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A77950	A measure of the times: and a full & clear description of the signes of the times, and of the changing of the times; and of the reign of Antichrist, who hath long reigned, and of his down-fall, which is at hand; and of the kingdom of Christ which is now setting up in the earth. Shewing unto all people in all nations, what the state of things hath been in ages past, and what the state of things are at this present day. ... And also, here it is manifest, concerning the teachers of this age, and the root from whence they sprang, who are manifest to be of that stock of false prophets, which Christ prophesied of should come, and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes, and how that the night of darknesse hath been upon all, for many generations: ... And also, the restauration is described, which shortly cometh, wherein Christ shall reign, whose right it is, and shall change laws and decrees, and the lamb shall be the light of all nations, ... and their King shall possesse the uttermost parts of the earth. By one who hath measured the times, who is come to the day that hath made all things manifest. Edw: Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6012; Thomason E919_6; ESTC R207505	31,897	44

for her husband and the Saints should inhabit it and the Tabernacle of God should be with men upon earth and the Lord would dwell for ever with his people and this day is approaching nigh at the doors for the fig tree hath blossomed and we know it is near at hand the summer wherein the glory of the Lord shall be revealed unto all Nations and they shall know that he is the Lord God Almighty that will take vengeance upon the great whore who hath made all drunk with the wine of her fornication And now after the long night of Apostacy and darknesse which hath been upon the face of the earth is the Lord appearing and his day dawning and his light breaking forth as the glory of the morning and the Kingdome of God is revealed and his dominion is setting up after the long reigne of the Beast who hath had his power and his seat and his great authority from the dragon after whom the whole world hath wandered and him hath worshiped who have been saying who is like unto the Beast who is able to make war with him his mouth for many generations hath been opened in blasphemy against God and his name and he hath made war with the Saints and his power hath overcome them marke overcome them and then himself hath reigned and the reigne of Christ for many yeares hath not been known but over kindreds and tongues and Nations hath the Beast had power and over them hath reigned for many ages and all that dwell upon the earth hath worshiped him whose names are not written in the book of life the earth hath been caused and them that dwell therein to worship the Beast and by his wonders he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth and as many as would not worship the Beast and his image the Beast hath had power that they should be killed and many hath he killed who would not worship him and are persecuted and both small and great rich and poor free and bond hath received the marke of the Beast and the number of his name which is the number of a man he that reads let him understand these things hath come to passe and been fulfilled since the Apostles dayes in this night wherein no man could worke which Christ said would come but now the fourty and two monthes which time the Beast and his image was to continue and so long was his power to remaine to make war and to overcome the Saints I say the time is well nigh expired and finished and the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb is arisen to make war against the Beast and his image who hath reigned over the Kingdomes of the world and the judgment of the great whore cometh who hath sit upon the Beast and drunken the blood of the Saints and with whom the Kings of the earth since the Apostles dayes have committed fornication and all the inhabiters of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication and all the merchants of the earth hath been made rich through the aboundance of her delicacies and she hath sit upon the scarlet coloured Beast and her cup in her hand hath been full of abominations and filthinesse of her fornication and her name is mistery Babylon the mother of harlots and all the Kings of the earth hath given their power unto the Beast and committed fornication with the great whore and she hath sit over people and multitudes and Nations and tongues since the Apostles dayes and even some who have hated the whore and fulfilled the will of God and made the whore naked yet they give their power also to the Beast untill the word of God be fulfilled Consider these things you that hath an ear to heare but now the mighty day of the Lord and the judgment of the whore is approaching wherein she shall be rewarded according to her works and double shall be given her into her cup and as she hath loved blood so shall blood be given her to drinke and the merchants of the earth shall lament her whom they have waxen rich by who hath glorified her selfe and lived deliciously and hath said in her heart I sit as a Queene and am no widow and shall not see sorrow but now the one day is dawning wherein her plagues shall come death and mourning and famine and she shall utterly be burned with fire for strong is the Lord that is risen to judge her and the Kings and merchants and all the inhabiters of the earth shall lament her and shall cry Alas alas and now are they beginning for the hour is come that her judgment cometh and all her merchants who have trafiqued with the souls of men shall partake of her plagues who have partaked of her sins