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A voice out of Sion unto all the inhabitants of the earth with a few words of the dealings of God in love with England whose visitation in mercy draws to an end : also a warning unto all the inhabitants of Babylon that they may haste and flee out of her because her judgment is nigh ... / by Robert Falkner.
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Falkner, Robert, d. 1675.
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Wing F328; ESTC R37770
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A Voice out of Sion UNTO ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH WITH A few Words of the Dealings of GOD in Love with ENGLAND whose Visitation in Mercy draws near to an End ALSO A WARNING unto all the Inhabitants of BABYLON that they may haste and flee out of her because her Judgment is nigh yea unto all that live in Wickedness Sin and Uncleanness For the Wicked must be turned into Hell and all that forget God By ROBERT FALKNER LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. A VOICE out of ZION unto all the Inhabitants of the Earth With a few Words of the dealings of God in Love with ENGLAND c. HEar O Earth and give ear ye the Inhabitants thereof for the Lord hath spoken yea the mighty God hath uttered his terrible Voice saying I will arise I will arise and shake terribly the Earth that the Pillars thereof standing shall fall and never more to be raised again yea the lofty and tall Cedars shall bend and the sturdy Oaks shall bow and the Rocks shall melt before my Appearance and the Mountains shall be removed and the little Hills shall tremble and flee away from my Presence for behold I have taken to me my great Power and I will reign in Righteousness and govern with Equity and I will exalt my own Name and establish my Throne for ever and I will raise up the Tabernacle of David and exalt the Mount of mine own House above every Mountain and the little Stone which I have cut out of the Mountain without hands shall fall at the feet of all Images and shall beat them to pieces even as when a Potters vessel is broken that there remains not a sheard to take fire from the hearth and therefore fear fear quake and tremble ye Potsheards of the Earth that are taking counsel against the Lord and his Anointed for wo unto you that are decreeing unrighteous Decrees Oh ye Judges and Rulers of the Earth who have judged for gifts and rewards which have blinded your eyes and have ruled for your selves and not for God Behold the Lord hath a Controversie with you yea with the whole Earth with whom he will plead in his not displeasure Oh England England I am in pain and anguish of spirit for thee above all Nations of the Earth because thou hast been a professing Nation a Nation professing Christianity in the highest measure above all the Nations of the Earth and now to see desolation coming upon thee it hath filled my heart with sorrow and this is the cry of my soul O that my head were a well of waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might stream and gush forth as the great Ocean that all within her borders might be washed from their corruption and appear before the Lord in white garments but thus saith the Lord Rest thou in peace for behold I have opened my own Fountain and I have called I have called even unto thee O England saying Wash thee wash thee make thee clean put away the evil of thy doings for it is my delight to establish thee as a Queen amongst the Nations but she hardned her heart and stifned her neck though I called unto her by my Light and Spirit in her but yet being unwilling that she should become a desolation and a hissing to all Nations I manifested my self further and raised up some in the midst of her to bear a Testimony against her and with these Instruments did I mighty Acts and brought the Mighty from their seat and corrected and chastised them in my Love that all the Earth might know that I had a Love unto her and unto those Instruments I gave full power to subdue all Oppression Cruelty and Wrong but Oh they abused my Power after I had done so wonderfully by them and for them and it was my purpose to have established them if they would have feared my Name and obeyed my Voice and performed their Engagements which they made with me in their low estate but they waxed fat and kicked against me and forgot all their Promises which they made unto me and did not the thing which I required of them then I raised up my Servants to put them in mind of their Promises and Engagements which they made with me before the People which were To ease the Land of all Oppression Cruelty and Wrong but they would not hear Then I sent my Servants again and again saying Repent of this your Transgression and do the thing which is just or the Lord will bring you down and destroy your Powers and lay your Honour in the dust This was often told them in Love that all the Earth might know that I am a God that delights in Mercy for I sent my Servants rising up early and sitting up late but they would have none of my Counsel and my righteous Law they cast behind their backs and hardned their hearts and stifned their necks and grow as bad or worse than they that went before them and thus they grieved my good Spirit and wearied out my patience until my long-suffering came to an end And seeing they would not take counsel of me saith the Lord I gave them up to the counsel of their own hearts lusts by which they wrought their own destruction Therefore let the Earth know that I am a God that delights in Mercy and yet my Judgments are all just and yet I am calling to thy Inhabitants O England saying Do justly love Mercy and walk humbly with thy God And I have sent my Servants yet again and again with their lives in their hands crying in thy Streets and testifying unto thee that there is no Salvation no Redemption no Sanctification nor no Justification but in Christ Jesus and in him is that Fountain in which thou mightst have washed thy self from all thy pollution He is the Light of the World and he hath enlightned every man that cometh into the world O ye Inhabitants of England had you believed in this Light then you would have known the Fountain which in thy own bowels would have gushed forth as a River of Life to cleanse thee from all thy corruption But O England England thus faith the Lord Thou hast disregarded my Love thou hast forsaken me the living Fountain and hast digged unto thy self broken Cisterns that will hold no water and thou hast run up and down to change thy wayes and hast not regarded the needful thing Oh how shamefully hast thou entreated those my Messengers of this my Covenant of Light Life how hast thou stocked them and stoned them whipped them and beaten them spoiled their Goods and cast their Bodies into Prison and hast threatned to take away their Lives or rid them out of the Land O Nation be it known unto thee for thus saith the Lord God Had it not been for my Childrens Prayers and Supplications to me for thee O Land I had made an utter desolation of thee ere this day but for their