hast done and thy reward is wrath and condemnation which will pass upon thee from the presence of the Lamb for thy disobedience and breaking of the righteous Law which must be fulfilled and what way soever thou turnest to get life in outward formes and observations the flaming sword which is the righteous Law that goes out of the mouth of the Lamb it will turn every way and meet thee and cut thee down and cast thee into hell where there is weeping and wailing for want of the presence of God and thou canst doe nothing to pacifie the wrath of God which is gone out against thee Now wouldst thou hide thy self as Adam did when he appeares in thy heart thy fig-leafed garment of prayers tears forms outward observations according unto thy comprehensions of the letter will not cover thy nakedness it served to cover thy nakedness from the sight of men but now when the Lord appears in thy heart thou canst not stand before him now comes Cain in thee to be driven from the face of God to be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth notwithstanding all his sacrifice and Esau in thee reprobated never to have the blessing though he seek it with teares and the bond-woman and her son cast out and the first Adam now slain with the sharp sword that goeth out of the mouth of the Lamb and art made to give up thy soul to God whose it is to doe with thee what he will if he destroy thee for ever he may and if he save thee from eternall death it is his free love now art thou baptized with Christ into his sufferings and death where thou liest sealed down under the eternal judgement of God and there perishest for ever for any power or help thou hast in thy self and this is the administration of Moses where thou lyest condemned for ever under the righteous Law without any help or hope untill the administration of the Prophets that prophesie of a Christ that hath satisfied the righteous Law of God for thee who art lost and condemned under the power of the Law of Moses and now there is a secret hope raised up in thy soul and thou lookest up from under the condemning power of Moses for a Saviour and the Prophets are until John and of all that were born of woman there was not one greater than John for he is a burning and a shining light that lets thee see the filthiness of thy heart and the Law shines in its purity to condemn the earthly man in thee but he strengthens the hope in thee that was raised up by the Prophets to see the beauty and excellency of Iesus Christ which ravishes thy lost condemned soul that thou art willing to sell all for him the Scripture being now fulfilled in thee who witnesses this from the daies of John even until now the Kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force now is every mountain and hill layd low in thee and crooked wayes made strait and the rough way in thee made smooth and thou wait in the wiâ—…derness and lost condition of thy self for the salvation of God to be manifest to the in Iesus Christ and in the appointed time of the Father the Son of man comes to thy soul as a Thief in the night as the lightning from the East to the West so is his appearance in thee and causes thy dead soul to hear his voice which witnesses to it eternal life freely through his own blood and thy soul heares his voice and by the word of his power is made to live and are sealed up by the holy spirit of promise the Spirit of God bearing witness with thy spirit that thou art his child now comest thou to witness the second Adam to be a quickning spirit and Isaac the promised seed to be heir for ever and that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life and that by grace thoâ—… arâ—… saved through Faith in the Lord Jesus not of works lest any should boast and he that hath hope in him purifies himself as he is pure and the love of Christ constrains thee now who can witnes this work of Regeneration manifest in thee to follow him whither soever he goes no more to obey him for life as thou didst when thou wast without seeking him in forms and observations but now the love and life thou enjoyest in Christ Jesus constrains thee to deny thy self and take up thy Cross daily and follow him Now art thou come into the beginning to live in the Lord guided by the powerfull word of faith the light that shines in thy heart which is the light of the City New Jerusalem to whom thou art come to worship the Father in Spirit and Truth and all that are come to walk in the light of the City New Jerusalem are the true Israel of God that are taught of God to whom the New and everlasting Covenant is made according to the promise of the Lord This is the Covenant I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah after those daies saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people and they shall teach no more every man his Neighbour and every man his Brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them I will be mercifull unto