Pro PRESBYTERO JOHANNE, ac omnibus ejus Regibus, & Principi bus subordinatis.

Nos populi sumus è longinquo proventi, qui [...] sumus, qui salutem illorum cum timore, & tremore c [...]mus [...] tales sumus, quales qui apud verbum Domini (qui vivit ac permanet in aeternum,) tremunt; quo cuncta fini­entia, & non permanentia neque insistentia videntur. Nos ex omnibus Derisoribus, & Scurris in mundo ejecti sumus; à bla­teronibus circa Ministerium, ecclesiam, Religionem, & cul­tum, qui ab illis in Derisione tremores vocati sumus, qui quod concutiendum est concuti cognoscimus, utque id quod concuti non potest appareat; Agnus a fundamento mundi Mactatus nunc eti­am apparetur; omnes (que) occisores, cum maximè precipuis illorum maximi illius professores fuerunt, & nune est tremor, quassatioqu▪ in Tabernaculis, in Campis, in exercitibus illorum: nuncque omnium voluntariorum adoratorum, & ecclesiarum, & Ministerii, inven­tionumque quassatio, & concussii sunt, & scientiae, intellectusque quae in nihilum rediguntur, nunc enim semen surrectum est, su­per illorum vestigium, eos in pulverem ad molandum; nunc agnus surrectus est, & ad regnandum ventus est, qui omnia sibiipsi sub­jiciet, & regna Nationesque subdet, qui reget, & regnabit, im­periumque in jusitiâ habebit.

Annunciatio nostra mittitur ad te, & ad tua regna, a servis Domini, misitque nos servos suos ad te, tuaque Dominia, Na­tionesque visitandum, nosque audientes te amorem habere in fidem Christi mundi luminis, qui illuminat omnem hominem veni­entem in mundum, quo homines fidem ab illo apprehendunt.

Nos à Domino ex magnâ Britannia moti, ex Anglia ab inter familias Prophetarum Dei excelsi, inter quos potestas, nomen, & gloria ejus revelatur, qui duo sumus ex ceteris, qui in alteras Nationes emittimur in mundum, in extremas terrae [...]ras, ad Dei vineam visitandum, ac Reges terrae quos Deus in manu ejus [Page 2]h [...]bet, & sicut aquas illos regit, qui personam alicujus hominis respicere non possumus, neque legem potentis Dei transgredi, quae dicit quòd ille qui personas re picit peccatum committit, & ita totius Legis potent [...]s Dei universae terrae sit reus, Dei Ja­cob, Abraham, Mosis, Solomonis, Davidis, Dei qui ita mundum amavit ut unigenitum Filium suum in mundum misit, quod quisquis in illo crederet non periret, sed vitam aeternam haberet, qui filius emnem hominem in mundum venientem illuminat, ut omnes per il­lum credere possint, sic in illo stasta, respectuque omnes homines in estimatione habemus ut saluari possent, & ad vitam veni­rent, ac omnes homines, & creaturas in Domino honoramus, quatenùs ipse eos creavit, quatenùs creaturas, quas ipse fecit, quanquam ab illo degene [...]es fiant, iis opus manuum ipsius ex­istentibus; Ita igitur ab omnibus in terram hominibus de­specti sumus, utrum professores Dei Chri [...]ti, Prophetarum, Apo­stolorum, Sanctorumque verborum; in totâ Scriptura sint; iis non in vitâ, & potestate Christi existentibus, in vitâ Prophetarum, & Apostolorum, atque id omnis odii in terrâ causa est tàm in­ter Professore, quàm Ethnicos, sic tua nobilitas, amor tui ad Jesum, amor tui ad Apostolos, & amor tui erga Prophetas multùm delocutus est; at hoc non nisi pars nostri nuncii, quòd Tu, & Vos, & omnes in vitam Mosis, Prophetarum, Christi Jesu, & in vitam Dei pervenire possetis, totumque subter te Dominium tuum, quo pax Dei omnem intellectum pretereùns cuncta corda vestra possideat, ut ad fidem quam habetis in filio Dei virtutem addatis, utque ad scientiam quam habetis de Prophetis & A­postolis, & Christo temperantiam addatis, & ut ad temperan­tiam, addatis patientiam, ac pietatem, & ad pietatem fraternum amorem & charitatem, quae nunquam deficiat ubi Dei amor est, hîc amor in corde diffusus, Nunc autem his in vobis entibus, abundabitis ac nequaquam steriles, nec infructuosi in cognitione Domini nostri Jesu Christi eritis; sed introitus vobis abundè ministrabitur in regnum sempiternum Domini nostri Jesu Christi, sed si haec deficiunt caeci eritis, vos (que) à pristinis peccatis vestris unquam purgatos fuisse obliviscemini; haec itaque prae­fata in vobis cognoscenda sunt; & necesse e [...]t ut regnum caelorum notum sit in vobis licet grano sinapis simile est, & illud est quod malo, aut peccato nunquam assentiverit, idque est fermentum donec nova massa fiat.

