purpose to raise up the two slain witnesses by quickning up the seed of the twofold new-creature-spirit of prophecy in them into a powerful and irresistible demonstration So the preparatory angelical ministration is to take place immediately on the death of the witnesses In this newness of Life shall their dead natural spirits be made stand on their feet in a proportionable obedience to the Spirit of Christ with their spiritual man And so shall they with Gideon the type Judg. 6. 7. become men of valour for destruction of enemies and salvation of friends All this in such an absolute subjection to Christ that the whole glory of the victory will be seen to be God's In this angelical day as was signified by the seperation twice made in Gideon's army shall be used only such spiritual Angels and Saints as are dignified with a spiritual skill for this war upon enemies On the first separation in Gideon's army returned two and twenty thousand from the war In the second test or trial only three hundred that lapped of the water putting their hand to their mouth and refusing to bow down upon their knees to any first-creation-reliefs but found singly in a true subjection to Christ these were to perform the war And each of them were to have a Trumpet with empty Pitchers and Lamps in the Pitchers These empty Pitchers fitly represent the compleat work of the Cross on the whole natural man of Christ's spiritual Gideonites So as wholly emptied of all first-creation-life and strength are they filled with the new-creation-spirit of power to perform the work of this preparatory day The new-creature lamp or spirit of Christ shall be set up in the empty Pitcher of their crucified natural man and unchanged body rendring their whole man a burning and shining Light And this lamp is the very weapon by which the work of the said day is to be done 'T is by the Sword of the Lord and his spiritual Gideonite's the new-creature-spirit of Christ in his Saints who are thereby in marriage-union with their spiritual Lord Joshua the victory is to be obtained Not by might not by power but by my spirit saith the Lord of Hosts as in the type Zech. 4. 6. No first-creation-strength or weapon shall be used in this War The spirit of the Lord will be the two-edged sword in their hands to execute vengeance on their combined enemies heathens and a first-covenant people Psal 2. 1 2. 149. 6 7. By this sword of the Lord and his Gideonites will Christ cause them to triumph over all enemies visible and invisible Men and Devils They shall break in pieces the serpentine head and whole party of first-creation-rebels against God and the second The Lord will then by his fiery sword plead with all Flesh Isa 66. 16. even with every false Spirit as included in that word Flesh For this purpose and work will he descend with his angelical host into the mystical valley of Jehosaphat on the raising of the dead carkases or dry bones of his twofold spiritual witnesses to make a true decision between his Friends and Foes Then shall the slain by this spiritual sword of the Lord in his Angels and Saints be many And this weapon shall be seen to be wholly directed by the will and command of Christ their Head and King whose powerful word will give the quick and terrible motion to those angelical Chariots in which Angels and Saints jointly commission'd by him shall drive furiously to carry on the swift execution of his will on enemies Of this ministration of Angels furnish'd with the sword or spirit of the Lord as join'd in commission with the two sorts of spiritual Saints and so making up a twofold band or army of Angels and Saints in this preparatory day is there a full account given Joel 2. First here is a command for blowing the spiritual Trumpet as the first infallible alarm to this work This is to be sounded by Angels as the appointed gatherers together of the elect seed among men to the said mystical battel And when these spiritual Warriers are provided with their offensive and defensive weapons the Angels will blow their spiritual Trumpet in Zion and sound their alarm in the holy Mountain for the joyful assembling the ripen'd seed of spiritual Saints into an association with themselves which will make all the inhabitants of the earth tremble These fore-running messengers of Christ in their new-creation-light and power shall come as horses and horsemen and the thundring sound of Chariots on the tops of the mountains riding in a commanding power over all visible and invisible strength leaping and rejoycing before their great Lord and Master as spiritual David's before the mystical Ark for his-new-creation-strength and life put into them For by the angelical flames of fire shall they devour the enemy as stubble They shall run like mighty men expert in this spiritual war so swift as none shall be able to flee or escape them in their most orderly march without breaking their ranks upon the old first-creation-World or City They will climb up upon the mystical Houses even the persons of enemies and enter in at the Windows like Theives By their all-searching new-creation-light will they ransack and search their enemies hearts so as to find out and detect all the deceitful works of unrighteousness in the mystical earthly Jerusalem And this work will make the hypocritical Sinners in Sion to fear and tremble as found wilful enemies to this spiritual army They will kindle a mystical Fire in their spirits that shall forever burn in them and this yet but preparatory to what is reserved by Christ's final sentence to be brought upon them which is near at hand When he comes he will utter his own voice before his Army as head of them Joel 2. 