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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52030	A second epistle, being a tender salutation to the seed of Jacob vvherein is contained an exhortation to the called and chosen people of the Lord, who have kept their first love, to abide therein to the end : also, a hand of dear love held forth to the spiritual travellers, who are travelling from Egypt's land of darkness towards the spiritual land of rest : the counsel and determination of the Lord God Almighty founded in the ears of the unfaithful, disobedient and deceitful, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, and cover themselves with a profession of the precious truth, and yet live in the nature and spirit of those who walk in the broad way, that leadeth to destruction : also, a brief rehearsal and discovery of the enemy of man's soul, his workings from the beginning of his appearance unto this day, age, and generation / Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1673 (1673)	Wing M742; ESTC R7579	15,880	27

of a great Eagle given her fled into the Wilderness for a Time Times and a half from the Face of the old Serpent and he hath made War with the Remnant of her Seed and by his powerful Workings brought Night over again who work'd mysteriously even amongst the Churches causing some to lose their First Love others to hold the Doctrine of Balaam others the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans others to have a Name to live and yet dead to God others suffered the Woman Jezabel others called themselves Jews and were not but were in the Nature of the Synagogue of Satan others there were that were Luke-warm neither Hot nor Cold and manifold have been the Transformings of the Adversary of Mankind the ●evil but in one and the same Nature and Power His first Appearance under which he would have destroyed the Man-Child and the Woman and the Remnant of her was a great Red Dragon then as a Beast rising out of the Sea the Waters who had seaven Heads and ten Horns and on his Heads seven Crowns and the Beast had his Power Seat and great Authority from the ●ragon and John saw another Appearance a second Beast that rose out of the Earth which Beast had only two Horns and that like a Lamb but spake as a Dragon and exercised the Power of the first Beast which first Beast having a Wound by the Sword and did live all the World wondered after who had made War with the Saints and overcame them and all worshipped and do worship the Beast that had a Wound and did live whose Names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World if any Man hath an Ear to hear let him hear Here is Wisdom let him that hath Understanding count the Number of the Beast who carryed Mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots who was drunken with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs Oh horrible Night Oh deplorable Time and Season that hath been over all the Nations Tongues and People this Forty and Two Moneths all which time the holy City hath lain trodden under Foot and this Thousand two Hundred and Sixty Dayes which time the Witnesses have Prophesied in S●…k-cloth and Ashes and have been slain by the Beast whose dead Bodies have lain slain three dayes and a half in the midst of the great City not put into Graves which i● s●iritually called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified the Woman which was clothed with the Sun hath been in the Wilderness a Time Times and an half the Book of Life was sealed with seven Seals But now that which lies on my Spirit is to manifest that this horrible Night of Apostacy entered at first through the departing of some from the Power even the Power of Godliness it self into the Form thereof through which came into the Churches the before-mentioned horrible Evils And this Depature from the Power is occasioned through going out of the Daily Watchfulness in the Gi●t of God in which and through which the Power of the Almighty is daily felt and manifested and through the getting up of that Wisdom that is sensual in which the cunning Serpent the Devil wrought to bring in Damnable Heresies privily for this is the Treacherous Part in Man in which the Devil hath appeared against the Life the Truth the Power in all Ages and Generations for herein he makes a Likeness of the Truth and thereby and therein setteth up Prescriptions and Rules and Limits to the Spirit and Power of God it self and those born of it and this is that which hath and would kill the Heir the Life that Self may have the Inheritance and this birth of the Evil One leadeth to sacrifice to their own Net and herein the Apostacy came in privily cunningly and gradually and improved it self through the Workings of the power of the old subtil Serpent in his Transformings as an Angel of Light in the Wisdom of Men which is from beneath and is sensual For that which caused the Appearance of the Lord Jesus in the Apostles dayes to be Glorious was not the Wisdom of Man aforementioned but the Out-goings and Daily Arisings and Manifest Operations of God's Eternal Power and Spirit in which no Graven Image Likeness or Similitude can be set up for that 's the Work of the Devil in the Wisdom and Will of Man that acts like the Devil of it self apart and without the daily and continual Revealings of the Eternal Power of God Almighty and all Knowledge either gathered by or standing here puffeth up and at last leads to forsake the Life and Power like Demas But now dear Friends ever-blessed be the Name of the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Faithful through Ages and Generations past the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath caused his Ancient Power and Arm to be reveal'd after this sore horrible Night of Darkness that hath been in and over the Earth and the good Old Way and Ancient Path of Life is again revealed into which Thousands and Ten Thousands have been called and many have been gathered Magnified and Praised be his Name for it let it be given and returned to him through Ages and Generations even for evermore for that he hath remembred and visited again the Distressed in the Wilderness and is bringing forth the Desolate so that now she is seen leaning on her Beloved and Life from God is entered into the two Witnesses and the Seven Seals are opened and opening and great Babylon is come in Remembrance before him to be sunk down and destroyed by a perpetual Destruction and now Jerusalem is coming down as a Bride adorned for her Husband the Seven Thunders uttering their Voices the Perfection of Shaking that the Mystery of God may be finished But dear Friends the same Roaring Lyon that appeared in the Ages by-past is now going about and that diligently seeking how he may destroy this Appearance of the Mighty God in this Age and Generation by drawing the Mind and Heart gradually aside from the Eternal Power it self that first visited and also through his many Instruments opposing the Truth that are led captive at his Will And now dear Friends there is no Preservation but in keeping to the Simplicity of the Gospel and to the very Living Almighty Power of the Lord God by which all being kept low Self and that part aforementioned that the Enemy worketh in will be made of no Reputation but be humbled to Death even the very Death of the Cross which is the Power of God and here let all keep in the pure Retiredness in the Valley of Humility in pure Dread Fear and Awe and let that be your Instructor and Teacher that hath been least and not the Wisdom of Man for that will lead in Nature from the Power although in Name own and speak thereof And dear Friends a Travel hath been on my Spirit beyond all expression That the Enemy may never deceive any of us as he did Eve by Subtilty for this I declare in the Name of the Lord God The Enemy worketh no way which hath a tendency more secretly destructive to the Appearance of the Most High God in this day then in the Wisdom of Man which is not that Wisdom that is from above which Wisdom is pure and peaceable the Nature of which is to lay low all as the Nature of the other which is sensual is to make Men and Women grow Jesurum like thick and fat and high which leads and turns from the Broken-hearted Tender Contrite-spirited estate And so dear Friends in the Bowels of unexpressible Love to all that have been visited with the right Arm of God's Salvation and are tender before the Lord keep in the Light in a daily watchful Estate for if there be not a keeping here a good State and precious Growth in the Truth may soon be lost and an Image of the thing come up in its place God Almighty in his Heavenly Power by the working of his everlasting quickning Spirit open unto you all the many Snares Wiles of the Enemy by which he lies in wait the Innocent to deceive and preserve all in the Gift of his Love in the sight and knowledge thereof that by the daily Manifestation and Operation of his pure Power we may break all the Enemies Snares in the same live to his Glory to the end of our days And all Friends every where all to your Tents dwell and walk with the Lord build on the sure Foundation the try'd Corner-Stone which they only do who hear the Word of the Lord and do it so shall you and your Building stand in the stormy Day that comes to try all Foundations and Buildings in which day the Floods will come the Waves will beat the Rain descend and then all Sandy Foundations and all Buildings how stately soever built thereon shall fall and great will be their Fall and perpetual Destruction And so the Lord God preserve you all to build and be establish'd on the Foundation of many Generations so will you go through the Fiery Tryal in which nothing shall be consumed but the Dross Lead Tin and reprobate Silver for the Gold will endure the Tryal and the Wheat the Fanning but the Chaff will be blown away and all the Stubble consumed by the dreadful purifying Fire of God that will try all The Lord gather the Upright into the Ark of his Covenant and into the Munition of Rocks where Bread will be sure to the Hungry Ones and Water to the Thirsty in which Estate the God of the Spirits of all Flesh preserve and keep his Flock and Family every where and abundantly water dew upon and Replenish His even from this time forth and forever and ever Charles Marshall Tetherton in Wiltshire the 7th of the 1st Moneth in the Year 1673. THE END

Mankind from off the Earth and when Men began to multiply upon the face of the Earth the old Enemy led them to build that which God took no Delight in and therefore he came down and confounded them and scattered them but Abraham he called from his Fathers House beyond the Flood who obey'd the Voice of God and believ'd in him and did cleave to the Lord with all his Heart and Soul and obey'd to whom the Lord promised To multiply his Seed as the Starrs of Heaven and as the Sand on the Sea-shore and covenanted with him in the Circumcision and gave him Isaac in which the Seed was called of whom this Seed was to spring that was to be as the Sand of the Sea and Stars of Heaven then Abraham being required to offer him up reasoned not with the Lord nor disobeyed the Voice of his Maker but took the Lad and the Wood and the Knife and went to the Land of Moriah to the Mount which the Lord had shewed him but the Lord after he had proved him