faith of Christ crucifyed manfully to fyt under his Banner against sin the VVorld the Devil to continu Christs faithful soldiers servants unto their lyvs ends c. which as any hav com truly to do be they hav bin mâd a prey on by them their Nâms cast forth as evil counted Heritics not fit to liv whos practis towards such for ages generations past to this day hath bin spoyling their goods imprisonment banishment whiping torturing racking hanging burning their persons Others ther ar who thô they ûs not such a heap of lys ceremoys about it yet ar they acted by the sam spirit Power in the ground in the administration therof som sprinkling infants others diping persons of ryper years affirming it to be the baptilm of Christ uring a necessity ther of as unto salvation wher in they agree with the whor of Rom wher as John who was the minister of water baptism said thus I baptys you with water but ther cometh òn after me mytyer then I to wit Christ he shal baptys you with the holy ghost or spirit and Christ himself in his charg to his discypels said go yee and teach al nations baptysing them he said not in water but in to the nam of the Father of the Son of the holy spirit which baptism of Christ by the holy spirit was administred throuh preaching in thè demonstration of the spirit Power of God wherby Peepel wer brouht in to a participation of the lyt lov wisdom Power and spirit of holynes which is the Nà m of the father who is the God of lyt and lov the nam of the Son who is the wisdom and Power of God the Nà m of the holy ghost who is caled the spirit of holynes this is the òn baptism which saveth which the Apostel said is not the washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good consciens towards God by the refurrection of Christ from the ded in them the baptism which is by the òn spirit into the òn body of Christ vvhich body of Christ is the whol creation visibel invisibel of which every living cretur of God is a member the tempel the hous of Prayer unto al nations the visibel and sensityv part wherof is the womam that was deceived and first in the transgression the evil effects of which transgresing Power hath throuh thos angels that kept not their own habitations spred it self over the whol body wherby a dark vail of covering hath bin drawn over the Pur lyt glory of God in every cretur visibel invisibel otherwys ther had not bin need of making a covenant for the redemtion Salvation Deliverans and restoration of the whol body had not the effects of the curs bondag of corruption bin over al that it hath bin so hath evidently appeared in the several ecclipses darkning of the Sun the turning of the moon in to bloud the faling of the stars of the hevens the Extreams of heat cold natural spiritual tempestuos and blasting Wynds outward Inward Infectios clouds vapors mildews on the outward Inward man overwhelming destroying showers of snovv rayn hayl the enmity that is not only in Man-kynd but in every cretur òn against another not only of ôn sort against thos of another sort but against ech other of the sam kynd sort which ar al the effects of the curs that entred by transgression it cannot be other wys For if God cast out God then wer his Kingdom divyded against it self so should hav an end but the eternal Power the former of al things being the spirit of Pur lyf lov peas wisdom ryteosnes holynes thos effects formentioned could not proceed from him for every effect proceeds from its natural proper caus had the creation stood under the goverment of that Pur Power spirit by which it was created brouht forth the transgresing Power curs could not hav entred al thos evil effects ther of had never bin brouht forth for deth folly unryteosnes desylment destruction enmity could never Possibly hav bin the effects or prodùs of that spirit of Pur lyf wisdom Ryteosnes Salvation Preservation lov From this cursed Root the transgressing Power that old serpentyn spirit which took plà s in Eva and Adam and throuh them hath spred it self over the whol body hath sprung al the wars murders Persecutions Enmity Deceit Plagu's Pestilenses sikneses Famins Destructions wo's Calamitys Miserys which hav bin stil ar not only upon in Man-kynd but in upon the vvhol body of the creation and as the everlasting covenant of God to his ovvn Pur Seed vvhich is Christ not only in Man-kynd but in the vvhol body of the creation every cretur therin contained coms to be mà d good the corrupt bondag of the transgresing Povver chal be broken al the miserabel cursed effects therof shal ceas According to the promis of God by throuh his holy Profets which body of Christ is his spous his church to for which he giveth himself that he may redeem wash clens it that it may becom holy blâmles without spot in the midst of which even in throuh every creturth declareth the Fathers Nà m unto his brethren sings Prayses unto him This is the sweet singer of Israel Christ is al in al betxixt God and man whether in disâ—ensing mercy or execuring Iudgment visibel or in visibel in upon Mankind as first to upon Adam Eva. who throuh al ages generations hath in Ryteosnes faithfulnes sung the sweet song of mercy judgment as a Son over his own hous to wit Christ the eternal word of lyf the vvisdom and Povver of God vvhich was in the begining vvith God befor his vvorks of old by vvhom al things wer mâd and ar upheld It was he that mâd Man-kynd in his own pur Imag plased him in Dominion over the works of his hands who in lov and Kyndnes gav them freedom to eat of every tree of the garden prohibiting them only from eating of the tree of knowledg of good and evil warning them in mercy of the evileffects of transgresing against his Just command therin yea even when the lust was conceiving and the Tempter working in Eva it was Christ the sâam eternal Wisdom and Power of God which in Just Ryteos Judgment after sin and transgression had taken plâs and got entrans in them that pronounsed and executed on in them the Just and Ryteos Judgments of God becaus of their sin transgression It was he to wit Christ that in mercy to in the old World exercysed patiens To and upon the old wrold long forbearans by his spirit in stryving with them til al flesh had corrupted their ways befor him so that it repented him that he had mà d man And
