and Earth bowed their knees to the Lamb to the Power and this was then fulfilled at the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow both of things in Heaven and things in Earth and his Name was now the Word of God and this was in the beginning and the Word of God is the Power of God and now both the Celestial bodies and terresterial bodies were all subject to the Power and all the works of the Lords hands were finished and he rested and all both things in Heaven and Earth rested in the power and all kept holy-day and rejoyced Though the Heavens and the Earth were created and all things wrought and finished yet the world was not begun that lay in wickedness which the Devil is the God of neither was the Power which is Christ the mystery hid neither was the Lamb slain yet Now after all was made and created and were good and blessed and indued with power life and vertue according to the purpose of his heavenly will which is eternally pure yet was not the lamb slain nor the mystery hid which is the power wch is Christ for what should slay him or what should hide him he that reads let him understand this that I speak of cannot be reached unto with that Wisedome that stands in time which was not in the beginning with God that is shut out but the wise in heart shall understand knowledge and the prudent shall know what hath been in the beginning and of his wonderful works in the dayes of old and of the mystry which was before the world began when the Lamb was in glory the Son in glory Christ in glory the first born of every creature and was born before the world began he that hath an ear to hear let him hear when all that God had made and brought forth by the word by the Power was blessed and stood in the Power then did the Lamb sit in his throne then was he the delight of God and God in him and all that was made by him rejoyced in him here was love here was glory here was purity unity and a sweet harmony joy peace love eternal life Gods power ran through all All was good Christ was not now hid he shed himself abroad and all things was partakers of his power in which they were made here was happinesse blessednesse joy dominion everlasting and eternal felicity innocency purity and perfection and man in it God in it the Lamb in it man in it after his own image the Mystery of godlynesse was not hid there was nothing to hide it or overshadow it no vail no covering but righteousnesse was manifest and was the covering of all inocency the cloathing of all purity the robe of all and life the dwelling place of all and all the works of his hands rested with the Father with the Lamb with the Word with the power with Christ in glory with the Father in the etenall glory whereby all was upheld in purity unity harmony answering the pure will of God and man had power to answer the will of his Maker which he received from God the Father of life by the power in which he was made and to abide in the will of God for ever and herein he and all things in heaven and the whole family thereof and all the holy host of God bowed to the lambs power and he reigned the Angels were subject to the first born of every creature before the Angels or before any thing was made he was his age who can declare or his generation his age runs paralell with eternity with immortality and came from the eternal womb from the bosome of the Father where he is even where he was before the world began he that reads let him understand now the power ruling in all and over all all was in peace and was blessed Now the Angel stood in his power moved in his power and all the Celestial bodies went in and out at his command and moved not nor stirred not but when he moved this was then fulfilled let all the Angels worship him and so they did reverenced him were subject to him sang and rejoyced in him triumphed in in his power and all the Holy Host moved at his command and marched on in his strength to performe his will to accomplish his everlasting purpose and to fulfill his eternal decree and gave glory to him who sate upon the throne of righteousness and judged in righteousnesse for ever and ruled in righteousness for ever there was joy in heaven the Father rejoyced the Son rejoyced the Angels rejoyced the morning stars sang the the Sons of God shouted for joy the holy Host gave praise and all praised in the firmament of his power in which they stood moved walked lived and accomplished the pure perpetual eternal decree of their maker Moreover the terrestrial bodies were all subject to him he reigned in all over all moved all gave Life to all and was the Life of Adam of the male and the Female and then was this fulfilled even then which was spoken in time though by him who was before all time who was the life of all things I say he lived then and because he lived man lived also for he was his Life now Christ the power reigned over all and all in the Lambs power were subject in a sweet harmony answering the pure will of their Lord their King that lived for ever who was upon his throne in the heavens and now his kingdom was over all there was joy in heaven there was peace on earth the good will of God was done In Earth as it was in heaven Oh beautiful oh glorious oh comly oh admirable oh incomprehensible was the glory my tongue can not expresse and time would faile me to declare the eternal exellency which God hath revealed by his spirit and that which I see is not Lawful now for me to utter now was no mountaines nor hils to hide the mystery but it shined upon all in all over all and above all was not hid As I said there was now no hiding place that could or did overshadow the mystery of godlinesse for the eyes of all things looked upon him whether Celestial or Terrestrial and all and every thing according to its kind rejoyced in the Light of his countenance and of his power was glad and gloried in him for then there was not an other he that can hear let him Now the Earth rejoyced and the floods clapped their hands now the great deep smiled all things that was therein the springs thereof laughed which flowed forth as though they had issued out of a womb now every thing that had breath lived praysed the Lord neither was there any thing but bowed and submitted to their Maker and he Lord and King over all yet in eternal glory yet let the wise in heart understand this was in the beginning and though it was in the beginning yet this was when
