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A66866	The unlimited God, not limited by any of the children of light, but by them who are in the darkness and straitness, such would be limiting the unlimited God from the Spirit of the Lord is this given forth, that all such may read with the eye which is not busie, nor looks into things above its reach : from one who becomes all to all, to gain some to Christ ... : also, a warning, and a charge from the Lord God, to all the Baptists teachers every where ... : also, a true discovery of the way to the kingdome within ... / given forth from the Spirit of the Lord, in Humphry Wollrich ...	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3303; ESTC R39138	18,663	24

read 2 Peter 3.15 Ezek. 33.10 to 20. That God desireth not the destruction or the death of him which is destroyed but had rather they would own his light which is Christ his power and strength and would and doth give power over all sin yea even power to become the Sons of God which sin not And this I declare to you all is not of man nor mans righteousness which is as filthy rags yet it is in man and there fulfils the righteousness of the Law now in the Saints as ever he did Rom. 8.4 that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit v. 14. for as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God mark the wise Professors Prayers and such as say ye observe the Ordinances and use the means and say you cannot be perfect in this life but say ye are justified by Christs righteousness which suffered at Jerusalem beyond the Sea vers 4. that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us Consider this you that would make Christ a cover for your sins as all doe who know not Christ in them the hope of glory Therefore call not us deceivers any longer but see how Satan is exalted in you and ye your selves are deceived which are in your sins and beguiled and cast the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus which all that are in sin not and this is true Justification for any to be in Christ where old things and sin is done away for which man is condemned and unto which the Law was and is added and abides in force while men are in their sins though in that state which is woful and for condemnation You will say you are not under the Law but under Grace therefore count not this deceit any longer as you have formerly done but consider what have ye to be deceived of seeing ye are in your sins and have lost the elect which cannot be deceived and the Apostles did not write to such as you are but to the Saints that were in Christ Jesus and had something more then you have who are in your sins to be deceived of Therefore all come down unto Christ the light of the world which lighteth every man that cometh into the world which is the eye and ye shall see all your prayers righteousnesses Means and Ordinances which you use to get Christ is all one in the sight of God with your swearing lying and drunkenness read Isai 66. v. 2. to 5. Hearken unto this ye proud Professors but trembles not at the Word of the Lord He that killeth an Oxe as if he slew a man he that sacrificeth a lamb as if he cut off a dogs neck he that offereth an oblation as if he offered swines blood he that burneth Incense as if he blessed an Idol Consider the ground and reason of this ye that say ye cannot be perfect and holy in this life whether ye are not in your own wayes and whether ye have not chosen your own wayes and your souls delighted in that which is abomination unto Christ who is the way the truth the life and he that is in it sinneth not what ever you may say who are in your own inventions and righteousnesse but are far off from the righteousnesse which is near to be revealed in the heart as all are who say Revelations are ceased for I declare to you all from my own experience not from the Letter but from the Spirit and Power of the Lord that I never heard the Voice nor knew the things of God from the Letter but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ for it hath pleased the Father to reveal his Son in me who is the light in which light I see light and the Father revealed who is the fountain thereof and broken Cisterns and corrupt Fountains are all drinking out of and feeding upon the wind and windy doctrine and vain hopes and eating that which dieth of it self and doth not satisfie and are all blind and dead in their sins are all they which saith that Revelation are ceased And this is a general cry with Priests and Professors who are gone in the way of Balaam and abides not in the Doctrine of Christ which should reveal the Father and of all Sects and Opinions whatsoever they are crying none can hear the Voice of Christ now but in the Letter To you I say who are setting up the Bible to be your Rule instead of the Spirit as the Jewes did who thought to have eternal life in the Scriptures and were painted as ye are with the Saints words being inwardly ravened from the light and spirit of the Lord which doth reveal as ever it