A FAITHFUL WARNING, WITH GOOD ADVICE FROM ISRAEL'S GOD, TO England's KING, AND HIS COUNCIL; That they may wisely improve this little Inch of time which the God of their Life as yet affords unto them, before the Day of their [approaching] Misery come upon them.  
Which may serve as a Caution to all others in Authority within the Nation.  
Sounded through one of the Mourners in Zion, known by the name of Martin Mason.  
Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken.  
LONDON, Printed for Robert Wilson, at the sign of the Black spread-Eagle and Windmill in martin's l' Grand.   

A FAITHFUL WARNING, WITH GOOD ADVICE FROM Israel's GOD, to England's KING AND HIS COUNCIL, etc.  
BEhold, to obey is better than sacrifice; and to hearken, is better than the fat of Rams. Listen therefore, and incline your Ear, be attentive, and read without prejudice: For the Righteous God hath laid it upon me, once more to Warn the Men in Authority, the Rulers of this Nation; even from him that fits upon the Throne, to the inferior Governors of the people, that they cease from their iniquities, and fear the living God.  
Know ye therefore, large hath the love of God been towards you, and with wonderful lovingkindness hath he visited you; his patience verily is beyond expression; for your iniquities have highly provoked him: How many Warnings hath he given you, all which hitherto have been but little regarded by you? O let his righteous Witness in all your Consciences arise, and it will testify the wonderful Mercies of your Maker towards you. Have you answered the End and Requirings of the Lord from you, in his Overturning your Enemies for you, and thus settling the Government of the Nations upon you? Came you not in without any Conquest? Can you justly glory in your own strength, that it was your own Arm that hath done this for you? Was it your own Valour that vanquished your enemies? Or is it not the hand of the Lord that hath thus exalted you, and abased them that had the Government before you? I say, Have you answered the Requirings of the Lord? Let his Witness be awakened, and arise in all your consciences, and answer to me. Did he lay no injunction upon you when his heart was inclined to exalt you? Did he not enjoin you to amendment of Life, to show mercy, to glorify your Maker, to be Patterns of Piety, and good Examples to the People; to let Mercy, Truth and Righteousness live amongst you, and be exercised by you towards the people who are now fallen under you; to show favour to the Righteous, to help the helpless, and to remedy the wrongs of the poor and needy; to suppress Vice and Vanity in Court, City and Country; to be a terror to evil doers, and a praise and encouragement unto them that do well? And have none of you in the time of your distress promised to the Lord the performance of these things? Did the Lord (I say) set you upon the Throne, and thus restore you to outward Dignity, when you seemed to be going down into the place of forgetfulness, when you had little hopes to have such a Day without a secret enjoining to these things? Did he give you the desire of your hearts, only to be revenged of your Enemies, and to aggravate and multiply the miseries of his People? If his Witness were awakened in your Consciences, surely you would say, Let God be justified, and sinful man condemned?  
Oh my Friends, how have you trifled away God's precious time, and your own Deliverance! How hath Vice and Vanity abounded in the Nation since the Day of your Exaltation in England? Does not Iniquity, Pride and Luxury Lord it amongst you both in Court, City and Country, with an impudent forehead? Is not Profaneness countenanced by you? Are not the wicked and ungodly had in estimation with you? Do not the unrighteous boast in your strength? And hath not your Horn exalted them throughout the Nation? Are not the Merchants of Babylon grown familiar with you, and the Sons of Belial advanced by you? Or is there any people receive such favour from you as the Rotten Interest, who are now indulged by you? What's become of Zion? Are you acquainted with her? Do you minister true comfort to her? Is she advanced or discountenanced in your Court and the Kingdom? Are you true Subjects to Sion's King? Rules he as Caesar in the Kingdom of your hearts? Do you know Him, and pay Tribute to Him? Do you observe His Laws, Statutes and Ordinances? Do you own His Light in all your Consciences to be your Leader, Judge and Lawgiver? Oh happy were England had she such a King, and happy were England's King had he such Counsellors?  
