off the earth self-love shal cease and universal love shall flow in and then righteousness shal look down from heaven and spring out of the earth and there will be no complaining in our streets as there is now crying out for bread bread for the Lords sake no but this noise shall cease and the saying of James come more into their minds that they shall now not think it enough to say be ye warmed and so give the poor nothing but only pitty them and feed them with words but they shal now say come in eat and drink with us for you are the work of the Lord and what we have now you may freely take for the Lord of host hath now made bare his holy armes and all the earth shall see the salvation of God and all shall now know and see that the Lord hath redeemed the creation from bondage into the liberty of the sons of God all men shall be freed from the Bondage and slavery they now are under and shall now begin to see and know that it is a sin to have respect to one in glorious apparel and say pray Sir come you and sit up here when you say to one in poor cloathes sit thou at our foot stool for I the Lord of host will make you all know now that you are all of one blood and so are all now fellow creatures and that I have as much respect to one in poor cloths as to one in gay ones and that I will make you know that it s your duty for to love one another even your enemies for if you fulfil the royal law according to Scripture thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self which is not for the present who art thou that hath fulfilled this Scripture that can say and thy conscience not accuse thee to thy face that thou doth love thy neighbor as thy self but rather thy conscience will tel thee that thou dost not love thy neighbor as thy self for if thou didst thou wouldst not let thy neighbour be in want but would have as much care of him as thy self if thou hast rost-meat to let him have rost-meat and in so doing thou will fulfil this Scripture therefore yea that do plead for Scripture so much and make so gallant a show of religion as you do consider the Scriptures aforementioned and you shall see that you live far short of fulfilling the Scripture for what soever you would that men should do unto you even so do thou unto them for this is the Law and the Prophets wouldst thou have men to love you and do you good if thou wouldst then thou must love them and do them good but indeed you will say why should I love them they are of a strange opinion this is but the Devil in you for hating your fellow creatures which must be destroyed and brought to nothing that I the Lord of host may be exalted which will not be till I make my strange work come to pass as to destroy all self and private intrest of saying this is mine and when this is done then you will love your neighbour as your self and then you shall see and know with the Apostle that all things are lawful for you that is as the Apostle knew that he might do what he would do and have what creatures he would have for food and rayment in that they are all gods so you shall now know that you may have the use of all and see all to be yours and that this is the work of God for to bring in universall love and freedome And the Lord said behold behold what dost thou see loe I beheld and there appeared a tree full of fruit and the fruit much like to apples one part of them and the other part of them like unto peares and I said Lord what meaneth this tree and the Lord said this tree doth represent Christ that as thou seest fruit upon this tree and it is very pleasant to see to even so is Jesus Christ a tree of life that bears abundance of fruit and as thou sawest these men and women gather this fruit and eat them and presently there was new fruit in the room of that which was pulled off These men and women re-present my sons and daughters who are alwayes a feeding on Jesus Christ and yet cannot make him to leave off bearing fruit and as thou sawest that these men and women that pulled and ate did live for ever and were not to dy after it doth shew that my sons and daughters feeding on me the Lord of host shall live for ever for as thou sawest that this food was very pleasant even so am I the Lord of host to those that do delight in me And moreover this tree doth set forth the tree that is spoken of in the Revelations to be a tree of life that shall heal the nations for as thou did see this tree appear of a sudden with fruit thereon even so will I the Lord of life that lives for evermore appear in such an hour and at such a time when most men little think of me to the destruction of them and bringing of them to nothing that so I may appear to be the life of those that do now know me and enjoy me for by my appearing will I make my self manifest to be the food that every one must eat of and that all other food which is not of me must be brought to nothing for as I am set forth by a tree so will I appear in power to the confounding of those that feed not on me and so will make wast all their gods which they have to feed upon besides me and all and every one shall be brought to nothing that I the Lord of host may be all and in all and so exalted above all to which I say amen And presently after this there appeared a garden full of flowers as to my thinking I saw them like roses of all sorts and cornations pinks and all manner of flowers and I said Lord what doth these mean and the Lord said these do represent abundance of joy even the verities of joys which my sons and daughters shall have even they shall enjoy the most precious and most pleasant jewells that are or can be for they shall have the use of all things that are precious and shall have the enjoyment of all the treasurs of the world and nothing shall be unpleasant to them but every thing shall give a good smell and shall be very pleasant to them making of them to rejoyce and sing and set forth the praise of me the Lord of host for as these flowers did smel most sweetly even so saith the Lord of host will I by my own power make all things that appear now to be unsavory or unpleasant to give a most pleasant smell and as thou didst see in this garden abundance of green herbes these green herbes doth set forth the flourishing conditions of my Saints
the outvvard court to be trodden under foot even al forms rules and vvorships and governments of men vvhich they have set up to be consumed and destroyed and brought to nothing and so I alone to be al in al vvhen I doth this it shal surely come to pass even then shal the poor creatures be in darkness and not able to see light by reason of my withdrawing my self to my own place and dispensation even into my Iudea there for to make my light shine there to appear gloriously in and amongst my Saints whom all shal acknowledge that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed therefore my drawing my self into this peculiar place for to make my self glorious and so to make my name in far greater esteem by all sorts of men then now it is I wil make my light shine in a far more greater and glorious manner then now it doth for I wil be the praise of the whole earth I dwelling in my people and my people dwelling in me and I will measure the inward court even my Temple wherein all flesh and fleshlyness shal cease and be no more and I alone wil appear to be King and the only ruler and so wil cause my light to shine upon them when darkness shal cover the earth which darkness and gross darkness shal be by reason of my not shining in the world for all people shal be left in darkness and not in light that come not up to the place of rest where I wil cause my people for to ly down in peace and so to be at rest and so to be quiet and be in peace When nothing but sorrow and pricks of conscience shal accompany those that go not up to Jerusalem for that must be built in glory again set on her foundation so this manifestation of God not appearing to the creature shal be hel the lake of fire wherein the wicked and all witches must be tormented and â—his hel wil be in every place where I do not appear in love to the creature for wherein I do appear in love there shal be joy peace no sorrow and where I do not appear in love there shal be nothing but hel for hel shal be in this world even in these bodyes shal men be tormented even by being cast out and not suffered to enter into the city where nothing but peace shal be but dogs and sorcerers shal be without even they shal be in hel until the restitution of all things come that there shal be no more divel nor hel which wil be for all the divel and hel and all witches shal cease then even in the year 7000. for that shal be a year of Jubilee to all sorts of people when all sorts then shal be brought into my love and favour and shal so remaine and they shal dy even men shal dy as formerly they used to do that go not up to Jerusalem even they shal dy and be subject to change until the time comes that they shal dy no more but my people shal hear the sound of the Arch-Angel and they being dead in Christ shal be raised up to meet the Lord in the ayre even from that death they are for the present subject to and so shal even in a moment at the founding of the last trumpet be changed in a moment even in the twinkling of an eye and so shal be raised up from death into life and from sorrow unto joy and happiness and so shal be ever with the Lord of host and so shal dy no more but live for ever and all the Saints shal come with I the Lord of host even to be glorified and so to receive what bodies it shal please I their King to give them there for it is true that my sons and daughters shal be brought to be glorified and shal have bodies given them though not the same bodies of clay as formerly they had even they shal beraised up to live reign for evermore even my Saints as the Saints formerly were raised out of the graves and walked up and down so shal my Saints be now raised up to be at Ierusalem in glory for the Jerusalem is the place which I have chosen for to make my name glorious and the place of my Saints heaven for though people talk of heaven above there is none heaven above is my self drawing my Saints into my fulness then I bring them into my third heaven which is my highest dispensation and the highest discovery of my love to them and this heaven shal be here on earth even at Jerusalem and the place about Jerusalem where I wil appoint my Sons and Daughters to be and this shal be their heaven they shal live in the ful enjoyment of I the Lord Almighty and they shal see all former things to be passed away and all things become new and they shal live in pure love and in the full enjoyment of I the Lord of host who hath made them holy whom I wil alwaies cause to rejoyce and sing and leap for joy of heart because former troubles are passed away and all are now become new and all things shal be new for the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints and the Lord will raign in mount Sion for evermore even I the mighty God of Jacob wil raign for ever over my people and over my enemies and all shal become subject to me But the Lord shal arise upon thee and his glory shal be seen upon thee when nothing but darkness shal be in the earth and in the outward court though there be nothing else in the earth but darkness such darkness as men earthly men shal have no comfort at all in all their outward formes and waies of worships which is the outward court and is not to be measured at all but is to be left to be trodden under foot as that which shal come to nothing and as a thing of no account by Aliens and Gentils even by such as know not me the Lord But as for my sons and daughters whom I have made choice of so wil bring them into Judea there to make my glory to be seen amongst them then shal they see that I am risen upon them and so consequently they are the inward court which is to be measured and so to be made much of even that new man Christ the anointed that is in them shal increase and grow so strong in every kind or degree that their old man Adam shal be destroyed and quite brought to nothing and then in these I mean the Jews and Gentiles which shal be gathered into Iudea the Land of promise where my glory shal be seen and made to appear to all the world and the partakers of this great glory shal be the inward Court that shal be measurable and made glorious and the inward shal increase more and more and so it shal at length break forth in
