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A54806	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 comsumtion, ruin & utter destruction of the dragon's, beast's & fals profet's power, with the waters on which the whôr sits, & the sea out of which the beast arôs in Christendom. ... Being the trumpet of the Lord sounded forth which giveth a most sûr & certain sound to Leopold the present Roman Emperor, & to the present Pop of Rôm, ... I John, the servant of the most hy God, ... being a prisoner, (with my companions in travel) at a plâs caled Great Gomara, on a certain ysland in Hungaria, ... The living, eternal, & pur power of God moved in me, & revealed unto me that I should wryt, ...	Philly, John.; N. Y. Corrector to the reader, concerning the orthografy or spel-ing herein us'd. aut	1664 (1664)	Wing P2127; ESTC R220433	104,628	110

of the Erth for its possession rul them with a rod of iron al its enemys becom its footstool that as a ston cut out of the mountain without hands it should smyt the Imag ' to wit the Powers of sin darknes in the feet therof so that the Yron Clay Silver Gold therof to wit al the strength Glory of the Power Kingdom of Darknes from the foundation to the Top ston in that cursed building shal be broken to pieces together becom as chaf which the wynd carrieth away that the ston should becom a great mountain fil the whol Erth And the Dominion of sin transgression shal be finished an end put therunto everlasting Ryteosnes be raised up established in Man Kynd they in it that as in Adam al dyed so in Christ the seed al shal be mâd alyv as sin hath reined unto Deth so Grâs shal Rein throuh Ryteosnes the seed unto everlasting lyf John in the Spirit of Profesy heard him that sat on the Thrôn say Behold I mak al things new saw the new Hevens the new Erth wherin ryteosnes dweleth the Holy City the new Jerusalem into which nothing that defyleth or worketh abomination can enter or that maketh a ly but they who ar writen in the Lambs Book of Lyf wherby was for shewn The restoration of the seed Christ in mâl and femâl of them in it to that pur Dominion Glory which he had with the Father in Man-kynd Man-kynd in him befôr the foundation of the World which lyeth in wikednes began The promis fulfild in the hed many members a strong ground of Hôp II. Secondly he hath alredy in mesûr mád thos promises Covenant good performed it to in som to wit in Christ Jesus that Lamb of God who was the first begoten from the Ded the Hed of the Body the Church in whom the Eternal Word of Lyf the Seed of God slain from the foandation of the World which lyeth in wikednes was brouht forth in its Holy Pur perfect Estat of innocency in whom the old Serpent the Divel the Tempter found no Plas who pased the tym of his sojourning heer on Erth in that mortal body in the pur fear lyt lyf Wisdom Power of God his Father faithfully finishing the work given him by the Father to do in the sam Eternal pur Spirit offered up himself again unto God without spot returned into the Bosom of the Eternal Father fountain of lyf from whens he câm proceeded As also dyvers of the Saints and Holy Men of God by and throuh a participation of the Sam Eternal pur fulnes of God which dwelt in him wer turned from the darknes to the lyt from the Power of Sathan to the Power of God and witnesed Salvation from sin and had learned to deny al ungodlynes worldly lusts and to liv soberly Ryteosly holyly in this present World wer clensed from al filthines of flesh and Spirit and had overcom the wiked ón wer mâd free from sin becom the Servants of Ryteosnes risen with Christ siting together in hevenly plases in Christ Jesus and wer com to the new Jerusalem to Mount Syon the city of the living God to the innumerabel Company of Angels the general Assembly Church of the first born to God the Judg of al and to the Spirits of just men mâd perfect in them III. Thirdly Becaus the sâm Eternal Power which hath acomplished it in the hed Som of the members The Power of God sufficient to perfect the rest is abel to acomplish the sâm in every member according to it's plâs throuhout the whol body being abel to sav to the uttermost al that com to God in him who is abel to work so as non shal hinder for Heven and Erth shal pas and now is pasing away but not ôn Jot or tittel of al that he hath spoken or promised shal fal to the ground unfulfiled IIII. Fourthly The Day is now com in which an end to the World which lyeth in wikednes shal be put the Kingdom of darknes sin and transgression finished and the pur and everlasting Ryteosnes of God to wit Christ in mâl and femâl be mád manifest in and throuh mankynd and mankynd in it reconcyled to God and to ón another in the ever lasting Covenant of lyf never mor to be forgoten in which the whol creation shal hav deliverans from the bondag of corruption in to the glorios liberty of the Sons of God The grou●d of al outward Rul ordinanses in Church stat declared And as concerning al Rûl Dominion Authority Power whatsoever that hath bin or shal be exercysed in throuh man over others wirh al the Ordinanses Appointments of God in the Church The ground of the Rys Manifestation Administration Continuans of them al was is mans transgression in sining departing from the Lord the lyt Spirit power of God in the inward parts And mans Restoration redemtion from sin transgression returning again unto the Lord in obediens to the lyt Spirit The most universal gathering greatest glory to be after the Apostacy and power of God in the inward parts puteth an end unto them al. But according as it was fôrseen fôrtold by the Spirit of Christ in the Holy Apostels a faling away Apostacy from the tru Christian faith lyf should com that the most spreding manifestation of the most Excelent glory day of the Lord the most universal gathering into him was not to com except ther cam ' first a faling away the Man of sin revealed and Holy Paul in his Advys to the over seers of the flok told them that after his departur greevos wolvs would enter in amongst them not sparing the flok that from among themselvs should men arys speaking pervers things to draw Discypels after them further said that the Mistery of Iniquity did then already begin to work John in his Epistel advyseth them to whom he wrot to try the Spirits not to beleev every Spirit becaus many fals Profets wer then gon out into the World The ●ôp confesseth that the Christ cam in that on body of flesh saying that every Spirit that confesseth not that Iesus Christ is com into the flesh is not of God that was the Spirit of Antichrist of which they had heard that it should com said then that it was already com into the VVorld that they went out from Among themselvs And so it was that the seed of the Serpent having found Plâs in som beguyling them as of old he did Eva drawing their mynds from the simplicity of the Spirit of Christ in them leading them out into the World Inclyning their hearts after outward visibel things it ceased not working even in a mystery of

and spirit of gràs in them but obey unryteosnes indignation wrath and tribulation on every soul of Man-kynd that doth evil the wrath of God is novv revealed and revealing from heven in and throuh his Peepel against al unryteosnes of men the Lord even the Lord himself is novv descended from heven vvith a shout the voys of the-arch angel is heard the trumpet of God is sounded and sounding and the ded in Christ ar in mesur risen shal dayly mor and mor arys in throuh and over al yea he is even com coming as a thief in the nyt and althô Peas Settelmen and sàfty hath bin looked for and expected yet even novv sudden and unvoydabel destruction is com and coming over al the workers of Iniquity as travel upon a woman with chyld and they cannot escap The Lord Jesus Christ the great shepherd Bishop of the soul is com and coming into him must the gathering of the Peepel be The Man of sin is now revealed revealing even the Son of perdition he that hath doth and yet for avery littel season wil let is in mesur alredy dayly mor and mor shal be taken out of the way even that cursed spirit and Power the seed of the old Serpent which in thee O Christendom hath taken rooting and grown up into a mystery of iniquity even a strong man of sin armed with the dragons or military Power in thy wariors Rulers teachers Peepel which hath rendred thee to be the Dragon Beast fals Profet great whor and mother of harlots and abominations of the Erth and thy Peepel to be the waters on which the whor sits and the sea out of which the beast aros according as it was revealed declared in by Iohn the servant of the Lord recorded in the book of his Prophesy vvhich spirit Power mystery of iniquity and Man of Sin the Lord in mesur alredy hath dayly now mor and mor shal consum with the spirit of his mouth by the brytnes of his coming in his peepel utterly destroy The Prophesy of Enoch the seventh from Adam is now in mesur fulfiled and dayyl mor and mor fulfiling for behold the Lord is now in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear in ten thousands of his saints in mesur alredy hath and dayly mor and mor shal execut Judgment upon al and convins al of al their ungodly deeds which they hav commited of al the hard speeches cruel dealings unmerciful bloudy Kilings murderings which ungodly siners hav spoken and don against and upon him spiritually in his holy innocent and harmles Peepel who ar the spiritual body vvherof he in them is the hed even the tru imag glory and fulnes of him who created fileth and upholdeth al things visibel invisibel by the eternal word of his Pûr Power vvho vvas befor al things and is and is to com the Alpha O Mega the beginining the end of al the works of God the first the last even the lyon of the tryb of Iuda the root offpring of David that hath the seven spirits of God the key of David and of the bottomles Pit also that openeth so as non can shut and shuteth so as non can open the lamb standing in the midst of the Thrôn of the four beasts elders as slain who hath prevailed to open the book sealéd with seven seals hath taken the book out of the Ryt hand of him that siteth on the thron hath opene wel ny al the seals in their order which neither the learned or unlearned in thy hevens nor in thy Erth nor under thy Erth o Christendom wer abel or found worthy to open loos or look ther on four of which seals comprehend the appearans of that lamb of God manifest in the flesh conceived born of the virgin Mary throuh the oversha●owing of the Pur Power spirit from on hy who in his holy harmles undefyled innocent Pur conversation as on a whyt hors went forth conquering and to conquer and the taking plas of the seed of the Serpent that cursed spirit of apostacy and faling away with its growth and fulnes in the Dragon 's Beast's fals Prophets Power spirit in thee O Christendom til he becam the lamb spiritualy slain in thee vvho art novv becom spiritual Sodom and Egypt signifyed by the Red Blak Pâl horses And the three last Seals Trumpets Vyals comprehend his second appearans in his Peepel vvithout sin unto salvation in throuh the britnes of his coming in them revealing consuming utterly destroying the Man of sin bringing in establishing his ovvn Eternal pur lyf everlasting ryteosnes in Man kynd them in it