Experience propose to the Lord the Treachery and Abomination of any one else And concluded not to propose to Him any thing but what should proceed from an humble Heart wanting to be satisfied And in this Resolution she hath been Confirm'd by the Lord himself who spake to her in this manner I am Holy therefore let every one that cometh to Ask of me examine himself well whether he be likewise of a clean Heart And if not let him not think that I should visit him in my Word to Answer him For this end hold thou to Me for I will not that thy Righteous Soul should be importuned by the impure Wretches of this World Go out from their Abominations and receive not any thing at all from them For I am the LORD Nay even those who love Me if they come not to me in a Child-like and Humble Heart they shall not be heard by me Let every one that dareth to lift up his Eyes toward me come himself to me with his Heart and not by Letter and I will answer him willingly and will not shut him out I go before in Love For hitherto have I spoken in patience but they would make an ill use of it and would make thee to sin without thy knowledge Break then the Cords and suffer not thy self to be bound and take nothing from them but only from such as are true-hearted and humble Such will I hear when they complain and will answer when they enquire not out of Curiosity Now although the Lord will not Answer such Curious Enquirers and She Sanctify'd and Purify'd in the Blood of Christ will not admit of such like Questions yet nevertheless He was the very same day so Good as to give us that which follows Courage My SION thou dear Shulamite shalt now go suddenly forth out of Babylon I will give to thee the Wings of Righteousness that thou mayest fly away from the Abomination of Babel Thou shalt have no Communion with her that so thou mayest not be polluted For I will have thee to be clean and without Spot I will cloath thee with the Saphir and will Crown thee with Righteousness For thou hast been rudely treated and thy Wounds have been very bad but now it is all over For the Vine beginneth to put forth its Branches and I take pleasure in my Bride for she is become lovely in my Eyes Therefore will I deck her with Light and Glory without measure and she shall find that I deal kindly with her Let then the Babylonian Wicked insult over you with all their might Be ye not dismayed hereat I am your Buckler your Defence and your Armour and with Justice I cover you as with a Garment I the LORD am arming my self to fight for you with a Mighty Arm For now is the time that Light and Darkness must be separated from each other that so SION may dwell before Me. And verily the Cherubs with Thrones and Principalities are in Array to Fight for Sion against Babel But take this in a right Sense The Battel is for the sake of Sion's Spirit that her Cause may be strengthn'd and made certain and that there may be a Separation from the Works of Babel For this end it is time that ye watch and stand upon your Guards Night and Day For I come and do sound all the Depths And therefore I witness thus and will witness in all Languages and Tongues and will pour out my Spirit largely and adorn my Bride as to the Marriage-feast yea as to the Triumph She shall cry aloud for Joy and magnifie my Name aforehand When all this shall be transacted before in the Spirit then shall the Decree or Curse come forth against Babel And Sion shall then be as an Armed Man and I as a Roaring Lion against Babel and all her Abominations And then shall the Jdugment be revealed and come forth Wo to you ye Earthly-minded Men when I come Of whom is that saying true That I shall not find Faith upon the Earth But Blessed are the Simple and the Children for unto such doth the Kingdom belong Therefore be still rest in humility and fear not for I am before you Again I say Blessed are the little Children for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven Yea yea Amen! say I the Lord of Lords the God and Saviour in the Spirit of these Children Wherefore study that you may become like to them and so shall ye be made all Light Rejoice ye for the Victory is to Sion XXXV Before I consider the Questions I shall from some Passages of holy Scripture succinctly prove that God never declar'd it to be his Will that there should be no more Apparitions or Revelations after our Saviours Ascension but that on the contrary he hath given express Promises in his Word that before the Dreadful Day of the Lord he will send forth his Scribes Learned in the Kingdom of Heaven his Wisemen and Prophets for a Warning to the World and for an Encouragement to his Faithful Servants Neither have we any room for Doubt as to the Divinity of these Visions and Revelations if once it appear that the Lord according to his holy Purpose and Will doth really and according to the Rules laid down by Mr. Fabricius Superintendent-General of Pomerania in his Discourse * De Probatione Visionum of the Trial of Visions give to his Children in all Ages of the Church such Manifestations as these Of which the said Author has Collected together a great number of Examples from Approv'd Fathers Doctors and other Writers XXXVI That God therefore will for that he may if he will I suppose there is no Divine will deny grant such like Apparitions and extraordinary Revelations I prove first from the Prophet Joel Chap. 2. of which take this brief Account Now that the Contents of this Chapter have never yet been Accomplish'd since the time of Joel will be put out of all Dispute The time in which he Prophesied is not express'd but however certain it is that it was before the Captivity of Babylon Let us then see whether the Prophesie contain'd in this Chapter can have had its fulfulling either in the Calamity which the City of Jerusalem and the People of the Jews suffer'd by Nebuchadnezzar or in that other brought upon them by Titus Vespasian Now it is certain by these Verses viz. 1 7 9 and 11. that when this Chapter must have its Accomplishment then Mount Sion must be in a good Estate and the City of Jerusalem with its Temple be standing Moreover in ver 2. a Day which is call'd the Day of the Lord is describ'd as a Day of Darkness and of Gloominess of Clouds and of thick Darkness And this shall herein consist that a mighty and strong People of whom there has not been ever the like neither shall be any more to all Eternity shall come upon Jerusalem as the Morning spread upon the Mountains Now that this cannot be said
it not to be wondred at if it be again permitted to Triumph against His Second Appearance in the Glory of the Father Neither doth the Breaking in of Spiritual Delusion any more than that of Sadducism make against what I aim at but very much for it Both the one and the other have been Foretold and therefore we cannot look for something Better without we look for This too But the great Variety of Spirits ought no more than the Variety of Religious Opinions or the Difference of Human Reasonings to discourage any Lover of Truth from the Searching into so Great and Instantaneous a Concern as this And as one who truly Honours God will not be afraid of the Imputation of Atheism or of being counted to be of no Religion at all in that he cannot acknowledge every thing to be His Word which the Glosses of Men would make to be so So neither on the other side will he be frighten'd with a Fools Cap or the Charge of Enthusiasm so as to be asham'd to own the Pure Teachings of the Spirit of Christ which in all Times entring into Holy Souls makes them Friends of God and Prophets Whereas indeed as nothing is more opposite to Atheism than the true Knowledge of Nature so is nothing more contrary to Enthusiastick Madness than the true Inspiration of the Divine Wisdom and nothing so widely distant from Phansie whatever some Unexperienc'd Persons may imagine as that Real and Sensible Communion with God which our Spirits and Souls are capable of arriving to even in This Life And let those who justly think nothing to be more Derogatory to the Divine Majesty than to be always crying out The Word of the Lord Or The Finger of the Lord Take heed on the other side lest they be found among those who go about to oppose the Revelations he is pleas'd to give of himself In these several ways is our good God Awakening Men to the Knowledge of his Glory and of the Future Times in the Appearance of Jesus by his Living Power in their Hearts while the Adversary that knows he has but a little time longer to rage is using all means to lull 'em Asleep or to make 'em Frantick All sorts of People all Religions and Parties bespeak as much wonderful Providences and strange Revolutions and Alterations of this last Age and this Island particularly for Fifty Years past confirm as much These are General Considerations and there are some others also which your Astrological and Cabalistical Heads give some