one and removed this house and set it upon that great mountain as was by it and I saw men and women come from East West North and South to this house and I said Lord whose house is this and my God and Father said it is my house and the Sion spoken of in Scripture and as you see it carried by one and set upon the top of a great mountaine it shewes that I the Lord of host have removed sorrow away from Sion by my owne power and this mountain that you see the house set upon is but the fulfilling of the Sciptures that the Lords house shall be set above all mountaines for this mountain which you see is set an is the powers of the world and by its being set on it shewes that it is above them above great mountaines which are great men as have had the power but now have not and the mountaine being under it it shewes that great men have not power over Sion as they have had but are rather Sions foot-stoole and so bend to the soles of Gods feet in Sion and I said Lord is this house Sion and the place that thy sons and daughters shall come out of all Notions to and the Lord said this is Sion or it doth represent Sion and by people coming to it out of all Countries it shews that I the Lord of host have people in all Countries and this house doth onely shew by standing in a place as you see it doth the place that my sons and daughters shall make merry in and where they meet together if two or three of them they shall be Sion and they shall come to Sion with everlasting joy upon their heads and sorrow shall flie away for their going to Sion with joy and rejoycing and their singing in the height of Sion and making musick as they go to Sion is not their going to one place to worship but they are glorying and rejoycing in me because those that formerly were their enemies are now cut down so that they may speak of me without any fear for a Law shall go forth of Sion which Sion is my Church and the Law is my self that they shall declare and speak abroad for all the enemies as Antichrist and the beast and the Whore and forms and governments and rules of men being destroyed there shall be now no other law then what shall come forth of Sion I will now appear to be teacher and Law and rules and worships and all in all and this Sion are my Church or sons and daughters unto whom I have made forth my self and appeared now by manifesting my self unto them that I dwell in them and am a Law in them and unto this Sion shall people say come let us go up to the house of the Lord and he will teach us his wayes the God of grace will be our teacher and instructer and when he teaches us we shall have no need of men to teach us for he will write his Law in our hearts and in our inward parts and we shall sin no more and I said Lord shall there be no Law or formes to walk by as hath been formerly And the Lord said there shall be no other law but I my self will be all the Law and if any offend me I my self will terrifie him and not man for I will be a terror to them that know not me and a joy to them that know me and when I have thus set my house upon the top of all mountains then shall war cease and then shall stony hearts be taken out of men and instead of them they shall have hearts of flesh and so I will saith the Lord make men to beat their swords into Plousheers and their spears into pruning hookes and the nation shall not learn War any more for when I have taken the power from great men and likewise their self interest that so he that laboured all the day and he that laboured but one hour in the vinyard had both wages alike so it shall be that they that have strived for honour and greatness and have laid up baggs of Gold and Silver for five or two or twenty or thirty fourty yeers together shall have no more then he that hath not laid up any thing at all or else hath laid up but a very little but in one yeer and whereas he that had wrought in the heat of the day did murmur and thought it harsh that he should have no more then he that worketh but one hour the Lord of the vinyard told him it was his own he might chuse whether he would give any thing or no and what I do give thee I do it out of mine own free will for all is mine saith the Lord of hosts all the beasts of the field and all the riches of the world is mine and not thine and though I have lent thee them and thou having not made a right use of them I take them from thee and give them to thy fellow creatures for their use as well as thine for when thou hadest these things as I have now taken from thee thou madst them but instruments of cruelty to thy fellow creatures and so did not use this world as if thou used it not but used this world as if thou shouldest never part from it but I have taken these things from thee that thou shouldest use this world as if thou used it not for the fashion of this world passeth away and all things shall now become new and these your Idols of gold and silver I will be such a terror to you that if you do not throw them away ye shall be consumed in my wrath Now I arise to shake terribly the earth and I will do this my act my strange act as to make the low and poor equal with the rich that they may every one sit under his own vine and none make him afraid but all enjoying the fruits