Life under the shadow of his Hand When he speaketh the word his Army goeth forth and at his Command they march on their way He lifteth up a Standard before them and proclaimeth open War against the Inhabitants of the Earth who now hear that the Lamb is come to reign in Righteousness and to stain the Pride of their Glory and confound the height of their Wisdom and lay their Honour in the Dust forever Therefore all Kindreds of the Earth even Gog Magog and all the Hosts of the Heathen are rising up in the bitterness of their Spirits in the height of the Power of the Man of Sin joyning all their Forces together as in one band of Darkness taking Counsel from Aegypt making a Covenant with Death and an Agreement with Hell and gathering up the utmost Powers of Darkness to be as a Refuge unto them And thus in the strength of the King of the Children of Pride they are rising up against the Lord even the God of Life and against his anointed Ones who have indeed and in truth received the Anointings and need not man to teach them but are all taught of the Lord God Almighty who also teacheth their hands to war and their fingers to fight And he utters his voice as the sound of many Waters before his Army who follow him in the might of his Power whose Presence is dreadful in the midst of his Host and there is none that is able to stand before him for he is a consuming Fire in the midst of his Camp and burneth up his Enemies round about and before him and his Army shall all faces gather paleness Everlasting Shame shall cover the Glory of all Flesh before him all People shall be much pained his Dread and Vengeance shall take hold on all his Adversaries His redeemed shall march with him in the travail of their Souls from strength to strength shall they continue on and none shall be feeble among them their Arrows shall reach into the Bowels of the Scornful and their words of Life pierce the Hearts of the Hypocrites They shall tread upon Kings as upon Monter and trample upon the Wicked as upon Ashes they fear not the greatest Goliahs neither yet the VVickedness of the Pride of Haman Unrighteous Decrees cannot stop their Mouthes nor the fear of a Furnace or a Dungeon with-hold them from their Way All Flesh is as Grass before them and at their Rebuke shall the Potsherds of the Earth be broken forever before them there is no Nation shall stand For One of them shall chase a Hundred and before Five shall the strength and wisdom of a Thousand be confounded And this the Lords Army shall never be confounded and his Glory in them shall never be defaced nor his Power with them shall never be overcome nor his strength in them shall never be vanquished therefore in vain do all the Potsherds of the Earth strive for they that rise up against them shall be as Flax before the Fire and the Mightiest among the Sons of Men shall he as the Grass that is cut down for the Lord of Hosts is very Terrible and in Meekness is the Lamb riding on to Judgment his Followers are enrobed with the Light of the Morning and adorned with the Beauty of the Sun Their Eyes are enlightned with the Light of the most High and they see through the dark parts of all their Enemies and discern the secret Plottings of all their Adversaries Their Wisdom comes in like a River and their Understanding shall never be darkned Their Strength is renewed as the Morning and they are valiant to do Exploits The Wisdom of the Wise before them shall be confounded forever and the Understanding of the Prudent be esteemed as a thing of nought They spy out the lurkings of their Enemies and see through the coverings of the Deceitful Of their strength they shall never be deprived neither shall their Weapons be taken from them Their Refuge shall never be shaken nor the place of their Rest removed The VVicked shall never enter upon their Dwellings nor all their Enemies invade the Land of their Rest for the desire of all Nations to them is come and him that they long waited for have they now received They tread upon the Cockatrice den and meet the devouring Lyons And in the Power of the Father's love there is no deadly thing that doth them hurt nor any VVeapon formed against them that ever shall prosper And this is Sion the Redeemed of the Lord the Glory of the God of Israel the Seed of Jacob whom the Lord hath chosen and set up on high over all the Kindreds of the Earth which stands against all the Enemies of the Lord and is his new threshing Instrument with which he will thresh the Heathen in his Anger and bathe his Sword in the Blood of the slain for behold his Sword shall devour much Flesh and the slain of the Lord shall be many VVith Sion the perfection of Beauty will the Lord break in pieces wound confound and overturn forever the Horse and his Rider the Captain and his Troops the