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A77973	A vvarning from the Lord to the inhabitants of Underbarrovv, and so to all the inhabitants in England, where it shall meet with them, who holds up the false teachers, and false worship, and who beats, stone, stock, and persecute, and hail out of their assemblies, those who are sent by the Lord, to speak his word freely; with an exhortation, that they hast to meet the Lord by true repentance, by putting off the works of darkness, lest the Lord cut them assunder, by his sword, which is already drawn and put into the hand of his servants. Also, a word to my brethren, and companions in tribulation in the kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ, who is by the world scornfully called Quakers. With the manner of my passage through the dark world, (wherein the simple ones may see the deceits of the man of sin in his actings like the true spirit) to warn all to follow the true light within, which leads unto God, & to beware of the voice, lo here & lo there, by one who is a labourer in the vineyard, who is not known to the world; (though named of the world) Edvvard Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6057; Thomason E733_5; ESTC R206899	28,263	40

house and chused rather to suffer affliction among the poor despised people than to have enjoied the pleasures of sin but great shall be your reward ye Contemned ones glorie and honor and everlasting happiness is prepared for you if you stand faithful to the end the Lord is with you as a mightie terrible one and therefore shall all your persecuters be ashamed and confounded the sound of a trumpet is heard among you which makes all nations at a stand and all the heathen to wonder and all the rulers nobles and chief Priests are in consultation combining together to suppress the Armie of the Lord of Hosts which he is gathering together fear not nor be dismaid for the sounding of your trumpet causes an alarum and makes all the inhabitants of the land to tremble and all bowes before the sound of it for the sound of it is terrible to the nations to all kingdoms and dominions the Lord of heaven and earth is your Captain which rides upon the Clouds and whose glorie is above the world and therfore in the battel shal you obtain the conquest and all your enemies shall be put to flight and one of you shall chase a thousand for he is with you who hath all power in his hand and all your enemies are limited by him therefore be not discouraged at the raging and swelling words of your adversaries but be bold and valiant and faithful to him for his is the victorie and by his own right hand will he get himself the victorie Ye are my fellow souldiers and fellow members of the same body and my joy in the Lord stand faithful to the Lord and be bold and valiant for the truth upon earth for you hath the Lord chosen of all the families of the earth to place his name among the Lord of glorie is among you and he will glorifie his name by you he wil accomplish his wonders and make his power known and the greatness of his name in the sight of the heathen let all flesh be silent before him and let all the Pharisees and chief Priests the wise men of the earth stop their mouths before the Lord for you have the word of the Lord and you are made partakers of the everlasting wisdom and are the beloved of God for his eternal Son is born and brought forth among you and therefore doth the wise men and chief Priests consult to take his life but wo unto you persecuters for they are the seed of evil doers and better it were that a milstone were hanged about their necks and they cast into the sea for the Lord hath sought you to worship him and he is worshiped by you in spirit and in truth your sacrifice is accepted and therefore they that are of Cains generation persecutes you seeking after your blood You are made partakers of the blessing and therefore doth Esau threaten your destruction but your preserver is the Lord of Hosts and therefore shall all their consultations be disappointed For wo unto them that digs deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and that takes counsel but not at the Lord all ye my brethren be ye faithful and obedient to him who hath called and chosen you out from among the heathen out of all imagined worships to worship in truth serve the Lord in singlness of heart and give up all to him freelie to be ordered and disposed by him look not back at the glorie of Sodom nor at the riches of Egypt but follow him who hath enlightened your dark understandings hath gathered you up by his eternal Light walk in obedience to the Law of God and to the Light made manifest for the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far Countrie which hath given talents to his servants to improve now all you my beloved ones improve every one your t●●●… that the Lord may receive his own with usurie that he may be glorified and that you all may receive a reward therefore all be bold and valiant in the truth and fear not man but fear the Lord God almightie and walk in the fear of the living God and despise not the cross of Christ but let the cross be your rejoicing for through the cross is the power of the Lord made manifest Rejoyce for ever and be exceeding glad that you are counted worthie to suffer shame and reproach and some of you imprisonment for the truths sake thus it was ever he that was born after the f●esh persecutes him that 's born after the spirit but be glad and rejoyce in the Lord for you hath he chosen and called even to shine as light in the dark world and to be as a burthensome stone to the nations your fame is gone abroad through nations and because of the man child that is born