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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66867	A visitation & warning is this unto all magistrates and law-makers temporal and spiritual to repent of persecution and to forsake the evil thereof that so they may obtain mercy and find a hiding-place in the day of God's wrath which is near to be revealed against all such : even from him that sitteth upon the throne and unto all his inferiour officers and people in England whatsover to him that openth and shutteth the prison-doors ... / persecution will undo this generation the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it in Humfry Wooldridge.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3304; ESTC R27623	21,355	26

Lord Chap. 17. Let them be confounded tha● p●●s●cute 〈◊〉 but let not me be confounded let them be dis●●id b●● l●● not me be dismaid bring upon them the day of evil and des●roy the● with double destruction I say these things will cry for Veng●anc● from the God of Heaven as in the dayes of old when Christ came near unto Jerusalem the conside●ation of these things caused him to weep over it saying O J●r●s●l●● J●rusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest th●● th●● are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thee This is thy state and this is thy condition O London with thy Magistrates and Rulers how often hath the Lord wa●ned you and ye would not be warned to leave off Persecuting for matters of Conscience in the Worship and Servic● of God in the dayes of your former Rulers which were many how often were they warned by the Servants of the Living God concerning this thing And now in this your Day you have been often warned both you and your King to let Conscience go free and you have made Promises and the words of your King have been we should never suffer for Conscience sake so long as we lived peaceably And again you are warned at this time both you and your King that you leave off Persecution and let the Spirit of the Lord teach the Children of the Lord how to Worship him for it is written in the Scriptures that the Spirit teacheth them how to Pray and Worship as they ought and as many as are the Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God therefore do not think or believe that such can be limited to any dead Form of Prayer or Worship set up by the Precepts and Commandments of men therefore be warned of these things and if you are not it will be your utter ruine and it is not for evil-doing nor rebellion against the Lord nor the good Laws of your King that we are killed thus all the day long and counted by you as Sheep for the slaughter but because we keep our Consciences clear in being obedient to his Living Word and Spirit which purifies our hearts that we are so used by you and because we that know the Lord are resolved though he suffer you to kill us we will not fall down to your dead Image nay it is not so much as a true Image of a true Worship nor Worship in any other way but the same which he himself shall teach us for he is a Spirit and in Spirit will be Worshipped and all they that Worship him after the Precepts and Commands of men Worship they know not what Now all this Cruelty and Persecution is done and suffered to be done that that saying might be true spoken by the Spirit in Generations past They hated me without a cause and he which is born of the Flesh persecutes him that is born of the Spirit for the enmity of the Serpents Seed is against the Seed of the f●●e Woman because it is begotten and born of God which cannot sin in bowing to that which is begotten and brought forth by the wicked one for there is a Seed begotten and a Birth brought forth by the undefiled God in England that serveth the Lord in bearing Witness as it did in all Ages and Generations against the Seed of Evil-doers And in the Persecutor is this Seed a prick Saul Saul why persecutest thou me it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks This is that Seed of the Kingdom which Christ told the persecuting Jews Luk. 17.21 was within them And this is that which Paul told the Gentiles of Rom. I. that which may be known of God is manifested within them This is a Talent given to the evil and slothful servant and a Prize in the hand of a fool he wanting an heart to improve it to the praise of the Giver This is the day of small things and the weakness of God it being compared unto a Leaven hidden and a grain of Mustard-seed not grown This is small in its beginnings yet chosen of God elect and precious A precious Stone and sure Foundation to all that have tryed believed and proved it he is precious and the head of the corner but to the wisdom of man and wise-builders such as build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity is he a stumbling stone and rock of offence at this day and had not the Lord God of Sabbaths left this Seed in fallen man even we had all been as Sodom and Gomorrah whom the Lord overthrew and repented not This is the Candle of the Lord which all ye Persecutors put under a bushel and that Light by which Job that righteous Magistrate walked through all darkness which all ye oppressors of the poor in spirit lie in This is that which did convince the persecuting Jews in themselves that Christ was a good man and Pilate also so that he notwithstanding all the cry of the multitude Crucifie crucifie him could find nothing worthy of death in him And this was it which almost perswaded King Agrippa to be a Christian And this is it which all Persecutors and Compellers about Religion grieve and do violence to in themselves first The light of the body is the eye God said I will guide my People by mine eye This all blind guides put out in themselves It is the god of this world in you Spiritual-men falsly so called with the seeming honour and glory thereof which blindeth you and shutteth your ears lest you should hear what this good Spirit of God saith as it is written by the Prophet If thou canst reade thy state do Who is so blinde as he that is perfect and deaf as the Lord's Messenger that I send seeing many things but thou observest not Hear ye deaf and look you blind that you may see the Lord is w●●● pleased For his Righteousness sake he will magnifie the Law and make it honourable but this is a people robbed and spoyled they are all of them snared i● holes and they are hid in prison houses they are for a prey and none delivereth for a spoil and none saith Restore Who among you will give ear to this who will hearken and hear for the time to come Thou that art compelling to worship in the Form thou settest up with carnal Laws thou wouldst blind all them whose eyes the Lord God hath opened in this day of his Power in which he hath caused his day to spring from on high which will cover thy day and stain thy glory whose fading crown is mortal and doth not endure throughout all generations but it is upon the head of the fat valleys where run the pleasant streams and where the springs of waters are ye Persecutors drink not of The Lord hath caused his Day to spring and he hath enlightned the Earth from his holy Habitation everlasting Glory is revealed which will stain the glory of the World England shal be as a

