God's Proclamation TO THE INHABITANTS AND PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. Published by one of the Lords Servants, called forth out of darkness to be a Witness unto the Everlasting Light of the Son of GOD.  
According to the Word of the Lord which came unto him on the fifth day of the ninth month, 1659.  
Known by the name of JOHN ANDERDON.  
The Lord hath spoken that the Rod of the wicked shall not always be on the back of the Righteous.  
LONDON, Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread Eagle at the West end of Paul's, 1659.   

REpent, Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, and the patience and long suffering of God is almost at an end  
The Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ, who must Reign until all his enemies are subdued, and the greatness of the Dominions under the whole heavens shall be given into the hands of the saints of the most High God, such as faithfully follow the Lamb in the Regeneration, in his righteous war against the beast and false Prophet within and without, which have combined together to make war against the Lamb and his followers & have given their power to the Prince of this world, the Dragon cast out of Heaven, the Devil that old serpent, that hath deceived the Nations, whose followers ye are that rebel against the light, and love darkenss rather than light because your deeds are evil, having chosen to follow your own hearts lusts, and vain and wicked imaginations, which is out of the fear and council of the Lord God of light and life.  
How long, how long, will ye turn the truth of God into a lie? and the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man, whose breath is in his nostrils? How long will men forsake the Lord, the Fountain of living waters, and draw waters out of broken Cisterns full of pollutions and defilements? How long will ye follow after vanities, and forsake your own mercies? How long will ye seek the living amongst the dead? How long will ye follow the bvilders of Babel, whose Language is confounded with many Tongues, and set at nought, Christ Jesus the chief corner stone, whose building is in spirit and truth, a City whose maker and bulider is God, which is at unity within itself? How long will ye follow after lies, and heap up to yourselves teachers after your own corrupt hearts lusts, that justify the Wicked and condemn the Just, that call good evil, and evil good, that put Light for Darkness, and Darkness for Light, and refuse to be taught and led by the spirit of truth, which will lead you out of your own inventions (out of the impure) into the pure way and worship of God, which is in spirit and in truth?  
How long will ye cry up a Kingdom without in words, and neglect to seek to know God's Kingdom within in power; That in the heart where the root of the Tree is that bringeth forth evil fruit the Axe may be laid, That by the everlasting light of the son of God, ye may come to see what is good and what is evil in your selves, to a clear understanding of the difference between the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, and the Fruit of the Tree of Life, unto which an entrance is no way to be had, but under the flaming sword of God's wrath and anger, against that which hath joined to the seed of the Serpent, in the transgression of man from the righteous Law of God. That through the Law ye may become dead to the Law, that through the death of all that is contrary to God, ye may come to know and witness life in yourselves, redemption by the blood of Jesus which saveth from all sin, that ye may be no longer false witnesses, to tell of things that ye have not seen, but that ye may all come to know the work of God wrought in yourselves, that ye may no longer glory and boast in another man's line; but that through the sensible operation of the word of life in yourselves, ye may all become Preachers of righteousness in your Generations, according to your measures of what you have seen, tasted and handled of God's good word of Grace: That the new birth which is after the spirit, and sensibly and certainly to be known and felt in the creature, through many sore pangs and hard travel, may be brought forth; not a thing in notion, but in truth the only way to life, without which, none can enter into God's Kingdom; and if ye are not witnesses of this in yourselves, all the experiences and records thereof by others will be little available to you, but to stand as a witness against you.  
Verily, Eternal life is of highest concernment, therefore search and seek diligently, until ye find it. And certainly, ye can have no other true hopes thereof then ye witness a death unto sin in yourselves, and a Resurrection unto life by the spirit of Christ; you must know yourselves God's workmanship in Christ Jesus, and know the sore travel of soul, until ye be form again into the likeness of God's image, in him, that ye may witness Christ in you the hope of glory; all other hopes are but the hope of the hypocrites, which shall perish. As ye have all been in the degeneration from God in the actual transgression joined to the seed of the serpent, that drew man into the fall, so ye must all actually and really know the work of regeneration in yourselves, by the eternal power of God's spirit, working out and destroying the works of the Devil in the creature, by joining him again unto the Seed of God, in whom redemption and deliverance is; In the manifestation of the measure of God's good spirit given to every man to profit withal, the work is to be known and waited in.  
