And now my dear love for whom my soul travells with God for thy eternal good with the same sincere heartedness as for my own hoping that thy late out-fall and mine was but for a set season that so as divine Paul in another sense speaks Phil. 15. thy reconciliation and mine again might now remain firm in love for ever I therefore earnestly intreat thee not to much cumber thy self in thy many toilings and journeyings for my outward liberty but sit down a little and behold the great salvation of the Lord and if by any means possible thy spirit can be made free to it retire thy self but for one week or the like into thy own chamber as being sequestred from all thy friends acquaintance and with as much seriousness and deliberation read this and the forementioned precious books with the letter that thy my indeared spiritual faithful friend Luke Howard yesterday sent unto thee as the real out goings of the measure of the spirit of God in his heart towards thee as I have often and deliberately read thy last Post-letter to me Dated at VVhits-Hall upon Wedneseday the 28 of November last and often wept for joy and gladness of heart at that they honest exhortation to me at the last and of it in those words viz. My Dear Retain a sober patient spirit within thee which I am confident thou shalt see shall be of more force to recover thee then all thy keen mâ—…tal hath been I hope God is a doing a work upon thee and me too as shall make us study our selves more then we have done O my dear Love I am deeply already entred into my part of it The mighty power of God inable thee to get in too and also to go through thine and effectually to go cheerfully willingly along hand in hand with me which abundantly would render thee more amiable lovely and pleasant in mine eyes although thou wert then clothed in rags then thou couldst be to me in thy drawings back or standing still where thou wast when I last see thee though therein thou wert clothed all over with rich and outwardly glistering earthly Diamonds and in the greatest of earthly prosperities I am sorry for that hard portion thou tell'st me thou hadst in going from me in thy dangerous travelling upon the Thames and I desire to bless God for thy deliverance from so nigh a death I am also sorry thou art so straightly put to it for money but to live upon God by faith in the depth of straights is the lively condition of a Christian O that thy spirit could attain unto it According to thy desire in thy Letter and my own present genius or frame of Spirit which now can contentedly feed savourily upon bread and cheese and Small-Beer alone for saving of money I have discharged my old Nurse and borrowed 20. s. to give her to carry her towards her husband and by her have I sent these lines to deliver to thine own hands Of which poor ignorant soul I must say this to thee in truth that although the woman in my clear understanding be but wholly in the first nature of fallen man-kinde yet she hath been in the hand of God an instrument of much service honesty performed faithfulness and tender compassion to me in the day of the greatest and unparalelled extremity of my outward desires in the Isle of Jersey for which in her station I must value her as long as I live and if ever outward prosperity in any competent degree be my portion really requite her therefore I expect from thee if she have occasion to use thee that thou beest tender and respectful to her for my sake And for my Liberty about which thou so weariest and spendest thy self and earthly strength as thy Letter acquaints me with thou dost I can say no more to thee then what was contained in my Letter directed to thee and Dated Nov. 21. last which I gave here to thy own hands but that I am in my present temper of spirit ready really with Peter at the sight of the glorlous transfiguration of Christ to say its good being here for me for here in Dover Castle through the loving kindness of God I have met with a more clear plain and evident knowledge of God and my self and his gracious out-goings to my soul then ever I had in all my life time not excepting my glorying and rejoycing condition under the Bishops and now the pangs and travelling throes of God are powerfully afresh upon my very heart and therefore now in my own will I could rather wish thee and my sweet Lambs to be with me here then I at present with thee and them where thou art yet submissively and heartily I say and can say the Will of my heavenly Father be done in me by me and for me in whose Will