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A81406	A true prophecie of the mighty day of the Lord Which is coming, and is appeared in the north of England, and is rising toward the south; and shall overspread this nation and all the nations of the world. Wherein the Lord is redeeming Sion forth of her long inthral'd captivity in Babylons kingdom, where she hath been scattered in the cloudy and dark day, into forms and observations, and there kept by the priests, and teachers of the world, who ranne when God never sent them. Now is the Lord appearing in this day of his might power, to gather his elect together, out of all forms observations, kinreds, tongues, and nations; ... A word from the Lord to all the inhabitants of England, rulers, priests and people, to haste to meet the Lord with speedy repentance, and turning within, to harken diligently to his counsel, ... From the spirit of the Lord, written by one whose name in the flesh is William Dewsbury, called Quaker with the people of the world, who live in their perishing nature.; True prophecy of the mighty day of the Lord	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1280; ESTC R227066	17,446	17

the creatures to eat of the fat and be clothed with the finest of the wool and make merry with the creatures and live in pleasures Ezek. 34. 2. 3. Gal. 5. 13. Mat. 5. 48. and when the light in your Conscience cries against you to use your liberty but not as an occasion to the flesh to make no provision for the flesh to satisfie it and the lusts thereof but you must be perfect as ●our heavenly Father is perfect You regard it not but hearken unto the counsel of your own hearts which draws you to look at the words of Rom. 7. 23. Paul where he saith I find a law in my members warring against the Law of my mind so ye wrest the Scripture to your own destruction for your encouragement to live in the flesh and say None must be free from the body of sin while he is here in the body and thus you deceive your selves and all whom you draw from the light in your Conscience which cries for a perfect fulfilling of the Law of God for the Soul that Ezek. 18. 20. sinneth it shall dye Though Paul did complain of a body of sin it was in his growth and it was his burden which made him cry O wretched man who shall deliver me And he witnessed it put off the Law of the Rom. 7. 24. Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of sin and death for Christ is made manifest to destroy the works of the Devil and not to destroy the Law to save man from the condemning power of Rom. 8. 2. the Law while he lives in transgression of it for the Law hath power over the fleshly man so long as he lives But be came to fulfil the Law 1 Ioh. 3. 8. and all the Saints beare witness of it in their measures some witness it Rom 7. 1. fulfilled others wait following the Lambe daily in the Cross till they come to the fulfilling of it that the righteousness of the Law may be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. 3. 4. Therefore mind the light in your Consciences diligently hearken unto it and it will smite your glorious Image of Forms and Observations and break it to pieces and will rend off all your glorious coverings of your outward profession will let you see the Wo is unto them that are covered and not with the Spirit of the Lord. To the light in Isa 30. 1. your Consciences I speak which will eternally witnesse me if you hearken unto it to be guided by it you will never find rest in outward Rom. 6. 6. Forms and Observations but in putting off the body of sin through the obedience of the Spirit that the righteousness of the Law may be Rom. 8. 4. fulfilled in you in walking no more after the flesh but after the Spirit for they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5. 24. and the body is dead in regard of sin but the spirit is alive unto righteousness And this you must witnesse or else all your Religion is vain and your Rom. 8. 10. Souls will perish To all you Inhabiters of England How long will you drink of the Rev. 17. 4. Cup of Abominations the wine of the wrath of the Whore which hath made you drunk and all Nations to lay out your mony for Isa 5 5. 2. that which is not bread to the Merchants of Babylon who fill unto you the Cup of Abominations in drawing you from the light in your Luk. 17. 20. 21. Consciences which is given unto every one of you a measure to guide you up to God to seek for the Kingdom of God in Observations and Christ saith it is not in Observations but within so they keep you in Captivity in Babylons Kingdom under the power of sin hell and death To every particular Inhabiter of England I write Come out of Babylon Rev. 18. 4. all Forms and Observations and Traditions which are set up by the will of man Now is Babylon come in remembrance before God and the vials of wrath must be poured upon her and upon h●● Revel 18. 23 24. Merchants for by their Sorceries are you Inhabitants of England and all Nations deceived and in her is found the blood of the Prophets and Saints and of all that were slain upon the Earth Haste Rev. 18. 