and lived deliciously with her and the fruites that her soul lusted after shall depart from her and all things that are dainty and goodly shall depart from her and she shall find them no more at all when her judgment cometh and in an hour all her riches is come to nought and her merchants at land and Sea shall lament her even her that hath ruled over Nations and sit as a Queene for many generations ever since the dayes of the Apostles untill this day yea all that have wandred after her even the whole world shall lament and bemoan her and such as have served her and made slaves of the souls of men by merchandize and trafique shall bewaile her and their gaine shall cease for ever for in one hour shall she be made desolate and her glory shall fade and her beauty shall wither and the Beast that hath carried her shall utterly faint and the false prophet that hath wrought miracles in their sight and deceived the Nations shall be cast into a bed of torment with her and the Beast and the false Prophet shall be taken and cast alive into the Lake of fire to be tormented for ever day and night world without end and the whore in whom hath been found the blood of the Prophets and of the Saints and of all that were slaine upon the earth and the Beast who hath caused all that dwell on the earth to worship him and his image for many ages and the false Prophet who hath deceived the whole world and all Nations and made them subject unto the power of the Beast by his miracles which he hath wrought in the sight of men these shall be plagued together and tormented together for the false Prophet and the Beast hath sent forth their uncleane spirits like frogs unto all the Kings of the earth and unto the whole world to gather them to battell with their Armies to make war against him that sits on the white horse even the Son of God and this is the false Prophet which Christ prohesied of to come which long since came and hath served the Beast and the great whore for many generations and many even all Nations have been deceived as

and his name and power is declared in the hearts of his people to the overturning of all unrighteousnesse and though every horn of the Beast push against this and every head with his members set it selfe against it yet the councell of the Lord shall not be disanulled nor made voyd for the Scepter and dominion of his Son shall be exalted over all the earth and the Princes of the world and the Kings of the earth shall lay down their Crowns and become subject for the Kingdomes of this world shall be changed and shall become the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ the Kingdome of the Beast must down and the Princely power of darknesse must be overthrowne and Lawes and times and things and powers of men shall be overturned and overturned till he come to reigne in the earth whose right it is to reigne over Nations and people And because of this the rage of the Heathen hath been great and the councells of the wicked many and strong from the prophane drunkards to the chiefest professed teachers of this age even all the whole body of the Beast hath joyned it selfe against the purpose of the Lord men of all conditions from the highest to the lowest have armed themselves with mischiefe to offend the way of truth This is written as moved of the Lord to go abroad through the Nations that all may understand concerning the times and the changing of times how that the Beast hath reigned in dominion over Nations tongues and people and all have worshiped the Beast and gone after the false Prophet here all may come to a good understanding what hath been and what is and what shall be how that when the power and government of Christ was lost through departing from the faith which ruled in the Apostles dayes then the whole world was as unstable in wayes and judgments as a Sea then out of the Sea one beast arose and another after him arose out of the earth and all hath been caused both small and great bond and free to worship the beast and the image of the Beast yea all the dominions of the world hath for many ages been subject to the power of the Beast in all things and not known the worship and power of God and the pure subjection to him but the Kings of the earth and all her Princes have given their power to the Beast and hath received their authority from him and acted thereby many of them in great unrighteousnesse in injustice and oppression and cruelty in pride and rebellion and vaine glory in quarilling one with another to the murdering of thousands of thousands and this hath all been brought forth under the power of the Beast and by it and his heads and hornes hath exalted themselves one against another and smitten one another and the great whore hath made them all drunke and all people upon earth with envy pride wantonnesse and all unrighteousnesse this hath been since the Apostles dayes in this night of Apostacie wherein the whole world hath been subverted by false Prophets and deceivers and the Kingdome of Christ hath not been known upon earth for many generations but the Beast hath been established in his Throne of rebellion against Christ Jesus his decrees hath been Lawes and statutes and he hath made war against all the Saints and overcome them and reigned over them untill this time and troden down their City and defaced their glory but the blood of the just hath cryed day and night under the Altar the soules of such as hath been slain for the Testimony of the word of God have cryed day and night how long Lord how long when wilt thou avenge our blood upon the heads of our enemies even the Beast the whore and the false Prophet and this hath been for many ages even while the Kingdome of Antichrist hath been set up and advanced through the world