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A91934	Jegar-Sahadvtha: an oyled pillar. Set up for posterity, against present wickednesses, hypocrisies, blasphemies, persecutions and cruelties of this serpent power (now up) in England (the out-street of the beast.) Or, A heart appeale to heaven and earth, broken out of bonds and banishment at last, in a relation of some part of the past and present sufferings of John Rogers in close prison and continued banishment, for the most blessed cause and testimony of Jesus; the sound of the seventh trumpet and the gospel of the seven thunders, or holy oracles (called rayling by them in power) sealed up to the time of the end. From Carisbrook Castle in the third year of my captivity, the fifth-prison, and the third in exile, having been hurried about from post to pillar, quia perdere nolo substantiam propter accidentia.	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?	1657 (1657)	Wing R1809; Thomason E919_9; ESTC R207526	168,327	179

that the great Promise of the Spirit must bring forth such effects and such Dreams and Visions in these later days Joel● 28. and so the Lord taught his Saints of old 2. The incessant expectation of the people of God 2. To second that servant of the Lord the very next day and since many days in a week have men of much wisdom grace holiness and integrity come unto me to tell me that it is the expectation of the choicest Saints in Lond. and some in the Country also the remnant of the VVoman to hear some news of the Prison-vision or voice which we have been under at Lambeth and VVindsor wondering at our so long silence yea that they have kept Praying by whole Days and whole Nights for that purpose being very high to hear from us and to have our light breaking abroad from Prison-bars for publike benefit that they who are ready to give proof of their faith in the Lamb with us in the very same Battalia and Testimony against the Beast might be provoked by us in the present VVork VVatch and VVarfare And therefore they waited with wide desires and fixed eyes upon me for somewhat to be published a fresh quickning word according to the fresh comforting Anointing that is upon me in Prison praying earnestly that their almost hourly and more then ordinary expectations may not prove barren or abortive Amen! say I Psal 9.18 For the expectation of the poor and persecuted ones shall not always perish 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it may be frustrate for a time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the expectation of the wicked will perish for ever Prov. 10.20 11.7 23. Isai 20.5 Zech. 1.5 At the time of the End which is now are many to run to and fro that knowledge may be increased Dan. 12.4 And such as wait for the vision shall finde it when it shall speak and not lye though it tarry its appointed time Hab. 2.2 3. So the knowledge of wisdom will be sweet to thy soul and when thou hast found it thine expectation cannot be cut off Prov. 24.13 14. This is another degree of my Call viz. the eager desires expectations and invitations of good People to publish this which like the winde puts the Ship upon motion but it is the Compass guides it And as Cicero did expect abundance of knowledge from his son because of his continual converse with Cratippus in his School so it seems the Saints at our hands who are in Prison expect Pathmos-discoveries the fruits of fresh full frequent close continual early and evening and most spiritual and alone converse with Jesus Christ in this his Free-School where our Father hath put us for a few yeers to learn hard Lessons to flesh and blood out of the Lamb's book and blessed be our most dear and gracious God it is the best School within these Iron bars that ever we were at in our lives though we be kept strictly to it Schola crucis is Schola lucis for the Lord is not a barren desert or land of darkness Jer. 2. unto us which I believe every one in Prison for this blessed though betrayed Cause with us can and will testifie una viva voce ere long But 3. The flying reports which pass and rep●ss at pleasure upon our Principles and Practices 3. The variety of Reports and of unsatiable Reporters which have run about City and Country continually to render us and this most admirable Cause and Truth of Christ's kingdom worthy of the worst contempt that people can put upon us whiles we by a forced silence are buried alive in these Iron graves and not suffer'd to answer for our selves or the Truth so that the tongues of some men hang so much upon the hinges of the Times that like flying doors without lock or key they open or shut with the least blast of winde which blowes from the Court yea their very Preachers to make us Monsters in the eyes of the poor deluded People report strange things of us as they use to do of dogs first spread abroad they are mad and then hang them Thus are we reported and the inhumane Tyranny upon us is in the Pulpits reported