the BOOK and on the day of the first Beast in Nature I beheld the coming forth of the great LYON that stood Rampant in the WHEELS among the forms in Nature and he called to his DAY Come and see And I beheld on the back of the LYON four Wings of a Fowl in which were thirty six thousand Fethers in each Wing and therein were written so many names of Men for the Wings were of Golden Feathers and his Face was towards the WEST VI. But on the coming forth of this first BEAST the Winds were moved and greatly strove on the face of the WATERS which were gathered together in heaps on the great SEAS And in the Night season there broke forth flashes of Lightning and Fire under the Roof of the House wherein I was exercised with the Vision of the WONDERS of God and his Glory which the PEOPLE saw but understood not the Mystery thereof and great fear fell upon them being not usually exercised with things of that Nature but I laid up all these things in my Heart until I came to know the meaning thereof VII And I cryed unto the Lord with a loud Voice What is the Mystery of all these things that I have seen For loe I am become weak and feeble like a little Child and have beheld until nought was remaining in the Heavens but a Sealed Book under the Power of a Strong Angel of God and it hath been taken to the Learned to Read but they said Lo it is Sealed and we cannot read nor open the Book or loose the Seals thereon and also to the hands of the unlearned it hath been communicated and they say We are not learned so that through the power of the Lyon it hath been shut up for a long season that hath caused weeping in the Heavens VIII And through the loosing of the Seals of God from off the Book of Wonders that was taken out of the Angels Hand at the appearance of the Lamb of God that taketh away sin from the WORLD and that was slain from the Foundations thereof that in the Fathers time he might come forth a Witness of the fulfilling of the daily Sacrifice unto God I beheld the Lamb with his seven Horns full of Eyes as the seven Spirits of God that walketh among the seven Golden CANDLESTICKS and are like unto seven Lamps of fire burning which are seven Stars in the Angel of God whose form is like unto the Son of Man and who travelled among the Churches who are saluted in their seven Angels until a second Seal on the Book became loosed in my sight IX And the second Beast with the Face and in the form of a Cherub or Calf called to his day Come and see and I beheld on the EARTH the form of a great BULL and he came at his Liberty and came towards me with Violence breaking over all bonds in his way and though I had by me a Weapon of Defence yet had I not power to use it to that end but was otherwise preserved from hurt of that Wild Beast But as the West Wind was reproved as the Waters were moved on the great SEAS by the striving of the Winds the second Beast roared rearing himself on his hinder Legs whereby he stood upright which was terrible to behold X. And I said unto the Angel of God How long shall this continue Then I beheld the BULL cast into a deep and dark Pit in Nature while the fourth Beast in the forms of Government in the Body of Nature was set to watch over him by the third Beast with the Face of a MAN for as the third Seal on the Book came to be loosed and taken off the third Beast called to his day Come and see And I beheld from the Face of the Heavens wherein a course of Glory in the Sun of the day of the Son of Man was comprehended in the Heart of the Lyon that night which was come into the Body of Nature was dispersed and the power of the Heavens over the forms in Nature were divided into four Parts in the coming forth of the Worlds into manifestation XI Then appeared the form of a little BEAR that arose on the LYONS side and he took three Ribs out of the Lyons side and held those three Ribs in his Mouth for a long season And from the Tail of the little Bear among the Signs in the Heavens the Power of the DRAGON was loosed and appeared among the Forms in Nature who made up his Tail out of a third Part of the Stars in the Heavens which were drawn towards the NORTH XII And I beheld until the LYONS Wings were pluckt from him and he stood on the EARTH like a Man and a Mans HEART was given unto him for out of the EAST came the form of a RAM with two Horns and his pushing was three wayes to wit WEST and NORTH and SOUTH and when he had lifted up the BULL out of the PIT he was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth And in the Heavens was the form of the WOMAN exalted in the Bulls Eye called Oculus Tauri And she had in her Hand a Crown of twelve Stars which was taken from her Head and put on the Head of the Lyon CHAP. II. Describing the Motion of the Wheels in their seven turnings over all that came forth into manifestation in the loosing of the seven Seals on the the Book c. XIII BUT as the fourth Beast called to his day Come and see through the loosing of the fourth Seal on the Book I saw the Face of an EAGLE in the Heavens in whose right Eye the form of the VIRGIN in Nature was exalted among the Forms and the second great light in the Heavens was comprehended in the Breast of a great Bear who had also the four WINGS of a Fowl on his Back And the Winds again strove on the great Seas wherein the WATERS were greatly moved in the coming forth of this fourth Beast XIV And as the MAN prevailed in the Heavens I beheld all consumed which stood under the Power of the Waters and the Name of the third Month was called SIVAN in the Nature of what was produced from the Heavens whence came a Voice from the Heart of the LYON in the fiery Heavens Let the Light shine into the Earth that that which is done may appear and be seen And the form of the Heavens stood divided in a double Relation of that which is comprehended in Day Night wherein the Day in Nature had its two-fold Operation over all forms subjected into being in that State and the Clouds of the Heavens were folded up together wherein I saw the form of the RAM coming down out of the Head of Nature descending the right Arm of the Man in the forms of Nature and there went up towards his Head the form of a HEE GOAT mighty and strong and there was labour in the Heavens for the space of sixty one
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
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