and his power and authority hath reached over Nations bond and free from the Prince on his Throne to the begger on the dunghill even all hath been subjected under the power of the Beast that nature having ruled within every particular hath given him the authority without over all and admired him and said who is able to make war with him Antichrist hath ruled over all by injustice oppression and tyranny in unrighteous Lawes and through wicked decrees old Pharoah-like he hath laid heavy yoakes and oppressive bondes upon the just for who would not be subject to him he hath had power to kill them and none was able to gainsay such hath been the greatnesse of his power and the strength of his dominion over all that none hath been able to make war against him he hath been admired in all the world not any Nation excepted where the government of Antichrist hath not borne rule and there hath been none left to bear witnesse against him or to stand up against him for the faithfull witnesses hath been killed and slain in the streets of the great City which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt and all them that have dwelt upon the earth have made merry over their dead bodies and rejoyced in their iniquities over the slaine and been without a reprover and not tormented nor troubled but have sent gifts one to another because they have slain them who have tormented them that dwell upon the earth and the government of the Beast hath been enlarged and the whole world hath wandered after him and been in subjection under him for many generations even for fourty and two monthes he that can read let him understand so long hath it been given him to make war against the Saints and to overcome them and it hath been given him to reigne over all people in the wrath of God and in his anger because of the rebellion of all the earth and all people in it but he shall be taken away in Gods displeasure who reignes in his anger over the Nations who hath forsaken the Lord and was given up to the power of the Beast to be subjected in slavery and bondage in pain sorrow and misery and through deceit craft and pollieic and oppression and by the wisdome of this world and naturall artes and knowledge his government hath long been established and his dominion hath been upon earth times and Lawes and things and powers of men have been in his hand to change and subvert and overturne into his own image and to transforme them like to the Beast none upon earth hath bought or sold or judged or given evidence or been respected in all the world that have not had the marke of the Beast and the number of the names of Antichrist rich and poor and small and great hath received his marke as a seale of their subjection to the Beast whose many heads and many hornes hath subjected all by the force of his arme and he hath blinded the eye least men should see him and cast darknesse over all faces and the false

Lambe who shall reigne over Nations and his Saints shall see him and his name shall be in their foreheads and there shall be no night but light and glory and the Kings of the earth shall bring in their glory and honour into it and the gates stand open and is not shut every one that thirsteth let him come the cry is unto all and yet nothing that defileth shall enter these are the faithfull sayings of the Lord who is true and must not long be sealed for the time is at hand and all men shall read and all that keepeth the commandements of God shall have right to the tree of life and blessed are they they shall be healed though now they suffer all manner of evill for the name of Jesus by the Beast and under his power by them that worship him who must fulfill wickednesse by persecuting the innocent till the Lord be raised out of his habitation and the dominion shall be given to them and they shall have power to binde Kings in chaines and nobles in fetters of iron this is their honour and this is their dignity and they shall rejoyce for ever and ever and shall glory in the Lord and not in this world and this shall come to passe as the Lord hath said Wherefore all Nations and people arise arise and be awakened prepare prepare and make way for the Lord be removed ye Mountaines and thrown down ye hills and hewen down ye sturdy oakes and cut up ye tall Cedars make way and prepare the path for the holy one who is coming to rule with his iron rod and will dash you all to pieces be afraid and tremble thou Beast that hath long reigned over the earth and all thy false Prophets and worshipers be confounded at this and bow and tremble at the remembrance hereof he whom you have hated and crucified and his Saints whom you have persecuted shall come to reigne over you all and to him whom you have set at nought must you be subject to and ruled by to all your sorrow for behold the Lord cometh with his numberlesse number of Saints And this is a warning to all Nations and people upon earth times and Lawes must be changed among you governments and orders must be changed unjustice and oppression shall be removed and every yoake and burden shall be taken of from the neck of the poor true judgment and justice mercy and truth peace and righteousnesse shall be exalted and all the Nations shall have Judges as at the first and counsellers as at the beginning and the poor shall rejoyce when true judgment and justice reigneth and the false Prophet subdued And this is a warning to you all that you may hear and consider the Lamb who hath been slain who is risen to reigne who is the Prince of peace of whose government there shall be no end even he hath lightned all man kinde on the face of the earth the fight is the eye which will let you see all this and will bring you to the fulfilling of it and to the good understanding and