say Who is a God like unto thee who takest away iniquity and passes by the transgression of the Remnant of his Heritage and saith the Lord I will bring again their captivity and the captivity of Sodom and her Daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her Daughters Ezek. 10.53 then will I bring again the captivity of thy Captives in the midst of them Now they that be in the life of the Prophets sees this That they that were in the captivity had spoyled the Oath in breaking the Covenant Yet notwithstanding saith the Lord I will remember my covenant with thee in the day of thy youth and will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant and thou shalt know that I am the Lord The Lord will raise up the Tabernacle of David that is falne down and close up the breaches thereof and I will raise up his ruins saith the Lord and build it as in the dayes of old that they may possess the Remnant of the Heathen which are called by my name saith the Lord. And the dragon was wrath with the woman and went to war with the Remnant of her Seed which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Iesus Christ the dragon is wrath with them that keep the commandments and them cannot endure but is wrath and makes war against them And the Remnant of the Seed of the woman appears now that have the testimony of Iesus and keeps the commands of God over all the world stands and the dragon and his wrath fears not but by the testimony of Iesus they overcome which is the Spirit of Prophesie who are his Remnant which keeps his commandments with whom the dragon now is wrath and makes war against And now is the Lord made manifest to them that asked not after him and found of them that sought him not this Prophesie of Isaiah is fuâ—filled in this our dayes The Father is made manifest God hath made manifest his Covenant to them that did not ask after him Mark Them that asked not after him to them is he made manifest And you which be strangers from the Light the Covenant having the first Covenant this saw not your eyes was blinded who was from the life of the Law and Prophets and this should provoke you to jealousie The life must be brought from the dead before the riches of the world be known the covenant of light the unchangeable the conversion to the life of Moses the prophets the Son of God who of them is the end this you must know before you be converted come to the father of spirits know Moses the Prophets that gave forth the scriptures for the life is that which doth convert le ts see to what condition it was given gives a spirit of understanding by w ch the Prophet spoke by by w ch spirit they saw the eye of your faâ—hers that God blinded whose ears were dul of hearing hearts gross are in blindness not receiving the covenant of light within so over your hearts the vail iâ— remaining who yet have that eye which is blinded cannot hear the holy Ghost nor him who was born of it to be converted healed who ever tesisted are for Iudgement with the spirit the Scripture was given forth from for Moses in the light saw the covenant Abraham saw the promise in that light we in that light do inioy that promise which they saw to be fulfilled yâ— covenant of light witness yâ— holy spirit yâ— scrriptures were given forth from do see them which hath the words oâ— the scriptures â—ut not in the spirit that gave them forth them God the Father of spirits scatters though they gather together and such be Heathens that know not the Spirit the Scriptures were given forth from these know not God the Father of Spirits but are all a heaps about words killing and destroying one another From them who are Israels common-wealth who are the remnant that keeps the command of God and are of the seed of Abraham who witness the mighty power of the Lord in raising his own seed by his own power in this day and the trumpet is blown in Zion and the alarum is sounded in his holy mountain which makes the earth to tremble and do tremble at the word of the Lord and are by the dark world called quakers at whose voice Moses exceedingly did quake which power and voice now is known among us which doth noâ— onely shake the earth but the heavens which power removes that which is shaken that that which cannot be shaken may remain and appear and before this covenant you come to know your hearts must be rent so to come to witness the abolishing of death before life and immortality be brought to light through the Gospel which is the power of God which removes shakes and throwes down all and so the promise comes to be fulfilled And saith the Lord by the prophet Make the heart of this people fat make their eares heavy saith the Lord to him that was in the spirit lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts Pro. 6.22 Isa 6 chap. and be converted and be healed these that was from the light of the Law the life for his law is light saith Solomon But I said How long Lord mark and he answered untill the Cities be wasted without inhabitant and the houses without man and the land be utterly desolate take notice They that be in the Holy Ghost see this fulfilled upon you who have nor understood with your hearts nor seen with your eyes nor been converted whole cities comes to be laid waste and houses without man and the land come to be desolate without the spirit that gave forth Scriptures and the Lord have removed men far away and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the Land of this take notice But yet in it shall be a tenth mark and it shall return and be eaten as a teil tree and as an oak whose substance is in it when they cast their leaves of that take notice so the holy seed shall bee the substance thereof Mark Rom. 12.15 Isa 6.13 The holy seed life from the dead he that hath an ear let him hear ond this must be known before the riches of the world be Now that which gathers you to the promise is the light and power of God and the light will let you see all the evill deeds you have done all the ungodly actions you have committed and all your transgressions that is the light which shews you them and if you love the light you will come to see your selves and whether your deeds bee wrought in God and if you believe in the light which manifesteth all that ever you have done ye will become the children of light and receive power from Christ from whence the light comes him by whom the world was made
