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A29602	A clear voice of truth sounded forth, and as an ensign lifted up and displayed in answer to the proceedings of the Christians by name in Asia, by way of controversie and expostulation : together with savoury and wholesome admonishments, which may become of good use and profitable to all that read with a single eye, and understand with an upright heart : also the same somewhat tends by way of gentle reproof to their hasty and inequitable proceedings against the innocent servants, messengers and living witnesses of the living and true God : yet with tendernesse of an upright heart and spirit (not onely of a free born English-man, but also of a true Christian) from the same hand its principally directed to the Lord Embassasdor (so called) in Constantinople, and to the English Company of Merchants and Factors in Smyrna, with somewhat to the merchants in Genoa, tendred again by way of visitation, and that from God, for them and others in Italy to consider and not reject to their own hurt.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1662 (1662)	Wing B482; ESTC R22863	27,445	38

A CLEAR VOICE OF TRUTH Sounded forth And as an Ensign lifted up and displayed in answer to the proceedings of the Christians by name in Asia by way of Controversie and Expostulation together with Savoury and Wholesome Admonishments which may become of good use and profitable to all that read with a single eye and understand with an upright heart Also the same somewhat tends by way of gentle reproof to their hasty and unequitable proceedings against the Innocent Servants Messengers and living Witnesses of the Living and True God Yet with the tendernesse of an upright Heart and Spirit not onely of a free born English-man but also of a True Christian from the same hand it s principally directed to the Lord Embassador so called in Constantinople and to the English Company of Merchants and Factors in Smyrna with somewhat to the Merchants in Genoa tendred again by way of Visitation and that from God for them and others in Italy to consider and not reject to their own hurt Blessed are they which are persecuted for Righteousnesse sake for theirs is the Kingd●m of Heaven Mat. 5.10 Printed in the year 1662. AN EPISTLE TO THE READER THere is certainly a very Pretious Noble Royal Long-Suffering Seed of the Eternal God of Heaven and Earth the which in these latter dayes of our age since the long night of Apostacy from Christ and his Holy Apostles and Saints life to which the Eternal Arm of the Lord God is manifestly revealed unto eternal Salvation and perfect Redemption in and by the Light of the Lord Jesus the Immanuel who as truly lighteth every man as he tasted Death for every man that cometh into the World and this pretious Seed which is the Light that is sown for the Righteous * And the People become perfectly Righteous that believe in and obey the same light of Jesus and are thereby made partakers of the Righteousness and so of the same nature of God which comes to be revealed from faith to saith in Male and Female for which end the light which is the Seed is sown in the heart is the Light shines in darkness which comprehends not that which is the treasure in the earthen Vessel as a pearl hid in a field and is the good thing which can give the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4.2 Pet. 2.19 Rom. 1.19 1 Cor. 6.2 Cor. 11. the same hath been visited from on high as a thing hid in obscurity in many under the Region and Shaddow of Death and Destruction so that it hath been quickned and revived mightily to the amazement and astonishment of Kindreds Nations Tongues and peoples because of the arm of the Lords Salvation with which he hath arisen in his Majesty and shaken terribly the Earth and Heavens also and made the Keepers of the strong Mans House to tremble and by his power of holiness to bind him and spoile his goods So that the everlasting Light hath sent his Word of Power into Jacob and it hath lighted upon Poor distressed Israel in whose house he the Lord God that Spirit hath promised to dwell in the midst for ever as in the Antient dayes and many of the Eternal Off-spring of Life which is the Light of men having gladly received the Word of Life not from man nor by man that shall dye but from his mouth that was dead and is alive and behold he liveth for evermore that leads his Flock like a good Shepherd to Living Springs and Fountains which are as wells springing up into everlasting Life in them that believe as the Scripture hath said John 4. John 7.38.30 And these as Lambs among Wolves having the blessed Life and Salvation to Proclaim in Faithfulness travelling in their innocent integrity on this wise as our Brethren the Prophets and Fathers of old did from one Nation to another People Now why are the Nations angry and why do the Mighty and Potentates of the Earth combine and take Counsel together against the Lord and his Anointed Is it not because the Eternal God is provoking them to jealousie and to anger with a foolish Nation with them which are deemed not a People who are Poor Afflicted Despised Destressed on every hand yet not forsaken of the Lord their Rock their Strength Deut. 32. Now it came to pass that after the Lord God who formeth the Mountains and Createth the Wind which obeyeth him Amos. 4. last had given three more of my Brethren together with me a good passage from the Land of our Nativity to Italy namely to Legorne where two of us to wit John Stubs and Henry Fell was ordered of the Lord to passe from thence towards Alexandria and they became obedient and it came to pass also by the permission of God who suffered the men of our own Nation to Banish and expel them away from that Region and Coast where they gave a sound of the Mighty Day of Gods visitation and saith Christ as they have done unto me so will they do unto you c. The Gadarenes loved their Swine and besought Christ to depart out of their Coast and them that Rebel against the Light saith depart from us even to the most High for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Job 21. Job 24. 13 14. And furthermore my Dear Brother Richard Scostrope my Companion in Tribulation and in the Power of God by which we were also ordered having no imposition from any mortal man on our Consciences God is witness was ordained of God to pass Eastward towards Asia namely to Smyrna intending also to travel further if the Lord suffered not Sathan to hinder and behold when we came there having enjoyed the benefit of a good passage that the Merchants and Great men and others of our own Nation did not a little perplex and burthen themselves not only at our bodily presence but also with our faithful and true innocent and harmless message of life and glad tidings of Salvation to the Nations and verily they cannot deny but that our behaviour and deportment if they speak truth was such as we professed in Words and Doctrine in all good Conversation whilest we abode among them as examples in the manifold Dispensations of the grace of God Almighty to whom be the Glory over all Amen We being at our first coming sent for before the Consul of the Nation gave him a good and sober information of the intent of our hearts as God had ordered and determined in some measure to try them and he said that he must give account to the Lord Ambassadour and send tidings to Constantinople to him and he could not suffer us to pass further till he had received information in answer c. Now we saw not of our departure from Smyrna imediately and seeing that they did intend to write many of them being evil affected with prejudice and such like surmisings against us that loved them and travelled in the love and Spirit of

all men will believe on him and the Romans will come and take away our Place and Nation And so had they not respect to their persons and places and outward vain Honour and Glory of their Nation which was and is to be defaced and brought into contempt more then to Christ the Light and saving Truth of all Nations and true Honour thereof and therefore justly condemned and there houses left desolate as the Holy Scriptures witnesseth but will you blame me yet if I ask you saying What will you condemn a hard-hearted Generation and justifie your selves whilest you are walking in the steps and doing the same things like the Gaderenes and unbelieving Jews in the dayes of Christ put it not far from you it s even so whether you hear or forbear wherefore out of your Coasts and Borders and else where the extent of your Authority or Dominion doth reach or extend must he the Lamb be expelled or banished Woe and alas for you woe and alas for you that know not what you do who shall bewail you when no hiding place will be found from his Eternal Light and Everlasting Wrath to hide Behold whether you hear or forbear how the Scriptures of Truth is fulfilled not to your justification as saith Christ our Lord and Master viz. in as much as ye did it not Concerning Receiving Visiting and Communicating to one of the least of these ye did it not unto me Mat. 23. and these shall go into Everlasting punishment but the Righteous into Life Eternal whom you have wilfully rejected and unjustly condemned and think not that this is to justifie our selves but the Grace of God which is our life and strength which of a truth we have gladly received and it s set up in our Hearts otherwise at this day we had not been but Glory Blessing and Salvation to the Lord our God over all Amen And will you bear with me yet a little if I proceed to query what is the Crimes that are or tend to be so Rediculous that 's so capable to bring dishonour to the Nation Was not Nicodemus a master in Israel somewhat Noble when he would not have the Law to judge a man before it hear him Doth our Law Judge a man before it hear him saith he and saith King AGRIPPA I would hear the man my self and it s well known what he was a Heathen termed who was so Noble in such a Matter as to hear the Accused as well as the Accusers And if thou O Ambassador for King Charles of Great Britane in the Turks Dominion hadest manifested the Nobility of a good understanding so Nobly in the first place before such a hasty sentence was given forth under thy Hand and Seal by thee to have suffered us to come and appeared before thee to the end that thou mightest have enquired honestly into the Nature and Ground of the Matter as a man of God in the place of Judicature and so according as thou hadst found us either Clear or Guilty of unjust Crimes which indeed are Ridiculous and tends to the Dishonour Destructiveness of a Kingdom or Nation then to have clered thy Conscience in laying the Sword in its due place as a terror to evil doers and not upon the head of the Innocent and Guiltless to whom he that bears the Sword of the Righteousness as a Minister of God should be a praise and our Bodies would also have been ready either to do or suffer accordingly but behold herein thou also hast been wanting and the Guiltless Cause thou hast not pleaded but contrariwise condemned the same and hereby they have suffered the more but the reproaches of Christ they esteem as great Riches though accounted they be even as the vilest off scouring of all things yet what is their Ridiculous Crimes what is it because they are scornfully called Quakers or because they are the Elect of God Redeemed from a vain Conversation and conform not to the Vanities Traditions Lusts and Customs of the World which are not of the Father of all Truth or is it because all men speak not well but evil of them and separate them from their Company as Christ Prophesied should befal them Luke 6.22 Mat. 10.22 or is it because they cannot Swear at all neither Lye nor Dissemble but speak the truth from the heart to every man in plainnesse without respect of Persons Nations or Places or is it because for Conscience sake and not in any evil surmising or contempt to any mans person they honestly wear their Hats as the rest of their plain and useful Garments and cannot receive neither give the honour that 's beneath the Son with flattering Titles either to themselves or to any man which is not contrary but according to the Perfect and Compleat Example of Christ their Lord and Master and Captain of Salvation who receives not honour from man and saith How can you believe which receive honour one of another Mat. 5 But I demand as a Christian in truth and indeed as a free born English man yet further what is the evil these that are so contrary to the World its Friendship Honour and Glory that they have at all done Or what are they guilty of that they are deemed so Ridiculous and so capable to bring Dishonour to a Nation who shall become a blessing to all Nations with a notwithstanding this and that which letteth that 's to be taken out of the way What must people believe Accusations to be true without instancing or making the Cause manifest to their understandings because its the pleasure of men of high degree to say they are so and so is this sufficient to stand before the God of Judgement and good men of understanding who have they been chargeable unto or who have they defrauded or have they eaten any mans bread for nought or wherein is their carriage Ridiculous or what is any manner of their Crimes or Behaviour or Deportment otherwise then Peace and Love that worketh no ill to its neighbour but good will to all men in Truth and Uprightness Temperence and Sobriety in Life and Conversation but what 's the matter with the Sons of men that they so burthen themselves with the Sons of Truth and blameless Servants of the Living God who do all things well in the Light through Christ the light that strengtheneth them let the Lords Witness the light in your Consciences arise to answer either to your Justification or Condemnation O ye men of England in Asia can you justly charge any evil against them let the same come forth and be manifest to the whole VVorld if Equity and Truth be on your side but if the savory Fruits of the Life of Eternal Righteousnesse in sound Doctrine with wholesom Communications that corrupteth not good manners with long-suffering meekness and gentleness of Christ brought forth by them who shine as lights in the world being redeemed from the vanities and evils thereof if these be the fruits

Titles unto men for I know not to give flattering Titles in so doing my Maker would soon take me away Job 32. he will surely reprove you if ye secretly respect persons shall not his excellency make You afraid Job 13. but they that are taking pleasure in divers lusts and vanities which maketh war against the Immortal soul and wounds the spirit of the just these are they that are of one and the same Nature and Generation that the holy and perfect man saw in his dayes who feared God and departed from evil which rebel against the light they know not the wayes thereof neither abide in the paths thereof who also say as they did to the Most High depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Job 24.13 14. Job 21. But God shall wound the Head of his Enemies and spend his Arrows of Famine and Destruction upon such as being often reproved yet hardneth their necks and go on still in the way that is not holinesse rushing mightily into sin and transgression without fear or amazement even as the Horse rusheth into the Battel and so greedily drink down iniquities even as the Ox drinketh water yea and hate to be reformed which is the greatest evil which hardneth their impenitent hearts the more unto perdition Wo and alass for them that sit in darkness under the shadow of Death and Destruction before their day of Visitation finally pass away over their heads when they inexcusably may be left to cry out in the Anguish and Vexation of Spirit saying How have we wilfully and rebelliously despised and stifneckedly defyed the day of healing and saving health and then say I Dives his nature that fared sumptuously every day in excess and fulness shall sensibly discern the nature of poor Lazarus and its reward and also that which is of the flesh the first birth and the lust thereof which is contrary to and warreth against the spirit and its birth and then the two seeds may be discerned the one from the other the seed of God from the seed of the Serpent Cain and Abels nature and worship Esau and Jacobs nature the prophane person and the plain man the hunting nature and that which is obedient quiet and dwells within at home in his Tent Isaak and Ismael the seed of Bondage from beneath and the free born from Above the scoffer which is to be cast out the beloved Heir of the Promise which is to abide within in the Fathers House for ever for the seed of Bondage is not to be heir with the Free-born neither to that seed do I write the words of my living and true Testimony but to that which is just in every mans Conscience in the sight of God do I desire to be manifest and so I shall be a sweet savour not only in them that believe but also in them that perish and if any have an ear to hear let him for his good And what if I say in truth on this wise because the Fear and Reverence of the Living Eternal Invisible God is set up within my heart therefore and not otherwise I cannot respect the persons of any neither give or receive the Honour and Glory of the world Christ Jesus my Lord being my Perfect and Compleat Example also who saith I receive not honour from man and his very enemies who came to provoke and tempt and insnare him they discerned that he was a Just man and that he respected not the person of any as it is written of him that said to unbelievers on this wise How can you believe which receive honour one of another and seek not the honour which cometh from God onely John 5. Mark that And I am right well and favourably perswaded that as any of the Sons of men come to be honestly guided by a just steadfast and equal Principle of God as is the Light of Christ within them to walk thereby in a just path and equitable way and in the same at all times to speak true fast sound savoury and uncondemnable words and such like actions to all with whom they have to do and not to be hurtful or destructive to the Creation of God but also doing in the same light just and equitable things to all even as they would be done by according to the perfect doctrine of Christ the Law and the Prophets I say the same will testifie for them and make them truly honourable and draw down Blessings and not the contrary and so in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him and these things will be acceptable and justificable and not condemnable in the sight and presence of the everlasting God and so the true honour comes to be manifest which comes from God whose eternal eye the Light perfectly discerneth and seeth into and wisely searcheth every mans heart within and God is not devided from his eye for as God is said to be a spirit so he is light 1 Epist John 1. from which no secret work of darkness can in any wise be hid all be it the same be acted never so secretly And behold I testifie in his Name that is true that the sound of his mighty day is come to the Nations and the same terrible and glorious day hath begun to dawn in England in the North and behold his everlasting Light is arising over all Nations even the Light of the Lord Jesus who lightneth the poor and deceitful mans eyes yea he lightneth every man that cometh into the world with the Light that is perfect and true either to condemn or justifie every mans words thoughts and actions and this perfect Light of eternity is manifestly arisen up and hath its preheminence that is just in thousands to the glory of the Lord who worketh both to will and to do in them that fear him and have received of the fulness of his life in the same in which they live and walk and rest and so are become a blessing to the Nations in the Light of his eternal Countenance in whom also they have believed unto Salvation the transparent brightness of which through such clouds of living witnesses is shining forth over the Nations Kindreds Tongues and Peoples that have corrupted the Earth and a●e degenerated and alienated in obscurity under a thick vail of darkness in the night of Apostacy since the Holy Apostles days from the Light and Life of the Invisible and Immortal God and his Lamb the light who is coming in 10 thousands of his Saints to convince all of their ungodlike words Hard-speeches Thoughts and Actions and to lead as many as receive and believe in the same Light with which they be enlightened from all sin and unrighteousnesse and so from the condemnation of the same and wrath to come even up to God the Father of all truth from whence the Light Life and every good thing cometh according to the Prophesie of good old Enoch and the rest of the

verily and certainly we do in the sight of God concerning this our service whether you believe the same or not its even so And again I say we are clear of your guilt and condemnation before the Lord God of Judgement the Judge of all and be it known unto you that he who sent us is true whose witnesses we are Albeit some of you as the same Generation in the daies of old contemptuously and maliciously said to him that he was mad and had a devil and what else yet we have in the Lord held fast our integritie in the Truth in Life and Conversation to confess him before men and bear his reproaches in the fellowship of his Sufferings following his harmless and compleat example as the Sons of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation unto which we are called and are his living witnesses and testifie of his undefiled life manifest in us and that he also is arisen from the dead and liveth for ever in the everlasting Light the which is your condemnation and not salvation whatsoever you profess in words whilst you are found setting your selves against his appearance now in this second coming a quickning spirit who is the Lord from Heaven without sin unto salvation in his Friends and Messengers as who hath drawn so near you with his visitation of Salvation in such clouds of witnesses in and with his mighty pure power of holiness yet with them eyes that are Adulterated from his undefiled life and truth which cannot cease from sin with which you see therewith cannot you behold him who is and is to be glorified in his Saints and also admired in all them that believe who will certainly render vengeance as saith the Holy Scripture not onely on them that know not God but also on them that obey not the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Light and Life of men who tasted death for every man and as certain he lighteth every man that cometh into the World to the end that all men in him who is the Light might believe and be saved by the Light who is the Author of Eternal Salvation not onely from sin which worketh guilt and condemnation but also from the wrath to come but wo will be to them that not onely withstand his Appearance his Truth and People who are not according but contrary to the World its Wayes Worships Honours and Glory Traditions and Lusts and herein neither enter your selves but also as much as in them is hinder others who are as it were ready to enter from going in but behold Publicant Harlots are and come to be converted and so to enter the Kingdom whilest men of high degree themselves are shut out And will you bear with me if I ask you saying Have you been at all careful and not forgetful to entertain strangers Or have you not wilfully and despitefully shut the same out of your remembrance And how have you obeyed the perfect Doctrine of the Gospel of God But what hath not Christ in his Friends in his Lambs and Messengers been as Strangers and Pilgrims Yea hath not he been as a Prisoner and Captive despised in and among you but how at all have you visited him or entertained him that beareth the iniquity and liveth for ever He right well knoweth and in the day of God so shall you and it may be well if the same will appear to your justification Poor men my heart pitieth you woe and alass for you but the Scripture not to your justification do we witness fulfilled And what if I say your unchristian-like dealing against us the same turns to us for a Testimony albeit we rejoyce not as your reward will be evil unto your selves but mourn over you and if this we did not witnesse in our integrity sure of all men most miserable should we be and as he saith who is the Resurrection and the Life viz If they have persecuted me they also will persecute you if they had kept my sayings they would keep yours also but these things will they do unto you why because they know not him that sent me saith Jesus John 15. And have ye not read these sayings Now I tell you before it come to pass that when it is come to pass you might believe that I am he Verily verily he that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me John 13. But consider have you received him or do you know what is the thing or whom you have rejected and defied in what you have done to them whom he hath assuredly sent whether you can believe the same or not And do you not know that he saith on this wise He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me Luke 10.16 And do you think it had not been better your hand had been laid upon your month and to have manifested silence in the fear of the Lord rather then to have proceeded so far as this to your own hurt Woe and alas for you how can you truly say to the contrary in the Day of God and is it not your sins and your iniquities which keeps back good things from you And can you say that the words of our Living Testimony have been at any time against any thing that 's of the nature of God that 's Equitable and Just And what must all your strength and wisdom with what else you have be stirred up to keep up the strong holds of darkness its Works and Fruits even of the man of sin and Satans Kingdom is it not even so Bear with me if I ask you what ye think of such that were to depart from the presence of the King of Eternal life into everlasting fire with the Devil and his Angels who visited no● Christ though sick and in prison and when he was a stranger and naked took him not in neither cloathed him nor nourished him with either meat or drink when hungry and thirsty cold and naked but bowels of compassion was shut up such took him not in nay there is no room for the Babe of Glory in the Inn but a Manger where the beasts feed over him there the Virgins first born must lie Oh that any of you having ears to hear may hear but what think you will be the portion of such that not onely dease not to do such things to him in his Members but also speak all manner of evil against him and are not content therewith but he must be banished as a Rogue or Vagabond out of their Coasts and Borders whose carriage also must be as it is deemed and termed Ridiculous and capable to bring dishonour to a Nation because his Kingdom Honour and Glory is not of this World as some one saith being possessed with fear even as they were who said of him whom the Nations abhoreth viz. If we let him thus alone

if I should testifie saying This is a certain warning from the hand of God that liveth for ever I right well know you can hardly believe the words of my Living testimony but I perfectly know from what Spirit and ground they are brought forth and I am well satisfied in the life that now is and was and shall for ever be one and the same which is Unchangable Immortal Invisible Eternal without variableness or shadow of turning in the least degree into any contrariaty from its own pure nature or property and clear substance of its undefiled nature of true Light and Life which never fadeth away in which I rest and in the same my living soul magnifieth the living invisible God of immortality and eternal life to whom be living endless praises with eternal Dominion over all this and that which letteth which is to be taken out of the way now and for ever as in the beginning over all Amen And for so much as you have so far