foundations whose builder and maker is God the Lord For it shall be built to the Lord upon the hill Gareb and shall compasse about to Goath and the whole value of the dead and all the fields unto the Brooke Kidron unto the Horse gate shall be holy unto the Lord yea it shall not be pâ—ucked up nor thrown down for ever Even this great City the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from my God ready â—â—amed of material precious stones Even as Solomons Temple was brought out of the wilderness ready framed and so built and laid together without knock of hammer or axe or any other toole of Iron The streetes of this City shall be of pure transparent Gold whose wals shall be great and high built of Jasper and garnished with all manner of precious stones having twelve Gates on the East side three Gates and on the North side three Gates on the South side three Gates and on the West side three gates and the gates of the City shall not be shut and the fashion of the City shall be foure square the length bredth and height of the wals of the City shall be of equal measure Twelve thousand furlongs broad and twelve thousand long and twelve thousand furlongs high and the thickness of the Wall shall be one hundred forty and foure cubites of a man which is six foot and makes up in the whole thickness eight hundred sixtie and foure foot SECT. XXIIII ANd the most high God the Father and the Lord Christ shall be the Temple in it and the glory of God the Father and of the Lord Christ shall be the light thereof and onely those nations that are saved shall walke in it and Kings shall bring their glory and honor into it and none shall enter into it but they that are written in the Lambs Book For thus saith the Lord The place of my throne Palestina and the place of the soals of my feet where I will dwell in the midd'st of the children of Israel for ever and my holy name shall the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their Kings The whole limit thereof shall be round about most holy And the name of the City from that day shall be The Lord is there Then the heathen or Gentiles shall know that I the Lord build and plant the ruines and desolate places of the land of Israel I the Lord have spoken it and I will do it SECT. XXV FOr God will save Zion and will build the Cities of Judah that they may dwell there The seed of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein and shall be Kings and Priests unto God and raign on the earth For when the Lord Christ shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory when the people are gathered together and the Elect out of all Kingdoms to serve the Lord to declare his name in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem Then will he receive them unto himself that where he is in glory there they may be also and they the Father and Son will love them and will come unto them and make their abode with them For the Councell of peace and eternal glory shall be between them both in the Kingdom of Christ and of God and the people and kingdoms shall be gathered together to declare the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Ierusalem For unto the Father incomprehensible shall be glory given in the Church Triumphant by Christ Iesus and all his Saints world without end SECT. XXVI FOr this Mount Zion scituate on the North side of Ierusalem is the Hill which the Lord desireth to dwell in yea the Lord will dwell in it for ever where his Throne and Scepter of Righteousness shall be for ever and ever even in the World to come whereof we speak and he shall raign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end even upon the throne of David Then shall they say The Lord raigneth The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved for the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more then all the dwellings of Jacob Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God For the highest himself shall establish her Yea he hath desired it for his habitation saying This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it For in Salem is his Tabernacle his dwelling Place in Zion For the Lord will comfort Zion he will make her wilderness like Eden and mount Zion shall never be removed but abideth for ever Being the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem which cannot be shaken but shall remain like the earth which abideth for ever for I know saith Solomon whatsoever God doth it shall abide for ever and that which is to be hath already been and God requireth that which is past even the world to be restored to its first Purity Glory Excellency and determined perpetuity Spiritual which is eternal for the spirits of all men are eternal whether for Light or Darkness and the Saints continuance in glory shall be eternal For their bodies shall then be of the same eternal duration as their spirits are this being the true state of the things we call Spiritual which is eternal for there our mortal bodies shall put on immortality and this corruption shall put on incorruption to and for which a true pious and charitable life in this world â—its us by the sacred Spirit of light Christ Jesus SECT. XXVII FOr God will establish the Earth for ever when the time of refreshing shall come and Restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his Prophets since the world began For the Lord that hath chosen Zion will dwell in the midd'st of her And inhorit Judah his Portion in the holy land and choose Jerusalem again For heaven is the throne of God but the earth hath he given to the Sons of men to be inhabited for ever being their proper Sphere For the Lords Portion is his people Iacob is the Lot of his inheritance For he will remove the iniquiâ—y of that land in one day and Jerusalem shall then be called the City of Truth when the sons of Zion are raised out of the pit or grave wherein is no water and shall save them as the flock of his people and the Lord by David their leader shall save the tents of Iudah first for David shall be their Prince and Nations that know not Iudah shall run unto them who shall then be terrible as an army with Banners as it were the Company of two armies Iudah and Gentiles whose arrows are sharp and all their bowes bent their horses hoofs shall be counted like flint and their wheels like a whirl-winde their roaring of their hosâ—e shall be like the roaring of a Lyon yea they
A PACKET OF NEWES Yea True and Faithful News of ISRAELS and JUDAHS Call AND Of the Manner Place and Time of Christs Coming and reign in glory among his Saints upon the Earth As also Judahs Past with Englands Present Miseries Parallel'd With sundry other Particulars very profitable and necessary for Christians of all Degrees to know the Mysteries of God Collected out of the Scriptures this 22. of the 11th moneth corruptly called January 1647. for the benefit of all but chiefly for such who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness Err in Vision and stumble in Judgement By JAMES FRESE Merchant Ps. 96. 10. and 104. 5. Eccles. 1. 4. 1 Chron. 16. 30. The World shall be Established that it shall not be moved for ever Eze. 43. 7. Even the place of the soals of my feet where I will dwell for ever Zach. 2. 12. For the Lord shall inherite Iudah in the holy land and chuse Ierusalem again Ier. 31. 6. 8. And then shall they say Arise Let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God Zac. 8. 7 8 23. And then shall ten Men of all Nations take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you LONDON Printed for Matthew Simmons 1651. To the RIGHT HONORABLE Most Truly NOBLE And VICTORIOUS HIS EXCELLENCY Oliver Cromwell Lord General of all the Forces raised in England and Ireland for Defence and Regainment of Englands Rights and Liberties MOst Noble and Victorious Sir whose Name by the Will of Divine Providence is become Englands Honor Her Enemies Terror and Europes Wonder For the Continuation Increase and Perfection whereof to the Glory of God your Countries happiness and Your own eternal Fame he most heartily and earnestly wisheth who in his greatest straits under the Iron yoke of Cruelties close restraint many yeers was sundry times made partaker of your truly Christian bounty to the preservation of his Life and Being and after many years Imprisonment of some breathings of Liberty For which in way of due thankfullness as ever in his heart abhorring the grand sin of Ingratitude he returns unto Your Excellency most humbly and hearty thanks and in assurance of the continuation of your most noble Paternal favour towards him he presumeth to shroud this ensuing treatise of the Personal Reign of Christ upon the earth under the wing of your Execllencies favorable Protection most humbly presenting the same unto your Excellencies view acceptance and most noble Boerean perusal The glimpse of which favour extended is the highest pitch of his ambition who in all true Christian humility to his God and fidelity in the band of love to his Country and your Excellencie Subcribes himself Most Noble Excellent and Right Honorable Your Honors most humble Servant to be commanded James Frese London the 19th of the 6th Moneth corruptly called August 1651. To all such true and faithful members of the Lord Jesus as walk close to the Sacred Truth by the rule of Righteousness and stand as firm as Nehemiah for the advance of the true honor of God in true judgement justice and mercy and the speedy restauration of the fundamental Laws Rights and Liberties of this their Native Countrey Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus I Here present unto your favorable view and Christian perusal this small Treatise containing some Collections of holy Scripture cleerly manifesting the Personal Reigne of the Lord Jesus among his Saints upon Earth in the Land of Israel it being the choisest Fruit of my Labors in the time of my close Imprisonment in the Tower-Chamber in the Fleet-Prison for the space of almost four yeers by Henry Hopkins Warden of the Fleet under locks and bolts to the apparent hazard of my life without any just cause by him shewed to this day for his so doing craving in all humility your favourable acceptance of these my Labors and a Berean perusal of them In the reading wherof the Lord Jesus grant unto you his sacred Spirit of Wisdom to be your Directer and Instructer bringing the Truth thereof home unto your souls that so your hearts being seasoned with the apprehension of the expressed joys and comforts contained in it you may live in expectation of the Lord Jesus his glorious Appearing with all Saints in the glory of God the Father and of the holy Angels and in his Kingdom and of the enjoyment of eternal life in glory with him and all the Saints within his holy habitation in the land of the living even in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord Christ shall reign for ever and ever even as he assuredly remaineth in expectation of the same who in all humility subscribes himself Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus Yours in all love and Christian Charity and his Countries Servant in all Fidelity during the short time of his continuance in this almost expired vanities world of misery James Frese London this 15th of the 10th moneth 1650. The Epistle To the Honest Impartial Reader COurteous Reader I do earnestly wish and heartily desire of the Lord that thy perusal of these few Collections of holy Scripture taken as a drop of water out of the vast Ocean of Gods Word and sent forth as a Lamb among censorious Wolves may be seasoned to thy soul by the Spirit of Truth that so the eyes of thy Understanding may thereby be inlightned to Gods glory and thine own souls eternal comfort and joy unexpressable in the glorious eternal world to come And for the better help and inlightning of thy Understanding in the profitable reading of this Treatise I do earnestly desire thee to note well these particulars following 1. That the ten Tribes a which fell from Rehoboam and made Jeroboam their King were then called The Kingdom of Israel whose Kingly Seat or City was Samaria And the other two Tribes under Rehoboams government were called the Kingdom of Judah and the People Jews whose Royal Seat was the Mount of the Lord God called b Zion adjoyning to the North side of Jerusalem The City of the great King * Christ Jesus 2. That all the ten Tribes of Israel were c carried away into captivity beyond the River of Aethiopia called Euphrates d by Shalmanazer King of Assyria in the days of King Hoshea into a far Country about eighteen moneths journey from the holy land of Palestina called in the Syriack Assareth but in the Hebrew Sinin three hundred twenty and six yeers before Judah was carryed captive into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon from whence Judah returned to their own Land again within seventy yeers But the ten Tribes called Israel as yet never returned to this day So that Israels captivity hath now continued about two thousand six hundred and twelve yeers Therefore will the Lord make Israel that was wholy cast out a mighty Nation but Judah or the Jews that returned and halted e
ye rejected him saying We will not have this man to reigne over us for we have no King but Caesar is now dispers d among the Nations and shall be only a Remnant For as ye wâ—re a curse among the Heathen saith the Lord O House of Israel and House of Judah f so will I save you and ye shall be a Blessing For in those days and at that time the children of Israel and the children of Judah shall g come together They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying Come Let us joyn our selves to the Lord in a Perpetual Covenant that shall never be forgotten Then shall the Tribes of Israel mourn when they see him whom their fore-fathers rejected and shall h declare my glory among the Gentiles and they the Gentiles shall bring your brethren unto the Lord out of all Nations in their Ships and upon Horses and in Litters and in Chariots and upon Mules and upon swift Beasts or Dromedaries to my holy Mountain Jerusalem and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem saith the Lord For as the New Heaven and the New Earth which I will make shall remain before me so shall your Seed and your Name remain saith the Lord And the Gentiles i shall come to thy Light and Kings to the brightness of thy rising When I have raised you out of your graves then thy sons shall come from far and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side And the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee Then will I return k to the people a pure language They shall not see Evil any more for Evil the Divel shall not dwell with thee Christ in glory saith David And because salvation is far from the wicked for they search not Gods statutes yea they are hid from their eyes neither can they know them because they are * spiritually discerned Therefore ye that truly fear the Lord God of salvation eternal life light and glory Christ Jesus Search the Scriptures l for in them ye look to have Eternal Life and they testifie of me saith our Saviour For the Scriptures only comparing spiritual things with spiritual things are able to make you wise uâ—to salvation Knowing this that the Scriptures are not of any private m Interpretation For we have this Treasure of Gods revealed Will by his Word in Earthen Vessels that the Excellency of the Power may be of God and not of us for none knoweth the things of God but the Spirit of God So that it plainly appeareth that all mens Interpretations of what quality or degree of Learning soever or paraphrasing upon the Scriptures is only a private Interpretation and so is uncertain for there is no man that can truly say that he is immediately sent from God as the Prophets were and hath an infallible unerring spirit and that his interpretations of the Scripture and his paraphrasing on them are most infallibly true Therefore Wo to them that are wise in their own Eys and prudent in their own sight Wo to them that put Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness That broach the Divels Doctrine of lyes for a Truth and force all men to obey and receive them as the Truth For no man can serve two masters God and Mammon Christ and the Divel But the learned Pharisees who were covetous derided Christ the Wisdom of God saying Is not this the Carpenter the Son of Joseph And Jesus said unto them Ye are they which justifie your selves before men to have much Learning Wisdom and Piety but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men but within ye are full of Hypocrisie and Iniquity and devour Widdows houses yet for a shew of feigned Piety make long Prayers like most of our covetous Priests Therefore beware of the Scribes which walk in long robes or garments and make merchandise of the VVord of Truth by Sermons of all Prises Sacrament Christnings Churchings of Women an burying of the Dead at several Rates Easter-book New-yeers-gifts and Excommunications with several other pecuniary offences at several Rates These several Truths with the following matter contained in this Treatise I recommend to thy conscientious and diligent perusal without a prejudicate opinion beseeching thee as thou expectest eternal life in glory in the land of the living to search the Scriptures and try the truth of this following matter even as the noble Bereans did The happy issue whereof I refer to the blessing of the Almighty God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who only in and by his Son works in us both the VVill and the Deed Desiring thee also to consider that the Testimonies of the Lord are true and wonderful giving light and understanding to the simple For by thy Word thou O Lord hast made me wiser then my Teachers saith David With which saying I also conclude committing thee to the Direction and Tuition of the Almighty Goodness of the great God and Father of all Spirits the Excellent Glory Remaining thine in the Lord Jesus the God of Salvation to my Power James Frese Being still in Bonds which fain I would not be The man I was I wish I nere had bin Thy hands affliction hath drawn me home to thee Lord grant thy work may more on me be seen That Asia's seed in Europ's Soyl may spring And bear a Pleasing fruit to Israels King And Englands Sons and Daughters also may Bring thy People in that most happy day To Sions hill and there Present to thee Themselves with Iudah a most Pleasing Tree Where they shall see thee and thy Saints be known To them their friends and children which they own Lo God hath chosen the foolish and weak things of the world to consound the wise and mighty And having hid these things from the wise and prudent hath revealed them unto Babes And thus you see it plainly doth appear To be a truth most evident and clear That some Proficients are in natures schools And yet in Christ's meer novices yea fooles Probatum est 1647. JUDAHS PAST WITH ENGLANDS Present Miseries paralleld And the holy Land of PALESTINA with ENGLAND paralleld the one being Asias the other Europes Canaan or Land of Plenty SECT. I. THUS saith the Lord smite with thine hand and with thy foot and say Alas for the evill abominations of the Land Behold an evill an only evill is come it watcheth for thee I will shortly pour out my fury upon thee and I will judge thee according to thy wayes and all thy abominations for violence is risen up among them into a Rod of wickedness The day of vengeance is near therefore let not the Buyer rejoyce nor the Seller mourn for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof neither shall any of them strengthen themselves in the iniquity of their
