A STRANGE PROPHECY PRESENTED To the Kings most Excellent Majesty, BY A Woman-Quaker (all in white) called Ahivah. WITH Her Petition and Proposals for the Saints Liberties, TO Our Gracious Lord and Sovereign King CHARLES; AND A Declaration of the Quakers, touching His Royal Majesty's Reign within these His Realms and Dominions.  
London, Printed for Aaron Banaster, 1660.   

The Quakers Message and Propositions, to Our Gracious Lord and Sovereign King CHARLES; Presented on Tuesday last, etc.  
ON the 8th of this instant, came a person to Whitehall arrayed in white garments, desiring to speak with his Majesty, for that she had a Work of great importance to communicate: Upon which, his Majesty having notice thereof, she had admittance to his Royal Presence; where she delivered this following Paper to his Sacred Majesty.  
KING,  
I Was your Messenger impostened in Gods will concerning your return to this place so soon again: I was laid harbourless that same year that I saw the Vision of your return to England again, I do desire some liberty for my own practice of my own Household Ordinances, as I was chosen Messenger of your return again, and saw it Justice that you should have this Land again, so you do not oppress the weak Spirit of God's Majesty in his Saints, but let them have recourse in whatsoever fashion God shall be pleased to raise himself in his Ministers; So I myself shall stand a mother in God's house in these cases: I shall also entreat some liberty concerning my labour on your Sabbath. I do utterly defy all Jewish Forms of Religion, or keeping any one day above another; for in so doing you keep out the profession of Christ's nature's practice: May not such be left damned Souls, as the Jewish People was? which was always requiring a Saviour, and yet at last themselves left Vagabonds for want of the true Spirit to serve them with Wisdom, and the supply of Gods will in his Christ which God had sent to be their Teacher and Saviour, both in his Son and Apostles: So you will be left in the same fashion, as your standing is now in these Nations, being divided in service, and all confusion, which will breed Us a speedy destruction, except you will adhere to let the Saints make themselves a body in Christ's fashion; and you yourself must stand Protector of these occasions: So your Country will be blessed with this presence, more than any parts of the Dominions of the World besides you: So the Saints will have their Prerogatives, and your Souls will have salvation by their presence, and your blessings will abound more than other Nations, as you shall consent to these Propositions: So I rest, Christ's Minister in this present hour,  
AMEN.  
I shall also entreat, that whensoever God shall be pleased to manifest any of his fore-speaking words, and th●y be brought forth to cry it in the open street, or any place of City or Country, that you will grant some protection by Constables, or some other means, that they be not abused in such conditions, as I myself have been; as being cast into Bedlam, for a mad-body, for prophesying the return of your Majesty some years since to your Native Kingdom. And if my Father, God Almighty, had not made a way in myself to get me out of their hands I had been destroyed for a mad body: For these conditions of God's action are strange to your world's understanding, in the time of God's action in Us. So I rest,  
Your Minister, if you please to accept of my Office in Christ's Name, AHIVAH.  
A Petitioner for the Saints Liberties.   

The Quakers Declaration touching his Majesty's coming into power again etc.  
GReat is the hand of the Lord, (O King) in thy coming so far into Power again; and consider the cause of it (in the fear of the Lord) and thou wilt find, that it is, because they unto whom God gave such power over thee, were not faithful unto God, but grieved the Spirit of the Lord with their hypocrisy from day to day, talking for Liberty, but behold they brought forth oppression, and so became worse than those that went before them, who did not profess so much for liberty in their words, but performed better things in their actions. Therefore let no man deceive thee, by persuading thee that these things are thus brought to pass, because the Kingdom was thy own proper right, and because it was withheld from thee contrary to all right, or, because those called Royalists are much more righteous than those, who are now fallen under thee; For I plainly declare unto thee, that this Kingdom, and all the Kingdoms of the Earth, are properly the Lords, & that he may, and doth give them unto whomsoever he pleaseth; and whensoever he pleaseth, he may take them away again, and give them unto others. As to thy Government, I do declare in the truth and presence of the Lord, many thousands being of the same mind with me that it is not for the name, that may be put upon a Government, that we either stand for or against; but it is a righteous Government (according to the higher power, which is according to that of God in every man's conscience) which we stand for, and earnestly desire after, both in things appertaining to God and Man; And we, for ourselves desire no greater liberty; either in things religious, or in things civil betwixt man and man, than we desire all others might enjoy; and if such a Government as this be set up, we shall willingly submit unto Righteousness from the Supreme Governor, as our duty; and yield all due lawful obedience unto him and his Commands, by labouring in the power of the Lord, to bring down and to keep under the evil lust in people, which is the cause of all Wars and Rebellions, and transgression: And as much as in us lies, we shall endeavour to live peaceably with all men, and persuade others unto the same; and so, by a godly conversation, we shall be patterns unto others, and this will be an adorning of good Government and good Governors, and a help unto them, and this we resolve in the strength of the Lord to do.  
FINIS.   

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