Rule in and over them the mouth of the Lord off Hosts hath spoken it unto me O Remember remember therefore all ye Sons and Daughters of men yee that drink Wine in Boules and go on in your forgetfullness of God and his mercies you that sport your selves in your ovvn lusts yee in the lust of your mindes the lust of the Eye and the pride of life vvhich is the flesh the World and the divell I say remember that Tophat vvas prepared of old for such yee for the Rebellious and disobedient though they were never so mighty and great and novv learn to knovv that God the Lord of Hosts is no respector of Persons and for Bishops that are not as the Bishops spoken off in the Scriptures of truth vvere They are a loathing and an abomination unto God for such God hath allready spevved out of his mouth and so vvill he do again And for all you that are novv in prosperitie take heed least that glory you novv have be stayned againe by your slaying more of Gods poor Babes and Lambs and Sheepe of our Fathers pasture O that ever fulness of bread and plenty should cause great men so to forget God and that ever Gods goodness and mercie should so puffe up men as it hath novv in this generation done many vvho not long agoe had scarce Bread to eat or Garments to put on Verily friends vvhosoever you be that vvill not turn to the light and living God but vvill goe on in your fins ' abyde in your filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit God vvill judge you and at last destroy you Youridols Temples cannot nor shall 〈◊〉 you the decree of God is gon forth and sealed against such as vvorship idols and vvill not turn unto him And for you that vvill and doe but truly turne from the evill of your vvays and come unto God God vvill love and imbrace you in his everlasting armes of kindnes and cover you as vvith a garment and then you shall by little and little see the glory of God in the Land of the living and perhaps you shall as others have done before you see Gods wonders in the deep for so did King David vvho after his great abominations and turning unto God again and so have some others done after there returne unto God their maker insomuch that their whole lives have been lives of hearty sorrow and of everlasting praises And such can never sufficiently nor enough admire God and as David saith in the 107. Psalme so say I. O That the Children of men would but admire God for his vvonderfull works done unto and amongst the Children of men And in the conclusion of that Psalm the writer thereof saith Who so is vvise let them observe these things and they shall see the loving kindness of the Lord And so say I though they be Kings And when God shall raise up such a King to beare rule amongst any people let it be where it will the Lord God of heaven and earth will bless and prosper such a one while he shall faithfully continue and abide in God and then all his works and undertakeings for God on Earth shall prosper and such a King shall be blessed for ever and ever And then none can nor shall make such a one affraid for if he doth well who then shall harm him but if he doth evill while he so doth sin will continue and lie at his doore yee at Kings doors as well as at others For such as wee sovve such usually do we reap yee some times double and what measure men meet it is usualy measured unto them again Therefore leave off all your Idoll-Gods for shame all ye Kings and pretended Christians leave of say I all you High priests your superstitions Cerimonies Surplisces Pipes singing-boyes and sursingles for they are all a loathing and an abomination unto God plaine down right Popery against which the vvitness of God is gone forth And now take heed I pray and beseech all you Kings Priests and People of the Earth for the Lord sake of praying or finging out of the Spirit of God for that is but a deceiving of your selves and others that is a mocking of God and whither you see it or believe it or no it is so and where you will hear or forbear it is all a case for Gods word and witness is true and it will in his owne time prove so and you the powers of the Farth shall assuredly know and feel it so to be And for you that scoffe at the light you Ignorantly or knowingly scoffe at that vvhich you live move by for by the light all men have their moving living and being even while they dvvell in darkness and in the shadovv of death do doe the deceivers vvork upon the Earth for light hath shined in darknes but the darknes comprehendeth it not Take heed therefore and bevvare of Gods heavie judgments all you that laugh and scoffe at Gods people that vvalk in God are turned to the light and at their praying in the Spirit or by the spirit for such their have been and novv are that have been and are vvhole days in the Spirit yee and nights too vvhom the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath heard and ansvvered And though you the povvers of the Earth should combine altogether and make never so many decrees against such a praying People as Daniel the Prophet c. vvas yet they vvill vvhile they have life pray as Daniel did and some such do certainly knovv that God vvill at last break all your cords in sunder and in the mean time preserve them And novv vvhile you the povvers of the Earth doe make such lavvs and decrees against Gods praying Spirit in man the mouth of the Lord of Hosts vvill be against you I say in God that God hath determined that his People must and shall pray unto him in the Spirit yee and vvorship him in the Spirit and honour him and all men in the Spirit for God himselfe is head over all yee over all principallities and povvers and Spirituall vvickedness in high places and thus God hath and vvill rebuke Kings for his ovvn and Peoples sake the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it And novv the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in him our Father hath required commanded and in abled us 〈…〉 to pray against Spiritual vvickedness in high places and for all them that are in Authority over us that so under them vve may live a godly and peaceable life vvhich vvee the People of God doe and shall doe Farther I am sure that God hath novv made some of his People vvatchmen in Israel vvhom he hath commanded and required to give him no rest untill he hath made Ierusalem the praise of the vvhole Earth And this the Lord our righteousness who is life light povver and glory hath raysed up Prophets and children unto himselfe to pray unto him in the spirit
one Jot or tittle of these things shall faile for such hath the Lord God Almighty raysed upin the midest of you in these latter dayes that have told you fore told you from God vvhat vvould come and vvhat is coming amongst you and upon you and out of the mouthes of babes and sucklings vvill God perfect his prayes for through such hath the Lord God Almighty often spoken to the former Powers Priests and People of England c. As vvell as unto you And unto you the Powers Priests People of Eng. that now are hath God spoken these things that are come and coming upon you and vvhilst Gods judgements are upon the earth the inhabitants thereof should and ought to learn righteousnesse for the Lord God hath sent you in this ages as vvell as them in other ages many vvarnings by his servants the Prophets though you the Priests Powers and People of the Earth have not heeded them as you ought to do mark that as vvell as vvhat follovveth For novv the Father of faithfullnesse God hath made and is making good his vvord spoken by his Prophets of Old to vvit that old Men should dreame dreames also that young men should see visions and that God vvould in the latter dayes povver forth his Spirit aboundantly upon his Sonnes and Daughters and inable both Sons and hand-Mayds to Prophesic speak and vvrite also that some in seeing should not see and in hearing they should not understand as God the Father of faithfullnes hath spoken so hath he made good his word spoken in all ages and as God did of old speak in unto his servants the Prophets even so hath did he speak in tome at sundry places and at several times in this latter age in these particulers to wit in speaking to in foreshewing me the dovvnfall of the old King of England Charles the First and many great ones more the Rice and Fall of the Cromwels the ruine of the Parliament and Army telling them hovv often God vvould have gathered them to himself even as a Henn gathereth her chickings but they vvould not Novv marke and see vvhat follovved thereupon nothing say I but destruction And as the High-Priests Seribes and Pharises did even so have some latly done in England I say they have given up the innocent People of God into the hands of Rulers and rude People to be hardly dealt vvith all Such vvere they that Crucified and killed Christ as had joyned them selves unto idols and vvere vvedded there unto and resolved they vvere to goe on in there idolletry and vvill vvorship untill God came dovvne vvith his severe judgments upon them And though the vvicked may doe vvickedly for a vvhile in labouring to keepe the ignorant and simple People in sin superstition and idolletry ye and in blindness and darkness c. Yet knovv that God vvill not allvvays be so mocked Therefore frends take heed all you that drive on so Iehu-like in persecuting the People and Children of God for it vvas once vvritten from the Spirit of the holy God that the Rod of the vvicked should not all vvayes rest upon the back of the righteous mark that For vvhosoever they be that have yet in this latter age gone about to Lord it over Gods heritage and thereupon have persecuted and smitten the Babes Lambs and little ones Children of Light and they that have thereby had thoughts