even of my sons and daughters how that they shall grow and flourish in dispight of all their enemies for their bones shall flourish as an herb and as herbs be good for all sorts of men and women even so shall my sons and daughters be good for all and by their flourishing and growing up as calves in the stall it shews that people that are now kept in bondage even the meaner sort shall be by the flourishing condition of my sons and daughters restored from that slavery and bondage as they are now kept under by rich men so as they cannot injoy the creatures of God so as to have their bellys full even into such a condition shall they be restored as that they shall now enjoy the good creatures of God and shall have enough of the outward mercies as for the back and belly so that there shall be no complaining in the street And presently after this there appeared one that was very glorious and he had a cup in his hand and it was full and he gave it to men and to women for them to drink and I said Lord who doth this man represent and what doth his cup signifie and what is in this cup and my excellent God the King of eternal glory said by this man is shewed I the Lord of host and the cup doth represent that I the Lord of host have something for to make men and women drink of these men and women represent my sons and daughters and that which was in the cup which the men and women drank of was wine which holds forth thus much that it is the pleasure of me the Lord of host to give unto my sons and daughters for to drink-wine for as much as wine is set forth to be a nourisher and cherisher of the nature of man and as thou sawest them that did drink of the wine which I gave them were merry and did fall to singing and to dancing even so by my pouring forth of my spirit or my self into my sons and daughters so as to make my self manifest in a more clear discovery of my self to them as to make them see and know that I the God of love and peace and glory dwels in them acts in them and so doth all things in them and that I have taken them up for to be my dweling place and habitation and that nothing can hurt them or do them any harm without me will ocasion them in like manner for to break forth and sing and dance and leap for joy of heart being filled with new wine of the spirit for put new wine into old bottels and they will burst if they have not vent or else the old bottles will spoyl the new wine so I by filling my sons and daughters with my self doth cause a spoyl first to be made in the old bottles their body and then afterwards doth cause them to bring forth my self and so do my will though it be the pleasure of me their king to act them in such a way as will prove the ruin of their good name yet they must do it for the wine of the spirit must have a vent or else the body will break And the word of the Lord came unto me saying behold and lo I looked and there appeared a man and he had in his hand a sharp knife and he ripped up the bellys of men and women even of all sorts under what religion soever they were termed to be And I said Lord what is the meaning of this man that doth so as he doth And the Lord said this man represents me the Lord of host and as thou did see him open them it showes that I the Lord of host have a peircing eye to discern what is in them and what they are notwithstanding their outward professions and outward shows of holiness yet I the God of gods see all their inward parts and know their secret thoughts and the private intents of their hearts and how full of hypocrisie they are dissembling with me and men and how they make religion a cloak for to hide their knavery even because they may the better cousen and cheat their fellow creatures and keep them in bondage and slavery and also from the enjoyments of the outward creation which I have made for man that they may have the use of them of the outward creatures and so live comforatbly by enjoying the fruits of the earth for the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof and al things are mine even mine therefore the crying of the poor and the hypocrisie of all sorts of men makes me make hast to declare that I the Lord of host am now coming to judge the world with righteousness and so to give them every one according to their deserts but shall the son of man find faith on earth when be comes no he shall not for though I do declare my self by my servants the prophets whom I stir up for to make out my self unto them yet I find and do see that amongst all sorts of men there is but little faith for to believe that I the Lord of host am now ready to appear in power and in glory and in Majesty for to confound and bring to nothing al powers beside my self and so to make bare my holy arm in al nations and so to lay open all mens hearts and make them see their folly for dissembling with me for as thou sawst them opened and when they were opened to thy view though before they seemed to be very white yet even the most purest especially those under the name of Presbyterians and Independents who seemed very white that is they had very magilded outsides as forms and ways of worships as observing of the Sabbath and being zealous for they way of worship even so zealous as to judge censure and condemn those that were not of their opinion yet notwithstanding al this their hearts are ful of hpyocrisie shewed by the blackness that was within them and so instead of serving me and bringing glory to my name they make use of religion to serve their own ends being as covetous and as proud and as ful of ambition and cruelty as those that make no profession at al and likwise the church called the Anabaptists are linked much in your name more for to make a shew of religion then to serve God even I the God of gods out of love as is showed by your harsh judgement and censureing those that do out-strip or those whom I the Lord of host am pleased to take up higher then you as such as are deluded and deceived by fancies and by the divel as it doth appear by your cruel words and speeches against them therefore saith I the Lord of host who sees your outward professions and knowes the secret thoughts and intents of your hearts how that you do strive for to exalt your selves and so to make your selves great and are ready for to dissembly with me the Lord
a table of stone wherein was written all my statutes lawes and judgements as I commanded my people Israel to observe and keep as the observing of the seventh day and the offering of sacrifices and the slaying of the pascall lamb and the giving of them by tribes an inheritance that they should not deal with other nations as to make marchandise with them were but all tipes and figures of the appearing of my son Christ in flesh and so it was but a darke dispensation in regard that it was but a dispensation that did hold forth Christ to come in the flesh and those that lived under it at that time until Christ had lawes and commandements for to observe which they were never able to keep or fulfil so in this respect it did shine gloriously for the during or continuance of that time they were to continue because they my people Israel had lawes and ordinances which all the nations besides them had not and so God did not deal with other people as he did deal with them as the psalmist saies God hath not dealt so with other nations as he hath dealt with us that was in regard of my love and favour which I had to them as for to make choise of them at the first so did take them as a peculiar people from the nations to whom I did commit my Oracles yet this was but a weake dispensation because it could not give life to them that did keep them but those that were in the account of me the Lord of host it was by looking to my promise even to Iesus Christ which I did promise life by and so when the fulness of time came that my son Iesus was to be made manifest in flesh and was borne then the dispensation of types and figures ceased and was not to be but was put out by the appearing of the Second Sun which was the second administration even Christ a Saviour coming in flesh amongst man and so was by power declared to be the Son of God herein even I the Lord of host did appear most gloriously to the people in that age by giving of my son Iesus and his disciples povver to do and work miracles which continued so long as my son was visible amongst them in flesh and then it ceased as he ceased from being amongst them and this administration was to continue for a time as Moses were for all the lawes and waies and rules that are contained in this second administration as given out by Iesus in the flesh as he were was but to continue for a time which time was to last so long until all the Kingdome shal be delivered up into the hand of the Father that he might be all and in all that is at the end of this administration I wil take the power uuto my self that is I wil make my self manifest in such an extraordinary way or manner as wil appear to the confounding or putting out all other lights besides my self as the third Sun did appear very glorious to the rest so wil I in this administration of making out my self or preaching my self in my sons and daughters make my glory for to shine in a more extraordinary manner then before I did for though I by my bright appearing in my sons and daughters and in the world at the time that my son was on the earth did so powerfully operate in them as that they must needs hold forth my Image of love for it is love that holds me forth more then any thing and love it is that is the Image of God and I the God of gods did make them shew love one unto the other by making them give bread one to the other as they did And so went from house to house and break bread together and had all things common this was but a tipe of that great work which I wil now do as for to make not only my sons and daughters live in love and peace and union but also wil make their enemies to be at peace with them and wil make them weary of their Idol gods as gold and silver and so wil take from them that oppression that hath raigned from time to time and this I vvil do in my bright appearing in my sons and daughters that shal see me to be their life and joy and so to have nothing in worth or esteem besides my self and so wil make them to be the City or temple that shall have no need of mens light or candle-light but I even I their God will be their light and so wil speak and preach in them peace and joy and so wil free them not only from looking after creature objects but wil wholly draw them up to live in me and wil make them to see that they are dead and cannot eat or do any thing but all their life is I the eternal God dwelling in them and causing them to hear a word behind them saying this is the way walke in it and so the new Covenant shal be written in their hearts they shall all know me from the least to the greatest and they shall sin no more at by my bright appearing or making out of my self to my people I wil make them to know me and all the rest shal know me for I wil be a terror and a dread to them and so wil make them to be afraid of me and know me by my power that I will exercise over them when my sons and daughters even the new Jerusalem shal see former things passed away and all things become new all those things which formerly were sin to them and did trouble them to be no longer so but new and all sorrow to stay away then it wil and shal be to them that laugh and mock and revile my Saints now a fear and a dread whereby they shal be in misery and in pain for doing so as they have done for I wil appear very glorious in my sons and daughters I will destroy them all even all their enemies even within and without so that they shal not sin but shal be wholly seated in liberty and freedome and shal do nothing but my pleasure and I wil joy in them and they shal joy in me for evermore So that in this third and last dispensation God wil appear so gloriously in his people that those that God is not wel pleased for to make out himself in love unto shall acknowledge that these are the sons and daughters of God and so shal cal us even the Saints the ministers of Cod and the Preists of the Lord such whom the Lord hath raised up to be restorers of the breaches and making of pathes for to dwel in for my work is now to make a seperation for them says the Prophet then shal ye return and discern betwixt the godly and the wicked for I the Lord of host in this last age wil make a clear distinction by manifesting my power and by destroying all