to stand against the evill which hee hath given you a light to see and with this light you come to know the M ssias your Saviour to save you from your sin which he discovers and to see the everlasting offering But you that do hate this light and go into the evill and love the darkness more than that which shews you your evill deeds and evill wayes when God is not in all your thoughts when your heart revolts and when you call on him with your lips and your hearts afarre off This is the light of Christ that shewes you this and lets you see your covetousness and idolatry and if you go on in these things before-mentioned the light will be your condemnation even the light saith Christ who inlightneth every man that cometh into the world This light of Christ tells you you should not do unjustly one to another that you should not be drunk nor oppress one another nor wrong one another It 's the light that shews you this and measures things aright and this word is nigh you in the heart and in the mouth to obey and do it Now as you love the light and bring your deeds to it you will come to know the light Moses was in and come to know the Prophet which he said God would raise up whom you should hear and come to know the Covenant of light which brings in the Gentiles to serve the living God from dead Idols which the Prophet spoke of which is the glory of Israel And as you love this light before mentioned you will come to know the Law in your hearts written the new Covenant the everlasting Covenant which the Prophet prophesied of which now thousands do witness with which light they know God the glory of Israel Zions King and him are come to worship and this light will tell you you must not bow to any likeness but unto God alone nor commit adultery nor serve graven images the Gods of the Heathen nor follow their customes which are vaine for against that Gods hand is turned who is one with the Light which Light the darkness cannot comprchend though it in darkness shines and Christ the light came to his own and his owne received him not even among your fathers that had the Oracles of God and the darkness could not the light comprehend though the light in darkness shined neither could the darkness see him by whom the world was made the light who is glorâ—fied with the Father with the glory that he had with the Father before the world was Therefore to the light in you I speak that with it you may be turned from darkness and the power of Satan to God and receive the covenant of light and the power of God Christ Iesus that you may come to life regeneration and câ—nversion and the renewing of your mindes remission of sinns and receive the refreshing into your souls And as you love the light that shews you the evill that ever you have done 2 Cor. 4.6 ye love Christ and that light is it which gives the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ which shines in the dark heart and none comes to the knowledge of God but by the light which shines in the heart and this treasure have we in earthen vessells that the excellency of the power might be of God and not of Man But if you do this light hate you hate Christ and remain stumbling blinde and scattered refusing the Corner-stone whom all the builders stumbles at who are out of the light and none comes from stumbling to know the words of the Scripture declared from the life but such as own the light To the light in you I speak if you go on in your evil deeds and unbelief not believing in the light the light is your condemnation hateing the light you hate Christ for you do not come to the knowledge of God but by the light He that comes to the knowledg of God knowes his Son now none comes to the Son but who owns and comes to the light which from the Son doth come And this light brings to one heart one minde one People one God one Mediator betwixt God and Man and this light unites and brings Iew and Gentile together and he that believes not in the light doth not believe in God who is light nor know his Son who inlighteneth every man that cometh into the world And to you this is the word of the Lord. A VISITATION TO All you that have long had the Scriptures but found out of the life of them that gave them forth that are stumbling about the words fighting and contending about them imprisoning and persecuting them that witness the life that gave them forth TO all you who are from the life of the law and the Prophets which is the light and from the spirit of understanding which gave forth the Scripture and hearing hear not and seeing see not having hearts and understand not whose ears are heavy whose eyes are shut and whose hearts are fat who are in the transgression out of the Law of God and his Covenant first and second against all such the Lord sent his Prophet to declare and commanded him Go tell this people Isâ— 6 9.10 hear yee indeed but understand not and see yee indeed but perceive not make the heart of this people sat and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted and I should heal them who is the light such as was from the light who with that ear could not hear Now the Prophet was here in the life of the Law the people was here from the life of the Law therefore the life turned against them that were from that of God in them and the life of the Law the life turning against them being one with that of God in them which they were gone from so the life blinded them and their ears became heavy and their hearts fat and their eyes shut and they could not hear with their ears nor understand with their hearts nor be converted even such as were gone from the life with which the spirit of God was one in which the Prophet was And saith the Prophet Isaiah to this people that were gone from the life of the Law what the Lord would do with his vineyard he would take away the hedge thereof and it should be eaten up and break down the wall thereof and it should be trodden down and I will lay it waste and it shall not be pruned nor digged Isai 5.5 6. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the House of Isreel and the men of Iudah his pleasant plant Hee looked for judgement but behold oppression for righteousness but behold a cry These were those that were blinde where the judgment was not
are blinde and are such as run into the lust whose hearts grows fat and are such as have a wisdom and a prudent understanding but as to hearing or seeing the things of God their eyes are made blinde and ears they have but hear not and hearts they have but understand not and cannot understand with their hearts nor see with their eyes lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and I should convert them and they should be healed Now this ear and eye which is from the life of the Law heareth not sees not and the heart waxeth gross and that eye must be made blinde before Christ come to heal them and convert them He that hath an ear to hear let him hear And to such as were from the life of the Law and Prophets in the transgression Christ spoke parables them that were from the life of the Law seeing they saw not and hearing they heard not nor perceived nor understood to them in parables that were from the life of the law and Prophets which Christ saw these having the words but being out of the life were them that were blinded gross and could not hear nor perceive nor understand the mysterie of the kingdom Unto these Christ spoke in parables And the Disciples said to Christ VVhy speakest thou unto them in parables and he said unto them To you it is givâ—â—â—o know the mysterie but to