11. And the execution of the said voice will be very terrible to all opposers who shall be devoured by the fire that proceeds out of their mouths as found implacable enemies to the glad tydings of the Lord's approach That which is unspeakable joy to friends will be unexpressible terror and vexation to enemies This twofold differing reception and effect of Christ's second coming we find on the concluding sound of the seventh Trumpet of Christ's new-creation-voice on which he actually takes possession of all the visible and invisible Kingdoms of this World On this follow loud acclamations of spiritual Saints but anger vexation and madness in the enemies thereof Rev. 11. 15 18. The work then of the preparatory dispensation to Christ's coming is twofold To the joyful receivers of their everlasting Gospel will the holy Angels administer suitable recompences of Christ's love as true fearers of his name small or great single or double-portion'd heavenly or earthly spiritual Saints And the peculiar generation of Saints that are to be his two-fold witnesses slain for their faithful testimony as their particular recompence will be called up by the holy Angels into a fellowship
the whole comprehensive single earthly generation and party of evil Angels and Men who will have nothing to pretend as to God's omitting any ways or means for the doing of them good In Israel's case he gives an account of the method of his proceedings with all his Creatures Angels and Men in reference to their everlasting happiness Esay 5. 4. All that set up for themselves in the first-creation-spirit against the second instead of good kindly fruits bring forth wild Grapes from a root of bitterness and known enmity to him In this do they practise all sorts of mystical uncleanness idolatry and fornication And as we have seen the ruine of the old World or first-creation as exalted against the second gradually carried on as to the judgments of God on the several parts thereof and at length upon the whole to their total and irreparable ruin in this preparatory dispensation and close thereof So are we to consider what 's done therein and by towards the building the new Christ will send his Angels for this with the great sound of their seven-fold Trumpet to gather together his Elect from the four Winds from one end of Heaven to the other Mat. 24. 31. This by powerfully wakning up the seed of spiritual life in all Nations Then will the Earth bring forth in one day and a Nation of spiritual Saints shall be born at once Esay 66. 8. and this marvellous wonder-working hand of the Lord which will so be made known towards his Servants will be attended with and made serviceable to the discovery of his indignation towards his Enemies ver 14. All the power and strength of the first-creation shall then like the Walls of Jerico fall without hands before the clear shining forth of the resurrection-power of Christ in his Angels and Saints causing the destruction of the old World and passing away of all the old things thereof as an immediate introduction to the building of the new the new Heavens and Earth to be set up by Christ's new-creation-workmanship wherein he will delight and rejoyce for ever ver 22. Isa 65. 17 -19. Come we then particularly to consider the second general part of the preparatory work the laying the Foundations of the new World or preparing the spiritual materials for the new-creation-building and kingdom of Christ In this second as well as first part of the work of this preparatory day will Christ make remarkable use of his Angels and ripen'd Saints fitly qualified in his spirit for the same This second part of the preparatory work seems necessarily to accompany the former For if this old World for the fleshly and spiritual defilements thereof must be destroyed by Fire mystical and literal as altogether unfit for Christ's presence there must be such a new Heaven and Earth built up as may be found faultless before him fit for his divine and new-creature residence as answering God's mind for the exercising of a visible rule and dominion of love over his Saints and Angels and also of good will over all mankind on the Earth In order to this will these preparatory builders Angels and Saints powerfully assert Christ's right to the visible universal rule and monarchy of this World And then secondly will they declare the great advantage of his assuming the same to all the inhabitants thereof Both these particulars shall in this fore-running dispensation be so clearly stated and asserted with such demonstration as to prevail on the whole new Earth not only to own Christ's right of ruling over them but to express their impatient desires for the same as their unexpressible benefit as well as his unquestionable right For hereby shall they be totally redeemed from the unreasonable bondage under the oppressive governments of this World and brought under the peaceable and righteous rule of Christ so as to perform universal obedience to him in the new-creation-principles of true love and freedom In order to this has Christ reserved a greater effusion of his Spirit in the latter rain thereof to be showred down in this preparatory dispensation to his second coming than the former in the primitive day amounted to The gradual operations of this shall cause all the Kingdoms of this new World to become the Lord's and his Christ's And every member and subject thereof shall receive his summons his Lord 's actual coming being now at hand By the powerful angelical ministry accompanied with the rain of Christ's risen spirit shall the true seed of the Kingdom be universally awaken'd and quicken'd up as a beginning to that full restitution of all things to be accomplish'd