it shall evidence the truth of this even the light of Christ in all men which is given to guide in the way of peace THe Kingdome of Christ is setting up and it is not of this world neither shall be exalted nor advanced by worldly pollicy and worldly wisdome nor by carnall weapons nor by the multitude of an host of men it is true the Son of God is gone forth conquering and to conquer and the Spirit of his mouth and the word of his power shall get himself the victory his own arme alone without the helpe of another shall worke the conquest and his Kingdome shall be set up within every particular of his subjects for none can know him reigne without them unto their salvation till they know him to reigne first within for that which opposeth the Kingdome of Christ and the setting of it up is within every man and must be subdued within where it hath ruled and the enemy of Christs Kingdome which hath lodged within must first be subdued before there be dominion over his enemies without This is the word of the Lord to all people for he that pursues his enemy without and leaves him in his own house is foolish and out of the way and shall be overcome of his enemy and shall not overcome him therefore ye that are waiting for the Kingdome of Christ be awakened and seek for it where it is to be found not without you first but first within strive not to obtaine it with your carnall weapons but take the weapons which is spiritual which only will overcome be not deceived for through suffering must the Kingdome of Christ be set up and not by rebellion through crafts and plots and secret pollicy and turbulent arisings nor strife in the nature of enmity by this meanes shall the Kingdome of Christ never be advanced And this is the word of the Lord and our Testimony which we give of the Kingdome of Christ who is indeed arisen to make war against all his enemies and they that follow him are called and faithfull and chosen whose weapons are spirituall and mighty through God and reacheth to the killing and subduing of all flesh and he must war till all his enemies be subdued and must reigne over all his enemies till the Kingdome be delivered to the Father where he shall be all in all The 3d month 1657. All ye Inhabitants of the Earth in all Nations through the World Hearken and give ear the Word of the Lord God that made Heaven and earth is towards you He is coming to set up his Kingdome and his Dominion which never shall have end and the Kingdomes of this world shall be changed and shall become the Kingdomes of the Son of God ALl ye Kings and Princes and Rulers through the whole world the Lord is coming up with his mighty Host against you all he who will fanne you and sift you and try you and search you out for his fanne is in his hand and he will throughly purge you and you shall all know that the Kingdome of the most high God rules in the Kingdomes of men all your glory shall fade away all your Majesty and Honour and Dignities and Dominions shall come to an end all your strength is but as a straw all your treasure as a thing of nought all your glory as a fading leafe in the presence of the Lord God that made heaven and earth all Nations upon the earth are but as the drop of a bucket befo●e him and the hearts of all men are in his hand and by him Kings rule and the Princes of the earth are at his disposure and you are all weighed in the Ballance of equity and found too light before the Lord for all flesh hath corrupted its way before him Be awakened ye that have long slept in darknesse and been at ease in the flesh ye that have had

A MEASURE OF THE TIMES And a Full Clear DESCRIPTION OF The Signes of the Times and of the Changing of the Times And of the Reign of Antichrist who hath long reigned and of his Down-fall which is at hand And of the Kingdom of Christ which is now setting up in the Earth SHEWING Vnto all People in all Nations What the state of things hath been in Ages past and what the state of things are at this present day And also what shall be the state of things hereafter which suddainly cometh to passe the time is at hand for times are changing and renewing and the Kingdomes of this world shall be Translated into the Kingdome of the Son of God And also Here it is manifest concerning the Teachers of this age and the root from whence they sprang who are manifest to be of that stock of false Prophets which Christ prophesied of should come and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes and how that the night of darknesse hath been upon all for many generations and how that the Beast hath Reigned over Nations and Kingdomes and his false Prophet hath deceived the whole world who have all worshipped the Beast and wondred after him who have warred against the Saints and overcome them and the whole earth hath been made drunk with the abominations And also The Restauration is described which shortly cometh wherein Christ shall Reign whose right it is and shall change Laws and Decrees and the Lamb shall be the Light of all Nations and there shall be no need of any other light when the Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdom of Christ and he alone shall bear the Government and no other King for he shall rule all Nations with his Iron Rod and the Kingdomes of the Beast shall be overthrown and his power subdued and they that have given their power unto Him shall be ashamed and all the Kings of the earth shall lay their Crowns down at the feet of the Lamb and the numberlesse number of the Saints is gathering and the Dominion shall be in their hands and their King shall posesse the uttermost parts of the earth By one who hath measured the times who is come to the day that hath made all things manifest EDW BURROUGH LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1657. A