A WARNING TO THE INHABITANTS Of the whole Earth: And particularly, or more Especially, to the Inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands and places to the same belonging and Adjoining, as appearing to be now under the more present and Immediate concern hereof: And to the rest in their order and time.  
R. R.  Eze. 3.18. 
When I say unto the Wicked thou shalt surely die and thou givest him not warning nor Speakest to warn the wicked, from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his Iniquity but his Blood will I require at thy hand.  ver. 19 
Yet if thou warn the wicked and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way he shall die in his Iniquity, But thou hast delivered thy soul.  
Printed in the Year. 167●.   

TO all the Nations Countries, Kingdoms, Tongues Peoples and Languages that are upon the face of the whole earth, And particularly and more nearly, to the Inhabitants of England and the Kingdoms, Countries, and Islands, to the same belonging, and adjoining, and of all the Cities' Towns, Villages, Hamblets, and Places thereof; unto you all and every one of you, high and low, Rich and Poor, bond and free, male, and female, Priest, and People, Professors, and profaine, even from the King that sits upon his Throne, unto the Beggar upon the Dunghill; This is the word and Invitation of the Lord God, and a warning unto you by my mouth, that you all and every one of you who are found in unrighteousness unholiness, or uncleanness, of any kind, do speedily repent and return every man from the evil of his ways, and from the violence that is in his hands, and by a due repentance, hast to meet the Lord God in all holiness of life and uprightness of conversation, if so be that you may escape, and that you perish not; and be ye cleansed, and purged, and cleanse, and purge, all your streets broad places, and high ways, and all your Markets, Channels, watersewers, and gutters; as in the outward; so in the inward, your very hearts, from all those filthy nasty stinking noisome ill savours of sin iniquty, uncleanness, persecution, oppression, and unholiness; with which as with a filthy nasty noisome ill savour your said streets, Towns, Steeplehouses, and other places abounds: that so an high way in holiness may be made for our God (who is a consumeing fire; and whose eyes is purer than to behold iniquity) to come down amongst you; and make his progress through you, to take possession of his own Inheritance (to wit) the heart of man, which should be filled with righteousness, and be made the habitation of his holiness, and to see what this is, that the Children of men is a doing; and what it is, that this great Bustle, and Stir that is amongst them is about; for there hath been for a long time much profession made amongst the sons and daughters of men, some prepareing and inventing, or setting up one way, or form of worship to come to the Father by, (as they pretended, and by which they might escape the wrath to come) and some an other; and every of the said several sorts of professors, killing rending, tearing, riveing and destroying another, about what they have so set up and invented, because they will not be of the same way or cannot be of the same persuasion with them. Symenting what they have so set up, with one another's blood, and not only with one an others blood, but even every sort of them (as it were with open mouth) have run against the heritage of the Lord, if possible to destroy them, one building a wall and another daubing it with untempered mortar; and thus like the Babel bvilders of old, hath every persuasion, or several sort of professors, endeavoured to set up a Tower, and build something whose top, should reach unto heaven, and be a deliverance unto them: And great stir havoc spoil destruction and bloodshed, hath there been made, about the several ways, worships, and professions so set up and invented; But now the Lord God of life and power (as in the days of old when the Babel bvilders aforesaid was at their Confused work) is come and a coming down amongst you, to see what this is, that the Children of men is a doing, and will certainly, not only break down and confound the work, but also scatter and destroy the workmen, And confound that Language, in which you do pretend to worship him; For though you amongst yourselves may differ something in the form and manner of your professions and pretence of worshipping God, yet in the root and ground of evil (to wit) pride, persecution, unholiness, and unrighteousness, you are one; And therefore now all people, that are upon the face of the whole earth, I dearly desire you seriously to consider, if This Message or warning which now comes to you, in the name of the Lord God, (to call you to repentance and to forewarn you to fly, from the wrath that is likely with speed to come upon you, who are found in unrighteousness, Except you repent and return and be reconciled and meet the Lord by a holy life and conversation); Were the message and request of your outward King, by his Messenger or harbinger unto you to give you notice of his approach unto you, And intended progress through your Towns Villages, and ways, with request to make provision and entertainment for him, or otherwise, that he would be offended with you, and do some injury to you? Oh with what promtnesse and readiness [consider] would you bestir yourselves, to prepare for his approach and to give reception unto him: how would you dress and cleanse your streets Pavements, and channels, and scour and make clean your high ways, Gutters, Watersewers, and sinks, (by which he should pass) and remove and purge out, all the dirt filth stink and noisome ill savours out, all the same? and