was given to him and what was taken from them is a robbing of him and also declareth that such as rob him in those things are accursed Malach. 3. 8 9. But ye will say those that gave these things were idolatrously devoted I answer Thou that abhorrest idols doest thou commit sacriledge Rom. 2. 22. Our Church in the days of King Henry 8. King Edward 6. and Queen Elizabeth took sufficient care for that matter Therefore take heed least ye by running away from idolatry split your selves upon sacriledge and robbing of God but rather do right to God in restoring these things that ye may be blessed The next thing is that ye do right unto all men from the highest to the lowest and that you restore to every one what is his Birth-right and due by the Laws of the Land according to the intention of our worthy predecessours that made them And that ye neither alter nor destroy those Laws they being experimentally found to be the best in all the World for the government of a people according to the word of God Insomuch that before this time Brittain might have been called the glorie of the whole earth for righteousness towards God and man if they had not come short in the execution of the Laws according to the true meaning thereof for the Laws are good though the administratours thereof being corrupted have through bribery many times wrested them and thereby wronged the subjects and it is a notable Character of the beast or Anti-Christ that he shall think to change times and Laws Daniel 7. 25. Therefore it were good that ye would leave off your destroying of our Laws and changing of times 3. The third thing is That ye restore the government of the Church and preserve the Laws and Ordinances thereof as well as of the state according as they were established in the beginning of these troubles And that for the better purging and taking away of all abuses and errours crept in since that time ye advise with such conscientious learned sober and honest Bishops and other Orthodox Clergie and Lawyers as be most able to direct you as from the mouth of God But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees I mean the Presbyterian or Puritanical faction who have brought all this misery upon themselves and us for though they be now so sensible of their errours that many of their Ministers and Ring-leaders do begin to creep toward the Bishops good old way yet it will not be wisdom to trust them least their old Leprosie break out again And now in the name of God Almighty I testifie and affirm unto you that this is the very minde of God and of the most conscientious and judicious men in the Kingdom which here I present unto you to be done for the good and happiness of the Nation Therefore as I said whilst ye stand in the station wherein ye are now I dare not for my part lie so grosly agrinst the truth mine own conscience as to call you a Parliament for I have proved by the Scripture in my book called A voice from Heaven written in the year 1651. That the late Parliament which was rightly called together at first by doing those unreasonable actions which the beast spoken off Rev. 13. was to do according to the Scripture became that beast Now the beast being wounded by a sword and dissolved yet liveth in its acts that ye are the Representative or image of the same beast Rev. 13. 11 12 13 14 15. And what penalty is appointed for any that giveth any Title of Honour Worship or reverence to the beast or to his image is evident Rev. 14. 9. 10. And truely let me tell you mine own infirmities also that it is no small grief unto me that I am confined upon pain of eternal damnation not to give you the Titel and reverence that ye expect from these three Kingdoms for I am confident that some of your intentions and meanings are good though your errours and want of true understanding be very evil so that it is harder for to bring you or such as profess so much knowledge to a right understanding then it is to bring them that never made any profession of religion at all to acknowledge the truth for as the Lord Christ found more true understanding and Faith in Heathens and Publicans then in the self-conceited Pharisical Jews Matth. 21. 31 32. So now those that seems to have nothing of value in them by the judgement of your precisians I finde to be most capable to understand and to believe the saving truth that I now declare for the open prophane through infirmities and weakness of the flesh being right firm in the true principles of Faith are better then those who profess outward holiness with errours in judgement faith yea and are more humble and consequently more capable to receive the truth Luke 18. 