TO THE HIGH, AND Lofty Ones.  
FEar the Lord God,& take heed of pride, woe unto you that are given to vanity, you grieve the Spirit of the Lord God in you, you loose seriousness, you loose moderation in your apparel, in your diet, you loose temperance, you are not temperate in your apparel, nor in your diet, bow to the Lord, you evil doers, what a bowing and bending make you one to another? bow to the Lord, give him the glory, give him the honour, ye who are offended, that you have not the earthly honour, earthly man, earthly Adam, not the spiritual man, the Lord from heaven heavenly, not the spiritual man, the second Adam. O how do you go in your apparel, that you cannot scarce tell how to pass the streets! O the glory of the world hath swallowed you up many of you! O! you have entered into the great temptation. What would the Devil have given Christ to have bowed down to him? Have you not the lust of the eyes? Have you not the lust of the flesh? Have you not the pride of life? and yet professeth Scriptures as he doth, and bow down to him who is out of the truth, Have you not your hearts desire in those things? Are you not dressed. so in your apparel, that you cannot scarce tell how to walk the streets, gold, silver, jewels, old men have you lost gravity? Young men have you forgotten sincerity? and young women forsaken modesty, following vanity? O what a painting of yourselves you make young and old people? O the Spirit is vexed where vanity is. God will not always strive with man. O how have you forgotten the Lord, and given yourselves up to your hearts lusts? consider all people the dayes you spend, and have spent in vanity, in wantonness, in fooleries and toys, in superfluity in naughtiness, in sports, in pleasures and games. Doth not something in you all prick you and check you of your unconverted estate, of your conversation in the earth, and so delighting in all things in the earth, setting your hearts in vanity? O old men, how can you but see and consider, is the fear of God quiter gone out of your hearts? O who can but speak, and not hold his tongu●? O how is the spirit grieved and vexed with your vanity and abominations? O how is the Just trodden under feet? O how is truth fallen in your streets? O how is every one carried away with vanity and vexation of spirit, and covered with it? how doth men ●eel in their folly& madness, that they cannot tell how to go, nor what to wear, nor what to eat, nor what to drink, nor what to put or? ●s not this the fashion of the Heathen, and not like Christians? Unsettled minds, that run into every fashion, that invents strange and new fashions? repent, repent, lest Gods judgments come upon you, and sweep you away at unawares. O how doth your inordinate affections appear? You are excessive in apparel, you are excessive in superfluity and diet. O what good doth your Preaching, and Teaching do you? How doth it profit you at all, while you are so given up into vanity, as though you never had heard talk of God, talk of Religion, talk of Christians Prophets and Apostles? red their Declarations, and see what they declared against: the rod of God you must be fed withall, ye Lofty and full, ye haughty and high-minded; O how do you eat and drink and then rise up to play? Is not this your practise ye full ones? and fat ones? do you call this recreation, ye idle ones like the old world? and sodom and Gomorrha, fullness of bread and idleness who turned against Noah and Lot, the Preachers of righteousness, so it is at this day, and so it was in the dayes of the Prophets, and in he days of the Apostles, these was spots in their feasts, that was beginning before the Apostles decease, to eat and to drink, and rise up to play, admiring mens persons because of advantage, of whose root and offspring you are, that make yourselves merry over the Just in the particular, and then in the general, and so lives wantonly upon the earth, and in pleasure, and nourish your hearts, you are of the flock that kills the Just, root and offspring; for the people sate down to eat and drink, and rose up to play, with whom God was not well pleased, of whom God slay thousands at once, there is your example, and there is your stock, and there is your old Fathers, though you profess the Saints words, if you red the Scriptures you may see of whose stock you are of? and of whose Generation, and whose path you go in, therefore if you love a long life, your souls happiness and