men under the Heavens are bound to know their Creator so as to fear him but there be many of the Sons and the Daughters of Men that will labour to know him so as to love serve and to honour him which will prove most comfortable to themselves and most profitable to others Let the man be what he will or whom he will in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain in whom the Lord of Hosts doth arise his Enemies shall be scattered and they that hate him shall flee before him as Wax melteth before the sire so will all the workers of iniquity at the presence of the Lord but the Righteous shall be glad and rejoyce for a long time The Church of Rome the King of Spain and the proud French King has endeavoured to undermine and overthrow the Protestant Religion His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England but the time is come that they are to know that they are to be brought very low if that they will not Conform and Reform to the Protestant Religion to the Nine and thirty Doctrines of the Church of England There is no man worthy to be a Minister of the Gospel in England Scotland France and Ireland that doth or should oppose gain-say or preach against any of the Nine and thirty Doctrines of the Church of England The Enemies against the Church of England are many both at home and abroad but I shall endeavour by the power of Faith which is the power of God for to do what I can to over-throw them as one man and to set a-work they that have power in their hand that they may be subdu'd both by Sea and Land that so the people may know the true and the everliving God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent then will the Earth bring forth great increase and among all people in all Nations there will be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace The Lord who is most Great and most Good knows when how and by whom he pleases for to speak peace to a Person a Family a City and a Kingdom and when he speaks peace to his People to any of his Saints let them not turn again to Folly but let them renew their Obedience and double their Diligence The Lord will satiate the Soul of the Priests of his Ministers with Fatness and the people with his Goodness surely his Salvation is nigh them that fear him that Glory may dwell in our Land Mercy and Truth are met together Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other Truth shall spring out of the Earth Righteousness shall look down from Heaven yea the Lord will give that which is good so that our Land will yield her Increase Righteousness will go before him and set us in the way of his Steps The Lord who is most Great and most Good will be known by his Judgments and his Mercies for he is a God that judgeth the earth for the Lord is a God of knowledge and by him all mens Thoughts and Actions are weighed That our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain may be willing to countenance encourage and set forward this Noble Design that Divine Wisdom and Power has enabled me to make known in time for the Glory of his Great Name and to have his Enemies brought to shame His Royal Majesty will find that many Princes and Nations will assist him and that which is more than all them the God of Heaven who has all Power in his own hand and the whole Creation at Command will in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign make bare his Arm and manifest his Wisdom Power and Strength to bring down the Turk the Pope the French King and the King of Spain that so many Nations may be freed from slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great joy peace and prosperity Sing unto the Lord thy God O Church of England for he hath done excellent things this is known in all the Earth for among the Gods there is none like unto him there is not one that can do as he has done Say to them therefore that are of a fearful Heart be strong fear not for the True and the Everlasting God will come with vengeance and rebukes upon his Enemies but with great recompence and rewards will he come and save and deliver his People that wait upon him and put their trust and confidence in him therefore cry out and Shout thou Inhabitant of Sion thou Church of England for great is the Holy one of Israel in the midst of thee for to bring thee to great honour renown and fame and thy Enemies to great shame Behold the Whirl-wind of the Lord goeth forth with fury a continuing Whirl-wind it will fall with pain upon the Head of the Wicked the fierce anger of the Lord will not return until he hath performed the intents of his Heart in these latter daies many will see it and consider of it thy God O Church of England is my God thy cause is my cause thy troubles have been my greatest trouble and thy Enemies are my worst Enemies I have laid to Heart more the troubles of the Church of England and of his Majesty of Great Britain than the Death of a Wife and seven Children I have laid them more to Heart than all the tryals troubles losses crosses and reproaches that I have met withal from my Youth to this present time I have laid them so to Heart that many will be made to smart that have endeavoured to undermine and to overthrow the Protestant Religion his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England I have laid them so to Heart that many will be made to smart that will not conform and reform to the Protestant Religion as it is establisht in the Church of England When the Lyon Roars all the Beasts of the Field tremble the Lord has not been much minded nor regarded by his Judgements of Plague Fire and Sword but he will be minded and regarded by a still Voice by inabling of me for to make known his mind for the terror of Evil doers the Voice of the Lord is powerful the Voice of the Lord is full of Majesty the Voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedars yea the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Lebanon The Lord thy God O Church of England who is most great and most good will be known to be the True and Everlasting God among the Sons of men for by terrible things in Righteousness will he answer them For a long time the Lord has holden his peace he has been still and refrained himself but now will he cry like a Travelling Woman he will destroy and devour at once and that without making of many words or having the Voice much heard The time is come that in these Gospel days and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of
out of the hands of unreasonable bloody and deceitful men for all men have not Faith that do profess itâ— Let all pray that the Lord would by his wisdom and power establish his Majesties Royal Throne in Righteousness and enable his Royal Majesty to be a Terrour to all the Workers of Evil and a Praise to them that do well Let all pray that the God of Heaven and Earth would bless his Boyal Majesty with all temporal spiritual and eternal Blessings and when this mortal life of his shall be at an end that the Lord who is most great and most good would give him an everlasting Life and a glorious and unmortal Crown in his own Kingdom Let all that can pray pray that the Lord would bless our Royal Sovereign in all his Royal Relations thâ—â— the word would ennoble them to be true and fruitful Branches of the most Royal Vine that they may slourish in the Courts of Gods House and bring forth such Fruits as will be most suitable and seasonable pleasant profitable and comfortable to themselves and others Let all that can pray pray that the Lord who is most wise and most strong would bless our Royal and Gracious Sovereign with wise and faithful Counsellours that the Lord would counsel them with his Holy Spirit and enable them to be the Repairers of our Breaches and the Restorers of our Paths to dwell in It is the Blessing of the Lord that doth make rich and it is his Blessing that doth make weak and unlikely means effectual but without his Blessing neither Wisdom Power Strength or Counsel can be succesful Let all that can pray pray that the Lord would bless our Royal Sovereign with a wise godly and learned Clergy the Reverend Bishops