for a fire and his holy one for a flame and it shall burne and devoure his thornes and briars in one day And as the Lord hath wounded the Prince of evill powers so he hath wounded you all and is revenging the blood of his Saints Land the Lord is come for to make a full end of all things but first with Clouds and by and by with light for all shall be destroyed by the light of God and I cannot but out of pure love give you warning of it look therefore oh world about you cannot ye see him yet is Israels cloud between you and the Lord that ye cannot behold the Lord why the light of God will cause the clouds to remove and then woe to be you And they also which pierced him Hear ye despisers and piercers of the Lords Sion I will tell you what you have done you have pierced the most precious Jewels the Lord hath and pierced them so deep that the wound is gone through the very side of God And he is now coming for to open thy eyes to cause thee to see the many wounds that thou hast given him and them and when that is represented you shall see your selves wounded with a deadly and eternall wound even unto death and yet never for to die in dying thou shalt dye and yet not dy Revel 9. 6. And in those dayes men shall seek death and shall not finde it for the light of God will keep them alive for ever and ever thy fall will be very great Oh worldling although you be as the Sunne of the morning how art thou cutting down to the ground which didst once weaken the Nations and thou art in casting out of the grave of security where thou hast lived and layen in peace for many an Age. Therefore hear ye sufferers for the Lord he hath recorded thy sufferings in his book and them that pierced thee hath he in remembrance and behold he is coming to reward upon them the evill of their own wayes and will plead with them here for thee I he will plead with all thy enemies temporall and spirituall inside and outside ones he remembers them all and all shall fall and never rise more I and that quickly for the great day of the Lord is coming on amain cannot yee see hear nor take notice of the Lords goings which proclaims to all the world that he is coming ye are angry and ye cannot tell with what ye are displeased and ye cannot tell with whom and the Lord is now coming to tell you it is with himself that you are offended There is a generation that must be offended being out of the holy number and therefore not honoured with that princely name Israel so having no lot in the holy land and therefore no entrance into the princely and heavenly Court into which Christ is coming for to gather all his up into by the light of his father Great will be thy joy oh soul who art boloved of God when this light of God hath not only purified thee but carried thee into the Court and mansion of heaven and set thee down there with thy father and thy King Jesus who is now come with Clouds and by and by with light watch ye therefore all ye sons of Sion And all kindreds of the Earth shall waile because of him even so Amen Oh the unspeakable walling and crying out there will be ere long I even tremble to think how the earth will ring with the cries of enlightned soules which have the light of God given them for no other end then to be an eternall plague unto them great crying because of great wrath and this great wrath will cause great anger to ceaze upon your spirits And your anger will arise from two causes first from the Lords coming to judge thee by the light of himself in thee Secondly by the Lords coming for to give rewards unto his Saints and to them that fear his name First from the Lords appearing for to judge you by the light of God in you The day of the Lords appearing will be a day of great trouble because it will be an eternall appearing an appearing that shall bring along with it eternall light eternall darkness with an eternall death too Isa 8. 22. And they shall look unto the Earth and behold trouble and darkness and dimness of an anguish and they shall be driven into darkness As eternall light eternall darkness with eternall death makes up but an eternall plagues so eternall light eternall life eternall joy eternall peace and an eternall glory with an eternall knowing of God as he is in himself makes up an eternall salvation to the saved ones of God Worldlings where are you what are you doing are ye filling up the measures of your fathers wrath fuller yet why make hast for my King cannot come with a light called the light of an eye untill you have finished the works of darkness and if I be not mistaken you have almost if not altogether finished your work for Sions King and your terrible Judge makes hast to come away and me thinks I hear you begin to waile but if not waile you are filled with much trouble fear and anger which is within one step of wailing the next sight of my King will make you waile then farewell all your honors rich treasures and worldly enjoyments for all are condemned to dye already and then they leave thee and thou must leave them I say trouble fear and anger ye have in your hearts and your hearts full of it but ye cannot tell what is the cause of it nor from whence it ariseth I will tell thee First from the Lords coming to judge thee and thy Judgment is begun but it is a cloudy judgment that is an unseen and an unknown judgment if it were made known to thee by the light of the Lord what the Lord is adoing and going still about for to do to thee and what hast he makes untill he hath done thou wouldest not only fear but waile and let me tell thee one thing over again all thy glory wisdom riches honor and delight with all thy other injoyments are condemned by the Lord of the whole Earth for to dy the death nay they are dead and that is the reason thou hast so little comfort in the world in this thy age There is a great change made instead of a sweet smell there is a stinke and instead of a girdle a rent instead of well-set haire baldness and instead of a stomacher a girding with sackcloth and burning instead of beauty so that all is out of order by reason of the cloudy day of God and when once the Lord appeareth with light then will thy wailing begin but never end because the light that God will give thee will be a light that will never goe out Rev. 14. 11. And the smoak of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no rest day nor night
