thy City and thy glory oh world is falling is falling is falling Rev. 14. 8. And now thy great strength is gone and therefore nothing but trouble cometh in the roome by reason of the Lords appearing And it will not be long ere the earth shine or be enlightned with the Lords glory and the shining and enlightning is for to let thee know that thy kingdome and glory is going being but a Babylonian glory Rev. 18. 1. 2. And I saw an Angel come down from Heaven having great power and the earth was enlightned with his glory and he cryed with a strong voyce saying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and become the habitation of Devils Thou oh world hast the mysterie of iniquity dwelling in thee and by thy mysterious iniquities hast carried the Lords Israel captive at thy will for many thousand years and now the years of thy power is up and the day of thy ruling is at an end because all thy actions have been unrighteous actions and all thy wayes and paths which thou hast walked in have been sinfull wayes and paths and therefore now after thy iniquity woe be unto thee Ezek. 16. 23. Woe be unto thee indeed saith the Lord for thy sins have reached up to heaven and have raised the Lord of hosts out of his place Isa 33. 10. Now will I arise saith the Lord now will I be exalted now will I lift up my self behold now he is come down and is with thee to be exalted over thee and to recompense upon thee according to thy works Rev. 18. 5. For her sins have reached up to Heaven and God hath remembred her iniquity your wayes oh ye sons of men and all ye rulers of the Earth have been and are still Canaanitish wayes and ye have all run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward but in the end will perish in the gainsaying of Core Jude 11. ver Thy end is now begun I the end of your evill wayes oh Saints and worldlings is come up before the Lord and what do you think to doe for Job whom the Lord honored with the name of my servant and faithfull one and just in all his wayes yet though so when the Lord who is a God of so pure eyes that cannot behold iniquity did but once rise up Job feared with a saying What then shall I do Job 31. 14. When God ariseth up and when he visiteth what shall I answer him If the Sion of God do as it were fear what wilt thou do oh world then the Lord arises up to the prey and to gather thee for eternall ruine and to judge thee with an eternall Judgment attended with a just sentence and a just reward like thy works Oh all ye workers of iniquity and by the light of God ye shall see it and then your wailing will begin What ailest thou oh world for to waile why do ye not know oh ye blessed of the Lord the light of him who is your King and therefore raigneth over you and in you even he whom I scorned and rejected with a saying This man shall not rule over me hath wounded me to the heart by this light and this light by which he hath enlightned me carrieth me forward and backward backward and forward just as he did David after he had committed adultery with Beersheba and slew Vriah with the Sword he carrieth me backward to behold all my evill deeds which I have done and the many wounds that I have given him and you And also carrieth me forward to behold what once was offered me what mercies and what blessings what glory and what life what peace and what rest with an eternall salvation with your eternall King but now rejected of him by my own rebellious and scornfull denying of him and you and I behold all this by the light of God and this light of God causes me to waile with an everlasting wailing and therefore what condition can be like unto mine why no condition can be like unto thine for thou art doubly miserable and therefore shalt be doubly plagued by that light that shall come down from the Lord to shine upon thee Secondly from the Lords coming for to give rewards to his Saints what a plague will it be to thee oh world for to behold Gods Israel whom thou thoughtst not worthy to live nor yet the remembrance of them in the earth for to be that they so little esteemed of the earth among men should come to be cloathed with such glory and righteous robes and to be invested with all the glory of heaven called the glory of the father didst thou never hear of Mordecai and the royall cloathing he wore and the horse that he rid upon and the Crown Royall which was set upon his head and the Proclamation which was made before him by one of the most royallest Princes of that Court and of the ring that was put upon his finger this is a mysterious type these are the Lords Mordicai's that I now tell thee of and they shall all of them ride upon the wings of the Lords free grace ere long although thou now disesteemest of them and they shall have given them all manner of change of raiment called the white robes though for the present their cloathing is but ragged and filthy and an old cloathing thou art angry with them now and enviest them with thy very heart although they do but bear a dark Image of God and their light is but an imperfect light that they have yet O world And though their gifts knowledg and understanding be imperfect and their cloaths ragged yet thou hatest that in them they have Well thou shalt not hate this imperfect image long for the Lord is coming for to take them away and methinks I hear a voyce crying in my ears Take away take away take away these filthy rags Zach. 3. 3 4. And he spake to them that stood by him Take away those filthy Garments which they stand before the Angel withal they shall be suddenly taken away for that is the reason why Michael the Prince stands up that Arch-Angel and that is the reason why the breaker up is come up it is I say For to take away all our putrified and corrupt cloathing and upon the remove there will be trouble in thee O Israel And now they are risen it will not be long ere it is finished Dan. 9. 24. It is but as it were a seventy weeks before it shall be done seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy City to finish transgressions and to make an end of sin and to bring in everlasting righteousness This is a Mystery you have this Mystery opened in part in Heb. 9 28. unto them that look for him he shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation It will not be long ere this Scripture be fulfilled upon thee O Israel for thou art the City spoken of in Daniel The world is old and
to conquer all and so to overturn all and to break down all powers wayes and governments but let me tell you one thing you shall never have power to settle any thing for ye have not wisdom enough nor is it any of your work that is the Lords do you yours and let the Lord alone with his and take heed of abusing your power and corrupting of it with injustice if you do God will raise up a more refined power then yours and more just and conquer you who have been conquerors and send you to your graves in blood for this is the bloody age and when you are gone the Lord my King will arise and by his glorious light conquer the most just and most refined conquerers and so you shall all fall by the Sword of the Lord and the last power by the light of the some Lord in the day of the Lords spiritual and light appearing This is the cloudy day of the Lord and the day in which he judges men by the sword and therefore it is no more mans but the Lords Jer. 12. 12 The Spoylers are come up upon all high places and the sword of the Lord shall devoure from one end of the world to the other and no flesh shall have peace A second reason why the Lord comes with clouds and blood is this because his feet stand upon a place where much blood hath been spilt Rev. 17. 6. I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus You Kings and Rulers of the Earth you have spilt the blood of the Saints by your Law throughout the world And the Lord my King is come down to follow you throughout the world again for to give you a deadly draught and to avenge the blood of his Saints and so give you blood for blood Rev. 8. 6. In the cup which she hath filled fill to her the double to her utter ruine and perfect removing 14. ver and Rev. 16. 6. Oh nations the cup of the fierceness of the wrath of God is put into your hand by my King and I cannot but tell you of it You have drunke blood oh Kings for many an Age and now the Age is up and time fulfilled and you shall drink blood again oh Rulers and all people Isaiah 49. 25. I will contend with them that contend with thee I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunken with their own blood let me tell you oh Kings and all ye Rulers of the earth from the first day ye wore a Crown and had power put into your hand even unto this my day you have all along slain better then your selves and each one of them resembled the person of a King and now the Lord is come with Clouds to make inquiry who they were you slew you have the type in Judges 8. 18. Then said he unto Zeba and Zalmunna What manner of men were they whom you slew at Tabor And they answered as thou art so were they each one resembling the person of a King They were my brethren even the sons of my mother hadst thou saved them I would not have slain you Here is a mysterie but now the time of slaying is come slay I must This is the dispensation of the Lord throughout the world and all this ariseth from the Lords being Generall of all Armyes which are sanctified by him for this work Rev. 19. 