wayes through a fiery Constellation therein inkindled CXXXIV And in one of those Urns were the Names of the twelve Tribes of ISRAEL but in the other was a party-coloured Blank on which was wrote PREROGATIVE to which the ANGEL said This is Israels desire and therefore hath Benjamin had a Prerogative to be higher then his Brethren by the HEAD and his raving up hath been like an evening Wolf while Israel hath sought the Rule and Dominion of other Nations of the Heathens for from the seven Families of FATHERS the Lot resteth on an eighth Head who is discovered by his ANGEL wandring after the lost Asses who have a month to be tamed in the power over which he is set to be their KEEPER CXXXV After whom came the lowing of the OXEN and bleating of the SHEEP in the restraint of Fodder of the KING of Gods Enemies Then said I What must be done Or hath this fault been in one onely that Iniquity should rest on his TRIBE For lo Israel standeth before the ARK enquiring into the MATTER And there was in the hands of the Angel over whom inquirie was made a Signature in one Hand was a CROWN dipt in Blood and in the other Hand a ROD touched with Hony concerning which the Angel bid me chuse wherein I was covetous of both CXXXVI And while my Tongue touched the Hony it was in my Mouth sweet but immediately was the form of the ANGEL divided and there remained other Signatures in each Hand of the form of the living Creature like unto a suite of tryed Armour and Sheet in which was tyed the form of every living Creature under the HEAVENS according to the Corners of the Heavens from whence they were let down bound And as I was trying the ARMOUR finding it cumbersom as that in which I was not accustomed to wage War therefore thought I hastily to cast it off that I might take hold of the Sheet in which were those living Creatures there came a Voice from the Heavens as from the Angel whose form was again united in a Body Thou hast chosen that which will make thee a Wonder in the World CXXXVII And he yet cryed aloud The bitterness of the Miracle is in thy Belly for know thou assuredly thou hast Part and Lot in this Matter And to my astonishment the Body again revived instantly before me and it was made to stand up before my Face And there came a second Voice from the Angel Is it a time to be delighted with sweetness in the midst of Battel Or to feed on Hony while Enemies are on the pursuit And I was afraid I should die and durst not any more ask any Question in this matter But after the Voice from the Heavens became intelligible wherein an Angel of God said Arise from thy slumber thou that art glutted in that which thou hast killed and eaten for therefore is thy Head filled with Wonders CXXXVIII I beheld until the forms of all those living Creatures were again awakened before me and they came forth to make WARR in my way and before me stood the unsealed Book of Wonders which the LAMB of God had taken out of the Hand of the ANGEL for the loosing of the Seals thereon which was like unto that which I had eaten from what was tendered by the ANGEL And while I beheld the Book lifted up unto the Heavens I was mourning in Spirit and said in my Heart Wherefore hath my life been prolonged for such exercise as this For now I am become the scorn of cruel Enemies CXXXIX And I returned to the Angel of him that I had seen divided and who was again united before my Face and found him cloathed in the Armour as one riding forth to a Battel unto whom I said Boast not thy self in putting on and in thy going forth to War as may he that putteth it off and returns a Conqueror for twice hast thou deceived me let therefore my wrong rest on Thee that coverest a WOLF according to the time I have become a stranger to my own FAMILIARS when driven forth as among the BEASTS of Prey CXL My Hair was like unto the Plumes of a FOWL and my Nails like unto the Tallents of a BIRD and because of the Vow on my Head I was as one forlorn for thou hast counted the hours of my mourning and knowest the dayes wherein pleasant Bread came not into my Mouth under which my Spirit was ready to faint but let the Issue be glory to the Highest Turn again therefore my reproach I pray thee that I may know and be assured that thou hast taken notice of the innocency of my SOUL in thy sight and that thy love is yet towards me CXLI And the Angel of God again took me into the Habition of WONDERS where I heard an interpretation of the Mystery of the seven Thunders and he said unto me These have made way for the preparing a ground wherein is revealed what was opened and loosed from the BOOK in the Hand of the Angel and the time is come that nothing hidden shall remain in its secret Chamber but the Seal of God shall be taken off from the Spirit of Wonders and Truth shall have its common recourse in the fellowship that publisheth abroad the sayings and report of Wisdom Therefore prepare thee to write for thy Prayers are come up before the Lord and thou shalt yet PROPHESIE before the Nobles of the Earth and thy sayings shall terrifie Kings and mighty Men as in their appointed season they become fulfilled CXLII And unto the Angels of all Fellowships of People write these things saith the searcher of all Hearts before whom my desire hath been granted and he answereth daily my request revealing the Mystery of all depths concerning the glory of Gods Kingdom and the sum and substance of all Prophecy in Words is transferred to the sensible Reader in a Figure until the substance thereof become fulfilled on a Generation of Men through which it will be made to speak in an Universal Character of good to Nations in the generous Spirit of that love in which many suffer despite CXLIII I know your Thoughts from the greatest to the least and you all are expecting alterations and changes in the Government of Nations and state of publick affairs but believe it truly it will not come in that way you expect it who would gladly see your Enemies destroyed and utterly confounded that you might not hope in vain Alas the Life of Creatures is pretious in Gods Eye and God hath determined no other Judgment to the Wicked then that which remaineth to be the utter Consumption and Destruction of the Spirit of ENMITY in the Man of SIN by which NATIONS are oppressed under his Power whose destruction cometh to be of themselves in chusing that which leadeth and guideth under that which of necessity must fall on the World in a wicked state CXLIV But God is not the Author of all the evil and mischief that is