FEar the Lord God , & take heed of pride , woe unto you that are given to vanity , you grieve the Spirit of the Lord God in you , you loose seriousnesse , you loose moderation in your Apparrell , in your diet , you loose temperance , you are not temperate in your apparrell , nor in your diet , bow to the Lord , you evil doers , what a bowing and bending make you one to another ? bow to the Lord , give him the glory , give him the honour , ye who are offended , that you have not the earthly honour , earthly man , earthly Adam , not the spirituall man , the Lord from heaven heavenly , not the spirituall man , the second Adam . O how do you go in your Apparrel , that you cannot scarce tell how to passe the streets ! O the glory of the world hath swallowed you up many of you ! O! you have entered into the great temptation . What would the Devil have given Christ to have bowed down to him ? Have you not the lust of the eyes ? Have you not the lust of the flesh ? Have you not the pride of life ? and yet professeth Scriptures as he doth , and bow down to him who is out of the truth , Have you not your hearts desire in those things ? Are you not dressed . so in your apparrell , that you cannot scarce tell how to walk the streets , gold , silver , jewels , old men have you lost gravity ? Young men have you forgotten sincerity ? and young women forsaken modesty , following vanity ? O what a painting of your selves you make young and old people ? O the Spirit is vexed where vanity is . God will not alwayes strive with man . O how have you forgotten the Lord , and given your selves up to your hearts lusts ? consider all people the dayes you spend , and have spent in vanity , in wantonnesse , in fooleries and toyes , in superfluitie in naughtinesse , in sports , in pleasures and games . Doth not something in you all prick you and check you of your unconverted estate , of your conversation in the earth , and so delighting in all things in the earth , setting your hearts in vanity ? O old men , how can you but see and consider , is the fear of God quite gone out of your hearts ? O who can but speak , and not hold his tongu● ? O how is the spirit grieved and vexed with your vanity and abominations ? O how is the Just trodden under feet ? O how is truth fallen in your streets ? O how is every one carried away with vanity and vexation of spirit , and covered with it ? how doth men ●eel in their folly & madness , that they cannot tell how to go , nor what to wear , nor what to eat , nor what to drink , nor what to put or ? ●s not this the fashion of the Heathen , and not like Christians ? Unsettled minds , that run into every fashion , that invents strange and new fashions ? repent , repent , lest Gods judgments come upon you , and sweep you away at unawares . O how doth your inordinate affections appear ? You are excessive in apparrell , you are excessive in superfluity and diet . O what good doth your Preaching , and Teaching do you ? How doth it profit you at all , while you are so given up into vanity , as though you never had heard talk of God , talk of Religion , talk of Christians Prophets and Apostles ? read their Declarations , and see what they declared against : the rod of God you must be fed withall , ye Lofty and full , ye haughty and high-minded ; O how do you eat and drink and then rise up to play ? Is not this your practice ye full ones ? and fat ones ? do you call this recreation , ye idle ones like the old world ? and Sodome and Gomorrha , fullnesse of bread and idlenesse who turned against Noah and Lot , the Preachers of righteousnesse , so it is at this day , and so it was in the dayes of the Prophets , and in he days of the Apostles , these was spots in their feasts , that was beginning before the Apostles decease , to eat and to drink , and rise up to play , admiring mens persons because of advantage , of whose root and ofspring you are , that make your selves merry over the Just in the particular , and then in the Generall , and so lives wantonly upon the earth , and in pleasure , and nourish your hearts , you are of the flock that kills the Just , root and ofspring ; for the people sate down to eat and drink , and rose up to play , with whom God was not well pleased , of whom God slew thousands at once , there is your example , and there is your stock , and there is your old Fathers , though you professe the Saints words , if you read the Scriptures you may see of whose stock you are of ? and of whose Generation , and whose path you goe in , therefore if you love a long life , your souls happinesse and good , come out off vanity , come to seasonableness & gravity , come to the Lord , come off all the barren mountains , all people come off the barren mountains , that you may have refreshment , of the Lord God , come off vanity , that you may be led with the spirit , and not grieve it , and vex it , but that you may have unity in the spirit , with the Father of spirits , and unity one with another , your vanities grieve the spirit , whereby you are a burden to the Creation , it 's a marvell how you can walk up and down the streets , and not be checked and reproved in your own particulars , for your vanity , and not be ashamed . Is the witnesse stifled in you ? Hath the Custome of the sinne taken away the sense , are you past feeling ? know you not that you must come to the dust you high lofty , wanton , giddy ones ? O how are you daubed with silver lace , and your Jewels , and your spots of your faces , and your feathers , and your wearing of gold , and through the abundance of your vanity and of your superfluity , ambition and pride , loftinesse and haughtinesse , stop the ear from hearing the Lord his Decree and Sentence against you , and how he beholds you afar off , and stops up the eye with which you should see your selves , and stops up your ear from hearing the cry of the poore , the blind and the lame that lies up and down your streets , so that he that regards not the poore regards not his Maker , and turning his ear from the poore , turns his ear from his Maker , so all come to sobernesse and modesty , and shamefastnesse , and be ashamed of all your pride , and vanity , and delight in the Lord your Creator , more then the creature , the giver of all good , and take pleasure in him , and take pleasure in him alone , and in his Judgements , if not , woe and wrath , and his plagues will come upon you . O what a pudder is hear ? 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 , 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 oftner 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 shamelesse 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 easing stools 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 wisdome , 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 sinnes , 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 , and 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 is to come upon all the World .

