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A66861	The rock of ages known, and foundation of many generations discovered after this long and dark night of apostacy, which shall never cover us again, because of the anointing, and though darkness may cover the nation, and gross darkness the people a little season, yet the Lord shall be unto his people and everlasting light, and their God their glory : also a prayer that the Lords people may be preserved to the end : also a few words to the King, and his council from the everlasting counsellor and Prince of Peace : also the Lords testimony against all persecutors of the innocent lambs of Christ, in whose light the nations of them that are saved must walk, and against all forms of worship whatsoever, taught by the precepts and commandments of men, which themselves are not led and guided by the spirit of the Lord : also a few words in answer to the last book of common-prayer / this is written in the fear of the Lord, and in the counsel of the everlasting counsellor, whose name is the Lord of Hosts, in Humphry Wolrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3298; ESTC R15328	12,166	18

up our heads that in all our sufferings we faint not but in our heart can forgive our Enemies and pray for them that know not what they do And Friends in your Morning-prayer you pray for the King that the Lord would set his watchful Providence as a continual fence about him to be his guide and Counsellor and never leave him which in the truth of my heart do I desire which the Lord most certainty will do if at the Spirit of the Lord he take counsel only and not at you who limit it in his Lambs and Children into whom he hath poured out of his Spirit according as it is written I will pour out my Spirit in the latter dayes upon my Servants and Handmaids and they shall prophesie this will I do unto them and not forsake them saith the Lord. And now Christ being come and his Spirit given which leadeth into all truth even the Word of the Oath Mark the Word of the Oath which was before and since the Law He saith Swear not at all and though Abraham Solomon and the Prophets which were not come to the end of it did Swear and them that did Swear in Judgment Truth and Righteousness the Oath was to them an end of all strife as saith the Apostle but Christ when he came which was greater than Solomon and was before Abraham he saith Swear not at all And though ye may read the Angel in the Revelation did swear that time should be no longer yet in a certain place is it written concerning the Son which saith Swear not at all When he bringeth his first-begotten into the world let the Angels of God worship him So whether they be Angels Thrones or Dominions Principalities or Powers things in Heaven or things in Earth they must all be subject to the Word of the Oath which was since the Law by whom and for whom all things in Heaven and Earth were made and created who is God eternal and King immortal that in all things he might have the preheminence who saith Swear not at all But this I say the Lord did never counsel King Charles the second nor never will to fill all the Prisons Holes and Dungeons in his Dominions with an Innocent People for these things As not for Swearing and observing Days and Times as Manasseh did who filled Jerusalem with innocent blood or as Jezebel did when Ahab stoned and took possession of the Vineyard of Naboth but it was the Enemy of the Lord and his People and the Council when the Quakers which are innocent as children newly born were numbred with Murderers It was no better than the Counsel of Ahithophel which the Lord turn into foolishness I say these were the Lords Enemies and to King Charles in the end will not prove Friends the Nation shall see and consider it diligently For the Nation knows yea our Enernies themselves will confess the Quakers will not fight or plot against any for Conscience sake towards God but after they have owned the Light Christ which is the Way and the Truth many have left the Army both private Soldiers and Commanders in so much that the Commanders some of them have said That if they should not fight th●●●ing of the Scots would soon come in and so by them were we persecuted as friends to you and not meet to live in a Commonwealth because with carnal weapons w could defend our selves no longer but their wisdom di the Lord confound and both them and their honour lies in the dust which durst not trust in the Lord but made flesh their Arm but we remain the same our Weapons the same not carnal and the Lord whom we serve the same and as able to deliver them that fear him as ever he was his hand is not shortned nor grown weak but he is the same and his years fail not and to his People is he the same and changeth not ant therefore the Son of Sion and Daughters of Jerusalem are not consumed whose hope is in the Name of the Lord and not in Sword or Spear And though the Prisons in London and all over the Nation be filled that we can scarce lie one by another two hundred and fifty in Newgate men their wives and children yet dare we not Swear nor observe Dayes Christ having commanded the contrary unto vvhom vve do commit our Righteous Cause and the keeping both of