be all in love to injoy God in time of trouble or at all times and to be with him in Spirit where he is this is an Heavenly estate to see the invisible appear in the visible and to swallow it up in it self in love as Enech that walked with God and was not but there is such a way for Saints to go before they come to injoy their Kingdome or to enter into their glory as followeth as Iesus Christ hath shewed us in that which is called the Lords Supper and Baptism that no Flesh wil indure it as wil appear First from those words of Christ in Mat. 20.19.20.21 for when he was defired by the mother of Zebedees children that her two sons might sit the one at his right hand and the other at his left in his kingdome his answer was You know not what you ask for saith he Are ye able to drink of the Cup that I shal drink of and to be Baptised with the Baptisme what Jam Baptised withall As if he should say the way that leads to my kindome is a Crucifying way even from the beginning to the end as it was with me who was persecuted from my birth to my death it is a way sprinkled with blood and burning with Fire very sharp and bitter and no sweetnesse in it for many storms and tempests wil arise and fall upon your travel to Canaan you must be crowned with thorts and you must be tempted with the Serpent buffeted with Satan and persecuted with Herod and how are you able to endure this saith they we are able then saith Christ again you stall indeed drink of the Cup that J drink of and be baptised with the baptisme that J am baptised with but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but it shall be given to chem for whom it is prepared of my Father which is as much as to say you must suffer the losse of all things below or besides me and the way which I have gone you shall go the death which I have suffered you shall in some measure suffer and then having gon the way and suffered the death you wil say Father Glorifie thy Son that thy Son may Glorifie thee then wil he give you a crown of life which is laid up for you in the kingdom of heaven and as Paul saith J have run the race and obtained the price in Jesus Christ J have finished my cross henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of glory even the Lord and Christ himself saith that for the glory which was set before him he indured the crosse and despised the shame drunk his cup and received his Baptisme and after entred into his glory And thus he went before us as a pattern or an example for us but when we have obtained the Kingdom and received the Crown the kingdom being delivered up to the father we are not Christ is all unto God the onely one for we then are not our owne but we are Christs and Christ is Gods and so an union betwixt Christ and us and an union betwixt God and Christ into one entire and alone essence then is the Kingdome deliverd up unto God by Christ and then God the Father is as he was that is all in all and out of that all all came forth and into that all shall all be through Christ who is the strength of God be reduced into God and yet a visible appearance through the invisible and in him to appear this is one glimps of the mystery of the Divine Deity operative acting through it self in the illustration of it self which is wisdoms work and the Spirits teaching therefore let all flesh be silent before tke Lord for it is not he that heareth my words Saith Christ but he that doth my will he it is that is my disciple blessed for ever in the name of the Father Epist VII Concerning a word of exhortation to Christians to support the bruised Reed that the smoaking flax may be set on fire in these Gospel-times O How good a thing it is for Christians to walk close with God in that dispensation wherein he appeareth unto them in for no one can truly serve God out of that dispensation wherein he appeareth unto them therefore then to walk up to what they know and to judg others that are not under the same though there be several dispensations or administrations yet the same Lord though they may be severally acted yet all by one spirit if they be sincere and upright in heart and of a meek and quiet spirit who dwels in love otherwise they are but the world a Saint is known by one of the same spirit and disowned by the world for they love their own and the proof of a Saint is to show his strength in time of need that is to own all things that is of God and to bear with the weak brethren and to cherish that in them which is to be cherished and to offer up that to the fire which is to be burnt But how prone is man to be judging and condemning Man hath an eye and light in his day and he cannot forbear passing his judgment there upon things or persons the natural man wil be judging natural things and the spiritual man wil be judging spiritual things men wil be judging men Christians wil be judging Christians yea both wil be judging there is a day of man and the day of God man is judging in his day if there be not so much light as to make the day of the Lord appear in man it is but mans day and so the worthlesness of his judgment appears in Pauls account for