‘thy Conscience will tell thee: The Ancient of Days will reprove
‘thee. How hath Zeal appeared to be the Blind Zeal; a Perse-
‘cutor, which Christ and his Apostles forbad Christians to follow!
‘How hast thou strengthened the Hands of Evil-doers, and been a
‘Praise to them, and not to them that do well! How like a Mad-
‘man, and a Blind-man didst thou turn thy Sword backward against
‘the Saints, against whom there is no Law! How wilt thou be
‘gnawed and burned one Day, when thou shalt feel the Flame and
‘have the Plagues of God poured upon thee, and thou begin to gnaw
‘thy Tongue for Pain, because of the Plagues! Thou shalt have thy
‘Reward according to thy Works: Thou canst not escape; the Lord‘s
‘righteous Judgments will find thee out, and the Witness of God in
‘thy Conscience shall answer it. How hast thou caused the Heathen
‘to Blaspheme, and gone on with the Multitude to do Evil, and
‘joined hand in hand with the wicked! How is thy latter End worse
‘than thy Beginning, who art come with the Dog to bite, and art
‘turned as a Wolf, to devour the Lambs! How hast thou discovered
‘thy self to be a Man more fit to be kept in a place to be nurtured,
‘than to be set in a Place to nurture! How wast thou exalted and
‘puffed up with Pride! And now art thou fallen down with Shame,
‘that thou comest to be covered with that, which thou stirredst up,
‘and broughtest forth. Let not John Sawrey take the VVords of God
‘into his Mouth, till he be Reformed: Let him not take his Name
‘into his Mouth, till he depart from Iniquity. Let not him and his
‘Teacher make a Profession of the Saints VVords, except they intend
‘to proclaim themselves Hypocrites, whose Lives are so contrary to the
‘Lives of the Saints; whose Church hath made it self manifest to be
‘a Cage of Unclean Birds. You having a Form of Godliness, but not
‘the Power, have made them that be in the Power, your Derision,
‘your By-word, and your Talk at your Feasts. Thy ill Savour, John
‘Sawrey, the Country about have smelled, and of thy unchristian Car-
‘riage all that fear God have been ashamed; and to them thou hast
‘been a Grief: In the Day of Account thou shalt know it, even in
‘the Day of thy Condemnation. Thou wast mounted up, and hadst
‘set thy Nest on high; but never gottest higher, than the Fowls of the
‘Air: But now thou art run amongst the Beasts of Prey, and art fal-
‘len into the Earth; so that Earthliness and Covetousness hath swal-
‘lowed thee up: and thy Conceitedness would not carry thee through,
‘in whom was found the selfish Principle, which hath blinded thy
‘Eye. Thy Back must be bowed down always; for thy Table is already
‘become thy Snare.

G. F.            

This Justice Sawrey, who was the first Persecutor in that Country,
was afterward drowned.

I writ also to William Lampit, who was the Priest of Ulverston;
and thus it was upon me to write unto him:

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