THE DISCOVERY OF MANS RETURN To his First Estate by the operation of the Power of GOD in the great Work of REGENERATION With a Word to all Saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God And to those that are waiting in Sion to worship Him in Spirit and Truth A Word to the Back-slider who hath tasted of the good Word of GOD and the powers of the World to come and hath turned the grace of God into wantonness and gone back into spiritual Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is Crucified With a Discovery of Mystery-Babylon and her Merchants With a Word to the hard-hearted unbelieving Jews who profess Christ in words and deny to be guided by his Counsel the light in their Conscience and stumble at him to their own Destruction From the Spirit of the Lord Written by one whom the people of this World calls a Quaker whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury but hath a New Name the world knows not written in the Book of Life London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1655. All Men and Women Behold and see in what Estate you were created ANd God said let us make man in our Image God created man in his own Image and in the Image of God created he him male and female created he them And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it aâ—…d to keep it and the Lord God commanded the man saying Of every tree of the Garden thou mayst freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou earest thereof thou shalt surely dye the death The Sâ—…rpent was more subtil than aâ—…y beast of the Field which the Lord God had made he said unto the Woman ye shall not surely die for God doth know that in the day you â—…at thereof your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as God knowing good and evill And when the woman saw the tree was good â—…or food and that it was pleasant unto the eyes and a tree to be deâ—…red to make one wise she took the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig-leaves together and made them aprons And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his Wife â—…d themselves from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden and the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him where art thou And he said I heard thy voice in the garden and was affraid and because I was naked I hid my self And he said who told thee that thou wast naked hast thou eaten of the tree whereâ—…f I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat and the man said the woman who thou gavest to be with me she gave me of the tree and I did eat And the Lord God said unto tâ—…e woman what is this that thou hast done the woman said the serpent beguiled me and I did eat And the Lord God said unto the Serpent because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattel and above every Beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the daies of thy life And I will put enmity betwixt thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heâ—…l And the Lord God said Behold this man is become as one of us to know Good and evil and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken and he drove out the man and placed at the East end of the garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life Every Man and Woman behold and see how you are fallen from the estate and condition you were created in you were created in the image of God to delight alone in him but you are fallen in obeying the counsel of the Serpent and are driven out of the presence of God into the earth and there your minds are feeding upon the dust of the earth created objects which will perish some delight in father and mother some in wife and children some â—…n house and lands some in mony gold some in meats drinks some in raiment what they shall put on some in lusts and pleasures in wantonness vain idle communication foolish jesting and laughter which is madness and folly and some in honour and preferments in this world wherein their hearts are lifted up in pride and exaltation above others whom they have power over not considering how ye are driâ—…en out from the presence of the Lord wherein you were placed in the beginning and some there are that feed upon the letter of the Scripture which is death comprehending God and Christ in their wisdome from what the Saints of the most high God spoke forth from the life they enjoyed in Christ Jesus which was in them the hope of their glory and man in his serpentine wisdome steals the Saints words into his understanding and never knew the life and power thereof in himself and so speakes a divination of his own brain a riddle to his own heart and while he speaks to others himself is a cast-away Every man and woman in particular deal justly with your hearts and see where your hearts are and what they delight in for in some of these created objects you delight in and feed upon if you cannot witness your change by the