what they Sow in Weakness in whom the Great and the Mighty God doth Raise in Power or else they do but Undervalue their own Labours and Encourage their Adversaries For it is not enough for the Ministers of the Gospel to Preach the Word of God in Season and out of Season but they ought to mind who hath Believed their Report and to whom is the Arm of the Lord Revealed For his Arm is very long and very strong and that his Enemies will know in these Days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign to their great Shame and Overthrow The Great and the Mighty God that gives Life to a Worm can give Power to a Man to make all his Enemies throughout the whole World to Tremble And that without having a Sword in his Hand or Men or Money at Command Therefore as my Heart is Ingaged for the God of Heaven so it is Inraged against all them that do Slight and Undervalue his Holy Word and Question his Mighty Power By the Power of God I am what I am and will Labour to do what I can that his Name and Works throughout the whole World may be known to be most Glorious and His Majesty of Great Britain's Royal Person Crown and Kingdoms most Renowned and Famous among all and above all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World If ever there was a time for to manifest the Power of Faith for the great Honour and Renown of England's Royal Church and State it is in such a time when that too many do Question the Truth of it and few brings forth the Fruit of it which is Love and Obedience to God and Man Great is the Power of Faith that doth inable a Mortal Man to have Power with the God of Heaven to get Power from him and to Act with Power for him and that in the worst of times and before the best of Men in these Days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain That among all People in all Nations there may be a general Reformation Throughout the whole World there must be but one Religion and that is the Protestant Religion as it is Establish'd in the Church of England for it is the true Religion because it doth hold forth and declare the knowledge of the true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent without Believing in him and willing to be Ruled by him there is not any of the Sons and Daughters of Men that can be Saved As for the Church of Rome her Children cannot Learn true Religion because their Teachers are False Prophets and Deceivers Instead of Consolation they do many times meet with Condemnation and instead of Salvation they be Exposed to great Damnation When the Blind Lead the Blind they do fall into the Ditch When the People are Ignorant and their Teachers not Sound in the Faith there cannot be a true Church nor a good State The Church of Rome will in these Days of the Gospel and in the Raign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain be soon brought down because that they stand upon a Sandy Foundation as Tradition and Lying Wonders And their Trust and Considence it is in an Arm of Flesh which is Carnal Wisdom Power and Strength which has Decieved many and will Deceive them What saith the Lord whose Word shall stand and prevail when all their Wisdom Power and Strength their Pride and Glory shall fail Thus saith the Lord Cursed be the Man that trusteth in Man and maketh Flesh his Arm Cursed be the Turk the Pope the French King and the King of Spain and all those that do use their Wisdom their Power and their Strength to hinder the Gospel in any Nation that it should not prevail The Jews that do slight the Gospel and deny Christ cannot be Saved but by looking up upon him whom they have Pierced and Crucified The Proud Turk cannot be Saved by his Mahomet It must be by the Gospel which doth hold forth Jesus Christ who is the Lord of Life and the King of Glory who is ready and willing in all Nations to save Sinners that will deny their own Carnal Wisdom Power and Strength he will give them Divine Wisdom Power and Strength which will Enable them that do Injoy it for to Understand the mind of God to do the will of God and to Injoy the Favour of the Everliving God which is better than Life or all the Delights of this World Because that the Church of England has kept the Word of Gods Patience he will keep her in the hour of Temptation which is come to try all Nations in these Days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain Great will be the Peace and the Prosperity of the Church of Christ throughout the whole World For the Lord will Judge among al Nations by his Word and Spirit and will Rebuke all them that will not submit to the Gospel of his Son which is the only means that the Wisdom of the Father has appointed for the Saving of lost Man so that they that have trusted to their Wisdom their Power and their Strength will beat their Swords into Plow Shares and their Spears into Pruining Hooks For Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation neither in these Days of the Gospel shall they learn War any more as they have done but great will be the Joy and Triumph of the Church of England Great will be the Honour and Exaltation of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain And great will be the Peace and the Prosperity of many Kingdoms So that in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign many Nations will be freed from Slavery and throughout the whole World there will be great Joy Peace and Prosperity This I Declare but not by my own Wisdom and Power nor by the Wisdom and Power of any Mortal Men but by the Wisdom and Power of the God of Heaven who doth all things in Heaven and in Earth according to the Counsel of his own Will and that when and by whom he will that so all the Glory may Redound to him and that no Flesh should Glory before him This great and mighty God who is the Searcher of all Hearts and has the command over all Spirits who can speak Peace when he please and by whom he please to a Person or to a Nation has stirr'd me up to Engage with him and has given me Wisdom Power and Athority from his Word and Spirit for to understand his mind and to make it known in due time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind Had any one have promised to give me Ten Thousand Pound for to Engage in so Noble a Design I should not have Ventured my Life Endangered my Liberty for to Engage in a Business of so High a Nature that I have neither President Example or
men under the Heavens are bound to know their Creator so as to fear him but there be many of the Sons and the Daughters of Men that will labour to know him so as to love serve and to honour him which will prove most comfortable to themselves and most profitable to others Let the man be what he will or whom he will in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain in whom the Lord of Hosts doth arise his Enemies shall be scattered and they that hate him shall flee before him as Wax melteth before the sire so will all the workers of iniquity at the presence of the Lord but the Righteous shall be glad and rejoyce for a long time The Church of Rome the King of Spain and the proud French King has endeavoured to undermine and overthrow the Protestant Religion His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England but the time is come that they are to know that they are to be brought very low if that they will not Conform and Reform to the Protestant Religion to the Nine and thirty Doctrines of the Church of England There is no man worthy to be a Minister of the Gospel in England Scotland France and Ireland that doth or should oppose gain-say or preach against any of the Nine and thirty Doctrines of the Church of England The Enemies against the Church of England are many both at home and abroad but I shall endeavour by the power of Faith which is the power of God for to do what I can to over-throw them as one man and to set a-work they that have power in their hand that they may be subdu'd both by Sea and Land that so the people may know the true and the everliving God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent then will the Earth bring forth great increase and among all people in all Nations there will be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace The Lord who is most Great and most Good knows when how and by whom he pleases for to speak peace to a Person a Family a City and a Kingdom and when he speaks peace to his People to any of his Saints let them not turn again to Folly but let them renew their Obedience and double their Diligence The Lord will satiate the Soul of the Priests of his Ministers with Fatness and the people with his Goodness surely his Salvation is nigh them that fear him that Glory may dwell in our Land Mercy and Truth are met together Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other Truth shall spring out of the Earth Righteousness shall look down from Heaven yea the Lord will give that which is good so that our Land will yield her Increase Righteousness will go before him and set us in the way of his Steps The Lord who is most Great and most Good will be known by his Judgments and his Mercies for he is a God that judgeth the earth for the Lord is a God of knowledge and by him all mens Thoughts and Actions are weighed That our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain may be willing to countenance encourage and set forward this Noble Design that Divine Wisdom and Power has enabled me to make known in time for the Glory of his Great Name and to have his Enemies brought to shame His Royal Majesty will find that many Princes and Nations will assist him and that which is more than all them the God of Heaven who has all Power in his own hand and the whole Creation at Command will in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign make bare his Arm and manifest his Wisdom Power and Strength to bring down the Turk the Pope the French King and the King of Spain that so many Nations may be freed from slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great joy peace and prosperity Sing unto the Lord thy God O Church of England for he hath done excellent things this is known in all the Earth for among the Gods there is none like unto him there is not one that can do as he has done Say to them therefore that are of a fearful Heart be strong fear not for the True and the Everlasting God will come with vengeance and rebukes upon his Enemies but with great recompence and rewards will he come and save and deliver his People that wait upon him and put their trust and confidence in him therefore cry out and Shout thou Inhabitant of Sion thou Church of England for great is the Holy one of Israel in the midst of thee for to bring thee to great honour renown and fame and thy Enemies to great shame Behold the Whirl-wind of the Lord goeth forth with fury a continuing Whirl-wind it will fall with pain upon the Head of the Wicked the fierce anger of the Lord will not return until he hath performed the intents of his Heart in these latter daies many will see it and consider of it thy God O Church of England is my God thy cause is my cause thy troubles have been my greatest trouble and thy Enemies are my worst Enemies I have laid to Heart more the troubles of the Church of England and of his Majesty of Great Britain than the Death of a Wife and seven Children I have laid them more to Heart than all the tryals troubles losses crosses and reproaches that I have met withal from my Youth to this present time I have laid them so to Heart that many will be made to smart that have endeavoured to undermine and to overthrow the Protestant Religion his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England I have laid them so to Heart that many will be made to smart that will not conform and reform to the Protestant Religion as it is establisht in the Church of England When the Lyon Roars all the Beasts of the Field tremble the Lord has not been much minded nor regarded by his Judgements of Plague Fire and Sword but he will be minded and regarded by a still Voice by inabling of me for to make known his mind for the terror of Evil doers the Voice of the Lord is powerful the Voice of the Lord is full of Majesty the Voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedars yea the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Lebanon The Lord thy God O Church of England who is most great and most good will be known to be the True and Everlasting God among the Sons of men for by terrible things in Righteousness will he answer them For a long time the Lord has holden his peace he has been still and refrained himself but now will he cry like a Travelling Woman he will destroy and devour at once and that without making of many words or having the Voice much heard The time is come that in these Gospel days and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of
