WORLDS in their Generations where wild BULLS of Bashan are reared up to push and devour each other and from DAN there is in mine Ear the snorting of Horses and ratling sound of the Chariot Wheels like rumblings in the Air hurling up and down for REST from noise And what is herein written is of things past present and to come which are all to be fulfilled in their place and order according to the Dayes and Hours for which the VISION doth work and is made to speak in what is narrowed to the Creaturely Capaciiy through him that hath cut the Work short in Righteousness that is manifested throughout this la lâ— and Age of the WORLD LX. For from the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about EUROPE in its fourth part and Quarter is the destroying Power of God loosed for the Execution of Divine Justice on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast on whom the torment of those Months is accomplished to the finishing the work in which Death hath Dominion over that Nature wherein the WORLDS are imbodied in its Quarters therefore is the time near at hand wherein the Worlds will suffer very great shakings and Earthquakes will break forth in divers parts thereof to the overturning of many Foundations and changing of Laws and Governments of Men whereby coldness of Spirit and deadness hath over-taken the Multitude in a dull and secure state and afterwards will follow a great Power of HEAT in kindling its FLAMES of DESTRUCTION throughout the BODY of the ELEMENTS CHAP. XI Describing the MYSTERY of Time for which the Vision is set c. LXI Concerning the TIME for which the VISION is set it is now near the expiration of one hundred and twenty days since the finishing of the fifteen years wherein I beheld the prevailing of the Waters over the Earth in the fifth year that I saw the fall of the Worlds under a Power of Corruption through which the Waters became smitten in their third part under which the WORLDS stand divided in their four Quarters in the dispersing abroad of the FLOODS on which the People were moved and tossed up and down as the Waters fell BACKWARD into their four Heads by which every thing hath been tryed and carried into its appointed Place through the Tempests and swelling Waves of awakened Storms that are come into the Worlds LXII For from those TWELVE Years wherein the Nations of the Earth were subject to one KING a Spirit of Rebellion against the Power of the Beast entered four Kings of the four Winds of the Heavens who fell before five in the Vale of Siddim that is full of slime-pits whereby the remainder of those that escaped were reduced to the Mountains on their flight yet the thirteenth year which was the year of their Rebellion was it in which the Power of the BEAST stood dispersed in the striving of the four WINDS of the Heavens on the great River EUPHRATES out of which their Power is again revived and loosed though from the Seat of the Beast which is the BOTTOMLESS-PIT from whence proceeded those living Creatures called LOCUSTS that I beheld in the Vision in the form of Goats c. Life again entred that on which rested the First Wound in Nature LXIII And as the LEOPARD or Great BEAR came forth manifest with four Wings on his Back like the Wings of a FOWL his Kingdom stood dispersed abroad the Earth and Worlds and in the place of the Great Horn of the RUFF GOAT of GREECE which was broken by the power under which the Worlds stood divided those Four notable Horns were seen that became exalted towards the four Winds of the Heavens which are the Power of four KINGS and four Heads of the Beast that did spring out of the first Breach whose Kingdoms are not so mighty as the first wherein the Little Horn came forth between the Eyes of the Goat c. LXIV And that little Help through which the fifth Head in the midst of four on which sprung up five Horns that were broken and fell in the first King received that deadly Wound c. is a Power in the North Wind of the Heavens under which the Wound is become again healed up that is the Feet of the Image which is partly to break and partly to be broken for it is both Iron and Clay And this is the King of the NORTH who may be manifest in the Person of a Man of fierce Speech and dark Countenance as he is indeed manifest through many in whom a Power of the North Winde hath been dignified as Kings in that REGION wherein is a cold binding Climat of dark Air. LXV For since the fourteenth year wherein the South Winds of the Heavens were reproved and corrected for their Rebellion in those four Kings whose Kingdoms were enlarged in the dispersing abroad of the Power of four that sprung out of one who retained not the ARM that which grew up towards its tryal by FIRE was separated into its Mystery in what was effected through the fifteenth year from whence the Worlds have been warned one hundred and twenty days according to the days of the Life of Man of that destruction and desolution by the over-flowing Scourge wherein the Waters have exercised a Dominion that is ome under the smiting of the four Winds of the Heavens LXVI And wherein both the HEADS and HORNS of the Beast are KINGS and POWERS in Nature that have their Form in and on Men yet the King himself of that North Wind is not the Person of any ONE Man but a Power in One as well as in Many that are wholly under the Dominion of the Beast or that have his Mark c. according to the Power of the Constellations under which the period of all Signs in the Heavens are moved and do work over such that have their concern therein in a mystical and spiritual sence to all NAMES in Nature but now is it manifest that the MYSTERY of Time is compleat in the Figure of the FORMS in Nature wherein every thing that is either past present or to come remaineth MEASURABLE and DISTINGUISHABLE according to that Spirit under which all Powers in Nature doth WORK and and whereby all that is wrought in its BEING is come forth into FORM. LXVII Yet Nature that is Creatable suffereth through all Changes and REVOLUTIONS that are MANIFEST on and in the BODY of ELEMENTS subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption both the Good and the Evil of which the MAN hath tasted in the exercise of his Sence according to the operation of Qualities that are predominate in his BIRTH though nothing is absolute in time and place to the MAN but in the Power under which his Life is concerned operating in all the faculties of Nature in which is the holy and glorious Land whence tidings shall come out of the North and from the East which will trouble the NATIONS and Inhabitants of the Earth who are yet to
THE Revelation OF GOD his GLORY SOUNDED FORTH For the opening the Mystery of the Seven SEALS on the Book of the WONDERS of GOD in the hand of the ANGEL BEING A True and Faithful TESTIMONY Of the Enochian Prophecie Of the Rise and Fall of ANTICHRIST And of the Restauration of ZION to its Primitive Glory London Printed in the year 1665. The EPISTLE To the READER I. LEt the Impartial Reader seriously weigh what is herein set down and rashly pass no Sentence on a Work of this concernment neither scruple at the Form and Method in which it is come forth to the view of all sorts of Spirits wherein I cannot expect so kind entertainment in matters of such nature as to have all Men speak well of it or of me therein because then had I my Reward with men II. For my whole and sole aim and intention in this work as far forth as I know and am made sensible of my own frame and temper of Spirit is and hath been other ways grounded and founded in Truth than to seek other Honour and Glory than what is of and cometh from GOD wherein I have a Witness both in Heaven and Earth which I might call to bear Record with and for me that I considerately love not vain ostentation or to boast over the Weak by soaring aloft out of the reach of their Capacities that something else than the Spirit of GOD should be exalted in the Temple and Throne of Gods DIGNITY III. Because then might I expect that God should glory over me in the WORK of DESTRUCTION Though I know in the following Treatise much is come forth in an unpleasant form and dress to the curious search of some that may count themselves wise and it will be accounted at the first sight thereof rather FORM and SHADOW then SUBSTANCE and many will be ready to judge the truth of its Concern locked up in SIMILITUDES and sealed in an unknown Tongue in that through good Experience of the Enemies Work I am taught not to be too prodigal in opening Terms wherein some have suffered and come to a loss by such means and the Truth it self is thereby made of low esteem in the EYES of many proud and haughty Ones IV. Therefore have I employed my Endeavours under the workings and motions of the Spirit of God wherein many Mysteries of truth pertaining to the Establishment of his Kingdom have been revealed in and unto me that I might leave no room for contention to feed the snarling nature of those dogged qualities in such that are gon out of the patience and content of God where the Charity of Life is abounding wherein Covenant is kept with the LORD in that Spirit which particularly openeth and revealeth the Mysteries of Truth in all to whom it pertaineth to know the same V. And though such that hunger after Advantages in that SWINE-like Nature which is ready to return again and rend those that cast their Pearls before them are in the nature of the Harlot who is not to be fed with the portion of a true Matron neither is Childrens Bread to be cast before them in that adulterating spirit which openeth the Quiver out of which the Darts of Disdain are sent forth do fly abroad and yet shall not the Truths of God always continue clouded or obscured in silence as a Treasure hid in the EARTH VI. But the Time is come that the oppressed Life hath gathered strength and the groans of the Sufferer have made way for the resurrection of the slain and the Poor and Despised doth and will arise over all the contempt it hath met withall in its Way onward to the Land of REST and the Disdainful are ashamed to see the Beggar taken from off the Dunghil and such exalted in the Favour of God that were of low degree in the Eyes of the Admirer of the Persons of Men because of advantage who have said Sit thou here and be my Footstool since thou hast no Gold Ring nor gay Garment else depart and be thou warmed and fed but therefore are the Rich afflicted and the Full are given up into the