is taken away then there is no Condemnation but man is at unity with his Maker all Fear of Death and Torment is taken away for the Sting of Death is Sin and the Strength of Sin is the Law but thanks be to God who hath given us the victory through our Lord Iesus Christ over Sin Death Hell and the Grave together with all the dark Powers of the Earth That as we who are called Quakers do continue in the Light none can overcome us for Truth is stronger than all and the Lord our God will exalt his Truth over all Falshood and deceivable Shews Everlasting Praises eternal Glory and heavenly Renown to his pure holy and perfect Name for ever world without end Amen Amen There is none can forgive Sins but God only neither will he give his Honour to another though Christ said to his Apostles Whose Sins ye remit on Earth shall be remitted in Heaven he spake to them that were filled with his own eternal Spirit and were able to discern an innocent penitent Heart from a Hypocrite in the Light and Life of Righteousness and they did not say they could forgive any their Sins but they were sent to direct their Minds to God who was and is ready to forgive every one that cometh to him by Faith and throughly purged and cleansed from all Iniquity But as for those that have taken upon them to pardon Creatures for their Money or if they will receive their Correction and so deceive the poor People and so he or they that doth pardon and they that are pardoned of them do and will perish together eternally unless they repent of their Blasphemies and Sorceries Divinations Inchantments whereby the poor People are blinded and kept in ignorance and in all manner of Uncleanness and are corrupted for want of Knowledge My People perish for want of Knowledge saith God and the Kingdom is shut up from the Simple-hearted and the Key of Knowledge is hid away by them that will not enter in themselves nor suffer any to enter that would neither will they permit that any of the Lord 's Anointed that have received the Key of Knowledge should speak among the People but they say None ought to speak in the Name of Jesus but the divine Doctors that have received their Ordinations from them The People are blind indeed that do think the Spirit of the Lord can be limitted tyed confined or dispenced by any mortal Man No they that do make the people believe any such thing are absolutely the Messengers of Satan and not the Ministers of Christ they are out of his Doctrine such are Doctors of Divinity that dwell in the Divine Light of God and grow into his Divine Nature and do receive their Ministry by the Inspiration of his divine Spirit of Life and Power and do speak as they are moved and as the Spirit giveth them utterance in the Will of God they are no Men-pleasers nor Time-servers nor Will-worshippers for such cannot please God that seek to please man and they are Hypocrites that walk in the Imitations and Likenesses without the Life and Power observing this thing and observing the other Christ saith The Kingdom of Heaven cometh not with Observations but the Kingdom of God is within you speaking to the unbelieving Jews the Scribes and Pharisees Wise and Learned that were gone out from the Kingdom the Measure of God in them in which is Power to destroy the Works of the Devil in the Observations and Christ reproved them and said to them The Kingdom of Heaven consists in Righteousness Peace and Ioy in the holy Ghost Now that is the kingdom of Antichrist in which kingdom is the City that Cain built that is in the Observations and Babel that Nimrod the Heretick begun to build which is full of confused Noises and Bloodshed and all manner of Cruelty It is Babel that is built with blood but Sion is redeemed through judgment and her converts with righteousness O! blessed be the pure holy and powerful Lord God the Day of his Power according to his determinate Counsel is come that Antichrists Kingdom shall be destroyed and Babels Building must fall for the Mystery of Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth is made manifest by the bright Appearing of the Lord Jesus and the Children of Light are able to fathom and comprehend her and all her Lovers and to see the Foundation they stand on and the Ground they act from which is but as Water as John saith in his Revelations he saw Nations Waters Peoples Waters and Tongues Waters yea Men Waters Peoples and Nations all unstabled like the Waves of the Sea tossed to and fro with every Wind of Doctrine in the changable gone out from that which changeth not into the many Ways and have heaped to themselves Teachers having itching eares and cannot endure sound Doctrine but saith Preach unto us smooth things so they do preach Peace where the Lord proclaimeth War and bless themselves in that nature that is everlastingly shut out of the Kingdom of God and excluded from his living Presence But the Lord God of Life and Power will hath discovered the Spirit of the Barren woman that hath made all Nations drunken with the Wine of her Fornication and the Inhabitants of the Earth were surfeited and overcome with her Abomination She shall soon be cast into a Bed of Torment with all her Lovers where she shall have Torment without Ease Judgment without Mercy a full Cup