their unrighteousness and their sinnes and their iniquities will I remember no more and in this City tâ—…ere is no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it which are borrowed lights outward dispensations and teachings of men for the glory of the Lord God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof and the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it and the Kings of the earth bring their glory and honour unto it and theâ—… shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abhomination or worketh a lye but they which are written in the Lambs Book of life and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day for there shall be no night there for the Lord giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever HALLELUIAH to the Highest A Word from the Lord to all that are waiting on the Lord in Sion And to those that are weeping and are seâ—…king the Lord their God asking the way to Sion with their faces thitherwards FEar not ye mourners in Sion the Lord waits on you to be gracious unto you though he give you the bread of adversity now and the water of affliction yet shall not your Teachers be removed into Corners any more but your eyes shall see your Teachers and your
way of righteouse esse then after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto them but it is happened unto thee according to the true Proverb the dog is turned to his own vomit again and the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire and thou mayest read what will be manifest to thee from the Lord For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sin but a certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation which shal devour the adversaries He that despised Moses Law died without mercy how much sorer punishment suppose ye shalt thou be thought worthy of who hast trodden under foot the Son of God and hast counted the blood of the Covenant wherewith thou wast sanctified an unholy thing and hast done despite unto the Spirit of grace and we know him that hath said Vengeance belongs unto me I will recompence saith the Lord it is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Remember from whence thou art fallen and repent and do thy first work in minding that light of Jesus Christ in thee before whom thou once stoodest condemned for that thou now livest in prize the time and give up to be guided by the counsel of the Lord in thee the light of thy Conscience that discovers every vain thought wait on the power that is present with the light and it will dash Babylons children against the stones which is sin in its conception so will thy carnal minde bee brought to the crosse dayly and thy heart will be purged with the spirit of judgement and the spirit of burning kiss the Son in obeying his counsel the light in thee lest thou perish in the way for if his anger be kindled a little blessed are they that trust in him The Discovery of Mistery-Babylon To all inslaved Captives in Babylons Kingdome who are made drunk with the wine of the wrath of her fornications and bewitched through the multitude of her inchantments FRiends Babylon is within you the mother of Harlots is within you and she bewitches you through the abundance of her Sorceries and the beast is within you that ariseth out of the bottomless pit of the deceived heart which is deceitfull and desperately wicked and the beast which all the world wanders after is your wills that makes war against the Lamb of God in you which is the light that makes manifest the evil of your hearts and your wisdom is the great Whore that sits upon the Beast that ariseth out of the bottomless pit of the deceitfull heart and she finds out many deceitful inventions to preserve the beastly wil alive having a golden Cup in her hand ful of the abhominations of the earth and this golden Cup is your outward professions glorious comprehensions and conceivements of God and Christ imitating what the Saints did impower according as they were moved by the operation of the spirit of the most high God and you imitate the Saints practice by your wisdom There is nothing but confusion in the Kingdome of Babylon so come you to be divided into so many particular forms as Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists and divers others that are in outward worships painted over with glorious words and yet you whose wills guide you are painted Beasts bewitched with the Mother of Harlots notwithstanding all your outward professions and glorious observations they are but the golden Cup and within you are ful of the abhominations of the earth as self-love covetousness lust and uncleanness hastiness frowardness backbiting slandering hard-hartednesse cruelty and oppression grinding the faces of the poor impatiency and unbeleef and the fear of the Lord is not before your eys thus you lie poor inslaved Captives in the Kingdome of Babylon refreshing your hearts in the creature