our souls bodies and families vvhich ye are vvasting and endeavouring to destroy without a cause who is the Prince of Peace and ends the old Covenant and puts an end to Swearing observing of Dayes Times and Seasons and brings in to the Rest that remains and was with and in God before either Dayes Times or Seasons were commanded to be observed But man being gone into the Darkness out of the eternal and everlasting Day out of the Life Power and Vertue that made him and was inwardly ravened from the Spirit and altogether restless and unstable as waters that fail knowing not a rest in him that made him alwayes to keep holy day and with himself at all times to be satisfied with peace rest and all manner of unutterable felicity as it is written Eye hath not seen nor ear-beard neither hath it entred into the heart of man in that state to conceive of the glory that is prepared for them that love him O the infinite endless eternal depths of love past finding our which Paul was come into in Christ the beginning and the end of Dayes New-moons and Sabbaths and all such things which he calls Carnal Ordinances and mad● nothing perfect being imposed untill the time of Reform●●●on and no longer till Christ the better hope comes who saith Old things are done away all thinge are become new Blessed is he that reads and understands for the time is at hand the Spirit and the Bride saith Come even so saith my Soul Come Lord Jesus come quickly Take unto Thee thy Great Power and Reign in the midst of thy Enemies THE END Let this be sent to all Magistrates and Bishops by Friends as moved

THE Rock of Ages known AND FOUNDATION Of many Generations discovered After this long and dark Night of Apostacy which shall never cover us again because of the Anointing And though Darkness may cover the Nation and gross Darkness the People a little season yet the Lord shall be unto his People an Everlasting Light and their God their Glory Also a Prayer that the Lords People may be preserved to the end Also a few Words to the KING and his Council from the Everlasting Counsellor and Prince of Peace Also the Lords Testimony against all Persecutors of the Innocent Lambs of Christ in whose Light the Nations of them that are saved must walk And against all Forms of Worship whatsoever taught by the Precepts and Commandments of men which themselves are not led and guided by the Spirit of the Lord. Also a few Words in Answer to the last Book of Common-Prayer Psal 53.4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge who cat up my People as bread Vers 6. When the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his People Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad This is written in the Fear of the Lord and in the Counsel of the Everlasting Counsellor whose Name is the Lord of Hosts In HUMPHRY WOLRICH London Printed for Robert Wilson in Martins Le Grand 1661. The Rock of Ages Known and Foundation of many Generations Discovered after this long and dark night of Apostacy which shall never cover us again because of the Anointing c. IN Patience Meekness and Quietness do we suffer in Joy and Peace and in the everlasting Love of the Lord Jesus do we lie down and rest in him notwithstanding all the rage of the wicked and their many wayes of cruelty towards us yet in all this do we in patience passesse our souls and a hiding place we feel in him who is the Lord our Righteousness in him onely do we trust and hope and of our hope shall we never be ashamed we know for in us we feel it as an Anchor to our souls in this stormy day that is rising as a mighty Tempest to sever the Chaff from the Wheat that the finest of the Wheat may be eaten and the Honey out of the Rock O Lord what shall become of London O London with thy Magistrates and Rulers why should ye be called a persecuting people after all your Fighting and Engagements for Liberty of Conscience to serve the Lord as moved by his Pure Eternal Spirit and after the Tradition and Precepts of men no longer O London Repent go not on in this cruel way of persecuting an innocent people return to the Lord lest thou be hardned as Pharaoh was to his own destruction O why should ye be called a Bloody City Why should ye be reckoned with the Persecutors in Queen Maries dayes in the Generations to come why should ye be ranked with Jerusalem and her Rulers out of which a Prophet could not perish O London I pitty Thee I pitty Thee great is the misery that upon thee and thy Rulers is coming thy day is dark and gloomy that is dawned and come up to cover thee as a Garment O London Do not go on to thy own ruine the people whom thou fightest against are blessed of the Lord that made Heaven and Earth the Lord is their Strength and their Shield and when he hath humbled them and brought them low in Spirit and purified them made them more pure in heart more perfect through sufferings then will he arise for their Salvation yea he will arise the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it it is good that we trust in the Lord even in the Name of the Lord all the day long he that stood by us and in us and hath delivered us out of many Tryals and divers Tribulations good is it for us to trust in him to the end of our Pilgrimage