Behold thus have our Fathers sinned and are not and we have and still do bear their iniquity and delight in these their waies of Idolatry SECT. IX ANd as the Jews through Covetousness by Money purchased of the heathen Romans the setting up of two high Priests who also climed up with the Pharisees into Moses chair which was the Seat of Justice for Moses was a Princâ— and Judge and not a Priest So had England two Arch-Bishops who by themselves and their Ministers and Agents purchased with money the Priestly and Episcopal Offices and did clime into and possess the Seats of Justice for many yeers And as the Jews imbraced the manners of the Latines or Romans to have their causes of controversie pleaded in Courts of Justice by Heathens stiled Common Prators such as Tertullus was who for a mercenary Fee accused Paul falsly So have we a very great number of the like persons called common Lawyers or Praters And as the Jews then put Justice to sale for certain Fees and Rewards So have we done ever since the Conquest for these five hundred and sixty yeers whereby the Rich and Mighty have eaten up the Rights of the Poor and Needy and murthering thousands of them in the several Goals and Prisons in this Kingdom And as those High Priests Elders Pharisces Sadduees Libertines and Lawyers for some forty yeers together persecuted the Saints and Servants of Christ stiling them Pestilent fellows Raisers of Sedition and Sectaries Heretiques or the Sect of Nazarites So did our Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Ministers Lawyers and Magistrates from time to time and still do persecute banished imprisoned pillored whipt hangd and destroyed divers of the poor followers of Christ and in like manner falsly styling them Pâ—stilent fellows Sectaries Heretiques and raisers of sedition stiring up the common people against them and thus like those Priests in the Lamentation they have by the spirit of errour been led and wandred like blind men and have shed the blood of the just and have polluted themselves with the blood of the innocent whereby they have discovered their own nakedness and shame for the Lord had not thus proceeded against them in his jealousie if they had not exalted the stroak of their hand and slain his chosen people wherefore the Lord hath also made them contemptible among the people of the Land for they have a Name that they live and yet are dead By oppressing him that reproveth and making a man an offender for a word Thus they add sin to sin SECT. X. ANd because O Lord God of Hosts all they that thus forsake thee the God of Justice and Mercy in thy primary Attributes Justice and Mercy shall be written in the earth Death shall swallow them Therefore will I look unto thee yea I will wait for the God of my salvation for he will hear me Rejoyce not therefore against me O mine enemy though I sit in Darkness in the bands of cruel affliction and shut up close in prison * yet the Lord shall be a light unto me and I will bear the indignation of the Lord Because I have sinned against him until he plead my cause and execute Judgement for me upon all my Oppressors for he will bring me forth in the light and I shall behold his Righteousness and Glory at his Appearing when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired of all that believe in that day at the resurrection of the Just and not of the wicked from the Dead and not with the Dead taking vengeance on them then living that know not God nor obey the Gospel of Christ who himself shall then change our vild corruptible bodies that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body and shall then give us rest in glory â—or ever Which shall be according to the time and number of days or yeers answering the number of yeers from the Creation of this World to the end of Noah's Flood which was 1657. yeers and thus answerably from the second Adam's work of Redemption to the time of his coming in Glory decked with eternal salvation and royal Majesty shall be the like number of yeers or days of time 1657. as doth plainly appear by Christ's own words in Mat. 24. where the Disciples ask him of the time when his coming in Glory should be and also the Manner of his coming and of the signes of the end of this world SECT. XI TO both which questions he gives them a very full and satisfactory answer 1. His Resolve for the time when followeth in these words For as the days of Noah were so shall the coming of the Son of man be And then he tells them the very manner of his coming and of the end and sudden destruction of this World in these words For as in the days that were before the Flood they were Eating and Drinking and Marrying c. So shall also the coming of the Son of Man be Even as Lightning that cometh on t of the East and shineth into the West c. SECT. XII YEt of that natural day nor hour knoweth no man no not the Angels nor the Son but the Father only therefore he chargeth all his Followers to pray That their flight or gaâ—hering together unto him out of all Countries may not be on the Sabbath day nor in the Winter season for then shall be great tribulation when the Lord shall send his Angels to gather together his Elect not the Damned from the four winds of Heaven into the Land of Palestina For he will raise us up after two days and the third day of Rest and Glory we shall live in his sight In that time shall a Present be brought unto the Lord of a people scattered and peeled To the Placâ—â—f the name of the Lord of hosts The Mount Zion SECT. XIII ANd then in this their Journey when they pass through the waters the Lord will be with them and the Riveâ—s shall not overflow them and when they pass through the fire when the Elements shall be on fire yet shall they not be burnt neither shall the flame kindle upon them Then shall he the Lord say to the North Give up and to the South keep not back bring my Sons from far and my Daughters from the Ends of the Earth Even every one that is called by my Name For the Lord shall come down to fight for Mount Zion and for the Hill thereof for his fire shall be in Zion and his furnace in Jerusalem For the Lord will clense his Land and throughly purge his floor and gather his wheat or Elect into his Barn or Kingdom of Glory but will burn up the Chaff or wicked when he shall appear upon Mount Zion Then shall two be in the field the one shall be taken or carried away by the Angels of Christ and the other lefâ— to
Destruction or for the Destroyer two shall be in a bed the one shall be taken away and the other lefâ— to Destruction two shall be grinding at a Mill the one shall be taken away and the other left to Destruction or for the Destroyer SECT. XIIII THe Disciples then asked him where all this should be or whither all these should be gathered together He answered where the body is or Christ shall appear thither wil the eagles or elect be gathered together even to Mount Zion For they shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying come let us joyn our selves unto the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall never be forgetten and arise let us goe up to Zion unto the Lord out God and say O Lord save thy people the Remnant of Israel Yea many people and strong Nations shall come To the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem At the same time will the Lord be The God of all the Families of Israel and they shall be his people In Zion his dwelling place the holy Mountaine SECT. XV ANd for a further proof of the time of this his glorious Coming Compare Daniel's visâ—on which he had in Babylon about the seventh yeer of his Captivity which was about six hundred forty three yeers before Christ's Nativity with the expressions of our Saviour Christ in the aforesaid place of Matth. 