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A66862	This is written in plainnesse of heart, and bowels of everlasting love to my persecutors who have shot sore at me, and hated me without a cause. Both magistrates, priests and people in Stafford sheir, of elsewhere, that ye all may be turned from the darknesse to the light, and from anti-christ without, unto Chrust within, who is the light of the world, and hath lighted wvery man therein with his saving light. Some queres also, for such who call themselves ministers of Christ, but are altogether unlike him, or his ministers to answer. Together with a warning from the Lord God of life and power to repent, andleave persecuting, and striving against, or kicking against the Lord. Written from one who have been in the pit, death, grave, and Hell; but am come from far, and am sit down with Abraham, Isaack, and Jacob, in the heavenly places with them that are in Christ, but unknown to you, I am: but by the name I have received amongst you, Humphry Wollrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3299; ESTC R219472	14,792	23

stronger to keep man in Sinne than Christ who came to destroy Sinne and to Redeem man out of all Sinne X. Whether you do not make God a hard Task-master and charge him wickedly and make his commands grievous to your Hearers seeing God commands men to be Holy as he is Holy and Pure as he is Pure and John saith his commands are not grievous XI Whether you are not the false teachers that Peter speaks of 2 Pet. 2. which have forsaken Christ the right way and run greedily in the way of Balaam after great Benefices and Rewards and your selves being gone out of the way cannot cease from sinne and tell people they cannot cease from sinne also and so all being gone out of the Councell of God can never profit the people but are in the spirit of Errour and are clothed with the Saints words and Sheeps clothing but are inwardly ravened and erred in your hearts from the Spirit of the Lord And whether such who hear you and learn of you are not they which are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth which is Christ which he that 's in sinneth not XII Whether the knowledge of sin comes by the Bible to any man or what that Law was which Paul came to the knowledge of sinne by seeing he had the Letter while he was alive without this Law XIII Whether Revelation be now ceased with any but such as ye are which are in the way of Balaam and gone from the spirit by which the things of God are reveal'd Answer this ye false teachers that say Revelation is ceased and that the voice of Christ is not heard but in the Letter of the Scripture seeing the Letter saith John 10. My sheep hear my voice And they that had the Scriptures had neither heard his Voice nor seen his shape at any time XIV Whether any can come to the knowledge of sinne but by the light within and whether this Light be not able of it self alone to bring man to the knowledge of God and whether by any other thing but by the light which shines in the heart man doth come to the knowledge of God and whether this be sufficient alone to Save man and redeem him out of all sinne in this life and keep him pure as Christ is pure XV. Whether the Bible doth open the blind eye seeing the Bible saith Christ was sent to open the blind eyes whether the Bible doth command the Conscience of man as Noah Bryan did affirme in your Idoll Temple at Stafford or whether the Light of Christ in the Conscience doth not exercise and command the Consience XVI What is the Law spoken of Isaiah 8. and the Testimony whether it be the Bible Come answer what it is and where it is whether it be a thing without or within man XVII Where is that Righteousnesse by which man is Justifed Is it within man and in his heart or was it Christs Righteosnnesse at Jerusalem onely which sulfilled the Law or whether the Righteousnesse of the Law must not be fulfilled in man in this generation XVIII Whether Christ were not the same before the World or Virgin Mary was as he was in the dayes of the Jewes and his body the same which descended with that which ascended and whether any other body did ascend into Heaven but the body which is Spiritual and the only begotten of the Spirit and was never seen with any carnall Eye Comme all ye Priests and you which call your selves Ministers of Christ do not think to hide your selves any longer or save your selves in this day of the Lords mighty power by persecuting and imprisoning us whom the Lord God hath raised up to bear a testimony against you all and this is not your way to save your selves from the overflowing scourge that is coming upon you all Butt come down to the Light of Christ in you and honestly consider and ye shall see and confesse that ye are not Ministers of Christ neither do ye speak as the Spirit gives you utterance neither are you Ministers of the Spirit as they were but of the Letter which Kills If this be confessed and owned amongst you then you need not answer these Queres But if you will not confesse to the Lord and owne your shame and all your Worships which is taught you but by the precepts of men then answer these which follow I. Where did the Ministers of Christ hire themselves for so much a year or make a bargain with the people either for lesse or more or whether their Ministry was not freely given them of the Lord and whether they were not freely to give it others or whether that be Gods gift which ye buy at Oxford for so much