eternal and powerful Word of Truth for into the earth you are driven from the presence of God and these are the fruits which spring forth of the earth which is in your hearts self-love pride covetousness anger revenge hastiness frowardness back-biting hard-heartedness cruelty and oppression lust and uncleanness drunkenness impatiency and unbelief and you are fenced out from coming to the Tree of Life with Cherubims and the flaming Sword which turns every way to keep the Tree of Life So every one see what you can witness of your return again unto God from whence you are separated by the disobedience and evill of your hearts and see what is the ground of the hope of your callings and by what power you are acted in your obedience unto God whether by the power of the first Adam or by the power of the second for if thou upon the convincement of the evill of thy waies doe not wait in the light which is in thy conscience that convinceth thee of the evill of
hast done and thy reward is wrath and condemnation which will pass upon thee from the presence of the Lamb for thy disobedience and breaking of the righteous Law which must be fulfilled and what way soever thou turnest to get life in outward formes and observations the flaming sword which is the righteous Law that goes out of the mouth of the Lamb it will turn every way and meet thee and cut thee down and cast thee into hell where there is weeping and wailing for want of the presence of God and thou canst doe nothing to pacifie the wrath of God which is gone out against thee Now wouldst thou hide thy self as Adam did when he appeares in thy heart thy fig-leafed garment of prayers tears forms outward observations according unto thy comprehensions of the letter will not cover thy nakedness it served to cover thy nakedness from the sight of men but now when the Lord appears in thy heart thou canst not stand before him now comes Cain in thee to be driven from the face of God to be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth notwithstanding all his sacrifice and Esau in thee reprobated never to have the blessing though he seek it with teares and the bond-woman and her son cast out and the first Adam now slain with the sharp sword that goeth out of the mouth of the Lamb and art made to give up thy soul to God whose it is to doe with thee what he will if he destroy thee for ever he may and if he save thee from eternall death it is his free love now art thou baptized with Christ into his sufferings and death where thou liest sealed down under the eternal judgement of God and there perishest for ever for any power or help thou hast in thy self and this is the administration of Moses where thou lyest condemned for ever under the righteous Law without any help or hope untill the administration of the Prophets that prophesie of a Christ that hath satisfied the righteous Law of God for thee who art lost and condemned under the power of the Law of Moses and now there is a secret hope raised up in thy soul and thou lookest up from under the condemning power of Moses for a Saviour and the Prophets are until John and of all that were born of woman there was not one greater than John for he is a burning and a shining light that lets thee see the filthiness of thy heart and the Law shines in its purity to condemn the earthly man in thee but he strengthens the hope in thee that was raised up by the Prophets to see the beauty and excellency of Iesus Christ which ravishes thy lost condemned soul that thou art willing to sell all for him the Scripture being now fulfilled in thee who witnesses this from the daies of John even until now the Kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force now is every mountain and hill layd low in thee and crooked wayes made strait and the rough way in thee made smooth and thou wait in the wiâ—…derness and lost condition of thy self for the salvation of God to be manifest to the in Iesus Christ and in the appointed time of the Father the Son of man comes to thy soul as a Thief in the night as the lightning from the East to the West so is his appearance in thee and causes thy dead soul to hear his voice which witnesses to it eternal life freely through his own blood and thy soul heares his voice and by the word of his power is made to live and are sealed up by the holy spirit of promise the Spirit of God bearing witness with thy spirit that thou art his child now comest thou to witness the second Adam to be a quickning spirit and Isaac the promised seed to be heir for ever and that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life and that by grace thoâ—… arâ—… saved through Faith in the Lord Jesus not of works lest any should boast and he that hath hope in him purifies himself as he is pure and the love of Christ constrains thee now who can witnes this work of Regeneration manifest in thee to follow him whither soever he goes no more to obey