Sion shout for joy that the Lord is in the midst of them Do this for thy heritage and forsake them not Eternall God we have heard with our ears O Lord the triumphing of the wicked is short O let it not be said by them for ever Where is now their God But Arise arise as in the dayes of old and worke wonders for thy seeds sake as in the antient time when thou didst march through the Sea with thy chosen and didst get thee a Name of praise from the foundation of Israel So let it be with thy Enemies O Lord as of old when the Stars in their course fought against Sisera O Friends I am a Lover of your Souls and the eye is open and opening daily in thousands and a numerous number begin to see the sad state they have been long in O the Lord hath done a wonder and a marvellous work he hath wrought in this our day which is dawned the Day-Star is risen in the hearts of thousands and the day that is everlasting is dawned and in England the sun is risen that shall never set again the light thereof shineth shall shine more and more untill the perfect day which the Clouds of the evening nor the shaddow of the Mountains shall never cover again the Lyon is rouzed the Beasts of the field shall tremble the Lord is working and who shall hinder or let him The Light is the eye which seeth this day which was open in Abraham and in his Head who is invisible and eternall who saith Before Abraham was I am This eye must be opened and looked with in you Bishops and the eye that doth offend and persecute the precious Life phickt out and cast away and the hand cut off and the Right Arm of the wicked broken before the everlasting Arm which

find Christs Words were fulfilled sixteen hundred years ago and that the Quakers are not the false Prophets But such as Paul complaines of with weeping Phil. 3.18 They were such who were Enemies to the Cross of Christ whose God was their Belly and minded earthly things and such as Peter spake of in the second Epistle chap. 2. or like Demus who forsook Christ and the true Apostles and imbraced the present world because the love of the Father was not in them And if I say like the Ministers in England Which seek their Gaine from every quarter I lie not But consider what Christ saith Ye shall know them by their fruits Read Peter and John before mentioned v. 1. But there were also false Prophets among the people even as there shall be false Teachers among you who shall privily bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and many shall follow there pernicious Wayes by Reason of which the way of truth shall be evill spoken of and through covetousness Mark is not this a Proverb in England who is more Proud and Covetous than our Ministers Shall they with fained words make merchandise of you v. 10. These are they that walk after the flesh in the lust which have the fained words who were Despisers of Government v. 15. Which have forsaken the Right Way whose hearts are exercised with covetous practises cursed Children being gone astray in the way of Balaam the Son of Bozer who loved the wages of unrighteousness these are Wells without water Clouds that are carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever Read Johns Epistle which saw that fulfilled before his departure which Christ foretold in Matthew should come Joh. 4.1 2. Beloved believe not every Spirit but try the Spirits Mark what must they try the Spirits with With the Vnction and Annointing which was in them Were they to try the Spirits whether they were of God chap. 2.18 Little Children it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last times they went out from us Mark as I said before from the true Apostles who were in the light and had fellowship with the Father and the Son v. 20. But ye have an Vnction from the Holy One and ye know all things v. 24. Let that therefore abide in you mark in you which ye have heard from the beginning if that shall remain in you ye shall continue in the Son and in the Father v. 26. These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce you v. 27. But the annointing which ye have received of him abideth in you mark in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same annointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lye And even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in it And now little Children abide in him for ye know he that doth Righteousness is born of him ch 4.3 This is that Spirit of Antichrist whereof ye have heard that it should come and even NOW already is come into the world little children ye have overcome them because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world they are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them as you may read Rev. 13.3 8. and all the world wondered after the beast and worshiped the Dragon who was wrath with the Woman and made war with the Remnant of her seed which kept the Commandement of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ they worshiped the Dragon which gave power to the Beast and they worshiped the Beast saying Who is like unto the beast Who is able to make war with him Rev. 17. and 3 8. Let him that readeth understand v. 1. Come hither and I will shew thee the Judgement of the great Whore that sitteth upon many waters mark waters are Multitudes Nations Tongues and Peoples and the Woman which thou sawest the Mother of Harlots is Mistery Babilon which Reigneth over the Kings of the earth with whom they commit fornication and drink of her Cup of fornication ver 3. also the ver 2. So he carryed me away into the wilderness in the Spirit And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast full of Names of Blasphemy and the Woman was arraied in Purple and Scarlet colour and decked with Gold and pretious Stones and Pearles Mark the out-side was very beautiful and desirable by the world whose Names are not written in the Lambs Book of Life before the foundation thereof but this Woman the false Church had in her hand a cup full of Abomination and filthyness of which the Nations drank were made drunk unstable as waters Let him that readeth know the misterie of the Beast and understand who is that false Prophet and Antichrist which carried the woman Read chap. 13.6 Is not this he that openeth his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his Name and Tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven This is that Antichrist which opposed Christ v. 7. And it was given unto him to make war with the Saints and to overcome them and Power was given him over all Kindreds Tongues and Nations v. 15. And he had power to give life to the image of the Beast that it should spake mark This is that compelling power which would cause all to worship the Image instead of the life and the likeness instead of the true God And he causeth all both Rich and Poor Small and Great Bond and Free to receive the mark in their Right Hand or in their Fore-Heads and that none might buy or sell that would not worship the Image of the Beast but should be killed Here is the patience of the Saints Here are they which keep the Commandements of God and the Faith of Jesus And I saw the Woman Drunk with the Blood of Saints Mark this is not the Woman that fled from the face of the Dragon which brought forth the Man-Child And with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her I wondered with great admiration but the Angel said wherefore didst thou marvell Mark John was wondring also till the Angel spake to him saying I will tell thee the mistery of the Woman and of the Beast that carryed her the Beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose Names were not written in the book of Life from the foundation of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is these sayings are faithfull and true testified by his Spirit who is the faithfull and true witness That the everlasting Gospel shall be preached again unto every Nation Tongue and People and Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots shall come in