MEASURE OF THE TIMES THE Lord hath opened my heart to declare and the words of my mouth shall be the words of truth and of a good understanding to every one who hath an eare to hear whose eare the Lord hath opened to hear and understand things of old and the state of things as they have been in ages and generations past and as now the state of things are at this day Hearken and consider and let your eares be open to instruction For the word of the Lord is towards you that your hearts may understand the things that belongs to your peace now in your day before the time come that they be hid from your eye and your eye be darkned never more to perceive but you left to perish and to die with the uncircumcised Behold and give eare ye Inhabitants of the world see and consider in what time you are fallen even in a time of darknesse and Apostacy wherein thick darknesse covered all the world and a vaile of ignorance the faces of all people Death hath reigned King over all and the Cloud of thick blindnesse hath laid on the hearts of all men O how hath darknesse blindnesse and ignorance covered all men even as a cloak and a garment How hath the eye been blinded the eare stopped and the heart hardned So that the Lord God and his way his truth and salvation hath not been manifestly known heard nor felt nor witnessed for ages and generations the words thereof have been professed but the power and life thereof hath not been enjoyed But men have been deceived with the forme of Godlinesse without the power and cheated with a likenesse of things without life and have sought the living among the dead and worshipped Idols which have been without sence and understanding and with lying imaginations and feigned likenesses hath the carnall part which ruled in people above the seed of God been fed and with shadowes and outward appearances and the soule hath been starved Alas alas woe is me because of these things my heart within me is broken and I am perplexed The shadow of death hath been the lodging place of all people and the vaile of ignorance hath been a covering and the darknesse of heart hath been followed for a Law and a blind understanding have been the guide for ordinances and statutes and Death in the beastly power hath ruled as King in all the dominions of the earth and in all mens hearts and men hath been without the wisdome of God even every eye blind and every eare deafe and every tongue dumb and every heart corrupt and void of understanding and every foot lame and all men have been altogether imperfect for the living God hath been as a stranger unto the children of men lesse known by men then the owner to the Ox and lesse perceived then the crib by the asse and all flesh hath corrupted its way before the Lord Woe is me when I consider how man who was planted with the choisest vine even Gods image and was a noble plant is degenerated into the plant of a strange vine unto God and brings forth wilde grapes and soure grapes which the Lords soule loathes and thus have the vineyard and the plants thereof rewarded the husbandman with fruit of a bitter tast and with the reward of corruption And man is condemned in his transgression for want of the knowledge of God more then the Oxe and the Asse Pride covetousness lust and envy backbiting lying drunkennesse whoredome theft murder and all manner of evill and sin against God more then can be expressed is abounding and supera bounding among men in this Generation Iniquity is grown to the full the measure is up and the number of transgression is sealed that the Lord may arise who hath been pressed as a cart with sheaves and now is the Lord arifing and he hath said Ah I will ease me of my adversaries and be avenged on my oppressors And vengeance belongs to him and he will repay and will destroy the vineyard with the plants and fruits thereof and the bryers and thorns shall be consumed and he will lay wast and devoure and confound all his enemies in a day when his indignation goes forth and his sword is made bare and his purpose cometh to pass in rooting out the oppressive seed of evill doers which hath filled his habitation wherein he should dwell with cursed children and a brood of evill births In the dayes of Christ and his Apostles was the hand and power of the Lord felt and the Lord gat himselfe a name and a glory and he caused his

mouth and the church of Thyatira suffered that woman Jezabell to prophesie and to teach and seduced the servants of the Lord to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto Idolls and she and her lovers was to be cast into a bed of torment and her children should be killed with death and all the churches should know that God searched the reines and the hearts and every one should receive according to their deeds and the church of Sardis had only a name to live but was dead and her work was not perfect before God and upon them would the Lord come as a thiefe and they should be in darknesse and not know what houre he would come And the church of the Laodiceans were luke warme and neither hot nor cold and the Lord would spew her out of his mouth for she was wretched and miserable and poore and blinde and naked and the shame of her nakednesse did appeare and if any had an eare to heare they might heare these things were spoken by him that lives for ever the first and the last the beginning and the Amen so that hereby the Lords soul was vexed and his spirit grieved and his wrath was suddenly kindled against them who were revolters and backsliders from his way of salvation which he had made manifest to them through the mouth of his servants so that his fury went out against them to overthrow them and to break them to pieces and they being turned from his Law and