heart and consider for it is because of sin the Land mourneth and because of sin wrath hath ever come upon the sons of men and think not that ye shall be exempted more then others seeing your abomination exceedeth all the forepast Generations for God spared the old inhabitants of the Land of Canaan no longer then till the measure of their iniquity was filled up And by it do you take warning and turn to the Lord by true repentance least the Angel of his wrath smite you which he is sending forth whose sword is already drawn to smite the inhabitants of the earth Therefore except ye turn to God speedily and bring forth fruits meet for repentance and amendment of life the Sword shall be sheathed in your bowels for God respecteth not the manner nor the person of any man nation or people but all in the particular shall receive according as they have done whether good or evil if they slight the day of their visitation which is freely tendered unto them which is Gods endless mercy and goodness after so long forbearance with them therefore beware least this love be turned to your condemnation by reason of the hardness of your hearts and there be no place found for repentance though with Esau you may seek it with tears for he had a birth-right but he sold it for a mess of pottage a thing of nought so before you is life and death set good and evil chuse you whether one or other I shall be clear of your blood if ye perish who have truly warned you as I was moved of the Lord even to you people of this nation of what sort or degree soever and ye shall one day remember though at present ye may slight it and count it as idle talk yet ye are warned in an acceptable time and in a day of salvation if so be ye accept it And also your observing of dayes and times will not excuse you as I have already said for the Apostle said he was afraid of those which were in those things least he had bestowed labour in vain upon them for his labour was to bring people out of the observation of dayes and times up to him who was before time was who is God over all blessed for evermore And they who are not come hither are in the beggerly Elements and Rudiments which fadeth away for saith Paul Let no man judg you in meats or drinks or new Moons or the Sabbath dayes which things are but shadows of good things to come mark how far the Pope and his Ministers are from this doctrine who commandeth dayes and times to be observed which are neither Types nor Shadows of things to come nor of any thing promised but are their own inventions so that ye are taught for doctrine the Commandments of men and for the peoples Fear towards God is taught the Traditions of men Therefore cease in time from them for wrath is kindled against them and their works who thus lead the people in gross ignorance even to have as many Advocates as there are dayes in the year And your dayes and times ye observe were never commanded of God nor his Servants yea the very day you call the Sabbath is not the day which was commanded the Jewes they being witnesses against you in that thing for it was the seaventh day that was commanded but it is the first day they put you upon to keep and instead of keeping it holy according to the Commandment it is commonly kept the prophanest of all the rest except your other dayes dedicated to dead men and women as the Heathen do to the Sun and Moon for in the ground there is no difference between you in this particular and your keeping these days as you pretend at best is in honour to such such Saints but ye are a shame to Saints and the very name of Christians is evill spoken of through such means for which cause the Lord will assuredly plead with you if ye repent not for the day which all Saints are in is perfect pure holy peace and rest of which the Land of Canaan was a true Type for saith the Apostle He that believeth is entered into rest and hath ceased from his own works as God did from his which Rest is Christ the Saviour of the soul and whosoever comes to enter in will witness my words and out of him there is nothing but grief and vexation of spirit for in me saith Christ ye shall have peace but in the World trouble Peace is the true Rest so where it reigneth in the heart the true rest and Sabbath is known and not until then can an holy day be witnessed Oh come all to the Light which reproveth for sin in the Conscience so will you come to Christ who is the only way and path of peace to all who believe but to the disobedient he is condemnation And this ye shall witness whether ye will hear or forbear for it is the word of the Lord God to you for if your hearts condemn you ye cannot have confidence towards God for God is greater but if your hearts be turned to the Light they come to be purified and then the peace of God which passeth all understanding will reign there so will you come to have confidence towards God as saith the Scripture for if the heart be smitten it is because of transgression and saith my God There is no peace to the wicked but woe and torment shall follow them for ever though they may seek to avoyd it through the cursed delusion of the blind Priests by giving them money for pardons when ye have committed murder or some wicked act and are judged in your selves for by the Light of Christ Jesus in your Consciences are you judged I say to think to get ease ye run to the covetous corrupt wicked men and confess to them giving them money for pardons for sins and money for saying of Masses and the like