saith he it is with me avery small thing that I should be judged of you or of mans judgment man cannot be more forward to judg me then I am to slight him in that action for mans judgment is too shallow to judg in spiritual things judg not saith Christ and he himself forbear judging I judg no man Iob 8 15. though if he had judged his judgment had been true vers 16. yet being not his time to judg though he was judg he could for bear his sentence until the proper season of it therfore saith Paul judg nothing before the time until the Lord come who wil both bring to light the hidden things of darkuess and wil make manifest the counsels of the heart therefore saith Paul With me it is a very small thing that J should be judged of you or of mans judgment yea I judg not mine own self 1 Cor. 4.3 Who art thou that indgest another mans servant to his own master he standeth or falleth or wherein thou iudgest another thou condemnest thy self it belongs to the Lord to be iudg for thou O man hast no more right to iudg thy fellow servant then he has to iudg thee therfore iudg nothing before the time in the things of God for he has kept his own light for his
THE SPIRIT OF GOD in MAN Making manifest the hidden things of DARKNESS to MAN Being divine Teachings whereby the Lord alone is exalted and the pride of fleshly glory discovered by the shining light of Christ in and through RICHARD RVSSEL 1 Joh. 1.3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and the Son Iesus Christ Isai 60.1 Arise and shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen Blow ye the Trumpet in Sion and sound an alarms in my holy Moutain let all the Inhabitants of the Land tremble for the day of the Lord cometh for it is nigh at hand LONDON Printed by T. Lock living in Seacole-Lane neer the Sign of the George 1654. The Epistle to the READER BEloved Brethren Spiritual things are given by Divine Inspiration not by the wil of Man but by the wil of God who manifests himself when he pleaseth and to whom he pleaseth And know this that Gods works are not like mans works he doth not always take the wise of this world and learned and rich of this world to manifest himself in and through but be chooseth the despised and the poor and weak of this world who are of a sincere minde zealous for God and God is pleased to fill them with the good things of himself when as the other seek him in darkness in the wisdom of man and by the Law as did Israel of old who sought earnestly but attained not to the true Vision and Kingdom of righteousness but went empty away therefore quench not the smoaking flax but rather wait until it be set on flame that it may kindle your spark so that there may bee light in your house for there is a wonderful time coming but because it beginneth in the night there are many that shal not see it by reason of their sleep and great darkness yet the Son wil shine to the Children at midnight happy are they whose eys are open to see the Son of GOD when he cometh in the clouds then every one that hath a single eye shal see the pleasant showers fall upon the tender plants that they may also have vertue in them to abide the heat of the day when the Son shal shine forth in its beauty to scorch the glory of all flesh therefore let every one that glorieth glory onely in the Lord for he that truly knows the Lord will do so for the knowledge of the Lord teacheth us wisdom and so saith the Prophet Isaiah The Lord is my God therefore wil I praise him for he knew God by his spirit which did set forth his praise in him therefore as thou readest herein consider whether thou hast the spirit of understanding without which thou canst not understand aright the things that belong unto thy peace So I commit thee unto the Lord who is able to guide thee unto the peace that passeth all understanding THE SPIRIT OF GOD in MAN Epistle I. Concerning what Man was and by Creation is and how he fel and also a word of the Divine Mysterie GOD which was is and for ever shal be a being in himself hath been pleased to declare the same in Creation of which Creation man is a chief part but before the Creation there was nothing but God no appearances were brought forth out of the one onely infinite and entire being who knows how harmoniously and sweetly with an entire love and oneness we tumbled together with in the womb of Eternity when all things were in union with their Original Centre Now when God was to create the world and all things therein he had no other materials or matter to make it of but his own being therefore God is the Essence of all Essences for all is generated or born created and proceeded from him and all things take their first beginning in God as the Scripture witnesseth saying Through him and in him are all things and all things were created by him and for him and by him all things consist Consider That God is a Spirit that is incomprehensible and was before appearances were brought forth by or in his essential Word and hath neither beginning nor end and his greatness and depth is all The whole Creation is but his unfolding of himself in his varieties and his