that myt not be touched giving forth his most just and Ryteos law of Spirit and lyf the coming and first appearans wher of in the inward parts giveth the tru knovvledg of sin causing it dredfully to revyv The first appearans of God to faln man is in conviction and self to dy in them and their bodys to be the holy tabernakels of the most hy God of Jacob and he to dvvel and vvalk in them and the Pûr pillar of fyr and cloud ordering them vvhen to mov and vvher to stay and pitch their tents leading them safly throuh the wildernes of temtations fears and difficultys as by the hand of Moses and Aron giving them lyt dyrection and saf protection in their way even in the way everlasting and eternal in them and the hiden Manna and pur living water out of Christ the eternal Rok of ages Issuing forth and dayly faling down in them to sustain norish and refresh the lyf which is pur Christ the hiden Manna living Water Eternal rok c. in his Peepl and immortal of God in them and the Holy armor of ryteosnes vvith the Holy operations of the pur lyf povver and vvisdom of God in them teaching their hands to vvar and their singers to fyt giving them mor understanding then the ancients making them vvyser then ether their teachers or their enemys yea to be strong in the Lord and in the povver of his myt to fyt the good fyt of faith and giv them tru victory over al their spiritual enemys real quyet possession of the good Land of eternal rest and pur peas vvhich flovveth vvith milk hony even with al the unspeakabel blessings of God the eternal Rok Fountain out of whom both the upper nether springs of pur living vvater of lyf do flow issu forth in throuh them and the glorios Rul Government and Kingdom of God to be ther set up their bodys to be the tru Templs of the living tru God even the Ark of the new yet most old Holy everlasting Covenant in which is the tabel on which the pur law of Spirit lyf is writen with the finger the Spirit of the living God the golden pot of hiden Manna which dayly norisheth the lyf which is pur and the Rod buding springing forth of the stem of Jesse the root of spring of David in them bringing forth the pur peasabl fruits of ryteosnes holynes dayly in and throuh them And the Holy Altar of God which sanctifyeth the gift the eternal fyr and the Holy Incens with which every man is salted in which every acceptabel gift sacrifys is offered up a sweet Savor unto the Lord And the Holy hy Priest in them which is after the order of Melchisedek without begining of days or end of lyf who ever liveth to mâk intercession in for the Saints acording to the wil of God this is he vvhom the Father heareth always even when no outward audibel voys is heard or vvord spâk And the pur living Orakel of God in them at which never failing Advys Counsel is to be had in al things which is that Word of God that liveth abydeth for ever even Christ the faithful tru vvitnes of God the Word of lyf quik povverful the fôr runner within the vail towit the flesh The lyt which maketh al things manifest in the inward parts which giveth the most tru discerning of the most secret purposes thouhts intents of the heart divyding betvvixt the lyt the darknes the vvays vvorks of them both as betwixt the soul Spirit the joynts the marrovv Even the Eternal fountain of pur living Water of lyf in vvhich the clensing preserving healing vertu vvas is for ever shal be found to in al such as in the faith patiens of God vvait for the descending of the Angel of the Covenant vvhich moveth therin And to know the Holy Profet raised in them vvhom al ouht to hear vvhich al vvho refus to hear cut themselvs of from being of the tru Israël of God And to fynd the pur incorruptibel tresur as hid in the field in them vvhich nether moth nor rust can corrupt nor theevs break throuh to steal The grain of Mustard-seed even the pur seed of the Kingdom of God sovvn grovving up in them bringing forth the Peasabel Holy plesant fruits of Ryteosnes lov joy pur peas in them throuh them in som thirty in som sixty in som an hundred fold And the vertu of the pur leven in them levening the vvhol lump causing the whol man Body soul Spirit in al manner of holy conversation svveetly to smel Savor of the pur vvisdom Ryteosnes Innocency holynes of Christ in throuh them therby to becom as the Lyt of the World Salt of the Erth even a sweet Savor unto God both in them that âr saved in them that perish to fynd the lost groat in them vvhich sileth the heart invvard parts vvith living pur joy rejoysing And to vvitnes the birth of the lyf vvhich is pur immortal eternal in them even the chyld born in them the Son given unto them the Immanuel tovvit God in them the governmâ—rt over al laid on his shoulders in them as King Lawgiver Priest Profe Savior causing the ded to rys the blynd to see the lâm to walk even leap as hâ— yong hart the dumb to speak sing forth aloud the living pryases of the pur God in them in the midst of the Church of the first born in God throuh them And to becom crucifyed ded with Christ to the World the carnal mynd vvith the affections lusts therof to be risen ascended vvith Christ out of the sepulker out of the Erth al visibl things out of days tyms Sabbaths up to God the Eternal Rest Sabbath fountain of pur lyt rest peas vvher mortality is svvallowed up of lyf al rùl Authority Power risen standing in the faln Spirit Wisdom Power put down utterly destroyed And to partak of posses injoy the most excelent Glory in their inward parts and speak the pur Languag And be Baptyzed with the ôn Baptism which saveth from a vain conversation the pur living VVater of lyf which sprinkleth from an evil Consciens And the glorios coming of the Father Son in them to sup with them and they with them feeding dayly on the pur living bred of lyf drinking the new VVyn of the Kingdom of God which refresheth norisheth the lyf which is holy harmles undefyled pur immortal of God in them And to feel the presens of the great Sepherd the Bishop of the Soul in them dayly taking tender câr of them leading them in and out in al their ways causing them to feed
crafts was is the intemperans inchastity inordinacy of Peepel So al thes may say If Peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt lyf of God in them the good physician which purgeth clenseth from al filthines of fleâ—h spirit leads al vvho ar led by him in ways of temperans sobryety chastity in the fear of the Lord then they wil com to be Inhabitants of that city which shal say they ar not sik the Lord to be com the helth of their Countenanses their God and abyding therin the ground of al Diseases distempers in Body soul Spirit is kept down in peepel Such wil not hav need to com to us with their Urins giv us larg sums of mony for our Advys Counsel to maintain us in pryd eas or to mak ûs of our salvs deceitful Compounds so our deceitful trads wil dy and wither away also And al sorts of Marchants traders in Ships Shops wââ—houses Ins Victualinghouses Fayrs Markets may say If peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt everlasting covenant of lyf in them be tauht led by him in them then they wil com to tak cà r for nothing to tak no thouht what they shal eat drink or put on but cast al their câr upon the Lord vvhos eternal power wisdom dayly produseth sufficient to feed sustain every cretur so to becom as ôn houshold or family children of ôn Father heirs together in with Christ of the ôn Inheritans caling nothing their own injoying al things in the pur fear lyf lov wisdom of God as in ôn common ryt or intrest Such wil not hav need to mak ûs ' of our deceitful Inventions of mony to buy sel mak Marchandyz of the gists several stors of the hous of God wich al flow from the ôn gist which he freely gav to the children of men without respect to Persons neither wil such frequent or mak ûs of our Ships Shops Ins victualing-houses fayers or markets And so we may lay asyd our ships shut up our shops wâr-houses Taverns and victualing-houses and ceas frequenting our fayrs and Markets for no Man wil buy our wârs any Mor and so our trads of deceit oppression wil dy and wither away also Thos cald Land-Lords who in the spirit of the world hav raked great quantitys of the Erth into their hands may say If peepel be bourht to Christ the lyt way of peas saluation in them then having food and rayment they wil learn ther with to be content not Covet or desyr to grasp farms into their hands to serv their own particular intrests to spend their tym in sweating toyl cà r and labor as under the curs to giv us larg and yearly rents by sums of mony to manitain us in pryd lusts eas fulnes so that our Lands must â—therly unstok-ed until-ed or vve must let such us ' it vvho vvil only let us hav a part of the produs therof vvith them for our necessary supplys of food and rayment and so our Lordly Covetos and oppressing vvay of farming Lands for great and unre sonabel sums of mony by the year vvil dy and vvither avvay also Thos cald by-way thievs Robers may say if Peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt the strong Tower of sasty eternal salvation in them then the us ' of mony wil com to be laid Asyd by them and as for food rayment if we be Really in want therof the lov of Christ in them wil mak them wiling to supplys our real necessitys so that if we com to them on the by ways filver and gold they wil hav non and if we should tak their cattel they ryd up on or cloths from their baks it would be an unkyndnes offered to such as ar really wiling to feed cloth such as ar really in want and necessity nether can we lykly pas long with such things without being discovered and so becom lyabel to sham and suffer the strok of Justis from the hand of the Magistrat for the sam And therfor it wil be mor manly honorabel for us to fal into som way-of honest and moderat labor that so we may eat our own bred and wear our own cloths in Peas and quyetnes without condemnation in our own conscienses or fear of sham by the strok of Iustis Thos cald way going Peepel ydel and sturdy begers may say if peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt and wisdom of God in them then alth ô the bowels of the lov of Christ in them constrain them to do good unto al as need and necessity requyreth yet if we com to beg of them having bodys abel to work they may justly say unto us that such as wil not labor ouht not to eat and may offer us labor and food which if we refus the ôn they may justly with hold from us the other So that we shal be forsed to lay asyd our ydel dronish trád of beging and ether to work or starv which if we do our blouds wil be upon our own heds The whol body of the world which lys in wikednes may say if peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt wisdom Power eternal salvation of God in them then the end of the world even of al things wil be com upon them as it was on the Apostels Saints in their days and al the many vvays vviked inventions and Practises which hav had their Rys Continuans to this day throuh the entrans of sin trangression by the first Adam wil be ended finished and Eternal ryteosnes brouht in and established in Man-kynd and Man-kynd in it al Rúl Authority Power it standing in the spirit Power of the old Serpent put down and destroyed the vvhol creation delyvered from the bondag of corruption into the glorios liberty of the Sons of God and al things in heven Erth visibel invisibel reconcyled to God in him every Knee mà d to bovv and tongu ' to confes to him to the glory Prays of God the eternal Father Pur fountain of lyt lov wisdom glory and Dominion vvho is in throuh and over al God blesed for ever this is the God whom many hav waited for and this is the salvation expected by him and for ever blesed be his Nà m as non ever did so nether hav they wayted on him in vain nor bin ashamed of their hòp in him for according to his promis declared and recorded by throuh the holy Profets he hath now set to his hand again the second tym for the redemtion and salvation of himself his own oppresed seed in the ends or inhabitants of the Erth not only in Man-kynd but even in the whol creation who vvorketh so as non can hinder and shal not be discoraged til he hath set Ryteosnes in the Erth surly his salvation is ny unto them that
