of moveability because God is the unchangeable being of Love Delight in REST in the Center of all that is good and Nature is that into which good and evil hath entered from whence its TREE hath sprung up and doth grow which the Creature who is the cause of work and labour in God hath fed on that hath brought the sence of pangs and misery into the World where is the worldly sorrow that worketh and bringeth under the power of Death and all other afflictions they meet with in their way CHAP. V. Describing the Form and Order of the WHEELS in their MOTION XXV FOR God is the cause of nothing without NATURE though in the Wheels there appeared two Motions whereby the cause of moveability was kept from centering in the ground of Corruption and Mortality under the power of which the Creature of God was thus fallen in a NATURAL Body through that which was sown in Weakness therefore in what ever the Creature was betrayed under the power of its guidance it was a CROSS to all proneness and adiction of Motion that did arise from the ground of Corruption XXVI And about the CENTER in which stood a Heart inflaming was made a Diurnal Motion in the Wheels which moved at a distance in two Rings of the inward Wheels wherein the third and inward Principle moved equally with the ground of Motion from the first CENTER and the two outward Principles of the inward World acted according to what was formed in a third Principle by which those three Principles came to manifest their CENTER in Nature XXVII But in the WHEELS there was also an Annual Motion that moved round that which stood fixed in the Center and this caused a ground without the Center as it stood manifest through the inward Motion to be corruptible and to Center under a power of Corruption though in those inward Rings of the Wheels there were kept and preserved a tincture of the first Motion XXVIII Yet having let in another Tincture from the power of Corruption under which the Worlds were labouring to Center what ever came forward under its motion must again be brought back into the sence and feeling of that which it reacheth after through DEATH to the cause of all labour and pangs wherein the Body of Nature standeth afflicted XXIX For there was neither East West North nor South from the Center in the inward Rings of the Wheels though it appeared to me in the ground whereon I lay for the beholding of the Vision that as the outward Rings in the Wheels were moved in a power of the four Winds of the Heavens the inward motion was from East to West and the Wheels went side wayes in all courses of the World XXX In which the three Rings of the outward Wheels did move and were moved according to the frame of the Worlds wherein centered the Principles of the whole but the inward Wheels moved by reflection the CENTER being unmoveable wherein two Rings only were discerned at a distance in that inward Wheel though in the Principles of each and both Worlds there were moved about three Rings in each Wheel XXXI And though in the outward Ring of the Inward Wheel in its Diurnal Motion the Heavens did move and were moved in what stood fixed toward the CENTER yet the outward Ring of the outward Wheel standeth 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 distance of years from the motion in the 〈◊〉 as doth the inward Ring of 〈◊〉 inward Wheel from the revolution of the Moon in the Annual Motion of the Wheels And in the second Ring of the outward Wheels the Heavens were moved about in their Annual Motion at the same distance from the Center as they were in the second Ring of the inward Wheel in their Diurnal Motion CHAP. VI. Describing the MYSTERY of the sounding of the seven Golden TRUMPETS and the seven THUNDERS that are for the preparing a ground in which the Judgement of God is manifest XXXII ON the Ground and Principles of a third part of the Worlds into which the DRAGON drew a third part of the Stars of Heaven after him did five of these Golden Trumpets sound forth the Judgment of God in what is loosed and unsealed from the BOOK of WONDERS in the Heavens wherein the four BEASTS were manifest each in their day calling to come and see what lay slain under the ALTAR of God in his Temple and House wherein the Sun Moon and Stars of Heaven did shine through that which was smitten in its third part XXXIII And herein is discovered the seat of the BEAST in Nature whose torment is awakened out of the bottomless Pit though as yet the number of Horsemen and Riders do multiply on the Earth through that which is awakened from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on the great River EUPHRATES in which hath been bound the four Angels that were prepared according to the time in which standeth the Execution of their destroying Power in with-holding the Winds from blowing on the EARTH as they are seen come up exalted on the four Corners of the same holding the four Corners of those Winds XXXIV Wherein each