Truth obey the Truth and hold fast the Truth Now Beloved Let me beseech you for Gods sake and for Christs sake and for your Soules sake keep your selves from false Teachers from false Doctrine from false worship from false Opinions If you will be tasting and siping at Babylons cup you must resolve to receive more or lesse of Babylons plagues XVIII Eighteenthly Be one with every one that is one with Christ Endeavouring to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of peace There is one body and one Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your Calling One Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all Ephes 4.3 4 5 6. Every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him By this we know that we love the Children of God when we love God and keep his Commandments 1 Joh. 5.1 2. He that loveth not his Brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4.26 Oh Consider what a dishonour it is to the Gospel that those that professe themselves Sonnes of the same God Members of the same Christ Temples of the same Spirit Heirs of the same Glory should be at a jarring one with another It is strange and unnaturall that Lillies should prove thorns to one another that those who are Saints in profession should be Devils in practise to one another that Gods Diamonds should cut one another For Wolves to devour the Lambs is no wonder but for one Lamb to devour another is a wonder and monstrous Oh that Christians instead of loving one another should hate one another Oh how unlike are we to that God whom we professe to be our God! He is full of love full of goodness and full of mercy and patience Oh but Christians cannot beare and forbear one with another Oh do not wicked men warm themselves at the sparks of our divisions and say it is as we would have it Oh Beloved hath not God made his wrath to smoke against us for the divisions and heart-burnings that have been amongst us Oh that you would lay this to heart and throw away all discord and divisions and heart burnings and labour for a onenesse in love and affection with every one that is one with Christ Oh labour for a healing spirit You cannot love God if you do not love the people of God If any man saith he loveth God and hateth his brother he is a lyer Let brotherly love continue Heb. 13.1 They that feared the Lord spake often one to another Mal. 3.16 Christs Doves should flock together There be many that cannot love a man unlesse he be of their Opinion or a Member of their Church though he be a Member of Christ Every man hath a good opinion of his own opinion But alas Beloved it is not this opinion or that opinion this way or that way will bring a man to Heaven without faith in Christ and he that hath faith in Christ hath a right to all the Ordinances of Christ and Promises of Christ and Priviledges of Christ therefore let me beseech you to love every man that is a godly man let him be of what way and form he will And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul Acts 4.38 XIX Nineteenthly Love Christ with a Love stronger then life who loved us with a love stronger than death Therefore doth my father love me because I lay down my life that I might take it again no man taketh it from me but I lay it down my self I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again John 10.17 18. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 Christs love to us was stronger then death he dyed for love he laid down his life to save our lives he loves us as the Father loves him John 15.9 As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love Oh the Scripture hath exceeding high expressions of his affection to us Now Beloved if he died for us and suffered for us and set his heart upon us to love us and delight in us how ought we then to love him again Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind Math. 22.37 38. Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee Psal 73.25 Vnto you therefore which believe he is precious 1 Pet. 2.7 Oh let our hearts be full of love and affections to Christ Love will breed courage and cast out fear slavish fear before God and carnal fear before men God can keep us from the torments of men but men cannot keep us from the torments of God Whilest we stand by God God hath promised to stand by us Therefore be not afraid of any Authority that stands in opposition to the Authority of Christ None can promise us better than Christ can none can threaten us worse than Christ can Can any man promise us with better then Heaven Can any man threaten us with worse than Hell Heaven is promised to those that love him and Hell is to be the portion of those that hate him Oh my dear Brethren Let us Love Christ with a love stronger then death so did Paul and the rest of the Apostles Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword Rom. 8.35 Love is stronger than Death many waters cannot quench it neither can the floods drown it Cant. â— 6 7. XX. Twentiethly Be every day as serious in your preparation for death as if it were your last day All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait till my change come Job 14.14 This night thy soule shall be required of thee Luke 12.20 For what is your life it is even a vapour that appeareth a little time and then vanisheth away Jam. 4.14 Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth and mine age is as nothing before thee Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity Psal 39.5 As no Saint knows when that time and hour shall be so no wicked man knows when it shall not be To live without fear of death is to dye living To labour not to dye is labour in vain Men are afraid to dye in such and such sins but not afraid to live in such and such sins Oh the Hell of horrors and terrors that attend those soules that have their greatest work to do when they come to dye therefore as you would be happy in death and everlastingly blessed after death prepare and fit your selves for death Did Christ dye for us that we might live with him and shall not we desire to dye and be