to be no Persecution but an act of Justice and so have the Persecutors Powers and Priests said all along this 42 m. that the Martyrs were evil doers factious seditious Traytors as at this day the Duke of Savoy declares the poor Waldenses and Albigenses So that the bloodiest bruits that ever were would say so much for themselves that what they did was Justice But how any of the present Friars Chaplains or Parsons can prove our sufferings so or dare utter it with such boldness for Orthodox Doctrine to their poor deluded people had they not the spirit of the Beast and forehead of the Whore newly painted I profess I should have wonder'd or how the people can be willing to hear so high Pulpit-lyes at their Priest's mouth By Ministers in Pulpits and out is as much to be admir'd were they not such pitiful Slaves in soul body For can there be an act of Justice without a Trial or Trial without Crime or Crime without a Law or the like yet without all or any of these we lie in prisons year after year onely for Preaching the Truth as their own Consciences can and do tell them and all the world knows and no formal Charge against us to this day So that the Prelates and Papists who had a Law of the Land c. had more colour of Justice then these men Besides if to suffer out of pure love to the Lord Jesus in a good Cause with a good conscience and by as good a Call as men can have to preach and pray the Gospel of the Kingdom or Reigne of Christ and the downfal of the Beast's dominion yea particularly that Civil as well as Ecclesiastical Sanction of the 4 Mon. in this Nation now if to suffer for a Fundamental Principle of Faith by the meer lust will and rage of man contrary to the Word of God and Laws of the Land and if to suffer with the most evident testimony of our Consciences with us and of our Christ and of the presence of Jehovah owning us every day and with a conflux and fulness of joy in the holy Ghost flowing from the Covenant of grace New Testament promises and Principles c. and if our Cause is so clear and just before God and men that we can dare and do challenge our Adversarie the proudest of them all to bring it and us to any open lawful Trial c. if any or all and more then all these things be an argument of a good Suffering or a Persecution that is upon us and not any act of Justice as the lying spirit in the mouthes of the false Prophets reports then we are under a Persecution And I wonder with what face men can pretend to be Ministers of the Gospel that go up and down

31. If any man DRAW BACK my soul shal have no pleasure in him I would have had a word to this Bastard of Ashdod this illegitimate Monster had he ears to hear but his most irrational rage hath hindred me and I must be silent with another loud cry to thee O. P. out of this DEN where thou hast cast me so inconsiderately with such cruelty and for so long a tiwe too of vvhom I think I might have said as Tacitus of GALBA Digniffimns imperandi nise imperasset How worthy hadst thou been of Rule if thou hadst not ruled but as High as thou art and as lovv as I am under thy foot me thinks vvhen I am mounted and vvinged by the Holy Ghost thou art as much under me and my Christ vvhom I serve in these bonds and in this Cause Yea as Cirus Theodorus said to Modestus about Basil vvhen he vvas under his Tirannie O MODESTUS Why BASYL is above thee thou art but a poor PISMIRE to him though thou roarest against him like a LYON and be not offended at it for I tel thee through the cruelty I am set upon a Mount so high as I see thee and al the Kings of the earth to boot as proud as they be but like Hoppimit hmbs I mean but like buggs about a block or Ants about a Mole-hill or VVorms upon a Dunghil which I laugh at vvhen I see them most busie about their nests which in one crush wil be destroyed kickd down and dispersed like the dust on the floor Dan 2.35 VVherefore Sir that you had but once this sight and if I speak not to a man most desperately resolved and hardened up to irrecoverable destruction yea to one vvorse then a stone yea guilty of the great sin against the Holy G let me be heard and O that I might be heard in thy conscienee O thou O thou sinful Man before the decree come forth or thy sentence be executed for Dum peritura pares per male parta peris how sore a ruine is running upon thee though thou see it not vvherefore either deliver us quickly quit of these DENS admiring our hitherto preservation from on high whose Angel hath delivered us out of the mouths of these savage beasts and give you glorie to God as Darius did if thou canst find in thy heart so to do for as much as innocencie and truth is found on our side or else I say unto thee by the AUTHORITY of the Lord committed to me that thou shalt DYE like a BEAST yea more miserably then in a DEN or DVNGEON and as Romanus said to the Tirant so I tel ●hee and them about thee as I have done in my Postscript of Prison b that I appeal from this thy tyrannie which