24. and yâ—u shall find them to agree together in the number of years And I heard onâ— Saint say to the Wondâ—rful Nuâ—berer of Secrets Christ which spake How long shall be tâ—e vision concerning the Transgression of making Desolate And he said untâ— me Unâ—o two thousand three hundred days Then shall the Sanctuary or holy land be clensed For afâ—er two days will he the Lord Revive us and raise us up and we shall live in his sight Which two days I understand to be these two laâ—t days under the gospel which days Christ hath promised â—o shorten for the Elects sake and will as I finde and beleeve be shortned answerable to the first two days of this world which was destroyed by water being at 1657. yeers of age For so our God shal come and shal not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempâ—stuous round about him saith David when he shall come down upon the Mountains of Zion as Rain upon the Morning grass for there God hath commanded the blessiâ—g to man even life in Glory fâ—r evermore SECT. XVI ANd in that very place where the first Adam was created and transgressed there did the second Adam Christ Jesus make full satisfaction for that Transgression in Paradice and there the old Serpent Sathan bruised his heel and there shall he break his head when he shall be there placed by his Father As King of Eternal Glory in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord shall Reigne with all his Saints gloriously for ever and ever And I heard a voyce saying Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he the Lord will dwell with them and then shall all the Kings of the Earth praise and sing in the waies of the Lord When they shall hear the words of his moâ—th Then the praises of God shall be in their mouths and a two Edged Sword in their hands Terrible as an Army with banners as it were the company of two Armies Israel and Judah to execute vengeance â—pon the heathen to bind their Kings with chains and their robles with fâ—tters of Iron to execute upon them the judgement writtenâ— This honour have all his Sâ—ints Then shall they Inherit the Earth and delight themselves in the aboundance of peace and then their Inheritance shall be for ever For know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world for then judgement shall be given to the Saints and the saints shall then possess the Kingdom for it is their Fathers pleasure to give them the Kingdom for his is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever and the Saints shall possess the Kingdom of Glory for ever even for ever and ever There where God hath commanded or ordained for man the blessing Even life in Glory for evermore Therefore let the Children of Zion be joyfull in their King the Lord of life Christ Jesus who shall also judge the dead men of this world of Darkness In the valieâ— of Iehosaphat And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and the dead were judged Then shall they The dead see him whom they have pierced and shall know that he is the Lord God dwelling in Zion his holy mountain For the wicked shall be shut up in the prison of the grave and after many days even the sabbattical thousand years rest in glory shall they be visited and in that day will the Lord punish Leviathan that piercing crooked Serpent the Dragon in the Sea or in the multitud e of Nations in this world and he shall be cast into the lake of fire and Brimstore where the Beast or Imperiall power and the False Prophet Mahomet are and shall be tormented for ever and ever SECT. XVII ANd this Judgement day of the dead shall be after Christ hath Reigned the thousand years or day of rest among the Saints Bodily yea in that very body which he hath carried up for that purpose and hath raised all the Elect out of their Graves From the dead or children of death and Hell called Sathan For Christ being the Resurrection and the life shall come down upon them that are his as the Rain upon the Mown grass For thus saith the Lord I will open your graves O my people and bring you into the Land of Israel then shall ye know that I am the Lord your God when I have opened your graves and put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I shall place you in your own land then shall ye know that I am the Lord that have performed it For those which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him For the councel of peace eternall life and glory shall be between them both even Father and Son and so shall they the Saints be ever with the Lord This shall be written for the Generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord In the Regenâ—râ—tion or Resurrection when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his Glory Then will he make them even Israel and Judah one Nation in the holy land upon the Mountains of Israel the land of his Inheritance A Glorious high Throne is the Place or land of our Sanctuary from the beginning of the Creation of God for though all the earth be his yet Zion hath he chosen to be the place of his habitation for ever and will goe in and out before his people there even as
shall roar and lay hold of the prey and shall carry it away safe and none shall deliver it as it was at their coming out of Egypt yea they shall mount like Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint Then the sinners in Zion shal be afraid fear shal take hold on the now inhabitants of Palestina because of the Lord God Christ who also will then plead with his people in the wilderness of their own land face to face like as he pleaded with their forefathers in the wilderness of the Land of Egypt thus will he cause them to pass under the Rod and then will he bring them into the bond of the Covenant made with Abraham Isaac and â—acob and then will he speak comfortably to them and they shall then enjoy their vineyards as in the dayes of their coming out of the land of Eâ—â—â—p so will he shew unto them marvelious things SECT. XXVIII THen shall the great River Euphrates be dried up in the seven streams thereof and the Egyptian Sea utterly destroyed that the way of the Kings of the East the leaders of Israel may be prepared even of the seven shepherds and eight principal Leaders that they and all the people of Israel may go over dry-shod as when they came out of Egypt and then will he raise unto Israel Sâ—viours called Kings such as Ioshuah for Leaders even Abraham Isaac and Iacob Hesea Amoâ— Micha Ioâ—l Obadiah Ionah Nahum Habbakuk Zâ—phany Haggaiah Zacharâ—ah and Malachy For these fifteen Saviours Kings or Leaders shall come on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esâ—â— or Kingdom of Edom Gog and Magâ—g who are hated of Christ for they shall put all the wicked to shame because God hath despised them therefore shall they never see the light Christ Jesus in his Glory then the Kingdom shall be the Lords when he bringeth back the Captivity of his people then Jacob or Iudah shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad when the Lord God of Israel Christ Jesus shall appeare in his glory even in the glory of God the Father which is and shall be in the face and presence of Jesus Christ being that individual glory which he had with the Father before the world was made by him For it pleased the father that in him should all the fulness of his glory dwell even in that measure of unexpressible transcendent glory which the sacred Excellenâ— glory and incomprehensible Maiesty the Father hath pâ—edetermined from all eternity to be from him by Christ the God of mercy conferred upon the Creature accordiâ—g to the Creatures meted out capacity or predetermined Capabillity then to be conferred on him by the inviâ—ible and incomprehensible Majesty of God the Father whicâ— shall be a fulness of joy exceeding glory and unexpressâ—ble pleasures in the Kingdome of glory for evermore SECT. XXIX ANd this excellent eternal life joy and glory is to be manifested to the creature and conferred on them in and by his beloved Son Christ Jesus the visible God of Salvation and in whom the invisible Godhead dwelleth bodily And thus is he the true Image of the most high invisible God the Father and also his sacred comprehensible glorious presence in the lot of his inheritance Palestina The holy land The hill of the Lord The holy place The mounâ—Mounâ—Zion The glorious world to come given unto him by the most high God and Father of all Spirits being the Excellent Glory To whose excellency and incomprehensibleness of most glorious being man's comprehensible and limited capacity cannot attain or reach unto no more then to pourtray a true shape to a voyce to the winde or to hold the Sea in his hand for no man hath ever heard the Fathers voyce at any time nor never seen his shape Therefore what person shape or voyce can the limited frail fancy or wit of man prescribe devise imagine or attribute to this most High most Sacred most Mighty most Excellent and most Incomprehensible Unrevealed Deity and primary Fountain and Cause of all Being whom they never saw nor heard at any time So that it is very plain and most true that Christ Jesus onely and alone being the beloved and from all eternity the anointed visible God of Salvation light and eternal glory is the onely and alone true representative capable apprehensive visible personal presence of the Invisible Un-apprehensive and Incomprehensible Father and holy Spirit of God The beginning of the Creation of God the Father SECT. XXX FOr this God of salvation the Lord of life and glory Christ Jesus will yet chuse Zion the place where his Congregation hath dwelt and wherein he hath dwelt and will set Israel in their own land and the strangers or Gentiles shall joyn themselves unto them and cleave to the house of Jacob or Judah saying we will goe with you for we have heard that God is with you and the people shall take them and bring them to their place or land and the house of Israel shall possess them In the land of the Lord for servants and handmaides for Salvation is of the Jews to whom pertaineth the adoption and the Glory and the Covenants and the Promises of eternal blessedness whose are the Fathers to whom the promises were made and of whom concerning the â—lesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever of or by the Father SECT. XXXI THen shall this world of sin and grace be dâ—stroyed by fire as the firstworld of sin was by water wherein it repeâ—ted the Lord Christ that ever he made man but the third world of grace and eternall Glory shall continue for ever then shall they say now is Salvation and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ the God of salvation The voyce of the beloved behold he commeth leaping upon the mountaines skipping upon the hills travelling in the greatnes of his strength for lo the winter of affliction and misery is past the Raine or stormes of persecution is over and gone and the flowers of glory and eternall excellency appear on the earth and the time of singing of birds of Paradice or Saints is come and the Glorious voyce of the Turtle Dove Christ Jesus is heard in our Land of Palestina saith Solomon coming from Edom from Bozra the chiefe City of Edom Glorious in his apparel travelling in the greatness of his strength nughty to save SECT. XXXII FOr the hastning of which sacred Kingdom of glory he the Lord hath taught us to pray continually saying Thy Kingdom come and thy will be done on Earth as it is now in heaven and by faith to acknowledge and beleeve that his is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever For then in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen saith Abraham even in Mount Zion the Transcendent Glory and Excellent perpetuity of being And
