The trumpet of the Lord blowne. Or, a blast against pride and oppression, and the defiled liberty, which stands in the flesh.: By a servant and messenger of the Lord, who is called into the work of the Lord, and to blow his trumpet in England; so that all may be forwarned in this day of the Lords calm, and be left without excuse, and in the day of his righteous judgments be found just and true; in love to all imprisoned souls. / By a lover of all souls, who is called, James Parnel.

THE TRUMPET of the Lord blown.

WOE unto you that are called Lords, Ladies, Knights, Gen∣tlemen, and Gentlewomen, in respect to your persons, who are exalted in the earth, who are proud, and high, and lofty, who are called of men Master, and Sir, and Mistris, and Madam, in respect to your persons, because of your gay Cloathing, because of your much earth, which by fraud, deceit, and op∣pression you have gotten together, you are exalted above your fellow-creatures, and grind the faces of the poore, and they are as slaves under you, and must labour and toyle under you, and you must live at ease, sporting in day time, and spending your time in pleasures, and Cham∣bring, and wantonness, according to your lustful minds, in Hauking and Hunting, and bouling & carding, & dicing, in all manner of musick plea∣sure & delights, in eating & drinking and sleeping, and you must have your wine and ale, and all your dainty dishes, and all manner of delights and novelties, and so ye seed the lust; eating and drinking and rising up to play, which is Idolatry, and you have your fine attire, and all manner of new fashions, Silk and velvet, and purple, Gold and Silver, and you have your waiting-men, and waiting-maids under you to wait upon you, and your Coaches to ride, and your high and lofty horses is like your selves, according to your lofty minds, and you sit at ease, Di∣ves like, devouring the Creation, and spending it upon your lusts, and with it committing fornication, into it your hearts being adultred from God, who created you, and your fellow-creatures must labour like slaves under you, and works for all this, when you are at your pleasures, they must be at work and labour, that must Hunger and thirst and labour, when you are eating, and drinking, and sleeeping, and here like Dives you sit at ease, and poor Lazarus lyes starving without, and here you are Lords over your fellow-Creatures, and they must bow and crouch to you or else they must bee hated, and punished, and put out from your presence, and be scoffed, and scorned, and reproached, and you wil be called Masters, and thinks scorn that a poore man should stand with his hat on before you, and so sets up partiallity, which that Law of God condemns, upholding that which Christ in his doctrine forbids, who saith, be not ye called Masters, and so by it which you did profess, you are condemned, and you think scorn in particular, to be thoued of your

fellow-Creatures, which is the Scripture language to one, but you will thou God and Christ, and yet you wil not be thoued, and here you exalt your selves above God, and Lords over your fellow-creatures, but though you be exalted as high as the Heavens, and set your nests a∣mongst the Stars, and lay up treasures for many yeers, thence will the Lord fetch you down, and cast you into Hell the pit, as he did Lucifer, Dives, and Hammen, and Pharoah, and Herod, and the rest of your fore fathers, who would have been exalted above the Creator as you would, for it is Lucifer who is head and is exhalted in you, above all that is called God, opposing God, who is God over you, whom you serve and worship, for whom the pit is prepared: To the light in all your con∣sciences I speak, which is honest of God, and impartial, which wil let you see you are guilty and condemn you, but you think to have the pleasure and delights of this world, to be at ease and peace here, and to have an inheritance in the Kingdome of Good too, and you have covers for all this, you say your pleasures is pastime and recreation, and your fyne cloathes and gay attire, is comliness and decency, and your dainty di∣shes and banqueting novelties and attendance, you say you are able to maintain it, and it belongs to your places, and so you have covers for all, but wo unto you that hide your Sins, and covers your iniquities, who covers with a covering but not with the Lord, but all your covers is found too narrow before the Lord Christ, who wil lay all your hypo∣crisye and deceit before you, and your vain lyes and actions, and you shall be rewarded accordingly, and shall have your portion in the Lake that burneth, which is prepared for you earth-worms, whose pleasure is in the earth, but you think to be saved, and so would make Christ and his Apostles lyars, who said, none could obtaine two Kindomes, and no such must enter who have their portions and delight in the earth, and you make a profession of godlines with your praiers, praises graces, & singing & formal imaginary worship, and have a Chaplain or a Priest to preach to you one day in a week, and all the week after do as you do, and spends the time as you do, in eating, and drinking, and rising up to play, and lives in pride and covetousness, and is called of men Master, and you have a place for him to preach to you, in either in your houses or hard-by, so have all things at ease, and all this for your money, but the pearl you want, which is not to be purchased with money, where lies the ine∣stimable treasures: and you say he is a Minister of Christ, and he saith you are Christians, whenas you all are Heathens both Priest and people, living without God in the world, and so the blind leads the blind into the Ditch, and so you lead your lives and spend your time here and thinks to be saved hereafter; no, no, wo, and wo is coming upon you all who are proud, you must all give an account before the Lord God, of Heaven and Earth, who is terrible to the wicked, and behold, the