from all sin in this life and so leads them on to Perpetual misery misery will be your end and in the day of the Lord you shall witnesse this to be true But to return to the beginning again where there was no sorrow but pure joy and peace both in heaven and earth but I goe hither and thither as the spirit leads and shall speak as it gives utterance though but here a little and there a little yet shall it be in truth and righteousnesse How peace joy and delight possessed every thing that God had made every thing which he had formed glorified God their maker with one consent in the beginning before the world was framed that lay in wickednesse NOw the Lord rejoyced in all the works of his hands which he had made and rested and all that he had made rested in the power whether Celestial or Terrestrial and rejoyced in him walked in him in the motion of the power of the life they were happy and partaked of the life that indures for ever and happinesse immortal and knew no evil for there was none there was no hell yet prepared Tophet yet was not ordained neither the Devil had yet any being at all there was no wrath no sorrow no condemnation no death vexation grief or perplexity no pit of darkenesse no Angel of the bottomlesse pit no shame no tribulation no anguish nor paine no misery and in a word there was nothing that did destroy but all in quietnesse in peace in life in power in wisdome glorifying him which sat upon the Throne the Lamb who was living and the life of the male and the female and of every thing that God had made by the power subsisted in the power and in the motion thereof was good purely good and here was the goodnesse of him who was eternally good manifest in all above all and over all God blessed for ever even then the heavens rejoyced and the innumerable company of Angels was hearty glad and all the holy host sang for joy with a living voice which none that stands in time ever yet heard or can learn then the earth and all things therein that moved had life were in pure solace and mirth and pleasant joy unspeakable all knit together in unity and harmony in one consent as one family and were one body and there was health in the body and it was pure and comly and perfect and pleasant to behold crowned with Dignity covered with righteousnesse beautified with the comlinesse of the Lamb who was the life of all and now man had right to the tree of Life while he moved in the power and went not our Oh happy state oh beautiful state oh admirable state eternal felicity oh glorious state life it self the life of all and all in the life moving in the power and man right to the tree of Lifâ— while he lived in the lambs power had unity with his maker with all the Creatures that God had made was in Gods pure dominion and authority and ruled all over all things that God had made in Gods wisdome thus in short was the state of all things in the beginning as they were created and brought forth and these be the generation of the heaven and of the earth and of all things that therein are in the day when God created them when the Father was glorified when the Son was glorified and when man was in glory and honour and in dominion created in the Image of God and yet there was no evil Time would fail to speak of the state of all things in the beginning as it was and as it is revealed by the spirit of truth but in that which I have declared they who have a good understanding may take a glimps of the happy state of all things as God hath revealed them by his spirit which I never received of nor from man but by the holy spirit of God which was in the begining with God which saw all this and was an eye witnesse of this before the world that lies in wickednesse began and he that hath an eare to hear let him hear and blessed is his ear How man lost his state and dominion and unity with God and all the creatures and how the Lambe came to be slain and the world that lies in wickedness came to be formed and founded and how the curse came and the wo upon the Serpent which was blessed before and upon man and woman and the ground that received the temptation which was blessed before in the motion of the Power came to be cursed and how endles misery came in upon all in the transgression declared to them who have a good understanding NOw the Serpent was more subtle then all the Beasts of the field for that was his nature in which he was created and it was good in the motion of the Power and therefore Christ said be wise as Serpents yet as harmless as Doves and though the Serpent was wise and subtle more then all the beasts of the field till he acted and moved without commandment and out of the motion of the Power he was not cursed he that can receive it let him But he moved in the subtilty and wisdom out of the light out of the Power and went out of the truth out of his place without commandment or authority from the Power and acted and spoke of himself out of the Power and out of the truth as it it written John 8. 44. when he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it now he knew there was a law and command not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil for God had forbidden it now he went out of the Power without commandment of his own accord without motion now he went and talked with the woman and she was good before being in the motion of the life and Power she also looked out and not in the Power and reasoned with him out of Power contrary to Commandment beyond the command or before the Power and said unto the Serpent we may eat of all but the tree of knowledge of good and evil we may not eats least we die this she knew and the Serpent knew now the tree of knowledge was good in the Powers motion though not to live upon or for food for it was not good for food therefore God the truth the life the Power did forbid to taste of it or to eat of that tree but the Serpent out of the Power and the woman out of the Power hearkened to him that was out of the truth who turned the truth that God had spoken into a lie she joyned to the tempter and hearkned unto him and eat of the tree of knowledge without the Power and she looking out and the eye ran out from the life from the Power and was deceived and did eat of the knowledge without the Power without the life and she also
