is above all and over all who was before the World was and hath brought us to reign with him eternally above the World Now here is the Joy and cause of our Rejoycing who have followed the Lamb through great Tribulation and are brought above the Tribulations to dwell in the Presence of the Living God This is Joy unspeakable and full of Glory which shall never have an end Hallelujah to our King for evermore By a Friend Thomas Taylor Watching for Sin WO to you that wake to Sin and watch for Iniquity that spend their Days in Vanity and so bring themselves with Sorrow to the Graves and their Souls to the Pit of Destruction The Trumpet of the Lord is sounding to awaken you to the Judgment of his great Day which burns as an Oven against all the Workers of Iniquity upon the Face of the whole Earth The Apostle saith Awake to Righteousness and Sin not But you that observe these Popish Wakes and Antichristian Revels you awake to Sin and Unrighteousness with the Strength and Delight of your uncircumcised Hearts like the Heathen that know not God The Papists appointed a Feast at the Dedication of their old dead Mass-houses and you their Children who uphold these Wakes bear witness against your selves that you were never yet in heart truly separated from their Idolatries O the Blindness and Deadness of your Teachers that cannot bark against this dead Idol And therefore doth the Lord warn you all to stand up from the Dead that Christ may be your Light to see such wretched and Soul destroying Vanities as these Wakes are that so through Repentance for them you may find Mercy and not perish with them that perish from the right way Rests God's Servant Thomas Taylor A Warning to the NATIONS To Layaside all Prejudice and Enmity The Ground of Strife and Wars And to come and Embrace the Light of Christ Jesus that they may see themselves and come to be Saved and Healed and United in the Love of God THE Indignation of the Lord is upon all Nations and his Fury upon all their Armies he will greatly distress the Inhabitants of the World he will now plead the Cause of his Covenant of Light against all those that withstand his Glorious Appearance and Work of Restoration in this the day of his Mighty Power wherein he is giving the Kingdom of his Everlasting Peace to Israel's Seed under the whole Heavens who fear his Great Name and tremble at his Almighty Word of Life which shakes not only Earth but Heaven also And now is the Lord God Almighty bringing forth his Glory to light and creating the new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwells Righteousness according to his Promise Isa 65.17 c. wherein the People beat their Swords into Plow-shears and their Spears into Pruning-hooks never to learn War any more but every one now that believes in the Truth Christ Jesus the Light and true King of Righteousness and Peace shall sit under him the true Vine and none to make them afraid Isa 2.2 c. And now even now is the Lord God Almighty arisen and got up into his high Throne of Majesty and everlasting Glory to Reign and of this his Peaceable Kingdom which he hath begun to set up in his Trembling People there never shall be End The true Israel of God is now coming up out of the Spiritual Egypt indeed to possess the true Land of Promise the Inheritance and Free Gift of our God and no Inchantment shall now stand against God's Spiritual Host nor Divination against the Redeemed of the Lord who have known his Wonders in the Deep and known the Out-goings of God's Power against Pharaoh and all his Host in the Red Sea of his Fiery Indignation And now will God be exalted in Judgment and avenged in Righteousness upon all Nations and People under Heaven who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness and will not that God's Holy Son Christ Jesus the Light should reign though he be come to Reign and Judge in the Earth For to him the Light who lighteth every Man that cometh into the World is all Power in Heaven and Earth given And his Light shines freely into all your Hearts O all People of the Earth and shineth in the thickest Darkness to make manifest the Creator's Will to all your Consciences though your Darkness O People comprehends it not but it comprehends you and all your dark Ways and destroying Phoughts and lets you see plainly That for all your great Workings and toilsom Labour in an Out-side Profession in your Earthly Wills you have wrought no Deliverance in the Earth but your Souls Enemies still stand in strength And it lets you see that for all your Striving and Fighting and Killing and Spoiling and Destroying one another about Earthly Things you have done no good at all but brought God's Judgments upon all your