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To all the ignorant people, the word of the Lord, who are under the blind guides the priests.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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thing and the Priest-hood was another thing the Apostle spoke of and now if you speak of Tythes after the Law Christ Jesus is the summe of things Hebrewes 8. and you that keep people in those things keepeth them from the summe The Word of the Lord God to all poor deceived people who follow such Priests as bear rule by their means and you people love to have it so as you may read Jeremy 5.30.31 and so are the foolish people that are foolish and the sottish children that are wise to do evill but to do good have no understanding as your may reade Ierem. 4.21 and you follow such shepheards as are greedy secking their gain from their quarter and never have enough as you may reade Isaiah 56.10.11 and you follow such shepheards as seeks for the fleece and clothe themselves with the wool which makes a prey upon you and devours which the Lord sent Ezekiel to cry woe against Ezek. 54. So as a troop of robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent Hos 6 9. And you follow such Priests as teach for hire and divine for money and yet will they lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst us no evil can come upon us and cry peace peace and he that wil not put into their mouths they prepare war against him and thus they build up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity Micah 3. And now all ye Priests this commandment is for you if you will not hear and if you will not lay it to heart I will send a curse upon you I will curse your blessing yea I have cursed them already Behold I will corrupt your seed and will spread dung upon you Mal. 2.1 2.3 and you follow such hypocrites as stand praying in the Synagogues Matthew 26.5 and such as are called of men Masters and have the chief seats in the Synagogues which our Lord Jesus Christ cried wo against Matthew 23. And you follow such deceivers as tells you the Steeple-house is the Temple when Christ prophesied of the destruction of the Temple Matthew 24. And Stephen denied it Acts the 7. and the Apostle denied it Acts 17. and he was haled out of the Temple Acts 21.30 and you follow such as tells you the Steeple-house is the Church when the Apostle saith the Church is in God 1 Thessalonians 1.1 And you follow such which through fained words and covetousness doth make merchandize of you by whom the way of Truth is evill spoken of 2 Peter 2. and you follow such as go in the way of Cain in envie and after the errour of Balaam for gifts and rewards 2 Peter 2. Jude 11. and you follow such as are mockers and scoffers and sierce despisers and raylers whose bands are made strong Esay 28.22 2 Timothy 3. which hath the forme of Godlyness but denies the power from such you are to turn away if you hear that Spirit that spoke in the Apostles and from all such before mentioned and you follow such as serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies and by good words an fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Romans 16.18 and hear with the Scripture you may judge and trie your teachers and you follow such as are given to filthy lucre whose mouths must be stopped Titus 1.11 12. and such you follow as the Apostle called evil beasts and slow bellies and you follow such as stands not in Gods counsell but speaks a vain divination of their own hearts who by their lies and by their lightness have caused the people to erre and hath not profited the people at all saith the Lord Therefore I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steals my word from his neighbour and saith the Lord saith and use their tongues when the Lord never spoke to them but Priest and Prophet are both profane Ieremy 23. and they are such as gave you Davids quakings prayers and prophesies in meeter and when you reade the Psalmes you keep on your hats and when you sing them you put off your hats and here you worship the workes of your own hands and they are such as tell you the sprinkiing of Infants is the Baptisme and of a Sacrament and their is no such Scriptyres and so the plagues of God are added to rhem that addeth Revelation 22. But the one Baptisme with the Spirit into the one body and the singing with the Spirit and with the understanding according to Scripture that we own and witness 1 Corinthians 12.13 1 Cor. 14. To the light of Christ in all your Consciences I do speak which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ who enlightens every one that cometh into the world which if you all do love it will lead you all from those teachers aforementioned up to Christ from whence the light doth come and hear is your way to salvation and this is the light which shews you sin and evill if you love it it will lead you to Christ from whence the light doth come and if you hate it it is your condemnation so remember you are warned in your life time this is the day of your visitation ALL you that reproach revile scoff and scorn at the children and servants and messengers of the most high God whom you nickname Quakers and under the same name persecute them as a people not worthy to live and have no ground for it neither knowes any evill by them but all along their lives and conversations condemns yours and therefore you hate them revile them and reproach them in whom the power of the living God is made manifest the same which ever was wch shakes the earth makes the strong man to bow himself and the keepers of the house to tremble Eccl. 12.3 the same power which all the children of God witnessed and passed through in all ages which then by the same generation suffered both by Magistrates Professours Priests and People who were and are strangers to the life of God and his power and therefore reproached it scoffed and scorned at it as you now doe But t is that the Scripture might be fulfilled upon you who are despisers of those that are good 2 Timothy 3.3 Isaack the seed of the promise trembled Gen. 27.33 who was mocked by Ishmael the son of the bond woman who was cast out Gen. 21.9.10 Gallat 4.30 As the same seed is mocked now by you Ishmaelites who are the children of the bond-woman who are cast out and are found without mocking and scoffing at the righteous seed and Moses the servant of God quaked and trembled Heb. 12.21 who counted it greater riches to suffer affliction with the people of God then to injoy the pleasures of sin for a season Heb. 11.26 and this you now call madness and folly who know not that godliness is great gain 1 Tim. 6.6 and David who was a King quaked and trembled Psalm 119.120 and drunkards made a song of him Psalm
