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A91825	The banner of Gods love, and ensign of righteousness spread over his people in these later dayes. Wherein the true light shineth, and the mysterie that hath been hid from ages and generations, is revealed to the saints, which is, Christ in us the hope of glory, as our forefathers witnessed, read Col. I. 26, 27, 28, 29. Also, a testimony against them who formerly hath tasted of the good word of God, and of the power of the world to come, who hath cast the law of God behind their backs, and hath trodden under foot the blood of the covenant. ... most especially, those that are called Anabaptists and Independents. Also, a few words in warning to the priests, professors, and people of the town and county of Southhampton. With a few quæries to the rulers and magistrates of England, to try their fruits whether they be according to the Christian magistrates recorded in the Scripture of truth, ... . Set forth most especially for the sake of the honest-hearted, who are not wholly given up to believe lyes, that they may come to know the way of life and peace. Written by me who are called Ambrose Rigge.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1475; Thomason E932_4; ESTC R22061	33,117	47

this Nation of England and elsewhere whereby the strong man in hundreds hath been made to bow and the Keepers of the House to tremble and by it hath the Wisdom of the Wise Isa 29 14 1 Cor. 1 19 1 Pet. 1 23 25 Isa 40 8 Acts 19 20 been confounded and the understanding of the prudent brought to nought but the Word of the Lord hath stood and shall stand and accomplish the VVork for which it was sent and hath grown and encreased abundantly so that many by it is quickned and raised from death to life and they have not laboured in vain as the false Prophets have done this many years but many Vessels are full and an innumerable multitude is drawn out of the Sea of confusion where Luk. 5 5 6 they were overwhelmed and could never have come to the Son of God unlesse they had been drawn by the Cords of the Fathers Love wherein now they walk to the praise and glory of God for evermore And those whom the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath 2 Cor. 1 22 indued with his Spirit of Life and Light in Christ Jesus his only Son and as they have been moved of the Lord have taken Luk. 1 1 2 in hand to set forth from the very first a Declaration in order of those things which are most surely believed among us who have been eye-witnesses of him from the beginning and of all the things that Jesus began to do and to teach of Psal 112 4 the works and mighty wonders which he hath wrought for the sons of men who sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death how he hath caused his everlasting day to dawn upon them and hath commanded light to shine out of darknesse Luke 1 79 2 Cor 4 6 whereby his children comes to have the knowledge or his glory And this Declaration hath been set forth for the sake of the simple that they may turn in at the call of Wisdom who is now uttering her Voice in the Streets and opening Prov. 1 20 22 23 24. her Gate wide so that many hearkens to her Voice and enters in at her Gate and by such is Wisdom justified daylie Matth. 11 19 Isa 11 9 Zech 4 9 and Knowledge encreased abundantly so that the Lord God is known to be one and his Name one And he hath confirmed his Work not by Word onely but by his mighty Power and by his Armor of Righteousnesse on the right hand and on the left whereby his Enemies is subdned under his feet 2 Cor 6 7 and the Power given unto him to rule whose right it is And this hath his own Arm accomplished for his own Seed sake which lay in captivity and was oppressed and burthened so Ezek 21 ●7 that it could not arise to bring forth fruit unto him but his Vinyard wholly laid desolate to the Beasts of the field to make a prey upon and his Heritage was become as a speckled Bird that was wandered into the desolate places of the earth Je● 2 9 and not one stone was found to build up the desolation of Zion with till it was hewed and suted by the Word of God which is as a Hammer which was put into the mouths of his chosen ones in the fulnesse of time Jer 23 29 And now I with the rest of my dear Brethren and Sisters who have obtained grace and mercy from the Lord and having had perfect knowledge from the very first of the things that Jesus hath done for me and the rest who have believed in his Name and how it pleased the Father to reveal him in us that we might preach him among the Gentiles for the Gal. ● 16 salvation of his people Israel and for the redemption of all the children of Adam who were made sinners by his disobedience Now am I moved of the Lord to bear my testimony with the rest of my Brethen and Sisters who are in scorn called Quakers unto Christ Jesus the Light of the World whom wee witnesse in us the hope of Glory and how He did there Col. 1. 