for we are strangers to them that persecute us and they that hate us without a cause know not our dwelling plac● O England with thy Rulers why should ye be as Cain Vagrants in the Earth Why should ye be droven out from the Presence of the Lord into the Land of Nod Why wilt thou lay a burthen on thy own Conscience and gather Vexation and Anguish on thy own soul The way ye take will not destroy us the greater our burthens are the more will the Palm Tree grow and the Root shall spread it sell abundantly and the Branches shall break forth as a Morning without Clouds in due season in his own time that is our Root and bears up our heads under all our sufferings that we undergoe for his own Names sake in Patience we bear giving our Backs to the Smiter and our Cheek to them that pull off the Hair because of the Testimony to the Truth which we bear and the VVord of his Patience which we keep Therefore in this day of darkness doth the Light shine forth and in this time of temptation are we kept preserved who have believed in the Light Christ Jesus and whose hearts are fixed trusting in the Lord they are not afraid of evil tidings nor of sudden destruction when it cometh O let the House of Aaron trust in the Lord He is their Hope and their Shield O let all that know Him trust in Him at all times and fear the Lord and his Goodness for evermore him that hath withdrawn the Face of his Covering and caused the Light of his Countenance to shine forth in our Tabernacles He is unto his that which Eye cannot see nor Tongue expresse and for declaring it but for the sakes of others it is no matter if hand should be still alwayes and Tongue dumb for evermore so that the Peace and Love of the everlasting God and Father of all consolation be but possessed felt and enjoyned in the Heart and in the Soul It is pure Liberty to the Captive and that my Soul doth feel and witness it is bread of life to the hungry and water of life to the thirsty soul it warmes and refreshes in the coldest night that ever came it doth strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees it makes the desolate to rejoyce and break forth into singing and the womb that hath been barren a joyful mother of many children what shall I say to all that fear the Lord be where ye will he is company and in the middest of wars famine and want he is peac● life and fulness of every good thing And though I am but of yesterday in companion yet I set to my seal that the God of the despised Quakers is the living and the true God and their Worship which is in Spirit and Truth is only acceptable to the Lord And further for the Lord in this day of darkness that over thee O England is coming and thou layest it not to thy heart I say in the Light of the eternal God of Heaven and Earth that plucks up Nations and plants

them again I bear my Testimony and it is the Lords Testimony against all Forms of Worship Forms of Prayer and Confessions of Sins that are out of the life and power of Godliness being only taught by the precepts of men and not led thereunto by the pure eternal Spirit of the Lord I do witness against it all as a vain Worship and in the sight of the pure holy God abomination O England in vain dost thou worship thy fear towards me saith the Lord is taught by the precepts of men and yet thou layest it not to thy heart O England what hast thou been fighting plotting and swearing so many years for a Reformation dost thou not yet consider wilt thou yet be so blind as not to see that the Kingdom of Christ will not be set up with carnal weapons O turn ye turn ye to the Spirit of the Lord that by your fighting swearing and destroying one another hath been grieved O that will show you what ye are doing against the Lambs of Christ which saith Swear not at all Love your Enemies Pray for them that persecute and despitefully use you that ye may be like your heavenly Father O King and Parliament Council let all your Wise men of understanding consult this matter Was this the Lords way with you when he brought you in to the Government was it not in peace did not his love and strange acts towards thee O King almost perswade thee there should be no persecution in thy Dominions Why art thou drawn aside against the Lords Heritage that can neirher plot fight nor swear either for or against any one O consider thine own Promise Newgate in London hath above two hundred Prisoners that have lived hitherto peaceably men with their wives and little children in stinking holes by vertue of a late Proclamation set forth in thy Name to the wasting and ruine of many Families which will lie as a burden upon thee if thou lay it not to heart All this is done against the Lords People even against a People whom he hath blessed in this Generation and chosen for his peculiar Treasure in whom he delights to walk and dwell and all that rise up against them wil he rebuke for their sakes as he rebuked Kings in the dayes of old saying Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harm for them hath he chosen for a Peculiar People and a Royal Priesthood and People in whom he will be glorified O the eternal love of our heavenly Father O the ancient Hils the Hill of the Lord which is everlasting is known again to be what