day of the Lord cometh, which will burn as an Oven, and all that are proud, and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and such as you sow such must you reap, he that sows to the flesh of the flesh, must reap cor∣ruption, the Lord abhors all your profession, and your hypocrisye, it is not profession that he seeks for, it is practise, it is not the sayer, but the doer that shall inherit, your forefathers said but did not, so do you, but it is not all that saith Lord, Lord, that shall inherit, but he that doth the will of my Father; what is the chaffe to the wheat? the Lord looks for fruits, you profess him in words, but your works are the works of the Devil, and l'o are of this sort who come neer him with their lips, but their hearts are far from him, in your gay attire, in your new fashions, in your varieties, in your dainty dishes, in your Gaming and pleasures, and spor∣ting, in your wealth and earthly riches, in your lofty horses, in your cu∣rious buildings, in your fyne Musick, in your earthly honor, which is all the fruits of the Devil, and here outwardly you profess the Lord, wth your tongues, but serve the Devil with your hearts and actions, who is the King of pride, and here you are in the broad and easie way, in the fyrst nature, which is in the fall separated from God, whose Kingdom is of this world, strangers to the life of God, and are at enmity, slaying and crucifying the just and innocent, and so are no Christians but Heathens both Priest and people, and the Lord abhors all sacrafycers from Cain, which is the fyrst nature wherein you live, rove out from God into the earth, your lives preacheth you forth, so all your graces before and af∣ter meat, and your prayers, and your praises and Singing, and formall worships and traditions, the Lord abhors, for they are offered up in the fyrst nature, a sacrifyce of the earth, and Savours of the earth, and is not a sweet smell unto him, and therefore he hath no respect to it, his soul loaths it, away with it, and they that offer it, for it is enmity with him, the prayers and sacrifyces of the wicked is abominable, all prayers or Sacrifices offered ap from Cain, Dives or Hammon, or any in that nature, is abominable to the Lord, and he wil not accept them, for to them he hath no respect, therefore all you high and lofty ones, Ham∣mon like, be ye sylent and let your mouths, be stopped all you who acts in unrighteousness, away with all your profession, and now repent and tremble before the Lord, ye children of the Devil, come down all you high and lofty ones, houl and mourn in sackcloath and ashes, for the Lord is coming to burn you up as stubble before him, for you are the fruitlesse TREES that cumbers the ground, who are for the Fire, faire and flourishing with Leaves you are covered, but by CHRIST the LIGHT, ye are searched, and no Fruit is sound on you, therefore from him you are cursed for fruit hee is come to seeke for, therefore profess him no longer in words, but now repent and return from all your UNRIGHTEOUSNESS,