Antient and Honourable the Prophet that telleth Lyes yea all the Host of the Unrighteous and the Strength of the Army of the man of Sin and the Beauty of the VVhore that rides upon the Beast and all them who set themselves in Battel against the Lord and all them who lead into Captivity and would captivate the Servants of the Lamb shall go into Captivity forever For behold the Lord is with us the Shout of a King is among us the Lord whose Name is holy is come he hath uttered his Voice from Heaven and now the Nations of the Earth are angry but the Lord will reign in Righteousness and all his Enemies shall be astonished at his Presence and his Adversaries shall be amazed forever their Hearts shall be turned as a Stone within them and men shall be at their VVits end for fear and for looking after those things which shall come upon the Earth and all them whose Names are written in it their VVisdom shall not preserve them their Understandings shall not defend them neither shall all their Subtilty cover them from the Light their Nakedness shall appear to their Everlasting Shame and the Prisoners of Hope shall rejoyce over them for evermore For behold I say your day is come wherein you shall bow down under the Prisoners and fall under the slain according to the words of the Spirit of Prophecy Isa 10. 4. and the slain over you shall rejoyce for evermore having the high Praises of God in their Mouthes and the Sword of the Spirit in their Hearts with which they shall cut in pieces and pierce in sunder the Bowels of all flesh and it shall be as Chaff before them and the strength thereof as the passing away of the Morning-cloud and in the strength of the most high shall the Army of the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah go on and
nor any man to teach them then hath the Enemy invited them to sit down at ease and so not minding the continual fear at last they loath the Manna and call it Dry whereas the driness and barrenness comes by reason of their Unfaithfulness in not improving what they had through their continual watchfulness under the daily Cross And the Enemy geteth forth the Mind of others to watch for Evil or at least to look at the Temptations Backslidings Backwardness and Failings of others more than their own Conditions who see their own Evil therein some whereof thereby at last draw back others question the Truth it self and by such things as these the Simplicity in many other tender Lambs is burdened grieved and the Life pressed down by which they should grow and be fruitful unto God And others being convinced with the pure Light of something that is Evil which seemeth little to the carnal Eye and so going out from the Obedience to the Light and consult and reason and take Counsel of the Serpent who then contrives a way to shun the Cross therein and so endeavour to dawb the thing over from a secret Deceit working in the Power of Darkness until the Light hath even ceased striving with that Person and then he goes on with the thing saying He hath liberty therein But let such mark and observe themselves for no more unto them is committed neither do they grow or come any further but there stand as dry Plants coming long to Meetings having the Form but not feeling the Power for such who knowingly deny their Obedience in any thing to the Light of Christ he will deny them his Power in all things And thus doth and will the Enemy of your Souls make havock of the Flock if in the pure humble fear he be not alwayes watched against and slain by the Power of the Cross in the Light and many other Wiles and Ways doth the Enemy of your Souls watch to devour ensnare and overcome you the time would even fail one to declare it the Lord God Almighty help you against it that so in the Light you may see all these and many more things which you are all to Watch and War against that Spiritual Wickedness in High-places may not overcome you and that you may not turn aside with the Error of the Wicked nor be overcome with the power of Temptations but that you may be all diligent and watchful against every appearance of your Enemy and be able to stand in the day of Tryal that the Enemy of your Souls prevail not Therefore all Friends every where keep upon your Watch let the Light search your Hearts and keep your Meetings together in the silent fear and dread of the Lord that his Power in you all may raise you all in the Dominion and Wisdom of God to stand and feel that which keeps your Hearts together in the unlimitted Love of God and so his presence you will be fruitful unto his Blessing come to receive whereby you will be fruitful unto him in every good Word and Work The living Power of my Father preserve you all from the Power of the Enemy and keep your Minds in that which crosseth your Wills that the