how would you deck and adorn yourselves in your most clean and Sumptious apparel, to meet and give entertainment unto him, and sweep, dress, and perfume, your best Rooms for his reception, and with what obsequiousness and humility would you come before him and present yourselves unto him, and do what else you thought might please him: and if you would do all this and much more (if it were possible) for the entertainment of your outward King, In how much more humble, holy, lowly, Prostrate, heavenly, and Obedient Manner, ought you to be prepared, to stand before and give entertainment to so Glorious a King as is the heavenly God, whose eyes is purer than to behold Iniquity and no unclean thing can stand before him, Who is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and before whom all the Nations of the earth is but as the drop of a Bucket, who (as was said before) is now come or a coming amongst you, and will make his progress through you, that he may render to every man, according as his works shall be, Tribulation and anguish, to every soul that doth not righteously, and therefore, how clean ought your garments (even the cover of your spirits or spiritual cover) in all holiness to be, and how becomeing and needful it is for you [consider] to have your hearts (which should be the habitation of God) purged and made clean, from all those foul running inward evils; and filthy, nasty, noisome, ill savours; of sin and uncleanness, with which you are polluted; and your whole man redeemed out of and from, all those your vain conversations and evil practices [to wit] Pride, lying, drunkenness, swearing, curseing, whoring, gaming, wantonness, and all those other abominations with which (notwithstanding your several professions) your said Countries, Cities, Towns, Villages, Streets, Steeple-houses, and places, in too large a measure abounds; for is it not a shame unto you and to your several professions, nay to the very name of Chirstianity, to see, what pride and gaudiness, lying, swearing, cursing, drinking, whoring, carousing debaucheries, and all manner of evils, & abominations, are to be found, seen, and heard amongst you, and in your said Countries, Cities, Towns, streets, Steeple-houses, and places, so that it may be truly said of these and the like evils, as the prophet Jeremiah said of swearing Jer: 23. that because of these things the Land mourns; and therefore as a warning and Message from the Lord God, I cannot or dare not, but give you notice, And warn and Charge you as you love your Eternal good, that with all speed you fly these things before spoken of; and all other the crying sins and abominations, with which God is displeased, and of which in too large a measure, you are too deeply Guilty; For my Friends, mind but yourselves, and look back upon your conversations and practices; and that with a serious eye, and you shall see, that the old world and Sodom, nor any other of the evil generations that have gone before you, and whom the Lord God condemned and out of, for their Iniquities; was never more unrighteous or did abound with more abominations, than this generation even yourselves doth: For oh! the Lying, Swearing, Whordomes, Debaucheryes, and Prophamness of all sorts that is to be found among you, are almost Innumerable, therefore wash you make you clean; put away the evil of your do, from before the Lord, be afflicted and mourn, let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your Joy into heaviness; for the Lord God hath a controversy with the Inhabitants of the earth, because of Lying, and Swearing, and committing of Adultery, and blood toucheth blood; and therefore come out of them, and bring forth fruits meet for repentance and that with speed, and think not that your professions, (which stands in the unrighteousness) will save you; But let righteousness run down your streets as streams, and uprightness and truth as mighty rivers, that so the refuge of lies (and of all other abominations, of which you are guilty,) may be swept away, and mind that of God in your own consciences which shows you sin and evil and be obedient thereunto, that if possible you may escape the Lords wrath, that you perish not, for I testify unto you that if you do not fly these things before spoken of, and all other the crying evils, and abominations of which you are and have been too deeply guilty, and because of which the wrath of God comes upon upon the children of disobedience; and which makes you and your professions, even to stink and become abominable before the Lord; and get under the hollow of his hand, and shadow of his wings by a due repentance, and cease to do evil and learn to do well, and break the bonds of wickedness, and let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke; the Lord God will even come against you, and will even sweep you with the Besom of destruction, and that speedly, except you repent; and he will even deliver his People out of your mouths, that they may be a prey and spoil to you no longer: And therefore dear people of all sorts, especially within this my native country of England, And the Country's Places, and Isles thereto belonging, and Adjoining, Consider, and whilst you have a time lay it to heart; for the Lord God (concerning many of you last before named) hath even sworn by his holiness and hath said he will not repent; that it shall surely come to pass; And that though Noah, Abraham, David, Daniel, and Job, were amongst you or in the midst of you, and did offer themselves to stand in the Gap, yet they should deliver no more by their righteousness save every one his own soul; so be warned and whilst you have time Prise it, this is a visitation to you therefore slight it not.  