from his statutes he gave them up unto their own hearts desire and brought in the heathen upon them to confound them who broke them asunder and trod down many of their Cities and gained great Ports of their dominions and made them slaves by multitudes and overthrew their worship and subjected their power even the Turks and base uncircumcised people made a prey upon them and possessed their habitations and set up abominable Idolatries in the place where Gods honour had dwelt and their dominions and treasures without became spoyle to the teeth of devourers for they having lost the terrour of the Lord he brought up the heathen to be a terrour unto them whose power was mightier then they and overcame them they being without the power of God and this justly came upon them according to the purpose of the Lord because of their backslidings And others of them who was not so given up to the will of an outward enemy yet were they given up to strange Idolatries and subversion and setting up images and worshiped that which is not God but abomination to him to this day so that the holy City which had been full of glory was given to the Gentiles to be troden downe and under their poluted feet hath it been stamped and to their mouth hath it been a prey for such a time even since these things came to passe unto this day as you may read and the Beast and false Prophet hath ruled in oppression and the great whore hath made all Nations drunke with the wine of her fornication All the great men and Princes and nobles and all the people upon earth have been made drunke by her and touched her uncleannesse and ever since the day wherein the backsliding entered she hath fit upon nations and kindreds and tongues and people and hath been decked in divers colours to deceive the hearts of all people and all Nations have been deceived by her and the beast and his power whose dominion hath been great hath upheld wickednesse by a Law and established Idolatry by decrees and all have been out of the way and wandring in blindnesse and darknesse even the whole world have worshiped the Beast and gone after the false Prophet which sits upon the Beast and his power protects him till they be both overthrowne into perdition and cast alive into the Lake which now the Lord is comeing to doe in power and dominion and great Babylon is coming into remembrance before the Lord and as she hath done so shall it be done to her her children is dashing against the stones and her offspring is withering away and the darknesse is vanishing and the Sun is appearing and the beastly power shall be subdued and the false Prophet confounded even the old Dragon shall be bound and chained never more to deceive for the Beast hath had a long reigne with his false Prophet who have prophesied lies and false divinations and led away the minds of all people For marke and consider Christ Jesus who came into the world with glad tidings of good things even with peace and salvation he said the glorious day was come and even that day which many Prophets and wise men had desired to see but had not seen the earth was filled with light as I have said yet he farther prophesied and said that the night would come when no man could work and that in the last dayes false Prophets should arise and deceive many and should come into the world and should cry loe here and loe there is Christ and and if it were possible should deceive the very elect and the Apostle John in his time who had been an eye-witnesse of Jesus and had handled and tasted and felt the word of life and had been with Jesus and bore a true testimony unto him in that very age and generation he saw the false Prophets and antichrists come and coming in and aluded to the very sayings of Christ by this we know said he that it is now the last time for there are now many false Prophets and antichrists gone out into the world they were not of the true Apostles but went out from among them being gone out from the light in their own particulars and beguiled the hearts of the simple by good words and faire speeches and went in Balaams way for gifts and rewards and in Caines way to envy and murder as you may read in the Scripture so that in Johns time the false Prophets which Christ foretold off were come and they did deceive many according as Christ had said and they drew many from the wayes of God and subverted many from the truth and made havocke of the flock and were grievous wolves according as Paul had said and truth began to perrish from among men and the power thereof ceased and the apostacy came in and the forme was set up for a season so that John farther saw and said the whole world went after the Beast and false Prophet whom he saw before was come and worshiped the Beast and his image But a few whose names were written in the book of life and as I have said the holy City with the outward Court was troden down by the Gentiles foot and darknesse surprized all and wickednesse abounded more and more and the night came upon all as Christ had prophesied and the Beast grew in his dominion till there was hardly any man left to beare witnesse in the truth and in the power of God unto the name of