and all the Ministers of Gods holy Word and Sacraments the Lord make them more and more faithful unto him to our Royal Sovereign 〈◊〉 Majesty of Great Britain to the 〈…〉 and to the Church of England To this end the Lord bestow a double portion of 〈…〉 upon them and grant that they may 〈…〉 of their Labours the salvation of many Souls which will be the Joy of Angels and a Crown to their Ministry Let all that can pray pray that in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Bâ—â—â—ain the Lord would bless all people in all Mations with truth of grace strength of grace and increase of grace Let all pray that can that the Lord would raise up those that are fallen into the mire of Sin and that he would be pleased to strengthen them that do stand in the good old way of Piety and Honesty as it is taught in the Church of England Let all pray that in these days of the Gospel the Lord would forgive our Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers and turn their hearts That he would be pleased to have mercy upon all men that so his Mercy and Wisdom and Power may be more and more known upon earth and his saving health among all Nations that so among all people there may be a general Reformation which will bring great Joy Peace and Consolation And to his Majesty of Great Britain and to the Church of England great Honour and Exaltation Let not any despise the day of small things for what I have made known in much weakness and many infirmities against much opposition and contradiction I know that the God of Heaven will raise it with great power for the glory of his great Name for the credit of his holy Gospel for the great honour and renown of the Protestant Religion for the great joy and triumph of the Church of England the great honour and exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain and the great peace and prosperity of many Kingdoms which will be brought about in the days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign Cryout and shout thou Inhabitant of Zion thou Church of England for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee to counsel comfort and to strengthen thee in thy troubles and to bring thee to great honour and glory So that all thy Enemies that have been incensed against thee will be ashamed and confounded if that they will not Conform and Reform to the Protestant Religion as it is established in the Church of England which is for Vnity Peace and Concord the best which would have all the Sons and the Daughters of Men to live in the fear of God and to die in his favour then they will not be afraid to die nor asham'd to live but their last works and days will be best It is high and honourable work pleasant prositable and delightsom work it is victorious and crowning-work That the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up for to engage with him in this day of his power for the glory of his great Name for the credit of his holy Gospel for the great honour and renown of the Protestant Religion for the great joy and triumph of the Church of England and the great peace and prosperity of many Kingdoms It is such work that the French King with all his Men and Money has not done cannot do nor knows how to do And why because his Wisdom is Foolishness and his Strength is Weakness to bring it about his Wisdom and his Strength will deceive him and all that trust to their carnal wisdom power and strength in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign Their wisdom is foolishness and their strength is weakness who are not careful to make themselves strong in the Lord in the Lord Jehovah and in the power of his might O great is the power of Faith that doth inable a mortal man to know that his wisdom and strength is in the Immortal God and to get wisdom and strength from him to be useful and serviceable for him in his Generation for the great Honour of Him and the King and the peace and prosperity of many Nations O great is the power of Faith that doth inable the Sons of Men to be most useful and serviceable both in Church and State and that in the worst of times and before the best of men It is the power of Faith that doth inable the Sons of Men for to have power with the God of Heaven to get power from him and to act with Power for the great Honour of him and the King and the great Peace and Prosperity of his Kingdoms What I have done can do or shall do by the Power of Faith which is the Power of God in this Noble Design which I have made known in time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind I would have all Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men give all the Glory to the God of Heaven because all Glory is due to him both from Man and Angels And that continually the Lord who is most wise and most strong knows when an I how for to
make bare his Arm and to send forth his Light and Truth to shame and condemn all unbelieving Jews bruitish Athetsis wicked and bloody Papists and rebellious Dissontors and Sectaries that do style and undervalue his Word of Truth and will not believe in the God of Truth but do live too many of them as if there was no God that made them and that there is not any that can save them But as the Lord who is most Great and most Good is able and willing to save unto the utmost all that come unto him be their sins never so great and many so he will punish unto the uttermost all that will not come unto him in these days of the Gospel for salvation Understand O ye Heathen and ye â—…believing Jews and ye bruitish Atheists and ye â—…cked and blood-thirsty Papists and ye rebellioâ—â— Dissentors and Sectaries when will ye learn to be wise to fear love serve and to honour him and to know him who gives unto all men their being He that planted the ear shall he not hear he that formed the eye shall he not see us He knows that all things that are wrought in secret will be made known in publick for Light will discover Darkness and the Lord that made man doth not only know all mens hearts but all their thoughts what they tend to and what will be the end of them The way of the wicked is as darkness they know not at what they stumble but the way of the Lord is strength to the upright because he makes him his hopâ— his trust his joy and delight Let not any in these Gospel-days question whether there be a God that made the Heavens the Earth and the Sea and all things that in them be because that he gives life and breath and being unto all the Sons of Men and takes it away when he please from any of them the Lord will be known throughout the whole World to be God by his Judgment upon the Wicked who are his Rod for to punish his Children that walk contrary unto him He that chastiseth the Heathen shall not he correct Yes he will correct them whom he loves most that they may serve him best God had only one Son without sin but not any without suffering our Saviour did learn obedience in the things he suffered not as he was God there could be no obedience desired or required of him but as he was man in taking upon him our Nature he learned Obedience for he took upon him the form of a servant and made himself of no reputation for to bring the Sons and the Daughters of Men that do believe in him to great honour and exaltation Our Nature it was his great humiliation that the Son of God should become the Son of Man it is the highest mystery and the greatest humility But why was this done That so the Sons of Men might become the Sons of God and Children of the Most High And if children heirs of God and joynt-heirs with Christ Which priviledge it is so high that though the Angels in Heaven do continually admire it they will never enjoy it for our Saviour did not take upon him the Nature of Angels but the Seed of Abraham For God so loved the world that he gave his onely beloved Son that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have everlasting life To this end he obeyed his Fathers will and for his love to the Sons of Men he humbled himself to advance them he became poor to make them rich he under-went his Fathers Frowns that they might enjoy his Smiles