GOD'S holy Name 〈◊〉 AND HIS TRUTH EXALTED BY THE Testimony of his Faithful Servants who have suffered the Cruel Penalty of BANISHMENT from their Native Country by the RULERS thereof: AS ALSO An ABSTRACT of their Names, with some of the Barbarous Deal and Useages they received and sustained from the hands of those Instruments that were employed in the Embarking of them. R.C.  
Doth not the Tears run down the Widow's Cheeks, and her Cry is against him that caused them, for from her Cheeks do they go up unto Heaven, and the Lord which heareth them doth accept them, and the Lord will not be slack, nor the Almighty will not tarry long from them, till he hath smitten in sunder the loins of the unmerciful, and avenged himself of the Heathen, till he have taken away the multitudes of the Cruel, and broken the Sceptre of the Unrighteous, till he give every Man after his works, and reward them after their devices, till he have judged the Cause of his People, and comforted them with his mercies, Ecclesiasticus 35. ver. 15. & 18.  
They are Abraham's Children who are of Abraham's faith; who forsook his native Country, Father's house, and his own Kindred, and followed the Lord he knew not whither, Gal. 3.7. Gen. 12.  
And they are of cain's seed who are found in cain's nature, who slew his Brother because his own works were evil and his Brother's Righteous, 1 John 3.12.  
Unto which is annexed England's sad estate and condition lamented. (Written by George Fox the younger, in the beginning of the year 1661.) In which are some Prophecies that now are fulfilled and fulfilling.  
Printed in the Year, 1665.   

The Epistle to the Reader.  
FRIEND,  
THou that reads this ensuing Relation, will find what hath been dispensed to us from the hands of the men of this Generation, and as thy mind is kept cool out of prejudice, thou wilt also be able to judge in thy measure concerning our sufferings, as to ourselves we are well satisfied, and in the will of God do rest and acquiesce: But to satisfy many who desire to be informed, this Relation is wrote, and also in order to Record, and the reason why it is so suddenly brought forth, is, because the Mortality of Mankind is great in this City, where these things have been done and committed, and eternity presseth sore on this Generation, and a remissness herein might make void the record of our testimony, which Record will have a place, amongst all the faithful witnesses of God, for his holy truth 〈◊〉 every Generation to this day, and the very end of 〈◊〉 according the actions of men in their several Generations, is for the benefit of their Successors, and undoubted the next Generation must judge the works of their Ancestors, & think it not strange we receive such hard measure from the hands of the Rulers of this Nation, for the holy record of Scriptures are fulfilled on this Generation, which saith, They shall hale you before Magistrates, and they shall imprison you; and whosoever shall kill you shall think he doth God good service: And he who spoke forth these words suffered from the same seed that ministers our sufferings unto us; which seed is one, even from the beginning to this day, there are but two, the persecuting seed, and the persecuted seed, and these are known by their fruits, For, Grapes are not gathered of Thorns, nor Figgs upon Thistles: And our sufferings have been multiplied very much since the return of this Power, & heightened even to BANISHMENT, which is more severe than death itself, the Lord permitting it so to be we are content; though I must tell thee, as we are a people and a considerable one in England, our Conditions and promises from BREDA, and since so often repeated, was neither Imprisonment nor Banishment, but these things with our just cause we leave to the Righteous God to judge.  
R. C.   

God's holy Name magnified, etc.  
PErsecution in the World is no new thing, for such as manifests a holy and blameless life, in that Generation in which they are brought forth, doth assuredly meet with it, and it hath been the practice in every Generation, from Cain downward, and all in his nature, even to this day, to Persecute God in his appearance, in his Servants and Saints, as is plentifully seen and made known in this our day, and Generation, which is the product of this Relation, and the Rulers and Priests have been, and are they that act these Cruelties upon God's holy Saints, the Priest with Tongue, the Magistrate with Fist, and so is Persecution brought forth; and between these two, are, and have been all the Rapes, Spoils, Injuries, Imprisonments, Deaths, Banishments, and all manner of cruel exercises inflicted upon the People of the Lord for their Consciences to him, and in every Generation Persecution hath according to the manifestation of God, been less or more exercised; For this is infallible, the greater appearance of God in Flesh, the greater Persecution, raised by the Devil in Flesh, and here is the mystery of the two Seeds showed, and each Seed bears its Father's Image, and so they come to be known, and eternal enmity is placed between them, therefore the holy Witnesses for God in every Generation, have sustained more or less of Persecution, according as is said, to the manifestation and appearance of God in them, raised up and held forth in Testimony unto the World, and as this appearance of God comes to be lived in and unto, than the World is testified against, that the deeds thereof are evil; And here first gins Persecution, and those that persevere in faithfulness unto what God hath manifested, they meet with such measure from Rulers and Priests, as is hereafter declared and we the People of God, called Quakers have by God's permission felt the weight of their persecuting hands this many years, even ever since the Lord hath called us forth to testify unto his truth in this Nation, and our sufferings have both abounded and multiplied in these few years past: and as sufferings 〈◊〉 abounded, so hath the love of God increased unto us; we 〈◊〉 living Witnesses of it, praises, praises unto our God for ever, and we have a Witness for God in every Persecuter's Conscience in England of what rank or quality soever, that our sufferings are not neither have been for evil doing, for if by their Provocations, they could have drawn us forth to have retaliated unto them in the same spirit the measure unto us, they had gotten their ends, but O the admired patience that God hath endued his People with, in that his mercy hath preserved us from staining our hands, with such polluted works, and so our sufferings are and have been on the Lord's account, from the beginning even to this very day, and as to our Imprisonments of sundry kinds, and the Injury we have sustained thereby is at this time omited, because a Relation of the useage of my friends and brethren which did befall them from Newgate to their Ships into which they were driven for Banishment, after their long Imprisonment, in that Jaques or stinking Cell in which they were held, is the thing intended at this time.  
And the first that entered the List of this Conflict and sore Trial for their holy Testimonies, are these three Worthies of the Lord, Edward Brush, Robert Hayes, and James Harding, who on the 24th of the Month, called March 6 5/4. was very betimes in the morning without any warning scarce given unto them, hurried down to Black Friar's Stairs by some of the Serviles of Newgate, where they were put into a Boat, and so rowed down to Graves end, and there they were forced on Board for Banishment, the former of which was very aged, and his grey Hairs might have wrought compassion in the hearts of his Persecuters, besides the testimony of his life amongst whom he lived, for he was well known to some Aldermen in this place, but the Lord hath drawn out his life unto this time, and God hath honoured him in his old age, to scale his testimony unto his truth, by Cruel Banishment, who for his sake only and alone left Wife, Child, Estate, and what ever was near and dear unto him: The second was Robert Hayes, as abovesaid, who being taken out of the Prison having received no sustenance, and his body being very weak, he until that very morning having been in a Course of purging Physic, and for any thing I know it might not have done operating with him, was in this Case carried forth upon the Water, and the morning being exceeding cold, and no refreshment afforded unto him between that and Graves end, within a short time after he was forced a board, he died, and his body was brought up to London which was interred amongst his Brethren, and so he sealed his Testimony for God's Truth, with his blood and his name is added to the number of the slaughtered Sheep of God in this Generation, who have been slain in England, he was a Man as to his years, and according to nature's course, (had it not as I may say been for that inhuman and barbarous useage he sustained) that might have lived many years; So dear Edward Brush, and his companion in Tribulation, James Harding was the first in England that have tasted the fruit of exile from their native Land in which they were born, and out of that City in which their Privileges and Franchises are as ample as the Chief Magistrate himself, (setting his Office aside) but this we know, that Precious in the sight of God are the death of his Saints.  
