God injoyed and worshiped glorified and honoured in that which shall never alter but abides for ever and this shall be is the last ministration that ever shall appear among the Sons of men We who are come out of the Apostacy knowes what was before sees what shal be after the everlasting Gosple of the Son of God shall be preached again to them that dwell on the Earth the same that was preached to Abraham before either old or new Testament was written the latter all sects since the apostacy call the gospel and so greatly manifest their ignoance for that were to make two Gospels to call the scriptures the Gospel or that which is written and they who so erre in their judgements are yet among the smoke of the pit are yet under antichrists reigne are ignorant of him who is the saving health of the Nations And the living infalible true lasting and everlasting spirit of the Father shall be poured out again and many now witnesse it and a numberlesse number shall witnesse it and the time hastens And the Lamb shall stand upon mount Sion and many who are redeemed from the earth and from among men which shall be the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb and they shall sit with him and shall reigne with him and have power over sin temptation and the Devil Hell and the Lake and this is to come to passe and is coming to passe and hastens greatly and the voice out of heaven shall be heard as the voice of many waters and the voice of harpers harping with their harps and the new song shall be sung the pure song of the Lamb shal be sung by all who are redeemed from the earth in every Nation kindred Tongue and people who have heard believed and received the joyful sound of the everlasting Gospel again and now they shall fear God and glorifie him and honour him even they who have feared the Beast and glorified him in the Apostacy they shall deny his power and own the Lambs power and worship him that sits upon the throne of righteousnesse who lives for ever and ever and is eternal Life it selfe the worship shall be now in spirit and truth where the Dragon cannot come neither the beast Harlot false prophet nor antichrist nor none of his followers can come and here in the ministration shal be more glorious after the Apostacy then it was before the worship stood before in many outward visible things and representations and outward performances and ordinances I manifestly say the dragon beast whore and false prophets and Apostates took up these things and Nations and kindreds and Tongues and people who drunk of the whores cup all that were gone from their maker their husband they have been and are acting and performing imitating like Jannes and Jambres but since the daies of the Apostles they corrupted these things and hath made Idols of them and painted themselves with them and have got the sheeps cloathing therefore now will the Lord appear and manifest his power life and glory in away more invisible and pure than before and more divine celestial and glorious where never an hypocrite shal tread in the path so the restoration is a mystery that shall be after the Apostacy the glory is not to appear in externall things for there the mother of harlots hath hid her selfe long which hath made all Nations drunk but the cloathing of the Lambs wife and of the bride shall be another thing then the attire of the harlot for the spouse of the Lamb shall be arrayed in the same attire that the Lamb is cloathed withall and with the same vestment and the Tabernacle of God is to be with men and he shall dwell in them even the Lord that spirit and shall walke in them and they shall be his people and God himselfe shall be with them and in them and sorrow shall be done away and teares wiped away and that done away which was the cause of sorrow Rev. 21. 3. and 4. and there shall be no more death nor crying nor any more pain for the former things are passed away to wit death which entred in by sin it shall be destroyed and the earth out of which the second beast arose and the sea out of which the first beast did arise upon which the whore sate and Hell and the lake which was prepared and raised up when man was degenerated from the Lord they shall be destroyed and he also which hath the power of death which is the Devil he shall be destroyed and his works the cause of scorne and then they shall see the Lord face to face even them that have but seen him darkly as in a glasse or as in a cloud they shall see his pure living countenance which giveth life and death and Hell shall be cast into the Lake of fire and whosoever is not found written in the Lambs book of life must be cast into the fire Then the new heaven and earth shall be seen and the heavenly City which shall come down from God out of heaven which no mortal eye shall behold neither shal be able to behold which hath twelve foundations and twelve gates and the glory of God shall be upon her and her light shall be as a stone most precious and as clear as cristall yea all things visible are too short and not to be compared to it for in it their need neither Sun nor Moon to shine in it for the glory of the Lord shall lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof and all who shall be partakers of this glorious Ministration shall walk in the light of the Lamb there shall be no night nor the least appearance of a cloud or darkness but transparent brightness and glory which shall be permanent durable and everlasting for the Lord God and the Lamb is the Temple of the City in which the Saints shall worship him that sits upon the throne for evermore and shall give unto him glory and honour and dominion and eternal praise for evermore who alone is worthy who lives for ever in eternal glory and everlasting light and brightness for cvermore And his face shall be seen in whom all figures representations shadows ends in and the pure river of water of life which is as clear as Christal which proceeds out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb and all who have kept the word of his patience shall drink thereof and be nourished up in immortality and life everlasting for ever And the tree of life that stands in the Paradice of God them that have overcome shall eat thereof and live for ever and the Nations Kindreds Tongues people and Regions who have heard believed and received the everlasting Gospel shall know his saving health and the Throne of God and the Lamb shall be seen and his servants shall serve him who is their Lord and King who lives for ever and they shall see
manifested his pure presence poured out his spirit plentifully upon sons and daughters fulfilled that which Joelâ—prophesied â—prophesied of Joel 2. 28. which came to be fulfilled after Christs ascention Acts. 2. 17. and they received the holy Ghost spoke the wonderfull things of God as they were revealed by the spirit which shed it selfe abroad among them that waited for it so also the mystery of iniquity began to work even in that time and as the Apostles laid the foundation of truth and declared the truth Christ to be the foundation even so the Mystery of iniquity did work and a beginning or a foundation of error was laid by them who were gone out of the truth the false Prophets deceivers Anti-christs who were professors and preachers but they were such as were covetous and greedy of filthy lucre and made merchandize of souls for dishonest gaine and denyed the power of God Christ and were enemies to the Crosse and gloried in the flesh and spake swelling words of vanity and did all live in the lust of the flesh and were proud boasters and denyed the Lord that bought them for denying the power of God they did deny Christ though in words they preached him as this generation who are their off-springs doe out of strife contention as the Apostle writs they held the form of godlinesse but denyed the power and they were they that once were convinced of the truth and came into the forme of truth but denyed the power of truth but were in craft and deceit and they subverted whole houses from the faith and led them back into the world into unbeliefe in the Apostles dayes and yet had a worship and did worship but not the power not the life and this began to worke and wrought more cunningly and subtilly in the latter times And the Apostle Paul in many of his Epistles Iohn and Peter and Jude declares against them and Paul prophesied of them before his departure of grievous Wolves which should spring up which should not spare to make havock of the flock of Christ so the fall Apostles deceivers Antichrists and deceitful workers they went out then and did what they could to lead disciples after them into the world inwardly they were ravened from the spirit and was gone from it into the earth into the world and served not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies and the God of the world which is the Devil and they went into the world and the world received them and then they and their disciples turned against the saints and they held truth in words and the form for a while but it was in unrighteousness and here was the beginners and the beginning of the Apostats and of the Apostacy it was began in the Apostles dayes by them that went out of the truth out of the light and were ravened from the spirit and erred from the faith and were enemies to the power of God and these were the beginners and the layers of the foundation and then it grew that root of wickedness faster then the truth for the Jewes resisted and the heathen resisted and the Apostates and false prophets resisted and they that were Apostatized they resisted and they caused many to stumble to erre to make ship-wrack of their faith and so the world went after them the World the Nations the kindreds the tongues the people went after Kings Princes and potentates of the earth in processe of time they had over run-all killed the saints the woman fled into the wildernesse the man child was caught up unto God then all Nations who were gone from the Rock became as a sea reeled to fro unstable unsetled what were they like to settle in the Sea then a great beast arose with his seven heads and ten hornes and the whore which had defiled the bed and she sat upon the beast and she reached out her cup of fornication to the nations and all nations was drunk with her cup and then the beast made war and the nations were drunk and they loved the beast and received his marke became cruel and pushed at the saints and followed him and made war with them and the whore she drank the blood of the saints and the Dragon appeared and with his tayle drew the third part of the stars after him to the Earth the false Prophets they are the tayle of the Dragon who were gone from the testimony of Jesus the spirit of prophecy and drew after it the third part of the stars from the firmament of his power into the earth Rev. 12. 4. The man child was caught up unto God which was to rule all Nations with a rod of Iron and the woman fled into the wildernesse where God hath prepared a place for her and then the Dragon went out and made war with the remnant of her seed to wit the womans seed And so out of the Sea arose the beast out of Nations kindreds Tongues and peoples which are waters and the Dragon gave power to the beast and his seat and great authority Rev. 13. 2. And all the world wondred after the beast ver 3. and ver 4. They worshipped the Dragon which gave power to the beast and the beast likewise and now the worlâ— cryed which wondred after the beast who is able to make war with the beast and ver 6. he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and Tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven and he made war with the saints and did overcome them and all that dwelt upon the Earth worshipped him whose names were not written in the Lambs book of life And the beastâ— deceived the Nations and them that did dwell on the earth and now kindreds Tongues and peoples and Nations and all the world which wondred after him they who had lost the image of God now became the image of the beast that blasphemed God and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven and now the Kings of the earth that had drunk the Whores cup of fornication and the Nations Kindreds and Tongues and people who were become the beasts image now the image of the beast spoke and caused as many as would not worship the beast and the image should be killed take notice of that all who are called Christians it was not Gods image who compelled to worship or else be killed but it was the beasts image and wheresoever compultion and killing is exercised and practised they worship the beast Chap. 13. ver 16. And he causeth all both small and great rich and poor bond and free to receive a marke in their forehead or in their right hand and none might buy or sell but he which had the beasts marke or his name or the number of his name here was worship but it was the beasts worship and Idolatrous worship and the Dragons worship who sought to destroy the man-child which all the Angels is to worship all
and the blind doctrines of the World layd waste Ob. Some will be ready to say how dost thou say he was in dominion everlasting then how should he fall that lasted but a while Ans. I say he was made by the word which abides for ever and in it which was in the beginning with God and was God and Gods Son and his dominion is an everlasting dominion and his Throne is established in righteousnesse for ever and ever and in it selfe it is what it was ever and after the fall retained the same power and authority in it selfe and so will do for ever mans power stood in it onely out of it he had none so going out of it dyed to it and not any more power to do or to will or to order or to rule any thing but by it but he lost the feeling of it and the guidance of it the vertue of it and life of it and became dead to it and alive in his heart and mind to an other power to wit the power of deceit and to the power of him which hath the power of death which is the Devil so God is clear no fault in him nor in the power nor weaknesse in the dominion and authority which he had but destruction meerly wholly and onely of himself and he is to bear the his own burthen Thus man receiving in the Devils conceptions who was gone out of the truth and became one with it feeding upon knowledge without the life this was evil thus sin entred and death by sin man cut off from the power from life from the dominion which he had in the power now man is dead while he lives and in the day he eat he died dead to the power dead to the life dead to good dead to truth dead to purity dead to Righteousnesse estranged and alienated from it the grave covers him death hath prehemenence and bears rule and not life and he gone into its nature and loves it and imbraces it Oh sad life ah sad state now his life cursed which is death he cursed all his actions cursed all his conception cursed all his works cursed labouring in sorrow in travel and pain and grief and sweat and perplexity Now all may as in a line read the happy estate of man before the fall the sad and deplorable estate in the fall which who can declare or who can measure or who can demonstrate the miserable estate of man dead in trepasses and sins and life swallowed up of death death and destruction lives and man in it and now in the grave God is not remembred but forgotten Now the world set in the heart and the Earth in the heart the heart becomes earthly and vain thorns and bryers springs up and the Earth covers the slain now death lives and man lives in it and one with the enmity and in enmity against God who was before his life man now in chains of darkness when any thing moves Heaven-ward the power of death drawes the mind down again to the pit into darkness Now the nature of all things in the earth set in the heart Beasts Rocks Hills Mountains dogs swine and brutish creatures and man becomes brutish and vain they have all dominion over him he a slave to all all rules over him and death grew and dead works brought forth he cannot now perform any thing whereby he can purchase the love of God nor give a ransom for his soul now the root of betterness grew and the enmity and man in lust and when his lust is crost or his will crost then the enmity which liveth in him riseth he would kill that and destroy that imprison that and bring it into bondage that the enmity might be Lord over all and brings the innocent into bondage that which is nocent is set up and the higher deceit growes in the heart the more stir it makes and the greater destruction of that which crosses it and here came in oppression murder cruelty tyrany prisoning imbondaging revenge maliciousness and envie rage sury headiness pride this is all in the curse and springs up from the foundation of the world in the heart and so being given way unto and loved grows in strength and iniquity multiplies and the beast growes and the name great and numberless the Serpents root spreads forth it self and sprouts out in the Earth and comes to grow great and is admired now the deeds of darkness and the works of darkness comes to be many envy murder adultery fornication uncleanness riotousness sporting covetousness defrauding cheating maliciousness theft dissimulation feinedness hypocrisy witchcraft cursed-speaking railing reviling filthy communication unsavory speeches wantonness lightness foolish jeasting idle talking vain Babbling back-biting swearing lying cursing blasphemy slandering pride arogancy vain-boasting contention strife emulation mischief these and many more are now the fruits of the degenerate plant dead works and the works of darkness in man who was once a noble plant a holy right seed now the fruits of Sodom and the grapes of Gomorah whom God destroyed and overthrew is brought forth and the whole Earth is filled with violence and these be the fruits that grow and are become great over all Nations which are wrought by the Devil the father of lies who spoke of himself and works of himself in the dark in the night out of the light out of the day who went out of the truth and now worketh in all the children of disobedience who are out of the light and out of the power and here are all the sons of fallen Adam in the curse under the wo and these be the works that are wrought and brought forth which hath stained the earth and the father of them and man in whom they are wrought and the works themselves is all for condemnation never to be numbred among the Saints in light nor among their works Self righteousness deeds of darkness also and dead works which though they be not counted as bad as the former by them that act in them yet they are to be condemned also And man who acts them being in the fall CAin who was the first begotten in the fall the similitude likeness and image of Adam his Father who had transgressed and disobeyed and lost the power and became dead to it Cain I say his expresse Image out of the saith out of the Power he brought a sacrifice and offered in the same nature he slew his brother with and envied him who was in the saith and was accepted of the Lord through faith in the Power of God I say in this nature he offered and was not accepted he was in the imitation out of the life out of the Power in feinedness and this was self and not the Lord that moved him The Jewes in the Prophets time who were in Cains nature in envy and maliciousness grinding the faces of the poor and oppressing the needy and chopping them in pieces as flesh for the pot they brought sacrifices oblations
of what the Scripture spoke nor know him nor his mind to wit Christ of whom the Scriptures spoke neither were they accepted of God but reproved and rejected by Christ himself who said they erred not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God doubtless they did know the words naturally and read them but the spirits mind in so speaking they knew not and Jude reproves all such and said what they knew they knew naturally as bruit beasts and in that knowledg they corrupted themselves and therefore Peter well said many things were hard to to be understood which the unlearned wrested they that were ignorant of the spirit of the Father and had not learned of God who is a spirit they I say perverted and wrested the good and wholsom words of the Scriptures and were no more accepted of God then if they had never heard the words nor read them at all and as for the Jewes conforming to the outward commands when the vail was over their hearts and their hearts uncircumcised these things did not make them any whit more accepted then the heathen so the Christians since Christs time in the Apostles days and after the Apostles days who held the form of worship and the form of godliness and the outward part of worship and holds and retains it in that part which is above the seed and denies the power this no more makes a Christian inward then outward circumcision made a Jew inward neither any of these things do recommend any unto God but are covers made rests formed from that part which is above the seed so man comes to be counselled in those things when alas he is miserable and naked and hath not the righteous garment on which should make man accepted of the Father through the beloved Gods righteousness How all men upon the earth in the degeneration and in the fall and in the transgression have corrupted themselves and have been idolaters in every administration being gone from the power in which man had the ability power and wisdom to worship God aright and honour the living God of heaven and earth IN the state and condition which man was created in when he was the image of God and lived in the Power of God in which he was created He in that Power which was his life had wisdom and understanding and power to worship the living God and to glorifie his maker the which thing I have treated on before but being gone from the power and grew in knowledge without the power his thoughts became vain and his imaginations vain and his desires earthly and corruptable and so the creatures were worshipped in his heart and not the Creator the life of the creatures and he bowed to the creatures and they had dominion over him and that nature began to grow and multiply in all the earth and that seed which was at enmity with God and against the seed which is Christ and few there were that called upon the Name of the Lord in truth righteousness although some yet few one in a Nation or a few in an age nay in many ages and men multiplied in the earth and wickedness multiplyed also and idolatry and the seed of the Serpent grew great And God saw the wickedness of man that it was great in the earth and that the thoughts and purposes and imaginations of his heart were onely evil continually Gen. 6. 5. and the earth was filled with violence and crueltie and oppression and the living God forgotten and not worshipped but on the contrary they followed the imaginations of their own hearts and bowed down to every corruptable thing and to every creature and did not worship the Lord God in their hearts till the Lord was grieved at the heart and repented that he had made man and this was before the flood and after the flood when the earth was a little multiplied iniquity grew in the earth and the cursed seed sprang from Hams stock of whom was Nimrod the hunter before the Lord the beginning of his Kingdom was Babel of the which became great Idolaters and of this seed came the Philistians who were uncircumcised who were heathens and the Jebusites and Gargasites and the Canaanites and Hivites and their generations were great in the earth they were great Idolaters and committed Idolatry with stocks and stones and with brick having forgotten the Lord they began to work exploits in the earth and to build Cities and Babel having forgot the name of God they would have got a name in the earth and builded a tower whose top might have reached to heaven but the Lord whom they had forgot scattered them and this was the seed of evil doers whom God scattered and drove out of Canaan who were great Idolaters and gave it to Abraham who feared the Lord and to Jacob and to his seed to possesse And when transgression grew he added a Law the sence of Gods power and wisdom was so lost in man and they so gone from his wisdom that a Law was added after Israel came out of Egypt which was outward and written in tables of of stone wherein was the statutes and the commands that they should onely worship him and that they should not make them Gods of gold and silver neither the likeness of any thing in heaven or earth yet nevertheless that uncircumcised part which kept the seed in bondage and that corruptable earthly nature that ruled in them made gods like the heathen Egytians and they made a Calf and bowed to the molten image and forgot God and provoked him to anger till many of them were consumed in his sore displeasure and tempted him and lusted and eat and drank and rose up to play and committed whoredoms with the creatures and abused them and therefore the Lord sent his Prophets and rebuked them they abused the gold and the silver the stone and the wood which were good creatures but not to make gods of nor images thereof nor idols to draw away their minds from the Lord but they in whom the seed was not made manifest they worshipped dead things and likenesses of things which were not life it self and so transgressed the Law acting from that part and living in that nature which the Law was against which was added because of transgression to limit the transgressor and to slay him and to bruise that under till the seed came up that fulfills the Law but the seed of the Serpent had so much rule in them whom God had often delivered out of the hands of their enemies so that many perished Corah and many Princes and many thousands of Israel who followed their own inventions and were cut off in Gods sore displeasure being gone from that which was upright in which man was created followiug their imaginations out of that mind formed idols and images and set them up and answered that part in themselves which transgressed the seed not that which doth overthrow all idols
and Eternal glory happy is he that believes and abides in patience unto the end Now since the dayes of John the Kingdom of God hath been Preached and as many as were ordained to Eternal life believed and many in the day when Christ was manifest in the flesh believed unto whom he declared the mind of the Father and by him was the Father glorified he fulfilled the Law and did many works and miracles by the power of the Father and herein was the Father glorified and them that did believe in him their faith was strengthened and he opened the mystries of the Kingdom of God unto his Disciples and bore witness and prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem and of all their worship and said no more at Jerusalem nor at Samaria but the time was coming when they that worshipped the Father should worship him in spirit and truth and declared against the Pharisees righteousness and said to his Disciples Except their righteousness did exceed the Pharisees they could not enter the Kingdom of God and yet the Pharisees performed all the outward things commanded but were in the idolatry and did not believe in the life Now he declared of his suffering many things also how he would go away and how he would come again and would not leave them comfortless but these things were hard to be believed then by his Disciples and further he told them he must be betrayed and suffer and rise again and when the hour was come that he was betrayed when he was with his Disciples even the same night he was betrayed he took bread and broke it and blessed it and said take and eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me and after he took the cup and after he had Supped saying this is the cup of the New Testament in my blood as often as you drink it do it in remembrance of me 1 Cor. 11. 23. 24. and Matthew Mark and Luke declares the same and this was reall bread and reall wine which was a representation of that which was to be enjoyed in the spirit and never intended for any further thing but as a figure or a representation of the bread of life and of the cup of blessing which afterward they came to be witnesses of and as oft as they eat and drank they did shew forth the Lords death till he came Now this was practiced among the Disciples after he was risen from the dead and did converse with them at many times and exhorted them and comforted them and instructed them and told them that they should be witnesses of his name unto the ends of the earth and gave them commandment to teach all Nations and Baptize them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost and did promise to be with them to the end of the world and told how the Comforter would come and that the Father would send him in his Name even the spirit of truth which was with them and should be in them to be their teacher leader and guide and bring all things to their remembrance Now that which he gave them as a figure and to be a sign unto them of the clearer manifestation of himself which afterward came to be fulfilled and they witnesses of it who grew up in the pure invisible being and did see the mystery through the Revelation of the spirit which did more clearly show unto them the mysteries within the vail for as I said of water it was a sign of a good thing to come so the bread and the cup was also a sign of a good thing to come as all outward figures were but they that did believe and grew up in the faith in the seed Christ they came to see the substance in whom all figures ends in and had communion with him within the vail after he was ascended where he was before now the Apostle he spoke as to wise men judge ye what I say 1 Cor. 10. 15 16. the cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the communion of the blood of Christ the bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ and v. 17. for we being many are one bread one body for we are all partakers of that one bread mark all they that did believe though they were many yet they were one bread one body and were all partakers of that one bread which bread was the flesh of Christ John 6. 48. I am the bread of life and Joh. 6. 51. I am the living bread that came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever and the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world Now I speak unto wise men and let the wisdom of God in them manifest judge what I say for where the body of Christ is witnessed and the flesh of Christ known they know that which all the figures ends in the Manna that God gave to Israel in the wilderness they died that did eat thereof which was as pure a type of the hidden Manna as lively a type as bread outward which was but a type of the of the flesh of Christ and both they that did eats the Manna and they that eat the bread outward and drank the cup outward are both dead but he that eat the flesh of Christ and drinks the blood lives for ever and he that eats the hidden Manna hath overcome death and lives for ever and feeds upon the bread of life feeds upon Eternal life Now this is a mystery to the Papists who are idolaters who have sprung vp in the Apostacy though they have Scriptures as it was to the Jewes John 6. 52. who strove among themselves and said how can this man give us his flesh â—o eat and so the Papists who strives about the flesh of Christ and his blood and yet have the Scriptures and they say it s in the bread and in the wine after consecration so they worship the imaginations of their own hearts not deserning the Lords body and have killed thousands and taken away the lives of thousands because they would not confesse their idol to be of God And the protestants they are setting up the bread and the wine and contenting themselves therewith and are making an idol of it and comes not to discerne the body of Christ but one saying he hath a carnall body and another a fleshly body another a mystical body another sayes his body is devided from his members and so speaks out of thick darknesse their own imaginations and hath not communion with the body of Christ neither knowes the flesh of Christ which is the bread of life which is given for the life of the World Iohn 6. 51. And as godlinesse began to work and the mystery thereof in the dayes of Christand the Apostles wherein the Lord discovered much of his wisdom and power
