hasting with a glorious manifestation of himself in and for his Saints My desire is not so much to teach you but as a friend desire you to take heed you act nothing against him which its possible you may doe by reason of that darknesse that remaines in you unsubdued and destroyed by light of God The way he comes in is and will be contrary to the wisedome of flesh its possible you shall not have the first sight or discovery of this Glory The Resurrection of Jesus Christ out of the Grave was made known to Mary Magdalen out of whom Christ had cast many Devils before the Disciples and to two others unexpectedly in their journey they declared but the Disciples beleeved them not their words seemed as tales The Lord Jesus will have his Resurrection in the hearts of the Saints and that such a one as will cause a great Earth-quake in them even to the destroying those powers of darknesse that shall striv to keep him down and what if he shall thus so appear and raise up himself first in those that wereas great sinners as Mary Magdalen was and they shall declare this glad tidings and proclaime this glory that the Lord is risen and will rise more and more in his Temple Why should this offend you May not he doe with his owne what he will Give as much to a poore Prodigall or more than to you that have continued in your Fathers house What if the unworthiest of men yea the last be first in this discoverie of Jesus be not troubled or offended at it the Vision may speak in you though it tarrie wait for it and with Abraham see this day and rejoice You will aske what day doe we speake of Why the day of Israels deliverance from the Spirituall bondage and captivitie wherein they lie whose oppressors shall be destroyed by the brightness of his appearing a Glorie to be manifested in these last claies to the Saints Read those Scriptures which say Sorrow and sighing shal fly away all teares shall be wip't from their eyes There shall be no more a Canaanite in the House of the Lord And those Prophesies that concerne these last daies and you shall see glorious things spoken of Sion the Citie of the Lord of Hosts which some have a glimse of and are earnestly longing for their breaking forth to a perfect day My Friends I would not have you think that I conceive the various transformations of the Devill as an Angel of light to be these glorious discoveries of Jesus But its certaine the Lords discoveries are amongst us the Devill is so busie in acting like him Take this as a rule from one that waits for clearer light what ever Principle gives way to the Principles Filthiness or Excellencie of our natures is contrary to the pure light and nature of God But our God will teach us to avoid their slights they may come near but shall not deceive the Elect. Friends Let me intreat you not to be so much offended at Lay-mens Preaching as you call them I have travail'd up and down formerly and have seene you much against them I am afraid there is a remainder of that Spirit still Moses was not angry though a great Prophet when some would prophesie in the Camp but honestlie said I would all the Lords people were Prophets When the Disciples saw some casting out Devils and followed not them they forbad them Christ hearing it very meekly replies forbid them not of a truth there is a more clear sight and enjoyment of spirituall things among them than with you But I spare you chusing rather to go backward covering your infirmities than forward to lay them open Yet my Friends if it be possible let me beg one thing at your hands even for the Lord Jesus Christ sake Consider the poore husbandmen who suffer much by your way of maintenance What if you should Preach the Gospel and trust God for a living The Aposties did so the people wereas cruell to them as these can be to you yet they lived in the world should not you Mistake me not I think you ought to live on the Ministrie if you be truly called thereto by God But your barganing with people so much you will have or not preach is a practise I understand not if you do by the pure light of God it is well Friends the Bridegroom is coming mind his beloved ones you meet withall of it he comes as a thief in the night Blessed are they that wait for him Come Lord Jesus come quickly and let those that love his appearing say Amen Finis Cant. 2. ver. 8. The voice of my beloved behold he cometh leaping over the mountaines skipping upon the hills I sate under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my tast Be thou like a young Roe or young Hart upon the mountains of Bether or of Division as you may read it Cant. 8. Who is this that cometh up from the Wildernesse leaning upon her Beloved Psal. 8. What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest him An apology to the true Israel of GOD MY dear Friends you have been very precious in my sight formerly though I a poore weak creature have wanted power so to walk as to adornthe glorious gospel of Jesus Christ which hath caused me where I have