your ear from hearing the poor, the blind and the lame, that lay up' and down your streets; so that he that regards not the poor, regards not his Maker; and turning his ear from the poor, turns his ear from his Maker. So all come to soberness and modesty, and shamefacedness, and be ashamed of all your pride and vanity, and delight in the Lord your Creator, more than the creature, the giver of all good, and take pleasure in him alone, and in his judgments; if not, woe and wrath, and his plagues will come upon you. O what a pudder is here, what a bowing and bending is here? Bow to the Lord, give glory to Him, give honour to Him, fear Him, dread the Lord, the Creator of all, of heaven and earth, and of power: he will throw down all deceit with his power. Honour you not the creature more than the Creator? Bow you not more to the creature than the Creator? Bow you not oftener with hat and knee to the creature, than to the Creator? Give you not more honour and worship, and respect to the creature than to the Creator? O shameless men and women! God will abase your pride, and bring your honour and glory to the dust, who beholds your vanity. O how have you your lackies and lads to carry your trains after you. O you scorners, give over scorning, and O ye fools learn to be wise, all ye that are given to vanity, for shall they that are given to vanity prosper? Hearken to the spirit of God in you, that checks you for vanity, that you may come into the fear of God, whereby you may learn wisdom, and may not destroy the creation, and that you may come to know God, whereby you may come to feel eternal life, that which checks you for your sins, and your vanity, and for your going after it, whereby you may come to understanding, and know what is vanity, and vexeth the spirit, and what doth not vex the spirit, that is pleasing to God, that you may learn with that which gives you understanding; while you have time prize it, lest your time be past; this is the day of your visitation, love the Lord God above all his creatures, and delight not in vanity, that to the Lord God in your generation, you may be a blessing, for all the destroyers of the creation are accursed; for woe, and misery, and plagues are to come upon all the world.

Bow you not more and oftener with the hat and the knee to one another, than you do unto the Lord? People cannot tell how to please one another in their bowing with the hat, in curtseying one to another, but they will be ready to think, that I bowed with my hat oftener to him than he did to me, and I curtseyed more to her than she did to me; and thus they are offended one at another; and such a one hath more ribbons, and gold and silver on him than I have, and spots on their faces, and he powders his hair and curls it; and so when any is in another fashion contrary to them, then they envy one another, which is among such that have lost gravity. And are ye not here as the transgressing children of Israel, mincing, tinkling in round attire, amongst whom must

come to the stink? Isaiah 3. And are ye not out of the apostle's doctrine, who saith, “Not wearing of gold, nor broidered attire, nor plaiting of hair; but the adorning which is the hidden man of the heart."

To all the Rulers of the Earth.

Оn all ye rulers of the earth, from the foundation of the world, to this day, who have been in the transgression of the law of God, of the life of God, out of the fear of God, such in all ages have turned the sword against the just, that have transgressed the just principle of God in themselves, and grafted themselves into the wicked root; all such, from the foundation of the world to this day, have turned the sword backward like blind men; so hit their friends that come with love to their souls; and strike at them instead of their enemies; ye persecute the just, ye kill the saints, the prophets, and the Son, and persecute them that be in the life of the prophets and apostles; these have always strengthened the hands of evildoers; but they that have reproved in your gates, in your streets, have been your prey; you have banished, you have whipped, you have prisoned, ye have persecuted, you have burned my flesh, saith the Lord; ye have branded, ye have marked, ye have fire and faggots, and houses of correction, and inquisitions, and sending up and down warrants, mittimusses, banishing the servants of the Lord, persecuting them because they cannot bow with the hat, give you the earthly honour, not honouring the courts, (as it was in the days of the martyrs, for the testifying of the truth,) and say thou to one, shewing that you are of the earthly old Adam, drove from God into the earth, not of the second Adam, the Lord from heaven, Christ Jesus, who receives not honour of men. None honours the Father and the Son, but who hath received honour from God, and that which is of God.

Now men in haste and passion, in rage, and fury, and bitterness, and prejudice, these are unseasoned men for to be justices, unseasoned men to have honour, for humility goes before the honour: pride and high-mindedness, and liftings up, that looks for respect of persons, more than for truth, justice and equity; for if men keep down, low and humble, all doing justly, they are honoured in the hearts of all people, with the just principle of God, that all people honours the higher power, that honour justice, and exalt the humility which goes before the honour, for God brings down the mighty from his seat, and abaseth the proud, and beholds him afar off, and brings down the lofty; and where bitterness, and prejudice, and burnings are in the breasts of people, they will side for parties, and be for their own ends: and what work have men with these innocent

people, which ye in scorn call QUAKERS? prisoning, hauling out of steeplehouses, sending them as vagabonds from place to place, those that be able people outwardly, whipping of them; and because they cannot bow with their hat to you, what work are your judges making with them; and fining of them, prisoning them, because they cannot swear; and prisoning them, and fining them, because they cannot pay the priest tythes; preparing war against them, because they cannot put into their mouths, such as Micah cried against; if people were not hardened, they would look into these things, and consider these things, and see all along from the foundation of the world, how they out of the fear of God persecute, though they have got the form of words, but out of the life of them: these persecute men because they cannot put into the priest's mouth, and such as hold up such priests as are made by men, and held up in men's wills, and not by the will of God, and persecute them because they cannot break Christ's command, but keep it, which saith, "Swear not all;" and prison and persecute such as cannot receive honour from men, nor give honour to men which is from below; can the children of God give honour to that which God will abase and throw down?

