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A52030	A second epistle, being a tender salutation to the seed of Jacob vvherein is contained an exhortation to the called and chosen people of the Lord, who have kept their first love, to abide therein to the end : also, a hand of dear love held forth to the spiritual travellers, who are travelling from Egypt's land of darkness towards the spiritual land of rest : the counsel and determination of the Lord God Almighty founded in the ears of the unfaithful, disobedient and deceitful, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, and cover themselves with a profession of the precious truth, and yet live in the nature and spirit of those who walk in the broad way, that leadeth to destruction : also, a brief rehearsal and discovery of the enemy of man's soul, his workings from the beginning of his appearance unto this day, age, and generation / Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1673 (1673)	Wing M742; ESTC R7579	15,880	27

A Second EPISTLE Being a Tender Salutation To the Seed of Jacob. VVherein is contained an Exhortation to the Called and Chosen People of the Lord who have kept their First Love to abide therein to the End Also A Hand of Dear Love held forth to the Spiritual Travellers who are travelling from Egypt's Land of Darkness towards the Spiritual Land of Rest The Counsel and Determination of the Lord God Almighty founded in the Ears of the Unfaithful Disobedient and Deceitful who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness and cover themselves with a Profession of the Precious Truth and yet live in the Nature and Spirit of those who walk in the Broad Way that leadeth to Destruction Also A brief Rehearsal and Discovery of the Enemy of Man's Soul his Workings from the beginning of his Appearance unto this Day Age and Generation Charles Marshall Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bare you on Eagles Wings and brought you unto my self Now therefore if you will obey my Voice indeed and keep my Covenant then ye shall be a peculiar Treasure unto me above all People for all the Earth is mine Printed in the Year 1673. A Second EPISTLE Being a Tender Salutation To the Seed of Jacob. THou Seed of Jacob that hast been scattered amongst the Nations who hast indeed been small and lain amongst the Pots thy Glory hath been covered thou hast been as trodden down amongst all Nations desolate and forsaken as a Widdow thy Habitation hath been in the Wilderness the great red Dragon hath sought to devour thee the Beast that rose out of the Sea and the Beast that rose out of the Earth and Mystery Babylon the great have all sought the Vailing of thy Glory and the Destruction of thy Life thou hast been as a speckled Bird and being desolate hast mourned and cried through many Ages and Generations thou hast been as in a strange Land how hath the Egyptian and Assyrian oppressed thee how have the Task-masters oppressed thee Oh thy Burdens thy Oppressions thy Wounds thy Cries and Tears thy Lamentations thy Groanings under all thy Oppressions and Oppressors thy Burden is felt and thy deplorable Estate amongst the Nations over which Darkness hath spread it self as a Covering God Almighty hath given a sence of Oh thou that art as in the Clifts of the Rocks and as in the secret Places of the Stairs my Soul hath been often bowed down in a sence and sight hereof but blessed be the Name of my God the Sorrow hath not been without Hope having felt the Arm that will deliver thee Arise Arise thou Worm Jacob the Lord hath heard thy Mournings and hath taken notice of thy Oppressions and his Bowels earn on thee yea he hath seen he hath seen thy desolate Estate thy Cries are come before him and thy Sighings and Mournings and he hath taken notice of thy Oppressors and is angry with the Nations because of thee And now in the Name of the God of the whole Earth the Everlasting Creator ●… prophesie of thy universal Visitation and Deliverance through all Nations Tongues and People now will the Lord plead with all Nations for thy sake and give Nations for thee and People for the Ransom of thy Life Now will be gather thee thou Seed of Jacob from the East and from the West he will now say to the North give up and to the South keep not back and will bring his Sons from far and his Daughters from the Ends of the Earth therefore thus saith the Lord who redeemed Abraham concerning the House of Jacob Jacob shall not now be ashamed neither shall his Face now wax pale but when he seeth his Children the Work of my Hands in the midst of him they shall