Souls and pierced your selves through with many Sorrows And therefore the Heavenly Voice sounds through the Earth and calls aloud in your Ears and knocks at the Door of your Hearts O all People of the World High and Low Professor and Prophane Jews and Gentiles Christians so called and Turks Arise Arise Awake Awake turn in your Minds to the pure Light of Jesus Christ the Judge of Quick and Dead the Son of the eternal God Creator of Heaven and Earth who died for your Sins and rose again to give you a New Holy and Everlasting Life in himself through Faith in his Name And behold he lives for evermore And all see and search diligently in your selves what you know of his Holy Life made manifest in you to destroy the Body of Sin and Death in you which in the days of Darkness hath filled your Vessel and brought your very Soul Mind and Heart into the Thraldom of that Wicked One who is called the Devil and Satan and compassed with Terrors and Fears and Affrightments your very Life and whole Man because of the Wrath of the Almighty which you by your Sinful and Unrighteous and Unholy and Cruel Doings both against God and your Neighbour have stirred up against you And behold the Earth languisheth because of these things and the Children of Light who are redeemed to God out of these sore Evils and grievous Plagues do mourn for you and bewail your Misery Night and Day as well knowing in the Light of the Lord what your woful End will be if these Bryars and Thorns and noisom Weeds the proper Fruits of the Curse be still suffered to grow in you and cumber God's Ground Oh! how nigh unto Cursing is that Field which God's Rain rains upon and yet brings forth no better Fruit than Killing and Slaying and Spoiling and Cousening and Cheating and Defiling and Oppressing one another besides Lying and Swearing and Cursing and Drunkenness and Pride and Persecution of God's Righteous Seed with all other Abominations of the World against the Holy Light c. Checks and Reproofs of the good Spirit of the
we cannot give over to worship God as he hath taught us seeing to God the Judge of Quick and Dead we must give account and if we could give over our Meetings and Holy Exercises and please God we should certainly do it for God's Fear and Love is in our Hearts but seeing it is God's Good Will and Holy Command that we should assemble our selves together as we do to edifie one another in our most Holy Faith and so to hold forth God's Truth as we have received it before all Why should the King or the Parliament or any of his Counsellors think much that we should obey God rather than Man in this matter Wherein we can with Safety of our Conscience to Christ we do obey you but wherein we cannot is it not your Wisdom to bear with us as your selves in the like case would be done by And so fulfil the Royal Law indeed which saith As you would that Men should do unto you even so do unto them And this is a Law worthy a King to meditate in night and day and not to follow the Counsel that is contrary And this is a Foundation which all Parliaments and Councils ought to build upon or otherwise how is it possible their House should continue for from the height of Heaven hath the Lord beheld the Afflictions and Oppressions and heard the Groans and Cries of the Innocent Sufferers in England this day and will certainly deliver those that wait for him But I would not have the King to be an Object of God's Wrath in that day if possible And therefore in the Name of the Lord God am I thus moved to write unto thee and lay these things before thee desiring that thou maist read them and well weigh them for they are of greatest Concernment And that which rightly made use of tends not only to thy Well-being in this World but also to the Eternal Good of thy Soul Rests God's Servant and thy Soul and the Nations Friend Thomas Taylor To Informers LEt all such in these days as are Informers against the People of God for their Holy Worship and Service to God consider if they have not lost all savour of Good and care of their Souls What became of all such Informers in days past whom the Scriptures make mention of And first let Haman one of the great Informers come into your Mind and consider his Work and End a woful Work did he work against his own Soul in his Informing and Incensing the King Ahasuerus against the Jews because honest hearted Mordecai could not bow to his Pride as the Heathen did and see his End and tremble ye when ye read the History of the Matter as at large you may in the Book of Esther And consider ye in the cool of the Day what became of the Princes mentioned in Daniel who not only in their Wickedness got a Law from the King without cause but also Informed