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A44640	A warning from the Lord unto the rulers of Dover And so to all men which stand guilty of the like practises, that all may know a day of repentance before it be too late; for the night will come when as no man can work, in which the son of man will come as a thief unto all such the workers of iniquity, and give to every man according to his deeds done in their body in their life-time. Then wo to the eveil-doer, for it will go ill with him. Also, the Christian man's plea for his liberty, as he is so indeed and in truth: and also, as he is a free-born English-man, he lays claim to his birth-right, by way of expostulation with the rulers of Dover, who rob him and many others of it, refusing to shew us any order for their so doing. Together with a true testimony born to the Light of Jesus, the power of God, yea the power of the endless life, from everlasting to everlasting: by Luke Howard.	Howard, Luke, 1621-1699.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2988; ESTC R215380	18,231	25

not sanctifie me in their hearts and make me their fear and their dread but would have them fear man whose breath is in his Nostrils who I strike down in my own time he is o All power is in the hand of the Lord therefor should men fear him and take warning from him ly his witness in them that they sin not against him not afflict his people if they love their eternal peace no more therefore be ye forewarned O mortal men and touch not my annointed ones and do my Prophets no harm if you wil have me to say to you at your end Come ye blessed enter into your Masters joy and sit down at my right hand and receive of my Love Life and Joy for evermore with which I satisfie every hungry and thirsty soul in his life-time by which refreshments my servants my sons and my daughters have bore forth their Testimony unto my Life Power and Love the which I have shed abroad in their hearts and thereby have stood over the Power of Hell and of Death and have given their bodies goods and lives a witness for me the which I will own even for ever and it stands upon everlasting Record in my Book of Life never to be blotted out for time shall cease and Seasons have an end and man whose life is there to wit in Times and Seasons shall perish therein and his Name shall rot but my Chosen shall remain on Record in Life everlasting The Mouth of the living God hath spoken it and it shall surely be fulfilled and the eyes of my Heritage shall see it and I will be glorified in and amongst them for ever and for ever and all sorrow and sighing shall be wiped away from off them and nothing be heard p The life of the righteous is a life of joy it shall be for ever world without end but joy and gladness melody and praises on the ten-stringed Instruments Hallelujahs for ever and for ever Then will I be known in the beauty of Holiness to be Head of my Family and Ruler over my Houshold yea when my servants shall sing for joy of heart and their Enemies languish for sorrow of heart and pain of spirit q The torment of the wicked is great endless 〈◊〉 Men pleasing Ministers and their glory must fall before the glory of the Lord. and anguish of Reins yea then will I be exalted among the holy Nation and set up among the Royal Priesthood and then shall the Deceivers faces wax pale and the false Prophets Spirit sink into the Pit and the Diviner be made mad and all r which have leaned on them and not repented go down with them into the Lake and then blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of God for ever and ever and this is the portion of the Heritage of God and their lot for ever saith the righteous God of Jacob and the Leader of Israel who never slumbers nor sleepes but will perform his promise s Gods promises to the Righteous is the ground of a living hope in God of the truth of it I am a witness for the Lord. to Jacob and his Covenant to Israel and not fail in one tittle saith the Lord of Host the God of Israel whose Promise is Yea and Amen to Ages and Generations yea for ever and for ever So be it saith my soul whom the Lord hath reared up in his everlasting Love Power to be a witness of his Name amongst crooked a perverse generation yea a seed of evil-doers children of falshood that are ready to lay and say all maner of evil against me for righteousnes sake but falsly Therefore I say again Come forth and stand upon the Tryal before my Father the righteous God of my Life you workers of Iniquity John Golder George West and all which stand by you in your evil Cause I say let us reason together and let God's Witness in your Consciences be judge between us in the cause for that is my friend t Abraham believed in God and it was reckoned to him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God and he which is Christs is Abraham's Seed and heirs according to promise who hath crucified the flesh with the lust and affections thereof and so is the friend of God and will plead my cause when you are on your Beds in the Morning-Watch in secret it speaks and justifies the innocent and now let it be judge between us in this matter to wit our Right and Priviledges as we are men created of God to live on the face of the Earth Are you born Christians as men account you And free-born English-men So am I. Are you entitled to live in the Nation of England So am I. Are you Free-Men of Dover Town So am I. Have you