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A40469	A packet of nevves, yea, true faithful news, of Israels and Judahs call and the manner, place, and time of Christs coming and reign in glory among his saints upon the earth. As also, Judahs past, with Englands present miseries parallel'd; with sundry other particulars, very profitable and necessary for Christians of all degrees, to know the mysteries of God. Collected out of the Scriptures this 22. of the 11th moneth (corruptly called January) 1647. for the benefit of all, but chiefly for such, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, err in vision, and stumble in judgement. By James Frese merchant.	Freize, James.	1651 (1651)	Wing F2197DA; ESTC R221227	56,100	71

A PACKET OF NEWES Yea True and Faithful News of ISRAELS and JUDAHS Call AND Of the Manner Place and Time of Christs Coming and reign in glory among his Saints upon the Earth As also Judahs Past with Englands Present Miseries Parallel'd With sundry other Particulars very profitable and necessary for Christians of all Degrees to know the Mysteries of God Collected out of the Scriptures this 22. of the 11th moneth corruptly called January 1647. for the benefit of all but chiefly for such who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness Err in Vision and stumble in Judgement By JAMES FRESE Merchant Ps. 96. 10. and 104. 5. Eccles. 1. 4. 1 Chron. 16. 30. The World shall be Established that it shall not be moved for ever Eze. 43. 7. Even the place of the soals of my feet where I will dwell for ever Zach. 2. 12. For the Lord shall inherite Iudah in the holy land and chuse Ierusalem again Ier. 31. 6. 8. And then shall they say Arise Let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God Zac. 8. 7 8 23. And then shall ten Men of all Nations take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you LONDON Printed for Matthew Simmons 1651. To the RIGHT HONORABLE Most Truly NOBLE And VICTORIOUS HIS EXCELLENCY Oliver Cromwell Lord General of all the Forces raised in England and Ireland for Defence and Regainment of Englands Rights and Liberties MOst Noble and Victorious Sir whose Name by the Will of Divine Providence is become Englands Honor Her Enemies Terror and Europes Wonder For the Continuation Increase and Perfection whereof to the Glory of God your Countries happiness and Your own eternal Fame he most heartily and earnestly wisheth who in his greatest straits under the Iron yoke of Cruelties close restraint many yeers was sundry times made partaker of your truly Christian bounty to the preservation of his Life and Being and after many years Imprisonment of some breathings of Liberty For which in way of due thankfullness as ever in his heart abhorring the grand sin of Ingratitude he returns unto Your Excellency most humbly and hearty thanks and in assurance of the continuation of your most noble Paternal favour towards him he presumeth to shroud this ensuing treatise of the Personal Reign of Christ upon the earth under the wing of your Execllencies favorable Protection most humbly presenting the same unto your Excellencies view acceptance and most noble Boerean perusal The glimpse of which favour extended is the highest pitch of his ambition who in all true Christian humility to his God and fidelity in the band of love to his Country and your Excellencie Subcribes himself Most Noble Excellent and Right Honorable Your Honors most humble Servant to be commanded James Frese London the 19th of the 6th Moneth corruptly called August 1651. To all such true and faithful members of the Lord Jesus as walk close to the Sacred Truth by the rule of Righteousness and stand as firm as Nehemiah for the advance of the true honor of God in true judgement justice and mercy and the speedy restauration of the fundamental Laws Rights and Liberties of this their Native Countrey Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus I Here present unto your favorable view and Christian perusal this small Treatise containing some Collections of holy Scripture cleerly manifesting the Personal Reigne of the Lord Jesus among his Saints upon Earth in the Land of Israel it being the choisest Fruit of my Labors in the time of my close Imprisonment in the Tower-Chamber in the Fleet-Prison for the space of almost four yeers by Henry Hopkins Warden of the Fleet under locks and bolts to the apparent hazard of my life without any just cause by him shewed to this day for his so doing craving in all humility your favourable acceptance of these my Labors and a Berean perusal of them In the reading wherof the Lord Jesus grant unto you his sacred Spirit of Wisdom to be your Directer and Instructer bringing the Truth thereof home unto your souls that so your hearts being seasoned with the apprehension of the expressed joys and comforts contained in it you may live in expectation of the Lord Jesus his glorious Appearing with all Saints in the glory of God the Father and of the holy Angels and in his Kingdom and of the enjoyment of eternal life in glory with him and all the Saints within his holy habitation in the land of the living even in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord Christ shall reign for ever and ever even as he assuredly remaineth in expectation of the same who in all humility subscribes himself Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus Yours in all love and Christian Charity and his Countries Servant in all Fidelity during the short time of his continuance in this almost expired vanities world of misery James Frese London this 15th of the 