11 12 13. v. And he was cloathed in a vesture dipt in blood ye have great trouble in the Earth and all ariseth this day from the Lords being come with clouds and by reason of his cloudie presence all Councels are darkned and all powers are broken down let them be powers temporall or spirituall as you call them and therefore the Lord hath it mentioned three times overturn overturn overturn untill he come whose right it is and he will give it him indeed it is my happiness that the Lord will do this for by this I know I shall in due time be perfect as my heavenly Father is perfect but for the present there is nothing in my heart nor in the world but that that is fit for ruine for truth is fallen in the street equity cannot enter into her kingdom nor the heart worldly wisdome is turned to folly Isaiah 29. 14. Spirituall and heavenly wisdome that is returned into the Fathers bosome Isaiah 41. 28. There is not a man no not yet a Counsellor among you all that is able to answer the Lord a word if he should ask you out of the Cloud what you are doing for he hath taken away all wisdome from you Is wisdome no more is Councell perished from the prudent is their wisdome vanished Jer. 49. 7. Yes the Lord hath destroyed all the wise men of the world or else turned their wisdome into foolishness Obadiah 8. verse Shall I not in that day destroy the wise men and the understanding men In what day oh Lord my King why in my cloudy day in a day which I come to recompense with an overturning all and making the earth empty and in turning all out of the world that is in it Isaiah 24. 1. I will make the earth empty make it waste and turne it upside down Oh! what haste the Lord maketh to finish his work in the world my King turneth and turneth removeth and scattereth and yet not a man takes notice of it and I beholding my father cannot but speak to you and therefore awake oh soules for me thinks I hear Israel begin to sing in this the cloudy day of God Isaiah 24. 14. They shall lift up their voice and shall sing for the Majestie of the Lord and shall cry aloud from the Sea but for thee oh world wisdome and understanding hath left thee and the Lord hath befooled all thy Counsels and put a spirit of fear into the heart of every man and whatsoever men do they do in fear and much trouble for this is the fearfull Age Hath not the Lord scattered all power being but corrupted tyrannicall beastly power so that there is no way left to save the kingdomes of the world no nor thee oh England but by another manner of power thou dreamest of but I see for that way by which the Lord once saved kingdomes is now become the only way to ruine kingdomes And by this you may see that this cloudie appearing of my Lord hath turned the world upside down this is the Lords unthroning day it is the Worlds-power-changing day and it is a flesh-ruining day and for this end the Lord is come out of his place with clouds for to punish the Inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity and to cause it to disclose its blood and therefore it shall no more cover the slain Isaiah 26. 21. At this Scripture in his fulfilling even in this our day the earth shakes and trembles Psal 18. 7. He hath made great divisions
John is a spirituall eye or ye may call it the eye of the Lord gone forth from the Lord to the works of his hands to behold their great Workman the Lord of hosts for nothing can behold the Lord but that which comes from the Lord I am apt to think that the eye which the Lord will open to all flesh in the day of his glorious light appearing will be the eye of the Understanding and my reason is this because that Paul saith that by that eye when once opened they shall know what is the hope of their calling what is the riches of his glory of his inheritance in his Saints Ephes 1. 18. Isa 41. 20. That we may see know and understand together and then shall they see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Sion and then shall we behold him as he is Hear Israel and ye gentile world too for ye are both brought in hear Israel the first sight that thou shalt have of thy King will be a sad sight for thy wounded Saviour will be represented unto thee which thou hast wounded pierced and grieved all thy days but the time now of thy grieving him is almost up and he is coming out of cloudy dispensations for to cause thee by his light to see what thou art and what thou hast done and what a condition thou art in and when he hath carried thee hither and thither up and down here and there and shewed thee all thy abominations and all thy idols and imaginary religious Exercises as he did to Ezekiel in Jerusalem and in the Temple there Ezek. 8. 5 6 9 10 11. and so to the end of the Chapter that is a Gospel type we may read there what our condition is for thou art the Temple of God and this Temple of the Lord is defiled with all maner of unclean things O thou Temple of the Lord there is great abomination in thee spiritual abomination mysterious abominations and there dwells in thee thou canst not tell what for every thing that bears not the image of the Lord is sin upon thee and thou art defiled with all maner of unclean things with an unclean heart an unclean minde an unclean conversation O how death is written upon all thy labors and ways rathen then life Behold therefore the Lord is come down for to open an eye to thee wherewith thou shalt see all that thou hast done to be wicked fleshly and nought The first sight will be a sorrowful sight but after sorrow comes joy Israel the Lord will first open thy eye because judgment shall begin first with thee yea this spiritual judgment The Lord will first search thee with candles and after thee then thy enemies thou shalt see first because thou shalt rise first nay dost not thou begin to see for methinks the clouds begin to break if not what 's the reason of so much strange noyses among the Sion of God was there ever heard or seen the like that is in this our age what distress what blasphemies what cursings These days are the last days these days are the blaspheming days I tremble to think how all the world is and will be filled with blasphemy Revel 13. 5. 7. 3. 16. 9 11 21. Here is trouble indeed to the purpose war was but the beginning and this shall be the end and when ended never trouble more shall come neer thee O Israel for thou shalt see thy King ere long with great joy and with such a beholding of him as thou never yet didst behold him withall and by this thy beholding of him thou shalt goe forth and speak great things of his name to the consuming of all the world Ps 40. 3. And he shall put a new song into thy mouth even praise unto our God men shall see it and fear God will come and consume all within thee because thou shalt consume all without thee and make all fall before thee by the light and glory that God will cloath upon thee and all shall come unto thee in chaines and shall bow and make supplication unto thee and Ps 149. 8. To binde their Kings in Chaines 2 Thes 2 8. Whom he will consume with the Spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming all things below himself which destruction every one shall see and be convinced it is the Lord. Saints and worldlings your eyes shall be opened all ere long for to behold your selves first then the Lord after Israel the eye which the Lord will give unto thee shall as well behold all the glory of the fathers house as it did cause thee to behold all thy evill for this eye will carry thee into the secret chamber of God there to behold all the inside glory of thy father and thou shalt not only see it but be convinced all that is thine and laid up for thee of old yea and thine for to wear upon thy shoulders in the day when the Lord comes for to give reward unto his Saints and them that fear his name which day is hasting on amain and it will not be long ere thou seest thy King by the perfect light of God called the light of an eye And for thee oh world thou shalt have an eye opened unto thee by the Lord for to cause thee for to see him withall and so to convince thee of all thy evill wayes and of all thy evill deeds and hard speeches which thou hast moved withall towards his Israel You may all read your doome in Jude and hear there what the Lord saith He saith that the next appearing after the cloudy called the day of light or the day of Christ which day will be a day of conviction a day of enlightning throughout the world of good and bad a convincing day to all men of their wayes Jude 15. ver Therefore rejoyce oh Sion and fear oh world for the Lord is come near to Judgment and it will be a spirituall one attended with the spirituall light of God Isaiah 4. 4. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughter of Sion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem by the Spirit of Judgment and the spirit of burning This light of the Lord will be a reproving light a light which shall cause men to see and be ashamed and see and yet not be ashamed because he will bring a further wrath upon them it will be a reproving light John 16. 8. When he comes he will reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of judgment Oh the mighty great and unparallell fear that will fall upon all the world by reason of the light of God which shall break forth upon them for to behold the Lord withall and as they shall behold him so themselves too and reade their own charge and be their own Judges Math. 12. 33. For by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned That is by thy own