heed to which I purposely omit But there are some more Particular ones First as for the Blessed Instrument of these Revelations there are all the Indications of Truth and Sincerity that can reasonably be requir'd in such a Case I reckon it a very good proof of the Truth of the Christian Religion that those who first deliver'd it to the World were Persons that could not but be well inform'd of the Truth of what they declar'd and could have no Temptation to Publish it but all manner of Temptations to suppress and conceal it Whence it is to me no bad Proof of the Reality of this Matter if the Principal Instrument her self with several others about her must needs be suppos'd to have had all the Moral Assurances of this Fact whether it be a True Inspiration or a False Delusion and if a True Inspiration not only Moral but also Divine Assurances of the Truth of this intimate Communion with the Spirit of God And if besides there can't be any one Reason produc'd that should tempt this Person to invent and send abroad a Falshood or Heap of Falshoods of this Nature and if there be many Reasons to the contrary the Proof is still stronger Now thus it is here at the very first view to any one that but considers Her Condition and Quality in the World the Reputation of the Family and the Improbability if not Impossibility of her not being discover'd supposing it a meer contrivance to deceive Which has been abundantly confirm'd by Experience both before and since the First Publication of This Letter I also reckon it a very great Proof of the Truth of a Thing if it comes certainly from One that has little Ability to Contrive it and less to Promote it And indeed nothing tends more to the Glory of God than to make use of Weak Instruments that so nothing may be attributed to them but all to Him who is a God that loves out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings to perfect his Praise and to begin Meanly that he may accomplish his Work more Gloriously according to Section XIII This is a mighty Confirmation of the Gospel of the Blessed Jesus and I do not see why it should not be also of the Spirit of the same Jesus speaking In and By the Mouth of this Elect Virgin It also mightily encreases the Credibility of a Matter if it be confirm'd by Persons either in different Times or Places of whom there is no Reason to suppose that they have had any Communication together or Knowledge of one another Wherefore if it appear that several Things deliver'd by this Person do most exactly concur and agree even after a very Nice Examination with what has been before predicted by a Succession of Prophets and Inspir'd Persons in several Ages whose Authority is also allow'd by us and if there be no reason to suppose that she can have had those Notices from them it must follow that she must either have receiv'd what she has deliver'd from the same Hand as they did or else that she must have been instructed by One that was perfectly skill'd in their Writings to believe which we have nothing but simple Conjecture against many Reasons to the contrary Therefore if the Authority of the one be good the Authority of the other must be so too And we cannot Deny one but we must Deny both Besides if there be not only with all the Prophets of the People of God but also with several others who were Strangers to his Written Law an Harmony as to the Main Things contain'd in This Book concerning the Glorious Days of the Future Golden Period the Authority is still stronger And if the Consent be remarkable in some less heeded Particulars it is yet more wonderful and not to be slighted And tho' they all should have been no more Sanctified or Regenerated than Balaam and should have Prophesy'd no otherwise than He or Caiaphas it 's so far from weakening that it strengthens their Evidence In as much as the Favourable Testimony of an Enemy goes beyond that of a Friend Further still if in the same Time at very distant Places there has been found to be as by Letters from Switzerland and other remote Parts has been witness'd such an Agreement as could not possibly proceed but either from a Divine or Humane Communication and there be all the Marks of the One and none at all of the Other it 's a mighty
my Heart is thy Chamber to sleep in and my Wounds thy Bed to rest in My Life is thine my Glory is thine I am thine and will remain thine Again HE said Walk before me and be good Serve me faithfully and follow me I will enflame thy Heart with a lively burning Devotion and with the Light of my Grace Thy Prayers shall be as perfume before me and I will answer them Thou art my dear Child my precious Child my most lovely Child and I am thy God thy Fortress thy Life and thy Light X. As this blessed Creature was favour'd with these and many other Refreshments by CHRIST her Well-beloved she was at the same time exposed like S. Paul to the pinchings and buffettings of the Devil For at diverse times she has seen in â—…ll day Satan present himself before her in the shape of a Black with bâ—â—â—…ng Eyes and an horrible Face being attended with other Devils who together with him endeavouring to lay word on her were not able but after having a little terrify'd her were driven away by the holy Angels whom God had sent for her defence and rescue Aâ—â—â—… the Devil appear'd to her one day with a Coffin making a shew of casting her into it when no sooner had she â—â—â—…'d upon God to help her by saying 〈◊〉 â—herefore is the Son of God revealed 〈…〉 destroy the Works of the Deâ—â—… 〈◊〉 at these words became as so mâ—â—â— flaming Scourges which were 〈…〉 to her Eyes and forced the 〈…〉 â—…ave her XI In the same Year it pleas'd the Great GOD to give her an Opening out of the holy Revelation especially out of the xxth and xxist of the said Book Which I here subjoin that you may judge whether it be possible that this could be produced by the Phansy or by any Faculty of the Soul in a Child so young as this The Manifestations which the LORD dictated Verbatim and gâ—â—… 〈◊〉 her Pen in setting down when she was hardly able to Write or Spell and which she keeps by her in the Original are these word for word I will go forth within a little while and will bind the Devil in such a manner that he shall not be able to fly any more in the Air nor to seduce Mankind and then I will come upon the 〈…〉 God and Man with the holy Câ—â—… JERUALEM and will Judge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will and my dear Christians 〈…〉 appoint Judges and my Glory 〈…〉 â—â—…nd them and in my Brâ—â—… 〈…〉 they shine I will givâ—â—… 〈…〉 Power to Teach and to Reprove and I will give them such a Spirit as I have given to those who are Beheaded for my Name Such a Spirit shall rest double upon all of them and they shall reign with me a Thousand Years and I will give them great power to bring in the Ignorant that so there may be one Shepherd and one Fold The Wicked Dead shall not live again till the Thousand Years be expired and then they shall be raised to Judgment So shall all the Blessed be in the Kingdom and I will descend with all the Faithful and Elect Souls and will keep Heaven as it were with the Children of Men. I will also preserve Christianity for a Thousand Years so as it may during that time â—â—â—…ease till that the Number be 〈…〉 When therefore these Thousand Years shall be finished I will be no longer with Christendom after thâ—…â—â—…nner but will go unto the Father into the wide Eternity together with the Elect leaving here the JERVSALEM-Christendom And I will 〈◊〉 Satan to come forth that he may seduce the People that are hardned which shall remain which are Gog and Magog And these shall be gathered together in Battel against the Christians who are my holy People But I will then cause Fire to fall from Heaven and will destroy them utterly and bring them to an End And I will raise all the Dead and will make an end of this World and the Faithful who shall then be alive I will transform and will sentence the Good and the Wicked XII As now her Mother saw and read so many Revelations she became impatient to be satisfied whence they did proceed and being of the Opinion that she could not 〈…〉 than to impart the same to 〈◊〉 â—â—â—…essor she took this Resolution 〈◊〉 discover'd to him the whole Affa◠〈◊〉 he exhorted her to stand upon 〈◊〉 â—â—…ard considering how the Devil could transform himself into an Angel of Light and other like Advices he gave her As therefore the Mother with her Daughters were troubled at this and in great Affliction throwing themselves on their Knees before Christ pray'd him that he would reveal to them whether that which the Priest had said was true or whether it was he himself the true Saviour JESUS CHRIST the Son of the Living God who had overcome the Devil and bruis'd the Serpent's Head And in case it were He who had hitherto appear'd to this Child that he would continue to speak