all utterly become a desolation for ever And he again said Even so must it be unto many Oaks and Cedars and wild Apple Trees in the Woods and Wildernesse of the Forrest of the Regions of the Earth And. â—… he returned to the seventh Tree and digged about it and pruned it and it bare Fruit to his pleasure And he again uttered his word and said This is to spread and I will dig a well by her and make her field pleasant and a refreshing River shall compass her banks that my flocks which I have in secret places may openly feed as one Herd within the compasse of this Fence which I have framed and will build it round about that no Thief may reach to tast of her fruit And I saw it and blessed the Lord and magnified the Name of the Most high God Q. 10. Is there any pure Religion upon the Face of the Earth but where the people doth do unto all men as they would men should do unto them which the light in a mans conscience teacheth to do And is not all profession of pure Religion and holiness without that pure peaceable practise any other than abomination and rottennesse in the account of the holy just God Q. 11 God blessed me in the womb and sanctified me in the day of my birth who hath separated me from the land of my natural nativity and now how if my love is constrained to be more towards the Seed in the Turk then unto the flesh of Englands Inhabitants ought I therefore the more to be cursed by my own Nation or lesse blessed by thy Nation Or am I faulty to stand against iniquity in the gate to stop the flood of wrath which is ready to enter in as through a gap or may I be blamed in wrestling that blessing may over-spread the length and breadth of thy Dominion Q. 12. I would not offend the just or trouble the righteous yet I enquire of the wise men of thy Court whether is it against the Law of God and life of the holy men to try all things and hold fast that which is good and how shall any know the good simply as it comes from the Fountain so as to be plainly distinguishable from that which is but a shew in hypocrisie is there any thing that makes manifest or that can make manifest truth in a mans spirit and seal it to his heart beyond the traditions of men or the perswasions of women besides the light in a mans conscience which convinceth him of his sins Now I querie concerning that which will discover such in the Closet of a mans heart who are in other Nations to be a people walking in the pure Religion there is a stone to try all mettals by Q. 13 And what is the Touchstone of tryal of all Nations What is that by which Abel and Enoch and Noah and Abraham and Isaac and Iacob walked who walked by a Rule before Moses was to whom first the Law in Tables of stone was given what was the Rule before the Prophets or the Scriptures and the Law in Tables by which the Holy men of God had the witnes testimony of the truth and Kingdom of God which if the Scriptures and the writings of the Law given in tables of stone had been always hid from this generation the prophets writings from the people of this age yet might the seed have the same testimony by the same thing which Abel and Enoch had of God and which Gods servants now have Q. 14. Hath thy Nation the Faith of living after death if they have not I am then answered before I aske but if they have that Faith I then enquire whether is it better to die as a stranger among men for conscience sake and be received as an everlasting sojourner with the Lord in the endlesse day of blessing then to be the most acquainted and beloved amongst men and after the time of man to perish worse then the beasts of the field And what is honour or profit of riches in this life to be for ever miserable in the life to come Q. 15 It was the great sin of the Jews in the dayes of old in making Idols of Gold and Silver and Stone and Wood and Men and Prophets and of their own strength it was also their sin in having the Law and the Commandments and yet walked with loose hearts worshipping only with their lips and mouth and in spirit and minde were strangers to God the eternal spirit And is it an evil for me to say Enquire and see and search in thy own borders to find out if such a thing or the resemblance of this thing be not within the compasse of thy Dominion Post-script FRiend Thus the Lord God gently tries thee who is jealous of his glory and yet further will he search thy heart and try thee as gold if thy countenance turns unto purity yet thus far thou mayest not be jealous of any other thing to hurt thee for behold God hath turned my face towards the Jews scattered in thy borders and hanging upon thy skirts that they may be turned in spirit unto Shiloh that in peace they may for ever rest in the Dominion out of all heart-burnings or evil surmizes in the best content not by constraint onely but of a willing mind and heart in the sight of God And the Lord God of truth knoweth the uprightnesse of my heart that I deceive thee not with flatteries whose servant I am in dread and fear and not my own JOHN PERROT The end Immanuel The Salvation of ISRAEL The Word of the Lord came unto me the twelfth day of the sixth Month in the year accounted 1657. concerning the Jews and scattered Tribes of ISRAEL As I was waiting upon the Lord in spirit in Legorne in Italy which in the Name of the Lord I give forth to be copied and sent throughout the World Written by a lover of Righteousnesse a mourner over the scattered Tribes a seeker of the lost that the Remnant may be saved J. P. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. The word of the Commandment of the Lord to his Servant concerning the scattered Jews in Italy Spain Portugal France Holland and the rest of the Regions and every Island throughout the Earth and the Seas to write these words following to them all WHether you will hear or forbear this is the word of the Lord God unto all you scattered Jews throughout the whole Earth God of a truth is arisen to gather unto himself his peculiar Seed from the four winds of the Earth that Jacob may possesse and inhabit his inheritance and the Seed of Israel the Holy Land And according to the Prophets he hath began at the North and is streching and hath streched forth his Arm over the South and over the East and over the West And behold it cometh to pass and is at hand and not as a
