God in by and throuh that Erthen vessel non hav any profit or benifit therby but only such who com into a participation of the sam eternal lyf and purfulnes of God in them selvs which was in him The next stal is their Altars or communion tabels vvher they administer an invenrion of their own brains vvhich they cal the Sacrament of the Altar or communion or the Lords supper in vvhich they mak ûs of bred wyn vvhich after the Priest hath said his Charm of Sorcery and witchcraft over cald consecration they affirm that the substans of the bred wyn is departed that their remaineth nouht but Accidents and that under thos Accidents is the Sà m body bloud of Christ vvhich vvas shed crucifyed on à cros vvithout the gats of Jerusalem being ignorant that the substans not only of bred vvyn but of every cretur is no other then the only living tru Lord God so that by their own confession that vvhich they receiv in their Sacrament is only Accidents without substans and verily as to them so it is for they feed on ashes a deceived heart hath turned them asyd Others ther ar who thô they hav not such a heap of lys and ceremonys about the administration of it yet ar they in it acted by the Sâm spirit in the ground althô they affirm not that it is the sà m body in which the Son of God suffered deth without the gats of Ierusalem yet after they hav said their charm cald blesing the bred they look on it as somwhat mor then it was but what they cannot wel say caling it a supper when many of them receiv it befor they hav eaten their own dinners affirming it to be the communion of the body bloud of Christ when as to them its only a Tabel of such as eat drink unworthily they not discerning the Lords body so becom guilty of the body bloud of the Lord. Wheras Christ Iesus in the sâ—m nyt in which he was betrayed took bred blesed it brak it gav it to his discypels saying tak eat this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrans of me and lykwys the Cup saying this is the new Testament in my bloud which is shed for many and this was befor he had suffered deth in that body throuh which he spak unto them mark that and the Apostel said that the bred which they brak was the communion of the body of Christ and the cup of blesing which they blesed was the communion of the bloud of Christ and that so often as they did eat of that bread he said not ons a week month or year but so often as they did eat drink therof they did shew forth the Lords deth til he cam to wit his deth in the creturs received in the tru hunger thirst of the tru discerning and worthy receiver til he appear in the vertu of his own lyf blesing and lov in and throuh the creturs received to norish and refresh the sam in every tru discerning and worthy receiver for it is no other then the lyf of God which tasteth deth in ôn Cretur to refresh norish uphold the sá m in another herin he tasteth deth for every man is the savior of man beast which is the word of his eternal wisdom Power by which he upholdeth al things That which norisheth and refresheth and that which is Norished and refreshed is ôn in every tru discerning and worthy receiver as he that sanctifyeth and they who ar sanctifyed ar of ôn The other stals ar their Desks pulpits wher in sted of speaking as the orakel of God preaching the everlasting gospel according as they hav seen felt tasted experiensed in them selvs and praying as the Pur spirit of the Lord giveth utterans they utter forth the imaginations of their own brains filing the ears of the Peepel with â—abels storys of lying syns and wonders gathered out of the wrytings books of such whom they cal antient Fathers Poets hathen Philosophers Commentators with their own imaginations from the scripturs perverting them to their own others destruction intruding into things which they hav not seen using som words of Hebrew Greek Latin somtyms in their preaching in imitation of thos tongu's which wer ons appearing as a gift in amongst the Apostels for a syn unto them which beleeved not that so as the speaking in dyvers tongu's languages becam ons a divyding and confounding curs amongst the builders of Babel in the fal so to and in the Apostels it becam a gift of God or syn to such as beleeved not that they myt be brouht again out of the curs out of the many tongu's and languages to learn and speak the ôn pur languag ' And in sted of praying by the motion and help of the pur Power and Spirit of the Lord in them which is the only Advocat vvith the Father who eyer livs to mak intercession in and for the Saints according to the wil of God they read utter forth many vain repetitions which they cal Masses Ave Marys Pater nosters Creeds Common Prayers out of their divyn Servis books Directorys c. With the blynd dark conceptions of their own hearts brayns caled Extemporary Prayers thinking as their predecessors fór fathers the Scrybs Pharisees Hypocryts of old to be heard for their much babbeling in sted of singing in the Spirit making sweet melody to the Lord in their hearts they hav several sorts of Music with singing men boys to mak a noys after the manner of the hethen of old when they sacrifysed their children throuh the fyr unto devils Others ther ar who sing and caus others to sing the saints words and conditions in rym or meeter many of them being ignorant that therin they do evil offering the sacrifys of fools For for any ôn or mor together to sing as prayses unto God in the vvords of the saints or Profets left upon record and say that God is their Ryteosnes and that he hath pluked their â—eet out of the myer set them on the Rok established their goings or that ther is no rest in their bôns by reason of their sins that they water their couch with their tears their skin is as a bottel in the smoak or that the law of Gods mouth is dearer to them then thousands of Gold and Silver Sweeter then the hony or the hony comb as a Lanthorn to their feet lyt unto their Paths their ey not lofty nor their heart hauhty but that their souls ar as weaned children c. VVhen they ar such as liv in vanity Pryd and mâk a scorn and a derision of such as vvalk in the lyt mak the eternal word or spirit of the Lord in them their guyd leader and teacher and mak it
to their proper plâs and in the injoyment of that which is the proper dû Ryt of ech of them by the just and Ryteos Lord God omnipotent and therin abyd forever who to and in the on and the seed therof wil be a lâk of utter darknes wher shal be weeping gnathing of teeth for ever The deth of deth what a Never dying worm and fyr that shal never be quenched and the breth of the Lord vvhich hath in mesur Kindled it shal as an inexhaustibel River of brimston keep it burning in the inward parts in every Particular which is the deth of deth the hel of hel the grav of the grav but to and in the other and the seed therof the Eternal pur Power wil be a pur endles and never fading Kingdom of lyf lov peas comfort Ryteosnes and joy unspeakabel and ful of glory vvhich is the heven of hevens vvhich conteins not him vvho is the eternal Incompehensibel father and fountain of pur lyf and fulnes vvho is in throuh and over al. The Lord is now com into his Tempel even the messenger of the covenant in whom his sanctifyed ôns delyt behold he is even now com shal dayly mor and mor appear but who may abyd the day of his coming or be abel to stand in his now appearing surly only such as can dwel with the devouring fyr with the everlasting burnings he is even com near to thee to judgment is becom in his sanctifyed on 's a swift faithful vvitnes against the sorcerer the adulterer fals swearer and the oppreser of the Fatherles widdow that turns asyd the stranger from his Ryt even the tru heyr of al vvho hath bin long as a stranger in the Erth vvho is the sâm as in the begining changeth not and therfor yee sons of Jacob ar not consumed yea the day that burneth as an oven is novv com the Proud yea al that do vvickedly in thee ar becom as dryed stubbel fited for the fyr the day that is now com in mesur alredy hath and dayly mor mor shal burn them up consum them even Root Branch saith the Lord God of truth his fan is in his hand he is Purging his own floor gathering the wheat into his garner but wil burn up the chaf straw and stubbel with unquenchabel fyr with such Judgment as the dragon beast fals Profet in thee hav judged they must now be judged such mesur as they hav met must now be mesured to them again the King of glory is now com to cal al his stewards and servants to account both great smal in thee and such as hav bin without compassion to their fellow servants taking them by the throat suing them casting them into prison about dets Carnal things wil he novv deliver to the tormenter til themselvs hav payd the uttermost farthing and such as in the absens of the Lord tru master of al hav bin found beating abusing thir fellow servants even cruely oppresing murdering the innocent vvil he novv cut in sunder and giv them their Portion with Hypocryts in the là k even in utter darknes wher is weeping vvayling and gnashing of teeth for ever and al the Ydel slothful servants vvho hav hid the Lords mony in them as in the Erth and not improved it vvil he novv bynd hand and foot and cast into utter darknes vvher their worm dyeth not and their fyr is not quenched and al the foolish virgins which ar found fluin bering and runing to the buyers selers to get oyl shal be shut out from the brydgrooms presens and althô both buyers selers may Plead that they hav Prophesyed in his nam cast out devils ear bred and drank Wyn in his presens that he hath tauht in their streets saying Lord Lord yet must they novv receiv this ansvver from him that is with in them depart yee Workers of iniquity I know you not And such as hav bin at work in the vynyard from the first hour of the day as shal be found with an evil ey murmuring against the good man of the hous becaus of his goodnes to others who com in as it wer at the last hour of the day shal be reptoved sent away with their own and the last shal be first and the first last for thô many be caled yet but fevv ar chosen The sun of ryteosnes is now com and coming in his glory with his Holy Angels and shal dayly mor and mor appear and is now upon his thron and befor him is he gathering al nations yea as a shepherd is he now divyding and making a seperation betwixt the sheep and the goats and al who hav not fed clothed risited pityed and refreshed him in his despysed oppresed spoyled robed Imprisoned Cruely Murdered massacred Innocent harmles littel on 's must now and dayly mor mor shal receiv this sentens depart from me yee cursed into everlasting fyr prepared for the Devil and his angels And if such who hav not sed him in them to wit his peepel when hungry nor gav them drink when thirsty nor clothed them when naked and as strangers nor visited them when sik and in prison must receiv such a dredful sentens o then vvhat must be the portion and sentens of such in thee o Christendom vvho hav spoyled them of their outvvard injoyments oppresed their familys cast their bodys into prisons nasty filthy and dirty hôls dungeons cruelly using and torturing them by wraks other cruel torturing instruments secretly openly murdering and sheding their dear and pretios blood For al vvhich vvith a numberles number of other hy cryms and abomnations which hav bin stil ar commited in thee o Christendom their most tender father even the the Lord God omnipotent is now com and entering into Judgment with thee and caling thee to an account vvrath vengeans to the uttermost even the bottom and dregs of the cup of his most just vvrath dredful indignation Plagu's vengeans is novv seizing upon al the workers of iniquity both great and smal in thee the Reapers ar now gathering the târs and bynding them in bundels for the fyr The sain Iesus vvho vvas received by a cloud up into heven out of the syt of his discipels is now com and coming in the clouds of heven in his holy ôns vvhom every ey in mesur doth and dayly mor and mor shal see yea even they vvho hav and stil do piers him in themselvs and in his dear tender innocent saints holy ôn's and al the tongu's and Kindreds of the Erth shal dayly môr and môr mourn becaus of him he vvil novv render to every ón great smal hy and lovv rich poor bond and free mà l femal according to their vvorks vvithout respect of persons to them vvho ar contentios and obey not the motions of the lyt