by Christ's own personal spiritual coming in his new-creation-temple of our glorified nature And herein will he be beheld before his visible presence on Earth on the opening the doors of that his Temple in Heaven by the powerful preaching of his everlasting-Gospel in the preparatory ministration so as to make the divine inhabitant thereof to be seen through Christ's creature-nature as with open face And this sight shall also have its powerful and peculiar effect on all the mystical members of Christ so as to change or transform them into a likeness to him in his new-creature-spirit as members of his heavenly or earthly-glorified body This great charge is committed to the spiritual and powerful preachers of his everlasting Gospel as in figure was shewed Ezekiel chap. 43. to give his mystical Israelit's a more clear view than ever of the exact form and fashion of the new-creature House and Temple of their great Lord and Head and that in such a manner as to shew them all the ascents and descents and every coming in and going out thereof with all the distinct Laws and Ordinances belonging to the same And this will beget in them a like admiration to that of the Queen of Sheba that came from the utmost corner of her natural Earth to behold the divine and new-creature glory of her spiritual King Solomon in the figure thereof When Saints shall see the divine King and the glory of his creature-House and Temple with the subjected ranks of his attendants in blessed harmony amongst themselves and universal obedience to him they will jointly ascribe all the glory of that order and their blessedness therein to the wisdom of their divine Lord and spiritual King Solomon the maker of those spiritual Laws in observing of which they shall live for ever in perfect blessedness and freedom The sight of this divine King and creature-Lord and of the everlasting blessedness of his Servants and Subjects is to be given in this preparatory dispensation This was exactly figured out in the setting up of the tabernacle or worldly Sanctuary before Israel's entring Ganaan the type of this visible spiritual Kingdom of Christ For in this preparatory day must be proved and fitted all sorts of materials needful to the setting up of Christ's visible Kingdom as then for Moses his Tabernacle And the means as there must be the free-will-offerings of the
faithful in their service to Christ therein Thus through a union of love between Angels and heavenly Saints are the Angels under Christ instrumental to the bringing the whole Church of first-born David's into those places in Christ's Kingdom wherein to be for ever far superiour to themselves And till seated there do they exercise the utmost of their power to protect the said Davids from the malice of their invsible enemies Devils typed out by Jonathan's faithful informing David of all Saul's mischeivous and malicious intendments discovered towards him and protecting him from them While these Princes or most heavenly Seed of Saints are in their unchanged bodies walking on foot on the Earth or in the single earthly spirit and mind this foot or earthly principle is kept by them from any such wilful dashing against or stumbling at the mystical stone Christ's new-creature-spirit as excludes from the true rest therein only attainable In a like practice with Jonathan in letter they discover all the secret and subtile contrivances of mystical Saul's malice against these spiritual Davids that they may escape him They thus protect them from the evil Angel and on the other hand inform them of Christ's spiritual Kingdom by communicating their visions thereof In both these distinct works of love to Saints will they appear more visibly than ever in their dispensation immediately preparatory to Christ's second coming And herein as owned by Christ so ought they by Saints Rev. 22. 16. I Jesus have sent mine Angel to testify these things to the Churches the things of the new Jerusalem-Kingdom of Christ which will suddenly be made visible and not only so but to testify of me also that I am the bright morning-Star or in my exalted humanity head of these angelical Stars in that resurrection-glory wherein they shall shine forth in their preparatory morning-ministration so as to be signally owned by me in their faithful service to me This is implied ver 6. These sayings are faithful and true For the Lord God of his holy Prophets hath sent his Angel to give them the fore-running sights of things that as to publick and general manifestation are yet to come but now at hand and therefore no longer to be sealed up but open'd by Angels to them in Christ's preparatory day And so also are the sealed up judgments by them then to be opened and visibly poured forth upon the enemies of his approach and Kingdom This honour have the blessed Angels even of being chief instruments in setting up the Kingdom of Christ by communicating their sights thereof to Saints belonging to the upper or lower new Jerusalem or spiritual Kingdom in their distinct relations thereunto as the heavenly or but earthly glorified seed And this ought by them both and all to be thankfully acknowledged When the Angel shew'd John the Lamb and his Bride clothed with her wedding robe her Husband 's heavenly spirit he fell at the Angel's feet to worship him But the Angel said see thou do it not for though in this dispensation I am above thee yet am I but thy fellow-Servant under our great Master to minister to thee who wilt in conclusion be exalted far above me And then also must we both as holding of Jesus our head in the true new-creation spirit of prophecy worship God alone The heavenly seed of Saints that receive the first revelations or