FOR Manasseth Ben Israel. THE CALL OF THE Jews OUT OF BABYLON. WHICH IS Good Tidings to the Meek, Liberty to the Captives, and for the opening of the Prison doors.  Who hath believed our Report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed. Isa: 53.1. I am found of them that sought me not, and I said, behold me, behold me, unto a people that was not called by my name, Isa. 65.1, 2. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hide as it were our faces from him, he was despised, and we esteemed him not, Isa: 53.3. 
LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert, at the Black spread Eagle, at the West end of Pauls. 1656.   

TO THE JEWISH NATION Greekes and Hebrewes:  
WHO are scattered up and down the face of the earth through their Rebellion against the Lord, and for the breaking of his Commandements, and Statutes which he cammanded them by his servant Moses, which the Lord sent to bring their fore-fathers out of egypt, Deut: 4. Therefore now harken O Israel unto the Statutes and judgements which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, verse the 1. your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: For all the men that followed Baal-peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you, verse 3.  
When Israel was a Child, then I loved him, and called my Son out of egypt, saith the Lord, Hosea, 11.1. And David saith, Thou hast brought a Vine out of egypt: thou hast cast out the Heathen and planted it. Thou preparest room before it, and didst cause it to take deep Roote, and it filled the Land. Psal: 80.8, 9. But now O Israel, is that fulfiled upon you, which Moses the servant of the Lord foretold of you, Deut. 4.18.19. who was sent to bring Israel out of egypt, who said, when thou shalt beget Children, and childrens children: and shall have remained long in the Land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graved Image, or the likeness of any thing: and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger, I call Heaven and earth to witness against you this day; that you shall soon utterly perish, from off the Land whereon ye go over Jordan to possess it. ye shall not prolong your dayes upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. And the Lord shall scatter you among the Nations, and ye shall be few in Number among the Heathen, whether the Lord shall led you, and there you shall serve Gods, the work of mens hands, wood and ston, which neither see nor hear, nor eat nor smell: which is now fulfiled upon you this day, as verse 25, 26, 27, 28. Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah by all the Prophets, and by all the Seers, saying, turn you from your evil ways, and keep my Commandements, and my Statutes, according to all the Law which I commanded your Fathers, and which I sent to you by my Servants the Prophets: notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the necks of their Fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God: but rejected his Statutes, and his Covenant, 2 Kings 17.13 14.  
And therefore the Lord hath rejected all the Seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of the spoilers,( for he rent Israel from the House of David and Solomon) and they made Jeroboam the Son of Nebat King, 2 King 17.23. and ver. 20, 21. So the Lord hath removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his Servants the Prophets; for saith the Lord unto Jeremy: though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be towards this people, cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth, Jerem: 15.1, 2. So Captive into Babylon are ye carried, and cast out from the sight and presence of the Lord, and turned back into egypt and sodom you are: And there are you worshipping the Host of heaven: according to the words of Moses, Deut. 4.15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Though the Lord hath often called you by his servants the Prophets, as he did Jeremiah when he made him go down to the Potters house, and shewed him the vessel that was made of day, was marred in the hand of the Potter, so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to the Potter; Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying Oh house of Israel cannot I do with you as this Potter, saith the Lord. Behold as the day is in the Potters hand: So are ye in my hand, Oh house of Israel, as you may red Jeremiah the 18. throughout the whole Chapter.  
Therefore hear the word of the Lord, thou who art called Mannasseth Ben Israel,( who art come into this English Nation with all the rest of thy Brethren) which is a Land of gathering, where the Lord God is fullfilling his promise, who hath said, for a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercy will I gather thee, Isai: 54.7, 8. And this is fulfiled in our day. And the Rod which Isaiah prophesied of which should come forth out of the stem of Jesse, and the branch that grows out of his Roots, & the Spirit of the Lord rests upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of council and of Might, the Spirit of Knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord, Isaiah 11. And with righteousness doth he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth. And he doth smite the earth with the Rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips doth he slay the wicked, and he is set up an ensign for the Nations, and he assemblies the out-casts of Israel: and gathers together the dispersed of Judah, from the four corners of the earth, and this is fulfiled in this our day in this Nation; glory and praises be to the living and faithful God for evermore. Therefore you who from the Lord is turned and gone astray, see from whence ye are fallen, from the living and true God, are ye driven and separated. If thou wilt return Oh Israel saith the Lord, return unto me; and if thou wilt put away thine abominations from before me, thou shalt not remove; and thou shalt swear, that the Lord liveth in truth, in judgement, and in righteousness, the Nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory, Jerem: 4.1, 2.  
