shall roar and lay hold of the prey and shall carry it away safe and none shall deliver it as it was at their coming out of Egypt yea they shall mount like Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint Then the sinners in Zion shal be afraid fear shal take hold on the now inhabitants of Palestina because of the Lord God Christ who also will then plead with his people in the wilderness of their own land face to face like as he pleaded with their forefathers in the wilderness of the Land of Egypt thus will he cause them to pass under the Rod and then will he bring them into the bond of the Covenant made with Abraham Isaac and â—acob and then will he speak comfortably to them and they shall then enjoy their vineyards as in the dayes of their coming out of the land of Eâ—â—â—p so will he shew unto them marvelious things SECT. XXVIII THen shall the great River Euphrates be dried up in the seven streams thereof and the Egyptian Sea utterly destroyed that the way of the Kings of the East the leaders of Israel may be prepared even of the seven shepherds and eight principal Leaders that they and all the people of Israel may go over dry-shod as when they came out of Egypt and then will he raise unto Israel Sâ—viours called Kings such as Ioshuah for Leaders even Abraham Isaac and Iacob Hesea Amoâ— Micha Ioâ—l Obadiah Ionah Nahum Habbakuk Zâ—phany Haggaiah Zacharâ—ah and Malachy For these fifteen Saviours Kings or Leaders shall come on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esâ—â— or Kingdom of Edom Gog and Magâ—g who are hated of Christ for they shall put all the wicked to shame because God hath despised them therefore shall they never see the light Christ Jesus in his Glory then the Kingdom shall be the Lords when he bringeth back the Captivity of his people then Jacob or Iudah shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad when the Lord God of Israel Christ Jesus shall appeare in his glory even in the glory of God the Father which is and shall be in the face and presence of Jesus Christ being that individual glory which he had with the Father before the world was made by him For it pleased the father that in him should all the fulness of his glory dwell even in that measure of unexpressible transcendent glory which the sacred Excellenâ— glory and incomprehensible Maiesty the Father hath pâ—edetermined from all eternity to be from him by Christ the God of mercy conferred upon the Creature accordiâ—g to the Creatures meted out capacity or predetermined Capabillity then to be conferred on him by the inviâ—ible and incomprehensible Majesty of God the Father whicâ— shall be a fulness of joy exceeding glory and unexpressâ—ble pleasures in the Kingdome of glory for evermore SECT. XXIX ANd this excellent eternal life joy and glory is to be manifested to the creature and conferred on them in and by his beloved Son Christ Jesus the visible God of Salvation and in whom the invisible Godhead dwelleth bodily And thus is he the true Image of the most high invisible God the Father and also his sacred comprehensible glorious presence in the lot of his inheritance Palestina The holy land The hill of the Lord The holy place The Mounâ—Zion The glorious world to come given unto him by the most high God and Father of all Spirits being the Excellent Glory To whose excellency and incomprehensibleness of most glorious being man's comprehensible and limited capacity cannot attain or reach unto no more then to pourtray a true shape to a voyce to the winde or to hold the Sea in his hand for no man hath ever heard the Fathers voyce at any time nor never seen his shape Therefore what person shape or voyce can the limited frail fancy or wit of man prescribe devise imagine or attribute to this most High most Sacred most Mighty most Excellent and most Incomprehensible Unrevealed Deity and primary Fountain and Cause of all Being whom they never saw nor heard at any time So that it is very plain and most true that Christ Jesus onely and alone being the beloved and from all eternity the anointed visible God of Salvation light and eternal glory is the onely and alone true representative capable apprehensive visible personal presence of the Invisible Un-apprehensive and Incomprehensible Father and holy Spirit of God The beginning of the Creation of God the Father SECT. XXX FOr this God of salvation the Lord of life and glory Christ Jesus will yet chuse Zion the place where his Congregation hath dwelt and wherein he hath dwelt and will set Israel in their own land and the strangers or Gentiles shall joyn themselves unto them and cleave to the house of Jacob or Judah saying we will goe with you for we have heard that God is with you and the people shall take them and bring them to their place or land and the house of Israel shall possess them In the land of the Lord for servants and handmaides for Salvation is of the Jews to whom pertaineth the adoption and the Glory and the Covenants and the Promises of eternal blessedness whose are the Fathers to whom the promises were made and of whom concerning the â—lesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever of or by the Father SECT. XXXI THen shall this world of sin and grace be dâ—stroyed by fire as the firstworld of sin was by water wherein it repeâ—ted the Lord Christ that ever he made man but the third world of grace and eternall Glory shall continue for ever then shall they say now is Salvation and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ the God of salvation The voyce of the beloved behold he commeth leaping upon the mountaines skipping upon the hills travelling in the greatnes of his strength for lo the winter of affliction and misery is past the Raine or stormes of persecution is over and gone and the flowers of glory and eternall excellency appear on the earth and the time of singing of birds of Paradice or Saints is come and the Glorious voyce of the Turtle Dove Christ Jesus is heard in our Land of Palestina saith Solomon coming from Edom from Bozra the chiefe City of Edom Glorious in his apparel travelling in the greatness of his strength nughty to save SECT. XXXII FOr the hastning of which sacred Kingdom of glory he the Lord hath taught us to pray continually saying Thy Kingdom come and thy will be done on Earth as it is now in heaven and by faith to acknowledge and beleeve that his is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever For then in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen saith Abraham even in Mount Zion the Transcendent Glory and Excellent perpetuity of being And