That so in man where Satan's seat and dominion hath been, which hath led the creature captive into sin and transgression, that there also God's Kingdom and Dominion in Christ Jesus, the power of God may be witnessed (truth in the inward parts) working out and destroying all that's contrary to the pure nature of God's seed, Christ; That so by the blood of Christ, the righteousness of God, the creature may be cleansed from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and redeemed up to God again by the word of reconciliation; that so, that which hath led the creature captive to sin, may now be led into captivity, that so as sin by man's disobedience hath reigned unto death, so by the resurrection of the just (Christ in us) righteousness may reign unto life everlasting; that as ye have yielded your members to be the weapons of unrighteousness unto sin, so now ye may yield yourselves servants of righteousness unto holiness; Truly so, not in word, but in life and power is God's Kingdom to be known and manifested in you.  
That as ye have been under Satan's power in the transgression and alienation from God; so now, by God's eternal spirit ye may be brought to be subjects of God's power in Christ Jesus the seed of God, whose right it is to reign in the heart, and in the World in truth and righteousness. Yea, and his Kingdom is to be set up on top of all deceit and deceiveableness of unrighteousness, which long hath fate in the seat of God, and lifted itself above all that is called God; the Devil having bewitched the Nations to believe a lie, to lead them forth from that which is pure of God within, which would show men the way of life, to look abroad to powers and dominions, and inventions without conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity, where the Prince of this World rules, and so keeps men to be bondslaves to himself, following their lustful imaginations, and he in subtlety keeps possession of the house within as a strong man armed against the appearance of the seed of God in the heart, where Satan's Kingdom must be destroyed. And so long as he can keep men from turning to the work of God within, he in peace keeps his hold, and shows the creature with his guile and deceit, as at the beginning, that the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil (the inventions and wisdom of man in the fall) is pleasant and good for food. But indeed and truth in the cool of the day, when God's voice comes to be heard, it's found to be but the increase of sorrow, and bitterness to the soul, when by the everlasting Light of the Son of God all false cover and pretences are made manifest, and in God's wisdom (Christ in us) all this wisdom of the World found to be foolishness, and not able to fathom, or comprehend, or give the knowledge of the things of God, which are spiritual, which seethe over and above all deceit and deceiveableness of unrighteousness, set up in the Worldly principle, in the carnal mind, which cannot please God, being at enmity against the Seed of God, in which he is well pleased, out of which all your services and worships are but abomination in the sight of the Lord, which maketh desolate, being but false cover of Antichrist, while he rules in the heart; and ye never come to know a separation made in the earth, between the seed of the Serpent and the seed of the Woman working in the heart of man; by one of which two powers, all creatures are guided and led forth to act, and until ye come to true judgement, in the light to discern, ye know not by which power ye are acted, and so bring forth nothing but confusion, and are servants of sin and Satan, under a pretence of righteousness and zeal for God; yet all out of the life and power of truth, whose voice must be heard, and is known by the sheep of Christ, from all false teachers and deceivers, who have put on sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening Wolves, that rob God and Christ of his right within, and raven from the spirit of life, which ought to be the only guide to the creature in the performance of duties towards God and man; all other performances, are but images and likenesses of things begotten and brought forth from a false power, crying up self-righteousness without, and let sin and iniquity reign within, from which corrupt root, all that proceeds is but bitter fruit.  
It is the great design of Antichrist to keep people from the power of God within (Christ in us) and to persuade them to high performances in the imaginations and imitation without which pleaseth the carnal mind, and makes, pahaps, a fair show in the flesh. But this child, though as goodly as Ishmael that came from Abraham's loins after the flesh, yet it is not the heir of the promise according to the Covenant of life. Assuredly that which is begotten of God, and brought forth of a Virgin, is the heir of God's Kingdom; all other are but false births from the seed of the bondwoman, which with her son, though never so stately, is to be cast out, and not to be heir with the son of the freewoman. Let him that hath an Ear hear what the spirit saith: Judas the Traitor hath gotten himself into an high form of words; Hail Master, and kissed him, much for deceitful greetings, as most false teachers are, and the Pharisees that crucify the Lord of life, can make clean the outside of the cup and platter. Unless your righteousness exceed theirs, ye shall not enter into God's Kingdom.  
