A True and Faithful WARNING Sounded forth through a true Prophet of the Lord unto all the Inhabitants of the EARTH, But more particularly to ENGLAND, and most especially to her Cities London, Bristol, and Winchester, whose visitations are almost over as hath been made known to him whose bowels yerns for the restauration of all backsliders known.  
By Name CHARLES BAYLEY.  
London, Printed in the year, 1663.   


These words are unto all the inhabitants of the earth, high and low, rich and poor, bond and free, the word of the Lord God unto you all.  
OH the day the mighty, the terrible, the notable day of the Lord God of all power might and vengeance is come and coming upon and over you all, in which all ye workers of iniquity, weeping, howling and bitter lamentation will be heard amongst you except ye turn from your naughtiness with speed by amendment of life, or else sad and deplorable will everlastingly be your state and condition, if once the Lamb become a Lion amongst ye.  
Therefore this warning from the Lord God, of love and life is sent unto you with a cry for you to arise and repent, and kiss the Son (his light in you) which long hath striven with you to turn you from the evil of your ways, but if you still persist and go on in the evil of your ways in hardheartedness, and pride, cruelty, and oppression, than God even the everlasting God will consume and destroy you from off the earth.  
For thus hath the Lord God spoken, and thus shall it shortly come to pass, all ye wicked workers of iniquity shall be turned into the bottomless pit, there to be tormented with the Devil and his Angel's world without end. And an evil doer shall not dwell nor remain in the Land; wherefore be ye awakened and stirred up out of your fleshly security both Priest and people, Rulers and Judges, Kings and Potentates. God even the mighty God will plead with you all as with one man in the valley of Jehosaphat, which will be a valley or vale of woeful misery unto you all who are found playing and sporting yourselves in the day time, even in this the day of God which hath already overtaken you as a thief in the night and deep slumber of security, God will thunder amongst you, God will roar, God will rend, God will tear and divide you in pieces, and not a shred of you shall be found or left upon the earth unconsumed and undestroyed.  
Therefore amend, amend, repent with haste and speed, the day will be sudden, fierce and very furious and terrible unto the wicked, hardhearted, and rebellious in the Land, oh weeping and howling will be heard in the Land, and deep sorrow shall encompass and surround you as a woman in travel, and none shall be able to deliver you from the hand of the dreadful God of vengeance, and though your Priests, Sorcerers and wicked wise men, have limited him above the skies, yet ye shall assuredly find and know that he hath long been beneath you all, bearing and forbearing all your evil, sins and iniquities; therefore will he arise ascend and descend upon you, and his dreadful fury and fire shall encompass you round, so that you shall not in any wise be able to fly or escape the dreadful stroke of  vengeance and stroke of Justice which is already stretched forth over your heads.  
Yet the Sceptre and Banner of his love shall come before him, and if ye bow thereto happy and blessed will ye for ever be, notwithstanding all your sins and rebellion against him, but if ye refuse and reject the loving kindness and mercies of the most high, and will not that the Son of his love rule and reign over you, the rod of his anger shall bring you down without any to help or pity you, and this is the word of the Lord God to you all.  
O ye foolish and ungodly ones, how long, how long shall it be ere you come to learn and understand wisdom, and to let understanding and prudence be your Mother, seeing that folly hath conceived you, and the womb of iniquity hath brought you forth, even you whose Father hath been a cruel Tyrant in the earth, and hath oppressed the true one, and Son of God, for whom and by whom all things were made to the end that he alone might judge, rule and reign over them as the only Prince, King and Lawgiver.  
But oh look look about you and seriously read see and consider who it is that ruleth over and amongst you, is not the Government upon the shoulder of the beast and not upon the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world, for are you not all in sin and uncleanness, by which means the Lamb's Rule, Kingdom and reign is not known amongst you for Satan's bondslaves ye are, and he is your King and Lawgiver; by which means the poor is not eased but grievously bowed down and oppressed by you.  