But no the vision of Isaiah the Son of Amos which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the dayes of Vziah, Joatham, Ahaz and Ezekiah Kings of Judah, is fulfiled upon you, hear Oh heavens, and give ear Oh earth, for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his Masters Crib, but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider, Isaiah 1.1, 2. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord. I am full of burnt Offerings of Rams, and the fat of beasts, and I delight not in the blood of Bullocks, or of Lambs, or of he Goats. When ye come before me who hath required this at your hands, to tread my Courts; bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; your new moons, and Sabboths, and calling of assemblies, I cannot away with it, it is iniquity even your solemn meetings, and your appointed feasts my soul hateth, they are a trouble unto me, I am weary to bear them: and when ye spread forth your hands I will hid mine eyes from you yea when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood Isaiah 1.11, 12, 13, 14, 15. hear the Lord God testifies against you, and the abomination of your worship, and hear you are found worshipping the imagination of your own hearts, and the host of heaven which the Lord God declares against; this is fulfiled upon you this day; and hear you are separated from the true and living God and his worship, and knows him not so much as the Ox knows his owner, or the ass his Masters Crib therefore cease from your abomination, and turn to the living God, and him dread, and him fear, who is the dread of all Nations, at whose presence the mountaines shall melt, and the hills be removed, and the Rocks rent, who is a consuming fire to the wicked; now is he risen who shakes terribly the earth, and brings down all the loftiness of man, and the haughtiness of men, and the Lord alone is to be exalted in this his day. Therefore harken diligently that your souls may live, and give not your money, for that which is not bread, nor your labour for that which perisheth: but harken to the pure Law of God in your hearts which Moses taught Israel.  
If thou wilt harken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his Commandements and his Statutes, which are written in this book of the Law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for this Commandement which I command thee this day, is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldst say, who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that wee may hear it, and do it: neither is beyond the Sea, that thou shouldst say, who shall go over the Sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it; but the Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. Deut. 30.10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Thereforne return to the Law and to the Testimony, 
Isa. 8.20.  if they speak not according to this word, it is because is no light in them, that so you may witness this Scripture fulfiled, The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light, they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined, Isa. 9.2. Moses the Servant of the Lord saith; The Lord thy God will raise unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thy brethren, unto him shall ye harken. And the Lord said unto me, 
Deut. 18.15.18.  I will raise them up a Prophet like unto thee; and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him: and it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not harken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Therefore as ye love your eternal peace, harken to the Prophet which the Lord hath raised, who saith go not forth, but saith the word is nigh in thy mouth, and in thy heart, as Moses did; And if ever you come to know the true and living God, you must harken to this Prophet which calls your minds to within, for by this doth the living God teach his people himself. But this Law, and this Testimony hath been sealed up from you, according as Isaias prophesied, Isa: 8.16. And therefore hath he been for a ston of stumbling, for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israell, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And therefore hath many among you stumbled and fallen, and been broken, and snared and taken. And David saith, The mouth of the Righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of Judgement: the Law of God is in his heart, none of his steps shall slide, Psal. 38.30, 31. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, but his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Law doth he meditate day and night, Psal. 1. The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the Testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simplo, Psal. 19.7. So to the sure Law and Testimony turn your minds, that it may be unto you a lamp unto your feet, and a light unto your paths. And the dayes are come which the Prophet Jeremy prophesied off; Behold the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israell, and with the house of Judah; not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers, in the dayes that I took him by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my Covenant they broke, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord. But this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israell, 
Jer. 31.31, 32, 33, 34.  after those dayes, saith the Lord, I will put my Law in their inward parts, and writ it in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least, even unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord. And the Lord by the Prophet ezekiel saith; Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey: and I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall seed them, even my servant David, and he shall be their shepherd: and I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a praise amongst them, I the Lord hath spoken it, Ezek: 34.22, 23, 24. And the Lord saith by Isaiah the Prophet; Because ye have said, we have made a Covenant with Death, and with Hell wee are at agreement, when the over-flowing Scourge shall pass through: it shall not come unto us; for wee have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hide ourselves.  
