FOR THE PREACHERS and LEADERS of the People called QUAKERS.  
YOUR Day into Darkness is turned; the Sun is gone down over you: You have had a large Day and Power given you, to have done the Will of GOD; but you have abused the Power, and slighted your Day, and have refused to do the LORD's Work, and have sought yourselves, and not the LORD; Therefore in Justice and Righteousness is the Day, wherein you might have wrought for GOD, taken from you, and the thick Dark Night of Confusion is come upon you, wherein you are groping, and stumbling, and cannot work: The DECREE is gone out, and sealed against you; and it cannot be recalled. You are not the Men (as ye stand) in whom GOD will appear to work Deliverance for His People, (and yet Deliverance shall come [but not according to Man's expectation]); but as for You, ye have rejected the Counsel of the LORD, and grieved His Spirit, and He hath long born you; yea, You are departed from the LORD, and His Presence is departed from You: Indeed He hath hewed with You, (and if you had been faithful to the End, He would have honoured and prospered You, and have been your sufficient Reward): Ye were His AXE, but you have boasted yourselves against Him: Therefore as you have hewed and broken others, even so must You be bewed and broken.  
O ye Treacherous, Wilful, Proud, Selfseeking People! who have despised the Counsel of the LORD, and would not take warning, though He hath sent His Servants among you, some of whom you have despitefully used; What will ye do now? Whom will you now flee unto for help? Seeing you are departed from the LORD, [and are now rending and tearing, biting and devouring one another, for proud Ambitious, Self-ends. (Mark!) If you would now build again the thing that you once destroyed, that shall not be able to hide, or shelter you from the Wrath of the Lamb; that way whereby you think to strengthen yourselves, thereby shall you make yourselves much weaker, and help forward your own destruction]. Remember your End, which hastens greatly; Breach upon Breach, Division upon Division shall there be, until HE come to Reign whose Right it is.  
They that trust in, or lean upon You for help, it is as if they leaned upon a broken Keed which is not able to help itself nor others. You have been made to do many good things, but you would not go through with the Work which GOD will have accomplished, and therefore are these things come upon you. Therefore tremble and dread before the LORD, Ye who have been as strong Oaks, and tall Cedars; for now shall your Strength fail you, and you shall be weak, even as the weakest of Men: But if you would yet submit to GOD's righteous Judgements, you might come to witness your Souls saved in the DAY of the LORD; though many are to be thrown by (because of grievous Backslidings) as not counted worthy to be the LORD's Workmen.  
There is a small Remnant yet among you (for whom my Soul breathes) who may be winnowed out; and if they will own the Judgements of the LORD, and truly and throughly deny themselves, and follow His Leadings, He will heal their Backslidings; but they that will continue with you in your Sins, shall partake with you of your judgements.  
The foregoing Words (excepting the Title) were writ [by another] to the former Rulers [1659.] upon whom they were fulfilled; and so as certainly shall they be fulfilled upon you.  
J. P.   

These following [Sentences] I delivered at your Meetings, which being of concern to you all, I am likewise here to Publish.  

1. Behold! You Master-Builders, the LORD's Message to you is this; That He hath wrought, and is working a Work in this your Day, which you cannot, which you will not believe, although it were declared unto you.  
2. Jezebel, Jezebel that Harlot, although she appear never so Beautiful, or never so much Painted, yet, I say, the LORD hath made her Manifest.  
3. The LORD, whose Ambassador I am, hath sent me hither at this time; and His Messge to you is this; Thut your long Prayers, as well as your long preaching, are an Abomination unto Him.   
John Pennyman.   

This was printed the Year 1673. excepting the words within these Marks []. And now reprinted this Month called February, 1677/8. for further Service.