Christ said and led aside and blinded and bewitched by him And as I have said these teachers of this generation are of them of their Root and off-spring which long hath flourished on the face of the earth But the day is at hand that the heaven and the holy Apostles and Prophets shall rejoyce over the whore and over the false Prophet for the Lord comes to avenge us on her and as she hath done so shall it be done unto her now in this day wherein Jerusalem shall be builded againe and the holy City which the Gentiles have trod under foot for fourty and two monthes which time is expired and near a full end accounting from the dayes of the coming in of the Apostacy untill this day if any have an eare to heare let him heare this I have received from God I say the holy City shall be measured and the Gentiles cast out and she shall be adorned and as a bride for her husband shall she be prepared and Gods Tabernacle shall be with men and he will dwell with them and they sh●ll be his people and God himselfe will be their God and all teares shall be wiped away and there shall be no more death nor sorrow for the former things are passed away and all things shall be made new And what I have said are the faithfull sayings of God every one that is a thirst shall drink of the water of life freely and he that overcometh shall inherit all things and shall be called the Son of God and shall dwell in the holy City which long the Gentiles foot hath troden under which shall againe be adorned and prepared as a Bride for her husband if any hath an ear to heare let them heare And the glory of the Lord is risen and his day is breaking forth more abundantly and the Lambe is given for a light and all Nations that are saved shall walke in the Light of the Lambe and the King of righteousnesse who hath been long fled into Egypt while Herod the Beast which hath sought his life and driven the woman into the wildernesse hath reigned shall againe be set upon the holy hill of Sion and rule all Nations with a rod of Iron and trample upon the necks of all his enemies the Nations hath not for many ages been ruled by him But the Beast who hath ruled over kindreds and people and said who hath been able to make war against the Beast and to the power of the Beast hath all Nations been subject and the dominion of Christ hath been troden down and despised and his holy City hath been laid wast and his Princely power hath not been felt nor witnessed in the Kingdomes of men for ages and times nor him the one head and the one horne hath not been known but many heads and hornes hath been exalted and all Nations and all the Princes and Kingdomes of the earth hath been subject unto the Rule and Law of the Beast and to the divinations of the false Prophet and darknesse hath been over all and God hath been as a stranger in the earth as one not known he hath been worshiped ignorantly and the inscription every where hath been to the unknown God but now after all this the glorious God of truth hath appeared and great and mighty hath been his hand and power in this our day in raising up a righteous branch out of the Root of righteousnesse and in gathering his scattered people up to himselfe who have been scattered by the Idoll teachers and deceived by the false Prophets and made a prey upon by the wilde Beasts of the Forrest O how hath the people been made a prey upon by their teachers and greedily devoured by dumb shepherds who have sought themselves and sought for their gaine every one from his quarter for many ages how hath people been led blind by their blind shepheards and none to this day come to the knowledge of the truth by them for these have run and was not sent and therefore the people have not been profited at all as it was in Jeremiahs dayes so is it now no profit among people in the knowledge of the wayes of God but leanesse and barrennesse and as the teacher so his people all out of the way in prophanesse and wickednesse and prophanesse is gone forth from them into many Nations yet is the Lord bringing backe his inheritance which hath been driven away into the desolate wildernesse yea and the Lord hath caused his light to shine out of darknesse and unto them that have sit in darknesse and in the shaddow of death is the marvellous light risen that the glory of the Lord may be revealed and Gods Tabernacle may be with men and the holy City is a preparing as a bride for her husband and darknesse shall fly away and sorrow and sighing shall no more be known but life and immortality shall againe be brought to light as it was in the dayes of the Apostles This I have received from God and the Lord shall be known to be the God of his people and for this cause hath he called and chosen faithfull witnesses and given his powerfull ministry by the gift of the holy Ghost as it was in the Apostles dayes and now many are called to declare abroad the things which we have heard and seen and handled and the Gospel of Christ is received by the Revelation of Gods eternall Spirit and Son in our hearts and the power is made manifest and the forme of godlinesse is denied and judged and Christ the one head is exalting and the one horn of Gods salvation is revealing and the many heads and many hornes must be broken to pieces and be confounded in this the day of the Lord for his purpose is powerfull in carrying on his own work against all his enemies so that none is able to hinder But they that set themselves even the Beast and his power which is now struck at and his Kingdome is invaded hath raised the force of his power and the policie of his arme yet shall they be confounded and no formed weapon shall prosper against the Lord and his way who is now arisen to avenge himselfe of the Beast and his power and the whore and her fornications and the false Prophet and his divinations which all must into the wine-presse of Gods dreadfull wrath to be troden and all that worship the Beast and repents not shall partake of the plagues of the Beast and of the whore and though the false Prophet gather Gog and Magog together to fight against the Lamb and to compasse the beloved City about yet he shall and them that he gathers be broken to pieces and driven as dust before the wind and as stubble before the fire for the purpose of the Lord shall stand Great Babylon is come into remembrance before the Lord to reward her according to her deeds and the Lord will cause his truth and his salvation to be known in the earth