10 11 12 13 14. But I hope better things of you though I thus speak That notwithstanding the great difference between King Charls and you ye shall finde him to be a Child of God and appointed to be the most eminent servant of Jesus Christ in all the World and that ye will be yet his most glorious subjects to vindicat him from all the aspersions laid upon him and to wound the head of his Enemies and yet Truly Gentlemen if I should believe reports there is small cause for me to stand so much for him for I heard it of a certain that some eminent pretended friends of his who thinks to bear a great sway in this Kingdom have positively said That when he cometh to his Throne he must of necessity put me to death Because say they I laid too much honour upon his Father and did blaspheme therein but I believe they are not able to prove their assertion from scripture against me though they take up the teners of the Pharisee for a man may blaspheme God the King but to joyn God and the King together in one is no blasphemy by Scripture rule but howsoever I shall both do him right not be danted at their ignorant threats for I believe the King shall have such wisdom to rule that all things will not be done as such ignorants would for though they think the revolutions of these times to be nothing but accidental changes yet wiser men who shall then bear rule with the KING when he cometh to his Throne will finde and believe that these revolutions and changes came to pass even to fulfill the words and promises of God which are laid down in Scripture as they are and have been opened and declared by me these twenty years in some measure by Gods assistance and appointment And whereas many say the Kings bloud lies upon this man and that man and that the King cannot pardon such and such a man and that he can never be reconciled to such a party or parties I am sure you that so think or
the late Bishop of Canterbury was the same man for the number of his name as divers affirm that in all businesses which he subscribed he wrote only thus Will Laud And I find the number of this name VVILL LaVD to be 666. for the numeral letters are these and they be the very same that ye have in the other names before DLL 600. LVV 60. VI 6. so that in all they come to 666. But if we take notice of the name of this man of God as it is at large we shall find another mysterie therein For I find the number of this name VVILLIaM LaVD to be 1667. And the numeral letters are these M 1000. DLL 600. LVV 60. VII7 so that in all they come to 1667. and that is the yeer of rest for before it be Anno Dom. 1667. most of the world yea and Rome it self will acknowledge their error see the truth and submit to William Lauds rule in form of worship doctrine and discipline as the only way to salvation the most decent and agreeable to Gods word being without doubt the true way whereby to worship God long before preordained of God to abide for the direction of men for ever and ever which Rule was given in King Edw. 6. his days preserved and refined in Queen Elizabeth and King James their days sealed and perfected to the glory of Jesus Christ with the blood of his noble mattyrs chiefty of King Charls and Bishop William Laud who as the Scripture saith Heb. 11. 35. would not accept of deliverance when he was offered by the Parliament to go into New England with M. Peters but he chose rather to die that he might obtain a better Resurrection Therefore to conclude I say that the Book of Common Prayer as it was established in the Church of England is the only true way whereby to worship God as I have sufficiently proved by the Scripture in my Book called A Voice from Heaven and in my other Book called An Eccho to that Voice from Heaven written in the yeers 1651. and 1652. And as for your vain jangling God hath not any delight in it 1 Tim. 1. 6. 2 Tim. Titus 3. 9. for the coming neer unto God with the mouth and the worshipping of God according to the Commandments of private men is a vain thing Mat. 15. 5 6 7 8 9. that is when they command that every one may do in the worship of God what seemeth right in his own eyes Judg 17. 5 6. and 21 25. as Israel did when they had no King But the event of such a State was destructive to them as you may read and see Judg. 19. and 30. and 21. But for the Kings Command it is said Eccles. 1. 2. I charge thee to keep the Kings commandment and that in regard of the Oath of God thou hast sworn to obey him Again it s said Prov. 16. 10. A divine sentence is in the lips of the King his mouth erreth not in judgement Thus a true Christian King is endued with an infallible judgement and so is the sentences of K. Charls his mouth To this King the Apostle commands obedience in all things 1 Pet. 2 13 14. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governours as them that are sent by him For the Apostle foresaw by the Scripture Zach. 14. 2. Zeph. 3. 9. That the Lord would hold forth at last a King whose Laws in all things should be right of this you have more at large in my fore mentioned Books for there is no right nor peace to be had but where there is a King of righteousnes and a King of Peace That is when the King Comes in by the right way being the right Heir And though the title King be given by the Scripture somtimes to Usurpers set up by the peoples power and by money which is but a molten Calf God owns them not but calls them their Idols for saith he Hos. 8 4 5 6. They have set up Kings but not by me they have made Princes and I knew it not of their silver and their gold have they made them Idols that they may be cut off Thy Calf O Samaria c. And again saith he Eze. 43. 9. Let them put away their whordoms and the Carcasses of their Kings far from me and of such Kings he speaks Rev. 17 12 13 14 15 16 17. as you shall find it made Cleare at large in the postscript of my book called A Voice from Heaven And of such Kings the Lord saith that they had set their thresholds by his thresholds their post by his post Ezek. 43 8. for the Lord had a post by which his Kings of the seed of David stood 2 Kin. 11. 