rebel and tempt the Lord God although his mercies unto them were the greatest Yea I may say there was not a Nation that tasted of mercy as your fathers did eat and drink of salvation from many Enemies and deliverance from numberless afflictions yet how was it from age unto ages often in their streights they murmured and when they were at ease they waxed fat through mercies and kicked against God until Shiloh came the promise unto the Remnants of your Seed but he coming not according to your Fathers expectation even as the wonders of God in all ages were wrought contrary to the expectations or imaginations of the hearts of men and therefore they took counsel together and put him to death And thus the promise came unto many for without blood there could be no remission of sins although by the wilfulness of your Fathers in this matter ye have from that time been as a curse over the whole earth Neverthelesse for you there is a hope left yea for you a promise remains if yet ye return and enquire and seek diligently as in the morning and be found early and earnestly striving as in the timely season before the advantage of the day pass over your heads and ye be left as in the place of blindness where all your hope and expectation shall wither and be made fruitless as a thing of nought And therefore I say Not as you will have times and seasons and Dayes and Worships and Deliverances come to pass shall it come to pass unto you or be brought to pass concerning you but as the Word of the Lord God is and hath been the same from Ages which reacheth also unto this Age from the Dread of which the sons of men shall not escape nor find a hiding-place to rest themselves who walks in the wayes of uncleanness and doth traverse the paths of iniquity and unrighteousness And therefore wait for the word of the Lord God unto you that you may come to know your motion in righteousness that you may feel the vengeance removed which hath been long over your heads that thereby you may come toknow the redemption in your dayes and the restauration of God in the season of his appointed time until which in vain is all your Synagogue and Temple-worships and Altar-Offerings And therefore all people upon the face of the Earth Jew and Gentile Barbarian Scithian Bond and Free must all come to know that principle and measure of the gift of God which is in bondage in them to be made free by the powerfull operation of the work of the Lord through them which thousands and ten thousands for want of the good understanding are strangers unto and therefore are found actors daily in enmity to the motions of it and that is a dangerous state in whom the God of this world whom the Heathen worships hath blinded the eye of their minds mark hath blinded the eye of their minds whereby the whole world are but in the History out of the understanding of the Mystery and Power of godlinesse and life of the Prophets and holy men of God of old I say therefore unto all flesh living Keep silence and listen to the word of the Lord God in silence mark listen to hear the word of the Lord in spirit in silence when all reason and earthly consultations and disputings and questionings in the mind is cast out in the bed in the vineyards in the secret closet in the fields and then it shall come to pass to your remembrance that there is something in man which convinceth a man of the evil of his wayes and that will shew a man the iniquities of his youth and the sinnes of his riper years and bring all unto his remembrance in the fight of the Lord and then it will be seen that not any Sacrifice or Oblation hath blotted out any one sin out of the remembrance of God when as man in his own Conscience is accused for all yea then is the sacrifice short of blotting out iniquity and his prayers short of removing his transgressions nay further If a man should offer ten thousand Rivers of Oyl and the blood of a thousand Bulls and He-Goats and as many Rams and were it the Fruit of his body for the sinne of his soul it cannot purge the heart or cleanse the spirit and therefore not clear the conscience from the just accusation of God in the hidden parts of a mans mind and secret meditations of his spirit and if in this state a man perisheth where is the refuge which he shall flie unto in the last hour and in what standeth the hope of life everlasting all sober hearts in this may read the danger of ignorance and peril of blindness in the lust of sinne and unrighteousnesse out of the true understanding of the true worship and service of God And forasmuch as wisdom removeth the vails of darknesse and openeth the path of iniquity and leadeth to the Fountain of righteousnesse and bringeth to the Well-spring of truth I hereby hold forth the ground thereof and from whence it springs and how it comes to be received and stood in to the honour of the living God and beautifying the Face of the just and renown of the upright The dreadfull God of Heaven and Earth who is a spirit infinite who is light is the Vertue Fountain and Treasure of wisdome peace and life everlasting Mark and read with understanding God who hath been a stranger unto the Inhabitants of the Earth is light who searcheth every heart and tryeth the reins and the hidden part of the bowels hath sent his onely begotten Son a Light into the world whose light shineth in the consciences of every man that cometh into the world by which light in a mans conscience he is convinced and condemned for his wickednesse This light convinceth a man in his own heart and understanding of lying and swearing and pride and envy and persecution and dissimulation and murder and whoredome and all unrighteousnesse and uncleanness both of flesh and spirit This light is pure which sheweth a man every unclean spot of his life and unto this light in a mans conscience must a man turn in his mind to be guided by it in his heart which cometh from God who is light and by it which cometh from God who is the Fountain a man will be led to the first principle of the good understanding that is to say unto the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdome which Solomon the wise King spoke which was not only his words but also it was his life whereby he came to grow in the wonderfull Understanding and admired wisdome which Regions round about were amazed at And unto this day the Lord God is the same to all that fear his Name in truth and his loving kindnesse is not shortned not his mercy and favour slackned but as man hath slackned his steps in diligence waiting upon the Lord in the fear