never forfeited your Freedom Neither have I. Have you served the Town in Offices So have I. Have you lived in good fashion even honestly in the Town So have I. Have you kept men and maid-servants So have I. Have you Families of W●fe and Children So have I. Have you provided for them in honesty by your own Labours without defrand and guile So have I. Have you kept out of all mens Debts and danger of being cast into prison therefore So have I. Can you say you spend not the Creation of God upon your Lust So can I. Can you say you are no drunkards nor Bowlers nor Evil-livers so can I. Can you say such you were but you are washed but you are sanctified so can I. Can you say you once lived in pleasure even wantonly on the earth spending your days out of God's fear so crucifying the Just as saith the Scripture so can I. Can you say you have known a day from the Lord of sorrow and bitterness of soul for it so can I. Can you say you have hearkened to the Spirit of Truth which reproves the world of sin and all ungodliness so can I. Can you say you have believed in the Light which maketh all things manifest that ever you have done against God so can I. Can you say you have known repentance from dead works both in conversation and worship to serve the living God in newness of life so can I. Can you say you have known the reproof of Instruction to be the way of life so can I. Can you say the Judgements of the Lord are sweeter to you then the honey and the honey-comb for by them you have learned obedience unto life so can I. Can you say you love the Lord your God that created you with all your souls with all your minds with all your strength and your neighbours as your selves so can I. Can you say you can forsake Father and Mother Wife and Children House and Land and Gold for his Name sake that is the Light of the World so can I. Can you say you can take it patiently and rejoice that

you are counted worthy to suffer and to have your Trades spoiled and your Families exposed to hardship for Christ's sake so can I. Can you give your backs to the smiter and your cheeks to him which plucketh off the hairs for a good Conscience-sake so can I. Can you dwel in a Prison all dayes of your lives rather then sin against the God of Righteousness so can I Are you true Christians in Nature and not in Name onely which can do good against evil and seek to overcome evil therewith so can I. Can you bless them that curse you and pray for them that despitefully use you to the fulfilling of the words of Christ and so render not evil for evil so can I. Can you in such a case of Conscience commit your cause to the righteous God so can I. Can you as true Christians bear your Testimony against persecution for Conscience-sake so can I. Can you use all lawful means to keep such out of Prison who for Conscience sake cannot follow the multitude to do wickedly against God so can I. Can you deny your selves so far as to visit them that are cast in for Conscience-sake so can I. Can you read and believe that Scripture which saith The Devil shall cast some of you into prison to wit the followers of Jesus and you shall have tribulations ten days so can I. Can you besieve the Scripture which saith Forasmuch as you did it to the least of those which believe in my Name you did it unto me so can I. Can you believe that the everlasting righteousness of God is his Name that it is known in his Light which shineth in mans heart to give him the light of the knowledg of God in the face of Jesus Christ according to the Scriptures so can I. Can you believe that they which rebel against the Light of God nor the conscience never know the way of true peace in the path thereof so can I. Can you believe that he which walketh in the Light as he is in the Light hath fellowship with God and one with another so can I. Can you believe that he which hateth the Light bringeth not his deeds unto it lest it should reprove him so can I. Can you believe that he which loveth the Light bringeth his deeds to it willingly that he may know they are wrought in God so can I. Can you believe that he which deviseth an evil device in his heart against his Neighbor hates the Light which shines therein and sins against God and is in danger of his curse so can I. Can you believe that for every idle word that man shall speak he must give an account in the day of God's righteous Judgements and for every vain thought and all his deeds done in his body whether they be good or whether they be evil so can I. Can you believe that no Drunkard nor Lyar nor Fornicator nor Adulterer nor Idolater nor abusers of themselves with mankind and such like shall never inherit the Kingdom of God so can I. Can you believe that man ought to deny himself of all these things and to obey the Spirit of Light which shews and reproves for these things in secret or else he is no Christian in nature but in name onely so can I. Can you believe that he which doth not fear God and hate covetousness and so in God's fear knows how to rule his own body and Family is not fit to rule amongst men so can I. Can you believe that he which doth not love the Light which shines in his heart nor yeilds obedience to it so that he may know the power of the endless life that such a man who is a Ruler hates the Light may turn the Sword of Power upon the back of the righteous and so sin against God so can I. Can you believe that he which is not first