he became a Curse that they might enjoy the Blessing he did wear the Crown of Thorns that they might wear the Crown of Glory he died a shameful and a painful death that they might enjoy a happy and a blessed Life And has he done so much for the Sons of Men let not any of them think any thing too much to do for him but let them all be willing to be any thing to be nothing so he may be all Let him rule in them and over them who can best counsel and comfort and strengthen them honour protect and reward them The Angels in Heaven rejoyce and praise God for his love to the Sons of Men in finding out a Ransom for them but the fallen Angels have not any to pity them but they be reserved in Chains of Darkness to the Judgment of the Great day And then all must give Account what they have done in this World whether it be good or evil The good Angels rejoyce and proclaim Glory to God in the Highest and on earth peace good will towards men But no Worship or Adoration is due to them much less to pray to Saints Deceased We are to praise God for the benefit and the comfort we have from Angels and good Men and from any of his Creatures Let all the Sons and the Daughters of Men therefore praise the Lord Day by Day for Right-hand Mercies for Left-hand for Temporal Spiritual and Eternal But above all for Jesus Christ the Foundation and the Fountain of them all Let them praise him every Day for their Creation in due time for their Redemption in the fulness of time and their Preservation time after time Let them praise him for the Means of Vocation Justification Sanctification and for hopes of Glorification In these Days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign too many that have made Separation from the Church of England have proved wandring Stars and then blazing Stars and at last falling Stars How has many of them boasted of Church Priviledges of Gospel Ordinances of strong Assurance and of great Revelation and of a sudden like a Morning-cloud have vanished away and come to nothing But the path of the Just is as the shining-light that shineth more and more unto the perfect Day The Church of England has her fixed and real Stars which unbelieving Jews bruitish Atheists wicked and bloody Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries and know not well where they are nor who they are but they are known to the Most High and from him they will give the greatest and the clearest Light in the darkest Night of trouble and affliction that doth befall many Persons and many Nations Husbandmen love to see and to enjoy Fruitful Fields Fruitful Vineyards and Fruitful Gardens And the God of Heaven loves that they that know him and do own him should be Fruitful in Good Works for herein is he much glorified that the Sons and the Daughters of Men should bring forth much Fruit such Fruit as is suitable and seasonable profitable and comfortable in their Generation for the great honour of God the King and Nation As the Apple-tree among the Trees of the Wood so be they that be Fruitful among the Sons of Men They may be black with Reproaches cast upon them but they be comely with good Graces wrought in them Every true Member of Christ
is a Garden inclosed a Spring shut up a Fountain sealed from the world but it is in the World The men of the World will condemn many that do profess Religion for they love their own and will not quarrel contend and slight one another so much as they that be for this Party and that Party for this Opinion and that Opinion and all against the Church of England It has been want of love to God and to Fellow-members that has caused so much Strife and Contention Sedition and Rebellion for about Fourty years that it has been only the Lords mercy that we have not been confounded nor consumed long before now But shall we still provoke the Lord to anger who is most Great and most good will he not provoke us to anger even to the shame and confusion of our own Faces if that we will not Conform and Reform to him and to the Government of the Church of England Has not the Church of England Enemies enough from the Church of Rome to Encounter withal But must she be slighted and undervalued vexed and perplexed by them that should readily and willingly assist her but not in the least resist her What ever Wisdom Power Courage or any Grace any Member has received in the Church of England they ought to prove it and improve it and to know when and how for to manifest it for the great peace and prosperity of the Church of England and not to make a noise about Religion to be the Head of this Party or that Society that is divided from the Church of England This is that which makes Mutiny and Confusion it argues too much self-seeking and will prove unto many self-undoing As all the Members of the natural Body act for the good of that Body so all the Members of the Church of England ought for to act for the great Honour Peace and Prosperity of the Church of England or else they be not for her but against her The mighty God who is most Great and most Good will plead thy Cause O Church of England therefore let the Tuâ—k the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of evil combine and design to undermine and overthrow the Church of England they will be deceived confounded and for ever ashamed The Lord of Hosts hath purposed and who shall disannul it And his hand is stretched out and who shall turn it back Is not destruction to the wicked and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity Therefore let not any Envy or Fret at the prosperity of the Wicked but rather let them be pitied For if that they do not bring forth good Fruit in due season they will soon be cut down like the Grass and wither as the green Herb But the Salvation of the Righteous is of the Lord he is their Strength in the time of trouble he will help save and deliver them because they trust in him but the Transgressours will be destroyed together the end of the Wicked is to be cut off the Lord of Hosts hath broken the Staff of the Wicked and the Scepter of the Rulers For Babylon the Glory of Kingdoms the Beauty of the Chaldees Excellency will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah How art thou fallen from Heaven O Lucifer Son of the Morning How art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the Nations The Lord of Hosts will rise up against Babylon and cut off from them what he has promised the Name and Remnant and Son and Nephew saith the Lord. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual Stroke He that ruled the Nations in anger is persecuted and none hindreth Then this Proverb will be taken up against the King of Babylon and many will say How hath the Oppressor ceased the golden City ceased that made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the Cities thereof that opened not the house of his prisoners Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming it stirreth up the dead for thee even all the chief ones of the earth it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the Nations all they shall speak and say unto thee Art thou also become weak as we Art thou become like unto us thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy Viols the worm is spread under thee and the worms cover thee for thou hast said in thy heart thou wilt ascend into heaven thou wilt exalt thy throne above the stars of God thou wouldst ascend above the heights of the clouds thou wouldst be like the most high Yet thou shelt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit they that see thee they shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying Is this the man that made the world to tremble that did shake kingdoms The Lord of Hosts who is most wise and most strong will punish the World for their Evil and the Wicked for their Iniquities He will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the Terrible And when the Lord hath performed his whose Work upon Mount Sion and on Jerusalem he will then punish the stout heart of the King of Assyria and the glory of his high looks Shall the Axe boast it self against him that