Редактирование: Penn, William, Title: TO Princes, Priests, and People.

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'''TO Princes, Priests, and People, 1668'''

JEHOVAH, the everlasting Power, that spans out the Heavens with his span, and measures the Waters in the hollow of his hand, before whom all Nations,
Tongues and People, are less than the drop to the
Ocean, or the Sand to the Sea shoar; who said, Let all
things be, and they were, and by the same Word of his
Might, preserves them to this very day, is Holy, Merci∣ful,
and Just; and, as the most excellent part of the whole
Creation, made he Man, the Image of himself, by invest∣ing
him with that Righteous Principle, and innocent Life,
which gave him Dominion and Authority over all his
works, allowing him to eat of every Tree, saving that of
Good and Evil, of which if he did eat, he should cer∣tainly
die. Happy had it been for Adam and his Posterity,
had he obeyed Gods Commands; but transgression by
disobedience getting entrance, he soon died to his Inno∣cent
State, in which God created him, and became alive
in the Dominion sin had over him, being now as one with∣out
Law, in whose fallen State all Nations have been, and
are, (let their Professions seem never so great, and their
Sacrifices never so many) that live in the disobedient Na∣ture,
and so strangers to that Immortality and life Eternal,
the first Adam became dead and darkened to by his trans∣gression,
and which the second Adam raises to the know∣ledge
and possession of, by the power of his quickning

Spirit; yet where the Devil (that subtile Serpent) hath
not totally extinguished the notion of a God, and the ne∣cessity
of his being worshipped, it has been rather his in∣terest
than dis-service, to put the selfish part of the Crea∣ture
upon sacrificing, wickedly insinuating that none can
be freed from sin, and that the performing of Rites, Du∣ties,
and Ceremonies, is all God requires, and what is
necessary to procure acceptance with him. Thus 'twas
that murthering Cain became a Sacrificer, whose Sacrifice
God rejected, because offered in the fallen unrighteous
and accursed Nature. Such also were those Generations
who drew near to God with their Lips, and to whom he
said of old, What signifies the multitudes of your Sacrifi∣ces?
I am full of burnt Offerings, bring no more vain Ob∣lations;
Incense is an abomination unto me; the new Moons,
and Sabbath;*the calling of the Assemblies I cannot away
with, it is iniquity; even the solemn Meetings I am weary to
bear them; and when you spread forth your hands, I will
bide mine eyes; yea, when you make many prayers, I will not
he•• them; yo•r hands are full of blood: wash you, make
you clean, put away the evil of your doings, &c.

Therefore, O ye Princes, Priests, and People, the sol∣lid,
necessary, and weighty Question I have to ask you all
in the dread & fear of the everlasting, Holy, Lord God Al∣mighty,
(by whose eternal Spirit the sence of your present
State and Condition I perfectly have received) is this.
What Nature, what Heart, what Spirit, and what ground is
it in wch your Religions, Faiths, Works, Words and Wor∣ships
stand and grow? Is it the Divine, not the fallen Na∣ture?
It is the broken, not the stony Heart? Is it the
Contrite not the formal Spirit? Is it the Gospel increasing
good, not old Adams corrupt thorney Ground? For this

know, that no performances but by clean hands and a
pure heart, from whence evil doings are put away, can
give acceptance with the pure God.

Come, answer me first, you Papists, whose Popes for ma∣ny
hundred years have sat exalted in the hearts of Nations,
(God's Temple) above all that is called God: What Scri∣pture
ever made a Pope, or gave authority to any one to
lord it over the Consciences of others, since Christ en∣joyns
that Christians should be Brethren? And by what
warrantable Tradition can be make, dispose, and depose
Civil Empires? Whence came your Creeds but from facti∣ous
and corrupted Councils, dyed in the blood of those
who refus'd conformity? What Scriptures of the Holy
Prophets, and Apostles, or any Tradition for the first
three hundred years, mention a Mass-Book, speak of Pe∣ter's
Chair, and a successive Infallibility, or that say a Wa∣fer
is corporially the flesh, blood and bones, which suffer'd
without Jerusalem? And where did they adore Images,
consume many thousands and millions in building, carving
and painting outward Temples, after Jerusalems (the
Type) was destroyed, whilst thousands of poor Families
languished through extream poverty? When did they en∣joyn
Baby-Baptism, Churching of Women, Marrying by
Priests, Holy Water to frighten the Devil, hollowing of
Bells to scare evil spirits, making and worshipping of
Crosses, erecting of Altars? And where did they com∣mand
Bowings, institute Musicks, appoint Holy Dayes,
Canonize Saints, chaffer and merchandize about Indul∣gences,
pray for the Dead, preach or write for a Purgato∣ry?
And what Book or Chapter in the Old or New Te∣stament,
mentions the degrees of Popes, Cardinals, Arch-Bishops,
Deans, Prebeuds, Jesuites, Franciscans, Do∣minicans,