Pilate being warned of the woman (that was in the transsion) may wash his hands, and yet give unjust judgement to crucify the innocent Lamb of God. The highest and greatest Professors of the letter and words without, can join unanimously together to cry out against the life (within the City of God's habitation) crucify him, crucify him, and so carry him without the Gates (where are Dogs, Sorcerers, and Whoremongers, and Murderers, and Idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie) there the Lord of life is put to death.  
Wolves in sheep's clothing, counterfeits that deceive the World, having killed Gods witness within, they hate, persecute and devour God's witnesses without, whose testimony is from the life of truth, which discovers all their false cover, they having lost the sheep's nature within, they make it their work to prey upon and destroy God's Lambs without, whose blood cries loud from the earth for vengeance upon those ungodly and wicked men, those idol shepherds, that sell souls for morsels of bread and handfuls of Barley; those Ministers of unrighteousness, who by their lies and lightness have caused thousands to err from the truth of God, running greedily after the error of Balaam for the wages of unrighteousness, that are called of men Master, who loves the uppermost seats in the Synagogues, receive honour one of another as unbelievers do; and many follow their pernicious ways, whereby the way of truth is evil spoken of, blind guides, haters of the light, deceitful, heady, highminded, proud, covetous, whose spots of uncleanness are seen in their flesh without, proceeding from the power of darkness within, which rules in the hearts of the children of disobedience: workers of inqivity they are, the seed of evil doers, that say and do not, that under pretence make long prayers to deceive, fast and pray to smite with the fist of wickedness, and to murder the just, who is more righteous than themselves; Cursed children they are, such as the Lord hates, and never sent them in his service, neither do they his work, but the works of their father the Devil they do, who was a liar from the beginning, and abode not in the truth.  
And will this people always follow the error of the wicked, and believe in lies, and never come to the Light to try the spirits that are gone forth into the world; Know you not that the Scriptures of truth testify, That that spirit is true that confesseth that Christ is come in the flesh, for the grace of God teacheth us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to walk righteously, soberly, and godly in this present world. And do not these deceivers live in the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, and are they not of Antichrist? Try them by their fruits, they are made manifest. Do men gather Grapes of Thorns, and Figgs of Thistles? Believe them not, for there is a lying spirit in the mouth of these Priests, and false Prophets, and be ye separate and come out from amongst them, and partake not any longer with them in their sins, lest ye also partake with them in their Plagues, which assuredly shall fall upon this wicked Generation of men, that will not have the Lord to be the Teacher of his people.  
How long will ye give yourselves up to sottishness, blindeness and ignorance, as not to come to the Light, that you may see where you and they are in the Dark under false cover: What cry them up for Ministers of Christ, which should be clothed upon with the robes of his righteousness, made white in the blood of the Lamb? Try them, are they such? Nay, verily they are such as have died their garments red with the blood of Christ's Saints and servants, read the truth hereof in their barbarous and bloody cruelty, acted upon the bodies and goods of the people called Quakers throughout England, the Saints of the most high God they are so, and the Lord will own them to be so, to the shame and confusion of all their enemies, though now they gnash their teeth at them, and grin like Dogs, crying out, help, help, O Magistrates, or else we are undone, or the like of that; A confederacy, a confederacy, report, and we will report it, and make lies their refuge, which from the beginning to the end hath been the practice of their Father the Devil. Balak and Balaam together consult against this people, that are come up over against them, whose God is the Lord great and mighty.  
The Priests and People, Jews and Gentiles, combine together to betray the Son of man into the hands of sinners. The beast and false Prophet, the Whore arrayed in Purple and Scarlet colour, that sits upon many waters, peoples, Tongues and Languages the Priests original, Mystery Babylon, the mother of Harlots, false Churches and false worshippers have made themselves drunk with the blood of the Saints that have suffered for the Testimony of Jesus; Yet would have People believe that Christ is their Saviour: So drunk are people with the Whore's cup of Fornications, that they are blind and given up to believe lies; they can sit at ease in the flesh, and talk of God and Christ afar off, but cannot endure that the truth should come nigh them.  
