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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89841	A lamentacion (by one of Englands prophets) over the ruines of this oppressed nacion, to be deeply layd to heart by Parliament and Army, and all sorts of peeple, lest they be swept away with the besom of destruction, in the day of the Lords fierce wrath and indignation, which is near at hand. Written by the movings of the Lord in James Nayler. And a vvarning to the rulers of England not to usurp dominion over the conscience, nor to give forth lawes contrary to that in the conscience. Written from the spirit of the Lord in George Fox.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing N292; Thomason E727_9; ESTC R202148	14,622	20

sayd he would that all the Lords people were Prophets and the Apostle sayd Ye may all prophesie one by one and when these things have been practised according to the Scripture they who have been moved by the Spirit that is unlimited to speak the Word of the Lord as it was revealed this the Magistrat he hath limited with his Law and sent them to Prison heer the Law is against Scripture and that Spirit that gave it forth I charge you in the presence of the Lord and against the Ministers of God that had the Law of God and sayd Ye may all prophesie and heer you Minsters that desire this Law are against Scriptures and the Apostles and clear your selves from having the Spirit and your Churches to be no Churches for when the Word of the Lord is spoken some fall a striking some a punching beating haling throwing down and lays for dead and the Law of God is perfect and gives freedom to speak what is revealed from God and it hears with patience and the Minister of God gives freedom to speak what is revealed And you that say you will make Laws according to the patern of Moses for you to go act according to Moses Law word by word and to take up the Form and not have it revealed to you as it was to him you are to be denyed as having the Form without the power and to be turned away from Oh therefore fear the Lord God and minde that in the conscience which is pure which will teach you the fear of the Lord and bring you to receive the Law from God and the power then you may give it forth to others but not till then would you have a Law now made contrary to your wils upon you the Law of God is upon you and will be for ever who acts contrary to that in the conscience the Law of God is to keep perfect it takes hold upon that which acts contrary to that which is perfect and the Minister of God is to present every one perfect and to bring from under the occasion of all Laws A word from the Lord. Friends take heed of making any Law contrary to that in the conscience for if you do it will be against God and God will hew down it and you with his Sword for it is drawn out of the sheath and furbished and fit to slay Noblemen and great men Captains beware be low minde that in your consciences which is of God to guide your mindes up to God fear and beware of the Sword for it s drawn out against you lest it come upon you and wait in that which is pure in your consciences to rise and guide your mindes to God and cry for justice and walk in it for whatsoever is not just and justice must be hewen down that justice may stand up which is according to that in the conscience which is pure of God for now God alone will be exalted and that which is exalted must be thrown down and all the loftiness of men shall be layd low and the haughtyness of men shall be brought down and the glory of man and his honor and renoun shall be layd in the dust and the glory of the Lord shall arise and his Majesty to shake terribly the earth and the Idols of Gold and Silver shall be cast away as the carnal part is destroyed all your Idols will cease and the pure God be exalted and loved Oh Friends make not Laws in your own wils for they that did ever slew the just and had a Prison for Christ where he was made manifest and the Prophets and Apostles suffered by their Laws who were made in their wils for witnessing forth a good conscience many suffered death for they sayd they had a Law if any one sayd he was the Son of God he might die and so the Law in the wil doth persecute the Son of God now where he is made manifest as the North part of this Nation doth witness who has fulfilled that Law in persecuting and imprisoning the Son of God where he is made manifest And Paul when hee was brought from the Temple outward and the Priests outwardly for that Seperacion and witnessing a good Conscience towards God and man he suffered so their Lawes being in their Wils took hold upon him for acting from a pure Conscience so it doth now upon the same O therefore wait upon the Lord for directions that your Lawes may be according to that in the Conscience and against that which is contrary to a pure Conscience as the Law of God was added not for the Righteous but for Sinners the just Law takes hold upon them and this Law is not according to the Will of man neither is Christ according to the will of man who fulfils this Law in man and takes away the ground and the occasion of the Law which the Law is upon therefore minde that which is contrary to your Wils to receive the Law of God which is contrary to mans will which is perfect and received from God and hath power over a man as long as he lives Written from the Spirit of the Lord a friend to your soules and your eternall good and the establishing of Righteousnesse and the pefect Law of God to the intent of cleansing the Land of Evell-doers and the Transgressors of the perfect Law of God And who knows this are come out of Egypt Pharaoh nor none of his Hoast knoweth it nor the Egyptians but who are brought out of Egypt So God Almighty blesse direct you all who have a fear and thirst towards him for this is the Day of your visitacion while you have time prize it George Fox From Westmerland the later end of the month called November 1653. These Papers were prepared and intended to have been delivered to every member of Parliament but before they could be got out the Parliament dissolved