Lord God of Life may watch over you all for good for evermore Written for the good of many from the true Love of him who is known to many of you by that which is nearer than the Name of Humphry Smith Winchester-Bridewell the 4th Mon. 1658. TO THE Musitioners Harpers Minstrels Singers Dancers and the Persecutors From one who loved Dancing and Musick as his Life which being parted with and the Light being come which was before these things in which they are all seen And from it is declared THE Ground Foundation Beginning and Father and Children and Compass and End and the Effects of all the Harpers Musitioners Singers and Dancers Who may read what I have learned who have tryed their wayes and also searched into the things of God and declare this according to Scripture and have found the Joy which Man cannot take away JUBAL was the Father of all such as handle the Harp and Organ and so the Father of all such Musitioners being himself of the Seed of Lemach who slew a man and so the Son of a Man-slayer was the Father of all such as handle the Harp and Organ And the Man Christ the Light is the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World And Jubal was of the Generation of Cain who first slew a Man and then built a City he slew his Brother one that was near unto him and the Light of the Lamb slain is near unto every one even that which comes from the Man of Sorrows is in the Heart Cain's Seed slayes the man of Sorrows the Musitioners were of Cain's seed And that which slayes the man of Sorrows invents sets up and delights in the Instruments of Musick and the Father of all such was Jubal the seed of Cain who built a City and so was a Rich man and his seed delighted in Musick and so his seed who are gone from the Lords leading are building Cities Strong holds high and large Houses with painted Parlours and then set up the Instruments of Musick in the cieled Houses without and within themselves full of Rottenness or as a Cage of unclean Spirits whereby the just is murthered and the House laid wast and desolate as to the Life of God which should be the Temple of the holy Ghost and the Father of all these was Jubal the seed of Lemach a Man-slayer who also had another son Tubalcain the seed of Cain an Instructer of every Artificer in Brass and Iron and he that hath attained to never so much if not come to that which fulfills the perfect Law is as sounding Brass 1 Cor. 13. and there is many also of the Seed of this Instructer whose Instructions bring people to be but as sounding Brass And this first Instructor and Jubal were the Off-spring of Cain the Vagabond driven from God against whom the Blood of the Righteous doth Cry yet so rich in the Earth that he built a City being separated from God who confounds mans wisdom then comes that which makes merry over the Witness Gen. 4. And they who danced in the wilderness and sung and made a great noise and were in the Mirth and Vain Delights were a stiff-necked People and such as sate down to eat and drink and rose up to play like the same Generation now who are stiff-necked and bow not to him who is the Light low in the Heart to whom every knee shall bow but eat and drink and rise up to vain delights having Musick at their Feasts seeding themselves without fear Jude 12. like Jezabel at whose Table the false Prophets feed who made a Feast when she intended to murder the Righteous to gain his Possession read within and that which Murders the Just and such who forget God delight in
the Scriptures testifie of and was given forth from John 5. 39. that by it in them they might be enabled to do God's Will and witness the Scriptures fulfilled as it is written I will walk in them and dwell in them 2 Cor. 6. 16. and he is the God of them in whom he dwells and they are his People in whom he walks from whose Inspiration the Scripture came in which it is written Prove all things 1 Thes 5. 21. and try the Spirits and that which proveth all things and tryes the Spirits comes from the God of the Spirits of all flesh and from the Word of his Power by which all things were made which Word in the Heart is as Fire which proves tryes and refineth things and is 1 John 4. 1. Numb 16 22. John 1 3. Col. 3. 16. Psal 3â— 3 Jer. 5. 14. Mal. 3 3. Heb. 4. 12. Psal 139. 1 23 24 John 4. 1. Luke 10. 42. 1 Cor. 2. 12. ch 1. 21. Rom 8. 9 10 11. 1 Cor. 3. 16. ch 2. 10 John 15. 4 5. Jude 6. 2 Thes 1. 5 6 7 8 9 10. John 17. 17. Psal 51. 6. John 1 14. ch 8. 44. 2 Cor. 44. Ephes 2 2. John 8. 24. ch 17. 7. 1 Tim 4. 5. Job 8. 32 ch 15. 5. 1 Joh. 3. 5. Dan 9. 24. 2 Cor 3. 5. ch 4. 10. Rom. 4. 8 10 Eph. 3 17. Col. 1. 