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A66857	From the shepherd of Israel, to the Bishops in England with some queries and councell to all courtiers, and judges, &c, that they incense not King Charles against the Lords heritage : also, the breathings of the seed, and crie of his own elect, that his people may be preserved, which he cannot but hear, because of the incercession of his spirit, poured out upon his off-spring : this I believe, therefore I speak : also, the arise of the beast, false prophet, and anti-christ, and who they are, and what their work is, declared : and the everlasting gospell preached again to all nations, kindreds and people, and the beast and false prophet, which deceived them taken and destroyed, the accuser of the brethren cast out, and judged / given forth by Humphry Woolrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3292; ESTC R15081	14,691	16

all thy work and contrary to the Apostles Doctrine which saith I fear I have bestowed on you labour in vain while ye observe Dayes New-Moons and Sabbath Which were but a Shaddow of good things to come but the body was Christ Collossians 2.17 18. Secondly Whether it be not in your hearts who are laying such a foundation for Persecution to fill London and the Nation with Innocent blood as Manasses did Jerusalem if suffered by the Lord Thirdly Whether Christ be the Light that hath enlightened every man or the Grace that hath appeared unto every man and able to save to the uttermost able to Guide Teach and Lead into all Truth all that receive and believe in it If yea Then whether all Shepherds Doctors Bishops and Teachers whatsoever that make it not there work to turn peoples minds to the light within be not false Shepherds and such as Jeremy Esay Ezekiel and Mied cryed against who said He was given for a Covenant of light for a teacher and leader of his people that he might be Salvation to the ends of the earth Isa 2.6 7. Isa 49.6 9. Who also prophesied That the Nations which were saved should walke in the light of the Lord and the Gentiles should come to his light and Kings to the brightness of his Rising Isa 60.3 Isa 2.5 Fourthly And whether all such Bishops do not deny their work and seek themselves and worry the flock of Christ That set up any worship though they get a Law made by the powers of the Nation to establish it if it be not in Spirit and truth only and according to Pauls Doctrine and Work which was to turn people from the darkness to the light from the power of Satan unto God Acts 26.18 That remission of sins might be received and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified in the light in the Faith Whether it be not a vain worship being neither according to the Scriptures nor you led thereunto by the Spirit of the Lord Fiftly Whether all Worship that is taken up from the letter of the Scripture Nothing differing to the outward act from the Saints of old as singing Davids Psalmes Preaching and Praying and the like whether all this be not a vain worship and to the Lord Abomination Yea or Nay I say If not led thereto by the Eternall Spirit of the Lord Seeing God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and Truth as it is written Joh. 4.24 Rom. 8.14 Sixtly Whether they are like to do the work of an Evangelist or perfect the Saints or bring into the Vnity of the Faith or to any measure of Christ who are not in the Light nor led by the Spirit as it giveth utterance to them that Preach seeing the Scripture saith the true Worship is in Spirit and the true Ministers spake as it gave them utterance Acts 2.4 But are Persecuting and Imprisoning about dayes the Children of the Light who walk in the substance the Everla ting day who saith Swear not at all who is the Lord of the Sabboth and the Word of the Oath which was since and before the Law Seventhly Whether this may not be for a Lamentation in England that so many thousand of the Lords people called Quakers who have lived peaceably since they were a people should now be imprisoned their bodies and goods spoyled in Dungrons Holes and Prisons so soon after the Word of a King to the contrary because we cannot forsake Christ in not meeting together and break his Command who is the Shepherd of his Sheep and Bishop of the Souls and saith Swear not at all Mat. 5.33 38. Jam. 5.12 Now let all that sear the Lord be Judge whether this be disobedience to Magistrates to be obedient to the Lord and whether God be not rather to be obeyed than man or any Commands or Lawes which are contra y to Scripture And whether the Law was added to a Righteous man or because of the unrighteous and lawless whether they that a e in Christ and walk in and spake the Truth and do righteously and as they would be done unto whether they do not fultil the Righteousness of the Law and what Law that is will harm them in this condition And now O ye Bishops Doctors and Teachers and Rulers of the people my love is to your immortal souls and issueth out towards you because of the Ruler of the people whose love is in my heart go not on to persecute an Innocent people cause them not to suffer that never had any hand in your Sufferings which you your King are lately come out of since we were a people we did never Plot or do Violence to