many great and mighty Kings have found I shall name but two or three and that is King Pharaoh King Belshazzar and that great King Nebuchad-nezzar who in the midst of his Glory and in his Royal Palace of Babel that he built for the House of the Kingdom who was boasting of his Power and the great Honour of his Majesty while the word was in the Kings Mouth a Voice came down from Heaven saying O King Nebuchad-nezzar to him it was spoken that his Kingdom was departed from him and that he should be driven from Men and that his Dwelling should be with the Beasts of the Field and that he should eat Grass as the Oxen and seven times should pass over him until he did know that the most High beareth Rule over the Kingdoms of Men and giveth them unto whomsoever he will the very same hour was this thing fulfilled upon Nebuchad-nezzar and he was driven from Men and did eat Grass as the Oxen and his Body was wet with the Dew of Heaven till his Hairs were grown as Eagles Feathers and his Nails like Birds Claws and when the term of Seven years was accomplished which from the God of Heaven was prefixed at the end of those days did Nebuchad-nezzar lift up his Eyes unto Heaven and his Understanding was restored unto him Then did he give thanksunto the most High and praised and honoured him that liveth for ever whose Dominion is an Everlasting Dominion and his Kingdom is from Generation to Generation and before him all the Inhabitants of the Earth are reputed as nothing and according to his will he worketh in the Army of Heaven and among the Inhabitants of the Earth and none can stay his Hand nor say unto him What dost thou Therefore he is to be feared above all Gods because that he is a Wonder-working God a Great and a Glorious God who can work Wonders in a Man and with a Man either for or against a City or a Kingdom for his Works are all Truth and his Ways Judgments and those that walk in Pride he is able to abase but the Meek Humble and the Lowly doth he delight in among the Sons of Men and will bring them in due time to great Honour and Glory in his Kingdom of Heaven I am a Friend and a Lover of all them that are not Enemies unto themselves as all Unbelieving Jews Bruitish Atheists Wicked and Bloody Papists and Robellious Dissentors and Sectaries are and that will not Conform Reform to the Lord of Life who is the King of Glory and the Prince of Peace whose Service is perfect Freedom and his Work and Reward is most Prositable most Honourable most Comfortable most Satisfying Lasting and Everlasting What Divine Wisdom and Power has inabled me to make known in time for Englands Information Reformation great Joy Peace and Consolation and for her great Honour and Exaltation it is by John Varney a Member of the Church of England and of the City of London a City that has been a City of Renown and will come to greater Honour Renown and Fame in his Majesties Royal Reign than any City under the Heaven is or has been since England has injoyed a King September 27th 1679. FINIS ERRATA PAge 41 line 16 read in this World p. 46 l. 28 for martial men r. mortal men p. 95 l. 11 f. make known r. made known p. 103 l. 24 f. the Lust of Evil r. the Hurt of Evil p. 104 l. 17 f. And that Men r. O that Men p. 105 l. 8 f. Right r. Height p. 142 l. 39 f. and that will not Conform Reform r. that will not Conform and Reform
faithful to the God of Heaven to the Protestant Religion and the Church of England Would Men be Wise Strong Rich and Honourable Persons most Excellent Persons more Precious than Gold or the Gold of Ophir they must labour to get and to keep a Sound Heart which is the Life of the Flesh a Wholsom Tongue which is a Tree of Life and Righteous Lips which are the Delight of Kings He that Loveth Pureness of Heart for the Grace of his Lips the King will be his Friend The Heart of the Wise teacheth his Mouth and addeth Learning to his Lips The Wise in Heart shall be called Prudent and the Sweetness of the Lips Increaseth Learning The Wise shall Inherit Glory but Shame will be the Promotion of all them that do prefer the Pleasures of Sin that lasts but for a Moment above the Gain of Godliness that lasts for Ever Godliness it is great Gain and will bring Men to great Fame that be Faithful to the God of Heaven to his Annointed our Royal and Gracious Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain to the Protestant Religion and the Church of England To Fear the God of Heaven and to Honour the King His Majesty of Great Britain it is true Religion which is taught in the Church of England There is no Place Calling or Condition that will Honour Men if that they be not Careful to Honour God and our Royal King in them For what-ever Honours and Riches that Men do get if that they do not Honour the God of Heaven and His Majesty of Great Britain their Honours and their Riches will prove uncertain and their Lives will prove uncomfortable But if that Men will do that Worthy thing as to know when and how for to Honour the God of Heaven and our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain in this World it will bring them to great Fame and in Heaven with Holy Angels for ever to Remain If there be Joy in Heaven at the Conversion of a Sinner how much more ought there to be in the Church of England when this Sinner shall bring forth the Fruits of Righteousness for the Glory of the great and Mighty God for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion and for the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain which will bring great Joy and Triumph to the Church of England and great Peace and Prosperity to many Kingdoms They that would bring great Honour to the God of Heaven and to His Majesty of Great Britain must get a Sound Heart and to get a Sound Heart Men must Labour to get a Sound Faith which is more Precious then Gold and doth require more Wisdom Power and Skill to Prove it Improve it and to know when and how for to Manage it than it is to Sway a Scepter and to Rule a Kingdom and more Honour than it is to wear any Earthly Crown This I declare that no Subject whatsoever should Desire or Covet after the Growns and Scepters of Kings and Princes in this World but if that Men will Covet after a Crown let it be an Immortal one which the Righteous Judge will give to all Faithful ones for those that be Faithful to the Death he will give the Crown of Life That Crown which will never Rust when all the Glory of this World will be laid in the Dust A Sound Faith is more Precious then Gold or the Gold of Ophir because it will purifie the Foulest Heart it will in time make a mean Man Honourable a Poor Man Rich a Weak Man Strong a Sick Man Well and a Dying Man Happy which all the things in this World cannot do Divine Faith which is more Precious than Gold it is the Gift and Power of the great and mighty God it is not in the Power of any Mortal Men to give it to their Nearest and their Dearest Friend Parents cannot give it to their Children nor Ministers to their People but the Lord gives it when he will and to whom he will in the use of those Means that he has appointed and the Church of England has Ordained and that is hearing the Word of God Preached Divine Faith which is more Precious then Gold comes by Hearing but not for Hearing Hearing the Word of God is the Instrumental Cause but our Saviour is the Original Therefore he is worthy for to have the Honour and the Glory of the Actings of every Mans Faith because that he is both the Author and the Finisher of it And though it is not in the Power of all the Ministers of the Gospel in London or in England to beget a Spark of Faith where it is not yet it ought to be their great care to take notice where it is wrought and to Countenance and Encourage that Person that has it for to bring it forth because that it is such a Spark that it will in time break forth into a Flame for the Glory of Gods great Name and to put the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil to Shame and to bring His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England throughout the whole World to great Honour Renown and Fame And that without having a Sword in the Hand of Men or Money at Command without making a Noise about Religion without making of many Words or having the Voice much heard As Divine Faith is a High and Honourable Grace because it is the Gift and Power of the Great and Mighty God so it will Enable a Man for to prepare High and Honourable Work Pleasant Profitable and Delightsom Work Victorious Glorious and Crowning Work that will try the Wisdom and the Skill the Valour and the Courage of many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men what they can do and what they will do in these Days of the Gospel and in the Raign of our Royal Soveraign for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain and for the great Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms that so many Nations may be freed from Slavery and in the whole World there may be great Joy Peace and Prosperity Faith that is true works by Love and Love seeks not her own but the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many a one in Court City and Countrey As the God of Heaven is a Wonder-working God a Victorious and a Glorious God so Divine Faith which is more Precious than Gold is a Wonder-working Grace a Victorious and a Glorious Grace That Grace which will Enable a Man for to set a-work the Wisdom and the Power of the God of Heaven will Enable him to set a Work the Wisdom and the Power of Martial Men Great are the Noble Acts Recorded in Holy Writ that Gods Worthies have done by the Power of Faith not by the Power of the Sword by the Power