without Mixture and the Dregs wrung out unto her and she shall be rewarded double for all her Iniqiuties the Lord will mar her beauty and stain her glory and strip off her costly robes and lay her honour in the dust and turn her songs into howling and her mirth into mourning and her musick into lamentation and she shall receive a Cup of trembling at the Lord's hand and all her glory pomp and pride shall perish as the untimely figs and fade as the flower of the field and wither as the grass upon the house top and the Smoak of her torment shall ascend in the sight of all people and it shall go forth in the audience of all Nations and she shall be a by-word and a scorn a taunt hissing and derision and off-scouring to as many as have heard of her Name and a day of lamentation shall be heard in the midst of her great Tribulation Wrath and Anguish upon every Soul that doth Evil because she repented not of her Uncleanness Fornication Cruelty Hardheartedness and Mercilesness and all her Uncharitableness and Blasphemy and Sorceries and the like Wickedness And this I give in my Testimony for the Lord in the living Word of Truth against Her and all her Lovers and every one that uphold Her as I have received it by the Revelation of the Son of God and not from or of any Flesh or Blood but have seen handled and tasted deeply of the Cup
Lovers for evermore world without end Amen The Glory is the Lord God's who is risen in his mighty Power to raise up Sion and to build up the walls of Jerusalem and to raze down Babel to the ground and to destroy the Kingdom of Antichrist and to bring down all the Powers of Darkness under his feet This was written in the Inquisition of Malta by the Lord's Servant Katherine Evans who am a Sufferer for God's eternal Truth which is my Ioy my Glory and my Crown Magnified be the Name of the Lord God of Life and Power who hath counted me worthy not only to believe unto Salvation but also to suffer for the Sake of my blessed Saviour and perfect Redeemer the Lord Iesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever world without end Amen Amen Oh Friends and People in all places who are called Christians fear the Lord God that gave you Life and obey his holy Gospel the Light in the Conscience that convinceth of all Sin and judgeth the Secrets of every ones Heart O hearken to the heavenly Voice of the true invisible God he is near to every one to save or to condemn Yea of a truth he is risen in great Power to correct the Wayes of men throughout all Nations whose Wayes have been their own Wayes for many Generations past but this is the Day in which the Lord God will restore Judges as at the first and Counsellors as at the beginning Wherefore let every one that hath received Power and Authority from the Lord to rule and regulate amongst the People take heed that they do not abuse the Power the Lord hath committed into their hands as a Stewardship whereof they must give an account before the High and Mighty Judge of Heaven and Earth that sits upon the Throne to Judge the Nations in Righteousness and the People with Equity and he will smite the Earth with the Rod of his mouth and consume the Wicked with the Breath of his lips and the Lord God will remove and overturn and cut down till he hath exalted men like to faithful Moses and righteous Samuel to do the work of Justice Mercy and Equity to every one without respect to Persons in the Fear and Dread of the Lord not seeking their own honour and glory but the Honour and Glory of the Lord God And thus he will make you honourable in the sight of all men for of a truth they that exalt themselves shall be brought low but they which the Lord doth exalt none can cast down and likewise see that you do nor judge others for that which your selves stand guilty of or the like sin in the self-same nature if so wherein ye judge others you condemn your selves and your own Condemnation will stand over your own heads for ever Wherefore take heed how you do mount in the Seat of Tribunal and let every Thought Word and Action in your Sentences of Judgment of others be according to the Light of God in your own Consciences which otherwise will be your eternal Condemnation without any excuse in the Presence of the Lord God Almighty whose Voice doth shake terribly the Earth and makes the Hearts of the Heathen to tremble and doth and will remove Mountains and over-turn Hills and take all that lets and stands in opposition against his pure Truth and the little Hill of Sion shall trample over all the Mountains to the Ends of the Earth And who shall be able to resist it no no not one the Lord will rip up every false Covering strip off every deceitful Garment and make manifest every seducing Spirit and blind Guide and false Teacher that doth work by signs and lying wonders with all manner of Deceivableness and doth deceive the hearts of the Simple and stealeth away their hearts and draweth out their minds from the true invisible Lord God that made them and doth set them upon earthly Objects and visible Appearances and the Glory of this life that will perish for ever and vanish away like the smoak in the aire and the invisible God they have no more knowledge of than the beast that perisheth and these be them