Urselines, Capuchines, Benedictines, with
other such like lazy Nuns and Fryars, for the edification
of Christs Church? But above all, when and where did
they authorize or indulge your Cruel, Persecuting, Whip∣ping,
Racking, Inquisition, Murdering Spirit? Whose
Popes, Faith, Church-Government, and whole Religion,
were founded, and are maintained by inhumane blood∣shed,
as your own Histories plainly manifest▪—Who
gave life to these things but the Devil, who was a murde∣rer
from the beginning?

Thus have you Papists, through many Generations, re∣ceived
for Doctrine the Precepts of Men,* who for much
speaking, and sacrificing of your own Inventions, expect
to be heard, whilst in the lustful, wanton, ignorant, and
killing Nature, which has been alwayes shedding the pre∣cious
blood of those whom God in every Age raised to
testifie against your Superstitions & will-Worships; There∣fore
WOES from God Almighty to that Romish Whore,
who has corrupted the Nations,*and sits upon a Scarlet
coloured Beast full of names of Blasphemy, drunk with the
blood of Saints, and Martyrs of Jesus; the hour of her de∣solation
is nigh, and in the Cup which she hath filled, shall
it be fil'd unto her double; for strong is the Lord God of Hosts
who judgeth her.

Come now, you that are called Protestants, however de∣nominated
or distinguished, who profess the Scriptures
for the Rule of Life and Doctrine, stand your Tryal by
them; and first those who are called Episcopalians, who
date your Religion from the Martyrs: that those who first
protested against the darkness and gross Idolatry of the
Popish Antichrist, were directed thereto, and supported
therein, by the mighty Power of God, is not denyed;

and that the Seals of blood they set to recommend their
Testimonies to posterity, are with us in high esteem, I
openly affirm and declare; But that you of the Church of
England have any more to do with them (who now perse∣cute
us) than had the Jews and Pharisees with Abraham,
Moses,* and the Prophets, who crucified the Lord of Life,
is as positively disowned: for as they were out of the Life
and Spirit of those Holy Men, (though building and gar∣nishing
their Sepulchres, and making great profession
with their words) insomuch as that they slew those whom
God sent in the same Spirit to preach a farther Glory, and
to discover a more excellent way; so are you out of the
Power and Spirit your fore-Fathers lived and died in, pro∣fessing
their words, but persecuting the same Spirit in o∣thers,
and crucifying it in your selves: No wonder there∣fore
you have made so little progress since the first dawn∣ing
of Reformation, being not yet got out of the Bor∣ders
of Babylons form, and altogether in her lustful, proud,
persecuting and wicked Nature: For have not you Pro∣testant
Princes condemned that in others, which you have
and do allow in your selves, contrary to your fore-Fathers
Protestations? Did you not return severe Persecutions,
not onely upon the heads of the Roman Catholicks in
Queen Elizabeth's time, who esteemed it Antichristian
in them; but even your fellow Protestants, who through
zeal for God declared against your back-slidings? witness
her severity, and what followed in the Reigns of James,
and the deceased Charles, but more particularly the many
thousands now of late that have been club'd, bruised,
imprisoned, exiled, poisened to death by stinking
Dungeons, and ruined in their outward Estates, contra∣ry
to Laws, Christian or Humane: Therefore well may I