and spirit of grà s in them but obey unryteosnes indignation wrath and tribulation on every soul of Man-kynd that doth evil the wrath of God is novv revealed and revealing from heven in and throuh his Peepel against al unryteosnes of men the Lord even the Lord himself is novv descended from heven vvith a shout the voys of the-arch angel is heard the trumpet of God is sounded and sounding and the ded in Christ ar in mesur risen shal dayly mor and mor arys in throuh and over al yea he is even com coming as a thief in the nyt and althô Peas Settelmen and sà fty hath bin looked for and expected yet even novv sudden and unvoydabel destruction is com and coming over al the workers of Iniquity as travel upon a woman with chyld and they cannot escap The Lord Jesus Christ the great shepherd Bishop of the soul is com and coming into him must the gathering of the Peepel be The Man of sin is now revealed revealing even the Son of perdition he that hath doth and yet for avery littel season wil let is in mesur alredy dayly mor and mor shal be taken out of the way even that cursed spirit and Power the seed of the old Serpent which in thee O Christendom hath taken rooting and grown up into a mystery of iniquity even a strong man of sin armed with the dragons or military Power in thy wariors Rulers teachers Peepel which hath rendred thee to be the Dragon Beast fals Profet great whor and mother of harlots and abominations of the Erth and thy Peepel to be the waters on which the whor sits and the sea out of which the beast aros according as it was revealed declared in by Iohn the servant of the Lord recorded in the book of his Prophesy vvhich spirit Power mystery of iniquity and Man of Sin the Lord in mesur alredy hath dayly now mor and mor shal consum with the spirit of his mouth by the brytnes of his coming in his peepel utterly destroy The Prophesy of Enoch the seventh from Adam is now in mesur fulfiled and dayyl mor and mor fulfiling for behold the Lord is now in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear in ten thousands of his saints in mesur alredy hath and dayly mor and mor shal execut Judgment upon al and convins al of al their ungodly deeds which they hav commited of al the hard speeches cruel dealings unmerciful bloudy Kilings murderings which ungodly siners hav spoken and don against and upon him spiritually in his holy innocent and harmles Peepel who ar the spiritual body vvherof he in them is the hed even the tru imag glory and fulnes of him who created fileth and upholdeth al things visibel invisibel by the eternal word of his Pûr Power vvho vvas befor al things and is and is to com the Alpha O Mega the beginining the end of al the works of God the first the last even the lyon of the tryb of Iuda the root offpring of David that hath the seven spirits of God the key of David and of the bottomles Pit also that openeth so as non can shut and shuteth so as non can open the lamb standing in the midst of the Thrôn of the four beasts elders as slain who hath prevailed to open the book sealéd with seven seals hath taken the book out of the Ryt hand of him that siteth on the thron hath opene wel ny al the seals in their order which neither the learned or unlearned in thy hevens nor in thy Erth nor under thy Erth o Christendom wer abel or found worthy to open loos or look ther on four of which seals comprehend the appearans of that lamb of God manifest in the flesh conceived born of the virgin Mary throuh the overshaâ—owing of the Pur Power spirit from on hy who in his holy harmles undefyled innocent Pur conversation as on a whyt hors went forth conquering and to conquer and the taking plas of the seed of the Serpent that cursed spirit of apostacy and faling away with its growth and fulnes in the Dragon 's Beast's fals Prophets Power spirit in thee O Christendom til he becam the lamb spiritualy slain in thee vvho art novv becom spiritual Sodom and Egypt signifyed by the Red Blak Pâl horses And the three last Seals Trumpets Vyals comprehend his second appearans in his Peepel vvithout sin unto salvation in throuh the britnes of his coming in them revealing consuming utterly destroying the Man of sin bringing in establishing his ovvn Eternal pur lyf everlasting ryteosnes in Man kynd them in it which is the spiritual body which with the whol creation is God manifest in the flesh the visibel or sensibel part wherof to wit of the whol creation is the natural body of the Lord the Body of Christ the flesh wherof is given for the lyf of the world which al who truly discern eat drink therof in remembrans of him abyding in that which giveth preserveth in the tru discerning but such as go from that eat drink therof in their own time wils to the satisfaction of the Carnal Inordinat desyrs of the flesh the mynd heerby weaknes siknes deth taketh hold on many to the grieving wounding som tyms to the destruction of their beings both in the natural Spiritual body so that to in such the tabel of the Lord becoms a snár a gin a trap not eating drinking in remembrans of Christ not the Communion of the body bloud of the Lord not the bred cup of blesing but a curs even the tabel of divels not the chearing refreshing of God man but the norishing of the Brambel natur whos natur work is to consum devour destroy it s the poor needy the hungry thirsty soul which the Lord fils satisfyeth with good things even with his blesing both to the outward Inward man but the Rich the ful he sendeth emty away even with a curs And althô the Kingdom the Power of God hath and stil doth suffer vyolens both in the natural and spiritual body yet so it ouht not to be but al both in the natural and Spiritual body ouht to be subject to the motions of the eternal quickening Power to rest and may in it in al things without offering fo rs or vyolens therunto which is Christ the Lord that quikening Spirit in mâl and femal not only in mankynd but to in every cretur therfor the charg was stil is unto the dauhters of Jerusalem that they stir not up or awak the beloved til he pleas which is the dayly Cros of Christ to the carnal mynd but the lyt sweet Plesant and easy yaok and burden of Christ to the spiritual
forth overtak you yee perish in the sam for al who ar found ering from and walking contrary to the mesur of the Spirit of the grâs of God in them wil be found partaking with Babylon in her sins must receiv of her plagu's Your strength is to stand stil your work is to do nothing your wisdom is to becom fools patiently to wait to feel him to arys in you and bring salvation and work al your works in you for you for ever mor which al who com truly to experiens do enter into his rest which is pùr and eternal com to ceas from their own works as God did from his On thing mor I may not omit that so the Lord and his servant may be clear of the bloud of al man-kynd which was forseen and declared by the Lord of lyf Prins of pur peas in the days of his flesh to wit that ther should com many in his nam say that they ar Christ and deceiv many shewing great syns and wonders in so much that if it wer possibel they should deceiv the very elect The day is now com coming in which it shal be fulfiled The ground of the coming appearans of such hath bin for som tym laid working in thousands who go under the nâm of fift-Monarchy Peepel with many other who from an imagnation of their own brayns gathered from the letter of the scripturs expect and look for the appearans and coming of Christ in that sam body of flesh in which he appeared lived and suffered deth upon a cros without the gats of Jerusalem out of the material clouds visibel hevens and gather peopel unto him as an outward glorios king or great monarch by carnal weapons with an arm of flesh to overturn kil destroy out wardly the persons of such as oppos him and them and rein a thousand years Wherfor when any such do appear go not after them nether be yee deceived by them for destruction and misery ar in their path and the way of tru pur and everlasting peas they know not both them al others may know that the appearans and coming of Christ seting up of his Kingdom which is pureternal and everlasting is in the lyt or as lytning which cometh out of the east shyneth into the west as himself testifyed and that his Kingdom is within coms not by observation But as for the treading of the Wyn pres of the fiers wrath of God al myty it is to be troden without the holy city and the appearans The seting up of Christs Kingdom in the generaelis effected in the sam manner as in evch particular soul coming seting up of the Kingdom of Christ is the sam in the general as in every particular to wit not by outward myt and carnal fo rs Power destroying mens lyvs but by the sword of his mouth which is quik and Powerful in the Inward parts to discovet consum root out the ground of al unryteosnes in men and throuh their holy conversations faithful testimony to their innocent lamblyk sufferings for that mesur or Power of truth into which themselvs ar brouht they doâ—overcom bring down and in pur lyf and dominion trampel upon the contrary Spirit in them selvs in others both in the particular and in the general And concerning England Scotland and Yrland with the dominions and territorys therunto belonging this I further say that the seventh seal trumpet vyal is in mesur opened sounded and poured forth intot he ayr which shal quyt stop the breth of the dragon's beasts fals Profet's Power Spirit in them as to them tym shal be no mor as such Now is the expeling of al typs figurs clouds shadows Carnal ordinanses dispensations declarations administrations which hav bin over yet poynting at the most tru eternal and excelent lyt lyf glory and substans the opening of al dark sayings speeches and parabels upon the sweet Melodios harp of David and the tangue which is as the Pen of a Redy wryter the finishing of the mystery of God Wherfor rejoys O thou afflicted drunken but not with wyn for great is the holy òn in the midst of thee the enemys Rok is not lyk unto thy Rok even themselvs being judges ther is no God lyk unto thy God who rydeth upon the hevens for thy help in his excelency on the skys the eternal God is thy refug underneath ar the everlasting arms he shal thrust out the enemy from befor thee and shal say destroy them and thou the tru Israel of God the Nobel Plant the Royal seed the holy nation shalt dwel safly as in unwaled villages upon a land of corn and Wyn thy heavens do dayly mor and mor shal drop down the sweet living eternally refreshing dew happy art thou O seed of the God of Iacob ther is non among al the familys of the Erth lyk unto thee O Peepel saved by the Lord who is the shield of thy help the sword of thy excelency thy enemys ar dayly mor mor shal be found lyars unto thee and thou in mesur dost dayly mor and mor shalt tread upon their hy plases For thus saith the Lord even the Lord thy God which pleadeth the caus of his Peepel behold I wil now tak out of thy hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no mor drink it again but I wil now put it into the hands of them that afflict thee who hav faid unto thy soul bow down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over The day is com which shal shak open al thy prison doors for the first born of the Egyptians is neer hand slayn the great sea divyding and upon the sea of glas mingled with fyr must thou yet stand but al who witnes tru victory over al in their own particular shal stand theron in pur Power lyf Dominion with the harps of God in their hands singing the sweet Melodios glorios triumphant victorios song of Moses the servant of the Lord the song of the lamb for the Lord now taketh plesur in his Peepel wil mor mor beautify the meek with his salvations his saints shal be joyful in glory singing aloud upon their beds having the hy Prayses of God in their mouths a two edged sword in their hands with which they in mesur alredy havâ— dayly mor mor shal eâ—ecut vengeans upon the heathen Punishments upon the Peepel bynding Kings in chayns nobels in fetters of Yron execut upon them the judgments writen this honor hav al the saints Prays Prays Prays yee the Lord God of lyf lov Pur Power Dominion and faithfulnes in throuh and overal for ever mor. Amen I am your Brother companion in tribulation and in the Kingdom Patiens of Iesus JOHN READER Thes Errors being escaped in the Pres thou art desyred for thy own advantag in Reading first to amend them with thy pen becaus som of them do alter the Sens several other literal faults ther ar of which ther is no need to mak mention IN the Tytel Pag. l. 10. ad ryteâ—os p. 2 l. 20. for distinguish read distinguishing in the margent p. 7. for exalted read executed pa. 8. l. 25. for Word read Lord for Lord read Word pag. 9. l. 32. for yee read the l. 36. for the r. he pa. 11. l. 8. for from r. form pa. 14. l. 38. for Profer r. Profet p. 29. in the margent for overspewed r. overspred p. 30. l. 6. for desyros r. desyrs p. 31. in the margent for would r. world l. 26. for resir r. Relic pa. 36. l. 27. for other r. our pa. 37. l. 31. for the. r. them pa. 40. l. 40. blot out is l. 42. p. 12. for the hav hard r. yee hav heard p. 45. l. 8. ad is l. 12. blot out in pag. 47. l. 5. for her read hear l. 35. for filthy drous r. filthy dròns p. 48. l. 34. for stowish read foolish l. 36. for a rop of your mal houses r. atop of your mas-houses p. 57. l. for uring r. urging p. 73. l. 16. for Reed r. red Thes being amended tak notis that in sted of ce at the end of words in al words deryved from them I hav in speling us'd S. as for peace peas for grace grâs for place plâs for placed placing c. plâsed plasing c. becaus that e at the end of word doth so much stumbel strangers mislead them to sound two sylabels wher ther is but òn FINIS
