FOR THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND, AND THEIRARMY SO CALLED.  
YOUR day into darkness is turned; the Sun is gone down over you; ye have had a large day, and power given unto you; to have done the will of God; But you have abused the power; and slighted your day; and you have Refused to do the Lords werke and have sought to serve 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 Creatures; (and yet deliverance shall Come, but not according to man's Exspeciation) But as for you, ye have Rejected the Council of the Lord; and greeved his spirit, and he hath long borne 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 beaten, and hewed, and broken others, Even so must you be beaten, hewed and broken, for you have greevously provoked the Lord, and if be should now suffer that tree, which ye have Cut, to fall upon you; and to break part of you, it were Just.  
Oh ye Treacherous, wilful, proud, self-seeking people, who have despised the Counsel of the Lord, and would not take warning though he have sent his prophets and servants Early and Late among you, some of whom you have Imprisoned, and despitfully used; what will ye do now, whom will you now flee unto for help; seeing ye are departed from the Lord, and are now Renting and tearing, biting and devouring one another, for proud ambissious self Ends; (Mark) if ye would now build again, the thing that you once destroyed; that shall not be able to hid, 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; you are now, but a Rod, Remember your End, which hastens greatly; And now Breach upon Breach, Insurrection upon Insurrection, Overturning upon Overturning, Heaps upon Heaps, Division upon Division shall there be; until he Come to Reign, whose Right it is; and all Nations must bow before him; Else he will break them with his Iron Rod.  
They that trust in, or lean upon you, for help; it is as if they leaned upon a broken Reed which is not able to help itself; nor others; indeed 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 Sedars; for now shall your strength fail you and you shall be weak, even 〈◊〉 the weakest of men, but if you would yet believe in the light; and truly submit to God's righteous judgements, many of you might come to witness your souls saved, in the day of the Lord; though many of your bodies are to be thrown by (because of your grievous backslidings) as not counted worthy to be the Lords 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 judgement of the Lord, and truly and throughly deny themselves, and follow his leadings, he will heal their backslidings; and purge them; that so they may be instruments in his hand: But they that will continue with you; in your sins; shall partake with you; of your judgements.  
11th month (59) From one, who am made willing both to suffer, and to reign with Christ; even to follow him whether soever he goeth. George Fox the younger.  
The Rod of the wicked, shall not always rest upon the back of the righteous; yet even as gold is tried; so shall they be; that they may be white, and without spot, before the Lamb: But God will avenge their cause; and woe than will be to their oppressors and then shall the majesty, and glory of the Lord, fill his people (who have long been trodden under) and they shall be the dread of all Nations, the zeal of the Lord of Host shall perform it.   

Printed for M. W. 11th month, 1659.