throuh them hath grown spred it self as evil leven throuhout the whol lomp that cursed seed of the Serpent hath grown up in thee not only in thy Elders teachers but also throuh them in thy Rulers war â—â—rs Peepel is becom a Man of sin mystery of iniquity even the Son of perdition yea a strong man armed with the dragons Power keeping possession of the hous to wit of thee O Christendom siting as God in thee who ouhtst of ryt to be a living Tempel for the tru living Lod God omnipotent to dwol and walk in Which hath rendred thy Military Power even the whol body of them to be the great Reed Dragon that gav to the beast his power seat and great Authority with seven heds ten horns seven crowns upon his hed which hath stil doth stand befor the woman which did now doth bring forth the man-chyld who in mesur doth and dayly môr shal Rûl the nations with a Rod of Yron who failing in his first enterprys against the bâb of glory being cast out of heven into the erth hath stil doth persecut the woman which did and now doth bring forth the Man-chyld hath doth cast out water as a floud out of his mouth to cary her away therwith making war with the Remnant of her seed which keeps the commandements of God hav the testimony of Jesus even the arm of the ungodly which must now be broken a standing engyn to oppres spoyl consum the tresur bloud of the nations Who 's Rys continuans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent which was in Cain in Simeon Levy thos brethren in Iniquity in whos habitations ar the cursed Instruments of Murder Bloud cruelty whos practis was and stil is whylst pretending overturs treatys of peas agreement to seek tak advantages to Kil Murder Destroy But the day is now com in which they must receiv their Iust Reward from the Lord God they shal be divyded in Iacob scattered in Israel a Fugityv vagabond on the erth from the Lord God for ever must that Power and spirit be in which they stand and by which they ar acted Thy Civil Power so caled even the whol body of them Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers their predecesors in the fal hav bin stil remain that scarlet colored beast ful of the nams of Blasphemy having seven heds ten horns which ascended out of the bottomles pit upon vvhom the scarlet whôr that adulteros Woman â—esabel to vvit the whôl body of thy spiritual men or Clergy so caled hath stil doth sit which hath mà d war with the two vvitneses of God and overcom them vvhos Power seat great authority was given and is stil upheld by the dragon or military Power whos mouth hath uttered great things blasphemys vvhich vvas to continu trampeling the holy city fourty two months opening his mouth in blasphemys even against God blaspheming his Nà m tabernakel and them that dwel in heven who hath mà d vvar vvith the saints over com them hath had stil hath Power over Kingdoms tongu's and nations and vvas and stil is vvors hiped by al vvhos Nà ms ar not writen in the Lambs book of lyf Their several throns and Seats of residens exampels of villany al manner of vvickednes to the several Kingdoms Dominions and territorys over vvhich they rul sending forth the stinking smels of vanity Pryd Lust VVantones VVhordom Exces Drunkenes vayn Plesurs Oppression Cruelty Injustis Deceit Envy Murder making aprey of the Innocent such as de part from Iniquity Who 's rys continnans to this day is in the Spirit of the old Serpent which vvas in Cain that city builder in Ismael Nimrod Esau and in thos Kingly Governers of Sodom and Gomorrha and the citys therabouts vvhos practis vvas and stil is by stryf contention and vvars to destroy and murder the Peepel under their government therby to vvrest Dominion out of the hands of ech other amongst vvhom just Lot is mâd a prisoner and captyv But the day is now com in vvhich Abraham the Brother of Lot is arming his houshold Gideon the Lords Thresher vvith his sharp threshing instrument having teeth hath taken the field vvith his three hundred Men and the Lord vvil smyt them as in the day of Midian mâk their Prinses as Oreb Zeeb as Zeba Zalmunna vvhich perished at Endor the habitation of the Spirit of vvitch craft and becam as dung upon the Erth. The Captyr Exyl hasteth to be delivered and shal be lifted up out of the pit and redeemed and brouht bâk vvithout money vvithout prys but thâ— prey shal not be taken from the myty nether shal the lavvful captyâ— be delivered out of his hand vvho had descended into the lovver most parts of the Erth even into the Belly of hel but is novv ascended and ascending up far abov al hevens leading captivity captyv giving gifts unto Men spoyling Principalitys Powers even the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers of the Darknes of this World making an open shevv of them triumphing over them and trampeling on them in his cros vvho is the lyt lyf of Men the VVisdom and Power of God Thy Ecclesiastical Power even the whol body of them caled the Clergy or Spiritual Men with their predecessors in the fal apostacy wer and stil ar that great skarlet whor wich seteth upon many waters even the mother of harlots abominations of the erth with whom thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel even the whol body of thee O Christendom hav commited spiritual fornication arrayed in purpel skarlet and fyn linnen deked with gold c. having a golden cup in her hand ful of abomnations filthynes of her whordoms on whos forhed is writen Mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots and abominations of the whol Erth who hath bin and stil remains drunk with the bloud of the Saints and of the Martyrs of Iesus Thy several plases of worship Tempels of Ydols plases of the forms of godlynes with out the lyf and power therof which ar to be turned from the vvhol body of thy vvorship as an Altar vvith an inscription to the unknown God The several exercyses of prayer preaching sacraments singing with the observation of days tyms sabbaths performed and observed at loathsom stinking most abominnabel in the nostrils of the put God of lyf no other but as the offering of swyns flesh blesing of Ydols or murdering of men being performed in that spirit Povver vvhich is enmity against God Who 's Rys and continans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent vvhich vvas in Cain vvho could offer a sacrifys then murder his brother in Balaam Athaliah Iezabel vvho hav riden the several nations of Christendom as an As for dishonest gain the
in them becâm black as Sackloth of hair and their Moon hath bin turned into Bloud which hath manifestly appeared in thôs great Confusions Bloudy wars Destructions Desolations which hâv been amongst themselvs in every Kingdom Dominion throuhout Christendom and now they having filled up the Mesur of their Abominations the great notabl Day of the Lord is com in which the Lord wil throuh by the Turkish power carry on the finishing his Just Ryteos decree of VVrath Vengeans on them to wit Christendom they also shal becom not a peepl of any visibl or outward earthly Power or Government upon the fâs of the earth as of themselvs any môr for ever But according to the Word of the Lord throuh his Servants the Profets he wil Rays up in them a pûr seed which shal ferv him even a numberles number which shal with al the Ransomed ôns stand befor the Thrôn clothed in whyt Rôbs ascrybing salvation unto God which fireth on the Thrôn unto the Lamb saying Bles-ing Glory VVisdom Thanksgiving Honor Power Myt be unto our God for ever ever Amen The slain of the Word by the Lord of the Mouth amongst them shal be many And so both Jew Gentil shal be unyted becom ôn stik in the hand of the Lord ôn Holy Nation upon the Mountains of Israël ôn King shal be King over them al even David my Servant saith the Lord God they shal hâv ôn shepherd walk in the Iudgments of the Lord observ his Statuts to do them shal dwel in the Land even they their Children their Childrens Children for ever in the partipation of the new Everlasting Covenant of God his Sanctuary Tabernacl shal be in the midst of them he be their God they his Peepl for ever môr And when the Lord hath don his work in Zyon he wil also punish the stout heartednes of the King of Assyria bring down the Glory of his hy looks the loftynes of man in them also shal be a based brouht down that hautynes laid low even with the ground the Lord wil aveng the Bloud of the hous of Ahab upon the hous of Jehu caus that Kingdom to ceas for ever even al that Rûl Authority Power risen standing in the Spirit Power of the Dragon that old Serpent shal be thrust down under the feet of the pûr seed Christ the wisdom power of God in his Peepl even throuhout al the habitabel parts of his Erth so that Nation shal not lift up sword against Nation nor learn war any môr but the Kingdoms of this World shal becom the Lords and the Lord God Omnipotent shal rein in throuh over al for ever môr The other exampl which I shal mention is Nebuchadnezzar Belshazzar his Son who together in their power wer the Golden hed of that Imag which Nebuchadnezzar saw of which your predecessors together with you even you the present Roman Empyr with al other the Kings Prinses Heds Rulers throuhout Christendom the Dominions and Territorys therunto belonging in your their Power Military Civil Ecclesiastical so caled ar the feet Toes which the Stôn cutout of the mountain without hands is now smyting Nebuchadnezzar's arrogans Now it is vvriten concerning this Nebuchadnezzar that he was a King of Kings and that the God of heven had given him a Kingdom Power Strength Glory but he being ignorant of that God that mâd him gâv him that great strength larg Dominion did in the Pryd of his heart attribut that Glory myt Majesty Strength Dominion honor unto himself which was dû to the Lord God of heven alôn at his Dispôs exercysing cruelty oppression on whom he pleased making a law in his own vviked wil to caus al to bovv to that Imâg His work which he in his own Idolatros heart had invented sit up or els to Murder and Destroy the Refusers by fyr thô Othervvys Innocent guiltles of any evil don against him His visitation reward thô a King but even vvhylst he vvas in the pryd and arrogancy of his heart assuming that Glory Honor to himself vvhich vvas du only to the God of heven ther fel a voys from heven saying O King Nebuchadnezzar to thee be it spoken thy Kingdom is departed from thee they shal dryv thee from Men thy dweling shal be with ye Beasts of the field they shal mâk thee to eat gras as oxen seven tyms shal pas over thee until thou knowest that the most hy ruleth in the Kingdom of Men giveth them to whom soever the wil. His restoration when he giv God his glory again Which the sam hour vvas fulfiled upon him vvhich vvas a just Judgment yet a gentel vvarning from the the God of heven who after wards restored him to his Kingdom caused him ther by to acknowledg the God of heven that he ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men siteth up Puteth down whom when he pleaseth But Belshazzar his Son not taking warning being found guilty of his Fathers Iniquitys the God of heven did Justly visit the iniquitys of the Father upon the Son sending a hand wryting upon the wal even whylst he was in the Pryd of his heart drinking Wyn in the vessels of the Tempel of God That Son which succeeds in his fathers Vys shal inherit his fathers reward as wel as Crown praysing the Gods of Gold silver bras Yron VVood ston But the God in whos hands his Breth was he glorifyed not at the syt wherof his Countenans changed his Thouhts troubled him the Ioynts of his loyns loosed his knees smot ôn against another Which hand wryting was quickly fulfiled upon him by the most just impartial hand of God Himself being slain his Kingdom finished given to Darius the Median by al which it Evidently appears that the Lord God of heven is a God of most Ryteos Impartial justis on whomsoever they be that ar found persisting in ways of wikednes Rebellion against him non are abel to deliver ether themselvs or others out of his hand Now that which I hav Further to say is concerning your selvs your predecessors but most Nearly it concerneth your selvs of this present ag and Generation according as it was fôr seen fôr told by the Spirit of Prophesy and recorded in the scripturs of truth as wel as other Records so it is tru that they to wit your predecessors together with you wer ar that fourth Beast or Kingdom which was to arys out of the Erth dyvers from al Kingdoms which devoured the whol Erth or powers of the Erth treading them down breaking them to Pieces being dredful and terribel strong execedingly as Yron baving great Yron Teeth devouring breaking to Pieces and stamping the Residu under his