against the Holy Man Daniel for breaking the King's Law which the King never intended against Daniel because he pray'd to God as at other times And read in the History of Daniel where at large you may read it and tremble what a miserable End came upon them Informers who themselves were destroyed in that very Den of Lyons in which they had thought to have seen the end and destruction of honest-hearted Daniel but the Lord did deliver him as he will ever do all them that fear him from the Mouths of all the Lyons And let the dreadful End of those miserable Jews in Jeremiah's Time that Informed against him for speaking the Word of the Lord And in after time of those Jews that Informed against Jesus Christ and his Apostles come into your Minds and affright you at Midnight and terrifie you at Noon-Day for assuredly if you go on with them and be still found with them in their Work of Informing against and Persecuting of the Righteous you must partake of their Plagues as saith God's Truth which never failed in his Servant Thomas Taylor Some Serious Considerations concerning the Priests of the High Places called Churches their Sprinkling Infants Marrying People and Burying their Dead c. 1. IN their Sprinkling they abuse and miserably wrest Scripture to prove their Practice For that Scripture Suffer little Children to come unto me c. speaks not a word of Sprinkling them much less of their Doings and Doctrines about it And for that Scripture Except a Man be born of Water and the Spirit c. it is nothing at all for them neither For it is certain the Spirit of God both can and hath and daily doth Regenerate People without outward Water but the Water without the Spirit never did nor never can Regenerate any and how the Spirit cometh to the Insensible Infants that by their own Confession cannot act Faith or whether it come to them at all in or by this doing of theirs I am sure they cannot tell neither have they any reasonable Ground to say or think it doth seeing there is no Command nor Promise at all in all the Scripture for it upon such their Doings upon such Subjects unless they will say with the gross Papists that Grace is conferred upon People ex opere operato viz. by the Priests meer doing about them 2. They commit another great Evil in this Matter in bringing in People to promise that for the little Children which they neither do nor of themselves never can do nay which they have not Faith so much as to believe that ever any can do by any means whilst they are upon the Earth to wit to forsake the Devil and all his Works c. which is manifest by their denial of sinless Perfection since all Sin is the Devil's Work And after the old Popish manner calling them Godfathers and Godmothers so taking God's Name in vain and otherwhile calling them Sureties so taking Christ's Office from him who is the alone Surety Mediator and Advocate between God and Man 3. And Thirdly In their great Blindness and Presumption calling upon the People to give God Thanks with them for that he hath Regenerated as they say the Infant or Infants then under their hands by such doings though as I said they have neither Precept nor Promise for it nor Manifestation from God then upon the Child for their so believing and concluding And so for their manifold taking God's Name thus in vain and causing you their Followers to do so also how shall they be held Guiltless For saith God I will not hold them Guiltless that take my Name in vain And how can these Priests blame the blind Papists for their foolish Doctrine of washing away Original Sin by their Baby Baptism when they by the like doing proclaim Regeneration and Inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven to such as can neither Exercise Faith nor Repentance in it Tell me whether is greater washing away Original Sin or Regenerating and giving Inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven O what
Thoughts and that such a sorry Service as you offer to him will please so great a Majesty Truly the Lord might justly give you into the hands of those he hath thus delivered you from because of your Sins and because you lay not his Goodness to Heart as a truly thankful People do So whilst you have time prize it and awake out of Sleep and come to the Light of God in you the Soul's Searcher and it will let you see the Truth and Seasonableness of my Words that you may repent of all your Sins and sinful Sacrifices and learn to offer unto God your whole Heart to be disposed of to his Will and Service that by his Power he may purge you and through his Righteous Judgments he may make you clean in Heart for his use who is over all blessed for ever And who is seeking such Holy Worshippers