To the Mayor and Aldermen, with all others in Authority, both in the Civil and Military affairs in and about the City of London, together with all other sorts of People of what condition soever, High and Low, Rich and Poor, Professors and Profane, who reside in and about the said City; Listen and give good Ear to what is here declared unto you by a Servant of the Lord.  
THe Living God of Heaven and Earth whom all people ought to Reverence and Worship (with all humility) in Spirit and truth in their hearts, hath waited long to be gracious unto you, and hath done great things for you; he hath given you life and breath, strength and health, and fullness, and plenty, of all good things, more hath not been in any age as in this latter age; besides all these outward Blessings and mercies manifested from God unto you; he hath also held forth himself in much love and kindness unto you, in giving his Son a Light into the World, that hath enlightened your understandings, and shown unto you what is good, and what is evil; and he hath long been striving with you inwardly by his Light and Spirit to draw your hearts out of the evil, into the good; that you might walk with him, and live unto him in the life that is pure and holy; and moreover (as the overflowings of his love, and to manifest his willingness that all might be saved, and none perish) he hath sent forth his Messengers and servants amongst you, to invite you to come unto him and wait upon him, and serve and obey him in truth and uprightness of heart; and much more hath the Lord done for you, whereby you are for ever left without excuse. All which Mercies have been abused by many of you, and the proffers & tenders of Love slighted, and you have kicked against God, and have not turned at his reproofs; but have cast his Law behind your backs, and turned his Grace into wantonness; you have lived in pride and pleasures, and have delighted (and taken pleasure more) in the Creatures, then in the Creator: Oh the sins, the sins of the people of this City are great, drunkenness, whoredom, luxury, rioting and excess, and all manner of abominations are found within your borders; and when you have been warned by the Servants of God in the day of your Prosperity, of the calamity and misery that was coming upon you, and the Plagues and Judgements that did hang over your heads, (as many have been faithful in warning of you) you have made a light matter of it, and esteemed the many warnings as a thing of nought; and despised the Messengers and Servants of God, and evilly entreating of them by reviling, and scoffing, and casting them into nasty Prisons, as in these late years past hath been largely manifest. Those who have departed from iniquity, and according to their best judgement and understanding have cleaved unto the truth, and followed after Righteousness, they have become even a prey unto you; who could not join with you in your ways of Worship, which men have invented, and set up, and not God; and could not go on with you in your vain ways, riotings, and other flesh-pleasing practices; such have been branded with strange and foul names, as fanatics, dangerous persons, Plotters of mischief, and contrivers of Insurrection, etc. though none of these things ever was proved, nor never can be proved against that innocent people called Quakers; though we have deeply (but most unjustly) suffered, as witness the year last passed, how have your Prisons been filled with a People whose conversations have been and are more innocent & blameless than yours, (and Oh how many have laid down their precious innocent Lives in the last year, fresh young people that according to what we can judge, might have lived many years, and been serviceable to God and men in their generation, had they not been suffocated and even stifled, and Nature corrupted in that foul stinking Prison of Newgate, whose blood cries aloud for vengeance, & surely the Lord ●s now come to render vengeance upon the Inhabitants of this City for ●his great Sin of persecuting and imprisoning, and banishing of a People merely for the worship and service of God; and though you have not mentioned this Sin in your late confession, yet know that this Sin cries ●ery loud in the ears of God: And now what will you do, in the day of Calamity and sore misery that is come, and coming upon you, your Sins are so numerous and weighty, and being so far alienated from the word of eternal Life; you cannot look death in the face, which hath strongly assaulted and entered your borders, but flies before it, and whether can you fly? Shall not the Lord find you out, y●a surely, and his judgement will not cease until he have eased himself ●… his adversaries, he is highly provoked, and his wrath is kindled very h●t: Oh who can stand before him, or who dare supplicate him on your behalf; I know not the man that knows God in Truth, that dare appear fo● you, in the state and condition you are in, for though the Lord hath visit●… you in judgement, yet this is observed that most are apt to put it al● off, and doth not humble themselves by repentance; and though any may draw nigh to God with their lips, and cry aloud now when t●e judgement is upon them or near unto them, yet will not the Lord he them, for your sins have made a separation between you and the Lord; and though you make many Prayers the Lord will not hear: Oh what sh●…l I say unto you in this day? my heart is even pained within me because of the misery that is coming upon you from the Lord. I have little to say to you. because he is angry with you, only as one who has found mercy from him, and knows what is pleasing and displeasing unto him; I advise and council you to humble yourselves before the Lord, and to break off your sins by Repentance; open the Prison doors at Newgate and other Prisons, and set those free who suffer only for their Conscience towards God: and whatever you know to be evil, eat and avoid it, and whatever you ●…ew to be good, embrace it; The Lord hath given you Light to show you what is evil and what is good; let every one speedily turn from the evil and cleave to the good, and walk humbly before the Lord, it may be he may then be entreated, to remove the heavy Judgement and Plague that's now broken forth, and show mercy unto the penitent, that not only confesses but forsakes his sins. Delay not time, but now even now while it is called to day, harden not your hearts, for the Lord will not always strive with man, but will render vengeance in flames of fire upon all the stiffnecked and disobedient, and they shall be separated from the presence of God, and from the Glory of his Power. Blessed are the faithful and obedient, who follow the Lamb of God in the Regeneration, who have taken up the Cross and despised the shame; who suffer with him, such shall reign with him; and whether living or dying, in health, or sickness, in bonds or at liberty, in banishment, or in any other condition it shall go well with them, and they shall rest in peace, and dwell with God in his Holy Presence, where there is Joy and Pleasures for evermore.  
Given forth by one that mourns with the Mourners, and suffers with the Sufferers, who am a lover of Truth and Righteousness, waiting to see it flourish as a branch, and to run down as a mighty stream, as God hath promised. 
 Alexander Parker. London 11th. of the 5th. Month 1665.