with the sam glory which he had in with the Father befor the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes began And as the natural Body of Christ is but òn so the lyf spirit or soul which is the Spiritual Body is but ón also throuhout the whol Body The whol creation is the body of Christ. every living member therof which is God manifest in the flesh The sâm Eternal lyf pur Power which giveth being and form to ôn Cretur giveth form being unto al not only to in Man-kynd but to and in every Cretur so that the whol is but ôn Body filed acted by ôn soul guyded governed quikened by ôn Eternal Spirit which ar ôn and agree in ôn in him who is the incomprehensibel Lord God Omnipotent the Eternal Fountain and fulnes of al and heer in is seen that imaginary faith of a God-hed comprehended in three Persons for according to their own apprehensions a person being a body in conjunction with a soul then it may be affirmed that ther ar as many Persons comprehended in the God hed as ther ar Kynds of living Creturs and distinct Creturs of every Kynd which ón Body with the ón soul acted and governed by the on Eternal quikening Spirit is the ón only Son of God which cam out of the bosom of the Father in whom he was is ever shal be wel pleased and as the Father hath lyf in himself so hath he given the Son to hav lyf in himself to every living cretur or member in him to hav lyf in it self both in the natural spiritual body the lyf of al in the seed preserved as Christ who is the eternal quikening Power to in the seed both of the natural spiritual body appears so do they al appear with him in tru Pur glory the communication of the vertu of the eternal quikening Power to in the seed both of the Natural Spiritual Body is throuh the cros of Christ which to in the seed of the natural body is communicated throuh natural sensibel visibel things to wit Winter Summer heat cold seed tym harvest hunger food thirst drink Nyt Dây motion rest But to in the seed of the Spiritul Body after a Spiritual and invisibel manner either secretly in the Reyns heart and inward parts or throuh erthen vessels which he hath filed with that tresur a dispensation therof comittent to them which is the Spirit of Prophesy a ded becaus of transgression which shal ceas fayl as into the everlasting Covenant Man-kynd is brouht which Communication of the vertu of the Eternal Power throuh the cros to and in the seed of the Spiritual Body answereth Spiritually to al the dimensions therof to and in the seed of the natural body which ar al of them as truly necessary to the being and welbeing of the seed and lyf of God the ôn as the other both in the natural and spiritual body and as desyr fayls in the on the natural body returns to the Erth and the spirit to God that gav it and as desyr fayls in the other such becom ded whyl they liv which cros is the everlasting covenant o God to and with the seed his own lyf both in the natural and spiritual body which in ôn in and throuh the whol creation and every living cretur therin contained only differing in degrees and manner of working and operation And for an assurans of his faithfulner in making good the covenant on his part to the seed in the natural visibel body he hath given an outward or visibel syn or token plasing his Bow in the clouds of the visibel hevens And to the seed of the invisibel or spiritual body he hath given an invisibel or spiritual witnes or token to wit the lyt which shyneth in the dark plàs in the inward parts the faithful tru witnes of God the word which liveth and Abydeth for ever neer in the mouth and in the heart concerning which the covenant Promis of God is that it shal not depart out of the mouth of the seed nor of its seeds seed for ever even so long as the Sun and moon endureth And heer I Judg it expedient further to declar that I do not herin ether deny or under vallu ether the person work or Son-ship of Iesus Christ that just and innocent ón who witnesed a good confession befor Pontius Pylat But what the holy Profets Apostels declared recorded in the spirit of truth concerning him I do own acknowledg to be tru do heerby affirm that the sam eternal Pur holy Innocent lyf fulnes of God which dwelt bodyly in him was the lamb which was slayn from the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes the holy seed of the woman to which the covenant of God is mà d in which al the Promises of God ar yea and Amen in which al the familys of the Erth shal be blesed the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world the Shylo into whom the gathering of the Peepel shal be the Alpha and Omega the begining the end of al the works of God without begining of days or end of lyf who was is is to com abydeth the Sam for ever world without end and that he cam out of the bosom of the Father in whos mouth was found no guyl in whom the temter nether had nor found any Plàs was the first begoten from the ded the first born amongst many brethren the Author and Captain of eternal salvation who pased the tym of his so journing on Erth in that mortal body in the Pur fear lov of God faithfully finisingh the work given him by the Father to do in the sà m eternal Pur spirit offered up himself unto God without spot returned into the bosom of the Father innocent holy harmles undefyled as he proceeded cà m forth from the Father And as concerning that body of flesh in which he appeared this I say as himself also testifyed that the flesh profiteth nothing but it is that eternal word of spirit and lyf which was mà d manifest in throuh that body of flesh was and is the wisdom and Power of God to salvation in al them that beleeved and that he had power to lay it down and tak it again and did lay it down upon the cros and took it again out of the sepulker and in it was received by a cloud out of the syt of his discypels and according to the scripturs this I say that the things which ar seen with the outward or visibel ey ar but temporal and fading but the things which ar not seen they ar eternal Nòn hav advantag by the deth of Christ but such as partak of his Lyf And as concerning what was don said suffered by the lyf wisdom and Power of
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 grouâ—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 â—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
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 Dâ—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 Hâ—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 gà ts 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 tabeâ— 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 plà s 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 sà m 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 sà k at the hands of thos that were faln under the Spirit of Apostacy and that at the appearans of Christ in his Peepl now mà d 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
was not meats and drinks and that both the Belly and meats was for destruction demanding of them who had bewitched them and whether having run wel and begun in the Spirit they thouht to be mâd Perfet in the flesh teling them that he was fraid of them least he had bestowed his labor in vain on them becaus they observed days tyms and sabbaths and ther wer such amongst them as wer Eried from the faith and had mád ship wrak of a good consciens deceived and deceiving others in doctrin and practis and for dishonest gain gon in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards And they affirmed that the Body Spirit Hôp Lord Faith Baptism God and father of al is but ôn vvho is in throuh and over al Who 's eternal pur fulnes dvvelt bodyly in Christ of vvhos fulnes of pur lyt and lyf al vvho receiv and vvalk in becom Children and heyrs of God in and vvith him vvhich is the faith of the son of God by vvhich the Iust livs in Mâl and femál the ón Baptism vvhich saveth vvhich is not the washing away the out ward filth os the flesh but the answer of a good consciens by the Resurrection of Christ the Lord that spirit from the ded in mâl and femâl vvhich al vvho hav the Son hav the Father also dvveling and Walking in them as saith the scripturs of truth and Christ said that he vvas the Resurrection the lyf al vvho did do or shal liv beleev in him do and shal liv thô they vver Ded Such becom Children of the resurrection throuh the participation of the sâm Pur Divyn Natur Lyt Lyf fulnes of God vvhich dvvelt in vvas mâd manifest throuh Christ Jesus vvherby the Saints then novv vvitnesed themselvs to be not only crucifyed and ded vvith Christ unto the World vvith the inordinat affections lusts therof but also to be quikened and risen vvith him siting together in hevenly plases in Christ The Resurrection Redemtion Salvation is of Christ the Seed of God in Man-kynd vvhich in Man as unto Man becâm as captivated slain in bondag throuh the entrans prevailing of sin transgression vvherby the becâm the Lamb slayn from the foundation of the World vvhich lyeth in vvikednes in Man-kynd The laying down the outward body no Curs The bâr laying down of the body vvhich is called Deth is not the effect or revvard of sin the laying dovvn of the body had bin thô Man had never faln in to sin and transgression vvhich vvould not hav bin nether shal be to such as à r truly Redeemed ether cursed or any ground of fear or terror but in the vvil of the Lord Rather desyrabel as a Bed of Rest in its plàs season is as truly vvelcom and desyrabel as ether food or the morning or any part of the day to him that is in the vvork of God That Deth which is the reward of sin what That Deth and Curs vvhich vvas and is the Reward of sin transgression entred into Mankynd in the sâm day instant of tym that sin entred acording to the Word of the Lord to and in them after vvhich Adam lived several hundreds of Years in the body yet this I say That the shortnes and uncomfortabel being of the lyf in the Body is the Effect of Sin Christ Said to the father of al that thou hast given me I have lost Nón that it was the wil of the Father that he should raiss it up again at the last day he spak not of Carkases Or Persons But of the Pur glory Dominion of his own lyf which in man as unto man throuh the Entrans of trangression becam as slain captivated and in bondag yet in it self lost nothing but retaind stil retains its Purity Dominion in and over Mankynd throuh al Ages for ever abyds the sam for Christ the sà m Eternal lyt The lyt always the sam in its self but as to man the dispensation changeth as he changeth lyf wisdom Povver of God which in Mankynd befor transgression rendred him to be the Imag of God and sat him in tru Pur honor Dominion over the works of his hands becam in Man-kynd after the Entrans of sin A Reprover judg in them so that the lyf Power of God in them was the sâm in its Purity undefyled not consenting to the evil only differing in the working manifestation of its self in Man-kynd and the last day is novv com in vvhich Christ the Lyt Lyf VVisdom Power seed of God shal be Raised up again in Man-kynd man-kynd in it to the Sám Pur Dominion and glory which he had with the Father and Man-kynd in him befor the vvorld vvhich lyeth in wikednes began And as concerning Eternal Judgment it is commited by the father to the Son to wit Christ the Lyt VVisdom and Power of God the faithful tru witnes of God in Mà l and femal vvhich vvas vvith the father befor his works of Old which Eternal judgment hath bin faithfuly Executed in On throuh al ages generations in on the general and in and on every Particular soul of Man-kynd that hath don evil vvhich shal continu to be Executed by him til al his Enemys becom his footstool and that Sà m Eternal Judgment vvhich is in Christ the Lyt the faithful tru witnes of God in Mâl Femà l shal stand for ever in Pur Dominion over the hed seed of the serpent vvhich is the transgresing Power in Man-kynd And as concerning heven it is that pur stât of eternal Lyf Lov Dominion glory which is the Imag of God in which Man-kynd was plased befor trans gresion Heven what into which Man kynd by throuh a participation of that pur Divyn Natur fulnes of God wich dwelt bodyly in Christ Jesus coms to be again Redeemed Restored which al who truly enjoy partak of do enter in by Christ the lyt lyf way eternal door ar saved redeemed risen standing up from the ded receiving Eternal lyf in him siting in hevenly plases in Christ And hel is no other but that Deth Curs wo Misery and Tribulation which entreth and tà ks hold on body soul and Spirit throuh transgression but that Deth and hel which John in the Spirit of Prophesy wrot of and saw as cast in to the lâk of fyr is no other then that cursed Spirit Power Dominion of the darknes of this World which throuh the faling away Apostacy of the Gentils or Romans arôs and hath bin for ages and generations excercysed over the several Nations Kindreds Tongu's and Languages throuhout Christendom in the Dragon 's Beast's and fals Profets Spirit and Povver vvho under fals pretenses of protecting governing and teaching the peepel in safty Peas Ryteosnes Holynes hav bin a Hel of cruelty Oppression unryteosnes and deceit unto and over
