them as so many sorts of incarnat Devils in their Military Civil Ecclesiastical Powers so caled ryding on the Nations Robing Spoyling and plundering the peepel of their Estats tresurs and fruits of their Labors at their own cursed wils and plesurs to uphold and maintain them in pryd deceit eas fulnes and oppression over the peepel causing also their Bloud as a continued Issu to run sorth to fulfil their cursed vvils and plesurs as also the Dear Innocent Saints Martyrs faithful witneses of Iesus vvho throuh ages and generations past unto this day hav born their Testimony against their vviked vvays and practises Which Spirit and povver must novv be cast into the Lák of Eternal Perdition Destruction and suffer the vengeans of Eternal fyr and be limited and chained dovvn in the Bottomles Pit in every particular out of vvhich it aros and the smok of the torments herof to ascend up for ever mor vvhich is the second Deth even the Hel of Hel. Furthermâr the Apostel told them to whom he wrot that they could not be partakers of the Tabel of the Lord the Tabel of Devils reproving that disorder exces with was amongst them in eating and drinking for which caus many becam weak and sik The Tabel of the Lord what how it becâ—â—â—s a curs and fala asleep for the Tabel of the Lord to wit the varios Kynds stors of provisions which the Eternal Power the Father of the houshold doth dayly produs giv freely forth to feed and sustain Man-kynd and every Cretur becoms a trap a snar a gin a Curs even a Tabel of Devils unto in such as eat drink therof in exces to the satisfaction of the carnal mynd the inordinat desyrs of the flesh And as concerning the fellowship conversation of Devils it was springing up amongst them and therfor the Apostel exhorted them to whom he wrot to hav no fellowship with the unfruitfal works and workers of darknes saying that it was even a sham to speak of thos things which wer don of them in secret but al things reprovabel said he âr mâd manifest by the Lijâ— Which cursed Spirit of Apostacy having thus taken plà s Rooting in amongst them in the Apostels days hath grown and spred it self in and over al Christendom which hath rendred Christendom in their Military Civil Ecclesiastical Powers to be the Thron Seat of Iniquity of Belzebub the Man of sin a habitation of Devils the hold of every Foul Noâ— ysom Spirit a Cag of every unclean hatful Bird which must now Receiv the Reward of Devils even Destruction and perdition from the presens of the Lord from the glory of h s pur power who is now risen in his holy Tempel to shak terribly the Hevens the Erth not only in Christendom but in al nations that so what is shaken may be removed and that which cannot be shaken may remain and shyn forth in its pur natural and proper glory and Beauty al the works of God becom as a wel formed harp with every string wound up to its du proper pitch on which the Lord God may forever Delyt to mà k sweet Melody unto himself they in him forevermôr So that this Spirit of Apostacy faling away from the tru christian faith lyf took plà s rooting first in the Elders teachers of the flok which cursed seed grew spred it felf in and throuh them over al Christendom the whol being on s comprehended in the Church of Rôm subjected under that fals hed universal Bishop or Pôp so caled and took hold and brouht forth its cursed fruits among al Nations Kindreds Tongu's Peepel of every Ranks degree order from the Hyest to the Lowest hath had its Rooting Growth Fulnes even in a most abominabel mistery of Iniquity Corrupting the vvhol Body of Christendom so that in sted of being a pur chast virgin fit to be marryed to the Lamb and becom his faithful Spous she becam a defyled strumpet even in her beginning bruised the Brests of her virginity by harkening to and obeying the voys of the old Serpent that adulteros Spirit in her so becam a harlot and grevv to be the Mother of harlots and abominations of the Erth vvith vvhom the Emderors Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel of al Ranks and Degrees Mal Femal hav comited Spiritual fornication and bin mâd drunk vvith the cup of her Abominations and she hath sit as A queen upon many waters vvhich ar Peepels Kindreds Tongu's Nations being mà d drunk vvith the Bloud of the Profets Saints Martyrs of Iesus even in her skirts is found the Bloud of al that hav bin slayn upon the fà s of the Erth. Thus this cursed Seed of the Serpent having taken plà s and Rooting did gradualy grow and spred its self dayly and as it grew spred and prevayled so the tru pur Seed of God towit the Seed Christ in Mà l Femâl was oppresed kept under brouht into Bondag as the cursed fruits of the Seed of the Serpent appeared wer brouht forth so the blessed fruits of the tru pur Seed of God the truly Nobel plant of Gods Renown in mâl Femâl withered decayed and that pur fresh appearans of the truly excelent Glory which was in mesur as a dew from the Lord God of heven upon the Church of the Romans did by degrees depart and utterly wither away throuhout Christendom The Apostacy first entring the fals teachers thó on s trû having freely received from them over spued the body So that wher as in her virginity the Elders teachers wer tender cârfulover the flok of God to whom the câr therof was comited not by constraint but wilingly not for filthy Luker but of a redy mynd not as Lords over Gods heritag but as Holy good exampels to the flok freely communicating their Spiritual things partaking in lov of the Peepels carnal things who having food rayment had learned therwith to be content yea Holy Paul wrouht with his hands that so the Gospel myt not be Burdensom or chargabel to the Peepel But that covetos Spirit vvhich is the root of al evil being thus crept in and having taken plà s in som ther soon appeared such amongst them who wer not wiling to communicat freely of what they had freely received of God but throuh covetos practises souht to mà k a gain of the flok going in the vvay of Balaam for gifts and revvards having Mens Persons in admiration becaus of Advantag imbrasing this present World loving to hav the preheminens and so being faln under the Spirit of deceit in themselvs grevv dayly vvors and becam deceivers of others by good vvords and fair speeches deceived the hearts of the simpel causing many others to bovv and submit to their covetos ends and to follovv their vviked and pernitios vvays by reason
throuh them hath grown spred it self as evil leven throuhout the whol lomp that cursed seed of the Serpent hath grown up in thee not only in thy Elders teachers but also throuh them in thy Rulers war â—â—rs Peepel is becom a Man of sin mystery of iniquity even the Son of perdition yea a strong man armed with the dragons Power keeping possession of the hous to wit of thee O Christendom siting as God in thee who ouhtst of ryt to be a living Tempel for the tru living Lod God omnipotent to dwol and walk in Which hath rendred thy Military Power even the whol body of them to be the great Reed Dragon that gav to the beast his power seat and great Authority with seven heds ten horns seven crowns upon his hed which hath stil doth stand befor the woman which did now doth bring forth the man-chyld who in mesur doth and dayly môr shal Rûl the nations with a Rod of Yron who failing in his first enterprys against the bâb of glory being cast out of heven into the erth hath stil doth persecut the woman which did and now doth bring forth the Man-chyld hath doth cast out water as a floud out of his mouth to cary her away therwith making war with the Remnant of her seed which keeps the commandements of God hav the testimony of Jesus even the arm of the ungodly which must now be broken a standing engyn to oppres spoyl consum the tresur bloud of the nations Who 's Rys continuans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent which was in Cain in Simeon Levy thos brethren in Iniquity in whos habitations ar the cursed Instruments of Murder Bloud cruelty whos practis was and stil is whylst pretending overturs treatys of peas agreement to seek tak advantages to Kil Murder Destroy But the day is now com in which they must receiv their Iust Reward from the Lord God they shal be divyded in Iacob scattered in Israel a Fugityv vagabond on the erth from the Lord God for ever must that Power and spirit be in which they stand and by which they ar acted Thy Civil Power so caled even the whol body of them Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers their predecesors in the fal hav bin stil remain that scarlet colored beast ful of the nams of Blasphemy having seven heds ten horns which ascended out of the bottomles pit upon vvhom the scarlet whôr that adulteros Woman â—esabel to vvit the whôl body of thy spiritual men or Clergy so caled hath stil doth sit which hath mà d war