The Lamb shall break his yoke and bring down all oppressors from their seats, he it is must have the sole Rule and Dominion in and over all Nations, fence yourselves as wisely as you can, your Kingdom of deceit and falsehood is near an end, and truth, peace and righteousness shall over People and Nations be spread, and he that will not bow unto it, shall be bowed down and brought under with the Devil the power of the oppossor and the man of sin, who hath long sat in the seat of God, therefore shall he be disthroned and all that seek to uphold him, therefore it lieth upon you to consider in time what you are joined to, and what ye uphold, for if it be the power of the devilish Beast, then must ye perish with him, but if ye join unto the power of the holy Lamb, then blessed and happy for ever: And this from God is sent amongst you all.  
Charles Bayley.   

O The whirlwind of the Lord God is coming over the Nation and Nations! Famine, Plagues, Pestilence, and the sword of God's unresistible vengeance, is near at the door, to break in furiously upon all the workers of iniquity: vengeance, woe, and bitter calamity, is entering swiftly into England, which will light upon all thy unrepenting Inhabitants: wherefore awake, awake; O all ye proud lustful ones, to meet the Lord God: arise and come under his Banner speedily, or else his unquenchable anger shall surely and suddenly bring you down.  
O Sodom, Sodom! look to thy dwelling place, and see if it be not upon the mountains of sin and pollution; and ye Inhabitants of Gomorah! though thy situation be as it were upon the Rocks of security, yet the Lord God of a truth will certainly bring thee down.  
woe, woe unto thee! thou Land of Kder, and inhabitants of the Deserts; the wild beasts of the Forest shall suddenly be let lose upon you, to pray upon and devour you. Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto all the Inhabitants of the earth; fly, fly for your lives, and he that is on the house top, let him not descend to save the goods, neither let him that is in the field seek to hid and save that which he hath at home: for the coming of the Son of man is at hand, to reward every one according as his works shall be.  
Wherefore look about thee, O thou inhabitants and City of London, and consider your works, according to which your reward shall be; O is not pride and hypocrisy abounding and superabounding in and amongst you (cheating, lying, covetousness and deceit; drunkenness, whoredom, swearing and forswearing;) O consider this! least wrath, woe and misery (without intermission) everlastingly rest upon you.  
O thou Egypt! and ye Egyptian dogs, Sorcerers, Enchanters, and Magicians, what can ye expect in this the great, terrable day of the Lord God which is a coming over your heads; even upon you who have by your stubbornness and heard-heartedness sought every way to keep the seed of God in bondage, and would not let it go for your corrupted ends sake.  
O thus saith the Lord God unto you; your ends shall shortly end, but your woe, misery and torment, shall never end. Ye are of the cursed seed of Ham, the mocker, scorner, and derider (of the righteous and just one;) and will not that he shall reign over ye: Therefore servants to the least of servants shall ye be for ever unto ye. And this is the word of the Lord God all.  
O weep and howl! ye whores and whore-mongers, ye Idol Priests, and Idolaters; ye wicked, light, wanton, and profane ones, who are patching and painting yourselves Jezable-like, cloth, cloth ye with sackcloth, and cover ye with ashes, and let the repentings of Ninive be seen and heard amongst you, or else as Kner, as the Lord God lives (whose Throne and Dominion is an everlasting Dominion) his wrathful vengeance will suddenly come upon you and overtake you unawares, oh ye that are a sleep in the flesh! and dust of fleshly security, God's controversy is against you, in as much as ye have sought yourselves, your ease, pleasure, and profit, and not the Lord God, therefore shall nothing avail and profit ye, which ye have gathered upon heaps unto your selus, God's wrath, God's unresistable vengeance will suddenly scatter all from you and you from it, and there shall be none found to help you, because you have put your trust and confidence in the arm of flesh.  
O the disolation which is coming upon you! neither tongue nor pen can write or demonstrate it unto you; oh ye Babylonish Merchants! weeping and woeful lamentation is a coming upon you, and all the inhabitants of the earth shall hate, utterly loath, and abominate your Merchandise: and they shall surely curse your dwelling places, when they shall see and behold with open face the sad and deplorable condition ye have halled and lead them into. O what will you be able to say and do (ye blind guides!) that have thus deceived the nations, when that into the ditch and pit of everlasting destruction ye all come to be cast; surely your Logic and your Rhetoric, will not be able to hid and save you in the day, when ye shall be called to an account for what ye have done: oh ye Babilonish bvilders! who have thus built up people in sin lust, envy, and uncleanness, see, see and look about you, what the fruits of your pretended ministry hath been, this many ages and generations past, was ever the inhabitants of the earth fuller of cruelty then now? surely nay, nay, therefore God will recompense you the flatterers and daubers of them, according to the fruits and effect of your do.  
