place for us and then both he and the father will come and make their abode with us for he is ascended to his father and our father to his God and our God untill his enemies be made his footstool by the father For as the Father hath life in himself so hath he given to the son to have the spirit of life in himself and hath given him Authority to execute Judgement also for the Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son And as he liveth not of or by himself but by the father so do all the elect live by him the Christ and shall live for ever in glory with Christ and addresse all Glory and prayse unto the father by Christ Jesus in that world of glory which shall be without end For none can come to the Son except the father draw him that is as I conceive none but such as are predestinated by him to glory and their names written in the book of life having the fathers work or Spirit of truth and life in them by which they are drawn or alotted to Christ and given to him by the father Even that one God and Father of all who is above all and in all â—or saith Christ the father is greater then all therefore Greater then he who after God the fatherâ— likeness Power and Glory is by him created righteousness and trute holiness and being created or made perfect or perfection it self he thus became the author of eternall Salvation and glory to all them that believe and obey him or his will But Belzebub is created Darkness unrighteousness wickâ—dness evil vanity unholiness destruction or the destroyer hel and perdition and to him are given or allotted the reprobate men of this world of darkness orchildren of perdition and disobedience called vessells of dishonour who are predestinated by the father to dwell in a darke and a drieâ— land with the destroyer and all his angells or spirits of darkness for ever But the children of the world to come being vessells of honour life light and glory Christ are prâ—destinated by the father to dwell in the land of righteousness life light and glory the inheritance and land of glory which the father hath alotted to the Prince of Glory light and life Christ Jesus and so is it called The lot of his inheritance where they shall walk before God the father and shall be led and guided in and by this sacred light of the living which is Christ the Lord who is now in us the hope of this glory to be enjoyed in the land of life or the living in due time where God the Father shall be exalted above the Heavens and his Glory Christ upon all the earth whom he hath made or ordained to be the head of all Principalities and powers in heavenly places even of all spirits of light and spirits of darkness Called of God the Father an high Priest being the ordained righteousness of God unto salvation Who by the Father is created after the power of an endles life and to save them that come to God the Father Therefoe is he stiled The God of salvation to whom belong the Issues from death Being the Ordained Resurrection and the life and the image or visible personall presence of the invisible and incomprehensible God the Father the first Created or born of every creature Who being the beginning hath in all things the preheminence for he is before al things for it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness of Power Maiestie and Glory dwell for all power is given unto him by the Father both in heaven and earth who hath predestinated to reconcile all things unto himself by Jesus Christ for the councell of peace is and shall be for ever between them both even between Father and Son Christ who of God the Father is made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption For Christ hath not thus glorified himself but he the Father that said unto him thou art my Son this day have I begotten or created thee hath glorified him in whom he is well pleased and appointed him for the work of mercy and eternall being to the creature in light and glory and thus is he made by the Father heir apparent of all things in and by whom man is come and admitted to the knowledge of this great incomprehensible God the Father to salvation For the time was that the wotld by this sacred wisdom Christ knâ—w not God the Father For in this God of salvation Christ Jesus dwelleth the fulness of the Godhead Father and holy spirit personally or bodily Who is the beginning Prince or head of and over all Principalities and Powers Being the blessed Prince and only ordained King and Lord and Immortality dwelling in the Incomprehensible light of God the Father that none can attain to the knowledge of whom no man did ever see nor can see For him hath God the Father sealed or determined for the work of mercy and glory to the Creature and in him he delighteth in whom the fullness of his power and spirit dwelleth Bodily or in and by whose personall presence the omnipotent power of God the Father and holy spirit of God is represented and manifested unto us in all fullness according to the creatures meted out or alotted Capacity Who is the beginning of the creation of God for in this sacred beginning the anoynted God of salvation God the Father created or decreed the heavens and the earth and by which sacred beginning all things were made into externall visible shape and being And God the Father who commanded the light of glory Christ to shine out or from the darkness Bâ—lzebub hath now shined into our hearts the light even the knowledge of the Glory of God the Father in the face or by the personall visible apprehensive presence of Jesus Christ For this sacred light Christ hath no communion or agreement with darkness Beelzebub neither shall Iniquity Beelzebub possess the just but the wicked are or shall be full of evil or the spirit of Beelzebub And yet all things are of God the Father who hath reconciled us and all the elect of God in Christ unto himself by this sacred light Christ Jesus That we might be made Righteous to God in him according to the measure of the gift of Christ But there is not in every man that knowledge for before him there is no God created neither shall there be after him for he is the Lord the God of mercy and Salvation for God the Father hath given him for a covenant to the people for a light to the Gentiles For to us the elect in Christ there is but one God the Father of whom are all things created and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ the ordained God of salvation by whom are all things made
a shepherd goeth before his floâ—k SECT XVIII ANd then one King shall be King over them all even David and they shall have one shepherd Christ for my Tabernacle shall be with them yea I the Lord will be their God For I am the Resurection and the life and blessed are they that have their part in the first resurrection Even the Resurrection of the Just for they that have done good shall come forth unto the Resurrection of life and they that have done evil or the works of the divel shall come forth unto or not until the Resurrection of Damnation death eternal or day of Judgement for the Righteous shall not come into condemnation or Judgement but are passed or passe here from this temporal death to life being the children of the Resurrection Christ and were reconciled to Christ before their departure out of this life For as the Tree here falleth so it lyeth SECT. XIX FOr know ye not that the Saints shall Judge the world or the dead men of this world who have their portion in this life where they have and do receive their Consolation and Glory But the Saints shall Reigne with Christ a thousand years before the day of Judgement or Resurrection of the damned for all that time the wicked shall be silent in darkness they shall not live they shall not rise the foolish shall not stand before thine eyes But thy dead or the dead in Christ shall live with this my body shall they arise yea they shall shout for joy But the unbeleeving shall not see life or Christ the Prince of life in his Glory because the Wrath of God death and hell abideth on them till the day of Judgement for after the Sabbattical thousand years Reigne then the Trump shall blow And the Dead shall be Raised and brought to Judgement and then shall the last Enemy called divel death hell and darkness be put under his feet by the Father and shall then be cast into the bottomless pit of horror and perpetuall darkness Yea all the wicked shall be gathered out of all parts of the world and brought into the Land of Palestina for they must be judged in the same land where the first Adam was Created and Transgressed and the second Adam Christ Jesus was Renounced Denied Judged Tormented and Crucified even in the land of Israel s nativity in the very Valley of Jeâ—osapâ—a being in the land of Palestina Eden Paradise the Mount of God the Garden of God c. SECT. XX THen shall they say This Land that was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden for then the Mountains shall drop sweet wine they the Saints shall not hunger nor thirst but they shall feed in the ways and he that hath mercy on them shall lead them and guide them by the springâ— of waters and I will make all my mountaines a way for them And I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and they shall plant Vinyards and drink the wine thereof and make gardens and eat the fruit thereof and I will plant them upon their own land they shall no more be pulled or taken out of their Land For the righteous shall inherit the land then and dwell therein for ever and they shall eat and drink at Christ's table in his kingdome of glory SECT. XXI THen shall five Cities of