A SIGNIFICATION FROM ISRAELS GOD TO Englands Rulers AND Inhabitants, from the highest to the lowest concerning what hereafter shall ensue.  
Through a Servant of the Lord who desires the returning to the Lord, and reformation of the lives of those who are yet enemies to the Lord and themselves, that they may escape what the Lord hath threatened against the workers of Iniquity. T. O.  
For when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a Woman with Child, and they shall not escape, 1 Thes. 5.3.  
But the Name of the Lord is a strong Tower, the Righteous runeth into it and is safe, Prov. 18.10.  
Printed in the Year 1666.   

A Signification from Israels God, &c.  
OH England, England's Rulers from the highest to the lowest, hear the Word of the Lord yea Rulers and Inhabitants of this Land; for behold thus saith the Almighty and dreadful God of Heaven& Earth, a happy Land or Nation might England have been if you had made your laws and Decrees for the suppressing of evil doers, works and workers of iniquity which aboundeth in this Land, and spared my People who fear my Name, and let the oppressed go free; which was the thing I required at your hands, and for this very end and purpose I gave and betrusted you with power that you might have done the thing that pleased me, saith the Lord; who raised you out of your suffering state( wherein many of you was sensible of sufferings) under the hands of your enemies, as many of my People were in their days, and I delivered them into your hands, and brought you to your Dominions again, because they did not the thing that was right before me; therefore they had but their day, and you have had a day also; they persecuted and imprisoned my People, in which sufferings several of them suffered until death, and they were guilty of innocent blood, and my hand turned against them for their overthrow: But what have you done? your day is yet, have you amended any of these things, or have you added affliction to affliction, and strengthened their bands, and caused the oppressed to groan under your cruelties, which many of you have not spared to exercise upon them that fear my name? And how have you sought their ruin and destruction, and to separate them from the Land of their Nativity? And how have you been renting and tearing with your might and strength the Husband from the Wife, the Wife from the Husband, and Parents from their tender Children? is this done unto them for evil doing, or because they serve and worship me, saith the Lord? What say you to it, if you have found wickedness and abomination amongst them you are the more excusable; but if it be for the exercise of their Conscience towards Me, and because they can serve none but Me, then woe be unto you for ever except you with speed repent; no longer harden your hearts against me, you shall know I am the Lord, for the day of your recompense is coming; yea, the day is hastening upon you, wherein I will call you to account; and where is the mighty Man amongst you, with all 〈◇〉 laws and Decrees that will be able to pled with me in the dreadful day of my Vengeance; Oh what account can you give of your Stewardship? you shall know the power and dominion is mine, saith the Lord God Almighty: Did my hand turn against your enemies and delivered them into your hands that you might be a scourge to them? what think you concerning yourselves? are you more righteous then they? did not many of you see the evil in them, and have not you exceeded them in a high manner? who shall deliver you, or who shall be able to help you in the day of your distress, or where will you hid your heads in the day of your Calamity if you repent not?  
My soul even mourns within me for the Inhabitants of this Land, who have rejected the council of the Lord, and hardened their hearts against God: Oh that one might a little prevail with you, that you would set yourselves to seek the Lord, and stand no longer in the gainsaying, but turn to the Witness of God in yourselves, which reproves you for your evil deeds, that through true repentance you may meet the Lord in Sion, that a habitation and a hiding place you may know with the Lord in the mighty day that's hastening upon all the workers of unrighteousness. As I was prest in my spirit to writ to thy Rulers and Inhabitants oh England, being in deep exercise concerning such a weighty matter, I even set myself to wait upon the Lord, and after some hours waiting upon the Lord, my heart being exercised with him, the God of Israel spake on this wise, Great shall be the increase and gathering of my People, they shall be as the sands on the sea shore; but upon the wicked and ungodly who have provoked me to jealousy, destruction, destruction, desolation, misery and woe, sore Calamities, sword and famine, plague and pestilence, such that never was from the beginning. Oh the sense of thy misery oh England caused my bowels to be moved with compassion for thee; oh how doth my soul pitty thee with thy leaders, thy Rulers and all thy Inhabitants, who have set yourselves to make war with the Lamb and his Followers: Oh whether will you run, to whom will you fly for refuge? neither hills nor mountains will cover you, neither can you hid yourselves in the clefts of the Rocks; oh the mighty day of dread and terror that's hastening, wherein you will remember your dealings when terror and fear compasseth you about on every side; then shall you say, blessed are they that fear God and not Men; oh the cry that will be among you, then shall many come crying unto them, that you now seek to destroy who fear God in dead and in truth, and shall say, pray to your God for us, that he may show us mercy in the day of our distress.  