I leave thee and thine with all thy and my friends and rest From Dover-Castle the place of the present injoyed delightfull dispensations of the eternal everlasting love of God unto my soul the 4th day of the 10 th moneth 1655. Thine in the strength of renewedness of true love John Lilburn The forementioned second Letter take in these following words Dover-Castle the fifth day of the tenth moneth 1655. For my indeared friend William Harding commonly called Mayor at Weymouth in Dorcetshire these deliver Kind friend SInce my arrival here I have often been desirous in my own spirit at large to have writ to thee but hitherto by a power above me I have been hindered and yet am as to the particular aforesaid only now I thought it not only convenient to acquaint thee but am thereunto compelled to tell thee that meeting here with one of those precious people called quakers of which people thee and I at the Isle of Iersey had much talk of and getting into my hands two Volumes of their printed papers amounting to about seventeen hundred pages I have with seriousness of discourse and serious reading therein been knock'd down off or from my former legs or standing and giving scope to my true teacher and guide the light of God speaking in my soul I am becom at present dead to my fallen or first natures reason wit wisdom and desires and also totally becom dead to my old busling waies in the flesh and now in a great degree or measure am struct down dead to the very earth within me and by that light which gloriously with in my soul hath shined round about my first or corrupt nature within me I am like Paul with astonishment and amazement Act. 9. fallen down flat at the feet of Jesus and hearing a voice speaking within me to perswade me for my good and benefit to become willing to be guided and directed by the heavenly wisdom of Jesus my Anoynted I have thereupon given up my self wholly to be guided by his divine teachings shining within me before which I now stand ready to give ear to what by it
shall be told me being willing and desirous to have the scales fall further from the blinde eyes of my soul that they may be further open'd and that a power therewith may come in to my soul from the Holy Ghost which may inable me in the strength thereof to redeem my lost and mis-spent by-past precious time and not now to consult with flesh and blood in my daily taking up the Cross of Christ and following him whithersoever he shall by his call or heavenly Divine voice within me lead me I say I am compelled from a power within me at this present time in brief to tell thee these things and to require thee from God to give ear to that true convincing light that clearly speaks in thy conscience and by the assistance thereof to strive with the first or fallen nature yet ruling in thy soul and lay aside that greatness of wit and earthly wisdom that thou hast attained to and in that measure of Light that long since thou hast received withdraw into thy private Closet and seriously meditate upon these brief lines And being thou in my late conversing with thee told me thou hadst read or hadst sent me down from London most of the Quakers Books Let me in love to thy soul earnestly intreat thee with seriousness to read over strong and tall in Christ Iames Nayler his sheet of paper intitled Something further in answer to John Jacksons book called Strength in weakness which Iohn Iackson is my indeared friend and old and long acquaintance and a greater professor of Religion now then ever thou thy self in all thy zeal once was therefore in him thou mayest plainly read thy own condition and that precious prisoner of the Lords in Northampton Goal VVilliam Dewsbury his two books the first and excellentest of which is called The discovery of the great enmity of the serpent against the seed of the woman his other book is intituled The discovery of mans Return and the Lord by his almighty power set them home to thy soul I heartily desire to return thee my hearty thanks for all thy kindness and tenderness manifested to me at Jersey in our passage from thence and at thy own house so with my hearty salutations presented to thee and all thy friends that were with me at thy house at Weymouth I desire to let thee know that by my moral honest carefull and industrious old Nurse Elizabeth Crome who by reason of shortness of money with me I am forced and compelled to part with I have writ thee a few lines in her behalf intreating thy countenance and favourable respect to the old and