hear that the Lord hath raised him up Judges as at the first and Counsellors as at the beginning and the Heathen shall hear and fear and come to you to learn Judgement and Righteousness shall arise from amongst you to the ends of the earth the break of Gods day shall be with you first as to you it is first tendred if you be not found unworthy to receive him and he shall make you as a head in Counsel and the first born of all Nations unto God shall you be if you receive him wherein the blessing of God is bound up by an oath and his strength upon earth to all generations And this is the love of God to you all once more The Rulers of these Nations from the highest to the lowest that love might open your hearts that the earth hath shut and sealed that you might come to a feeling of your everlasting establishment and that your fears may cease in an endlesse union betwixt Christ your King and your own Souls to the dread of all your enemies and eternal praises lift up to him indeed who hath scattered your enemies many a time for you and all their dark Plots brought to light that you may love the light wherein is your Salvation and not Plot in darkness against his innocent ones as your enemies do but with hearts open and naked receive the truth which condemns all the deeds of darkness in you and in them least he bring your Plots and secret Counsels against the innocent upon your heads as he hath often done to your enemies for he will avenge the poor though long he suffer with them and in them and this is now seen concerning you as was formerly seen concerning them of which they were warned in words and witnessed against in sufferings long before it came who are now broken as a Potters vessel and cannot be made whole but what ever they do breaks them more And now are you warned and invited in love who sees before you this day what God hath done concerning them and suffered concerning you And I am bold in the love of God to send this to you all wherein there is a Seed of God and I know there is that of God in you which will answer to the truth of this and the Scriptures witness with me also so I am not alone but by two infallible witnesses every word is established either to life or condemnation and my prayers to God is and shall be as long as this of God in me hath breathings that you may receive the Kingdom of God which is near you through that spiritual Light and Key that opens the door of your entrance thereinto that you may come to be established in the Covenant of God and not of man and that you may not resist the Holy Ghost as hitherto you have many of you done nor kick against that which pricks you at your hearts when you are told hereof least you be broken in the end so as you can never be healed which is near at hand to be broken or established as you receive God or refuse him who hath long waited upon you that now are and with much patience is he finishing as large a Testimony of his suffering and forbearance among you as ever was since the world began though it be little seen where the light is rejected which the longing of my Soul is may be for the leading to Repentance that you may be established after all this shakings in that which cannot be shaken otherwise the most miserable Wo that ever was will come upon you your Profession of Christ being the greatest that ever was since the beginning And his Oppression answerable under which he suffers in all places of the Nations for a testimony that the Kingdom is near you whether you will receive him or refuse him whose life in measure is now manifest in mortal flesh and the light thereof ariseth in every Conscience to lead or condemne A Candle lighted to give the sight of the good Old Way of God at his coming from the wayes that now ensnares the simple A Voice in the Wilderness cryes aloud to all you who are talking of the Lords coming prepare his way make his paths strait make way for the Just to come to Judgement make him way in your streets he comes not in a Corner nor is he kept in the secret Chambers but openly in the streets of your great Cities where iniquity is committed openly whose Cry hath gone up before the Lord and he comes to see whether it be so indeed as the Cry hath been And behold here is no room for the feet of his Servants to passe in whom he comes The antient paths of Peace are broken up the Sea hath broken its Banks it rages and swells exceedingly and the good old Wayes are grown like a wilderness they are filled with heaps of Rubbish so that the Stranger cannot passe who hath no habitation in the Earth our streets are become as Sodom which God overthrew who can see and not lament How are the paths of the Just devoured How is Bryars and Thorns grown over the way of the Righteous which takes hold of the upright what way soever he turn if he come against sin So the Innocent cannot passe if he come in the Name of the Lord All hath freedom but the Heir and such as he sends before his face to prepare his Way Swearers Liars Drunkards and all deceitful workers are become Freemen have free passage and every one brings forth without fear but he that departs from Iniquity and testifies against it is beset about with them all as a Sheep in the Bryars what way soever he turns his bonds are increased How is true Judgement driven into a corner and wickednesse come into the streets which rises up without fear against him that Reproves it for Violence hath got into the Seat of Equity and hath framed Mischief by a Law and hath turned Judgement backwards Should not Truth have its way amongst you Professors and righteous Judgement passe upon its Enemies where they are found and plead its own Cause against Iniquity But he that letteth stands in the way with his Weapons to devour him that is more Righteous then himself and no man is able to restore to the upright his path Or can he redeem his own way but through bloud Shall he condemne Iniquity and not be a prey Or shall he reprove sin in the Gate and not be taken in their Dragg And when the Innocent is caught in this Net to whom shall he cry for Relief and not encrease his bonds Or who will plead his innocent Cause and not betray him If he would Appeal to Justice he cannot come at it nor doth Judgement sit in the Gate Is there help in the House of the King or will the House of the Priest plead his Right Or to whom may he commit himself with safety whose life and Faith is held in a pure