of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature recovereth six Wings according to the six Spirits of God in which the seventh unchangeable Spirit of Rest in him is begotten into the Creature and Creation that are become his Workmanship and they cover the living Creatures who day and night are crying HOLY unto the Lord and by the lifting up and letting down of their WINGS is the whole Earth and Worlds darkned or inlightned with GLORY XXXV And the Mansions or twelve Houses of the Fathers GLORY in the Heavens have their form defended with the WALL that is raised up on its antient Foundations wherein are twelve Pearls on its twelve Gates and under it are the twelve Foundations setled in the Refining Power through which are to be brought other three parts of a new World in its Heaven Earth in the destruction of a fourth part over which the fourth BEAST hath ruled with the Face of an Eagle who is come forth on his PALE HORSE like unto Death and Death and Hell follows him XXXVI Whose Power is by Famine Pestilence and Sword with WILD Beasts of Prey in all that lives in or moves on the GROUND and PRINCIPLES over which the seven THUNDERS are awakened to Thunder from those Places wherein Life doth strive to break forth and come into the CENTER of the creaturely being where every Birth hath its SIGNIFICATOR and the twenty four Wings of the four Beasts are the Army of the HEAVENS according to what came forth first MANIFEST in the four Wings of the FOWL that was stretched forth over the LYON in what strove to come up under the four Winds of the HEAVENS wherein the Heavens contended CHAP. VII Describing the MYSTERY of the four Beasts in the seven Forms of NATURE and of the Beast himself who is the Eighth XXXVII FRom the THUNDERS in
as it is in themselves though many have learned in this day to adde to their Faith Vertue and Patience and all good Fruits of the Spirit of God because of the Experience of the Work of Faith which through Patience they are kept in the sence of in the midst of Fiery Tryals and they hold fast the begettings of God thereby in a confidence of good in him XI And then as they increase in Knowledge it is on a good ground and foundation that hath learned them to rejoyce in the FLAMES of DEVOURING FIRE whose devouring QUALITY cannot reach their SENCE with any BITTERNESS of its Sting but through Patience and Submission thereto it is made sufferable and the Cross is made easie therein and the BURDEN light because of a quenching property in that love against whatever maketh the Judgement of God to be unsufferable Torment to his Creature for part of their Knowledge is that it is not only given them to believe but to suffer for the namesake of God though in the beginning of the Work of Faith the belief that was wrought by the Spirit of God in them is a Convincer of sin under which there was and is a suffering in the nature that hath contracted the guilt thereof on the Soul by unity of Spirit therewith even the Spirit and God of the World XII Further knowing and being perswaded in patience to wait for the perfecting of the Work of God in the Heart in that Faith and belief of the love of God therein shed abroad that they are kept sensible of a good experience of the Work thereof having the Testimony of a good Conscience to manifest the same in the World these can shew their Faith by its Works and have a birth thereof that makes not ashamed of a good CONFESSION among Men and the fained Humility and appearances of Love from the untimely Fruit of the Womb that can never come to see the glory of the Sun of this day withereth in its way for that which can indure and hold out to the End worketh by the love of God that hath begotten into a lively hope concerning the Resurrection from the Dead having a Life tinctured in the Souls reach after true Charity in God and Love unfained which is the highest attainment in a Christians state and the greatest Gift that can be attained by men under the Bond of Perfection XIII Sealing the Work in which God doth glory and delight in that which is made able to pass through the stroke of Death to leave an Earnest of the expectations of the Creature after the day of Redemption in that which is much more pretious than that of Gold that perisheth But how have I seen many in this day loading themselves with the Fancy and Imaginations of their disquieted Mind and then being burdened with a Fear and Jealousie that ariseth from the Unbelieving Heart and distrustful ground they are ready to cry out of the Burden of the Lord whereas their own words and thoughts are become their Burden who have taken that on them which God never layd on them and yet they make the concern for the Lords sake that lays no more on any than they are made able to bear in the Life of Patience XIV And in this ground stand all the several Separations and hasty receivings into Fellowships with sudden hands laid on Proselytes for herein is the ground of prejudice swayed by the