THE DAY-SPRING from on high visiting the WORLD OR Gods Salvation revealed and the work of Redemption declared and the way opened into the Everlasting Rest. ALSO The two births discovered and their several Image and the enmity that is betwixt them WITH The Lambs appearance in Glory and his Power and Government Exalted By WILLIAM SMITH LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. THere is a dark night of Apostasie over the Earth in wch the world are asleep upon there beds of ease and their eyes are not opened to behold the wondrous works of God neither can they believe it though it be declared for they will neither see with their eyes nor hear with their ears nor understand with their hearts but stands despising the work of the Lord and the appearance of his righteousness Therefore doth the Lord God utter his voice from his holy hill and the sound thereof goeth forth into the world and the words reacheth unto the ends of the Earth that all may awake and behold the salvation which now is revealed in the springing of the day for the acceptable time is come the morning Star is risen the day is dawned the Son of righteousness shineth and it is from on high revealed that the eyes of all might be opened who have so long slept the sleep of death that they might see their Saviour whose Name is Jesus the begotten of God the brightness of his glory and expresse Image of his person in whom is the fulness and unto whom all power is given the Father is well pleased in him and none comes to the Father but by him there is none besides him nor any like unto him who is full of grace and truth look unto him all ye ends of the Earth for the day of your visitation is come in which the grace of God appeareth be ye all turned unto it that your eyes may be opened to see the love that God hath unto you for God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son who is the light of the world in whom the promise of grace is fulfilled in breaking the Serpents head and recovering out of his snare he it is that doth redeem who is not of the world but Redeemes out of the World all that believe in him for he worketh the work of God and destroyes the work of the Devil and casts out the man of sin he fans the Nations with his hand and purgeth the floor by his mighty power Kings shall bow before him Nations shall tremble the mighty men shall fall and Princes shall be broken by his might who is now appearing in power and great glory to Judge the world in righteousness unto him doth the Law and Prophets witness unto whom he was revealed and in his life they prophesied and spake of the glory that was in him which was to be revealed unto ages to come and is now broken forth in these last dayes and is beheld as the glory of the onely begotten of the Father and the Law and Prophets have their end in him and are all fulfilled by him who is come to perfect the work of God and he hath the witness both of the Law and Prophets therefore unto him look who is salvation to the ends of the Earth who visits you in this his day and reacheth unto you with a manifestation of light that you may therein see the evil of your doings and come to repentance that the true light may lead you which is manifest from God unto you that thereby you may come out of darkness death and bondage to know the Redemption which by the Lord is wrought and plentifully revealed in this his day and put not this from you to ages past for therein you deceive your selves but all look near and see what you can witness of Redemption from your vain conversation and salvation from your sin for it is not youâ— talk of what God hath done in times past for others and what great salvation unto them appeared and how they were saved that will save you or Redeem you but to have your minds turned unto that which they was Redeemed by and saved in and to feel the the power of it to work effectually in you as it did in them who were true witnesses of it for what will it profit you to read of the great deliverance wrought by the out-stretched arm of God for Jacobs seed out of Egypts bondage if you find not the same work wrought in you by the same power you are not in their deliverance but are still in bondage and are kept in that which they was delivered from and so his work was wrought upon the blind the Lepers and the lame and the blind received sight the Lepers was cleansed and the lame walked and this you may read as it is declared and yet may your eyes be blinded and your leprosie not cleansed nor your ancle bones strengthened you may read of the promises and the consolation which they had who did believe in them and yet may you be out of them and miss the consolation that they found in them who believed in that unto which all the promises was made for all the promises of God are yea and Amen in Christ Jesus mark yea and â—men are all the promises in Christ Jesus in whom they stand sure and all your reading and talking of these things declared and saying these promises you believe in and you apply them by faith and so receives the comfort it will not stand you in stead in the needful time for whilst you talk of faith and applying the promises by faith you deceive your selves in your imaginations being yet in your sins and out of the faith of the Son of God which purifieth the heart and so you are out of the condition of those who lived in the promises and knew them to stand sure in the seed Therefore all unto the light come and in it wait that you may feel the same power to work in you and bring the same thing to passe in you as it hath done in ages before you that whilst you talk of liberty by Christ Jesus your selves may not be found servants unto sin and in bondage to corruption for of whatsoever a man is overcome unto the same is he in bondage if you be found servants unto sin you are in bondage to it not in the freedom of the Son so all having sinned all must unto the light be turned and by it be Redeemed and know the power of it to work true freedom into the glorious liberty before any can truly say that they are set free for all must stand as they are before the Lord therefore think not your selves to be above what you are least whilst you think that you are something you prove nothing and so deceive your selves fore there is a groaning felt in you under the bondage of corruption and unto that doth the breathings of
