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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28134	A warning from the Lord God of life and power unto thee o city of London, and to the suburbs round about thee : to call thee and them to repentance & amendment of life, without which you cannot see God : be ye separated from your priests, and from your idolatrous worship, and touch not the unclean thing, that the Lord may receive you ... and something also to the scattered seed of God, which hath been held in bondage under Pharaoh the Task-master : who am hated by the unwise, and foolish in heart, and am reproachfully call'd a Quaker / Ester Biddle.	Biddle, Ester.	1660 (1660)	Wing B2866; ESTC R37073	19,970	24

A WARNING FROM THE Lord God of LIFE and Power UNTO THEE O CITY OF LONDON AND TO The SUBURBS round about thee To call thee and them to repentance amendment of life without which you cannot see God Be ye separated from your Priests and from your Idolatrous Worship and touch not the unclean thing that the Lord may receive you Written by one who follows the Lamb and desires the welfare of all Souls as I was moved thereunto by the Eternal and true Spirit of God being quiet and still in my habitation And something also to the scattered Seed of God which hath been held in bondage under Pharaoh the Task-master Who am hated by the unwise and foolish in heart and am reproachfully call'd a QUAKER ESTER BIDDLE LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the Black-Spread-Eagle and Windmill in Martins neer Aldersgate 1660. A Warning unto the City of London and the Suburbs round about c. O The day and hour of thy Visitation is now O City of London with all thy Suburbs and likewise the day hour and time of Gods righteous Judgements is at hand and will be executed upon thee in flames of fire from heaven O my soul mourneth for thee and my bowels is troubled and my heart is pained within me to see thy desolation my eyes runneth down as a Fountain for the misery that is overtaking thee O the fury of the Lord it is terrible and who may stand when it waxeth hot and burneth as a flaming fire O repent repent repent for thy wickedness surmounteth the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah thy pride and ambition far exceedeth Jerusalems Jerusalem had one Temple to worship in and it was commanded of the Lord to be built and the Lord commanded them to worship in it but according to your imaginations so is your worship and as your streets are so are your Idols Temples and thy Idolatrous Worship the abomination of desolation sitteth where it ought not and the Seed that belongeth to Immortal Life is buried in thee O London London how art thou fallen and from whom art thou gone astray even from the righteous Judge and pure God of heaven and of earth O! thou art dead and dying from the true worship and service of the Lord which is in Spirit in truth thou art groaping at noon-day and thy light is not risen out of obscurity that should give thee the knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ although the measure of Gods grace hath called thee to repentance and doth strive with thee against thy pride cruelty hard-heartedness and oppression but thou wilt not lend thine ear unto it neither doth the grace of God teach thee but to the contrary art thou led unto persecution by that spirit which leadeth into transgression O! how many of the Lords dear servants Lambs and Babes hath the Lord sent into thy streets high-wayes and Idols Temples to declare what they have seen tasted and handled of the Word of Life and hath proclaimed this notable terrible day which they see is coming upon thee to declare unto thee thy sins transgressions and how great the indignation of the glorious God will be executed upon thee by reason of them and for clearing their consciences and being obedient unto the Commands of the Lord some of them hast thou stoned and some imprisoned and cruelly beat and unmercifully used them of which doings the Lord taketh notice and heareth the groans of the innocent and the cries of the oppressed O! it s entered it s entered into the ears of the Lord God of Sabbath who knoweth how great our sufferings is in this City and in all quarters of the whole earth where we have been sent we have groaned under cruel oppression and tyranny by unjust Judges and unrighteous Rulers especially by our own Countrymen and in the Land of our Nativity for which my spirit is troubled because we all profess the name of Christians