10th moneth 1650. The Epistle To the Honest Impartial Reader COurteous Reader I do earnestly wish and heartily desire of the Lord that thy perusal of these few Collections of holy Scripture taken as a drop of water out of the vast Ocean of Gods Word and sent forth as a Lamb among censorious Wolves may be seasoned to thy soul by the Spirit of Truth that so the eyes of thy Understanding may thereby be inlightned to Gods glory and thine own souls eternal comfort and joy unexpressable in the glorious eternal world to come And for the better help and inlightning of thy Understanding in the profitable reading of this Treatise I do earnestly desire thee to note well these particulars following 1. That the ten Tribes a which fell from Rehoboam and made Jeroboam their King were then called The Kingdom of Israel whose Kingly Seat or City was Samaria And the other two Tribes under Rehoboams government were called the Kingdom of Judah and the People Jews whose Royal Seat was the Mount of the Lord God called b Zion adjoyning to the North side of Jerusalem The City of the great King * Christ Jesus 2. That all the ten Tribes of Israel were c carried away into captivity beyond the River of Aethiopia called Euphrates d by Shalmanazer King of Assyria in the days of King Hoshea into a far Country about eighteen moneths journey from the holy land of Palestina called in the Syriack Assareth but in the Hebrew Sinin three hundred twenty and six yeers before Judah was carryed captive into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon from whence Judah returned to their own Land again within seventy yeers But the ten Tribes called Israel as yet never returned to this day So that Israels captivity hath now continued about two thousand six hundred and twelve yeers Therefore will the Lord make Israel that was wholy cast out a mighty Nation but Judah or the Jews that returned and halted e

foundations whose builder and maker is God the Lord For it shall be built to the Lord upon the hill Gareb and shall compasse about to Goath and the whole value of the dead and all the fields unto the Brooke Kidron unto the Horse gate shall be holy unto the Lord yea it shall not be p●ucked up nor thrown down for ever Even this great City the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from my God ready ●●amed of material precious stones Even as Solomons Temple was brought out of the wilderness ready framed and so built and laid together without knock of hammer or axe or any other toole of Iron The streetes of this City shall be of pure transparent Gold whose wals shall be great and high built of Jasper and garnished with all manner of precious stones having twelve Gates on the East side three Gates and on the North side three Gates on the South side three Gates and on the West side three gates and the gates of the City shall not be shut and the fashion of the City shall be foure square the length bredth and height of the wals of the City shall be of equal measure Twelve thousand furlongs broad and twelve thousand long and twelve thousand furlongs high and the thickness of the Wall shall be one hundred forty and foure cubites of a man which is six foot and makes up in the whole thickness eight hundred sixtie and foure foot SECT. XXIIII ANd the most high God the Father and the Lord Christ shall be the Temple in it and the glory of God the Father and of the Lord Christ shall be the light thereof and onely those nations that are saved shall walke in it and Kings shall bring their glory and honor into it and none shall enter into it but they that are written in the Lambs Book For thus saith the Lord The place of my throne Palestina and the place of the soals of my feet where I will dwell in the midd'st of the children of Israel for ever and my holy name shall the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their Kings The whole limit thereof shall be round about most holy And the name of the City from that day shall be The Lord is there Then the heathen or Gentiles shall know that I the Lord build and plant the ruines and desolate places of the land of Israel I the Lord have spoken it and I will do it SECT. XXV FOr God will save Zion and will build the Cities of Judah that they may dwell there The seed of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein and shall be Kings and Priests unto God and raign on the earth For when the Lord Christ shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory when the people are gathered together and the Elect out of all Kingdoms to serve the Lord to declare his name in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem Then will he receive them unto himself that where he is in glory there they may be also and they the Father and Son will love them and will come unto them and make their abode with them For the Councell of peace and eternal glory shall be between them both in the Kingdom of Christ and of God and the people and kingdoms shall be gathered together to declare the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Ierusalem For unto the Father incomprehensible shall be glory given in the Church Triumphant by Christ Iesus and all his Saints world without end SECT. XXVI FOr this Mount Zion scituate on the North side of Ierusalem is the Hill which the Lord desireth to dwell in yea the Lord will dwell in it for ever where his Throne and Scepter of Righteousness shall be for ever and ever even in the World to come whereof we speak and he shall raign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end even upon the throne of David Then shall they say