injoyments which will perish some in father and mother some in wife and children some in house and land some in money and gold some in self-wisdome delighting in themselves some in honour and preferment in this world and when there is injoyment of these visible creatures then there is content and when they are taken away there is trouble the mind alwaies plodding contriving and acting every way to get of the Creatures what the heart lusts after and he that gets the most is the highest exalted so every one is exalted above another and there is nothing but tyranny cruelty and oppression among you you sons and daughters of Babylon And in her was found the blood of the Prophets and of the Saints and all that were slain upon the earth The Merchants of Babylon are your Teachers who draw you from your guide which is the pure light of Christ in you to seek the Kingdome of God in observations without you contrary to the mind of Christ the Kingdome of God comes not with observations neither shall they say lo here or lo there for behold the Kingdome of God is within you But these your Merchants have no Scripture for their Merchandize which they sell to you inslaved Captives for so many hundreds in the year and is payed in the Nation or elsewhere for these observations they tell you you must observe or else you cannot come to the Kingdome of heaven though they are contrary to the Scripture as are practised by them there is no Scripture that witnesseth their call to the Ministry by â—…mane wisdome Notmany great not many noble not many wise after the flesh There is no Scripture that any that Jesus Christ sent forth made a bargain with the people for so much a year as these do that profess themselves to be sent of Christ This is the call of the Ministers of Christ Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ neither of man nor by man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ I send you forth saith Jesus Christ as Lambs among Wolves into what Town or City ye enter inquire who is worthy and if they receive you there abide eating such things as is set before you the labourer is worthy of his meat freely ye have received freely minister Those whom Jesus Christ commits the Word of eternal life unto and calls them forth to declare it unto others the love of Jesus Christ which is sealed up to their souls through his own blood constrains them to give up themselves to death in witnessing forth the eternal life they injoy in Christ as it was it is the love of Christ constraineth me to Preach the Gospel saith Paul But these your Merchants are they which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of unrighteousness And as there is no Scripture for their call to the Ministery by their humane learning nor making bargains with the people for so much in the year so there is no Scripture
THE DISCOVERY OF MANS RETURN To his First Estate by the operation of the Power of GOD in the great Work of REGENERATION With a Word to all Saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God And to those that are waiting in Sion to worship Him in Spirit and Truth A Word to the Back-slider who hath tasted of the good Word of GOD and the powers of the World to come and hath turned the grace of God into wantonness and gone back into spiritual Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is Crucified With a Discovery of Mystery-Babylon and her Merchants With a Word to the hard-hearted unbelieving Jews who profess Christ in words and deny to be guided by his Counsel the light in their Conscience and stumble at him to their own Destruction From the Spirit of the Lord Written by one whom the people of this World calls a Quaker whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury but hath a New Name the world knows not written in the Book of Life London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1655. All Men and Women Behold and see in what Estate you were created ANd God said let us make man in our Image God created man in his own Image and in the Image of God created he him male and female created he them And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it aâ—…d to keep it and the Lord God commanded the man saying Of every tree of the Garden thou mayst freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou earest thereof thou shalt surely dye the death The Sâ—…rpent was more subtil than aâ—…y beast of the Field which the Lord God had made he said unto the Woman ye shall not surely die for God doth know that in the day you â—…at thereof your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as God knowing good and evill And when the woman saw the tree was good â—…or food and that it was pleasant unto the eyes and a tree to be deâ—…red to make one wise she took the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig-leaves together and made them aprons And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his Wife â—…d