Money and learn in so long a time and sell it again in the Country for so much by the hour glasse II. Whether the Ministers of Christ who were led by the Spirit of Christ which was never limited by an hour glasse whether they did study in the week day or invent or speak a divination of their own brain to the the people when they were met together or whether they did not speak as the Spirit gave them utterance Again where did the Ministers of Christ teach people to sing Davids Psalmes with another heart than David had or give Davids Psalmes to a company of mockers scorners and persecutors and whether David be not made the Song of the Drunkards by you now as ever he was III. Where did the Ministers of Christ ever sprinkle Infants and tell poor ignorant people it was an Ordinance of God You which say the Scripture is your Rule Answer and shew some Scipture for these things IV. Where do you ever read That the Ministers of Christ did ever imprison persecute or sue any man for filthy lucre as ye do IV. Where do you ever read That the Ministers of Christ did ever imprison persecute or sue any man for filthy lucre as ye do V. Whether you are not those false Teachers and antichrists and false Christs which Christ Mat. 24. said should come in the last times and John who as one of his Apostles in his Epistle said were come already and whether John was not in the Light and they went out from him in the way of Balaam and for filthy lucre sake and whether it be not one thousand six hundred years agoe since John in the Revelations said all the world went out after them and wondered and said who was able to make Warre with the Beast which made warre with the Lamb and slew the Saints which kept the testimony of Jesus Come answer whether you are not of this Church and whether your weapons be such as proceed out of the mouth of the Lamb or such as they used who made warre with the Lamb and slew and cast some of the Saints into Prison VI. If your Church be true then Answer Where did the Church of Christ appoint one and

grieved and made sad among you And what will ye do in the day of the Lords Controversie which is near at hand and coming upon you all as a sweeping raine that leaveth no food and as a mighty tempest against the World is the Lord God rising and ye shall feel his Spirit which ye have grieved long shall not alwayes strive with you And though the Lord hath long waited to be mercifull and gracious unto you I say though he hath been long still and refrained himselfe and ye have thought he had been altogether such an one as your selves and because sentence hath not been speedily executed upon you and because he hath restrained his Anger and hath not stirred up all his Wrath against you who are an Hypocritcall Nation and Children in whom there is no truth which have dealt deceitfully and treacherously with the Lord for all his loving kindnesse as treacherous Judah did Yet the Lord will reprove you for all your iniquities and set them in order before you even he that hath long time been still and refrained himself will now arise like a Travelling Woman he will destroy and devour at once and I am trouble for you all my Country-men for there 's cause of a Lamentation when I weigh and consider your sad and wofull estate my heart is trouble for you all how you have covered your selves with the Saints words Prophets words Christs and the Apostles words but are out of that life purity and holinesse which they lived in which becomes the house of God for evermore And how ye are clothed and how your Teachers are clothed and are like the sheep and onely like them but are inwardly ravened from the light and Spirit of the Lord and substance which they were in which was Christ in them the hope of Glory and I am trouble for you all and my heart is grieved for the place of my Nativity and I can but seek the welfare of all the Israel of God that are among you For which I am but looked upon as to be your enemy and a disquieter and trouble of your Israel And how many false Teachers and bastards and false Professors and false Christians that have Christ only in words as the Jewes had which slew him and said had they lived in the dayes of their Fathers they would not have slaine the Prophets How many of these have risen up against me in this Nation and in my own Country like Sanba●let and Tobiah have risen up against me with prisons and stones and the Jewes weapons which Crucified Christ to villifie me as they did Nehemiah that they might cause the work of the Lord to cease And how do they rage and do plainly declare by their persecution and are grieved at their very hearts that there is one left to seek the welfare of his Country-men And I lay it upon you all and in the power of the Lord God I charge you all consider and lay it to heart before it be too late and hid from your eyes what kind of Ministers you have and whether they are Ministers of the Letter which kils or of the Spirit that gives life 2 Cor. 3.6 Whether Ministers of Christ whose Weapons were never carnall as clubs or prisons or Ministers of Antichrist whose weapons were not spiritual but carnal as the Popes and Presbyterians and their Ministers weapons are which are imprisoning and in all Ages did imprison and slay the Saints and such as could not ioyn with the Idolaters nor worship in their Masse-houses nor Idol Temples but kept the testimony of Jesus and the Word of God And all ye Magistrates in the Nation I charge you all in the Power