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An alarm to the vvorld, of the appearing of Sions king. Or, a brief discoverie of the foot-steps of the Lord upon earth.
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Banaster, Thomas.
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Wing B631; Thomason E550_24; ESTC R205655
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AN ALARM TO THE VVORLD OF THE Appearing of Sions KING OR A brief Discoverie of the foot-steps of the Lord upon EARTH Isaiah 24. 19. The Earth is utterly broken down the Earth is clean dissolved Matth. 25. 6. And at midnight there was a crie made behold the Bridegroome cometh goe ye out to meet him Rev. 16. 15. Behold I come as a thief blesed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and I see his shame LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spred-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1649. To the READER Honored Friend WHen thou openest this little Book for to travel through it if thou meetest with any thing that thy heart cannot close with as possibly thou mayst yet let thy heart respect thy friend who hath writ his heart to thee and watered the lines with his tears by reason of beholding the earth watered with blood I with the blood of Kings Princes and mighty ones of the Earth and yet further he will proceed in blood even to the horse bridles and what I have writ I have writ not respecting the person of any man but out of pure love to all and in love I have told you in part what you are and what I am my self and in part what will become of us all I have not written any thing in the least against Kings and powers with a grudging heart or a scorning of Kingly Authoritie but exceedingly honoring them all and by this it is manifest in giving you notice and warning of the great Kings coming who is the King of Kings and therefore will unthrone all Kings and overturn all Kingdomes and all powers and none but the Lords King and Kingdome shall stand Friend Thou wilt finde something written in a very mysterious way But time shall declare and dayes to come shall bring forth to the view and knolwedg of all every mysterious truth of God especially to them who are saved and called with a holy calling And therefore in the holy number if thou art one of the holy number thou art honored with a Princely name which name is Israel and it belongs as a gift given to the Princes of Israel to know the mysteries the very inside mysteries of the Kingdome of Heaven where Christ thy King hath dwelt ever since his ascending but now ready to be revealed in these our dayes being the last dayes of the last dayes in the which all things that are written shall be fulfilled even so Amen THOMAS BANASTER TO all Emperours Kings Princes Rulers Iudges Magistrates and Powers throughout the earth after what name or Title soever mentioned with all Ministers and people high low rich poore noble and ignoble and thou Israel amongst the rest throughout the whole inhabitable parts of the world do I send greeting with a word Behold the King of Kings is coming now with Clouds to visit you and by and by with light THOMAS BANASTER AN ALARM TO THE VVORLD OF THE Appearing of Sions KING Revelation 1. 7. verse Behold he cometh with Clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the Earth shall waile because of him even so Amen WHeresoever you finde the word behold written you finde something more then ordinary following it something very excellent very admirable and wonderfull and also something very terrifying and amazing by reason of the great destruction which attends it which things at their appearing let them be either joyous or grievous they will cause great admiration great wondering and great astonishment upon all people and paleness upon all faces here followeth this word behold joy peace rest salvation with eternall glory also fear trouble confusion plagues Judgments with eternal misery Therefore Hear ye dispisers and wonder and perish and hear ye Saints and in hearing rejoyce and blesse his name who is your King and coming now with clouds which appearing will cause great joy of heart and great sorrow of heart ye shall joy for joy of heart and they shall sorrow for sorrow of heart for here is life and death joy and peace hasting on apace for the Lords warning peece is shot off upon the world to give warning to the world of the coming of Jesus Christ and that there is such a thing reade Phil. 3. 20. Our conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for the Saviour Heb. 9. 28. And unto them that look for him he shall appear the second time c Titus 2. 13. Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God Revel 22. 20. Loe I come quickly even so come Lord Jesus This coming of Jesus Christ will be a coming to the purpose his second coming therefore hear ye sons and daughters of Jerusalem your King is come and yet coming still but it is a cloudy coming or appearing He that you have waited for so long and looked for with so many a long look with fetching of many a long sigh and groane and in the bottome of your sigh was written Lord when wilt thou appear why behold he is now coming to thee oh thou afflicted soul to ease thee of all thy troubles and to deliver thee from al thy many sufferings which thou hast suffered for this many thousand years by thy own evill heart and fleshly minde and also by wicked men which hated thee and thy King therefore now lift up your heads and cast sorrow from your heart for he that is your joy is descended the second time behold he cometh Here are three things considerable in these words first who it is that proclaims this news with a behold he cometh it is the Lord by the mouth of John Secondly what it is he proclaimes it is of the coming of Iesus Christ Sions King Thirdly to whom it is proclaimed it is to all the world good and bad godly and prophane and the reason why it is proclaimed to all is because all shall see him and every eye shall see him The first appearing of this King is a cloudy appearing and this cloudy appearing will be a dark tempestuous confused and destructive appearing and also bloudy and for the proofe of this read Isaiah 50. 3. Psal 97. 1. The Lord raignes let the earth rejoyce and the multitude of the Isles be glad thereof clouds and darkness are round about him and Psalm 18. 9. The Lord bowed the Heavens and came down and darkness was under his feet This Scripture is fulfilling in this your dayes the second time and then it will be finished The Lord raigns do not ye see and feel his power and if not why do ye tremble oh ye Inhabitants of the Earth Psalm 99. 1. The Lord raigneth let the people tremble and let the Earth be moved Ye finde it also in the Text and that cloudy raigning there mentioned or coming is now The Lord is entered his Throne upon Earth but entered with clouds and darkness and sits there with clouds and darkness round