distraction one envying another and persecuting one another about the words of truth spoken from the spirit of truth which cannot be understood again but by the same spirit and so all them that have not the spirit of truth are in the Apostacy And all Sects Judgements and opinions that hath risen up since the Apostacy from the faith that was once delivered to the saints when the woman traveled and brought the man-child which after because of the Dragons power fled into the wildernesse and her child caught up unto God all the faith and worship that since is sprung up since the Whore hath sitten as a Queen in majesty is all denyed the ground of their worship Lawes Traditions Inventions and all their invented practises and formes and Images and likenesses are denyed and disowned as to be the dresse and attire of the Whore which hath allured people through her inticing pretences and shewes of holinesse when indeed all is but spiritual adultery and this must be all turned under again the Whores flesh burned and her attire plucked off and her nakednesse appear and her shame to them that have committed fornication with her and they shall be ashamed of themselves and of her and abhor themselves and abhor her and destroyed shall she be and the Lambs wife shall be beautified and come out of the secret places into open view out of the solitary wildernesse into the beautifull place that the Lord will bring her into the time times and halfe time is out the thousand two-hundred and threscore dayes is at an end and he bears witnesse of it who saw her â—fly away upon Eagles wings into the secret place which was prepared for her for these dayes and times appointed and I say he that knowes the counsell of the most High in this matter can account the time times and a halfe and the dayes and what shall be after the days be expired which is at an end blessed is he that sees believes and understands he shall see that which yet hath not appeared neither can it be believed by the most though it were declared but yet a little while and the Earth growes ripe and an eare will be opened in many who cannot yet hear and for a little while in this I shall be silent and treasure up that which the spirit hath revealed till the time be fully accomplished which God hath determined and then his glory shall be revealed and all the former things which have lived since the man of sin hath been exalted shall all dye an utter consumption shall be of all the changeable Lawes made since the Apostacy and the many changeable dresses of the whore and attires in which she hath appeared Imaginary worships into which all have run since they were Apostatiâ—ed from the faith all this shall be disanulled and come to an end and be blasted for ever the spirit of the Lord saith Amen How the woman that was cloathed with the Sun and had the Crowne of twelve Stars upon her head which did flie into the wildernesse comes out againe after the great whore is judged and her child that was caught up unto God comes to appeare again NOw after the time times and halfe a time and after the thousand two hundred and threescore days she returns after the whore is judged and the great City Babylon is fallen which hath made the Nations drunk and brought forth children in fornication who had drunk the blood of the Saints in the Apostacy after the Whore was judged and the voice was heard in heaven of much people that sang Halelujah salvation and glory and honour power Who witnessed to the righteousness of Gods judgement And a voice came out of the Throne saying praise our God all his servants and ye that fear him both small and great Rev. 19. 5. and verse the 6. And I heard as it were the voice of many waters and as a great multitude and as the voice of a mighty thunder saying Halelujah for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth the Whore is now judged the mother of harlots condemned with all her inchantments and sorceries Now the Lambs wife appears who is the mother of the man-child which was caught up unto God she that was cloathed with the Sun with the glorious everlasting Celestial light she is both the mother and the wife he that hath an eare let him hear now Jerusalem that is from above spiritually so called who was the mother of all the Saints before the apostacy she appears again and comes to be the wife of the Lamb and the city of the Saints the mother of them that are born from above this shall be and is made manifest to some but a numberlesse number shall see it and the day hastens greatly and she is appearing again and her solitary garments shall be put off and as she was beautifull before the whore made the nations drunk cloathed with the Sun and had the Moon under her feet and a Crown of twelve Stars upon her head and though she became child-lesse and also as a widow and the remnant of her seed slain and destroyed so shall she appear again in glory and beauty as before and shall be made ready yea my eye hath seen it she is making her selfe ready as a bride for her husband and unto her is granted that she shall be arrayed in fine linen clean and white even arayed in the righteousnesse of the saints which is not self-righteousnesse the garments of the harlot and her lovers but in the righteousnesse of Christ the Lamb her husband and child also and she shall now bring forth many more children though her seed have been slain yet a numberlesse number shall appear and ten thousand thousand shall be brought forth by her and glory in her and reverence her and rejoyce in her for ever and they shall be all clad in the same robe which the husband the Lamb is cloathed withall and the same the Lambs wife this woman is cloathed with all and the same shall all the children be cloathed with all the fine linen the righteousnesse of the Lamb which was dead and slaine since the foundation of the world but now alive and lives for evermore and here a heavenly family appears now after the Apostacy and this shall be seen by all that have an eye that can see through beyond the smoke of the pit that have darkned the ayre while the beast and Dragon hath had power but now hath her child appeared again the man-child hath appeared again and he that was in the spirit on the Lords day saw whether he was taken up to the Throne of God Revel 12. ver 5. and on the same Lords day he saw him after the woman was fled and the remnant of her seed was made War with and flain in the earth where the Dragon had power He that was in the spirit saw him alive again after he was caught up So he that is in