and own Christ in words to be a Saviour but in works and life you deny him and by this thing is the name of the Lord blasphemed amongst all them who doth not own Christ at all whom you call Heathens but truly their life condemns yours they having no Law are a Law unto themselves and they shall rise up in Judgement with this Generation who draweth nigh unto the Lord with their lips and their mouths but their hearts is far from God O the Lord God will be eased of such a vain Religion as this he that seeth thee in secret is the munition of rocks he will reward thee openly his Sickle shall pierce thy heart and his sword shall rip up thy bowels pain sorrow and anguish shall overtake thee as a woman in travel and from it thou shalt not escape O friends as a woman hath pain before she bringeth forth so certainly and surely must you feel the pangs of death before you know the Birth immortal and if that this be not witnessed there is no seeing of God nor no inhabiting of his holy Hill where alone dwelleth purity holiness and righteousness for ever O search and try you who are Citizens of this mortal City which may truly be called Sodom and Egypt for in thee is the Son of God crucified and put to open shame Do you feel or know a part in another City which is immutable which fadeth not away Do you eat of the hidden Manna which corrupteth not or do you drink of the Blood of the Lamb Have you yet found peace with the Lord Are you reconciled unto the God of Jacob Are you saved or saving from your sins Or have you seen the Lord and the place where the mighty God dwelleth if not your Religion is all in vain and if you do not speedily repent you shall die in your sins and where he is you shall not come This will be his answer unto you who is the Alpha and Omega the first and the last Depart ye workers of iniquity I know you not O this will be sad tidings unto you who have got a fair covering but it s not of the Spirit of God which the Lord will rent off in the day when he shall take peace from the earth O ye Inhabitants of this bloody City cast away every man from him the Idols of Egypt with your gods of gold and silver of precious stones and goodly houses and make no longer your belly your gods least God cut you off in this day in which he is slaying the wicked with the First-born of Egypt the Lord will choak Pharoah with all his Host in the Sea of confusion O! a night of darkness is a coming upon thee and upon all thy neighbour Cityes O! a thick cloud covereth thee mists and fogs is spread upon thee thy glory is staining thy honor is laying in the dust and thy mortal Crown shall be thrown into the pit thy destruction is coming upon thee at noon-day thou shalt look for light

give you your reward who is a Just God and a Saviour and wo from the Lord God be unto all the Magistrates and Rulers of this City who doth not Rule yet in Righteousness and wo from the Lord be unto all Masters and Mistresses that doth inhabit this place before mentioned who doth not order their Families in the fear of God nor are not in the fear nor power themselves who one day shall know another Master who will give you a just reward according as your works shall be who is Gods Righteousness and to whom all power in Heaven and Earth is given and it is he alone that will Judge this bloudy City with all the Families and Kindreds of the whole Earth and they shall not escape his Righteous Judgements although thou maist cry for the Rocks and the Mountains to cover thee and thy Religion to hide thee from the wrath of God but it cannot be for his eye whom we serve is over the whole world and his Arm of Power is stretched over thee with a sword which is fourbished in his hand which will cut down and utterly destroy thy Priests in thee who divineth for money and preacheth for filthy lucre and love give ye which feedeth of the fat and cloatheth with the wool and makes Merchandize of Souls with fair words Gods vengeance wo and wrath is their portion and they shall fall by the sword of the living God thy Judges and Rulers shall be slain in the day that the Lord visiteth thee in the fierceness of his wrath for his Soul is burthened with thee and his Spirit is grieved every moment of time with thy filthy conversation therefore repent for the day is coming and thy time of torment and misery hasteneth apace thy condemnation slumbereth not thou hast forgotten good dayes without number and thou art yet in the land of forgetfulness thy ●imes testifieth against thee and thy iniquities is