of God's Spirit and they were prepared in time that came up in the Hours of the day and dayes of the Month and months of the year into Number and Order wherein the substance of what Nature was ordained to manifest is become measurable and intelligable XXIV For herein is made manifest a Government springing up from the Head and Heart and Womb of Nature through which the Body of Nature was placed in subjection to an unchangeable and everlasting Power of renewing in God whereby I came to discern of those three in Heaven that bear Record to wit the FATHER and Creator of all Spirits and Principles of Nature into being and the WORD through which the Creature was brought into the lovely form of Sonship and the Holy Ghost which is the Power of the Word in the Creature as he is acted in the Will of the Creator and these three are one witness for God in the Heavens as a Sun of that Glory whereby the Creation of God is enlightned CHAP. III. Describing the Forms of Nature as they are wrought up in the the changings of the renewing Power in God XXV AND this was manifest in Terrestrial Bodies through the three that bear Record on EARTH to wit the Spirit of God which first breathed on the WATERS which is a power of all individual Spirits in Natural Bodies formed and the Waters themselves on which it thus breathed and the BLOOD inkindled in the fire of Life through which those Waters do ebb and flow to the Creature that hath the imbodied being of Soul and Spirit And those three also agree in one and are one Witness for God in Terrestrial Bodies wherein the MOON hath prevailed to dignifie her course that turneth Waters into the Blood of the Spirit of Life in that borrowed light wherein she hath exercised her dominion under the Power of Corruption XXVI This therefore did I observe in the Motion of the WHEELS that the ground of their Motion was everlasting whereby that which had not any beginning in the Will and Wisdom of Eternities Power of Existence took being in time and place wherein every thing that was created into Form became conceiveable and comprehensible in the imbodied being of NATURE as it stands thus fallen under the Power of Corruption wherein the Work of God hath been narrowed to the sence of the Creaturely capacity and from the CENTRE in which is an eternal stilness will every man receive his reward according to his WORKS and to what he hath sown in the Body of Nature thus fallen under the tryals of a cross to the Creaturely affection XXVII Though every thing is brought forth in its order which is again to be reduced into its Center as all Powers of Nature come to run their race in what is awakened and come forth in time and place to the judgment of Eternity against all such Powers of Darkness wherein I beheld the EARTH standing in and out of the Waters from whence the Light shined in each principle in which the separation was made between the Darkness which was expelled from the new Created Forms in Nature and driven into its Center wherein the Creation remained groaning under its NIGHT of sorrow as in the fallen Properties that proceeded out of the Womb of Nature in which Self became imbodied in the Creature of God which was and is the cause of the fall and of all degeneration in Spirits and Properties of Nature in those Principles XXVIII And out of this EARTH sprung up all that lay hid under the Power of Corruption thus formed into being in time and place which was a fourth part of the WORLDS in form as its two third parts were separated into the Waters above and under the Firmament resting under the Government of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature over which the Wheels moved their third turn separating between all Creatures that abode in the Region of Air and those that rested on the EARTH and in those Waters under the Firmament who were enlightned by the three Glories of the Father that shined from the Heavens above the Firmament wherein the Worlds stood manifest in their renewed Principles after this third turn of the Wheels XXIX For the Seal of God being on his peculiar Number of faithful Ones though little in the Eye and esteem of the World a Cloud of Darkness remained over the day in which they had glory until the seventh Seal of God was taken off from the Book of Life in which their names were written among the WONDERS of God whereby I beheld each Beast in the Forms of Nature take unto him six Wings in which were six thousand Feathers and six thousand Names of Men on each Wing and on each Beast were thirty six thousand Feathers and names of Men which became a great Army in the Heavens of one hundred forty four thousand names of Men according to the four Wings of what came forth first manifest on the Back of the LYON wherein each Wing of the Army in the Heavens was dispersed to its Quarters on the Earth And the Wheels were moved about in their fourth turn over all Principles in Nature thus come forth into form in its time of Tryal XXX Which was very miraculous to behold that through all this striving and contest in the Heavens not one Fether of those Beasts was diminished though the Wings of the Beasts in those forms of Nature were suffered to be pluckt and were taken from off the Back of those living Creatures on which they sought to rest and