sanctifie my Name and Sanctifie the Holy One of Jacob and shall fear the God of Israel And now behold the Name of the Lord cometh from far burning with his Anger and the Burden thereof will be heavy his Lips are full of Indignation and his Tongue is Devouring Fire and his Breath as an Over-flowing Stream shall reach to the midst of the Neck to silt the Nations with the Sive of Vanity and there shall be a Bridle in the Jaws of the People causing them to Err but thou Seed of Jacob shalt have a Song as in the Night when an holy Solemnity is kept and Gladness of Heart as when one goeth with a Pipe to come into the Mountain of the Lord to the Mighty One of Israel and the Lord shall cause his Glorious Voice to be heard and shall shew the lightning down of his Arm and the Indignation of his Anger and with the Flame of devouring Fire with scattering Tempests and Hail-Stones And therefore Arise thou Precious Seed spring at the Salutation of the Prophecy of thy Deliverance for thou shalt be made a quiet Habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down not one of the Stakes thereof shall ever be moved neither shall any of thy Cords be broken thou shalt be as a Royal Diadem in the Hand of thy God even an Eternal Excellency the Joy of many Generations this is thy Portion and the Lot of thy Inheritance thou Oppressed Afflicted Seed of Jacob. And now unto you the First-Fruits of the Glorious Day of Visitation which hath dawned in this Northern Island of the Gentiles who have kept your first Love in and through which the Lord God Everlasting reached unto you and have kept your Habitations in the Light unto which you were turned by the Might of the Arm of Jacob's God and therein have waited and diligently sought and served the Lord I say your Bones are full of Fatness your Souls are full of Vertue and Hearts filled with the Love of God and Minds possessed with the Pure Fear and Aw of God the Almighty your Tents are Goodly and your Habitation is Lovely you it is I dearly love honour and esteem you are the Jewels of the Lord which he will now make up and spare My Soul is refreshed in the very remembrance of you and my Spirit is comforted in the sight of you in the Invisible Spirit of Holiness you Beloved of the Lord you Amiable Ones whose Souls abhor every Graven Image and Likeness nothing satisfying your Thirsty Breathing Panting Souls but that River the Streams whereof make glad the City of God Unto you this Exhortation springs in my Heart who am a Fellow-Citizen with you in the pure Movings and Arisings of the Eternal Power of the Mighty One of Israel from day to day from week to week from moneth to moneth from year to year to the very end of our dayes let us keep our Habitations and stand upon our Watch-Tower wherein we hear what the Lord saith who speaketh Peace to his People that they turn not again unto Folly let us keep the Commandments of the Lord cleaving to him loving and serving him all our dayes with all our Hearts and with all our Souls And as here

Death of your own Thoughts Reasonings and Imaginations Conceivings Gatherings and Fetchings in neither ascend nor descend nor fly beyond the Sea but sink down into the Word of Life in the Heart and there in pure Stilness wait patiently upon God until he arise your Enemies to scatter and destroy and your Souls to deliver and believe in the Word the Light the Gift the Sufficient Grace and cast all your Care upon the Lord who careth for you do you nothing but submit to the Saving Grace of God and here you will see and have an Understanding how you have in your own Strength and Wills toiled all Night and thereby caught nothing and in the Morning see your Saviour who will direct you so that by following his Directions you will see more effected in a Moment of Time then by your own Willing Running and Toiling all Night for by his own Strength shall no Man prevail its God that worketh both the Will and the Deed hear this give ear and be instructed you afflicted and tossed with Tempest and not comforted let the Scales fall off from your Eyes then will you see all things possible and your Faith will increase that removes Mountains Arise you Afflicted Ones who sit as in the Dust of the Earth Arise arise in the Might of the Power of the Eternal Strength of Israel shake your selves from the Dust of your own Thoughts Conceivings Contrivings and Imaginations come into the Innocent Way where the Wayfaring Man although a Fool shall not err And be no more discouraged you bowed down in Soul and Spirit li●t up your Heads in the Light of Righteousness and you shall see your