The Lord raigneth The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved for the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more then all the dwellings of Jacob Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God For the highest himself shall establish her Yea he hath desired it for his habitation saying This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it For in Salem is his Tabernacle his dwelling Place in Zion For the Lord will comfort Zion he will make her wilderness like Eden and mount Zion shall never be removed but abideth for ever Being the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem which cannot be shaken but shall remain like the earth which abideth for ever for I know saith Solomon whatsoever God doth it shall abide for ever and that which is to be hath already been and God requireth that which is past even the world to be restored to its first Purity Glory Excellency and determined perpetuity Spiritual which is eternal for the spirits of all men are eternal whether for Light or Darkness and the Saints continuance in glory shall be eternal For their bodies shall then be of the same eternal duration as their spirits are this being the true state of the things we call Spiritual which is eternal for there our mortal bodies shall put on immortality and this corruption shall put on incorruption to and for which a true pious and charitable life in this world ●its us by the sacred Spirit of light Christ Jesus SECT. XXVII FOr God will establish the Earth for ever when the time of refreshing shall come and Restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his Prophets since the world began For the Lord that hath chosen Zion will dwell in the midd'st of her And inhorit Judah his Portion in the holy land and choose Jerusalem again For heaven is the throne of God but the earth hath he given to the Sons of men to be inhabited for ever being their proper Sphere For the Lords Portion is his people Iacob is the Lot of his inheritance For he will remove the iniqui●y of that land in one day and Jerusalem shall then be called the City of Truth when the sons of Zion are raised out of the pit or grave wherein is no water and shall save them as the flock of his people and the Lord by David their leader shall save the tents of Iudah first for David shall be their Prince and Nations that know not Iudah shall run unto them who shall then be terrible as an army with Banners as it were the Company of two armies Iudah and Gentiles whose arrows are sharp and all their bowes bent their horses hoofs shall be counted like flint and their wheels like a whirl-winde their roaring of their hos●e shall be like the roaring of a Lyon yea they

the glory of this latter house shall be greater then that of the former built ly Solomon and when the Children of Israel shall be thus planted and dwell in their own land and place in Glory Eternal to be Removed no more Nor the Children of wickedness that is of the Divel to wast them any more as at the beginning Then the Lord will build the house and God the Father will establish his Throne and Ki●gdom for ever for of his Kingdom there shall be no end SECT. XXXIII ANd when his Tabernacle or personal presence shall be among them Then shall they say among the Nations The Lord R●igneth and the heathen or Gentiles shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel when my sanctuary shall be in the middest of them for evermore and my servant David shall be their Prince for ever The Figure of the holy City Jerusalem with the proofs out of the Prophets and Apostles for the same Aeron● Br st plate was a figure of ●h●● City Exo● 8 1● 〈…〉 21 12 North East South West Ruben Judo Levy Josep● Be●ian● Dan. Simem Jsocha● Z●bvlou Ezek. 48. 31. Rev. 21 16. Isa. 26 1 Rev. 3 12 Isa. 33 17 20 24 Isa. 66. 18 19. Isa. 60. 11 14 15. Ier. 31. 38 39 40. Isa. 49. 16 17. Heb. 11 10 14 16. Ezek 47. 7 12. Baruch 4. 30. Zach 14. 10 11 I●a 54. 11 12 13. Is● ●2 18 1● And they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and work iniquity And there shall no unclean thing enter into it nor any that worketh abomination but only they that are written in the Lambs book Therefore Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may enter through the gates into the City Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God Ierusalem the holy City from thenceforth shall no more come into thee the unclean I have raised him up and he shall build my City for we look for a City whose Builder and maker is God for I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of God Christ Jesus in the land of the living I will place Salvation in Zion for Israel my glory for when the Lord doth build up Zion he shall then appear in his glory Then Jerusalem shall be called the City of truth and he will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem And the name of City from that day forth shall be the Lord is there Yea he shall build the Temple of Jehovah For he hath prepared for them a City having twelve foundations For he will glorifie the house of his glory and I will make he Place of feet glorious But the Scepter was departed from Judah about 640. yeares before Shilo Christ came in the flesh Neither were the people of Judah gathered unto him but rejected him and Israel heard not of him being carried away by Shalmanazar King of Assiria about 964. years before Christ's coming in the flesh For Christ his coming in humility was when Judah's Iniquities were fully ripe and thus he came in the fulness of time to be a light to us Gentiles that had then fate almost 