them it is not who have eyes and see not ears and hear not but blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear For whosoever hath to him shall be given mark and he shall have more abundance mark and whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that which he hath He that hath an ear to hear let him hear So they knew the mysterie of the kingdom which was in the Light and they law not the mysterie of the kingdom which were not in the light therefore spoke Christ to them in parables because in seeing they saw not and hearing they heard not neither did they understand So in them is fulfilled the Prophesie of Isaiah which saith By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand and seeing ye shall see and not perceive for this peoples heart is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heale them Therefore parables were spoken to these which were from the life of the Law which did not understand with their heart the Mysterie of the Kingdom to be converted and Healed For such as understood came with their heart to the life of the Law the Light to converting and healing others stood against it and that eye was blinded so saw not and was not converted and all dulness of hearing was from them that were from the life of the Law the Light which life of the Law gives to see before transgression was and so these that did not understand with their hearts not converted not healed were them that were gone from the light the life of the Law such could not see the second Covenant when he was come and to these Christ opened his mouth in parables and uttered forth things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world to the fulfilling of the Prophets words who was in the life and to those that were out of the Light the life of the law was the Parables spoke but blessed saith Christ to his disciples are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear Matt. 13. now is the life manifested that was with the Father before the World was which all the Prophets of God did give testimony to which while Moses is read the vail is over the heart but where is the life of Moses that sees the end of the first covenant Christ Iesus so they that were out of the life of the first were in the hardness such as had the words of Moses but out of the life whose ears were dull of hearing and served God with their lips out of the life the light but their hearts afar off such were in the days of Isaiah the Prophet in the days of Christ in the flesh these Christ plainly told them he came to make blind who said they saw but were out of the life of what they profest the lâ—ght which is the eye such the God of the world blinded the eye of their minde and for judgement Christ came into the world to make them to see that saw not and to make them blinde that said they saw where the God of the world ruled And John speaks of the fulfilling of Isaiahs words Joh. 12. who saw the glory of the Lord and spake of him he saw them that were from the life of the Law the light and the Prophets that could not see with their eyes nor understand with their hearts whose serving God was with the lip but the heart afar off these could not hear Christ when he came nor understand with their hearts nor be converted nor healed such were for judgement and such Christ judged and made blinde for these could not understand with their hearts nor be converted nor healed which was from the light and had it not And the Apostle speaking of the hated and loved the Election and Reprobation that the purpose of God according to the Election might stand not of works but of him that calleth as it was said The Elder shall serve the Yonger Esau have I hated Jacob have I loved mark so it is not of him that runneth Rom. 9. but of God that sheweth mercie as the Scripture saith of Pharoah For this purpose have I raised thee up that I may shew my power in thee and that my Name may be declared throughout all the earth Of this take notice The Power which overthrew Pharoah brings the Seed out of bondage therefore hath he mercie on whom he will have mercie and whom he will he hardneth But thou wilt say unto me VVho hath resisted his will why doth he yet finde sault Nay but O man Who art thou that repliest against God who is Light thou who art from the Light shall the thing formed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus Hath not the Potter power over the Clay of the same Lump to make one Vessel unto Honor another a Vessel to dishonor mark But what if God will shew his Wrath to make his Power known endured with much long suffering the Vessels of Wrath fitted to destruction the children of Disobedience mark Iacob is loved but Esau is hated Esau was the first a Prophane person Pharoah a Persecutor of the Seed of God who was hardned God had mercie on his Seed and made his Power known in overthrowing the one and delivering the other And him that
A VISITATION TO THE IEWES FROM Them whom the Lord hath visited from on high among whom he hath performed his promise made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and to his seed which Moses saw and the Prophets gave testimonie of to which seed the Apostles witnessed which seed we are which seed of Abraham Christ came according to the flesh which we now witness Glory to the Lord for evermore ALSO A VISITATION to all you that have long had the Scriptures but found out of the life of them that gave them forth that are stumbling about the words fighting and contending about them imprisoning and persecuting them that witness the life that gave them fotth The mighty day of the Lord is come and coming who dwells not in temples made with hands nor is he worshipped with mens hands but in the spirit the Scripture was given forth from Given forth by G. F. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the sign of the Black Spread Eagle neer the West End of Pauls 1656. A VISITATION TO THE JEWES c. TO the Iews scattered who are the seed of God to whom the promise belongs who have long had the words but mist the promise which promise is to the seed from them who are of the seed who witness the promise to you this is sent From them that are of the seed of Abraham to all the scattered Iewes according the flesh who have the Law of God the form of it but being found out of the life of it have not possessed that which Moses saw who received the Law from God which Law you have the form of and your fathers in ages past had who put Christ to death and slew him that is the end of the Law Gods Righteousness Christ Iesus the end of Gods righteous Law which Law was to keep out of all unrighteousness And your Fathers that had the form of the Law slew the Prophets that shewed the coming of this just One Christ Iesus the end of his righteous Law Gods Righteousness they having the Prophets words and Moses words but out of the Prophets and Moses life who saw the just One that was to come and fuffer were those that slew the Prophets David saw the