mouth thou shalt be judged either for salvation or damnation and therefore Christ saith The words that I have spoken and you have rejected shall judge you at the last day John 12. 48. You are got into the last dayes yea unto the last dayes of the last dayes that is into the half time Daniel spake of and that half time is almost out too Oh world and therefore a spirituall judgment is near to be revealed to us all And the words that Christ hath spoken shall judge us all that is God will open the eye of the understanding of all by his spirituall light by the which light you shall know and see what you did reject and what you have done in rejecting and also what Christ said and how you all have answered him again and also how you have lived and you shall need no other Judge then the light of God which shall shine upon your understanding and consciences for that shall give you light into all your wayes in the which ye have walked and this your enlightned understanding and convinced consciences shall condemne you all that is all flesh There is a mysterie John 8. 9. And they that heard it being convinced in their consciences went out one by one their consciences bearing witness again Romans 2. 15. Their consciences also bearing witness and their thoughts the meane while either accusing or excusing and a convinced conscience either of good or bad lyeth in the understanding being enlightned your understanding and consciences oh Saints and worldlings is all the book that God needs to use in the day of his spirituall judging of you and behold he is coming to Judgment and every eye shall see by this light of God every one shall be saved that have part in the first resurrection and by the same light every one shall be destroyed that have not part in him so that this light of God will bring salvation and destruction both at one time unto the two hoasts that stand at the right and left hand of God Isa 33. 4 5. The sinners in Sion are afraid fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites and who among us shall dwell with devouring fire reade one of the next verses and it tels you who shall and who shall not the Lord is come and coming still for to destroy and yet to save and that 's the reason why all flesh doth so fear Ezek. 39. 21. I will set my glory among the heathen and all the heathen shall see my Judgments that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them Isa 66. 14. The hand of the Lord shall be known towards his servants and his judgments towards his enemies ye shall not only have judgment but see the judgment of the Lord upon you yea eat your own flesh and drink your own blood and the Lord will come for to open your eyes for to see it And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together Isa 40. 5. And again that they may see know and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this you shall see the Lord oh ye nations ere long in his Saints with great power for to consume thee oh world and all that is in it that will be the next dispensation of God after the cloudy Sion stand up now and rejoyce for thou hast almost received double for all thy sins Isaiah 40. 2. Therefore comfort thy self in thy God for my King is very near bringing double joy double peace double rest and double glory with a double spirituall power Isaiah 61. 7. And all shall be thine and therefore gather to thee And the reason is because the Lord will glorifie the house of his glory and all shall call thee the City of the Lord the Sion of the holy one of Israel for the Lord will give thee such a spirituall power that by that power thou shalt consume all the wicked in thee so that no oppressor shall passe through thee any more Zach. 9. 8. And I will encamp about my house because of the Army and because of him that passeth by and because of him that returneth and no oppressor shall pass through thee any more for now have I seen with my eyes this is a mystery the light of God is a consuming and a destroying light Isaiah 11. 4. Hear oh world your fall is begun for your Prince that is your leader is wounded by the light of God and so wounded that he bleeds all the way he goes and so he will untill he hath bled himself to death for the wound that is given him is an uncurable wound for it is given him by a mighty Prince called the Lion of the Tribe of Judah Sions King and your terrible Judge and from this arises all your fear and you know it not Oh who shall stand before this great Judge when he cometh out of Clouds into light to judge with light and glory why this the Lord is coming near withall and the day of the Lords light will be the day of the Lords dividing Joel 3. 14. Or the day of the Lords great separating not only a dividing or separating the powers of evill men far from you oh Saints or you from them but a dividing or separating two ancient warriers flesh and Spirit so that you shall never learn war more Why oh soul thou shalt never learn war more for the Lord who is thy King will conquer all thy inside enemies as well as thy outside enemies and there shall be a great valley between ye both and that is the reason why he comes with his glorious light for to destroy all and then for to make known all to you Israel thou hast been a long time under a vaile the which vaile so covered thy fathers glory that ye could not see nor yet discern him but now ye shall very suddenly for it is neer taking away Isaiah 25. 7. And he will destroy in this Mountain the face of the covering cast over all people and the vaile that is spread over all Nations A spirituall light brings a spirituall discerning along with it Malachi 3. 18. Then shall ye return and discern and Isaiah 14. 16. And they that see shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying Is this the man Thy eyes shall be opened too oh world and thou shalt see and know what Israel is thou shalt know the Lords Sion but with another manner of knowledge then ever yet thou knewest them withall and by that sight thou shalt confess this is the seed which God hath blessed Isa 69. 1. And as the light of the Lord in thee causes thee to know his Israel so the light of the Lord in them shall destroy thee as well as that in them that bears not his image and therefore is but stubble and not fit for any thing but to to be destroyed by the light of God Isa 10. 17. 18. And the light of Israel shall be