creaturely affection yet in this mind may be maintained a fierce and fiery Zeal for the opiniatedness that may often call for fire to come down from Heaven and to have Vengeance and Plagues speedily executed on such against whom their Spirit is bent for having wished evil in their Hearts and mischief against the Persons of such towards whom they cannot admit of any CHARITABLE thoughts they proceed in a hasty Prophecy of their utter confusion and then would they rather that both Soul and Body of the subject over whom they seek to be avenged in that rejoycing should for ever perish than that they should be found False Prophets so evil a thing it is to be engaged in a Spirit of Enmity and Envy XV. But such Extremities many have this day put themselves on through rash censure and then run back to former Ages and Generations of the World for a President and Example to help them out as they think whereby they oft are ready to plead the lawfulness of cursing their Adversary who standeth not justified in their sight and approbation because ELISHA was once acted in that Ministration through the heat and zeal of his Spirit it being so far from their nature to live in that which is wayting for the Worlds redemption from sin and reconciliation to God that they rather strengthen their FURY in the expectation of utter Consumption and Destruction on all that cannot for wraths sake stoop to their perswasions and it is the end of such willings to see a People perish in their sins XVI Because of that mis-informed Zeal under which their Spirits are acted against the Enemies and Foes of that Cause for which they have found the life imboldened towards God according to the quickning of his Spirit as tinctured with that Power before which the Heavens have opened and do shut and in the like desire THEY are moved as was HE before whom Fifties were destroyed whose Spirit resteth Judgement on a Ground wherein God hath prepared Messengers to go before his face But considering the difference in Administrations that Zeal which runneth out after an Object to maintain the heat of Spirit against which it is enkindled is not now held and retained in the like Cause and Ground as that in which it first appeared XVII For God is gone out of that Administration as acted towards the Persons of Men in their Generations and cannot own any glory therein but as that which had a Testimony of his day in the Prophecy thereof wherein the Messengers went before his Face in a sence of that terror that was come on the Wicked World because such that wear the soft Cloathing are got into Kings Houses and they shall no more wear a rough Garment or prophesie in their Sackcloth Robes therefore whom would men go out to see since Times are come that the Sacrifice of the Rebellious savoureth of the Work of Death and there is not fire enough to kindle the combustible matter in the House on the top of which they are exalted while the Displeasure of God continueth unawakened in the Pleasure and Will of Men that bring Wood but where is the Flame of that other Spirit which God requireth even of Reconciliation to Himself in the Life of Forgiveness in that which is able to Appease and Quench the Wrath and Rage of the devouring Enemy and make Friends in the Well-Beloved Life XVIII Yet where is Love and Forgiveness enough to heap Coals of Fire on the Heads of Enemies the Gift hath been first left at the Altar and such
of God's Spirit and they were prepared in time that came up in the Hours of the day and dayes of the Month and months of the year into Number and Order wherein the substance of what Nature was ordained to manifest is become measurable and intelligable XXIV For herein is made manifest a Government springing up from the Head and Heart and Womb of Nature through which the Body of Nature was placed in subjection to an unchangeable and everlasting Power of renewing in God whereby I came to discern of those three in Heaven that bear Record to wit the FATHER and Creator of all Spirits and Principles of Nature into being and the WORD through which the Creature was brought into the lovely form of Sonship and the Holy Ghost which is the Power of the Word in the Creature as he is acted in the Will of the Creator and these three are one witness for God in the Heavens as a Sun of that Glory whereby the Creation of God is enlightned CHAP. III. Describing the Forms of Nature as they are wrought up in the the changings of the renewing Power in God XXV AND this was manifest in Terrestrial Bodies through the three that bear Record on EARTH to wit the Spirit of God which first breathed on the WATERS which is a power of all individual Spirits in Natural Bodies formed and the Waters themselves on which it thus breathed and the BLOOD inkindled in the fire of Life through which those Waters do ebb and flow to the Creature that hath the imbodied being of Soul and Spirit And those three also agree in one and are one Witness for God in