loved scarce to own God or you for fear of bringing contempt and despising to both no injoyment satisfying me but even to be declared the Son of God with power as Christ was which yet I wait for more and more God hath disposed of me now a little to bring my self forth by writing the words used to great ones to idle Shepherds to many in the gathered Churches may seem harsh to you and grieve your spirits thinking them to be contrary to the meeknesse gentlenesse of Iesus Christ and so be grieved and made sad but shall I adde Sorrow to you now my bowells are most yearning over you and not able to speak any thing against you but all I can for you In blessings spirituall and temporall to prevent your grief if it be possible consider first what is judged here of such a Generation as have been and are enemies to God it s in the wombe with you it s here brought forth you had by the light of Christ spelt it here 's onely the pronounciation of the word Secondly consider Iesus Christ is the Lion of the Tribe of Iudah as well as the Lamb slain from the beginning both these he used on earth he was meek gentle not quenching smoaking Flax nor breaking broken Reeds yet was able to appeare otherwise if need were as you may see at large Mat. 23. which life he doth and will bring forth in his Saints Thirdly those raised expressions and actions the Saints used and shall act did not nor shall arise from a power or principall of darknesse but from the power and puritie of God in them read 2. Kings 3. 4. Acts 13. 10. Psal. 149. 6 7 8 9. 1 Cor. 6. 23. Rev. 18. 6. 7. Israel I believe the Saints shall be more terrible to the world then ever they have been and reward them according to their works not in or by a base power but a pure one rule judge inflict punishments they shall but in righteousnesse and judgement whereas the world hath ruled over judged and inflicted punishments on Israel by a beastly and fleshly power and principle which the time is coming and who knows how soon but such a power then shall not be found in Israel but destroyed by the exaltation of Iesus in them Fourthly consider hath not this generation of men spoken so too been as Goliah despisers of the host of Israel not beccause they were filthy but for the breaking forth of some Beams of the glory of God and thereby defied God himself most certainly he hath and will defie them more and more and that the breaking forth of himself in his people in this I have endevoured to remove that sight of trouble I saw might befall your spirits And Israel through the goodnesse of God you may in this book see a glimpse of a feast prepared for Israel some have had a taste of it how soon you may I know not see it long for it and rejoyce as Abraham you l say I may do it and not taste of it my self well you have been and still are precious in my sight the Lord doe with me as seemeth good in his sight let me have your prayers who am unworthy of mercie Edward Ellis FINIS
see it and be glad their heart shall rejoyce in the Lord And I will strengthen them in the Lord and they shall walk up and downe in his name saith the Lord Hearken and observe Churches the Strength spoken of here is because of the fulnesse of God he will fill his Israel with me thinkes there is one prop of your building gone But Hearken still there 's more behind Isa. 60. 22. A little one shalâ— become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it In his time Isa. 25. 7 8. He will destroy in this mountaine the face of the covering cast over all people and the vaile that is spread over all Nations He will swallow up death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall he taken away The Lord hath spoken it Hearken yet Zec. 9. 15. 16. 17. The Lord of Hosts shall defond them and they shall devoure and subdue with fling stones and they shall drink and make a noyse as through wine and they shall be filled like bowls they shall be like a Crown lifted up as an Ensigne upon his Land corn shall make the young men chearfull and new wine the maids Churches harken this mirth presages sadnesse to your building doth it not appear to you weaker then it was how ever hearken there 's more yet Zach. 14. 8. 21. And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Ierusalem half of them towards the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea in Summer and in Winter shall it be and there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord Mic. 3. 7. And I will make her that halted a remnant and her that was cast far off a strong nation and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Sion from hence forth even for ever Isa. 33. And the inhabitant shall not say I am sick Rev. 21. 