before him there was no God created neither shall there be after him He is the Lord and besides him there is no Saviour For the Father is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ The Father is greater then all yea greater then he if we know these things happy are we for this is life eternal to know God the Father aright and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent whose being in the Father and the Father in him thought it no robbery to be one with him because the fulness of the Fathers spirit Power presence and Name God is in him and so the Father is glorified in the same Thus he and the Father are one because the Father acteth nothing for the worke of mercy and glory to the Creature but in and by Christ his beloved Son the ordained God of salvation life light and eternall glory the Lord God merciful and gracious the God of Israel For the most high incomprehensible God the Father is said to be the husbandman and the Lord God Christ Jesus the God of salvation is the true fruitful pleasant vine in whom God the Father delighteth and all the elect saints by calling are the branches of this sacred vine the Christ of God the Father For there is none so holy as the Lord neither is there any Rock like our God for God the Father hath blessed him for ever Therefore O Israel or elect fear this Glorious and fearful name The Lord the God Christ Jesus whose glory is great Dignity and Honour hath the Father laid upon him and hath made him most blessed for ever And through the favour of the most high God the Father he shall not be moved for Jehovah is the most high God for evermore Who governeth all things by his mercy Christ through and by whom all addresses must be made to the most high God the Father and by and with whom eternal life in glory is conferred on the creature and therâ—fore is he stiled the way the truth and the life the glory of God For he that hath seen Christ the God oâ— salvation hath seen the personal visible active powerful presence of God the Father and holy Spirit yea the word and work of the Father the first begotten of every creature who hath Power given to him by the Father over all flesh that he should give eternall life in glory to as many as the Father hath given him And thus is he God over all blessed for ever or for eternall being in glory with his Saints the elect in whom or in whose personal visible presence the God-head dwelleth bodily even in him whom the Father sent into the world to save sinners as he himself saith that they may be one as we are even as thou O Father arâ— in me and I in thee that they may be one in us as we are for we speak that which we know and testify that we have seen and ye receive not our testimony even the Father and Sons we will come and make our abode with him for man is become like one of us like the Image of God Christ for Christ is the Image of God the Father yea the spirit or Angell of his presence The face of God the Father the image person presence or likeness of the great Invisible God the Father who is the light that none can approch unto whom no man can see who only hath loved the Son as the Son loveth his Saints and hath ordained them to be partakers of his glory according to the predestinate decree of God his Father who created him Christ Wisdom counsell understanding strength Lâ—ve mercy Righteousness yea he God the Father possessed him in the beginning of his way before his works had any being he was brought forth by the Father and was his delight rejoycing alwayes before him He is the Lord God of salvation and besides him there is no Saviour for he is the ordained life and peace to the elect saints that love him But all they that hate him love death Beelzebub Luciâ—er Sathan darkness the ordnaied God of Damnation called the destroyer but the God of the elect to Glory is the God of salvation even the Lord our righteousness the ordained God of salvation by the Father who hath crowned him with glory and honour and hath so decreed that he the Christ shall sit on his right hand of power until he make his enemies his foot-stool For thus saith God the Father the redeemer of Israel by Jesus Christ and his holy one or of this his holy one Jesus Art thou lighter then that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob or Judah and to restore the dissolutions of Israel to establish the earth for ever that thou mayest be my glorious Instrument of Salvation to the ends of the earth Even to confirm the promises made unto the Fathers for God the Father shall give unto him the throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever because God the Father his God hath anoynted or appointed him for that work of mercy and glory to the creature above all other spirits whatsoever yet this sacred servant is not greatet then his Master neither is he the ambassador that is sent by the Father greater then he that sent him and ordained him the lâ—fe therefore because he is life We the elect shall live also for ever with him in Glory for he shall bruise Sathan shortly under our feet for the Father hath put all things under our feet even all Principalities and powers in heavenly places therefore it is most clear and manifest that he the Father is excepted which haâ—h put all things under him And when all things are subdued unto him then shall he himself also be subject unto God the Father that put all things under him and then shall wee know that he is in the Father and we in him and he in us for the Father is as the husbandman Christ is as the vine and the elect are the fruitful branches of that vine therefore let us wait for this his Son from heaven by whom he the Father hath called or Elected us unto his Kingdom of glory But that was not first which is spiritual or eternall but that which is naturall temporall or fading and as is the earth Adam such are they in the Fathers decree all that are earthly as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly or eternall and as we have born the image of the earthly or temporal Adam so shall the elect also bear the Image of the heavenly or spirituall Adam Christ which is eternall For as many as the Father hath given or alotted to Christ he hath lost none of them neither can they be lest because they are spirits of light decreed by the Father for glory who changeth not from his
place for us and then both he and the father will come and make their abode with us for he is ascended to his father and our father to his God and our God untill his enemies be made his footstool by the father For as the Father hath life in himself so hath he given to the son to have the spirit of life in himself and hath given him Authority to execute Judgement also for the Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son And as he liveth not of or by himself but by the father so do all the elect live by him the Christ and shall live for ever in glory with Christ and addresse all Glory and prayse unto the father by Christ Jesus in that world of glory which shall be without end For none can come to the Son except the father draw him that is as I conceive none but such as are predestinated by him to glory and their names written in the book of life having the fathers work or Spirit of truth and life in them by which they are drawn or alotted to Christ and given to him by the father Even that one God and Father of all who is above all and in all â—or saith Christ the father is greater then all therefore Greater then he who after God the fatherâ— likeness Power and Glory is by him created righteousness and trute holiness and being created or made perfect or perfection it self he thus became the author of eternall Salvation and glory to all them that believe and obey him or his will But Belzebub is created Darkness