your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time 1 Pet. 5.5 6. Bring up your will to God that God may bring down his will to you Be low in your own eyes keep a low esteem of your selves abhor pride and flye from it be inwardly sincere as well as outwardly humble Do not look Heaven-ward by your profession and Hell-ward by your conversation He that lives in sin is dead in sin Ephes 2.1 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity Ephes 6.24 Let your hearts be upright with God and walk as those that have God for their portion Knowing there are many eies upon you the eye of God the eye of Christ the eye of Angels the eye of Saints the eye of the world and the Divell eyes you too therefore walk wisely and sincerely be like the Kings Daughter all glorious within Psal 45.3 She is all glorious within though within is not all her glory Her cloathing is of wrought gold Doe not think your selves good because others think so Alas the best mens confidences of us are poor Evidences for Heaven the best Testimony is that within us and above us See therefore that ye grow in grace and delight in holiness bring forth much fruit live still as before the living God take heed of Hypocrisie and Apostacy make it your daily business to walk with God be much in the exercise of humility Humility will exceedingly adorn your profession Doe not place Religion in a few good words when the substance is neglected but live as you would die live to day as if you were to dye to morrow XIII Thirteenthly Doe good to those that be good He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God Micah 6.8 That they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate 1 Tim. 6.18 But do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Heb. 13.16 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherlesse and widdows in their affliction James 1.27 Forget not to contribute to the necessities of the poor Saints think that God hath given you your Estates for such a time as this Oh Beloved what an opportunity have you now to do good if Satan do not hinder you are there not many of Christs Ministers now in want and Members in want some in prison and others out of prison Remember those that are in bonds as bound with them and them that suffer adversity as being your selves also in the body Heb. 13.3 There be many men that have a great deal of this worlds wealth and riches and goods in their hands and in their houses but they have no grace in their hearts and therefore they do no good with the goods of this world they live so unfruitfull that their lives are scarce worth a prayer not their deaths scarce worth a tear Men may as well go to Hell for not doing good as for doing evil he that bears not good fruit is as well fuel for Hell as he that bears bad You may not be outwardly bad and yet not inwardly good you may be as far from grace as from vice Men are not so much sent to Hell for doing evil as for not doing good For I was an hungred and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink Math. 25.42 The rich glutton was in Hell torments not for persecuting Lazarus but not relieving Lazarus Merozzarus was cursed by the Angel not because they fought against the Lord but because they came not to help the Lord against the mighty Judges 5.23 It is one of the greatest mercies in the world for God to give a man a heart to doe good with that he hath given him Oh Beloved be always a doing good and hating evil Look not only where you may get good but where you may do good Labour to be helpful to the souls of others and to supply the wants of others XIV Fourteenthly Chuse chastisement before defilement Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the Sonne of Pharaohs daughter chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season Heb. 11.24.25 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that ye have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance Heb. 10.34 So the three Children chose burning in the fiery furnace before bowing to the Golden Image Daniel 3.17.18 We are not careful to answer thee in this matter If it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thy hand O King But if not be it known unto thee O King that we will not serve thy Gods nor worship the Golden Image that thou hast set up So Daniel chose suffering before sinning And it is said of those in Heb. 11.35 they accepted not of deliverance and others were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtaine a better resurrection Oh Beloved there is more evill in the least sin against Christ than in the greatest suffering for Christ First Our sufferings for Christ are but light 2 Cor. 4.17 Secondly But short but for a moment Thirdly Christ stands by us in out sufferings Fourthly Our sufferings are ordered by the Father Fifthly Our sufferings shall not hurt our souls Sixthly God gives us the best of comforts in the worst of times we have most of consolations from God when we have most of tribulations from men as our sufferings do abound so our consolations do abound When the burden is heaviest upon the back when the peace of conscience is sweetest and greatest within Therefore my dear brethren keep your selves out of the puddle of this world and from the evil of this world and if you must sin or suffer chuse suffering before sinning XV. Fifteenthly Think not the worse of godliness because it is frowned upon nor the better of ungodliness because it is smiled upon For bodily exercise profiteth little but Godlinesse is profitable unto all things having the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 Yea doubtlesse and I count all things but losse for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the losse of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ Phil. 3.8 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darknesse but rather reprove them Ephes 5.11 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6.23 Oh Friends think not the worse of holinesse because it is reproached and scorned and persecuted by
