dominion under another appearance and member of the great Image the Head being but one and you have only slain the name and liveth in the nature and while some of you have been zealous to break down the Idols and Images without and herein have served the Lord you are now become worshippers of Idols within and of Images set up in your hearts to the greater dishonour of the Lord who are turned in spiritual Idolatry and more subtile hypocrisie and secret whoredom and herein also liveth in the nature of that which you have cut down in the name and the founder of Images is not yet confounded and you are not the least of all that are guilty for it is not unknown to you of that grievous Oppression and Tyrannie and Cruelty acted upon my servants who in times past have born a part of the burthen with you in the heat of the day and though some of you see these iniquities abounding and the neglect of fulfilling your own vows and are already asham'd of the Oaks which you have design'd and of the Gardens which you have chosen and now is accused guilty in your own Conscience for pulling lown and setting up one thing in the nature though different in the name yet you are greedy of your prey and spoil and doth not confess truth against oppression being branches of the same root lodging amongst the boughs and thus are you fallen from your first integrity into pits and snares and are become one with the harlot and partakers of the Adulterer murthering and crucifying the just loving to be blinded by the God of the world for love to his Treasure Mine Army terrible shall come against you and my force shall compass you about and my sword shall cut you off and with a mortal blow I will wound you and deliverance to my chosen will I bring another way and though I have reproved Princes by you yet you will I reprove and though I have chastned the mighty and the rebellious by you yet you will I correct and all your might and power will I take away and your weakness shall appear and dispersed shall you be before the Arrows of my wrath my Alarum will I beat against you in defiance of your power and through you by my weapon of war will I charge to your overthrow and defeat everlasting except you repent saith the Lord in this the day of your visitation wherein you have a time given to make your peace and to return to your first Integrity out of your rebellion against me that my hand may be towards you for my great work is yet to do which I have thought to bring to pass and this overturning was but a making way for it and yet again will I overturn even you and all that opposes me herein That my Son may reign in his Kingdom for ever whose bondmen and slaves ye shall be if you submit not before you be conquered And this to you is a Message for Reconciliation sent from me and sealed with my Spirit saith the Lord To all you who are and have been always enemies to the very appearance of Righteousnesse who are called Delinquents and Cavaliers THus saith the Lord my controversie is against you even my hand in judgement is upon you already and you are become cursed in all your hatchings and endeavours and from time to time my hand hath been against you in Battel and you have been and are given up to be a prey to your enemies for the purpose and intents of your hearts have been known alwaies to be against the form of Truth and much more against my powerful truth it self and because you attempted to take my throne Consciâ—nce therefore I rose in fury against you and will have war with all your followers herein for ever and though my hand hath been evidently against you yet to this day you remain in rebellion in your minds in hatâ—hing murder and cruelty in your wicked hearts and though your Kings and Princes and Nobles have been cut off in wrath and your cruel desperate Inventions and plots of wickedness conceived in your cursed womb have been broken and you cut short in your desires yet you repent not nor will not see how you are given to be a curse and a desolation and a prey in houses and lands and persons to them whom I raised against you and gave power over you yet you are hardned and your cruelty in the persecution of my servants cannot be measured where you have any power you smite with the fiâ—t of wickedness and count it your glory to despise my name in the Vallies of vain hopes you feed and on the mountains of foolish expectation and conceive in your cruel womb of Tyrannie the overthrow of the Nations but in the bringing forth your selves are overthrown and it is not for well doing that you suffer but my hand is against you and my judgements are upon you and except you repent shall continue upon Earth with you and follow you and pursue you to the lake of destructior where there is no repentance and you and your King and lordly power by which you have thought to exercise Lordship over my heritage shall be enslaved by the Divel in the Pit of darkness in everlasting bondage where he shall reigne your King and Lord for evermore To all the Priests and Prophets and Teachers of the people THus saith the Lord my controversie is against you above all other and my judgements shall be upon you to the uttermost for you in hypocrisie and deceit and abominations hath exceeded all other that ever went before you and are less excusable then they and more vile in my sight then they that have been made an utâ—er desolation abominable and loathsome and hainous is your filthiness in preaching for hyre and for gifts and rewards and in making a prey upon the people through divining for money even feeding your selves with the fat and killing them that are fed and have wofully wasted the heritage and scattered the flock upon the barren mountains where you treoherously have devoured them and made merchandise of their souls and have cryed Peace Peace unto the wicked one of you building a wall and another daubing it with untempered morter you have not stood in my counsel but have erred from my way and have not known my judgements but through covetousness have dealt most wickedly and profaness is gone forth from you into all corners of the Earth so that none could turn from his evil way nor learn the way of righteousness and salvation how shall it be declared and laid open your transgressions hath much more abounded then in former generations ye have shut the kingdom of heaven against men to the destruction of thousands and ten thousands who have perished under your ministry whom you have caused to err and led them out of the way and the blinde hypocrites have led the blinde till ye both fall into the ditch