And thus hath God suffered these things to befall these three faithful servants of his, in whom his Name is magnified, and his truth exalted, Praises, praises, living praises to him be given for ever: Yet nevertheless, God who loved them, was not long before he visited this City with a rebuke, and that they might take notice of it, within a few doors of that faithful Man's house E. B. a house was shut up (as was said) of the Plague, and indeed it was the first that I ever heard of in the City; so the precedent of your wrath, was attended with an example of judgement, and that from the hand of the Lord; and an entrance being made into this work, not withstanding the wrath and fury of the Lord did hang over this City like a Cloud over-burdened with rain, and ready to pour forth; and having by cruel threats overcome the Shipmasters to make them the Executioners of their cruel edict or Law, and taking this advantage by an Embargoe laid upon all Merchant's Ships out-bound, except a pass from under the hand of the Admiral obtained, none might pass forth of the River; and many Shipmasters having lain long in hopes of an accomplishment of their intended Voyages, were now frustrate, for a pass they must go, and that would not be granted, except they would embarquesome Quakers aboard, each of them to be scattered into the several Islands, into which they were bound, and though several of the Shipmasters did withstand the thing, using many good Arguments to avoid the execution of the cruel penalty, urging the Law made, commanded not them, and that there is a Law in England unrepealed that prohibites the transporting of any person out of this Nation without his or her proper consent; and as some of these Shipmasters knows and have been given to know, the last executive Officer is the Sheriff, and that he is to contract with any Shipmaster for their Transportation; but I find not in the Law that the Sheriff hath power to compel any man to bargain with him, no more than any Tradesman hath power to compel any Chapman whatever to buy or sell with him; the Shipmaster is left free in all and every such case, but all these things must not serve, the servants of the Lord must be banished, and they must carry them, (law or not law) else they must lose their Voyages, the Rulers wills must be done, and where a deficiency in Law is, or that it answer not fully their ends, then high words, and threatening speeches of imprisonment, and the like, must answer all defects; and so having wrought upon the extremities of these men, and they having consulted their losses, if they answer not their wills, and also having respect to their private gain, more than answering a good Conscience to God, an agreement is made, and so comes the servants of the Lord, to be banished from their native Country; the great God permitting it so to be: and having come over the Shipmasters as is said; again they enterprise the sending of seven more of the servants of the most High into Exile, and upon the 18. of the 2d. month 1665. was it suffered to be done; (and by the serviles of Newgate, whose diligence in those things have been long experienced,) their Names are, Tho. Gibson, John Tysce, John Terry, Edward Maletrat, John Goodwin, John Hardin, Edward Boycot: and from the Prison in the morning were six of there faithful Servants of the Lord drove down and led by the Newgate Instruments unto Blackfriars Stairs, where a Barge was ready to receive them, which was accordingly done; but Thomas Gibson refusing to yield an active compliance unto them, they prepared a Coach, and so fetched him out of Prison into it, and carried him down to Tower-wharf, where the Barge waited to receive him, and so he was put into the Barge amongst his Brethren, who were from thence carried to Gravesend and forced aboard in order to their Banishment. And dear Thomas Gibson whose life with the rest, and their faithfulness in their testimonies unto Gods living truth will be a precious savour in Generations to come; and when their lives and sufferings with all their trials, and faithfulness therein comes to be read and compared with the measure they have met withal, and received from their Persecuters of this Generation in which they lived, and did the will of God, surely, surely, praises, praises will be given unto God, by them that are yet unborn, and will bless God for this day; and so these seven faithful Lambs are gone by the permission of God into exile, and have for truth's sake parted with Wives, Children, and Estates, to fulfil the Holy will of God who is blessed for ever.  
Not many days after the embarquing of these faithful Brethren, the Lord shown another notable example by cutting off that grand Instrument judge Hyde by sudden death; who the Lord knoweth wrought much, yea very much of our detriment, both in our imprisonments, our trials, and in expediating our Banishment: But he is gone to his place, and the fruits of the deeds in his life, is his food to eternity; and so I shall not particularise his several carriages to us in our imprisonments and trials; but leave it to others to read over the lines of his life, which is written with a point of an Adamant: And about that time the Lord began to pour out his plagues in some of the out parts of the City, and then Weekly-bills began to declare the Judgements of a just God, and in a manner, as in his fear I may speak it, as they began to banish in small numbers, first 3. then 7. and afterwards greater numbers, as may by and by be declared; even so hath the Judgements of God traced that malicious spirit, first in small numbers and so with greater, as any that will make the observation upon the weekly-bills of Mortality may find it so; just and righteous O dreadful God are thy judgements, who hast judged thus.  
And not many weeks passed, but another experiment must be made, by sending away for Banishment now eight, malice increasing one in number, the Names of these faithful innocent Lambs are Rob. Allin, Tho. Kent, John Raunce, Tho. Hodge, Tho. Robins, John Johnson, Tho. Parker, Rich. Poulton; all which were on the 26. of the 3d. month 1665. by those emesaries of Newgate forced out of Prison and carried to the old place Blackfriars Stairs, and there was a Barge prepared for them, into which they were pulled, and so from thence to Gravesend were carried, where they were by violence put aboard in order to banishment, and after some days lying in the River they were cleared at the Blockhouse, which would not be done till the Shipmaster made appear to the Searchers that he had the Quakers aboard, and so in the will of God, have these all born a ●●●thful testimony unto God's holy truth, and have set their seals unto it, by giving up freely both Wives, Children, and their all; and rather than transgress the way of God, have chosen to receive their lots with their Brethren into what place soever the Lord shall permit them to be cast, and have committed the truth of their cause unto a just God, who is now come to plead their innocency, with their and his adversaries; and he will render vengeance upon the heads of them, and will smite hip and thigh, the whole host of the Uncircumcised; and they shall know by his Judgements he is God and not another, and though these simple sheep when before your Courts of judgement (so called) might not have liberty to plead the truth of their cause unto you, but with ironical, scoffing, jeering, and taunting language, have dispensed your wills unto them, which is reckoned by you good law, but the righteous Judge hath looked down and beheld all these things; and when any one have but spoken a sentence of Scripture in defence of their just cause, you have retorted unto them these unsavoury, ungodly, unchristianlike say, hold your canting sirrah, hold your canting sirrah; I, even I have been both eye and ear witness of these things, even to the grief of my very soul, that ever men that should sit in Court to execute the Laws of this Nation should drop such expressions from their mouths; and in public. But what shall I say, in an acceptable time is the Lord arisen to plead with the men of this Generation, when I have heard such language given by old grey haired men, that hath sat there to judge, I have said in my heart, where are we arrived in this day; what, the Scriptures of truth called canting, a language learned under Hedges by Rogues and Vagabonds, ah woe is me, is this the reverence you have to the holy record of Scripture, to call it canting, and in your Courts of Judicature? ah miserable men, what an example is this to them that comes to hear your wisdoms; and may not young men by your examples, turn mere heathen and atheists; but the Lord will awaken you, yea he will awaken you, to the confession of him, and likewise that Records of truth spoken forth through his Servants by the Spirit of God, in their day and Generation, who received such measure from the Judges and Rulers then in being, as we now do from you in this Nation.  