forbearans towards provoking Rebellios Mankynd but hath also appeared to be a God of most Ryteos dredful impartial wrath vengeans pouring forth his justly deserved Judgments upon alsorts generations of Peepl Hy Low Rich Poor Mál Femà l of what degree rank or quality soever from the Prins on the Thrón to the Begger on the Dunghil And the Iniquitys which hav preceeded Gods general Judgments in the ages past wer generally thes to wit Covetosnes Pryd Oppression Cruelty Idolatry Persecution shedding of Innocent Bloud the Scripturs of truth as wel as other records do abundantly giv testimony to the trurh therof dyvers Instanses I myt prodús to evidens the sâm but I shal only mention somthing briefly concerning two And first concerning Israël of old who wer Gods chosen Peepl abov al the familys of the earth in their tym age for whos sak the Lord did terribl wonderful things in ryteosnes upon Pharo Egipt at the Red Sea in the VVildernes in the Land of Canaan notwithstanding their Rebellions provocations backslydings wer many great yet great was his patiens long suffering forbearans extended towards them very long befor wrath to the uttermost seised on them he carried them as on Eagls wings led them safly as a tender Father by the hand of Moses Aron corrected them in lov mercy giving them many gentel warnings and wholsom Counsels Advys by his Servants the Profets whom he raised up sent amongst them fulfil-ed his promis to the uttermost to them which he mà d to faithful Abraham ther failed nothing on his part as their own records testify But as it is writen they for a lit-el tym beleeved his word sang his prays but soon forgot what God the rok of thâ—ir salvation had don for them Jesurun waxed fat kik-ed against the God of their mercys notwithstanding the many great provocations of him to cut them of he yet wrouht strov with them for his own great Nâm sak that it myt not be blasfemed among the Heathen laying his correcting hand in mesur on them if possibl tô turn them to himself from the evil of their doings sending Blasting Mildews Locusts Caterpil-ers which devoured the fruits of the earth but yet they returned not to him he sent also many of his Servants the Profets ôn after another to reprov and warn them denouncing the most dredful Iudgments of God against them yet they stil persisted in their wickednes as it is writen they evilly intreated his messengers stoned murdered his Profets which he in lov pitty sent amongst them which caused the Lord to lay his hand mor and mor heavy on them suffered the heathen dyvers tyms to com exercys Cruelty Dominion over them even in their own land several tyms to lead them captyv into other cuntrys But yet stil such was his lov pitty faithfulnes towards them that when any mesur of tru repentans appeared in them that they cryed unto him in their distres he heard and delivered them raising up dyvers Saviors deliverers for them returning their captivity dyvers tyms but no sooner wer they restored setled but a whyl in the injoyment of the blessing and goodness of God but they corrupted themselvs stil mor and mor backslyding revolting and rebeling against the Lord so that he said unto them by the Profet wherfor should yee be smiten any mor from the greatest to the least they wer becom unsound corrupt in their doings their pryd testifyed against them even to their faces in their vain and lyt attyr adorned with costly and needles ornaments their hauhty looks and carriages Vyolens Oppression Spoil and Oppression was found in a hy degree among their Governors Rulers they judged not the caus of the fatherles nether would suffer the caus of the widdow oppressed to com befor them or hav Iustis from them Injustis they oppressed the poor and crushed the needy so that the Lord told them by the Profet that the Lord God had sworn by his holynes that he would tak them away as with hooks their posterity as with fish hooks And they wer no les abominabl in their Idolatry and fals ways of worship Idolatry filing the land with Ydols erecting Ydol Templs wherin they exercysed most abominabl Idolatry to their Ydol Gods after the manner of the heathen round about them so that the Lord complaind of them by the Profet that they wer becom mor sottish Brutish then the very Beast saying the Ox knoweth his owner and the Ass his Masters Crib but Israël doth not know my Peepl do not consider The Land was ful of Ydols they worshipped the works of their own hands the mean man bowed down and the great men debased themselvs therfor spà r them not said the Lord God yea so brutish sotish and mad wer they upon their Ydols that notwithstanding they roasted and boyled their food with the sâm kynd of wood of which they mâd their Ydols yet had they not so much understanding as to see that it was so Bloud guiltynes And as for Bloud guiltynes the Lord complained of them by the Profet that their hands wer ful of bloud so that they wer becom abominabl even a stink in the nostrils of God even in their worship and prayers to him so that he said to them by the Profet thus To what purpos is the multitud of your sacrifyses and that their New-moons Sabbaths calling of assemblys offering Incens was as if they blest an Ydol and murdred a Man and that he was weary to bear them and could not away with their worship and prayers saying thô yee mâk many prayers yet wil I not hear you for your hands âr ful of bloud and yet notwithstanding al this did not the Lord ceas stryving with them saying by the Profet whywil yee dy ô house of Israël wash you mak you clean ceas to do evil learn to do wel thô your sins be as crimson I wil mâk them as wool red as skarlet yet wil I mak them becom whyr as snow if yee yet be wil-ing obedient yee shal eat the good of the Land But notwitstandig al the Patiens kyndnes long suffering of the Lord they persisted stil in their pryd oppression cruelty Idolatry and murdering the Innocent til the wrath of the Lord brâk forth upon them so that ther was no remedy Their mesur fild up proceeding on in their wickednes til they had fil-ed up their mesur to the ful in denying betraying crucifying and murdering even the Son of God himself the Lord of lyf and glory who himself wept over Ierusalem bewailing them becaus of the dredful wrath of God which he saw neer at hand to com upon them saying O Ierusalem Ierusalem thou that kilest the Profets stonest them that ar sent unto thee how often would I hav
gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chik-ens under her wings but thou wouldest not ô that thou hadst known at least in this thy day the things which belong to thy Peas but now they ar hid from thy eys Dauhters of Ierusalem weep not for me but for your selvs sor your children for behold the day cometh that thy enemys shal cast a trench about thee keep thee in on every syd and lay thee even with the ground becaus thou knewest not the tym of thy visitation At the tym of whos suffering soon after as also by the Entrans and prevailing of the Apostacy in the Gentils or Romans the Word of the Lord by the Profet Ioël was fulfil-ed to wit that the Sun should be turned into darknes the Moon into bloud befor the great not abl day of the Lord should com which was fulfil-ed on the Sun Both of the visibl invisibl heven a vail of darknes being drawn over the Lyt Lyf Glory of God in them both which began to com over him in the garden causing that great agony bloudy sweat desyring the Father that if it were possibl that cup myt pas which vail of darknes over him vvas then at the heighth vvhen on the cros he cryed my God my God why hast thou forsaken me And the Moon in him also vvas turned into bloud by their Piercing his Innocent hands feet syd out of vvhich cam forth both Bloud VVater vvhich he that savv bâr record of his record is trû vvherby as in a figur vvas signifyed that notvvithstanding according to their own saying the guilt of his dear pretios lyf bloud myt hav stood unremovably charged on them their children yet in throuh him should that pûr clensing fountain of living water the vertu wherof should wash clens them their posterity coming into it from the guilt filth of al their abominations reconcyl them to God to òn another vvhich Bowels of the lov pitty and mercy of God in him tovvards them vvas mâd manifest throuh him on the cros Christs sufferings and desertion not for his but others sins the just for the unjust in the heighth extremity of his sufferings saying Father forgiv them they knovv not vvhat they do Who 's sufferings vvith that great vail of darknes dravvn over the Lyt Lyf and Glory of God in him vvas not throuh or becaus of any sin transgression or disobediens found in him against his God and Father but it vvas by throÌ„uh becaus of the sins transgressions disobediens cruelty unryteosnes of the Poepl it being then the hour power of the Kingdom of darknes in vvhich the transgres-ing povver from its first entrans into the World vvas com to its hyest pitch as to the vvhol body the povver strength of the seed of the old Serpent being unyted combyned in both Iew and Gentil against that Innocent pur Lyf Seed VVisdom Power Lyt Glory of God vvhich in and throuh him appeared and vvas manifest vvherby the shepherdvvas smit-en even the man vvhich vvas his fellow the sheep scattered and he bearing the sins and transgressions of many in his body on the tree vvas numbred vvith transgressors mâd and reputed as accursed the end of Christs sufferings suffering under their unjust and cruel wils and laws the Iust for the unjust That so thos vvho by their disobediens transgressions vver justly lyabl to the Cros condemnation of the most just and ryteos Law of God aliens enemys in their mynds against God him by vvik-ed vvorks myt receiv forgivnes of sin an inheritans vvith them vvho are sanctifyed and be reconcyled to him and ôn to another and mâd partakers of the Ryteosnes of God in him And soon after his deth was the Moon to wit the whol body of the Iews turned into bloud also The Judgment exalted which appeared in thoâ— great destroying wars enmitys destructions and desolations vvhich wer amongst them ôn against another vvhich just and ryteos wrath and vengeans of God on them declared against them throuh Christ and the Profets vvas fulfil-ed by the Romans vvhom God suffered to com on them and utterly to destroy and overturn their glorios City Templ Priest-hood Government disposses them of the good land leading them captyvs into dyvers other Cuntrys in which they stil remain scattered up and dovvn ár mâd a scorn a derision a by-word among the nations under the ours unto this day and as for any outvvard visibl or Erthly power dominion they shal never mor be restored to the exercys of it but according to the prayer of Christ the promis of God throuh the holy Profets recorded in the Scripturs of truth if they abyd not stil in unbeleef they shal be re-in-grafted into the good oliv tree mâd again partakers of the bles-ed Root and Fatnes therof and God vvil povvr on them the Spirit of grâs and supplication and they shal see him in them vvhom they hav pierced not only in that Innocent ôn vvhom they vvith cruel hands murdred and crucifyed on a cros vvithout the Gâts of Ierusalem but also in themselvs by their Rebellions and disobediens against the motions dictats of the sâm living vvord of Faith Lyt lyf and power of God in themselvs and shal mourn for him as ôn mourneth for the los of his first born Son and God vvil vvryt his púr law of Spirit lyf in their hearts and invvard parts and be their God and they shal be his Peepl and becom Citizens of the new Ierusalem vvith the chosen generation the Royal and everlasting Priesthood fellow theyrs vvith the truly nôbl seed in that Kingdom Glory Dominion vvhich is pûr Eternal and be redeemed from that Scorn Reproach Contemt Captivity and curs under vvhich they novv âr At the sâm tym also was a vail of Darkness drawn over the sâm lyt lyf glory of God which is in the Son of the visibl heven so that Darknes was over al the Land from the sixth to the nynth hour wherby as in a figur was sórshewn the faâ—ing away Apostacy of the Gentils or the Romans which Apostacy had its Entrans Growth Fulnes in the Opening Sounding Powring forth of the second third fourth Seals Trumpets Vyals wherby a vayl of gros Darknes cam over that Pùr lyt Lyf Glory of Christ which was in mesur manifested shyning forth in throuh them therby crucifying to in themselvs the Son of God afresh put-ing him to pen shâm having murdered slayn the Lyf of Christ that just ôn in themselvs they stretched forth their hands in ways of Persecution Cruelty Murder against the appearans of the sâm Pûr Lyt Innocent Lyf Glory of God in others til they becam Drunk with the Bloud of the dear Innocent Saints Martyrs faithful VVitnes-es of JESUS so that the Sun
