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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

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by the Powers of the Earth whether these be not false Prophets and Ministers of Antichrist let them go under what Name they will and whether it be the Name of a Minister and Bishop that makes him truly so or the Nature and Power of God which first gave them the Names Yea or Nay And whether these Marks and Characters are found in your Church and Ministry or whether they be not rather found amongst the Church and Ministers of the People called Quakers which by your consent and advice are made this day in England to suffer such cruel things as they do and are like to do Whether the marks of the Beast and Characters of the false Prophets and Merchants of Babylon which traded with the Bodies and Souls of men be not rather found amongst you by whose consent and advice they are caused so to suffer Again Whether Paul were not a faithful and true Bishop who said Though we live in the flesh yet do we not war after the flesh but the weapons of our Warfare are spiritual and not carnal Moreover he said We are counted as the off-scouring of all things being defamed we entreat neither saith he do we wrestle with flesh and blood mark this ye that have put or at least suffered it so to be so many thousands of innocent People in close Prisons wherein many of them have lost their lives but with Principalities and Powers of Darkness and with spiritual Wickedness in high Places mark Spiritual wickedness was against Paul as at this day it is against them that follow his steps And whether your Warfare be the same Paul's was and against the same if yea then why do you not use the same weapons the Apostles used namely found Doctrine for a Bishop must be blameless and faithful as the Steward of God holding fast the faithfull Word that thereby he may be able with sound Doctrine mark not with Prisons spoyling their Goods and banishing which destroyes the handy-work of God and spills their blood but with sound Doctrine he must Paul saith be able both to convince and stop the mouths of gain-sayers Now if ye be found in the Faith as they which watch for the Soul ought to be even in that Faith which is a Mystery to all that mingle their Sacrifices with Blood and was once delivered unto the Saints then Answer these Queries and do not cry out Heresie a Blasphemy and run to your Car●al Weapons and Car●al Laws for help as the persecuting Jews did against Christ and the Apostles when they were not able to resist the Spirit and Power by which they spake Again If your Church be true and Ministry also then why is it not upheld according to the Truth as it is in the Scriptures declared to be in Jesus then according to Paul's words 1. Cor. 5.12 What have ye to do to judge them that are without or to sue them for Maintenance that are without are ye not greedy which would feed upon the Milk of the Flock ye keep not and eat the Fruit of the Vineyard ye neither dress nor plant them that are without your Church if it be true leave them to God's Judgment as Paul saith What have I to do to judge them that are without So I say What have you to do with us who have denied both you and your Church root and branch many years since What have ye to do to Excommunicate and cast them out that for the Lord's sake have separated themselves from both your Church and Ministry because they have no Faith to believe it is the true Church and Lamb's Wife and whatsoever is not of Faith is sin but rather that Mystory Babylon which John Rev. 17. vers the last said Ruled over the Kings of the Earth and all Nations have drunk of her Cup and were become unstable as Waters even her Cup in whom was found the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and your Ministers the Merchants thereof which must weep and mourn over her for men will not buy her Merchandize as afore-time the Merchandize of Gold and Silver and precious Stones and of Pearls and fine Linen and Purple and Silk and Scarlet and Cinamon and Odours and Oyntments and Frankinscence and Wine and Oyl and fine flower of Wheat and Beasts and Sheep and Horses and Slaves and Souls and Bodies of Men the Merchants of these things which are made rich by her shall stand a far off for fear of her torment weeping and wailing saying Alas al●●● I that great City which was clothed in fine Linen and Purple and Scarlet and deck'd with Gold and precious Stones and Pearls and every Ship-master and Company in Ships and Saylors and as many as traded by Sea stood a far off and cryed when they saw the smoke of her burning What City is like unto this great City that reigneth over the Kings of the ●arth For in this day even in this day that is dawned in England must Babylon be destroyed and all her Merchants mourn and all their great Riches brought to nought and she that hath sate as Queen upon many Waters and hath been called the Lady of Kingdoms shall know Widowhood and loss of Children Therefore rejoyce over her thou Heavens and holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath avenged you of her And a mighty Angel took up a Stone like a great Mill-●one and cast it into the Sea saying Thus with violence shall that great City Babylon be thrown down and be found no more at all Again I do not read in the Scriptures among any of the Acts of Christ's Apostles and Churches by them gathered who had all Power in Heaven and Earth committed to them that after Excommunication or casting them out of the Church they did ever spoil the Goods or Imprison any such and that they should not be suffered to buy or sell but be banished as is done in England by the consent and advice of you that seem to be Pillars of the Church These things hath my Soul weighed and upon Consideration of good advice and in the counsel of the holy pure God I am bold to Conclude that these Marks and Characters are not of the Lamb or his Ministers but of the Beast and false Prophets and Apostles transformed being found amongst you I charge you in the Name of the Lord not to be true Bishops and Ministers of Christ neither were ye ever made so by the Holy Ghost and the Power of God as they were we reade of in the Scriptures nor your Church true but false and a Nest of unclean Birds and Synagogue of Satan and place where his seat is set witness all the Prisons of England and the spoiling of their Goods who for Conscience sake are imprisoned witness also Newgate in London how many of the Lord's People have been kept there until death a sufficient witness is the whole Nation of them that fear the Lord in whose heart is his Law against both you and your Church