But now I return unto my Relation to observe the deal with my Brethren and Sisters in the pestiferous Jakes and Prison of Newgate, well, though notwithstanding the fury of the Lord smokes, in this City, and his wrath is come up to the number Thousands, and he is cutting off in all parts, and his Judgements have even circum●fered and beleaguered it, and seeing it is the will of the Lord it shall be so; what saith the envious spirit, I will double and triple the number of those that are under my hand and will drive them into exile; and in order thereunto a Shipmaster a fit servile for such an employment is found, who as it is said of him, will banish his nearest Relations for moneys; and a contract is driven with him, for no less than 60. innocent men and women, or thereabouts, to receive them into his Ship, to dispose of them whetherto he is bound, and there to leave them to starve and perish; O mercyless Rulers, is this your Retaliation for the return out of your distress, the Lord if it be his will show you more mercy than you show unto his people; and a day is ordered for the dispatching of this poor flock away out of their Country, and so as aforesaid, in a morning with very short warning was these friends about some 56. or 58. by the old serviles of Newgate taken forth and carried down to the same place, by 10.8. and sometimes more in a company through the streets, some drove and some led to the Waterside until they had got the number spoken into the Barge prepared for them, and so away they were rowed down to a place called Bugbeys Hole beyond Greenwich, where the Ship road, and when they came unto the Ship these Instruments of Newgate did not find all things so ready to their hands, nor they in the Ship so willing as themselves were, to do their master's drudgery; the Seamen being some of them more considerate, refused to lay hands on them except they were willing; and these poor sheep declared their unwillingness to yield any active compliance unto them; so a great bustle, and hurly burly was made, and many words used, magistrate like, by some of the Emissaries there, yet for all that, cared not the Seamen; so there was a cry to hand out the Tekel to hoist them up, and answer was made as I heard, that if they were Merchants Goods, they would do so; Answer was given again, they were the King's Goods: But in the end, the Newgate servants was feign to fall to work, and with much ado they got four of this number aboard, and then being tired, the rest were let alone, and after sometime was returned to Newgate again, where they for sometime was kept Prisoners. This was done the 20. day of the 5th. Month called July 1665. yet notwithstanding all this and the return of these innocent persons to their old Habitation, in which many of our dear Friends have lost their lives through the mercies of the Rulers of this Generation, which are altogether cruelties; and these things related, are tokens and marks of them, easy to be read of all that fear the Lord, and have any bowels of tenderness in them; and when they were there, safe they were, until the envious spirit got another opportunity, which with some small industry was purchased, and now seeing, the Emissaries of Newgate could not effect their work, recourse was had unto the Military power, and so a company of Redcoats must execute this barbarity, I have known a day when your very selves O Rulers, have cried out upon Redcoat law; but that is forgot with you now, it seems you think fit it should be ministered unto us, God Omnipotent judge between us and you in this matter, and so things being thus ordered, and the Lord permitting them so to be; a day was appointed, which was on the 4th. day of the 6th. month called August 1665. O malice, thou Monster, will nothing satisfy but the slaughter of the Soul, through betraying the life of God by bowing and falling down to thee, or the death of the body, Lord thy will be done, and to do thy will, are we freely given up, either to live or to die, so thou beest honoured Holy Father, thy name magnified, and thy truth exalted, above all deceit, hypocrisy, and all manner of profaneness: And in the morning early great was the preparation, and all or most that belonged to Newgate that could either lay hand of arm or leg was summoned to help to get this poor flock a Shipboard, and to their work they went, and as usually they did, so now; some they led, some they drove in numbers according as the drivers thought best for their ease, and thus they got them to the Waterside, and into the Barge; and this in the face of the City, in whose streets the bills of Mortality were the day before handed that signified the cutting off by death 3014. and so as they have increased the numbers for Banishment, the Lord hath increased his Plagues amongst them; and this O thou sinful City, thou wilt both observe and consider in time; and those faithful souls were from thence rowed again to the same Ship to Bugby's-Hole as aforesaid, and many Friends did accompany them to the Shipside in other Boats, and after the Barge a couple of men belonging to Newgate, follows in Boats, having Soldiers with them, which I suppose they purchased at the Tower to perpetrate that wicked work in hand; our Boats lying near the Ship, an outcry was made by one of them, get you further from the Ship, or else we will sink you; but Friends regarded not what they said, but lay still keeping as ne'er the ship as they could. So these two Newgate Champions entering the Ship with their armed Men commanded by a Sarjeant or Corporal or some such fellow, it matters not what; his demeanour shown himself to be a Bruit, and having made way in the Ship the Seamen were called, but few or none would lay hand on them, only two or three Vassals that were hired to help for that piece of service, did show themselves as they were; so they placed themselves for the conveniency of their work, than the Soldiers descended into the Barge and began to lay hold on Friends, and draged them forward, and some they kicked and punched, and heaved up many by Legs and Arms, and some they drew up with Ropes fastened about their middles, like pieces of Timber, and so tumbled them into the Ship, and thus in an hours time or thereabout they had finished their work, they served Men and Women all alike, either lifted them up by violence or hoist them up by tekell, and those two above mentioned, standing in the waist of the Ship, gave directions and orders, and well pleased they were in that dismal sight to see Men drawn up like Cattle, and scoffingly they were observed to say, hand out the tackle to draw up the King's goods, and take in the King's goods, and this was their game and pastime, they made over the bodies of these Servants of the Lord, the sight of which caused exceeding grief in Friends who were Spectators of this Tragedy lying by the Ship side, O woeful wretches that sport yourselves in such Inhumanities', as was there exercised, for you two above all the rest of Newgate Instruments, you should not have sported yourselves in that manner, for it's known to you that when profession in the Congregated way was in fashion, you were for none of this work, and when one of you was a Disciple of Parson Griffith then none of this, but the Hypocrite God will judge and recompense with his just Plagues as well as the profane, and thus was this great piece of wicked work, finished by the Instruments abovesaid, and so are these Servants of the most High exposed to cruel Banishment, having left behind them a good report for their faithfulness to the Lord, and a good favour is their Testimony for God's Truth unto all that have any sense of him in them.  
The Names of those Friends last Banished both Men and Women, being in number 55. are, 

VIZ,  
Men Friends, 

Peter Pennington.  