What, is the Kingdom of God within, is the light within, Christ to be known within, the word nigh thee in thy heart and in thy mouth? Truly this may seem strange, that that God whom ye have ignorantly worshipped so long afar off, should be so nigh in the heart, and doth God require truth in the inward parts, where Satan's reign and Kingdom hath so long been, and must that old householder of iniquity be turned out withal his deceitful Merchandise and profitable crafts? This sets all the world in an uproar that lieth in wickedness, and the witness of God gins to make the wicked cry out, let us alone, Why art thou come to torment us before the time? Must it be so indeed, that Christ alone must have the Kingdom? and may not Pride, Covetousness, and other lusts of the flesh and works of darkness stand with this Kingdom of God in the heart of man and in the world to be set up? Nay, out must all sin and iniquity, all thy old lovers, pleasures, profit, honour, credit, all must be forsaken for Christ's sake, or else thou shalt never be found worthy of him; and as thou hast in thy unregenerate estate been wholly a servant of sin, so now in the regeneration thou must wholly and faithfully follow Christ the Saviour to redeem thee from all sin, and give thyself up, body, soul and spirit, a living sacrifice unto God, that so being in Christ Jesus, thou mayest with him in God's dominion (which man lost in the fall) reign with him in righteousness over all deceit and uncleanness, within and without, and in God thy maker live, move, and have thy being.  
Is it so (some may say) this seems to be hard say, and who then shall be saved? what must we leave all in truth without deceit? yea, and deny yourselves as the Scriptures testify, and take up the daily cross to the carnal mind that hath gone a whoring after false worships and strange Gods, that the enmity may be destroyed that's in you, or else ye cannot be Christ's Disciples, nor witnesses of the word of Reconciliation, without which ye cannot be saved, whatever other hopes ye have, they are but dead hopes, and such as ye shall be ashamed of.  
It's an easy matter to read and talk of the way to life, to be a straight and narrow way, and that few there be that find it, and to talk of Christ's sufferings at Jerusalem; Death and destruction hath heard the fame of wisdom and can preach thereof, but to witness the straightness of the way to the Kingdom, and the measure of Christ's sufferings to be fulfilled in yourselves, without which ye shall not reign with him in glory; This you will find not to be a work of flesh and blood, nor according to the will of man, but a work wrought by the arm of God's salvation, that can give life to the dust of the earth; That all Pharaohs Magicians shall be made to know and confess to the truth of God, that this is the Finger of God.  
Know ye not, or hath the God of this World wholly blinded your eyes, that the Devil's rage appeareth and the mystery of iniquity than works strongly, when the life and power comes nigh him that destroys his work and kingdom. Pharaoh and his mighty Host rageth mightily when Israel should be gone out of his bondage to serve the living God. The Scribes and Pharisees, Priests and Elders, Rulers and People can delight themselves to talk of the Law and the Prophets which foretell of Christ's coming, and can make an outward profession accordingly, and can build again the Tombs of the Prophets and adorn the Sepulchers of the Just; Yet when the Just and Holy one comes, they are all of an uproar, and the Devil is so high in them, that they charge him that he cast out Devils by Belzebub the Prince of Devils (what strange deceit and wickedness is this, think ye, in professors of the letter) that accounted Christ's life madness, and those that followed him fools and mad men, and though the Scriptures which they had testified of him, yet they would not come to him that they might have life, but despised, rejected, and scorned both him and his Doctrine, and never left laying snares, and watched by false accusations to entrap him, until they had most shamefully crucified him, accounting him not worthy to live. They crucify the life and set another to bear the cross, as all you formal professors in England do this day, who reject the cross of Christ, whereby the enmity should be destroyed in you, that the life of righteousness might there appear, which suffers by your form weapons; writing at top of the cross in several Languages, This is the King of the Jews: In your vain imaginations, saying, Lo here, lo there, and wot not that the Kingdom of God is within you, where Christ hath long waited to reign; But ye would not have this man to reign over you, but have sent him out of your Coasts, and having lost the sense of his life within, are making likenesses to yourselves from the Letter without, seeking for him about Jerusalem below, not minding where Sodom and Egypt (spiritually so called) are, where darkness, pride, and fullness of bread, lusts and uncleanness are where the Lord is crucified.  