the spirit now on the Lords day sees the same man-childe who was brought forth by by the woman who was to rule the Nations but was caught up to the Throne of God before he came to Râ—le and then the Dragon ruled the beasts and false prophet the Whore the Mother of harlots sate as a Queen and the woman the mother of the heir fled into an obscure and a retired place and was hid times and dayes as I said before but as she appeared again in beauty so the man-childe the heir he appears also in glory Majesty and power and John saw him Revelations 19. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sate upon him was called faithful and true and he doth Judge and make War in rigteousness his eyes was as a flame of fire on his head were many Crowns and he had a name written that none knew but he bimself and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God And now the womans seed is increased again after the Dragon and the beasts War and now they become an Army and follows the Lamb their leader who is anoynted with honour glory and Majesty and renown strength power wisdom joy and gladness above all his fellowes yet his followers are annointed too and the seed of the woman the inhabitants of the City of the great King they are clothed with the same garment and Armour and rides on in power strength and Majesty after him and they are clothed and shall be with the garment of their Mother and the garment of their Captain their head and as he rode on in innocency so they ride on after him and the woman was in heaven that travelled and the childe was born there though he was to rule the Nations of the Earth and so who so are of this womans seed which is born in the City of the great King Jerusalem unto which the Hebrewes were come Heb 21. before the Apostacy and before the woman fled so now the same City comes to be seen again and the children are free born of their mother the Lambs wife who is joyned to him and is to be so for ever in the everlasting Covenant so they being heavenly children redeemed from the earth from under the Dragons power they follow the Lamb the word Gods power Revel 19. 14. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean and out of his mouth goes a sharp sword and with it he shall smite the Nations and now comes he to rule them with a rod of Iron he was brought forth long before but was caught up to God again and the Dragon beast and whore and false prophet ruled the Nations and killed the Saints but now he appears again after the Apostacy and a great host with him and the woman also and her children are many and they all follow the first-born and now comes the wo to the dragon and Whore beast and false prophets and unclean spirits and on them that worship devils and now shall he tread the wine-press of the wrath of God Almighty And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh written King of Kings and Lord of Lords And now appears an Angel standing in the Sun which the womanâ— was clothed with and he cryed with a loud voyce saying to all the fowls that flie in the midst of heaven come and gather to the Supper of the great day of God and now must the flesh of the Kings and Captains and Nobles and flesh of mighty men who had drunk the Whores cup now must drink of the wine of Gods wrath and the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their Armies gathered together to make War against him that sate on the white horse and his Army and the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him and the remnant were slain that took part with the beast by him that sate upon the horse and his Army whose sword proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls were filled with their flesh the Whore is burnt before the beast the false prophet and his Army now slain and their flesh eaten by the fowls of heaven and now the blood comes forth to the horse bridles And now the Angel descends having the key of the bottomless pit from whence the old Dragon the Serpent the red Dragon the Devil came there is his beginning there was he brought forth and there he grew up he that reads let him understand out of the bottomless pit for the Nations were never deceived till he appeared and he appeared as I have said before after the heaven and the earth was made and all things therein I say after he was not before he deceived Eve in the garden now he is grown old and so is truely called the old Dragon grown into a body of deceit well now must he be taken and bound and cast into the bottomless pit from whence he came that he deceive the Nations no more Rev. 20. 1 2. and all this War is in the bringing out of the Apostacy and in order to the Lamb and the Saints everlasting Reign in heaven and over the earth for ever This I have seen and my heart rejoyceth and my mouth shall praise the Lord the woman I say is appearing and she is cloathed with beautiful garments and the holy child the man-child hath appeared and is manifest again among the Saints and in then and the Lamb which hath been slain since the world began is alive behold he lives for evermore and now many are his followers and an innumerable company shall ride on after him who is King of Kings and now is God fulfilling that which Iohn saw in the Lords day which should come to pass the work is begun he hath appeared out of whose mouth proceeds the two edged sword which shall hew downe all the Dragons army the beast and his followers and though the cry be yet among many who shall make war with the beast and who shall speak against his prophets yet a little while and fear shall come their vaunts and boasts shall be turned into doubting and dreadfull fear on every side for Jacob shall be as a flame and Esau and all his race shall be as Stubble he that reads let him understand the wisdome of God in a mystery and the worke of the Lord which shall shortly come to to passe The manifestation of Gods glory shall be as great after the Apostacy as ever it was in any age before the rise of antichrist and the ministrations into which them that follow the Lamb shall be brought shall be as spiritual holy Celestial and divine as ever was before For the end of all our outward visible appearances shall come which the whore hath decked her selfe with and life it shall be known in the body and