But alas! alas! Zion is in the Dust, and no man regards her; her Enemies now seem to be too many for her, and make themselves merry over her: They who should be as Nursing-fathers' to her, withdraw their affections from her; she sits weeping in the House of Mourning, for the misery that is coming upon this People; while the drunkards of Ephraim tunn themselves with Wine, and intoxicate their Brains with strong Drink; and the greedy Shepherds devour the silly Flock, and the lustful ones love to have it so; while the Priest and People conspire together against the Lord and his Anointed Jewels, to stop the Mouth of Truth, and fill their prisons with innocent people; yet can they not centre here, Mordecai's Seed is a great Mote in the Devil's Dish, which the old Dragon seeks to devour by some unrighteous Decree from Caesar: For the Crown they count sure of their fide, and that's the top-stone of Egypt's strength. To the Refuge of Lies they now betake themselves, and by their Majestical Craft do abuse both their Prince and the Country, Cum Privilegio, and all for want of a good Understanding.  
For would but Caesar and his Council stop their Ear to their Trencher-Chaplains, and the alluring enchantments of such devouring Monsters, who seek to subvert and murder the Innocent: I say, would but the King and his Council once be persuaded to come into calmness, and take counsel of God's ORACLE, the Light in their Consciences, and by it be guided, how soon would the dark, misty Fogs of Egypt and her Magicians, be dispelled, and driven back into the bottomless pit. No croaking Frogs durst then come forth to abuse the Honour of a Prince; nor wound his Reputation, by enticing him to Cruelty; nor screw his Prerogative above the People's Tranquillity: For the End of all Government appointed by God, next to his Glory, is the good of the People 
† Salus Populi Suprema Lex. . For the great God of Heaven and Earth so loved the world, that he sent his Son a Light into the world, not to destroy men's lives, but to save them; yet to punish the evildoer according to the nature of his Crime, but not with Imprisonment, Death or Banishment for every small offence, much less for that which is no offence at all.  
For what ever is not Malum in se, an evil in itself, ought rather to be indulged, than so severely punished. For a man to be covered with his Hat before Authority, is no evil in itself, though falsely so counted by the evil ambitious one; nor for a man to be honestly employed upon your Popish Festival days, is not sinful or evil in itself, though sinners rashly so judge it, and wrongfully imprison the Righteous for bearing their Testimony against it. Nor is the Conscientious refusing of an Oath, an Evil in itself; for Christ the Oath of God expressly commandeth, Swear not at all, and therefore it is (must of necessity be) an evil in him that punishes the Innocent for not violating the Law of God, with imprisonment [at pleasute] and lose of Estate. Far be it from the Sons of Innocency to Plott or Confederate against the Person of a Prince; and as far be it from them by stooping to the Will of Man, to violate the Law of the Living God; and it should be far from the Prince to punish such a People for not transgressing the Command of Christ. And did not our Adversaries answer us with more rashness, rage and raw Arguments, than good reasoning, concerning our not Swearing, if Sic volo sic jubeo, stet pro ratione voluntas, were not too predominant with them, we should not in that particular receive such hard measure from them.  
Man placed in Authority, should Rule for God, and aught to have his Eye within his Head, his mind (I mean) stayed upon the Light of Israel, God's Witness placed in his Soul, and read and meditate in that Book day and night, even all the days of his life: And this is not durus sermo, a hard saying, but a well-doing. This was that made David honourable, and a man after God's own heart, and Solomon his Son, the wisest King that ever sat upon a Throne.  