cloathing himself in the creature in their created estate so that since this great fabrick of heaven and earth hath bin made to appear God hath ever been hiding himself hiding himself in his life being motions and operations so that no eye can see him or know what he does or what he means but that eye which is with him where he is This consider That every spirit seeth no further then into its Mother or Nature out of which it hath its Original and wherin it standeth for it is impossible for any spirit below the spirit of God in its own natural power to look into another principle and behold it except it be regenerated therein or brought forth anew Heaven and Earth at their first coming forth were but a vail behinde which God intended to hide himself and did hide himself even from Adam in his highest and purest estate God indeed showed himself to Adam as he appeared in the creature as he shined through the vail but hid himself as he was in himself so that Adam could in no wise reach to the true vision but only to such an appearance as God pleased to dart forth of himself through the vail Now confider when the breath of Lise was breathed into man or elementary birth it was out of Gods first principle then Man was a living soul in the heavenly Paradise wherein there was a state of Innocency being the morning time of man wherein was planted paradisical fruit which the garden Man should bring forth for God did make him a garden for his own delight to walk in and that the creature should delight in him and to acknowledge God to be his Maker and his all his life and only being to whose command he was to subject himself in all obedience meekness thankfulness love humility and mercy and so represent the glory of the Lord and to be like him if these things be in you and abound you shal not be unfruitful therefore let these things be applied to every one of our hearts in particular these prophesying times Again observe this that God foreknew that all created things are changeable therefore God made a Law to man forbidding him of eating of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil which is in the midst of the garden for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye and this is the Law and Covenant that I have made between me and thee that hast a being in creation by me This consider that man was made upright but he being let stand did putrifie and so sought out many inventions Eecles 7.29 so that
there aspited up in the midst of the garden the heart of man pride and covetousness being not contnted with that estate that God had put him in by Creation but did covet another estate to exalt it self to be more knowing than God had made him which self-aspiring the creature delighted in and so eating or satisfying himself in his own fruit broke the Law and Covenant and died according to the words of his Maker and so fell from a pure estate to be rebellious and to delight in his own ways so that the root of mans fall as he is a creature sprung in his heart there lies the mystery of iniquity therefore consider what is the forbidden fruit which him that eateth thereof doth advance himself and denies God which is the creatures death loss and shame and ever since the fall of man this selfish aspiring spirit of pride leads the humane nature to disobey God and leads every man and woman captive at his will and inslaves them in the prison of bondage and darkness to walk in ways directly contrary to the God of Truth and Light and yet many times perswades them that they do God good service let a man read hear study preach pray and perform actions of justice yet if God be not merciful to the man this power of darkness will deceive him making him conceit or think he pleaseth God when the truth is he serves but himself all that time if the Spirit of God be not their counsellor and support it is so ful of secret strong delusions therefore this is called the crooked Serpent because it winds it self into every creature and into every faculty and twists it self about the Tree Mankind so that the humane nature is defiled and is a seat wherein the Beast and false Prophet sitteth and therein predominate whereby Satans Kingdom is set up and a worldlike power maintained who serves by the brain for worldlike gain Epist II. Concerning our Restitution Captivity Sanctification Ascension and Vnion BEginning with that in Eph. 1.9 10. That in the dispensation of the fulness of time he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in him There is a time for all purposes that are decreed by the Father to be fulfilled in their times and seasons a day for to fall a day to reign as Kings one hour with the Beast in his fall a day for to be sensible of his fall a day to be senfible of the terrors and punishments by his fall and a day to be sensible of his loss of Gods presence and communion with him and a day to abide the trial of the fire which shall search the heart and try the reins of man a day for all fleshly glory to fall before the presence of the Lord a day to mourn for these changes a day for to go through the fiery trial and to be