14. Ezek. 46. 2. according to Gods command it seems the usurping Idolatrous kings set up by the people presum'd to come there as our great Ones presume now to bury their friends in the Royal sepulchers at Westminster where none but the Kings Family was wont to be buried yet certainly their carcasses shall be removed as the Lord hath spoken Eze. 43 7 8 9. But the true King that cometh to judge the wicked ones is called the glory of the God of Israel that is the glory of Jesus Christ for he is the God of Israel And if we compare Scripture with Scripture we shall find it so for you shall fine Ezek. 43 1 2. That the King coming form the Eaâ—t with his Train and Armie is called the glory of the God of Israel and v. 3. he saith it was like the glory that he saw when he came to destroy the Citie That is like Nebachadnezzars coming in the head of his Army to destroy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and v. 5. he saith that the glory of the Lord filled the house v. 6. he tels us that this glory spake to him and it a man saith he the man stood by me and he said unto me c. v. 7 8. he tels you what this glorious king said to make it yet more clear observe v. 4. that this glory came into the house at the east gate And compare it with Eze. 44 1 2 3. and you shall find that the East gate must be shut that none must com in or out by that gate but the king Here M Aspinwall may see that the true Kings set up of God may come to the post and the threshold of that gate as their own place Ezek. 46 2 2 Chron. 23. 13. and that the usurping Kings set up by the people and called their Kings must be put away Ezek 43 9. And though Saul who indeed was the Lords Anointed 1 Sam. 24 6. 1 Sam. 8 4 5. 1 Sam. 12 13. 1 Sam. 13 13 14. yet for that the first moving cause for him was from the people his heart was not real to God Therefore Saul relying so much upon them tâ—â—â—ease the people disobeyed the command of God
receive the King in peace and if it be his blessed will that the Parliament and State would not bring utter ruine upon themselves and upon this distracted Nation Now after I had interpreted this bloudy Vision he was very well satisfied in his spirit and desired me to interpret the other Vision which he had within a quarter of an hour after the former but he said it never troubled him as the other did and I said it shall be also done for it may be there is more of comfort in that then there is of sorrow in this The Interpretation of the second Vision THen said I whereas you saw your self in a Field newly sown with Wheat That signifies that now there shall be a new Kingdom established again here in Brittain more glorious then ever was upon earth Jer. 33. 14 15. Isa. 44. 2 3 4. Psal. 126. 6. Matth. 3. 12. And whereas you saw a companie of milk white Doves upon that Field all in a round ring or circle The Ring or Circle signifies the endless everlasting and everstanding Court that shall be raised and established here again And the companie of milk white Doves signifies the spotless Nobles that have continued faithfull all this time Therefore both they and their seed shall Triumph gloriously in the Court for ever Isa. 66. 22. Psal. 84. 2 10. Psal. 65. 4. Song 2. 14. And whereas you saw one Dove alone in the middle of the Ring or Circle which did shine like the Sun in brightness by that Dove is signified the King who in due time will shine like the Sun over all the earth to answer the expectation of all Nations and fulfill the promise of our Lord Jesus so that Jews and Turks shall then acknowledge Jesus Christ to be the onely Saviour of Souls Psal. 68. 13. Psal. 24. â— 8 9 10. And after I had interpreted his Visions he called for Pen and Ink and wrote them and left them to my disposing but I desired him to get them fairely written and that I would get the Interpretations of them also fairely written and that he should carry them to the Lord General Cromwell and a Petition with them to shew his case and condition telling him that the General was a good man and would perhaps do something for him And then he was inclinable to take my counsel but two dayes after he came again to see me and brought his wife with him I propounded the same motion to him again saying that it was best for him to go with his Visions to the Lord General And he answered me saying That one Mr Wilde as he heard was then and had been a long time prisoner in Newgate for declaring a vision that he had seen and that if his Excellencie should send him to prison upon it both he his wife and children might come to starve by that means But said he I refer it to God and your disgression to publish it in due time according as God shall direct you Then I considered how I had prayed and that God sent the visions to him as a conduit to convey them to me and to answer my prayers and as a Talent for me to give an account off therefore I moved him no more to that purpose And the man presently after being much troubled in minde at his wants and crosses in the world went to Virginia with some friends of his to trie his Fortune there Now the reasons why I look upon these visions as an immediat warning from God to this Nation are these five following 1. Because he was not factious on any side or a seeker after new opinions