27. begin his work and wrought in us both the will and the deed as our fore-Fathers witnessed in their declaration in Phil. 2. 13. order the mistery that was hid from ages and generations was Christ in them the hope of glory and them that sought Col. 1. 26. a proofe of Christ in them they exhorted to try themselves and prove themselves and told them that Christ was in them 2 Cor. 13. 3. 4. 5. except they were reprobates and this is the mistery that is now hid from all sorts of profession and professors at this day who are found without the life of Christ manifested in the mortal flesh and so are seeking proofs of his speaking 2 Cor. 4. 11. Deut. 18. 15. 18. Acts 3. 22. in his people and such hath ears but doth not hear him of whom Moses wrote which the Lord hath now raised to be a Teacher and a Leader to his people which they now bear in all things according to the word of the Lord by the mouth of his servant Moses And this doth set all the world in an uproar so that Gog and Magog doth strike hands together Rev. 20. 8. Rev. 17. 14. Rev. 12. 5. Rev. 19. 15. Matth. 3 12 Luk. 3. 17 to joyn in Battle against the Lamb who is now arisen to rule the nations with a Rod of Iron and Fan and purifie his Sons and Daughters that he may gather his Wheat into his Garner according to his promise and burn up the Ghaff with unquenchable fire And now shall they clearly be known that serveth the Lord in truth and tighteousnesse from them who pretend Mal. 3. 18. Titus 1. 16 2 Tim 43. in words they know him but in works deny him for the time is already come wherein men cannot endure sound Doctrine but after their own lusts heaps up unto themselves Isa 56 10 11 12 Ier 23 Ezetk 34 Matth 23. Teachers which doth not profit them at all but are such as the Prophets and Apostles of the Lord did always bear testimony against as all that are not wilfully blind may clearly see But now hath the Lord furnished us with power from on high to preach his everlasting Gosple unto every creature Mark 16 1● so that our labour and travel is to see Christ formed in them who is the expresse image of his fathers person that henceforth Gal 4 19 Heb. 1 3 they might not be tosed to and fro with every wind of Doctrine through the sleight of men but that all may Eph 4 14 come to the knowledge of him in them subduing all things under his feet and leading Captivity Captive and destroying 1 Cor 15 ●8 Ephe 4 8. Ephe 5 27. and defacing the image of the Devil in all his children that they may be presented without spot unto his Father and for

THE BANNER OF GODS LOVE AND ENSIGN OF RIGHTEOVSNESS Spread over his people in these later dayes Wherein the true light shineth and the mysterie that hath been hid from Ages and Generations is revealed to the Saints which is Christ in us the hope of glory as our forefathers witnessed Read Col. 1. 26 27 28 29. ALSO A Testimony against them who formerly hath tasted of the good Word of God and of the Power of the world to come who hath cast the Law of God behind their backs and hath trodden under foot the blood of the Covenant and now doth labour with one shoulder to destroy the Man-child which is now brought forth to rule the Nations with an Iron Rod and these are most especially those that are called Anabaptists and Independents Also A few Words in warning to the Priests Professors and People of the Town and County of Southampton With a few Quaeries to the Rulers and Magistrates of England to try their fruits whether they be according to the Christian Magistrates recorded in the Scripture of truth or according to the heathenish Kings and Rulers in former Ages Set forth most especially for the sake of the honest-hearted who are not wholly given up to believe lyes that they may come to know the way of life and peace Written by me who am called Ambrose Rigge London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the Black spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1657. To the sober Reader GReat and admirable is the Love and Mercy of the Lord God unto the sons of men that he hath not with-held his onely Son but hath sent him a Light into the world that all men through him might believe and be saved But there is a generation of men in these our dayes that cannot endure sound Doctrine and such will not receive him who is the good shepherd but heaps unto themselves Teachers having itching ears which hath never profited them nor never shall and the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stands now where it ought not therefore I desire thee who readeth these ensuing lines to understand and weigh them in an equal Ballance and with a single eye look upon them and thou wilt clearly see that here is nothing written but what is just and true to every mans condition without flattering or daubing with untempered Morter as the false Prophets have done these many years which hath made the abomination so great in our Nation of ENGLAND And take heed of judging or censuring any thing hastily but try all things as he hath done who writ this unto thee and hold fast that which is good For to this end was this sent forth to publike view That every one may be knowne by their fruits From him who is a Friend to all that love the Truth as it is in JESUS called of men Ambrose Rigge THE BANNER OF GODS LOVE AND ENSIGNE OF RIGHTEOVSNESS c. FOrasmuch as many dear and precious Isa 8. 