Destruction or for the Destroyer two shall be in a bed the one shall be taken away and the other lefâ— to Destruction two shall be grinding at a Mill the one shall be taken away and the other left to Destruction or for the Destroyer SECT. XIIII THe Disciples then asked him where all this should be or whither all these should be gathered together He answered where the body is or Christ shall appear thither wil the eagles or elect be gathered together even to Mount Zion For they shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying come let us joyn our selves unto the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall never be forgetten and arise let us goe up to Zion unto the Lord out God and say O Lord save thy people the Remnant of Israel Yea many people and strong Nations shall come To the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem At the same time will the Lord be The God of all the Families of Israel and they shall be his people In Zion his dwelling place the holy Mountaine SECT. XV ANd for a further proof of the time of this his glorious Coming Compare Daniel's visâ—on which he had in Babylon about the seventh yeer of his Captivity which was about six hundred forty three yeers before Christ's Nativity with the expressions of our Saviour Christ in the aforesaid place of Matth. 24. and yâ—u shall find them to agree together in the number of years And I heard onâ— Saint say to the Wondâ—rful Nuâ—berer of Secrets Christ which spake How long shall be tâ—e vision concerning the Transgression of making Desolate And he said untâ— me Unâ—o two thousand three hundred days Then shall the Sanctuary or holy land be clensed For afâ—er two days will he the Lord Revive us and raise us up and we shall live in his sight Which two days I understand to be these two laâ—t days under the gospel which days Christ hath promised â—o shorten for the Elects sake and will as I finde and beleeve be shortned answerable to the first two days of this world which was destroyed by water being at 1657. yeers of age For so our God shal come and shal not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempâ—stuous round about him saith David when he shall come down upon the Mountains of Zion as Rain upon the Morning grass for there God hath commanded the blessiâ—g to man even life in Glory fâ—r evermore SECT. XVI ANd in that very place where the first Adam was created and transgressed there did the second Adam Christ Jesus make full satisfaction for that Transgression in Paradice and there the old Serpent Sathan bruised his heel and there shall he break his head when he shall be there placed by his Father As King of Eternal Glory in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord shall Reigne with all his Saints gloriously for ever and ever And I heard a voyce saying Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he the Lord will dwell with them and then shall all the Kings of the Earth praise and sing in the waies of the Lord When they shall hear the words of his moâ—th Then the praises of God shall be in their mouths and a two Edged Sword in their hands Terrible as an Army with banners as it were the company of two Armies Israel and Judah to execute vengeance â—pon the heathen to bind their Kings with chains and their robles with fâ—tters of Iron to execute upon them the judgement writtenâ— This honour have all his Sâ—ints Then shall they Inherit the Earth and delight themselves in the aboundance of peace and then their Inheritance shall be for ever For know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world for then judgement shall be given to the Saints and the saints shall then possess the Kingdom for it is their Fathers pleasure to give them the Kingdom for his is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever and the Saints shall possess the Kingdom of Glory for ever even for ever and ever There where God hath commanded or ordained for man the blessing Even life in Glory for evermore Therefore let the Children of Zion be joyfull in their King the Lord of life Christ Jesus who shall also judge the dead men of this world of Darkness In the valieâ— of Iehosaphat And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and the dead were judged Then shall they The dead see him whom they have pierced and shall know that he is the Lord God dwelling in Zion his holy mountain For the wicked shall be shut up in the prison of the grave and after many days even the sabbattical thousand years rest in glory shall they be visited and in that day will the Lord punish Leviathan that piercing crooked Serpent the Dragon in the Sea or in the multitud e of Nations in this world and he shall be cast into the lake of fire and Brimstore where the Beast or Imperiall power and the False Prophet Mahomet are and shall be tormented for ever and ever SECT. XVII ANd this Judgement day of the dead shall be after Christ hath Reigned the thousand years or day of rest among the Saints Bodily yea in that very body which he hath carried up for that purpose and hath raised all the Elect out of their Graves From the dead or children of death and Hell called Sathan For Christ being the Resurrection and the life shall come down upon them that are his as the Rain upon the Mown grass For thus saith the Lord I will open your graves O my people and bring you into the Land of Israel then shall ye know that I am the Lord your God when I have opened your graves and put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I shall place you in your own land then shall ye know that I am the Lord that have performed it For those which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him For the councel of peace eternall life and glory shall be between them both even Father and Son and so shall they the Saints be ever with the Lord This shall be written for the Generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord In the Regenâ—râ—tion or Resurrection when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his Glory Then will he make them even Israel and Judah one Nation in the holy land upon the Mountains of Israel the land of his Inheritance A Glorious high Throne is the Place or land of our Sanctuary from the beginning of the Creation of God for though all the earth be his yet Zion hath he chosen to be the place of his habitation for ever and will goe in and out before his people there even as
foundations whose builder and maker is God the Lord For it shall be built to the Lord upon the hill Gareb and shall compasse about to Goath and the whole value of the dead and all the fields unto the Brooke Kidron unto the Horse gate shall be holy unto the Lord yea it shall not be pâ—ucked up nor thrown down for ever Even this great City the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from my God ready â—â—amed of material precious stones Even as Solomons Temple was brought out of the wilderness ready framed and so built and laid together without knock of hammer or axe or any other toole of Iron The streetes of this City shall be of pure transparent Gold whose wals shall be great and high built of Jasper and garnished with all manner of precious stones having twelve Gates on the East side three Gates and on the North side three Gates on the South side three Gates and on the West side three gates and the gates of the City shall not be shut and the fashion of the City shall be foure square the length bredth and height of the wals of the City shall be of equal measure Twelve thousand furlongs broad and twelve thousand long and twelve thousand furlongs high and the thickness of the Wall shall be one hundred forty and foure cubites of a man which is six foot and makes up in the whole thickness eight hundred sixtie and foure foot SECT. XXIIII ANd the most high God the Father and the Lord Christ shall be the Temple in it and the glory of God the Father and of the Lord Christ shall be the light thereof and onely those nations that are saved shall walke in it and Kings shall