visions of the glory of Christ's Kingdom from Angels will be found to have an interest superiour to theirs therein when they take their places about the exalted Throne of Christ set up in the third Heaven Then will the Angels give up their guardianship over them as no longer needing it being exalted above them Yea then will the Angels of God rejoyce to receive instruction from them to whom they before gave it Then shall the marvellous and manifold wisdom of God appear in causing the Church of his first-born-Saints when exalted into their heavenly places to make a suitable return to the good Angels for all their faithful service of love to them in communicating their higher visions of God in such measure as they are capable of receiving than ever yet was attained by them They will under Christ reveal to them that manifold-grace of God that 's the blessed portion of second-resurrection-Saints received by them immediately from Christ and from him by them let down and revealed to Angels Thus makes he his blessed creatures Angels and Saints in the beauty and harmony of his dispensations towards them useful to one another and so to remain for ever in their higher and lower places and offices in Christ's body-mystical as is figuratively signified 1 Cor. 12. 21. Many who in their single unchang'd humanity Angels are the teachers of will be in a superiority to all Angels and in that sence said to judg even the holy Angels as in a higher sort of spiritual life and light judgment or discerning then they and so fit instructers of them 〈…〉 God to them as Christ's highest and chief Ministers These will make known to Christ's Angels and glorified earthly members the fellowship of that mystery which comparatively to the revelation as yet given thereof hath bin till then hid in God They shall fully reveal the whole mystery of divine and creature-fellowship in God the Mediatour from everlasting to everlasting and so the manifold divine and creature wisdom if God to their inferiour-fellow-creaturs which is in the compleat fulness thereof their continual vision and food But though when the first-born heavenly Church take their seats in glory Angels cease from the exercise of rule over them yet do they remain as door-keepers to the said heavenly City and Society They were placed from the beginning as Christ's spiritual Watchmen over this tree of Life or whole spiritual state And in the faithful discharge of that office have ever since with their flaming Swords or angelical weapons bin made use of by way of defence and service to the said state for directing the holy Seed to the right door of the blessed City and for the keeping any spiritually profane persons from entring thereat They are ready with their angelical flames to destroy all such And when the good seed even the first-born Church are all entred and have taken their places in a superiority to them will they still for ever hold the same place and station as door-keepers in the nearest relation to the said first-born Church To be such a door-keeper to the second-resurrection-state David saw was to be preferred above the highest glorified Saints in the first as nearest to the heavenly Citizens or first encompassers of the Throne Also under Christ and his heavenly Saints are the holy Angels Princes or chief Rulers in and over the first-resurrection-state the outward row of encompassers and therein to remain for ever And as now we have seen the good Angels business in the preparatory dispensation we may observe the approbation they will receive from their great Lord and
just hand of God upon them will they take all opportunities to effect what they have long desired even the compleat slaughter of the two witnesses And in all this the Devil discovers himself only in his powerful influencing of outward and visible means towards the carrying on this great design But he is furnished also with inward mystical weapons to fight against God and his spiritual Saints in this latter age that are of a more dangerous nature than the other For these will he use as in the very name and authority of Christ committing therein the highest treason against him In such exercise of his diabolical power will he send forth his false spirits in Christ's new-creation-name as false Christs to make false Apostles joining men with themselves in all sorts of spiritual craft to deceive Spiritual Saints This by such lying signs and wonders of such a deep hidden nature as if Christ had not laid an impossibility on them would deceive the very Elect. On the one hand in imitation of the Cross of Christ will Satan say he is in the Wilderness or secret Chambers on the other in a counterfeit resurrection-state will he exalt himself by sinful transformation into his heavenly spiritual life All this by an angelical ministration knowing Christ's fore-running dispensation to his everlasting Gospel-day by his holy Angels to be at hand as the only means to raise up his slain witnesses out of their Graves And thus have we observed the hand or means by which the two witnesses are to be slain and what the slaying of them is Visible and invisible enemies Men and Devils will combine against them to bring them into such a captivity as all former under Law or Gospel have bin but fore-running types of and so seen by spiritual Prophets and Saints under both dispensations Jeremy Ezekiel Daniel c. have declared this last and great day of sore trouble such as never hath been or shall be So also hath Christ himself prophesied Mat. 24. 