true Believer after he begins to follow the Lamb he never leaves following him but followeth him whithersoever he goeth Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall Tribulation or Distresse or Persecution or Famine or Nakednesse or Perill or Sword For I am perswaded that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor Things present nor Things to come nor Height nor Depth nor any Creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Oh beloved he doth not follow the Lamb whither soever he goeth that follows the Lord earnestly for a while but afterward forsaketh him when a storme riseth Yet hath he not root in himself but dureth for a while when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word by and by he is offended Math. 13.21 Nor he that followes the Lamb in some things and the Beast in other things They feared the Lord and served their own gods after the manner of the Nations Nor he that followeth the Lord in a dull heavy manner and a luke-warm temper I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot I would thou wert cold or hot Chap. 3.15 Be astonished O ye Heavens at this and be horribly afraid be ye very desolate saith the Lord for my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountaine of living waters and hewed them out Gisterns broken Cisterns that can hold no water Jer. 2.12 13. Oh this is not a following the Lamb They that follow the Lord fully abide in the Lord and cleave to the Lord and continue constantly in Gods ways to the end of their dayes The righteous holds on his way Job 17.9 Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord. Hosea 6.3 The righteous man holds on his way he followes the Lamb whithersoever he goeth First Speedily Secondly Truly Thirdly Undividedly Fourthly Zealously Fifthly Humbly Sixthly Chearfully Seaventhly Diligently Eightly Constantly Ninthly Faithfully Tenthly Transcendently Now this is following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Now I shall shew you why Believers follow the Lamb. First Because they are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as Silver and Gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot 1 Pet. 1.18 19. He paid a price for our redemption that so he might discharge the debt of our sins And they sung a new song saying Thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation Rev. 5.9 There are three things called precious in the Scriptures First Faith is called precious 2 Pet. 1.1 Secondly The promises are called precious vers 4. Thirdly The blood of Christ is called precious 1 Pet. 1.19 O his blood hath redeemed us from six Enemies First From the World Galathians 1.4 Rev. 14.4 Secondly From the Curse Galathians 3.13 Thirdly From Sin Rom. 6 18 22. Fourthly From the Devil Heb. 2.18 Acts 26.17 18. Fifthly From the sting of Death 1 Cor. 15.55 56. Sixthly From Hell 1 Thes 1.10 Rev. 2.12 O his blood is precious blood his blood hath slaine our Enemies he hath purchased by his blood Reconciliation with the Father Union with the Son and Communion with the Holy Ghost Ye that were sometimes afar off are made nigh by the Blood of Christ Ephes 2.13 16. Secondly They follow the Lamb because they are washed in the blood of the Lamb. He hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his blood Rev. 1.5 These are they which came out of great Tribulation and have washed their Robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb Rev. 7.14 The blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sinne 1 John 1.7 Christs blood washeth away our bloody sins I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood Live Ezek. 16. For as soon as we are united with Christ our sins are upon him and his righteousness upon us It is Christ that gives us life and puts excellent Ornaments upon us to cover our nakednesse and decketh us with Jewels and Gems of Gold So we become beautiful in his sight Isa 6â— 10 That he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle nor any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish Eph. 5.27 Thirdly Believers follow the Lamb because they are risen with the Lamb. If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ siteth on the right hand of God Coloss 3.1 Therefore we are buried with him by baptisme into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father even so we also should wark in newness of life Rom. 6.4 Every man besides a Believer is a dead man Dead in trespasses and sins Ephes 2.1 Therefore they are exhorted to rise from the dead Eph. 5.4 They must rise from evil to good from Earthly-mindednesse to Heavenly-mindedness but now Believers by faith are risen from darkness to light For ye were sometimes darkness but new are ye light in the Lord Walk as Children of light Eph. 5.8 Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee Isa 60.1 When the Lord shined forth upon his people in glorious discoveries of himself he calls them away from their former condition When the Lord discovered himself in a Gospel dispensation his people were no longer to sit under dark clouds of legal Ceremonies but to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Fourthly They follow the Lamb because they are enlightned by the Lamb. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4.6 But we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same Image from Glory to Glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3.18 Yea doubtlesse and I count all things but losse for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the losse of all things and doe count them but dung that I may win Christ Phil. 3.8 Divine and Heavenly knowledge brings a man near to God it gives a man the clearest and the fullest sight of God and the nearer any man comes to God the clearer vision he hath of God and the more communion with God The reason why others doe not follow the Lamb is because they see not the worth and want of the Lamb Having the understanding darkned being alienated from the living God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their hearts Ephes 4.18