the glory of this latter house shall be greater then that of the former built ly Solomon and when the Children of Israel shall be thus planted and dwell in their own land and place in Glory Eternal to be Removed no more Nor the Children of wickedness that is of the Divel to wast them any more as at the beginning Then the Lord will build the house and God the Father will establish his Throne and Kiâ—gdom for ever for of his Kingdom there shall be no end SECT. XXXIII ANd when his Tabernacle or personal presence shall be among them Then shall they say among the Nations The Lord Râ—igneth and the heathen or Gentiles shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel when my sanctuary shall be in the middest of them for evermore and my servant David shall be their Prince for ever The Figure of the holy City Jerusalem with the proofs out of the Prophets and Apostles for the same Aeronâ— Br st plate was a figure of â—hâ—â— City Exoâ— 8 1◠〈…〉 21 12 North East South West Ruben Judo Levy Josepâ— Beâ—ianâ— Dan. Simem Jsochaâ— Zâ—bvlou Ezek. 48. 31. Rev. 21 16. Isa. 26 1 Rev. 3 12 Isa. 33 17 20 24 Isa. 66. 18 19. Isa. 60. 11 14 15. Ier. 31. 38 39 40. Isa. 49. 16 17. Heb. 11 10 14 16. Ezek 47. 7 12. Baruch 4. 30. Zach 14. 10 11 Iâ—a 54. 11 12 13. Isâ— â—2 18 1â— And they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and work iniquity And there shall no unclean thing enter into it nor any that worketh abomination but only they that are written in the Lambs book Therefore Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may enter through the gates into the City Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God Ierusalem the holy City from thenceforth shall no more come into thee the unclean I have raised him up and he shall build my City for we look for a City whose Builder and maker is God for I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of God Christ Jesus in the land of the living I will place Salvation in Zion for Israel my glory for when the Lord doth build up Zion he shall then appear in his glory Then Jerusalem shall be called the City of truth and he will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem And the name of City from that day forth shall be the Lord is there Yea he shall build the Temple of Jehovah For he hath prepared for them a City having twelve foundations For he will glorifie the house of his glory and I will make he Place of feet glorious But the Scepter was departed from Judah about 640. yeares before Shilo Christ came in the flesh Neither were the people of Judah gathered unto him but rejected him and Israel heard not of him being carried away by Shalmanazar King of Assiria about 964. years before Christ's coming in the flesh For Christ his coming in humility was when Judah's Iniquities were fully ripe and thus he came in the fulness of time to be a light to us Gentiles that had then fate almost 1800. years in Darkness and under the bondage and shaddow of death and Hell But shall then at his coming be the glory of his people Israel who as yet have not known him nor shall not know him till they shall see him and say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord for so is God's decree Then all things shall become new for the Lord will renew the face of the Earth and then the whole earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea for he shall come in the glory of God the Father yet that which is to be hath already bin and they shall all know the Lord from the least to the greatest of them from a childe of a span long to the man of full stature And then will he Remember their sins no more for the Lord shall then appear in his glory and shall stand upon the Mount of Olives and the mount of Olives shal cleave in the middest towards the North and towards the South and it shal become a very great valley yea all the land of Palestina shal be turned into a plain from Gheba to Rimon south of Jerusalem and shal again be meted out to the Tribes of Israel as at their coming out of Egypt SECT. XXXIIII THen shal they say arise let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God and they shal go from year to year and from one Sabbath to another to worship the King the Lord of hosts at Jerusalem for I will bring them from the north Country and gather them from the coasts of the earth for he that scattered Israel wil gather them even as a shepherd gathereth his flock and they shal come and sing in the height of Zion and flowe together to the goodness of God Christ a great company shal return thither and mine Elect servants only shal dwel there and inherit it for I wil Create Jerusalem a Rejoycing and her People a joy And I wil rejoyce in Jerusalem and Joy in my people for there God the Father comanded the blessing even life for evermore And then all things shall become new or the natures of all creatures shal be changed to the state and condition wherein they were first created for the wolf and the lamb shal feed together the Lyon shal then eat straw like a Bullock and dust shal be the Serpents meat They shal not hurt nor destroy any in all my holy mountaines saith the Lord For the very brute creature who was made subject to corruption through mans transgression waiteth for the Time of the manifestation of the Sons of God and to be restored into the glorious liberty of the Sons or Saints of God even eternal incorruptible being For then shal the creatureâ— also be delivered from this bondage of corruption Death and then all his works shal praise him and all flesh shal bless his holy name for ever and ever for in that day wil the Lord make a Covenant for his people with all the beasts of the field with al the fowls of heaven and with al creeping things of the ground and al evil beâ—sts shal then cease out of the land and his people shal dwel safely in the wildernes and sleep in the woods and they shal be safe in their land For he wil sowe the portion of Israel and the portion of Iudah even the land of Palestina with the seed of man and with the seed of beasts for he that hath delivered them in these six troubles or these 6000. years or days of labour trouble and sorrow will not suffer evil or the Divel to touch them in the seventh day of his glorious Rest for the beastes of the
field shall be at peace with them and Sathan shall be shut up al that thousand years or seventh day of rest in glory all which is typified unto us by Exo. 9. 4 6. Exo. 10. 23. SECT. XXXV IN that time shal the present be brought unto the Lord of hostes by the faithfull Gentiles of a people scattered and peeled from a people terrible from their beginning a nation meted out and trodden under foot whose Land Palestina the Rivers or Nations of the Gentiles have spoyled they shall be brought to the place of the name of the Lord to mount Zion In that day shall the branch of the Lord Israel and Iudah and all the saints be beautiful and Glorious for I am the vine saith the Lord and ye are the branches and the fruit of the earth shall then be excellent for I say unto you I will no more eat nor drink of the fruit of the vine untill the Kingdom of God shall come and untill I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdom and then the meek shal eat and be satisfied and shal live for ever when the Lord hath washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion then shall we see his glory and live ever in his sight For all the earth shall be filled with the Glory of the Lord Then shall it be said to the Israel of God by the Angels of Christ that shal be sent forth to gather them together Arise for the light is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee the sons of them the wicked that afflicted thee shal come bending and bow themselves down to the soals of thy feet even as Joseph's Brethren did to Joseph for thou shal suck the milk of the Gentiles and the brests of Kings then shalt thou know that I the Lord am thy Saviour the mighty one of Jacob For the Nation and Kingdom that wil not serve thee shal perish and shall be utterly wasted but the Lord shal be unto thee O Israel an everlasting light and thy God thy Glory the people also shall be all Righteous they shall Inherit the land for ever For thy maker Christ Jesuâ— the God of salvation light and glory is thy Husband and thy Redeemer the Lord of hostes is his Name The God of the whole Earth shal he be called then shal wee see heaven open and the Angels of God ascending and descending as Iacob did who in a vision was shewed the glory of it and by the spirit of truth was forced to confess that the place was none other then the Gate of heaven the house of God and that the Lord is in that Place SECT. XXXVI BUt darkness shall then cover the earth or the men of this part of the world