THE LAMBS GOVERNMENT TO BE EXALTED over all in Israel who is the Captain of their Salvation whose Right alone it is in whose mouth is found no guile and not any other Birth Spirit Man or Image whatsoever OR THE GLORY of the LORD Risen like devouring Fire to search out every false Birth and false Spirit and to consume Anti-Christ with the Spirit of his mouth and destroy him by the brightness of his Coming And this is a certain Sound in season to awaken the mixt-Multitude throughout the whole Host and that all may come to the Tryal and search and see what Spirit and Birth they are of and in what Spirit and Dominion you Rule and Govern who are Masters Parents and Governours of Families throughout all the Tribes of Israel c. With an Exhortation from God that none within the Camp seek to Physitians or things of that kind outward for any distemper weakness sickness or disease whatsoever without his leadings and counsel who leadeth into all truth c. Also That no Babe among them should strive or study for the comprehending or attaining the knowledge of the Laws of men or Nations to make their defence c. With a Dear and Tender Salutation to the blessed Seed and Children of the everlasting holy Covenant of Promise throughout the whole Creation Given forth in the movings at the commandment of the Captain of Israel By one that followeth him WILLIAM BAILY Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdome and strength and honour and glory and blessing Rev. 5.12 For by him were all things created that are in Heaven and in earth visible invisible whether they be Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Powers all things were created by him and for him and he is before all things and by him all things consist he is the Head of the Body the Church who is the beginning the first born from the dead that in all things he might have the preheminence Col. 1.16 LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. THE LAMBS GOVERNMENT TO BE Exalted over all in Israel JEsus Christ the only begotten Son of God the holy Seed the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world that lyes in wickednesse in whose mouth guile is not found whose name is called the Word of God whom all are to hear whose Kingdome is not of this world whom God the Father hath raised from the dead and appointed heir of all things and Head over all to his Church and given him a name above every name that at his name every knee should bow of things in Heaven and things in the Earth and every tongue confesse him to be Lord to the glory of God the Father whom he hath given for a Leader and Commander of the people in whom alone is Redemption and Salvation and not in any other This is the Captain of thy Hoast O Israel this is thy King and Law-giver thy Judge and Saviour and every spirit seed motion or thought which is contrary opposeth or riseth against the life of this pure righteous precious seed wheresoever or in whomsoever it is or appeareth is of Antichrist which the Lord God will consume by the spirit of his mouth and destroy by the brightnesse of his coming without respect of persons And this hath been the Testimony of the Servants of the Lord in Ages past and this hath been and is our Testimony who are his Servants unto the world in this Age which work he is now cutting short in righteousness for his Elect Seeds sake in whom alone he is well pleased which hath long been pierced wounded grieved and oppressed by the contrary seed of evil doers which have alwayes opposed and exalted it self above all that is called God and would not that he should reign who is the Truth the Resurrection and the Life whose right alone it is and for whose sake the Lord God Allmighty will overturn overturn overturn till he possesse it unto the ends of the earth And well said the Scripture that There are many Antichrists in the world and many false Prophets shall arise and shall deceive many and many shall come and say I am Christ whereby many may be deceived c. Now this I do not onely read without in the world but in the world which is set in mans heart which hath been deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who hath searcht it out to the full or who knoweth it perfectly or who hath sought out all its secret Chambers of Imagery Truly I find but one right seed right Spirit Image or birth which rightly seeth and rightly judgeth all things and searcheth out the most deep and hidden things wayes forms shapes turnings or spirits It is a noble plant a noble birth and there is not a deeper speech then it can understand nor a form that it cannot see to the foundation or through the vail to the root thereof It is the Elect which cannot be deceived neither will it deceive any who joyn to it believe and trust in it but it s not of this world neither is its kingdome and glory of this world but from above over it in the Majesty on high from whence it is born far above the Principalities and Powers of the Rulers of the darkness of this world the Dominions and glory of which are but its temptations to draw from the more noble into the visible fading glory Heaven is its Throne and the Earth its Foot-stool Therefore his Followers must be redeemed