BEAST I beheld the pleasant Field and fruitful Garden working up the form of what indured and continued patient under those fiery Tryals until they became past over though many therein did dwell on a barren Heath who could not see when good comes whereby they perished in the Night of Obscurity and worldly sorrow that overtook them in their way wherein the power of DEATH wrought and became strong in the WORLDS CXIII And in the place of the fifth Head of the Beast in the midst of four which I had beheld Wounded as it were unto death were sprung up three other Heads And the Horns on that fifth Head which had received that deadly Wound were increased through the healing up of the Wound wherein a little Horn that sprung up between the Eyes of the Beast received Voice and began to speak great swelling words against the God of Heaven and his SAINTS that dwell on the Earth and the little Horn waxed strong towards the four Winds of the Heavens wherein the BEAST appeared with seven Heads and ten Horns which had Power in in the Beast to reign with him as Kings for their hour CXIV And whereas after I had seen the fall of five Horns on that fifth Head of the Beast I beheld remaining four Heads from whence sprung up four Horns in the dispersing abroad the Kingdom and Power of the BEAST under the four Winds of the Heavens so in the reviving of his power that which became exalted in the reducing of four to its first subjection ruled over five in which the wound was received and wherein the Beast came forth first manifest and in the discovery of both the rise and fall of the BEAST though through the great Horn of the Hee-Goat who did not touch the ground until he had accomplished his design after he had power given him in the awakened fury of the West-Wind the two Horns of the RAM from the EAST were broken and stampt in pieces that great Horn was also broken when its fury was accomplished CXV Yet was the power of the four Horns on those four Heads of the BEAST bound down in the four Heads of the great River until the time of the loosing of their four Angels that stood on the four Corners of the EARTH to hold the four Corners of the WINDS from blowing on the EARTH while the little Horn was magnified whereby the third Head which sprung up in the midst of the seven recovered four Horns from that which was dispersed under those four Winds of the Heavens and on the other six Heads were manifest six Horns CXVI Thus was the BEAST more monstrous then all those other Beasts that passed before him with Iron Teeth by which he did break and stamp in pieces And his Face was like unto a Leopard with the form of a third part of the Stars in the constellation of the HEAVENS on his Back but he had the Feet of the great Bear and discovered his power through the four Heads of the great River EUPHRATES in the loosing of those destroying Angels who came first out from the WATERS but the reviving of his strength from those deceitful healings proceeded out of the Earth through the power of the RAM in Nature CXVII And in the time of the sounding of the sixth Trumpet this BEAST came forth through the loosing of those destroying ANGELS out of the great River and through those earthquakes and shakings that were come into the WORLD wherein fell that tenth part of the great City God had returned unto himself his Tenths to be eaten as a Teyl-Tree and as an Oak whose substance was in it these were the remnant of the Holy Seed who worshipped the Lord with a pure Heart even in Spirit and in Truth and whose Garments were washed White in the Blood of the Lamb. CXVIII For they came to pass through great tribulations and Tryals in their WAY because they could not Worship the BEAST nor receive his Mark but they were preserved blameless before the Lord in that hour wherein Iniquity was not found in their HEARTS neither was there guile in their MOUTHS to be uttered with their Tongue And I beheld until the sin of MANASSEH became ripened and was filled up and the high Altars in both Courts whereon had been offered Sacrifice to IDOLS and Incense burnt to strange Gods which neither we nor our Fathers have heard of were pulled down because of the God of FORCES who was worshipped neither was the desire of Women regarded CXIX And after I came to see the WOMANS deliverance from the rage and fury of the great Red DRAGON who had cast his floods of Water after her in the time and times wherein she had been helped by the EARTH and sheltered by the Wings of the EAGLE with which she had fled into the Wilderness as the Dragon came to give up his Power to this monstrous Beast the remnant of her Seed was persecuted in the World for the space of full forty dayes And wherein the Sun had gone back ten Degrees for the prolonging of Life in the Just after he came to discover and reveal the glory in which was his safety before Babylons King who wrought by subtilty and much craft whereby fifteen dayes were added to his dying state CXX Those dayes were again doubled in the renewed Zeal wherein the Favour of God was multiplyed to the purging his House and Sanctuary according to the fifty-five dayes wherein Manasseh had caused the Israel of God to err in following after Idols And for ten days the Devil had power to cast many into Prison that they might be tryed and sifted by his cunning devices until their Garments became thus made white in the Blood of the slain Lamb of God CHAP. XI Describing the Form of the WHEELS in the VISION according to their MOTION wherein are numbred the dayes that the BEAST hath yet to reign and continue on the Earth CXXI AS to the form of the Wheels as they wrought and moved one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel like unto the form of the Worlds which are moved the one within the other the WHEELS never rested but went streight forward towards Eternity wherewith they were tinctured and moved in the power thereof as though they crossed each other and yet there was no crossness in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity from whence they were moved in the power of him that first wrought and laboured in the motion thereof CXXII For all crossness that appeared in the motion thereof wrought in the Earthly ground wherein the World 's laboured to Center in a Glory below the power of Eternity from whence every thing first proceeded and was brought forth to a day of Tryal in the FRAME under which the Body of Nature was constituted to exercises from the Glory of the HEAVENS wherein the Will of the Creature was subjected to a change through vanity that entered the WORLD in a state of corruptible Glory which was
as it is in themselves though many have learned in this day to adde to their Faith Vertue and Patience and all good Fruits of the Spirit of God because of the Experience of the Work of Faith which through Patience they are kept in the sence of in the midst of Fiery Tryals and they hold fast the begettings of God thereby in a confidence of good in him XI And then as they increase in Knowledge it is on a good ground and foundation that hath learned them to rejoyce in the FLAMES of DEVOURING FIRE whose devouring QUALITY cannot reach their SENCE with any BITTERNESS of its Sting but through Patience and Submission thereto it is made sufferable and the Cross is made easie therein and the BURDEN light because of a quenching property in that love against whatever maketh the Judgement of God to be unsufferable Torment to his Creature for part of their Knowledge is that it is not only given them to believe but to suffer for the namesake of God though in the beginning of the Work of Faith the belief that was wrought by the Spirit of God in them is a Convincer of sin under which there was and is a suffering in the nature that hath contracted the guilt thereof on the Soul by unity of Spirit therewith even the Spirit and God of the World XII Further knowing and being perswaded in patience to wait for the perfecting of the Work of God in the Heart in that Faith and belief of the love of God therein shed abroad that they are kept sensible of a good experience of the Work thereof having the Testimony of a good Conscience to manifest the same in the World these can shew their Faith by its Works and have a birth thereof that makes not ashamed of a good CONFESSION among Men and the fained Humility and appearances of Love from the untimely Fruit of the Womb that can never come to see the glory of the Sun of this day withereth in its way for that which can indure and hold out to the End worketh by the love of God that hath begotten into a lively hope concerning the Resurrection from the Dead having a Life tinctured in the Souls reach after true Charity in God and Love unfained which is the highest attainment in a Christians state and the greatest Gift that can be attained by men under the Bond of Perfection XIII Sealing the Work in which God doth glory and delight in that which is made able to pass through the stroke of Death to leave an Earnest of the expectations of the Creature after the day of Redemption in that which is much more pretious than that of Gold that perisheth But how have I seen many in this day loading themselves with the Fancy and Imaginations of their disquieted Mind and then being burdened with a Fear and Jealousie that ariseth from the Unbelieving Heart and distrustful ground they are ready to cry out of the Burden of the Lord whereas their own words and thoughts are become their Burden who have taken that on them which God never layd on them and yet they make the concern for the Lords sake that lays no more on any than they are made able to bear in the Life of Patience XIV And in this ground stand all the several Separations and hasty receivings into Fellowships with sudden hands laid on Proselytes for herein is the ground of prejudice swayed by the creaturely affection yet in this mind may be maintained a fierce and fiery Zeal for the opiniatedness that may often call for fire to come down from Heaven and to have Vengeance and Plagues speedily executed on such against whom their Spirit is bent for having wished evil in their Hearts and mischief against the Persons of such towards whom they cannot admit of any CHARITABLE thoughts they proceed in a hasty Prophecy of their utter confusion and then would they rather that both Soul and Body of the subject over whom they seek to be avenged in that rejoycing should for ever perish than that they should be found False Prophets so evil a thing it is to be engaged in a Spirit of Enmity and Envy XV. But such Extremities many have this day put themselves on through rash censure and then run back to former Ages and Generations of the World for a President and Example to help