as soon as I did speak with the Generall it should open which was now so closed for a signe to convince me of my unbeliefe and also a stumbling-block for those that did by violence open it as a Priest for one who was the chief cause of it I being then in the Generalls house intending for to have spoken with him as to deliver to him what God should have made out to me But I see it since to be the wisdome of my God that I did not speak with him and likewise the wisdome of God that my hand was opened by violence that it may prove the fall of the enemies of Sion and give them cause to mock and laugh at me that so thâ—y may be for the slaughter when the Lord ariseth to shâ—ke the earth terribly And this I writâ— because I would not have you wonder why I do not go to the Generall for to speake with him and so conclude that I am deluded as they that openâ—d my hand did for the wayes of God are past finding out and my message is done for the present in that I have endeavoured for to speak with him and I am as much satisfied with my condition as if I had spoke with him for I see an over-ruling power and so am made for to wait upon that power that made all creatures knowing that he will do his pleasure untill he doth in a more poweâ—full manner carry me forth in such a way to act which as I am a creature I am dead to and when he appeares in power in his own time for to make use of me or aâ— any other of his creatures they shall not be able to wiâ—hstand him as I fâ—r my own paâ—t have not beene able to withstand So with this caution to you all not to mock at me lest you mock not only me but the All of all things and so dash your selves against that rock which will beat to pouder all other powers besides himselfe that he may be all and in all I am willing to be silent leaving my God to do with me and all creatures what he pleaseth GEORGE FOSTER January 14 1650. THe first day of the appearing of the eternall God in me so as to make his excellent Majesty most illustriously to shine in me as the most excellent and most glorious object was by declaring himself to be my God and that he was come to make himselfe known unto me who had a long time been in me buried under the clouds of proud flesh and I was ignorant of him and though I was ignorant of him of the eternall God dwelling in me yet he did dwell in me and was the life of me which is a great mystery and vnknown to most creatures though most professe they know God that God even the eternall God dwels in them by which they live and move and have their being But it hath pleased the infinite Iehovah who is the fulnesse of all and fills the Creation with his grace to appeare most gloriously in me stripping and robbing me of all my former glory that he alone may appear to be my all and in all and so to declare and make himselfe manifest to me that he the eternall God doth dwell in me and is the life of me and that he will no longer be buried in me but now will arise like a man of warre tearing and destroying all proud flesh which hath covered him that he alone may appear to be my eternall King and so to take me up into the full injoyment of himselfe by declaring in me saying I the Lord of hosts am come which voice was the most joyfullest voice that ever sounded in mine eares though it was a terrour to my flesh yet I may say with the Prophet this is the day which the Lord hath made come let us be glad and rejoyce in it The Prophet was not ignorant that the Lord did make all the dayes for he knew well enough the Lord did make all but this day wherein he sayes he will rejoyce was that day even that day as the eternall God did appeare to be his God and so apprehending him selfe by the manifestations of God to him to be one with God and no longer at a distance from Godâ— did cause him to rejoyce and be glad But who shall abide the day of his coming or who shall be able to stand when he appeareth Surely no flesh shall be able to stand in that body when the mighty God of Jacob appeareth neither shall any flesh abide there neither shall that creature in whom he is pleased to manifest himself be able to oppose him for the Lord will do all his pleasure He is like a refiners fire and fullers sop The eternall God by his bright appearing in his sons he will purifie and refine them by destroying that which hath troubled them and hath kept them at a distance from him and cause them to see evill no more and to see former things to passe away and all things become new And thus it hath pleased my excellent Majestie who dwels in me to make known himself unto me that so J may see former things or old things passe away and all things become new And as the eternal God caught Paul up into rhe third heaven and he heard there words not fit to be uttered because if he should have made them know they could not understand them by reason of the difference of dispensations wherein they lived Paul being a father all they babes and children So my excellent Majesty the eternall God having taken me up into himselfe by his appearing in me in such a high discovery of his love unto me as to make me see himselfe in me and I to have no life but he to be my all yea my life and that I can do nothing without him who hath caused me to deliver my Kingdome all my strength he being now the end of it to my Father that he may be all and in all yea he hath even my eternall God so powerfully overcom me that whether I was welling or no destroyed my flesh for God is a consuming fire that he may take the kingdom to himselfe and so to be all and in all in me even thus it pleased my eternall God even in a moment in the twinkling of an eye to strike me dead and likewise to raise me from the dead and to cause me to heare the Angell sound the last Trumpet and so to take me up to meet the Lord in the aire and so to be ever with the Lord sounding the tune of the seven Trumpets alwayes in mine ears and causing me to hear the noise of the last trumpet even the mystery of God saying it is done it is done and time shall be no longer making me to see seventy weeks spoken of in Daniel to be at one end and so to see sin and transegression to be finished and to hear a voice within me saying everlasting righteousnesse is
for as the beast that was to rise after the Kings should be diverse from the rest even so hath the Parliament been diverse from King Charles for though King Charles did oppress the people with ship money which he should not have done and so did shew his cruelty and tyranny yet the Parliament hath exercised as much cruelty upon the people as he did for as Charles laid his little finger upon the people the Parliament have laid their loynes and for matter of oppression to the people have been far more cruel then Charles that was before and so have been Divers from Charles which word Divers shews more then one though called by one as the Parliament are more then one yet being compacted together they are but one in respect that what is done is done by consent of all or most of them and not by some few And as the beast did think to change Times and Lawes they being given into his hands so the Parliament hath pretended to change times that is to take off the oppression of people and Lawes that is to alter the Lawes of the Land for the Parliament have had power to do so and the Parliament have done these in some sence as the taking away the high Commission Court and Star Chamber instead of being Governed or having Bishops we must have classes and Presbyters or at least they have declared that we should have but though the first beast in the Revelations had a wound with a sword and did live though high Commission Court and Star Chamber I mean the oppression that was used by them though the name be taken away yet in regard of oppression they live for the Image of the beast is nothing but the same oppression as to have a new name as not to be the same but by this new name and so under this new name exercising cruelty and oppression is to make an Image and so to represent the former and though the Parliament have given themselves a new name by stiling themselves a Free State yet they are but the Image of the former beast in regard as the former exercised cruelty upon the people and the Parliament doth the same and as the beast mentioned in Daniel had power and likewise in the Revelations for to cause all both great and small to worship the Image of the beast that they might live Even so the Parliament by the setting forth their Engagement as they call it and by forcing all to take it which was their intents when they set it forth and so to deprive them of the benefit of the Law for denying submission to this power or Image which they have set up and so the mark which the Image of the beast hath set forth and caused all to receive doth represent the Parliament who have set forth their mark the Engagement as they call it for people to receive it in their fore-heads that is to profess them to be the supreame power and that they ought to worship them and submit to their Lawes and on their right-hand is meant the aiding and assisting of them with power and with money that the former which was Kingly power might not rise again but that they might be now adorned and have the honour even the Parliament seems to be the Image of the Beast and the Engament the marke of the Beast but the Beast or Image of other is but for a time times and dividing of times mentioned in Daniel and also in the Revelations to be the forty and two moneths which is a set time that this Image of the Beast shall have power and when that set time is at an end which I have appointed this Beast shall be destroyed and burned to nothing all their powers and all their Laws and formes and wayes of governments and worships and shall never rise more nor any like it saith the Lord of host here is wisdome this wisdome is I the Lord and let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast and let him that hath my spirit and this wisdom revealed from me to him count for the number of the Beast is the number of a man the number of a man is his continuance or abiding here in this earthly body before it returnes to the earth which number is set forth or appointed by me the Lord of host for his time here before he be brought to the dust of the earth which number being accomplished and come to an end man must come to the grave so the Beast is numbered his daies are set down how long he shall have Power or how long he shall continue By the Beast that is numbered here is meant the Parliament or powers of the earth which I tel you is the Beast that must be burned or destroyed so soone as his time which I have let him shall come to an end for his number is six hundred threescore and six which I the Lord of host tell you they are so many dayes that this beast shall have the whole power to himselfe that the Parliament shall have for their time to raigne from the day that they beheaded Charles six hundred and threescore and six dayes and I said Lord shall I take them to be litteral dayes as fivescore to and hundred and so seven of them to make a week as we call it and my God said you shall take them to be litteral dayes and so count them from the day that Charles was beheaded for that is and shall be the time of their power and before these six hundred and sixty and six come to an end the Parliament shall be consumed and destroyed and brought to nothing and I the Lord of host that hath revealed this vision to thee will surely bring it to passe and that thou maist know that it is I the Lord of host that have revealed this to thee and that this is truth I will presently shake thee in a strange manner more then ever I did at once as a token to satisfie thee that these shall come to passe and as soone as the voice which spake these words ceased I fell a shaking and was so shooke that I made the bed I lay in tatter and was lifted up as if some body had tooke me up and threw me down again which one that lay with me can tell for I told him before I shook I had received words that I should be shaken which proved true and I am satisfied in my self that that which I now write will to the terrour of Great men and to the amasement of all sorts prove very true and that it is the pleasure of the Lord of host to bring to nothing all earthly powers that the Lord may be all and in all and who shall hinder him from doing his pleasure for he will worke and who can let And the word of the Lord came again unto me saying what seest thou now and lo I beheld a house by a great mountain and there came