18. Joh. 17. 23. Servants and Children of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth whom he hath loved with an everlasting love and hath opened their eyes and ears to behold him whom they had pierced and hath armed them with Zach. 12. 10. power from on High to make war in righteousness against all the powers Rev. 20. 8 9. of darkness that stands up against the appearance of the Lamb of God who hath now cloathed them with his Armor of Light and Life and given them for an Helmet the Hope Rom. i3 12. Eph. 6. 13 17. of Salvation and hath put the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God into their mouths that with boldness they may declare abroad the Name of him who is now come a Light into the World and hath lighted every man that Joh. 12. 46. Joh. 17. 9. cometh into the World that all men through him might believe and come to the knowledge of the truth And for this end is he now made manifest To destroy the 1 Joh. 3. 8. Eccles 12. 3 Ezek. 32. 25 26 Ezek. 2i 28. Works that the devil hath wrought in man even to make the strong man bow before him and the Keepers of the House to tremble that the uncircumcised may fall by the stroke of his Sword which is now drawn in his hand and made ready for a mighty slaughter even to cut off the wicked from the Land of the living that their remembrance may Luk. i9 27 be blotted out from the earth which wlil not that he shall rule whose right it is and he hath made his children and servants living Witnesses of his eternal Truth to declare his eternal Name among the Gentiles and hath given them a 1 Joh. 5 20 Luk. 22 35 good understanding to know him that is true and hath sent them forth into the VVorld vvithout Bag or Scrip or tvvo Coats and hath given them his Word of Life and Light to declare to the Spirit in Prison and these have as they have been moved of the Lord run to and fro in the earth in true and tender love to peoples souls vvarning all men every Acts 17 30 31. Acts 20 33 vvhere to repent and seek the Lord vvhile he may be found vvithout coveting any mans Silver Gold or Apparel and for this have they been stocked stoned vvhipped imprisoned and shamefully intreated and not counted vvorthy to live upon the earth not onely by them that professed little or nothing of God Christ or the Scriptures but rather by the Scribes and Pharisees and chief Priests and zealous professors Mark 8 31 as the Jevvs vvas as may be vvitnessed at this day by hundreds in our Nation of England vvhose fruits shame their Profession and vvhose Works shevv to their faces they are of their Father the Devil And those vvhom the Lord Joh. 8 44 1 Cor. 4 2 hath called and chosen to commit his secrets unto and to place his eternal Name in as they have freely received of the Lord freely have they ministred unto all whereby many hath been turned from darknesse unto light and from the Matth. i0 8. Acts 26. 18. power of Satan unto God and God hath greatly blessed their labours within these few years so that many that was scattered as Sheep without a Shepherd in the cloudy and dark day by the Idol dumb Sepherds which had made a prey Ezek. 34 12. upon them their feet are now directed into the Way of life and peace wherein they are now walking up to Zion with Songs of Deliverance and are sitting down with Abraham Isa 35 10 Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God and the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into utter darkness where Matth. 8 11 is weeping and gnashing of teeth for ever And now quick and powerful hath the Word of the Lord Heb. 4 12 been in the mouth of his Messengers and Ministers in

is near accomplished that if you will not hear and lay it to heart to give glory unto the Lord that he will spread dung over your faces and Mal. 2. 2. will curse your blessings yea many of them he hath cursed already so that henceforth never fruit shall growe on you more but you shall suddenly wither away like the Fig-tree that bare leaves but no fruit because you have Matt. 21. 19. dispised the Law of God and hath followed after covetous 2 Pet. 2. 14. practices and are become cursed children who have forsaken the right way and hath run gredily after the errors of Balaam the son of Bosor whom Gods hand was heavily stretched out against and the same hand of the Lord is against you now who are found treading in the same steps Awake awake all you high notionists of what kind or sort soever who hath gotten the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles to talk of in your ayrie minds and thinks to have eternal life in them but hates the son of God in all Iohn 5. 