4. haste come out of her lest you partake with her in her sins and so partake with her in her punishment which will speedily come upon her for the mouth of the Lord of Hoasts hath spoken it Return within every one in particular examine your hearts and mind the light in your Conscience and it will alwaies let you see where your hearts are and what they delight in for it is the heart the Lord requires He will no longer be worshipped in Words Forms and Observations but in Spirit and in truth and in sincerity in the inward Iohn 4. 24. parts therefore every one be faithfull in taking heed to the light in your Consciences which the Lord hath given to every one a measure to profit withall for the exercise of the Conscience towards Mat. 25. 15. God and men in minding your watch to wait in the light in measure it will bring to Judgment all the powers of darkness in you and the righteous Law of God will cry through your earthly and carnall Isa 42. 2. hearts till judgment be brought forth into victory and your wills will be brought in subiection unto the Will or God to wait on him for refreshment from his presence who satisfieth the hungry with good Luk. 1. 53. things And take heed of consulting with flesh and blood for that leads into pride and disobedience into Hell and destruction mind the light in your Conscience which is the sure word of prophecy that you cannot be deceived taking heed unto it as unto a light 2 Pet. 1. 19 that shines in a dark place untill the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts diligently hearken unto it and you shall eat Isa 55. 2. 3 that which is good and your Soul shall delight it self in fatnesse there is your teacher within you the light in your Consciences loving it Iohn 3. 19. and obeying it is your life hating it and disobeying it is your condemnation To that pure light in your Consciences I speak which will eternally witness me when the Book of Conscience is opened in you Now you have time prize it in waiting on the Lord in the light to make your calling and Election sure in putting off the old man and his deeds and putting on the Lord Jesus Christ in righteousness and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord in so doing you shall 2 Pet. 1. 10 escape the wrath of God which is coming upon the Children of disobedience

A TRVE PROPHECIE OF THE Mighty DAY of the LORD Which is coming and is appeared in the North of England and is rising toward the South and shall overspread this Nation and all Nations of the World WHEREIN The Lord is redeeming Sion forth of her long inthral'd Captivity in Babylons Kingdom where she hath been scattered in the cloudy and dark day into Forms and Observations and there kept by the Priests and Teachers of the World who ranne when God never sent them Now is the Lord appearing in this day of his mighty power to gather His elect together out of all Forms and Observations Kinreds Tongues and Nations and is making up his Iewels his mighty hoast and exalting Iesus Christ to be the King of Kings to lead his Army He hath raised up in the North of England and is marched towards the South in the mighty power of the living Word of God which is sharp as a two edged Sword to cut down High and Low Rich and Poor Priests and People and the all Powers of the Land and all the World over that are fruitless trees that cumbers the ground defiles the flesh and walks in disobedience to the righteous law of God the pure light in the Conscience For who falls on this Stone shall be broken but on whom it falls shall be ground to powder So shall this Nation and all the Nations of the World be conquered and the victory witnessed neither by Sword nor Spear but by the Spirit of the Lord. A WORD from the LORD to all the Inhabitants of England Rulers Priests and people to haste to meet the Lord with speedy Repentance and turning within to hearken diligently to His Counsel the pure light of Christ in your Conscience to be guided by His Power else you shall perish in your gain sayings For if his anger be kindled a-little blessed are all they that trust in him From the Spirit of the Lord written by one whose name in the flesh is William Dewsbury called Quaker with the people of the World who live in their perishing nature London Printed for Giles Clavert at the Black-spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. A true Prophecy of the mighty Day of the Lord c. O England who lies in the faln and lost estate separated from the true and living God by thine iniquities notwithstanding Hos 1. all thy profession of his Name in outward forms and observations Repent repent and turn unto the Lord God Almighty who waits on thee to be gracious unto thee and to make thee the glory of all the Nations of the world if thou wilt diligently Isa 30 hearken to his counsel the light that is in the Conscience of every one to wait in it upon the Lord God that he may guide thee by his power Iohn 〈◊〉 And this I have to declare unto thee from the Lord which he hath made known unto me concerning thee O England certain years ago when the everlasting Covenant of Life was csionrmed unto my Soul in the Lord Jesus Isa 〈◊〉 Christ that I should go with the ransomed of the Lord unto Sion I enquired of my God to manifest unto me where Sion was that I might return cap. 35 Ioh. 