The sins of a gainsaying and rebellious people laid before them, that if there be any tenderness in them, they may repent, and forsake their wickedness, and return to the Lord, before the grievous storm of the fury of the Lord overtake them, in which, all the wicked and obstinate ones, shall be overwhelmed.  
Also a word to foolish Merchant, lose professors, and ungodly parents, who train up their children in wickedness: Written at the command of the Lord, by one of his servants called, John Po●●●  

OVer you O ye scattered people in Barbadoes do I lament; O how have ye refused to be healed! O how have ye despised healing. O how have ye despised the Love of God, which hath long and often been proffered unto you! O how have ye turned the grace of God into lafciviousness! and like Swine have delighted in wallowing in filthiness, your abommable practices have ye gloried in, and have made a sport of wickedness, sporting in your dallying and wantonness, out of the fear of the Lord, spending your time in pleasures, and in vain delights, living as the beasts of the field without the knowledge of God, committing idolatry, eating and drinking, and rising up to play, which thing is abominable in the sight of God; O how is the image of the Devil exalted among you! and the image of God defaced and utterly lost, so that there is no mark of it to be seen among you, but the image of the Devil how plainly is it discovered among you, even in all places where you are, the swearer by his swearing shows whose image he bears, the liar by his lying, shows who is his father, the drunkard by his drunkenness shows what he delights in, and what God he serveth, the deceitful man by his deceit shows he knows not the image of God, the oppressor whose life is wicked, and whose end is accursed shows what a devilish wicked spirit he is guided by, who to get to himself cares not what those that are under him suffers, who to get of the earth into his possession, and increase his unrighteous Mammon, (which is his God whom he serves) cares not what murder is committed by him to fulfil his unrighteous and covetous ends, (I speak concerning you, who like unnatural beasts have been the death of many of your servants, by withholding from them convenient food, for want of which many have perished under you, but his Mammon will not save him in the day of the Lord, for that, for which (like a fool) he hath ventured his soul and lost it to get, will not purchase him one drop of cold water in hell to cool his tongue with: and truly ye swearers, covetous liars, cozners, deceitful ones, and oppressors, thither must ye go, except ye repent, the Devil whom ye now serve cannot deliver you, ye he will rejoice over you when you come thither, as he doth now at your present folly, who follow him in the broad way which leads to destruction, which ye earnesty follow, but ye conside not that the end of it is torment, out of which there shall be no redemption; how have ye despised the voice of God? how have ye despised the call of the Lord to repentance, and have hardened your hearts against the loving kindness of God, which hath been proffered to you day after day, and time after time, ye have despitefully used those who have been sent unto you, and accounted them your friends who have daubed you up with deceit; you have been bold for your idol-dumb shepherds, who have been cur, sed examples to you of wickedness and profaneness, in swearing in drunkenness, in rioting in quar, reling, in lyings in dissembling, these men who have lived in these wicked practices are those whom ye have accounted your friends, and for your love to these, the servants of the Lord, who have been sent to warn you, have ye despitefully used, some with scoffs and reproaches, some with blows and punches, and some with shedding their blood, as I am a witness against you, and being wilfully mad, many of you have said (when ye have taken those who have been sent unto you, and used them according to your unreasonable wills) hang them, others have said hanging is too good for them, and this is because they lay before you your wickedness, and declare against your service, wherewith you mock God and dishonour his name, for if Turks and Indians should see your violence and madness (as hath been declared to you) into which you fly forth (either before, in or after your service, if any of the servants of the Lord come among you, would they not cry shame on you? and think it strange that such should talk of a pure and holy God, who act so filthily; be ashamed ye wicked ones to take the name of God into your mouths, who hate to be reform, who hate to be reproved, who hate to return from your filthiness, sit down and lament ye careless ones, cast off your garments of mirth and joy, and take unto you sackloath, humble yourselves lest ye be destroyed; for behold the day is coming and near at hand, that your joy and rejoicing shall fly far from you, and howling and lamenting shall overtake you, which ye shall not be able to fly from, for behold a storm of thunder and great hail, and a day of terror and thick darkness shall come upon the wicked, which none shall be able to deliver them from, neither from it shall they be able to deliver themselves, but in it shall be overwhelmed, if ye still continue to go on in wickedness, ye shall perish, none shall be saved but those who repent, none shall be delivered but those who return to the Lord, therefore return while you have time, return before the overflowing scourge doth overtake you, which shall sweep away the refuge of lies, with all who put their trust in it, no such refuge will stand before the Lord, and woe unto you that fly not to him for refuge, no place will be found to hid the great ones of the earth from the presence of the Lamb though they cry to the Mountains and hills to fall upon them, yet shall they not be hid, for their refuge shall be swept away, though ye fly to your teachers for refuge, yet