1 2. And there was no more sea and I John saw the holy City coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband All these Scriptures do clearly prove the abundance of grace and spirituall glory the Saints shall have powred upon them from that fulnesse of their head the Lord Jesus When this time comes surely Churches you will stagger like a drunken man You that are not taken up into and made partakers of this glory you will not know what to do with your selves you le be like him that cryed after his God Awaken your selves and hearken still and secondly consider those Scriptures that hold forth a dissolution of your Formes of worship what if I should say Ordinances as you converse in them Remember it is but a Spark from the Altar a beam of the light of God that declares your dissolution if your light be as a full Sun sit still and â—â—e through me fall not upon me with harsh censures What can a Spark a beam of light see but consider for in that Rev. 21. 22. 23. And the Street of the City was pure Gold and as it were transparent glasse and I saw no Temple therein for the Lord God almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it and the City had no need of the Sunne neither of the Moon to shine in it for the Glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof If this Scripture may be interpreted concerning the Glory of the Church on earth as it may be compared with others which cannot fully be done now with a beam of light but if the Lord please it may hereafter but if it may be interpreted so as you cannot clearly deny then what will become of your Churches which many expect shall even last near as long as Sunne and Moon endures Hearken still Ier. 31. 34. 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 unto the greatest of them saith the Lord 1. Epist. John 2. 27. But the annointing which you have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same annointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no ly These Scriptures I expect shall be fulfilled in the very letter of them I conceive your quick apprehensions in part to quarrell against this but I le let you alone till the Spark or beam of light be increast I le leave to your further consideration to confirm the scattering of you Rev. 22. 3. 4. 5. Isa. 60. 19. 2 Pet. 1. 19. and when you have considered these and those quoted and set down before tell truly what will become of that famous building many so much adore I shall hardly heare of the result of your thoughts therefore know from a beam of the light of God concerning your building there will not be one stone left uponanother The house of your glorie will be left desolate But come now let us reason I know you startle and are affrighted at the Spirituall and heavenly voice of Christ as the Disciples were when Christ spoke to them in a form they had not conversed with him in so do you let the Spirituall voice of Jesus come amongst you which tends to destroy your fleshly forms or knowledge you are terrified and affrighted and cry out a Spirit but a deceiving one I grant you it is abroad the deceiving one may act very like the true breakings forth of the Spirit of God take heed you be not offended at the truth because error is abroad I certainly believe there are many choise spirits among you to them I declare my desire is not to force you out of your particular wayes of worship but if you meet with the presence of the Lord walk there and I say unto you as it was said to the Disciples tarry at Ierusalem till you be endued with power from on high to arise from what you are but in the mean time beware of passing such censures as usually comes from many that are of your Assemblies you think it is possible you are very high in Principles there be those that are higher they will not despise you if their highnesse be of God it teaches no such thing so far as they are acted by the true light of God if they do it is from the darknesse that is in them do not you judge them Hearken still and more which proves your scattering or the dissolution of your practise though many of you be glewd as close to it almost as your flesh to your bones consider that Scripture Mal. 3. the coming of the Lord Jesus to his Temple as a devouring fire to burn and destroy the filthinesse that is in his Saints The effects of his coming is to difference between the righteous and the wicked between them that fear God and them that fear him not this
message from God he like a deceiver sent to the King saying Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the Land of Israel the Land is not able to beare all his words go saith he flee the way into the Land of Judah eat bread and prophesie there But prophesie not again at Bethel for it is the Kings Chappel and it is the Kings Court He might as well have said Amos this is no place to entertaine such Persons as shall Prophesie of Ruine or Desolation although commanded by God if you will come hither and be welcome you must speak pleasing things prophesie of Wine and strong drink and pleasures such as are fit for great persons prophesie flatteries as Ahabs Prophets did 1 Kin. 22. 