with the two vvitneses of God and overcom them vvhos Power seat great authority was given and is stil upheld by the dragon or military Power whos mouth hath uttered great things blasphemys vvhich vvas to continu trampeling the holy city fourty two months opening his mouth in blasphemys even against God blaspheming his Nà m tabernakel and them that dwel in heven who hath mà d vvar vvith the saints over com them hath had stil hath Power over Kingdoms tongu's and nations and vvas and stil is vvors hiped by al vvhos Nà ms ar not writen in the Lambs book of lyf Their several throns and Seats of residens exampels of villany al manner of vvickednes to the several Kingdoms Dominions and territorys over vvhich they rul sending forth the stinking smels of vanity Pryd Lust VVantones VVhordom Exces Drunkenes vayn Plesurs Oppression Cruelty Injustis Deceit Envy Murder making aprey of the Innocent such as de part from Iniquity Who 's rys continnans to this day is in the Spirit of the old Serpent which vvas in Cain that city builder in Ismael Nimrod Esau and in thos Kingly Governers of Sodom and Gomorrha and the citys therabouts vvhos practis vvas and stil is by stryf contention and vvars to destroy and murder the Peepel under their government therby to vvrest Dominion out of the hands of ech other amongst vvhom just Lot is mâd a prisoner and captyv But the day is now com in vvhich Abraham the Brother of Lot is arming his houshold Gideon the Lords Thresher vvith his sharp threshing instrument having teeth hath taken the field vvith his three hundred Men and the Lord vvil smyt them as in the day of Midian mâk their Prinses as Oreb Zeeb as Zeba Zalmunna vvhich perished at Endor the habitation of the Spirit of vvitch craft and becam as dung upon the Erth. The Captyr Exyl hasteth to be delivered and shal be lifted up out of the pit and redeemed and brouht bâk vvithout money vvithout prys but thâ— prey shal not be taken from the myty nether shal the lavvful captyâ— be delivered out of his hand vvho had descended into the lovver most parts of the Erth even into the Belly of hel but is novv ascended and ascending up far abov al hevens leading captivity captyv giving gifts unto Men spoyling Principalitys Powers even the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers of the Darknes of this World making an open shevv of them triumphing over them and trampeling on them in his cros vvho is the lyt lyf of Men the VVisdom and Power of God Thy Ecclesiastical Power even the whol body of them caled the Clergy or Spiritual Men with their predecessors in the fal apostacy wer and stil ar that great skarlet whor wich seteth upon many waters even the mother of harlots abominations of the erth with whom thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel even the whol body of thee O Christendom hav commited spiritual fornication arrayed in purpel skarlet and fyn linnen deked with gold c. having a golden cup in her hand ful of abomnations filthynes of her whordoms on whos forhed is writen Mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots and abominations of the whol Erth who hath bin and stil remains drunk with the bloud of the Saints and of the Martyrs of Iesus Thy several plases of worship Tempels of Ydols plases of the forms of godlynes with out the lyf and power therof which ar to be turned from the vvhol body of thy vvorship as an Altar vvith an inscription to the unknown God The several exercyses of prayer preaching sacraments singing with the observation of days tyms sabbaths performed and observed at loathsom stinking most abominnabel in the nostrils of the put God of lyf no other but as the offering of swyns flesh blesing of Ydols or murdering of men being performed in that spirit Povver vvhich is enmity against God Who 's Rys and continans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent vvhich vvas in Cain vvho could offer a sacrifys then murder his brother in Balaam Athaliah Iezabel vvho hav riden the several nations of Christendom as an As for dishonest gain the
and bulwarks But as for thee the pryd of thy heart hath deceived thee thou that dwelest in the clefts of the roks and sayest in thy heart who shal bring me down Thô thou hast exalted thy self as the eagel set thy nest among the stars yet from thens wil I bring thee down saith the Lord God ommipotent Wherfor hear O yee mountains giv ear yee strong foundations of the Erth in thee O Christendom for the Lord hath a controversy with you he is drawing neer to plead the caus of his crucifyed â—on his cruelly tortured and murdered saints his greatly burdened spoyled and oppresed Peepel in thee VVo VVo VVo to the bloudy city that is ful of lys robbery the noys of the whip the noys of the rateling of the wheels the cransing of the horser is coming on thee the hors man draweth near to lift up the bryt sword the glittering spear and a multitud of carkases shal fal and they shal stumbel upon the corps becaus of the multitud of the whordoms of the great skarlet whor the mother of harlots and mistris of witchcrafts that hath sold the nations throuh her crafts behold I am against thee saith the Lord of hosts and wil discover thy skirts upon thy fâs shew the nations thy nakednes and Kingdoms thy shà m cast abominabel filth upon thee mà k thee vyl yea even set thee for a gazing stok al thy strong holds shal be as figtrees with the first Ryp figs which when they ar shaken shal fal into the mouth of the eater thô thou provyd for the sieg and fortify thy strong holds and garrisons yet a fyr shal devour thee the sword shal cut thee of and eat up thy flesh lyk fyr thou hast multiplyd thy marchants abov the stars of heven thy shepherds stumber thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Counselers dwel in the dust thy Peepel ar as a flok scattered upon the barren mountains ther is no healing of thy breach thy wound is incurabel such as hear the report of thee shal clap their hands for upon whom hast thou not caused thy filth abominabel wickednes to pas continually The vision that was for an appointed tym is now speaking thô it hath tarryed long yet it is now surly com they shal suddenly awak that shal byt thee arys that shal vex thee thou shalt be for a booty unto them becaus of innocent bloud for the spoyl vyolens found in thee thou shalt be filed with shâm for glory the cup of the Lords Ryteos indignation is now handing forth unto thee shamful spewing shal be on al thy glory thy graven Images shal not profit thee for the Lord is in his Holy Tempel al the Erth shal be put to sylens befor him â—he is now drawing near to dryv in sunder the Nations to scatter the hy lofty mountains yea al the hils shal bow befor him whos way is everlasting Affliction dredful trembling is now seizing on thee for the Lord is near to march throuh thy Land in great dredful indignation yea he is going forth for the salvation of his peepel even for the salvation of his anoynted wil wound the heads of the hous of wickednes in thee O Christendom discover overturn the foundations of them scatter the wicked as with a Whirlwynd whos rejoysing hath bin to oppres spoyl murder the Poor Needy Innocent yea he wil march throuh thy Sea and trampel upon the heaps of thy great Waters The Day is now com that he is risen to the prey for his determination is to gather together the Nations to assembel the Kingdoms in thee to pour on them his most ryteos vengeans indignation even al his fiers wrath Anger the Erth shal be devoured with the fyr of his Jelofy But the Peepel of pur Languag shal cal upon his Nâm get them a prays a goodsavor fâm in every Land my Peepel shal never he ashamed saith the Lord God who is now shaking the Hevens the Erth overtuâ—ning the Thrôns of Kingdoms thâ—y shal be brouht down by the sword utterly broken to pieces The great Mountain in thee shal be com a plain befor him The flying rowl is seen which contains the terribel curs which is now going forth over the fâs of the whol Erth every ón that stealeth sweareth shal be cut of according to it The Lord hath brouth it forth it is entering into the hous of the thief of him that sweareth falsly by my Nâm saith the Lord which fals swearing hath bin the practis of thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Magistrats at their Coronations or Instalments so caled into their Governments as also other inferior Officers Jurors Evidenses in thy Courts which ouht to hav bin Courts of trû Judgment Justis becaus of which oaths thy Land shal mourn The Holy City which is free the Mother of al the Children of tru freedom is in mesur descended from God out of Heven shal dayly mor mor appear whos wals Bulwarks ar salvation the gats therof Prays is now in mesur becom a Burdensom stôn to al Nations al vvho burden themselvs vvith her shal be broken to pieces yea she