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A66862	This is written in plainnesse of heart, and bowels of everlasting love to my persecutors who have shot sore at me, and hated me without a cause. Both magistrates, priests and people in Stafford sheir, of elsewhere, that ye all may be turned from the darknesse to the light, and from anti-christ without, unto Chrust within, who is the light of the world, and hath lighted wvery man therein with his saving light. Some queres also, for such who call themselves ministers of Christ, but are altogether unlike him, or his ministers to answer. Together with a warning from the Lord God of life and power to repent, andleave persecuting, and striving against, or kicking against the Lord. Written from one who have been in the pit, death, grave, and Hell; but am come from far, and am sit down with Abraham, Isaack, and Jacob, in the heavenly places with them that are in Christ, but unknown to you, I am: but by the name I have received amongst you, Humphry Wollrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3299; ESTC R219472	14,792	23

This is Written in PLAINNESSE OF HEART and Bowels of Everlasting love to my PERSECUTORS WHO HAVE Shot Sore at me and hated me without a cause Both Magistrates Priests and People in Stafford Sheir or elsewhere that ye all may be turned from the Darknesse to the Light and from Antichrist without unto Christ within who is the Light of the World and hath lighted every man therein with his saving Light Some Queres also for such who call themselves Ministers of Christ but are altogether unlike him or his Ministers to Answer Together with a Warning from the Lord God of Life and Power to Repent and leave Persecuting and striving against or kicking against the Lord. Written from one who have been in the Pit Death Grave and Hell But am come from Far and am sit down with Abraham Isaack and Jacob in the Heavenly places with them that are in Christ but unknown to you I am But by the Name I received amongst you HVMPHRY WOLLRICH 2 Cor. 3.6 God hath made us able Ministers or the New Testament not of the Letter which kills but of the Spirit which gives Life Printed for Robert Wilson at the signe of the Black-spread-Eagle and wind-Mill in Martins-lane near Aldersgate COme all ye Magistrates Rulers and Officers in Stafford which are sworn to do Justice and ex●e●●e Judgement and lay the sword upon the neck of the Wicked and to be a terrour to Evil doers and a strength and a praise to them that do Well Come all to the Light wherewith Christ who is the True Light hath enlightned you with 〈◊〉 and so you shall see the Evil doer deceiver and seducer which 〈…〉 to sinne iniquity and trangression nearer you than you were aware even he which reignes and rules in Stafford and leads the Inhabitants thereof into Swaring Lying and Drunkenesse so that your being Christians is onely in words ye being dead in your trespasses and sinnes and the God of the World having blinded the eye by which the Lord hath said he will guide and lead his people into all Truth out of all iniquity transgression and sinne which the Inhabitants of Stafford abounds withall and yet have covered themselves with a Profession and have got the Prophets words and Christs words but are inwardly ravened and cast the Law of the Lord behind them which is Light and have reiected the Word of the Lord which is nigh them in their hearts Rom. 10.8 And this is the Word that opens the blinde Eye and is immortal and unchangeable and is like a fire and like a hammer Sinke down and ye shall feel it so and this is it which was before the Bible was which your false Teacher tells you is the Word of the Lord and opens the blinde Eye and this is the Word which was before the World was whom the Jewes which had the Words Slew and Crucified and this is false Doctrine for David prayed the Lord that he would open his eyes Psalm 119.18 and Psal 146.8 The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down and looseth the bonds of the prisoner Isaiah 42.6 7. where you may read That it is onely the work of Christ to open the blinde Eyes and to bring out the Prisoners from the prison and them that sit in Darknesse out of the Prison house And this is he which commands the Consciences of men which love him and the Condemnation of all that hate him and rebell against him and not the Bible as your blinde Guide tells you And why will you be so blinde as to look upon me as an evil Doer who was moved of the Lord to question this Doctrine that poor ignorant people who are in their sinnes might be deceived no longer and the Lord God Almighty is my witnesse and the testimony of the Lord stands sure and shall witnesse for me in you all that I do not this wickedly or maliciously nor in stubbornnesse either against Magistrate or Minister but in obedience to the Lord and that people which lie in darknesse might be turned to the light from the power of Satan unto God and why will you call this delusion or a deluding Spirit that causeth Drunkards to leave off their drunkenesse and become sober and temperate and Swarers to leave their