real serviceable to me in my great distress in Jersey woman in case in things that are just and righteous before God she desire thy favour and what thee or thy friend and mine Edward commonly called Lievtenant Tucker in that particular doth for her I shal thankfully look upon as actions done to thy souls From Dover-Castle being a place wherein God hath more clearly then ever before opened the eyes of my understanding the 5. day of the to moneth 1655. Faithful hearty and real wel-wishing friend Iohn Lilburn With which fore-mentioned main or principal thing that I have now to say I thus proceed and go on with it here in the especial presence of the Lord declare that by that present measure of light now born up in my understanding and moving in my soul at this very time I am here compelled to let the Reader whosoever he be to know that as I have long understood from my wife the original of my fore-going Letter to her she conveyed to the hands of Oliver Cromwel himself and at his Son-in Law 's desire Charls Fleetwood my old and somtimes much familiar greatly obliging friend gave him a copy of it and notwithstanding the clear declarations of a sincere changed in measure heart in the said Letter at the penning of which I had then lost all manner of ability to consult with one grain of Machivel or humane deceitful policy having then the very dreadful and aweful immediate convincing judging and burning up power of God upon my soul yet upon my said writing and my wifes disposing as aforesaid of my said Letter many and great jealousies arise upon me at VVhite-hall at the strange politick contrivance of my largely reputed by them politique heart in my turning quaker of which I had several wayes exact information which it seems out of humane fear took that powerful impression upon my poor weak wife as that as I judged by her Letters to me troubled the poor afflicted Woman at the very heart and compelled her by writing in a vehement manner to press me to sign such an ingagement as George Fox did the Copy of which I have seen and read and sent it up to Oliver Cromwel to secure him from his pretended fears of my politick indeavouring to craw the temporal sword against him unto which for many reasons having then no manner of freedom in the earth to do it George Fox though even then a precious man in my eyes his particular actions being no rules for me to walk by unless I lived in the very same life and power of Spiritual injoyments that he did and had the very self-same motions in spirit from God that led him to a freedom and ability to do such and the like particular actions I therefore then ceased it and did it not and if I had then done it for my own particular human ends as to avoid further persecution and the like I had in so doing been an outside pharisaical imitator and the greatest and basest of hypocrites which sin alone is the height of Gods a Mat. 24.51 Rev. 3.15 16. See Mat. 6.5 23.13 14. Luk. 11 44.46 c. abhorrance for although I must before the Lord now truly avow that the said Letter was a true and faithful without fraud or guile declaration of as real and spirituall a power of God in its measure seising upon my soul for my conviction of my spiritual blindness and sinfulness as ever seized upon Pauls declared in the 9 of the Acts or any mans that ever breathed upon earth yet betwixt the Winter-storms and fierce tempests of conviction or rather the beginning of it and the pleasant Sunshine dewey and springing days of growth into a measure of refreshment there is a vast difference and therefore then the true occasion or real ground of all outward war and humane busling contest being not taken away or absolutely crucified or subdued at the very Root in my soul if then I had signed such an engagement I had clearly gone beyond my souls then living and real attainments and thereby ran presumptuously and wickedly beyond my measure and so had tempted the Lord my then present Leader and spiritual guide and abominably sinned against him But now in my already attained growing up measure having the experimental witness of God within my b 1