of Faith which is the Power of the God of Heaven Men of Renown have Subdued Kingdoms wrought Righteousness Obtained Promises Stopped the Mouths of Lyons out of Weakness were made Strong have waxed Valiant in Fight and turned many to Flight Divine Faith which is more Precious then Gold will Enable a Man to be as bold as a Lion stronger then Samson and Wiser than the Devil in the overcoming of Evil and the doing of Good in his Generation for the great Honour of God the King and Nation but the want of so Excellent a Jewel as Divine Faith which is a Supporting and a Comforting Grace will make all the Workers of Iniquity throughout the whole World to Tremble for all their Carnal Wisdom Power and Strength it is not said that a Man shall Overcome the World by his Wisdom Power and Strength but by his Faith by Beleiving in the Son of God and owning of him and appearing for him It is by Faith I stand and by Faith that I do Understand the Mind of the God of Heaven what is to be done among the Sons of Men the Wisest and the Chiefest among them in these Days of the Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Honour and Exaltation of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain and for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms To Write and to Speak the same thing again and again it is needful when it is Suitable and Seasonable Profitable Comfortable and Advantageous to a Person a Family a City or a Kingdom In these Days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain it will be known who are Sons of the Church of England and who are Sons for the Church of England many may be Sons of the Church of England that be a Burden and Reproach to the Church of England but to be a Son for the Church of England doth Imply to seek the Good and Welfare of the Church of England the Peace and Settlement of the Church of England the great Joy and Triump of the Church of England which will bring great Honour and Exaltation to His Majesty of Great Britain and great Peace and Prosperity to his Kingdoms There is a Generation among the Sons of Men that have a Name to Live and are Dead that be pure in their own Eyes but yet not Cleansed from their Iniquities these are too Wise for to say our Saviours Prayer and the Church of England's Prayer because they have been so long Ruled by the Prince of the Air who Rules in the Children of Disobedience and is Active with them in all their Treasons These have made the Church of England Black with Reproaches cast upon her but she is Comely in her Graces before the God of Heaven and in her Carriage before Wise and Understanding Men but before them that be more Nice then Wise she is Despised in their Eyes But in these Dayes of the Gospel the Lord who is most Wise and most Strong will make it appear who be for him or against him and his Annointed our Royal and Gracious Soveraign The Lord whose Wisdom is unsearchable and his Power unresistable is a Wonder-working God the Wonders that he has wrought for his Children when they have been Sould and Bought is to be Admired and Remembred by all Persons in all Nations How was the Jews sold and bought to be destroyed by that wicked Haman and flattering Courtier But what did he get but shame and confusion for he was taken in his own Net did fall into his own Pit and his violent Dealings came down upon his own Pate for he was hanged upon the same Gallows that he built for faithfull and honourable Mordecai What got the Spanish Aâ—adâ— and the Gun-powder Traytors against Englands Royal Church and State Were they not ashamed confounded and many destroyed O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works unto the children of men How many times has the Lord of Hosts saved and delivered England again and again when that they have been sold and bought to have been destroyed by the Pope the French King and the King of Spain But the God of Heaven doth Night and Day watch over and defend this Nation to bring the Enemies of his Gospel to thame and desolation that will not conform and reform to the Pretestant Religion as it is Established in the Church of England For a long time the Turk the Pope the French King and the King of Spain have kept many Nations in slavery for the Devil and their own lust But the time is come that in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign will their Wisdom their Power and Strength their Honours and Riches their great and high Places be soon laid in the dust but for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms will His Majesty of Great Britains Crown and Kingdoms flourish among all Nations while there is a Generation So that the God of Heaven will bless the Earth with great encrease and among all people in all Nations there will be a Free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace It becomes all the Ministers of the Gospel all wise strong rich and learned men that will prove themselves faithful to the God of Heaven to His Majesty of Great Britain to the Protestant Religion and to the Church of England for to countenance and encourage this Noble Design that Divine Wisdom and Power has enabled me for to make known in time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind Let the man be what he will or whom he will whom the great Great and the Mighty God doth stir up to engage with him for to make known his Mind for the great Honour and Exaltation of a Kings Person and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Nations that Man ought to be minded and regarded by the Wise Godly and the Learned because that his Work is high and honourable Work pleasant prositable and delightsom Work and will prove victorious glorious and crowning Work it will Crown the God of Heaven with much Glory among the Sons of Men and our Royal Sovereign His Majesty of Great Britain with great Honour and Power over them over all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperours in the world That this may be done and well done let all that do profess the Protestant Religion that can pray pray for the long life and prosperous and victorious Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Britain that the Lord would enable him to be as Good as Great and keep him at all times and in all places as the Apple of his own Eye the Lord deliver him always
is a Garden inclosed a Spring shut up a Fountain sealed from the world but it is in the World The men of the World will condemn many that do profess Religion for they love their own and will not quarrel contend and slight one another so much as they that be for this Party and that Party for this Opinion and that Opinion and all against the Church of England It has been want of love to God and to Fellow-members that has caused so much Strife and Contention Sedition and Rebellion for about Fourty years that it has been only the Lords mercy that we have not been confounded nor consumed long before now But shall we still provoke the Lord to anger who is most Great and most good will he not provoke us to anger even to the shame and confusion of our own Faces if that we will not Conform and Reform to him and to the Government of the Church of England Has not the Church of England Enemies enough from the Church of Rome to Encounter withal But must she be slighted and undervalued vexed and perplexed by them that should readily and willingly assist her but not in the least resist her What ever Wisdom Power Courage or any Grace any Member has received in the Church of England they ought to prove it and improve it and to know when and how for to manifest it for the great peace and prosperity of the Church of England and not to make a noise about Religion to be the Head of this Party or that Society that is divided from the Church of England This is that which makes Mutiny and Confusion it argues too much self-seeking and will prove unto many self-undoing As all the Members of the natural Body act for the good of that Body so all the Members of the Church of England ought for to act for the great Honour Peace and Prosperity of the Church of England or else they be not for her but against her The mighty God who is most Great and most Good will plead thy Cause O Church of England therefore let the Tuâ—k the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of evil combine and design to undermine and overthrow the Church of England they will be deceived confounded and for ever ashamed The Lord of Hosts hath purposed and who shall disannul it And his hand is stretched out and who shall turn it back Is not destruction to the wicked and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity Therefore let not any Envy or Fret at the prosperity of the Wicked but rather let them be pitied For if that they do not bring forth good Fruit in due season they will soon be cut down like the Grass and wither as the green Herb But the Salvation of the Righteous is of the Lord he is their Strength in the time of trouble he will help save and deliver them because they trust in him but the Transgressours will be destroyed together the end of the Wicked is to be cut off the Lord of Hosts hath broken the Staff of the Wicked and the Scepter of the Rulers For Babylon the Glory of Kingdoms the Beauty of the Chaldees Excellency will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah How art thou fallen from Heaven O Lucifer Son of the Morning How art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the Nations The Lord of Hosts will rise up against Babylon and cut off from them what he has promised the Name and Remnant and Son and Nephew saith the Lord. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual Stroke He that ruled the Nations in anger is persecuted and none hindreth Then this Proverb will be taken up against the King of Babylon and many will say How hath the Oppressor ceased the golden City ceased that made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the Cities thereof that opened not the house of his prisoners Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming it stirreth up the dead for thee even all the chief ones of the earth it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the Nations all they shall speak and say unto thee Art thou also become weak as we Art thou become like unto us thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy Viols the worm is spread under thee and the worms cover thee for thou hast said in thy heart thou wilt ascend into heaven thou wilt exalt thy throne above the stars of God thou wouldst ascend above the heights of the clouds thou wouldst be like the most high Yet thou shelt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit they that see thee they shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying Is this the man that made the world to tremble that did shake kingdoms The Lord of Hosts who is most wise and most strong will punish the World for their Evil and the Wicked for their Iniquities He will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the Terrible And when the Lord hath performed his whose Work upon Mount Sion and on Jerusalem he will then punish the stout heart of the King of Assyria and the glory of his high looks Shall the Axe boast it self against him that heweth therewith Or shall the Saw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it As if the Rod should shake it self against them that lift it up Or as if the Staff should hit up it self as if it were no wood Cannot the Potter do with the Clay as he please As the Clay is in the hands of the Potter so are all men in all Nations in the hands of the Lord of Hosts to rule and over-rule them at his will and pleasure Therefore let all the Inhabitants of the World fear him let them tremble at his presence who has placed the Sand for the bound of the Sea by a perpetual Decree that it cannot pass it though the Waves thereof toss themselves yet can they not prevail though they roar yet can they not pass over it And shall the Workers of Iniquity the Seed of evil Doers the Children of Disobedience the Enemies of the Gospel rage and fret and combine and design to undermine and overthrow the Workers of Righteousness those that be faithful to the Protestant Religion and to his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England but it will tend to their own shame and confusion For the Righteous will slourish but Destruction will be to the Workers of Iniquity though they may make a Covenant and Agreement with Death and with Hell when the over-flowing Scourge shall pass thorow that it may not come unto them but they will be deceived because they have made Lyes their Refuge therefore their Covenant with Death shall be disanulled and their Agreement with Hell shall not stand When the over-slowing Scourge shall pass thorow then they shall be trodden down by it