TRUMPET Of the LORD sounded out of SION Which gives a certaine sound to the eares of all Nations and is a true noyse of a fearfull Earthquake at hand which shall shake the whole fabrick of the Earth and the pillars of its standing shall fall and never more he set up againe Fearfull voyces of terrrible Thunders uttered forth from the Throne to the astonishment of the Heathen 〈…〉 all Quarters of the earth who are not sealed in the forehead And is an Alarum and preparation for War against all Nations where Gog and Magog resideth And sheweth the wounding Sword of the mighty God from whose blow the Kings nor the Captaines nor the mighty men cannot fly to escape Declared and written by a Son of Thunder as a warning to all the Inhabitants of the Earth where the great Image is standing or any part of it worshipped speedily to meet the Lord by Repentance that in the day of his fierce wrath they may be hid WITH A Salutation to the Seed who are gathered into the â—old and with the â—hildren of the King The tongue that was dumb sings a joyfull Song of Sion in an unknown Language which none can understand save the redeemed of the Lord By one whose name is truly known by the children of the same birth but unknown to the World though by it called EDWARD BURROUGH LONDON Printed for Giles-Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1656. BY Order and Authority given unto me by the Spirt of the Living God King of Kings and Lord of Lords the 31 day of the 10 month in the year of the worlds account 1655 about the 4 houre in the morning when my Meditations was of my God upon my Bed in Kilkenny City in the Nation of Ireland at that time the Word of the Lord came unto me from the righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth who was and is and is to come who sitteth on the throne of righteous Judgement Judging Nations and Kindreds and Tongues and peoples equally saying Write my Controversie with all the Inhabitants of the Earth unto all sorts of people as I will shew thee By this same Authority and Commission declared this I send unto you the Tribes of the Earth and this upon your heads shall stand for ever to be witnessed by the Light of Christ Jesus in all your consciences in the dreadfull day of Vengeance which upon you O Inhabitants of the Earth is coming Prepare prepare to meet the Lord O Nations Tongues and people unto you all hereby a Warning is come and a Visitation from the presence of the living God which you are straightly required to put in practise as at the terrible day of dreadfull Vengeance you will answer the contrary Given under my hand and sealed by the Spirit of the Eternall God who lives for Ever Through a Servant of the Lord E. B. A TRUMPET OF THE LORD Sounded out of SION O Earth earth earth hear the word of the Lord and awake awake awake all ye inhabitants thereof and give ear give eare unto the controversie which the Lord hath with you Noble and Ignoble listen unto the word of the Lord Men of high degree and Men of low degree be not stouthearted nor stop not your Eares for the Lord hath spoken People of all sorts and men of all conditions the word of the Lord is towards you even from the Princes and Nobles that sits upon the Throne unto the Slaves and Bondmen that are made a prey The Lords Controversie is against you and the mighty terrible day of the Lord is coming upon you wherein He will plead with you because of your Transgressions which cannot be numbred but doth exceed theirs in former Generations who was cut off by his outstretched arme Therefore thus saith the Lord now also will I arise as a mighty man of War and will appear in my Majesty to gather the Nations and to fan them and to try them in the wind of my wrath and to purge them and to refine them in the furnace of my fire of indignation and jealousie And this from my mouth is a warning to you and a sound in your ears by Authority from my Spirit To thee Oliver Cromwell called Protector THus saith the Lord My Controversie is against thee because thou hast not been faithfull to the end in my work but hast taken thy Rest and Ease and pleasure upon thy high and lofty Mountaine of Pride and vaine Glory and hast set up thy selfe to be worshipped exalting thy own horne and hast not fully given Glory and Honour to me of that which I have done by thee but in thy Heart boasts thy selfe against me who hath hewed with thee and made thee an Instrument in my hand to doe my will upon my Enemies and now thou performest not thy Vowes made to Me in the day of thy distresse but thou hast broken truce with me and now thou suffer grievous and hainous Oppression and Cruelty and Tyranny to be acted in thy name upon my people whom I have chosen and elected to exalt my name by by unjust imprisonments and grievous persecution doe they suffer in thy name which the cruell hearted makes a cloke of for their cruelty and even such who have been thy Enemies thy name is a cloke unto to hide their cruell intents and wicked purposes against my People whom they tread upon and this is not unknown to thee and therefore the lesse excusable art then in my sight and the greater will my judgements be upon