from the earth from the world the glory the spirit and nature of it within in which lyeth the ground of temptations and the deceiveablenesse of unrighteousness and the lying wonders and the many Antichrists which doth arise in the secret Chambers against the appearance of this noble Seed to stand in the room of it to satisfie the mind saying I am Christ to wit I 'le give thee satisfaction I 'le be thy food thy guide or leader c. feeding the mind with false-hood and vanity till at last it proves a false Prophet which hath deceived and cast down many strong men wounded Therefore Hearken O Israel to the voyce of the Captain of thy salvation and give not heed to nor believe any lying vanity within or without Neither be thou satisfied with a false Conception or false birth a false rest or peace short of the Election short of the noble plant of renown the wholly right seed whose Kingdome is not of this world this is the Heir against which many false Prophets and Spirits Antichrists have risen up to dispossesse him of the Inheritance But all that go or climb up before him are Thieves and Robbers therefore be watchfull and diligent for your Adversary goes about seeking whom to devoure and fear always before the Lord thy God O Israel and believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God for there are many false spirits and false births which are not of
in thine own house And the sheep that was Lost brought home upon shoulders of the good Shepherd who laid down his life for their sakes And when the Lord withdrew his presence for a little moment was not thine heart troubled and couldst thou be satisfied till thou hadst found him again whom thy soul loved And when thou hadst found him didst thou not say in thine heart This is my beloved this is my friend I will hold him fast and not let him go untill he hath brought me into the house of her that bare him or into the Land of rest in which is peace joy comfort and satisfaction for evermore Didst not thou rejoyce when Moses came to Pharaoh King of Egypt the Land of Bondage and Darkness and Charged him to let thee go though it were but three dayes Journey into the Wilderness because of the heavy Burthens and sore Afflictions which thou enduredst under the oppressing Task-masters of the uncircumcised But didst thou think what would befall thee in the Wilderness the many holes and pits and turnings among the wild beasts in drought hunger and sore travell Yet how did the Lord allure thee and then many times spake comfortably unto thee And led thee by a right way though it seemed hard and strange unto the murmurer and to that spirit which would have made a Captain to return back into Egypt that Land of Darkness and Bondage on which the plagues were poured forth because of the oppression of his seed Therefore hear O Israel and consider who is a God like unto thy God or what man was able to do these things which the Lord hath done for thee by his own Arme which he stretched forth and revealed in the midst of thee who gave thee Precepts Commandements Statutes and Judgements to direct guide counsel instruct and strengthen thee in the way thou shouldest walk which is none other then that which first appeared for thy deliverance though its Name was then known no greater then I AM or the Light of Israel which did after become a flame and the holy One as a fire to consume and destroy his and thine enemies round about This is he who said I am God I change not therefore the sons of Jacob are not consumed This is thy God who commanded thee saying Thou shalt have no other Gods but me nor make forme or grave any likeness or Image to bow down unto For I the Lord thy God am a Jealous God and will visit the iniquity and sins of all them that transgresse against my Commandements Therefore take heed that thou bow not or give thine heart mind and affections unto any thing visible or invisible but to the Lord thy God alone whose Name is but one and changeth not even the Light which makes manifest all things and divides the Darkness from it and hath no fellowship with the unfruitfull workes and workers therein but doth reprove them though never so secret and will not hold him guiltlesse who taketh his name in vaine And all they who depart not from iniquity and whose tongues are not bridled ruled or subjected by the power of the Lord and who are not thereby guided in wisdome meekness and fear such take the Name of the Lord in vaine such are guilty and shall so appeare before God Angels and men For as I said the day hastens in which no shadow of death or secret dark place though as deep as hell or as high as the starres of heaven shall be able to hide the worker of wickedness under the fairest Covering The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Therefore again hear O Israel and repair with speed every man to his Tent and none look out but all feel and see the glory of the Lord God which is like devouring fire at thy Tent door burning up all that which is contrary to him that thou mayst be preserved in this day of the Lords Passeover who is not onely passing over but also through the very hearts reines and Consciences of the Children of men with his grounded Staffe yea