good, come out off vanity, come to seasonableness& gravity, come to the Lord, come off all the barren mountains, all people come off the barren mountains, that you may have refreshment, of the Lord God, come off vanity, that you may be lead with the spirit, and not grieve it, and vex it, but that you may have unity in the spirit, with the Father of spirits, and unity one with another, your vanities grieve the spirit, whereby you are a burden to the Creation, it's a marvel how you can walk up and down the streets, and not be checked and reproved in your own particulars, for your vanity, and not be ashamed. Is the witness stisted in you? Hath the custom of the sin taken away the sense, are you past feeling? know you not that you must come to the dust you high lofty, wanton, giddy ones? O how are you daubed with silver lace, and your Jewels, and your spots of your faces, and your feathers, and your wearing of gold, and through the abundance of your vanity and of your superfluity, ambition and pride, loftiness and haughtiness, stop the ear from hearing the Lord his Decree and Sentence against you, and how he beholds you afar off, and stops up the eye with which you should see yourselves, and stops up your ear from hearing the cry of the poor, the blind and the lame that lies up and down your streets, so that he that regards not the poor regards not his Maker, and turning his ear from the poor, turns his ear from his Maker, so all come to soberness and modesty, and shamefastness, and be ashamed of all your pride, and vanity, and delight in the Lord your Creator, more then the creature, the giver of all good, and take pleasure in him, and take pleasure in him alone, and in his Judgements, if not, woe and wrath, and his plagues will come upon you. O what a pudder is hear? what a bowing and bending is here? bow to the Lord, give glory to him, give honour to him, fear him, dread the Lord, the Creator of all, of heaven and earth, of power, he will throw down all deceit, with his power. Honour you not the creature more than the Creator? Bow you not more to the Creature than the Creator? bow you not oftener with hat and knee to the Creature, than to the Creator? Give you not more honour and worship, and respect to the Creature, than to the Creator. O shameless men and women! God will abase your pride, and bring your honour and glory to the dust, who beholds your vanity. O how have you your lackeys and Lads to carry your easing stools after you. O you Scorners, give over scorning, and O ye fools learn to be wise, all ye that are given to vanity,( for shall they that are given to vanity prosper)? harken to the Spirit of God in you, that checks you for vanity, that you may come into the fear of God, whereby you may learn wisdom, and may not destroy the Creation, and that you may come to know God, whereby you may come to feel eternal life, that which checks you for your sins, and your vanity, and for your going after it, whereby you may come to understanding, and know what is vanity, and vexeth the Spirit, and what doth not vex the Spirit, that is pleasing to God, that you may learn with that which gives you understanding: while you have time prise it, lest your time be past: this is the day of your visitation, love the Lord God above all his Creatures, and delight not in vanity, and to the Lord God in your generation, you may be a blessing, for all the destroyers of the Creation are accursed; for Woe and Misery, and Plagues is to come upon all the World.  
Bow you not more and oftener the hat and the knee to one another, than you do unto the Lord? People cannot tell how to please one another in their bowing the Hat, in Curching one to another, but they will be ready to think, that I bowed my Hat oftener to him then he did to me, and I curchied more to her then she did to me; And thus they are offended one at another; and such a one hath more Ribbons, and Gold and Silver on him than I have, and spots on their faces, and he powders his hair and curls it; And so when any is in another fashion contrary to them, then they envy one another, which is among such which have lost gravity. And are ye not here as the transgressing Children of Israel mincing tinkling round attire, amongst whom must come the stink? Isaiah 3.  
And are ye not out of the Apostles doctrine who saith, not wearing of Gold nor broidered attire, nor plaiting of hair; but the adorning which is the hidden man of the heart.  