apace your Cup is almost full and with the light are you seen Hath not the Lamb set up his Testimony against you almost in every place of the Nation How many Towns have yon in which the Innocent have not suffered violence for crying against sin in the Name of Christ calling for the fruits of Righteousness How many Prisons have you that do not speak your cruelty How many Counties have you in which Innocent blood hath not been shed which daily speaks How many of your Synagogues have the Children of light born witness in against your evil wayes wherein they have been beaten haled pulled and punished And all this you drink up as a thing of nought and are yet thirstier then at first Are these the works of Christ or of the old Murtherer Wherefore cease to Blaspheme for you are measured by that which will not lye and with your own Rule are you found in the works of the old deceiver and the old persecutors and in their Opposition and Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit where it testifies against your evil deeds So seeing you are found in the works of the old Persecutors and in their nature take to you their name for that is truth and will be your Inheritance amongst them and cease to Blaspheme the Name of Christ by taking it upon you to cover these abominations and hide your sin from your own eyes and so deceive your own Souls and others that are blind but who comes in the Name of Christ comes in the light to prove you openly and sees you and gives light in the life of Christ for all to discern betwixt the Lamb and the Wolf by their nature and not by their cloathing Christ is the Holy annointing wherewith all that are in him sees out of these things to be led and every appearance of his from Cain the first murtherer till this day declares these to be the works of the Devil and by works of a contrary nature doth witness against them In which life he is the light of the world who though he be in the midst of Gods Throne seen so to his own yet as a Lamb slain amongst these unclean beasts shining forth in the life of Meekness Holinesse Patience and Long-suffering enduring all things from his enemies which light and life though to the wisdom of the wise world it appears poor base and contemptible and therefore by the builders rejected yet it is full of Grace and Truth and hath power with God over the Devil and all these his works and by Faith in his Name and by the vertue of his Nature all that are in him bear his Testimony against the worlds works and nature for in that Name is Gods Covenant of Life and Peace and the Ark of his strength and safety in the great destruction that is to come upon the world for these things and he is ever at the Arm of Gods strength and sits at his right hand in heavenly places and with him to gather and save his Elect from the ends of the earth and by his sufferings to redeem them from under these ungodly powers and to break the bonds of iniquity and therefore they who are gathered into this Name holds it as a Holy Power and dare not Blaspheme it but say Let every one that nameth the Name of Christ depart from iniquity which Name to such is Salvation and strength and righteousness meekness and peace Ah blind people that have eyes and see not ' What is become of your profession of Names your Forms and Ordinances and how is God departed out of all as to you and your house is become desolate and where light truth and peace should dwell it s become a habitation of devourers a place of Owls and Dragons and night birds and beasts of prey such spirits rule in all your holy things in which you trust You cry the Name of Christ but see not nor is your eye annointed you cry the Name of Jesus but are not saved from your sins you cry Christ is your King but have not Peace you cry great is the Lord with your lips but the Devil prevails in your hearts and caries you captive at his will contrary to the Will of the Lord So you have got the words of Saints but the life you have lost sheep in words but wolves in nature and so are in the gall of bitterness against such as recain the power of what you profess Now are not these vain words you trust in which doth not save This is the deceiver you tell on who makes people believe in a lye and now he is found in your own bosom blessed be the day which hath brought his works to light glory to God for evermore Wherefore let not your own thoughts deceive you and lead you to cast upon others that which in your selves is found but leave your vain and evil thoughts of others and Judge your own selves with the light of life and measure your works with truth and not with thoughts Did not they that persecuted the Prophets think they did God service And they that persecuted Christ thought the same and they that persecuted the Apostles and Saints of old knew not that they persecuted Christ Jesus but thought they did well to punish Hereticks and Blasphemers and they that slew the Martyrs were of the same spirit and so of the same mind And now come to your selves and your thoughts in this your work which is the same at this day and many of you have the same thoughts though some of you act clearly against what you see and so exceed all your fore-fathers and now see who are Deceivers and Blasphemers and where the Lamb is led to the