even searching and trying to the ground and bottom of all foundations and buildings And he will fight with the contrary the dark mountaines the false foundations and deceitfull Coverings with Battles of shakings of totterings of stripings and rentings yea the vaile shall be rent from the top to the bottom though it be in the very Temple it self that they that have lyen in their graves may arise and come forth and that he might appeare before the eyes of all to be the Son of God in whom is no guile who humbled himself to the death of the Crosse and through it came to Triumph over principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places This is thy Captain O Israel therefore think not of another nor make another nor forme any likeness of him or of any thing in heaven or in earth for there is not another whom thou art to worship follow or subject unto but him alone at whose presence the vails rent and the dead arise and at whose Birth and coming the heavenly hoast sing for Joy but the Tribes of the earth mourne he that hath an ear to hear let him hear who is now come with power and great glory in the Clouds of heaven not of the earth to reward every man equally according to his workes and words without respect of persons For he is a righteous and just God he is not as a man that he should change alter or vary from what he was in the beginning who by his power is able to raise up Children unto Abraham at this day of them that have lyen among the pots Therefore let your eyes look toward his holy place whence he ariseth to silence all flesh before him and cease from man whose breath is in his nostrills and is as a worme and dust before him And know this that thy God who raised thee to be a people above all the Families of the Earth and hath given thee great dominion that if thou shalt exalt thy self and say This thou hast done and the other thou hast done and secretly take the honour and glory to thy self and listest thine heare up out of the uprightness and integrity before him and shall slight his mercies and not walke humbly in his sight but forget his wonderfull workes and to ascribe the glory 〈◊〉 unto his Name That he then is able to rent the Kingdome from thee and give thee a beasts heart and drive thee out to seed with Oxen even among the beasts of the field And this God will manifest on such as he hath divers times amongst the sons of men That all flesh may feare and tremble before him and bow at his Name which must and shall be exalted above every Name and ascribe acknowledgments of mercy righteousness power and glory unto him for evermore For this is the same God that set a Print upon Jobs heels and marked all his steps whose
judge all things as God judgeth in his infallible righteous judgement and not before or without him who is Lord and Head over all to his Church Friends I preach the Crosse unto the world and to the nature spirit and wayes of it without respect of persons in the sense of what God is doing and will shortly bring to passe that no flesh may glory in his presence And this I say to you all within the Camp of Israel who are of the mixt multitude that came out of Egypt and yet love the Garlick and the flesh-pots thereof that love the earth and sticks in the earth and saves self alive hides from sufferings for feare of losing the earth or your reputation among men you follow not the Lamb of God in whom is no guile who humbled himself to the death of the Crosse for the Joy that was set before him who made himself of no reputation and had not whereon to lay his head who set his face like a flint because of truth and righteousness against all unrighteousness hypocrisie and wickedness whatsoever without respect to the persons of any possessions or places of any For which end he was born and for which end his followers are born who feel him born within them even to witness for the truth and to stand up upon the Earth and plead for it and suffer patiently for the Testimony which they hold till the Spirit of life from God arise in the Consciences of ungodly and wicked men to plead his own Cause with them You I say who are of that spirit of self-saving you have and shall have your reward as the Pharisees had as the mixt multitude had and as the murmuring Israelites had God gave them their hearts lusts seeing they desired it but sent leanness into their souls This is your state therefore take heed and be awakened and retire back to the foundation of God out of the earth for the Lord will crosse you and vex you by rolling the earth out of its place and will abase your reputation and bring you into shame and contempt til you know that the Most high ruleth amongst men and governeth in the Kingdomes and Authorities amongst men and people who is higher then they whose the Earth is and the fulness of it and not yours you must give an account to him how you have ordered it and used and improved it to the praise and exaltation of his Name and the help of the true woman For the earth and heavens are hers and the Childs which she brings forth to govern the Nations and you are but as wormes and Grashoppers in Gods sight who can crush you and tread down the high places of the earth in a moment and