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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84829	The trumpet of the Lord sounded, and his sword drawn, and the separation made between the precious and the vile; and the vineyard of the Lord dressed by his own husbandmen, and the dead trees cut down, and all the mystery of witchcraft discovered in all professions: by them who have come thorow great tribulation, whose garments have been washed in the blood of the lamb; who are accounted as the off-scowring of all things for Christs sake, scornfully called by the world Quakers.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing F1969; Thomason E732_23; ESTC R206890	12,587	19

fruit be good that you bring forth I mean ye that are professors for if it be not good it will not be accepted for every tree that brings not forth good fruit must be hewn down and cast into the fire Your works must be tried by the fire and if they be unrighteou● they must with the trees be cast into the lake that burneth See if ye obey the Commandments of Christ or of the Devil The carnal heart saith God is an hard Master but he is not it is none but the evil and slothful servant that saith so for he is exceeding good his commandments are not grievous but joyous The carnal heart saith it is hard to keep them But where is thy love towards him when thou dost disobey him When he saith If ye love me keep my commandments the carnal ones say It is hard to keep the commandments of the Lord but the devils commandments are easie they can keep them with ease and go on in joy and delight it is no trouble to keep the devils commandments Saith he You may be proud it is but Decencie he saith you may be covetous it is but a provident care he saith you may be angry it keeps others in subjection to you he saith you may be drunk it is but good-fellowship he saith you may be oppressors it will bring you in gain and he saith you may use deceitful merchandise for if you do not as the world do ye shall lose by them he saith you may swear and lye they will believe you the better he saith you may be envious and hate or else they will not matter for you And so in every unrighteous act he will make a cloak for it to cover it And for to live in unrighteousness it is very easie you may run on the broad way to destruction with joy and delight but to act in righteousness it is very hard And then you say the way is narrow to keep in it it is so therefore if ever you come to Sion you must go on the strait way for it is the strait way that leadeth to life and few there be that finde it but broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be that follow it Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity for no unclean thing shall enter into the kingdom of heaven for he is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Therefore perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord and live not in words but bring forth fruits meet of amendment of life and cease from evil and turn to the Lord that he may have mercy upon you If you be willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the land but if you be disobedient and stiff-necked then wo and misery will be your portion for the day of the Lord is coming in power and he will gather his elect unto himself See if you can yet witness your election that your names may be written in the book of Life if ye cannot ye are deceived already then what use is all your profession of it will prove hypocrisie and it were better never to have made a profession then to profess and not put in practise what you profess For it is not they that say they love God and Christ but they that make their love manifest by their works that shall be accepted by yielding up obedience to his Commands If you say you love God and Christ in words and your actions be contrary it is but hypocrisie You may profess much in words but if your hearts be not one with your tongues to guide them though they may prophesie in his Name yet if they be workers of iniquity they must depart and Christ will say Depart ye workers of iniquity I know you not Therefore be not sayers but doers and be what you speak in all things and do not speak one thing and do another for God doth love the upright in heart See how you are built up into the truth for the Saints that spake forth the Scriptures were what they spake and they spake what they lived in they were the workmanship of God created in Christ Iesus to good works See if you can witness this yet see what you are wrought out of and what ye are wrought into And live not in words but bring forth fruit that God may be glorified that you may be what you profess in reality For the day of the Lord is coming wherein the deceits shall be laid open and all things made manifest as it is all secrets shall be revealed the secrets of all hearts And all the crowns of men shall be thrown down for how can ye believe which seek honour one of another and seek not the honour which is of God alone All the haughtiness of man shall be brought down and all the loftiness of men laid low all secret pride and secret envie and secret malice and secret revenge and secret subtilty and secret hypocrisie and secret dissimulation shall be laid open and made manifest and they shall all be ashamed of the evil of their doings and the pure naked truth be unveiled and spread abroad that righteousness may flourish and see the Lord set up and honoured and rule and reign for evermore The Lord will plague the Beast and judge the Whore and punish the wicked very sore Sing Hallelujah to the Highest for ever A Separation betwixt the people of God the righteous seed that ever suffered with the seed of evil doers that each may know that witness and see ye have a cloud of witnesses who are the seed of the righteous and you may see you have a cloud of witnesses who are the seed of evil doers persecuting the righteous seed Priests People and Rulers you know the letter speaks and you may read it in Matthew and all along the Scriptures how the Priests People and Rulers were against Christ in which generation you shew your selves to be and clear your selves for the generation of the feed of the righteous Do not you hale out of your Synagogues and hale before Magistrates Do not you here fulfil Scripture which Christ prophesied of Do not you imprison which Christ speaks of Do not you stone with stones shewing your selves to be in the generation that stoned Steven that cryed against the Temple Acts 7. And do not you hale and beat them that come to speak the truth freely in your Temple shewing your selves openly to be in that generation that beat the Apostles and haled them out of the Temple And do not your Teachers go in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards who had the spirit of errour shewing ye have erred from the truth Do they not go in the way of Cain to envie who would murder And do you not scorn and mock and wonder and despise as they did against David and Paul and the rest of the servants of God Are not your Teachers they that Christ speaks of which said