of the earth and so no longer to work for others or others to have the benefit of their labours but every man shall now enjoy the fruits of his own labour and if any be servants it shall be those that know not me saith the Lord of hosts Thus will I stain the pride and glory of man and will bring down the haughtiness of menand will lay low the mountaines and will exalt the vallies and then both oppressors and oppressions shall cease that the creation may be restored from bondage and this is the time of the restitution of all things whom the heavens must retain but the time being now come that the heavens cannot retain me any longer therefore I come for to restore all things and the creature man from slavery and bondage into the liberty of my sons that they may now no longer be in subjection to their fellow creatures but shall now see themselves to be equal with them and the fat swine to be but men whose breath is in their nostrils that I may
shall no longer have any power over them but God will be their all and in all they shal now se it and know it too which will occasion them to crie time shall be no longer And thus by the strength of me who am the Alpha and omega they overcome all things so all things are become new so my sons daughters shall inherit all things for the Angel after he had cried all things are become new so he cried they shall inherit all things for my sons and daughters saith my God shall now see me to be all and in all and so shall see and inherit all things by the injoyment of me for the mysterie being finished in you and all things become new it is such a change in you that those things that you thought were unlawfull before will now appear to be lawfull for this is the new thing you will now see and know that all things are Gods and so will see and know that as God is yours so all riches as houses or Lands are as much yours as any mans for saith God time shall be no longer You shall know this saith God that sinne and transgression being finished with you and everlasting righteousnesse brought into you and so swallowed up with righteousnesse living in God and God in you you shall know that my worke my strange work which I wil do is now to break in pieces al things and to make all things become new which change is to restore the whole creation from bondage and slaverie into the glorious libertie of the sons of Gâ—d and so to take off the curse that is upon all crearures and to restore the creation to the first estate as Adam was set in that as I made Adam Lord over all creatures and all creatures were for the use of Adam saith the Lord so now shall all the creatures men and women have that priviledge which by reason of the curse have a lâ—ng time bin deprived of as to have the injoyment of the outward creatures which now they shall have for as the appearing of me in one single person Jesus Christ my anoyted Son did cause a communion to be among my Saints in those dayes so at the appearing of me in my sons and daughters now I will cause union and fellowship to increase first amongst my sons and daughters and then will burne up some by my spirit in them and will confound others by might and power and will make such a strange worke that I will make all sorts and degrees some for feare of me and some from the injoyment of me give up give up and relieve one another that there may be universal love peace and freedome all enjoying the worke of my hands without let or hindrance And being carried above my self or taken out of my self with joy I burst forth crying Halelujah Halelujah the Lord omnipotent reignes but could not rest my self contented until I did burst forth with singing because of the abundance of joy I was in And on the 5. day of the second moneth in the morning came the word of the Lord unto me and said I come which made my flesh to tremble and at length I heard these words within me behold I come to reveale unto thee things that must shortly come to passe therefore behold what thou now seest And lo I beheld a great water for the bignesse of it I could see no earth or ground and in the midst of it a woman gloriously araied sitting on a throne with a Crowne upon her head and presently there came one with a sword in his hand and cut off her head and she and her head tumbled into the sea and I said Lord what meaneth these waters and this woman that sitteth thereon And the man that came with a sword in his hand and cut off her head and my eternall God within me said that the waters and multitudes of people and the woman is the Queen or the whore of Babylon mentioned in the Revelations that hath made all nations drunk with her fornication and this Queen or lady that saith she should see no sorrow is Governments and worships and lawes which men have made and set up and the man that came with a sword in his hand and cut off her head is my messenger which J have sent or my self appearing in my sons and daughtera which will cut off all power as Kingly and Parliament powers and so will destroy all Governments and forms of worships And when her head was cut off I heard a lamentation men and women weeping and grieving and some I saw were laughing and singing crying Halelujab Halelujah for thou art worthie to receive Glory and Honour and praise for thou hast Judged the great whore and taken vengeance on her for shedding the blood of the Saintt And I said Lord who are these that weep And who are these that rejoyce and the Lord said that these are the Priests and those that have bin made rich by her fornications that weep and howle as the Priests that have made merchandise of souls of men but now their trade is destroyed and they shall no longer preach as to receive money for it therefore they weep but these are my sons that sing and rejoyce and indeed they have now great cause for to sing and rejoyce because that which hath troubled them as formes and worships are now destroyed and I said Lord wilt thou destroy the Parliament and the Lord said I will begin first in this nation and will by my bright appearing burn up some and destroy others that there shall to mens apprehension be nothing but confusion for I will make great and mighty men run into the holes of the rocks and throw away their Idols of gold and silver for fear of me that there may be universal love and freedome And I will be such a terror to the great men they shall hide themselves for fear of me And I said Lord wilt thou do this by thy own power without making use of any Instruments and the Lord said no but I will harden the hearts of the Parliament and they shall raise an armie for to fight with the Generall whom I will stir up to oppose their crueltie and their actions and so will destroy their power by my Instruments and I said Lord shall I go and declare this to the Generall as yet or no and the Lord said wait upon me as yet and thou shalt know more for I have somethings else to reveal unto thee And at night about eight of the clock on the same day being in my chamber the word of the Lord came unto me saying behold behold what dost thou now see And I looked and loe a white horse and one upon him with a sword in his hand ready drawn and he rid from East to West and from North to South cutting down all men and women that he met with that were higher then the middle sort and raised up
those that were lower then the middle sort and made them all Equall and cryed out epqualitie equalitie in that I have now made all men alike and he lifted up his hands to heaven and did sweare by him that liveth for evermore time should be no longer and so did thrust his sword into his scabberd again And I said Lord who is this that makes all alike and my glorious God within me said that I the Lord of hosts have done this and I said without any instruments Lord and the Lord said no but by instruments which I have chosen to do this strange work which shall cut down all powers even the Parliament and I said Lord shall the Parliament raise forces against thy instruments to fight with them and the Lord said they shall but they shall be destroyed by Fair. whom I have made choice of and his Army and whereas he cryed time shall be no longer and so put up his sword into his sheath againe the meaning is that when the time appointed is come all visible powers shall cease and I alone will be all and in all both King and Parliament and Governor and then wars shall cease And as you see him make all alike so will I destroy some and burne and consume others and be as a terror to the rest that there shall be none greater or richer then others And I said how long will it be first and the Lord said in a very little while it shall come to passe but wait thou upon me and thou shalt know upon this I desired of my God that if he had judged me worthy to reveale this vision to me and that it shall come to passe and that it was from the Lord of hosts I might have some token that I may know it to be from God and my God said within me That I should be presently shooke as if I should be shoock to pieces as a token that he had made choice of me to reveale this vision and the rest to and that it should surely come to passe which token proved true for I was presently shoaken even so much that two men which were in the roome with me that I desired to lie upon me or hold me from shaking which they did could not keep me from shaking But before this fit came on me one houre and halfe or such a matter I saw a company of men and women singing and dancing giving away their money one unto the other and my God within me told me that these were my sons and daughters that were come to Sion and that he had now wiped all teares from their eyes and that self-seeking is now ended with them and instead of it there shall be universal lvoe or a communitie like unto the communitie of his Saints mentioned in the Acts whereupon I was forced for my owne rest to give away that little money I had about me which thing others shall be made to do hereafter Againe the word of the Lord came unto me saying about one a clock on the 6. day of February Behold behold what dost thou now see and lo I beheld an Army of men with their drums beating and their colours flying and they were upon their march And I beheld till there came one to their General being all glorious and gave the General a sword and said take this sword for with it shalt thou beat down all thine enemies and I said Lord what is this Generals name and the Lord said his name is Fairfax the Army that are with him are my instruments whom I have stirred up to hate the oppression covetousnesse and crueltie of the Parliament And whereas thou seest one give him asword It is I the Lord of hosts that have given him power to beat down all those that are coming to fight wiâ—h him and presently I beheld another Army of men coming to fight with them and I said Lord who doth this Army fight for and the Lord of hosts said they fight for the Parliament and the Lord said I stiâ—red him up to oppose the Parliament bâ—cause they have exercised crueltie upon my people and I beheld so long that at length I did see both these meet together and did fight and I beheld some now and then dropped down of Fair. his men but they fell apace on the other side but at length Fair. horse routed the oâ—her horse and followed some of them in pursuit and some of them came and fell upon the foot and at length broke in amongst them and routed them and tooke the General and killed him and so had the field And I said Lord wilt thou also destroy the Parliament and the Lord said he would do it for saith the Lord I will now â—urne Leveller and will level mountaines and hills and will make them equall with low places and vallies that there may be universality And I said how long will it be first and the Lord said in a very little while and it shall come to passe and I said Lord shall I go to the Generall and tell him of it and the Lord said I should go but should stay a little longer first And saith the Lord whereas I said when I shewed thee this vision at the first that thou shouldest have no rest untill thou hadst done it so I have troubled thee ever since day by day and will till thou hast done it but thou shalt stay a little longer and wait upon me and that thou maist know I the Lord of Hosts the mighty God of Jacob by whom thou livest â—ovest hast thy being hath done this Thou shalt be presently taken in a shaking fit that thou maist know I have made choice of thee which fit of shaking came on me as soone as the words were ended which terrified my flesh but my Spirit rejoyced within me for joy And in a little while after the Lord within me said behold behold what seest thou now and lo I saw the heavens roleld up together as a Scroul and figges fall off the figg-tree before they were ripe and I said Lord what is meant by the heavens rolling thus together as a scroule and the Lord said by the heavens is meant all outward administrations or forms of worship preaching and baptizing and I saw one throw the srcoule into the fire and it was consumed so saith the Lord shall all outward heavens be burned up and the figg tree is the Parliament in this nation and it represents all powers which are a bringing forth some young figgs which are some new formes or wayes of worship or a doing some new thing but before they can bring them to perfection the day of the Lord overtakes them and shakes them and causes the figgs to fall off before they be ripe and so I the Lord destroy the things that men would do And the Lord again said behold what seest thou now and lo I beheld foure men stand upon the foure corners of the earth which is East West
my Son and though he was put to death literally aâ— Jerusalem yet he was perpetually slaine by the filthy abominations of Sodome and Egypt as Rebellion and disobedience against me the Lord of hosts and so saith the Lord of hosts all formes Lawes governments and wayes of worship opposing me is spiritual Sodom and Egypt that put to death my Son Christ and hath from time to time been the great whore that hath shed the blood of my Saints But as thou sawest one set it one fire and the people which thou sawest running to quench it as Kings and Lords and great men and of all sorts of men with buckets of water and hookes to pull down some of it that was on fire but they could not quench it as thou didst see untill the tenth part of it was consumed I the Lord of hosts by my appearing in my sons and daughters have set this City on fire and it hath been burned a long time by my manifesting my self to them to be their all in all and now the day of my judgement is at hand I have sentenced this City to be burnt for I the Lord of hosts doe burne up and consume all formes and governments of men by my self I being a consuming fire and I said Lord what meaneth that that the tenth part of it and not all is consumed and the Lord said by the tenth part is meant all for ten is a perfect number as ten hornes mentioned that sets forth a perfect strength or all their strength or all their power and I said Lord it hath been generally understood to be Nations as our Nation for one that shall fall off from Rome first to be the City but I the Lord of hosts say this City is formes and Lawes Governments and wayes of worship which is in all Nations and so is the spirituall Sodome and Egypt that crucified my Son and hath from time to time murdered my Saints But the time of her power is almost at an end and she must be destroyed And whereas you see all sorts of people run to quench the fire that it did not burne It shewes the unwillingnesse of all sorts of men and women to have that which hath most deceived them to be burned up because some yea most have made the observations