rebuke and break in pieces the strong Nations in a moment and this is the Lord God of heaven a doing that all people may fear and obey him And these things are coming to passe and will be accomplished by him that respecteth not the persons of men but will reward every one according to his wayes And my friends Judgement hath begun at the house of God but greater things then many have yet seen are approaching for a short work will the Lord make on the earth for his oppressed Seeds sake for his great Name sake amongst you and in the world therefore expect you not great and finall destruction to come upon the wicked without untill the Temple is neerer built For I tell you nay you must first be faithfull followers of the Lamb if you would see your Conquest over the Beast Dragon Whore and false Prophet the Antichrists without you must first see it and your victory over the world and the spirit of it through faith and patience within for this way it cometh to passe that no flesh should glory but be abased even to the dust from whence it came And this have I seen in Gods secret Counsell even how he will accomplish his great work among his people and how he will destroy his and their enemies with a finall destruction even like a whirlewinde when once it ariseth Therefore my friends Gird up the loines of your minds watch and be sober and waite alwayes upon God and feel your hope to the end and be not hasty but remember the dayes of Noah how the Lord was long-suffering till the Ark was finished then came the Floud upon the world of the ungodly And thus is the son of man come and his long-suffering to us-ward who obey his voyce is salvation Let him that readeth understand For as it was in the dayes of Noah even so is it now at the coming of the son of man blessed is the eye that seeth and the heart that understandeth and keeps out of that eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage building and planting there spoken of For much that is joyned together must be separated and scattered and much that is builded and planted must be thrown down and plucked up by the roots and the earth must be burnt up and the Elements melt with fervent heat For hot will be the day in which all the ungodly shall become as ashes under the soles of the feet of the Saints of the Most high and in which the sons of Levi shall be purged and purified as fine Gold which day is but as it were begun amongst many but it draweth neere and hasteneth greatly Therefore blessed is that wise servant that is alwayes ready waiting for his Lord and who is giving his fellow-servants meane in due season and do not eare and drink with the drunken nor smite his fellow-servants for on such the day will come unawares and in an houre they think not of And this hath the Lord God Almighty proclaimed which shall sound a certain sound throughout all the Tribes of Israel and to the ends of the Earth Amen So this I have written in obedience to the Lord that I might be clear of their blood whom it chiefly concernes and concerning whom it came into my heart from God to lay these things before you For I have desired of the Lord to direct me aright in all things according to his will and I labour to keep my Conscience voyd of offence toward him and all men and I travell and pray to God that I may finish my Course with Joy and give up my account dayly and at the last with joy and not with griefe And this God knoweth is the hearty desire of my breathing soul unto his Throne for you all that with one minde and heart we may all press forward in the same way which is the steps and path of the just one that leads more and more unto perfection out of the imperfection out of the earth out of the darkness and the old leavens into Paradise where man was made a living soul in the image and likeness of his Maker where the Dominion is known and the Blessings enjoyed which makes rich and the pleasures at his right Hand which
glorified it with Dominion and Peace And consider what Law or Learning David had when he came from feeding the Sheep being but a youth and what weapon had he when he slew the uncircumcised Philistine more than the smooth stone in the Shepherds Bag he that can read let him without Staffe or Spear in the Name of the Lord. And they marvailed to see the boldness of Peter and John who were ignorant and unlearned men in their Laws and Letters and the Pharisees said The Disciples of Jesus know not the Law and also of him Whence hath this man learning seeing he knoweth not Letters Thus did God confound the wisdome of the wise and prudent in Ages past as in this Age who hath alway chosen the foolish things of this world that no flesh or fleshly part should glory in his presence Therefore Dear Friends Let no Babe or simple one among you be discouraged who are ignorant in the outward Lawes and Letters but keep to the Royal Law in the heart written by the Finger of the living God in which you will feel the springings up of the Royal Seed and Birth which fulfils the righteous Law and Letters and was before the Letters and Lawes of men was whose heart trusteth only in the living God and makes not flesh his Arme. This is the true Seed the Heir But that which makes