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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66058	A warning to the inhabitants of Leeds, and all others in cities, towns and villages, who have willfully been persecuting the people of the Lord whom he hath called by his eternal spirit to magnifie himself in, and to testifie for truth and righteousness, and against all ungodly works, and workers thereof / by Isabel Wails.	Wails, Isabel.	1685 (1685)	Wing W221; ESTC R1911	5,140	12

A WARNING To the Inhabitants of LEEDS And all others in Cities Towns and Villages Who have willfully been Persecuting THE PEOPLE of the LORD VVhom he hath called by his Eternal Spirit to magnifie himself in and to testifie for Truth and Righteousness and against all ungodly Works and Workers thereof By Isabel Wails Printed in the Year 1685. A WARNING To the Inhabitants of LEEDS And all others that are or may be concerned in all Cities Towns and Villages wheresoever this may come O You Inhabitants of Leeds to whom I have been a near Neighbour and a near Dwelle● these several years This day I am moved in the everlasting Spirit of Truth to warn you both High and Low Rich and Poor to Return unto the Lord God who by his Holy Spirit calls in the secret parts of your hearts for Truth and Righteousness and true Holiness and wills not the Death of any Soul that he in his pure Wisdom hath Created But dear People this is my Testimony for the Lord he would have all to come unto him that they may receive Life and Peace from him who is God forever and he changeth not neither is he limited this day nor his Spirit is not limited which he in the riches of his Love hath manifested and revealed unto us so in the sure Revelation of his eternal Love am I constrained to tell you who have made War against the appearance of the Lord in his People The Lord is making haste to recompence every one of you according to your doings for he is risen to be a swift Witness against the Ungodly And I plainly tell you all who these lines may come before to be read or heard If you sow to the Flesh of the Flesh you shall reap Corruption but if ye sow to the Spirit ye shall of the Spirit reap Life Everlasting Therefore in the fear of the Lord God and Bowels of tender Pity am I made to warn you all to lay aside or cease from your Acts of Cruelty which the power of Satan hath invented in your Hearts which Power is limited So I intreat you to return unto the Lord and put on the Spirit of Meekness and seek the Lord God that through seeking him you may find Mercy and Compassion as all his People who have sought him have done from Age to Age and Generation to Generation the Lord God hath had pity unto the Cries of his own and it s for no other cause or occasion that we Suffer but for bearing forth the Testimony of his Love that he hath revealed in us who were in the Bondage of Corruption and Iniquity as you are who are persecuting the Upright and have oppressed the Innocent without any just cause Therefore I am bound to declare unto you That God is highly displeased at your doings for his Anger is kindled and the Viols of his Wrath are ready to be poured forth upon you who have wilfully transgressed against him And except ye Repent and let true Judgment come over the head of the Transgressor you cannot escape but you must drink of the Cup of his Indignation which is held forth for them that will not take his counsel nor hearken unto him when he calls Oh! how doth my Soul breathe that you would return unto the Lord before that you have sinned out your Day lest that the Lord's Bowels of Compassion be shut up against you and if so Mark you may call and he will not hear you may shout and cry but he will not hearken nor answer therefore as God hath manifested himself unto us through his Son Christ Jesus though we were in Darkness as well as others but through waiting upon him in his own Spirit we are come to know the Deeds of Wickedness to be mortified in us and through his Spirit that gives Life are we come to have our hearts softned and mollified thereby So in this living Spirit we cannot but declare unto others and desire that all may come to the true acknowledgment of the Lord and not only to know him but also to obey him then it will be certain as here you abide that Cruelty will be put to an end in every one of your hearts who come to receive this Counsel and Mercy and Pity and true Compassion will be raised towards all men for of a Truth I declare and bear my Testimony for my God at this very moment of time that there is yet a tender pity runs from the Bowels of the Lord unto some of you and his Mind is that none might perish nor be destroyed but that you might wait upon him that through him you might receive Life and Peace forever So I intreat you that you may not reject the counsel of the Lord which doth arise in the meanest of his People and slight not the day of your Visitation Jest it pass over your heads for this day God is the same that ever he was to bear up their heads that fear him and also to renew their Faith who are freely given up to answer him in his Requirings also he is ready to take Vengeance of the Transgressors and of them that stand to fight against any of his Children whom he hath chosen to bear forth his Testimony in his Truth upon Earth So dear People I would have you to remember Moses how often he was made by the Spirit and Power of God to spake unto Pharoah but Pharoah opposed the Power of God through the hardness of his Heart and rejected the Counsel of the Lord that the Lord had revealed unto Moses and he would not let the Children of Israel go but he invented a way through the work of Satan how he might destroy the Innocent but the Lord hearkened unto their Cries and their Groans came before him and he had regard unto his chosen flock and by Faith were they delivered when Pharoah and all his Host were destroyed and did perish from off the Earth So in the tender Bowels of Love hath the Lord God opened my Mouth amongst you my Towns-men Neighbours and Acquaintance to warn you once more to return unto the Lord who is the living God and no longer harden your hearts for this day God hath passed by the Wise and Prudent of this World who have not had an Eye unto him and he hath revealed himself unto a People who are accounted as the Off-scouring of the Earth and in the eyes of Wise men we are not counted worthy to live but God that hath heard our Cries in the deepest of our Afflictions hath had regard unto us and still doth remain with us and we are certain he will do as we stand faithful unto him for he hath renewed our Faith as he did Abraham's of Old So in this Faith and Confidence is my Soul made to testifie against all Gain-sayers and them that strike against the appearance of the Lord of Hosts in any of his People whom he hath chosen and he hath also drawn us to believe