Terrestrial Bodies wherein the MOON hath prevailed to dignifie her course that turneth Waters into the Blood of the Spirit of Life in that borrowed light wherein she hath exercised her dominion under the Power of Corruption XXVI This therefore did I observe in the Motion of the WHEELS that the ground of their Motion was everlasting whereby that which had not any beginning in the Will and Wisdom of Eternities Power of Existence took being in time and place wherein every thing that was created into Form became conceiveable and comprehensible in the imbodied being of NATURE as it stands thus fallen under the Power of Corruption wherein the Work of God hath been narrowed to the sence of the Creaturely capacity and from the CENTRE in which is an eternal stilness will every man receive his reward according to his WORKS and to what he hath sown in the Body of Nature thus fallen under the tryals of a cross to the Creaturely affection XXVII Though every thing is brought forth in its order which is again to be reduced into its Center as all Powers of Nature come to run their race in what is awakened and come forth in time and place to the judgment of Eternity against all such Powers of Darkness wherein I beheld the EARTH standing in and out of the Waters from whence the Light shined in each principle in which the separation was made between the Darkness which was expelled from the new Created Forms in Nature and driven into its Center wherein the Creation remained groaning under its NIGHT of sorrow as in the fallen Properties that proceeded out of the Womb of Nature in which Self became imbodied in the Creature of God which was and is the cause of the fall and of all degeneration in Spirits and Properties of Nature in those Principles XXVIII And out of this EARTH sprung up all that lay hid under the Power of Corruption thus formed into being in time and place which was a fourth part of the WORLDS in form as its two third parts were separated into the Waters above and under the Firmament resting under the Government of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature over which the Wheels moved their third turn separating between all Creatures that abode in the Region of Air and those that rested on the EARTH and in those Waters under the Firmament who were enlightned by the three Glories of the Father that shined from the Heavens above the Firmament wherein the Worlds stood manifest in their renewed Principles after this third turn of the Wheels XXIX For the Seal of God being on his peculiar Number of faithful Ones though little in the Eye and esteem of the World a Cloud of Darkness remained over the day in which they had glory until the seventh Seal of God was taken off from the Book of Life in which their names were written among the WONDERS of God whereby I beheld each Beast in the Forms of Nature take unto him six Wings in which were six thousand Feathers and six thousand Names of Men on each Wing and on each Beast were thirty six thousand Feathers and names of Men which became a great Army in the Heavens of one hundred forty four thousand names of Men according to the four Wings of what came forth first manifest on the Back of the LYON wherein each Wing of the Army in the Heavens was dispersed to its Quarters on the Earth And the Wheels were moved about in their fourth turn over all Principles in Nature thus come forth into form in its time of Tryal XXX Which was very miraculous to behold that through all this striving and contest in the Heavens not one Fether of those Beasts was diminished though the Wings of the Beasts in those forms of Nature were suffered to be pluckt and were taken from off the Back of those living Creatures on which they sought to rest and settle And after an Angel of the Sun came forth in the Glory of the Son of Man there stood a second Angel of God who daily ministreth at the Altar of God hath power over FIRE and he rode on a WHITE Cloud and I heard a voice from the Heavens the number of Gods chosen are Sealed and they are faithful Witnesses and Followers of the LAMB and I beheld out of the Temple of God Trumpets sounding forth Praises and Hallelujahs to him that Rules and sits on high until the four Angels of God became loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES and stood on the four Corners of the Earth and held the four Corners of the Winds from blowing XXXI But the Earth was exercised with great afflictions and the Waters also and all that lived therein and moved thereon were come under sore Tryals in one third part thereof and the cry was very grievous because of the burning Coals that were taken from the Altar of God and flung on the Earth which caused Tempests therein and from the Heavens proceeded Thunders and Lightnings and great Hail after all motion therein began to cease and that I had beheld a silence in the Heavens for the space of half an hour XXXII For as the WINDS of the Heavens were at rest wherein the Spirit of God ceased to strive any more with his Creature neither suffered the breath of its Almighty Power to blow any more on