flesh his Arme is the Seed of evill doers which shall never be renowned And so my dear Friends in all things mind the leadings and counsel of God for he leads his people and guides their feet in the way of peace and he alone is the saving health of all Nations and without him they can do nothing that is good and acceptable in his sight and let your eyes be toward him who is invisible dwelling in the light and neither act or speak out of his fear and counsel then will you be preserved to his praise and to your eternal comfort and peace and whether you eat or drink or whatever you doe let all be done in the Faith to the glory of God for what is not of faith is sin so shall you be kept stedfast on the unmoveable Rock through and over all things which may come to pass as your tryals and be upheld in the meek and quiet spirit which in Gods sight is of great price And in this is the Kingdome and patience of Jesus and the victory of the Lamb known who must Rule and Reigne till all his enemies are put under his Feet Amen To the Blessed Seed and Children of the Everlasting Holy Covenant in the Life of the Lamb of God in whose mouth is found no guile throughout the whole Creation A most dear and tender Salutation O Thou Blessed Seed of the promise who hast long lain as in the Clefts of the Rocks and hast been as a stranger throughout the whole world and yet lyes as a Lamb slain in the streets of Sodom and Egypt spiritually my soul breaths cryes and groans unto the living God for thy sake and I am in sorrow and pain as a woman in travel because of thy great oppressions who knoweth thy sorrows thy griefs and thy secret complaints who knoweth thy sighs thy groans and thy tears amongst the children of men who art as a worm in the lowest parts of the earth bearing the weights and heavy pressures of the iniquity thereof To whom canst thou turn to the right hand or left to unbosome thy self in the depth of thy inward travels but onely to the living fountain from whence thou sprang O O thou Lamb of God which takes away the sin and removes the foundations of the Earth when wilt thou yet arise more in thy beauty and glory among the sons of men to bear the Government on thy shoulders whose right it is That thou mayest lead them forth in the green pastures by the fountain of still waters that thy innocency tenderness and love unfeigned might be known as the waters cover the Sea For thou art without guile the alone pure and undefiled one thou art harmless as a Dove thou art the chiefest of ten thousands thou art altogether lovely the world knoweth thee not thou art as a Lilly among Thorns and as an Apple Tree amongst the Trees of the Forrest thy smell is as Lebanon and thy taste exceeds the Pomgranates O thou fairest among the Sons and thou beautifullest among the Daughters What shall I say of thee O thou Beloved of my soul I am even sick of love my soul is even melted in the breathings of thy precious life and I am even ravished with love in thy presence for thy Countenance is exceeding the Angels of God thou art terrible as an Army with Banners to the ungodly but thou delightest in the upright humble and contrite ones thou art my Saviour in whom my soul rejoyceth and my spirit doth magnifie thee O thou everlasting Son of Righteousnesse Arise arise shine forth in thy strength and glory and drive back all the Clouds of darknesse which have covered the Earth and the grosse darknesse which hath covered the People that the glory of thy Light may enlighten the world and thy brightnesse may shame and confound the glory of all flesh that thy dominion might be known throughout the whole Earth which is an everlasting dominion and thy Kingdome of Righteousness which hath no end that the Nations may come to the glory of thy Light and Kings to the brightnesse thereof to Rule in thine Eternal Counsel Wisdome Dominion and Victory over all that songs of praises deliverance and triumph for ever and ever may be founded unto thee who wast dead and art alive and livest for evermore casting down all their Crowns at thy feet for thou alone art worthy to Rule and Reign and to have all Honour Glory Strength Wisdome Riches and Blessing For thou wert slain because of our sins and art now arising to redeem thy People out of Kindreds Tongues and Nations by thy blood and art becoming King of Kings and Lord of Lords in us thy Babes and Children thou art the Tree of life in the midst of the Garden of God by thy vertue must the Nations be healed thou art the Pearl of great price thy worth is not to be valued with fine Cold thou art far above Rubies thou hast been a Treasure hid in the field dwelling in the lower parts of the Earth and yet above the highest Heavens both which thou hast upheld to this day by thy power thou art the Salt of the Earth and the Light of the world though they have not known thee but trampled thee under foot as a despicable thing thy face hath been marred more than any mans and thy form more than the sons of men thou art that Just One and holy Childe which hath long been as a Servant though by right art Lord of all on thy back hath the Ploughers ploughed long furrows oh how have the Smiters smitten at the appearance of the lifting