to vveary out the Saints and children of the most High God they have hither to been broken and have broken one another to pieces and many of them that so did are allready ground to povvder O vvicked Generation of vipers that have in all ages thus risen up against God and his povver life light and truth made manifest in Gods people have you not been often vvarned to fly from the vvrath to come by the Prophets and have you not been desired to decist from your bloody and cruel intentions and from the evill of your vvays in killing and Crucifiing the Lord of life light and glory a fresh and of puting him to open shame againe and againe in his People and have you not been warned to fly from such abominations as these and to seek reconciliation with God and Man yee with God and good men while you have a day and time and not to destroy such as feare the Lord but it seems you will not stay your hearts in God nor restrain your hands from blood cruelty perfecution and so forth But you will fight against the witness of God in your selves and others and so forget the sure mercies of David untill the judgments of the Lord God almighty overtake you againe Friends have not you the Backsliders in heart every where been the greatest persecutors you that of old promised better things then these and have not you the Backsliders in heart been filled with your own ways and have you not often times been confused as it were confounded with the wicked devices of your own hearts in almost every thing and have you in these last 20 years Revolutions learned no more no better things then these have your persecutions and suffrings taught yōu no more good yet what think you vvill become of you vvhile you are thus found fighters against God and the mercies that you have had vvhat vvil become of you that think to eat up Gods children like Bread and to scatter drive his flock upon the Mountains by your vvolfuish actions tovvards them as if they vvere not creatures of Gods ovvn making or your fellow creatures Give over your persecution in time I pray you least at last you dig a pit and be buried therein your selves And novv O Lord passe by the innocent blood that hath been allready spilt in poor Ireland England and Scotland O hovv did the bloody Papists at the first Rip up the poore Protestant Women great vvith child in many places in poore Ireland and all from the instigation of sathan and the Blood-sucking Priests vvho pretended for a moderate Episcopal Clergy there such vvere they that had a hand in that Bloody Massacre at the beginning of the late Warre in that place and in Englands former and latter Martyrdoms Be novv therefore convinced of your sins in time and learn to knovv that God 〈◊〉 have the hearts of Kings as vvell as Rulers and People in his ovvn hands Therefore O Lord of Hosts turne the hearts of Kings as well Rulers and People if it be thy vvill that so they may in time come and stoop unto they Septer for all the powers on Earth must come and bring their glory and honour unto God or else they vvill Perish For ever and ever For novv the hand of the Lord God Almighty is stretched forth over all and none can hinder God from makeing good his ovvne decree revealed sealed unto mee vvhich in the General is that he will breake all the Kingdoms and People of the Earth in pieces that vvill not have Christ to
write a few lines unto you And to the whole Israel of God and though I have a long time forborne it and have as it were strugled against it yet my life and love is with you and amongst you all the world over and in the Eternall light and love of God do I dearly salute you all Friends your lives in God are a joy and refreshing unto me even in the midest of all that unhumane and unceasonable dealings that you do And vvee may yet farther meet vvith all in this present evill earthly vvorld from cruel marciles and unreasonable men vvho have no mercy Therefore O Lord God everlasting keep us thy babes and lambs and preserve us pure that so our offrings unto thee may be as they are vvhen thou callest for them a continual svveet savour for in thy life do vve live and in it is our unity O Lord our all is offred up unto thee Thou art our Saviour Redeemer and deliverer vve are thy people and heritage plead thou therefore O Lord thine ovvn cause vvhich thou hast ingaged us in vve must die And because thou livest doe vvee therefore live vvith and in thee and so shall vvee do novv and for ever and ever vvorld vvithout end And novv vvhile vve are here do cary about in us a body of clay let us in the life light povver and strength of God be ever doing our Fathers vvill and as much good on earth as vve can All flesh is as grass and fadeth avvay our strength is to sit still God is vvith us and in us of a truth and he vvill deliver us I am sure Look not out therefore any of you O my dear friends