which is the spiritual body which with the whol creation is God manifest in the flesh the visibel or sensibel part wherof to wit of the whol creation is the natural body of the Lord the Body of Christ the flesh wherof is given for the lyf of the world which al who truly discern eat drink therof in remembrans of him abyding in that which giveth preserveth in the tru discerning but such as go from that eat drink therof in their own time wils to the satisfaction of the Carnal Inordinat desyrs of the flesh the mynd heerby weaknes siknes deth taketh hold on many to the grieving wounding som tyms to the destruction of their beings both in the natural Spiritual body so that to in such the tabel of the Lord becoms a snár a gin a trap not eating drinking in remembrans of Christ not the Communion of the body bloud of the Lord not the bred cup of blesing but a curs even the tabel of divels not the chearing refreshing of God man but the norishing of the Brambel natur whos natur work is to consum devour destroy it s the poor needy the hungry thirsty soul which the Lord fils satisfyeth with good things even with his blesing both to the outward Inward man but the Rich the ful he sendeth emty away even with a curs And althô the Kingdom the Power of God hath and stil doth suffer vyolens both in the natural and spiritual body yet so it ouht not to be but al both in the natural and Spiritual body ouht to be subject to the motions of the eternal quickening Power to rest and may in it in al things without offering fo rs or vyolens therunto which is Christ the Lord that quikening Spirit in mâl and femal not only in mankynd but to in every cretur therfor the charg was stil is unto the dauhters of Jerusalem that they stir not up or awak the beloved til he pleas which is the dayly Cros of Christ to the carnal mynd but the lyt sweet Plesant and easy yaok and burden of Christ to the spiritual

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

iniquity covered over with outward shews pretenses of Christianity Holynes even in the Elders teachers leaders of the flok til at length from throuh them that cursed seed spred it self as evil leven throuhout the whôl lump becâm a Man of sin opposing and exalting himself abov the pûr seed of God in Man-kynd siting ther as God in the Tempel of God And from this cursed root of biternes hath sprang an evil tree whos Branches hav over spred al Christendom bringing forth the evil fruits of Covetosnes Pryd Oppression Cruelty Idolatry VVars Divisions Persecution sheding the Bloud of the Innocent Murdering the harmles Saints of Iesus by many Cruel Antichristian Vnmercyful Inhuman Torturings Rackings D●ths by Hanging Burning with dyvers other open secret ways of Cruelty Murder under a cursed fals pretens of their being Heritics and lykwys the Apostel Peter whos Successor the Pôp of Rôm falsly pretends to be saw this also taking root in the Elders Lording preaching for filthy Luker of as great antiquity as any other part of Popish faith or a practis teachers that even a Spirit of Covetosnes Pryd Lordlynes was taking root in them therfor exhorted warned them in his Epistel saying thus the Elders which âr amongst you I exhort who am also an Elder a vvitnes of the sufferings of Christ a partaker of the Glory that shal be revealed feed the flok of God which is amongst you taking the oversyt therof not by constraint but wilingly not for filthy Luker but of a redy mynd not as Lords over Gods heritag ' but as good exampels to the flok In this Spirit sprang up al thôs invented Nams Orders Garbs Manners of habits of the Póps Cardinals Fryars Monks Capuchins Nuns c. And the voluntary humility pretended vows of poverty chastity and seperation from the World imitated devotion Worshiping of Angels intruding into things which they hav not seen the Doctrin of Devils spekinglys in H●pocrisy of a Purgatory to purg ' Peepl from sin after they ar Ded forbiding Meats and Marriages which God had ordained in his own fear Wisdom to be enjoyed without respect ether to Tym or Persons injoyning the Observation of Days Tyms Months Years imposing their own corrupt Inventions Traditions upon the Peepl for Doctrin The faith of Devils and from this Root sprang the faith of Devils in an Imaginary God without them and at a distans from them abov the skys comprehended in three Persons and of a Resurrection of their Carkases with the Carkases of al others that hav bin sins man was created an Imaginary expectation of Christ to com in the sâm body os flesh in which he suffered Deth without the gàts of Jerusalem out of the visibel hevens upon the material Clouds to Judgments of a heven to the injoyed after they ar Ded above the skys and an Imaginary hel or plâs of torment for the wiked after they are Ded with material fyr brimston of al which they cannot giv ether themselvs or others a Rational Account from this Root sprang the tabel of Devils to wit eating the tabe● of Divls drinking to exces Ryot to the raising norishing of that Spirit in man which is enmity against God leads in to al the ways of Deceit Covetosnes Pryd lust Cruelty unryteosnes which ar the Spirits of Devils in al manner of the cursed fruits of the works of sin darknes throuhout Christendom among al sorts Hy Low Rich Poor Rulers the Fellowship of Devils what VVariors Teachers Peepl which cursed seed evil leven took plàs Rooting in many in the Apostels days and they seeing feeling the working therof did according to the wisdom of the Spirit of Christ in them wryt concerning the sàm to the end that such as wer wavering myt be established in truth that such as wer gon astray myt be brouht bak and