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold I lay in Sion for a foundation a ston, a tried ston, a precious Corner ston, a sure foundation; he that believeth shall not make hast; Judgement also will he lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet, Isa. 28.15, 16, 17. And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place, and your Covenant with Death shall be Disanul'd, and your agreement with Hell shall not stand, when the over-flowing Scourge shall pass thorough; then shall you be trodden down by it. Therefore now that ye may escape the over-flowing Scourge, and be hide in the Day of the Lords fierce wrath; turn to the Lord God, who calls you, who waits to be gracious to you, and give over making a Covenant with Hell and Death, and of making lies your refuge, for that will not stand in this the Day of the Lords pure appearing. For the tried ston is risen, the sure foundation who lays Judgement to the line, and righteousness to the plummet, and nothing will be accepted of him, but that which is pure and just. Therefore to the pure light and Law in the inward parts turn your mindes, which shows you your evil deeds, and makes manifest sin, and evil, and shows you the thoughts of your hearts( which is vain) that lodgeth in you. This will ripp you up, and lay you open, and make all the deceit of your heart appear, that which none can accuse you of, which you act in secret, this will reprove, this teacheth in secret, and is always present, when you are upon your beds, this is present, where ever you go, or what ever you are about, from this you cannot fly, this is the voice which calls behind you, this is the way walk in it. Here you will come to drink of the still waters of Shiloe, which go softly, which the Lord spoken of to Isaiah the Prophet, saying, Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloe which goeth softly, and rejoice in Rezin, and Remaliahs son; Now therefore the Lord bringeth upon them the waters strong and many, even the King of Assyria, Isa: 8.6, 7. And David saith; Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy Countenance, Psal: 90.8. And again he saith, He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high, shall abide under the shadow of the almighty, Psal. 91.1. So here is your way to know the living God, if ever you know him to your peace, and no other way or name under heaven, shall any one ever know him by. Therefore now to the Law and to the Testimony written in your hearts, the word which is nigh in the heart, which Moses speaks of; here keep the fast to the Lord; For this is the fast which he hath chosen, to loose the bonds of wicknesse, and to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; and the glory of the Lord shall be thy rearward. And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light arise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day. And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones. And thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a Spring, whose waters failes not. Isa: 58.6.8, 9, 10, 11.  
Therefore Israell arise and shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee, for behold the darkness shall cover the Earth, and gross darkness the people: But the glory of the Lord shall rise upon thee, Isa: 60.1, 2. So this is the Day of thy Visitation, awake, awake, Stand up, oh Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the Cup of his fury, thou hast drunken the dregs of the Cup of trembling, and wrung them out. And yet there is none to guide thee amongst all the sons which thou hast brought forth, neither is there any that taketh thee by thy hand of all the sons that thou hast brought up, Isa: 51.17, 18. And the Lord hath seen this, and wondered that there is no intersessor. Therefore hath his arm brought Salvation unto thee, and his righteousness hath sustained thee. And the Redeemer is come to Sion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. As for me, this is my Covenant with them, saith the Lord, my Spirit which is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed; nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth for evermore, Isa: 59.20, 21.  
Thus saith the Lord, where is the bill of your mothers Devorcement, whom I have put away; or to which of my Creditors is it to whom I sold you. Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your transgression is your mother put away. Wherefore when I called there was none to answer, is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem; or have I not power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuk, I dry up the Sea, and makes the Rivers a wilderness. I Cloth the Heavens with blackness: and makes Sackcloth your covering The Lord hath given me the tongue of the Learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is a weary, Isa: 50.1, 2, 3, 4. Thus saith the Lord, Behold my servant, whom I uphold, mine Elect in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth Judgement to the Gentiles. A bruised reed shall he not break; and the smoking flax, shall he not Quench: he shall bring forth Judgement unto truth; he shall not fail, nor be discouraged; till he have set Judgement in the Earth: and the Iles shall wait for his Law, Isa: 42.1, 2, 3, 4.  