themselves from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden and the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him where art thou And he said I heard thy voice in the garden and was affraid and because I was naked I hid my self And he said who told thee that thou wast naked hast thou eaten of the tree whereâ—…f I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat and the man said the woman who thou gavest to be with me she gave me of the tree and I did eat And the Lord God said unto tâ—…e woman what is this that thou hast done the woman said the serpent beguiled me and I did eat And the Lord God said unto the Serpent because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattel and above every Beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the daies of thy life And I will put enmity betwixt thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heâ—…l And the Lord God said Behold this man is become as one of us to know Good and evil and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken and he drove out the man and placed at the East end of the garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life Every Man and Woman behold and see how you are fallen from the estate and condition you were created in you were created in the image of God to delight alone in him but you are fallen in obeying the counsel of the Serpent and are driven out of the presence of God into the earth and there your minds are feeding upon the dust of the earth created objects which will perish some delight in father and mother some in wife and children some â—…n house and lands some in mony gold some in meats drinks some in raiment what they shall put on some in lusts and pleasures in wantonness vain idle communication foolish jesting and laughter which is madness and folly and some in honour and preferments in this world wherein their hearts are lifted up in pride and exaltation above others whom they have power over not considering how ye are driâ—…en out from the presence of the Lord wherein you were placed in the beginning and some there are that feed upon the letter of the Scripture which is death comprehending God and Christ in their wisdome from what the Saints of the most high God spoke forth from the life they enjoyed in Christ Jesus which was in them the hope of their glory and man in his serpentine wisdome steals the Saints words into his understanding and never knew the life and power thereof in himself and so speakes a divination of his own brain a riddle to his own heart and while he speaks to others himself is a cast-away Every man and woman in particular deal justly with your hearts and see where your hearts are and what they delight in for in some of these created objects you delight in and feed upon if you cannot witness your change by the eternal and powerful Word of Truth for into the earth you are driven from the presence of God and these are the fruits which spring forth of the earth which is in your hearts self-love pride covetousness anger revenge hastiness frowardness back-biting hard-heartedness cruelty and oppression lust and uncleanness drunkenness impatiency and unbelief and you are fenced out from coming to the Tree of Life with Cherubims and the flaming Sword which turns every way to keep the Tree of Life So every one see what you can witness of your return again unto God from whence you are separated by the disobedience and evill of your hearts and see what is the ground of the hope of your callings and by what power you are acted in your obedience unto God whether by the power of the first Adam or by the power of the second for if thou upon the convincement of the evill of thy waies doe not wait in the light which is in thy conscience that convinceth thee of the evill of
thy doings for power from the Lord to guide thee forth of the evill which the light discovers which would guide thee into the Kingdome of God but thou runnest out into the wisdom of the first Adam to seek the Kingdome of God in outward formes and observations according as thou comprehendest of the Saints practices and thou imitatest their practices in thy wisdome and though thou walk never so strictly in these outward formes thou art alive in the first Adam sewing fig-leaves together to cover thy nakedness a peece of new cloth in an old garment thou art putting new wine into old bottles and art building up a tower to get up to God in thy heathenish and Babylonish wisdom and confusion will come upon thee in the day when the Lord comes to look for fruit thou wilt be found a fruitlesse tree that cumbers the ground Cain with his offering up sacrifice unto God in thy first nature Esau seeking the birth-right with teares who shall never find it and all the fruit that is raised in thee is from Hagar the Bond-woman and thou hast thy end for thy self in all that thou dost which is thy hire which thou expectest in the end life for