This is for any of that generation that are looking for the Kingdome [-] with their own observations, but desernes not the signes of the coming [of the?] Son of Man. And especially for them that meet to worship in the old Mass-[house?] in Aldermanbury. R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688. 1659 Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2011-04 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A94804 Wing T2064 ESTC R229356 47683505 ocm 47683505 172964

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This is for any of that generation that are looking for the Kingdome with their own obſervations, but deſernes not the ſignes of the coming Son of Man. And eſpecially for them that meet to worſhip in the old Maſs in Aldermanbury.

DArkneſſe hath covered the earth, and groſſe darkneſſe the people, ſo you cannot ſee nor perceive his workin •… that is come to overturn the proud, and confound the wiſe and thongh your eares be not bored to be •… his voyce, nor your eyes opened to ſee the ſigns that have been in the midſt of you, but are deſpiſing and wandrin •… •… ut of the feare, out of the dread of the living God whom we ſerve, and know to be angry with the wicked every day, and your offerings ſtink before him, and your prayers are an abomination unto him, whoſe flight ſhall come upon you in the Winter, and on the Sabaoth day: A horrible tempeſt is round about him, and a devouring fire goes before him, who will plead with all the earth in righteouſneſſe, and will teare in peices thoſe that forget him: are not you without the remembrance of him? Who have deſpiſed his Meſſengers evilly intreated, and caſt in •… ſon, him who in obedience to the maker of heaven, and earth, was ſent among you, as a ſigne unto you, of your poor, naked, leane, ſtarved ſoules, of your filthy uncleane coverings and righteouſneſſe and the dung of your ſolemne aſſemblys which as excrements hath an ill ſavour, and as a menſtrus clo th, before him who is juſt, and will not acquit the guilty: for the woe is gone forth even againſt all that are covered, and not with my Spirit, ſaith the Lord, which ſpirit reproves you of your ſin, of your righteouſneſſe, and your judgements, which are all out of the truth, falſe and wicked, and you not beleiving, nor obeying that which reproves you wax worſe and worſe, ſpeaking evill of things you know not, calling good, evill, and evill, good, c •… ndemning Gods works juſtifying your own works, puniſhing the innocent and acquitting the guilty: is not this your ſtate? That are in the practiſes of pride, wantonneſſe, covetouſneſſe, licentious, feaſting, rioting, and ſporting, and then in your vain minds, and words, in which you can doe nothing elſe but ſin, you ſay it is ſin and wickedneſſe, for any to appeare before you without cloathing, naked as they were brought into the world, but where will you prove that ſuch have broken any Law of God: but you that are in the immaginations, which are vain and greive the Lord God •… fully ſay that it is wickedneſſe to work on the firſt day of the week; though it be written ſix days ſhalt thou wo •… yet are not you aſhamed to perſecute and caſt in priſon, thoſe that love the commands of God, and for the perf •… mance thereof are ſufferers by your unrighteous Laws, for as ever it was ſo it is they t at ſlay the holy one and the •… break the commands of God, and are zealous for the traditions of men, O ye Sellers and Buyers of the Scriptur •… would not you have judged Iſaiah if he ſhould have gone three years naked in your Citty, as you may read h •… Iſaiah the 20. the 2. and the 3. verſe. And would not this generation have accounted Ezekiel, if they had •… in his days as mad as the Quakers, if they had ſeen him bake his bread with dung, and ſhave his head •… beard, and burn part of the hair, and throw part in the wind, as is written in the 4. chap. of Ezekiel the 12. and the 15. Ezekiel the 5. 6. 3. and 4. verſes. Surely the Scriptures wherein you truſt doth condemne you, and ſhall one pay witneſſe againſt you, and then in vain may you cry for Hills, and Mountaines to fall, and hide you from the preſence of the lambe, whoſe comming is at hand, who is this day deviding the ſheepe from the Goats and gathering his elect into the arme of his power the defence of the righteous, and will breake to peices all the ungodly, which have a name to live but are dead: but the Trumpet is ſounded, and the Alarm is heard, and the dead ſhall ariſe and come to judgement before the Lamb: where will you hide who hate to be reformed and profeſſing will not cover you, Chriſts, nor the Apoſtles words, will not ſave you: all the workers of iniquity muſt depart, the lake is prepared, the Kingdome of darkneſſe is fitted for all that hate the light, and when you are ſtripped, and ſet naked, all your glory ſtained, haughtyneſſe debaſed, then ſhall you know that it was in the long-ſuffering, and everlaſting mercy of God, that you have been viſited, and warned by dreadfull words, and ſignes, that you might have ſeaſed from provoking him, that we know aſſuredly can deliver from all your cruell oppreſſing, and whether he will doe it ſudingly or no, we are not carefull: for we have his preſence who makes rich in want, and gives peace and joy in all our ſufferings, yea, that paſſes your underſtanding, and the aſſured hope of our reward, is ſure, and ſtedfaſt, fixed in God whoſe works are wrought, in, and by them, who into his will are gathered, out of mans will which cannot work Gods righteouſneſſe: but this is a miſtery to you who are eſtabliſhing your own righteouſneſſe, which will ſudingly, and horribly come to an end, for our ſalvation is nigh, and our deliverance near and in what appearance ſoever we are ſent unto you, our teſtimony is true, for it is againſt all unrighteouſs •… practiſes, and worſhips, which God is caſting downe, even he that is come to finiſh ſin, and to put an end to t •… greſſion, and to bring in everlaſting righteouſneſſe, and his power, and kingdome which ſhall never have •… felt and known, among the deſpiſed Quakers, and this is from one of them that long and much followed, •… places you call your Churches, and them you call your teachers, and never left them till I ſaw God was de •… from them: for while Joſeph was in Egypt, there was ſome food for Jacobs ſeed, but he not there the ſeed •… preſſed, for the deliverance of which the Lord is riſen, and the oppreſſors ſhall be tormented, and thou •… beleive not, yet when he that will come, ſhall come to take vengance on you for their wrongs, who have a •… ſuffer for the teſtimony of a pure conſcience, you ſhall confeſſe unto him whoſe ways are righteous, and whoſe j •… ments are paſt finding out, by the diſobedient, but ſhall be felt by the diſpiſes thereof; that loves darkneſſe •… then light, and of this you have been warned, and now are by me that pittyes all your ſoules that lyes in Ca •… under the bondage of Corruption.

R. T.

Printed for Mary Weſtwood in the 11th month. 1659.