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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28133	The trumpet of the Lord sounded forth unto these three nations as a warning from the spirit of truth, especially unto thee, oh England, who art looked upon as the seat of justice, from whence righteous laws should proceed : likewise, unto thee, thou great and famous city of London, doth the Lord God of vengeance found one warning more into thine ear ... : with a word of wholsome counsel and advice unto thy kings, rulers, judges, bishops, and priests ... : together with a few words unto the royal seed ... / by one who is a sufferer for the testimony of Jesus, in Newgate, Esther Biddle.	Biddle, Ester.	1662 (1662)	Wing B2865; ESTC R38832	17,824	25

and Crown and Beauty shall never have an end but thou shalt be the Glory of the whole Earth and the Beauty of all Nations and Kings shall come to thy rising and Princes to the brightness of thy Glory there is no City upon the Earth can say as thou canst in this latter day for the Power of the Lord hath been shed abroad in thee and thou hast been visited more than any therefore prize the Son of the Lord least thou art cast into utter Darkness for it is I the Lord that chaineth Leviathan which no man can tame who am God and there is none besides me by my Wisdom the World was made and the Heavens framed I created the Sea and caused the Rivers to run into it and have set the Sands as swadling bands that it cannot over-pass and this is my decree which I will have sealed unto my people I am the Quakers God and will be with them unto the end of this World and in the end they shall be with me in my Glorious Kingdome where they shall be kept from their Persecutors and lye down in joy peace and tranquility with the rest of my holy Martyrs and Prophets and Apostles in years past and I am utterly against all that do oppose them who am a terrible God and will bring the wickedness of the wicked to an end but the righteousness of the righteous doth live with me This is my Decree and it shall live for ever and remain World without end and if thou canst cause the rain from raining or the Stars from shining or the Sun from going her Course or giving light to the Nations then mayest thou alter my Decree with my People whose seed shall be for number as the sand upon the Sea shore and for Multitude as the Stars of Heaven and they shall shine in Glory more brighter than the Sun at noon day in the Firmament of my Power when the generation of the wicked shall be cast into the Lake which is prepared of God for the King of darkness and his Subjects The Trumpet of the Lord sounded forth unto England Scotland and Ireland with a Word of wholsome Advice and Counsel to the King Rulers and Judges thereof OH King this is my Counsel unto thee and thy Rulers and Judges Oh! hearken unto the Light of Christ in your Consciences that it may bear rule in your hearts that you may Judge for the Lord and oppression may be expel'd in your Dominions Oh! that you would do Justice and love Mercy and walk humbly with the God of heaven then would the Lord give you length Of dayes and a long life Peace and Plenty shall be in your Dominions every one shall sit under his own Vine and Fig-tree and none shall make them afraid joy and tranquillity shall be in your Palaces this shall you see and know to be accomplished if you will leave off oppressing the Righteous and set the Captive free Oh ye Rulers Judges and Justices and all People high and low be it known unto you from the mighty Judge of Powerful Majesty that he is risen who will scatter Rulers in his anger and will pluck down Kings in his wroth Oh! the anger of the Lord waxeth hot against all workers of iniquity and he will set his oppressed seed free which cryeth unto him for deliverance and know this what cruelty soever be in your hearts against us the Lord will confound it and bring it to nothing for the Lord is on our sides and we fear not Imprisonment Banishment Fine or Tortures or whatever the wrath of man can inflict upon us for our hearts are firmly fixed upon the Lord and we are freely given up in Body Soul and Spirit to suffer for God's Cause Oh you Rulers if the Lord suffereth you to Banish us I know that the Lord will go along with us as he did with Abraham in a strange Land but know this we shall leave a seed behind us which shall be your tormentor and shall witness for us when we are gone Oh Lord I commit our case unto thee who art faithful and keepeth Covenant for ever and I know thou wilt fight our Battel and plead our cause with the mighty on earth who would destroy us from being a People if thy Power did not preserve us Glory and Honour be given unto thee who hath compassed us about with songs of everlasting praises and we may blesse the hour and time that thou raised up a People in the North even a dreadful and terrible Army who Marched swiftly in thy Power through the Nations and by them we were convinced and turned towards the Lord and they shall be the dread of all Nations and God hath crowned them with an everlasting Crown which neither Men nor Devils shall be able to take from them