Redeemer draw nigh yea very nigh And so dear Mourners in Zion who mourn as a Dove without a Mate be ye Comforted be ye Comforted behold I declare unto you in the Word of the Lord That if you look up unto him and believe in his Name and obey the Requirings of his Power your Warfare will be accomplished your Hearts and desolate Souls will be inhabited with Life Love and the Ancient Pathes will the Lord restore to you for now the Fruitful Field shall become like a Wilderness and you who have seen your selves like a Wilderness shall blossom as a Rose and you who have seen your selves as a standing Pool shall now become as Springs of Water Night shall pass over with you and the Day shall dawn Winter shall passover and Summer draw nigh and the Day hasteneth you Mourners in Zion after the Enjoyment of your God wherein the Voice of the Turtle shall be heard the Voice of the Innocent One and the Singing of Birds in your Land therefore be you comforted ye solitary Ones the Arm of the Lord is awakened for your Deliverance break forth thou Barren that didst not bear for more in the Name of Israel's God shall be the Children of the Barren and of the Desolate then of the merried Wife And so dear Exercised Ones sink down in the Stayedness and pure Content in the Light and I charge you strive not to stir up nor awake your Beloved until he please so will the Work prosper in his Hands and you shall the Spoil divide that tarry at home in your Habitation and then you will see your Beloved come leaping over the Mountains and skipping over the Hills ye will see him as the Apple-Tree among the Trees of the Wood and sit down under his Shaddow and find his Fruit brought forth by his Working and your Passiveness pleasant to the Taste so neither will nor run for the Battel is not to the Strong nor the Race to the Swift and here you will learn the Mystery of your Resting from all your Labours that he may work and you not let and as you are brought to be truly passive as the Clay in the Hand of the Potter let but him even the Lord Strong and Mighty arise and in his Arisings your Enemies will be scattered So the Lord God Almighty open your Understandings clearly in these things which are indeed of Eternal Concernment and lead you and guide you to the Fountain of Living Waters where you may be abundantly refreshed consolated and strengthned to grow strong in the Lord and in the Power of his Might And unto you whom the Love of God hath reached in making manifest the Way of Truth in which you should walk and who have received the Truth and made Profession and Confession thereof but have not nor do not obey from the Heart and all you who have tasted of the good Word of God and of the Power of the World to come and have and do turn aside and backslide from the Way of the Lord following the Lusts of your own Hearts and Desires of your own Eyes professing the Truth and in some Measure are in Outward Conformity unto it who profess to love God but love the World and the things thereof who are Double-minded and Unstable in your Wayes who would serve two Masters and be Heirs of two Kingdoms who from day to day come amongst the People of the Lord who are Children of the Light and of the Day but still stand in that Nature that is Corrupt and although in the Assemblies of the Lord's People such may be often smitten and the Way in which they should walk is manifest and their By-Ways and Crooked Ways discovered yet notwithstanding the many Reproofs of Instruction continue in the same Nature and Spirit and all Foolish Virgins who have a Lamp but have no Oyl all who have only receiv'd the Seed in the High-Way Stony and Thorny Grounds who therein brings forth no Fruit to Perfection but Dishonour the Name of him who hath sowed the good Seed being one thing in Name and another in Nature and all you who have lost your First Love and all you who have a Name to live but are dead and all you who are Luke-warm Ones neither Hot nor Cold who account your selves Rich and increased in Goods but are indeed inwardly Wretched Miserable Poor Blind and Naked hear the Counsel of the Mighty God concerning you Ye are the People with whom the Spirit of the Lord will not alwayes strive ye are the People who are the Sloathful Servants not improving the Talent given and communicated unto you ye are the People that turn from the Grace of God into Wantonness ye are the Backsliding Generation ye are those who make an Image and a Likeness and are content therewith without S●bstance it self ye are the People who profefs God his Light Life Grace and Holy Way of Truth in Words but deny him in Works and are not Possessors of him ye are those who dishonour the Worthy Name of the Lord amongst the Heathen laying Stumbling-blocks in the Way of those who might come into the Way of Truth ye are Lovers of the Unrighteous Mammon and your Minds Hearts Understandings and Capacities are therefore set on work to compass it ye are in Esau's Nature selling

