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A66772	A proclamation in the name of the King of kings, to all inhabitants of the isles of Great Brittain and especially to those who have hypocritically pretended to justice, mercy, honesty, and religion (as also to them who have lived in open prophaness and impiety) summoning them to repentance, by denouncing God's judgements, and declaring his mercy, offered in the everlasting gospel / warrantably proclaimed and preached by Geo. Wither ... ; whereto are added, some fragments of the same authors, omitted in the first imprinting of the book, intituled Scraps and crums, and a few which were collected since that impression, and during his imprisonment.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3181; ESTC R12240	34,610	74

A Proclamation In the Name of the King of Kings To all the Inhabitants of the Isles of Great Brittain And especially to those who have Hypocritically pretended to Justice Mercy Honesty and Religion as also to them who have lived in open Prophaness and Impiety summoning them to Repentance by denouncing GOD's Judgements and declaring his Mercy offered in the Everlasting Gospel Warrantably Proclaimed and Preached by GEO. WITHER Though not by any Humane Ordination Whereto are added some FRAGMENTS Of the same Authors omitted in the first Imprinting of the Book Intituled Scraps and Crums and a few which were Collected since that Impression and during his Imprisonment LONDON Printed in the year 1662. A PROCLAMATION In the Name of the King of Kings To the Inhabitants of the Isles of Great Brittain especially to all those who have Hypocritically pretended to Justice Mercy Honesty and Religion as also to them who live in open Prophaness and Impiety summoning them to Repentance by denouncing GOD'S Judgments and thereto encouraging them by declaring his Mercy offered in the Everlasting Gospel ON the first day of the Week the second day of the first Moneth in the second Year of revived Monarchy in these Islands and in the eighth Moneth of my Confinement for discharging my Conscience My Consort being then with me in the house of my Imprisonment and intending to reade some parcel of holy Scripture for our instruction and refreshment The first place presenting it self to her view and then read was the seventh Chapter of the Prophecy of Jeremiah the Contents whereof and part of the next seemed to my understanding when I had heard them to be so pertinent to these Nations in this Generation that I was immediatly inspired with a strong perswasion that the effect of those words heretofore dictated to Jeremiah by the LORD was then spoken to me by the Spirit of the same GOD and he having given me fifty years Experience of the Transactions between Himself and this People since I came to years of discretion and also called me to be a Prophet by that Ordinary Anointing whereof every true Member of Jesus Christ is partaker I thereupon thought my self as truly obliged in Conscience to proclaim it to all the Provinces Counties Towns and Cities of these Islands as the said Prophet Jeremiah was to publish it in the Gate of the LORD's House at Jerusalem Therefore in obedience to that Internal Motion I now declare and apply it in the same tearms changing and adding only the names and prevarications therein mentioned into those which are proper to this Time and Place The Effect of the said Prophecy is this which next follows paraphrastically expressed and in the Name and Fear of GOD I thus proclaim it Mutatis mutandis JEREMIAH the 7th Chapter and part of the 8th THe Word which came to the Prophet Jeremiah from the LORD came to me by the said Prophet saying Stand in the Gate of this City wherein the LORD hath yet his House there Proclaim this Word and say Hear the Word of the LORD and ye Inhabitants of Great Britain who pretend to worship the LORD Thus saith the LORD the LORD of Hosts the GOD of Israel and your GOD Amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place Trust ye not in lying words or in your formal sanctity and will-worship saying The Temple of the LORD The Temple of the LORD nor say in boast here is only his true reformed Church and with us are his Ordinances for know The Temple of the LORD are these even they that obey his Word in them he dwells and among them is his approved Worship If you amend your wayes and your doings If you thorowly execute Judgement between a man and his neighbour If you oppress not the Stranger the Fatherless or the Widow nor shed innocent Blood in this place nor walk after other Gods in your heart to your hurt nor worship the True GOD according to the superstitious Inventions of men then will I cause you to dwell in this place which I gave unto your fathers for ever But behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit Will ye murder commit Adultery swear falsly sacrifice to false Gods and walk after such as ye know not and then come and stand before me in my House or think in your hearts you were delivered from your late troubles to do all these abominations Is that House which is called by my Name become a Den of Robbers in your eyes Behold I have seen it saith the LORD Consider now my Place which was in Shiloh where I set my Name at the first Consider also the City of Jerusalem and my Temple therein heed what I did to those places for the wickedness of my People Israel For in regard ye have done such works as they did saith the LORD and forasmuch as I spake unto you as I did to them rising up early yet was not heard not answered when I called upon you I will now do unto those Temples upon which ye have imposed my Name and to that Superstitious Worship wherein ye trust as I have done to Shiloh and Jerusalem For I will cast you out of my sight as I long ago cast our Ephraim and as I lately cast out many of your brethren Therefore pray not for this people that they may totally be delivered from the temporary visitation which their wilful sins have as it were constrained my Justice to bring upon them lest my Mercy should be quite contemned life not up thy prayer nor make intercession on their behalf for I will not hear thee to that purpose Seest thou not what they do in the Cities of these Isles and in the streets of LONDON their chief City Observest thou not what Swearings and Forswearings there are what Dissemblings what Apostacies and how few are now secure from the Spiritual and Temporal Oppressions of this Generation As they did in Jeremiahs dayes the Children gathered wood the fathers kindled the fire the women kneaded the dough to bake cakes for the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink oblations to other gods that they might provoke me to anger saith the LORD So the Children the Fathers the Women and the People of all sorts and degrees contribute toward their Superstitions according to their abilities after the mode of these times and pour out their drink Oblations of cursed healths to those Idols which they have set up and honour to the provocation of GOD's wrath But do they provoke me to anger saith the LORD do they not rather provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces Verily they do so therefore thus saith the LORD Behold my anger and my fury shall be poured out on this place upon Man and Beast upon the trees of the Field upon the Fruits of the ground and they shall consume as if they were burnt up with an unquenchable fire Thus also saith the LORD of hosts the GOD of

