NOw are the Prophesies fulfilled and fulfilling upon you , which was spoken to you by the People of God , in your Courts , in your Steeple-Houses , in your Towns , Cities , Markets , High-ways , and at your Feasts and Pleasures , when you were at your height of Authority , & in your Highnesse , and puft up that you would neither hear God nor man , though raised up from a mean Estate ; none to come nigh you without bowing , or the respect of persons ; and were in the worlds way , Complements , and Fashions , and set down at ease in the spoyle of your enemies : Which for Conscience sake toward God they could not go into , which they were Redeemed from : Therefore , they were by you hated for that cause , but now you may consider the thing is come upon you , which we told you of ; who exalted your selves above your Brethren , and threw the just and harmless from among you , until at last God hath thrown you out ; and when you cast the innocent out from among you , then you fell abiting one at another , until you were consumed one of another ; and so the day is come upon you , which before to you was told , though before you would not believe it . And is not your hearts so hardened that you will hardly yet believe , though in captivity ? and was it not told you ( when you spilt the blood of the Innocent , in your Steeple-Houses , in your Markets , in your High-wayes , and in your Cities , yea and Courts ) by such as spoke the word then , and could not put off their hats , that if something did not arise among your selves , to avenge the blood of the Innocent , there would something come from beyond Sea , which lay reserved there , which the Arme of Flesh , and strongest of Mountains cannot withstand the Arm of God ; & yet you would not consider , nor regard , nor hear , but cried peace , peace , and feasted your selves , and sate down in the spoyle of your enemies , and were both treacherous to God and man ; and who will trust you now ? and have you not taken COVENANTS and OATHS , and made the Nation take COVENANTS , and OATHS ? and broken both Covenants and Oaths , bewixt God and man , and made the Nation both , break both Covenants & Oaths ? So that nothing but hypocricy , and rottenness , and fals-hood , and fair pretences , were seen amongst you . And after when you pretended to set up the Old-Cause , it was but your filliness ; so that you long stunk to sober people , which saw that no good you would do , but it was a joy to any of you to get up in Authority , that you might have praise ; and them that were in the self-denial were a derision to you , amongst whom That was banished , and so become the honored and respected , Nations Masters , and not Servants , for the greatest of all must be the Servant to all ; and so there you lost your Authority , not considering your states from whence you were , & to what God had raised you up , but forgat the Lord , and have quencht that which is good in your selves , and have persecuted them that lived in it , so that an honest man could not live amongst you , but put out till you were overthrown your selves , and so were grown so gross & perverse , that at last you are neither fit for God nor man : Have you not used to call the Quakers , the Phanatick people , and the giddy heads , but whether are you now giddied into Cains City of Nod , which signifieth wandring ? And have you not persecuted , and imprisoned till death , such as God hath respect to ? and now hath he reproved you for their sakes , by them whom ye have hated . Was not many of you cut off ( and yet would not take warning ) for your persecuting ? was not there a book of Exaples set out unto you , shewing what sudden and strang deaths happened upon the persecutors of the Innocent without a cause ? and yet ye would not take warning , until the over-flowing Scourge come upon you . Are not you them that have killed , ( like Cain that killed ) about your Sacrifice ? hath not God Vagabonded you , that you should become a Curse upon the earth ? doth not the blood of the Righteous cry out of the ground for Vengeance ? will not the blood of the Righteous be required ? did you think that the Lord would let you fit alwayes with bloody hands , and fists of wickednesse ? what is become of all your feasts , and fasts , or the prayers and blessings of your Priests ? hath the Lord heard you , or your Sacrifices hath he had respect unto ? do you not see that its all hypocrisie , and from a false heart ? will not the Priests pray for the KING now , as fast as they prayed against him , for the PARLIAMENT , to keep their benefices , who once prayed against him , and said , Cursed was he that did not fight against him : Now what is become of your Sacrifices , you Persecutors , hath God had respect to them , or are they gone where Cain went ? O the falsnesse of heart ! and treacherousnesse , and security that you were grown to , that you could not trust one another ! have not you caused the Nations , and caused the Souldiery both in arrears , and in wages , to suffer ? was the Nation behind in their Taxes ? and have not the Souldiers bin like to starve for want of their pay ? have not you been false to God and man every way , & opprest the Nation every way ? & almost all people had a cry of oppression in their mouths , and when they petitioned you ; and addrest to you , it was a great thing if they had thanks from you ; and some when they laid their grievances before you , you would not take it except they put of their hats : Now your place had been to have sought to have done Justice , if you had known your places , for that is it that preserves a Nation . So have not you been the greatest Prayers , and Preachers , and Professors in the Nation , and the greatest Persecutors ? for how many thousands have been brought up to you , and laid before you , that have been Stockt and Whipped , Banished , and put to Death , and their houses Rifled , and their goods spoyled , by your great Professing , and Preaching Priests ? as ever did the Tories , and Moss Troops , which made your Religion lothsome , and made the honest people discent from you ; but now have you your reward , and the day of the Lord is come upon you , nevertheless God hath reserved a rod in store , for them that do wickedly , that none should rejoyce in wickednesse , and in the downfal one of another , but in the Power of the Lord that doth overturn , which is seen with the pure eye , that lives in Justice , Truth and Righteousness ; and the Ravenous Lyons must not be Satisfied , but must suffer hunger ; the reward of the hypocrite is to be paid , and persecutors were ever blind . And now you may see what is come upon you ; now see if your Teachers can save you , who have Preached and Prayed for you , and that they would stand by you with their Lives and Liberties , and that they would stand in the gap : Now see how they have deceived you , whose hedg now is laid down to the ground ; And have you not imprisoned and persecuted many for coming to you , and warning you of those things which now are come to pass upon you ? Therefore , now you may see , that when you had power you did not do good in your age , and so had not a praise , neither a good Saviour in the hearts of the honest upright and innocent ; for had you stopt , the shedding the blood of the innocent , persecution and oppression , the Lord would have stood by you ( for that will be the greatest thing upon you ) & stopped the violence of the wicked , from imprisoning them ; and these things will follow you to your beds , and on you lye heavy ; yea the heaviest thing as ever you did , besides all your unjust dealing , and bad actions , and dealings in the Nation to people , that had regard to you , and that were against you .