From the time that it goeth forth it shall take them for morning by morning will it pass over by day and by night And it will be a vexation unto the Workers of Iniquity the Enemies of the Protestant Religion and of the Church of England only to understand the Report thereof Let not any be Mockers and Scoffers and say Where is the Promise of his coming least their Bands be made strong for behold the Lord who is most wise and most strong most gracious and most glorious who has been for a long time much provoked being slighted and undervalued by unbelieving Jews bruitish Atheists wicked bloody and deceitful Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries He cometh out of his place to punish the Inhabitants of the Earth for their Iniquity for though the Lord who is most great has his Throne in the highest Heavens yet when he pleases for his peoples ease he can come into the lowest heart for to make the Enemies of his Gospel throughout the whole World to smart therefore Fear and the Pit and the Snare are upon thee O Inhabitant of the Earth It shall come to pass that he who sleeth from the noise of the Fear shall fall into the Pit and he that cometh out of the midst of the Pit shall be taken in the Snare when he ariseth to shake terribly the Earth Therefore let all that be wise of heart that would be secure enter into the Rock of Ages for safety let them humble themselves for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his most Excellent Majesty for the losty looks of men will be humbled and their haughtiness bowed down for the Lord thy God O Church of England will be exalted in the hearts of men for his wonderful works and great mercy towards them But they that have not made the Lord of Hosts in these days of the Gospel their strong Hold and City of Refuge what will they do in the Day of Visitation and in the Desolation which shall come from far To whom will they slee for help And where will they leave their Glory Who will in such a day as this is plead for Baal for Idol-worship Or who will undertake to uphold Babylon Babylon is fallen by Gods Decree who doth fore-see how all things will be The time is come that Babylon shall fall suddenly and all the graven Images of her Gods and the Idols will be utterly abolisht They that will plead for Baal let them be put to death if he be a God let him plead for himself What saith the Lord who is the true and the ever-living God who is to be feared and served by all people in all Nations Learn not the way of the Heathens and be not dismayed at the Signs of the Heavens for the Heathens are dismayed at them For the Customs of bruitish Atheists and foolish Papists is vain for one cutteth a Tree out of the Forest the work of the hands of the Workman with the Ax they deck it with Silver and with Gold they fasten it with Nails and with Hammers that it move not they are upright as the Palm-tree but speak not they must needs be born because they cannot go therefore let not any be afraid of them for they cannot do evil neither also is it in them to do good they have Mouths but they speak not Eyes have they but they see not they have Hands but they handlenot Feet have they but they walk not neither speak they through their Throat They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them But let them that fear the true ever-living God trust in him and he will be their Help and their Shield he will encourage them in well-doing and reward them for well doing both in this World and in a better But the Workers of Iniquity and Seed of Evil Doers the Children of Disobedience are Confounded by their Graven Images for their Molten Image is Falshood and there is no Breath in them They are Vanity and the Work of Errours in the time of their Visitation they shall perish the Portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the Former of all things and Israel is the Rod of his Inheritance the Lord of Hosts is his Name The Lord of Hosts hath his Battel Axes and Weapons of War whereby he can when he pleases and with whom he pleases in the day of his Power break in Pieces the Nations and destroy Kingdoms break in Pieces the Horse and his Rider and the Chariot and his Rider The Lord has broke in Pieces both Man and Woman both Old and Young he has broke in Pieces both the Shepherd and his Flock the Husbandman and his Yoke of Oxen both Captains and Rulers the Lord has done it and will do it They that walk contrary unto him that will not Labour to Know him so as to Fear Love Serve and to Honour him he will walk contrary unto them so as to Wound them and Confound them Put your selves in Array against Babylon all you Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men that be Faithsul to the God of Heaven to his Annointed our Royal and Gracious Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain to the Protestant Religion and to the Church of England Put your selves in Array against her round about all ye that bend the Bow or handle the Sword shout at her spare no Arrows for she hath sinned against the Lord thy God O Church of England who is most great and most good most gracious and most glorious Shout against her round about for it is the vengeance of the Lord who is most wise and most strong therefore take vengeance upon her As she hath done do unto her set ye up a Standard in the Land blow the Trumpet among the Nations prepare the Nations against her call together against her the Kingdoms appoint a Captain against her prepare against her the Nations with the Kings of the Medes the Captains thereof and all the Rulers thereof and all the Land of his dominion The Land shall tremble and sorrow for every purpose of the Lord thy God O Church of England will be performed against Babylon to make the Land of Babylon a Desolation without an Inhabitant In these days of the Gospel many will see it and be glad and rejoyce the mighty men of Babylon will forbear to sight because it is the vengeance of the Lord the vengeance of his Temple Babylon which is the Church of Rome hath been a golden Cup that has made all the Earth drunken the Nations have drunken of her Wine therefore the Nations are mad You that do truly fear and love the true God flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his Soul that they may not be cut off in her Iniquity for this is the time of the Lords vengeance who will render unto her a Recompence for her Judgment reacheth unto Heaven and is listed up even unto the Skies therefore
Church of England They that believe will be saved but they that will not labour and endeavour to believe in the Son of God who became the Son of Man will be ashamed confounded and at last destroyed For there is no other remedy for Mans Recovery but by obeying the Gospel Therefore consider what so great a Prince as the Lord of Life and the King of Glory has done for the Sons of Men Let all fall in love with him for if Unbelieving Jews and Bruitish Atheists and Wicked and Bloody Papists and Rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries do not endeavour to love him who is altogether lovely their condition is sad for the present and worse for the future but I hope that in these Gospel-days and in the Reign of our Royal Severaign his Majesty of Great Britain that Jews and Gentiles will come into one Fold and that all People in all Nations will know the True God and Jesus Christ so as to love serve and to honour him For the Lord has promised and he will make it good for to give unto his Son the Heathen for his Inheritance and the uttermost Parts of the Farth for his Possession And who knows but that the time is come that in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Britain it is to be done This high and honourable work this pleasant profitable and long desired work this victorious glorious and crowning work that will crown the God of Heaven with much glory among the Sons of Men and his Majesty of Great Britain with great Honour and Power over them over all Heathen Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World that will not submit to the Gospel and the Protestant Religion as it is taught in the Church of England That this high and honourable work may be brought about by the Lords Annointed his Majesty of Great Britain the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up in time to make known his Mind for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind Therefore let the Righteous rejoyce all that be faithful to the God of Heaven to his Majesty of Great Britain to the Protestant Religion and to the Church of England but let the Wicked tremble and all the workers of Iniquity be ashamed for in his Majesties Reign will the Righteous flourish and in his days there will be abundance of Peace so that Strife Contention and Wars in these Gospel-days will cease and throughout the whole World among all People there will be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace Therefore let the Heavens rejoyce and let the Earth be glad let the Sea roar and the fulness thereof let the Fields be joyful and all that is therein then shall all the Trees of the Wood rejoyce for the Lord who is most wise and most strong cometh he cometh to judge the Earth He will judge the World with Righteousness and the People with his Arise and shine thou Church of England thy Light is come the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee to bring thee to great Honour and Exaltation and the Whore of Babylon the Man of Sin and the Church of Rome to great Shame and Desolation for her Idolatry and Abomination for her Lies and Fornication for the Blood of the Saints that she has slain Her time is come to be brought down with shame but the Lord will have mercy upon Sion upon his Church throughout the whole World the time to favour her is come so that great will be the Joy and Triumph of the Church of England great will be the Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain and great will be the Peace and and Prosperity of many Kingdoms Let not any despise the day of small things for that God that speaks peace to a Person can inable a Person to make known his Mind for the great joy peace and prosperity of many Nations Return Return O backsliding Children therefore and remember from whence you are fallen and do your first work for it was better with you than them Even since the Dissentors and Sectaries left off to be wise and to do good they have been the occasion of shedding too much Blood They left off to be wise when they made Separation which has caused Division Contention Sedition and Rebellion They left off doing of much good ever since they have refused to say the daily Prayers of the Church of England which Prayers are suitable and seasonable profitable and comfortable for all Persons in all Nations they tend very much to inform the Ignorant to Reform the Disobedient to Comfort the Weak Christian to Resolve the Doubting to Raise up those that be fallen and to Strengthen them that do Stand if they be but well used and practiced but these Prayers have been slighted and undervalued by them who are too much like many of the Children of