AN ALARM TO THE VVORLD OF THE Appearing of Sions KING OR A brief Discoverie of the foot-steps of the Lord upon EARTH Isaiah 24. 19. The Earth is utterly broken down the Earth is clean dissolved Matth. 25. 6. And at midnight there was a crie made behold the Bridegroome cometh goe ye out to meet him Rev. 16. 15. Behold I come as a thief blesed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and I see his shame LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spred-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1649. To the READER Honored Friend WHen thou openest this little Book for to travel through it if thou meetest with any thing that thy heart cannot close with as possibly thou mayst yet let thy heart respect thy friend who hath writ his heart to thee and watered the lines with his tears by reason of beholding the earth watered with blood I with the blood of Kings Princes and mighty ones of the Earth and yet further he will proceed in blood even to the horse bridles and what I have writ I have writ not respecting the person of any man but out of pure love to all and in love I have told you in part what you are and what I am my self and in part what will become of us all I have not written any thing in the least against Kings and powers with a grudging heart or a scorning of Kingly Authoritie but exceedingly honoring them all and by this it is manifest in giving you notice and warning of the great Kings coming who is the King of Kings and therefore will unthrone all Kings and overturn all Kingdomes and all powers and none but the Lords King and Kingdome shall stand Friend Thou wilt finde something written in a very mysterious way But time shall declare and dayes to come shall bring forth to the view and knolwedg of all every mysterious truth of God especially to them who are saved and called with a holy calling And therefore in the holy number if thou art one of the holy number thou art honored with a Princely name which name is Israel and it belongs as a gift given to the Princes of Israel to know the mysteries the very inside mysteries of the Kingdome of Heaven where Christ thy King hath dwelt ever since his ascending but now ready to be revealed in these our dayes being the last dayes of the last dayes in the which all things that are written shall be fulfilled even so Amen THOMAS BANASTER TO all Emperours Kings Princes Rulers Iudges Magistrates and Powers throughout the earth after what name or Title soever mentioned with all Ministers and people high low rich poore noble and ignoble and thou Israel amongst the rest throughout the whole inhabitable parts of the world do I send greeting with a word Behold the King of Kings is coming now with Clouds to visit you and by and by with light THOMAS BANASTER AN ALARM TO THE VVORLD OF THE Appearing of Sions KING Revelation 1. 7. verse Behold he cometh with Clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the Earth shall waile because of him even so Amen WHeresoever you finde the word behold written you finde something more then ordinary following it something very excellent very admirable and wonderfull and also something very terrifying and amazing by reason of the great destruction which attends it which things at their appearing let them be either joyous or grievous they will cause great admiration great wondering and great astonishment upon all people and paleness upon all faces here followeth this word behold joy peace rest salvation with eternall glory also fear trouble confusion plagues Judgments with eternal misery Therefore Hear ye dispisers and wonder and perish and hear ye Saints and in hearing rejoyce and blesse his name who is your King and coming now with clouds which appearing will cause great joy of heart and great sorrow of heart ye shall joy for joy of heart and they shall sorrow for sorrow of heart for here is life and death joy and peace hasting on apace for the Lords warning peece is shot off upon the world to give warning to the world of the coming of Jesus Christ and that there is such a thing reade Phil. 3. 20. Our conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for the Saviour Heb. 9. 28. And unto them that look for him he shall appear the second time c Titus 2. 13. Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God Revel 22. 20. Loe I come quickly even so come Lord Jesus This coming of Jesus Christ will be a coming to the purpose his second coming therefore hear ye sons and daughters of Jerusalem your King is come and yet coming still but it is a cloudy coming or appearing He that you have waited for so long and looked for with so many a long look with fetching of many a long sigh and groane and in the bottome of your sigh was written Lord when wilt thou appear why behold he is now coming to thee oh thou afflicted soul to ease thee of all thy troubles and to deliver thee from al thy many sufferings which thou hast suffered for this many thousand years by thy own evill heart and fleshly minde and also by wicked men which hated thee and thy King therefore now lift up your heads and cast sorrow from your heart for he that is your joy is descended the second time behold he cometh Here are three things considerable in these words first who it is that proclaims this news with a behold he cometh it is the Lord by the mouth of John Secondly what it is he proclaimes it is of the coming of Iesus Christ Sions King Thirdly to whom it is proclaimed it is to all the world good and bad godly and prophane and the reason why it is proclaimed to all is because all shall see him and every eye shall see him The first appearing of this King is a cloudy appearing and this cloudy appearing will be a dark tempestuous confused and destructive appearing and also bloudy and for the proofe of this read Isaiah 50. 3. Psal 97. 1. The Lord raignes let the earth rejoyce and the multitude of the Isles be glad thereof clouds and darkness are round about him and Psalm 18. 9. The Lord bowed the Heavens and came down and darkness was under his feet This Scripture is fulfilling in this your dayes the second time and then it will be finished The Lord raigns do not ye see and feel his power and if not why do ye tremble oh ye Inhabitants of the Earth Psalm 99. 1. The Lord raigneth let the people tremble and let the Earth be moved Ye finde it also in the Text and that cloudy raigning there mentioned or coming is now The Lord is entered his Throne upon Earth but entered with clouds and darkness and sits there with clouds and darkness round
about him There is a three-fold appearing of this King upon Earth for to be first with Clouds and that is now Secondly with his Spirit and that is neer the pouring forth Thirdly with the brightness of his coming 2. Thessalon 2. 8. Then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming And all these appearings will be in order according to the order of God and all of them destructive to the world and to all things below God and therefore the word Mystery is brought in The first appearing of this King upon the Throne is such a dark and cloudy appearing that he is scarce known to be there because his first appearing and power is a cloudy appearing and power but the second will be more light because spirituall and therefore more destructive then the cloudy And the third will be more excellent more powerfull then both because it will bring along with it the perfect brightness of your King and a perfect brightness of his glory shining out to the view of all the world which glory will not only consume but destroy all seeming glorious good and excellent things I say the first appearing of this King is so dark and cloudy that it is hard to be known whether he be come to sit upon the throne of Judgment or no and the reason why the Lord comes first with clouds is because he taketh great delight to let his Israel know first of him and where he is whether in the place he spake of returning to Hosea 5. 15. or whether risen out of his holy habitation Zecha 2. 13. Be silent oh all flesh before the Lord for this my Lord the King is risen up out of his holy habitation and that the Lord lets some of his Israel know and understand where he is whether come down or not come down witness Noah Genesis 6. 13. witness Abraham Genesis 18. 17 18. Witness Lot Gen. 19. 12 13. witness all the Prophets and among the rest Huldah 2 Cron. 34. 22. And witness Ezek. 4. 1. and 12. v. Witness Daniel Dan. 10. 14. and 21. Now I come to make thee understand what is noted in the Scripture of truth Witness the language of Paul 1 Thess 5. 4. But you bretheren are not in darkness that that day should take you as a thief witness John who saw by clouds the Lord coming to Judgment and witness oh thou my soul to the coming of Jesus thy King and long-lookt-for Lord and Saviour but let me tell you one thing by the way and that is this the Lord hath yet Messengers for to raise up and to send forth which Messengers mouths he will fill largely with good news and that with great power too and the news will be this behold your King Isaiah 52. 7. But his appearing as yet is but a dark and cloudie appearing so his Messengers dark and cloudie Messengers see what order there is in the goings of this King look to it worldlings and watch ye Saints for the Lord my King is risen out of his holy habitation Jer. 25. 30 33. The Lord shall roare from on high and utter his voyce from his holy habitation I must say the Lord does the word shall is forgotten with my King and the word does is come in the roome of it therefore be silent oh all flesh before the Lord for he hath a controversie with you all and he is in this your day come downe to put an end to the controversie Jer. 30. A noyse shall come even to the ends of the Earth for the Lord hath a controversie with the nations he will plead with all flesh and give them that are wicked to the Sword and they shall pass from end to end why the noyse is come and the controversie is in dispute what do not ye hear the voice of God he calleth to you all not one is excepted that is this day in the world and the voice is Hear oh ye Priest and hearken ye house of the Kings and give ear oh ye house of Israel Hosea 5. 