the Birth-right for a Mess of Pottage ye will run the hazard of opening the Mouthes of the Heathen to Blaspheme the Name of the Lord for little Gain ye are they who have seen a Goodliness in a Babylonish Garment and in a Wedg of Gold and Silver ye are of them who trample under Foot the Blood of the Covenant and do Despite unto the Spirit of Grace Give eare and hearken therefore draw nigh to God that he may draw nigh unto you cleanse your hands ye Sinners purifie your hearts ye Double-minded Ones lest his Fury break forth like Fire and there be no Remedy bow down and kiss the Son lest his Anger be kindled against you and ye Perish out of the Way I am constrained to sound the Controversie of the Mighty God in his dreadful Name Power and Authority with all the Unfaithful afore mentioned and if all concerned herein do not speedily repent and turn to the Lord then shall your plagues be wonderful and the Lord God will appear in the Fire of his Jealousie to consume you and as you have and do through disobedience dishonour the Pure Name of the Lord so will the Lord God dishonour you and your Names shall rot and be as the Dung on the Face of the Earch God's Fury Fire and Plagues will destroy you and ye shall be gathered into the sides of the Pit to be punished with everlasting Destruction from the Presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power My Heart is filled with the Indignation of the God of Heaven and my Quiver with the Arrows of the Almighty against the Rebellious and Uncircumcised Tremble Tremble Tremble before the Lord and before the Glorious Arisings of his Power Wo wo wo to the False-hearted and the Deceitful who are as broken Bowes unto all who are covered with a Profession which is not the Covering of the Spirit of the Lord I testifie God's Dreadful Vengeance and Vialls of Wrath are near to be poured forth upon you ye shall drink of the Cup of his Fury even the Dregs thereof with the Heathen be ye bowed down and dreadfully smitten at this Rebuk of the Lord all ye Unfaithful Ones the Lord is offended with you and in the Day of Trial ye shall be consumed ye Reprobate Silver ye Uncircumcised in Heart and Eares you Prophane Esaus who sell your Birthright for a Mess of Pottage tremble ye Sinners in Zion let fearfulness surprize all Hypocrites God Eternal is arisen whose Spirit is upon me and Power fills my Heart at this time moving thereby to prophesie against you and to proclaim his Controversie with your the Day of Fanning and Winnowing hasteneth in which you will be winnowed from the Wheat the Day of the Lord which burneth as an Oven cometh and he will sit as a Refiner's Fire and Purifier of Silver in which Day you will be separated from the Gold in the purifying Fire and thereby be consumed Vengeance Vengeance Plagues Plagues Fury Fury Calamity Calamity Amazement Amazement Astonishment Astonishment is coming over you the full Cup of the Indignation of the Mighty God will be given you I am filled I am filled with the Fury of the Lord God of Hosts and am constrained thus to pour it forth which as sure as the Lord Lives that made Heaven and Earth will be performed on you who shall abide in these states aforementioned and not speedily repent and bow under the mighty Hand of the Lord. Let this go through the family and through the hearts of all the unfaithful amongst the people of the Lord through the Land and enter ye when you hear these Words and understand the Wrath determined into the House of Mourning and Chamber of Lamentation rend your Hearts and not your Garments sit in Dust before the Lord Repent Repent Repent and as any are thus bowed down wait that the Testimony of the Lord may arise in that Power which breaketh the hard Hearts in those States and Conditions asorementioned that all may hear and sear before the dread●…l God who will now be reverenced from the rising of the Sun to the setting of the same and all that do not repent and bow before the Lord ye shall be winnowed and separated from the Assemblies of the Lord's people and gathered to your place and there reserved under Chains of Darkness unto the Judgment of the great I ay Oh in the fence of what hasteneth to come on the unsaithful Ones have I often been bowed down