6. and then thou shalt be entertained at Court and with great ones as they were it may be so now in our Land flattering and deceitfull Priests that prophesie lies and pleasing things to the fancies of great persons may flourish when as they that declare the truth of God to them may go in danger of the losse of all outward injoyments but they will say I am beside my businesse towards you O watchmen therefore hearken do not you like Amasiah say I have conspired against this Land nor that it is not able to bear all my words nor bid me Prophesie somewhere else or of pleasinger things they are the true sayings of God would you have me cry Peace when the Lord cryes trouble and so be consumed for my pains what the Lord hath spoken to me that declare I to you Oh you l say Observe what he makes himself a Prophet this is as Christ saith false Prophets shall arise and deceive many well they shall so take heed you be not a kin to them do you thinke I am guided by a deceiving spirit come then handle me pry into me try and search me by the Scriptures I am willing to be tryed but you want sight I le refer my self to the judgement of those that have a clearer light then you even the Saints But secure London what say you to me what 's your judgement concerning these sad things threatned against you you have had many warnings from the Lord by divers men you haue taken little notice of them to believe them would you believe one that should be raised from the grave to declare against you from the Lord why behold he hath sent one with a message raised from the valley shadow of death from the powers of darknesse that were within him even from the belly of hel The floods compassed him about his billowes and waves passed over him he was even broken and shattered in pieces his strength of inward and outward man was well nigh spent as to his own view and the view of others laid aside as a vessel of no use yet suddenly by an Almighty power raised him like a Lion roaring for his prey of a fearfull and faint heart made bold of weak was made strong to declare as sad a message elsewhere as to you even with and not minding the hazzard of life Wilt thou believe now and turn to the Lord whether you will hear or whether you will forbear know you have had a message you shall be inexcusable As for you of the Army of Officers and Souldiers the least part of this small book concerns you as you are Souldiers but if you war against Heaven you will be conquered notwithstanding all your victories the line of dissolution will reach you you have been such as have been made use of by God to work great outward salvation for Israel that before was in and under the hands of cruel and unreasonable men blessed be his great name for it and the Lord reward your kindnesse and labours into your bosomes with spirituull and temporall blessings I know you will many of you confesse that you have seen much of the power of God with you subduing your enemies and that God hath shown much of his kindnesse to his poore Israel as in giving them such deliverance as at this day they are so precious and dear in his sight that he hath reproved and given men I may say to the slaughter for their sakes but as if that were not enough he is following them with more excellent things even the breakings forth of his own Glorie in a more large manner which you may see a glimpse of in this book and what ever desolations shall come upon this Kingdome through his fullnesse in them they shall lift up their heads when others shall call to rocks and mountaines to cover them from that wrath which will be upon them The Temple of the Lord Jesus is to be built and exalted yea glorified with his own Glorie the time and day growes on apace though Israel it self knows not what to make of it when Moses walkt into Egypt saying Let Israel go though there were great combustions amongst the Egyptians and Israel hearkened not to the voice of Moses for anguish of spirit and cruel bondage and Moses was troubled and much discouraged in his work complaining to the Lord that Israel would not hearken to his message Exod. 6. 9. 12. Yet it presages Israels deliverance is nigh at hand Israel is in boudage now and hath been a long time and for the Lord to snatch poore persons out of the fire and cause them to walkup and down in the middest of great ones as hath been done through the strength of God in Cambridge-Shire and now in this Citie the great ones must know Israel must be delivered out of Captivitie and Bondage spirituall and temporall let the world and Israel too think what they will of a truth God is hastning with the breakings forth of some great spirituall Glory Where your Scouts were met formerly it argued your Army was near the Lord sending his Scouts or fore-runners crying the Lord is come and coming it presages he is at hand if the Lord send watchmen that shall lift up their voyce like singers and call upon the waste places of Jerusalem to break forth into joy and sing together and say to Zion thy God raigneth and the Lord will bring back their captivity read Isa. 52. 7. 8 9. and tell me what you think This the Lord hath done of late in England and does still though they be accounted mad men men wondred at scoft at as Neh. 4. 2. What do these feeble Jews will they fortifie themselves will they sacrifice will they make an end in a day Scoffers hearken Israel must sacrifice otherwise than they have done the spirituall Temple of Jesus must be built We care not though for walls bulwarks or Armies for this work God is all this to the building of this Temple Isa. 26. 1. Zech. 9. 8. Nay hearken The Lord himselfe will be the alone Erecter and Exalter of it Zech. 16. 12. 13. Not by might or by power but of the Spirit of the Lord of Hoasts Zech. 4. 6. The Lord will