slaughter Ah you Teachers of these Nations should you thus have used your liberty you had given of God from under the dark power that ruled in part in the Bishops under which some of you suffered Was it not then in your hearts that if you had but liberty you would go on to the rooting out of the reliques of Popery and Idol worships and persecution Should you not have gone on with singleness of heart as you had liberty to the end Then had you been faithful to God and the Nations then had you been as openers of the Holy Pathes for men to walk in and breakers of oppression and men should have called you the blessed of God then had you not inherited this cursed thing set up by your fathers the old persecutors and oppressors whose children you are now found to appear then had you not bin at this day found fighting for their fat benefits which spued them out suing your People for Tithes pigs geese smoke and such like trash haling poor people to Prison and spoiling their Houses and Lands for your bellies you had been at this day in a more honourable work then raking in these Dung-hills The Lord should not have needed to have called your own hearers from under your elbows and sent them against you into your Meetings to Declare your shame openly and to cast this dung in your faces laying open your deceitful works and worships which falls so heavy upon you that you have not strength left to stand before the guilt thereof nor have any defence but either to fly or cry out to the earthly powers to help you against him who is now become your Adversary It was not thus with you while you were sufferers for standing faithful to what you then knew of Gods new work I appeal to that of God in your own Consciences if then a silly boy or girle or man or woman had asked you a question concerning your Doctrine or Manners if you would have used either your feet to fly or your hand to smite or cryed away with him Officer take him to Prison Magistrate make a Law against him Queen Maries Acts were then abomination to you you had then another Weapon even a measure of the Spirit to inform the weak with meekness to convince gainsayers But then you were sufferers your selves for your Conscience and so the Case is changed with you and the Spirit also as far as the sufferer is from the persecutor Onely here the deceiver keeps you blind in that you keep the old form you then had but possessed with another spirit So your sticking in the form hath deceived you of the suffering Spirit and the Power of meekness which had you been led by the Spirit of the Lamb you had been at this day in the fellowship of his sufferings not tormenters of those that are Have not I heard some of you in publick Declare That if a Church had persecution in it for Conscience sake upon any account whatsoever it needed no further Tryal to prove it to be of the Devil and not of the Church of Christ But since the same person though no mean one of account amongst the finest sort of Teachers have commanded them to Prison who came but into the Synagogue and spoke not one word Alas for your Souls how are you fallen under the cursed thing that you should be they who are left to fill up the measure of what the Bishops came short of Ah! how are you to be pittied Will not your cutting them off rise against you And will not God avenge their blood upon you seeing you have condemned their persons but justifie the things for which they were cut off by adding manifold thereto of the same nature God is Judge this day and his light in your hearts how you have dealt with him his Inheritance whom you should have led out of these things going before them into the Kingdom of God but are now found in the work of gain-saying such as are coming out of darkness into light neither entring your selves nor suffering them that would So let truth for ever stand upon the head of the deceiver and blasphemer and let such as are seduced by them be therewithal delivered And blessed be the Lamb for ever whose life is this day become a light to devide the Sheep from the Wolves that he may come to Judgement THE END
Conscience Or in what Court can he appear without offence Are not Snares laid in lower places and on the Mountains a Net spread And do not these daily catch men Search if there be a man left that is valiant for Truth upon Earth who for fear or favour will not winke at Oppression or that dare faithfully stand bâ— him that comes in the Name of the Lord to reprove sin openly who is he that hath not laid Riches or Honour or some piece of Earth in his own way to stop his feet from the path of uprightness and so is every mans Arm become too short to relieve the Oppressed or to open the way wherein the Innocent may serve his Maker without fear Or the Just to proclaim the Holiness of God without danger in the way that God shall chuse and not man Or for Judgement to come forth into the open places where wickedness is most acted Or for the lively witness of the Lamb to arise against his Enemy in the good old Way that he hath chosen to all Generations Ah! How is the Antient paths forsaken of men How have you left the good old Way of God and chosen wayes of your own against your own souls How long will it be ere you try your wayes with the truth that you may return to him who is come to require the paths of Judgement and Righteousness and Truth that the meek may possesse his Inheritance of old and that God may walk in his own seed as he hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them who comes as the lightning Behold you who are crying against new Wayes you say it was never well since there is so many new wayes you are the men and your wayes are the thing you complain of and why there is so many of your wayes is because Babel is confounded and many Heads and Horns are lifted up to fulfill that number as is written of them to