Bow you not more and oftener 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 the Hat , in Curching one to another , but they will be ready to think , that I bowed my Hat oftner to him then he did to me , and I curchied more to her then 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 which have lost gravity . And are ye not here as the transgressing Children of Israel mincing tinckling round attire , amongst whom must come the stink ? Isaiah 3.

And are ye not out of the Apostles 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 .

OH all ye Rulers of the earth , from the foundation of the world to this day , who hath been in the transgression of the Law of God , of the life of God , out of the fear of God , such in all ages hath turned the Sword against the just , that hath 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 blinde men ; so hits their friends that comes with love to their souls ; and strikes 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 hath alwaies strengthened the hands of the evill Doers ; But them that hath reproved in your Gates ; in your Streets , hath been your pray ; 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 the Hat , give you the earthly honour , not honouring the Courts as 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 Iesus 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 Iustices , unseasoned men to have honour , for humility goes before the honour , proud and high mindedness and liftings up ; that looks for respect of persons , more then for truth , Iustice and equity , for if men keep down low and humble , all doing iustly , they are honoured in the hearts of all people with the iust principle of God , in all people that honours the higher power , that honours iustice , and exalts the humility ; God doth ; which goes before the honour , who brings down the mighty from his seat , and abaseth the proud , and beholds him afar off , and brings down the Lofty , and where bitternesse and prejudice and burnings is in the breasts of people , they will side for parties , and be for their own ends , and what work hath men with these innocent people , which ye in scorn call Quakers ? prisoning , haling out of steeple houses , sending them as vagabonds from place to place , those that be able people outwardly , whipping of them , and because they cannot bow their hat to them . What work is your Iudges 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 tithes , preparing war against them , because they cannot put into their mouths , such as Micah cryed against , if people was 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 persecutes , though they have got the form of words , but out of the life of them : these persecutes men because they cannot put into the Priests mouth , and such as held up such Priests as are made by men , and held up in mens wills , and not by the will of God , and persecute them because they cannot break Christs command ; but keeps it which saith , swear not at all ; and prisons and persecutes 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 seeks or would be honoured in the hearts of all people , must answer the principall of God in all people , with iustice , 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 lye 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 hath done iust to the wicked ; the Lord God will be your reward ; you shall have a Crown that is immortall ; that hath kept your selves from persecuting the innocent , and put a difference between the pretious and the vile ; and to them that do well have been a praise ; and them that have reproved sin in your Gates , hath not been a prey , but ye have protected them you have nouri●hed them ; and the evill doer hath not strengthned , happy are ye who are honoured in the hearts of all people , ye are in their hearts who doe iustly , loves truth , are mercifull , humble , such God exalts and honours them in the hearts of all his people with that of himself , such knows the proud and lofty cannot honour them ; they will not receive the honour from them ; which is but a complement , and from below ; and is earthly , for that which honours a Magistrate , that doth iustice 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 doe well ; and a terrour to the evill Doer .