gone over thy head and thy transgressions is without number even as the stars in the firmament and thy ungodliness before the Lord is for multitude as the sands of the Sea shore thou ha●t corrupted thy way before the Lord and art fallen short of the glory of the Lord therefore return to the measure of Gods Spirit that thou mai●t know amendment of life and an inheritance in another City before thou art dispossessed of this City and peace and re●t purity and joy may possess thy house and the New Heaven and the New Earth thou maist witness and a feeding upon the bread of Life that maketh truly wise and a drinking of the water of life which truly satisfieth the immortal Soul this must thou witness if ever thou wilt enjoy the pure habitation of God or sit down upon his holy Hill which is beautiful indeed before thou returns to the d●●t from whence thou camest there is the center of the earthly the center of the heavenly is unmortal and dwelleth in immortality and as thou serve●t and obeyest and joineth issue with this it will lead thee up to God the Saviour and Redeemer of thy Soul where the earthly center and the first birth and nature cannot enter there is a great gulf and separation between the two seeds and the two natures the one delighteth to ser●e the Lord and it is its nature to work Righteousness and Holiness for ever and it cannot join with the cursed the other is continually prone to do wickedness and it leadeth in drunkenness lying swearing and d●ssembling cheating and cozening and it cannot do good neither shall it have a habitation with Abels nature who sacrificed upon Gods Altar a Sacrifice of praise and the Lord had regard unto to it So if thou joyneth with Hagars Seed the Bond-woman thou shalt not inherit the durable possession therefore as thou lovest the good of thy soul and thy immortal life return to that which yet condemns thee which is the light of Christ and it is pure and immortal and know it to justifie thee for the Spirit of the pure God will not alwayes strive with thee no more then it d●d with the Old World O thou City of London remember how the Lord overtook the old world in their evil deeds he came upon them as a thief in the night when they little thought of him he took them eating and drinking Marrying and giving in marriage and he repented that ever he made man upon the Earth and he overtu●ned them in his fiery wrath and in his fiery indignation he spared not Jerusalem wherein his Temple was built and dost thou think that the Lord will spare thee I am afraid the Lord will overturn thee in flames of fire as he did them in their gain-sayings Therefore amend thy life while it is to day and prize the short moment of time which thou hast yet to spend least God cast thee into Hell which is prepared for the wicked and abominable And this is my councel unto thee whether thou wilt receive it yea or nay It is good and the same which the Apostles gave to the ungodly in that day and to the Scribes and Pharisees who were learned men whose zeal did far exceed thine in this thy day and this is it that thou return to the Spirit of God which is in thee and be guided by it and led with it into righteousness meekness and long-suffering and walk in the light whilst you have the light for the night will come wherein no man can work but in this glorious day the Son worketh and the Father worketh therefore let him not work in vain but let the Spirit of the pure God work down and lead out of all that 's contrary to God that so life over death may reign in thee O! that thou wert like the Noble Bereans that searched the Scripture in their day and if thou wouldst do so with the same Spirit that gave them forth then wouldst thou see clearly that we are in the way of God and live the life of the Scriptures and then wouldst thou joyn issue with us and leave thy dumb idle Shepherds which indeed are greedy dumb dogs and can never have enough and come to Christ whom God hath given for a Leader and a Commander to his people and to be Salvation to the ends of the earth who is the Physitian and the Bishop of the soul who leadeth into the Fold immortal where he feedeth his Flock at noon-day in the heat of persecution and in the day of fiery tryals he is a sure hiding place his Name is a strong Tower the righteous fly thereinto and are saved but as for the wicked they must inherit the Lake that burn for ever for that 's their habitation which is never-dying torments which God hath prepared since the Foundation of the earth for them E. B.