heweth therewith Or shall the Saw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it As if the Rod should shake it self against them that lift it up Or as if the Staff should hit up it self as if it were no wood Cannot the Potter do with the Clay as he please As the Clay is in the hands of the Potter so are all men in all Nations in the hands of the Lord of Hosts to rule and over-rule them at his will and pleasure Therefore let all the Inhabitants of the World fear him let them tremble at his presence who has placed the Sand for the bound of the Sea by a perpetual Decree that it cannot pass it though the Waves thereof toss themselves yet can they not prevail though they roar yet can they not pass over it And shall the Workers of Iniquity the Seed of evil Doers the Children of Disobedience the Enemies of the Gospel rage and fret and combine and design to undermine and overthrow the Workers of Righteousness those that be faithful to the Protestant Religion and to his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England but it will tend to their own shame and confusion For the Righteous will slourish but Destruction will be to the Workers of Iniquity though they may make a Covenant and Agreement with Death and with Hell when the over-flowing Scourge shall pass thorow that it may not come unto them but they will be deceived because they have made Lyes their Refuge therefore their Covenant with Death shall be disanulled and their Agreement with Hell shall not stand When the over-slowing Scourge shall pass thorow then they shall be trodden down by it
From the time that it goeth forth it shall take them for morning by morning will it pass over by day and by night And it will be a vexation unto the Workers of Iniquity the Enemies of the Protestant Religion and of the Church of England only to understand the Report thereof Let not any be Mockers and Scoffers and say Where is the Promise of his coming least their Bands be made strong for behold the Lord who is most wise and most strong most gracious and most glorious who has been for a long time much provoked being slighted and undervalued by unbelieving Jews bruitish Atheists wicked bloody and deceitful Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries He cometh out of his place to punish the Inhabitants of the Earth for their Iniquity for though the Lord who is most great has his Throne in the highest Heavens yet when he pleases for his peoples ease he can come into the lowest heart for to make the Enemies of his Gospel throughout the whole World to smart therefore Fear and the Pit and the Snare are upon thee O Inhabitant of the Earth It shall come to pass that he who sleeth from the noise of the Fear shall fall into the Pit and he that cometh out of the midst of the Pit shall be taken in the Snare when he ariseth to shake terribly the Earth Therefore let all that be wise of heart that would be secure enter into the Rock of Ages for safety let them humble themselves for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his most Excellent Majesty for the losty looks of men will be humbled and their haughtiness bowed down for the Lord thy God O Church of England will be exalted in the hearts of men for his wonderful works and great mercy towards them But they that have not made the Lord of Hosts in these days of the Gospel their strong Hold and City of Refuge what will they do in the Day of Visitation and in the Desolation which shall come from far To whom will they slee for help And where will they leave their Glory Who will in such a day as this is plead for Baal for Idol-worship Or who will undertake to uphold Babylon Babylon is fallen by Gods Decree who doth fore-see how all things will be The time is come that Babylon shall fall suddenly and all the graven Images of her Gods and the Idols will be utterly abolisht They that will plead for Baal let them be put to death if he be a God let him plead for himself What saith the Lord who is the true and the ever-living God who is to be feared and served by all people in all Nations Learn not the way of the Heathens and be not dismayed at the Signs of the Heavens for the Heathens are dismayed at them For the Customs of bruitish Atheists and foolish Papists is vain for one cutteth a Tree out of the Forest the work of the hands of the Workman with the Ax they deck it with Silver and with Gold they fasten it with Nails and with Hammers that it move not they are upright as the Palm-tree but speak not they must needs be born because they cannot go therefore let not any be afraid of them for they cannot do evil neither also is it in them to do good they have Mouths but they speak not Eyes have they but they see not they have Hands but they handlenot Feet have they but they walk not neither speak they through their Throat They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them But let them that fear the true ever-living God trust in him and he will be their Help and their Shield he will encourage them in well-doing and reward them for well doing both in this World and in a better But the Workers of Iniquity and Seed of Evil Doers the Children of Disobedience are Confounded by their Graven Images for their Molten Image is Falshood and there is no Breath in them They are Vanity and the Work of Errours in the time of their Visitation they shall perish the Portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the Former of all things and Israel is the Rod of his Inheritance the Lord of Hosts is his Name The Lord of Hosts hath his Battel Axes and Weapons of War whereby he can when he pleases and with whom he pleases in the day of his Power break in Pieces the Nations and destroy Kingdoms break in Pieces the Horse and his Rider and the Chariot and his Rider The Lord has broke in Pieces both Man and Woman both Old and Young he has broke in Pieces both the Shepherd and his Flock the Husbandman and his Yoke of Oxen both Captains and Rulers the Lord has done it and will do it They that walk contrary unto him that will not Labour to Know him so as to Fear Love Serve and to Honour him he will walk contrary unto them so as to Wound them and Confound them Put your selves in Array against Babylon all you Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men that be Faithsul to the God of Heaven to his Annointed our Royal and Gracious Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain to the Protestant Religion and to the Church of England Put your selves in Array against her round about all ye that bend the Bow or handle the Sword shout at her spare no Arrows for she hath sinned against the Lord thy God O Church of England who is most great and most good most gracious and most glorious Shout against her round about for it is the vengeance of the Lord who is most wise and most strong therefore take vengeance upon her As she hath done do unto her set ye up a Standard in the Land blow the Trumpet among the Nations prepare the Nations against her call together against her the Kingdoms appoint a Captain against her prepare against her the Nations with the Kings of the Medes the Captains thereof and all the Rulers thereof and all the Land of his dominion The Land shall tremble and sorrow for every purpose of the Lord thy God O Church of England will be performed against Babylon to make the Land of Babylon a Desolation without an Inhabitant In these days of the Gospel many will see it and be glad and rejoyce the mighty men of Babylon will forbear to sight because it is the vengeance of the Lord the vengeance of his Temple Babylon which is the Church of Rome hath been a golden Cup that has made all the Earth drunken the Nations have drunken of her Wine therefore the Nations are mad You that do truly fear and love the true God flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his Soul that they may not be cut off in her Iniquity for this is the time of the Lords vengeance who will render unto her a Recompence for her Judgment reacheth unto Heaven and is listed up even unto the Skies therefore