Tormentors hands VII For a Day is already appeared in which the simple have been preserved in their Way and they shall grow in the Favour both of God and Man through all opposition they meet with by the fierce and cruel HUNTERS for their Prey And those that have said Come up higher and sit thou here because of thy covering and out-side Garment shall themselves be seen naked and hungry and in want of all things and many shall behold their shame for they shall no more wear a rough Garment to deceive or through austerity appoint places to such that may serve their Interest but the Voyce of the LORD shall be heard in the EARTH calling and inviting many to the great and last Supper of the LAMB who shall have on the Wedding Garment of a meek and quiet Spirit which is of great price with the Lord. VIII And this covering will never prove too narrow neither shall it be ripped off though such may come up in an appearance of Glory to manifest the end of the Worldly Sentence that is gone out against them but seeing fiery tryals are come wherein all Foundations are to be searched into that every Birth may live in and receive the Reward of that which it hath been sown in and to and that it may appear whether they can indure and hold out in the time of affliction Blessed are all they that have found out and are builded on the unmoveable and lasting Rock of Ages and Foundations of many Generations that have passed before them for I have seen many good beginnings in the Work of God wherein his Grace and Love was and is sufficient to perfect and finish the same had it been trusted to wholly and fully IX But such that have leaned to their own understandings have given heed to lying Vanities and have forsaken the FOUNTAIN of endless Mercies and Refreshments having still that of their own reserved which they are very loth to part from that separates between GOD and them these have begun well but who hath hindered them that they are so ready to sit down by the VVay in a false Peace and Rest wherein they come short of perfect Satisfaction in God looking on a self-sufficiency in something done as an Act of the Creature without the assistance of the Spirit of GOD to keep in the way of Peace X. For their beginning was in and by the Spirit of GOD why then seek they to be perfect by the Flesh and in a Name of Profession of Truth while they have the approbation of such that have convinced the Understanding of that which is Truth in the Judgment of Creatures but in a time of the tryal of their Faith the ends of the World are manifest before them and then is there a running to and fro to increase the Knowledge of the WORK of GOD
exalt the four destroying Angels of Strength that are loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES by which Europe hath been compassed about until the end of seven Months and five days though in the time of the sounding of those Trumpets the Winds have been suffered to blow on the Earth by those that have held their corners as four Angels standing on the four Corners of the same and the Spirit of God hath and doth yet strive with a Generation and Generations on whom the fierceness of Gods wrath in the Plagues of those Vials is to be poured forth and is come L. And the Creature Mankind imbodyed in this third Principle in which he is called the Microcosm or little World is that third part of the Macrocosm or great World as it standeth divided into its four parts or Quarters wherein the Eagle hath had Power over the North Quarter or fourth part of the Worlds where those Tryals are manifest under which the Lyon came first forth with four Wings of the Foul on his Back in which were Golden Fethers with the names of 36000. Men in each Golden Wing while the striving continued between the four Winds of the Heavens on the great Sea and from the loss of dominion therein in the plucking of the Lions Wings wherein came forth four other Beasts and took head in the Nature of that which separated the Man from the power in which he was first planted and placed the Kingdoms of the Earth and World became dispersed abroad the same LI. Until the great Bear or Leopard who hereby purchased the strength of those four Wings had them also taken away and the Man came to regain his dominion over all the Works of God's Hands as Lord in the substance of what is already communicated to his understanding and through those four first Beasts that now have taken unto them each of them the six Wings of the Cherubims every one in their order calling to come and see the Mystery of what is come forth to the Tryal of the Year Month Day and Hour over which they have Power and Dominion in their Angels the Glory of the Father is hallowed having in each Wing two thousand Fethers and names of Men which makes the Glorious Hoast of God in the Heavens Numerable in their Tribes and according to the Families of those scattered Nations over the face of the whole Earth LII Which are the dispersed Army of God and goodly company of that Mighty Hoast in the four Wings of the living Creature by which they stand figured forth 144000. of the first Body in which God hath his sealed Number of Instruments that are engaged in the Lamb's Battel as the MEMBERS of what hath continued like unto dry Bones in the Valleys And for the exalting their Angels in the Heavens their destroying power over the Earth and Worlds is loosed out of the great River over which the winds of the Heavens have striven and blowed while their destroying Power was bound LIII But now are the Winds in the Hands of the Angels to be with-held from blowing and the Spirit of God from striving any longer with the Creature Mankind by the Prophesie of the Witnesses or sounding of the Trumpets of God committed to the Angels and the whole Worlds shall be smitten with Plagues through that which is thus loosed out of the bottomless Pit wherein the Earth hath been covered with those Beasts called Locusts and they have overspread the same in its third part smitten by the sounding of the five first Trumpets and that which is awakened by the sounding of the sixth Trumpet hath command in and over those four Winds of the Heavens to with-hold them from blowing as oft as they please because God will not alwayes strive with Man who is but flesh LIV. And when the Earth is quiet and still according to the silence that hath been in HEAVEN for the space of half an hour and the Worlds begin to settle in the ease and content of the flesh then remember what I say for before this day there hath come Wars and rumours of Wars and the smoake of the torment of those Men on whom Judgment hath rested under the Power of the Beast shall be seen known to be the SEAT of the Beast in a fourth part of the great World that hath yet hitherto escaped Death in what came on that third part thereof in the little World Mankind like the fume of a boyling Furnace whence hath ascended the thick Cloud of Darkness that filleth the Heavens and the Power of the DRAGON who had delivered up his Seat and Throne unto the Beast for the time he remained bound in the bottomless Pit But that now is loosed in the sounding of the three last Trumpets is a Spirit working Miracles in the Earth in the execution of the three last WOES that are come thereinto for the awakening and rising up of three therein that do bear witness for GOD of what hath been crucified and slain in the Streets of the great CITY of the Worlds LV. And into those Kings of the East that have their Power again revived and their Heads healed which is a second Beast come out of the Earth with two Horns of a Ram pushing three ways to wit West and North and South shall enter those three Unclean Spirits of the Beast Dragon and Whore like Frogs through the drying up of the Waters in the great River EUPHRATES in the Worlds Sea they shall come over the same and into the place where God hath settled his glorious City and they shall strive to defile and overcome the Holy Land between the Seas but the end shall come with an over flowing Scourge and great Flood and out of the Mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet shall great things be performed and done LVI Yea all these things have a lively Character of the Truth hereof recorded in the Heavens by the Verity of Just Measure in time and Place for God is not to be limitted to time and place in his Work or to the prescription of men but he hath a time and season for every work according to which he hath determined and decreed an order wherein they are all to be fulfilled and brought to pass according to the measure by which they are measured and weighed in their day and the times and Seasons of their fulfilling have been in the Fathers hands until the hours thereof became made known to the Son of Man who is in Heaven in that which communicateth the sence thereof unto and in the World in whose behalf he came to lay down his Life in the Body of Flesh which he took up for the reconciling of the World unto the good will and pleasure of the Father LVII And the Star that is fallen from Heaven as an Angel that hath the Key of the bottomless-Pit I have beheld and do see the returning of such torment come on those men that have the Beasts mark on his Seat