that such as did wilfuly persist in ways of Apostacy myt be left without excus that a testimony myt be left upon record unto succeeding ages to stay comfort such as should suffer for truths sàk at the hands of thos that were faln under the Spirit of Apostacy and that at the appearans of Christ in his Peepl now màd manifest in the brytnes of his coming to Reveal Consum Destroy the Man of sin The recorded Testimony of the Profets Christ the Apostels migt be prodused as A trù Witnes or Testimony against the spirit of Apostacy warning thos to whom they wrot Not to be beguyled of their Reward or Spoyled by vain Philososij voluntary humility Or worshiping of Angels for al performanses what soever which are don Only in the wil of Man or Imitation of others ar nether acceptabel to God nor truly profitabel to man The worsshiping of Angels what Which worship of Angels is the Creaturs being exalted in its self becaus of the Operation of the Power Or gift of God in throuh it or to lift up Or exalt Others becaus of the Eminent operation of the Power Or gift of God in throuh them The Operation of which Power Or gift of God is an Angel of God in Mál femál which things wer taking Root Amongst them the strong despysing the weak the weak judging the strong Others making partys lifting up of Instruments ón abov against another som saying they wer for Paul Others for Apollo Others for Cephas Others boasting in others lyns of things mád up to their hands intruding into things which they had not seen wher as the Apostels said That which they declared was that which they had seen tasted handled of the word of lyf And the grás ' of God had tauht them not in shew or desaitful hypocritical profession but in truth of Practis to deny al ungodlynes and vvorldly lusts and to liv soberly Ryteosly in this present vvorld vvhich vvas and is the tru Purgatory vvhich they held The tru Purgatory is the clensing vertu of the bloud or lyf of Christ even the Bloud the Pur spirit of Christ in them vvhich purged clensed them from al filthynes of flesh and spirit whyl they wer living in the Body wherby they vver presented in Body soul spirit blamles with out spot befor God befor his thron Affirming that ther is nether vvork Knowledg Or vvisdom in the grav that as every tree fals so it lys as Deth leavs so Judgment fynds al and as concerning meats and drinks observation of Days tyms Marriages the Apostels advysed not to Judg ón-another in thos things and that the strong should bear with the weak not to pleas them selvs but when he wrot to such as had seen beyond thos things wer Apostatysing and faling bak again into thos begerly Rudiments he reproved them sharply saying that the Kingdom of God

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 fàs 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 màd 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 màd 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 prea●hing or to defend them in their Doct●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 eve●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

caused to be màd a multitud of abominabel Idolatros images and ydols in their and your spiritual adulteros abominabel blasphemos and idolatros hearts and mynds to represent God Christ the spirit angels and saints màd of gold silver bras yron wood and ston after the manner of the ignorant and idolatros heathen of old which they and you hav caused to be set up in your hyh ways Markets Streets Courts of judicatur and plases of your idolatros vvorship and set up and hang in your houses and carry about you throuhout Christendom filing the land with ydols and picturs and abominabel images of jelosy ther by grievosly provoking the just and ryteos Lord God omnipotent to caus his fiers vvrath indignation and jelosy to smoak burn against you having worshiped the works of your own hands even that which your fingers hav mâd the mean Man hath bowed down even Mâl Femâl Rich Poor Bond Free Smal Great and yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers great ôns hav Debased your selvs beforthem THERFOR WIL I NOT FOR GIV OR SPAR YOU saith THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT And yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom and your predecessors having forgoten turned your baks upon and becom Ignorant of the God that formed you and raised you up in whos hand at whos dispos your breth lyvs dominons ar it hath rendred both them and you voyd of that nobel Spirit of tru wisdom counsel gravity Prudens vertu holynes which appeared ons in som of your predecessors rendring them famos terribel dredful to their enemys abroad their Goverment lovly desyrabel at hom among the several Nations tongu's and languages under their subjection They you becam stil remain lyk Cruel Uunatural bruit-beasts or evening wolvs turning that sword which ons rendred them dredful terribel to their enemys unto their own bowels therwith by wars division stryf contentions murdering kiling and destroying on Another in the wikednes pryd stoutnes of their your ambitios hearts mynds quarreling ôn with another about Erthly dominions greatnes and preheminens emty blasphemos Antichristian Nâms tytels of worldly Antichristian and Spiritually wiked Honor Dominion to wit Master worshipful Hy Myty Lords Stâts General most Illustrios Nobel Vertuos Honorabel Excelent Sereen Earls Duks Lord Protectors Prinses Kings most invincibel Emperors Cardinals Eminency Archbishops Bishops Grâs Ryht Reverend Fathers in God common Priests Reverend Divyns c. with the Pôps Holynes al the other Nâms Tytels assumed in the Military Civil Ecelestastical