thy labour and obedience and thou regards not the glory of the Lord and his fear is not before thine eyes therefore every man and woman deal justly with your own hearts under what name or title soever thou be whether thou be a Teacher of others or a Professor of what thou comprehendest to be truth from the Testimony the Saints gave forth from the life and power of Christ that was in them and thou expectest life in thy outward formes and observations and mindest not to be guided by the light which is of Christ in thy own conscience which light guided the Saints that gave forth the Scriptures and while thou disobeyest that light profess what thou wilt thou art in the fall first Adam is yet alive in thee Cain is not yet banished nor Esau reprobated nor the bond-woman and her son cast out which are all figures and types of the first nature which is yet alive in thee and thy will is thy guide and thy heart is in the earth notwithstanding all thy profession and thou art a painted beast made drunk with the wine of the wrath of the Whore which is thy wisdom which comprehends that which thou never didst know manifest in it self and sits deckt a well-favoured harlot above the Crosse of Christ thou wilt be found a Thief and Robber who comes not in by the door Jesus Christ but climbs up some other way and thus far went the Scribes and Pharisees and the young man who had kept the Commandements from his youth but when he should have sold all for Christ he went away sorrowful And thus far went Paul when he persecuted Jesus Christ according to the Law he walked blameless and all thy strict walking to get life in observations according to the Letter is striving again to get the tree of life by thy own power who art fenced out with Cherubims and a flaming sword which turns every way to keep the way of the tree of life And if thou never â—…awest thy self senced out from the presence of God notwithstanding all thy righteousness in observations thou art not come so near God as to see the flaming sword which is placed to meet thee in every way thou turnest to get life in thy own power and to cut thee down and kill thee â—…hat Christ may be thy life thou art alive in the first Adam and art in the death for death reignes over all from Adam to Moses and Moses is until the Prophets and the Prophets till John and John untill Christ and if thou canst not witnesse that thou art come to Moses profess what thou wilt thou hast not set thy face towards God noâ—… one step in the strait and narrow way to eternal life but art going the broad way to destruction whatever thou be whether a Teacher of others or a Professor of what thou comprehendest to be truth from the Leâ—…ter of the Scripture under what form name or title soever thou be thou art a dead man and a dead woman and the wrath of God abides on thee though thou see it not Rom. 7. 9. there Paul witnesseth I was alive without the Law once but when the Commandement came sin revived and I dyed Friends every one in particular deal justly with your hearts see what you can witness of your death with Christ by the powerful word of truth which enlightens the conscience and condemns sin in the flesh for every one would ascend with Christ to be partakers of the life and glory with him but he becomes a stumbling stone to be baptized with him into his sufferings and death to ascend with him into hell and this thou must witness before ever thou come to sit with him in heavenly places for it is they and they alone that shall reign with him who suffer with him and they that are dead with him shall live with him it is the dead that hears the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live Arise thou that sleepest in the dust of the earth securely in thy earthly and Serpentine wisdom thy mind feeding upon the dust of the earth created objects which will perish arise stand up to Judgement that Christ may give thee life This is required of thee O man to doe justly love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God examine thy heart and deal justly with thy own soul there is a light in thy conscience which light is of Christ minding it will let thee see the mystery of iniquity that lodgeth in thy heart which is deceitful and desperately wicked and this light in thy conscience which discovers unto thee the evil of thy heart is of the etarnal Word of God and was from the beginning according as it is written in the outward testimony of the truth In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word is God and the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him aâ—…d without him was not any thing made that was made in him was life and the life was thâ—… light of men and the light shineth in 〈◊〉 and the darkness comprehends it not Every one arise out of your earthly wisdome and minde the light in thy conscience and wait on the power of the Lord in it and it will bring thee to Judgement before the Throne of the Lamb where the righteous Law will be opened in thy heart that will cry through thy earthly heart for righteousness and judgement and the book will be opened in thee where thou shalt see all written that thou hast done in the body and shall give an account for every idle word and receive thy reward for what thou