all the holy men and Prophets declared it to be O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderful works to the children of men Who is a God like unto our God or a Rock save the Lord Happy are the People that have the God of Jacob for their shield who hides them in the hollow of his hand that fear him and carries them in his everlasting arms of love so that their strength is renewed daily and in their many tribulations they faint not for in our hearts hath the pure eternal God shined forth and the Creator of the ends of the Earth hath made known himself unto us so doth his love shed it self in our hearts constraining us willingly to suffer the losse of any thing that in this world hath been dear unto us so that Christ his love life and vertue may be but enjoyed the losse of all is counted gain ruling in our hearts we in him and he in us our Lord and our God putting down all Rule and Authority and subjecting every high thought which in us hath ruled and lorded over the Heritage of God binding his Fole to the Vine and his young Colt to the choice Vine This is our Victory over the World which our Faith in the Power gives us continually In this do we rejoyce and glory over the Persecuter within and without and as for our Cause our righteous Cause which is the Lords and our Design which is no other but that his Truth may prosper the Lord and his glory exalted in our hearts teaching us to worship as we ought as he hath promised in the latter day he vvill do And as for us let him do with his own what he pleaseth he hath bought us with a price To the false Worship of the Nation we cannot bow at all though the Furnace should be heated seven fold hotter than it is and vve suffer as Plotters and unjustly numbred with Murderers yet vve know me are clear as new-born children and many of our enemies know it also and have nothing to lay to our charge but in the matter of our God and his Worship and ere long it will appear it is because we cannot bow to Baal nor kisse him in drinking the Whores Cup of Fornication which is now handing out again to this Nation by the Merchants of Babylon whose day of wailing and bitter lamentation is nigh even at the door and as for us let the Lord suffer them if his will be so to make merchandise of out bodies as they have begun already yet our souls are the Lords and by his righteous power which we have put on he is able to keep us from falling or entering into any of the many temptations and snares that are laid for the Innocent And as we stand with our confidence in the Lord our Righteousness and of his Righteousness only to make mention our Faith in the power of an endless life our hearts shall not reproach us so long as we have a beeing and our Sufferings are for Righteousness sake because we cannot turn Idolaters in setting up Dayes and observing Times that the Lord did never command but worship him as led and moved by his eternal Spirit And we know the Letter doth not move at all much lesse doth it move any to confess Sin as in the Common-Prayer-Book is said that is the Swearers Liars and Persecuters prayer which to the Lord is an abomination we cannot own for his sake neither do we confess our sins as taught of men for this is hypocrisie but as the holy Spirit that gives us power to forsake them teacheth us O Friends ye are all out of the way that think God will be served or worshipped acceptably any other way but as led and guided by his holy Spirit O what are ye doing will ye limit the Lord in his People this hath been the overthrow of many Governments O consider will ye limit the Holy One of Israel to a few dead words in a Book or a dead Confession taught by dead man whilst in his sins What do ye think the great God dwelleth in a dead Temple made with hands and dead stones Is this the Church of the First-born which Church is in God whose names are written in Heaven O ye Bishops and learned men will ye indeed be lords of our Faith How can this be

My glory saith the Lord will I not give to another What will ye be Lords over Gods Heritage O will ye cause the poor to wander without bread and take away the clothing from the naked and leave him desolate that hath no deliverer in the earth O what are ye doing will ye put out our eyes whom the Lord hath opened and then cause us to grind in your Mill Is this to be eyes to the blind and feet to the lame O consider what ye are doing ye Leaders of the people Why should my people be destroyed for lack of knowledge saith the Lord What shall the Lord alwayes be limited that ye will not suffer him to teach his People O consider consider the Eternal sees you and all your wayes are naked and bare before him whose eternal eye runs through all the dark parts of the Earth and neither the Evil nor the Good is hid from his all-seeing Eye O why will ye plot evil against the Lords Heritage ye little know what a work ye have undertaken the People whom ye are fighting against are blessed of the Lord the dust of Jacob that cannot be numbred are they of and they are of the ten thousands of Israel and the off-spring of Jacobs God which himself hath determined to establish and bring them into a Land a good and a large Land where he will make them a praise to Generations