in them becâm black as Sackloth of hair and their Moon hath bin turned into Bloud which hath manifestly appeared in thôs great Confusions Bloudy wars Destructions Desolations which hâv been amongst themselvs in every Kingdom Dominion throuhout Christendom and now they having filled up the Mesur of their Abominations the great notabl Day of the Lord is com in which the Lord wil throuh by the Turkish power carry on the finishing his Just Ryteos decree of VVrath Vengeans on them to wit Christendom they also shal becom not a peepl of any visibl or outward earthly Power or Government upon the fâs of the earth as of themselvs any môr for ever But according to the Word of the Lord throuh his Servants the Profets he wil Rays up in them a pûr seed which shal ferv him even a numberles number which shal with al the Ransomed ôns stand befor the Thrôn clothed in whyt Rôbs ascrybing salvation unto God which fireth on the Thrôn unto the Lamb saying Bles-ing Glory VVisdom Thanksgiving Honor Power Myt be unto our God for ever ever Amen The slain of the Word by the Lord of the Mouth amongst them shal be many And so both Jew Gentil shal be unyted becom ôn stik in the hand of the Lord ôn Holy Nation upon the Mountains of Israël ôn King shal be King over them al even David my Servant saith the Lord God they shal hâv ôn shepherd walk in the Iudgments of the Lord observ his Statuts to do them shal dwel in the Land even they their Children their Childrens Children for ever in the partipation of the new Everlasting Covenant of God his Sanctuary Tabernacl shal be in the midst of them he be their God they his Peepl for ever môr And when the Lord hath don his work in Zyon he wil also punish the stout heartednes of the King of Assyria bring down the Glory of his hy looks the loftynes of man in them also shal be a based brouht down that hautynes laid low even with the ground the Lord wil aveng the Bloud of the hous of Ahab upon the hous of Jehu caus that Kingdom to ceas for ever even al that Rûl Authority Power risen standing in the Spirit Power of the Dragon that old Serpent shal be thrust down under the feet of the pûr seed Christ the wisdom power of God in his Peepl even throuhout al the habitabel parts of his Erth so that Nation shal not lift up sword against Nation nor learn war any môr but the Kingdoms of this World shal becom the Lords and the Lord God Omnipotent shal rein in throuh over al for ever môr The other exampl which I shal mention is Nebuchadnezzar Belshazzar his Son who together in their power wer the Golden hed of that Imag which Nebuchadnezzar saw of which your predecessors together with you even you the present Roman Empyr with al other the Kings Prinses Heds Rulers throuhout Christendom the Dominions and Territorys therunto belonging in your their Power Military Civil Ecclesiastical so caled ar the feet Toes which the Stôn cutout of the mountain without hands is now smyting Nebuchadnezzar's arrogans Now it is vvriten concerning this Nebuchadnezzar that he was a King of Kings and that the God of heven had given him a Kingdom Power Strength Glory but he being ignorant of that God that mâd him gâv him that great strength larg Dominion did in the Pryd of his heart attribut that Glory myt Majesty Strength Dominion honor unto himself which was dû to the Lord God of heven alôn at his Dispôs exercysing cruelty oppression on whom he pleased making a law in his own vviked wil to caus al to bovv to that Imâg His work which he in his own Idolatros heart had invented sit up or els to Murder and Destroy the Refusers by fyr thô Othervvys Innocent guiltles of any evil don against him His visitation reward thô a King but even vvhylst he vvas in the pryd and arrogancy of his heart assuming that Glory Honor to himself vvhich vvas du only to the God of heven ther fel a voys from heven saying O King Nebuchadnezzar to thee be it spoken thy Kingdom is departed from thee they shal dryv thee from Men thy dweling shal be with ye Beasts of the field they shal mâk thee to eat gras as oxen seven tyms shal pas over thee until thou knowest that the most hy ruleth in the Kingdom of Men giveth them to whom soever the wil. His restoration when he giv God his glory again Which the sam hour vvas fulfiled upon him vvhich vvas a just Judgment yet a gentel vvarning from the the God of heven who after wards restored him to his Kingdom caused him ther by to acknowledg the God of heven that he ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men siteth up Puteth down whom when he pleaseth But Belshazzar his Son not taking warning being found guilty of his Fathers Iniquitys the God of heven did Justly visit the iniquitys of the Father upon the Son sending a hand wryting upon the wal even whylst he was in the Pryd of his heart drinking Wyn in the vessels of the Tempel of God That Son which succeeds in his fathers Vys shal inherit his fathers reward as wel as Crown praysing the Gods of Gold silver bras Yron VVood ston But the God in whos hands his Breth was he glorifyed not at the syt wherof his Countenans changed his Thouhts troubled him the Ioynts of his loyns loosed his knees smot ôn against another Which hand wryting was quickly fulfiled upon him by the most just impartial hand of God Himself being slain his Kingdom finished given to Darius the Median by al which it Evidently appears that the Lord God of heven is a God of most Ryteos Impartial justis on whomsoever they be that ar found persisting in ways of wikednes Rebellion against him non are abel to deliver ether themselvs or others out of his hand Now that which I hav Further to say is concerning your selvs your predecessors but most Nearly it concerneth your selvs of this present ag and Generation according as it was fôr seen fôr told by the Spirit of Prophesy and recorded in the scripturs of truth as wel as other Records so it is tru that they to wit your predecessors together with you wer ar that fourth Beast or Kingdom which was to arys out of the Erth dyvers from al Kingdoms which devoured the whol Erth or powers of the Erth treading them down breaking them to Pieces being dredful and terribel strong execedingly as Yron baving great Yron Teeth devouring breaking to Pieces and stamping the Residu under his
of vvhom the vvay of truth vvas evil spoken of vvhich cursed Spirit taking hold of the flok also many appeared vvho vvould not endur soünd Doctrin but after their own lusts gat to them selvs heapâ— of sals Teachers turning away their ears from truth unto fabels And so it cam to pas by degrees that such as refused to answer their covetos desyrs and to put into their months they prepared war against them counting them enemys to the ministry of Christ to be against the propagation of the gospel such as bòr Testimony against refused to follow their Pernicios ways Practises wer counted Erronious Enemys to the church good order so truth the followers therof got the Nams of Error heresy Non conformists disorderly Persons And Deecit Error the Practisers therof assumed to themselvs the nams of holy church tru Christians ministers of Christ in their own faln wisdoms set up On amongst them as chief Father Overseer or universal Bishop vvhos successors wer stil ar caled Christs Vicars Peters successors hed of the church and Póps whos Personal seat is ROM but his spiritual seat the Peepels Kindreds Tongu's Nations who in the whol Body of them caled the Clergy throuhout Christendom ar the woman that great City that hath yet Doth rul over the Kings of the Erth so proceeded to erect Counsels and Synods in them to mak many unryteos and Antichristian Laws Decrees which they cal Spiritual Holy Canonical Orders of Holy Church imposing their own commands inventions upon the Peepel as the Commands of God Holy Church assuming to themselvs in their faln Wisdom Power to bynd loos to set up put down Powers things both in heven in Erth to retain remit the sins of the Peepel in their own wils for Mony Dishonest gain such as refused conformity to their wiked Orders Carnal laws Commands Canons Devilish injunctions they cast forth as Heritics suffering non to buy or sel but such as would bow under their Spiritual wikedneses receiv their Idolatros mark in their hands or on their forheds thes their proud Antichristian Iezabelish Luciferian practises hav reached al Christendom mâl femâl from the lowest to the hyest of you your predecessors in government causing Emperors Kings Prinses Potentats to bovv dovvn to the sôls of her feet deposing disposing of Powers Potentats Crowns Kingdoms at their ovvn vvils and plesurs therby falsly and blasphemosy pretending to trampel upon the Powers Pomp Glory of this World whylst themselvs ar delyting affecting living at eas in the sensual lusts Pryd Plesurs therof to the hyest degree And so they proceeded to set Bounds limits to Congregations caling them Parishes erecting houses with steepels Croses on them Bels Baptysed in them falsly ignorantly caling them Churches appointing Arch inferior Bishops Priests Curats with several other Kynds of Hyrlings over them appointing them great Revenus Stypends yearly Incoms by Church lands gleab lands tyths taxes easter reckonings offerings sprinkling of Infants Churching of women Marriages Burials Prayers for the Ded Dirges Masses for Redemption of souls out of Purgatory Confession of sins Smoak-pennys Indulgenses Buls Pardons c. With many other Antichristian ways inventions to mak Marchandys of the Bodys souls of the Peepel throuhout Christendom The elergys spiritual weâ—pons of wikednes fayling they fly to the carnal weapons of the Magistrats But when they found that their own spirtual laws Canons helish church orders wer not of fo rs enuf to keep al in subjection to their carnal orders and Inventions in Matters of Religion worship and to answer their covetos and greedy desyrs after Mony tyths and larg yearly Incoms they Addresed themselvs to the Potentats Kings Prinses and Rulers of the Erth requyring their help and Assistans pretending that they therby would be servisabel to God holy church furtherers of the propagation of the Gospel good Countenansers Patrons Incoragers of the Ministers of Christ c. Whom they met with in the twylyt of the evening of the Blak Dark nyt of Apostacy as so many young men voyd of understanding who by their good words fayr speeches pretenses wer easily drawn to go after her as Oxen to the slauhter fools to the corection of the stoks making dyvers unreasonabel Penal Wiked Antichristian bloudy cruel laws and statuts with cursed Inquisition courts to fo rs al to a conformity to their Antichristian Idolatros Canons Institutions Inventions Injunctions Cursed Practises in matters of Religion church worship which are Extant and upon Record unto this day for vvhich they Rewarded the Potentats Kings and Rulers of the Erth with the Nams of Defenders of the faith c. who also received dyvers of them into their counsels to sit negotiat vvith them about the spiritual Affairs of holy church falsly and blasphemosly so caled pretending therby to bring al into unity uniformity to the tru Christian Church Faith Practis with which cam in the treading the holy city under foot and the Prophecying of the witneses in Sak-cloth and the flyt of the vvoman into the vvildernes and so it cam to pas that if any did bear Testimony against their Apostat Antichristian vvays and Practises or Refused to be conformabel to their Invented Laws Commands and Canons in Matter of Religion and vvorship they vver summoned to appear at their spiritual courts so called and if after three tyms summonings or appearans they would not deny the truth conform to their church orders and satisfy their covetos desyros they proceeded gradualy to censur Fyn cast out or Excommunicat them as heritics ordering that non should buy or sel eat or drink with them turning them over to the vvorldly or secular Povvers of the Erth to deal vvith them acording to the cruel Antichristian unmanly Inhuman Bloudy Laws statuts vvhich in such cases they had lyk bruit beasts not Men mâd provyded to wit the Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom who hav bin as cruel Unnatural beastly bloudy in the execution of them on thousands of Gods Dear Innocent ôns as they wer blyndly zealos Beastly in making of them spoyling many familys of their goods cruely dealing with others in their persons by bonds imprisonments cruel rackings torturings banishings secretly openly Murdering kiling the innocent Saints Martyrs faithfull witneses of Iesus by hanging burning with dyvers other ways of open secret cruelty murder the cry of al which cruelty bloud Murder of the Innocent hath piersed the hevens entred into the ears of the Lord God Omnipotent who is now risen in his holy plas causing the vengeans of his Tempel to tak hold of al his his dear oppresed cruely tortured murdered Innocent peepels Unnatural bloudy
