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A84829 The trumpet of the Lord sounded, and his sword drawn, and the separation made between the precious and the vile; and the vineyard of the Lord dressed by his own husbandmen, and the dead trees cut down, and all the mystery of witchcraft discovered in all professions: by them who have come thorow great tribulation, whose garments have been washed in the blood of the lamb; who are accounted as the off-scowring of all things for Christs sake, scornfully called by the world Quakers. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1654 (1654) Wing F1969; Thomason E732_23; ESTC R206890 12,587 19

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THE TRUMPET Of the LORD SOUNDED And his SWORD drawn And the Separation made between the Precious and the Vile AND The Vineyard of the Lord dressed by his own Husbandmen and the dead trees cut down and all the mystery of Witchcraft discovered in all Professions By them who have come thorow great tribulation whose garments have been washed in the blood of the LAMB who are accounted as the off-scowring of all things for Christs sake scornfully called by the World QUAKERS And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast it into the great wine-press of the wrath of God And the wine-press was troden without the city and blood came out of the wine-press even to the horse bridles by the space of a thousand six hundred furlongs Rev. 14.19 20. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-eagle neer the West-end of Pauls 1654. OH all you that do profess God and Jesus Christ in words see what you do possess of him All profession without possession is nothing but hypocrisie and dissimulation You have heard long and professed much in words but now it is not the hearers but the doers that shall be justified For he that saith he loves God and Christ and keeps not his commandments is a lyer and the truth is not in him If you love me saith he keep my commandments Now I command you to love one another with the same love that I loved you withal By this you may see how you are brought into the obedience of the truth Love the Lord with all thy heart and thy neighbour as thy self Thou must love the Lord with thy hearty love see if thou do so If thou say thou dost and dost not he knows thy heart and he will judge thee for thy hypocrisie Take heed that thou be not found a lyer before him Thou that art in the highest profession see if thy heart be not abroad in the world delighting it self in pleasures or pride or profit or wantonness or anger or wrath or peevishness or perversness or covetousness or delighting in sporting or idle talking or foolish jesting or speaking evil of that thou knowst not take heed that thou be not delighting thy self in swearing and lying and drinking and running a whoring after other lovers If thy heart love any thing above the Lord or delight in any thing but in him alone he knows thy heart and he will judge thee for dissembling with him for if thou say thou lovest the Lord and livest in envie wrath backbiting deceit oppression cruelty or guile or malice or hard-heartedness or passionateness or any of these the Lord knows the secrets of all hearts act it never so closely or subtilly it is naked and bare before the Lord who is present everywhere and his eyes are open to behold the good and the evil Thou mayst make a profession of God and Christ and make a fair shew to the world and yet be an hypocrite but if thy heart and tongue be not one God doth know it and he will judge thee for it and if thou make never such a shew in outward profession and seem never so righteous and do not bridle thy tongue thy Religion is vain Pure religion and undefiled is this before God and the Father To visit the fatherless and widow and to let the oppressed go free and to keep thy self unspotted in the world Now if thou make a profession in words and a shew to be seen of men and do not the works that are required as to depart from iniquity and to live righteously holily and uprightly in this present world all thy profession is but hypocrisie and God will judge thee and plague thee for it Thou hadst better never have made profession of God and Christ then to profess him and live in sin and wickedness Where is thy love to him when thou disobeyest him and breakest his Commandments There is no love to him there is none at all to him if thou do so but on the contrary thy love is to the devil for know you not that his servant you are to whom you obey whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness Now if thou obey righteousness thou art servant to it and art free from sin but if thou obey sin thou art servant to sin serving the devil and so art free from righteousness then where is thy profession The Minister of Jesus Christ is to redeem souls from their vain conversation See what you are redeemed from if you be not yet in your sins if you be you are enemies to him The Ministery of Jesus Christ is a Ministery of love and joy and peace in the holy Ghost It is a glorious Ministery not formal but spiritual You that profess it see that you put in practice what you profess if thou profess thy self to be a Christian obey the commands of Christ make manifest the fruits of thy Ministery Be not a fore-sayer but I charge thee by the Lord that thou put in practice or else profess nothing at all If thou do profess love and do not perform it what is thy profession worth Dost thou clothe the naked dost thou feed the hungry dost thou let the oppressed go free If thou dost not thou art not obedient to the commands of Christ Dost thou love thy enemies dost thou bless them that curse thee dost thou pray for them that hate thee and despightfully use thee Christ saith Swear not at all dost thou so He saith Go not to law dost thou not Let your conversation be without covetousness is it so He saith Recompence no man evil for evil dost thou so He saith Vengea●ce is mine and I will repay it dost thou obey him and keep his sayings If thou do not what use is thy profession of It grieves the Spirit of the Lord to see the well-favoured harlot how she sits in the street deceiving the simple and ensnaring them and how she is painted with the Saints words and with Christs and professes 't is love to him and persecutes him to death where he is made manifest in his people She sits as a Queen but she must come down and sit in the dust ere long and you must all give an account of your profession wh●t fruits you have brought forth For the Lord is coming to separate the sheep from the goats and your works will be tried whether your love be made man●fest or no He will say Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you when I was hungry you fed me when I was thirsty you gave me drink when I was naked you clothed me when I was sick in prison you visited me They will say When did we see thee so Yea said he in my members ye did for inasmuch as ye did it to them yet did it to me Here are the fruits of the righteous Now the Lord is coming to look for fruit see that your