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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27083	A true and faithful warning unto the people and inhabitants of Bristol and unto the rulers, priests, and people of England ... that they might prepare to meet the Lord ... / ... Charles Baily.	Bayley, Charles.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1473D; ESTC R16496	30,294	42

into Tophet where the breath of his nostrils shall for ever kindle up the unquenchable fire of your endlesse torments except ye repent with speed the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and it shall surely and shortly come to passe in a time and hour when you shall not be aware of it for as the lightning comes from the East and swiftly passeth unto the West so shall the day of your destruction be except you amend Amend therefore and cease preaching unto others until you come your selves to be converted and changed from that corrupt cursed nature of wickednesse which lodgeth within you O ye hypocrites are you not or at least may you not be asham'd to get into a high place amongst people and speak against sin and iniquity seeing you your selves are not purged from it May not that saying be justly turned upon you which the Apostle Paul spake saying Vnexcusable art thou O man whosoever thou art that judgeth seeing that no man was to judg another whilst he himself was guilty of the same thing O ye deceitful workers first pluck out the beam out of your own eyes and then may you come for to see the clearer in others conditions Until then this is a sure and certain warning unto you all to cease from the evil of your wayes and repent for as sure as God lives if you go on in your stiff-neckednesse and hard-heartednesse against him his righteous Judgments will assuredly overtake you And this I have written as one that feareth the Lord and trembleth at his word in which I cannot respect the persons of any but must reprove the sins of all whether in Kings Princes Rulers or Judges Priests or people of what sort or condition soever that thereby they may take warning and repent O England England many have been thy Warnings and precious have been thy Visitations to those who have prized them and glorious hath been the day of Gods love unto those Who have believed our report and to whom the Arm of the Lord hath been revealed which hath led them out of darknesse into his marvelous light therein to live and to walk safe out of the snare of the crafty Fowler hireling Priest and deceivers which thou O England hast embraced as it were anew after thy long day of blood sorrow and anguish O consider this O ye Heads of the Nation to what end and purpose did the Lord empty the power of this Nation from vessel to vessel and from man to man was it think ye that it should settle again in this bogg and reliques of confused Popery nay surely nay this was not the end of the Lord concerning thee but his end and purpose concerning thee was and is that the Son of his own bosome should be raised over all in thee to Reign as he hath appointed and decreed which decree is impossible to be altered or changed but shall and must be accomplished not only in this Nation but over all Nations and in all Nations and people of the earth shall this his glorious work be compleatly finished for he hath sworn by himself saying it shall be so that he shall reign over all the Kingdomes of the world forasmuch as I have appointed him to be heir of all things both in Heaven and Earth They that have an ear let them hear and blessed will be that eye which seeth and that heart which understandeth the things which belong to their everlasting peace before they be hid from their eyes and there be no place found for their Repentance And this I shall further say in the Spirit of the Lord concerning thee O England what the Lord intended should be thy lot 't was that thou shouldest be the first fruit unto God in this latter day that so thou mightst become a glorious example unto other Nations giving light unto them who yet sat in darknesse and in the Region and shadow of death that such I say might have received light from the glorious Sun of righteousnesse which the Lord raised in the midst of thee in thousands and this the Lord hath already in measure done Glory be to him for ever O! might not my soul take up a Lamentation over a foolish people saying O how are your hearts becom blind O inhabitants of England in whom the voyce of the Turtle is plentifully heard as in the Spring time after this dry long Winter which hath been in thee amongst whom it is on every hand said and confessed that the Lord liveth who hath brought his Seed out of the North and caused the beauty of its life to appear surpassing the glory and beauty of this present world And plentifully hath the word of his own life been declared and is still spoken forth in thee and yet for all this like an inchanted people ye turn your backs upon it and fly unto your hireling Priests whereas thou mightst have received the word of the Lord plentifully and freely at the hands of his precious Servants then wouldst thou have no need of the teachings of men nor to have gone into the Idol Masse-houses there to have taken the words of David and others to have sung but in the Spirit of the Lord ye would have all been gathered by it through which ye would have been ever praising the Lord in the land of the living Neither would you have needed to have gone to your Priests to have taken bread and wine at their polluted hands which feedeth but the natural and will corrupt but you would have been come to the High-Priest and Shepherd of your souls and have received living bread at his hands as your daily food and nourishment O England might not well my soul say that thou hast changed beauty for ashes and hast chosen chaff instead of wheat so that instead of well set hair thou hast baldnesse for if it were not so thou neededst not to have gone to the Idol-houses now for to hear a compounded parcel of words called Common Prayer read by a wicked man but instead thereof thou hadst been filled with the Spirit of Prayer and Supplication which the Lord would have showred down upon thee without measure which thing some few who are despised in thee do witnesse to the everlasting comfort of their immortal souls And also thou mightst have had a free Ministry instead of hirelings even you who might have fed on living bread at the Table of the Lord instead of taking it at your Communion-Tables which the Popes ordained for you who might have been baptised with the Holy Ghost and with fire by which ye would have been cleansed who might have walked in the light of the Lord instead of walking in the dim sparks of your own kindling who might have been satisfied with Gods presence instead of being enquiring in your minds where and what God is who might have been purged washed and made clean from sin by the blood of the Lamb instead of a vain hope as you are in now that