but know ye assuredly that the Lord God will not pardon you except ye come to confess and forsake your sins ye will never find mercy at the tribunal seat of the righteous Judg of Heaven and Earth neither you nor your Confessors therefore cease from them least you and them perish together which will assuredly come to passe if ye continue in your stubbornness and gainsaying Remember the dreadful end of Dathan Abiram and of Corah who perished in their gainsaying least you come to the same end which is unrecoverable for evermore Let the word ever sink down into your hearts so may you remember the endless time of torments which is prepared for the Devil and his Angels even the man of sin who was a Lyar from the beginning And do but try his Ministers by this and try if they preach not up sin as long as life lasteth and say that man cannot be free therefrom nor put off the body of sin while in this life by which means they strengthen
A Seasonable Warning AND WORD OF Advice to all Papists BUT Most especially to those of the Kingdome OF FRANCE FOR Them to turn from their Idolatry and gross Superstition and speedily to Repent and hast to meet the Lord by amendment of Life least he come on them and smite them unawares Which is good Counsel from a Friend to your souls and a Lover of that which would make for your eternal welfare CHARLES BAILY LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. A Seasonable Word IN Love to all PAPISTS who are scattered on the face of the Earth and especially to those of the Kingdom of FRANCE OH ye Priests of the Nation my controversie is against you saith the Lord God of Heaven and Earth my fury is kindled against you which you shall never be able to quench saith the Allmighty your Idolatry is a noisomness unto me and your prayers are an abomination in my ears your Crosses and your Crucifixes shall not be able to hide you from my terrible irresistable Judgements which is nigh to be powred forth upon you except you repent Repent before the Decree be sealed against you ye make the people drunk with your abominable Idolatry saith the Lord God therefore will I make you drunk with my fury which shall be powred forth upon you which you shall in no wise escape weeping and howling shall be heard amongst you because you have made the Innocent to weep saith the Lord Your strong security shall become as rotten sticks before me And while ye shall cry peace peace suddain destruction shall come upon you the fire of my jealousie is already kindled in your borders which shall never be put out untill it hath consumed you root and branch saith God Allmighty whose power hath set bounds to the Sea and saith to the proud waves thereof Hitherto shall ye go and no further who will also bind and limit your power so that it shall not passe the determined counsel of my God Though you kick against him and say in your hearts Who is the Lord that we should obey him Know ye he is the same as ever he was in Might in Power in Glory in Majesty in Dominion and in Dread who will make all Nations to tremble before him and will render to every man according to his works an hypocrite shall have a hypocrites portion for he shall not be able to hide from his dreadfull presence nor a false god shall not be a cover for them saith the Lord who will roar out of his holy habitation and for his own names sake will he arise yea like a man of war and none shall be able to stand before him in Judgement an Idolater shall have an Idolaters portion money nor favour shall not be able to plead the cause of any saith the Lord but nakedly shall every one be judged and receive according to the deeds done in the body whether they are good or evil an Hireling Priest shall have an hirelings portion an unbeliever an unbelievers portion and a deceiver a deceivers portion the lyar a lyars portion they shall all be cast into the Lake saith the Lord God where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth for ever The mighty and terrible day of Gods vengeance is come Therefore Awake Awake ye people awake and consider what you are a doing will an Idol save you or an Image deliver you saith the Lord surely nay the Image and the Image-maker shall perish the Idol and the Idolater shall have their reward together In vain shall ye cry when ye would be heard seeing ye refuse to hear when I call upon you saith the Allmighty Your prayers to Mary John and James and to the rest of your imagined Saints shall stand you in no stead at all but on the contrary shall adde to your condemnation seeing you have chosen to your selves other Advocates and Mediators then my Son whom I have given for a Covenant of Light to all Nations that he might be your Salvation to the ends of the Earth Hear and give ear ye dull and uncircumcised in heart and ears Is there any other name given under Heaven for Salvation but His He is the Light of the world and he enlightneth every one that cometh into the world which Light shineth into every one of your Consciences checking and reproving every one of you for sin and evill though never so secret or private can any forgive when by this Light you are condemned Surely nay seeing it is my true and Faithfull Witnesse in every one of you which judgeth righteously between me and you without respect of persons saith the Lord drunkard it condemns thee for thy drunkennesse lyar it condems thee for thy lying swearer for thy swearing glutton for thy gluttony and whatsoever is sin or evil it condemneth in you