THIS WAS GIVEN TO mayor general Harrison AND THE REST.  
red this in the Fear of the Lord, and in the moderation of Your spirits, without prejudice.  
FRIENDS,  
THIS is the day of your visitation, while ye have time prise it; God hath long holden forth a hand of love unto you, though you have for several years past slighted and rejected his council, and would have none of his ways, Who is the eternal Light, the way, the truth, and the Life, and there is no other way nor name under Heaven by which any shall be saved, or come to the knowledge of the eternal Truth as it is in Jesus, but by the Light ●f Christ Jesus in whom is Life, and this Life is the Light of men, and though you have slighted this, and looked upon it as too mean and low, yet this ye must stoop unto, and come to, if ever you find peace and reconciliation with the Lord God, ye must have it in the Light which bears testimony against all the works and deeds of darkness; and if ever ye come to know or witness Life and immortality to be brought to Light thorough the Gospel of Jesus, which is glad tidings to the poor, and liberty to the captive, then must you come to the Light of Jesus that shines in your Consciences, for his Immortality dwells in the Light, and the knowledge of him, and the witness that every one can bear of him in the real truth, is in the Light that shines in their Consciences, and in this knowledge is Life eternal to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent a Light into the world, who hath said, He that knows me, knows him that sent me; I am come a Light, that he that believes on me should not perish, but have everlasting life; and this is the record that he hath given us of his Son, even eternal life, and this life is in his Son, which is now risen in his brightness, and shining in the Consciences of men, and he is purging the Conscience from dead works to serve the living God, which all the types and the sigures could not make any thing perfect as pertaining to the conscience, No not the Tabernacle, nor the Golden Pot in which was the Manna, they were but a shadow of the good things to come, the body and substance is Christ, which makes clean the inside who is King of the Jews, not outward but inward, and the Minister of that Circumcision which is of the heart, which worships him in the Spirit and in the Truth, having not confidence in the flesh; and this is that you must all stoop to, if ever ye know or be partakers of the precious faith, which was once delivered to the Saints, which we are contending for, and are to contend for, even to the giving up our lives, and our desire is that ye might partake with us, and taste of that love which is in Christ Jesus, which neither height nor depth, tribulation, nor anguish, Principalityes nor powers, life nor death can sepatate from, and that you might partake of our life which is hide with Christ in God, is the desire of our souls, though you have long slighted the day of your visitation, and often rejected the council of the Lord, and counted the Light a mean and a contemptible thing, by which the Lord God doth and ever will teach his people; and this testimony I bear unto you in the presence of the Lord God, though you may esteem high of yourselves, and of your knowledge, the living and the eternal God ye do not know as he is, but as ye know him in the light, for his immortality dwells in the light, and if ye know him where he dwells, ye must know him in the Light, and if ye be the Children of the Lord, and taught of the Lord, ye must be taught by the Light of him in your Consciences, and if ye be established in righteousness you must be established in the Light, and if ye be far from oppression, ye must be found in the Light, and if you will be where your peace will be great ye must dwell in the Light, and if while ye have the Light ye believe in the Light, ye may may be the children of the Light, and this is Christs own words and exhortations whom ye highly profess, & yet slight his own words & exhorration; Oh! Friends, what will profession of him in words outwardly do for you now in the time of your distress and sad affliction, when that saith is wanting which stands in the power, and works by love, and is held in the mystery of a pure Conscience, which I know eternally never a one of you can witness who denies the Light of Jesus that cleanseth the Conscience, which every one must walk in; which brings into the fellowship one with another, where the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin; and what will your justification, in that one act which you speak of, which was offered up at Jerusalem, now do for you when you want your seal and your testimony of your being justified by it in your Consciences? if ye have not your particular assurance, by being purged purified, and sanctified, and so justified in your own conscience? what will that Act do for a defiled Conscience? what will that act do for an unclean and an unsanctified heart being that he which was offered up at Jerusalem once for all, thorough the eternal Spirit, is now risen in his Spirit and Light, in the hearts and Consciences of men, there to cleanse and to purge, and to wash by his own blood, and so to justify and give assurance, that whosoever believes on him should be saved and have everlasting life, now what will your professing and talking of this act do for you, while you are slighting and disobeying, and transgressing against the Light( which should give you testimony and true assurance) to your justification, and should purisie your hearts by faith, for it is by the faith of the Son of God, which is Light and Life that the just lives, itis not profession, or high notions by which the Just lives, itis not brain wisdom nor comprehesion in the understanding that raises the dead, it was that that crucified the Just; but it is the voice of the Son of God that raises the dead, and there's nothing that will avail in this day of the Lord but this new-creature, the image of the invisible God, the first begotten from the dead, and he that doth not witness this state will suffer loss, for when his work is tried by the sire it will be burned; and though men may speak with the tongues of men and Angels, and want that love that passeth knowledge, it is but as the sounding brass, and tinkling cymbal, and so it will pass away and be no more seen; Nay further then that, though there may be prophesies and faith that could remove Mountains, and want this love that gives obedience, and keeps the Commandements of the Lord it is nothing; though they may give their goods to the poor; and their bodies to be burned, it is nothing while they do not keep the Commandements of the Lord but sleights his tenders of love, and his gracious mercies, and is exalted in a notion, in a conceiving or apprehension of a thing, and wants the sound and sure testimony of the thing itself; in this they are utterly betrayed; though they may say or apprehended that their name is written in Heaven, yet if this Heaven be far off them they may miss of their Name, For Satan falls from Heaven like lightning; He that can receive it let him; There's none that enters into the Holy City, but whose name is written in the Lambs book of Life, slain from the foundation of the world, and this Name is written in Heaven, and here is Joy witnessed and the Song of Moses and the Lamb, but this state is redeemed from the earth, and so the offering up of the natural life in this state is little.  