thy Head which suddenly I will bring upon thee except thou repent and returne to thy first integrity which if thou doe I will honour thee next unto my chosen and give thee the Necks of Princes to tread upon and their Dominion for thy Inheritance otherwise thus shall it be done unto thee if thou wilt not hear and obey my voyce saith the Lord To all yee his Counsell THus saith the Lord My Controversie is against you because you are one with him and every whit fully guilty of his transgressions and feeds him and your selves in the vallies of vaine glories with vaine shewes and hopes and your indeavour is more to secure your selves from misciefe and plots and wicked intentions which remaine in the hearts of the Rebellious against you then to defend and preserve the innocent for your neglect to take off Oppression and to ease the oppressed but makes your fingers as heavy as your fathers loynes who were cast out before you and the same Lawes stand still in force by which tyranny and Oppression is acted and the same false Prophets you establish by a Law which deceives the Nations and flatters you by subtile speeches and there is no pure Reformation wrought in the Earth but you with your power joynes with the first Beast who was wounded by a grievous blow of fury to make war against the Lamb and his followers and you seek to set up that which I am about to
the Scriptures and selling their imaginations upon them for money gaining many thousand of pounds a yeer thereby having stolen the Saints words into their unclean hearts uttered forth by them for advantage to themselves when the Lord hath not sent them nor spoken unto them nor ordained them for his service but their Call and Ordination hath been by man and their work and testimony of themselves and hath not profited you at all and yet you have loved to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof even you that hath been helped and they that have holpen shall both fall together in the day of the Lords recompense which will fall grievously upon you and none shall be able for to deliver you but miserable comforters and Physitians of noâ—value shall all be unto you and your long applyed Promises shall suddenly fly away No peace from God is to the wicked neither do I sow pillows under your elbows but to the light in your consciences I speak which Christ hath lightened every one of you withal which shines in darkness and you cannot it comprehend nor in it believe But it it stumbles and by it shall be broken which if it you loved it would teach you in the Spirit the living God to worship and would condemn all your set form of Worship in the Imaginations the light is given you from Christ Jesus unto life eternal or unto condemnation everlasting when the hand of the Lord in judgement is upon you Remember you had warning and when you are in the Lake and in the Pit Remember you had a day of Visitation upon Earth The light in all your Consciences shall witness Gods judgements to be just and your mouths shall be stopped To all you that are called Anabaptists VVIth you also is the controversie of the Lord for you are children of the same seed more purged in the fire of blind zeal and begotten in the transforming of the Serpent into more secret hypocrisie and deeper subtilty your covering being larger the greater deceit and abomination lodges under Death reigns among you and your Kingdom is scituate in the mountains of exaltation and you feed abundantly in the Vallies of Pride and Vain-glory and are nourished with the bread of prosperity you are grown high and great in your number and have joyned your selves for advantage and glories in your strength having through Policy and Craft and bowing to the Beastly power highly exalted your own Horn and and by Flattery have gained much of your Dominion which you hold in possession by the Law of guil many simple ones hath by your curious colour and bed of fair pretenses been deceived to commit Adultery with your Image brought forth in the likeness of the Saints God By Imagination from the Saints words you worship the practise and exercise of the Saints with the same mind that the Papists do worship their Names and Days You allow not Idols without nor a vain conversation in the world but you are strict in observation in your outward conformity in your self-righteousness which is your greatest sin you are clothed with the Saints words and practises which you have climed up in your own wills to obtain not having entred in by the door and while you say you eat and drink the Flesh and Blood of Christ in the Saints manner shewing forth his death till he come to salvation you kill him as the Heathens do till he appear unto condemnation and you shew forth daylie that you crucifie him in the world eating and drinking to your selves condemnation you say Christ died only for you as elect but your works makes manifest that he dies by you as Reprobate you take up a command from the Letter and imitates the Apostles some of you in a lower and some of you in a higher degree in that mind and nature which in the Apostles was crucified and you say Christ commands it when the Letter doth but declare it and you are not led with the same light which gave forth the commands declared to observe them but saith in such a verse of such a chapter such a command is not having received the command by the same Spitit Here you are proved to be them which use your Tongue and saith he saith it when God hath not spoken unto you but as you read it without you as the false Prophets might do the words of the true Prophets and thus you are in the Witchcraft as they were Gal. 3. who takes on things in your own wills and observe commands without from the Letter thereby drawing from the teachings of God within by the Spirit you are zealous as they were for the Traditions and Figures and cannot see him which is