fear him vvhich shal caus the Pur Lyt knowledg and glory of the Lord to overspred fil and dwel in the whol creation and mercy and truth to meet together and Ryteosnes and Peas to kis and imbrás ech other and truth to spring out of the Erth and Ryteosnes to look down from heven and everlasting joy to rest upon the heds of al the Sons and dauhters of Syon and al caus of syghing and sorrow to flee away forever mor. But to proceed this cursed seed of the Serpent took Root the mistery of Iniquity hath abounded over spred al Christendom the abomination which maketh desolat was stil is standing wher it ouht not abominabel covetosnes Pryd Cruelty Oppression Idolatry sheding the bloud of the innocent saints of God hath bin stil is Practised in thee O Christendom even with a bold impudent fà s which hath long cryed aloud how long Lord holy tru dost thou not judg aveng ' our bloud on them that dwel on the Erth notwithstanding al the Abominations Oppressions Idolatry murders great provocations against the Lord vvhich yee your predecessors hav bin stil ar so openly impudently found guilty of yet exceeding long and larg hath bin the Patiens forbearans of God towards them you many hav bin the Fatherly warnings chastysments vvholsom counsels of the Lord towards them you but yee your predecessors ar found mor abominably guilty of thos abominations crueltys oppressions Idolatrys sheding the bloud of the Innocent then the Jews of old wer for which the Lord mà d ûs of your predecessors of the Roman Power as instruments in his hand to execut his just dredful wrath vengeans on them yee hav not only moked Gods messengers despysed his word misused his Profets Saints as they towit the Jews did befor you but yee hav mà d cruelly executed dyvers Antichristian Cruel bloudy laws statuts to keep them from coming amongst you to Murder Kil Burn destroy them if they open their mouths on the behalf of God his truth ryteosnes or bear their faithful testimony against the cruelty oppressions Idolatrys sheding the bloud of the Innocent exhorting them to repent turn from your their evil cruel and abominabel ways and Practis which yee your predecessors wer and stil ar found guilty of And so both they you hav returned unto God his dear saints servants which he hath raysed up many tyms sent amongst you in Lov mercy hatred for their lov yea cruel torturings murdeings even the worst of evil for their good wil towards you al which provokations crueltys murders rebellious practised against the Lord in his dear precios innocent ôns are Exceedingly heihtened aggravated in you even to the hyest pitch in regard that the hav hard and hav upon record befor you in the Scripturs of truth the many precepts commands of God against such abomniabel ways practises the many woes Judgments dredful Curses denounsed by God against al who ar found guilty of them and the many Just and Ryteos plagu's wrath and dredful Judgments of God Executed on the ages generations past befor you who wer found guilty of the lyk abommations but mor especially in regard that the Lord mâd your predecessors instruments as an Yron rod in his hand to execut his Just wrath dredful Indignation upon the Jews for the sam sins and abominations which your predecessors yee hav bin and stil ar found guilty of and verely the day is now com in which yee wil fynd that he is a God that changeth not but abyds stil the sam as wel in Power ryteosnes wrath and justis as in long forberans patiens goodnes Mercy The Apostels tru Ministers of Christ wer not mâd so by men nor sent forth in the wil or by the approbation of Man nether did they Minister forth from the Letter vvhat others had received by their own acquyred parts learned at Schools universitys for mony nether did they complain or addres themselvs to the Potentats and powers of the Erth to mák laws to fo rs compel peepel to giv them tyths great sums of Mony or yearly Incoms for their preaâ—hing or to defend them in their Doctâ—ins faith Church Order Holy and Christian practises which they held forth and walked in or to fo rs Peepel to conform therunto upon pain of being fyned imprisoned racked tortured banished hanged burned or cruelly put to Deth No No. But they wer caled sent forth by the wil Power and appointment of God the Father the Lord Jesus Christ ministring forth freely and with a redy mynd what they had freely received of God throuh the Revelation of Jesus Christ the tru Lyt and gift of God in them What they had seen felt handled and tasted of the grás Eternal Word living pur Power of God in themselvs they preached forth and declared to others to the end that they also to whom they preached myt hav fellowship with them in the sam whos fellswship was in the Father in the Son Jesus Christ they ministred forth according to the mesur of the gift of the Spirit of the free grâs of Christ in them they wer tauht of God and had learned of the Father and ther by mâd abel Ministers of the New Testament the eveâ—lasting Covenant of God needed not outward laws of Man to fo rs Peepel to maintain them or giv them Mony for their preaching but such as becam obedient to the faith and Christian practises which they preached walked in the constraining Power therof wrouht such a lov of God in them to whom they preached which drew them forth in lov freely to communicat of their carnal substans to them as their Needs necessitys required who having food and raiment had learned therwith to be content And the way and weapons which they took used to defend their Holy Faith Christian Doctrins and practises by to convins gainsayers and Herities wer not outward or carnal not spoiling of goods prisons banishments racks hanging burning other cruel ways of open and secret Murder but Holy Spiritual The saints weapons even by the armor of ryteosnes on the ryt hand and on the left by arguments of sound truth pur and wholsom doctrins Holy harmles innocent and godly conversations Nether was the end of their preaching that Peepel should be ever learning never abel to com to the knowledg of the truth nor that Peepel should be only talking of God The end of the tru Ministers Preaching Christ and Holynes and abyd strangers enemys to ignorant of the lyt lyf Power and Spirit of God Christ and godlynes in themselvs but the end of their preaching was to bring Peepel to the knowledg feeling and obediens of the Spirit pur power and presens of God in themselfs and to
caused to be mà d a multitud of abominabel Idolatros images and ydols in their and your spiritual adulteros abominabel blasphemos and idolatros hearts and mynds to represent God Christ the spirit angels and saints mà d of gold silver bras yron wood and ston after the manner of the ignorant and idolatros heathen of old which they and you hav caused to be set up in your hyh ways Markets Streets Courts of judicatur and plases of your idolatros vvorship and set up and hang in your houses and carry about you throuhout Christendom filing the land with ydols and picturs and abominabel images of jelosy ther by grievosly provoking the just and ryteos Lord God omnipotent to caus his fiers vvrath indignation and jelosy to smoak burn against you having worshiped the works of your own hands even that which your fingers hav mâd the mean Man hath bowed down even Mâl Femâl Rich Poor Bond Free Smal Great and yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers great ôns hav Debased your selvs beforthem THERFOR WIL I NOT FOR GIV OR SPAR YOU saith THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT And yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom and your predecessors having forgoten turned your baks upon and becom Ignorant of the God that formed you and raised you up in whos hand at whos dispos your breth lyvs dominons ar it hath rendred both them and you voyd of that nobel Spirit of tru wisdom counsel gravity Prudens vertu holynes which appeared ons in som of your predecessors rendring them famos terribel dredful to their enemys abroad their Goverment lovly desyrabel at hom among the several Nations tongu's and languages under their subjection They you becam stil remain lyk Cruel Uunatural bruit-beasts or evening wolvs turning that sword which ons rendred them dredful terribel to their enemys unto their own bowels therwith by wars division stryf contentions murdering kiling and destroying on Another in the wikednes pryd stoutnes of their your ambitios hearts mynds quarreling ôn with another about Erthly dominions greatnes and preheminens emty blasphemos Antichristian Nâms tytels of worldly Antichristian and Spiritually wiked Honor Dominion to wit Master worshipful Hy Myty Lords Stâts General most Illustrios Nobel Vertuos Honorabel Excelent Sereen Earls Duks Lord Protectors Prinses Kings most invincibel Emperors Cardinals Eminency Archbishops Bishops Grâs Ryht Reverend Fathers in God common Priests Reverend Divyns c. with the Pôps Holynes al the other Nâms Tytels assumed in the Military Civil Ecelestastical Powers so caled which ar not of Christ but cam out of the bottomles pit ar Erthly sensual Devilish into the Lâk of Gods most Just Ryteos Dredful wrath vengeans Plagu's Indignation must that Power Spirit be cast in which yee now stand by which ye ar acted Yee hav not learned of Christ to lov ôn another who said to Peter put up thy sword into its plas for al that ták the sword must perish by the sword and heer by both yee and your goverment ar rendred odios yea even most intolerably burdensom cruel and opresing in the syt of God and in the hearts of the Peepel over whom yee rul lading them with Burdens taxes oppresions labor Sôr travels in bloud wars on against another And althô yee cal your goverment The Holy Roman Empyr the Pop blasphemosly his holynes and the Rest of that spiritual Babylonian Antichristian crew holy Bishops patrons Fathers of holy Church so caled and profes your selvs to be Christian Emperos Kings Prinses Rulers and Peepel yet ar yee found voyd of the tru Christian Spirit lyf bav not learned of Christ nether ar found in his nor the tru Christians ways practises who said lov your enemys bles them that Curs you do good to them that hât you pray for them that persecut you despytfully ûs you be not overcom of evil but over com evil by doing good But yee hav bin môr barbaros stil ar mor cruel to your Enemys then any that ever I hav heard seen or red of causing them to be with Yrons ôn their legs lyk horses nyt day and their hands in Yrons chaining them by the neks lyk dogs to a post or wal with their feet in the stoks lying on the ground with litel under them cruelly torturing their bodys to fo rs them to confes and tel what ther outward estats ar or what rich abel friends they hav ther by to procur great sums of mony for their ransoms causing them to work dayly with thos Yrons upon their legs provyding no cloths for them allowing them only water to drink and hardly bred enuf of the courser sort to fustain their outward man yea causing som of them to work without allovving them ether bred or mony hardly permiting them to fetch good water or go to such as pased by them wher they wer at work to beg buying seling them ôn to another as slavs lyk beasts for mony according to what was of old forseen fortold by the Spirit of prophesy in John the faithful witnes of Jesus recorded in the Scripturs of truth of al which Inhuman antichristian cursed and cruel dealings my self and companion in travel hav bin not only Ey and ear witneses but also in mesur hav gon throuh suffered and sustained So that this seed of the serpent even that cursed Spirit of apostacy and faling away from the tru Christian Spirit purfaith lyf having taken root in your predecessors it hath continued in its cursed operations fruits working in you to this very day and hens it hath com to pas that tru wisdom is Perished from thy anients good wholsom counsel is not to be found among the honorabel ôns and insted of governing the Peepel in truth peas and ryteosnes behold on al hands a grievos cry of vyolens spoyl oppression insted of unity and concord behold stryf debat rumors of cruel and dredful wars on al hands And not having Christ to be your hed Bishop King Priest Counseler Lawgiver and horn of your salvation yee ar becom broken to Pieces and divyded under dyvers heds Bishops Kings Blasphemos nams heaps and horns pushing stryving contending and waring ôn against another in bloud and cruelty wherby whol Christendom hath bin mâd an Akeldama or field of bloud even a plâs not of kyndnes and good entertainment but of cruelty and Murder and to bury strangers in even Christ the tru and Ryt heryr and Lord of al who hath bin long as a stranger in the Erth as driven out of his possession but now com to demand recover posses his inheritans which is the purchas of your denying betraying and Spiritually Murdering and Crucifying the Lord of lyf and glory And thy Peepel O Christendom being Ignorant of Christ vvho vvas given of the
