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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54452	A visitation of love, and gentle greeting of the Turk and tender tryal of his thoughts for God, and proof of the hearts of his court, and the spirits of the people round about him, in his own dominion, and the inhabitants of the earth that are borderers upon his skirts, in their declared religious wayes : and is a warning to all men that are in the corrupted wayes of sin and iniquity, to repent and turn to the living God ... : to which is annexed a book, intituled, Immanuel, the salvation of Israel / written in the will and countenance of God, by ... John Perrot.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?; J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671? Immanuel, the salvation of Isreal.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1639; ESTC R40666	27,935	40

and dread and awe of his Name Therefore I cease not to cry Fear fear dread and tremble tremble before the Lord God of Hosts ye Sons and Daughters of Adam be ye shaken as in a tempest ye strong Oaks and tall Cedars bow down ye lofty Hills and exalted Mountains let the Rocks and stony places of the Nations be rent let al be made as a smooth place for the Lord God to execute his judgments in righteousnesse that the Lord God alone may be exalted in majesty in every heart let all knees bow every tongue confess his Dread and infinite Power that under the Fountain the Nations and People may stand that the streams may issue and run down upon every head and make glad every heart with the oyl of annointing the living and pouring wisdome down as Floods making way in the hearts of the sons of men in counsel and prudence to receive the Oracles of God as a portion of a plenteous Treasure thereby to encrease in the vertue thereof which shall cause a mans brightnesse to glimmer in the eye of his enemies make the Heathen wonder at the appearance thereof make the fool roar out when he feels his back smitten with the Rod of Prudence which his younger in years bears in his right hand ruling the heart in uprightnesse This is the Treasure Wisdome whereof the Messiah is the Fountain who hath revealed himself the light of the understanding of the heart of man who is the seed made manifest which was spoken of after man fell into the degeneration subversion should come and bruise the Serpents head to restore again that Image which was lost through mans disobedience And now unto the appearance of his grace that is to say the light wherwith every man is lightned which cometh from the Messiah they must be turned which shines in their consciences which as I have said doth shew a man in spirit and in secret his sinnes and the reward and wages thereof wch is death everlasting to all that dye and perish in their sinns And this light in a mans conscience will keep his heart pure and in pure fear out of the offence as he is led by it it will lead into patience temperance meeknesse chastity charity peace and all vertues so that every day of a mans years shall add to the understanding of his heart until all the gloominesse of the former time and darknesse of the night be driven away by the dawning of the day day-star arising in the heart the revelation of the Son of righteousnesse in the glory of his light and life And much more of the beauty and vertue then I do mention it will lead unto as unto quietnesse and setlednesse out of strife and hard contentions fighting aud quarrellings or raising of tumults or seditions or heresies or sects or many Opinions to the dividing of Nations but will unite all and make all of one heart and of one mind to establish Authority set the supream in his Seat of Dominion to rule in righteousnesse and establish his Seed for ever and will lead all into subjection to Authority and all unto the knowledge and Understanding of the true Power of Authority and Office of Magistracy in the place thereof which is for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well How might this be spoken of Oh how might it be declared No Scepter so glorious no power so strong no Dominion so certain stable as his who walks in the light by it to be redeemed from under every curse of God mark I say Redemption and blessing stands onely to the Seed and the Seed is the light of the world He that hath an ear let him hear And to this Seed in man must man come that is to say to the light wherewith he is lightned that the Seed may live unto which the promise of Life and blessing is for not unto Seeds as unto many was the promise made unto Abraham but unto thy Seed in which God spake a parable to the whole world so that mankind in the blindnesse hath stood out of the knowledge of the Promise and that unto which the Promise was made and therefore far from receiving the blessing which is with the Promise unto the Seed This is the sum Man must know the Light in his conscience to rule him else he is as a wild Ass unruly without a brdile in his mouth or curb to his way and knows no restraint to the wickednesse of his heart but is ready to run swiftly in the open passages of mischief and rushes on fiercely in wickednesse as a fed Horse in the battel having not in his heart the regard of God or his soul and so he murders Abel the just Seed in him and that lets out a mans heart to murder the