withstand the way of the Lamb and to fight against Gods appearance in his heritage who all are set against the way of God as at this day which is but one to all Generations was not this his way of Old which is now rejected and which is become so odious in your eyes Was not this of Old the pure path which you now say breaks your Peace Search the Scriptures which testifie of God and his way in his Servants of Old and how he then passed in his redeemed ones chosen vessels for himself to make his power known against opposers as you may read in Scriptures trace the steps of his Servants in whom he walked and see how far you have erred at this day Was not this his way in Jeremiah who led him into the Gates of Jerusalem and through the streets thereof through him declaring against sin there abounding and to pronounce Judgement to follow did not he lead him into their Temple and therein told them who went ehither to worship that they trusted in a Lye who cryed the Temple of the Lord but had made it a Den of Thieves by their wicked wayes Did not he lead him down to the House of the King and there told him That if he would not amend his wayes his House should become a desolation And which of the false Prophets did he not Reprove openly by him Was not this his Way then And what became of them that would have stopt him Did not he speak words in Amos against the Wickedness of their King Priests and Worships that the Land was not able to bear Did not he lead Jonah through the streets of Nineveh And in which of the Prophets did not he thus walk in and some received him in his way and turned from their own wayes and found Mercy and the rest that rejected him was destroyed in their own wayes in which they blessed themselves as at this day Now read these and read what you now oppose in your Streets and Steeple-houses and Markets and let that of God in you be judge if you be not of such as now say Depart from us we will have none of thy wayes Also search your Gospel if you can receive his way therein which changes not Did not he come in Christ and in his Apostles as a wanderer to and fro without a certain dwelling place to Preach Repentance and amendment of life and the light of the world from City to Village from place to place which way you now call Vagabonds And did not he enter their Temples and Synagogues Schools and Markets and all their Places of Worship and Concourse where Sin or false Worship was acted and there Disputed and testified against their whole way and called them to the way of God and this was his manner of walking in them even in times of their Worships and in the greatest Assembly of Meetings Markets which to you is become as Gall and Wormwood and you call it Disturbance and Peace-breaking Was not this his way in such as knew their bodies to be his Temples and in whom he walked and spoke the words of life and judgement and Truth his way by which he overturned the World leaving all without excuse against the day of wrath which was to follow where he was rejected his way by which he called many thousands out of false Worships in which they were settled as you are and their Souls deceived but this was his way to Salvation which was not their way as he hath said my wayes are not your wayes yet was there no other way for them to be saved wch is the same at this day to all that receive his coming and to all that resist the Holy Spirit in his Temples as did your fathers so do you saith Steven to such as worshipped God in outward observations but denied his way and worship in Temples made without hands these resisted the Spirit that spoke in his Saints these resisted the Holy Ghost resisted the Way of God as do you read and consider Steven was full of God the Spirit spoke in him they resisted him they called him a Blasphemer they stoned him by a Law here was Gods Way and their way now try your wayes whose work is to resist the Spirit and Light within which hath filled the hearts and mouths of his servants to cry against sin mind what you resist Had not God come in this his own Way to seek and to save by his appearance in such vessels as he had prepared of old for that end whom in time he filled with himself as they stood in need in all conditions to pass with him through all hardships and crooked wayes of the wicked world from place to place seeking a Seed to himself what had become of the Saints of old which was covered with darkness till he came thus to appear to them holding forth his light and his life and glory in vessels prepared to shew forth his vertues and the riches of his grace not onely in declaring in words but
strengthening one another against the faithful witness of Truth when you have been wounded therewith and have belied the Lord and said it is not he and if it be he let him make me better and I cannot make my self and if the Devil be in me let him cast him out and that sin and Righteousnesse is all one to God and many of you openly denying God and much more such blasphemies out of you hath proceeded all which the Innocent Lamb hath born since the day he first invited you and the Just Lord who is in the midest of you hath seen it and of you he will take revenge for the Innocent Ones sake whom he will ease of his enemy Oh the terrible day that I have seen approaching towards you and the mistery that is coming nigh when you shall be dealt withal as you have done against the Meek and the Holy Seed which hath stirred in you unto life which you have betrayed and murthered for your lusts treacherously have dealt and treacherously will you be dealt withal then shall you know that there is a God of Power and Judgement when you shall be as a mad Bull in a Net and the Fier of God underneath you then shall you chuse death and it shall flie from you who have refused the way of Life and puft at it and you who have scorned the Light shall