Thou was the Beginner of all the persecution in the north. Thou was the Beginner and the Maker of all the people tumultuous. Thou was the first stirrer of them up against the righteous seed, the truth of God, and was the first strengthener of the hands of evil doers against the innocent and harmless; and thou shalt not prosper. Thou was the first stirrer-up of strikers, stoners, persecutors, stockers, mockers and imprisoners in the North, and of revilers, slanderers, railers, and false accusers and scandalers. This was thy work, and this thou stirredest up, so thy fruits declares thy spirit. What is stirred up? that before-mentioned, instead of stirring up the pure minds in people, thou hast stirred up the wicked, malicious, and envious, and taken hand with the wicked; thou hast made the people’s minds envious, up and down the Country. This was thy work; but God hath shortened thy days, and limited thee, and set thy bands and broken thy jaws, and discovered thy religion to the simple and babes, and brought thy deeds to the light. How is thy habitation fallen, and become the habitation of devils, & how is thy beauty lost, & thy glory withered, how hast thou showed thy end, that thou hast but served God with thy lips, and thy heart far from him, and thou in the hypocrisy; how hath the form of thy teaching declared itself to be the marks of the false prophets, whose fruits declares itself - by their fruits they are known; how are the wise men turned backward. Read thy days, and take notice with whom thou hast taken part withal that in thy conscience will tell thee (the Ancient of days). This consider: how hath thy zeal appeared to be the blind zeal; a persecutor, which Christ and his apostles gave no such command to his to follow. How hast thou strengthened the hands of the evil doers, & been a praise to them, & not to them that do well; how like a mad man and a blind man didst thou turn thy sword backwards against the saints, against whom there is no law; how wilt thou be gnawed and burned one day when thou feels the flame, & hast the plagues of God poured upon thee, when thou beginnest to gnaw thy tongue for the pain, because of the plague. Thou shalt have thy Reward according to thy work; thou canst not escape; the Lord’s righteous judgments shall find thee out, the witness in thy conscience shall answer it. How hast thou caused the heathen to blaspheme and gone on with the multitude to do evil, & joined hand in hand with the wicked; how is thy latter end worse then thy beginning, that art come with the dog to bite and devour; thou art turned a wolf to devour the Lambs. How hast thou discovered thyself to be a man more fit to be in a place to be nurtured, than to be put in a place to nurture; how was thou exalted & puffed up with pride & now how art thou fallen down with shame, that thou comes to be covered with that which thou stirred up & brought forth. Let not John Sawrey take the words of God in his mouth till he be reformed; let him not take His name in his mouth till he depart from iniquity; let him not make a profession (he and his teacher) of the Saints’ words, except they do intend at the Market Cross to proclaim themselves hypocrites, whose lives show another than the Saints, who is proclaimed there and everywhere; whose Church did make itself manifest to be a cage of unclean birds, that they have the form of godliness, and not the power; who have made them that be in the power their derision, your by-word and your talk at your feasts; & so the unsavour the country about have smelled, & the unchristian carriage; of whom all that fear God have been ashamed, & to them thou hast been a grief. In the day of account thou shalt know it; in the day of condemnation, thou was mounted up; and set thy net on high, but never got higher than the fowls, & now art run with the foxes & fallen into the earth, that earthliness and covetousness hath swallowed thee up, and thy conceitedness would not carry thee through, in whom was found the selfish principle: he hath blinded thy eye and thy back must be bowed down always, thy table is become a snare:/________________ G: F: