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A94793	The cry of a stone. Or A relation of something spoken in Whitehall, by Anna Trapnel, being in the visions of God. Relating to the governors, Army, churches, ministry, universities: and the whole nation. Uttered in prayers and spiritual songs, by an inspiration extraordinary, and full of wonder. In the eleventh moneth, called January. 1653.	Trapnel, Anna.	1654 (1654)	Wing T2031; Thomason E730_3; ESTC R203788	62,587	80

Sun discovers all things that which is thrown up against the Sun that appears most clearly the sun will make you known what you are in secret can you stand it out against the Lord himself let not them that have given up their names to thee be found flighters against thee Shall thine oh Lord be swallowed up O● no thou wilt but hisse and Armies shall comeeven from heaven for thine and then those that do task and seek to lay on the burthens what shall they doe Having uttered these with some other things concerning the new Jerusalem she sung forth the further enlargements of her heart in the song following He that did wait these things to know that penned was within That book concerning thy coming as Potentate and King Oh he did mourn till that the Lamb did come with chearing there And said he would open that book and those seals he would tear Aud lay it wide open before that he might read therein Concerning songs of Hallelu jah which shall fill to the brimme And that he should read there also the downfall of the Whore Of Babylon which sure shall fall and sink within her gore And that he also there should read the downfall of the great God Gog and Magog how they shall go and by Christ down be pluckt And he must read also how thou wouldst search all Nations wide And gather in thy remnant there and others wash with Tide With floods that should rise upon them and make them sink for ever That so thy Sion might thee praise who art that High one rather Then that they should exalt the praise of men and things on earth For they know what thou dost deelare and what thou dost discover And John he read long since thereof concerning the great fall Of those that stood out against him who is the chief of all Oh he read here thou wouldst dry up Euphrates that river And make dry Land for thine to go and thither to appear Before thy Throne where they should be and abide for evermore Therefore John read how that thou the earth again restore None shall hinder them from those wouldst w ch John there did declare Oh a Sea of glasse there chrystal was thrones which none could it compare But oh your standing on the earth on glasse that brittle is Which shall crumble under your seet when that there come● forth this This Sea of glasse which is indeed that where thine thee behold Oh they may look up unto thee and thorow it extoll Thy love that did a book write sweet and many things there in store Of Royalties which should come out and be given more and more Vnto those that deny thy foes and Antichrist also They that go forth to strike at him thou wilt upon them blow Thy spirit upon them shall come forth and Antichrist shall fall Both in person and also too in his coming principall Oh it is Lord then sweet surely to read of such things here And John he mourn'd abundantly that th' mystery might draw near That new Jerusalem above might come down here below And that they might see their High when that forth he doth go Here she ceased and lay silent for the space of some two or three hours untill about eight of the clock in the evening the company being all departed excepting about four or five persons she coughed and being asked by a friend or two with the Relatour how she did with two or three such like questions she answered in a very few words this being the first time the ●elatour had speech with her and suddenly was carried out in singing and after wards in prayer wherein the Relatour left her about ten a clock in the night speaking to God The day following being the 17th day of the Monethand the last day she spake in White Hall she begun with prayer wherein she was very large and amongst many other she uttered the things following Though they speaking of the Souldiers may build Tabernacles and may strengthen their cords yet thou art risen O poore creatures that they should have no heart to hear O Lord they are given up to blindnesse they will refuse to hear they will turn a-and go away Blessed father wilt not thou follow them and shake them Though they may shake off faith and prayer yet they shall not shake off thee oh when the hand-writing is come up in their veins will not their knees smite together They shall see that an evill heart is in them and that godlinesse is another thing than they thought on though they speak of light yet they shall know that they are darknesse for they act nothing but darknesse discover nothing but vilenesse and evill that such creatures should live in a time of so much Mercy and trample them under seet wilt not thou reckon with them Dost not thou reckon with the Nations throughout the whole earth and wilt thou suffer them to go unreckoned with it is not every one that hath a tongue to speak great things of thee that are thy friends for if it were so this Nation would be full of excellent ones oh but their heart is deceitfull When Ananias and Saphira did ly against the Holy Ghost they were struck dead oh but how often have they lyed against the Holy Ghost and yet thou forbearest oh thy servane will not let thee alone till thou risest Up in thy glory and thy Majesty thou wilt make some to rise that are feeble poore low creatures to utter forth against the wise ones of the world oh they have not thy sap thy spirit what ever they pretend Wilt not thou come forth and confound their language Oh! thou wilt say what have you to do to take the name of God in your mouths when you act for your bellies If all thine should hold their peace thou wilt come thy self and appear against them Oh they shall be called the Jeroboams of the earth they have made I srael to sin oh they would not be called Jeroboam but the Israel of God and therefore poore Israel is bowed under them and drawn under their skirts when Ephraim offended in Baal then he died in spirit in the affections of thine oh then they will come off with a great deal of dammage and rust oh that they might now be ashamed now whiles they are peeping in at the crevice let them see their abominations oh take them aside and tell them they ought not to do so let them not go and assume that to them which belongs to God tell them thou wilt make them to mart and seel thy rod for it if they had stooped to the powers before the sin would not have been so great but to stoop to those Powers that have appeared against the Lord Jesus Oh who can be filent and hold their peace at this Thou wilt poure out thy spirit upon sons and daughters and they shall witnesse for thee against them Thine may be Lambes and Sheep meek and lowly yet

The Cry of a Stone OR A RELATION OF Something spoken in Whitehall by Anna Trapnel being in the Visions of GOD. RELATING To the Governors Army Churches Ministry Vniversities And the whole NATION UTTERED In Prayers and Spiritual Songs by an Inspiration extraordinary and full of wonder In the eleventh moneth called January 1653. London Printed 1654. To all the wise Virgins in Sion who are for the work of the day and wait for the Bride-grooms coming IT is hoped in this day a day of the Power of God a day of wonders of shaking the heavens and the earth and of general expectation of the approachings of the Lord to his Temple that any thing that pretends to be a Witness a Voice or a Message from God to this Nation shall not be held unworthy the hearing and consideration of any because it is administred by a simple and unlikely hand far be that from us who have soon the foolish things of the world to confound the wise babes and children to bring to nothing the Scribes and Disputers of this world the first to be last and the last first far be it from us who are and shall yet be named the Vally of Vision to bind up the goings forth of the most free and Eternal Spirit at any time especially in these last dayes Within any Law custom order or qualification of man how antient or accustomed soever or within any compass narrower then the Promise it self Joh. 7.37 who may binde where God hath loosed canst thou binde the sweet influences of the Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion he openeth and no man shutteth and let it be considered if upon this stumbling stone of the Spirits freedom the wise and learned Ones both in the dayes of Christ and of the Apostles and in our dayes have not stumbled and fallen and been broken to pieces Two things are foretold by all the Prophets shall be brought to pass which seal up the Prophesies and finish the mysterie of God The Lords appearing in his Glory upon Mount Sion and the darkning of Sun and Moon that is the shaming confounding and casting out of all wisdom and power and whatsoever is but the excellency and glory of man now if we see these high and precious effects beginning to put forth either in sons or daughters in handmaids or servants let us rejoyee and be glad for the summer is nigh at hand It was the desire of this Maid to present this her Testimony to you though it is not for you only but for all If any may be offended at her Songs of such it is demanded If they know What it is to be filled with the Spirit to be in the Mount with God to be gathered up into the visions of God then may they judge her until then let them wait in silence and not judge in a matter that is above them There being various reports gone abroad concerning this Maid too many being such as were not according to truth Whereby it comes to pass that the things shespake do not appear to men as they came from her but as deformed and disguised with the pervertings and depravings of the Reporters therefore it was upon the heart of some that heard her as judging it might be a service done to many hurt to none but such as fear the Light to present to publick view a true and faithful Relation of so much as for some 7 or 8 dayes could be taken from her by a very slow and unready hand whereby a fair opportunity is laid before offended and unsatisfied spirits to examine try and judge and happily to correct their Censures and also the things herein related may come to the knowledge and reach the hand of them whom they especially concern if so be they will in meekness search and enquire whether it be the Lord that hath spoken to them in it VPon the seventh day of the eleventh month called January 1654 being the sixth day of the week Mr. Powel Preacher of the Gospel in Wales being according to Order from the Council now sitting in Whitehall come thither to give an account before them of some things by him delivered in his publique Exercises in London among other friends who came thither to see what would be done with him there came a maid M rs Anna Trapnel by name who waiting in a little room near the Council where was a fire for Mr. Powells coming forth then with a purpose to return home She was beyond and besides her thoughts or intentions having much trouble in her heart and being seized upon by the Lord She was carried forth in a spirit of Prayer and Singing from noon till night and went down into Mr. Roberts lodging who keeps the Ordinary in Whitehall And finding her natural strength going from her she took her bed at eleven a clock in the night where she lay from that day being the seventh day of the month to the nineteenth day of the same month in all twelve days together The first five days neither eating nor drinking any thing more or less and the rest of the time once in 24. hours sometimes eat a very little toast in small Bear sometimes only chewed it and took down the moysture only sometimes drank of the small Bear and sometimes only washt her mouth therewith and cast it out lying in bed with her eyes shut her hands fixed seldom seen to move she delivered in that time many and various things speaking every day sometimes two three four and five-hours together and that sometimes once a day and sometimes oftner sometimes in the day only and sometimes both in the day and night She uttered all in Prayer and Spiritual Songs for the most part in the ears of very many persons of all sorts and degrees who hearing the Report came where she lay among others that came were Colonel Sidenham a member of the Council Colonel West Mr. Chittwood Colonel Bennet with his wife Colonel Bingham Captain Langdon Members of the late Parliament Mr. Courtney Mr. Berconhead and Captain Bawtrey Mr. Lee Mr. Feak the Minister Lady Darcy and Lady Vermuden with many more who might be named The things she delivered during this time were many of the four first days no account can be given there being none that noted down what was spoken For the rest of the time from the fifth day to the last some taste is herein presented of the things that were spoken as they could be taken by a slow and imperfect hand And to hold out all just and full satisfaction to those Questions Scruples or Demands which a Relation of this nature is apt to beget touching the condition of the Party where or what she is to whom is she known is she under Ordinances what hath been her conversation formerly c. Before you come to the Relation it self Here is first offered to you an account of the Parties condition in her Relations her acquaintance her conversation the dispensations of the Lord

hadst finished thy work and wouldst take thy rest Who was this Rest why Jesus was this Rest from the beginning he was the prepared Rest from the Creation Thou broughtest forth a Seventh-day wherein thou saidst thou restedst and a work wherein thou restedst and all to shew that Jesus Christ is the true Rest who is the true Sabbath-day the prepared Rest the Eternal Rest Oh that there might be no more wallowing in Satans fires and quagmires Oh they do miss of their Rest they do not enter into their true Sabbath they do not see their first-day Let them see Jesus Christ to be the true Rest the true first-day Thou first appeared as the first day to poor contemptible Creatures to poor Women Oh Mary I am thy Rest and she answered Rabboni When thou appearst to be Rest then how do they take thee into their bosom then they see no Peace under the Sun but in thee if he be gone Rest is gone Sabbath is gone Peace is gone that bright day of the Resurrection which is brighter then the rising of the Sun does not then appear When a poor soul knows not what to do temptation weighs them down corruption sinks them they know not what way to turn from Bryars and Thorns Oh then thou appears and gives Rest and makes them go forth with joy and leads them forth with peace and then thou makes all melody before them Tempted souls can tel what it is to enjoy their Maker they can say he is their onely Rest Oh who would not make thee their Rest