did the things of God I say you are not like to hear his voice who are gone from the hearing ear nor to see his shape who are gone from the Light the seeing eye but the Saints and sheep did then hear his Voice and followed him and I witnesse his Voice to be heard now as ever it was and thousands in England besides me though I do confesse you which have the sheeps clothing but are not sheep do not nor cannot hear his Voice no more than the Jewes did who had the same clothing but were inwardly ravened from the Spirit of the Lord. Therefore all that would know God or the things of God must come to the measure of the Spirit in them a measure of which is given to every man to profit withall and this is nigh you in your hearts and as ye finke downe ye shall feele it working rising and operating in you and as ye are still ye shall feele ye spirit of the holy and pure God which hath been imprisoned and held in captivity under Pharaoh and the man of sin which hath been exalted in you above the spirit of God in you so all in this wait which is underneath the power of darkness and shineth in the darkness and out of the darkness shall it arise for he hath long dwelt in thick darkness and round about him hath been Clouds deep Waters I say wait in patience all you that sit in the region and shadow of death and the light shall rise until darknesse be under his feet even those dark mountains where you have been scattered and are scattered and how beautiful shall you witnesse his feet to be upon the Mountains Tongue nor Pen cannot utter even he that publisheth Salvation and saith unto Sion thy King raignes and this is the raigne of Christ and the only raign which the Scripture declares of That all his enemies should be under his feet for he must raign till he have subjected all things to himself even all that which hath captivated the Seed in Egyptian darknesse And then shall come to passe that saying which is written and nor till then Here is the patience of the Saints and here shall you feel the sufferings of Christ that are behinde and here is the time of Tryal and the very day of Jacobs trouble when he that hath led into captivity must go into captivity even as he ascends out of the grave and the pit he receiveth gifts for men but man is not meet to partake of the gift until that nature which would devour be destroyed And I say in bowels of everlasting love whose hearts are but breathing though never so little after the Lord speak not evil of that you know not nor judge nothing before the time until the spirit rise out of prison in you unto whom all judgement is committed and he will judge even he who is the judge of all the earth aright he will not condemn the righteous with the wicked nor slay the righteous with the wicked though man may who is gone from the spirit of truth in himself and knows not that there is a lie in his right hand and so calls good evil and evil good and puts light for darknesse himself being in that darkness and darknesse for light I am grieved for the sons of men at my very heart and greatly am I oppressed therewith and the iniquity of many lieth upon my life and I am pressed therewith as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves And oh how am I greived to see people that call themselves Christians and profess the scripturers to be their rule how contrary thereunto they walke and yet are condemning us for denying the scriptures who are in the life of them And as for your being Christians there is no such thing for you do not at all resemble God whom you say is your Father nor Christ his Son who loveth righteousness and hates iniquity and whose loins are girt with righteousnesse and whose throne is established in holiness and the Scepter of his Kingdom is a right Scepter and his Kingdom is everlasting and in his people and consist in righteousness Power and Glory And not in talke and words which you are in without the power or Joy in the Holy Ghost and yet you are saying you are his brethren but to you all I say who are in vaine words vain thoughts and actions in pleasure frendships and customes of the world which fades away as a flower and withereth as grass all repent and turn to the Light that you may see your sad conditions and from whence and from what are you fallen for he owns you not ye workers of iniquity all your Sacrifices while you commit sin or regard iniquity in your hearts are abomination to the Lord Isai 66.3 And so to you all and in love to your souls I say Come down for your strength is to stand still and to feel a seed in your selves though it be but as a grain of mustard and as you in patience wait low out of every thought reasoning and imagination which vails and clouds this pure seed which I speak of you shall see or feel it arise in you grow and multiply as the stars in the Firmament and as the sands in the Sea shore without number THE END