take up the lamentation and reproof that was of old, Ye
make men offenders for a word, and lay a snare for him that
reproveth in the Gate; Ye turn aside the Just for a thing of
nought,*and lay burthens upon the backs of the Righteous,
whilst evil doers pass unpunished;*You store up violence in
your Pallaces,*and many are the oppressed that are amongst
you? Yet do not your Priests prophesie smooth things,*that
sew Pillows under your Arms, and cry Peace? who pro∣voke
you to slay those,*by executing cruel acts that should not
die and preach safety to them that should not live, like greedy
Dogs, Shepherds that cannot understand, they all look for
gain from their Quarters;*they teach for hire, they divine
for money, and You all judge for rewards; for all which
abominations God is departed; Vision is ceased, the Sun
is gone down over you, and your day is turned into thick
darkness; Therefore it is you deny the necessity as well as
the present enjoyment of Revelation to any, though with∣out
it,* as Christ saith, No man can know God, whom to
know is Life Eternal; and place the ground of Divine
Knowledge in humane Arts and Sciences, that thereby
you may ingross a Function to your selves, and keep up
your Trade of yearly gain upon the poor people; preach∣ing
sin for tearm of life, thereby rendring invalid the
glorious Power of the second Adam, and indulging peo∣ple
in transgression;* though be that sins is of the Devil, and
without Holiness none shall see God; Ministers he never
sent, but were commissionated by men, void of the Holy
Ghost, and therefore ye profit not the peoples a badge inse∣parable
to lying prophets, who run in their own name.

Come and tell me now, ye of the Church of England,
that say the Scriptures are your Rule, where do they own
such Persecutors, false Prophets, Tythmongers, denyers
of Revelation, Opposers of Perfection, Men-pleasers,
Time-servers, unprofitable Teachers, (witness the abomi∣nations
of the Land) Extollers of humane Learning, as the
only way to know God; Admirers of Universities, (sig∣nal
places for idleness, looseness, prophaneness, prodiga∣lity,
and gross ignorance;) and where do we find the
Prophets, Apostles, and Servants of the Lord, to live in
worldly pomp, possess hundreds and thousands a year, be
called Lords of their Brethren, and exercise Civil and
Spiritual Jurisdiction over the Bodies and Souls of Chri∣stians
in their dayes? Whence came your Forms of Pray∣ers,
and Church-Government, from the Scriptures of
Truth, and the practice of the Primitive Christians, or
the Mass-Book, and Popish Canons? Where is it that Mass-Houses
are called Churches? and what president do you
find for Litanies, Responses, Singing, Queristers, Or∣gans,
Altars, Bowings, Surplices, square Caps, Hoods,
Rockets, Fonts, Baby-Baptism, Holy Dayes, (as you
call them) with much more such like dirty trash, and foul
Superstition? Are these your Scripture Doctrines, and
this the Spiritual Worship of Holy Jesus, his Apostles,
and the Antient Christians? Stand up and answer me ye
Members of the Church of England; but are they not
the off-spring of that Idolatrous Popish Generation, a∣mounting
at best to will-Worship, which is abominable
to the God of Heaven, who is now breaking forth in ven∣geance,
to thunder down and consume all the fair Build∣ings,
and pleasant Pictures of Babylonish Inventions?
Therefore from you may I expect an Answer to the Que∣stion
I ask'd the Romanists, In what Nature and Spirit
is i•, O Princes, Priests, and People, you hold and pro∣fess
Religion, and Worship towards God? Is it the Divine
and Heavenly One which is pure and perfect? Are you
Baptized by the Holy Ghost, and with Fire; Crucified
through the daily Cross to the World;* born again, and
your affections set on things above? But alas poor Souls!
are you not at, Have mercy upon us miserable sinners, there
is no health in us, from seven to seventy? And as in truth
it is, to the shame of Religion, and destruction of hu∣mane
Society; How do you abound in evil? Equalizing,
if not outstripping Papists & Heathens (against whom you
protest in words) in all kinds of impiety: Therefore woe
unto you Protestants,*that are mighty to drink strong drink,
that give your Neighbours drink, and put the bottle to them
that they may be drunk; that put far away the evil day, and
cause the seat of Violence to come near; that lie upon Beds of
Ivory, and stretch your selves upon your Couches; that eat the
fat of the Flock, and drink the sweet of the Vine; that a∣noint
your selves with the chief Ointments; that chant to the
sound of the Viol, and invent to your selves Instruments of
Musick, but consider not the afflictions of Joseph. How sport
you away your precious time, as if ye were born not to
die, at least never to be judged? O what Swearing, what
Uncleanness, what Drunkenness, what Prophanation, what
Vanity, what Pride, what Expence, what Patching, what
Painting, what lascivious Intrigues, what wanton Appoint∣ments,
what publick unclean Houses, what merry Masks,
what lustful insinuating Treats at your Playes, Parks, Mul∣berry
and Spring-Gardens, with whatsoever else may
please the lustful eye, and gratifie the wanton mind? Is
not this your case and practice, ye Gallants, young and old,
Men and Women? And by these courses, have not Debts
surprized your Estates, Poverty Plenty, Diseases Health,
Debauchery Chastity? Whole Families ruin'd both in Soul
and Body; yea, such a deluge of Intemperance has so
overwhelmed the Nations, that hard it is to light upon so∣briety
and virtue. Well my Friends, when I ruminate on
these things, my heart affects mine eye, and grief over∣comes
my Soul for yor sakes; Repent therefore, O ye
Protestants, or else know that for all these things God Al∣mighty
will bring you to Judgment; and in the day that
his Indignation shall be kindled, your Religion of words
shall fly away,* and your Lord Lord cryings shall be reject∣ed,
because you were strangers to the Spiritual Nature
(though bablers of the Name) of true Christianity, and
therefore shall ye perish by the Sword.