and my Soul hath in remembrance the Wormwood and the Gall in my Travels through this the Land of my Nativity through which my God commanded me to pass swittly saying Run through this Nation and visit my Breathing Panting Bruised Birth which I begat among my People in the Day of their first Tender Visitation Proclaim my Acceptable Year my Day of Perfect Deliverance to my Breathing Panting Earning Tender Birth and my Day of Vengeance to come upon that which bruiseth it either amongst my People or in the World But Oh! saith my Soul that now all the unfaithful who have trampled under Foot the Blood of the Covenant and done Despite unto the Spirit of Grace and have hitherto neglected the Day of their Visitation Oh that before the Eye-lids of the Morning be to them as the Shaddow of Death they might return to seek the Lord while he is to be found and to call upon him while he is yet near before the Everlasting Night comes in which no man can work Postscript DEar Friends great hath been the work and many have been the Devices of the old Crooked Serpent even of him who kept not his first Habitation to draw the Sons and Daughters of Men from their God through Ages and Generations and after every Appearance of the Lord God wherein his eminent Hand hath appeared and Arm hath been signally manifest the Enemy hath endeavoured by divers wayes to destroy the Work of God sometimes by filling Instruments with Enmity to oppose the Appearance of Truth by Persecution and things of that nature and when that could not prevail the Power and Arm of God Almighty getting Victory over it then he hath transformed in Appearance like unto an Angel of Light approving and leading into the Practice of that outwardly which before in his Instruments he had withstood but still hath separated from the Truth and hath so deceiv'd the minds of the Sons of Men as that their co●formity and obedience should not be really in Spirit and in Truth but in the Name and Profession only and on this wise he began his appearance with the first man Adam thereby drawing him from the Tree of Life and out of the Image of God and brought him into that State in which he could no longer dwell in the Garden of the Lord and after corrupted the Sons of men that they grieved their God so as that of all upon the Earth he found Noah Upright and saved him and his House and destroyed all

Mankind from off the Earth and when Men began to multiply upon the face of the Earth the old Enemy led them to build that which God took no Delight in and therefore he came down and confounded them and scattered them but Abraham he called from his Fathers House beyond the Flood who obey'd the Voice of God and believ'd in him and did cleave to the Lord with all his Heart and Soul and obey'd to whom the Lord promised To multiply his Seed as the Starrs of Heaven and as the Sand on the Sea-shore and covenanted with him in the Circumcision and gave him Isaac in which the Seed was called of whom this Seed was to spring that was to be as the Sand of the Sea and Stars of Heaven then Abraham being required to offer him up reasoned not with the Lord nor disobeyed the Voice of his Maker but took the Lad and the Wood and the Knife and went to the Land of Moriah to the Mount which the Lord had shewed him but the Lord after he had proved him spared Isaac and the Ram was offer'd up of which Isaac came Jacob in whom the Seed was multiplied which Jacob wrestled with the God of his Fathers for a Blessing and prevailed with God and then was named Israel of whom came the Children that went down into Aegypt to Joseph who was hated of his Brethren because of his Dreams afterwards Israel multiplied into a People who were Oppressed by Pharaoh who knew not Joseph and would have destroyed the Seed of Israel and have hindred them from multiplying howbeit God preserv'd Moses that goodly Child who was drawn out of the Waters who when he was keeping his Father-in-Law Jethro's Sheep and drave them to the Backside of the Desart and came to Horeb the Mountain of God then the Lord appeared in the Bush in a Flame of Fire saying I have surely seen the Affliction of my People which are in Fgypt and have heard their Cries by reason of their Task-Masters for I know their Sorrow and the Lord God by the Hand of Moses wrought Wonders in the Land of Egypt and plagued Pharaoh and brought Israel out of Egypt's I and by an Out-stretched Arm and by a Mighty Hand through the Red Sea on the Banks of which they sang the Song of Deliverance but the same Enemy that stirred up Pharoah to oppress them and hinder them from coming out of Egypt