whether pride presumption hypocrisie or covetousnesse which is idolatry it condemns the evil and justifies the good therefore shall ye be left without excuse in the day of Judgement though ye may buy pardons of men yet will not I pardon you saith the Lord God Except you repent This from the Lord is a Warning to you all therefore while you have time prize it least the day of your visitation passe over your heads unawares and you be left to perish for ever Mark the Word ever and lay it to heart before it be too late therefore be you warned whilest love and mercy is stretched out towards you Priest and People Kings Potentates and Rulers from the least to the greatest for if you refuse and reject this tender visitation of love the dreadful sword of Judgement shall bring you down saith the Lord for the Lord is risen to rule and reign over all Nations and none shall be able to stand before him though the Priest preach for hire and the Judges judge for reward and both take counsel against the innocent and so between Head and Tail the whole Body is bound down under oppression yet a day of restoration is coming and the yoak of oppression and the burden thereof shall be taken off from the necks of the poor and needy that they may look towards me saith the Lord who will assuredly plead the cause of the afflicted and deliver him from the hands of him which is too strong for him These things will the Lord do for his own names sake that he might be known amongst the sons of men for he hath been more a stranger amongst them though he hath created them then the Ox is to the Owner or the Asse to his Masters Crib many have professed him in name but in nature are wholly degenerated from him there is more than cause enough in this unrighteous generation for the righteous to be grieved and his soul dayly vexed to behold the wicked conversation of the Inhabitants of the Earth and none more than they who go under the name of Christians from the head to the foot of them and all this chiefly happens from that cursed
by their cruel usage they be made to conform to their Wills this is evident amongst them insomuch that many of them have been kept many years and not been told the cause why for if they have but a Jealousie of a man he shall hardly escape their hands And now what they have to be spoken against let the moderate Reader seriously consider if there be any thing else but abominable Idolatry in all their Worship even such Idolatry as all the Heathen of old never exceeded As for Example in Rome which is the Fountain from whence all this abomination springs they pourtray the likeness of an Old Man upon a Wall and they call him the Image of God the Father with a Cross before him with the Portraicture of a dead man upon it and the likeness of a Pigeon on the top of it and this in their Imaginations they call the Father Son and Spirit And this being openly tollerated in Rome the bordering Nations are made stark drunk with the same abominations and Idolatry So that if one in love and in pity to their souls speak to reclaim them from their gross darkness they are ready to tear them in pieces though it be plainly manifest that they are of those who have changed the Glory of the Incorruptible God into Images made like unto Corruptible men wherefore God hath given them up to uncleannesse through their lost and corrupt hearts who have changed the Truth of God into a lie and do worship the Image which themselves have made more than the Creator who is God blessed for ever This is such gross darkness as was in Egypt even such as might be felt And in God there is no ancientness of dayes who is a Spirit infinite and eternal who created all things by the Word of his power and upholdeth all things thereby unto this day To whom will ye liken me saith the Lord Heaven is my Throne and the Earth is my Footstool hath not my hand made all these things all things being created in and by the Word of his Power which is Christ Jesus for so is his Name who was glorified by his Father before the World began and is the express Image of his Father whose likeness cannot be made by the hands of men therefore it is horrible Idolatry for you to make the Image of a dead man and say it is the Image of Christ and so bewitch the minds of people with those false conceptions and imaginations woe be to them by whom these things are wrought and upheld for the Vengeance and Indignation of the Lord God is kindled against them for they are the unreasonable Task-Masters of Egypt who keep the Seed in bondage and slavery so that the people cannot come to the knowledge of the true God that him only they might serve honour and obey in all things who is the only King Judg and Lawgiver of his people who sheweth mercy unto all who come unto him in his Sons Name for there is no other Name given under Heaven for Salvation but his And all who are in the praying to Saints are in the wicked Idolatry and do forsake the Fountain of living mercy and have hewed to your selves Cisterns which will hold no Water For the true Voyce saith Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest And saith the Prophet All you which are a thirst come and you which have no money come buy and eat yea come buy Wine and Milk without money and without price Why do ye lay out your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Heare and eat that which is good and let your souls delight themselves in fatness Incline your ear and come unto me hear and your souls shall live And