is becom as an herth of fyr among dry vvood as a Flaming Torch in the midst of a sheaf of dryed stravv or stubbel vvhich shal devour the vvicked in thee round about The lofty City he is bringing dovvn laying it lovv even vvith the ground the foot is treading it dovvn even the feet of the poor the steps of the needy The wynd is goten into the two womens wings bearing up the Epha vvherin the vvoman vvhich is vvickednes even the man of sin siteth vvhich must novv be born into the land of shynar and be sit and established upon her own Basis in which land was the building of Bâbel the begining of Nimrods Kingdom that myty hunter befor the Lord to wit the lâk or bottomles pit in every Particular mal femal eternal Judgment ther plased on the hed of the transgresing Power in the in ward parts which is the ground out of which it sprang even the Topht prepared for the King and every subject in the Kingdom Spirit and Power of darknes Dives the Rich man that hath bin cloathed in purpel skarlet fared delitiosly every day born after the flesh that hath bin cruel and mercyles Persecuting him that is born after the Spirit most now go to his Plâs of torment not hav ón drop of water to cool his tongu ' and Lazarus the man of sorrovvs must novv be carryed into Abrahams Bosom an eternal seperation must novv be mad betvvixt the tvvo seeds an irremovabel Impassabel Gulf fixed betwixt them both the man of sin the Man of sorrows he seed of ech of them must now be put ech in
forth overtak you yee perish in the sam for al who ar found ering from and walking contrary to the mesur of the Spirit of the grâs of God in them wil be found partaking with Babylon in her sins must receiv of her plagu's Your strength is to stand stil your work is to do nothing your wisdom is to becom fools patiently to wait to feel him to arys in you and bring salvation and work al your works in you for you for ever mor which al who com truly to experiens do enter into his rest which is pùr and eternal com to ceas from their own works as God did from his On thing mor I may not omit that so the Lord and his servant may be clear of the bloud of al man-kynd which was forseen and declared by the Lord of lyf Prins of pur peas in the days of his flesh to wit that ther should com many in his nam say that they ar Christ and deceiv many shewing great syns and wonders in so much that if it wer possibel they should deceiv the very elect The day is now com coming in which it shal be fulfiled The ground of the coming appearans of such hath bin for som tym laid working in thousands who go under the nâm of fift-Monarchy Peepel with many other who from an imagnation of their own brayns gathered from the letter of the scripturs expect and look for the appearans and coming of Christ in that sam body of flesh in which he appeared lived and suffered deth upon a cros without the gats of Jerusalem out of the material clouds visibel hevens and gather peopel unto him as an outward glorios king or great monarch by carnal weapons with an arm of flesh to overturn kil destroy out wardly the persons of such as oppos him and them and rein a thousand years Wherfor when any such do appear go not after them nether be yee deceived by them for destruction and misery ar in their path and the way of tru pur and everlasting peas they know not both them al others may know that the appearans and coming of Christ seting up of his Kingdom which is pureternal and everlasting is in the lyt or as lytning which cometh out of the east shyneth into the west as himself testifyed and that his Kingdom is within coms not by observation But as for the treading of the Wyn pres of the fiers wrath of God al myty it is to be troden without the holy city and the appearans The seting up of Christs Kingdom in the generaelis effected in the sam manner as in evch particular soul coming seting up of the Kingdom of Christ is the sam in the general as in every particular to wit not by outward myt and carnal fo rs Power destroying mens lyvs but by the sword of his mouth which is quik and Powerful in the Inward parts to discovet consum root out the ground of al unryteosnes in men and throuh their holy conversations faithful testimony to their innocent lamblyk sufferings for that mesur or Power of truth into which themselvs ar brouht they doâ—overcom bring down and in pur lyf and dominion trampel upon the contrary Spirit in them selvs in others both in the particular and in the general And concerning England Scotland and Yrland with the dominions and territorys therunto belonging this I further say that the seventh seal trumpet vyal is in mesur opened sounded and poured forth intot he ayr which shal quyt stop the breth of the dragon's beasts fals Profet's Power Spirit in them as to them tym shal be no mor as such Now is the expeling of al typs figurs clouds shadows Carnal ordinanses dispensations declarations administrations which hav bin over yet poynting at the most tru eternal and excelent lyt lyf glory and substans the opening of al dark sayings speeches and parabels upon the sweet Melodios harp of David and the tangue which is as the Pen of a Redy wryter the finishing of the mystery of God Wherfor rejoys O thou afflicted drunken but not with wyn for great is the holy òn in the midst of thee the enemys Rok is not lyk unto thy Rok even themselvs being judges ther is no God lyk unto thy God who rydeth upon the hevens for thy help in his excelency on the skys the eternal God is thy refug underneath ar the everlasting arms he shal thrust out the enemy from befor thee and shal say destroy them and thou the tru Israel of God the Nobel Plant the Royal seed the holy nation shalt dwel safly as in unwaled villages upon a land of corn and Wyn thy heavens do dayly mor and mor shal drop down the sweet living eternally refreshing dew happy art thou O seed of the God of Iacob ther is non among al the familys of the Erth lyk unto thee O Peepel saved by the Lord who is the shield of thy help the sword of thy excelency thy enemys ar dayly mor mor shal be found lyars unto thee and thou in mesur dost dayly mor and mor shalt tread upon their hy plases For thus saith the Lord even the Lord thy God which pleadeth the caus of his Peepel behold I wil now tak out of thy hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no mor drink it again but I wil now put it into the hands of them that afflict thee who hav faid unto thy soul bow down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over The day is com which shal shak open al thy prison doors for the first born of the Egyptians is neer hand slayn the great sea divyding and upon the sea of glas mingled with fyr must thou yet stand but al who witnes tru victory over al in their own particular shal stand theron in pur Power lyf Dominion with the harps of God in their hands singing the sweet Melodios glorios triumphant victorios song of Moses the servant of the Lord the song of the lamb for the Lord now taketh plesur in his Peepel wil mor mor beautify the meek with his salvations his saints shal be joyful in glory singing aloud upon their beds having the hy Prayses of God in their mouths a two edged sword in their hands with which they in mesur alredy havâ— dayly mor mor shal eâ—ecut vengeans upon the heathen Punishments upon the Peepel bynding Kings in chayns nobels in fetters of Yron execut upon them the judgments writen this honor hav al the saints Prays Prays Prays yee the Lord God of lyf lov Pur Power Dominion and faithfulnes in throuh and overal for ever mor. Amen I am your Brother companion in tribulation and in the Kingdom Patiens of Iesus JOHN READER Thes Errors being escaped in the Pres thou art desyred for thy own advantag in Reading first to amend them with thy pen becaus som of them do alter the Sens several other literal faults ther ar of which ther is no need to mak mention IN the Tytel Pag. l. 10. ad ryteâ—os p. 2 l. 20. for distinguish read distinguishing in the margent p. 7. for exalted read executed pa. 8. l. 25. for Word read Lord for Lord read Word pag. 9. l. 32. for yee read the l. 36. for the r. he pa. 11. l. 8. for from r. form pa. 14. l. 38. for Profer r. Profet p. 29. in the margent for overspewed r. overspred p. 30. l. 6. for desyros r. desyrs p. 31. in the margent for would r. world l. 26. for resir r. Relic pa. 36. l. 27. for other r. our pa. 37. l. 31. for the. r. them pa. 40. l. 40. blot out is l. 42. p. 12. for the hav hard r. yee hav heard p. 45. l. 8. ad is l. 12. blot out in pag. 47. l. 5. for her read hear l. 35. for filthy drous r. filthy dròns p. 48. l. 34. for stowish read foolish l. 36. for a rop of your mal houses r. atop of your mas-houses p. 57. l. for uring r. urging p. 73. l. 16. for Reed r. red Thes being amended tak notis that in sted of ce at the end of words in al words deryved from them I hav in speling us'd S. as for peace peas for grace grâs for place plâs for placed placing c. plâsed plasing c. becaus that e at the end of word doth so much stumbel strangers mislead them to sound two sylabels wher ther is but òn FINIS