hath no pitty to the Throne of Christ cito vis vos omnes as Jerome of Prague said to his persecutors Vt respondentis coram alties justissimo judice post 45 Ann●s I summon you all that have a hand or heart in this persecution to appear before my Christ his elect Angels Saints the most SUPREAM POWER and righteous JUDG after the 1335 dayes where vve shal judg you that now Judge us though this is your houre and the power of darkness Luke 22.53 SO BE IT as saith the faithful Witness ye AMEN for a little season yea a vtry little WHILE and he that shal come wil come and wil not tarry Even so Amen! Come quickly Lord Jesus HAec non durabunt Aetatem said Juel of the Cerimonies and as Athanasius that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he was called said of Julians so say I of this APOSTACY vvith great Faith and assurance Nubecula est Cito transitura wherefore chear up my Brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Amen! AMEN and ye shal suddenly see the Witnesses ascend up in the CLOUD So be it Amos 1.11 For three Transgressions and for four I wil not turn away the punishment thereof because he did pursue his BROTHER with the SWORD and did cast of all PITTY and his anger did tear PERPFTVALLY and kept his Wrath for ever Finis in Imis ultimis Novissimis Amen! Hallelujah A POSTSCRIPT READER THou art desired to take notice that in the forced Absence of the Author in Banishment the Press lets many mistakes in printing pass uncontroul'd and for want of due help and ability doth miscarry of the Latine Greek and Hebrew which was intermingled in some eminent Passages Now the Lord bless thee in these evil Dayes and give thee bowels to the suffering Saints and Truth and help thee to follow that which is good and which make for thy peace and comfort in the World to come Amen! A Necessary Word to the Ingenious READER My Christian Friend IT is about a yeer since I had a perfunctory glance and perusal of these papers in this piece called an Introduction c. to Prison-born Morning beams which I found as you see so infinitely mangled and mishaped that I wa● and yet am in such a dresse ashamed to own them which Deformity put upon them by others through want of skill Care or Love to the suffering Author shall be greedily multiplied by some men to abuse me with upon whose back the Errataes of other men it seems must lie till truth and innocency may come abroad and finde justice But blessed be Jehovah who hath given me a poor creature the portion of the Anointed ones viz. the WAVED or lifted up BREAST and the RIGHT SHOLDER Exod. 29.26 And it shall be thy Part Levit. 7.31 32. to serve Jehovah with one Shoulder Zeph. 3 9. But yet I must beseech thee to a little Charity and Candidness towards me and not to impute the many pittiful Soloecismes of Books which usher in my name to my pen but their pates and the press together intrusted For some I heare since my long imprisonment have been glad of the opportunity traducing me freely about my Treatise of Church-Discipline but I for ever blesse my God though the unreasonable Sword hath given them leave to insult over me and trample upon me yet the TRUTH is above them and their Malice She may be blamed but never shamed by those monstrous reports which the most make of her in her suffrings and bond for chagor charbecha gnal-j●rech whereon is written King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 19.16 Gibbor hodecha ve hadarecha yea tselach rechab gnal-deber-emet ve gnanvab tsedeq is some of my Daily Song to my King Nor doe I greatly feare the foyling of the hottest enemies I have with the power of his truth meeknesse and Righteousness Whether they be the Rozenim of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 razah now LEAN ONES as Rulers are called Psal 2.2 or the Abbirim fat BULLS as Enemies are called Psal 22.12 and fiercest foes that now triumph over us for it is their time Nor had that frothy rabble of Aiery stuffe gathered up together into a Cloud of

as Acts 21.36 and John 19.15 Away with him away with him Ah said I So did the Souldiers deal with my Lord Jesus and the servant is not greater than his Lord. But O thou Hypocrite doest thou professe the Word or read it and yet contrary to the word of God Law or Reason bi●st thy men to abuse mee thus without any cause the Lord will judge the for thy Hypocrisie and contempt doth not the Word say to Souldiers do violence to no man Luke 3.14 c. but this renewed their rage and roughnesse and then this Serjeant King as if he had been at Cuffs for his life fell on a fresh with his fists doubled his blows about my head neck and shoulders so unreasonably that some of their Creatures cryed to him hold your hand stay your hands hold your hands but I said Ah! Lord my God look thou downe but do you strike on Sirs strike strike strike for my Lord Jesus Christ takes these blows for his sake well at my hands though I am sure not at yours O it is sweet to be buffeted for