ENGLAND'S SAD Estate & 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.  
By George Fox, the Younger.  
London, Printed for Robert Wilson, at the Black-Spread-Eagle and Windmill in martin's le Grand, 1661.   

ENGLAND'S Sad Estate and Condition, LAMENTED, etc.  
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, and 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 bad 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 ways 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 Transgressions, 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 himself a Prey to this Generation of Evil doers, whose hearts are set upon their Lu●ts, 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 Ju●t 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! O 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, and 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 Priest's 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-batters, 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 Abetters, 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. O! 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 Howl 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 Scat●e●, 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 Jealous 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 finned out the day of your Visitation, To you I now speak; You that seel 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 smi●e, 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.  
On 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 thy Inhabitants, Time after Time: But notwithstanding their Doctrine, Lives, and Conversations have manifested their Innocency and Uprightness of Hear● 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 Prerogateve 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 and 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 and saved from his Wrath, what ever may be done to any of their Bodies; but his fierce Wrath and 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 disthrone & thrown down the Man of Sin, and 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 Saints 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 Pzophaness 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 frustrate 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 the 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 saltes: 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 butia mocking of God; and yet some of these People will run after this Vain Worship, for self-ends, stavish-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 Abomination 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 there 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 divideth 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 never be 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, Oh! 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, Meekness, Contentedness, 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 EMMANUEL 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 bear 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 alone in your Beds, or wherever you are; if you will receive Him who giveth 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 and 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 night 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 and 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 fulfiled.  
Printed the 13. of the Second Month.  
THE END.