1. Here is Kings Priests and Israel I must put in one number more that is all ye people of the world because the Lord is come to end his controversie with all flesh therefore not one shall escape no not Kings and for you oh Emperors Kings and Rulers and Princes of the earth I must tell you one sad thing you and your names are dying and your Crowns are taking off from your heads throughout the world and the Saints King Jesus by name the ancient of dayes Son the Lord of Hosts righteous Branch he shall be set up King in your rooms And that 's the reason why he is coming now with clouds and it will not be long ere all the Kingdoms of the world be broken down nay they are in this your day ruining by the King of Kings Dan. 2. 44. In the day of these Kings shall the God of heaven set up a Kingdom which shal break in pieces all other Kingdoms Where do you think to stand O wordlings who have made gods of earthly Kings ye and your gods are fallen like the Philistims false gods and shall never be remembred more I must confess with you God by his own providence suffered Kings in the earth for to be and caused them there for to reign but now their reign is almost up and their glory is almost at an end and when it is not almost but altogether up then the Lord will do to you as he did to Nebucadnezar let me tell you O Kings you are all weighed in the ballance of the King of Kings and being weighed you are found too light and I hear a voice from the Lord saying to you all as the Lord said to Belshazer The Kingdoms are departing from you and are to be divided among them who are more fit to reign then you a great deal this a mystery to you Dan. 4. 31. Dan 5. 20. The Lord is come to unthrone you all O Kings and that is the judgment of the Lord upon you in this your day but doth that he doth after a cloudy manner that you cannot understand nor see and therefore you contend for your Crown still but the Lord will conquer you and therefore is he risen to unthroan all Haggai 2. 22. I will overthrow the Throan of Kingdoms and bring down the power of Nations and their riders shall come down every one by the sword of his brother Take notice how they shall come down and see if the Lord be not risen to pull down all powers hear again what the Lord saith and in his word manifests that he regards no power but that that is righteous and just like himself and if they be not so he will unthroan them all and therefore it is he is come Eze. 21. 25. your day is come all ye Rulers of the earth in the which your iniquity shall
have an end therefore thus saith the Lord remove the Diadem take off the Crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high for I will overturn overturn overturn and it shall be no more untill he come whose right all is Let me tell you all that are in power let it be kingly or not kingly you shall all be overturned and for the Kings of the earth if they were once as the signet upon the Lords right hand yet now their time is come of being pluckt from thence Oh how all the world startles at the footsteps of the Lord upon earth being they are cloudy dark bloody and tempestuous steps indeed well ye may fear when the Lord appears surrounded with clouds and tempests who is he that will not fear and be in great trouble in that day why this is the day Psal 50. 3. Our God is come ye must now reade it the verse indeed runs Our God shall come and shall not keep silence a fire shall devoure before him and it shall be tempestuous round about him Esay 30. 30. The Lord shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard and shall shew the lightning down of his arm with indignation of his anger with the flames of devouring fire scattering hail-stones and tempests you know clouds are the forerunners of storms and tempests and this the cloudy appearing of the Lord hath caused for to be great storms and amongst many one is this the storm of war Esay 3. 25. Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in the war Is it not thus let me tell you the war that is now in the world is the war that Christ spake of long ago and that was the war of wars though not the first yet the last war and that war is the confused and unnaturall war a war having many divisions in it Luke 12. 51 52 53 here is division upon division the father and the son the mother and the daughter each one against the other and a war that causeth most to be offended Matt. 24. 10. Then shall many be offended and betray one another and hate one another it is an iniquity-abounding war verse 12. great tribulation attending of it vers 21. This shall be in the day of the Son of man how is it that ye do not discern this time you shall hear of wars saith Christ but not only kingdom against kingdom but kingdoms divided Cities Towns and Families divided and divisions in every mans heart too as well as in the kingdoms Hear all once more The Lord is come down with a sword in his hand which sword hath a long time been bathed in heaven and now it is fallen upon every accursed thing or upon the people of his Curse Esa 34. 5. Come near O Nations and hear Kings Priests and People and thou Israel for you are all turned out of the way and now the Lord hath met with you look how every man comes bleeding back some die in the place where the Lord met them and some falne by the way in their retreat We have all turned aside from the Lord and therefore wo be unto us Esay 10. 1 2 3 4. Wo be unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and turn aside the needy from judgment and take away the right from the poor that widows may be their prey O how is this Scripture fulfilled in this our age therefore all our glory is like to come down nay it is falling it is falling it is falling for the Sword is drawn I must call it the Sword of the Lord the Lords sacrificing Sword which will not regard neither Kings Priests nor People because all are falne from the Lord Jer. 6. 13. For from the least of them to the greatest from the People even unto the Priest all are given unto covetousness Israel thou art not out of the number the Lord hath a controversie with you among the rest Hosea 4. 1 2 3. Hear the word of the Lord ye are all unclean and a polluted generation fit for nothing but to fall by the Sword of the Lord and to be devoured by the fire of his jealousie not regarding Kings Ezec. 39. 18. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the earth every one hath taken of the accursed thing and every one shall drink of the bloud which his bathed Sword lets out and therefore the Lord hath called for a Sword Esa 13. 3. I have commanded my sanctified ones I have called my mighty ones for my anger vers 11. He will punish for iniquity and cause the proud to cease vers 12. The Lord will make a man more precious then the fine gold behold this is the day the Sword of the Lords vengeance is come down in this the day of the Lords vengeance and in the year of the recompence of the controversie of Sion therefore behold the day of the Lord God of Hoasts the day of his vengance a day of wrath a day of trouble of distress of wastings of clouds of thick darkness that no man knows where he is for every man walks up and down like blind men that is the reason that every man runs upon the sword of his brother friends All things and all powers and all practises are corrupt and perfectly corrupt and this cloudy power is to destroy them and now being come destroy he will and that Nations not a few and for that end the Lord hath called for a Sword and this Sword shall enter into all the inhabitable parts of the earth Me thinks I see where the Lord hath called up his sanctified ones and I hear him still calling them up in all the kingdoms of the world and ere long you shall hear of the Sword of the Lord being drawn and sheathed in the sides of all Kingdoms by a civill war England thou hast begun to drink blood and thou shalt yet drink one draught more to all the world and they shall pledge thee round in a bowl of blood again for the Lord will give them all blood to drink therefore Hear all ye sanctified ones of the Lord whom he hath called up to offer up a sacrifice of blood in what Nation or Kingdom so ever you are Esay 13. 3. Esay 54. 16. The Lord hath created you for to destroy and called you to do that that never was done and to unthroan that never was unthroaned throughout the world yea and that quickly Jer. 25. 26. And all the Kings of the North far and neer one with another and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the face of the earth wherefore look now on your left side for there I suppose is a sword it is the Lords bathed sword his sacrificing sword the sword of the Lords vengance turn you whether you will ye shall never be prevailed against so as to be conquered by a sword of steel of the world you shall have power