just one and called him Lord and Moses saw him which received the Law from God which Law was given to your fathers which you have had the form of who said Deut. 18. Like unto me will God raise you up a Prophet from among your brethren and him they should bear and every one that would not hear that Prophet should be cut off Now your Fathers that had Moses who this Prophet saw and received the Law from him he said God would raise up this Prophet and he came among your Fathers that had the Law and Moses words but not Moses life and the Prophets words but not the Prophets life but they knew him not neither heard him though he was a Prophet raised up from among the Brethren and was made of the seed of Abraham according to the flesh but declared to be the Son of God according to the Scriptures by signes wonders and miracles Devils being made subject to him loosing many from their chains which were kept under bonds and yet your Fathers believed not that Prophet which Moses saw and the Prophets saw which was to come to fulfil what was written of him neither heard they him though it was Moses command they should and Gods command So therein was in the transgression though the Law the words of it they had but found in the transgression out of the life of the Law and the life of the Prophets and came to be mingled among the Heathen which knew not God who be in the same transgression though you profess the words declared from the life wherefore being out of the life of the Prophets being raised up among your Fathers who speak of this just one of this Prophet your Fathers did persecute them and did put them to death and at last the Son come And to your Fathers spoke a parable Luk. 20.13.81 which was agreeable to the Prophets words As a man letting forth a vineyard to husbandmen and he sent his servants to look for fruits and they beat one and cast him out and wounded another and killed another and last of all he sent his Son and when they saw the Son the Heir of the Vineyard Come said they to the Keepers of the Vineyard this is the Heir let us kill him and cast him out then the Vineyard will be ours And these things your Fathers did fulfil they killed him they cast him out and delivered him up to the Gentiles to be mocked scourged and crucified Now consider what hath become of you since of you Husbandmen have you not been laid waste and was not the word fulfilled concerning his coming and rising up from among the Brethren And when he was come among you he would have gathered you as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her Wings but your fathers would not And he shewed them how they stoned the Prophets and killed them and how Wise men should be sent among them and Scribes and Prophets some of them they should crucifie and scourge in their Synagogues because they neither knew the Father nor the Prophet that he had raised up which Moses spoke of Wherefore Mat. 23. â—â— saith he to JERUSALEM Behold your house is left unto you desolate Hath it not been so Was he not a true Prophet to you herein Are not your Houses unto you left desolate Are not the Prophets words here fulfilled on your fathers and you scattered which Prophet Moses spake of who went up to Jerusalem and was betrayed by him that David spoke of unto the chief priests and Scribes who condemned him to death and delivered him to the Gentiles to be mocked scourged and crucified but the third day he rose again and saith Christ It cannot be that a Prophet perish out of Jerusalem This the Prophet spake to your Fathers of whom you have the form of the law and the words of the Prophets which killed the Prophets and yet built their Sepulchres Here you may see your Fathers and as it was with them so it is with you being now found in the same Transgression untill you come to the life of the Prophets of Moses then with the life you see him who is the end of the Prophets and Moses even the EMANVEL spoken of born of a Virgin which is Christ Now coming to the life the Prophets were in and Moses was in with that this you will come to see and with that you will come to the Conversion and see the everlasting Offering And Christ the EMANVEL this Prophet whom Moses speaks of and the Prophets saw who said it could not be that a Prophet perish out of Jerusalem was delivered by the chief Priests and Scribes to be condemned to death and delivered to the Gentiles to be mocked scourged and crucified Now minde He was
will utterly destroy the tongue of the Aegyptian sea Isa 11. and there shall be a high way for the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria take notice like as it was to Israel in the day that hee came up out of Aegypt And where this Covenant that is everlasting of Light is received with it the first is seen that doth decay And thus saith the Lord I will hold thy hand I will keep thee and give thee for a Covenant to the people and a Light to the Gentiles to open the blinde eyes to bring out the prisoners out of the prison and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house I am the Lord that is my name and my glory I will not give to another Behold the former things are come to pass and new things I tell you of before they spring forth I tell you of them Now when these things were sprung up among you and come to pass that had the first Covenant given to you when you came out of Aegypt These new things this new Covenant you received not though to you it was declared by the Prophet before they did spring forth and this Covenant of the people the light to the Gentiles opens the blind eyes brings out the prisoners out of the prison-house and this is he that preaches unto the spirits in prison Now you and your fathers that have rested in the former things not beholding nor seeing the new things that are come to pass and declared to your fathers before they came to pass shewes how you have refused the corner-stone which have been builders of the words without life the Covenant of Light the Prince of Peace the Lord of glory he that sits on Davids Throne that comes in the volume of the book to do the will of God So the new things which were declared by the Prophet before they sprang forth you that remain in the old have rejected it and have you not been rejected mark and provoked by a people that were not a people Have not the Gentiles which followed not after righteousness obtained the righteousness even the righteousness of Faith in Christ Jesus Rom. 10. the Covenant of Light the Light of the Gentiles among whom his name is great and their eyes are opened and the prisoners come out of the prison-house and in him do the Gentiles trust And thus saith the Lord in an acceptable time have I heard thee in a day of salvation have I helped thee I will preserve thee and give thee for a Covenant to the people to establish the earth I will give thee saith the Lord a light of the Gentiles that thou mayst be my salvaion to the end of the earth Now he that establisheth the earth the