I will establish with you my everlasting Covenant even the sure mercies of David Behold I have given him for a Witnesse to the people This is all free even the free gift of God Who hath so loved the World that he hath given his only begotten Son into the World that all through him might believe for whosoever believes in him shall not abide in darkness but shall have the Light of life who is the Way the Truth and the Life who hath enlightned every one who cometh into the World with his true Light and they which turn to the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned them they come to Christ who is the free Gift of God This likes not the Pope and his Ministers for they make the people pay tenths of all their increase besides Money for Beads Crosses and Crucifixes and Money for pardon for sins and for Masses to be said for them while they are alive and after they are dead and Money for Christening of Children as they call it and Money for Marrying and all that they doe which thing sheweth plainly that his Ministers are not like the Ministers of the Gospel for that was and is a free Ministry and the Ministers thereof ministreth forth freely as they have received and are moved of God freely thereunto So the Pope is not with Christ but against him in all his actions for Tithes were only due to Levi and that from his Brethren yet they were not Levi's but the Lords and was to be put into the store-houses for to relieve the widow the fatherless and the stranger but how the Pope and his Adherents doth this let the wise in heart judge who devour the Tenths and much more upon their lusts as the Nations may witness against them which plainly shews they are neither of the Tribe of Levi nor of the Flock of Christ And the Apostle who was a Minister of the Gospel speaking of Levi said That Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change of the Law for the Priesthood being changed it is evident that the Law is disanulled which took them so that this paying of Tithes is but a usurpation of those which crope in in this dark night of Apostacy which Christ foretold us of saying The Night would come wherein no man could work And Paul saw this coming in For I know this saith he that after my departure shall grievous Wolves enter in among you not sparing the Flock And such did come in who taught things they ought not for filthy lucres sake The Pope and his Adherents will plainly appear to be of that stock and spring from that cursed Root and Spirit as his and their fruits will plainly manifest for they who forsook the right way did run on in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards but they have far exceeded all their Ancestors and will not be content with a gift and reward but rob and take by force where they cannot have it otherwise so far as their power reacheth And this running out of the way and commandement of God is the cause why they profit not the people at all though they creep into houses and lead silly
given you therefore cease from asking in any other name Search and read and be no longer deceived for God is come to look for fruit in the earth and every tree which is not found bearing fruit to God shall be cut down and cast into the fire Read the Parable of the Fig-tree and lay it to heart before it be too late and cease from your Taskmasters which tell you a house of stone is a Church contrary to the Scripture which sayes the Church is in God the ground and pillar of truth you may see in this they also deceive you 1 Thess 1.1 For in the true Church nothing that defileth can enter but in yours drunkards lyars and all manner of unclean persons may enter Thus you are deceived by the lying and lightnesse of your Teachers who through covetous practices make Merchandize of your souls for were you truly instituted you would come to know that the Saints bodies are the Temple of the Holy Ghost and their bodies was not for fornication which is openly tollerated amongst you but for the Lord and the Lord for the body therefore you are ignorant of this Doctrine of Paul who said Know ye not that your bodies are the Members of Christ for if you were not ignorant thereof you would be afraid to make them the members of an Harlot For who is joyned to an Harlot is one body for two saith he shall be one flesh Therefore repent and return to God and then you will come to witness your bodyes the Temples of the Holy Ghost which God will put in you and you shall no more be your own for through repentance you will come to know that ye are bought with a price and so will come to glorifie God in your bodies and spirits which then will be Gods as you come to the blood of cleansing as the Saints of old did and so did witnesse God to live and walk in them which was a true Christians state for they were led by the Spirit of God and so became the Sons of God but if any come amongst you now and say they have the Spirit of God in them ye make a mock at them and say they are mad and so are ready to stone them though the true Christians did witnesse the same else they could not have been Christians For it is the life of Christ in the Creature which makes him a Christian through which he comes to witnesse the promise of God to be fulfilled which the Prophet Joel prophesied of saying Thus shall it come to passe afterwards that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions And also upon your servants and handmaids in those dayes will I poure out my Spirit Therefore I in the Spirit