unrighteousness wickâ—dness evil vanity unholiness destruction or the destroyer hel and perdition and to him are given or allotted the reprobate men of this world of darkness orchildren of perdition and disobedience called vessells of dishonour who are predestinated by the father to dwell in a darke and a drieâ— land with the destroyer and all his angells or spirits of darkness for ever But the children of the world to come being vessells of honour life light and glory Christ are prâ—destinated by the father to dwell in the land of righteousness life light and glory the inheritance and land of glory which the father hath alotted to the Prince of Glory light and life Christ Jesus and so is it called The lot of his inheritance where they shall walk before God the father and shall be led and guided in and by this sacred light of the living which is Christ the Lord who is now in us the hope of this glory to be enjoyed in the land of life or the living in due time where God the Father shall be exalted above the Heavens and his Glory Christ upon all the earth whom he hath made or ordained to be the head of all Principalities and powers in heavenly places even of all spirits of light and spirits of darkness Called of God the Father an high Priest being the ordained righteousness of God unto salvation Who by the Father is created after the power of an endles life and to save them that come to God the Father Therefoe is he stiled The God of salvation to whom belong the Issues from death Being the Ordained Resurrection and the life and the image or visible personall presence of the invisible and incomprehensible God the Father the first Created or born of every creature Who being the beginning hath in all things the preheminence for he is before al things for it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness of Power Maiestie and Glory dwell for all power is given unto him by the Father both in heaven and earth who hath predestinated to reconcile all things unto himself by Jesus Christ for the councell of peace is and shall be for ever between them both even between Father and Son Christ who of God the Father is made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption For Christ hath not thus glorified himself but he the Father that said unto him thou art my Son this day have I begotten or created thee hath glorified him in whom he is well pleased and appointed him for the work of mercy and eternall being to the creature in light and glory and thus is he made by the Father heir apparent of all things in and by whom man is come and admitted to the knowledge of this great incomprehensible God the Father to salvation For the time was that the wotld by this sacred wisdom Christ knâ—w not God the Father For in this God of salvation Christ Jesus dwelleth the fulness of the Godhead Father and holy spirit personally or bodily Who is the beginning Prince or head of and over all Principalities and Powers Being the blessed Prince and only ordained King and Lord and Immortality dwelling in the Incomprehensible light of God the Father that none can attain to the knowledge of whom no man did ever see nor can see For him hath God the Father sealed or determined for the work of mercy and glory to the Creature and in him he delighteth in whom the fullness of his power and spirit dwelleth Bodily or in and by whose personall presence the omnipotent power of God the Father and holy spirit of God is represented and manifested unto us in all fullness according to the creatures meted out or alotted Capacity Who is the beginning of the creation of God for in this sacred beginning the anoynted God of salvation God the Father created or decreed the heavens and the earth and by which sacred beginning all things were made into externall visible shape and being And God the Father who commanded the light of glory Christ to shine out or from the darkness Bâ—lzebub hath now shined into our hearts the light even the knowledge of the Glory of God the Father in the face or by the personall visible apprehensive presence of Jesus Christ For this sacred light Christ hath no communion or agreement with darkness Beelzebub neither shall Iniquity Beelzebub possess the just but the wicked are or shall be full of evil or the spirit of Beelzebub And yet all things are of God the Father who hath reconciled us and all the elect of God in Christ unto himself by this sacred light Christ Jesus That we might be made Righteous to God in him according to the measure of the gift of Christ But there is not in every man that knowledge for before him there is no God created neither shall there be after him for he is the Lord the God of mercy and Salvation for God the Father hath given him for a covenant to the people for a light to the Gentiles For to us the elect in Christ there is but one God the Father of whom are all things created and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ the ordained God of salvation by whom are all things made
into an externall shape and being and we by him even by Jesus Christ the Son of the most high God the Father the Portion of Jacob or of the Elect the former and maker of all things for God the Father decreed the earth to be made by this his sacred power Established the world by this his sacred wisdom and stretched out the heaven by his sacred understanding the Lord of Hostes is his name the God of Israel the God of all flesh who hath made the â—arth the man and beast the portion of Iacob Christ is the former of all things the Lord of hosts is his name Thou art the Lord the God who didest choose Abraham Thou ledst them in the day by a cloud and in the night by a pillar of fire thou camest down upon mount Zion and spakest with them face to face For they saw him the God of Israel and the Lord even the God of Israel spake to Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend yea Iacob did see this God of Israel or of the elect face to face who testifieth of himself saying and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God even the God of Israel he is the God of Salvation he hath made us And the world was also made by him the Word of God And unto the God of Christ belong the Issues from death being the ordained resurrection and the life and so is he God over all blessed for ever Being the God of hope even to the elect the hope of glory in eternal life In the true Image of him that created him Christ the power of God the wisdom of God Righteousness and true holiness yea the beauty of Holiness and glorious in holiness Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance for they shall rejoyce for ever in the Lord God of their salvation happy are the people whose God is the Lord for he shall govern the nations upon the earth He shall say to the prisoners and them that are in darkness goe forth and shew your selves For God the Father his God hath anoynted him with the oyle of gladness eternal light life and glory above his sellowe seven above all spirits what ever For God the Father is the head of Christ even as man is the head of woman and hath ordained him to be the Prince of life The beginning the light the day the Person the Presence