Powers so caled which ar not of Christ but cam out of the bottomles pit ar Erthly sensual Devilish into the Lâk of Gods most Just Ryteos Dredful wrath vengeans Plagu's Indignation must that Power Spirit be cast in which yee now stand by which ye ar acted Yee hav not learned of Christ to lov ôn another who said to Peter put up thy sword into its plas for al that ták the sword must perish by the sword and heer by both yee and your goverment ar rendred odios yea even most intolerably burdensom cruel and opresing in the syt of God and in the hearts of the Peepel over whom yee rul lading them with Burdens taxes oppresions labor Sôr travels in bloud wars on against another And althô yee cal your goverment The Holy Roman Empyr the Pop blasphemosly his holynes and the Rest of that spiritual Babylonian Antichristian crew holy Bishops patrons Fathers of holy Church so caled and profes your selvs to be Christian Emperos Kings Prinses Rulers and Peepel yet ar yee found voyd of the tru Christian Spirit lyf bav not learned of Christ nether ar found in his nor the tru Christians ways practises who said lov your enemys bles them that Curs you do good to them that hât you pray for them that persecut you despytfully ûs you be not overcom of evil but over com evil by doing good But yee hav bin môr barbaros stil ar mor cruel to your Enemys then any that ever I hav heard seen or red of causing them to be with Yrons ôn their legs lyk horses nyt day and their hands in Yrons chaining them by the neks lyk dogs to a post or wal with their feet in the stoks lying on the ground with litel under them cruelly torturing their bodys to fo rs them to confes and tel what ther outward estats ar or what rich abel friends they hav ther by to procur great sums of mony for their ransoms causing them to work dayly with thos Yrons upon their legs provyding no cloths for them allowing them only water to drink and hardly bred enuf of the courser sort to fustain their outward man yea causing som of them to work without allovving them ether bred or mony hardly permiting them to fetch good water or go to such as pased by them wher they wer at work to beg buying seling them ôn to another as slavs lyk beasts for mony according to what was of old forseen fortold by the Spirit of prophesy in John the faithful witnes of Jesus recorded in the Scripturs of truth of al which Inhuman antichristian cursed and cruel dealings my self and companion in travel hav bin not only Ey and ear witneses but also in mesur hav gon throuh suffered and sustained So that this seed of the serpent even that cursed Spirit of apostacy and faling away from the tru Christian Spirit purfaith lyf having taken root in your predecessors it hath continued in its cursed operations fruits working in you to this very day and hens it hath com to pas that tru wisdom is Perished from thy anients good wholsom counsel is not to be found among the honorabel ôns and insted of governing the Peepel in truth peas and ryteosnes behold on al hands a grievos cry of vyolens spoyl oppression insted of unity and concord behold stryf debat rumors of cruel and dredful wars on al hands And not having Christ to be your hed Bishop King Priest Counseler Lawgiver and horn of your salvation yee ar becom broken to Pieces and divyded under dyvers heds Bishops Kings Blasphemos nams heaps and horns pushing stryving contending and waring ôn against another in bloud and cruelty wherby whol Christendom hath bin mâd an Akeldama or field of bloud even a plâs not of kyndnes and good entertainment but of cruelty and Murder and to bury strangers in even Christ the tru and Ryt heryr and Lord of al who hath bin long as a stranger in the Erth as driven out of his possession but now com to demand recover posses his inheritans which is the purchas of your denying betraying and Spiritually Murdering and Crucifying the Lord of lyf and glory And thy Peepel O Christendom being Ignorant of Christ vvho vvas given of the

God in by and throuh that Erthen vessel non hav any profit or benifit therby but only such who com into a participation of the sam eternal lyf and purfulnes of God in them selvs which was in him The next stal is their Altars or communion tabels vvher they administer an invenrion of their own brains vvhich they cal the Sacrament of the Altar or communion or the Lords supper in vvhich they mak ûs of bred wyn vvhich after the Priest hath said his Charm of Sorcery and witchcraft over cald consecration they affirm that the substans of the bred wyn is departed that their remaineth nouht but Accidents and that under thos Accidents is the Sàm body bloud of Christ vvhich vvas shed crucifyed on à cros vvithout the gats of Jerusalem being ignorant that the substans not only of bred vvyn but of every cretur is no other then the only living tru Lord God so that by their own confession that vvhich they receiv in their Sacrament is only Accidents without substans and verily as to them so it is for they feed on ashes a deceived heart hath turned them asyd Others ther ar who thô they hav not such a heap of lys and ceremonys about the administration of it yet ar they in it acted by the Sâm spirit in the ground althô they affirm not that it is the sàm body in which the Son of God suffered deth without the gats of Ierusalem yet after they hav said their charm cald blesing the bred they look on it as somwhat mor then it was but what they cannot wel say caling it a supper when many of them receiv it befor they hav eaten their own dinners affirming it to be the communion of the body bloud of Christ when as to them its only a Tabel of such as eat drink unworthily