And now my dear friends unto you, in all nations, who in obedience to the principle of life and righteousness made manifest in you have forsaken, and are a forsaking, the broad way and paths that leads to destruction, and those many and gross abominations before mentioned, which causeth the wrath of God to come upon the children of disobedience, even to you, who are in Scorn called Quakers; who have heard and do hear the voice of the true Shepherd and hath followed the same, in coming out of the many ways and professions into the one way Christ Jesus; Keep in the same even way and Path, I dearly desire you, (for unto you also this Message reacheth,) that none of you may be found scattered abroad from under the true shelter, even the Lord Jesus Christ, or out of the Sheep-coat and fold of rest, but that you may with all speed (even as Sheep runs after their shepherd, when they hear his voice and Call,) Get under the Shadow of the Lords wings and under the hollow of his hand, and fly thither even as Bees doth to their hive, and as travelling men doth under the shadow of a great Tree or other covert, when they perceive, the approach of an ensueing great Storm, or Shower, that they may find safety: Even so fly ye; unto him in whom safety is found. And hast, hast I dearly desire every one, that is abroad (if any such there be) from out of the open Fields and places, and from off the high Mountains and hills, where there is no Shelter, and come into the low Valleys and under the Roof of God even the shelter and shadow of his holiness, that you may be safe when the destroying Angel passeth over; For you know, or may be persuaded, that they who are under a good Roof or Covert, and there abides, may be and are often safe, from abiding the extremity of that Storm or Shower, which they that are abroad in the open Fields and without shelter must sustain: And therefore let none be strayed from their Habitation (I dearly desire) but all keep within their Tents, having the Lintall and side posts of their homes, stricken with the blood of Sprinkling, That when he who smote the first born of Egypt goeth forth, you may be safe; And not only safe but also ready, having your Loins girded, your Staff in your hand and your shoes on your feet, that you may go on with him, into whatsoever State, Condition or Service of Holiness the Lord God shall call you to, being clothed in righteousness and having your Garments made clean in the blood of the Lamb, even such, as in which it may be lawful for you, to behold your King the Lord God of hosts; being purged from all spots and stains, and made white, having your Lamps trimed and lights burning, that when the Cry comes, you may enter in, And none be shut out of the Bride Chamber.  