Now as for you Separatists of divers Names, although
I shall not disallow the Zeal that once you had, yet must I
on God's behalf bear my Testimony concerning you;
Therefore be it known unto you all, that you are teaching
and receiving for Doctrines the Traditions of men, running
and striving in your own Spirits, compassing your selves
with the sparks of your own fire,* being not yet come to stand
still and know that Will done on Earth which is done in
Heaven; You tell people, Christ Jesus has suffered and
satisfied for sins past, present, and to come, and though
never so corrupt, vile, and polluted in themselves, yet
reconciled to, and justified in the sight of God, by his
Personal Righteousness imputed unto them, and not from
a Work of Grace or Regeneration in the Creature; there∣fore
no wonder at your vehement cries against a state of
perfect separation from sin, as being a dangerous Doctrine,
who preach acceptation with the Holy God, whilst in an
unholy state; You generally scoff at Revelation as being
ceast; most of you also abetting God to have ordained a
Remnant absolutely to Salvation, & consequently making
sin as well as torment unavoidably necessary to the major
part; whereby the Glorious God of Mercy is represented
more infamously unjust than the worst of men; Doctrines
of Devils indeed, and grounds of all looseness and Ran∣terism;
and tho pleaders, & fighters for Liberty of Con∣science
when opprest; the greatest Oppressors, when in
power, not minding the end of Gods loving kindness: but
because of your wanton neglect, is your day darkned, and
your Sun set, and grovelling you are in beggarly Ele∣ments,
imitations and shadows of the Heavenly good
things, relating to the dispensation of the second Cove∣nant,
hoping by your many duties to be heard, and find
acceptance, whilst very strangers to the covering of Gods
Spirit, and ignorant of him (whom to know is life Eter∣nal)
from the Revelation of his Eternal Spirit, and Ope∣ration
of his Mighty Power, but from the conceivings and
apprehensions of other men, and Books well reputed,
whereby Gods Grace and Light have lost their Office of
leading and teaching: and thus true Counsel becomes
darkned, the Fountain shut, the Book sealed, and you in
this state strangers unto God, so that you perish for want
of sound knowledge; for I declare and testifie on the be∣half
of Gods everlasting Way to Life, and against you all,
that you are yet in the mans spirit, which works not Gods
Will and Righteousness, being found helpers of the migh∣ty
against that pure and unchangeable Principle of Light,
Grace and Life, in which God only did, does, and will
reveal and manifest himself unto the Sons and Daughters
of men, for which cause you are yet in your ups and
downs,* tossed to and from, not knowing the Rock of A∣ges,
and Foundation of many Generations, which is that only
Holy Seed, wherein the Duties and Performances of all Nati∣ons
only can be blessed, and from whence proceeds that
Pure, Righteous, and Immortal Birth, to whom is the
promise of an everlasting Inheritance, but are sticking in
your own imaginations, and patching out a peace unto
your selves from your Duties, Performances, and the
imitations of weak times and seasons in some perishing
Observations, that no way relate to the Nature of the
Pure,*Spiritual and Internal Kingdom of Peace, Righteous∣ness
and Joy in the Holy Ghost; Therefore well may I say,
as once of old, Wee unto thee Capernaum, which art exal∣ted
unto Heaven; for if the mighty works that have been done
in thee, had been done in Tyre, Sidon, or Sodom, they
would have repented in Dust and Ashes, and would have re∣mained
unto this day. Wherefore O ye zealous Professors,
who in the Spirit of a man are striving to comprehend the
Mystery of God,* unless ye repent and believe in that Light
wherewith Christ hath enlightned every man, that you may
obtain to the true discerning of the Spirit and Nature in
which you live and worship, that so you may come to
witness the Work and Will of God, It shall be more tolle∣rable
for them in the day that God shall judge the secrets of
men by Jesus Christ;*God will make them of the Synagogue of
Sathan, who say, they are Christians, and are not.

