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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85978	The ancient of dayes is come, the iudgment is set, glad tydings is proclaimed, to Iew and gentile, to bond and free, to high and low, to rich and poor, to small and great; let him that will, come, and receive the offer of his love freely, Isa. 55.1,2. Written by a lover of peace and truth, J.G.	J. G. (John Gibson)	1657 (1657)	Wing G669C; Thomason E916_2; ESTC R200356	6,508	8

from night so you judge your selves not to be children of the day but of the night not children taught of God but man so are servants to man free from righteousness being obedient to him who is the enemy of your Soul the Prince of Darkness you that are in envie bitterness wrath evil-speaking reproaching the innocent and mocking at them who come in the name of the Lord and though you have a Profession upon you yet you are one with the Drunkard and Swearer and Lyar and cursed speaker they all put the day afar off it is not yet and so you with them judge your selves unworthy of eternal life Oh you foolish Virgins haste and come away the Bridegrome is come the marriage of the lamb is come the Ancient of dayes is come Judgment is set the Kingdoms and the Powers of this World is given and is a giving into the hands of the Saints of the most high open War is proclaimed and no peace to the wicked saith our God and King Jesus the Christ But all you my dear Brethren and Sisters Sons and and Daughters of the most high God who are in the light are come to the day the night 's departed the shadows are gone the summer is nigh the buds doth spring the Sun doth shine the Virgins sing the song of the Lamb joy is in our dwelling place therefore rejoyce you Heavens and you that dwell in them and though our enemies be the Noble Mighty and Great of the earth yet we reign above them and over them do stand pure eternal praise to the Lamb who is set upon the throne and doth reign for ever and ever So be it A Paper Written unto all Friends in Obedience to the Lord By I. B. THe Word of the Lord came unto me saying Write these things which I shall shew thee unto my People which I have chosen this day thus faith the Lord If you will be faithful unto me and stand in my Counsel and be diligent in my Work to whatsoever I shall put into you at any time whether it be to go to any Meeting where I shall send any one of you and when the Power arise in you keep low in it and see what you have to do in it whether it be to speak or sing be obedient to my voice and quench not the spirit and when you have done keep low in your habitations and keep your watch diligently lest you get up in the Imaginations of your own head and so get out of my fear and lose the Power and there you grieve my spirit and you become loathsome in my sight therefore keep low in your habitations that you may know the Tent within you and the Holy City wherein nothing can enter that is defiled or maketh a Lye and as you dwell and abide faithful here nothing can come near you nor hurt you here dwell and be faithful and I will be with you and you shall not be ashamed But if any one of you should draw back from that which I shall give you in thinking of the hardness of the Work and so lose the drawing of the Power within you the same spall be confounded and banished from my presence for ever therefore stand faithful in my Work till I make my Enemies my footstoole And when you have overcome all then shall Zion be raised out of the dust and shall become the beauty of all Nat●ons and every one shall sit under his own Vine and Figg-tree none shall make them afraid and they shall dwell in peace and shall sing praises to my Name for ever Wo wo unto the Inhabitants of the Earth by reason of the Voyces which are yet to sound But happy shall all you be upon whose forehead the Mark of the Lamb is found Bear all things patiently Love all Do good to all Love your Enemies This is given forth by the Will of the Living God of Life and Power to all that are in his Living Work By his Servant J. B. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1657.

