A WORD From the LORD To the PRIESTS OF ENGLAND In General that teach for HIRE.  
HEar O ye Priests of England the word of the Lord God as it came unto me in the year, 1659. the sixth month, the twenty fifth clay of the month; saying,  
Thus saith the Lord God, I'll make you a terror to yourselves, and one to another, and I'll strike you with amazements and fears, and bring everlasting shame upon you, and you shall be a hilling, and a buy word to Nations, and a derision to Generations, for as much as you have refused and rejected the day of your visitation, my witness in you shall condemn you, and my power shall shake you, and make your hearts to melt and tremble at my dreadful presence, ye that have been a terror to others, and a burden, and oppressors of my dear Children and Servants, which in my pure power was moved to warn you to flee from the wrath to come, you shall be oppressed, burdened, and terrified, and there will be none to deliver you, for he that should be your deliverer, will be your eternal condemnation, therefore woe be to you, O ye proud profane hirelings of England, your day is hastening, wherein your perpetual shame, contempt and misery shall be made manifest to thousands; have you not been long leaders of the people, and called yourselves Ministers of the Gospel? but the Gospel which is my power saith the Lord God shall grind you to powder, and have you not caused the people to err from the knowledge of my way (the light in every man's conscience, which shows them sin and evil?) and have you not risen up with an open mouth against my Son, Christ, the Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the World? and have you not blasphemed my Holy Name, and caused many of my dear and tender children to suffer grievous burdens and reproaches, persecutions, and long imprisonments, by crying out errors, deceivers, seducers, and blasphemy against them? but as I live saith the Lord God, these things which you have swallowed down, shall you vomit up again, and if none of you will yet bow down to my witness the Light in you, which lets you see the evil of your ways, you shall become the apparentest example of my wrath & indignation, as hath not been known in many ages; therefore if any of you shall yet consider the end of your ways, and speedily repent and turn from your evil deeds and words, and confess to my Son, the true Light which you have so long done despite unto, it may be such may be hid in the terrible day at hand; for thus saith the Lord God, even the Lord of hosts, my determination is to break to pieces, confound, root up, and overturn, destroy, and utterly consume the very savour of your root, & that earth (or earthly power) which strives to uphold you, shall partake of your plagues, I the Lord have spoken it, and in mine eternal Council it shall be accomplished.  
Therefore O ye Priests, consider; Was not their madness and folly made manifest, that withstood the truth in ages past? Or did ever any weapon form (or Law, plot or decree) against it and them that were in it, prosper? and is not Christ Jesus the truth, who lighteth every man that cometh into the world? and are not they in the truth which be in the light which he hath enlightened them withal? and have you not withstood this truth, and them that be in it by reproaches, revile, persecutions, spoiling of goods, and imprisonments, more cruel and violent than Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses? Let God's witness answer, which lets you see your ungodly deeds, and hard speeches, and convinceth you secretly of them, when you are alone and heeds it; but you are filling up the measures of your Fathers, that upon you may be poured down the vengeance for all the righteous blood shed from Zacharias to this day, and you shall not proceed any further, for than shall your folly, madness, and wickedness, be manifest to all men as theirs was; Therefore thus saith the Lord God of power, howl, howl, and lament, O ye Idol shepherds, and be ashamed of your work O ye slothful vinedressers, my fury is exceedingly kindled against you, and I am even weary with forbearing; is not your flocks like the wild beasts of the forest, and your grapes of the vine of Sodom, and your gardens grown over with thorns, histles, and nettles? who of my Lambs and children can come among you, and not be torn, pushed or rend? Who of my Servants have I sent in my power among you that have not suffered violence by you, either by your bloody hands, or by your arrows shot at them, even bitter and reproachful words? let my witness search you and bow down speedily before it, lest ye utterly fall into my Almighty dreadful hands where you will be plagued and tormented day and night for ever and ever without end; for my decree is gone forth concerning you, (and it's revealed to babes) that night is come upon you (who have withstood the pure day of light and life in which the Son of man is come as a thief, and so you like Judas and his company are risen against him with swords and staves, he that readeth, let him understand.  
Again, hear the word of the Lord, O ye treacherous Priests, double minded, unstable, ungodly, truce-breakers, heady, highminded, who have long loved pleasures, and ease in the flesh more than the pure God or his righteous way of life, your day of perplexity and woe is at hand, and you shall not escape.  
For thus saith the Lord God, your horse's nature within, nor your horses without, shall not deliver you from my decreed purpose, your sword within and without, shall be your snare, and you shall fall like the handful after the harvest man, and be driven like chaff before the wind, for bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, hear and understand; no murderers have eternal life, and the wickeds sword shall enter into his own bowels, hear ye Priests of England, this I charge upon you, to whom it is, who have taken my Servants words into your profane lips, saying, some trust in horses, and some in chariots, but we will trust in the Name of the Lord our God; are ye not here found deceitful, and with a lie in your right hand, children of falsehood, and a seed of evil doers, who trust in the arm of flesh, and to it still have fled for your maintenance, and been found fighters against the true and living God, and his Children, for your God which now is manifest to be your bellies to thousands, for upon your bellies have you still gone, and dust have you eat, and with it have you fed the people, and not with life, nor understanding in my Council (the light which they be lighted withal) neither have you awakened my witness in the hearts of them, but in ignorance, ease, and unrighteousness have you loved to lie down to sleep and slumber with them; and are the blind dumb dogs that have not barked (to wit spoke in my pure power) to awaken and answer my own the just in every one, whereby the thief and robber might have been seen in the light the éye, which none sees you all to be thiefs, murderers, and robbers, that have climbed up another way then by the door Christ (who lighteth every man that cometh into the world) and have built upon the sand, but the storms are rising apace, that will shake you off the earth, wherein great will be your fall, and you shall never rise again saith the Lord God Almighty.  
Written by a Servant of the Lord at Wellingborrow in Northamptonshire, W. Baily.  
THE END.