do declare unto you my Countrey men this acceptable day that you may turn from your sins and find mercy that the powring out of the Spirit ye may come to witnesse amongst you which will lead you into all truth and from your deceitfull Teachers so will you come to know the spirit of prophesie as the Saints of old did who were truly sanctified through the blood of the Lamb for saith Paul unto them You may all prophesie one by one which was the true Churches order And againe Your Priests tels you you must look for teaching from them but the Covenant of God is That all his people shall be taught of him For this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel After these dayes saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my People and they shall no more teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest of them saith the Lord For I will forgive their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more And all the children of the Covenant come to witnesse this which is their great peace for they that come to witnesse the Anointing need not mans teaching but if this you should come to witnesse your Priests should soon be discovered which is the cause they every way hold you in bondage and blindnesse being Ministers thereof themselves as manifestly appeareth by their fruits for were they Ministers of light they would bring people to the light and so to the true knowledge of God for God is light saith the Apostle God is light saith he and in him is no darknesse at all and if we walk in the light as he is in the light then have we fellowship one with another Mark the Saints fellowship was in the light therefore he that saith He knoweth God and walketh in darknesse is a lyar for he that cometh to the light cometh to know the teachings of God which the everlasting Ministry brings into So here People you may measure your Priests by the Scriptures of truth And again Your Priests tell you you must give money to pray for those which are dead which is an invention of the Devill the deceiver from whence that deceit sprung to make you believe there is a place called Purgatory to be purged in after you are dead which thing is only taught for filthy lucres sake for the Scriptures no where speak of a Purgatory for men to be purged in after they are dead but on the contrary it saith As the Tree falls so it lyes for such as a man soweth such shall he reap therefore the true Ministry was for to bring people to the Spirit of God that so their sowing might be to the Spirit the fruits of which is life everlasting So here they were brought off from the works of the flesh by the vertue of the blood of Christ Jesus and came to be cleansed from all sin for saith Paul When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness Rom. 6.20 Mark They were made free from sin so here was no need of a Purgatory to be purged from sin after death being made free from sin while in the body as Adam was and as true Christians were who followed Christ through the regeneration even to the witnessing of the new-birth which sinueth not as saith the Scriptures He that is born of God sinneth not neither can he because his seed remaineth in him And as we know that God is righteous so we know that he that doth righteousnesse is born of him and so this is the Christians boldness in the day of Judgement that as he is so are they in this present world so according to Christs words they come to be perfect even as their Father which is in Heaven is perfect And this is a true Christians life to be like Christ to live in him as he doth in the Father such only are Christians who witnesse Christ in them as the
were it not that men were given over to believe a lye that they might be damned because they do not like to retain God in their knowledge nor take heed to that of God which is manifest in them which if they did they would soon come out of this horrible deceit into the true knowledge of his eternal power and God-head for God would manifest it unto them Oh People seriously consider and read the Scriptures and see if you can read a word of Purgatory or that if ever men gave money to be prayed for after they were dead or that if any sought to give money to men for pardons for sins or whether any of the Apostles and Disciples of Christ did appoint people a set manner of prayer one part to such a Saint and another part to the Virgin Mary and the like Surely if you are not wilfully bent to be enemies to God and your own souls and resolved to perish you would certainly look unto these things and be no longer deceived for the arm of Gods everlasting love is stretched out towards you to draw you out of these miserable delusions and his voyce calleth unto you therefore whilest it is called to day harden not your hearts as in the provocation for if ye do ye will surely perish eternally which is the Word of the Lord unto you all whose bowels of pity and mercy is unto you therefore repent repent that ye may meet and receive the mercy and be accepted of the Lord for truly his pure Spirit hath long been grieved with you and hath been oppressed even as a Cart is laden with sheaves with your iniquities therefore be warned and repent And from whence come all the abominable abominations and delusions but from the painted Harlot that rideth upon the Beast cloathed with Scarlet with the Cup of fornication in her hand by which you are made drunk as not to discern her devilish witchcraft which she deceives you with to the end