to her as before But if not that he would put the Devil to silence XIII Then the Kind Saviour accepting their Prayer made Answer in this wise I am the Son of God who have bruised the Head of the Serpent and not he who seduced Adam and Eve in the form of an * This agrees with Patrick's Annot. Gen. c. 3. Angel of Light I do not Counsel what is good against my own Will as doth Satan I who speak with you am that God who governeth and reigneth over the Cherubim and the Seraphim But I see your weak Faith how you waver and suffer your selves to be shaken by a little Gust However I have patience with you and will make you mine Elect ones in the Furnace of Tribulation And what I have begun thus meanly I will gloriously accomplish Whereas Satan beginneth always gloriously and endeth pitifully XIV HE also said Many Preachers who ought to enlarge the Gates that I the King of Glory should come in do stop them up wherefore these not being worthy I will chuse my self some who shall do this in the Joy of their Hearts I tell you now I the SON of God who have chosen you out to be my People and Heritage that I will make you undoubted Heirs in the Kingdom of my FATHER and will exalt you very high for evermore I have now established you fast by means of my faithful Temptation for ye may at this time well believe that I am the true CHRIST from whom the Devils fly away XV. She after this saw CHRIST in the Clouds speaking these Words Behold I march upon the wings of the Wind the Lord of Hosts is my Name I am the God of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob and also your God too who will make you come forth to my Honour Therefore be not faint in the Faith for I will avenge mine Honour with a mighty hand and will not keep silence in my Cause Moreover she saw God the Father in Heaven seated
be at all concerned at it but they will send out others who must in like manner be treated Notwithstanding which there shall many be made manifest who love me and keep my Word and I will pour out upon them the Streams of the Spirit and all things I will Praise-worthyly and Gloriously accomplish And no body shall hinder me for I am the LORD and will fulfil my Word which hath this long time been spoken Amen It shall come to pass as surely as I the Lord am the Lord. Amen 11. Next follows a Glorious Promise how God's Truth shall break forth like Light so that none shall be able to withstand it and that it shall fall like Fire into the Eyes of the Fools whence dread and trouble shall come upon them Should I not in this time cause my unfathomable Faithfulness and mine Everlasting Love to break forth seeing that the Hour is come Yea my Light shall arise in the Darkness and my Truth shall Shine like the Sun in his full strength for my Statutes I will make to be acknowledged and my Truth will I not suffer to lye hid in obscurity I will do another thing in Israel yea a strange thing will I do which shall drop from the Spirit of Truth and like Fire fall into the Eyes of the Unwise And if they will not receive it Darkness shall seize upon them O slumber not now ye Wise Virgins but stand on your Watch for the Bridegroom cometh Go ye forth with a new noise Praise ye and Magnifie my Name O ye Nations and Armies For the New Jerusalem is about building Be ye then compacted every one to another in the Love taking no thought how it should be for I am with you 12. The following one is a precious Testimony of Christ towards a Person of great Quality being in the Fear of the Lord vvhom He lifts very Graciously up I the Substantial Truth the Everlasting Love do in the Spirit bear vvitness that I am CHRIST the Lord of Belief the Vanquisher of unbelief the Destroyer of doubt the Light of Men the Spring of Life one that is Holy and Righteous who destroyeth the Kingdom of Darkness taketh avvay the Power of Hell and pulleth out the Sting of Sin I am JESUS CHRIST the Lord who do reveal my self and for the Love which I bear to all Men do witness in the Spirit that tho' I do more clearly and more Familiarly reveal my self to some then I do to others as may be seen in Paul and Cephas yet my everlasting Love is the same unto all Men for I respect not the Person of any but whosoever doth well and keepeth my Commandments the same is well-pleasing unto me Wherefore I JESUS the Lord of Life do bear witness that I am revealed after an hidden Spiritual manner in their Spirits because in singleness and oneness I am delighted to Work I am the very same Spirit that bore witness in the Spirit of all the Apostles namely the Spirit of Christ by whose wounds you are healed I am the Eternal Love through whose Glory you stand in the Father's Presence Therefore Sing ye merrily O let Heaven and the Children of God give a shout for joy for my Hour is come in which I gather in my Vintage even them whom my Father hath given me for an everlasting Heritage whom I have purchased to my self through my Cross and Death In which blessed Way as many as are true believers do follow me under my easie Yoak I am the Way of Life whosoever believeth in me hath Life Everlasting and I will dwell in him and he in me to Everlasting Glory Behold here are the Wounds and the Marks of the Nails for a Testimony in the Spirit of this my so burning Love I spread forth my Arms to take in that which is gone astray to hold up that which is feeble to strengthen that which is fearful for I will take my Flock to my Self and feed them for my Heart melteth towards them Why should I not exalt my self in the Sanctuary And why should I not declare my Power in the Hearts of all the Faithful Yea why not in all Speeches and Languages Am not I your Shepherd How then can I any longer see the Confusion of my Flock Give thy Voice O Lord of Heaven my Father and regard the Desolation hereof and behold how all things are neglected and how my true Word which I uttered by my Prophets and my Apostles is looked on as nought For what they do is all Hypocrisy they forsake the Power of the Word and dig themselves out here and there their own Wells whose being is in the outward Work but the Powerful Principles of Faith whose being is in the Inward Ground they deny And therefore is my Wrath kindled and for this end am I come to Judge the Earth But who is there that hath known my meaning And who hath been of my Counsel Nevertheless the Spirit by whom ye are Sealed unto Holiness searcheth all things even the Spirit so richly poured out on you by the Father and by whose means you believe even by his strength for it is he himself who vvorketh Faith in you Be thou then through this Spirit stirred up in Faith my dear M y Dwell thou in me and I will dwell in thee that thou with memaist live everlastingly Believe and so art thou helped for in believing me thou findest all things Be joyful in Hope patient in Affliction take good heed to this I say and live up to it so shall I for ever remain thy faithful Friend and Brother Wrestle with me in the Faith so shalt thou know me for I will come with the Father and the Holy Ghost and we will dwell with thee for the Father loveth thee for my sake and the Comforter the Holy Ghost is with thee In singleness and lowliness of Heart Sing HALLELUJAH This is a Testimony in the Spirit given from the Everlasting Christ Jesus the Conqueror of Death Devils and Hell 13. The Grafting in again of the Olive Branches which were broken off and the breaking off of the Evil Branches and Transplanting them into a wild place Peace be with you dear Children Speak ye now concerning the help out of Sion and rejoice over the Salvation of Israel For the hour is come in which I bring again the Branches of the Olive and regraft them into their Places for that I am the Lord excercising righteousness and stedfast in keeping my Word But as for the Evil and the Hardned them do I again lop off and send away into a wild Place Why speakest thou so loftily O thou profligate one My Justice I will make thee to see for thou hast nothing of thy self but all that thou hast is from meer Grace But be of good Comfort my Ephraim I will provide for thee my dear Daughter and will deliver thee from the Scorners I have said it to thee be joyful henceforward and fear not for I am