shall they not deliver you, for than will their filthiness appear, and they will have so much need of a hiding place as you, though now they flatter you and call you Christians, while ye are enemies to God and his ways, and ye call them Ministers of Christ, and fight for them, yet the deceiver and the deceived shall perish together, without speedy repentance, the blind leaders, and the blind that follow them, shall both fall into the ditch together, who return not, lift up your eyes on high, and behold how your iniquities hang over your heads, as a black cloud, behold how the vengeance of God is ready to fall upon you, vengeance in flames of fire you must expect who are wicked, the cup of the Lords fury is filled for you, who have made your faces as brass, and hearts as stone against the Lord; ye show by your perverseness what generation you are of, ye are of that generation which always resisted the holy Ghost, who always fought against God, who always reproached the truth, who always were enemies to God, and children of the Devil, ye bear the image of him who hath begotten you, and ye cannot abide to hear his kingdom declared against, and therefore do ye imagine a vain thing, and are gathered together against God and his Christ, but kiss the son lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, for if his anger be but a little kindled, blessed are those that put their trust in him, but woe unto them that trust not in him, save your selves by speedy repentance, and think not because repentance is proffered unto you, therefore it may be time enough to repent when ye have served the Devil so long as ye can, for verily none of you know how soon ye may be cut off, none of you can say ye shall live a month longer, and how can ye then say ye will repent half a year or a year hence, or more, this is the way where in the devil leads you, ye put off repentance till such a time, and think ye will repent then, but when the time is come, the abominable practices are beloved as much, yea it may be more than they were before; and none of you are so ignorant but ye know that except ye repent ye shall all perish, and consider what a sad condition that will be, would it not make you tremble and quake if you did truly consider of it though none now are more the objects of your reproach, and scorn, and malice, than those that tremble at the presence of the Lord, take heed to yourselves, it is better to lose the joy of the world for a time then lose your own souls for ever: will flattering of yourselves save you? will saying that the Lord is with you and no evil shall befall you (while you live in filthiness and uncleanness) deliver you? will not the Lord punish you and your shepherds, together for the abominations of your holy things? will crying Lord Lord, we have professed thy name, and talked much of the Scriptures, and have spoken much of thy truth, save you in the day of the righteous judgement of God, from going into hell with the Devil and his Angels? which is a just reward for all the wicked, nay be not deceived, ye must be regenerate and born again, or, cannot inherit the kingdom of God; your proud hearts ye proud ones must come down, before ye receive Christ who is humble, without whom no salvation ye can witness, ye envious ones, your envious natures must be abhorred and forsaken, before he who is the Covenant of God, who is love, is received in you; drunkards, you must forsake your drunkenness and learn moderation, before Jesus Christ ye do witness, who teaches moderation in all things, without whom ye cannot please God; and ye who are covetous, who are gripping for the earth, your idolatry you must come to forsake before ye know Jesus Christ, who is the Commonwealth of Israel, without whom all is accursed and ye will be left poor, and naked, and miserable, though by violence you have enlarged your possessions, and made yourselves great in the earth.  
O consider ye Merchants, who are selling that which is spiritual for that which is carnal, who are selling the health of your souls, to satisfy your covetous minds and are selling the everlasting inheritance to get wealth in the earth, ye are foolish and not wise; ye have not yet learned the true wisdom, ye have spent your time in vain, if ye come to cast up your accounts ye will find it so, ye have lost by your trading and not gained, there is a pearl whose price ye know not, seek after it for it is precious, and when ye have found it, sell all ye have as yet got to purchase it, so shall ye have gain enough, and abundance of riches, yea, the price of that pearl cannot be cast up, therefore no longer spend your time for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfies not, but come unto him where ye may have enough of all things and abundance of riches; for while ye come not to witness the godly pearl, ye never have enough, though you could purchase the whole world; but being possessed of this pearl, you will have enough of all things; truly I cannot but sorrow for you who despise it, and think that a little of the earth is better than this pearl, it is because you are ignorant and sottish and have not accounted right, you have overprised that which is not worthy to be esteemed, and have undervalved that which is alone to be prised, like Esau sell your birthright for a mess of Pottage, cast up your accounts again, and reckon rightly, for the Lord is coming to call you to an account than will it be known whether ye have been faithful servants, who have gained with your Lord's money by trading: consider betimes, for he is near at hand who will call you to an account, it will not be enough for you to say that the Lord is a hard master, that will not save you from being cast into utter darkness, who are wicked and slothful servants; if there be any among you who is wise, let his wisdom appear in preparing to meet the Lord by speedy repentance by putting away drowsiness, and doing that which is just.  