the face the Angel the Name the truth the goodness the power of God the Father unto Salvation the Prince of peace and love whose nature and property is even to have mercy to forgive and to preserve For he the Lord God is the preserver of Isracl yea the preserver of men The God of Salvation The Christ of God the Father for the worke of mercy and glory But darkness the divel is the Prince of death and destruction the destroyer the hater of man the roaring Lyon the raging power evil wickedness the merciless enemy the unrighteousness the night The wrath of God the star of the morning or the star darkness separated from the morning star or bright star of righteousness light and glory Christ Jesus the anoynted God of salvation whom God the Father hath appointed heir of all things and by whom he made the worlds being the word and voice of God the Father the visible brighâ—ness of his Fathers glory and his expresse Image in his person for he that hath seen him hath seen the Father or the Fathers power to salvation for he upholdeth all things by the sacred power Who is made heir of all things and hath obtained a more excellent name then all other spirits what ever for the name of the Father the Lord God Ichovah the God of salvation is in him Who said I will be to him a Father and he to me a Son yea this day have I begotten thee For before the naturall day was in being he was brought forth yea before the earth was formed For according to the Fathers decree The foundations of the earth were lay'd in or by this sacred beginning yea the heavens are the work of his hand For it pleased the Father for whom are all things and of whom are all things in bringing many Sons unto glory to make the Captain or Prince of their salvation Christ perfect glorious in holiness yea the beauty of holiness fearfull in praises doing wonders For he that sanctiâ—ieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he the Christ is not ashamed to call them brethren for of him and through him and to him are all things For he being the Resurrection and the life in him we live and move and have our being being created by God the Father in Christ Jesus who is the Beginning the day the life the light and glory Therefore are the Children of the light no more in bondage to darkness Hell and death the divel being redeemed by the light Jesus they are all become the Children of the light and Children of the day for God the Father hath not appointed or determined them unto or for wrath the divel but to obtaine or enjoy salvation in glory in and by Jesus Christ where we shall all live together with him who is the Christ of God the Father by whom all things were made to the glory of God the Father according to the eternal purpose of the Father which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord that so unto Principalities and powers of darkness in heavenly places might now be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God the Father Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named That is the spirits of life in all things named appointed and disposed of to their severall functions and conditions of being by him who after God is created in righteousness and true holiness by that one God and Father of all who is above all through all and in all and by whom is given or conferred on the elect grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ whose name is the Lord of Hostes the God of Israel or elect who shall be Glorious in the sight of God the Father and this his God shall be his strength and he shal be his servant to raise up the tribes of Iacob and to restore the preserved of Israel And to be a light to us Gentiles and the Fathers Instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth And by the Covenant to establish the earth that he may say to the Prisoners of death go forth and shew your selves when he shall put his spirit of life into them and the shall live For in the Lord Christ shall all the seed of Israel be Justified and shall glory for he shall be exalted and be very high For
For since the beginning of this world ear hath not heard nor eye seen what is prepared for them that love him the obedient and beloved Son Righteouâ—â—eâ—s and are made to wait for Christ his appearing in glory whom God the Father hath exalted highly above all and hath given him a name above every name In whom the father created or decreed all things and by whom all things were made into external shape and being according to the fathers decree or production of spiriâ—s in this sacred beginning Christ who is the beginniâ—g of the creation of God the father the first created oâ— every creature to be the immediate image or visible personal presence of the father Incompreâ—enâ—ible Who is the God of â—ur Lord Jesus Christ who hath made or decreed that same Jesus both Lord and Châ—ist saying by Jeremy This is his name whereby he shall be called and known The Lord our rigâ— hteousness the God of Salvation the ordained Judge of quick and dead Even the power of God unto salvation to reign in and among the elect 〈◊〉 oâ— unto eternall life For the gift of God the Father to all the elect is eternall life in glory through and by Jesus Christ whom he hath made both Lord and Christ yea The only true God of salvation the living God or God of life and everlasting King of glory who proceede h from the father everlasting for him hayh God the Father sealed or decreed for the work of mercy and glory to the creature and conferred by the God of the Prince of Peace and Father of this our Lord Jesus Christ on the elect Sainâ—s who shall be inhabitants of the everlasting Kingdom For the Kingdoms of the world shall be the Kingdom of our great incomprehensible God the father and of his Christ and â—e the Lord God of salvation shall reigne over the Saints in Mount Zion for ever O who can think upon these things worâ—â—â—y Or know the waies of the most â—hgh God and father of all and his power Christ Whose incorruptible Spirit is in all things for he is the â—oye of â—ouâ—s and by whom the heavens and all things were made into external visible form and being O therefore who can truly think what this our Lord God of salvation is much less to comprehend the infinite Majesty of God the father and Creator of all Spirits of light and Spirits of darkness who loveth none but this sacred Spirit of Wisdom Light and Glory and all his Saints For God his God hath anointed him the Emanuel with the oyl of gladness above his fellows above all Spirits and hath made him most blessed for ever Honour and Majesty hath he laid upon him and through the mercy of the most High shall he not be moved who hath given him Power over all Flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as he the Father hath given him Who of his own Will begot the Creatures with the Word of Truth Christ Jesus and thus is he 〈…〉 Beginning of the Creation of God The Word of God The King of kings and Lord of lords The God of Isrâ—el or Elect whose glorious coming is at hand Even so come Lord Jesus the Beauty of Holiness the Christ of the most high God the Father ordained by him to be the God of our salvation and the power of â—od â—o