39. his appearances and will not come unto him that you might have life the day is dawned and the sun is risen with his burning heat and hath scorched all your beauty so Ier. 17 6. that you are become as a parched Heath in the Drought of Summer all your glory is the Lord bringing into Isa 23. 9. contempt and your Wisdome hath he turned into foolishnesse because neither you nor it did stand in the fear of his name your preaching and long praying are but as the cutting off of a Doggs neck or offering Svvines blood Isa 66. 3. the Lord hath no regard to it because your hands is polluted and daily vvorks iniquity And as a Cage is full of birds so is your houses and hearts full of deceit your abominable Idols have you not yet cast to the moles and Isa 2. 20. to the Batts for the fear of the Lord for the glory of his majesty vvho is novv arisen to shake terribly the earth the Lord vvill not be mocked vvith your Hypocritical profession Gall. 6. 7. for the day is come vvherein every one of your works are made manifest but this you cannot endure to hear of who loves darknesse rather then light because Iohn 3. 19. your deeds are evil therefore be awakened be awakened now when the everlasting day is come and consider your state and measure your wayes by the unalterable rule of righteousnesse which is the light wherewith you are enlightned 2 Cor. 10. 13. 15. and it will let you see that you never yet knew the mistery of the Crosse of Christ which to the world doth crucifie all that comes to bear it but in the world and the vanityes therof are you yet wandering as sheep Gal. 6. 14. without a shepheard and never yet witnessed a true seperation to God with the light of his Son And now are you stumbling at the stumbling stone that is laid in Zion Isa 8. 14. 1 Pet. 2. 8. which is become a rock of offence to you who stumble at the word of faith which is nigh in the heart your high buildings shall be now laid besolate and not one stone left upon another that shall not be thrown down the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it Awake awake all you covetous cruel oppressors who grinde the faces of the poore and by Cuzening Cheating Isa 3. 14. 15. and defrauding hath set your nests on high and are become great in the earth so that you joyn house to house and field to field till there be no place for the poore in the earth the day is come upon you that you Isa 5. 7. 8. shall be called to an account before the dreadful God of Heaven and earth who hath taken notice of all your wayes and actings and hath heard the cry of the poore and needy which you have greedily made a prey upon according as you could receive power from the beast whose Image you bear And therefore go to now ye rich men weepe and howle for the misery that is coming upon you for the rust of your silver and gold shall be a witnesse against Iames 5. 1. 2. 3. you the Lord is now bringing down the oppressors and setting the oppressed free which hath long cryed unto him your riches shall not deliver you in the day of Gods fierce vvrath Therefore novv incline your ears Pro. i1 4 Ezek 1● 6. and 18 30. unto the call of Wisdome and repent repent vvith speed and return unto the Lord with all your hearts and seek him while he may be found and hearken unto him while he calls upon you Why will ye dye in your iniquities Now have you all a day and a time see that you all prize it least Psal 52 5. you be cut off from the Land of the living and go down to the pit with the uncircumcised And now blessed be the everlasting Day for ever who hath visited us who sate in darkness and in the shadow of Luk. 1. 78 79. death hath broken forth in an acceptable time unto the sons of men after this long night of Apostacy wherein darkness hath been called light and the Way of the Lord hath not been known nor the true Prophet which Moses Act. 3. 22 23. wrote of hath not been heard but people hath been ever learning but were never able to come to the knowledge of the truth which many hath desired to know and receive 2 Tim 3 but could not in that state and by reason of darkness and blindness of mind have followed such Teachers as have been wholly Enemies to Jesus Christ and in every thing out of his Doctrine but yet covered themselves over with the sheeps clothing and through good words and fair speeches deceived the hearts of the simple and Rom i6 18. made them believe that they were the only men that were gifted of God to minister a Word in season to the weary and to direct them that were gone astray into the Way of Ezek. 38. 16. God And so great was the Cloud of darkness over the whole earth and the covering was drawn so close over the ravening Wolf in them that he did not at all appear unto the children of men but they gave large sums of money unto them and thought by that to know the true way to eternal life and this kept the ravening Wolf from appearing or breaking forth so that as they did imagine all was well and at peace and they cryed peace peace unto Ezek. 13. 10. them that put into their mouths and daubed with untempered Morter so the Lord overturned them by his mighty power and then did he appear in a measure of the dispensation of his love unto a people that was called Puritans and he opened their eyes in a little measure that they saw the deceit and unrighteousness that both priest