Cain slew Abel in the beginning because he was more righteous than himself, and his Sacrifice was accepted with God, but cain's was not.  
The beast and false Prophet, Gog and Magog, and all the Armies of the Aliens, those that are strangers to God's Covenant of Light, they now rage and make war against the witness of God, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, now raised from death to life to execute righteous judgements upon the workers of iniquity; surely this must needs trouble the world, because their deeds are evil. Come down all ye high and lofty ones from the mountains and hills that ye have set up in your vain imaginations unto the pure principle of God in you, that will show you that God is worshipped neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem, but in spirit and in truth, no longer in the oldness of the letter, but in newness of the spirit.  
And this as a witness for the Lord, I testify and declare to all the world, that all other worships and worshippers, though they make never so fair a show in the flesh, all their fastings, prayers, preach, sabbaths, sing, and other performances are all abominable in the sight of the Lord, no better than the cutting off a Dog's Neck, or the offering of Swine's blood, being a burden to the Lord, the which his soul is weary to bear.  
Know O man what ever thou art that pleadest against perfection in this life for any one sin, either pride, covetousness, drunkenness, swearing, lying, or what ever it be, (let thy cloak or pretence be never so colourable) in thee the Devil hath his Kingdom by consent, and dost thou expect salvation from them which thou delightest to live in? Knowest thou not, there is no fellowship between Christ and Belial, no communion between light and darkness; and he that is joined to an Harlot, is one with the Harlot, and he that breaketh one of God's Commandments is guilty of the whole?  
Truly the Lord God of heaven and earth hath waited long to be gracious to this Nation, and hath often called them to repentance by his witness within, and visited them by his messengers and servants early and late for several years together, but they have hardened their hearts and stiffened their necks, cast the counsels of the Lord behind their backs, persecuted and scornfully entreated, and despitefully used his messengers, that the Lord God is grieved with this wicked Generation that have chosen their own ways, and rejected and set at nought Christ Jesus the way to everlasting life, whose right it is to reign, on whom the Government is laid, and he ought to be the King and Law giver in these Nations. And all ye wise bvilders and setters up of worships and governments in your fallen wisdom which is out of God's Council, have but rob God and Christ of their right. Know ye not that your wisdom is confounded, and ye do but contract shame to yourselves? What think ye, pot-shards of the earth, that ye can stand against the Lord God Almighty? Nay, assuredly he will overturn, overturn, and overturn all your forms and frames of Worships and Governments set up without him; see ye not how your erterprises have been blasted, and your designs against the Lord and his Christ frustrated? yea and so shall all the Counsels of the ungodly perish, and the wisdom of the wise be turned into foolishness.  
Know ye not, ye Sects, Formalists, and Notionists, that ye have betrayed the just and righteous principle of God in you, from whence liberty, reformation, righteous Laws and freedom should flow forth, that so from the good old cause, ye are degenerated into the bad old principle, and having no better hopes, are gone down again into Egypt for council and help from the Lords enemies into the dark, ye are gone backward from the light, ye are waxen fat with Geshurun, and have forgotten the Lord, who brought you up out of the house of bondage, and set you above all the Nations round about you.  
O ye strong men of the Nations and sometimes valiants of Israel, who hath bewitched you with Samson to give your strength into Dalilahs' lap, that Harlot that will betray you into the hands of the Philistines? and take heed lest the end be the same, destruction upon Samson and the Philistines together; let them that know themselves concerned herein by the witness of God in them consider what is said, least sudden destruction come upon them, and repentance be hid from their eyes, for the Lords spirit is grieved with this people, and cannot endure that men should deal so deceitful in his work, that after God hath planted them in Vineyards, and given them to eat the fruit of the Vine, they should rebel against him and revolt as back-sliding Israel, that they should take the Son of the husbandman and kill him, that they may have his inheritance. This is great unkindness indeed, that men should thus requite the Lord. What, think ye that ye can hid yourselves from the Lord? Nay, verily he will surely search and find out those rebels that will not have his Son to reign over them. What are the Princes of this people become the companions of thiefs & robbers, that murder upon the way by consent? How is that City wherein righteousness did sometime lodge, now become an Harlot?  