of the Erth for its possession rul them with a rod of iron al its enemys becom its footstool that as a ston cut out of the mountain without hands it should smyt the Imag ' to wit the Powers of sin darknes in the feet therof so that the Yron Clay Silver Gold therof to wit al the strength Glory of the Power Kingdom of Darknes from the foundation to the Top ston in that cursed building shal be broken to pieces together becom as chaf which the wynd carrieth away that the ston should becom a great mountain fil the whol Erth And the Dominion of sin transgression shal be finished an end put therunto everlasting Ryteosnes be raised up established in Man Kynd they in it that as in Adam al dyed so in Christ the seed al shal be mâd alyv as sin hath reined unto Deth so Grâs shal Rein throuh Ryteosnes the seed unto everlasting lyf John in the Spirit of Profesy heard him that sat on the Thrôn say Behold I mak al things new saw the new Hevens the new Erth wherin ryteosnes dweleth the Holy City the new Jerusalem into which nothing that defyleth or worketh abomination can enter or that maketh a ly but they who ar writen in the Lambs Book of Lyf wherby was for shewn The restoration of the seed Christ in mâl and femâl of them in it to that pur Dominion Glory which he had with the Father in Man-kynd Man-kynd in him befôr the foundation of the World which lyeth in wikednes began The promis fulfild in the hed many members a strong ground of Hôp II. Secondly he hath alredy in mesûr mád thos promises Covenant good performed it to in som to wit in Christ Jesus that Lamb of God who was the first begoten from the Ded the Hed of the Body the Church in whom the Eternal Word of Lyf the Seed of God slain from the foandation of the World which lyeth in wikednes was brouht forth in its Holy Pur perfect Estat of innocency in whom the old Serpent the Divel the Tempter found no Plas who pased the tym of his sojourning heer on Erth in that mortal body in the pur fear lyt lyf Wisdom Power of God his Father faithfully finishing the work given him by the Father to do in the sam Eternal pur Spirit offered up himself again unto God without spot returned into the Bosom of the Eternal Father fountain of lyf from whens he câm proceeded As also dyvers of the Saints and Holy Men of God by and throuh a participation of the Sam Eternal pur fulnes of God which dwelt in him wer turned from the darknes to the lyt from the Power of Sathan to the Power of God and witnesed Salvation from sin and had learned to deny al ungodlynes worldly lusts and to liv soberly Ryteosly holyly in this present World wer clensed from al filthines of flesh and Spirit and had overcom the wiked ón wer mâd free from sin becom the Servants of Ryteosnes risen with Christ siting together in hevenly plases in Christ Jesus and wer com to the new Jerusalem to Mount Syon the city of the living God to the innumerabel Company of Angels the general Assembly Church of the first born to God the Judg of al and to the Spirits of just men mâd perfect in them III. Thirdly Becaus the sâm Eternal Power which hath acomplished it in the hed Som of the members The Power of God sufficient to perfect the rest is abel to acomplish the sâm in every member according to it's plâs throuhout the whol body being abel to sav to the uttermost al that com to God in him who is abel to work so as non shal hinder for Heven and Erth shal pas and now is pasing away but not ôn Jot or tittel of al that he hath spoken or promised shal fal to the ground unfulfiled IIII. Fourthly The Day is now com in which an end to the World which lyeth in wikednes shal be put the Kingdom of darknes sin and transgression finished and the pur and everlasting Ryteosnes of God to wit Christ in mâl and femâl be mád manifest in and throuh mankynd and mankynd in it reconcyled to God and to ón another in the ever lasting Covenant of lyf never mor to be forgoten in which the whol creation shal hav deliverans from the bondag of corruption in to the glorios liberty of the Sons of God The grouâ—d of al outward Rul ordinanses in Church stat declared And as concerning al Rûl Dominion Authority Power whatsoever that hath bin or shal be exercysed in throuh man over others wirh al the Ordinanses Appointments of God in the Church The ground of the Rys Manifestation Administration Continuans of them al was is mans transgression in sining departing from the Lord the lyt Spirit power of God in the inward parts And mans Restoration redemtion from sin transgression returning again unto the Lord in obediens to the lyt Spirit The most universal gathering greatest glory to be after the Apostacy and power of God in the inward parts puteth an end unto them al. But according as it was fôrseen fôrtold by the Spirit of Christ in the Holy Apostels a faling away Apostacy from the tru Christian faith lyf should com that the most spreding manifestation of the most Excelent glory day of the Lord the most universal gathering into him was not to com except ther cam ' first a faling away the Man of sin revealed and Holy Paul in his Advys to the over seers of the flok told them that after his departur greevos wolvs would enter in amongst them not sparing the flok that from among themselvs should men arys speaking pervers things to draw Discypels after them further said that the Mistery of Iniquity did then already begin to work John in his Epistel advyseth them to whom he wrot to try the Spirits not to beleev every Spirit becaus many fals Profets wer then gon out into the World The â—ôp confesseth that the Christ cam in that on body of flesh saying that every Spirit that confesseth not that Iesus Christ is com into the flesh is not of God that was the Spirit of Antichrist of which they had heard that it should com said then that it was already com into the VVorld that they went out from Among themselvs And so it was that the seed of the Serpent having found Plâs in som beguyling them as of old he did Eva drawing their mynds from the simplicity of the Spirit of Christ in them leading them out into the World Inclyning their hearts after outward visibel things it ceased not working even in a mystery of
of vvhom the vvay of truth vvas evil spoken of vvhich cursed Spirit taking hold of the flok also many appeared vvho vvould not endur soünd Doctrin but after their own lusts gat to them selvs heapâ— of sals Teachers turning away their ears from truth unto fabels And so it cam to pas by degrees that such as refused to answer their covetos desyrs and to put into their months they prepared war against them counting them enemys to the ministry of Christ to be against the propagation of the gospel such as bòr Testimony against refused to follow their Pernicios ways Practises wer counted Erronious Enemys to the church good order so truth the followers therof got the Nams of Error heresy Non conformists disorderly Persons And Deecit Error the Practisers therof assumed to themselvs the nams of holy church tru Christians ministers of Christ in their own faln wisdoms set up On amongst them as chief Father Overseer or universal Bishop vvhos successors wer stil ar caled Christs Vicars Peters successors hed of the church and Póps whos Personal seat is ROM but his spiritual seat the Peepels Kindreds Tongu's Nations who in the whol Body of them caled the Clergy throuhout Christendom ar the woman that great City that hath yet Doth rul over the Kings of the Erth so proceeded to erect Counsels and Synods in them to mak many unryteos and Antichristian Laws Decrees which they cal Spiritual Holy Canonical Orders of Holy Church imposing their own commands inventions upon the Peepel as the Commands of God Holy Church assuming to themselvs in their faln Wisdom Power to bynd loos to set up put down Powers things both in heven in Erth to retain remit the sins of the Peepel in their own wils for Mony Dishonest gain such as refused conformity to their wiked Orders Carnal laws Commands Canons Devilish injunctions they cast forth as Heritics suffering non to buy or sel but such as would bow under their Spiritual wikedneses receiv their Idolatros mark in their hands or on their forheds thes their proud Antichristian Iezabelish Luciferian practises hav reached al Christendom mâl femâl from the lowest to the hyest of you your predecessors in government causing Emperors Kings Prinses Potentats to bovv dovvn to the sôls of her feet deposing disposing of Powers Potentats Crowns Kingdoms at their ovvn vvils and plesurs therby falsly and blasphemosy pretending to trampel upon the Powers Pomp Glory of