the end of all that which perisheth with the using so you are not dead with Christ from the world who are yet subject to Ordinances which is of the world They that obeyed Christ and followed him was led by the Spirit and not by the Letter for they were not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit and such were judged to be in errour and this is your condition who saith such are breakers of Christ's commands and makers vold of the Scripture and destroyers of the Ordinances who witnesseth Christ the substance and him to be King and Judge and Law-giver and in whom and upon whom the Scripture is fulfilled and so it established and the commands of Christ kept which are in Spirit and his Law daylie walked in which condemneth sin And this is not contrary to the Scripture but a fulfilling of it in Principles in Doctrines and in Practise and Conversation The Apostles was sent to preach the Gospel to every creature and they were all led by the same Spirit and did not go before it in their own wills as you do neither did one go from the command which had been given to another using anothers words and exercising themselves in anothers practises when the Lord had not commanded But such they bare witness against which did use their Tongue and transform themselves into the likeness of true Prophets and Apostles as you have done and are in the love of the world and only separated in the appearance and not in the ground You stumble at the light and therefore knows not the door of entrance nor where the commands of Christ is to be received and the Will of God to you is to be known and so your obedience is the conformity in your own wills to that which was the Will of God to another This Sacrifice is also lame and blind and God saith to you Who hath required this at your hand For 〈◊〉 you have observed and done all those things which the Declaration of the Law and Gospel doth require you are unprofitable servants and yet one thing do you lack the Dying with Christ and the Sufferings and Cross of Christ is not known but in the liberty of the flesh you are and not in the condition of
banks and thy fire of eternal fury shall bâ— through your stubble and my everlasting light shall make search and Inquisition for the blood of my Elect which is found in thy skirts Thou abominable harlot of lothsome adultry Tremble tremble tremble at my dreadful living presence ye worshippers of dead Images the day of repentance is well nigh past your long Idolatry will my long patience turn into everlasting misery and judgement and Nations shall see your shame and in the sight of your Lovers shall you be tormented And this from Authority by my Spirit of Glory is sent you a warning and is the voice of a Trumpet which gives a certain sound against the mighty dreadful day of the Lord which upon you is coming to make you an desolation for ever and ever and the eternal Decree is sealing against you never to be altered To all you called Protestants of the Eldest sort THus saith the Lord my controversie is against you and my hand will be upon you you have a strong taste of the Bottle wherein the wine of Fornication is and your scent is leavened with the first vessel of abomination you are seated in darkness pitched upon six of the first mountains under another branch of the first Tree Ignorance and are children of the first womb begotten in another appearance of the Whores Beauty and are more comly in stature then your eldest Brethren and little is your difference to be discerned from the first Beast in your appearance and nothing at all in the ground you say you believe for eternal life but your unbelief will bring upon you everlasting death your talking of Christ and his righteousness imputed which you profess will not cover your infidelity and filthiness for you are in the enmity against his life the working of the first for life and your believing for life springs both out of one ground and while you say you eat and drink the Body and Blood of Christ in the figure you kill and crucifie him in the substance and art partakers of thy Sisters sins in whoredom and Idolatry and must partake of her plagues Wo wo will be your Inheritance in the Pit of Earth for ever instead of a heavenly glory which you dream of above the sky I have armed my Armies to do my work herein which hath in part and will fulfil it to break you to pieces the intents of your hearts hath been known to be always against my people neither could you bear any appearance of me but blasphemes my name and truth in every discovery you have loved darkness upon earth and in its chains shall you be bound in the Lake for evermore To all you that are called Presbyterians and Independents THe Lords controversie is against you for you are a higher Branch of the first Tree deeper rooted in the cursed ground of fleshly and sensual wisdom and the womb of your conception is the first Whores daughter more comly decked and your Cistern holes the wine of fornication at which you drink in a measure her abomination and where you say you beleeves for justification and applies the promises for salvation your works of wickedness and hypocrisie will bring damnation and gains the promise of condemnation who are in pride and high-mindedness and double-heartedness which is the condition of that promise and you are found wanting every whit the conditions of the promise of eternal life you have reformed the outward man into obedience unto another likeness of the truth without the life and are as vise in the inward in hypocrisie and self exalting and hath covered yâ—â—r selves with the Saints words and said up more in store of the report of their riches then your fore-fathers and now you are become worshippers of the form and words of the Saints and are grown in the knowledge more then some of your father's children but in extolling the Saints words