WORLDS in their Generations where wild BULLS of Bashan are reared up to push and devour each other and from DAN there is in mine Ear the snorting of Horses and ratling sound of the Chariot Wheels like rumblings in the Air hurling up and down for REST from noise And what is herein written is of things past present and to come which are all to be fulfilled in their place and order according to the Dayes and Hours for which the VISION doth work and is made to speak in what is narrowed to the Creaturely Capaciiy through him that hath cut the Work short in Righteousness that is manifested throughout this la lâ— and Age of the WORLD LX. For from the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about EUROPE in its fourth part and Quarter is the destroying Power of God loosed for the Execution of Divine Justice on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast on whom the torment of those Months is accomplished to the finishing the work in which Death hath Dominion over that Nature wherein the WORLDS are imbodied in its Quarters therefore is the time near at hand wherein the Worlds will suffer very great shakings and Earthquakes will break forth in divers parts thereof to the overturning of many Foundations and changing of Laws and Governments of Men whereby coldness of Spirit and deadness hath over-taken the Multitude in a dull and secure state and afterwards will follow a great Power of HEAT in kindling its FLAMES of DESTRUCTION throughout the BODY of the ELEMENTS CHAP. XI Describing the MYSTERY of Time for which the Vision is set c. LXI Concerning the TIME for which the VISION is set it is now near the expiration of one hundred and twenty days since the finishing of the fifteen years wherein I beheld the prevailing of the Waters over the Earth in the fifth year that I saw the fall of the Worlds under a Power of Corruption through which the Waters became smitten in their third part under which the WORLDS stand divided in their four Quarters in the dispersing abroad of the FLOODS on which the People were moved and tossed up and down as the Waters fell BACKWARD into their four Heads by which every thing hath been tryed and carried into its appointed Place through the Tempests and swelling Waves of awakened Storms that are come into the Worlds LXII For from those TWELVE Years wherein the Nations of the Earth were subject to one KING a Spirit of Rebellion against the Power of the Beast entered four Kings of the four Winds of the Heavens who fell before five in the Vale of Siddim that is full of slime-pits whereby the remainder of those that escaped were reduced to the Mountains on their flight yet the thirteenth year which was the year of their Rebellion was it in which the Power of the BEAST stood dispersed in the striving of the four WINDS of the Heavens on the great River EUPHRATES out of which their Power is again revived and loosed though from the Seat of the Beast which is the BOTTOMLESS-PIT from whence proceeded those living Creatures called LOCUSTS that I beheld in the Vision in the form of Goats c. Life again entred that on which rested the First Wound in Nature LXIII And as the LEOPARD or Great BEAR came forth manifest with four Wings on his Back like the Wings of a FOWL his Kingdom stood dispersed abroad the Earth and Worlds and in the place of the Great Horn of the RUFF GOAT of GREECE which was broken by the power under which the Worlds stood divided those Four notable Horns were seen that became exalted towards the four Winds of the Heavens which are the Power of four KINGS and four Heads of the Beast that did spring out of the first Breach whose Kingdoms are not so mighty as the first wherein the Little Horn came forth between the Eyes of the Goat c. LXIV And that little Help through which the fifth Head in the midst of four on which sprung up five Horns that were broken and fell in the first King received that deadly Wound c. is a Power in the North Wind of the Heavens under which the Wound is become again healed up that is the Feet of the Image which is partly to break and partly to be broken for it is both Iron and Clay And this is the King of the NORTH who may be manifest in the Person of a Man of fierce Speech and dark Countenance as he is indeed manifest through many in whom a Power of the North Winde hath been dignified as Kings in that REGION wherein is a cold binding Climat of dark Air. LXV For since the fourteenth year wherein the South Winds of the Heavens were reproved and corrected for their Rebellion in those four Kings whose Kingdoms were enlarged in the dispersing abroad of the Power of four that sprung out of one who retained not the ARM that which grew up towards its tryal by FIRE was separated into its Mystery in what was effected through the fifteenth year from whence the Worlds have