throuh them hath grown spred it self as evil leven throuhout the whol lomp that cursed seed of the Serpent hath grown up in thee not only in thy Elders teachers but also throuh them in thy Rulers war â—â—rs Peepel is becom a Man of sin mystery of iniquity even the Son of perdition yea a strong man armed with the dragons Power keeping possession of the hous to wit of thee O Christendom siting as God in thee who ouhtst of ryt to be a living Tempel for the tru living Lod God omnipotent to dwol and walk in Which hath rendred thy Military Power even the whol body of them to be the great Reed Dragon that gav to the beast his power seat and great Authority with seven heds ten horns seven crowns upon his hed which hath stil doth stand befor the woman which did now doth bring forth the man-chyld who in mesur doth and dayly môr shal Rûl the nations with a Rod of Yron who failing in his first enterprys against the bâb of glory being cast out of heven into the erth hath stil doth persecut the woman which did and now doth bring forth the Man-chyld hath doth cast out water as a floud out of his mouth to cary her away therwith making war with the Remnant of her seed which keeps the commandements of God hav the testimony of Jesus even the arm of the ungodly which must now be broken a standing engyn to oppres spoyl consum the tresur bloud of the nations Who 's Rys continuans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent which was in Cain in Simeon Levy thos brethren in Iniquity in whos habitations ar the cursed Instruments of Murder Bloud cruelty whos practis was and stil is whylst pretending overturs treatys of peas agreement to seek tak advantages to Kil Murder Destroy But the day is now com in which they must receiv their Iust Reward from the Lord God they shal be divyded in Iacob scattered in Israel a Fugityv vagabond on the erth from the Lord God for ever must that Power and spirit be in which they stand and by which they ar acted Thy Civil Power so caled even the whol body of them Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers their predecesors in the fal hav bin stil remain that scarlet colored beast ful of the nams of Blasphemy having seven heds ten horns which ascended out of the bottomles pit upon vvhom the scarlet whôr that adulteros Woman â—esabel to vvit the whôl body of thy spiritual men or Clergy so caled hath stil doth sit which hath mà d war with the two vvitneses of God and overcom them vvhos Power seat great authority was given and is stil upheld by the dragon or military Power whos mouth hath uttered great things blasphemys vvhich vvas to continu trampeling the holy city fourty two months opening his mouth in blasphemys even against God blaspheming his Nà m tabernakel and them that dwel in heven who hath mà d vvar vvith the saints over com them hath had stil hath Power over Kingdoms tongu's and nations and vvas and stil is vvors hiped by al vvhos Nà ms ar not writen in the Lambs book of lyf Their several throns and Seats of residens exampels of villany al manner of vvickednes to the several Kingdoms Dominions and territorys over vvhich they rul sending forth the stinking smels of vanity Pryd Lust VVantones VVhordom Exces Drunkenes vayn Plesurs Oppression Cruelty Injustis Deceit Envy Murder making aprey of the Innocent such as de part from Iniquity Who 's rys continnans to this day is in the Spirit of the old Serpent which vvas in Cain that city builder in Ismael Nimrod Esau and in thos Kingly Governers of Sodom and Gomorrha and the citys therabouts vvhos practis vvas and stil is by stryf contention and vvars to destroy and murder the Peepel under their government therby to vvrest Dominion out of the hands of ech other amongst vvhom just Lot is mâd a prisoner and captyv But the day is now com in vvhich Abraham the Brother of Lot is arming his houshold Gideon the Lords Thresher vvith his sharp threshing instrument having teeth hath taken the field vvith his three hundred Men and the Lord vvil smyt them as in the day of Midian mâk their Prinses as Oreb Zeeb as Zeba Zalmunna vvhich perished at Endor the habitation of the Spirit of vvitch craft and becam as dung upon the Erth. The Captyr Exyl hasteth to be delivered and shal be lifted up out of the pit and redeemed and brouht bâk vvithout money vvithout prys but thâ— prey shal not be taken from the myty nether shal the lavvful captyâ— be delivered out of his hand vvho had descended into the lovver most parts of the Erth even into the Belly of hel but is novv ascended and ascending up far abov al hevens leading captivity captyv giving gifts unto Men spoyling Principalitys Powers even the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers of the Darknes of this World making an open shevv of them triumphing over them and trampeling on them in his cros vvho is the lyt lyf of Men the VVisdom and Power of God Thy Ecclesiastical Power even the whol body of them caled the Clergy or Spiritual Men with their predecessors in the fal apostacy wer and stil ar that great skarlet whor wich seteth upon many waters even the mother of harlots abominations of the erth with whom thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel even the whol body of thee O Christendom hav commited spiritual fornication arrayed in purpel skarlet and fyn linnen deked with gold c. having a golden cup in her hand ful of abomnations filthynes of her whordoms on whos forhed is writen Mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots and abominations of the whol Erth who hath bin and stil remains drunk with the bloud of the Saints and of the Martyrs of Iesus Thy several plases of worship Tempels of Ydols plases of the forms of godlynes with out the lyf and power therof which ar to be turned from the vvhol body of thy vvorship as an Altar vvith an inscription to the unknown God The several exercyses of prayer preaching sacraments singing with the observation of days tyms sabbaths performed and observed at loathsom stinking most abominnabel in the nostrils of the put God of lyf no other but as the offering of swyns flesh blesing of Ydols or murdering of men being performed in that spirit Povver vvhich is enmity against God Who 's Rys and continans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent vvhich vvas in Cain vvho could offer a sacrifys then murder his brother in Balaam Athaliah Iezabel vvho hav riden the several nations of Christendom as an As for dishonest gain the
wages of unryteosnes and vvhen the As hath bin mâd som tyms to speak vvith Mans voys and treprov their madnes folly and vvikedness he hath bin revvarded by them not only vvith grievos stryps but vvith spoyling of goods syns Imprisonments banishment hanging burning But the Day is now com in which she must receiv her just ryteos reward at the hand of the Lord God the Lamb in the Cup that she hath filed must now be filed to her doubel althô she paint her sâs look out at the window and Cry treason treason at the appearans of the Ryt heyr whylst the Crown is seting on his hed by the Royal Triesthood in the Holy Tempel of the Lord in the secret of which towit honest Contryt Humbel broken hearts he hath bin hid from her Murderos conspyracy in destroying the seed Royal during the tym of the cruel usurped Reyn of her and her Husband which was the plâs of the beloveds retyrment until the breaking of the day and fleeing away of the shadows yet now must shee be thrown out at the window by her own Servants and be troden under foot as unsavory salt thos dogs towit the horns shal hât her eat her flesh burn her with fyr so that nouht shal be left of her but the skul feet palms of her hands the ôn to mâk known their desolat condition the other to bear them as mourners about the streets the palms of their hands to receiv what others shal freely bestow upon them The Profet of the Lord is returned from thecâv descending the Mount of God tryal must now be mâd which is the living tru Lord God and the God which answereth by fyr he was is and for ever shal appear to be the only living tru God Wherfor al yee worshipers of al sorts of what nâms in what forms professions soever without the lyf and pur Power of God gather your selvs together every ôn to the worship of your God with the Masses Ave-Marys Pater-nosters Dyrectorys Servis-books Common Prayers Extemporary Devotions cry aloud for your God is now faling into asleep out of which he shal never mor awak he is on a journy from which he shal never mor return if audiens help now fayl you ther is no way of escaping for you but by the two edged sword of the Lord yee must be slauhtered in to the Lâk of perdition must yee be cast and the vengeans of Eternal fyr seiz upon you Thy Schools Colledges Vniversitys ar as so many standing stinking ponds of corrupt Infectios poysoning vvaters corruptin infecting Man kynd even from their chyld-hood raising quickening norishing that spirit Power in them vvhich is foolishnes enmity against God fiting them only to be habitations of Devils to ferv and vvorship the devil the God of the vvorld in their generation trayning them up in the learning and knowledg of tongu's parts and arts standing in that vvisdom and Povver vvhich is foolishnes and enmity against the pur Lord God Who 's rys and continuans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent which was in Cain his posterity that Liberal-art-inventing-spirit in the astrologers of Egipt and Babylon and thos curios liberal Artists vvho at the appearans of truth in and throuh the holy apostels brouht their books together and burnt them openly thô valued at an hy rât and happy vvould it be for them if at the appearans of truth now throuh the despysed and contemned children of the lyt they myt be brouht to follovv their exampel for the day is novv com in vvhich they must receiv their just and ryteos revvard at the hand of the Lord God omnipotent even in the lâk of perdition and destruction vvith their lybrarys and suffer the vengeans of eternal fyr vvith that body of vvhordoms and abominations of vvhich they ar as it vver the vvomb or generating part Thy Towns Citys ar as so many svvarms of filthy vermin sending forth the stinking smels of Covetosnes pryd deceit oppression vanity Idelnes lust whordom drunkenes gluttony and al Manner of unryteos and abominabel practises But the day is novv com in vvhich they must receiv the just revvard of their doings and be dayly mor and mor depopulated and the great and fayr houses stand vvithout Inhabitants and shal vvast and consum away until they becom as un-waled villages Thy courts of Iudicatur vvith their dependanses to vvit thos cald Iudges Doctors Sergeants at Law Counselers Advocats Aturnys Solicitors clarks scrybs so many seats and instruments of cruel oppresion injustis brybery and extortion even a most intolerabel burden to the peepel of the several nations tongu's languages Amongst whom they Exercys dominion vvho in sted of doing them justis ending their differenses reconcyling them to ôn another mâk aprey of them laying burdens on them grievos and hevy to be born but not touching them to help or eas them vvith ôn of their fingers causing them to spend their tym vvear out their bodys vex and torment their Spirits vvast and consum their Estats in vvaiting and attending on them and yet to fayl of their expected issu from them But the day is novv com in which they also shal receiv the just revvard of their dongs even vvrath vvo misery and destruction from the presens of the Lord God and the glory of his pur povver in the lâk vvith that Beastly Body of which they ar members whos cursed and oppresing Power they represent Exercys Thy several sorts of Marchants buyers selers traders in ships shops Wâr-houses Ins victualing-houses fayrs and markets with their weihts and mesurs so many plases instruments and inventions in ways of commers in that spirit which is enmity against God whos practises hav bin stil ar to hord up the several stôrs provisions of the hous of God til they somtyms corrupt rot and spoyl whylst many poor cretursly up and down streets villages hungry cold in want of cloathing pyning away and perishing for want of the creturs which spoyl and oppresion must now be charged on them making marchandys of the gifts of God wich al flow from the ôn gift vvhich he freely gav to the children of men vvithout respect to persons somtyms deceitfully mingling the Creturs the corrupt vvith the sound puting on them deceitful colors and garnishings to increas their dishonest gain by them the seler using many deceitful words about the goodnes of them the Buyer the lyk to undervalu them the seler often tyms taking advantag on the vvant necessity and ignorans of the buyer the buyer oftentyms doing the sam to the seler using also ways of decâ—it to mak the creturs to weih the hevier fil the mesur sooner then otherwys it would and thus the spirit of covetosnes deceit theft oppression acteth both buyer seler But the day is now com