Therefore to this pure Law turn your minds, and wait, for this is he which brings Salvation, unto Jews and Gentiles: the Elect obtains deliverance. I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountain, and mine Elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat. For as the dayes of a three, are the dayes of my people, and mine Elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands, Isa: 56.9.22. Therefore fear the Lord God, and give over looking outward, for now the Lord is gone forth as a mighty man, and his jealousy is stirring up like a man of war. And now is he Roaring against his Enemies: I have long holden my peace, saith the Lord; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a traveling woman. I will destroy and devour at once, and I will make waste, Mountaines, and hills, and dry up all their herbs, and I will make the Rivers Islands, and I will dry up all their pools, and I will bring the blind by a way that they know not, and I will led them in paths that they have not known, and I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things strait; and these things will I do unto them, and not forsake them; and they shall be turned back: They shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graved Images; that say to the molten Images ye are our gods. hear ye deaf, and look ye blind, that ye may see, this day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath appoynted me, to preach good tiding to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God: and to comfort all that mourn, to appoint unto them that mourn in Sion, to give them beauty for ashes, and the oil of Joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the Spirit of heaviness, that they might be called the trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord; that he might be glorified.  
And now is the Lord God planting, and now is he gathering unto his Sheep-fould; where there is but one shepherd. The Lord is well-pleased for his righteousness sake; and now is he magnifying his righteous Law, and making it honourable: and fullfilling his promise, and teaching his people himself, by the pure Law written in the heart, Isa. 42.13, 14. and so forward, & Isa: 61.1, 2, 3.  
Therefore to this Law turn your minds, to the pure light in your consciences, that you may come to witness the Word of the Lord fulfiled that came to Jeremiah; For lo the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israell, and Judah, saith the Lord, and I will cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. And these are the words which the Lord spake concerning Israell, and concerning Judah. For thus saith the Lord, we have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace: ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travel with child. Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travel, and all faces are turned into paleness. Alas for that day is great, so that none is like it: It is even the time of Jocobs trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him; But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their King, whom I will raise up unto them, Jeremy 30.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.  
Behold the Dayes come saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute Judgement, and Justice in the Earth, and in his dayes Judah shall be saved, and Israell shall dwell safely, and this is his name whereby he shall be called the Lord our righteousness, Jeremy 23.5.6.  
go and proclaim these words towards the North, and say, return thou back-sliding Israell, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you; for I am merciful saith the Lord, and will not keep anger for ever, Jeremy 3.12.  
And now that the Lord calls you, turn to the Lord that you may come to say, Surely after that I was turned I repented, and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh, I was ashamed, yea even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth, Jeremy 31.19. Deut: 30. return ye back-sliding Children, and I will heal your backsliding, saith the Lord: behold we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God: truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountaines: truly the Lord our God is the salvation of Israell. And now is the Lord risen, and his light is shining, and the Gentiles come to his light, and the Kings to the brightness of his rising, they all gather themselves together, they come together, thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. The eyes of the blind shall be opened; the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped, then shall the lame man leap as a Hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streamings in the desert, and the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land, Springs of water, and the habitation of Dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes, and an high way shall be there, and a way that shall be called a way of holinesse, the unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those the way-fareing men, though fools shall not err therein, Isa: 35.5, 6, 7, 8. Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears: let all the Nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled; who among them can declare this, and show us former things, let them bring forth their witnesses that they may be Justified; or let them hear and say it is truth, Isa: 43.8, 9. Therefore turn to the Lord, that your deaf ears may hear, your blind eyes see, and the lame may leap like an Hart, and the dumb sing. And you who are erred and gone astray from the Lord return, that you may know your habitation to be in the Lord; for Cain who went from the Command of the Lord, was driven out that day from the face of the Lord, he was hide, and a fugitive, and a vagabond he is, and knows no habitation. And so is all the untoward Generation, who from the Lord God is turned. I taught Ephraim also to go, saith the Lord, taking them by their arms, but they knew not that I healed them: I drew them with the wards of a man, and with the bonds of love. And I was to them as they that take off the yoke that laid on their jaws, and I laid meate unto them, Hosea 11.3, 4.  
