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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Decrees as are made by you Lords spiritual And when the Apostles cast any out of the Church we do not reade that they took such a way as you do when you excommunicate that they must neither buy nor sell for Paul saith I write unto you that you should not accompany with Fornicators yet saith he not altogether with Fornicators of this world for then must you go out of the world But if any that is called a Brother be a Fornicator or covetous or an Idolater or a Railer or a Drunkard with such a one do not eat For we have nothing to do to judge them that are without but them that are within saith Paul 1 Cor. 5.11 12. but these we reade of in the Revelations to be the Dragon 's and Beast's and false Prophet's weapons which slew the Saints and killed them that had the Testimony of Jesus which is the Word of God And there you may reade all this Compelling is not of God but the Devil not of Christ but Antichrist neither was it ever found in the true Church but in the Synagogues of Satan You may reade your selves your ●oot is one with Judas whose Bishoprick was taken from him because he persecuted the poor and need man and your Weapons are not Spiritual but such as the High Priests were that came with Judas to apprehend Christ so all your Decrees and Laws whereby ye imprison spoil and banish such as cannot Conform to your Worship nor deny the Lord who hath taught-them how to Worship is not of God but of the Devil so ye are they in Sheeps clothing but inwardly ravened from the Spirit and Power the true Bishops had which Christ said should come And John which wrote unto the little Children in his Epistles said were come already by which he knew it was the last times And John in the Revelation saith All the World wondered after the Beast and this was sixteen hundred years since and said Who was able to make War with him and they received his Mark and his Names which were Names of Blasphemy who blasphemed the Temple of God and they that dwelt therein but only they who loved not their lives unto death whose Names were written in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the World they followed the Lamb wherever he went Now they that are blind in heart and Hypocrites may believe you are true Bishops and Ministers of Christ and your Church the true Church the fearful and the unbelieving who are with you without the Gate of the City of our Solemnity and Place where the Saints worship and serve him day and night they may say Who is able to make War with the Beast False Prophets they may fall down and bow to any thing and all they whose Names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life they may Worship the Beast and so that Scripture will be fulfilled in England written in John's Revelations Chap. 17. where the false Church is compa●ed even Mystery Babylon to a Woman deck'd with Gold Pearls and precious Stones this Woman was drunk with the blood of the Saints and yet in her hand was there a golden Cup so fair and beautiful to look upon and behold that she made all the Kings and Great Men to drink of it and so they became subject to her even her in whom was found the blood of all the Saints and Prophets that were slain upon the Earth vers 18. The Woman that thou sawest is that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth But I say and it is the Truth of God There are a few notwithstanding all this that are Redeemed out of that Earth out of which that Beast which did carry the Woman rose that have not defiled their Garments with this Woman nor bowed to this Baal nor kissed him in whom the Lord hath opened a pure eye that sees an end of all things which had a beginning and are come to the beginning it self the first and the last where there is no darkness nor shadow of death where there is no Oppression nor Cry but the voice of Rejoycing and Salvation is in the dwelling place of the Righteous in which Righteousness is the Lord establishing many And though our outward man perish daily in Prisons and Dungeons under the hands of unmerciful men whose tender mercies are cruelty yet we can rejoyce in the Lord glory all the day long Even in this your day and the power of darkness is the Lord a Light unto us and when all men even almost all say there is a casting down then can our Souls truly say The Lord is the lifter up of our head and though we die daily and are as men appointed by you for destruction yet have we a Life hid from you we have bread to eat and drink ye know not of and in that do our hearts live that seek the Lord and his face continually which all Persecuters and such as do violence unto the blood of any man cannot enter into but are shut out even without the gate among the Dogs and the unclean that can never enter in the portion of whose Cup is not like the portion of Jacob but lamentation weeping and wo. All you Bishops which own your selves to be Ministers of Christ it is in my heart for Truth 's sake which I love before my own life that Truth and the Ministers thereof may be made manifest to ask you a few Questions First How shall one know a true Bishop and Minister of Christ from the false but by their fruits the marks and symptoms the chief Bishop and the true Ministers set them forth by in the Scriptures 2 Cor. 6.4 c. where the Apostle saith In all these things they have proved themselves to be Ministers of God in much Patience in Afflictions in Necessities in Distresses in Stripes in Imprisonments in Tumults in Labours in Watchings in Fastings Mark vers 6. By Pureness by Knowledge by Long-suffering by Kindness by the Holy Ghost by Love unfeigned by the Word of Truth by the Power of God by the Armour of Righteousness on the Right hand and on the Left by Honour and Dishonour by evil Report and good Report as Deceivers and yet true as unknown and yet well known as dying yet behold we live as chastized and not killed as sorrowful yet alwayes rejoycing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing yet possessing all things Mark They were in God whose was the Earth and the fulness thereof they cast their care upon him who said The Labourer is worthy of his meat and he cared for them Whether these things did not alwayes attend the true Prophets Christ and his true Apostles before mentioned And whether these be not the marks of the Lamb and his true Ministers And whether they that are found in the contrary living in pleasures as Lords over Gods Heritage not ruling in the Spirit and Power of God but with cruel Laws made