O that England's King and his Council would summo conatu, seek after true Wisdom, which if any man want, let him ask it of God; the way to find it, is to beg for it, of him alone who hath the disposal of it; the King of David, the God of Solomon, who dwells in the Light, which enlightens every man that comes into the world: His Wisdom is to be prized more than Gold, she is of more worth to a Prince than Pearls or Rubies; Cabinets of Jewels are not to be compared to her, and glistering Diamonds come too short of her; the Tongue of Men and Angels cannot sufficiently commend her; the High and Lofty are not worthy of her: 'Tis the Sons of Innocency that have Right unto her, and the Children of the Day that are adorned by her: Rough Esau's Birth is a stranger to her, and must not have the Honour to be acquainted with her; that brood for a mess of Pottage would sell their Birt-right, and abandon her: 'Tis only smooth Jacob, or Valiant Israel who wrestles with his God, as a Prince (who in his heart affects her, and fixes the delight of his soul upon her, and as the Jewel of his God does honour her) that is worthy of her: On him must the blessing come.  
And have not England's King and his Senators need of such a Counsellor? Is not this WISDOM worthy to be inquired of by them? Or are they wise enough to do well without her? The Wisdom of this World is not to be compared unto her.  
For if that muddy thing  
Can honour England's King;  
He and his Council have a Spring.  
But that poor Toy  
Gives no true Joy:  
'Tis Wisdom from above,  
Comes from the God of Love,  
That sarisfies the humble mind,  
And doth the Proud in Fetters bind,  
Come then O England's KING,  
Drink at pure Wisdoms Spring,  
And you his Gouncil turn your eyes  
To Israel's Light, if you'll be wise.  
For know this from the Lord, never had King more need of wise Council, nor such a Council more need of a wise King, than you have at this season. Alas poor Mortals! whither are you posting in the dark? Hold in the Reins, and curb those pampered Steeds that carry you so swiftly (as it were on the wings of the wind) down into the Gulf of endless misery. Stop poor men; dismount, dismount, ride on no further; repose yourselves, and deliberate a little season; see if you can come to a a little Rest; Retire yourselves within, come into your Bedchamber; common with your own hearts, and be still: Listen, and incline your ear to that still Voice of the Righteous God, that gently calls upon you in your Consciences, and counsels you to show mercy, and use moderation, that reproves for sin in the heart. Come I say, to the Cross of Christ, O ye Great Council of the Kingdom, and all that are in Authority in this Nation, and know a bridle to your Lusts: Learn of the Lamb of God, and of his Light which he hath placed in your Consciences) to be meek and lowly; let your minds sink down unto, and centre in the Seed of Life, which lies low in you all, that Babe of Glory who lies in the Manger, and all this time hath had no room in the Inn. Mind (I say) the breathe of that Innocent Babe within you; observe the sweet sound of his Voice who never sinned, who yet calmly reproves you when you sin against him; obey his command; his yoke is easy, and his burden light; he will counsel you to part with nothing that is worth your possessing; Vice and Vanity, with all manner of iniquity and lust, are loathsome to him, for these he is angry with you; yet in the Light he is willing to be reconciled to you: Lo, how he calls upon you in his love, and shows pity towards you: Ah how like a tender Father does he bear with you! How long hath his Mercy spared you! How unwilling is he to enter into judgement with you, would you but turn unto him at his reproof! Nothing will he require of you, but what would be exceeding good for you, (which indeed is a duty sies upon you, and were you but willing, he would give you Power to perform) to honour him that made you, by believing and walking in the Light. Believe in him who in the secret of your hearts lets you see when you are entering into, or have committed any sin, or are hatching mischief in your hearts against the Innocent; Believe that Voice to be the Voice of God, the Light in your Consciences, and give up yourselves unto it, and be guided by it; Keep friendship with it; Forsake all that which is reproved by it, and follow the Light whithersoever it leads you; if it lead you through the Cross to your carnal minds, out of sin, out of mire and dirt into the path of purity and holiness; out of Passion, into Patience; out of Pride, into true Humility; out of Hatred, into hearty Love: (O blessed Change, if you were willing to be changed by it!) out of Revenge, to a free forgiveness; out of Folly or Worldly Wit, into Divine Wisdom: Who would not go after such a Guide! Who would not serve such a Noble Lord, that sends not his servant upon any service by himself alone, but goes alongwth him, or rather before him, and is a Guide unto him! What he commands him to do, he only requires the heart, a willing mind, and does the thing himself, or gives power to perform it. Such a Lord is Israel's God; all the gods of the Heathen are not to be compared unto him. He calls, My Son, give me thy heart; and, Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden with the load of your iniquities, and I will give you ease. O Golden Promise of a gracious God which he freely performs to all his people: To as many as receive him, (and believe in him, and are willing to be guided by him, to leave Lust, and walk in the Light, which makes war against it) he gives power to become the sons of God; [mark] to these he gives power to become the Sons of God. O bountiful God O merciful King of Saints! worthy of all Honour, Glory, and everlasting Praises: Thou gives power to those that have rebelled against Thee, and have been Traitors to Thee, to be at peace with Thee, to be reconciled to thee, and receive pardon from thee; yea, to become thy Children upon their submission to thee: 'Tis thou Righteous God, works all our good works for us, and in us, and then acceptest of thine own. Here is a pattern for all Princes and great ones to forgive your Enemies. O! let Revenge live no longer in you, but be buried in the grave of eternal forgetfulness; Let the Immortal Witness of God arise in the Court of your Conscience, that Love and Innocency may live, and the contrary Nature die.  