Therefore unto you Princes, Priests, and People, whe∣ther
Papists or Protestants, or any other separated way,
that are in your Idolatry, Superstition, Carnal Ordinan∣ces,
and will-Worship; whose Faith in, and fear towards
God, are grounded on other mens apprehensions, per∣swasions
and precepts, and not from the teaching of God's
Holy Spirit or Grace; to you all am I constrained to sound
forth & proclaim, That unto us, the most despised, afflicted
and forsaken by all the Families of the Earth, is a Child
born, unto us a Son is given; We call him Wonderful Coun∣sellor,
the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince
of Peace;*of the increase of whose Government there shall be
no end: this is he the Prophet stiles, A Light unto the Gen∣tiles,
and for Salvation unto the ends of the Earth; unto
whom John Baptist bore this certain record,*That he was
the true Light which enlighteneth every man that cometh into
the World; who also gave this testimony of himself, That
whosoever followed him should not abide in darkness,*but have
the Light of Life, and the Blood of Jesus, (saith the Belo∣ved
Disciple) shall cleanse you from all sin.* This is the se∣cond
Adam, the quickning Spirit, the Lord from Heaven,
the New and Spiritual Man, the Heavenly Bread, the True
Vine; the Flesh and Blood that was given for the Life of the
World; the Second Covenant; the Law writ in the Heart and
Spirit,*put in the inward Parts; the way in which the Fool can∣not
err; the Truth, before deceit was; the Life that's hid
in God, eternal in the Heavens, glorified before the World be∣gan;
the Power, the Wisdom, the Righteousness of God; the
Plant of Renown; the Royal Seed that bruiseth the Serpents
Head; in short, That Grace which hath appeared unto all
men,*teaching them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and
to live Godlikely, and soberly in this present World. He
stands at the Door of every Heart, and knocks, if by any
means he may be heard and have admittance, whereby
God's Promise may be fulfill'd, That God will dwell with
Men; and my Testimony is, That a Remnant have obey'd
this Heavenly Voice, and now walk in this pure Light in
which God Almighty is known to tabernacle with them:*
Therefore in the fear of God Eternal do I cry aloud unto
you all, who are wandering in the by-paths of mens Inven∣tions,
Traditions and Precepts, to empty your hearts and
minds of those unprofitable Guests, that better enter∣tainment
than a Manger may be had to receive this Lord
of Glory;*The mighty Prophet all must hear or die, who
searcheth the Heart, tryeth the Reins, and is able to tell you
all that ever you did:—This is the Quakers Christ, and
Son of the Living God, whom we are not ashamed to
confess before Men, as that Glorious Light, which since
we have believed and walked in, according to our distinct
measures, we have not onely received a perfect discovery
of all the will-Worships, Pollutions, and vain Fashions,
or Customs that have been brought forth by, and stands
in, the dark, lustful, and apostatiz'd nature; but as we
have continued in a holy watchfulness, to observe and o∣bey
its Righteous Dictates; Gods mighty Power we have,
and do experience to subdue and redeem therefrom;* yea,
that Spiritual Blood is sensibly felt to sprinkle and cleanse
the Conscience from dead works.

And to you all must I declare, That by no other way
did I ever receive the knowledge of the least evil, or abili∣ty
to conquer it, than in this universal Light, who is gi∣ven
for a Captain and a Leader out of all the by-paths and
petty perswasions of men, through judgment that puri∣fies,
and the Red Sea of Troubles, Tryals, and Afflictions,
unto the Rest which is pure and undefiled; This is Gods be∣loved
Son, hear ye him; For I proclaim, another way there
is not to eternal Life and Peace, than this everlasting Go∣spel
which now is preached; for the time is come that the
Angel of his Presence is flying through the midst of Hea∣ven,
having this antient Gospel to preach to them that
dwell upon the Earth, and are in their Earthly Nature,
Wisdom, and Worships, Crying with a loud Voice, Fear
God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his Judgment is
come:* Therefore away away with all your own wayes,
works and Worships that are grounded upon mens Com∣mand,
and fallible apprehensions, whose breath is in
their nostrils; and no more do homage according to such
prescriptions, but fear and dread the living Lord God of
Heaven and Earth; For if the Righteous scarcely be saved,
where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?*But woe, anguish,
tribulation and sorrow shall come upon every Soul that re∣mains
in sin.