thy Refuge and thy strong Rock I say Amen! 15. A very lovely Consolation for Judah and Israel with a Comfortable word to the First-born of Joy in their Posterity Hope in the Lord O Israel shout for joy O Judah for the Lord hath looked upon thee in kindness He shall make thee to rejoyce O thou First-born in thy Posterity I am He that hath said it But to whom is my secret known and who is there that understandeth my meaning Nevertheless the Deep shall utter forth the praises of my Righteousness and the Clouds shall declare my Truth Dear Children be not afraid for I am the Truth Abide in my Truth and what is there that can disturb you Unto you I am All in All. He that loveth me hath Everlasting Life and is Justified in me through the power of Faith Cry aloud lift up your Voices for I am a wonderful God one who levelleth the Mountains and pulleth up Men from the Deep of the Earth Be at peace my dear Sion Waver not my Child Behold in thine hands I have signed thee I am a God of thy Name a Keeper of Israel a Friend of Sion a Benefactor of Ephraim Trouble not your selves dear Friends for no Evil shall be able to reach you and as for what you undertake it shall prosper for I will set your Feet in a large place XVIII All these Testimonies and many more were given by God to this Blessed Maid before I had any manner of Acquaintance with Her Upon the Evidence of which she is so Convinced of the Divinity of this matter that not withstanding all the Contradiction and Opposition of Men she doth without the least mixture of Doubt or Fear believe in pure Simplicity and Child-like Confidence that whatever the Lord hath told or shall according to the expectation of her Faith hereafter tell her shall be punctually fulfil'd both in Her and in others She knows in whom she Believes and understands to distinguish between the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Errour with a clear Eye She bears with those who are not as yet able to own in her the Lord's Work but withal she believes that if they be of upright Hearts they will not be swift to pass Sentance upon Her as also that as many as are Enlighten'd by the Divine Light will be capable to feel that to be from God which God has bestow'd upon her But in bearing thus with the weak she permits not her self to be made Weak And so far is she from being disturb'd at the Blasphemous Sentence of the Unbelievers that she prays for them that God would not therefore on a sudden bring them into Judgment as might justly be fear'd but that he would in mercy delay it who is a God using terribly to punish the Blasphemy of imputing that to the Devil which proceeds from the Holy Ghost She says and maintains No body can make me doubtful of that which I have seen and heard No body knows the New Name but he that receives it None but the Spirit of Man which is in him knows what is in Man even so the things of God are not known to any save to the Spirit of God Now we have received not the Spirit of the World but the Spirit of God that we might be able to know what is given us of God With this one Testimony of the Holy Spirit She overthrows all the Objections made against her from Without which for the most part come from those who cleave too much to the Flesh Notwithstanding all which she trusts that in the end God will manifest His Work so as all the World may own that it is even He himself who hath witnessed all these Words by Her XIX But that you may understand the Method in which these Revelations pass and how this B. Maid doth not see with her Gross and Corporeal Eyes or hear with her Corporeal Ears but doth see and hear the Lord in Spirit and how she doth from time to time write down from his sweet Mouth the Words which she thus hears I will here import a Testimony which was given her on the Twelfth on November in the Year MDCLXXXVIII The LORD himself dictating the same as she wrote to the end that if any were desirous to be inform'd concerning the manner of the Revelation she might be able to answer them in His own Words Which are these Peace be with you the Friends of Our JESUS the Saints Blessed and Beloved I speak with you as one Friend Speaks with another I speak at this time with the Mouth of Truth that I may be heard yet not outwardly by the Bodily but inwardly by the Spiritual Ear which is a Thousand times more delicate then the Outward one I speak to you by my self as true God and true Man and cause my self to be seen not by the Eyes of the Body but by the Internal Eyes the Eyes of the Spirit of such a Spirit naturally as is united and betrothed most strictly to me And this manner of Sight is real tho' it be hidden and subtil This I know will seem strange to you who do not yet understand my Mysteries and my Wonders Yet I tell it you that you may be able to discourse of it properly according to my Inspiration For so and by this means have I spoken to you all those sweet Words which you have hitherto written I have this further in love to speak and say to you Rejoyce ye for your great Glory and Honour since you are rendred so bright through my Righteousness as to become white as the Snow to be cleansed and purged from all Sin yea to be one Heart with me and to be my Temple and Holy Habitation Keep now the House of your Heart clean and let it be mine neither suffer your corrupt sinful Will nor the Love of the Creatures to Lord it therein So will I sink down very deeply into you and then will arise up again in you and such a purifying will I make within you that you shall praise me both with Heart and Mouth My dear little Children rejoice ye for my sake and be of good Courage for I am with you Lay your selves now to rest in my Holy Will and pursue it that I may make you the Instruments of my Graces and Gifts XX. But as the Divinity of this Affair hath been witnessed particularly to some Friends so hath it been to my Wife and Me. For after that God had before this even while we were yet in Holstein made known to us not by such high and extraordinary Revelatiosn but by his Spirit in his Word the great Promise made to Israel in Scripture and the Mystery of his Kingdom and that we for the sake of this had suffered a great deal it pleased him to let us have for about a Year since the knowledge of this Gentle vvoman of whom we had not then heard any thing by the means of a devout Person with whom we
words Look here my Brother it is I who do it that I may accomplish it even so as I have purposed to do it And if I be thy Tower and thy Fortress who is he that can offend thee For this reason set up now thy Standard in my Name for I will destroy them when I awake up but I will be with thee and with thee will I fight against the Enemies yea yea it is I who do it therefore be thou joyful in my strength and let nothing hinder thee from doing it for I am the Lord thy God who accomplish this thing my self Amen 2. As the Calumnies yet more and more encreased against me I received still further Comfort of which this word of Testimony that follows is an Instance Be not wearied in patience thou blessed One even as I am not wearied However as for the Implacable them I will cast out into Darkness But have thou a good Courage and be not faint in the Profession of my Truth for one Day thou shalt be Victorious and having obtained a glorious Conquest shalt then Feed upon the Fruits of thy Labour Therefore be thou refreshed in my strength which shall be given to thee in abundance 3. In the same Month I received of the Lord another powerful witness proceeding from the freeness of his Grace which pierced me into the Soul and Spirit yea into the Marrow and Bones as may easily be imagined by any one who shall but-weigh the Circumstances which accompanied the same my Wife and I in Company with the Blessed Maid and with her Mother and Sisters whom we could not leave alone in the House took a Journey to Lubeck to set in order all my Affairs in which by the Decease of my Father from hence by reason of my holy Function I left my Wife and these good Friends at Lubeck and returned Hither by Post I arrived here upon Sunday and the very same Evening at Six a Clock I was filled with such a Divine Joy that came upon me as an Armed Man as in all my Life I had never felt the like though my dear Heavenly Father by the sweet Call of his Mouth has oftentimes put into me Life and Gladness In this Joy I had a Fore-taste of the Glory of the World to come and saw in a Moment that which God hath prepared for those that Love him by the means whereof my Heart was so Enlarged that I thought my self strong enough to throw down Walls and Pillars but there happening to be some Strangers then at the Table I concealed this Joy as much as ever I could till that it was impossible to hide it longer and then I began with a Voice of Jubilee to Sing Sion heard the Watchmen Sing Her Heart inflam'd with Joy does spring She wakes she rises strait and hastes away Her Friend comes down in Glory Bright Rich full of Grace of Truth and Might Her Morning dawns her Star proclaims the Day Come now Celestial Crown Dear Jesu God's Eternal Son Hosanna Into the Joyful Court we follow all And Celebrate with Dance and Festival The Happy Nuptial Day Hallelujah The same a little Paraphras'd Hark hark from Salem's Tow'rs the Watchmen sing The signal of the long-expected King And Sion's Courts with loud Hosanna's ring See how with eager Joy all Hearts around Tremble and dance to the Melodious Sound She shakes her from the Dust she flies all Gay To meet or to prevent the Glorious Day In solemn Pomp her Joy from Heav'n descends Him mighty