that shall fill it with Pangs and many shall blaspheme God because of those Pangs that are come on them that have defiled the Temple of God created to be his House of Praise though now made that over which the Great Whore hath reigned that sitteth on the Kings of the Earth and this shall be known in the time that the beloved City becometh encamped about by the great Armies of the Aliens LVIII And concerning all these things the times are coming that they are to be fulfilled and in Europe will FALL suddenly a great Prince but England be thou still in thy Dominions until GOD come to exalt and set up His TRUTH over all the Powers of Darkness for thy striving for Conquest by the Sword and to get into Dominion is but vain LIX In that the Powers of the Air must heighten their glory before it can be seen what is smitten therein under the Power of the Eagle or King of the North that hath reigned more years than the King of the South and therein remaineth the Holy Seed and let him that hath Wisdom number and count those days past and yet observe that which is to be fulfilled to make up the expiration of the time and let it not be hard to believe well of that which crosseth thy expectations that thou shouldest be filled with the distrust of GOD and his Goodness and put an evil Construction upon that which answereth not thy Opinionatedness LX. And in the reading hereof the God of Life and Peace open your Understandings and bless and keep all in his Fear that those Sparks that have been raked under the Ashes of what was once enkindled in a consuming Flame may be blown up into a second Flame the Light of which I desire never more to see extinguished and put out as it keeps burning in and against Self for it is nothing else that burns up the Combustible Matter that hath been brought into the Temple of God And in this doth my SOUL continue praying to GOD Amen and Amen saith Thy Friend in all Love R. B. A TABLE Of the Contents of the CHAPTERS The First Part Describing Chap. 1. The Vision of the Wheels Chap. 2. The Diurnal Motion in the Wheels Chap. 3. The Mystery of the four large Hours in the Day and the four Watches of the Night Chap. 4. The degeneration of all Forms in Nature Chap. 5. The Government of Nature under the Power of four Beasts Chap. 6. The seven Nations of the World as they came forth imbodyed in the Forms of Nature Chap. 7. The manner how they became thus imbodyed Chap. 8. The operation of the Vision in the opening of the Heavens Chap. 9. The exercise of the Power of God over the mind wherein the Vision of these things wrought Chap. 10. The power of the Waters in the Vision of the Wheels Chap. 11. The nature of the World in its Principles Chap. 12. The manner wherein those Vessels were beheld unburdened that arrived from off those Waters separated into four Heads The Second Part. Greeting to the FOUR CHURCHES in EUROPE Describing Chap. 1. The coming forth of those four Beasts Chap. 2. The motion of the Wheels in their seven turns Chap. 3. The Forms of Nature under the renewing Power in God Chap. 4. The effect of the descending of Angels into the Forms of Nature Chap. 5. The order of those four Angels loosed out of the great River Euphrates Chap. 6. The Restauration of the Heavens in the Worlds Chap. 7. 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IN the year 5594 according to the most just and true account of the Creation of the Worlds in Adam and in the thirty-second year after the thirty-second JUBILE since the finishing of the Testimony of that great Prophet in his Body of Flesh who came forth into appearance and manifestation from the Worlds account 1664. being the year of his Incarnation who was the Glory Welbeloved of the Fathers Soul conversing with men in the substance of that Power in which all the Works of God were finished from the beginning the perfection of whose Nature had glory in what was effected in the SIX dayes work of Creation through the glorifying cause of all beings in Nature II. In the year aforesaid the REVELATION of JESUS the Son of the living God came unto me even unto me a Native of England sojourning among the scattered Nations and ungathered Families of the Captivity of Judah waiting for the Earths return to bring forth new fruit unto God throughout the four Quarters thereof which I am commanded of God to communicate to the Generations of the Worlds amongst which I am fallen III. Unto whom be Greeting and Salutation from your Brother in Tribulation and Companion in all afflictions for the Seeds sake whom Bonds have daily attended both inward and outward while for the sake of many and great Nations the travel of my Soul continueth that my groanings and labour in the Lord may procure the joy and rejoycings of as many as have a heart open to receive the benefit of what is brought forth through great conflicts IV. And from the Spirit of Jesus is my Souls enlargement to the disconsolate Babe of Hope and in the Authority of
Earthly Womb came to be through these Two NATIONS LXIX For by reason of a setled subjection in the ground of Nature from which the Man took being to wit out of the LIMUS of the Earth there had not come forth a Man to till and tear it up until a Second motion from God did work and operate after all his works were finished in the DIURNAL MOTION which became the NIGHT of the FOURTH DAY in Nature or FIRST DAY of God's glory in the Coelestial Body betwixt the Principles whereof a Separation was made which had a great LIGHT to rule its darkening qualities LXX And through the working properties in Nature which had the Annual Motion the preparation of a SECOND separated day in NATURE came up in the Resurrection of Glory in the JUST wherein the partakers of glory in a FIRST Resurrection were planted together in what the SON of MAN wrought up into the World through suffering LXXI And the Motion of Separation in the Turns of the WHEELS came forward until the midst of FIVE DAYES And I numbred the dayes of the continuance of the FIRST MAN that came forth imbodied from the Womb of Eternity to keep and dress the Vineyard wherein he was placed which were 930 days or Two years and Seven MONTHS which work was setled among the forms in NATURE and therein made destinguishable LXXII And I beheld the course of the SUN of the Glory of the Day of the SON of MAN moved FIVE MONTHS backward to bring forward the SEVEN MONTHS under which the BODY of NATURE stood subjected for a change sake in the separation of the THREE PRINCIPLES that became imbodied in the Two NATIONS that strove in the WOMB of NATURE to bring into appearance and manifestation the WORKS of WONDER through which the man traâ—…l all the two YEARS and SEVEN MONTHS under the workings and motions of the power of DEATH CHAP. VII Describing the manner how those seven Nations came forth thus imbodied in FORM. LXXIII AND those SEVEN NATIONS that strove in a Mystery came forth in the Two GENERATIONS that degenerated from the glory of his DAY in which day his Sun was divided after that of ONE the MAN was become TWAIN standing in the midst of that wherein he was brought forth wherein I beheld the course of the Sun of his Day steared through Two WORLDS and the MOON became exalted thereby in the changeability of her way and course by which the Body of Nature was afflicted to the subjecting the Womans will and desire to BODILY PANGS in which was indurance and suffering to the Creature of God And as the ORDER of Nature grew under corruptible courses in the WORLDS the shining of Glory in both WORLDS was a lustre in the frame standing still TEN DEGREES to bring back and recover what was lost in the course of Degeneration LXXV And on the Suns coming into Virgo which is the Virgins Night-house in the BOWELS of GLORY in the HEAVENS of an INWARD WORLD I beheld the form of Two SUNS placed in the Firmament of the Fathers Glory for the ECLIPS of the Sun was very great while this LABOUR continued in the Body of Nature wherein that which was divided from the Man came forth in the midst of the FIFTH MONTH after the Works of God were finished but counting those days wherein the Sun stood at a stay and the five dayes wherein the Virgin in Mans form was slain it was the concluding of five MONTHS under that which moved neither forward nor backward for a day LXXVI And as the forms of NATURE stood thus divided and separated I beheld the Woman travelling in the Heavens to bring forth into being what became imbodied from the WOMB of NATURE and the Body of Nature came under SUFFERINGS by the twain with whom she was in labour in the production of which the one came forty five dayes before and the other forty five dayes after her forty weeks under which the course of Nature was subjected LXXVII And for SEVENTY DAYES did the Moon prevail again in the Womans labour for strength towards a Second Birth which was thirty dayes after the Sun had recovered strength in the course under which the WORLDS were subjected in the frame of all forms in Nature for it was the expiration of the FIRST YEAR and FORTY DAYES after the Woman again conceived a MAN whose glory came forth in the SECOND YEARS WORK LXXVIII But in the conclusion of labour to the Creature In the first year the Body of Nature stood divided in the Creaturely Form wherein I came to the Sight of the Mystery of what stood unrevealed to the World under Characters of Blood the wonderful frame of the Works of God in the Book of Life wherein he is well pleased was thereby written in the sealed Testimony of the Spirit of Prophecy committed to the Hand of the Angel of Strength And the course of the Sun wrought in a MYSTERY of distance from the MOON in the changeability of what it effects over the Body of NATURE LXXIX But the exaltation of Beauty in the lustre of what the Creature was Planted in according to the Seed of its Birth was a moveability in its GLORY towards the Head of NATURE which broke forth in the Head and Face of a RAM for after the Seal of God on the day of the FOUR BEASTS in NATURE came to be taken off the Book of Life in which sence stood manifest the virtue of the Wonderful and Miraculous frame of his Spirits working in its various dispensations yet the destroying power of the four Angels that stood on the four corners of the Earth was bound in the great River EUPHRATES until their Year Month Day and Hour came to be revealed to the Glory of a Wonder-working-God LXXX And on the tenth day of the first Month of the second Year the Sun came up again in his course and entered the first Point of ARIES and as the Woman also recovered her strength she was delivered of that for which she traveled on the second day of the second Month as the Moon was entring her House of Exaltation for that which she laboured to bringing forth was five Nations which stood separate among the forms in Nature in the second years Revolution which was thirty dayes onward in the year and from the ground of destruction to the first FORM in the Woman was Seventy dayes it being effected Forty dayes before the Revolution of the first Years LXXXI This was a fifth Man in his Nation come forth into Form in the Creaturely being And on the first Day of the fourth Month the Woman was again delivered of a SIXTH MAN formed in his Nation in the Creaturely being as the Sun came towards Cancer the Breast of Nature in which the Moon stood exalted nine degrees in Taurus before the Sun entred the first point of Cancer in which the Sun was greatly Eclipsed LXXXII But the last day of the ninth Month the Woman was delivered