THE SOVNDING OF THE LAST TRUMPET OR Severall Visions declaring the universall overturning and rooting up of all Earthly Powers in ENGLAND With many other things foretold which shall come to passe in this Year 1650. Lately shewed unto GEORGE FOSTER who was commanded to Print them Printed in the Yeare 1650. The Epistle to the Reader O Earth earth earth hear the word of the Lord and tremble thou earth at the presence of the mighty God of Iacob for behold he comes to take vengeance on his enemies and they that have exercised oppression shall be by the All of all things confounded and brought to nothing whether they be outward powers that have their fellow creatures in bondage to them or the powers of flesh ruling and domineeering in them Isay both powers shall be brought to nothing and shall not be able to stand any longer for his excellent Majesty appearing in brightnesse will be a terrour to all flesh and all powers shall become as weak as water before him and Lucifer that hath made the Nations to tremble shall be brought to nothing even all the power strength and glory of man shall be but as grasse and as the flower of the field that is soon cut down and then comes to nothing and is as if it were not even so at the appearing of the Lord of hosts shall all powers of what sort or under what notion sâ—ever be in a very little while as if they were not and God alone even the eternall God appeare to be King and Lord over all the Earth at whose appearance all things besides himselfe shall be brought to nothing even all POWERS shall become as nothing and the mighty men and great men as Kings and Lords for fear of the Lord of Hosts shall run into the holes of the rocks and into the Dennes of the Earth to hide themselves for fear of his Majesty for he doth now arise to shake terribly the earth and all the earth shall become dung before him and all the powers of the earth shaâ—l be as dung before his Instruments whom he hath made choice of to do his great and terrible work for he hath now a strange work to do which will not be done by the powers of the earth but the mighty Jehovah will do his strange work by poâ—r weak and dispised instruments even by those that are as nothing in themselves that the All of al things may appear to be their power and their strength and so through the stength of the mighty God levell and lay mountaines and hils low and make plaines nâ—d vallies equall with them add so I will leave you to the ensuing Treatise there to see what Gwd hath purposed to do the which he hath been pleased to reveale to me by vâ—sions which power as I aâ— a creature haâ—h so powerfully appeared in me as I have not been able to resist but must send it forth th the publike view as being one that that been made for a figne and wohder amongst men and so for my own puietnesse sake and qeace of Spirit I am made to put it to thy view and so am contented to be a foole and to undergo the hard and harsh censures of many leaveing it to thy serious consideration or to thy malicious spirit which may bite against it and say I am deluded and the Devil hath power over me I 'le leave it to you that see or heare of it foâ— time to make manifest what it is and I 'le wait upon the mighty God of Jacob being confident he hath made out himselfe unto me by Vision and Revelation and hath set me as a Wonder in the eyes of men but wonder not as to mock and laugh at me least your hearts be hardned so you be one of the vessels whom the Lord will powre out the fiercenes of his wrath upon for surely my God hath not set me as a sign for nothing if he hath I am contented to be nothing that he the Lord of hosts may appear to be all yea I am confident the All of all things hath a very great work to do he hath made use of me as of one that am a poor creature purposely to sâ—t me a sign for some to be forewarned that the Lord of hosts is comming to destroy all things beside himselfe that they may be willing when he appeareth to forsake all and to count that which for the present is their God as gold and silver as nothing that they may cloath and feed the hungry and so escape the day that shall burne as an Oven But for others to be a stone of stumbling a gin and snare at which they shall stumble and fall And so Reader that thou maiest understand by reading of this treatise what God is now a doing and how powerfull he is For I have seen him to be very strong for these things following I did much question whether they were not a delusion of the Devill by reason of the strangenesse of them so did by questioning of them bring my selfe into a restlesse condition as severall times to be tempted to make away my selfe For these things saith the tempter if thou publish them will make you a hissing and a laughing stock and flesh being willing to be at ease I could have bin contented to have buried them in the bed of oblivion so thought to have hid them and not to have brought them forth but the voice of the Lord came to me saying that thou maiest know that I the Lord of hosts I have made out unto the by vision revealed things that shall surely come to passe that I have commanded thee to put them in print thereforâ— to go to London thou shalt be dumb and so I was for niâ— houres as a token to convince thee of thy unbeliefe And the next day the voice of the Lord said I should be blind as a token to convince me of my unbeliefe which I was for eleven houres And at the same time the voice of the Lord said for to hasten me away for to be a wonder in London I should be deprived of the use of my hand untill I did go up to speak with Fairfax and being thus taken speechles and blind and my right hand closed up that I could not open it I'did come up to London and being in London I did go to the Generals house for to speak with him but could not then I went againe and could not and the third time but could not be admitted for to speak with him And all this while my hand was closed up so fast that severall that saw it did not conclude it was by a supernaturall power and I did tell them that I had a message to deliver to the Generall but for the present I knew not what it was but I never did tell any that it could not be opened by force and strength but did tell them that I my selfe could not open it but
my Son and though he was put to death literally aâ— Jerusalem yet he was perpetually slaine by the filthy abominations of Sodome and Egypt as Rebellion and disobedience against me the Lord of hosts and so saith the Lord of hosts all formes Lawes governments and wayes of worship opposing me is spiritual Sodom and Egypt that put to death my Son Christ and hath from time to time been the great whore that hath shed the blood of my Saints But as thou sawest one set it one fire and the people which thou sawest running to quench it as Kings and Lords and great men and of all sorts of men with buckets of water and hookes to pull down some of it that was on fire but they could not quench it as thou didst see untill the tenth part of it was consumed I the Lord of hosts by my appearing in my sons and daughters have set this City on fire and it hath been burned a long time by my manifesting my self to them to be their all in all and now the day of my judgement is at hand I have sentenced this City to be burnt for I the Lord of hosts doe burne up and consume all formes and governments of men by my self I being a consuming fire and I said Lord what meaneth that that the tenth part of it and not all is consumed and the Lord said by the tenth part is meant all for ten is a perfect number as ten hornes mentioned that sets forth a perfect strength or all their strength or all their power and I said Lord it hath been generally understood to be Nations as our Nation for one that shall fall off from Rome first to be the City but I the Lord of hosts say this City is formes and Lawes Governments and wayes of worship which is in all Nations and so is the spirituall Sodome and Egypt that crucified my Son and hath from time to time murdered my Saints But the time of her power is almost at an end and she must be destroyed And whereas you see all sorts of people run to quench the fire that it did not burne It shewes the unwillingnesse of all sorts of men and women to have that which hath most deceived them to be burned up because some yea most have made the observations or traditions of men to be their rule to walke by and so have walked more by forme and custorne then by any thing else But now I come I come saith the Lord of hosts and I will take from men from the powers of the world those things which they have gone a whoring after and they with all their might shall not hinder me from doing my worke And the word of the Lord came againe unto me saying Behold behold what dost thou now see and lo I beheld a Temple and it was full of smoke and there appeared one in this temple with a crown of gold upon his head and his rayment was of all colours like unto a rainbow and I beheld that he stretched forth his hands and as he stretched them forth the smoke vanished away and I beheld that after the smoke was gon there went out of his mouth flames of fire and burned up the pictures that were in the Temple and after they were consumed he cryed with a loud voice that the fourtie and two moneths and the time times and halfe times is now come to an end and then the temple and holy city which for 42 moneths was given to the Gentils to be troden under foot shall now no longer be troden under foot But I will redeem it and deliver it from the bondage and slavery that it hath bin subject unto and after this I beheld seven lighted torches brought into the temple And said I Lord whose temple is this and the Lord said it is mine and I said what doth this temple set forth and the Lord said this temple are my sons and daughters and he whom you see in it is I the Lord of hosts who am come to take possession and to make them my dwelling-place But as you see it was full of smoke this smoke is darknesse and gloominesse and cloudinesse and such a mist that untill it be consumed my people are not able to know me but I said Lord it is said that no man was able to enter into the temple for the smoke which seemes to hold forth the temple to be somewhat else then thy Saints and the Lord said that is a metaphor which seems to hold forth some thing else that is my sona and daughters are not able to come to the true knowledge of me as to see and know that I live in them without a more fuller discoverie of my self to them saith the Lord of hosts but as you see me spread forth my hands and the smoke vanished away that they come to have some knowledge of me but as you see flames of fire issued forth from me that burned up the pictures these flames are a full manifesting of my self to my sons and daughters and the pictures are all the wayes of worship formes and governments which by the wit of man are set up and as pictures resemble something else besides what they are so these formes and wayes of worships and governments and all outward administrations have seemingly appeared to be the way which I would have them observe Though indeed it hath been but a picture of me Or my way and not my right way or mine own way but a way of confusion So that when I shall fully manifest my self to my sonnes and daughters my spirit shall burn up all their pictures that is all their wayes of worship and formes of what sort soever and consume them to nothing for I the Lord of hosts am a consuming fire and will ere long appear to be so that they may see me to be forms and wayes of worships and see me all and in all and so to see that they shall have no need any longer of outward administrations But to see me to be their teacher I said Lord what is meant by the temple or holy City that hath been troden under foot 42. months by this temple or holy City is meant my sons and daughters which for the time of Antichrists reign hath bin kept in darkness or in forms or wayes of worships which men have set up and by his crying with a loud voice he was come to deliver it from bondage or from the Gentiles and so from them both it is I by my coming to Judge all the powers of proud flesh which hath been an Alien and Gentile to me and to destroy them burn and consume them up as the forms of men and worships set up by them that so I may deliver them from bondage saith the Lord of hosts for the dayes of my coming is at hand What doth these seven torches or lamps signifie And the Lord said the seven lamps burning shews a perfection of light that shall be When