Israel who was a proud froward and stubborn Generation Children that could talk of Faith but the Lord told them They had not Faith for they moved him to Jealousie with that which is not god they provoked him to Anger with their Vanities But what saith the Lord who has all power in his own hand and the whole Creation at command he told them that he would move them to Jealousie with those which are not a People he would provoke them to Anger with a foolish Nation And has not our Contentions and Divisions about Religion caused the Lord to afflict us and to scourge us with a foolish and ignorant People even the Papist They that provoke the Lord to Anger he will provoke them to the shame and confusion of their own Faces The Children of Israel did so far provoke to Anger the Lord who is not easily provoked that he did hide his Face from them and would see what their end would be And has not the Lord justly hid his Face from the Dissentors and Sectaries for a long time to see what their end will be How they will quit themselves like Men. They can talk like Men and walk like Men but they have acted too many of them like Children Fools and Mad-men but their own wickedness will correct them and their backsliding will reprove them for the Backsliders in heart will be filled with their own foolish ways they will lie down in sorrow And have not the Dissentors and Sectaries experience enough that have made Separation from the Church of England what it is to backslide from the Worship of God from the Word of God from the Prayers of the Church which tends to Edification Reformation and Consolation and from the ways of God whose ways are ways of Pleasantness and all his Paths Peace and from the Yoke of Christ whose Yoke is easie and his Burden Light And what have they got unto themselves but great Shame and much Confusion When Israel did cast off the thing that was good the Enemy did pursue them So since the Dissentors and Sectaries
service of the World the Flesh and the Devil and that how few do readily and willingly and cheerfully engage in the service of the God of Heaven whose service is perfect freedom and his work and reward is most honourable They do well that do love their Enemies that do often feed them and relieve them for the Lord doth make his Son to shine both on the Evil and on the Good and sendeth Rain on the Just and on the Unjust To do good to all Men it is commendable but to do good to the Houshold of Faith it is most profitable and will prove most comfortable A Friend loveth at all times but a true and a faithful Friend may be so much displeased as not to manifest his Love at all times Joseph loved his Brethren when he stormed at them spake roughly to them put some of them in Prison and caused Simcon to be bound before their Eyes But as after Storms and Tempests the Sun doth shine most clearest so after great and long Trials Troubles and Afflictions Deliverance will be the sweetest both to a Person a Family a City and a Kingdom Let not any therefore despise the day of small things let not any slight and undervalue the small beginnings of Grace in themselves or others for a spark of Grace well proved and improved will break forth into a flame for the Glory of Gods great Name and to bring a King and Kingdom to great Honour Renown and Fame The greatest Tree was a Plant and the Wisest the Strongest the Richest and most Learned'st Man was a Child They that have truth of Grace let them labour to grow in Grace by improving the means of Grace which the God of Heaven has appointed and the Church of England has ordained for they that do labour to grow in Grace will have increase of every Grace and so will grow in the favour of God and good Men and of the Angels in Heaven They that have truth of Grace and do improve it will have increase of Grace and will never lose it but will know when and how for to use it in the worst of times and before the best of Men for the Glory of the most High and the great Honour and Exaltation of Englands Royal Majesty Were there as many Nations as many Worlds as there be Men there is a way to subdue them for the Glory of the great and mighty God for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain and the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms and that is by daily getting Wisdom Power and Strength from him who gives to the whole Creation a Being which Divine Wisdom Power and Strength will inable a mortal Man to prepare high and honourable Works to be managed by many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men that have their Wisdom their Power and Strength their Honours Riches great and high Places from the God of Heaven The Lord is a high and strong Tower and a Shield to all them that trust in him Great Deliverances giveth he unto his King and sheweth Mercy to his Annointed to David and to his Seed for evermore And who dare say that our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain is not of the Seed of David Spiritually the Lord who is most great and most good has known his Soul in Adversity and did bring him to his Throne in great Peace and Prosperity The King trusteth in the Lord therefore through the Mercy of the most High he will not be moved but the right Hand of the Lord will find out all his Enemies he will find out all them that hate him he will make them like a fiery Oven in time of his Anger the Lord will destroy them in his Wrath and the Fire will devour them but the King our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain will rejoyce in the Strength of the Lord yea how greatly will he rejoyce in his Salvation the Lord has given him his hearts desire and hath not denied him the request of his Lips but hath given him liberal Blessings and hath set a Crown of pure Gold upon his Head He asked Life of thee and thou Lord of Life hath given it him when he was pursued by unreasonable bloody and deceitful Men for which let all People in England Scotland France and Ireland and in many other Nations praise God and be very thankful The Lord who has wonderfully preserved his Majesties Royal Person for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Nations and has set him and sent him as a Blessing among his People make him glad with the light of thy Countenance Remember him O Lord with the favour of thy People and visit him with thy Salvation that he may see the Felicity of thy Chosen and rejoyce in the Joy of thy People and glory with thine Inheritance in thine everlasting and most glorious Kingdom when this mortal Life will be at end The Lord preserve him both at home and abroad both by Land and Water that so he and his throughout the whole World may bear the greatest sway while time and all things under the Sun doth pass away Make known in time this noble Design for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind by John Varney a Member of the Church of England and a Subject to his Majesty of Great Britain but such a Subject that the God of Heaven has honoured among the Sons of Men for to engage with him for to bring about such high and honourable Work pleasant profitable and delightsome Work victorious glorious and crowning Work for the great honour and renown of his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England which has not yet been done by all the Parliaments that have been since England has injoyed a King Shall the Church of England which is the Spouse of Christ bring forth Princes each one resembling the Children of a King and she sit in the Dust slighted and reproached by her Enemies both at home and abroad This ought not to be this must not be but the Sons of the most High must appear for her readily willingly and cheerfully As our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain has been the greatest Prince in the World for suffering so I shall endeavour in these days of the Gospel by the power of Faith which is the power of God that he may be the greatest King and Emperor in the World and over the World for Wisdom Power and Strength for Honour Riches and great Glory so that those Nations which have paid Tribute to the Church of Rome to their great loss and shame will be glad to pay Tribute to the Church of England for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion and the great Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain because it will be
he was killed by two of his Sons they that should have been his best Friends were his worst Enemies What got Ambitious and Proud Haman who plotted and contrived the destruction of many Thousands of the Jews but the ruine of himself and all his Posterity for both he and his Ten Sons were Hanged for such Treachery But yet the workers of Iniquity the Seed of Evil doers the Children of Disobedience are not afraid nor ashamed to combine and design to destroy the Righteous although the Righteous Lord who is most Wise and most strong doth defend them and will Wound and Consume them that do offend them What says our Saviour who is the Lord of Life and the King of Glory It were better that a Milstone were Hanged about the Neck of unbelieving Jews Bruitish Athiests wicked bloody and deceitful Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries than to offend the least Member that doth believe in him because they be as dear unto him as the Apple of his Eye they are his purchased ransomed and redeemed ones they are his chosen and beloved ones They are the travel of his Soul and for them he has prepared both a Kingdom and a Crown which is immortal and unchangeable but there is not any of the Sons and the Daughters of Men that can merit or purchase it in what they can do or suffer therefore say unto the righteous be what they will where they will and whom they will that it will be well with them It will be well with them here in their worst condition and under their greatest Tryals Troubles and Afflictions but it will be better with them hereafter for Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard nor the Heart of Man is not able to conceive what God has laid up for them that love him but wo unto the Wicked unto all the workers of Iniquity because it will go ill with them they will have the fruit of their own doings of their own works and not the fruit of Christs merits and purchase because they do slight and undervalue him and will not be ruled by him who is the wisest Counsellor the best Comforter and the greatest Suporter who is a present help in time of trouble But the Wicked the Seed of Evil doers the Children of Disobedience the Workers of Iniquity the Enemies of the Gospel do many times fall into trouble and their Friends leave them the Devil hates them and God forsakes them but whosoever they be that hearkeneth unto the Lord so as to abey him will dwell safely and be quiet from the fear of Evil much more from the lust of Evil but for the Workers of Iniquity the Seed of Evil doers the Children of Disobedience though Hand joyn in Hand they will not be unpunished but many times Transgressors and the Workers of Iniquity are destroyed together What got the Spanish Armado whom the Pope called the Invincible Armado presuming no power could with-stand them much less overcome them But it pleased the Lord who is most great and most good to help his Hand-maid Elizabeth Queen of England of Blessed Memory that they was so in giving her a Victorious and a Glorious Conquest barer'd and scater'd so defaced and disgraced that they will never recover while they be a Nation And that Men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works unto the Children of Men when that the Enemies of the Gospel do