made light of the appearance of the good day of your visitation of salvation now the day light of the morning is begun to dawn over the Nations the dark night of Apostacy since the Holy Apostles dayes being so far spent the clouds of obscurity and unfruitful works of the night of darkn●ss being made manifest by the Light of Eternity and brought to the same for judgement and condemnation but behold how you have been found Defying Rejecting Abhorring and Persecuting the Prophets and Messengers and People of the true and living God who sent us not in our own name will or time to prove you and to warn you and to preach repentance and reformation and reconciliation to God among you in Asia as in other parts of the World not in your own way or wisdome that is not from above but from beneath of the World who have been permitted so far as to stop us in the work of our God to your own hurt and what if I should say on this wise Let the Lord require the same at your hands and of that Generation that is under the line of unrighteousness that runs paralel through the unbelieving wrathful persecuting nature even from Cain unto this present day who are uncircumcized in heart and ears and stifnecked alwaies resisting the holy Ghost as did your Fathers as the holy man who was filled with the Holy Ghost saith Acts 7. But I have prayed that what you have done may not be laid to your Charge who know not what you do ye know I speak truth and the Light of Christ in you will answer me in the day of God whether yet you hear or forbear I am and shall be clear albeit as much as in you is ye have endeavoured to stop and hinder the work of the everlasting God and his glorious truth from spreading yet the Truth the Light that is eternal the same which lighteeth every man that cometh into the World I say with a notwithstanding shall it break forth and shine perfectly bright and spread its same glory and eternal excellency through and over all Nations and prosper according to the most wise Decree and eternal Counsel of the everlasting Lord the Light and King of eternal life and the same shall awaken and answer the eternal witness that is just in every Conscience whether Turks Jews Christians or Heathens under what name or denomination soever they be called And behold this my spirit prophecieth viz. that with them eyes you now may see with shall you never behold the same neither the Goodness Riches Blessings and Mercies which the everlasting Light hath in store to dispence among and over the Nations of men that come to fear him and his goodnesse and also turn from ungodlinesse And behold furthermore I declare that your evil intents and works of darknesse what if I say the same shall work together for our good unto eternal life and peace and so turn to us for a testimony as it doth not to your justification but contrariwise yet our prayer is for you that hate us without a cause but the time may come and it hasteneth that you may wish you had never been born to have seen this Age and Generation whilst we cry wo and alas for you in the day in which the burthensom stone though little as cut out of the Mountain without hands it is known and the Nations that burthen themselves with it shall be cut in pieces and grownd to powder on whom it falls whose light is like unto a stone most pretious clear as Chrystal according to the prophesie of the eternal Spirit of holiness and verily the mercy and goodness and knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ the same shall fill the Earth and abundantly stream forth and spread its virtue and excellent power over all Nations and flow plentifully even to the ends and uttermost parts of the Earth from Sea to Sea and to the utmost extent or circumference of its bounds the Lord the Lord of eternity in his own life and by the Almightinesse of his own Arm that 's revealed and manifest in the midst of his poor afflicted and despised yet honourable people against whom you have magnified your selves to your own hurt in and by whom without visible weapons of war will he even our Lord perform the same and much more and many both on the right hand and on the left shall break forth as a mighty flood or as the Stars of the Firmament of the power of the everlasting Light and many shall fear and tremble because of the abundance of peace and truth that is and is yet to be revealed even in them that turn from ungodlinesse to the Light of the Lord who enlighteneth the poor and deceitful mans eyes the Lord enlightneth both their eyes saith the wise man and the poor man is guided in obedience to the same light which justifieth him and condemneth the deceitful man that hates it Prov. 29. so he that doth evil hateth the Light which is not Salvation but Condemnation to the evil doer as Christ saith John the 3d. And blessed shall the man be that believeth in and obeyeth the Light of the Lord manifest in him to guide him into all Truth from all the contrary and the Nations shall be asnamed and confounded because of all the goodness that the eternal God of Judgement will perform unto and in the blessed and beloved obedient Seed of his bowels that 's to be gathered from the four winds and ends of the Earth where they have been in the dark night of Apostacy scattered Wherefore with my single voice behold I cry unto you yet by the same Eternal Spirit of Life and Prophesie take heed and beware least that therefore come upon you which is spoken of in the Prophets saying Behold ye dispisers and Wonder and Perish the Lord is working a work in your dayes which you will in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you