shalt be opprest In doing well for such are blest Trust not in Wealth for it hath wings And flies away like other things Nor Honour for it often spends Its stock and in dishonour ends Rely not upon Prodigies For they are partly Truths and Lyes And Signs and Wonders can afford No such assurance as GOD's Word Place not your trust in Kings for when They speak like Gods they act like men No nor your best Works trust you in For all mans Righteousness is sin Your Faith Fear Hope and Love on none Ground therefore but on GOD alone And when thus you hare learn'd to do Perswade all other men thereto Not terminating Meditations In meer unactive speculations For they but like those flashes are VVhich we mis-call a shooting-Star Here whilst my Flesh is in restraint Lest else my Soul grow dull and faint Her with such thoughts I entertain And find them not to be in vain Though more I needed I confess These Musings when I suffered less I might be safely rich agen Could I be still imployed then As I am now But who is able To thread a Needle with a Cable They who in Winter keep at home In Summer-time abroad will come And though a Prison seems a curse Our Liberty oft makes us worse We pray when Winds and Seas do roar When calm do as we did before Ev'n GOD's choice Worthies when releast From Suffrings fouly have transgrest If in this or some other kind They were not often disciplin'd He that with troubles hem'd about The Battels of the LORD had fought Unfoil'd assoon as he had ease Neglecting such like means as these Did grosly fall and so shall we When idle and secure we be Had he been musing on GOD's Law When in her Bath he naked saw Vriahs Wife or at that time Composing of a Psalm or Hymn It had secur'd him from that sin Which let a lustful Devil in LORD that I be not so surpriz'd Though these my Musings are despis'd Preserve me whether weal or wo Befalls me still imployed so Or in what else thou please that 's tending To keep me alwayes from offending And to thy Glory and to my Salvation Vouchsafe to sanctifie this Meditation III. To those who enquire why this Author is now imprisoned in Newgate INto this Jayl you ask me why I 'm thrown But to my self that is not fully known Unless it may be charged as a Crime For putting Truth and Reason into Rime Or giving unto some for doing wrong Such Epithites as unto them belong Which is by very few thought criminal And by most men to be no fault at all Yet since you are my Friends I bold will make To give you Counsel which I could not take Touch not a gald Jades back although it be To cure him if you will be rul'd by me And if your Conscience force you not thereto No notice take when other men misdo For they who most ungodly courses run And boast of what they wickedly have done So rage at him who dares to reprehend Their Actions howsoever they offend That oft-times by their pow'r they bring on him Those Penalties which were deserv'd by them A Whore profest though she would have men know She is a Whore will not be called so Yea though she could not live were it not known She lived by abusing of her own But be so wroth with him who so shall say That she will scratch his eyes out if she may At least if she can do no more will rayl Or had she pow'r commit him to the Jayl And for a Sland'rer prosecute him there As justly as they do who keep me here IV. A Hymn of Thanksgiving for deliverance from a dangerous and sharp Sickness during his Imprisonment LORD they who thy Affection measure By what thou givest into their possessings Of Riches Honours or of Pleasure Or of such other temporary Blessings And mark how here thou deal'st with me May think I am despis'd of thee For when I seem'd opprest before With losse of Liberty and Wealth So that I could well bear no more Thou thereto addedst loss of health Imbitter'd and made sharp with as much pain As Flesh and Blood were able to sustain 2. Yet neither was thy Love impaired Whilst in that manner I afflicted was Nor doubted I nor ought despaired Of thy continuing and assisting Grace But as the violence and length Of pain deprived me of strength My Spirit thereby stronger grew Yea so thou didst my Faith encrease So Fortitude and hope renew That Suffrings were not pleasureless Because I knew I underwent thy Rod Who art as Well my Father as my GOD 3. I know thee not alone by hearing But also by thy being in my heart And by thy thereunto declaring How just wise good and merciful thou art Thou tak'st no pleasure in our pain Nor dost nor ever didst coustrain The soul of any to a path Which leads him from a happy conrse To Sin Shame Sorrow or to Death Or renders his condition worse For that thou more delighted art to save Than to destroy I good assurance have 4. For ever let thy Name be blessed For when my patience did begin to fail And pain a cold-sweat forth had pressed As if in me fire had been mixt with hail Thou in my first Fit easedst me By means lest means despis'd might be And when I was shut up alone Of all external helps depriv'd Where means of Cure or Ease was none Then by thy Self I was reliev'd That I might alwayes confident be made Of thy help when no other can be had 5. When so extreamly I was pained That I could hardly for one minutes space Endure the torment I sustained In any posture or in any place Thou hug'dst me fast asleep and then Gav'st Ease I know not how nor when Which so amazed me when I awak't That I at first could hardly tell Whether I for a Dream might tak 't Or whether I were sick or well For in the fire I thought assoon I might Have slept erewhile as in my bed that night 6. Therefore to thee for this Compassion I do now consecrate a Hymn of Praise Be pleas'd O GOD of my Salvation To be thus my Physician all my dayes Let this preserve me from the fear Of what I may yet suffer here And when this Mercy shall be known Thereby assur'd let others be That such Compassion shall be shown To them as was vouchsaf'd to me If in thy Truth and Fear they shall abide And without wavering in thee conside V. To them who say or suppose that a vain desire of Fame was this Authors principal motive to the Composure of what he hath written and published I Hear some think and for their sakes am sorry They think so that Ambition of vain glory Is that which principally moves my Pen To dare more than the Quills of wiser men And that an irch for popular Applause Was of my bold Reproofs the chiefest cause If this be