Thou singledst out a Day because thou knewest mans cruelty and covetousnesse that he would not give rest to Man or Beast but whatis a day if thou in a day wert not the Rest The time will come that the whole Creation shal have a Rest and Redemption which shall abide not for a day but shall continue Lord it is a Fasting day indeed when thou art a Rest when thou commest out with a sparkling rest if thou hadst given a rest in thy Ordinary way that had been very sweet oh but a rest in the Mount with thy selfe a transfiguring Rest among Angels with the brightest sun oh can there be eclipses upon this Sun the Sun of Righteousnesse who is the same and there is no alteration no cloud can cover it Who can mix Water and Oyle together will not the Oyle be always above so thou dear Jesus wilt stil be above upon the top if trouble come thou sayest begone Surely Lord I will make mention of thy Rest for ever thy Rest hath so many Companions with it Peace and Quietnesse and Regulation throughout the whole Man all is put to silence before it Thy Servant wondered at those words the Lord is risen let all the earth keep silence What art thou a coming forth art thou putting a stop to all the Nations of the earth their designs and projects all enemies both by Sea and Land But I will put to silence saith the Lord all enemies within O arise against all inward Enemies and let them be put to silence Let there be no more the voice of the Earth heard in thine thou hast put the earth in thy poor Servant to silence thou hast made thy Heavens to come down into her Earth Whom the Son makes free they are free indeed Oh freedome indeed other freedom what is it a poor freedom but this freedom within is through the resurrection of thee rising in the soul there is such an harmonious company there is such an abundance of thine when thou putest the earth to silence Oh put the earth to silence that so they may come to the glorious stature of the Lord Jesus which none can fathom nor reach the depth thereof Oh that poor creatures might not heare of a Jehovah of Righteousnesse but that they might also receive thee thou sentest down a Ladder to the earth the humane nature of Christ to gather up our Nature to the Divine Oh how did that humane Nature appear at the bottom of the Ladder upon the earth oh what steps did he tread what steps in the Divine Nature to gather up Humane Nature into it thy poor shall lead up to the top you are kept by the mighty power of God unto salvation Oh it is good to walk up that Ladder where there is such precious Aire and such sparkling Stars where there is not only seven daies light but seven thousand such as none can number Oh how can any get near unto thee if they will throw away the Ladder poor hearts they marvellously mistake you cannot come to the Father but by the Son you must take both together therefore this Rest came forth that so there might bee a compleatnesse that there might bee nothing wanting every way what a perfect rest is the Lord Jesus Oh dear Christ dear Christ can any that have taken thee in hear thee vilified couldst not thou keep silence concerning them and can they indure to hear thee contemned to hear thee to be called onely a Form and to cal themselves a Christ How can they chuse but say wee will have a Scripture Christ O dear Rest the declaration of thee is marvellous sweet the Declaration tels of thee that thou art the true rest in the power thereof Here she seemed to have ' over-flowings of joy and delight in spirit and poured out her heart in a Song as follows OH thou art Rest eternal Rest unto thy chiliren dear Yea through the great Creation thou brings thy Rest them near Thou wouldst have all things have a rest that in the earth do breath Yea also a Rest unto Fishes thou dost to them bequeath Oh see and learn of Plants and Trees of Gardens and the Fields A rest there 's from the mighty Lord which he unto them yeelds The Creatures they have rest much more such that have sense breath Their rest is higher then the other cause they are th' Commonwealth That they might be maintained for the Sons of men herein Therefore a rest thou dost provide and quietnesse thou bringst in Calling the earth and all therein to be in silence and To stay from gathering up the field to accommodate the land O what an increase through a rest there is in the wide sea An increase is in every thing brought forth out of the clay O land thou doest through rest come forth with great increase unto Of strength and otherwaies from such that thou bringst men unto What are the birds and cattell there whereon man is fed Thou art a rest to weary man who forth and in is led O shall all things that here do crall and beasts that hang their head Be more in praises to the Lord then those whom Christ is head For they after their kindes doe praise much more then shall ensue When that the Lord makes kindness come thorow all he will renew Love he doth multiply indeed upon the sons of men That he might screw them to the top of his