eternal life and glory determined for the creature for this life eternal is in his Son and his Name is in him The Lord Jehovah the Truth the Light the Life the Begining of the works of the most High God and Father of all Spirits who is above all and by his holy Spirit worketh through and in all being the Invisible or only wise God or God of wisdom Christ whom no man hath ever seen nor can see for no man hath seen God the Father at any time nor ever heard his voice by whom all things invisible were created in Christ Jesus the Beginning that are in heaven and earth but only as he hath been pleased to manifest himself to the creature in and by his Name Face Presence Power Wisdom and Love Christ the visible God of salvation the Lord God of the elect with whom Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Joshua the 70. Elders and all the Prophets talked face to face and mouth to mouth as one friend talketh with another even with the Lords anoynted the Lord God of Israel merciful and gracious whose Nature and Property is Mercy and Love by whom the whole family of Heaven and earth is named and to whom all power is given from the Father both in Heaven and Earth who is the Image Face and Presence of the great invisible God the Father and in whom the invisible and incomprehensible God-head dwelleth personally bodily or representatively who of God the Father is made unto us creatures wisdom righteousness sanctification and Redemption Who also is the blessed Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of lords and who only hath immortality dweling in the light the Father which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see even the Christ the Power of God the Wisdom of God the beginning of the Creation of God in whom all things were created by the Father the God of all Spirits For to us there is but one God of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ the God of Israel or Elect by whom are all things made and we by him who is the Lord God former and maker of all things being the express visible likeness or Image Face Presence Hand and active Power of the Invisible God the Father for the work of mercy salvation and glory to the creaturâ— whose excellency of being is in no manner revealed to the Sons of men other then in and by his comprehensible beloved Son and heir of all things The visible God Christ Jesus The Lord the life and hope of glory of and by whom we shall receive the reward of the inheritance even eternal life For the Father being the author and produce of all Spirits even of light and darkness from himself his glory must needs be far ecxeeding theirs who is pleased in special to delight love and dwell in Emanuel the Anoynted or Ordained God of love and Salvation light and eternall glory by whom he made the worlds and by whom all things were made yea all things were made by him and he is before all things excepting him the Father that hath made him Lord of all things and hath put all things under him to whom all power is given from the Father both in heaven and earth who is the beginning of the workes of God the first begotten of every creature O Lord our God the God of salvation thou hast made al these things the Lord of hosts is his name Behold I the Lord
ye rejected him saying We will not have this man to reigne over us for we have no King but Caesar is now dispers d among the Nations and shall be only a Remnant For as ye wâ—re a curse among the Heathen saith the Lord O House of Israel and House of Judah f so will I save you and ye shall be a Blessing For in those days and at that time the children of Israel and the children of Judah shall g come together They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying Come Let us joyn our selves to the Lord in a Perpetual Covenant that shall never be forgotten Then shall the Tribes of Israel mourn when they see him whom their fore-fathers rejected and shall h declare my glory among the Gentiles and they the Gentiles shall bring your brethren unto the Lord out of all Nations in their Ships and upon Horses and in Litters and in Chariots and upon Mules and upon swift Beasts or Dromedaries to my holy Mountain Jerusalem and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem saith the Lord For as the New Heaven and the New Earth which I will make shall remain before me so shall your Seed and your Name remain saith the Lord And the Gentiles i shall come to thy Light and Kings to the brightness of thy rising When I have raised you out of your graves then thy sons shall come from far and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side And the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee Then will I return k to the people a pure language They shall not see Evil any more for Evil the Divel shall not dwell with thee Christ in glory saith David And because salvation is far from the wicked for they search not Gods statutes yea they are hid from their eyes neither can they know them because they are * spiritually discerned Therefore ye that truly fear the Lord God of salvation eternal life light and glory Christ Jesus Search the Scriptures l for in them ye look to have Eternal Life and they testifie of me saith our Saviour For the Scriptures only comparing spiritual things with spiritual things are able to make you wise uâ—to salvation Knowing this that the Scriptures are not of any private m Interpretation For we have this Treasure of Gods revealed Will by his Word in Earthen Vessels that the Excellency of the Power may be of God and not of us for none knoweth the things of God but the Spirit of God So that it plainly appeareth that all mens Interpretations of what quality or degree of Learning soever or paraphrasing upon the Scriptures is only a private Interpretation and so is uncertain for there is no man that can truly say that he is immediately sent from God as the Prophets were and hath an infallible unerring spirit and that his interpretations of the Scripture and his paraphrasing on them are most infallibly true Therefore Wo to them that are wise in their own Eys and prudent in their own sight Wo to them that put Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness That broach the Divels Doctrine of lyes for a Truth and force all men to obey and receive them as the Truth For no man can serve two masters God and Mammon Christ and the Divel But the learned Pharisees who were covetous derided Christ the Wisdom of God saying Is not this the Carpenter the Son of Joseph And Jesus said unto them Ye are they which justifie your selves before men to have much Learning Wisdom and Piety but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men but within ye are full of Hypocrisie and Iniquity and devour Widdows houses yet for a shew of feigned Piety make long Prayers like most of our covetous Priests Therefore beware of the Scribes which walk in long robes or garments and make merchandise of the VVord of Truth by Sermons of all Prises Sacrament Christnings Churchings of Women an burying of the Dead at several Rates Easter-book New-yeers-gifts and Excommunications with several other pecuniary offences at several Rates These several Truths with the