against the myty And when Oliver Cromwel their Servant had grasped the military power in to his hands ther with wrested the Power of the three Nations out of the Parliaments hands who was as the littel Horn spoken of by Daniel the Profet he provyding for their bellys they in outward shew practis cast of not only Pop King but Parliament also and own and addres themselvs to him and his son as their Lord Protector Sereen Hy-nes with dyvers other flattering Blasphemos Nâms and Tytels And when thos caled the long Parliament cam into their seats again they fel in again with them casting of their former Master Sereen Lord Protector And when Charls the II. Son of Charls the I was by another Parliament cald in restored to the Thrón Dominion of his Father he provyding for their Bellys they Readyly swear Allegians Supremacy to him get their on Surplises again fal to reading their Book of Common Prayer and bow and cring to their Idolatros Altars sing Pyp play on their Music in their worship if he wil hav them go bakagain and be reconcysed to their Mother whom themselvs cal the whor of Rôm they wil submit rather then to indanger their Persons or loos their prouision for their Bellys Yet further this old Serpent if it fynd or see away to have as provision for the Belly by a free Contribution hath and can appear as a Pastor of a seperat or gathered Congregation in words and profession declar against conformity to the World its ways and worships and impur communions Yet further seeing a way to go from plà s to plâs and have bak and Belly freely provided for it hath doth transform it self as an Angel of lyt or Minister of Ryteosnes appearing in the Assemblys of the Saints and Children of the lyt intruding into the Declaration of things which they hav not seen felt tasted nor experiensed in themselvs talking of the Salvation of God of Christ of the lyt Spirit and Power of God in the inward parts but by such as truly dwel and walk in the lyt lyf wisdom and Power of God ar al the ways and workings of that old Serpent in such seen felt discerned and judged who are the littel foxes that hurt the vyns with the tender grâps and their mouths by the Power and Wisdom of God must and shal be stoped But in al ages sins the entrans of transgression such as hav bin caled sent forth by the Lord appearing in the evident demonstration of the pur Power and spirit of God to declar his mynd wil unto Peepels the spirit and power of darknes in Rulers Teachers and peepel could never bear with such but hav mà d a prey of them counting them as not worthy to hav a being turners of the world upsyd down Pestilent fellows blasphemers such as the land could not bear their words suffering at their hands mok-ing Scorn Contemt Derision Bonds Imprisonment Banishment Spoyling of goods whiping stoning racking Torturing Crucifying Hanging burning And now the switneses prophefying in sak-cloth being neer hand ended the spirit of lyf in mesur entred into the witneses of God they standing on their own feet appearing in the lyt lyf spirit povver of God to vvarn and turn Peepel from the evil of their ways from the darknes to the lyt from the Power of Sathan to know and obey the lyt Christ that spirit and power of God in them the whol body of sin Deth in the general and in ech particuler is moved heerat this causeth siknes to seiz on the hed and pain hevynes to fil heart and is as Mortal and Incurabel darts in the liver causing the old Serpent the spirit and power of darknes in the whol body to plung as Leviathan in the sea who in mesur alredy hath and dayly mor morshal mak it to boyl as a pot of oyntment this is as a flying rowl with the curs entering into the hous of the thief the adulterer and the whor causing the keepers therof to trembel and the strong men to bovv themselvs hed Tayl Branch Root in the houshold of wikednes even al sorts hav a mouth open against such as ar truly sent of God about this work The Potentats King Prinses Rulers of the darknes of this present world may say if peepâ—l be brouht to Christ the lyt lyf spirit Power of God in them the gift of God of whom the Scriptur saith that he is given of God to be King Ruler Lawgiver to in his Peepel Then they wil com to Knovv the lavv of the spirit lyf in their in vvard parts vvhich sets free from the law of sin and deth to be fellow heyrs with Christ of that Kingdom vvhich is pur Eternal Immortal vvhich fadeth not away and to Rein as Kings upon the Erth siting vvith Christ on his thron svvaying the scepter of Ryteosnes over al his enemys in them in that Dominton vvhich is living Eternal clothed vvith that Rob vvhich is pur undefyled crovvned vvith a Royal Dyadem of pur perfect glory beauty unto such our Crowns Scepters dignitys Lavvs and Rul vvil be rendred burthensom and usles unles it be as a scourg amongst such vvho ar mor bruitish then beasts so that our best and safest vvay vvil be to tak that vvholsom counsel long sins given by honest David that man after gods own heart to kis the Son to bow be subject to Christ the lyt VVisdom Power of God in our own hearts Inward Parts that so in this the day of the Kindling of his vvrath vve may not perish with al the vvorkers of Iniquity and to lay asyd our fading crowns Robs Scepters emty tytels of vanishing honor to sit even with his littel despysed flok to whom the Everlasting Kingdom is bequethed by Christ the eternal Father fountain of lyf wisdom Eternal Power and vvayt to feel his pur povver in us vvho is King of Kings Lord of Lords that so vve may com to hav an Inheritans vvith them that ar sanctifyed in that Kingdom which is never fading and to vvear that Crown and Rôb vvhich is living and pur in that Dominion honour and glory vvhich Man can nether giv nortak away Thos cald the Clergy the vvhol body of them even al sorts of teachers in al forms to the hyest in nam vvithout the povver may say if peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt lyf in them which hath Inlytened every ôn that cometh into the world the gift of God of vvhom the scripturs say that he is given of God to be a witnes in Peepel even his everlasting covenant in the heart inward parts of which al who partak com to know the Lord from the least to the greatest such need not to teach ón another for the Lord that spirit of truth in them teacheth them
in which they also must receiv the just ryteos reward of their doings from the ryteos Lord God omnipotent the hand of the Lord is smyting at al your dishonest gain VVo misery weeping bitter howling lamentation must now be dayly mor mor your portions deth and withering is now seizing on you which shal continu until your ships shops Ins victualing-houses fayrs marktes weihts and mesurs ceas to be frequented or mad ùs of The Lord wil recover his corn wyn wool and flax even al the stors of his hous out of your hands and wil feed cloath his houshold himself and giv them food rayment in du season and in du proportion al who shal putâ—r ôr ether on their baks or into their bellys shal receiv in themselvs the just reward of their own shâm and folly from the Lord God Thy several Nations Kindreds Tengu's and Languages ar as the dispersed divyded and confounded builders of babel as so many several fields over grovvn vvith brambels bushes bryars and thorns abounding bounding in al manner of the cursed fruits of the seed of the old serpent redy ryp to be cut down consumed by the vengeans of the eternal fyr of Gods just Ryteos wrath vengeans which is now broken forth on them and shal dayly môr and môr be revealed from heven against them Thy whol body even hed and tayl branch and Root rulers wariors priests peâ—pel by low rich poor bond and free great and smal mâl femal even al under the dragon's beast's fals profets spirit Power ar a corrupted loathsom defyled body of sin deth even the body of that beast which Daniel in the spirit of prophesy saw which is now to be slayn and his body destroyed and given to the burning flâms by al which it hath doth appear that great hath bin is the mystery of Iniquity to wit the old serrpent the God of the world the devil mâd manifest in flesh novv Judged and condemned in the put Povver of the eternal spirit seen and comprehended by Angels beleeved on vvorshiped in the vvorld by al whos nâms ar not writen in the lambs book of lyf and novv thrusting dovvn to everlasting sham contemt suffer the vengeans of eternal fyr vvher by the habitabel parts of the erth hav bin the cros on which the lamb slayn from the foundation of the world vvhich lyeth in wicdednes hath bin crucifyed and mankynd ground throuh vvo misery grief and pyan as betwixt the nether and upper milstons to vvit that cursed cruel oppresing helish power dominion which hath bin stil is exercysed over man kynd by such as hav stil do rûl over them in the spirit and Power of the old serpent the devil as the Nether mil-ston And thos just ryteos Judgments tribulation wrath of God which hav seized on body soul spirit of every particular that hath don evil as the upper milston So that the Eden of God hath bin mâd as a desolat wildernes the hous of liberty freedom a hous of misery thraldom cruel bondag the Tempel and seat of God the synagogu ' of sathan even the thron and seat of the Man of sin siting in it as God the hous of prayer A den of murdering thievs Robers and the garden of the Lord a field of bloud and murder But the voys is goâ— forth from the Lord God whos vvords ar spirit lyf and Power for Mans return and as Man-kynd coms to inclyn the ear and heart to hear and obey the reproofs of instruction in the inward parts which is the way of lyf and door of Eternal salvation the vois of this cursed mil shal ceas and the nether ston ther of be cast into the bottom of the Sea never to arys mor and the upper ston in mercy and lov by the Lord be removed and so the field of bloud cruelty shal be com the garden of the Lord in which Man-kynd shal dwel walk reconcyled unto God ôn to another unyted together in the everlasting bond Covenant of pur lyf lov Peas Ryteosues never mor to be forgoten the den of thievs a Hous of Prayer to al Nations Generations the Thrôn seat of the Man of sin the Tempel seat Thrôn of the living and pur God the Hous of misery thraldom bondag ' the plâs of the glorios Manifestation injoyment of the glorios freedom liberty of the Son of God the desolat VVildernes shal becom the Eden of God Throuh al which Man-kynd hath yet mor perfectly shal experiens the differens betwixt the cursed fruits of the ways of his own choys and the sweet plesant blesed fruits of abyding in that stât of pur Lyf Lov Peas Ryteosnes Dominion over the works of Gods hands in which he was plased befor the entrans of sin transgression to which Christ the Lyt Wisdom Power of God in mâl femâl is now redeeming restoring Man-kynd again into VVherfor o thou Leopold thou o Póp of Róm al yee Kings The Body arrained Prinses Rulers Governors with al in Power under you of what degree rank or order soever whether Military Civil Spiritual or Ecclesiastical so caled al yee Peepel hy low rich poor bond free smal great mál femâl even the whol body of thee O Christendom with al the Dominions Territorys to thee belonging every particular Person comprehended in them who ar under the Command Government teachings of Man summoned to Answer she charg Stand up see what thou canst say forthy self as to this charg of by cryms great provocations bloudy abominations which on the behalf of God his crucifyed Son his grieved Spirit his murdered Saints his burdened cruelly oppresed Peepel is now prodused against thee For to the Bar great Tribunal of the Living Eternal Ryteos Just Pur Powerful Lord God omnipotent Who is a consuming fyr everlasting burnings to al the workers of iniquity art thou now brouht And strong is the Lord God who judgeth thee his most Ryteos wrath plagu's vengenas thou canst not escap out of his hand non is abel to deliver ther. If thou seekest to justify thy self plead not Guilty Thou canst not ansvver ôn of a thousand Thy abominable Exces Pryd Exces Pryd c. Drunkenens Gluttony Ambition testifyeth against thee to thy very sâs In thes thou art seen known a far of in the many varios vain fashions of attyr deked vvith costly vain Lyr needles ornaments vvith thy stout lofty looks countenanses speeches deportments carriages Cruelty Oppression If of cruelty oppresion thou vvouldst clear thy self even a numberles number of vvitneses bear testimony against thee tovvit the Groans general complaints crys of al sorts of Peepel Nations
destroying of Deth and the ful subjection of al Christs enemys under his feet the surrendering the Kingdom to the Father the subjection of the Son also to him that puteth al things under him and God the Eternal Fountain and fulnes to becom al in throuh and over al to the ends aforsaid This I say to thee O Christendom in general to every ôn in thee in particular from the greatest to the least of what Nation Tongu or Peepel soever dred fear yee the living God stand in aw of him giv glory honor worship to him alôn for the day and hour of his most dredful and ryteos Judgments is now in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear let al Bow fear and trembel befor him that mâd heven and erth the sea and fountains of vvater and knovv this that the great faling avvay and apostacy from the tru Christian Spirit faith and lyf had its first entrans in thy teachers throuh their going out from the mesur of the pur Spirit of grâs the free gift of God given to them and plased in them of the pur fulnes of Christ the lamb of God to lead and establish them in al truth and giving ear to the voys motions and dictats of the Carnal mynd that cursed spirit the seed of the serpent vvherby sin and deth entered and the lavv of it took plâs in them and throuh them hath spred it self throuh and over the whol body of thee O Christendom which hath rendred thee a body of sin and deth in the general and in every particular From this cursed root of bitternes hath sprang up that abominabel Spirit of Covetosnes pryd wickednes oppresion Idolatry cruelty wars stryf contentions debats sheding the bloud of the Innocent with al other the hy cryms provokations and bloudy abominations which hav bin stil ar found in thee which hath rendred thee to be the dragon beast great whor and fals profet in thy military civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled and thy peepel unstabel as water even the great raging sea which cannot rest foaming out its own shâm casting up Myr and dirt out of which the skarlet colored beast aros who Power seat great authority was given him is stil up held by the great red dragon to wit the military power which hath rendred thee to be an Akeldama even a field of bloud oppresion cruelty ful of hye cryms abominations even Spiritual Sodom Egypt in which the Lord lyeth crucifyed And now ther is no way of restoration from this faling away cursed apostacy from the tru Christian Spirit faith and lyf to know redemtion from sin deth and from under the law sting curs power ther of either to the general or any particular but by returning the Ey and ear of the mynd to that