them out as they think whereby they oft are ready to plead the lawfulness of cursing their Adversary who standeth not justified in their sight and approbation because ELISHA was once acted in that Ministration through the heat and zeal of his Spirit it being so far from their nature to live in that which is wayting for the Worlds redemption from sin and reconciliation to God that they rather strengthen their FURY in the expectation of utter Consumption and Destruction on all that cannot for wraths sake stoop to their perswasions and it is the end of such willings to see a People perish in their sins XVI Because of that mis-informed Zeal under which their Spirits are acted against the Enemies and Foes of that Cause for which they have found the life imboldened towards God according to the quickning of his Spirit as tinctured with that Power before which the Heavens have opened and do shut and in the like desire THEY are moved as was HE before whom Fifties were destroyed whose Spirit resteth Judgement on a Ground wherein God hath prepared Messengers to go before his face But considering the difference in Administrations that Zeal which runneth out after an Object to maintain the heat of Spirit against which it is enkindled is not now held and retained in the like Cause and Ground as that in which it first appeared XVII For God is gone out of that Administration as acted towards the Persons of Men in their Generations and cannot own any glory therein but as that which had a Testimony of his day in the Prophecy thereof wherein the Messengers went before his Face in a sence of that terror that was come on the Wicked World because such that wear the soft Cloathing are got into Kings Houses and they shall no more wear a rough Garment or prophesie in their Sackcloth Robes therefore whom would men go out to see since Times are come that the Sacrifice of the Rebellious savoureth of the Work of Death and there is not fire enough to kindle the combustible matter in the House on the top of which they are exalted while the Displeasure of God continueth unawakened in the Pleasure and Will of Men that bring Wood but where is the Flame of that other Spirit which God requireth even of Reconciliation to Himself in the Life of Forgiveness in that which is able to Appease and Quench the Wrath and Rage of the devouring Enemy and make Friends in the Well-Beloved Life XVIII Yet where is Love and Forgiveness enough to heap Coals of Fire on the Heads of Enemies the Gift hath been first left at the Altar and such
the Innocent shall take hold of his Feet in the Way he is walking when the wronged comes to be apprehended on a Hill that is higher than that on which the Enemy and Destroyer hath been exalted and into the Hands of the PURSUED is put a sharp Instrument the strength of that Reason whereof the World is robbed and bereft even the Sword of Goliah and Spear of their Adversary with which they shall wound the Head of RAHAB and the Dragon and thereby they shall do EXPLOITS XXVII Though they are kept from using it in a time of advantage yea I have seen I have seen while the Envious have been hunting abroad the Pursued have been led into the Tents of those that are Mighty in Battel and the Man of War hath been found sleeping over his Master until a Lap of his Garment with which the Envious hath covered the Cruelty of his Spirit is brought forth into open view and the Cruse and Spear at his Beds head can now be shown to his shame because the Blood-Avenger hath kept the Innocent from putting forth his Hand to touch Him that had once the Anointing Oyl on his Head that had the favour of a Lot in Israel when the Spirit of God rested on Him that made it a Proverb Is the Son of Kish also among the Prophets XXVIII But the Cry of the Poor is heard that hath been compassed about with Tormentors who hath said in his heat What shall I now do for behold here cometh a whole Army and I have no Sword but that of Goliahs and the Lord hath said Take it for there is none like it and it shall be known that a Stripling is engaged in the Lords Battel and is able to make war against Israels Enemies though he could not use the Sword in his own defence neither dares he be too bold in the exercise thereof abroad lest the bruised Reed should be broken and the smoaking Flax quenched before Judgment is brought forth into Victory at home where the War is begun by such that are engaged in the Lambs Battel XXIX Therefore in the Mystery of what is herein treated of is the depth of whatever hath relation to the concern both of SOUL or BODIES Welfare in the Knowledge and true understanding of its state and the universality thereof is a Testimony worthy to be heeded in the General or particular Concern because of the relation it hath to the true and right Information of the Mind of all that are capable of benefit therein through a pointing property at that which gives unto the Reader a sence of the Day in which many in old time were made Prophets and Messengers and have largely testified and prophesied thereof in the Restoration of all Principles of Nature it hath possessed and inhabited in the BODY into its first Glory which is the MYSTERY of the Second Resurrection in those in whom the Power of the first Death is weakened and over whom the second Death hath no power XXX For the Life of JESUS is manifest in their mortal Flesh discovering the Glory of which they are made Partakers in a Kingdom everlasting and World without End because of their Faith and Belief in the changing and renewing Power of GOD wherein the JUST do live and witness Redemption from the Sting of SIN and Strength of the LAW which is the Power of Death and the GRAVE hath not Dominion over the Soul therefore you that profess Scriptures contend not against the Verity and Infallibility of the Testimony hereof because for your sakes and satisfaction I am constrained in some cases to use such Words that the RECORD of TRUTH is sealed by in the Testimony of the PROPHETS of GOD in former Ages and Generations of the World XXXI Neither let it scruple any on the other hand that I use not an exact FORM and METHOD of Scripture-Terms but am oft constrained to apply the bent of my Spirit toward such significant terms as are brought to my Understanding in the exercise of the VISION for the Words are but an outward Sound and Declaration of what hath relation to an inward and invisible Work in the Heart of the Creature through the Salvation of the Soul from Death but I see it hard for many professing SCRIPTURES and the Knowledge of the TRUTHS of GOD therein declared to own it nakedly for its own sake and yeild and bend to the disposings of God in matters of such concern for then would it be consented to in what hath relation to the Minds Information without respect to the Persons of such that are found differing in Judgment concerning outward Circumstances in Gestures or PRINCIPLES in DOCTRINE while in the End and Aim there is a respect to Truth in the Heart XXXII And there will be a joyning in the Acceptance against whatever hath relation to Controversies in a state of disobedience against the Spirit of God in which the WORLD is endeavouring to settle a Rest and hence have I seen the Complainer vexed with Burdens of his unruly Passion but that God may more and more unseal the Fountain of endless Good and Happiness in the Knowledge of the Glory of his Kingdom that is everlasting is my Souls desire that Truth and Righteousness may be set up in the WORLD and the Glory of the ANTIENT OF DAYS proceeding in the increase of the Knowledge of GOD may run down like a River and cover the Earth like as the Waters cover the Sea XXXIII And as this hath its due acceptance in the Heart of the Upright and Unbiassed in Censure and Judgment for the sake of the Controversies among men about their Opinionatedness concerning the Truths of God contained in the Scriptures with which the World is filled they will more and more come to see into its service and the end for which it is given forth which will make way for the opening and discovery of many pretious Secrets pertaining to the Restauration of Nature in its depraved Body of infected Elements that are generated under a Power of Corruption that Creatures may come to see into the Mystery of what is contained in many words therein that hath a signification very intricate to the common sence of private Interpretations thereon which the limitting spirit of the WORLD is apt to tye up the Faith of their Communicants in because of the vulgar acceptance it hath in the Heart of a Multitude But the Encouragement I find for the prosecution of what is remaining in this Tract wherein I am taking view of my passage through those Forms of Nature in which I am imbodyed in time and place is centred in an higher Object than the Readers well or ill Acceptance XXXIV Though I am satisfied in the end thereof that coming to be seen into will cause many to say Now I know thou speakest no more unto us in PARABLES but hast plainly shewed us of the Father But among the Multitude how hard a thing is it to believe well of future Events