Christ c. But as they had often done before they mocked at Jesus pish Christ saies the Captain Haddyway what talk you of Christ O said I that you would talke of him and walk in him more too yea and yet I will talk of him who is my most sweet Jesus and this is Christianity thus to suffer for him But they some hawling some thumping and some beating had gotten mee up a wrong pair of stairs and when they knew that they never staid to let mee come down nor offer'd it but some at my back thrusting some at each side and S. King at my hands pull'd me out at length with the Corporall all at once pulled mee down at one pluck the stairs as if they had rent mine arm from my shoulders but falling upon other Souldiers by the gracious providence of my most dear Father I was preserved my poor wife beeing by and the maid schreching and crying and then they hawled mee almost spent out of breath the other pair of stairs and at the doore of the room wherein they with such cruelty carri'd me where I now am They renewd their violence with such redoubl'd strength atrocity that several of them laying hold on mee some at my back some on shoulders and some at sides cast mee headlong who not knowing their design could not prevent it with such an united force fiercenesse fury and wrath as if they meant no longer to dally but dash mee in pieces so that the least they could have conceived thereon was to have broken my bones or put them out of joint imitating those Savage Spirits filled with wrath which carried my most blessed Saviour to the brow of the hill Luke 4.28 29. That they might cast him down headlong but the same God that delivered him delivered also me a poore wretch not worthy to be named much lesse honoured thus and that by a very marvellous appearance for in the fall my head and face were preserved from the battery of the ground by lighting upon the armes and shoulders of the maid and one of my children the blow of which threw both them also to the ground but my face was so-preserved though my body bruised with the fall which fall I perceived rejoyced the bloody spectators at their hearts and if otherwise it was I think that I was not quiet killed with the fall as Tully saies Quia totum telum in corpore non recepisset to whom I turned with these words passing thorough tears unto them Well Sirs now you have done thus O that I could entreat you but to search into the Scriptures and see if you finde any warrant there for this practise if you do then the Lord give you the blessing of it but it not then the most righteous God convince you of it or judge you for it and this was all I said to them knowing they were heardened and at these few wordes and tears they fell a scoffing and there left mee where I now am at the writing of this with very great consolation and joy thorough believing for as much as these verbera were ubera full duggs for my soule to suck out of And 1. Methinks I now may say I begin to be the Minister of Christ who is indeed a Theologus Crucis and the Servant of Christ Jesus and companion with Christ in the world as Ignatins when he came to the Wilde Beasts to be devoured his bones broken his blood sucked and his whole body crushed with them Now saies he now I begin to be a Christian It is nothing to be accounted and go for currant Christians as all are almost in England with ease pleasure delights estates and worldly enjoyments so to become Ministers of Christ with out the Crosse or Tryalls but for all that they will not stand for such before the Lord who fall not in with the Crosse of Christ in the Generation-suffering for the witnesse of Jesus your dainty mincing Professors who are afraid of sufferings at this day shall be shut out in that day when the Bridegroom comes for Christianus is Crucianus and Lucianus saith Luther Obj. But we live not under such Persecutors as the former Saints did who were headed hanged burned fleaed braten broken on racks tossed on Bulls horns rent and torne of Wild-Beasts broyled on Gridyrons starved stoned c. Answ 1. No! if you did I do wonder where we should finde a Christian then or them that would come running to the tortures as those Martyrs wearying the Tyrants with their faith courage and constancy to their teeth as they did when indeed ye are afraid of and faint at a little plundering prisonment banishment soft beatings and easy deaths for the Testimony of our dear Jesus who now suffers 2. Yet we have such persecutors of Christ and his cause at this day as would not spare us were we as high as resolute and of as noble a spirit for Christ as the former Martyrs who had not learned the State-policy of Professors now adays to spare themselves and comply a little and not to run themselves into sufferings for so they call it but they rather can to them accounting it their glory challenged and provoked in a manner the Tyrants Now it is not so much because our present Nimrods and Oppressors are better than the former Tyrants as because we poore low Spirited Christians and white liverd milgsops are worser and indeed a shame to the Saints and Martyrs of former dayes that we suffer so little for Christ our Lord Ah a las we love indulge ease and pamper the flesh more than the former Saints ever did or durst 3. To answer this objection with Mr. Burroughs out of Salvian I must say to them then the lesse they have to show of passive obedience the more they are to show of active plus ei fides devotio nostra debet quia minora a