And my Dear Friends, It lies further weightily upon me to signify unto you, That the Lord God of Eternal life and power, doth intent and is about, to make his great, and Glorious, heavenly progress, throughout, and to the uttmost ends of all the Earth, And hath Chosen or Elected you, before all the Nations of Them that dwell upon the face of the same earth, to be his Attendants, and to wait upon him, in his so great and glorious, and heavenly a progress, And hath or doth further lay it upon me, in his living everlasting power and by the arm of his Eternal Authority, to warn and Charge and Cite, and Summon you all, and every one of you, high and low, Rich and poor, bond and free, Male and Female, That you and every one of you, (according to your several measures and gifts, and according to every one's several Condition and Calling, whereunto the Lord God hath called and begifted you) be, and personally appear in Spirit before him, and give your Spiritual Attendance upon him, and that in such an holy, upright and undesiled way, and after such an humble, lowly, prostrate, diligent, heavenly, and obedient manner, as is suitable to your duty, and doth become the dignity Majesty and purity of so holy and heavenly, a God, as he is with whom we have to do, That so the everlasting God, in all things may be glorified by you, and his truth and great name, be by, or through none disgraced, that so he may delight to do you good, and call you up higher, and make you further partakers of his manifold graces, which are yet behind, and which he hath yet laid up in store in Christ Jesus, for all them that love him, and who are the called According to his purpose, And who do follow him in the Regeneration, having their garments washed in the Blood of the Lamb, For (as it is written,) it doth not yet appear what we shall be, But when he shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in Glory; So mind to keep in, and to that which is pure, And which you have known from the beginning, that when he comes whose Reward is with him, to give to every man according as his work shall be, you may none of you come short, but every one (if it be possible) Enter into the Joy of his Lord: For consider if an outward King do but Summon his Servants, or Subjects, to give their attendance upon him in his outward progress, with what readiness, and willingness, will they appear before him, and in how Reverend and accomplished manner, will they endeavour to wait upon him that they may receive acceptance with him and (if possible) gain preferment from him: And if it be so done in the outward by the Servants, or Subjects of an external Prince, let not us who are the servants, and who should be the Subjects of a Heavenly King, come short of our inward Duty, and obedience to the holy God, whose eyes is purer than to behold iniquity, and who is a liberal rewarder of all them that come unto him, and that wait upon him in truth and with an upright heart: And therefore my dear Friends, if any thing of the old stuff, nature, or leaven yet remain in any, to hinder in this behalf, and if the Room (which is the heart, where the Lord should lodge, and find entertainment in this his Spiritual progress, be not yet throughly swept, cleansed, purged, garnished, and perfumed, for the reception and entertainment, of so holy and heavenly a guest, now while we have the Light to see, and the besom (which is the power of God) to sweep, let us haste to dress the same, that if it be possible (my dear friends) we may none of us come short (according to our several measures) of doing our duty to, and waiting upon so holy a God as him with whom we have to do, and who is now calling and Inviteing unto a most near and heavenly attendance upon him:  
And my friends though the storm may appear to be great, and the tempest that is likely to overtake the wicked (except they repent) exceeding terrible, yet be not dismayed, for it is not intended to scatter the wheat but to refine it, and to blow away the Chaff, and sever that which is intended for the wrath, from the pure grain; Dear Friends this comes to give warning and discharge a Duty, and not to reflect on any; And therefore haste hast I dearly desire, And let none think light of what is said, or look on it as being not of their Concern, but every one up, get upon your watchtower. That when the Lord comes you may be ready, and when he speaks you may hear.  
And now there is another sort of People amongst the Sons and daughters or men, unto whom also this Message and Invitation of the Lord reacheth, and those are they, who (not out of hatred to the Lords truth, or envy to his people,) stands a far off, from the same, yet are not so bad as the worst, neither runs with them to the same exccess of riot, nor are of the like persecuting spirit with this generation, and do many of them, even in their hearts wish well to the Israel of God, and desire that their latter end might be like his, And have sometimes, even in heart mourned over the afflictions and hard useage of the Lords People, and Simpathized with them in their Sufferings, and yet have not been willing to come under the Cross of Christ, and to suffer Afflictions with the people of God, but have rather chosen to Embrace this present evil world, and continue in the Fashions and Customs thereof, though many of them hath not been without reproofs and often Alarmed, with something that hath sounded from under the Altar in their ears, whereby their peace, hath been many times broken, And they forced to look back, from off the Mountains upon which they have