is the nations troubled and the chief Priests and Rulers combined together but that the Lord may be glorified and for your sakes will he scatter the proud in their imaginations and will break in pieces the snares which the pharisees chief Priests have laid for your feet and they shall be taken in their own craftiness fall into the pit which they have diged for you for the Lord who hath called you will set you upon a rock will preserve you out of the mouths of cunning wolves who devours souls for dishonest gain Sing praises for ever to the Lord our God who hath chosen us to make manifest his love and truth unto and hath gathered us up out of the mouth of all idolshepherds that made a prey upon us and from all the mountains hills where we were scattered in the cloudy dark day where we were devoured by the wild beasts being without shepheard and sheepfold but praises glorie and honor for evermore that we are freed out of the crueltie of Pharash from under his tax masters which lies heavie burdens upon the people rejoyce and he glad in faithfullness truth unto our King for ever who is the Lion of the tribe of Judah who hath opened the book and unlosed the seals and hath led us to himself and by suffering under all are we made Kings and Priests over all for evermore he alone is worthie to be praised who hath avenged us of our adversaries hath given her to drink of the wine of the warth of God who once made us drink of the wine of her fornication I am with you you despised ones and my prayers are for you and the eternal glorious God of power be with you and keep you in the middest of this crooked and perverse generation for this generation seeks the blood of the saints the beast which was is and now makes war against the lambe E B. A true Declaration and a discovery to all the World of my manner of Life what I have been and what now I am at present I Was brought up by my natural Parents in the profession of Religion according to the

A VVARNING FROM THE LORD TO THE INHABITANTS OF UNDERBARROVV and so to all the Inhabitants in ENGLAND Where it shall-meet with them who holds up the false Teachers and false worship and who beats stone stock and persecute and hail out of their Assemblies those who are sent by the Lord to speak his word freely with an exhortation that they hast to meet the Lord by true repentance by putting off the works of darkness lest the Lord cut them assunder by his sword which is already drawn and put into the hand of his servants Also a word to my Brethren and Companions in tribulation in the Kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ who is by the world scornfully called QUAKERS With the manner of my passage through the dark world wherein the simple ones may see the deceits of the man of sin in his actings like the true spirit to warn all to follow the true light within which leads unto God to beware of the voice lo here lo there By one who is a labourer in the Vineyard who is not known to the world though named of the world EDVVARD BURROUGH London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. A warning from the Lord to the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow and so to all the Inhabitants in England TO all you the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow profane ones and Professors you my neighbours and Country men according to the flesh but strangers as in the spirit to you all who are in the customary formal traditional worship of heathen and under the barren dry and empty ministry of man which stands in the will of man and have proceeded out of the carnall inventions and imaginations of fallen man and is not according to God nor to the practice of the Saints in former ages and generations To you all do I clear my conscience in the presence of God by declaring to you in writing being that I can not have freedome through the subtilty of the serpent who doth work alwayes to prevent the living truth to be declared and the deceits of himself to be discovered and made manifest to declare in word among you I have been sent by the Lord moved of him to come and to declare to you the word of the Lord to the directing of your minds where to wait to attain the true knowledge of the Lord and of that one thing needful the eternal welfare of your souls and to lay open the deceits of the serpent who doth work in the cursed deceitful Ministry which is uphold by you whereby your souls are kept in the death and only your dark minds fed and nourished by the painted and serpent-like expressions and declarations coming out of the carnal wisdome and brain-knowledge of your hireling who walks in the way of the false Prophets of Israel which the true Prophet called greedy dumb dogs four several times hath the Lord by his eternal spirit working in me moved me to come into the Congregation and Assembly he himself is the witness that I came not of man nor by the will of man but contrary to the will and desires of man wherein stands the true Ministry of God now as it was ever the true Prophets Ieremiah and Ionah witnessed the same and the Apostle Paul and as it is known to you unto whom I speak that I could not have liberty to declare to you the truth from God who came not to you with entising words neither what I had gathered out of the Scripture from without me neither to speak my own imaginations and conceivings as your false hireling doth but to declare the Word of the Lord to the convincing of your dark understandings that you might see the deceits by which you are and have been led that your souls might have been redeemed up to God out of the imagined worships of the world to worship in spirit and in truth hear ye the Word of the Lord ye people all