him for life as thou didst when thou wast without seeking him in forms and observations but now the love and life thou enjoyest in Christ Jesus constrains thee to deny thy self and take up thy Cross daily and follow him Now art thou come into the beginning to live in the Lord guided by the powerfull word of faith the light that shines in thy heart which is the light of the City New Jerusalem to whom thou art come to worship the Father in Spirit and Truth and all that are come to walk in the light of the City New Jerusalem are the true Israel of God that are taught of God to whom the New and everlasting Covenant is made according to the promise of the Lord This is the Covenant I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah after those daies saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people and they shall teach no more every man his Neighbour and every man his Brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them I will be mercifull unto their unrighteousness and their sinnes and their iniquities will I remember no more and in this City tâ—…ere is no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it which are borrowed lights outward dispensations and teachings of men for the glory of the Lord God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof and the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it and the Kings of the earth bring their glory and honour unto it and theâ—… shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abhomination or worketh a lye but they which are written in the Lambs Book of life and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day for there shall be no night there for the Lord giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever HALLELUIAH to the Highest A Word from the Lord to all that are waiting on the Lord in Sion And to those that are weeping and are seâ—…king the Lord their God asking the way to Sion with their faces thitherwards FEar not ye mourners in Sion the Lord waits on you to be gracious unto you though he give you the bread of adversity now and the water of affliction yet shall not your Teachers be removed into Corners any more but your eyes shall see your Teachers and your
eares shall hear a voice behind you saying this is the way walk in it when you turn to the right hand or to the left therefore every one of you mind the light which is of Jesus Christ in you that judgeth the unrighteousness of your hearts give up to be guided by the pure light in you which is your Teacher the counsel of Iesus Christ and it will bring Judgement forth unto victory and whatever he makes manifest to you to be his will wait on the Lord in his counsel and he will give you power to obey and when you have obeyed his will take â—…eed of departing from the counsel of the Lord which is the light within you to hearken to the counsel of your own hearts which will draw your minds to look back to your obedience and the experiences you have passed through so will the beast which received a deadly wound with the sword the righteous Law that goes out of the mouth of the Lamb in you his deadly wound will be healed and sits a painted beast above the Cross of Christ working lying wonders in your hearts and imitating the operations of the power of God who is purifying his Sons and Daughters with the spirit of Judgement and the Spirit of burning and the beast in you that tasted of the power of God when he received his deadly wound under the justice of God now can imitate the same in deceit and cause fire to come down from heaven in the sight of men imitating the operation of the spirit of burning and so deceives himself and all that dwel upon the earth he is made manifest to all that dwell in the heavenly light in their hearts All friends mind your watch for your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lyon seeking whom he may devour abide in the counsel of the Lord which is the light in you and you will discern between the Beast which is Antichrist in his lying wonders and the Lamb Iesus Christ in the operation of his power so you will come to try the spirits whether they be of God yea or no all that are guided by the Beast have their life in speaking and acting in outward operations what they once experienced and what they comprehended to be truth speaking that they enjoy not and is exalted in pride the heart returned into the earth But thou that art guided by the Lamb the light in thy conscience the righteous Law cries through thy earthly heart and brings it to judgment and thou canst find no life in the operations of the power of God nor in thy obedience but whilst the presence of the Lord is with thee in it and when thou hast done the will of God in obeying what he hath made known unto thee thou seest thy self to be an unprofitable servant and hast need of patience that thou mayst receive the promise where thy life is hid with Christ in God to save