following matter contained in this Treatise I recommend to thy conscientious and diligent perusal without a prejudicate opinion beseeching thee as thou expectest eternal life in glory in the land of the living to search the Scriptures and try the truth of this following matter even as the noble Bereans did The happy issue whereof I refer to the blessing of the Almighty God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who only in and by his Son works in us both the VVill and the Deed Desiring thee also to consider that the Testimonies of the Lord are true and wonderful giving light and understanding to the simple For by thy Word thou O Lord hast made me wiser then my Teachers saith David With which saying I also conclude committing thee to the Direction and Tuition of the Almighty Goodness of the great God and Father of all Spirits the Excellent Glory Remaining thine in the Lord Jesus the God of Salvation to my Power James Frese Being still in Bonds which fain I would not be The man I was I wish I nere had bin Thy hands affliction hath drawn me home to thee Lord grant thy work may more on me be seen That Asia's seed in Europ's Soyl may spring And bear a Pleasing fruit to Israels King And Englands Sons and Daughters also may Bring thy People in that most happy day To Sions hill and there Present to thee Themselves with Iudah a most Pleasing Tree Where they shall see thee and thy Saints be known To them their friends and children which they own Lo God hath chosen the foolish and weak things of the world to consound the wise and mighty And having hid these things from the wise and prudent hath revealed them unto Babes And thus you see it plainly doth appear To be a truth most evident and clear That some Proficients are in natures schools And yet in Christ's meer novices yea fooles Probatum est 1647. JUDAHS PAST WITH ENGLANDS Present Miseries paralleld And the holy Land of PALESTINA with ENGLAND paralleld the one being Asias the other Europes Canaan or Land of Plenty SECT. I. THUS saith the Lord smite with thine hand and with thy foot and say Alas for the evill abominations of the Land Behold an evill an only evill is come it watcheth for thee I will shortly pour out my fury upon thee and I will judge thee according to thy wayes and all thy abominations for violence is risen up among them into a Rod of wickedness The day of vengeance is near therefore let not the Buyer rejoyce nor the Seller mourn for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof neither shall any of them strengthen themselves in the iniquity of their
of love Christ Jesus according to the commandment of Jesus Christ who hath called us unto his Kingdom and Glory even the glory which he had with the father before the world was when he shall come in his glory For the time of this his glorious appearing is at hand to the eternall comfort and unexpressible joy of all the Saints of God but to the unsupportable horror dread and eternall confusion of all the dead men of this world or men of death Children of death hell and darkness called Sathan For God hath made all things for himself even the wicked for the day of wrath Evill Darkness judgement Death eternal to whom it is not given to know the truth nor the mysteries of his Kingdom of glory and joyes eternal to be there enjoyed by the Saints for ever And know this also that whatsoever things were written afore time were written for our learning that wee through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope of eternal life and Glory in the world to come Therefore pray that the light or spirit that is in you may not be of the darkness but of the true light Christ Jesus which inlighteneth every man unto Salvation whom God his God hath anoynted with the oyle of gladness above his fellowes even aboue all Spirits that so by that sacred Primary spirit of truth and light Christ Jesus whom God the father hath appointed heire of all things by whom also he made the world and who by him the father was sent in the flesh to be a light to us gentiles but shall be the glory yea a King of eternall glory to his people Israel ye may be inabled to hear his voyce and to be raised from the dead at his appearing in glory with all his saints But the rest of the dead shall not rise or live for they only that are his possessed by his spirit of life shall hear his voyce verily verily I say unto you the hour is coming when the dead shall hear the voyce of the son of God and they that hear his voyce shall live But they that hear not his voyce being the children of death shall still remaine in the bonds of death and hell for they are dead they shall not rise yea they shall not live at the resurrection of the just they shall not awake nor be raised out of their graves till the thousand years of rest and glory be fulfilled but they shall be gathered into one pit and shut up in the prison of the grave and after the thousand years or many days shall they be visited For the dead in Christ shall rise first even they that are Christs at his coming for thy dead men Christ Jesus shal live with my body shall they rise yea they which shall be accounted worthy of the worldtand tha resurrection from the dead are or shall be equall to the Angels of light and are the children of God being the children of the resurrection Christ Jesus who is the resurection and the life neither can they dy any more death hath no more dominion over them O therefore love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the constant doer be of good courage therefore for he shall strengthen your hearts all ye that trust in the Lord Now if this plain demonstration of the truth of Christs glorious personal reigne on the earth among his Saints in the land of Glory which God the Father hath ordained before the world unto our glorie that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God be still hid it is hid to them whose mindes are blinded by the God of this world the Divell that they should not see nor apprehend the excellency of the eternal Glorious being ordained of God for us before the world was even eternal life and glory unexpressible in the land of the living But God doth reveale them to his poor servants by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God that we might know the excellency and become partakers of the Majestie and unexpressible glory of Christ in the glorious world to come at the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the King of eternall life Light and Glory seen of all his Prophets who hath built an everlasting foundation with men and shall continue with their Seed And who also is by God the Father given for a covenant to the people to establish the earth even he the beloved who is ascended to his Father and our Father to his God and our God for thus saith the Lord I am Alpha and Omega which is which was and is to come The Almighty him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God the new Jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from my God Hear therefore O Israel or Elect the Lord thy God is one Lord For to us the Saints there is but one God even the Father of whom are all things even spirit of