the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan and Ethiopia shall also stretch forth her hands unto the Lord-God of Israel In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and Assria even a blessing in the middest of the land from the River of Egypt to the River Euphrates Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless saying â—lessed be Egypt my people and Assiria the work of mine hands and Israel mine Inheritance their eyes shall then see the King in his glory because Egypt and Assâ—ria shâ—wed favour to Israel and Judah in time before and Ethiophia's Queen came to hear the wisdome of Solâ—mâ—n and after that they sought afâ—er Christ saying Where is he thâ—t is born King of the Jews and had the favour above all other Nations in the world to see aâ—d know his Star and were directed by it to the place of his birth Bethlehem And then the Mountains of Israel shall bring forth their fruit to the people of Israel for they are at hand to come for he shall say to his Angels Gather my Saints together those that have made a Covenant with me by Sacrifice even Israel and Judah and they shall come from the East and from the West and from the North and from the South and shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God to whom the land was given and the land shall be then digged and sown and Israel shall be multiplied upon it and the Cities shall be built and Inhabited by Man and Beasts and they shall be setled after their old Estate yea I will do better unto you then at your beginning yea I will cause my people Israel to walk upon thee O Land and thou shalt be their Inheritance and shalt bereave them of meâ— no more Therefore thou Land of Palestina that hast devoured men and bereaved the Nation Israel and Judah shalt devour men no more neither bereave the Nations any more saith the Lord God For unto the Angels of darkness hath he not put in subjection the world of eternall Glory to come even that everlasting world that shal be without end But this world of sin which was and is given to darkness is and ever hath bin in subjection unto Lucifer the Divel and his angels of darkness but this evil the divel shall not then dwell with goodness light and glory Christ Jesus and Israel shall then fill the face of the world of Glory with fruit when he hath raised them and brought them into his vinyard for there will he give them his land even upon the Mountains of spices SECT. XXII ANd when Israel and Judah shall be gathered out of all Countries and thus brought to their own land then shall they be cleansed from all their filthiness and a new heart and a new spirit will the Lord give them and they shall dwell in the Land which he gave to their fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob who as yet have had no inheritance in it no not to set their foot upon it but died in faith not having received the promises but seeing them a far off imbraced them and confessed that they were strangers and Pilgrimes on the earth desiring a better even a heavenly durable glorious and everlasting countrey and inheritance given to them of God by promise of which Countrey God is not ashamed to be called their God SECT. XXIII ANd he hath also prepared for them a City where we shall be all fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God a City which hath
shall roar and lay hold of the prey and shall carry it away safe and none shall deliver it as it was at their coming out of Egypt yea they shall mount like Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint Then the sinners in Zion shal be afraid fear shal take hold on the now inhabitants of Palestina because of the Lord God Christ who also will then plead with his people in the wilderness of their own land face to face like as he pleaded with their forefathers in the wilderness of the Land of Egypt thus will he cause them to pass under the Rod and then will he bring them into the bond of the Covenant made with Abraham Isaac and â—acob and then will he speak comfortably to them and they shall then enjoy their vineyards as in the dayes of their coming out of the land of Eâ—â—â—p so will he shew unto them marvelious things SECT. XXVIII THen shall the great River Euphrates be dried up in the seven streams thereof and the Egyptian Sea utterly destroyed that the way of the Kings of the East the leaders of Israel may be prepared even of the seven shepherds and eight principal Leaders that they and all the people of Israel may go over dry-shod as when they came out of Egypt and then will he raise unto Israel Sâ—viours called Kings such as Ioshuah for Leaders even Abraham Isaac and Iacob Hesea Amoâ— Micha Ioâ—l Obadiah Ionah Nahum Habbakuk Zâ—phany Haggaiah Zacharâ—ah and Malachy For these fifteen Saviours Kings or Leaders shall come on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esâ—â— or Kingdom of Edom Gog and Magâ—g who are hated of Christ for they shall put all the wicked to shame because God hath despised them therefore shall they never see the light Christ Jesus in his Glory then the Kingdom shall be the Lords when he bringeth back the Captivity of his people then Jacob or Iudah shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad when the Lord God of Israel Christ Jesus shall appeare in his glory even in the glory of God the Father which is and shall be in the face and presence of Jesus Christ being that individual glory which he had with the Father before the world was made by him For it pleased the father that in him should all the fulness of his glory dwell even in that measure of unexpressible transcendent glory which the sacred Excellenâ— glory and incomprehensible Maiesty the Father hath pâ—edetermined from all eternity to be from him by Christ the God of mercy conferred upon the Creature accordiâ—g to the Creatures meted out capacity or predetermined Capabillity then to be conferred on him by the inviâ—ible and incomprehensible Majesty of God the Father whicâ— shall be a fulness of joy exceeding glory and unexpressâ—ble pleasures in the Kingdome of glory for evermore SECT. XXIX ANd this excellent eternal life joy and glory is to be manifested to the creature and conferred on them in and by his beloved Son Christ Jesus the visible God of Salvation and in whom the invisible Godhead dwelleth bodily And thus is he the true Image of the most high invisible God the Father and also his sacred comprehensible glorious presence in the lot of his inheritance Palestina The holy land The hill of the Lord The holy place The Mounâ—Zion The glorious world to come given unto him by the most high God and Father of all Spirits being the Excellent Glory To whose excellency and incomprehensibleness of most glorious being man's comprehensible and limited capacity cannot attain or reach unto no more then to pourtray a true shape to a voyce to the winde or to hold the Sea in his hand for no man hath ever heard the Fathers voyce at any time nor never seen his shape Therefore what person shape or voyce can the limited frail fancy or wit of man prescribe devise imagine or attribute to this most High most Sacred most Mighty most Excellent and most Incomprehensible Unrevealed Deity and primary Fountain and Cause of all Being whom they never saw nor heard at any time So that it is very plain and most true that Christ Jesus onely and alone being the beloved and from all eternity the anointed visible God of Salvation light and eternal glory is the onely and alone true representative capable apprehensive visible personal presence of the Invisible Un-apprehensive and Incomprehensible Father and holy Spirit of God The beginning of the Creation of God the Father SECT. XXX FOr this God of salvation the Lord of life and glory Christ Jesus will yet chuse Zion the place where his Congregation hath dwelt and wherein he hath dwelt and will set Israel in their own land and the strangers or Gentiles shall joyn themselves unto them and cleave to the house of Jacob or Judah saying we will goe with you for we have heard that God is with you and the people shall take them and bring them to their place or land and the house of Israel shall possess them In the land of the Lord for servants and handmaides for Salvation is of the Jews to whom pertaineth the adoption and the Glory and the Covenants and the Promises of eternal blessedness whose are the Fathers to whom the promises were made and of whom concerning the â—lesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever of or by the Father SECT. XXXI THen shall this world of sin and grace be dâ—stroyed by fire as the firstworld of sin was by water wherein it repeâ—ted the Lord Christ that ever he made man but the third world of grace and eternall Glory shall continue for ever then shall they say now is Salvation and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ the God of salvation The voyce of the beloved behold he commeth leaping upon the mountaines skipping upon the hills travelling in the greatnes of his strength for lo the winter of affliction and misery is past the Raine or stormes of persecution is over and gone and the flowers of glory and eternall excellency appear on the earth and the time of singing of birds of Paradice or Saints is come and the Glorious voyce of the Turtle Dove Christ Jesus is heard in our Land of Palestina saith Solomon coming from Edom from Bozra the chiefe City of Edom Glorious in his apparel travelling in the greatness of his strength nughty to save SECT. XXXII FOr the hastning of which sacred Kingdom of glory he the Lord hath taught us to pray continually saying Thy Kingdom come and thy will be done on Earth as it is now in heaven and by faith to acknowledge and beleeve that his is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever For then in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen saith Abraham even in Mount Zion the Transcendent Glory and Excellent perpetuity of being And