which is pur eternal and Immortal of God in the inward parts even the mesur of the tru lyt and Spirit of the free grâs of God in the general and in every Particular from which euery on in the general in the particular in thee hath erred gon astray and as every ôn ether in the general or particular coms to giv ear to the motions crys groans of the oppresed pur seed of God in them they wil com to see him whom they hav pierced and as that which doth burden oppres keep the pur seed of God in bondag coms to be removed mortifyed subdued Ether in the general or in the particular so his pur Power Spirit lyf and presens wil be felt working salvation redemtion in the Erth and be known by the Judgments which he executeth in the erth in the general in the particular throuh which ryteos Judgments in the Inward parts salvation tru redemtion coms to be knovvn vvitnesed So that eternal Judgment in the invvard parts being brouht forth into victory at last he coms to arys and rein in pur Povver lyf Dominion overal vvhos ryt it is both in the general in every particular even he vvho leads al vvho ar led by him in the pur plesant everlasting path of pur lyt lov lyf ryteosnes everlasting joy happynes even forevermor A door of hôp is left open for you in the vally of Achor as the just and ryteos Judgments of the Lord â—om ther to be executed on the troubler of Israel in the invvard parts vvith his vvedg of gold babylonish Garment and Silver vvith his seed and al that he hath so an entrans vvil be administred in throuh Christ the lyt way eternal door by vvhich al vvho enter in hav salvation and com to be reconcyled unto God and saved from vvrath vvhich is to com This is the Zoar into which al who flee ar saf from the devouring fyr vvhich from the Lord is novv com and coming upon Spiritual Sodom in thee This is the Ark of the nevv yet most old and everlasting covenant into vvhich al vvho mak speed get entrans shal escap the great delug overflovving floud vvhich God is novv bringing in upon the vvorld of the ungodly this is the cloud and Pillar of fyr in man vvhich al vvho faithfully and constantly follovv ar sâfly led throuh the wildernes of temtations fears snars vvhich God is novv rayning dovvn upon the vvorkers of Iniquity This is the strong towr in vvhich al vvho ar found ar sâf from the horribel tempest which is now com coming upon the Proud and al that do wickedly in thee O Christendom This is the litel sanctuary in which al that hyd themselvs the blast of the teribel ôns against them shal be but a a storm against a wal This is the holy Mountain whos Inhabitants the oppreser or destroyer cannot touch or hurt This is the city of most sur refug whos wals and bulwarks ar salvation and the gâts therof prays into which nothing can enter that defyleth or worketh abomination thô the gâts therof stand open continually whos inhabitants can do truly say thô the erth be removed yet we wil not fear thô the mountains be hurled into the midst of the sea yet wil we not be dismayed thô the waters therof roar be troubled the mountains shà k fal with the sweling therof for ther is a River the streams wherof mak glad the city of God the holy plas of the tabernakel of the most by the living God is in the midst of her shee cannot be moved God shal help her that Ryt early Wherfor I say unto al and it is the counsel of the Lord God to them in the bowels of pur and tender lov to his own oppresed burdened slayn seed in thee oâ— Christendom in every particular mak hast mâk hast do not stay nor linger but speedyly turn in hither least the storm the dredful storm of the most Iust ryteos vengeans Jndignation of God which remains at hand to be poured
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
them as so many sorts of incarnat Devils in their Military Civil Ecclesiastical Powers so caled ryding on the Nations Robing Spoyling and plundering the peepel of their Estats tresurs and fruits of their Labors at their own cursed wils and plesurs to uphold and maintain them in pryd deceit eas fulnes and oppression over the peepel causing also their Bloud as a continued Issu to run sorth to fulfil their cursed vvils and plesurs as also the Dear Innocent Saints Martyrs faithful witneses of Iesus vvho throuh ages and generations past unto this day hav born their Testimony against their vviked vvays and practises Which Spirit and povver must novv be cast into the Lák of Eternal Perdition Destruction and suffer the vengeans of Eternal fyr and be limited and chained dovvn in the Bottomles Pit in every particular out of vvhich it aros and the smok of the torments herof to ascend up for ever mor vvhich is the second Deth even the Hel of Hel. Furthermâr the Apostel told them to whom he wrot that they could not be partakers of the Tabel of the Lord the Tabel of Devils reproving that disorder exces with was amongst them in eating and drinking for which caus many becam weak and sik The Tabel of the Lord what how it becâ—â—â—s a curs and fala asleep for the Tabel of the Lord to wit the varios Kynds stors of provisions which the Eternal Power the Father of the houshold doth dayly produs giv freely forth to feed and sustain Man-kynd and every Cretur becoms a trap a snar a gin a Curs even a Tabel of Devils unto in such as eat drink therof in exces to the satisfaction of the carnal mynd the inordinat desyrs of the flesh And as concerning the fellowship conversation of Devils it was springing up amongst them and therfor the Apostel exhorted them to whom he wrot to hav no fellowship with the unfruitfal works and workers of darknes saying that it was even a sham to speak of thos things which wer don of them in secret but al things reprovabel said he âr mâd manifest by the Lijâ— Which cursed Spirit of Apostacy having thus taken plà s Rooting in amongst them in the Apostels days hath grown and spred it self in and over al Christendom which hath rendred Christendom in their Military Civil Ecclesiastical Powers to be the Thron Seat of Iniquity of Belzebub the Man of sin a habitation of Devils the hold of every Foul Noâ— ysom Spirit a Cag of every unclean hatful Bird which must now Receiv the Reward of Devils even Destruction and perdition from the presens of the Lord from the glory of h s pur power who is now risen in his holy Tempel to shak terribly the Hevens the Erth not only in Christendom but in al nations that so what is shaken may be removed and that which cannot be shaken may remain and shyn forth in its pur natural and proper glory and Beauty al the works of God becom as a wel formed harp with every string wound up to its du proper pitch on which the Lord God may forever Delyt to mà k sweet Melody unto himself they in him forevermôr So that this Spirit of Apostacy faling away from the tru christian faith lyf took plà s rooting first in the Elders teachers of the flok which cursed seed grew spred it felf in and throuh them over al Christendom the whol being on s comprehended in the Church of Rôm subjected under that fals hed universal Bishop or Pôp so caled and took hold and brouht forth its cursed fruits among al Nations Kindreds Tongu's Peepel of every Ranks degree order from the Hyest to the Lowest hath had its Rooting Growth Fulnes even in a most abominabel mistery of Iniquity Corrupting the vvhol Body of Christendom so that in sted of being a pur chast virgin fit to be marryed to the Lamb and becom his faithful Spous she becam a defyled strumpet even in her beginning bruised the Brests of her virginity by harkening to and obeying the voys of the old Serpent that adulteros Spirit in her so becam a harlot and grevv to be the Mother of harlots and abominations of the Erth vvith vvhom the Emderors Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel of al Ranks and Degrees Mal Femal hav comited Spiritual fornication and bin mâd drunk vvith the cup of her Abominations and she hath sit as A queen upon many waters vvhich ar Peepels Kindreds Tongu's Nations being mà d drunk vvith the Bloud of the Profets Saints Martyrs of Iesus even in her skirts is found the Bloud of al that hav bin slayn upon the fà s of the Erth. Thus this cursed Seed of the Serpent having taken plà s and Rooting did gradualy grow and spred its self dayly and as it grew spred and prevayled so the tru pur Seed of God towit the Seed Christ in Mà l Femâl was oppresed kept under brouht into Bondag as the cursed fruits of the Seed of the Serpent appeared wer brouht forth so the blessed fruits of the tru pur Seed of God the truly Nobel plant of Gods Renown in mâl Femâl withered decayed and that pur fresh appearans of the truly excelent Glory which was in mesur as a dew from the Lord God of heven upon the Church of the Romans did by degrees depart and utterly wither away throuhout Christendom The Apostacy first entring the fals teachers thó on s trû having freely received from them over spued the body So that wher as in her virginity the Elders teachers wer tender cârfulover the flok of God to whom the câr therof was comited not by constraint but wilingly not for filthy Luker but of a redy mynd not as Lords over Gods heritag but as Holy good exampels to the flok freely communicating their Spiritual things partaking in lov of the Peepels carnal things who having food rayment had learned therwith to be content yea Holy Paul wrouht with his hands that so the Gospel myt not be Burdensom or chargabel to the Peepel But that covetos Spirit vvhich is the root of al evil being thus crept in and having taken plà s in som ther soon appeared such amongst them who wer not wiling to communicat freely of what they had freely received of God but throuh covetos practises souht to mà k a gain of the flok going in the vvay of Balaam for gifts and revvards having Mens Persons in admiration becaus of Advantag imbrasing this present World loving to hav the preheminens and so being faln under the Spirit of deceit in themselvs grevv dayly vvors and becam deceivers of others by good vvords and fair speeches deceived the hearts of the simpel causing many others to bovv and submit to their covetos ends and to follovv their vviked and pernitios vvays by reason
leadeth them into al truth the holy Anoynting which giveth the tru knovvledg of al things as the Apostel said so that al who abyd in it it in them need not any man to teach them but as the sam Anoynting teacheth them vvhich is the living fountain set open in the heart inward parts for al to com freely unto vvithout mony vvithout prys Such vvil not com to us and giv us of the fruits of their labor tyths or larg sums of mony by the year to hear us say our invented prayers to talk to them of that vvith vve our selvs rytly understand not ar out of the lyf Practis of having that most suer word of Prophesy in themselvs vvhich is the most suer and infallibel teacher and so we may shut up our mashouses or shop doors and ceas ringing our Bels for our trads of dishonest gain vvil vvither à vvay and com to nouht The great Generals Commanders Officers in hostil military Affairs may say If Peepel be brouht to Christ the Lyf Lyt and everlasting Covenant of God in them of whom the Scripturs of truth say he is given of God the Leader and Commander in Peepel the Captain and Anthor of Eternal Salvation whos Commands are not grievos who leads and Establishes his Peepel in plesant ways of Lyt Lyf Lov Peas Ryteosnes whos banner and standard is lov meeknes truth and Ryteosnes Then the enmity in Peepel ôn against another wil com to be destroyed and they reconcyled to God ôn unto another such wil not com to list themselvs under our standards or fyt under other banners be at our Commands to murder destroy ôn another to serv the lusts pryd cursed ambitios wils of our Cruel oppressing Masters the Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers of the Erth under fals pretenses of serving God their Country whos practis hath bin stil is to mak great fayr Promises to get peepel in to their servis and then mak it Deth ether to quit their servis or demand the performans of what they promis So that we may throw our Commissions of Array into the fyr beat our swords other instruments of Bloud Murder Cruelty into plouh shars pruning hooks learn to mak ûs of them as such for our cursed trà ds wil dy wither away also Thos cald Judges Sherifs Majors Baylifs Justises of the peas Doctors in the law Counselers Advocats Sollicitors Atturnys Clerks Scrybs with al their dependencys may say If Peepel com to be turned from the Darknes to the lyt obey Christ the wisdom Power of God in them of whom the Scriptur saith that al Judgment is commited unto him by the Father who is the wonderful counseler the Advocat that pleadeth the caus of his Peepel wryteth their nams in his Book of lyf who is no Respecter of Persons the habitation of whos Thron is Ryteosnes rewarding every ôn according to their works who leads al who ar counseled by him in the pur paths of truth peas lov ryteosnes Then Peepel wil com to do to ôn another as themselvs would be dôn unto to be a law unto themselvs to bear ón with another chusing rather to suffer then to do wrong or seek advantages by outward laws ôn against another that cursed covetos greedy Spirit of enmity in peepel ôn against another after the injoyments of ôn another wil ceas Such wil not wear out their bodys vex torment their Spirits wast consum their estats to attend on our Throns seats of brybery injustis extortion oppression giv us larg unreasonabel fees to pervert justis whos practis hath bin stil is insted of ending