1800. years in Darkness and under the bondage and shaddow of death and Hell But shall then at his coming be the glory of his people Israel who as yet have not known him nor shall not know him till they shall see him and say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord for so is God's decree Then all things shall become new for the Lord will renew the face of the Earth and then the whole earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea for he shall come in the glory of God the Father yet that which is to be hath already bin and they shall all know the Lord from the least to the greatest of them from a childe of a span long to the man of full stature And then will he Remember their sins no more for the Lord shall then appear in his glory and shall stand upon the Mount of Olives and the mount of Olives shal cleave in the middest towards the North and towards the South and it shal become a very great valley yea all the land of Palestina shal be turned into a plain from Gheba to Rimon south of Jerusalem and shal again be meted out to the Tribes of Israel as at their coming out of Egypt SECT. XXXIIII THen shal they say arise let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God and they shal go from year to year and from one Sabbath to another to worship the King the Lord of hosts at Jerusalem for I will bring them from the north Country and gather them from the coasts of the earth for he that scattered Israel wil gather them even as a shepherd gathereth his flock and they shal come and sing in the height of Zion and flowe together to the goodness of God Christ a great company shal return thither and mine Elect servants only shal dwel there and inherit it for I wil Create Jerusalem a Rejoycing and her People a joy And I wil rejoyce in Jerusalem and Joy in my people for there God the Father comanded the blessing even life for evermore And then all things shall become new or the natures of all creatures shal be changed to the state and condition wherein they were first created for the wolf and the lamb shal feed together the Lyon shal then eat straw like a Bullock and dust shal be the Serpents meat They shal not hurt nor destroy any in all my holy mountaines saith the Lord For the very brute creature who was made subject to corruption through mans transgression waiteth for the Time of the manifestation of the Sons of God and to be restored into the glorious liberty of the Sons or Saints of God even eternal incorruptible being For then shal the creature● also be delivered from this bondage of corruption Death and then all his works shal praise him and all flesh shal bless his holy name for ever and ever for in that day wil the Lord make a Covenant for his people with all the beasts of the field with al the fowls of heaven and with al creeping things of the ground and al evil be●sts shal then cease out of the land and his people shal dwel safely in the wildernes and sleep in the woods and they shal be safe in their land For he wil sowe the portion of Israel and the portion of Iudah even the land of Palestina with the seed of man and with the seed of beasts for he that hath delivered them in these six troubles or these 6000. years or days of labour trouble and sorrow will not suffer evil or the Divel to touch them in the seventh day of his glorious Rest for the beastes of the

a shepherd goeth before his flo●k SECT XVIII ANd then one King shall be King over them all even David and they shall have one shepherd Christ for my Tabernacle shall be with them yea I the Lord will be their God For I am the Resurection and the life and blessed are they that have their part in the first resurrection Even the Resurrection of the Just for they that have done good shall come forth unto the Resurrection of life and they that have done evil or the works of the divel shall come forth unto or not until the Resurrection of Damnation death eternal or day of Judgement for the Righteous shall not come into condemnation or Judgement but are passed or passe here from this temporal death to life being the children of the Resurrection Christ and were reconciled to Christ before their departure out of this life For as the Tree here falleth so it lyeth SECT. XIX FOr know ye not that the Saints shall Judge the world or the dead men of this world who have their portion in this life where they have and do receive their Consolation and Glory But the Saints shall Reigne with Christ a thousand years before the day of Judgement or Resurrection of the damned for all that time the wicked shall be silent in darkness they shall not live they shall not rise the foolish shall not stand before thine eyes But thy dead or the dead in Christ shall live with this my body shall they arise yea they shall shout for joy But the unbeleeving shall not see life or Christ the Prince of life in his Glory because the Wrath of God death and hell abideth on them till the day of Judgement for after the Sabbattical thousand years Reigne then the Trump shall blow And the Dead shall be Raised and brought to Judgement and then shall the last Enemy called divel death hell and darkness be put under his feet by the Father and shall then be cast into the bottomless pit of horror and perpetuall darkness Yea all the wicked shall be gathered out of all parts of the world and brought into the Land of Palestina for they must be judged in the same land where the first Adam was Created and Transgressed and the second Adam Christ Jesus was Renounced Denied Judged Tormented and Crucified even in the land of Israel s nativity in the very Valley of