his face and his name shall be in their foreheads and the Lord God shall give them light and shall be unto them an everlasting light and they shall reign with him for ever and ever over the whore Beast false prophet Antichrists deceivers seducers the pit death hell the grave shall triumph in his strength over all the powers of darkness and sing praises to him that abides for ever these things are true and faithful and shall be fulfilled and the time is at hand blessed are they that waite and watch that they may discern the signs of the times and the coming of the bride-groom that they may enter into the chamber of rest and into the Palace of eternal life into the City of the great King to sit with him and eat with him and rejoyce with him in the glory Eternal which was before the world began shall be when it shall be no more the end hastens he is blessed that is come and coming to the end of it for that which is immutable and Eternally glorious shall appear the Lord hasten it saith my spirit Amen The day of the Lord and how it is seen THe Lord God of the whole earth who lives for ever even the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and Jacob whose Throne is established in righteousness for ever who rideth upon the heavens and shines forth in his eternal excellency from the firmament of his power he is manifesting himself in his power as in the dayes of old and revealing his righteousness as in the years past and pouring forth his spirit upon his sons and daughters according to his promise and they that believe comes to be made partakers of the blessing of the everlasting Hills even the Lord who appeared at Sinai unto Moses his servant in the bush who rose up from mount Seir and shined forth in his brightness from mount Paran and came with ten thousands of his Saints even he from whose right hand went a fiery Law so that the people could not behold his glory the same is he who hath now appeared in this the day of his power and is appearing whose glory shall dazle the eyes of the world whose brightness shall make dim all the worlds glory and stain its wisdom and shut it up in utter darkness that it shall not appear to have any existance or being and the shadow of death shall flie away and all the haughty and lofty Princes of this world shall be horribly afraid the beasts shall go into their dens when the day appears and the Lambs of the everlasting fold shall come forth and be fed in the fat valleys where the springs of life compasseth about all the banks and rejoyce in their shepherd and shall say The Lord is my shepherd which many at this time doth admire and say What hath the Lord wrought who have seen his wonders in the dayes of old and have seen his noble acts which the fathers have told of who are fallen asleep and are at rest in the Lord and now many is God bringing to see their witness to be true and to have the same fulfilled in themselves honour and praise unto him for ever who is the stay and strength of all his people for ever And the day of the Lord is broken and the light hath appeared that manifesteth all things which are reproveable and the day-star is risen in the hearts of many and they are come to see that fulfilled in their hearts which Peter exhorted them to wait for and to take heed unto the sure word of prophesie until the day appeared and did dawn in their hearts which day when it appears and to whom it appears discovereth all things and maketh all things manifest as it is declared by the Spirit of truth in the Scripture of truth and every mans work shall be tryed of what sort it is and of what nature it is and this day hath appeared to many praises to the Lord who have waited for it and now they see every thing in its ground and rise and every tree and fruit is seen according to its kind whether good or bad and every mans work is obvious to every one who are in the day and upon whom the morning of righteousness hath appeared and the Sun of righteousness hath shined upon whereby that is seen in every one by the light which is truly called day by the Lord who causeth it to spring from on high which is reproveable and condemnable and also whatever is justifiable and unreproveable is seen by the day of the Lord appearing in the heart The day of the Lord what it is and to whom it hath appeared discovered and how it is seen GOd is a spirit his day is spiritual and is seen with a spiritual eye its pure light pure brightness the pure shining forth of the Lord in his glorious excellency the pure shining forth of eternity life putting forth it self in its brightness holiness sheding it self abroad in its glory purity spreading it self in its immeasurable excellency and can only be seen as it is in it self by the children of the light that are born of it there is a natural day there is a spiritual day the natural day receives its brightness from the Sun the spiritual day receives it brightness from the Son of righteousness by whom it s brought forth without whom nothing was made or is made or brought forth but by him who is the fountain of life and as the natual day receives its clearness from the natural Sun and is discerned by the natural eye of a natural man and all things natural are seen and discovered by and in the natural day and are perspicuous and obvious to him that hath his natural sight even so from the Son of righteousness the Lord of glory light and purity the day of God receives its brightness and is issued out from him by the rayes of his brightnes and is discerned and seen only by the spitual eye of the spiritual man who is the image of the father brought forth in life and in his own nature and quality that is to say from God the Father of life by Christ Jesus the life of men the light of the world and this is the birth which is born from above wch is of the nature of the Father and the Son of the day he only comes to behold this day and discerns all things of the Fathers Kingdom by it and likewise discerns all the hidden things of dishonesty and the works of darknes which are brought forth by the Prince of darkness who is shut up in eternal and utter darkness which is his dwelling place for ever which is his residence and shall be the residence of all the workers of iniquity that bear his image for ever Ob. But some may be ready to say It is not yet appeared and all things are not yet made manifest and that day is not yet come neither hath appeared in this