you limit their Spirit and keeps in death their life which was not of the world neither in appearance nor ground and while you say you eat and drink the flesh and blood of Christ in secret and separate you put him to death openly and among the multitudes your hearts are ful of bitterness against my remnant whom I have called and aloud you cry Heresie and Error and Blasphemes my Name and loaths the honey-comb in your full Stomacks you worship the same God as your fore-fathers did only in another appearance more refined through stronger wisdom and appears in the reformed old man thinking him to be the new man and deceives your souls hereby and are zealous in your blindness in your Will-worships and fained humility which is without the knowledge of God and you depend upon your Imaginations thinking to have life in the Scripture as they did which put Christ to death and will not come to Christ that you may have life you are in the knowledge gathered from without you which is natural and in it you are corrupted and some of you are brutish in your knowledge and are thereby puft up into pride and vain-glory your separation from the world is sensual and self separation and differs but a little in your appearance and nothing in the ground for the cursed ground stands within untilled and unbroken and you worship God ignorantly at a distance and feeds upon the report of a thing done many hundred of yeers ago and your faith doth not give you victory over the world for 't is set in your hearts and the vanities of it without is followed pride and oppression and fulness Some of you are hot and furious in your blind zeal and cannot endure sound Doctrine your fruits will wither and all your knowledge will perish and all your hopes and expectations will fail and all your praiseâ— and prayers and all your good works brought forth in your own wills in that nature in which the enmity lodges is a lame and a blind sacrifice and of Cains nature which God accepteth not you are in the liberty of the flesh and the daylie Cross of Christ you do not know but lives daylie to the world and dies not in it and your knowledge of Christ is without you by what such a Prophet and such an Apostle spoke of him and the witness of the operation of his Spirit and Power you have not in you nor his Sufferings you do not know in your life but by your life makes him to suffer in his life the horrible filthy thing is commited amongst you and your Teachers are perfect in the false Prophets steps and some of you are as brute beasts in their knowledge gathered in by vain study and humane learning through Philosophy and vain deceit and hath large quarters from which they seel their gain and through covetousness with feigned words makes merchandise of souls and are compleat in Bâ—laâ—mâ— way of Idolatry following his Error loving the wages of unrighteousness teaching for filthy lucre devouring souls for dishonest gain by trading with
the Promise to Life eternal Friends You have run into the Form of Godliness without the Power into a Church which is not in God but of the World into a Baptism which doth not wash away sin for you live in sin and pleads for it while you live upon Earth into a Communion which is not with God which no unclean can enter into for the Proud and Covetous partakes with you and while some of you have said that they that preached for hire have been Antichristian you your selves are fallen into the same abomination taking gifts and rewards and large sums of money and upholding such who doth it Here you are unjust to your own Principle and are for condemnation with the light in your Conscience Let shame cover your heads ye Hypocrites your covering will not hide you nor your high talking of Christ without you so long professed by you will not justifie you while you are found disobeying this Light in your Consciences which light is one with God with Christ and with the Spirit in its measure and it doth convince you of sin and is a command to you and would lead you if you walked in it from all Iniquity which is the will of God to you and to that mind which is carnal which ruleth in you the commands of Christ which are spiritual is nor given nor can be received bye saith Lo here and lo there Christ is to be found 〈…〉 the Light you are comprehended which if the least measure of it you did own it would lead you to the Baptism inward of the heart and to the Church which is in God whereof Christ is Head in every 〈…〉 and into the Communion with God and to follow the Lamb of God wheresoever he goeth and out of your imitations and likenesses and strife and contention about the words given forth from the Spirit who are in your own Unity in Division and several meanings and divers constructions and Judgements and several ways of Obedience and Worships and Belief which by your Imaginations you draw from the Scripture which is the Declaration but of one God and one Truth of one Obedience and of one Faith and thus you exalt the great Image of many mixtures your selves being a chief member of his Body You say the Scripture is your Rule but are divided into Opinions and Conceits contrary to the Scripture every one worshipping that which you Imagine from the Scripture not being in the unity of the Spirit which gave forth the Scripture which is one and not divided in Obedience Worship or Faith and while you say the Scripture is your Rule your lives are squared by the Spirit of the Divel and hewen out into Pride and Hypocrisie and love of the world And to you who are called Freewillers who say Christ died for All HErein you affirm that whereof you are ignorant which may be true in Christ but a lye unto you for you are not dead with Christ from the Rudiments of the world but are alive against him in the world they for whom he died are dead and they who yet lives puts him to death Freewill unto the ways and