the deeds thou hast done in the body and the sentence of wrath and judgement passed out of the mouth of the Lamb on thee for every idle word and all that thou hast done and in this thy condemned estate thou runnedst too and fro to hide thee from the wrath of the Lamb in reforming thy wayes and strictly observing what thou wast convinced of to bee the Will of God but what way soever thou turnedst in thy obedience towards God to get life thither the flaming sword turned that proceeded out of the mouth of the Lamb and cut thee down and cast thee into hell where thou lyest weeping and waling under the wrath of God sealed down under his eternall judgment for evermore for any help or power thou hadst in thy self untill Jesus Christ manifested eternal love and mercy freely to thy poor lost condemned soul and raised thee up to a lively hope and sealed thee up in the Covenant of life with his own blood Now after the witnesses have sealed up their testimony the Beast which is thy will that ascends out of the bottomlesse pit of thy deceived heart which is deceitful and desperately wicked hath made warre against the witnesses Christ in thee and slain them and they lie dead in the spiritual City of Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is Crucified and thou art made drunk with the wine of the wrath of the fornication of the whore and bewitched with her witch-crafts who now tells thee whom he loves he loves to the end and to the pure all things are pure thou art no more under the Law but under grace and all things are alike that when thou disobeyest the pure Law which once had power over thee and it witnesseth against thee secretly crying in thy heart use thy liberty but not as an occasion to the flesh thou regardest not the counsel of the Lord but harkens to the Mother of Harlots in thee and causes thee to wrest the Scriptures to thine own destruction and tels thee the Law hath no power over thee thou art under Grace it is but the Law in thy Members that wars against the Law in thy mind the acting of the humanity which acts in its place that the Grace of God may appear more gloriously God sees no sin in thee for it is no more thou but sinne that dwels in thee and the former misery thou was in under the wrath of God for the dis-obeying of the righteous Law thou now treadst under thy feet and lies slain in spriritual Sodom and Egypt in thy heart yet not put in grave but lies in thy sight and lets thee see the evil of thy doings and vexes and torments thy earthly and carnal heart in the midst of all thy joy but the Whore in thee tels thee that the former trouble thou wast in it was through the ignorance of God but now thou art grown up to a higher stature in Christ to see nothing but love in whatsoever thou doest and now thou knowest nothing but to eat and to drink and be merry for the Children of the Bride-Chamber cannot mourn while the Bride-groom is with them time was thou didst mourn but it was when the Bride groome was not with thee but now the Winter is past and Summer come and singing of birds is heard in thy land and now wash thy face and anoint thy head with Oyl that thou appear no more before men as thou didst when thou wast a Pharisee now to be a friend to Publicans and Sinners and become all to all that thou mayest win some and whatever thou doest it is God that acts thee for thou art not stronger than he to resist him and if hee would have it otherwayes how couldst thou hinder it so it is as it must be and it cannot be otherwise thus the subtle Serpent winds into the minde of man and causeth him to wrest the Scriptures to his own destruction to draw back into perdition Woe woe unto thee thou Back-slider in heart who chargest God who is purity it self to be the Authour of sinne and the actor of thee in all thy filthy and unrighteous walking and hast turned the Grace of God into wantonnesse and takest liberty to sinne because Grace abounds and makest the comming of Christ who came to fullfill the Law to destroy it through the evil of thy heart that when the righteous Law cries in thee for purity and condemns thee for thy unrighteous walking then thou fliest to the free Grace in Christ to save thee from the power of the Law but thou shalt finde the Law hath power over the fleshly man as long as hee lives and the fleshly man that now guides thee is under the Law untill it be destroyed through faith in Jesus Christ for he came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it and the Saints witnesse it though thou wrest the words of Paul when he declared his condition before he came to the fullnesse of stature in Christ to thy own destruction I see a Law in my members warring against the Law of my mind and brings mee into Captivity into the Law of sin which is in my Members but he gave not up himself to be a servant of sin as thou doest it was his burthen that made him to cry Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death and he waited in the Faith untill hee was freed Romans 8. 