have devoured the man of low degree and oppressed the fatherlesse and the widow and have not had regard to the stranger which hath visited them in loving kindness but rather have sought to swallow up the innocent in his simplicity with their horrid abominable cruelty And in this the glory of the Lord hath been defaced and is defaced by all that walk in the crookedness of the imaginations of their own hearts strengthning themselves in their own wayes making Fences for their safegard in iniquity and Bulwarks for their strength in unrighteousness and yet calls upon the name of the Lord as if God had regard unto the cryes of the wicked who will punish the sinner in Zion and reward the evil-worker in Jerusalem And therfore all nations ought to be awakened lest the sons of men are cut off in the corruption of their wayes And thou above all Princes and Kings as the greatest in all parts of the earth oughtest to shine forth as the brightness of the Sun at noon day and as the chiefest of all nations in example of righteousness and purity of heart which will crown thee with everlasting honour far exceeding the honours of the Kingdoms of men and cause thy name never to be forgotten from generation to generation for ever to be remembred after thee by all the Lords people and servants of the living God that thy sound also may strike a dread through all the dead Worshippers of Images in al lquarters of the whole world and then it will come to pass that many will stand amazed at the excellency of thybeauty and renown and those that hate thee shall be tormentedbecause of thee and gnash their teeth at thy prosperity and lie down in restlesse pangs of perplexity And therefore for the glory of the Almighty Gods sake and that with it thou mayest be established and a holy seed after thee in perpetuall praise Arise and stand up and shine forth in the excellency of meeknesse and in the humblenesse patience and forbearance of thy heart and in this most noble and excellent understanding and choicest wisdome lissen for a season and incline thine ear in due time to that in thee which is not of the Kingdomes of men and behold from the Lord God I shew thee the coming of the Prophet in a Parable Like as the glory of the Sun arising in the East in mighty irresistable power dispersing and sending all the black clouds beyond the appearance of the West where place cannot hide their blackness as the Sun follows in his glorious flaming course making all to pass a way as in shame and great fear Oh what can stand before the brightnesse of the DAY is not all the first in a tottering frame when the glory of the most high breaks forth Men of strength may wonderfully strive and men of prudence dive deeply but no man is hid from the day Neither knoweth he the wisdome of the whole World from whence the breath of the wind cometh and out of what it breaketh No man hath descended into the deep to count the sands hid with the waters of the Ocean Who then can fathome wisdom to understand that which the natural never saw nor thought of Under this I conclude the whole world All flesh hath corrupted it's way before the Lord and the wisdome of the first man Adam is not regained forasmuch as the restauration hath been hid from ages which unto the desolate is tendered that a broken wall may not remain without repair in a whole Nation And behold it is coming it is coming and with blessing thou wilt be blessed and the seed of the whole Dominion if thou stop not the course of blessing from thine own head Many generations before thee would have rejoiced to have seen this day which is coming towards thee of good things if thou hearken to God and despitest not the Messengers and Ministers of his word but listenest with open ear to instruction that thou mayest be established for ever the Throne of righteousness to be the Lords and thou the instrument in the Lords hand whereby Iustice Mercy and Peace may be established and this know thee That the Lord God of Heaven aad Earth whose dread reacheth unto the ends of all Dominions of the earth Jehovah the Lord of Hosts is his Name can work without thee and beyond thee and over the heads of all powers who can change all hearts and affections in a moment and in the twinckling of an eye and make all affected onely with his own glory but my God is the unspeakable Fountain of mercy and long suffering who is risen to prove and try many people and behold he layes this work and is laying it now at thy gates one that loves thy soul is sent unto thee that canot flatter thee but speaks the simplicity of truth unto thee and not his own words as a lying divination But this is truth from him that dwelleth with the truth God is light and in him is no darkness at all who is arisen to try thee that thou mayst be proved whether in the pure tender love thou fingly standest or in the obstinacy restest as one sate down in a Chair of carved stone I say Thus is the Lord God arisen to try thee even as he is coming to make true proof of thy wayes and to know therein whether thou art able to bear and endure and pass a tryall of thy wayes in which the Lord who regardeth onely an humble heart will altogether sift thee as unto the bottome and prove thee whether thou standest as the holy Fathers and Kings did in the dayes of old as David who with an humble heart received the reproof and judgement of Nathan and many more who were precious patterns unto thee and Examples before thee May I be blamed in all this doth not Wisdome belong to the mighty and doth not counsel become the Kings Court and understanding the chiefest pallaces and hath God blessed me with his word and shewed me his wonders which are coming to pass and can I hide them from the King Hath God put understanding in my heart to understand the deep things which have been hid from ages and shall I darken and make void the blessing with silence Hath God shewed me the blessings of a people and the curse of a Nation and shall I bury this in the womb of obscurity and not publish the revelation of God so through a careless heart come to be numbred among the cursed for ever Nay nay let all men shoot at me with their arrows let their sword touch me and let death compass me on every hand rather than mine Inheritance of blessing I may loose from the hand of the Lord and peace to my conscience for ever And verily in this I know the hazard of much whilest in all I seek but the salvation of souls and that thou with many mayest come to the receiving of the immortall Treasure of Wisdome and can