Oh you Rulers and Judges of these Nations do you think to overcome us or make us yeeld by keeping them in Prison which you think are our Teachers and Ring-leaders nay Christ is our Teacher and he cannot be removed into a corner who is the Antient of Dayes and will cause us to increase dayly and to grow as Calves in the stall we are not like the World who must have a Priest to Interpret the Scriptures to them and when he is removed they are scattered and knows not what to do but my friends we witness the Scriptures fulfil'd who hath said in the latter dayes He would pour out his Spirit upon Sons and Daughters and they should Prophesie and they shall all be taught of me and great shall be their peace and in righteousness shall they be established So the Lord doth not speak unto us in an unknown Tongue but in our own Language do we hear him perfectly whose voice is better than life and for this cause doth the unlearned hate us and the uncircumcised revile us because we cannot own the Teaching that is of this World but that which cometh immediately from God and that is pure and refresheth the Soul and holdeth up the head in the day of Battel and it causeth us to meet together to worship the Lord as we ought to do and Oh you Rulers and People it is in vain for you to strive against us for the God of heaven is with us Oh England Scotland and Ireland but more especially thou O England that art the most fruitful and famous Land in which the Lord hath been pleased to make manifest his Life and Power Beauty and Glory more than in any Nation under the Heavens in so much that he hath raised his sons and daughters from death to life and hath made them bold and valiant Souldiers for his Testimony which he hath given them to bear forth unto all Nations and by the Glorious and Powerful Word of Life which hath proceeded out of their mouthes hath thy Judges and Rulers been convinced of the evil of their way and have been made to confesse to the Truth both Priests and People both High

breath sacrifice our Sighs Tears and Groans Prayers and Fastings upon God's holy Altar that a sweet Savour may ascend into the Nostrels of the Most High God that so we may receive a Blessing from Heaven for evermore And this the Lord hath put into my Heart and I cannot forbear but Write that if any prayeth or speaketh unless in the holy Power of the dreadful God amongst us it is as water spilt upon the ground and it will bring a Curse rather than a Blessing the Lord looketh for a holy and clean Sacrifice from us above all the People in the World because he hath raised up his own Life in us and chosen us to be his People and the Lot of his Inheritance and the Place where his Honour dwelleth is with us and I know Sacrifices have been offered by us and is to this day which the Lord's Soul loves and He doth delight to make us his choice He is our God and we have none in Heaven nor in Earth to plead our Cause but He that Suffered and layd down his Life on Earth but now sits in Majesty and Glory in the highest Heavens who is our chief leader and guide and doth lead us into his Power to meet together and to stand in awe and Sin not and if Friends we should not meet together we should Sin against God and should miss of his Presence who hath said Where two or three are met together in my Name there will I be saith the Lord and this is my Testimony as a Witness to this thing I never went to any Meeting since I knew the Truth even from the first Meeting to this day but I was filled with the Living Power of the Lord Oh! the sweet showers that doth descend from the presence of the Lord and the pleasant rains that falleth from his Throne like silver drops it doth distil upon our Hearts whilst we are in our Meetings in the Name and Power of Jesus who is amongst us and hath raised us and is raising us from the Dead and hath and is quickning our mortal Bodies that they may be like unto his glorious Body he hath and doth turn us from Darkness to Light from Satans Power to his own Oh! can we forget or refuse such glorious Benefits which we have received from the God of our Life in our Meetings together I know my Friends you are not unsensible of this great gain by losing the Love of the World to meet together with the King of Heaven and Earth whose presence is better than Life Oh! how hath he opened the Sluce of Everlasting Mercies and Love that it hath poured down from the crown of our head to the soal of our foot so that we have been washed throughout by the endless Goodness of the Lord in our Meetings And this is my mind and I hope you are and will be of the same with me and I do believe the Lord will carry me on to the end I had rather die the cruellest Death that ever was or can be devised by man than to neglect or abstain from Meeting together in his Name for I know who ever doth it neglects their own Salvation and the day of their Visitation Oh my beloved Friends if we Suffer Imprisonment or loss of Life upon the account of meeting together let us rejoyce for it is for Christ sake that we are Persecuted for great is our reward in Heaven Oh! Christ is our meat and drink he is become our Table in the midst