they not discerning the Lords body so becom guilty of the body bloud of the Lord. Wheras Christ Iesus in the s●m nyt in which he was betrayed took bred blesed it brak it gav it to his discypels saying tak eat this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrans of me and lykwys the Cup saying this is the new Testament in my bloud which is shed for many and this was befor he had suffered deth in that body throuh which he spak unto them mark that and the Apostel said that the bred which they brak was the communion of the body of Christ and the cup of blesing which they blesed was the communion of the bloud of Christ and that so often as they did eat of that bread he said not ons a week month or year but so often as they did eat drink therof they did shew forth the Lords deth til he cam to wit his deth in the creturs received in the tru hunger thirst of the tru discerning and worthy receiver til he appear in the vertu of his own lyf blesing and lov in and throuh the creturs received to norish and refresh the sam in every tru discerning and worthy receiver for it is no other then the lyf of God which tasteth deth in ôn Cretur to refresh norish uphold the sá m in another herin he tasteth deth for every man is the savior of man beast which is the word of his eternal wisdom Power by which he upholdeth al things That which norisheth and refresheth and that which is Norished and refreshed is ôn in every tru discerning and worthy receiver as he that sanctifyeth and they who ar sanctifyed ar of ôn The other stals ar their Desks pulpits wher in sted of speaking as the orakel of God preaching the everlasting gospel according as they hav seen felt tasted experiensed in them selvs and praying as the Pur spirit of the Lord giveth utterans they utter forth the imaginations of their own brains filing the ears of the Peepel with ●abels storys of lying syns and wonders gathered out of the wrytings books of such whom they cal antient Fathers Poets hathen Philosophers Commentators with their own imaginations from the scripturs perverting them to their own others destruction intruding into things which they hav not seen using som words of Hebrew Greek Latin somtyms in their preaching in imitation of thos tongu's which wer ons appearing as a gift in amongst the Apostels for a syn unto them which beleeved not that so as the speaking in dyvers tongu's languages becam ons a divyding and confounding curs amongst the builders of Babel in the fal so to and in the Apostels it becam a gift of God or syn to such as beleeved not that they myt be brouht again out of the curs out of the many tongu's and languages to learn and speak the ôn pur languag ' And in sted of praying by the motion and help of the pur Power and Spirit of the Lord in them which is the only Advocat vvith the Father who eyer livs to mak intercession in and for the Saints according to the wil of God they read utter forth many vain repetitions which they cal Masses Ave Marys Pater nosters Creeds Common Prayers out of their divyn Servis books Directorys c. With the blynd dark conceptions of their own hearts brayns caled Extemporary Prayers thinking as their predecessors fór fathers the Scrybs Pharisees Hypocryts of old to be heard for their much babbeling in sted of singing in the Spirit making sweet melody to the Lord in their hearts they hav several sorts of Music with singing men boys to mak a noys after the manner of the hethen of old when they sacrifysed their children throuh the fyr unto devils Others ther ar who sing and caus others to sing the saints words and conditions in rym or meeter many of them being ignorant that therin they do evil offering the sacrifys of fools For for any ôn or mor together to sing as prayses unto God in the vvords of the saints or Profets left upon record and say that God is their Ryteosnes and that he hath pluked their ●eet out of the myer set them on the Rok established their goings or that ther is no rest in their bôns by reason of their sins that they water their couch with their tears their skin is as a bottel in the smoak or that the law of Gods mouth is dearer to them then thousands of Gold and Silver Sweeter then the hony or the hony comb as a Lanthorn to their feet lyt unto their Paths their ey not lofty nor their heart hauhty but that their souls ar as weaned children c. VVhen they ar such as liv in vanity Pryd and mâk a scorn and a derision of such as vvalk in the lyt mak the eternal word or spirit of the Lord in them their guyd leader and teacher and mak it

vvalked the Iews of old said they vver the children of Abraham but they being found in vvays of deceit hypocrisy Oppression Idolatry persecution and murdering the Innocent saints and holy profets of the Lord Christ told them they vver children of their father the Devil being found doing his vvorks so that if yee be found commiting of sin and not vvalking as Christ vvalked and guilty of thôs evil practises vvhich the Jevvs vver then ar yee not such as ar born of God nor tru Christian Emperors Kings Prinses and Rulers by the grâs of God but the children of that Father vvhos works yee do and a company of usurpers such as hav no tru Ryt to exercys Dominion over the nations But that yee ar such is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor your claym of Ryt by heir-ship prescription is rotten nul voyd What it is to be Christs vicar And for the Pôp to affirm himself to be Christs Vicar it Implyeth no les then to represent his person in his spirit and Power to do his work now it s recorded of Christ that he was meek and lowly in heart holy harmles undesyled seperat from sin siners