the forty and two month that are spoken of shall be at an end for these forty two months are a certain time saith the Lord of hosts that I have suffered my self to be hid and my glory hid from the Temple but now the set time is at an end and my light and glory shall shine and as you see the lamps burning and none put them out So will I appear burning up flesh and sin and none shall hinder me from doing my work saith the Lord of hosts that will reign in mount Sion for ever And again the the word of the Lord came unto me saying what seest thou now And I beheld and saw the Moon and the Sun and the Heavens and the Stars and at length I saw them turned into bloud and they fell from the place that they were in and fell to the earth and I saw a company of Swine and Dogs lick them up they being like unto bloud and with their falling upon the earth the earth was changed And I said Lord what is this Sun and Moon and Heaven and Stars which is changed into blood is it the material Sun that gives light by day and the Moon that give light by night And the Heaven the Heaven that fouls fly in and my eternall God within me said No but by these is meant other things as the Moone is a borrowed Light from the Sunne and not a perfect Light it selfe so by the Moone is meant outward Ordinances that People have and are under by which they have received some Glympse of Light but not the Light it selfe by the Sun is meant a more glorious Dispensation of outward Ordinances or Ordinances in a more higher Nature As the one being a Baptizing of Infants and so they in this Dispensation fetch Light from Creatures or from the Men of this World which seemingly have light but have not So the other which is of a more higher Nature as the Baptizing of Believers is a Sun-light as they call it and so the Baptisme-way of Baptizing Believers and breaking of Bread together is a way wherein according to the Scriptures they seeme to be more like the Sunne than the other but yet is not the way which I approve of saith the Lord of Hosts and the Heaven is the Heaven of outward Dispensations and Formes and wayes of Worships Governments and Rules to walke by that so long as People living under these and do observe punctually to fulfill these as the observing the Sabbath Day Praying and Preaching and going to Church as they call it and others meeting in private Places as they thinke fit to meet in and so to heare a Man speake something of God this is Heaven which People live in and meant by this Vision saith the Lord of Hosts and the Starres is their professions of God according to the severall Dispensations they are under and so this Heaven and the Starres therein and the Sunne and Moone mentioned in Scriptures turned into bloud is meant all outward Administrations as Formes Governments and Rules and wayes of Worships which have been as lights that People have seen something of God in and so have seen God at a distance from them are now changed from light to bloud and so are fallen from their places that they may no longer be as lights and by the Dogges and Swine licking them up is nothing else but a totall Distinction of them that they may never be more and the People may from hencefortb loath them and see me the Lord of Host to be all and in all for my great and notable Day which these shall be turned into bloud my coming to my sonnes and daughters and so judging all these things in them and making of them darknesse is the Earth that they fell upon and was changed and the Dogs and Swines as is set forth by them a totall fall of Worships by licking up the bloud so by them is set forth the most greatest and most wickedst Men which have by their power set up these things a change in them that they shall no longer do so any more but shall become new for I have taken their power from them and they are become new saith the Lord of Hosts and as thou seest a new Heaven and a new Sunne and Moon in the place of the former and a new earth is but the fulfilling of Prophesies that have a long tine since been spoken of and now are come to passe this new Heaven is the enjoyment of me they living in me and I in them so they shall have no need of Heaven of Ordinances or wayes to walk by but I will be their light both Sun and Moon and so that they shall have no need of these lights to walk by but I will be the glory of them and as you see former things passed away and all things become new it is the passing away of the Sun Moon Stars and Heaven which are outward Administrations and Formes of Worships Teachers of Men that I the Lord of Host may be both Heaven Sun Moon Stars and Teacher to and in them that they may hear a voice saying this is the way wallk in it and the new earth is a change of Men which have had power over their fellow Creatures and did desire to have so that they may be accounted great but this was not an Earth wherein Righteousnesse dwelt and so must pass away that there may be a new one which new one is an alteration or change of Mens mindes that as they have desired a superiority and have strived to cozen and cheat others for to make themselves great they shall no longer strive for these but instead of them shall humble and abase themselves and throw away their Idols of Gold and Silver their money I mean which they have made gods of to them that have none that there may be equality and universality all injoying the fruit of the Earth saith the Lord of Host who hath commanded the Writer hereof to write it as my will and not his that so all things may become now and there may be an Earth wherein Righteousnesse shall dwell And again the word of the most high came unto me saying behold behold what seest thou now and low I beheld something almost in the fashion of an house but it was not an house and I said Lord what is this and my God said it is a tabernacle and as you saw one with a Crown of gold goe into it it was I the Lord that went into it and I said is this the tabernacle of God that is said to be with men and the Lord said it is and this tabernacle is my people wherein I will dwell and as he had a Crown of gold that went into it it betokens a victory that I have taken it to be my possession and as soon as I was in it you saw flames of fire burn up the gold pearles and precious stones and the wood hay and stubble and
appear to be all and in all that so universal freedom may be in your streets and nothing but peace within your borders that righteousness may now cover the earth and the emnity of all creatures be taken away that the ground may now be freed from the curse and the earth bring forth her increase that I alone may be and none besides me saith the Lord of Hosts who is the life of all creatures And again the word of the Lord came unto me saying Son of Man behold behold and loe I looked and there appeared Chariots in Heaven runing up and down and I told them and there were seven of them and one that led them about and was before them cried with a loud voice to them that were in the Chariots come let us go down and destroy the earth before this yeer be at an end and I beheld that he that said so drew his sword and gave it to a man and said goe thou and do the worke of the Lord and I will be with thee and thou shalt prosper And I said Lord what meanes these Charriots there being seven of them and the Lord said the Charriots set forth those whom I have appointed to do my worke and there being seven of them shewes a perfect and compleat number that shall accomplish and do all my pleasure and one being before shewes that I the Lord of host have stirred them up and will lead them on and be with them and as thou seest them in heaven it shewes that I have retained them in my favour and one with them it shews that I have been kept in heaven until the time of the restitution of all things or I have not made my name known and whereas he cried come let us go down and destroy the earth before this year is at an end it shewes the time of restitution is now at hand that I the Lord of host will recover my wooll and flax my glory and honour and I thus appearing earthly powers which robbed me must be destroyed and I said Lord by earthly powers do you mean the Parliament and by the year do you mean a year as we call it as from Jan. to January and the Lord said by the earth is meant the Parliament which shall be destroyed and as he said before the year is at an end is meant that the Parliament shall be destroyed and brought to nothing before January next and so the year to be a year as you account yeares and some of them I will bring into me to be in my favour and others shall be devoured in my wroth for I will make a short worke on the earth and as thou sawest one that drew his sword being before them he doth represent me and as he gave his sword away to that man that stood by him and said take this sword and do my work It shewes that I have made choice of a man to lead my Instruments on to do all my pleasure and whereas he gave him the sword and bid him prosper so I will by my own power in you by you effect my strange work and I said Lord what man is this whom thou hast given thy sword to and the Lord said it is him whom I have chosen and stirred up to do my worke as I have allreadie decleared to you and the set time or the Longest time of the being of the Parliament is but sixe hundred threescore and six daies as I have shewn to thee allready And the Lord within me that hath shewn me these things told me that for the truth of what I had seen had reveal'd as that the Parliament should be brought to nothing in such a short time he the Lord of host within me when he revealed it to me and commanded me to write it and told me as soon I had done writing of it I should be taken in a shaking fit which proved very true and it came upon me as soon as I had done writing of it before I could speake to them as was with me or before I could rise from the stoole I sat on in which fit of shaking I was by a power taken off the stoole and lifted up though one did strive to hold me down whereby I see it is the Lords time to confound all things besides himself that he may have the glory of all and he onely be honoured unto which I say amen amen And again the word of the Lord came unto me saying behold behold what seest thou now and loe I beheld a bush about seven foot high all on fire and I said Lord what meaneth this bush to be of a flame and not to consume and the Lord said by this bush is set forth my people and by the fire is set sorth I the Lord of host as the bush was all on fire so will I be a fire to my Church as the bush was not consumed but rather more fresher so will I burne away the dross and filthinesse of my Church and make them more pure then ever they were and as the bush stood still so will I by my burning away their filth make them the Church stand still and wait upon me and so make them leave of running after any outward teacher or outward meanes by which they have received some comforts as from streames but will make them to come unto me the fountain where they shall have their filland be satisfied and as I did in old time appear to Moses my servant in a burning bush so have I appeared to thee now in a burning bush and as I sent Moses to Pharoah to tell him I will have my people out of the Land and so Redeem them from their bondage and slaverie so my time is now at hand that I will Redeem my sons and daughters from their heavie Task-masters as the powers of this world but as Pharoah was so envious against my people as to gather an army to follow them for to destroy them ye read that instead of destroying my people they were all drowned in the red Sea even so all those that will not grant my sons and daughters freedome and libertie as to enjoy the fruits of the earth that they may glorifie me shall have their hearts hardned to war against them but as I appeared for Moses and the children of Israel and gave them deliverance So will I now appear against all those that appear against me the Lord of host or against my people and will destroy them and consume them that they may never be more for I have spoken and it shall surely come to Passe for I will do all my pleasure saith the Lord of host And again the word of the Lord came unto me saying behold this man and see what he doth and loe I beheld a man in gay cloathes and he had a bagge in his hand and he put his other hand and tooke al the mony that was in it and threw it about so long as any