feet dyvers from al the beasts that wer befor him having ten horns even yee ar the feet and Toes of that Imag seen by Nebucadnezzar in his dream spoken of in the Book of Daniel the servant of the most Hy God in a mesur of whos spirit Power I am now standing up in my Lot in the ending of the days Even yee vvith your predecessors ar that Beast vvhich John the faithful witnes and servant of Jesus savv to arys out of the sea having seven Heds and ten Horns lijk unto A leopard vvhos feet vver as the feet of a Bear The dragon without what his mouth as the mouth of a Lyon vvhos Power seat great Authority was given to him by the Dragon or Military Power which Beast the world wondred after spoken of in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gav unto him to shew unto his servant things that must shortly com to Pas which he sent signifyed by his Angel in his servant Iohn in Amesur of whos spirit Power I am Novv brouht forth to declar Prophesy of thes things unto many Peepl Nations Tongu's Kings And as I hav already said God mâd ûs of your predecessors towit the Roman Power to Execut his most just Ryteos Decree upon the Iews vvhich Povver in their Rys Growth Continans in you their Succescors to this present day hath ansvvered vvhat vvas forseen Declared and vvriten by the spirit of Prophesy in by the Mouth of his servants concerning them you so that it vvas of the Lords Permsssion that Povver Brak forth in your predecessors in A military from which in its first Appearans VVorking Growth Counsels Becam Strong Dredful Valiant VVys Vnanimos and succesful Among the Romans both befor after they professed Christ wer many wys good men laws which way soever they turned spreding the wings of their power far and vvyd Comprehending in it many contrys and Nations of Dyvers Tongu's and languages In vvhos counsels and Senats wer found many Grav VVys prudent truly vertuos and holy Men amongst whom Dyvers Good and wholsom Laws Decrees for the preservation and good Goverment of the Peepl wer mâd and against Images as being contrary to the scripturs And freedom and liberty of Consciens in Matters of Religion and Worship to such as lived peasably under their goverment ther being Atym when the churches had Rest throuhout al Judea Galilcâ and Samaria and wer Edifyed walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost so that in Mesur they Becam Agoverment answering its proper ends under whom such as feared the Lord lived A peasabel lyf in Godlynes and honesty which Rendred them Nobl and honorabl at hom and famos Renovvned and Dredful broad so that it vvas counted no smal priviledg to be Afree Born Rôman Aliens Judging It vvorth their whyl to Part vvith great sums of mony to be naturalyzed under the ROMAN Goverment And as in their Military and Civil Povver and Goverment so caled they becam thus Dredful Valjant VVys Nobl Succefful and spreding so also in their Religion and faith they wer truly famos The Leed us d som of the Romans as his Ax Others he brouht in to nearer communion with himself Renowned and glorios so that as God had mà d ús ' of them as An Ax in his hand to cut of the Jews vvho vver the Natural Branches Becaus of their vvikednes and unbeleef in Denying Betraying and Crucifying that Just ón The Lord Extended his Kyndnes Mercy and Goodnes to them to wit your predecessors being Gentils Or heathens and Aliens from the Commonwelth of Israel making vvay throuh their fal to Ingraft your predecessors into the good Oliv Tree causing them to Partak of the Root and fatnes therof and the Blesed and glorios fruits of the good Olyv tree was in mesur brouht forth in and throuh them so that the glorios holy workings operations of their faith was spoken of throuhout the World as holy Paul in his Epistel to them declared So that notwithstanding they wer Gentils by Natur had not the outward law of God which was writen on tabels of ston nor the ûs ' of the outward Templ nor circumcision nor the exercys of any outward Worship Ordinanses Cerimonys Observations contained in the Levitical Priesthood which was amongst the Jews Yet they turning the ey of their mynds inward to the lyt of Christ in them walkiug answerabel to that perfect Law of liberty lyf which God had ingraven by his Holy Spirit in their hearts inwards parts the Apostel declared them to be the trû seed of Abraham The tru Circumâ—ision â—ew Children of the promis of the trû circumcision for non els âr counted by God for the trû seed but the Children of the lyt for notwithstanding they wer un circumcysed in the flesh yet keeping the Ryteosnes of the Law of God writen in their hearts they wer counted of the trû circumcision the trû Jews seed of Abraham For said he he is not a Jew who is on outwardly nether is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew that is on inwardly the trû circumcision is that of the heart in the Spirit not in the flesh or letter whos prays is not of men but of God For al who truly turn their mynds to the lyt of Jesus the Mesur of the Spirit of the Grâs of God placed in them and com truly to know ansvver the leading The law not for the Ryteos but for the unryteos and dictats of the Law of the spirit of lyf vvriten in their hearts by God such com truly to know Redemtion and Salvation by Christ Jesus the trulyt and lyf of God in them seting them free from the Law of sin and deth and against such the out ward law of God was not given forth nether ouht any outward Law to be mád by Man against such for they com to inherit the tru substans even Christ the wisdom and Power of God in them which is the nevv and Everlasting Covenant of Salvation eternal lyf and pur Peas with God and real fellowship and communion in the Father and in the Son the lyt and lyf in them which maks the comers ther into perfet as pertaining to the consciens by the Resurrection of Christ from the ded in them even tru Redemtion deliverans Salvation out of spiritual Egipt from under the bondag of cruel Pharo and his task-masters in them and to be safly led as throuh the red sea of dredful fears clear of al drowning and over-whelming difficultys and thretning dangers both without and with in them As Pharo and his host pursuing them to over whelm and destroy them and to see al their oppressing enemys as ded on the sea banks in them and feel the pur power of God in them descending as on the Mount
Father to be Gods salvation in the ends of the Erth even the way the truth and the lyf in Mâl and femâl to lead out of stryf and discord up to God in vvays of lov truth peas and ryteosnes whol Christendom is becom lyk the Raging sea tos ed to and fro vvith every vvynd of Doctrin runing al on heaps contending and quarreling ôn vvith another about emty nâms ways forms professions in Religion ôn sort or sect crying lo heer another lo ther a third this is the way being al of them strangers aliens enemys to the Power Spirit of God in themselvs in his Peepel Ignorant of him who is the former of al things and is without form was befor al forms or visibel appearances and abyds the sâm vvhen they hav their end vvrangling and contending about outvvard bred and wyn and water Baptisms and Carnal ordinanses which wer figurs in their tym but the living bred of God vvhich cometh dovvn from heven in his saints and the Pur Wyn of the Kingdom of God vvhich refresheth and norisheth the lyf vvhich is pur eternal and Immortal of God in the Imvard parts is not truly fed on or drank of by them And the ón Baptism vvhich saveth even the pur living water of lyf which clenseth washeth the Inward man and sprinkleth from an evil consciens is not known felt or truly Experiensed in them Betwixt thos two to wit the Beast fals Profet the Civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled hath the lamb slayn from the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes bin crucifyed afresh as betwixt two theevs the ón being accuser the old accuser of the Brethren the other Iudg the third to wit the Military Power the executioner which is the Barrabas vvhich they hav chosen in rejecting crucifying of Jesus by vvhom al the Insurrections Murders divydings of his garment to wit the creation into particular Intrests casting lots on his vestur hath bin don commited sins the entrans of transgression to this day vvhos practis hath bin stil is to Rob spoyl plunder the nations of their tresurs fruits of their labors to uphold themselvs in pryd lusts eas Fulnes cruelty oppression over the Nations under fals pertenses of protecting teaching them in vvays of Peas ryteosnes and salvation Thes ar the Phisicians of no valu the Nations hav bin the woman vvith the bloudy Issu that hath gon to them for help cur but notvvithstanding vvel ny al hath bin spent on them the bloudy Issu hath not bin healed but rendred by far the mor Incurabel but blesed be the Lord the vvoman hath now met vvith Jesus the good Phisician goten a touch of the hem of his garment feels in her self the healing vertu the Bloudy Issu is in mesur stayed vvhich blesed healing vertu shal not ceas vvorking til it pas throuh the vvhol body of the Creation and the cûr and redemtion therof be compleated the thre that beare Record in bel Thes tovvit the Dragon Beast fals profet à r the three that bear record in Erth and hel vvhich ar ôn and Agree in ôn to vvit the Spirit of the old serpent in man its corrupting of Man-kynd its cursed fruits and operations throuh Man kynd And heer may be noted that which I may cal the living or essential differens betwixt the living tru Lord God the Devil the old Serpent the God of the World about which the learned Disputers eloquent Orators Comentators in the Spirit of the World hav bin so long Disputing contending and wryting larg Commentarys Contradictory ôn to the other But having nether the Key of David nor the Heffer of Sampson to Plow with could never truly open or unfold the Matter and al thô they hav mâd ûs ' of the Words of the Holy Men of God recorded in the Scripturs yet ar they therin found fals witneses being strangers aliens from that Holy Pur Spirit Lyt Wisdom of God in the Holy Profets by which they spâk and wrot The living tru God is that Eternal Pur Spirit of Lyt Lyf Wisdom Power which hath its being in of its self and was befor al Creaturs visibel and in visibel wer is the lyf former fulnes end of them al abydeth the sâm when they hav their end But the old Serpent the Devil the God of the World was not befor things visibel and invisibel wer but was mà d manifest in tym throuh matter form and is not but by and throuh matter and form and ceaseth to be when they hav their end in every particular towit the Spirit of that old Serpent the carnal covetos mynd with the law therof which hath its Seat in the members the Erthly or sensual part of Man-kynd which is the Woman that was deceived first in the transgression both of mâl femâl which is Deth Hel a Devil in al in whom it dwels reins even the Kingdom and Power offin darknes the seat and Thrôn of al Iniquity and al who in that Spirit and Power Exercys Rul and Dominion ever others ar a hel of Devils and tormentors to them which is the Spirit of the Beast in Man-kynd that goeth downward and renders al in whom it Dwels ruls to be the Seed and Children of the Devil that old Serpent which is mor subtil then any beast of the field which the Lord God hath mâd whos curs and portion was is for ever shal be on their Bellys to go to eat dust al the Days of their lyf but the lyf which is pur of God in Man-kynd is not up held by bred alon but by the pur Word of the Lord of lyf and Power in the inward parts doth man liv whom God is now restoring and redeeming again up into himself to Partak o◠his own pur Divyn Natur and fulnes and to bear his Imag to the injoyment of the gift which he freely gav to the Children of Men whom the Lord wil again Crown with his own pur lyf Plas in Eternal Dominion over the works of his hands The Son is in mesur risen and the day com in which al the devouring Beasts of Prey shal ly down in their dens sleep a perpetual sleep man goforth unto his labor until the evening from under the curs Power of transgression sin Deth hel in the blesing of Eternal lyf pur lov Peas Ryteosnes for ever mor. And so having slayn the Innocent murdered and crucifyed the just to and in themselvs the tru Lord and heyr of al cast him out of his inheritans and possesed themselvs therof they contryved hovv to mâk sur the possession therof to themselvs theyr heyrs and Successors in that Serpentyn Murderos oppresing Spirit Power if possibel to al ages generations And the woman the Ecclesiastical Power being deceived first in the
wages of unryteosnes and vvhen the As hath bin mâd som tyms to speak vvith Mans voys and treprov their madnes folly and vvikedness he hath bin revvarded by them not only vvith grievos stryps but vvith spoyling of goods syns Imprisonments banishment hanging burning But the Day is now com in which she must receiv her just ryteos reward at the hand of the Lord God the Lamb in the Cup that she hath filed must now be filed to her doubel althô she paint her sâs look out at the window and Cry treason treason at the appearans of the Ryt heyr whylst the Crown is seting on his hed by the Royal Triesthood in the Holy Tempel of the Lord in the secret of which towit honest Contryt Humbel broken hearts he hath bin hid from her Murderos conspyracy in destroying the seed Royal during the tym of the cruel usurped Reyn of her and her Husband which was the plâs of the beloveds retyrment until the breaking of the day and fleeing away of the shadows yet now must shee be thrown out at the window by her own Servants and be troden under foot as unsavory salt thos dogs towit the horns shal hât her eat her flesh burn her with fyr so that nouht shal be left of her but the skul feet palms of her hands the ôn to mâk known their desolat condition the other to bear them as mourners about the streets the palms of their hands to receiv what others shal freely bestow upon them The Profet of the Lord is returned from thecâv descending the Mount of God tryal must now be mâd which is the living tru Lord God and the God which answereth by fyr he was is and for ever shal appear to be the only living tru God Wherfor al yee worshipers of al sorts of what nâms in what forms professions soever without the lyf and pur Power of God gather your selvs together every ôn to the worship of your God with the Masses Ave-Marys Pater-nosters Dyrectorys Servis-books Common Prayers Extemporary Devotions cry aloud for your God is now faling into asleep out of which he shal never mor awak he is on a journy from which he shal never mor return if audiens help now fayl you ther is no way of escaping for you but by the two edged sword of the Lord yee must be slauhtered in to the Lâk of perdition must yee be cast and the vengeans of Eternal fyr seiz upon you Thy Schools Colledges Vniversitys ar as so many standing stinking ponds of corrupt Infectios poysoning vvaters corruptin infecting Man kynd even from their chyld-hood raising quickening norishing that spirit Power in them vvhich is foolishnes enmity against God fiting them only to be habitations of Devils to ferv and vvorship the devil the God of the vvorld in their generation trayning them up in the learning and knowledg of tongu's parts and arts standing in that vvisdom and Povver vvhich is foolishnes and enmity against the pur Lord God Who 's rys and continuans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent which was in Cain his posterity that Liberal-art-inventing-spirit in the astrologers of Egipt and Babylon and thos curios liberal Artists vvho at the appearans of truth in and throuh the holy apostels brouht their books together and burnt them openly thô valued at an hy rât and happy vvould it be for them if at the appearans of truth now throuh the despysed and contemned children of the lyt they myt be brouht to follovv their exampel for the day is novv com in vvhich they must receiv their just and ryteos revvard at the hand of the Lord God omnipotent even in the lâk of perdition and destruction vvith their lybrarys and suffer the vengeans of eternal fyr vvith that body of vvhordoms and abominations of vvhich they ar as it vver the vvomb or generating part Thy Towns Citys ar as so many svvarms of filthy vermin sending forth the stinking smels of Covetosnes pryd deceit oppression vanity Idelnes lust whordom drunkenes gluttony and al Manner of unryteos and abominabel practises But the day is novv com in vvhich they must receiv the just revvard of their doings and be dayly mor and mor depopulated and the great and fayr houses stand vvithout Inhabitants and shal vvast and consum away until they becom as un-waled villages Thy courts of Iudicatur vvith their dependanses to vvit thos cald Iudges Doctors Sergeants at Law Counselers Advocats Aturnys Solicitors clarks scrybs so many seats and instruments of cruel oppresion injustis brybery and extortion even a most intolerabel burden to the peepel of the several nations tongu's languages Amongst whom they Exercys dominion vvho in sted of doing them justis ending their differenses reconcyling them to ôn another mâk aprey of them laying burdens on them grievos and hevy to be born but not touching them to help or eas them vvith ôn of their fingers causing them to spend their tym vvear out their bodys vex and torment their Spirits vvast and consum their Estats in vvaiting and attending on them and yet to fayl of their expected issu from them But the day is novv com in which they also shal receiv the just revvard of their dongs even vvrath vvo misery and destruction from the presens of the Lord God and the glory of his pur povver in the lâk vvith that Beastly Body of which they ar members whos cursed and oppresing Power they represent Exercys Thy several sorts of Marchants buyers selers traders in ships shops Wâr-houses Ins victualing-houses fayrs and markets with their weihts and mesurs so many plases instruments and inventions in ways of commers in that spirit which is enmity against God whos practises hav bin stil ar to hord up the several stôrs provisions of the hous of God til they somtyms corrupt rot and spoyl whylst many poor cretursly up and down streets villages hungry cold in want of cloathing pyning away and perishing for want of the creturs which spoyl and oppresion must now be charged on them making marchandys of the gifts of God wich al flow from the ôn gift vvhich he freely gav to the children of men vvithout respect to persons somtyms deceitfully mingling the Creturs the corrupt vvith the sound puting on them deceitful colors and garnishings to increas their dishonest gain by them the seler using many deceitful words about the goodnes of them the Buyer the lyk to undervalu them the seler often tyms taking advantag on the vvant necessity and ignorans of the buyer the buyer oftentyms doing the sam to the seler using also ways of decâ—it to mak the creturs to weih the hevier fil the mesur sooner then otherwys it would and thus the spirit of covetosnes deceit theft oppression acteth both buyer seler But the day is now com
dayly mor and mor appear coming up from the North agreat nation many Kings shal be raysed up from the East and coasts of the earth cruelly their voys shal roar as the sea and shal set themselvs in array against thee Round about and the hands of thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel shal wax feebel sorrovv shal dayly mor and mortak hold on them as Pangs upon a traveling woman This is the decree irrevocabel sentens of the Lord against spiritual Babylon in thee O Christendom The Lords faners ar com and coming upon thee who shal fan and emty thy land shal not spâr thy Yong nien but utterly destroy al thy host the slayn shal fal in thy land they that ar thrust throuh in thy streets his Arrows ar making bryt the Lord is raising up the Spirit of the Kings of the East for his decree is against spiritual babylon in thee utterly to destroy it now is the day of the Lords most ryteos vengeans even the vengeans of his Tempel O thou that dwelest upon many vvaters abundant in tresur thy end is com and shal dayly mor and mor appear I wil fil thee with men as vvith caterpilars and they shal lift up A shout against thee saith the Lord of hosts who hath mâd the erth by his Power and established the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heven by his understanding who is the Portion of Jacob former of al things the Lord of hosts is his nâm and his own pur seed Immortal is the tru Israel even his Battel Ax and weapons of war with which he in mesur alredy hath and Dayly mor and mor shal break in sunder the Nations and destroy Kingdoms and render to spiritual Babylon al the evil which they hav don in Syon even in your syt saith the Lord God I am against thee o destroying mountain wil stretch forth my hand upon thee and rowl thee down from the roks and mà k thee a burnt mountain the trumpet is blown and blowing amongst the nations and they ar preparing against thee the Kings of the east the Captains and Rulers of the land of his Dominion and thy land O Christendom shal greatly trembel for every purpos against spiritual Babylon in thee shal be performed to mà k her an utter desolation Thy myty men shal fal becom as women they shal burn thy dweling plases and break al thy bars ôn post shal run to meet another to shew to the King of spiritual Babylon that his city is taken ar ôn end therof which is wel ny alredy accomplished mark that for the Passages begin to be stoped the Reeds ar in mesur burnt the Men of War ar affryted and yet a very littel whyl and the tym of her harvest threshing shal com saith the Lord of hosts who alredy in mesur hath dayly mor and mor shal Plead the caus of his Peepel with thee dry up thy sea yea even mà k dry thy springs thy inhabitants shal roar lyk bears yel lyk lyons whelps and becom drunk and sleep a perpetual sleep and not awà k any mor saith the Lord who vvil execut judgment upon thy graven images and the slain shal fal in the midst of thee for spoylers ar com coming upon her from the north saith the Lord and as spiritual Babylon hath caused the slayn of Gods seed to fal so at Babylon shal fal the slayn of al the Erth Thy Broad wals shal be utterly broken and thy hy gats burnt thy wariors shal contend in vain labor in the fyr and I wil mà k drunk thy Potentats Prinses wys men Captains Rulers and myty men and they shal sleep a perpetual sleep and not awà k any mor saith the Lord God The ston is cut out of the mountain without hands and in mesur hath and dayly mor and mor shal smyt thee and break thee to Pieces even thy military Civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled which ar the feet and toes of that imag with Nebuchadnezar savv and the Yron the Clay the Bras the Silver and the Gold in thee shal be broken to pieces and becom as the chaf of the summer threshing floor and the fiers wynd of the Ryteos vvrath of God shal carry them avvay and their plas shal no mor be found and the ston is novv in mesur becom A mountain even the mountain of the hous of the Lord vvhich shal be exalted on the top of al mountains and shal dayly and gradually mor and mor grovv til it fil the vvhol Erth novv is the God of heven seting up a Kingdom that shal never be destroyed nether shal it be left uuto another peepel but it shal break in Pieces and consum al Kingdoms in thee Thrôns ar novv casting dovvn and the Antient of days is novv siting vvhos thrôn is lyk a fyery flâm and his vvheels as burning fyr a fyery stream Issueth forth befor him ten thousand tyms ten thousand Minister unto him the Judgment is set the books ar in mesur opened and dayly opening the beast is now slaying and his body giving to the burning flam The littel horn that subdued three Kingdoms whos look was mor stout then his fellows his Power is taken from him and the tym is now com and shal dayly mor mor appear that the Kingdom Dominion and greatnes of the Kingdom under the whol hevens shal dayly mor and mor be given unto the Peepel of the Saints of the most hy whos Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and al Dominions shal serv obey him Troubelsom tydings Out of the * From the Fast outward armys with outward Weapons of cruelty from the North the spiritual Battel Ax from wheas Babylon shal be utterly destroyd not by myt but by the sword of the spirit or word of his mouto North East ar now seizing on thee the Lord wil gather thy nations together and bring them down to the vally and vvil plead with them ther for his Peepel and for his heritag whom they hav scattered and cruelly delt with spoyled and murdered in thee o Christendom he is preparing war and wakening up the myty drawing them near to com up beat their plow shars into swords and their pruning hooks into spears and they shal awak com up to the vally for ther wil the Lord sit to Judg al the Hethen in thee round about The harvest is even ryp the siâ—kel is puting in the pres is filing and the fats shal over flow for wickednes is Exceeding great in thee multituds multituds is the Lord gathering into the vally of decision The great and notabel day of the Lord is now appearing he is now roaring out of Syon and uttering forth his voys his terribel voys from his Holy habitation and the erth in thee shal terribely shà k trembel for the Lord is becom the hôp of his Peepel who hav a strong city to which God hath appoynted salvation for wals
The Arrainment of Christendom Containing A Revelation of the Rys Growth fulnes of the Great whôr Man of sin or Mistery of Iniquity with the Consumtion Ruin Vtter Destruction of the Dragon 's Beast's fals Profet's Power with the Waters on which the Whor sits the Seae out of which the Beast arôs in Christendom The Templ Altar Worshippers of God mesured with the mesuring Reed lyk unto a Rod the finishing of the Mistery of God the everlasting Gospel declared published again to Nations Kindreds Tongu's Languages A sâf refug ' or sûr hyding plâs from the dredful storm of the most just wrath indignation vengeans of Gods Templ which is in mesur brôk forth shal dayly môr mor be un avoydably showred down without mixtur upon al the Workers of Iniquity held forth With Awarning Advys Concerning fals Christs Deceyvers to arys Being the Trumpet of the Lord sounded forth which giveth a most sûr Certain sound to Leopold the Present Roman Emperor to the Present Pôp of Rôm to al Kings Prinses Rulers Governors with al in Authority under them of what Degree Rank or Order soever whether Military Civil or Spiritual Ecclesiastical so caled to al Peepl Hy Low Rich Poor Bond Free Mâl Femâl throuhout Christendom the Dominions Territorys ther unto belonging who âr under the Command Government Teachings of Man which al who witnes trû Redemtion from âr the Servants of the Lord hâv the seal of the living God writen in their fôrheds I JOHN the Servant of the most Hy God the Former Vpholder of al things who weyeth the Mountains as in Scâls the Hils as in a Ballans taketh up the Yls as a very lyt thing Being a Prisoner with my Companion in travel at a plâs caled Great Gomorrae on a Certain Yland in Hungaria the East of Christendom For the Word of God which liveth abydeth for ever for the Testimony of JESUS which I held on the 19 Day of the fift Month in the Year according to Christendoms account 1662. The Living Eternal pûr Power of God moved in me revealed unto me that I should wryt spred it among the Nations which by the sâm Eternal pûr Power Wisdom was afterwards given forth in throuh me after the manner form heerafter exprest to the end that al may be warned left without excûs com out of Spiritual Babylon least partaking with her in her sins they also Receiv of her Plagu's Printed in Europ in the Year 1664. The Corrector to the Reader concerning the Orthografy or Spel-ing heerin us'd READER WOnder not to see me Spel as thy self dayly speakest hearest others sound words I havâ— heet indevored to spel as we spâ—ak for the advantag ' sâk which I know wil therby ensâ— if practised I. To Children in learning to read whos tender capacitys âr over charged memorys buâ— thene I dul'd with harsh spel-ing by which they ât kept longer in learning II. To Men Women in wryting who thô they hav learnd to read wel enuf when they comto wryt âr at a los how to spel aryt as its cal-ed III. To strangers in learning English who âr discoraged almost put out of hôps of ever learning to speak read wryt good English And al this only throuh the present harsh manner of spel-ing sâ—ars to be comprysd in Rûls which is the only means strangers abâ—oad hav for learning to speak for al thô in England to read wryt trû English Besyds the multitûds of superfluos Letters in the present Speli-ng al which is amended avoyded by spel-ing wryting simply as we speak As no les than 5. in the word Righteousnesse as thus commonly spelt âr avoyded by spel-ing it thus Ryteosnes no les then 3. 0â— 6. letters in the word Though spelt thus Thô Which do as perfectly sound the words as the other tho ny twys so many letters Wherfor I hav thus don 1. Châ—efly fâ—r the benefit of strangers in al words in which the letter i is sounded as y which no other Nation but ours doth I hav ûs'd y The old English way throuh chang ' of which into i such confusion is happend in sounding that letter somtyms ôn way as in King Thing c. somtyms another way as in Kind Mind Child c. that a stranger cannot by Rûls be tauht when to sound it as in the former words softly or as in the latter words fully as y Which being spelt with y Kâ—nd Chyld c. is remedied 2. The letter e wher it is mût maketh not a syllabl but only the former syllablâ—long I â—ay left out strangers commonly in that câs pronouncing môr syllabls thâ—n ther âr as ti-me for time lo-ve for love ti-mes for times c. Which being writ-en tym lov tyms c. ther is but ôn syllabl for them to sound And how is it possibl otherwys to giv certain Rûls when to sound the e when not seing in the word plases it must in times it must not be sounded And for compensing the ûs of the e viz. of distinguish a short from a long syllabl I hav oft us'd the Accents 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 Which doth again distinguish as e did betwixt words of dyvers significations thô of the sâm letters As mad from made thus mâd hat from hate thus â—ât on from one thus ôn us from use thus ûs Which yet âr sufficiently distinguish'd by the seâ—s 3. Wher any other letters may be spared in the midst or end of words I hav left them out Viz. al doubel letters in the end as bless cali will blessing willing c. a in bread dead dread c. p in contempt temptation redemption c. u in labour favour c. g in plough through thought gh in high light mightâ— c. Thus mâ—t lyt thouht throuh favor labor redemtion temtation ded bred dred wil cal bles bles-ing wil-ing And bâ—caus strangerâ— read Pe-o-ple in 3 syllabls I put Peepl in which they cannot welâ—er And thus I could wish al other difficultys myt in tym be removed their way mâd as easy as it can for I beleev the desyr of many Nations Peepls shal be unto the Peepl languag ' of England Foâ— the understanding of the wondros things which the Lord hath don is yet doing in for them to the admirat on of al that shal bear therof Be not offended at me for this why should we not help them but bear with me c beleev me to be Who ever thou art Thy trû Friend N. Y. The Arrainment of Christendom c. KNOW yee that the Lord God Omnipotenâ— who is the God of the Spirits of al flesh even the Former of al things hath manifested himself in al Ages not only to be a God mercyful patient long suffering of long
gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chik-ens under her wings but thou wouldest not ô that thou hadst known at least in this thy day the things which belong to thy Peas but now they ar hid from thy eys Dauhters of Ierusalem weep not for me but for your selvs sor your children for behold the day cometh that thy enemys shal cast a trench about thee keep thee in on every syd and lay thee even with the ground becaus thou knewest not the tym of thy visitation At the tym of whos suffering soon after as also by the Entrans and prevailing of the Apostacy in the Gentils or Romans the Word of the Lord by the Profet Ioël was fulfil-ed to wit that the Sun should be turned into darknes the Moon into bloud befor the great not abl day of the Lord should com which was fulfil-ed on the Sun Both of the visibl invisibl heven a vail of darknes being drawn over the Lyt Lyf Glory of God in them both which began to com over him in the garden causing that great agony bloudy sweat desyring the Father that if it were possibl that cup myt pas which vail of darknes over him vvas then at the heighth vvhen on the cros he cryed my God my God why hast thou forsaken me And the Moon in him also vvas turned into bloud by their Piercing his Innocent hands feet syd out of vvhich cam forth both Bloud VVater vvhich he that savv bâr record of his record is trû vvherby as in a figur vvas signifyed that notvvithstanding according to their own saying the guilt of his dear pretios lyf bloud myt hav stood unremovably charged on them their children yet in throuh him should that pûr clensing fountain of living water the vertu wherof should wash clens them their posterity coming into it from the guilt filth of al their abominations reconcyl them to God to òn another vvhich Bowels of the lov pitty and mercy of God in him tovvards them vvas mâd manifest throuh him on the cros Christs sufferings and desertion not for his but others sins the just for the unjust in the heighth extremity of his sufferings saying Father forgiv them they knovv not vvhat they do Who 's sufferings vvith that great vail of darknes dravvn over the Lyt Lyf and Glory of God in him vvas not throuh or becaus of any sin transgression or disobediens found in him against his God and Father but it vvas by throÌ„uh becaus of the sins transgressions disobediens cruelty unryteosnes of the Poepl it being then the hour power of the Kingdom of darknes in vvhich the transgres-ing povver from its first entrans into the World vvas com to its hyest pitch as to the vvhol body the povver strength of the seed of the old Serpent being unyted combyned in both Iew and Gentil against that Innocent pur Lyf Seed VVisdom Power Lyt Glory of God vvhich in and throuh him appeared and vvas manifest vvherby the shepherdvvas smit-en even the man vvhich vvas his fellow the sheep scattered and he bearing the sins and transgressions of many in his body on the tree vvas numbred vvith transgressors mâd and reputed as accursed the end of Christs sufferings suffering under their unjust and cruel wils and laws the Iust for the unjust That so thos vvho by their disobediens transgressions vver justly lyabl to the Cros condemnation of the most just and ryteos Law of God aliens enemys in their mynds against God him by vvik-ed vvorks myt receiv forgivnes of sin an inheritans vvith them vvho are sanctifyed and be reconcyled to him and ôn to another and mâd partakers of the Ryteosnes of God in him And soon after his deth was the Moon to wit the whol body of the Iews turned into bloud also The Judgment exalted which appeared in thoâ— great destroying wars enmitys destructions and desolations vvhich wer amongst them ôn against another vvhich just and ryteos wrath and vengeans of God on them declared against them throuh Christ and the Profets vvas fulfil-ed by the Romans vvhom God suffered to com on them and utterly to destroy and overturn their glorios City Templ Priest-hood Government disposses them of the good land leading them captyvs into dyvers other Cuntrys in which they stil remain scattered up and dovvn ár mâd a scorn a derision a by-word among the nations under the ours unto this day and as for any outvvard visibl or Erthly power dominion they shal never mor be restored to the exercys of it but according to the prayer of Christ the promis of God throuh the holy Profets recorded in the Scripturs of truth if they abyd not stil in unbeleef they shal be re-in-grafted into the good oliv tree mâd again partakers of the bles-ed Root and Fatnes therof and God vvil povvr on them the Spirit of grâs and supplication and they shal see him in them vvhom they hav pierced not only in that Innocent ôn vvhom they vvith cruel hands murdred and crucifyed on a cros vvithout the Gâts of Ierusalem but also in themselvs by their Rebellions and disobediens against the motions dictats of the sâm living vvord of Faith Lyt lyf and power of God in themselvs and shal mourn for him as ôn mourneth for the los of his first born Son and God vvil vvryt his púr law of Spirit lyf in their hearts and invvard parts and be their God and they shal be his Peepl and becom Citizens of the new Ierusalem vvith the chosen generation the Royal and everlasting Priesthood fellow theyrs vvith the truly nôbl seed in that Kingdom Glory Dominion vvhich is pûr Eternal and be redeemed from that Scorn Reproach Contemt Captivity and curs under vvhich they novv âr At the sâm tym also was a vail of Darkness drawn over the sâm lyt lyf glory of God which is in the Son of the visibl heven so that Darknes was over al the Land from the sixth to the nynth hour wherby as in a figur was sórshewn the faâ—ing away Apostacy of the Gentils or the Romans which Apostacy had its Entrans Growth Fulnes in the Opening Sounding Powring forth of the second third fourth Seals Trumpets Vyals wherby a vayl of gros Darknes cam over that Pùr lyt Lyf Glory of Christ which was in mesur manifested shyning forth in throuh them therby crucifying to in themselvs the Son of God afresh put-ing him to pen shâm having murdered slayn the Lyf of Christ that just ôn in themselvs they stretched forth their hands in ways of Persecution Cruelty Murder against the appearans of the sâm Pûr Lyt Innocent Lyf Glory of God in others til they becam Drunk with the Bloud of the dear Innocent Saints Martyrs faithful VVitnes-es of JESUS so that the Sun
that myt not be touched giving forth his most just and Ryteos law of Spirit and lyf the coming and first appearans wher of in the inward parts giveth the tru knovvledg of sin causing it dredfully to revyv The first appearans of God to faln man is in conviction and self to dy in them and their bodys to be the holy tabernakels of the most hy God of Jacob and he to dvvel and vvalk in them and the Pûr pillar of fyr and cloud ordering them vvhen to mov and vvher to stay and pitch their tents leading them safly throuh the wildernes of temtations fears and difficultys as by the hand of Moses and Aron giving them lyt dyrection and saf protection in their way even in the way everlasting and eternal in them and the hiden Manna and pur living water out of Christ the eternal Rok of ages Issuing forth and dayly faling down in them to sustain norish and refresh the lyf which is pur Christ the hiden Manna living Water Eternal rok c. in his Peepl and immortal of God in them and the Holy armor of ryteosnes vvith the Holy operations of the pur lyf povver and vvisdom of God in them teaching their hands to vvar and their singers to fyt giving them mor understanding then the ancients making them vvyser then ether their teachers or their enemys yea to be strong in the Lord and in the povver of his myt to fyt the good fyt of faith and giv them tru victory over al their spiritual enemys real quyet possession of the good Land of eternal rest and pur peas vvhich flovveth vvith milk hony even with al the unspeakabel blessings of God the eternal Rok Fountain out of whom both the upper nether springs of pur living vvater of lyf do flow issu forth in throuh them and the glorios Rul Government and Kingdom of God to be ther set up their bodys to be the tru Templs of the living tru God even the Ark of the new yet most old Holy everlasting Covenant in which is the tabel on which the pur law of Spirit lyf is writen with the finger the Spirit of the living God the golden pot of hiden Manna which dayly norisheth the lyf which is pur and the Rod buding springing forth of the stem of Jesse the root of spring of David in them bringing forth the pur peasabl fruits of ryteosnes holynes dayly in and throuh them And the Holy Altar of God which sanctifyeth the gift the eternal fyr and the Holy Incens with which every man is salted in which every acceptabel gift sacrifys is offered up a sweet Savor unto the Lord And the Holy hy Priest in them which is after the order of Melchisedek without begining of days or end of lyf who ever liveth to mâk intercession in for the Saints acording to the wil of God this is he vvhom the Father heareth always even when no outward audibel voys is heard or vvord spâk And the pur living Orakel of God in them at which never failing Advys Counsel is to be had in al things which is that Word of God that liveth abydeth for ever even Christ the faithful tru vvitnes of God the Word of lyf quik povverful the fôr runner within the vail towit the flesh The lyt which maketh al things manifest in the inward parts which giveth the most tru discerning of the most secret purposes thouhts intents of the heart divyding betvvixt the lyt the darknes the vvays vvorks of them both as betwixt the soul Spirit the joynts the marrovv Even the Eternal fountain of pur living Water of lyf in vvhich the clensing preserving healing vertu vvas is for ever shal be found to in al such as in the faith patiens of God vvait for the descending of the Angel of the Covenant vvhich moveth therin And to know the Holy Profet raised in them vvhom al ouht to hear vvhich al vvho refus to hear cut themselvs of from being of the tru Israël of God And to fynd the pur incorruptibel tresur as hid in the field in them vvhich nether moth nor rust can corrupt nor theevs break throuh to steal The grain of Mustard-seed even the pur seed of the Kingdom of God sovvn grovving up in them bringing forth the Peasabel Holy plesant fruits of Ryteosnes lov joy pur peas in them throuh them in som thirty in som sixty in som an hundred fold And the vertu of the pur leven in them levening the vvhol lump causing the whol man Body soul Spirit in al manner of holy conversation svveetly to smel Savor of the pur vvisdom Ryteosnes Innocency holynes of Christ in throuh them therby to becom as the Lyt of the World Salt of the Erth even a sweet Savor unto God both in them that âr saved in them that perish to fynd the lost groat in them vvhich sileth the heart invvard parts vvith living pur joy rejoysing And to vvitnes the birth of the lyf vvhich is pur immortal eternal in them even the chyld born in them the Son given unto them the Immanuel tovvit God in them the governmâ—rt over al laid on his shoulders in them as King Lawgiver Priest Profe Savior causing the ded to rys the blynd to see the lâm to walk even leap as hâ— yong hart the dumb to speak sing forth aloud the living pryases of the pur God in them in the midst of the Church of the first born in God throuh them And to becom crucifyed ded with Christ to the World the carnal mynd vvith the affections lusts therof to be risen ascended vvith Christ out of the sepulker out of the Erth al visibl things out of days tyms Sabbaths up to God the Eternal Rest Sabbath fountain of pur lyt rest peas vvher mortality is svvallowed up of lyf al rùl Authority Power risen standing in the faln Spirit Wisdom Power put down utterly destroyed And to partak of posses injoy the most excelent Glory in their inward parts and speak the pur Languag And be Baptyzed with the ôn Baptism which saveth from a vain conversation the pur living VVater of lyf which sprinkleth from an evil Consciens And the glorios coming of the Father Son in them to sup with them and they with them feeding dayly on the pur living bred of lyf drinking the new VVyn of the Kingdom of God which refresheth norisheth the lyf which is holy harmles undefyled pur immortal of God in them And to feel the presens of the great Sepherd the Bishop of the Soul in them dayly taking tender câr of them leading them in and out in al their ways causing them to feed
and ly down in the green fresh pleasant soul refreshing Pastur in them the holy Anoynting even the eternal Spirit of truth dayly teaching and leading them into al truth which sercheth al things even the deep things of God so that they need not that any man should teach them but as the sâm anoynting in them teacheth them And to feel the operation of the ôn pur faith which purifyeth and clenseth the heart and keepeth it clean The sound Doctrin pur fellowship breaking of bred Prayer which is not outward meat drink neither stands in outward Observations Carnal Ordinanses Declarations Dispensations but in the pur Power of the lyf which is endles immortal filing the heart inward parts with tru Pur Spiritual everlasting Lov Ioy Rest Peas in them manifesting it self dayly throuh them in the exercys of the pur wisdom Ryteosnes and Holynes of God in al manner of Holy Conversation even the pur fellowship which is in the Father and in the Son in them And to knovv the Father the Son to be ôn in them and to eat of the hiden Manna the tree of lyf in the midst of the Paradys of God hav Povver over the Nations to wit that Spirit Povver in which the nations stand by vvhich they ar acted in them to be cloathâ—d vvith the pur whyt Rayment becom as Pillars in the Tempel of God to sitdovvn vvith the Father Christ in the Thrôn of pur lyf Povver and Dominion over al that which is at enmity against God in them entring in by the gât or door to wit Christ the lyt in them the way into the Holy City the new Ierusalem which is in mesur com coming down from God out of heven in them in which the Lord God Almyty the Lamb is the lyt lyf glory for ever môr even he who is the sam as in the begining the first and the last the begining the end of al the works of God who was is for ever môr abyds neer at hand even in the heart in the mouth whom truly to know obey and constantly to follow is eternal lyf pur lov rest and peas for ever mor The manifestation of Christ in his Peepl the end of al outward institutions in vvhom al Carnal outward Typs Figurs Shadows Ordinanses VVars Kingdoms Citys Tempels Priesthoods al Divisions of the Earth Erthly Injoyments Possessions Gatherings Fellowships Intercessions Teachings Declarations Dispensations Baptisms both of the Profets Iohn With Christ his Mirakels Preaching Parabels last supper ar fulfiled ended of vvhich the brith lyf appearans sufferings of Jesus Christ that Lamb of God vvho vvitnesed a good confession befor Pontius Pylat and vvas betrayed denyed and rejected by the Ievvs vvhom they vvith cruel hands murdred slevv on a cros vvithout the gâts of Ierusalem vvith his Resurrection Ascension Appearans on in the Apostels vvaiting at Ierusalem vvas a Syn In whom I say al things hav their end Even al that vvhich vvas not in the begining vvith God vvhich hath risen in and throuh man in the faln Spirit povver vvisdom even vvith the ordinanses appointments of God ad ed becaus of sin transgression until the appearans coming of the tru pur seed Christ the Lord that Spirit the tru heyr of al vvho is God over al blesed for ever must novv Depart Vanish flee away end for ever mor as into the everlasting Covenant Man Kynd is brought But som may say he speaketh against Government Obj. I the Ordinanses appointments of God in the Church I ansvver Nay Answer And as concerning the exercys of povver Dominion throuh men over others this I say That al the Powers and Dominions that ar or hav been sins the entrans of transgression to this day hav been raised suffered to arys by God ether in mercy or judgment to them over whom it hath bin exercysed that every soul ouht to be subject to the hyer power The power to be obeyed what ever the instruments 〈◊〉 but let such tâk heed how they abus the Power which al who resist resist the ordinans of God what ever the Instruments or Persons be throuh whom the power is administred be they Gentel or froward wiked or godly and in câs they do abus the power commited unto them turning the sword bakward siting up such as work wikednes making a prey of such as depart from Iniquity yet ouht non to seek by outward fo rs in rebellions insurrections to oppos or resist them but wherin for consciens sâk towards God any cannot obey their unjust unryteos laws and commands they ouht to be subject by Patient suffering in the fear wisdom of God bearing their Testimony against the evil so commiting their souls into the hand of God as unto A faithful Creator Thus the trù Christians did stil do in so doing the spirit of glory resteth On such in du tym the Lord God of faithfulnes wil clear their Innocency caus it to shyn forth as the lyt his Iust wrath vengeans to tà k hold on that spirit Power by vvhich they hav bin mà d unjustly to suffer It is the sâm spirit not the sâm Nam mâks the sâm Minister or ordinans of Christ. And as concerning the ordinanses Appoyntments of God in the church this I say that as God hath so he stil doth sit appoynt in the church Profets Apostels Evangelists Pastors and teachers with other helps in Government altho they hav not now the sâm Nâms yet appearing in the sam spirit and Power ar in truth substans the sam which shal continu in the church until that end be accomplished in Mankynd for which they ar Appoynted by God to wit for the work of the Ministry in gathering and Perfecting the saints the Edification of the Body of Christ until al com into the unity of the faith Knowledg of the Son of God unto A perfect man unto the mesur of the statur of the fulnes of Christ But som may say shal man Kynd be brouht Or Redeemed into such A stat Obj. II I answer Yea And the ground or reason of my faith Answ hôp heerin is first becaus the Lord God of Lyf Wisdom Power and faithfulnes hath promised and mà d a Covenant with his own seed in man kynd and throuh his Servants the Holy Profets declared that it shal be so The promis Covenant of God in man kynd the ground of al trâ— faith hóp to which the scripturav a witnes That the seed of the woman shal bruis the hed of the Serpent that al the familys of the Erth shal be blesed in throuh it that into it the gathering of the Peepl shal be that it shal hav the heathen for its inheritans the utmost parts
was not meats and drinks and that both the Belly and meats was for destruction demanding of them who had bewitched them and whether having run wel and begun in the Spirit they thouht to be mâd Perfet in the flesh teling them that he was fraid of them least he had bestowed his labor in vain on them becaus they observed days tyms and sabbaths and ther wer such amongst them as wer Eried from the faith and had mád ship wrak of a good consciens deceived and deceiving others in doctrin and practis and for dishonest gain gon in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards And they affirmed that the Body Spirit Hôp Lord Faith Baptism God and father of al is but ôn vvho is in throuh and over al Who 's eternal pur fulnes dvvelt bodyly in Christ of vvhos fulnes of pur lyt and lyf al vvho receiv and vvalk in becom Children and heyrs of God in and vvith him vvhich is the faith of the son of God by vvhich the Iust livs in Mâl and femál the ón Baptism vvhich saveth vvhich is not the washing away the out ward filth os the flesh but the answer of a good consciens by the Resurrection of Christ the Lord that spirit from the ded in mâl and femâl vvhich al vvho hav the Son hav the Father also dvveling and Walking in them as saith the scripturs of truth and Christ said that he vvas the Resurrection the lyf al vvho did do or shal liv beleev in him do and shal liv thô they vver Ded Such becom Children of the resurrection throuh the participation of the sâm Pur Divyn Natur Lyt Lyf fulnes of God vvhich dvvelt in vvas mâd manifest throuh Christ Jesus vvherby the Saints then novv vvitnesed themselvs to be not only crucifyed and ded vvith Christ unto the World vvith the inordinat affections lusts therof but also to be quikened and risen vvith him siting together in hevenly plases in Christ The Resurrection Redemtion Salvation is of Christ the Seed of God in Man-kynd vvhich in Man as unto Man becâm as captivated slain in bondag throuh the entrans prevailing of sin transgression vvherby the becâm the Lamb slayn from the foundation of the World vvhich lyeth in vvikednes in Man-kynd The laying down the outward body no Curs The bâr laying down of the body vvhich is called Deth is not the effect or revvard of sin the laying dovvn of the body had bin thô Man had never faln in to sin and transgression vvhich vvould not hav bin nether shal be to such as à r truly Redeemed ether cursed or any ground of fear or terror but in the vvil of the Lord Rather desyrabel as a Bed of Rest in its plàs season is as truly vvelcom and desyrabel as ether food or the morning or any part of the day to him that is in the vvork of God That Deth which is the reward of sin what That Deth and Curs vvhich vvas and is the Reward of sin transgression entred into Mankynd in the sâm day instant of tym that sin entred acording to the Word of the Lord to and in them after vvhich Adam lived several hundreds of Years in the body yet this I say That the shortnes and uncomfortabel being of the lyf in the Body is the Effect of Sin Christ Said to the father of al that thou hast given me I have lost Nón that it was the wil of the Father that he should raiss it up again at the last day he spak not of Carkases Or Persons But of the Pur glory Dominion of his own lyf which in man as unto man throuh the Entrans of trangression becam as slain captivated and in bondag yet in it self lost nothing but retaind stil retains its Purity Dominion in and over Mankynd throuh al Ages for ever abyds the sam for Christ the sà m Eternal lyt The lyt always the sam in its self but as to man the dispensation changeth as he changeth lyf wisdom Povver of God which in Mankynd befor transgression rendred him to be the Imag of God and sat him in tru Pur honor Dominion over the works of his hands becam in Man-kynd after the Entrans of sin A Reprover judg in them so that the lyf Power of God in them was the sâm in its Purity undefyled not consenting to the evil only differing in the working manifestation of its self in Man-kynd and the last day is novv com in vvhich Christ the Lyt Lyf VVisdom Power seed of God shal be Raised up again in Man-kynd man-kynd in it to the Sám Pur Dominion and glory which he had with the Father and Man-kynd in him befor the vvorld vvhich lyeth in wikednes began And as concerning Eternal Judgment it is commited by the father to the Son to wit Christ the Lyt VVisdom and Power of God the faithful tru witnes of God in Mà l and femal vvhich vvas vvith the father befor his works of Old which Eternal judgment hath bin faithfuly Executed in On throuh al ages generations in on the general and in and on every Particular soul of Man-kynd that hath don evil vvhich shal continu to be Executed by him til al his Enemys becom his footstool and that Sà m Eternal Judgment vvhich is in Christ the Lyt the faithful tru witnes of God in Mâl Femà l shal stand for ever in Pur Dominion over the hed seed of the serpent vvhich is the transgresing Power in Man-kynd And as concerning heven it is that pur stât of eternal Lyf Lov Dominion glory which is the Imag of God in which Man-kynd was plased befor trans gresion Heven what into which Man kynd by throuh a participation of that pur Divyn Natur fulnes of God wich dwelt bodyly in Christ Jesus coms to be again Redeemed Restored which al who truly enjoy partak of do enter in by Christ the lyt lyf way eternal door ar saved redeemed risen standing up from the ded receiving Eternal lyf in him siting in hevenly plases in Christ And hel is no other but that Deth Curs wo Misery and Tribulation which entreth and tà ks hold on body soul and Spirit throuh transgression but that Deth and hel which John in the Spirit of Prophesy wrot of and saw as cast in to the lâk of fyr is no other then that cursed Spirit Power Dominion of the darknes of this World which throuh the faling away Apostacy of the Gentils or Romans arôs and hath bin for ages and generations excercysed over the several Nations Kindreds Tongu's and Languages throuhout Christendom in the Dragon 's Beast's and fals Profets Spirit and Povver vvho under fals pretenses of protecting governing and teaching the peepel in safty Peas Ryteosnes Holynes hav bin a Hel of cruelty Oppression unryteosnes and deceit unto and over
them as so many sorts of incarnat Devils in their Military Civil Ecclesiastical Powers so caled ryding on the Nations Robing Spoyling and plundering the peepel of their Estats tresurs and fruits of their Labors at their own cursed wils and plesurs to uphold and maintain them in pryd deceit eas fulnes and oppression over the peepel causing also their Bloud as a continued Issu to run sorth to fulfil their cursed vvils and plesurs as also the Dear Innocent Saints Martyrs faithful witneses of Iesus vvho throuh ages and generations past unto this day hav born their Testimony against their vviked vvays and practises Which Spirit and povver must novv be cast into the Lák of Eternal Perdition Destruction and suffer the vengeans of Eternal fyr and be limited and chained dovvn in the Bottomles Pit in every particular out of vvhich it aros and the smok of the torments herof to ascend up for ever mor vvhich is the second Deth even the Hel of Hel. Furthermâr the Apostel told them to whom he wrot that they could not be partakers of the Tabel of the Lord the Tabel of Devils reproving that disorder exces with was amongst them in eating and drinking for which caus many becam weak and sik The Tabel of the Lord what how it becâ—â—â—s a curs and fala asleep for the Tabel of the Lord to wit the varios Kynds stors of provisions which the Eternal Power the Father of the houshold doth dayly produs giv freely forth to feed and sustain Man-kynd and every Cretur becoms a trap a snar a gin a Curs even a Tabel of Devils unto in such as eat drink therof in exces to the satisfaction of the carnal mynd the inordinat desyrs of the flesh And as concerning the fellowship conversation of Devils it was springing up amongst them and therfor the Apostel exhorted them to whom he wrot to hav no fellowship with the unfruitfal works and workers of darknes saying that it was even a sham to speak of thos things which wer don of them in secret but al things reprovabel said he âr mâd manifest by the Lijâ— Which cursed Spirit of Apostacy having thus taken plà s Rooting in amongst them in the Apostels days hath grown and spred it self in and over al Christendom which hath rendred Christendom in their Military Civil Ecclesiastical Powers to be the Thron Seat of Iniquity of Belzebub the Man of sin a habitation of Devils the hold of every Foul Noâ— ysom Spirit a Cag of every unclean hatful Bird which must now Receiv the Reward of Devils even Destruction and perdition from the presens of the Lord from the glory of h s pur power who is now risen in his holy Tempel to shak terribly the Hevens the Erth not only in Christendom but in al nations that so what is shaken may be removed and that which cannot be shaken may remain and shyn forth in its pur natural and proper glory and Beauty al the works of God becom as a wel formed harp with every string wound up to its du proper pitch on which the Lord God may forever Delyt to mà k sweet Melody unto himself they in him forevermôr So that this Spirit of Apostacy faling away from the tru christian faith lyf took plà s rooting first in the Elders teachers of the flok which cursed seed grew spred it felf in and throuh them over al Christendom the whol being on s comprehended in the Church of Rôm subjected under that fals hed universal Bishop or Pôp so caled and took hold and brouht forth its cursed fruits among al Nations Kindreds Tongu's Peepel of every Ranks degree order from the Hyest to the Lowest hath had its Rooting Growth Fulnes even in a most abominabel mistery of Iniquity Corrupting the vvhol Body of Christendom so that in sted of being a pur chast virgin fit to be marryed to the Lamb and becom his faithful Spous she becam a defyled strumpet even in her beginning bruised the Brests of her virginity by harkening to and obeying the voys of the old Serpent that adulteros Spirit in her so becam a harlot and grevv to be the Mother of harlots and abominations of the Erth vvith vvhom the Emderors Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel of al Ranks and Degrees Mal Femal hav comited Spiritual fornication and bin mâd drunk vvith the cup of her Abominations and she hath sit as A queen upon many waters vvhich ar Peepels Kindreds Tongu's Nations being mà d drunk vvith the Bloud of the Profets Saints Martyrs of Iesus even in her skirts is found the Bloud of al that hav bin slayn upon the fà s of the Erth. Thus this cursed Seed of the Serpent having taken plà s and Rooting did gradualy grow and spred its self dayly and as it grew spred and prevayled so the tru pur Seed of God towit the Seed Christ in Mà l Femâl was oppresed kept under brouht into Bondag as the cursed fruits of the Seed of the Serpent appeared wer brouht forth so the blessed fruits of the tru pur Seed of God the truly Nobel plant of Gods Renown in mâl Femâl withered decayed and that pur fresh appearans of the truly excelent Glory which was in mesur as a dew from the Lord God of heven upon the Church of the Romans did by degrees depart and utterly wither away throuhout Christendom The Apostacy first entring the fals teachers thó on s trû having freely received from them over spued the body So that wher as in her virginity the Elders teachers wer tender cârfulover the flok of God to whom the câr therof was comited not by constraint but wilingly not for filthy Luker but of a redy mynd not as Lords over Gods heritag but as Holy good exampels to the flok freely communicating their Spiritual things partaking in lov of the Peepels carnal things who having food rayment had learned therwith to be content yea Holy Paul wrouht with his hands that so the Gospel myt not be Burdensom or chargabel to the Peepel But that covetos Spirit vvhich is the root of al evil being thus crept in and having taken plà s in som ther soon appeared such amongst them who wer not wiling to communicat freely of what they had freely received of God but throuh covetos practises souht to mà k a gain of the flok going in the vvay of Balaam for gifts and revvards having Mens Persons in admiration becaus of Advantag imbrasing this present World loving to hav the preheminens and so being faln under the Spirit of deceit in themselvs grevv dayly vvors and becam deceivers of others by good vvords and fair speeches deceived the hearts of the simpel causing many others to bovv and submit to their covetos ends and to follovv their vviked and pernitios vvays by reason
and cruel adversarys and to aveng al the oppressions crueltys and Innocent bloud of his harmles lambs and Saints on them that dwel upon the Erth fro the least to the greatest of them even upon this present age and generation And heer it may be noted how this old Serpent vvhich goeth upon its belly hath throuh ages generations in thos cald Priests Levits spiritual men and the Clergy conformed and transformed it self unto any thing and into any form and lyknes except the lyf and Povver of godlynes in to which it can never com provyded they myt hav the nations and Rulers of the Erth as beasts and asses for them to ryd on and their tresurs and fruits of their labors to be at their command to feed pamper their bellys The World is the Who the Spirit of truth in throuh the Holy Men of God Profets Christ Apostels said wer grievos Wolvs such as mâd their their God making again of the flok would stil so ar its Ministers the sam they ever wer so many receiv the sam nams now from the sam Spirit exercysed in covetos practises going in long Robs loving to be cald of men Master and to hav the greetings in the market plas the uppermost Rooms at Feasts such as did say not do teaching for Doctrin the tradiditions of Men Hipocryts whyted wals painted sepulkers such as teach for hyr and Devyn for mony greedy dumb dogs that cannot bark loving every on his gain from his quarter preparing war against such as put not into their mouths filthy Dreamers that defyl the flesh runnng greedily in the error of Balaam for gifts rewards spots in their Feasts of charity feeding themselvs without fear clouds without Water carried about with Wynds trees whos fruit withereth twys Ded and plucked up by the Roots Raging wavs of the Sea foaming out their own sham wandering stars to whom the blaknes of darknes is reserved for ever When Israel of old in the wildernes turned their Baks upon the God of their saluation this spirit in Aaron and thos confederat with him complys with them and maks A Calfs and they said thes be thy Gods o Israel vvhich brouht thee out of the land of Egipt and built an Altar to it and yet proclaiming and pretending to mak A feast to the Lord siting dovvn to feed and pamper their bellys together and rysing up to play and vvhen Israel in the laind of Canaan revolted from the Lord to serv the Idol Gods of the heathen this old Serpent in the Priests Levits conforms ther unto Exercysing the several forms Manners of Idolatros worship to the several sorts of Ydols and Images provyded they may nat sail of provision for their bellys when Micah gat à Reliv a Teraphim an Ephod A graven Molten Imag to erect an Idolatros way of worship in his own family he wants not à Levit to excercys à worship ther unto provyded he may hav ten shekels by the year Asuit of Apparel provision for his Belly and when Ieroboam mad Calvs sit them up in Dan Bethel he wanted not enuf to be Priests to exercijs a form of vvorship to them provyded they may not fail of provision for their bellys and vvhen ydol Tempels Images wer Erected for the worship of Baal if Achab and Iesabel wil hav eight hundred fisty Priests to exercys à vvorship therun to they redyly Conform provyded they may dayly eat Drink at Iesabels tabel when Israel took up an Imagination of A Queen of heven they want not enuf of thos cald Priests spiritual men devyners to Exercys a worship to her provyded they may hav the Cáks Meat Drink offerings which ar baked offered to her to feed pamper their bellys And when the spirit of Apostacy took hold on the gentils Or Romans turning their ears away from truth unto fabels this old Serpentyn spirit provyded them heaps of fals teachers provyded they may mà k a gain of them get filthy luker by them exercys Lord ship Dominion over their Persons estats faith conscienses whos Practis hath bin for ages and generations Past throuh the Apostacy to this day to prepar war against such as put not into their mouths to spoyl the goods whip Banish Tortur Burn and hang the Persons of the Innocent who in the spirit Power of the Lord hav born testimony against their ways of Idolatry deceit covetos Practises Proud and Bloudthusty spirits And when Henry the Eigth of that nam so caled King of England mád a breach upon that cursed Idolatros sea of the Roman ecclesiastical Power threw of the Pops supremacy they in words and outward profession cast it of also lyk unnatural children cal'd their Mother the Whor of Róm swearing Allegians Supremacy to the King receiving their inductions into their Spiritualy wiked Plases Orders Proffits from him his Substituts teling their God in their Prayers that in al Cases over al Persons as wel Ecclesiastical as temporal the King is supream hed Governor he confirming them in their Church gleab lands tyths yearly Stypends Revenus to feed pamper their Bellys And when Mary his next Successor cam into the Thrón turned al as it wer bak again then they fased quyt about with the Dog to their own vomit submiting conforming to that which they had in word profession outward Practis denyed cast of viz. the Póps supremacy persecuting burning such as Heritics who for Consciens sak towards God could not conform therunto She securing to them their yearly Incoms to feed serv pamper their God which was their Bellys And when Elizabeth her next Successor aros then they turned quyt about again disgorging the vomit which befor they had re-eaten swearing allegians Supremacy unto her teling their God in their Prayers that shee the Queen was in al cases and over al persons as wel Ecclesiastical as Civil supream hed Governor He securing confirming to them their provision for their Bellys And when the Parliament which was in the Reyn of Charls the first of that Nam so caled King of England mád a defensyv War against the said King The said Parliament making provision for their Bellys erecting a Commitee to provyd augmentations yearly Stypends som of 50 som of 100 pound or mor and laying 2 or 3 Parishes somtyms together that they myt hav wher with to maintain them in pryd eas pamper their Bellys they in words outward Profession and Practis cast of not only the Tóp his Supremacy but also submit to lay asyd the ûs of their Servis-book of Common Prayers Organ Pyps and other Music Singing Men and Boys Gowns Flat-Caps Surplises Tippets and ras even their King also out of their Prayers stiring up the Peepel to go forth to war against him as to the help of the Lord
crafts was is the intemperans inchastity inordinacy of Peepel So al thes may say If Peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt lyf of God in them the good physician which purgeth clenseth from al filthines of fleâ—h spirit leads al vvho ar led by him in ways of temperans sobryety chastity in the fear of the Lord then they wil com to be Inhabitants of that city which shal say they ar not sik the Lord to be com the helth of their Countenanses their God and abyding therin the ground of al Diseases distempers in Body soul Spirit is kept down in peepel Such wil not hav need to com to us with their Urins giv us larg sums of mony for our Advys Counsel to maintain us in pryd eas or to mak ûs of our salvs deceitful Compounds so our deceitful trads wil dy and wither away also And al sorts of Marchants traders in Ships Shops wââ—houses Ins Victualinghouses Fayrs Markets may say If peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt everlasting covenant of lyf in them be tauht led by him in them then they wil com to tak cà r for nothing to tak no thouht what they shal eat drink or put on but cast al their câr upon the Lord vvhos eternal power wisdom dayly produseth sufficient to feed sustain every cretur so to becom as ôn houshold or family children of ôn Father heirs together in with Christ of the ôn Inheritans caling nothing their own injoying al things in the pur fear lyf lov wisdom of God as in ôn common ryt or intrest Such wil not hav need to mak ûs ' of our deceitful Inventions of mony to buy sel mak Marchandyz of the gists several stors of the hous of God wich al flow from the ôn gist which he freely gav to the children of men without respect to Persons neither wil such frequent or mak ûs of our Ships Shops Ins victualing-houses fayers or markets And so we may lay asyd our ships shut up our shops wâr-houses Taverns and victualing-houses and ceas frequenting our fayrs and Markets for no Man wil buy our wârs any Mor and so our trads of deceit oppression wil dy and wither away also Thos cald Land-Lords who in the spirit of the world hav raked great quantitys of the Erth into their hands may say If peepel be bourht to Christ the lyt way of peas saluation in them then having food and rayment they wil learn ther with to be content not Covet or desyr to grasp farms into their hands to serv their own particular intrests to spend their tym in sweating toyl cà r and labor as under the curs to giv us larg and yearly rents by sums of mony to manitain us in pryd lusts eas fulnes so that our Lands must â—therly unstok-ed until-ed or vve must let such us ' it vvho vvil only let us hav a part of the produs therof vvith them for our necessary supplys of food and rayment and so our Lordly Covetos and oppressing vvay of farming Lands for great and unre sonabel sums of mony by the year vvil dy and vvither avvay also Thos cald by-way thievs Robers may say if Peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt the strong Tower of sasty eternal salvation in them then the us ' of mony wil com to be laid Asyd by them and as for food rayment if we be Really in want therof the lov of Christ in them wil mak them wiling to supplys our real necessitys so that if we com to them on the by ways filver and gold they wil hav non and if we should tak their cattel they ryd up on or cloths from their baks it would be an unkyndnes offered to such as ar really wiling to feed cloth such as ar really in want and necessity nether can we lykly pas long with such things without being discovered and so becom lyabel to sham and suffer the strok of Justis from the hand of the Magistrat for the sam And therfor it wil be mor manly honorabel for us to fal into som way-of honest and moderat labor that so we may eat our own bred and wear our own cloths in Peas and quyetnes without condemnation in our own conscienses or fear of sham by the strok of Iustis Thos cald way going Peepel ydel and sturdy begers may say if peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt and wisdom of God in them then alth ô the bowels of the lov of Christ in them constrain them to do good unto al as need and necessity requyreth yet if we com to beg of them having bodys abel to work they may justly say unto us that such as wil not labor ouht not to eat and may offer us labor and food which if we refus the ôn they may justly with hold from us the other So that we shal be forsed to lay asyd our ydel dronish trád of beging and ether to work or starv which if we do our blouds wil be upon our own heds The whol body of the world which lys in wikednes may say if peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt wisdom Power eternal salvation of God in them then the end of the world even of al things wil be com upon them as it was on the Apostels Saints in their days and al the many vvays vviked inventions and Practises which hav had their Rys Continuans to this day throuh the entrans of sin trangression by the first Adam wil be ended finished and Eternal ryteosnes brouht in and established in Man-kynd and Man-kynd in it al Rúl Authority Power it standing in the spirit Power of the old Serpent put down and destroyed the vvhol creation delyvered from the bondag of corruption into the glorios liberty of the Sons of God and al things in heven Erth visibel invisibel reconcyled to God in him every Knee mà d to bovv and tongu ' to confes to him to the glory Prays of God the eternal Father Pur fountain of lyt lov wisdom glory and Dominion vvho is in throuh and over al God blesed for ever this is the God whom many hav waited for and this is the salvation expected by him and for ever blesed be his Nà m as non ever did so nether hav they wayted on him in vain nor bin ashamed of their hòp in him for according to his promis declared and recorded by throuh the holy Profets he hath now set to his hand again the second tym for the redemtion and salvation of himself his own oppresed seed in the ends or inhabitants of the Erth not only in Man-kynd but even in the whol creation who vvorketh so as non can hinder and shal not be discoraged til he hath set Ryteosnes in the Erth surly his salvation is ny unto them that
fear him vvhich shal caus the Pur Lyt knowledg and glory of the Lord to overspred fil and dwel in the whol creation and mercy and truth to meet together and Ryteosnes and Peas to kis and imbrás ech other and truth to spring out of the Erth and Ryteosnes to look down from heven and everlasting joy to rest upon the heds of al the Sons and dauhters of Syon and al caus of syghing and sorrow to flee away forever mor. But to proceed this cursed seed of the Serpent took Root the mistery of Iniquity hath abounded over spred al Christendom the abomination which maketh desolat was stil is standing wher it ouht not abominabel covetosnes Pryd Cruelty Oppression Idolatry sheding the bloud of the innocent saints of God hath bin stil is Practised in thee O Christendom even with a bold impudent fà s which hath long cryed aloud how long Lord holy tru dost thou not judg aveng ' our bloud on them that dwel on the Erth notwithstanding al the Abominations Oppressions Idolatry murders great provocations against the Lord vvhich yee your predecessors hav bin stil ar so openly impudently found guilty of yet exceeding long and larg hath bin the Patiens forbearans of God towards them you many hav bin the Fatherly warnings chastysments vvholsom counsels of the Lord towards them you but yee your predecessors ar found mor abominably guilty of thos abominations crueltys oppressions Idolatrys sheding the bloud of the Innocent then the Jews of old wer for which the Lord mà d ûs of your predecessors of the Roman Power as instruments in his hand to execut his just dredful wrath vengeans on them yee hav not only moked Gods messengers despysed his word misused his Profets Saints as they towit the Jews did befor you but yee hav mà d cruelly executed dyvers Antichristian Cruel bloudy laws statuts to keep them from coming amongst you to Murder Kil Burn destroy them if they open their mouths on the behalf of God his truth ryteosnes or bear their faithful testimony against the cruelty oppressions Idolatrys sheding the bloud of the Innocent exhorting them to repent turn from your their evil cruel and abominabel ways and Practis which yee your predecessors wer and stil ar found guilty of And so both they you hav returned unto God his dear saints servants which he hath raysed up many tyms sent amongst you in Lov mercy hatred for their lov yea cruel torturings murdeings even the worst of evil for their good wil towards you al which provokations crueltys murders rebellious practised against the Lord in his dear precios innocent ôns are Exceedingly heihtened aggravated in you even to the hyest pitch in regard that the hav hard and hav upon record befor you in the Scripturs of truth the many precepts commands of God against such abomniabel ways practises the many woes Judgments dredful Curses denounsed by God against al who ar found guilty of them and the many Just and Ryteos plagu's wrath and dredful Judgments of God Executed on the ages generations past befor you who wer found guilty of the lyk abommations but mor especially in regard that the Lord mâd your predecessors instruments as an Yron rod in his hand to execut his Just wrath dredful Indignation upon the Jews for the sam sins and abominations which your predecessors yee hav bin and stil ar found guilty of and verely the day is now com in which yee wil fynd that he is a God that changeth not but abyds stil the sam as wel in Power ryteosnes wrath and justis as in long forberans patiens goodnes Mercy The Apostels tru Ministers of Christ wer not mâd so by men nor sent forth in the wil or by the approbation of Man nether did they Minister forth from the Letter vvhat others had received by their own acquyred parts learned at Schools universitys for mony nether did they complain or addres themselvs to the Potentats and powers of the Erth to mák laws to fo rs compel peepel to giv them tyths great sums of Mony or yearly Incoms for their preaâ—hing or to defend them in their Doctâ—ins faith Church Order Holy and Christian practises which they held forth and walked in or to fo rs Peepel to conform therunto upon pain of being fyned imprisoned racked tortured banished hanged burned or cruelly put to Deth No No. But they wer caled sent forth by the wil Power and appointment of God the Father the Lord Jesus Christ ministring forth freely and with a redy mynd what they had freely received of God throuh the Revelation of Jesus Christ the tru Lyt and gift of God in them What they had seen felt handled and tasted of the grás Eternal Word living pur Power of God in themselvs they preached forth and declared to others to the end that they also to whom they preached myt hav fellowship with them in the sam whos fellswship was in the Father in the Son Jesus Christ they ministred forth according to the mesur of the gift of the Spirit of the free grâs of Christ in them they wer tauht of God and had learned of the Father and ther by mâd abel Ministers of the New Testament the eveâ—lasting Covenant of God needed not outward laws of Man to fo rs Peepel to maintain them or giv them Mony for their preaching but such as becam obedient to the faith and Christian practises which they preached walked in the constraining Power therof wrouht such a lov of God in them to whom they preached which drew them forth in lov freely to communicat of their carnal substans to them as their Needs necessitys required who having food and raiment had learned therwith to be content And the way and weapons which they took used to defend their Holy Faith Christian Doctrins and practises by to convins gainsayers and Herities wer not outward or carnal not spoiling of goods prisons banishments racks hanging burning other cruel ways of open and secret Murder but Holy Spiritual The saints weapons even by the armor of ryteosnes on the ryt hand and on the left by arguments of sound truth pur and wholsom doctrins Holy harmles innocent and godly conversations Nether was the end of their preaching that Peepel should be ever learning never abel to com to the knowledg of the truth nor that Peepel should be only talking of God The end of the tru Ministers Preaching Christ and Holynes and abyd strangers enemys to ignorant of the lyt lyf Power and Spirit of God Christ and godlynes in themselvs but the end of their preaching was to bring Peepel to the knowledg feeling and obediens of the Spirit pur power and presens of God in themselfs and to
faith of Christ crucifyed manfully to fyt under his Banner against sin the VVorld the Devil to continu Christs faithful soldiers servants unto their lyvs ends c. which as any hav com truly to do be they hav bin mâd a prey on by them their Nâms cast forth as evil counted Heritics not fit to liv whos practis towards such for ages generations past to this day hath bin spoyling their goods imprisonment banishment whiping torturing racking hanging burning their persons Others ther ar who thô they ûs not such a heap of lys ceremoys about it yet ar they acted by the sam spirit Power in the ground in the administration therof som sprinkling infants others diping persons of ryper years affirming it to be the baptilm of Christ uring a necessity ther of as unto salvation wher in they agree with the whor of Rom wher as John who was the minister of water baptism said thus I baptys you with water but ther cometh òn after me mytyer then I to wit Christ he shal baptys you with the holy ghost or spirit and Christ himself in his charg to his discypels said go yee and teach al nations baptysing them he said not in water but in to the nam of the Father of the Son of the holy spirit which baptism of Christ by the holy spirit was administred throuh preaching in thè demonstration of the spirit Power of God wherby Peepel wer brouht in to a participation of the lyt lov wisdom Power and spirit of holynes which is the Nà m of the father who is the God of lyt and lov the nam of the Son who is the wisdom and Power of God the Nà m of the holy ghost who is caled the spirit of holynes this is the òn baptism which saveth which the Apostel said is not the washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good consciens towards God by the refurrection of Christ from the ded in them the baptism which is by the òn spirit into the òn body of Christ vvhich body of Christ is the whol creation visibel invisibel of which every living cretur of God is a member the tempel the hous of Prayer unto al nations the visibel and sensityv part wherof is the womam that was deceived and first in the transgression the evil effects of which transgresing Power hath throuh thos angels that kept not their own habitations spred it self over the whol body wherby a dark vail of covering hath bin drawn over the Pur lyt glory of God in every cretur visibel invisibel otherwys ther had not bin need of making a covenant for the redemtion Salvation Deliverans and restoration of the whol body had not the effects of the curs bondag of corruption bin over al that it hath bin so hath evidently appeared in the several ecclipses darkning of the Sun the turning of the moon in to bloud the faling of the stars of the hevens the Extreams of heat cold natural spiritual tempestuos and blasting Wynds outward Inward Infectios clouds vapors mildews on the outward Inward man overwhelming destroying showers of snovv rayn hayl the enmity that is not only in Man-kynd but in every cretur òn against another not only of ôn sort against thos of another sort but against ech other of the sam kynd sort which ar al the effects of the curs that entred by transgression it cannot be other wys For if God cast out God then wer his Kingdom divyded against it self so should hav an end but the eternal Power the former of al things being the spirit of Pur lyf lov peas wisdom ryteosnes holynes thos effects formentioned could not proceed from him for every effect proceeds from its natural proper caus had the creation stood under the goverment of that Pur Power spirit by which it was created brouht forth the transgresing Power curs could not hav entred al thos evil effects ther of had never bin brouht forth for deth folly unryteosnes desylment destruction enmity could never Possibly hav bin the effects or prodùs of that spirit of Pur lyf wisdom Ryteosnes Salvation Preservation lov From this cursed Root the transgressing Power that old serpentyn spirit which took plà s in Eva and Adam and throuh them hath spred it self over the whol body hath sprung al the wars murders Persecutions Enmity Deceit Plagu's Pestilenses sikneses Famins Destructions wo's Calamitys Miserys which hav bin stil ar not only upon in Man-kynd but in upon the vvhol body of the creation and as the everlasting covenant of God to his ovvn Pur Seed vvhich is Christ not only in Man-kynd but in the vvhol body of the creation every cretur therin contained coms to be mà d good the corrupt bondag of the transgresing Povver chal be broken al the miserabel cursed effects therof shal ceas According to the promis of God by throuh his holy Profets which body of Christ is his spous his church to for which he giveth himself that he may redeem wash clens it that it may becom holy blâmles without spot in the midst of which even in throuh every creturth declareth the Fathers Nà m unto his brethren sings Prayses unto him This is the sweet singer of Israel Christ is al in al betxixt God and man whether in disâ—ensing mercy or execuring Iudgment visibel or in visibel in upon Mankind as first to upon Adam Eva. who throuh al ages generations hath in Ryteosnes faithfulnes sung the sweet song of mercy judgment as a Son over his own hous to wit Christ the eternal word of lyf the vvisdom and Povver of God vvhich was in the begining vvith God befor his vvorks of old by vvhom al things wer mâd and ar upheld It was he that mâd Man-kynd in his own pur Imag plased him in Dominion over the works of his hands who in lov and Kyndnes gav them freedom to eat of every tree of the garden prohibiting them only from eating of the tree of knowledg of good and evil warning them in mercy of the evileffects of transgresing against his Just command therin yea even when the lust was conceiving and the Tempter working in Eva it was Christ the sâam eternal Wisdom and Power of God which in Just Ryteos Judgment after sin and transgression had taken plâs and got entrans in them that pronounsed and executed on in them the Just and Ryteos Judgments of God becaus of their sin transgression It was he to wit Christ that in mercy to in the old World exercysed patiens To and upon the old wrold long forbearans by his spirit in stryving with them til al flesh had corrupted their ways befor him so that it repented him that he had mà d man And
their delyt to spend their tym in covetos vvays and practises to heap up to them selvs the Riches and tresur of the vvorld by dishonest gain having ther feet stiking fast in the myr of filth and unryteosnes the singing and praysing of such is not only a sacrifys of fools but a sacrifys of abominabel lys blasphemys And thus al the inward invisibelthings of God being changed into outward visibel syns shaddows of theÌ„ viz for the tru clothing of the ryteosnes of Christ the tru Imag of God and aros of Christ Holy-day of the Spirit Holy Water of byf inwardlyt c. they hav set up their paint ed Priestly rôbs outward Images Crosses Holy days Holy water outwardlyts of Candels And being strangers and enemys to thelyt and spirit of truth in man which sercheth the deep things of God vvhich is the eternal day the holy day of God vvhich al vvho truly keep ar children of the day they hav in their ovvn vvils mâd and set a part many days which they cal holy Days giving them the nâms of Christ-mas Candel mas Lammas Michael-mas days of saints as Iames Peters Thomas Iohn's day with many other Nams on which days after they hav bin at their charms of babbeling sorcery and Idolatros witch craft caled Mas divyn servis commy prayers sermons c. many tyms the priest taketh their consecrated breden-Y dol God which they cal the hallowed host the bedy of their Lord God having a canopy born over him others bearing dyvers standadrs or banners with Y dol picturs in them but the standard Banner of Christ which is Peas Lov Ryteosnes Meeknes they ar strangers Enemys unto going up and down the streets fields causing hy low rich poor smal great mâl femâl to follow them in their Idolatros pernitios ways to bow kneel down to their invented Y dol be subject to their Idolatros practises after which both priest peepel spend the residu of thos days som in Y delnes vanity others in the exercys of Ryot chambering wantonnes masking Dansing bowling delitios fâr feasting excesyv drinking VVyn strong drink to drunkennes with several other ways of vanity and wickednes And being strangers and enemys to the spirit of the Lord that pur living fountain of living holy water in the in ward parts which washeth clenseth the in ward man in which the saints draw ny to God God draweth ny to them by wich they resist the devil mak him flee they tak outward water which after the priest hath said his charm over cald consecration they cal holy water they sprinkel both them selvs and the Peepel causing also the Peepel to sprinkel them selvs crosing themselvs with their hands affirming that it wil keep away evil spirits dryv away the devil c. Whylst the bodys of both priests peepel ar becom the habitations of devils the cages holds of every fowl spirit the seed children of hel the devil for they being found in the ways of deceit enmity unryteosnes covetosnes oppresion hypocrisy Idolatry persecution and murdering of the saints thes being works of the devil torches c. the Peepel âr deceived of the trusubstans fed only with inventions in which ther is no vertu they ar therby rendred the seed and children of that Father whos works they do as Christ said to the Jews of Old who said they wer the children of Abraham And lastly they caus a Law to be mâd prohibiting any from assembeling themselvs together to the Exercys of any worship but only in their Mas-houses or Y dol-tempels under the penalty of being Reputed and delt with as Conventikelers holding unlawful assemblys Heritics Non conformists disorderly Persons which hath bin Executed on thousands of Innocent persons in ways of cruelty bloud and murder in ages generations past unto this day Thus having eaten of the forbiden tree which appeared beautiful to the ey shee the Ecclesiastical Power gav also to her husband to wit the Civil Power so caled even the whol body of them even al the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom who haveat also with her And that al myt be mad sûr on their Parts also they invented an oath caled the oath of Allegians to be taken by such as ar within the Consyns of ech of their severaldominions causing their Laws with Bils Bonds and wrytings obligatory to be put in Latin under a precens to uphold and incorag learning wherby provision was mad to uphold that Proud Covetos Vnresonabel Extorting and Deceitful generation of men cald Doctors in the law Counselers Advocats Solicitors Atturnys Clarks and Scrybs and to the end that al myt be mád saf and secur on every hand they hav the red Dragon or Military Power which they Plâs and quarter up and down in and throuh the nations in thos fexes hòls to wit the fensed citys strong holds and garrisons standing ther as the angels of ech devil redy to obey and fulfil their cursed wils and plesurs So that they becam as a three fold cord or bond of wickedâ—es not easily to be broken wherby the nations becam subjected under the cruel bondag of corruption not wilingly but by fo rs and cruelty and becam as an As or the foal of an As on which never man sat but cruel devouring beasts of prey whos journy hath not bin to Ierusalem but to there building of Iericho which is cursed with the founder and the finisher who laid the foundation therof in his first born by whom sin transgresion had its entrans into the world which is now finishing in his yongest son the foundation of whos wals is bloud and murder the gats therof deceit and lys into which nothing can enter but that which defyleth and worketh abomination in the darknes wherof the nations of them that sit under the region of the shadow of deth do dwel and walk And thus the old serpent the God of the world having finished his work sat himself down in them to tak his Rest as a strong man armed concluding to keep his hous wyf children goods in sâfty and peas in their dyabolical order fraternity if poslibel to al ages generations making them selvs Merry together over the slayn Innocent witnes of God the tru heyr of al which they hav crucifyed to in themselvs afresh hav mád themselvs drunk with the bloud of the Innocent lying down together in their beds of Eas to tak their fil of Dyabolical lov together in the Exercys of al manner of A bominations filthynes both of flesh spirit until the morning the good man of the hous being gon from hôm not to return til the tym appoynted issuing forth the filthy seed of their corrupt bodys of adultery whordom in a continued succession throuh and over the nations to comand govern feed and teach the flok
of slauhter every ôn vvith the number of their blasphemos Nâm according to their plâs and degree in the Government Heraldry of hel of vvhich their fôr-heds are ful to vvit Master worshipful Rytreverend gratios most honorabel Excelent nobel welborn renowned vertuos Illustrios sereen by myty Stâts most myty Invinsibel Emperors Kings Prinses Duks Earls Lords Barons Knyts Esquyrs Gentelmen Captain-Lieutenant Major-Generals vvith al other the nams and tytels in the Civil and military goverment so caled the seed of the adulterer Others called Curats Chaplens Priests Rectors Deans Arch-Decons Bishops Ryt reverend gratios Lords Arch-Bishops Monks Fryers Nuns Iesuits Cardinals Prins-Cardinals with the â—ops holynes and al other the blasphemos nâms and tytels in the Eeclesiastical body so caled the seed of the vvhôr al of them under the cursed leagu ' bond covenant and Agreement of bel and deth to ech of their heds by the oaths of allegians and supremacy scattered up and dovvn the nations as the Egyptian task masters midvvyvs to see that nôn but femal children be kept alyv and that the appearans of the mal the Ryt heyr be murdered and destroyed in the Birth Others therar caled reformed churches whos first rys appearans was throuh the motion of the Pur Power of God as on the waters the fas wherof darknes had covered which was the cry of the souls under the Altar the cry at midnyt giving warning of the Brydgroms coming throuh whom Christ the Angel of the covenant opened sounded and Powred forth the fifth sixth seal trumpet vyal the effects wherof ar not yet fully accomplished wherby the waters of the great river ar dryed up and the way of the Kings of the East prepared among whom wer many that wer as the Egyptian midwyvs that feared God and he mad them houses and they did eat and drink in his presens and he tauht in their streets and they did prophesy in his nam cast out devils which manifestation of the Power of God in and throuh them was the day known to the Lord nether clear nor dark in the evening wherof the lyt hath appeared who did not only spar but norished and incoraged the appearans of truth and ryteosnes in such in whom it appeared wherby way was mà d for the making redy a peepel prepared for the Lord and for the birth raysing up of the Man-chyld that is to Rûl the nations with a Rod of Yron but now being gon from that of God in them which ons moved in their predecessors ar becom ôn spirit in the ground with great Babylon the mother of harlots and abominations and being found partakers with her in her sins must receiv of her Plagu's In them to vvit the Beast's and fals proset's spirit and povver ar the Angels which kept not their ovvn habitations and the spirits in prison on s rebelios in the days of Noah vvhich by the vvisdom and Povver of God hav bin reserved and kept as in chayns of darknes unto the Judgment of this great day throuh Ages and generations in the natural body as in the Ark of vvhich that mâd by Noah at the omand and dyrection of God vvas a figur in vvhich ark vvas not only the seed of God which is pur in Mankynd and in every creatur but the seed of the serpent also as the beloved and the hated had conception and birth in and throuh ôn vvomb the ôn perserved to the day of salvation Redemtion and deliverans of the vvhol creation from the bondag of corruption into the glorios liberty of the Son o God the other reserved to the great day of Judgment destruction perdition of al ungodly men which day is now com the evening and cool of their day approached the eys of them al must now be opened they shal see that they ar naked the voys of the Lord God they must now hear his Ryteos decree sentens concerning them they must unavoydably bear and alâ—hô they go from rok to Mountain from Mountain to hil yea even amongst the trees of the garden to hyd them selvs yet shal they not be abel to escâp for a stronger then the strong man is com who in mesur alredy hath dayly môr môr shal lay hold on him shal bynd him cast him out spoyl al his goods his children shal be fatherles his wyf a widdow even vagabonds continually which shal seek their bred out of desolat plases yea his habitation shal be desolat for ever another tak his plas the cursed city must now fal flat befor the tru Israel of God at the sounding of the Rams-horns not a stôn shal be left upon a ston in that cursed building unthrown down the three fold cord that cursed bond of corruption so subtilly tvvyned must now be unwound untwisted utterly broken to pieces never mor to be set together again and the covenant and agreement with hel utterly disannuled the Lord hath need of the As hath sent of his discypels for him the As is in mesur loosed and he in mesur sits theron and is in mesur entred into the Tempel with his whip of smal cords and in mesur hath and dayly mor mor shal dryv out al the buyers selers and over turn the Tabels of the mony changers to wit thos who at the entrans of every heyr successor in to the thrón do alter chang the imag superscriptions of their mony and the seats of them that sel dovs to wit thos whos counsels and contry vments hav bin stilar how to oppres Spoyl and mak a prey of the innocent his arm is mâd bâr his hand stretched forth which shal not be drawn bak til he hath don finished his vvork his strang work and brouht to Pas accomplished his act his strang act he wil not ceas to over turn Overturn Overturn til he com whos Ryt it is and he wil giv it him And now of what hath bin heer declared concerning thee O Leopold and thoe O Pòp of Ròm with al Kings Prinses Rulers Governors al in Authority under you of what Degree Rank Or order soever whether Military Civil Spiritual Or Ecclesiastical so caled and al Peepel Hy Low Rich and Poor Smal great Bond free Mà l Femal of what Nams Orders Forms profesion in Religion soever known even whol Christendom with al the Dominions territorys therunto belonging of what Nation tongu ' or languag soever every particular person in them contained who ar under the comand Goverment and teaching of Man This is the sum That a cursed spirit of Apostacy faling away from the tru Christian faith lyf and Practis even the mystery of inquity which was fôr seen fôr told by the holy Profets and servants of God recorded in tho scripturs of truth took plà s in thee O Christendom even in thy Elders and teachers which