peepels differenses in truth ryteosnes reconcyling them together in peas lov to mà k them by far the mor at enmity and irreconcylabel ôn to another inventing ways to lengthen out their contentios law suits by removing them from Court to Court from City to Country in deceit unryteos pretenses and inventions caled VVrits of Error Appeals Habeas Corpuses c. Especially if the plaintifs and defendants besuch as hav Estats to answer and supply their greedy and covetos desyrs vvith Brybs and larg and unreasonabel fees And so vve may lay asyd our flat caps Robs ruf garments of deceit and cast our Books and Librarys of lavv cases into the fyr And Peepl being brouht into the pur bond of the everlasting Covenant com to be so Knit and unyted together in lov faithfulnes ôn to another that ther vvil be no need of any outvvard bils bonds or Obligations to mak thē honest faithful to do the thing that is just equal òn to another so our wiked trads wil wither avvay also com to nouht Those cald Doctors tutors fellovvs and Masters of arts in schools colledges and universitys in that learning vvhich stands in that Spirit Povver vvisdom vvhich is foolishnes vvith and enmity against God may say If Peepel be hrouht to Christ the lyt power wisdom of God in them to be tauht tutored therby then they vvil com to learn the blesed art of denying al ungodlynes vvordly lusts to liv soberly ryteosly in this present world to speak the pur languag ' to know hold the mysterys of faith in a pur Consciens and Read the book sealed vvith seven seals vvhich nether the learned or unlearned vvithal their tongu's and arts amongst us never could or shal be abel to understand or read and their seed and ofspring by their holy Exampels vvalking in the pur fear lyf and vvisdom of God befor them vvil com to be trained up in the sâm Such wil not need to com Or send their children to our Schools Colledges or universitys to be tauht to Read in books of feined storys lyng Fabels filthy unsavory corrupt corrupting words to act their parts on stages in Comedys Tragedys or to acquyr degrees in learning of thos tongu's and arts standing in that wisdom wich is Enmity against God So that we may shut up our Schools Colledges and university doors and cast our filthy books of liberal arts into the fyr for our vviked trà ds of corrupting Man-kynd vvil dy and vvither avvay also Thos cald doctors of Physic Chirurgions Apothecarys who ar members of that corrupt body of wikednes acting their parts in the Devils craft vvryting their receits in Latin and puting Latin nams upon the simpels of which they mak their compounds salvs c. keeeping the peepel therby ignorant of the natur vertu of what they administer unto them having and using ways to lengthen the continuans of peepels distempers somtyms abating somtyms increasing then puting larg unreasonabel Rât's upon things with cost littel or nothing sav gathering especially if their patients hav wherwith to supply their greedy Covetos desyrs of mony The rys continuans of whos
be tauht therby of God which mesur of the Spirit of grâs in mâl femà l is the Spirit of truth which leadeth into al truth even the Holy anoynting which teacheth al things even the deep things of God teling them to whom they preached and wrot that a mesur of the Spirit of grâs was given to every ón to profit with al and that the Lord is that Spirit they labored to turn Peepel from the darknes to the lyt from the power of Sathan to the power and Spirit of God in them given to them by Christ the tru Lyt whom Holy Johon said was the tru Lyt which inlyteneth every Man that cometh into the World and to turn Peepel from dumb Ydols and Ignorant Id latros and Superstitios ways forms to know serv and obey the living and tru God in them even to present al perfect in Christ whom truly to know obey constantly to follow is eternal lyf salvation happynes pur rest and peas forever mòr But thy Clergy or Spiritual men so caled even the whol body of them from hed to foot ar found out of the Cal Power Doctrin faith order Practis Maintenans holy Conversation of the tru Ministers of Christ even in a spirit of Dyrect Opposition contrary ty to them so that they being Ignorant of the cal of God hav caled and sent forth ôn another in their Own wils appoyntments and hav run greedyly for gain advantag without being sent of God and being gon from the Power of God to uphold and provyd for them in their Minissty and defend them in their Doctrins faith practises they hav gon to the Powers of the Erth who hav mâd Antichristian cruel laws to fo rs Manitenans from the Peepel for them even from such as nether own nor hear hem and heer in thes Babylonian Marchants hav bin mor cruel and unreasonabel then al the other sorts of Babylonish Marchants who cannot compel others to buy their wà rs much les fo rs others to pay for it who have netheâ— bouht or received it who together al sorts of them ar but a Den of thievs Robers in my Fathers hous they cam not in by tâ—e eâ—â—rnal door to wit Christ the lyt wisdom Power of God they must al be whiped out of the Tempel and overturned even root and branch their coming and vvork hath bin and stil is but to steal murder and destroy That Spirit which hath and doth buy and sel the gifts of God wich do al flow from the òn gift must perish with its mony out of the Bottomles pit it cam and thither it must return the things of Cesar must perish with Cesar but the things of God the former of al things must be ordered in his own pur wisdom lyt counsel And as ther must not be a Beger so ouht ther not to be a drôn in Israel and as that Spirit which would lay on dayly tasks and tâl of brik on others is to be denyed so also that spirit which would liv at eas in the flesh upon the fruits of others labors is to be rejected al Mountains must now be leveled and al valys raysed and the pur Playn plesant path of wisdom ryteosnes holynes is that in which al the truly ransomed of the Lord must for ever dwel and walk This the Plain pur ' path in which the fool cannot err This is the Iewel the pearl of Invaluabel Prys the truly wel becoming Ornament which becometh the hous of God for ever to wit holynes and as every clensed tabernakel of the most by coms to savor and shyn forth in this so every ôn in in his Tempel wil com truly to set forth his living pur and eternal prayses and appear to be really the lyts of the world the salt of the Erth which al who loos the savor of com to be the very worst most unprofitabel of Mankynd not withstanding they may profes or talk of hy things wher the tru savor ons receved coms to be lost the most stinking dunghil is to be prefered befor such MARK THAT And further mor they being ignorant of the doctrin faith of Gods elect which purifyeth the heart worketh by lov keepeth the heart clean they hav ignorantly framed up a faith in their own faln wisdoms which they cal their Creed but cannot them selvs giv a Rational account therof to the bottom using therin Scriptur Expresions being ignorant of the mynd of the Spirit of Christ in them that gay them forth And having thrown asyd the tru church-order wich the A postels holy ministers of Christ walked in practised they hav mâd invented to themselvs many Nâms ranks orders in their own wils in their church to wit Pôps Cardinals Jesuits Fryers Monks Abbots Nuns c. with many mor Puting the nams of Jâ—sus of Saints up on them whylst they themselvs ar found strangers and emenys to the lyf of Christ the holy conversation of the saints in themselvs in others and wanting the pur Power Demonstration of the Spirit of God in their Ministry and practises to draw Peepels hâ—arts to Imbâ—ás conform therunto they hav caused the potentats Powers of the Erth to mâk penal cruel laws statuts to fo rs a conformity thâ—â— unto or els to spoyl their goods Imprison banish rack hang Burn murder destroy their persons under a fals pretens of their being Heritics which yee O Potentats Kings Prinses and Rulers throuh out Christendom and your predecessors hav Unnaturally cruelly lyk Bruit beasts put in execution in an abundant mesur Furthermor they being found naked of the tru Christian clothing which is the ryteosnes of Christ by faith in the lyt Spirit Power of God hav in their wils Invented to them selvs many strang foolish forms fashions of outward habit ther by to caus the Spirits of Peepel to fal down under them giv worldly Honor Respect Reverens unto them which ar not of God And being voyd of the Demonstration of the Power Spirit of God in the exercys of their worship they hav Dyvers invented garbs vain foolish syts Idolatros images picturs several sorts of Music with singing men boys which tend only to pleas gratify that Spirit in Peepel which is Enmity against God insted of teaching Peepel from the motion Dictats of the Spirit of Christ in them they pleas their vain ears with fabels orations which they in their faln wisdoms hav raked formed to gether out of old historys the wrytings of heathen Poets Philosophers antient Fathers Commentators with their own Imaginations from the Scripturs with dyvers other feyned storys lying syns wonders al which Renders their worship ro be mor lyk unto Astag ' play rather then the tru worship of God And as for al other sorts of worshipers to the byest in Nâm Form and profession
Father to be Gods salvation in the ends of the Erth even the way the truth and the lyf in Mâl and femâl to lead out of stryf and discord up to God in vvays of lov truth peas and ryteosnes whol Christendom is becom lyk the Raging sea tos ed to and fro vvith every vvynd of Doctrin runing al on heaps contending and quarreling ôn vvith another about emty nâms ways forms professions in Religion ôn sort or sect crying lo heer another lo ther a third this is the way being al of them strangers aliens enemys to the Power Spirit of God in themselvs in his Peepel Ignorant of him who is the former of al things and is without form was befor al forms or visibel appearances and abyds the sâm vvhen they hav their end vvrangling and contending about outvvard bred and wyn and water Baptisms and Carnal ordinanses which wer figurs in their tym but the living bred of God vvhich cometh dovvn from heven in his saints and the Pur Wyn of the Kingdom of God vvhich refresheth and norisheth the lyf vvhich is pur eternal and Immortal of God in the Imvard parts is not truly fed on or drank of by them And the ón Baptism vvhich saveth even the pur living water of lyf which clenseth washeth the Inward man and sprinkleth from an evil consciens is not known felt or truly Experiensed in them Betwixt thos two to wit the Beast fals Profet the Civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled hath the lamb slayn from the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes bin crucifyed afresh as betwixt two theevs the ón being accuser the old accuser of the Brethren the other Iudg the third to wit the Military Power the executioner which is the Barrabas vvhich they hav chosen in rejecting crucifying of Jesus by vvhom al the Insurrections Murders divydings of his garment to wit the creation into particular Intrests casting lots on his vestur hath bin don commited sins the entrans of transgression to this day vvhos practis hath bin stil is to Rob spoyl plunder the nations of their tresurs fruits of their labors to uphold themselvs in pryd lusts eas Fulnes cruelty oppression over the Nations under fals pertenses of protecting teaching them in vvays of Peas ryteosnes and salvation Thes ar the Phisicians of no valu the Nations hav bin the woman vvith the bloudy Issu that hath gon to them for help cur but notvvithstanding vvel ny al hath bin spent on them the bloudy Issu hath not bin healed but rendred by far the mor Incurabel but blesed be the Lord the vvoman hath now met vvith Jesus the good Phisician goten a touch of the hem of his garment feels in her self the healing vertu the Bloudy Issu is in mesur stayed vvhich blesed healing vertu shal not ceas vvorking til it pas throuh the vvhol body of the Creation and the cûr and redemtion therof be compleated the thre that beare Record in bel Thes tovvit the Dragon Beast fals profet à r the three that bear record in Erth and hel vvhich ar ôn and Agree in ôn to vvit the Spirit of the old serpent in man its corrupting of Man-kynd its cursed fruits and operations throuh Man kynd And heer may be noted that which I may cal the living or essential differens betwixt the living tru Lord God the Devil the old Serpent the God of the World about which the learned Disputers eloquent Orators Comentators in the Spirit of the World hav bin so long Disputing contending and wryting larg Commentarys Contradictory ôn to the other But having nether the Key of David nor the Heffer of Sampson to Plow with could never truly open or unfold the Matter and al thô they hav mâd ûs ' of the Words of the Holy Men of God recorded in the Scripturs yet ar they therin found fals witneses being strangers aliens from that Holy Pur Spirit Lyt Wisdom of God in the Holy Profets by which they spâk and wrot The living tru God is that Eternal Pur Spirit of Lyt Lyf Wisdom Power which hath its being in of its self and was befor al Creaturs visibel and in visibel wer is the lyf former fulnes end of them al abydeth the sâm when they hav their end But the old Serpent the Devil the God of the World was not befor things visibel and invisibel wer but was mà d manifest in tym throuh matter form and is not but by and throuh matter and form and ceaseth to be when they hav their end in every particular towit the Spirit of that old Serpent the carnal covetos mynd with the law therof which hath its Seat in the members the Erthly or sensual part of Man-kynd which is the Woman that was deceived first in the transgression both of mâl femâl which is Deth Hel a Devil in al in whom it dwels reins even the Kingdom and Power offin darknes the seat and Thrôn of al Iniquity and al who in that Spirit and Power Exercys Rul and Dominion ever others ar a hel of Devils and tormentors to them which is the Spirit of the Beast in Man-kynd that goeth downward and renders al in whom it Dwels ruls to be the Seed and Children of the Devil that old Serpent which is mor subtil then any beast of the field which the Lord God hath mâd whos curs and portion was is for ever shal be on their Bellys to go to eat dust al the Days of their lyf but the lyf which is pur of God in Man-kynd is not up held by bred alon but by the pur Word of the Lord of lyf and Power in the inward parts doth man liv whom God is now restoring and redeeming again up into himself to Partak o◠his own pur Divyn Natur and fulnes and to bear his Imag to the injoyment of the gift which he freely gav to the Children of Men whom the Lord wil again Crown with his own pur lyf Plas in Eternal Dominion over the works of his hands The Son is in mesur risen and the day com in which al the devouring Beasts of Prey shal ly down in their dens sleep a perpetual sleep man goforth unto his labor until the evening from under the curs Power of transgression sin Deth hel in the blesing of Eternal lyf pur lov Peas Ryteosnes for ever mor. And so having slayn the Innocent murdered and crucifyed the just to and in themselvs the tru Lord and heyr of al cast him out of his inheritans and possesed themselvs therof they contryved hovv to mâk sur the possession therof to themselvs theyr heyrs and Successors in that Serpentyn Murderos oppresing Spirit Power if possibel to al ages generations And the woman the Ecclesiastical Power being deceived first in the