And now you the daubed, what can ye also expect from the hand of the righteous Judge? Even you who have taken delight for to be cried peace, peace unto, while the wicked one hath had the chief rule and reign in you: O you foolish and unwise ones, did not God in all ages and generations past, cause all Nations and people for to reap according to their ploughing? reaping that which they have sowed; and it being so, what can or may ye expect to reap, but the fruit of your do, ye have sowed to the flesh, therefore of the flesh and produce thereof ye may expect to reap nothing but corruption, and not only so, but your wages for it: And who may say, how that the Lord is not, or will not be very righteous in all these his ways, which are equal altogether  
And o thou seed of the most high God, lift up, lift up, lift up thy head, for it is for thy sake, thou beautiful and beloved one, that these overturnings are to be, to the end that thou, even thou the meek and lowly one, may be raised and lifted up over all the mountains of sin and uncleanness, under which thou hast lain and wert hid from the eyes of all living, though no eye hath pitied thee, yet behold thy God hath pitied thee, and his bowels yearneth for thee: oh what shall I say of thee! Who is like unto thee? thou speckled one, thou fair one, O come away, come away, and take to thyself thy Dominion, and be thou exalted in thy father David's Throne; thou hast already enamoured the hearts and souls of many through the beauty, power and spendor of thy rising: And having tasted of thy love, therefore they say, and cry, uncessantly, unto thy father; that rest the nations might never have nor enjoy more, (until thou in the beauty of holiness over all the world and whole earth art exalted;) ah thou shalt assuredly leaven all nations, that love thee unfaignedly, with thy love, and with thy beauty.  
Therefore saith the souls of the upright, arise and be thou awakened thou hand and arm of the mighty high God, stretch forth, strecth forth thyself, in the might of thy strength, and in it do thou travel, travel on, to the wasting and making bare all the glory and fashions of men, that thy seed, thy oppressed one, (as it hath been bowed down and pressed and oppressed, under all, as the alone sufferer, in the earth,) may rule and reign as the only King, Judge, and Priest, and Lawgiver (in and over all Nations of the earth) Amen, Amen.  
O thou beloved one! who art the only beloved of thy father, the Isles shall rejoice in thee, and all Nations shall rejoice in thy glory and prosperity; for this, even this is the Answer, the righteous receive daily and continually concerning thee; thou shalt rule, thou shalt reign, thou shalt have the sole rule and dominion of all Kingdoms, kindreds, tongues, and Nations; for thou hast purchased it with thy dearest blood and life; therefore there is none found worthy besides thee; and all rule and Reign, and Principalities, and Authority, shall be subdued and brought under and subjected unto thee for ever and ever: and this is the oath and decree of God concerning thee, which can never be altered.  
Wherefore blessed, blessed and happy without end shall be those who submit and bend unto thee. Glory, glory and honour, shall possess their dwelling places, and with joy and delight shall they run their race, for out of thee a blessing shall not be found, and of thy glory the whole earth shall abound.  
Thou tender Lamb, thou shalt be the only King, the whole Earth shall thy praises sing, what shall I say, thou art the only joys which the whole Earth hath annoyed; but in thy God thou shalt saved be, and of all Nations some shall glorify thee.   

This is a Warning of Repentance to the Inhabitants of Wenchister.  
O All flesh, earth, and selfeshness, be awakened! for God of a truth hath bowed the heavens, and is come down, and hath already drawn and furbished his sword, which is keenly whet, over your heads, and is and shall never be sheathed, until it hath hewed and brought your glory down, and your honour into the dust, into shame and confusion: O the misery and anguish, which is coming upon your Inhabitants and resting place, none is able to declare it unto ye, though warned ye may be by many to fly by true and unfeigned repentance, the sore, grievous, and uneresistable stroke of Judgement, which from the righteous God and Judge of all is a coming upon ye,  
Whirlwind, Earthquakes, shake, and overturnings, is at hand, even such that hath not been since the beginning of the creation and works of God (which are much polluted and defiled in and by the lust and inordinate affections of you who are the sons and daughters of the earthly fallen Adam.  