Decrees as are made by you Lords spiritual And when the Apostles cast any out of the Church we do not reade that they took such a way as you do when you excommunicate that they must neither buy nor sell for Paul saith I write unto you that you should not accompany with Fornicators yet saith he not altogether with Fornicators of this world for then must you go out of the world But if any that is called a Brother be a Fornicator or covetous or an Idolater or a Railer or a Drunkard with such a one do not eat For we have nothing to do to judge them that are without but them that are within saith Paul 1 Cor. 5.11 12. but these we reade of in the Revelations to be the Dragon 's and Beast's and false Prophet's weapons which slew the Saints and killed them that had the Testimony of Jesus which is the Word of God And there you may reade all this Compelling is not of God but the Devil not of Christ but Antichrist neither was it ever found in the true Church but in the Synagogues of Satan You may reade your selves your ●oot is one with Judas whose Bishoprick was taken from him because he persecuted the poor and need man and your Weapons are not Spiritual but such as the High Priests were that came with Judas to apprehend Christ so all your Decrees and Laws whereby ye imprison spoil and banish such as cannot Conform to your Worship nor deny the Lord who hath taught-them how to Worship is not of God but of the Devil so ye are they in Sheeps clothing but inwardly ravened from the Spirit and Power the true Bishops had which Christ said should come And John which wrote unto the little Children in his Epistles said were come already by which he knew it was the last times And John in the Revelation saith All the World wondered after the Beast and this was sixteen hundred years since and said Who was able to make War with him and they received his Mark and his Names which were Names of Blasphemy who blasphemed the Temple of God and they that dwelt therein but only they who loved not their lives unto death whose Names were written in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the World they followed the Lamb wherever he went Now they that are blind in heart and Hypocrites may believe you are true Bishops and Ministers of Christ and your Church the true Church the fearful and the unbelieving who are with you without the Gate of the City of our Solemnity and Place where the Saints worship and serve him day and night they may say Who is able to make War with the Beast False Prophets they may fall down and bow to any thing and all they whose Names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life they may Worship the Beast and so that Scripture will be fulfilled in England written in John's Revelations Chap. 17. where the false Church is compa●ed even Mystery Babylon to a Woman deck'd with Gold Pearls and precious Stones this Woman was drunk with the blood of the Saints and yet in her hand was there a golden Cup so fair and beautiful to look upon and behold that she made all the Kings and Great Men to drink of it and so they became subject to her even her in whom was found the blood of all the Saints and Prophets that were slain upon the Earth vers 18. The Woman that thou sawest is that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth But I say and it is the Truth of God There are a few notwithstanding all this that are Redeemed out of that Earth out of which that Beast which did carry the Woman rose that have not defiled their Garments with this Woman nor bowed to this Baal nor kissed him in whom the Lord hath opened a pure eye that sees an end of all things which had a beginning and are come to the beginning it self the first and the last where there is no darkness nor shadow of death where there is no Oppression nor Cry but the voice of Rejoycing and Salvation is in the dwelling place of the Righteous in which Righteousness is the Lord establishing many And though our outward man perish daily in Prisons and Dungeons under the hands of unmerciful men whose tender mercies are cruelty yet we can rejoyce in the Lord glory all the day long Even in this your day and the power of darkness is the Lord a Light unto us and when all men even almost all say there is a casting down then can our Souls truly say The Lord is the lifter up of our head and though we die daily and are as men appointed by you for destruction yet have we a Life hid from you we have bread to eat and drink ye know not of and in that do our hearts live that seek the Lord and his face continually which all Persecuters and such as do violence unto the blood of any man cannot enter into but are shut out even without the gate among the Dogs and the unclean that can never enter in the portion of whose Cup is not like the portion of Jacob but lamentation weeping and wo. All you Bishops which own your selves to be Ministers of Christ it is in my heart for Truth 's sake which I love before my own life that Truth and the Ministers thereof may be made manifest to ask you a few Questions First How shall one know a true Bishop and Minister of Christ from the false but by their fruits the marks and symptoms the chief Bishop and the true Ministers set them forth by in the Scriptures 2 Cor. 6.4 c. where the Apostle saith In all these things they have proved themselves to be Ministers of God in much Patience in Afflictions in Necessities in Distresses in Stripes in Imprisonments in Tumults in Labours in Watchings in Fastings Mark vers 6. By Pureness by Knowledge by Long-suffering by Kindness by the Holy Ghost by Love unfeigned by the Word of Truth by the Power of God by the Armour of Righteousness on the Right hand and on the Left by Honour and Dishonour by evil Report and good Report as Deceivers and yet true as unknown and yet well known as dying yet behold we live as chastized and not killed as sorrowful yet alwayes rejoycing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing yet possessing all things Mark They were in God whose was the Earth and the fulness thereof they cast their care upon him who said The Labourer is worthy of his meat and he cared for them Whether these things did not alwayes attend the true Prophets Christ and his true Apostles before mentioned And whether these be not the marks of the Lamb and his true Ministers And whether they that are found in the contrary living in pleasures as Lords over Gods Heritage not ruling in the Spirit and Power of God but with cruel Laws made