for know you not that no unrighteous person shall inherit the Kingdom of God, no vain person nor drunkards, swearers, no lyar, no proud, no covetous ones, none who delight in gaming or pleasures, spotting in the day time and riotting, chambering and wantonness, nor no unholy nor unclean thing must enter, for all unrighteous persons must be cast into the Lake that burns with Fire and brimstone for ever: now read your selves and your Portions, all you high and lofty ones, for thither you must go, and there you mustly for evermore, the Lord of hosts hath spoke it, with Dives and Hammon, and all the high and lofty ones who must be cast in thither, for you are too high and too Fine, and too lofty to en∣ter in at the straight gate, as Dives was, and Hammon was, nay, you are enemeis and persecutors of all those who enters in at the straite gate, as Hammon, and Dives, and the High Priests, Pharises, and Rulers was, and all the high ones, because they do not feed you with your earthly honour, and respects no person, but equalizes all flesh, as the Lord doth so doth his people, but you proud ones thinks scorn to be compared, or to be equalized with your fellow-creatures, as Dives and Hammon did, but all you proud ones, remember your father Dives end, for thither you must go into the everlasting burnings, as he did, whose belly was his God, as yours is, whose end is destruction, who mind earthly things, and then it wil be too late for you to repent, and then when it is too late, then you wil wish you had been as Lazarus was, so that at the end you might have enjoyed the happiness that Lazarus did, though now you are exalted above your fellow-creatures, living in Pride, Idleness, and fulness of bread, which was the Sins of Sodome, but in this day you shal be brought down, and all you workers of eniquity, young and old, rich, and poor, Lord and Lady, and beggars shall be all turned into Hel with∣out respect of person, then shall it be with the Mistriss, so with the maid, as with the Servant so with the Master, and as with the people, so with the Priest, & all the righteous simple ones which you despise and scoff at, who are now to you gazing stocks, and reproaches and pilgrims in the world, because their Kingdom is not of this world, then shall that be exalted and received into joy eternal, then you shal see a separation be∣twixt the humble and the proud, as there was betwixt Dives and Laza∣rus, the humble, and loly, and despised ones shall be exalted, and you high lofty ones, who are despisers and crucifyers of the just, shall be a∣based and cast into Hell, then Lord and Lady, Master and Mistris and all your earthly honor, shall be laid into the fyre, then all your worldly wealth, riches, and earthly inheritance and heir-ships will be gone, wherewith you ruled as Lords in the eerth,, then you shall fynd that all your gay cloathing and rich attire was for pride, and not for decency, and that many of your fellow-creatures wanted that for to cover their nakedness which you spent upon your lusts, then you shall be rewarded for grinding the faces of the poor, for your oppressions, and for rackings

and taxings and your heavy burthens, wherewith you oppress your fel∣low creatures, for you are the high Oaks and the tall Cedars that op∣press the little scrubs under, whom the Creation growns both man and beasts, but then you will be brought low, then all your pleasures and wantonness, hauking and hunting, and bowling and carding, and di∣••ing and all your Musik shall be turned into weeping and howling with Dives, Lazarus had none of this, but Dives had, but now Lazarus hath joy eternall, and Dives wo and misery everlasting, and then all your dainty dishes and novelties and varieties which hath fed your lusts shall be turned into fyre and brimstone, and the spoyle of the creatures shall witness against you, and then you shall be stript of of all your Silks and Velvet, and Purple, and Gold, and Silks, and all your gay attire, where∣with you decked and addorned your Earthly bodies, to make your selves seem glorious in the eyes of other, for the honor and esteem of the world but then you will be as naked as the beggar, then you shall have no wai∣ting men nor waiting maids, nor Coaches, nor high and lofty horses, nor curious building, or great houses, no more than the beggar, then bowing and crouching, and all your heathenish breeding shall be laid aside, then all your Priests & false Prophets which you extall now so high because they daub you up and cry, peace to you, healing you in deceit, because you put into their mouths, shal stand you in no steed, but shall be tormented with you hypocrites in the lake, and all your covers wil not serve wherewith you hide your Sin, and covers over your deceipts, in saying your pleasures and vain talk, and foolish jesting, and tales and stories, is pastime and recreation, then you would be glad of one hour if you could get to repent in, as Dives would, but then it will be too late for your portion you enjoy in the earth, whose Kingdom is of this world, but the Son of man in it had scarce where to lay his head, and his ser∣vants no certain dwelling place, for their Kingdom was not of this world, such you call wanderers and vaggabonds, who have your great houses and strong towers in the Earth, but all cannot hide from the pre∣sence of the Lord, who will you call in judgment, and reward you accor∣ding to your deeds, when his own he doth exalt into the Kingdom which for them he hath prepared, which is an everlasting Kingdom, from which the earthworms are shut out, who saith the earth is mime, there∣fore now before it be too late consider of it, and let Dives and Hammon and the rest of the proud ones be a warning to you, and now repent, while it is called to day, now you have been told, now you are left with∣out excuse, before the just impartial Iudge; now prise your time all who desyre mercy at the hand of God, and pardon for your iniquities, for this is the day of your visitation, wherein the Lord is handing forth his mercy, and if you will not believe this, you would not blieve Dives and he should rise from the Dead.