Oh all ye Inhabitants of the Earth! seriously consider your state and standing and what fruits ye are bringing forth, now the Lord of the Harvest is coming amongst you, to look for fruit; what is he like to find and to reap amongst ye? but pride, hypocrisy, and deceit, malice and envy, gluttony, drunkenness, and fullness of bread, cruelty, fraud, cheating and oppressing one another: And these and such like is the evident, and manifest fruit of your do.  
Therefore Priest, Ruler, and people, look, look about you, lest the rod of God's vengeance smite you at once, in the dreadful fury, for the God of heaven is highly displeased and provoked unto anger by you, insomuch that if you do not speedily take timely warning, ye will overpass the time by tempting and provoking the holy righteous God of love, until there will be no remedy, and repentance will come to be hid from your eyes.  
For consider this, O all ye people! high and low, rich and poor, do ye think it shall be always so as it is now, that the oppressor shall always have rule in the Land? nay surely, nay as sure as the God of heaven lives, it shall not be so, for the oppressor shall shortly be brought under, and the oppressed shall be set at liberty, the poor and the meek of the earth shall be exalted, and the high and lofty shall be brought down, and his grievous yoke shall be taken off the neck of the innocent, and he shall be everlastingly beyoaked himself therewith, this hath the Lord spoken, and this will he shortly work and bring to pass, for his own glorious name sake, which shall over all Nations be beautified and honoured, and every knee shall be made to bow thereto, and every tongue shall confess to its righteousness for ever and ever, and this is the infallible Word and Truth of God unto you all who dwell upon the earth:  
Therefore I say haste, hast to meet the Lord, who is coming in his Saints, to judge all that dwell upon the earth, with equity; mercy and judgement shall be laid to the Line, and righteousness to the Plummet, then what will ye do and answer for yourselves (ye howling Idol Priests, who make the innocent to groan with heaving, and under the grievous wight of your oppressions which ye through covetousness, and for filthy lucre sake lay upon them all, which ye will not in no wise touch with one of your little fingers, except it be to devour the gain, the oppression of your ungodly lusts;) and accordingly shall ye have recompense from God, and be rewarded at the hand of his righteousness, whom ye altogether are ignorant of, and never shall know him but in dreadful judgement, except ye cease and amend with speed.  
And alas! ye high minded proud lofty ones; what can ye also expect? but tribulation and anguish to come forth and to be revealed from heaven against you God hath of old spoken it, & now the time is even at hand for the fulfilling of it; and such as ye have and do still sow, such shall your reward be, and this in the truth of God will be sealed upon your heads for ever, if ye are found in an unrepenting state, slighting and rejecting Gods holy Law and light in you, through which your souls should be converted unto God, without which eternal condemnation will assuredly be the sentence of God the Judge of all against you.  
Therefore, woe, woe will be unto you tithe-mongers; woe, woe will be unto you you proud profane ones, God's wrath and controversy is with you: and all you swearers, drunkards, and liars, and whoremongers; the controversy of God is against ye all, and the Kingdom of God ye shall never inherit nor possess; but amongst the Dogs, and Sorcerer's and unclean beasts, shall ye be cast for ever and ever.  
O weeping and howling shall fill your habitation, and instead of safety, rest, and peace, everlasting calamity shall be the reward of your work.  
O ye generation of Serpents and Vipers! how can ye escape the fire and torments of Hell, seeing that ye take pleasure in unrighteousness and hate reproof, and to be reform in your hearts, the Bosom of the Almighty shall sweep and rid you out of the Land, and the seed of the righteous shall inherit the same for ever.  
The whirlwind of the Lord is coming upon you, and it shall shake and root up every evil corrupted tree, and the fire of God shall burn and consume them, so that their standing and growing place shall no more be found in the earth, and the plant of God's renown shall over all Nations be spread, and there shall not be any room for another.  
CHAM BAYLEY.  
THE END