faith of Christ crucifyed manfully to fyt under his Banner against sin the VVorld the Devil to continu Christs faithful soldiers servants unto their lyvs ends c. which as any hav com truly to do be they hav bin mâd a prey on by them their Nâms cast forth as evil counted Heritics not fit to liv whos practis towards such for ages generations past to this day hath bin spoyling their goods imprisonment banishment whiping torturing racking hanging burning their persons Others ther ar who thô they ûs not such a heap of lys ceremoys about it yet ar they acted by the sam spirit Power in the ground in the administration therof som sprinkling infants others diping persons of ryper years affirming it to be the baptilm of Christ uring a necessity ther of as unto salvation wher in they agree with the whor of Rom wher as John who was the minister of water baptism said thus I baptys you with water but ther cometh òn after me mytyer then I to wit Christ he shal baptys you with the holy ghost or spirit and Christ himself in his charg to his discypels said go yee and teach al nations baptysing them he said not in water but in to the nam of the Father of the Son of the holy spirit which baptism of Christ by the holy spirit was administred throuh preaching in thè demonstration of the spirit Power of God wherby Peepel wer brouht in to a participation of the lyt lov wisdom Power and spirit of holynes which is the Nà m of the father who is the God of lyt and lov the nam of the Son who is the wisdom and Power of God the Nà m of the holy ghost who is caled the spirit of holynes this is the òn baptism which saveth which the Apostel said is not the washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good consciens towards God by the refurrection of Christ from the ded in them the baptism which is by the òn spirit into the òn body of Christ vvhich body of Christ is the whol creation visibel invisibel of which every living cretur of God is a member the tempel the hous of Prayer unto al nations the visibel and sensityv part wherof is the womam that was deceived and first in the transgression the evil effects of which transgresing Power hath throuh thos angels that kept not their own habitations spred it self over the whol body wherby a dark vail of covering hath bin drawn over the Pur lyt glory of God in every cretur visibel invisibel otherwys ther had not bin need of making a covenant for the redemtion Salvation Deliverans and restoration of the whol body had not the effects of the curs bondag of corruption bin over al that it hath bin so hath evidently appeared in the several ecclipses darkning of the Sun the turning of the moon in to bloud the faling of the stars of the hevens the Extreams of heat cold natural spiritual tempestuos and blasting Wynds outward Inward Infectios clouds vapors mildews on the outward Inward man overwhelming destroying showers of snovv rayn hayl the enmity that is not only in Man-kynd but in every cretur òn against another not only of ôn sort against thos of another sort but against ech other of the sam kynd sort which ar al the effects of the curs that entred by transgression it cannot be other wys For if God cast out God then wer his Kingdom divyded against it self so should hav an end but the eternal Power the former of al things being the spirit of Pur lyf lov peas wisdom ryteosnes holynes thos effects formentioned could not proceed from him for every effect proceeds from its natural proper caus had the creation stood under the goverment of that Pur Power spirit by which it was created brouht forth the transgresing Power curs could not hav entred al thos evil effects ther of had never bin brouht forth for deth folly unryteosnes desylment destruction enmity could never Possibly hav bin the effects or prodùs of that spirit of Pur lyf wisdom Ryteosnes Salvation Preservation lov From this cursed Root the transgressing Power that old serpentyn spirit which took plà s in Eva and Adam and throuh them hath spred it self over the whol body hath sprung al the wars murders Persecutions Enmity Deceit Plagu's Pestilenses sikneses Famins Destructions wo's Calamitys Miserys which hav bin stil ar not only upon in Man-kynd but in upon the vvhol body of the creation and as the everlasting covenant of God to his ovvn Pur Seed vvhich is Christ not only in Man-kynd but in the vvhol body of the creation every cretur therin contained coms to be mà d good the corrupt bondag of the transgresing Povver chal be broken al the miserabel cursed effects therof shal ceas According to the promis of God by throuh his holy Profets which body of Christ is his spous his church to for which he giveth himself that he may redeem wash clens it that it may becom holy blâmles without spot in the midst of which even in throuh every creturth declareth the Fathers Nà m unto his brethren sings Prayses unto him This is the sweet singer of Israel Christ is al in al betxixt God and man whether in disâ—ensing mercy or execuring Iudgment visibel or in visibel in upon Mankind as first to upon Adam Eva. who throuh al ages generations hath in Ryteosnes faithfulnes sung the sweet song of mercy judgment as a Son over his own hous to wit Christ the eternal word of lyf the vvisdom and Povver of God vvhich was in the begining vvith God befor his vvorks of old by vvhom al things wer mâd and ar upheld It was he that mâd Man-kynd in his own pur Imag plased him in Dominion over the works of his hands who in lov and Kyndnes gav them freedom to eat of every tree of the garden prohibiting them only from eating of the tree of knowledg of good and evil warning them in mercy of the evileffects of transgresing against his Just command therin yea even when the lust was conceiving and the Tempter working in Eva it was Christ the sâam eternal Wisdom and Power of God which in Just Ryteos Judgment after sin and transgression had taken plâs and got entrans in them that pronounsed and executed on in them the Just and Ryteos Judgments of God becaus of their sin transgression It was he to wit Christ that in mercy to in the old World exercysed patiens To and upon the old wrold long forbearans by his spirit in stryving with them til al flesh had corrupted their ways befor him so that it repented him that he had mà d man And
it was he that in just and ryteos Judgment brouht in the floud upon the World of the ungodly It was he that in lov and mercy to Sodom and Gomorrah and thos other citys gav them rain fruitful seasons wherby they had fulnes of bred and plenty therby leaving them inexcusabel To and upon Sodom and Gomorra exercysing long forbearans patiens and mercy towards them til his soul in just Lot was vexed and grieved with their wiked deeds who having filed up the mesur of their abominations It was he that in and by fyr executed the just and ryteos Judgment of God on them turning them into as hes leaving them an exampel to succeeding ages It was he that To upon Pharo Egypt in lov and mercy to Tharo and the Egyptians and to sav much Peepel alyv in throuh Joseph dyrected Pharo to lay up several slôrs of corn in the seven Years of plenty against the seven Years of famin And it was he that in throuh Moses and Aaron executed just ryteos Judgments on Pharo and the Egyptians becaus of their unryteos cruelty and bondag exercysed over Israël refusing to let them go that in and by the Sea overwhelmed Tharô and his host in their Murderos and wiked pursuit after Israël It was he that in lov To upon Israel in the wildernes mercy to Israël in throuh Moses Aaron the cloud Pillar of fyr Brasen Serpent Manna Water out of the Rok Christ brouht them out of Egyptian bondag led them saf throuh the Sea mâd known to them his law Statuts Judgments guyding feeding healing and preserving them and it was he that in just and ryteos Judgment becaus of their unbelief rebellions hardnes of heart caused their Carkases to fal in the wildernes It was he To upon the Canaanyes That in mercy to in the inhabitants of Canaan which wer befor Israël exercysed patiens and long forbearâns giving them the long injoyment of that good Land and his blesing in it and it was he that in throuh Israël executed his just and ryteos Judgment on them they having filed up the misur of their sins to theful It was he that in lov To upon Israel in the land of Canaan mercy to the of springs of rebellios Israël of whom themselvs said they should becom a prey who for his own Nâm and Covenant sâk mâd with faithful Abraham gav them the Possession of the Land of Canaan performing his word of promis to the ful as is recorded in the Scripturs of truth and it was he that in just and ryteos Judgment suffered the hethen round about them to com upon them exercys Dominion over them in the Land and somtyms to carry them captyvs in to other Cuntrys they having by their often Provocations Rebellions Idolatry departed from the Lord and broken the Covenant And when any mesur of tru repentans appeared in them It was he that in lov and mercy raised up saviors for them and in and throuh them Delivered them returning their captivity dyvers tyms who having fild up the mesur of their provocations oppressions and Idolatry moking stoning imprisoning cruelly using and slaying his Holy Profets sent unto them yea even betraying rejecting crucifying the Son of God himself Christ Jesus It was the sâm Eternal Power of God which dwelt bodyly in him who in just and ryteos Judgment in throuh the Romans destroyed their glorios city Tempel over turned their ons famos Government led them captyvs in shâm scorn and contemt amongst the Nations who so remain unto this day It was he that in lov mercy to the gentils or Romans ingrafted them into the good oliv tree causing them to partak of the blesed root To the Romans fatnes therof and who throuh al ages generations sins the World which lyeth in wikednes began in throuh the Apostacy of the Gentils or Romans hath born the strôk of the Murderers hand and his soul bin mad an offering for sin giving his bak to the smyter and his cheeks to them that hav pluked of the hair who in and throuh the Holy Men of God Profets Christ Jesus the Holy Apostels Saints Martyrs faithful witneses of Jesus to this day hath bin siling up the mesur of his sufferings for his bodys sak which is the Church enduring bearing the Reproaches Blasphemys contradictions of sinners the mesur of whos sufferings is neer hand fild up the witneses Prophesying in sakloth neer hand ended the Spirit of lyf from God being entred into them they in mesur standing on their own feet the end of the World which lys in wikednes being in mesur com which shal put an end to the Power of sin finish transgression bring in everlasting ryteosnes and establish it in Man kynd and Mankynd in it who is now appearing by the brytnes of his coming in ten thousands of his Saints in mesur alredy hath dayly mor mor shal reveal consum and utterly destroy the man of sin The sâm◠that hath executed And now the Gentils or Romans having siled up the measar of their Apostacy bloudy abominations in degenerating faling away from that pur lyf of saith holy conversation in Christ Jesus which was ons appearing in their predecessors racking stoning Imprisoning banishing torturing Burning and hanging thos in whom the Innocent holy lyf of Jesus hath appeared whom God hath raised up sent often amongst them to warn them turn them from the evil of their doings whos warnings counsels being rejected and despysed Now therefor is Christ the sam Eternal wisdom lyt Power of God in Just ryteos Judgment raysing up the Turkish Power in throuh them wil he Execut on the Dragon 's beast's fals profet's power in the Romans or gentils the Judgments writen Who also when he hath don his work in Syon wil punish the stout heart of the King of Assyria the glory of his hy looks and the hauhtynes of man shal be abased and the loftynes of man laid low even with the ground every mountain leveled the Lord alon Exalted al his enemys becom his footstool swords beat into plovv shârs and spears into pruning hooks so that nation shal not lift up sword against nation nor learn war any mor the whol creation be delivered from the bondag of corruption into the glorios liberty of the Sons of God and the Kingdom and Dominion in throuh and over al surrendred up unto the Fáther and thus Christ the lyt vvisdom and Power of God the Root and of spring of David the sweet singer of Israel having glorifyed the Father on Erth finished the vvork given him to do in the faithful administration execution of mercy judgment shal be glorifyed with the Father and the whol creation in and with him
