A FAITHFUL TESTIMONY For the Lord against this Nation of England's INIQUITY, and IDOLATRY, and OPPRESSION, Because of which the Land mourneth. Being also a WARNING to all People to consider what they have done, and what they are a doing.  
OH All People of the World, Repent, Repent, and turn to the Lord, lest his dreadful Judgements fall upon you! All People fear and dread and serve the Living God: And know, that the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath caused me, Laurence Taylor of Settle, to go several Times with my Body naked, and my outward Visage or Beauty marred with Grime or Soot, and Ashes on my Head: I say, the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath commanded me several Times to go into several Steeple-Houses in that Manner, and through several Towns, which may stand a Sign and a Witness against this naked and sinful Generation, whose Worship is not in Spirit and Truth, and Souls not covered with the Spirit of Truth, which the Woe is unto; For Woe unto them, who cover, but not with the Covering of my Spirit, saith the Lord, Isa. 30. 1: And God will mar their Beauty, and consume their Glory into Ashes: Therefore, all People turn your Minds in, to the Light of Christ, and with it you will see how you stand in the Sight of the Living God; for verily, the Lord is grieved with this Generation, and his Spirit is burdened with the Iniquity of this People, who profess Christianity, but are Enemies to the Cross of Christ, and hate the Appearance of his Truth: Therefore in the Name of the Lord, I warn you, Repent, and turn to the Lord, lest his Dreadful Judgements fall upon you; and seek the Lord while he is to be found, lest the Door be shut, and you stand without, having slighted the Day of your Visitation: So while you have Time, prise it; and seek the Lord, while you have a Day and a Time, lest the Night come in which no Man can work. This from a Lover of People's Souls.  
And upon the 13th of the 12th Month, called February at Night, 1674. I was moved by the Lord God to shave the Hair of my Head, and burn it; and these Words arose in my Heart, So shall the Glory of Egypt be consumed into Ashes by the fiery Jealousy and fierce Indignation of the Wrath of the Lord, etc.  
And on the 14th Day of the 12th Month, being first Day of the Week, in Obedience to the Lord God, I went into the great Steeplehouse at Rippon (called Minster) with my Body naked (and as ) and further I had to signify unto the chief Worshippers there, that their Hands are polluted, their Sacrifices not acceptable with God, their Prayers an Abomination to the Lord, etc.  
And so for going into the Steeplehouse at Rippon with my Body naked, and bearing my Testimony for the Lord, in being a Sign against this naked and sinful Generation, their false Worship, and false Worshippers, was I hurried to Prison, and committed Prisoner, as they pretend, for disturbing them; but they disturbed me, who was in the Lord's Service; and for obeying the Voice of the Lord God, have they caused my Body to be detained in outward Bonds; but with my Spirit I can sing Praises to God for his unlimited Goodness, whose Mercy endureth for ever; So saith my Soul, Amen.  
But Woe, woe, unto the false Worshippers, who worship not the living God, and most especially, to the Priests, Teachers, Leaders and Guiders of this foolish and dark, ignorant and sottish People, who usually assemble at the great Minster at Rippon; as also to all other People who are in the same Error; the Lord is against you the false Teachers, who preach for Hire, and divine for Money, and also against you People who love to have it so; consider your Ways, you Priests and Teachers, blind Guides, who run, and the Lord never sent you, therefore ye shall not profit this People at all, as in Jer. 23. 32. And one builds a Wall, and lo, others daub it with Vntempered Mortar, crying, Peace, Peace, Ezek. 13. 10. When the Lord never pronounced it; for there is no Peace to the Wicked, saith my God, Isa. 57 21. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, I am against you Priests and Teachers of this Nation of England, who cause my People to err by your Lies, and by your Lightness or Lewdness; for you say, thus saith the Lord, when the Lord never spoke by you; for you say (Visions and Revelations are ceased, and you deny the Teaching of the Holy One, and you teach for Doctrine the Traditions of Men, and you lay wait for Blood, deceiving the Souls of the simple by your Lies & Deceits; for you call evil good, and good you call evil; you put Darkness for Light, and Light for Darkness; you turn the Blind out of the Way, and you Blind Guides lead the Blind, so both fall into the Ditch and Pit, and into the Snare; and if any one of those whose Eyes the Lord hath opened, bears witness against you, than ye prepare War against them, or if they put not into your Mouths, Micah 3. 5. Oh! how many of the Servants of the Lord have you caused to suffer for their Testimonies sake? some for not paying Tithes, some who have been imprisoned till Death, and many caused to suffer deeply in their Goods, besides Violence on the Bodies of many used; and some by hard Usage and Cruelty have suffered Death, and sealed their Testimony with their Blood, which you are guilty of who continue in the same Spirit, and follow the same Practices; you are of them who lead Captive silly Women laden with Sins and divers Lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the true Knowledge of God, 2 Tim. 3. 6, 7. You are of them who are in the Way of Cain, and run greedily after the Error of Balaam for Reward, and perish in the gainsaying of Core, Judas 11. But you shall not proceed much further; for your Folly is manifest to all whose Eyes the Lord hath opened, to see your Nakedness; and your Fig-Leaf-like Profession will not cover you, nor save you from the Wrath of the Almighty God: Therefore, howl, howl, you false Shepherds; lament and weep you blind Guides; for the Lord is arisen to render Fury to his Adversaries, who despise his Way and Truth, and would not have him to reign, whose Right it is; Glory be to his Name forever, who is God over all.  
And so in the Name of the Lord I warn you false Teachers and blind Guides to cease deceiving the People, lest you be farther guilty of the Blood of Souls.  
And also to you the Magistrates and Rulers in this Nation of England, who have made Laws to take hold of the Innocent, this is the Word of the Lord unto you, I am against you, (saith the Lord) who persecute the Just; therefore take heed how you harken to the murdering Spirit of the Priests, who stir up the Powers of the Earth to defend them, and to persecute the Just and Innocent People of God. Oh! but consider how it was the chief Priests that stirred up the Officers, and cried to Pilate to crucify Christ; and the same Spirit is in the Priests and Teachers of this Nation of England at this Day: and so in the Name of the Lord, I warn you chief Magistrates and Judges, or any other, take heed how you make Laws, or inflict them upon the innocent People of God, called Quakers; for the Lord's Controversy is great with this Nation of England; and Woe unto them who are found fight against the Lord in this the Day of his Power, in which there shall be nothing able to stand before the Lord, which is not of him; for he is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and the Earth is the Lords and the Fullness thereof, and he gives it to whom he pleases, and he can pull down whom he pleases, and exalt whom he pleases; therefore let all fear him who made Heaven and Earth and all that is therein, in whose Hands is the Breath of the Spirits of all Flesh, Glory and Endless Praises be to his Holy Name forever and ever, Amen.  
From a Servant of the Lord, whose Name in the Flesh is called, Laurence Taylor. The 19th of the 1st Month, 1675.