by the seed up to God and many there is whose faces are turned towards Sion the City of our solemnity there to praise the Lord in that City the morning stars meet together and the Sons of God shoot for joy and singeth Halelujah to the Highest the Bridegroom is come he hath betrothed them to himself who cannot but rejoyce his Table is prepared where the Lambs and Babes eateth and is satisfied there is a river as clear as Christal which runneth softly of which all drinketh freely and is satisfied O! here is fulness of joy to be reaped in this City honor glory and dignity inhabiteth here O! come hither all ye ignorant unwise and simple ones who knows not a stay to your minds nor a resting place for the soal of your feet neither satisfaction for your souls O! come and drink and eat freely with us without money and without price for we have found him whom our souls loveth who is the choicest of ten thousand and the chiefest in the whole earth he hath been exposed from amongst us for many years but now is he come contrary to the whole earths expectation to visit and redeem his people and to get himself a name in the earth Glory be to him who hath been as a stranger upon the earth for ages and as a wayfaring man to tarr● for a night for Generations but glory for ever he is well known in Sion for he hath comforted the mourners therein and he hath revived the fainting spirit and hath bound up the broken-hearted the feeble knees hath he strengthened the blind he causeth to see and the lame to go upright the Leopard is cleansed the dead is raised the deaf heareth the dumb speaketh all this is done by Sions King in this the latter day and our eyes hath seen it O! what tongue is able to expresse the Noble acts of our God O! its unutterable and undeclarable words are too short Declarations must end but the life by which they are written liveth in it self for ever and ever O! all ye dear and tender ones who doth abide either by Sea or Land dwell in the pure life in the single being in the lovely estate let not your minds be captivated by any created object or visible thing but feel the birth immortal to be brought forth and reign over the world and you espoused to Christ Children of the Lamb Heirs of the world which is without end let him be your beloved alone who is light and life beauty and strength wisdome and prudence altogether lovely and glorious whose day is glorious and perfect and all must be perfect that walks in it therefore be ye holy as he is holy without which none shall see God who is immutable and dwelleth in everlasting burnings no flesh can see him and live O! the notable terrible day of the Lord will suddenly come upon all slothful and disobedient ones who idly spendeth away their present time and hideth Gods money in the earth but an account one day must you all give when the last Trumpet shall sound then shall you come to Judgement the Just to the Resurrection of Life and the unjust to everlasting torments therefore be awakened all ye that have been long convinced of the truth of God arise and shake off the dust of the earth plough up the fallow ground of your hearts with the power of God let judgement be brought forth unto victory let the Sickle reap the earth that the righteous branch may come forth which you hold in bondage thorough your negligence and unbelief O! dishonor the Lord no longer with your out-side profession which is as a shell without a kernel which God will rent off it will not cover you no longer for it is deceit and a hypocritical Religion which is covered over with fair words and a fair gloss on the out-side and within side is rottennesse and putrifying sores O! this is loathsome in the sight of the Lord woe be unto all from the Lord God of heaven and earth who holdeth the truth of God in unrighteousnesse O! your coverings will be too narrow to cover you and your beds will be too short to stretch your selves on for the Lord is come to torment you O! the Lake is prepared for you that burneth for ever O! what will you do when the Lord shall appear to strip you and to uncrown you and bereave you of all your mortal glory and lay your honor in the dust then without repentance there will be no enjoying of Gods presence which giveth life to the weary soul O repent repent ye Aliens and strangers who are yet without the knowledge of the pure God and knows not an entrance into an undefiled being which is made without hands O! come and sit down where we have sate abhorring our selves in dust and ashes we have lain as they that have been dead of old and our sorrow has been our sin and our beauty hath been turned into ashes and our glory as stubble and our hour as the morning dew and our wisdome as a shadow which hath been and now is not O consider all ye Kings and Princes Dukes and Earls Lords and Ladies Governours and Magistrates Priests and Jesuites this will the Lord do by you as he hath done by us he will lay your habitations wast who respects not the person of any but you shall sit as a Widdow that is rebuked of husband and children bemoaning her self even so shall you be But if you are willing to endure this straight way and narrow gate wherein nothing that is of this world shall enter but must be laid down and if you will deny your selves and take up your daily crosse and follow the light whom you have grieved and wounded with your whoredomes and idolatry whithersoever he goeth then shall you be with us where we are and eat and drink with us of the living Bread and Water of Life and see him who is invisible who cannot be seen but by Faith and this Faith purifies the heart and maketh pure as God is pure O! Come unto the Fountain of Life and drink freely with us O! Christ hath invited all upon the whole face of the earth poor and rich to come into his banqueting house and to eat freely of the Bread of Life and to drink of the still waters of Shilo which satisfieth the hungry soul O! come to our Shepherd who hath laid down his life for his sheep O come and see how good he is and where he feedeth his flock at noon-day O! come into his Fold who is all love and life and gaineth unto God the hungry soul and reconcileth every tyred spirit which panteth after him and blessed are all they who feeleth satisfaction with the Lord it is better then wine or oyl and all who joyneth issue with the Seed of God they know a more durable encrease for they encrease in wisdome purity and holiness and so dwelleth with the Lord in their measures O! all