in the Valley of Judgment and he will Overturn Overturn Overturn till he comes to reign whose Right it is for long hath the Powers of Darkness reigned in all Mankind whose Right it was not but now Christ Jesus making himself known who is the true Light of the World and he is arising to reign whose Right it is Therefore come into the Moderation and seriously consider in thy own Heart how thy Condition standeth before the Lord thy God if thou were immediately called to an Account before him for thy Deeds done in the Body whether good or evil and come but with an honest Heart to the Light of Christ Jesus in thy own Conscience and that will let thee and all the Sons and Daughters of men see how your Condition standeth in the Presence of your God for be thou assured that if the VVitness of God in thy own Conscience condemns thee for thy evil Words and Actions God from whence the Witness came is greater and will not any wayes justifie thee therein but if thou give up to be guided by his Light in the Singleness of thy Heart then thou wilt come into the Beginning of the Creation of God and see his Work dayly manifested in thee and thou wilt come to see the Sword of the Lord God of Jacob to cut down to destroy the Transgressor at all times in thee and thou wilt come to see that nature in thee that would stand up to take the Sword to kill or destroy thy Fellow-creatures or oppress or defraud any by the Unrighteous Power thou wilt come to see that Nature to perish by the Sword of the Lord in thee which Sword is the Word of the Lord which is a Discerner of the Thoughts of the Heart and divides between the precious Thoughts and the vile therefore as thou tenders thy own Soul come to that Sword and bring all thy Thoughts unto it and in the Light thou wilt come to see a nature in thee that hath a long time led thy Soul captive under the Captivity of Sin and Satan and thou wilt come to see that nature carried away captive by the power of Christ Jesus even into the Land of Forgetfulness for he is now risen in this his Day to lead Captivity captive and to set free from all Oppression and now is the Day of his plenteous Redemption come and his Salvation will he make known unto the Ends of the Earth and will redeem all them that come to walk in his Light and that obey and follow it in all his motions and that contentedly come to take up the Cross daily to their own wills and so in Singleness follow Christ the Light them will he redeem from under the Power of Sin and the Devil who is the Author thereof and from the World and all its inticing Lusts and as they give up wholely to be guided by the Light and to take up their Cross daily which crosseth the carnal will and so come to deny themselves and to follow Christ who saith I am the Light of the World whosoever followeth me shall not abide in Darkness but shall have the Light of Life and he that comes into this comes into the true Faith which purifies the Heart and they come to receive Christ and to as many as receive him to them Power is given to be the Sons of God and so such come to know what the Seed in them is and what it is to have the tender Babe of Grace formed in them and what it is to be born of God and so such do not commit Sin for they have the Seed of God remaining in them for that which is born of God cannot commit Sin for the Prince of this VVorld hath no part in this new Creature who is created in Righteousness and true Holiness Now thou that art born after the Flesh and art in the first Nature thou art a Stranger to this new Birth which is born of God and thou art ready with Nicodemus to cry out Can a man ente rnto his Mother's Womb again when he is old or shall there any thing be brought forth by God whilst man liveth upon Earth to be made manifest to be without Sin So thou art altogether ignorant of the wonderful works of the Lord for the God of the world having blinded the Eyes and darkned the Minds of all that live in the old nature so that they therein cannot please the Lord their God but their delight is in the works of Darkness whereof the Devil is the Prince and they love the world and the Glory thereof and so the Love of the Father is not in them but now if thou dost but come to believe in the Light and into true Obedience to it in tender Simplicity thou wilt come into the spiritual warfare and to march under the Banner of CHRIST who is the eternal CAPTAIN of our Salvation and thou wilt come to see the Battle fought in Heaven between the Lamb and the Dragon even in God's Kingdom which comes not by observations to say lo here it is or lo there it is for his Kingdom is within thee and there the Battle of the great God is to be fought between Christ the Prince of Peace and the old Dragon the Prince of darkness Now as Christ the Lamb of God comes to take away the Sins of the World and to lead his Souldiers forth he arms them with the whole Armour of Light in Patience Meekness Humility Chastity Soberness and Gentleness Love and Tenderness contented in the Will of God tosuffer all things with Cheerfulness so it may tend to his Glory Now these are they which are to make War in Righteousness against the Principalities and Powers of Darkness in high Places at whose Appearance all flesh shall tremble and all Hearts shall