just man upon the earth without him as if blood were of no price or value or as if it should never more be required by the Lord at the hands of the guilty and blood-thirsty I say A man must know a guide in spirit the light in his conscience to rule his mind and heart that by the light in his conscience he may witnesse and know what the abundance of his heart is and so see whether everlasting blessing or cursing is to it for thus it is out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh and so doth every member of the body act whether good or evil Let all hearts ponder this thing and know That Gods blessings are not to the wicked murderers blood-thirsty Whoremongers covetous lustful-hearted abominable beastly natured but his heavy curses and vengeance and judgements and plagues hangs over the heads of the ungodly and corrupt walkers and behold the day cometh which shall burn as a Furnace seven times over-heated and as an oven filled with burning flames and all the proud and all the Adulterers whores and whoremongers envious and wicked-hearted the Drunkard and all manner of the ungodly shall be as straw in the drought of Summer and shall be consumed in perplexity and horror many then shall seek a hiding place but shall not find any And the wicked Kings and Princes of the Earth shall arise unto that great judgment and shall feel the terrors of Hell and Wrath and Woe from the Lord God of Hosts to compass them on every hand and the recompence of fools shall be the reward of the unrighteous who have sinned out their time in pleasure and delight in corruption Had I the tongues of many Orators and the hands of many swift writers I could not express the misery and infinite endless horror of Gods fierce Wrath and Vengeance which shall overtake the wicked as a snare and how the Lord God will be avenged of all those that have slaughtered mocked or reviled their neighbors or the man of a meek heart his Prophets and Messengers as in all ages they were persecuted as hereticks and seducers And

rebel and tempt the Lord God although his mercies unto them were the greatest Yea I may say there was not a Nation that tasted of mercy as your fathers did eat and drink of salvation from many Enemies and deliverance from numberless afflictions yet how was it from age unto ages often in their streights they murmured and when they were at ease they waxed fat through mercies and kicked against God until Shiloh came the promise unto the Remnants of your Seed but he coming not according to your Fathers expectation even as the wonders of God in all ages were wrought contrary to the expectations or imaginations of the hearts of men and therefore they took counsel together and put him to death And thus the promise came unto many for without blood there could be no remission of sins although by the wilfulness of your Fathers in this matter ye have from that time been as a curse over the whole earth Neverthelesse for you there is a hope left yea for you a promise remains if yet ye return and enquire and seek diligently as in the morning and be found early and earnestly striving as in the timely season before the advantage of the day pass over your heads and ye be left as in the place of blindness where all your hope and expectation shall wither and be made fruitless as a thing of nought And therefore I say Not as you will have times and seasons and Dayes and Worships and Deliverances come to pass shall it come to pass unto you or be brought to pass concerning you but as the Word of the Lord God is and hath been the same from Ages which reacheth also unto this Age from the Dread of which the sons of men shall not escape nor find a hiding-place to rest themselves who walks in the wayes of uncleanness and doth traverse the paths of iniquity and unrighteousness And therefore wait for the word of the Lord God unto you that you may come to know your motion in righteousness that you may feel the vengeance removed which hath been long over your heads that thereby you may come toknow the redemption in your dayes and the restauration of God in the season of his appointed time until which in vain is all your Synagogue and Temple-worships and Altar-Offerings And therefore all people upon the face of the Earth Jew and Gentile Barbarian Scithian Bond and Free must all come to know that principle and measure of the gift of God which is in bondage in them to be made free by the powerfull operation of the work of the Lord through them which thousands and ten thousands for want of the good understanding are strangers unto and therefore are found actors daily in enmity to the motions of it and that is a dangerous state in whom the God of this world whom the Heathen worships hath blinded the eye of their minds mark hath blinded the eye of their minds whereby the whole world are but in the History out of the understanding of the Mystery and Power of godlinesse and life of the Prophets and holy men of God of old I say therefore unto all flesh living Keep silence and listen to the word of the Lord God in silence mark listen to hear the word of the Lord in spirit in silence when all reason and earthly consultations and disputings and questionings in the mind is cast out in the bed in the vineyards in the secret closet in the fields and then it shall come to pass to your remembrance that there