in lyf going up down doing good reproving sin teaching and exhorting peepel to ways of mercy truth ryteosnes purity meeknes humility and holynes But that the Pop is found acted by a spirit and in a practis of dyrect antipathy against the Spirit of Christ and so is rendred to be the Antichrist is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor his pretens of being Christs vicar is fals voyd The Pop succedeth Peter as Sin succceded innocency in order of tym or as a thorn doth a vyn when it grows in the sam plas wher ●ns a vyn did grow And for the Pôp to say he is Peters Successor Importeth no les then to represent his person in his spirit Power to do his work Now Peter in his epistel upon record saith thus the elders which ar amongst you l exhort who am also an elder and a vvitnes of the suffering of Christ a partaker of the glory that shal be revealed feed the flok of God which is among you taking the oversyt therof not by constraint but wilingly nor for filthy luker but of a redy mynd nether as being Lords over Gods heritag but as being good exampels to the flok that when the great shepherd shal appear yee may receiv a crown of glory that fadeth not away But that the Póp is found nether in that spirit or work in which Peter was is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor his claym of being Peters successor is fals voyd also And for the whol body of thy Ecclesiastical Power so caled with al the worshipers to them belonging to affirm themselvs to be the tru church and faithful spous of Christ the holy church vvhich ons appeared and vvas mâd manifest in and throuh the saints vvhich dvvelt at Rôm It importeth no les then that they must be found holding the sâm pur mystery of faith in a pur consciens be the caled and sanctifyed of God according to his purpos vvalking in the sâm holy fellovvship in the Spirit of truth vvhich the saints of the church of Christ vvhich in the Apostels days appeared in Rôm held walked in But that thy Ecclesiastical body or clergy so caled with al the worshipers to them belonging ar corrupt in Doctrin fellowship conversation and faln away and apostatysed from that Pur Doctrin worship fellowship holy conversation with vvas held vvalked in by them is Playn evident in the precedent charg evidensedby a cloud of vvitneses therfor their claym of being the holy Church of Róm is fals voyd also So that upon the whol O Christendom thou art found to be the houshold of an old thief a cruel oppresing murderer and a most filthy abominabel whor standing naked in the syt of God Angels and Men found guilty of al thos great provocations and bloudy abominations which in the precedent charg is prodused against thee Now therfor O thou Leopold thou O Póp of Rom with al yee Kings Prinses Rulers Governors al in authority under you of what degree rank or order soever whether Military Civil Spiritual or Ecclesiastical so caled al Peepel both hy and low rich and poor bond and free smal and great mâl and femâl even the whol body of thee O Christendom with al the Dominions Territorys to thee belonging who ar under the Command Government teaching of Man Givear and hear the most just ryteos decree irrevocabel Sentens of the Lord God Omnipotent of Heven Erth even the living God former of al things against and concerning thee The dredful and most terribel Battel Ax of the most just Ryteos Powerful Lord God of vengeans is now laid to thy Root and that Power and spirit by which thou art now acted and in vvhich thou now standest vvil the Lord God novv hew down root up and utterly destroy yea his most just and Ryteos vvrath plagu's and vengeans is even alredy bròk forth upon thee and shal dayly mòr and mòr appear be revealed from heven against thee even as pangs upon a traveling vvoman from which thou canst by no means escap Thô thy Potentats Prinses Rulers Peepel hav do shal set them selvs and tak counsel against the Lord and his anoynted yet he that sits in heven now lafs them to scorn yea the Lord hath them in derision and he is now speaking to them throuh his sanctifyed ôn's in his wrath hath yet mor mor wil vex them in his sor displesur his Yron rod is novv taking into his hand vvith vvhich he hath begun dayly mor mor dash the Nations to pieces as a poters vessel in thee O Christendom and they shal dayly môr and môr fal be subdued under him til al his enemys becom his foot-stool The Rod of his strength is sent out of Syon he in mesur ruls dayly môr môr shal rul in the midst of his enemys in thee At his ryt Hand he is now stryking throuh Kings yea he is judging among the heathen in thee wounding the heds over dyvers Cuntrys his hed is now lifting up in throuh over al his enemys in thee The evening of that day known to the Lord is now com in which the lyt hath appeared the morning of that day is approached in which the just in mesur hath dayly môr môr shal hav pur Dominion over al their enemys in thee Deth is now feeding on thee thy beauty fading withering away as the gras upon the hous top And for as much as God hath caled thou hast not regarded but set at nouht