bowing to me in my sons and daughters who am the mighty God of Jacob. And the Lord spake again unto me saying behold behold and loe I beheld a beast with one horn push down men and kept them under and some he killed of them And I said Lord what doth this beast mean This beast is the powers saith the Lord as I have already told thee the men are my Saints which he hath pushed down and kept under as the men that did appear firm against oppression and cruelty and as he the beast killed some so have the Powers killed some as Locker and Thomson but as you saw some antient men come together the antient men are they that are mentioned in Daniel that are called the antient of dayes which is onely a set time for this beast to push down the Saints and to keep them under which time is now at an end in this yeer one thousand six hundred and fifty and these antient men all in white are my servants that judge this beast to burned or I appearing in them to cause them to give judgement against this beast and in giving judgment against him you saw one cut off his head and burning his body which doth shew that the ancient of dayes is now come and that my set time for him to have power is at an end therefore I the Lord of host will now arise and destroy the powers and bring them to nothing before the yeer one thousand six hundred and fifty one and burn them that no other power besides my self may be And the word of the most high God came unto me saying behold behold and loe I beheld and there appeared one like a man and also there was a picture of a man whose head was gold breast silver thighes brass and feet part iron and part clay and I beheld till the man break in peices the Image and stamped it under his feet and I said Lord who doth this man set forth and the Lord said it sets forth I the Lord of hosts and this Image sets forth all powers as the Pope and the Emperours and Kings and Parliaments and as the man brake in peices the Image so will I the Lord of hosts break in peices all the powers and bring them to nothing for the time is now come that I will cut the stone out of the mountain which stone is my instrument which I have chosen to cut down and break in peices all other mountains the instrument which I have chosen and cut out of this mountain which shall be broken to peices is Fairfax and those whom I shall stir up to be with him and the mountain is this power that is now on foot in the land which shall be destroyed for I the Lord of hosts have purposed it and it shall come to pass Having received those things and written them down about two dayes after I also received a command to go to London and put them in Print for they must shortly come to pass and I also with this command received this motto that I should have no rest until that I did get them printed but that I might know that the Lord of hosts by whom all creatures are made hath now commanded me and hath appeared to me and that they shall come to pass I shall be exceedingly terrified at which present I had some thing which was told me it was bread of life thrust as I thought into my mouth which was told me should be bitter in my belly and in truth I had a bitter fit of shaking and trembling and in my belly an extraordinary working so that I have had but little rest but as I saw the appearance of a man which told me that he was now come to tell me what I should do and as he had a sword in his hand so me thought I saw the same appearance terrifying me and telling me I shall have no rest until I doe it which through abundance of trouble and sorrow of minde as I have now for two dayes under-gone the third night I had some musick which was very pleasant and afterwards the word of the Lord came unto me saying behold and there appeared a company of women dancing and singing I said Lord what doth these mean to dance and sing thus And did also throw away their money and my God told me that as I saw them sing and dance and throw away their money so before the first of January next shall all my sonnes and daughters sing and rejoyce for joy and throw away their money as you saw them throw away theirs and so shall it be in that time that men shall use the world as if they use it not and I said Lord shall it be before the Parliament be destroyed and the Lord said the Parliament shall be destroyed first And I said Lord shall there be no power and so no law and my God said there shall be no power besides my self so no other law but I will be a power and a law to keep the wicked under and if any have any power it shall be my sons and daughters for they shall have of the best and shall reigne as Kings but not as to usurpe any authority over the rest but I will make the rest come bowing and bending to them and be afraid of me the Lord of host in them and so will make men to care for nothing but for things that are necessary as for riches they shall not strive after it and then I said Lord the men will be idle if they may have it for fetching it as cloaths and victuals and other necessaries but the Lord said that he would make all men worke as to provide things necessary for them but I will take the curse of their labours away and then their labours shall he pleasanter to them then ever they have been but as for drunkards and such as have wasted my creatures in vain There shall no longer be any such but I will be such a terror to the wicked that they shal be afraid of me and shall howl for sorrow and grief when my sons shall sing and rejoyce for joy and I said Lord is this all their torment as they shall have and my God said will not this be torment enough to be cast out of my love and favour and so to lie under my wrath I plaguing of them for their wickednesse and making them servants to my sonnes and daughters yea they shall think it happy to doe any thing for them but I said Lord it is said that in the last day the wicked shall receive this sentence goe you cursed into everlasting fire and the Lord said that this fire is his wrath which the wicked shal be thrown under and he will be as fire in their bones which shal burn them and I said Lord is there no hell for them to be thrown in and my God said all the hell is they shall be cast out of my love and favour
Gold and Silver away money which men have made Idols of shall now by the bright appearing of God be counted nothing but shal be thrown from one unto the other And they that have abundance shall hide themselves for feare of the Lord of Hosts These and such like expressions by way of singing I did utter and why I count it singing is because I did as being overpowered with joy crie ha ha tall toll lall derah la loll la dero tall derall tall toll dero tall aroll atoll loll loll dero in such a way I did breake forth between every 4. lines I have writ or oftner And on the 29. day of the same month about 7. a clock in the night I saw in a vision two armies of men one a coming against the other the same Leaders that were in the vision before concerning the last two armies mentioned I beheld til they were drawn up in a body seeing their drums beating and their collours flying their musquets charged and the souldiers with lighted matches in their hands and I beheld till J saw that these two armies did meet and the musqueteers fired and fell off and J saw men sometimes drap down But at length J saw the Generals horse which came out of the South break in amongst their enemies and utterly routed them and tooke the General and killed him and so had the field to themselves And J said Lord what is the meaning of this and my eternall God within me told me That the General and his armie that came out of the South are instruments which J have chosen to do my worke and the other Generall and his Souldiers are for the Parliament and J beheld til the General that overcame marched with all his armie to London and entred the Citie and went to the Parliament-house But they were dispersed and I saw the General and his Officers sit as a Parliament in the roome of the other and did promise that they would now restore freedome to the people and I saw the General and his Officers go into the Halls where money was and threw it to the Souldiers and the Souldiers had so much that they gave it away to the poore and I heard the poore say one unto the other these are joyfull daies And I desired the substance of it and it is this as my Lord hath revealed it to me That the General and the people with him are the instruments of God And he hath chosen them for to beat in pieces all powers and to thresh mountaines and hills to chaffâ— that they may be no longer and so to give the power to them that they may or God in them restore England from bondage and by their giving of money away so freely it shewes that the time is now come that the Lord will redeeme the creation from bondage and that I will saith God so breake that domineering self that hath bin in man That he shall now throw away his Idols of Gold and Silver that there may be universal love and freedome and warr shall cease Well afterwards I had much joy within my self so much that I am not able to expresse and which caused me to breake forth in singing and dancing and afterwards I was taken in a shaking fit and after the fit was over I was forced to give my money to them that were with me and did give them all that I had So by the appearing of me saith the eternall God shall all mighty great and rich men throw and disperse their silver and gold to them that have need that there may be no complaining in our streetes And after this I beheld a company of men and women with Crownes of gold upon their heads and I asked my God what meaneth these to have Crownes upon their heads and my God said these Crownes betoken victory for these are they that have overcome all things by my power and have come out of great tribulation and now have I wiped from their eyes all sorrow and weeping and they shall reigne with me On the next morning about six a clock as I was in my bed I saw the same vision as I did before as soone as I saw the Army routed and the General slaine I cryed out they are now cut downe and so I did at the night before twice or thrice I cryed they are cut downe and did afterwards expresse a bundance of joy both as it appeared by singing and lifting up of my hands and in this fit I was commanded to declare it to the General and was told me by a voice within me that I should have no rest until I had declared it And I asked who it was that commanded me to declare it and the voice said I am that I am the Lord of hosss the King of Israel and thou maist know I have made choice of thee to reveale these things and that I have commanded thee to declare it to the General and that my purpose is now to destroy all powers yea the Parliament and that this vision is from God thou shalt be presently taken in a shaking fit and in a very little while I was taken so and I desired my brother that lay with me to lie upon me and so he did to try whether I should then shake and I did tater him up and down and shake so much that he could not make me lie about two a clock at noone and on the morrow morning I heard the same words as I did relate that I have made choice of thee to reveale these things that thou maist know that I have commanded thee to declare these to the Generall and that this vision is from the Lord of hosts and that thou shalt have no rest untill thou hast done it thou shalt be taken in such a shaking fit as thou shalt be shaken more then ever thou hast been yet and so I was of a sudden thus perceiving I should be shaken I laid me upon a bed and called a man that was in the roome to lie upon me and so he did lie upon me and I shook him as if he had beene in a Cradle and rocked by a man And I desired to know what I should declare to the Generall and my God told me I should declare that it was his determination to bring to nothing the Parliament and so destroy all powers besides himselfe that he may be all in all On the fourth day of the second of February in the morning between five or six of the clock at the appearing of my eternall God to me and indeed I had great cause for to rejoyce for my father within me told me saying I thy comforter thy Redeemer Saviour wil declare some things unto thee after my flesh left trembling I heard a voice saying behold behold what dost thou now see and I beheld and loe there appeared a company of men and I told them and there were seven that were very gallant some of