of the Lord consider what you do and how you do persecute or lay the sword upon them as evill doers who are moved of the Lord to come to bear a testimony against all your Idol Temples Teachers and their Worship or to speak a few words unto you in the name and Power of the Lord to turn you from darkness unto light from the power of Satan unto God And if you do but read the Scripture which ye say is your Rule you shall find that this was the practice of Christ to go into their Synagouges and Temple and to preach in the Villages Streets and Markets as we do for which they were counted disturbers by many yea by almost all the chief Priests that said they were wise and such as were as learned and had the Hebrew Greek and Latine and had the Scriptures the Prophets words as your false Teachers who are inwardly ravened from the two Original of the Scriptures which is the Spirit from whence the Scripture did proceed these have Christs words and the Apostles words but are persecuting us who are led by the Spirit which the Sons of God in all Ages and Christ and his Apostles were led by and we are in the same life and found in the same practice for which we are persecuted as deceivers and seducers as they were and we read when the Apostles came into their Synagouges the Ruler thereof was not like many of you who give a charge to your Officers to pull us out but they said unto them If ye have any word of Exhortation for the people say on And what is our transgression and what is our sin is it not the same which the Apostles and Christ was found in which was to reprove sinne in the gate to lay the Axe to the Root and the sword of the Spirit did they draw against all Hypocrites painted graves and sepulchers who were inwardly full of all manner of wickednesse as ye are in Stafford-shire For which my life doth suffer and bears a testimony against you all who have a Name to live but are dead and who call your selves Jewes and Christians but are fill'd with all manner of wickednesse and are out of the Lambs nature and childes nature and so are of the synagouge of Satan and your Goals and your Officers houses which call themselves Christians and us deceivers wherein you have imprisoned me ten times not for the breach of any Law of the Nation but for crying out against Drunkenesse and all manner of wickednesse which in these Evil doers houses do abound which should only both them and their houses be for the punishment not of the Righteous unto whom the Law was not added but unto the Unrighteous unto which it was The End

This is Written in PLAINNESSE OF HEART and Bowels of Everlasting love to my PERSECUTORS WHO HAVE Shot Sore at me and hated me without a cause Both Magistrates Priests and People in Stafford Sheir or elsewhere that ye all may be turned from the Darknesse to the Light and from Antichrist without unto Christ within who is the Light of the World and hath lighted every man therein with his saving Light Some Queres also for such who call themselves Ministers of Christ but are altogether unlike him or his Ministers to Answer Together with a Warning from the Lord God of Life and Power to Repent and leave Persecuting and striving against or kicking against the Lord. Written from one who have been in the Pit Death Grave and Hell But am come from Far and am sit down with Abraham Isaack and Jacob in the Heavenly places with them that are in Christ but unknown to you I am But by the Name I received amongst you HVMPHRY WOLLRICH 2 Cor. 3.6 God hath made us able Ministers or the New Testament not of the Letter which kills but of the Spirit which gives Life Printed for Robert Wilson at the signe of the Black-spread-Eagle and wind-Mill in Martins-lane near Aldersgate COme all ye Magistrates Rulers and Officers in Stafford which are sworn to do Justice and ex●e●●e Judgement and lay the sword upon the neck of the Wicked and to be a terrour to Evil doers and a strength and a praise to them that do Well Come all to the Light wherewith Christ who is the True Light hath enlightned you with 〈◊〉 and so you shall see the Evil doer deceiver and seducer which 〈…〉 to sinne iniquity and trangression nearer you than you were aware even he which reignes and rules in Stafford and leads the Inhabitants thereof into Swaring Lying and Drunkenesse so that your being Christians is onely in words ye being dead in your trespasses and sinnes and the God of the World having blinded the eye by which the Lord hath said he will guide and lead his people into all Truth out of all iniquity transgression and sinne which the Inhabitants of Stafford abounds withall and yet have covered themselves with a Profession and have got the Prophets words and Christs words but are inwardly ravened and cast the Law of the Lord behind them which is Light and have reiected the Word of the Lord which is nigh them in their hearts Rom. 10.8 And this is the Word that opens the blinde Eye and is immortal and unchangeable and is like a fire and like a hammer Sinke down and ye shall feel it so and this is it which was before the Bible was which your false Teacher tells you is the Word of the Lord and opens the blinde Eye and this is the Word which was before the World was whom the Jewes which had the Words Slew and Crucified and this is false Doctrine for David prayed the Lord that he would open his eyes Psalm 119.18 and Psal 146.8 The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down and looseth the bonds of the prisoner Isaiah 42.6 7. where