Je●osap●a being in the land of Palestina Eden Paradise the Mount of God the Garden of God c. SECT. XX THen shall they say This Land that was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden for then the Mountains shall drop sweet wine they the Saints shall not hunger nor thirst but they shall feed in the ways and he that hath mercy on them shall lead them and guide them by the spring● of waters and I will make all my mountaines a way for them And I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and they shall plant Vinyards and drink the wine thereof and make gardens and eat the fruit thereof and I will plant them upon their own land they shall no more be pulled or taken out of their Land For the righteous shall inherit the land then and dwell therein for ever and they shall eat and drink at Christ's table in his kingdome of glory SECT. XXI THen shall five Cities of the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan and Ethiopia shall also stretch forth her hands unto the Lord-God of Israel In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and Assria even a blessing in the middest of the land from the River of Egypt to the River Euphrates Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless saying ●lessed be Egypt my people and Assiria the work of mine hands and Israel mine Inheritance their eyes shall then see the King in his glory because Egypt and Ass●ria sh●wed favour to Israel and Judah in time before and Ethiophia's Queen came to hear the wisdome of Sol●m●n and after that they sought af●er Christ saying Where is he th●t is born King of the Jews and had the favour above all other Nations in the world to see a●d know his Star and were directed by it to the place of his birth Bethlehem And then the Mountains of Israel shall bring forth their fruit to the people of Israel for they are at hand to come for he shall say to his Angels Gather my Saints together those that have made a Covenant with me by Sacrifice even Israel and Judah and they shall come from the East and from the West and from the North and from the South and shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God to whom the land was given and the land shall be then digged and sown and Israel shall be multiplied upon it and the Cities shall be built and Inhabited by Man and Beasts and they shall be setled after their old Estate yea I will do better unto you then at your beginning yea I will cause my people Israel to walk upon thee O Land and thou shalt be their Inheritance and shalt bereave them of me● no more Therefore thou Land of Palestina that hast devoured men and bereaved the Nation Israel and Judah shalt devour men no more neither bereave the Nations any more saith the Lord God For unto the Angels of darkness hath he not put in subjection the world of eternall Glory to come even that everlasting world that shal be without end But this world of sin which was and is given to darkness is and ever hath bin in subjection unto Lucifer the Divel and his angels of darkness but this evil the divel shall not then dwell with goodness light and glory Christ Jesus and Israel shall then fill the face of the world of Glory with fruit when he hath raised them and brought them into his vinyard for there will he give them his land even upon the Mountains of spices SECT. XXII ANd when Israel and Judah shall be gathered out of all Countries and thus brought to their own land then shall they be cleansed from all their filthiness and a new heart and a new spirit will the Lord give them and they shall dwell in the Land which he gave to their fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob who as yet have had no inheritance in it no not to set their foot upon it but died in faith not having received the promises but seeing them a far off imbraced them and confessed that they were strangers and Pilgrimes on the earth desiring a better even a heavenly durable glorious and everlasting countrey and inheritance given to them of God by promise of which Countrey God is not ashamed to be called their God SECT. XXIII ANd he hath also prepared for them a City where we shall be all fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God a City which hath

of love Christ Jesus according to the commandment of Jesus Christ who hath called us unto his Kingdom and Glory even the glory which he had with the father before the world was when he shall come in his glory For the time of this his glorious appearing is at hand to the eternall comfort and unexpressible joy of all the Saints of God but to the unsupportable horror dread and eternall confusion of all the dead men of this world or men of death Children of death hell and darkness called Sathan For God hath made all things for himself even the wicked for the day of wrath Evill Darkness judgement Death eternal to whom it is not given to know the truth nor the mysteries of his Kingdom of glory and joyes eternal to be there enjoyed by the Saints for ever And know this also that whatsoever things were written afore time were written for our learning that wee through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope of eternal life and Glory in the world to come Therefore pray that the light or spirit that is in you may not be of the darkness but of the true light Christ Jesus which inlighteneth every man unto Salvation whom God his God hath anoynted with the oyle of gladness above his fellowes even aboue all Spirits that so by that sacred Primary spirit of truth and light Christ Jesus whom God the father hath appointed heire of all things by whom also he