Truth and ev'ry Grace attends She sees her beauteous Morning-star arise And bright Aurora Purpling round the Skies Now come Dear Glorious Crown Lord Jesu come And lead us to our long lost wisht for Home We into the Inmost Court all follow Thee The Glorious Happy still Eternity Or thus according to the Letter Sion heard the Watchmen sing Her Heart springeth for Joy She awaketh and riseth up presently Her Joy cometh down from Heaven Gloriously In Grace strong in Truth mighty Her Light breaketh out her Star is risen Now come dear Crown Lord Jesu the Son of God Hosannah We all follow into the Joyful Court and keep the Supper 4. My whole Family observ'd this Joy in me with Astonishment and my Son's Tutor said There must certainly some Great Thing have passed at Lubeck at this very time and that we were now in the Communion of Their Joy This Adventure the next Day I sent by the Ordinary Post to my Dear Wife and the very same Day being Monday she writ also to me by a good Friend what had passed with them at Lubeck in that very same Hour when I was seiz'd with so extraordinary a Joy Which Letter I broke open in the presence of Two Pious Young Ladies who were come thither from Staden on purpose to Visit this Dear B. Maid And having but a Minute before related to them that which had happen'd to me upon the Sunday Evening I read to them these words of the said Letter Child prithee write to me how thou didst find Thy self upon Sunday at Six a Clock in the Afternoon and whether thou didst not then feel in thy Heart a certain Joy For about that time the Lord spake to Thee with so much Affection and so stirr'd thee up as is not by me expressible Of which thou maist best judge from the Testimony that is here sent thee 5. Which I afterward read and is as follows Courage my Elect one Make haste and meet me for I am risen up to come toward thee yea toward thee and therefore come I so lovingly that I may knit my self unto thee For mine Heart is wounded therefore am I so enflamed and therefore am I so very Zealous for thy sake Receive then my Living Breath and Burn thou so that the Fire of it may give a loud and crackling noise And let thy Zeal be such that the Flame of it may break violently forth For I come leaping upon thee on a sudden and I throw down the Mountains with the Voice of my Coming Yea yea Amen! Amen! I am JEHOVAH the Lord. 6. Having read this I was mightily surpriz'd and letting the Two Young Ladies read it themselves they were much Astonish'd at it and Magnify'd God who deals thus wonderfully with his Children As this now for my own part gave me perfect Satisfaction that my dear Saviour was resolv'd by thus raising my Heart in the very same Hour wherein he gave me this Animating Word at the distance of Ten German Miles from hence to Convince me as it accordingly did of the Truth of this Divine Testimony in such a manner as I might not hereafter have room for any Doubt of His Words which should be sent to me at any other time So on the other side my Wife with the rest of our Friends at Lubeck were in like manner hereby strengthen'd and by it fully assur'd even to that Degree as it is not possible to be more that it was the
LORD himself and no other who could speak so by this Blessed Lady as He that is only Powerful to reveal his Wonders in the Hearts of Men to His own Praise XXVIII Neither must we pass over what the Lord with great Faithfulness and Love Answer'd to a certain Godly Doctor but who was of the Reform'd Religion and a mighty Defender of Particularism who having hop'd to Convince others of that Opinion was himself well satisfied to find the Truth touching Particular Grace and Predestination This then is the Answer that he receiv'd from the Lord. Peace be with thee Hear now my Word with a simple child-like Heart Behold I the Lord even the Lord JEHOVAH who upon the Cherubim and Seraphim am seated who am from Everlasting and who bring you forth in my Everlasting Love How should I whose Compassion is Everlasting and Unconfined make a Culling out of some before others Far be this from my Great and Universal Mercy Lo when my Heart was moved and my Bowels yearned within me then broke forth the Fire of Love and passed in the same instant over All Men that were fallen in Adam And there was no Preference of Any for I bear them All in my Womb even in my Mercy as if they were but One yea as if they were but One cold and lifeless Burden Then did my Love break forth and I became Flesh and gave my self for them and quickned them all with my Blood throughout and loosened them from the cold Darkness For they were before me but as One and I chose not Any but suffered my Love to go forth over All. Whosoever then cleaveth not to me turneth to the Darkness and his Destruction is not from me I am not guilty of it Who can sound out the Extent of my Love and of my Mercy Which is infinitely greater than you either know or understand Wherefore forget that which is behind namely all impertinent Curiosity for my Faithfulness and my Love surpass all Understanding And follow thou me as a little Child and so shalt thou live For he that feareth me and doth that which is righteous is well-pleasing in my sight Behold thou little Worm of Jacob I JESUS CHRIST the Faithful and the True do answer thee in all Mildness and Love for I am the Love Behold what is it that should cause me to do more for the Salvation of one than for that of another Far be it from my Faithfulness to do so For as to Adam the Law was given that he should not eat of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil but at the same time the will of doing it was not taken from him so that if he had remained in Simplicity and not followed his Appetite in eating of this Tree he should have continued before me in Innocence whereas through disobedience eating against the Commandment he fell into Darkness In like manner all Mankind that are fallen in him are under the same Circumstances They have Light and Darkness set before them and besides this they have my Spirit the Spirit of Truth that unperceivably and after an hidden manner inviteth them and driveth them for I will not the Death of a Sinner but that every one be Converted and Live It doth not yet openly appear how I am gracious to Call and to lead with power the whole World out of the Fall in as much as my Love is over all every where and is alike to all Men. Whosoever therefore will not be Converted to the Light but letteth himself be surprized by the Serpent the same is separated from me and I watch over that Person for Judgment And if so it happen that there remain in such some good thing of mine that shall be for a Witness against him Be thou well assured that into a Soul which is so impure I do not enter For after that I have caused my Grace to take care of him and he receiveth me not neither heareth my Call unto his Soul to return from his Fallen Estate I say unto such let him that is Wicked be Wicked still as unto him that is Righteous let him be Righteous still Thus it is in very truth As for thy self be thou doing good and walking in Simplicity as becometh a well-instructed Child For many Errours and many Divisions shall yet spring forth from these haughty Spirits of Reason but the Children of the Simple shall be preserved and then shall the Mystery be unvailed and they shall be One in Me. XXIX 1. Now notwithstanding that we had so many Great Things before us which God was pleas'd to bestow upon us in much abundance from the Fountain of his Love and Mercy we did not communicate them to any one unless it were to some intimate Friends in whose Secresie we could confide As being very far from seeking by this means to gain our selves a Name And the B. Maid her self with her Family kept this Miracle of God conceal'd for the space of Twelve Years Neither had it to this very day been ever made Publick had not the bringing it forth been affected by others and in a wonderful manner For Persons began to be inquisitive about what should be the meaning of the Visits which we received from so many Persons of Quality And there ran a Report up and down that there was in my House a Maid that had the Falling-sickness and could Vanish The Original of which Report was probably this That this Elect Maid had upon Whitmonday receiv'd so great an Elevation of the Spirit that for more than half an Hour we beholding her Face all the while as the Face of an Angel she continually prais'd the LORD and directed us to him as to him that was only worthy to receive Praise and Honour Then we were in Doubt Whether we ought to hide all that God had done to us Or whether we ought if it were demanded of us plainly and roundly to averr the Truth Which difficulty press'd us the more in that it so happen'd that about this time my Brethren of the Clergy were afresh extreamly busied in the Controversie of Christ's Reign As we were therefore considering what was best for us to do in this Case we receiv'd upon the Ninth of August this Answer from the Lord. Peace be with you O ye that are troubled I have turned my Face to you that I may be gracious unto you Be not then afraid for my Thoughts to you-ward are peaceable If you be quiet and wait in patience you will come to see into my Wisdom Verily I say unto you a great Mercy is shewn you And when the Hour shall come it shall be made all manifest that you may behold how wisely I have acted Yea nothing that I have spoken to you shall be in vain Lo I have said nothing to you in vain Believe this For it must be that every thing yet come to pass and be accomplished according to my holy Design O thou Bashful one that withdrawest