in the world great commotions there are troubles and fears shakings and tremblings hearts-failings and faith-dying the whole land is barren of faith the way of truth is hid Wit that hath hid it selfe and understanding hath withdrawn it self into its secret chamber indeed it is sought of many but not found for unrighteousness and unconstancy prospereth upon earth Friends the world is grown very weak by reason of age and therefore needs must the evils be very great that are upon it I and so they are for my heart can say Amen to this evill world These are the evill dayes the perilous dayes the sin-multiplying dayes dayes in which the word do violence to no man is forgotten and for love in the spirit it cannot be found in neither kingdome nor heart Judgment and Justice with all the other righteous streames is departed and run sarre away from Kings Princes Rulers Judges Magistrates Priests people and from thee oh Israel too and therefore the Lord is come down to destroy all Jer. 7. 28. Oh England thou art the nation of all nations that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord Isa 59 3 4. and so along to the 15. ver Your hands oh people throughout the Land are defiled with blood your fingers with iniquity your lips speak nothing but lies not a man in thee oh England acts in a just way not any plead for truth The way of peace ye know not there is no Judgment in your goings ye grope like blinde men and are in desolate places as dead men sin and iniquity is grown almost to the height in thee oh Land and therefore now behold the Lord Isa 59. 16 17. I saw and there was no man and therefore behold I the Lord will put on righteousness as a breast plate with salvation and vengeance for to repay every man Ye have lost all oh ye Kings and Rulers people and Ministers of all Lands for Gospel-light and truth is taken away by the Lord from you as well as judgment justice and righteousness from Kings and Rulers Isaiah 29. 10 11. The vision of all is become unto you as a book sealed Hear oh ye Ministers your gifts are perished and quite blasted and your sheep are scattered Hosea 4. 6. Think what you will your gifts are perished although you may say it is not so Jer. 18. 18. Ye and 〈◊〉 gifts are lost and the judgment of the Lord is upon you as well as upon Kings and Rulers for the night of darkness which the Lord spake of long agoe is fallen upon you all and darkness hath covered you all even thick darkness Micah 3. 6 7. Here is mischief upon mischief to the purpose Ezek. 7. 26. Kings Priests and people and thou oh Israel ye are all turned backward The wise men shall be turned backward so that the way of truth and Gospel-light is hid from you all your condition hath been a perishing condition many hundred years Prov. 29 18. Where there is no vision the people perish The word of the Lord is a precious thing and it is grown very precious amongst us Ruling in judgment is very precious Magistracy according to the order of God is very precious too for I know not where it is There is a perfect losse of all Iustice and Iudgment righteousness and truth there is a famine upon you all Kings and Rulers they are famished and lost in their judgment Ministers and people they are famished too for the Gospel-knowledg of the Lord which is bread indeed is taken by the Lord from you all yea and my very pen speaks out to you all that I am one whose soul is half famished for want of bread what a cloudy day are we in it is no wonder to me to see the Lord come now with Clouds to overturn all because all is grown corrupt and fit for nothing else for the wisdome of both Kings Priests and people and thou oh Israel is all turned into folly our knowledg into ignorance and our light into darkness and our peace into trouble this is by reason of the Lords being come down for to fight against all Nations and all things and to plead with all flesh for with fire and with sword the Lord is now pleading with all flesh and the slain of the Lord are many and shall be more and the Lord is gathering all together for that end Zepha 3. 8. O world me thinks I hear a rumor from my Lord and I see an Embassadour which is sent from the Lord to all the world to tell them they must gather themselves together for ruine Esay 24. 22. And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered together Who why Kings and the host of the high ones that are on high The dayes in which we live are the Lords gathering dayes Joel 3. vers 2. The Lord does gather and that round the world and all Ploughshares are a beating into swords and Pruning-hooks into spears and you will see all kingdoms watered with blood ere long clouds full of blood and sea full of blood and the whole world full of blood too and a man shall come to be more precious then the golden wedge of Ophire therefore you that are for the sword and you that are for the famine to the famine and you that are for the pestilence to the pestilence for this is the great day of the Lord his dividing day his cloudy dividing day his cloudy gathering day and his cloudy ruining day your day is come O worldlings and now fall you must for you are but the left hand hoast of God the Lord hath two great hosts that have lived together many a day let them alone till the harvest saith Christ now the harvest is ready and therefore ye begin to fall I saw the hoast of heaven 1 King 22. 29. Here is two hoasts and these are called multitudes Joel 3. 14. And these multitudes are gathered together by the Lord into the valley of Jehosaphat and by reason of the multitudes it is turned into a valley decision all the world is turned into Jehosaphats valley or into a valley of decision in the world nay it is for the Lord is come and by his cloudy appearing hath made a great division in the world Thy King O Sion is come and the end of his coming is to take thee from the enemies and the enemies from thee and the world from both and when this old world is gone thy kingdom and glory is gone O worldling the Lord is making great hast to remove you and for that end he is gathering you Ezeck 38. 14 15 16. In these verses they gather vers 18. the Lord rises up at vers 19. they shake at his rising and Israel also and they fall in Ezeck 39. 4. Thou maist read thy doom here O worldling ye are in gathering by the Lord and ye are and shall be slain by the Lord and his Israel do and shall go away conquerers and sing praises to
their King who hath taken to himself his great power and reigns although it be but with clouds and as his coming is a cloudy coming so his wrath that he poures forth is a cloudy wrath the day of the Lords wrath is come and yet still to come and it hasteth greatly thou hast outward temporall wrath falne upon thee from the Lord and therefore ye are intombed in your own blood the Lord hath waited long upon the world for their filling up the measures of their fathers wrath and now they are full the world is full of evill and darkness hands full and minds full and hearts full and now behold he is come to recompence wickedness filled up to the brim with plagues filled up to the brim and my King hath begun with the plague of the sword called by the name of a Sicle Joel 3. 13. and in verse 9. A Sword you wonder a at these strange things that befall you and you say in your trouble you think the world is almost at an end why thy world O worlding is almost at an end it shakes mightily it reels apace and would quickly fall were but thy doom read to thee you shall receive your doom here and sentence in this world where you have passed sentence upon so many of the Lords heritage thy sentence hath been upon them Let them die the death Psal 94. 21. They gathered themselves together against the souls of the righteous and condemned the innocent blood the very same sentence is passed upon thee from the Lord with a wo Esay 33. 1. Wo to thee that spoilest and wast not spoiled and Esay 54. 17. wo be to you indeed for you have risen up against the Lords heritage and now the Lord is risen up against you you have judged the Fathers beloved many thousand years and he is now come for to judg you and the first Judgment is this a wounding you all with a taking peace rest and quietness from you and so taking that you shall never see it more because the day of the Lord is come the day which thou hast so long desired with a praying Thy kingdom come Thy will be done and Hallowed be thy Name thou mayst now it may be call to minde what you have said all of you and whom you are angry with how many times have you said Hallowed by thy Name Thy kingdom come you little know what you said and what you desired you prayed for the Lord to come and glorifie his name which you and I and all the world have prophaned all our dayes and you prayed for the Lords Power Justice and Judgments to fall upon you behold it is come according to your desire although it be with clouds and that is the reason why Kings fall and lose their Crowns and Thrones too the Lord the Lord of hoasts my King whose possession all the kingdoms are is come and earthly Kings have do and shall perfectly fall before him for all kingdoms are the Lords and he is now come for to take possession of them Dan. 7. 13 14. Behold one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of dayes and there was given to him dominion glory and a kingdom what wilt thou do O world now thy long desire is granted or where will ye stand the Saints fear and are so moved they cannot tell where to stand Mal. 3. 2. But who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appeareth Behold he is come and you are doubly miserable by it and in a worse condition then ever you were for there went out a wo against you long ago for this thy desire Amos 5. 18. Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord for the day of the Lord is darkness and not light even very dark and no brightness in it therefore what profit hast thou by it but rather trouble fear with great astonishments and sorrow added and in stead of a Lyon a Lyon and a Bear and a Serpent too for to bite and to tear and who shall deliver you out of his hand you are hurt and in trouble and yet you cannot tell who hurt you why it is the Lord and nothing but the Lord and he is come for to gather you for destruction the day of the Lords gathering is the day of the worlds reeling too and fro Esay 24. 