but was well grounded in the true Christian Faith of the Church of England believing the truth of it and without dispute resting constantly in the same Faith that he was taught in at first and hence I do gather that he was beloved of God who shewed him those Visions 2. Because I saw that he had not a spirit of pride or revenge in him for although he lost all he had in these times for no cause but onely that he was peaceable yet did I never hear him speak a word against the Parliament or any other that had wronged him but contrarily sought for a place under any of them to get anywhere a poor honest living patiently waiting on God without any pride or thoughts of revenge 3. Because that after he had seen the Visions though he said to me that he was never so troubled before yet now had he no rest in his spirit untill he got a satisfactory Interpretation to them from me and then had perfect rest and peace in minde concerning the Visions 4. Because I saw it was the fruit of my prayers to God who since he called me to this his peculiar service never denied me any thing that was needfull for me to know and whereby to warn this Nation Therefore whatsoever others think of these Visions I shall look upon them as certain truths consonant to the Scriptures which suddenly will come to pass 5. Because that from the time I had these Visions thus left with me unto this present it hath been a great burthen to my spirit so that I finde it impossible for me to keep them in silence and have rest And although I had rather be a Jonah then a Jeremy in pronouncing of judgement and that England might become a Ninive and not a Jewry in matter of repentance Jonah 3. 4 10. Jer. 25. 8. Jer. 39. yet Gods decree must stand Isa. 46. 9 10 11 12 13. and the stout harted shall bow down to it ye stand upon your sword saith God And I will call for a sword against it throughout my mountains saith the Lord God every mans sword shall be against his brother Ezek. 33. 16. Ezek. 38. 21. Amos 5. 6. That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword Ezek. 21. 5. Therefore be thou instructed Oh Jerusalem lest my Soul depart from thee lest I make thee desolate a Land not inhabited Jer. 6. 8. Now I have given you an account of these Visions to the intent that God might be glorified you profitted and my self eased of my burthen I shall endeavour to inform you further of what I see and discern in Scripture concerning this Nation but I shall direct my speech chiefly to those Gentlemen of the Representative now at West-minster and then to the rest of this Kingdom beseeching all of them to consider what I have said in my former books the one called A voice from heaven and the other An Eccho unto that voice and take special notice of the dates of those books and likewise how those sayings are come to pass since they were published and lay them to heart seriously and then consider that if I keep a clear conscience I must declare the truth Admonitions to all the People of this Kingdom but chiefly to those that have the power in their hands By ARISE EVANS MEn and brethren I beseech
THE BLOUDY VISION OF JOHN FARLY Interpreted by ARISE EVANS With Another VISION signifying peace and happiness Both which Shew remarkable alterations speedily to come to pass here in England Also A Refutation of a Pamphlet lately published by one Aspinwall called a Brief discripton of the fifth Monarchy Shewing That the late Parliament was that Beast mentioned Rev. 13. that this Representative is the Image thereof and that the fifth Monarchy will shortly be established in the Person of CHARLS STEVVART Printed in the Year 1653. THE PREFACE WHen the Lord sent Moses to the Children of Israel which were in Egypt he gave him two signs to shew before them that they might believe told him that if they would neither believe the voice of the first sign nor the voice of the latter sign then that he should take water out of the River and pour it upon the dry land and it should become bloud Exod. 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Beloved friends I have written two books sent them forth in print as two signs to the English Nation and those in power do take no warning by them And now also this book is going forth to shew that the water of their River must be turned into bloud I said in my Petition to the General dated the 16. of the last May that I would not willingly turn water into bloud nor publish that bloudy Vision mentioned in the aforesaid Petition which signifieth that we must have a bloudy War again and that Right must have Right though thereby all must be turned upside down again But now it must not be as I will I must publish it or have no peace to my Soul the Lyon hath roared who will but fear The Lord God hath spoken who can but Prophesie and publish in the Palaces at Ashdod Amos 3 8 9. 10. 11. the great judgement coming upon it from the Lord of Hosts for the Lord God hath sworn by his holiness That lo the days shall come upon you that he will take you away with hooks and your posterity with fish hooks Amos 4. 