How are those that have talked of and waited for the coming of Christ's Kingdom now turned Apostates, to set up their own greatness instead of Christ's righteousness amongst men? how have these people forsaken the Lord's Council given them by his servants, and have taken council with the ungodly, against him that will break them to pieces and rule them with an iron rod?  
How long will ye neglect the day of your visitation? Verily the Lord will not be mocked, and let not the long suffering of God be so much abused, for his Spirit shall not always strive with men. Know this of a truth, that if once that day pass over your heads, ye are undone for ever, and repentance shall be for ever hid from your eyes, as it is already past upon many in this Nation that have slighted and rejected Gods call. What ever false rests or confidence ye build upon, or what deceitful cover soever ye put on, they will prove too short and too narrow to hid you from the wrath of the Lamb in the day of the Lords reckoning with you, which hastens; Therefore put not far away the evil day, but repent, and return, and work while ye have Light, while it is called to day, for the night cometh when no man can work. Look not back what others have been, or what others have done, but mind your own measure and talon given of God to every one to profit withal, for according to the talon received, every man's account and reward shall be.  
The everlasting light of the Son of God hath shined forth and been preached amongst you of this Nation, unto which ye should have been turned, that so ye might be brought from under Satan's power into the power of God. Yea such riches of love hath God showed to this Nation, that not any Nation in the World, at this time, hath known the like for the manifestation of himself in the glorious light of the Gospel; to the end, that if they knew the day of their visitation, and the things that belong to their peace, they might be the first fruits of faith unto God of the whole earth, witnesses of the first resurrection of the Just and righteous government of Christ Jesus.  
Truly the Lord hath done much for this people, and he expects much from them; but behold, instead of bringing forth much fruit unto the Lord, they are turned into a barren Wilderness full of briars and thorns; and unless they speedily repent and turn from the evil of their ways, and come down to own God's witness in them, and bring all their glory and crowns to the feet of the Lamb, they may expect no other but certain fearful judgements to be poured out upon them from the righteous hand of God.  
Friends, this know, that until ye come to own and follow the light, ye remain in darkness, and are out of the way to God's Kingdom, for the light is the way, Christ Jesus the light of the World, the way to the Father, that hath enlightened every man that cometh into the World, even that voice in thee what ever thou art, that shows thee the evil of thy ways, and oftentimes reproves and condemns sin in thee, the same is the grace of God that bringeth salvation, which hath appeared unto all men, and therefore look not for another; this is the way that a way fairing man, though a fool, shall not err in, as all in this way must become fools, if ever they expect to be wise unto salvation.  
In this way Reformation, Liberty, and Freedom, so long contended for, is to be found, Christ in us the hope of Glory, the sum of the whole matter, the beginning and end of all: and what ever ye do without him, ye are but usurpers, and reign without God in the World, and all your buildings that are not upon this foundation shall not stand, but prove as a rotten and broken wall that shall be overturned and shattered to pieces.  
I say again, and on the Lord's behalf challenge it to be Christ's right to reign, and ye are but usupers that keep him out of his Kingdom.  
And according to the word of the Lord which came into me at Bridgewater, in the County of Somerset, on the fifth day of the ninth month, 1659. The burden whereof I have felt and born in much bitterness of spirit, the life of God's witness in me being pressed down as a Cart with sheaves, by reason of the wickedness of this people, which is very great; (After the space of 24 days) have written and again proclaim as the word of the Lord God to you all, high and low, rich and poor, young and old, Inhabitants and people of England, to whom soever this paper shall come, whose day is not past. Repent, Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, and the patience and long suffering of God is almost at an end.  
Bridge water, written on the 29 of the 9th. Month, 1659. John Anderdon.  
THE END.