therefore a warning to the whole Earth is sounded forth Repent repent repent the mighty day of the Lord God of Hosts is at hand a day of howling draweth nigh and the hour of bitter lamentation cometh to pass and thousands and ten thousands shall roar and lament and curse the day that ever they were born and yet not find ease of their misery behold behold Gods jealousie even already burns like fire and who can quench the flames Come forth come forth oh ye sons of men who have had ease in the flesh for many years have sported your selves in the pleasure thereof and made your hearts gross in uncleanness and fatted your selves with fraud and with the slaughter of your innocent Neighbor repent and turn from your sins let the Elders of the Nations lament themselves and the inhabitants of the earth rent their hearts whilest the Lord God is warning and visiting you before his judgements in sore displeasure as an overflowing irresistable flood overtakes the people and sweeps the Nations as with a beasom of utter destruction and scatters the wicked as the dust and chaff of the high-wayes as in a tempest of a mighty Wind with the breath of his mouth and there be not a resting place upon the face of the earth left for the sons of men to inhabit because of their abominations and trangressions which God will repay with vengeance Remember Sodom and call to minde the destruction of Gomorah Nineveh also was warned and Nineveh repented and was spared in the dayes of Ionah and be it known unto you this also is the day of your visitation written forth according to the commandment of God and the motion of his word from on high And therefore whilest ye have time prize it that as wise ye may learn wisdome and live and not as fools hate instruction and persh I say unto thee O Turk the Great One I am not come into thy Coasts to hide knowledge from thine eyes or understanding from thine heart but in love to visit thee with the Message of a goodly Treasure which never failed to strenghen my Fathers in a strange Land or to nourish their seed in a Wilderness or to give courage to them in weakness to vanquish the mighty force of their Enemies that thou mayest come to the same to drink of the same and eat of the same to be nourished with the same unto the same life dignity which the Lord giveth which excelleth the honour of all mortall flesh which the Lord God will stain that his honor and such as he honors may be onely honorable Lo I declare the substance of all things that thou mayest apply thy heart in diligence to the fear of the Lord that thereby thou mayest know the operation of the substance in thee that with the vertue power and life thereof thou mayest come to prophesie upon thy Throne as Dauid did upon his Throne and judge in Wisdom in thy Pallace as Solomon did in his Pallace and Court unto whom a heart of understanding was given that he judged the people aright and sought not for counsel or instruction or advice from man but had the word from the Lord of Counsel of Prudence and of pure judgement so that his Courts was bounded with Peace as with an Iron Band and fenced as with a Fort of Brass untill Solomon committed idolatry and then was an adversary stirred up against him Behold the Lord God will work mighty wonders by thee and thorow thee if thou takes counsel of him with an upright sober heart upon thy bed God is a Spirit and in spirit the Lord God will inrich thee if thou keepest thy minde to the Light in thy conscience to be ruled by it that thou mayest rule and govern according to it all that are thy Subjects the inhabitans and people that are within the compass of thy Dominion And herein thou shalt come to bear me testimony in the Spirit of Light as thou turns thy mind to the Light which shews thee thy sins that will cleanse thy heart and purifie thy minde from the thoughts and motions of sin and evill and redeem thy soul and spirit from corruption and restore thee as in the day of the first Adam in innocency out of hurt and abuse unto that state which God Almighty blessed and all the creatures thou wilt come to have Dominion over and the Earth subdue and many will bless the day of thy birth if Gods Seed in thee comes to live that thy Seed may replenish every Island and Continent of the Earth Thou knowest not Gods work what he is about to doe if thou hearken and obey and with one heart and with one consent thy Nobles and Nation sayes Amen Let the work of the Lord be done I say then If thy Ancients and thy honourable men and the Mothers of many children in thy Coasts with the man of low degree turns from the evil of their walking and corruption of their wayes unto the Light in all their consciences to stand in righteousness for the renown of the Lord even the jealous God of his glory as they come to honour and worship in spirit them will he crown with dignity and cause their fame to spread and make the frame of thy Dominion to be the pattren of his mighty work until the whole Earth be subject unto the same dreadful authority and power and behold this is the good which I shew thee and the evil I have not hid from thy heart that thou mayest not meditate it upon thy bed but have opened both and therefore choose thee whether my conscience to thee in the sight of the Lord God I have cleared touching this matter in tender pure love to thy soul and prosperity of thy Nation in every quarter thereof Finally Take this for thy standing place that thou mayest never be removed Stand in the Light as thy heart comes to be turned to it and thou shalt know that as thou stands in it wisdome will never depart thy habitation and the deepest counsel thy secret Chamber which will establish thee in thy Throne as it did Solomon the wise King in his Throne But as thou hast sinned with thy lips so thou must come to the mourning of a broken heart that God may be honoured in the humility of thy soul and spirit and thou thereby come in mercy to be exalted in his Kingdom of peace plenty and prosperity Remember Nebucadnezzar the King unto whom Daniel the Prophet prophesied and shewed him the interpretation of hard things chap 4. Now I come to question a few things that the worth of Wisdome may be noted which giveth alwaies the answer of true things and such as none other can stand against to overturn or gain-say Query 1. God looked upon the earth and behold all flesh had corrupted his way before the Lord upon the earth Now I do ask In what can the truth and true worship of God be rightly holden and who are the