been warned one hundred and twenty days according to the days of the Life of Man of that destruction and desolution by the over-flowing Scourge wherein the Waters have exercised a Dominion that is ome under the smiting of the four Winds of the Heavens LXVI And wherein both the HEADS and HORNS of the Beast are KINGS and POWERS in Nature that have their Form in and on Men yet the King himself of that North Wind is not the Person of any ONE Man but a Power in One as well as in Many that are wholly under the Dominion of the Beast or that have his Mark c. according to the Power of the Constellations under which the period of all Signs in the Heavens are moved and do work over such that have their concern therein in a mystical and spiritual sence to all NAMES in Nature but now is it manifest that the MYSTERY of Time is compleat in the Figure of the FORMS in Nature wherein every thing that is either past present or to come remaineth MEASURABLE and DISTINGUISHABLE according to that Spirit under which all Powers in Nature doth WORK and and whereby all that is wrought in its BEING is come forth into FORM. LXVII Yet Nature that is Creatable suffereth through all Changes and REVOLUTIONS that are MANIFEST on and in the BODY of ELEMENTS subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption both the Good and the Evil of which the MAN hath tasted in the exercise of his Sence according to the operation of Qualities that are predominate in his BIRTH though nothing is absolute in time and place to the MAN but in the Power under which his Life is concerned operating in all the faculties of Nature in which is the holy and glorious Land whence tidings shall come out of the North and from the East which will trouble the NATIONS and Inhabitants of the Earth who are yet to
be disquieted and unsettled from their Lees whereby Destroyers have been suffered in the Way that are come on the Holy People where they are scattered in the North Country situated between the Seas CHAP. XII Describing the MYSTERY of Time according to the end for which the FORMS of Nature came forth into Manifestation on which Consumption and Desolution hath over-taken the Abominations for which the WORLD is made desolate in this last day and Age c. LXVIII AS to the Time for which the VISION is made to speak it is from and of the Beginning and to the End of Time and Place whereby every thing standeth manifest under a Figure according to the Days and Years under which all FORMS in Nature do labour and work which have their Hours and Months in the measure of Time c. wherein the Frame and Form of the Work of God in the power of Creation was laid in the Line of ADAM in his Generations answerable to the Years of his Life in which the Days of the VISION do manifest the whole WORK raised up from that in which it was sown LXIX For as from the Creation of the Worlds according to the most just and true accompt of Men is three thousand years to the finishing of the TEMPLE which SOLOMON built in which the first Glory of the Work of God stood manifest and from the finishing of that Temple which was built and erected in seven years to the Birth and Incarnation of the Son of Man through the Power of the SECOND ADAM a quickning Spirit c. was nine hundred and thirty years so doth all things stand manifest in NUMBER under the same figure in the coming forth of the WORLDS which in seven days was brought into form according to the sence of the first Man ADAM through whom the Works of GOD was comprehended in Natural Body wherein the seed of Life was known by which his living Soul became apprehensive in the breathings of the SPIRIT and Breath of GOD. LXX Whereby NATURE multiplied in its Forms according to the course they were subjected under in that Dominion wherein the MAN was made LORD over all the Works of GOD's Hands answerable to the sensibility that was wrought up through the seventh Form descending in which HENOCH continued imbodyed as many years as are days in the year and all the days of YEARS wherein Adam continued imbodyed in that first Form are reckoned nine hundred and thirty which is two years and seven months according to the accompt of Time wherein the Forms of Nature do stand numbred in a figure under which they are multiplied a year for a Day LXXI And concerning the Time for which the VISION is made to speak in what is formed for a conclusion of the matter and wherein the Nature of that which worketh standeth figured forth to the bringing the WHOLE under its Day of Tryal as it was one thousand six hundred fifty and six years from the Creation of the Worlds into time and place to the over-flowing Scourge that followed them therein and over-took the Forms whererein they were created with the Deluge and from thence until the dayes wherein Moses became manifest in flesh c. was seven hundred seventy and seven years who continued therein one hundred and twenty years so it was twenty eight Jubilies from the beginning