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A28227	A book of warnings, or, The visitation of the Lord's love to the King and his Parliament, the nobility and gentry, the arch-bishops and bishops &c., the presbytery, the Independents and Baptists, the people of these nations thorough [sic] his servant George Bishope.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2988; ESTC R18647	27,063	34

about you that ye may be sure of your works and that they be wrought in God For the Night is at hand wherein none can work but every man must be tried according to his work for what he hath not what hath another The Lord hath long waited on you and his presence hath been amongst ye and he hath been with you whilst ye have been with him He is now come whom ye knew not though he was with you The times of this ignorance God winked at now he commands men every where to repent because he hath appointed a Day in the which he will judge the World in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead and if Christ be not risen then are ye yet in your sins But Christ is risen and is become the first fruits of them that slept And that he is risen appears by his Witness in all men which testifies to all and witnesseth to his K●ngdom which is an everlasting Kingdom and to his Dominion which shall never have end And it bears witness to the Lord that he desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may return and live as he hath sworn because there is that of him in every one that seeks them to live over which Death hath no more dominion For in that he is risen Death hath no more dominion over him but he liveth unto God And he is the propitiation for our sins By Faith in whose Blood we have access unto God by this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered in the flesh arm your selves with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh in the lusts of men but to the will of God And so Friends I leave you to the Witness of God to answer to me in this thing which will answer to me if you heed it you will hear it for I am moved of the Lord unto this in bowels of Love and it wil leave you without excuse So Farwell My Love is to the Seed of God in you who am known to many of you by the Name of GEO. BISHOPE To the People of these Nations Friends YOu have had Long and Great Warning the Lord hath raised up from amongst ye of your Sons and of your Daughters of your servants and of your Neighbours faithful Witnesses unto his Name who by Word and Writing Conversation and Example Doing and Suffering have testified of his Day that is come wherein he will judge every one according to his Works and that the Axe is laid to the Root of the Tree and every Tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire and therefore he warned you by them all to bring forth fruits meet for Repentance whilst the Door was open and whilst he called that when you should call in the Day of your distress he might arise and deliver you And by them he shewed you the way unto himself even by hearkning to and obeying that of him within every one of you which shewed ye evil and reprov'd and judged you and shewed to you what ye should do by which the Holy Men of God of Old drew near unto and were drawn to the Lord and by which those of your Sons and Daughters Servants and Neighbours who have testified as aforesaid and remained faithful have drawn near and were brought to the Lord and have felt his power to give them Victory over sin and evil and the corrupt Conversation in which they lived whilst they were ignorant of and believed not in him who witnessed in them who is the Power of God to salvation to as many as obey him even to as many as believe in his Name Now Friends after all this Warning and gracious Visitation the Lord hath long waited to see whether ye would turn to that which witnesseth in you which is of God and obey it that your souls may live and be redeemed out of Death and from the bondage of Corruption In which you are who are servants unto sin For as many as are led by sin are servants unto sin and as many as are servants unto sin are in bondage to sin and as many as are in bondage to sin are in Death and the Son hath not made them free For if the Son make ye free then are ye free indeed saith Christ and the Truth makes free and this is Truth To believe in the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent and that of him in you which shews ye your state and your condition and your Enemy and his working and where ye are and how ye are fallen and gone Out of the Way Is that which is come to redeem you out of that state and to deliver you from your Enemy and to recover you back again and to guide your feet in the way of Peace that your Souls may have rest with God And this you know every one of you You cannot stifle it It 's too late to do it the Lord hath reached to his Witness in you and hath given you to see all this and how you should hearken to that of him in you which shews ye all this and the secrets of your hearts and searcheth your hearts and trieth your reins and shews you the compass and end of your actions and that ye should do none iniquity it tells you in secret Now that which shews ye this is greater then all for it should never shine in your Consciences shew you this the way to God could that which hath you in Captivity keep it out it concerns you to heed and to have heeded this that so the Lord's loving-kindness might not be in vain as to you nor the striving of his Spirit nor the stretching forth of his Arms to draw and gather you for this of a truth I have to say unto you That ye have all need of him of his mercy not that he hath need of you And he might have left ye all in the state wherein ye were by Nature even Children of Wrath and never have shewn ye where you were or that ye were sinners or in such a state nor your Enemy nor what an Enemy he is until ye come to feel his Wrath and to be tumbled into the Pit out of which none that goes ever comes But he hath visited you and shewn you what is good To do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with the Lord and something hath striven in you since the time you could remember and shew'd you evil and judg'd you for evil yet it ye have not obeyed but have been conformed to the World and to the Fashions and Customes of the World which are evil as you have been led and you