your carnall traditional ordinances and observances is abomination to the Lord all your praying and praising is odious in his sight for all your worship is an imitation and an imagination of the dark mind of man and was never commanded by God therefore consider all ye people what you are doing and reject not the Lord nor his everlasting truth but prize your time and now seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon his name while he is near your souls are kept in the death under your dead Minister and under his dead doctrines dead reasons points and uses which he speaks from the Saints conditions and experiences but is an enemy to the substance and to them in whom the same conditions are made manifest in the power of truth and he doth make manifest himself to be in the same generation of them who had the form of Godliness but denies the power having the Letter as the Pharisees had but persecuting the substance as they did All people consider whether he be not in the generation professing God and Truth in Word as the Scribes and Pharisees were but persecuting the Son of God who is the substance of Truth where he is born and made manifest he is in the generation of them who professed Abrahams freedom and that God was their Father but were of their father the Devil for his works they did they said and did not as he doth as it is made manifest he is a whited Wall a painted Sepulcher which Christ the Son of God cryed wo against who was and is the Light by which all Deceivers Hirelings and false Teachers are discovered cryed out against The Light which is Christ do I witness to be made manifest in me from God the Father of Light daily leading me up to him to live in purity and uprightness praises be to him for ever in which Light I see your Teacher to be a hireling a greedy dumb dog seeking for his gain from his Quarter one that God never sent but hath run and was not sent therefore doth he not profit you at all and from this Light which is Christ do I declare against him as knowing him that he hath not the Word of the Lord but the Letter Freely do I Declare against him as knowing him to be a Deceiver and an Antichrist being once I was deceived by him but now through the rich Love of my Father who hath made himself known to me and hath shined by his eternal Light in my heart do I see him and all such to be Antichrist and no Minister of Christ From the mouth of the Lord I do Declare it That you are led blindly by him your blind guide and you are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the living Truth by his Ministery he layes heavie Burdens upon you he is in the generation of them who had the Law and the Prophets

of Faith which is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that Preaching we do own for Faith comes by the hearing of this Word Preached and the Prayer with the Spirit of truth we do own for that is not in word to be seen of men but led to that not by Custom Form and Tradition but by the eternal Spirit which proceeds from God which hath free recourse to God which God heareth and doth accept for there iniquity is purged out of the heart and is not regarded for he that regards iniquity in his heart God will not hear his Prayer but the Preaching and Praying of your Hireling I do deny for they are abomination to the Lord for his Preaching leads from God stands in his own Will in his own Time in Form Custom and Tradition and your Souls are not refreshed by it neither is true Faith known among you for how can he being evil speak good things A corrupt Tree cannot bring forth good fruit said he Who cried Wo unto them that said and did not in which generation he is how can he teach and direct toward true Religion being he denies the Corner stone the first Principle of Religion which is the foundation which no other can any lay the Light of God which hath enlightened every one that comes into the world which he denies to have enlightened every one poor people I do pitty your souls God is my witness to see you lie in darkness in ignorance and blindness and in deadness under your dead Hireling and under his dead traditional Preaching your wisdom reason and dark minds is only fed and strengthned by his preaching and you all are but building upon the sand hearing but not doing and we who have suffered the loss and have witnessed the destruction of that building do now Declare freely against it where it is standing for we know the depth height and breadth of all your Profession and of all your carnal Worship and Observances and the Word of God is as a fire which will burn up and as a hammer which will beat down all your imagined Worships and carnal Ordinances And his Praying is abomination to the Lord for it is as theirs was which the Son of God cryed Wo against which stood Praying in the Synagogues and which made long Prayers and the Praying of all such we do Deny for their Prayers is as the Scribes and Pharisees was who were called of men Masters as they are now and who were sayers and not doers as your Hireling is therefore all you people consider and diligently weigh these things If I Declare to you the Truth own it without respect of persons if I speak a lye let me be accounted as accursed for ever and all you simple ones who are seeking the living among the dead who are in the simplicity seeking after the truth and yet are bewitched to observe that which God never commanded and to seek God in that way which he was never found in for Christ alone is the way to the Father and he is but one from generation to generation in all generations for your sakes do I lay open the deceits of your Hireling and chief Priest who is in the way of Balaam following the wages of unrighteousness