that run and the Lord never sent them and saith Thus saith the Lord and the Lord hath not spoken unto them neither did they ever see his face nor hear his voice at any time neither do they profit the people at all but build them up in the Mystery of Iniquity and teach them to wonder after the monstrous Beast which hath many Heads and many Horns and Mouths full of Blasphemy and Eyes full of Adultery walking in the broad way that leads to the chambers of death and destruction and to the Pit of everlasting Perdition and shuts up the Kingdom from the Simple-hearted and hides the Key of Knowledge from the innocent Ones and will not enter in themselves nor suffer them to enter that would and these are them that feed of the Fat and go on their Bellies all their life long the Serpents of the earth that suck the sweet up the spirit of the earth and they make the poor people believe it doth belong to them in Christ because they must pray for them to the saving of their Souls O these be Hypocrites and they do not know the Price of the redemption of a Soul out of death neither have they the Knowledge of God nor his Way to Salvation for if they did know the Lord they would fear and dread his holy Name and teach the People the Way to Life eternal which is the Light in the Conscience in every one and he that comes not to the Light comes not into the Way of God which leads to the Kingdom of God The Kingdom of God is one his Way is one his Light is one his Life is one and his Spirit of Truth is one and his Word is one and what he speaks once he speaks still and what he once condemns he never justifies and what he once justifies he never condemns He is God and changeth not but the same yesterday and to day and so likewise for ever Now they that are in the changeable and in the many wayes are out of the Way of God which is Light and are in the dark and do not see the way they walk in neither do they know the Lord nor his Word that is quick and powerful sharper than a two-edged Sword for did they know that Word they would not dare to mock and scorn at them that tremble at the Word and meet together to wait upon the Lord in silence and do hearken diligently to know the Mind of God that they may not sin against him nor act contrary to him but those men or women cannot disscern the Mind of God that are not crucified with Christ Jesus and the Body of sin death destroyed which is a mystery to all the Wisdom Learning in the world that do not own the Light in the Conscience to be their alone Teacher but live
spiritual Wickedness in High Places So one of them that stands in the Power of God out of the Power of the Prince of the Air is able to chase ten and ten a thousand according to the righteous Prophesie of the Holy Man of God Those that dwell in the Fear of the Lord and truly dread his pure Name at all times every word that proceedeth out of their mouths is as the Words of God's own mouth which cannot be altered nor changed to all eternity for such are the Vessels that hold the heavenly Treasures Gods free Gifts and eternal Graces and everlasting Mercies and divine Vertues spiritual Blessings which God doth not reveale in any earthly-minded Man whose mind is wandring after earthly Glory Honour Riches and Treasures but he reveals his eternal Riches in the Earthen-vessel whose mind and soul is quickned raised and changed by the Power of the Almighty God and joyned to the Light the measure of his own Spirit to convert them and bear them up into the same state and image wherein God created the soul and mind of man at the first In the beginning of his Creation God did not create the outward Form of mankind in his own Similitude and Likeness No for then all men would bear the similitude and likeness of God throughout all Generations which thing could never be for wicked and ungodly men whose thoughts and imaginations are evil continually and are of their father the Devil and his works they do and his image and likeness they bear God is a perfect Spirit of divine Light and immortal Glory and his Son Jesus Christ is the express Image of his everlasting Fathers eternal Brightness and none can ever liken nor fashion any thing like him And them that bear the image of the Devil they live in spiritual pride and are haughty minded and will not be reformed nor hearken to the Counsel of God nor imbrace his gracious Invitations nor receive his tender Mercies nor be warned by his favourable Judgements nor gentle Corrections but in obstinacy and perverse rashness alwayes resist it and cast it behind their backs and trample it under their feet till the Lord is even forced to be a swift Witness against them and to sweep them away with the beesom of destruction and so here their end is woful and their torment is eternal and the Lord is clear of their blood and they must confess their destruction is of themselves They that are of the Image and Likeness of Christ are created anew in Christ Jesus to every good work and have received and do live in and are guided by the pure Spirit of perfect Peace and Patience perfect Love and bowels of tenderness mercy and pitty towards every one without respect of persons and they have alwayes a holy fear true humility and a heart of uprightness and such