of a seventh Man in his Nation wherein the Bow-man was concerned for he rode in the Chariot of NATURE as a great PROPHET who continued a just year and was not for God took him to himself in the Revolution of the Heavens until the times of Restitution came for the delivering up of what had been retained in a Mystery and through the loosening of the Angels in the great River Euphrates the Bow-Man came forth manifest in the house of the Angels Exaltation to wit the ninth House of Mansions in the HEAVENS LXXXIII And the eighth Day of the eleventh Month the Woman again conceived and brought forth an Eighth Man formed in his Nation who saw the end of the old and first Worlds And after the revolution of the Second Year I beheld the Moon regaining strength and glory from the course of the Sun from which she borrowed her light And on the second day of the fifth Month of the third year the Moon was strong in her own House of Exaltation whereby the Sun suffered a third Eclipse on his coming into the Heart of Nature which is the House wherein he glorieth as his own LXXXIV And the Woman was delivered of a ninth Man in his Nation for the bringing forth of whom the first seven were destroyed in their Nations yet in him was a Seed preserved to replenish the Earth anew and into the renewed Habitation of Wonders in the Translations of the Body of Nature working among the forms of Creation the substance was taken and gathered but from the Heavens was a Voice The young Mans wound hath cured my hurt CHAP. VIII Describing the wonderful operation of the Vision in the opening of the Heavens testified through the Judgement of God against what came forth imbodied in Form in those seven Nations LXXXV THrough the striving of three Nations from the Womb of Eternity two Generations of Men continued labouring under what was degenerated into the imbodied FORM for Generations-sake And between those three was two Months for the separation of each in their Revolution wherein the Virgin in Nature suffered by the power of Death that entred the Creation of God LXXXVI On the last day of the Seventh Month of the third year died the first Man that became imbodied in FORM from the Womb of Nature as the Virgin in Nature lost her Crown and the Woman also come to suffer Death in Two Generations of Men concerned in the contest in the Heavens but the cause of such pangs and sufferings that rested on the Body of Nature was a fallen ground in the Earthly Principle which stood in and out of the WATERS as a fourth part of the Elemental Worlds and it was the last FORM under the power whereof the Life of the Creature remained suffering LXXXVII For the Seventh FORM in Nature that became imbodied in the Creaturely being was exalted on the Earth which proceeded from the FIERY Heavens from whence the Man took his dominion who was taken up unto God and was not on the last Day of the ninth Month of the third Year And the THIRD that proceeded from the Man imbodied from the Womb of Eternity and that took being amongst the Forms in Nature died in that FIRST Principle after the conclusion of the Eleventh Month and was dissolved in the Earth LXXXVIII But those Two by whom the Woman in Nature came to suffer Death who were slain by the hard labour under which the Creature and Creation of God remaineth groaning died also in the Earth in the Fourth Year The One on the Sixteenth day of the Second month The Other on the sixteenth day of the Fourth month And a Fifth Man imbodied in Form died on the Thirteenth day of the Twelfth month The Sixth on the nineteenth day of the Seventh month of the Fifth year And the Seventh on the Twenty-fourth day of the Seventh month which from the finishing of God's Work into that wonderful frame in the Generation of the Heavens was the Seventeenth day of the seventh month LXXXIX For that which came Seven dayes and seven years Forward in the motion of the WHEELS was brought under five months tryal both by WATER and by FIRE being that which came forth manifest in five Dayes and grew up under the Revolution of Seven Months as the forms of Nature were moved backward under the power of Destruction that through the dissolution of that which came into being fallen under the power of Corruption that which is Heir of Immortality might arise and come to possess a Crown of Rejoycing in God through the work of Restauration of those forms in Nature into their Eternal Existence that have a substantial being in the first forming cause of an IMAGE to the work of Creation XC And while the VISION of God was on me and the ANGEL of God was talking with me I saw the Man that was driven out of the Garden of God which is the Glory of the World in its Paradise came again onward in the way from which he went towards the rest of SELFS Annihilation that had caused the bodily form to come under the power of death who notwithstanding that he remained imbodied in Principles fallen and sunk under the power of Corruption and Destruction in the forms of Nature did yet abide in the WORLD and the World in him until Paradise that was lost and died from him and he from it began again to spring up in the place and condition wherein he was put as considered in that state XCI And from the Heavens I heard a Voice Death and Destruction I am become thy Grave and O Grave I am become thy Plague But dread and fear compassed me about as with a Garment for the miraculous workings of the Power of God in the Vision had bended me until all faculties of my mind became subject to that invisible sence from whence my Spirit received the Illuminations of that which sought to come forth though for a tryals sake to my patience the understanding of that which came up in the MOTION was oft-times sealed before me after I began to write thereof XCII For as I was amongst a number of people assembled to wait upon the Lord I was taken in a TRANCE and my knees smote together trembling because of the fear of God in my Heart and the terror of his Judgments on my Spirit But on that same night as I lay on my Bed I saw the form of a GREAT MAGISTRATE and the Honour and Respect which he had was different from all the powers of the Earth for before him went the form of DEATH as a man walking on his Feet and about him were great Attendance sounding Bells on every side and they continued thus to ring these little Bells till he ascended a place of Judicature where he had great reverence and respect XCIII And amongst the crowd that bended to his power I was acted in the like posture and being otherwise convinced in my Spirit I was smote with great dread
and sought ease by weeping and mourning and coming to sit down by the side of a Wall I was awakened in a sence of the Agony which was upon me after which the glory of the SUN through which I beheld the Wonders of God in the Vision came out of the HEAD of Natures Government descending towards its HEART which was like the Heart of a LYON the Glory of which SUN was exalted in the Head and Face of a RAM amongst the forms of Nature XCIV And in the night season being perfectly awakened I was brought into an inclosed ground which was very dark wherein boisterous storms and tempests were arisen for I was led somewhat out of my way in the conflict and drew towards a little Town near my way wherein I was cruelly dealt withal and though it was late in the night yet I gave up in patience and drew towards a heap of straw in the way-side whereon I lay down to rest me XCV And by the excess of Rain which began to fall I was driven to leave that place also and went into the Fields again where there brake forth before me a WHITE LIGHT in the shape of a SHEEP so far as I could discern it which being round about me in a flame did surprize me with fear whereby the form of the ANGEL vanished and before him went a noise like the crackling of the rotten Hedge which left me much in amazement so that I could not find the way out of the Field or Inclosure in two hours time till I had given up in my mind and forgiven those that thrust me out after which I found my way and came quietly to the Journeys end XCVI After which the Angel of God led me about the circumference of the Worlds to behold the surface thereof and he brought me into a green Field where I saw the frame and form of the HEAVENS and of the Natures of all Creatures in the Worlds and the WHOLE was like unto WATER And there were a THOUSAND Hills and a Thousand Springs of Water And in the same manner as I was acted under the exercise of the Vision so appeared the form of the Worlds wherein came forth a great Number of WOMEN who at last were reduced into SEVEN and each of them sought to lay hold on me but I fled in great fear and lost the sight of the Angels Glory for a time CHAP. IX Declares how I was exercised under the Power of the Vision XCVII AS I was carried by the Spirit of the Lord into a great WILDERNES the Angel of God by whom the Forms of Nature were thus awakened in me brought up the appearance of that Wilderness-state into manifestation in which the Woman continued labouring in the Heavens which Heavens did multiply all forms in Nature into their number and order in which the power of Creation in individual Bodies was separated in its being into two third parts of such forms and the seventh part of the Worlds became corruptible Earth XCVIII From which one THIRD PART thereof was dryed up on the third day wherein Nature had its operation over all Bodies brought into Form in the Work of CREATION which was the TENTH PART of that which remained under the exercise of TRYALS both by FIRE and by WATER and the two third parts of those WATERS were comprehensible in their Qualities from the fiery Heavens whence the circumference of the out-spread Firmament was filled with Airy Bodies and the Earth and Waters were replenished with living Creatures which came under the refining power of those renewing Faculties and Virtues in the forms of Nature imbodied from those WATERS XCIX But what came thus forth in seven natural dayes came under tryal in the operation of three essential days wherein the power of God was manifest for the recovering of a SENCE in the Creature of that work wherein God doth glory and is praised which is the Resurrection of the Just in the first and last power of Creation wherein Majesty is Exalted and therein was manifest A restauration to all forms in NATURE fallen in the WORLDS wherein the MAN who had caused destruction to the Body of Nature was called to account in the Tryal while suffering remained in that third PRINCIPLE in which he was imbodied C. And as the WATERS were gathered together in their Course