21. This very season is indeed the sum of Daniel's many visions the result of what is held forth by the two Kings of the North and South in all the variety and differing appearances they have bin in towards one another through the common profaneness of the former in the cold dead corrupt spirit of nature and the warmth or zeal of the latter in and for the first-covenant life and righteousness of Man Through the powerful influence of the Devil on both can he soder and unite them in a combination against the Saints of the most high so as to bring forth a day of utmost trial and trouble to them For this end Daniel saw these two Kings joined together as the Devil 's twofold weapon in the corrupt and refined principles of nature speaking lies at one Table Dan. 11. 27. and setting or joyning their hearts and hands to mischief true Saints And so both of them in union of mind with the Devil will do his work in effecting the death of the two witnesses Thus will Satan by the practise of the most refined spiritual wickedness and in the expressing greater malice than ever before when his reign draws neer to an end employ all his instruments of cruelty muster up all his force and power for the slaying of Christ's two witnesses And he with his instruments will prosper herein to the accomplishing of their death This we find in the mighty King in Daniel that was to arise last and the beast in John's vision that at end of the Sack-cloth prophecy was to ascend out of the bottomless pit furnished with all sorts of weapons and instruments not only to war upon but overcome and kill Christ's twofold witnessing Saints magnifying himself against the God of Gods The same thing was repeated to Daniel in the vision of the four beasts commonly understood to point out those four Monarchies that are to spend out the remaining ages of the World during the Devil's active power and man's day The fourth beast is described as far worse than any of his Fellows being strong dreadful and terrible and so furious and malicious as with its great iron teeth not only to devour and break in pieces but stamp the residue under his feet This beast had also ten horns and another little horn came up among them which is in a signal manner to war with and prevail against the Saints of the most high Dan. 7. 21. The fourth beast and little horn figure out the utmost strength the Devil from the beginning kept in reserve for this last and most bloody design At the end of the Sack-cloth prophecy in the appointed time of three years and an half will the two witnesses be slain by the little horn Daniel saw come up last and in the least and most unlikely appearance for such a design yet by it the most bloody battel is to be fought in which the twofold witnesses are to be overcome and killed and that in such an enraged malice of their Enemies as not to have any burial permitted them By all may appear the Devil will then rally up all his forces in an universal conjunction of all sorts of principles that are singly natural humane and angelical to bring this most dismal season that ever was experienced by Saints Herein will Satan cause as was shewed Daniel such abominations as shall make wholly desolate all sorts of visible worship and humane affairs Then will all moral and civil Laws customs and constitutions be broken and changed to the setting open a flood-gate and causing an inundation of all sorts of wickedness litteral and spiritual And hereby will be denied both liberty to Saints and propriety to men even to all that shall either from spiritual or rational principles at that season refuse to receive the mark of the beast by not joining with the Devil for slaying the two witnesses litterally or mystically This sad season to be brought on the true spiritual Israel of God was lively represented to Ezekiel by the valley of dry bones Ezek. 37. 1 2. Thus by faith had he a view so long before of these two witnesses that are to be brought into the most deplorable circumstances to the enlightned reason of man imaginable This is implied in the judgment the then house of Israel figure hereof made of themselves saying our bones are dried our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts Secondly On this sad condition and slaughter of the two witnesses or whole house of spiritual Israel in the last and most perillous times their enemies will be found in the height of joy and satisfaction looking with great delight on the dry bones or dead bodies of the said house of Israel the two witnesses during the three years and half or time of them utmost extremity in which not permitted burial As an expression of this joy and gratification of their spiritual lust will they send presents to each other as triumphing over the slain witnesses of Christ which
We shall find information as to each of these particulars in the visions given John not only of things present but to come This by opening the heavenly door of the resurrection-state in Christ's person on which he heard the sound of an angelical Trumpet saying Come up hither and I will shew thee things to come Rev. 4. 1. Hence John acknowledg'd all the light and information he received of that state to be given him by the ministry of Angels as revealers of the sealed-up judgments for all sorts of enemies answerable to their more or less criminal offences And these judgments are to be visibly manifested in the last preparatory dispensation to Christ's second coming To the first At the appointed time for opening the Seals are the Vials and judgments therein contained to be poured forth Both and all are to be in the preparatory dispensation to Christ's second coming Then is to be dispensed that wrath of God wilful Sinners in this old World or first-creation-state against the light of the new have bin treasuring up to themselves against this day After all trial and God's long forbearance these judgments which have bin long sealed up are to be executed upon them And they shall be seen by them on whom executed to have bin justly deserved by them and accordingly inflicted on them By the light of this angelical ministry shall all such Sinners be convinced that the distinct vials of wrath poured forth upon them justly belong to them This twofold work John was shewed to be the joint business of blessed Angels and Saints in this preparatory dispensation He gives a large and full account thereof Rev. 5. 