caused to be mà d a multitud of abominabel Idolatros images and ydols in their and your spiritual adulteros abominabel blasphemos and idolatros hearts and mynds to represent God Christ the spirit angels and saints mà d of gold silver bras yron wood and ston after the manner of the ignorant and idolatros heathen of old which they and you hav caused to be set up in your hyh ways Markets Streets Courts of judicatur and plases of your idolatros vvorship and set up and hang in your houses and carry about you throuhout Christendom filing the land with ydols and picturs and abominabel images of jelosy ther by grievosly provoking the just and ryteos Lord God omnipotent to caus his fiers vvrath indignation and jelosy to smoak burn against you having worshiped the works of your own hands even that which your fingers hav mâd the mean Man hath bowed down even Mâl Femâl Rich Poor Bond Free Smal Great and yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers great ôns hav Debased your selvs beforthem THERFOR WIL I NOT FOR GIV OR SPAR YOU saith THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT And yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom and your predecessors having forgoten turned your baks upon and becom Ignorant of the God that formed you and raised you up in whos hand at whos dispos your breth lyvs dominons ar it hath rendred both them and you voyd of that nobel Spirit of tru wisdom counsel gravity Prudens vertu holynes which appeared ons in som of your predecessors rendring them famos terribel dredful to their enemys abroad their Goverment lovly desyrabel at hom among the several Nations tongu's and languages under their subjection They you becam stil remain lyk Cruel Uunatural bruit-beasts or evening wolvs turning that sword which ons rendred them dredful terribel to their enemys unto their own bowels therwith by wars division stryf contentions murdering kiling and destroying on Another in the wikednes pryd stoutnes of their your ambitios hearts mynds quarreling ôn with another about Erthly dominions greatnes and preheminens emty blasphemos Antichristian Nâms tytels of worldly Antichristian and Spiritually wiked Honor Dominion to wit Master worshipful Hy Myty Lords Stâts General most Illustrios Nobel Vertuos Honorabel Excelent Sereen Earls Duks Lord Protectors Prinses Kings most invincibel Emperors Cardinals Eminency Archbishops Bishops Grâs Ryht Reverend Fathers in God common Priests Reverend Divyns c. with the Pôps Holynes al the other Nâms Tytels assumed in the Military Civil Ecelestastical Powers so caled which ar not of Christ but cam out of the bottomles pit ar Erthly sensual Devilish into the Lâk of Gods most Just Ryteos Dredful wrath vengeans Plagu's Indignation must that Power Spirit be cast in which yee now stand by which ye ar acted Yee hav not learned of Christ to lov ôn another who said to Peter put up thy sword into its plas for al that ták the sword must perish by the sword and heer by both yee and your goverment ar rendred odios yea even most intolerably burdensom cruel and opresing in the syt of God and in the hearts of the Peepel over whom yee rul lading them with Burdens taxes oppresions labor Sôr travels in bloud wars on against another And althô yee cal your goverment The Holy Roman Empyr the Pop blasphemosly his holynes and the Rest of that spiritual Babylonian Antichristian crew holy Bishops patrons Fathers of holy Church so caled and profes your selvs to be Christian Emperos Kings Prinses Rulers and Peepel yet ar yee found voyd of the tru Christian Spirit lyf bav not learned of Christ nether ar found in his nor the tru Christians ways practises who said lov your enemys bles them that Curs you do good to them that hât you pray for them that persecut you despytfully ûs you be not overcom of evil but over com evil by doing good But yee hav bin môr barbaros stil ar mor cruel to your Enemys then any that ever I hav heard seen or red of causing them to be with Yrons ôn their legs lyk horses nyt day and their hands in Yrons chaining them by the neks lyk dogs to a post or wal with their feet in the stoks lying on the ground with litel under them cruelly torturing their bodys to fo rs them to confes and tel what ther outward estats ar or what rich abel friends they hav ther by to procur great sums of mony for their ransoms causing them to work dayly with thos Yrons upon their legs provyding no cloths for them allowing them only water to drink and hardly bred enuf of the courser sort to fustain their outward man yea causing som of them to work without allovving them ether bred or mony hardly permiting them to fetch good water or go to such as pased by them wher they wer at work to beg buying seling them ôn to another as slavs lyk beasts for mony according to what was of old forseen fortold by the Spirit of prophesy in John the faithful witnes of Jesus recorded in the Scripturs of truth of al which Inhuman antichristian cursed and cruel dealings my self and companion in travel hav bin not only Ey and ear witneses but also in mesur hav gon throuh suffered and sustained So that this seed of the serpent even that cursed Spirit of apostacy and faling away from the tru Christian Spirit purfaith lyf having taken root in your predecessors it hath continued in its cursed operations fruits working in you to this very day and hens it hath com to pas that tru wisdom is Perished from thy anients good wholsom counsel is not to be found among the honorabel ôns and insted of governing the Peepel in truth peas and ryteosnes behold on al hands a grievos cry of vyolens spoyl oppression insted of unity and concord behold stryf debat rumors of cruel and dredful wars on al hands And not having Christ to be your hed Bishop King Priest Counseler Lawgiver and horn of your salvation yee ar becom broken to Pieces and divyded under dyvers heds Bishops Kings Blasphemos nams heaps and horns pushing stryving contending and waring ôn against another in bloud and cruelty wherby whol Christendom hath bin mâd an Akeldama or field of bloud even a plâs not of kyndnes and good entertainment but of cruelty and Murder and to bury strangers in even Christ the tru and Ryt heryr and Lord of al who hath bin long as a stranger in the Erth as driven out of his possession but now com to demand recover posses his inheritans which is the purchas of your denying betraying and Spiritually Murdering and Crucifying the Lord of lyf and glory And thy Peepel O Christendom being Ignorant of Christ vvho vvas given of the