be astonished for Fearfulness shall surprise the Hypocrites Now as Christ appears prepar'd to battle and hath armed his Souldiers with those Weapons afore-mentioned so likewise the Dragon he arms his Souldiers with his Armour which is the whole Armour of Darkness which consists in Hatred and Malice Envy and Persecution Pride Hastiness and High-mindedness Oppression and Tyranny Covetousness and Drunkenness Lying and Swearing Defrauding and Deceit Wantonness and Whoredoms and many other wicked Weapons which the Light will make manifest to them that abide faithful in it Now let every one in particular come to a honest search in your own Hearts and examine your selves without Deceit and see whose Banner you are marching under and whose Armour you wear for it is but vain for any man to deceive himself any longer for look whose Armour thou bearest his Souldier thou art and his Wages thou must look to receive for if thou livest in Sin and Wickedness thou art a Servant to Sin and the Wages of Sin thou must expect to receive and the Wages of Sin is Death therefore it were good for thee to ponder the thing wisely lest thou bring thy Destruction upon thy self
therefore am I out of the Tenderness of my Soul and in bowels of Compassion towards thee moved to warn thee and to advise thee in dear and tender Love to the oppressed Seed in thee which groans to be set at Liberty Now the Desire of my Heart is that thou shouldst awake out of death and come unto CHRIST the LIGHT that he may give thee Life and to cast off every weight and burden and the Sins that so eaâ—â—ly beset thee and that thou shouldst put off the Armour of darkness and put on the Armour of light for assuredly there is nothing that makes a Separation between thee and thy God but Sin but now herein stands the wonderful Love of God towards the fallen Sons and Daughters of Men who were dead in Sins and Trespasses and altogether in Darkness without any Means or Hope of Recovery in themselves now the Lord beholding poor distressed man in this State whereinto the Prince of Darkness hath captivated him out of the Tenderness of his Compassion unto the poor distressed Sons and Daughters of men he gave his only begotten Son into the World for a Light and to every man and woman which is born upon the Face of the whole Earth hath the Lord in mercy given a measure of this true Light which hath enlightned every one which cometh into the World in which Light standeth the Power of God and in this Light man comes to see his Sins and to see the Deceit of his own Heart which otherwise he could not have seen and though thou art unacquainted with it yet that is it that lets thee see the actings of the Prince of Darkness in thee for if he plotteth in thee any mischievous Intents whereby to destroy any man's Person or Estate and so endeavours to make thee an Instrument whereby he may do it secretly in the dark and although no Eye of man can see thee nor see his secret acting in thee yet this Light will follow thee and discover his subtil Delusions unto thee and make him many times appear odious unto thee and calls thee and invites thee from following of him and many times brings Fearfulness and Dread upon thee for thy wicked Actions now this is that that would redeem thee out of Sin which saves all them that believe in and follow the Son of God the true Light of the World out of Sin and Death which is the Wages thereof Now it is but vain for thee or any other to call Christ thy Redeemer and thy Saviour and to say that thou hopest to be saved by Christ after thy Death because he was crucified at Jerusalem sixteen Hundred years ago and yet thou livest in Sin and Wickedness in Pride and Vain-Glory of this world which passeth away as a Vapour of the Night afore the Morning Sun but for all this let me tell thee plainly without Deceit nevertheless for all thy high Conceits of thy self and for all thy vain Hopes and thy feigned Faith thy Hope is the Hope of the Hypocrite which will perish in the time of Trial and thy feigned Faith cannot give thee victory over the world therefore if ever thou comest to witness Redemption to thy Soul thou must witness Christ's Death to kill Sin in thy mortal Body and thou must witness his Resurrection in thee And as for his Sufferings at Jerusalem I own according to the Declaration of the Scriptures but thou must witness him nearer to thee then at Jerusalem if ever thou witness him to be thy Redeemer and the Salvation of thy Soul Now let me reason with thee a little in Coolness and Moderation if Christ be thy Redeemer what is it that he hath redeemed thee out of seeing thou yet livest in Sin and in the Polutions of the World And if he be thy Saviour what hath he saved thee from seeing thou art yet in Bondage to Sin and Iniquity Therefore the sting of death is not yet taken away while Sin remains so thou canst not call him thy Redeemer in Truth and Righteousness unless thou couldst witness him to have redeemed thee out of sin and transgression and thou dost but deceive thy self to call him thy Saviour unless that thou couldst witness that he did save thee out of temptations when they arise in thee from thy own Lusts and so from Sin which they bring forth and from Death which is the Wages thereof Now as the first