moved in their Hearts to disobey the Lord and to-draw them from a Belief in that Power which had so signally delivered them howbeit the Merciful God of Jacob healed the Waters and notwithstanding caused the Manna to come down Morning by Morning to seed them he also smote the Flinty Rock and brought forth Waters after they thus murmured he brought them to Sinai where the Glory of the Lord appeared and there gave them a Law and Precepts but notwithstanding they had seen the Wonderful Hand of the Lord and his signal Deliverances were fed and preserved by him yet they murmured in their Hearts against the Lord and through the Workings of the same subtil Enemy to whom they gave way made Godds of Gold and in their Hearts would have gone back again unto Egypt and Rebelled against the Lord and so the Enemy of Mankind the Devil prevailed that after the Spies had spied the Land they murmured against the Lord and against his Servants so as that the Lord destroyed them and their Carkases sell in the Wilderness to whom the Promise was save Joshua and Caleb Men of another Spirit howbeit Joshua led their Children over Jordan to possess the Land of Canaan unto whom the Lord was good and performed all the good Things promised and they drave forth the Inhabitants of the Land and inhabited it and here the Enemy Satan prevailed again so that Jesurum waxed sat even thick and kicked and then he forsook God that made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his Salvation and went and served other Godds and the Lord delivered them into their Enemies Hands howbeit when they were brought low the Lord heard their Cries and delivered them by the Hands of many Instruments which he raised up as Judges and Kings in Israel even unto the time of David who sound Favour before God and desired to find a Tabernacle for the God of Jacob by whom he delivered Israel who went out in the Strength of the Mighty God and sought their Battels whose Heart loved the Lord whose Name is a Sweet Memorial but Solomon his Son built a House for the God of Jacob and the Temple that was a Figure and the Lord was with him and Israel and his Glotious Presence was amongst them howbeit the Old Subtil Enemy that deceived Adam turned Solomon's Heart from following the Lord to follow other Godds and built a Place for the Godds of the Heathen after which the Enemy fill'd the Heart of Jeroboam to do wickedly and Israel departed from the Lord howbeit the Lord sent his Prophets arising early to whom they did despitefully even to John a Prophet and Fore-runner of the Messiah whom they beheaded and slew the Just One the Anointed of the Lord and believed not on him who was the Heir notwithstanding the Mighty Works which he did who was manifest in due time taking not on himself the Nature of Angels but the Seed of Abraham who sent the Comforter the Spirit of Truth the Holy Ghost which came upon the Disciples and filled them through whom the Power of the Most High God was signally manifest smiteing Thousands at the Heart and in that Day many were added to the Church and great Grace was upon them and there was in that Blessed Day of the great Appearance of the Mighty God daily the Revealings and Manifestings of his Eternal Power so that great Fear came on the Regions round about and the Word of God grew but presently the Roaring Lion that through Ages went about to destroy the Appearance of the Lord God by his Power stirred in the Hearts of the Ungodly to oppose that Appearance over whom the mighty Power of the Lord gave his Servants much Victory yet he ceased not but transformed as an Angel of Light and in his Instruments wrought to draw People from the Power of Godliness into the Form of Godliness and brought in damnable Heresies privily through his Instruments that arose amongst the People of the Lord and in that day he wrought powerfully that notwithstanding the Church was in the Glorious Splendor of the Heavenly Celestial Life as a Woman cloathed with the Sun having the Moon under her Feet and on her Head a Crown of twelve Stars and travelled and brought forth the Man-Child who was to rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron yet he in the Appearance of a Red Dragon who had the seven Heads and ten Horns and seven Crowns on his Heads stood ready to devour the Man-Child but he was caught up to God and to his Throne and the Woman having two Wings as