THE UNLIMITED GOD Not limited by any of the CHILDREN of LIGHT BUT BY Them who are in the Darkness and Straitness such would be limiting the Unlimited God From the Spirit of the Lord is this given forth that all such may Read with the Eye which is not busie nor looks into things above its Reach From one who becomes All to All to gain some to Christ and hath true Freedom in the Lord to go into the Water that I may bring to the Rock and save one out of the Sea which is ready to be Drowned and Lost Also A warning and a Charge from the Lord God to all the Baptists Teachers every where who are Ministers of the Letter and not of the Spirit to cease Teaching or Deceiving any longer Also A true discovery of the way to the Kingdome Within from all the Priests and False Teachers who are crying Loe here and loe there without In the way of Balaam for Filthy lucre sake Mathew 24. which Christ said should come and John said was come and the World went out after them who went out from the Light sixteen Hundred years agoe Given forth from the SPIRIT of the LORD in HVMPHRY WOLLRICH who was not sent to Baptise But to preach the Gospel yet hath Baptised one with Water for the Gospels sake and am not without a Law to God yet am made All things to All to gain some to Christ PSAL. 78.41 They turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel Such have the Form but not the Power but yet would Limit THe Brother-hood is in Christ which is not Divided out of all Division Judging c censuring one another are all that are in him to whom all Judgement is committed To you all this is the word of the Lord God and a Charge from my Father to you all Judge nothing before the Time as all do which Judge with that which is for Judgement who have got the Forme but are out of the Spirit and Spirituall Man which Judgeth all things and though I am but as yesterday in comparison of many who were in Christ before me yet I care not for mans Judgement neither do I judge my own self for that thing for which I am Judged but all you my Friends be sober and cool in your mindes and wait in that which is the Everlasting Day and makes all things manifest and will not be limited by any who are in the Darknesse nor Judged but will Judge and Condemne all who would Judge him and limit him as he in all Ages hath done and he is now the same and all that have a forme but would limit the power shall know it in Gods time and this is laid upon me from the Lord God Almighty to warne all such that they be silent and stop their mouthes before him whose ways is unsearchable and will not be limited now but is unlimited as in all Ages he was and because I have true freedome in the Lord and am not without a law to God herein which is to Baptise one with water though I was not sent to Baptise but to Preach the Gospel as Paul was not sent to Baptise but did Baptise 1 Cor. 1.17 by Permission and not by Commission that he might gain some unto Christ who is the End of all Types Shaddowes and Figures and the Everlasting day into which Paul was come where shaddowes flee away who became all things to all read 1 Cor. 9.19 for though I be free from all men saith Paul I have made my self servant unto all that I might gain the more And unto the Jewes I became as a Jew Mark as a Jew that I might gain the Jewes to them that are under the Law as under the Law Consider where Paul was whether he were not in Christ the end of the law to them that were without law as without law being not without a law to God but to the weak he became as weak Mark Paul the Aged and chiefest of the Apostles I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some and this I do for the Gospels sake as he did that I might be partaker thereof with Joy And though I have born an open Testimony for the Lord God against all them who have been Baptised with Water knew no better a leader guider thereinto than the Letter The sons of God and servants of God who were led into it or shall be led into it by the Spirit of the Lord which spirit will not be limited I never did nor never shall condemne any such as this Woman having given her testimony in publick both before and since I Baptised her with Water that she was led by this Unlimited Spirit and not from the Baptists rule and leader which is the Letter and kills but by the Spirit the Sons leader and gives life and the Children of the light witnesse this her testimony to be true And likewise she hath declared that she was moved of the Lord to desire me only to Baptise her with Water and said The spirit by which the Baptists are led did not convince her nor bring her to the knowledge of the Truth And the Baptist Teacher who would have had her to receive it of some of them said he did believe she was led to it by the Spirit of the Lord yet neither he nor his spirit did she own and this I leave upon all who fear the Lord both small and great to Judge whether it is better to save life or to destroy And I have the Testimony of the Lord in me that this is not against the Truth neither shall it be a just occasion of stumbling to any who are really therein but to such as are in the Dark and are looking and judging with the Evil Eye and have been Disobedient