with the sam glory which he had in with the Father befor the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes began And as the natural Body of Christ is but òn so the lyf spirit or soul which is the Spiritual Body is but ón also throuhout the whol Body The whol creation is the body of Christ. every living member therof which is God manifest in the flesh The sâm Eternal lyf pur Power which giveth being and form to ôn Cretur giveth form being unto al not only to in Man-kynd but to and in every Cretur so that the whol is but ôn Body filed acted by ôn soul guyded governed quikened by ôn Eternal Spirit which ar ôn and agree in ôn in him who is the incomprehensibel Lord God Omnipotent the Eternal Fountain and fulnes of al and heer in is seen that imaginary faith of a God-hed comprehended in three Persons for according to their own apprehensions a person being a body in conjunction with a soul then it may be affirmed that ther ar as many Persons comprehended in the God hed as ther ar Kynds of living Creturs and distinct Creturs of every Kynd which ón Body with the ón soul acted and governed by the on Eternal quikening Spirit is the ón only Son of God which cam out of the bosom of the Father in whom he was is ever shal be wel pleased and as the Father hath lyf in himself so hath he given the Son to hav lyf in himself to every living cretur or member in him to hav lyf in it self both in the natural spiritual body the lyf of al in the seed preserved as Christ who is the eternal quikening Power to in the seed both of the natural spiritual body appears so do they al appear with him in tru Pur glory the communication of the vertu of the eternal quikening Power to in the seed both of the Natural Spiritual Body is throuh the cros of Christ which to in the seed of the natural body is communicated throuh natural sensibel visibel things to wit Winter Summer heat cold seed tym harvest hunger food thirst drink Nyt Dây motion rest But to in the seed of the Spiritul Body after a Spiritual and invisibel manner either secretly in the Reyns heart and inward parts or throuh erthen vessels which he hath filed with that tresur a dispensation therof comittent to them which is the Spirit of Prophesy a ded becaus of transgression which shal ceas fayl as into the everlasting Covenant Man-kynd is brouht which Communication of the vertu of the Eternal Power throuh the cros to and in the seed of the Spiritual Body answereth Spiritually to al the dimensions therof to and in the seed of the natural body which ar al of them as truly necessary to the being and welbeing of the seed and lyf of God the ôn as the other both in the natural and spiritual body and as desyr fayls in the on the natural body returns to the Erth and the spirit to God that gav it and as desyr fayls in the other such becom ded whyl they liv which cros is the everlasting covenant o God to and with the seed his own lyf both in the natural and spiritual body which in ôn in and throuh the whol creation and every living cretur therin contained only differing in degrees and manner of working and operation And for an assurans of his faithfulner in making good the covenant on his part to the seed in the natural visibel body he hath given an outward or visibel syn or token plasing his Bow in the clouds of the visibel hevens And to the seed of the invisibel or spiritual body he hath given an invisibel or spiritual witnes or token to wit the lyt which shyneth in the dark plàs in the inward parts the faithful tru witnes of God the word which liveth and Abydeth for ever neer in the mouth and in the heart concerning which the covenant Promis of God is that it shal not depart out of the mouth of the seed nor of its seeds seed for ever even so long as the Sun and moon endureth And heer I Judg it expedient further to declar that I do not herin ether deny or under vallu ether the person work or Son-ship of Iesus Christ that just and innocent ón who witnesed a good confession befor Pontius Pylat But what the holy Profets Apostels declared recorded in the spirit of truth concerning him I do own acknowledg to be tru do heerby affirm that the sam eternal Pur holy Innocent lyf fulnes of God which dwelt bodyly in him was the lamb which was slayn from the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes the holy seed of the woman to which the covenant of God is mà d in which al the Promises of God ar yea and Amen in which al the familys of the Erth shal be blesed the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world the Shylo into whom the gathering of the Peepel shal be the Alpha and Omega the begining the end of al the works of God without begining of days or end of lyf who was is is to com abydeth the Sam for ever world without end and that he cam out of the bosom of the Father in whos mouth was found no guyl in whom the temter nether had nor found any Plàs was the first begoten from the ded the first born amongst many brethren the Author and Captain of eternal salvation who pased the tym of his so journing on Erth in that mortal body in the Pur fear lov of God faithfully finisingh the work given him by the Father to do in the sà m eternal Pur spirit offered up himself unto God without spot returned into the bosom of the Father innocent holy harmles undefyled as he proceeded cà m forth from the Father And as concerning that body of flesh in which he appeared this I say as himself also testifyed that the flesh profiteth nothing but it is that eternal word of spirit and lyf which was mà d manifest in throuh that body of flesh was and is the wisdom and Power of God to salvation in al them that beleeved and that he had power to lay it down and tak it again and did lay it down upon the cros and took it again out of the sepulker and in it was received by a cloud out of the syt of his discypels and according to the scripturs this I say that the things which ar seen with the outward or visibel ey ar but temporal and fading but the things which ar not seen they ar eternal Nòn hav advantag by the deth of Christ but such as partak of his Lyf And as concerning what was don said suffered by the lyf wisdom and Power of