of our Persecutors our Cup doth overflow when we are in close Prisons Christ is with us who cannot be exposed from us by the Wrath of Wicked men when we are brought out of Prison and had before the Rulers then Christ goeth along with us and teacheth us what to say He is a Mouth and Wisdom and Utterance we take no care what to do when we are sent back again to Prison from the Rulers if it be into a nasty Hole or Dungeon our Saviour goeth with us and he teacheth us Patience and Meekness and poureth upon our Head and Hearts his holy Oyle which maketh us sing for joy of heart that he hath counted us worthy to Suffer for his name So my Friends if they fight against us they fight against God for God is with us and it is his Cause we stand for and Suffer in Goods Body and Spirit And therefore seeing it is so weighty a thing that we lye at stake for we value not what Men or Devils Spirits or Angels can do unto us for our Hearts and Spirits are firmly fixed upon the Lord and his Cause and for Meeting together as long as we are moved of the Lord the which will be I hope as long as we have breath Oh all you my Friends who are young and tender and all you who are looking abroad to see what will become of us and cannot joyn with us because of Persecution have a care I warn you in the Presence of the dreadful God stand not in that slippery place least the day of Mercy pass over whilst you stand gazing and Repentance be hid from your Eyes then would you give the whole World if you had it for one hour to repent it but then it will be too late Therefore I beseech you not to look at us but to mind your own Salvation and what the Lord saith unto you by his witness in you for every one in the day of God's account shall answer for himself and receive a reward according to their Works the Lord is no respecter of Persons the King as well as the Beggar shall know the stroak of God's hand when the Book of Conscience is opened wherein their Sins are written as with the point of a Diamond and I know that there is nothing can blot them out but the blood of the Lamb and therefore do we utterly deny and abhor any Pardons from the Bishops for I know they cannot pardon themselves nor keep their own Soul alive our confidence is in God who hath tryed our Reins and searched our Hearts by his living Power Glory everlastingly be given unto the higher Power to whom our Souls are subject and in whom we live and shall do world without end Oh Zions King thy Beauty bright Hath fill'd our Hearts with great delight Thy City pure our Eye doth see In which alone dwells Purity Oh! rejoyce ye Saints of Zion all For God hath sav'd you from the Fall It 's no matter if our Bodies dye Our Souls shall live Eternally With God who ruleth in the Heavens High A City pure God hath prepar'd for us When our Enemies hath laid us in the Dust Thy Day and Beauty doth declare An open war with Sin and Sinner Who doth thy Name defame O Lord unto thy Glorious name all knees shall bow Of things in Heaven and things below Thy Seed Royal that Glorious plant Which thou into the World hath sent A Light is content with Punishment From Sinners Hands who like Iron Bands Against thy own Seed stands Their Hearts is bent with full consent thy seed to rent O Lord thy Seed to Heaven doth cry for Delivery In this Day of Perplexity Thou righteous Judge thy suffering Lambs in Prisons lie Until they die for thy Testimony Which shall remain when all is slain Which doth increase our Joy and Peace Oh! blessed be the day our Sins were washt away And we set free to follow thee From the Gulf of Misery who art a God of Purity O Lord we will serve thee whilst we have breath For thou art Judge of Heaven and Earth Honour and Glory is thine alone And be it rendered to thee for evermore FINIS

have beheld the Sufferings of my People notwithstanding the noble and worthy Acts that have been done by my People in thee how hast thou Bruised Beaten and Knocked down Killed and Spilt the blood of my innocent Lambs and haled them into thy nasty Prisons until they die Oh! the blood of the innocent is found in thee which cryeth aloud for Vengeance unto my Throne Drunkenness Whoredom and Gluttony and all manner of Ungodliness Tyranny and Oppression is found in thee Thy Priests Preach for hire and thy People love to have it so Rioting and ungodly meetings Stage-Playes Ballad Singing Cards and Dice and all manner of Folly not in corners only but in the high places of thy streets wicked works actions are not punished by thee and hundreds may meet together to commit folly and take the name of the pure God in vain and cause his soul to mourn and abuse themselves with his Creatures until they can neither go nor hardly speak Taverns and Ale-houses are frequented day and night and are seldom disturbed by the Magistrates or sent to Prison or Bruised or Knocked down but they that are Innocent and cannot lift up a hand or bear Arms for or against any man and have no evil or hard thought in their Hearts against any one neither do they speak evil of things they know not or contemn Magistracy but reprove Sin in the Gate and ungodliness in the Streets and so have made themselves