in this day of his Power wherein he is arisen to purge the Earth with his fiery flaming Word and to slay the wicked with the Sword of his Mouth Thomas Taylor To the Sons of Vanity YE Sons of Vanity whose Exercise and Delight is not all in God and Goodness but in Sin and Vanity to the darkning and separating of your Souls from that blessed Peace which the Saints in Light enjoy with the Lord God O the miserable Desolations that Sin in this Night of Apostacy hath made in the Earth yet Glory to God though the Egyptians sit in the grossest Darkness yet the Children of Israel who fear the Lord and work Righteousness have Light in all their Dwellings And in that Light they stand Witnesses for God continually against all vain Inventions and cruel Sports of Men of corrupt Minds whom God will Judge and severely Punish in his Judgment-Day O consider this ye Cock-Fighters Bull-Baiters and all that forget God for the Judgment hastens and who shall stand in the Gap for wilful Transgressors What did ye seem to humble your selves lately in a Publick Fast for your Sins and are you so quickly turned again to the Vomit of your old Vanities How should the Lord but smite the Land for these things From a Servant of God these Thomas Taylor Who they are that only Rejoyce in the Birth of Christ NOne can rightly Rejoyce in the Birth of Christ but the Spiritual New-Born in Christ Those that think to please Christ with Eating and Drinking and Sporting and Playing are Garnally-minded and the Carnal Mind cannot please God Rom. 8.6 7 8. so it s manifest that the Service and Kingdom of God stands not in Meats and Drinks and foolish and worldly Delights but in Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 For Meats for the Belly and the Belly for Meats but God will destroy both it and them saith the Apostle But God will never destroy such as Serve and Worship him in Spirit and Truth all the days of their new and redeemed Life and so it is manifest the more Spiritual that any one is the more are they dead and separated from that foolish Mind and vain Customs that the evil World loves and lives in And on the contrary those that make most Provision for Flesh to satisfie it in the Lusts thereof let the time be what it may are the greâ—test Enemies to Christ and their own Souls So let things be well weighed and considered and it will appear to the open Eve that God is not more dishonoured in any Twelve Days of the Year than in these that People pretend most to Honour him in which to a Godly Heart cannot but be matter of great Sorrow as saith the Apostle Phil. 3.18.18 Many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are Enemies to the Cross of Christ Whose end is Destruction whose God is their Belly and whose Glory is in their Shame who mind earthly things And this is the miserable and woful Condition of too great a part of the People that in these days bear the Name of Christians over whom the Spirit Mourns Thomas Taylor A Testimony against Persecution to King Charles the Second and his Magistrates THough our Sufferings be little accounted of in the Eyes of those that Afflict us yet be assured they are seen to be great and many in the Eyes of God our Heavenly Father for whose Name and Truths sake we suffer and for this are his Judgments begun to be poured out upon the Land for though the People of the Land of all sorts be guilty of many other Crying Sins yet this one Sin of Persecuting the Righteous for their pure Conscience sake is and always hath been the most Grievous in the Eyes of Jesus Christ whose Glory is mainly concerned in it as one may see by that in Acts 9. where it is said by Jesus from Heaven Saul Saul why persecutest thou me The Jews and Saul thought they had done well so to persecute those Poor Members of Christ in those days because they would not conform to the Ceremonies of their Law and Service but Jesus saw it was done against him in them what was done against them So though many may think they do well in doing thus against us in these days because we cannot conform to your Customs contrary to that of God in our Conscience Yet know assuredly we are justified in the sight of God for what we do and he will assuredly plead our Innocent Cause as he did the Sufferers for Truth in those former Days and it will not be well with the Land so long as these Yokes of Oppression are upon us who desire nothing more than the Peace Welfare and everlasting Good of the King and all People but alas it will not be so long as the Law which should be laid upon the Wicked Drunkards Swearers Unclean Persons and Wasters of God's Creatures upon their Lusts is thus laid upon the Righteous who live Peaceably Righteously and