〈◊〉 thither worship him inspirit in truth there being so many confused cries in thee O England who professes to worship the only true God some saying Lo here is Christ in the Presbyterian practice so called and the Independent so called cries Lo he is here and the Anabaptists so called saying Lo he is here and others in outward forms saying He is here according as Christ forerold that the time should come when they shall say Lo here is Christ and to there as it is fulfilled in thee but Christ faith Believe them not look not forth for the Kingdom of Heaven is within And as the lightning Luk. 7 23. 2● that shineth out of the one part under Heaven and shineth unto the other part under Heaven even so shall the Son of man in his day And this I witness and while I was waiting on my God to make known unto me where Sion was the Word of the Lord came unto me with witness to my spirit that Christ was not divided and that there was no rent in his garment for the Lord is one and his people one and that all thy outward forms 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 Zech. 〈◊〉 of Worship O England where thou art waiting for Christ in observations is contrary to his Will for Christ saith The Kingdom of God is not in observations neither shall they say Lo here or lo there for behold the Kingdom Luke 20 21 of God is within you And that all thy strict observing of thy outward forms is but imitating the Saints practices in thy Babylonish and Heathenish Wisdom for there is nothing but confusion in thee and that all thy outward Forms is the outward Court which is without the Temple that the 〈◊〉 1. 11 Angel was not to measure for it is given unto the Gentiles and the holy City shall they tread under foot and this was made known unto me from the Lord my God to be the estate and condition thou stoodst and dost stand in O England in all thy outward Forms and Observations having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof For under all thy profession 〈◊〉 2. 3. 5. is most cruel oppression every one oppressing one another according unto their power from the highest unto the lowest so that the cry of the oppressed Seed within the hearts of thy Inhabiters O England and those that are oppressed in outward oppressions in thee hath entred into the 〈◊〉 5. 5. ears of the Lord God of Sabboth and he is coming in power to set the oppressed free and to bring them to Sion which in the eternall Riches of 〈◊〉 58. 6. 〈◊〉 14. his Love he made known to me where Sion was according unto the desires he had raised up in my heart and the Word of the Lord came unto me saying I will gather my people out of all forms and observations and out 〈◊〉 5. 9. 〈◊〉 7. 9. 〈◊〉 34. of all kindreds tongues and Nations and I will pour my Spirit upon them and purge away their filth with the Spirit of Iudgment and of burning and I will write my Law in their hearts and put my Spirit in their inward parts and they shall not depart from me but shall be bound up in union with me in the free 〈◊〉 1. 33. 〈◊〉 14. 9. Covenant of Life in the Lord Jesus and one with another in the one Spirit So shall the Lord be one and his people one and this is Sion the City of the living God to whom all the promises of the Lord are n accordi●g unto 〈◊〉 10. the Scripture of Truth wherein they need not to teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for all shall know

to enter in and Mat. 23. 13 here you shut all from the Kingdom of Heaven which is within them in drawing them from the light in their Consciences which would lead them unto the Word of Faith which is in their hearts the anointing 1 Iohu 2. 20. 27. of the Father wherein they need not to teach one another but as the Anointing teaches which is in truth and is no lie which all the Children of the Lord are witnesses of in their measures who walk in the light and see your deceits how you murder and destroy Souls for mony to maintain you in pride and pleasure though the light in you Consciences cry against you for your practices but you hate it and will not obey it but to it I speak which will witness me eternally when the Book of Conscience is opened to your condemnation who shut all people Iohu 3. 19. 20. 21. out of the Kingdom of God which is within them in turning them aside from the light in their Consciences which the Lord hath given unto every one a measure to guide them into the Kingdom And then you make a prey of them in telling them they must wait for the Kingdom Mat. 25. 15 of God in Observations which you call Ordinances which you have set up in ●our imaginations of the Saints Conditions which is recorded in the Scripture of Truth Some of you say Lo here is Christ in Dan. 10. 