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.

ALL you that scoff, and scorn, reproach, & revile at the Children, Ser∣vants, and Messengers of the most High God, whom you nick-name quakers, and under the same name persecute them, as a people not worthy to live, and have no ground for it, neither knows any evill by them, but all along their lives and conversations condemns yours, and therefore you hate them, revile them, & reproach them in whom the power of the living God is made manifest, the same which ever was, VVhich shakes the Earth and makes the strong man to bow himself,* 1.1 and the keepers of the house to tremble; and the same power which all the Children of God in all ages witnessed, and passed through, which then by the same Generation suffered, both by Magistrates, Professors, Priests, and People, who were, & are strangers to the life of God and his Power, and therfore re∣proached, Scoffed and scorned it, as you now do,* 1.2 but it is that the Scripture might be fulfilled upon you, VVho are despisers of those that do good; I∣saak the seed of the promise trembled, Gen. 27.33. VVho was mocked by Ishmael the Son of the Bondwoman, who was cast out as the same seed; and now by you Ishmalites who are the Children of the Bondwoman, who are cast out and are found without, mocking and scoffing the Righteous seed, Gen. 21.9. i0. Gal. 4.30. And Moses a Servant of God quaked and trembled, who counted it greater Riches to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of Sin for a season, Heb. 12. 2i. Heb. ii. 26. and this you now call madness and folly, who know not that godliness is great gaine, i Tim. 6.6. and David who was a King quaked, and trembled, and roared, and watered his Couch with tears, Psal. 69. i2. Psal. 22.14. Psal. 38. Psal. 6.6. and Drunkards made a Song on him, and some shut out their tongues, and wagged their heads and gaped upon him with their mouths, Psal. 64. Psal. 122.7. and this you Sing in your Steeple houses like Hypocrites without knowledg, Psalms 35. i6. and yet scoffe and scorn and reproach those in whom the same Power is made manifest and yet you will say as he said, you are not puffed in mind, nor have no scornfull eye, &c. but he spoke the truth, and you lye, Psal. i31.1. and thus you deceive your souls and loves to have it so, your leaders cause you to erre, Isa. 9.16. and Iob a Servant of the Lord quaked, who by the same generation was laughed to scorn, Iob 4. i4. Iob i2. i4. and Ieremi∣ah, a Prophet of the Lord quaked, who was then persecuted by the same generation Ier. 23.9. and Daniel a Prophet of the Lord trembled, who was cast into the Lyons Den, because he would not deny his God, Dan. i0, ii. Dan. 6.16. but by his power he was preserved, as we are now from those Lyons whelps who would us devour; and Habbkkauk a Prophet of the Lord his belly trembled, and his lips quivered, Hab. 3. i6. and Paul an Apo∣stle of Iesus Christ fell down and trembled, Act. 9.4.5.6. who was re∣viled, reproached, and persecuted even to death, who was one that ha∣zarded his life for the name of Iesus, Act. 6.26. and said all the day long was they killed, and accounted as sheep to the slaughter, Rom. 8.36.

now these was all quakers, who then suffered with patience by the same generation, now read what generation you are of, for they that were af∣ter the flesh allways persecuted them that were after the Spirit, Gal. 4.29. there was always a generation by which the righteous ever suffered since Cain the fyrst born upon earth, in whose way you are found, who envy, who are in the wrath, Iude 10. you kill the just, and he lyes slain in the streets, Iam. 5.5, 6. at whose hands his blood shal be requited. Mat. 23.35. and the Son of man was to eat his bread with quaking, and drink his water with trembling, Ezek. i2. i0. out of which life you are found, who are at ease in the flesh, feeding without the fear of God, spending the Creatures upon your lusts, i Cor. i0.7. Iam. 5 scoffing and scorning them who are not one with you in the same liberty, but fears before the Throne of God, i Pet. 4.4. Rom. i3, i4. i Cor. i0.3i. and thus you erre, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God, Mat. 22.29. there∣fore behold, ye despisers and wonderers, and perish, I will work a work in your days, which though you see it, you shall not believe it, Act. i3. ••i. is it not apparent before your eyes, the wicked man returns from his wickedness, and the ungodly from his ungodliness and the drunkard from his drunkenness, and the prophane one from his prophainness, and now seeks after God, and feare his powerfull name, and this you see and cannot believe, but despises, scoffs & scorns the power by which this work is done, for it is no new thing but the same which was and are, you are in the same adulterous generation, which cannot see the Signes which follow the truth, Mat. i6.3, 4. from whom the Gospel is hid, whose eye is darkned with the God of the world, 2 Cor. 4.3, 4. and so speaks evil of the things you know not, Iude ii. putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, evill for good, and good for evill, Isa. 5.20. you are the scoffers that the Apostle fore-told of to be in the last times, Iude, i8. who are despisers of those that are good, incontinent, fierce, Traitor, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but deny the life and powers, 2 Tim. 3.3, 4, 5. and here you are both Priests, people, and professors, who are scoffing and scorning, slandring, reproach, reviling, and persecuting the righteous innocent servants and messengers of the most high God, who is uttering forth his voyce through them in power, against all ungodliness and un∣righteousness of men, who will you call to judgment, and convince you of all your ungodly deeds, and all your hard speeches, which you have wrongfully spoken against him and his power, and will reward you ac∣cordingly, Iude i4, i5. Rev. 22.2i. Therefore to that which is of God in all your consciences I speak, which is my witness against your ungodly lives, which turning your minds to it, and unto it taking heed, will let you see you speak evill of the things you know not, loving darkness ra∣ther than light, because your deeds are evill, Iob. 3. i9. therefore fear the Lord God and repent, and take heed of mocking, least your bonds

be made strong. Isa. 28.22. for God will not be mocked, such as you sowe, such must you reap, Gal. 6.7. therefore fear before the Lord, and try all things, and hold fast that which is good, i Thes. 5.2i. and despise nothing before you know it, least you speak evill of Gods elect, for it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, Heb. i0.3i. there∣fore take this for a warning, as from the mouth of the Lord, for no ig∣norance is to be pleaded before the throne of God.

This was given forth in vindication of the power of God, which is now ma∣nifesting in his Sons and Daughters, least the simple who are not yet ac∣quainted with it, should stumble at the name.

By a friend of the truth and a lover of these people, which you who are out of the truth scornfully call quakers, but the scorners God will judge, and the righteous God will bless who work out their salvation with fear and trem∣bling, for saith the Lord, to such a one wil I look, that is of a humble and contrite spirit, and trembleth at my words, Pro. i9.29. Phil. 2. i2 Isa. 66. i, 2.

IAMES PARNEL.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Eccles. i2. 3.
• * 1.2

  2 Tim 3.3.