thee they shal even the Gentiles make enquire after you because you are my chosen people and you are they to whom I wil make out my self in glory to therefore shal they come even those that shal believe that I wil make you the praise of the earth they come even the Gentiles come to thee because I have withdrawn my self from them and wil not be in their worships neither wil I cause them for to receive any joy or comfort in any place or kingdome for to finde rest for their spirits but at this place where I have appointed to bring thee O Sion out of the hands of all thy enemies and from the power of all they that hate thee for thy sons shal come from far and thy daughters shal be nursed at thy sides even thy sons and daughters O Sion shal come from East West North South even from all places to be partakers of that infinite joy pleasure and glory which you shal injoy sons they shal be because they come after you to that ful and perfect enjoyment of I the Lord of host and nursed at thy sides because they shal receive of that fulness which you did receive of before therefore they shal come even as a child doth when he is hungry doth receive food with gladness even so shal al these that come up to thee even thy sons and daughters to be nursed at thy sides come to thee as to their mother for Ierusalem abore is the mother of us all even come to thee ö Jerusalem for comfort hearing that I the Lord of host is pleased for to make out my self to thee in a more especial manner then formerly I have done and so to receive comfort from thee even to suck and be satisfied with the fulness of that consolation you do receive from the Father even to suck and receive comfort from the same fountain of life even from I the Lord of host this shal be the state and condition of you you shal have your fil and be ful when others shal be in want and not be satisfied and they that come up to you shal drinke abundance of my fulness when they that tarry behind shal be deprived of my love light and glory so that they shal find no rest for their spirits for I wil make you to be like Noahs ark that was a place of refuge for Noah and those that were in it when others were destroyed in my wrath even so I have appointed peace and rest to be with you and nothing but trouble of conscience to the rest and to those that tarry behind and come not up to you but some there shal be that shal be like Noahs Raven that he sent forth which wandred up and down and could find no rest for her feet until it came into Noahs ark again even so shal some be troubled and shal have no rest until they come up to Jerusalem the place of my love and favour and the place where I have delighted to dwel and wil dwel forever and whosoever comes up to that place even to Jerusalem the City wherein I have appointed them to dwel shal find rest and be in peace freed from sorrow and trouble even as the Raven found peace in Noahs ark and rested there Then thou shalt see and flow together and thine heart shal fear and be inlarged because the abundance of the Sea shal be converted the forces of the Gentiles shal come unto thee their multitudes of Camels shal cover thee the dromidaries of Midian and Epha all they from Sheba shal come they shal bring gold and incense and shal shew forth the praises of the Lord all the flocks of Kedar shal be gathered together unto thee the Rams of Nebaioth shal minister unto thee they shal come up with acceptance on my altar and I wil glorifie the house of my glory Now shal ye gather your selves together and rejoyce and be glad because of those that are converted for to come up to thee O Sion who hath bin made a laughing stock in all Nations but now shal be made the praise of all Nations and that all shal come up to thee that wil have any rest or be satisfied with my fulness even those that have bin your great enemies shal now be glad to come to thee O Sion which shal be gathered to Ierusalem with their gold and incense to praise and magnifie thee and even I the Lord of host in thee who have chosen thee to be the glory of all Nations look and see who are those that fly as a cloud and as Doves to the windows even these be my sons and daughters who are Gentiles and want rest and seek for rest but can find none therefore hearing of my glory wherewith I make out my self to thee O Sion in whom I am in the midst of thee they fly as clouds they hasten from their Countries even to come to thee that so they may have rest and peace with thee O Sion in whom I the holy one of Israel is in the midst of and wil be king for ever Surely the Isles shal wait for me and the ships of Tarshish for to bring thy sons from far their silver and their gold with them unto the name of the Lord thy God and to the holy one of Israel because he hath glorified thee even these Ilands as England for one that shal be the first that strive to go to my people who have a long time bin cast off but now through my mighty power will graft them into the true vine again and they shal become glorious and shal say blessed be they that come in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest though formerly through unbeliefe and hardness of heart they crucified my son Iesus and so would not have him to be their King because he did not come in pomp and glory but came of a Carpenters wife and descended from so low a linage shal we say they believe this man is the son of God seeing that he is so poor and so mean and seeing he came for to destroy our Laws and formes of worships and governments and the old customes of offering up sacrifice which was that law and Testament that God gave unto Moses for us to observe and keep for ever therefore before they would part from their formes of worships and so would have a new one they would crucifie my son Iesus and would not then have him to be their King for which cause I did cast them off and so did cause them to be dispersed in all Nations But now I have in my mercy and pitty towards them remembred the covenant which I made to their father Abraham that in him all nations shal be blessed and so wil now restore them by my power from their enemies in what country or nation they be dispersed and wil make them to be gathered together into their own Countrey and now I wil give them hearts to believe
in me and so willingly to receive me now I proffer my self to them to be their king and they shal think him now happie that shal come in the name of the Lord and shal crie Hosanna in the highest that is they shal willingly receive instructions from I the Lord of host whom they wait for and whom they do expect daily for to hear of some tha shal say the Lord of host cometh for to redeem them out of all their enemies countries and to bring them into their own Land again which tidings of their returne they shal have from England first and how the God of Iacob wil appear to be their God and so they shal see and know that their redeemer cometh and made himself known to some English men for to bring them word even the Iews that are dispersed about in Holland and Spaine Germany and Italy and how it is the pleasure of I the Lord of host for to put my spirit of courage and valiantness for to make you that are dispersed in these countries as Holland France Spaine Germany Italy gather your selves together and so to meet all of you and these whom I shal send out of England to you for to meet in the year fifty one now a coming on in Italy and I wil be your rock and your strength and wil in cheife be your leader so that you shal not fear what man shal do unto you for I have purposed and it shal surely come to pass that I wil bring you to Ierusalem and not only you but all the rest that are dispersed of you in other countries even for to make you the praise of the whole earth and I wil stir up armies that shal fight for you so that I wil bring you safely into your own countreys and wil make the Gentiles come with their gold and silver to you and you shal be honourable and all your enemies that wil not serve you shal perish for that nation and kingdom that wil not serve thee shal perish yea those nations shal be utterly wasted even the most proudest and stoutest king or governour shal be destroyed even al their armies shal come to nothing for it is my pleasure to bring down the high and mighty one and so to lay him low even wil I not favour any but wil bring them all down to the ground yea I wil bring down that potent enemie that doth so highly exalt himself and he shal come to nothing even the Pose of Rome I mean and before the fifty five years that is now present a coming he shal be destroyed even the Pope of Rome shal lose his life in 1654. and so I the Lord wil make known my power by cutting off great ones and by bringing them to nothing and so wil make them all come bending and bowing to my sons and daughters whom I wil bring to Ierusalem and because it is my pleasure that it should be so I even I the Lord of host wil appear for to confound my enemies and those that have bin enemies to my people the Jews even that proud Turk that rules and domineers now shal be before the year fifty seven consumed destroyed the great head turk shal lose his life in the year 1656 and so there shal never after him nor never any more Pope be but there shal be such alterations and changes that things present and have bin by custome of long standing turned upsides once again that I may make Ierusalem the praise of the whole earth whose gates shal be continually open and shal not be shut day or night that men may bring unto them even unto the new Ierusalem the forces of the Gentiles even such abundance there shal be that shal be brought in for to be your fellows and brethren one and of the same Citty that the places which I formerly gave unto your Fathers for their inheritances shal be enlarged and strangers shal build your Citty even the wals of your Cities even such shal build them up for you that shal not inhabite there and Kings shal minister unto you and shal bring their riches unto you though you shal have no need of any yet it is my pleasure so much to magnifie you that I wil make my self appear to be glorious in you even in the midst of you and wil make people say of a truth that God is in you and so to acknowledge that you are the seed which the Lord hath