God in by and throuh that Erthen vessel non hav any profit or benifit therby but only such who com into a participation of the sam eternal lyf and purfulnes of God in them selvs which was in him The next stal is their Altars or communion tabels vvher they administer an invenrion of their own brains vvhich they cal the Sacrament of the Altar or communion or the Lords supper in vvhich they mak ûs of bred wyn vvhich after the Priest hath said his Charm of Sorcery and witchcraft over cald consecration they affirm that the substans of the bred wyn is departed that their remaineth nouht but Accidents and that under thos Accidents is the Sà m body bloud of Christ vvhich vvas shed crucifyed on à cros vvithout the gats of Jerusalem being ignorant that the substans not only of bred vvyn but of every cretur is no other then the only living tru Lord God so that by their own confession that vvhich they receiv in their Sacrament is only Accidents without substans and verily as to them so it is for they feed on ashes a deceived heart hath turned them asyd Others ther ar who thô they hav not such a heap of lys and ceremonys about the administration of it yet ar they in it acted by the Sâm spirit in the ground althô they affirm not that it is the sà m body in which the Son of God suffered deth without the gats of Ierusalem yet after they hav said their charm cald blesing the bred they look on it as somwhat mor then it was but what they cannot wel say caling it a supper when many of them receiv it befor they hav eaten their own dinners affirming it to be the communion of the body bloud of Christ when as to them its only a Tabel of such as eat drink unworthily they not discerning the Lords body so becom guilty of the body bloud of the Lord. Wheras Christ Iesus in the sâ—m nyt in which he was betrayed took bred blesed it brak it gav it to his discypels saying tak eat this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrans of me and lykwys the Cup saying this is the new Testament in my bloud which is shed for many and this was befor he had suffered deth in that body throuh which he spak unto them mark that and the Apostel said that the bred which they brak was the communion of the body of Christ and the cup of blesing which they blesed was the communion of the bloud of Christ and that so often as they did eat of that bread he said not ons a week month or year but so often as they did eat drink therof they did shew forth the Lords deth til he cam to wit his deth in the creturs received in the tru hunger thirst of the tru discerning and worthy receiver til he appear in the vertu of his own lyf blesing and lov in and throuh the creturs received to norish and refresh the sam in every tru discerning and worthy receiver for it is no other then the lyf of God which tasteth deth in ôn Cretur to refresh norish uphold the sá m in another herin he tasteth deth for every man is the savior of man beast which is the word of his eternal wisdom Power by which he upholdeth al things That which norisheth and refresheth and that which is Norished and refreshed is ôn in every tru discerning and worthy receiver as he that sanctifyeth and they who ar sanctifyed ar of ôn The other stals ar their Desks pulpits wher in sted of speaking as the orakel of God preaching the everlasting gospel according as they hav seen felt tasted experiensed in them selvs and praying as the Pur spirit of the Lord giveth utterans they utter forth the imaginations of their own brains filing the ears of the Peepel with â—abels storys of lying syns and wonders gathered out of the wrytings books of such whom they cal antient Fathers Poets hathen Philosophers Commentators with their own imaginations from the scripturs perverting them to their own others destruction intruding into things which they hav not seen using som words of Hebrew Greek Latin somtyms in their preaching in imitation of thos tongu's which wer ons appearing as a gift in amongst the Apostels for a syn unto them which beleeved not that so as the speaking in dyvers tongu's languages becam ons a divyding and confounding curs amongst the builders of Babel in the fal so to and in the Apostels it becam a gift of God or syn to such as beleeved not that they myt be brouht again out of the curs out of the many tongu's and languages to learn and speak the ôn pur languag ' And in sted of praying by the motion and help of the pur Power and Spirit of the Lord in them which is the only Advocat vvith the Father who eyer livs to mak intercession in and for the Saints according to the wil of God they read utter forth many vain repetitions which they cal Masses Ave Marys Pater nosters Creeds Common Prayers out of their divyn Servis books Directorys c. With the blynd dark conceptions of their own hearts brayns caled Extemporary Prayers thinking as their predecessors fór fathers the Scrybs Pharisees Hypocryts of old to be heard for their much babbeling in sted of singing in the Spirit making sweet melody to the Lord in their hearts they hav several sorts of Music with singing men boys to mak a noys after the manner of the hethen of old when they sacrifysed their children throuh the fyr unto devils Others ther ar who sing and caus others to sing the saints words and conditions in rym or meeter many of them being ignorant that therin they do evil offering the sacrifys of fools For for any ôn or mor together to sing as prayses unto God in the vvords of the saints or Profets left upon record and say that God is their Ryteosnes and that he hath pluked their â—eet out of the myer set them on the Rok established their goings or that ther is no rest in their bôns by reason of their sins that they water their couch with their tears their skin is as a bottel in the smoak or that the law of Gods mouth is dearer to them then thousands of Gold and Silver Sweeter then the hony or the hony comb as a Lanthorn to their feet lyt unto their Paths their ey not lofty nor their heart hauhty but that their souls ar as weaned children c. VVhen they ar such as liv in vanity Pryd and mâk a scorn and a derision of such as vvalk in the lyt mak the eternal word or spirit of the Lord in them their guyd leader and teacher and mak it