and do advise you as from the mouth of the Lord to cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils and to cease from all your customary carnal Observances which God never commanded but is only an imitation and an imagination your souls are kept in death under the power of Corruption Pride Drunkenness Covetousness Oppression and Earthly-mindedness Wantonness and the lustful Nature ruling is head in you and among you are that generation that draws neer God with their mouths but your hearts goes after Covetousness and are far from the Lord ye Worship an unknown god and are persecuters of the true God and of his Servants as ever it was in all generations by Priest and People as it is now with you and your Priest they that professed truth in word persecuted them that witnessed the Power the horrible filthy thing is committed among you and you love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof you are in the generation of your forefathers who spoke good of the false Prophets but persecuted the true Prophets so it is now among you he that hath the Word of the Lord from the mouth of the Lord to declare unto you him you revile and mock and scorn and persecute but he that speaks the imagination of his own heart from the Saints conditions him you own and hear and here you shew your selves to be them which Christ spoke of which would receive them that come in their own name but will not receive him that cometh in the name of his Father Repent and turn to the Lord lest his judgments come upon you and destroy you with an utter destruction the day of the Lord is terrible and dreadful which will come upon the wicked and upon all the workers of iniquity Be ashamed ye Heathens you maintainers of the greedy dumb dogs and upholders of the horrible filthy thing the persecuters of the righteous seed the contemners of the Just the generations of Serpents who cries Let Barrabas go free ye generation of Hypocrites who professes God but persecutes the Son of God where he is made manifest of this Generation in which you are Shall all the righteous blood-shed be required even from Abel Repent and cease from all your former waies and doings from Pride Drunkenness Covetousness and Oppression from Lying Swearing from Mirth and Wantonness and vain Pleasures for the day of the Lord cometh that shal burn as an Oven and the Proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble fully dry for the Lord will be avenged of his enemies and render vengeance in flames of fire upon all that know not God and that obeys not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Who can stand when he appears Who can dwell with everlasting burnings Even he that doth righteously and that is purged from iniquity But then wo unto you all Hypocrits and Professers and to the wicked and profane ones ye shall all partake of the righteous Judgment and drink of the Cup of the Lords Fury and Indignation for your iniquities are seen and your transgressions are not covered from the Lord all your Profession will not hide you from the presence of the Lamb for in your Sacrifices are found deceit and in your Offerings lodges iniquity the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it therefore be ashamed of all your Profession and of all your Glorious Carnal Ordinances for the Lord is coming to uncover you and to make you and your profane Hireling manifest for God is pure and holy and no iniquity dwels with him nor none that

which Light shall be your Condemnation because you love darkness rather than Light ye are returned with the Dog to his vomit and with the Sow to the wallowing in the mire your latter end is worse than your beginning and the Parable is fulfilled upon you for lying against the Truth will the Lord plead with you and wo will be your Portion for ever for the liars shall not enter into the Kingdom of God therefore all people fear the living God and prise your time and see where you are his servants you are unto whom you do obey all must give an account to the living God and must receive according to what is done in the Bodie in such an hour will the Master come which you are not aware of and will take account of your stewardship for God hath given unto everie one a Talent therefore spend not awaie your time in wickedness and in a deceitful Profession of God feeding your dark minds with the dead formal Preaching of your dead carnal blind Pharisee but hearken to the Light of God within you and improve everie one his Talent the good and faithful servant improves his to the honor and riches of his Master but the sloathful servant hides his in the earth living in the filthiness saying he hath no power now see which servant you are and read your selves within how you stood covered in the presence of the living God for wo unto him that is covered but not with the Spirit of the Lord the servants of God brings forth fruit unto God bears the image of their Father and the servants of the Devil brings forth fruits of darkness and bears the image of the Devil which is glorious to the carnal eie and feeds the carnal mind The Seed of the Woman is but one in all generations and the Seed of the Serpent is but one which ever was is ruling and reigning in the Children of Disobedience who are disobedient to the Light of God within them and betwixt these two Seeds is Enmitie the one against the other each Seed is known by its fruit the old bottle pours out old Wine the new bottle new Wine therefore all people sink down to within and call in all your wandring thoughts imaginations and affections and desires and see which seed is head in you and see what your desires and affections goes out after for where your hearts are there is