that she may uphold her own pride lust and wickedness painting and decking her self like Jezabel her mother out of whose womb she came seeking and hunting continually after the Servants and Prophets of the true and living God to destroy them while she feedeth many hundred false ones at her Table fed like so many pompered Beasts at the Stall of the Staller which she maintains to minister to her Idols and Images from which they can have no answer in the day of tryall as it appeareth plainly and will upon further tryal therefore woe will be unto them which joyn with her to uphold her for they shall perish utterly with her for ever and though she hath pretended to forgive many yet God will not forgive her but as she loveth blood she shall have blood to drink yea a double portion in her own bowels shall be rendred unto her for the evil which she hath done to others The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and the Dogs shall eat her flesh and none shall be able to deliver her out of the hand of the Allmighty who hath determined her destruction and sealed the decree against her and many hath the Lord already mounted in the Chariots of Israel to go forth against her yea chosen men of valour and strength whose hearts shall not pity nor their hands spare untill the purpose of the Allmighty be accomplished upon her and their Bow shall abide in strength in battel and none shall be able to deliver her out of their hands And People look not for peace look not for peace so long as her witchcrafts remains amongst you though you may desire it yet surely it will be in vain for the consummate decree is gone forth against all her abominations therefore as you love your immortal souls and desire the salvation thereof joyn not with her but joyn unto the Lord so will you be blessed and happy for evermore surely were you sensible of the abominations of Romes City you would fear and be ashamed to call it a Holy City where all manner of impiety is nourished viz pride whoredome murder and the most openly of any place in the world This testimony is faithful and true concerning it under pretence of keeping of Hospitals for the poor there is tolleration for Play-houses where all manner of wickednesse is committed and those must pay great sums of money to the Pope under pretence of hospitality Oh unheard of wickedness where did ever any of the Saints or holy men of God countenance any such things is not this an open sign they are not of God did not the Apostle say Above all things keep your selves from fornication and is not fornication tollerated by a Law did he not also say Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouths and are not Comedies and Stage-Playes nothing else but such like wickedness and yea thither do resort the chiefest of the Clergy-men Cardinals and the like and do ye think God beholds not these things yea verily and his fury is kindled hot against it And in their open Market-places there is Conjuring Pupit-Playes and the like to amaze and draw the minds of people after vanity is this the fruits of an holy City nay it s the fruits of Hell Do not Cardinals out of which they make Popes from whom come your chiefest Pardons for sins go up and down in such pride and pomp as is not usual amongst the Princes of this world with great trains of men after them and before them bare-headed and their Gowns held up before them was this the practice of the Saints Search and see and be no longer deceived with lying vanities by forsaking your own mercies In the Scripture is recorded of Elders to oversee the Churches which signifieth properly Bishops which whosoever desireth desires a good Office even to be an Elder in the Church and Assembly of Gods people but such were to be grave sober men not given to filthy lucre nor wine the husband of one wife and of good report that he might be a good example to others But the title and name of a Cardinal who brought them in let the wise in heart judge for Cardinal signifieth properly Supream as your own Catechisme teacheth which is against Christs Doctrine who said He that would be greatest amongst them let him be servant unto all So People come to the Light of Christ in you and with it Try all things and hold fast that which is good And if any preach any other Doctrine than this which hath been preached let him be accursed saith the Apostle yea though themselves or an Angel from Heaven So whosoever keepeth up Superiority in the Church of God preacheth another Doctrine for they were all Brethren And again In Rome there is men they call Bishops but they differ from them whom the Apostle speaks of let him which readeth judge who ride up and down in round Caps and green Ribbons such as fools use to wear and in great pomp far from examples