and ly down in the green fresh pleasant soul refreshing Pastur in them the holy Anoynting even the eternal Spirit of truth dayly teaching and leading them into al truth which sercheth al things even the deep things of God so that they need not that any man should teach them but as the sâm anoynting in them teacheth them And to feel the operation of the ôn pur faith which purifyeth and clenseth the heart and keepeth it clean The sound Doctrin pur fellowship breaking of bred Prayer which is not outward meat drink neither stands in outward Observations Carnal Ordinanses Declarations Dispensations but in the pur Power of the lyf which is endles immortal filing the heart inward parts with tru Pur Spiritual everlasting Lov Ioy Rest Peas in them manifesting it self dayly throuh them in the exercys of the pur wisdom Ryteosnes and Holynes of God in al manner of Holy Conversation even the pur fellowship which is in the Father and in the Son in them And to knovv the Father the Son to be ôn in them and to eat of the hiden Manna the tree of lyf in the midst of the Paradys of God hav Povver over the Nations to wit that Spirit Povver in which the nations stand by vvhich they ar acted in them to be cloathâ—d vvith the pur whyt Rayment becom as Pillars in the Tempel of God to sitdovvn vvith the Father Christ in the Thrôn of pur lyf Povver and Dominion over al that which is at enmity against God in them entring in by the gât or door to wit Christ the lyt in them the way into the Holy City the new Ierusalem which is in mesur com coming down from God out of heven in them in which the Lord God Almyty the Lamb is the lyt lyf glory for ever môr even he who is the sam as in the begining the first and the last the begining the end of al the works of God who was is for ever môr abyds neer at hand even in the heart in the mouth whom truly to know obey and constantly to follow is eternal lyf pur lov rest and peas for ever mor The manifestation of Christ in his Peepl the end of al outward institutions in vvhom al Carnal outward Typs Figurs Shadows Ordinanses VVars Kingdoms Citys Tempels Priesthoods al Divisions of the Earth Erthly Injoyments Possessions Gatherings Fellowships Intercessions Teachings Declarations Dispensations Baptisms both of the Profets Iohn With Christ his Mirakels Preaching Parabels last supper ar fulfiled ended of vvhich the brith lyf appearans sufferings of Jesus Christ that Lamb of God vvho vvitnesed a good confession befor Pontius Pylat and vvas betrayed denyed and rejected by the Ievvs vvhom they vvith cruel hands murdred slevv on a cros vvithout the gâts of Ierusalem vvith his Resurrection Ascension Appearans on in the Apostels vvaiting at Ierusalem vvas a Syn In whom I say al things hav their end Even al that vvhich vvas not in the begining vvith God vvhich hath risen in and throuh man in the faln Spirit povver vvisdom even vvith the ordinanses appointments of God ad ed becaus of sin transgression until the appearans coming of the tru pur seed Christ the Lord that Spirit the tru heyr of al vvho is God over al blesed for ever must novv Depart Vanish flee away end for ever mor as into the everlasting Covenant Man Kynd is brought But som may say he speaketh against Government Obj. I the Ordinanses appointments of God in the Church I ansvver Nay Answer And as concerning the exercys of povver Dominion throuh men over others this I say That al the Powers and Dominions that ar or hav been sins the entrans of transgression to this day hav been raised suffered to arys by God ether in mercy or judgment to them over whom it hath bin exercysed that every soul ouht to be subject to the hyer power The power to be obeyed what ever the instruments 〈◊〉 but let such tâk heed how they abus the Power which al who resist resist the ordinans of God what ever the Instruments or Persons be throuh whom the power is administred be they Gentel or froward wiked or godly and in câs they do abus the power commited unto them turning the sword bakward siting up such as work wikednes making a prey of such as depart from Iniquity yet ouht non to seek by outward fo rs in rebellions insurrections to oppos or resist them but wherin for consciens sâk towards God any cannot obey their unjust unryteos laws and commands they ouht to be subject by Patient suffering in the fear wisdom of God bearing their Testimony against the evil so commiting their souls into the hand of God as unto A faithful Creator Thus the trù Christians did stil do in so doing the spirit of glory resteth On such in du tym the Lord God of faithfulnes wil clear their Innocency caus it to shyn forth as the lyt his Iust wrath vengeans to tà k hold on that spirit Power by vvhich they hav bin mà d unjustly to suffer It is the sâm spirit not the sâm Nam mâks the sâm Minister or ordinans of Christ. And as concerning the ordinanses Appoyntments of God in the church this I say that as God hath so he stil doth sit appoynt in the church Profets Apostels Evangelists Pastors and teachers with other helps in Government altho they hav not now the sâm Nâms yet appearing in the sam spirit and Power ar in truth substans the sam which shal continu in the church until that end be accomplished in Mankynd for which they ar Appoynted by God to wit for the work of the Ministry in gathering and Perfecting the saints the Edification of the Body of Christ until al com into the unity of the faith Knowledg of the Son of God unto A perfect man unto the mesur of the statur of the fulnes of Christ But som may say shal man Kynd be brouht Or Redeemed into such A stat Obj. II I answer Yea And the ground or reason of my faith Answ hôp heerin is first becaus the Lord God of Lyf Wisdom Power and faithfulnes hath promised and mà d a Covenant with his own seed in man kynd and throuh his Servants the Holy Profets declared that it shal be so The promis Covenant of God in man kynd the ground of al trâ— faith hóp to which the scripturav a witnes That the seed of the woman shal bruis the hed of the Serpent that al the familys of the Erth shal be blesed in throuh it that into it the gathering of the Peepl shal be that it shal hav the heathen for its inheritans the utmost parts