swaring and Lyars to speak the truth and in the power of the Lord God I warne you all to consider what is my transgression or sinne amongst you for which I have been imprisoned eight or nine times in Stafford Which of you have I caused that was sober to become a drunkard or what Countenancers have I been of lyars swearers and mockers there amongst you I say Is it for any of these things for which I have been so often imprisoned or have I not suffered for bearing a testimony against these things which Stafford doth abound with notwithstanding all their Profession And is not your Markets which I have been moved of the Lord to speak in and to cry out against these things yet abounding with Swearers and Drunkards which go reeling up and down the streets unpunished neither are they looked upon is deceivers or deceived neither are they counted a disturbance or troublers of your Israel And how doth your Steeple-houses abound and your Church made up of such as these which professe Christ in words but have lost the Life and are altogether unlike Christ or Christians and to every good word and work are reprobates and by such as these are we persecuted and abused who have lost both form and power of godlinesse and are enemies to the life of Christ which they in words professe therefore the Lord God Almighty hath raised up many witnesse and in his Life and Spirit and by the Power of the Lord are they led to bare a testimony against all your false Teachers which are run and God never sent them and have cryed the Lord saith it unto you when the Lord hath not spoken to them but are theeves and robbers and are climed up another way than by Christ the Door and so are become theeves and robbers and have stolne Christs words and the Apostles words and are condemning the Jewes for Crucifying Christ but themselves are Crucifying him again and imprisoning persecuting and stoning them in whom he is made manifest and so are you like the Jewes and your Priests have no other weapons nor no other sword to cut down Hereticks withall but prisons clubs and staffes which are Carnall as the High Priests weapons were and not Spiritual as Pauls was and the Jewes which had the Prophets words and thought to have Eternal Life therein were Condemning their Fathers for killing the Prophets but they would not come to Christ who the Light of the World that they might have Life who was the end of all the Prophets and the life of all the Prophets him they Crucified as a Deceiver and Blasphemer and prince of Devils Therefore in the fear of the Lord God I

warne you all Take heed what you doe or how you resist and withstand the work of the Lord which is a marvellous work and a wonder and is begun among you though you have not an Ear to hear nor an Eye to see who are gone from the Light of the Lord in you nor an Heart to understand unto this day But why do the Heathens rage and the People imagine a vain thing and have said in their hearts this man shall not reign over them whose right it is to reigne But in vain do you strive against your Maker or against his Servant whom he sends who hath sought nothing but your Souls welfare and that you might come to know your Souls Shepherd and be gathered into the one sheep-fold from all false Shepherds which have lived in ease and pleasure which have eaten the fat and clothed themselves with the wool but have not watched for the soul as they that must give an account for them nor cared for the sheep but they have been blind leaders of the blind and they have not turned you to the Light which is the Eye which the god of the world hath blinded left you should see them to be deceivers as they are Read Ezek. 34.3 4 to the 13 verse John 10.1 verse to the 15. And to you and your Teachers who are opposing the work of the Lord to you all This is the word of the Lord God ye are as nothing before him and all your strength is but weaknesse and as a tottering wall and our Shield is departed from you and he is risen like a Valiant man and his appearance is terrible as an Army with Banners and he will Overturn Overturn Overturn you all untill he reign whose right it is And the Lord God Almighty is risen against all Persecutors to destroy them and confound them unlesse they repent and be warned and agree with their Adversary while he is in the way be ye wise and instructed in love to your soules I warn you all and kisse the Sonne lest he be angry and brake you with his Iron Rod like a potters vessell and tear you in pieces live a Lyon and there be none to deliver you And I warn you all Follow not these Teachers nor own them to be your Guides which are ashamed to give an Answer of what they Preach in publick but run away as the hireling in Christs time did when they see him come whom they call a Wolfe Let your Teacher if he be a Minister of Christ I charge him in the Powre of the Lord never to preach that to the people which he is ashamed of before them And before the Lord God I warn him or any of them who preach for Hire and say the Scripture is their Rule and accuse us for denying of it to Answer these Queres I. Whether the Ministers of