is something in man which convinceth a man of the evil of his wayes and that will shew a man the iniquities of his youth and the sinnes of his riper years and bring all unto his remembrance in the fight of the Lord and then it will be seen that not any Sacrifice or Oblation hath blotted out any one sin out of the remembrance of God when as man in his own Conscience is accused for all yea then is the sacrifice short of blotting out iniquity and his prayers short of removing his transgressions nay further If a man should offer ten thousand Rivers of Oyl and the blood of a thousand Bulls and He-Goats and as many Rams and were it the Fruit of his body for the sinne of his soul it cannot purge the heart or cleanse the spirit and therefore not clear the conscience from the just accusation of God in the hidden parts of a mans mind and secret meditations of his spirit and if in this state a man perisheth where is the refuge which he shall flie unto in the last hour and in what standeth the hope of life everlasting all sober hearts in this may read the danger of ignorance and peril of blindness in the lust of sinne and unrighteousnesse out of the true understanding of the true worship and service of God And forasmuch as wisdom removeth the vails of darknesse and openeth the path of iniquity and leadeth to the Fountain of righteousnesse and bringeth to the Well-spring of truth I hereby hold forth the ground thereof and from whence it springs and how it comes to be received and stood in to the honour of the living God and beautifying the Face of the just and renown of the upright The dreadfull God of Heaven and Earth who is a spirit infinite who is light is the Vertue Fountain and Treasure of wisdome peace and life everlasting Mark and read with understanding God who hath been a stranger unto the Inhabitants of the Earth is light who searcheth every heart and tryeth the reins and the hidden part of the bowels hath sent his onely begotten Son a Light into the world whose light shineth in the consciences of every man that cometh into the world by which light in a mans conscience he is convinced and condemned for his wickednesse This light convinceth a man in his own heart and understanding of lying and swearing and pride and envy and persecution and dissimulation and murder and whoredome and all unrighteousnesse and uncleanness both of flesh and spirit This light is pure which sheweth a man every unclean spot of his life and unto this light in a mans conscience must a man turn in his mind to be guided by it in his heart which cometh from God who is light and by it which cometh from God who is the Fountain a man will be led to the first principle of the good understanding that is to say unto the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdome which Solomon the wise King spoke which was not only his words but also it was his life whereby he came to grow in the wonderfull Understanding and admired wisdome which Regions round about were amazed at And unto this day the Lord God is the same to all that fear his Name in truth and his loving kindnesse is not shortned not his mercy and favour slackned but as man hath slackned his steps in diligence waiting upon the Lord in the fear

day afar off but even nigh unto the door that the Lord will separate of all Nations both Jew and Gentile the just from the vile him that feareth God from him that feareh him not him that keepeth the Law of God which is written in his heart through the sanctification thereof by the power of the Lord ruling in his conscience mind spirit and life from him that in words which professeth God and his Law and Statutes and ordinances and yet walks in his life and daily practices contrary to the Law written in the heart which God spake unto Moses saying The word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it See I have set before thee this day life and good death and evil And unto ye Oh Jews is the same come and before you in the Name of the Lord coming unto you do I set life and death light and darknesse in this the day of the Lord which is dawned unto a measure of the Remnant even in this day which is light and not darknesse wherein the promise of God is fulfilled and it came to pass according to the Prophesie in a day when it was neither night nor day neither dark nor light but in the evening it was a little light And not as from the traditions of my forefathers or the generations of men in the corrupt and polluted nature in the degeneration from God and alienation from the Covenant of life and promise who confessed the Messiah as this generation doth to be come in words with their corrupted tongues and polluted lips but in their works and by their practise and life make his coming void and of non-effect unto them neither by the reading of the Scriptures came I to know that he was come as he is come but by the spirit of the Lord by which I was chosen in the womb and sanctified in the day of my birth by which also I am seperated from the Land of my natural nativity and brought unto the feeling of sorrows in a strange Land for your sakes I come to know and now to declare unto you that Immanuel who is God with us who is the light of the world the Messiah in the power of God who is a spirit is come reigning in spirit in the hearts of his people over whom and in whom he rules as King