exalt the four destroying Angels of Strength that are loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES by which Europe hath been compassed about until the end of seven Months and five days though in the time of the sounding of those Trumpets the Winds have been suffered to blow on the Earth by those that have held their corners as four Angels standing on the four Corners of the same and the Spirit of God hath and doth yet strive with a Generation and Generations on whom the fierceness of Gods wrath in the Plagues of those Vials is to be poured forth and is come L. And the Creature Mankind imbodyed in this third Principle in which he is called the Microcosm or little World is that third part of the Macrocosm or great World as it standeth divided into its four parts or Quarters wherein the Eagle hath had Power over the North Quarter or fourth part of the Worlds where those Tryals are manifest under which the Lyon came first forth with four Wings of the Foul on his Back in which were Golden Fethers with the names of 36000. Men in each Golden Wing while the striving continued between the four Winds of the Heavens on the great Sea and from the loss of dominion therein in the plucking of the Lions Wings wherein came forth four other Beasts and took head in the Nature of that which separated the Man from the power in which he was first planted and placed the Kingdoms of the Earth and World became dispersed abroad the same LI. Until the great Bear or Leopard who hereby purchased the strength of those four Wings had them also taken away and the Man came to regain his dominion over all the Works of God's Hands as Lord in the substance of what is already communicated to his understanding and through those four first Beasts that now have taken unto them each of them the six Wings of the Cherubims every one in their order calling to come and see the Mystery of what is come forth to the Tryal of the Year Month Day and Hour over which they have Power and Dominion in their Angels the Glory of the Father is hallowed having in each Wing two thousand Fethers and names of Men which makes the Glorious Hoast of God in the Heavens Numerable in their Tribes and according to the Families of those scattered Nations over the face of the whole Earth LII Which are the dispersed Army of God and goodly company of that Mighty Hoast in the four Wings of the living Creature by which they stand figured forth 144000. of the first Body in which God hath his sealed Number of Instruments that are engaged in the Lamb's Battel as the MEMBERS of what hath continued like unto dry Bones in the Valleys And for the exalting their Angels in the Heavens their destroying power over the Earth and Worlds is loosed out of the great River over which the winds of the Heavens have striven and blowed while their destroying Power was bound LIII But now are the Winds in the Hands of the Angels to be with-held from blowing and the Spirit of God from striving any longer with the Creature Mankind by the Prophesie of the Witnesses or sounding of the Trumpets of God committed to the Angels and the whole Worlds shall be smitten with Plagues through that which is thus loosed out of the bottomless Pit wherein the Earth hath been covered with those Beasts called Locusts and they have overspread the same in its third part smitten by the sounding of the five first Trumpets and that which is awakened by the sounding of the sixth Trumpet hath command in and over those four Winds of the Heavens to with-hold them from blowing as oft as they please because God will not alwayes strive with Man who is but flesh LIV. And when the Earth is quiet and still according to the silence that hath been in HEAVEN for the space of half an hour and the Worlds begin to settle in the ease and content of the flesh then remember what I say for before this day there hath come Wars and rumours of Wars and the smoake of the torment of those Men on whom Judgment hath rested under the Power of the Beast shall be seen known to be the SEAT of the Beast in a fourth part of the great World that hath yet hitherto escaped Death in what came on that third part thereof in the little World Mankind like the fume of a boyling Furnace whence hath ascended the thick Cloud of Darkness that filleth the Heavens and the Power of the DRAGON who had delivered up his Seat and Throne unto the Beast for the time he remained bound in the bottomless Pit But that now is loosed in the sounding of the three last Trumpets is a Spirit working Miracles in the Earth in the execution of the three last WOES that are come thereinto for the awakening and rising up of three therein that do bear witness for GOD of what hath been crucified and slain in the Streets of the great CITY of the Worlds LV. And into those Kings of the East that have their Power again revived and their Heads healed which is a second Beast come out of the Earth with two Horns of a Ram pushing three ways to wit West and North and South shall enter those three Unclean Spirits of the Beast Dragon and Whore like Frogs through the drying up of the Waters in the great River EUPHRATES in the Worlds Sea they shall come over the same and into the place where God hath settled his glorious City and they shall strive to defile and overcome the Holy Land between the Seas but the end shall come with an over flowing Scourge and great Flood and out of the Mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet shall great things be performed and done LVI Yea all these things have a lively Character of the Truth hereof recorded in the Heavens by the Verity of Just Measure in time and Place for God is not to be limitted to time and place in his Work or to the prescription of men but he hath a time and season for every work according to which he hath determined and decreed an order wherein they are all to be fulfilled and brought to pass according to the measure by which they are measured and weighed in their day and the times and Seasons of their fulfilling have been in the Fathers hands until the hours thereof became made known to the Son of Man who is in Heaven in that which communicateth the sence thereof unto and in the World in whose behalf he came to lay down his Life in the Body of Flesh which he took up for the reconciling of the World unto the good will and pleasure of the Father LVII And the Star that is fallen from Heaven as an Angel that hath the Key of the bottomless-Pit I have beheld and do see the returning of such torment come on those men that have the Beasts mark on his Seat
God I have a hand reached forth to the helpless towards whom my tender Bowels are moved that they may partake of this VISITATION which is given for the sake of many and great NATIONS This great Salvation of God being revealed to all them that are made partakers with him in the Faith of God's Elect in which the like pretious Promises do work V. To all the People of God whether gathered or ungathered my love reacheth forth though most especially to the scattered Nations over all the Earth that are the Houshold of Faith in which it is not only given them to believe but also to suffer for his Names sake whom they profess Love Mercy and Peace together with all fruits of the Spirit of God to the Brethren of him who is come to possess the Life of Patience under the sufferance of the Spirit of this World through the Revelation of JESUS the Son of God by whom the whole Glory of the TEMPLE of God was brought forth into which entered the Hoast of the Heavens the SEVENTH day wherein God came to rest in the finished settlement of that in which all labour ceased as to the working power of his Spirit in the frame of the Creature and Creation that is become the workmanship of the Father VI. I am filled I am filled with the motion of his Power in the workings up of his informing Spirit that sendeth forth its sound through an Earthen Vessel and in as much as its concern is Universal the peculiar relation and respect which it hath unto People of those Generations is the breathings of Life from a follower of the Lamb of God And the Life of the JUST in his Name that is faithful and true and full of long-suffering and that which is certified concerning these things is what will assuredly be fulfilled and shortly come to pass VII Therefore blessed are they that can read or hear and in whom there is a heart inclined to understand the MYSTERIES herein wherein the Testimony of TRUTH is confirmed amongst the CHURCHES in the Spirit of Jesus unto which Churches in the WORLDS in their divided quarters JESUS who is the Author and Finisher of the Faith of God's Elect whose Nature had glory in raising up that Body out of the Grave and from the power of Death and Destruction in three dayes is now dispersing bowels in which are the Fountains of all good that have been sealed and shut up but are now freely set open for sin and for uncleanness for Judah and Jerusalem VIII And thus saith the Antient of days the AMEN the FIRST and the LAST who hath glory in the Work of God through the Redemption of Souls up unto himself come wash and be clean for he that is faithful and true hath yet a little while a gathering Hand and Arm stretched out towards you all the Bride saith Come as hath been the Voice of the Spirit of God which by many hath been rejected But yet hear what the Spirit saith unto the CHURCHES IX Unto the Churches of ASIA and the ANGELS of these Churches saith the Beloved of God O yet gather if it be possible and behold the Wing of Mercy and everlasting Salvation hovering over you your works have been tryed in the fire and hitherto they have not made weight in the Ballance of Gods Sanctuary neither are they able to stand before him but are like the STUBBLE in his way and are driven before the Bow of his Fury X. Yea unto thy PRINCES saith the AMEN of all Glory in Heaven and Earth bend your Necks to the Yoak and learn to Plow else sorrow wil be your portion To thy PRIESTS I say Howl Lament and be threshed upon the FLOOR by him that can handle the FLAIL to thy PROPHETS I say Take the Cup and drink a mighty draught for as ye have had your fills of Pleasure on the Earth so shall you drink your full Portion of sorrow howling and lamentation XI I know all thy works and thy doings for the secrets of thy Heart are not hid from me thou exalted HORN of ASIA PERSIA and MEDIA are the strength of thine ARM ye Daughters of K'TURAH therefore be ye wakened in time and behold how the ASSYRIAN is broken on the right Hand and on the left XII And unto the ANGELS of the Churches Mystically in AMERICA in thee are a People whom God will yet gather to his Praise but thou wilt be broken as a Potters Vessel and turned on a fiery Hearth Thou hast of the Captivated TRIBES and scatterd-broken-off-branches bound in Chains under thy quarter let them forth for the mighty Day of God is Proclaimed and come XIII Unto the Angels of the Churches in AFRICA write what is ready to befal them in the Day and Hour of their Exaltation Since thou wast lifted up thy day is measured and when thou wast cast down thou hast been warned Yet once more hear pitty the Captives and give of thy Bread to him that cometh under the smiting of the South Wind lest when the awakened North Wind returns its blown Breath out of the Bellows of the Almighty it make thy burthen more then thou art able to bear XIV Thy Feet must tread on Mire and Clay and in like manner will Feet be set over thee But thou the darkest of Countreys I have many NAMES to be gathered out of thee therefore hasten and return when thy WORK is done and remember that thou art warned of what shall come to pass lest on the one hand thou shouldst be heightned in the day of thy Exaltation or left without information of that which will befall thee when thou art cast down for as thou dost unto others to wit the Captivity of the North so will it be done unto thee in the return of measure and weight XV. Say not any more I am strong for one of thy PRINCES is strong above thee and the Daughters of thy Land that have made up thy agreement with the King of the North will not retain the ARM nor prevail in thy strength and Dominion though thou carry away Captive the Inhabitants of that Land whose King hath reigned more years then the King of the South XVI Repent therefore quickly is the Voice of the Angel lest I come and smite thee unawares and remember when that is loosed and awakened which hath been compassed about by PISON and GIHON he that invadeth a strange Land shall place his glorious Habitation between the Seas that the scattered TRIBES may behold the Glorious City which they have been seeking and come forth into the NORTH to see a place prepared in the Kingdom by the Father for ASIA hath faln and is turned to Idols and hath given heed to lying Vanities XVII But both of you shall be purged together in a fiery Furnace until your supplication for Mercy be made able to prevail therefore let thy Princes consider for whom the controversie betwixt two great Kings doth work and thou that wert