persons do bear the true image and similitude of God the Father and the form and likeness of his Son Jesus Christ after the inward man and they are patterns of good works and good examples to all whereever they come and it is their meat and drink to do the will of God wheresoever he shall call them or command them to follow the Lamb from Sea to Sea and from Island to Island and from Country to Country to bear his holy Name and to witness forth his eternal Truth to all people that live in darkness and blindness according to the righteous examples of his Saints and Servants that were guided by the same Spirit and walked in the perfect way of God in the antient dayes and are as willing and do suffer for our honourable Testimony that our pure holy and just God whose right it is may have the Glory Praise and Renown to the ends of the Earth throughout all Generations Amen Amen saith the Spirit 19th of the 8th month 1662. Written at Malta by me the Lord's Servant Katherine Evans ALthough that they my Bible keep from me That I the holy Scriptnres cannot see The Precepts pure which are upon record That were giv'n forth by 'th Spirit of the Lord Yet a small Book hid in a secret place Have I where I can reade the words of grace And in the same I can discern The bastard from the perfect born For unto us a Child is born who 'l break to pieces that great Horn Which hath lift up himself on hie Upon the Throne of Majestie He shall be brought down under all Where he shall lie and cry and call To 's Idol-gods which alwayes he Hath worshipped with heart and knee But no Salvation he shall find Among his gods that are so blind Both dumb and deaf like unto he They cannot speak nor hear nor see His Pictures and his painted walls His Altars and his Temple-Vails His golden Images every one Shall soon be brought to destruction All Praises to the God of might Which hath preserv'd us day and night Mongst Lions Wolves that are so strong Although they make us suffer long Yet the Diviners do run mad And lying Prophets they are sad Th' exalted Beast in his renown Triumphs that he shall gain the Crown Because that Pharoah's on his side And lofty Haman in his pride And bloody Herod with his Sword All fighters are against the Lord. But th'God of Pow'r which is so strong Will soon reward them every one According unto Heavens decree For their Rebellion Blasphemy Then some shall howl and some shall mourn The rest shall wish they 'd ne're been born For pain and torment day and night Because they have despis'd the Light WHen dear Daniel Baker was at Malta I had a very small Token to present him in a Paper with these lines The thing is little receive my love It cometh from a harmless dove Within whose breast doth still remain God's perfect praises to maintain I have not time nor place to show The love that from my soul doth flow The Cristal streams so pure and bright That do arise both day and night My love to Truth doth me constrain In Prison ever to remain If it be so I cannot be In Truth and Righteousness set free My dear Redeemers face so bright Doth shine upon me day and night His Countenance doth exceed all Captivity and bondage thrall Though my mortal body be bolted fast yet my immortal soul hath room to pass by Sea and Land and cannot be prevented by an Enemy Lord teach me in thy Wayes that I may walk therein And lead me in thy Paths and cleanse me from all sin Before I knew the Lord my God to be so near to me I walked in the way so broad thinking he did not see But when my wayes directed were and paths the Lord did guide I walked alwayes in his fear and did not go aside HEavens Glory is appearing And his Brightness shineth forth O're all Nations for the clearing Of the Lord's Eternal Truth Now ev'ry one that sits in darkness Under the shade of Death doth lye May come forth unto the Brightness Out of gross obscurity For now a Fountain is set open He that will may freely come in Unto the everlasting Ocean And be cleansed from his sin And ev'ry one that is in bondage And in deep Captivity Under Pharoah and his Army Shall be set at liberty If that they will seek their Freedom At the hand of God alone They shall be Heirs of his Kingdom And wear the victorious Crown It is not all the pain and labour That ever mortal men can take Which can bring them into favour With the Lord that did them make But they that stand in self-denial Taking up their Cross daily Thorow many a fiery tryal For God's Truth most valiantly 'T is them alone shall be preserved By the Pow'r of God most hie And none but them shall be received Into glorious Liberty The Candles of the Lord are lighted For to search Jerusalem And all Nations are invited To the Marr'age of the Lamb. Blessed are they that keep their Armour And in their Wedding-Garments drest Ready to enter the Brides Chamber They are counted with the Guests Now the Lord will purge all Nations Out of gross obscurity Destroying all the deeds of Darkness Deceit and Hypocrisy Th'Trumpets are struck up in Sion And do give a dreadful sound For the razing down of Babel With her glory to the ground And Antichrist with all his Fashions And Delusions which are strong Shall suddenly be dash'd to pieces Christ alone shall wear the Crown Katherine Evans THE END