this worship is in the Apostacy So let all take notice of this compelling causing forcing killing and destroying about worship all they that so do yet are worshipping the beast on which the Whore rides and this is that generation who slew the Lamb and they are of the World and this is the Dragons brood who sought to devour the man-child and this is the Serpents seed and a seed of falsehood who made war with the remnant of the seed of the woman through all ages unto this generation and so all that which is called Christendome is more or lesse under the beasts power and hath his Image even to this day and yet some of them are professing the saints words and imitating their actions who were followers of the Lamb and kept the faith now this that Iohn saw as come in did grow deceivers anti-christs false prophets who were before trouthe Churches at Galatia Corinth and made havock brought in deceit and infected many as Coloss. Pergamus Rev. 3. Sardis Laodicea but now all Nations were erred and gone from their maker their husband and did drink of the cup of the whore and were adulterated from the life faith and power and now worshipped the beast and the whole world went after him there was some of his adultery whordome and fornication in the Apostles dayes and some had drunken then but now Nations kindreds Tongues and people drunk the cup of fornication and now Jesabel who slew the prophets and drunk the blood of the saints she reaches out her cup Kings merchants Noble men great men Nations kinreds Tongues and people were made drunk the man-child sought to be devoured flouds cast out after the woman the saints blood drunk the world worships the Dragon and the beast and his great authority and wonders after him now Jesabel the whore who made the nations drunk she prophesies all the Nations made drunk with her cup of fornication and drinks in all her false doctrines and devised fables now she is as a Queen now the Nations worships after a beast arises she gets upon him and rides she and the beast becomes one she drinks the blood of the saints the beast makes war compells kills being of one mind with the whore none to buy or sell but they that have his mark of his name or at least some of the number of his name and who were not defiled were killed or sought to be killed this is since the apostles days so now we have found the whore her beginning in the Apostacy having lost the faith and power that the Saints were in we have found out the rise of the beast in the Apostacy since the Apostles that all the World wondred after and worshipped Now Rome we have found thy foundation and the beginning of thy rise and sees how thou art elevated we have thee and all that sprang out of thy stock and root betwixt this time and the Apostles and we read beyond thee though thou boast thy selfe of antiquity and glory in thy counsels and convocations for thy proof we have sounded thy bottome I have thee and all the Apostates sprang from thee betwixt me and the Apostles the anti-christs false-Prophets deceivers false Apostles they began they laid thy foundation who went out from the Apostles and denyed the crosse of Christ and the power of God and the Apostle prophesied of their increase here thy visible members began to gather and they went out into the World and the World received them according to Christs saying out of the light out of the power out of the faith out of the life that the holy men of God were in being ravened from the spirit whored from the life they went out in an outward dresse had a shew a form of godliness the Nations received the cup the Kings of the earth the Nobles and the mighty men thou boasts of they drank of thy cup and were inflamed with adultery after thee and then the Nations over which the whoredoms spread kindreds Dominions tongues Nations peoples and become fornicators all became as a sea rolling tossing foming raging casting up mire and dirt unstable reeling then the Kings the great men thy Nobles who were Rulers over the people being drunk with the Nations cup of fornication they sprang up as a great Beast with so many heads and horns and their teeth became as Lyons their feet as Bears and then thou began to ride in the Nations and to sit as a Queen then thou associated thy drunken fornicators together then thou began to usurp authority and then sit as Judge over the heritage of God and of the Saints of the Apostles and of them that kept the testimony of Jesus then thou began to kill and destroy and suck the blood of the Saints and to be drunk with it and then thy Kings whom thou calls converts and Christians having drunken thy cup they formed Lawes and made Lawes to guard thy whoredoms and adultries and Idolatries then they became thy executioners and what thou said was good the Beast maintained and what thou condemnedst by thy Counsels for heresie they became executioners of then came in compelling to worship by the Beast that rose out of the Sea and then thou cryed Hereticks and condemned the just and then thou got a cover thou wouldst not kil but the beast must upon whom thou rides then if there was any that kept their virginity and the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ which was in the Apostles dayes then thou condemnedst them for Hereticks then the Beast compelled and caused to worship but if they would not bow to his image then thy Merchants cries up they despise Governors and Rulers when both thy Doctrine and thy Laws is corrupt then the Beast must kill then he blaphemes the God of heaven and his Tabernacle and then thou saith thou killest none but the beast must upon which thou rides and shall have a whole Counsel to confirm it to be lawful And now thou cals thy self the Catholike and Apostolical Church and thy seat the Apostolical Chair and the Rulers and leaders defenders of the faith Nay we finde thee contrary to the primitive Church and thy seat and Chair is raised up since and thy bed of whoredoms made since and the Kings and Rulers in thy Dominions are become defenders of thy idolatries and whoredoms and are indeed the beast that makes War with the Saints and hath prevailed and truth overcome but he is risen who is able to make war with the Beast and to take the whore and to burn her flesh with fire for he is able to judge her and thy Beasts weapons and thine are carnal but the Lambs and the Saints are spiritual and so thy Doctrine and practice is quite another thing patched â—uffe some brought in from the first Priesthood some borrowed from the Jews as thy Altars thy vestments that thy idolatrous Merchants wear when they celebrate thy great idol the Mass and the rest borrowed fragments