joy gladnesse peace of conscience assurance of Gods Love sealed in their hearts by the pure Spirit of the Lord the streams of life flowing forth continually from the great deep which refreshes and keeps cool in the greatest extremity and heat of temptation and this is enjoyed by them that have waited and doe waite for it even in the body they bear witnesse of him and of his coming the disciples what was their witnesse The Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding Of what of God of his day of his appearance of his power of his wisdome of his Kingdome of hope of faith of assurance of peace of joy of comfort and consolation what in this Life yea a cloud of witnesses I might bring in former ages and a cloud of witnesses I might bring in this age blessed be the Lord But my witnesse is nearer me that giveth me assurance and is surer to me then all their witnesses although they be all true Abraham the Father of the faithful and of the righteous who believed God and was accepted he saw Christs day and was glad Say literal professors that 's by faith yea what else He and all that ever saw Christ and his day or the Father they saw him by faith By faith they saw him who was invisible Isa. 12. 2. Behold God is my salvation he also is become my salvation what dost thou enjoy it already yea he is become And Simon who waited for the consolation of Israel Luke 2. 30 Now let thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation And this he said who knew Gods comfort and consolation as our sufferings for Christ doth abound even our consolation in Christ doth much more abound and they were made partakers of his Divine nature and sat together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus For heaven is his throne and they that are in him and injoyeth him who is the power of God and the wisdome of God knowes peace and rest and salvation both from guilt and act of sin And the Apostle wrote to the Hebrews After he had purged away our sins speaking of the atonement the everlasting high Priest he sate down on the right hand on the Majesty on high He saw beyond sin even him who had purged away sin and this comes to be made manifest unto them and in them that believe by the Spirit of Jesus who is Christ the Lord the arm that brings salvation and is the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that believe who begins it in his day and perfecteth it in his day for he works in the day as he himself said Hitherto my father worketh and I work but the night cometh when none can work So that he destroys the work of the Devil which is his work in man which they that are come to his day feels and sees the handy-work of God in themselves and his own works praise him for they onely can and they that are not come to the day knows not Gods work in themselves and they who have not yet heeded that in themselves which manifesteth all things reproveable neither that which doth reprove they are not come to know the appearance or the glimmering of light or of the day yet in themselves which the Saints witness in them even all they that are sanctified Where the day of the Lord doth appearâ— and how it cometh and how it is to be looked for declared THey that gaze abroad whose eyes are abroad cannot see his appearance nor his day which appears He that knoweth not wherein it consists knows not how to look for it no more then the Jews who were Scripture Professors and learned men knew wherein the kingdom of God did consist Even no more do the litteral professors whose faith is founded on the Letter and upon that which is visible know what I say First all must know wherein it doth consist It is eternal brightnes shed abroad through all things which pierceth through and searcheth the secretest place even that which is invisible and maketh manifest all things and the nature of every thing by the day of the Lord comes to be seen and it appears in the heart they were to wait for the day to dawn and to break forth in their hearts and to wait for its appearance there and that 's it which is to be waited for and upon that which maketh evil manifest and brings it to light and declares against that which is contrary to its nature and so the day cometh to dawn Christ the covenant of light Gods gift who is sent and annointed of God to Preach and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord also the day of vengeance he proclaims in the heart for he comes not to bring peace on earth but a sword and his sword is the sword of the Spirit it 's that which divides and discerns the intent of the heart and his day discovers the desperate wickedness of the heart And where he finds no faith in the heart he kindles a fire in the earthly heart and executeth his vengeance And his day unto such is a day of great perplexity their spirits comes to be wounded the heart comes to be made faint and sorrow comes to fill their hearts and trouble to be felt and in this state are all in who are unconverted he findes no faith no hope in the heart therefore he comes and takes away peace Many hath talked of the day of the Lord but when it comes to draw neer them they will not abide it Whatsoever makes manifest is light Now the day makes all things in every one manifest and when deceit is seen and wickedness brought to light then they that have done evil cannot abide but would run to any thing rather then abide the day or to see the Lord of life appear in his day to execute vengeance upon his enemies and to destroy his adversaries and to kindle an unquenchable fire to consume all his enemies And who hath not seen this yet in themselves never hath seen the day of salvation nor of gladness and this made the Prophet cry out Who may abide the day of his coming And many have been eye-witnesses of the dreadful day of the Lord which hath appeared wherein all peace hath been hid from their eyes and all that ever came to see the day of joy and gladness first did know the terrour and terrible day of the Lord in themselves Therefore said the Apostle We knowing the terrour of the Lord do perswade men Now it cometh not with outward observation lo here or there So the Pharisees looked the Kingdom should come when Christ told them it was within them So say I if ever any do behold the bright shining forth of eternal life they must wait in that which isâ— pure of God through which he will manifest his day and his power in his day in them is thou keepest in thy minde to that which manifests unto