ruled himself by the power of God in his own heart can never rule aright for God so can I Can you believe that every man which in that state takes the staff of Justice to sway withall hath cause to take shame to himself and give over and so repent so can I. Can you believe that he which rules amongst men should be just and judge every one's cause without respect of persons and upbraid none so can I. Can you believe that he that sets upon the seat of Justice and upbraideth any man or passeth Judgement with respect of persons to any man that such a man doth greatly sin against God whose place as amongst men he sitteth in and that his evil is exceeding great so can I. Can you believe that the Rulers of Towns and Cities have a great weight and burthen to bear as from God when they join with the rude people which hate in their heart a righteous government and so set themselves to suppress such as love Righteousness and its government against the evil-doers so can I. Can you believe that the Law was not made for the righteous man to wit that Law which is holy just and good but for the lawless and disobedient to wit for Murderers Swearers Drunkards Lyars Revellers and such like so can I. Can you believe that if any man suffer as a Christirn for well-doing he hath cause to glorifie God on that behalf so can I. Can you believe that he which believeth all these things and walketh in his duty to the Lord is a true Christian and a true Christian Magistrate that so rules over men and no otherwise So can I u All this reasoning is according to truth and to the witness of God in every man's Conscience to which I do make my appeal and let that answer as I know it will in secret when the mind is still and quiet And then if these things be by me consented to and believed and practised as well in my place then you do in your places then come and let my friend in your own bosomes the living Witness of the Lord speak if I have not as much right both by the Law of God and Nature to enjoy my Liberty of Body and Conscience as your selves and if you do stand and abide in this Faith of a true Christians life then whether such as can persecute for conscience-sake are not altogether out of a Christians life and so enemies to the cross of Jesus as I and you have been in the dayes past and for you which have had a hand in it to wit in persecution to deny your selves and to take shame to your selves even before the Lord and all men is but your duty unto the Lord and confess and give glory to God and say the time past may suffice you to have wrought the will of the Gentiles or Heathens in persecuting the Seed of God in the Christians and now will I repent and abhor as just cause there is my self in dust and ashes and make it my business so far as I can to redeem the time and

take off the heavy burdens and set the oppressed free by undoing every heavy yoke and unrighteous Decree which my hand hath been set to and help to lay on for in this am I now satisfied and that from the Lord by his Witness x Gods witness in the conscience teacheth all to deny themselves in evil that loves it and is led by it to wit the Light in my own conscience that he which doth not do even to all as he would have another to do to him is no Christian in nature whatsoever he is in name neither can he fulfil the Law of God which is to love our enemies and also our neighbours as our selves and unto this state of life must all men come that ever know true peace with the Lord and he which is not here is out of the life which all the holy men of God were in in all ages past and is under the curse as saith the Law and denies the Faith the power of God as saith the Gospel of Peace and so is a servant to the power of darkness which rules as Lord in the hearts of all men which hateth the Light which shineth therein to shew them the desperate wickedness thereof for all wickedness proceedeth out of the y The heart of man is the very seat of all Evil whilest he hateth the light which shineth therein evil and wickedness of the heart the seat thereof and the pure Light of Jesus the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world shineth therein also as saith the Scripture for to make it manifest to man's clear understanding unto which all men shall one day confess to the glory of God and that is God's everlasting love even to all men which do receive it in the love of it and that is the Grace of God which appears to all men yea the same Grace which bringeth salvation even to as many as believe in it for he which believeth in the Light wherewith he is in his heart lighted shall not abide in the darknesse which first ruled in his heart and is made manifest by the Light but he shall have the light of life yea the same Life which gives him power over those deeds of darkness and evil which the Light makes manifest to his clear understanding to be evil so that he which doth well and takes good heed to the Light in his own heart shall have little need to ask another what is good and what is evil hee may know it plain enough in his own Conscience by the Light as he watcheth to it and this is the same Grace which the Lord unto Paul in his doubting estate gave his full Testimony unto saying My grace is sufficient for thee and Paul found z He which receives the grace of God the light which shines in his heart in the love of it grows into the knowledge of the Lord which is life