In which neither your Gods of Silver nor Gold shall be able to deliver you, your laws nor Decrees, nor power of darkness shall be able to help you; and all you inferior Officers in this Land who have put yourselves forward in this work of persecuting the People of the Lord; and say, you have the King's law, and you must do your office: Oh that you considered what you are about, for it's neither King nor Parliaments that can save, deliver, or excuse you in this approaching dreadful day of the mighty God, in which he will take vengeance upon his enemies; and this know oh King and Parliament, that neither your Bishops, Deans, Prebends, Priests, nor Prelates that can be a saviour to you in the day wherein the dreadful God will execute his pleasure, though they have taught and instructed you in this way, who are ready to flatter with you, and say you do God good service in this work; but it will be manifest, and you shall know in the day of your Visitation, whether you have done service for the Lord, or whether you have been fighting against God; you Bishops with all your Priests, you have now a power to uphold you, and great revenues many of you have; but the day of your desolation slumbers not, for the hand of the Lord is turned against you, and all your power and laws to uphold you, it will all be too little for you, for one mightier then you all, hath sealed his decree concerning you, except you repent: And as I live saith the Lord you shall partake of what is aforesaid, according to your doings: Oh my soul pities you, the time is fast hastening wherein your coverings will be rent and torn in sunder, and you shall appear as you inwardly are, and you shall deceive my People no more saith the Lord.  
Oh King, oh King happy Prince might thou have been, and of renown in dead if thou hadst never inclined an ear to flattering Priests, who for self ends will cry peace, peace; oh that the time past might suffice, and thou turn to the Lord: bear with me a little oh King, and receive a few plain words from one that loves thy soul, who dares not flatter with any but in plainness of speech declare the truth, hadst thou took the Lord for thy councillor, and inclined thine ear to the witness of God in thee which would have taught thee to do as thou would, and also to have broken down oppression, and let the Israel of God gone free; surely then Nations should have bowed before thee, and thine enemies not been able to stand against thee, but a prosperous Prince indeed thou should have been. But surely, surely my soul saith within me, well would it be for thee oh King that thou would yet return to the Lord, and wait to know him to be thy chief councillor, and it may be thou mayest yet be happy; and how honourable will it be for thee to have the Lord for thy councillor; and to do that which may please the Lord; and herein thou mayest please him who is God of Gods, and King of Kings; as time is yet given thee and power is yet in thy hand, to break off oppression and take the heavy burdens off from the afflicted suffering people of the Lord within thy Dominions. Break their bonds and let them go free in their exercise to the Lord their God, who are willing to be subject to whatever is good, and what better Subjects can a King desire? and this is the truth there is no other way for thy safety, welfare and happiness. But it may be, thy Bishops and thy Priests will say no; but take heed of their flatteries; and this I have to say concerning them; but I had rather be silent herein, but dare not but declare the truth from the Lord, for the day of their discovery is hastening, wherein they will be loathed, abhorred and hated above all people, because they have been the teachers, leaders and instructors, and have encouraged both Rulers and People in persecuting, imprisoning and banishing them that fear the Lord only, therefore shall they receive a reward according to their doings, but blessed are them who fear and trust in the name of the Lord, for well will it be with them whether living or dying.  