past thou hast art set on fire yet thou knowest it not you are consuming but lay it not to heart The Lord hath yet a farther controversie with thee because thou art unmindfull of him he brings forth his judgements morning by morning but thou takest no shame his judgements are in thee and about thee but thou learnest not righteousnesse nor beholdest the Majesty of the Lord his hand hathbeen and is lifted up against thee thou wilt not see but thou shalt see and be ashamed for all thy abominations or confounded by the fury of the Lord O London consider what plagues what unseasonable weather what want of bread hath been in thee in former years but thou returnest not to the Lord But behold and tremble for fear O London that bloody war that was brought forth not by the power of man but from and by the Lord of hosts how many thousands of thy men are slain with the Sword how are the widdows and fatherlesse increased in thee how are thy riches exhausted what leading into captivity what complaining in thy streets How art thou forced to be servant to those that formerly thou wouldst have despised thou dost it now but canst thou help thy self O London what vexatiousnesse of spirit hast thou what a trembling heart is in the midst of thee a great and sad consumption is upon you But that which is the greatest plague of all and declares a further consumption upon you is you are not bettered by the judgement of the Lord You are at peace in appearance now and you think the bitternesse of death is over but a deceived heart hath deceived you London I beseech you in the name of the Lord consider the Lord hath yet a further cotroversie with you his hand is stretched out still thy sinnes remain your spots are not the spots of the Lords people but of rebellious Children that refuse to hear the rod and who hath appointed it you refuse to return your pride testifies to your face you will refrain turning to the Lord and you will refrain turning away his anger What people ever set themselves against the Lord and prospered how furiously hath the Lord marched up and down amongst us how are his garments died in blood not of the mean men onely but of the mighty thy mighty and thy honourable men are fallen in thy streets yet his anger is not turned away London mind that Thunderclap given to you of late the Lord was there itpreaches to you that unlesse you repent you shall perish also London in thee against thee is found the blood and cryes of poor saints acry of oppression the cry of the poor unminded a cry yea and a horrible cry of abomination that hath that still doth come up into the ears of the Lord of Hosts London is there no healing for you are your wounds incurable nothing but the blood of Jesus can wash you from your filthines whch to your shame you despise What shall I say unto you be instructed lest the soul of God depart from you and he take no pleasure in you London you are conquered and overcome in your power by men that it cannot break forth to mannage Warre against them but your inward power that maintaines Warre against heaven is unsubdued you are yet found fighters against God but he will bestronger then you and overcome you by his strong power in despite of thee The Lord hath lain still a long time and you thought he had forgotten or forsaken the earth but he is and will rise more and more with fury in his face to recompence wrath to his and his peoples enemies to make up his Iewells and glorifie the house of his glory that is his Saints whom you have so much despised and trampled under foot you have ruled they must rule You that have been and still are enemies to the Lord your best dayes are past the dayes of Zions joyes are coming the Lord must be King over all the earth the Lord will come gloriously too and in his Saints You enemies to God make haste you wicked generation what you do do quickly the Lord is coming apace with sorrow and mourning to you but with joy and gladnesse to his Israel How will you like it wordlings to see the Saints rule 't will vex you but you cannot help it they must be the head you the tail the Lord Iesus will reigne in them you must be spoiled Isa. 32. Behold a King shall reigne in Righteousnesse and Princes shall rule in Judgement Ezek. 39. 10. And they shall spoil those that spoiled them and rob those that robbed them saith the Lord How will you like this you stout spirits to see the Saints spoil you and you to be their servants and come bowing to them Is 60. 