your treasure see what you do possess of God in your Souls and what you are made witnesses of for he that believeth hath the witness in himself and Faith is the Victorie over the world he that can receive it let him Dear people I have freelie Declared to you the Truth and from the love of God shed abroad in my heart to your Souls and for the Seed sake in you which lieth in death captivated under your Wisdom and Reason have I spoken the Word of the Lord which if you own it and abide in it shall be the savor of Life and in eternal joy shall you witness me to be true in what I have Declared but if you harden your hearts and kick against the Truth and against what I have Declared shall be the savor of death unto Death and in eternal torment and miserie shall ye witness me in what I say for to that which should exercise the Conscience do I speak in everie one of you and to that in you have I cleared my Conscience and have freed my Spirit this is the day of your Visitation the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Remember that you have been shewed the Deceits which you live in and have been warned of the miserie and desolation that shall come upon you except you lay these things to heart and turn to the Lord Farewel By him who is dispised and had in derision among you who is not greater than his Lord and therefore is contented to be called a Blasphemer and a Seducer as he whom I serve was by them of your generation E. B. TO all you my Countrie people of everie degree who are Inhabitants in Vnder-barrow have I cleared my Conscience and have freelie Declared to you the Word of the Lord and have laid open the Deceits of your Deceitful Ministerie and Minister and have directed you to that in everie one of you which leads unto God and which is the way to the Father which is the true Light which hath enlightned everie one that comes into the World which light all who loves and follows walks not in darkness but walks up to God out of the Fall from under the Curse into the Being but all who hates this Light and follows the imagination of their own brains and of the divination of their Hirelings and Pharisees this Light shall be their condemnation because they walk not in it even this Light which is come into the World in everie man even the witness in the Conscience which is placed by God shall for ever witness against you and against all your false worships and Hirelings and shall bear testimonie to what I have in this little Volume declared to be true when the Book of Conscience shall be laid open for to everie mans Conscience am I made manifest in what I have to you declared as concerning your Hireling whom God hath never sent but is in the way of the false Prophets and Pharisees for he that abides not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God 2 John 1. 9. but is an Antichrist and of the Devil And as concerning the Light within you that Light will bear witness to it self that everie one of you to whom I speak hath this Light which shews you sin your lying swearing pride and wikced waies covetousness and wantonness to be sin this is the true Light which is as ever was foolishness and a stumbling block to the wise ones This is the Light which your Pharisee denies to have lightned everie one and this Light shall for ever witness me to be true and shall witness this poor people among you who is despised contemned by you scornfully called Quakers to be the servants of God whom I do own as my Brethren in the sufferings of Jesus who are my joy in the Lord Now all people everie where to you all a word from the Lord though I have spoken in this small Volume as moved by the Lord of Heaven and Earth to the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow as declaring against their false Teacher and false Worships which they uphold now freelie and plainlie do I declare against all thy Teachers O England who are one in the same generation with him in the Seat of Christ and of his Apostles professing themselves to be sent of God but walking contrarie to his commands in the same footsteps which the Scribes and Pharisees walked in which were persecutors of the Son of God and which he cried wo against they who said and did not

as all these thy Teachers do who are called of men Masters as they were and have the chiefest place in the Assemblies as they had and Praied standing as these thy professed Ministers do Now the same Light which ever was the Saints did which is Jesus Christ is now born and made manifest which is witnessed among the saints in which Light I see all thy Teachers O England to be drunk with the Wine of her that hath deceived the nations who sits upon a scarlet coloured Beast and is arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and precious stones and hath the golden cup in her hand full of abominations whose name is writen in her forehead Mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and abomination of the Earth And in this Light do I declare against them all which are in the generation of the false Prophets of Israel which seeks for their gain from their Quarter and which steals the word from their neighbor and have taken the words of the Prophets of Christ and of his Apostles and selleth the divination of their own brain upon the Scriptures which the holie men speak forth freelie to the poor blind people and teacheth for the fleece and if ye stop not into their mouths they prepare War against you and which are called of men Master which Christ forbids Against all these freelie as from the Lord I do Declare to be no Ministers of Jesus Christ but are Seducers and blind Guides and are Antichrists and leads the poor blind people in the waies of death and