peace in this world and pleasure in the vanities thereof the Lord is coming to make war against you his trumpet hath sounded and his Sons and Daughters is gone forth to bear witnesse of his Majesty and Power and Dominion and the Lord hath spoken who can but prophesie he hath given the word and many are they that publish it Let your eares be open to instruction and kicke not against the Lord neither harden your hearts against him but make way for him and prepare his path for he cometh to judge the world in righteousnesse and the people with equity and the testimony of the light of Jesus in you all shall witnesse for him your Princely powers must become subject to the power of the Kingdome of the most high and your glory must be vailed and darkned before the glory which the Lord is causeing to shine forth and we the servants of the most high doe give you warning of the day of your visitation which is upon you and all the world for the Lord is now risen who hath long winked at the time of great ignorance but now he warnes you all to repent therefore bow down ye stiffe-necked and tremble ye stout-hearted and be abased ye lofty-looks our King is above you all our dominion is over you all and the line of true judgement are you all measured with and your wayes are not found perfect in the sight of the Lord nor your hearts right before him his Kingdome hath not been known in your dominions neither hath his Law and his Judgements borne rule but you have every one bin doing that which is right in the sight of your own eyes and the counsells of your heart hath been nought but vanity before the Lord vain glory hath abounded among you which the Lords soul hath been burthened by the honours and pleasures of the flesh hath been your delight and strife and enmity hath been among you and warres and quarrelling and fighting one against another and you have rejoyced in the over-throw one of another and in destroying one another and you have taken pleasure in gaining one anothers dominions you have striven who should have been the greatest and greatly opressed the poor you have exalted your selves one against another and drawn up your Armies one in defiance of another and the Bloud of thousands hath been shed to satisfie the humors of your proud hearts all this hath been evill in the sight of the Lord and his Spirit hath been grieved and his soul vexed by all this and he hath forborne till he hath been weary for he hath been dishonoured by all this and his Law hath not borne rule and his judgements hath had no place you have been cruell hearted one towards another and mercilesse and without pitty and you have not done to others as you would be done unto but you have rendred evill for evill and sought occasions of evill one against another and vexed one another through the pride of your hearts Therefore now is the Lord risen to make warre against you all and to dash you to peices the feller comes up amongst you he that will not spare to ssay and to devoure who will not be affraid of your lofty lookes he will spoile you of your treasures and lay waste your strength all ye kingdomes of the earth and your gathering together against him is but as briers and thornes for he will exalt his owne Kingdome over you all and all yee Kings of the earth shall know that that the Kingdome of the most high must rule in your Kingdomes and your lawes shall be changed and the poor shall no more be opressed for he is come that proclaimes liberty unto the Captives who will remove opression far away who will change times and worships and ordinances and there shall be no Law but the Law of God nor no light but of the Lamb nor no worship but the worship in the spirit and in the truth for all your worships which the nations are full of is nought but vanity and a lye immitations and superstitions brought forth in hypocrisie and not in an upright heart vanity of vanities hath abounded both in civill and spirituall affairs The root in which you stand is wholy corrupted and no good fruit springs from it but cursed fruites which must be hewen downe and cast into the fire ye have been evill and could not bring forth any good you are corrupted and your fruit is of a bitter taste a day of sorrow of lamentation and misery is coming upon you all ye that have been high and lofty and stout hearted fearfulnesse shall surprize you and the terror of the Lord of Hosts shall compasse you about I am moved to salute you all with this as a warning and when it comes to passe remember you have been told ye that know not the kingdome of the most high ruling men but are saying in your hearts this hath my hand done in a moment shall you be smitten and know there is one above you which must rule for it his right to rule over all nations and there shall be no King but Jesus the anointed of God nor no government but the government of the Lambe there shall be no more warres but war against the Dragon who hath stood to devour the man-child which is now bringing forth and he must rule with his iron rod and shall subdue all under his feet We whom God hath warned cannot but warn you of these things whith are to come to passe he is coming to seperate betwixt the just and the unjust he will gather from among you that the wicked may be consumed from off the face of the earth All you Rulers in the world I warne you all take heed how you persecute such as comes to warne you who brings this message to you least you add sin to sin till there be no place found for repentance for ye shall all know our God is the true God that made heaven and earth before whose presence all flesh must come to judgement By a Friend unto the Creation E. B. FINIS