Fert verbum, quod erat in principio, Chri lus [in quo omnes Prophetae, & Typi, figurae, umbraeque desinunt sentiendum est ac inveniendum in corde, idque est verbum quod pretiosum à vi­li disserat, pretiosa desideria à vilibus, preriosa verba à vilibus Christusque ft intùs mysterium, spes gloriae, & omnis verus Chri [...]ianus noscituras est Legem Dei intra mentem, & in corde suo positam, adeo ut non necesse erit illis ad invicem dicere, cog­noscite Dominum, omnes enim à maximo ad mimmum cognoscent eum, quicunque legem in cerdibus suis inscriptam habent & in men­tibus suis pontam, Dominusque ipse ad docendum populum ejus Spiritumo venturus est, in quo apud seipsum unitatem habe­bunt, in quo adorabitur in veritate, in quo Spiritu unitatem cum filio, cum verbis Prophetarum, & Apostolorum ejus, illo­rumque Spiritibus, & apud se invicem habebunt. Nunc autem nemo qui Christianus est cum carne, & sanguine certaturus est, aut inimicos osurus, sed illos amaturus; neque circa ecclesiam suam, circa Ministerium suum, circa cultum suum, circa Reli­gionem suam persecuturus est, nihil coactione, sed amore facturi sunt Christiani, nihil in lite, ibi enim gloratio, & Jactan­tia, elatio erunt, Deus enim amavit mundum etiamsi hostes ejus, atque ita oportet Filios ejus non circa Religionem, ecclesiam, cultum, ac Ministerium interficere; atque is Christus, filius Dei, qui in mundum missus fuit, saluator mundi, ipse dicit Discipulis suis amate inimicos, & persecutores, alioquin quid plus quam Pharisei agitis? illi enim amicos suos amabant, & non in amore Dei qui mundum amabat fuerant; hîc ita Christianorum a­morem oportet ab amore mundi differre, Phariset, Judaei, illi Templum, sacerdotes, Prophetas, Scripturasque habebant, sed extra vitam quae illas edidit, sic Christum quando venit non receperunt, atque ita amorem Dei nesciebant; sed amico suos persecuti sunt, sicut omnes Christiani qui scripturas ventatis, & Christi verba habent, & inimicos non amant, illi non ab amore Phariseorum differrunt, qui amor est amor sui, fic univer­salis Dei amor (filiis ejus in eo manentibus) hoste amat, per­fectus fit, ficqne in mentem Christi venit, per quem mentem Dei sciunt, & in pactum Dei veniunt, & cum vitâ Dei conso­ciantur.

For PRESBYTER JOHN, and all his subordinate KINGS and PRIN­CES.

WEe are a people come from far, who are such as workes out their Salvation with fear, and trembling; who are such as tremble at the word of God (who lives, & abides, and endures for ever) by which all things are seen that end, and do not endure, and do not abide, we are by all the scorners, and scoffers in the world cast out, by the janglers about Ministry, Church Religion, and Worship, who are by them in scorn called Quakers, who know that which is to be shaken is shaken, and that is appeared which cannot be shaken, the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World, and now is appeared; and are the slayers, which the chiefest of them have been the greatest Professors of him: and now is the trem­bling and shaking in their tents, in their Campes, in their hosts, and now are the quivering and shaking, of all the will worshippers and Churches, and Ministry, and Inventions, and of the know­ledg, and understanding which comes to naught; for now is the seed risen a topp of them to grind them to powder, for now is the Lamb risen, and come to reign who will subject all things to himselfe and subdue Kingdomes, and Nations who will Rule, and Raign, and have the Government in righteousnesse.