this World whylst themselvs ar delyting affecting living at eas in the sensual lusts Pryd Plesurs therof to the hyest degree And so they proceeded to set Bounds limits to Congregations caling them Parishes erecting houses with steepels Croses on them Bels Baptysed in them falsly ignorantly caling them Churches appointing Arch inferior Bishops Priests Curats with several other Kynds of Hyrlings over them appointing them great Revenus Stypends yearly Incoms by Church lands gleab lands tyths taxes easter reckonings offerings sprinkling of Infants Churching of women Marriages Burials Prayers for the Ded Dirges Masses for Redemption of souls out of Purgatory Confession of sins Smoak-pennys Indulgenses Buls Pardons c. With many other Antichristian ways inventions to mak Marchandys of the Bodys souls of the Peepel throuhout Christendom The elergys spiritual weâ—pons of wikednes fayling they fly to the carnal weapons of the Magistrats But when they found that their own spirtual laws Canons helish church orders wer not of fo rs enuf to keep al in subjection to their carnal orders and Inventions in Matters of Religion worship and to answer their covetos and greedy desyrs after Mony tyths and larg yearly Incoms they Addresed themselvs to the Potentats Kings Prinses and Rulers of the Erth requyring their help and Assistans pretending that they therby would be servisabel to God holy church furtherers of the propagation of the Gospel good Countenansers Patrons Incoragers of the Ministers of Christ c. Whom they met with in the twylyt of the evening of the Blak Dark nyt of Apostacy as so many young men voyd of understanding who by their good words fayr speeches pretenses wer easily drawn to go after her as Oxen to the slauhter fools to the corection of the stoks making dyvers unreasonabel Penal Wiked Antichristian bloudy cruel laws and statuts with cursed Inquisition courts to fo rs al to a conformity to their Antichristian Idolatros Canons Institutions Inventions Injunctions Cursed Practises in matters of Religion church worship which are Extant and upon Record unto this day for vvhich they Rewarded the Potentats Kings and Rulers of the Erth with the Nams of Defenders of the faith c. who also received dyvers of them into their counsels to sit negotiat vvith them about the spiritual Affairs of holy church falsly and blasphemosly so caled pretending therby to bring al into unity uniformity to the tru Christian Church Faith Practis with which cam in the treading the holy city under foot and the Prophecying of the witneses in Sak-cloth and the flyt of the vvoman into the vvildernes and so it cam to pas that if any did bear Testimony against their Apostat Antichristian vvays and Practises or Refused to be conformabel to their Invented Laws Commands and Canons in Matter of Religion and vvorship they vver summoned to appear at their spiritual courts so called and if after three tyms summonings or appearans they would not deny the truth conform to their church orders and satisfy their covetos desyros they proceeded gradualy to censur Fyn cast out or Excommunicat them as heritics ordering that non should buy or sel eat or drink with them turning them over to the vvorldly or secular Povvers of the Erth to deal vvith them acording to the cruel Antichristian unmanly Inhuman Bloudy Laws statuts vvhich in such cases they had lyk bruit beasts not Men mâd provyded to wit the Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom who hav bin as cruel Unnatural beastly bloudy in the execution of them on thousands of Gods Dear Innocent ôns as they wer blyndly zealos Beastly in making of them spoyling many familys of their goods cruely dealing with others in their persons by bonds imprisonments cruel rackings torturings banishings secretly openly Murdering kiling the innocent Saints Martyrs faithfull witneses of Iesus by hanging burning with dyvers other ways of open secret cruelty murder the cry of al which cruelty bloud Murder of the Innocent hath piersed the hevens entred into the ears of the Lord God Omnipotent who is now risen in his holy plas causing the vengeans of his Tempel to tak hold of al his his dear oppresed cruely tortured murdered Innocent peepels Unnatural bloudy
crafts was is the intemperans inchastity inordinacy of Peepel So al thes may say If Peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt lyf of God in them the good physician which purgeth clenseth from al filthines of fleâ—h spirit leads al vvho ar led by him in ways of temperans sobryety chastity in the fear of the Lord then they wil com to be Inhabitants of that city which shal say they ar not sik the Lord to be com the helth of their Countenanses their God and abyding therin the ground of al Diseases distempers in Body soul Spirit is kept down in peepel Such wil not hav need to com to us with their Urins giv us larg sums of mony for our Advys Counsel to maintain us in pryd eas or to mak ûs of our salvs deceitful Compounds so our deceitful trads wil dy and wither away also And al sorts of Marchants traders in Ships Shops wââ—houses Ins Victualinghouses Fayrs Markets may say If peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt everlasting covenant of lyf in them be tauht led by him in them then they wil com to tak cà r for nothing to tak no thouht what they shal eat drink or put on but cast al their câr upon the Lord vvhos eternal power wisdom dayly produseth sufficient to feed sustain every cretur so to becom as ôn houshold or family children of ôn Father heirs together in with Christ of the ôn Inheritans caling nothing their own injoying al things in the pur fear lyf lov wisdom of God as in ôn common ryt or intrest Such wil not hav need to mak ûs ' of our deceitful Inventions of mony to buy sel mak Marchandyz of the gists several stors of the hous of God wich al flow from the ôn gist which he freely gav to the children of men without respect to Persons neither wil such frequent or mak ûs of our Ships Shops Ins victualing-houses fayers or markets And so we may lay asyd our ships shut up our shops wâr-houses Taverns and victualing-houses and ceas frequenting our fayrs and Markets for no Man wil buy our wârs any Mor and so our trads of deceit oppression wil dy and wither away also Thos cald Land-Lords who in the spirit of the world hav raked great quantitys of the Erth into their hands may say If peepel be bourht to Christ the lyt way of peas saluation in them then having food and rayment they wil learn ther with to be content not Covet or desyr to grasp farms into their hands to serv their own particular intrests to spend their tym in sweating toyl cà r and labor as under the curs to giv us larg and yearly rents by sums of mony to manitain us in pryd lusts eas fulnes so that our Lands must â—therly unstok-ed until-ed or vve must let such us ' it vvho vvil only let us hav a part of the produs therof vvith them for our necessary supplys of food and rayment and so our Lordly Covetos and oppressing vvay of farming Lands for great and unre sonabel sums of mony by the year vvil dy and vvither avvay also Thos cald by-way thievs Robers may say if Peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt the strong Tower of sasty eternal salvation in them then the us ' of mony wil com to be laid Asyd by them and as for food rayment if we be Really in want therof the lov of Christ in them wil mak them wiling to supplys our real necessitys so that if we com to them on the by ways filver and gold they wil hav non and if we should tak their cattel they ryd up on or cloths from their baks it would be an unkyndnes offered to such as ar really wiling to feed cloth such as ar really in want and necessity nether can we lykly pas long with such things without being discovered and so becom lyabel to sham and suffer the strok of Justis from the hand of the Magistrat for the sam And therfor it wil be mor manly honorabel for us to fal into som way-of honest and moderat labor that so we may eat our own bred and wear our own cloths in Peas and quyetnes without condemnation in our own conscienses or fear of sham by the strok of Iustis Thos cald way going Peepel ydel and sturdy begers may say if peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt and wisdom of God in them then alth ô the bowels of the lov of Christ in them constrain them to do good unto al as need and necessity requyreth yet if we com to beg of them having bodys abel to work they may justly say unto us that such as wil not labor ouht not to eat and may offer us labor and food which if we refus the ôn they may justly with hold from us the other So that we shal be forsed to lay asyd our ydel dronish trád of beging and ether to work or starv which if we do our blouds wil be upon our own heds The whol body of the world which lys in wikednes