spared Isaac and the Ram was offer'd up of which Isaac came Jacob in whom the Seed was multiplied which Jacob wrestled with the God of his Fathers for a Blessing and prevailed with God and then was named Israel of whom came the Children that went down into Aegypt to Joseph who was hated of his Brethren because of his Dreams afterwards Israel multiplied into a People who were Oppressed by Pharaoh who knew not Joseph and would have destroyed the Seed of Israel and have hindred them from multiplying howbeit God preserv'd Moses that goodly Child who was drawn out of the Waters who when he was keeping his Father-in-Law Jethro's Sheep and drave them to the Backside of the Desart and came to Horeb the Mountain of God then the Lord appeared in the Bush in a Flame of Fire saying I have surely seen the Affliction of my People which are in Fgypt and have heard their Cries by reason of their Task-Masters for I know their Sorrow and the Lord God by the Hand of Moses wrought Wonders in the Land of Egypt and plagued Pharaoh and brought Israel out of Egypt's I and by an Out-stretched Arm and by a Mighty Hand through the Red Sea on the Banks of which they sang the Song of Deliverance but the same Enemy that stirred up Pharoah to oppress them and hinder them from coming out of Egypt moved in their Hearts to disobey the Lord and to-draw them from a Belief in that Power which had so signally delivered them howbeit the Merciful God of Jacob healed the Waters and notwithstanding caused the Manna to come down Morning by Morning to seed them he also smote the Flinty Rock and brought forth Waters after they thus murmured he brought them to Sinai where the Glory of the Lord appeared and there gave them a Law and Precepts but notwithstanding they had seen the Wonderful Hand of the Lord and his signal Deliverances were fed and preserved by him yet they murmured in their Hearts against the Lord and through the Workings of the same subtil Enemy to whom they gave way made Godds of Gold and in their Hearts would have gone back again unto Egypt and Rebelled against the Lord and so the Enemy of Mankind the Devil prevailed that after the Spies had spied the Land they murmured against the Lord and against his Servants so as that the Lord destroyed them and their Carkases sell in the Wilderness to whom the Promise was save Joshua and Caleb Men of another Spirit howbeit Joshua led their Children over Jordan to possess the Land of Canaan unto whom the Lord was good and performed all the good Things promised and they drave forth the Inhabitants of the Land and inhabited it and here the Enemy Satan prevailed again so that Jesurum waxed sat even thick and kicked and then he forsook God that made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his Salvation and went and served other Godds and the Lord delivered them into their Enemies Hands howbeit when they were brought low the Lord heard their Cries and delivered them by the Hands of many Instruments which he raised up as Judges and Kings in Israel even unto the time of David who sound Favour before God and desired to find a Tabernacle for the God of Jacob by whom he delivered Israel who went out in the Strength of the Mighty God and sought their Battels whose Heart loved the Lord whose Name is a Sweet Memorial but Solomon his Son built a House for the God of Jacob and the Temple that was a Figure and the Lord was with him and Israel and his Glotious Presence was amongst them howbeit the Old Subtil Enemy that deceived Adam turned Solomon's Heart from following the Lord to follow other Godds and built a Place for the Godds of the Heathen after which the Enemy fill'd the Heart of Jeroboam to do wickedly and Israel departed from the Lord howbeit the Lord sent his Prophets arising early to whom they did despitefully even to John a Prophet and Fore-runner of the Messiah whom they beheaded and slew the Just One the Anointed of the Lord and believed not on him who was the Heir notwithstanding the Mighty Works which he did who was manifest in due time taking not on himself the Nature of Angels but the Seed of Abraham who sent the Comforter the Spirit of Truth the Holy Ghost which came upon the Disciples and filled them through whom the Power of the Most High God was signally manifest smiteing Thousands at the Heart and in that Day many were added to the Church and great Grace was upon them and there was in that Blessed Day of the great Appearance of the Mighty God daily the Revealings and Manifestings of his Eternal Power so that great Fear came on the Regions round about and the Word of God grew but presently the Roaring Lion that through Ages went about to destroy the Appearance of the Lord God by his Power stirred in the Hearts of the Ungodly to oppose that Appearance over whom the mighty Power of the Lord gave his Servants much Victory yet he ceased not but transformed as an Angel of Light and in his Instruments wrought to draw People from the Power of Godliness into the Form of Godliness and brought in damnable Heresies privily through his Instruments that arose amongst the People of the Lord and in that day he wrought powerfully that notwithstanding the Church was in the Glorious Splendor of the Heavenly Celestial Life as a Woman cloathed with the Sun having the Moon under her Feet and on her Head a Crown of twelve Stars and travelled and brought forth the Man-Child who was to rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron yet he in the Appearance of a Red Dragon who had the seven Heads and ten Horns and seven Crowns on his Heads stood ready to devour the Man-Child but he was caught up to God and to his Throne and the Woman having two Wings as