Henry Tailor.  
Thomas Hubbert.  
Roger Roberts.  
Edmund Berkley.  
William Mathews.  
Digory Martial.  
Vincent Gerrard.  
John Noble.  
Nathaniel Harding.  
William Parker.  
Thomas Rose.  
Laurence Aplin.  
Francis Tersey.  
Thomas Cox.  
Manasses Howard.  
John Chaplin.  
John Clause.  
William Newman.  
Robert Pate.  
Laurence Fullove.  
James Pierce.  
William Tillet.  
Christopher Dickeson.  
John Fox.  
Thomas Stoaks.  
Thomas Clark.  
Bartholomew Hall.  
Richard Thomson.  
James Kirton.  
Edward Walker.  
John Gabb.  
John Horsey.  
Matthew Jackson.  
Edward Lee.  
Arthur Baker.  
William Roberts.    
Women Friends, 

Deborah Harding.  
Anne Priest.  
Elizabeth Ivers.  
Anne Horniblow.  
Rose Atkins.  
Elizabeth Fisher.  
Anne Mercer.  
Jane powel.  
Marry Middleton.  
Rachel Jackson.  
Christian Ford.  
Elizabeth Pike.  
Elizabeth Harding.  
Rebecka Trump.  
Anne Royley.  
Dorothy Hall.  
Patience wilson.  
Margaret Jackson.      
Banished in all 72. remains in Prison sentenced for Banishment about 72.  
And these are part of those inhuman usuages which the people of the Lord (who are by violence drove out of their native Country into exile) have sustained and received from the hands of their Rulers, and those instruments that are employed in the execution of their Law last made for that purpose, being the progress of thirteen months or upward, in the execution of it; and it is little taken notice of by our Persecutors, how many Widows and fatherless Children they have made by this their cruel work in this time; But now the Lord is retaliating into their bosoms, and is measureing unto you, as you have measured unto us, and many widows and fatherless will he make, for our sakes, yea for our sakes; therefore be not deceived, our innocency is assuredly come before the Lord, and our cries are heard, and he is recompensing of your works into your hands that you have wrought these many years; and what will you say, it is the great God that pleads with you; O London, London, thou mayst remember a few years since thou was sporting thyself and making merry, thy Inhabitants was even distracted with vain joy; Remember thy wasting of God's good Creatures, upon thy lust and drunkenness, thy Bonfires, thy Rosteing of good meat in the street, and basting it with kennel dirt and water; the worst morsel of which, thousands and ten thousands would be glad of, and many for want of these things perish now; and remember thy vain shows erected in the high places of thee, when no less than about 600. of the servants of the Lord were in prison in and about thee, looking through the Grates of thy Prisons, and even panting for very air: In that very day the servants of the Lord did bear that burden of all your ungodliness, under which many walked up and down more like to shadows than men, even to see what would become of your ways, in which you were posting and gadding like wild Cattle; what think you, was God served therein, or the Devil? By this time many thousands in thee are sensible of the provocations wherewith you provoked the Lord in that day; but in all those actions the mighty God beheld you, and also his servants who had done no injury to any of you at all; notwithstanding that all must be cooped up in your Prisons, till you had offered your wicked heathenish sacrifice unto your lusts in that day you were told by many of the day that hath now overtaken thee, O London, and thou didst not believe it; but however now thou both seest it, and feelest it to be true, and now instead of healths which thou vainly drunk to men in thy Bowls and Cups, thou hast sickness from the hand of the Almighty; and instead of thy mad joy, thou hast handed to thee a cup of deep sorrow; and them thou deified O City in that day, and for whom these things were wrought, hath now left thee in the very midst of thy misery. And now consider O London, is it not better to trust the Lord than man, whose breath is in his Nostrils; some put their trust in Princes, some in Horses, but it is good to trust the Lord: and hadst thou considered this in thy former day, well had it been with thee; and as for those that did help to promp on thy ungodlyness in that day, those they were that by their Oaths, execrations, and all abominable wretched practices, in whoring and drunkenness▪ and what not; in their Feathers and strange fashions; have these relinquished thee also, it had been well thou hadst never known them, but however this memorial they have left behind them, even their shameful spewings, yea their shameful spewings in every corner of thy Streets: And for all this the servants of the Lord undergoes more cruelties from Thee and thy Rulers then ever; what do ye account we were born and brought forth as Men and Women to be destroyed; was this the end the Lord gave us life for, think ye? and do you think it is our portion to spend our days in your Prisons? what, because the thing hath been continued, and is common; therefore, you look upon it, it is but right it should so be, and so from the Womb unto the Tomb, this is our portion from your hands.  
And thus we have been all along, and are made the very Prey of a company of Rapine fowl, and Fleshcrowes, who teareth our flesh from our bones, and drinks our bloods in your stinking Jakes and Prisons. But dear God, it is for thy dear truth's sake that we undergo these things from the Men of this Generation. O glorify, glorify thyself holy Father in all these things that have been suffered to befall thy Saints and servants in this age, we know holy God it is because they know not thee, they do these things unto thine, for did they know thee, they would fear thee, and if they did fear thee, than they would love thee; and if they did love thee, then would they love thine: Righteous God, because they know not thee, therefore they know not us; for thou hast made known thyself in us, and so come we to bear thy Heavenly Image; O magnify thy name great God, and let all confess unto thee, unto thy mercies, unto thy Judgements unto thy Righteousness; unto thy forbearance and mighty patience, unto thy loving kindness, unto thy truth, for thou art God most mighty, even God of Heaven and Earth, and there is none besides thee; in Earth or Heaven, the Gods of the Earth are not able to stand, in thy judgement. O powerful God make thy power more and more known amongst the Sons and Daughters of Men, that they may learn thy fear; that Atheism and unbelief may be rooted up in this Nation, and that plant of ungodliness O Lord pluck up, by thy mighty power that it be no more, and for thine holy God, who for thy truth sake are driven into exile; let thy sweet peace, which is a portion beyond utterance, answer all the wants they may in their body sustain, and increase thy love in them, so will they love one another; and Righteous God be with all thine whom thou hast gathered into thee either in bonds or at liberty, for all thine are one flesh and one bone; in faithfulness let all persevere, thy great name magnify, O God exalt thy truth above all National inventions, which they frame and constitute unto thee (O spiritual God) for worship, thou art a Spirit, therefore by art thou art not worshipped; and though men chooseth it, and orderest it for thee, it is because they know thee not; and imagines thee to be like themselves; Arts and inventions may please Men, but thou art not pleased with them, thou choosest thy worship thyself, thou seekest thy Worshippers, holy God, out of all visible things is thy Worship, in the invisible thou art both known and seen, and all that comes to know thee and to see thee, must come into the invisible, and when they come there then shall we be known of them as we are known of thee, and then no more Persecution but Love, which is thy begotten, which is thy express Image, O mighty God honour thyself, Glorify thyself, Magnify thyself, and advance and exalt thy dear Truth over all, O thou art worthy of all praise from thee in thine, Blessed to Eternity.   

POSTSCRIPT.  