the freely for his names sake or else thou perishest and to carry thee on by his mighty power or else thou fallest so thou hast nâ—…thing to glory in but in the Lord And as they that are guided by the Beast which is Antichrist speak of the truth a riddle to their own hearts not knowing the power and life of what they speak adding to the Word of the Lord and the plagues and curse of God will be added unto them But thou that art guided by the Lamb Iesus Christ thou knowest when the Word of the Lord is committed to thee If any have my Word saith the 〈◊〉 let him speak my Word faithfully is not my Word Like 〈◊〉 saith the Lord and like a hammar that breaketh the rocks in peeces Thou canst witnesse the VVord of the Lord to be as a fire and as a hammar to break the rocks in pieces in thee and bring down all in thee in subjection to its self and it alone rules in thee and thou that canst witness the word of the Lord thus manifest in thee thou art a true Messenger of the Lord let not the deceipt stop thy mouth for the word the Lord calls thee to speak shall perfect his work for which he is sent All friends stand fast in the counsel and will of God be faithfull in following the Lamb dayly through the Cross and none be discouraged in temptations be content look up to the Lord to keep you in the hour of temptations for it is no sin to be tempted but to yeeld to the tempter and when the Lord delivers you from the power of the Tempter watch that your will get not from under the Cross but sink down into the love of God and every one be content in what the Lord hath made manifest to you and be faithful according to your Talents and more will be communicated to you and none look forth at others conditions for if you do the Enemy will cause you to stumble and you will come to a loss in your own condition wait patiently in the cousel of the Lord the light in you for he is making a short work in the earth that you that come into the Vineyard at the eleventh hour shal receive as much as they that came in â—…t the third hour and have laboured in the heat of the day All ye children of the Lord lift up your heads behold your King riding in majesty and power upon the wild Ass Colt which is your wild nature subjecting it to himself that you may enter with him through the gates of the City into New Jerusalem where there enters nothing that worketh abomination and maketh a lye but what is written in the Lambs book of life and there you shall dwel in the banqueting house of the Lord forever feeding upon the feast of fat things rejoycing 〈◊〉 â—…he eternal love and mercy of your souls in the free Covenant of life in the blood of Christ who is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings God blessed for ever who is riding on in Majesty and in Power conquering and to conquer all the powers of darkness in the hearts of his Saints that they may reign as Kings upon the earth to the praise and glory of our God who is taking unto him his great power to reign in his Saints for evermore to whom alone be all honour glory power and eternal praises for ever To all revolted souls who have departed from the Counsel of the Lord and are made drunk with the Wine of the wrath of the fornication of the Whore bewitched with the mother of Witch-craft to return into spiritual Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is Crucified WHoever thou art in whom the righteous law of God Jesus Christ the light in thee hath cried through thy earthly heart for righteousness and judgment and there thou didst stand arraigned before the Throne of the Lamb where the book was opened in thee and written therein all
way of righteouse esse then after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto them but it is happened unto thee according to the true Proverb the dog is turned to his own vomit again and the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire and thou mayest read what will be manifest to thee from the Lord For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sin but a certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation which shal devour the adversaries He that despised Moses Law died without mercy how much sorer punishment suppose ye shalt thou be thought worthy of who hast trodden under foot the Son of God and hast counted the blood of the Covenant wherewith thou wast sanctified an unholy thing and hast done despite unto the Spirit of grace and we know him that hath said Vengeance belongs unto me I will recompence saith the Lord it is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Remember from whence thou art fallen and repent and do thy first work in minding that light of Jesus Christ in thee before whom thou once stoodest condemned for that thou now livest in prize the time and give up to be guided by the counsel of the Lord in thee the light of thy Conscience that discovers every vain thought wait on the power that is present