FRiends Remember , You must all come to Judg●ment b●fore the ●ne everlasting Judge from whom there is no Appeal to any other : who is no respecter of Persons , he is the on●●udge of the Conscience , All judgment in He●v n , and Earth is committed unto him , as ye love the good of your own Souls and outward prosperity , Beware that you meddle not with his Prerogative , who is the judge of Conscience , who toucheth the Conscience and awakens it , and when the Conscience is a wakened and trouble enters because of s●●se ●f sin and tr●nsgression , All the Kings on Earth cannot quiet Conscience again , and seeing you cannot quiet Conscience , nor wound Conscience as to make sensibl● of sin , you had best not m●ddle to persecute any simply upon the matter of Conscience , for if by violence you make any sin , and do that which is against their Consciences , and if they be troubled for it you can●ot give them peace , you cannot excuse them before God , therefore beware you force not People in matters of Conscience , least God in his wrath rise up in your own Consciences , and then you may come to see what it is to have a troubled Conscience : On King and those that in Parliament sit , be it known unto you all that it is the living God that hath troubled , and awakened our Consciences and made Us sensible of our sins that grieved the Lord , who by his power in Us hath wroug●t in a mighty m●nner in th● way of his judgments which were terrible to the man of sin in Us , and to us as we wer● joyned to the sin , so we have known the terrors of the Lord , and his wrath hath burned in us because of sin , and in that day thou and all thy Parliam●nt were far from Us to give Us any ease , or peace , ●ut the Cry in Us was to the Lord that his ●ye mig●t not pitty , not his hand spare , nor his fire to cease until the sin and transgression was done away , wh●ch caused the Lords displeasure , against us , and now the Lord hav●ng appeared in Us in the way of his judgements whereby he hath purged many , and put an end to the Sin , and finished the transgression , and hath broug●t in the everlasting Righteousness , and so by his own everlasting power he gath●red Us into many Assemblies in these Nations , and the Lord is mighty by his Spirit in our Ass mblies , the Lord has gathered us out of the War and strife , yea out of the cause o● all War and strife , out of the Lusts of the flesh , into the love of his Truth , and his command is in Us , and to Us that we keep together in his power and that we forsake not our Assembling together , and the presence of the Lord is in the midst of Us , and we can call G●● o● Heaven and Earth to Record upon our Spirits that we intend nothing by our M●●tings but simply the Worship of God , We may n●t learn War any more with carnal Weapons , we may not hate our enemies , nor render evil for evil , we may not curse them that despitefully use Us , we may not d●sire evil in our h●arts against them , the Lord is a Witness upon our Spi it s that we h●ve not ●vil in our hearts against you , but we seek your good , and what do you mean by thus suffering Us to be abused , and beat , and our good● spoiled by your command , and our Meeting-hous●s stopt up with violent men , would such p●oceedings conv●nce Us if we were wrong ? Nay surely , But be it known unto you that We have counted the Cost , the power of the Lord God is in the midst of Us , we are His , and He is our Por●ion , and for his sake we suffer , and for no evil doing , the Lord is our R●cord upon our spirits , it is not for plotting , nor any evil doing , but simply b cause we cannot ●●rb●ar the Ass mbling of our selves together , let the just witness of God answer for Us in all that ris● up against Us , what have we done , what can be justly laid to our cha●ge , have ye any thing against Us , but simply the matter ▪ and m●nner of the wo●ship of our God , will you take upon you to judge our hearts , if nay , then is not the T●ee known by its Fruits , have not , and are not our fruits Holyness , and Righteousness , skiring forth in our lives and conversations , and in our Assemblies , and in our patient sufferings are not we manifested to be a true people , and Worshippers of the living God , even by the very rage of the e●emy against Us , in wicked people that abuse Us , from hence may not ye see that the World love Us n●t because we be not of the World , h●ve we used violence again , h●ve we rendred evil for evil , have we sought by a y carnal weapon , or carnal way to deliver our selves , nay but we have committed our selves unto the Lord , and so have given up our selves willingly to suffer rath r then to sin , now judge who we are that are thus used , and who they are that use us thus , compare your proceedings ag●inst Us ( an innocent people ) with the proce●ding● of Christ and his Followers , against those that were wrong●● , Christ would not suffer to destroy them that would not rec●ive him , but we have received him , and y●t you deal with Us far another way , then Christ dealt with them that would not receive him into their City though they denyed to receive him yet he would not have th●m persecuted Christs command concerning them that would not obey his Church was to cast them out of his Church f●llowship , but he never commanded to beat them , and abuse them , or spoil their goods as is done to Us , who haue received him , and are by him gathered into his everlasting power , now Christs followers had immediate Revelations , which you say you have not , Christs Church did not err in judging He eticks , they were Hereticks whom his Church judged then , and the true Church now may not proceed against Hereticks in another manner , they must not take another course with them then what th● t●ue Church took with them in former days , now we find ●ot th● true Church proceeded against Hereticks by any carnal ●●rc● , as Imprisonment , banishment , b●aring , spoiling of their ●oods , but only Christs command