thy City and thy glory oh world is falling is falling is falling Rev. 14. 8. And now thy great strength is gone and therefore nothing but trouble cometh in the roome by reason of the Lords appearing And it will not be long ere the earth shine or be enlightned with the Lords glory and the shining and enlightning is for to let thee know that thy kingdome and glory is going being but a Babylonian glory Rev. 18. 1. 2. And I saw an Angel come down from Heaven having great power and the earth was enlightned with his glory and he cryed with a strong voyce saying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and become the habitation of Devils Thou oh world hast the mysterie of iniquity dwelling in thee and by thy mysterious iniquities hast carried the Lords Israel captive at thy will for many thousand years and now the years of thy power is up and the day of thy ruling is at an end because all thy actions have been unrighteous actions and all thy wayes and paths which thou hast walked in have been sinfull wayes and paths and therefore now after thy iniquity woe be unto thee Ezek. 16. 23. Woe be unto thee indeed saith the Lord for thy sins have reached up to heaven and have raised the Lord of hosts out of his place Isa 33. 10. Now will I arise saith the Lord now will I be exalted now will I lift up my self behold now he is come down and is with thee to be exalted over thee and to recompense upon thee according to thy works Rev. 18. 5. For her sins have reached up to Heaven and God hath remembred her iniquity your wayes oh ye sons of men and all ye rulers of the Earth have been and are still Canaanitish wayes and ye have all run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward but in the end will perish in the gainsaying of Core Jude 11. ver Thy end is now begun I the end of your evill wayes oh Saints and worldlings is come up before the Lord and what do you think to doe for Job whom the Lord honored with the name of my servant and faithfull one and just in all his wayes yet though so when the Lord who is a God of so pure eyes that cannot behold iniquity did but once rise up Job feared with a saying What then shall I do Job 31. 14. When God ariseth up and when he visiteth what shall I answer him If the Sion of God do as it were fear what wilt thou do oh world then the Lord arises up to the prey and to gather thee for eternall ruine and to judge thee with an eternall Judgment attended with a just sentence and a just reward like thy works Oh all ye workers of iniquity and by the light of God ye shall see it and then your wailing will begin What ailest thou oh world for to waile why do ye not know oh ye blessed of the Lord the light of him who is your King and therefore raigneth over you and in you even he whom I scorned and rejected with a saying This man shall not rule over me hath wounded me to the heart by this light and this light by which he hath enlightned me carrieth me forward and backward backward and forward just as he did David after he had committed adultery with Beersheba and slew Vriah with the Sword he carrieth me backward to behold all my evill deeds which I have done and the many wounds that I have given him and you And also carrieth me forward to behold what once was offered me what mercies and what blessings what glory and what life what peace and what rest with an eternall salvation with your eternall King but now rejected of him by my own rebellious and scornfull denying of him and you and I behold all this by the light of God and this light of God causes me to waile with an everlasting wailing and therefore what condition can be like unto mine why no condition can be like unto thine for thou art doubly miserable and therefore shalt be doubly plagued by that light that shall come down from the Lord to shine upon thee Secondly from the Lords coming for to give rewards to his Saints what a plague will it be to thee oh world for to behold Gods Israel whom thou thoughtst not worthy to live nor yet the remembrance of them in the earth for to be that they so little esteemed of the earth among men should come to be cloathed with such glory and righteous robes and to be invested with all the glory of heaven called the glory of the father didst thou never hear of Mordecai and the royall cloathing he wore and the horse that he rid upon and the Crown Royall which was set upon his head and the Proclamation which was made before him by one of the most royallest Princes of that Court and of the ring that was put upon his finger this is a mysterious type these are the Lords Mordicai's that I now tell thee of and they shall all of them ride upon the wings of the Lords free grace ere long although thou now disesteemest of them and they shall have given them all manner of change of raiment called the white robes though for the present their cloathing is but ragged and filthy and an old cloathing thou art angry with them now and enviest them with thy very heart although they do but bear a dark Image of God and their light is but an imperfect light that they have yet O world And though their gifts knowledg and understanding be imperfect and their cloaths ragged yet thou hatest that in them they have Well thou shalt not hate this imperfect image long for the Lord is coming for to take them away and methinks I hear a voyce crying in my ears Take away take away take away these filthy rags Zach. 3. 3 4. And he spake to them that stood by him Take away those filthy Garments which they stand before the Angel withal they shall be suddenly taken away for that is the reason why Michael the Prince stands up that Arch-Angel and that is the reason why the breaker up is come up it is I say For to take away all our putrified and corrupt cloathing and upon the remove there will be trouble in thee O Israel And now they are risen it will not be long ere it is finished Dan. 9. 24. It is but as it were a seventy weeks before it shall be done seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy City to finish transgressions and to make an end of sin and to bring in everlasting righteousness This is a Mystery you have this Mystery opened in part in Heb. 9 28. unto them that look for him he shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation It will not be long ere this Scripture be fulfilled upon thee O Israel for thou art the City spoken of in Daniel The world is old and