of love Christ Jesus according to the commandment of Jesus Christ who hath called us unto his Kingdom and Glory even the glory which he had with the father before the world was when he shall come in his glory For the time of this his glorious appearing is at hand to the eternall comfort and unexpressible joy of all the Saints of God but to the unsupportable horror dread and eternall confusion of all the dead men of this world or men of death Children of death hell and darkness called Sathan For God hath made all things for himself even the wicked for the day of wrath Evill Darkness judgement Death eternal to whom it is not given to know the truth nor the mysteries of his Kingdom of glory and joyes eternal to be there enjoyed by the Saints for ever And know this also that whatsoever things were written afore time were written for our learning that wee through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope of eternal life and Glory in the world to come Therefore pray that the light or spirit that is in you may not be of the darkness but of the true light Christ Jesus which inlighteneth every man unto Salvation whom God his God hath anoynted with the oyle of gladness above his fellowes even aboue all Spirits that so by that sacred Primary spirit of truth and light Christ Jesus whom God the father hath appointed heire of all things by whom also he made the world and who by him the father was sent in the flesh to be a light to us gentiles but shall be the glory yea a King of eternall glory to his people Israel ye may be inabled to hear his voyce and to be raised from the dead at his appearing in glory with all his saints But the rest of the dead shall not rise or live for they only that are his possessed by his spirit of life shall hear his voyce verily verily I say unto you the hour is coming when the dead shall hear the voyce of the son of God and they that hear his voyce shall live But they that hear not his voyce being the children of death shall still remaine in the bonds of death and hell for they are dead they shall not rise yea they shall not live at the resurrection of the just they shall not awake nor be raised out of their graves till the thousand years of rest and glory be fulfilled but they shall be gathered into one pit and shut up in the prison of the grave and after the thousand years or many days shall they be visited For the dead in Christ shall rise first even they that are Christs at his coming for thy dead men Christ Jesus shal live with my body shall they rise yea they which shall be accounted worthy of the worldtand tha resurrection from the dead are or shall be equall to the Angels of light and are the children of God being the children of the resurrection Christ Jesus who is the resurection and the life neither can they dy any more death hath no more dominion over them O therefore love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the constant doer be of good courage therefore for he shall strengthen your hearts all ye that trust in the Lord Now if this plain demonstration of the truth of Christs glorious personal reigne on the earth among his Saints in the land of Glory which God the Father hath ordained before the world unto our glorie that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God be still hid it is hid to them whose mindes are blinded by the God of this world the Divell that they should not see nor apprehend the excellency of the eternal Glorious being ordained of God for us before the world was even eternal life and glory unexpressible in the land of the living But God doth reveale them to his poor servants by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God that we might know the excellency and become partakers of the Majestie and unexpressible glory of Christ in the glorious world to come at the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the King of eternall life Light and Glory seen of all his Prophets who hath built an everlasting foundation with men and shall continue with their Seed And who also is by God the Father given for a covenant to the people to establish the earth even he the beloved who is ascended to his Father and our Father to his God and our God for thus saith the Lord I am Alpha and Omega which is which was and is to come The Almighty him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God the new Jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from my God Hear therefore O Israel or Elect the Lord thy God is one Lord For to us the Saints there is but one God even the Father of whom are all things even spirit of light and spirits of darkness and we in him and one Lord Jeâ—us Christ by whom are all things formed and made into externall viâ—ible shape and being and we by him by whom he the Father made the world that is decreed what this present world of darkness should be and what the glory of the world to come should be For known unto God the father or determined are all his works by in and from the or this sacred beginning Christ Jesus Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge for the Councell of peace shall be between them both even between Father and Son of the most high God the light of Israel and his holy one or beloved one by whom he hath given unto us eternal life and this life is in his son and when he shall appear the second time unto salvation we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and live ever in his sight even in the presence of his son Christ Jesus the true God and eternall life who is over all God blessed for ever of the Father For our life or eternal being is hid with Christ in God the Farher but when Christ which is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in his glory For He that is Elect and his name writen in the book of life or secret decree of the most high God the Father shall ever abide under the shaddow and guidance of the almighty Lord the ordained God of Salvation Christ Jesus and to whom belong the Issues of death he being the ordained resurrection and the life of eternall rest and glory to the Creature for he is gone up to prepare a
into an externall shape and being and we by him even by Jesus Christ the Son of the most high God the Father the Portion of Jacob or of the Elect the former and maker of all things for God the Father decreed the earth to be made by this his sacred power Established the world by this his sacred wisdom and stretched out the heaven by his sacred understanding the Lord of Hostes is his name the God of Israel the God of all flesh who hath made the â—arth the man and beast the portion of Iacob Christ is the former of all things the Lord of hosts is his name Thou art the Lord the God who didest choose Abraham Thou ledst them in the day by a cloud and in the night by a pillar of fire thou camest down upon mount Zion and spakest with them face to face For they saw him the God of Israel and the Lord even the God of Israel spake to Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend yea Iacob did see this God of Israel or of the elect face to face who testifieth of himself saying and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God even the God of Israel he is the God of Salvation he hath made us And the world was also made by him the Word of God And unto the God of Christ belong the Issues from death being the ordained resurrection and the life and so is he God over all blessed for ever Being the God of hope even to the elect the hope of glory in eternal life In the true Image of him that created him Christ the power of God the wisdom of God Righteousness and true holiness yea the beauty of Holiness and glorious in holiness Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance for they shall rejoyce for ever in the Lord God of their salvation happy are the people whose God is the Lord for he shall govern the nations upon the earth He shall say to the prisoners and them that are in darkness goe forth and shew your selves For God the Father his God hath anoynted him with the oyle of gladness eternal light life and glory above his sellowe seven above all spirits what ever For God the Father is the head of Christ even as man is the head of woman and hath ordained him to be the Prince of life The beginning the light the day the Person the Presence the face the Angel the Name the truth the goodness the power of God the Father unto Salvation the Prince of peace and love whose nature and property is even to have mercy to forgive and to preserve For he the Lord God is the preserver of Isracl yea the preserver of men The God of Salvation The Christ of God the Father for the worke of mercy and glory But darkness the divel is the Prince of death and destruction the destroyer the hater of man the roaring Lyon the raging power evil wickedness the merciless enemy the unrighteousness the night The wrath of God the star of the morning or the star darkness separated from the morning star or bright star of righteousness light and glory Christ Jesus the anoynted God of salvation whom God the Father hath appointed heir of all things and by whom he made the worlds being the word and voice of God the Father the visible brighâ—ness of his Fathers glory and his expresse Image in his person for he that