fashions and vanities of the world stands in you and you know not the daylie cross of Christ which is unto man's will nor what it is to follow Christ and obey him which is contrary to man's will You say He that is condemned 't is because he will not believe This is true in Christ but not in your carnal apprehensions of the natural man in whom there is no power to believe He that hath an Ear let him hear There is some true desires among you but your minds are not truly informed to the fulfilling of your desires and your minds are outward and applies peace to that which is for condemnation Your Reason and Wisdom is corrupted and cannot receive Truth but calls it Error and this is your sin Death over you hath passed and reigns over you as over all men and your knowledge is in time and you cannot hear of things which was before the world was your wisdom is sensual and your comprehension is strong and the little simplicity in you is betray'd by the subtlety which hath dominion in your Governour your Crown must be laid down and fools must you become before you be truly wise or can be crown'd with the Lamb and among the rest Remember you had warning and a day of Visitation before you were destroyed And this shall be by you witnessed in the day of the Lord To all you who say you wait and believe for the Coming of Christ to Reigne in Person upon Earth HEar you the Lords Controversie which he hath against you The way of his coming is not prepared but Rocks and Mountains are standing and Vallies are not filled up and rough and crooked is your present way your Hopes and Expectations in that ground wherein they spring will wither and fade away as the grass for your hope of his coming hath no whit purified you as he is pure for you are in the flesh and in the liberty of it which is Rebellion to his Reigne and Christ is kept in Prison in exile with that mind and the Divel is yet at liberty working in your earthly members and leads you captive into his Covenant in his Government in seeking your selves and to strengthen your selves in the Kingdom of the world and murmures that any should be above you and that is he which put Christ to death and will not have him to reigne in his power over the earth and to you what purpose is it for to desire the day of his coming For with wrath will he come and with vengeance will he reigne and will break your Kingdom like a Potters vessel and suddenly will he come but your expectations will be prevented for his Reigne and Kingdom is not of this world Your high nature stands and Satan is not bound not one of the days of the thousand yeers of his limit is not yet come your minds are outward in your own thoughts which are vain and you know not of what Spirit you are the sufferings of Christ must you know before you can see him Reigne and thorow his War must you strive before you can obtain his victory and him must you own in his convincing you of sin before you can witness his Reigne in glory upon Earth over sin To all you that are called Ranters THe Controversie of the Lord God is against you your Seat is in the mysterie of Iniquity and Satan transformed into an Angel of light is your God and King and the Kingdom of the second Beast is your Dominion your deadly wound is falsly healed and Sathan thereby hath enlarged his Government you continued not to the end but the Prince of darkness is more strongly entred and your latter end is worse then your beginning and your last end will be the worst of all while you have scorned self-righteousness your selves have been
impudently poluted with the spiritual wine of whoredom and though you have cryed against and abhorred the form of Religion your selves hath been in the highest power of Iniquity sold to do wickedly and given up to commit sin with greediness glorying in your shame and are become vain in your Imaginations your foolish hearts being darkned because when ye knew God you glorified him not as God The womb of your corruption is the well-favoured Harlot begotten by the false Prophet Plead with your Mother for she is an Adulteress and hath abundantly gone after other lovers loving their Bed of Adultery where ever she saw it Naked shall she be stripped and set as in the day that she was born and no Mercy shall be to you her children you had a convincement under the Law and was brought under condemnation some of you but as the viperous generation you have fled the wrath and now are become enemies to the Cross of Christ and turns the grace of God into wantonness which largely to you appeared which would wholly have sanctified you if in it you had walked but having slain the witness of God you now are in the cursed peace following drunkenness and cursed speaking and swearing and beastly lusts and beggarly vanities sporting your selves as in the day time and you are the crucifiers of Christ afresh and putters of him to open shame in the sight of the Heathen and while you speak swelling words of vanity your selves are the servants of corruption and of sin in the highest degree and free from righteousness in the least measure doing despite unto the Spirit of grace and being bound in the chains of darkness and your professed freedom is divellish stolen by you and is not the freedom of the Son of God purchased through death you never came through the Law but by your Oaths and Drunkenness and profâ—ness have cast it behind your backs you that are in wantonness kills the just and you that are in pleasures are dead while you live and you that live in fleshly â—â—sts are in the war against your own souls Jezabel is your prophetess and the Dog that is turned to the Vomit again is your example and seven unclean Spirits worse then the first is entred upon you that 's your Parable and your House is become the Den of Robbers which was once the House of Prayer the hand of the Lord is against you and his