sons of men that are not in the corrupted wayes and what is that which they have attained unto which will lead out of the corrupted wayes and are not all Nations living in lying and swearing and whoredome and pride and envy and murder and drunkenness in the corrupted wayes Q. 2. By what is it that God tryeth the wayes of men and what makes the truth and error the corruption and incorruption of all wayes manifest to man whereby man comes to have assurance beyond all the traditions of his forefathers that he is in the true way a faithfull servant of the Lord or that he is out of the true way of God a servaut of Satan through the lust of corruption in sin and transgression Q. 3. What is the equal measure in man which when the hand of the just measureth giveth unto every man full due and keepeth not back the due from his Neighbor neither can oppress any but giveth unto his Enemies just weight and full measure also and loveth his enemies and rewardeth his enemies good for evill shewing by his good that his conversation is just and his Religion not in vain Q. 4. Whether is it love or wrath patience or rashness humbleness or pride temperence or immoderacy in life and gefture towards acquaintance or stranger the good or the evil that establisheth the Prince or the King upon the Throne and what is the good that leads unto the good order of the best part and how ought a man to follow it to be established in righteousness and in peace to the end And whether if a man knows not the good in him to guide him is not his foot subject to slip and he to fall Q. 5. Whether would my owning of one Prophet in vertue before another Prophets life avail me any thing if I had not received the spirit of the Prophets And how can the confession of any Prophets Name shew thereby that a people is of the Truth And what if any man should own God in words and all the Prophets in words and the Messiah in words what would that avail any man if he were not in the same pure way which the Prophets stood in and knew something in him which is of the nature of God Q 6. Will not that which trieth all people and Nations try all Elders and Prophets also in all nations and give testimony unto all people fearing God whether they are of God yea or nay And is not this also the testimony of false Prophets to say it shall come to pass according to the words of their Prophesie and it comes not at all to pass but they speak presumptuously as saith the Lord unto Moses concerning the false Prophets And doth not this give testimony of a true Prophet when the word of the Prophet cometh to pass according to his Prophesie that the Prophet shal be known to the people that the Lord hath truly sent him Q. 7. The Messiah was the promise of God from the beginning and he was manifest in the flesh in spirit but how doth he now bruise the Serpents head and what part in man is that which is the Serpent and who hath felt the power and operation of the other Seed in his heart to bruise the Serpents Head without which there is no Salvation Q. 8. What and how is the world set in mans heart as saith Solomon whereby a man cannot find out the beginning or the end of the work of God And how comes the mystery of the writings of the Prophets which speaks of the Kingdome and glory of the living God tobe known understood in spirit and life as they were given forth Q 9. Let me ask of the Prophets in Asia and enquire of those that prophesie in Africa what is the interpretation of my vision let the Emperour enquire of them one by one lest they dream a Divination of their own heart and consent together in falshood and so deceive thee and but mock him that uprightly enquireth that the Emperor may have the understanding of the Times In my Vision I saw seven Trees planted in seven places and the ground of six of them where they grew was of one nature and each Tree had his Fence about him and I saw many Workmen labouring to raise the defence higher they began to labour when it was a little light the night shortly overtook them all that they could not work any longer so that they saw not good of the works of their hands and therefore they sate down and slept in sorrow And it came to pass that there arose a Star which while the Workmen slumbered it shewed me that the first Tree was full of Moss and withered without shooting a leaf so waxed rotten and I heard one say that notwithstanding it should remain for a season untill a fire be kindled The second sprouted out some certain leaves and it grew into two bodies from one root the one was more green fresh in colour then the other and it came to pass that a wind blew and they dashed each other but the green part stood longest although her leaves falled therewith and the body waxed dry at the Root The third prospered for a little season but much heat parched the branches thereof and that also decayed The fourth had a time of prosperity but the Winter-season blowed cold winds over her boughs insomuch that the rind therof peeled away so that the body was left naked and it with red standing The fifth grew by a pleasant Brook the Waters thereof refreshed her Root but the ground being not good to retain the moisture although that she buded and blossomed yet it came to pass that a wind from the north gently blew over it and many of the blossoms were blasted and the rest that remained although they came to grow towards the goodness of Fruits yet afterwards there came a rushing wind from the rising of the Sun and they all fell in an untimely season The sixth grew mightily more tall and lofty then all the other five and was the most of all beautified with the largest leaves and delightful coloured blossomes which covered her large quick spouting boughs but imediately her root became a nurse of rottenness And I saw an Ax blade in the hand of a certain Shepherd and Io he looked over all the six and said This is because of their unfruitfulness and yet a sorer thing must come to pass and he turned unto the seventh Tree which was planted in a low valley unploughed and behold her body bowed and she stooped unto him that had the Ax blade in his right hand he took a member of that Tree without hurt to the body and he made therewith a Helve for the Ax and fastened it thereunto And he turned again towards the sixth Tree and smote it that it fell to the ground and so he passed to the Fences of all the other five first and made breaches upon them that they may
