it whilest they remain in this earthly Tabernacle and then if the Lord raise up any to witness that he hath redeemed them from under the Power of Sin and so by his Power in them which is a Cross to the carnal will of man freed them from the Power of sin and Death then cry out those that live in all manner of sin and polutions these are Deluders take heed of being deceived when alas there is nothing reigning in them that they can be deceived of but sin and wickedness and so they cannot bear the hearing that they should be free from sin until the Lord cut off them and their sins together but they never consider that as the Tree falleth so it lieth and as Death leaves them so assuredly shall Judgment find them for in the Grave there is no Repentance neither can any unclean thing enter into God's Kingdom which consists of Purity Holiness and Righteousness Now the scriptures they declare that God is Light and if we walk in the Light and aâ—ide in the Light as he is in the Light then we have Fellowship one with another and the Blood of Chrâ—st cleanseth us from all Sin Now if thou comest into this LIGHT this will let thee see that there is something in thee that doth check reprove and cross thy own natural will and this is the Power of God in thee and would be unto Salvation if thou wouldst but obey it for it will crucifie thy old Nature and stand a Cross over thy own will and so keep it down that it might not rule in thee and so thy Soul will come to stand in the Power which is above the Power of sin and so come to be saved out of sin and out of Death which is the sting thereof And so as thou comest into the Light and therein standest with an Upright Heart the Light will make sin and the Power thereof manifest unto thee in all its Motions and will crucifie all that is of the first Nature and all that which ariseth from thy self and will judge out that Power daily which hath moved in thee and hath carried thee forth at all times to act contrary to the Mind and Will of God and hath caused thee to oppress the Seed which God hath placed in thee and so SION with the pure Seed of God in thee cometh to be redeemed through Judgment and her Converts come to bring forth a righteous Life and Conversation Now thou that readest understand The Life is more then Meat and the Body is more then Rayment and the pure Life is more then Knowledge for old Adam or the first Nature may eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and so by thâ—t may come to talk much of the Truth and what the Saints enjoyed in former Ages but cannot come into the Life thereof for he is driven out from the tree of Life into the earthly Imaginations without him and the ANGEL of the Lord with his flaming Sword even the Righteous Law is placed to keep the Way of the Tree of Life lest he put forth his Hand and take of the Fruit there of and eat and so live forever Now the first Nature is not to live forever but for an appointed time for that is the first Adam and his Life which standeth in sin and he hath transgressed the Righteous Law of God and so hath sinned and that Soul that sinneth must dye the Death and so death cometh to reign over all Mankind from Adam till Moses from the first Nature till the Seed of God in the creature moveth under the burden of Iniquity whereby it hath been pressed down as a Cart is pressed with sheaves and comes to stir up the Creature and draws him into some Consideration and brings him to understand his Condition that he is even a Captive under sin in the Land of Darkness even in spiritual Egypt and under many Lusts which are as so many hard Task-masters to him and that he is but a stranger and a sojourner there and that the Lord hath promised him a land of rest and freedom but he knows not how to find it out until the Lord God shall raise up the great Prophet like unto Moses to lead him out of this Land of Darkness through the red Sea by his LIGHT or PILLAR of Fire which Light is Darkness unto the Egyptians even in their Day which Pillar of Fire is to guide the Creature through the long desert Wilderness into the land of rest and Moses is till the Prophets and the Prophets they declare that there shall a REDEEMER come out of Zion or the Seed of God within who shall reign in Peace and Righteousness over his own House which shall be raised up for he will make them a willing People and he will turn unto them the pure Language and they shall all call upon the Name of the Lord with one Consent and he will bring back again their Captivity and settle them in perfect Peace so that they may every man sit under his own Vine and under his own Fig-Tree and none shall make them afraid And the Prophets they are till John who is as the Voice of one crying in the Wilderness now the VOICE said Cry the Prophet answered what shall I cry That all Flesh is Grass and the Clory of man as the Flowers of the Field therefore prepare the Way of the Lord and make streight the crooked Paths and let the high lofty Mountains of Man's proud Will be laid low and let every Valley and low despised Place be raised that so the ransomed of the Lord may pass and John he baptizeth to Repentance and bringeth the Creature into a Sorrow and a Trouble because it cannot bring forth Fruit worthy of Repentance and he declares that he is not the Messias that is to come after him which is to be preferred before him whose Shoe-latchet he was not worthy to unloose but that he is sent to bear his Testimony of him and John he is till Christ and when he comes which is the true Messias and the true Redeemer of the promised Seed of Israel after the Spirit who is the second Adam and the true Prophet like unto Moses whom the Lord hath promised since the Dayes of old even this is he that shall come out of Sion and shall bring Deliverance unto that Seed in all the Sons and Daughters of Men that hath long groaned and that which Sion hath long travailed with and been in Pain to be delivered from under the Burden of Oppression and he will crucifie the old Nature even the first Adam who hath been the Oppressor and nail him to the Cross and so by the Cross to him â—nd to his corrupt Will will mortifie or kill his Deeds even by the Power of the Spirit which Power standeth in that which crosses the old Nature now the first Adam's Life that standeth in Sin and in Transgression and in Deceit and Guile which are all
come and the Glory of the Lord is risen and arising upon her and though the Darkness doth cover the Earth and the gross Darkness the People yet the Lord shall arise upon her and his Glory shall be seen upon her and the Gentiles shall come to her Light and Kings to the Brightness of her rising and she shall awake and put on her Strength and her beautiful Garments shall be put on for henceforth there shall no more come into her the Uncircumcised nor the Unclean therefore cleanse your Hands ye Sinners and purifie your Hearts ye double-minded that you may be accepted in this the Day of the Lord 's lâ—rge Love and Mercies that is so largely held forth and proffered unto you to invite you that you might not partake of the Plagues of BABYLON which shall speedily come upon her at unawares in an Hour when you least think of it shall Desolation and Destruction come upon her and upon all them that are found in her partaking with her of her Sins O therefore as you tender the Eternal Welfare of your precious Souls which ought to be counted as dear and as precious in your Sight as any Man's Soul that ever lived on the Earth for they are precious in the Sight of the Lord therefore prize them and this the Day of your Visitation for you know not how soon the dark Night may overtake you and you may be sealed up in the Pit of utter Darkness and no Means afforded you whereby you may be redeemed into the Light again therefore consider of these Things while you have Time and Space and come forth of Babylon and touch no more of her Uncleanness lest you perish eternally with her in your Stubbornness and gain saying the VVitness of God in your own Consciences which dâ—th stand a true VVitness against you in these things and let not the long Forbearance of so merciful a God whose Spirit hath for a long time striven with you and still rises up to condemn you in your own Hearts for your evil Deeds I say let not his long Forbearance harden your Hearts against the Day of Slaughter because his Judgments are not speedily executed upon you for verily his Spirit shall not alwayes strive with Man but at last you will provoke his VVrath cause it to be kindled against you his fierce Indignation will break forth of a sudden upon you and Horror Dread and Terror will take hold on all such ungodly VVretches which do Despight to his Spirit of Grace which hath long striven with them in their own Hearts and Consciences and have turned it into Lasciviousness and VVantonness and put the Day of the Lord their God afar off from them yet let all such know that he is nigh unto every one of them to smite them in their own Hearts and in their own Consciences for disobeying of his righteous Law and just Command which he hath clearly made known unto them for what may be known of God is made manifest in thee for he hath shewed it unto thee O Man And though there hath been a long time of Darkness Ignorance whereat the Lord hath winked but now since the true Light hath shined in all Hearts so manifestly so that none can plead Ignorance after they once come to be acquainted therewith now doth he command all Men every where to repent he that shall deny to obey his Commands shall be left without Excuse in the Sight of God and in the Sight of his Witness which shineth in his own Conscience for the Commands of God are not grievous but they that love him keep his Commandments and meditate upon his Law Day and Night for their whole Delight standeth in walking in his Statutes The Man of Sin Death separated from the Man of Righteousness and Life wherein the first mâ—n Adam is manifested to be of the Earth earthly and the second Man Adam to be from Heaven heavenly THou that hast any Longings or Breathings after the Lord God that made thee and formed thee in the Womb who stretched forth the Heavens as a Curtain and by whom the Foundations of the Earth were laid and thou that hast any Thing in thee that is oppressed by the unrighteous Power and groans under the Burden of Oppression and desires to be set at Liberty even into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God arise out of thy dark Slumbers for the Night is far spent and the dawning of the Day of the Lord God of Power is come and the everlasting Son of Righteousness is risen and arising even Christ Jesus the eternal Son of God the Son of the everlasting Day who is the true Light of the World and hath enlightned every Man and Woman that cometh into the World with a Measure of his true Light which Light shineth in the Consciences of all the Sons and Daughters of Men and this is the Light that lets thee to see the Thoughts of thy own Heart For he that formed the Mountains and created the Winds he declareth unto Man his Thoughts and the secret Intents of his Heart whether they be good or evil and this the Lord hath placed in thee to bear a true and faithful Testimony for him against every Appearance of Evil is God's Gift unto thee which Gift is perfect and without Sin for it is a true Measure of his Son Christ Jesus which hath enlightned every Man and Woman this did never at any Time consent to the speaking of any evil Word or the acting of any unrighteous Action by thee or any other of the Sons or Daughters of Man but hath and doth at all Times stand a Witness for the Lord God of Life and hath at all Times been the Condemner of the Transgressor and the Worker of Iniquity in thee and them Now fallen Man being Darkness it self having no Means whereby to discern his own Thoughts yet this Light hath shined in the Darkness but the Darkness could not comprehend it therefore hast thou and all Mankind for a long time walked in Darkness and thy Deeds have been the Deeds of Darkness and thou art become a Stranger to God and to his Wayes of Light and Life by Reason whereof thou lovest Darkness rather then Light because thou lovest thy own Will thy evil Deeds which proceed from thence whereby the Heritage of God in thee hath beenlaid waste his Righteous Seed oppressed and trampled under Foot in thee by the Power of Unrighteousness through thee but now after his long Forbearance and after many gentle Admonitions which he hath held forth to the Rebellious Sons and Daughters of Men after all this is he appearing to make himself known and now are the Cries of the Oppressed entred into the Ears of the Lord God of Sabbath and he is now jealous for his Seed's sake which hath long suffered under the Burden of Oppression and he is now manifesting himself in this his great Day to plead with all Flesh
the Fruits of Death whereon he feeds and is in some sort satisfied for he dares not approach unto the Tree of Life because the Angel of the Lord's Presence standeth with the flaming sword ready lifted up even the righteous Law which still layes hold on him when at any time he approaches near unto the Tree of Life this cuts him down so that he at all Times remains in Death and feeds upon the Fruits thereof this is the true State and Condition of the first Adam who hath lost himself and is fallen from God his Maker But now the second Adam whom the Lord is creating and whom he hath created even after his own Image in Righteousness and true Holiness who was and is the first born among many Brethren even Christ the Son of the living God who puts an End to Transgression and destroyes Sin and sayes O Death I will be thy Death and fulfills the Royal Law in all things and passeth through the flaming sword for the Fire cannot touch him but he has free Access to the Tree of Life and feeds plentifully upon the Fruit thereof and so lives forever and nothing will satisfie him but the very Life it self And this is the true Condition of the second Adam who is the true Heir of all things Now he that comes to have this Babe begotten in him that which hath begot him will bring him forth for shall I bring to the Birth and not bring forth saith the Lord now he that comes to be born of this Birth and to have his Life to stand in this he shall with this come to eat of the Tree of Life for this is he that shall enter in at the streight Gate into the City whose Builder is God Therefore if thou feelest any thing in thee which stirs and moves in thee against sin and against the very Appearance of Evil there lies the seed out of which this Babe is formed and therefore as it is as yet but weak as in Appearance to thee thou oughtest to be tender over it even more tender then the Mother that is newly conceived is over the tender Fruit of her Womb and beware of bruising of it and of smothering of it for a small thing will offend it and choak it but as thou art tender over it and with Carefulness dost cherish it and come to take Delight in it thou wilt find it to grow daily and encrease in thee from strength to strength but thou must beware that thou dost not at any time lay any Burden upon it whereby it may be offended for if thou dost thou wilt come into Condemnation for the same and thou wilt come to suffer Loss in thy self which Loss will not easily be regained for thou wilt find Deadness and Barrenness to arise up in thee and the Dread and Terror of the Lord will take hold daily upon thee until the Lord hath executed his Vengeance upon that which hath oppressed his seed for thou must assuredly come to know a day of Vengeance in thee to light upon the Head of the Transgressor and a Night of sâ—rrow before thou canst know the day of Joy and Gladness Therefore if thou wilt give up freely to let the Seed of God go free to serve the Lord its God in Truth and Righteousness and wait in Patience to see the Oppressor judged and condemned in thee and to see the Vengeance of the Lord to be laid upon the Head of the Transgressor and so to become one with that which judgeth and executes the fierce Wrath and Indignation of the Lord upon that which oppresseth the righteous Seed in thee Now if thou become one with the Lord in this and give up thy self willingly in Obedience to him then a short Work will the Lord make in the Earth and thou shalt come to see him whom thy Soul loveth who now doth but spring up in thee as a Lilly among Thorns but when he comes to be brought forth he will be the fairest amongst ten thousand and this is Christ in thee the Hope of Glory and thou wilt come to live in him and he in thee and so thou wilt come to live in the Life that was before Sin was and before Transgression was and shall be when Sin and Transgression is destroyed and shall be no more and then thou wilt come to witness old things to be done away and all things to become new a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness and thou wilt come to witness God's Will to be done in thy Body of Earth as it is in Heaven and his Kingdom in thee to be come and established and his Power made known in thee to the destroying of the Power of Sin and Satan and his Glory to be made known in thee to the setting forth of his eternal Praise in the midst of all his Enemies and this is declared by many who are faithful Witnesses of it according to the Measure which the Lord hath freely been pleased to give and bestow upon them and this do they witness to be an eternal Truth according as the Spirit of the Lord God of Truth hath revealed it unto them for they never received from Man neither by Man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ who leads into the Path of Light and Life all that are willing and obedient to follow him now these things are deep and hidden Mysteries to them that yet remain in Darkness but if thou canst but read the Scriptures singly without adding thereunto thy own or any other Mans Imaginations they testifie of him that hath the Life in him and they declare how the two Births have been brought forth in all Ages which Births came from the two Seeds even the Seed of the Promise and the Seed of the Serpent and between these two Seeds there is an everlasting Enmity placed so that they can never be reconciled one to the other but still arise one to destroy the other but at last the Seed of the Woman must and will get the Victory for that must come to bruise the Seed of the Serpent's head although the other bruise his Heel for a short Space now see the Seed of the Serpent brought forth by the first Birth in Cain how the Enmity comes to work in him so that he came as it were to murder Abel the second Birth which was brought forth of the Seed of the Promise and wherefore was it but because the Sacrifice that was offered up by the promised Seed was accepted and his the Seed of the Serpent was not therefore Cain the first Birth who as in Reference to his outward Birth after the Flesh was therein his Brother but yet he being ruled by the contray Seed to Abel the Enmity caused him to rise up and to murder innocent Abel and then he became a Fugitive and a Vagabond upon Earth all his Dayes not having an Habitation in God although he builded a City and call'd it by his Son's Name so here
the Seed of the Serpent bruised the Seed of the Woman's Heel and yet the Serpent's Head was bruised in this thing See the Declaration of Jacob and Esau and there thou shalt see it more nearly and clearly made manifest unto thee for there thou may'st see the two Seeds Placed together in one fleshly Womb and there they strove which should first come forth to the Birth I know thou canst not but with me witness these two Seeds in thee striving which shall be brought forth now rough Esau came first forth in the Birth who became a Hunter and hunted up and down after Venison and became a rough hairy Man of whom it was said The Elder shall serve the Younger before they had been instrumental to do Good or Evil then after him Jacob was brought forth who by true Interpetation is a Supplanter who stayed at home with his Father who in Process of Time came to get both the Birth-right and the Blessing for the Blessing of Right belongeth to him for he was blessed in the Womb for in him the promised Seed sprung up who at last became a great People yet was he by Esau long kept out of the Birth right although that Esau had sold it to him and counted it a small thing even a thing of nought and sold it for a thing of small Value even for a Mess of Pottage which afterwards he would have sought the Blessing with Tears but could not attain it but the Power of Jacob daily increased so that he became a mighty people and the Dread and the Terror of the Lord was with him which caused the Heathen even the Stock of Esau even many times to fear and tremble and stand astonished at their Presence Yet nevertheless this fleshly Seed of Jacob which came out of his fleshly Loins came to be corrupted and the Seed of the Serpent came to bear Rule in many of them so that the Seed of God came to be oppressed in them which should have born Rule over the Seed of the Serpent in their earthly Bodies so that many times there was hardly one to be found in an Age or one in a Generation which came to witness the Serpent's Head to be bruised in him or that the Seed of God ruled in him in singleness and simplicity so that the Lord came as it were to be forgotten amongst the Sons and Daughters of Men but yet there was the Seed within which still breathed and groaned after God for which seed's sake the Lord hath long waited that he may be gracious unto the Sons and Daughters of Men otherwise he had long ago consumed them in his Fury and his fierce Wrath had broke forth upon them as it did upon SODOM and GOMORRAH and all the Cities of the Plains But he hath at all times raised up his own seed in some so that they have born their faithful Testimonies for him against the seed of the serpent and so by them came to give forth Laws and Statutes whereby the Children of Men may come to know his Mind and Will so that in the Performance of them they should liâ—e but they that disobey the same should dye the Death then all they which were of the Seed of Jacob after the Flesh said that whatsoever the Lord should command them they would perform but the Lord full well knew that there was not such an Heart in them which caused him to cry out Oh that there was such an Heart in this People to obey me then should their Peace break forth as the Morning and their Righteousness as the Sun at Noon-day but the Lord 's all-seeing Eye saw that there was the Seed of the Serpent still lodging amongst them and in them which soon afterwards shewed it self forth which caused the Lord's Wrath to break forth upon many of them even to their Destruction And although the Lord had wrought great Deliverances for them even in carrying them down into the Land of Egypt and causing them there to endure a hard time of Servitude and Bondage under the Hand of Pharaoh's hard Task-masters and raising up his own Seed to shew it self amongst them even to the redeeming them out of the Land of Bondage and from under their Egyptian Captivity even by many grievous Plagues and mighty Wonders which he shewed forth upon Pharaoh and his Egyptian Host and carried them through the Depths of the Red Sea as upon dry Land and destroyed Pharaoh and hâ—s Multitude who pursued after them and led them through the Desart Wilderness and caused Water to gush cut of the Rock to satisfie their thirsty Souls and fed them many Years with Manna in the Wilderness yet nevertheless for all this his large Love towards them this pure Seed of God was still oppressed in many of them by this Seed of the Serpent which caused the Lord to destroy many Thousands of them in the Wilderness before they came into the promised Land so that there was but a very small Number of them that came out of Egypt that entred into the Land of Rest even but Two Persons which were JOSHUA and CALEB for all the rest were destroyed because the Seed of God was oppressed In them even by the Seed of the Serpent which caused them To complain and To murmur and to depart from his Statutes and rebel against his Righteous Laws yet still the Seed of God cryed and groaned unto him under all this and his Ears are continually open unto the Cryes thereof and for this Seed's Sake he raised up a People out of the Stock of JACOB even in the Wilderness which he caused to enter into the Land of Promise And whenas they stood faithful in his Laws and Statutes he destroyed their Enemies before them even in a wonderful and miraculous manner so that in process of time they came to have victory over all their Enemies and to sit down in the Land in Rest and Peace and the Lord made them a Dread and a Terror to all Nations round about them and they built strong Holds and great fenced Cities so that they became a mighty People as they stood faithful unto the Lord he made them as a Sign and as a Wonder unto all the Nations of the Earth so that his Fear and Dread fell upon many that had been Strangers to and alienated from him they were set as a City upon a Hill which could not be hid but still there was the Seed of the Serpent lodging in many of them for when they were brought to sit down in Rest and Ease the Seed of the Serpent came to rise in them and the pure Seed came to be oppressed and the pure Simplicity that came to be lost and they rebelled against the Lord transgressed against his pure Laws Statutes and they committed Whoredom even with the Heathen and then the Lord raised up his Seed in his Prophers and sent many of them unto them to fore-warn them of the Destruction that would
came to be saved for they came to witness it to give them Victory over Sin and so they believed in Christ the Son of God which was to come to be made manifest to the World in general and was manifested in them in particular and of his Coming all the House of Israel believed in the Notion and in a Carnal Sense but yet in Process of time when he came they would not receive him for the Seed of the Serpent raised up in them a Heart of Unbelief so that they were hardned against the Promise when he came unto them And although the Wise Men the Astrologers could tell Herod the very Place and time when and where he should be born and although the Lord did send his Prophet even John to bear witness of him and in baptizing oâ— them into Repentance and so to prepare the Way before him so that many of them believed that John was sent of God and although he declared that there was one coming after him whose Shoe-latchets he was not worthy to unloose yet their Hearts were hardned by the Seed of the Serpent which ruled in them so that when Christ was brought forth amongst them who was and is the true Redeemer of the spiritual Seed of Abraham even the Seed of the Promise for which Seed's sake the Lord hath all along spared them and his fierce wrath has been withheld from breaking forth upon them so that they were not utterly destroy'd from being a People but yet his Wrath broke forth soon after upon them which burnt in Fury like the Fire till it had consumed them and cut them off from being a People and scattered them up and down the Earth as Vagabonds because of their Hard-Heartedness Unbelief which arose in them from the Seed of the Serpent because they rejected him whom the Lord had sent to bruise the Serpent's Head but before they came to be cut off do but behold the Seed of the Serpent how it came to work in them in the Enmity against the Seed of the woman even CHRIST and how in subtilty assoon as Herod came to hear of his Birth under a pretence of worshipping him he would have slain him but the Lord delivered him out of his Hands by sending him into Egypt where he remained till after Herod's Death But yet see how the Bloody Serpent's seed was raised up in Herod which caused him to cause all the Children in Bethlehem to be slain but yet after his Death CHRIST JESUS came to be made manifest unto Israel even in the Land of Judea and at Jerusalem and in all the Regions round about even by disputing with the Scribes and the Disputers of the Law in their Synagogues in their Temple who confounded them by grounded Reasons strong arguments making it appear to them by Scripture and by evident Signs and miraculous Wonders which he wrought amongst them that he was the Messias that was to come whereof the Scripture declared and many there were that believed in him and that forsook all to follow him even of the poor foolish despised by the world but yet the Seed of the Serpent still ruled in the great mighty and potents of Israel after the Flesh and in the wise Scribes and Pharisees and the Rulers of the People so that their hearts were hardened that they could not believe because he came not according to their Expectations in their carnal Imaginations for said they When Chrâ—st cometh who shall know from whence he comes but for this Fellow we know from whence he is is not this the Carpenter's Son whose Father and Mother Sisters and Brethren are amongst us daily So because he came not according to their proud Wills which could not stoop to so mean a thing as the Carpenter's Son although the Lord had declared by a Voice from Heaven that he was his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased and that they were to hear him yet still they were carryed on in Hatred against him by the Enmity from the curs'd seed that reigned in them and them in whom the Seed of God came to bear rule which confessed Christ to be the Son of God were hated despised and called cursed because they knew not the Law and turned out of their Synagogues and the Enmity encreased daily in them against him so that they daily sought Oportunity to take him that they might put him to Death but yet they durst not lay hands on him because his appointed time was not yet come Now the Priests and the Chief Leaders of the People caused them to err so that the Scriptures came to be fulfilled which declared That he should be a Man of Sorrow and one acquainted with Grief and be despised and rejected of men and that they should hide as it were their Faces from him and esteem him as smitten of God and afflicted so the People then cryed out That he cast out Devils by the power of Beelzebub the Prince of Devils others they cryed out He was a Companion to Publicans and Sinners others That he was a Sabboth-breaker others cryed out He hath a Devil why hear ye him So there came many false Accusations to be raised up against him by the seed of the Serpent and the Enmity which he raised up in them whose Head Christ came to bruise But yet notwithstanding all this many were they that believed on and followed after him amongst whom he declared the Message unto them which the Lord had sent him to declare which was That he was the Light of the World and that whosoever follow'd him should not abide in darkness but should have the Light of Life and that for Judgment he was come into the world and that the Prince of this world might be judged which should come after him but had no part in him and that he that had formerly had his Sight might be blind and that he that had been blind might receive his Sight And he did many Miracles amongst them even Raising the Dead causing the Lame to walk and the Blind to see and the Deaf to hear and the Leper to be clensed and he exhorted them To walk in the Light whilst they had the Light that they might be the Children of the Light and that they should work while they had the Day for the Night should come wherein no man could work And he told even the Scribes and Pharisees That the Kingdom of God came not with Observations that is to say Lo here it is at this place or lo there it is at that place but that the Kingdom of God was nigh at hand even within them and therefore he often exhorted them to Repent and many times spoke to them in Parables comparing the Kingdom of Heaven to a Grain of Mustardseed which should be sown in the Earth which is the least among many Grains yet it should spring up into a great Tree wherein the Fowls of the Air might roost and he compared it