them had Sattin cloaths and some of them were in cloaths that were laced with Gold and silver lace and they had each of them two or three men a piece waiting on them and they were merry and I said Lord what meaneth these the Lord answered me told me That these doth represent the Parliament and as the were very merry amongst themselves I beheld there appears a hand upon the wall and writ these words Mene Mene Tek Peres and I asked the meaning of this writing and I was told that they were weighed in a ballande were found too light their Kingdom shall be taken from them and given to others I beheld them that they were very sad and hung down their heads at the appearing of this writing and I heard a voice say crie crie and I said what shall I crie crie that the Lord of host will bring down the Power strength and might of men and will lay their honour ie the dust for my determination is to powere out upon them the fiercenesse of my wrath and indignation and all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousie for the day of the Lord is come that burneth as an oven and all they that do wickedly shal be as ashes under the sools of my feet I will take the Kingdome to my selfe and give it to my Saints and after this was over within a very little while my eternall God within me uttered these words again behold behold what dost thou now see loe I beheld a company of men women Singing and dancing together with Crowns of gold upon their heads and I looked on them and did see them put their hands in their pockets and they pulled out their money and gave it to one another presently after this I saw a company of men which were verry gallant with their men waiting upon them come to them and bowed to them And I said Lord what are these that dance and sing together and the Lord said that these are my Sons and daughters and three crownes betoken victory that they have through the strength of me overcome sinne and flesh and now are come to Sion with everlasting joy and rejoyceing and sorrow and sighing is fled away and these shall reigne with me And whereas thou seest Lords Knights their men come with bags of Gold silver bowing presenting their money to them that were danceing these shew the fullfilling of Scriptures that the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending down to the soles of thy feet shall call thee the blessed of the Lord the Sion the holy one of Israel that the Kings and the fulnes of the Gentiles shall bring their glory and honour to it and as thou seest my sonnes receive their treasure and upon the reciving of it they became one and their men put on their Hats and were no longer SERVANTS but Fellowes with them the time is now at hand that J will be such a terror to all men that they shall throw away their idols of gold and silver one to the other for feare of the Lord and for the glory of my Majestie when I arise to shake terribly the earth that they will no longer assume unto themselves such a Preheminence as formerly they have done And after a little while I heard these words utter'd within me againe behold behold what seest thou now and lo I beheld an Angell with a sickle in his hand come into a field of wheat and I heard a voice say thrust in thy sickle for the harvest is ripe and I said Lord who is this that hath a sickle in his hand and the Lord said this is my messenger that I have sent and the sick'le in his hand is my power by which he shall reap the harvest withall And lo I saw him thrust in his sickle and cut downe all those that were higher then the rest and so made all equall and all the field became as one in greatness none bigger then another And I said Lord what doth this field represent and the Lord told me That the field of wheat are men and as you see the great eares cut from the little ones until they were all alike so will I by my own power and by my bright appearing in my sons and daughters Cut down the loftiness of men and bring low their haughty lookes and I like a mighty Leveller will lay low-the mountains hills and make them as a plaine and will make crooked pathes straight that I alone may be exalted and so will take away that stumbling-block of private intrest that men shall no longer seeke for honour as to warr one with another but I will make them beat their swords and speares into plowshares preuning hookes that there may be universall peace and freedome and all dwell in love together But in a little while after this I heard the same words within me uttered Behold behold what seest thou now and lo I beheld a mighty Angel going from one end of heaven to the other crying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and is thrown into the Sea that it shall never rise more And my excellent Majestie within me which is my eternal God said by Babylon is meant all forms of governments and ways of worships which men have set up and all Lawes which men have made to keep their fellow-creatures in bondage and slavery but as thou seest this Angel throw a stone into the sea and the stone never rise more so will I by mine own power take away the power of man for ever making any more Laws to hang men eâ—e long and so will destroy the searletcollour'd whore and will slit her nose and burne her flesh with fire for the heaven and the earth shall now flie away and there shall be no more place found for it And after this J heard the same words utter'd within me again Behold behold what seest thou now and lo I beheld a mighty Angel crying aloud the Kingdomes of this world are now become the Kingdoms of God and he shall reigne for ever and ever and now the mystery of God which hath bin hid shall be made manifest and time shall be no longer and now are former things passed away and all things become new And J said Lord what is meant by this Angel and the infinite God by whom we live and move and have our being said that this Angel holds forth my servants crying against the powers of this world and crying me up as the onely power that they will set up and as he cried the mysterie of God is now finished and time shall be no longer it shewes that my sons and daughters shall see know the mysterie of God which mysterie is God in them and that they shall now say time shall be no longer by Gods working so powerfully in them burning up sin and flâ—sh that so sin and flesh or Satan
shall no longer have any power over them but God will be their all and in all they shal now se it and know it too which will occasion them to crie time shall be no longer And thus by the strength of me who am the Alpha and omega they overcome all things so all things are become new so my sons daughters shall inherit all things for the Angel after he had cried all things are become new so he cried they shall inherit all things for my sons and daughters saith my God shall now see me to be all and in all and so shall see and inherit all things by the injoyment of me for the mysterie being finished in you and all things become new it is such a change in you that those things that you thought were unlawfull before will now appear to be lawfull for this is the new thing you will now see and know that all things are Gods and so will see and know that as God is yours so all riches as houses or Lands are as much yours as any mans for saith God time shall be no longer You shall know this saith God that sinne and transgression being finished with you and everlasting righteousnesse brought into you and so swallowed up with righteousnesse living in God and God in you you shall know that my worke my strange work which I wil do is now to break in pieces al things and to make all things become new which change is to restore the whole creation from bondage and slaverie into the glorious libertie of the sons of Gâ—d and so to take off the curse that is upon all crearures and to restore the creation to the first estate as Adam was set in that as I made Adam Lord over all creatures and all creatures were for the use of Adam saith the Lord so now shall all the creatures men and women have that priviledge which by reason of the curse have a lâ—ng time bin deprived of as to have the injoyment of the outward creatures which now they shall have for as the appearing of me in one single person Jesus Christ my anoyted Son did cause a communion to be among my Saints in those dayes so at the appearing of me in my sons and daughters now I will cause union and fellowship to increase first amongst my sons and daughters and then will burne up some by my spirit in them and will confound others by might and power and will make such a strange worke that I will make all sorts and degrees some for feare of me and some from the injoyment of me give up give up and relieve one another that there may be universal love peace and freedome all enjoying the worke of my hands without let or hindrance And being carried above my self or taken out of my self with joy I burst forth crying Halelujah Halelujah the Lord omnipotent reignes but could not rest my self contented until I did burst forth with singing because of the abundance of joy I was in And on the 5. day of the second moneth in the morning came the word of the Lord unto me and said I come which made my flesh to tremble and at length I heard these words within me behold I come to reveale unto thee things that must shortly come to passe therefore behold what thou now seest And lo I beheld a great water for the bignesse of it I could see no earth or ground and in the midst of it a woman gloriously araied sitting on a throne with a Crowne upon her head and presently there came one with a sword in his hand and cut off her head and she and her head tumbled into the sea and I said Lord what meaneth these waters and this woman that sitteth thereon And the man that came with a sword in his hand and cut off her head and my eternall God within me said that the waters and multitudes of people and the woman is the Queen or the whore of Babylon mentioned in the Revelations that hath made all nations drunk with her fornication and this Queen or lady that saith she should see no sorrow is Governments and worships and lawes which men have made and set up and the man that came with a sword in his hand and cut off her head is my messenger which J have sent or my self appearing in my sons and daughtera which will cut off all power as Kingly and Parliament powers and so will destroy all Governments and forms of worships And when her head was cut off I heard a lamentation men and women weeping and grieving and some I saw were laughing and singing crying Halelujab Halelujah for thou art worthie to receive Glory and Honour and praise for thou hast Judged the great whore and taken vengeance on her for shedding the blood of the Saintt And I said Lord who are these that weep And who are these that rejoyce and the Lord said that these are the Priests and those that have bin made rich by her fornications that weep and howle as the Priests that have made merchandise of souls of men but now their trade is destroyed and they shall no longer preach as to receive money for it therefore they weep but these are my sons that sing and rejoyce and indeed they have now great cause for to sing and rejoyce because that which hath troubled them as formes and worships are now destroyed and I said Lord wilt thou destroy the Parliament and the Lord said I will begin first in this nation and will by my bright appearing burn up some and destroy others that there shall to mens apprehension be nothing but confusion for I will make great and mighty men run into the holes of the rocks and throw away their Idols of gold and silver for fear of me that there may be universal love and freedome And I will be such a terror to the great men they shall hide themselves for fear of me And I said Lord wilt thou do this by thy own power without making use of any Instruments and the Lord said no but I will harden the hearts of the Parliament and they shall raise an armie for to fight with the Generall whom I will stir up to oppose their crueltie and their actions and so will destroy their power by my Instruments and I said Lord shall I go and declare this to the Generall as yet or no and the Lord said wait upon me as yet and thou shalt know more for I have somethings else to reveal unto thee And at night about eight of the clock on the same day being in my chamber the word of the Lord came unto me saying behold behold what dost thou now see And I looked and loe a white horse and one upon him with a sword in his hand ready drawn and he rid from East to West and from North to South cutting down all men and women that he met with that were higher then the middle sort and raised up