blessed and so to make them see and know that I the Lord of host am in you even in you all ruling in you and making all your enemies become subject to you But I must tel you that I wil not appear personally for to raign over you and so to give you laws to walk by no but I wil raign in you and I the God of truth wil be in you and I wil teach you how you shal walk by putting my laws in your inward parts and in writing of them in your hearts and so wil speake in you and wil also make you for to worship me in spirit and in truth not in outward formes as now you do for the glory of Lebanon shal come unto thee and the Box tree and the Fir tree shal come together to beautifie the place of my Sanctuary and so to make my feet glorious such is the worke of I the Lord of host that I wil make the very glory of the world be brought to Sion even for to make them glorious and I wil make the place of thy feet glorious ö Sion and all the sons of them the feet that afflicted thee shal come bowing and bending to the soles of thy feet and shal cal thee the Sion the Citty of the Lord the holy one of Israel such a great work wil I do for thee ö Sion that I wil make thee have power over al thy enemies and none shal be able for to oppose thee but all shal be brought to nothing and confounded yea even they shal be in such terror and fear now that they shal submit themselves to thee and cal thee even thee O Sion whom I wil gather to Jerusalem the Citty of the Lord even of I the Lord of host And whereas thou hast bin forsaken so that no man went through thee even thee O Ierusalem that hath been laid wast I wil now of a sudden make thee an eternal excellency a joy of many generations even I wil make thee to be so glorious that thou shalt be the glory and joy of Nations for thou shalt be freed from sorrow and trouble and vexation of spirit and shal live in peace and be at peace rejoicing in I the Lord of host when others shal be troubled and vexed to think that they do not partake of the same glory wherewith I have and wil glorifie thee and thou shalt also suck the milke of the Gentiles even that joy and comfort which formerly they had of me when I did
the poor therefore houle and weep for I Come I come A vision wherein I saw men feeding their enemies and clothing of them and so did shew abundance of love to their fellow creatures and I heard a voice say that these men do hold forth my Image and do shew themselves to be my sons and daughters in so doing but they do nothing but what I have commanded them to do saith the Lord of host but I will reward them for so doing for I will keep them in my love and favour when I will plague and torment the other that have not done so If thy enemy hunger feed him if he be naked cloath him for in so doing you shall heap coales of fire on his head hear O all flesh for I have a controversie with you and will now plead with you especially you that have abundance of riches have you fed the hungry hast thou fed them that thou accounts thine enemies If thou hast thou in so doing hath done well but what meaneth the crying of the poor so much bread bread for the Lord sake surely this argues that you have not done as you should have done but have left that undone which you should have done thou hast not fed thine enemy neither hast thou clothed the naked which thou shouldst have done thy own conscience accusing thee shall now torment thee because thou liest under the breach of that Scripture where it is said feed thine enemy if he be hungry and give him drink if he be thirsty O you rich men should you feed and cloath your enemies as this Scripture saies you must do so how can you think that you are the servants of the most high whereas instead of feeding your enemies you destroy them for this is quite contrary as black is to white surely it is a sin I know your conscience tells you it is a sin because you do not fulfil the Scripture If this be a sin how far greater sin is it when you take from them that that should preserve them from want or take away their lives for you see it is your duty to preserve life and not to take away life it is your duty to feed them and not to kill them saith I the Lord of host who will plague and torment you for not doing your duty as to give that which you have of mine that overplus which lies by and doth no good unto the poor therefore houl and weep and crie aloud for the day of the Lord is at hand that burneth as an even and the wicked shall be but as ashes under the soals of my Saints feet you live like Dives in a most voluptuous manner wearing of the best and eating of the best and drinking of the best and as he did not remember poor Lazarus so you do not think having your fills of the poor yea though they cry in your ear yet you will not give them relief but will rather see them starve for want of food how do you provoke me to anger saith I the Lord of host do you think that I regard you and you only because of riches no I would have you think that I regard the poor as well as you even so much that I must now come down and destroy you and give you your portion with Dives even to throw you into my wrath and there to torment you and so to take away your riches and give them to my Saints even to these poor and hungry souls that are now in great want and misery houl houl and weep for I come even I that will plead for these poor creatures that you tread under foot and count them as nothing I come and will redeem them from you and from your powers and will make you know that I have regard to them and that they are in my sight as precious as you and that I will be such a terror to them that have aboundance of riches that I will make you weep to think you must part from them and to think that every one shal have part in your riches you shall be so tormented that you shall have but little rest for I will make you throw away your idols of gold and silver and to hide your selves for fear of me for I am risen to destroy you and bring you to nothing even I the Lord of host will consume you in my jealousie I saw in a vision that one rich man had fulfilled all the commands of God but one and that one was he was for to sell that which he had and was to give it to the poor but he like the rich man in the Scripture rather then he would do so he would keep his riches notwithstanding he was commanded to sel and distribute to the poor and so ly under the breach of Gods command for the which I saw this man tormented and at length was glad to give up to the poor and say take eat and fill your selves for it is not now mine but yours Here you may see the power of the infinite Jehovah and how strict he is to them that fulfil not all his commands As if he should say notwithstanding your going to Church and observing Sunday and making a profession of me and therefore you think that you shall escape my sore displeasure in that you have done such and such things but stay know this afore you have rest that one of my commands is that you should sell your riches and give to the poor for saith Christ go sell all that thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven as if he should say if you do it not it will be unpossible for you to get treasure in heaven but me thinks I hear all and every one almost say this is a hard saying must we sell houses and lands and give them away what a condition should we bring our selves into if we should do so What art thou as can say shall we give away our houses and lands do you know what you say are they yours or mine saith I the Lord of host they be mine and all are mine even whatsoever thou hast is mine though I have lent them to you it is not that you should only enjoy them but that you should freely give up to relieve those that are in want and so fulfil my Commandement sell that thou hast and give to the poor or else I will torment you as I have done this man in the vision and will make you be glad to give up and to say take eat and drink and fill your selves for it is not mine but yours and will make you know that I will do a strange work now here on the earth for I will make you to see and know that I have given unto the creature man a priviledge for to enjoy the whole Creation and so to free them from bondage and slaverie which for the present they ly under and if you will not freely give up before
aforesaid thus as the tree was digged up by the roots even so as this tree represents all powers so will I root up all powers even I the Lord of host the root and foundation of all powers for the present are set up by the power and strength of men in all Nations It being the good pleasure of I the Lord of host that it should be so and so by the strength and might of men the mankind that are made all of one mold and clay destroy one another which arises from a fleshly domineering and Esau's power that would raign over their fellow creatures which power assoon as one is subdued another takes place and will do so still but the time comes and the set time of I the All of all things is to be at an end and when the fulness of these dayes shall be expired and accomplished then one power shall not destroy another to set himself in power to rule over his fellow creatures no but that power shall destroy all powers besides my selfe as honour and riches shall be destroyed and so the root destroyed that I the Lord of host may be all and in all And the word of the Lord came again saying behold and lo I saw men and women runnnig together and every one said save my god save my god as if men and women had each of them a god which god must now be destroyed and I looked to see what their gods were that there was such running up and down to save them and loe I saw one company and their gods were gold and silver but this god was destroyed and another company made houses and another made their lands but these gods I saw destroyed another made their pride and honour but these gods were destroyed also and so one after another they were all destroyed even all those things which men and women have run a whoring after must be destroyed and brought to nothing and I said Lord what meaneth the people to call these their gods and my excellent majestie at whose bright appearing all things besides himself must be destroyed who will now suddenly appear to make men weep and houl for the miseries that are now a coming upon them said on this manner as followeth they call these their gods because they have set their hearts more upon these things then upon me and have with all eagernesse run after these things but I at my appearing destroys them all and so will take from earthly creatures those things wherein they have put most trust and confidence in and will destroy them in their sight even their gods of silver and gold and will make them throw away their pictures And again the word of the Lord said behold and loe I saw a company of men with their hands upon their loynes weeping and wayling crying out for help and I said Lord what meaneth these to be so feeble and to stand as they do crying for help and my eternal God said these men represent all my enemies and all my Saints enemies as they stand with their hands on their loines crying for help it showes that I the Lord of host have stricken them with fear and terror even I have taken their strength from them and they shall become as weak as water even so weak that one shall slay a 100. and a 100. slay 10000. for all their strength was taken from them so that I am confident 1. wil make nothing to slay 1000 if it doth please God to bring his enemies in such a condition which prophesie I look to see fulfilled in the year of redemtion of the creation from bondage which wil be a year of Jubilee and this Jubilee is at hand for I the Lord of host comes and wil not