Remainder | sealed against all corrupt povvers and antichristian spirits; whose appearance is great in England, in both her ministers and magistrates, that notwithstanding their many ingagements, promises and pretences made, that their very end and only intent in all the late warr was to clense England of all popery root and branch, yet the evil ground remaineth: which is cursed, in which the Popes root lodgeth ... which causeth so many fruitlesse trees to grow, which cumber the good ground, and bring forth no fruit to God, but hinder Gods pure plant from growing, which would bring forth good fruit out of the good ground, to the praise, honour, and glory of the Lord God the planter therof. Set forth and published for Gods righteous seed sake, ... also, putting them in minde to take warning by the example of those whome the Lord God hath lately cast out before their faces, as he will doe by them also if they tread their steps. By one who wisheth good will towards all men, ... whose name in the worlds account is, Humphrey Beeland, and scornfully called a Quaker, this 9th day of the 5th month, 1659 |