21 the Presbyterian practice and saith another Lo he is here in the Independent practice and the Anabaptist saith Lo he is here and others that walk in outward Observations say Lo he is here according as Mat. 24. 23. Christ foretold that such should come that would say Lo here is Christ lo there is Christ as it is fulfilled in you who draw people to seek the Kingdom of God in outward Observations but saith Christ Beleeve them not for the Kingdom of God comes not with observations for as the Mat. 24. 27. ligh●ening cometh out of the East and shineth unto the West so shall the coming of the Son of man be And this I witness but you turn them from the light in the Conscience which would lead them into the Kingdom to look forth at the glorious Image you have set up in outward Observations and they must pay you so much a year for it as will maintain you in pride and pleasures to be Masters among the sons of men And so you worship the works of your own hands offering up Sacrifice to an unknown God whom you ignorantly worship having no Scripture for many things you do There is no Scripture for your Call into the Ministry of the Gospel of Christ by humane wisdom nor for your making bargains with the 1 Cor. 1. 26. 27. Acts 20. 33 Mat. 10. 8. people for so much a year There is no Scripture for your sprinkling water on the face of a child calling it Baptism There is no Scripture for your stealing the Saints words in taking a part of Scripture and adding to it your wisdom tearing it in sunder in Ier. 23. 30. Dectrines Reasons Uses Helps Motives according unto the fancies of your brains There is no Scripture for your particular houses that you have to creep into where none must come but your selves and whom you please to declare your Sermon as you call it which is a divination of your own hearts one day after another and one year after another There is no Scripture for your putting Davids words into the mouths of poor ignorant people to sing praises unto the Lord as O Lord I Psa 131. 1 Psa 6. 6. Psal 119. 120. am not puff'd in mind I have no scornfull eye I water my couch with my tears all the night make I my bed to swim all my bones do tremble when they cannot witness these Conditions and so cause them to blaspheme the Name of God And when the light in their Consciences cries against them for lying in the presence of God and blaspheming his great and glorious Name you tell them It is the light of a natural Conscience Mat. 23. 13. and so murders their Souls in shutting them out of the Kingdom of God as the Scribes and Pharisees and all the false Prophets did that denyed Christ to be the light who enlightens every one that comes into the Iohn 1. 9. world And here you are found to be among the false Prophets Scribes and Pharises walking in their ways and every tree is known by its fruits which all the Prophets who walked in the light Christ that Mat. 7. 20 was the light cryed Wo against and you are all turned out of the way in rejecting the corner Stone Christ which enlightens the conscience of every one to guide them unto him as the false Builders did And go Iohn 1. 9. Iude 11. in the way of Cain to murder and greedily run after the error of Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousness So that as a Troop of Robbers wait for a man so do you a-company of Priests murder in the way by consent as the Priests did when the Lord sent Hosea the true Prophet Hos 6. 9. Mat. 25. 15 to cry against them for you commit lewdness in turning every one from the light in their consciences which the Lord hath given unto every one a measure according unto their ability to guide them up into the Kingdom of God and you turn them aside to seek the Kingdom in Observations harkening unto the dark inventions of your Rev. 22. 18 brains in adding your wisdom unto the testimony of Christ and this is your portion the plagues written in the Book will be added unto you Here I have cleared my conscience dealing plainly with you declaring unto you whence you are as the Lord hath made known unto me that you may be without excuse in the mighty day of the Lord which will speedily come upon you wherein you shall give account for the blood of Souls that have been shut out of the Kingdom and destroyed by you To the light in every one of your Consciences I speak which shall eternally witnesse me when the Book of Conscience is opened Repent repent and give over deceiving the people and destroying their Souls and haste haste to meet the Lord in returning within to be guided by his counsel the light in your consciences which you have Psal 2. 12. rejected lest ye perish in your gainsayings Kiss the Son in obeying his counsel the light in your conscience that let 's you see the evil of your doings lest you perish in the way for if his anger be kindled a little blessed are all they that trust in him To all you who have set up a finer Image in Gospel Ordinances as you call them under the forms of Independent and Anabaptists and say you are the Saints whom the Lord hath chosen and have only a right to the best of