day afar off but even nigh unto the door that the Lord will separate of all Nations both Jew and Gentile the just from the vile him that feareth God from him that feareh him not him that keepeth the Law of God which is written in his heart through the sanctification thereof by the power of the Lord ruling in his conscience mind spirit and life from him that in words which professeth God and his Law and Statutes and ordinances and yet walks in his life and daily practices contrary to the Law written in the heart which God spake unto Moses saying The word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it See I have set before thee this day life and good death and evil And unto ye Oh Jews is the same come and before you in the Name of the Lord coming unto you do I set life and death light and darknesse in this the day of the Lord which is dawned unto a measure of the Remnant even in this day which is light and not darknesse wherein the promise of God is fulfilled and it came to pass according to the Prophesie in a day when it was neither night nor day neither dark nor light but in the evening it was a little light And not as from the traditions of my forefathers or the generations of men in the corrupt and polluted nature in the degeneration from God and alienation from the Covenant of life and promise who confessed the Messiah as this generation doth to be come in words with their corrupted tongues and polluted lips but in their works and by their practise and life make his coming void and of non-effect unto them neither by the reading of the Scriptures came I to know that he was come as he is come but by the spirit of the Lord by which I was chosen in the womb and sanctified in the day of my birth by which also I am seperated from the Land of my natural nativity and brought unto the feeling of sorrows in a strange Land for your sakes I come to know and now to declare unto you that Immanuel who is God with us who is the light of the world the Messiah in the power of God who is a spirit is come reigning in spirit in the hearts of his people over whom and in whom he rules as King treading down and trampling upon all principalities and powers making the Earth new and the Heavens also warring against all which is contrary to his own pure nature in many until he hath put all his enemies under his feet and then will he give up the Kingdome to the Father that God may be all in all And for this cause also even for your sakes who are of most men despised in heart I pass as one desolate and despised and hated and mocked of many and many more of the nation of my naturall birth would gladly have my blood yet am I not forsaken of him that sent me with his message unto you of salvation and everlasting glad tidings of Redemption And now he that hath an ear let him hear and a heart to perceive let him understand Be it known unto you all That God hath more regard to your souls then that you should perish in your sins and your souls is more precious in his eye for which he hath ordained life everlasting for as many as come to believe then the pleasure and ease of your corrupt careases which are to rot in Graves and Sepulchres And therefore for the Lord to regain his own Image which is lost in man through fall in the transgression and to r store man unto the same uprightness where in man was created which was the promise of God unto man in this wise the seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head Behold unto you it is given forth and declared for the redemption and restauration of the seed the Messiah came and now is coming the second time without fin unto salvation even he cometh now in spirit and in power who was the Rock whom your Fathers in the Wilderness forsook and the light of the world whom your Fathers slew at Ierusalem which brought a grievous curse upon you of being a people troden upon by all the world and not onely so but the most lamentable thing and curse which is over you for which cause my soul mourns for you that such cruel hard-heartedness distrust doubt jealousies and unbelief coveting fraud deceit dissimulation and Hypocrifie hath vailed your hearts and grossely darkned your understandings Oh that is the worst of all that is the greatest curse in how much throughout ages the Iews have been given over unto vile affections hard-heartedness sinn and unbelief which is the cause why ye cannot rightly speak of the things of God and understand the Prophets writings which were spoken and do stand as mysteries yea deep mysteries to your thick hearts your understandings being covered as with a thick cloud of darkness which now we the seed Abraham of the true Iew inwardly do walk by the light thereof as a Pillar of fire by night and therefore said the Lord by his Prophet for want of knowledge my people perish The Prophets they prophesied of the Messiah to come in spirit in a mystery to the whole world Iew and Gentile so that when he came he was not received but by the Remnant in them dayes as he is received now in these dayes but unto whom the spirit of wisdome and understanding was given to read and understand that which the Prophets spake forth in Parables to the whole world of mankind which lay in sin and wickedness And therefore ye Iews now in these dayes ye ought not to speak of God or to name his name in perversnesse whilest ye hate to be reformed in your hearts minds and spirits but ye ought to hear the Message of the Lord God and to ponder it in your hearts that you may see how farre ye are yet from the Promise being not come in truth in spirit and in life unto the condition thereof fulfilled and made up in you untill which ye cannot justly expect the fulfilling of the promise unto you in the substance For whilest you are in your sins as your Fathers were in their sins in the day that they slew Jesus at Ierusalem you cannot but as men in the flesh look with any other than an eye of flesh for a God of flesh to come among you and to save you by the Arm of flesh Oh blind and sottish of dull ears and dark understandings and so could not your Fathers neither can you now as you stand see him that cometh to ransome the seed in spirit and in power Behold none other but Immanuel the Messiah which is God with us the light of the world that is come unto us and is passing through the whole world who will smite the earth with the Rod of his mouth and with the
breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked Now this is wisdome to know and understand that birth and nature of the wicked in you and to feel the power of that breath in you thereby to taste of the pangs of that slaughter in you and then ye will witness the Messiah come in you in spirit and in wisdome and in a deep and quick understanding making the Heavens new in you and the earth new in you as Solomon saith God hath set the world in mans heart wherefore man cannot find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end thereof he that hath an ear to hear and heart to understand may now come to discern and read Nations Kingdoms Countries Armies Philistines Egyptians Aliens the seed of the Iew and the generation of the Gentile in him Mountains heaps of Stons Sodom Built and Gomorrah fenced Ierusalem trodden down Zion and her Daughter in bondage and her seed in great Captivity lamenting as in solitary places left and forsaken as in a wildernesse and as a Virgin Daughter in a strange land altogether left comfortlesse the poor the widow and the fatherlesse the blind the halt and the maimed all left without pity I say search your hearts in secret and see if this be not truth the light of Immanuel answering in all your consciences and hidden parts Again I say wait upon God with your minds staid upon the light in all your consciences and thereby God will shew you even by the coming of his son Iesus the Messiah the light of the World the fulfilling of the Law and of the Prophets in you that is to say thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy mind and with all thy soul and thy Neighbour as thy selfe this is the sum and substance of all which the light in all your consciences if ye follow it in your minds will perfectly lead to the fulfilling of and then ye will know that Immanuel the light of the World came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill the Law that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit which is according to the leadings of the light in all our consciences and this is from the Lord both to the Iew and the Gentile Furthermore to the scattered Tribes of the house of Israel this is the word of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who by a mighty hand and out-stretched arm by the hand of Moses his Prophet and Messenger unto the seed in Bondage in great Captivity brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt Even vnto you Oh ye Iews this is the word of the dreadfull Loâ—d God of Hosts and as a sign unto you and among you and in you it shall stand unto the end of your dayes if you perish in unbeliefe and in your sins that the Messiah is come Jesus whom your Fathers slew through unbelief and hard-heartednesse in their dayes who slew him for saying in words that which they themselves did own concerning themselves in the substance according to their profession that is to say he declared that he was the Son of God and therefore they put him to death as a Blasphemer and they said that God was their Father yet were in their wilfulnesse so far blinded that they could not discern that their words in manner of the declaration tended to the same thing and was of the same nature and this shall stand the sign thereof unto the end if ye perish in unbelief to your perpetuall judgment that he hath lightned you all with his true light which shineth in all your conscences which sheweth you in secret the deceitfulnesse of your hearts and convinceth you in your minds of lying cheating coveting envy and of all sin and unrighteousnesse which is not according to the Law of God written in your hearts this sign the light in your consciences shall never dye in you which all your burning Lamps and washings and Altars and vails and holiest of holiest and all the other ceremonies were but signs and figures and shadows of this everlasting signe and substance which shall perpetually stand to justifie you if you love it and follow it and walk according to it or to condemne you for evermore if ye hate it and walk contrary to it And be it also known unto you that if you expect another Messiah then him that is come which is Immanuel God with us in spirit and in life and power leading out of sin the land of bondage and darknesse and in vertue and in wisedome and in counsel and in judgment not judging according to the seeing of the eye or hearing of the eare but with righteous judgment in spirit who searcheth every spirit and the bottome of every heart with his light in every conscience ye are but Seekers unto this day for flesh to come yet farther to be an ease unto your flesh and to purchase more ease and liberty for your flesh in which state ye already stand even in the ease and lust of the flesh which God Almighty by the coming of his Son will destroy for because of sin and iniquitie and men living in the ease and lust of the flesh the Lord God will hasten judgement upon the earth Now consider search and see ponder it and lay it to heart that you may know what you have waited for that you may understand whether you have waited and sought for the true thing to come to pass that henceforth ye may seek aright else you may all waite till your limbs fails you and your eyes perish in their holes end in the end you fail of the expectation and fulfilling of your vain conceptions and blind imaginations wait therefore in spirit in humility of heart that Immanuel the light of the World Iesus the Messiah by whom ye are lightened ye may come to know and feel the power of his light in your consciences by it leading you out of all your sinnes and iniquities which is Satans bond the Devils chain of darknesse linking you together in hard-heartednesse and binding you in the lusts ceremonies customes and traditions of blindness and ignorance thereby ruling in your minds and spirits that knowing him ye may also know by him the breaking of the bonds of Hell and the disanulling of the Covenant which is made with death ye set at liberty in life and spirit to serve the Lord God of life who is a spirit and of purer eyes than to behold iniquity or countenance sinners in their evil wayes in the uprightness of your hearts and integrity of your souls that ye may be made unto him the praise of his name throughout the whole earth according to his promise that so ye may descern and feel the curse removed and taken from you which for many ages past hath stood upon the heads of the
generations of your forefathers and remains unto this time upon you untill the eye of your minds which the God of this world hath blinded be opened by the Messiah which is come and coming to open the eye of the blind and to give the simple an understanding to discern the day of redemption and to be made partaker of his hour of salvation which is held and hid in a mystery who is appointed for a way and to be a high way for the ransomed of the Lord such as the wayfaring men though fools shall not erre therein Oh how do I mourn Oh how do I travel as in pain and great grief and sorrow for your sakes O ye Iews reading seeing and feeling that darknes which is over your hearts even the same which was and is in Egypt Spiritual Sodom and Egypt even such thick darkness as may be felt Oh why do ye yet in your hearts seek murther Why say and contend ye for more blood Seeing the slaughtered Lamb is already come whom you say is to come and not yet come for if he were to come whom I declare in the name of the Lord is already come behold your generation are to be his slaughterers and the shedders of his innocent blood for the fulfilling