what they can to destroy them But though they should dig as deep as Hell from the Eye of Men yet the Eye of God doth alwaies see them What got the bloody Papists the Gun-powder Traytors by combining and designing to undermine and overthrow with one blow Religion Laws and Liberty Nobility and Gentry Yea all the Royal Family But it pleased the Lord whose Wisdom is unsearchable to help the King to understand the Traytors Treason and to give that Wisdom to his Majesties Royal Grand-Father King James of England of famous Memory that his Friends did Admire him and his Enemies was Confounded by him for he soon apprehended the Plot and gave speedy order for the discovering and securing of the Traytors which was soon done and they brought to their deserved shame and ruine for they were taken in their own Nets did fall into their own Pits and there violent Dealings came down upon their own Pates The Lord who is most wise and most strong will not cast away a perfect Man neither will he help the Evil doers but Evil doers will he cut off but they that wait upon the Lord will inherit the Earth In these Gospel days and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Britain great will be the Peace of the Church of Christ through the whole world but especially in England Scotland France and Ireland therefore many will come and Sing in the Right of Sion and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord for Wheat and for Wine and for Oil and for the Young of the Flock and of the Herd and their Soul shall be as a Water'd Garden and they shall not Sorrow any more at all as they have done then will the Virgin rejoyce in the Dance both Young Men and Old together for the Lord will turn their Mourning into Joy and will Comfort them and will make them Rejoyce from their sorrow and it will come to pass that like as the Lord hath Watched over his People to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict so will he Watch over them to Build and to Plant and he will gather them out of all Countries whither he hath driven them in his Anger in his Fury and in great Wrath and the Lord will bring them again unto his Holy Place to worship him in a right Manner And he will cause them to dwell safely and he will be their God and they shall be his People and the Lord will give them one heart and one way that they may fear love and serve him for ever for the good of themselves and of their Children after them And because the Sons and the Daughters of Men do too often forget to remember their Creator Redeemer and Preserver he will make an Everlasting Covenant with them that he will not turn away from them to do them good but he will put his fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from him yea the Lord will rejoyce over them to do them good and will plant them in his Land with his whole heart and with his whole soul assuredly For as the Lord who is most wise and most strong has brought great evil upon his people for their rebellion so will he bring upon them all the good that he has promised that so they may be humbled and reformed for the goodness of God should lead men to repentance but not unto disobedience He that knows his Masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes All
Great Britain that the Lord of Hosts will go forth as a mighty Man he will stir up jealousie like a Man of war he will cry yea Roar but he will prevail against his Enemies as the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil. Who knoweth the power of Gods anger according to his fear so is his wrath for he is terrible out of his Holy places therefore tremble thou Earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob tremble therefore all you Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World that do slight and undervalue the Word of God and question his mighty power tremble therefore all you unbelieving Jews Bruitish Atheists wicked and bloody Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries that have not made the Word of God your Rule nor his Spirit your Guide nor his Glory your Aim Tremble therefore all you Earthly and Carnal-minded Men you Self-sekers and Men-pleasers Lovers of your selves more than Lovers of God your King and Countrey Tremble all you that have a Name to live and are dead that have called your selves Saints but have acted like Devils Incarnate against the God of Heaven the Protestant Religion his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England but let the Righteous be glad and rejoyce all ye that do truly fear God and Honour the King and are faithful to the Protestant Religion This Noble Design that Divine wisdom and power has enabled me to make known in time it will be as a hand-writing upon the wall against all the Enemies of the Gospel both great and small so that many will fall in love with the Protestant Religion and will be ready and willing to serve and to honour his Majesty of Great Britain both at home and abroad Light is sowen for the Righteous and Gladness for the upright in Heart ye that love the Lord hate Evil for he preserveth the Souls of his Saints he delivereth them many a time out of the Hands of unreasonable bloody and deceitful men that lie in wait for to destroy them Therefore rejoyce in the Lord ye Righteous and give thanks at the remembrance of his Holiness for the Lord who is most good is most great therefore is greatly to be praised and to be feared above all Gods therefore let all wise strong rich and learned Men declare his Glory among the Heathens and his wonders among all People for honour and Majesty are before him strength and beauty is in his Sanctuary therefore let all People in all Nations learn to know the true and the everlasting God and to worship him as they do in the Church of England with Reverence and with a holy Fear They that fear the Lord who is most great will love him because he is most good and they that love him will delight in him and he will give them the desires of their Hearts and that is truth of Grace strength of Grace and increase of Grace It is commendable and will prove very profitable and comfortable to the Sons and Daughters of Men for to delight in the Word of God so that it may richly in them dwell then their sleep will be sweet and they will have great Joy Rest and Peace that Peace which passeth the understanding of Men and Angels to declare what it is it is the Peace of God which is better felt then exprest that peace which the World cannot give nor take away They that do injoy much of God must lay out themselves much for him in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain That Man which will make his graces to appear for the great honour of God the King and Nation He must charge to the Front and to the Rear he must charge and charge again and that with might and main that 〈◊〉 the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil to shame and that without making a noise about Religion for this Party or for that Opinion without making of many words or having the Voyce much heard without having a Sword in the hand A Christian Souldier that is engaged in holy War against the World the Flesh and the Devil must quit himself like a man and when he has done all for to stand by the power of Faith which is the power of God in man the power of God for man and the power of God with man Who knows what is in the Womb of a Day or in the Heart of a man Not any but the God of Heaven who can when he will and by whom he will bring Order out of Confusion Light out of Darkness Good out of Evil and Peace out of Trouble for the great Honour and Exaltation of a Kings Person and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Nations As the highest Member under the God of Heaven doth give Protection for the Safety of the meanest Member in the Church of England so sometimes the meanest Member with the God of Heaven may give Direction for the great Honour Exaltation and Consolation of the Highest in the days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain Cursed be that Man that dare lift up his hand against the Lords Anointed by Sea or by Land against the Lords Anointed whom the Most High hath made Great in Place and Inriched with his Grace Is it not the Prayer of the Church of England for His Majesty of Great Britain that the Lord would hear him in the day of trouble and send him help from the Sanctuary and strengthen him out of Sion For his Majesty can have no such Help as from the Sanctuary nor no such Strength as out of Sion The God of Heaven has promised whose Promises are all Yea and Amen in Christ That the Deliverer shall come out of Sion which shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob But Sion which is the Church of Christ throughout the whole World and the Church of Christ in England Scotland France and Ireland must not look for the Deliverer of Sion to come in greater Pomp than the Saviour of Sion came but he that shall come whom the God of Heaven will send will come and will not tarry for the Tree will be known by his Fruit for he will purifie the Sons of Levy and purge them as Gold and Silver that they may offer unto the true and everliving God who is most Great and most Good an Offering in Righteousness which will be pleasing and exceptable to him The Stone which the Builders refused is it not become the Head-stone of the Corner This is the Lords Doings who is Great in Counsel and Mighty in Power therefore let it be marvellous in the Eyes of them that be most wise And let not any despise the Day of small things for as the Lord of Hosts is above all so he is more than all and can be with all in
all for all or against all when and by whom he please for as his Wisdom is unsearchable so his Power it is unresistable though the Instrument he may use among wise strong rich and learned men may be mean and contemptible But ever since that I have been precious in the Eyes of the most great and glorious God I have been honourable therefore I have not coveted after Silver or Gold Houses or Lands Offices or great Places but I have laboured and coveted to get and to keep to prove and to improve Rich Graces that so my Fruit may be better than Gold and may do more good for the Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms than an Army of Men or thousands or ten thousands of Gold or Silver has done I have no grace but what I have received so I have none to be proud of I have not received any but what I have laboured to improve so I have not any to be prodigal with the least grace which I have received from the God of all grace I do esteem it above all the Honours and Riches in the World because that true Grace it is abiding satisfying lasting and everlasting but for the Honours the Riches and Pleasures of this World they be short they be not abiding satisfying nor long-lasting therefore they that would have Grace which is Heavenly Treasure to thrive in their Soul they must value and esteem it above Silver and Gold To be made Partaker of the Divine Nature it is high Honour and great Favour The Righteous shall be glad in the Lord because they trust in him and all the upright in heart will glory Salvation comes not from the Mountains nor from the Hills not from wise strong rich and learned men but from the Lord who made the Earth and the Heavens and that when and by whom he will that all the Glory may redound to him for his right Hand and holy Arm hath the preheminence over all persons in all Nations Let them shout for joy and be glad that favour my Righteous Cause yea let them say continually Let the Lord be magnified which hath pleasure in the Prosperity