humane Lights or Rudimentall Ordinances shall be no more thy Light saith God by day neither for brightness shall the Moon give Light unto thee but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting Light and thy God thy glory Thy Sun shall no more go downe neither shall thy Moon withdraw it self for the Lord shall be thine everlasting Light and the dayes of thy mourning shall be ended Thy people shall be all Righteous they shall inherit the Land for ever the branch of my planting the work of my hands that I may be glorified A little one shall become a thousand a small one a strong nation I the Lord wil hasten it in his r Esa 60.18 19 20 21 22. See ch 40.19 20 21 22 23 25 26. Rev. 7.14 15 16 17. 21.1 2 3 4 5.10.11.22 23 24 22.1 2 3 4 5. time In all which consideration I say I have now the faithfull and true witness in my own soul that the Lord himself is become within me the Teacher of my soul and inabler of me to walk in a measure of his pure wayes and paths yea and so clear a teacher within me is he already become unto me as that I with confidence beleeve my inward Teacher shal never now more be removed into a corner but is and shall be as a continual voice speaking in my ears This is the way walk in s Esa 30.20 21. see ch 24.18 19. 35.7 8. 42.2 3 4.7 44 3 5â— 7 54.13 Prov. 6.22 23. Ps 37.31 Deu. 18.15 16.18 19. 34.6 Jer. 24.7 31.31 32 33 34. and 32.14 15. Eze. 11.19 34.22 23.24 25 26.27 36.24 25 26 27. and 37.22 23 24 25 26 27 28. Joel 2.28 29. Matt. 11.27 Luk. 10.22 Joh. 1.5 9 12 3.21 6.41.45 7.37 38 39. and 9.5.39 10.7.9 16. 11.9 10.25.22.12.35 36 46.48 and 14.16 17 18 19.23 26. and 15.5.15 and 16 7 8.13 14.26 27 28. Act. 1.4 and 2.4 â—6 17 18. Rom. 10.7 8 9 10. Gal. 1.15 16. Heb. 8.7 8 9 10 11. and 10.16.19 20. and 1 Joh. 2.2.20.27 and 3.24 and 4.13 and 5.10 20 see Act. 17.27 28.31 and 26.16.18 Rom. 1.19.21 and 2.15 â—6 27 28 39. and 1 Cor. 7.19 and 2 Cor. 2.3 4 6. Gal. 3.3 5.5 6. 6.15 Phil. 3.3 Col. 2.11 3.11 3.11 1 Tim. 4.10 Tit. 2.11 12. 1 Joh 1.5 6 7. it By which divine teaching I am now daily taught to dye to sin and led up by it into living power to be raised up and inabled to live in a pure measure of Righteousness and by which inward spiritual teachings I am I say again led up into power in Christ by which I particularly can and do hereby witness that I am already dead or crucified to the very occasions and real grounds of all outward wars and carnal sword-fightings fleshly buslings and contests and that therefore I confidently now believe I shall never hereafter be an user of a temporal sword more nor a joyner with those that so do And this I do here solemnly declare not in the least to avoid persecution or for any politick ends of my own or in the least for the satisfaction of the fleshly wils of any of my great adversaries or for satisfying the carnal will of my poor weak afflicted wife but by the special movings and compulsions of God now upon my soul am I in truth and righteousness compelled thus to declare that so I may take away from my adversaries all their fig leaf-covers or pretences of their continuing of my every way unjust bonds And thereby if yet I must be an imprisoned sufferer it may from this day forward be for the truth as it is in Jesus Which truth I witness to be truly professed and practised by the savouriest of people called quakers And to this my present declaration which I exceedingly long and earnestly desire to have in print and for which I know that I can chearfully and assuredly lay down my life if I be called to witness the truth of it I subscribe my outward name From my innocent and every way causeless captivity in Dover-Castle the place of my souls delightful and contentful abode where I have really and substantially found that which my soul many yeers hath sought diligently after and with unsatisfied longingness thirsted to in joy this present first day of the week being the 4th of the 3d. month 1655. IOHN LILBVRN the new or inward spiritual name no man knowes but he that hath it AN APPENDIX TO This second Edition of my foregoing Resurrection Declaration AN Appendix to this second Edition of my foregoing Resurrection Declaration directed to the serious and single-hearted Reader whom I desire to let know that in my reading of my own foregoing lines in the first Impression I found divers mistakes or errors committed by the Printer the greatest of which I judged to be in the very last line of it in the Date of the Yeer which he hath made 1655. but in my Copy it is 1656. which with all the rest of the mistakes that I can finde I have with my own hand amended in a printed Book and sent it up again the second time to be impressed And being it was my former order it should have no Title page at all but the Title printed close in the very same page that the matter begins in that so the Reader might have it at as cheap a rate as its possibe by the Book-seller to be afforded him And being