And now ye drowsy professors, who are found in the abominable practices before mentioned, who have tasted of the goodness of God, and have made much mention of his Name, ye are to be sharply reproved above others, for ye have known that which others for want of the knowledge of have perished; your sin is greater than others, your abomination is aggravated in a far higher measure than others, for others have beenbold to do wickedly, having you for an example to them, others have said within themselves, may not I be covetous, proud, wanton, and scornful, for such a one is so, who hath more knowledge than I have, and thus through your looseness have ye caused the name of the Lord to be blasphemed, yea are to be beaten with many stripes, because ye knew the masters will out did it not; ye knew that ptide the Lord did abhor, ye knew you should not be wanton, ye knew that covetousness is idolatry, these things ye knew but practised not, therefore your condemnation will be greater; cease from your dead images which you are seeking to put life into by your subtle inventions, your images are to be broken and ye are to be scattered, if there be any of your former honesty, and zeal towards God remaining in you, return before the fury of the Lord break forth to consume his enemies who trust not in him, be ashamed of your lewdness and impudence, and take unto you modesty, and talk not of the condition of the saints no further than you can witness them fulfilled in you; call not God Father, till you can witness that which is begotten of God doth rule you, consider how ye have blasphemed the name of God, while you have called him Father and Lord, but have done the works of the Devil, consider how the way of truth hath been evil spoken of through your looseness, who have called yourselves by the name of God and Christ, yet now are found talking of and pleading for the liberty of the flesh; O be ashamed and confounded, is this the end of your profession? is this the end of your talk? is the liberty of the flesh that which. ye have been contending for all this while? will God be thus served? will not he be avenged on such a generation as this? who hath thus deceitfully dealt with him; take heed ye are not stronger than God; what will become of this chaff, when he who is a consuming fire shall plead with it? will this abide the fire? will this stand before the Lord? pure is his name, pure is his power, let all that defiles and works abominations departed from him, for it cannot dwell with him, neither doth he delight in it; therefore O ye professors, who are lifted up in a dead unsavoury, and putrified profession, come down and departed from your filthiness which ye have long lived in, or for ever you must departed from the presence of God; ye are like tall Cedars, but your boughs will be lopped, and your beautiful branches (wherewith you have deceived many who have admitted your beauty) shall be taken from you, then shall the old stump from whence these branches have grown, be seen to be as wood fit for the fire; your profession is discovered, and your nakedness is seen, therefore repent while you have time, and it is a day of visitation to you.  
And now O ye parents who have many children, consider what it is children are given you for; is it to bring them up in pride, and idleness, wantonness and luxury? do ye herein discharge the duty of parents? should ye not have sought the Lord yourselves, and have instructed your children in his fear, this ye should have done, but contrarily, you have forsaken the Lord yourselves, & wrought wickedness, and have brought up your children in your own abominations, in pride, in wantonness, in disdain, in deceit, and whatsoever is abominable in the sight of God; must ye not give an account for these things? must ye not answer for your children, whom ye have caused to go astray, how hath goodness been hated by you? even so that many of you, yea for the most part, if there hath been any tender in any of your children, and if any of them have turned, abside in any measure from following your wicked steps, then hath it been your work to smother those desires, and have cried out of melancholy, and say that children should be merry and laugh, and such like; and thus walk in the broad way yourselves, and bring up your children to follow your own steps; how will ye give an account before the Lord? how will you answer for these things before him, who will punish you for these things? How many is there among you who have been forward in teaching their children to curse and swear, and in hearing them to be ready at it, have been delighted? have not many of you taught your children to lie and dissemble, and have called them good children, wh●n they have been expert at it? O horrible wickedness! was ever any like this? is it not a shame that such a thing should be named, much less practised by those who call themselves christians? will not the Heathen who have not heard of God, rise up in judgement with this generation, and condemn them for their filthiness.  
Now to the light of Christ in all your consciences do I appeal (which doth condemn these wicked practices before mentioned) whether these things be not so, the testimony of that seek, for that will not lie, though ye will, and is a teacher to all who follow it, and are guided by it, but is for ever the condemnation of all who despise and disobey it, and remember that your sins have been laid before you, ye stubborn ones, who hate to be reform, and now the time is past, and ye are in the pit, out of which there is no redemption, remember that a day was proffered to you, and that there was a time wherein it was said to you, to day if you will hear his voice, harden not yur hearts, So I rest.  