any Government but the government of Satan in the heart and our Weapons were never Carnal since we had a being but Spiritual to the pulling down of spiritual wickedness but in the Lord we have and do honour all men and submit to all their Righteous Commands Who Rule for God and are a Terror to evil doers and Praise to them that do well to them are our souls Subject and to their Commands for the Lords sake but as for these Commands which are contrary to Scripture and the Spirit of the Lord in our hearts by Suffering shall we rather chuse to bear our Testimony against though commanded by a King or Parliament and if we suffer by them it is for Righteousness sake and not as Theives Murderers or as evil doers but as Christians And the living Lord is our Shepherd and Bishop and with him have we peace and good will towards men such as our Persecuters cannot take from us else we should have sainted before this day had not we beleived in the Lord who leads us and instrusts as by his holy spirit in the path we should go And waters and keeps us as the apple of his own eye in patience under our burden that we saint not in all our Tribulations and this is my love though I suffer for it I leave it to the Lord and his Eternal Councel to you do not lay a foundation for Persecution though it be too much laid already yet go not on think not Sion will be built with blood or Jerusalem upon the Ruin of the people whom the Lord hath blessed and chosen for his peculiar Treasure for they are the blessed of the Lord that made Heaven and Earth and they that touch them will he rebuke for their sakes as he rebuked Kings in the dayes of old saying Touch not my anointed and do my Prophets no harm 1 Chron. 16.17 22. THE END

FROM THE Shepherd of Israel TO THE BISHOPS In ENGLAND With some Queries and Councell to all Courtiers and Judges c. That they Incense not KING CHARLES against the Lords Heritage Also the Breathings of the Seed and Crie of his own Elect that his People may be preserved which he cannot but hear because of the Incercession of his Spirit poured out upon his Off-spring This I Believe therefore I speak Also the arise of the Beast False Prophet and Anti-christ and Who they are and What their works is declared And the Everlasting Gospell Preached again to all Nations Kindreds and People and the Beast and False Prophet which deceived them taken and destroyed the Accuser of the Brethren cast out and Judged given forth by Humphry Woolrich London Printed for Robert Wilson in Martins Le Grand A Bishop then must be Blameless the Husband of one Wife Vigilant Sober of good Behaviour given to Hospitallity apt to Teach not given to Wine no Striker nor greedy of Filthy Luker but Patient not a Brawler nor Coveteous one that Ruleth well his own House having his Children in Subjection with all Gravity 1 Tim. 3.2 3 4.5 For if a man know not how to Rule his own house How shall he take care of the Church of God naturally as Timothy that Bishop did Phillip 3.20 where Paul saith I have no man like minded who will naturally care for your State for all seek their one and not the things that are Jesus Christs But saith Paul Ye know the proof of him that as a Son with a Father he hath served with me in the Gospel And Read ye that have taken the Names of Bishops or Ministers of Christ great is your work which is to watch for the sotil as they that must give an account for it Heb. 12.17 I say Read 2 Cor. 6. ver 3. how Paul and Timothy served in the Gospel Giving no offence in any thing that the Ministry be not blamed but in all things approving our selves as the Ministers of God in much Patience in Afflictions in Necessities in Distresses in Stripes in Imprisonments in Tumults in Labours in Watchings in Fastings by Pureness by Knowledge by long Suffering by Kindness by the Holy-Ghost Mark by the Holy Ghost by love Vnfained by the Word of Truth the Faithful Word which Timothy held 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 ver 8 9. As Vnknown yet well Known as Dying yet behold we Live as Chastened and not Killed as Sorrowful yet alway Rejoycing as Poor yet making many Rich as having Nothing yet Possessing all things Let these things be considered by you Bishops Doctors or Teachers whatsoever in Gods Love I mind you of your Duty and Work which is not to live at Ease Worldly Honour and Pleasures but to perfect the Saints as Paul Timothy Titus did Ephes 4.11 10 14. Neither as Lords over Gods Heritage or Masters over their Faith and Consciences but as good Stewards of the Mysteries of God who is the cheif Shepherd of the Sheep unto whom ye must all give an account how you have used your Talent Blessed is that Servant when his Lord commeth shall find him giving them meat in due season Mat. 24.26.25 26. And 1 Tim. 3.6 A Bishop must not be a Novice least being lifted up with pride he fall into the Condemnation of the Devil Verse 7. Moreover he must have a good Report of them which are without lest he fall into Reproach and the Snare of the Devil Chap. 4.1 Paul saith The Spirit speaketh expresly that in the last dayes some should depart from the Faith giving heed to Seducing Spirits and Dostrines of Devills Forbiding to Marry and commanding to abstain from Meats which God hath Created to be Received