part of the City seems not accomplished But there 's reason to reckon the fulfilling thereof near both from the light of this Vision and also from our seeing that Power so declining and languishing that all politick bands and subtle workings of the deceiver for upholding and prolonging it prove like the loosed tacklings that cannot strengthen their Masts nor spread their Sails whereby the Nation as to the worldly politick state of it is in alike unhing'd and crazy tottering condition as in Esay 24.19,20 is described to precede the glorious state of Christ's Kingdom And the Conflict that does spring from this declension of worldly Power and the emerging of the Witnesses ascending in a Cloud is the cause of our present Troubles and Distractions Nor can we well hope for settlement and prosperity till the Judgment that sits hath ended this Conflict by so taking away the dominion or power of the Beast as to fulfil the Fall of the tenth part of the City and the great Voice that calls the Witnesses up to Heaven This will give new Life and Vigour to the Government By the Lord being exalted among us to fill us with Judgment and Righteousness and make wisdom and knowledge the stability of our Times and strength of Salvation It will be a laying the Foundation of that City whose Builder and Maker is God whereby we shall find Him carrying on that Spiritual Building till he hath raised us up to the glorious state of the New Jerusalem And it will be such a preludious commencing of Christ's Kingdom in the Nation as will occasion great Changes throughout Christendom and so be a preparative making way for the great Revolution at the seventh Trumpet which settles Him in his Kingdom on Earth and therein be a great transaction of the fifth Vial which fils the Kingdom of the Beast with darkness And indeed that Vial seems to commence from our late great Revolution and so the Exit of King James did conclude the fourth Vial poured on the Sun as we have before noted his Fathers Fate to be a signal Transaction of its beginning But then whereas the present Consederacy against France is the result of that Revolution which seems not well established till the Confederates have so succeeded against that Sun which hath shined with much scorching heat to the great annoyance of Christendom as to make him set in a Cloud when this befals him which seems very hopeful as well as desireable it may well be reckoned a Transaction belonging to the fourth Vial as being so connext with King James's Exit that the Fall of the one did involve the others Fall Since therefore so great Consequences are like to attend our late Revolution they are much in the dark who are so much concerned for our settling upon our old bottom or worldly state acquiescing in the Deliverance received as if it rendred us as happy as is to be desired or however to be expected like those who reject all speculations of Christ's Kingdom on Earth telling us that he came not to interest himself in or give disturbance to the Rights of Princes or Civil Governments his Kingdom being not of this world shewing themselves of like spirit with those who said We will not have this Man reign over us But tho' his Kingdom be from above as He himself was and not from beneath of this world or according to the course thereof yet it s in this world where He must reign till he hath put down all Authority and Power all Enemies under his feet and so make the Kingdoms of the World become the Kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ c. And the Laws and Liberties which we so Joy in are owing to the advancement of his Kingdom on Earth But the world being unable so to consider them claims them as the Rights of Free-born People and which our Rulers are bound to observe by Original Contract with the People c. Whenas indeed what Change there is in the Government of the Christian world from the absolute dominion of Heathen Princes proceeds from the Victory gained over the powers of the world by the Man-child being caught up unto God's Throne to rule and the Dragon being cast out into the Earth Rev. 12. which caused the great Revolution in the Empire described in the sixth Seal And what Liberty or Freedom can any pretend to who are the Servants of Sin and Satan who having the Power of Death through fear of it makes them all their Liver-time subject to Bondage Which Bondage of Corruption all Mankind are subject to so far as Redemption through Christ Jesus hath not freed them from it And they being thus the Children of wrath under the Thraldom of the Prince of the power of the Air the spirit that worketh in the Children of Disobedience what Rights or Priviledges could they obtain Or what Assurance could they have of them when granted by absolute Heathen Rulers under the Prince of darkness Whose Power did set them above the need of making such Grants and could easily frustrate them when made So that the Grants and Concessions whereby the Princes of Christendom have obliged themselves to their Subjects and thereby enfranchised them from Heathen Thraldom are owing to the downfal of the Devils power by his being cast out of Heaven whereby they being unable to continue that absolute dominion were driven to comply with their Subjects by such Concessions And though his power hath been so restored by the Impostures of the false Prophet and other his subtle Arts to corrupt the Nations of Christendom as in some Countries almost to frustrate the benefit of that Victory over him yet in others it continues to be enjoyed and with that firmness in our Country as to make both former and latter Attempts to deprive us of it fatal to the Undertakers And the late Revolution seems not onely design'd to confirm to us that Benefit when there appeared so much danger of losing it but also much to enlarge the same by that advancemene of Christ's Kingdom which is signified by the Fall of the tenth part of the City But we seem insensible thereof and as little disposed to and prepared for so great a Blessing as Lot and his Family were to depart out of Sodom to escape destruction It 's too high a Blessing for the world to like tho' it be well pleased with than already received of being freed from Heathen Thraldom It can like such Blessings that free it from the evils and miseries that attend it s lapsed state lying in wickedness but is not pleased with such Blessings that tend to recover it out of that state by Reforming its Corruptions Which Indisposition to higher Blessings designed us makes the world so little sensible to whom to ascribe what we already enjoy and so to fail of rendring Him due Praise and Thanks for the same to whom all Judgment is committed that all men should honour the Son as they honour the Father