settle And after an Angel of the Sun came forth in the Glory of the Son of Man there stood a second Angel of God who daily ministreth at the Altar of God hath power over FIRE and he rode on a WHITE Cloud and I heard a voice from the Heavens the number of Gods chosen are Sealed and they are faithful Witnesses and Followers of the LAMB and I beheld out of the Temple of God Trumpets sounding forth Praises and Hallelujahs to him that Rules and sits on high until the four Angels of God became loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES and stood on the four Corners of the Earth and held the four Corners of the Winds from blowing XXXI But the Earth was exercised with great afflictions and the Waters also and all that lived therein and moved thereon were come under sore Tryals in one third part thereof and the cry was very grievous because of the burning Coals that were taken from the Altar of God and flung on the Earth which caused Tempests therein and from the Heavens proceeded Thunders and Lightnings and great Hail after all motion therein began to cease and that I had beheld a silence in the Heavens for the space of half an hour XXXII For as the WINDS of the Heavens were at rest wherein the Spirit of God ceased to strive any more with his Creature neither suffered the breath of its Almighty Power to blow any more on
Earthly Womb came to be through these Two NATIONS LXIX For by reason of a setled subjection in the ground of Nature from which the Man took being to wit out of the LIMUS of the Earth there had not come forth a Man to till and tear it up until a Second motion from God did work and operate after all his works were finished in the DIURNAL MOTION which became the NIGHT of the FOURTH DAY in Nature or FIRST DAY of God's glory in the Coelestial Body betwixt the Principles whereof a Separation was made which had a great LIGHT to rule its darkening qualities LXX And through the working properties in Nature which had the Annual Motion the preparation of a SECOND separated day in NATURE came up in the Resurrection of Glory in the JUST wherein the partakers of glory in a FIRST Resurrection were planted together in what the SON of MAN wrought up into the World through suffering LXXI And the Motion of Separation in the Turns of the WHEELS came forward until the midst of FIVE DAYES And I numbred the dayes of the continuance of the FIRST MAN that came forth imbodied from the Womb of Eternity to keep and dress the Vineyard wherein he was placed which were 930 days or Two years and Seven MONTHS which work was setled among the forms in NATURE and therein made destinguishable LXXII And I beheld the course of the SUN of the Glory of the Day of the SON of MAN moved FIVE MONTHS backward to bring forward the SEVEN MONTHS under which the BODY of NATURE stood subjected for a change sake in the separation of the THREE PRINCIPLES that became imbodied in the Two NATIONS that strove in the WOMB of NATURE to bring into appearance and manifestation the WORKS of WONDER through which the man traâ—…l all the two YEARS and SEVEN MONTHS under the workings and motions of the power of DEATH CHAP. VII Describing the manner how those seven Nations came forth thus imbodied in FORM. LXXIII AND those SEVEN NATIONS that strove in a Mystery came forth in the Two GENERATIONS that degenerated from the glory of his DAY in which day his Sun was divided after that of ONE the MAN was become TWAIN standing in the midst of that wherein he was brought forth wherein I beheld the course of the Sun of his Day steared through Two WORLDS and the MOON became exalted thereby in the changeability of her way and course by which the Body of Nature was afflicted to the subjecting the Womans will and desire to BODILY PANGS in which was indurance and suffering to the Creature of God And as the ORDER of Nature grew under corruptible courses in the WORLDS the shining of Glory in both WORLDS was a lustre in the frame standing still TEN DEGREES to bring back and recover what was lost in the course of Degeneration LXXV And on the Suns coming into Virgo which is the Virgins Night-house in the BOWELS of GLORY in the HEAVENS of an INWARD WORLD I beheld the form of Two SUNS placed in the Firmament of the Fathers Glory for the ECLIPS of the Sun was very great while this LABOUR continued in the Body of Nature wherein that which was divided from the Man came forth in the midst of the FIFTH MONTH after the Works of God were finished but counting those days wherein the Sun stood at a stay and the five dayes wherein the Virgin in Mans form was slain it was the concluding of five MONTHS under that which moved neither forward nor backward for a day LXXVI And as the forms of NATURE stood thus divided and separated I beheld the Woman travelling in the Heavens to bring forth into being what became imbodied from the WOMB of NATURE and the Body of Nature came under SUFFERINGS by the twain with whom she was in labour in the production of which the one came forty five dayes before and the other forty five dayes after her forty weeks under which the course of Nature was subjected LXXVII And for SEVENTY DAYES did the Moon prevail again in the Womans labour for strength towards a Second Birth which was thirty dayes after the Sun had recovered