with the light and it will dash Babylons children against the stones which is sin in its conception so will thy carnal minde bee brought to the crosse dayly and thy heart will be purged with the spirit of judgement and the spirit of burning kiss the Son in obeying his counsel the light in thee lest thou perish in the way for if his anger be kindled a little blessed are they that trust in him The Discovery of Mistery-Babylon To all inslaved Captives in Babylons Kingdome who are made drunk with the wine of the wrath of her fornications and bewitched through the multitude of her inchantments FRiends Babylon is within you the mother of Harlots is within you and she bewitches you through the abundance of her Sorceries and the beast is within you that ariseth out of the bottomless pit of the deceived heart which is deceitfull and desperately wicked and the beast which all the world wanders after is your wills that makes war against the Lamb of God in you which is the light that makes manifest the evil of your hearts and your wisdom is the great Whore that sits upon the Beast that ariseth out of the bottomless pit of the deceitfull heart and she finds out many deceitful inventions to preserve the beastly wil alive having a golden Cup in her hand ful of the abhominations of the earth and this golden Cup is your outward professions glorious comprehensions and conceivements of God and Christ imitating what the Saints did impower according as they were moved by the operation of the spirit of the most high God and you imitate the Saints practice by your wisdom There is nothing but confusion in the Kingdome of Babylon so come you to be divided into so many particular forms as Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists and divers others that are in outward worships painted over with glorious words and yet you whose wills guide you are painted Beasts bewitched with the Mother of Harlots notwithstanding all your outward professions and glorious observations they are but the golden Cup and within you are ful of the abhominations of the earth as self-love covetousness lust and uncleanness hastiness frowardness backbiting slandering hard-hartednesse cruelty and oppression grinding the faces of the poor impatiency and unbeleef and the fear of the Lord is not before your eys thus you lie poor inslaved Captives in the Kingdome of Babylon refreshing your hearts in the creature injoyments which will perish some in father and mother some in wife and children some in house and land some in money and gold some in self-wisdome delighting in themselves some in honour and preferment in this world and when there is injoyment of these visible creatures then there is content and when they are taken away there is trouble the mind alwaies plodding contriving and acting every way to get of the Creatures what the heart lusts after and he that gets the most is the highest exalted so every one is exalted above another and there is nothing but tyranny cruelty and oppression among you you sons and daughters of Babylon And in her was found the blood of the Prophets and of the Saints and all that were slain upon the earth The Merchants of Babylon are your Teachers who draw you from your guide which is the pure light of Christ in you to seek the Kingdome of God in observations without you contrary to the mind of Christ the Kingdome of God comes not with observations neither shall they say lo here or lo there for behold the Kingdome of God is within you But these your Merchants have no Scripture for their Merchandize which they sell to you inslaved Captives for so many hundreds in the year and is payed in the Nation or elsewhere for these observations they tell you you must observe or else you cannot come to the Kingdome of heaven though they are contrary to the Scripture as are practised by them there is no Scripture that witnesseth their call to the Ministry by â—…mane wisdome Notmany great not many noble not many wise after the flesh There is no Scripture that any that Jesus Christ sent forth made a bargain with the people for so much a year as these do that profess themselves to be sent of Christ This is the call of the Ministers of Christ Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ neither of man nor by man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ I send you forth saith Jesus Christ as Lambs among Wolves into what Town or City ye enter inquire who is worthy and if they receive you there abide eating such things as is set before you the labourer is worthy of his meat freely ye have received freely minister Those whom Jesus Christ commits the Word of eternal life unto and calls them forth to declare it unto others the love of Jesus Christ which is sealed up to their souls through his own blood constrains them to give up themselves to death in witnessing forth the eternal life they injoy in Christ as it was it is the love of Christ constraineth me to Preach the Gospel saith Paul But these your Merchants are they which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of unrighteousness And as there is no Scripture for their call to the Ministery by their humane learning nor making bargains with the people for so much in the year so there is no Scripture