into the seventh part of the WORLDS which had form in the Earth those two living Creatures called BEHEMOTH or HENOCH Leviathan were separated into their being because it was so ordered in Wisdoms Counsellings that they could not both live together in one place But according to the operation of the day in Nature in which they were brought forth they possessed each part of the Worlds wherein the great WHALE had dominion in the moist part thereof and the Behemoth caused the Image of Giants in the forms of Nature brought forth in Woman in the coming down of the Watchers into the Creaturely conceivance through that which possessed the Earth CI. For in the Firmament placed between Waters and Waters living Creatures were multiplied in Airy Bodies from those Fiery Heavens which Creatures possessed that third part of the Worlds in which the Waters were dryed up from the Earth sixty thousand furlongs in its circumference which is the fourth part of what remaineth measurable in the forms of Nature wherein one third part of the Waters is comprehended CII And as the way and course of what was Generated from the HEAVENS above and Earth beneath was traced in the HEIGHTS and DEPTHS of the WORLD there appeared pourtraied forth through the motion of the Wheels in the Vision a GREAT CITY built on seven Mountains which were seven Foundations on which it setled and the Mountain in the Midl of the Seven which was the Seventh stood higher then the rest on which was built and founded the tenth part of the City which I thus beheld CIII In which place it was compassed about with Fowls of the Air and wild Beasts of Prey wherein the Enemy who is the power of Destruction went about continually seeking to betray and devour but I could not conceive that those BRUIT Creatures did build and rear up the Foundation of that City therefore I concluded in my mind that some Men had been there to build its Foundation though their Houses were left unto them DESOLATE And as I was thus musing in my mind concerning these things I came to apprehend my self a wayfaring Man and a wanderer in the World groaning in Spirit to see the issue of what was thus visioned for I came again to behold the form of the Woman in the Heavens that continued in labour and travel in that Wilderness-state until the time of her deliverance was come CIV And as she had conceived the Birth of Life under the power of contrariety that wrought in the HEAVENS through two Nations on which the blessing of God began to rest the Woman prevailed in the World for their bringing forthout of the
WOMB of Nature though the forms in Creation remained fallen sunk under the Image of the Beast on those that have received his Mark or have his Name and number while the Woman remained cloathed with changeable rayments CV And on the tenth day of the fourth month of the fifth year I beheld a great Eclipse of the Moon also which became divided in Cancer the Breast of Nature for the burthen of struglings and strivings in the Heavens that had rested on the imbodied being of the shoulders of Nature wherein the Man took form came into the Breast of the Created being wherein he stood imbodied though driven from the face or first beauty of the Earth in that double-bodied Form against whom the flames of the Cherub turned every way to preserve the way of the Tree of Life CVI. While the Face of the RAM in Nature stood behind the Man who was created LORD in that Dominion that form in Nature became therein a House of Exaltation to the Sun of his dayes Glory and while the Vision hereof continued and that the Angel of God was thus talking with me I was pursued by those living Creatures in the form of Women and I took my flight over the Mountains the entrances of which were wide and very broad at my going forth thereon but in the conclusion they grew very narrow in the World about the circumference of which I was led CVII But the forms of those Women were dispersed and fled into dissolution as I was in a great strait of my mind through which the entrances led me in my passage and they were reduced into one in number as I came through those straits wherein I beheld the parting of the great Seas my way was so narrow that I could not pass any further but in great danger of falling CVIII For the Precipice was very steep as I looked down toward the ground which was like a WALL of Stone And being made sensible of the danger wherewith I was beset in my way and passage I was taken in great fear and trembling seized me because of the terror of the Lord on my Spirit until I came to sit down on the dust of that Hill or great Mountain in that I could not go on any further with security of life and therefore sought to ease me by mourning alone and there broke down and fell on my left HAND the form of a tottering Wall whereby I came to the sight of a Pleasant Field and therein continued for a time CHAP. X. Describing the Power of those Waters in the Vision of the Wheels CIX AND as I continued separated from the comfort and enjoyment of good in the visitation of the Angel there appeared before me a great and deep Pit which was very Green yet like unto WATERS and as I climbed up to the top of these Waters they appeared to be a great Mountain that stood on HEAPS above the Earth though they still bore the form of WATERS whose concavity swelled under me turning its hollowness into that Mountanous shape of Waters as I came to stand upright on the top thereof CX Wherein I beheld my pass ge over all these WATERS and had nothing to support me but a Line in the Hand of the Angel by which I was born up and kept from falling and the Angel of God brought me a LADDER which he lifted up towards me while I came to see my self as on the top of a high House driven thither by the Womans fury and rage whereon I rather chused to dwell then to come down unto the Ground and possess the Pallace with the Brawling Woman yet was there a WO remaining on the World in the state wherein I beheld it overtaken with afflictions CXI But I was to come down on the Ground and the place whereon I alighted was like to a great CITY that stood beyond the Waters and in the night season as I was layed down to take my rest the form of the Woman was again awakened before me and there stood near her the appearance of a Man of fierce countenance with very long Hair whom she instigated to disquiet me from my rest because I lay not streight in the Bed and accordingly by violence I was pulled out of the Bed and was both Naked and Hungry and mourned in Spirit at the sight of her Discourtesy CXII And because she proffered to turn me out of Doors to dispossess me of a Habitation it was very irksom for me to come forth but with yearning Bowels I bemoaned the state under which I was fallen by her dis ourtesie and refused to depart WILLINGLY without leaving the sence of my wrong upon her after which I was brought forth towards the place of my ABOAD and as I came before the Posts of my Door there was inkindled a great flame a fire broke forth in the midst of which was a Brass Pan and under it was a Morsel baked with which my Body was refreshed and I had a place of accomodation suitable to my necessity CXIII Thus was the truth of the Angels Visitation confirmed to me with signs of deliverance though a secret incredulity wrought against my lifes peace and satisfaction in the conflict with the sence of which I was daily beset yet durst not any more ask a sign or tempt the LORD my GOD but I afterwards beheld a great flame towards the South and towards the East and it being at a great distance from me the Angel of God lifted me up from the ground to behold it and my Head was born up as with a Mans Hand and I had the sence given me secretly of great calamities that should come from the South And I again saw the form of a fiery Furnace in which was the Fat of fed Beasts which boiled up with a great scum and it arose over the Furnace and inkindled a great flame in the House which I expected to see consumed but it was miraculously preserved and I had no hurt therein CXIV And the day from whence I beheld the multiplying of all forms in Nature from the Heavens was a day of gloominess and darkness and thick Clouds broke forth from the awakened tempests and storms until the Earth was overwhelmed with the scourge that covered the same in the overflowing of its deluge from the Fountain of great DEEPS that were opened and the great City that I saw was overspread even unto its tenth part wherein the WORLD stood six parts under the WATERS and that sixth part was a tenth from the Heavens in which all forms in Nature became more narrow to the Creaturely sence through a palpability in the WATERS CXV In which time the Waters prevailed over the Earth sixty thousand Furlongs and they abode thereon for the term of five Months and Blood prevailed for sixteen hundred Furlongs unto the Horse-Bridles from the Wine-press of the great City For after I came to see the appearance of two Moons in the Firmament of the Heavens