from the foregoing Limbs according to Dan. 7.24 being as it were patcht up and compounded of all to beging or make up the summe and period of all it is partly Spanish partly French partly Dutch partly Turkish in principles and Janizaries taking up fashions from one principles from others policy from others soveraignty from others and so indeed doth summe up all not omitting MYSTERY written on the forehead of it as Rev. 17.7 8. seeming partly of the Lamb too Rev. 13.11 to deceive with 5. It appears too by the Signes of the times which are now upon us by the clear computations and supputations of the Numbers in Daniell and Revelations and by the severall providences the variety of dispensations and the late appearances of God in the three Nations that it is a summing time notwithstanding the present Cloud and blacknesse for the Unbelief and willfull rejecting of the truth of the Kingdome at this day among us Gentile-Christians must make way for the Jews in their room who are to be rejected who are the naturall branches as their rejecting the truth and unbeleif did make way for us Gentiles Rom. 11.20 21 22 23. Bee not high minded but fear for if God spared not the naturall branches take heed least he also spare not thee Behold therefore the goodnesse and severity of God to them severely to thee goodnesse if you continue in his goodnesse otherwise thou shalt also he cut off and they also if they abide not in unbelief shall be graffed in v. 25. I would not brethren have you ignorant of this mistery that blindnesse happened to Israel untill the fullnesse of the Gentiles that is their times Luke 21.24 which begin at the end of the forty two Months the 1260. and 1690. dayes as I have proved at large in my forementioned Treat 6. And lastly it is evidently a●●summing time in the rejection of and judgements that must be upon this professing Generation of men as to their Cause Government Laws Waies Works Principles D●signes and daily Practices whiles they pretend so High for God but indeed do reject his Christ and Cause and so did the Jews but they rejected Jesus Mark 8 31. Luke 9.22 and 17.25 and therefore were rejected and the judgement came So was Saul rejected for his not thorough or full obedience and David taken up and so Jeh was rejected and judgement came for that his heart was not right when he executed judgement on Ahab's house and for that he got up into the same Throne and did the same things for which Ahab's house was destroyed and still he kept up the Statures of Omri and the workes of the house of Ahab Micha 6.16 yea as it was in Noah's and Lot's ●aies so shall it be in these and with this Generation of men whose cause is rejected Heb. 8.9 whiles ours is found in the Covenant of grace so that on both sides as to their rejection and our reception that is in these matters in controversie it is a summing time and a summing Spirit as of Moses Prophets Martyrs and Saints to this d●y do we wait for and such a one too as never was in the world before Rev. 5.6 The seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth wherefore looke about you for I tell you that all other times and judgements were but signes and figures of this as of Noah's flood Luke 17.27 28. Mat. 24. Fire and Brimstone upon Sodome Luke 17.28 29. 1 Cor. 10.11 Examples to us upon whom the end of the earth or last daies shall come and the judgements on Aegypt Rev. 11.7 8. and upon the Israelites in the Wildernesse that would not go on and upon the Cananites and Kings in Josh 10.3 and upon Babilon c. All are but signes of the jugements now at hand upon this professing Generation of Apostates with the Beast now in full Rev. 17.8 and false Prophet Rev. 19.20 and Jezabill the whore Rev. 17.16 upon this sheet too where the two Witnesses are slain as I have proved in Pris Morn Rev. 11.8 13. and upon the Kings of the earth Rev. 16 14. Yea upon all Babilon Rev. 18.4 5 8. and 19. Now the figured and typified in all respects must needs be most plenary and summary So that they are wonderfull and dreadfull Mount-Perazim dispensations that are at hand in England Isa 28.21 therefore look to it O thou that sealesi up the sum Ezek. 28.12 13. For the houre of thy judgment is come and the set time to favour Sion yea the sum of all is at hand 6. Generall Observation Lastly The motives of Christ upon his red-horse Zach. 1.8 with his Saints upon their Speckled and White which are very swift are at hand who are to over-run all the Earth of a sudden I say they are upon us though as yet they stand behind the Mirtle and Mulberry-trees Zach 1.8 with 2 Sam. 5.24 1 Chron. 