for these observations they call the Ordinances of God as they are practised by them There is no Scripture that Christ or any that he sent forth did take a child and sprinkled water on its face and said in so doing they baptized it into the Church of Christ Suffer little children to come unto me saith Christ aâ—…d forbid them not for of such is the Kingdome of God for whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter therein he sets the child as a type and a figure to shew forth to every one that they must become as a little child depending upon the will of God before they enter into the Kingdome of God he took them up in his arms and put his hands on them and blessed them but that he sprinkled water on their faces and said Hee baptized them into his Church there is no such Scripture An other observation your Teachers tel you you mu observe is hearing these stndied Sermons in taking a part of Scripture and adding to it their wisdom calls it the word of God which is contrary to the Scripture but they say they have Christ for an example There was delivered unto him the book of the Prophet Isaiah and when he had opened the book he found where it was written The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel unto the poor he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the Captives recovering the sight of the blind and to set at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and he closed the book and sate down and he began to say unto them This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears and all bare him witness and wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth he was the substance of the prophecy which was then fulfilled in him This is no ground for any to take the Saints words and add to it their wisdom and call that the word of God The Prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream he that hath my Word let him speak my Word faithfully What is the chaff to the Wheat saith the Lord Is not my word like a fire and like a hammer saith the Lord that breaks the rocks in pieces All to whom the word of the Lord is committed can witness it to be as a fire within them and as a hammer that breaks rocks in pieces in subjecting all in the heart under the power of it self so it alone rules and guides him that he is what he speaks that if he had never seen any thing that the Saints hath declared without him he had known what is manifest in him and he to whom the word is thus made manifest is a true Minister of Christ who is called to speak the Word faithfully But these that call themselves your Teachers and makes bargaains with you for so much in the year they never witnessed the word of the Lord in them as a fire like a hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces so they never had any thing to have spoken of the Lord but as they have stoln it from the testimony of the Saints so they speak a divination of their own brain a riddle to their own-hearts and whilest they speak to others themselves are cast away And the Lord testifies against them Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steals my word every one from his neighbour Behold I am a ainst the Prophets saith the Lord that use their tongue and say Hâ—… saiâ—…h Behold I am against them that prophesie false dreams saith the Lord and do tell them and cause my people to erre by their lies and by their lightness yet I sent them not nor commanded them therefore they shal not profit the people at all saith the Lord and this fruit is made manifest of the ministry that hath been in England Another observation your Teachers tell you to observe which is contrary to the Sciâ—…ture at it is practised by them in singing of David's Psal. in Metre taking David's wordâ—… who was a man after Gods own heart and putting words into the mouths of poor ignorant people to sing that which they never knew and so causes them to blaspheme the name of God saying Let us sing to the praise and glory of God as O Lord I am not puft in mind I have no scornful eye I do not exercise my self in things that be too high for me when they never knew any change wrought in their minds and so causeth the people to lie And causing them to sing David's prayers as O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure for thine arrows stick â—…ast in me thy hand presseth me sore for my iniquities are gone over my head as a heavy burthen they are too heavy for me to bear my wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all thâ—… day long and may be none of you in al that place can witness the condition and so blasphemes