Christ who wrestled not with Flesh and Blood did ever use Carnall weapons to defend the Truth withall Or whether they did ever imprison or tortour the bodies of those which are called Hereticks and so destroy the Handy-work of God Or whether they which fought the Good Fight did not use the Sword of the Spirit onely which is the Word of God and proceeds out of the mouth of the Lamb Or whether these be not your Mothers weapons the Church of Rome which ye are crying Whore against Come answer ye Priests and ye Orthodox men and Originall men who have lost the true Original and gone from the Spirit of truth which gave forth the Scriptures these Queres which are plain honest things Whether you have any better weapons than the High Priests had which Crucified Christ or the Beast Antichrist and the false Prophet which ye read of in the Revelations had which made war with the Lamb and the Saints and slew them which kept the testimony of Jesus and the Word of God whether you do not fight the bad fight as the false Teachers whose weapons were Carnall in all Ages did by which weapons your Church and your Mother Church of Rome have strengthned themselves and do strengthen themselves to this very day Is this to fight the Good Fight and to wrastle with that wicked Spirit which hath captivated the Seed and the handy-work of God II. Whether Hebrew Greek and Latine be the Originall by which people must know the Scriptures seeing they that had your Original did Crucifie Christ the true Original and did erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God Come answer these Queres or else stop your mouthes for ever III. Whether the Scriptures or the Bible be the Word of God or whether Christ be not the Word of God which was before the Bible was or whether this be not the Living Word which was as a Light and a Lanthern to his feet and which David hid in heart and walked in the Light thereof that kept him from sinning against the Lord and whether they which had the Scripture have not still proved the greatest Enemies to Christ and whether he who was the immortall eternall and unchangeable Word did abide in them IV. Whether the Bible be the Rule and Guide for Saints to walk by as ye preach it in your Pulpits to be or whether all that are the Sonnes of God have not in all Ages been ruled guided by the Spirit of God V. Come Answer ye Priests What is the Judge of the Spirits whether the Bible be the Judge of the Spirits or the Anointing which we have received from the Holy One by which we must Judge and try all things and whether people must come to the Scripture which is the Bible or to Christ within to whom all Judgement is committed VI. Whether Christ be the True Light that enlightneth every man and whether this Light being obeyed and followed and taken heed too be not suflicient of it self to Salve man and Redeeme man out of all sinne and iniquity and purifie his heart and create in man a clean heart as God is clean and to preserve and keep clean in this present evill world Come Answer all ye deceivers which say none can be perfect in this Life tell the people plainly by answering these Queres whether ye are not the Children of your Mother the Church of Rome which do believe in a Purgatory between Heaven and this Life seeing you tell them they cannot be free from sinne while they live here and no unclean thing can enter into the Kingdome of God VII Whether you be Ministers of Christ or Enemies to Christ who are of this Belief that none can be perfect and free from sinne seeing Paul saith Ephes 4. 11 12. The work of the Ministry was for the perfecting of the Saints VIII Whether your Preaching and Praying against all Sinne be not sinne seeing ye Preach and Pray for that which you beleeve can never be and whether all that 's not of Faith be not Sinne IX Whether you do not make and in effect say Satan is

smote thee and made thee to start and persued thee in the hinder parts when thy heart was Adulterated and went a whoring from the Lord. I say hadst thou then come down and waited in the Light of the Lord which smote thee thou wouldest have found and felt the Power of the Lord which is the Word of the Lord arisen in thee like a fire and like a hammer even the word within the Vaile would have destroyed the covering which hath been over all Nations and rent the Vaile which hath been over all people and is yet over you and when the Scriptures you read with all your Originall as Hebrew Greek and Latine you cannot understand because the Vaile is over your heart and Christ the hope of Glory is entred within the Vaile which should condemne sinne and finish transgression and destroy him which hath the power of death which is the Devill and bring in everlasting Righteousnesse And this Righteousnesse are you ignorant of and in your owne you are which is as filthy ragges and it doth not set you free from sinne because it is sinne and so you being all gone out of the way which is Christ within Gods Righteousnesse you cannot cease from sinne and so your Prayers are sinne and your striving seeking and knocking is sinne because you are striving and seeking