you may read That it is onely the work of Christ to open the blinde Eyes and to bring out the Prisoners from the prison and them that sit in Darknesse out of the Prison house And this is he which commands the Consciences of men which love him and the Condemnation of all that hate him and rebell against him and not the Bible as your blinde Guide tells you And why will you be so blinde as to look upon me as an evil Doer who was moved of the Lord to question this Doctrine that poor ignorant people who are in their sinnes might be deceived no longer and the Lord God Almighty is my witnesse and the testimony of the Lord stands sure and shall witnesse for me in you all that I do not this wickedly or maliciously nor in stubbornnesse either against Magistrate or Minister but in obedience to the Lord and that people which lie in darknesse might be turned to the light from the power of Satan unto God and why will you call this delusion or a deluding Spirit that causeth Drunkards to leave off their drunkenesse and become sober and temperate and Swarers to leave their swaring and Lyars to speak the truth and in the power of the Lord God I warne you all to consider what is my transgression or sinne amongst you for which I have been imprisoned eight or nine times in Stafford Which of you have I caused that was sober to become a drunkard or what Countenancers have I been of lyars swearers and mockers there amongst you I say Is it for any of these things for which I have been so often imprisoned or have I not suffered for bearing a testimony against these things which Stafford doth abound with notwithstanding all their Profession And is not your Markets which I have been moved of the Lord to speak in and to cry out against these things yet abounding with Swearers and Drunkards which go reeling up and down the streets unpunished neither are they looked upon is deceivers or deceived neither are they counted a disturbance or troublers of your Israel And how doth your Steeple-houses abound and your Church made up of such as these which professe Christ in words but have lost the Life and are altogether unlike Christ or Christians and to every good word and work are reprobates and by such as these are we persecuted and abused who have lost both form and power of godlinesse and are enemies to the life of Christ which they in words professe therefore the Lord God Almighty hath raised up many witnesse and in his Life and Spirit and by the Power of the Lord are they led to bare a testimony against all your false Teachers which are run and God never sent them and have cryed the Lord saith it unto you when the Lord hath not spoken to them but are theeves and robbers and are climed up another way than by Christ the Door and so are become theeves and robbers and have stolne Christs words and the Apostles words and are condemning the Jewes for Crucifying Christ but themselves are Crucifying him again and imprisoning persecuting and stoning them in whom he is made manifest and so are you like the Jewes and your Priests have no other weapons nor no other sword to cut down Hereticks withall but prisons clubs and staffes which are Carnall as the High Priests weapons were and not Spiritual as Pauls was and the Jewes which had the Prophets words and thought to have Eternal Life therein were Condemning their Fathers for killing the Prophets but they would not come to Christ who the Light of the World that they might have Life who was the end of all the Prophets and the life of all the Prophets him they Crucified as a Deceiver and Blasphemer and prince of Devils Therefore in the fear of the Lord God I

onely one to speak at a set-time and count it disorder for any for any to speak besides him which stands in the high place or whether if any thing were revealed to another that stood by the first ought not to hold his peace whether this was ever counted confusion and disorder by such who were the true Church and had the Spirit of God or by the false Church onely who were gone from the Spirit of the Lord and to whom Revealations is ceased VII Whether all who walk not contrary to the Scripture as ye doe in these things and abide not in the Doctrine of Christ have either the Father or the Son and whether such can Minister Christ who have him not revealed in themselves VIII Whether your Praying Singing and Preaching and all your Ordinances and Sacrifices be not sinne and all your Incense as if you blest an Idol or slew a man and offered swines flesh which is abomination to the Lord and whether swines flesh and harlots flesh be not the fame as ever it was Come all you people of what sort or opinion soever you be Come all you Independants Baptists and Separatists of what Body or Church soever who are not acted guided and led by the Pure Eternall Unchangeable light of Christ in your Consciences the Church of the First-born which is in God you know not nor the generall Assembly whose Names are written in Heaven ye are not yet come too but ye are all of the Synagogue of Satan and the God of the world hath blinded the eye which is the Light which should lead you to descern the Body which is the Church and my bowels are yerning and my love is issuing out towards you all and by the power of the Lord and in the Maiesty of the Lord I am constrained to deal plainly with you all and to wound you all and to heal the hurt of none slightly as your false Teachers have long done who have daubed with untempered morter and spoken