Church of England They that believe will be saved but they that will not labour and endeavour to believe in the Son of God who became the Son of Man will be ashamed confounded and at last destroyed For there is no other remedy for Mans Recovery but by obeying the Gospel Therefore consider what so great a Prince as the Lord of Life and the King of Glory has done for the Sons of Men Let all fall in love with him for if Unbelieving Jews and Bruitish Atheists and Wicked and Bloody Papists and Rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries do not endeavour to love him who is altogether lovely their condition is sad for the present and worse for the future but I hope that in these Gospel-days and in the Reign of our Royal Severaign his Majesty of Great Britain that Jews and Gentiles will come into one Fold and that all People in all Nations will know the True God and Jesus Christ so as to love serve and to honour him For the Lord has promised and he will make it good for to give unto his Son the Heathen for his Inheritance and the uttermost Parts of the Farth for his Possession And who knows but that the time is come that in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Britain it is to be done This high and honourable work this pleasant profitable and long desired work this victorious glorious and crowning work that will crown the God of Heaven with much glory among the Sons of Men and his Majesty of Great Britain with great Honour and Power over them over all Heathen Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World that will not submit to the Gospel and the Protestant Religion as it is taught in the Church of England That this high and honourable work may be brought about by the Lords Annointed his Majesty of Great Britain the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up in time to make known his Mind for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind Therefore let the Righteous rejoyce all that be faithful to the God of Heaven to his Majesty of Great Britain to the Protestant Religion and to the Church of England but let the Wicked tremble and all the workers of Iniquity be ashamed for in his Majesties Reign will the Righteous flourish and in his days there will be abundance of Peace so that Strife Contention and Wars in these Gospel-days will cease and throughout the whole World among all People there will be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace Therefore let the Heavens rejoyce and let the Earth be glad let the Sea roar and the fulness thereof let the Fields be joyful and all that is therein then shall all the Trees of the Wood rejoyce for the Lord who is most wise and most strong cometh he cometh to judge the Earth He will judge the World with Righteousness and the People with his Arise and shine thou Church of England thy Light is come the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee to bring thee to great Honour and Exaltation and the Whore of Babylon the Man of Sin and the Church of Rome to great Shame and Desolation for her Idolatry and Abomination for her Lies and Fornication for the Blood of the Saints that she has slain Her time is come to be brought down with shame but the Lord will have mercy upon Sion upon his Church throughout the whole World the time to favour her is come so that great will be the Joy and Triumph of the Church of England great will be the Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain and great will be the Peace and and Prosperity of many Kingdoms Let not any despise the day of small things for that God that speaks peace to a Person can inable a Person to make known his Mind for the great joy peace and prosperity of many Nations Return Return O backsliding Children therefore and remember from whence you are fallen and do your first work for it was better with you than them Even since the Dissentors and Sectaries left off to be wise and to do good they have been the occasion of shedding too much Blood They left off to be wise when they made Separation which has caused Division Contention Sedition and Rebellion They left off doing of much good ever since they have refused to say the daily Prayers of the Church of England which Prayers are suitable and seasonable profitable and comfortable for all Persons in all Nations they tend very much to inform the Ignorant to Reform the Disobedient to Comfort the Weak Christian to Resolve the Doubting to Raise up those that be fallen and to Strengthen them that do Stand if they be but well used and practiced but these Prayers have been slighted and undervalued by them who are too much like many of the Children of Israel who was a proud froward and stubborn Generation Children that could talk of Faith but the Lord told them They had not Faith for they moved him to Jealousie with that which is not god they provoked him to Anger with their Vanities But what saith the Lord who has all power in his own hand and the whole Creation at command he told them that he would move them to Jealousie with those which are not a People he would provoke them to Anger with a foolish Nation And has not our Contentions and Divisions about Religion caused the Lord to afflict us and to scourge us with a foolish and ignorant People even the Papist They that provoke the Lord to Anger he will provoke them to the shame and confusion of their own Faces The Children of Israel did so far provoke to Anger the Lord who is not easily provoked that he did hide his Face from them and would see what their end would be And has not the Lord justly hid his Face from the Dissentors and Sectaries for a long time to see what their end will be How they will quit themselves like Men. They can talk like Men and walk like Men but they have acted too many of them like Children Fools and Mad-men but their own wickedness will correct them and their backsliding will reprove them for the Backsliders in heart will be filled with their own foolish ways they will lie down in sorrow And have not the Dissentors and Sectaries experience enough that have made Separation from the Church of England what it is to backslide from the Worship of God from the Word of God from the Prayers of the Church which tends to Edification Reformation and Consolation and from the ways of God whose ways are ways of Pleasantness and all his Paths Peace and from the Yoke of Christ whose Yoke is easie and his Burden Light And what have they got unto themselves but great Shame and much Confusion When Israel did cast off the thing that was good the Enemy did pursue them So since the Dissentors and Sectaries
have cast off the good Prayers of the Church of England which are profitable and comfortable the God of Heaven has made their Friends as Enemies to pursue them For if a mans ways please the Lord he will make their Enemies to be at peace with them or with him but if they do not God will make their Friends their Enemies nay the great and good God who is the best Friend will become unto them that do provoke him the worst Enemy They that walk contrary unto him he will walk contrary unto them and will punish them seven times more he will heap mischief among them and spend his Arrows upon them And who will have pity upon thee or bemoan thee Art thou not gone backward O Dissentor since thou hast broken thy Covenant with the Lord in not endeavouring to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace And have not you broken your Covenant with Men O Rebellious Sectaries in taking away the Life of our late Royal and Gracious Soveraign therefore the Lord hath framed Evil against you and devised a Device against you Unless that you do return every one of you from your Evil Ways and make your Ways and your Doings good the Lord will bring an everlasting Reproach upon you and a perpetual shame which will not be forgotten Nay the Lord will make you Sick in smiting you in making you desolate because of your sins if you will not turn unto him in conforming to the Government of the Church of England But I shall pray for the Dissentors and Sectaries as the Apostle St. Peter prayed for Simon That they would repent of their Wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thoughts of their hearts may be forgiven them For I am affraid that too many of them may be in the Gall of Bitterness and in the Bond of Iniquity for not keeping the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace but the Lord give them true Repentance which will take off the greatest stain and bring the Soul into the Favour of God Again Have not the Dissentors and the Sectaries by their falling from the Church of England Have they not weakened her and grieved her Have they not reproached and persecuted her both with their Tongues and their Hands Have they not encouraged and strengthened the Papists against her who are unreasonable bloody and deceitful men But the Church of England according to our Saviours Counsel prays for her Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers that the Lord would turn their hearts and have mercy upon all Men that the Lord would be pleased to give to all Nations Unity Peace and Concord that the Lord would give us all Hearts to love and dread him and to live after his Commandments And if this had been done the Dissentors and the Sectaries would not have fallen from God to displease him and grieve one another as they have done but they can condemn all but themselves but the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up for to reprove rebuke and to condemn them that they may condemn themselves for slighting the Prayers of the Church of England and trusting to Prayers of their own making and framing which are too many of them neither agreeable to the Word of God nor made by the Spirit of God as the Prayers of the Church of England are they be suitable for all Persons for all Times and all Conditions they be such Prayers that the God of Heaven hath heard and answered and doth hear and will answer them that put them up to him in a right manner and to a right end For the hearing and reading the holy Word of God will not profit any unless they do mixt it with Faith no more will the Prayers of the Church of England This is the excellency of these Prayers that they are not so plain as profitable and comfortable for all both high and low rich and poor and young and old Were they but well put in practice they would soon inform and reform the World that lies and lives in ignorance and disobedience From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the Devil from everlasting wrath and damnation it becomes all wise men to pray that the good Lord would deliver them Never more crafts and assaults of the Devil never evil more and mischief done and committed than by too many of them that have slighted undervalued and scorned these Prayers From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitablness it becomes all the Sons and the Daughters of Men that would be good and do good to pray that the good Lord would deliver them from these sins But do not these sins too much abound among too many of them that have made Seperation from the Church of England Who are more ignorant and prouder than many of them Where is there greater Hypocrisie Envy Hatred and Malice than among too many of them But if they will not conform and reform to the Government of the Church of England in due time the Lord will not onely leave them but he will laugh at them when Distress and Anguish cometh upon them as Desolation and Destruction as a Whirl-wind then they may call upon the Lord but he will not answer them they may seek him early and yet not find him because they have slighted and hated knowledge which would have men to depart from evil and to chuse the fear of the Lord as without knowledge the mind cannot be good so without obedience the knowledge is not good for they that do flight and undervalue the Word of God and the Prayers of the Church of England they will eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their Devices for the turning away of the simple will slay and the prosperity of fools destroy them but who so hearkeneth unto the Lord and keeps in the good old way will dwell safely and be quiet from the fear of evil From Fornication and all other deadly Sins and from all the Deceits of the World the Flesh and the Devil It becomes all that would be saved to pray that the Lord would give them power against them and victory over them for the hearts of all men are deceitful and the best of men are subject to fall into the worst of sins But there is a generation of Men that will not say the Prayers of the Church of England but will take liberty to sin that Grace may abound but from such Men the good Lord deliver me From Lightning and Tempest from devouring Fire from Plague Pestilence and Famine from Battle and Murder and from sudden Death the good Lord deliver all that do desire and endeavour to fear love serve and honour him It becomes all wise and faithful Christians to do what they can to prevent Judgments and to remove them and not by Contentions and Divisions to hasten them and to bring them upon us when that
they that profess the Gospel of Peace by their Pride Envy and Hatred are ready to devour one another It doth provoke the God of Heaven to send great and heavy Judgments to Amaze Confound and Consume and Destroy one another Was there ever such a Plague and such a Fire as was in London 1665 and 1666 I hope it will never be forgot nor the Popish late Plot in 1678 against his Majesties Royal Person and to ruin many Thousands in the Nation but blessed and praised be the God of Heaven who doth daily watch over his Majesties Royal Person and the whole Nation Therefore let all that do profess the Gospel learn to live in Love and Peace to be of one Mind and to speak the same thing for this is the best way and the soonest way that the Name of God may be more and more known upon Earth and his saving Health among all Nations that so the People may praise him yea that all People may praise him with new obedience then will the Earth bring forth great Increases and among all Nations there will be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace Let all them therefore that love the Lord be joyful in the Lord let them servet he Lord with gladness and come before his Presence with a Song for the Lord is a great God and a great King above all Gods The Sea is his and he made it and his Hands prepared the dry Land Therefore let all People in all Nations worship and fall down before the Presence of this great Lord Maker and Possessor of Heaven and Earth and kneel before him for he is the Lord our God and we are the People of his Pasture Therefore let us go into his Gates with Thanksgiving and into his Courts with Praise Let all People in all Nations be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name for the Lord is gracious his Mercy is everlasting and his Truth endureth from Generation to Generation Therefore let all the Sons and Daughters of Men praise his great and glorious Name from the rising of the Son to the going down of the same Let every thing that hath Breath praise the Lord for his Greatness and Goodness for his Name is most excellent and his Glory is above the Heavens As this great and mighty God stirr'd me up in time to make known his Mind to prevent much Ruin to Mankind that so among all Nations there may be a general Reformation then let all Dissentors and Sectaries readily and willingly conform and reform to the Government of the Church of England which will encourage many Atheists Papists Jews Turks and Infidels to be in love with the Protestant Religion as it is establisht in the Church of England A Friend loveth at all times and a Brother is born for Adversity and the Wounds of a Friend are better than the Kisses of an Enemy God in Man and God with Man will bring about great and wonderful things not onely for the great Honour and Exaltation of a Kings Person but for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Nations and that without making of many Words or having the Voice much heard Pleasant words they be as a Honey-comb sweet to the Soul and health to the Bones And as Ointment and Perfume doth rejoyce the Heart so doth the Sweetness of a