of darkness and grosse darkness the people such as shall be felt typified unto us by the severall great plagues of darkness inflicted on Egypt and shall be acted in like manner on the now inhabitants of Palestinaâ— by the two witnesses conceived to be by their workes Moses and Elias at the time of Judah's gathering together for three years and six moneths for they shall have power to send forth fire to turne the waters into blood and to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they list yea they shal have power to shut heaven all that time that it raine not even for three years and six moneths as Elias did before in Ahab's time for three years and six moneths SECT. XXXVII THen all the wicked of the land shall be as though they had never bin because Israel shall be a fire and Judah shall be a flame and the wicked shall be as stubble and they even Israel and Judah shall kindle and devour them for they shall be utterly burâ—t with fire in the same place of their abode and all the wicked shall become ashes under their feet for this battel against the wicked shall be with burning and fewell of fire for a fire shall devour his enemies before them death shall feed on them and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning or when the morning Christ Jesus appeareth upon mount Zion and before his antients Abraham Isaac and Iacob and al the Prophets gloriously for Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in his own place and the Lord shall save the tents of Judah first SECT. XXXVIII THen all the nations of the world even Gog and Magog East and West Turkâ— and Pope shall be by the evill spirit Sathan brought into the land of Israel to fight against Judah in Ierusalem that now is where our Lord was crucified for tydings out of the East shall affright Gog and Magog when they shall hear of the gathering together of Judah and all the saints and they Gog and Magog shall go forth with great fury to destroy when they shall hear that Judah hath taken Ierusalem for Gog and Magog shall come roaring like the roaring of the Sea and shall come in like a flood but the Lord shall lift up a standard against him and they shall come upon the mountaines of Israel but then shall darkness sorrow and â—ear take hold of them as it did on the Egyptians in the red sea and a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them and every ones hand shall be against his neighbour and every mans Sword shall be against his brother for the Lord shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard and shall shew the lighting down of his arme with Indignation and anger and with devouring fire with scattering tempest and hayl stones and then shall they be destroyed upon the mountaines of Israel by the hand of the Lord for God in his Eternal decree hath scattered the bands of him that incampeth against thee O Judah who shall all be buried in the valley of Hamon Gog and they shall never see light or Christ in his glory and when the wicked are cut off the Saints shall see it SECT. XXXIX ANd with whose Innumerable carcasses will the Lord make a feast unto all the beasts of the field and fowls of the aire who shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the Earth And for an eternal memorial of this great deliverance there shall be a City built in the valley of Hamon Gog and it shall be called Hamona and seven years shall the Saints be burning of their weapons of war and seven moneths shall they be burying of the bones of Gâ—g and Magog's mighty Hoste that was as the sand of the sea for Multitude and the land shall be soaked with their blood and the dust made fat with the fatness of their bodies for it â— the day of the Lords vengeance and the year of recompence for the controversie of Zion in the latter dayes ye shall consider it SECT. XL THus shall the Lord punish the host of the high ones and of the
into an externall shape and being and we by him even by Jesus Christ the Son of the most high God the Father the Portion of Jacob or of the Elect the former and maker of all things for God the Father decreed the earth to be made by this his sacred power Established the world by this his sacred wisdom and stretched out the heaven by his sacred understanding the Lord of Hostes is his name the God of Israel the God of all flesh who hath made the â—arth the man and beast the portion of Iacob Christ is the former of all things the Lord of hosts is his name Thou art the Lord the God who didest choose Abraham Thou ledst them in the day by a cloud and in the night by a pillar of fire thou camest down upon mount Zion and spakest with them face to face For they saw him the God of Israel and the Lord even the God of Israel spake to Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend yea Iacob did see this God of Israel or of the elect face to face who testifieth of himself saying and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God even the God of Israel he is the God of Salvation he hath made us And the world was also made by him the Word of God And unto the God of Christ belong the Issues from death being the ordained resurrection and the life and so is he God over all blessed for ever Being the God of hope even to the elect the hope of glory in eternal life In the true Image of him that created him Christ the power of God the wisdom of God Righteousness and true holiness yea the beauty of Holiness and glorious in holiness Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance for they shall rejoyce for ever in the Lord God of their salvation happy are the people whose God is the Lord for he shall govern the nations upon the earth He shall say to the prisoners and them that are in darkness goe forth and shew your selves For God the Father his God hath anoynted him with the oyle of gladness eternal light life and glory above his sellowe seven above all spirits what ever For God the Father is the head of Christ even as man is the head of woman and hath ordained him to be the Prince of life The beginning the light the day the Person the Presence the face the Angel the Name the truth the goodness the power of God the Father unto Salvation the Prince of peace and love whose nature and property is even to have mercy to forgive and to preserve For he the Lord God is the preserver of Isracl yea the preserver of men The God of Salvation The Christ of God the Father for the worke of mercy and glory But darkness the divel is the Prince of death and destruction the destroyer the hater of man the roaring Lyon the raging power evil wickedness the merciless enemy the unrighteousness the night The wrath of God the star of the morning or the star darkness separated from the morning star or bright star of righteousness light and glory Christ Jesus the anoynted God of salvation whom God the Father hath appointed heir of all things and by whom he made the worlds being the word and voice of God the Father the visible brighâ—ness of his Fathers glory and his expresse Image in his person for he that hath seen him hath seen the Father or the Fathers power to salvation for he upholdeth all things by the sacred power Who is made heir of all things and hath obtained a more excellent name then all other spirits what ever for the name of the Father the Lord God Ichovah the God of salvation is in him Who said I will be to him a Father and he to me a Son yea this day have I begotten thee For before the naturall day was in being he was brought forth yea before the earth was formed For according to the Fathers decree The foundations of the earth were lay'd in or by this sacred beginning yea the heavens are the work of his hand For it pleased the Father for whom are all things and of whom are all things in bringing many Sons unto glory to make the Captain or Prince of their salvation Christ perfect glorious in holiness yea the beauty of holiness fearfull in praises doing wonders For he that sanctiâ—ieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he the Christ is not ashamed to call them brethren for of him and through him and to him are all things For he being the Resurrection and the life in him we live and move and have our being being created by God the Father in Christ Jesus who is the Beginning the day the life the light and glory Therefore are the Children of the light no more in bondage to darkness Hell and death the divel being redeemed by the light Jesus they are all become the Children of the light and Children of the day for God the Father hath not appointed or determined them unto or for wrath the divel but to obtaine or enjoy salvation in glory in and by Jesus Christ where we shall all live together with him who is the Christ of God the Father by whom all things were made to the glory of God the Father according to the eternal purpose of the Father which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord that so unto Principalities and powers of darkness in heavenly places might now be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God the Father Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named That is the spirits of life in all things named appointed and disposed of to their severall functions and conditions of being by him who after God is created in righteousness and true holiness by that one God and Father of all who is above all through all and in all and by whom is given or conferred on the elect grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ whose name is the Lord of Hostes the God of Israel or elect who shall be Glorious in the sight of God the Father and this his God shall be his strength and he shal be his servant to raise up the tribes of Iacob and to restore the preserved of Israel And to be a light to us Gentiles and the Fathers Instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth And by the Covenant to establish the earth that he may say to the Prisoners of death go forth and shew your selves when he shall put his spirit of life into them and the shall live For in the Lord Christ shall all the seed of Israel be Justified and shall glory for he shall be exalted and be very high For