you no wrong but will pass true Judgement according to the evidence which shall be given in by the Just witness in your Conscience and then will you stand guilty before the Lord for the sentence will pass against you and the Judgement will fall upon on you and a Just recompence of reward will be given unto every one of you and this is in the breathings of Gods love declared unto you that you may once turn before repentance be hid from your eyes for you have oft been warned and still you have refused it and hated to be reformed now look unto him whom you pierce let your joy be turned into heaviness and your laughter into mourning that you should so despise him who would have you to be saved and so evil intreat him who hath so long suffered and been patient towards you Now stand still in the pure fear of God that you may come to see Salvation which is so plentifully revealed and made known in the breakings forth of the love of God in the light that you may come to witness Redemption by him who is the way to the Father whose coming is prepared as the morning to give light unto such as be in darkness and this will be known unto you all that it is not want of love from God which will be the Condemnation but your hating the light which from his love is made manifest unto you for a manifestation of the Spirit there is given unto you all that you thereby might profit and who joyns to the Spirit joyns to the Lord and denies the evil deeds and comes out of imitations and over all false births to the birth immortal before which the false birth dies and comes to an end and all imitations withers and consumes away and in that are you glorying which the Spirit of the Lord is blowing upon and blasting and though you be heightened in your glory and stands as if you were rich and had need of nothing yet are you fathomed to the bottom and your ground is tried and you are seen to be poor and miserable and the wo doth reach unto you who are covered but not with the Spirit of the Lord Therefore come down you high and lofty ones who have climbed up another way then by the door you are thieves and robbers and have stollen words from your neighbours which is not your own and have sowed them together and made you a covering and in it stands decked as a painted harlot yet will not all this hide you from the pure eye of God for he is enquiring after you and his voice reacheth unto you and in the cool of the day he comes to see where you are you being erred from him and out of Communion with him for Adam was fallen from God when it was said unto him where art thou read in the fear of God and trie your waies and doings O ye Priests and professing people and see where you are whether in the innocencie or subtiltie in the life or in knowledge covered with righteousnesse or with leaves bearing the image of the heavenly or the image of the earthly in which of these are you consider for the day of visitation reaches unto you all who be out of the way of life put off your coverings for they will not hide you nor be a defence unto you for now doth the Lord appear against you and his controversie is with you all and the day hastens towards you that burns as an oven and all the proud and the wicked must be the stubble and it will burn and there shall be none to quench it therefore be not you deceived for God will not be mocked he sees your wayes and doings and you cannot hide your Councel from him though many things you do he hath no pleasure in them neither doth he require them at your hands he is weary of your meetings and your prayers he heareth not though you make many of them but heaven is shut upon you and the showers doth not fall and so you are a parched heath that brings forth no fruit neither doth your will-worship and fained humilitie make you stand approved in the sight of God neither do you please him nor are your performances accepted for you walk after the flesh satisfies it in the lust and so joines to the harlot and commits whoredom and brings forth a child of whoredom and the son of an adulteress woman which is at enmitie with the seed of life and persecutes the birth that is born thereof But now is the Lord redeeming his chosen and unto the good land is bringing of them in which all wars ceaseth and every one comes to know a quiet habitation in the lot of their own inheritance and possesseth their own portion with joy and gladnesse and fits under their own vine where none makes them afraid for into the holy city many are come where the Lambs government is known who is set upon his throne and in great power doth he reign to subject the kingdoms of the world for he is the Lord and all must worship him who in his glorie doth appear and of whose government there is no end for he hath taken to him his great power and ruleth and with his own arm doth he scatter the proud and with his own arm doth he gather the humble and in his hand doth lead them into the holy City where he is King for ever and makes all wars to cease and seales an everlasting decree of peace this is the new Jerusalem come down from God out of heaven where there is noâ— curse nor sorrow nor hell nor death but the glory of the Lord fills it and the Lamb is the light thereof in which many walk who are by his power redeemed from the earth and are made to sing songs of deliverance and gives glory unto him that sits upon the throne and unto the Lamb for evermore and this is the rest prepared for the people of God into which many are entered and many are pressing in the light of the Lord Therefore arise you wearied ones and forth of Egypt depart the day of God reacheth unto you that out of darknesse you might come in which you have long sojourned as in a strange Land and under a strange government where you are oppressed and evil intreated arise and come forth the day of Redemption is come and he who is the light of the world makes himself known and his visitation reacheth unto all Stay not behind him but his out-goings waite to know who leads in his light and will not leave you in darknesse nor under Pharaohs power but will ease you of your burdens and break open the house of bondage and free you from oppression and guide you in the way prepared to the everlasting rest gird up the loines of your minds for salvation is near you stand still and see it for the day hath appeared in which Gods arm is revealed by which the