strength in the course under which the WORLDS were subjected in the frame of all forms in Nature for it was the expiration of the FIRST YEAR and FORTY DAYES after the Woman again conceived a MAN whose glory came forth in the SECOND YEARS WORK LXXVIII But in the conclusion of labour to the Creature In the first year the Body of Nature stood divided in the Creaturely Form wherein I came to the Sight of the Mystery of what stood unrevealed to the World under Characters of Blood the wonderful frame of the Works of God in the Book of Life wherein he is well pleased was thereby written in the sealed Testimony of the Spirit of Prophecy committed to the Hand of the Angel of Strength And the course of the Sun wrought in a MYSTERY of distance from the MOON in the changeability of what it effects over the Body of NATURE LXXIX But the exaltation of Beauty in the lustre of what the Creature was Planted in according to the Seed of its Birth was a moveability in its GLORY towards the Head of NATURE which broke forth in the Head and Face of a RAM for after the Seal of God on the day of the FOUR BEASTS in NATURE came to be taken off the Book of Life in which sence stood manifest the virtue of the Wonderful and Miraculous frame of his Spirits working in its various dispensations yet the destroying power of the four Angels that stood on the four corners of the Earth was bound in the great River EUPHRATES until their Year Month Day and Hour came to be revealed to the Glory of a Wonder-working-God LXXX And on the tenth day of the first Month of the second Year the Sun came up again in his course and entered the first Point of ARIES and as the Woman also recovered her strength she was delivered of that for which she traveled on the second day of the second Month as the Moon was entring her House of Exaltation for that which she laboured to bringing forth was five Nations which stood separate among the forms in Nature in the second years Revolution which was thirty dayes onward in the year and from the ground of destruction to the first FORM in the Woman was Seventy dayes it being effected Forty dayes before the Revolution of the first Years LXXXI This was a fifth Man in his Nation come forth into Form in the Creaturely being And on the first Day of the fourth Month the Woman was again delivered of a SIXTH MAN formed in his Nation in the Creaturely being as the Sun came towards Cancer the Breast of Nature in which the Moon stood exalted nine degrees in Taurus before the Sun entred the first point of Cancer in which the Sun was greatly Eclipsed LXXXII But the last day of the ninth Month the Woman was delivered
Corruption was acted in and under the POWER of both Good and Evil while the World continued in that State wherein was Winter and Summer and Seed-time and Harvest But in the State under which the Worlds were FALN and under which all Principles in Nature were subjected in the Dominion of the BEAST over mankind thus degenerated from the Image in which he was planted there remained a Second WO on the Creature who being found flying away fled on and from the Sabbath Day and Rest of God through that which sought to avoid afflictions and shunned to keep in the Way wherein a sence of sufferings grew on that which was come on the Body of Nature CXXV And a THIRD WOE remained on the WOMAN that was with Child and upon her that was giving SUCK though the time had been wherein the SHEPHERD carried his Lambs in his Arms and gently drove those that were with young until he became SMITTEN for the sake of his Flock from whom he durst not fly in the Winter or because of the WOLF and through the Life which he laid down for his SHEEP prevailed with the Father against that which had hindred the Creature from its entring into the REST of God whereby a DART was struck through his SOUL that every Man might be driven to his OWN and that the thoughts and secrets of many HEARTS might be REVEALED for he could not draw back in a time of DANGER but indured the contradiction of sinners CXXVI And as I came to behold a strong ANGEL of God with a Sealed Book in his Hand he placed one Foot on the Earth and the other on the Waters and stood on both between the Banks of HIDDEKEL and the great River EUPHRATES and he lifted up the little Book unto the Heavens and went backward to the parting of the great SEAS where were two great PROPHETS cloathed in Sackcloth whose Prophecy was one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes a TESTIMONY of what remained under suffering to the preparing the way of the JUST that the Son of Man might come to inherit the Glory of his Temple and unseal the Mysteries of the Lambs Power in opening the Book of Wonders written in the Heavens while I beheld the prevailing of the Waters until a third part of the EARTH was covered thereby CXXVII In which time the WATERS were decreased from off the Earth and the Angel of God gave me a Reed of a measuring Line to measure the Waters and the Earth over which they prevailed in the World and I measured the Waters at the highest ten Cubits over the Earth and five Cubits under the Earth in the circumference of which a Man might Swim as in a great RIVER And from the Heavens as all forms in Nature were multiplyed I beheld on the great Seas until there