'Tis time, yea high time for every Individual of you to turn your minds to God's gracious Gift, his Light in your Consciences, that all Arbitrary Power and Oppression may be turned out of your hearts, that bitterness of spirit may no longer live, or burn in your breasts. O beware, beware of the Spirit of Revenge, and down with all Idolatry, and Idolatrous Superstition; for Dagon cannot, nor must not stand before the Ark of God. O come to the Grace of God in your own particulars, you that are the Council to England's King, & you inferior Officers; come I say, & receive the wholesome Instructions of that Divine ORACLE of God in your Consciences which brings Salvation with it (to all that are willing to be saved by it, and love the Light better than their Lust) which beats down the Devil's Kingdom, and teaches, and will teach you (be you but willing to be taught by it) to deny ungodliness and all worldly lusts, Pride, Arrogancy, Scorn, Frowardness, Covetousness, vain-idle-talk, Drunkenness, Swearing, Passion, Cruelty, Luxury, and all Superfluity of Naughtiness, Revenge, Hatred, Malice; these are all Ungodliness, and makes that man who lives in the commitment of them, unlike to God. You being willing to bear the Reproof of the Lord for these, and what other sins your hearts are addicted to, and in love withal; you being willing to part with these Whorish Lovers, base Lusts, who have stolen away your hearts, and separated you from your God; the Light of God in your Consciences which testifies against these things that they are evil, will beget in you a dislike and loathing of all these filthy noisome lusts which defile the soul, because they grieve the Holy Spirit of the Righteous God; & than you will see every sin (as it is) to be ugly; Pride to be an Evil Seed, which the Enemy hath sown in the heart; Riotousness, Luxury, Lust, Revenge, Swearing, Drunkenness, and the like, to be all fruits of the Devil's begetting, generated in the heart of man in the time of darkness and ignorance: Then shall you see the wrath of God due to that Nature which delights to wallow in such miry wickedness; so shall you come to know the holy Fear planted within you, that when the Tempter comes to assault you, he cannot enter upon you. The faithful Soldier and follower of the Lamb is kept upon his Watch; he sees the Thief comes to rob and steal the heart from the Lord, but consents not to the Thief, but resists the Tempter, who then flies from him; He dares not do such a wickedness, and sin against his God. This would be a blessed Condition, and happy are all they that are found therein.  
And verily my friends, it is high time that you meet the Lord by unfeigned Repentance, and forsaking of your sins; for his wrath is kindled against you, because your hearts are not right before the Lord. How long, Ah how long have you sought to hid your Counsels from the Lord, and to beguile the Children of the Light, and deceive the Simple with fair sugared words, when the poison of Asps hath been under your tongue! but the Sons of Wisdom, the true Children of the Day have not been deceived by you.  