peace to the wicked who have not wounded the head of the wicked nor the hairy scalpe of such as hath been found in rebellion against the Lord and have laid a foundation but have not taken away the rubbish in which the book of the Law hath been hid and is hid in you whom the God of the world hath blinded the eye which should see him who is invisible and the true foundation and everlasting arme which is underneath upon which all the generation of the Righteous did build but you are building the New house on your Old foundation and you are garnishing the Sepulchre of the dead and you are clothing your selves with the white raiment and setting a goodly Miter upon your heads but the filthy ragges and rotten ragges and filthy garment is yet over Joshua the High Priest and he is slain and the world and the foundations thereof and the Pillars thereof are set upon him and the great Mystery hid from you all which is Christ within the hope of Glory And you are all in the Darknesse and out of the Light which makes manifest Darknesse and the Light shines in the darknesse And you who are in the darknesse by the children of Light are comprehended and by him which is Judged of no man nor careth not for mans Judgement are you all Judged and Condemned but the Light your selves cannot comprehend who are in the darknesse Therefore all come down into the deep that you may see the wonderous workes of the Lord in the great waters and that ye may be drawn out of the waters upon which the Whore sitteth which waters have gone over and are over your heads read within Christ the Head of every man stand still awhile that you may see the Salvation of the Lord and his his power rise in you and his arme bring forth Salvation for you and the Sea shall be dried up and the tongue of the Egyptian shall be smitten in the seven streams and the foundations of the World shall be discovered and the Channells of the Sea shall be seene and he shall be known and what manner of man he is that rebukes the Windes and the Sea obey him and the swadling Band you shall know which binds and shuts up the Sea as with doores and saith to the proud and raging Waves thereof hitherto shalt thou goe and no further This is our God whom we have been looking for this is the Living which we have been seeking amongst the dead he it is which was in this place and we knew it not we will be gald and reioyce in his day This is day of the Lords might power this is the Day of the Lambs Marriage and the Supper of the great King and the day of the Lords Controversie with all his Enemies which are gathered together with Gog and Magog as the sands of the Sea and are persecuting imprisoning the Saints and compassing about the beloved City and the fire of the Lord is coming out of Heaven to destroy you all And the Lyon is come out of the Thicket and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way and the sword of the Lord is drawne and Made reddy for the slaughter and the slain of the Lord shall be many and made drunk with the blood of Bulls Rams and Goats Oh that you would be wise Oh that you would understand this that you would consider your latter end but you are a people voide of Councell neither is there any understanding in you for ye have reiected the pure eternall and immortall Word of the Lord and behinde your backs ye have cast it and you have lightly esteemed and counted the Light which is the rock of Ages as a low thing and ye have stumbled at the stumbling stone and the rock that begets hath been lightly esteemed by you who are wise in your own eyes and prudent in your own conceits and ye have reiected the Law of the Lord and the word of love and what wisdome is there in you and the light by you wherewith Christ hath enlightned every man to you who are high in professions and above the door it is become foolishnesse though it be the tryed Stone the Corner Stone and the Foundation Stone and to us that have tryed him and beleeve in him he is precious but to you who are wise as I said before this is too low a thing for you to tell you of that which smiteth you in your Consciences and checketh you reproveth you in secret this say you who are in your sinnes and pleading for sinne and saying none can be without sinne while they live this say you we knew long since To thee I say whoever thou art thou knewest thy Condemnation then for had not he come a light into the World thou hadst had no sinne wherefore now thou hast no cloak for thy sinne But I say hadst thou come down when thou first knew this thing and turned at the reproof of the Lord when he first

smote thee and made thee to start and persued thee in the hinder parts when thy heart was Adulterated and went a whoring from the Lord. I say hadst thou then come down and waited in the Light of the Lord which smote thee thou wouldest have found and felt the Power of the Lord which is the Word of the Lord arisen in thee like a fire and like a hammer even the word within the Vaile would have destroyed the covering which hath been over all Nations and rent the Vaile which hath been over all people and is yet over you and when the Scriptures you read with all your Originall as Hebrew Greek and Latine you cannot understand because the Vaile is over your heart and Christ the hope of Glory is entred within the Vaile which should condemne sinne and finish transgression and destroy him which hath the power of death which is the Devill and bring in everlasting Righteousnesse And this