righteousnesse lodened with the fruits of righteousnesse He beareth greater respect to our hearts than he doth to our works I beseech you therefore Brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God Rom. 12.1 The Formalist he is all for outward action and for nothing of inward sincerity he is for a body without a soul and a shew without a substance but it is not a shew of outward piety that will excuse inward hypocrisie For he is not a Jew that is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the flesh But he is a Jew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God Rom. 2.28 29. I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are not but are the Synagogue of Satan Rev. 2.9 They are better in their outsides than they are in their insides but Believers are better in their insides than they are in their outsides The Kings daughter is all glorious within her cloathing is of wrought Gold Psalm 45.13 The one bowes his knee at the name of Jesus the other bowes his heart to the truth of Jesus the one signes with the Cross the other carryes the Cross Oh what would not superstitious men do for Heaven if they might have Heaven for their doing But they that sail in this rotten Bottom will surely sink in the Ocean Who hath required this at your hands to tread my Courts To what purpose is your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord I am ful of the burnt offerings of Rams and the fat of fed beasts and I delight not in the blood of Bullocks or of Lambs or of He-goates Isa 1 11. It was not the Clay Spittle that cured the blind man but Christs anointing his eyes It was not the troubling of the Waters in the Pool of Bethesda that made them whole but the comeing down of the Angel Alas the dish without the meat will not feed us Man may spread the Net of Duty but its God must take the Draught of Mercy Now by this Beloved you may know the Lambs followers from the Beasts followers And thus I have briefly and clearly shewed you these five things First What following the Lamb is Secondly Why gracious Souls follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Thirdly The Excellency of following the Lamb. Fourthly The Misery of following the Beast Fifthly How the Lambs followers may be known from the Beasts followers I shall make some Use of this First For Examination and Selfe-tryal Oh friends for the Lords sake and for your souls sake examine your selves and try your selves by this that you may know whose you are and to whom you do belong Know you not that to whom ye yield your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness Rom. 6. O who do you follow if men verily you have your reward if sin you shall have sins wages which is eternal death woe and misery in this life and Hell and destruction in the other life but if God then you shall have eternal life Therefore be not deceived mistake not your selves God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sowes that he shall reap O beloved Examine your selves and try your selves what is it you mind what is it you seek what is it you do do you follow the Lamb in his Commands in his teachings in his appointments and in his Examples through sufferings and reproaches have you forsaken all and followed him Matth. 10.29 Have you taken up his Crosse and denyed your selves Mat. 16.24 Have you learned of him to be meek and lowly Mat. 11.29 Have you visited and cloathed his Members Mat. 25.35 Have you kissed the Sun and made your peace with him O beloved are you new Creatures are you in Christ are you in faith Know ye not if Christ be not in you ye are reprobates 2 Cor. 13.5 The second Vse is for Exhortation O Beloved Let me beseech you for your precious and immortal souls sake to come out of Babylon from the Beasts Image and from his Worship and from his Mark that you may not be defiled O come away to Jesus Christ Arise my Love and come away Cant. 2.10 Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Mat. 11.28 Oh sinners he calls you to come to him will you not go we must forsake sin and embrace vertue put off the Old man and put on the New man we must have Repentance and Mortification a dying unto sin and a living unto righteousness from the love of earthly things to the desire of heavenly things Our bodies and souls must come away unto Christ our souls because they are the Spouse of Christ our bodies because they are the Temples of the Holy Ghost We must come away from the Eenticements of the flesh the allurements of the world and suggestions of the Divel and from the Whore of Babylon and from all the inventions and traditions of men Rev. 18.4 That ye may walk with God before God after God in the Name of God and in the Spirit of God And that we may live in Christ as Christ lives in the Father O what more happy then to live for ever and so to live for ever as Christ himself liveth Surely that is a blessed and glorious life This is a Believers life Secondly Labour more and more to be like those that follow the Lamb fully they are very holy and pure they are called Virgins First For their Chastity That I may present you as chast Virgins unto Christ 2 Cor. 11.2 These love Christ with a chast but not with an adulterous love Secondly For their purity They are Virgin-Saints they are not defiled with the Whore of Babylon but have kept themselves from her Idolatry and Superstition and from her sin and wickedness And in their mouth was found no guile Believers are stiled and titled Heaven Christs Members are glorious Members they are called Heaven for two Reasons First Because there is much of Heaven in them Secondly Because there is much of them in Heaven First There is much of Heaven in Believers much of God much of Christ and much of the Spirit Of his fulness have all we received grace for grac Joh. 1.16 The glory of God the knowledge of God the presence of God the love of God the holiness of God the joyes of God these are the things that make Heaven to be Heaven Now there is much of these in Believers therefore they are called Heaven We are taken into Communion with Angels and our Communion with the Angels in a great measure doth consist in bearing a part with them in praising God it is the action of Heaven Believers are holy Ones and they have glorious Titles First The Lords Portion Deut. 32.9 Secondly