hath seen him hath seen the Father or the Fathers power to salvation for he upholdeth all things by the sacred power Who is made heir of all things and hath obtained a more excellent name then all other spirits what ever for the name of the Father the Lord God Ichovah the God of salvation is in him Who said I will be to him a Father and he to me a Son yea this day have I begotten thee For before the naturall day was in being he was brought forth yea before the earth was formed For according to the Fathers decree The foundations of the earth were lay'd in or by this sacred beginning yea the heavens are the work of his hand For it pleased the Father for whom are all things and of whom are all things in bringing many Sons unto glory to make the Captain or Prince of their salvation Christ perfect glorious in holiness yea the beauty of holiness fearfull in praises doing wonders For he that sanctiâ—ieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he the Christ is not ashamed to call them brethren for of him and through him and to him are all things For he being the Resurrection and the life in him we live and move and have our being being created by God the Father in Christ Jesus who is the Beginning the day the life the light and glory Therefore are the Children of the light no more in bondage to darkness Hell and death the divel being redeemed by the light Jesus they are all become the Children of the light and Children of the day for God the Father hath not appointed or determined them unto or for wrath the divel but to obtaine or enjoy salvation in glory in and by Jesus Christ where we shall all live together with him who is the Christ of God the Father by whom all things were made to the glory of God the Father according to the eternal purpose of the Father which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord that so unto Principalities and powers of darkness in heavenly places might now be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God the Father Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named That is the spirits of life in all things named appointed and disposed of to their severall functions and conditions of being by him who after God is created in righteousness and true holiness by that one God and Father of all who is above all through all and in all and by whom is given or conferred on the elect grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ whose name is the Lord of Hostes the God of Israel or elect who shall be Glorious in the sight of God the Father and this his God shall be his strength and he shal be his servant to raise up the tribes of Iacob and to restore the preserved of Israel And to be a light to us Gentiles and the Fathers Instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth And by the Covenant to establish the earth that he may say to the Prisoners of death go forth and shew your selves when he shall put his spirit of life into them and the shall live For in the Lord Christ shall all the seed of Israel be Justified and shall glory for he shall be exalted and be very high For
before him there was no God created neither shall there be after him He is the Lord and besides him there is no Saviour For the Father is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ The Father is greater then all yea greater then he if we know these things happy are we for this is life eternal to know God the Father aright and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent whose being in the Father and the Father in him thought it no robbery to be one with him because the fulness of the Fathers spirit Power presence and Name God is in him and so the Father is glorified in the same Thus he and the Father are one because the Father acteth nothing for the worke of mercy and glory to the Creature but in and by Christ his beloved Son the ordained God of salvation life light and eternall glory the Lord God merciful and gracious the God of Israel For the most high incomprehensible God the Father is said to be the husbandman and the Lord God Christ Jesus the God of salvation is the true fruitful pleasant vine in whom God the Father delighteth and all the elect saints by calling are the branches of this sacred vine the Christ of God the Father For there is none so holy as the Lord neither is there any Rock like our God for God the Father hath blessed him for ever Therefore O Israel or elect fear this Glorious and fearful name The Lord the God Christ Jesus whose glory is great Dignity and Honour hath the Father laid upon him and hath made him most blessed for ever And through the favour of the most high God the Father he shall not be moved for Jehovah is the most high God for evermore Who governeth all things by his mercy Christ through and by whom all addresses must be made to the most high God the Father and by and with whom eternal life in glory is conferred on the creature and therâ—fore is he stiled the way the truth and the life the glory of God For he that hath seen Christ the God oâ— salvation hath seen the personal visible active powerful presence of God the Father and holy Spirit yea the word and work of the Father the first begotten of every creature who hath Power given to him by the Father over all flesh that he should give eternall life in glory to as many as the Father hath given him And thus is he God over all blessed for ever or for eternall being in glory with his Saints the elect in whom or in whose personal visible presence the God-head dwelleth bodily even in him whom the Father sent into the world to save sinners as he himself saith that they may be one as we are even as thou O Father arâ— in me and I in thee that they may be one in us as we are for we speak that which we know and testify that we have seen and ye receive not our testimony even the Father and Sons we will come and make our abode with him for man is become like one of us like the Image of God Christ for Christ is the Image of God the Father yea the spirit or Angell of his presence The face of God the Father the image person presence or likeness of the great Invisible God the Father who is the light that none can approch unto whom no man can see who only hath loved the Son as the Son loveth his Saints and hath ordained them to be partakers of his glory according to the predestinate decree of God his Father who created him Christ Wisdom counsell understanding strength Lâ—ve mercy Righteousness yea he God the Father possessed him in the beginning of his way before his works had any being he was brought forth by the Father and was his delight rejoycing alwayes before him He is the Lord God of salvation and besides him there is no Saviour for he is the ordained life and peace to the elect saints that love him But all they that hate him love death Beelzebub Luciâ—er Sathan darkness the ordnaied God of Damnation called the destroyer but the God of the elect to Glory is the God of salvation even the Lord our righteousness the ordained God of salvation by the Father who hath crowned him with glory and honour and hath so decreed that he the Christ shall sit on his right hand of power until he make his enemies his foot-stool For thus saith God the Father the redeemer of Israel by Jesus Christ and his holy one or of this his holy one Jesus Art thou lighter then that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob or Judah and to restore the dissolutions of Israel to establish the earth for ever that thou mayest be my glorious Instrument of Salvation to the ends of the earth Even to confirm the promises made unto the Fathers for God the Father shall give unto him the throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever because God the Father his God hath anoynted or appointed him for that work of mercy and glory to the creature above all other spirits whatsoever yet this sacred servant is not greatet then his Master neither is he the ambassador that is sent by the Father greater then he that sent him and ordained him the lâ—fe therefore because he is life We the elect shall live also for ever with him in Glory for he shall bruise Sathan shortly under our feet for the Father hath put all things under our feet even all Principalities and powers in heavenly places therefore it is most clear and manifest that he the Father is excepted which haâ—h put all things under him And when all things are subdued unto him then shall he himself also be subject unto God the Father that put all things under him and then shall wee know that he is in the Father and we in him and he in us for the Father is as the husbandman Christ is as the vine and the elect are the fruitful branches of that vine therefore let us wait for this his Son from heaven by whom he the Father hath called or Elected us unto his Kingdom of glory But that was not first which is spiritual or eternall but that which is naturall temporall or fading and as is the earth Adam such are they in the Fathers decree all that are earthly as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly or eternall and as we have born the image of the earthly or temporal Adam so shall the elect also bear the Image of the heavenly or spirituall Adam Christ which is eternall For as many as the Father hath given or alotted to Christ he hath lost none of them neither can they be lest because they are spirits of light decreed by the Father for glory who changeth not from his