Sea is divided and Pharaohs host destroyed therefore who is Pharaoh and what is his power that he should withstand God is not he the King of Aegypt his power the power of darknesse is not the Lord the King of glory and his power made known in the light which is a plague to Pharaoh and his house for God is making his power known upon him because he is his enemie and stands in his heard heartednesse against him the hand of God smites him and the breath of the Almightie is kindled against him and that is come to passe concerning him which all the Inchanters of Aegypt cannot do Therefore a warning this is from the Lord God unto all that be his enemies and are found fighting against him and resisting the light of the Lamb that you may all repent and turn to the Lord before utter destruction come upon you for God confounds all your devices and brings to nought all your Inventions though you sit as Kings in Aegypt yet from thence is God bringing you down and makes your Councels to be of none effect your great host cannot save you nor all your horses and Chariots defend you from the outstrethed arm of God who is smiting your first-born throughout and you must know that there is no God like the God of Israel Therefore cease thy cruelty thou violent beast whose power is in the dark in which thou hast long Reigned and also made war with the Lamb and his followers and shed innocent blood with which thou hast made thy self drunk and yet art not satisfied but still thirsts for more how hast thou been exalted set up in thy glorie that the world hath wondered after thee and hath said who is like unto thee who is able to make war with thee for the power of the Nations hath been given unto thee and from thence hast thou had thy life but now thou must know that there is one above thee in whom all power is who subdues the Nations under him and takes away thy life from thee that thy strength faileth thee and all thy beautie goeth from thee and thou appearest an ill favoured harlot for now thou art seen within and thy nakedness doth appear thy covering is removed that thou canst not hide thy self any longer and now doth he rise against thee that maketh warre in righteousnesse who with great power is come the pure and undefiled One who upon his throne over all doth reign thy heads and horns to break and to redeem his chosen from thee whose power is filled with cruelty and thou shalt know that the Lamb in his power reigneth Therefore let Sion rejoyce and the daughters of Judah be glad because of Gods righteous judgements who is pleading the cause of the innocent and executing vengeance upon the beast destroying his marks and names his heads and horns let him that readeth understand Rejoyce ye Saints and all you holy ones for the Lamb is exalted in dominion and of his government there is no end for he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and the holy hill of Sion is his throne and there he doth reign with the Scepter of his righteousnesse and executes true judgement upon the heathen who are in their rage against him and would not that he should reign over them he is taking vengeance on them all and he will be eased of them because they are his adversaries for none shall prosper that fights against Sion for the time is come that God will have mercy upon her and out of the dust she is arising and the oyle of joy is given for mourning the garment of gladnesse for the spirit of heavinesse therefore all you tender ones whose face is Sion-ward walk in the light of the Lamb and follow him whithersoever he goes stand in the innocency and meeknesse of him and know his strength to gird you about and feel his power to obtain the victory for you God hath visited in his everlasting love and made known his salvation in you and given you to believe and also to suffer for his sake all keep in the word of his patience and let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing but stand compleat in him who is the head and fear not the reproach of men neither be afraid of their revilings but be ye clothed with humility and put ye on the garment of Righteousness and shew your selves in the Lambs meekness that his own life in you may preach to the world and his own innocence may shine thorow the vessel that God in you may be glorified and your hearts in God may be comforted and in that all dwell which God hath revealed in you and keep your minds down in the stillness that over all the Lamb you may feel his goverment everlasting in you to set up and his righteous Scepter over you to reign and so in the Kingdom all lye down where the Lamb is exalted upon his throne and know the righteousness and peace that is therein for there is gladness of heart obtained and the everlasting rest prepared unto which you are redeemed and are by the Lord a people saved therefore be ye all joyned together in the Lords love and there abide in the holy fear that the teachings of the Lamb you may alwayes hear and that you may feel his hand to knit you together and bind you up in the bundle of life and so to be made perfect in one that his image you may bear who is without sin and in his life reign over hell and know your bodies prepared to do his will that with one heart and minde you may serve him and feel your increase in him that you may grow up together into the measure of his fulnesse whose life is perfect pure and holy and let none look back again nor turn aside to either hand but keep to that which leads in the way and feel it to prepare the way before you that out of all Reasonings you may be kept and out of all snares preserved that so you may walk worthy in the power of God of the high calling whereunto he hath called you and in his power live to his praise for God hath done wonderful things for you and his own outstretched arm hath brought great things to passe who hath reached unto the mighty and brought them down from their seat and hath exalted that of low degree and out of bondage hath delivered you and leads you in a way that you did not know go on rejoycing and be ye faithful unto death for the Lords goodnesse goeth before you and the everlasting rest is prepared for you and into the good land will the Lord bring you where the milk honie floweth and the fountain of life openeth in which strength is renewed that there is neither wearinesse nor faintnesse but everlasting joy and gladnesse therefore be ye comforted in the Lords love ye dear children of light for the world seeth not that which God hath prepared for you nor knowes not the food which you feed upon for it is hid from their eyes but blessed are your eyes for they see and the things which God hath prepared for you are unto you revealed by his spirit there be you all stayed and wait to feel him carry on the work which in you he hath begun and he will make bare his arm for you and drive out all enemies before you and settle you in a quiet habitation and cover you with his wing and preserve you under his shadow and in the Kingdom prepared will he establish you and seal an everlasting decree of peace unto you and this is your portion ye tender ones who have denied your selves and the worlds glory and have no inheritance therein but followes the Lamb in faithfulnesse and walks in the paths of Rigteousnesse your portion is durable riches and your inheritance that which never fades away for the Kingome is everlasting and he that reignes therein endureth for ever and of his government there is no end THE END