of those Services which rested under the Goverment of JOSHUA that succeeded him in that sixth YEAR to the anoynting of CHRIST to his Office that put an end to all those Offerings and Sacrifices c. thus typified out in JOSHUA which signifieth JESUS or SAVIOUR LXXII From which time there is past the number of YEARS in thirty two Jubilies and thirty two years to this year of the Worlds accompt 1665. And as from the finishing of the Temple in which those Services stood accepted under the Law c. to the destroying thereof by Fire was four hundred twenty and three years and after six years was the King of BABYLON established in his Kingdom and Throne which made him say Is not this great BABEL which I have built so unto that eleventh year wherein the HOLY ONE and the WATCHER came down to shew him the end of those Visions of the MONARCHIES of the Worlds and the state into which he should be driven among Beasts of prey was four hundred thirty and four years which is the number of sixty and two weeks of days A Conclusion To the whole WORK I. BUt in the time before-mentioned Life was prolonged in the Government over ISRAEL in its dying state as it received in the sence of the Wound come on a third part of its Glory that was smitten and the shadow of the SUN went back ten degrees on the Dyal in which the forms of Nature stand manifest according to the Significator of the Birth concerned therein wherein the SUN hath recovered the first point of ARIES from the tenth day of the first month in this sixteenth year for from the period of fifteen years the Pangs and Sufferings that came into the WORLDS in their third part hath rested in the Seat of the Beast on those MEN that have received his Mark. II. And after the MOON hath passed her Course through the Signs in the ZODIACK of an Inward World wherein she will be descending towards the House of her Exaltation in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and six and will renew her Entrance through ARIES on the concluding of the YEAR the effect of that which hath rested on those Men who are come under the smiting of the Beasts Power for those five Months wherein pangs have proceeded from his Seat will be seen in the WORLDS for from the concluding of that year is thirty days wherein the SUN hath his Passage through LEO the Heart of a Lyon which is his own House who entered the first point of Cancer wherein the Summer Quarter is manifest nineteen days before the concluding of this year 1665. III. And as the number of years for which Jerusalem was rebuilt the second time was sixty two Weeks until the MESSIAH was anoynted to his Office after the finishing of the second Temple in seven weeks which was for a Week and in the midst of that Week was the Prophet and SON of GOD cut off though not for his own transgressions so it was sixty two weeks more or an hundred thirty four days from the birth of JESUS that great PROPHET through whom the partition Wall was broken down between two Nations to the thirtieth year of the Reign and Exaltation of the Kingdom of Mystery BABYLON over the Kings of the Earth IV. Whose King spoyled the Glory of JERUSALEM and led away Captives from thence taking unto himself the VESSELS of Silver and Gold that were in the House of the Lord in the nineteenth year of his Reign over Assyria and in the twenty fifth year of his Establishment in Media and Persia saw the four Kings in whom the Image of
THE Revelation OF GOD his GLORY SOUNDED FORTH For the opening the Mystery of the Seven SEALS on the Book of the WONDERS of GOD in the hand of the ANGEL BEING A True and Faithful TESTIMONY Of the Enochian Prophecie Of the Rise and Fall of ANTICHRIST And of the Restauration of ZION to its Primitive Glory London Printed in the year 1665. The EPISTLE To the READER I. LEt the Impartial Reader seriously weigh what is herein set down and rashly pass no Sentence on a Work of this concernment neither scruple at the Form and Method in which it is come forth to the view of all sorts of Spirits wherein I cannot expect so kind entertainment in matters of such nature as to have all Men speak well of it or of me therein because then had I my Reward with men II. For my whole and sole aim and intention in this work as far forth as I know and am made sensible of my own frame and temper of Spirit is and hath been other ways grounded and founded in Truth than to seek other Honour and Glory than what is of and cometh from GOD wherein I have a Witness both in Heaven and Earth which I might call to bear Record with and for me that I considerately love not vain ostentation or to boast over the Weak by soaring aloft out of the reach of their Capacities that something else than the Spirit of GOD should be exalted in the Temple and Throne of Gods DIGNITY III. Because then might I expect that God should glory over me in the WORK of DESTRUCTION Though I know in the following Treatise much is come forth in an unpleasant form and dress