A collection of the several books and vvritings, given forth by that faithful servant of God and his people, George Fox, the Younger

A Strong and terrible Alarm sounded out of the holy Mountain against the Inhabi∣tants of the Earth, &c.

WOe, wo, unto you Rulers, Priests and People, who live without the fear of God, and do hide your abominations in hypocrisie and dissimulations; you are got into several Sects and Opinions, and there some of you have long made a Profession of God with your tongues and lips, but your hearts are removed far from him, so that your Profession stinks in the Nostrils of the Almighty; and he loaths and abhors your Preaching and Praying; for you are weighed, and you are found too light, your coverings are too narrow, they will no longer hide you; for now you are searched with the true Light, which makes you manifest, and rips off your coverings, so that your nakedness appears, the day hath made you ma∣nifest; and now is the Light risen, and with it you are seen to be out of the Life of Truth; yea, you are found

to be the greatest Enemies to the life that be upon the earth; for you Murther it in the particular, and you hate and persecute it wheresoever it is brought forth; yea, and in all its appearances you seek to suppress and murther it. Remember your fore-fathers cryed, Not this man but Barrabbas, and your cry and Practice is seen to be the same in nature now; for the Robber and Murderer is set free, and hath his Liberty in and among you; and in you and by you, is the Son of God cryed against and murdered; yea, ye are the betrayers and murderers of him, and his blood you are guilty of, and it cryeth for vengeance against you unto the Lord, who hath long forborn you; and because his Judgements were not speedily executed upon you, you have strengthned youe selves in your wicked∣ness and imaginations, and have provoked the Almighty to wrath, and have not considered that his long-suffering towards you was to have drawn you to Repentance; but the day of your Visitation you have despised, and have hated the Light of his Son in your Consciences, which hath often shewed you your Evil Deeds, and so have tram∣pled, the blood of the Covenant under your feet, and have done despight unto the Spirit of Grace, and hath chosen to follow the vain imaginations of your own hearts, and have contemned the Counsel of the Lord, and would not that he should reign over you; for which cause his Iudgements linger not against you, but are ready to be poured forth upon your heads, even upon you, who have sold your selves to work abomination in the sight of the Lord, and are worshipping in the house of your Imagery, and have joyned, and are become one with the great Whore of Babylon, who hath made her self drunken with the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus; but now is she come in remembrance before the dreadful and terrible God, and now shall both she and her Lovers be Plagued and tormented together.

Therefore you Nobles and Rulers, Captains and Mighty men, Priests and People, High and Low, Rich and Poor, Bond and Free, who hath committed Fornication with her, awake to the Iudgement, and behold your King, the old Dragon, which is the Divel and Satan; for he is come forth and deceives you, and he is come to gather you to the Battel of the great Day, which is at hand; for the Harvest is ripe, and the Wine∣press is full, and your Fats overflow, and the measure of your Iniquities is great, and now will God be avenged on you, who will bring you all down unto the valley of Discision, even there shall the Day of the Lord be upon you, which will be a day of pain and anguish, a day of blackness and gloominess, and of thick darkness unto you that have slain the Witness of God, and have made merry over him; your mirth is almost at an end, and in∣stead thereof shall be mourning and bitter Lamentation, which shall come upon you in one day; and now is the day of Vengeance proclaimed, now is the Trumpet sounded forth, behold the LYON roareth: Therefore, Oh! all ye Inhabitants of the Earth, fear and tremble before the living dreadful God, and dread ye his Name, for now is he arising in his Glory and Majesty, to shake terribly the Earth; the noise of a Trumpet goeth before him, which soundeth an Alarm: Strong and Mighty is he; there goeth a Sword out of his mouth, and a Threshing instrument is in his hand, wherewith he will cut down the tall Cedars, and thresh the Mountains to dust: A fire proceedeth out of his mouth also, which shall devour and burn before him, and none shall be able to quench it: And the breath that cometh forth of his Nostrils shall scatter the Earth, as the VVhirl-wind scattereth the dust; yea, terrible and dreadful will he be unto you wick∣ed, who live in the Earth, you shall not be able to behold nor stand in his presence: Therefore weep, and howl,

and lament for the misery that is coming upon you; for a total destruction is at hand; yea, the Lord hath de∣creed an utter overthrow of the Earth, and the Inha∣bitants thereof; for now shall his overflowing Scourge pass through the Earth, and the Besom of his destru∣ction shall sweep you away, for your VVhoredoms, and Murders, and Idolatry, and Drunkenness, and Swear∣ing, and Lying, and VVantonness, and Prophaneness, is come in remembrance before the dreadful and terrible God, who will be avenged on you at once.

Rejoice ye Saints who are clad with Zeal, and shout for joy you Sons of the most high God, and sing ye Hea∣vens, and you that dwell therein; for the Lord is ri∣sen, ye are Witnesses thereof; behold he cometh with ten thousands of his Saints to Iudge the Earth in Righ∣teousness, and to execute his Judgements upon his and our Enemies: The Vials of his VVrath are made ready to be poured out upon them, and his Indignation is waxen hot against them, which shall burn, and slay, and consume them unto the end; Glory, Glory, Honour and Dominion, and Praise be given unto our King, who liveth for ever; for he is worthy to reign over all, who was dead, but now is he alive, and liveth for ever∣more: And he hath redeemed us from the Earth, and hath brought us above the Earth, to reign with him up- the Earth: Eternal Praises to our King for evermore, who is above all, and over all; who was before the VVorld was, and hath brought us to be before the VVorld, to reign with him eternally above the VVorld, and our Enemies are to be plagued and tormented in our presence, and we shall rejoyce over the smoak of their torment, which ascendeth for ever: Now here is the joy and cause of our rejoycing, who have followed the

Lamb through great Tribulation, and are brought above the Tribulations, to dwell in the presence of the li∣ving God; this is joy unspeakable, and full of Glory, which shall never have an end: Hallelujah to our King for evermore.

Edmonds-Bury Com∣mon Goal, the 22. day of the 7th. Month, 1656.

By me George Fox, whose na∣tural Birth, and outward be∣ing was at Charsfield, in the said County of Suffolk.