thy self be not asham'd For I my self will do good unto thee and thou shalt be greatly honoured in my presence As I live it must needs be that all that is Paradisiacal be again restored and all that I have spoken be fulfilled Who is there that knoweth the Glory of my Bride then when I shall effectually Espouse her or rather when the Espousals shall be published And in like manner as I was manifested in the Flesh to Die for you so must the Blessed * This was the Name of the Mother of this Elect Maid who deceased the Fourth of August this very Year 1691. with these Words in her Mouth Death is become a Jest Gerdrude re-receive her Promise when that which is Paradisiacal shall come when the Lambs shall leap on Mount Lebanon and shall wait upon the Marriage Verily I say unto you all things must be fulfilled through the Seventh Number And that which I say to you at this time you understand not but the Hour cometh in which ye shall understand it Be joyful and couragious for I am the LORD and I will not suffer you to perish When therefore the Hour shall come that it shall be required of you confess and deny not for I my self will have it to be declared Be ye then at rest looking up to my Goodness 2. Now behold just at this very instant there comes hither a certain Clergy man who spreads it abroad among diverse Persons that a Prophetess was here The Rumour of which coming to the Ears of the Senate they sent their Secretary to me to take my Examinations upon this Head I answer'd That though I did not pretend to make her pass for a Prophetess she had receiv'd from God great and extraordinary Gifts which I would make no difficulty to discover to them if it were desir'd requesting in the mean time the favour that they would let me know the Person who had advis'd them of these things Hereupon the matter was variously discours'd and the Calumnies being very many one of which was that she had a Spirit of Divination in her it pleas'd the most Righteous God upon the Eleventh of the same Month to vindicate her in these Words Shout for joy O ye Nations And be ye joyful O ye Heavens For to vindicate I am risen up yea to vindicate my Daughter Sion I will destroy the Blood of the Dragon from the Face of the Earth for my Wrath is kindled and who is there that can withhold me The Foundations upon which he standeth shall be shaken when I awake up As for his Boils and his Wounds behold they shall find no Cure there shall not be any hope left of healing them Wherefore I say as I live I will utterly destroy him and will cast out his Skull to be devoured by the Dogs Have Courage then O Daughter of Sion in all Afflictions for thou shalt suffer for my Name sake and shalt be rejected and despised But rejoice thou and be of good Heart for the Light shall be divided from the Darkness and I the LORD will become to thee a sure Habitation and a strong Rock Yea Amen! My Wonders must be revealed and it must be done so Wherefore lift up your Heads and be without fear for I am in the midst of you Yea Amen XXX As upon the Sixteenth of August it fell out that One in Preaching out of the Second Chapter of the Prophet Joel did not clear him up according to the Sense and Meaning of the Holy Ghost but maintain'd that God would give no more such extraordinary Revelations to Mankind one of our Friends that was then present being much troubled at this Explication was desirous that the Lord our Saviour who had hitherto witness'd so much favour and condescension towards us would be pleas'd himself to declare the true Intent of that passage and to give us his Divine Instruction upon it And accordingly the next day He vouchsaf'd to open the Prophet's Meaning and at the same time to let us see his Wrath against those who give such Prevaricating Explications to his Prophesies I the GOD of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the God of Sion will bring out of Mount Sion Deliverance to my Ephraim who is the Child of my Love Verily as I live the Fire of my Wrath is kindled and I am Zealous for the sake of my Word They imagine Lies and their Heart is filled with meer Abomination But I come suddenly O deceitful Generation that I may spew you out for you are a deadly Poyson and that I may make you a Desolation say I the LORD even the LORD Observe then dear Sion that the Total Accomplishment of my Word written by Joel is yet to come For my Spirit cometh then upon all Flesh in a greater measure than that in which it came upon my Apostles which was no more than as it were a foretaste of what is yet to be And then was the fulfilling of it published in that manner that it is yet to be done when even Sucking Children shall receive the Spirit to such a degree as not only to see Visions but also to interpret them Then shall such a Faith appear as by it greater Works shall be wrought than those which I have wrought And when one saith to the Mountain be thou lifted up and be thou cast into the Sea it shall be done accordingly And then will I shew such Signs as ye have not yet seen and such as never yet have been in the former Times before you What should I speak to the Winds or let my Words be without effect No far be it from me But those who make my Word to lye and who will not suffer it to abide in its strength must come to perdition Wo to you who Preach but your Imaginations Let every one take good heed to that which he doth For I am the LORD and will maintain my Word But whosoever would blacken it or would apply it to his unclean Brutish Thoughts may find it an hard matter to contest with me For I roar as a Lion against every Abomination and I break forth as Smoke out of the Forest to dry up the false Cedars which without are very beautiful but within are filled with the Abominations of Dogs Wherefore I have a loathing unto them and will dreadfully come upon them and will root them out and will cast them into the deep of the Bottomless Pit where is weeping and gnashing of Teeth But thou O my Sion and Ephraim my Beloved fear not for I am thy Friend and I am with thee Amen XXXI Soon after this the Elect Maid that she might set in order her Domestick Affairs upon the Death of her Mother parted from me being accompanied with her Sister In the mean while a Report was rais'd how it was I my self that had spoken by this Maid and had made use of God's Name to give a colour to that which I pretended to establish for a Divine Truth which
Will that Men should believe righteously of me even as I have revealed my self in the Scriptures when not drawn aside with one's own Reason but opened with and by the Holy Ghost who is promised to and resteth upon all those that are upright in my sight As for those who Fight against my Truth with pretence of knowing better and trust to the darkness of their own imaginary Reason they go down into darkness be they of whatsoever Religion they will But as many as love me and seek seriously to be sanctified by me not being content to believe outwardly which is without Foundation or to sit still with outward Worships but searching after me in the Ground of their Hearts in Spirit and Truth they find Grace before me and with me in all Generations and in all Religions If so that they do not wittingly and after that they are once convinced deny me the Everlasting Son of the Father For all must go to the Father by me and all must be purified in me for out of me there is nothing of Purity The Ignorant let no Man presume to condemn for who is there to Judge them but I And my Judgment is Righteous and for this cause they are not judged to Everlasting Misery Otherwise my Judgment would not be Righteous Here is the depth of my Secrets All must praise me and be subdued to my Truth and be hallowed and washed thro' me All must be put under me and thro' me be made Righteous in the true acknowledgment that I am the Lord. But how this shall be done and how it shall be accomplished in the very Heathens ye are not yet able to comprehend and therefore I do not explain it to you This is my word and the Testimony of Truth For I the Lord even the Lord JEHOVAH have spoken it who can do beyond all comparison more than ye are able to comprehend