For since the beginning of this world ear hath not heard nor eye seen what is prepared for them that love him the obedient and beloved Son Righteouâ—â—eâ—s and are made to wait for Christ his appearing in glory whom God the Father hath exalted highly above all and hath given him a name above every name In whom the father created or decreed all things and by whom all things were made into external shape and being according to the fathers decree or production of spiriâ—s in this sacred beginning Christ who is the beginniâ—g of the creation of God the father the first created oâ— every creature to be the immediate image or visible personal presence of the father Incompreâ—enâ—ible Who is the God of â—ur Lord Jesus Christ who hath made or decreed that same Jesus both Lord and Châ—ist saying by Jeremy This is his name whereby he shall be called and known The Lord our rigâ— hteousness the God of Salvation the ordained Judge of quick and dead Even the power of God unto salvation to reign in and among the elect 〈◊〉 oâ— unto eternall life For the gift of God the Father to all the elect is eternall life in glory through and by Jesus Christ whom he hath made both Lord and Christ yea The only true God of salvation the living God or God of life and everlasting King of glory who proceede h from the father everlasting for him hayh God the Father sealed or decreed for the work of mercy and glory to the creature and conferred by the God of the Prince of Peace and Father of this our Lord Jesus Christ on the elect Sainâ—s who shall be inhabitants of the everlasting Kingdom For the Kingdoms of the world shall be the Kingdom of our great incomprehensible God the father and of his Christ and â—e the Lord God of salvation shall reigne over the Saints in Mount Zion for ever O who can think upon these things worâ—â—â—y Or know the waies of the most â—hgh God and father of all and his power Christ Whose incorruptible Spirit is in all things for he is the â—oye of â—ouâ—s and by whom the heavens and all things were made into external visible form and being O therefore who can truly think what this our Lord God of salvation is much less to comprehend the infinite Majesty of God the father and Creator of all Spirits of light and Spirits of darkness who loveth none but this sacred Spirit of Wisdom Light and Glory and all his Saints For God his God hath anointed him the Emanuel with the oyl of gladness above his fellows above all Spirits and hath made him most blessed for ever Honour and Majesty hath he laid upon him and through the mercy of the most High shall he not be moved who hath given him Power over all Flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as he the Father hath given him Who of his own Will begot the Creatures with the Word of Truth Christ Jesus and thus is he 〈…〉 Beginning of the Creation of God The Word of God The King of kings and Lord of lords The God of Isrâ—el or Elect whose glorious coming is at hand Even so come Lord Jesus the Beauty of Holiness the Christ of the most high God the Father ordained by him to be the God of our salvation and the power of â—od â—o eternal life and glory determined for the creature for this life eternal is in his Son and his Name is in him The Lord Jehovah the Truth the Light the Life the Begining of the works of the most High God and Father of all Spirits who is above all and by his holy Spirit worketh through and in all being the Invisible or only wise God or God of wisdom Christ whom no man hath ever seen nor can see for no man hath seen God the Father at any time nor ever heard his voice by whom all things invisible were created in Christ Jesus the Beginning that are in heaven and earth but only as he hath been pleased to manifest himself to the creature in and by his Name Face Presence Power Wisdom and Love Christ the visible God of salvation the Lord God of the elect with whom Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Joshua the 70. Elders and all the Prophets talked face to face and mouth to mouth as one friend talketh with another even with the Lords anoynted the Lord God of Israel merciful and gracious whose Nature and Property is Mercy and Love by whom the whole family of Heaven and earth is named and to whom all power is given from the Father both in Heaven and Earth who is the Image Face and Presence of the great invisible God the Father and in whom the invisible and incomprehensible God-head dwelleth personally bodily or representatively who of God the Father is made unto us creatures wisdom righteousness sanctification and Redemption Who also is the blessed Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of lords and who only hath immortality dweling in the light the Father which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see even the Christ the Power of God the Wisdom of God the beginning of the Creation of God in whom all things were created by the Father the God of all Spirits For to us there is but one God of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ the God of Israel or Elect by whom are all things made and we by him who is the Lord God former and maker of all things being the express visible likeness or Image Face Presence Hand and active Power of the Invisible God the Father for the work of mercy salvation and glory to the creaturâ— whose excellency of being is in no manner revealed to the Sons of men other then in and by his comprehensible beloved Son and heir of all things The visible God Christ Jesus The Lord the life and hope of glory of and by whom we shall receive the reward of the inheritance even eternal life For the Father being the author and produce of all Spirits even of light and darkness from himself his glory must needs be far ecxeeding theirs who is pleased in special to delight love and dwell in Emanuel the Anoynted or Ordained God of love and Salvation light and eternall glory by whom he made the worlds and by whom all things were made yea all things were made by him and he is before all things excepting him the Father that hath made him Lord of all things and hath put all things under him to whom all power is given from the Father both in heaven and earth who is the beginning of the workes of God the first begotten of every creature O Lord our God the God of salvation thou hast made al these things the Lord of hosts is his name Behold I the Lord
A PACKET OF NEWES Yea True and Faithful News of ISRAELS and JUDAHS Call AND Of the Manner Place and Time of Christs Coming and reign in glory among his Saints upon the Earth As also Judahs Past with Englands Present Miseries Parallel'd With sundry other Particulars very profitable and necessary for Christians of all Degrees to know the Mysteries of God Collected out of the Scriptures this 22. of the 11th moneth corruptly called January 1647. for the benefit of all but chiefly for such who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness Err in Vision and stumble in Judgement By JAMES FRESE Merchant Ps. 96. 10. and 104. 5. Eccles. 1. 4. 1 Chron. 16. 30. The World shall be Established that it shall not be moved for ever Eze. 43. 7. Even the place of the soals of my feet where I will dwell for ever Zach. 2. 12. For the Lord shall inherite Iudah in the holy land and chuse Ierusalem again Ier. 31. 6. 8. And then shall they say Arise Let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God Zac. 8. 7 8 23. And then shall ten Men of all Nations take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you LONDON Printed for Matthew Simmons 1651. To the RIGHT HONORABLE Most Truly NOBLE And VICTORIOUS HIS EXCELLENCY Oliver Cromwell Lord General of all the Forces raised in England and Ireland for Defence and Regainment of Englands Rights and Liberties MOst Noble and Victorious Sir whose Name by the Will of Divine Providence is become Englands Honor Her Enemies Terror and Europes Wonder For the Continuation Increase and Perfection whereof to the Glory of God your Countries happiness and Your own eternal Fame he most heartily and earnestly wisheth who in his greatest straits under the Iron yoke of Cruelties close restraint many yeers was sundry times made partaker of your truly Christian bounty to the preservation of his Life and Being and after many years Imprisonment of some breathings of Liberty For which in way of due thankfullness as ever in his heart abhorring the grand sin of Ingratitude he returns unto Your Excellency most humbly and hearty thanks and in assurance of the continuation of your most noble Paternal favour towards him he presumeth to shroud this ensuing treatise of the Personal Reign of Christ upon the earth under the wing of your Execllencies favorable Protection most humbly presenting the same unto your Excellencies view acceptance and most noble Boerean perusal The glimpse of which favour extended is the highest pitch of his ambition who in all true Christian humility to his God and fidelity in the band of love to his Country and your Excellencie Subcribes himself Most Noble Excellent and Right Honorable Your Honors most humble Servant to be commanded James Frese London the 19th of the 6th Moneth corruptly called August 1651. To all such true and faithful members of the Lord Jesus as walk close to the Sacred Truth by the rule of Righteousness and stand as firm as Nehemiah for the advance of the true honor of God in true judgement justice and mercy and the speedy restauration of the fundamental Laws Rights and Liberties of this their Native Countrey Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus I Here present unto your favorable view and Christian perusal this small Treatise containing some Collections of holy Scripture cleerly manifesting the Personal Reigne of the Lord Jesus among