with Thanksgiving of them that do believe and know the Truth for every creature of God is good and nothing to be Refused if it be received with Thanksgiving for it is Sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer Mark Timothy was not to forbid the eating of meats upon any pretence whatsoever it being lawful for them that did believe and knew the Truth he might not say the Law of the Land forbids it and therefore it is unlawful but verse 6. He was to put the brethren in mind that this was a Doctrine of Devills and such as did forbid these things were departed from the Faith and knew not the Truth but were unbelievers and such as had taken heed to seducing Spirits Mark If thou put the Brethren in mind of these things then shalt thou be a good Minister of Jesus Christ nourished up in the words of Faith and good Doctrine Titus 1.7 For a Bishop must be blameless as the Steward of God not Self-willed nor soon Angry not given to Wine no Striker nor given to Filthy Luker but a lover of Hospitallity a lover of good Men Sober Just Holy and Temperate holding fast the faithful Word that he may be able by sound Doctrine Mark not by Prisons Whipping and Persecuting he doth not say But by Sound Doctrine both to Exhort and Convince the Gain-sayer Ver. 6. He must also be blameless the Husband of one Wife having faithful Children not accused of Riot or Vnruly Read also Tim. 2.2 The advice Paul gave to that Bishop ver 1. Thou therefore my Son be strong in the Grace that is in Christ Jesus and the things thou hast heard of me amongst many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also thou therefore indure hardship as a good Souldier of Jesus Christ Mark No man that Warreth Intangleth himself with the things of this life that he may please him that chose him to be a Souldier ver 8. He bids Timothy remember Christ Jesus so say I to all you Bishops and Teachers Take Christ Jesus for your pattorn and his Light in you and take heed how you have any hand privately or openly in Persecuting any for Conscience sake but remember Christ Jesus the cheif Bishop and Shepherd of the Everlasting Covenant how he Persecuted none no not his Enemies but he that was Just and did no sin suffered by the unjust and sinners and Prayed for his Persecuters that knew not what they did O let Christ be your Example rather than the High Priests and those learned men that put Christ to death Would you purchase to your selves a good degree of Honour and Boldness in the day of the Lord then use the Offices ye are in well and not against Christ or the Flock he taketh care of but let the same minde be in you that was in Paul and in Timothy where Paul saith 2 Tim. 2.24 25 26. The Servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men apt to Teach patient in Meeknesse Instructing them that do appose themselves if God peradventure

will give them Repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth and that they may Recover themselves out of the Snare of the Devil who were taken Captiveby him at his will Ver. 10. Therefore saith Paul I endure all things for the Elects sake that they may obtain the Salvation that is in Christ Jesus with Eternal Glory And now ye Bishops Doctors and Teachers and all such that handle the Law Do ye all stand still awhile weigh your selves in the true Ballance measure your selves with the Measure of the Spirit that God hath freely given to every one of you that by it ye may be saved from Sin and led into all Truth I say all confider is this the Crown ye aim at the Salvation of the Immortal Souls O that there were such a heart in you that was in Christ Jesus that Bishop or the same mind in you that was in Paul Titus and Timothy that laboured watched day and night that they might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus for whose sake saith Paul I suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ and be found in him yea those things which were gain I counted loss for the excellency of the knowledge that is in Christ Jesus my Lord Phil. 3.8 Saith he That I may be found in him marke in him whose Kingdom Power and Glory is not of this world Not having my own Righteousnes that is of the Law but that which is through the Faith of Christ Ver. 10. That I may know him and the Power of his Resurrection and the fellowship of his Sufferings Mark him that was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief and had not a place to lay his head in Read Isa 53.3 Luke 9.58 being made conformable to his death but Paul with weeping complaineth of some Phil. 3. ver 18. that were of another mind Whose God was their bellies who minded earthly things and did glory in that which might have been looked on by them as their shame whose end was destruction but saith he ver 20. Our Conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for the Saviour O Friends Do nothing without consideration and a little consider this great matter Is this the end ye take these Offices of Bishops upon you that ye may watch for the souls of the poor scattered Sheep and save the afflicted and dispised Lambs of Christ by them that are at ease O this is a great work if ye leave it not undone Or is this the Prize ye run for and the Mark ye aim at then would the Lord stablish you