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A39244	Christian information concerning these last times wherein all people may clearly see what prophesies the Holy Prophets prophesied of should come to pass, which of them is fulfilling and which is fulfilled, and how the lowest part of the great image that Daniel shewed to the King is now a breaking to pouder, and by whom, whereby people may see how very-near Antichrist or the great whore of Babylon is to her end : also some prophetical passages gathered out of Jacob Behme's works, who prophesied and gave them forth in the year 1623, concerning what should come to pass in these northern islands ... / wrinten [sic] in the fifth month by F.E.	F. E. (Francis Ellington)	1664 (1664)	Wing E541; ESTC R27165	13,188	17

were so much in love with her that they joyned with her and committed Fornication freely with her and the Merchants of the earth waxed rich of the abundance of her pleasures but now the dayes of her mourning is come and coming upon her and the dark night of Apostacy in which she hath drunk the blood of the Saints is near come to an end And the tydings out of the East and out of the North doth now sore trouble her and what the Lord spake through that Faithful Servant of his Jacob Behme in the Year 1623. is now near to be fulfilled as may be read in his Book entituled A Christian Information concerning the Last Times wherein he saith The Oriental Beast getteth an Humane heart and face viz. that is The Turk shall turn a true Christian but before this comes to pass while he is a beast he shall help to tear down the Tower of Babel with his Claws for this end hath the Lord raised him that so the tydings out of the East should trouble Babel And likewise the tydings out of the North doth at this day mightily trouble the Inhabitants of Babel to hear that the Lord hath raised his Seed in the North Countrey and now they bestir themselves and they would have them driven out of this North Countrey by all means and if ever they shall return again within seven years then they must die without benefit of their Clergie It seems the Clergie will neither save their lives nor have pitty of them nor pray for them O hard-hearted Generation of Clergy men will you not pray for Enemies nor have pitty on them but give the Lambs of Christ if they come amongst you up to the slaughter Are you like unto Christ who came not to destroy mens lives but to save mens lives Though you have Horns like the Lamb yet you speak like the Dragon and you appear to be Wolves in Sheeps skins that are thus minded But hear further what this German Author said further he said In the darkness of the North ariseth a Sun which taketh its Light from the sensualish properties of the Nature of all Beings from the former expressed Word and this is a Wonder at which all Nations rejoyce This is fulfilled in this Nation Also he saith An Eagle viz. the Emperor of Germany hath hatched young Lyons in his Nest and brought them Prey till they have grown great hoping that they would again bring their Prey to him but they have forgotten that and taken the Eagles Nest and pluck off his Feathers and in unfaithfulness bit off his Claws so that he can fetch no more Prey though he should starve for hunger Also he saith concerning the Turk That he should very easily come to the Rhine stream which now the Turk at this time is near being a River that runs through the heart of Germany where saith he then the great overthrow of the Children of Babilon may come to pass where two great Rods shall appear the one by War the other by Mortality in which Babel shall be ruined saith the Spirit of the Lord in all those who have prophesied before us Further he saith A Lilly blossometh to you ye Northern Countries if you destroy it not with the Sectarian contention of the Learned then it will become a great Tree among you but if you shall rather contend then to know the True God then the Ray passeth by and hiteth only some and then afterwards you shall be forced to draw water for the thirst of your Souls among strange Nations And as it was prophesied of by this Prophet of the Lord so the Lord hath brought it to pass and the Lilly is blossomed in this Island and the Sectarian Contention of the Learned have done what they can to overthrow this Lilly as witness of the publick Teachers in these Nations that have Writ and Printed against the Lilly as is to be seen in the Book put forth by George Fox and Intituled The great Mystery of the Whore unfolded wherein 197. of the publick Teachers are confuted and their Errors condemned and their mouths stopped to their shame for ever and so the Lilly is become a great Tree in this Nation Praises to the Lord for ever And for all you who do not witness the Lilly brought forth in you but are ready to ask what this Lilly is the Author tells you in his Book what it is and how you may know it The Lilly saith he will not be found in strife or Wars but in a friendly humble loving Spirit together with good sound Reason this will dispel