Think you the Lord is well pleased with you? Can you be persuaded that he sees you not, or that he reveals not your vanity and subtlety to his Seed? Or do you believe that he winks at your wickedness, and will not visit for all your iniquity? O be not so foolish and unwise; for verily such as you sow, such shall you reap; and if you persist in your obstinacy against the Lord, and withstand the Day of your Visitation; if you will still run on in the race of iniquity, and cast the Testimony of his Law-behind you; if you will let your minds still pursue the pleasures of this world, and prefer the transitory things of this life before your souls Peace; if you will count worldly gain to be godliness; if you will speak smooth things to your King, deceitfully, and counsel him to rejoice and make merry over God's Witness in his Conscience, as if he should never come to judgement; if you will lend your ear to the Charming Sorceries of the Hireling Priests, the English Rabbis, who now are doting upon Rome's Trash and Trumperies, who preach for Hire, and Divine for Money, and Proyhesie lies unto the people; who chief seek for their gain from their quarter, and greedily hunt for the Golden Fleece, but profit not the Flock, but leave them as they found them, (if not worse) ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth; if you will make Covenant with Death, and confederate with Amaleck in his cruel Conspiracy against the Innocent; If you will be one with Haman in helping the wicked one to obtain the help of Caesar against the Helpless; if you will involve yourselves into that cursed League, and bind yourselves (as it were) with an Oath against the Innocent; if you will be on the Serpent's side against the Seed of the Woman, and strengthen the hands of the bloody Shepherds who seek to devour and woory Christ's sheep; if you will give your Power to the false Prophet, and let him ride upon you, and make you his Vassals to afflict and torment the Innocent; if instead of helping the Woman against the Dragon, who is now casting out the Floods of his Wrath and Mischief against the Lambs of Christ, and help the old Dragon to cast the harmless into nasty Holes, Caves and Prisons; If you will not quit yourselves like men of Honour, and show yourselves to be of a good understanding, fearing God, and hating Cruelty; If you will not look into the Royal Law of God, and do to us and all men, as you would have us and all men do to you: But if you will suffer us to fall into the hands of our Enemies, whose very mercies are cruelties, and you stand by, and rejoice at our Calamity: If you will not while you have Power, be a bridle to the Wicked, nor Rebuke this Exalted Spirit that seeks to Raise and every itself in the Ruins of the Lord's People, but give your Consent and Countenance to the Wicked in their Cruelties against us; if you will stop your ears at the cry of the Righteous, and suffer our Adversaries to oppress us all the day long, and blow great furrows upon our backs, and make our Afflictions grievous to be born.  
Then know this assuredly, The Lord will remember the afflictions of Joseph; and though our Brethren sell us into the hands of the Egyptians, and intent our utter Ruin; though you and they in your secret Contrivances and Imaginations devise mischief in your Beds against us, yet the Righteous God will not forsake us, he will stand by us in all our Troubles, and his blessing upon us, his presence with us, his comfort to us, nor you, nor any Mortal can take from us. In all our sufferings he is, and will be with us, and in his due time he will work Deliverance for us, and in the mean he will support us in all our Tribulations, he will fill our hearts with joy, when the hearts of the wicked shall fail them; he cannot forsake his own: He will fill us with Divine Wisdom, and give us Courage to bear all the Wrongs and Injuries which the Wicked shall be suffered to lay upon us; He will Arm us sufficiently with his Patience, and give us such Spiritual Weapons as shall wound the Head and Heart of the Wicked: The innocency of our Sufferings shall kindle a Fire in the Hearts of our Adversaries, that shall burn like an Oven, and shall not be quenched.  
The more you strive to suppress the Truth by persecuting those who live in it, the more shall Truth prevail and prosper: And if you should seek to fill all the Prisons in the Nation with us, or to take away that from us, which is not dear unto us, if the God of our Life require it of us; For We, our Life, our Goods, our All, is freely given up unto our God when he requires them of us. We can in his Strength glory over your Weakness, and in the height of your Fury we fear you not: We know him to be with us, who is greater than he that is against us, and He will not fail us in the time of our greatest need.  