to the Word in their own particulars to such this may be a stumbling stone but all whose mindes are without seeking a proof of Christ in me to you I say Judge your selves turn in and examine your selves know you not that Christ is in ye except ye be Reprobates Receive the word as the Bereans did and then search the Scriptures Acts 16.3 Paul who denied Circumcision which was outward in the Flesh circumcised Timothy that he might gain the Jewes whose mindes were without and bring them to the one Circumcision and one Baptisme in spirit whose praise is not of men but of God Read Acts 21.21 to the 25. where you may read that Holy Paul shaved his Head that he might take away the vail which was over the Jewes and thereby bring them to their true Head Christ the end of the Law and the end of all Vowes and Oathes Acts 18.18 and so that none that feares the Lord may stumble hereat be ye of what Sect or Forme soever be ye faithfull to what ye know I am you Brother and Warne you all and exhort you all Come down into the cool and low

spirit for you and I must stand or fall unto the Lord our own Master and this is safe for us all and we shall be preserved from that which causeth War Striving and falling out by the way And oh how do I desire and the Lord Gods knowes to me it is a Joyfull thing to see Brethren live together in Unity not Biting and Devouring one another not striving and contending about those things which Paul could do or leave undone as he saw occasion ministred unto him by them whom he had a desire to catch by guile all minde your own as I doe herein for that which goes out and leads you out will devour and desile you but if you are staid at home ye shall divide the spoile with him that destroyes that which defiles you Prepare to meet the Lord ye sonnes of Jacob whom the Lord hath chosen for his Peculiar Treasure and none say in your hearts is not Christ the end of all these things which are outward I say he is to all that are in him and sinne not But all are not come to this who are convinced of the Truth and where it is And though they have heard the Lord calling them out of Aegypt yet there is a Baptisme in the Sea and in the Cloud and a great War and mighty Enemies before they come to their Rest and their desired Heaven and though the Light hath shined out of darknesse and there be some separation and a first dayes work done yet is not the new Creation wholly finished nor the Rest wholly known nor fully entred into which remaines to the people of God For he that is set down in the Rest in the Heavenly place in Christ Jesus is ceased from his own workes as God did from his and though the Lord hath rained down his Manna round about your Tents yet the Clouds may return after the rain and while the Figure the Vaile and the Cloud is standing and the first Tabernacle wherein you have long pitched the way into the Holiest of all is not wholly known so while you are Judging or condemning without that which is for Judgement is standing within and he who is the first and the last the beginning and the end of all shadowes Types and figures is yet not dwelt in nor set down in by you but lieth hid within the vaile which vaile is done away in Christ where circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth not any thing but Faith that works by love And we are all the Sons of God by Faith Read Galathians 3.23 But before Faith came we were kept under the Law shut up unto the Faith which should afterwards be revealed Come down into the Deep you that have an Ear to hear or a Heart to understand this the Law is added because of Sinne and is the School-master to bring to Christ who is the end both of Sinne and the Law to which it was added Read and consider Verse 25. But after that Faith is come we are no longer under a School-master but we are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus And as many of you Mark you Baptists as many of you as have been Baptised into Christ have put on Christ the end of all and the body of dayes times and shaddowes But this is not come to you though you have been Baptised with Water for your time is not in the Fathers hand but your tongues is your own and your time is alwayes though Christs time and the Fathers time ye know not and therein ye can pray when ye will and in your own will which is contrary to God ye can speak evil of those things ye know not and ye exercise your selves in things that are too high for you Therefore to you all this is the Word of the Lord God All you Baptist Teachers feed not the people with windy Doctrine or words without the life And I charge you all in the presence of the Lord God which confesse you have never heard his Voice at any time but sayes that God speak not since the days of the Apostles Cease Teaching any longer for his sheep hear his voice and his voice is the same now that it was unto Adam Abraham and Samuel not carnal but spiritual neither was it ever heard with any carnal Ear nor his shape seen with any carnal Eye but ye by your own confessions are Ministers of