tarry but will arise like a man of war tearing and devouring in sunder al my enemies and wil consum them by the breath of my nostrils they shal not be able to stand for I will tread trample on them in the fierceness of my wrath wil make them come bowing down to the soals of the feet of my saints wil give the strength glory honor to my Saints and they shal rejoice and sing for ever ever And the word of the Lord came again saying behold what dost thou now see and lo I beheld a woman gloriously arrayed with a Scepter in her hand and she had a maid to wait upon her and I said Lord what meaneth this and my God the most high Jehovah answered me and said this woman represents the sons and daughters of Sion and as you saw her with a Scepter in her hand it denotes unto you that she hath power and strength over all her enemies and so is a conqueror over them all and so hath them in subjection be her enemies great or small more or less so then the time is now a comming that Sion shal rejoyce and be glad and shall sing for joy of heart when her enemies shall stand a far off and weep for bitternesse of spirit and as you saw her gloriously arrayed it shewes that the sons and daughters of Sion shall have of the best they shall eat and drink of the best and wear of the best not that they shall have the others which are those whom God in love doth not make out himself unto in bondage slavery and so deprive them of the outward creatures no but they shal have the use of the creation as to have their fil with food and al necessaries belonging to the body so they shal in this sense be their servants as is shewed by the maid waiting on the woman And presently after I saw one in glory with an army following him and he cut down his enemies a pace and left none to oppose him and of a sudden I saw all his enemies destroyed for this form of glory is the mighty God that is now risen to take vengeance on his enemies and to make them his foot-stool and his armies are his ministring spirits by which he will confound all the glory honour and strength of men yea even bring to nothing all the glory and powers of all fleshly powers how high soever they be lifted up for alas poor flesh what art thou now in my hands I am now risen to judge thee to burn thee up and so to bring thy flesh to nothing yea I will not leave thee root or branch for there shall not be son or nephew but I even I the mighty Jehovah will make a short worke for I will work and who art thou that shall hinder me from doing my purpose Therefore rejoyce and sing for joy of heart for behold I come even I thy king ô Sion shout shout and spare not lift up thy voice like a trumpet and say my God raignes even thy holy King of Sion therefore sing aloud and let the high praises of God be in thy mouth and a sharp two-edged sword in thy hand and so execute
vengeance on them that know not me bind their Kings and great men in fetters of Iron and execute the doom that is written even utter desolation upon all the high and lofty ones bring them to utter confusion that they may houl and weep because they have made you even my chosen ones to be in slavery to them therefore rejoice ô ye daughters of Sion and shout ô daughters of Jerusalem for they King cometh and he is meek and lowly riding upon an As and upon a Colt the foal of an Ass sing and rejoice for joy though ye be never so much despised he even I the King of glory coms riding upon an Ass even upon such poor despised harmless creatures that are willing to bear any burdens that are laid upon them even such do I the King of glory delight to appear in and not in high and lofty horses such as are puffed up in their high conceits having a form of godliness and so runs from scripture to scripture and by their fleshly wisdom would have it as they please no but even in such do I come that with a meek and quiet spirit have waited upon me therefore ye meek and despised ones sing and rejoyce and go with joy for behold I come even I the Lord of host and all your enemies shall be your footstool for you shall now tread Sathan under your feet and that by the strength of I your almightiness dwelling in you And again the word of the Lord said behold and loe I looked and I saw the appearance of seven hearts and they did for a little while oppose one another but at length they were still and left off striving one with the other and were all united together as one and so became one And I said Lord what meaneth these hearts to be thus joyned together of a sudden and my almightiness even the eternall God by whom all Creatures were made and by whom all creatures shall be brought to nothing said on this manner as followeth these seven hearts represent my sons and daughters that are now under several dispensations opposing one another in their judgements one saying this is the way another saying that is the way and so by reason of their difference oppose one another and it is out of a self-ish disposition that rules in them one would be fain esteemed above another by reason of his knowledge in the scriptures which knowledge I am now about to confound and all their fleshly knowledge let them go under what notion soever and for that way of baptisme which is now practised and do hold communion with none but those that are of their own judgements but are bitter and envious against those that are not of their way judgeing and censuring them to be a people that slight I the Lord of host and so are not my beloved and not those whom I will have regard unto but now in the day of my power I will take away that stone of stumbling I will break them and confound them and so will make them to see that they make much of the shell when the kernel is gone and will make them to know that those whom they looked upon as not worthy to be called brethren are the choice spouse of I the Lord of host and so will turne unto the people a pure language that may all serve me with one consent I wil even in such a clear way make out my self unto them that they shal all see and know and all speak by my spirit And I saw in a vision all manner of beasts and kinds of creaturs and I was commanded to slay and eat notwithstanding they were none of my own and my excellent majestie the King of eternall glory said I will make all men know in a short time that what they possess is not their own but all their treasurs are mine even I the Lord of host will recover my wooll and my flox even those treasurs which they have made use of and I will take them from them and will make them know that they shall now be for the use of my Saints even for the use of those whom they do most despise and if any say why do they take away my goods as my corn and my wine and my horses and my cattell then shall even those whom I draw up into my love and favour say we have need of them and we in the name of our creator take them for to make use of them or the Lord hath need of them and therefore we take them and what will you say to this O you great men that have abundance this priviledge is and will in a more clearer manifestation made out whereby the Saints even poor dispised Sectaries shall see and know that all things are theirs whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas things present or things to come all things are yours and you are Christs and Christ is Gods here you may see that the Saints by being Christs sons have all things yea the Apostle tels them that all things are theirs houl you therefore for the rust of your Gold and silver wil now rise up in judgement against you and it shall now torment you and vex you even it will be such a terror to you and you shall with speed throw it away even I the Lord of host will make you throw away your Idols of gold of silver and hide your selves for fear of me for whatsoever is in the shambles take and eat for the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof all the earth is mine even mine it is and all the cattel of the field therefore slay and eat and have all things common as my saints at the appearing of me in flesh had and therefore be contented O you rich men to give up lest I smite you with a curse for behold I come and will make my saints breake bread from house to house as formerly they did and will make them for to have comunion and all things common so that they shall not say this is mine or that is mine but I will destroy this and so I will destroy all self in them and they shall now live in the pure enjoyment of I the Lord of host breaking bread with singleness of heart from house to house so that my sons and daughters shall live in more union then they do now for now they are readie to cut and destroy one another for a little silver which shal now perish and be accounted as nothing even I wil make all sorts of men freely give away that they have and be contented to have nothing but what they shall have need of from day to day for I wil make love and union to encrease that the whole earth shall be a treasure for all and not for some so that according as they are in want they shal have one shal have a special care over another for the emnity being taken away and the curse removed from
earth even the great men as wel as Kings and nobles and others that heap up corn and money they shal bring their treasures and jewels thither and I wil make them to rejoyce in me and I wil joy over them and rejoyce in the midst of them I will be their God and they shall be my people even my chosen and peculiar ones in whom I have delighted to dwel and wil dwel and make them to be ful of joy and glory even the glory of all the world and all the world shal become subject to me I the Lord of host in my people in my bride and spouse and chosen peculair ones in whom I wil manifest my self to be a God of power dwelling in them and they shal dwel in me and they shal know that I the Lord of host dwel in them and wil make them to be a terror and a dread to all people and all people that shal hear of my infinite goodness which I wil manifest to them shal even weep and houl and knaw their tongues for pain and anguish which shal fal upon them being sensible of that joy pleasure delight and glory of that love and favour which I wil make out to my chosen peculier ones and nothing shal more torment them then the seeing and beholding my almightinesse ruling in them making others to be as nothing in comparison of them this I say shal torment you even you O proud and stout ones that are loth to be pulled out of your throns of glory as to be deprived of that self fleshly ruling power which in you but though thou art to be deprived of it yet thou shalt even of a sudden yea in an hour when thou art ready to cry peace peace and so to flatter thy self in thy own fleshly pampe to strive after riches and honour and so to get thy self a great name as when you have a bundance of oxen and cowes and two or three Farmes and perhaps bushels of money keeping poor creatures under you even thy fellow creatures thus crying peace and see no likelyness of a change thou wilt not be mindeful of what I send unto you but wil make slight of this businesse not remembring Paules expressions when you cry peace peace behold sudden destruction is upon you even a consumption to all your outward glory for a fire is kindling from me the Lord of host which shal enter into you and burn you until all things are according to my wil and pleasure for this fire is my spirit which shal burn up all your fleshly pompe and riches and houses and shal bereave you of all your gods even your gods of gold and silver and of worships and houses and lands which you have made Iodls of even I the Lord of host wil consume your glory and honour and wil lay it to the dust and thou self-interest that saies this is mine and that is mine shal utterly