the Earth give you unto the Lord the honour due unto his Name do not you limit the Lords pure eternal Spirit by making Laws how he should be served and worshipped in this thing you rob the Lord of his honour who is a Spirit and doth teach his People in Spirit how to worship him therefore limit ye not the Holy One of Israel for he is a great King above all kings and a God of gods which saith My Glory will I not give to another And unto all you Magistrates and Governours and all the rest of your inferior Officers in England high and low from him that sitteth upon the Throne to him that openeth and shutteth the Prison doors this is the Word of the living and true God Persecution will break you all to pieces but if you honour me and give unto me that which alone to me doth belong which is to ●ule in the hearts of my People let me be Lord Judge and ●aw giver in all spiritual things and let me be heard of all my Saines in all matters of Worship and spiritual Service then will I honour you and all my Children whom I ●●●ch my self they shall honour you also for my Names sake and if your Souls be subject unto the higher Power th●●ight of the World Christ unto whom I the Lord have committed all Power in Spiritual matters then shall all the Souls whom I have begotten into my Power and gathered from all the false wayes and worships that they should not be 〈◊〉 prey any longer to the teeth of the greedy Wolves unto the chief Bishop and Shepherd of their Souls be subject unto you and all your righteous Commands for Conscience sake but if otherwise ye will still exalt your s●lves above s●y Throne which is the lowly and contrite Spirit ye shall be lightly esteemed by me and all my Saints and Children also they shall bear their Testimony against you and your unrighteous Laws whereby you would force them to worship God contrary to God's Witness which I the Lord have placed i● their Consciences to be their teacher and guide in ●ll things And though you seed them for these things with Bread of Affliction and giv● them Water of Adversity to drink and are killed ●ll the 〈◊〉 long by you yet their Teacher shall never be r●moved into a corner any more I the Lord who will not leave th●●● comfortless in a Prison but will rend through Rock● and W●lls of stone to comfort and consolate the lowly heart 〈◊〉 spoken it And all the while ye are causing them to suffer and filling up the me●sure of your sin even in going beyond your Commission as they did whom God overthrew before you for ye have a time set with the Lord and a work for him ye have to do which is to make manifest Hypocrites and that the thoughts of many deceitful hearts who have made a Profession of God but are enemies to his Life may be revealed and their work 〈◊〉 manifest of what sort it is and all Coverings r●nt but only that of the Spirit of the Lord which his Children and Lambs are covered withal this ye cannot rent though ye are pulling hard at it And all Foundations may ye overturn which are not upon the Rock break al Gatherings and Assemblies which are not gathered into the Name of the Lord and every Church which hath seemed but hath not been the true House of God may ye dash to pieces and all may be made to change their Religion and Conform to any thing and lick up their own Vomit again but only those who are translated by the Power of the Lord out of Darkness into Light and gathered out of all the false Churches in England which are many into the true Church in God which is but one the pillar and ground of Truth these things before mentioned may ye do and yet stand but ye have not to do with the Lords Anointed which are covered with his living Spirit which is eternal and pure Wo be to them which touch these that have no help but what standeth in the Name of the Lord neither any foundation have they but that of God which all the Prophets and Apostles who as a cloud of Witnesses against this Generation suffered Persecution which is Christ in them the hope of Glory yea Glory it self Righteousness Peace and Joy which is full of glory which blessed be the Lord the World cannot take from us if ye touch these and number these with Transgressors ye touch the Apple of God's Eye and ye your selves will be found Trangressors if ye persecute and spoil these O ye Magistrates and Bishops the Lord will break you with breach upon breach yea you have persecuted spoiled many of them already and it will be your ruine unless ye speedily repent it is the eternal Word of the Lord God unto this Generation Persecution will undo you Yet thus is it written by the Prophet Jeremy 18. At what time I speak concerning a Nation and concerning a Kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy it if that Nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil I also will repent of the evil I thought to do unto them O that there were but such a heart in you to consider this before it be too late and the Lord destroy you with double destruction And thi● doth ●y Soul believe and it is established in my heart for eve● th●t all your Weapons of Cruelty your grievous and unjust ●●ws which ye have made with the Consent of your Lords Spiritual to waste and destroy Families and banish the inno●●●●t People of the Lord called Quakers shall all work together in the end for their good and drive them even the Chil●●●● and P●ople whom he hath blessed so much nea●●● unto himself and the more they are oppressed so much the greater will be the Cry of the Oppressed against you and it will be with the oppressed Seed of God as with Israel in the ●and of Egyp● the more they were Oppressed the more they Multiplied and all the wisdom of this World and the persecuting Po●●●s of Hell and Death shall never hinder it nor stop the Work which God is working nor quench the Light and Spark which ●ust become a strong Nation the Holy One of Israel hath spok●n it Neverthel●ss ye are doing your endeavour and taking wise Counsel and Advice as Pharaoh did with the Magicians of Egyp● how ●o ●oot out the Name of Israel from under Heaven and to that ●nd y● have established your cruel Commandments and s●●l●d your Decrees of Oppression against them and all this will but op●n the ears of the Lord to hear them and cause hi●●o st●●t●h out his Arm to save them in your destruction for th● Lord heareth the cry of the Afflicted the Lord lo●s●●h ●h●●onds of the Prisoners and ill will it be with you wh●● th● Souls of the wounded cry out This mad● J●●●●●i●h cry unto the