and drive away the smoak of the Devil and flourish in its tim● to the overthrowing of Babel and the building up of Zion Also in his book he saith That the Turks after they have tared down the Tower of Babel as a Beast with their claws and given those People and Nations Blood to drink that have drunk the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus then they shall saith he come in with great joy and great humility unto Abraham viz. that is to say unto Christ And he saith They shall not come in in the form of the Babylonical formal litteral Christendom in their invented and contrived Orders which are only verbal outside Christians so that a Testimony and some outward footsteps of Christ and his Kingdom have still continued upon the Earth but they shall be born in spirit and power for they are the lost Son that is wandred away from the Father and is become the Swineherd But when the Angel shall bid them return they come in the humility of the lost Son returning to the Father where then the great Joy shall be kept by Christ and his Angels that the dead is made alive and the lost is again found and the true golden Jubal year of the marriage of the Lamb ariseth up among them And albeit Christendom the Elder Brother who hath continued in the Letter doth grumble at it in respect of the different form that he hath made to himself for the most part for his belly and honour yet they are not moved at it they are merry with the Father And they are the two Sons to one whereof the Father said Go and do this and he said Yea but did it not and to the other Son which is the Turk Do this and he said No but did it which doth so highly advance and magnifie the Turks in the Kingdom of Nature which the blind Christian World doth not understand and though Christendom calls them by the name of Infidels and Unbelievers yet saith he they are both alike while the one lives like the other And as it is written Gal. 4.29 He that is born after the flesh persecutes him that is born after the spirit So all Persecutors may see what stock they proceed from the bond woman who must be cast out and the time draws very near for he who ever he be that persecutes his brother is in Cains way

Christian Information Concerning these Last times Wherein all people may clearly see what Prophesies the holy Prophets prophesied of should come to pass which of them is fulfilling and which is fulfilled and how the lowest part of the great Image that Daniel shewed to the King is now a breaking to ponder and by whom whereby People may see how very-near Antichrist or the great Whore of Babylon is to her End Also some prophetical Passages gathered out of Jacob Behme's Works who prophesied and gave them forth in the year 1623. Concerning what should come to pass in these Northern Islands and as he then declared them they are now come to pass and also what he said concerning the Turk what he was what he should do and what should at last become of him Wrinten in the fifth Month by F. E. Here is Wisdom let him that hath Wit count the Number of the Beast for its the number of a Man and his Number is all the numeral Letters in the Roman Alphabet being rightly placed thus MDCLXVI Revel 13.18 LONDON Printed in the Year 1664. Christian INFORMATION concerning these Last Times CHrist Jesus the Light of the World was as you may read Mat. 16. tempted with an hypocritical People who desired that he would shew them a sign from heaven but he answered and said unto them When it is evening ye say fair weather for the skie is red and in the morning the day shall be tempestuous for the skie is red and lowring O ye hypocrites ye can discern the face of the skie and can ye not discern the signs of the times O ye Rulers of this Nation of England and the People thereof can ye as yet discern any more concerning the signs of the times that you now live in then those Hypocrites did in the dayes by-past can ye not at all discern what the Lord hath done and what the Lord is bringing to pass in this your day is not our God working a Work in your day and such a Work as you will not believe though it be declared unto you Nay are not you covered with thick darkness more than any age or generation of men that ever went before you Have not you had the Writings of the holy Prophets and of Christ and his Apostles that have prophesied from the holy Spirit of the Lord and they have left unto you upon record what the Lord would bring to pass in the latter dayes and the Book is sealed unto you yet so that you will not or cannot read what is written therein O all you that profess your selves Christians and say you own that which is written in the holy Scriptures of Truth and yet are found at this day walking and acting clear contrary to that which is written in that which you own and profess both Rulers Priests People will not the words that Christ hath left unto you upon record judge you all at the last day who are found making void his Commands by your Precepts is there not one Lawgiver who is able to save and destroy