may say if peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt wisdom Power eternal salvation of God in them then the end of the world even of al things wil be com upon them as it was on the Apostels Saints in their days and al the many vvays vviked inventions and Practises which hav had their Rys Continuans to this day throuh the entrans of sin trangression by the first Adam wil be ended finished and Eternal ryteosnes brouht in and established in Man-kynd and Man-kynd in it al Rúl Authority Power it standing in the spirit Power of the old Serpent put down and destroyed the vvhol creation delyvered from the bondag of corruption into the glorios liberty of the Sons of God and al things in heven Erth visibel invisibel reconcyled to God in him every Knee mà d to bovv and tongu ' to confes to him to the glory Prays of God the eternal Father Pur fountain of lyt lov wisdom glory and Dominion vvho is in throuh and over al God blesed for ever this is the God whom many hav waited for and this is the salvation expected by him and for ever blesed be his Nà m as non ever did so nether hav they wayted on him in vain nor bin ashamed of their hòp in him for according to his promis declared and recorded by throuh the holy Profets he hath now set to his hand again the second tym for the redemtion and salvation of himself his own oppresed seed in the ends or inhabitants of the Erth not only in Man-kynd but even in the whol creation who vvorketh so as non can hinder and shal not be discoraged til he hath set Ryteosnes in the Erth surly his salvation is ny unto them that
vvalked the Iews of old said they vver the children of Abraham but they being found in vvays of deceit hypocrisy Oppression Idolatry persecution and murdering the Innocent saints and holy profets of the Lord Christ told them they vver children of their father the Devil being found doing his vvorks so that if yee be found commiting of sin and not vvalking as Christ vvalked and guilty of thôs evil practises vvhich the Jevvs vver then ar yee not such as ar born of God nor tru Christian Emperors Kings Prinses and Rulers by the grâs of God but the children of that Father vvhos works yee do and a company of usurpers such as hav no tru Ryt to exercys Dominion over the nations But that yee ar such is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor your claym of Ryt by heir-ship prescription is rotten nul voyd What it is to be Christs vicar And for the Pôp to affirm himself to be Christs Vicar it Implyeth no les then to represent his person in his spirit and Power to do his work now it s recorded of Christ that he was meek and lowly in heart holy harmles undesyled seperat from sin siners in lyf going up down doing good reproving sin teaching and exhorting peepel to ways of mercy truth ryteosnes purity meeknes humility and holynes But that the Pop is found acted by a spirit and in a practis of dyrect antipathy against the Spirit of Christ and so is rendred to be the Antichrist is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor his pretens of being Christs vicar is fals voyd The Pop succedeth Peter as Sin succceded innocency in order of tym or as a thorn doth a vyn when it grows in the sam plas wher â—ns a vyn did grow And for the Pôp to say he is Peters Successor Importeth no les then to represent his person in his spirit Power to do his work Now Peter in his epistel upon record saith thus the elders which ar amongst you l exhort who am also an elder and a vvitnes of the suffering of Christ a partaker of the glory that shal be revealed feed the flok of God which is among you taking the oversyt therof not by constraint but wilingly nor for filthy luker but of a redy mynd nether as being Lords over Gods heritag but as being good exampels to the flok that when the great shepherd shal appear yee may receiv a crown of glory that fadeth not away But that the Póp is found nether in that spirit or work in which Peter was is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor his claym of being Peters successor is fals voyd also And for the whol body of thy Ecclesiastical Power so caled with al the worshipers to them belonging to affirm themselvs to be the tru church and faithful spous of Christ the holy church vvhich ons appeared and vvas mâd manifest in and throuh the saints vvhich dvvelt at Rôm It importeth no les then that they must be found holding the sâm pur mystery of faith in a pur consciens be the caled and sanctifyed of God according to his purpos vvalking in the sâm holy fellovvship in the Spirit of truth vvhich the saints of the church of Christ vvhich in the Apostels days appeared in Rôm held walked in But that thy Ecclesiastical body or clergy so caled with al the worshipers to them belonging ar corrupt in Doctrin fellowship conversation and faln away and apostatysed from that Pur Doctrin worship fellowship holy conversation with vvas held vvalked in by them is Playn evident in the precedent charg evidensedby a cloud of vvitneses therfor their claym of being the holy Church of Róm is fals voyd also So that upon the whol O Christendom thou art found to be the houshold of an old thief a cruel oppresing murderer and a most filthy abominabel whor standing naked in the syt of God Angels and Men found guilty of al thos great provocations and bloudy abominations which in the precedent charg is prodused against thee Now therfor O thou Leopold thou O Póp of Rom with al yee Kings Prinses Rulers Governors al in authority under you of what degree rank or order soever whether Military Civil Spiritual or Ecclesiastical so caled al Peepel both hy and low rich and poor bond and free smal and great mâl and femâl even the whol body of thee O Christendom with al the Dominions Territorys to thee belonging who ar under the Command Government teaching of Man Givear and hear the most just ryteos decree irrevocabel Sentens of the Lord God Omnipotent of Heven Erth even the living God former of al things against and concerning thee The dredful and most terribel Battel Ax of the most just Ryteos Powerful Lord God of vengeans is now laid to thy Root and that Power and spirit by which thou art now acted and in vvhich thou now standest vvil the Lord God novv hew down root up and utterly destroy yea his most just and Ryteos vvrath plagu's and vengeans is even alredy bròk forth upon thee and shal dayly mòr and mòr appear be revealed from heven against thee even as pangs upon a traveling vvoman from which thou canst by no means escap Thô thy Potentats Prinses Rulers Peepel hav do shal set them selvs and tak counsel against the Lord and his anoynted yet he that sits in heven now lafs them to scorn yea the Lord hath them in derision and he is now speaking to them throuh his sanctifyed ôn's in his wrath hath yet mor mor wil vex them in his sor displesur his Yron rod is novv taking into his hand vvith vvhich he hath begun dayly mor mor dash the Nations to pieces as a poters vessel in thee O Christendom and they shal dayly môr and môr fal be subdued under him til al his enemys becom his foot-stool The Rod of his strength is sent out of Syon he in mesur ruls dayly môr môr shal rul in the midst of his enemys in thee At his ryt Hand he is now stryking throuh Kings yea he is judging among the heathen in thee wounding the heds over dyvers Cuntrys his hed is now lifting up in throuh over al his enemys in thee The evening of that day known to the Lord is now com in which the lyt hath appeared the morning of that day is approached in which the just in mesur hath dayly môr môr shal hav pur Dominion over al their enemys in thee Deth is now feeding on thee thy beauty fading withering away as the gras upon the hous top And for as much as God hath caled thou hast not regarded but set at nouht