Mans Friend by hearty Counsel in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Pritain All unbelieving Jews bruirish Athiests wicked and bloody Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries will be ashamed and confounded that have not improved their time to know and to understand the great Mystery of Godliness God manifest in the Flesh who was justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the World by many both Jews and Gentiles and is received up into Glory and there is preparing a place for them that do believe in him and appear for him but he will pour contempt upon all them that will not know and obey him who is the Lord of Life the King of Glory the Prince of Peace the Captain of Mans Salvation the Son of Righteousness that can and will heal all their Diseases and pardon all their Sins that come unto him and well he may because he is the mighty God the everlasting Father the wonderful Counseller the Lord of Hosts who is strong and mighty in Battle that can readily and easily by weak and unlikely means confound and consume the Enemies of his Gospel that do slight and undervalue him be they never so many be they never so great But he will not break a bruised Reed nor quench the smoaking Flax till it bring forth Judgement unto Victory It is not a thing of indifferency but it is of absolute necessity for the Sons and the Daughters of Men the Wisest the Strongest the Richest and the Learned'st and Poorest among them for to believe in the Son of God for whosoever believeth in him whether they be Jew or Gentile hath everlasting Life begun in them but they that will not believe and obey him will not see Life but the Wrath of the ever living God abideth on them Condemnation or Salvation will be the lot and portion of the Sons and Daughters of Men that ever have been or over will be in the World O that none might miscarry because the Lord has laid help upon one that is mighty both able and willing to save unto the uttermost all that come unto him and he will in no wise cast out for God the Father sent not his Son his beloved Son into the World that he should condemn the World but that the World through him might be saved Therefore he that believeth in him is not condemned for he hath the witness in himself but he that believeth not is condemned and there is not any that can be a witness for him or them but all their works and duties will be witnesses against them This made the Apostle St. Paul that great and eminent Saint count all his Righteousness Works and Learning to be loss and dross in comparison of that excellent most profitable and comfortable knowledge that he found in Christ The fruit of the Righteous is a tree of Lise and he that winneth Souls is wise and they that turn many to Righteousness shall shine as the Stars for ever and ever This is a high and honourable work pleasant profitable and delightsome work victorious glorious and crowning work that will crown the God of Heaven with much Glory among the Sons of Men and our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain with great Honour and Power over them over all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors that so many Nations may be freed from slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great Joy Peace and Prosperity It is sad to consider how that too many do make themselves poor and miserable in the
service of the World the Flesh and the Devil and that how few do readily and willingly and cheerfully engage in the service of the God of Heaven whose service is perfect freedom and his work and reward is most honourable They do well that do love their Enemies that do often feed them and relieve them for the Lord doth make his Son to shine both on the Evil and on the Good and sendeth Rain on the Just and on the Unjust To do good to all Men it is commendable but to do good to the Houshold of Faith it is most profitable and will prove most comfortable A Friend loveth at all times but a true and a faithful Friend may be so much displeased as not to manifest his Love at all times Joseph loved his Brethren when he stormed at them spake roughly to them put some of them in Prison and caused Simcon to be bound before their Eyes But as after Storms and Tempests the Sun doth shine most clearest so after great and long Trials Troubles and Afflictions Deliverance will be the sweetest both to a Person a Family a City and a Kingdom Let not any therefore despise the day of small things let not any slight and undervalue the small beginnings of Grace in themselves or others for a spark of Grace well proved and improved will break forth into a flame for the Glory of Gods great Name and to bring a King and Kingdom to great Honour Renown and Fame The greatest Tree was a Plant and the Wisest the Strongest the Richest and most Learned'st Man was a Child They that have truth of Grace let them labour to grow in Grace by improving the means of Grace which the God of Heaven has appointed and the Church of England has ordained for they that do labour to grow in Grace will have increase of every Grace and so will grow in the favour of God and good Men and of the Angels in Heaven They that have truth of Grace and do improve it will have increase of Grace and will never lose it but will know when and how for to use it in the worst of times and before the best of Men for the Glory of the most High and the great Honour and Exaltation of Englands Royal Majesty Were there as many Nations as many Worlds as there be Men there is a way to subdue them for the Glory of the great and mighty God for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain and the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms and that is by daily getting Wisdom Power and Strength from him who gives to the whole Creation a Being which Divine Wisdom Power and Strength will inable a mortal Man to prepare high and honourable Works to be managed by many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men that have their Wisdom their Power and Strength their Honours Riches great and high Places from the God of Heaven The Lord is a high and strong Tower and a Shield to all them that trust in him Great Deliverances giveth he unto his King and sheweth Mercy to his Annointed to David and to his Seed for evermore And who dare say that our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain is not of the Seed of David Spiritually the Lord who is most great and most good has known his Soul in Adversity and did bring him to his Throne in great Peace and Prosperity The King trusteth in the Lord therefore through the Mercy of the most High he will not be moved but the right Hand of the Lord will find out all his Enemies he will find out all them that hate him he will make them like a fiery Oven in time of his Anger the Lord will destroy them in his Wrath and the Fire will devour them but the King our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain will rejoyce in the Strength of the Lord yea how greatly will he rejoyce in his Salvation the Lord has given him his hearts desire and hath not denied him the request of his Lips but hath given him liberal Blessings and hath set a Crown of pure Gold upon his Head He asked Life of thee and thou Lord of Life hath given it him when he was pursued by unreasonable bloody and deceitful Men for which let all People in England Scotland France and Ireland and in many other Nations praise God and be very thankful The Lord who has wonderfully preserved his Majesties Royal Person for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Nations and has set him and sent him as a Blessing among his People make him glad with the light of thy Countenance Remember him O Lord with the favour of thy People and visit him with thy Salvation that he may see the Felicity of thy Chosen and rejoyce in the Joy of thy People and glory with thine Inheritance in thine everlasting and most glorious Kingdom when this mortal Life will be at end The Lord preserve him both at home and abroad both by Land and Water that so he and his throughout the whole World may bear