of a great Eagle given her fled into the Wilderness for a Time Times and a half from the Face of the old Serpent and he hath made War with the Remnant of her Seed and by his powerful Workings brought Night over again who work'd mysteriously even amongst the Churches causing some to lose their First Love others to hold the Doctrine of Balaam others the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans others to have a Name to live and yet dead to God others suffered the Woman Jezabel others called themselves Jews and were not but were in the Nature of the Synagogue of Satan others there were that were Luke-warm neither Hot nor Cold and manifold have been the Transformings of the Adversary of Mankind the ●evil but in one and the same Nature and Power His first Appearance under which he would have destroyed the Man-Child and the Woman and the Remnant of her was a great Red Dragon then as a Beast rising out of the Sea the Waters who had seaven Heads and ten Horns and on his Heads seven Crowns and the Beast had his Power Seat and great Authority from the ●ragon and John saw another Appearance a second Beast that rose out of the Earth which Beast had only two Horns and that like a Lamb but spake as a Dragon and exercised the Power of the first Beast which first Beast having a Wound by the Sword and did live all the World wondered after who had made War with the Saints and overcame them and all worshipped and do worship the Beast that had a Wound and did live whose Names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World if any Man hath an Ear to hear let him hear Here is Wisdom let him that hath Understanding count the Number of the Beast who carryed Mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots who was drunken with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs Oh horrible Night Oh deplorable Time and Season that hath been over all the Nations Tongues and People this Forty and Two Moneths all which time the holy City hath lain trodden under Foot and this Thousand two Hundred and Sixty Dayes which time the Witnesses have Prophesied in S●…k-cloth and Ashes and have been slain by the Beast whose dead Bodies have lain slain three dayes and a half in the midst of the great City not put into Graves which i● s●iritually called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified the Woman which was clothed with the Sun hath been in the Wilderness a Time Times and an half the Book of Life was sealed with seven Seals But now that which lies on my Spirit is to manifest that this horrible Night of Apostacy entered at first through the departing of some from the Power even the Power of Godliness it self into the Form thereof through which came into the Churches the before-mentioned horrible Evils And this Depature from the Power is occasioned through going out of the Daily Watchfulness in the Gi●t of God in which and through which the Power of the Almighty is daily felt and manifested and through the getting up of that Wisdom that is sensual in which the cunning Serpent the Devil wrought to bring in Damnable Heresies privily for this is the Treacherous Part in Man in which the Devil hath appeared against the Life the Truth the Power in all Ages and Generations for herein he makes a Likeness of the Truth and thereby and therein setteth up Prescriptions and Rules and Limits to the Spirit and Power of God it self and those born of it and this is that which hath and would kill the Heir the Life that Self may have the Inheritance and this birth of the Evil One leadeth to sacrifice to their own Net and herein the Apostacy came in privily cunningly and gradually and improved it self through the Workings of the power of the old subtil Serpent in his Transformings as an Angel of Light in the Wisdom of Men which is from beneath and is sensual For that which caused the Appearance of the Lord Jesus in the Apostles dayes to be Glorious was not the Wisdom of Man aforementioned but the Out-goings and Daily Arisings and Manifest Operations of God's Eternal Power and Spirit in which no Graven Image Likeness or Similitude can be set up for that 's the Work of the Devil in the Wisdom and Will of Man that acts like the Devil of it self apart and without the daily and continual Revealings of the Eternal Power of God Almighty and all Knowledge either gathered by or standing here puffeth up and at last leads to forsake the Life and Power like Demas But now dear Friends ever-blessed be the Name of the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Faithful through Ages and Generations past the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath caused his Ancient Power and Arm to be reveal'd after this sore horrible Night of Darkness that hath been in and over the Earth and the good Old Way and Ancient