Head which was healed up again by the coming forth of the Ram from the EAST who pushed three wayes after I had beheld five Horns fallen from a fourth Head that stood in the midst of five and unto this Beast did the Dragon give up his Power and also the first Beast and the WHORE which were the three Ribs in the Mouth of the Bear in the NORTH and they became three unclean Spirits like Frogs that entred this second Beast who caused the Image of the Beast to be again revived and to be worshiped that all men might receive his Mark else were they not to buy and sell with the Nations of the Earth who received his Mark and Names and Number on their right Hand or forehead and they were angry with those that could not bow down with them LIX And this was the Spirit of Devils working Miracles in the Name of God and thereby they caused the Generations of the World to fear and dread for the Nations of the Earth repented them not of their great evil and wickedness and sorceries and thefts and murders and worshiping of Devils and bowing down unto Graven Images and of all Idolatry and Uncleanness notwithstanding those afflictions that were come into the Worlds But a second Thunder also thundred from the Throne of God and the Lamb which came into the Temple of God wherein God had placed a Government over Nature in those four forms of the Beast and all Foundations in HEAVEN and EARTH were shaken for the preparing and raising up a Ground for that immoveable Rock and Foundation of many Generations LX. And a third Thunder also thundered from the great River Euphrates out of which those four destroying Angels of God were loosed by which those afflictions came on a third part of those Men who had not on them the Seal and Mark of God and the Lamb in whom a ground was awakened and raised up which made sensible of that which was come into those parts of the Worlds And a fourth Thunder thundered also from the Wilderness in which the Woman had remained travelling in sorrow for the forty two Months wherein the Holy CITY was given into the Gentiles hands to be troden under foot wherein the great DRAGON stood before her ready to devour that for which she was in Travel which was a Man-Child who was to Rule the Nations of the Earth in a Rod of Iron whom he sought to destroy CHAP. VI. Describing the Nature of the WORLDS in their raised and renewed state through a Restauration of the Heavens c. LXI AS I came to behold the daughter of the NORTH returning from the Wilderness in which was her travel and hard labour I saw TWINS of which she was delivered therein and the Children were nourished for the space of forty dayes by the WOLF who had fled thereinto wherein they became great And the Queen of the SOUTH who was come out of her own Land wherein she had been fruitful and was exalted in the Bulls Eye being delivered of a FEMALE Child her Seed was dispersed into the North and over the four Quarters in the World wherein the Waters had prevailed over the Earth LXII And as she came to settle her self in the pleasure and ease of the Flesh and to delight her self in the Worldly Spirit wherein she sought satisfaction she overlaid and slew the Fruit of her Womb in the Seed of Life through a drousiness and carelesness that came over her Spirit whereby she became dead while she lived and there appeared the form of two Children sporting themselves in the Field of the World for they vvere scattered from the House of NATURE vvhom the EAGLE beheld from his Nest and the one of them vvas caught by the Eagle who envied the Eye of the Child and by his Bill vvhich vvas renevved he pierced the sight of the BABE and made it blind but he vvas frighted avvay vvhile there vvas yet life in the Child LXIII And the Women met in the Wilderness vvherein the Queen of the South sought to compass a Man in the Seed of Life under the Povver of the North Wind because of the Brass Belly in vvhich the ETHIOPIAN vvas separated that had cured the Wound of those that had looked upon it the Remnant of vvhose SEED vvere multiplyed over the Quarters of the World that had escaped the sting of the Serpent in that WILDERNESS vvherein Generations had perished and the Face of God vvas tovvards his Israel to gather and deliver them from the Hand of the ASSYRIAN the second time LXIV For as those Women were sound striving about the living Child who had escaped the fury of the EAGLE though it grew blind under the same there arose the wisdom of a King in Israel to decide the matter through sound JUDGMENT that divided things aright for the distinguishing of the true Mother whose Bowels yearned in tenderness over the Birth in the time it stood under the censure of Separation wherein the HARLOT manifested her cruelty And the venom rested in the Eye of the Eagle like unto the poyson of Asps though therein he grew sharp and quick-sighted while his Wings overspread the Body of Nature in the Heavens from whence I beheld him exalted in the Air with two Heads in which the Seed of the North prevailed though the Daughter of the South enlarged the dominion of what proceeded from the Female Child and she was established Queen in that strange Land LXV And I beheld how the Image that had fallen in the Earth grew secretly invisible under the power of Corruption which increased its strength in the changeable wayes and courses of the WORLD wherein the Head of the RAM stood exalted in the fiery triplicity of the Aerial Heavens compassed about under the Waters that suffered the Power of Corruption over which the Heavens were moved while from the Neck downward the Body of the Earth strove to reign in dominion over its Head and in the Heart of the Earth was inkindled a flame from the Fiery Heavens as it stood moved about in the midst of the Body of Nature which had the lower parts of the BEAST downward but the Legs of a Man which stood at a distance in the form of the Letter A as from the Shoulders upward there did reach toward the Heavens the form of the Arms of a Man and both Arms and Legs were partly Iron and partly Clay LXVI And among the forms of all buildings which I had seen erected from the Heavens and standing in the Nature of the WORLD I beheld until the Temple that in its first appearance was very glorious was defiled with the Nature and Spirit of the WORLD and it became the seat of the Beasts which inlarged its power in that which overspread the Foundation of the Earth wherein the great City that I had seen had begun to rest and settle its first glory in which the Worlds were planted and the weight thereof was the structure of the Temples
BEAST I beheld the pleasant Field and fruitful Garden working up the form of what indured and continued patient under those fiery Tryals until they became past over though many therein did dwell on a barren Heath who could not see when good comes whereby they perished in the Night of Obscurity and worldly sorrow that overtook them in their way wherein the power of DEATH wrought and became strong in the WORLDS CXIII And in the place of the fifth Head of the Beast in the midst of four which I had beheld Wounded as it were unto death were sprung up three other Heads And the Horns on that fifth Head which had received that deadly Wound were increased through the healing up of the Wound wherein a little Horn that sprung up between the Eyes of the Beast received Voice and began to speak great swelling words against the God of Heaven and his SAINTS that dwell on the Earth and the little Horn waxed strong towards the four Winds of the Heavens wherein the BEAST appeared with seven Heads and ten Horns which had Power in in the Beast to reign with him as Kings for their hour CXIV And whereas after I had seen the fall of five Horns on that fifth Head of the Beast I beheld remaining four Heads from whence sprung up four Horns in the dispersing abroad the Kingdom and Power of the BEAST under the four Winds of the Heavens so in the reviving of his power that which became exalted in the reducing of four to its first subjection ruled over five in which the wound was received and wherein the Beast came forth first manifest and in the discovery of both the rise and fall of the BEAST though through the great Horn of the Hee-Goat who did not touch the ground until he had accomplished his design after he had power given him in the awakened fury of the West-Wind the two Horns of the RAM from the EAST were broken and stampt in pieces that great Horn was also broken when its fury was accomplished CXV Yet was the power of the four Horns on those four Heads of the BEAST bound down in the four Heads of the great River until the time of the loosing of their four Angels that stood on the four Corners of the EARTH to hold the four Corners of the WINDS from blowing on the EARTH while the little Horn was magnified whereby the third Head which sprung up in the midst of the seven recovered four Horns from that which was dispersed under those four Winds of the Heavens and on the other six Heads were manifest six Horns CXVI Thus was the BEAST more monstrous then all those other Beasts that passed before him with Iron Teeth by which he did break and stamp in pieces And his Face was like unto a Leopard with the form of a third part of the Stars in the constellation of the HEAVENS on his Back but he had the Feet of the great Bear and discovered his power through the four Heads of the great River EUPHRATES in the loosing of those destroying Angels who came first out from the WATERS but the reviving of his strength from those deceitful healings proceeded out of the Earth through the power of the RAM in Nature CXVII And in the time of the sounding of the sixth Trumpet this BEAST came forth through the loosing of those destroying ANGELS out of the great River and through those earthquakes and shakings that were come into the WORLD wherein fell that tenth part of the great City God had returned unto himself his Tenths to be eaten as a Teyl-Tree and as an Oak whose substance was in it these were the remnant of the Holy Seed who worshipped the Lord with a pure Heart even in Spirit and in Truth and whose Garments were washed White in the Blood of the Lamb. CXVIII For they came to pass through great tribulations and Tryals in their WAY because they could not Worship the BEAST nor receive his Mark but they were preserved blameless before the Lord in that hour wherein Iniquity was not found in their HEARTS neither was there guile in their MOUTHS to be uttered with their Tongue And I beheld until the sin of MANASSEH became ripened and was filled up and the high Altars in both Courts whereon had been offered Sacrifice to IDOLS and Incense burnt to strange Gods which neither we nor our Fathers have heard of were pulled down because of the God of FORCES who was worshipped neither was the desire of Women regarded CXIX And after I came to see the WOMANS deliverance from the rage and fury of the great Red DRAGON who had cast his floods of Water after her in the time and times wherein she had been helped by the EARTH and sheltered by the Wings of the EAGLE with which she had fled into the Wilderness as the Dragon came to give up his Power to this monstrous Beast the remnant of her Seed was persecuted in the World for the space of full forty dayes And wherein the Sun had gone back ten Degrees for the prolonging of Life in the Just after he came to discover and reveal the glory in which was his safety before Babylons King who wrought by subtilty and much craft whereby fifteen dayes were added to his dying state CXX Those dayes were again doubled in the renewed Zeal wherein the Favour of God was multiplyed to the purging his House and Sanctuary according to the fifty-five dayes wherein Manasseh had caused the Israel of God to err in following after Idols And for ten days the Devil had power to cast many into Prison that they might be tryed and sifted by his cunning devices until their Garments became thus made white in the Blood of the slain Lamb of God CHAP. XI Describing the Form of the WHEELS in the VISION according to their MOTION wherein are numbred the dayes that the BEAST hath yet to reign and continue on the Earth CXXI AS to the form of the Wheels as they wrought and moved one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel like unto the form of the Worlds which are moved the one within the other the WHEELS never rested but went streight forward towards Eternity wherewith they were tinctured and moved in the power thereof as though they crossed each other and yet there was no crossness in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity from whence they were moved in the power of him that first wrought and laboured in the motion thereof CXXII For all crossness that appeared in the motion thereof wrought in the Earthly ground wherein the World 's laboured to Center in a Glory below the power of Eternity from whence every thing first proceeded and was brought forth to a day of Tryal in the FRAME under which the Body of Nature was constituted to exercises from the Glory of the HEAVENS wherein the Will of the Creature was subjected to a change through vanity that entered the WORLD in a state of corruptible Glory which was