OH all ye Rulers of the earth, from the foundation of the world to this day, who hath been in the transgression of the Law of God, of the life of God, out of the fear of God, such in all ages hath turned the Sword against the just, that hath transgressed the just principle of God in themselves, and grafted themselves into the wicked root, all such from the foundation of the world to this day; have turned the Sword backward like blind men; so hits their friends that comes with love to their souls; and strikes at them instead of their enemies; ye persecute the just, ye kill the Saints, the Prophets, and the Son, and persecute them that be in the life of the Prophets and Apostles; these hath always strengthened the hands of the evil Doers; But them that hath reproved in your Gates; in your Streets, hath been your pray; you have banished, you have whipped, you have prisoned, ye have persecuted, you have burned my flesh saith the Lord, ye have branded, ye have marked, ye have fire and Faggots, and Houses of Correction, and Inquisitions, and sending up and down Warrants, Mittimusses, banishing the servants of the Lord, persecuting them, because they cannot bow the Hat, give you the earthly honour, not honouring the Courts as was in the days of the Martyrs for the testifying of the truth, and say thou to one, showing that you are of the earthly old Adam, driven from God into the earth, not of the second Adam the Lord from Heaven, Christ Iesus who receives not honour of men. None honours the Father and the Son, but who hath received honour from God; and that which is of God, now men in hast and passion, in rage and fury and bitterness, and prejudice these are unseasoned men for to be Iustices, unseasoned men to have honour, for humility goes before the honour, proud and high mindedness and liftings up; that looks for respect of persons, more then for truth, Iustice and equity, for if men keep down low and humble, all doing justly, they are honoured in the hearts of all people with the just principle of God, in all people that honours the higher power, that honours iustice, and exalts the humility; God doth; which goes before the honour, who brings down the mighty from his seat, and abaseth the proud, and beholds him afar off, and brings down the Lofty, and where bitterness and prejudice and burnings is in the breasts of people, they will side for parties, and be for their own ends, and what work hath men with these innocent people, which ye in scorn call Quakers? prisoning, haling out of steeple houses, sending them as vagabonds from place to place, those that be able people outwardly, whipping of them, and because they cannot bow their hat to them. What work is your Iudges making with them, and fining of them, prisoning them because they cannot swear, and prisoning them, and fining them because they cannot pay the Priest tithes, preparing war against them, because they cannot put into their mouths, such as Micah cried against, if people was not hardened, they would look into these things, and consider these things, and see all along from the foundation of the world, how they out of the fear of God persecutes, though they have got the form of words, but out of the life of them: these persecutes men because they cannot put into the Priests mouth, and such as held up such Priests as are made by men, and held up in mens wills, and not by the will of God, and persecute them because they cannot break Christs command; but keeps it which saith, swear not at all; and prisons and persecutes such as cannot receive honour from men; nor give honour to men which is from below; can the children of God give honour to that which God will abase and throw down? all that seeks or would be honoured in the hearts of all people, must answer the principal of God in all people, with iustice, with equity, with truth, and they must have patience, and humbleness, and mercy, for ye have whipped, ye have burned, ye have persecuted; and these things lie upon you: you that have acted these things are out of the fear of God; therefore now you that fear God whose hands are clear from blood and from persecuting the innocent; and who hath done just to the wicked; the Lord God will be your reward; you shall have a Crown that is immortal; that hath kept yourselves from persecuting the innocent, and put a difference between the precious and the vile; and to them that do well have been a praise; and them that have reproved sin in your Gates, hath not been a prey, but ye have protected them you have nouri●hed them; and the evil doer hath not strengthened, happy are ye who are honoured in the hearts of all people, ye are in their hearts who do justly, loves truth, are merciful, humble, such God exalts and honours them in the hearts of all his people with that of himself, such knows the proud and lofty cannot honour them; they will not receive the honour from them; which is but a compliment, and from below; and is earthly, for that which honours a Magistrate, that doth iustice and equity, and honours the power, it is from the principle of God in him, that keeps him humble and low, which brings him from under the occasion of the Law, which is a praise to them that do well; and a terror to the evil Doer.  
A lover of all your souls and your eternal good, and a friend to the Creation, and the truth, and them that be in the life of God. G. F.  
THE END.