refined again and again a day to behold the manifestation of God to be like Flames of Fire to kindle every where where it cometh then shall the smoaking flax be set on fire then will the Lord say unto the Sons of men Arise and shine for your light is come then shall you arise from the dead and Christ shal give you life then am I come saith he that you may have life and that you may have it more abundantly and you who were absent from me shal return to your fathers house like the prodigal and be present with me where I am And then you that seed upon husks and were wanderers and strangers to the Land of Promise the Land of the Living thus being refined Christ wil present you unblameable and unrebukable without spot or blemish before the Throne of God and you shall bee unto him a sweet savor a saerifice which he is well pleased with then saith he Come my own delight come my own children which are neer and dear unto mee who issued out of my own bowels which my womb brought forth to the glory and praise of my own name even so shall it be by my gathering those that are afar off and those that are nigh into my glory then is the time come that the Father wil glorifie us that we may glorifie him then shal we know the time that the Lord doth gather in his sewels which shal shine most gloriously in their Cabinets then shal they who have the single eye behold and see that Christ is come the second time without sin unto salvation Heb. 9.28 Therefore Lift up your heads O ye gates even lift them up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shal come in Psalm 24.9 Consider that Christ is the head of every Saint and to be a Saint is to be sanctified and drawn up into union with Christ for he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one Heb. 2.11 which makes them gates to shew forth his praise and to exalt their head then shal we know that he that descended is the same also that asoended and know this that there is a descending before there is an ascending and that which doth descend must also ascend so every thing shal return into its Centre if you are spiritual you must ascend into the internal Court and the heavens shal bee bowed down at the presence of the Lord for the rising up of all Saints into union with him when the day of remptation is upon all the world for there is no approach no converse no sweet intercourse between God and the Creature but in him by him and through him and this consider if you are not risen with Christ ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God and these things are hid from your eyes and present enjoyment likewise therefore let every one examine his own heart and consider what an estate he is in whether it bee in darkness or in light or whether the day of the Lord hath been upon thee that thou art changed thereby from death to life and so from glory to glory and to be gathered out of all things below God whatsoever that thou canst truly say that Christ who is our life has appeared we appear with him in glory then thou art able to dwel wth consuming fire to live in dispensations a life a to appear where the Lord appears and not to smite at thy poor brethren who Christ died for This consider That all Nations are made of one blood and have all life and breath by one God Act. 7.26 yet this great lump being brought forth though they are all the same all of one blood yet they are cut out into two parcels Jews and Gentiles and they are as distinct as may be both in their ways and in their God in their Laws Ordinances desires ends and hopes the Jews must not be like the Gentiles in any thing the Gentiles will not be like the Jews in any thing Oh how diverse and distinct and
gather together his Elect from four winds from one end of heaven to the other Math. 24.30 31. then shall all the holy seed be gathered in and appear in its glory then the tribes of the earth shal mourn because of the desolation of their Kingdom then I. is taken and I. is left Epist IV. A discovery of the Reign of the Beast of Babylons City which hath made the nations drunk with wine of her fornication I Shall begid with that of Daniel ch 8. v. 23.24 25. and in the later time of their Kingdome when the transgressors are come to the full a King of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences and his power shal be mighty but not by his own power and he shal destroy wonderfully and shal prosper and practise and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people and through his policy also he shal cause craft to prosper in his hand and he shal magnifie himself in his heart and by peace shal destroy many he shal also stand up against the Prince of Princes but he shal be broken down without hand And all this time that God is gathering together the Elect he hath given a time times and half a time to the Serpent which in these threefold shapes and a half or in these three days and a half he is called the Beast Ruling in the Whore and this time is given him to make war and to fight against the Prince of Princes and his Saints and to overcome then and to waste and destroy the holy People mightily