or traditions of men to be their rule to walke by and so have walked more by forme and custorne then by any thing else But now I come I come saith the Lord of hosts and I will take from men from the powers of the world those things which they have gone a whoring after and they with all their might shall not hinder me from doing my worke And the word of the Lord came againe unto me saying Behold behold what dost thou now see and lo I beheld a Temple and it was full of smoke and there appeared one in this temple with a crown of gold upon his head and his rayment was of all colours like unto a rainbow and I beheld that he stretched forth his hands and as he stretched them forth the smoke vanished away and I beheld that after the smoke was gon there went out of his mouth flames of fire and burned up the pictures that were in the Temple and after they were consumed he cryed with a loud voice that the fourtie and two moneths and the time times and halfe times is now come to an end and then the temple and holy city which for 42 moneths was given to the Gentils to be troden under foot shall now no longer be troden under foot But I will redeem it and deliver it from the bondage and slavery that it hath bin subject unto and after this I beheld seven lighted torches brought into the temple And said I Lord whose temple is this and the Lord said it is mine and I said what doth this temple set forth and the Lord said this temple are my sons and daughters and he whom you see in it is I the Lord of hosts who am come to take possession and to make them my dwelling-place But as you see it was full of smoke this smoke is darknesse and gloominesse and cloudinesse and such a mist that untill it be consumed my people are not able to know me but I said Lord it is said that no man was able to enter into the temple for the smoke which seemes to hold forth the temple to be somewhat else then thy Saints and the Lord said that is a metaphor which seems to hold forth some thing else that is my sona and daughters are not able to come to the true knowledge of me as to see and know that I live in them without a more fuller discoverie of my self to them saith the Lord of hosts but as you see me spread forth my hands and the smoke vanished away that they come to have some knowledge of me but as you see flames of fire issued forth from me that burned up the pictures these flames are a full manifesting of my self to my sons and daughters and the pictures are all the wayes of worship formes and governments which by the wit of man are set up and as pictures resemble something else besides what they are so these formes and wayes of worships and governments and all outward administrations have seemingly appeared to be the way which I would have them observe Though indeed it hath been but a picture of me Or my way and not my right way or mine own way but a way of confusion So that when I shall fully manifest my self to my sonnes and daughters my spirit shall burn up all their pictures that is all their wayes of worship and formes of what sort soever and consume them to nothing for I the Lord of hosts am a consuming fire and will ere long appear to be so that they may see me to be forms and wayes of worships and see me all and in all and so to see that they shall have no need any longer of outward administrations But to see me to be their teacher I said Lord what is meant by the temple or holy City that hath been troden under foot 42. months by this temple or holy City is meant my sons and daughters which for the time of Antichrists reign hath bin kept in darkness or in forms or wayes of worships which men have set up and by his crying with a loud voice he was come to deliver it from bondage or from the Gentiles and so from them both it is I by my coming to Judge all the powers of proud flesh which hath been an Alien and Gentile to me and to destroy them burn and consume them up as the forms of men and worships set up by them that so I may deliver them from bondage saith the Lord of hosts for the dayes of my coming is at hand What doth these seven torches or lamps signifie And the Lord said the seven lamps burning shews a perfection of light that shall be When
was in it and thus shall all Misers in time throw away their mony that they have horded up and bring it their gold and silver out of their chests and baggs out of their places where they have laid them saith the Lord of host for I will make them do it that they that have gathered much may have none over and they that have gathered little may have no lack saith the mighty God of Jacob. And presently after this I saw the appearance of a man his raiment was of all colours like a rain-bow and it came down to his feet and I looked and could see no seme upon it for it was without seme and he had on his head a Crown of gold and in his right-hand a Scepter and I saw him coming to me and I cried out in the name of the Lord of hoast come not to me but he came to me and told me that he was Jesus Christ the mightie Angell of the Lord of hoast and that he must come into me and then he would declare unto me things that must shortly come to passe for now the Lord of host had done speaking to the outward ears and appearing to the fleshly