to their proper plâs and in the injoyment of that which is the proper dû Ryt of ech of them by the just and Ryteos Lord God omnipotent and therin abyd forever who to and in the on and the seed therof wil be a lâk of utter darknes wher shal be weeping gnathing of teeth for ever The deth of deth what a Never dying worm and fyr that shal never be quenched and the breth of the Lord vvhich hath in mesur Kindled it shal as an inexhaustibel River of brimston keep it burning in the inward parts in every Particular which is the deth of deth the hel of hel the grav of the grav but to and in the other and the seed therof the Eternal pur Power wil be a pur endles and never fading Kingdom of lyf lov peas comfort Ryteosnes and joy unspeakabel and ful of glory vvhich is the heven of hevens vvhich conteins not him vvho is the eternal Incompehensibel father and fountain of pur lyf and fulnes vvho is in throuh and over al. The Lord is now com into his Tempel even the messenger of the covenant in whom his sanctifyed ôns delyt behold he is even now com shal dayly mor and mor appear but who may abyd the day of his coming or be abel to stand in his now appearing surly only such as can dwel with the devouring fyr with the everlasting burnings he is even com near to thee to judgment is becom in his sanctifyed on 's a swift faithful vvitnes against the sorcerer the adulterer fals swearer and the oppreser of the Fatherles widdow that turns asyd the stranger from his Ryt even the tru heyr of al vvho hath bin long as a stranger in the Erth vvho is the sâm as in the begining changeth not and therfor yee sons of Jacob ar not consumed yea the day that burneth as an oven is novv com the Proud yea al that do vvickedly in thee ar becom as dryed stubbel fited for the fyr the day that is now com in mesur alredy hath and dayly mor mor shal burn them up consum them even Root Branch saith the Lord God of truth his fan is in his hand he is Purging his own floor gathering the wheat into his garner but wil burn up the chaf straw and stubbel with unquenchabel fyr with such Judgment as the dragon beast fals Profet in thee hav judged they must now be judged such mesur as they hav met must now be mesured to them again the King of glory is now com to cal al his stewards and servants to account both great smal in thee and such as hav bin without compassion to their fellow servants taking them by the throat suing them casting them into prison about dets Carnal things wil he novv deliver to the tormenter til themselvs hav payd the uttermost farthing and such as in the absens of the Lord tru master of al hav bin found beating abusing thir fellow servants even cruely oppresing murdering the innocent vvil he novv cut in sunder and giv them their Portion with Hypocryts in the là k even in utter darknes wher is weeping vvayling and gnashing of teeth for ever and al the Ydel slothful servants vvho hav hid the Lords mony in them as in the Erth and not improved it vvil he novv bynd hand and foot and cast into utter darknes vvher their worm dyeth not and their fyr is not quenched and al the foolish virgins which ar found fluin bering and runing to the buyers selers to get oyl shal be shut out from the brydgrooms presens and althô both buyers selers may Plead that they hav Prophesyed in his nam cast out devils ear bred and drank Wyn in his presens that he hath tauht in their streets saying Lord Lord yet must they novv receiv this ansvver from him that is with in them depart yee Workers of iniquity I know you not And such as hav bin at work in the vynyard from the first hour of the day as shal be found with an evil ey murmuring against the good man of the hous becaus of his goodnes to others who com in as it wer at the last hour of the day shal be reptoved sent away with their own and the last shal be first and the first last for thô many be caled yet but fevv ar chosen The sun of ryteosnes is now com and coming in his glory with his Holy Angels and shal dayly mor and mor appear and is now upon his thron and befor him is he gathering al nations yea as a shepherd is he now divyding and making a seperation betwixt the sheep and the goats and al who hav not fed clothed risited pityed and refreshed him in his despysed oppresed spoyled robed Imprisoned Cruely Murdered massacred Innocent harmles littel on 's must now and dayly mor mor shal receiv this sentens depart from me yee cursed into everlasting fyr prepared for the Devil and his angels And if such who hav not sed him in them to wit his peepel when hungry nor gav them drink when thirsty nor clothed them when naked and as strangers nor visited them when sik and in prison must receiv such a dredful sentens o then vvhat must be the portion and sentens of such in thee o Christendom vvho hav spoyled them of their outvvard injoyments oppresed their familys cast their bodys into prisons nasty filthy and dirty hôls dungeons cruelly using and torturing them by wraks other cruel torturing instruments secretly openly murdering and sheding their dear and pretios blood For al vvhich vvith a numberles number of other hy cryms and abomnations which hav bin stil ar commited in thee o Christendom their most tender father even the the Lord God omnipotent is now com and entering into Judgment with thee and caling thee to an account vvrath vengeans to the uttermost even the bottom and dregs of the cup of his most just vvrath dredful indignation Plagu's vengeans is novv seizing upon al the workers of iniquity both great and smal in thee the Reapers ar now gathering the târs and bynding them in bundels for the fyr The sain Iesus vvho vvas received by a cloud up into heven out of the syt of his discipels is now com and coming in the clouds of heven in his holy ôns vvhom every ey in mesur doth and dayly mor and mor shal see yea even they vvho hav and stil do piers him in themselvs and in his dear tender innocent saints holy ôn's and al the tongu's and Kindreds of the Erth shal dayly môr and môr mourn becaus of him he vvil novv render to every ón great smal hy and lovv rich poor bond and free mà l femal according to their vvorks vvithout respect of persons to them vvho ar contentios and obey not the motions of the lyt
and spirit of grà s in them but obey unryteosnes indignation wrath and tribulation on every soul of Man-kynd that doth evil the wrath of God is novv revealed and revealing from heven in and throuh his Peepel against al unryteosnes of men the Lord even the Lord himself is novv descended from heven vvith a shout the voys of the-arch angel is heard the trumpet of God is sounded and sounding and the ded in Christ ar in mesur risen shal dayly mor and mor arys in throuh and over al yea he is even com coming as a thief in the nyt and althô Peas Settelmen and sà fty hath bin looked for and expected yet even novv sudden and unvoydabel destruction is com and coming over al the workers of Iniquity as travel upon a woman with chyld and they cannot escap The Lord Jesus Christ the great shepherd Bishop of the soul is com and coming into him must the gathering of the Peepel be The Man of sin is now revealed revealing even the Son of perdition he that hath doth and yet for avery littel season wil let is in mesur alredy dayly mor and mor shal be taken out of the way even that cursed spirit and Power the seed of the old Serpent which in thee O Christendom hath taken rooting and grown up into a mystery of iniquity even a strong man of sin armed with the dragons or military Power in thy wariors Rulers teachers Peepel which hath rendred thee to be the Dragon Beast fals Profet great whor and mother of harlots and abominations of the Erth and thy Peepel to be the waters on which the whor sits and the sea out of which the beast aros according as it was revealed declared in by Iohn the servant of the Lord recorded in the book of his Prophesy vvhich spirit Power mystery of iniquity and Man of Sin the Lord in mesur alredy hath dayly now mor and mor shal consum with the spirit of his mouth by the brytnes of his coming in his peepel utterly destroy The Prophesy of Enoch the seventh from Adam is now in mesur fulfiled and dayyl mor and mor fulfiling for behold the Lord is now in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear in ten thousands of his saints in mesur alredy hath and dayly mor and mor shal execut Judgment upon al and convins al of al their ungodly deeds which they hav commited of al the hard speeches cruel dealings unmerciful bloudy Kilings murderings which ungodly siners hav spoken and don against and upon him spiritually in his holy innocent and harmles Peepel who ar the spiritual body vvherof he in them is the hed even the tru imag glory and fulnes of him who created fileth and upholdeth al things visibel invisibel by the eternal word of his Pûr Power vvho vvas befor al things and is and is to com the Alpha O Mega the beginining the end of al the works of God the first the last even the lyon of the tryb of Iuda the root offpring of David that hath the seven spirits of God the key of David and of the bottomles Pit also that openeth so as non can shut and shuteth so as non can open the lamb standing in the midst of the Thrôn of the four beasts elders as slain who hath prevailed to open the book sealéd with seven seals hath taken the book out of the Ryt hand of him that siteth on the thron hath opene wel ny al the seals in their order which neither the learned or unlearned in thy hevens nor in thy Erth nor under thy Erth o Christendom wer abel or found worthy to open loos or look ther on four of which seals comprehend the appearans of that lamb of God manifest in the flesh conceived born of the virgin Mary throuh the overshaâ—owing of the Pur Power spirit from on hy who in his holy harmles undefyled innocent Pur conversation as on a whyt hors went forth conquering and to conquer and the taking