to the curious search of some that may count themselves wise and it will be accounted at the first sight thereof rather FORM and SHADOW then SUBSTANCE and many will be ready to judge the truth of its Concern locked up in SIMILITUDES and sealed in an unknown Tongue in that through good Experience of the Enemies Work I am taught not to be too prodigal in opening Terms wherein some have suffered and come to a loss by such means and the Truth it self is thereby made of low esteem in the EYES of many proud and haughty Ones IV. Therefore have I employed my Endeavours under the workings and motions of the Spirit of God wherein many Mysteries of truth pertaining to the Establishment of his Kingdom have been revealed in and unto me that I might leave no room for contention to feed the snarling nature of those dogged qualities in such that are gon out of the patience and content of God where the Charity of Life is abounding wherein Covenant is kept with the LORD in that Spirit which particularly openeth and revealeth the Mysteries of Truth in all to whom it pertaineth to know the same V. And though such that hunger after Advantages in that SWINE-like Nature which is ready to return again and rend those that cast their Pearls before them are in the nature of the Harlot who is not to be fed with the portion of a true Matron neither is Childrens Bread to be cast before them in that adulterating spirit which openeth the Quiver out of which the Darts of Disdain are sent forth do fly abroad and yet shall not the Truths of God always continue clouded or obscured in silence as a Treasure hid in the EARTH VI. But the Time is come that the oppressed Life hath gathered strength and the groans of the Sufferer have made way for the resurrection of the slain and the Poor and Despised doth and will arise over all the contempt it hath met withall in its Way onward to the Land of REST and the Disdainful are ashamed to see the Beggar taken from off the Dunghil and such exalted in the Favour of God that were of low degree in the Eyes of the Admirer of the Persons of Men because of advantage who have said Sit thou here and be my Footstool since thou hast no Gold Ring nor gay Garment else depart and be thou warmed and fed but therefore are the Rich afflicted and the Full are given up into the Tormentors hands VII For a Day is already appeared in which the simple have been preserved in their Way and they shall grow in the Favour both of God and Man through all opposition they meet with by the fierce and cruel HUNTERS for their Prey And those that have said Come up higher and sit thou here because of thy covering and out-side Garment shall themselves be seen naked and hungry and in want of all things and many shall behold their shame for they shall no more wear a rough Garment to deceive or through austerity appoint places to such that may serve their Interest but the Voyce of the LORD shall be heard in the EARTH calling and inviting many to the great and last Supper of the LAMB who shall have on the Wedding Garment of a meek and quiet Spirit which is of great price with the Lord. VIII And this covering will never prove too narrow neither shall it be ripped off though such may come up in an appearance of Glory to manifest the end of the Worldly Sentence that is gone out against them but seeing fiery tryals are come wherein all Foundations are to be searched into that every Birth may live in and receive the Reward of that which it hath been sown in and to and that it may appear whether they can indure and hold out in the time of affliction Blessed are all they that have found out and are builded on the unmoveable and lasting Rock of Ages and Foundations of many Generations that have passed before them for I have seen many good beginnings in the Work of God wherein his Grace and Love was and is sufficient to perfect and finish the same had it been trusted to wholly and fully IX But such that have leaned to their own understandings have given heed to lying Vanities and have forsaken the FOUNTAIN of endless Mercies and Refreshments having still that of their own reserved which they are very loth to part from that separates between GOD and them these have begun well but who hath hindered them that they are so ready to sit down by the VVay in a false Peace and Rest wherein they come short of perfect Satisfaction in God looking on a self-sufficiency in something done as an Act of the Creature without the assistance of the Spirit of GOD to keep in the way of Peace X. For their beginning was in and by the Spirit of GOD why then seek they to be perfect by the Flesh and in a Name of Profession of Truth while they have the approbation of such that have convinced the Understanding of that which is Truth in the Judgment of Creatures but in a time of the tryal of their Faith the ends of the World are manifest before them and then is there a running to and fro to increase the Knowledge of the WORK of GOD