The Ancient of dayes is come the Iudgment is set glad Tydings is proclaimed To Iew and Gentile to Bond and Free to High and Low to Rich and Poor to Small and Great Let him that will come and receive the offer of his Love freely Isa 55.1 2. Written by a Lover of Peace and Truth J.G. ALL People who stumble at the stumbling stone Arise and shine for Light is come Behold the bright and morning star is risen the glorious day is dawned the Sun doth shine all eyes wax dimme the wise and the prudent are turned into the dark the night overtakes them and being in the night they stumble they grope at noon day the glory of the Sun they cannot behold the heat thereof they cannot bear who are at ease in Zion but the Lord doth reign let the earth rejoyce Ps 47.1 his lightnings enlightned the world vers 4. yea the Sun doth appear clouds are expelled darkness flyes away and the shadows are not the time of the singing of Birds is come Hos 14.7 plesant smells as of Lebanon sent forth and doth the Inhabitants refresh the fru●t appears which beautifies and doth the trees adorne come see and taste how good and sweet it is it glads both God and man All sorts of People come buy wine and milk without price freely you may take and live the love of the Lord is free freely hath he sent his Son into the world that the world through him might live and not die poor hearts you have laboured in vain and spent your strength to no profit give ear and hear and your Souls shall live You Professors in what forme or in what profession soever you be in or under what title soever you be called all your profession will melt as dew before the Sun who are not yet come to know the Son nor the day of his appearance In that day in which the Lord will judge the secrets of all hearts remember you were forwarned to flye from that wrath which is to come and you now put his day a far off from you and his appearance is not loved by you but are crying Lo here and lo there in this forme or in that forme but know not the kingdom is within the power is within the glory of the Kings Daughter is within know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the God of Light and light shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehends it not not all your gifts and great parts and wisdom you have can comprehend the light which shines but the light sees knows and comprehends where you are therefore let not the wise man glory in his wisdom nor the learned Rabbies in their great learning telling the simple ones that none can know the Scripture but such as have their learning which is earthly but Father I thank thee that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to babes yea verily verily I say unto you ye that are wise must become fools that ye may be wise for the Key of David shall open and no man can shut and that shall shut and no man can open he that hath an ear to hear let him hear Now to the Judgement come that you may not be judged now is the Judgment set the Ancient of dayes is coming and come Jam. 5.9 the Judge stands at the door receive him in kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish Psal 2 12. Now is the Son come to reign and he will reign and shall reign and his enemies shall become his footstoole And all you that are covered with a Profession talking of the reigning of Christ with his Saints ye be Jewes without beware ye be not found in the path of your Forefathers who put the Lamb of God to death they had as large a Profession upon them as you have and were as zealous as you are and a zeal you have but the vaile is not rent from bottom to top and so your zeal is in the dark clouded and darkness covers that you cannot see nor behold the glory and power of that which you in words contend for but as the Jewes without talked and spoke and Prophesied of a Messiah to come in glory and greatness without so do you poor hearts and he came as a thief in the night he was among them with them and they knew him not him they saw not in seeing they perceived not Although they saw his temple yea ●nd destroyed it yet him they knew not who was in the temple as it is written whom none of the Princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory 1 Cor. 2.8 he was daily with them but themselves and their honour they loved and him could not follow they loved the honour and praise one of another as you do and in him could not believe Now Jesus Christ the Ancient of dayes is come he that was yesterday is the same this day the same for ever he who was before Abraham was I am he is the same for ever And what ground have you who say you would walk by Scripture-rule what ground have you from Scripture that the Son will change his Glory he is the perfection of holiness he is the King of Salem he is the Prince of peace he is the Lamb of God the Government is upon his shoulder Isa 9.6 He was dead and is alive and lives for evermore though the glory of man change he who made man doth not change he is what he was and he will never change his being and whether the Lamb is gone ye cannot come and when the Lamb come ye cannot stand before h●s throne but will flee for refuge and refuge will flee from you I was daily with you in the temple said the Lord Christ the light in man who hath lighted man I was daily with you poor hearts the light shineth in darkness the light is daily within the temple within you and darkness cannot know him but are stumbling and falling and cannot stand in the judgement and judgement pursues you but you kick against the pricks behold I stand at the door and knock Oh the patience love and long-suffering tender bowels of pity that is in the eternal King of Peace who comes unto his own and is not received but as many as him receive his motions of love and light own and imbrace to them power is given and he makes them Kings and Priests and they reign on earth they bind their Kings in chains and their Nobles in fetters of iron this honour hath all the Saints Psal 149.8 Poor hearts who cry out and say These things shall be but yet they are not ye are them that put the day afar off there is the unbelieving Jew saying a Messiah shall come but this is not the day and at the same time were putting him to-death ye are doing the same confessing with all unbelievers and unclean