covenant is witnessed by whom all things were made What is he salvation to the end of the earth the covenant of light yea who in lighteneth every man that cometh into the world which I saiah spoke of which your fathers had their will on And thus saith the Lord I will preserve thee and give thee for a covenant to the people to establish the earth to obtain the inheritance of the desolate heritage mark this covenant of the people to establish the earth which obtains the inheritance of the desolate heritages and say to the prisoners Go forth and to them that are in darkness Shew your selves which is now fulfilled and fulfilling they shall feed in the way and their pasture shall be on the tops of the hills and these witness the fresh springs of water and this is witnessed among them that witness his covenant and are converted to God to serve the living God in righteousness who are come to the life of the Prophets and possesseth that which they spoke of therefore did David give thanks to the Lord among the Heathen and sing praises to his Name great deliverance gives he to his King to David and his seed Psa 18. whose seed we are for evermore and Moses that received the Covenant from the Lord when your fathers came out of Egypt said Like unto mee will the Lord thy God raise thee up a prophet from the midst of thy Brethren Deut. 18. him shall ye harken unto Now this Prophet did Stephen witness and hold forth when he was brought before the Council whom they cast out and stoned Acts 7. Your Fathers had the Tabernacle of VVitness in the VVilderness as he had appointed speaking unto Moses that he should make it according to the fashion which he had seen which also the Fathers that came after brought in with Iesus into the possession of the Gentiles whom God drave out before the face of our Fathers unto the dayes of David who found savor before God and desired to find a Tabernacle for the God of Jacob but Solomon built him a house howbeit the most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands as saith the Prophet Heaven is my Throne and the earth is my footstool what house will yee build me saith the Lord or what is the place of my rest Now your fathers that held up these oâ—tward things being not in the life that saw beyond them the end of them the things which Steven here witnessed whom your fathers that had the Law not the lise put to death which had persecuted the Prophets that shewed the coming of the Iust One of whom they had been the betrayers murderers of that stoned Steven these know not that new thing that must come to pass before declared which the Lord by his Prophets spoke of but were disobedient rebellious against the Lord cast his law behind their backs slew his prophets which testified against them to turn them to the Lord they wrought great provocations therfore the Lord delivered them to their enemies vexed them in the time of their troubles when they cried to him he heard them according to his manifold Mercies he gave them a Savior who saved them from the hand of their Enemies Now you may see the cause why his hand was against them being rebellious and disobedient casting the Law behind their backs being out of the life of it here is the cause of slaying the Prophets who witnessed the life of his Law and yet many yeers did the Lord forbear them and testifie against them that had the words by the Spirit in his Prophets Therefore now you having the Prophets words have built their Sepulchres were you in the Prophets life you would see that which the Prophets gave Testimony of and Moses him by whom the world was made the Glory of Israel the light of the Gentiles the leader of the people take notice the light is to lead yea the light is the leader of the people Now you being out of the life of the Prophets and Moses having their words thinking to have life in the Scriptures searching them which do testifie of Christ but not coming to the Prophets
life you know not the voice of the Prophets though they be read among you every Sabbath-day now Christ the end of them so coming not to the Prophets life you come not to Christ the life whom the Prophets testified of who said unto your Fathers Ye will not come to me that ye might have life who had that which testified of him so he now is witnessed that the Scripture testifies of who is the light and life which light is the life of man him by whom the world was made And your Fathers which had the Prophets words and Moses words being strangers from the life were them that said They saw but were them that were blinde saw not Christ the Just One that the Prophets shewed the coming of and Moses spoke of which you had your Law from who said Like to him God would raise up a Prophet him you should hear whom you did not hear but put him away from you who were out of the life of the Prophets and would not hear him that was the life of them and said As for this man you knew not whence he was and would not have him to rule over you Therefore consider you since your Fathers nor you never came to see this Prophet which Moses spoke of and the Prophets testified of whom your Fathers had the words but not come to the life which you never come to see until you come to the life of Moses and Abraham that saw his glory and that will let you see Christ the end of them and that which the Prophets spake of and wrote of and gave testimony of which all his Holy Apostles witnessed after his Resurrection him who was the Covenant that the Prophets and Moses gave Testimony of which you having the words but being found out of the life them persecuted But that now you may câ—me to see in this mighty day of the Lord his gatherings together with his Covenant of light and his mighty power which is everlasting and changeth not where the prophesie is opened and things not declared or is known which gathers together in one up to God which leadeth out of the changeable things up to God who is a Spirit and the hour is now come wherein they worship him in spirit And the salvation of the Jews which is to the end of the earth is believed in and witnessed and the time of the Gentiles not believing in the Light is seen and their Conversation wherein was the excess wantonness lust wine reviling banquetting and abominable idolatry with which Light from them who believe in it are turned and come to the honest conversation the obtaining of the Savior Iesus Christ who hath abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel And the Gospel is preached to the Gentiles which is the power of God to salvation to every one that believeth in the Light and him saith God I give for a Covenant a light to the Gentiles and when this Covenant of God was come Christ Iesus the everlasting covenant said he Believe in the Light I am come a Light into the world and he that abideth in the Light shall not abide in darkne And the Embassadors of this Covenant of light Life and Peace hazarded their lives among the Iews and Gentiles among all sorts of