and people lived in they had a zeal for God and his glory and a tenderness of affection arose in their hearts one to another to exhort one another to love and to good Works and the Seed of the Kingdom of God was sown in them but it falling by the way-side the Fowles of the air picked it a-away so that it came not to take root downward nor Mar. 4 4. bring forth fruit upward to him that sowed it So these fell back again and lost their zeal and tenderness which they had and got the words of truth in the airy mind but in the life was one with the World after a little time and then was the Lord grieved that his Heritage was wholly Jer. 12. 8. left desolate for the Fowls of the Air to tread under their feet and make a prey upon and it pittyed him to see his own seed so oppressed and his Vinyard so wholly laid waste to the Beasts of the field Isa 3. 14. And then did he arise for his own Name sake and opened the eyes of many and appeared in a large measure into a People that was called Anabaptists and shewed them in a large measure the Witchcraft of the great Whore who Rev. 17. 1 2. had made all Nations drunk with the Wine of her Fornication and then did he lead them from the mouths of the Idol dumb shepherds which had made a prey upon them and had taken their money for that which they saw was not bread nor had not in the least satisfied their hungry Isa 55. 2. souls even then did God raise his living Witness in them and shed his eternal love abroad in their hearts and gathered them together in several quarters of the world and his Name was witnessed among them and his Power did appear in them and a great zeal and tenderness for a while was among them so that they met with part of the rage of the Devil and indured it for a time with joy and while they was near unto the Lord he was known to be near unto them and gave them the necks of their Enemies to tread upon and a great sight of the good Land they had and the Seed of the Kingdom of God was abundantly sown amongst them but it falling upon the stony ground in them Mar. 4. 5. when the Sun arose vvith his burning heat it vvas scorched and became unfruitful so that after a time the povver of God ceased and vvas not seen amongst them but coldness and barrenness got up and pride and exaltation and self-conceitedness crept in by little and little and then they begun to build again those things vvhich they had in a measure destroyed and he that got the most in his brain-knovvledge vvas set up to be a Teacher and a Ruler and so gloryed in the gift more then in the Giver and this Ministry became one in nature vvith the Priests and did not profit the people at all vvhich may be vvitnessed at this day And novv are they set dovvn at ease in a dead form of that vvhich the Saints vvitnessed the life of nay they have so far departed from the povver of God vvhich the Saints did doth vvitness to lead guide them that they have lost the very form and are become one in nature vvith the World and differ nothing but in vvords and in outward shews and pretences The true Proverb is fulfilled upon them The Dog is turned to his own Vomit again and the 2 Pet. 2. 22. Prov. 26. 11. Sow that was washed to her wallowing in he Myre so that the Lord is weary with their sacrifices and their solemn Assemblies he cannot away with because they have cast his righteous Law Isa 11. to 16. Heb. 10. to 29. behind their backs and hath trodden under foot the blood of the Covenant and now hath sitten down in a rest which is polluted and are become enemies to the Crosse of Christ therefore is the same hand of the Lord that vvas turned against his Enemies before the same is lifted up against them novv vvhereby they are torn and rent as an old Garment and as a tottering VVall that is daubed vvith untempered Morter And thus have they rendred unto the Lord evil for all his kindness and hath turned his grace into lasciviousness vvhich vvould have led them to salvation if they had been taught vvith it vvhereby the vvorks of the Devil Tit. 2. 11. 