light and spirits of darkness and we in him and one Lord Jeâ—us Christ by whom are all things formed and made into externall viâ—ible shape and being and we by him by whom he the Father made the world that is decreed what this present world of darkness should be and what the glory of the world to come should be For known unto God the father or determined are all his works by in and from the or this sacred beginning Christ Jesus Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge for the Councell of peace shall be between them both even between Father and Son of the most high God the light of Israel and his holy one or beloved one by whom he hath given unto us eternal life and this life is in his son and when he shall appear the second time unto salvation we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and live ever in his sight even in the presence of his son Christ Jesus the true God and eternall life who is over all God blessed for ever of the Father For our life or eternal being is hid with Christ in God the Farher but when Christ which is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in his glory For He that is Elect and his name writen in the book of life or secret decree of the most high God the Father shall ever abide under the shaddow and guidance of the almighty Lord the ordained God of Salvation Christ Jesus and to whom belong the Issues of death he being the ordained resurrection and the life of eternall rest and glory to the Creature for he is gone up to prepare a
eternal purpose in Christ Jesus whereby he hath made them heires of glory yea joynt heires with Christ to be glorified together with him Whose spirit beareth witness to our spirits that we are the Children of God the Father and heires with Christ who is the Ordained God and Lord over all blessed for ever He came out of the mouth of the most high God the Father and so is he the word of God For the Creator of all things gave him a Commandment and ordained his tabernacle or personall presence to rest Saying to him let there be a firmament and let thy dwelling be in Jacob and thine inheritance in Israel Yea he came forth as a brook from a river for he the Father created him the beginning and he shall never faile and thus is he established in Zion in the beloved City Jerusalem is his rest and power being the portion of his inheritance Where he the word the life the way the truth the righteoâ—sness and the lâ—ght is by the Father decreed to dwell in gâ—ory with all his saints for ever There is also a word which is called upon with death who is called darknes hell falshood vanity unrighteousness wrath destroyer Sathan wickedness God grant it be not found in the heritage of Jacob the Saviour But this word was found in Jacob or Judah when they renounced the word of life and glory Christ saying we have no King but Caesar and his blood be on us and our Children Then spake he unto them in or by this word of darkness his wrath the divel and vexed them in his sore displeasure for they were given up by God the Father to him the wrath therefore said to be of their Father the divel the destroyer For as God or goodness is set by the Father against evill the divell light against darkness mercy against wrath life against death the Saviour against the destroyer even so is the Godly against the Sinner and the Sinner against the Godly Even so also look upon the works of the most high God the Father and there are â—wo Christ and Belial the accepted and the rejected and their two works are one against the other The ways of Righteousness are plain and easy to the righteâ—us but his commands are stumbling blocks to the wicked And for the Children of Righteousness are good things created or decreed by the father in the or this sacred beginning Even life eternall in glory but for the sinners or the Children of the disobedient one or evill things created or decreed even eternall being in the land of horrour drought and darkness for ever with their Father the divell for the wrath of God is revealed now but shall then be manifest Called Principalities Powers Hosts Ministers that at the Almighty's pleasure on his works yea powers of darkness Beelzebub that act by fire famine sword and pestilence punishing the wicked to destruction and boasting themselves in mischief and destruction whose nature and property is cruelty and destruction therefore stiled a roaring Lyon the destroyer but not the Saviour Christ whose nature and property is mercy and preservation and therefore is he stiled the preserver of men yea the Oracle or mouth of God the Father Thus you see that all things are double or decreed for a double use one against the other some for the light to abide in glory and some for the darkness Beelzebub to abide for ever in darkness For all that obey or do his will shall reap perdition but they that walk in the light and are Children of the light shall inherit the land or earth of glory and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace Thou wilt say why doth he then complain for who hath or doth resist his will for can I do any other then I am lead forth unto or made to do But O man who art thou which pleadeth or speaketh against God thy maker for shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it why hast thou made me thus hath not thee Potter power of one lump to make one vessell to honour or for the acting of the spirit of honour and glory Christ Jesus and another to dishonour or for the acting of the spirit of dishonour and reprobation Beelzebub what and if God will to manifest wrath and to make his the sdivels elotted or meated out power known to the Creature uffer the vessels of wrath prepared or decreed to destruction to act the will and works of wrath and that he might also declare the riches and power of his glory for Christ is the glory and power of God unto salvation upon the vessels of his mercy Christ the mercy of God which he hath prepared or decreed unto glory to act the works of mercy here for glory hereafter For if thou be determined for glory and the vessell or body be filled at present with the Spirit of glory truth and righteousness Christ Jesus then shalt thou act and be led forth to the works of glory truth and Righteousness For the meanes shall never be wanting that drives on to the end of the Fathers decree But if thou remaine under the power and guidance of the spirit of darkness then canst thou do none other works then the works of darkness and then thou wilt apprehend the word works and actings of Christ in his vessels of honour called saints to be ridiculous and foolishness for he that is not for Christ is against him But wo unto him that striveth with this his maker Christ Jesus the Lord of life and glory for this maker the Lord our Righteousness is the husband or bridegroome to the Saints and he will marry them unto himself in Righteousness and glory everlasting for he will give unto them salvation in Zion O therefore say not thou it is through the Lord Christ my maker that I perish for he causeth me to err for who dare say unto him what hast thou done or who dare stand against his Judgement to whom all power is given by the Father both in heaven and earth or who dare accuse him for the nations that perish whom he hath made or who dare stand against him to revenge the cause of the wicked that are by him cast off or rejected therefore happy yea thrise happy are all they that are possessed and guided by this sacred spirit wisdom For she was created or produced by the Father before all things she hath built her everlasting foundations with men and is given by the rather to be with their seed in glory for ever For all such as band themselves against Jehovah and against his anointed power for 〈◊〉 are described and known to be disobedient men of this earth or world of darkness guided by the rebellious spirit of wrath darkness and enemies to the obedient spirit of sight life and determined glory to the elect and obedient