69.12 and some shot out their tongues and wagged their heads at him Psalm 22.7 and gaped upon him with their mouths verse 13. and this you sing in your Steeple-house like hypocrites without knowledge Psalm 35.16 and yet scoff and scorn and reproach those in whom the same power is made manifest and yet you will say as he said you are not puft in mind nor have no scornfull eye Psalm 131.1 And thus you deceive your souls and love to have it so and Job the servant of the Lord trembled Job 4.14 and Jeremy a Prophet of the Lord his heart was broken and all his bones did shake and he was as a drunken man Jer. 23.19 who was then persecuted by the same generation and Daniel trembled and they that were with him quaked Daniel 10.7 8 11. who was cast into the lyons den because he would not deny his God Daniel 6.16 but by his power he was preserved as we are now from these lyons whelps which would us devour and Habbakuk a prophet of the Lord his belly trembled and his lips quivered Habbakuk 3.16 and Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ fell down and trembled Acts the 9.4 5 6. who was reviled reproached and persecuted even to death who was one that hazzarded his life for the name of Jesus Acts 16.26 and said all the day long was they killed and accounted as sheep for the slaughter Romans 8.36 now read what generation you are in for they that were after the flesh alwayes persecuted them that were after the spirit Gal. 4.29 there was alwayes a generation by which the righteous ever suffered since Cain the first-born upon earth in whose way you are found who envy who are in wrath Jude 11. you kill the just and he lyes slain in the streets Iam. 5.5 6. at whose hands his bloud shall be required Mat. 23.35 and the son of man was to eat his bread with quaking and to drink his water with trembling Ezek. 12.10 out of which life you are found who are at ease in the flesh feeding without the fear of God spending the creatures upon your lusts Rom. 13.14 scorning them who are not one with you in the same liberty and excesse of riot 1 Corinth 10.7 1 Pet. 4.4 1 Cor. 10.13 but fears before the throne of God and thus you erre not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God therefore behold ye despisers and wonder and perish I will work a work in your dayes which though you see it you shall not believe it Acts 13.41 is it not apparant before your eyes the wicked man returnes from his wickednesse and the ungodly from his ungodlinesse and the drunkard from his drunkenesse and a profane one from his profanesse and seeks after God and fears his name and yet you cannot believe but despiseth scoffs and scorns the power by which this work is done for it is no new thing but the same which was and you are in the same adulterous generation which cannot see the signs which follow the Truth Matth. 16.4 from whom the Gospel is hid whose eyes is darkned by the god of the world 2 Cor. 4.3.4 and so speaks evil of the things you know not Iud. 10. putting darknesse for light and light for darknesse evil for good and good for evil Isa 5.10 you are the scoffers fore-told of by the Apostles to be in the last times Iude 18. who are despisers of those that are good incontinent fierce traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God having a form of godlinesse but denying the life and power 2 Tim. 3.3 4 5. And here you are both Priest People and Professors who are scoffing and scorning slandering reproaching and reviling and persecuting the righteous innocent servants and messengers of the most high God who is uttering forth his voice through them in power against all ungodlyness and unrighteousness of men who will you call to judgement and convince you of all your ungodly deeds and all your hard speeches which you have wrongfully spoken against him and his power and will reward you accordingly Iude 14.15 Revel 22.12 Therefore to that which is of God in all your consciences I speake which is my witness against your ungodly lives which turning to it will let you see you speak evill of the things you know not loving darkness rather then light because your deeds are evill Iohn 3.19 Therefore fear the Lord God and repent and take heed of mocking lest your bands be made strong Isa 18.22 for God will not be mocked such as you sow such shall you reap Gal. 6.7 Therefore fear before the Lord and try all things and hold fast that which is good 1 Thess 5.21 and despise nothing before you know it lest you speak evill of Gods elect for it is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10.31 Therefore take this for a warning as from the mouth of the Lord for now no ignorance is to be pleaded before the Throne of God this was given forth in vindication of the power of God which he is now manifesting in his sons and daughters lest the simple who are not yet acquainted with it should stumble at the name by a friend of the Truth and a lover of those people which you who are out of the Truth scornfully calls quakers but the scorners God will judge Prov. 19.29 and the righteous God will bless who work out their salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2.12 For saith the Lord to such an one will I look who is of a meek and contrite spirit and trembleth at my words Isa 66.1.2 FINIS