27. Joh 16 25. ch 15 5 quick and powerful dividing asunder Soul and Spirit and is a Discerner of the Thoughts and Intents of the Heart man feeling that and coming to be guided by that which searches the heart and tryes the reins with that may he try all things from the which one thing within the false Spirits are gone forth into the World and those Spirits of the world and all the world by its wisdom and that Spirit which is without knows not God nor the measure of his spirit within And so those are the false spirits that are gone forth which are to be tryed by that which is not gone forth but abides within and discerns the Heart and those that are gone forth from being guided by that within as the holy men were they are like unto the Angels who kept no their first eslate for man at first was and holy men were guided by that within which is the Word which Word is Truth and he that abode not in Truth which is in the inward parts was a Devil and a Murderer who is called the God of the World that blindeth the Minds and worketh in all the Children of Disobedience and so the Devils Works are in his Children and they are talking of the Works of God without them but they that are led by the Word of Truth that sanctifieth cleanseth and maketh free by it they come to know the Works of the Devil destroyed which was in them 1 John 3. 8. And so he that destroyeth the Works of the Devil and maketh an end of Sin and bringeth in Everlasting Righteousness is known in all them that are not Reprobates And so when sin is made an end of Everlasting Righteousness is brought in and so it s within and not without And so he being received within who brings that in which is Everlasting to that man he is within the hope of Glory and shews plainly of the Father and saith Without M E yo can do nothing It s not said Without Scripture ye can do nothing and they that are without him who teacheth all things are without God in the World but he that hath the Son hath the Father also he that hath the Father and the Son abiding in him need not to go out from that to be taught or led by any other thing or Rule without him as it is written of him that overcometh That he shall no more go out and upon him that goeth not out the New Name comes to be written and he comes to be a Pillar in the Temple of God who goeth not out Rev. 3. 12. And the Name which is better than of Sons and Daughters even the Everlasting Name that shall never be cut off is given to them within the House and within the Walls even to such who take hold of the Covenant Isa 56. 4 5. And the Sanctuary is set in the midst of them for evermore Ezek. 37. 26 27 28. And in the midst of them will the Lord spread forth his hands as one that swimmeth Isa 25. 11. And though Ephriam compassed the Lord about with Lyes and the House of Israel with Deceit yet saith the Lord unto Ephriam I am God and not man the holy One in the midst of thee Hos 11. 9 12. And so Ephriam compassed him about with Lyes who was in the midst and he that was in the midst was holy though compassed about with Lyes and the Just Lord was in the midst of the filthy poluted and oppressed City Zeph. 3. 1 to 5. Consider this all you poluted Ones who oppress the Just in the midst of you for the Just Lord in the mâ—â—st will arise as a Lyon out of a Thicket and a young Lyon out of the Forrest he shall roar like a Lyon and utter his Voice like a man of War Isa 42. 13 14 15. And then shall his Enemies be scattered Psal 68. 1. And he will sweep away the Refuge of Lyes therefore the Daughter of Zion and the Daughter of Jerusalem and Israel shall be glad for unto them it is said The Lord is in the midst of thee thou shalt not see Evil any more In that day shall it be said to Jerusalem Fear thou not and to Zion Let not thy hands be slack the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty he will save Zeph. 3. 14 15 16 17. And he that is mighty to save is known in the midst and so he that justifieth is near Isa 50. 8. even he who hath said I will dwell in the midst of the Children of Israel forever and my holy Name shall the House of Israel no more defile Ezek. 34. 7. For the Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his Habitation this is my Rest forever here will I dwell for I have desired it I will abundantly bles her Provision I will satisfie her Poor with Bread I will also clothe her Priests not the Priests of England with Salvation and her Saints shall shout aloud for joy there will I make the Horn of David to bud I have ordained a Lamp for mine anointed his Enemies will I clothe with shame but upon himself shall his Crown flourish Psalm 132. 13 to 18. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure 1 John 3. 3. The true Prophet who was to come is come and there is not another his Work witnessed and Truth declared from a feeling sence and experience according to Scripture THe true Prophet is come of whom Moses the Servant of the Lord did write who is raised up in the