Nature hath reigned which is of the Earth earthly in all mankind which is the first Adam over whom Sin came to have the Dominion whereby Death came to reign over all Mankind in that nature so now as the Children of men come to be begotten into Christ the Second Adam and so born of the new Birth of Righteousness they come to know what the Immortal Seed is whereunto the Promises are Yea and Amen and come to witness Christ to be the Redeemer and Saviour in Deed and in Truth and that his Cross in them is the Power of God unto Salvation and they see as they abide faithful in that which crosses their own fleshly wills therein they come to see the power of God and as they stand stedfastly faithful in it they come to see the Power of Light in them which is far stronger then the Powers of Darkness for they come to see Victory in it over the Devil all his subtil Delusions and over the Flesh and all its Lusts and over the World and all the Vanities thereof and as they abide in this Power which is CHRIST the Light of the World and the Power of God unto Salvation and as they follow him faithfully through all Sufferings and all the Hatred and Malice which arises against them in the Children of Darkness they will come to see him to trample down all his Enemies in them and make them his Footstool but as any man or woman goes out of the Cross wherein standeth God's Power and let their own wills rule in them then they go into the Power of the Prince of the Air which ruleth in the Children of Disobedience whose Dominion wholely standeth in man's corrupt and carnal will and then he leads them captive at his own Pleasure and so as they stand in his Dominion Sin comes to have Power over such in all his Motions and then comes in Complainings and Murmurings against the Lord who made them and so they come to cry out for want of Power and because they cannot have power and victory over Sin in their own wills and in their own time which is the very Ground wherein the Power of Sin standeth then when they see they cannot have Power over Sin there which is impossible for any to attain to unless they come out of the Power of their own will into that Power which crosseth it then they come to plead for Sin in themselves then they not having Power over it there they inform all others that they can never have Power over Sin nor be set free from
whom he hath ordained to sound forth his Mighty Day in the Ears of all Flesh that so all may awake out of the Dust and come to Judgment for now is he risen and arising in all Hearts who sits upon the Throne from before whose Face both the Heavens and the Earth shall flee away and their place shall be no more found And this is he that has long been waited for by many a tender Heart and longing Soul but now is he come and coming and behold his Reward is with him therefore blessed are they that patiently wait for the Day of his Appearance who will wipe away tears from all Faces and Sorrow and Sighing shall be no more then shall all Tyranny and Oppression be destroyed and then shall Peace be establisht in the Earth and Love and Unity among Men even thus shall it be when Sion's King shall come to Reign in Glory for then the Beast and the False Prophet which have long ruled the Nations and deceived those that have dwelt in the Earth and compelled people to worship and bow down to their Abominations and to receive the Mark of the Beast in their Right Hands or in thâ—ir Foreheads even the Mark of Sin and Transgression that Monstrous Beast whose Mark hath long been upon the Nations without which Mark no man hath bought or sold for these many Generations and they that would not receive that Mark came to be slain But now Praises be unto the Lord he hath brought forth many who cannot worship Man's Proud Will that Monstrous Beast neither can they receive his Mark any longer for their Father's Name is written in their Foreheads and they are come forth of great Tribulation and their Garments are washed white in the Blood of the Lamb and these follow the Lamb of God who is now come to take away the Sins of the World whither soever he goeth even Christ Jesus who is the Light of the World who hath enlightned every one that is come into the World with a measure of his true Light Therefore dear Friends you that are obedient to the Light and own it to be your Rule and Guide you are they whom the Lord hath chosen to place his Name in for whose sakes the Lord is now risen to plead with Egypt's King and all his Host and though they now harden their Hearts as an Adamant and bend their Brows as Brass stiffen their Necks as an Iron Sinnew yet will the Lord God bring them low even unto the Dust in this his great Day wherein his Jealousie is broken forth against all Flesh because they have corrupted their Wayes and have not turned at his Reproof but have cast his Judgments behind their Backs and turned his Grace that hath appeared unto thâ—m into Wantonness and trampled the Blood of the Covenant under their Feet but as it was in the dayes of old so will it be now in this latter Generation when Iniquity was at the height and Oppression did most abound in Egypt upon the Hebrews who was the Fleshly Seed of Abraham then did the Lord arise to plead their Cause who brought Judgments and Plagues