of the Erth for its possession rul them with a rod of iron al its enemys becom its footstool that as a ston cut out of the mountain without hands it should smyt the Imag ' to wit the Powers of sin darknes in the feet therof so that the Yron Clay Silver Gold therof to wit al the strength Glory of the Power Kingdom of Darknes from the foundation to the Top ston in that cursed building shal be broken to pieces together becom as chaf which the wynd carrieth away that the ston should becom a great mountain fil the whol Erth And the Dominion of sin transgression shal be finished an end put therunto everlasting Ryteosnes be raised up established in Man Kynd they in it that as in Adam al dyed so in Christ the seed al shal be mâd alyv as sin hath reined unto Deth so Grâs shal Rein throuh Ryteosnes the seed unto everlasting lyf John in the Spirit of Profesy heard him that sat on the Thrôn say Behold I mak al things new saw the new Hevens the new Erth wherin ryteosnes dweleth the Holy City the new Jerusalem into which nothing that defyleth or worketh abomination can enter or that maketh a ly but they who ar writen in the Lambs Book of Lyf wherby was for shewn The restoration of the seed Christ in mâl and femâl of them in it to that pur Dominion Glory which he had with the Father in Man-kynd Man-kynd in him befôr the foundation of the World which lyeth in wikednes began The promis fulfild in the hed many members a strong ground of Hôp II. Secondly he hath alredy in mesûr mád thos promises Covenant good performed it to in som to wit in Christ Jesus that Lamb of God who was the first begoten from the Ded the Hed of the Body the Church in whom the Eternal Word of Lyf the Seed of God slain from the foandation of the World which lyeth in wikednes was brouht forth in its Holy Pur perfect Estat of innocency in whom the old Serpent the Divel the Tempter found no Plas who pased the tym of his sojourning heer on Erth in that mortal body in the pur fear lyt lyf Wisdom Power of God his Father faithfully finishing the work given him by the Father to do in the sam Eternal pur Spirit offered up himself again unto God without spot returned into the Bosom of the Eternal Father fountain of lyf from whens he câm proceeded As also dyvers of the Saints and Holy Men of God by and throuh a participation of the Sam Eternal pur fulnes of God which dwelt in him wer turned from the darknes to the lyt from the Power of Sathan to the Power of God and witnesed Salvation from sin and had learned to deny al ungodlynes worldly lusts and to liv soberly Ryteosly holyly in this present World wer clensed from al filthines of flesh and Spirit and had overcom the wiked ón wer mâd free from sin becom the Servants of Ryteosnes risen with Christ siting together in hevenly plases in Christ Jesus and wer com to the new Jerusalem to Mount Syon the city of the living God to the innumerabel Company of Angels the general Assembly Church of the first born to God the Judg of al and to the Spirits of just men mâd perfect in them III. Thirdly Becaus the sâm Eternal Power which hath acomplished it in the hed Som of the members The Power of God sufficient to perfect the rest is abel to acomplish the sâm in every member according to it's plâs throuhout the whol body being abel to sav to the uttermost al that com to God in him who is abel to work so as non shal hinder for Heven and Erth shal pas and now is pasing away but not ôn Jot or tittel of al that he hath spoken or promised shal fal to the ground unfulfiled IIII. Fourthly The Day is now com in which an end to the World which lyeth in wikednes shal be put the Kingdom of darknes sin and transgression finished and the pur and everlasting Ryteosnes of God to wit Christ in mâl and femâl be mád manifest in and throuh mankynd and mankynd in it reconcyled to God and to ón another in the ever lasting Covenant of lyf never mor to be forgoten in which the whol creation shal hav deliverans from the bondag of corruption in to the glorios liberty of the Sons of God The grouâ—d of al outward Rul ordinanses in Church stat declared And as concerning al Rûl Dominion Authority Power whatsoever that hath bin or shal be exercysed in throuh man over others wirh al the Ordinanses Appointments of God in the Church The ground of the Rys Manifestation Administration Continuans of them al was is mans transgression in sining departing from the Lord the lyt Spirit power of God in the inward parts And mans Restoration redemtion from sin transgression returning again unto the Lord in obediens to the lyt Spirit The most universal gathering greatest glory to be after the Apostacy and power of God in the inward parts puteth an end unto them al. But according as it was fôrseen fôrtold by the Spirit of Christ in the Holy Apostels a faling away Apostacy from the tru Christian faith lyf should com that the most spreding manifestation of the most Excelent glory day of the Lord the most universal gathering into him was not to com except ther cam ' first a faling away the Man of sin revealed and Holy Paul in his Advys to the over seers of the flok told them that after his departur greevos wolvs would enter in amongst them not sparing the flok that from among themselvs should men arys speaking pervers things to draw Discypels after them further said that the Mistery of Iniquity did then already begin to work John in his Epistel advyseth them to whom he wrot to try the Spirits not to beleev every Spirit becaus many fals Profets wer then gon out into the World The â—ôp confesseth that the Christ cam in that on body of flesh saying that every Spirit that confesseth not that Iesus Christ is com into the flesh is not of God that was the Spirit of Antichrist of which they had heard that it should com said then that it was already com into the VVorld that they went out from Among themselvs And so it was that the seed of the Serpent having found Plâs in som beguyling them as of old he did Eva drawing their mynds from the simplicity of the Spirit of Christ in them leading them out into the World Inclyning their hearts after outward visibel things it ceased not working even in a mystery of
