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
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
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
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
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