people which wâ—re â—ut of the life of the Law and they did preach to them to the Gentiles and do still for the Covenant of Light is everlasting to bring them to it but now many have the words declared from this Covenant of Light but yet are strangers to it and them that kill the â—oâ—d Iesus Christ and their own Prophets have persecuted the Apostles and pleased not God but were contrary to all men these were of your Fathers who had the words but were strangers to the life and these did forbid speaking to the Gentiles to whom the Covenant was promised they themselves being in the transgression out of the life of what they profest and out of the life of the Prophets who declared this Covenant but now the Riches of the glory of the mysterie of the Gentiles is known which God would make known which had been hid from ages and generations which is now made manifest to his Saints which is Christ in them the Hope of glory whom we preach warning every man that we present every man perfect in Christ Iesus the Light the everlasting covenant of God Now such Gentiles that walk after the vanity of their minde are strangers yet from the glory of Israel and the Common-wealth and the life of God and the covenant of Light but God is gathering with his covenant of Light up to himself both Iews and Gentiles in one I say his everlasting covenant not according to the old covenant which he gave to your Fathers when they were brought up out of the land of Egypt which did decay and wax old for this covenant never doth decay or wax old Glory glory to the Lord God of life for ever And so the Gentiles that are not yet come to own the light are without the true Hope without God in the world and so the promise being to the Seed he saith not unto Seeds as of many but of one which is thy Seed which is Christ And this I say Gal. 3. That the covenant that was confirmed before â—f God in Christ the Law which was 43â— yeers after cannot disannul that iâ— should make the promise of none effect that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ as it s writen I will give him to be a light to whom he was preached after his Resurrection and this Light brings from giving offence to Jew and Gentile that believe but offends both that be against it Eph. 2 3 chap. And when the Gentiles which had not the Law did the thing contained in the Law which shewed the works of the Law written in their hearts that judged you Jews that had the Law and were transgressors of it which caused the Gentiles to blaspheme God and so your circumcision became uncircumcision and their uncircumcision became circumcision and judged you so the Light which is the life joynes Jews and Gentiles together in one up to one God who is Light who is Lord of all and rich to all with which Spirit they come to be baptized into one Body And here that you may come to know the Salvation that is sent to the Gentiles the everlasting covenant which among them is witnessed which God of old promised and Christ the Prophet sayes Go not in the way of the Gentiles but to the lost Sheep of the House of Israel Now when your Fathers had delivered him up to be crucified he sent them to preach to all Nations to the Jews and to the Gentiles and when the Jews did not hear your Fathers that had the words of the Prophets and Moses which spake of this Covenant they turned to the Gentiles
in prison Now you who have had the words declared forth from the Prophets and Moses but not being guided with that spirit that gave them forth you see not the captive but are captives sees not him that brings deliverance and heals the broken hearted and recovers to the blinde their sight and sets at liberty them that are bruised that leads captivity captive and gives deliverance to the captive and this is not known till you come to the covenant of Light And when Ezekiel was among the Captives at the River of Keba the Heavens were opened and he saw the Vision of God Mark when he was among the captives and he was to go to them of the captivity and speak to them and after he was commanded to speak to the captives the Spirit of the Lord took him up and brought him to them So consider now you that have had the Prophets words but not knowing him that is on High that leads captivity captive being found out of the life are scattered abroad but hearken to the Light that will discover your iniquity whereby your captivity may be turned away whereby you may come to the life of the Prophets and Moses with which you may see Christ Lam. 2.14 For Ieremiah did lament the falsness of the Prophets which had not discovered their iniquity which might have turned away their captivity that you might come to know the voice of the Bridegroom the voice of joy the voice of gladness and the voice of them that say Praise the Lord of Hosts for his mercie endures for ever And of them that bring the Sacrifice of Praise into the House of the Lord. I will cause to return the captivity of the Land as at first saith the Lord now know this captivity led captive and this captivity returned And was it not often that Ierusalâ—m and the children of Israel were carâ—iâ—d into captivity for transgressing of the righteous Law of God and did noâ— the Enemie come upon you which trod down the Wall of Ierusalem which was before Christ was manifest in the flesh which after came and was manifest in the flesh according to the saying of the Prophet which shewed the coming of the Just one who when he was come among you that had the words of Moses and the Prophets but being out of the life saw not that which Moses and the Prophets saw and the Prophet said Jerusalem should be laid waste and compassed with Armies the Wall thrown down and you scattered Is not the word of this Prophet fulfilled among you and upon you had you been in the life as Moses was in and the Prophets and Abraham you would have seen the glory of Israel him whom God raised up to sit on Davids Throne the Hope that all the Fathers hoped for Now your Fathers being out of the life though they had the words knew not the Substance when he was come but on the contrary delivered him up to the Gentiles to be crucified which Gentiles trod your city under foot and they cried crucifie him crucifie him and desired his blood might be upon their Heads Now Jacob comes to be saved from his captivity and Israel shall return to his rest and I will be found of you saith the Lord and will turn away your captivity and will gather you from all the Nations and from all the places where I have driven you and will bring you again to this place saith the Lord whence I caused you to be carried away Captive when you come to the life of the Law this you shall witness Now wait in the light that you may come to witness this Promise fulfilled for the Lords flock hath been carried away captive but now is the Lord redeeming and gathering with his power them out of captivity and leading captivity captive And saith the Lord I will gather the Remnant of my Sheep out of