wayes through a fiery Constellation therein inkindled CXXXIV And in one of those Urns were the Names of the twelve Tribes of ISRAEL but in the other was a party-coloured Blank on which was wrote PREROGATIVE to which the ANGEL said This is Israels desire and therefore hath Benjamin had a Prerogative to be higher then his Brethren by the HEAD and his raving up hath been like an evening Wolf while Israel hath sought the Rule and Dominion of other Nations of the Heathens for from the seven Families of FATHERS the Lot resteth on an eighth Head who is discovered by his ANGEL wandring after the lost Asses who have a month to be tamed in the power over which he is set to be their KEEPER CXXXV After whom came the lowing of the OXEN and bleating of the SHEEP in the restraint of Fodder of the KING of Gods Enemies Then said I What must be done Or hath this fault been in one onely that Iniquity should rest on his TRIBE For lo Israel standeth before the ARK enquiring into the MATTER And there was in the hands of the Angel over whom inquirie was made a Signature in one Hand was a CROWN dipt in Blood and in the other Hand a ROD touched with Hony concerning which the Angel bid me chuse wherein I was covetous of both CXXXVI And while my Tongue touched the Hony it was in my Mouth sweet but immediately was the form of the ANGEL divided and there remained other Signatures in each Hand of the form of the living Creature like unto a suite of tryed Armour and Sheet in which was tyed the form of every living Creature under the HEAVENS according to the Corners of the Heavens from whence they were let down bound And as I was trying the ARMOUR finding it cumbersom as that in which I was not accustomed to wage War therefore thought I hastily to cast it off that I might take hold of the Sheet in which were those living Creatures there came a Voice from the Heavens as from the Angel whose form was again united in a Body Thou hast chosen that which will make thee a Wonder in the World CXXXVII And he yet cryed aloud The bitterness of the Miracle is in thy Belly for know thou assuredly thou hast Part and Lot in this Matter And to my astonishment the Body again revived instantly before me and it was made to stand up before my Face And there came a second Voice from the Angel Is it a time to be delighted with sweetness in the midst of Battel Or to feed on Hony while Enemies are on the pursuit And I was afraid I should die and durst not any more ask any Question in this matter But after the Voice from the Heavens became intelligible wherein an Angel of God said Arise from thy slumber thou that art glutted in that which thou hast killed and eaten for therefore is thy Head filled with Wonders CXXXVIII I beheld until the forms of all those living Creatures were again awakened before me and they came forth to make WARR in my way and before me stood the unsealed Book of Wonders which the LAMB of God had taken out of the Hand of the ANGEL for the loosing of the Seals thereon which was like unto that which I had eaten from what was tendered by the ANGEL And while I beheld the Book lifted up unto the Heavens I was mourning in Spirit and said in my Heart Wherefore hath my life been prolonged for such exercise as this For now I am become the scorn of cruel Enemies CXXXIX And I returned to the Angel of him that I had seen divided and who was again united before my Face and found him cloathed in the Armour as one riding forth to a Battel unto whom I said Boast not thy self in putting on and in thy going forth to War as may he that putteth it off and returns a Conqueror for twice hast thou deceived me let therefore my wrong rest on Thee that coverest a WOLF according to the time I have become a stranger to my own FAMILIARS when driven forth as among the BEASTS of Prey CXL My Hair was like unto the Plumes of a FOWL and my Nails like unto the Tallents of a BIRD and because of the Vow on my Head I was as one forlorn for thou hast counted the hours of my mourning and knowest the dayes wherein pleasant Bread came not into my Mouth under which my Spirit was ready to faint but let the Issue be glory to the Highest Turn again therefore my reproach I pray thee that I may know and be assured that thou hast taken notice of the innocency of my SOUL in thy sight and that thy love is yet towards me CXLI And the Angel of God again took me into the Habition of WONDERS where I heard an interpretation of the Mystery of the seven Thunders and he said unto me These have made way for the preparing a ground wherein is revealed what was opened and loosed from the BOOK in the Hand of the Angel and the time is come that nothing hidden shall remain in its secret Chamber but the Seal of God shall be taken off from the Spirit of Wonders and Truth shall have its common recourse in the fellowship that publisheth abroad the sayings and report of Wisdom Therefore prepare thee to write for thy Prayers are come up before the Lord and thou shalt yet PROPHESIE before the Nobles of the Earth and thy sayings shall terrifie Kings and mighty Men as in their appointed season they become fulfilled CXLII And unto the Angels of all Fellowships of People write these things saith the searcher of all Hearts before whom my desire hath been granted and he answereth daily my request revealing the Mystery of all depths concerning the glory of Gods Kingdom and the sum and substance of all Prophecy in Words is transferred to the sensible Reader in a Figure until the substance thereof become fulfilled on a Generation of Men through which it will be made to speak in an Universal Character of good to Nations in the generous Spirit of that love in which many suffer despite CXLIII I know your Thoughts from the greatest to the least and you all are expecting alterations and changes in the Government of Nations and state of publick affairs but believe it truly it will not come in that way you expect it who would gladly see your Enemies destroyed and utterly confounded that you might not hope in vain Alas the Life of Creatures is pretious in Gods Eye and God hath determined no other Judgment to the Wicked then that which remaineth to be the utter Consumption and Destruction of the Spirit of ENMITY in the Man of SIN by which NATIONS are oppressed under his Power whose destruction cometh to be of themselves in chusing that which leadeth and guideth under that which of necessity must fall on the World in a wicked state CXLIV But God is not the Author of all the evil and mischief that is
Glory became manifest in the WOLDS while the STUMPS thereof remained bound down in the Earth with an Iron BAND after seven times had passed over his HEAD which was wet with the Dew of the Night V. Wherefore from the time wherein the dayly Sacrifice was made to cease after the restoring of that breach on the Walls of Jerusalem to the finishing of the outward Court of the Holy City which was given into the hands of the Gentiles to tread under foot those forty two months or an hundred and forty two days being the concluding of a time times and the dividing of times which is seventeen hundred and fifty days wherein the Woman hath been nourished in the place that is there provided for her for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore days that the two Witnesses have appointed them to finish and fulfil their PROPHECY in sackcloth in which time the Earth doth help the WOMAN It is now eighteen days since the Commandment of God came forth for the rebuilding and restoring those outward Courts of the CITY TIME on a Prophetical account wch is the Language of the holy Scripture is five hundred years according to the life of Noah before he began to build his Family in the EARTH which was saved in the Ark of God and so long is accounted the days of Shem after the Flood of Waters as the mystical Number in which is contained ten Jubiles of years under the Law VI. And after thirty one days it shall be finished then shall be a WEEK to renew the Zeal of God and expiate sin to the sealing and binding down the power of the WICKED for evermore and in the midst of that Week those Witnesses shall seal their Testimony concerning the Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth who hath been crucified and lain slain in the streets of that great City spiritually called Sodom and Egypt but after three days and a half which is the concluding of the 1290 days they shall be seen to ascend up into Heaven in the sight of all their ENEMIES VII For it is now eighteen dayes since the WOMAN hath regained a sence of her deliverance from her great Captivity in that WILDERNESS-State in which the forty two months of her travel are expired and the Birth is brought forth in the EARTH which hath been preserved and delivered from the fury and rage of the great red Dragon by the Floods of Water which he hath cast out of his BELLY after her in the one thousand four hundred and forty and four thousands that are found standing on Mount Zion with their Harps harping but until the end of two days the Judgment of God set up in ISRAEL shall quicken the sealed number of Gods chosen and holy Ones who have remained as dry Bones