Kindred and Tongue and People said with a loud Voice Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his Judgement is come and worship him who made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and the Fountains of Waters And the other Angel that followed him said Babylon is fallen is fallen that great City because she made all Nations drink of the wrath of her Fornication Rev. 14. 6 7 8. And rejoice over her thou Heaven and ye holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath avenged ye on her Rev. 18. 20. And the Victory was to the Lamb and his followers who sate on the white Horse whom the Armies of Heaven followed on white Horses cloathed in fine Linnen white and clean Rev. 19. 11. 16. And the Angel which stood in the Sun cryed with a loud voice and said to all the Fowls that flie in the midst of Heaven Come and gather your selves unto the Supper of the great God that ye may eat the Flesh of Kings and the Flesh of Captains and the Flesh of mighty Men and the Flesh of Horses and of them that sit on them and the flesh of all men both free and bond both small and great ver 17 18. And he that testifies these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Even so come Lord Jesus Rev. 22. 20. And behold I come quickly and my Reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be ver 12. And I Jesus have sent mine Angel to testifie unto you these things in the Churches I am the Root and the Off-spring of David and the bright and Morning-Star And the Spirit and the Bride say Come and let him that heareth say Come and let him that is athirst Come and take of the Water of Life freely ver 16. 17. And he saith unto me Seal not the sayings of the Prophesie of this Book for the time is at hand He that is unjust let him be unjust still and he which is filthy let him be filthy still and he that is Righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still And I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end the first and the last Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have right to the Tree of Life aad may enter in through the gates unto the City For without are Dogs and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and whosoever loveth and maketh a lye Ver. 10 11 12 13 14 15. For I testifie unto every man that heareth the words of the Prophesie of this Book If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this Book And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophesie God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life and from the holy City and from the things that are written in this Book Ver. 18 19. And so I have said to you what at present lies upon me from the Lord whether you will hear or forbear it shall witness for God against ye all if ye hear not in the Day that he shall tender to every man according to his Deeds So farwel It 's my love unto you that hath drawn this for you from the movings of the Lord. It concerns you to mind whether your state stands not so as is here represented and to turn unto the Lord lest being so ye be plucked up For every Plant tha● my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up saith Christ It 's that which I said to ye in the beginning in the Word of the Lord and which I now say unto you in the same at the End And the time is near Geo Bishope To the PREYSBTERY so called in these Nations Friends YOu have been staggering as Drunkards and starting aside like a Deceitful Bow You were of the Bishops and came out from the Bishops and covenanted against the Bishops and have let in the Bishops and have many of you turned and many are returning to the Bishops and this hath been and is the Work of you and of many of you to be upwards and downwards and backwards and forwards now here and now there reeling and rouling pinching here sometimes and drawing as contrary at another You had a tender Principle once which kept ye from evil as ye kept to it whilest ye were under sufferings but no sooner were you free but ye took the places of them that made ye to suffer and sought to make all others to suffer that differed from you ye have been true to Nothing not to your own Principles Ye have built again the things that ye have destroyed and so have made your selves Transgressors None should live but you had ye power to your Wills and you would live with and above every one The Lord hath tryed you and let the World see what you would do and his servants have suffered sorely by you and now he hath tryed you before his servants and ye are fallen before them whilst they stand And yet there is not confideration with you so as to think Is not there a lie in our right hand The Lord hath born long with you and loath he is that you should perish He hath suffered ye to fall into the same condemnation in which others are whom you would not have free Ye had a Day which ye long strove for and had the Door in your hands You let it open against your selves as it hath proved as well as others and it is well if so be it were not something in that your wariness lest you being so others should be free And now see what you have done the Lord hath befooled you and suffered ye to befool your selves and to be befooled because ye departed from the Counsel of the Lord and so what wisdom is in you Whilst Age and Generation lasts this your Work will be your shame and the Lord will be against you whilst ye turn not to him For here was your miss at first Ye kept not to your principle you turned to persecute who were persecuted your selves and the farther ye went on in this the more you were mad as Paul sometimes was and so saith of himself when he was as to the Law blameless and yet without Law as to Christ and what your madness hath brought forth upon your selves judge ye This Friends is to you in love 'T is time for you to consider and to mind that ye may see your state and know what the Lord is doing to you and the end of his working He would have you to bethink your selves and see where ye are He would have you to mind that in you which shews you your state and to hearken to the Reproof of Life the Voice of Wisdom that your souls may live and that out of all heats and rashness and anger ye may be brought into that calm state which doth unto others what it