Now the free grace of the everlasting God, is offered to you this day, and therefore return to the pure light, and Law written in the heart which is spiritual, just, and good, and by that let your minds be guided and lead up to God, who is light, who hath said I will be a light to Israel. Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, sand among the fat ones leanness, and under his glory, he shall kind a burning, like unto the burning of a fire. And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his holy one for a flamme, and it shall burn, and devour his thorns, and his briars in one day, Isa. 10.16, 17. And this Scripture ye shall witness fulfiled, and therefore repent and return speedily to the light, which now shines in your Consciences, which shows your sin, and evil, which will turn your minds toward the living God, and led you into the way of truth. And by no other way under heaven shall ye ever know the true and living God; for the time is come which Isaiah prophesied of, Isa. 2.2, 3. And it shall come to pass, in the last dayes saith the Lord, that the mountain of the Lords House, shall be established in the top of the mountaines; and shall be exalted above the hills, and all the Nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go, and say; come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths, for out of Sion shall go forth the Law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.  
Therefore to the Law that goes from Sion, which the Lord God hath written in the heart; and to the word that goes from Jerusalem, which is nigh in the heart, and in the mouth, for the Lord is exalted, he dwelleth on high, he hath filled Sion with judgement, and righteousness, Isa. 33.5. Sion shall be redeemed with judgement, and her converts with righteousness, Isaiah 1.27. verse.  
For there shall be a day, that the watch men upon mount Ephraim shall cry, arise ye and let us go up to Sion, unto the Lord our God, Ierem. 31.6. In those dayes, and in that time saith the Lord, the Children of Israel shall come, they and the Children of Judah together, going and weeping, they shall go and seek the Lord their God, they shall ask the way to Sion, with their faces thither-ward. Saying come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord, in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten, Ierem. 50.4, 5. Now if you will know the way to Sion, turn your faces thither-ward, and turn your minds to that of God, which joins to the Lord; which calls your mind in, out of the visible and outward things, unto that which is inward, and invisible turn your minds, for God is an invisible God, and no mortal eye can behold him; and that eye which sees God, is invisible, and that ear that hears God, is invisible, and that which worships God, is invisible, and the house where the Lord God is worshipped, is invisible: and this you shall witness, to be the way to Sion, if ever you know it, or find it. Thus saith the Lord, the Heaven is my Throne, and the earth is my footstool, where is the house that ye will build unto me, where is the place of my Rest, for all these things hath my hand made: and all these things hath been saith the Lord. But to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite Spirit, and trembleth at my word, Isa. 66.1, 2.  
Now here you may see where the Lord will be worshipped, not in outward Temples, or outward Synagogues made with hands; But the time is come, that the Lord will be worshipped in Spirit, in the inward man. Therefore cease from your outward Temples, and Synagogues, for the day is come, that the idols of Silver and gold, which every one hath made for himself to worship, they must be cast to the moules, and to the bats. Their Land also is full of idols, they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. Isa. 2.20.8. And he will cause their idols utterly to abolish. For the fear of the Lord is risen, and the glory of his Majesty, he who shakes terribly the earth is come; for the voice of them that fly, and escape out of the Land of Babylon, doth declare in Sion, the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his Temple: for Babylon is to be destroyed, because it is the vengeance of the Lord; and the vengeance of his Temple. read the fifty and the fiftie-one Chapters of Jeremiah, and there you may read at large the controversy that the Lord hath with Babylon, and her idols. A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the Temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to his Enemies, Isai 66.6.  
And God said unto Abraham, thou shalt keep my Covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, in their Generations, and ye shall Circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a token of the Covenant betwixt me, and you, Gen. 17.11. And Moses the servant of the Lord, saith; And now, oh Israell, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, to keep the Commandements of the Lord, and his Statutes which I command thee this day for thy good. Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens is the Lords thy God, the Earth also, with all that therein is, onely the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he choose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your hearts, and be no more stiff necked, for the Lord your God, is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God and mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward, Deut. 10.12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.  