the letter Therefore I charge you all that I may be clear of your bloud leave murdering for that Kils but speak if the Spirit give you utterance for that giveth life and bringeth the Soul out of Death to hear its Shepherds Voice And do not say we deny the Scriptures or any of the Ordinances of God any more as ye have often done untill you hear us deny them which we shall never do but we owneth the Bible of the Scriptures to be a true Declaration of God and Christ but I say all that own the Scriptures as ye do and set them up in the room of Christ and is there any greater Idolatry in Rome than this to say the Bible is the sword of the Spirit and the Judge of the Spirit when it saith All Judgement is committed to the Sonne and the Spiritual Man judgeth all things And to say the Bible is the Guide Leader and Rule to walk by when it saith That the Sonnes of God were led and guided by the Spirit of God Answer these Queries was Abraham Enoch and Noah and all the Holy men of God before Moses time without a a Leader a Guide or Judge or was any of these without the Word of the Lord seeing they had not the Bible which which ye say is the Rule and Judge for the Saints to walk by and the word of the Lord Whether the Jewes that had the Bible had the Word of the Lord or heard it at any time or whether they did not think to have Eternal life in the Scriptures and so make an Idol of that which is profitable in its place as ye do but were Enemies to the light as ye are and would not come to him for life and whether any by the Scripture can come to the knowledge of Christ seeing they that had them as ye have and were painted with words and had the sheeps clothing but knew not Christ thereby for had they known him they would not have Crucified the Lord of Life and by this and in this which you call the Law and Testimony they were contending against the Law and Testimony as ye are and said by their law he deserved to die And this is the state not onely of you Baptists but of all Sects and Opinions and Religions in Christendome which have set up any other thing soever to be Judge Leader or Teacher or call any other thing the Law or Testimony then the Spirit of Prophesie or the Law which is Light and hath lighted every man that comes into the world And the Eye is blinded in you which

for betraying his Lord as many of this Nations teachers do for money O England that thou wouldest but consider lest this glorious day of Gods everlasting light and love passe over you and the night come when thou canst not work therefore all you prophane ones that seem to be religious but your tongue is yet at liberty and unbridled O what will ye do upon your death beds Where will ye hide your selves when the Judgement begins in the Temple and the songs of the house be turned into howling what will ye do and how will ye give an account for every idle word which ye in your life time have spoken for which ye have been condemned by Gods Witnesse in your Consciences you that live in sinne and not in Christ and cannot cease from sinne it is because they are gone from the power even the light of the world which is the way of righteousnesse in which whosoever walks stumbles not nor sins not the well is neer come down into the deep come to the Rock eat honey and be satisfied and let your souls delight it self in fatnesse love not the world nor the pleasures delights and vanities thereof but love the light which is not of the world for if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him But thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and this is the strait way and a gate too narrow for any lustfull one to walk in the vain talker is not here it is a path too narrow for all them which are speaking of Christ the strait way but themselves their tongues and their hearts at liberty in the flesh And O that you would consider you that spend your dayes in vanity will not this prove bondage and bitternesse in the latter end O that you were wise to lay it to heart That you would consider your latter end the glorious liberty which is not in the flesh nor in the lusts thereof which the servants and Sons of God enjoy whom you are accusing as the worst of men did you but possesse one day surely you would cast away all your lovers and say What have I to do any more with Idols I call you all to partake with me who are afar off and separated from the Lord by sin as I have sometime long been and in that state I was reading and studdying the Scriptures and the vail being over my heart I could not see them for they were a parable to me as now they are to you But now hath the Lord in his unsearchable loving kindnesse which is great towards me and I cannot utter it hath revealed his Sonne in me which makes manifest and reveals the Father yea he hath commanded his light to shine out of darknesse which was vailed over in my heart while I was in darknesse and could not comprehend it therein I say it was his love to me when I was in hatred and enmity against him following the imaginations of my evil