and the most Highest himself will be your Shepherd and a Shelter and hiding place unto you But if the world its Honour and Glory be coveted after by you as the Nation feareth it is too much then will the Lord arise for your destruction and as a Whirl-wind from the most highest Shall it suddenly come upon you and as a mighty Tempest great and terrible against the wall and as a sweeping Rain that leaveth no food and his Lambs will he save and his People and Heritage he will himself deliver your portion shall be as in the book of the Psalms It is written Acts 1.20 Psal 69.25 Let his habitation be desolate and let no man dwell therein and his Bishoprick let another take Now this was Judas the Traitor that was both a Bishop and Minister for the work is one For he was numbred with the Apostles mark Judas numbred and chosen by Christ and took part of the Ministry with the Apostles a thing that ye never came to as yet but he cared not for the soul the poor were dispised by him but like Balaam and many now adayes that are falsly called Ministers of Christ he loved the reward of Iniquity and with that he purchased a field which is called the field of blood to this day And falling down headlong he burst asunder in the middest and his bowels gushed out Let this be the reward of the wicked from the Lord and the Recompence of the Persecutor from the God of my Salvation but the Righteous let him be saved by the Lord with an everlasting Salvation from my God because he is poor and despised and abhorred of men and hath no deliverer in the earth O Watchman of Israel O Shepherd of the Sheep that have followed thee and for thy Names sake have been willing to lay down their own lives that in thee and thy life they may be found blameless and preserved spotless O! Do thou arise thou great Shepherd of the everlasting Covenant save thy-people preserve thy Lambs and in thy Armes carry them that are young preserve the feeble and such as be of a contrite Heart and Spirit that none may touch thy hidden and anointed ones so as to harm them in their inward parts or wound them in their hidden life O! Be thou abiding place unto them in the Storm and a Light in their Tabernacles when darkness covers their Enemies that so in their Spirits thy Sons may sing together and the morning Stars make Mellodie unto thee in their hearts and the inhabitants of Sion shout for joy that the Lord is in the midst of them Do this for thy heritage and forsake them not Eternall God we have heard with our ears O Lord the triumphing of the wicked is short O let it not be said by them for ever Where is now their God But Arise arise as in the dayes of old and worke wonders for thy seeds sake as in the antient time when thou didst march through the Sea with thy chosen and didst get thee a Name of praise from the foundation of Israel So let it be with thy Enemies O Lord as of old when the Stars in their course fought against Sisera O Friends I am a Lover of your Souls and the eye is open and opening daily in thousands and a numerous number begin to see the sad state they have been long in O the Lord hath done a wonder and a marvellous work he hath wrought in this our day which is dawned the Day-Star is risen in the hearts of thousands and the day that is everlasting is dawned and in England the sun is risen that shall never set again the light thereof shineth shall shine more and more untill the perfect day which the Clouds of the evening nor the shaddow of the Mountains shall never cover again the Lyon is rouzed the Beasts of the field shall tremble the Lord is working and who shall hinder or let him The Light is the eye which seeth this day which was open in Abraham and in his Head who is invisible and eternall who saith Before Abraham was I am This eye must be opened and looked with in you Bishops and the eye that doth offend and persecute the precious Life phickt out and cast away and the hand cut off and the Right Arm of the wicked broken before the everlasting Arm which

is under-neath in which the Shepherd of Israel doth carry his Lambs can be known or wrought with by you I say till this eye be opened and a new tongue be unloosed ye are but blind Watch-men and Leaders of the blind into the Ditch and horrible Pit and Dumb Shepherds that gather not the Sheep and out-cast of Israel but such as the Prophet speakes of That fed themselves with the fat and cloath with the finest of the wool and bewrayed him that wandereth ye gather not the out-cast but with force and cruelty scatter the flock which his own blood hath purchased The eye being blinded that should put a difference between the Precious and the Vile the Sheep and the Goates the Diseased and the Whole the Strong and the Weak This is a great work O Friends to watch for the soul The world by wisdom nor the learned by outward learning know not the soul of man nor what it is that the Anguish and pain is upon but he that made it knoweth the frame thereof and he that breathed into it the breath of Life his eye which is the Light seeth and knoweth it altogether such knowledge is too wonderful for me that when this eye is awakened I am satisfied therewith O blessed is that eye that seeth and is satisfied therewith O this is the eye that runs to and fro thorough the