That way you think to Raise yourselves, and Ruin us, shall be the Ruin of yourselves; that very Way shall Deliverance come out of Zion to the Captive SEED. For alas poor men! you strive not only against us, but you contend against your Maker; the God of Israel is engaged with us, he Fights our Battles for us; for he is within us, then why should we fear what man can do against us? Did ever any of Cain's Brood (you are no better who ere ye be, if you join with the Beast and false Prophet against the Lamb) prosper long in their afflicting of God's People? Why should you wilfully throw away the Mercies of your Maker? Are you able to contend with him? Or did ever any strive against him, that were not broken and confounded by him?  
If you can pluck God Omnipotent & Eternal from his Throne, and raze his Witness out of your own hearts, & utterly extinguish his searching, shining Light in your own, and the People's Consciences; Then may you go on in your persecuting of the Saints, and challenge the Peace of God to be your Portion: But if not, What is Man that he should Vie thus with his Maker? Therefore be persuaded yet while the Light of God does shine in your hearts, to be guided by it; lest for your disobedience to it, the Lord God Omnipotent, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, (who now suffers as a Lamb within you) Arise in his fury, and put on Strength; If he Roar out of Zion, he will make all the Beasts in the Field to Tremble, he will be dreadful to the Wicked. If you persist in your Impenitency, Cruelty and hard heartedness, and seek to die yourselves in the Blood of the Innocent— Then Know this assuredly from the Lord, The Righteous God will visit you for your Iniquity, the Bloodthirsty Men shall not live out half their days: A short work will the Lord make in the Earth; Vengeance, Vengeance from the Lord God, shall speedily overtake you, though we forgive you, and never lift up a hand against you, The Dreadful God in his Terrible Wrath. will be avenged on you, you shall all surely surely perish, both YOU and your KING.  The LORD hath spoken it. 
O that Men would yet let the Fear of God take place in their hearts, it would Deliver them out of the Snares of the Cunning Hunter, who continually goes about like a Roaring Lion, seeking whom he may devour. O that men would once learn to be wise, and cease from their Worldly Wisdom, and seek after God's pure Wisdom, which is only found and obtained in the Light. Surely they might do well to take heed unto his Light which shines in their hearts, which secretly reproves all the Deeds of Darkness, And would draw them from Iniquity unto Holiness; from Pride, into pure Humility; and from under the Power of Satan, unto God: But this is the Misery and Condemnation of the World, That Light is come into the world, and men love Darkness rather than Light, because their Deeds are evil. 'Tis but now, as it was ever; The Seed of the Serpent cannot love, or be at peace with the Seed of Life; for Truth ever bears its Testimony against the World, That the Ways, Customs, Worship and Traditions thereof, are evil: And that's the reason why the Heathens rage, and the cause of the Enmity between the two Seeds, even from the time of Righteous Abel, to this day. Search the Scriptures, and there you may find plentiful proof of this true Assertion.  
Never did the Light of the Gospel since the Primitive Times, shine in more purity than now it does. Never had the Lord a people since the days of the Apostles, who walked more innocently and inoffensively as to God and Man, than he hath raised up, and manifested in this Generation; And never did any people, who made so large a Profession of God and Godliness, as the Priests and Professors do at this day, that ever manifested more Enmity, Malice and Opposition against the Innocent for the Hat and Knee, Thee and Thou, and such like things, than these men do at this day. Oh wonderful! That men who pretend to such a height of Profession, should be so dark, so sottish, and have so little understanding in the Mysteries of God's Kingdom, at this time of the Day, when Truth hath gained so much ground in the Nation, as all the strength of Antichrist shall not be able to recover one foot thereof from the Lamb and his true Followers in the Warfare against the Beast. Oh! I am wounded, I am wounded to see the Wickedness of the Wicked, to see the Beast and false Prophet boast itself in its own strength, and thus triumphingly exalt his Horn against the Heritage of God, and vaunt as if he were not to be moved; to see the undermining subtlety of the old Serpent, seeking the Lives of all the Innocents' in these Nations, only because Truth cannot feed Deceit, nor put into the Mouth of the false Prophet, but reproves sin in the Gate, and makes Spiritual War against the Man of Sin; because in the living Power and Authority of the Eternal God, it reproves Pride, Covetousness, Lust Wantonness, Swearing, Revenge, and makes war against the Drunkards of Ephraim: Because it upholds not the Devil's Kingdom for term of life, but preaches up the Hope of Glory, the Power of the Living God in his People to be all-sufficient to destroy and put an end to the Devil's works; this makes the Devil's roar, and increases the rage of Antichrist and his Adherents against the followers of the Lamb, and makes the Brats of Pride gnaw their very tongues for Madness, because the Sons of Meekness dare not in awe to God bow to that exalted Spirit, or feed the Beast with flattering titles.  