been gone up: And unto all those and every other amongst the Sons and Daughters of men, who Breathes and Thirsts after Righteousness and longs after an acquaintance with the Lord and with his ways; unto you I say, and it is the Invitation of the Lord, that you come away and follow the breathe of that in you, which Longs and Thusts after Righteousness, And stay no longer in the Vanities, Follies, Fashions, and Customs of the world, or any of the professions thereof, But be ye Separate saith the Lord God, touch not the unclean thing, but follow the leadings, guidings, and directions, of that of God in their own Consciences, which shows you sin and evil, and the vanities and emptiness of all things below him; And the Lord God will receive you; But if you stay any longer in this Generation, and will not be reclaimed from their vain conversations, and redeemed from the evils, and gathered from out of the Fashions, Customs, Uncleannesses, and unrighteousness of which they are guilty, you must be content to share with them in their punishments; for he that will partake with them in their sins, Must partake with them in their Plagues for the hour of their Judgements is come, And the Lamb the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, hath made himself ready, therefore fly for your lives (I dear desire you) and get you out of Sodom even this Wicked Generation, And from of the high Mountains of conceitedness upon which any of you are gone up, And get from under every green Tree, and false Rest, into which you are gone, and under which you have sought shadow, And come, out fly unto the Zoar of God, the Mounttaine of his holiness, to his little flock, and that with speed; Get out of the way of his Indignation and come under the mercy seat of God, for you are they, that yet stands in the Gap, and stops the stroke of God's wrath, from falling upon the wicked, not because the Lord hath beheld more holiness or seen more uprightness in you, then in any of the sons of men, But because he hath a desire to gather you, and to extend mercy unto you, for the breathing seed's sake that is in you, And because of the good, and kindness, forbearance, pity, and Compassion, that some of you (like Rahah) hath showed to his People, even his little Flock, in scorn called Quakers, in the times of their sufferings, which he doth hereby proffer to Requite you for, (if you hear and obey,) by giving you Eternal Life, And by plucking you as brands out of that fire which is likely to fall upon the wicked: But then my friends you must come speedily, and not stay linger, God's Spirit will not always strive with flesh, Remember Lot's wife. And you must not only make haste, but you must also come in the right way, even by the footsteps of the Flock, in the self denial, and taking up the Cross of Christ to your own wills, And to all those desires, Customs, and Fashions, (which are contrary to him,) And come to the plain Language [thou and the] to a single person, at which many of you have stumbled, And in all other things you must follow the footsteps of the flock, unto the Tent of the true shepherd, under whose roof there is only safety; Therefore fly thither I dearly desire, and that with speed, let none stay behind or think light of what is said: Remember Lot Sons in Law, who though they were warned, yet would not they obey and therefore, escaped not the wrath, that was poured upon the wicked: But be ye not like the Horse and Mule, that hath no understanding, but come away and that with speed, and by the Right way: Fly for your lives, and now while you have time, and that a hand of Mercy is held out and extended unto you, Take the opportunity, and Slight it not: But if you will not obey, In hasting out of that, Against which the wrath of God shall be revealed, yet Remember, that you have been warned, and know that your Destruction is of you selves, So while you have a time prise it, This is the day of your Visitation.  
And thus dear people of all sorts, and of all Nations, Especially of this my Native Country of England, I hope I have Cleared myself of that which the Lord God in this behalf laid upon me, in warning the wicked to fly from their wickedness, lest the wrath of God come speedily upon them.  
And also in warning the flock of God, to keep in their fold and under the roof of their sheep-coate, and that without straying, that they may escape that Stormy shower which is likely to overtake such as are abroad, or do abide in the open fields without shelter.  
And also in warning such as seems to halt between two opinions, and such as breathe after the Lord, and have not been so Cruel, but more kind than others, to the people of God, that they in and through obedience, to that of God in their Consciences, which shows them sin and evil, may follow after the footsteps of the Lords flock, to feed with them and find harbour under the Tent of the trur Shepherd, that they may escape, and that they perish not, I desire that every one hereby Advised may be fully warned, and take the Opportunity offered, and bring forth the fruits desired, that they may escape (if possible) the Judgement threatened, that they Perish not,  
From my Prison near Richmond the 23 of the Second Month, 1679. From your Real Friend and A well wisher to all men. Richard Robinson.  
I desire Friends to read this in their Meetings, and also disperse the same abroad (if possible) amongst all Nations and to all People for my discharge.   

Errors that have escaped, the Press the Reader is desired to amend.  
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