those that were lower then the middle sort and made them all Equall and cryed out epqualitie equalitie in that I have now made all men alike and he lifted up his hands to heaven and did sweare by him that liveth for evermore time should be no longer and so did thrust his sword into his scabberd again And I said Lord who is this that makes all alike and my glorious God within me said that I the Lord of hosts have done this and I said without any instruments Lord and the Lord said no but by instruments which I have chosen to do this strange work which shall cut down all powers even the Parliament and I said Lord shall the Parliament raise forces against thy instruments to fight with them and the Lord said they shall but they shall be destroyed by Fair. whom I have made choice of and his Army and whereas he cryed time shall be no longer and so put up his sword into his sheath againe the meaning is that when the time appointed is come all visible powers shall cease and I alone will be all and in all both King and Parliament and Governor and then wars shall cease And as you see him make all alike so will I destroy some and burne and consume others and be as a terror to the rest that there shall be none greater or richer then others And I said how long will it be first and the Lord said in a very little while it shall come to passe but wait thou upon me and thou shalt know upon this I desired of my God that if he had judged me worthy to reveale this vision to me and that it shall come to passe and that it was from the Lord of hosts I might have some token that I may know it to be from God and my God said within me That I should be presently shooke as if I should be shoock to pieces as a token that he had made choice of me to reveale this vision and the rest to and that it should surely come to passe which token proved true for I was presently shoaken even so much that two men which were in the roome with me that I desired to lie upon me or hold me from shaking which they did could not keep me from shaking But before this fit came on me one houre and halfe or such a matter I saw a company of men and women singing and dancing giving away their money one unto the other and my God within me told me that these were my sons and daughters that were come to Sion and that he had now wiped all teares from their eyes and that self-seeking is now ended with them and instead of it there shall be universal lvoe or a communitie like unto the communitie of his Saints mentioned in the Acts whereupon I was forced for my owne rest to give away that little money I had about me which thing others shall be made to do hereafter Againe the word of the Lord came unto me saying about one a clock on the 6. day of February Behold behold what dost thou now see and lo I beheld an Army of men with their drums beating and their colours flying and they were upon their march And I beheld till there came one to their General being all glorious and gave the General a sword and said take this sword for with it shalt thou beat down all thine enemies and I said Lord what is this Generals name and the Lord said his name is Fairfax the Army that are with him are my instruments whom I have stirred up to hate the oppression covetousnesse and crueltie of the Parliament And whereas thou seest one give him asword It is I the Lord of hosts that have given him power to beat down all those that are coming to fight wiâ—h him and presently I beheld another Army of men coming to fight with them and I said Lord who doth this Army fight for and the Lord of hosts said they fight for the Parliament and the Lord said I stiâ—red him up to oppose the Parliament bâ—cause they have exercised crueltie upon my people and I beheld so long that at length I did see both these meet together and did fight and I beheld some now and then dropped down of Fair. his men but they fell apace on the other side but at length Fair. horse routed the oâ—her horse and followed some of them in pursuit and some of them came and fell upon the foot and at length broke in amongst them and routed them and tooke the General and killed him and so had the field And I said Lord wilt thou also destroy the Parliament and the Lord said he would do it for saith the Lord I will now â—urne Leveller and will level mountaines and hills and will make them equall with low places and vallies that there may be universality And I said how long will it be first and the Lord said in a very little while and it shall come to passe and I said Lord shall I go to the Generall and tell him of it and the Lord said I should go but should stay a little longer first And saith the Lord whereas I said when I shewed thee this vision at the first that thou shouldest have no rest untill thou hadst done it so I have troubled thee ever since day by day and will till thou hast done it but thou shalt stay a little longer and wait upon me and that thou maist know I the Lord of Hosts the mighty God of Jacob by whom thou livest â—ovest hast thy being hath done this Thou shalt be presently taken in a shaking fit that thou maist know I have made choice of thee which fit of shaking came on me as soone as the words were ended which terrified my flesh but my Spirit rejoyced within me for joy And in a little while after the Lord within me said behold behold what seest thou now and lo I saw the heavens roleld up together as a Scroul and figges fall off the figg-tree before they were ripe and I said Lord what is meant by the heavens rolling thus together as a scroule and the Lord said by the heavens is meant all outward administrations or forms of worship preaching and baptizing and I saw one throw the srcoule into the fire and it was consumed so saith the Lord shall all outward heavens be burned up and the figg tree is the Parliament in this nation and it represents all powers which are a bringing forth some young figgs which are some new formes or wayes of worship or a doing some new thing but before they can bring them to perfection the day of the Lord overtakes them and shakes them and causes the figgs to fall off before they be ripe and so I the Lord destroy the things that men would do And the Lord again said behold what seest thou now and lo I beheld foure men stand upon the foure corners of the earth which is East West
North and South and they held the winde in their hands that it could no longer blow upon the earth or Sea and I said Lord what meaneth these foure men to do thus as they do and my excellent Majestie the Lord of hosts said these foure men are my sons and daughters in whom I have spread my selfe through out the world And by the wind which they hold in their hands that it should blow no more upon the earth or Sea is meant all outward formes or wayes of worship which of one kind or other have bin in all places set up by men but now I have taken their power from them and have given it to the Saints and by my bright appearing in them they shall not suffer any formes or wayes of worship to be set up And again the Lord said behold behold what seest thou now and I beheld a Throne and one that set thereon before whose face heaven and earth fled away and there was no place for them and I said what is meant by this Throne and the Lord said by this Throne is meant my sons and daughters and as you saw one that sat thereon t is I the Lord of hosts whoâ—… rule and reigne in my sons and daughters and they are my temple and house wherein I dwell and by the heaven and earth that fled away is meant all earthly powers Governments and formes and wayes of worship all outward administrations which by the appearing of me the God of Gods shall be consumed and burned up that they may never be more but that I the God of Gods may appear to be their teacher and ordinances and so all and in all and so my Covenant of grace spoken off by Jeremiah my son be fulfilled you shall not need to say know the Lord so they shall know me from the least to the greatest and that other Prophesie ye shall be taught of God And on the seventh day of February The word of the Lord came unto me and said behold behold what seest thou and loe I beheld and there appeared a table and a cloth laid upon it and trenchers and napkins upon it and stooles pulled out for men to fit upon them and one cried with a loud voyce come all ye fowls of the heavens to the supper of the great God and presently there were dishes of all sorts of meat set upon the table and after this I saw three froggs creeping up and down and at length they entred into Kings and Lords and great men and presently they gathered themselves together and their armies and I said Lord what is the meaning of this Table and of the things that are there on and my God said the table is the earth and the things thereon being of all sorts represent all things in the earth and I said what is he that makes the supper and calls all the foules of the heaven to come to it and my eternall God within me said it is I the Lord of hosts that make this supper and invite the foules to it and I said what foules and the Lord said by foules you must understand my sons and daughters who live in the heavenly injoyment of me and they have all sorts of things here to supper I even the flesh of Kings and Lords and mighty men and captaines and of all both small and great bond and free it shewes that the day is now a coming that they shall have the full injoyment of all creatures and so shall inherit all things the flesh of Kings and great men which they eat is the wayes of worships and formes of governments which they have set up their eating of them shewes a final consumation of them as that they shall be consumed and never be more the three froggs that went into the King and great men of the earth are the spirits of devills which is the proud flesh domineering over the spirit of God so ruling in their hearts maks them raise armies of men gather their forces together to resist the appearing or coming of me saith the Lord of hosts And thus through the pride of their hearts and loftinesse of their spirits they gather Gog and Magog together to compasse the Saints round But I said what is meant by Gog and Magog and the Lord said by Gog and Magog is meant all the wisdome power and strength of proud flesh which the great and wise men of the earth have invented as their power on one side and their false wayes of worships and formes of governments on the other side and Lawes which they have made to make the Saints and people submit unto are the great armies that compasse the Saints round or make war with me saith God But you see fire come out of heaven and burne them up so by the bright appearing of me saith the Lord of hosts shall all the enemies of my Saints which have deceived them be consumed and burnâ—d up as formes and governments and wayes of worships that they may be no longer deceived by them and I beheld the Devil that had deceived them and I did at length see him thrown into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone there to be tormented with the false Prophet day and night and I said what is meant by the Devil thrown into the fire and my God said by the Devil is meant all the wisdome cunningnesse and craftinesse of proud flesh which hath invented formes and wayes of worships to deceive the people they are all now burnt up and consumed by the fire of my jealousie saith the Lord of hosts and are to be day and night tormented by me That is all proud flesh and false Prophets which is the wisdome of the flesh shall from day to day and from night to night be under my wrath and afraid to looke me in the face and so by my appearing saith the Lord of hosts who am a consuming fire shall they be tormented who all flesh and filthinesse the power and wisdome of men Gog and Magog that I the Lord of hosts may be all in all For this lake of fire is my wâ—ath saith God into which I have judged and sentenced proud flesh that opposes me and throwne it that so I may consume proud flesh and bring it to nothing And againe the Word of the Lord came unto me saying what seest thou now and I looked and presently I saw a great City which to me did appear to be very gallant as if there were none like it and I said Lord what meaneth this City or what City is this and my Eternall God within me said this great City is spirituall Sodom and Egypt where the Son of God was crucified and I said Christ was crucified at Jerusalem though he was saith the Lord of hosts put to death by the Jewes yet he was also crucified in Sodome and Egypt that is the Lawes and formes and customes of the Jewes is Sodome and Egypt because their Lawes and formes did slay