whole earth and seeth the secret thoughts of all your hearts in your bed-chambers your Councel against the Lords people is not hid from it in the darkest night that ever came he seeth our innocency and knoweth how we are wronged by being numbred with transgressors Is this the way to convert us to God as Whipping Persecuting and Imprisoning to the spoiling both of our bodies goods Well this is the way they took with Christ our Lord and Master I say thus was it in the Green tree and with the Master of the Family and generall Assembly but not to convert us were we unconverted but we are on the earth though not of it and our bodies in prison though our Spirits are at liberty and he that was dead now liveth and is ascended out of the reach of all Persecutors I say after he was who is ascended and all power in heaven and earth given unto him and he had received gifts for men having led Captivity that which did Captivate and he having spoiled Principalities and Powers by the power and virtue of his Resurrection he being ascended which first descended into the lowest parts of the earth he that was in the the pit death hell and the grave being made a little lower than the Angels I say when he was glorified with the same glory he had with the Father before the world of iniquity began then he gave some Apostles Bishops and Teachers Mark not Lord Bishops over the faith of Gods heritage but for the perfecting of the Saints and edifying the body of Christ untill they all came into the unity of the faith and knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man in Christ Mark untill he be formed unto the measure and Stature of the fulness of Christ that they should be no more Children tossed and carried about with every wind of doctrine to turn again into such beggarly Rudements as the observing of dayes new Moones or Sabboths or abstaining from meats the forbidding of which the Apostle calls a Doctrine of Devills which God hath created and commanded to be eaten and nothing to be refused by them that are come to Christ and in him believe who is the Body and End of all Shadows and the Word that Sanctifies the Meats who is the Everlasting day in which the Children of the Light do walk as it is written and witnessed in these latter dayes of the man of sin The Children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord in whose Light the Nations of them that are saved shall walk and great shall be the Peace and Assurance of his children in that day it shall be unto them a good day and a Joyful day a day of Feasting and Gladness of Heart a Good day and a Holy day a day of Praise and Thanksgiving wherein the wicked shall cease from Troubling and where the weary shall be at Rest there the Prisoners rest together and hear not the voyce of the oppressor Consider ye that are Commanding to abstain from Meats which God hath commanded to be eaten and commanding to Swear and Observes dayes which God hath forbiden saying Six dayes shalt thou labour and do all thy work O will ye limit the Lords people that are in the Truth and such who stand in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free Will ye Judge them in Meats and condemn about Holy dayes of your own making as ye call them are ye wiser than God or must the Precepts of men be observed rather than the Commandements of God who saith by his Spirit that must not be limited All things are lawful to be eaten by them that know the Truth O what is your end that God must not be hearkened unto is not filthy luker your end that can for mony sell a Dispensation to do that which your Law condemneth as unlawful and what must the poor do that are sick and have scarce mony to buy meat much less to buy a licence to eat it let all these Laws be disanul'd and those Statutes that are contrary to the Statutes of God be established by you no longer upon any pretence whatsoever And for these things that are Righteous and Good and because we cannot break Christs Commands no other thing can be justly charged against us how are we drawn from our families Husbands from their Wices and Wives from their Children England never saw the like leaving them desolate without any helper in the earth as Sheep for the Slaughter so are we killed all the day long and counted as the off-Scowring of all things for Righteousness Sake because we follow him Who is the Lord our Righteousness obey his Righteous Commands rather than the Unrighteous Precepts and Commandements of men therefore are we Persecuted and Hated by them that know not our Innocency and judged not meet to live upon the earth And to hide themselves The Cry is as in all ages the Persecutors have done against the Lords People and Heritage They are Enemies to the King or no Friends to the present Government or else as the cry is now against the dispised Quakers Deceivers Deceivers such As destroy all good Laws and Government this was done in the green tree and this was done against the Apostles in Generations past and in this present age the cry is These are the false Christs and false Prophets that Christ said should come Mat. 24. v. 5 24. Now let all people consider the Scripture in the first Epistle of John chap. the 2. ver 18 19 26. chap. 4. ver 1 2 3 5. Read these Scriptures and you shall