and the Children unborn shall call them the Blessed of the Lord because of Righteousness which is the girdle of their loyns and the savour of their oyntment which is poured forth shall their names be had in everlasting remembrance O pure righteous living Father of Heaven and Earth do with thy People and Children what thou wilt they are thine own only keep them faithfull in thine own life power and dominion preserve them God eternal thy Word of Patience to keep and Testimony to bear against all the false wayes and Worship that is now setting up and establishing by a Law Lord God Almighty arise in the Consciences of thy Enemies and in their inward parts do thou convince them that are making void thy Law thy pure righteous Law in their own Consciences show them they are persecuting thy People and wasting thy Heritage whom thou hast chosen for thy peculiar Treasure O Lord what are we do with thine own what thou pleasest we are thy People and the sheep of thy pasture Thy Name is one and thy People one what wilt thou do for thy great Name Do what is good in thine own eyes only blesse thy People and in thy Arms carry thy Lambs that none may take their Crown from them O Lord God Almighty A Form of Common-Prayer that is the Swearers Prayer the Lyars and the Drunkards Prayer which prayes in the drunken spirit but the Spirit of the Lord is not known by any such to teach them how to pray as they ought Therefore wo to the crown of Pride to the Drunkards of England whose glorious fading beauty is on the head of the fat valleys Wo unto them saith the Lord God that are covered and not with my Spirit that pray and not with my Spirit these are a stink in my nostrils and as a fire that burneth all the day long that dig deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and whose work is in the dark that none should know it Wo unto them that go down into Egypt again for help and whose hope is not in the Lord but in the broken Reed of Pharaohs house which house must be laid waste and desolate without inhabitants and the memorial thereof from generation to generation warred with Now come to the Spirit which is within the Vail the Lord is that Spirit and when ye turn to the Lord the Vail shall be rent and the Covering destroyed and taken away that is on the head of the fat valleys then shall living Waters flow out of Jerusalem in that day and the Spirit poured from on high that shall teach you how to pray as ye ought Then shall ye look upon Him whow ye are now piercing and persecuting piercing by your prayers which are sin whilest in the persecution of the innocent Lambs of Christ ye are found I say then shall ye be in bitterness and mourn as one that mourneth for his first-born that must be destroyed and then it is not your calling the Innocent Plotters and declaring against them as Murderers which will clear you from the just and righteous judgments of the righteous God who hears the sighing of the Prisoners in the Pit and whose ears are open unto their cry The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind the Lord looseth the bands of the prisoners Then shall ye Bishops mourn and ye Priests mourn and all ye Magistrates every one that have a hand in persecuting shall mourn apart when ye look upon Him whom ye have pierced both in your selves and the Lord Children which in his sight are dear and precious and by him compared to the most fine Gold O how are the precious Sons of Sion counted and esteemed by you builders of Babylon who are in Confusion and covered with thick darkness What do ye teach the poor people to pray and call God their Father What do ye teach them to sing Davids Psalms and the Songs of Sion in the Waters of Babylon and Land of Darkness Is not that vain Worship that is taught by the Commandments and Precepts of men Can the dead praise the Lord And have ye not read that the Prayers of the Wicked is Abomination to the Lord Did not Peter bid Simon Magus first Repent and then Pray that the thought of his heart might be forgiven him which was that the Gift of God could be brought and sold for Money And have ye not need to repent of this sin as well as Simon which are selling your Gifts for Money all over the Nation What will ye pray and teach others so to do whilest in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity your selves O consider what ye are doing will ye whip persecute and imprison any that pray and preach only as the Spirit of the Lord guides and gives them utterances Are these the weapons which the Apostle Paul did fight and War withal or are they Antichrists weapons and such as the high Priests and those learned Rabbies did use against Christ our Lord and Master which said if this be done in the green ●●ee what will be done in the dry Consider these things ye Bishops and all that would be counted Ministers of Christ what a foundation are ye laying for persecution have ye so soon forgotten your own sufferings that ye are causing them thus to suffer that had no hand at all in yours Consider the words in your own Book of Common-Prayer do ye desire that ye may shew forth the light of a good example for the glory of the Lord and conversion of your enemies Is this the way Christ took and commanded his