presently the Tabernacle that stood upon a foundation had none but hung onely by the power of him that went into it this glold pearles precious stones wood hay stuble which was burnt up are all manner of outward administrations that ever were or is now at present as formes and lawes and Governments and rules of worships to walke by which in one kinde or other have been highly esteemed of all sorts of men according to the dispensation they have been under and though they have laid Christ for a foundation yet these hath been in one sort or other the work which they have built upon which work is to passe under the fire for the Apostle says every mans work shall be tryed by fire and if any mans works suffer loss it will be by burning yet he shall be saved so as by fire which fire is my self even I the Lord of hosts appearing in this tabernacle spoken of which as soon as I did appear or entred in all was consumed and burnt up all the most glorious dispensations and formes of worships which in my absence they have received comfort from though all these outward administrations are consumed yet the creatures remained saved by fire that is by my self saith the Lord of hosts who am a consuming fire and as you see the temple as soon as these outward things gold silver wood hay stubble were consumed It had no foundation but was held up onely by the power of him that was in it between the heaven and the earth so this is the ultimate end of my burning up all the formes and waies of worships and rules of men that they may see that they have not had me to be their foundation for if they had and had built right upon it the drosse would have been burnt from it and they would have stood fast and not have been removed which now thou seest they are and have no foundation their worships and wayes being taken from them they fall if I by my own power do not hold them mp but I have to this end destroyed them all and routed them of their forces that they may now stand by my power alone and see me to be their lives and their all and in all that I would have them no longer receive comfort from streams but from me their fountain of life as thou heards me say I was a Alpha Omeg they that overcom shal inherit al things I wil be their God they shal be my people if nothing else but a declaration that I am all and in all and he that over comes must be by my power who am the all of all things that he doth overcome some flesh and Divell and so by his overcoming he shall inherit all things he shall inherit me or enjoy me the Lord of host and I will in love communicate my self unto him and by injoying me he shall injoy all things for all the beasts of the field and all the houses and lands and mony in the world is mine saith the Lord of host so shall they be my sons and daughters and they shall have a full injoyment of them all for as I made Adam Lord over all creatures and made all creatures to be for the use of Adam and Adam so long as he stood he did injoy them all so will I now saith the Lord of hosis recover my wool and my flax and redeem the creation from bondage and make such a work in the earth by my bright appearing that the rich misers shall howle and weep for depriving my sons and daughters of the outward creatures and their rusty gold and silver shall so much rise up in their consciences that they shall no longer sayts theirs but it s the Lords and so shall suffer my people and all other poor creatures that want the outward goods of this world to have what they please that there may be universal love saith the Lord of host And the word of the Lord came againe unto me saying what seest thou now and lo I beheld seaven men and each of them had a trumpet and one of them seven sounded his Trumpet and the rest did not and as soon as he had done sounding there appeared one with a booke open in his hand and lifted up his hands to heaven and did swear by him that liveth for ever time should be no longer but now the mystry of God is finished as he hath declared by the voice of his former Apostles And I said Lord who be these Trumpeters and my eternal God within me said these be my sons which have from time to time sounded an alarum to the world as you see but one sound and the rest did not It shewes that they that did not had sounded already That is they according to their light have preached and spoken against Antichrist and have given Antichrist warning of what the seventh was to sound but now the seventh sounds the mistery of God is finished that is a great and glorious discovery of light is now made manifest more thensever hath been by the appearing of one saith the Lord of host which makes my sons and daughters know the mistery which hath been hid and so crie a loud that time shal be no longer not onely crie but through their knowledge swear by God that liveth for evermore time shall be no longer And I said Lord what is this mistery that hath been hid and now is made manifest and God said this mystery is my owne selfe making out of my self to be all and in all and that I doe not dwell in a place afar off that is onely Heaven and onely there but that my dwelling place is now in my Temples which Temples are my sons and danghters and that I who am the life and fulnesse of all things have been always the life of all creatures and the life of man and have been in man but not knowne to bee there but have beene covered under the clods of proud flesh but now the day of my appearing is come that proud flesh shall be destroyed and all that have kept the creature from looking after me the Lord of Host within them but have caused the creature to look after mee afar off But now by my bright appearing the book which thou seest in the Angels hands being open will cause the mystery to be known that I am in all men and the life of all men for this book is the mystery which mystery is I the Lord of host and as the book is opened so I the Lord of Host have made my self by my coming to judge proud flesh to be God in all men manifesting my self in love to my sons and daughters and appear in wrath to mine enemies And I said Lord what is meant that time shall be no longer is it judgement a dissolation of the world or that time shall be no longer to them that thou hast manifested this mystery to or that time shall
be no longer for the beast to reign or the whore that hath shed the bloud of Saints And the Lord said that by my appearing in my sons and daughters I will burn up sin and flesh so that time shall be no longer with them for they shall sin no more nor see no evil which mystery is a riddle to most men that the Sains sins transgressions should be finished but though it be a riddle and few know it that the seventy weeks for to make an end of sin to bring everlasting righteousness is at hand yet the sounding of this Trumpet wil make more know it I mean the Saints I mean that the Saints shall see that they shall now no longer commit sin for transgression is finished and everlasting righteousness brought in saith the Lord of host and by time that it shall be no longer is meant that set time which I the eternal God have allotted Antichrist the man of sin or the beast to reign which was for forty and two months but now the forty two months being expired come to an end all the powers of flesh Devil sin and that have been set up by the powers of this world by Kings Lords and great men their power shall be taken from them and so shal all time be at an end with them I mean their powers shall be destroyed when the time is come as it is now that the beast shall be destroyed By the beast is meant all forms and ways of worships rules and Governments which is the wisdome of the flesh as teaching and praying by the wisdome of the flesh and living in outward administrations at a distance from God and so thinking to make I the God of gods in love with you for your observations and traditions Time is come and time shall be no longer for these things but all these I have judged to be burnt up as being the Beast and flesh of the Word for the mystey of God is now finished and time will cease that I the Lord of Host may be all in all And again the word of the Lord came unto me saying behold behold what seest thou now and lo I beheld a woman and shee was all in white and not one spot to be seen about her and shee had a Crown of gold upon her head and in her right hand shee held a Scepter and I did see men with Crowns of gold upon their heads and other Gallants and of all sorts come to her with presents and some brought gold and silver and some pearls and some jewels and some precious stones and some one thing and some another and presented them to her with bowing and bending And one I did behold that proclaimed with a loud voice that Jerusalem was come down from heaven and that the marriage of the Lamb is now come and presently I beheld one all in glory to come to this woman who had a crown upon his head and he went into the woman and they became one and the woman delivered her Crowne and Scepter to him that came to her and presently there cried out to make supper ready and presently I beheld a long table table cloth laid upon it with trenchers and napkins and stools pulled forth and I beheld the dishes brought to the table and there was set on the table all manner of varieties that could be and the guests were all in white and there I saw them eat and drink and were very merry together The time being come that all sorrow and sighing shall fly away and I said Lord what woman is this with a crown upon her head and a Scepter in her hand and the Lord said this woman is the Jerusalem that comes out of heaven the Lambs wife and as she was all in white without spot it was the righteousness of I the God of gods and her Crown and Scepter shews that she doth by the power of me overcome all her enemies as sin flesh and hell and by the great men as Kings and Lords bringing presents to her it shews that I the Lord of host hath set my house above all mountains and that my people shall suck the riches of the Gentiles and that those as Kings Lords that have persecuted her by the names of horeticks sectaries and have laughed at her shall now come bowing and bending at the sols of her feet and shall a knowledge of a truth that the God of gods is in them And as thou seest one come to her and entred into her and she gave him her Crown and Scepter it shews that I the Lord of hosts and my people shall no longer be two but one and that I shall no longer appear to be in heaven a great way from them but in them and one with them married to them their husband and joy and as she at his coming to her delivered her Septer and Crown to him it shews that by my manifesting my self in them to dwell in them and to be one with them will make my sons and daughters resigne up all unto me that so I may destroy all their proud flesh and cover their nakedness with my righteousness saith the Lord of hosts and as you saw a table and all things thereon as napkines and trenchers and all manner of varieties and the guests all in white is nothing else but I my self saith the Lord of hosts wherein is all manner of plentifulness and that my sons and daughters are here set forth to be the guests all in white That is washed and made clean by my righteousness are now come to the feast of fat-things of marrow and wine on the lees where they my eat and drink and be satisfied with the fulnes of me Therefore eate and drink yea drink abundantly and as they were at supper they were merry together that is nothing else but I injoying them and they enjoying me I did fill them so full of joy as to make them merry that I told them sorow and sighing should now fly away for my sons and daughters that have been at this banquet and see themselves married to me to be one with me and so feed continually of the bread of life henceforth not knowing sin nor hunger any more but being satisfied in living in the injoyment of me saith the Lord of hosts who am life and joy and time as to sin shal be no longer and so knowing no sin shall have no cause to see sorrow or to weep any more for all thine enemies both within and without shall be destroyed that thou mayest come with everlasting joy and rejoycing singing to Sion saith the Lord of hosts the holy one of Israel who is in the midst of thee the days of thyweeping shall be at an end And again the word of the Lord came unto me saying behold behold what seest thou now And loe I beheld seven Angels mentioned in the Revelations one more glorious then the rest and he had some