plas of the seed of the Serpent that cursed spirit of apostacy and faling away with its growth and fulnes in the Dragon 's Beast's fals Prophets Power spirit in thee O Christendom til he becam the lamb spiritualy slain in thee vvho art novv becom spiritual Sodom and Egypt signifyed by the Red Blak Pâl horses And the three last Seals Trumpets Vyals comprehend his second appearans in his Peepel vvithout sin unto salvation in throuh the britnes of his coming in them revealing consuming utterly destroying the Man of sin bringing in establishing his ovvn Eternal pur lyf everlasting ryteosnes in Man kynd them in it which is the spiritual body which with the whol creation is God manifest in the flesh the visibel or sensibel part wherof to wit of the whol creation is the natural body of the Lord the Body of Christ the flesh wherof is given for the lyf of the world which al who truly discern eat drink therof in remembrans of him abyding in that which giveth preserveth in the tru discerning but such as go from that eat drink therof in their own time wils to the satisfaction of the Carnal Inordinat desyrs of the flesh the mynd heerby weaknes siknes deth taketh hold on many to the grieving wounding som tyms to the destruction of their beings both in the natural Spiritual body so that to in such the tabel of the Lord becoms a snár a gin a trap not eating drinking in remembrans of Christ not the Communion of the body bloud of the Lord not the bred cup of blesing but a curs even the tabel of divels not the chearing refreshing of God man but the norishing of the Brambel natur whos natur work is to consum devour destroy it s the poor needy the hungry thirsty soul which the Lord fils satisfyeth with good things even with his blesing both to the outward Inward man but the Rich the ful he sendeth emty away even with a curs And althô the Kingdom the Power of God hath and stil doth suffer vyolens both in the natural and spiritual body yet so it ouht not to be but al both in the natural and Spiritual body ouht to be subject to the motions of the eternal quickening Power to rest and may in it in al things without offering fo rs or vyolens therunto which is Christ the Lord that quikening Spirit in mâl and femal not only in mankynd but to in every cretur therfor the charg was stil is unto the dauhters of Jerusalem that they stir not up or awak the beloved til he pleas which is the dayly Cros of Christ to the carnal mynd but the lyt sweet Plesant and easy yaok and burden of Christ to the spiritual
destroying of Deth and the ful subjection of al Christs enemys under his feet the surrendering the Kingdom to the Father the subjection of the Son also to him that puteth al things under him and God the Eternal Fountain and fulnes to becom al in throuh and over al to the ends aforsaid This I say to thee O Christendom in general to every ôn in thee in particular from the greatest to the least of what Nation Tongu or Peepel soever dred fear yee the living God stand in aw of him giv glory honor worship to him alôn for the day and hour of his most dredful and ryteos Judgments is now in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear let al Bow fear and trembel befor him that mâd heven and erth the sea and fountains of vvater and knovv this that the great faling avvay and apostacy from the tru Christian Spirit faith and lyf had its first entrans in thy teachers throuh their going out from the mesur of the pur Spirit of grâs the free gift of God given to them and plased in them of the pur fulnes of Christ the lamb of God to lead and establish them in al truth and giving ear to the voys motions and dictats of the Carnal mynd that cursed spirit the seed of the serpent vvherby sin and deth entered and the lavv of it took plâs in them and throuh them hath spred it self throuh and over the whol body of thee O Christendom which hath rendred thee a body of sin and deth in the general and in every particular From this cursed root of bitternes hath sprang up that abominabel Spirit of Covetosnes pryd wickednes oppresion Idolatry cruelty wars stryf contentions debats sheding the bloud of the Innocent with al other the hy cryms provokations and bloudy abominations which hav bin stil ar found in thee which hath rendred thee to be the dragon beast great whor and fals profet in thy military civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled and thy peepel unstabel as water even the great raging sea which cannot rest foaming out its own shâm casting up Myr and dirt out of which the skarlet colored beast aros who Power seat great authority was given him is stil up held by the great red dragon to wit the military power which hath rendred thee to be an Akeldama even a field of bloud oppresion cruelty ful of hye cryms abominations even Spiritual Sodom Egypt in which the Lord lyeth crucifyed And now ther is no way of restoration from this faling away cursed apostacy from the tru Christian Spirit faith and lyf to know redemtion from sin deth and from under the law sting curs power ther of either to the general or any particular but by returning the Ey and ear of the mynd to that which is pur eternal and Immortal of God in the inward parts even the mesur of the tru lyt and Spirit of the free grâs of God in the general and in every Particular from which euery on in the general in the particular in thee hath erred gon astray and as every ôn ether in the general or particular coms to giv ear to the motions crys groans of the oppresed pur seed of God in them they wil com to see him whom they hav pierced and as that which doth burden oppres keep the pur seed of God in bondag coms to be removed mortifyed subdued Ether in the general or in the particular so his pur Power Spirit lyf and presens wil be felt working salvation redemtion in the Erth and be known by the Judgments which he executeth in the erth in the general in the particular throuh which ryteos Judgments in the Inward parts salvation tru redemtion coms to be knovvn vvitnesed So that eternal Judgment in the invvard parts being brouht forth into victory at last he coms to arys and rein in pur Povver lyf Dominion overal vvhos ryt it is both in the general in every particular even he vvho leads al vvho ar led by him in the pur plesant everlasting path of pur lyt lov lyf ryteosnes everlasting joy happynes even forevermor A door of hôp is left open for you in the vally of Achor as the just and ryteos Judgments of the Lord â—om ther to be executed on the troubler of Israel in the invvard parts vvith his vvedg of gold babylonish Garment and Silver vvith his seed and al that he hath so an entrans vvil be administred in throuh Christ the lyt way eternal door by vvhich al vvho enter in hav salvation and com to be reconcyled unto God and saved from vvrath vvhich is to com This is the Zoar into which al who flee ar saf from the devouring fyr vvhich from the Lord is novv com and coming upon Spiritual Sodom in thee This is the Ark of the nevv yet most old and everlasting covenant into vvhich al vvho mak speed get entrans shal escap the great delug overflovving floud vvhich God is novv bringing in upon the vvorld of the ungodly this is the cloud and Pillar of fyr in man vvhich al vvho faithfully and constantly follovv ar sâfly led throuh the wildernes of temtations fears snars vvhich God is novv rayning dovvn upon the vvorkers of Iniquity This is the strong towr in vvhich al vvho ar found ar sâf from the horribel tempest which is now com coming upon the Proud and al that do wickedly in thee O Christendom This is the litel sanctuary in which al that hyd themselvs the blast of the teribel ôns against them shal be but a a storm against a wal This is the holy Mountain whos Inhabitants the oppreser or destroyer cannot touch or hurt This is the city of most sur refug whos wals and bulwarks ar salvation and the gâts therof prays into which nothing can enter that defyleth or worketh abomination thô the gâts therof stand open continually whos inhabitants can do truly say thô the erth be removed yet we wil not fear thô the mountains be hurled into the midst of the sea yet wil we not be dismayed thô the waters therof roar be troubled the mountains shà k fal with the sweling therof for ther is a River the streams wherof mak glad the city of God the holy plas of the tabernakel of the most by the living God is in the midst of her shee cannot be moved God shal help her that Ryt early Wherfor I say unto al and it is the counsel of the Lord God to them in the bowels of pur and tender lov to his own oppresed burdened slayn seed in thee oâ— Christendom in every particular mak hast mâk hast do not stay nor linger but speedyly turn in hither least the storm the dredful storm of the most Iust ryteos vengeans Jndignation of God which remains at hand to be poured