eternal purpose in Christ Jesus whereby he hath made them heires of glory yea joynt heires with Christ to be glorified together with him Whose spirit beareth witness to our spirits that we are the Children of God the Father and heires with Christ who is the Ordained God and Lord over all blessed for ever He came out of the mouth of the most high God the Father and so is he the word of God For the Creator of all things gave him a Commandment and ordained his tabernacle or personall presence to rest Saying to him let there be a firmament and let thy dwelling be in Jacob and thine inheritance in Israel Yea he came forth as a brook from a river for he the Father created him the beginning and he shall never faile and thus is he established in Zion in the beloved City Jerusalem is his rest and power being the portion of his inheritance Where he the word the life the way the truth the righteoâ—sness and the lâ—ght is by the Father decreed to dwell in gâ—ory with all his saints for ever There is also a word which is called upon with death who is called darknes hell falshood vanity unrighteousness wrath destroyer Sathan wickedness God grant it be not found in the heritage of Jacob the Saviour But this word was found in Jacob or Judah when they renounced the word of life and glory Christ saying we have no King but Caesar and his blood be on us and our Children Then spake he unto them in or by this word of darkness his wrath the divel and vexed them in his sore displeasure for they were given up by God the Father to him the wrath therefore said to be of their Father the divel the destroyer For as God or goodness is set by the Father against evill the divell light against darkness mercy against wrath life against death the Saviour against the destroyer even so is the Godly against the Sinner and the Sinner against the Godly Even so also look upon the works of the most high God the Father and there are â—wo Christ and Belial the accepted and the rejected and their two works are one against the other The ways of Righteousness are plain and easy to the righteâ—us but his commands are stumbling blocks to the wicked And for the Children of Righteousness are good things created or decreed by the father in the or this sacred beginning Even life eternall in glory but for the sinners or the Children of the disobedient one or evill things created or decreed even eternall being in the land of horrour drought and darkness for ever with their Father the divell for the wrath of God is revealed now but shall then be manifest Called Principalities Powers Hosts Ministers that at the Almighty's pleasure on his works yea powers of darkness Beelzebub that act by fire famine sword and pestilence punishing the wicked to destruction and boasting themselves in mischief and destruction whose nature and property is cruelty and destruction therefore stiled a roaring Lyon the destroyer but not the Saviour Christ whose nature and property is mercy and preservation and therefore is he stiled the preserver of men yea the Oracle or mouth of God the Father Thus you see that all things are double or decreed for a double use one against the other some for the light to abide in glory and some for the darkness Beelzebub to abide for ever in darkness For all that obey or do his will shall reap perdition but they that walk in the light and are Children of the light shall inherit the land or earth of glory and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace Thou wilt say why doth he then complain for who hath or doth resist his will for can I do any other then I am lead forth unto or made to do But O man who art thou which pleadeth or speaketh against God thy maker for shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it why hast thou made me thus hath not thee Potter power of one lump to make one vessell to honour or for the acting of the spirit of honour and glory Christ Jesus and another to dishonour or for the acting of the spirit of dishonour and reprobation Beelzebub what and if God will to manifest wrath and to make his the sdivels elotted or meated out power known to the Creature uffer the vessels of wrath prepared or decreed to destruction to act the will and works of wrath and that he might also declare the riches and power of his glory for Christ is the glory and power of God unto salvation upon the vessels of his mercy Christ the mercy of God which he hath prepared or decreed unto glory to act the works of mercy here for glory hereafter For if thou be determined for glory and the vessell or body be filled at present with the Spirit of glory truth and righteousness Christ Jesus then shalt thou act and be led forth to the works of glory truth and Righteousness For the meanes shall never be wanting that drives on to the end of the Fathers decree But if thou remaine under the power and guidance of the spirit of darkness then canst thou do none other works then the works of darkness and then thou wilt apprehend the word works and actings of Christ in his vessels of honour called saints to be ridiculous and foolishness for he that is not for Christ is against him But wo unto him that striveth with this his maker Christ Jesus the Lord of life and glory for this maker the Lord our Righteousness is the husband or bridegroome to the Saints and he will marry them unto himself in Righteousness and glory everlasting for he will give unto them salvation in Zion O therefore say not thou it is through the Lord Christ my maker that I perish for he causeth me to err for who dare say unto him what hast thou done or who dare stand against his Judgement to whom all power is given by the Father both in heaven and earth or who dare accuse him for the nations that perish whom he hath made or who dare stand against him to revenge the cause of the wicked that are by him cast off or rejected therefore happy yea thrise happy are all they that are possessed and guided by this sacred spirit wisdom For she was created or produced by the Father before all things she hath built her everlasting foundations with men and is given by the rather to be with their seed in glory for ever For all such as band themselves against Jehovah and against his anointed power for 〈◊〉 are described and known to be disobedient men of this earth or world of darkness guided by the rebellious spirit of wrath darkness and enemies to the obedient spirit of sight life and determined glory to the elect and obedient
For since the beginning of this world ear hath not heard nor eye seen what is prepared for them that love him the obedient and beloved Son Righteouâ—â—eâ—s and are made to wait for Christ his appearing in glory whom God the Father hath exalted highly above all and hath given him a name above every name In whom the father created or decreed all things and by whom all things were made into external shape and being according to the fathers decree or production of spiriâ—s in this sacred beginning Christ who is the beginniâ—g of the creation of God the father the first created oâ— every creature to be the immediate image or visible personal presence of the father Incompreâ—enâ—ible Who is the God of â—ur Lord Jesus Christ who hath made or decreed that same Jesus both Lord and Châ—ist saying by Jeremy This is his name whereby he shall be called and known The Lord our rigâ— hteousness the God of Salvation the ordained Judge of quick and dead Even the power of God unto salvation to reign in and among the elect 〈◊〉 oâ— unto eternall life For the gift of God the Father to all the elect is eternall life in glory through and by Jesus Christ whom he hath made both Lord and Christ yea The only true God of salvation the living God or God of life and everlasting King of glory who proceede h from the father everlasting for him hayh God the Father sealed or decreed for the work of mercy and glory to the creature and conferred by the God of the Prince of Peace and Father of this our Lord Jesus Christ on the elect Sainâ—s who shall be inhabitants of the everlasting Kingdom For the Kingdoms of the world shall be the Kingdom of our great incomprehensible God the father and of his Christ and â—e the Lord God of salvation shall reigne over the Saints in Mount Zion for ever O who can think upon these things worâ—â—â—y Or know the waies of the most â—hgh God and father of all and his power Christ Whose incorruptible Spirit is in all things for he is the â—oye of â—ouâ—s and by whom the heavens and all things were made into external visible form and being O therefore who can truly think what this our Lord God of salvation is much less to comprehend the infinite Majesty of God the father and Creator of all Spirits of light and Spirits of darkness who loveth none but this sacred Spirit of Wisdom Light and Glory and all his Saints For God his God hath anointed him the Emanuel with the oyl of gladness above his fellows above all Spirits and hath made him most blessed for ever Honour and Majesty hath he laid upon him and through the mercy of the