and this appointed time is the year or season wherin the Beast lives and God gives all advantages to the Beast as riches ontward liberty worldy power and generally human authority into his hand whereby he reigns and is the Idol God of this world and hath put no weapons into the hands of the Saints but the anoynting and sword of the Spirit of the Lord to fight against the reproaches slanders opprssions poverties weaknsse wickednesse Prisons and the multitude of temptations which the Beast through her wit malice police and power doth cast upon the Saints like a flood of water to drowne and destroy and over come the worke of God in his coming forth in the Spirit if it were possible likewise the Serpent stirs up some whom he discerns to be seeming professors outwardly religious having a form of Godlinesse but through hypocrisie pride and selfishness deny the power and dishonor God and discourage the tender Lambs of Christ and cast an ill reproach upon the wayes of God and hence it is that Isarel of old were trampled upon by the Gentiles in the Flesh that were not in Covenant with them but were under the condemning law who have trod under foot the blood of the new covenant and hence it is that the Beast must tread the holy City underfoot two forty months which signifieth his Reign is but for a short space of time but now in these latter dayes when the time times and half drawe to an end then God sends forth several dispensations and Angels assisting to the sixth and great dispensation wherein the Lords appearance wil blast all the glory of the Beast and Immaginary part of man therefore ye that adorn your selves with Babylons painting fair outsides of several colors and dresses of Edoms die behold the Lord is coming to execute Iudgement upon his adversaries and our oppressors and to poure out Vials of wrath upon all the glory of the Beast and to stain the pride of all flesh whereby he curses all their glory by seaven degrees by the voice of God through Angels and Saints sounding forth seaven Trumpets of glory to God one after another which is perfection of glory to the Saints or Church of the first borne which implies perfection of ruin upon every particular of the Beast blasting cursing or the downefall of their Kingdom Oh! that all professors had a zeal of God according to knoledg that they may not be like the wilde sigrree that Christ cursed which was sul of leaves but no fruit for iniquity abounds and the love of many in whom the Serpent rules waxeth cold and extreme ' bitter and mad against the Saints in whom the anoynted rules so that they gnash their tongues with vexation of spirit and the smoak of their torment ascends upward and so they have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the Mark of his Name and thus consider while God suffers the Beast co Reign it is called the day of the Beast and God hath given him three dayes and a half to tread the holy City underfoot or the space of two and forty months which is three shapes three discoveries of the Reign of the Beast or three degrees and a half of the Serpents Reformation from bad to worse from open prophaneness to close hypocrisie Rev. 17.4 therefore let error sin devil and darknesse come forth in their power it is the wil of God they should do so that it may appear to be more then what it is and that old Herode may be discovered which seeketh the life of the childe Iesus as soon as he is borne of any Virgin Spirit also that Pharaoh should rise unto his ful greatnesse that God may appear to be above and to get himself honor upon him for he wil be glorified by both vessels of honor and vessels of dishonor Antichrist is now getting up upon his last leggs whose leggs are Iron and feet clay there is life no where but in his stump which often has been lap 't but yet the root remaines alive which is not enough to quicken throughly in this his last Image and form in which he is coming forth like unto an Angel of light but how soon was he thrown down in his last appearance and rising among us even before he could bite his teeth were broken god smote him on the cheek-bone before the thorns were growne hard to prick the fire took hold of them which fire is kindling the smoak sparkles to burn downe the tall Cedars and God is finishing the work apace and cutting it short in righteousnesse even to the utter consumption and destruction of his enemies by the brightnesse of his coming Jacob shall be a Fire and Esau for stubble God wil be a swift witnesse against this Sorcery for so are all the dealings of natural men in things of god and by terrible things wil he answer them and this consider that the foundation that some professors are laying in several wayes or opinions shutted to their eyes which wil appear to be the abomination of desolation spoken of by Danel the prophet all the rising and puttings forth of Antichrist are faire and wel looking but God doth pronounce the final Curse against it which was a fruit that sprung up in the created being and acted both inwardly and outwardly but Gods design is to weed out the tares from the good of the corn but