Godly in this present evil World And so you Judges be awakened to true Judgment and Justice and know aright for what both Land and Sea mourneth at this day and let the King also and all People know the same and know that it is for all your Sins and especially for the hard Usage of us the Peaceable and Innocent People of God in Scorn called Quakers for our Pure Conscience-sake and Holy worshipping of our God in Spirit and Truth as the Lord Jesus Christ hath taught us And so till this with the rest be repented of How can the Lord accept you or be for you Yea though Noah Daniel and Job stood before God to intercede for you yet his Heart cannot be for you so long as your many Sins and this grievous Sin before mentioned do remain Yea though you should meet together every day in the Week and call it a Fast and seem in the outward to humble your Souls yet till these Burdens of Sin be removed from off your Souls and the Yokes of Oppression from off
And so the same Spirit that so committed me could not be satisfied until it had seen me run to a Premunire as they call it for not Swearing though the Man called Judge Tirrel who did it confessed before all the Country I spoke or confessed the Substance of that Oath called the Allegiance yet premunired me for want of kissing the Book or saying I Swear I Swear or so which are but light Matters compared with the Substance For I told him and the rest that Popery I was against but not against the King or good Government of this Nation And therefore as the Lord hath so will he ever judge Righteously betwixt me and my Persecutors and bring the Wheel of his Judgments upon the Wicked his Enemies Thomas Taylor To the Mayor and Priest of Stafford WHAT Is the Mayor and Priest of Stafford both in a dead Sleep that neither Heart Hand nor Tongue is left either to punish or reprove open Wickedness and Prophaneness committed in the open Sun amongst them though both the Law of God and Man forbid the same What! Are not Players Bear-wards and such lewd and wicked Persons going about the Country and practicing their Wickedness as this day not only condemned by the Law of God the Light in all Consciences according to Holy Scripture but also in express words forbidden and punishable as Rogues and Vagabonds by the Laws of England see the Statutes 39 Eliz. 4. 1 Jac. 7. 1 Jac. 25. with 3 Car. 4. And yet for all this no stop put to them but even openly tolerated and cried up by the Multitudes of People in open Streets to the great Dishonour of God and Shame both of the Town and Nation when the Servants of the Lord cannot be suffered so openly to cry Repentance and declare God's Judgments against them and the like Abominations that are in the World And therefore may it not be well said of you as it was by Jeremiah the Prophet of old Chap. 10.21 The Pastors are become Brutish and have not sought the Lord therefore they shall not prosper and all their Flocks shall be scattered And Chap. 11.9 And the Lord said unto me a Conspiracy is found amongst the Men of Judah and among the Inhabitants of Jerusalem they are turned back to the Iniquities of their Fore-fathers which refused to hear my words And Isaiah 59.14 15. Judgment is turned away backward and Justice standeth afar off for Truth is fallen in the Street and Equity cannot enter Yea Truth faileth and he that departs from Evil makes himself a Prey and the Lord saw it and it displeased him that there was no Judgment So awake and arise and consider well of things and repent lest the Lord God come upon you in his fierce Wrath and Judgment for these and all your Sins whereby you have dishonoured him and the King and suffered your Neighbours to be unhelped when it was in the Power of your hand to have done it And what Christian Heart can endure to see one Creature tear and spill the Blood and torment one another and that for no cause but only to satisfie the Lusts of ungodly and lewd vain and cruel Minds of the Multitude Will not God punish for these things and his Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this as have even corrupted the Earth with their Abominations He that hath an Ear let him hear and fear Thomas Taylor Concerning the Fallen Christians BLUSH O Heavens and fear thou Earth for the Lord God will certainly bring forth his Judgments and plead the Cause of his Truth in Vengeance and Righteousness against an Hypocritical People and Wicked Generation scattered upon the Earth in several Countries who call themselves Christians and yet none more contrary to Christ in Heart and Life than they For they strengthen the Hands of the Wicked in all the World with their lewd Practices and cause the Name of Christ to be Blasphemed by their evil Doings They surpass the Deeds of the Wicked and exceed all the Heathen that ever went before them for they Eat and Drink to the highest Excess of Gluttony and Drunkenness and Apparel themselves to the greatest Measure of Pride and Vanity that ever was Their Inventions how to please themselves and satisfie one another's ungodly Lust are innumerable and the Burden of their Covetousness Unreasonableness Oppressions Uncleannesses Prophaneness Superstitions Foolishness Sports Pleasures Pastimes and Unchristian Doings is too heavy for God long to endure yea and that which serveth to fill up yea to make the Measure of their Iniquities to overflow is their Hatred and Persecutions of the Righteous that are amongst them And therefore now again doth the Lord God say the second time Ah! I will ease me of mine Adversaries and be avenged of mine Enemies and will cause the Arm of my Power to rest upon them and the Power of my Jealousie and Wrath to consume them until they know and acknowledge their mighty Sins and be unfeignedly humbled and repent before me for them For their Iniquities are Grievous and I am weary with forbearing saith the Lord of the whole Earth God over all to be dreaded for ever who will shiver in sunder the Hearts of the Stubborn Wicked his Enemies and they shall fall and never rise again So be it O glorious Lord God for the raising up of thy own Dear Seed out of the great Captivity faith my Spirit Thomas Taylor To the Vain People of the World TO all the vain People of the World of what sort soever that go up and down the Country with their Vain Shews Tricks and Foolish Inventions to deceive the People for filthy Lucre by drawing their Minds from God A warning from the Lord unto you all howl howl the day of your Captivity and Scattering and Desolation is at hand the Lord will be terrible to you for you have long grieved his good Spirit burdened his Seed and deceived the People so that you are grown fat full and most careless and forgetful of God and all Goodness but the Lord will thin you and empty you and judge you in his Wrath as a Company of deceived and deceiving Men whose Minds the God of this World hath blinded that you see not the Gospel of God nor the good things thereof which so much concern the good of your Immortal Souls but you have chosen the God of this World that wicked One who Rules in all the Children of Disobedience to be your Guide and Teacher and the Gain of Sin before Goodness you have preferred and chosen to your great hurt and the Lord hath often called you to Repentance but the Custom of Sin and the filthy Lucre coming thereby hath so blinded your Minds and hardned your Hearts that you have not set your Hearts to seek the Lord unto his Day but cries Peace to your selves in your Sins where there is no Peace so if things of you that can hear and believe consider and lay things to Heart before it
a Vision and it shall be dark unto you that you shall not Divine and the Sun shall go down over the Prophets and the Day shall be dark over them then shall the Seers be ashamed and the Diviners be confounded yea they shall all cover their Lips for there is no Answers of God So be not proud for the Lord hath spoken but see in the Dread and Fear of God how you can acquit your selves from the Charge against False Prophets and Teachers mentioned in this Paper and more abundantly in the Scriptures For if you be found in their Sins how can ye escape their Plagues Rev. 18.4 For Wo will be to them that seek deep to hide their Counsel from the Lord and their Works are in the dark and they say who seeth us and who knoweth us see Isa 29. from ver 10. to ver 16. Read and consider and be wise for your Souls From one who Travails for the Prosperity of Sion Thomas Taylor A Strong and Terrible Alarm Sounded out of the Holy Mountain against all the Wicked Inhabitants of the Earth WO Wo unto you Rulers Priests and People who live without the Fear of God and do hide your Abominations in Hypocrisie and Dissimulations you are got into several Sects and Opinions and there some of you have long made a Profession of God with your Tongues and Lips but your Hearts are removed far from him so that your Profession stinks in the Nostrils of the Almighty and he Ioaths and abhors your Preaching and Praying for you are weighed and are found too light your Covering are too narrow they will no longer hide you for now you are searching with the true Light wich makes you manifest and rips off your Coverings so that your Nakedness appears the Day hath made you manifest and now is the Light risen and with it you are seen to be out of the Life of Truth yea you are found to be the greatest Enemies to the Life that