his Saints upon Earth in the Land of Israel it being the choisest Fruit of my Labors in the time of my close Imprisonment in the Tower-Chamber in the Fleet-Prison for the space of almost four yeers by Henry Hopkins Warden of the Fleet under locks and bolts to the apparent hazard of my life without any just cause by him shewed to this day for his so doing craving in all humility your favourable acceptance of these my Labors and a Berean perusal of them In the reading wherof the Lord Jesus grant unto you his sacred Spirit of Wisdom to be your Directer and Instructer bringing the Truth thereof home unto your souls that so your hearts being seasoned with the apprehension of the expressed joys and comforts contained in it you may live in expectation of the Lord Jesus his glorious Appearing with all Saints in the glory of God the Father and of the holy Angels and in his Kingdom and of the enjoyment of eternal life in glory with him and all the Saints within his holy habitation in the land of the living even in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord Christ shall reign for ever and ever even as he assuredly remaineth in expectation of the same who in all humility subscribes himself Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus Yours in all love and Christian Charity and his Countries Servant in all Fidelity during the short time of his continuance in this almost expired vanities world of misery James Frese London this 15th of the 10th moneth 1650. The Epistle To the Honest Impartial Reader COurteous Reader I do earnestly wish and heartily desire of the Lord that thy perusal of these few Collections of holy Scripture taken as a drop of water out of the vast Ocean of Gods Word and sent forth as a Lamb among censorious Wolves may be seasoned to thy soul by the Spirit of Truth that so the eyes of thy Understanding may thereby be inlightned to Gods glory and thine own souls eternal comfort and joy unexpressable in the glorious eternal world to come And for the better help and inlightning of thy Understanding in the profitable reading of this Treatise I do earnestly desire thee to note well these particulars following 1. That the ten Tribes a which fell from Rehoboam and made Jeroboam their King were then called The Kingdom of Israel whose Kingly Seat or City was Samaria And the other two Tribes under Rehoboams government were called the Kingdom of Judah and the People Jews whose Royal Seat was the Mount of the Lord God called b Zion adjoyning to the North side of Jerusalem The City of the great King * Christ Jesus 2. That all the ten Tribes of Israel were c carried away into captivity beyond the River of Aethiopia called Euphrates d by Shalmanazer King of Assyria in the days of King Hoshea into a far Country about eighteen moneths journey from the holy land of Palestina called in the Syriack Assareth but in the Hebrew Sinin three hundred twenty and six yeers before Judah was carryed captive into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon from whence Judah returned to their own Land again within seventy yeers But the ten Tribes called Israel as yet never returned to this day So that Israels captivity hath now continued about two thousand six hundred and twelve yeers Therefore will the Lord make Israel that was wholy cast out a mighty Nation but Judah or the Jews that returned and halted e
Destruction or for the Destroyer two shall be in a bed the one shall be taken away and the other lefâ— to Destruction two shall be grinding at a Mill the one shall be taken away and the other left to Destruction or for the Destroyer SECT. XIIII THe Disciples then asked him where all this should be or whither all these should be gathered together He answered where the body is or Christ shall appear thither wil the eagles or elect be gathered together even to Mount Zion For they shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying come let us joyn our selves unto the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall never be forgetten and arise let us goe up to Zion unto the Lord out God and say O Lord save thy people the Remnant of Israel Yea many people and strong Nations shall come To the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem At the same time will the Lord be The God of all the Families of Israel and they shall be his people In Zion his dwelling place the holy Mountaine SECT. XV ANd for a further proof of the time of this his glorious Coming Compare Daniel's visâ—on which he had in Babylon about the seventh yeer of his Captivity which was about six hundred forty three yeers before Christ's Nativity with the expressions of our Saviour Christ in the aforesaid place of Matth. 24. and yâ—u shall find them to agree together in the number of years And I heard onâ— Saint say to the Wondâ—rful Nuâ—berer of Secrets Christ which spake How long shall be tâ—e vision concerning the Transgression of making Desolate And he said untâ— me Unâ—o two thousand three hundred days Then shall the Sanctuary or holy land be clensed For afâ—er two days will he the Lord Revive us and raise us up and we shall live in his sight Which two days I understand to be these two laâ—t days under the gospel which days Christ hath promised â—o shorten for the Elects sake and will as I finde and beleeve be shortned answerable to the first two days of this world which was destroyed by water being at 1657. yeers of age For so our God shal come and shal not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempâ—stuous round about him saith David when he shall come down upon the Mountains of Zion as Rain upon the Morning grass for there God hath commanded the blessiâ—g to man even life in Glory fâ—r evermore SECT. XVI ANd in that very place where the first Adam was created and transgressed there did the second Adam Christ Jesus make full satisfaction for that Transgression in Paradice and there the old Serpent Sathan bruised his heel and there shall he break his head when he shall be there placed by his Father As King of Eternal Glory in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord shall Reigne with all his Saints gloriously for ever and ever And I heard a voyce saying Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he the Lord will dwell with them and then shall all the Kings of the Earth praise and sing in the waies of the Lord When they shall hear the words of his moâ—th Then the praises of God shall be in their mouths and a two Edged Sword in their hands Terrible as an Army with banners as it were the company of two Armies Israel and Judah to execute vengeance â—pon the heathen to bind their Kings with chains and their robles with fâ—tters of Iron to execute upon them the judgement writtenâ— This honour have all his Sâ—ints Then shall they Inherit the Earth and delight themselves in the aboundance of peace and then their Inheritance shall be for ever For know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world for then judgement shall be given to the Saints and the saints shall then possess the Kingdom for it is their Fathers pleasure to give them the Kingdom for his is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever and the Saints shall possess the Kingdom of Glory for ever even for ever and ever There where God hath commanded or ordained for man the blessing Even life in Glory for evermore Therefore let the Children of Zion be joyfull in their King the Lord of life Christ Jesus who shall also judge the dead men of this world of Darkness In the valieâ— of Iehosaphat And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and the dead were judged Then shall they The dead see him whom they have pierced and shall know that he is the Lord God dwelling in Zion his holy mountain For the wicked shall be shut up in the prison of the grave and after many days even the sabbattical thousand years rest in glory shall they be visited and in that day will the Lord punish Leviathan that piercing crooked Serpent the Dragon in the Sea or in the multitud e of Nations in this world and he shall be cast into the lake of fire and Brimstore where the Beast or Imperiall power and the False Prophet Mahomet are and shall be tormented for ever and ever SECT. XVII ANd this Judgement day of the dead shall be after Christ hath Reigned the thousand years or day of rest among the Saints Bodily yea in that very body which he hath carried up for that purpose and hath raised all the Elect out of their Graves From the dead or children of death and Hell called Sathan For Christ being the Resurrection and the life shall come down upon them that are his as the Rain upon the Mown grass For thus saith the Lord I will open your graves O my people and bring you into the Land of Israel then shall ye know that I am the Lord your God when I have opened your graves and put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I shall place you in your own land then shall ye know that I am the Lord that have performed it For those which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him For the councel of peace eternall life and glory shall be between them both even Father and Son and so shall they the Saints be ever with the Lord This shall be written for the Generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord In the Regenâ—râ—tion or Resurrection when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his Glory Then will he make them even Israel and Judah one Nation in the holy land upon the Mountains of Israel the land of his Inheritance A Glorious high Throne is the Place or land of our Sanctuary from the beginning of the Creation of God for though all the earth be his yet Zion hath he chosen to be the place of his habitation for ever and will goe in and out before his people there even as