19. The earth reels too and fro I must reade it and is removing like a Cottage and the transgressions thereof are heavie upon it and shall fall and never rise again there are great breakings up and great cries in verse 11. and the 21. the Lord punishes the Lord is risen to the pray do you not hear the sound of his feet nay ye do not only hear but feel not only feel but see and yet ye cannot tell that the Lord is come down and that is your plague Mich. 1. 3. Behold the Lord cometh forth out of his place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth and the mountains shall be moulten under him you are all in great trouble and in fear and you would fain know what the meaning of it is and to what it will grow thus much is the meaning of all your trouble it telleth you the Lord and Sions King is come down upon the earth and by reason of his presence the earth shakes and fears and trembles I and sinks under him being not able to bear his weight nor to behold his cloudy presence indeed it is impossible but that it should fear for the breaker up is come up and hath broke up Mich. 2. 13. And Michael the Prince stands up and my Lord is risen and your King is before you O Saints this is a mystery Dan. 12. 1. And there is now come and for to come still such a time of trouble as never was for that must be shaken ye and is shaking that never was shaken and that must be removed that never was removed because that that is to be brought to my Father is that that never yet was brought heaven and earth must be removed before thy glory shall come to thee O Israel Oh how heaven and earth does shake at this the cloudy appearing of Jesus Christ Friends where are you all where do you now stand in this the day of the Lords shaking heaven and earth let me tell you one thing in a mystery again all are risen out of their seat in heaven because of the great shaking there and all are risen out of their seat on earth and dare not sit any longer there because of the great shaking there Behold I shake heaven and earth sea and dry land all Nations and then the desire of all Nations shall come and fill ye all O ye Israel with his glory Hag. 2. 6. Heb. 12. 26. Oh what a shaking is there of both things visible and invisible there is a leaving strong holds visible and a leaving
strong holds invisible let me tell you one thing more the shaking of heaven and of earth is so great that the Sion of God for whose sake all this is are but as when a standard-bearer fainteth and for their sakes these dayes shall be shortned Isa 10. 17 18. Oh what fear and trembling is there seised upon the spirits of all the Israel of God who is able to behold his cloudy presence Zeph. 3. 16. When I heard my belly trembled my lips quivered at the voyce rottennesse entered into my bones I trembled in my self I that I might rest in the day of trouble when he cometh up unto the people he will invade them with his troops The Lord in this our day is invading all lands and his coming is with clouds chuse whether ye will believe it or no and this his cloudy power hath and will all fall upon powers let them be powers Kingly or powers Parliamentary or power by Sword ye must all fall but the power of the sword shal be the last that shal be destroyed I mean the last visible power this cloudy power of the Lord is falne upon all your Idols temporall and spirituall and high time it is for all lands are full of Idols and every man boweth to them Esay 2. 8. 9. The lofty look of man shall be humbled and the Lord alone shall be exalted and ye shall cast away your Idols of silver and gold and hide your selves if you could tell where for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty This day is the day of the Lord and yet alas ye are all so blinde that ye look for peace and what have you for to do with peace are not ye all of the earth have ye not all a wicked earthly minde and an evil idolatrous heart and an earthly god called the god of this world which god of this world hath blinded your eyes that ye cannot tell what the Lord is doing ye look for peace and that is taken from the earth Rev. 6. 4. And there went out another horse that was red and power was given to him that sate thereon to take peace from the earth and that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword England what saist thou to this and now therefore behold trouble and trouble is most fittest for you all O world thou hast been a troubler of the Lords heritage and O Israel thou hast been a troubler of thy Father and that made him return to his own place thou O world hast been a wonder unto death the fathers beloved in stead of pleading their cause and now the Lord is come to plead the cause of his heritage himself and for thee O Israel thy life hath been so wicked and so grieving to the Spirit of God so that thy long continuance in this thy spirit-grieving way hath wounded thy King to death in thee and the life which thou now livest is a dead life wounded I say thou hast thy dear Lord Zach. 13. 6. What are these wounds in thy hand these are the wounds which were given me in the house of my friend Zach. 12. 10. The world hath wounded Christ and his members have wounded him and behold now the Lord is risen and come down for to wound and never heal and yet for to wound and to heal that is for to pull down and to build to pull down and to destroy all both Kings Priests People and thee O Israel and to take away from us that which we are very loath for to lose but lose it we must being got into the cloudy day of God and if Noah Daniel and Iob were in these our dayes they should save but their own souls Ezek. 14. 17. and 21. vers Behold the Lord is come do not ye hear his sound yet how long shall the Trumpet blow O sleepers ere ye will awake the Lord is come down and walks up and down the earth and not a man heareth him or seeth him this is a mystery ye are certainly asleep O souls Kings Priests People yea and Israel too and that lulled asleep by the Devill into a heart-sleep and when the heart is once asleep the cloudy appearing of Jesus Christ cannot awaken it and a heart-sleep is within one step of the sleep of eternall death and if ye lie a little longer O all ye people of the world Lord have mercy upon you may be written upon all your doors for my King will pass by and enter into his Fathers kingdom with all his Princes and then for to awake will be too late what not yet cannot ye behold my King nor see him why you shall for the clouds shall be taken away and therefore the words run with every eye shall see him And every eye shall see him The second appearing of my King will be a spirituall appearing and so a spirituall destruction shall attend this spirituall appearing that is a destruction attended with much light therefore the word Every eye is brought in when this cloudy appearing of Jesus Christ is finished then comes this spiritual appearing of the Lord for to destroy that the cloudy appearing of my King could not do which spirituall appearing will cause all flesh for to tremble doubly and out of trembling fear and out of fear flie to the mountains hills and great rocks for to hide themselves from the presence of the Lord Rev. 6. 16 17. But let me tell you there will not be a mountain nor a hill left in all the world to hide thee from the presence of the Lord for that is the reason why the Lord comes first with clouds and darkness to remove every mountain and hill and every hiding place that you shall have no where to go for shelter for the Lord will make bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the Nations Isa 52. 10. Oh what an exceeding light and glorious appearing of Jesus Christ will there be ere long for all eyes shall see and light shall burn and God will search all the world and all hearts too and cause them for to see and know what they are Isa 9. 5. Every battle of the Warrier is with a confused noise and garments rouled in blood This shall be with burning and fury of fire And Zeph. 1. 12. at that time I will search Jerusalem with candles and punish the men that are setled upon their lees and say in their heart the Lord will not do good neither will he do evill but you shall know ere long what the Lord will do when he cometh for to give you eyes to see withall that you never saw there are divers eyes the eyes of the body the eye of Reason the eye of Faith and the eye of the Understanding for the eye of the body you know it is a dim-sighted thing and cannot behold the Sun it is good for nothing but for to give light unto the body but this eye here spoken of by