one and removed this house and set it upon that great mountain as was by it and I saw men and women come from East West North and South to this house and I said Lord whose house is this and my God and Father said it is my house and the Sion spoken of in Scripture and as you see it carried by one and set upon the top of a great mountaine it shewes that I the Lord of host have removed sorrow away from Sion by my owne power and this mountain that you see the house set upon is but the fulfilling of the Sciptures that the Lords house shall be set above all mountaines for this mountain which you see is set an is the powers of the world and by its being set on it shewes that it is above them above great mountaines which are great men as have had the power but now have not and the mountaine being under it it shewes that great men have not power over Sion as they have had but are rather Sions foot-stoole and so bend to the soles of Gods feet in Sion and I said Lord is this house Sion and the place that thy sons and daughters shall come out of all Notions to and the Lord said this is Sion or it doth represent Sion and by people coming to it out of all Countries it shews that I the Lord of host have people in all Countries and this house doth onely shew by standing in a place as you see it doth the place that my sons and daughters shall make merry in and where they meet together if two or three of them they shall be Sion and they shall come to Sion with everlasting joy upon their heads and sorrow shall flie away for their going to Sion with joy and rejoycing and their singing in the height of Sion and making musick as they go to Sion is not their going to one place to worship but they are glorying and rejoycing in me because those that formerly were their enemies are now cut down so that they may speak of me without any fear for a Law shall go forth of Sion which Sion is my Church and the Law is my self that they shall declare and speak abroad for all the enemies as Antichrist and the beast and the Whore and forms and governments and rules of men being destroyed there shall be now no other law then what shall come forth of Sion I will now appear to be teacher and Law and rules and worships and all in all and this Sion are my Church or sons and daughters unto whom I have made forth my self and appeared now by manifesting my self unto them that I dwell in them and am a Law in them and unto this Sion shall people say come let us go up to the house of the Lord and he will teach us his wayes the God of grace will be our teacher and instructer and when he teaches us we shall have no need of men to teach us for he will write his Law in our hearts and in our inward parts and we shall sin no more and I said Lord shall there be no Law or formes to walk by as hath been formerly And the Lord said there shall be no other law but I my self will be all the Law and if any offend me I my self will terrifie him and not man for I will be a terror to them that know not me and a joy to them that know me and when I have thus set my house upon the top of all mountains then shall war cease and then shall stony hearts be taken out of men and instead of them they shall have hearts of flesh and so I will saith the Lord make men to beat their swords into Plousheers and their spears into pruning hookes and the nation shall not learn War any more for when I have taken the power from great men and likewise their self interest that so he that laboured all the day and he that laboured but one hour in the vinyard had both wages alike so it shall be that they that have strived for honour and greatness and have laid up baggs of Gold and Silver for five or two or twenty or thirty fourty yeers together shall have no more then he that hath not laid up any thing at all or else hath laid up but a very little but in one yeer and whereas he that had wrought in the heat of the day did murmur and thought it harsh that he should have no more then he that worketh but one hour the Lord of the vinyard told him it was his own he might chuse whether he would give any thing or no and what I do give thee I do it out of mine own free will for all is mine saith the Lord of hosts all the beasts of the field and all the riches of the world is mine and not thine and though I have lent thee them and thou having not made a right use of them I take them from thee and give them to thy fellow creatures for their use as well as thine for when thou hadest these things as I have now taken from thee thou madst them but instruments of cruelty to thy fellow creatures and so did not use this world as if thou used it not but used this world as if thou shouldest never part from it but I have taken these things from thee that thou shouldest use this world as if thou used it not for the fashion of this world passeth away and all things shall now become new and these your Idols of gold and silver I will be such a terror to you that if you do not throw them away ye shall be consumed in my wrath Now I arise to shake terribly the earth and I will do this my act my strange act as to make the low and poor equal with the rich that they may every one sit under his own vine and none make him afraid but all enjoying the fruits of the earth and so no longer to work for others or others to have the benefit of their labours but every man shall now enjoy the fruits of his own labour and if any be servants it shall be those that know not me saith the Lord of hosts Thus will I stain the pride and glory of man and will bring down the haughtiness of menand will lay low the mountaines and will exalt the vallies and then both oppressors and oppressions shall cease that the creation may be restored from bondage and this is the time of the restitution of all things whom the heavens must retain but the time being now come that the heavens cannot retain me any longer therefore I come for to restore all things and the creature man from slavery and bondage into the liberty of my sons that they may now no longer be in subjection to their fellow creatures but shall now see themselves to be equal with them and the fat swine to be but men whose breath is in their nostrils that I may
and so in stead of enjoying me they shall be terrified by me which hell shall be here on earth for when my sons and daughters shall sing and rejoyce they shall howl and weep for sorrow and I said Lord it is said that thou wilt separate the sheep from the Goats and set one on the right hand and the other on the left hand that in the world to come And the Lord said I will make a seperation and such a seperation as is spoken of and that I will now set the one of my sons and daughters on my right hand which is my love and favour to them and the other to wit the wicked shall bee on my left hand that is under my wrath and I said Lord what is become of the wicked that have ceased if there be no hel nor no other life and the Lord said their bodyes are returned to earth from whence they came and so shall ever be and never be more but their spirits as soon as they go out of their bodies being not made of the four Elements as fire water earth and aire neither is it the soule which is their life for I the Lord is their life and soule and so soone as I draw my self which is the soul out of the body the body returnes to the earth and there it continues but the soul which is the life of the body which life is my own invisible being returnes to its centre as the body doth to his and there remaines which centre I the Lord of host am and so the soul which is the life cannot suffer any torment after it is out of the body but returnes to me to be at rest with me but the spirit and the soul being two distinct the spirit of a man it is that is and shall be tormented When the body shall rest and the soul be also at rest I meane the body of him that is deceased when his spirit which is his conscience that is compounded of reason wisedome and knowledge and so proceeds from man and is called the spirit of a man shall be tormented for ever and that in a body though it be not in the same body for this spirit which is compounded of reason wisdome and knowledge is that which exalts and sets it self against God and so is the utter enemy to God it being some thing which proceeds from flesh and proceeds out of man and yet it is not flesh nor man and as soon as it comes out of one man where I the God of gods doe not rule it goes into another wicked man and there acts the same things which it did in the first and so as Cain killed Abel the same spirit is in wicked men killing the Saints which spirit of man being all that shall be tormented I suffer it to embody it self in man untill it becomes a legion of Devils and there they remain in man untill I by my spirit cast them out or till I withdraw my self and so let the body goe from whence it comes and so the Devil which my Sonne Christ cast out of the man which man was tormented by it it being in him for so long as it was in him it did keep him from enjoying me and so did torment him is the spirits of wicked men transfused into one and so rules in a man and as it spake and desired Christ to let it go into the herd of swine it shewes that it was not able to a bide in that place were I would not have him tarry neither can it go into any but to those that I give it a commission to go into and as it chose to go into swine the swine sets forth wicked men so that the Devil that was cast forth went into the herd of swine went into wicked men and as the swine ran into the Sea and were drovvned so those into whom I do suffer the spirit of a wicked man to go into and remaine and not cast it out that man is tormented by that spirit and drowned in a Sea of misery But as the spirit cried out art thou come to torment me before my time it shewes that a spirit is not capable of torment out of a body but in a body which bodies shall now be that the spirits of all wicked men shall be tormented in and they shall for ever as one Devil and his Angels be burning in my wrath that is those wicked men that remaine shall be the places wherein all the spirits of wicked men and their spirits shall be tormented day and night that is in bodies wherein nothing but wickednesse dwels so that all might be tormented and destroyed but I the Lord of host and I said Lord there are some things in likenesse of hens or doggs or any any thing else that can speake and my God said that these are the spirits of wicked men whom I can make in any shape and can give them power to speake to other wicked men or their spirits in them which spirit workes in the children of disobedience in this forme and shape and so these spirits are witches so called because I suffer them in whom they remaine to have power and so to bewitch them that they come not to the knowledge of me that is those in whom this power of darknesse rules are so overpowred with darknesse that they become fit subjects or bodies for me to execute my wrath upon them which bodies being sensible of me the Lord and of the glory and happinesse of my sons and daughters shal gnaw their tongues for paine even in this world so that the resurrection in Scripture mentioned is not a resurrection of the body out of the earth but a resurrection of the the body from darkness to light and from the wrath of me to the love and favour of me For saith Christ I am the resurrection and the life so that the resurrection and life is Christ that is so to be raised from the body of death and sin as to be anointed with the spirit of God and so to become new being dead before and now to be alive and ever to be with God Free from apprehending God to be angry with us but always feeling his divine power ruling in us and causing of us to see and look upon him as one that is well pleased with us FINIS