upon the Land of Egypt and destroyed Pharaoh Egypt's King with all the First-born and all his Mighty Host so likewise Sodom when Iniquities were at the very height and their Sins did greatly abound then did the Lord's Wrath suddenly break forth upon them as soon as Just Lot was put forth from amongst them even in Flames of Fire from Heaven and devoured them so likewise dear Friends you that sigh and cry for the Abominations that are done in the midst of the Earth let not your Hearts faint for behold he that is clothed in Linnen fine and white which is the Righteousness of him that sanctifieth and of them that are sanctified for he that sanctifieth and them that are sanctified are all one He is gone forth to seal and to set a Mark on all your Foreheads that sigh and that cry at the Abominations which are committed by him that makes desolate that sitteth where he ought not and after he hath sealed you all even unto Redemption then shall them that have the charge over the Earth draw near every one with his Slaughter Weapon in his Hand and shall follow after him that has sealed you shall smite and shall not spare neither shall their Eye take pity but they shall utterly slay Old Young both Maid little Children and Women but you upon whom the Mark is they shall not come near him that readeth let him understand for the Lord is risen and he will smite the Earth with a great Slaughter and all Flesh shall know that he is the Lord and that he ruleth over the Kingdoms of men and he will utterly destroy that Nature that hath oppressed his pure Seed in you and in all the Sons and Daughters of Men and his own Seed shall come forth to serve him in Righteousness and true Holiness and though the Whore the Beast and the False Prophet have long born rule over the Heritage of the Lord yet now is the time drawing near when they shall be taken and bound and cast into the Lake which is prepared for them even for that Nature which would not have the Lord nor his Christ to reign over them under that may all the Enemies of the Lord be justly included and that is it which ruleth in the rebellious Sons and Daughters of Men which carrieth them forth into Pride Envy and High-mindedness one towards another and into Disobedience to the Lord and his pure Commands and this is it which the Lord is risen to destroy and not the Creatures for Christ came not to destroy Men's Lives but to save them therefore where-ever thou readest any thing of Destruction it is not meant the Destruction of the Creature or of his Natural Life but the Destruction of that Life in the Creature which rebelleth against the Lord which Life may truly be called Death for if that be followed by the Creature it will be the Death of the Immortal Soul and this is him which the Lord is risen to destroy and not the Creatures therefore saith Christ Jesus O Death I will be thy Death O Grave I will be thy Destruction So Friends this is the Enemy that you are to wait with Patience to see it destroyed in your own Particulars first and then aftewards that you may see it destroyed in others in the general and blessed happy are all you who have witnessed the Dead raised which hath long lain in the Grave under the Chains of Death and can now truly witness your Part in the first Resurrection and that you are truly risen with Christ the Seed for over you the second Death shall have no Power And you Friends that are as yet brought but in part to the Knowledge of these things be still and quiet in your Minds and beware of feeding upon Knowledge which is out of the Life for Knowledge will puff up but it is Grace that edifies therefore wait in the pure Patience that you may feel the Life to stir in you for that is the True Bread that comes down from Heaven which Bread is the Soul's Food for the Soul cannot be satisfied with Knowledge for to Know the Truth and the Things of God and not to live in them therein standeth the Condemnation Therefore dear Friends to whose Hands this may come wait that you may feel the Life which will bring forth the Travails of your Souls and then Knowledge will be encreased and Truth will abound and Eternal Peace and Happiness will attend you wheresoever you go and the Dread and Authority of the Lord will be with you at all Times Seasons as it has been a Dread and a Terror to that Nature in you which rebelled against the Lord whilst you were in the Polutions so likewise if you are faithful the Lord will make you a Dread and a Terror to all Evil-doers wheresoever you come they will be afraid of your Faces and afraid to trasngress against the Lord in your hearing and these things I know that many Thousands can witness to be Truth and all that are faithful shall witness the same and see it accomplished in the Lord 's due time unto whom be Eternal Praises and Dominion given by all that fear him for that he has brought this his wonderful Work to pass and hath revealed his Secrets even to Babes and to such as fear his Name Given forth by one which hath long mourned in Sion and is a Sufferer with the Seed who waiteth for the Redemption of all Creatures from under the Band of Corruption that they may all be brought unto the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God known to many by the Name of Richard Moore THE END