ma the God of all flesh the former and maker of all things and the Saviour of the body yea the Lord God maker of heaven and earth for thy maker is thine husband the Lord of host is his name thy redeemer the holy one of Israel the God of the whole earth shall he be called but he is not now so called by the men of this world nor by his own chosen people the Jews who do now daily deride him and call him the impostor and crucified God of the Gentiles Lo thus you see that the Father is the most high invisible and incomprehensible God and Father of all spirits Creator of all things of whom are all things and Christ is the visible Lord God the beloved Son the former and maker of all things into external form and shape being by whom are all things and thus are we Christs and Christ is Gods For he that is our God is the God of Salvation Christ or of the elect and not Lucifer the God of damnation or of the reprobates and unto God the Lord Christ belong the Issues from death Hell and Damnation Beâ—lzebub O the depth and power of Christ the wisdom of God! how unsearchable are his works and his ways past â—inâ—â—â—g out for of him through him and to him are all things and he is the Fathers delight before all things in whâ—m he is well pleased To whom be ascribed as due is all honour glory might majesty and dominion eternal from all his workes in generall and from him in particular to whom the law of his mouth is become better then thousands of Gold and silver for unless his law had bin my delight I had perished in these mine afflictions of more then ten years continuance in these severall places of mans Inhumane cruelty but are to me Schools of Gods correction and fatherly chastisement Where if Christ the goodness mercy and power of God had not bin on my side mine enemies had swallowed me up when their wrath was kindled against me yea they had brought my life down to the ground because they are too mighty and strong for me but blessed be the Lord my God and Saviour anoynted who hath not given me over as a prey to their teeth though my soul hath long bin under the power and among these cruell ones whose teeth are speares and arrows and their tongues a sharp sword I beseech you therefore brethren marke them which cause divisions Persecutions Oppressions and Offences and avoid them for such as they serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their father the Divel and their own bellies and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple an heâ—rt they have exercised with covetous practises of Oppression gain honour and preferment following the way of Baalam who loved the wages of unrighteousness And know this that there shall come in the or these last days Scoffers walking after their own lusts prescribing a service to God after their own vaine devises as our Bishops did and Priests still doe making a mercenary trade of the Gospel of Christ and his ordinances of the sacraments of baptisme and the Lords supper burying of the dead and divers other things and by speaking great high words and vanity they spoyle many through Phylosophy and vaine deceit after the vaine Traditions of men after the Idolatrous rudiments or wisdom of the world and not after Christ nor the rule of his word challenging also to have dominion over your faith they compel men to serve Christ in their vaine devised ways and thus they lord it over Gods heritage but how can such hypocrites seek Gods honour truly when they thus seek after lordship dominion and honour one of another as wicked lawyers do but where is the wise where is Scribes where is the Doctor or great disputer of this world hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world or all worldly wisdom for not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish and weak to confound the wise and mighty for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God he taketh the wise in their own craftiness and knoweth that their thoughts and â—rts of subtill Sathanicall Sophistry are vaine But be glad and rejoyce in the Lord O ye righteous and shout for joy all ye that are meek and upright in heart for ye shall receive the crown of glory and these your proud insulting Oppressours shall be no more For what soever is not of Christ is of Beelzebub But Covetousness Pride Injustice Tyranny Oppression and Uncharitableness is not of Christ Therefore of Beelzebub And his children or servants ye are to whom ye obey This reall truth of Christ's eternall Reigns With all his Saints in Judah land again Oxford and Cambridde with their Phiâ—oâ—â—phy Their subtil Logick and cunning Sophistry Their learned quirks and their Sch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Though backâ— by Egypts Art though fâ—â—â—â—'d 〈◊〉 Styx Shall nere this truth obscure â—or now this light Breaks forth most clear to many Christians sight Yea though with blood they have long dampt this truth And many hundred years stiled it forsooth An heresie yet now it flames again And will consume their learned glosses Fame Their Pride Ambition Covetous tything fee Their Romish Trumpery ere long you 'l see And in this way by them call'd heresie I 'l worship still my God in verity Vntill the time he please to call me hence At his appearing in great excellence His people Israel to attend and praise With them Great Zions God in sight alwayes None knows that natures day nor hour but yet The time and year with his own words do fit For as the dayes of Noah so shall be His glorious coming then in Majesty From Noah s flood unto this worlds Creation Is sixteen hundred fifty seven by computation But now the Priests the Lord of mercy sell And by Injustice the Laywers them excell Thus one the word of mercy sells for gold The other Justice Impiously and bold FINIS Psal. 143. 10. Psal. 142. 5. Exod. 15. 13 17 18. Isa. 8. 8. Ezek. 32. 25 26 27. a 1 Kin. 12. 16. 19 20. b Psal. 48. 2 8. * Matth. 5. 35. c 1 King 17. 1 3 6. d Zeph. 3. 10 to 17. 2 Esdras 13. 40 41. 43 44. Isa. 49. 11 12. Jer. 24. 5. Jer. 29. 10. e Isa. 11. 12. Mic. 4. 6 7 â— Lu. 19. 14 27. John 19. 15. f Iâ—a 66. 20. g Ier. 5. 4 5. Matth. 24. 30. h Zach. 12. 10. Isa. 66. 19 Isa 60. 9. Isa. 66. 13. 20. In the New or Heavenly Jerusalem i Isa. 60. 3 4 5. Ezek. 37. 14. Luke 2. 32. k Zeph. 3. 9. 15 16. Psal. 5. 4. * By the Spirit of Truth l Iohn 5. 39. 2 Tim. 3 15. 16 m 2 Pet. 1. 20 2 Cor. 4. 7. Isa. 5. 20 21. Lak 16. 13 14.