in him blessed be his Name forever for he hath preserved us through many Troubles Tribulations and great Sufferings both within and without when men have heaped Sorrow upon Sorrow through the wrath of their Hearts if by any means they could have destroyed us but yet the Lord by his outstretched Arm hath preserved us that in the midst of my outward Troubles and Tribulations I can Bless Praise and Magnifie the Name of the Lord that he hath delivered my Soul out of the Bondage of Iniquity and out of the Snares of Death and counted me with my Brethren and Sisters worthy to suffer for the Testimony of his Name it s more precious to my Soul then the increase of Corn Wine or Oyl or any visible thing that is upon the Earth So in the openings of Gods Spirit of Love was I constrained to warn you to consider what you have done and how ye will answer the Lord when he comes to take an account of you for the deeds that you have done in the Body that he did Frame and Make for himself for a Temple to dwell in and by your wicked Inventions you have defiled it and in it have lodged the Power of Satan So in the Spirit of Meekness do I intreat you that you may come to wait to feel the Power of God which is an unlimited Power to over-power all the Powers of Satan which is limited and ever was and he can go no further then the Lord suffers him so that all our Tryals and Tribulations that we have gone through or may go through are but light unto us in comparison of Gods Love that he hath revealed unto us and made us sharers of yea many Thousands of Sons and Daughters So in this free Grace that God hath made my Soul a Witness of I desire to stand a Witness for him forever over Sin Death and all the Powers of Satan and my Travail is that you may come to experience the work of the Lord in you Dear People its my Cry that your understandings may be opened that ye may hearken unto the Voice of the Lord which Cries in the secret parts of the heart for Holiness Then will Sin be put to an end in you and you will take no delight in it nor you will have no Pleasure to have Iniquity to lodge within your hearts For I can truly declare unto you that the Lord hath no pleasure in them that are working Wickedness and drinking up Iniquity as the Ox drinketh up Water Oh my Soul my Soul cries unto the Lord that ye might return unto him before the Day of Calamity and Sorrow come upon you For if you will not hearken nor regard its certain it will overtake you and then will you say if ye repent not that you had warning given time after Time and would not take it Therefore whether you will hear or forbear I have answered the Lords Requirings and in my obedience I have Peace which I prefer above all outward Injoyments And I am bold to declare unto you this day the Lord knows I lye not that I could neither eat nor take my natural rest but was oppressed and my Tears were not a few for my Soul mourned within me until I was given up in obedience to the Lord God to signifie unto you what he had revealed unto my Soul Therefore whether you will hear or forbear as I have said unto you the Lord hath eased my Spirit in some measure and in his Will I lie down whatsoever he is pleased to suffer man to inflict upon me I desire to be found in his service for evermore From one who is a well-wisher of all men and desires the prosperity of all Souls who am a Prisoner at York-Castle for the Testimony of Jesus this 17. day of the 10. Moneth in the Year 1684. Isabel Wails POSTSCRIPT O Ye People of Leeds who have persecuted the Lords Servants and imprisoned the Innocent without a cause For your sakes am I ma●e to mourn in secret and my Spirit is troubled within me when I consider the Calamity that is coming upon you and which will certainly overtake you except you speedily Repent A Day of Distress and great Lamentation A Day of Darkness and Gloominess A Day of Misery and of the Shadow of Death is coming upon you in which although you call the Lord will not hear yea though ye cry aloud he will not regard it because when he called unto you ye would not hear and when he waited to be gracious warning you again and again to Repent yet ye regarded it not but set at nought his Counsel and made a scorn of them by whom he warned you and despised all his Reproofs Oh! consider of this ye Inhabitants of Leeds whilst yet you have a day or time you who have had a hand in persecuting the Innocent who have done no harm to any of you and that have had no regard either to Old or Young Rich nor Poor Fatherless nor Widdows but have sent or haled of all sorts to Prison without respect to Age or Sex even some great with Child Oh! have ye not despised and afflicted the Aged and Gray-Hairs whom the Lord hath honoured and the Poor which he regarded And as for the Sick have ye not turned your backs on them whose Groans have been heard in your Ears O! do you not think that the Lord sees and takes notice of these things and that all your Hard-heartedness Cruelty and Oppression are written down in his Book Yes certainly the Lord of Hosts both s●es and takes notice of them and in due time will assuredly visit for the same and be avenged on his Adversaries recompencing a Reward upon them according to their deeds for it is he that hath called us and given us to bear Witness of him and his Name and Truth upon the Earth and are made willing to wait on him and to be subject to him in obedience to his requirings yea though it be to the hazard of Liberty Life and Estate for he hath not spared to shed his precious Blood for us that he might Redeem us from all Iniquity that we might be a peculiar People to him Therefore he is precious to us yea as a Pearl of great Price and this day we cannot but remember him honour him and fear his Name and we durst not deny him nor his Truth before men who hath plucked us as Brands out of the Fire and hath raised us up who were dead in Trespasses and in Sins as well as others and hath caused us this day to Testifie of him who is God forever and changeth not who will have pity on them that fear him and trust in his Name when all the Wicked and Ungodly shall perish from his pr●sence and from off the Face of the Earth The Day hastens yea the day hastens that Gods fierce Wrath and Indignation will be poured out upon the Stiff-necked and Rebellious Generation and upon all such as will not hearken unto but reject his Counsel which by his Spirit he hath and is giving unto the Sons and Daughters of Men Therefore Repent Repent lest Salvation be hid from your Eyes From a Sufferer for the Truth and Righteousness sake known to many of you by the Name of Isabel Wails THE END