12. vvould have been destroyed in them vvhich they are so strongly pleading for and concluding all to be deceived and seduced that shall vvithstand or oppose it and if any vvill not bovv dovvn to their Image vvhich they have set up from the Scripture Letter presently he is judged and censured not vvorthy to have communion vvith though he have the povver of God for his defence and be led and guided by the Spirit of the living God and have fellovvship vvith him and be brought into his Covenant of light and life And this is that now which they call their Fundamentals Baptism of Water and taking of material Bread and Wine which there is no command for throughout the Scripture but Judgement Mercy and Faith is omitted Luk. 11. 49. which is the weighty matters of the Law and so the Wo that was unto their forefathers is to the same generation still And thus hath the Lord been mocked with a voluntary humility and a Will-Worship after the traditions of men after the Rudiments of the World and not after Christ the Light of the World who hath lighted every man that cometh into the World And so now are they Joh. 1. 9. crying up the Ordinances of God the Ordinances of God as the Jews did the Temple but are as ignorant of Christ Jesus the Substance as the Jews was that stoned him Though there was a time that he was known in such things and in the flesh yet he that came through it desired to know him so no more but these deny all that comes to know him ony otherwise as the Jews did them that testified against the outward Temple which was a time commanded of God when their Bodies was made the Temples of God and they came to witness the Substance 1 Cor. 6. 19. of the Figure Now this is the reason of so much confusion now among several sorts of men and forms That the Life and Substance of all Types Shadows and Figures is denyed and only the Husk fed upon and this hath been the ruine and down-fall of these people that are called Anabaptists Then in another dispensation of the Lords love did he appear to a People called Independents brought many of them to se the emptiness of all sorms of profession they thought only to depend upon the Lord was the safest way and there was a love begot in them to God and his Way and truth and tenderness of spirit one towards another and they were a little brought low in

heart if he could but get the Rulers and Scribes to join with him in cruelty Would not the Jesuit Priests in Queen Mary's dayes been ashamed to have acted such things against any that came to speak to them Oh Nathaniel Robbinson cannot thou even blush to hear of this Is thy heart so hardened that thou glories in that which one day will be thy shame What will be the end of these things Consider betime left he that thou so much strives against break thee to pieces and thou be cast out into utter darkness where is weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth for ever THere dyed of late one John Behaute in the Town and County of Southampton who was another of the Independent Teachers as this Nathaniel Robbinson aforementioned who did upon his death-bed declare that this Robbinson was the cause of his death to Robbinsons face but did forgive him and bid him do so no more Now if they be so envious one to another as be the cause of one anothers death what may any judge they would do with us if they had power given them from above If this be not Cain's way that Robbinson is in let all who feares the Lord judge Gen. 4. 8. Jude 11. And now a few words in warning to the Priests Professors and people of the Town and County of Southampton VVOE Woe unto you the Inhabitants of Southampton Priests Professors and People who hate the light wherewith Christ Jesus the light of the world hath Iohn 3. 19 20 21. Psalm 73 18. Iohn 2. 8 9. 1 Iohn 1. 5. lighted you withall your deeds are evil and your wayes are crooked and perverse even the slippery wayes of darknesse your building must be thrown down and not one stone left upon another your Image must be dashed to peices which you have set up unto which you would Dan. 3. 23. 1 Pet. 2. 6 7 8. have the true seed to bow with the little stone cut out of the Mountains without hand at which you stumble which is become a rock of offence unto you who at the word of life stumbles and yet professeth the letter as your fore-fathers did but as far if not further from owning Rom. 9. 33. the life as they were even stoping your ears at the voice of the true Prophet and cannot endure sound Doctrine 2 Tim. 1. 3. 4. Isa 48. 22. but saith unto the Prophets Prophesy smooth things unto us and speake unto us peace though the witnesse of God the true Prophet in your consciences saith there is no peace to you for you live in the lust of the eye and in Ezek. 10. 49. the lust of the flesh and in the pride of life eating and drinking and riseing up to play even like your Sister Sodom whom God overthrew And doth not thy Prophets in the midst of thee hearken to this and cry peace peace where the Lord hath not spoken peace and daube with untempred morter so that none is able to turn from the Ier. 6. 13 14 15. evil of their doings but all your daubing is accounted as Potters clay for within are you ful of rottennesse and deceit Ezek. 13 10 i1 12 13 14 15. pride and ambition envy and hatred prisoning and persecuting the Innocent which are all fruits of that Matt. 23 27 28. Matt 7. 