NOtwithstanding the sore Calamity that is by the hand of a most righteous God inflicted upon this City, and that the last week's Bill declared 3014. yet for all this, and in this time they seized our Meeting in Joneses at the Peele, and took away the most of Men friends, amounting to the number of about 25. and carried them to be examined before George Monck, called Duke of Albema le, who after one nights been there their names being taken, but not being brought before him, was disposed of to Prison, some to the Gatehouse, and some to Newgate, where they remain Prisoners for the testimony of God's holy Truth, and though they had sent fifty five of the Servants of the Lord into cruel exile last week, as it were to make an experiment of these actions, and as I have heard it reported, that some should say, that if the Quakers were sent out of the Land, it would be the only expedient of stopping the Plague, but behold what an effect it hath wrought, and how the Lord hath dealt in this cause, that this week since this hath been done 1016. is increased in the Judgement in this Bill, for no less than 4030. is cut off which this Weeks Bill declares, and so such Diviners, if it were so spoken by them, are false and liars, for they see a contrary effect, and those that causeth these our cruel and unjust sufferings, may well observe the hand of a retaliating God upon you, and except they intent to take vengeance upon the most High, I am yet to learn their intentions in this matter, O poor Mortals that thus striveth against the God of Heaven, what shall I say, a Lamentation, a Lamentation, yea a bitter Lamentation is to be taken up for you.   

ENGLAND'S sad Estate and Condition lamented in this just Complaint taken up against the greatest part of her Inhabitants, Because of their great Abominations, and Treacherous Deal, both with God and Man; For which cause the Terrible and Righteous Judgements of the Lord are coming upon them, and the Land.  
Wherein is also contained some PROPHECIES and EXHORTATIONS.  
OH ENGLAND, England! The Abominations of the greatest part of thy Inhabitants, who can declare them! They have reached Heaven, so as they are come up before the Lord, the Jealous God, and Woe unto that part of thy Inhabitants, who have sinned out the Day of their Visitation, and have wholly slighted the Day of God's patience, and long Forbearance, and would have none of his Reproof, but have altogether rejected the same, and have made a mock at Sin, & have sported themselves with their own Deceive and Lusts, and have gone a Whoring from under the God of their Lives: Wherefore thus saith the Lord, the only God; I will make such become a Hissing and Reproach, and my Anger they shall not be able to Escape, because of their provoking Abominations, and Treacherous Deal both with Me and Man.  
Oh England, England! How have, and yet do, a great part of thy Inhabitants Rush into Idolatry, and all manner of Profaneness and grievous Abominations, even as the Horse and Mighty Rush into the Battle! How do they drink in Iniquity even as the Ox, or Parched Ground, drinketh in Water! Oh! What manner of Lamentation shall I make for thee, my Native Country! Or, What manner of Complaint may I take up against a great part of thine Inhabitants, who have long Sought, and yet seek thy Ruin and Destruction! Verily, their Actions have Declared them to be like the Inhabitants of Sodom; Yea, their sins have rendered them to be as ●●d as those of Gomorrah. O they have Vexed the Righteous Soul; Yea, and they have Grieved the Spirit of the Lord from Day to Day with their  Conversations. They have multiplied their Transgressions, and heaped up their Iniquities till they are become as the Sand on the Seashore without Number. Oh! The Lord hath long striven with them; yea, He hath also long born their Iniquities, He would have gathered them to himself out of their Abominations, Yea, he would oft have healed them, but they would not; but they have stiffened their Necks, and hardened their Hearts against the Lord and his Counsel day after day, and have chosen their own way and works even to their own hurt, and would by no means be reclaimed; for when the Lord hath reproved them (by the Light of his Son in their own consciences) and set their sins in order before their eyes, they have stopped their Ears, and closed their Eyes, and wilfully Rebelled against the Power of God, and trampled upon his Witness [the Light in them] as a thing of nought, counting it not worth the taking Notice of. And when the Lord hath raised up Prophets, Children, and Servants, and sent them out, Commanding them to lift up their Voices like Trumpets, to show the People their Transgression, and to Preach Repentance and Amendment of Life: Yea, to warn and exhort them to turn from their Sins to God, and to lay before them their great abominations, and to Prophesy what should come upon them, if they would not turn from the evil of their Do. Oh! how have a great part of thy Inhabitants Scorned, and Derided these! Yea, how have many of thine Inhabitants Beaten, Whipped, Stocked, Stoned, and Imprisoned some of these till Death, for bearing their Testimony for the Lord against a Crooked and Perverse Generation, who hate such as speak uprightly, and abhor such as reprove Sin in the Gate, that so it is even thus come to pass in thee, O England, That he that departeth from Iniquity, maketh himsef a Prey to this Generation of Evil doers, whose hearts are set upon their Lusts, Idolatry, and grievous Abominations! and the Lord hath beheld it, and it pleaseth him, because there is no true Judgement: for these evil doers are all gone out of the way; yea there is none of them that regard to do the thing that's Just and Good, any further than it may be advantageous to their own Corrupt Designs.  
Oh England, England! How oft hath the Lord God smote thy Rulers and Mighty, and Proud Men! how oft hath he laid their Honour in the Dust! Yea, How oft hath he Overturned and Confounded thy Mighty Men, even thy Men of War, with thy Princes, Nobles, and Captains of Thousands, Hundreds and Fifties! Oh how oft hath he Overturned thy Governments, and Changed thy Governors! But how few of them have so regarded the Out-going of the Lord in all these things as they ought to have done? And how few of them have rightly Weighed and Considered the Causes for which the Lord hath brought or suffered so many Changes in the Land? Or, have those who saw the causes that provoked the Lord of hosts thus to Act, laboured so to remove them as they ought to do (or might) have done? Nay, Assuredly they have not; for the Lusts of this World, and the Pride of Life hath blinded the minds of most; and such who have seen what their duty was, the honour of this World, & that cursed self-interest hath stopped and hindered most of them from doing those things which they saw they ought (and which they had opportunity also) to have done. Oh! How have the new Governors in almost every Change of late, cried out of the Tyranny and great Oppression of those whom they did succeed? and, how have most of them Vowed unto God, Declared to, and Promised the People, That they would Remove the Burdens and Oppressions that the foregoing Rulers had laid, and continued upon them: But alas! very few of them, have regarded their Vows, Declarations, and Promises, either to God or Man; but in Treachery and Deceit have they gone on, Serving themselves and their own Lusts, and not the Lord nor their Generation faithfully: For, although many of them have been very large in promises and good words, (whereby they have long sought to deceive the hearts of the People) yet it is but very Little that hath been done for their true Liberty, because that wicked Spirit, which seeketh to make itself great by the ruin of others, hath Ruled, and doth yet Rule, in the hearts of many Rulers; and this is of the Devourer and Destroyer, who cannot forgive Enemies, but Cries out of Rebellion and Treason, labouring to exasperate the Spirits of Others, that so occasions may be gotten, if possible, against them, thereby to bring them under, and keep them in Bondage.  
