A WORD TO THE Fifth-Kingdom-Men.  
IN A LETTER To one of them Written from the Light within him.  
By One whom the World calls a QVAKER.  
Printed in the Year, 1661.   

Thou that c●ll●st thyself one of the Fifth-Kingdom.  
THou hast slanderously reported of me, because I made an Address to the King, in the behalf of those that live up to the l●ght within them, that therefore I am grown a Courtier; My Hats being still plucked off my Head when I went into the King's presence shows how ●ittle Adoration I am willing to pay to King or Kesar▪ Yet know that I will never deny Subjection, and Civil obedience to the chief Magistrate & especially our present one, whom though I do not look on as a God, yet I do as a good natured man, and I wish thou didst love any one so wel●, as he doth all Mankind; His person thou woul●●st abuse & haste by thy practices endeavoured as much as in thee lies to poison his very Soul, and that with the hatred of those of us whom ●he World calls Quakers; But I hope we shall be as far from being joined wi●h thee in Punishment, as we are from being u…ed in Opinions and P●actic●s. Though our Opinions in the esteem of men that will not trouble themselves to understand them, seem very like to thine, yet are they far from being the same. And pity it is that the Inhibitants near Bedlam, should be whipped for the madness of others in Bedlam; Into which place, I shall on thy Repentance, improve my Interest in the ●ing, that thou mayest ●e removed from thy present Prison. And further to let thee see how little I have learned to daub and flatter by going to the Court, I will deliver my Opinion (which I am told thou desirest) about the Declaration of the men of the Fi●th Ki●gdome, without complementing; And I say of it, It is the wo●st thing that ever was Printed since P●in●ing was found out. Thou callest for Fire from Heaven to destroy thy Neighbours, and because thou canst not have it from thence, wouldst fetch it from Hell. Thou thinkest that thou understandest God's cipher in the Revelation, and falsely imagining that thou hast found out its sense, dost undergo the curse of that Book for adding to it, and know that thou sinnest more in adding things to it, then if thou hadst only added words. I perceive thou art of the testy humour of the Prophet Jonah, to Have thousands of Men, Women, and innocent Children destroyed to make good thy Prophecies. Or rather to compare thee according to thy deserts, thou art like that Almanac-maker, who foretold a Fire in a City and made it himself.  
But alas thy notions of the Revelation, and of the thousand years' reign, are not agreeable to the words of the obscure Text. For Revelat. 20. 4. God will raise up the Saints which are dead, when that Reign is to begin, which now is not done.  
How art thou sure that thou hast calculated things in Daniel, and the Revelation right? I doubt as Sir Francis Drake in going round the world lost a day, so thou in thy Prophecies which concern the revolutions of the world mayest have lost a day, as it is in the Scripture account a year, or as in Gods a thousand years. And indeed the thousand years' reign is held by a thousand men so many several ways. The Trumpets then in the Revelation giving an uncertain sound, how shall men prepare themselves to Battle? But a little to answer some of thy objections; 'Tis said, Daniel ●he 7th. and the 18th. The Saints of the most High shall take the Kingdom and possess it. I answer, that the 27th. verse doth tell thee how they shall take it, The Kingdom shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High. Here then by taking it, is not meant by force but receiving it when given. I therefore conclude that neither God nor Man did give thee this Kingdom, because thou hast not took it, If thou sayest that the man of Sin is to be destroyed, consider those words that it is by the brightness of his coming; Thou rash man wouldst be an incarnate Devil even whilst thou art destroying the man of Sin. If thou accountest the Parson of Rome the wicked one, as I also do, why dost thou not go thither to convert him, as one of my opinion did, spending above thirty pounds in that Journey? But thou instead of sending one to convert him, wouldst send a thousand if thou couldst to cut his throat, though he never did harm to thee, or any of thy Kindred; But thou wilt say, thou wouldst have a hand in settling this fifth-Kingdom; I answer, that is to be the Stone cut out without hands. The clearest Prophecy of this Kingdom is in Revelation the 19th. and the 11th. which tells thee how this fifth-Kingdom shall be brought in, and the Saints engaged in order to it. Heaven shall be opened and a man upon a white Horse appear, and the Armies which are in Heaven shall follow him upon white Horses etc. So that thou art not to go ●orth till the King appear in Heaven upon the white Ho●se. If thou sayest the King's appearing on a white Horse is allegorical, so say I is this Kingdom too, and neither thou, nor I, nor any of our Neighbours, know what it is. Now by all thy mistakes about this, thou showest that thou dost not follow the light, but the hear within thee. Thou and thy company have only fulfilled that one Prophesy, Revelation the 13th. and the 10th. He that killeth wi●h the Sword, shall be killed with the Sword, which hath happened to the mutinous foolhardy men of thy persuasion, though they in their Declaration said that not a hair of their heads should be touched. It hath been observed that Saul when he went to seek his Father's Asses, found the Kingdom; but any that among you sought their Father's Kingdom, found but Asses. I wonder how it came into thy head to think that this Island must be the Seat of the fifth King; If he hath signified it to thee by any Letter that he will land here, show it to us who know his hand as well as thou; If it be writ with that Juice which is ordinarily used for Secrecy, wilt thou fire a Town to read it by? We know his Seal likewise as well as thou, namely a Miracle, which thou canst not perfectly Sergeant; Christ's Miracles were to make the Lame to walk, the Blind to see, the Sick to be healed; but the Miracles thou pretendest to, work the quite contrary Effects▪ Christ did raise the dead, but thou only canst kill the Living; Christ wrought a Miracle to pay Tribute, but thou wouldst work one if thou couldst to pay none. Think what thou wilt, the Kingdom of God comes not by Observation, neither shall they say, Lo here and Lo there, but the Kingdom of God is within thee. Live but up to the Light within thee, and thou wilt need no other glory to adorn that Kingdom. Thou poor Creature whilst thou avoidest Popish Principles, runnest upon Turkish, and art for a word and Inspiration and a sensual Paradise, Christ bids his Disciples that if any take their Cloaks, they should give them their Coats also, but thou takest both. Thou blamest Priests for taking away the Tenth part of men's Estates, and wouldst thyself take away the other Nine. I shall only t●ke notice of one thing more in thy Declaration, namely thy ambitious Design of extending thy Conquests to France Spain, Germany and Rome, when thou hast settled the Fifth Kingdom here. For some Reasons best known to thy ●elf, thou omittest the Kingdoms of Sweden, Poland, Denmark, and those of Muscovy, Persia, and China, and the whole Turkish Empire. It may be thou art willing that these places should be preserved for the next nine and Twenty of thy Persuasion to Subdue, and thinkest it fair for Swan-Ally to be able to confounded the Houses of France and Spain, the Princes of the Empire, and Conclave of Cardinals. But me thinks any 29 of thy Opinion, should be afraid to appear in Germany, where forty Thousand were defeated. However let me advise thee to begin thy bloody work of Destruction rather abroad than in England, as young Physicians travel to practise their Arts of killing in other Countries. But to speak more seriously, my Counsel is that thou shouldst stay at home, and mortify that Principle from whence Wars and Fightings come, so shalt thou increase the Peace of thine own Conscience, and the quiet of the World, and not need a Fifth Kingdom to make thee happy.  
FINIS.