breath will kindle the torment of Tâ—phet upon you and everlastingly shall it burn upon you and shall not be quenched and your professed love shall be turned into my wrath and fury and sin shall you find in its vengeance though you have seen none in the action and my Witness which you have slain to gain peace shall arise to your everlasting trouble faith the Lord and your mâ—th shall be turned into everlating sorrow and your communion in unrighteousness shall become your unity in the just indignation of wrath and your liberty enjoyed in the world shall be turned into your bondage in the lake of fire and your Wisdom and Knowledge shall rot in the pit and your righteousness and uprightness which once was in you shall never be mentioned to you for your own iniquities shall you bear in the day of the Lord with the eternal light you are comprehended your beginning which was in judgement and your time which is in false peace and false liberty and love and fleshly joy and your end which will he everlastingly miserable and though you speak of the light and what it once wrought yet being from it turned into darkness bringing forth fruits of darkness and unrighteousness the light is your eternal condemnation and because you are the highest stone in the building of mysterie Iniquity the greater will be your 〈◊〉 intâ— the Ditch of deeper perdition you have been the greatest dishonourers of the true God and in the way of the upright are you a stumbling â—nto this day your state is read and your Portion is foâ—â—told and this Prophâ—â—â—e shall not fail but upon your â—eâ—ds shall be fulfilled 〈…〉 you that are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Waiteâ—â— THe Lord 〈…〉 â—â—ny â—…ou and 〈…〉 troversi 〈…〉 with 〈…〉 â—…st in 〈◊〉 Image of ma 〈◊〉 y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pitched in the Plains of f 〈◊〉 goodly biulding stands upon â—…d and beautified by the scattered st 〈◊〉 â—…nes of the former Cities of confu 〈◊〉 and a câ—â—m spâ—â—t 〈…〉 to vessel and â—…r neither is your â—…ct 〈…〉 of Iniâ—uity as by appearing 〈…〉 Serâ—â—nt you sâ—â—k 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…e â—…t noâ— at thâ—gates of 〈…〉 y 〈◊〉 before â—â—fe â—…aâ— you 〈◊〉 f 〈◊〉 you â—…he 〈…〉 at the foâ—â—dation â—nd 〈◊〉 â—…d and light 〈◊〉 â—verâ—â—n t 〈◊〉 meth â—…rld you cannot believe â—u are â—ery 〈…〉 Woâ—ds and knowledge and â—…ks 〈…〉 that w 〈◊〉 â—…ugh deâ—â—h you never obtained 〈…〉 know â—…gh â—ut it ariseth out of the c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ed in you Forms outw 〈◊〉 deny 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 inward and your chiefeâ—◠〈…〉 in your 〈◊〉 and while you say you Eat â—nd 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 Blood of Christ 〈…〉 substâ—â—ce y 〈◊〉 st measure and your Wills propâ—fies a 〈…〉 â—hich will be turned into true trouble and â—hen 〈…〉 the mans head is covered and the womans head is uncovered and this is a shame that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not power on her headâ— your Seeking and Waitinâ— of your 〈◊〉 and in your own tim◠〈◊〉 the L 〈◊〉 all and in all among 〈◊〉 â—or yâ—â—r Mother is not the 〈…〉 â—arried 〈…〉 a 〈◊〉 and your Seed 〈…〉 â—â—â—â—ng â—…dren A Propâ—â—t 〈◊〉 your 〈…〉 Whoâ—â— brought you forth and your Pro 〈◊〉 wither as time 〈◊〉 â—…nd your â—â—vâ—â—ing 〈…〉 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 regarded then 〈…〉 for 〈…〉 〈◊〉 as of sin 〈◊〉 â—…our â—…nd Depth is 〈…〉 Warning for a â—…tion 〈…〉 put away your other Lovers 〈…〉 tâ—e World 〈…〉 â—…ey whose â—…en in the Lambs 〈…〉 Heâ—â—s â—…s ANd 〈…〉 Image 〈…〉 Earth worshipped by 〈◊〉 d Pe 〈◊〉 many mixtures and it 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 which strikes at the â—oâ—â—ome 〈…〉 sev 〈◊〉 and divers appearances out 〈◊〉 â—nd diff 〈◊〉 â—…dgements and Opinions will stand 〈…〉 drâ—â—â—ful day of the Lord which u 〈◊〉 〈…〉 glory Wo wo 〈…〉 â—ll â—…ession when Christ comes in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 way â—…trary to â—ll your divided expectations and groun 〈◊〉 hopes He was before the world â—as and shaâ—â—â—nd doth reigne for ever when it is 〈◊〉 â—â—d in this â—…ay will the Lord God setup 〈◊〉 everlasting Kin 〈◊〉 of whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dâ—minion 〈…〉 shall be no end bâ—t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 â—…ded Kingdom of the â—eaâ—â—ly 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 â—e da 〈◊〉 to pieces never 〈◊〉 to be â—…d your Mountains shall be burned 〈◊〉 your 〈◊〉 and your 〈…〉 the Pit of everlasting wr 〈◊〉 t 〈◊〉 al j 〈◊〉 from him th 〈◊〉 upon â—…f infini 〈◊〉 anâ— Glory 〈…〉 〈…〉 iâ— a day and y 〈◊〉 h 〈◊〉 〈…〉 at â—oonday and all your 〈…〉 thrown down and shall bec 〈◊〉 of Dragons I have viewed you all 〈…〉 you are weighed in
am I known and I read you within the vail and doth behold you the Train of the most High filling his Temple follow him for ever and 〈◊〉 his name be â—…sted of throughout the Earth Make war in righteousness and prepare your selves to do his service Let not your hands be slack neither be you slothfâ—l in our Lords Design but wound the Head of your enemies and manage war against Gog and Maâ—og throughout all ginerations Ride on and prosper and tread down the â—enced Cities and enlarge your Dominion and let the children of strangers of the seed of Esaâ— be youâ— slaves and Bondmen anâ—â—â—ll the earth with your precious seed and sow it in the morning and in the evening with-hold not your hand though you are despised of men yet the Lord hath made you truly honourable in his glory you appear and his righteousness is your clothing which will never wither and though some of you for a moment suffer Bonds for his Names sake yet you are free ever lasting and are not ashamed of your testimony before the Princes and Nobles of the Earth O Sion t 〈◊〉 art desirable because of thy Beauty