left you upon record and ought not all mens Laws to be subordinate unto his Law O consider these things for the Lord will suddenly arise against such a People that have destroyed or made void his righteous Law O Nation of England the Land of my Nativity which way shall I take up a Lamentation for thee and how do I mourn for thee to see both Rulers Priests and People setting themselves like so many briers and brambles to prevent and stop the Work of the Lord that he hath decreed shall now be brought to pass in the Earth and though the Scriptures that you say you own declare of such a Work as that the Lord will overthrow Babylon and the Lamb and his Followers shall have the victory over the Dragon and his Followers yet you will not believe but set your selves with all your power against the Lord and against his People abusing and shamefully intreating his faithful Prophets whom he hath raised by his own Power and that in your own borders first to declare unto you his everlasting Gospel that so you might be turned from darkness unto Light and from the power of Satan unto God And also they have as righteous Noah did declared unto you that the Lord would suddenly bring a Deluge upon the world of ungodly men if they did not suddenly repent and turn from their wicked wayes And this Message of the King of Heaven they have faithfully declared through thy Streets Citties and Markets unto all thy Inhabitants as well unto thee O King Charles whom their God hath set upon thy Throne as to the Begger that sits upon the Dunghil and in so doing the Lord's Mercy hath been large unto you all in that he hath faithfully warned you all by his Servants the thing that must suddenly be fulfilled upon you but have you done as the King of Nineveh did with his People or have you at all believed the report of the Lord's Servants but have you not done as those did in Zedekiahs day both Rulers and People Have you not done evil in the sight of the Lord and have not humbled your selues before him 2 Chron. 36. have not all the chief of the Priests and also of the People trespassed wonderfully according to all the Abominations of the Heathen in teaching for Doctrines mens Precepts And hath not the Lord God of your Fathers sent to you by his Messengers whom you in derision call Quakers and they have faithfully declared his Message unto you And have not you mocked the Messengers of the Lord and made a Decree that his Labourers shall no more labour in this his Vineyard and you have despised their words and misused and imprisoned his Prophets whom he hath sent until the Lord's Wrath is risen against you and there will be no remedy and will you who are as Briars and Thorns set your selves in battle-aray against the Lord who is a consuming Fire to all the workers of Iniquity and whose day that is near at hand burns like an oven and all the proud and all that does wickedly shall be as stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hosts and shall leave them neither root nor branch Mal. 4.1 O foolish people consider these things before it be too late and cease to do evil and learn to do well seek Judgement relieve the oppressed judge the Fatherless and defend the Widdows but if you do not these things but on the contrary let your Decree stand that will make many thousands widdows and thousands fatherless the Lord will never reason with you but by his sore Judgements he will overthrow you and none shall be able to help you saith the Lord God For this the Lord hath commanded me to declare unto you and also to his suffering Lambs who suffers under your power at this day that so you may be warned of the evil of your wayes and his

People may be comforted that their day of deliverance draweth very near that so they may stand with boldness this day of great tryal not fearing what man can do unto them for the Lord hath shewed unto me the signs of the time in which we live and those Visions that were for an appointed time shewed unto the Prophets of the Lord Hab. 2.3 do now at last in this our day speak and not lye and though it tarryed yet we have waited for it and they are surely come and must stay no longer Now this I declare not unto you by only reading of the History without me hearing there that such things are to come to pass but I declare of what the Lord hath wrought of his Work within me And who ever judgeth of the times by no other thing than what he finds in the history without him or by what he may attain unto by the stars or by the face of the heavens without h●m such a one can never know the signs of the times but is one with the hypocritical Generation among whom he lives And as the unbelieving Jews who had the Prophesies of Christ's being born among them and the place where he should be born yet when he was born according to the writings they had they would not believe it was he but persecuted him and put him to death And as William Lilly in his Book Monarchy or no Monarchy had a clear sight by what he saw and read without him of the Lord's People that should arise