know Chains of Darknesse Ah how have you mocked at reproof the Lord hath heard your light answers and hath borne your mockings and you have made him to serve under your lusts he is oppressed and grived and broken with your whorish hearts and you have made heavy the burthen of the meek and lowly against whom you have sported and have not considered that all this is against your own Souls and to make strong Bonds for your own Necks which you must know and feel when the just arises to plead against you for all that is written against you Verily dread is upon me when I behold your end and the way you have to goe and how few there are to be saved Alas for you how have you heaped deceit and filled your Vessels with that which the Pure God abhors You have eaten and drunken your own damnation while you have served your lusts you have chosen deceit rather then Truth and therewith shall you be deceived when you look for rest you have got words and sought out cunning waies to stop the way of judgement in you therefore is your cup become full for condemnation from the Lord God of power you are filled with the names of blasphemie against the most High yea it is written He hath marked you out he hath set himself against you and while you are building a Wall of falshood is he preparing destruction and is watching over you for evil and not for good and your wall you have made of cunning deceits will stand betwixt you and Salvation and keep you from finding the place of Repentance And you high-minded Professors also who have gotten the wisdom of words and have preached high things of God and Christ which in you is not wrought nor fulfilled but is a lie this will be required at your hands with Truth and your own words shall arise against you in judgement and when you should come to him that should answer in your behalf your Wisdom and Knowledge which you have got in that Nature which hath oppressed him will stand in your way as thick Darknesse which you cannot remove nor pass then shall you curse your God who hath set you on Preaching Words above Life and lies by which the Spirit of Truth in you and others have suffered and been denied and Gods Witnesse lie waste and been resisted in its gentle Calls Motions and Reproofs All which a just hand and unresistable will bring upon you in that Day when Chains of Darknesse hath compassed you in the Horrible Pit Deceipt Discovered by its Fruits YOu that call the Children of Light Blasphemers and Seducers and many evil Names you give out to People against them because they Preach Christ the light of the world and Christ for Righteousnesse and Perfection c. Hear what Blasphemy and Seducing and Deceiving is and who are the Deceivers They were Blasphemers who said they were Jewes and were not and this was Blasphemy in Gods account To profess in words what they were not in works Rev. 2. 9. And they were Blasphemers who said He that wrought the works of Righteousness was of the Devil Mark 3. 22 28 29 30. And James said They Blasphemed that Holy Name by which the Saints were called who drew them before Judgement Seats and Oppressed them Jam. 2. 6 7. And Saul Blasphemed in persecuting for Conscience towards Christ Now this God calls Blasphemy Falsly to take upon them the Name of a Jew seeing the Jewes were to be a Holy People to the Lord and to bear his Holy Name before all the World in Righteousness and Truth and the fruits of his Spirit which Name they who had not the Life did Blaspheme by taking the Name of a Jew And Christ calls it Blasphemy to condemne the fruits of that Spirit to be of the Devil And the Apostles calls it Blasphemy to hale before the Judgement Seates and persecute the Poor that God had chosen out of the World These were the old Blasphemers in Gods account and their Children be in the same steps till this day and therein the Truth finds them and uncovers them So come to your Rule and be tryed as you are in Deed and not in Words in Gods account and not in your Own This is the Blasphemy to say You are Christians and are not to say You are in Christ and are not to say You are of God and do the Works of the Devil that old Murtherer and Persecuter to say Such as do the Works of God are Blasphemers and to Oppress your Brethren for Conscience sake And this Blasphemy exceeds your Fathers by how much the Name of Christ excels the Name of a Jew Will you bring forth the abominable Fruits that God hates and cover them with the Name of Christ and father them upon the Spirit of Christ and say you are in Christ and Redeemed and Baptized into him and have Communion in him and get up Likenesses and Imitations from the Letter to cover you with in a nature contrary to Christ And is not this the Height of Deceipt and Blasphemy What is the Name of Christ and the Redemption of Christ the Death of Christ the Baptism of Christ the Resurrection of Christ the Communion of Christ and the Words of Christ become a Cloak for the Works of Wickedness And doth not this Blaspheme his Name his Words his Spirit his Ordinances and his People and all his Holy Things and cause them to be Blasphemed amongst the Heathen and throughout the World But to Preach Christ the Light of the World and to Confess him in us so far as we feel the