themselves with Mankinde them that are without and act without and you that meddle with the Church of Christ and that in the Conscience the Law you have not received from God but the Plauges will be poured upon you The Law of God is contrary to that in your Wils according to that in the Conscience and they are both perfect and it is not known but as it is revealed and the minister of God is perfect according to that in the Conscience and it owns the perfect Law for the Minister of God is to bring from under all Sin and the ocasion of all Lawes and this we witness yea Thousands Praised be the Lord for ever They that fear the Lord they have mutuall Peace among themselves you need not make a Law for them for the Law is upon them that are without the fear of God and there is the disturbance and such the Law takes hold upon And as touching preventing the abusing and evil speaking of Magistrates there need not be a Law upon them that fear the Lord for they are taught by the Spirit of the Lord that in the Conscience to fear the Lord and own the perfect Law which is holy just and good in its place and own justice and the Dignity and Dominion but as it was in the time of Iude such Teachers as went in the way of Cain to envy and after the error of Balaam who perish in the gainsaying of Core what they spoke they knew naturally and in those things they corrupted themselves as England has many of such who have told us that Hebrew and Greek has been the Original and the Steeple-house has been the Church and the Temple and sprinkling Infants has been the Baptism and the Letter has been the Light and the Letter has been the Word and those are the Teachers that were made Ministers at Oxford and Cambridg by the will of man but we finde these things all natural and the natural man knows not the things of God but they are known naturally and keeps People natural and knowing these things are contrary to the Scripture therefore do we trample upon them and deny them and the Magistrat having his Law changeable not receiving the Law from God which is perfect and endures for ever and not according to that in the conscience and according to the Scripture but would limit the Spirit of the Lord we deny them that which is contrary to the soul and contrary to that in the conscience but that which is according to the soul and that in the conscience we own and honour in our souls for that is perfect and endures for ever and does not speak evil of Dignity nor of Dominion and to that the soul must be subject but as touching the Ministry which I sayd we trampled upon which is natural we having received the same spirit according to the measure that gave forth the Scripture by which we are baptized into one Body so with that we deny their sprinkling of Infants which they call Baptism because there is no example for it in the Scripture and that spirit that gave forth the Scripture sayd the Church is in God and therefore we deny the Church of the world which is natural and they that were made Ministers were made by the will of God and not by the will of man and so do we and the Letter sayth Christ is the Light and they that say the Letter is the Light would disthrone Christ and they that say the Letter is the Word sets it up before God and denyes God for the Letter sayth God is the Word and they that say the Hebrew and Greek are the Original they who were the Ministers of the Word which was in the beginng before many Languages were spoke the Word among the Hebrews and were persecuted now if the Hebrew had been the Original they would have received them and the Apostle he spoke among the Greeks and they counted the Cross of Christ a foolish thing now had that been the Original Hebrew and Greek they would have embraced it the Eternal Word which was in the beginning before all Languages were breaks in pieces all Languages and tramples upon them and brings all into one Language for that which keeps in many Languages keeps in confusion and always learning therefore with the Word which ever was which is made manifest which gathers our hearts together to God we deny their Original for the Apostle he denyed all his Learning when he came to know the Word which was and is the Original which endures for ever And as touching giving fitting liberty for them that fear the Lord for that you have no ground in the Scripture for if you go to meddle with them that fear the Lord with your Law you busie your selves with those things that you have nothing to do withall to that in your consciences I speak for you have nothing to do to meddle with them that act according to that in the conscience and act in righteousness and as giving liberty for such you are them that would limit the holy One and ty up and prison that in the conscience he that meddles with that in the conscience goes about to search the heart and where it acts forth you will have a Law to act upon it when it acts contrary to your wils for that in the conscience is perfect is pure it testifies against all opinions and all Sects and all Heresie and all Blasphemy and all false Ministry and all popish ways for they all arise out of that nature which acts contrary to that in the conscience and that in the conscience is according to God and he that makes a Law upon that makes a Law against God and he that is guided by this in the conscience to walk towards God and man the flesh is not defiled he speaks not evil of Dignity and there is no man with his will has any thing to do to restrain or give liberty for this and where have you an example for this in all the Scripture or Moses who was a Minister of the Law who had received it from God that restrained any mans conscience and he wished that all the Lords people were Prophets and the Minister of God sayd Ye may all speak one by one and ye need not care for an Act or Declaration as touching them and for shame let it never be mentioned that there should be a Law for them that fear God as if there were disturbance among them or as if they were not in a mutual peace but these are such Teachers that desire such things that have the likeness of a Church the likeness of a Baptism the likeness of a Ministry and the likeness of a Communion and when any has been moved of the Lord to go speak against them they have openly shewed themselves to be quite without the fear of the Lord and strangers to the life that gave forth the Scriptures Priests Magistrats and People for Moses