in this Nation what manner of People they should be what they should do how they should Convert People which had been a thing but only talked of and how they should prosper and he not at all witnessing the thing he declared of within him but only what he saw by things without him I say when those people were brought forth according to what he had declared and in every thing agreeable in Life Conversation and Doctrine to what he had given forth yet this man as the unbelieving Jews would not believe when they were come that such were the people he had prophesied of but his Wife who minded the teaching of the Lord within her and giving heed unto that she could say of a truth when those people arose that they were the People of the Lord that her Husband had before declared of Now all dear Friends and People every where you may know that there was a time after Adam and Eve had transgressed the Righteous Law of God that the Lord in his love made a Promise unto them that the Seed of the Woman should break the Serpents head While man lives in sin and transgression this is not witnessed And so according to the Doctrine of the Priests of England who say contrary to the Scripture and Book of Common-Prayer that none shall ever be perfect or freed from committing sin while on this side of the grave and so denies this promise of the Lord in that the Seed of the Woman shall ever break the Serpents head and so would make God a lyar in not performing what he hath promised but this promise through the Lords love many at this day can witness and who witnesseth this their day of deliverance is come After Moses prophesied that the Lord should raise them a Prophet like unto him and him they should hear in all things And this Prophet is come and the Lords People hear him teaching in them and are made willing to be subject unto his Laws and Government And because they do so therefore the Kings of the earth and the Rulers they take counsel against the Lord and against his People and would have them do things contrary to the Law that this great Prophet who is come hath left them upon Record to observe and do and great penalties are laid upon them if they will not break his Righteous Law and if that person must be cut off that will not hear this Prophet what will be the portion of those Rulers that make Decrees and Laws to cause his Righteous Law to be broken and persecute those that keep his Law Consider these things and repent Ezekel 37. The Lord shewed him in a Vision the True Seed of Spiritual Israel which were represented by the dry bones which lay scattered in the open fields and lo he saw them to be very dry and the Lord said unto him Son of Man Can these bones live And the Prophet answered Lord thou knoweth O my dear Friends who lay with me in the open field and who the Lord sent his faithful Servants out of the North Countrey to prophesie upon us dry bones and they did as the Lord commanded them and said unto us Hear the Word of the Lord Thus saith the Lord unto these dry bones Behold I will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live and I will lay sinews upon you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin and put breath into you that ye may live and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So the Lord's Prophets prophesied as he had commanded them and as they prophesied there was a noise and behold there was a shaking or trembling and at that time those that were not of the True Seed of Israel seeing us tremble and quake at the Word of the Lord they in scorn in that Day called us Quakers then as they continued prophesying upon us We dry bones came together bone to his bone This was the beginning of the Lord's Peoples Meetings and therefore we cannot but meet together as many as the Lord shall move to make up a body notwithstanding the Decrees of men would have us meet but to the Number of Four besides the Houshold and so would have us to be a weak and infirm body contrary to what the Lord hath joyned together to make up the body but we cannot say to the eye we have no need of thee nor to the hand we have no need of thee but every Member is to be useful and helpful in his place to the comfort of the body and since we have come to witness this prophesie fulfilled in us in this our day our God hath not only knit our bones together with sinews whereby we are strengthened one by another and his love is shed abroad in our hearts that makes flesh to grow and cover these bones but also he hath put his Spirit of Life into us whereby we come to feel and taste and handle of our God and that makes us live out of the pleasures customs fashions and traditions of this world and this Life that our God hath put into us makes us to stand upon our feet and we are become an exceeding great Army having neither Sword nor Spear but the Spirit of the Living God Now dear Friends many thousands of you you know are come with me hither therefore fear not for we are the people that this prophesie shall very shortly be fulfilled upon notwithstanding