And now all ye PRIESTS and PROFESSORS , you may see what good you have done among people , and you who have been the cause of casting so many of the servants of the Lord in prison , and cast out of the Vineyard , and now are you turned out your selves , and mind your vineyard , how you found it , and how you left it , and see if you be at peace with the unrighteous mammon , and now you have not power , but are become as weak as water , and have not strength , neither are you to rise , except you repent .

And Friends , you have brought the Nation to be like a great Sea , and in it hath been like Whales to swallow up ; you have been the bad examples and patterns , who have pretended the greatest profession and preaching that ever was in England before , but that you have dishonoured , and that which God hath given to you is quenched , and you would have broken both order , edification and comforting amongst Gods people , but now hath God broken you , & reproved you for touching his Anointed , and harming his Prophets ; and you have been the example of persecution to all the Dominion of England , yea to all Nations ; who have been the greatest professors of Christ with your lips , but now your hearts , and inward parts , and skirts , hath God brought to light , and made you as bare , and as naked , as the servants of the Lord that went among you as a signe of your nakedness and siripping ; ( which some of them you abused , and cast into prison ) I say , went naked before the people was carried into captivity , as a signe to them , as many have done to you , and some in sackcloth and ashes upon their heads , and still you rebelled and persecuted the Lords Prophets , though some with hypocriticall hearts would promise fair , but perform little . Now is a skilfull people come vpon you , and now is the woes and plagues which we have often declared come upon you , which the servants of the Lord have cryed , WOE to England , WOE to the corrupt Magistrates , WOE to the Priests and to the Hypocrites , and fair Pretenders , and not Doers : Now you may see the end of your false Prophets and Priests that daubed with untempered morter ; Now where is your wall they made ? what have you now to cover your heads ? lye they not bare now ? are you not all become weak as water and faint-hearted , that dare not stand to your own principles ? so as you have been examples and paterns of persecution to all Nations of the innocent , in the height of your pride and vanity , are now become a hissing to all Nations in your fall , which the pride went before , which you were often told of . Oh wo is me for you ! That mercy from the Lord you may find , in this great deep dark day of confusion among you , who are like Babilon confounded , who hath long drunk the Saints blood ; the Kings of the earth must hate the Whore , as the Re●elations the Scriptures must be fulfilled , and that 's but beginning , your Dalilah hath cut your locks , who has lulled asleep in her lap , who rose and shook your selves , and thought to have been as at other times : This was said to you before your eyes was put out , & ●ou set a grinding ; but now you must see if you can work in the Mill , but your state will hardly be found Sampsons , therefore consider your selves , and see if they were not your friends that warned you of the things that is come upon you ; who in the day of your prosperity would have stopt the cry of Wisdom in your gates , and they that reproved sin in your gates ( which you Magistrates did not keep down ) was become a prey amongst you ; your goals you fill'd almost in every corner of the Nation with the innocent and peaceable people ; and of such as obeyed the command of Christ , and could not sweare , you thrust out of you Courts and Places , and thrust them into Goals , that would have done truth at yea and nay . The houses of thousands of Families have you suffered to be rifled and spoiled by the Prie●s with a company of club-men , like a troop of Robbers : In all your Courts , Assizes , and Sessions have you caused the innocent to be haled up and down , by an unrighteous ministry that they did no work for ; and so brought iniquity upon your Throne Likewise men of 60. or 80. l. a year , who reproved sin in the gates , and likewise sober women , you have whipped as vagabonds , and so have been examples to Nations to Whip , Banish , Prison , Kill , Burn , and drink the blood of the innocent ; and so Christ hath not been your example , who saves mens lives .