and thy dwelling place is scituate in a very fruitful hill and thou feedest in the vallies of fat Pastures of eternal pleasures where nothing that defiles can enter nor no devourer treadeth on thy mountain nor no Lyons whelp treads in thy path It is the way of the ransomed of the Lord who hath blotted out thy transgressions never more to remember thy sins thou Seed of Jacob The Lord is your God for ever while you be his people therefore walk before him in righteousness and let his own works praise him and give him of his own and glorifie him with it eternally Be low in thy heart and be not exalted because of thy Beauty and Riches and glory not but only in the Lord Be diligent in thy mind and watch against all thy enemies and be not of a careless heart Eat not of the Vine of Sodom nor drink not of the Cup of whoredoms Give not thy strength to strange women nor let not thy desirable Beauty be over come of Harlots but keep thy self undefiled and mingle not thy seed with strangers but be fruitful in thy pleasant land upon thy beautiful mountain and bring forth abundantly unto thy God who hath turned thy wilderness into a fruitful field and taken away thy reproach of barrenness in conversation upright and blameless do thou daylie appear in praises and honour and fear do thou abound and let thy God be thy Teacher in his light and truth for evermore that thy enemies may see and be confounded and may behold and be ashamed before thee unto whom thy Rock of defence is a stumbling stone of offence wherewith the Kingdoms of the earth shall be dashed to pieces and broken as a Potters vessel before thee Come forth in thy Beauty and appear in thy glory unto the Nations Arise arise why should thou sit as alone as in obscurity and darkness undiscovered let the Princes of the earth see thy excellency and appear before the Nobles in thy Robes of perfect Honour wherewith thou art decked and trimmed as a Bride pleasant unto thy Husband Do thou judge among the Judges and give thy counsel among the prudent and appear in thy authority before Kings and Princes All the Dominions of the world is not equal in Treasure and Wisdom unto thee but all the children of whoredoms shall see their shame and be laid naked when thou appears in thy purity The Nations longs for thee to be partakers of thy vertue therefore shew thy self and appear that the rest of thy Flock which yet remains upon the barren mountains may come in unto thy Pold to rest under thy Shepherds power O Sion thou art prepared of thy God to beat the mountains to dust thou art fitted for his service to thresh the bills Make no carrying but come away spread thy self into every corner of the earth for the upright thir steth for thee abundantly who layeth under the oppression in the land of darkness which may be felt from whence thou art freed into the everlasting light and why should thou O Sion lay at rest while thy own seed the children of thy womb are oppressed groaning in the captivity under the uncircumcised who hath driven away thy remnant and scattered it from thee Put on strength O Arm of the Lord for thy 〈◊〉 age hath no other Helper nor none that pittyeth her and shine forth thoâ— Seed of Jacob and bring in the Kingdoms of the Gâ—â—tiles to partake with thee of thy everlasting substance and lay out thy self to gain in thy holy seed out of the power of Egypts king O think upon and remember thy own former Bondage while thou was thy self captive in a strange land and let thy Bowels be filled with compassion towards thy own mothers children and be not straitned in thy help and deliverance for thy God hath given thee an instrument with â—â—â—th to beat the Rocks to powder He is not waâ—â—ing unto thee in power and wisdom thou chiefest Son of his lâ—â—â—e Give up give up to obey his voice and love not thy life unto death till the seed of thy Inheritance and the blood of thy chosen be avenged upon the â—ead of Jezâ—â—â—l who hath slain thy Elect in all generaâ—ionâ— and nourished her self with the blood of thy Innocent Call upon thy God and awake him to vengeance to sâ—ite and to slay thy adversaries and to consumâ— their habitations from off the earth who have been too strong for theâ— why shouldâ—st thou not come forth in the power of thy judgement to judge the earth in righteousness and to exalt thy Name in the glory which all men hath despised and seen no excellency in And thou O Sions King hath been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stranger and unknown in the earth and thy Treasure hath been masted amongst the Harlots and empty to this day hast thou returned from gathering fruit off thy Vineyard for slothful and abundantly 〈◊〉 haâ—h the Labourers been in the Harvest and it is time for thee â—o arise and work for thy Law hath been made void and thy Statutes and Judgements hath been neglected and all the Princes of the earth contemneth thy laws and counteth the sons of thy chosen heritage as slaves and bondmen and decrees unrighteous decrees and seals them in the pit of their unbelief upon the mountains of their rebellion against thee How long Lord how long When wilt thou appear to lay their honour in the dust of confusion Is it not the fulness of thy time which thou hast promised How long shall the remnant of Sion sit as a Widow bemoaning her children Thy Host and Chosen waiteth for Commission from thee to do thy Will That thou art our God and our King our Judge and our Law-giver who our souls hath chosen may for ever be exalted in thy Majesty and Throne of Justice and Judgement and thy Camp waiteth to see the honour of Kings and Princes overthrown by thee and thy Dominion set to rule over their heads that all Nations and Kingdoms may become subject unto thee and the kingdoms of this world way become the Kingdom of thy Son for ever and evermore and saith my Soul Come Lord Jesus come quickly FINIS