mouth thou shalt be judged either for salvation or damnation and therefore Christ saith The words that I have spoken and you have rejected shall judge you at the last day John 12. 48. You are got into the last dayes yea unto the last dayes of the last dayes that is into the half time Daniel spake of and that half time is almost out too Oh world and therefore a spirituall judgment is near to be revealed to us all And the words that Christ hath spoken shall judge us all that is God will open the eye of the understanding of all by his spirituall light by the which light you shall know and see what you did reject and what you have done in rejecting and also what Christ said and how you all have answered him again and also how you have lived and you shall need no other Judge then the light of God which shall shine upon your understanding and consciences for that shall give you light into all your wayes in the which ye have walked and this your enlightned understanding and convinced consciences shall condemne you all that is all flesh There is a mysterie John 8. 9. And they that heard it being convinced in their consciences went out one by one their consciences bearing witness again Romans 2. 15. Their consciences also bearing witness and their thoughts the meane while either accusing or excusing and a convinced conscience either of good or bad lyeth in the understanding being enlightned your understanding and consciences oh Saints and worldlings is all the book that God needs to use in the day of his spirituall judging of you and behold he is coming to Judgment and every eye shall see by this light of God every one shall be saved that have part in the first resurrection and by the same light every one shall be destroyed that have not part in him so that this light of God will bring salvation and destruction both at one time unto the two hoasts that stand at the right and left hand of God Isa 33. 4 5. The sinners in Sion are afraid fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites and who among us shall dwell with devouring fire reade one of the next verses and it tels you who shall and who shall not the Lord is come and coming still for to destroy and yet to save and that 's the reason why all flesh doth so fear Ezek. 39. 21. I will set my glory among the heathen and all the heathen shall see my Judgments that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them Isa 66. 14. The hand of the Lord shall be known towards his servants and his judgments towards his enemies ye shall not only have judgment but see the judgment of the Lord upon you yea eat your own flesh and drink your own blood and the Lord will come for to open your eyes for to see it And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together Isa 40. 5. And again that they may see know and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this you shall see the Lord oh ye nations ere long in his Saints with great power for to consume thee oh world and all that is in it that will be the next dispensation of God after the cloudy Sion stand up now and rejoyce for thou hast almost received double for all thy sins Isaiah 40. 2. Therefore comfort thy self in thy God for my King is very near bringing double joy double peace double rest and double glory with a double spirituall power Isaiah 61. 7. And all shall be thine and therefore gather to thee And the reason is because the Lord will glorifie the house of his glory and all shall call thee the City of the Lord the Sion of the holy one of Israel for the Lord will give thee such a spirituall power that by that power thou shalt consume all the wicked in thee so that no oppressor shall passe through thee any more Zach. 9. 8. And I will encamp about my house because of the Army and because of him that passeth by and because of him that returneth and no oppressor shall pass through thee any more for now have I seen with my eyes this is a mystery the light of God is a consuming and a destroying light Isaiah 11. 4. Hear oh world your fall is begun for your Prince that is your leader is wounded by the light of God and so wounded that he bleeds all the way he goes and so he will untill he hath bled himself to death for the wound that is given him is an uncurable wound for it is given him by a mighty Prince called the Lion of the Tribe of Judah Sions King and your terrible Judge and from this arises all your fear and you know it not Oh who shall stand before this great Judge when he cometh out of Clouds into light to judge with light and glory why this the Lord is coming near withall and the day of the Lords light will be the day of the Lords dividing Joel 3. 14. Or the day of the Lords great separating not only a dividing or separating the powers of evill men far from you oh Saints or you from them but a dividing or separating two ancient warriers flesh and Spirit so that you shall never learn war more Why oh soul thou shalt never learn war more for the Lord who is thy King will conquer all thy inside enemies as well as thy outside enemies and there shall be a great valley between ye both and that is the reason why he comes with his glorious light for to destroy all and then for to make known all to you Israel thou hast been a long time under a vaile the which vaile so covered thy fathers glory that ye could not see nor yet discern him but now ye shall very suddenly for it is neer taking away Isaiah 25. 7. And he will destroy in this Mountain the face of the covering cast over all people and the vaile that is spread over all Nations A spirituall light brings a spirituall discerning along with it Malachi 3. 18. Then shall ye return and discern and Isaiah 14. 16. And they that see shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying Is this the man Thy eyes shall be opened too oh world and thou shalt see and know what Israel is thou shalt know the Lords Sion but with another manner of knowledge then ever yet thou knewest them withall and by that sight thou shalt confess this is the seed which God hath blessed Isa 69. 1. And as the light of the Lord in thee causes thee to know his Israel so the light of the Lord in them shall destroy thee as well as that in them that bears not his image and therefore is but stubble and not fit for any thing but to to be destroyed by the light of God Isa 10. 17. 18. And the light of Israel shall be
for a fire and his holy one for a flame and it shall burne and devoure his thornes and briars in one day And as the Lord hath wounded the Prince of evill powers so he hath wounded you all and is revenging the blood of his Saints Land the Lord is come for to make a full end of all things but first with Clouds and by and by with light for all shall be destroyed by the light of God and I cannot but out of pure love give you warning of it look therefore oh world about you cannot ye see him yet is Israels cloud between you and the Lord that ye cannot behold the Lord why the light of God will cause the clouds to remove and then woe to be you And they also which pierced him Hear ye despisers and piercers of the Lords Sion I will tell you what you have done you have pierced the most precious Jewels the Lord hath and pierced them so deep that the wound is gone through the very side of God And he is now coming for to open thy eyes to cause thee to see the many wounds that thou hast given him and them and when that is represented you shall see your selves wounded with a deadly and eternall wound even unto death and yet never for to die in dying thou shalt dye and yet not dy Revel 9. 6. And in those dayes men shall seek death and shall not finde it for the light of God will keep them alive for ever and ever thy fall will be very great Oh worldling although you be as the Sunne of the morning how art thou cutting down to the ground which didst once weaken the Nations and thou art in casting out of the grave of security where thou hast lived and layen in peace for many an Age. Therefore hear ye sufferers for the Lord he hath recorded thy sufferings in his book and them that pierced thee hath he in remembrance and behold he is coming to reward upon them the evill of their own wayes and will plead with them here for thee I he will plead with all thy enemies temporall and spirituall inside and outside ones he remembers them all and all shall fall and never rise more I and that quickly for the great day of the Lord is coming on amain cannot yee see hear nor take notice of the Lords goings which proclaims to all the world that he is coming ye are angry and ye cannot tell with what ye are displeased and ye cannot tell with whom and the Lord is now coming to tell you it is with himself that you are offended There is a generation that must be offended being out of the holy number and therefore not honoured with that princely name Israel so having no lot in the holy land and therefore no entrance into the princely and heavenly Court into which Christ is coming for to gather all his up into by the light of his father Great will be thy joy oh soul who art boloved of God when this light of God hath not only purified thee but carried thee into the Court and mansion of heaven and set thee down there with thy father and thy King Jesus who is now come with Clouds and by and by with light watch ye therefore all ye sons of Sion And all kindreds of the Earth shall waile because of him even so Amen Oh the unspeakable walling and crying out there will be ere long I even tremble to think how the earth will ring with the cries of enlightned soules which have the light of God given them for no other end then to be an eternall plague unto them great crying because of great wrath and this great wrath will cause great anger to ceaze upon your spirits And your anger will arise from two causes first from the Lords coming to judge thee by the light of himself in thee Secondly by the Lords coming for to give rewards unto his Saints and to them that fear his name First from the Lords appearing for to judge you by the light of God in you The day of the Lords appearing will be a day of great trouble because it will be an eternall appearing an appearing that shall bring along with it eternall light eternall darkness with an eternall death too Isa 8. 