of his Servants and my Tongue shall speak of his Righteousness and of his Praise all the day long for he hath done marvellous things All the Ends of the Earth that have not seen will see the Salvation of God He maketh Wars to cease unto the End of the Earth He breaketh the Bow and cutteth the Spear asunder and burneth the Chariots in the fire when he pleaseth and by whom he please in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain They that trust to their Chariots and Horses will fail but they that trust in the Lord Jehovah in the use of Means and above Means will prevail There is a River the Streams thereof will make glad the City of God which is the Church of God throughout the whole World For one fair Flood doth send abroad such pleasant Streams apace to refresh the City of our God and to wash his Holy Place Is not the Mighty God in Sion Go walk about and go round about her tell the Towers thereof mark ye well her Bulwarks consider her Palaces that ye may tell it to the Generation following for God who is most wise and most strong is with her and is known in her Palaces for a Refuge She is Beautiful for Situation the Joy of the whole Earth is Mount Sion and the City of the great King The Kings of the Earth in these days of the Gospel and in the Raign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain they will admire her Wisdom Power and Strength her Honours Riches and great Glory Shall Deliverance be at hand and the Church of England at a stand Shall there be a Well of Water near Hagar and she weep and be in distress Who hath heard such a thing who hath seen such things Shall the Earth be made to bring forth in one day Or shall a Nation be born at once For as soon as Sion travelled she brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a Man-child Shall the Lord who is most Wise and most Strong bring to the Birth and not cause to bring forth or cause to bring forth and shut the Womb saith thy God No it will not be for in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain the God of Heaven has many Sons and Daughters that are grown up and many to be brought up and more to be brought forth in the use of the Means of Grace which he has appointed and the Church of England has ordained but all the Children of the Most High that are brought up and grown up and to be brought forth all is to be in opposition to the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil which will tend very much for the Glory of the Great and Mighty God for the Credit of his holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms O that the Sons and the Daughters of Men were wise for to make an Improvement of the Wisdom and Power of the God of Heaven which is better than Strength or Weapons of War or Silver or Gold As for the Wisdom that is in the World among unbelieving Jews bruitish Atheists wicked and bloody Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries it is foolishness and doth many times end in madness for where Envy Strife and Contention is it brings forth too often Sedition and Rebellion But the Wisdom that is from above it is pure and peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie but where Pride Envy Strife and Contention is there is Confusion and every evil Work Now a good man and a bad man will be known by their Fruits for of Thorns men do not gather Figs nor of a Bramble-bush gather they Grapes but every Tree will be known by his own Fruit. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good that which is suitable and seasonable prositable comfortable and advantageous to many Persons and Families in a City and in a Kingdom But an evil man who is a wicked man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil to the great hurt and undoing of too many Persons and Families in a City and in a Kingdom It is commendable for the Sons of Men the wisest the strongest the richest and the most learnedst among them for to have always their heart to be Inditing
of a good Matter and their Tongue to be as the Pen of a ready Writer that that so they may declare the thing that they have framed for the great Honour and Renown of the King our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain and the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of his Kingdoms How welcom should because how Beautiful are the Feet of him that bringeth good Tidings that publisheth Peace that bringeth good Tidings of good that saith unto Sion the Church of England Thy God Raigneth Awake awake put on thy Strength O Zion put on thy Beautiful Garments O Church of England shake thy self from the Dust from the Reproaches that thy Enemies have cast upon thee Loose thy self from the bands of thy Neck for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left and thy Seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate Cities to be inhabited in Righteousness shalt thou be established thou shalt be far from Oppression for thou shalt not fear and from terror for it shall not come near thee so as to hurt thee the Sons of them that have afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the Soles of thy Feet And thy Enemies shall call thee O Church of England the City of the Lord the Zion of the Holy One of Israel Sing O Barren thou that didst not bear break forth into Singing and cry aloud thou that didst not travel with Child for more are the Children of the Desolate than the Children of the Married Wife saith the Lord Rejoyce ye with Jerusalem with the City of London and be glad with her all ye that love her Rejoyce for Joy with her all ye that have mourned for her for the Lord will extend Peace to her like a River and the Glory of the Gentiles like a slowing Stream then shall ye suck and be satisfied with the Breasts of her Consolations with the Means of Grace which God has appointed for he will give unto thee O Church of England more and more Teachers after his own heart which shall feed his people with Knowledge and Understanding so that they shall milk out and be delighted with the abundance of thy Glory And when you see this you that are full of Fears and Doubts what will become of Zion What will become of the Church of England Your Hearts shall rejoyce and your Bones shall flourish like an Herb for the Hand of the Lord the Power of the Lord will be known towards his Servants and his Indignation towards his Enemies The Nations that know not thy God O Church of England who is the true and the ever-living God will be ashamed and confounded for all their Wisdom their Power and Strength they shall lay their hand upon their Mouth their Ears will be deaf they shall lick the Dust like a Serpent they shall move out of their holes like Worms of the Earth they shall be afraid of the Lord our God and shall fear because of thee O Church of England The Lord will be terrible unto thy Enemies he will famish all the Gods of the Earth that men may worship him every one in his place even all the Isles of the Heathen then the rejoycing City that dwelt carelesly that said in her Heart I am and there is none beside me how will she become a Desolation a place for Beasts to lie down in every one that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his head for the Pope of Rome who is the Whore of Babylon and the Man of Sin will become the Man of Sorrow for the Lord will pour Contempt upon them that have poured Contempt upon his Word and Sacraments as all unbelieving Jews bruitish Atheists wicked bloody and deceitful Papists proud Dissentors and rebellious Sectaries have done But if that they will not learn in these days of the Gospel to be humbled and reformed they will be ashamed and confounded Fear not O Land but be glad and rejoyce for the Lord who is most wise and most strong will do great things for thee O England for thee O London above other Nations for as thou hast had great sorrow and misery so thou wilt have great honour and prosperity The time is come in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain that for thy shame the Lord will give thee double Honour and for Confusion thou shalt greatly Rejoyce everlasting Joy shall be unto thee Thou hast drunken deep of the Cup of Gods Anger but thy Enemies they that hate thee O Church of England will drink the Dregs of it Be glad then ye Children of Zion and rejoyce in the Lord your God for thou shalt be no more tearmed Forsaken for thou shalt forget the shame of thy Youth and shalt not remember the Reproach of thy Widow-hood any more for thy Maker is thine Husband the Lord of Hosts is his Name The Lord thy God in the midst of thee O Church of England is mighty he will save he will rejoyce over thee with Joy he will rest in his Love he will joy over thee with Singing and the Gentiles shall see thy Righteousness and all Kings thy Glory for thou wilt be as a Crown of Glory in the hand of the Lord and as a Royal Diadem in the hand of thy God For as a young man marrieth a Virgin so will thy Sons marry thee and as the Bridegroom rejoyceth over the Bride so will thy God rejoyce over thee Therefore ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence and give him no rest till he establish and till he make Jerusalem the City of London a Praise in the Earth Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion for he hath strengthned the Bars of thy Gates he hath blessed thy Children within thee he maketh peace in thy Borders and filleth thee with the sinest of the Wheat He sheweth his Word unto Jacob his Statutes and his Judgments unto Israel He hath not dealt so with other Nations and as for his Judgments they have not known them Praise ye the Lord that be wise for it is good to sing Praises unto our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely For great is our Lord and of great Power his Understanding is insinite he lifteth up the meek with much ease when they be brought low he casteth the wicked down to the ground when they be so proud as not to know him and so high as not to fear him O that all the Sons and the Daughters of Men in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain would learn to be wise and to know those things that do concern their Everlasting Peace before they go hence and be seen no more for Time flies and Man daily dies there is not an Hour in a Day but many have their Breath taken away All flesh is grass