in the Valley of Jehosaphat where the spirit of God hath breathed on the slain that from the third day will be found to live in his sight to seal the testimony of that birth which hath thirty days more to accomplish its growth into the power by which it is anoynted to finish that great Work in that Week wherein the dead are made able to stand on their Feet by the sound of the seventh and last Trump VIII And he that hath WISDOM let him count the time and number those days from whence the number of the BEAST which is the number of a MAN is compleat DCLXVI for from that day will the four destroying Angels of God stand loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES according to the hour day month and year for which they were prepared which after a month wherein those five months will be expired will leave seven months for the Dead to bury their Dead in the concluding of the year wherein Destruction is come forth against the WICKED IX Therefore count thou from the year 1656 wherein the Devil did exercise his power for ten days by casting many into Prison since the expiration of the WOMANS Tryals and sore TRAVEL that the forty days wherein the Seed of the Woman was left to be persecuted and tried by the fury and rage of the Devourer and his Angels that great Red DRAGON will make way for the power of God to be glorified after the third day in ten thousand of his SAINTS for from the expiration of those months wherein the striving continued between two Nations the King of BABYLON who had looked into the Glory of the Temple which God hath built in Israel wherein are many goodly Vessels of Gold and Silver hath been letted from spoyling and laying utterly waste the HOUSE in which are appointed those rich Treasuries about his Sanctuary X. Yet the Daughter of the NORTH suffereth Oppression under a strange KING unto whom the QUEEN of the SOUTH is joyned to corrupt their Seed though unto them the Mystery of that which pertaineth to the KINGDOM of GOD is opened in those that run to and fro to increase in knowledge and from the extirpation of the fifteen years from whence the WORLD hath been warned one hundred and twenty days and wherein the EXECUTION of that which was detained from the Earth and WORLDS in their third part to the prolonging of Life in the Government of Nature in which ISRAEL had their choice is to be MANIFEST the substance of what standeth in the end of time and place which is near to be revealed XI Therefore for the purging forth the Sin of MANASSEH through whom the HIGH ALTARS were erected in both Courts of the City for those fifty five days wherein the number seventy was accomplished in the concluding of fifteen years which discovered the Judgement that revived and was come on the Worlds that on whom the Image of JEALOUSY came forth manifest forty five days are yet determined from the midst of the WEEK wherein the Testimony of GOD will receive its everlasting Seal and it shall be the Joy of many to understand the Mystery of what is concluded in one thousand two hundred and ninety days but blessed are those that live attain to the end of those eighty five days which are the concluding of one thousand three hundred thirty and five dayes from those ninety five days before the Sacrifice was offered up wherein the ROMANS obtained their Conquest over JUDEA and throughout ASIA in which the Jews were scattered which was sixty two days before the BABE was brought forth through whom it became accepted XII For from the Conception and Birth of the MAN-CHILD through whom the LIGHT of GOD broke forth with which the NATIONS of the EARTH and REGIONS of the WORLDS that have sat under the SHADOW of Death are ENLIGHTENED on whom is come the GLORY of GOD to the GENTILES Their number is fulfilled and compleat wherein TIME and TIMES are past and HALF A TIME is divided in those Figures 1750 and yet the EXPIRATION of those SIXTY TWO Weeks wherein the GENTILES had power to erect their GLORY in the
God I have a hand reached forth to the helpless towards whom my tender Bowels are moved that they may partake of this VISITATION which is given for the sake of many and great NATIONS This great Salvation of God being revealed to all them that are made partakers with him in the Faith of God's Elect in which the like pretious Promises do work V. To all the People of God whether gathered or ungathered my love reacheth forth though most especially to the scattered Nations over all the Earth that are the Houshold of Faith in which it is not only given them to believe but also to suffer for his Names sake whom they profess Love Mercy and Peace together with all fruits of the Spirit of God to the Brethren of him who is come to possess the Life of Patience under the sufferance of the Spirit of this World through the Revelation of JESUS the Son of God by whom the whole Glory of the TEMPLE of God was brought forth into which entered the Hoast of the Heavens the SEVENTH day wherein God came to rest in the finished settlement of that in which all labour ceased as to the working power of his Spirit in the frame of the Creature and Creation that is become the workmanship of the Father VI. I am filled I am filled with the motion of his Power in the workings up of his informing Spirit that sendeth forth its sound through an Earthen Vessel and in as much as its concern is Universal the peculiar relation and respect which it hath unto People of those Generations is the breathings of Life from a follower of the Lamb of God And the Life of the JUST in his Name that is faithful and true and full of long-suffering and that which is certified concerning these things is what will assuredly be fulfilled and shortly come to pass VII Therefore blessed are they that can read or hear and in whom there is a heart inclined to understand the MYSTERIES herein wherein the Testimony of TRUTH is confirmed amongst the CHURCHES in the Spirit of Jesus unto which Churches in the WORLDS in their divided quarters JESUS who is the Author and Finisher of the Faith of God's Elect whose Nature had glory in raising up that Body out of the Grave and from the power of Death and Destruction in three dayes is now dispersing bowels in which are the Fountains of all good that have been sealed and shut up but are now freely set open for sin and for uncleanness for Judah and Jerusalem VIII And thus saith the Antient of days the AMEN the FIRST and the LAST who hath glory in the Work of God through the Redemption of Souls up unto himself come wash and be clean for he that is faithful and true hath yet a little while a gathering Hand and Arm stretched out towards you all the Bride saith Come as hath been the Voice of the Spirit of God which by many hath been rejected But yet hear what the Spirit saith unto the CHURCHES IX Unto the Churches of ASIA and the ANGELS of these Churches saith the Beloved of God O yet gather if it be possible and behold the Wing of Mercy and everlasting Salvation hovering over you your works have been tryed in the fire and hitherto they have not made weight in the Ballance of Gods Sanctuary neither are they able to stand before him but are like the STUBBLE in his way and are driven before the Bow of his Fury X. Yea unto thy PRINCES saith the AMEN of all Glory in Heaven and Earth bend your Necks to the Yoak and learn to Plow else sorrow wil be your portion To thy PRIESTS I say Howl Lament and be threshed upon the FLOOR by him that can handle the FLAIL to thy PROPHETS I say Take the Cup and drink a mighty draught for as ye have had your fills of Pleasure on the Earth so shall you drink your full Portion of sorrow howling and lamentation XI I know all thy works and thy doings for the secrets of thy Heart are not hid from me thou exalted HORN of ASIA PERSIA and MEDIA are the strength of thine ARM ye Daughters of K'TURAH therefore be ye wakened in time and behold how the ASSYRIAN is broken on the right Hand and on the left XII And unto the ANGELS of the Churches Mystically in AMERICA in thee are a People whom God will yet gather to his Praise but thou wilt be broken as a Potters Vessel and turned on a fiery Hearth Thou hast of the Captivated TRIBES and scatterd-broken-off-branches bound in Chains under thy quarter let them forth for the mighty Day of God is Proclaimed and come XIII Unto the Angels of the Churches in AFRICA write what is ready to befal them in the Day and Hour of their Exaltation Since thou wast lifted up thy day is measured and when thou wast cast down thou hast been warned Yet once more hear pitty the Captives and give of thy Bread to him that cometh under the smiting of the South Wind lest when the awakened North Wind returns its blown Breath out of the Bellows of the Almighty it make thy burthen more then thou art able to bear XIV Thy Feet must tread on Mire and Clay and in like manner will Feet be set over thee But thou the darkest of Countreys I have many NAMES to be gathered out of thee therefore hasten and return when thy WORK is done and remember that thou art warned of what shall come to pass lest on the one hand thou shouldst be heightned in the day of thy Exaltation or left without information of that which will befall thee when thou art cast down for as thou dost unto others to wit the Captivity of the North so will it be done unto thee in the return of measure and weight XV. Say not any more I am strong for one of thy PRINCES is strong above thee and the Daughters of thy Land that have made up thy agreement with the King of the North will not retain the ARM nor prevail in thy strength and Dominion though thou carry away Captive the Inhabitants of that Land whose King hath reigned more years then the King of the South XVI Repent therefore quickly is the Voice of the Angel lest I come and smite thee unawares and remember when that is loosed and awakened which hath been compassed about by PISON and GIHON he that invadeth a strange Land shall place his glorious Habitation between the Seas that the scattered TRIBES may behold the Glorious City which they have been seeking and come forth into the NORTH to see a place prepared in the Kingdom by the Father for ASIA hath faln and is turned to Idols and hath given heed to lying Vanities XVII But both of you shall be purged together in a fiery Furnace until your supplication for Mercy be made able to prevail therefore let thy Princes consider for whom the controversie betwixt two great Kings doth work and thou that wert