22. And they shall look unto the Earth and behold trouble and darkness and dimness of an anguish and they shall be driven into darkness As eternall light eternall darkness with eternall death makes up but an eternall plagues so eternall light eternall life eternall joy eternall peace and an eternall glory with an eternall knowing of God as he is in himself makes up an eternall salvation to the saved ones of God Worldlings where are you what are you doing are ye filling up the measures of your fathers wrath fuller yet why make hast for my King cannot come with a light called the light of an eye untill you have finished the works of darkness and if I be not mistaken you have almost if not altogether finished your work for Sions King and your terrible Judge makes hast to come away and me thinks I hear you begin to waile but if not waile you are filled with much trouble fear and anger which is within one step of wailing the next sight of my King will make you waile then farewell all your honors rich treasures and worldly enjoyments for all are condemned to dye already and then they leave thee and thou must leave them I say trouble fear and anger ye have in your hearts and your hearts full of it but ye cannot tell what is the cause of it nor from whence it ariseth I will tell thee First from the Lords coming to judge thee and thy Judgment is begun but it is a cloudy judgment that is an unseen and an unknown judgment if it were made known to thee by the light of the Lord what the Lord is adoing and going still about for to do to thee and what hast he makes untill he hath done thou wouldest not only fear but waile and let me tell thee one thing over again all thy glory wisdom riches honor and delight with all thy other injoyments are condemned by the Lord of the whole Earth for to dy the death nay they are dead and that is the reason thou hast so little comfort in the world in this thy age There is a great change made instead of a sweet smell there is a stinke and instead of a girdle a rent instead of well-set haire baldness and instead of a stomacher a girding with sackcloth and burning instead of beauty so that all is out of order by reason of the cloudy day of God and when once the Lord appeareth with light then will thy wailing begin but never end because the light that God will give thee will be a light that will never goe out Rev. 14. 11. And the smoak of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no rest day nor night
the Cities of the Nations are old too and therefore every thing is stepping his last step and looking his last look and a joying his last joy and in speaking his last words and in breathing out his last breath O World thou art dying thou art dying and all within thee too for the end of all things is at hand I and the beginning of all things is at hand the beginning of a new look a new joy and so a new enjoyment a new song called the song of the Lamb a new language even the holy Language of Heaven a new righteousness a new peace a new salvation a new glory a new breath a new life even the holy Life of God therefore what will thou do O World I cannot but weep for thee for the Bride and the Bridegroom will meet ere long and then there will be no room for thee among them The Bride by the power and light of the Lord is a making her self ready understand it if thou canst for it is a Scripture phrase and the Bride shall be made as fit a bride for the bridegroom as the bridegroom is for the bride and then meet they shall and shall be both as glorious and comely as all the glory in Heaven and Earth can make them and they shall wear this the inside perfect glory of the Father in thy sight and this shall be one of thy plagues I say that the children of the light will have a glorious white robe given them and they shall wear this their robe in thy sight being the children of the day 2 Thes 5. 5. And for thee O World thou art not so in the dark but that the Lord can and will enlighten thee to behold Sions glory and therefore he saith Every eye shall see him I thou shalt see him and them Why who shall we see you blessed of God why you shall behold the bride and the bridegroom that is Christ and his Saints the King and his Subjects the Father and the Children the Head and the Members the King and the Kings the lover and the beloved both cloathed with one glory from the Father of glory and then the desire of the Lord my King will be fulfilled Father make them one as thou and I am one John 17. 21 22 23 24. Pray reade there O Israel and that will tell thee what condition thou wilt be in ere long for the height and breadth depth and length of the love of Christ shall be known to you and ye shall be filled with the fulness of God How dost thou like this O World I must tell thee one thing more and when that one thing comes to be fulfilled it will be as an Arrow in thy heart and so a hearty plague upon thee for thou shalt know and see all this by the light of God but shalt receive no more of it to thy comfort then that Lord did which stood in the gate of Samaria after that long destructive siege was raised and that bread was to be had who was trodden down in the gate and died he saw indeed but never tasted of it read 2 Kings 7. 2 19 â—0 Thou shalt see it with thy eyes but shalt not eat thereof So O World thou mayest stand without the gate or at the gate and look in and see the glorified ones of God but never enter in for to joy with them for thou art the dog and without are dogs Rev. 22. 15. within is perfect joy without perfect wailing and the Word telleth you That the Reason of the Worlds wailing will be by reason of the appearing of Jesus Christ in his brightness The cloudy appearing of Jesus Christ is a dark appearing and a dark appearing is an unseen and an unknown appearing to all men as men and what the eye seeth not the heart grieveth not for that 's a common phrase among you but you shall have eyes given you for to see the Lord withal and then the sight of him will cause wailing in you The Lords wrath is begun with clouds but shall end with light the Spiritual light of God and then thy plagues will be perfected The Lord hath waited upon you long O Kings Princes Rulers Magistrates and all ye powers of the earth after what name or title soever mentioned with all ye Ministers and people I say my King hath waited upon you very long and suffered you to fill up your wickedness and to make measure up to the brim and when thou hast done Sions King will begin with a saying Put in the sickle for the harvest is ripe get ye down for the fat is overflown their wickedness is great and come to perfection and wickedness perfected will be recompenced with plagues perfected The Lord hath begun to pour out his vials of plagues upon thee O World and he will never leave pouring out until he hath perfected them all for there is a perfection of plagues as well as a perfection of beauty there is a full knowing all miseries as well as a full knowing all mysteries and the time is hastening on apace by the Lord in the which both shall be known Therefore all ye powers of the earth make hast and do that ye do quickly for when you have poured forth all that you have to pour and fulfilled all that you have to fulfil upon Christ and his Members that you have no more to fulfil then the Lord will begin to pour out all that he hath to pour and to fulfil all that he hath to fulfil upon you that is All the plagues written in this Book Revel 22. 18. And when the Lord hath done all that he hath to do and fulfilled or poured forth upon you all that he hath to pour then ye shall be left in your misery for ever and then the word Even so Amen shall be finished upon you The word Even so Amen hath a joyful sound and a terrible sound Hear O Israel and ye Nations of the Earth hear ye Nations and all ye powers of the World Ye are fit for nothing but to be destroyed by the light of God your very actions speak out your destruction is neer at hand for death is written upon all your footsteps and the word Even so Amen will prove your dreadful doom For when the Lord hath poured upon you all plagues and hath separated all his sheep far from you and you from them and withdrawn himself after that he hath enlightened you with an eternal light for to be your eternal plague and to perfect your plagues you shall have darkness and light mixed together eternal light and eternal darkness and darkness shall cover thee for ever even thick darkness that Jude spake of To whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever and when all this is done the Even so Amen is finished And now hear one word more oh Israel behold the Lord my King is coming and yet come too And at his presence the world shakes and mountains tremble and the end of his coming is for to finish upon thee all that he hath for to finish and to give thee of the fatness of his house to cloath thee with the perfect heavenly glory and to give thee that that shall never be taken from thee nor never be shaken but remain with thee for ever thy heavenly King is coming and in his hand there is for thee spirituall and heavenly blessings I and he is coming with both hands full and they hold all the inside treasure in heaven and earth and when all that that is for thee whether it be wisdom or knowledg glory or blessings is given unto thee and cloathed up thee according to the full and perfect gift of God then the word Even so Amen will be finished The word Even so Amen ends all it puts an end to all thy sufferings and sorrows and it puts an end to all thy faith and heavenly hope because thy heavenly King hath brought unto thee the unseen substance and thou hast received that that thou so long hopedst for and if we hope for that we see not then we do with patience wait for it And Faith it is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen but thou shalt have a thousand times more then ever thou couldst believe or hope for and when that not seen and not believed and not hoped for substance and treasure which the Lord hath laid up for thee is given to thee then the word Even so Amen will be finished upon thee I shall therefore close up all with a saying Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things that God hath prepared for them that love him FINIS