the name of God who wil be worshipped in spirit in truth and this is the rule given out from him If any be afflicted let him pray if any be merry let him sing Psalms and there is none merry but the ransomed of the Lord who returns to Sion with joy and singing and â—…verlasting jâ—…y shal be upon their heads and they shal obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and sighing flies away All people may search the Scriptures and see how you have been deceived by your Teachers who have caused you to seek your lost God in carnal dead observations which they have not any Scripture for all cease from them for the Lord complains of them The leaders of my people causeth them to erre saith the Lord of Hosts and now are these Scriptures fulfilled in these men which the Apostle prophesied â—…f This know also that in the last daies perillous times shal come for men shal be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemous disobedient to Parentâ—… unthankful unholy all people see are not your Teachers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before they come at you they must know what they must have covetous griping for much and if you wil not give them so much as they can have in another place they wil not come at you here is self-love and covetousness manifested without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God having â—… form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such the Apostle exhorts to turn away All people behold and see all these Scriptures are fulfilled in your Teachers they speak against pride and live in it against covetousness and live in it they teach by their worâ—…s
without the loving kindnesse of your Father in Christ Jesus Now is the parable fulfilled the little grain of Mustard-seed grown up above all hearbs and the little leaven hath leavened the whole lump and the Prodigal starved for ever if his father receive him not freely into his house Thou that canst witnesse this condition stand still in the will of God he wil raise up his seed in thee to trust in his name and to delight in the eternal Covenant of love and life he hath made with thy soul in the Lord Jesus Christ and wil guide thee by the word of his power in a way thou knowest not forth of Babylon where thou wast an inslaved captive under the power of the filthy beast which is thy wil and the whore the mother of Witchcrafts which is thy wisdome which inthralled thee under the power of darknesse to satisfie the lusts of thine own heart which led thee to destruction up to Sion to live by faith in the Lord Jesus which wil purifie thy heart and set thy soul free from under the powers of darknesse into the glorious liberty of the sons of God where thou shalt sing the songs of Sion Hallelujahs and Praises for evermore unto the Lord God that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever To all inslaved heard-hearted and unbeleeving Iews in this Nation and elsewhere who are made drunk with the Wisdome of the Whore and bewitched through the abundance of Sorceries to put the day of the Lord a far off looking for Christs comming in the Spirit as the hard-hearted unbeleeving Iews in the letter did for his comming in the flesh according to the promise but they limited the holy one according to their carnal Wisdome expected his comming in great Pomp and Glory and when hee came in that poor despised way contrary to their expectations they stumbled at him and would not own him to be their Saviour but rose up against him and put him to death Matth. 27. 1 to 50. vers. BEhold you hard-hearted and unbelieving Jews do you not look for Christ coming in the Spirit according to his promise as they did for his coming in the flesh but you limit the holy one as they also did expecting Christ to come in power and glory according to your own fancies and so puts the day of the Lord a far off you in rejecting and despising the counsel of Jesus Christ the pure light in your Consciences which lets you see every evil thought word and action and cries behind you This is the way walk in it but you disobey the light and hearkens to the counsel of your hearts as the Jews in the letter did that put Christ to death and so you slay the witnesses in spiritual Sodom and Egypt in your hearts where our Lord is crucified in not regarding the counsel of Christ which is that light that shines in your dark hearts which knocks at the door according to his words I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and wil sup with him and he with me Oh thou inslaved soul under the power of Babylon in thee come forth mind the light in thee which is the sure word of prophesie whereunto you do wel to take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts stand not out against this secret counsel of Christ in you lest you perish in your gain-sayings for if his anger be kindled a little blessed are all they that trust in him All give up give up freely to be guided by the counsel of the Lord the light in you beleeving in his power that is present with the light he wil lead you dayly through the Cross in the streight way of his sufferings and death where the old man wil be put off with his deeds and so you shal have right to the tree of life and shal enter with him through the Gates into the City New Jerusalem where you shal have communion with the Father and the Son and an inheritance with those that are sanctified in Christ Jesus and shal reign as Kings upon Earth to the praise and glory of the riches of the grace of our heavenly Father to whom alone be all power dominion honour and glory for ever and ever FINIS Gen. 1. 