appeared the number of seventy Vessels sayling over the same in the front they were seven and in each row ten and in the midst of the six stood that seventh Vessel which was the first into which was gathered the Patterns of all forms in the Heavens where the Creation of God did multiply CXXVIII And the VESSELS that I saw were born up above the rage and fury of the WATERS from whence the out-spread Firmament was inlarged in the Air seven Cubits upward and ten Cubits from the Waters downwards to the Earth on which it centered which was sventeen Cubits to the Head of the Image which I beheld that stood before the seventh Vessel which was in the midst of the six in the front of the seventy And behind the Vessel was the form of a DOVE with golden Wings stretched abroad in the Airy Firmament and the Image glistered like the Sun and had the tincture of fine Gold where the property of the Heavens beautified the Feathers that took form in Nature on the living Creature CXXIX And from the face of the Waters as they prevailed over the Earth was fifteen Cubits to the Center of the Earth in its sinking state and it was two and twenty Cubits in the circumference of the height wherein the WATERS prevailed for the space of these five months that they covered the Face of the EARTH after which I beheld them divided into four HEADS as they came to be dispersed by an East-Wind which compasseth about the whole EARTH in its divided QUARTERS CXXX And as the Vessels thereon became eased and delivered of their Burthen in that which fell under the Power of Corruption in the contrariety of all Elemental Properties imbodied in the Forms of Creation wherein I beheld the perishing of the first WORLDS glory in natural MAN through that faln state the Heavens also were discharged of Labour and Travel under which the BODY of NATURE suffered in those forms wherein that which caused the Sun to go back ten Degrees became manifest among those forms in Nature through the corruptible Ground CXXXI And in the separation of the WORLDS over which the Waters that were driven in HEAPS Westward prevailed for the space of their five months the falling back of those WATERS driven by an EAST WIND was North and South wherein the VESSELS arrived in their order place and number but every thing that the Enemy had power over in that Corruptible state perished in the WATERS yet was a SEED preserved through all those Storms and Tempests the strength of which continued a Month and twelve Dayes to replenish the Earth in its renewed state which was five dayes backward to the Months Nones and seven dayes forward in its IDES from the seventeenth day of that seventh month to the twenty fourth day of the Month. CXXXII For from the New of the MOON in that seventh month wherein the Waters brake first forth to the new of the MOON in the eighth month was twenty nine dayes which month called BUL or a BUBLING because of what again sprung up in the WORLD after the falling back of the WATERS under the Power of Corruption through which the Fruits of the EARTH perished was the Month from whence the Heavens began to manifest the multiplyed Forms in Nature under a corruptible State which is MARCHESHUAM in the falling away but in the bubling up of all forms of Nature in the New-created-Being and renewed State of the WORLDS in that same place it is the springs of the WORLD that are refreshing and restorative through the open Fountain of an everlasting good CHAP. XII Describes the manner how those Vessels were discharged of their burden among the created Forms in Nature as also the Four Heads of the River in the dividing of the Waters CXXXIII FRom the Tempests and Storms that I beheld in the increase and prevailing of those WATERS whereby the World was overspread and overwhelmed in its old corruptible State the Heavens were darkned and all forms in Nature remained under a Cloud until each month in the year had finished its COURSE in the Bodily frame through the Revolution and change that is wrought up in
was working to take away your Place And therefore cast out you have and cast out you are which is the ground of your fear but you are not in that Power which can separate any from God and excommunicate such from the injoyment of his presence who have seen the end of Mans dayes Glory though by continuing in the Ground of Hardness you may be in that which may separate your selves from the injoyment of good in that God which you profess XXI But oh ye hard-hearted that have waited for the destruction of the Innocent that for Conscience-sake cannot bow to your Haman-like wills what have you to answer before God in this kind that have caused any to stumble and turn aside through your cruelty I am burdened and grieved hereat saith the LORD and my Soul is weary with waiting to do good to such an unthankful people therefore shall distress come on distress and captivity will follow captivity until ISRAEL come to know her self to be the WOUNDED that is fallen among THIEVES wherein the Priest and Levite have passed by but a poor Samaritan hath proved the good Physician as a healer of the Breach and restorer again of a Path to dwell in XXII For in the coming forth of all forms in Nature I have seen thy state and standing thou poor and distressed People over the face