I finde in the second Impression there will be two or three pages of white paper I am therefore extraordinary desirous to fill them up at least with two late Epistles which I judge very pertinent for my old affectionate and faithful though stumbling and offended at me friends to see and read that so they may more fully see and read that I have not of late taken up my present principles without grounds and foundations in the Rock of ages the Lord Iesus Christ that eternal and everlasting word of God and divine and heavenly light of the world or fallen and sinful man in whom was and is life and the light was and is the life of a Ioh. 1.4 man which light or life is the living quickning holy or tender part of man VVhich everlasting word of God by whom all things were b Ioh. 1.1 2 3. made I aver is the divine and true light that in measure inlightneth the soul of every man whatsoever that cometh into the c Ioh. 1.9 and 8.12 and 12.36.46 world and is that reproving judging and condemning witness of God and for God that resides in the dark hearts of Iew and Greek circumcision and uncircumcision Barbarian Scythian bond and free where the light Christ is all and in all and died for d Ioh. 16.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 26. chap. 3.19.36 and 8.24 Col. 3.10 11. Eph. 1.23 and 4.6.10 Rom. 5 8.1â—
to be void of common understanding and destitute of naturall affections know nothing but naturally o o Rom. 1.21 23 24 25 28 31. 2 Cor. 4.4 6. Eph. 2. i 2 3. 4.17 18 19 1 Thes 4.5 1 Tim. 4.1 2. Tit. 1.16 as a bruit p p Rom. 1.31 Jude 10. beast My Wife and Babes are lately come down to live at Dover Town but she being there absent now from me I can onely in my own name salute thee and thy Husband If thou hast any freedom to write to me I should be glad to hear from thee And so in my Light and Life I rest From my innocent and every way causeless Captivity in Dover-Castle this first day of the week being the 18. day of the 3d. month 1656. Thine as thou art one in love and obedience to that true light that now in much brightness and clearness shines in the hearts of the washed purged redeemed sanctified and justified sons of God reproachfully called quakers IOHN LILBVRNE The Copy of the forementioned second Letter take in these following words Dover-Castle the 25. of the 3d. month 1656. For Robert Barrington one of the members of the meer outside imitating without life or power VVater-Baptists Congregation in Dover in Kent Robert Barrington BEsides those many and wrangling Encounters and Assaults that I have of late had from several of thy meer outside Form which they profess without life or power true Administrator or right Subject having also perverted that sometimes Ordinance or Divine Institution of God VVater-baptism from its primitive forerunning end of Christ the real sum and substance of all Shadows Figures Rudiments outside-Ordinances and Types yea and of all the Prophets whereof John the Baptist was one Administrations to make it now all in all as though damnation were the absolute portion of him that hath by faith never so much communion in the spirit with the souls true spiritual food the spiritual Jesus Christ the true and real light of the world or of all falne mankinde if he be not water-dipt in your meer empty outside vain traditionall humane invented as you use it form which you falsely and untruly call Baptism I say I have besides all aforesaid from thee of late received by VV. S. one of thy own Congregation a Message to this very effect That by my turning Quaker as we are commonly called I had denyed the faith And therefore although my late condition or that first beginning of growing measure to which through riches of mercy I have attained to hath much required of me a silent still quiet home-dwelling patient waiting r r Esa 30.7 15 18. Act. 1.3 4 5 8. Luk. 24.49 2 Pet. 4.10 11. upon God as having the declaration of a promise of blessedness annexed to it to be upon all those that so do rather then to spend my then present stock or attained to portion in running out in Pen-contests and controversies though for truth but notwithstanding now to take away thy reproach from the truth and thy ordinary and continued blasphemy as my often information tells me by thy self cast upon it I do hereby truly tell thee I have of late within these very few dayes been in spirit much compelled meerly for the truths sake to which according to my measure to the very death I am bound as I am called to bear witness to to indeavour