all the countreys where I have driven them and bring them again to their Fold and they shall grow and encrease and I will set one Shepherd over them which shall feed them they shall dread no more nor be afraid neither shall they lack any thing saith the Lord for the day is come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a righteous branch and a King shall reign and prosper and shall execute justice and judgement in the earth Now this Branch this King this Shepherd this Fold do we witness that are his lambs his sheep and are come to witness the life that Moses was in and the Prophets were in and David was in from which life the Scriptures was given forth to be believed and fulfilled which we see with the same that gave them forth Isa 14. and the Son we see to reigne and the Lord is cutting off according to his promise Babel his Name and his Remnant Son and Nephew and there shall be a High-way for the Remant of his people which shall be left from Assyria like as it was unto Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Aegypt Of this take notice In that day shall the Remnant of Israel and such as have escaped of the House of Iaccb stay no more on him that smote them mark on him that smote them but shall stay upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel in truth The Remnant shall return even the Remnant of Jacob to the Mighty God for though thy people O Israel be as the Sand of the Sea yet a Remnant of them shall return and there is a Remnant that keeps the commands of God And did not the Lord speak to Ezekiel That your Fathers should be carried away captive and the time is come that whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved for in Mount Zion and Jerusalem shal be deliverance as the Lord hath said and the Remnant whom the Lord shall call And the Remnant of the Philistines shall perish Seek good and not evil Amos 5. hate the evil and love the good and establish Judgement in the Gate It may be the Lord of Hosts will be merciful to the Remnant of Joseph though the number of Israel be as the sand of the Sea yet a Remnant shall be saved Even so at this present time there is a remnant through the election of Grace and now is the Remnant known that doth give glory to God And thus saith the Lord to your Fathers who changed his Judgements into wickedness and his Statutes more then the wicked I will execute Judgement in thee I will do unto thee that I never did before neither will I do any more the like I wil execute Judgement in thee the whole Remnant of thee will I scatter in all the winds And these things and many more this Prophet doth relate which was done to your Fathers and what they should act and do they who are out of the life of the law But now such as be in the life of the law Prophets and Christ can
words saying Go unto this people and say hearing you shall hear and not understand and seeing you shall see and not perceive for the heart of this people is waxed gross and they are dull of hearing and their eyes are closed lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and should be converted and should heal them To them he said Be it known unto you the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles and they will obey it So here the Apostle Christ and Isaiah saw them that had the words of Moses and the Prophets but out of the life the light such could not hear nor see being from the life of God such were blinde and such Gods Hand often turned against and carried them into captivity yea to the bringing down and bringing forth of his seed out of Captivity so in bringing them down that were in captivity they often came to remember God and so Gods promise stands with the seed sure and his election sure All along you may see in the days of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles such as had not the life the light of the Prophets and Apostles being found out of the life of the spirit of God had the spirit of slumber had hearts and could not perceive eyes they had and could not see eares they had and could not heare and such eyes God made blinde and eares God made deaf and knew not the mysterie of the Kingdom having their hearts gross and far from God and served him but with the lips and they that were from the life of the Law were here they that were in the life of the Law they saw such as were from the life of the Law here one saw and the other did not one saw and the others eye was to be made blinde And they that did carry Gods seed into captivity should be brought into bondage and God would judge them and they had the eye which was blinde so you may all see that which was from the life of the Law the life of the Prophets the life of Christ which is the light doth harden which is the deceit and such as hear the voice of the Son of God are not hardened but such as hear not the voice of the Son of God are hardened through the deceit among these there was warres one destroying another and carrying captives But who are come to the life of the Law and the end of the Law the end of the first covenant the everlasting Priesthood from the changeable to the unchangeable witnesseth that which doth not vail change nor harden and make to see captive and lead out of captivity while Moses is read the vail is yet over the heart which doth harden but take away that which doth harden and bring the minde out of the changeable which their minde was in in the outward to the life the light which was hardened and blinded having the spirit of slumber to the covenant of light the everlasting covenant the end of all shadowes types and figures to the substance that covenant is decayed and so with this that is kept out which doth harden mark the deceit which is out of the truth the life which is in the transgression having a pretence of the worship but out of the life of it all such are blinded and can neither hear with their ears nor see with their eyes nor be converted nor healed and from the life of the Law are whose hearts are afar off from God so all these that have the words of Moses and of the Prophets that are from the light the life with the life come to have all their wisdome and knowledge overthrown such had their eyes blinded and had a spirit of slumber and Hearts gross and these the life of the Law overthrew from top to bottome and all that profession without the life of the Law calling upon God with the lips but Hearts afarr off God overthrowes and judges judges and blindes he that hath an ear to hear let him hear That which overthrowes the Jewes outward brings in the Jewes inward in the spirit to the King the light which is one in the spirit and baptizeth them both Jew and Gentile into one body and here he comes to the life of the Law and the Prophets and Christ and the promise fulfilled where there is seeing and hearing and conversion the Heart being brought to the Lord God to perceive and to you this is the word of the Lord. And this eye the Lord doth not blinde God doth not blinde