to their proper plâs and in the injoyment of that which is the proper dû Ryt of ech of them by the just and Ryteos Lord God omnipotent and therin abyd forever who to and in the on and the seed therof wil be a lâk of utter darknes wher shal be weeping gnathing of teeth for ever The deth of deth what a Never dying worm and fyr that shal never be quenched and the breth of the Lord vvhich hath in mesur Kindled it shal as an inexhaustibel River of brimston keep it burning in the inward parts in every Particular which is the deth of deth the hel of hel the grav of the grav but to and in the other and the seed therof the Eternal pur Power wil be a pur endles and never fading Kingdom of lyf lov peas comfort Ryteosnes and joy unspeakabel and ful of glory vvhich is the heven of hevens vvhich conteins not him vvho is the eternal Incompehensibel father and fountain of pur lyf and fulnes vvho is in throuh and over al. The Lord is now com into his Tempel even the messenger of the covenant in whom his sanctifyed ôns delyt behold he is even now com shal dayly mor and mor appear but who may abyd the day of his coming or be abel to stand in his now appearing surly only such as can dwel with the devouring fyr with the everlasting burnings he is even com near to thee to judgment is becom in his sanctifyed on 's a swift faithful vvitnes against the sorcerer the adulterer fals swearer and the oppreser of the Fatherles widdow that turns asyd the stranger from his Ryt even the tru heyr of al vvho hath bin long as a stranger in the Erth vvho is the sâm as in the begining changeth not and therfor yee sons of Jacob ar not consumed yea the day that burneth as an oven is novv com the Proud yea al that do vvickedly in thee ar becom as dryed stubbel fited for the fyr the day that is now com in mesur alredy hath and dayly mor mor shal burn them up consum them even Root Branch saith the Lord God of truth his fan is in his hand he is Purging his own floor gathering the wheat into his garner but wil burn up the chaf straw and stubbel with unquenchabel fyr with such Judgment as the dragon beast fals Profet in thee hav judged they must now be judged such mesur as they hav met must now be mesured to them again the King of glory is now com to cal al his stewards and servants to account both great smal in thee and such as hav bin without compassion to their fellow servants taking them by the throat suing them casting them into prison about dets Carnal things wil he novv deliver to the tormenter til themselvs hav payd the uttermost farthing and such as in the absens of the Lord tru master of al hav bin found beating abusing thir fellow servants even cruely oppresing murdering the innocent vvil he novv cut in sunder and giv them their Portion with Hypocryts in the làk even in utter darknes wher is weeping vvayling and gnashing of teeth for ever and al the Ydel slothful servants vvho hav hid the Lords mony in them as in the Erth and not improved it vvil he novv bynd hand and foot and cast into utter darknes vvher their worm dyeth not and their fyr is not quenched and al the foolish virgins which ar found fluin bering and runing to the buyers selers to get oyl shal be shut out from the brydgrooms presens and althô both buyers selers may Plead that they hav Prophesyed in his nam cast out devils ear bred and drank Wyn in his presens that he hath tauht in their streets saying Lord Lord yet must they novv receiv this ansvver from him that is with in them depart yee Workers of iniquity I know you not And such as hav bin at work in the vynyard from the first hour of the day as shal be found with an evil ey murmuring against the good man of the hous becaus of his goodnes to others who com in as it wer at the last hour of the day shal be reptoved sent away with their own and the last shal be first and the first last for thô many be caled yet but fevv ar chosen The sun of ryteosnes is now com and coming in his glory with his Holy Angels and shal dayly mor and mor appear and is now upon his thron and befor him is he gathering al nations yea as a shepherd is he now divyding and making a seperation betwixt the sheep and the goats and al who hav not fed clothed risited pityed and refreshed him in his despysed oppresed spoyled robed Imprisoned Cruely Murdered massacred Innocent harmles littel on 's must now and dayly mor mor shal receiv this sentens depart from me yee cursed into everlasting fyr prepared for the Devil and his angels And if such who hav not sed him in them to wit his peepel when hungry nor gav them drink when thirsty nor clothed them when naked and as strangers nor visited them when sik and in prison must receiv such a dredful sentens o then vvhat must be the portion and sentens of such in thee o Christendom vvho hav spoyled them of their outvvard injoyments oppresed their familys cast their bodys into prisons nasty filthy and dirty hôls dungeons cruelly using and torturing them by wraks other cruel torturing instruments secretly openly murdering and sheding their dear and pretios blood For al vvhich vvith a numberles number of other hy cryms and abomnations which hav bin stil ar commited in thee o Christendom their most tender father even the the Lord God omnipotent is now com and entering into Judgment with thee and caling thee to an account vvrath vengeans to the uttermost even the bottom and dregs of the cup of his most just vvrath dredful indignation Plagu's vengeans is novv seizing upon al the workers of iniquity both great and smal in thee the Reapers ar now gathering the târs and bynding them in bundels for the fyr The sain Iesus vvho vvas received by a cloud up into heven out of the syt of his discipels is now com and coming in the clouds of heven in his holy ôns vvhom every ey in mesur doth and dayly mor and mor shal see yea even they vvho hav and stil do piers him in themselvs and in his dear tender innocent saints holy ôn's and al the tongu's and Kindreds of the Erth shal dayly môr and môr mourn becaus of him he vvil novv render to every ón great smal hy and lovv rich poor bond and free màl femal according to their vvorks vvithout respect of persons to them vvho ar contentios and obey not the motions of the lyt