heart and being in captivity and bondage to diverse hists and sin was entred and death by sin reigned over the seed to whom all the Promises were the seed is Christ the Son of God and the grace of God and manifestation which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men and did all but obey it not rebel against it or grieve it it would be a sufficient Saviour of it self to every man and this you must all feel working rising and operating in your hearts and in meekness and lowliness of mind must ye receive this ingrafted Word that ye may grow thereby and here is the true growth in grace rather then words or wisedom in purity and power rather then in a painted profession of which there is enough and too much in the world because they are sayers and not doers professing Christ which they possess not And oh how sad is it to hear people saying They hope to be saved by Christ and that they are accepted with God in Christ Jesus and yet this hope doth not purifie them as he is pure and so must needs be but as a Spiders web for sin is a shame for any people but all who comes to know the true hope which is Christ in you the hope of glory it makes not ashamed for it purifies the heart and redeems man both out of sin and shame and what is your faith that leaves you thus in this world and gives you not victory over it is not your faith vain and all vain while Christ is not risen in you you are in your sins and your righteousness is it any better if so good as the Scribes and Pharisees which made clean the out-side but inwardly are full of all abomination therefore come to that and feel the Lords Talent in you and hide it no longer in the earth but improve it to the utmost for that will not be to give an account with joy but grief this talent is the grace and light of Christ which to every man and woman hath appeared and this is not common grace as your Teachers tell you but it is the saving grace and would save every man and would not the death of any man did they but obey it and not always rebel against it therefore hear this all yet rebels even to you I speak which have long grieved and vexed the good Spirit of the Lord with whom he is yet striving be ye never so wicked and vile though your sins be as red as scarlet and though you have deeply corrupted your selves and your spot is not the spot of his children to you I say in the Spirit of the Lord give not sentence against your selves by saying Your wound is incurable yea though you have betrayed and crucified the innocent in you do not say that your punishment is greater then can be born nor your sin greater then can be forgiven for be ye as far off as ever the Prodigal was or as far off as ever I sometime was yet if ye do but say in your heart I have sinned and it profiteth me not I will go and return to my Fathers house against whom I have sinned the father himself will come out to meet you as he did me even I who was disobedient and afar off being led away of divers lusts which ruled in my heart while the God of this world had blinded my eye which should have seen my Saviour and then shewed and smote me for in my Conscience even me hath he gathered off the mountains to himself yea he hath brought me very neer and reconciled to himself by the blood of his Son that I might make known unto you his everlasting kindness in calling sinners to repentance while they are in their sins and that in the mouth of two or three Witnesses this Truth may be confirmed to you all I with Ezekiel and Peter do set to my Seal and bring in my Testimony

should see the Body the life and substance and in darknesse ye are and in your sinnes and in sorrow shall you lie down and your end shall be destruction who are led by any other thing than the light within in whom are found treasures of Wisdome and treasures of Knowledge yea durable Riches and exceeding Righteousnesse which exceedeth all yours which speaketh of Justification by Christ but your selves in your sinnes for there is none comes unto Christ but they come to perfection neither doth any sin at all who abide in him which is perfect and cannot sin Sin is not of Christ but of the Devil Therefore see what your way is that you are in and what your Ordinances are to you who are found doing your Fathers work making it your daily work to strive against the Truth which sets free from sin as the Jewes did against Christ and said they were Abrahams seed and were never in bondage to any but could not see his shape nor hear his Voice who should have set them free from sin nor themselves could they not see to be servants of sin and of their Father the Devil though they were doing his work as ye are for which the Lord God of life and power will reward you with Judgement unlesse you speedily repent and do no more so wickedly And all you professors of what sort soever that I may be clear of your bloud I warn you all in the power of the Lord do not persecute those despised people which by the Scornes are called Quakers Do not magnifie your selves against them nor give not