his own eye but that eye which is out of the life of the Law the Prophets and Christ and that eye is blinded which receiveth not the testimony of the Prophets nor the Son and this the Prophet saw with the Holy Ghost and Christ saw who by the Holy Ghost was conceived and the Apostle saw with the Holy Ghost such as was blinded and is to be blinded and the Holy Ghost was not blinded that which goes from the life cannot believe the life but is hardened they being from the life could not hear nor see the life when the life spake unto them to be converted their eyes was so closed lest I the Light should heal them to them woe was from the light to them which were from it they went from the life and the life was against them so the light cast them away that held up the outward Priests that had the outward Covenant their eyes they have closed mark they have closed their eyes lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their eares and undeâ—stand with their hearts and should be converted and I should heal them mark they have closed their eyes lest they should see Christ that owns not the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world they have closed their eyes lest they should see it and hear it and come to understand with the heart and should be converted and Christ should heal them They closed their eyes lest they should see the light who was from it and owned it not the healing which brings to be converted and turns the heart from being gross and the new heart comes to be received these that have closed their eyes lest they should see the light at any time say they see but are blinde so being from the light the sin remains these call on God with their lips but being from the light the heart is afar off these are the unconverted understands not with the heart and are unhealed and follows the world which sayes they can see which Christ came to make blind and for judgment is he come into the world that they that say they see may be made blinde they that see not might see and this light brings Iews and Gentiles to see one another and this raises up the tribes of Jacob gathers together in the unity in one and with it doth them reconcile up to God with the
wrath on him that doth evil whose soul is not subject to the Higher power but is gone from the truth the light into the power of wickedness and darkneâ—s which the power of God is above Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but for conscience sake so the light which turneth from the evill and the powers and rulers of darkness and spiritual wickednesses in high places and principalities the soul it brings to be subject to the higher power for conscience sake and to own the minister of God which is for good which is in the power which who resists brings to himself damnation who to the evill doers is a terror for the power of God turns against them that goes from the light and this is the power that no mans person doth respect So for the Lords sake submit your selves to every ordinance of man 1 Pet. 2.13 14 c. whether it be the King as Superior or to Governors or unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evill doers and for the praise of them that do well here the higher power is it that punisheth the evil doer and torments the evill goes against it and against all the spiritual wickednesses in high places take notice of that To that ordinance for the Lords sake we are to be subject unto for the Lords sake for it is the will of God to have the evil doer punished that so with well doing you put to silence the ignorance of foolish men as free not using your liberty as a cloke of maliciousness but as the servants of God Mark. And again Peter who was in the light and his soul subject to the higher power and owned every ordinance of man for the Lords sake which went against the evill he said unto the Rulers when they commanded him to speak no more in the name of Jesus Whether was it better to obey God or Man This spake Peter he that stood against mans ordinance which was contrary to the command of God so such as did not believe in the light such was not to be obeyed whose soules were not subject to the higher powers for the commands of God are not contrary to his own power for whose souls are subject to the higher power they own Christ the light the power of God the end of the Law So all for the Lords sake be ye subject to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake for the punishment of evill doers mark to be subject to that ordinance that punishes the evil that doth not punish the good that doth not go against the command of God nor Christ for it is that power the soul must be subject unto And Peter that was subject to the higher power who was not subject to the Rulers the High-Priests Elders and Councill who charged them to speak no more in the name of Christ said to them Whether was it better to obey God or Man and to their ordinance was not subject but preached Christ the light whose soul was subject to the higher power Neither was the three children subject to the Kings command who commanded them to bow to the image he set up neither was Daniel obedient to the Kings decree which was made that he should not pray unto his God Neither was Mordecai obedient to the Kings command and to Haman could not bow though by his not bowing all the Jewes might have been destroyed so him that would have Mordecai to bow God bowed and overthrew Haman and brought down Nebuchadnezzar that set up the image and gave for his commandment to all Nations People and Languages that all to it should bow and God with his power made him to know the most High reigned which most High made him to bow and feed with the beasts of the field seven times was to pass over til he knew the most High to rule in the Kingdoms of men and gives it to whomsoever he will mark to whomsoever he will he gives it hee was a higher power above Nebuchadnezzars power which Nebuchadnezzar was out of which power overthrew him which power the three children was in This he knew not by all his might and authority until seven times passed over him and that which was to pass over him seven times was to be fulfilled before it was known that the most High ruled in the Kingdomes of men mark which thing he did noâ— know when he was against that power which the three children were in and to which their souls were subject though they were cast into the fire for not bowing to the image nor harkning to the Kings command But the image and the founder of the image was thrown down and before he was thrown down he knew not the most High to rule as they do not now and such God with his power breaks downe and the images to which the servants of the Lord could not bow that were subject to the Higher power that delivered them which power threw down Nebuchadnezar that had set up the image and made him to bow to and to worship and to know that the most High reigned And to you this is the Word of the Lord. G.F. THE END