All that seek or would be honoured in the hearts of all people, must answer the principle of God in all people, with justice, with equity, with truth, and they must have patience, and humbleness, and mercy, for ye have whipped, ye have burned, ye have persecuted, and these things lie upon you: you that have acted these things are out of the fear of God; therefore now you that fear God, whose hands are clear from blood, and from persecuting the innocent; and who have done justly to the wicked, the Lord God will be your reward, you shall have a crown that is immortal, that have kept yourselves from persecuting the innocent, and put a difference between the precious and the vile; and to them that do well have been a praise; and them that have reproved sin in your gates, have not been a prey, but ye have protected them, you have nourished them; and the evil-doer hath not been strengthened; happy are ye who are honoured in the hearts of all people, ye are in their hearts who do justly, love truth, are merciful, and humble, such God exalts and honours in the hearts of all his people, with that of himself, such know the proud and lofty cannot honour them; they will not receive the honour from them, which is but a compliment, and from below, and is earthly for that which honours a magistrate, that doth justice and equity, and honours the power, it is from the principle of God in him, that keeps him humble, and low, which brings him from under the occasion of the law, which is a praise to them that do well, and a terror to the evil-doers.

A lover of all your souls, and your eternal good, and a friend to the creation, and the truth, and them that be in the life of God. G. F.

A VISITATION TO THE JEWS.

From them whom the Lord hath visited from on High, among whom he hath performed his Promise made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The mighty Day of the Lord is come, and coming, who dwells not in Temples made with Hands, nor is He worshipped with Men's Hands, but in the Spirit, from whom the Scripture was given forth. By G. F.

To the Jews scattered, who are of the seed of Abraham, to whom the promise belongs, who have long had the words, but missed the promise, which promise is to the seed. From them who are of the seed, who witness the promise, to you this is sent.

From them that are of the seed of Abraham, to all the scattered Jews according to the flesh, who have the law of God, the form of it, but being found out of the life of it, have not possessed that which Moses saw, who received the law from God, which law you have the form of, and your fathers in ages past had, who put Christ to death, and slew him that is the end of the law, God's righteousness, Christ Jesus, the end of God's righteous law, to keep out of all unrighteousness.

And your fathers, that had the form of the law, slew the prophets that showed the coming of this just one, Christ Jesus, the end of his righteous law, God's righteousness; they having the prophets' words, and Moses's words, but out of the prophets' and Moses's life, who saw the just one that was to come and suffer, were those that slew the prophets.

David saw the just one, and called him Lord; and Moses saw him which received the law from God, which law was given to your fathers, which you have had the form of, who said, "Like unto me will God raise you up a prophet from among your brethren, and him they should hear, and every one that would not hear that prophet should be cut off."

Now your fathers that had Moses, who saw this prophet, and received the law from him, who said, God would raise up this prophet, and he came among your fathers, that had the law, and Moses's words, but not Moses's life; and the prophet's words, but not the prophet's life; they knew him not, neither heard him, though he was a prophet, raised up from among the brethren; and was made of the seed of Abraham, according to the flesh, but declared to be the Son of God, according to the scriptures, by signs, wonders and miracles, devils being made subject to him, loosing many from their chains, which were kept under bonds;

and yet your fathers believed not that prophet which Moses saw, and the prophets saw, who was come to fulfil what was written of him; neither heard they him, though it was Moses's command they should, and God's command: so therein were in the transgression, though the law the words of it they had, but found in the transgression, out of the life of the law, and the life of the prophets, and came to be mingled among the heathen which knew not God, who be in the same transgression, though you profess the words declared from the life; wherefore being out of the life of the prophets, being raised up among your fathers, who speak of this just one, of this prophet; your fathers did persecute them, and did put them to death; and at last the Son came.

And to your fathers spake a parable, which was agreeable to the pro`phets' words: as a man letting forth a vineyard to husbandmen, and he sent his servants to look for fruits, and they beat one and cast him out, and wounded another, and killed another; and last of all he sent his son; and when they saw the son, the heir of the vineyard, come, said they to the keepers of the vineyard, this is the heir, let us kill him, and cast him out, then the vineyard will be ours. And these things your fathers did fulfil, they killed him, they cast him out, and delivered him up to the Gentiles to be mocked, scourged, and crucified.

Now consider, what hath become of you since, of you husbandmen? have not you been laid waste? and was not the word fulfilled concerning his coming and rising up from among the brethren? and when he was come among them, he would have gathered them as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but your fathers would not. And he shewed them how they stoned the prophets, and killed them; and how wise men should be sent among them, and scribes and prophets, some of them they should crucify and scourge in their synagogues, because they neither knew the Father, nor the prophet that he had raised up, which Moses spoke of.

Wherefore, saith he to Jerusalem, behold your house is left unto you desolate. Hath it not been so? Was he not a true prophet to you herein? Are not your houses unto you left desolate?

Are not this prophet's words here fulfilled on your fathers, and you scattered, which prophet Moses spake of, who went up to Jerusalem, and was betrayed by him that David spoke of, unto the chief priests and scribes, who condemned him to death, and delivered him to the Gentiles to be mocked, scourged and crucified, but the third day he rose again; and saith Christ, it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

This the prophet spake to your fathers, of whom you have the form of the law, and the words of the prophets, which killed the prophets, and yet built their sepulchres.

Here

you may see your fathers, and as it was with them, so it is with