to vindicate it from the said reproaches And whilesâ— I was strongly meditating with the Rock of my strength the Lord Jesus Christ the pure inlightner of my soul is handed out unto me a necessity to revise anew for the Press my foregoing Declaration unto which by way of part of an Appendix I have had much impression upon my spirit to insert a few substantial lines unto thee in it in truths behalf purely flowing from the dictates of that measure of Light life and power now brought forth and born up in my understanding by which I am in a measure enabled truly and really to know s s Luk. 24.44.45 comp with Joh. 20.21 22. Act. 1.3 4 5.8 2.4 11.34 35.38.43 44 45 46. But see 1 Cor. 2.10 11 12 13 14. Eph. 4.10 â—â— â—3 3. 1 Joh. 8.10 27. 5.20 2 John 7.8 the things of God as they are in Jesus and by which I am guided at this present time thus further and substantially to express my self to thee Robert Barrington viz. That the very first Principle of all true Religion is the Light of Christ without the real knowledge embracing and being guided by which I do here in the strength presence and power of the Lord my light and life aver thou knowest nor canst not truly know without it any thing of God at all no no more then the devills know a a Matt. 8.28 29. Mark 1.23 24 25. 3. 11 12 5.2.5 6 7. Luk. 4.33 34 35.41 8.27 28. 10.17 Act. 16.16 17 18. 19.13 14 15 16. Ja. 2.19 acknowledge and confess or then the high Priests the Scribes and Pharisees or Iews did know that put Christ to death who not only had the Scriptures commonly and publikely read amongst them but also many of them beleeved the words spoken by the sound of the flâ—â—hly mouth of Christ and yet not minding the measure of Christ within them he tells them plainly they were of their Father the b b Act. 13.26 27 28. ch 3.12 13 14 15. 4.1 2.5 6.11 12.17 18. and 5.17 18.21.28.40 6.13 14 15. and 7.1.37 38.51 52.54.57.59 compared with Joh. 1.32 33. 5.16.18.24 25.28 29.32.38 39 40.46 6.56 57.60.63.66 7.26.28.31.45 46.49 8.26 27 28 29 30 31 32 to 48. devil And therefore I further lay down this as a positive Position which through the strength of God I shall not only be able by the Letter or Witness without me viz. the Scripture or Declaration c c Luk. 1.1 Acts 1.1 10.37 13.32 15.35 17.23 20.27 1 Cor. 15.1.3 Gal. 1.16 1 Joh. 1.3.5 Rev. 19.13 of the word of God clearly to maintain against the ablest man whatsoever that speaks with a tongue that can or shall oppose it but also to lay down my very life by vertue of that measure of living power or life already raised up or dwelling in me for the defence of it That is to say That the very principle of all true religion is without the knowledge of which no man whatsoever can truly know himself or his own corrupt heart which is above the knowledge of d d Jer. 17.9 10. 11.20 Gen. 6.5 8.21 Deut. 11.16 1 Sam. 16.17 and 1 Chron. 28.9 29.17 2 Chr. 32.31 Psal 7.9 10 3.6.11 14.1 44.21 64.5 6 7. 139.1 Prov. 16.1 2. Rom 8.27 1 Joh. 2.20.27 ch 1.5 6 7. 4.20 Rev. 2.23 3.7 Joh. 16.6 7.11.27 and 1 Cor. 2.11.14 15 16. Eph. 5.8.13 Heb. 4 12 13. man or
be the servants of y 1 Cor. 7.23 men but to glorifie him both in body and z 1 Cor. 6.20 see chap. 3.16 17 2 Cor. 2.5.15.17 c. soul and therefore his grown up servant Paul declares himself to be no man pleaser avowing himself that if he were a man-pleaser he should nor could not be the servant of a Gal. 1.10 see 4.3.9 10.11 5. 1 Col. 2.8.30.22 Christ And therefore the same Apostle by the infallible spirit of the Lord requires the Spiritual Subjects of this Spiritual King Jesus to present their bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which saith he is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world the kingdom of the prince of darkness but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minde that ye may prove what is that good acceptable perfect will of b Rom. 22.1 2. God and therefore when any man becomes a spiritual Subject of this Spiritual King Christ and dwells in him he becomes a new creature old things in him are past away and all things in him are becom c 2 Cor. 5.17 new spiritual savory yea even his very thoughts his words are found few and divine his behaviour righteous and solid his deeds upright and free like God from all respect of d Mat. 3.34.37 39 40 41 45 46 48. 6.25 31 32 33. and 7.12 13. and 23 3.5 6 7.8 9.10 Mark 12.14 Luk. 20 21. Act 10.34 35. Deu. 10 17. Esth 3.2 5 6. Job 32.21 22. Prov. 10.20 28.21 Rom. 2.11 and 1 Cor. 2.16 and 15 33 Gal 2.6 Eph. 4 29. and 5.4 and 6.9 Phil. 2 5. Col. 3.5.8 15.16 4.6 1 Tim. 1.10 6.3 4 5 6. 