power of his Spirit taking us out of the power of Sin and Conforming us to himself and to bring forth the Fruits of his Spirit in Truth and Righteousness this doth not Blaspheme but in such he is Honoured who shew forth his vertues and walk in his Spirit such exalt his Name This was Pauls work when he had left off to Blaspheme Now come to your Rule and be tryed it tells you who are Christs and who are Antichrists Deceivers and Blasphemers and they are known by their Works and not by their Words It saith They that are Christs have Crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts And if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin And as many as have been Baptized into Christ have put on Christ And as you have received Christ Jesus so walk in him And he that saith he abideth in him ought himself so to walk even as he walked and ye are all one in Christ Jesus And if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature and all things are of God And he that saith he knows Christ and keeps not his Commandements is a Liar And this is the Blasphemer who covers himself with the words of Truth but is an enemy to the Life Now here is the testimony of Truth lay it to the testimony of your lives and measure your selves therewith and we will measure our selves therewith also And let Truth judge the Deceiver and Liar and Blasphemer by his fruits and where he hath his Seat What will Truth say where Covetousness is found Have such Crucified the Affections Have Proud men Crucified their Lusts Have Wantons Crucified the Flesh Have Swearers Liars and cursed Speakers put off the body of Sin Or is it dead where these works are alive Where there is Envie Strife Suites and Contentions Is this to put on Christ or to be all one in him Where Flattering Scorning Back-biting and Slandering is and the Vessels filled with such Wickedness are all things of God And are such Baptized into his Death or planted into his Resurrection And are not they Blasphemers who Persecute others for Conscience towards God But to Preach Christ to be the Light of the World and the Hope of Glory in the Saints our Life our Righteousness and Perfection and to Suffer for it is not Blasphemy Now here is your Measure and with Truth are you measured weighed and tryed Your Baptismes your Communion your Redemption your Death and Resurrection and your life Eternal And in the light you and we are seen and with the life thereof you are found who bring forth these fruits to be under the power of sin unredeemed and out of Christ the life deceiving your own Souls and others of the righteous Inheritance amongst them that are Sanctified and blaspheming the holy Name of Christ and grieving his holy Spirit by professing that in his Name which you have not and by your evil deeds acted under his Name whereby it is polluted which was not given for a Cover to such Works In this Holy Name of Christ hath God placed his Covenant and Life and in these Holy things did Holy men and women meet with God worship him and dwell with him in Spirit as his house in which he was seen and walked And are these now become a cover for a Den of thieves a habitation and hiding for all the abominations now acted in the world Is not this the height of Blasphemy and Deceit thus to prophane his Holy Name and turn it into a lye as though all these abominable things were therein or that he owned such as live in them Now lay your words and your works in the true Ballance and weigh them with the Words of Life and Power of his Name and measure of Truth and Honesty and lye not against the Truth But you that are under the power of these wickednesses and in bondage thereto who see and are not ashamed to say you cannot but commit these abominations while you live do not lye against the work of Christ in saying he hath Redeemed you when you are yet in this bondage neither count his blood an unholy thing in saying you are washed nor his Work imperfect nor mix it with the work of the Devil but give to each his own that thereby they may be known and in what Name every thing is wrought For now is Truth come to try you and he is appearing who will have his own and nothing but his own under what pretence soever Now is the Heir of Righteousness come to seek the fruit of his own stand still you that use those high words against others and see how the Lord is dealt with amongst you at this day Did not he plant a Holy Vine to bring forth to himself of his own Nature and Image And have you let this be over-run with weeds while you have been asleep in your sloth and idleness cares pleasures of the world till all be filled with bryars and thorns and corrupt plants that now are spread and bring forth And now the Lord is come who is the light of the world to seek fruits of his own and will you hold him forth these cursed fruits and cover them with his Name as though they were his and seek to force them upon him whether he will or no and fall violently upon him if he deny them Now if this be not so what means this That when any one in his Name is sent to reprove sin in the Streets or Markets where it abounds and in the Name of Christ to Declare against false worships never set up by him which hath been his manner in all his appearances and to call for what is his own and to deny the works of the Devil that presently all is in an uproar and a tumult raised pulling and beating and haling to Prison beaten in Markets beaten in your Synagogues shamefully intreated in your Streets and all for no other offence but because he calls for his own and denies what is not of him Doth not this Blaspheme that Holy Name by which they are called and which your selves profess Teacher cryes away with him and tumult cryes away with him it s not fit he should live And what usage he receives from you in his members is openly seen and God is daily bringing your works to light Now let the wise in heart who can discern the signs of the times read if the Parable be not fulfilled upon you Husbandmen And will you guild this Cup over with fine words forms and professions and call them Deceivers and Blasphemers who in love to your Souls and obedience to Christ tells you of it and testifies against it in all long-suffering and patience Who will be found the deceivers and the deceived when your guilded covers comes to be pulled off and you must drink of the Cup your selves as you have filled and this is certainly near at hand to come upon you and you are hasting towards it