And all you both high and low of what rank or degree soever, who have not yet sinned out the day of your visitation, who have any breathings after the Lord, and desires life everlasting rather then death and destruction: Awake, awake in the name of the Lord, and look to yourselves, now is the time, but you know not how long, how long, the Lord hath long born and forborn, and long hath he waited for the returning of his people from iniquity, transgression and sin; but how have you abounded therein▪ many writing, exhortations and warnings have you had, but how slighted, rejected and contemned by the general part, and hath been accounted as a thing of nought, and many hardened their hearts; but in vain do you harden your hearts against the Lord: be not so blind, be not so ignorant, know you not that when the hearts of a people is altogether hardened against God that destruction is near; remember Pharaoh of old, how did he withstand the Lord and hardened his heart against God, and what was his end, put it not from yourselves, the day draws near you, and whether you will hear or forbear the concernment is to yourselves, and the thing its very weighty, you will know and feel it so to be, and as one in the sense of the beholding of your sad and miserable state who fear Man more then God, and the sad calamity, which unavoidably will overtake you except you with speed forsake your iniquity, and turn to the Lord; and now I have in dread and fear of the Almighty God given this my testimony amongst you in●●bitants of the Land of my Nativity, and in the day wherein you I see and behold these things come to pass, then will you remember me, and then may you say the Lord hath spoken by me: Oh that mine eyes were as a fountain that I might weep day and night for the Inhabitants of this Land; I am pained, I am pained for thee oh England; oh that I might stand in the gap in the terrible day; unto what people under the Heavens hath the Lord been more favourable then to thee oh Land? and how hast thou requited him. Much might be said, but I leave you, look what interest you have in God, for the Witness is near you, by which you for ever will be justified or condemned; and as one who hath received mercy from the Lord my soul shall breath for your return, that your souls may also live; I had been silent in this matter if I could have had rest and peace with the Lord in forbearing; but now I have cleared my Conscience in faithfulness to God and also to you: my soul shall return to its rest with the Lord.  
Written in Northampton County Goal the 3d. of the 5th. Mon. 1666. where I am a Prisoner with near 80. more of the people of the Lord at this day, who suffer for the Testimony of a pure Conscience, waiting for the Lord to pled our cause, and clear our innocency in the face of all our enemies.  
Tho. Ollive.   

POSTSCRIPT.  
ANd concerning the now afflicted suffering People of the Lord called Quakers, who are accounted( by many in this age) as the off-scouridg of all things, and a people not fit to live in the land of their Nativity; and many wise Professors say,( who are not faithful to any thing) they are a stubborn self-willed people, who run themselves into these sufferings and need not, and so seek their own ruin: So they that fear the Lord and depart from iniquity are become a scorn and a by-word amongst them, who can act in their own wills, who please, serve and love themselves before the Lord. Oh what a Generation is this! certainly you shall know they contend not for trifles, but that which they seek, and have and do suffer for, is( of more value then Earthly Crowns) an Inheritance that is Everlasting and Incorruptible, that their souls may live and rest in the Kingdom that hath no end, when time and place shall be no more; happy and blessed will they be in the tribulating day who hath an assurance thereof, wherein neither high nor low, noble or ignoble, professer nor profane shall find any safety, but those whose trust is in the name of the Lord only and alone for ever; and the faithful in heart who seek ●●thing but the Glory of the Lord, and can serve none but him, shall walk bold as Lions with their lives in their hands blessing and praising the Lord the God of their Salvation, who have not loved their lives unto death, but have followed through the regeneration, who have a part in the first Resurrection, on whom the second death shall have no power, but in the power of the life of their God shall live and reign triumphing over death, hell and destruction, glorifying God in soul, body, and spirit. Oh will not your ears tingle in the hearing, and will not you stand amazed in the day wherein you will both hear and see the wonderful works of the God of eternal power, and you shall know the Lord is their God and their Saviour in whom they trust; who will work their deliverance in and through the destruction of his and their enemies, and will give them beauty for ashes, and the oil of gladness for the spirit of heaviness, and thousands shall desire to come to have acquaintance with the God whom they serum, and their hearts inflamed with love to him because of his Heavenly and glorious appearance in and amongst them who have given their Lives to Him. Oh hasten this thy work oh Lord, and prosper it according to thy pleasure, to which mysoul and spirit saith, Amen, Amen, hallelujah, Glory, Honour& Praise unto him that liveth& reigneth for ever.  
T. O.  
THE END.