Tell me you that are well read in Histories, if ever you found any Pagans or Christians (so termed) since the foundation of the world, that ever persecuted an Innocent people for wearing their upper Garment, which God hath given them to be a Covering for their Head; and for using the Language, which Christ, the lip of Truth, and all his Lambs ever used one to another; yea, which all Nations under the Heaven, in the Rudiments of Teaching, use for a Foundation. O that men should be so void of the Fear and Dread of the Living God, as to suffer their hearts to be so filled with fury against the harmless Flock, who lifts not up a carnal weapon against their enemies! What is your meaning to hatch this Mischief against them, thus earnestly, to seek so subtly to destroy them.  
What evil, Ah! what evil (O thou Enemy to the righteous God) dost thou know by his Lambs. In the fear of the Lord I challenge thee to declare it to them, if thou canst, either in Doctrine, Life, or Conversation. How often have thy dreaming Priests attempted to impeach the one, and the Serpent's eye watched over them for the other. And how often have they been foiled, and their eyes even failed and grown dim, and wearied themselves with their watching for our halting; How hath the righteous God confounded their wisdom, and driven it backward, and poured shame and contempt upon them for their portion. How many have perished in their foolish expectation of the Fall of the Righteous! How often, yea how wonderfully hath the Lord stopped the mouths of these greedy dumb dogs, who never have enough, and silenced both Priest and People, Professors and Prosane, even by his Babes and Sucklings, who are nourished at the breasts of his consolation, and drink at the water of life freely, and can now no longer like foolish children dabble in the dirty Pools of the polluted Priests of the Nation, nor buy their lying merchandizes any more. So that now for want of just matter of accusation against them, they are fain to fly to their old Refuge of Lies, subtle Inventions, false Accusations, to ensnare the Innocent touching the things of their God, wherein the Serpent knows they dare not violate the Law of their God in the least, or act the Hypocrite's part, to save his Head, and lose his Soul: And therefore they run to their rotten Laws 
* Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, Oath of Abjuration. , never constituted by God, nor approved of by Man who lives in his fear, to be a Snare to the honest-hearted: And would but you Rulers of this Nation do to these Innocent Ones, as you could have all men do to you, the persecuting Seed would not for these things harm one Saint. But the Will of the righteous God is worthy to be done, who in his due time will sweep away the Refuge of Lies, which the Wicked one fathers upon Christ's Flock.  
Hast not thou O ENGLAND, in the time of thy late Troubles, had large Experience of the Innocency of these People? Have they ever had a hand in any Plots or Conspiracies against thy Governors? (though often falsely accused:) Let God's Witness arise, and it will give in true Evidence on the behalf of the Innocent; for I bear them record in the Name of the Lord, They are a harmless and a peaceable People, (those called QUAKERS, who live in the life of Truth professed by them) and seeks not the life of any, nor desires any harm in their hearts to their very Enemies:  
They cannot confederate, nor never could (since they came into the life of the Lamb) with this or that part against any Government; but were ever counted as Sheep for the Slaughter, and many of them have deeply suffered for Conscience-sake; as is sufficiently known to many thousands in the Nation; but more now of late than ever.  