2. Then will you say Oh that we had believed ARISE EVANS and taken advise by his Books and Petition as many of the Kings party now mourn and tell me the very words that I told them 19. years ago blaming themselves for that they had no more regard unto the words then spoken by me which now they found to be true by wofull experience yea and some of your late Parliament men expressing their grief now do wish that they had considered my words and been perswaded by me but alas too late repentance is nothiug worth but like that of Esau and Judas onely brings despair Heb. 12. 16 17. Matt. 27. 3 4 5. for as the Tree falleth so it lieth Eccles. 11. 3. Therefore while the AX is laid to the Root of the Tree it is the best time to save it Matth. 3. 8 9 10. so before the judgement over take men it is the best time for men to do righteously and thereby escape the wrath to come Good Reader I hope I shall be clear from the bloud of this generation and leave them altogether in excuseable for why they have had more warning from me then ever any had that I was sent to speak unto for when I spake to the King and his party If they had asked me whether I had spoken any thing by way of Prophesie before that time Surely I could have said nothing to it then which might have been any ways sufficient to convince them because that I had not before that time been sent of God to any for to declare such things But now it is evident how I was called of God and sent to them and upon their neglect was sent to the Earl of Essex and after that to the Presbyterians and then to the late Parliament God confirming my words with as many signs as was required of me and also fulfilling the same always in their due seasons So that if this people now shall likewise refuse to hear me who have had so many witnesses to shew that God is pleased to declare his determinate will by me they of all others will be the least excusable for disposing me and so the least capable of mercy For have they not known how God by me declared the most remarkable things that befell these Kingdoms since the Wars began How that 20. years ago I declared the things which befell the late King and that I suffered 3. years imprisonment for the same How I declared to the Earl of Essex 7. years before he was General that he should be the peoples General against the late King Have they not known how that in the year 1646. I declared the downfall of the Presbyterians and suffered two moneths imprisonment for that also How I declared in the year 1651. That the Kings Son would come to England long before he came to Worcester his succes likewise How I declared to the late Parliament many times that they should be destroyed long before their dissolution And have I not declared to them in the last moneth of May that King Charles will come in victoriously this year 1653. and had they not a sign to confirm it according to their own chusing and desire Which sign was that if it did rain more or less 7. Sundays then next following successively they would believe my words And did it not rain accordingly for seven Sundays together as many thousands who observed it can witness although it was in the very drought of Summer and that there was scarce any rain all the other week dayes besides Also many other signs were given by me to several persons divers times in several places to confirm the truth of those things therefore to God be the glorie of all Neither was there any remarkable ingagement of late days either by Sea or Land since the people began to inquire of me but God was pleased to reveal by me the event thereof Surely if these men were either faithfull or sensible they might see the minde and will of God by these things but they are dead Ephes. 2. 1. They will not see Isai 26. 11. Isai 42. 18. 19. 20. But still say unto me Job 21. 14. depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways And now as concerning you ye murmuring people that meet every Munday in Black-Friers Church ye fast ye pray ye preach and complain that God doth not hear your prayers and ye crie to God that he would send the spirit of Prophesie by some one or other to let you understand the things to come yet ye cannot see them now when God sheweth you all these things by me his poor Messenger which are made known unto you by thos truths in my aforesaid books called the Voice and the Eccho and as in the last of them I said to the late Parliament about a moneth before they were dissolved that
their prayers were answered of God by those my books and that if they did not believe what I said and do the same speedily that God would send them strong delusions and bring sudden destruction upon them Isa. 65. 12 24. Isa. 66. 3. 4. 2 Thes. 2. 10 11 12. so I say unto you now that if ye will not be answered by the same things of God in my aforesaid Books God will likewise send you strong delusions and bring sudden destruction upon you for your contempt of his truth in not believing it ye cry against the late Parl. because they cheated the people of their monies and blame also these men now of Westminster as you call them for treading their steps and not calling the other to an account for all the injustice they did alas do ye think that these or the like men will ever call them to an account Nay we must think these will rather be more chargeable to the people then they were For do ye think that such mean men raised to such high places who not having means of their own sufficiently to maintain their greatness will not have it out from the people over whom they have now the power and command And will they not raise