distraction one envying another and persecuting one another about the words of truth spoken from the spirit of truth which cannot be understood again but by the same spirit and so all them that have not the spirit of truth are in the Apostacy And all Sects Judgements and opinions that hath risen up since the Apostacy from the faith that was once delivered to the saints when the woman traveled and brought the man-child which after because of the Dragons power fled into the wildernesse and her child caught up unto God all the faith and worship that since is sprung up since the Whore hath sitten as a Queen in majesty is all denyed the ground of their worship Lawes Traditions Inventions and all their invented practises and formes and Images and likenesses are denyed and disowned as to be the dresse and attire of the Whore which hath allured people through her inticing pretences and shewes of holinesse when indeed all is but spiritual adultery and this must be all turned under again the Whores flesh burned and her attire plucked off and her nakednesse appear and her shame to them that have committed fornication with her and they shall be ashamed of themselves and of her and abhor themselves and abhor her and destroyed shall she be and the Lambs wife shall be beautified and come out of the secret places into open view out of the solitary wildernesse into the beautifull place that the Lord will bring her into the time times and halfe time is out the thousand two-hundred and threscore dayes is at an end and he bears witnesse of it who saw her â—fly away upon Eagles wings into the secret place which was prepared for her for these dayes and times appointed and I say he that knowes the counsell of the most High in this matter can account the time times and a halfe and the dayes and what shall be after the days be expired which is at an end blessed is he that sees believes and understands he shall see that which yet hath not appeared neither can it be believed by the most though it were declared but yet a little while and the Earth growes ripe and an eare will be opened in many who cannot yet hear and for a little while in this I shall be silent and treasure up that which the spirit hath revealed till the time be fully accomplished which God hath determined and then his glory shall be revealed and all the former things which have lived since the man of sin hath been exalted shall all dye an utter consumption shall be of all the changeable Lawes made since the Apostacy and the many changeable dresses of the whore and attires in which she hath appeared Imaginary worships into which all have run since they were Apostatiâ—ed from the faith all this shall be disanulled and come to an end and be blasted for ever the spirit of the Lord saith Amen How the woman that was cloathed with the Sun and had the Crowne of twelve Stars upon her head which did flie into the wildernesse comes out againe after the great whore is judged and her child that was caught up unto God comes to appeare again NOw after the time times and halfe a time and after the thousand two hundred and threescore days she returns after the whore is judged and the great City Babylon is fallen which hath made the Nations drunk and brought forth children in fornication who had drunk the blood of the Saints in the Apostacy after the Whore was judged and the voice was heard in heaven of much people that sang Halelujah salvation and glory and honour power Who witnessed to the righteousness of Gods judgement And a voice came out of the Throne saying praise our God all his servants and ye that fear him both small and great Rev. 19. 5. and verse the 6. And I heard as it were the voice of many waters and as a great multitude and as the voice of a mighty thunder saying Halelujah for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth the Whore is now judged the mother of harlots condemned with all her inchantments and sorceries Now the Lambs wife appears who is the mother of the man-child which was caught up unto God she that was cloathed with the Sun with the glorious everlasting Celestial light she is both the mother and the wife he that hath an eare let him hear now Jerusalem that is from above spiritually so called who was the mother of all the Saints before the apostacy she appears again and comes to be the wife of the Lamb and the city of the Saints the mother of them that are born from above this shall be and is made manifest to some but a numberlesse number shall see it and the day hastens greatly and she is appearing again and her solitary garments shall be put off and as she was beautifull before the whore made the nations drunk cloathed with the Sun and had the Moon under her feet and a Crown of twelve Stars upon her head and though she became child-lesse and also as a widow and the remnant of her seed slain and destroyed so shall she appear again in glory and beauty as before and shall be made ready yea my eye hath seen it she is making her selfe ready as a bride for her husband and unto her is granted that she shall be arrayed in fine linen clean and white even arayed in the righteousnesse of the saints which is not self-righteousnesse the garments of the harlot and her lovers but in the righteousnesse of Christ the Lamb her husband and child also and she shall now bring forth many more children though her seed have been slain yet a numberlesse number shall appear and ten thousand thousand shall be brought forth by her and glory in her and reverence her and rejoyce in her for ever and they shall be all clad in the same robe which the husband the Lamb is cloathed withall and the same the Lambs wife this woman is cloathed with all and the same shall all the children be cloathed with all the fine linen the righteousnesse of the Lamb which was dead and slaine since the foundation of the world but now alive and lives for evermore and here a heavenly family appears now after the Apostacy and this shall be seen by all that have an eye that can see through beyond the smoke of the pit that have darkned the ayre while the beast and Dragon hath had power but now hath her child appeared again the man-child hath appeared again and he that was in the spirit on the Lords day saw whether he was taken up to the Throne of God Revel 12. ver 5. and on the same Lords day he saw him after the woman was fled and the remnant of her seed was made War with and flain in the earth where the Dragon had power He that was in the spirit saw him alive again after he was caught up So he that is in