Our messuage is sent unto Thee, and to thy Kingdomes by us the servants of the Lord, and hath sent us his servants to give Thee, and Thy Dominions, and Nations a visit and hearing that thou hast a Love to the faith of Christ, the Light of the World, which enlightneth every man that cometh into the world, by which men apprehend the Faith from him.

We from the Lord having a moving out of great Brittain, England, from among the family of the Prophets of the most high God, among whom his name and power and glory is re­vealed, who are two of the rest which are sent out into the Nati­ons, into the World, into the utmost parts of the Earth, to visite Gods Vineyard, and the Kings of the Earth whom God [Page 2]hath in his hand, and rules them as the waters, who cannot re­spect any mans person, nor transgress the Law of the mighty God, which sayes, he that respects persons commits sin, and so be­comes guilty of the whole Law of the mighty God of the whole earth, of Jacob, of Abraham, of Moses, of Solomon, of David, God that so loved the world, that he sent his only begotten Son into the world, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life, which Son doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World, that all through him might believe, so in that state, and regard we have all men in esteem; (that they might be saved and come to life) and honour all men, and Creatures in the Lord as he hath created them, as creatures that he hath made; though they be degenerated from him, they being his handy­work, so therefore are we despised of all the men of the earth, whether Professors of God, Christ, the Prophets, and Apostles, and Saints words, in the whole Scripture, they not being in the life, and power of God, Christ, the Prophets, and Apo­stles lise, and that is the cause of all hatred in the earth, amongst Professors as well as Heathens, so thy Nobility, thy Love to Je­sus, thy love to the Apostles, and thy love to the Prophets is much spoken off, but this is but part of our messuage, that thou, and you, and all might come into the life of Moses, of the Prophets of Christ Jesus, and the life of God, and all thy Dominion under thee, whereby the peace of God which passeth all understan­ding may possess all your hearts, that to the faith you have in the Son of God you may add virtue, and to the knowledge which you have of the Prophets, and Apostles, and Christ you may add Temperance, and to Temperance, you may add Patience and Godliness, and to Godlinesse, Brotherly kindness, and Charity, which never fails where the love of God is, this love shed in the heart; Now these things being in you, you shall abound, and never be barren, nor unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus Christ, and an entrance shall be Ministred unto you abundantly, into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ; but if these things be laking you will be blind, and forget that ever you were purged from your old sins. There­fore these things before mentioned must be known in you; and the Kingdom of Heaven must be known in you, though it be but like a graine of Mustardseed, and that is it which never con­sented unto sin, and evil, and that is leaven until it become a [Page 6]new Lump. And the word which was in the beginning, Christ (in whom all the Prophets and Types, and Figures, and shaddows end) is to be felt, and found in the heart, and that is the word that doth divide asunder the Precious from the Vile, Pretious desires from Vile, Precious words from Vile, and Christ be­comes within the Mystery, the hope, of Glory, and every true Chri [...]ian is to know the law of God put into his mind, and into his heart, that they need not say one to another, know the Lord, for all shall know the Lord from the lead to the greated, who have the Law written in their hearts, and put in their minds, and the Lord is coming to teach his people himself by his spirit, in which they shall have unity with himself, in which he will be worshipped in the truth, in which spirit they shall have unity with the Son and with his Prophets, and Apostles words, and with their Spi­rits, and one with another. Now no one that is a Christian is to wrestle with flesh and blood, or is to hate enemies, but to love them, and they are hot to persecute about their Church, about their Ministry, about their Worship, about their Religion, they are to do nothing by Constraint, but by Love, nothing in strif, for their will be a glorying, and a bosting, and lifting up, for God loved the world though enemies of himself, and so must his Children, not kill about Religion, Church-Worship, and Mi­nistry, and that Christ the Son of God, that was sent into the world, the Saviour of the world he sayes unto his Diciples, love Enemies, and, Persecutors, or else what do you more than the Pharisees, for they loved their own friends, but were not in the love of God that loved the world, so here Christi­ans love must differ from the world, the Pharisees, the Jews, they had the Temple, the Priests, and the Prophets, the Scriptures, but out of the life that gave them forth, so did not receive Christ when he came, and so they did not know the love of God, but they persecuted their Friends, as all the Christians that have the Scriptures of Truth, and Christs words, and do not love enemies they differ not from the Pharisees love, which is selfish, so the universal love of God, the Children of God being in it, loves enemies, becomes perfect, and so comes into the mind of Christ, through which they know the mind of God, and comes into the Covenant of God, and acquainted with the life of God,