their children friends and relations to all places of profit Truly it were a shame for them if they did it not and I am confident that if ye were in their place ye would do no less although the Countrey should still suffer by it yea and its like to suffer untill the King Nobles and Gentry of England injoy their rights again for they having great revenues of their own by which they are able to bear such places of Authority and govern the people at their own proper charges Therefore I say unto you if ye would have men in places of lawfull Authority that are not self-ended and covetous why do not ye bend the strength of your prayers for CHARLS your right King and his party that they may enjoy their rights again And then ye may be sure that he will call your late Parliament to an exact account for all those monies ye speak off and ease the people of their heavy taxations and doubtless ye shall prevail with God in prayer for him and have all your desires accomplished I beseech you to consider the difference between this State-Government and a Monarchy Queen Elizabeth had Wars with Spain and Wars in Ireland and also assisted Holland all which was done with her own revenues and without any Taxations from the subjects but now where are the Crown Lands What 's become of the Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands and Delinquents Estates and many other things that are gone I know not where And do ye think that the people are ever like to be eased from the abundance of Assessments and Taxes whilest the great revenues belonging to the Crown are gone which saved the people from such heavy and continual Taxes and by which large revenues Queen Elizabeth did such great things and yet left behinde her abundance of Treasures So that you may clearly see that there was a great part of the Kingdome juggled away from the Nation by the late Parliament when the new State was set up because what was the Kings was theirs for the saving of their own goods bearing their charges and so was the Church-Lands also appointed to ease the people that they should be free from being at charge to pay those that were the Chief rulers of the Church and took care for their Souls And now if ye would have God to hear you why do not ye hear him by doing justly to the King and Kingdom that righteousness may run down as a River Amos 5. 21 22 23 24. or else all your seeking of the Lord will be in vain for if ye will still have your prayers granted according to your own sense and will that is for you to prevail kill and slay all that will not submit to you then the Lord will shew your folly to all the World And do not you boast as some of you do that ye have had the Spirit of Prophesie these seven years that your Armies over-coming their Enemies is the fruit of your prayers Alas it is but your pride for it was Gods decree to deliver his people into your hands for a time to punish them for their sins and he revealed it unto me 20 years ago that your party should prevail as they have done and then come to a miserable end as I have declared Thus ye may see that it is not your spirit of Prophesie which you deceiving your selves do imagine to have nor yet is it the fruit of your prayers that hath done it for if ye had never opened your mouthes such things had come to pass you shall see within a short time that God will deliver you into the hands of his people to be utterly destroyed and all your Prophesying and praying shall not deliver you in that day Then leave off sacrificing to your Calf for it is no more then if the Egyptians should have sacrificed to their false gods for giving them power to overcome the Israelites and keep them in bondage but God had shewed to Abraham long before that his seed should serve the Egyptians Gen. 15. 13. 14. and when the time of the Israels deliyerance came then neither the Egyptians nor all their gods could keep them one day longer Exodus 12. 40. 41. so likewise the Babilonians might have gloried as you do and attributed their success to their own parts or to the power of their gods when they had overcome Israel but they were more modest then so And knew very well that they could not detain them any longer then God had decreed whereby you see that they in the very nick of Gods time set down by the Prophet Jeremiah 2 Chron. 36. 21 22 23 Ezra 1. Did send them home and restore all which was theirs to them aagain Here I have taken an occasion by the way to speak a word also to Mr. Feake Mr. Simpson and others of their party meeting in Black-Friers not doubting but when God shall arrest them saying 1 Kings 21. 19. hast thou kild and taken possession in that place where King Charls and his people lost their bloud in that very place shall thy bloud be spilt even thine and set their bloudy deeds to Cry unto their Consciences saying we are thine we will not leave thee untill thy Judgment come then their courrage will be abated and they shall know that they are not for the Interest of Jesus Christ as they falsly affirm But are for the Interest of the Devil who was 2 murtherer from the beginning John 8. 44. 1 John 3. 8. and when Nathans Ridle is opened unto others saying thou art the man 2 Sam. 12. 7. 14. For thou hast given great occasion to the Papist to Blaspheme saying these are the works of such as would be altogether Ruled by the