the husbandmen think that by this husbandry the wheat wil be pulled up with the tares nay they think the wheat wil be destroyed and the tares nourished because they are unskilful of the work but the Lord is now resolved that the wheat shal spread and flourish and he wil come and sever the tares from the wheat and throw out those husbandmen with them into the Fire which beat his Servants and would have killed the Heir therefore their vineyard shal be taken away and given to another people therefore let all Flesh be silent before the Lord for he is raised up to make known his power for the proclaiming of Israels return and the captivity of his people Zach. 2.13 for the Lord wil build her again that hath been trodden down and plant her in the magnificents beauty of beauties in royal and adorative glory O my beloved my soul is ravished with the delightful delight defiring you may be gathered into union in the celestial centre in the bosom of the Father Epist V. Concerning a further discovery of Antichrist in man and of the Spirit of God in man discovering that Antichrist what he is and where he rules ANd every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this is that spirit of Antichrist whereof you have heard that it should come and even now already is in the world 1 Ioh. 4.3 Who hath known the minde of God the spiritual man that cannot but confess that Christ is come in the Flesh by his union that he hath with him in the spirit and is enlightened by the Resurrection from the dead whereby his works declare him that they are of the Father not onely in word but in power and demonstration of the Spirit whereby they abound in all goodness for so are the fruits of the Spirit as love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance against such there is no Law Gal. 5.23 Now who are they that confesseth not that Christ is come in the Flesh even they in whom the Spirit of Antichrft rules and is predominate in them whereby they bring forth the fruits of wickednesse by their own Beastial reason now who is an Antichrist even he that denieth the Father and the Son 1. John 2 22. and all that obey not the command of Christ which doth bring us unto God then Antichrist must be the unbeleeving Spirit that cannot confesse Christ by the fruits of the Spirit of God and by his mercies held forth in lesus Christ unto him in his creaturely estate this know whilest thou art in this dark ignorant polluted defild estate thou hast an Antichrist Devil false Prophet within thee as it doth appear by Peter when Christ said unto him Got the dehinde mee Satan for thou savorest not the things of God but of man then look no more for Anti-Christ abroad or at Rome but at home and do not thrust it off from one unto another and one country unto another Nation when indeed it is Antichrist his trade to keep our eyes without lest we should see his deceit within Antichrist is also the whore that holds forth ber Golden Cup ful of abomination and filthinesse of her fornication Rev. 17.4 which deceives the nations and wipes her mouth and said I have done no wrong when shee hath acted what shee can therefore tremble tremble tremble for the day of the Lord wil renounce the hidden things of dishonesty and the secrets of your hearts shal be laid open and you shal be as stubble for the Fire in that day then shal he shake every strong hold and your fortified places and your high towers yea he wil shake both heaven and earth both inwardly and outwardly so that there wil be no safety no where but in the Lord for he shal bee the hiding place until the indignation of the Lord be overpast that those things which cannot be shaken being himself may remain when he shal turn upside down and overturn all things that are not according to truth and strength and knowledg wisdom and power of Christ Jesus therefore weight diligently upon the Lord that hou maist be found in him not having thine own righteousnes but the righteousnes of Christ even the Lord our righteousnes therfore behold there is a wild Figtree that was a show of a goodly good tree afar off to dark eys but to com close to the Fig-tree you my brethren after the flesh wch vaunt your selvs in human learning brainwit then like the Fgtree are ye and are ful of beautious leaves without of expressions but to come to the fruit ye are carnal and devillish in action by the fruit ye shal know them if you are able to distinguish of fruits by the Spirit of God which shal try the spirits and the works of man of what sort they are Now there is but light and darkness in which man worketh in either light or darkness and this is the definition God is light and that light is love now Man in that love is in light and that onely light is Christ now as God is light the Devil is but darkness to that light now in darkness is hatred malice envy covetousness and the root of all bitterness which is the Devil therefore you that would be holy depart from these evils for it is the highway of the righteous to depart from iniquity Epist VI. Of an heavenly estate of things in the new Ierusalem in man and of the death of the Creature in an