AN ALARM TO THE VVORLD OF THE Appearing of Sions KING OR A brief Discoverie of the foot-steps of the Lord upon EARTH Isaiah 24. 19. The Earth is utterly broken down the Earth is clean dissolved Matth. 25. 6. And at midnight there was a crie made behold the Bridegroome cometh goe ye out to meet him Rev. 16. 15. Behold I come as a thief blesed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and I see his shame LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spred-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1649. To the READER Honored Friend WHen thou openest this little Book for to travel through it if thou meetest with any thing that thy heart cannot close with as possibly thou mayst yet let thy heart respect thy friend who hath writ his heart to thee and watered the lines with his tears by reason of beholding the earth watered with blood I with the blood of Kings Princes and mighty ones of the Earth and yet further he will proceed in blood even to the horse bridles and what I have writ I have writ not respecting the person of any man but out of pure love to all and in love I have told you in part what you are and what I am my self and in part what will become of us all I have not written any thing in the least against Kings and powers with a grudging heart or a scorning of Kingly Authoritie but exceedingly honoring them all and by this it is manifest in giving you notice and warning of the great Kings coming who is the King of Kings and therefore will unthrone all Kings and overturn all Kingdomes and all powers and none but the Lords King and Kingdome shall stand Friend Thou wilt finde something written in a very mysterious way But time shall declare and dayes to come shall bring forth to the view and knolwedg of all every mysterious truth of God especially to them who are saved and called with a holy calling And therefore in the holy number if thou art one of the holy number thou art honored with a Princely name which name is Israel and it belongs as a gift given to the Princes of Israel to know the mysteries the very inside mysteries of the Kingdome of Heaven where Christ thy King hath dwelt ever since his ascending but now ready to be revealed in these our dayes being the last dayes of the last dayes in the which all things that are written shall be fulfilled even so Amen THOMAS BANASTER TO all Emperours Kings Princes Rulers Iudges Magistrates and Powers throughout the earth after what name or Title soever mentioned with all Ministers and people high low rich poore noble and ignoble and thou Israel amongst the rest throughout the whole inhabitable parts of the world do I send greeting with a word Behold the King of Kings is coming now with Clouds to visit you and by and by with light THOMAS BANASTER AN ALARM TO THE VVORLD OF THE Appearing of Sions KING Revelation 1. 7. verse Behold he cometh with Clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the Earth shall waile because of him even so Amen WHeresoever you finde the word behold written you finde something more then ordinary following it something very excellent very admirable and wonderfull and also something very terrifying and amazing by reason of the great destruction which attends it which things at their appearing let them be either joyous or grievous they will cause great admiration great wondering and great astonishment upon all people and paleness upon all faces here followeth this word behold joy peace rest salvation with eternall glory also fear trouble confusion plagues Judgments with eternal misery Therefore Hear ye dispisers and wonder and perish and hear ye Saints and in hearing rejoyce and blesse his name who is your King and coming now with clouds which appearing will cause great joy of heart and great sorrow of heart ye shall joy for joy of heart and they shall sorrow for sorrow of heart for here is life and death joy and peace hasting on apace for the Lords warning peece is shot off upon the world to give warning to the world of the coming of Jesus Christ and that there is such a thing reade Phil. 3. 20. Our conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for the Saviour Heb. 9. 28. And unto them that look for him he shall appear the second time c Titus 2. 13. Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God Revel 22. 20. Loe I come quickly even so come Lord Jesus This coming of Jesus Christ will be a coming to the purpose his second coming therefore hear ye sons and daughters of Jerusalem your King is come and yet coming still but it is a cloudy coming or appearing He that you have waited for so long and looked for with so many a long look with fetching of many a long sigh and groane and in the bottome of your sigh was written Lord when wilt thou appear why behold he is now coming to thee oh thou afflicted soul to ease thee of all thy troubles and to deliver thee from al thy many sufferings which thou hast suffered for this many thousand years by thy own evill heart and fleshly minde and also by wicked men which hated thee and thy King therefore now lift up your heads and cast sorrow from your heart for he that is your joy is descended the second time behold he cometh Here are three things considerable in these words first who it is that proclaims this news with a behold he cometh it is the Lord by the mouth of John Secondly what it is he proclaimes it is of the coming of Iesus Christ Sions King Thirdly to whom it is proclaimed it is to all the world good and bad godly and prophane and the reason why it is proclaimed to all is because all shall see him and every eye shall see him The first appearing of this King is a cloudy appearing and this cloudy appearing will be a dark tempestuous confused and destructive appearing and also bloudy and for the proofe of this read Isaiah 50. 3. Psal 97. 1. The Lord raignes let the earth rejoyce and the multitude of the Isles be glad thereof clouds and darkness are round about him and Psalm 18. 9. The Lord bowed the Heavens and came down and darkness was under his feet This Scripture is fulfilling in this your dayes the second time and then it will be finished The Lord raigns do not ye see and feel his power and if not why do ye tremble oh ye Inhabitants of the Earth Psalm 99. 1. The Lord raigneth let the people tremble and let the Earth be moved Ye finde it also in the Text and that cloudy raigning there mentioned or coming is now The Lord is entered his Throne upon Earth but entered with clouds and darkness and sits there with clouds and darkness round