This written to the uncircumcised in hearts and ears, who go on in the Stiffneckedness of their own hearts, despising the Love of the Lord, and doing despite unto his Spirit. A sufferer for the sake of the seed of God and a friend of Zions peace, for which I am hated by the inhabitants of Babylon, both priests, and people prophesors and profane, known by the name, John Rouse.   

A Prayer concerning such as are made Ministers by the TWO of man, and a n● exhortation to all sober minded people to come out from among them.  
what ministry is that which is upheld by a Law given forth in man's will contrary to the Law of God, if it be not Antichristian? and whether or no their Ministry was from God that haled out of the Synogoves, or those that were haled? And whether Paul's Ministry was not according to what you now persecute, who went into the Synagogues to reason with them, after the same manner as we do now, who received not his Ministry from man, neither had it by man, though he was brought up at the feet of Gamaliell, he counted that which he learned there, as dung and dross, in comparison of the excellency of Jesus Christ; and now with the Same light, your form of prayer, and form off preaching without the power, it is as dross and dung to me, and to all that live in the life, who know Christ to be the high Priest over the household of God, whose Government is on his shoulders, who will not acquit the wicked, neither shall the evil doer escape his hand; for the hand of the Lord is stretched out, and by the bareing of his arm are we Saved from all our transgressions, which by no other means could be done; for when I wallowing in my blood, and no eye pitied me, nor none could cure my disease, when I went through the vale of misery, in the cloudy and dark day, when no light appeared, then was I following men, but darkness was over the whole earth in me, which was my great sorrow, but sometimes hope was an anchor, that it should not be always so, but when the flood came I was as one overwhelmed with sorrow, for all my actings, and my prayers returned in vain; while I was acting for life, the living suffered in me, which groaned for deliverance, and the groans of that was heard, and not my prayers, than the Son of Righteousness appeared to me, with healing under his wings, than he rend the vail, and uncovered all that I had done, and shown me the book wherein all my actions were set down, that I had acted against him ever since I was a child, and indeed I could read in it, and knew what was written there, then was the acceptable year of the Lord God, and the day of vengeance to the ungodly in me, than was the vials of the wrath of God poured forth upon me without mixture, and indeed it was given me to drink deeply but I desired that I might be spared, but it was to let me see that I had Sinned against God, and I should bear his indignation, until he did plead my cause, for I was condemned, but the Blood of the Son of God ransomed me and brought me into freedom, which by no other means could be done; then he shown me his doctrine, and writ his Law in me, and placed his word in my heart, which is an everlasting witness for himself, and against all the world, that their deeds are evil, who by his power hath shaken, and caused all my bones to tremble, and to stagger like a drunken man, but the remainder of himself could not be Shaken, for he was stricken, and by his stripes were we healed, and by his light we see all hirelings, and persecutors to be out of his doctrine; therefore we deny them; So all people who fear God come out from among them (lest yo● be partakers of their plagues) as I have done. M. F.  
The difference between the world's relation which stands in strife, malice and wickedness, and the Saints relation which stands in love, life, peace and joy 〈◊〉 the Holy ghost.  