persons there is such a day but not yet and so are found foolish virgins without oyl and though you may have large lamps yet having no oyl are shut out and what is your condition better than theirs that are common lyars swearers drunkards and whoremongers for they are shut out and and so are you they are tormented with Devils in utter darkness and so are you Oh that you could see the misery you lie in though you may be Dives's here great in pomp and glory for a moment yet your misery will come upon you like an armed man and you shall not scape ye are crying out of Salvation and Redemption by Christ who suffered at Jerusalem in whom I believe but verily verily your hopes will sail you and all your expectations of Salvation and redemption by him who there was put to death will not avail any thing unto you except you be born again he that hath not the Son hath not life but is under wrath and he that believe in the Son hath the witness in himself and all your crying out of him who was crucified and yet you not crucified is nothing to your souls peace it is no more than crying out the Ark of the Lord the Ark of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord his Temple will not save you except you witness him who was in that temple in you Christ the pure light wisdom and power of God ruling and reigning in your flesh and so he that denies Christ the Emanuel God in us with us is the Antichrist which talks of the Emanuel but knows not the Emanuel talk of Christ but knows not Christ talks of a Saviour but knows not where he is you are foolish virgins awake awake and haste to meet the bridegroom for his day is nigh arise ye that are in the earth sleeping in the dust awake and come from the dead to the living ye are dead and asleep in security your habitation is in the earth your food is dust your clothings raggs your glory is in your shame you are now calling the appearance of Christ blasphemy and as he by your forefathers was called a Blasphemer a Samaritan and had a Devil and cast out Devils by Devils so the same seed is in you which was in them the seed of enmity and bitterness which ever resisted the Lambs Appearance and where he is manifest you own him not you believe him not but he is come who will overturn overturn overturn all that stands in his way all forms be they never so high bow they shall no words can cover no image shall stand but he alone all knees must bow before the Lamb. All Professions he is overturning be they never so great and though hand joyn in hand together against him who is come to reign yet judgement is set and justice shall enter and the power and dominion of the Beast shall be taken away and given into the hands of the Saints of the most high and they shall bind in chains Kings and Nobles for the power is put into their hand to execute the judgement written All you who are in the imatation of Truth shall suffer loss Herod heard John Baptist gladly and did many things but a day came that tryed him many may hear gladly and do many things but the day will try them Friends the rod of God is in his hand and if it comfort you happy are you Psal 23.4 but if you will not bow before him it will break you as a potters vessel none can deliver out of his hand Friends your outward washings will not serve painted Sepulchres will not serve whited Walls will not serve you may come so far as none in the world may lay evil to your charge yea you may come so far as to condemne and judge others and yet no further than the Hypocrites that blamed Christ for eating with unwashed hands or plucking ears of corn on their Sabbath but dear hearts first wash the cup within wash the in-side and as the day dawns and the day star arise the new earth will be witnessed and the new heavens wherein righteousness shall dwell where all contention shall wither and all dross be burnt up Ye may go far and yet fall short though ye may speak with the tongue of men and Angels and have the Gift of Prophesie and understand all Mysteries and all knowledge and have all faith and bestow all your goods to the poor which is farther than most have come and give the body to the fire and have not Charity I am nothing Rom. 1.13 Now to the love come which rejoyceth not in iniquity but rejoyceth in the truth and herein rejoyce and again I say rejoyce he that walk in the light keep in his habitation he stumbles not in my Fathers house is many Mansions Joh. 14 2. Now what the Father hath given in it to dwell and to mind your own g●ft every member hath a proper gift only be faithful in your gift quench not the Spirit despise not Prophecying for ye may all Prophesie one by one that all may learn ye that are weak if you have a word quench it not ye may learn for I know that your disobedience to the pure motion hath been your loss and you shall know it will be hard for you to come to your first Love but let the earth keep silence and had the earth been silent from reasoning then had God spoke forth in his Temple to his own praise in the mouth of Babes and Sucklings abide in your Tent and as you have received act and as perswaded from the Lord so walk and compare not your selves with your selves neither measure anothers measure by yours mind the motion of Life and Love and as the pure love in you moves to it yield and cease from judging one the other and dwell as Lambs and if in any thing any be otherwise minded to your measure know this he that revealed it unto thee shall reveal it unto thy Brother so grudge not one against another but let love be all in all he that abides in his measure non can harm him although the heathen rage and the Beast and the false Prophet set themselves against him he shall reign over all and the lamb shall have dominion So all dear friends into the pure fear come let the lamb govern take heed of a bitter root let simplicity be head in you that you may in the childs estate be preserved and be found with oyl in your lamps ready to enter But all you who put the day of the Lord afar off wo and misery is to you you say God shall teach his Children and mans teaching shall cease but you say it is not yet you say Christ shall reign but not yet he shall judge the quick and the dead but not yet the blind leads the blind and both falls into the ditch and darkness is your dwelling place you cannot see light from darkness day