bring their glory and honor into it and none shall enter into it but they that are written in the Lambs Book For thus saith the Lord The place of my throne Palestina and the place of the soals of my feet where I will dwell in the midd'st of the children of Israel for ever and my holy name shall the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their Kings The whole limit thereof shall be round about most holy And the name of the City from that day shall be The Lord is there Then the heathen or Gentiles shall know that I the Lord build and plant the ruines and desolate places of the land of Israel I the Lord have spoken it and I will do it SECT. XXV FOr God will save Zion and will build the Cities of Judah that they may dwell there The seed of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein and shall be Kings and Priests unto God and raign on the earth For when the Lord Christ shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory when the people are gathered together and the Elect out of all Kingdoms to serve the Lord to declare his name in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem Then will he receive them unto himself that where he is in glory there they may be also and they the Father and Son will love them and will come unto them and make their abode with them For the Councell of peace and eternal glory shall be between them both in the Kingdom of Christ and of God and the people and kingdoms shall be gathered together to declare the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Ierusalem For unto the Father incomprehensible shall be glory given in the Church Triumphant by Christ Iesus and all his Saints world without end SECT. XXVI FOr this Mount Zion scituate on the North side of Ierusalem is the Hill which the Lord desireth to dwell in yea the Lord will dwell in it for ever where his Throne and Scepter of Righteousness shall be for ever and ever even in the World to come whereof we speak and he shall raign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end even upon the throne of David Then shall they say The Lord raigneth The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved for the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more then all the dwellings of Jacob Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God For the highest himself shall establish her Yea he hath desired it for his habitation saying This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it For in Salem is his Tabernacle his dwelling Place in Zion For the Lord will comfort Zion he will make her wilderness like Eden and mount Zion shall never be removed but abideth for ever Being the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem which cannot be shaken but shall remain like the earth which abideth for ever for I know saith Solomon whatsoever God doth it shall abide for ever and that which is to be hath already been and God requireth that which is past even the world to be restored to its first Purity Glory Excellency and determined perpetuity Spiritual which is eternal for the spirits of all men are eternal whether for Light or Darkness and the Saints continuance in glory shall be eternal For their bodies shall then be of the same eternal duration as their spirits are this being the true state of the things we call Spiritual which is eternal for there our mortal bodies shall put on immortality and this corruption shall put on incorruption to and for which a true pious and charitable life in this world â—its us by the sacred Spirit of light Christ Jesus SECT. XXVII FOr God will establish the Earth for ever when the time of refreshing shall come and Restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his Prophets since the world began For the Lord that hath chosen Zion will dwell in the midd'st of her And inhorit Judah his Portion in the holy land and choose Jerusalem again For heaven is the throne of God but the earth hath he given to the Sons of men to be inhabited for ever being their proper Sphere For the Lords Portion is his people Iacob is the Lot of his inheritance For he will remove the iniquiâ—y of that land in one day and Jerusalem shall then be called the City of Truth when the sons of Zion are raised out of the pit or grave wherein is no water and shall save them as the flock of his people and the Lord by David their leader shall save the tents of Iudah first for David shall be their Prince and Nations that know not Iudah shall run unto them who shall then be terrible as an army with Banners as it were the Company of two armies Iudah and Gentiles whose arrows are sharp and all their bowes bent their horses hoofs shall be counted like flint and their wheels like a whirl-winde their roaring of their hosâ—e shall be like the roaring of a Lyon yea they
field shall be at peace with them and Sathan shall be shut up al that thousand years or seventh day of rest in glory all which is typified unto us by Exo. 9. 4 6. Exo. 10. 23. SECT. XXXV IN that time shal the present be brought unto the Lord of hostes by the faithfull Gentiles of a people scattered and peeled from a people terrible from their beginning a nation meted out and trodden under foot whose Land Palestina the Rivers or Nations of the Gentiles have spoyled they shall be brought to the place of the name of the Lord to mount Zion In that day shall the branch of the Lord Israel and Iudah and all the saints be beautiful and Glorious for I am the vine saith the Lord and ye are the branches and the fruit of the earth shall then be excellent for I say unto you I will no more eat nor drink of the fruit of the vine untill the Kingdom of God shall come and untill I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdom and then the meek shal eat and be satisfied and shal live for ever when the Lord hath washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion then shall we see his glory and live ever in his sight For all the earth shall be filled with the Glory of the Lord Then shall it be said to the Israel of God by the Angels of Christ that shal be sent forth to gather them together Arise for the light is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee the sons of them the wicked that afflicted thee shal come bending and bow themselves down to the soals of thy feet even as Joseph's Brethren did to Joseph for thou shal suck the milk of the Gentiles and the brests of Kings then shalt thou know that I the Lord am thy Saviour the mighty one of Jacob For the Nation and Kingdom that wil not serve thee shal perish and shall be utterly wasted but the Lord shal be unto thee O Israel an everlasting light and thy God thy Glory the people also shall be all Righteous they shall Inherit the land for ever For thy maker Christ Jesuâ— the God of salvation light and glory is thy Husband and thy Redeemer the Lord of hostes is his Name The God of the whole Earth shal he be called then shal wee see heaven open and the Angels of God ascending and descending as Iacob did who in a vision was shewed the glory of it and by the spirit of truth was forced to confess that the place was none other then the Gate of heaven the house of God and that the Lord is in that Place SECT. XXXVI BUt darkness shall then cover the earth or the men of this part of the world of darkness and grosse darkness the people such as shall be felt typified unto us by the severall great plagues of darkness inflicted on Egypt and shall be acted in like manner on the now inhabitants of Palestinaâ— by the two witnesses conceived to be by their workes Moses and Elias at the time of Judah's gathering together for three years and six moneths for they shall have power to send forth fire to turne the waters into blood and to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they list yea they shal have power to shut heaven all that time that it raine not even for three years and six moneths as Elias did before in Ahab's time for three years and six moneths SECT. XXXVII THen all the wicked of the land shall be as though they had never bin because Israel shall be a fire and Judah shall be a flame and the wicked shall be as stubble and they even Israel and Judah shall kindle and devour them for they shall be utterly burâ—t with fire in the same place of their abode and all the wicked shall become ashes under their feet for this battel against the wicked shall be with burning and fewell of fire for a fire shall devour his enemies before them death shall feed on them and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning or when the morning Christ Jesus appeareth upon mount Zion and before his antients Abraham Isaac and Iacob and al the Prophets gloriously for Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in his own place and the Lord shall save the tents of Judah first SECT. XXXVIII THen all the nations of the world even Gog and Magog East and West Turkâ— and Pope shall be by the evill spirit Sathan brought into the land of Israel to fight against Judah in Ierusalem that now is where our Lord was crucified for tydings out of the East shall affright Gog and Magog when they shall hear of the gathering together of Judah and all the saints and they Gog and Magog shall go forth with great fury to destroy when they shall hear that Judah hath taken Ierusalem for Gog and Magog shall come roaring like the roaring of the Sea and shall come in like a flood but the Lord shall lift up a standard against him and they shall come upon the mountaines of Israel but then shall darkness sorrow and â—ear take hold of them as it did on the Egyptians in the red sea and a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them and every ones hand shall be against his neighbour and every mans Sword shall be against his brother for the Lord shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard and shall shew the lighting down of his arme with Indignation and anger and with devouring fire with scattering tempest and hayl stones and then shall they be destroyed upon the mountaines of Israel by the hand of the Lord for God in his Eternal decree hath scattered the bands of him that incampeth against thee O Judah who shall all be buried in the valley of Hamon Gog and they shall never see light or Christ in his glory and when the wicked are cut off the Saints shall see it SECT. XXXIX ANd with whose Innumerable carcasses will the Lord make a feast unto all the beasts of the field and fowls of the aire who shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the Earth And for an eternal memorial of this great deliverance there shall be a City built in the valley of Hamon Gog and it shall be called Hamona and seven years shall the Saints be burning of their weapons of war and seven moneths shall they be burying of the bones of Gâ—g and Magog's mighty Hoste that was as the sand of the sea for Multitude and the land shall be soaked with their blood and the dust made fat with the fatness of their bodies for it â— the day of the Lords vengeance and the year of recompence for the controversie of Zion in the latter dayes ye shall consider it SECT. XL THus shall the Lord punish the host of the high ones and of the
into an externall shape and being and we by him even by Jesus Christ the Son of the most high God the Father the Portion of Jacob or of the Elect the former and maker of all things for God the Father decreed the earth to be made by this his sacred power Established the world by this his sacred wisdom and stretched out the heaven by his sacred understanding the Lord of Hostes is his name the God of Israel the God of all flesh who hath made the â—arth the man and beast the portion of Iacob Christ is the former of all things the Lord of hosts is his name Thou art the Lord the God who didest choose Abraham Thou ledst them in the day by a cloud and in the night by a pillar of fire thou camest down upon mount Zion and spakest with them face to face For they saw him the God of Israel and the Lord even the God of Israel spake to Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend yea Iacob did see this God of Israel or of the elect face to face who testifieth of himself saying and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God even the God of Israel he is the God of Salvation he hath made us And the world was also made by him the Word of God And unto the God of Christ belong the Issues from death being the ordained resurrection and the life and so is he God over all blessed for ever Being the God of hope even to the elect the hope of glory in eternal life In the true Image of him that created him Christ the power of God the wisdom of God Righteousness and true holiness yea the beauty of Holiness and glorious in holiness Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance for they shall rejoyce for ever in the Lord God of their salvation happy are the people whose God is the Lord for he shall govern the nations upon the earth He shall say to the prisoners and them that are in darkness goe forth and shew your selves For God the Father his God hath anoynted him with the oyle of gladness eternal light life and glory above his sellowe seven above all spirits what ever For God the Father is the head of Christ even as man is the head of woman and hath ordained him to be the Prince of life The beginning the light the day the Person the Presence the face the Angel the Name the truth the goodness the power of God the Father unto Salvation the Prince of peace and love whose nature and property is even to have mercy to forgive and to preserve For he the Lord God is the preserver of Isracl yea the preserver of men The God of Salvation The Christ of God the Father for the worke of mercy and glory But darkness the divel is the Prince of death and destruction the destroyer the hater of man the roaring Lyon the raging power evil wickedness the merciless enemy the unrighteousness the night The wrath of God the star of the morning or the star darkness separated from the morning star or bright star of righteousness light and glory Christ Jesus the anoynted God of salvation whom God the Father hath appointed heir of all things and by whom he made the worlds being the word and voice of God the Father the visible brighâ—ness of his Fathers glory and his expresse Image in his person for he that hath seen him hath seen the Father or the Fathers power to salvation for he upholdeth all things by the sacred power Who is made heir of all things and hath obtained a more excellent name then all other spirits what ever for the name of the Father the Lord God Ichovah the God of salvation is in him Who said I will be to him a Father and he to me a Son yea this day have I begotten thee For before the naturall day was in being he was brought forth yea before the earth was formed For according to the Fathers decree The foundations of the earth were lay'd in or by this sacred beginning yea the heavens are the work of his hand For it pleased the Father for whom are all things and of whom are all things in bringing many Sons unto glory to make the Captain or Prince of their salvation Christ perfect glorious in holiness yea the beauty of holiness fearfull in praises doing wonders For he that sanctiâ—ieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he the Christ is not ashamed to call them brethren for of him and through him and to him are all things For he being the Resurrection and the life in him we live and move and have our being being created by God the Father in Christ Jesus who is the Beginning the day the life the light and glory Therefore are the Children of the light no more in bondage to darkness Hell and death the divel being redeemed by the light Jesus they are all become the Children of the light and Children of the day for God the Father hath not appointed or determined them unto or for wrath the divel but to obtaine or enjoy salvation in glory in and by Jesus Christ where we shall all live together with him who is the Christ of God the Father by whom all things were made to the glory of God the Father according to the eternal purpose of the Father which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord that so unto Principalities and powers of darkness in heavenly places might now be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God the Father Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named That is the spirits of life in all things named appointed and disposed of to their severall functions and conditions of being by him who after God is created in righteousness and true holiness by that one God and Father of all who is above all through all and in all and by whom is given or conferred on the elect grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ whose name is the Lord of Hostes the God of Israel or elect who shall be Glorious in the sight of God the Father and this his God shall be his strength and he shal be his servant to raise up the tribes of Iacob and to restore the preserved of Israel And to be a light to us Gentiles and the Fathers Instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth And by the Covenant to establish the earth that he may say to the Prisoners of death go forth and shew your selves when he shall put his spirit of life into them and the shall live For in the Lord Christ shall all the seed of Israel be Justified and shall glory for he shall be exalted and be very high For
A PACKET OF NEWES Yea True and Faithful News of ISRAELS and JUDAHS Call AND Of the Manner Place and Time of Christs Coming and reign in glory among his Saints upon the Earth As also Judahs Past with Englands Present Miseries Parallel'd With sundry other Particulars very profitable and necessary for Christians of all Degrees to know the Mysteries of God Collected out of the Scriptures this 22. of the 11th moneth corruptly called January 1647. for the benefit of all but chiefly for such who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness Err in Vision and stumble in Judgement By JAMES FRESE Merchant Ps. 96. 10. and 104. 5. Eccles. 1. 4. 1 Chron. 16. 30. The World shall be Established that it shall not be moved for ever Eze. 43. 7. Even the place of the soals of my feet where I will dwell for ever Zach. 2. 12. For the Lord shall inherite Iudah in the holy land and chuse Ierusalem again Ier. 31. 6. 8. And then shall they say Arise Let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God Zac. 8. 7 8 23. And then shall ten Men of all Nations take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you LONDON Printed for Matthew Simmons 1651. To the RIGHT HONORABLE Most Truly NOBLE And VICTORIOUS HIS EXCELLENCY Oliver Cromwell Lord General of all the Forces raised in England and Ireland for Defence and Regainment of Englands Rights and Liberties MOst Noble and Victorious Sir whose Name by the Will of Divine Providence is become Englands Honor Her Enemies Terror and Europes Wonder For the Continuation Increase and Perfection whereof to the Glory of God your Countries happiness and Your own eternal Fame he most heartily and earnestly wisheth who in his greatest straits under the Iron yoke of Cruelties close restraint many yeers was sundry times made partaker of your truly Christian bounty to the preservation of his Life and Being and after many years Imprisonment of some breathings of Liberty For which in way of due thankfullness as ever in his heart abhorring the grand sin of Ingratitude he returns unto Your Excellency most humbly and hearty thanks and in assurance of the continuation of your most noble Paternal favour towards him he presumeth to shroud this ensuing treatise of the Personal Reign of Christ upon the earth under the wing of your Execllencies favorable Protection most humbly presenting the same unto your Excellencies view acceptance and most noble Boerean perusal The glimpse of which favour extended is the highest pitch of his ambition who in all true Christian humility to his God and fidelity in the band of love to his Country and your Excellencie Subcribes himself Most Noble Excellent and Right Honorable Your Honors most humble Servant to be commanded James Frese London the 19th of the 6th Moneth corruptly called August 1651. To all such true and faithful members of the Lord Jesus as walk close to the Sacred Truth by the rule of Righteousness and stand as firm as Nehemiah for the advance of the true honor of God in true judgement justice and mercy and the speedy restauration of the fundamental Laws Rights and Liberties of this their Native Countrey Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus I Here present unto your favorable view and Christian perusal this small Treatise containing some Collections of holy Scripture cleerly manifesting the Personal Reigne of the Lord Jesus among his Saints upon Earth in the Land of Israel it being the choisest Fruit of my Labors in the time of my close Imprisonment in the Tower-Chamber in the Fleet-Prison for the space of almost four yeers by Henry Hopkins Warden of the Fleet under locks and bolts to the apparent hazard of my life without any just cause by him shewed to this day for his so doing craving in all humility your favourable acceptance of these my Labors and a Berean perusal of them In the reading wherof the Lord Jesus grant unto you his sacred Spirit of Wisdom to be your Directer and Instructer bringing the Truth thereof home unto your souls that so your hearts being seasoned with the apprehension of the expressed joys and comforts contained in it you may live in expectation of the Lord Jesus his glorious Appearing with all Saints in the glory of God the Father and of the holy Angels and in his Kingdom and of the enjoyment of eternal life in glory with him and all the Saints within his holy habitation in the land of the living even in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord Christ shall reign for ever and ever even as he assuredly remaineth in expectation of the same who in all humility subscribes himself Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus Yours in all love and Christian Charity and his Countries Servant in all Fidelity during the short time of his continuance in this almost expired vanities world of misery James Frese London this 15th of the 10th moneth 1650. The Epistle To the Honest Impartial Reader COurteous Reader I do earnestly wish and heartily desire of the Lord that thy perusal of these few Collections of holy Scripture taken as a drop of water out of the vast Ocean of Gods Word and sent forth as a Lamb among censorious Wolves may be seasoned to thy soul by the Spirit of Truth that so the eyes of thy Understanding may thereby be inlightned to Gods glory and thine own souls eternal comfort and joy unexpressable in the glorious eternal world to come And for the better help and inlightning of thy Understanding in the profitable reading of this Treatise I do earnestly desire thee to note well these particulars following 1. That the ten Tribes a which fell from Rehoboam and made Jeroboam their King were then called The Kingdom of Israel whose Kingly Seat or City was Samaria And the other two Tribes under Rehoboams government were called the Kingdom of Judah and the People Jews whose Royal Seat was the Mount of the Lord God called b Zion adjoyning to the North side of Jerusalem The City of the great King * Christ Jesus 2. That all the ten Tribes of Israel were c carried away into captivity beyond the River of Aethiopia called Euphrates d by Shalmanazer King of Assyria in the days of King Hoshea into a far Country about eighteen moneths journey from the holy land of Palestina called in the Syriack Assareth but in the Hebrew Sinin three hundred twenty and six yeers before Judah was carryed captive into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon from whence Judah returned to their own Land again within seventy yeers But the ten Tribes called Israel as yet never returned to this day So that Israels captivity hath now continued about two thousand six hundred and twelve yeers Therefore will the Lord make Israel that was wholy cast out a mighty Nation but Judah or the Jews that returned and halted e