the spirit now on the Lords day sees the same man-childe who was brought forth by by the woman who was to rule the Nations but was caught up to the Throne of God before he came to Râ—le and then the Dragon ruled the beasts and false prophet the Whore the Mother of harlots sate as a Queen and the woman the mother of the heir fled into an obscure and a retired place and was hid times and dayes as I said before but as she appeared again in beauty so the man-childe the heir he appears also in glory Majesty and power and John saw him Revelations 19. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sate upon him was called faithful and true and he doth Judge and make War in rigteousness his eyes was as a flame of fire on his head were many Crowns and he had a name written that none knew but he bimself and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God And now the womans seed is increased again after the Dragon and the beasts War and now they become an Army and follows the Lamb their leader who is anoynted with honour glory and Majesty and renown strength power wisdom joy and gladness above all his fellowes yet his followers are annointed too and the seed of the woman the inhabitants of the City of the great King they are clothed with the same garment and Armour and rides on in power strength and Majesty after him and they are clothed and shall be with the garment of their Mother and the garment of their Captain their head and as he rode on in innocency so they ride on after him and the woman was in heaven that travelled and the childe was born there though he was to rule the Nations of the Earth and so who so are of this womans seed which is born in the City of the great King Jerusalem unto which the Hebrewes were come Heb 21. before the Apostacy and before the woman fled so now the same City comes to be seen again and the children are free born of their mother the Lambs wife who is joyned to him and is to be so for ever in the everlasting Covenant so they being heavenly children redeemed from the earth from under the Dragons power they follow the Lamb the word Gods power Revel 19. 14. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean and out of his mouth goes a sharp sword and with it he shall smite the Nations and now comes he to rule them with a rod of Iron he was brought forth long before but was caught up to God again and the Dragon beast and whore and false prophet ruled the Nations and killed the Saints but now he appears again after the Apostacy and a great host with him and the woman also and her children are many and they all follow the first-born and now comes the wo to the dragon and Whore beast and false prophets and unclean spirits and on them that worship devils and now shall he tread the wine-press of the wrath of God Almighty And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh written King of Kings and Lord of Lords And now appears an Angel standing in the Sun which the womanâ— was clothed with and he cryed with a loud voyce saying to all the fowls that flie in the midst of heaven come and gather to the Supper of the great day of God and now must the flesh of the Kings and Captains and Nobles and flesh of mighty men who had drunk the Whores cup now must drink of the wine of Gods wrath and the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their Armies gathered together to make War against him that sate on the white horse and his Army and the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him and the remnant were slain that took part with the beast by him that sate upon the horse and his Army whose sword proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls were filled with their flesh the Whore is burnt before the beast the false prophet and his Army now slain and their flesh eaten by the fowls of heaven and now the blood comes forth to the horse bridles And now the Angel descends having the key of the bottomless pit from whence the old Dragon the Serpent the red Dragon the Devil came there is his beginning there was he brought forth and there he grew up he that reads let him understand out of the bottomless pit for the Nations were never deceived till he appeared and he appeared as I have said before after the heaven and the earth was made and all things therein I say after he was not before he deceived Eve in the garden now he is grown old and so is truely called the old Dragon grown into a body of deceit well now must he be taken and bound and cast into the bottomless pit from whence he came that he deceive the Nations no more Rev. 20. 1 2. and all this War is in the bringing out of the Apostacy and in order to the Lamb and the Saints everlasting Reign in heaven and over the earth for ever This I have seen and my heart rejoyceth and my mouth shall praise the Lord the woman I say is appearing and she is cloathed with beautiful garments and the holy child the man-child hath appeared and is manifest again among the Saints and in then and the Lamb which hath been slain since the world began is alive behold he lives for evermore and now many are his followers and an innumerable company shall ride on after him who is King of Kings and now is God fulfilling that which Iohn saw in the Lords day which should come to pass the work is begun he hath appeared out of whose mouth proceeds the two edged sword which shall hew downe all the Dragons army the beast and his followers and though the cry be yet among many who shall make war with the beast and who shall speak against his prophets yet a little while and fear shall come their vaunts and boasts shall be turned into doubting and dreadfull fear on every side for Jacob shall be as a flame and Esau and all his race shall be as Stubble he that reads let him understand the wisdome of God in a mystery and the worke of the Lord which shall shortly come to to passe The manifestation of Gods glory shall be as great after the Apostacy as ever it was in any age before the rise of antichrist and the ministrations into which them that follow the Lamb shall be brought shall be as spiritual holy Celestial and divine as ever was before For the end of all our outward visible appearances shall come which the whore hath decked her selfe with and life it shall be known in the body and