eternal and to the fulfilling of the Scriptures it so to be and testifies to it saying By the grace of God I am what I am And he gives forth the same Testimony of its bringing salvation in his Letter to Titus in these words saying The Grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us Mark that to deny all ungodliness and worldly lust and to live soberly and godly in this present world So that this is a true Testimony by the Spirit of the Lord born unto all men that all which loveth it as it shines in the heart from the Lord the Fountain of Life and Light they are taught by it to deny all ungodliness as Paul and the rest of the Christians in their dayes were and all which hates it are not taught by it neither can they receive it whilest they hate it for no man's heart can be joined to the thing which in his heart he hates but first man must feel a springing of love to the thing he receives and something must appear to him to beget his love to spring Now Light in it self is lovely a All men must love the thing they receive aright therefore love the Light aright that you may know its vertue which is life to the eye which can behold it now the eye which can behold the Light of the glorious Gospel the God of this World hath blinded or the power of the creatures hath stole away the affections of the heart from the Creator who is Light so darkness comes to rule as God in the heart Now that which sometimes even as it were darts into man's heart in secret that is Light and Love from the God of Light and Love and as this is taken heed unto the power is felt which reacheth unto the seed of God which witnesses to the truth which the Light and Love declares in the heart so then a springing begins to be felt from the Seed of God towards the Light and Love which is in it self of a begetting nature and then as the Light is still taken heed unto the springing of the love of the Seed encreases so the eye comes to be open which can see a beauty in the Light that it should be desired for Light is lovely in it self and still as the Light is taken heed unto the love of the Seed encreases as the love encreases b This is a true growing from one degree of Grace to another in the Lord who is that Spirit and as he comes to rule in the heart so comes liberty strength and power is felt to stand over that which the Light maketh manifest to be evil and as a measure of power is felt to deny some evil which the Light reproves then the power of darkness appears to make war against the Power of the Light and this is the true warfare between the flesh and the spirit and in this state most men cry out O wretched man that I am because sin now appears out of measure sinful yea that which man formerly thought to be no sin he now sees to be great and so the ground of sin appears and the whole body of iniquity stands up with which he is now to make war in righteousness and now he seeth his strength though it be but small to stand wholly in the light and love which hath begun the Work in the Spirit to war against the flesh And this is the time to wait on the Lord c He which waiteth on the Lord shall not be ashamed but shall renew his strength in the Lord dai●y to feel the living hope to spring yea the exspectation of the Seed which loves the Light to receive power in the Light from the Fountain of Life to overccome the whole Body of Death and he that hath this hope purifieth himself as God is pure and although he meet with many encounters with the power of darkness yet the hope stands fast in God the Fountain of Life and Light from whom he daily expecteth a supply of

A WARNING FROM THE LORD UNTO THE Rulers of Dover And so to all men which stand guilty of the like Practises that all may know a Day of Repentance before it be too late for the Night will come whenas no man can work in which the Son of man will come as a Thief unto all such the Workers of Iniquity and give to every man according to his deeds done in their body in their life-time Then wo to the Evil-doer for it will go ill with him Also the Christian man's Plea for his Liberty as he is so indeed and in truth And also as he is a free-born English-man he lays claim to his Birth-right by way of Expostulation with the Rulers of DOVER who rob him and many others of it refusing to shew us any Order for their so doing Together with a true Testimony born to the Light of Jesus the Power of God yea the Power of the endless Life from everlasting to everlasting By LUKE HOWARD Isa 57.20 The wicked are like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up Mire and Dirt. How ever it be yet God is good and his mercies are sure to Israel yea they endure for ever Prov. 24.15 Lay not wait O wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous spoil not his resting place Prov. 28.10 11. Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way he shall fall himself into his own pit but the upright shall have good things in possession Prov. 10.6 Blessings are upon the head of the just but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked LONDON Printed For Robert Wilson and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle and Windmill in Martins l'Grand 1661. A VVarning from the Lord unto the Rulers of Dover and so to all men men which stand guilty of the like Practises that all may know a Day of Repentance before it be too late c. ON the third day of the 8th Month 1661. in the night-watch upon my Bed of Straw and Chaff * Yet I and he rest of my friends did offer the Marshall to give him as we gave in other Prisons 8. pence a night for two Beds fitting for men to lye upon and that our friends as in other places might come at us but he refused it in the Common-Goal of Dover-Castle as I lay in a sweet and a comfortable sleep and rest the hand of my God fell on me and his sweet and comfortable presence awaken'd me and so continued with me unto the Morning-Watch in which time the living presence of my God was with me and the comfortable fellowship of his holy Spirit accompanied me so that my soul was filled with his living presence as with a mighty River which did overflow the Banks so that nothing appeared but joy and gladness and the Streams of his everlasting Vertue run through me exceeding swift and as the dew from Heaven refresheth the tender Grass so was the Plant of God's Renown refreshed in me and gave glory to him that sitteth on the Throne the Ancient of Days and to the Lamb for evermore even so faith my soul and all that is within me yea praise ye the Lord for he is worthy And as I thus lay with my mind staid on his Holiness and my heart awake in his Life and Light the Word of his Eternal Power came to me and from the God of Life it run through me in these words the which I was to write as from the God of my Life to the Rulers of Dover A Spoil a Spoil a Spoil is in you a Spoil a Spoil a Spoil is in your hearts yee blood-thirsty men John Golder Mayor George West and all which are agreed with you whose hearts are filled with envy a Envy is the ground of murder and it is murder in Gods sight as saith the whole Scripture to destroy a man and his Heritage yea men and their Families the judgments of God are against you and the righteous vengeance of the Almighty is gathering together in his heart against you and the Revelation thereof is near at hand to be poured forth As your iniquities ripen to a head and your envy against the righteous is fully accomplished come you forth and stand up before the righteous God of my Life and let the God of Truth be judge in the matter and his living Witness b For that wil plead the cause of the just and innocent in secret between God and your own consciences in all your Consciences give Answer between us and this Word of Life run through my heart from the righteous God to write unto you in the Word of the Lord even the Lord God of Life and Light of Righteousness and Truth the God of Heaven and Earth whose dreadful presence wil make the strong to bow and bring the lofty down and rebuke the wicked devices of the heart of man strike through the Liver of the Oppressor as with a Dart and none shall shift his hand before whose glorious presence all must appear and all flesh must be silenced before him This is my God I have waited for him and his appearance to me and mine is as as the Morning without clouds and his beauty hath taken my heart and his comeliness hath ravished my soul and his exceeding Riches hath he adorned my inward man with c The Kings Daughters are all glorious within and his everlasting strength is my salvation even the Son of his Love which was from everlasting to everlasting the same yesterday to day and for ever by whom he will judge the World in righteousness and the men thereof in truth and no covering d VVo be to him who is covered with a covering and not of the spirit of the Lord. of falshood shall then hide any but all must stand naked and bare before him and his holy Angels and mighty Host of Redeemed ones the hundred fourty and four thousand e Then shall the Lord be admired in his Saints honored in his chosen and glorified in and among his people his own which he hath redeemed from the Earth who shall sit upon the holy Hill of Sion with new Songs in their mouths and everlasting Praises in their hearts which hath followed the Lamb wheresoever he hath gone and have not loved their lives unto death These are the generation of the Just yea the general Assembly of the first born whose names are written in Heaven The Just men whose Spirits are made perfect being washed in the blood of the Lamb yea the Lamb of God that hath taken away their sins and carried them into the Land of forgetfulness so that they shall never be remembred more against them A new song of Salvation is put into their mouths and joy and gladness is in their souls and everlasting praises is under their tongues and the voice of Melody is in their inward parts and the voice or shout of a King is in the midst of them for

evermore so that great is the shout of the living Host which giveth all our glory and praises unto the Ancient of Dayes and to the Lamb that lives for evermore even so Amen Amen saith my soul and my Spirit sets to its seal in the presence of my God who is the everlasting Father and Prince of Peace of whose Dominion and Government there shall never be an end but he shall reign for evermore before whose seat of Justice f Where nothing wil speak peace but a Conscience void of offence both to God and man and no cover hide but the spirit of Life which hath overcome death in all it covers and Tribunal of everlasting Righteousness I say again all must stand naked and bare and no covering shall be able to hide the least Iniquity but Judgement from the righteous God must come on all and I say again all flesh must and shall be silent in his presence and all tongues