made the world and who by him the father was sent in the flesh to be a light to us gentiles but shall be the glory yea a King of eternall glory to his people Israel ye may be inabled to hear his voyce and to be raised from the dead at his appearing in glory with all his saints But the rest of the dead shall not rise or live for they only that are his possessed by his spirit of life shall hear his voyce verily verily I say unto you the hour is coming when the dead shall hear the voyce of the son of God and they that hear his voyce shall live But they that hear not his voyce being the children of death shall still remaine in the bonds of death and hell for they are dead they shall not rise yea they shall not live at the resurrection of the just they shall not awake nor be raised out of their graves till the thousand years of rest and glory be fulfilled but they shall be gathered into one pit and shut up in the prison of the grave and after the thousand years or many days shall they be visited For the dead in Christ shall rise first even they that are Christs at his coming for thy dead men Christ Jesus shal live with my body shall they rise yea they which shall be accounted worthy of the worldtand tha resurrection from the dead are or shall be equall to the Angels of light and are the children of God being the children of the resurrection Christ Jesus who is the resurection and the life neither can they dy any more death hath no more dominion over them O therefore love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the constant doer be of good courage therefore for he shall strengthen your hearts all ye that trust in the Lord Now if this plain demonstration of the truth of Christs glorious personal reigne on the earth among his Saints in the land of Glory which God the Father hath ordained before the world unto our glorie that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God be still hid it is hid to them whose mindes are blinded by the God of this world the Divell that they should not see nor apprehend the excellency of the eternal Glorious being ordained of God for us before the world was even eternal life and glory unexpressible in the land of the living But God doth reveale them to his poor servants by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God that we might know the excellency and become partakers of the Majestie and unexpressible glory of Christ in the glorious world to come at the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the King of eternall life Light and Glory seen of all his Prophets who hath built an everlasting foundation with men and shall continue with their Seed And who also is by God the Father given for a covenant to the people to establish the earth even he the beloved who is ascended to his Father and our Father to his God and our God for thus saith the Lord I am Alpha and Omega which is which was and is to come The Almighty him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God the new Jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from my God Hear therefore O Israel or Elect the Lord thy God is one Lord For to us the Saints there is but one God even the Father of whom are all things even spirit of light and spirits of darkness and we in him and one Lord Je●us Christ by whom are all things formed and made into externall vi●ible shape and being and we by him by whom he the Father made the world that is decreed what this present world of darkness should be and what the glory of the world to come should be For known unto God the father or determined are all his works by in and from the or this sacred beginning Christ Jesus Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge for the Councell of peace shall be between them both even between Father and Son of the most high God the light of Israel and his holy one or beloved one by whom he hath given unto us eternal life and this life is in his son and when he shall appear the second time unto salvation we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and live ever in his sight even in the presence of his son Christ Jesus the true God and eternall life who is over all God blessed for ever of the Father For our life or eternal being is hid with Christ in God the Farher but when Christ which is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in his glory For He that is Elect and his name writen in the book of life or secret decree of the most high God the Father shall ever abide under the shaddow and guidance of the almighty Lord the ordained God of Salvation Christ Jesus and to whom belong the Issues of death he being the ordained resurrection and the life of eternall rest and glory to the Creature for he is gone up to prepare a

eternal purpose in Christ Jesus whereby he hath made them heires of glory yea joynt heires with Christ to be glorified together with him Whose spirit beareth witness to our spirits that we are the Children of God the Father and heires with Christ who is the Ordained God and Lord over all blessed for ever He came out of the mouth of the most high God the Father and so is he the word of God For the Creator of all things gave him a Commandment and ordained his tabernacle or personall presence to rest Saying to him let there be a firmament and let thy dwelling be in Jacob and thine inheritance in Israel Yea he came forth as a brook from a river for he the Father created him the beginning and he shall never faile and thus is he established in Zion in the beloved City Jerusalem is his rest and power being the portion of his inheritance Where he the