most High shall he not be moved who hath given him Power over all Flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as he the Father hath given him Who of his own Will begot the Creatures with the Word of Truth Christ Jesus and thus is he 〈…〉 Beginning of the Creation of God The Word of God The King of kings and Lord of lords The God of Isrâ—el or Elect whose glorious coming is at hand Even so come Lord Jesus the Beauty of Holiness the Christ of the most high God the Father ordained by him to be the God of our salvation and the power of â—od â—o eternal life and glory determined for the creature for this life eternal is in his Son and his Name is in him The Lord Jehovah the Truth the Light the Life the Begining of the works of the most High God and Father of all Spirits who is above all and by his holy Spirit worketh through and in all being the Invisible or only wise God or God of wisdom Christ whom no man hath ever seen nor can see for no man hath seen God the Father at any time nor ever heard his voice by whom all things invisible were created in Christ Jesus the Beginning that are in heaven and earth but only as he hath been pleased to manifest himself to the creature in and by his Name Face Presence Power Wisdom and Love Christ the visible God of salvation the Lord God of the elect with whom Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Joshua the 70. Elders and all the Prophets talked face to face and mouth to mouth as one friend talketh with another even with the Lords anoynted the Lord God of Israel merciful and gracious whose Nature and Property is Mercy and Love by whom the whole family of Heaven and earth is named and to whom all power is given from the Father both in Heaven and Earth who is the Image Face and Presence of the great invisible God the Father and in whom the invisible and incomprehensible God-head dwelleth personally bodily or representatively who of God the Father is made unto us creatures wisdom righteousness sanctification and Redemption Who also is the blessed Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of lords and who only hath immortality dweling in the light the Father which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see even the Christ the Power of God the Wisdom of God the beginning of the Creation of God in whom all things were created by the Father the God of all Spirits For to us there is but one God of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ the God of Israel or Elect by whom are all things made and we by him who is the Lord God former and maker of all things being the express visible likeness or Image Face Presence Hand and active Power of the Invisible God the Father for the work of mercy salvation and glory to the creaturâ— whose excellency of being is in no manner revealed to the Sons of men other then in and by his comprehensible beloved Son and heir of all things The visible God Christ Jesus The Lord the life and hope of glory of and by whom we shall receive the reward of the inheritance even eternal life For the Father being the author and produce of all Spirits even of light and darkness from himself his glory must needs be far ecxeeding theirs who is pleased in special to delight love and dwell in Emanuel the Anoynted or Ordained God of love and Salvation light and eternall glory by whom he made the worlds and by whom all things were made yea all things were made by him and he is before all things excepting him the Father that hath made him Lord of all things and hath put all things under him to whom all power is given from the Father both in heaven and earth who is the beginning of the workes of God the first begotten of every creature O Lord our God the God of salvation thou hast made al these things the Lord of hosts is his name Behold I the Lord
as he did at their coming out of Egypt â—en 15. 18 â—â—â—k 10. 34 〈…〉 37. 〈…〉 â— â— 14 15. 〈…〉 7 â—5 Rev. 16. 12. Isa. 11. 15 16. There shall be no more sea Mich. 5. 5. Oba 21. The Prophets shall be Israels Leaders 2 Ezdras 1. 39 Zach. 9. 11 13. Psal. 53 5 6. 2 Cor. 4. 6. Iohn 1. 3. Col. 1. 19. â—ohn 17 5. â—â—eter 1. 17. Eph. 3. 11. â—ph â— 7. 〈…〉 4. 4 〈…〉 Iohn 14. 6 9 10. Col. 2. 9. Chriâ—â— the Ordained visible God of Salvation Psal. 24. 3. Iohn 5. 37. Iohn 6. 46. compared with Gen. 3. 8 to the 17. Gen. 18. 1 3 10. Exo. 24. 1 9 10 11. Exo. 33. 11 18 19. Jud. 6 14 to the 25. Chap. 13. See Isa 40 18. To whom will ye liken God or what likenesâ— will ye compare unto him Eph. 3. 9. For there is but one Person or Body â—nd one spirit see for this Epâ— 1. 4 6 7. Eph. 2. 16 18. Rev. 3. 14. Iohn 1. 1 2. Gen. 1. 1. Coâ— 3. 15. Psal. â—6 2. Isa 14. 1. 2. Psal. 74. 2. Gen. 14. 18 Zâ—ch 8. 13. Israel shall possess the Gentiles in the land of the Lord Palestina Salvation is of the Jewes Iohn 4. 22. Rom. 9. 4 5. The Kingdom and Power of Christ when Rev. 12. 10. Can. 2. 8 11 1â— Affliction shall vanish when Glory appeareth Isa 63 1 3 4. Matth. 6. 10 13. Gen. 22. 14. Hag. 2. 9. 2 Câ—â— 3. 2. The Saintes shaâ— bâ— Removâ—d no more out of Palestina 1 Câ—o 16. 31. 1 Cro 17. 9 10 12 Luke 1. â—2 33 Ezek 37. 27 Ezek. 3â— â—7 28 25. Matth 13 40 1â— Rev. 21. 27. Rev. 22. 14. 15. Psal. 87 3 Isa. 50 18. Isa. 45. 13. Heb. 11. 10. Psal. 27 13 Isa 46 13 Psal 102 16 Zach 8 3 Ezek 48 35 Zach 6 12 Heb 11. 16 Rev. 21 14. Mich 4. 8. Judah rejected Christ Israel was carried away captive 964. yeares before Christ hiâ— Incarnation and so knew him not Luke 2. 32. Matth. 23. 38 39. Psal. 102. 26. Haba 2. 14 Isa 11. 9. Gen. 14. 18. Eccles. 3. 15. Psal. 37. 2. Psal. 68. 10. Ier. 31. 34. Zach. 41. 4 8 9 10. Christ shall stand in Glory on the Mount of Olives The Land of Glory shall be all turned into a Plain Eze. 47. 〈…〉 to the 23. Ier. 31. 6 8 9 10 12. Zac. 14. 16 17. Isa. 66. 23. Isa. 65. 9 17 18 19 25. Jerusalem shall be a place of rejoycing Psal 133. 3. Every creature shall be restored to the state it was created in Isâ— 65. 25. Isa. 11. 6 7 8 9. Rom. 8. 19 20 â—1 Gen. 3. 14. Hosea 2. 18 19 20 21 22. Psal. 145. 10 21. Ezek. 34. 25 27. The Saints shall dwel safely Ier. 31. 25. Iob 5. 19 231 Rev. 20. â— Isa. 18. 2 3 7. Isa. 66. 2. From the Turkes territories who holds the Iewes in Bondage Iohn 15. 15. Zach. 3. 10. Luke 22. 16 18. There shall be eating and drinking in the Kingdom of glory Psal. 22. 26. Num. 14. 24. Isa. 601. 13 14 15 16 19. The People that will not serve Israel shall perish Isa. 54. 5. Iohn 1. 51. Gen. 28. 12 13 1â— 17. Isa. 49. 8. Exod. 10. 23. Moses and Elias Rev. 11. 3 to the 13. But the second of Esdras speaks of Isaiâ—h and Ierâ—my by name 2 Ezdr. 2. 18. Exod. 8. 6 17 24. Exod. 9. 6 10 25. 1 Kin. 17. 1. 2 Kin. 1 10 12. Israel and Judah shall destroy all the wicked in their Journs 2 Sam. 〈◊〉 7. Naho 1. 15. Rev. 9. 16 17. Oba 17. 18. Isa. 9. 5. 2 Sam. 23. 7. Psal. 49. 14. Isa. 24. 23. Ierusalem sâ—all be iâ—hahited in his own Place Gloriously Gog and Mâ—gâ—g shall come to fight aginâ—â— Judah then in Jerusalem Rev. 16. â— â—o the 11. Dan. 11. 44. Exek 38. 8. Isa. 5. 30. Isa. 59. 19 Zach. 14. 14. Ezek. 38. 21. Gog and Magog shall destroy onâ— another This was fore tould by Hanna the Mother of â—â—â—uel And Declared by Ezekiel 1 Sam. 2. 9. 10. Ezek. 38. 21 22. Psal. 53. 5. Rev. 6â— 2 17. Rev. 14 19 20 Psal. 37. 34. Read Ezek. 38. and the 39. Chap. Isa. 17. 18 13 14. Isa. 59. 18 19. Zach. 14. 1â— 13 15. A City built called Hamona The weapons of Gogs host shall be burrning 7. years and their Bones in burying 7. moneths â—er 30 23. 24. Mal 1. 4. 5. Isa. 24. 21 2â— Psal. 37. 34. Psal 58. 9 10. The day of Judgement These parts of the earth shall be the Hell Isa. 34. 4 9 10. Isa. 33 14. Isa 66. 24. Luke 16 23. Ier. 3 17. 18. Ierusalem shall be the Tâ—rone of the Lord Psal. 86. 9. Isa. 52. 1 8. Isa. 12. 6. Ezod 24. 10 11. Exod. 33. 11. Numb. 14. 14. Inhabitants of Zion Num. 14. 21. Iohn 16. 33. Iohn 18. 36. Act. 14. 22. Christ his Kingdom is not of his world The earth shall be Glorious Isa. 5. 26 27. Non of the Saints shall be weary in their Journy to Jerusalem Isa. 11. 11 12. Israel that was caâ—t out Judah dispersed Isa. 〈…〉 Ier. 23. 3 4 5 6 7 8. Zach. 14. 9. Lo the doctrine long taught uâ— of our climing up into the â—lements plainly disproved Rev. 5. 10 Rev. 7. 15. Psal. 5. 4. Iohn 18. 36. Psal. 5. 4 5. Psal. 1â—5 3. Iohn 8. 44. â— Rom. 2. 7. Col. 1. 12. 13. Heb. 6. 5. 1 Thess 2. 12. 2 Thess. â— 1. Acts 3. 19 21. 2 Tim 4. 1. 2 Cor. 1. 8. Rom. 8. 9 10 11. Rom. 15. 5. Iohn 13. 34. Iohn 17. 5. Matth. 25. â—1 Matth. 8. 2â— 2 Cor. 13. 5. Prov. 16. 4 Rom. 15 4. â—â—tâ—h 6. â—3 Luke 11. 35 36. Psal. 45. 7. Heb. 1. 2. Iohn 5. 25. Luke 2. 32. Rev. 20. 5. Isa. 26. 14. Iohn 5. 24 25. 26. Isa. 26. 14. Luke 14 14 Iob. 14. 12 Psal. 1. 5. Psal. 5. 5. Psal. 88. 10. 2 Cor. 4. â— 4. Isa. 26. 19. Luke â—0 35 36. The children of the Resurrection shall dy no more Psal. 31. 23. 1 Cor. 2. 7 10 11 12. Isa. 6. 1 5. â—ccle 1. 15. Iob â—6 2â— Isa 49. 8. Iohn â—0 17. Rev. 1. â— Rev. â— 12. The Glorious new Jerusalem shâ—l come down from heaven Deut. 6. 4. 1 Cor. 8. 〈◊〉 Acts 15. 18 1 Cor. 8. 7. Zach. 5. 13. Isa. 10 17. Mar. 5. 7. 1 Iohn 1. 11. 1 Iohn 3. 2. 1 Iohn 5. 20. Rom. 9. 5. Col. 3 3 4. Psal. 91. 1. Psal. 68. 20 Iohn 14. â— 23 Iohn 20. 17. â—â—hn 5. 20 22 2â— 27. Iâ—hn 6. 5â— Eph. 3. 21. Iohn 6. 4â— â—ohn 6. 〈…〉 3â— â—0 Eph. 4. 6. Hâ—b 5. 5. 5 10. Ier. 17 5 6. Rom. 9. 22. Gen. 7. 22. Psal. 68. 6. Ier. 50. 12. Isa 34. 8 9 10. Iob 10. 22. Rom. â— 23 24. Exod. 15. 17. 18. Psal. 94. 12. 13. Matth. 19. 28. Psal. 105. 9. 10. 11 12 13. Psal. 125. 3. Ier. â— 17 Ier. 17. 12. Eze. 43. 7. Psal. 56. 13. Col.