destruction for they are no Ministers of Christ that abides not in the Doctrine of Christ these have run but hath not been sent by God and therefore is not your Souls profited by them but are in the dark heathenish nature as by your fruits is made manifest leaning in the imaginations and not in the counsel of the Lord and in lying swearing drunkenness covetousness and oppression and according to the course of this world these iniquities are ruling among People Priests and Rulers in this Nation from the least of them even to the greatest everie one is given to covetousness from the Prophet even to the Priest everie one deals falselie All your Hirelings and greedie dumb Dogs I do denie and all who are of God denies all such and are taught of God in the waies of God which ever the world derided All thy Teachers O England is denied of them who are taught of God and whose Teacher is the anointing needs not anie man to teach them And by thy Teachers who are in the way of the Pharisees art thou blindlie led in the waies of darkness and ignorance and all thy carnal worship which is in everie part of thee upheld which is to Read Sing and Preach upon the Saints Conditions which were witnesses of God All this I do denie and freelie declare against as from the mouth of the Lord to be no worship of God but imagination and an imitation of the Worship of God And the living eternal God of Heaven and Earth is but mocked by you in your imagined worship for your reading of anothers condition and singing of that which you live not in and preaching that which is gathered from without by imagination and conceiving upon that which the Prophet Prophesied or which Christ spoke who was and is the substance and which the Apostles witnesses this is carnal and heathenish and was never commanded by the Lord nor is no worship of the true God and against this worship I do from the Lord declare as in the eternal Light of God seeing it to be deceitful and abomination to the Lord being I am Redeemed up to God by his eternal Spirit and to worship in Spirit and in Truth and am not limited to a day place or time neither at Jerusalem nor in this Mount c. and am freed and redeemed out of this fallen mans invention and tradition which is but Cains sacrifice which God doth not accept but is abomination in his sight praised be the Lord for evermore And O England I do declare against all these thy Teachers and against all this thy Worship as from the mouth of the Lord as moved of the Lord to speak this word unto thee Thou hast spent thy money this manie Generations for that which is not bread and thy labor for that which doth not satisfie thee all thy imagined formal Worships and carnal Traditions and Ordinances of man is the Lord risen in his servant to declare against And the same Light which ever made manifest deceitful Worships and the deceitful Hirelings and them that cried Peace peace to the people when the Lord spake no peace is now risen and speaketh in thy ears O Nation the same everlasting Light which the true Prophets lived in who cried against them that sought for their gain from their Quarter and that cried against the horrible filthie thing which is upheld in thee O England this same Light is made manifest in the despised People called Quakers in this North part of the Nation O People your Teachers hath beguiled you and have taught for the fleece and fed themselves with the fat but your souls are hungred by them for they are in the Generation of them that said and did not they love the wages of unrighteousnes and follows the Error of Balaam for reward and have devoured souls for dishonest gain but the onlie true God is arising to beat the mountains to dust and to cleave the rocks asunder In thee O Land will the Lord make manifest his power and will stretch forth his arm for the deliverance of his Chosen and for the redemption of his two witnesses which hath laid slain in the great City in this Land which they that dwell upon the earth have rejoiced over and made merrie and triumphed in their slaughter the Lord is arising to require his flock at the hands of the Idols shepheard O ye Idol dumb Shepheards the Lord will be avenged upon you for you have scattered the sheep of his pasture and have fed your selves with them the Lord of Hosts is grieved with you and have shaken his hands at your dishonest gain and ye shall no longer wear Garments to deceive ye have long deceived the simple by your lies and by your lightness but now you are discovered and made manifest in the eternal Light of God and the mysterie of Witchcraft is not hid now from the Saints Therefore O England hear the Word of the Lord Thy Prophets are light and treacherous persons thy Judges Judges for reward and thy Priests preach for hire and thy Officers imprisons the just and thy Rulers are evening wolves which seeks for the prey and the Lord of Heaven and Earth is grieved with these things Therefore O Land tremble at the presence of the Lord God of Jacob for Esau shall become a place for Dragons and shall be disinhabited in the day of mourning and lamentation is