fear him vvhich shal caus the Pur Lyt knowledg and glory of the Lord to overspred fil and dwel in the whol creation and mercy and truth to meet together and Ryteosnes and Peas to kis and imbrás ech other and truth to spring out of the Erth and Ryteosnes to look down from heven and everlasting joy to rest upon the heds of al the Sons and dauhters of Syon and al caus of syghing and sorrow to flee away forever mor. But to proceed this cursed seed of the Serpent took Root the mistery of Iniquity hath abounded over spred al Christendom the abomination which maketh desolat was stil is standing wher it ouht not abominabel covetosnes Pryd Cruelty Oppression Idolatry sheding the bloud of the innocent saints of God hath bin stil is Practised in thee O Christendom even with a bold impudent fà s which hath long cryed aloud how long Lord holy tru dost thou not judg aveng ' our bloud on them that dwel on the Erth notwithstanding al the Abominations Oppressions Idolatry murders great provocations against the Lord vvhich yee your predecessors hav bin stil ar so openly impudently found guilty of yet exceeding long and larg hath bin the Patiens forbearans of God towards them you many hav bin the Fatherly warnings chastysments vvholsom counsels of the Lord towards them you but yee your predecessors ar found mor abominably guilty of thos abominations crueltys oppressions Idolatrys sheding the bloud of the Innocent then the Jews of old wer for which the Lord mà d ûs of your predecessors of the Roman Power as instruments in his hand to execut his just dredful wrath vengeans on them yee hav not only moked Gods messengers despysed his word misused his Profets Saints as they towit the Jews did befor you but yee hav mà d cruelly executed dyvers Antichristian Cruel bloudy laws statuts to keep them from coming amongst you to Murder Kil Burn destroy them if they open their mouths on the behalf of God his truth ryteosnes or bear their faithful testimony against the cruelty oppressions Idolatrys sheding the bloud of the Innocent exhorting them to repent turn from your their evil cruel and abominabel ways and Practis which yee your predecessors wer and stil ar found guilty of And so both they you hav returned unto God his dear saints servants which he hath raysed up many tyms sent amongst you in Lov mercy hatred for their lov yea cruel torturings murdeings even the worst of evil for their good wil towards you al which provokations crueltys murders rebellious practised against the Lord in his dear precios innocent ôns are Exceedingly heihtened aggravated in you even to the hyest pitch in regard that the hav hard and hav upon record befor you in the Scripturs of truth the many precepts commands of God against such abomniabel ways practises the many woes Judgments dredful Curses denounsed by God against al who ar found guilty of them and the many Just and Ryteos plagu's wrath and dredful Judgments of God Executed on the ages generations past befor you who wer found guilty of the lyk abommations but mor especially in regard that the Lord mâd your predecessors instruments as an Yron rod in his hand to execut his Just wrath dredful Indignation upon the Jews for the sam sins and abominations which your predecessors yee hav bin and stil ar found guilty of and verely the day is now com in which yee wil fynd that he is a God that changeth not but abyds stil the sam as wel in Power ryteosnes wrath and justis as in long forberans patiens goodnes Mercy The Apostels tru Ministers of Christ wer not mâd so by men nor sent forth in the wil or by the approbation of Man nether did they Minister forth from the Letter vvhat others had received by their own acquyred parts learned at Schools universitys for mony nether did they complain or addres themselvs to the Potentats and powers of the Erth to mák laws to fo rs compel peepel to giv them tyths great sums of Mony or yearly Incoms for their preaâ—hing or to defend them in their Doctâ—ins faith Church Order Holy and Christian practises which they held forth and walked in or to fo rs Peepel to conform therunto upon pain of being fyned imprisoned racked tortured banished hanged burned or cruelly put to Deth No No. But they wer caled sent forth by the wil Power and appointment of God the Father the Lord Jesus Christ ministring forth freely and with a redy mynd what they had freely received of God throuh the Revelation of Jesus Christ the tru Lyt and gift of God in them What they had seen felt handled and tasted of the grás Eternal Word living pur Power of God in themselvs they preached forth and declared to others to the end that they also to whom they preached myt hav fellowship with them in the sam whos fellswship was in the Father in the Son Jesus Christ they ministred forth according to the mesur of the gift of the Spirit of the free grâs of Christ in them they wer tauht of God and had learned of the Father and ther by mâd abel Ministers of the New Testament the eveâ—lasting Covenant of God needed not outward laws of Man to fo rs Peepel to maintain them or giv them Mony for their preaching but such as becam obedient to the faith and Christian practises which they preached walked in the constraining Power therof wrouht such a lov of God in them to whom they preached which drew them forth in lov freely to communicat of their carnal substans to them as their Needs necessitys required who having food and raiment had learned therwith to be content And the way and weapons which they took used to defend their Holy Faith Christian Doctrins and practises by to convins gainsayers and Herities wer not outward or carnal not spoiling of goods prisons banishments racks hanging burning other cruel ways of open and secret Murder but Holy Spiritual The saints weapons even by the armor of ryteosnes on the ryt hand and on the left by arguments of sound truth pur and wholsom doctrins Holy harmles innocent and godly conversations Nether was the end of their preaching that Peepel should be ever learning never abel to com to the knowledg of the truth nor that Peepel should be only talking of God The end of the tru Ministers Preaching Christ and Holynes and abyd strangers enemys to ignorant of the lyt lyf Power and Spirit of God Christ and godlynes in themselvs but the end of their preaching was to bring Peepel to the knowledg feeling and obediens of the Spirit pur power and presens of God in themselfs and to