To the light in all your Consciences I speak, which comes from Ie∣sus

Christ the light of the world, who doth enlighten every one that comes into the world, which light is his witness in the conscience, a∣gainst all deceit, ungodliness, and unrighteousness of men, which light in all your consciences is my witness, to the which I am made manifest, which if you love it, and to it hearken, it will let you see your selves, and the staite and condition wherein you live, and the fylthy unclean Image of the Devill which you bear, and your Leoperous spotted con∣sciences, because of the lust wherein you are drowned, and the same light loving it and following it, which checks and covinces in the cons∣cience, for that which is evil and of the least contrary to the wil of God, it wil lead you to repentance, and humble your hearts, and bring you down to know the fear of the Lord, whose power wil rend your habitati∣ons wherein you have dwelt secure in your Sins, and this light (loving it) will be your teacher, and wil let you see the Creation and the good∣ness thareof, and will teach you how to use it and order it in its place, out of the lust, to the glory of God, and how to do good with it, so that there be no want in the creation nor cry of oppreession, but the hungry wil be fed, and the naked cloathed, and the oppressed set free, and here is the blessing restored to the Creation, but while these things is under and you live in the lusts, with your abundance, nourishing your hearts as in a day of slaughter, the curse is upon you and war abundance, and you are the adulterers and adulteresses, whose hearts are adulterated from God, committing fornication with the Creation, and the grace of God which should guide you out of the lust and ungodliness of the world you turn into wantonness, and your teachers who cause you to erre by their sorcery and inchantments, and Iames the Son of thunder uttered forth his voice against such, and thus saith the Lord, because the Daugh∣ters of Sion are haughty, and walk with stretched out necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will smite with the scab the Crown of the head of the Daughters of Sion, in that day in that day the Lord wil take away all their bravery of their tinkling ornaments of their feet, and their cauls and round attire, like the Moone, and the chains and the brace∣lets, and the head-bands, and tablets, and the Ear-rings, and the nose-Iewels, the changeables suits of apparell, and the mantles, and the wim∣ples, and the Crisping-pins, and the glasses, and the fyne linnen, and the hoods, and the vails, and it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smel, there shall be a stinck, and instead of well seat here, bauldness, and idstead of a stomacher, a girding with Sackcloath, and burning in∣stead of beauty: Now all you high and lofty Daughters of England, who are sporting your selves in the day time, and scorning and disdaining your fellow-creatures, read your selves and your portions, howle and lament, for a day of venegance, of rending, of burning, of famine, is coming upon you, for the Land mourns because of pride.

Notes

• 2 Pet. i2. 13.
• 1 Cor. i0. 7.
• Luk. 16.••9.20. 2i.
• Mat. 23.8.
• Obad. 3.4,
• Isa. i4. 13, i4. i5.
• 2 Thes. 2, 3, 4.
• Prov. 28. i3. Isa. 30.1.
• Iames 5. i. 5.
• Iob. 28.
• Mal. 4.1. Gal. 6.6, 7, 8.
• Mat. 7. 2i.
• Isa. 29. i3.
• Iames 5.6.
• Gen. 4.3.5. Isa. 1. i2, 13, i4. 15, 16, i7. Prov. i5. 8.
• Mat. 27.19.
• i Cor. 6.9.
• Easter 3.
• Acts i0.34.35.
• Luke i6. i9. & Phil. 3. i9.
• Ezekiel i6. 44.
• Isaiah 2.42. Heb. i0. 8.34. Heb. 1i. 36, 37, 38. Luke i6. 22.23
• Isa. 2. i2, i3. &c.
• Ezek. 22.28. Ier. 13. i. Mich. 3.5.
• Luke 9.5.58. i Cor. 4. ii. Psalms i45. i3.
• Luke i6. i3••
• Iohn i. 9.
• Titus. 2. ii. i2. Iames 4. Iames 5.
• Isaiah. 3.