be consumed by my bright appearing and I wil make you throw away your idols of gold and silver and also your lands which now you possess and your oxen and horses and all things I wil make you say they are the all of all things even mine the eternal God and so say to your fellow creatures whom now we have made slaves of we have nothing of our own for if this be not sufficient warrant or message for to make you relieve the widdow and the fatherless and so disperse abroad telling of them it is yours and not mine I wil come with a far greater torment and will appear in such fury that I will make you think that you see the devil standing by you at all times tormenting you and plaguing you because you do not give up therefore give up before I destroy you in my wrath and fury for I am now risen to cal all my stewards to an account even you mighty ones unto whom I have lent much but finding of you to be very cruel to your fellow-creatures and that you have not dealt faithfully with them I come to judge you and to cal you to an account for your wickedness is so often in my eares that I can stay no longer therefore I pass this sentence against you O rich men that I wil utterly destroy you and bring you to nothing yea I wil torment you day and night that so I may make you know that the last dayes are now at hand which my servant Paul spake of even the day is now at hand that they that are married shall be as if they were not and they that use the world as if they used it not why so as if you should say the same Apostle gives a reason for sayes he the fashion of this world passeth away O you rich men leave off hording of gold and silver least the rust and canker rises in your conscience and so makes you hang or drown your selves and so you run your selves into a pit of misery even into hell for the married shal be as if they were unmarried that is I by my bright appearing wil so powerfully manifest my self that i wil be a sharpe two edged sword cutting and devouring in sunder all the waies that have bin acted contrary to me that is now on foot for I wil gather my own together from the power of their enemies that if any of mine whether man or woman be joined together to one that is of my stock nor wil have no heed to my voice if it be a man he may freely leave his wife if a woman she may freely leave her husband and in my sight do it lawfully because the time is now at hand that those that are married are as if they were unmarried I for this end and purpose even I the Lord of host wil have it to be so that I may seperate the just and unjust that I may gather my sons and daughters out from amongst their hateful enemies and bring them into their own countrie which shal be the Jerusalem that now lies wast but it shal be inhabited once again and made to be the praise of the whole earth therefore flee every one of you out of Babylon for her judgements are great and reaches to the skies and go you up into your own countrie and there declare the praises of God first I would have my people go out of Babylon which if they do they must not tarry here or in any place wherein I do not appear for to speak to them but come you my sons and daughters out of Babylon your captivity and bondage and come with me out of this confusion and out of these false waies and governments and formes of worships for I must pour out my judgement upon them all and I wil plague all them that wil hinder you from doing my wil as to keep you that you shal not come from them even every thing that they have shal be a divel to them especially to those that do not give up
sprad themselves abroad as they went darkness vanished away and light encreased much these people are my Sons and Daughters vvhom I vvil stir up to go to Jerusalem and out of this nation there shal go some even the principal and chiefe leader of them shal be an English man vvhom I have already chosen for to do the vvork of me and also vvil I at this appearing stir up the Jevvs that are of the natural seed of Abraham to go vvith him in their ovvn country and I did see also that vve that should go up should meet vvith many enemies as Moses did vvhen he brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt before they could get into Canaan but as God destroyed them all before Moses and loshua and made vvay for his people then even so vvil he novv do the like for he hath chosen one vvhich he hath indued vvith povver and courage like Moses to be a leader and God himself vvil fight our battels so that al our enemies shal be made a prey to us in vvhat country soever vve pass through and vvhen God shal be pleased for to bring us up to Jerusalem then the Lord vvil make all the inhabitants to run avvay and so the All of all things vvil give us houses that vve builded not for to dvvel in and orchards and vinyard vvhich vve planted not for to eat the fruit thereof and also in this vision there vvas shevved me one that vvas measuring a place and it vvas to build a material temple and the Lord said it should be built and I did see it built and it vvas like unto Pauls and there vve vvere to meete tvvice or thrice and then it should be destroyed and of a sudden I savv it destroyed and laid desolate that vve should no longer meete there in that Material temple but should worship God even the eternal King of glory in spirit and presently after this I savv al that vvere there both men and vvomen fal dovvn to the ground as if they vvere dead but of a sudden I did see them all rise up and so vvere as it vvere changed to a more glorious people then they vvere before and they should never dy more and after this there vvent a lavv out from amongst them into all Nations and countries for a law shall go out of Sion and so these vvere shevved me to be the Bride the Lambs spouse and wife to vvhom all Nations shal become subject and shal not lift up hand or foot against them for they shal be a terror to all the earth and all the earth shal be afraid of them and shal vvillingly let these that are aftervvards a coming up come up vvith ease and quietness and help them forvvard in their vvay after this I savv all tears were wiped from them and they should sorrovv and vveep no more but all things are now to them become new and everlasting joy and gladness of heart singing and rejoicing in God God speaking in them and teaching them and being the light of them both by day and night so as all darkness shall vanish avvay and all become light and so they shal all of them be of one heart and one minde and after I looked and beheld and I could see nothing but pleasant Orchards Gardens ful of fruit and making a most pleasant smel and all there food after this change vvas nothing but the fruit of the trees and that they may have at any time for as fast as one vvas pulled off another appeared in the roome presently and so there vvas abundance of plenty and joy and pleasant musick and no more sorrovv and sighing but all rejoicing freed from sickness and pain living in the I enjoyment of eternity the joy and glory of this happiness the more I go to relate iâ— I shal but darken it and so I leave expressing any more And again my eternal God said unto me behold what dost thou now see and loe I looked and there appeared a woman all in white and presently after the woman there appeared a man and he took the woman and carried her round about the room and when he had brought her round he brought her in the midle of the room and set her upon a high place even the highest in the room and I said Lord what doth this woman set forth unto me and the eternal God even my father the King of eternal glory said this woman doth represent my Church my spouse my wife even my peculiar and choise ones whom I have brought up to see and know me as I am the eternall being of all things and how all things have their right being from me who am the life all things and for whom all things were made and created and as she was in white it doth set forth that I the eternal God have washed her from all her sins and have taken her from all her foulness and so have made her white even so white that she shal see and know now that all her sins and iniquities are pardoned and blotted out and shal never come into my minde again and so she shal know even my wife the spouse of my youth even from all eternity the peculiar and choise ones and shal novv sin no more but shal be like me even so as I am so they shal be when I have gathered them out from al their enemies into the place where it is my pleasure for to bring them even into Judea for this is the place of my rest and the place where I wil cause my spouse even my wife for to rest and so to be free from all her enemies and so shal live in peace and in quietness resting in me and lying down in peace being sure that I their King wil preserve them from all their enemies And this man which thou sawest take the woman and carry her round the room sets forth me the Lord of host who by my own power wil do whatsoever I please with my spouse my wife and so wil be controuled by none but wil do what I please for to do and who are they that shal hinder me from doing of my pleasure and as thou sawest the woman carryed round it shewes forth me the Lord of host who wil by my own power go round even the round world and there wil appear in all places of the world where my sons and daughters are and so by my almightiness even by my infinite strength bring my sons from them and as thou sawest the man after he had brought the woman round carry her stil until he had brought her into the middle of the room so wil I by my own power not only finde them out my sons and daughters the Jewes only but I wil also bring them by my power into Judea which is the middle of the world and as thou sawest the woman which doth represent my sons and daughters set in the middle upon a hil even so wil I by
be on the contrary shine hold forth the glory of me your creator and redeemer who have ransomed you from the hands of them that were stronger then you shine and let my glory be seen upon you for they shal be afraid of you that hate you shine ye therefore and be like so many stars that shines in the Firmament and glister like so many as the only people that are redeemed from death to light for thy light is come I am your life and light and by being absent from you your condition was a condition of death and darkness and you were compassed about with abundance of sorrow by being scattered abroad in the world but I who am your life and light even I the mighty God of Jacob am now risen to bring you into your own country even together ö daughter of Sion shout and rejoyce and cry aloud Sing and make merry and be glad in your King who am now Risen with mighty power for to bring you into your own land therefore rejoyce and sing for thy light is come Sion that vvas scattered abroad but now shal be gathered into your own country even into Judea for the glory of the Lord is risen upon you even my glory is risen upon thee for to bring thee out of a strange country and as Pilgrims and sojourners into your country there for to make my glory and light shine and rest upon thee for the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee even upon thee ö captive daughter of Sion for to make you see and know that I have purposed to bring you into your own country once again and there to make thee the praise of the whole earth and the earth to see and know my power by which I do things saith I the Lord of host who hath caused my glory for to arise upon thee for you have now a more surer word of prophesie to which you do well to take heed as to a light that shineth in a darke place until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts this was given to the church in that age who was to