Oh England, England! Such is thy sad Estate and Condition, that several of thy Rulers are, and have been, as roaring Lions, even greedy to Devour; And many of thy Teachers have been, and yet are, like Troops of Robbers, Robbing and Spoiling of many of thine Inhabitants. Oh! How have most of thy Priests Temporised, and Daubed with every Power, as they have come up in the many Changes! How have they increased Envy, Wars, and Destructions, amongst thy Rulers and People! How have they one time Cried up, and Prayed for the same Thing, which, at another time, they have Cried down, and Prayed against! Oh! Who shall ever believe them? Their god is their belly; and who is it that many of them would not Join unto, if thereby they might be upheld in Pride, Idleness, and Fullness? How oft would they Change again and again? And what Idolatry is there that many of them would not Run into for their Bellies sake? Ah poor Nation! Are they not yet striving to kindle a Flame within thy Bowels? Hath not the Lord divided them? and, are they not labouring with all their might to Divide and Rend thy Inhabitants yet more and more? Yea, surely, and it is Just with the Lord to suffer it to be so; because of the greatness of their Abominations, which are daily increased.  
Ah poor Land! How art thou overspread with Wasters and spoilers! who like Caterpillars devour thy Pleasant Fruit. Oh! the Whoredoms and Idolatries, that are daily committed and acted in thee, Who can Declare them! Oh! thy Chief City, thy Chief City, that bloody City! Can its Abominations be Paralleled in the Earth! Surely it hath Exceeded Sodom in Wickedness. The Lord is very Angry with a great part of its Inhabitants, and his Vengeance is nigh to come upon them. woe unto you Whoremongers, Drunkards, Gluttons, Swearers, Cursers, Blasphemers, Cheaters, and Idolaters! woe unto you, Proud, Wanton, and Profane, Vain Persons! woe unto you, Mountebanks, Stage-Players, Bear-baiters, Gamesters, and all manner of Abominable Workers, and you that Build up Towers, Scaffolds, and Vain Heathenish Representations and such like; and make and garnish Images, to draw people's minds after Idolatry, and for your Cursed Gain and Lusts, in pretence of Honouring your King. Oh! How are people drawn into Gazing and Wondering after these Abominations! It grieveth the Righteous Soul to behold such great Wickedness! Oh! You Wicked and Abominable Workers, and Devourers of the Creation! The Lord God will meet with you in a time when ye are little ware of Him, He'll Slain your Pride, Vain Glory and Idolatry, and give you your Portion amongst Devourers (except you speedily Repent) and your Abettors, Strengthens, and Helpers forward of such Ungodliness (that do it knowingly) and Delighters therein, The Lord will not acquit you, He'll smite you for these things, and that right soon. Oh! Ye, Idolatrous people, Do you think, that the Lord God of Pity and Patience, suffered your King to Hid himself from his Enemies in an Oak, for that end, that ye might Devour his Creatures in making an Idol of it? Is this the use you make of that which you say was God's Mercy towards you? Is not this the way to turn those things, that might have been Mercies to you, into Plagues and Judgements? Oh! How do you daily provoke the Lord against Yourselves, and your King? Oh! You wicked Workers, How dare you make Representations of Destruction and Ruin? How dare you make a Sport of such things? Verily, your provocations are great, wherewith you provoke the Just God; And it will be Just with him to bring Ruin, Desolation, and Destruction upon you and your City; Verily, great is the Judgement that is nigh you, and your sins draw it on you apace. Do you think that the Lord cast out Backsliders, Hypocrites, and Unfaithful men, to set up and establish Idolaters and open Profane persons? Nay surely: Therefore Tremble ye Wicked Workers, and Howle ye Profane Idolaters, for the Mighty and Terrible day of the Lord is near to break out upon you. Thus saith the Lord God, I'll Scatter, I'll Scatter, I'll Split, Divide, and Separate: I'll Break and Dash to Pieces, and none shall be able to Gather, Bind up, or Join together: For mine Anger is kindled, and my Jealousy shall burn till I have devoured mine Enemies, saith the Lord.  
Therefore ye people of England (that yet live in wickedness) who have not wholly sinned out the day of your Visitation, To you I now speak; you that feel the Lord yet striving with you; O Return, return speedily unto the Manifestation of his Spirit, whereby he strives with you, to show you your Abominations, and to draw and lead you out of the same; O be not still Stiffnecked, but harken to the Word of the Lord which showeth you the thoughts and Intents of your Hearts, and hearken and be obedient to the Call thereof, that so by its power you may Hasten out of Babylon, both Young and Old, Rich and Poor, High and Low, Noble or Ignoble, Professor or Profane, who yet are there; For the Lord's Controversy is great with Babylon her Merchants, and Inhabitants, and he will not much longer spare, but he will suddenly smite, and none shall be able to hinder his stroke: Yea, yea he will wound and none shall be able to heal; For the measure of her Iniquities, Idolatries, and Whoredoms are nigh full, and the Wine of her Fornications, hath caused the Fats to overflow, and she is come up into remembrance before the Lord, the Just God, who will Plague her and all her Merchants and Inhabitants according to their Abominations, whereby they have grievously provoked Him, Therefore, come out of her, whilst Mercy and Time is offered, lest you perish with her in her Judgements, which the Lord is Strongly and Swiftly bringing upon her.  
Oh England, England! A day of Sorrow and Calamity is coming upon many of thy Inhabitants, I have long been sensible of it; even a day of such Breaking, Confusion and Judgement, as hath not been for a long space; For thy People have wearied out the Lord with their iniquities and grieved his holy Spirit with their abominations, days without number.  
Oh England, England! The Lord hath a precious and Holy Seed in thee; Yea, He hath a Remnant, which he hath raised by his Power to, & for himself, which are exceeding precious in his sight; and these a great part of thine Inhabitants have Shamefully entreated, and grievously oppressed, and persecuted; And they have patiently born the same, and have laboured in the Life of Innocency, and Spirit of Emanuel, to Inform thy Rulers and People in the Things that are Just and True, and have shown them the Ways which have, and do Displease the Lord, and have Exhorted and Warned the Inhabitants, Time after Time: But notwithstanding their Doctrine, Lives, and Conversations have manifested their Innocency and Uprightness of Heart before God and Man, yet have many of thy Rulers, Priests, and People, Oppressed them more and more; Some Spoiling their Goods, others Imprisoning their Bodies, in filthy Holes and Dungeons, till Several of them have Sealed their Testimony for the Lord with their Blood, which cryeth for Vengeance in the Ears of the Almighty, and the Lord hath heard the Cry thereof, and hath looked down and beheld the Actings of the Sons of men, and he is near to Visit; Yea, the Lord hath beheld, and doth behold, the Snares that have been, and are laid for the Innocent, who have no other Helper but him alone; and therefore they have Committed their Cause unto him who shall bring it to pass; Yea, he hath taken Notice, how several of thy Rulers have combined together, and endeavoured to Force his Babes to Violate his Royal Law, and to Break his Command (who saith, Swear not at all) to Uphold and Obey theirs, which is Contrary to his; Yea, He hath taken notice of the Cruel Sufferings, and great Temptations of his People who, many of them, are yet Imprisoned, and both their Bodies and Estates threatened to be destroyed (by some evil Men) if they will not break the Royal Law and Commandment of Christ, which he hath placed in their hearts to Obey & Do. Oh! The Lord hath seen the Partiality and evil Intents of several of the Judges and Rulers of this Land, who have had Power to let the Innocent go free, and yet keep many of his Ministers and Servants (many of which have outward Estates) Prisoners in many places; although they have no more against them, than against those whom they have turned forth, which is nothing else but for their Obeying the Command of Christ in them, (who this day saith unto his People, Swear not at all, as he said to his Disciples formerly) and for meeting together, and Speaking and Praying in his Name, for the Edifying, Comforting and Building up one another in their most holy Faith. The Lord hath also taken notice, that when some of the Rulers might Relieve the Innocent, and let the Oppressed go free, they will not; and then to cover themselves, they will say, They cannot act contrary to the Law. But when a Ruler will act that which he hath no Law for, he can then plead a Prerogative Royal for that: and thus are the innocent Lambs of Christ made a Prey upon.  