against thee then shalt thou grind them to powder And because of this wo wo unto the hypocrite wo unto the swearer who unto the liar wo unto the Adulterer yea wo unto the inhabitants of the earth who shall joyn with the Dragon in war against thee thou shalt command the holy Angels of the Father which shall attend on thee continually to bind and to cast into the pit of utter darkness for evermore out of which there shall be no redemption Therefore be ye warned O ye Kings Judges and Rulers of this Nation and people not to meddle in this matter for as sure as the Lord God liveth who hath created the Heavens and the Earth these things shall surely come to pass and it will be a folly for you to take counsel of the Sorcerers Enchanters and Deviners for no such thing shall be able to prevail against the holy anointed one of the Lord but as I have said through the holy Spirit of the Lord if ye fall not upon him ye will surely be ground to powder and though his coming may be contrary to the expectation of all flesh marvel not at it for it was ever so that the Princes of the world never knew him though never so wise for if they had they would never have crucified him And remember what was written by the Prophet concerning the way of God who had it from the mouth of the Lord saying My wayes are not your wayes nor my thoughts your thoughts but as the Heavens are higher than the Earth so are my wayes higher than yours and my thoughts higher than your thoughts saith the Lord of Hosts Therefore marvel not at the coming and establishing of his only begotten Son in this Nation as he hath purposed in all Nations I say marvel not though it be to the destruction and overturning of all outward glory Therefore if any in whom he is witnessed to live and reign be caused and compelled to come before you and they cannot bow unto you witt Hat or Knee as all manner of flatterers and dissemblers do be ye warned even from the Lord God of life that ye touch not nor hurt them for these things for if ye do know assuredly that God Almighty will avenge their Cause evidently amongst you who shall thus do for God is jealous of his honour and he will not give it unto another and so beware that ye respect not the persons of any in judgment lest the Lord rebuke you for it and everlasting shame and reproach come upon your heads for ever for He which respecteth persons saith the Apostle committeth sin and is convinced by the Law for a Transgressor mark that the righteous Law convinceth him for a transgressour which saith Thou shalt not respect persons in judgment they being such who held not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory who respecteth not persons they having their Lord and Master for an example who respected not the person of any man and said How can ye believe who seek honour one of another and seek not the honour which comes from God only So they who seek the honour and they who give it are all one even unbelievers and transgressors for so faith the wise man also It is not good to have respect to persons for for a piece of bread such an one will offend And the thing is evident amongst you from the Priests and people who have mens persons in admiration because of advantage search and see whether any of these things be not so yea or nay with the pure Light of Christ Jesus which shineth in all your Consciences which reproveth for sin and will make all the works of darkness manifest unto you as you diligently heed it and follow it and love it while you have the Light walk in the Light that you may be children of the Light least it be taken from you and given to them which are faithfull Therefore I warn and advise you in the everlasting bowels of love not to slight but prize the day of your visitation for the day-spring from on high hath visited you as I have already said therefore whilst yet a time and day is in your hand improve it that the blessing of the most high God may be upon you and your posterity for ever but if you harden your hearts and reject this counsel and warning of love which is freely tendered unto you then do ye hear the word of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth unto you who will not be mocked thus saith the Lord If you harden your hearts against me my unresistible vengeance shall come upon your life as the unresistible Waves of the Sea when moved with a tempestuous wind which shall even devour and swallow you up at once none shall be able to deliver you out of my hands my fury shall come forth against you like a mighty wind that none knoweth from whence it ariseth which shall scatter break and tear you to pieces This is the Word of the Lord unto you all who is righteous in mercy and judgment and unto them that fear my name saith the Lord and embrace my counsell even to you shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing under his wings and ye shall go forth and grow as Calves of the stall but the proud and those who do wickedly shall be as stubble which is cast into the Oven fully dryed And this is the determined counsel of the Most High concerning all the Nations of the Earth which are respecting of persons Therefore be thou warned O thou Nation of France to whom I have been sent and set as a Sign that thou mayest find mercy after thy long provocation and estrangement from God and that thou may'st with a ready mind and willing heart submit to the Kingdome of his Son which he hath determined to establish in the midst of thee and that thou mayst submit unto his Government for to know him by his Name whose Name is The Mighty God the Prince of Peace upon whose shoulder the Government is 〈◊〉 which all Nations either by constraint or willingly shall submit unto even the true Immanuel God with man whose Scepter is freely held forth that thou Nation of France with all Nations might come under it which if thou dost thine inhabitants shall be blessed but if thou refusest instead of blessing that which is tendered unto you shall be turned into a curse for ever By a true Servant of the living God who suffers imprisonment in Bourg de Ault neer Deppt known by the Name of Charles Baily Given forth in the Year 1661. 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