Now the desire of my heart is that you had saith in God, and might see yourselves in the condemnation, and feel the hand of his Justice and Judgement, and that you are not come to this condition without the power and providence, and permission of the Lord, that so you may be received into his bosom and mercy; for undoubtedly the same God as brought you to the seat of Justice, so metly has also brought you now to the judgement, therefore now fall down under the hand of his Justice; whose hand of mercy is holden forth unto you; and consider what great mercy you have abused, and opportunities of doing him service; and how you have betrayed him and his cause into the hands of sinners; and how you have incurred his Just hand of recompense upon your heads; oh consider what ye have done against the Lord, what a great power you have abused, and turned the sword against the Innocent, that should have been for the evil doer, and slighted and contemned his living truth, and held up a rotten deceitful profession which now will fail you in the day of your troubles and trials; one hour of worshipping the Lord God in his eternal light and Spirit of eternal life, were of more value to you then all your dayes and nights, that you have spent in prayers, and tears, and cries, whilst your hearts are corrupted, and your Consciences desiled, and your minds carnal, where the Enmity stands against God and his Truth, which is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be, but weeps Esaus tears, and so must have Esaus portion; you'l think this is hard, but truly you will sinned it truth, and you will sinned that all your goodness will pass away as the Early due, and your righteousness as the silthy rags. But I feel something objecting in your minds, as if this might be a discouragement to you in your Condition; I answer, no; It's the hand of his love is reached out unto you, and his bosom of love stands open unto you, to receive you into his mercy, if you would turn in your minds to the living witness of the living God in your Consciences, to which you must stand or fall; This is the word which must Judge every one of you in the last day, and this is the word that reconciles unto God, and this is his name( who had his vesture dipped in blood) to which every knee must bow, and every tongue confess; and if ye stand committed to this immortal and eternal engrafted word, this is able to save your souls; therefore to this word of faith which is nigh in the heart, which saith, Neither ascend nor descend, but preaches righteousness very nigh; to this come though it were the last day that ye had to live; the call of this is not in vain, you will sinned more comfort in turning in your minds unto this, and joining your hearts and minds to this living immortal word in your hearts; I say, you will find more comfort being with this if it were but one hour, then ye have done with roving and rambling after things without you, and ascending and descending in your imaginations, apprehensions, and comprehensions all the dayes of your life; and whether ye can believe or no, this you shall find to be eternal truth, and it's Gods love unto you, and Gods motion that is the cause of writing this, whether you can can receive it or no, whose mercy and long suffering continues unto you; and truly you cannot pled ignorance, nor deny but you have had many gracious invitations and tenders of his love. Oh that you would consider in this your day the things that belongs to your everlasting peace, and that you would turn unto him that hath smitten you, who has brought salvation near, and is bringing forth righteousness as a light, and thither must you come if ever you find peace with the Lord, ye must come to his swift witness that testifies against all your ways, and all your worships, and your best actions, that have not been acted from the light, is for condemnation with the light; for he is near that condemns, and he is near that justifies, and then who can condemn, for God is greater who is one with him that justifies every one; and if the heart condemn, God is also greater, and so to this Master must you either stand or fall; if this righteous Judge condemn ye are condemned, and if this justify, then are you justified before the Lord; and if this righteous, just and faithful witness in you pled your Cause, and you come to be tried and proved, preached and examined by this witness, and you freely submit to the Judgement of this, and what this condemns condemn, and what this Justifies justify no mo●e, and own no more to be truth but what this righteous witness of God in you presents to be truth; here you will come to a clear conviction, and this will also work your conversion, and change your minds, and redeem you up to God, and there you will see when you are with God, and with his true and faithful witness in you, and that there all things is possible, and so your minds will be changed, out of the visible perishing beggarly rudiments of outward worships, which perishes in the using of them, while they are performed by an unsanctified and an uncircumcised heart; and you will come into the invisible life. And so here I have set before you life and death, light and darkness, good and evil, the righteous God is separating betwixt the precious and the vile, betwixt him that serveth God and him that serveth him not, by his quick and living powerful word, which is sharper then any two edged sword, to the discerning of the secret intents of the heart; and unto this word which will give life unto your souls, which he that believes on, though he were dead, yet shall he live, unto him that is the resurrection, and the life, I commit you and commend you; and consider that this spirit will not always strive with man.  
I am a true lover of all your souls, and desires your eternal peace and comfort of the Lord, who feels the weight of your sufferings and travels, with the seed of the Covenant, who am known by outward name; Margret Fell.   

London; Printed for Thomas Simmons, at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate. 1660.