THE TRUMPET Of the LORD SOUNDED And his SWORD drawn And the Separation made between the Precious and the Vile AND The Vineyard of the Lord dressed by his own Husbandmen and the dead trees cut down and all the mystery of Witchcraft discovered in all Professions By them who have come thorow great tribulation whose garments have been washed in the blood of the LAMB who are accounted as the off-scowring of all things for Christs sake scornfully called by the World QUAKERS And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast it into the great wine-press of the wrath of God And the wine-press was troden without the city and blood came out of the wine-press even to the horse bridles by the space of a thousand six hundred furlongs Rev. 14.19 20. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-eagle neer the West-end of Pauls 1654. OH all you that do profess God and Jesus Christ in words see what you do possess of him All profession without possession is nothing but hypocrisie and dissimulation You have heard long and professed much in words but now it is not the hearers but the doers that shall be justified For he that saith he loves God and Christ and keeps not his commandments is a lyer and the truth is not in him If you love me saith he keep my commandments Now I command you to love one another with the same love that I loved you withal By this you may see how you are brought into the obedience of the truth Love the Lord with all thy heart and thy neighbour as thy self Thou must love the Lord with thy hearty love see if thou do so If thou say thou dost and dost not he knows thy heart and he will judge thee for thy hypocrisie Take heed that thou be not found a lyer before him Thou that art in the highest profession see if thy heart be not abroad in the world delighting it self in pleasures or pride or profit or wantonness or anger or wrath or peevishness or perversness or covetousness or delighting in sporting or idle talking or foolish jesting or speaking evil of that thou knowst not take heed that thou be not delighting thy self in swearing and lying and drinking and running a whoring after other lovers If thy heart love any thing above the Lord or delight in any thing but in him alone he knows thy heart and he will judge thee for dissembling with him for if thou say thou lovest the Lord and livest in envie wrath backbiting deceit oppression cruelty or guile or malice or hard-heartedness or passionateness or any of these the Lord knows the secrets of all hearts act it never so closely or subtilly it is naked and bare before the Lord who is present everywhere and his eyes are open to behold the good and the evil Thou mayst make a profession of God and Christ and make a fair shew to the world and yet be an hypocrite but if thy heart and tongue be not one God doth know it and he will judge thee for it and if thou make never such a shew in outward profession and seem never so righteous and do not bridle thy tongue thy Religion is vain Pure religion and undefiled is this before God and the Father To visit the fatherless and widow and to let the oppressed go free and to keep thy self unspotted in the world Now if thou make a profession in words and a shew to be seen of men and do not the works that are required as to depart from iniquity and to live righteously holily and uprightly in this present world all thy profession is but hypocrisie and God will judge thee and plague thee for it Thou hadst better never have made profession of God and Christ then to profess him and live in sin and wickedness Where is thy love to him when thou disobeyest him and breakest his Commandments There is no love to him there is none at all to him if thou do so but on the contrary thy love is to the devil for know you not that his servant you are to whom you obey whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness Now if thou obey righteousness thou art servant to it and art free from sin but if thou obey sin thou art servant to sin serving the devil and so art free from righteousness then where is thy profession The Minister of Jesus Christ is to redeem souls from their vain conversation See what you are redeemed from if you be not yet in your sins if you be you are enemies to him The Ministery of Jesus Christ is a Ministery of love and joy and peace in the holy Ghost It is a glorious Ministery not formal but spiritual You that profess it see that you put in practice what you profess if thou profess thy self to be a Christian obey the commands of Christ make manifest the fruits of thy Ministery Be not a fore-sayer but I charge thee by the Lord that thou put in practice or else profess nothing at all If thou do profess love and do not perform it what is thy profession worth Dost thou clothe the naked dost thou feed the hungry dost thou let the oppressed go free If thou dost not thou art not obedient to the commands of Christ Dost thou love thy enemies dost thou bless them that curse thee dost thou pray for them that hate thee and despightfully use thee Christ saith Swear not at all dost thou so He saith Go not to law dost thou not Let your conversation be without covetousness is it so He saith Recompence no man evil for evil dost thou so He saith Vengea●ce is mine and I will repay it dost thou obey him and keep his sayings If thou do not what use is thy profession of It grieves the Spirit of the Lord to see the well-favoured harlot how she sits in the street deceiving the simple and ensnaring them and how she is painted with the Saints words and with Christs and professes 't is love to him and persecutes him to death where he is made manifest in his people She sits as a Queen but she must come down and sit in the dust ere long and you must all give an account of your profession wh●t fruits you have brought forth For the Lord is coming to separate the sheep from the goats and your works will be tried whether your love be made man●fest or no He will say Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you when I was hungry you fed me when I was thirsty you gave me drink when I was naked you clothed me when I was sick in prison you visited me They will say When did we see thee so Yea said he in my members ye did for inasmuch as ye did it to them yet did it to me Here are the fruits of the righteous Now the Lord is coming to look for fruit see that your