I refer the Reader to intituled the principles of the Priests of Scotland their Reformation and discipline is nearly related to the Spanish Inqnisition for their Doctrine they say grace is not free and faith is not without sin and the Letter is the word of God and that they are cursed that say there is a light within which will lead up to God and as one said although it meant Christ and if any will not submit to their words and conform to their practice and traditions then they call a counsel together as their forefathers at Trent and pronounces him a heretick and within this few years banished them or else took their whole substance outward from them and if any out of conscience could not submit unto their invented tradition then if he ever came to have any converse with them again be must have a penance before he could get an indulgence from them like the Pope and furthermore if any deny them because they are out of the doctrine of Christ and are contrary to the Scripture then as I said they excommunicate them and charges all people neither to buy nor sell nor eat nor drink with them nor work for them and so the beasts power is exercised compelling to come to their Mass-houses and as for the denying the Bishops then you have denyed your fathers that begat you and ordained you then you have no Ordination but may be you have cryâ—d so for setling your Gospel you have got a Commitee to ordain you or one company to lay hands on another but when receive ye the holy Ghost Oh that is an error in your Church but are you not got into the old Cathedrals so called and into the Steeple-houses and the old Masse-houses and where you had may be 20 pounds or fourty in the year now you have gotten a hundred it may be two here 's reformation indeed well we must needs remember you of your race and stock the apostates since the Apostle dayes and the former practices which is found among the old Protestants and Papists is among you and you are still drunk with the whores cup and are crying for Cains weapons to guard you well I say you art part of the dragons tail that draws to the earth and to the pit which will be the end of all idolaters and Apostates except they come to repent And as for the Independants Churches so called you are a branch of the same root you have declared against the Bishops and court Prelates and said they were in error and many of you declared against them for pluralists because they had too great benefits and declared against Tythes as to be Antichristian and whoso received Tithes denyed Christ come in the flesh who are wheeled about and now takes them your selves and creeps into the old Mass-houses and hath taken that up which you condemned in others and so have made your former testimony void and all sober people sees your hypocrisie and deceit who have gathered a company together which you call select people or members of your Church and you exclude the rest who have as good right to your Ordinance as you for they professe Christ in words as you do And yet you will receive their means whom you judge not capable of your Ordinance and your Church will no more maintain you then it would maintain them that you have denied in words if you had not the beasts power to compel your vineyard would starve you your Gospel and your Preaching is one with the former and the people is the same in nature they were before you have got Bishops Lands agmentations and Stypends more large then your forefathers had for the most part and sue men at the Law and hales them before Judgement seats and takes away their goods whom you look upon to be in error yet this stands as good with you as any Article of your faith to force to compell to sue to hale into prison to take away their goods and get a Scripture for your cover and say he that Preacheth the Gospel must live of the Gospel and them that neither hear you nor receives you neither believes your Gospel yet you conclude its lawful to take their goods and if you cannot get them hale the party into prison are not you drinking still the whores cup and do not you follow the Beast and do not you own that Law to be just that compels people to pay mony to you who denyes your Ministry and are none of your sheep and are not your Ordinances and worship imitated things from the Scripture the Saints words and yet out of their life and practice are not you in the Apostacy have you not your profession and confession of faith to make year after year as the Magistrate changes doth not this evidence that you are unstable and are yet in the waters upon which the whore sits and scituated in Babylon the Mother of Harlots who yet makes you drunk and that makes all the filth and vomit appear in the earth that stains the earth and your idols corrupts the earth and all seperates under what name soever who have not denyed the ground of apostacy but are in the apostacy for all sects since the apostles days have taken up some part and left another since the life hath been lost and the power lost all hath been in idolatry and the Protestants who have denied the Papists yet they have not denyed them in the ground of their worship but hath retained some part and hath kept some part of their worship and all Sects sprung out of the Protestants in them all there is some part remaining for they have not denyed the ground of the worship set up in the apostacy the whores cup iâ— drunk of and the Dragon hath power which sought to destroy the man-childe and made war with the remnant of the seed of the woman who was clothed with the Sun you all stick yet in Babylon and the best of you all are but yet in the suburbs thereof For since the Apostles dayes their foundation hath been either traditions Imitations inventions of their own or borrowed things from the Jewes in the first covenant or at the best the letter hath been the ground of their faith and their foundation which they have twined and translated this way and that according to the wit and reason of every particular sect and opinion and according to the understanding of their private spirits now all these buildings and towers that men have builded up in the Apostacy they would fasten upon the writings of the holy men of God and so hath raised an imagination of their own and so would have the scripture prove what they say and the writings of the Apostles they all cal the Gospel the word of faith the light of the Gospel the foundation the tryer of spirits the touchstone and say its the foundation of their faith and Religion and so are all in the
