The Quakers Message and Propositions, to Our Gracious Lord and Soveraign King CHARLES; Presented on Tuesday last, &c.
ON the 8th of this instant, came a person to White-hall arrayed in white garments, desiring to speak with his Majesty, for that she had a Work of great importance to communicate: Upon which, his Majesty having notice thereof, she had admittance to his Royal Presence; where she delivered this following Paper to his Sacred Majesty.
I Was your Messenger impostened in Gods will concerning your return to this place so soon again: I was laid harbourless that same year that I saw the Vision of your return to England again, I do defire some liberty for my own practice of my own Houshold Ordinances, as I was chosen Messenger [Page]of your return again, and saw it Justice that you should have this Land again, so you do not oppress the weak Spirit of Gods Majesty in his Saints, but let them have recourse in whatsoever fashion God shall be pleased to raise himself in his Ministers; So I my self shall stand a mother in Gods house in these cases: I shall also intreat some liberty concerning my labour on your Sabbath. I do utterly defie all Jewish Forms of Religion, or keeping any one day above another; for in so doing you keep out the profession of Christs natures practice: May not such be left damned Souls, as the Jewish People was? which was always requiring a Saviour, and yet at last themselves left Vagabonds for want of the true Spirit to serve them with Wisdom, and the supply of Gods will in his Christ which God had sent to be their Teacher and Saviour, both in his Sonne and Apostles: So you will be left in the same fashion, as your standing is now in these Nations, being divided in service, and all confusion, which will breed Us a speedy destruction, except you will adhere to let the Saints make themselves a body in Christs fashion; and you your self must stand Protector of these occasions: So your Countrey will be blessed with this presence, more then any parts of the Dominions of the World besides you: So [Page 3]the Saints will have their Prerogatives, and your Souls will have salvation by their presence, and your blessings will abound more then oth [...]r Nations, as you shall consent to these Propositions: So I rest, Christ's Minister in this present hour,
AMEN.
I shall also intreat, that whensoever God shall be pleased to manifest any of his fore-speaking words, and th [...]y be brought forth to cry it in the open street, or any place of City or Countrey, that you will grant some protection by Constables, or some other means, that they be not abused in such conditions, as I my self have been; as being cast into Bedlam, for a mad-body, for prophecying the return of your Majesty some years since to your Native Kingdome. And if my Father, God Almighty, had not made a way in my self to get me out of their hands I had bin destroyed for a mad body: For these conditions of God's action are strange to your worlds understanding, in the time of God's action in Us. So I rest,
A Petitioner for the Saints Liberties.