men are degenerated from God I say that if thou find and feel but such a thing in thee prize it above all for it is of the very life and restorer of all things by which Moses was acted in the dayes of old when he did forsake the pleasure of sin for a season and chose rather to partake of the suffering and afflictions of the afflicted than to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter for it was that in which he wrought the wonders of God and will also do the like in thee if thou obey love and follow it it will be thy guide leader and preserver and teacher in all states and conditions whatsoever through which and in which thy immortal soul will come to be saved and so satisfied for I will tell thee plainly that except man comes to be acquainted with something in himself which is more glorious than all visible and transitory things without him he can never come to forsake all for the Lords sake For this I have seen and experienced through deep travail and sorrow how that if I had not had something in my own self which was more desireable and amiable than all things I could never have been made willing to have forsaken all things else besides it but enjoying the life and presence of my Creator in my own particular all was well enough without me though in hunger in cold and in nakednesse or prisons or bannishment or travails both by Sea or Land I did still find satisfaction and refreshment in the enjoyment of Gods presence and this I say not because another hath said it but because my soul hath found it so in the time of need even since the time that my God separated me outwardly from my Brethren in Virginia who were more neer and dear to me than all my outward kindred because they were such as did the will of my father since which time something of my travail may be seen in my following discourse very briefly of my travels outward but of my travels and sorrow inward in all those travels and prisons I shall leave it to the upright in heart to feel for truly I may in the truth of God say how that the dayes of my sorrow and fastings passed the number of my remembrance Besides the many assaults which the cursed Popish spirit of Inchantments Sorcery Witchcraft did make against me to destroy me cannot be given to be understood by Tongue Pen Ink nor Paper but by those who have undergone the like tryal with me for this I testifie in the Lord and shall leave upon record under my hand how that a deeper spirit of Necromancy and deceit is not upon the face of the whole earth to be found so deep in working in the mistery of iniquity as it is amongst them and this is the testimony which I give for the Lord God of life against them which shall stand for ever For as to my very outward they have sought my death and destruction by this means and I have been almost strangled in the night and day season by that cursed spirit of Witchcraft which hath sought to stop my mouth thereby to have deprived me of my natural breath which thing they would certainly have done had not the Lord preserved me and rebuked them for they have often come into my Prison with many hundred sorts of shapes and likenesses and have sought every way of Inchantment against me and had it been so that it had been possible for them to have prospered against me to the utter destruction of me they would have done it but when the Lord had suffered them every way to try me then he wholly rebuked them and sent his ministring Angels to comfort me every way as those poysoning spirits had every way assaulted me in which day of his everlasting love he sealed up my soul in his everlasting Covenant of love for ever for which cause I cannot forsake the Lord whatever betides me Now though tryals remain yet on every hand yet my God knoweth I can never leave him nor forsake him nor decline from his living testimony in my heart neither in life nor death but must and shall say unto all love fear dread and honour and obey the Lord above all who is worthy to have for ever all the glory honour and praise even him who is God over all blessed for ever and ever Amen And this is the end why my God separated me from my fathers house in the time of my infancy that I should be a true and faithfull witnesse against that spirit of persecution murder and envy in whomsoever it be And seeing the Lord hath thus long preserved me out of many eminent dangers I know he will do the like for ever as he hath spoken it unto my soul that he will never suffer his faithfulness to fail concerning me therefore I shall never be moved and if it were not so my soul would long ere now have sunk under the floods of deep sorrow which yet come upon me without ceasing rowling over my head the Lord rebuke them as I know he will do for his name sake even he who hath heard me out of the Whales belly and answered my request once and again in the day of need for which I say my soul magnifie blesse and praise his holy name for ever Charles Bayly Written in Newgate Prison in Bristol the first of the third Month. 1663. AND now the Magistrates of this Nation through whose hands I have passed thus from Prison to Prison may see what they have done if it be so they are not yet quite heart-blind in the persecuting of a man so unreasonably as they have done who hath been so far drawn forth as in relation to the very natural part as to render his life and body for one of their naturall Countrey men who had been in long captivity in Rome out of their Nation even one who was not himself a natural English man though born in it I say surely following Generations might well say the Heathen in America would not have thus rewarded a man upon the return of such a service as this done for any one of their Nation I am sure they would not have done it And what right can any man expect to have at or of the hands of such men who are thus lead by a spirit of wrong judgement as for to persecute in such a nature their friend in the stead of their enemy especially such a man as hath in this sort jeoparded his life to witnesse against the Popish Religion and not onely so but hath undergone all and much more than the aforesaid miseries rather than to embrace and own it Of these things and concerning these things I shall in the uprightnesse of my heart leave it and commit it unto God the judge of all for to judge of this matter between us A true and faithfull Warning unto the Inhabitants of Bristol as a loving visitation of Gods tender