treading down and trampling upon all principalities and powers making the Earth new and the Heavens also warring against all which is contrary to his own pure nature in many until he hath put all his enemies under his feet and then will he give up the Kingdome to the Father that God may be all in all And for this cause also even for your sakes who are of most men despised in heart I pass as one desolate and despised and hated and mocked of many and many more of the nation of my naturall birth would gladly have my blood yet am I not forsaken of him that sent me with his message unto you of salvation and everlasting glad tidings of Redemption And now he that hath an ear let him hear and a heart to perceive let him understand Be it known unto you all That God hath more regard to your souls then that you should perish in your sins and your souls is more precious in his eye for which he hath ordained life everlasting for as many as come to believe then the pleasure and ease of your corrupt careases which are to rot in Graves and Sepulchres And therefore for the Lord to regain his own Image which is lost in man through fall in the transgression and to r store man unto the same uprightness where in man was created which was the promise of God unto man in this wise the seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head Behold unto you it is given forth and declared for the redemption and restauration of the seed the Messiah came and now is coming the second time without fin unto salvation even he cometh now in spirit and in power who was the Rock whom your Fathers in the Wilderness forsook and the light of the world whom your Fathers slew at Ierusalem which brought a grievous curse upon you of being a people troden upon by all the world and not onely so but the most lamentable thing and curse which is over you for which cause my soul mourns for you that such cruel hard-heartedness distrust doubt jealousies and unbelief coveting fraud deceit dissimulation and Hypocrifie hath vailed your hearts and grossely darkned your understandings Oh that is the worst of all that is the greatest curse in how much throughout ages the Iews have been given over unto vile affections hard-heartedness sinn and unbelief which is the cause why ye cannot rightly speak of the things of God and understand the Prophets writings which were spoken and do stand as mysteries yea deep mysteries to your thick hearts your understandings being covered as with a thick cloud of darkness which now we the seed Abraham of the true Iew inwardly do walk by the light thereof as a Pillar of fire by night and therefore said the Lord by his Prophet for want of knowledge my people perish The Prophets they prophesied of the Messiah to come in spirit in a mystery to the whole world Iew and Gentile so that when he came he was not received but by the Remnant in them dayes as he is received now in these dayes but unto whom the spirit of wisdome and understanding was given to read and understand that which the Prophets spake forth in Parables to the whole world of mankind which lay in sin and wickedness And therefore ye Iews now in these dayes ye ought not to speak of God or to name his name in perversnesse whilest ye hate to be reformed in your hearts minds and spirits but ye ought to hear the Message of the Lord God and to ponder it in your hearts that you may see how farre ye are yet from the Promise being not come in truth in spirit and in life unto the condition thereof fulfilled and made up in you untill which ye cannot justly expect the fulfilling of the promise unto you in the substance For whilest you are in your sins as your Fathers were in their sins in the day that they slew Jesus at Ierusalem you cannot but as men in the flesh look with any other than an eye of flesh for a God of flesh to come among you and to save you by the Arm of flesh Oh blind and sottish of dull ears and dark understandings and so could not your Fathers neither can you now as you stand see him that cometh to ransome the seed in spirit and in power Behold none other but Immanuel the Messiah which is God with us the light of the world that is come unto us and is passing through the whole world who will smite the earth with the Rod of his mouth and with the

sons of men that are not in the corrupted wayes and what is that which they have attained unto which will lead out of the corrupted wayes and are not all Nations living in lying and swearing and whoredome and pride and envy and murder and drunkenness in the corrupted wayes Q. 2. By what is it that God tryeth the wayes of men and what makes the truth and error the corruption and incorruption of all wayes manifest to man whereby man comes to have assurance beyond all the traditions of his forefathers that he is in the true way a faithfull servant of the Lord or that he is out of the true way of God a servaut of Satan through the lust of corruption in sin and transgression Q. 3. What is the equal measure in man which when the hand of the just measureth giveth unto every man full due and keepeth not back the due from his Neighbor neither can oppress any but giveth unto his Enemies just weight and full measure also and loveth his enemies and rewardeth his enemies good for evill shewing by his good that his conversation is just and his Religion not in vain Q. 