estate below God TO come close to the matter In a word it is this hel is called death or a conditon below life and this is twofold either a death far below the nature of God or a death of sorrows which is a condition far below the comforts and enjoyments of God now every man and woman as they are branches of Adam in the fall they have no purity in themselves and therefore in a hel far below the life and nature of God and likewise they are unavoydably subject to the sorrows of that death and have no power to deliver themselves out of that bondage for God is only our Redeemer and Deliverer therefore he sent his Son not to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved Joh. 3.17 Therefore it followeth clear that if men were capable of so much mercy being Gods creatures as to be delivered from the guilt of Sin and of Death which is one part of Hel or a condition below life eternal then wil they be capable to be delivered through the mercy of the same God from the sorrowes and pains that followeth sin both which God in his time wil deliver his Creation from Secondly the heavenly estate is to live unto God with the life of Christ in the knowledg thereof of his power and to know God to be his all in all to love his Enemies to do good to them that hate you and persecute you to
own day which shall lay open the secrets of every mans heat therefore he that is under one discovery let him not iudg another that is under another discovery and let not them who serve God in dispensations iudg them in whom he wil be served above dispensations and so to limit and confine God how or where he shall appear or be served but as every one hath received of the gift of God so let them minister the same as good stewards of his manifold grace 1 Pet. 4.10 therfore note it is a gift which cannot be purchased by mony as human learning is which servs but for external things and cannot look into the internal as can the gift which is given even the spirit of truth which needeth not to be supported by human learning for it is supported by he that gives but human learning is made a cloak to cover ignorance and hypocrifie and to deceive the simple but when it is grown to the ful heighth it shal fal and then great Babylon shal fal and her mourners shal be many Therefore I pray you set no greater a price of it then what it is worth for when God called for Preachers he called Fishermen as was Peter and Shepheards as was Moses and David and Herdsmen as Amos and Elisha a Plowman Christ himself was call'd a Carpenter Paul a Tentmaker but he could speak Tongues being brought up at the feet of Gamaliel but for althat he was a persecutor of the church before his conversion therefore let not one sort of people have any preiudice against another for God wil cal whom he pleaseth and wil be honored where he pleaseth and can take of al sorts som to manifest his glory therfore be waiting upon God and ceasing from man whose breath is in his nostrils so fulfil the commands of Christ see that you love one another love al men even your enemies do good to them that hate you the God of love wil cover you when the storme shal fal upon the wicked O beloved did you but know how lovely you are being in love for love sheweth the deformity in all that is not in love but it is not seen but by loves own eye what an oneness there is in your selves being in love what an oneness in multiplicities being in love which wil set the smoaking Flax on a bright Flame wil kindle every little spark where it comes Love is that which ties all the Brethren in a knot God is love and he that dwelleth in that love dwelleth in God and God in him Herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of Judgment because as he is so are we in this world 1 Joh. 4.16.17 FINIS If you our land would know wherin we overflow It is Canaan wherin the pleasant plants do grow Which from the root they yeeld their fruit now Of heavenly glory forth to show Not in notion but our portion which satisfits us Yea the Sun which is so transparent bright With its sarafic al light Power strength and might Which turns all the beholders into its right And puts an end to war and strife Which in Religions fight But in darkness not in light Wherein their actions attend to strife Which fruit doth show where it doth grow In human nature far below Which is a Hell to the creatures woe When the vials come where that doth grow Which shal scorch and blast That which man doth hold so fast Then mans teaching that shal fal Which hath long time stood like a wal Then Melchisedec a Preacher unto us shal be partition wal Jn perfect unitie So God who is our all by breaking down the Wil deliver Israel all from bondage and from thral So shal the light which is so bright Shine both far and neer Then perfect love shal cast out fear That we in heaven may appear With our glory in the Sphere Then for to be what at first we were Before in Creation we did appear That Christ in one may all then be Vnto eternity Then the pathment of our God in glory bright Always a day there is no night From that Imperial Throne Declares the glory of union Finis