And besides , thousands you have suffered your Prie●●s and People to drag out of your Steeple-houses by the hair of the head , knockt down , lay for dead , shed their blood , & cast into prison , & besides thousands of meetings of the people of God have been by your people tumulted , many there windows broken , houses pull'd down , and men pulled out of the meeting by the hair of the head when they have been at prayer , which has been a dishonour , & a shame to Government : And how many formed lies have been invented amongst you , and by your Priests , that the Quakers was rising to cut your throats ; and now what good does your refuge do you ? and what is become of your refuge makers ? are not the Quakers now tryed and proved ? and must not now your refuge of lies go to the pit with you ? and was not the people of God called Quakers your friends , in warning you of all this that is come to passe ? though you persecuted them , and trod upon them , and cast them out , for the Lords names sake , and because they trembled at his word ; but now he shall appear for their sakes , and you shall be ashamed , and the thousands ; and multitudes that have been persecuted by you for not doffing hats to you , and respecting persons , in which you went beyond all Christianity ( yea , the very Turk ) in pride and ambition , and now you may see what you have been covered withall , now you have the substance of it , and you may see how the life of Religion , you have lived out of , and out of the life of Christ and the Apostles ; and now you may see that God hath stained , and laid in dust that glory and honour of yours , which you would have had friends to bow down to , and persecuted them because they would not give it you , and because they would not bow down to your will-worships , but worshipt God in Spirit and Truth .

And was not persecution ever blind , and Persecutors ? and now you may see into what Ditch you are fallen : And have you not a reward according to your workes ? you cannot say , but you were warned both by God and his people , and were in a wilfull rebelling against both ; and so the Lord will make you to know his Arm and Power , and his hand stretched out , which layes down the Mountaines with the Valleys , and layes down the sturdiest Oak , and slayes the fattest Bull : View the hand that does this , and Power of the Lord : Whether would not now many of you be glad of a Rock and a Hole in the earth to hide your selves in , when the Lord is risen to shake terribly the earth ? now must you not own Quakers whether you will or no ? and for all your persecution towards us we freely say , the Lord forgive you , and that from him you may find mercy in this day of your misery , and whether now night is not come upon you that hath been told you , that your walking is there ? and now have not you treachery enough , who in it has been found both to God and Man ? plain dealing men were become , an abominable thing among you , for how many fair promises had you promised to the Nation , over and over , and how long did the Lord spare you ? and did you not betray the innocent people of the Nation ? Now mind and consider , whither that hath brought you selves , and learn to do so no more , but repent .

All men shall be at their wits end about their Religion and Profession which be out of the Life & Power the Prophets and Apostles were in , and in heaps , and confusions , and distractions , one setting up , and another plucking down ; And this is the work out of the Life and Power .

And before the Lord destroyed Jerusalem , he long warned them , as he hath long you , and neverthelesse the Lords Arm and Power , will and shall be seen in this Nation .

And did not the Lord warn & fend Prophets among the people before he destroyed them ? and did not they persecute them as you have done ? and so cast the Lords Servants out of the vineyard , like the Jews , untill at the last they were cast out themselves , and so you who have betrayed the Nation and power , at last what you sowed , that you do reap .