through the striving and strugling which I saw in the Air. LV. And as that which came forth out of the Womb of Eternity was brought FIVE DAYES forward for manifestations sake I beheld a Principle of Corruption and Destruction that came to be allowed to work up its Power in a Mystery through and over all forms that were come into being in the OLD WORLD which remained suffering under those THREE and under that through which these Two became imbodied from the Womb of Nature in the Creaturely form and being in that FIFTH DAY who were separated into the Principles of AIR and WATER thus made distinguishable LVI For of the THREE that strove to come forth out of the Womb of Eternity imbodied in the Creaturely form and being there were but only Two that became incorporated from the Womb of Nature though there was the MULTIPLICITY of FORMS and the variety of ESSENCES concerned therein And as I beheld the effect of what came forth through the contest in the place of Conception the BEHEMOTH possessed the SEVENTH PART of the Worlds in which the WATERS were held even as LEVIATHAN possessed the Waters themselves LVII Yea through the drying up of the THIRD PART of the corruptible Waters on the THIRD DAY that which aboad in the Air in which the Firmament was placed became a mighty and Potent PRINCE and GOD of the WORLDS which impregnated on blew up the stern-harsh-FIRE in the enkindled qualities of Divine Justice against the Creature by whom SIN took occasion to work up the power of Death over the Body of Nature through a Law in the Members wherein the concupiscence wrought against the Law of the Mind under which the Nature of all Creatures was brought forth and subjected through the contrariety of the Spirit of Enmity that tinctured the ELEMENTAL qualities of the Worlds with the harshness thereof against the regulating power of order LVIII For that which sunk in the fall became imbodied again in form anew after I had beheld the dispersing abroad of all that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity in its fallen Properties and Qualities which setled in the Created being of all powers of Nature in the imbodied form which was brought forward into BEING under the power of Corruption over which I beheld the motion of the WHEELS until it became EQUINOCTIAL LIX And it was SIX DAYES forward and six dayes backward in what was wrought up into FORM through the operation in Properties and Qualities of what was endless in the WORLDS wherein the FOUR BEASTS which I beheld came forth into manifestation and these four had the Face of a LYON and the Face of a CHERUB or Calf and the Face of a MAN and the Face of an EAGLE and they moved in the WHEELS over all that came forth imbodied in FORM while place and time endured LX. And thus did I behold until all that came forth thus FALLEN in the bodily frame was again returning and centring in an Eternal Rest and Quiet IN THE LORD where it became immoveable stedfastly abounding in the good Fruit of Joy and Rejoycing wherein the Creator of all forms in NATURE had first planted it and therein had God finished all work and labour in the beginning of CREATION which is become the Seventh DAY in NATURE to that which remaineth capable of entring into Rest that is formed therein which is the ground of torment and disquiet to the Spirit of the WICKED ONE CHAP. VI. Describing the coming forth of the first Seven Nations of the Worlds into the forms of Nature LXI THese are the Generations of the the WORLDS in the day that God created the HEAVENS and the EARTH when he beheld it without form and void for it was an Emptiness and dark NOTHING before he Created it into FORM through the power of the Word of LIFE in which God willed the coming forth of that which was to replenish it in time and place LXII Wherein all that was brought forth in the Dominion of Innocency In ADAM was a subjection to the forming part of the IMAGE that mankind was stated in according to the Mind and Will of the Spirit of GOD in him REVEALED whose conditions for Good or Evil are concerned in what he ruleth in and over LXIII For the Earth was not now without form nor in its voidness and emptiness but was filled and replenished with Creatures and Things which were created beautiful in their place and season and the World was set in their Hearts the beauty and glory of which did wither and pass away as the flowers of the Field And all that stood IMBODIED under the power of corruption in time and place was consumed so that the Works of God in that STATE could not be beheld from the beginning to the end thereof LXIV And the Government of God through the power of all Properties in the ELEMENTAL WORLDS was manifest in those Four forms of the BEAST in Nature wherein the effect of all produced from the FIERY HEAVENS was comprehended for Governments-sake in the form of a LYON and there came a Voice from the HEART of the fire as from the Heart of the LYON let the Earth keep silent while the Islands renew their strength LXV For darkness came over all that stood manifest in form wherein the Creature sought to glory in the imbodied will of SELF-EXCELLENCY which was moved towards the PIT of perpetual SILENCE to inhabit the NOTHINGNES through such a REVOLVE in the turning about and overturning of the Worlds in the motion of the WHEELS LXVI And over the face of the mighty deeps was a thick Cloud and over the PEOPLE who are the unstable Waters was the gross thick darkness and the Nations of the Earth were angry and moved at this coming forth of the Lord. And I beheld the Worlds in their divided Qualities and Properties wherein was preparation for a NEW Heaven and a NEW Earth and the Face and form of the MAN whom I saw went both forward and backward in the Heavens according to the form and frame of the Worlds in the VISION of the Wheels from those FIVE DAYES wherein I beheld the MOON striving to encrease her recovered strength towards NEW MOON to the reducing of that which was lost in the KALENDS of the Months LXVII And until the end of NINE and TWENTY dayes I saw the IDES of the Month in a Mystery working up a form to the new created being of all things substantial in an eternal existence And the Face and form of the Man whom I beheld exalted in the Heavens was turned towards the South For he was not able to behold the illustrious breaking-forth of the glory of the DAY that was risen upon the Earth LXVIII And the form of the Man whom I had seen placed in the GARDEN was divided into TWAIN to wit into Masculine and Feminine through whom the Heavens came to multiply their forms in the Dual number over the Earth whereby the strivings in the
of a seventh Man in his Nation wherein the Bow-man was concerned for he rode in the Chariot of NATURE as a great PROPHET who continued a just year and was not for God took him to himself in the Revolution of the Heavens until the times of Restitution came for the delivering up of what had been retained in a Mystery and through the loosening of the Angels in the great River Euphrates the Bow-Man came forth manifest in the house of the Angels Exaltation to wit the ninth House of Mansions in the HEAVENS LXXXIII And the eighth Day of the eleventh Month the Woman again conceived and brought forth an Eighth Man formed in his Nation who saw the end of the old and first Worlds And after the revolution of the Second Year I beheld the Moon regaining strength and glory from the course of the Sun from which she borrowed her light And on the second day of the fifth Month of the third year the Moon was strong in her own House of Exaltation whereby the Sun suffered a third Eclipse on his coming into the Heart of Nature which is the House wherein he glorieth as his own LXXXIV And the Woman was delivered of a ninth Man in his Nation for the bringing forth of whom the first seven were destroyed in their Nations yet in him was a Seed preserved to replenish the Earth anew and into the renewed Habitation of Wonders in the Translations of the Body of Nature working among the forms of Creation the substance was taken and gathered but from the Heavens was a Voice The young Mans wound hath cured my hurt CHAP. VIII Describing the wonderful operation of the Vision in the opening of the Heavens testified through the Judgement of God against what came forth imbodied in Form in those seven Nations LXXXV THrough the striving of three Nations from the Womb of Eternity two Generations of Men continued labouring under what was degenerated into the imbodied FORM for Generations-sake And between those three was two Months for the separation of each in their Revolution wherein the Virgin in Nature suffered by the power of Death that entred the Creation of God LXXXVI On the last day of the Seventh Month of the third year died the first Man that became imbodied in FORM from the Womb of Nature as the Virgin in Nature lost her Crown and the Woman also come to suffer Death in Two Generations of Men concerned in the contest in the Heavens but the cause of such pangs and sufferings that rested on the Body of Nature was a fallen ground in the Earthly Principle which stood in and out of the WATERS as a fourth part of the Elemental Worlds and it was the last FORM under the power whereof the Life of the Creature remained suffering LXXXVII For the Seventh FORM in Nature that became imbodied in the Creaturely being was exalted on the Earth which proceeded from the FIERY Heavens from whence the Man took his dominion who was taken up unto God and was not on the last Day of the ninth Month of the third Year And the THIRD that proceeded from the Man imbodied from the Womb of Eternity and that took being amongst the Forms in Nature died in that FIRST Principle after the conclusion of the Eleventh Month and was dissolved in the Earth LXXXVIII But those Two by whom the Woman in Nature came to suffer Death who were slain by the hard labour under which the Creature and Creation of God remaineth groaning died also in the Earth in the Fourth Year The One on the Sixteenth day of the Second month The Other on the sixteenth day of the Fourth month And a Fifth Man imbodied in Form died on the Thirteenth day of the Twelfth month The Sixth on the nineteenth day of the Seventh month of the Fifth year And the Seventh on the Twenty-fourth day of the Seventh month which from the finishing of God's Work into that wonderful frame in the Generation of the Heavens was the Seventeenth day of the seventh month LXXXIX For that which came Seven dayes and seven years Forward in the motion of the WHEELS was brought under five months tryal both by WATER and by FIRE being that which came forth manifest in five Dayes and grew up under the Revolution of Seven Months as the forms of Nature were moved backward under the power of Destruction that through the dissolution of that which came into being fallen under the power of Corruption that which is Heir of Immortality might arise and come to possess a Crown of Rejoycing in God through the work of Restauration of those forms in Nature into their Eternal Existence that have a substantial being in the first forming cause of an IMAGE to the work of Creation XC And while the VISION of God was on me and the ANGEL of God was talking with me I saw the Man that was driven out of the Garden of God which is the Glory of the World in its Paradise came again onward in the way from which he went towards the rest of SELFS Annihilation that had caused the bodily form to come under the power of death who notwithstanding that he remained imbodied in Principles fallen and sunk under the power of Corruption and Destruction in the forms of Nature did yet abide in the WORLD and the World in him until Paradise that was lost and died from him and he from it began again to spring up in the place and condition wherein he was put as considered in that state XCI And from the Heavens I heard a Voice Death and Destruction I am become thy Grave and O Grave I am become thy Plague But dread and fear compassed me about as with a Garment for the miraculous workings of the Power of God in the Vision had bended me until all faculties of my mind became subject to that invisible sence from whence my Spirit received the Illuminations of that which sought to come forth though for a tryals sake to my patience the understanding of that which came up in the MOTION was oft-times sealed before me after I began to write thereof XCII For as I was amongst a number of people assembled to wait upon the Lord I was taken in a TRANCE and my knees smote together trembling because of the fear of God in my Heart and the terror of his Judgments on my Spirit But on that same night as I lay on my Bed I saw the form of a GREAT MAGISTRATE and the Honour and Respect which he had was different from all the powers of the Earth for before him went the form of DEATH as a man walking on his Feet and about him were great Attendance sounding Bells on every side and they continued thus to ring these little Bells till he ascended a place of Judicature where he had great reverence and respect XCIII And amongst the crowd that bended to his power I was acted in the like posture and being otherwise convinced in my Spirit I was smote with great dread
Nature and those Beasts guided the Chariot of Nature wherein the ANGEL was exalted according to the time for which they were prepared and wherein they were loosed an hour a day a month a year L. For in the year for which those Angels were loosed I beheld seven Months wherein the dead were left to bury the dead And from the expiration of those five months was thirty dayes wherein the Angel that was loosed for his Month prevailed under the power of Destruction and the name of the sixth month was called ELIL because of the Fields that were Reaped wherein there was nought found And I beheld the ANGEL who was exalted through the appearance of the first Beast in the form of a Lyon that came forth on his White Horse on which he rode in the form of a MAN with a BOW in his Hand conquering and to conquer LI. And the afflictions that followed came over that third part of the Worlds that the Dragon prevailed in and had power over through the Stars of Heaven that he drew after him wherein he made up his Tail from a third part of the Heavens And the Angel that was raised up in form through that second Beast with the face of a Cherub rode on a red Horse wherein he came forth exalted in the Heavens and he had a SWORD in his Hand and came to take Peace from the Earth through the occasion of the fall of that first Star on the Rivers and Fountains of Water which made a sharpness in the Springs of VIRGIN Earth in the Bowels of Nature LII And through the fall of this second Star the face of a MAN became exalted in the Heavens in which third Beast the Angel of God came forth riding and exalted on his Black Horse with his Ballances in his Hand wherewith the Fruits of the Earth were weighed and measured forth to the Inhabitants thereof who were found labouring therein under the power of Corruption by just weight and measure according to every Mans works and doings in the Earth a measure of Wheat for a Penny and three measures of Barley and the Wine and the Oyl was not hurt until a fourth Angel of God who was exalted through a fourth Beast in the forms of Nature with the Face of an EAGLE had finished his work that he had to do in the WORLDS LIII Who had power over a fourth part of the Earth and he came forth on his Pale Horse like unto Death and Death and Hell followed him wherein his power was executed by Pestilence Famine and Wild Beasts of Prey on that fourth part of the Worlds until the whole power of the Heavens became subject to the first former And I said unto the Angel of God How long shall this continue and the power of this Beast prevail in the HEAVENS To which the Angel replyed Until the EAGLES Eye be pluckt out and he be made blind as in the day that he was created LIV. Then shall the Accuser of the Just be cast down out of the Heavens and all Power in Heaven and Earth shall be delivered up unto the FATHER And I beheld until that fourth Beast came to deliver up his Power unto the seven Angels of God vvhich vvas seven Golden Vials filled vvith the Wrath of God and the Lamb to vvit the seven last Plagues to come on the WORLDS and they came forth out of the Temple of God in the sounding of the seventh Angel on the AIR whereby were finished the Mysteries of God's Kingdom And therein I beheld in the Vision an apparition of the Horses very dreadful and terrible with Brest-plates of fire and Jacinth and their breaking down was as with an Iron Rod breaking and stamping in pieces strong Nations mighty and great and out of their Mouths and Nostrils streamed forth fire and Brimstone and smoke and their Power was in their Mouths and in their Tails which had Heads like the stings of Serpents wherewith they came to hurt and destroy LV. For they had Wings like a flying FOWL and did fly along in the AIR making a great noise like unto the ratling of Chariot Wheels and on their Heads were Crowns of Gold and they had Teeth like unto Lyons who were called DAN'S Horses through a sence of the bruise on the WOMANS Heel but their Riders were like unto Sagitarius or men that had lost their shape and were fallen backward for they had not the use of their Legs and the Captain of the ARMY that I beheld in the Vision of the Heavens had a name which signifyeth a POWER in the DESTROYER or a POSION wherein I beheld his Followers a great number being thousands of thousands which no man could number and until the end of those months they were not to hurt any Herb or green thing for four Woes were past and two were yet remaining LVI And there was also of the LAMBS Followers sealed a great number which could not be counted who came through those two WOES to the Inhabitants of the Earth in its fourth part wherein the Eagle had power of which he was discharged And the Angel that I saw had in his Hand the Keyes of the Covenant of Love and Mercy to the Faithful and Chosen of God who took unto them their Golden Harps and stood on Mount Zion with their Harps harping and singing and praising God who had brought them out of great Captivity whereby their Garments were made white that were washed in the Blood of the Lamb whose names were written in Heaven in the Book of the Lambs Life for they were preserved from the hurt of what was come into the Earth And the Angel had also in his Hand the CHAIN wherewith the great Red DRAGON had been bound down for this thousand years out of which Pit those living Creatures were loosed LVII And as I beheld the BODY of Nature in its afflicted state I came to hear the Voice of seven Thunders thundering and their thunderings were to prepare a ground in which the sence of things wrought the first Thunder was from the unconceivable WOMB of Eternity which prepared a ground for the sence hereof in the WOMB of Nature which continued everlastingly thundering over the cursed Ground in which the â—eed of Enmity had entered the Creation of God And there appeared the form of a VIPER who had gnawed his way out of the Womb of Eternity to come into the Womb of Nature yet was he shut up in the place of Conception as a third Principle of the Man imbodied in the Creaturely being of whose birth was made a Separation in one hour wherein came forth a Generation of VIPERS at once in Mans form LVIII And the Angel of God led me aside into the great Wilderness and I there beheld the WHORE magnifying her self for a season and she rode on the scarlet coloured Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns which were ten Kings who had power with the Beast for an hour because of the Wound on his
hath remained joyned in one Spirit of the Beast while the Temple of God hath been defiled in such worship and bowing down to the Spirit of defilement and the glorying therein is become an incestuous BED that procureth torment because of the Resurrection in which none can remain joyned to that Spirit and possess the Glory in God's Temple who is come to destroy the defiler thereof LXXXVI For the three Angels of God that have power over that which came on the Worlds in their third part through the sounding of the seven Trumpets of God that awaken the execution of Justice from the Heavens are now manifest in the three remaining Principles that have a fourth part in their Quarter reserved to those fiery Tryals effected in that which manifesteth the end of all gloryings in the dominion of the fourth Beast in Nature LXXXVII Wherein the fiery Triplicity in the Heavens through which those Angels are revealed hath been covered as with a Cloud until the Son of Man came to be revealed riding on the White Clouds of the Heavens and cloathed with incomparable Beauty before whom three Angels have been found flying through the Heavens proclaiming the everlasting Gospel of Peace and glad tydings and the destruction of Babylon in her great CITIES which were come up before the remembrance of God warning the Inhabitants of the Earth to come forth from her and flee out of her glory lest partaking therewith they came to partake with her in those Plagues that were upon the Earth LXXXVIII These three are the Witnesses of God in Heaven filling the Heaven of Heavens with Glory in one power that comprehends all Principles in Nature which are swallowed up in its immensness Greater testimony of God hath none for since God hath a Witness on Earth how much greater is that in and from the Heavens wherein an Angel hath come forth out of the Temple in which the first Witness of God finished his Testimony and beholding the Fruits of the Earth that they are ready for gathering and that the Harvest is White he hath said unto the Angel that sitteth on the WHITE CLOUD Thrust in thy sharp Sicle because of the Harvest of the Earth which is ripe and the Earth hath been reaped until nought can be found but that which hath remained for a second Harvest and Tryal LXXXIX But he that hath lain slain in the streets of that great City in which the Inhabitants of the Earth have made merry over the crucified Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth is now come forth raised and exalted on that White Cloud from whence the Earth is reaped And a second Angel of God is come forth out of the Temple with his sharp Sicle in his Hand and an Angel of the Altar under which the Souls of the Righteous lie groaning saith unto that second Witness or Angel that is come forth out of the Temple Thrust in thy sharp Sicle also and reap the fruits of the Vine the Clusters of the Vine Grapes and spare not the Olive Yards XC This is he that daily ministreth before the Lord and attendeth the Altar of God with the Prayers of Saints which are daily offered up with sweet Incense put into his Golden Censer and his power is over fire by which all untimely Fruits are scorched and consumed in their third part by the bright rayes of the breaking forth of the Summer in the Sun of Righteousness which is arisen with healing in its Wings though in the passing away of the Winter and in the dispelling of Clouds of Darkness which were over and had covered the Face of the Earth the Summer is broke forth wherein many remaine unsaved from the wrath thereof to come upon the ungodly World XCI For in that which descended through the Clouds of the Air the first beauty and glory of the Temple in that which was built in the Heavens is discovered to be moveable though therein God was worshiped as in the Ark of his Testimony in the Covenant of Promise which was carried about from place to place while the Temple remained under a Cloud in which are the more lively things themselves then that in which the forms of Nature were gathered as patterns of what remained under a Cloud until the time of the restitution of all in the Heavens was come wherein hath wrought the Power and Spirit of Preparation in the Spirit of Creatures to the perfecting the Work of God and bringing into the unity of the Spirits of just Men made perfect in God until all becometh compleat in him that holdeth the HEAD unto which the Body is knit in several Joynts and Members XCII Yet in this time of ISRAELS sojourning through the Wilderness the Power of God hath been manifest to those strangers in the Earth in that strange Countrey through which they have their passage and therein have pitched their moveable TENTS though Beauty and Glory hath shined through such Vessels in the time of their preparation from transgression that came under the Judgment of the great Day of God in the ground wherein God first chose a People to himself and to be called by his Name until the Glory of the Earth is become laid wast the third and last WO is come into the World discovered in the pouring forth of those seven Vials to the utter consumption of the Spirit and Power of Darkness ruling and reigning in the God of the World wherein Death and Hell are conquered in their full strength the Enemy of all Souls vanquished and overcome in that which is come to destroy the ground of Destruction by utter dissolution XCIII And the sence of these things was manifest in the World in that which came on the Earth and great SEAS and all Rivers and Fountains of WATER and all that lived therein or moved thereon and on Sun and Moon and Stars and the seat of the Beast and great River EUPHRATES and on the Air wherein the Fruits of the Earth withered and were destroyed and the Waters became like unto the Blood of the dead and on Men fell a noysom Plague-sore and Headly Wound because of the infection of the Air wherein was Hail â—ike unto Fire mingled with Blood each being of great weight and at the appearance of God there was wrought up through the EARTH a burning Mountain under which fell the Powers of Nature in Earthly Forms XCIV And all the WATERS were dryed up in the great River Euphrates wherein the way of the Kings of the EAST was prepared who gathered themselves together into a place called GOLGOTHA in the Hebrew Tongue which is a place of dry Bones and dead Mens Sculs on whom the Spirit of God had breathed and they did live in his sight and stand on their Feet like Men and it was the Valley of Megiddon and of Hadadrimmon even the Valley of Jehoshaphat or the Valley of Slaughter where RACHEL sat weeping for her Children because they weâ—â— not and she would
not be comforted but herein is manifest in the Valleys ACHOR which is given for a Dooâ— of Hope XCV For God was descended into all the Powers of Nature through his destroying Angels changing all Powers and Laws and Customs of the HEATHEN and uncircumcised in the ground wherein destruction wrought and renewing the Created FORMS in Nature into their first lovely Being as into these Kings of the EAST the Nature of the Beast had descended which had his Power renewed in an eighth Head and Mountain and they had the Power of the Beast and false Prophet or Whore wherein they were exalted to hasten the utter ruine and downfal of the DRAGON and Beast and false Prophet yet wrought Miracles in the Earth and incamped about the Beloved City the New Jerusalem which descended from above out of Heaven and they caused fire to come down from Heaven XCVI But the Holy People waxed strong and did exploits although the Foundations of all buildings in the Earthly Principles of Nature suffered great shakings and an utter overthrow wherein darkness filled the Seat of the BEAST and every Mountain was removed out of its place and great BABYLON fell as the nether Milstone that is cast into the Sea and every Island fled away before the Face and Presence of the Lord and were cast into the deeps of Waters that were drying up into their Anihilation and the smoke of the Torment of those Men that had the Mark of the Beast ascended upward as a place of Torment to the Spirit of the WORLD incorporated into the form of the Image CHAP. IX Describing the Glory of the New Jerusalem in the renewing Power of God which wrought up the efficacy of its change in the Forms of Nature XCVII AS all forms in Nature were subjected under the Power of God there was manifest a Spirit of ZEAL in the Qualities wherein the Creature became imbodied through which the change was wrought for the ten Horns of the BEAST did hate the WHORE whose flesh they consumed with fire and the Minstrels were all turned out of Doors because the Damsel was raised and the Bridegroom was come at Midnight wherein the Wise Virgins had prepared Oyl in their Lamps which were lighted and trimed burning in the flame of that which was gathered and reaped in the Earth by the Angel but the Apples of Sodom and Grapes of Gomorrah after which the Souls of many have longed became unpleasant Fruit because of the sound of the Milstone which could not be heard neither was there any Voice of the Turtle or the singing of Birds XCVIII Nor did the Light of any Candle shine therein but the sound of the Tabret and the Viol was departed out of the Land and the Sun ceased any more to shine while there continued a cry for want of Oyl among those that were foolish and at the Voice of the Grashopper the Aged rose up and were afraid as the Pillars of the House were shaken and the Windows grew dim the Grinders failed and the Pitcher that went oft to the FOUNTAIN was broken and the limit of the circumference of the Waters which were bound in that great River was loosed and inlarged and the Streams of Corruption dryed out of the same wherein it had compassed about the frame of the WORLDS like unto the Arms and Legs of a Man for every thing perished in its corruptible state and course until the form of the World became thus changed and the Dragon and Beast and false Prophet who had deceived the Nations of the Earth were laid hold on and bound down by the Chain in the Hand of the strong Angel of God never to rise again XCIX And Death and Hell was cast into the Lake of fire and a Seal was set on the power thereof that it never more should appear in the Worlds to marr the Workmanship of God and form of his Image and all forms of Nature shined out of the Glassy Sea on which the redeemed of God stood Harping and Singing and Praysing God which was sprakling like fire for the Heavens were rolled up together like a Scrole and the Elements were consumed with servent heat wherein was no more Sea but that Sea of Glass or first Waters in which was a new Heaven and new Earth and therein did Righteousness dwell for ever and ever C. For former things were remembred no more but the former Heaven and Earth was passed away and there was a Voice from the New Heavens Behold the Tabernacle of God is among Men and he is come to dwell in them and to walk among them for ever and ever who hath wiped away all Tears from their Eyes and sorrow and sighing is gone into perpetual silence and beautiful was the Countenance of him that came from Mount TIRZAH clear as the Sun and bright as the Moon and terrible like an Army with Banners whereby the power of the second Death was Conquered and came not into the new Heavens and new Earth CI. And there was the CITY of God which was placed between the SEAS in which was no need of the Sun by day nor of the Moon by Night nor was there any need of the light of a Candle to shine therein but the light of the Moon was as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun as the light of seven dayes and all labour in the Earth ceased to be neither did it Travel and bear its former burdens but the Lamb the Lord were the Light thereof for ever and ever and all things brought forth as in the beginning wherein the WOMAN was redeemed from sorrow and labour of Child-bearing and brought forth her SEED as Angels of God nourished in the Womb of Health wherein saving blessings were sprung up to heal the Nations and from the place of Conception from whence sorrow was removed did life break forth into being and the birth thereof was glorified in the sight of GOD but time and place were no more CII Sing therefore O ye Heavens and let the Inhabitants of the EARTH rejoyce because time is changed into Eternity and the WOES are removed out of its Quarters Death and Hell are Conquered in its dominions and the Sea and Grave have given up their slain the dead are come forth out of the secret Chambers of LEVIATHAN and the BEHEMOTH is overcome by him that sitteth on his WHITE Throne and rideth on his White Horse and the Walls of Brass and Iron are broken down and the Word by which every thing was created saith unto the hard Rocks Be ye soft and unto the high Hills Be ye bended down CIII The strength of the strong is bound in CHAINS and the Power of Mighty binders is loosed from Iron Fetters and the King over NATIONS hath said unto the Power of FIRE Be thou kindled into a burning flame to consume until Consumation become reproved and devouring flames are quenched the forms of Nature are comprehended under the renewing Power of God in