2. For the I aw of the spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of sin and death that the righteousnesse of the Law might bee fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit He witnessed Christ came in him to fullfill the Law and so do all the Saints now according to their growth some witness the Law fullfilled in them and others are waiting in the faith patiently following the Lord dayly through the Crosse until the Law be fulfilled But thou art departed from the counsel of the Lord thy God and caused his name to bee evil spoken of and hast made the hearts of his people sad as they did that the Apostle speaks of For many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are the enemieâ—… of the Crosse of Christ whose end ù destruction whose God is their belly and whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things These Scriptures are fullfilled in thee which the Apostle mentions And while they promise them liberty they themselves are the servants of corruption for of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought into bondage for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are again intangled therein and overcome the latter end of them is worse with them then the beginning for it had been better for them not to have known the
without the loving kindnesse of your Father in Christ Jesus Now is the parable fulfilled the little grain of Mustard-seed grown up above all hearbs and the little leaven hath leavened the whole lump and the Prodigal starved for ever if his father receive him not freely into his house Thou that canst witnesse this condition stand still in the will of God he wil raise up his seed in thee to trust in his name and to delight in the eternal Covenant of love and life he hath made with thy soul in the Lord Jesus Christ and wil guide thee by the word of his power in a way thou knowest not forth of Babylon where thou wast an inslaved captive under the power of the filthy beast which is thy wil and the whore the mother of Witchcrafts which is thy wisdome which inthralled thee under the power of darknesse to satisfie the lusts of thine own heart which led thee to destruction up to Sion to live by faith in the Lord Jesus which wil purifie thy heart and set thy soul free from under the powers of darknesse into the glorious liberty of the sons of God where thou shalt sing the songs of Sion Hallelujahs and Praises for evermore unto the Lord God that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever To all inslaved heard-hearted and unbeleeving Iews in this Nation and elsewhere who are made drunk with the Wisdome of the Whore and bewitched through the abundance of Sorceries to put the day of the Lord a far off looking for Christs comming in the Spirit as the hard-hearted unbeleeving Iews in the letter did for his comming in the flesh according to the promise but they limited the holy one according to their carnal Wisdome expected his comming in great Pomp and Glory and when hee came in that poor despised way contrary to their expectations they stumbled at him and would not own him to be their Saviour but rose up against him and put him to death Matth. 27. 1 to 50. vers. BEhold you hard-hearted and unbelieving Jews do you not look for Christ coming in the Spirit according to his promise as they did for his coming in the flesh but you limit the holy one as they also did expecting Christ to come in power and glory according to your own fancies and so puts the day of the Lord a far off you in rejecting and despising the counsel of Jesus Christ the pure light in your Consciences which lets you see every evil thought word and action and cries behind you This is the way walk in it but you disobey the light and hearkens to the counsel of your hearts as the Jews in the letter did that put Christ to death and so you slay the witnesses in spiritual Sodom and Egypt in your hearts where our Lord is crucified in not regarding the counsel of Christ which is that light that shines in your dark hearts which knocks at the door according to his words I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and wil sup with him and he with me Oh thou inslaved soul under the power of Babylon in thee come forth mind the light in thee which is the sure word of prophesie whereunto you do wel to take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts stand not out against this secret counsel of Christ in you lest you perish in your gain-sayings for if his anger be kindled a little blessed are all they that trust in him All give up give up freely to be guided by the counsel of the Lord the light in you beleeving in his power that is present with the light he wil lead you dayly through the Cross in the streight way of his sufferings and death where the old man wil be put off with his deeds and so you shal have right to the tree of life and shal enter with him through the Gates into the City New Jerusalem where you shal have communion with the Father and the Son and an inheritance with those that are sanctified in Christ Jesus and shal reign as Kings upon Earth to the praise and glory of the riches of the grace of our heavenly Father to whom alone be all power dominion honour and glory for ever and ever FINIS Gen. 1. 