Path of Life is again revealed into which Thousands and Ten Thousands have been called and many have been gathered Magnified and Praised be his Name for it let it be given and returned to him through Ages and Generations even for evermore for that he hath remembred and visited again the Distressed in the Wilderness and is bringing forth the Desolate so that now she is seen leaning on her Beloved and Life from God is entered into the two Witnesses and the Seven Seals are opened and opening and great Babylon is come in Remembrance before him to be sunk down and destroyed by a perpetual Destruction and now Jerusalem is coming down as a Bride adorned for her Husband the Seven Thunders uttering their Voices the Perfection of Shaking that the Mystery of God may be finished But dear Friends the same Roaring Lyon that appeared in the Ages by-past is now going about and that diligently seeking how he may destroy this Appearance of the Mighty God in this Age and Generation by drawing the Mind and Heart gradually aside from the Eternal Power it self that first visited and also through his many Instruments opposing the Truth that are led captive at his Will And now dear Friends there is no Preservation but in keeping to the Simplicity of the Gospel and to the very Living Almighty Power of the Lord God by which all being kept low Self and that part aforementioned that the Enemy worketh in will be made of no Reputation but be humbled to Death even the very Death of the Cross which is the Power of God and here let all keep in the pure Retiredness in the Valley of Humility in pure Dread Fear and Awe and let that be your Instructor and Teacher that hath been least and not the Wisdom of Man for that will lead in Nature from the Power although in Name own and speak thereof And dear Friends a Travel hath been on my Spirit beyond all expression That the Enemy may never deceive any of us as he did Eve by Subtilty for this I declare in the Name of the Lord God The Enemy worketh no way which hath a tendency more secretly destructive to the Appearance of the Most High God in this day then in the Wisdom of Man which is not that Wisdom that is from above which Wisdom is pure and peaceable the Nature of which is to lay low all as the Nature of the other which is sensual is to make Men and Women grow Jesurum like thick and fat and high which leads and turns from the Broken-hearted Tender Contrite-spirited estate And so dear Friends in the Bowels of unexpressible Love to all that have been visited with the right Arm of God's Salvation and are tender before the Lord keep in the Light in a daily watchful Estate for if there be not a keeping here a good State and precious Growth in the Truth may soon be lost and an Image of the thing come up in its place God Almighty in his Heavenly Power by the working of his everlasting quickning Spirit open unto you all the many Snares Wiles of the Enemy by which he lies in wait the Innocent to deceive and preserve all in the Gift of his Love in the sight and knowledge thereof that by the daily Manifestation and Operation of his pure Power we may break all the Enemies Snares in the same live to his Glory to the end of our days And all Friends every where all to your Tents dwell and walk with the Lord build on the sure Foundation the try'd Corner-Stone which they only do who hear the Word of the Lord and do it so shall you and your Building stand in the stormy Day that comes to try all Foundations and Buildings in which day the Floods will come the Waves will beat the Rain descend and then all Sandy Foundations and all Buildings how stately soever built thereon shall fall and great will be their Fall and perpetual Destruction And so the Lord God preserve you all to build and be establish'd on the Foundation of many Generations so will you go through the Fiery Tryal in which nothing shall be consumed but the Dross Lead Tin and reprobate Silver for the Gold will endure the Tryal and the Wheat the Fanning but the Chaff will be blown away and all the Stubble consumed by the dreadful purifying Fire of God that will try all The Lord gather the Upright into the Ark of his Covenant and into the Munition of Rocks where Bread will be sure to the Hungry Ones and Water to the Thirsty in which Estate the God of the Spirits of all Flesh preserve and keep his Flock and Family every where and abundantly water dew upon and Replenish His even from this time forth and forever and ever Charles Marshall Tetherton in Wiltshire the 7th of the 1st Moneth in the Year 1673. 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