and are not to it come, have a love but it is in the world, and a Relation but it is in the world, which is enmity to God, so that relation which is enmity is denyed with the light, that love which is enmity is denyed with the light which leads to the pure Relation, the pure love which envies not, where the destroyer and devourer is rebuked.
YOu that be Magistrates which doe cast Christ into prison and will not visit him when you have done, nor suffer his friends and bre∣thren to visit him in prison, and there you keep him in prison till he hunger and thirst, and you prison him as a vagabond, who hath no place to lay his head, sick and in prison and you visit him nor: but the cor∣ner stone is set up, and the rock of ages manifest, and him who bears the Government upon his shoulders, whose kingdome is without end, and dominion hath no end, which is an everlasting dominion, which do∣minion is over all dominions, whose Scepter is righteousnesse, whose Law royall stands over all, answereth that of God in all, and respects no mans person, but is holy, just, and righteous, persect and good, whose Priesthood is royall everlasting that never changeth, who lighteth every man that cometh into the world, that men might believe and see the way out of the world, Christ the light, the way, the truth, who is the Covenant of light, of peace, and of life. Was not Christ crucified in So∣dome and Gomorrah spiritually? and are not they Sodomites that imprison him? and are not the Sodomites them that live in fulnesse of bread, and idlenesse, and the filthy conversation, which the righteous soul grieves and vexeth, which Christ is Shepheard of, and the Bishop, who is a wit∣nesse in all consciences which witnesses against the lusts that war against the soul? Was not all the profession of Christ before he was manifest in the flesh, and when he was manifested in the flesh, hypocrisie among them that professe him in words and did not believe in him who was the light but cast him into prison, and he was sick and they visited him not, and was hungry and they fed him not, and he was naked and they cloathed him not, such as neither knew his voyce, nor the Prophets that shewed the com∣ing of him: and is not all the profession of Christ now hypocrisy among them that professe him in words and doe not believe in him who is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, but cast him into prisons, and holes, and dungeons, and he is sick and you visit him not, and hungry and you feed him not, and thirsty and you give him no drink, and na∣ked and you cloath him not, but into prison cast him as a vagabond who hath no place to lay his head, The foxes have holes and the birds of the aire have nests, but the Son of man hath no place to lay his head, Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever. Therefore awake you Rulers and fear the Lord and hear the voyce of the Son of God that you may live, for now is Christ come to reign, the same that ever was, whom into prison you doe cast, and with your wills would not suffer him to reigne; but Christ will reign who is not borne by the will of man, who is King and rules, and now reignes in his Kingdome and dominion which is without end, and in his power & in his fulnes, who filleth all things, & thousands of his fulnesse have received, & of his power, as many as have received him, to become the Sons of God. From them whom the world scornfully calls Quakers.