in which they also must receiv the just ryteos reward of their doings from the ryteos Lord God omnipotent the hand of the Lord is smyting at al your dishonest gain VVo misery weeping bitter howling lamentation must now be dayly mor mor your portions deth and withering is now seizing on you which shal continu until your ships shops Ins victualing-houses fayrs marktes weihts and mesurs ceas to be frequented or mad ùs of The Lord wil recover his corn wyn wool and flax even al the stors of his hous out of your hands and wil feed cloath his houshold himself and giv them food rayment in du season and in du proportion al who shal putâ—r ôr ether on their baks or into their bellys shal receiv in themselvs the just reward of their own shâm and folly from the Lord God Thy several Nations Kindreds Tengu's and Languages ar as the dispersed divyded and confounded builders of babel as so many several fields over grovvn vvith brambels bushes bryars and thorns abounding bounding in al manner of the cursed fruits of the seed of the old serpent redy ryp to be cut down consumed by the vengeans of the eternal fyr of Gods just Ryteos wrath vengeans which is now broken forth on them and shal dayly môr and môr be revealed from heven against them Thy whol body even hed and tayl branch and Root rulers wariors priests peâ—pel by low rich poor bond and free great and smal mâl femal even al under the dragon's beast's fals profets spirit Power ar a corrupted loathsom defyled body of sin deth even the body of that beast which Daniel in the spirit of prophesy saw which is now to be slayn and his body destroyed and given to the burning flâms by al which it hath doth appear that great hath bin is the mystery of Iniquity to wit the old serrpent the God of the world the devil mâd manifest in flesh novv Judged and condemned in the put Povver of the eternal spirit seen and comprehended by Angels beleeved on vvorshiped in the vvorld by al whos nâms ar not writen in the lambs book of lyf and novv thrusting dovvn to everlasting sham contemt suffer the vengeans of eternal fyr vvher by the habitabel parts of the erth hav bin the cros on which the lamb slayn from the foundation of the world vvhich lyeth in wicdednes hath bin crucifyed and mankynd ground throuh vvo misery grief and pyan as betwixt the nether and upper milstons to vvit that cursed cruel oppresing helish power dominion which hath bin stil is exercysed over man kynd by such as hav stil do rûl over them in the spirit and Power of the old serpent the devil as the Nether mil-ston And thos just ryteos Judgments tribulation wrath of God which hav seized on body soul spirit of every particular that hath don evil as the upper milston So that the Eden of God hath bin mâd as a desolat wildernes the hous of liberty freedom a hous of misery thraldom cruel bondag the Tempel and seat of God the synagogu ' of sathan even the thron and seat of the Man of sin siting in it as God the hous of prayer A den of murdering thievs Robers and the garden of the Lord a field of bloud and murder But the voys is goâ— forth from the Lord God whos vvords ar spirit lyf and Power for Mans return and as Man-kynd coms to inclyn the ear and heart to hear and obey the reproofs of instruction in the inward parts which is the way of lyf and door of Eternal salvation the vois of this cursed mil shal ceas and the nether ston ther of be cast into the bottom of the Sea never to arys mor and the upper ston in mercy and lov by the Lord be removed and so the field of bloud cruelty shal be com the garden of the Lord in which Man-kynd shal dwel walk reconcyled unto God ôn to another unyted together in the everlasting bond Covenant of pur lyf lov Peas Ryteosues never mor to be forgoten the den of thievs a Hous of Prayer to al Nations Generations the Thrôn seat of the Man of sin the Tempel seat Thrôn of the living and pur God the Hous of misery thraldom bondag ' the plâs of the glorios Manifestation injoyment of the glorios freedom liberty of the Son of God the desolat VVildernes shal becom the Eden of God Throuh al which Man-kynd hath yet mor perfectly shal experiens the differens betwixt the cursed fruits of the ways of his own choys and the sweet plesant blesed fruits of abyding in that stât of pur Lyf Lov Peas Ryteosnes Dominion over the works of Gods hands in which he was plased befor the entrans of sin transgression to which Christ the Lyt Wisdom Power of God in mâl femâl is now redeeming restoring Man-kynd again into VVherfor o thou Leopold thou o Póp of Róm al yee Kings The Body arrained Prinses Rulers Governors with al in Power under you of what degree rank or order soever whether Military Civil Spiritual or Ecclesiastical so caled al yee Peepel hy low rich poor bond free smal great mál femâl even the whol body of thee O Christendom with al the Dominions Territorys to thee belonging every particular Person comprehended in them who ar under the Command Government teachings of Man summoned to Answer she charg Stand up see what thou canst say forthy self as to this charg of by cryms great provocations bloudy abominations which on the behalf of God his crucifyed Son his grieved Spirit his murdered Saints his burdened cruelly oppresed Peepel is now prodused against thee For to the Bar great Tribunal of the Living Eternal Ryteos Just Pur Powerful Lord God omnipotent Who is a consuming fyr everlasting burnings to al the workers of iniquity art thou now brouht And strong is the Lord God who judgeth thee his most Ryteos wrath plagu's vengenas thou canst not escap out of his hand non is abel to deliver ther. If thou seekest to justify thy self plead not Guilty Thou canst not ansvver ôn of a thousand Thy abominable Exces Pryd Exces Pryd c. Drunkenens Gluttony Ambition testifyeth against thee to thy very sâs In thes thou art seen known a far of in the many varios vain fashions of attyr deked vvith costly vain Lyr needles ornaments vvith thy stout lofty looks countenanses speeches deportments carriages Cruelty Oppression If of cruelty oppresion thou vvouldst clear thy self even a numberles number of vvitneses bear testimony against thee tovvit the Groans general complaints crys of al sorts of Peepel Nations
Tongu's Languages under tâ—y government of the intolerabel burdens and oppresions through the Dragons ' Beast's fals Profet's Povver in thee By Taxes Tyths robing spoyling plundring bereaving them of their outvvard injoyments fruits of their labors industry The noys dayly ratteling of the Yron fetters of the Slavs besyds the many dark hôls Cels vvith the many Raks other cursed Instruments of secret open cruelty torturings murder as also the great grievos payns wounds torturings which thousands of innocent Persons hav secretly and openly sustained by them at thy hands in ages past unto this very day As also the many Innocent and harmles persons who in this age hav and stil do ly insnared in Hôls Prison houses nasty stinking plases dongeons being mâd a spoyl a prey of and non saith deliver If from Ydolatry fals VVorship thou wouldst offer any thing to clear thy self Then sûrly the numberles number of graven Molten-Images Crucifixes and Picturs in thy hy ways markets streets courts of judicatur Ydol Tempels dweling houses Idolatry and carryed about the bodys of thy inhabitants myt mâk thee blush for shâm and stop thy mouth for ever render thee speechles Besyds the dayly bowing cringing kneeling and babling of thy Priests Peepel in an unknown tongu ' befor them much môr myt be prodused Persecution bloud-shed of the Innocent If from the guilt of Innocent Bloud thou wouldst go about to wyp thy mouth or wash thy hands then surly the records of the many dear Innocent holy Servants of the Lord Saints Martyrs faithful witneses of Iesus both mâl femâl who hav bin secretly openly murdered by hanging burning and dyvers other Anti-christian and cruel vvays put to deth in thee O Christendom giv loud and sufficient evidens against thee to stop thy mouth render thee speechles against whom thou hadst nothing but as concerning the law of their God som wherof being put to Doth not many Months sins by hanging even in New England which ar stil fresh in memory even at the hands of such as not long sins left their own natyy Cuntry under a pretens to avoyd persecution from others and injoy liberty of Consciens in matters of Religion worship themselvs which hath rendred their cruelty and Murder dôn upon my Brethren Sister thos innocent Servants of the Lord much mòr grievos impios and abominabel besvds their cruel and Antichristian dealings with many Others by fyns cruel imprisonments spoyling of goods banishment cuting of ears Further mor if thy Heds Rulers in the Military civil and Ecclesiastical Power so caled shal plead a Ryt in over the nations by Heyr ship Succesion antient prescription and so go about to justify al their oppresions wars murder wickednes as being lawful to do what they wil with their own To it I answer that al pleas of Ryt by Heyr ship succesion and antient prescription which hav not their foundation in the Pur law of lyt lyf sound reason which is of God ar nul and voyd That heirship and succession vvhich is unsound and rotten in the ground and foundation can never be mà d sound good by antient prescription But on the contrary it renders the heyrs and successors in such claims by so much the môr deeply guilty and lyabel to the greater and môr hevy Judgment and condemnation Novv it may Doth appear by records of truth That the ground foundation of that Povver in vvhich yee stand as to Christendom vvas laid in deceit The foundation of the present Civil and Ecclesiastical goverment so caâ—ed unfaithfulnes trechery Murder and Apostacy thô as to the antiquity of prescription it is of a larger extent then perhaps your selvs may plead or think Its original root spring being from that old Serpentyn Spirit vvhich vvas a lyar a Murderer from the beginning of the World vvhich lyeth in vvickednes But your original Predecessor in that Povver Spirit in vvhich yee stand as to Christendom viz. Iulius Caesar being intrusted as Captain General or Commander in Chief of the Military forses under the Roman Counsel in vvhom the Povver vvas then resyding did vvith thos confederat vvith him grasp the Military Power into his ovvn hand therwith wrested the Power of Government out of their hands set up himself as Chief hed The guilt of Christs bloud lyeth Sins wich usurpation Christ Iesus that innocent lamb of God was cruelly murdered and crucifyed without the gâts of Jerusalem whos innocency was by Pylat three tymes acknowledged upon the Goverment openly befor the peepel who althô he washed his hands yet was not therby clear of the guilt of the Innocent bloud of that just man being by him sentensed delivered to the Jews to be crucifyed who was a Roman Iudg a member of that sâm body of Power in which yee stand what he did therin he did it not as a particular person but as a representer executioner of the Roman Power so that the guilt of the Innocent bloud of that just man stands not only chargabel on him but on that Power of which he was a member and vvhich he represented and executed of which spirit and Power yee ar the Heyrs successors Pylat in the inscription which he caused to be set over his hed acknowledged him to be Iesus of nazareth King of the Iews which inscription yee also caus to be put on the croses which yee sâ—t up as in Remembrans of him and in words acknowledg him to be the son heyr of God of al things that ar of God King of Kings Lord of Lords entyteling your selvs to the Kingdoms Dominions and teritorys over which yee rûl by the Grâs of God They that ar Kings by the grâs of God must be children of God born of him do his not the Devils works the fulnes wherof dwelt bodyly in Christ caling your selvs Christian Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers and with joynt consent acknowledg your several Kingdoms Dominions and territorys to be altogether Christendom which Importeth no les then that they ar Christs Kingdom so that unles yee be in truth what yee profes your selvs to be to wit children of God Christian Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers mad so by the grâs of God which renders al who truly partak ther of to be the children of God and fellow heyrs with Christ of al things then by your own confessions yee ar but a company of usurpers oppressors and hav no tru Ryt to exercys dominion over the nations in that spirit Power in which yee stand and by which yee ar acted Now the scripturs of truth say that he that is born of God doth not commit sin and that herin ar the children of God and of the Devil mâd manifest he that saith he abydeth in Christ ouht to walk even as he