2 Tim. 1 7.13 and 4.3 Tit. 1.9.17 and 2.1 2.8 Jam. 2.1 to 10. and 5.12 and 1 Pet. 1.15 16 17. and 4.12 and 2 John 9 10 11. persons and although there be such a perfect and absolute contrariety betwixt all the laws constitutions of these two Kings or Masters and a continuall and perpetuall war betwixt the Subjects thereof yet the weapons of the warfare of Christs Spiritual Heavenly and glorious Kingdom handled and used by his Servants and true Subjects who although they do walk in the flesh yet do they not war after the flesh and therefore their weapons of warfare are not carnall but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience of e 2 Cor. 10.3 4 5. Christ The Armour of Proof of these Spiritual warring Subjects and Souldiers of this spiritual glorious King is to have their loynes girt about with truth having on them the Brest-plate of righteousness and their feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace above all taking the Shield of Faith wherewith they shall be able to quench the fiery-darts of the wicked and taking the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of f Eph 6.13 14 15 16.17 God which Spiritual Sword or Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper then any two edged Sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight who is this Spiritual sharp Sword or eternall and everlasting Word of God that indures for ever but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to g Heb. 4.12 13. do With which Spirituall Sword this spiritual conquering Lord and King pricked and wounded to the very heart three thousand of his enemies at once by the Ministration of his single Spiritual Souldier the Apostle Peter which made them bitterly to cry out for a Plaister and a Physician to heal and cure h Act. 2.37.41 them which spiritual Sword is the only and alone weapon that this glorious conquering spiritual King useth to fight withall against all enemies the powers of the Prince of Darkness of this world and with which only and alone he conquereth and i Rev. 1.16 and 2.12.16 and 19.15.21 Hos 6.7 overcometh carnal Weapons of any kinde whatsoever having no place nor being of no use at all in his spiritual Kingdom for his Subjects are to love their enemies to do good unto their haters and to resist or requite their evill with k Matt. 5.39 40 44 45 56. good and to dwell in love towards all men as the God of love himself dwells in l Gal. 6.10 and 1 Thes 3 12â— 5.14 15. 1 Joh. 4.16 17. love and to be holy as God is m 1 Pet. 1.15 16. holy and perfect as he is n Matt. 5.48 perfect and therefore not in the least to draw temporal weapons against their enemies for among the true and real Saints of the Lord in the mountain of the Lord where the Lord himself is the inward and soul-teacher and instructer of his people and Subjects in his own waies there all the temporal swords are to be beat into plowshares and their earthly spears into pruning-hooks no more using of carnal swords or so much as learning of earthly war is to be exercised amongst o Isa 2.2 3 4 5. them but they are to walk in the pure holy peaceable light of the Lord which shal wil lead the sanctified justified and redeemed soul to advance or set up the innocent harmless peaceable lamb-like nature or seed of Christ to become Lord and King in the heart of and over the Lyon-like warring devouring and destroying-wicked nature of the serpent the devil satan within man yea in the Gospel-mount of God or the spiritual kingdom of Christ under the Gospel-dispensation the habitation of the true Saint of God The wolf shal dwel with the lamb and the leopard shal ly down with the kid the calf the young lyon the fatling together a little child shal lead them And the cow and the bear shal feed their young ones shall lye down together And the lyon shall eat straw like the oxe And the sucking-child shall play on the hole of the asp and the weaned child shall pui his hand on the Cockatrice Den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy p Esa 11. 6 7 8 9. 65.25 mountain saith God For the earth shall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea Yea they shall be far from q Esa 54.14 66.11 12. Oppression Yea and violence shall no more be heard in the Land of the spirituall Kingdom inhabited by the spirituall subjects or true Saints of Christ nor wasting nor destruction within their borders but they shall call their wall salvation and their Gates Praise The Sun or borrowed