14. The sonnes of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee they that despise thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet the Lord will manifest himself so in his Saints and he hath begun it already that the proudest of you if you will not honour and exalt them woe unto you Isa. 60. 12. The nation and kingdome that will not serve thee shal perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted As youtender O London your own happinesse and welfare repent of your despising the Saints and take heed of offending them hereafter the Lord hath and will reprove Kings and great ones for their sakes But London thou boastest of thy Religious enjoyments thy prayers and fastings and because of these you cry as those in Micah 3. 11. and are like them You lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord among us no evill can come upon us be not deceived so did the Israelites many years Zec. 7. And yet the Lord took no pleasure in them it is possible he takes as little in you You will say are all our dayes of fasting in vain Hear you that are enemies to God he takes as little delight in your Sacrifices as in those Isa. 63. 3. London thou thinkest there be those in thee that God hears their prayers it is true that God hears the prayers of the Saints but you shall have but little benefit by it that warre against heaven they have praied much for the prevention of spilling that blood that hath been spilt and for the avoyding those Iudgements they saw hang over this Land but you see they could not prevail their praiers returned into their own bosomes they pray now much but it is for the breaking forth of a spirituall glorie a vexation to you O Rebellious people you shall it is possible see it but not tast thereof London consider thy condition the Bridegroom is coming he yet intreats thee to return if thou wilt not he will send plagues upon you till he hath consumed thee and leave a poore people and afflicted and they shall fear and praise the name of the Lord which you refuse to doe Heare this from the Lord by
the unworthiest of men Edward Ellis Amos 7. 14. I was no Prophet neither was I a Prophets son but I was an heardman and a gatherer of Sickamore fruit and the Lord took me as I followed the flock and the Lord said unto me go prophesie unto my people Israel Isa. 21. 10. That which I have heard of the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel have I declared unto you I was bowed down at the hearing of it I was dismayed at the seeing of it Isa. 28. 11. 13. For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken Ezek. 2. 5. Yet shall they know there hath been a Prophet among them Isa. 52. 8 9. 10. Thy watchmen shall lift up their voice with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Zion break forth into joy sing together you waste places of Jerusalem for the Lord hath comforted his people he hath redeemed Jerusalem The Lord hath made bare his holy arme in the eyes of the nations and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God FINIS A voice to high and low shewing what the determination of the Lord seemes to be on this Land HIgh low hearken the Lord of Hosts is come and stil coming his decree is like that of Nebuchaduezzar Dan. 3. 29. I make a Decree that every people nation and language which speak any thing amisse against the God of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego shall be cut in pieces and their house shall be made a dunghill this is the determination of God upon all those that shall speak or act any thing amisse against the God of Israel unlesse they repent and that which the Lord hath begun already to do he hath and is still a making good that Prophesie Isa. 24. Read it O England to thy sorrow who wouldest have emptied this Land of the Saints and destroyed them now thou art near destruction thy self the day of the Lord is come against all those powers that wereas Cedars as Oaks as high mountaines he hath powred contempt upon Princes Psal 107. and caused them to wander in the wildernesse where there is no way and that promise is now fulfilled It shall come to passe Isa. 24. 21. that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high and the Kings of the earth upon the earth Isa. 23. 9. The Lord of hosts hath purposed it to stain the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the honourable upon the earth This he hath done already very much You present powers that have been as a rod and staffe in Gods hand for the accomplishing of his designe tremble and fear and avoid walking in their steps think not your power so strong that it cannot be moved for that strong God which overturned those powers that were before you is able and will most certainly dash you in pieces if you shall walk in their steps of oppression and violence Psalm 75. 