of the whole Earth and though there is a Ground wherein a fourth Beast with the face of an Eagle hath exalted power in the fourth Angel of God that hath stood on the North corner of the Earth in that which hath called to his day Come and see yet a DANITE hath slain the Lion that was found in the way of the Philistines wherein I have seen awakend in all the powers of Nature a sence of such Labourers under the Power of Corruption who have swarmed together unto the dead Carcass until it hath been filled with the sweetness of the Conquest yet lest self should thereby become imboldned a greater glory is raised up in the LYONS day and an Angel of the Sun hath proclaimed the Summons to all Fowls in the Heavens in the Tryal of that which is brought out of the Heavenly Ark. XXIII And from the Heavens is inkindled a fiery Constellation flaming in that which is sunk into the Creaturely perspection from the highest Heavens that causeth a burning discovery of that which dissolves the Excremental properties ingendered as a Star among the Powers of Nature and through a discovery of the Evening Wolf or little Bear who is got before the LYONS Face all shall be effected which pertaineth to the Ministration of Severity in the appearance of Glory by the second Resurrection of what hath slept its time And where the Carcass is thither do the Eagles resort let not Ephraim therefor envy Manasseh though she be not called to go up to Battel against the Midianites for the Gleanings of Ephraim shall be better than have been the green Fruits of Manasseh XXIV Neither ought Israel to quarrel by the way for before God hath effected the glory of the work he hath begun every one that maketh mention of his NAME shall know himself what he hath been in his own strength and there will not need any fierce drivings in the Camp to scatter every one to his own for before Light shall shine out of any Vessel the Pitcher must be broken in which Case it will be Israels safety to take out a Lot from the URN wherein are three hundred bended Instruments before thou aspire to put forth thy Torch for so did Israel of old whom the Father drew through the catching of the Foxes that were tied Tail to Tail that the fire-brands which are between might be the Executioners of Gods fury on his Enemies a great WOLF grew up in their stead as a Constellation in which three hundred STARS are commanded from the little BEARS Tail in the Motion of the Heavens This therefore is the Sentence of the Angel of God to thy Northern Quarters and inhabited Islands of Europe and Asia God hath beheld your state and you must be tryed yet under the SOUTH Wind but the glory of the day will return to the KINGS of the EAST it is done saith the Lord and their work shall end in that which prepares the way before my Face THE SECOND PART CHAP. I. Wherein is described the coming forth of the FOUR BEASTS in the Forms of Nature in the loosing of the Seven Seals from off the Book c. I. NOW that seventh Vessel which had the fourth place among the forms in Nature was that from whence sprung the Glory of the Heavens in the created being whence ASIA took ROOT through what fell in the Earth And as the Worlds became overspread the Waters which compassed about ASIA on the left hand inlarged their course whereby the Land of EUROPE in the same Continent was compassed about on the right hand by the great River EUPHRATES which became manifest in the decrease of the WATERS II. And I beheld on the four Corners of the Earth the appearance of four Angels of God that held the four Corners of the WINDS and they had power to with-hold the Wind from blowing and to smite the Earth with Plague but their Power had been bound down in the great River EUPHRATES until the loosing of the Dragons Power out of the bottomless Pit who had been also bound therein for the space of a thousand years in which the Holy Nations did arise in their Glory and Order and those four Angels were prepared for an hour a day a month and a year III. And from Assyria in whose fall arose the Mede and Persian which are the two Horns of the RAM in Nature the Ishmalite took root in the fall of the Silver Breast of the Image for there was substance in the Neck of Nature in that which descended from its Head wherein the Face of the RAM was seen but the Yoak being cast off the Spirit of God was made to suffer that which rested as a BURDEN on the Shoulders of the imbodied Form the sence of which came downward in his Creature and Creation and entred the Breast of the Created Being IV. For from the Heavens of an inward World descended into the Bodily Frame a pierced HEART and from the multiplyed Forms in Nature there was moving on the Waters the great VESSEL that I saw which rested in the EAST where the Waters first prevailed wherein was the seventh part of all forms in Nature brought forth in that middle Row to replenish the new Created Earth And in the Hand of the Lyon was the Sealed Book and the Seal of God was on his day to wit the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah while the strong Angel of God proclaimed with a loud Voice Who is worthy to open the BOOK and loose the Seals thereon wherein the Wonders of God were written within and without V. And in the opening and loosing of the first Seal on