6. 7. He saw the Lamb the head of Angels opening the Seals for them and also for Saints who are called up into an association with them in the same Gospel-ministry as jointly used by Christ in the said work They are both by their spiritual Head joyned in commission for this work the opening of the sealed-up judgments of God to the World So under Christ come they forth in his conquering new-creature-spirit over the World as was declared to John on the Lamb 's opening the first Seal on which the blessed Saint and Angel as horse and rider arm'd with Christ's risen spirit go forth conquering and to conquer Rev. 6. 1 2. So on the successive opening the other Seals according to their distinct commissions are they to make every part of the condemned World quickly to feel the effects of the judgments contained therein For by opening the second Seal peace is to be taken from the Earth or earthly natural principle and state of life corrupt or righteous that from its sensual and devilish mind instead of willingly and obediently submitting has wilfully and rebelliously done despite to the spirit of grace As the just punishment of such offence the Son of peace will depart from them as to his gracious offers and come upon them in a final dispensation of wrath And so will he take peace from them both his true peace offered them and that false peace they have pleased themselves with All such as are fixed in the natural or earthly principle will he make a mystical Babel heightning their vexation and disturbance by such division as will cause them in revenging God's just quarrel against them all to hate and kill one another So by opening another Seal Death and Hell come on the fourth part of this accursed Earth Blessed Angels and Saints for this are to kill them with sword famine death and beasts of the Earth All these are typical to the same judgments spiritually understood as their eternal punishment signified by the Hell that followed death Then see the effects of opening the sixth Seal Rev. 6. 12 -14. The Heaven that will depart as a scrowl is in mystery and truth the most excellent and heavenly part of the first-creation-spirit with which evil Angels and Men have bin counter-feiting the new-creation-state but shall no longer be able so to do The mystical Sun Moon and Stars of this first-creation-spirit or World in its fading life and glory will be turned into darkness and blood by the bright-shining light of the spirit of truth in this preparatory day and become so antiquated as no longer to remain in any credit or esteem but as a decayed old garment laid aside And all the mystical Figs or Fruits springing forth from the old root of single nature will wither and fall to the ground before the mighty wind or powerful breath of this Spirit of the Lord. It will also cause such a terrible Earthquake to all earthly or meer natural principles foundations and buildings as to remove every Mountain and Island mystically understood out of its presumptuously assumed place It will make all the rich and mighty bond and free not so made by a willing subjection to the new-creation-spirit of Christ cry out to evil angelical Rocks and Mountains and all sorts of first-creation rocks or strength to cover hide and secure them from the wrath of the Lamb convincingly set before them by the spiritual light of this preparatory day But they will both feel and know there is no possibility of escaping the same On opening the third Seal also John saw a black horse and he that sate on him had a pair of ballances in his hand And he heard a voice saying A measure of Wheat for a peny and three measures of Barley for a peny and see thou hurt not the Oil and the Wine The Ballances signify the justice of that day in recompences of love to friends and wrath to enemies Both these recompences have bin so sealed up in the living book or word of God the new-creature-spirit of Christ as not to be discerned till this preparatory dispensation and powerful preaching of the everlasting Gospel by which the secrets of all hearts shall be search'd out declared and judged Rom. 2. 16. Then all that have faithfully labour'd in Christ's Vineyard and rightly improv'd the Talent received from him shall receive an answerable recompence consisting in the rule of five or two Cities and enter into the joy of their Lord. On the contrary they that have made no use of their Talent or an evil one by an unrighteous detaining the present truth in a wilful refusal to improve it by exchange of their own legal or natural spirit life or state of bondage for Christ's new-creation spirit and Gospel-principles of true freedom God will be strict in marking all done amiss herein by them and accordingly pour out his wrath upon them in this dispensation All principles and actions will then be weighed in God's new-creation-sanctuary ballance as the right test for Wheat Barley c. And whatever men's attainments be on single first-creation principles they will be found too light for acceptance with God So their punishment for detaining any part thereof will be just And a peculiar care will be had of God's new-creation Oil and Wine and a righteous recompence