26 27 Gen. 2. 15 16 17 Gen. 3. â—… to 16 Gen. 3. 22 23 24. Rev. 2 5 Gen. 1. 26 27 Gen. 3. 24 Luk 14 26 Mat. 10 37 Eph 4 5 〈◊〉 2 3 〈◊〉 9 33 â—…oh 5. 44 1 Cor. 3. 6 Col. 1 27 Ier. 23. 30 1 Cor. 9 9 27 Gen. 3 24 Mat. 15. 19 Gal. 15 19 20 21 Gen. 3. 24 Eph. 5. 3 Luke 17. 20 Gen. 3 7 Mat. 9. 16 17 Gen 1. 14. to â—… Gen. 5 Gen. 27. 34 38 Heb. 12. 17 Gen. 12 9 10 â—… Pet. 1. 19 20 Gen 4. 10 11 12 Gen. 21. 1â—… Gal. 4. 3â—… Rev. 28. 3 Iâ—…hn 1. â—… Mat. 10. 20 2â—… Phil. 3 5 6 Gen. 3. 24 Gen 2 7 〈◊〉 â—… 1â—… 〈◊〉 11 12 13 Luke 1 26 Iâ—… 1. â—… 〈◊〉 9 â—… 20 2â—… 〈◊〉 Mat. 7. 1â—… 14 Eph. 2 1. 2. 3 Ioh. 3. 36 Ioh 1. 9 Rom. 8. 3 1 Pet. 2 8 Gal. 3. 27 Rom. 6. 3 〈◊〉 Rom. 8. 17 2 Tim. 2 11. 12. â—…oh 5. 15 Eph. 5. 14 Mich. 6. 1 Ioh. 1. 9. 8 12. 9. 5 â—…er 17 〈◊〉 Eph. 5. 13 Ioâ—… 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Rev. 20. 12 13. 2 Cor 5. 〈◊〉 Mâ—…t 12. â—…6 â—…es 2. 10 Gen 3 8 9 10 Gen. 3. 7 Gen. 4. 12 13 14 Gen. 27 34 38 Heb 12 17 Geâ—… 21. 10 Rev. 19. 15 Rom. 3. 6 to 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 2. 11. â—…2 Mâ—…t 〈◊〉 11 Lâ—…ke 19. 10 Luk. 16 16 17 Maâ—… 11. 11 Iohn 5. 35 Mat 1. 12 Luke 3. 5 2 Pet. 2. 10 Lâ—…k 17. 24 Iohn 5. 25 Rom. 〈◊〉 16 1 Cor. 14. 45 Râ—…m 6 23 Eph 25 〈◊〉 10 1 Iohn 3 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 3. 14 Titus 3 5 Luke 9. 23 24 Iohn 4. 110 5 Iohn 23. 24 Isaiah 54 14 Heb. 8. 10 1. 12 Ezek. 36 24 25. 26 27. 28 Iet 〈◊〉 33. 3â—… Rev. 21 23 24 25 27 ver Rev. 22. 5 Isâ—… 61. 2 Isa. 3â—… 18 20 21 〈◊〉 1. 9 8. 12 Eph. 5 13 1 Iohn 2 27 Isa. 42 3 Mat 12. 20. Prov. 20. 22 Rev. 13. 3 Rev. 1â—… 11 12 13 15 Mat. 13. 37 1 Pet. 5 8 2 Pet. 1. 19 1 Joh. 4 1 2 3 Luke 17. 10 Heu 10 36 Col. 3. 2 Eze 36 31 32 1 Cor. 1. 2â—… 31 Rev. 22 1â—… Iâ—…r 23. 28. 29 2 Cor. 10. 4. 5 Rev. 14. 4. 5 Iames 〈◊〉 3 Maâ—… 25 20. 21. 22 23. Mat. 1. â—…0 v. 12 Mat. 21. 5 Rev. 22. 14 Rev. 21. 27 Cant. 2 â—… Rev. 17. 4 Rev. 19. 16 Rev. 5 9. 10 Revelat. 8. 3 Revelat. 20. â—… Matth. 12 36 Genesi 3 2. Revel. 19. 15 Rev. 11. 7 8 Ier 17 9 Gal. 5. 13. Prov. 14. 14 Hâ—…b 1. 13 Heb. 10 38 Romans 6 1 Mat. 25 17 18 Romans 7. 1 Mat. 15. 17 18 Romans 7 23 Romans 6. 16 Roman 7 25 Romans vc 5 Luk. 9. 23. Phil. 3. 1â—… 19 2 Pet. 2 19 20 21 Verse 2â—… Hebrews 10. 2â—… to 32 verse Revelations 2 5 Ephesians 4 â—…3 Psalm 137. 8. 9 Psalm 2 11 â—…2 Rev. 18. 3 Rev. 17. 5 Rev. 11. 7 Jeâ—… 17. 9 Rev. 13. 4 Iohn 1. 9 Eph. 5. 13 Rev 17. 3 Rev. 17. 4 2 Pet. 1. 11 Gen. 11. 7 8 9 Rev. 17. 4 Mat. 15 19 29 Genesâ—…s 6. 5 Gal. 5 19 20 21 Prove bâ—… 1. 7 Luke 14 26 Marth 10 37 Matth. 1â—… 29 〈◊〉 9. 23 Ioâ—… 5 44. Matth 6. 21 Mâ—…cah 21 2 Prov. 22 16 Amâ—… 4. 1. Hâ—…sea 2. 7 Rev. 18 2â—… Rev. 18 13 Ioh 1. 9 and 8 12 and 9. 5 1 Iohn 2 27 8 Luke 17. 2â—… 21 1 Cor. 1. 26. Matth. 10 8 Gal. 1. 11 12 Mat. 10 16 Mat. 10. 10. v. 8 2 Cor. 5. 14. 19 20 Acts 21. 13 2 Pet. 2. 15 Iude 11 Mark 1â—… 14 5 Matth. 19. 14 Luke â—…8 16 17 Mark 1â—… 16 â—… Peter 1. 20 Revelat 22 18 Luke 4 7 22. 23. Ier â—…3 29 30 2 Cor 1â—… 4 5 Isa 56 10 â—…1 â—…0 5 30 31 M cah 3. 11 verse 5 Ier. 23 30 1 〈◊〉 9. 27 Je. 23 31 32 Psalm 131. 1 Psalm 38. 1. 10. 7 Iohn 4. 24 Iame 5 16 Isaiah 51. 11 Lâ—…k 17. 2â—… 2 Cor 36 Isalah 3 12 2 â—…mothy 3. 1 2â—… Mat. 10. 12. 16 Luke 17. 20. 2 Ephesians 5. 3 1 Iohn 2 27 Matth. â—…3 13 2 Tim. 3. 8 9 Revelat. 18. 11 Isaiah 55. 2 Ephesian 2. 13 Isaiah 55 3 Revelat. 18 4 2 Cor. 6 7 18 Isaiah 38. 18 Isaiah 65. 2 Ieremiah 3 12 14 22 Mosea 14 4 Micah 6 â—… Maâ—… 6 21 Luke 17. 21 Roman 8. 14 1 Iohn 6 26 Matth. 23 31 Mark 24 32 36 Luke 17 20. 21 Ephesians 5 3 Matthew 3. 21 32 3. 33 Zachary 4. 19 Iohn 1. â—… Iohn 1. 1 to 6 Rom. 10. 6 7 â—… 1 Iohn 1. 1â—… 1 Iohn 1 27 2 Peter 1 19 Romans â—… 14 Prover 20 22 Lame â—… 3. 25 Isaiah â—… 17 Matthew 25. 21 Matth. 12. 36 2 Co 5 10 Isa. 57 15 16 Matth. 12 20 Matth 13 31 32 33 Luke 15 17 18 19 20 Isaiah 55. 3 Isaia â—… 817 Revela 18. 4 2 Câ—… 6. 17 Ephesi 2. 2 3 Matthew 7 13 Hâ—…bbak 2. 4. Râ—…man 1. 17 1 Iohn 3. 3 Act. 15. 9 Câ—…l 1 13 2 Pete 2. 9 Râ—…velat 15. 13 Revel. 9 1 6 Revela 18. 3 Luke 27 Matthew 13 54 5 5â—… 57 Ma. k 6. 4 Isaiah 30 21 Revelat. 11. 8 Revelat. 3 20 Revelat 19. 4 2 Peter 1. 16 Colos. 1 27 Iuda 1 Psalm 2 12 Matth. 7. 14 2 Tim. 2 11 2 Ephes. â—… 22 Revel. 2 14 Act 26. 18 Revel. 2 9 10 Revel. 15 3 Revelat. 19 1