and as the flower of the field the grass withereth the flower fadeth but the Word of thy God O Church of England shall stand for ever Heaven and Earth will sooner fail than one Tittle of Gods Word Where the Word of a King is there is Power but how much more where the Word of the everliving God is when it is set on by his Spirit which is a Spirit of Power of Might and of Majesty It is a meek and a quiet Spririt an humble and a holy Spirit and it is the highest loftiest and most noblest Spirit it is such a Spirit that it will enable them that will be ruled by it for to attain retain maintain and proclaim that which is most noble excellent and advantageous for the great Honour Peace and Prosperity of a King and Kingdom Let all People in all Nations rejoyce in him that made them let the Children of Zion be joyful in their King The Lord shall Reign for ever even thy God O Church of England unto all Generations therefore praise him all ye Nations let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord Praise him for his mighty Acts who can express the Noble Acts of the Lord they are so many and great Not men or Angels His wondrous Works in the Land of Ham and fearful things by the Red Sea The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works the Lord is great and greatly to be Admired and Adored he is clothed with Honour and Majesty who covereth himself with Light as with a Garment who stretcheth out the Heavens like a Curtain who layeth the Beams of his Chambers in the Waters who maketh the Clouds his Chariot who walketh upon the Wings of the Wind who maketh his Angels Spirits his Ministers a flaming Fire who laid the Foundations of the Earth that it should not be removed for ever the Lord of Hosts is his Name To be much in meditation of him will be sweet to the Soul and health to the Body I will be glad and rejoyce in the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise to him while I have my being for he hath redeemed my Life from Destruction and hath Crowned me with Loving-kindness and tender Mercies who satisfieth my Mouth with good things so that my Youth has been renewed as the Eagles Well may my Soul therefore bless the Lord and all that is within me bless his holy Name Bless the Lord O my Soul and forget not any of his Benefits who forgiveth all thine Iniquities and healeth all thy Diseases The Glory of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord will rejoyce in his Works the Lords Throne is in the Heavens and his Kingdom ruleth over all Therefore bless the Lord ye his Angels that excel in Strength bless ye the Lord all ye his Hosts ye Ministers of his that do his pleasure bless the Lord all ye his Works in all places of his Dominion Is it not in vain for the Church of England for to pray O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us and do not mind and regard when and by whom he will do it by whom can do it when he will so he will do it by whom he will and not when and by whom Wise Strong Rich and Learned-men please the meaner and weaker the Instrument is whom Almighty God doth use the greater is the Sin of them that do him slight under-value and refuse Long may the Church of England look for Peace and meet with Trouble look for Health and meet with Disappointment when she is not careful to mind the Day of her Visitation Shall the Stork in the Heaven know her appointed time and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their coming And shall not the Servants of the Lord understand his Mind so as to endeavour to prevent his Judgments Are they not counted wise-men that have the Law of the Lord with them But are not such wise-men many times dismayed ashamed and taken when they do reject the Word of the Lord and rely upon the Traditions and Inventions of Mens making and framing which are neither agreeable nor suitable to the Word of God which is the Word of Life and of Power What wisdom is in such men then that wisdom which will deceive them Who is so blind as they that should see most and deaf as they that should hear best Is there no Balm in Gilead is there no Physician there Doubtless there is Is not the Lord the Lord Jehovah in whom is Everlasting Strength in Zion Is not her King in her and for her and with her Why then is not the health of the Daughter of Gods people recovered Is there not any that stirs up himself to take hold of the true and everliving God as they ought and should do therefore hath the Lord who is full of Wisdom Power and Strength hid his Face from us And by reason of our many great and grievous Sins we have all been very much afflicted and consumed But where is the man that lays it so to heart as to stand up in the Gap to make up the Hedge so as to turn away Gods Wrath that for a long time has burned like Fire against England Scotland France and Ireland Who can stand before the Lord who is most great and most good when once he is angry doth not the Mountains quake at him and the Hills melt And is not the Earth burnt at his Presence yea the World and all that dwell therein when he pleaseth Therefore the Wicked and all the Workers of Iniquity the Seed of Evil-doers the Children of Disobedience the Enemies of the Gospel and the Protestant Religion will be ashamed confounded and at last destroyed if that they do not in time humble themselves under the hands of the Great and Mighty God who is Possessor and Commander of Heaven the Earth and the Sea and all things that in them be The Righteous shall rejoyce and be glad but the Sinners in Zion in the Church of England will be afraid Fearfulness hath surprized the Hypocrites already Who among the Sons of Men in the Church of England that can dwell with Devouring Fire Who among them can dwell with Everlasting Burnings He that walketh Righteously and worketh Righteousness that speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the Gain of Oppression that slacketh his hands from holding of Bribes that stoppeth his Ears from hearing of Blood and shutteth his Eyes from seeing of Evil he shall dwell on high his place of Defence shall be the Munitions of Rocks in time of Famine he will be fed Bread shall be given him his Waters shall be sure he shall see the King in his Beauty he will behold the Land that is very far off But what will become of them that serve graven Images and boast themselves of Idols they will be ashamed and confounded in these Days of the Gospel if that they do not
loth and forsake them In these Days of the Gospel the Lord who is most great and most good most wise and most strong is very angry and has been for a long time with this Generation but most of all with the Ministers of the Gospel throughout the whole Nation for not minding and regarding who hath believed their Report and to whom the Arm of the Lord is revealed for his Arm is very long and very strong and that his Enemies the Workers of Iniquity will know in these Days of the Gospel to their great shame and overthrow Ought not the Ministers of the Gospel to mind what they sow in weakness in whom the Great and the Mighty God doth raise in Power or else they do but undervalue their own Labours and encourage their Adversaries who labour to undermine and overthrow the Protestant Religion His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England What have the Ministers of the Gospel to mind Who ought they to mind more than that man whom the Lord of Hosts has made strong for himself and his Anointed when that too many have made themselves strong in Parts against him and our Royal Soveraign His Majâ—sty of Great Britain But what will they get but shame and confusion for they will be brought down and that with a witness Though it is not in the power of the Ministers of the Gospel to beget so Renowned a Grace as precious Faith where it is not yet ought it to be their great Care to countenance incourage and take notice of that person in whom it is wrought because it is such a spark that it will in time break forth into a slame for the Glory of Gods great Name and to put the Enemies of the Gospel to shame It is high and honourable Work that the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up for to make known his Mind for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind And I have endeavoured to deny my self to overcome my self and to lay out my self in so noble a Design I have ventur'd my Life endangered my Liberty and have exposed my self to many Losses Crosses and Reproaches to be blam'd sham'd and condemn'd by many men But I had rather be condemn'd for doing well though I do it not so well as I should do by the Sons of Men than to be condemn'd by the God of Heaven for not making known his Mind as well as I can do The Lord is merciful and will pass by many Weaknesses and Infirmities of his Children but he is just and righteous and will punish severely them that be rebellious and disobedient They that know their Lords will and do it not will have stripes enough for though the Lord be slow to anger yet is he great in Power They that do slight and under-value me it is not so much me as they do the Wisdom and the Power of the Almighty who works with me and in me and for me for the Glory of his great Name for the Credit of his holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain above all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World which will bring great Joy and Triumph to the Church of England and great Peace and Prosperity to many Kingdoms which will be brought about in these days of the Gospel in spight of the Turk the Pope and the Divel and all the Workers of Evil. It is the Power of Faith which is the Power of God that doth set a-work the Powers of the Soul and the Powers of the Soul set a-work by the Powers of Heaven will be inabled to prepare high and honourable Work pleasant prositable and delightsom Work victorious glorious and crowning Work to be managed by the Powers of the World for the Glory of the most High and the great Honour and Renown of Englands Royal Majesty That all Strife Contention and Wars throughout the whole World may cease that so among all People in all Nations there may be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace The Religion of the Church of Rome must not be Countenanced Encouraged or Tolerated among the Sons of Men in any Nation City Town or Corporation under the Canopy of Heaven because it is a Religion full of Deceit and throughout the whole World the greatest Cheat It is a Religion that is an Idle Fowl that doth at once pick the Purse and damn the Soul It is a Religion managed with all the Crafts of the World the Flesh and the Devil therefore it is a Religion full of Pride Vain glory Hypocrisie and Treachery It is a wicked Religion because it makes them that Conform to it to be seven-sold more the Children of the Devil than they were by Nature All the Sons and the Daughters of Men are bad by Nature but the Religion of the Church of Rome makes Men worse by Practice But God so loved the World that he has sent the Gospel of his Son which is taught in the Church of England that Men might be turned from a state of Nature into a state of Grace and from the power of Sin and Satan into the Glorious Liberty of his Children which is to injoy Power against Sin and Victory over the World the Flesh and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil. But the Religion of the Church of Rome makes her Children Servants to Sin Slaves to the World and the Devil and Enemies to their own Souls and so being hardned in Sin by Custom and Practice they are not afraid nor ashamed to Combine and Design from time to time to undermine and overthrow the Protestant Religion His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England But for ever blessed and praised be the God of Heaven who to Admiration from time to time has watched over this Nation that it has not by unreasonable bloody and deceitful Men been brought to Desolation but no thanks be to them that have made a Separation for they have done what they can to put a Sword into our Enemies hand By their Pride and Contention Sedition and Rebellion many have turned Atheists and Papists so that the Church of Rome has been strengthned and encouraged from our Selves Ever since the Church of Rome has made Shipwrack of Faith and of a good Conscience and has preferred their Traditions Inventions and lying Wonders above Gods Commandments which is the Rule of Faith and Manners their Religion has been an abominable Reproach unto Christ and his Gospel They do profess Christ but they do deny him because they will not be ruled by his Word nor have him rule in them by his Spirit They do mock Christ in their Sacraments and persecute him in his Members so that the Religion of the Church of Rome is a bloody Religion upheld by Tyranny and Oppression The Blood that the Church of Rome has caused to be shed in the World from time to time by