generalitie of this Nation going one day in seven to hear a man Preach the Word as they said to me and to be exercised in the formal worship wch was then upheld to reade and sing and to rabble over a Praier but I was wanton and light and lived in pleasure without the fear of God not knowing of God but by hear-say and tradition but when I grew up toward twelve years of age somthing stirred in me and shewed me that there was a higher religion than that I was exercised in and then I inquired where the chiefest of the Presbyterian Priests Preached and would have gone some miles of a first day to have heard one of the best of them which seemed liker truth than the other and so I got up to be a Presbyterian and followed the highest of the Priests and Professors of that form and grew in favor with them then some small of my vanity and lightness I left and Pride grew up in me for wisdom grew up in me then some of my former acquaintance began to scorn me calling me a Round-head and the like and by my laboring here I gathered knowledge in things without but yet was ignorant of the living truth Then when I was about seventeen years of age it pleased God to shew himself a little to me and somthing struck me with terror and when I had been praying I heard the voice often Thou art ignorant of God thou knowest not where he is nor what he is to what purpose is thy Prayer And so much fear and dread came upon me and broke me off from praying manie times and trouble came thick into my mind and fearfulness fell many times upon me and I was struck off my delights that I formerly loved and what I had gathered in as of a god died and I left off reading in the Scripture for somthing shewed me that I was very ignorant and knew not the true God and the beauty of all things vanished And I went to some asking What God was which was professed for I said I knew him not but got no satisfaction from any And I was much separated from the vain waies of the world and from vain worldlie people and was made to reprove manie often for wickedness in words and actions and was much derided and looked upon scornfully by manie and then the Preaching of them whom I had formerly much delighted in was as withered and decayed yet then it pleased the Lord to snew himself a little in love to me and I had sweet refreshments coming in from him to my soul and had joy and peace in abundance and openings of the living truth in me which the world knew not of and the mysterie of the Scripture was somthing opened which before I knew nothing of and I saw manie glorious things in it which lie hid under the letter and I was in much rejoycing manie times and sang praise for I was brought out of the land of darkness could say I was in the Light I grew up to know high things but not knowing the Cross of Christ I ran forth in my wisdom comprehending the mysteries of God having a Light shined in me and I grew up into Notion to talk of high things for it was my delight to comprehend in my busie mind thus being ignorant of the Cross to keep low in it I ran before my guide up into comprehension and then was I above manie of the Priests and Professors and followed only to hear the highest Notionists that Preached high things but the fleshlie man was at libertie and so I became one of them in their discoursings and was looked upon by them to know much the former terror was gone and I had got up from under the judgement and now pride grew more than ever and self-conceitedness and presumption and fleshly liberty to the carnal mind and my delight was much in discoursing where I played the harlot and the prodigal and gave holy things unto dogs and cast pearls before swine for wisdom was hid from me and here I lived pleasantlie for I had the true God and the true Truth in my comprehension which by my wisdom in the light I had comprehended and I had the world in my heart Pride Coverousness and the earthly spirit ruled and my delight was grown up to that which once I had no delight in and the beauty of things grew up which seemed to be vanished here I was run from my Husband after other Lovers and had left the Lord my maker who had so graciously made manifest himself unto me and had spended my portion among harlots but I became to be darkned and had lost that which once I had and had but in memory that which before I had injoyed could tell of Experiences but they were dead to me and somthing within me began to question how it was with me for I saw my self to be ignorant more than formerly and I saw I knew nothing somthing desiring in me to be from whence I was come but I grew to be much given to the world to seek after riches and glorie in it and fed my self with what I had formerlie enjoyed and said Whom God loves once he loves for ever but that was then head and ruled in me which he loved never I was wanton and lived in the lustful nature among heathens crucifying the Lord of Life but the blood of that which I had slain cried continually and the witness which laid slain would give me no rest which the earthly made merrie over and I grew to be weary of hearing any of the Priests though never so high for somthing which shined deep in me shewed me ignorance in all profession and I was put to a stand many times in my self at those things which were come to pass then it pleased the Lord to send his true and faithful Servant and Messenger who is called according to the flesh Geo. Fax be spoke the language which I knew not notwithstanding all my high talking for it was higher and yet lower And it pleased the Lord to speak to me by him that I was in the prodigal state and above the Cross of Christ and not in the pure fear of the Lord but full of corruption and the old nature though I had professed freedom yet it was but such as the Jewes professed for I saw my self to be in bondage to my own Will and to my own Lust and through the word of the Lord spoken to me by him I began to see my self the witness being raised where I was and what I had been doing and saw I had been making an image to the first Beast which had the Wound by a Sword and did live whose deadly Wound was healed and was full of Airie Notions and imaginations and was worshipping the image which I had made and then I saw my self to be a Child of Wrath and that the Son of the Bond-Woman lived and that harlots had been my