brethren and sisters But sinke dovvn sinke dovvn into the depth of the Lord God of life and therein stand stedfast and plead in and vvith him for as God hath so vvill he asuredly here and ansvver his people and deliver us and confound our enemies as he did of Old For the Prayers Sighs Grones Suplications Cries Tears and oppressions of the poor and innocent have ofttengon up unto the Almighty and they do dayly reach to heaven and God is come and coming down to deliver us his people and to save us in the midest of all our tribulations God is risen to plead our cause Be therefore valiant in the Lord strong and of a good couradge so fare yee well yours in truth Emmanuel Israeliete Friends and Brethren this inclosed have laine some part of it as a thing lost buried hid for some time as you may see but it is now come to lightagaine And is sent unto you Therefore do with it O Lord God of hosts as seemeth good in thine own eyes thy seerets O Lord of Hosts God of Life are with them that feare thee and thy wisdom is given unto thy chosen ones to direct them the Spirit of the Almighty is free in his people that walk and abyde in his light to counsell guide lead teach and direct them in all their wayes and undertakings for God and as you find freedom in the Eternall Spirit so let this be done with all Either to imbrace it or not Friends I'am and shall be in the Lord a fellow feeler and sympathizer with you in what so ever you do and suffer for the Lord for in God alone is our victory over all in which victory let us stand triumph and rejoyce and there in shall we trample on and tread under foot our greatest Enemies yee Sathan the Father of them all And as it is written so shall it be the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death and vvhen our vvorke is done vvee must goe from hence and vvee shall be changed but not dye and that in a moment and twinckling of an Eye And in the unchangable God dearely beloved Brethren doe I dearly salute you and remain your friend and Brother in the unity of the eternall Spirit and life of God vvhere I shall for ever be and remaine your Friend yee and a Friend to publicans and sinners poscript Friends Golden snares and bayts are laid and laying for you to lift you up out of the deapth Holiness and vvisdom of the most high even vvhile the flesh and the lusts therein doe fortifie and fit it selfe for your bodily destruction Abyde still therefore in the dominion of God and he vvill not only give you to see vvhat is a doing on earth against you but vvhat he is also a doing in heaven for your preservation and deliverance vvhich is and must be in God over all That being unto God a dayly delight and a joy for God in us is and vvill be unto them that love us not a burthensome stone that vvill fall upon our enemies and breake them in peices and grind them to povvder vvithout our using of any Carnall vveapons O live therefore the life that 's everlasting and abyde in it for therein shall you Raign over all that is evil for ever and ever And novv let none make us affraid for vvhen any do let in fear that bringeth the righteous into snares Be therefore terrifyed in nothing for you are Gods and God is yours to his everlasting praise doe I speake it and rest Your Friend Emmanuel Israelite A Letter for the persecuted Church in God and for the tribulated flock of Christ where soever they bee and for the mourners amongst them O Sonnes and Daughters of Sion lift up your hearts heads and hands unto the holy Lord God Almighty and in his pure and everlasting life light power and strength crie aloud day and night unto the most high for the holy and righteous God is Jealous of his name in you and blessed are all they that are not offended in him and are not at ease in Sion while there are any mourners therein And if it be so with any of you as I know and believeit is that many of you are already entred into your rest as God is entred into his rest then shall your worke and Labour of love in the Lord not be in vaine but it will be taken notice of and accepted of by the Lord and then shall you be more and oftener in the service of the living God then ever as I hope and believe you will be and you that can for get not the Angell Gabriel whose work and service is not unknowne Oh watchmen watchmen what of the night le ts give our God no rest untill he hath brought up all the mourners in Sion unto a continuall rejoycing in the one eternall and everlasting unity where there is nothing but the unutterable Ioys of heaven and that in the closest hardest and most dificult service for the living God that is Oh my Friends the battell is ours all ready onely our Father is will and must be supream head and Governour And therefore he will be sought unto night and day by the house of Israel and by every individuall member therein watch therefore in God and in