the glory of this latter house shall be greater then that of the former built ly Solomon and when the Children of Israel shall be thus planted and dwell in their own land and place in Glory Eternal to be Removed no more Nor the Children of wickedness that is of the Divel to wast them any more as at the beginning Then the Lord will build the house and God the Father will establish his Throne and Kiâ—gdom for ever for of his Kingdom there shall be no end SECT. XXXIII ANd when his Tabernacle or personal presence shall be among them Then shall they say among the Nations The Lord Râ—igneth and the heathen or Gentiles shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel when my sanctuary shall be in the middest of them for evermore and my servant David shall be their Prince for ever The Figure of the holy City Jerusalem with the proofs out of the Prophets and Apostles for the same Aeronâ— Br st plate was a figure of â—hâ—â— City Exoâ— 8 1◠〈…〉 21 12 North East South West Ruben Judo Levy Josepâ— Beâ—ianâ— Dan. Simem Jsochaâ— Zâ—bvlou Ezek. 48. 31. Rev. 21 16. Isa. 26 1 Rev. 3 12 Isa. 33 17 20 24 Isa. 66. 18 19. Isa. 60. 11 14 15. Ier. 31. 38 39 40. Isa. 49. 16 17. Heb. 11 10 14 16. Ezek 47. 7 12. Baruch 4. 30. Zach 14. 10 11 Iâ—a 54. 11 12 13. Isâ— â—2 18 1â— And they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and work iniquity And there shall no unclean thing enter into it nor any that worketh abomination but only they that are written in the Lambs book Therefore Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may enter through the gates into the City Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God Ierusalem the holy City from thenceforth shall no more come into thee the unclean I have raised him up and he shall build my City for we look for a City whose Builder and maker is God for I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of God Christ Jesus in the land of the living I will place Salvation in Zion for Israel my glory for when the Lord doth build up Zion he shall then appear in his glory Then Jerusalem shall be called the City of truth and he will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem And the name of City from that day forth shall be the Lord is there Yea he shall build the Temple of Jehovah For he hath prepared for them a City having twelve foundations For he will glorifie the house of his glory and I will make he Place of feet glorious But the Scepter was departed from Judah about 640. yeares before Shilo Christ came in the flesh Neither were the people of Judah gathered unto him but rejected him and Israel heard not of him being carried away by Shalmanazar King of Assiria about 964. years before Christ's coming in the flesh For Christ his coming in humility was when Judah's Iniquities were fully ripe and thus he came in the fulness of time to be a light to us Gentiles that had then fate almost 1800. years in Darkness and under the bondage and shaddow of death and Hell But shall then at his coming be the glory of his people Israel who as yet have not known him nor shall not know him till they shall see him and say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord for so is God's decree Then all things shall become new for the Lord will renew the face of the Earth and then the whole earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea for he shall come in the glory of God the Father yet that which is to be hath already bin and they shall all know the Lord from the least to the greatest of them from a childe of a span long to the man of full stature And then will he Remember their sins no more for the Lord shall then appear in his glory and shall stand upon the Mount of Olives and the mount of Olives shal cleave in the middest towards the North and towards the South and it shal become a very great valley yea all the land of Palestina shal be turned into a plain from Gheba to Rimon south of Jerusalem and shal again be meted out to the Tribes of Israel as at their coming out of Egypt SECT. XXXIIII THen shal they say arise let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God and they shal go from year to year and from one Sabbath to another to worship the King the Lord of hosts at Jerusalem for I will bring them from the north Country and gather them from the coasts of the earth for he that scattered Israel wil gather them even as a shepherd gathereth his flock and they shal come and sing in the height of Zion and flowe together to the goodness of God Christ a great company shal return thither and mine Elect servants only shal dwel there and inherit it for I wil Create Jerusalem a Rejoycing and her People a joy And I wil rejoyce in Jerusalem and Joy in my people for there God the Father comanded the blessing even life for evermore And then all things shall become new or the natures of all creatures shal be changed to the state and condition wherein they were first created for the wolf and the lamb shal feed together the Lyon shal then eat straw like a Bullock and dust shal be the Serpents meat They shal not hurt nor destroy any in all my holy mountaines saith the Lord For the very brute creature who was made subject to corruption through mans transgression waiteth for the Time of the manifestation of the Sons of God and to be restored into the glorious liberty of the Sons or Saints of God even eternal incorruptible being For then shal the creatureâ— also be delivered from this bondage of corruption Death and then all his works shal praise him and all flesh shal bless his holy name for ever and ever for in that day wil the Lord make a Covenant for his people with all the beasts of the field with al the fowls of heaven and with al creeping things of the ground and al evil beâ—sts shal then cease out of the land and his people shal dwel safely in the wildernes and sleep in the woods and they shal be safe in their land For he wil sowe the portion of Israel and the portion of Iudah even the land of Palestina with the seed of man and with the seed of beasts for he that hath delivered them in these six troubles or these 6000. years or days of labour trouble and sorrow will not suffer evil or the Divel to touch them in the seventh day of his glorious Rest for the beastes of the
Kings of the earth upon the earth and â—hey shal be gatheted together as Prisoners into the pit or grave and shall there be shut up and after many dayes ever after the thousand years of rest in Glory shall they be visited And they shall be called the border of wickedness against whom the Lord hath Indignation for ever and your eyes shall see this and you the Saints shall then say the Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel when he shall take them away as with a whirlewind both living and in his wrath then shall the righteous rejoyce when he seeth the vengeance for they shall wash their feet in the blood of the wicked And when all the host of heaven shall be rolled together like a scroll and the trump shall blow and the Judgement shall be set and the dead raised at the end of the thousand years rest in glory and Judged and cast into hell into the dry land wherein is no water even these parts of the earth or lowest of the Globe whose streams shal be turned into pitch and the dust thereof into brimstone and the land or earth shall become burning pitch and it shall never be quenched for the smoke thereof shall go up for ever O who among us shall then dwell with everlasting burnings Then the saints shall go forth to the border and look upon them that have transgressed whose fire shall not be quenched and they the wicked shall be an abhorring unto all flesh and there shall be a great gulf fixed between the Kingdom of heaven or glory and the Kingdom of hell and darkness Sathan and the wicked shal â—ee the glory and blessed state of the Saints in Christs Kingdom a far ost And shall weep and howl and gnash their teeth SECT. XLI IN thosedayes Judah shall walke with Israel in the land given for an inheritance unto their Fathers and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered unto it yea all nations whom the Lord hath made shall come and worship before him and Israel shall sing there the new song as in the dayes of their youth when they came out of the Land of Egypt Then shall the sword and the battel be broken out of the earth for the Lord Christ the God of Salvation light and Glory will marry his people unto himself in peace and in righteousness and in loving kindness and in mercies for he will plant his people in the earth and they shall see eye to eye yea face to face as Moses and the seventy Elders did as also all Israel Then shall they say cry out thou inhabitant of Zion for great is the holy one of Israel in the middest of thee and his place of rest shall be Glorious for then shall all the earth be fillâ—d with the Glory of the Lord even the earth or place of Glory for in this world ye the Saints shall have tribulations because my Kingdom is not of this world but in me or my Kingdom of Glory ye shall have rest saith our Saviour and we must through many tribulations enter into the Kingdom of heaven the land of Glory and happiness for he will make the place of his feet the earth Glorious And the Saints shall come with speed swiftly none of them shall be weary nor stumble none shall slumber nor sleepe neither shall the girdle of their loynes be loosed