19 20. Heb. 6. 8. tree which hath no promise but to be hewn down and cast into the fire long hath the Lord looked for fruits of you but nothing is brought forth but Bryers and Thornes for your profession and Ministry will not stand without renting and tearing pulling and hailing out of your Synagogues persecuting and drawing the Innocent before your Iudgement seates false accuseing and backbiteing 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lyeing and slandering these are the fruits that is brought forth a mongst you of which I am an eye and eare witnesse and this was not declared against by thee Nathaniell Robinson who professes thy selfe to be a teacher of others but thou thy selfe is not yet taught to deny nor to declare against such things but doth cry out and complain it is not severe enough Now are you like Priest like people all are Ier. 23. i1 Hosea 4. 9. prophaine yea your wickednesse is now found out and your wayes traced with the eternal light of the Son of God which you hate and scof at now doth your inside appear the sheeps covering will no longer hide the ravening Wolfe but he breaks forth in great rage and fury even Matt. 7. 15 16 17. ready to devour the Lambs of Christ which walks Innocently before you who are inwardly ravening Wolves as your fruits makes you manifest by which you are known Ezek. 34. i0 as Christ Jesus the light of the world hath foretold which is now seen and fulfilled glory be unto his eternal name for ever that your good words and fair speeches will no longer hide you but the children of light sees you to be in the same steps of them the Prophets Christ and the Apostles was sent to cry against which use your tongues Matt. 23. Ier 23. 30 3i and say thus saith the Lord when in the mean while you are persecuting his Servants and slaying his Son though Matt. 7 21. you make a large profession of him and call him Lord and Master but doth not the things which he commands but the things which his soule loathes And thou Nathaniell Robinson look upon thy congregation yea them which thou calls church members which thou hast sowne unto and see if there be any thing to be reaped amongst them but corruption pride lust lightnesse wantonnesse envying strife and debate the most vaine fashions and customes of the world which is to fade as the flower And is not thy Vineyard full of this can thou look upon them and not confesse thou art a shamelesse Vinedresser that can walk in this Vineyard without blushing thy plants doth send forth an evil smell into the nostrils of the Lord Is not thy preaching vaine and their faith vaine and thy people yet in their sins and pleading for them for term of life but if thou had stood Ier. 23. 22. in the councell of the Lord and caused his people to have heard his word then they should have been turned from these abominations which both thou and they are in and pleading for and persecuting such who testifies against them and dare thou say that thou hast brought them to witnesse the first Principle of religion or thinkest thou Acts 26. 18. 1 Cor. 4 20. the kingdome of Heaven stands in words or the way to it is the way of uncleannesse Pride Envy c. And whether thou and the rest be not in such wayes of darknesse Isa 35. 8 9 10 aforementioned yea or nay if this be the vvay it is very broade and many may go in thereat and yet may profess as much of the

judgments upon Read Isa 3. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26. Therefore hear this all you that are found in this path the Lord will take away your bravery and instead thereof he will cover you with contempt and he will bring down the haughtiness of man and woman and will lay your honour Isa 2. 11 12 13 17. Isa 10. 33. in the dust and scatter you as chaff is scattered with the Wind because you have cast his righteous Law behind your backs and hath walked despightfully against the Spirit of Grace Who hath been warned like unto you hath not the Lord sent his Servants earlie and late to forewarn You of the Judgement that he hath intended against You because of Your manie transgressions whereby You daily provoke him to anger even to sweep You all awaie with the besome of destruction And have not You executed Your cruelty upon his messengers in mocking scoffing spitting upon hailing to prison Math 23. 33 34 35 36 37 38 39. them that have been sent in tender love unto your Souls to call You to Repentance and to seek the Lord while he may be found but You may say You doe not this to the servants of Christ but to Vagabonds and Wanderers Deluders and Deceivers and the Ringleaders of the Sect of the Quakers as You in scorn calls them which is every where spoken against and hailed out of the Synagogues and persecuted and cast into prison but all this while cannot see Your selves as blind as Your Forefathers the Persecutors was and as ignorant of God and his works as Cain the Vagabond was vvho vvas in Envie as you are though he builded the first Cittie to make bimself an habitation Gen. ● 12. God called him a Vagabond Gen. 4. 