age to any Ans. What if a man that is naturally blind say that there is no light in the day nor in the Sun because he sees none is therefore there no light in the day nor in the Sun And what if all things be alike unto him day and night so that he can distinguish nothing doth this therefore make void their seeing who do see with the natural eyes both the Sun and the day and hinder them from distinguishing or discerning And what if they who are spiritually blind and are children of the night say they see nothing nor beholds nothing of the day of the Lord or of the discovery of the things of God or of his glorious appearence which many witnesse doth this therefore make their sight void or the discovery of things void to them who have seen into the things that be of Gods kingdome the unbeliefe of some doth not make the faith of them that do believe void God forbid What the day of the Lord is and what it will be to the wicked delcared AS I have said though the day of the Lord be pure light and brighnesse in it selfe and mixeth not with the night which is of a contrary nature because the Lord in the beginning separated them set a decree which will last unto all perpetuity and that which limited the bounds and circumference thereof now is the same I say though the day of the Lord be pure and keeps its purity and property and nature and is still one and the same in it selfe for nothing can alter its purity yet it is a day of blacknesse and gloomynesse and a notable terrible day unto the wicked who hates its appearance and hates the light children of falsehood and of deceit whose deeds be evil it makes them and their deeds manifest there it is unto them as it is written in a certain place The eyes lids of the morning are unto them as the shadow of death the appearance of the Lord affrightes them and they would run from it as a theef that diggeth through a wall and breaketh open a house in the night when deep sleep is upon men but when the day appeares that discovers his actions he is affraid because he will then if he staies there be seen and all that live wantonly upon earth whose hearts are set to seek after wickednesse as for hid treasure the day of the Lord will steal upon such as a theef and will come as upon a theef they being children of the night and bringing forth the fruits of darknesse contrary to the light they will have their portion in utter darknesse and eternal vengeance will comcompasse them as a wall and fury as a fire that devoureth all the fewel so shall the ungodly perish and have their portions with hypocrites Think on this all you railers and revilers of the light and of the appearance of God and repent For as the wild asse that snuffes up the wind and they that seeks will not weary themselves with her yet the time cometh when she may be found and taken Even so all the ungodly though they may run as a wild Asse and traverse their way as a Dromedary yet the moneth cometh and the day cometh they will be overtaken in the midst of security and they shall not escape And though the children of this world and teachers of this world and professors of this world who professe the Scriptures have prayed for the day of the Lord yet when it comes it will be as hot burning fire as devouring fire and they will fall as stubble and as burnt-mountaines before it and will not be able to abide for as I said whatsoever is reproveable is manifested by the day the light which is eternal in which God appears and it shall appear even to the wicked to the ungodly they shall be made manifest that which is manifest is not hid but seen and brought to light and beholden So all you hirelings who preach for hire and you people that love to have it so you shall not be hid all gainsayers of the truth you shall be found out all shall be convinced of their ungodly deeds and hard speeches and that which makes your deeds manifest will be the day and that will convince you for even the wicked shall see his appearance although to condemnation shame contempt They shall see him whom they have pierced And know further even in the wicked God hath a witnesse which is pure which checketh often though they heed it not because the God of the world hath blinded their eyes yet when Christ the life shall appear he wil make that see in the wicked which they have put out and the God of the world hath blinded yet he by his power will open even the eyes of the wicked and they shall see him and his coming in dread and his pure appearance which shal make them horribly afraid his day and appearance will be to their sorrow Although they would not see yet they shall be made to see and to hear that which they would not hear when God sounds his Trumpet to give warning to all that the dead both small and great may arise some unto everlasting Life and some unto shame and everlasting contempt All that hath hated his appearance shall see though they would not Put not this far away all deceitful workers drunkards Liars swearers whores and whore-mongers Adulterers Idolaters who worship your own Imaginations and all railers mockers and proud wanton disdainful people that live in wantonnesse and pleasure time-servers flattererers men-pleasers cursed speakers vain talkers foolish jesters fierce dispisers of those that are good who are come out of the pollution that you wallow in his appearance will be to their joy but to your shame and eternal misery except you speedily repent What the day of the Lord is to the righteous and how he appeares to them and whether any are to looke for it while in the body resolved THe appearance of God which is eternal Life in his day in his immeasurable Light a great joy and rejoycing to the righteous for there they come to behold him who is unto his people an everlasting light and in his light they come to see light and in his day he reveals the secret mysteries of his kingdome in them who sees his day appeare in their hearts which maketh all things manifest even the secrets of the Lord and his hidden treasure and his durable riches which never cankers nor rusts but is fresh and keeps its pure image and impression and is still the same by which all the righteous who have waited for Gods appearance comes to see him and his riches as it is written This is he we have waited for let us rejoyce and be exceeding glad why What is he come you waited for yea come and his reward is with him and they that see him come find contentment in him and in his reward and what is his reward