Certain things as they were revealed before they came to pass are now in love published with some addition concerning the present times / [by] J.R. Raunce, John, 17th cent. 1665 Approx. 10 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A58103 Wing R319 ESTC R29259 11058044 ocm 11058044 46184 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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AS one opprest , so do I write these lines , Of God's great Day , and of these latter times ; In which Gog shall with Magog so combine , That to Armageddon they may incline . Oh Valley of Jehosaphat prepare , In thee the Nations now shall have their share . Who shall contend against God's innocent , God will that Nation and that People rent . With judgments great he will Men's faults correct , That set at nought and scorn his poor Elect. God will his truth and People's cause defend , Against all such as will not yet amend . The Lord Almighty he will shew his Power , His Vengeance on the wicked he will shower : He will cut off the Scoffer and the Proud , The Drunkard , Swearer and the wicked croud . Strange Plagues and Deaths amongst men shall arise , That hate God's servants and his truth despise ; Great signs and wonders God from heaven wil shew , The heavens , earth , seas with marvels great shal flow : The whole Creation shall with wonders then , Preach forth Repentance unto wicked men . The Earth shall Q●ake , the Sun in Light decay ; Th● Moon seem blood , the Stars shall fall away . Men's hearts shall fail at that which they shall see : For from God's wrath no place shall then be free . For God will smite Professors and Prophane , And all that do talk of his name in vain . The high , the low , the rich and poor shall bend , At thole sad woes which God on them will send . What shall I say ! the like hath never been ; God will be known , his Power shall be seen : For Widows cry , the Fatherless make moan , The Husbands weep , and Wives with sorrow groan ; Poor Children , for their Parents , do lament Their Prison-state , and more their banishment : Husbands from Wives , Parents from Children smal , To be undone by sending into thral . Ah woful Nation , where these things shall be , Good Men opprest , but wickedness is free . A Meeting now to worship God in fear , Is that at which Men mock , deride and jeer ; And to confess we meet to worship God , Is that for which we feel the Scorner's Rod : To worship God , to preach , to meet and pray , Is not to be permitted in this day ; And those that meet with a true good intent , Are for that cause expos'd to banishment . Religious worsh●p we may not maintain : From serving God some Men would us restrain . God's wayes and truth are now made burthensome , Who walks therein must into Prison come ; And if God's truth he will not then forsake , NO more but , Goa●er him to Prison take , We 'l make him bow , he is not fit to live , He will not swear , no honour he will give . To fear an Oath , and not to swear at all , To speak the truth , when Judges do us call ; Our yea , our nay , as Christ did us command , For this they will transport us from our Land. Because ( O Christ ) thy Law we dare not break , Our Country , and our Friends we must forsake . My Native Country , over thee I mourn ; Thy case is sad : for thou wilt be forlorn . If thou go'st on , as thou hast now begun , There is no way but thou wilt be undone , For like as Sodom and Gomorrha who , Vext righteous Lot , and would those Angels know , Whom God had sent to lead him safe away , Felt their destruction came without delay . Ev'n so , O Nation , if the righteous shall Forsake thy borders , then shall be thy fall . Thy safety , peace , prosperity and rest , Is for our sakes , whom God hath lov'd and blest . Yea for our sakes , against whom thou art bent ; To drive us from thee into Banishment . The Lord doth love us , and when e're we go , His wrathful vengeance he will on the show : When ye begun your rage on us to vent , Then God this sweeping Plague amongst you sent . Oh let none say , the Plague shall have an end , If that ye would away the Quakers send , And rid the Land of them and all their wayes , Then shall be peace , with good and happy dayes ; No , no , Oh people ! if ye mind it well , These woes were seen , and some thereof did tell , The cause of all is your ungodly state , God's truth ye mock , his goodness ye do hate ; Hard measure ye unto his Servants give , For ye will not at quiet let us live ; But with your Courts , your Prisons and your Lawes Ye pinch and rent us , as with Dragons claws . But that 's not all , of all we are bereft , And in a state of Banishment are left Unto the rage and cruelty of those , Who know not God , and do remain our foes . For these and such like , acted in this kind , God sent this Plague , and first it did you find Near to that place , from whence that good man went , Whom first ye fore'd away in Banishment . And as that work ye since have driven on , The Plague doth still increase your Coasts upon . An if ye will not persecuting cease , God's Plagues shall more and more on you increase ; Your Souls accursed from his Presence shall Be , and by Plagues your Carcasses must fall : Your Name shall rot , your honour shall decay , God from the Earth will take you all away . With fear and dread God will beset you found , His Plague's great terror shall your wits confound He will deprive you of your reason so , Before it 's near you , ye away would go ; But what to do , or where a place to hide , No place ye'l find where ye may safe abide ; But like poor out-casts , that no home do know , Shall from your Houses wander to and fro ; No peace within , nor rest wi●hout shall find , But like to those left comfortless and blind ; Each man shall of his fellow be afraid , And greatly fear that he shall be betray'd Into the hand of some devouring wretch , Who waits death's stroke away his life to fetch . O Plague , like death , none can resist thy will , For thou art sent , and 't is thy work to kill , Off them that shall resist God's mighty pow'r ; Both high and low , this Judgment shall devour . God will chastise , and with his Beesome sweep Away all those , that hate his Law to keep . The stuborn-hearted and the strong shall reel . For those sad woes and Plagues which they shall feel . The scoffing tongue and lying lips shall close , For truth no longer now they shall oppose . The Lord in fury to this Land doth call , What mercy could not do , his Judgments shall , Break People hearts , bow down the haughty mind , Bring tenderness , the Prison-bands unbind , That so the Gospel of glad-tydings may Sound forth God's power in this latter day , To turn all Souls from darkness unto light , That they may fear , and do God's will aright . Awake Oh people , who have tenderness , Trust in the Lord , and do not fear distress ; Obey Christ's light , and it will shew the way How ye must live , that Christ may be your stay . Be strong all ye that do the living know , Let none faint when e're doth come the woe ; But let all wait in the true patient mind , For here true peace and comfort we shall find . Come now dear Friends , who know the living voice , Gird up your minds , and let us all rejoyce ; The Gospel of the Kingdom now shall ring , Great flocks to Christ the sound thereof shall bring ; With open hearts much people shall embrace the Lord's dear Truth , and love his saving Grace . And some , who did not know God's truth , shall now Believe Christ's light , and to God's power bow ; For now it shall be as it was of old , The blood of Martyrs shall increase Christ's fold : The peace of God shall cruelty bow down , Oppression cease , and truth shall have the Crown . O happy they who hold out to the end , In their distress the Lord will comfort send . So bless'd are they who for the truth are spent , Either at home or else by Banishment : Yea happy they who in the Lord shall die ; Whether in bonds or else at liberty . J. R. Printed the 29. of the 5th . Moneth 1665.