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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

persons and his minde that lusteth and goeth forth from the pure in this conscience there the spirit is erred into the earth and for the earth as Balaams was then that minde speaks evil of the truth And this Law is made already which is the Law of God need not be made again but all are to wait to receive it which is perfect and is a ground against all unrighteousness and Sinners where it is received it is understood what it takes hold upon which was added because of Transgressors not for the Righteous but it preserves the Righteous and gives way for the Truth it meddles not with the Righteous as laying any thing upon them for it doth not respect any mans Person it takes hold upon all who act contrary to that in the Conscience it doth not meddle with that in the Conscience which is pure which is perfect that is its own and that saith the Law is holy just and good in its place but it is for them which are without and it doth not speak evill of the Magistrates which are in this Law and have received it which is perfect but of the Evil the Law judgeth which is perfect but it exalts justice and dominion Dominion which is according to the Soul and that in the Conscience it is for the keeping them who act contrary to that in the Conscience in order a limit to the Lust for it sayth Thou shalt not Lust for who act contrary to that in the Conscience run out of Order that there shall be none that abuse themselves with mankinde no Fighter and how full is the Land of them nor no respecters of Persons and all who acts according to this in the Conscience that in the Conscience is but one in it there is no damnable Heresie nor no Blasphemy nor no licencious practises for they arise out of that nature that acts contrary to that in the Conscience without the fear of the Lord and that speaks evill of Magistrates and Magistracy and destroyes the Common-wealth for this in the Conscience guids into the fear of the Lord. Now you not having received this perfect Law but makeing Lawes in your wils and mindes contrary to this in the Conscience and above this in the Conscience who acts according to that in the Conscience cannot submit to them for those Lawes are changable but this is for ever which was added because of Transgressors and takes hold upon the Sinners and Transgressors outward to the hewing down of such But you that go to make Lawes in your wils against the Righteous and meddle with the Righteous and them that act according to that in the Conscience which is according to the Law of God which is perfect and for ever the Law of God will hew you all down which is for ever as it has done many generacions before you and the righteous Seed suffered in all generacions by such Lawes therefore to that in your Consciences I speak to wait upon the Lord that you may receive the Law of God which is pure which is just which is perfect according to that in the Conscience for there is Woes and Plauges gone out against this Nacion lest you be swept away with the seed of evill doers and in the way as your Fathers who have transgressed the pure Law and that in the Conscience and stroven with the Law which is in the will to keep down that in the Conscience for there At the second Session of Parliament in the ●irst year of Mary Chap. ● has been a Law an Act made which Act did the Martyrs suffer by in Queen Maryes dayes who was the maintainer of Popery this has the English Ministry who profess the Ministry of Christ got to limit the Spirit of the Lord to keep them in their Pulpits and it has been their Guard and they cry against Popery and themselves maintain the Popish Law to prison and to persecute them that have the Life of the Scriptures made manifest in them Oh never profess Christ and guard your Church and Ministry as you call it with a Popish Antichristian Law let this never be mencioned in Ages to come as it is mencioned in this Age how many have suffred by her Law and suffers now and yet you cry up the Gospel and cry against such as act according to that in the Conscience but this is a shame to those who have received the Gospel of Christ and walk in the Spirit that gave forth the Scripture and have the pure Law of God whereby many have been imprisoned and are Prisoned Now consider and see your selves if you have not made and maintained this Act against the Scripture when the Scripture sayth If any thing be revealed to another that sits by let the first hold his Peace for yee may all speak one by one and the Teachers of the World put up Peticions to you against them who have been moved of the Lord to speak his word so here Teachers and you who be in Authority you both act against Scripture your Law it is against the Scripture and their Teaching is against the Scripture and so its just with God to hew you all down together for the Minister of God sayd You may all Prophesy one by one if any thing be revealed to him that sits by let the first hold his Peace and Moses gave that Liberty who had received the Law from God and that was in all the Churches of the Saints that they might speak one by one Now here you that make a Law contrary to that in the Conscience and you that put up Peticions for a Law have cleared your selves both makers of the Law and seekers for the Law not to have the Spirit of Moses and his Lawes which are perfect and not to have the Spirit of the Minister of God of Paul who gave that Freedom that all may speak one by one and here yee do limit the Holy One and the Spirit of the Lord God and so ty People up in Forms and Sects and bring up damnable Heresies and Blasphemies who bring People contrary to that in the Conscience for that is but one in ten-thousand and is according to the Law of God which is perfect and the Law of God takes not hold upon that A warning to you all and be warned and fear God Now in the Church of God where they spoke one by one there was no disorder nor distraction where all were guided by one Spirit the Law has nothing to do with the Church of God that is the Pillar and Ground of Truth and they are in Peace and Unity and the Law was never made for such Christ is the Head of the Church the Head of the Body who is the end of the Law and therefore silence all Flesh who would make a Law upon Christ from making Lawes for the Church of Christ The perfect Law of God takes hold upon such who are Murtherers who act unrighteousness them that abuse