Oh! the Oppressions of his People, and others, are great this day in thee, O Land; and the Crying of the Fatherless, the Widows and the Needy is come up before the Lord God of Compassion, who will thoroughly plead the Cause of his People, and the Poor and Needy of the Land.  
Oh England, England! I have oft heard and treasured up what the Lord hath said in me, concerning thy Inhabitants; but now must I declare it in the Appointed Season, Thus hath the Lord spoken in me for a long time, concerning thy Inhabitants, saying, The People are too many, the People are too many I will thin them, I will thin them:; [Mark] that is, He will make them fewer, for they cumber the Ground. And the spirit of the Lord hath oft signified unto me, for a long time, That an Overflowing Scourge, yea, even an exceeding great and terrible judgement is to come upon thee, O Land! and that many in thee shall fall and be taken away in the Judgement; and the Spirit of the Lord signifieth unto me, that the time draweth nigh, and that the Decree of the Lord is so firm, that though some of the Lords Children & Prophets could appear so, as to stand in the Gap, yet should not that alter his Decree, only in the Righteousness of the Lamb they shall be hid & saved from his Wrath, what ever may be done to any of their Bodies; but his fierce Wrath & Indignation shall be poured forth upon the Ungodly, and a great Desolation and Destruction shall there be; for he will overturn and overturn, till he hath dis-throned & thrown down the Man of Sin, & exalted & established the Kingdom of his dear Son, over all the Kingdoms of the world; and the Kingdom and Dominion, and the Greatness of the Kingdom under the whole. Heaven shall be given to the Holy People, the Sints of the Most High, whose Kingdom is an Everlasting Kingdom, and all Dominions shall serve and obey him, who is King of Saints.  
Behold, ye Despisers, and Wonder! This is the Work which the Lord will accomplish by his own Power, though you will in no wise believe it; but you shall feel, even both Hypocrites and Profane, that the Lord is able to bring to pass the thing that is in his heart.  
And you who now think to set up and establish your Idolatry, and to live in Profaneness without control; and you who appear so hot against some of these things, and labour to stop and pull them down (mark) that you might set up and establish your own Hypocritical Will-Worship in another dark dead Form, I will frustrare you both, saith the Lord God, and you shall grind and waste one against another, as the upper and nether Millstone; And I will pluck out from you, and preserve a holy Seed, beyond expectation; and I will be avenged on you for that which you have already bruised, or shall yet bruise [mark] And I will hurry and hurl you round with a mighty Stream; for the Waters shall roar and swell: And after I have executed my vengeance upon the Rebellious and Treacherous Dealers, I will then bring forth the Remnant of my Holy Seed, which shall be preserved from their Fury, and they shall spread over all, in my Life, Power, Knowledge and Wisdom, wherein they shall stand in Dominion; Yea, and they shall rule the Earth in Mercy, Justice, and true Judgement; and they shall forgive and love their Enemies (as they do at this day) and do the thing that is just and good unto all, without respect of persons; yea, they shall seek the good of the whole Creation in 〈◊〉 true love and self-denial; for the Spirit of Love, Meekness, Healing and Restoring shall mightily fill their tender Bowels, and my Blessings shall fill their Dwelling-place, and the Earth, for their sakes: these things will I accomplish by my own Power, and in my own time, saith the Lord God.  
But although these things, touching the holy Remnant, shall certainly be fulfilled in their Season, Yet before they be fully accomplished, great will be the Trials of many of the Righteous, and there will be great Judgements executed in thee, O Land, by Him who ofttimes maketh a fruitful Land barren, because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein; and Just will it be with Him to deal so with thee, because of the great wickedness of the greatest part of thy Inhabitants, who are departed and separated from the Spirit of Mercy, Love, Compassion and Healing, and are labouring to Devour, Oppress, and Destroy one another, and the whole Creation.  
Oh England, England! There is also a People in thee who are come to see the Great Idolatry and Superstition, which many are now striving to revive and set up in thee; yea, there is a People in thee, which see and believe that the Worship which is now a setting up, with the Vain Music, Altars, Mass in English, and the foolish needless Garments of the Priests, and such like Popish stuff, that these things are Idolatry, Folly and Vanity, and but a mocking of God; and yet some of these People will run after this Vain Worship, for self-ends, slavish fear, and to keep themselves in esteem with, or amongst those who plead for it: And others there are in thee, who instead of being sorrowful for such Abominations and Superstition, or reproving the Practisers thereof in the solid, seasoned, savoury Life and holy Dread of the Lord God, they writ and speak scoffingly of those things, even to the stirring up one of another into vain Laughter, and so make a sport of others Idolatry; and this grieveth the Spirit of the Lord also, and doth not convince, but exasperated and harden those that are zealous for their blind Worship and Superstition.  
There are also a great number of brittle, fiery, rash, unsatisfied people in thee, O Land, who are as unstable as Water, and these rebelling against the Light, not knowing the way of it, because they abide not in the path thereof, they are restless, rolling, and raging ofttimes like the Sea; One time they will have a Parliament, and cry out, They shall govern and heal them; and when they have gotten them, in a short time they grow weary of them: And then another time, they will cry out for a King, and say, He shall heal them, and make up their Breaches: But these people are not long of one mind, for they are much like the Athenians, who spent their time in little else but either to tell or to hear of some New thing: These People also are like mighty Tides in thy Channels, O England, which one while run with Violence, driving all unsettled, light, unfixed things one way, and shortly after run with as much violence the contrary way: Therefore in a miserable condition are those Rulers whose strength is in such a People! And until Rulers come to be settled, and fixed in Him who is the Rock of Ages, and singly to rule in, and for Him, whom the Winds and the Seas obey, who maketh the Waters to stand on heaps and divided them hither and thither; and altereth the natural course of Tides as he pleaseth (as he hath done thine of late, to show thee the Figure of the People) they can ne●e safe, neither will the People be stilled long together; but there will be Swell, Raging, Overflowings, sore Breaking's and Ruins.  