eyes and will deal inwardly both appear and speak to the spirituall eyes he entred into me which made me tremble quake and then I heard a voice within me saying harken to this noise that I will make and I harkned and loe it thundred and I said Lord what is the meaning of this and the Lord said these are the seven thunders that uttered their voices to John and he would have writ the meaning of them and I commanded him that he should not because the meaning of them would have made my servants not to search so much into this Revelations which were written by John but now I will declare them unto thee these seven thunders shew a perfection or a compleating of my determination Which I have set before I will begin to take the powers from the earth and the last of these thunders or all in one shall take effect according to my determination as I shewed it to my servant John in the year one thousand six hundred and fiftie but I would not have him write it though I have now commanded thee to write it and that I will begin my worke in this year as it was shewed to John in this Iland of England and I will bring to nothing the Parliament but will stirre up their hearts and the wicked to joyne with them against Fairfax that so I may destroy them whom I have appointed for the slaughter and so to be a terror and a dread to the others and will make them be quiet But presently after this the word of the Lord came again unto me saying behold this that I present to thee and I looked and loe a tree that had on it twelve sorts of fruits and the Lord said the fruit of this tree is for the healing of the Nations and I said Lord what doth this tree represent And my eternal God within me said it doth represent me the Lord of hosts I am the tree and onely that which can cure the Nations and the fruits of me or of my work which I am now a doing Is First to destroy earthly powers and so to bring down their strength Secondly I will make those that have drawn their swords to make war if they be not destroyed beat their swords into plowsheers and their spears into pruning hooks Thirdly I will be a terror to those that have opposed me that they shall be afraid of me and instead of gathering themselves together as they have done they shall hide themselves in holes of the rocks Fourthly I will destroy self-interest that so there may be no striving for riches Fiftly I will destroy ambition that there shall be no striving for honour Sixthly I will take away the pride of the heart that there shall be none that shall think themselves better then the rest Seventhly I will take from man that presumption as to think to have one or two men to wait upon him Eightly I will make those that have riches give them to them that have none Ninthly I will make every man to be at peace one with the other Tenthly I will make all my sons and daughters to be of one heart and mind Eleventhly I will take away the curse of the earth that with a very little labour it shall bring forth its fruits And Twelfthly I will make that which one hath to be anothers that so the naked may be cloathed and the hungry fed and if any have any thing better then others it shall be my sons and daughters for I will make all work in one way or other a little for to keep themselves out of want saith I the Lord of hosts for I will take the curse from off the earth that the earth may be fruitful and I will take the enmity from all creatures that they may be at peace with each other and I will make them to be fruitfull and multiply that they may be strong to work and bring forth thousands and ten thousands and so will make working a pleasure and rejoycing that I may be glorified and have the honour saith the Lord of hosts And again the word of the Lord came unto me saying behold behold and loe I looked and there appeared a river running up and down on the earth And I said Lordâ— what earth is this and river that runs up and down thus And my God said this is your body and the bodies of my sons and daughters which the earth sets forth and the river is the river of life mentioned in the Revelations and this life is the pouring forth of my spirit upon this earth of men and women and as you saw the living waters run about it is that living waters which are the fulness or flowings forth of my self in such a clear discovery and manifestation as to over-power the earth man with my glory as it is written he that beleeveth on me saith God out of his belly shall flow forth rivers of living waters which water of life proceedes from the throne of God that is after my bright appearing and filling my sons and daughters with my fulness from them shall flow forth the water of life that is a discovery of me or making me known to others that I am the Alpha and Omega that I am all and in all that I will now take the power into my own hands and will be glorified for my people are my throne and the place where I dwell saith the Lord of hosts and as there are three that bear record in heaven the Father Word and the holy Ghost and these three are one the Word is the Father and the holy Ghost is the Father and so I bear witness to them that have but a smal discovery of me that is they living in some light and so have some knowledge of me