And again, when Moses prophesied of the return of the Captivity, Deut. 30. from the first to the sixth. And he saith, the Lord thy God will Circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live. For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns: Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskin of your hearts ye men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, least my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it; Because of the evil of your doings. This Circumcision is not outward; Therefore to that which Circumciseth the heart, turn your minds, to that which rents the heart, and ploughs up the fallow ground, and washeth away the filth of the flesh, and taketh away the foreskin of your hearts. David cried, Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin, purge me, and I shall be clean, wash me, and I shall be whiter then snow, psalm 51. Oh Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved, how long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? Jerem: 4.14. And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Sion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the Daughter of Sion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the Spirit of Judgement, and by the Spirit of burning. And this is the Circumcision, this takes away the foreskin, and ploughs up the fallow-ground of the heart.  
Therefore to that which Circumciseth the heart, turn your minds to within; for that is not Circumcision which is outward, but that is Circumcision which is of the heart: And wee are the Circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and have no Confidence in the flesh, and this, if ever you know the true & living God, you shall bear testimony too, to be truth and love to your souls.  
Therefore to the pure Law of God written in the Inward parts turn your minds, that so you may come to love the Lord with all your heart, and be Circumcised with the Circumcision made without hands, which washeth away the filth of the flesh, and takes away the foreskin of your heart, and changeth your natures; for this is that which avayleth, even the new Creature.  
And for your Sabboths which ye look upon to be outward, this likewise you must come to know to be within; for them that escapes from the sword, which hath been carried away unto Babylon, must know, their rest, and their dwelling-place to be in the Lord For the Lord God of your Fathers hath sent unto you his Messengers, rising up betimes, because he had compassion on you, and on his dwelling-place. But you have mocked the Messengers of God, and despised his words, and abused his Prophets, until the wrath of God rose against you. Therefore hath he brought upon you the King of the Chaldees, who hath slain the young-men in the house of your Sanctuary, and hath had no compassion. And all the vessells of the house of God, and they have burnt the house of God, and broken down the walls of Jerusalem, and all to fulfil the word of the Lord, until the Land had enjoyed her Sabboths: For as long as shee lay desolate, shee kept Sabboths, as you may read in the 2 Kings 36. And now is the time come, and accomplished, that your enemies are to be punished, and ye may come to know your sabbath, and your rest in the Lord; For lo, the dayes come saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israell, and Judah, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to your forefathers, and they shall possess it. For I know the thoughts that I think to you, saith the Lord, even, the thoughts of peace. Then shall you call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will harken unto you, and ye shall seek me and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your hearts.  
In those dayes, and at that time, will I cause the branch of righteousness to grow up unto David, and he shall execute Judgement, and righteousness in the Land; In those dayes shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely, and this is the name wherewith he shall be called, the Lord our righteousness. For thus saith the Lord, David shall never want a man, to sit upon the throne of the house of Israell, Jerem: 33.16, 17. This is he that is the Lord of the sabbath. And when thou comes not to turn away thy foot from this sabbath, and call this Sabbath a delight, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and he shall cause thee to ride upon the high place of the Earth.  
Therefore turn to the Lord God, who is the rest of his people, and turn your minds to the measure of God in you, by which the Lord God leads, and teacheth, and guides his people, and there you will come to know and find the true Sabbath, and rest to your souls. For with stammering lips, and another tongue, will he speak to this people, to whom he said, this is the rest, wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing, and yet they would not hear, Isa: 28.11, 12.  
And now is that fulfiled which Hosea spoken of in the 2. and 11th verse; I will also cause all her mirth to cease; her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. And all your outward washings, and carnal Ordinances, and Sacrifices, is the Lord weary of, they are abomination unto him; he that killeth an ox, as if he slay a man, he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a doggs neck, he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swines blood, he that burneth Incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea they have Chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations, Isa: 66.3.  
Sacrifice and offerings thou dost not desire, mine ears hast thou opened: burnt-offerings, and sin-offerings, thou hast not required; and David saith, O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise: for thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it; thou delightest not in burnt-offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit, a broken, and a contrite heart, O God, thou oest not despise, Psal: 51.15, 16, 17. For I the Lord love Judgement, I hate Robbery for burnt-offerings, I will direct their work in truth. And I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, Isaiah 61.8. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, then said I, lo I come, in the volume of thy book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will Oh God: yea, thy Law is within my heart, Psal: 40.7, 8.  