of the Prophets that by the offering of his blood once for all he may for ever perfect them whom God sanctifies read Isa 53. Chapter which is fulfilled and see how far you put our selves from salvation by seeking yet cruelty murder in your hearts which your unbelief and wilfulnesse is the ground of How many signs would ye have ye have heared how many were shewed unto Pharoah yet would not he let Israel go free and will ye have or do ye seek greater then the Sun to be darkned and the Moon not to give her light and the stars of heaven to fall and is not this manifest unto thousands And cannot you yet read within Will you say that you believe all that the Prophets have written Or can you say so and speak truth whilest you have not that spirit by which the Prophets writ forth the Scriptures Or could your Fathers understand the writings of the Prophets who wickedly persecuted and slew the Prophets Nay nay Behold this is the word of the Lord unto you all Iesus the Messiah hath cast his Rod before Pharoah the Prince of darkness in you and it is become a serpent which woundeth you in secret I speak unto you that have any sense or the least feeling of God and it devours your rods yea and will eat your life and will bring all the plagues of Pharaoh upon you for as much as your unbelief is but his sin untill destruction unto death as a flood overwhelms you except ye repent that God may be intreated for you And know ye that God hath been long suffering and now sheweth his mercy in this visitation of his love unto you shewing you the Messiah which is come and hath lightened you and is the light of the Gentiles also that he may be the salvation of God unto the ends of the earth Of a truth from this ye cannot be hid neither can ye in righteousnesse deny but that ye are lightned with the light of the world which is Immanuel the light of the Gentilies which also enlightneth the understanding of the Iews else could not the Iews unto this day understand that Moses was a Prophet of the Lord for he was and is the same even the word from the beginning which God said unto Moses is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart which shewed him the Law to be nigh and not to be sought for from a strange Land by which the children of Israel were condemned for their sins so that the guilt thereof stood upon their heads from year to yeare as in like manner the guilt of your transgressions stands unto this day upon your heads which your sacrifices cannot clear you in your consciences from for it is impossible that the carnall things can make satisfaction unto infinite justice which standeth over and measureth all transgression and therefore saith the Prophet Wherewith shall I come before the Lard and bow my selfe before the high God shall I come before him with burnt offerings with calves of a year old Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams Or with ten thousand Rivers of oyl Shall I give my first borne for my transgression the fruits of my body for the sin of my soul He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God In this ye are all concluded with the great idolaters of the earth and with the Arminans and heathens also they have their Images without that is to say beads crosses pictures vessels and herein the Iews in the nature are also one with them who have their synagogues and vessels and Offerings and knows not him whom you imagine you make offerings unto and these are offerings of strange fire unto the Lord for which cause God hath not regard unto your services for your Fathers forsook the fountain of living mercies in their dayes and then he spake by the mouth of his Prophet saying who hath required these things at your hands your solemn meetings are abomination unto me And ye are now in the same footsteps of your forefathers in the corrupted way of sin and blind path of hard-heartedness and unbelief and yet ye say ye worship God aright and furthermore this is your great sin and dangerous evil as other professions have their abominable Idolatries in the shew without your Idols are set up in your hearts and ye put the stumbling block of your iniquity before your face read diligently with true understanding Isa 8. 14. 15. and marke your stumbling offence and fall And with you in the same nature all the Protestants Presbyterians Independants Baptists Seekers Ranters and the rest called Christians in general do worship although you and they are all divers in the Traditions of your and their Fathers in the manner of the practising your services yet in the substance you are but one that is to say Cains nature ruling in you all who offered a sacrifice and killed the just in him he killed just Abel without him and that nature which murdered Abel without him slew the just within him and so your severall words and diversities of opinions which stands but in the shadow is not at all that which makes a difference in the ground and substance being all but in one nature of transgression and way of the ungodly in unrighteousness and you cannot one stain or spot another or take glory unto your selves over another seeing the best of all your sects upon the face of the earth are but speckled beasts and parti-coloured birds and not one of you all are come into the way of the promise of God which is come to pass wherein the ransomed of the Lord shall onely walk and no unclean thing can tread therein And as for us who are the remnant of God and his seed gathered to his honour praise infinite endlesse everlasting glory all ungodliness and worldly lusts our life abhors and we are the redeemed of the Lord through the purchase of the blood of Immanuel the light with us and in us by which we are kept in the pure fear of the Lord God eternal to spread his name among you unto whom also the promise is that the seed shall be gathered God hath begun in the north Islands to perfect his prais throughout the earth and because the Lord hath redemeed us from Nations Kindreds Countries tongues and people we are dispised of all Nations both Iew and Gentile and of the scornfull people of our own Nation England are called Quakers who are the Servauts of the Lord in spirit This is written by an upright tender lover of all souls John Perrot THE END Isa 41. 25. Jer. 23. 6 7 8. Jer. 16. 14 15 16. Ezek. 20. 41. to the end Deut. 30. 14 15. â—…ch 14. Ezek. 17. 2. Hos 4 1 to 9. Jer 23. 22 Jer 31. 22 Jer. 30. 6 â—…k 20. â—…sa 11. 4. Isa 11. 2. Eccle. 3. 11 Isa 28. Hab. 1. 13. Isa 42. 7. Isa 35. 8. â—oel 2. 31. Isa 49. 6. Isa 60. 1. 3. 19. Isa 42. 6. Mic 6. 6. 7. 8. Jer. 2. 3. Isa 1. 11. 12 13 14 Ezek. 1â—… 4.