The Relation which stands in destroying, is by the children of the light deny, all such who live out of light, and out of it walk, who wear the old garmet, whose mind is corrupt, and hath a wisdom; and with it know not God, ad hath a knowledge & with it corrupt themselves, & hath a humility, but feiged, and hath a worship but in the will, and hath a righteousness but in the self; and speaks the high words but it is in hypocrisy, and hath a liberty but in the 〈◊〉, where the spirit is in prison, who in Cain's way is gone, and hath not a habitaion in God, whose affections are below in the earth, and serve the lusts and the pleasures, whose conversation is among the wicked, and there is the world's relation where lodgeth the strife and the debate and deceit, and disdain, and setting up that which God will throw down, now while this is standing which is contrary to the light, they that in the light do walk, and be in it, these hey deny, and Sees that which leads nature out of its course, and what sets the whole course of nature on fire, and there the whole world are in confusion, and all the tongues are unbridled, where power over them is not, while that reigns which leads nature out of course, his religion is vain, and that relation stands out of truth, but all such as to the light are turned, See with the light (and that doth manifest what leadeth nature out of course,) the marriage that is honourable, and what sets the whole course of nature on fire, and what leads nature into course, where the pure relation and the entrance of it is received, where the self and its righteousness is denied, and the righteousness of Christ received, where the worship of the will is denied, and the worship of God in Spirit and Truth received, where self righteousness is denied, and Christ the righteousness of God received, & the former conversation put of & the conversation in Heaven witnessed, the affections below changed, & the affections which are above come to; here is the pure Religion known without guile, which are out of cain's way, where the habitation in God is witnessed and seen, where the just lives by his faith, and honouring in the Lord known, and the true humility Learned of Christ, who is not of the world, though it by him was made, who lighteth every man that cometh into the world, who is man's way out of it; which light is man's condemnation if he do not believe in it; and the relation which is in the world (who hate the light,) is in the lust, where the perverseness is in the love of the world, where the envy is, where the invention is, selfeishness, crossness, perverseness, backbiting, maliciousness, filling with unrighteousness, yet they have a love, yet they have a relation, now the light which comes from the beloved Son of God, where the Love of God is received, the world's relation is denied, for the relation of the world destroys and devours, but the children of the light, which be in the relation out of the World, live in peace, unity, and fellowship, and comfort enjoyed in the holy Ghost, so all you that profess relation in words, and envy lodgeth in your hearts against one another, and yet flatter one another to your faces, and backbite one another, behind the back, such relations we deny, and have a witness in your consciences against it; And all that profess a relation one to another, and love and friendship with the tongue, and in heart deceive one another, and cousin, and cheat one another, and lie, and dissemble one with another, all such relations we deny, and have a witness in your conscience against it: And such as profess religion, or worship, or humility, righteousness, and the Scripture, Christ and the Prophet's words, & live out of their life, and live in envy and malice, and yet profess you have a relation to Christ, and God, whom ye have not seen, and you love him, and do not love them whom you have seen, such relations we do deny; & all such as cry up your experiences, high notions, manifestations, as you call them, dispensations as you call them, and live in pride, strife, and envy, debates, derision, scorns, loftiness, highmindedness, you be out of the light and out of the way, in corners, and out of the pure relation, we have a witness in your conscience against those things, which lets you see what you possess, and will let you profess no more if to it you harken, which turns from the world and the relations therein, for all who believe not the light, and are not to it come, have a love, but it is in the world; and a relation, but it is in the world, which is enmity to God, so that relation which is enmity is denied with the light, that love which is enmity, is denied with the light, which leads to the pure relation, which enures not, where the destroyer, and devourer is rebuked.  
G. F.   

THe faith of such no better than the faith of the Pharisees who only believe of a Christ, because the Scriptures declare of him, but the faith of them who dwell in the life and power of God and follow the Lamb who thersoever he goes, is that faith which▪ overcomes the world, to believe of a Ch●ist because the Scriptures declare of him, is to believe as the Pharisees did believe, who were the persecutors and murderers of the just, but to believe in th● light, the life that gave forth the Scriptures is seen, and Christ is believed in, and here he hath the witness in himself, and comes to be a child of light and born of God, which birth overcomes the world, and now saith Christ they hate the light because their deeds are evil, and will not bring their deeds to it, because the light will reprove them, and this is the condemnation the light saith Christ; and now it doth appear them that hate the light, priests, teachers, people, young and old hate the light, and will not bring their deeds to the light, because the light will reprove them, neither will they suffer other that walk in the light, and love the light, and bring their deeds to the Light and show their dees with the light, and reprove them with the light, because they hate the light, and them that walk in it, and cast them into Prison, and so are stumbling at the light all sorts of people, (mark) it is the light that they hate, saith Christ, they hate the light which reproves their evil deeds, and this light is that which the world and the teachers thereof cannot endure to be talked off, but hate it and them that walk in it, & it is the light that is so much stumbled at, so because their deeds are evil, and they walk in darkness, there is a proof, for they that walk in the light stumble not, but come to receive the light of life, here Christ's words ●s fulfilled amongst them that hate the light, and will not bring their deeds to the light, because the light will reprove them, for that which doth make manifest is light, so that which makes manifest they cannot endure, but would be in the da●k, and keep their deeds in the dark as it is manifest, and saith Christ the Devil shall cast some of you into prison, he is out of the light out of the truth, and a liar, and a murderer from the beginning, which now is seen with the light, and trampled upon, and all that own not the light which cometh from the word, are the wicked feeds men, sowing abroad their tares, their lies, the evil reports, and them that are gone from the light, that comes from the word of truth, are given up to believe lies and reports, and may cry up darkness, if you hate the light what have you to cry up else, if you turn from the light, pitiful preaching, which hates the light, which manifesteth all the works of darkness.  
G. F.    

London, Printed in the 4th. month 8th. day for M. W. 1659.