confess to his righteous Judgements and all knees bend before him and all hearts fail in his presence for strong is the Lord that judgeth the righteous and true altogether is the Lamb that passeth sentence which saith Go ye cursed into everlasting torments prepared for the Devil and his Angels for ever and come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World for I was a hungry and ye fed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in Prison and ye came unto me and you shall not lose your g The Lord taketh notice of all mens actions and will assuredly reward all men accordingly Reward that have given but a Cup of cold water to a Disciple in the Name of a Disciple forasmuch as ye did it unto one of the little ones which believed in my Name ye did it unto me Come ye blessed of my Father enter into rest and partake of my everlasting Life and Love for ever and for ever world without end And go ye cursed you that have cast into holes and Prisons into endless pains wo and misery for ever and for ever world without end for you have been so far from visiting me in my Lambs and Babes and little ones in prisons that you have cast them in and blasphemed my holy Name my Power in them calling it the power of the Devil and Delusion to wit h This is the condemnation of the world that Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil my Light which they make mention of and speaking all manner of evil against them falsly for my Names sake and have made lyes your refuge and under falshood have hid your selves among men like unto yourselves to bring your wicked purposes to pass against my holy Nation and chosen people for though in your Envy you have falsly charged them and by so doing evil entreated them yet what have you found against them justly to deserve such usage from you as they have had Yea are they not clear and innocent Have not you searched them again and again proved them again and again and still what have you found Even nought in them but a lying heart i Through the whole Nation how often even over and ever have they been falsly charged and so much searched nothing to 〈◊〉 day can yet be proved because they are clear in all matters in your selves and the deceit thereof hath turned you aside so that justice hath been turned backward and Equity hath fallen in the street Judgement hath stood afar off and Truth it could not enter because the best of you have been as a bryar and the most uprightest of you sharper then a Thorn-Hedge yea your Mercies have been but Cruelties to them for he that departed from iniquity you made a prey upon and eat his flesh as a man should eat bread and took not pity upon the needy but strengthened the hands of the k This is the portion of the servants of the Lord in this world from the men thereof wicked to turn him out of the way This hath been your carriage and behaviour towards me in them O ye strong Okes and tall Cedars whose tops I will lop off yea and whose root I will pluck up for the evil you have acted against me in my servants in your life-time when you should have feared my Name and have met often together with those which did meet to wait upon me and call upon my Name which is everlasting Righteousness and Truth Life and Light which whosoever walketh therein walketh safely and is free from harm in a strong Tower of Defence but on the contrary you have broke up their Meetings and sent them to Prisons and cast them in holes and all hath been for obeying me and walking in my Light your condemnation and assembling l They which feared the Lord in the dayes past met often together a Book of remembrance was written and so it is now themselves together in my fear to wait upon me to receive of my fulness Life and Love and to walk therein yea to their and my Enemies as is fully made manifest to such which have sought by the Power of Darkness to rout out my Name and cause it to be forgotten among the Sons of Men among whom I will be glorified by setting of it up saith the jealous God for I will march through you O you bryars and thorns m Wicked men are unto the Lord as bryars and thorns are unto the fire consumed must they be if they repent not and will burn you together and set up my Name of Everlasting Righteousness for by it am I known to my chosen and so must I be to the sons of men for evermore And this is the Name by which they shall know me and by which they shall call me the Lord our Righteousness for I will be glorified in them and they shall sanctifie me in their hearts n The true israel of God their fear towards God is not taught by the Precepts of man neither do they fear him but the Lord though they be accounted as sheep for the slaughter for it and make me their fear their dread and not man as my Flock of slaughter hath done in the day of their afflictions when the wicked have made long furrows on their backs and accounted them as sheep for the slaughter even all the day long Ah! shal I not visit for these things Yea assuredly and my hand shall be avenged on their oppressors for Vengeance is in my heart and the day of recompence is in my reins and everlasting contempt is in my bowels and I am filled therewith and I must be eased and that on my Adversaries my Flock-oppressors that have set themselves against me to destroy my Heritage and scatter the sheep of my Pasture and have endeavoured to make them forget their resting-place in me so that they should