12. but he did not call his Son a Vagabond vvho had not vvhereon to lay his head nor his Son did not call them vvhich vvent about in Sheep skins and goat skins and had no certain Heb. 11. 35 36 37 38 39 40. dvvelling place he did not call such Vagabonds vvho had a habitation vvhere neither Cain nor any of his stock hath but you are the Vagabonds rightly named vvho are in envie and vvrath vvho hath great habitations in the earth as he had but are driven out from the presence of the Lord into pride and highmindedness and into the Earth and its pleasure and treasure laying up treasure there but are ignorant of the true treasure vvhich they have in earthen 2 Cor. 4. 7. vessels vvhich vvander up and dovvn and are made a prey upon by you vvho are in Cains vvay and in God hath not an habitation but are vvandering starres vvandering Isa 59. 15. up and dovvn in the Element of your imaginations out of one fashion and vanitie of the World into another and here are you scattered upon the mountains of Pride and high mindedness in the clouds of darkness and stops your eares at the true Shepheards voice vvho would gather you off from the barren mountains into the lovv vallies to feed among his Lambs and to drink of the fresh fountain of living Water but this You loath and vvill not hear of but loves to vvallovv vvith the Svvine in the filth and mire therefore vvill Your condemnation be just and the Lord vvill be clear of Your blood Again is not the harmless and innocent children of the Lord vvhom he hath placed his Name in and hath set as Phill. 2. i5 Witnesses against you as he did Lot in Sodom whom you have nothing justly to lay to their charge are not such by 1 Joh● 3. ●● you abused as Lot was scoffed and scorned at stoned in the Streets and spitted upon who cannot goe with you into the same excess of riot doe you think the Lord doth 1 Pet 4. 4. not take notice of this Yea surely one day ye shall know that it had been better for you that a milstone had been hanged about your necks and you cast into the midst of John 15. 19. the sea then to offend one of the least of his who is the good Shepherd but because Judgement is not executed upon Math 18. 6. Eccl 8. 11. you speedily therefore are your hearts bent in you to doe wickedly but this know that there is a Witness in every one of your consciences that takes notice of all your waies and actings therefore once more I warn you from the Lord to repent and turn unto the Lord and put off your bravery of your tinkling ornaments and put on sackcloth and sit down in the dust if so be you may be hid in the day of the fierce indignation of the Lord and cease to doe evil and learn to doe well lest the overflowing scourge of the Lord sweep you all away for his sword is Isa i. 16 17. drawn and his bow bent and his arrowes are made very sharp and will fall grievously upon the head of the wicked Amos 5. 14 15 16. and how can you escape when he appears who will plead with you by his Sword and by Fire and will render to every man according to his works without Math. 16. 27. respect of persons and then shall you all know that you had warning in your life time by them which you hated and persecuted scoffed and scorned so while you have time prize it and sleight not the day of your Visitation nor the mercie of the Lord to your Souls least you be shut out among the Unbelievers into utter darkness where is weeping wailing Math. 8. 12. and gnashing of teeth for ever I charge you as you will answer it to the Lord search these Scriptures out which are quoted and read them in the fear of God and try your teachers and your fruits whether they be according to them which spoke forth Scriptures Yea or Nay for every tree is known by his fruits and so are the false prophets from the true Matth. 7 20. Written by me whom you greatly hate because I am sent to bear testimony against your abominations and by you am I called a Quaker but thorow the tender mercy of the Lord am I made partaker of the Divine nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. and onely known to the world by the name of Ambrose Rigge ANd now Oh ye Rulers of the earth the word of the Lord is to you who hath gotten the Seat of Moses the Servant of the Lord you who are called Judges Justices or Head Officers of what kind or sort soever And doth pretend that you are Gods Ministers to lay the sword upon the transgressors and to be a praise unto them that doth well according as the Lord hath appointed his Ministers to be now if you profess the Scriptures to be your rule and the Christian Magistrates to be your example which is recorded in the Scriptures Let us now reason together in meekness and trie your fruits whether they be according to the Magistrates