14. in thea Valley of Rephaim Isa 17.5 6. or Cave of Adullam 2 Sam. 23.13 where the glory of Israel first begins Mich. 1.15 to the Heire who is Christ by Myrtles being meant Fifth King Saints and ministrations as Isa 55.13 and 41.19 For we are under the Administration of the fourth living Creature about the Throne Rev. 4.7 Ezeck 1. v. 10. the fourth Spirit Zach. 6.5 or the flying Eagle who is called in Zach. 6.3 the fourth Chariot which came from between the two Mountains of Brasse or from the mount into which the Stone falles upon the Image Dan 2.45 to that Mount into which the Stone becomes Dan. 2.35 and in that space of time I say are we especially under the administration of the flying Eagl or the fourth Chariot wherein are Christs red and speckled Horses or those for his bloody War against the Brast that are to passe through the whole Earth Zach. 6 7 in this Vintage of blood even unto the Horses Bridles by the space of 1600. furlongs Rev. 14.20 or 200. miles The contents of the Eagles ministration which hee cals come and see lo Rev. 6.7 8. being a power over the Earth to kill with the Sword with Famine and with death diverse wayes and this is the living Creature who gives out the third Woe or the seven Viols unto the Angels Rev. 15 7. the Instruments and Executors thereof So that it is very clear upon an insight into these scriptures that we are under this Eagle Administrator in the work which is to be done against the Beast and fourth Monarch and then we must grant that the motions thereof will be very swift soaring high hidden intricate and extraordinary upon quick sight but impregnable and incre●●ble courage delighting Eagle-like in the blood and Carcases of men that are to be slain and thus far for a hint of these few General Observations which I have a very clear p●ospective off from these prisons Exiles and Pilgrimages in this mine Isle of Pathmos and retired estate with God on the mount signifi●d to me by the spriit of the

teeth of the proudest Tyrants on earth that we are above them and their rage do their worst because greater is he that is in us then HE that is in the world 1 Joh 4.4 and in our prison is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Power of the Witnesses a coming upon us through the strength of Christ to do marvelous things yea as Hag 2.7 8. According to the WORD that I have COVENATTED with you So my SPIRIT remaineth among you FEAR YE NOT for thus saith JEHOVAH yet a little while and I wil shake c. I will make the earth to tremble before you Joel 2.10 yea this pittiful p●dlie filthy mieryclay-Government that is gotten up in Great Brittany which is the first that must be struck through by the Stone Dan 2. Wherefore O my Friends we must and wil rejoyce yet more abundantly in this so blessed sweet temporate New-Testament Zone which we are under in prisons and Exiles for all the fierceness of this last Beast who hath made the torrid Zone of his tyranny inhabitable and insupportable and in truth if I know my heart in this matter I would say for one like Jerome of Prague when the flames were kindling behind him saith he with courage to the Executioner Come come Kindle me the fire before my face for if I had been afraid I had never come hither nor are we such lively members of Christs body if we cannot when called to it sweat a bloody sweat ●●fr his sake Wherefore as the Dutch Martyr said Christo submittemus sexcenta si nobis essent Colla c. had we six hundred heads for one they should all off for Christ in this most blessed cause for Quas non oportet mortes praeeligere c What Deaths had we not better choose yea what Hels not endure then to decline one step so blessed so certain and so glorious a Cause as this is for which we are in bonds Wherefore O my most honorably beloved hearts the spirit of life rest upon you and of the two Witnesses to make you as stable and as able as Mount Sion Psal 125.1 yea as those Mountains of Brass from whence the Chariots of King Jesu● come they are a coming Zach 6.1 so that all the Devils of Hell may not be able to remove you then one inch of ground but that those who have gone before us from the dayes of Abel to this day and vvho have led up the VAN with valour with all the Elect Angels our fellow-servants in this Cause may exceedingly rejoyce to see our Faith and Faithfulness vigor constancy and courage in carrying up this finishing Rev 11 7. this Rear-testimony Mat 24.14 Rev 17.14 according to the Spirit of the Fifth Kingdom against the BEAST like the children of the captivity now to be returned like the children of the promise and of the Free-woman Gal 4. yea like the children of the Kingdom Mat. 13. that good seed that must sow the whole earth and the children of the Resurrection Luke 20. which are to have their lot in the next world upon the Earth and to reign