observe the word of the Apostles then and at that time they being but babes and children so had a rule for to walk by which rule the Apostle bids them take heed unto that they walke by it for how long even saith the same Apostle until the day break until there be some further appearance of light a more glorious dispensation then now is and the day star in your harts that is until you do see know God dwelling in you and so do see know Christ who is the bright and morning star to be one with the Father Son holy Ghost but one God dwelling in you who is your life and strength and so to see this God in love to be your All and in all and the very life of all things til then you being weake have had need of a writen rule to walke by but now you have no longer need of any thing to walk by no not the Scripture to walk by for I even your King and Lord wil be unto you Scripture and Law and rule and ways and formes of worships yea I wil be all arise and shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee even my glory shall now shine upon thee for to make thee the praise of the whole earth and the joy of all the nations arise and shine for behold darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people arise shine your condition wil and shal be happy saith I the Lord of host who hath made my glory to shine upon you even upon you ö Sion whom I wil gather into Judea from amongst other people but I wil tel you one thing even you whom I do gather up into Judea for behold this darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people even when you shal see light and walk in light and have light to be your guide and have my glory shining upon you even then shal others the earth be covered with darkness for there shal be no clear light and sun shining upon the earth even upon those that come not up to worship me the Lord of host in Jerusalem but instead of light there shal be darkness and instead of breaking forth of light there shal be a mist and a cloud that shal overspread it self for a while so that they that go not up to Jerusalem shal not have that clear light neither shal they see and know that glory which I wil and shal make out to you ö Sion for you ö Sion shal eat and drink and be ful and have the bread of life and water of life when they that come not up shal be in want and shal be hungry when Sion shal be ful for I wil take away all their food even their formes and wayes of worship and wil utterly destroy them and bring them to nothing for these things as forms of worship have they had some comfort in using them but I wil leave these dispensations wherein I have formerly appeared and wil make darkness cover the earth in this sence for I wil deprive them of all their formes and Church governments for I wil forsake them and they shal receive no benefit by them even darkness shal cover them that they shal not see light in them even gross darkness even such a darkness wil and shal light upon poor creatures that walke by forms and so think to be carried to heaven upon the sholders of their Priests but darkness yea such darkness that both Priest and people shal be amased for they shal be driven out of their common-road and so shal be forced to seek a new way even this darkness shal light upon those that are malicious and ful of envy and so would of a sudden destroy their fellow creatures darkness wil and shal overcome such for though they preach and pray yet al wil not save them but that they must be destroyed and brought to nothing for saith the Lord of host darkness shall cover the earth there wil be no clear sight of God and no clear sight of my way for they shal not come to my knowledge and so to the enjoyment of me here or in any place but where Sion shal be gathered together even my people whom I have raised from the dead and so wil bring them up to Sion at Ierusalem the City where formerly I dwelt which is in Judea and there I wil make them shine and be the glory of the whole earth and after this first resurrection that they shal have for to be raised from a condition of death and slavery into a condition of joy and life where the Second death shal have no power over them for this is the resurrection wherein I wil set you free from all death and you shal dy no more for I wil be your life and you
shal live for evermore for now shal appear the sign of the Son of man coming in the ayre which sign of my coming is now forasmuch as I the Lord of host doth begin to declare unto my servants what I do now intend to do for this ayre where it is said then shall appear the sign of the Son of man is not meant only the ayre above but rather that ayre which is in this earth of yours for as your bodies are earthy so are they aëry for they even your bodys are not compounded only of earth but of aire and so I appearing in your bodies and so making choice of instruments for to do my work and my strange worke that is my sign or the sign of the Son of man coming in the aire which sign is for to give people warning of what I intend to do that so if I find them not doing what I would have them to do they may the better be judged by me and so punished for not doing of what I would have them do for the appearing of my sign is to declare unto them that I am coming to judge and destroy all things in man especially in my Saints besides my self and so to raise my son up from that grave and place of imprisonment as now for the present lies in even to restore her to life that she may dy no more for blessed are they that have part in the first resurrection on whom the second death shall have no power it is a most joyful saying to them that have themselves raised up to be brought into such a place where they shall die no more which will be at the place where I have appointed to make my self glorious and so vvil appear in my glory and so make my povver knovvn by being a God of povver vvho have raised up Sion from amongst their enemies and have brought her into her ovvn land even into a place vvhere she my wife and I must be married and so they shal live for ever and never dy no more for my Sion shal be changed so shal become nevv for the old man vvhich for the present they carry about them shal be destroyed and the nevv man Christ shal come forth and so they shall live for ever and never dy more and so after this they shal be as the Angels of God as my son Christ said that should neither marry or be given in marrige but shal live in the ful enjoyment of me vvho am the Lord of host that lives for evermore for vvhen they are brought into the ful and perfect enjoyment of me and be at peace vvith themselves so as they shal never marry or give themselvs in marriage according to the customes of us novv these customs shall vvholy be destroyed and a nevv one shal come in that they shall live in pure and perfect enjoiment of me their creator and so shal have the use of those vvhom I appoint together and so shal have the use of one another For the Angels that neither marry or give themselves in marriage are not any created substances besides man as to be in a place above the skies keeping of me company in one place yea though it is true the Angels the good angels as you cal them that left not their first estate do keep me company and are where I am and where I be there they be For these Angels made mention of and also them made mention of in Peter that left their first estate and so are reserved in chaines of darkness unto the great day are no other angels then what is in man For I the Lord of host made man purely good and before he fel he was holy just and upright being a pure Angel of mine and so one that should never dy if he had continued in the condition as he was set in but it was the pleasure of I the creator to set him in such a condition as I knew wel enough he should fal for had it been the pleasure of I the Lord he should have stood and so have lived for ever for if he had stood and lived for ever then should not my power have bin seen so much as it is now for this Adam was made good and just and all things in him and all things besides him were good and not evil but yet notwithstanding out of this Adam who was made good and just did proceed a Serpent for to beguil Eve the weaker vessel and this Serpent was not a serpent a creature that poisons and so lives as a creature no but this Serpent was within Eve and Adam and so was somthing from Adam degenerated from its institution from what it should be to what it should not be and that is this as Adam was made good and no evil was to be seen in him as I the Lord of host hath declared at the first but that I the Lord gave him reason and knowledge and wisdome which in themselves were very good for by these things he did differ from the beasts and from every living creature and by these things as reason knowledge and wisdome did he give unto every creature which I the Lord God had made and also did he know the nature of every green herbe and of every thing as to give them a name Thus was Adam in his first estate good furnished with every thing and so did live in paradise even in God and so had the pure and perfect enjoyment of the creator that made him but it did please me for to let him alone and Eve especially being the weaker vessel and not able to contain her self in that condition as to know much and do little but she did put her self forward in a way for to eat the apple that she was commanded to let alone for she had so much reason wisdome and knowledge as that she knew wel enough that if she did eate of the fruit she should have bin as God and this the Serpent who being a more subtil creature then any of the beasts of the field was did urge Eve for to eat of the fruit which Serpent was no other but that reason wisdome and knowledge which is the spirit of men and women and is in man very good of it self if man had but power for to keep it under from going about to do that it should not do and this was the only Serpent that made Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit even that reason knowledge and wisdome that was in her for that reason and knowledge wisdome that was in her did degenerat from what it should do and did do what it should not the degenerating from what it should do was its pride by doing what it should not do as it was given her for to know how she should keep perform that she had a command for to do It was good in its self but instead of keeping she breaks the command that by being beguiled by the Serpent which is