prevailed in the months thereof until the seven Mountains could be seen on which the great CITY was erected through the decreasing of the Waters in what remained falling backward for the space of seven Months XI And the CITY that thou sawest built and setled on those Mountains and high Hills which became the Foundations of all that fell into and under the palpability of WATERS is the City HENOCH which the first born of Nations erected under the power of Corruption from the ground which he became the Tiller and tearer up of when driven Eastward from the Face of the Earth and Presence of God into that Land where he took his Wife that he might call the name of his Buildings after the name of his Son for whom it was built XII For he possessed the seven forms of NATURE the number of years according to which the year increased its dayes and hath all the properties of the Heavens through a Translation wrought on the Body of Nature in what came forth mamfest in each line of the Fathers resting in LAMECH whence two Wives prevailed over the Man five years short of a sight into the destruction which prevailed over the Worlds in the state it was first planted CHAP. III. Describing the property of Enochs Prophecies XIII THose seven forms of Nature whose Characters are Figures in Hieroglyps have the property of Prophecy among the Works of Wonder which cannot be understood in the Creaturely Capacity but through the translations of ENOCH for whom the ground of conceiveability was torn up and no less power is requisite herein than that which smiteth the World in its third part of both Earth and Waters and all that lives therein or moves thereon wherein the Beast hath had his Seat as a Temple in which hath shined the glory of Sun and Moon and Stars XIV And for the revealing the true ground from whence all those glories may come again to shine in the Principles of Nature as in the beginning consumption and darkness must come before his Face who rideth in the Chariot of Nature wherein those glories are smitten in the third part until the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about the fourth part of the WORLDS over which the EAGLE hath prevailed XV. And though as those Angels stand manifest in the Heavens they are seven in number according to the seven forms of Nature through which are sounded the Mystery of God's Works of Wonders from the seven Golden TRUMPETS yet is their destroying power bound down in the four last forms only in which the Elements of Nature have spheared into Corruption for the discovery of the Lake of Fire that is hidden in the great River EUPHRATES from what is thence loosed XVI But the Witnesses hereof are only two manifested in each three Principles of both Heavenly and Earthly being in which the AIR is commanded until FIRE and WATER is become united in its ANGEL that hath one Foot on the Earth and hath his other on the great Seas for the Angel of the Waters saith It is done but an Angel of the Fire who continueth alwayes ministring before the ALTAR hath touched my Tongue with a live Coal he hath brought from thence wherein I am made able to declare of what he hath flung on the Earth XVII And beholding the seven Mountains of the Earth on which is setled the Foundations of that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Worlds in the in kindled Fire burning under its Foundations I see terrible shakings that are yet to pass through the Worlds over all buildings therein after the tenth part of the CITY is seen become fallen in the assending up of the Witnesses unto Heaven in the sight of their Enemies wherein the ten Horns of the BEAST shall hate the Whore and burn her flesh with FIRE XVIII Then shall be seen the seven Horns of the LAMB full of Eyes which are the seven Spirits of God which do walk among the seven Golden Candlesticks and the Books shall stand open on which hath been put those seven Seals that he may be known come into the Worlds that holdeth in his right Hand a Crown of seven Stars as seven golden Lamps burning before the Throne of God and the Lamb and lighting the whole Earth with his Glory in the form of the Pleiades for the seventh Trumpet shall sound forth the Mystery of what is thus unsealed over the mighty deeps which have filled the Worlds XIX And in the finishing of this great Mystery all Nations of the Earth shall be gathered to their appointed place that the Spirit and God of the World may bear the wrath of Indignation of what is poured forth on the frame of all created Principles into form without mixture which is the second Death executed in the seven last Plagues wherewith the seven Golden Vials are filled wherein God will appear in ten thousand of his Saints CHAP. IV. Describing the ground in Nature from whence the Wheels are moved about the frame of the WORLDS XX. THe seven spirits of God are moved about the frame of the WORLDS according to what doth operate and work up the way and course he is manifest through in the Seven forms of Nature which are become the Seven heads of the BEAST and the Seven Mountains of the WORLD on which the City is built wherein the WHORE doth sit exalted and therefore is God manifest in the Spirit of Judgement in those Forms of Nature that every thing may come forth tryed undeâ— the motion of the WHEELS XXI But though the BEAST hath taken Head in these forms of Nature Nature is again returning to its firsâ— subjection in the utter consumption and destruction of the power of the Dragon Beast and False Prophet ouâ— of those forms in Nature for now are the Wheels moving over the greaâ— River Euphrates on which the trumpet of God hath sounded and thence are loosed his destroying Angels which cause thunders and lightning in the Heavens XXII And the Clouds of Heaven are already tinctured with that which Ascendeth upward to prepare its motion in the Air whence his appearance is expected who judgeth the Prince thereof and casteth down the Accuser of the Just from those Airy Heavens wherein he hath been exalted though the Seven Forms of Nature which are moved about the heavens of the Worlds attend the first mover wherein the Work of God is manifest in the Seven Spirits of Nature XXIII For this center of the Inward WORLD which was thus unmovable had a power in and over all that was movable and changeable which became a cause in the motion of the WHEELS that was over-ruled by the wisdom and power of the first mover wherein all Glories of the FATHER shined in the Firmament of his POWER in which he remained unalterable and unchangeable the same without any shadow of turning or variation XXIV Yet is it only in Nature that God is become thus a cause
of moveability because God is the unchangeable being of Love Delight in REST in the Center of all that is good and Nature is that into which good and evil hath entered from whence its TREE hath sprung up and doth grow which the Creature who is the cause of work and labour in God hath fed on that hath brought the sence of pangs and misery into the World where is the worldly sorrow that worketh and bringeth under the power of Death and all other afflictions they meet with in their way CHAP. V. Describing the Form and Order of the WHEELS in their MOTION XXV FOR God is the cause of nothing without NATURE though in the Wheels there appeared two Motions whereby the cause of moveability was kept from centering in the ground of Corruption and Mortality under the power of which the Creature of God was thus fallen in a NATURAL Body through that which was sown in Weakness therefore in what ever the Creature was betrayed under the power of its guidance it was a CROSS to all proneness and adiction of Motion that did arise from the ground of Corruption XXVI And about the CENTER in which stood a Heart inflaming was made a Diurnal Motion in the Wheels which moved at a distance in two Rings of the inward Wheels wherein the third and inward Principle moved equally with the ground of Motion from the first CENTER and the two outward Principles of the inward World acted according to what was formed in a third Principle by which those three Principles came to manifest their CENTER in Nature XXVII But in the WHEELS there was also an Annual Motion that moved round that which stood fixed in the Center and this caused a ground without the Center as it stood manifest through the inward Motion to be corruptible and to Center under a power of Corruption though in those inward Rings of the Wheels there were kept and preserved a tincture of the first Motion XXVIII Yet having let in another Tincture from the power of Corruption under which the Worlds were labouring to Center what ever came forward under its motion must again be brought back into the sence and feeling of that which it reacheth after through DEATH to the cause of all labour and pangs wherein the Body of Nature standeth afflicted XXIX For there was neither East West North nor South from the Center in the inward Rings of the Wheels though it appeared to me in the ground whereon I lay for the beholding of the Vision that as the outward Rings in the Wheels were moved in a power of the four Winds of the Heavens the inward motion was from East to West and the Wheels went side wayes in all courses of the World XXX