Oh! that the foregoing Rulers would have been persuaded to have Received Him for their Teacher, who Ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men, than should they not only have seen, what the Lord cast out others before them for, but they should have been taught how to have denied all those things which the Lord was angry with others for, and they should have received Power to have abstained from the same; but they would not hear and obey the Lord, nor his Prophets, and therefore were they cast out also.  
And therefore, O! that the Rulers that now are, would be persuaded (whilst they have their Day) by the Lord and his Servants, to receive the Lord Jesus Christ, to be their King and Teacher, and then they should not only see for what cause the Lord cast them out, and others in their Age, but they should be taught to deny and forsake all those things which God was angry with them, and others for, and they should receive Power to do those things, which they and others before them left undone; But alas! How few are there that will Hear, Regard, and Obey the Prince of Life and his Followers, and therefore is Desolation coming as a mighty Flood, which none shall be able to stop.  
Now all People, in what Sect or Opinion soever, in whom there are any true Breathe and Desires after the Lord, and the way of his Holiness, Fear not, neither be dismayed, because of the Rage that you may yet see the Waters of the Land in, and because of the Confusion and Cruelty of the People; But stand still in that Life which begetteth Breathe and Thirsting in you after the Lord, that you may come to see and feel his Salvation, and that you may be gathered into that Patience, Meekedness, Contendedness, Rest, Peace, and Satisfaction, which many of the dear Lambs and Children of my Father are gathered into, wherein they lie down, and none can make them afraid, though their Bodies and Estates be oppressed and abused. Oh! Stick not, Stick not in your Forms without Power, neither Flee the Cross, any longer; but wait in the True Simplicity, to feel God's hand of Tender Love, which he reacheth forth to, and manifesteth in you, to lead and guide your minds into his Pure Worship, which is in the Spirit and in the Truth. Oh People! This is the Worship that he will set up. He will be LORD and LAWGIVER in the Consciences of his People, and those that will not be content that EMMANVEL should Reign over them, he will slay them with the Sword of the Spirit, The Words of his Mouth.  
Oh! Harken, harken a little, and stand still, that you may hear the voice of the true Shepherd in your own Hearts, who calleth for Truth in the Inward Parts, and he will discover what lodgeth Within, and He will show you the Way wherein you should walk, and he will let you see what the Cross is unto, and He will teach you when you are nlone in your Beds, or wherever you are; if you will receive Him who gives you Life and Breath, whose gentle Reproofs and Instructions are the Way of Life.  
Therefore you in whom the Breathe and Desires after the Lord are; Consult not with Flesh and Blood, neither reason against the Cross, but submit to every Appearance of God's Power in you, which appeareth to Crucify the Fleshly Birth and Nature; which hath stood, and doth stand in Rebellion and Enmity against the Pure and Precious Life, and Requirings of the Lamb of God, that so that Mind which is at Enmity against God, and that Nature in you, which is disobedient to his Commands in Spirit, may come to be Crucified, that so there may be a Change inwardly felt and witnessed, by the working of the mighty Power of Christ in your Inward parts; and then the Desires and Breathe which are Begotten in you after Righteousness, they will be strengthened, and the Teachings of the Almighty will be Truly known, and you believing in the Power, you will receive Power to obey and Practise whatsoever the Lord shall make known unto you by his Spirit to be his Will and Requirings.  
Oh People! Let the Dread of the Lord Seize upon your Spirits, in this the Day of his Power, wherein he is Trying, Sifting and winnowing the Nations, and wait to feel that Life arise within you, which beareth Testimony against all evil within and without; that so ye may become more and more acquainted with the Teachings, Drawings, and Leadings thereof, that thereby you may be drawn and led out of those things which have kept your Souls in the Death, and hindered you from enjoying the Pure Peace of God. And this know and consider; that all that come to witness their Souls raised out of Death, and brought to enjoy the Peace of God, they must Believe in the Life of the Quickening Spirit, which is the Second Adam, the Lord from Heaven, who for Sin Condemneth Sin in the Flesh, and appeareth in the Inward Parts of man, to work out sin and transgression, (which hath Separated from God) and so to make clean the heart and inside of male and female.  
Oh People! This is the Work of Christ the Son of God, even to make manifest and destroy the works of the Devil, and so to reconcile man unto God, by the Virtue of his own Life, which he gave a Ransom for many; and blessed are all those that believe in the Life of the Son of God, and feel & know it manifested in their mortal flesh: for they shall witness the Power of it to make all things new, and so their Souls will come up in the hand of God, and his Peace will be Received and Enjoyed.  
Oh people! Wait to know, and feel this Work of Christ within you, that so you may be made able to stand in the Judgement, and to Endure the Trial, and that you may be Hid from the Wrath of the Lamb, which is nigh to come upon the Rebellious. Oh! Consider this, Those that are his Followers, they come throw many tribulations, and their overcoming their Enemies is by his Blood, not by a talk of it, but by the Virtue and power of it sprinkled in their Hearts, which washeth and maketh them White, Clean, and without Fault before God. Oh People my Bowels yearn! my Bowels yearn towards you! whose Desires in any measure, are after the Lord: O that you would now Return with all your hearts unto Him, and obey the Voice of his Power in you; then should you be made able to stand, and endure the fiery Trial which is come and coming. Oh! the Day hastens wherein all Profession that is not grounded in the Life and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ (whatever the show of it be) it will be so shaken, that an utter Blasting and withering shall come upon it; and for that cause the Lord doth, and will yet suffer great Trials to come, both upon the Professors, and Possessors of his Name; that so his Children [the Possessors] may be manifested unto all, and discerned from all that are but Professors, though never so fair and seemingly Covered; For all Cover but what is of the Power and Spirit itself, shall be too Narrow; and all that are not Covered with the Spirit and Power of Emmanuel, their Shame and Nakedness shall appear more and more. This is the Testimony which the Spirit & Word of Truth giveth; therefore, He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear, before the day of his Visitation be wholly past, and the things belonging to his Peace be hid from his Eyes: For yet a little while and the Voice shall be, He that is filthy, let him be filthy still For the Spirit of the Lord shall not always strive with flesh,; but his Plagues and Indignation shall be poured out upon such as will not be gathered in the Day of his Patience, long Forbearance, and Free-love; and He or She that Loveth Father, Mother, Husband, Wife, Children, House, or Land, Liberty, Honour, or any Thing more than the Life of the Lamb, shall be counted not worthy of him, and plainly manifested so to be: Read this who can; and he that can receive it, let him: For the Time draweth nigh that these Say must be fulfilled.  
George Fox the Younger. Printed the 13. of the Second Month.  
The End.   

To the King, And both Houses of PARLIAMENT, Thus saith the Lord,  
MEddle not with my People, because of their Conscience to me, and banish them not out of the Nation, because of their Conscience; For, if you do, I will send my Plagues upon you; and you shall know that I am the Lord.  
Written in obedience to the Lord By his Servant, Geo. Bishope. Bristol the 25th of the 9th Month, 1664.