Therefore be warned ye dark and Idolatrous Papists,
ye superstitious and loose Protestants, yea zealous, yet
carnal Professors, to come out of all your own Wayes,
Works, Worships, Nature, Spirit and Practice; In si∣lence
and fear to wait in this glorious Light which God
Almighty has displayed, and raised us contemned Quakers
to walk in, and testifie of, in these last Ages; that by be∣lieving
therein, and circumspectly adhering thereto, you
may come to experience the rising of that eternal Power
which overcomes and removes transgression, that hath so
long separated between you and your God, hereby shall
you receive sound Judgment and Heavenly Wisdom;—This
will not destroy, but fulfil the Spriptures of Truth,
and so shall you know the Baptism that's from above, and
eat the Heavenly Bread, and drink the Spiritual Wine at
Christs Table, in his Kingdom, which the Saints of old
saw the coming of before they tasted of death;*For the
Kingdom of God is within;—Here all old things, Cove∣venant,
Signs, Ordinances, and whatever perisheth with
the using, shall be done away; and the everlasting unchange∣able
Substance witnessed; and no more shall you profess
Religion, or perform Worship from the imagining and
transgressing nature, but from a certain sence of Gods
own Operation; so shall your Faith stand in that Power
the Gates of Hell can never prevail against: For this I once
more am necessitated to declare, by vi••ue of the sound
knowledge given me of God, that whilst you are fulfilling
the lusts of the flesh, and walking after your own will
and imaginations, you are altogether strangers to the yoak,
to the daily Cross, and self-denying life, but are yet the
corrupt Ground, and evil Tree, which bring forth evil
Fruits,* Thorns, Briars, and sowr Grapes; Be ye unde∣ceived,
God will not be mocked; such as you sow, such shall
you reap:—

Wherefore I intreat, advise, and warn you all, before
the day of your visitation be shut up, in the eternal with∣drawings
of God's Love, and revelation of his dreadful
endless Vengeance, O ye Idolatrous, Superstitious, Car∣nal,
Proud, Wanton, Unclean, Mocking and Persecut∣ing
Princes, Priests and People, to repent; Return, re∣turn,
believe and obey this Light, which manifests and
reproves all your evil deeds, that in it you may know your
Redemption from the captivity of sin effectually wrought.
O tremble and quake with the Prophet Habakkuk,* you
who scoff at Quakers, that you may all rest in the day of
trouble.
But if you shall still go on to rebel against the reproofs
and instructions of this Holy Light, and despise and per∣secute
the Children of it; be it known to you all, that
before the brightness of its Glory shall your shadows va∣nish,
your imitations fly away, your beggerly Elements
melt, and you die in your sins.

Nor shall we be sollicitous what your intentions are con∣cerning
us, well knowing him in whom we have believed,
to be much greater in us than he that is in the World,* who in
love hath call'd us out of it, and we doubt not will by his
everlasting Arm of strength defend and preserve us over
all opposition, and by us exalt his Name, Truth, and Sal∣vation
unto the ends of the Earth.

Therefore let the Winds of Imagination blow, the
storms of Persecution beat, and the Sea of raging malice
foam;* Yea, though the Fig-tree shall not blossom, neither
Fruit be in the Vine; though the labour of the Olive fail, and the
Fields yeeld not their meat; though the Flock be cut off from
the Fold, and there be no Herd in the Stalls; though Nati∣ons
should combine against us, and multitudes assemble
themselves to our overthrow;—Yet, be it reported to
the Nations, and let it be told unto the people, that we
shall still confide and rejoyce in that everlasting Holy God
Almighty, Lord of Hosts, and King of Saints, who hath
gathered us; and therefore is by us over all Things in
Heaven, and things on Earth, blest and renown'd for
ever.

THE END.
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