I not forget thee Isa 49.15 Who can harm a man if God be with him and for him He that hath the love of God need not care for the anger of men A true Believer hath the love of God the love of Christ the love of good Angels the love of good men and the love of all whose love is worth the having God protects men in his way but not out of his way When men appear for God God appears for men he is good to them in affliction and he doth them good by affliction The seventh Excellency is They that follow the Lamb shall not feel the wrath of the Lamb. Rev. 2.11 He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death 1 Thes 1.10 And to wait for his Son from Heaven whom he raised from the dead even Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8.1 Oh how sad is the condition of those who live and dye without Christ they are sent to Hell Psal 9.17 The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget God Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thes 2.9 They shall feel and suffer the wrath of the Lamb because they despised the truth of the Lamb. Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh when your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirl-wind when distress and anguish cometh upon you then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me Pro. 1.24 25 26 27 28. Do you hear this sinners if God will shew you no mercy if you live in your sins and dye in your sins be sure Hell will shew you no mercy Now the Believer shall feel and suffer none of this he is in a happy state and condition The eighth Excellency is They that follow the Lamb shall reign with the Lamb and this is another Excellency of following the Lamb. True Believers do reign now over the Creatures over the pomp and pride of the world over all spirits over sin over the consciences of wicked men and over sufferings but besides all this they shall reign with Christ and over those that now reign over them Rev 5.10 And we shall reign on the Earth Chap. 20.4 And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years And as the wicked tread down the Saints under their feet so shall the saints tread down the wicked under their feet Mal. 4.3 The Lord hath promised that the meek shall inherit the Earth Doth not the Scripture say that In the last dayes the mountain of the Lords house shall be lifted up above the hills and shall be established in the top of the Mountains Isa 2.2 And that the Kingdoms of this world must become the Kingdomes of our Lord Jesus Rev. 11.15 And he that loves to see the face of his Church beautiful will ere long wipe away those bloody tears it is not long before you will triumph and say Cant. 2.11.12 Lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the Earth the time of the singing of Birds is come The ninth Excellency is They that follow the Lamb shall sit upon the Throne with the Lamb Rev. 3.20 21. To him that overcometh will I grant to fit with me in my Throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne Ye also shall sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel Mat. 19.28 Oh what an honour is this what a glory is this to sit upon the Throne with Christ Is it not honour and glory enough for us to be in heaven with God and Christ and Angels but must we sit upon a Throne there Oh what an honour is this and yet this honour shall all the Lambs followers have The tenth Excellency of following the Lamb is They that follow the Lamb shall judge the world with the Lamb. If you consult sacred Record you shall find that both God Christ and the Saints are said to judge the world The Ordination is Gods the Execution is Christs the Approbation is the Saints When the Apostle would stop the sinful suits among the Corinthian brethren that did not want men of Eminency to put a period unto Controversies saith Do ye not know that the Saints shall judge the world and if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters 1 Cor. 6.2 Enoch the seventh from Adam Prophesied saying Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgement upon all Jude 14.15 When the Son of man shall sit in the Throne of his glory ye also shall sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel Matth. 19.28 Now the world judge the Saints but then the Saints shall judge the world now they judge and condemn Christ in his Members but then they shall be judged and condemned by Christ and his Members For as the World cannot endure God himself so neither can they endure God in the Saints and the more God dwells in the Saints the more the world afflicts the Saints but they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth shall sit upon those that now sit upon them Thus have I shewed you the Excellencies of following the Lamb. Fourthly The misery of those that follow not the Lamb but the Beast O their misery is great in this life but it will be greater in the other The first misery of them that follow the Beast is They that follow him shall share with him in all his plagues And the third Angel followed them saying with a loud voice if any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his mark in his fore-head or in his hand the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the Cup of his indignation and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the Lemb Rev. 14.9 10. Oh the plagues the terrible plagues that shall fall upon the Beast Death and mourning and famine and fire Chap. 18.8 The judgements shall come upon all parties and upon all degrees and conditions of men that joyn with the Beast All those that do partake of his sins shall share of his plagues There is First a Vial poured out upon the Earth that is upon the common people Chap. 16. vers 2. Secondly Another Viall upon the Sea that is the Jurisdiction of Rome Verse 3. Thirdly Another Vial upon the Rivers that is their Ministers Vers 4. Fourthly