with Christ a thousand years as I have proved at large in prison-born morning beams Lib 3. and 4. For Jehovah onely is the Lord Patron of al our preferments and whiles we are in the prison as I said we are not fishing for Gudgeons for We pre-possess several sweet tenures both free and copy-hold which we cannot part with no more then Nabaoth could with his Vineyard though we loose our lives for it and to conclude I woul'd leave t● is one word with you that the same Lord of Hosts and Captain of the Hoasts of Israel that went before them in the Van is now with us in the Rear where the enemy hath fallen on for that is now the Captains place so that we may confidently and undoubtedly expect as much of his prowess power wonderful appearances and presence with us in this Reare as ever any of the Saints or Martyrs among Jews or Christians found in the Van or in former dayes when the enemies fel upon them for this is clear in Isai 52.12 For ye shal not go out with hast nor go by flight for JEHOVAH wil go before you yea the God of Israel wil be your RERE-WARD Isai 58.8 Thy righteousness shal go before thee the glory of the Lord shall be thy RERE WARD then shalt thou cal and the Lord shal answer thou shalt cry and he shal say HERE I AM if you take away from the midst of thee the yoak c. I am prevented in my Word to the little Remnant I mean the Lambs faithful followers of the Womans seed that keep the Commandements of God and testimony of Jesus but in my Banish-born-Treatise lib last I write at large to them and of their Work if it ever come to light though I confess my Bucer-like hand which writes but bad may be some let or at least delay therein yet at present I am to bid them BEWARE and PREPARE beware of running before Orders come from Jehovah of Armies and prepare for them when they come yea to make all their Arrows ready against Babylon for the time to visit her is now come the set time to thresh her the Harvest is come Jer 50.51 Rev 4. and to favour Sion Psal 102.15 16. yea the set time is come and it is easie to see the SIGNS of Times come upon us yea the signes compleat them this little born this last B this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the learned read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this last limb of the Beasts Government and the man that maketh up his number six thousand six hundred six as we have proved in Prison Morn He is now come O up and be ready then like Roaring Lions against the end of the time times divident with your Ahud Chereb not Pe Chereb two mouthed swords like Christs men of War Pe Chareb or sword with one mouth only as hath been but Joel 2.2.7 9 11. to run climb the wal like mighty men and JEHOVAH shal utter his voice before you his Dread shal be upon your enemies who have insulted over you but shal fal before you Josh 2.9 Rev 11.11 yea they shal tremble and fear and wax feeble as Women Jer 51.30 Nahum 3.13 and become bread for your swords to eat as in Jeremy Acheleh Cherbechem Ne biechem because their defence is departed from them Numb 14.9 nor are the most godly amongst them that have Apostatized these times any more to be reckoned amongst the Lambs number then Dan and Ephraim because of their Apostacy Judg 17 18. were reckoned among the sealed ones of the 144000 Rev 7 5 6 7 8. Wherefore up O my dear ●arts who are of that number that stand before the Throne Rev 7.9 or with the Lamb in Mount Sion Rev 14.1 up and be ready with your Ahod weapon awake arise O English Shearjashub for out of JUDAH Christ with us Gentiles of Lea comes

forth the CORNER out of HIM the Nail out of HIM the Battle-bow and they shal be as mighty men which tread down their enemies as mire in the streets in the battle and they shal fight because the Kord is with them Zach 10.5 Wherefore I be sure ye begin-your Muster or to mount your horses Zach 1.8 upon a Mount Sion ground or in a New-Covenant principle that is purely for or rather with Christ and his Kingdom and for no earthly Persons things or Interests of Men whatsoever such a War was never yet in the four Monarchie●s And 2. Be sure that you be fully seperate from the Beasts dominion in all things and in every ministration as wel civil and Military as Ecclesiastick for the BLESSING shal be upon the head of him that is SEPERATED from his brethren Deut 33.16 and it is an Ordinance yea obedience to an indispensable command Rev 18.4 Jer 50.28 The voice of them that FLEE and ESCAPE out of the Land of Babylon to DECLAE IN SYON the vengeance of the Lord our God the vengeance of his Temple for such only are to come out of the Tabernacle of the Testimony and to pour out the Viols in pure linnen and not at all in defiled Garments Rev 15. But furthermore 3. Be sure you loose not the least opportunity or nick of time put into your hands to do the Work when the END comes And 4. Be sure you set not upon it with your own spirits nor pour out in it your own wrath or revenge but Gods only and