and bulwarks But as for thee the pryd of thy heart hath deceived thee thou that dwelest in the clefts of the roks and sayest in thy heart who shal bring me down Thô thou hast exalted thy self as the eagel set thy nest among the stars yet from thens wil I bring thee down saith the Lord God ommipotent Wherfor hear O yee mountains giv ear yee strong foundations of the Erth in thee O Christendom for the Lord hath a controversy with you he is drawing neer to plead the caus of his crucifyed â—on his cruelly tortured and murdered saints his greatly burdened spoyled and oppresed Peepel in thee VVo VVo VVo to the bloudy city that is ful of lys robbery the noys of the whip the noys of the rateling of the wheels the cransing of the horser is coming on thee the hors man draweth near to lift up the bryt sword the glittering spear and a multitud of carkases shal fal and they shal stumbel upon the corps becaus of the multitud of the whordoms of the great skarlet whor the mother of harlots and mistris of witchcrafts that hath sold the nations throuh her crafts behold I am against thee saith the Lord of hosts and wil discover thy skirts upon thy fâs shew the nations thy nakednes and Kingdoms thy shà m cast abominabel filth upon thee mà k thee vyl yea even set thee for a gazing stok al thy strong holds shal be as figtrees with the first Ryp figs which when they ar shaken shal fal into the mouth of the eater thô thou provyd for the sieg and fortify thy strong holds and garrisons yet a fyr shal devour thee the sword shal cut thee of and eat up thy flesh lyk fyr thou hast multiplyd thy marchants abov the stars of heven thy shepherds stumber thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Counselers dwel in the dust thy Peepel ar as a flok scattered upon the barren mountains ther is no healing of thy breach thy wound is incurabel such as hear the report of thee shal clap their hands for upon whom hast thou not caused thy filth abominabel wickednes to pas continually The vision that was for an appointed tym is now speaking thô it hath tarryed long yet it is now surly com they shal suddenly awak that shal byt thee arys that shal vex thee thou shalt be for a booty unto them becaus of innocent bloud for the spoyl vyolens found in thee thou shalt be filed with shâm for glory the cup of the Lords Ryteos indignation is now handing forth unto thee shamful spewing shal be on al thy glory thy graven Images shal not profit thee for the Lord is in his Holy Tempel al the Erth shal be put to sylens befor him â—he is now drawing near to dryv in sunder the Nations to scatter the hy lofty mountains yea al the hils shal bow befor him whos way is everlasting Affliction dredful trembling is now seizing on thee for the Lord is near to march throuh thy Land in great dredful indignation yea he is going forth for the salvation of his peepel even for the salvation of his anoynted wil wound the heads of the hous of wickednes in thee O Christendom discover overturn the foundations of them scatter the wicked as with a Whirlwynd whos rejoysing hath bin to oppres spoyl murder the Poor Needy Innocent yea he wil march throuh thy Sea and trampel upon the heaps of thy great Waters The Day is now com that he is risen to the prey for his determination is to gather together the Nations to assembel the Kingdoms in thee to pour on them his most ryteos vengeans indignation even al his fiers wrath Anger the Erth shal be devoured with the fyr of his Jelofy But the Peepel of pur Languag shal cal upon his Nâm get them a prays a goodsavor fâm in every Land my Peepel shal never he ashamed saith the Lord God who is now shaking the Hevens the Erth overtuâ—ning the Thrôns of Kingdoms thâ—y shal be brouht down by the sword utterly broken to pieces The great Mountain in thee shal be com a plain befor him The flying rowl is seen which contains the terribel curs which is now going forth over the fâs of the whol Erth every ón that stealeth sweareth shal be cut of according to it The Lord hath brouth it forth it is entering into the hous of the thief of him that sweareth falsly by my Nâm saith the Lord which fals swearing hath bin the practis of thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Magistrats at their Coronations or Instalments so caled into their Governments as also other inferior Officers Jurors Evidenses in thy Courts which ouht to hav bin Courts of trû Judgment Justis becaus of which oaths thy Land shal mourn The Holy City which is free the Mother of al the Children of tru freedom is in mesur descended from God out of Heven shal dayly mor mor appear whos wals Bulwarks ar salvation the gats therof Prays is now in mesur becom a Burdensom stôn to al Nations al vvho burden themselvs vvith her shal be broken to pieces yea she is becom as an herth of fyr among dry vvood as a Flaming Torch in the midst of a sheaf of dryed stravv or stubbel vvhich shal devour the vvicked in thee round about The lofty City he is bringing dovvn laying it lovv even vvith the ground the foot is treading it dovvn even the feet of the poor the steps of the needy The wynd is goten into the two womens wings bearing up the Epha vvherin the vvoman vvhich is vvickednes even the man of sin siteth vvhich must novv be born into the land of shynar and be sit and established upon her own Basis in which land was the building of Bâbel the begining of Nimrods Kingdom that myty hunter befor the Lord to wit the lâk or bottomles pit in every Particular mal femal eternal Judgment ther plased on the hed of the transgresing Power in the in ward parts which is the ground out of which it sprang even the Topht prepared for the King and every subject in the Kingdom Spirit and Power of darknes Dives the Rich man that hath bin cloathed in purpel skarlet fared delitiosly every day born after the flesh that hath bin cruel and mercyles Persecuting him that is born after the Spirit most now go to his Plâs of torment not hav ón drop of water to cool his tongu ' and Lazarus the man of sorrovvs must novv be carryed into Abrahams Bosom an eternal seperation must novv be mad betvvixt the tvvo seeds an irremovabel Impassabel Gulf fixed betwixt them both the man of sin the Man of sorrows he seed of ech of them must now be put ech in
destroying of Deth and the ful subjection of al Christs enemys under his feet the surrendering the Kingdom to the Father the subjection of the Son also to him that puteth al things under him and God the Eternal Fountain and fulnes to becom al in throuh and over al to the ends aforsaid This I say to thee O Christendom in general to every ôn in thee in particular from the greatest to the least of what Nation Tongu or Peepel soever dred fear yee the living God stand in aw of him giv glory honor worship to him alôn for the day and hour of his most dredful and ryteos Judgments is now in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear let al Bow fear and trembel befor him that mâd heven and erth the sea and fountains of vvater and knovv this that the great faling avvay and apostacy from the tru Christian Spirit faith and lyf had its first entrans in thy teachers throuh their going out from the mesur of the pur Spirit of grâs the free gift of God given to them and plased in them of the pur fulnes of Christ the lamb of God to lead and establish them in al truth and giving ear to the voys motions and dictats of the Carnal mynd that cursed spirit the seed of the serpent vvherby sin and deth entered and the lavv of it took plâs in them and throuh them hath spred it self throuh and over the whol body of thee O Christendom which hath rendred thee a body of sin and deth in the general and in every particular From this cursed root of bitternes hath sprang up that abominabel Spirit of Covetosnes pryd wickednes oppresion Idolatry cruelty wars stryf contentions debats sheding the bloud of the Innocent with al other the hy cryms provokations and bloudy abominations which hav bin stil ar found in thee which hath rendred thee to be the dragon beast great whor and fals profet in thy military civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled and thy peepel unstabel as water even the great raging sea which cannot rest foaming out its own shâm casting up Myr and dirt out of which the skarlet colored beast aros who Power seat great authority was given him is stil up held by the great red dragon to wit the military power which hath rendred thee to be an Akeldama even a field of bloud oppresion cruelty ful of hye cryms abominations even Spiritual Sodom Egypt in which the Lord lyeth crucifyed And now ther is no way of restoration from this faling away cursed apostacy from the tru Christian Spirit faith and lyf to know redemtion from sin deth and from under the law sting curs power ther of either to the general or any particular but by returning the Ey and ear of the mynd to that which is pur eternal and Immortal of God in the inward parts even the mesur of the tru lyt and Spirit of the free grâs of God in the general and in every Particular from which euery on in the general in the particular in thee hath erred gon astray and as every ôn ether in the general or particular coms to giv ear to the motions crys groans of the oppresed pur seed of God in them they wil com to see him whom they hav pierced and as that which doth burden oppres keep the pur seed of God in bondag coms to be removed mortifyed subdued Ether in the general or in the particular so his pur Power Spirit lyf and presens wil be felt working salvation redemtion in the Erth and be known by the Judgments which he executeth in the erth in the general in the particular throuh which ryteos Judgments in the Inward parts salvation tru redemtion coms to be knovvn vvitnesed So that eternal Judgment in the invvard parts being brouht forth into victory at last he coms to arys and rein in pur Povver lyf Dominion overal vvhos ryt it is both in the general in every particular even he vvho leads al vvho ar led by him in the pur plesant everlasting path of pur lyt lov lyf ryteosnes everlasting joy happynes even forevermor A door of hôp is left open for you in the vally of Achor as the just and ryteos Judgments of the Lord â—om ther to be executed on the troubler of Israel in the invvard parts vvith his vvedg of gold babylonish Garment and Silver vvith his seed and al that he hath so an entrans vvil be administred in throuh Christ the lyt way eternal door by vvhich al vvho enter in hav salvation and com to be reconcyled unto God and saved from vvrath vvhich is to com This is the Zoar into which al who flee ar saf from the devouring fyr vvhich from the Lord is novv com and coming upon Spiritual Sodom in thee This is the Ark of the nevv yet most old and everlasting covenant into vvhich al vvho mak speed get entrans shal escap the great delug overflovving floud vvhich God is novv bringing in upon the vvorld of the ungodly this is the cloud and Pillar of fyr in man vvhich al vvho faithfully and constantly follovv ar sâfly led throuh the wildernes of temtations fears snars vvhich God is novv rayning dovvn upon the vvorkers of Iniquity This is the strong towr in vvhich al vvho ar found ar sâf from the horribel tempest which is now com coming upon the Proud and al that do wickedly in thee O Christendom This is the litel sanctuary in which al that hyd themselvs the blast of the teribel ôns against them shal be but a a storm against a wal This is the holy Mountain whos Inhabitants the oppreser or destroyer cannot touch or hurt This is the city of most sur refug whos wals and bulwarks ar salvation and the gâts therof prays into which nothing can enter that defyleth or worketh abomination thô the gâts therof stand open continually whos inhabitants can do truly say thô the erth be removed yet we wil not fear thô the mountains be hurled into the midst of the sea yet wil we not be dismayed thô the waters therof roar be troubled the mountains shà k fal with the sweling therof for ther is a River the streams wherof mak glad the city of God the holy plas of the tabernakel of the most by the living God is in the midst of her shee cannot be moved God shal help her that Ryt early Wherfor I say unto al and it is the counsel of the Lord God to them in the bowels of pur and tender lov to his own oppresed burdened slayn seed in thee oâ— Christendom in every particular mak hast mâk hast do not stay nor linger but speedyly turn in hither least the storm the dredful storm of the most Iust ryteos vengeans Jndignation of God which remains at hand to be poured