5. Lift not up your horn on high speak not with a stiffe neck for promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West but God is the Judge he putteth down one and setteth up another If you will honour God he will honour you if not you shall be lightly esteemed both of God and his Saints for they are looking for a spirituall glorie and power and will esteem of you as you act by the breakings forth of a spirituall light in you You corrupted ones of what degree soever how have you despis'd the poor Saints and scornd the excellent of the Earth Now is God lifted up now is he exalted and they shall despise you Howle you great ones what a sad day by the light of God doe I see comming upon you your Glory is gone the Saints shall see through you now by the light of the Father You painted Sepulchers what ever you are if you will not exalt the Lord Jesus they 'l esteeme of you no more than the mire in the streets many of them have esteemed of you and hath got their bread with sorrow of heart among you because of that abundance of vanity that was in you and that darknesse that was in their own spirits they durst not speake to you for feare of your power their Father will fill them with his own glory then shall they not fear your faces You Great ones that have and yet doe oppresse the Saints put off your brave Ornaments and mourne for the day of your joy is much spent vexation and disquiet of heart you must have but Israel joy and gladnesse The Saints deliverance must be in the destruction of their inward and outward enemies you enemies of the Lord in England consider turn to the Lord speedily the door of mercy is seemingly yet open it may be soon shut you will cry for pitty then but there shall be none but as you have rejoyced at the sorrowes of the godly so shall they rejoyce in yours Zion heard and was glad and the Daughters of Judah rejoyced because of thy Judgements O Lord Psal. 107. 42. When God is pouring contempt on Princes on the great ones of the Earth the Righteous shall see it and rejoyce You Enemies of the Lord be you great men or others read in the Revelations what Songs the Saints shall sing it s your doom and day of sorrow The day of the Lord is come O England a day of wrath and fury a Consumption is in this Land many sorrowes already more behind yea such a day as yet was never upon it Alas for that day is great so that none is like it Jer. 30. 7. I have heard a voyce of trembling of fear and not of peace Wherefore doe we see every man with his hand on his loynes as a woman in travell all faces are turned into palenesse the Foules of the Air knowes the time of their comming but thou O England knowest not the comming of the Lord it presages more ruine to thee The day of the Lord makes haste wherein he alone must be exalted in his own pure strength and wisedome Rulers take heed you act in the pure wisedome of God all your fleshly wisedome must be destroyed and the designes it thinks to effect will be frustrated to your sorrow and griefe that are not spirituall The day is come the Lord marches on still wherein he hath and will sift and fanne thee O England you see how the Lord hath discovered your spirits one to another Parliament consider this you seem to be more pure then others there 's drossie and chaffie spirits amongst you surely the Lord will search you yet more Take heed the next discovery be not by the breaking forth of a spirituall glory and power in those that are upright amongst you surely the Lords separating day 's at hand to divide between Sheep and Goats
who are yet so mingled that nothing but the pure light of God can discover O England this will not be one of the least of thy plagues that are comming upon thee you seem to be like those Mal. 3. desiring delighting in and longing for the comming of Jesus to his Temple He makes haste but who may abide his comming He comes like a Refiners Fire and Fullers Sope to take away that filthinesse that is in his Saints then shall they return and discern between the Righteous and the Wicked and what a sad day this will be to thee O England judge The day of the Lord is come and hastens greatly for thee O Israel for thee O captive Daughter Zion who lyest in the dust among the pors in the valley and shadow of death how doest thou mourn by reason of the oppressors within and without thee thou fearest continually there is none to guid or comfort thee almost amongst thy friends thou art drunk yet not with Wine but with the fury of the Lord thou faintest as thou travailest up and down thou art as a wild Bull in a Net the more thou strivest to get out of thy misery the more thou art intangled thou prostratst thy selfe to thy Enemies that say bow down that we may goe over thee and how have they darkned the breaking forth of thy spirituall glory thou chaste Spouse how many looks hast thou for thy deare Husband for the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus in thee why he is risen and hath appeared to some already The words will seem to thee as Tales thou beleevest them