make out my self to them in formes of worships which joy and comfort you shal now have and thou shal know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer the mighty God of Jacob for brass thou shalt have gold and for Iron silver instead of outward forms thou shalt have the pure injoyment of I the Lord of host in spirit and I wil make such a worke amongst you now that instead of giving oppressours to be your officers I wil give you such that shal be peace-makers and I wil make your officers or exacters over you now to be righteous nay there shal be none any longer for to be officers one over another but you shal be all alike for as the master is so shal be the man as the mistriss so shal be the maid as the buyer so shal be the seller even all alike and none greater then other but what one hath shal be the others for I wil now make all things new for violence shal be no more heard with in thy borders but thou shall call thy walls salvation and thy gates praise even thou ö Sion that shal be gathered together in Iudea and in those places thereabouts which by reason of the greatness of thy company I wil enlarge thy borders for I the Lord of host wil be your wals and your gates and wil be salvation to you for to keep and preserve you from all your enemies The Sun shal no more be thy light by day neither for brightness shal the Moon give light to thee but the Lord shal be unto thee an everlasting light thy God thy glory the sun shal no more go down neither shal the Moon withdraw her self for the Lord shal be even I the Lord of the everlasting light and I thy God thy glory and the daies of thy mourning sha be ended Whereas thou hast bin sorrowing up and down and hast I gone out of one country into the other mourning and weeping and so hast found no comfort now these shal all pass from thee and thou shalt weep no more ö Sion for the Lord hath founded thee ö Sion and wil be your King for ever even your light life joy and glory even your All and all so that thou shal not have need of outward ordinances either one or the other but I wil be a Sun and a Moon for to give thee light and for to make thee see though it hath a long time been neither light nor dark neither day nor night but now in the evening there shal be light even in these last days light shal now shine in such a perfect and clear manner that it shal be known to be light for I the Lord of host wil be sun-light and moon-light and wil be day and so indeed it wil be very glorious when I the Lord of host wil never leave them nor forsake them but wil be alwaies with them even never withdrawing light from them but alwaies making it for to encrease and grow and multiply it self til it comes to be seven fold more light then formerly there hath bin and until the weakest and feeblest that are among you be as David and David as the Angel of God even as God this shal be the estate and condition of you ö Sion whom I wil gather together to Ierusalem and so wil make you the praise of the whole earth even the very weakest of or among you shal know as much and have as much knowledge as David had and shal be in as great favour as David was with I the Lord of host who hath commanded the writer hereof to write it as my wil and not as his wil because I have purposed to appear so bright and in such a glorious manner to them making them partakers of my glory that they shal have as much knowledge as David and they shal be even as Angels of God yea even Angels and shal know as much of God even of I the Lord of host that they shal all be taught of I their God and shal have no need of teachers to teach them for I wil be their teacher and instructer and so wil guide them in the way of truth and from it they shal not err neither shal slip aside as now they do but they shal al of them be kept upright by my power and I wil not let them slip aside from me but wil uphold them with my right hand wil carry them in my bosom and so wil make them to rest in me as their only joy even in I the Lord of host thy people also shal al be righteous they shal inherite the Land for ever the branch of my planting the workes of my hands that I may be glorified even thee ö Iudea whom I have given to my Saints for to inherit and wil bring al my sons and daughters up by degrees to thee for to inherit and be there even my choice and peculiar ones to be brought up to Ierusalem the place which I have chosen for to make my name glorious for I wil make them appear to be the branch of my planting and so they shal al be righteous and not any one that shal be wicked shal be suffered to be there no hypocrite or dissembler or any one that worketh abominable mischief or speaketh lies shal be there no for it is my house and place where I have chosen to dwel even in my Saints and I wil now fulfil the prophesie there shal be no more a Canaanite in the house of the Lord for ever but all shal be righteous and glorious shining as so many stars in the Firmament and glistering so clear and so bright that al the spectators shal be dasled for mine shal be as Angels for knowledge and glory and power for in deed they shal be my Angels for a little one shal become a thousand and a smal one a strong nation I the Lord wil hasten it 〈◊〉 its time even in those poor and dispised ones who are but smal and little in comparison of the multitudes that are so great even these poor and smal ones shal encrease and grow even those who have now the breaking forth of light in them in this Nation of England which we were at the first but one even that one that had light made out to him as concerning his going to Ierusalem even that one shal become a great Nation and a glorious Nation even the joy and praise of the whole earth which I the Lord wil hasten in my own time which now wil be very shortly sing and shout ö daughter of Ierusalem sing aloud ö daughter of Sion for behold thy King the holy one of Israel is in the midst of thee and thou shalt see evil no more but now shal go with joy and rejoycing and with gladness of heart to Sion singing and leaping for joy to the mountain of the house of the Lord which shal be in Iudea and there shal sing and dance with the tabret and pipe and so shal have all kind of musick and mirth and thou shalt see sorrow no more but weeping shall now be hid from thine eys for I have called thee by a new name and so have given thee a new name for thou shalt no longer be termed desolate and forsaken but thou shal be called the place where I the Lord of host delights to dwell for as soon as Sion travelled she brought forth and was delivered of a man child who hath heard such a thing who hath seen such a thing that a nation should be born at once but now as I live 〈◊〉 the Lord of host it shall come to pass for I will give them a new name which none shall know but them that have it My name changed from GEORGE FOSTER to JACOB ISRAEL FOSTER FINIS
things besides my self so that I wil make my Saints to shine as stars in the Firmament by my bright appearing in them for I the day star being risen in their hearts wil occasion all darkness to vanish away and will make them shine so gloriously by giving them a new name which none shall know but them that have it for I wil make up my Jevvels in that day and wil make them to shine illustriously that I wil make the wicked acknowledge of a truth that God even the eternal God dwels in them and wil now be worshipped in spirit and in truth without forms and rules and ways which hath already been but by my teaching in them I wil make them to give up themselves to me and so to rejoyce in me more then ever they have done as yet I wil fil them with my spirit for I being of as great power as I was of old so that they shall now see and know with cleerness and speak as the spirit moves them and talk as I act in them even in such a sure way as my servants the prophets did of old for my hands are not yet shortned but can do such a work stil as to make my Saints no longer doubt and question what they say but shal surely say the Lord speaketh thus and so shal speake infallible once again and not to doubt as they do now and have formerly for I wil now open that mystery that hath been sealed up with seven seals as a token of darkness yea perfect darkness which mystery wil be opened now the seven last trumpets sound and the last Vial is now a pouring forth which mystery is only God appearing to All in all and I the God even the eternal King taking my power my self as to make all become subject to me and not to formes and so to make my self known that I dwel in men and so wil preach in men and wil cause other preaching which hath been in my offence to cease and I alone wil preach and speak to men and wil tel them this is the way walke in it when they turn to the right hand or to the left hand when they are going astray from me then I wil speak to them for to make them come in the way which I would have them to walke in which if rightly considered wil make my sons and daughters greatly for to rejoice to see their God eie to eie or to hear him speak in them it wil save abundance of trouble as it wil make them leave off runing after broken cisterns that can hold no water and also from runing from mountain to hil and so finding no resting place O saints here is a resting place for you leave off gadding abroad and runing after other lovers for I am your rest and your dwelling and be silent and sit stil and I wil speak in you yea even I wil speak peace to you and no good thing I will withhold from you and I wil shew you where I make my flock to rest and ly down at noon days and where I lead them to the lively fountain of living waters O this place of rest and place where I make my flock to rest is for to bring them up in to me and then they shal finde a Canaan a rest indeed and a river of living water which shal never be drie but alwaies flowing forth with life and nourishing joy and comfort to you that are thus brought up from all creatures and so only wait for the speakings of me the Lord host in you which I wil surely do to the abundance satisfaction of your soules and you shal hear of it and so shal ly down in â—…est when others shal go about to seek rest by outward objects and shal finde none or by looking after outward things and none shal come And I saw a vision wherein is shewed that there shal be gathered out of this land a people that shal go to Jerusalem and also the Iewes that are dispersed in all nations shal be gathered together to go with them and also a remnant of people out of all lands that shal go to Ierusalem that so the saying of the prophet might be fulfilled that all nations shal go and worship at Jerusalem the vision is as followeth There did appear a pair of scales and within each seale a weight one of them being a great deal bigger then the other and it was to me like lead and the other being a little one and like unto silver was too light for the other for a while and so the great one weighed it up and held it for a while up but at length the scales turned and the little weight weighed up the great weight and the great weight fel to the earth and was no more And I beheld that out of this little weight there came men and women and I said Lord what meaneth this scale and the hand that holds them up and the weights in them and my God even the eternal King of glory said the scales signifie the earth in whole the material frame of heaven and of earth and the hand by which the scales were held is shown my power by which I have erected them and so doth stil hold them up from falling down the weights signifie two peoples or two powers the wicked and the Godly or the earthly powers or my power by the great weight is set forth the earthly powers and also wicked men which have had powers and have ruled over my sons and daughters a great while as was shewed thee by weighing up the little weight and so have kept my people in bondage and slavery to one thing or other as to the rudiments of this world and traditions of men but as the scale turned it shewes a turning of things upside down and as the little weight waighed the great one up for as much as by the little one is meant my sons and daughters and made the great one fall to the earth and so to be no longer is shown a destruction of those thieves that were and that which were not is now to come to pass as the powers of the earth and wicked men have ruled over my Saints the time is now come they shal do so no longer but must become subject to my people for the kingdomes of the world shal I now give to my saints and they shal possess them for ever and all the might and majesty and glory and strength of men shal be nothing in my sight for I wil bring down the proud and haughty looks of men and wil lay them low even to the dust that they may no longer be for I will now stain all the pride and glory of man and make man appear to be but dust and of no strength that I the Lord of host may be exalted and so become all the povver and strength of men And whereas thou didst see men women come out of the little weight