their delyt to spend their tym in covetos vvays and practises to heap up to them selvs the Riches and tresur of the vvorld by dishonest gain having ther feet stiking fast in the myr of filth and unryteosnes the singing and praysing of such is not only a sacrifys of fools but a sacrifys of abominabel lys blasphemys And thus al the inward invisibelthings of God being changed into outward visibel syns shaddows of theÌ„ viz for the tru clothing of the ryteosnes of Christ the tru Imag of God and aros of Christ Holy-day of the Spirit Holy Water of byf inwardlyt c. they hav set up their paint ed Priestly rôbs outward Images Crosses Holy days Holy water outwardlyts of Candels And being strangers and enemys to thelyt and spirit of truth in man which sercheth the deep things of God vvhich is the eternal day the holy day of God vvhich al vvho truly keep ar children of the day they hav in their ovvn vvils mâd and set a part many days which they cal holy Days giving them the nâms of Christ-mas Candel mas Lammas Michael-mas days of saints as Iames Peters Thomas Iohn's day with many other Nams on which days after they hav bin at their charms of babbeling sorcery and Idolatros witch craft caled Mas divyn servis commy prayers sermons c. many tyms the priest taketh their consecrated breden-Y dol God which they cal the hallowed host the bedy of their Lord God having a canopy born over him others bearing dyvers standadrs or banners with Y dol picturs in them but the standard Banner of Christ which is Peas Lov Ryteosnes Meeknes they ar strangers Enemys unto going up and down the streets fields causing hy low rich poor smal great mâl femâl to follow them in their Idolatros pernitios ways to bow kneel down to their invented Y dol be subject to their Idolatros practises after which both priest peepel spend the residu of thos days som in Y delnes vanity others in the exercys of Ryot chambering wantonnes masking Dansing bowling delitios fâr feasting excesyv drinking VVyn strong drink to drunkennes with several other ways of vanity and wickednes And being strangers and enemys to the spirit of the Lord that pur living fountain of living holy water in the in ward parts which washeth clenseth the in ward man in which the saints draw ny to God God draweth ny to them by wich they resist the devil mak him flee they tak outward water which after the priest hath said his charm over cald consecration they cal holy water they sprinkel both them selvs and the Peepel causing also the Peepel to sprinkel them selvs crosing themselvs with their hands affirming that it wil keep away evil spirits dryv away the devil c. Whylst the bodys of both priests peepel ar becom the habitations of devils the cages holds of every fowl spirit the seed children of hel the devil for they being found in the ways of deceit enmity unryteosnes covetosnes oppresion hypocrisy Idolatry persecution and murdering of the saints thes being works of the devil torches c. the Peepel âr deceived of the trusubstans fed only with inventions in which ther is no vertu they ar therby rendred the seed and children of that Father whos works they do as Christ said to the Jews of Old who said they wer the children of Abraham And lastly they caus a Law to be mâd prohibiting any from assembeling themselvs together to the Exercys of any worship but only in their Mas-houses or Y dol-tempels under the penalty of being Reputed and delt with as Conventikelers holding unlawful assemblys Heritics Non conformists disorderly Persons which hath bin Executed on thousands of Innocent persons in ways of cruelty bloud and murder in ages generations past unto this day Thus having eaten of the forbiden tree which appeared beautiful to the ey shee the Ecclesiastical Power gav also to her husband to wit the Civil Power so caled even the whol body of them even al the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom who haveat also with her And that al myt be mad sûr on their Parts also they invented an oath caled the oath of Allegians to be taken by such as ar within the Consyns of ech of their severaldominions causing their Laws with Bils Bonds and wrytings obligatory to be put in Latin under a precens to uphold and incorag learning wherby provision was mad to uphold that Proud Covetos Vnresonabel Extorting and Deceitful generation of men cald Doctors in the law Counselers Advocats Solicitors Atturnys Clarks and Scrybs and to the end that al myt be mád saf and secur on every hand they hav the red Dragon or Military Power which they Plâs and quarter up and down in and throuh the nations in thos fexes hòls to wit the fensed citys strong holds and garrisons standing ther as the angels of ech devil redy to obey and fulfil their cursed wils and plesurs So that they becam as a three fold cord or bond of wickedâ—es not easily to be broken wherby the nations becam subjected under the cruel bondag of corruption not wilingly but by fo rs and cruelty and becam as an As or the foal of an As on which never man sat but cruel devouring beasts of prey whos journy hath not bin to Ierusalem but to there building of Iericho which is cursed with the founder and the finisher who laid the foundation therof in his first born by whom sin transgresion had its entrans into the world which is now finishing in his yongest son the foundation of whos wals is bloud and murder the gats therof deceit and lys into which nothing can enter but that which defyleth and worketh abomination in the darknes wherof the nations of them that sit under the region of the shadow of deth do dwel and walk And thus the old serpent the God of the world having finished his work sat himself down in them to tak his Rest as a strong man armed concluding to keep his hous wyf children goods in sâfty and peas in their dyabolical order fraternity if poslibel to al ages generations making them selvs Merry together over the slayn Innocent witnes of God the tru heyr of al which they hav crucifyed to in themselvs afresh hav mád themselvs drunk with the bloud of the Innocent lying down together in their beds of Eas to tak their fil of Dyabolical lov together in the Exercys of al manner of A bominations filthynes both of flesh spirit until the morning the good man of the hous being gon from hôm not to return til the tym appoynted issuing forth the filthy seed of their corrupt bodys of adultery whordom in a continued succession throuh and over the nations to comand govern feed and teach the flok
throuh them hath grown spred it self as evil leven throuhout the whol lomp that cursed seed of the Serpent hath grown up in thee not only in thy Elders teachers but also throuh them in thy Rulers war â—â—rs Peepel is becom a Man of sin mystery of iniquity even the Son of perdition yea a strong man armed with the dragons Power keeping possession of the hous to wit of thee O Christendom siting as God in thee who ouhtst of ryt to be a living Tempel for the tru living Lod God omnipotent to dwol and walk in Which hath rendred thy Military Power even the whol body of them to be the great Reed Dragon that gav to the beast his power seat and great Authority with seven heds ten horns seven crowns upon his hed which hath stil doth stand befor the woman which did now doth bring forth the man-chyld who in mesur doth and dayly môr shal Rûl the nations with a Rod of Yron who failing in his first enterprys against the bâb of glory being cast out of heven into the erth hath stil doth persecut the woman which did and now doth bring forth the Man-chyld hath doth cast out water as a floud out of his mouth to cary her away therwith making war with the Remnant of her seed which keeps the commandements of God hav the testimony of Jesus even the arm of the ungodly which must now be broken a standing engyn to oppres spoyl consum the tresur bloud of the nations Who 's Rys continuans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent which was in Cain in Simeon Levy thos brethren in Iniquity in whos habitations ar the cursed Instruments of Murder Bloud cruelty whos practis was and stil is whylst pretending overturs treatys of peas agreement to seek tak advantages to Kil Murder Destroy But the day is now com in which they must receiv their Iust Reward from the Lord God they shal be divyded in Iacob scattered in Israel a Fugityv vagabond on the erth from the Lord God for ever must that Power and spirit be in which they stand and by which they ar acted Thy Civil Power so caled even the whol body of them Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers their predecesors in the fal hav bin stil remain that scarlet colored beast ful of the nams of Blasphemy having seven heds ten horns which ascended out of the bottomles pit upon vvhom the scarlet whôr that adulteros Woman â—esabel to vvit the whôl body of thy spiritual men or Clergy so caled hath stil doth sit which hath mà d war with the two vvitneses of God and overcom them vvhos Power seat great authority was given and is stil upheld by the dragon or military Power whos mouth hath uttered great things blasphemys vvhich vvas to continu trampeling the holy city fourty two months opening his mouth in blasphemys even against God blaspheming his Nà m tabernakel and them that dwel in heven who hath mà d vvar vvith the saints over com them hath had stil hath Power over Kingdoms tongu's and nations and vvas and stil is vvors hiped by al vvhos Nà ms ar not writen in the Lambs book of lyf Their several throns and Seats of residens exampels of villany al manner of vvickednes to the several Kingdoms Dominions and territorys over vvhich they rul sending forth the stinking smels of vanity Pryd Lust VVantones VVhordom Exces Drunkenes vayn Plesurs Oppression Cruelty Injustis Deceit Envy Murder making aprey of the Innocent such as de part from Iniquity Who 's rys continnans to this day is in the Spirit of the old Serpent which vvas in Cain that city builder in Ismael Nimrod Esau and in thos Kingly Governers of Sodom and Gomorrha and the citys therabouts vvhos practis vvas and stil is by stryf contention and vvars to destroy and murder the Peepel under their government therby to vvrest Dominion out of the hands of ech other amongst vvhom just Lot is mâd a prisoner and captyv But the day is now com in vvhich Abraham the Brother of Lot is arming his houshold Gideon the Lords Thresher vvith his sharp threshing instrument having teeth hath taken the field vvith his three hundred Men and the Lord vvil smyt them as in the day of Midian mâk their Prinses as Oreb Zeeb as Zeba Zalmunna vvhich perished at Endor the habitation of the Spirit of vvitch craft and becam as dung upon the Erth. The Captyr Exyl hasteth to be delivered and shal be lifted up out of the pit and redeemed and brouht bâk vvithout money vvithout prys but thâ— prey shal not be taken from the myty nether shal the lavvful captyâ— be delivered out of his hand vvho had descended into the lovver most parts of the Erth even into the Belly of hel but is novv ascended and ascending up far abov al hevens leading captivity captyv giving gifts unto Men spoyling Principalitys Powers even the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers of the Darknes of this World making an open shevv of them triumphing over them and trampeling on them in his cros vvho is the lyt lyf of Men the VVisdom and Power of God Thy Ecclesiastical Power even the whol body of them caled the Clergy or Spiritual Men with their predecessors in the fal apostacy wer and stil ar that great skarlet whor wich seteth upon many waters even the mother of harlots abominations of the erth with whom thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel even the whol body of thee O Christendom hav commited spiritual fornication arrayed in purpel skarlet and fyn linnen deked with gold c. having a golden cup in her hand ful of abomnations filthynes of her whordoms on whos forhed is writen Mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots and abominations of the whol Erth who hath bin and stil remains drunk with the bloud of the Saints and of the Martyrs of Iesus Thy several plases of worship Tempels of Ydols plases of the forms of godlynes with out the lyf and power therof which ar to be turned from the vvhol body of thy vvorship as an Altar vvith an inscription to the unknown God The several exercyses of prayer preaching sacraments singing with the observation of days tyms sabbaths performed and observed at loathsom stinking most abominnabel in the nostrils of the put God of lyf no other but as the offering of swyns flesh blesing of Ydols or murdering of men being performed in that spirit Povver vvhich is enmity against God Who 's Rys and continans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent vvhich vvas in Cain vvho could offer a sacrifys then murder his brother in Balaam Athaliah Iezabel vvho hav riden the several nations of Christendom as an As for dishonest gain the