word the life the way the truth the righteo●sness and the l●ght is by the Father decreed to dwell in g●ory with all his saints for ever There is also a word which is called upon with death who is called darknes hell falshood vanity unrighteousness wrath destroyer Sathan wickedness God grant it be not found in the heritage of Jacob the Saviour But this word was found in Jacob or Judah when they renounced the word of life and glory Christ saying we have no King but Caesar and his blood be on us and our Children Then spake he unto them in or by this word of darkness his wrath the divel and vexed them in his sore displeasure for they were given up by God the Father to him the wrath therefore said to be of their Father the divel the destroyer For as God or goodness is set by the Father against evill the divell light against darkness mercy against wrath life against death the Saviour against the destroyer even so is the Godly against the Sinner and the Sinner against the Godly Even so also look upon the works of the most high God the Father and there are ●wo Christ and Belial the accepted and the rejected and their two works are one against the other The ways of Righteousness are plain and easy to the righte●us but his commands are stumbling blocks to the wicked And for the Children of Righteousness are good things created or decreed by the father in the or this sacred beginning Even life eternall in glory but for the sinners or the Children of the disobedient one or evill things created or decreed even eternall being in the land of horrour drought and darkness for ever with their Father the divell for the wrath of God is revealed now but shall then be manifest Called Principalities Powers Hosts Ministers that at the Almighty's pleasure on his works yea powers of darkness Beelzebub that act by fire famine sword and pestilence punishing the wicked to destruction and boasting themselves in mischief and destruction whose nature and property is cruelty and destruction therefore stiled a roaring Lyon the destroyer but not the Saviour Christ whose nature and property is mercy and preservation and therefore is he stiled the preserver of men yea the Oracle or mouth of God the Father Thus you see that all things are double or decreed for a double use one against the other some for the light to abide in glory and some for the darkness Beelzebub to abide for ever in darkness For all that obey or do his will shall reap perdition but they that walk in the light and are Children of the light shall inherit the land or earth of glory and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace Thou wilt say why doth he then complain for who hath or doth resist his will for can I do any other then I am lead forth unto or made to do But O man who art thou which pleadeth or speaketh against God thy maker for shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it why hast thou made me thus hath not thee Potter power of one lump to make one vessell to honour or for the acting of the spirit of honour and glory Christ Jesus and another to dishonour or for the acting of the spirit of dishonour and reprobation Beelzebub what and if God will to manifest wrath and to make his the sdivels elotted or meated out power known to the Creature uffer the vessels of wrath prepared or decreed to destruction to act the will and works of wrath and that he might also declare the riches and power of his glory for Christ is the glory and power of God unto salvation upon the vessels of his mercy Christ the mercy of God which he hath prepared or decreed unto glory to act the works of mercy here for glory hereafter For if thou be determined for glory and the vessell or body be filled at present with the Spirit of glory truth and righteousness Christ Jesus then shalt thou act and be led forth to the works of glory truth and Righteousness For the meanes shall never be wanting that drives on to the end of the Fathers decree But if thou remaine under the power and guidance of the spirit of darkness then canst thou do none other works then the works of darkness and then thou wilt apprehend the word works and actings of Christ in his vessels of honour called saints to be ridiculous and foolishness for he that is not for Christ is against him But wo unto him that striveth with this his maker Christ Jesus the Lord of life and glory for this maker the Lord our Righteousness is the husband or bridegroome to the Saints and he will marry them unto himself in Righteousness and glory everlasting for he will give unto them salvation in Zion O therefore say not thou it is through the Lord Christ my maker that I perish for he causeth me to err for who dare say unto him what hast thou done or who dare stand against his Judgement to whom all power is given by the Father both in heaven and earth or who dare accuse him for the nations that perish whom he hath made or who dare stand against him to revenge the cause of the wicked that are by him cast off or rejected therefore happy yea thrise happy are all they that are possessed and guided by this sacred spirit wisdom For she was created or produced by the Father before all things she hath built her everlasting foundations with men and is given by the rather to be with their seed in glory for ever For all such as band themselves against Jehovah and against his anointed power for 〈◊〉 are described and known to be disobedient men of this earth or world of darkness guided by the rebellious spirit of wrath darkness and enemies to the obedient spirit of sight life and determined glory to the elect and obedient