amisse and so though thou take unto thee water and wash thee with never so much Sope yet thine iniquity and thy Righteousnesse is marked and all one before the Lord. Therefore in the bowels of love I Exhort you all and in the power and dread of the Lord I warne you all to come down to the manifestation of the Spirit of God and unto the Light of God and Grace of God which hath appeared to all men and freely given from the Lord and is the Lords Tallent and the Lords gift which is perfect and pure as God is pure and unchangeable and varies not and is freely given to every man to profit withall I say to this come down if ever you expect Salvation feel it and wait in it which is meek and low of heart for untill this be done namely to see the Light separated from the darknesse and the Precious from the Vile you shall never be as Gods mouth and all your Teachers who are gone from this are out of Gods Counsell and shall never profit the people and all ye Professors of what Sect soever or of what Opinion soever who are gone from this you are them which are not Sonnes of God being not led by this spirit of God which he hath given to every man to profit withall and the price is in the hand of the fool and you are the unprofitable servants which hide your Lords Tallent and must be cast into utter darknesse where the worms dieth not and the fire goeth not out but where there is wailing weeping and gnashing of teeth and where the Fire of the Lord shall consume and burn for ever and the Breath of the Lord as a stream of Brimstone doth blow it up and kindle it I say again to you all Come downe out of all your owne wisdome and own your shame and sit in the dust before the Lord if so be there may be but hope and this is hard for you who are rich and wise to become fooles for Christ that ye may feel and know the Spirit of the Lord which is the Spirit of Truth from the lying spirit which is of the World and leads from the Lord into the World and hides the Seed to which all the Promises are and vailes the Pure which is not of this World nor its Kingdome Power nor Glory is not of this World And this is he which you cannot believe in who are the friendship and love of the world worshipping and honouring and receiving honour one of another in him you cannot believe who receives not honour of men Neverthelesse to him you must come and to him you must how and whose Image hath been marred in you and hath bowed down and hath been slaine since the world was set in mans heart and this is the gate and the door by which the Sheep enter and this is the Soules Anchor which anchors up the Immortall Soul to God And this is the Shepherd of the sheep and hath laid down his Life for the sheep and they hear his Voice and follow him through great tribulation and in the Regeneration they are washing their Robes and making them white in the Bloud of the Lamb. And unlesse to him you come out of all your own thoughts reasonings and imaginations and take him for your rule and guide to to walk by you shall never know the peace which is upon the Israel of God And all ye that kindle a fire and walk in the light of the sparks which your selves have kindled ye shall all lie down in sorrow saith the Lord God But Peace upon all and Joy upon all who walke in the light of the Lord and are led by the Spirit of the Lord who leadeth out of sinne and iniquity which ye all lie in in the way of Righteousnesse Holinesse and Purity which becomes his house for evermore And oh that thou hadst hearkned into me saith the Lord then had thy Peace been like a River and thy Righteousnesse like the Waves of the Sea the Seed the light to which all the Promises are had been as the Starres in the Firmament and the Ofspring of thy Bowels like the sands of the Sea-shore innumerable Oh that you had taken heed to the light which ye call a low thing I would soon have subdued your enemies under you and turned my hand aganst all them that hated you he would have fed you also with the finest of the Wheat and with honey out of the Rock would he have satisfied you but you would not hearken to my Voice saith the Lord which smore you and reproved you upon your beds so the Lord hath given many of you over to your sinnes and over to your hearts lusts to see what you will do in the latter end And Wisdome hath uttered her voice in the streets saying Turne in for I have mingled my Wine I have slaine my Fatlings I have furnished my Table and all things are ready and he hath long stood at the door and knockt and hath long waited upon you all that he might be gracious and I am a witnesse for the Lord against you all that he hath rather desired your return than your ruine and the Lord hath long striven with you and his compassions have been great and exceeding large towards his dwelling house in sending to you his Messengers time after time and day after day But ye have whiped stoned imprisoned and persecuted them by whom the Lord would have healed you but ye have chosen your own wayes and ye have delighted in that and lived in that and been led and taught by that by which the soul of the Righteous hath been