the greatest sway while time and all things under the Sun doth pass away Make known in time this noble Design for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind by John Varney a Member of the Church of England and a Subject to his Majesty of Great Britain but such a Subject that the God of Heaven has honoured among the Sons of Men for to engage with him for to bring about such high and honourable Work pleasant profitable and delightsome Work victorious glorious and crowning Work for the great honour and renown of his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England which has not yet been done by all the Parliaments that have been since England has injoyed a King Shall the Church of England which is the Spouse of Christ bring forth Princes each one resembling the Children of a King and she sit in the Dust slighted and reproached by her Enemies both at home and abroad This ought not to be this must not be but the Sons of the most High must appear for her readily willingly and cheerfully As our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain has been the greatest Prince in the World for suffering so I shall endeavour in these days of the Gospel by the power of Faith which is the power of God that he may be the greatest King and Emperor in the World and over the World for Wisdom Power and Strength for Honour Riches and great Glory so that those Nations which have paid Tribute to the Church of Rome to their great loss and shame will be glad to pay Tribute to the Church of England for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion and the great Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain because it will be
and as the flower of the field the grass withereth the flower fadeth but the Word of thy God O Church of England shall stand for ever Heaven and Earth will sooner fail than one Tittle of Gods Word Where the Word of a King is there is Power but how much more where the Word of the everliving God is when it is set on by his Spirit which is a Spirit of Power of Might and of Majesty It is a meek and a quiet Spririt an humble and a holy Spirit and it is the highest loftiest and most noblest Spirit it is such a Spirit that it will enable them that will be ruled by it for to attain retain maintain and proclaim that which is most noble excellent and advantageous for the great Honour Peace and Prosperity of a King and Kingdom Let all People in all Nations rejoyce in him that made them let the Children of Zion be joyful in their King The Lord shall Reign for ever even thy God O Church of England unto all Generations therefore praise him all ye Nations let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord Praise him for his mighty Acts who can express the Noble Acts of the Lord they are so many and great Not men or Angels His wondrous Works in the Land of Ham and fearful things by the Red Sea The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works the Lord is great and greatly to be Admired and Adored he is clothed with Honour and Majesty who covereth himself with Light as with a Garment who stretcheth out the Heavens like a Curtain who layeth the Beams of his Chambers in the Waters who maketh the Clouds his Chariot who walketh upon the Wings of the Wind who maketh his Angels Spirits his Ministers a flaming Fire who laid the Foundations of the Earth that it should not be removed for ever the Lord of Hosts is his Name To be much in meditation of him will be sweet to the Soul and health to the Body I will be glad and rejoyce in the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise to him while I have my being for he hath redeemed my Life from Destruction and hath Crowned me with Loving-kindness and tender Mercies who satisfieth my Mouth with good things so that my Youth has been renewed as the Eagles Well may my Soul therefore bless the Lord and all that is within me bless his holy Name Bless the Lord O my Soul and forget not any of his Benefits who forgiveth all thine Iniquities and healeth all thy Diseases The Glory of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord will rejoyce in his Works the Lords Throne is in the Heavens and his Kingdom ruleth over all Therefore bless the Lord ye his Angels that excel in Strength bless ye the Lord all ye his Hosts ye Ministers of his that do his pleasure bless the Lord all ye his Works in all places of his Dominion Is it not in vain for the Church of England for to pray O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us and do not mind and regard when and by whom he will do it by whom can do it when he will so he will do it by whom he will and not when and by whom Wise Strong Rich and Learned-men please the meaner and weaker the Instrument is whom Almighty God doth use the greater is the Sin of them that do him slight under-value and refuse Long may the Church of England look for Peace and meet with Trouble look for Health and meet with Disappointment when she is not careful to mind the Day of her Visitation Shall the Stork in the Heaven know her appointed time and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their coming And shall not the Servants of the Lord understand his Mind so as to endeavour to prevent his Judgments Are they not counted wise-men that have the Law of the Lord with them But are not such wise-men many times dismayed ashamed and taken when they do reject the Word of the Lord and rely upon the Traditions and Inventions of Mens making and framing which are neither agreeable nor suitable to the Word of God which is the Word of Life and of Power What wisdom is in such men then that wisdom which will deceive them Who is so blind as they that should see most and deaf as they that should hear best Is there no Balm in Gilead is there no Physician there Doubtless there is Is not the Lord the Lord Jehovah in whom is Everlasting Strength in Zion Is not her King in her and for her and with her Why then is not the health of the Daughter of Gods people recovered Is there not any that stirs up himself to take hold of the true and everliving God as they ought and should do therefore hath the Lord who is full of Wisdom Power and Strength hid his Face from us And by reason of our many great and grievous Sins we have all been very much afflicted and consumed But where is the man that lays it so to heart as to stand up in the Gap to make up the Hedge so as to turn away Gods Wrath that for a long time has burned like Fire against England Scotland France and Ireland Who can stand before the Lord who is most great and most good when once he is angry doth not the Mountains quake at him and the Hills melt And is not the Earth burnt at his Presence yea the World and all that dwell therein when he pleaseth Therefore the Wicked and all the Workers of Iniquity the Seed of Evil-doers the Children of Disobedience the Enemies of the Gospel and the Protestant Religion will be ashamed confounded and at last destroyed if that they do not in time humble themselves under the hands of the Great and Mighty God who is Possessor and Commander of Heaven the Earth and the Sea and all things that in them be The Righteous shall rejoyce and be glad but the Sinners in Zion in the Church of England will be afraid Fearfulness hath surprized the Hypocrites already Who among the Sons of Men in the Church of England that can dwell with Devouring Fire Who among them can dwell with Everlasting Burnings He that walketh Righteously and worketh Righteousness that speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the Gain of Oppression that slacketh his hands from holding of Bribes that stoppeth his Ears from hearing of Blood and shutteth his Eyes from seeing of Evil he shall dwell on high his place of Defence shall be the Munitions of Rocks in time of Famine he will be fed Bread shall be given him his Waters shall be sure he shall see the King in his Beauty he will behold the Land that is very far off But what will become of them that serve graven Images and boast themselves of Idols they will be ashamed and confounded in these Days of the Gospel if that they do not