nor the latchet of their shooes be broken for the Lord shall set his hand againe the second time to recover the remnant of his people and shall assemble the out-casts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth SECT. XLII Then shall the waters fail from the sea and the rivers shall be dryed up for the Egyptian sea shall be utterly destroyed that men may go over dry shod or in â—hooeâ— then shall there be an high way for his people the Saints as it was to Israel in the day when they came out of the land of Egyyt then shall the King of righteousnes Reigne and prosper and Execute Justice and Judgement in the earth In his dayes Judah shall be saved and Israel the ten tribes shal dwel safely and this is the Kings name that shal Reigne in the earth of glory the Lord our Righteousness for in that day there shall be but one Lord and his name one SECT. XLIII ANd he that sate on the Throne shall dwell among them the Sainto and they shall Reigne with him on the earth and he said unto me write for these words are true and faithful Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have Right in the Tree of life Christ Jesus and their parts in the first Resurrection on such the second death shall have no power neither shall evill the Divell dwell with him and his saints as he doth in this his own world of sin for Christ his Kingdom is not of this world but of the Glorious world to come Out of which world of Eternal glory the Divell called Evill Sathan death and Hell shall be banished and not suffered to molest disturbe or suggest any of his evill disobedient thoughts into any of the children of the Kingdom of glory or to have any rule at all there as he hath in this his world Therefore is Christ said not to Reigne in this world but only to rule and to carry the predominent power in the hearts of all his Elect who though through Sathans suggestions they fall into sin daylie yet Christ supports and holds them up by his power whom the father hath Sealed and given unto him out of this world of evill the Divell who being the Prince of this world Ruleth in the hearts of all his the Children of wickedness disobedience darkness Evill Sathan Death and Hell for so is he called in the holy Scriptures The Priests Gods ordinance of mercy sell The Lawyers by injustice them excell Thus one The word of mercy sells for Gold The other Justice Impiously and bold An Exhortation to the conscientious Reader ALye therefore that truly love and fear the Lord God of salvation Christ Jesus and by patient continuation in well doing seek for glory Immortality and eternall life and have tasted of the good word of God Christ and of the power of the world to come and look for the day of his glorious appearing When the time of refreshing shall come of the Restitution of all things and our gathering together unto him at his appearing and his Kingdom Comfort ye one another with these things that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord Jesus direct your hearts into the true love of God and the patient waiting for Christ and grant you to be like minded one towards another in love or in the God
eternal purpose in Christ Jesus whereby he hath made them heires of glory yea joynt heires with Christ to be glorified together with him Whose spirit beareth witness to our spirits that we are the Children of God the Father and heires with Christ who is the Ordained God and Lord over all blessed for ever He came out of the mouth of the most high God the Father and so is he the word of God For the Creator of all things gave him a Commandment and ordained his tabernacle or personall presence to rest Saying to him let there be a firmament and let thy dwelling be in Jacob and thine inheritance in Israel Yea he came forth as a brook from a river for he the Father created him the beginning and he shall never faile and thus is he established in Zion in the beloved City Jerusalem is his rest and power being the portion of his inheritance Where he the word the life the way the truth the righteoâ—sness and the lâ—ght is by the Father decreed to dwell in gâ—ory with all his saints for ever There is also a word which is called upon with death who is called darknes hell falshood vanity unrighteousness wrath destroyer Sathan wickedness God grant it be not found in the heritage of Jacob the Saviour But this word was found in Jacob or Judah when they renounced the word of life and glory Christ saying we have no King but Caesar and his blood be on us and our Children Then spake he unto them in or by this word of darkness his wrath the divel and vexed them in his sore displeasure for they were given up by God the Father to him the wrath therefore said to be of their Father the divel the destroyer For as God or goodness is set by the Father against evill the divell light against darkness mercy against wrath life against death the Saviour against the destroyer even so is the Godly against the Sinner and the Sinner against the Godly Even so also look upon the works of the most high God the Father and there are â—wo Christ and Belial the accepted and the rejected and their two works are one against the other The ways of Righteousness are plain and easy to the righteâ—us but his commands are stumbling blocks to the wicked And for the Children of Righteousness are good things created or decreed by the father in the or this sacred beginning Even life eternall in glory but for the sinners or the Children of the disobedient one or evill things created or decreed even eternall being in the land of horrour drought and darkness for ever with their Father the divell for the wrath of God is revealed now but shall then be manifest Called Principalities Powers Hosts Ministers that at the Almighty's pleasure on his works yea powers of darkness Beelzebub that act by fire famine sword and pestilence punishing the wicked to destruction and boasting themselves in mischief and destruction whose nature and property is cruelty and destruction therefore stiled a roaring Lyon the destroyer but not the Saviour Christ whose nature and property is mercy and preservation and therefore is he stiled the preserver of men yea the Oracle or mouth of God the Father Thus you see that all things are double or decreed for a double use one against the other some for the light to abide in glory and some for the darkness Beelzebub to abide for ever in darkness For all that obey or do his will shall reap perdition but they that walk in the light and are Children of the light shall inherit the land or earth of glory and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace Thou wilt say why doth he then complain for who hath or doth resist his will for can I do any other then I am lead forth unto or made to do But O man who art thou which pleadeth or speaketh against God thy maker for shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it why hast thou made me thus hath not thee Potter power of one lump to make one vessell to honour or for the acting of the spirit of honour and glory Christ Jesus and another to dishonour or for the acting of the spirit of dishonour and reprobation Beelzebub what and if God will to manifest wrath and to make his the sdivels elotted or meated out power known to the Creature uffer the vessels of wrath prepared or decreed to destruction to act the will and works of wrath and that he might also declare the riches and power of his glory for Christ is the glory and power of God unto salvation upon the vessels of his mercy Christ the mercy of God which he hath prepared or decreed unto glory to act the works of mercy here for glory hereafter For if thou be determined for glory and the vessell or body be filled at present with the Spirit of glory truth and righteousness Christ Jesus then shalt thou act and be led forth to the works of glory truth and Righteousness For the meanes shall never be wanting that drives on to the end of the Fathers decree But if thou remaine under the power and guidance of the spirit of darkness then canst thou do none other works then the works of darkness and then thou wilt apprehend the word works and actings of Christ in his vessels of honour called saints to be ridiculous and foolishness for he that is not for Christ is against him But wo unto him that striveth with this his maker Christ Jesus the Lord of life and glory for this maker the Lord our Righteousness is the husband or bridegroome to the Saints and he will marry them unto himself in Righteousness and glory everlasting for he will give unto them salvation in Zion O therefore say not thou it is through the Lord Christ my maker that I perish for he causeth me to err for who dare say unto him what hast thou done or who dare stand against his Judgement to whom all power is given by the Father both in heaven and earth or who dare accuse him for the nations that perish whom he hath made or who dare stand against him to revenge the cause of the wicked that are by him cast off or rejected therefore happy yea thrise happy are all they that are possessed and guided by this sacred spirit wisdom For she was created or produced by the Father before all things she hath built her everlasting foundations with men and is given by the rather to be with their seed in glory for ever For all such as band themselves against Jehovah and against his anointed power for 〈◊〉 are described and known to be disobedient men of this earth or world of darkness guided by the rebellious spirit of wrath darkness and enemies to the obedient spirit of sight life and determined glory to the elect and obedient