In which the three Rings of the outward Wheels did move and were moved according to the frame of the Worlds wherein centered the Principles of the whole but the inward Wheels moved by reflection the CENTER being unmoveable wherein two Rings only were discerned at a distance in that inward Wheel though in the Principles of each and both Worlds there were moved about three Rings in each Wheel XXXI And though in the outward Ring of the Inward Wheel in its Diurnal Motion the Heavens did move and were moved in what stood fixed toward the CENTER yet the outward Ring of the outward Wheel standeth 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 distance of years from the motion in the 〈◊〉 as doth the inward Ring of 〈◊〉 inward Wheel from the revolution of the Moon in the Annual Motion of the Wheels And in the second Ring of the outward Wheels the Heavens were moved about in their Annual Motion at the same distance from the Center as they were in the second Ring of the inward Wheel in their Diurnal Motion CHAP. VI. Describing the MYSTERY of the sounding of the seven Golden TRUMPETS and the seven THUNDERS that are for the preparing a ground in which the Judgement of God is manifest XXXII ON the Ground and Principles of a third part of the Worlds into which the DRAGON drew a third part of the Stars of Heaven after him did five of these Golden Trumpets sound forth the Judgment of God in what is loosed and unsealed from the BOOK of WONDERS in the Heavens wherein the four BEASTS were manifest each in their day calling to come and see what lay slain under the ALTAR of God in his Temple and House wherein the Sun Moon and Stars of Heaven did shine through that which was smitten in its third part XXXIII And herein is discovered the seat of the BEAST in Nature whose torment is awakened out of the bottomless Pit though as yet the number of Horsemen and Riders do multiply on the Earth through that which is awakened from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on the great River EUPHRATES in which hath been bound the four Angels that were prepared according to the time in which standeth the Execution of their destroying Power in with-holding the Winds from blowing on the EARTH as they are seen come up exalted on the four Corners of the same holding the four Corners of those Winds XXXIV Wherein each of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature recovereth six Wings according to the six Spirits of God in which the seventh unchangeable Spirit of Rest in him is begotten into the Creature and Creation that are become his Workmanship and they cover the living Creatures who day and night are crying HOLY unto the Lord and by the lifting up and letting down of their WINGS is the whole Earth and Worlds darkned or inlightned with GLORY XXXV And the Mansions or twelve Houses of the Fathers GLORY in the Heavens have their form defended with the WALL that is raised up on its antient Foundations wherein are twelve Pearls on its twelve Gates and under it are the twelve Foundations setled in the Refining Power through which are to be brought other three parts of a new World in its Heaven Earth in the destruction of a fourth part over which the fourth BEAST hath ruled with the Face of an Eagle who is come forth on his PALE HORSE like unto Death and Death and Hell follows him XXXVI Whose Power is by Famine Pestilence and Sword with WILD Beasts of Prey in all that lives in or moves on the GROUND and PRINCIPLES over which the seven THUNDERS are awakened to Thunder from those Places wherein Life doth strive to break forth and come into the CENTER of the creaturely being where every Birth hath its SIGNIFICATOR and the twenty four Wings of the four Beasts are the Army of the HEAVENS according to what came forth first MANIFEST in the four Wings of the FOWL that was stretched forth over the LYON in what strove to come up under the four Winds of the HEAVENS wherein the Heavens contended CHAP. VII Describing the MYSTERY of the four Beasts in the seven Forms of NATURE and of the Beast himself who is the Eighth XXXVII FRom the THUNDERS in
Glory became manifest in the WOLDS while the STUMPS thereof remained bound down in the Earth with an Iron BAND after seven times had passed over his HEAD which was wet with the Dew of the Night V. Wherefore from the time wherein the dayly Sacrifice was made to cease after the restoring of that breach on the Walls of Jerusalem to the finishing of the outward Court of the Holy City which was given into the hands of the Gentiles to tread under foot those forty two months or an hundred and forty two days being the concluding of a time times and the dividing of times which is seventeen hundred and fifty days wherein the Woman hath been nourished in the place that is there provided for her for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore days that the two Witnesses have appointed them to finish and fulfil their PROPHECY in sackcloth in which time the Earth doth help the WOMAN It is now eighteen days since the Commandment of God came forth for the rebuilding and restoring those outward Courts of the CITY TIME on a Prophetical account wch is the Language of the holy Scripture is five hundred years according to the life of Noah before he began to build his Family in the EARTH which was saved in the Ark of God and so long is accounted the days of Shem after the Flood of Waters as the mystical Number in which is contained ten Jubiles of years under the Law VI. And after thirty one days it shall be finished then shall be a WEEK to renew the Zeal of God and expiate sin to the sealing and binding down the power of the WICKED for evermore and in the midst of that Week those Witnesses shall seal their Testimony concerning the Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth who hath been crucified and lain slain in the streets of that great City spiritually called Sodom and Egypt but after three days and a half which is the concluding of the 1290 days they shall be seen to ascend up into Heaven in the sight of all their ENEMIES VII For it is now eighteen dayes since the WOMAN hath regained a sence of her deliverance from her great Captivity in that WILDERNESS-State in which the forty two months of her travel are expired and the Birth is brought forth in the EARTH which hath been preserved and delivered from the fury and rage of the great red Dragon by the Floods of Water which he hath cast out of his BELLY after her in the one thousand four hundred and forty and four thousands that are found standing on Mount Zion with their Harps harping but until the end of two days the Judgment of God set up in ISRAEL shall quicken the sealed number of Gods chosen and holy Ones who have remained as dry Bones in the Valley of Jehosaphat where the spirit of God hath breathed on the slain that from the third day will be found to live in his sight to seal the testimony of that birth which hath thirty days more to accomplish its growth into the power by which it is anoynted to finish that great Work in that Week wherein the dead are made able to stand on their Feet by the sound of the seventh and last Trump VIII And he that hath WISDOM let him count the time and number those days from whence the number of the BEAST which is the number of a MAN is compleat DCLXVI for from that day will the four destroying Angels of God stand loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES according to the hour day month and year for which they were prepared which after a month wherein those five months will be expired will leave seven months for the Dead to bury their Dead in the concluding of the year wherein Destruction is come forth against the WICKED IX Therefore count thou from the year 1656 wherein the Devil did exercise his power for ten days by casting many into Prison since the expiration of the WOMANS Tryals and sore TRAVEL that the forty days wherein the Seed of the Woman was left to be persecuted and tried by the fury and rage of the Devourer and his Angels that great Red DRAGON will make way for the power of God to be glorified after the third day in ten thousand of his SAINTS for from the expiration of those months wherein the striving continued between two Nations the King of BABYLON who had looked into the Glory of the Temple which God hath built in Israel wherein are many goodly Vessels of Gold and Silver hath been letted from spoyling and laying utterly waste the HOUSE in which are appointed those rich Treasuries about his Sanctuary X. Yet the Daughter of the NORTH suffereth Oppression under a strange KING unto whom the QUEEN of the SOUTH is joyned to corrupt their Seed though unto them the Mystery of that which pertaineth to the KINGDOM of GOD is opened in those that run to and fro to increase in knowledge and from the extirpation of the fifteen years from whence the WORLD hath been warned one hundred and twenty days and wherein the EXECUTION of that which was detained from the Earth and WORLDS in their third part to the prolonging of Life in the Government of Nature in which ISRAEL had their choice is to be MANIFEST the substance of what standeth in the end of time and place which is near to be revealed XI Therefore for the purging forth the Sin of MANASSEH through whom the HIGH ALTARS were erected in both Courts of the City for those fifty five days wherein the number seventy was accomplished in the concluding of fifteen years which discovered the Judgement that revived and was come on the Worlds that on whom the Image of JEALOUSY came forth manifest forty five days are yet determined from the midst of the WEEK wherein the Testimony of GOD will receive its everlasting Seal and it shall be the Joy of many to understand the Mystery of what is concluded in one thousand two hundred and ninety days but blessed are those that live attain to the end of those eighty five days which are the concluding of one thousand three hundred thirty and five dayes from those ninety five days before the Sacrifice was offered up wherein the ROMANS obtained their Conquest over JUDEA and throughout ASIA in which the Jews were scattered which was sixty two days before the BABE was brought forth through whom it became accepted XII For from the Conception and Birth of the MAN-CHILD through whom the LIGHT of GOD broke forth with which the NATIONS of the EARTH and REGIONS of the WORLDS that have sat under the SHADOW of Death are ENLIGHTENED on whom is come the GLORY of GOD to the GENTILES Their number is fulfilled and compleat wherein TIME and TIMES are past and HALF A TIME is divided in those Figures 1750 and yet the EXPIRATION of those SIXTY TWO Weeks wherein the GENTILES had power to erect their GLORY in the