O England! England! Art thou so drunk with Iniquity, so blinded with mad Zeal, Art thou grown so fond of Romish Trumperies, that thou wilt needs quarrel and fall out with thy surest friends, and not be satisfied without the blood of the Innocent? I bear them record, they are the choicest, the very best of thy real Friends, and the purest Gold that is current in thy Kingdom.  
Canst thou not bear with the tenderness of their Consciences? There is not a people in the Nation (I am bold to speak it) that would so freely give toleration to tender Consciences, as they would do: Thou allowest some Grains (I well know) to thy Gold; and why not a little lawful Liberty to a truly tender Conscience? Why wilt thou offer to urge an Oath upon them? God's Witness in all Consciences knows their yea and nay is as binding unto them, as all the Oaths and Bonds of the best of thy Inhabitants beside them. And why dost thou, O Supreme Power, imprison, or suffer any to be imprisoned or disquieted for working in their Calling upon those called Saints days? Is this the Toleration thou intendest to allow to tender Consciences? O! What's become of the Word of a King?  
And tell me now, O ye men in Authority, and all sober-minded people, if Passion be down, and Prejudice removed: What is that O man, in thee (whatsoever thou art) high or low, rich or poor, that is offended because the honest-hearted bows not with his body to it, or stands not bare without his Hat before it? Or frets and fumes like a Fool, or a Fellow new come out of Bedlam, if a man do but speak proper English to him, thou or Thou to a single person?  
Is it the Babe of Humility, or the Seed of Pride that is so soon puffed up into passion, that sometimes to an affectionate kind word, it answers discourteously with blows or buffet?  
Oh England! England! When wilt thou come into the Humility? When will thy Malice cease against the Innocent, and thy surious folly find an end? When wilt thou leave persecuting thy own Bowels?  
Not so long as the Beast and false Prophet have Dominion over thee; not till the Righteous God awaken thee with his Judgements: And verily O England, 'tis time that thy Governors knew, thou ripens fast, thou art fattening for Destruction, while thou licks up that which formerly thou vomited, and canst now conform (though with gripe in thy Conscience) to Popery and Popish Prelates, and persecute the Saints in Prison for not submitting to thy Popish Festivals.  
Oh whither are you wheeling, you great Counsellors of the Kingdom! O England, England! wouldst thou not even drink the very dregs of Popery, if the Lord would try thee? But he hath a Cup for thee to drink, which will awaken thee, he hath Arrows in his Quiver that will wound thee to the heart, and lay thy persecuting Headpieces in the Dust, though the Innocent lift not a hand against them.  
The Righteous God will plead the Cause of his People, he will suddenly smite the stiffnecked and stouthearted, that say of his Son, the Light of the World, Nolumus hunc Regnare, we will not have this man to Rule over us; He will make the fat Bulls of Bashan Roar; he will make the Beast feeble in his sinews, yea as weak as water.  
Down goes the Beast and the blind Guides together, & they that are willing to be deluded by them, who make war against the Innocent: An irrecoverable wound shall the Wicked receive, and then shall they know the evil they have done in outstanding the day of their Visitation, and helping on the miseries and afflictions of God's People.  UNto Thee, O Lord God Omnipotent, do we commit our Cause; Thou Lord knowest the Integrity of thy Chosen one's; Thou sees we have no other help in Heaven but thee, and that there is none in all the Earth from whom we can expect deliverance, but from Thee, Thy Mercies are sure to thy Righteous Seed, and thy Compassions can never fail, nor be separated from it: This is our Stay, this is our Comfort, O thou God of all Consolation, thou art with us, thy Love is to us, thy Presence is amongst us, and thy All-sufficient power is felt and witnessed within us: Thy everlasting loving kindness (which compasses us about) no mortals can take from us. Glory, glory, unto Sion's King for ever. 
Lincoln the 7th day of the 11th Month, called, January. M. M.  
THE END.