ye rejected him saying We will not have this man to reigne over us for we have no King but Caesar is now dispers d among the Nations and shall be only a Remnant For as ye wâ—re a curse among the Heathen saith the Lord O House of Israel and House of Judah f so will I save you and ye shall be a Blessing For in those days and at that time the children of Israel and the children of Judah shall g come together They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying Come Let us joyn our selves to the Lord in a Perpetual Covenant that shall never be forgotten Then shall the Tribes of Israel mourn when they see him whom their fore-fathers rejected and shall h declare my glory among the Gentiles and they the Gentiles shall bring your brethren unto the Lord out of all Nations in their Ships and upon Horses and in Litters and in Chariots and upon Mules and upon swift Beasts or Dromedaries to my holy Mountain Jerusalem and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem saith the Lord For as the New Heaven and the New Earth which I will make shall remain before me so shall your Seed and your Name remain saith the Lord And the Gentiles i shall come to thy Light and Kings to the brightness of thy rising When I have raised you out of your graves then thy sons shall come from far and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side And the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee Then will I return k to the people a pure language They shall not see Evil any more for Evil the Divel shall not dwell with thee Christ in glory saith David And because salvation is far from the wicked for they search not Gods statutes yea they are hid from their eyes neither can they know them because they are * spiritually discerned Therefore ye that truly fear the Lord God of salvation eternal life light and glory Christ Jesus Search the Scriptures l for in them ye look to have Eternal Life and they testifie of me saith our Saviour For the Scriptures only comparing spiritual things with spiritual things are able to make you wise uâ—to salvation Knowing this that the Scriptures are not of any private m Interpretation For we have this Treasure of Gods revealed Will by his Word in Earthen Vessels that the Excellency of the Power may be of God and not of us for none knoweth the things of God but the Spirit of God So that it plainly appeareth that all mens Interpretations of what quality or degree of Learning soever or paraphrasing upon the Scriptures is only a private Interpretation and so is uncertain for there is no man that can truly say that he is immediately sent from God as the Prophets were and hath an infallible unerring spirit and that his interpretations of the Scripture and his paraphrasing on them are most infallibly true Therefore Wo to them that are wise in their own Eys and prudent in their own sight Wo to them that put Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness That broach the Divels Doctrine of lyes for a Truth and force all men to obey and receive them as the Truth For no man can serve two masters God and Mammon Christ and the Divel But the learned Pharisees who were covetous derided Christ the Wisdom of God saying Is not this the Carpenter the Son of Joseph And Jesus said unto them Ye are they which justifie your selves before men to have much Learning Wisdom and Piety but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men but within ye are full of Hypocrisie and Iniquity and devour Widdows houses yet for a shew of feigned Piety make long Prayers like most of our covetous Priests Therefore beware of the Scribes which walk in long robes or garments and make merchandise of the VVord of Truth by Sermons of all Prises Sacrament Christnings Churchings of Women an burying of the Dead at several Rates Easter-book New-yeers-gifts and Excommunications with several other pecuniary offences at several Rates These several Truths with the following matter contained in this Treatise I recommend to thy conscientious and diligent perusal without a prejudicate opinion beseeching thee as thou expectest eternal life in glory in the land of the living to search the Scriptures and try the truth of this following matter even as the noble Bereans did The happy issue whereof I refer to the blessing of the Almighty God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who only in and by his Son works in us both the VVill and the Deed Desiring thee also to consider that the Testimonies of the Lord are true and wonderful giving light and understanding to the simple For by thy Word thou O Lord hast made me wiser then my Teachers saith David With which saying I also conclude committing thee to the Direction and Tuition of the Almighty Goodness of the great God and Father of all Spirits the Excellent Glory Remaining thine in the Lord Jesus the God of Salvation to my Power James Frese Being still in Bonds which fain I would not be The man I was I wish I nere had bin Thy hands affliction hath drawn me home to thee Lord grant thy work may more on me be seen That Asia's seed in Europ's Soyl may spring And bear a Pleasing fruit to Israels King And Englands Sons and Daughters also may Bring thy People in that most happy day To Sions hill and there Present to thee Themselves with Iudah a most Pleasing Tree Where they shall see thee and thy Saints be known To them their friends and children which they own Lo God hath chosen the foolish and weak things of the world to consound the wise and mighty And having hid these things from the wise and prudent hath revealed them unto Babes And thus you see it plainly doth appear To be a truth most evident and clear That some Proficients are in natures schools And yet in Christ's meer novices yea fooles Probatum est 1647. JUDAHS PAST WITH ENGLANDS Present Miseries paralleld And the holy Land of PALESTINA with ENGLAND paralleld the one being Asias the other Europes Canaan or Land of Plenty SECT. I. THUS saith the Lord smite with thine hand and with thy foot and say Alas for the evill abominations of the Land Behold an evill an only evill is come it watcheth for thee I will shortly pour out my fury upon thee and I will judge thee according to thy wayes and all thy abominations for violence is risen up among them into a Rod of wickedness The day of vengeance is near therefore let not the Buyer rejoyce nor the Seller mourn for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof neither shall any of them strengthen themselves in the iniquity of their
life for the Sword Famine and Pestilence shall devour them all hands shall become feeble horrour shall cover them their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them but it shall be given into the hands of the wicked for a spoil their souls shall not be satisfied nor their bowels filled therewith because it is the Stumbling-block of their iniquity O that they were wise to understand this that they would consider their latter end and the thing that maketh for their peace even the free administration of Justice Judgement and Mercy but now it is hid from their eyes For the Land is full of bloody crimes and the City is full of violence Destruction cometh rumour upon rumour the King shall mourn and the Princes shall be clothed with desolation and the hands of all the people of the Land shall be troubled yea they shall seek Peace and there shal be none SECT. II. O Thou Sword of the Lord how long will it be ere thou be quiet put up thy self into thy scabard rest and be still How can it be quiet seeing the Lord hath given it a arge and hath set his Face against us for evill and not for good because there is no Justice nor Mercy left in the Land a deceived heart hath drawn them aside and Covetousness which is Idolatry causeth them to sell the great and dreadfull Lord God of Justice and Mercy daily for the abominable price of Iniquity in all their Courts of Oppression falsly by them called Courts of Justice SECT. III. ANd because they are thus departed from the Lord the Lord is also departed from them and hath poured out the cup of his Fury even the spirit of division upon them and they shall drink and be moved and be mad because of the Sword which he will send among them for behold the Lord haâ—h mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of us for thus saith the Lord Lo I bring or brought evill upon the City called by my Name and gave it the name JERU-SALEM and shall ye be unpunished Ye shall not be unpunished for I will call for a sword upon all the Inhabitants of the earth saith the Lord and will punish the Host of the high ones and of all the Kings of the earth for the Indignation of the Lord is upon all Nations and his fury upon all their Armies SECT. IV. ANd the Kings of the Iles yea all the Kings of the North farre and neer one with another shall drink the Wine of the wrath of God and be drunken and spue and fall and rise no more But the dregs of it shall all the wicked of the world drink for my hand and sword shall not spare them saith the Lord that shed Innocent blood in the earth for now are the Plagues upon the whole earth and ye shall not be delivered For the Crown of Pride Oppression and Drunkenness shall be troden under foot SECT. V. ANd the Kings Daughter of the South shall come to the King of the North whose Tabernacle is between two Seas that hath intelligence with them that forsake the holy Covenant and do wickedly and love a ly which is Idolatry but she shall not retain the power of the Arm nor stand on his side with them that brought her and strengthned her in these times neither shall he stand nor his Arm but he shall stumble and fall and not be found Also the robbers of the people shall exalt themselves but they shall fall but out of the branch of her root shall one stand up in his estate which shall come with an Army and shall enter into the Fortress of the King of the North and shall deal against them and shall prâ—vail for the thing that hath been is that which shall be and that which hath been done is that which shall be done for there is no new thing under the Sun and there is a time and purpose to every thing under the Heavens for is there any thing whereof it may be said See this is nâ—w for it hath been already of old time before us and known unto God or determined are all his workes from or in the beginning Christ in whom all things were created and by whom all things were made SECT. VI FOr in the first two dayes or age of the world before the Law NIMROD was the mighty hunter or warriour and in the other two dayes or age of the world under the Law the Kings of Judah were the great hunters or warriours to the terrour of many Nations So in these two last dayes of the world under the Gospel have the Kings of England or Gentils land of Canaan fâ—owing with all good things been the great hunters or warriours to the terrour of many Nations farre and neer And as Palâ—stina was divided into two Kingdoms and they at mortall warres for many yeares so is this Iland divided into two Kingdomes and have been at mortall wars together for many yeares SECT. VII ANd as Judah was brought under the Latine or Roman Yoke So hath England been brought under the Nâ—rman or French Yoke And as the Kings of Judah were accounted Defenders of the Faith and Law of Gods Truth So are the Kings of England entituled by the Popes and Bishops yea accounted Defenders of the Faith and Gospel of Jesus Christ Yet have most of them been great Idolaters and Persecutors of the Truth and of all true Professors thereof as well as the Kings of Israel And no marvel for the Lord having shut up all in unbelief or mis-belief doth â—ift all Nations with the Sive of Vanity as he did his own People the Jews putting the hook of Error into their chaws causing them to err through and by the delusion of the Spirit of Error For a further proof of this Truth read Isa. 24. 5. Isa. 25. 7. and 30. 28. and 60. 2. Jer. 30. 23 24. Mic. 5. 3. SECT. VIII ANd as that Fox King Herod by his Flattery and for his cruel work of persecution against the Saints and Servants of Christ was by the two High Priests Elders Doctors Lawyers Scribes Pharisees Sadduces Libertines and all the common People Deified crying out it is the voice of God and not of man So Henry the eighth King of England and his Successors have been by their two Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Doctors Ministers Judges Magistrates Lawyers and all the common people honoured with several Titles proper only to God alone in attributing to them the several Titles of Most Sacred Majesty Most High Most Mighty and Most Excellent Prince in all their Prayers in all their Petitions and by all other their frequent Addresses to them Which several Titles are truly and onely proper to the Prince of Peace being the Most Excellent Maâ—esty of God the Father who only and alone is Most High Most Mighty Most Excellent and Most Sacred yea there is none good but one and that is God
the glory of this latter house shall be greater then that of the former built ly Solomon and when the Children of Israel shall be thus planted and dwell in their own land and place in Glory Eternal to be Removed no more Nor the Children of wickedness that is of the Divel to wast them any more as at the beginning Then the Lord will build the house and God the Father will establish his Throne and Kiâ—gdom for ever for of his Kingdom there shall be no end SECT. XXXIII ANd when his Tabernacle or personal presence shall be among them Then shall they say among the Nations The Lord Râ—igneth and the heathen or Gentiles shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel when my sanctuary shall be in the middest of them for evermore and my servant David shall be their Prince for ever The Figure of the holy City Jerusalem with the proofs out of the Prophets and Apostles for the same Aeronâ— Br st plate was a figure of â—hâ—â— City Exoâ— 8 1◠〈…〉 21 12 North East South West Ruben Judo Levy Josepâ— Beâ—ianâ— Dan. Simem Jsochaâ— Zâ—bvlou Ezek. 48. 31. Rev. 21 16. Isa. 26 1 Rev. 3 12 Isa. 33 17 20 24 Isa. 66. 18 19. Isa. 60. 11 14 15. Ier. 31. 38 39 40. Isa. 49. 16 17. Heb. 11 10 14 16. Ezek 47. 7 12. Baruch 4. 30. Zach 14. 10 11 Iâ—a 54. 11 12 13. Isâ— â—2 18 1â— And they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and work iniquity And there shall no unclean thing enter into it nor any that worketh abomination but only they that are written in the Lambs book Therefore Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may enter through the gates into the City Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God Ierusalem the holy City from thenceforth shall no more come into thee the unclean I have raised him up and he shall build my City for we look for a City whose Builder and maker is God for I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of God Christ Jesus in the land of the living I will place Salvation in Zion for Israel my glory for when the Lord doth build up Zion he shall then appear in his glory Then Jerusalem shall be called the City of truth and he will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem And the name of City from that day forth shall be the Lord is there Yea he shall build the Temple of Jehovah For he hath prepared for them a City having twelve foundations For he will glorifie the house of his glory and I will make he Place of feet glorious But the Scepter was departed from Judah about 640. yeares before Shilo Christ came in the flesh Neither were the people of Judah gathered unto him but rejected him and Israel heard not of him being carried away by Shalmanazar King of Assiria about 964. years before Christ's coming in the flesh For Christ his coming in humility was when Judah's Iniquities were fully ripe and thus he came in the fulness of time to be a light to us Gentiles that had then fate almost 1800. years in Darkness and under the bondage and shaddow of death and Hell But shall then at his coming be the glory of his people Israel who as yet have not known him nor shall not know him till they shall see him and say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord for so is God's decree Then all things shall become new for the Lord will renew the face of the Earth and then the whole earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea for he shall come in the glory of God the Father yet that which is to be hath already bin and they shall all know the Lord from the least to the greatest of them from a childe of a span long to the man of full stature And then will he Remember their sins no more for the Lord shall then appear in his glory and shall stand upon the Mount of Olives and the mount of Olives shal cleave in the middest towards the North and towards the South and it shal become a very great valley yea all the land of Palestina shal be turned into a plain from Gheba to Rimon south of Jerusalem and shal again be meted out to the Tribes of Israel as at their coming out of Egypt SECT. XXXIIII THen shal they say arise let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God and they shal go from year to year and from one Sabbath to another to worship the King the Lord of hosts at Jerusalem for I will bring them from the north Country and gather them from the coasts of the earth for he that scattered Israel wil gather them even as a shepherd gathereth his flock and they shal come and sing in the height of Zion and flowe together to the goodness of God Christ a great company shal return thither and mine Elect servants only shal dwel there and inherit it for I wil Create Jerusalem a Rejoycing and her People a joy And I wil rejoyce in Jerusalem and Joy in my people for there God the Father comanded the blessing even life for evermore And then all things shall become new or the natures of all creatures shal be changed to the state and condition wherein they were first created for the wolf and the lamb shal feed together the Lyon shal then eat straw like a Bullock and dust shal be the Serpents meat They shal not hurt nor destroy any in all my holy mountaines saith the Lord For the very brute creature who was made subject to corruption through mans transgression waiteth for the Time of the manifestation of the Sons of God and to be restored into the glorious liberty of the Sons or Saints of God even eternal incorruptible being For then shal the creatureâ— also be delivered from this bondage of corruption Death and then all his works shal praise him and all flesh shal bless his holy name for ever and ever for in that day wil the Lord make a Covenant for his people with all the beasts of the field with al the fowls of heaven and with al creeping things of the ground and al evil beâ—sts shal then cease out of the land and his people shal dwel safely in the wildernes and sleep in the woods and they shal be safe in their land For he wil sowe the portion of Israel and the portion of Iudah even the land of Palestina with the seed of man and with the seed of beasts for he that hath delivered them in these six troubles or these 6000. years or days of labour trouble and sorrow will not suffer evil or the Divel to touch them in the seventh day of his glorious Rest for the beastes of the
Kings of the earth upon the earth and â—hey shal be gatheted together as Prisoners into the pit or grave and shall there be shut up and after many dayes ever after the thousand years of rest in Glory shall they be visited And they shall be called the border of wickedness against whom the Lord hath Indignation for ever and your eyes shall see this and you the Saints shall then say the Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel when he shall take them away as with a whirlewind both living and in his wrath then shall the righteous rejoyce when he seeth the vengeance for they shall wash their feet in the blood of the wicked And when all the host of heaven shall be rolled together like a scroll and the trump shall blow and the Judgement shall be set and the dead raised at the end of the thousand years rest in glory and Judged and cast into hell into the dry land wherein is no water even these parts of the earth or lowest of the Globe whose streams shal be turned into pitch and the dust thereof into brimstone and the land or earth shall become burning pitch and it shall never be quenched for the smoke thereof shall go up for ever O who among us shall then dwell with everlasting burnings Then the saints shall go forth to the border and look upon them that have transgressed whose fire shall not be quenched and they the wicked shall be an abhorring unto all flesh and there shall be a great gulf fixed between the Kingdom of heaven or glory and the Kingdom of hell and darkness Sathan and the wicked shal â—ee the glory and blessed state of the Saints in Christs Kingdom a far ost And shall weep and howl and gnash their teeth SECT. XLI IN thosedayes Judah shall walke with Israel in the land given for an inheritance unto their Fathers and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered unto it yea all nations whom the Lord hath made shall come and worship before him and Israel shall sing there the new song as in the dayes of their youth when they came out of the Land of Egypt Then shall the sword and the battel be broken out of the earth for the Lord Christ the God of Salvation light and Glory will marry his people unto himself in peace and in righteousness and in loving kindness and in mercies for he will plant his people in the earth and they shall see eye to eye yea face to face as Moses and the seventy Elders did as also all Israel Then shall they say cry out thou inhabitant of Zion for great is the holy one of Israel in the middest of thee and his place of rest shall be Glorious for then shall all the earth be fillâ—d with the Glory of the Lord even the earth or place of Glory for in this world ye the Saints shall have tribulations because my Kingdom is not of this world but in me or my Kingdom of Glory ye shall have rest saith our Saviour and we must through many tribulations enter into the Kingdom of heaven the land of Glory and happiness for he will make the place of his feet the earth Glorious And the Saints shall come with speed swiftly none of them shall be weary nor stumble none shall slumber nor sleepe neither shall the girdle of their loynes be loosed nor the latchet of their shooes be broken for the Lord shall set his hand againe the second time to recover the remnant of his people and shall assemble the out-casts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth SECT. XLII Then shall the waters fail from the sea and the rivers shall be dryed up for the Egyptian sea shall be utterly destroyed that men may go over dry shod or in â—hooeâ— then shall there be an high way for his people the Saints as it was to Israel in the day when they came out of the land of Egyyt then shall the King of righteousnes Reigne and prosper and Execute Justice and Judgement in the earth In his dayes Judah shall be saved and Israel the ten tribes shal dwel safely and this is the Kings name that shal Reigne in the earth of glory the Lord our Righteousness for in that day there shall be but one Lord and his name one SECT. XLIII ANd he that sate on the Throne shall dwell among them the Sainto and they shall Reigne with him on the earth and he said unto me write for these words are true and faithful Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have Right in the Tree of life Christ Jesus and their parts in the first Resurrection on such the second death shall have no power neither shall evill the Divell dwell with him and his saints as he doth in this his own world of sin for Christ his Kingdom is not of this world but of the Glorious world to come Out of which world of Eternal glory the Divell called Evill Sathan death and Hell shall be banished and not suffered to molest disturbe or suggest any of his evill disobedient thoughts into any of the children of the Kingdom of glory or to have any rule at all there as he hath in this his world Therefore is Christ said not to Reigne in this world but only to rule and to carry the predominent power in the hearts of all his Elect who though through Sathans suggestions they fall into sin daylie yet Christ supports and holds them up by his power whom the father hath Sealed and given unto him out of this world of evill the Divell who being the Prince of this world Ruleth in the hearts of all his the Children of wickedness disobedience darkness Evill Sathan Death and Hell for so is he called in the holy Scriptures The Priests Gods ordinance of mercy sell The Lawyers by injustice them excell Thus one The word of mercy sells for Gold The other Justice Impiously and bold An Exhortation to the conscientious Reader ALye therefore that truly love and fear the Lord God of salvation Christ Jesus and by patient continuation in well doing seek for glory Immortality and eternall life and have tasted of the good word of God Christ and of the power of the world to come and look for the day of his glorious appearing When the time of refreshing shall come of the Restitution of all things and our gathering together unto him at his appearing and his Kingdom Comfort ye one another with these things that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord Jesus direct your hearts into the true love of God and the patient waiting for Christ and grant you to be like minded one towards another in love or in the God
eternal purpose in Christ Jesus whereby he hath made them heires of glory yea joynt heires with Christ to be glorified together with him Whose spirit beareth witness to our spirits that we are the Children of God the Father and heires with Christ who is the Ordained God and Lord over all blessed for ever He came out of the mouth of the most high God the Father and so is he the word of God For the Creator of all things gave him a Commandment and ordained his tabernacle or personall presence to rest Saying to him let there be a firmament and let thy dwelling be in Jacob and thine inheritance in Israel Yea he came forth as a brook from a river for he the Father created him the beginning and he shall never faile and thus is he established in Zion in the beloved City Jerusalem is his rest and power being the portion of his inheritance Where he the word the life the way the truth the righteoâ—sness and the lâ—ght is by the Father decreed to dwell in gâ—ory with all his saints for ever There is also a word which is called upon with death who is called darknes hell falshood vanity unrighteousness wrath destroyer Sathan wickedness God grant it be not found in the heritage of Jacob the Saviour But this word was found in Jacob or Judah when they renounced the word of life and glory Christ saying we have no King but Caesar and his blood be on us and our Children Then spake he unto them in or by this word of darkness his wrath the divel and vexed them in his sore displeasure for they were given up by God the Father to him the wrath therefore said to be of their Father the divel the destroyer For as God or goodness is set by the Father against evill the divell light against darkness mercy against wrath life against death the Saviour against the destroyer even so is the Godly against the Sinner and the Sinner against the Godly Even so also look upon the works of the most high God the Father and there are â—wo Christ and Belial the accepted and the rejected and their two works are one against the other The ways of Righteousness are plain and easy to the righteâ—us but his commands are stumbling blocks to the wicked And for the Children of Righteousness are good things created or decreed by the father in the or this sacred beginning Even life eternall in glory but for the sinners or the Children of the disobedient one or evill things created or decreed even eternall being in the land of horrour drought and darkness for ever with their Father the divell for the wrath of God is revealed now but shall then be manifest Called Principalities Powers Hosts Ministers that at the Almighty's pleasure on his works yea powers of darkness Beelzebub that act by fire famine sword and pestilence punishing the wicked to destruction and boasting themselves in mischief and destruction whose nature and property is cruelty and destruction therefore stiled a roaring Lyon the destroyer but not the Saviour Christ whose nature and property is mercy and preservation and therefore is he stiled the preserver of men yea the Oracle or mouth of God the Father Thus you see that all things are double or decreed for a double use one against the other some for the light to abide in glory and some for the darkness Beelzebub to abide for ever in darkness For all that obey or do his will shall reap perdition but they that walk in the light and are Children of the light shall inherit the land or earth of glory and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace Thou wilt say why doth he then complain for who hath or doth resist his will for can I do any other then I am lead forth unto or made to do But O man who art thou which pleadeth or speaketh against God thy maker for shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it why hast thou made me thus hath not thee Potter power of one lump to make one vessell to honour or for the acting of the spirit of honour and glory Christ Jesus and another to dishonour or for the acting of the spirit of dishonour and reprobation Beelzebub what and if God will to manifest wrath and to make his the sdivels elotted or meated out power known to the Creature uffer the vessels of wrath prepared or decreed to destruction to act the will and works of wrath and that he might also declare the riches and power of his glory for Christ is the glory and power of God unto salvation upon the vessels of his mercy Christ the mercy of God which he hath prepared or decreed unto glory to act the works of mercy here for glory hereafter For if thou be determined for glory and the vessell or body be filled at present with the Spirit of glory truth and righteousness Christ Jesus then shalt thou act and be led forth to the works of glory truth and Righteousness For the meanes shall never be wanting that drives on to the end of the Fathers decree But if thou remaine under the power and guidance of the spirit of darkness then canst thou do none other works then the works of darkness and then thou wilt apprehend the word works and actings of Christ in his vessels of honour called saints to be ridiculous and foolishness for he that is not for Christ is against him But wo unto him that striveth with this his maker Christ Jesus the Lord of life and glory for this maker the Lord our Righteousness is the husband or bridegroome to the Saints and he will marry them unto himself in Righteousness and glory everlasting for he will give unto them salvation in Zion O therefore say not thou it is through the Lord Christ my maker that I perish for he causeth me to err for who dare say unto him what hast thou done or who dare stand against his Judgement to whom all power is given by the Father both in heaven and earth or who dare accuse him for the nations that perish whom he hath made or who dare stand against him to revenge the cause of the wicked that are by him cast off or rejected therefore happy yea thrise happy are all they that are possessed and guided by this sacred spirit wisdom For she was created or produced by the Father before all things she hath built her everlasting foundations with men and is given by the rather to be with their seed in glory for ever For all such as band themselves against Jehovah and against his anointed power for 〈◊〉 are described and known to be disobedient men of this earth or world of darkness guided by the rebellious spirit of wrath darkness and enemies to the obedient spirit of sight life and determined glory to the elect and obedient