upon such subjects too as the VVord reveals Yea 5 Lastly Be sure that you in your actings executings and sufferings be upon no other bottom being or foundation but the Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 3.11 whereon if you overcome you are sure to walk with him in VVhite Rev 3.4 Rev 7.9 14. amongst his WORTHIES yea and be as pillars in the Temple Rev 3.12 Rulers over the Nations Rev 2.26 27. and Heirs of the New Jerusalem glory the tree of Life the new name and the Throne Rev 2 7 17 and 3.12 21. Therefore up O ye Saints to take the Kingdom Dan. 7 ●8 and to possess it for ever for the GENTILES Christiani qui gentiliter vivunt have posses'd the outward Court this 42 moneths but We singers have the inner Court Ezek 40.44 and 't is now time to arise yea high time to deliver thy self O Syon Isai 52.1 2. and shake off thy dust to lay wast the land of Nimrod with the Sword Mica 5.6 7. And the Remnant of Jacob the VVorm shal be in the midst of many people as a DEW from the Lord as the showers upon the grass that TARRIETH not for MAN yea among the GENTILES as a Lion who if he go through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces and none can deliver Numb 23.24 the Holy City is the holy Camp in the outward Court of the Tabernacle that is to arise with the Two VVitnesses and root the Beast that trod it under foot Therefore for the Lords sake Sirs be valiant like Davids worthies yea King Sclomons men Cant 3 7 8. Who all hold swords being expert in VVar. It is said of Sadeel that with Gener a Citizen he fought so furiously for the then cause of God that he himself put a thousand Spaniards to flight and shal we fear Non de vita sed de scuto solliciti estoti regard not your lives for the work of Christ when called to it It is said that Sceva at the siege of Dyrrachium so long alone resisted Pompeys Army that he had two hundred twenty darts sticking in his shield and lost one of his eyes and yet gave not over til Caesar came into his Rescue is it possible my Brethren that this could be for the carnal interest of a man in a fourth Kingdom spirit and shal not as noble a spirit and as high a love be found in a Fifth Kingdom man for the most excellent cause an● King that ever was on earth viz Jesus Christ and him onely Blessed Lord when wilt thou raise us up with thy spirit of life or how long shal all lye dead O what cowards are we now to run into holes and corners for fear of sufferings surely Lord Jesus had al thy Disciples dealt thus with thee in their Generations there would have been but few Martyrs or followers of the Lamb O I blush for shame when I behold them that are gone before with these that now follow IGNATIVS said he had rather be a Martir then a Monarch but now men had rather be Monsters then Martirs when the Dragon Emperors gave Orders to put al to death that would confess themselves christians they came in of themselves by whole flocks confessing themselves christians and defying the Heathens as in Arrius Antoninus's dayes they ran in voluntarily to dye and to be tormented as did Romanus Gerdius Menas and a many others in Dioclesians dayes but ah where be they that run in flocks to White Hal now saying we are Fift Monarchy men or for the Kingdom of Christ and wil live and dye with our brethren together see 1 John 3.16 Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us and we ought to LAY DOWN our lives sor the BRETHREN But ah how iniquity abounds and the love of many waxeth cold as Gui de Brez Martir in Flanders so Mr Burroughs tels us of the Woman we heard of before who ran for Martirdom with the Saints for fear she should loose it and do we sit stil for fear of sufferings which were such Jocularia ludicra as Vincentius called them to the Saints in primitive times Rejoyce and leap for joy as the word is to suffer for Christ or be found doing for him when he comes Now I beseech the Lord awaken you if you be of that race and rouze you up and set you all awork as upon life and death with all speed to overceme the beast and his followers with as lively a spirit as high a zeal and readiness to dye in the service of Christ and this his most comprehensive Cause at this day as they were in theirs through the are greatest strife and so to overcome with the Word of the Testimonie and blood of the Lamb not loving your lives Rev 12.11 Bate me nothing of my sufferings saies Gordius to the Tormentors for it is to my loss then Majora certamina majora sequuntur praemia VVherefore because I must break off with these few words to you as to OVERCOMMERS for so I trust you are or wil be in CHRIST Jesus and close Followers of he Lamb I shal leave you with that blessed man Mr Hollands Legacy bequeathed to his Friends at his death against Popery Commendo vos dilectioni Dei odio Papatus c. So against this Apostate-Generation I commend you my Brethren to the dearest lovo of God and to the deadtiest hatred of these Hipocrites and Apostates AMEN for Heb 10