Watch for I come XXXIII After some days there came to this B. Maid a Principal Officer who deliver'd to her a Seal'd Letter which he said came from a Person of Quality The Name of whom he told her which afterwards was found to be a meer Falshood and pray'd her to propose the same as from the said Person to the Lord. The Answer was this I the Lord of Hosts who come upon a Cherub who destroy all Falshood and root out all Deceitfulness even I it is who speak here Who is it that persecuteth me And who is it that is not discovered before me I say unto thee Repent Awake for it is high time and I am coming to thee yea I come speedily For my Love and Mercy is great And to such as have a clean Heart free from all filthiness and dead Works I am gracious and hear their Cry Sighs and Moans And Lo this is my Will and the Testimony which I give to every one that whosoever shall lay hold on me with a pure Heart and with a strong Faith the same shall attain to all that remaineth and shall even in all things be able to find it Yea Amen I the LORD even the LORD who speak with my Voice as the Voice of Thunder have witnessed this and spoken this And there is none that can withstand me For I am risen up and do many Signs and Wonders And blessed is that Person who loveth me and keepeth my Commandments for at the end it shall go well with him See that thou mistake me not so as to do any thing that may mislead thee Follow that which is right before me according as I do in thy Conscience witness to thee in the Truth and be godlily-minded and so shalt thou with me be well led and shalt dwell with me in the Light and not be cast out into the Darkness This is enough for thee and I say no more A little while after the aforesaid Officer sent a Letter Seal'd in his own Name which the Blessed Maid receiv'd thinking that he had enquir'd something of the Lord from a remorse of Conscience And this I thought too for as much as he had frequently said to me that he wish'd to discourse with me about God and in what manner one might advance in Piety And hence I could not but conclude that the Lord would give him a gracious Answer But we were struck with a mighty Astonishment when we read the Lord's fierce Answer Which behold I the LORD have in abhorrence the Blood-guilty and the False And he that is Wicked shall not stand before me Therefore take away the Evil from before mine Eyes that this my Word may not become to thee a Terrible Judgment in the Day of my Wrath For I am a consuming Fire The Elect Virgin made a difficulty of sending him presently this dreadful Testimony Whereupon she sent him back his Letter Sealed without having open'd it and wrote to him at the same time that she had receiv'd a very harsh Answer which startled her the which if he desir'd to see he might send for which he did the next day After some few days he came to Visit us and speaking about the matter of the Letter he told us what had been in it which was such a Question as at which he might for ever blush But he confess'd that he had not well done in it However he endeavour'd to excuse himself with this that in the first Letter among other Religions Questions he had demanded something concerning the Word Sacrament which having not been exactly answer'd to he did not think it was the Lord who spake by her And this he said was the Reason why he had put such sort of Questions into the Second Letter which notwithstanding he wish'd he had never done He also confess'd that the First Letter was written by himself and not by a Person of Quality as he had before pretended As we then read over again the First Answer we saw clearly that it agreed exactly to him containing an express mention of Deceit and Falshood as also that one ought not to resist the Lord to whom all things are discover'd and from whom nothing is hid Lastly That he should take care not to be mistaken so to mislead himself nor to do any thing which might not succeed well with him or lead him into Evil. So that in the First the Lord would answer him not to his Questions but to his Heart And in the Last he hath given him very sharp menacing words that so he might not persist to kick against the prickles God grant that these Testimonies may pierce into his Heart that he may be Converted and do true Repentance XXXIV Upon this Encounter the B. Maid became somewhat more reserv'd and resolv'd not to receive for the future any Letter that should be Seal'd from any Person whatsoever since she must do it in doubt and could not know whether it be writ from an Heart that is upright and humbled before God or not She therefore neither would nor could after this unpleasant
of the Babylonish Army namely that it was a People so Mighty as there hath never been the like of them nor ever shall be again in all Generations or to all Eternity will easily be granted by all the World And that this cannot be understood here of the Roman Army is no less evident For those that pretend this Chapter is already fulfill'd must at the same time own that if the Holy Ghost in ver 28. was poured out in the first Pentecost and if the Romans did not Besiege and Destroy Jerusalem but till Forty Years afterward it is impossible that in the Second Verse mention could be made of this Army From the Third Verse to the Ninth the manner in which this Army shall March is describ'd In the Tenth it is said That the Earth shall quake before it the Heavens tremble the Sun and the Moon be dark and the Stars withdraw their shining In the Eleventh the Lord utters his Voice before His Army which shall be very great and strong and shall execute his Word in such wise that this Day of the Lord shall be a Day so great and so terrible that none shall be able to abide it That all this should be done by the Babylonian Army is not probable either from Scripture or from any other Writer and much less by the Roman to which the very Order of the Prophet will not permit us to apply it as hath been already said From the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Verse the Prophet gives Counsel how the Inhabitants of Jerusalem ought to behave themselves and what they ought to do to be exempted from the Calamity Which besides can have no manner of Application to the Babylonian Expedition since it was known out of the Prophet that not only at that time there would not be any Remedy but that the Jews were bound according to God's Will to surrender themselves up to the Babylonians which since they refus'd to do the King together with the Nobles made hereby the Misery to fall heavier upon themselves their City and their People and so drew down upon themselves their own Ruin In the 17th He prosecutes his Counsel by advising the Priests the Ministers of the Lord to weep between the Porch and the Altar and to say Spare thy People O Lord and give not thine Heritage to reproach that the Heathen should rule over them Wherefore wilt thou let it be a By-word amongst the Nations Where is their God Hereupon follows in the 18th Verse till the 27th the Answer of this Prayer namely that God would be Jealous for his Land and pity his People Now it is not found that either the Priests then made such a Prayer betwixt the Porch and the Altar or that the Answer which is here promis'd to such a Prayer did follow The Temple with the whole City of Jerusalem and the Land of Canaan being destroy'd and made desolate Neither did this at all come to pass in the Destruction from the Romans but the Temple was reduc'd to Ashes some Weeks before the City and then there follow'd not any Relief but such a Desolation as endureth yet to this very day Nay the Order which the Prophet observes will not at all permit as hath been said already that the Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans should be apply'd hereto Since that which now follows in the Text must according to the Sentiment of those who believe this Prophesie already fulfill'd have been Forty Years before the Destruction of Jerusalem which nevertheless the Prophet puts after the Calamity which he describes here and which shall come upon Jerusalem For after that this shall be after that Jerusalem shall be Environ'd after that it's Walls shall be Scal'd and after that the Enemies shall be as it were Masters of the City After that the People shall be hereby Converted to the Lord and after that the Priests shall send up to Him their Groans and Supplications and that He shall hear these Groans and these Supplications shall spare his Land and his People shall repel the Enemies and lastly shall cause them to see again and to enjoy much Prosperity then will the Lord after all this pour out his Spirit upon all Flesh and the Sons and the Daughters shall Prophesie c. Now this having not come to pass upon the Babylonian Captivity and Destruction and yet much less upon the Roman and since that which after this Promise happen'd in Pentecost to