4. Whether is it love or wrath patience or rashness humbleness or pride temperence or immoderacy in life and gefture towards acquaintance or stranger the good or the evil that establisheth the Prince or the King upon the Throne and what is the good that leads unto the good order of the best part and how ought a man to follow it to be established in righteousness and in peace to the end And whether if a man knows not the good in him to guide him is not his foot subject to slip and he to fall Q. 5. Whether would my owning of one Prophet in vertue before another Prophets life avail me any thing if I had not received the spirit of the Prophets And how can the confession of any Prophets Name shew thereby that a people is of the Truth And what if any man should own God in words and all the Prophets in words and the Messiah in words what would that avail any man if he were not in the same pure way which the Prophets stood in and knew something in him which is of the nature of God Q 6. Will not that which trieth all people and Nations try all Elders and Prophets also in all nations and give testimony unto all people fearing God whether they are of God yea or nay And is not this also the testimony of false Prophets to say it shall come to pass according to the words of their Prophesie and it comes not at all to pass but they speak presumptuously as saith the Lord unto Moses concerning the false Prophets And doth not this give testimony of a true Prophet when the word of the Prophet cometh to pass according to his Prophesie that the Prophet shal be known to the people that the Lord hath truly sent him Q. 7. The Messiah was the promise of God from the beginning and he was manifest in the flesh in spirit but how doth he now bruise the Serpents head and what part in man is that which is the Serpent and who hath felt the power and operation of the other Seed in his heart to bruise the Serpents Head without which there is no Salvation Q. 8. What and how is the world set in mans heart as saith Solomon whereby a man cannot find out the beginning or the end of the work of God And how comes the mystery of the writings of the Prophets which speaks of the Kingdome and glory of the living God tobe known understood in spirit and life as they were given forth Q 9. Let me ask of the Prophets in Asia and enquire of those that prophesie in Africa what is the interpretation of my vision let the Emperour enquire of them one by one lest they dream a Divination of their own heart and consent together in falshood and so deceive thee and but mock him that uprightly enquireth that the Emperor may have the understanding of the Times In my Vision I saw seven Trees planted in seven places and the ground of six of them where they grew was of one nature and each Tree had his Fence about him and I saw many Workmen labouring to raise the defence higher they began to labour when it was a little light the night shortly overtook them all that they could not work any longer so that they saw not good of the works of their hands and therefore they sate down and slept in sorrow And it came to pass that there arose a Star which while the Workmen slumbered it shewed me that the first Tree was full of Moss and withered without shooting a leaf so waxed rotten and I heard one say that notwithstanding it should remain for a season untill a fire be kindled The second sprouted out some certain leaves and it grew into two bodies from one root the one was more green fresh in colour then the other and it came to pass that a wind blew and they dashed each other but the green part stood longest although her leaves falled therewith and the body waxed dry at the Root The third prospered for a little season but much heat parched the branches thereof and that also decayed The fourth had a time of prosperity but the Winter-season blowed cold winds over her boughs insomuch that the rind therof peeled away so that the body was left naked and it with red standing The fifth grew by a pleasant Brook the Waters thereof refreshed her Root but the ground being not good to retain the moisture although that she buded and blossomed yet it came to pass that a wind from the north gently blew over it and many of the blossoms were blasted and the rest that remained although they came to grow towards the goodness of Fruits yet afterwards there came a rushing wind from the rising of the Sun and they all fell in an untimely season The sixth grew mightily more tall and lofty then all the other five and was the most of all beautified with the largest leaves and delightful coloured blossomes which covered her large quick spouting boughs but imediately her root became a nurse of rottenness And I saw an Ax blade in the hand of a certain Shepherd and Io he looked over all the six and said This is because of their unfruitfulness and yet a sorer thing must come to pass and he turned unto the seventh Tree which was planted in a low valley unploughed and behold her body bowed and she stooped unto him that had the Ax blade in his right hand he took a member of that Tree without hurt to the body and he made therewith a Helve for the Ax and fastened it thereunto And he turned again towards the sixth Tree and smote it that it fell to the ground and so he passed to the Fences of all the other five first and made breaches upon them that they may