allows them to be ●ut o●● from t●e church●s fellowship , This was their proceedings who were guided by immedi●te Revelatio●s against Hereticks , or them that would not obey the church , ●ut I ●ay you do not claim to immediate Revela ions , nor to be guided by an infallible Spirit why then do you not consider it and lay it to heart ; that ye may be mistak●n and so persecute the innocent people of God under the name of Hereticks , as ever all p●●s●cut●rs did , they never judged the people of God that were persecuted by t em to be inno●ent , or to be the people of Go● , though indeed they w●re true , though accounted deceivers by them that were not true , so that you may look upon y●ur p●●c edings against U● ( an innocent people ) to be far otherwise then the true chu ch s was against rea H reticks , and if Hereticks were to be proceeded against as you ●●ve proc●eded against Us , that are no Hereticks but are true Worshippers of th● l ving Go● ; yet you that p●oceed so ought to be in that which is infallibl● , that you mig●t not mistake the p●●ple of God , and persecute th●m instead of Hereticks . ●herefore Oh King and Parliam●nt consider what you do , for they are not the Kings Friends who counc●l him to p rsecute any about the matters of worship . Let all sorts of People in th●se N●tions h●ve the lib●rty of their Consc●ences . Let every sort ●uild thems●lves publ c● M●●●i●g H●uses , and me●t in publick , and maintain ●ve●y one their own Minis●ers , th●n that would qu●ckly gain the he●●ts o● all sorts of pe●ple , to t●e King , and that wo●ld make the King strong in the hea●ts of th● pe●ple , a●d it would ing●ge t●em from their hearts to serve the K●ng , an● again I ●ay it is no good policy , n●ither are they the Kings friends that would councel him to any t●ing that might loosen , or withdraw the hearts of the Kings Su●jects from him , and they that councel the King to persecute p●ople their c●u●cel leads to with●raw the hearts o●●is Subj●cts against him , for though we deny fighting , or h●lping our selves by any carnal weapon , and though no persecution can never provoke Us to it , and though we l●ve our ●●emies and pray for our enemi●s , and so may not sight , y●t ●ther sorts of separate people holds it lawful to fight , ●ow i● they shall be suffered to meet in publick and maintain ever● one their own Ministers , that will b● a good means to withdraw them from all private meetings , as to plot , yea it will be a good means to put out of their hearts discontent for from whence ris●s all pl●●ting but ●rom a ●isc●nt●nt within , and to stop them from publ●ck Meetings is not this a ready way to Irritate them ▪ and to put them upon the pain of disp●●● ? for it is a so●e thing to oppress the Conscience , and you know that you cannot ●each into t●e Consci●nce , with any outward fo●ce to turn it unto God , and to that w●ich is well p easing unto h●m , and if you ●now not this its very sad , and seeing it is so that God alo●e perswad s Consc●ence , leave every one to worship according to h●s perswasi●n , who knows not a better , for outward force will not bring any to know a better perswasion , Oh King and Parliament , it is not possible for you to bring all the peopl● in t●ese Nations to worship in the Episcopal manner , outward force will not do it , therefore Oh King and b●●n Houses of Parliament , consider what you have to do in this matter , and force none any more , but give all their liberty to Worship God in that way , then which they know no better , and then all sorts having liberty to worship publickly , then those Laws may stand in force against those that m●●t privately to plot , or that meet in any suspitious manner , for verily Friends , It s no good policy to stop publick Meetings , for they that mean to plot they may do it in private , but b●ing in publick then all are free to come in and to see what they are doing , for the stopping of publick Meetings occasions them to creep into corners and private places with their Meetings , and are occasions to beget discontent , envy , and prejudice in their minds , which is the ground of all plotting , but as for Us , we have suffered much both in Cromwells time , and in the Kings time , because we have been publick in our meetings , and however it be in your hearts to proce●d with Us , y●t we cannot be clear but to warn you and signifie unto you that while we have a being in that wh●c● God hath gathered Us into , and while our Tabernacles are upon Gods earth , we must worship God , we must not forbear the assembling of our selves together , what ever we may suffer for the same , if it should come to the laying down of our lives , we are the Lords , he hath chos●n Us , and he is our everlasting portion , whether we be in these Tabernacles , or removed , all shall work for the advancement of Truth , and good of all those that live in it to the end , whose faithful testimony , and sufferings in this Age shall preach through Ages to come , and their names shall be for a sweet Memorial among the Righteous in Ages to come , but the name of persecutors shall be had in Remembrance for evil , and will be an evil savour before people of succeeding Ages , and those that in this Age , who are true followers of the Lamb , and yet are persecuted under the names of deceiv●rs shall be openly confessed to have been fa thful Followers of the Lamb in this Age by them of succeeding Ages , and th●i● suffe●ings shall not be forgot , now Oh King and Parliam●nt , I have pretty well cl●ared my Conscience toward you .

Wh●ther you will hear , or forbear , my peace remains with me , which none can take from me , but truly when I heard of your Act and proceedings with the Innocent when I heard it in my own Nation of Scotland , it came very near me , and there was a true moving in my heart from the Lord to come to this City , and warn you which I have done in the counc●l of God , and in love to your Souls , for your good it will be if you take it .