a Prey these are they that are Punished by thee and whose Sufferings are deeper than any People upon the Earth besides Oh London the sins of the old world is found in thee art thou guilty or not guilty for thy time draweth near wherein thou must give an account unto me who am a dreadful and most terrible Judge unto that Spirit which leadeth thee into Persecution Oh! thou art grown numerous and very great thy beam reacheth unto Heaven and thy Glory unto the end of the Earth and thou hast Crowned thy self with Dignity and hast built thy Nest among the Stars and sitteth as a Queen thou hast made thy self strong and hast said in thy Heart Thou shalt not see Sorrow thou seest no Scarcity within thy Gates but Fulness within thy Pallaces But know this as from the Lord thou bloody City thou shall know his terrible stroak who is God Almighty He will plead with thee as in the Valley of Jehosaphat even with the Fire of his Wrath and the glittering Sword of his Spirit Oh! thou famous and beautiful Harlot who art beautified with the Glory of Egypt thou hast played the Whore with many Lovers Oh! thy Bed is defiled and thou hast forgotten thy Creator which maketh my Soul to mourn thy strength shall become weakness and thy Glory shall perish thy beauty shall be turned into ashes and thy honour shall become contemptable because thou art covered with a dark Cloud of Sin and Transgression and so cannot behold the Lord Envy hath misled thy mind which hath caused thee to Imprison his Messengers not only them of thy own City but Strangers who hath forsaken all to visit thee in Bowels of Everlasting Love and thus hast thou rewarded them which is contrary to Christ's Command which is to love Strangers In the Dayes of Old they received Strangers and washed their Feet and gave them to eat and to drink but thou briusest and knockest them down and keepest them in Prison from their Families and hast said The Parish will look after them Oh thou merciless City dost thou think to obtain Mercy from the Lord How many Families hast thou seperated the Wife from the Husband and the Husband from the Wife and the Mother from her Children and the Servant from the Master not suffering them to see each other for a time The Lord hath said Cursed is He that separateth a man from his Wife and dust not thou bring that Curse and many more upon thy head we have been found in no Plots nor Risings but have seeked the good of all Souls and the Prosperity of all Nations in Olivers Dayes and ever since we have been gathered out of the Worships and Vanities of this City and could not Bow unto Hammon we have been a suffering People and nothing could be found against us but concerning the Worship of our God which must disanul all unjust Laws made by Man The Medes and Persians had nothing against Daniel but concerning his Faith and I know Daniels Spirit liveth amongst us Therefore consider what thou art doing for in vain dost thou set up Briers and Thornes in Battle against the terrible God for by the brightness of his Coming shall they be burnt up for assuredly the Lord will arise mightily for his Seeds sake for as a Lyon roused up is he come who is the munition of Rocks and as a she Bear bereaved of her young Ones will he roar and disquiet all thy Inhabitants Oh London God hath a remnant in thee which he hath marked for his own which shall escape the Wrath that is to come Glory Glory Songs of Everlasting Praises be rendered unto the living God who hath not left himself without a witness in thee Oh London If thou wouldst return saith the Lord Almighty I will heal thy Back-slidings and forgive thee all thy Sins I will withdraw my bitter Cup which I have filled full of my Indignation and I will cover thee with my Garment of Everlasting Love and I will be married unto thee even as a young Man marrieth a Virgin never to be seperated I looked down from the Throne of my Glory and I saw thy distressed Condition thou art as a Sheep without a Shepherd as upon the Mountains of Prey and art scattered hither and thither amongst the Clouds of Religions thou knowest not which way to turn thou art like the Dove thou canst find no rest nor footing for the soal of thy foot thou art liable to be torn by the Woolfs and devoured by the Lyons thy TeachErs are removed into corners And thou art disposessed of thy wonted Houses and Service Therefore saith the Lord do I pitty thy ConDition and if thou wilt hearken unto me who am near thee in thy Heart and in thy mouth at thy down lying I am with thee and in the night season I visit thee and at thy uprising I call thee to repentance how many years have I born with thee as I did with the old World but my Patience came to an end and my Wrath waxed hot and so it will against thee if thou wilt not hear my beloved Son which I have sent a Light into the World and if thou wilt learn of the Light which shines in thy Heart then thou wilt be on heaps no more neither will thy Teachers and Worships and Church be any more removed into Corners but thou wilt be built upon Christ the Pillar and Ground of Truth who is the Church of the First-born then wilt thou have Fellowship with the Lord and thy-Glory