This is the offering the Lord accepts, this is the sacrifice the Lord delights in, the knowledge of God, the keeping of his Law, the fullfilling of his will. Therefore to the Lord God turn, for obedience is better then sacrifice, and to harken, then the fat of rams: and in the obedience to the pure measure of the light and Law of God, you will come to know the inward washing and cleansing, and so come to answer the Lord, who saith, Wash you, and make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek Judgement: Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be read like Crimson, they shall be as wool: if ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the Land: but if you refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it, Isa: 1.16, 17, 18, 19, 20.  
Therefore give over your outward washings, your outward observances and Ceremonies, and carnal ordinances, they are beggarly and filthy, the Lord abhors them; your Temple, and your Synagogues, that is outward, your Circumcision that is outward, your Sabbath, that is outward, your burnt offerings and sacrifices which is outward, your calling of assemblies and solemn Feasts; For all those things saith the Lord, doth my soul hate. For behold the Lord will come with fire, and with Chariotts like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebukes with flames of fire: for by fire, and by his sword will the Lord pled with all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall he many, Isa: 66.15, 16. For behold the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind, it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked, the fierce anger of the Lord shall not return until he hath done it, until he hath performed the intent of his heart; in the latter day ye shall consider it, Jerem: 30.23, 24.  
Therefore Consider this ye that forget God, least I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver; now you have time prise it, this is the day of your visitation, wherein the Lord God hath visited you, and called you, and shewed you the way of peace, which shall be an eternal witness for the living God against you, if ye rebel against it; for Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness, is as iniquity and Idolatry, and if ye reject the word of the Lord, he will also reject you. So turn to the Lord who calls you, why will ye die, that so you may come to know the living and true God, who desires that all should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth, who calls, turn again O Virgin of Israell, turn again to the Cities, how long wilt thou go about O back-sliding daughter; for the Lord hath created a new thing in the Earth, a woman shall compass a man; but to you this is a mystery, and to all who are running abroad, whoring in your Imaginations; therefore to that which calls your minds to within turn, that so you may come to witness your Law to be inward written in the heart, and your Covenant new, which cannot be broken. And this is the Covenant which the Lord made with Abraham, And your Temple to be spiritual, which is made of living Stones, Elect and precious, and your Circumcision to be inward of the heart, in the Spirit, and not in the letter; That so you may come to offer the sacrifice of a broken and contrite heart, which is the sacrifice God accepts, and to be obedient to the measure committed to you, which is better then your outward sacrifice. And so that you may not onely be the Jew outwardly, and so be found to be the Synagogues of satan, but that you may be the Jew inwardly, whose praise is not of men but of God. And when you come to know this condition, then will you know your King when he comes; and this is the way that is set before you, and by no other way shall you ever come to know the true and living God.  
And so as Moses said to your forefathers, I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing, and cursing, therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayst obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him, for he is thy life, and the length of thy dayes, that thou mayst dwell in the Land which the Lord swore unto your Fathers, to Abraham, to isaac, and to Jacob, to give them, Deut: 30.19, 20.  
I charge thee Manasseth Ben Israell, as thou wilt answer it before the living God, that thou let this be red and published among thy Brethren, and to go abroad among them where they are scattered.  
Given forth from the Redeemed seed from Babylon, and egypt, by the mighty power, and out-stretched arm of the Lord, to which power all Nations shall bow, and tremble, who for an ensign is set for the gathering of the Nations together, who desires the good of all souls, and waits for the Redemption, and the bringing back out of captivity of the whole seed: which the promise and Covenant of the Lord is too, That they to us may arise out of Babylon, sodom, and Egypt, and with us serve the Lord in the land of the living. And this shall answered be with that of God in all Consciences.  
The figures, and the types, and the shadows are ceased, the Lord God is departed out of them, and the Substance of them is come, the holy Seed is risen the substance thereof, the Lord hath sent the strength of his rod out of Sion, who is the Covenant of light; to open the blind eyes, and bring out the prisoners out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house, that they may sing a new song unto the Lord, and his praise from the end of the Earth. And the day of the Lords power is come, in which he makes his people willing, and as many as receives him, to them he gives power.  
Margret Fell.  
FINIS.