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A54452	A visitation of love, and gentle greeting of the Turk and tender tryal of his thoughts for God, and proof of the hearts of his court, and the spirits of the people round about him, in his own dominion, and the inhabitants of the earth that are borderers upon his skirts, in their declared religious wayes : and is a warning to all men that are in the corrupted wayes of sin and iniquity, to repent and turn to the living God ... : to which is annexed a book, intituled, Immanuel, the salvation of Israel / written in the will and countenance of God, by ... John Perrot.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?; J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671? Immanuel, the salvation of Isreal.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1639; ESTC R40666	27,935	40

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

the spirits of men take offence at me in this thing Can not I try the choicest in their wayes as plainly as the greatest Apostates who have lost the state of Manhood in whom brutishness is seated and violence as the chief Governor of the bodies of people who have lost the first ear that could hear through the degeneration of him that begat them and mankind springing from the same Root of Adams polluted nature Yea without a Parable may I not plainly prove all Nations that stumbles the honest part of thy inquiry and cannot I reach unto Rome Pope and over the darkness and sottishness of all people who blindly will speak and question things as to matter of evil consequences calling them so in their inquiries before they come to see the substance of the good which cometh only from God and thereby in perverse ignorance calls the good evil and are setters up of evil for good Should the love of God extend beyond measure compassion reach over a Nation to touch idolatry with a tender visitation of putting a people upon enquiry before wrath as an overflowing Flood doth overwhelm and if the people of that Nation should rise up against the servant in that work and slay him that the Master sent would not such a people plainly appear to be fallen below the spirits of men yea far below a beastly part which are naturally out of the sence of rewarding their kind so unspeakably full of evil and wickedly Many such things came to pass through the cruelty of the ungodly forwhich cause God overturned and utterly overthrowed the places of great renown and made beautiful Palaces a howling Wildernesse when in ages past their iniquities Whoredomes and Murders were filled up But this I shew as to what hath been chiefly now that which is to be I write I cannot run from the Porch of wisdoms Gates or fly from the door of her House forasmuch as I would shew the greatest among men the entrance into her habitation that that onely beautifull habitation may be known to be the Kings Pallace where Infamy shall never touch the Head of his Dignity And here is Wisdome for the Emperor to know the birth of the Imortall Seed in him to know something of God brought forth unto Majesty and Dominion in him which shall rule the Nations as with a rod of Iron Many parables might my life utter and seal up the Mystrie in hidden sentences and leave the sons of men in the same obscurity groveling as in the night-season and groping as in a black Dungeon and after wearisome times to lye down in sorrows and never able to come to know the light of the Day of God which is more clear then Cristal and the Wisdome springing from it which is more excellent then Rubies and more refined and precious then pure Gold which is the defence of Armies and strength of Nations Oh how might the aged solace themselves in the meditation thereof and the yonng men take pleasure in the exercise of the infinite vertue which is hid therein which maketh all shine as a Diadem yet hideth the comely parts from the eye of the vulterous that the unclean may not see the face of the King so that the prudent in a pure life can only draw nigh in the presence of wisdome to stand justified in the Kings Court. Oh that the greatest among men in anthority did but see my affection to the least in the Land Oh that mine hand might touch his head that he might suck of the Breasts of my Mother which bare me that he might drink and live for ever and have a dwelling-place over death to see the powers thereof swallowed up into Victory Had I began my meditation in the dawning of the day and written since the timely sun-rising and continned to the hour of this season yea could I have pondered since he hour of my conception and meditated in the Chambers of the Womb and written since the hour of my birth yet could not I speak of that which is as it is nor that which is to come in the infinite fulness as it is ready to break forth I may cry wisdom in the streets and spread forth mine arms in the gates and open my mouth in the pleasant Fields and say Return O ye sons of men return to the Lord God whom the whole world hath for saken and gone a whoring after other gods and sought strange things and planted themselves Trees in a wilderness but behold the fruits thereof the Lord hath no regard unto for how is it that the sons of men are calling upon God with their mouth whilst they profane his holy Name in their hearts God heareth not the prayers of the ungodly and their cry in their early season is but as the barking of a dogge at midnight and but as the skreech of a devouring beast seeking his prey in his wandering course at evening in the wilderness Verily I say unto all mankind upon the Face of the Earth God is wearied yea the Lord God is burdened and his soul is laden with the sacrifice of the unclean yea how can it be declared in this generation how the Lord hath waited for many generations to be gracious unto the sons of men but their iniquities have turned aside his blessing for thus it hath been even over the face of the whole Earth the sons of men in all their wayes have spoken of Gods worship and have worshipped in this place and upon that Mountain and in this Form and in another Administration so called but as soon almost as they are removed from their seats in their Temples made with hands where they were worshipping the works of their own hands and the imaginations of their hearts they turn into lewdn ess and lying and swearing and whoredom and drunkenness and robbery and envy and hatred and murder and scoffing and scorning and into the lust of uncleanness and their sacrifice the Lord God requires not until they have washed their hands of blood and their hearts of iniquity and their whole body of the pollution of their Life And lo I shew this unto the JEWS of all sorts that the Jews also may come to be converted and come to know the healing They must all come to the cleansiug of the heart by blood and the purifying of their consciences by the blood of sprinkling which is not used in this the mighty day of God which is dawned as an Ordinance of a carnal Commandment but is come and coming as the substance of the eternal Decree of God concerning the redemption from all the former and restauration unto the first and as the fulfilling of the promise of an endless life And therefore be awakened all ye that have slumbered and are slumbering in the night of your Fathers who were in the rebellion against God notwithstanding they had the Law and the Precepts of God even as from the mouth of God Oh how did your Fathers the Jewes

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

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