be upon the Earth for you seek to Murther it wheresoever it is brought forth yea and in all its appearances you seek to Suppress and Murther it Remember your Fore-fathers Cryed Not this Man but Barrabas and your Cry and Practice is seen-to be the same in Nature now for in you and by you is the Son of God Cryed against who hath long forborn you and because his Judgments were not speedily executed upon you have strengthened your selves in your Wickedness and Imaginations and have provoked the Almighty to Wrath and have not considered that his Long suffering towards you was to have drawn you to Repentance but the Day of your Visitation you have despised and have hated the Light of his Son in your Consciences which hath often shewed you your Evil Deeds and so have trampled the Blood of the Covenant under your Feet and have done despite unto the Spirit of Grace and have chosen to follow the vain Imaginations of your own Hearts and have contemned the Counsel of the Lord and would not that he should Reign over you For which cause his Judgments linger not against you but are ready to be poured forth upon your Heads even upon you who have sold your selves to work Abomination in the sight of the Lord and are Worshipping in the House of your Imagery and are joyned and become one with the great Whore of Babylon who hath made her self Drunk with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus but now is she come in Remembrance before the Dreadful and Terrible God and now shall both she and her lovers be Plagued and Tormented together Therefore ye Nobles and Rulers Captains and Mighty Men Priests and People High and Low Rich and Poor Bond and Free who have Committed Fornication with her Awake to the Judgment and behold your King the Old Dragon which is the Devil and Sathan for he is come forth and deceives you and he is come to gather you to the Battle of the great Day which is at Hand for the Harvest is ripe and the Winepress is full and your Fat 's overflow and the Measure of your Iniquities is great and now will God be Avenged on you who will bring you all down to the Valley of Descision even there shall the Day of the Lord be upon you which will be a Day of Pain and Anguish a Day of Blackness and Gloominess and of thick Darkness unto you that have slain the Witness of God and have made merry over him Your Mirth is almost at an end and instead thereof shall be Mourning and bitter Lamentation which shall come upon you in one Day and now is the Day of Vengeance Proclaimed now is the Trumpet Sounded forth behold the Lyon Roareth Therefore O all Inhabitants of the Earth Fear and Tremble before the Living Dreadful God and Dread ye his Name For now is he arising in his Majesty and Glory to shake Terribly the Earth the noise of a Trumpet goeth before him which soundeth an Alarm Strong and Mighty is he there goeth a Sword out of his Mouth and a Threshing Instrument is in his Hand wherewith he will cut down the tall Cedars and thresh the Mountains to Dust A Fire proceedeth out of his Mouth also which shall devour and burn before him and none shall be able to quench it and the Breath that cometh forth of his Nostrils shall scatter the Earth as the Whirl-wind scattereth the Dust Yea Terrible and Dreadful will he be unto you wicked who Live in the Earth you shall not be able to behold nor stand in his Presence Therefore Weep and Howl and Lament for the Misery that is coming upon you for Destruction is at hand yea the Lord hath decreed an overthrow of the Wicked of the Earth for now shall his overflowing Scourge pass through the Earth and the Beesom of his Destruction shall sweep you away except you Repent For your Wordomr and Murders and Idolatry and Drunkenness and Swearing and Lying and Wantonness and Prophaness is come in Remembrance before the Dreadful and Terrible God who will be avenged on you at once Rejoice ye Saints who are clad with Zeal and Shout for Joy you Sons of the most High God and Sing ye Heavens and you that dwell therein for the Lord is risen ye are Witnesses thereof Behold he cometh in and with ten thousands of his Saints to judge the Earth in Righteousness and to execute his Judgments upon his and your Enemies The Vials of his Wrath are made ready to be poured out upon them and his Indignation is waxen hot against them which shall burn and slay and consume them unto the end Glory Glory Honour and Dominion and Praise be given unto our King who liveth for ever for he is worthy to reign over all who was dead but now is he alive and liveth for evermore and hath redeemed us from the Earth and hath brought us above the Earth to reign with him upon the Earth eternal Praises to our King for evermore who