not yet say not how can this thing be though it be marveilous in thy sight O sad soule consider Is any thing too hard for God he will worke and who shall let him if he say take away thy filthy garments they are gone be full thou art full he will fill thee with his own presence then shall the enemy be thrust out and the spoilers spoild The dayes of thy mourning shall have an end deliver thy self O Zion that dwelleth with the Daughter of Babylon the Lord will contend with those that have vext thee they shall be consumed by the brightnesse of his appearing thou shalt rejoyce according to the dayes of thy mourning How hath thy King O Zion cast down thine enemies in this Kingdome he will goe on and thou shalt rejoyce when the world shall howle for sorrow Isa. 65. 13. 14 15. Read thy glory also in the 60. of Isa. The Sonne of Righteousnesse will arise with healing in his wings and cure thee of all thy diseases and as thou hast been the shame of this Kingdome thou shalt be the glory of it the Lord will hasten to you all O Israel in his time Come Lord Jesus come quickly Surely his salvation is nigh them that feare him that glory may dwel in our Land Psal. 85. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked Psal. 91. 8. As we have heard so have we seene in the City of the Lord of Hosts in the City of our God God will establish it for ever Psal. 48. A Warning to awaken all the idle Shepherds otherwise called Ministers in England with friendly advice to those who are in the Ministry who have the true Spiritual Life of Jesus brought forth in them VVAtchmen where are you What asleep Where 's your Flock Awake and heare the Lords controversie with you You have fed your selves and not the Flock you have sought your selves and not them You have been cruell in rejecting and scattering them And now behold the Lord is and will be cruell scattering and rejecting you You howl and cry already because no man will buy your wares Yee Merchants of Babylon did you thinke it possible so great judgments should have come upon you in so little time Alas for you you blind guids how doe you travaile up and downe in sorrow and yet more is your portion still How will you live The Lord will take of his Saints which you have despised for Priests and Levites Do not you see how they are increased already They were but as a cloud of a hand breadth and now they are almost spread over the Land Are they not as a great Army Not of Locusts as you thinke but the Servants of the most High God in whom he will so appeare that you shall be fill'd with madnesse and vexation of Spirit by reason of the brightnesse of the Lords comming in them which Glory unlesse you returne unto the Lord you shall not taste of You think you are rich and wise and see more than they Well Watchmen what doe you see Doe you see men like trees Does the light appeare to you to be neither cleare nor darke Are you brought into a Wilderness not in temporall but spirituall things You will say no this is new light and heresie Therefore hearken and know you wicked Pastors your light is darknesse and you retaine it in opposition to further breakings forth of the Lord Jesus Woe unto you woe unto you that call light darknesse and darknesse light Watchmen The morning is come and yet commeth and also the night if you will enquire enquire Returne come its night and Watchmen what thinke you of it You are ignorant Therefore consider Micah 3. 5. 6. Where the Lord declares against false Prophets You are their Brethren their judgments yours Night shall be unto you that you shall not have a Vision and it shall be dark unto you that you shall not devine And the Sun shall goe down over the Prophets and the day shall be dark over them Then shall the Seers be ashamed and the Deviners confounded Yea they shall cover their lips for there is no answer of God This is your plague from the Lord at this day you carelesse Shepherds the Sunne is set upon you this glorious and bright day of the Lord is darke over you the breakings forth of the Sunne of Righteousness is upon the Saints it will break forth to a perfect day Light Life and Glory is among the Israel of God but darkness and obscurity among you But you 'l say you are Ministers of the Gospel and light is amongst you So were the Scribes and Pharisees Teachers in Israel as well as you in England They could declare to Herod the place where Christ should be borne But when he was born and chose poor despised and ignorant persons to proclaime his Glory in the World who greater Enemies to him than they Hearken you that have and would pretend to be our Leaders have not many of you acknowledged and preacht something of glorious times which were to come even the comming of the Lord Jesus in Spirit Why behold he is come and still comming in his Spirituall Glorie but the persons he hath appeared to are so mean and poore so sinfull and unworthy that you O ignorant Watchmen and thousands more in the Kingdome are offended and stumble even to the