26 27 Gen. 2. 15 16 17 Gen. 3. â—… to 16 Gen. 3. 22 23 24. Rev. 2 5 Gen. 1. 26 27 Gen. 3. 24 Luk 14 26 Mat. 10 37 Eph 4 5 〈◊〉 2 3 〈◊〉 9 33 â—…oh 5. 44 1 Cor. 3. 6 Col. 1 27 Ier. 23. 30 1 Cor. 9 9 27 Gen. 3 24 Mat. 15. 19 Gal. 15 19 20 21 Gen. 3. 24 Eph. 5. 3 Luke 17. 20 Gen. 3 7 Mat. 9. 16 17 Gen 1. 14. to â—… Gen. 5 Gen. 27. 34 38 Heb. 12. 17 Gen. 12 9 10 â—… Pet. 1. 19 20 Gen 4. 10 11 12 Gen. 21. 1â—… Gal. 4. 3â—… Rev. 28. 3 Iâ—…hn 1. â—… Mat. 10. 20 2â—… Phil. 3 5 6 Gen. 3. 24 Gen 2 7 〈◊〉 â—… 1â—… 〈◊〉 11 12 13 Luke 1 26 Iâ—… 1. â—… 〈◊〉 9 â—… 20 2â—… 〈◊〉 Mat. 7. 1â—… 14 Eph. 2 1. 2. 3 Ioh. 3. 36 Ioh 1. 9 Rom. 8. 3 1 Pet. 2 8 Gal. 3. 27 Rom. 6. 3 〈◊〉 Rom. 8. 17 2 Tim. 2 11. 12. â—…oh 5. 15 Eph. 5. 14 Mich. 6. 1 Ioh. 1. 9. 8 12. 9. 5 â—…er 17 〈◊〉 Eph. 5. 13 Ioâ—… 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Rev. 20. 12 13. 2 Cor 5. 〈◊〉 Mâ—…t 12. â—…6 â—…es 2. 10 Gen 3 8 9 10 Gen. 3. 7 Gen. 4. 12 13 14 Gen. 27 34 38 Heb 12 17 Geâ—… 21. 10 Rev. 19. 15 Rom. 3. 6 to 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 2. 11. â—…2 Mâ—…t 〈◊〉 11 Lâ—…ke 19. 10 Luk. 16 16 17 Maâ—… 11. 11 Iohn 5. 35 Mat 1. 12 Luke 3. 5 2 Pet. 2. 10 Lâ—…k 17. 24 Iohn 5. 25 Rom. 〈◊〉 16 1 Cor. 14. 45 Râ—…m 6 23 Eph 25 〈◊〉 10 1 Iohn 3 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 3. 14 Titus 3 5 Luke 9. 23 24 Iohn 4. 110 5 Iohn 23. 24 Isaiah 54 14 Heb. 8. 10 1. 12 Ezek. 36 24 25. 26 27. 28 Iet 〈◊〉 33. 3â—… Rev. 21 23 24 25 27 ver Rev. 22. 5 Isâ—… 61. 2 Isa. 3â—… 18 20 21 〈◊〉 1. 9 8. 12 Eph. 5 13 1 Iohn 2 27 Isa. 42 3 Mat 12. 20. Prov. 20. 22 Rev. 13. 3 Rev. 1â—… 11 12 13 15 Mat. 13. 37 1 Pet. 5 8 2 Pet. 1. 19 1 Joh. 4 1 2 3 Luke 17. 10 Heu 10 36 Col. 3. 2 Eze 36 31 32 1 Cor. 1. 2â—… 31 Rev. 22 1â—… Iâ—…r 23. 28. 29 2 Cor. 10. 4. 5 Rev. 14. 4. 5 Iames 〈◊〉 3 Maâ—… 25 20. 21. 22 23. Mat. 1. â—…0 v. 12 Mat. 21. 5 Rev. 22. 14 Rev. 21. 27 Cant. 2 â—… Rev. 17. 4 Rev. 19. 16 Rev. 5 9. 10 Revelat. 8. 3 Revelat. 20. â—… Matth. 12 36 Genesi 3 2. Revel. 19. 15 Rev. 11. 7 8 Ier 17 9 Gal. 5. 13. Prov. 14. 14 Hâ—…b 1. 13 Heb. 10 38 Romans 6 1 Mat. 25 17 18 Romans 7. 1 Mat. 15. 17 18 Romans 7 23 Romans 6. 16 Roman 7 25 Romans vc 5 Luk. 9. 23. Phil. 3. 1â—… 19 2 Pet. 2 19 20 21 Verse 2â—… Hebrews 10. 2â—… to 32 verse Revelations 2 5 Ephesians 4 â—…3 Psalm 137. 8. 9 Psalm 2 11 â—…2 Rev. 18. 3 Rev. 17. 5 Rev. 11. 7 Jeâ—… 17. 9 Rev. 13. 4 Iohn 1. 9 Eph. 5. 13 Rev 17. 3 Rev. 17. 4 2 Pet. 1. 11 Gen. 11. 7 8 9 Rev. 17. 4 Mat. 15 19 29 Genesâ—…s 6. 5 Gal. 5 19 20 21 Prove bâ—… 1. 7 Luke 14 26 Marth 10 37 Matth. 1â—… 29 〈◊〉 9. 23 Ioâ—… 5 44. Matth 6. 21 Mâ—…cah 21 2 Prov. 22 16 Amâ—… 4. 1. Hâ—…sea 2. 7 Rev. 18 2â—… Rev. 18 13 Ioh 1. 9 and 8 12 and 9. 5 1 Iohn 2 27 8 Luke 17. 2â—… 21 1 Cor. 1. 26. Matth. 10 8 Gal. 1. 11 12 Mat. 10 16 Mat. 10. 10. v. 8 2 Cor. 5. 14. 19 20 Acts 21. 13 2 Pet. 2. 15 Iude 11 Mark 1â—… 14 5 Matth. 19. 14 Luke â—…8 16 17 Mark 1â—… 16 â—… Peter 1. 20 Revelat 22 18 Luke 4 7 22. 23. Ier â—…3 29 30 2 Cor 1â—… 4 5 Isa 56 10 â—…1 â—…0 5 30 31 M cah 3. 11 verse 5 Ier. 23 30 1 〈◊〉 9. 27 Je. 23 31 32 Psalm 131. 1 Psalm 38. 1. 10. 7 Iohn 4. 24 Iame 5 16 Isaiah 51. 11 Lâ—…k 17. 2â—… 2 Cor 36 Isalah 3 12 2 â—…mothy 3. 1 2â—… Mat. 10. 12. 16 Luke 17. 20. 2 Ephesians 5. 3 1 Iohn 2 27 Matth. â—…3 13 2 Tim. 3. 8 9 Revelat. 18. 11 Isaiah 55. 2 Ephesian 2. 13 Isaiah 55 3 Revelat. 18 4 2 Cor. 6 7 18 Isaiah 38. 18 Isaiah 65. 2 Ieremiah 3 12 14 22 Mosea 14 4 Micah 6 â—… Maâ—… 6 21 Luke 17. 21 Roman 8. 14 1 Iohn 6 26 Matth. 23 31 Mark 24 32 36 Luke 17 20. 21 Ephesians 5 3 Matthew 3. 21 32 3. 33 Zachary 4. 19 Iohn 1. â—… Iohn 1. 1 to 6 Rom. 10. 6 7 â—… 1 Iohn 1. 1â—… 1 Iohn 1 27 2 Peter 1 19 Romans â—… 14 Prover 20 22 Lame â—… 3. 25 Isaiah â—… 17 Matthew 25. 21 Matth. 12. 36 2 Co 5 10 Isa. 57 15 16 Matth. 12 20 Matth 13 31 32 33 Luke 15 17 18 19 20 Isaiah 55. 3 Isaia â—… 817 Revela 18. 4 2 Câ—… 6. 17 Ephesi 2. 2 3 Matthew 7 13 Hâ—…bbak 2. 4. Râ—…man 1. 17 1 Iohn 3. 3 Act. 15. 9 Câ—…l 1 13 2 Pete 2. 9 Râ—…velat 15. 13 Revel. 9 1 6 Revela 18. 3 Luke 27 Matthew 13 54 5 5â—… 57 Ma. k 6. 4 Isaiah 30 21 Revelat. 11. 8 Revelat. 3 20 Revelat 19. 4 2 Peter 1. 16 Colos. 1 27 Iuda 1 Psalm 2 12 Matth. 7. 14 2 Tim. 2 11 2 Ephes. â—… 22 Revel. 2 14 Act 26. 18 Revel. 2 9 10 Revel. 15 3 Revelat. 19 1