wages of unryteosnes and vvhen the As hath bin mâd som tyms to speak vvith Mans voys and treprov their madnes folly and vvikedness he hath bin revvarded by them not only vvith grievos stryps but vvith spoyling of goods syns Imprisonments banishment hanging burning But the Day is now com in which she must receiv her just ryteos reward at the hand of the Lord God the Lamb in the Cup that she hath filed must now be filed to her doubel althô she paint her sâs look out at the window and Cry treason treason at the appearans of the Ryt heyr whylst the Crown is seting on his hed by the Royal Triesthood in the Holy Tempel of the Lord in the secret of which towit honest Contryt Humbel broken hearts he hath bin hid from her Murderos conspyracy in destroying the seed Royal during the tym of the cruel usurped Reyn of her and her Husband which was the plâs of the beloveds retyrment until the breaking of the day and fleeing away of the shadows yet now must shee be thrown out at the window by her own Servants and be troden under foot as unsavory salt thos dogs towit the horns shal hât her eat her flesh burn her with fyr so that nouht shal be left of her but the skul feet palms of her hands the ôn to mâk known their desolat condition the other to bear them as mourners about the streets the palms of their hands to receiv what others shal freely bestow upon them The Profet of the Lord is returned from thecâv descending the Mount of God tryal must now be mâd which is the living tru Lord God and the God which answereth by fyr he was is and for ever shal appear to be the only living tru God Wherfor al yee worshipers of al sorts of what nâms in what forms professions soever without the lyf and pur Power of God gather your selvs together every ôn to the worship of your God with the Masses Ave-Marys Pater-nosters Dyrectorys Servis-books Common Prayers Extemporary Devotions cry aloud for your God is now faling into asleep out of which he shal never mor awak he is on a journy from which he shal never mor return if audiens help now fayl you ther is no way of escaping for you but by the two edged sword of the Lord yee must be slauhtered in to the Lâk of perdition must yee be cast and the vengeans of Eternal fyr seiz upon you Thy Schools Colledges Vniversitys ar as so many standing stinking ponds of corrupt Infectios poysoning vvaters corruptin infecting Man kynd even from their chyld-hood raising quickening norishing that spirit Power in them vvhich is foolishnes enmity against God fiting them only to be habitations of Devils to ferv and vvorship the devil the God of the vvorld in their generation trayning them up in the learning and knowledg of tongu's parts and arts standing in that vvisdom and Povver vvhich is foolishnes and enmity against the pur Lord God Who 's rys and continuans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent which was in Cain his posterity that Liberal-art-inventing-spirit in the astrologers of Egipt and Babylon and thos curios liberal Artists vvho at the appearans of truth in and throuh the holy apostels brouht their books together and burnt them openly thô valued at an hy rât and happy vvould it be for them if at the appearans of truth now throuh the despysed and contemned children of the lyt they myt be brouht to follovv their exampel for the day is novv com in vvhich they must receiv their just and ryteos revvard at the hand of the Lord God omnipotent even in the lâk of perdition and destruction vvith their lybrarys and suffer the vengeans of eternal fyr vvith that body of vvhordoms and abominations of vvhich they ar as it vver the vvomb or generating part Thy Towns Citys ar as so many svvarms of filthy vermin sending forth the stinking smels of Covetosnes pryd deceit oppression vanity Idelnes lust whordom drunkenes gluttony and al Manner of unryteos and abominabel practises But the day is novv com in vvhich they must receiv the just revvard of their doings and be dayly mor and mor depopulated and the great and fayr houses stand vvithout Inhabitants and shal vvast and consum away until they becom as un-waled villages Thy courts of Iudicatur vvith their dependanses to vvit thos cald Iudges Doctors Sergeants at Law Counselers Advocats Aturnys Solicitors clarks scrybs so many seats and instruments of cruel oppresion injustis brybery and extortion even a most intolerabel burden to the peepel of the several nations tongu's languages Amongst whom they Exercys dominion vvho in sted of doing them justis ending their differenses reconcyling them to ôn another mâk aprey of them laying burdens on them grievos and hevy to be born but not touching them to help or eas them vvith ôn of their fingers causing them to spend their tym vvear out their bodys vex and torment their Spirits vvast and consum their Estats in vvaiting and attending on them and yet to fayl of their expected issu from them But the day is novv com in which they also shal receiv the just revvard of their dongs even vvrath vvo misery and destruction from the presens of the Lord God and the glory of his pur povver in the lâk vvith that Beastly Body of which they ar members whos cursed and oppresing Power they represent Exercys Thy several sorts of Marchants buyers selers traders in ships shops Wâr-houses Ins victualing-houses fayrs and markets with their weihts and mesurs so many plases instruments and inventions in ways of commers in that spirit which is enmity against God whos practises hav bin stil ar to hord up the several stôrs provisions of the hous of God til they somtyms corrupt rot and spoyl whylst many poor cretursly up and down streets villages hungry cold in want of cloathing pyning away and perishing for want of the creturs which spoyl and oppresion must now be charged on them making marchandys of the gifts of God wich al flow from the ôn gift vvhich he freely gav to the children of men vvithout respect to persons somtyms deceitfully mingling the Creturs the corrupt vvith the sound puting on them deceitful colors and garnishings to increas their dishonest gain by them the seler using many deceitful words about the goodnes of them the Buyer the lyk to undervalu them the seler often tyms taking advantag on the vvant necessity and ignorans of the buyer the buyer oftentyms doing the sam to the seler using also ways of decâ—it to mak the creturs to weih the hevier fil the mesur sooner then otherwys it would and thus the spirit of covetosnes deceit theft oppression acteth both buyer seler But the day is now com
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 â—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
his Counsels wouldst nôn of his reproof he now lafs at thy destruction moks at the fears which ar coming upon thee on every hand even as desolation thy destruction as a whirl-wind and althô thou cryest yet wil he not hear even to the Lord yet vvil he not answer thee becaust thou hast hated instruction rejected his warning and Counsels throuh his Servants Messengers Therfor shalt thou now eat the fruits of thy own doings be filed vvith the just revvard of thy own ways of vvickednes the tokens of thy south sayers vvil he frustrat mâk thy Divyners or Spiritual Men mad Thy Sun thy Moon thy Stars ar becom dark the Keepers of thy hous begin to trembel thy strong Men to bow themselvs dredful fears ar coming on thee on every hand becaus Man is now going to his long hôm the mourners begin to go about the streets he is coming forth out of the wildernes with his beloved leaning on him lyk Pillars of smoak who looketh forth as the morning and is terribel as an army with banners yea he is making hast as a Roe or yong hart upon the mountains of Bether and wil now most assuredly eas himself of his adversarys and aveng himself upon al his and his dear oppresed despysed and cruelly murdered Saints and Peepels enemys from the least to the greatest Thy youths shal faint and thy strong men shal utterly fal yea even becom as Tow and the maker of al as a spark in them and they shal burn together and non shal be abel to quench them The Lyt of Israel is becom a fyr the holy on A flâm in thee which shal not ceas burning til al the bryars and thorns in thee be utterly consumed burnt up the loftynes of Man is now bowing down the hauhtynes of man is the Lord now laying low the day of the Lords just wrath and vengeans is now com shal be upon al the proud that ar lifted up they shal be abased and laid low even in the dust and the Lord alôn in his sanctifyed ôns shal be exalted in throuh and over al in thee His and his dear despysed afflicted peepels enemys in mesur hav dayly mor and mor shal run into hôls and Cavs of the Erth for fear of the Lord and becaus of the greatnes of his glory pur Power presens in his Peepel who is how risen in them throuh them in mesur hath and dayly mor and mor shal shâk terribely the erth The Rod is sprung forth out of the stem of Iesse with the sword of his mouth is he smyting the erth and with the breth of his lips slaying the wicked the Lord hath raysed up ôn from the North who from the rysing of the sun hath cald upon his nâm and he is com coming upon thy Prinses as upon mortar and vvil tread them as the poter doth the clay in thee O Christendom And althô the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers and Peepel do associat themselvs together yet they shal be kroken to pieces thô they tâk crafty counsel speak the word yet it shal not stand but be utterly frustrat com to nauht for the Lord God ommipent is in with his heritag who âr now becom a holy Tempel and dweling plâs for the Lord God of Jacob even apur tabernakel for the sun of ryteosnes vvho is novv risen in them rejoycing as a strong man to run his râs his glorios beams of pur and eternal lyt break forth over the tops of the mountains vvhich novv begin to smoak he is looking from the top of Amana and from the top of shynar Hermon even from the lyons dens and mountains of the leopards he hath caled his myty ôns for his anger even them that rejoys in his hynes The bauner of the Lord is now lifted up against spiritual Babylon in thee O Christendom the noys of a multitud is now breaking forth even a tumultuos noys of Kingdoms nations gathering together The Lord of hosts is mustering his hosts for the battel they com from the end of heven even the Lord and the weapons of his indignation to destroy the whol land to wit that Power and spirit in vvhich thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers VVariors Teachers and Peepel now stand and by which they ar now acted He that is Red in his apparel is now com forth shal dayly mor and mòr appear in dyed garments traveling in the greatnes of his myt who speaks in Ryteosnes myty to sav and to destroy the day of vengeans is in his heart and he wil tread the VVynpres of his fiers wrath in thee even tread down thy Peepel in his fury trampel upon them in his anger and stain al his rayment yea mâk them drunk in his fury bring down thy strength to the ground O Christendom His sword is in mesur drawn furbished for the slauhter he wil even bath his two edged sword in heven in thee thou that hast spoyled must now be spoyled the Lord with his great long sword in mesur hath dayly mòr mòr shal piers Levyathan that piersing crooked Serpent slay the dragon in thy sea he is novv declaring publishing among the nations the standard is up and spiritual Babylon in thee shal be confounded utterly destroyed and her Images ydols broken to pieces for out of the North ther cometh a nation against her vvho in mesur alredy hath and dayly mòr mòr shal mà k her land desolat he is causing to com up an assembly from the North cuntrry vvho in mesur alredy hath dayly mòr and mor shal set themselvs in battel array against her and from thens shal shee be utterly destroyed not by myt or power of the arm of flesh but by my spirit even the sword of my mouth saith the Lord God their arrows ar as of a myty expert man nòn shal return in vain a sound of battel is in thy land and of great destructions the hammer of the whol Erth in thee shal be cut and broken to pieces spiritual Babylon in thee shal be an utter desolation among the nations thy yong men shal fal by the sword in battel and thy myty men of war be cut of the most proud shal utterly fal non shal be abel to rays him up yea a fyr is in mesur Kindled in thy citys which shal devour round about the sword of the Lord is drawing upon thy inhabitants upon thy Potentats upon thy wys men thy lying Profets fals teachers they shal doat upon thy horses upon thy chariots they shal fal be broken to pieces upon al thy mingled peepel they shal becom as VVomen upon thy tresurs they shal be Robed even a drouth upon thy waters and they shal be dryed up for thy land is a Land of graven images they ar mad upon their Ydols A peepel ar and shal
and spirit of grà s 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 sà fty 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 overshaâ—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