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truth_n	apostle_n	believe_v	word_n	2,728	5	4.1658	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86655	A woe against the magistrates, priests, and people of Kendall in the county of Westmerland, pronounced from the Lord by one of his prophets. Which may warn all the persecuting cities and towns in the north, and every where, to repent and fear the Lord, lest the decree go forth against them. Also the stumbling-block removed from weak mindes, who are offended at the strange signs and wonders acted by the servants of the Lord, scornfully called Quakers in the northern parts of this nation.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3189; Thomason E725_18; ESTC R206774	5,603	8

A WOE AGAINST THE Magistrates Priests and People OF KENDALL in the County of Westmerland Pronounced from the Lord by one of his PROPHETS Which may warn all the persecuting Cities and Towns in the North and every where to Repent and fear the Lord lest the Decree go forth against them Also the Stumbling-block removed from weak Mindes who are offended at the strange Signs and wonders acted by the Servants of the Lord scornfully called QUAKERS In the Northern parts of this Nation LONDON Printed in the Year 1654. The word of the Lord came unto me saying Write and declare against that bloody Town of Kendall and leave it without excuse HEar ye which pretend to be Rulers and ye that pretend to be Teachers and ye people the trumpet of the Lord is sounded gather your selves together for I will plead with you your iniquities are come up before me and your Transgression is come into mine ears Wo wo and misery is coming upon you you shall be as Sodome and Gomorrah and as Admah and Zeboim Desolation and a crie a crie lamentation howling bitternesse and sorrow shal come upon you at unawares the sword of the Lord is drawn against you it is sharpned for a great slaughter and you shall be cut off because you have despised my name and troden under foot my precepts and walk after your own wils and the imagination of your own hearts and yet saith the Lord they say I am amongst them Wo unto you hypocrites I am weary of you and of all your profession it stinks in my Nostrils and I abhor it as much as if ye slew a man you have slain my Son you have mocked my Prophets and despised my Messengers which I have sent early and late to forewarn you of the evill to come have not I wrought signes and wonders amongst you as ever was in any day or from the beginning have not I made the Mountains tumble down in your sight have not I caused my Judgments to fall upon them that have set themselves against me have not I cleansed the Lepers have not I quickned and raised them out of the grave which were dead in Sins and trespasses have not I brought down the proud have not I exalted the low have not I caused the weak things to confound the wise have not I sent signs among you and have sent my servants to declare against you as I did to Nineveh and have you not heard it have not I commanded my Servants to go bare and naked in your sight to be a sign to you that your covering is now rent and your garment is to bee torn and you shall be left naked and bare and you shall be made a mock and a proverb to all as my Servants have bin made a mock and a proverb to you and I will scatter you in my indignation and I will cause my fury to rest upon you till I have consumed you Ye Rulers that rule by your own wills and ye false Prophets that cry peace to this people and all ye People that delight in lies is not all manner of wickedness committed amongst you As Pride Covetousness Oppression Persecution Mocking Stoning and Imprisoning haling before Magistrates them who are made to do my will and to declare against you Ye strive against me saith the Lord ye cry a Confederacy ye consult together ye plot ye call all your Inchanters against me thus saith the Lord ye shall be broken as Pharaoh and go down to the pit with Aegypt Mesheck and Tuball and all the uncircumcised Wo is me the spoiler is come up against you and blackness covers you and a consumption is entring into your bones my eie shall not spare my hand shal not pitty but it will bring this upon you howle and lament ye Okes ye Mountains cleave asunder and all ye people both great and small be astonished put on sackcloth put your mouths in the dust for I will make my fury to pass over you and none shall be able to deliver you said the Lord write this let them know but they will not hear till I have caused my fire to burn them up and there be no remedy Written from the Spirit of the living God by me who am a wita Witness for his name whom the world knows not but named by the world Franc. Howgill Oh ye raging Priests who have set your selves against the mighty power of the Lord in his own whereby he is manifesting his works his strange works his acts his strange acts making his servants signes and wonders amongst the heathen and them that know not God nor his power whereby he is choosing that which seems foolishness to confound the wisdom of the wise which you who stand in your own wils and wisdom know nothing of but in this as in other things out of your envie against the truth take occasion to lay stumbling-blocks in the way of others wherein you plainly aypear to be in that generation who will neither enter into the kingdom your selves nor would suffer others you who take occasion to Preach and Print against the truth because the Lord hath caused some of his servants to go naked along your streets as in Kendal and Kirkby-stephen as signes of his wrath to come upon that pride and fulness that Priests and people live in and this you who never knew what it was to obey God contrary to your own reason and wils for who act such things act contrary to their own wils cry out on a delusion and madness thinking thereby to make the truth odious to others but it is that the Scriptures may be fulfilled upon you as it hath been on your generation before you who counted always what the Prophets Christ and the Apostles did madness and called them mad-fellows but now all you who fear the Lord and believe his Word take heed of the deceit of these men and mind not what they say who have set themselves to speak evill of the things they know not but search the Scriptures and there you shall finde that the mighty God who hath power over all flesh and what he commandeth none must dispute by their Reason though it seem never so foolish and against their wills but must obey hath always before his great Judgments which he has about to bring on a people or Nation made some of his dearest Servants to pass and act as signes to such Nations of what was to follow and was so usual among the Prophets and them who knew the word of the Lord that the Prophet Isaiah speaking in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ saith I and the Children whom thou hast given me are for Signes and Wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts that dwelleth in Zion Isaiah 8. 18. And if ye search the Scriptures of the Prophets you shall see in what strange and foolish things to the wisdome of the world they were acted in as in Esay 20. the Prophet was to go Three years