Righteousnesse are you ignorant of and in your owne you are which is as filthy ragges and it doth not set you free from sinne because it is sinne and so you being all gone out of the way which is Christ within Gods Righteousnesse you cannot cease from sinne and so your Prayers are sinne and your striving seeking and knocking is sinne because you are striving and seeking amisse and so though thou take unto thee water and wash thee with never so much Sope yet thine iniquity and thy Righteousnesse is marked and all one before the Lord. Therefore in the bowels of love I Exhort you all and in the power and dread of the Lord I warne you all to come down to the manifestation of the Spirit of God and unto the Light of God and Grace of God which hath appeared to all men and freely given from the Lord and is the Lords Tallent and the Lords gift which is perfect and pure as God is pure and unchangeable and varies not and is freely given to every man to profit withall I say to this come down if ever you expect Salvation feel it and wait in it which is meek and low of heart for untill this be done namely to see the Light separated from the darknesse and the Precious from the Vile you shall never be as Gods mouth and all your Teachers who are gone from this are out of Gods Counsell and shall never profit the people and all ye Professors of what Sect soever or of what Opinion soever who are gone from this you are them which are not Sonnes of God being not led by this spirit of God which he hath given to every man to profit withall and the price is in the hand of the fool and you are the unprofitable servants which hide your Lords Tallent and must be cast into utter darknesse where the worms dieth not and the fire goeth not out but where there is wailing weeping and gnashing of teeth and where the Fire of the Lord shall consume and burn for ever and the Breath of the Lord as a stream of Brimstone doth blow it up and kindle it I say again to you all Come downe out of all your owne wisdome and own your shame and sit in the dust before the Lord if so be there may be but hope and this is hard for you who are rich and wise to become fooles for Christ that ye may feel and know the Spirit of the Lord which is the Spirit of Truth from the lying spirit which is of the World and leads from the Lord into the World and hides the Seed to which all the Promises are and vailes the Pure which is not of this World nor its Kingdome Power nor Glory is not of this World And this is he which you cannot believe in who are the friendship and love of the world worshipping and honouring and receiving honour one of another in him you cannot believe who receives not honour of men Neverthelesse to him you must come and to him you must how and whose Image hath been marred in you and hath bowed down and hath been slaine since the world was set in mans heart and this is the gate and the door by which the Sheep enter and this is the Soules Anchor which anchors up the Immortall Soul to God And this is the Shepherd of the sheep and hath laid down his Life for the sheep and they hear his Voice and follow him through great tribulation and in the Regeneration they are washing their Robes and making them white in the Bloud of the Lamb. And unlesse to him you come out of all your own thoughts reasonings and imaginations and take him for your rule and guide to to walk by you shall never know the peace which is upon the Israel of God And all ye that kindle a fire and walk in the light of the sparks which your selves have kindled ye shall all lie down in sorrow saith the Lord God But Peace upon all and Joy upon all who walke in the light of the Lord and are led by the Spirit of the Lord who leadeth out of sinne and iniquity which ye all lie in in the way of Righteousnesse Holinesse and Purity which becomes his house for evermore And oh that thou hadst hearkned into me saith the Lord then had thy Peace been like a River and thy Righteousnesse like the Waves of the Sea the Seed the light to which all the Promises are had been as the Starres in the Firmament and the Ofspring of thy Bowels like the sands of the Sea-shore innumerable Oh that you had taken heed to the light which ye call a low thing I would soon have subdued your enemies under you and turned my hand aganst all them that hated you he would have fed you also with the finest of the Wheat and with honey out of the Rock would he have satisfied you but you would not hearken to my Voice saith the Lord which smore you and reproved you upon your beds so the Lord hath given many of you over to your sinnes and over to your hearts lusts to see what you will do in the latter end And Wisdome hath uttered her voice in the streets saying Turne in for I have mingled my Wine I have slaine my Fatlings I have furnished my Table and all things are ready and he hath long stood at the door and knockt and hath long waited upon you all that he might be gracious and I am a witnesse for the Lord against you all that he hath rather desired your return than your ruine and the Lord hath long striven with you and his compassions have been great and exceeding large towards his dwelling house in sending to you his Messengers time after time and day after day But ye have whiped stoned imprisoned and persecuted them by whom the Lord would have healed you but ye have chosen your own wayes and ye have delighted in that and lived in that and been led and taught by that by which the soul of the Righteous hath been