your power to the Beast and false Prophet nor gather your selves with Gog and Magog and look not upon them because the Sun hath looked upon them and the heat thereof hath scorched them and made them black for the Lord hath given his Word unto them and many are they which publish it Kings of Armies shall flee apace before the beautiful Sons and Daughters of Sion and though they have lain among the pots yet shall they be as the wings of a Dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold Psal 68.13 Ye are they which have been as of the off-scouring of all things whom my soul is joyned unto and in the bundle of Life is my soul bound up with yours and in the Book of Life can you see my name written with yours if I forget you let my right hand forget her cunning and my Tongue fail that it speak no more ye precious sons and daughters of Sion Arise and thresh the Mountains for the Lamb hath opened his mouth and the threshing Instrument is given you and the two-edged Sword is known Arise arise and lay your swords upon your enemies necks Let not your hands spare nor your eye pity but wound the wicked and the hairy scalp of them that go on in Rebellion and my soul shall be glad when it sees the vengeance Oh my Brethren and oh my Sisters which hath long been rejected and despised be ye all faithful to the Lord God Almighty let Righteousnesse and Innocency be the girdle of your loynes and by you shall Kings be ungirded Judges and Counsellors shall be led away spoiled yea all the Princes Nobles and honourable of the earth by you is the Lord overturning Kingdomes and establishing Kingdomes in Righteousnesse even by you whose weapons are not carnal but mighty is the Lord God Almighty overturning and laying the world as a wilderness and destroying him that opened not the door of his prisoner this spark is kindled yea his holy One will prove a flame and shall burn up the Briers and Thorns and the trees of the wilderness and of the forrest the Oakes of Bashan and the Cedars of Lebanon shall be few that a childe may write them The Lyon is come out of the Thicket and the destroyer of the Gentiles hath uttered his voice out of Sion therefore tremble tremble and be amazed ye beasts of the Field flee to your strong holds you whose minds be without from the Light see if the Rocks or your earthly holds can hide you from the presence of our God and of the Lamb see what ye will do in this day wherein the Lord will bear no longer Ye Priests and Magistrates which have long persecuted this poor and afflicted people Repent repent and oppresse them no longer for the Lord hath looked upon their low estate yea he hath remembred his covenant to a thousand generations the Covenant which he made with Isaack and Jacob Abraham his friend and his seed for evermore even the seed of Jacob which served for a wife shall become thousands and millions and possesse the gates of all that hate them Gen. 24.60 Oh England England which hath called your selves Christians and have been long fasting praying and fighting for a Reformation and have called your selves of Christ herein and have covered your selves with the Saints words and Prophets words but have been inwardly ravened from the Life and Spirit and truth which they were in And I am troubled for you all and your iniquity lyeth heavy upon me and what will ye do and how will you Answer before the Lord that when his Son which he hath sent into England to gather his sheep as a shepherd from all the greedy shepherds that hath fed themselves and have clothed themselves and scattered the sheep of Gods pasture which are men against him have ye all risen as one man and ye have resisted and withstood the Lords Work here in England which is a marvellous work and a wonder to all who have the profession but their minds is estranged from the light of Christ within And I am troubled at my very heart for you all for I know your end will be bitter as wormwood yea destruction from the Almighty and a strange punishment for all you workers of Iniquity let your profession be what it will This is your portion saith the Lord God unlesse you repent and obey the light of Christ in you which is the Lords Candle and searcheth and trieth all your reines and sheweth you your hypocrisie and how you have but dissembled and drawn near to the Lord and with your tongues have cried Lord Lord but your hearts have been far both from him and his righteousnesse I say Come down out of all your thoughts reasonings and imaginations to the light which is the eye and ye shall see the body of sin is yet standing and the body of Christ have not yet been discerned and ye shall see the bed whereon ye have stretched your selves too short and the covering which ye have had hath not been of the Spirit and so too narrow to wrap your selves in therefore I counsel you all Come to Christ buy of me gold tried in the fire that ye may be rich and white rayment that ye may be clothed and that your shame and blindness may appear no longer for Christ is come unto you not to bring peace but