the Apostles preceeded the latter by many Years it is certain that the Prophetical Text has not hitherto had its Total Accomplishment to this present day but that necessarily the Time wherein it must and shall be accomplish'd is yet to come it being impossible for the Word to Lie And this is also Confirm'd by the Third Chapter whose Coherence with the Second is indissoluble that in those days and in that time when that which is promis'd in the Second Chapter shall be fulfill'd he the Lord shall bring again the Captivity of Judah and Jerusalem In which nevertheless Judah and Jerusalem have since the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon the Day of Pentecost been already more than Sixteen Hundred Years and still are in it Besides there is also express'd such a Promise in the 28th and 29th Verses of the Second Chapter which could not be Accomplish'd in the Apostles seeing that after this the Spirit ought to be pour'd out upon all Flesh in such a manner as that their Sons and Daughters should Prophesie their Old Men should dream Dreams and their Boys should see Visions and that also in those days upon their Men-servants and upon their Maid-servants should the Spirit be poured out Now the Apostles are not all Flesh And much less can it be said of them that they are call'd Sons and Daughters Boys Men-servants and Maid-servants and at the very same time likewise Old Men. It is true that in the First Pentecost of the New Testament there came upon the Apostles that which the Lord hath here promis'd yet this was very far from fulfilling the Prophesie This was only a Beginning and a Foretaste of which the Total Accomplishment is yet to be expected And this is also sufficiently evident from the very words of the Apostle Peter Acts 2.39 that the Promise was to them and to their Children and to all that were afar whom the Lord our God should call Wherefore since the Day here describ'd even the Terrible Day of the Lord is not yet come nor shall come but in the time of the Sixth Seal Rev. 6. And since the effectual Deliverance of God has not according to what has been already prov'd been given upon the Prayers of the Priests in the time of the Captivity of Babylon or of the Destruction of Jerusalem Which Deliverance ought nevertheless to be effected at the same time with the Fact here describ'd by Joel in such a manner that God will appear Jealous for his People and will pity them And in the
can this Revelation be from the Devil which hath destroy'd in her the Devil's Work and brought her to Christ Q. III. Since this Spirit who reveals himself in her calls himself the Spirit of Jesus Christ and witnesses that he who speaks by her is the Lord Jehovah the Tri-Vn God who Created Heaven and Earth the God of Israel how should it be possible for Satan so to disguise himself in the form of an Angel of Light as to give himself the Name of Jehovah at which he cannot but tremble Q. IV. Since that this Person has from her Childhood receiv'd some Revelations of diverse great Mysteries hidden in the Scripture which were not before known to us and which by reason of their Profoundness were not understood even by her self and which notwithstanding do all shew so goodly an Harmony Likewise since that she knows not at all times how to write about such Matters but then only when she is call'd by God and hears his Voice And since also that some Particulars have been foretold by her which have really come to pass accordingly I desire to be Answer'd whether such things as these can ever proceed from a strong Imagination or from a natural Subtilty of Spirit of which yet there is nothing to be found in this dear Person as all those who knew her can testifie And whether though it may be without difficulty consented to that the Depths of Phansie of the Devil and of his Deceivableness cannot be all found out by us it must 〈◊〉 be also confess'd that God will reveal these Depths and Heights of Satan and of Reason to his Children by the Spirit which he hath given them which searcheth the Deep Things of God to the end they may be able clearly to discern that which is the Fault of a strong Impression from that which is the Effect of God's Spirit XLII 1. Before I conclude I cannot forbear to inform you my Dear Fathers and Brethren in Christ that such abominable Lies and Slanders have been publish'd against Us and Her by the Father of Lies and his Instruments as we could never have believ'd it had been possible if we had not been sufficiently convinc'd of the Power of Darkness which at this present rules in the World in the midst of those who Name themselves Christians We then call'd to Mind what the Lord had already upon the 17th of June foretold us which was that there should arise great and abominable Mistakes the which ought not therefore to appear strange to us but rather to caution us that we may profit thereby and be satisfy'd that the Word and Testimony which have been given are True in as much as they are so entirely accomplish'd Whereas if we had been of the World we had been prais'd of it and that every one might have spoken well of us we needed to have done no more but to have express'd our Doubt whether these Revelations or Testimonies were so Divine as that we could be certain of their being so This then is that Revelation which the Lord gave for a Testimony to us Peace be with you my Elect Again I speak unto you O ye that are Blessed to the end I may quicken you and that ye be not wearied in Patience and Stedfastness Give ear now unto my kind Word which in holy Love I communicate to you Be ye elevated all ye Children of my Father who loveth you and become strong in my Might to the end ye may cleave stedfastly and immoveably to me and depart not from me For there will come abominable Lies and gross Mistakes Consider it for I have told it you to the end ye may remain stedfast in my Truth and well-grounded in the Faith so as to depart neither to the Right Hand nor to the Left Let not any fear now overtake you neither be at all disquieted for I the LORD who am above the Heaven of all Heavens am with you as a mighty Warriour who go before you and suffer you not to be destroy'd if you trust in Me and remain with me If so ye are faithful to Me I am your strong Defence and your Castle And who is he that shall surprize you if ye are founded upon Me As for the Evil-dealers that seek after you they shall be broken in pieces and shall fall heavily But ye shall be made to rejoice in my great Help Amen 2. Not long after this we were Comforted by the Lord in like manner as one is comforted and elevated by one's Mother Hear my Word O Israel and thou Judah that art blessed of me give good attention unto it Lo I come suddenly Mistake not move thou not thy foot that thou mayest not fall For mine Arm shall lead Thee and unto thee shall my Truth be made manifest At the Seventh Hour I will sanctifie my Virgin and will bring forth her Glory which I give to her for a Refreshment before the Rising of the Sun Be but of good Heart my chosen Ones without all manner of fear for I have made a Covenant with you that ye shall remain before Me And now I Swear to you yea I JEHOVAH the Lord of Hosts Swear to you that for you I will set my Righteousness against all the High Things which are lifted up against me that am in you and my Loving-kindness shall guide you and my powerful Arm likewise shall be with you This is the Covenant that I make with the Servants and the Handmaids of Jacob. So verily as the Heaven is prepared by my Almighty Word so keep I my Covenant with my Lambs who shall leap after me upon Mount Gilead and upon Mount Sion my Fortress Yea I have said it For I am the Lord the LORD who rule over the Cherubim and Seraphim the God of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob who have bruised the Serpent's Head Yea Amen Should we not then be Secure and of a good Heart since the Lord God of Israel our Saviour thus Comforted us and assur'd us of his Protection It 's no matter then how this appears in the sight of the World as if we were forsaken by him and as if to us who have plac'd our confidence in Him rather than in Man all these sweet and powerful Promises should not have their Accomplishment We know notwithstanding with the utmost and greatest Certainty that we shall not perish but shall Conquer for that he hath loved us Hallelujah 3. Lastly upon the 30th of November there came to us the following Word in which the Lord explains to us what is the meaning of that passage Mat. 24.23 Lo here is Christ lo there is Christ And he says That the false Bastard Spirit is already come into all States and will yet come with more abominable Lying Wonders The Warning is word for word this I the Lord LORD Jesus Christ He that is True do warn you that you take heed to your selves for there are coming such False Christs that are disguised and have such