even such as profes to dwel walk in the pur Eternal lyt and lyf of God in them thus saith the Lord God al Assemblings which ar not in my pur Nâm which is lyt al Declarations Invocations or Intercessions which ar not from the tru pur movings and dictats of my put Fower Spirit ar but a stink in my Nostrils thô words of truth yea tru words may be uttered forth Such ar they who run without being sent by me saith the Lord Thes ar the offerers with strangfyr this is the going up by steps unto the Altar of God which discovereth the Nakednes the noys of the hammer in the building of the Tempel which was forbiden and the stretching forth of the hand to stay the Ark which was rewarded with Deth and althuôh such strangfyr Kindlers may for a tym walk in the sparks of their own Kindling yet in the end this must be their portion from me saith the Lord even to ly down in sorrow Thes ar they who in Nam Profession words would seem to giv forth out of their earthen vessels the tru tresur which floweth from the streaming forth of the pur river of the water of lyf Eternal Butar found only to be sailing in Gallys with Oars and in gallant Ships driven with fiers Wynds artificial sayls and other cunning Artifices eloquent Oratory framed in their own strength wisdom which as a plesant Pictur they hold forth for others to behold her be affected with in whom the mistery of iniquity is wound up to the hyest pitch who ar even the most beautiful painted haâ—lot even Sathan trans ormed as an Angelo lyt appearing through them as Ministers of ryteosnes and lyf who ar really but the Ministers of sin Deth whos reward wil be according to their works but the least tru birth of pur lyt lyf can feel discern tast and savor the differens thô not abel to utter forth the sam in words and the day of the Lord which is now com wil be upon al such cunning Artificers eloquent Orators on the Gallys and gallant Ships in which they sayl with al their painted plesant Picturs Their mouths must wil be stoped for al flesh must now be put to sylens beâ—or the Lord and the Lord alon exalted in this his glorios yet most dredâ—ul and terribel day in throuh and over al. The vayl of the Tempel must now be rent from the top to the bottom even the vayl of covering which is overal flesh must now be removed no covering shal now be abel to hyd any from the Ey which is pur but only what is of his own pur Povver Spirit the most bâs weak lovv foolish things of God must novv be set a top of the hyest Mountains even upon the hed of the most glorios strong vvyse est of Men Eternal Glory living pur prayses be to his Nam alon vvho is vvorthy overal forever mor. Further morâ—they to wit thy Clergy or spiritual men so caled ó Christendom being ignorant of alienated from the spirit of Christ in them which alo can mà k a tru seperation from the world and crucify the fpirit therof with the Affections and lusts in mà l femà l they hav erected to them felvs fayer and sumptuos buildings caled Abbys Cloysters Fryerys Nunnerys compasing them about with hy wals in habiting many togâ—ther in them under a fals shew and pretens of seperation from the world its lusts wiked ways and practises and to be wholy devoted to the ervi of God al their days whylst many of themselvs liv ther at eas â—n the flesh lyk filthy drous paâ—â—pering their bellys dayly with delitios â—ar living in plesurs and in the luâ—â— and carnal desyrs of the flesh inordinat affections therof oftentyms secretly murdering the fruits of thôs carnal lusts plesurs which they exercys ôn with another And being voyd of the tru learning of the Father which maketh men tru Ministers of Christ ered from the Spirit of truth which is the tru Original of the Scripturs of truth which only can open the mynd of the Spirit Mystery of godlynes therin declared They hav gôn to Schools Vniversitys and ther for Mony hav learned acquyred Parts Tongu's Arts in their own faln VVisdom And so hav limited fitnes to be Ministers of Christ ability to teach others only to such as by Bodyly Payns Study Industry hav learned of men to speak or read Hebrew Greck Latin c. caling thos the Original the letter of the Scripturs the Word of God wheras the Word of God is that which livs abyds for ever neer in the Mouth and in the heart that al may hear it obey it And so having slayn that just ôn in them crucifyed the Son of God a fresh unto themselvs put him to open sham by their Antichristian filthy abominabel Spritual whordoms Abominations They Pylat lyk set their Tongus To wit Hebrew Greek Latin abov the only tru hed Christ Iesus the Lyt VVisdom Power of God in mà l femâl Who being crucifyed slain lying as Ded in a Sepulker in thee O Christendom they to wit the Clergy so caled ca us the Potentats Prinses Rulers to mâk bloudy cruel laws the execution wherof becam as a great ston upon the mouth of the sepulker to keep him if possibel for ever from rysing any mor in thee thy inhabitants O Christendom seting the Soldiers your Military Power to watch keep down destroy the least appearans of him in any Further môr themselvs yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers their and your Predecessors being ignorant of the tru Cros of Christ which every tru Christian ouht dayly to tak up follow Christ in which cros crucifyeth the flesh with the affections lusts therof in mà l femâl destroyeth that unnatural Bloud thirsty Spirit of enmity which is in Man-kynd against God ôn another yee hav caused to be mád many flowish Croses of Gold Silver Bras Yron VVaod Ston which yee in your Idolatros Spirits carry about you hang sit up in your houses a rop of your Mal-houses or Idol Tempels in your Courts ' Markets Streets Hy ways to which Peelel both Hy Low Rich Poor smal great Mà l Femâl hav yet do bow do Reverens unto them And not knowing what the tru Imag of God Christ is nor the vertu fellowship of his sufferings by a Holy Conformity unto his Deth participation of his pur Divyn Natur lyf in the inward Man living the lyf of God in this vvorld in the dayly exercys of tru vvisdom Ryteosnes and holynes which renders al vvho truly know and enjoy it to be the tru imag of God and Christ Jesus vvho vvas the expres imag of the father yee with your predecessors hav mà d
mynd in which tru pur rest peas to the soul is eternaly to be found as in the free pur motion of his eternal pur Power al coms to dwel and abyd so the Pur peasabel Plesant fruits of ryteosnes holynes coms to be brouht forth in their proper tym season in their pur luster glory Beauty the wonderful mysterios ways of the serpent on the rok the eagel in the ayr the ship in the midst of the sea and the way of the man with the maid to wit the mysterys both of iniquity godlynes coms to be truly known and comprehended and the creation con forted as concerning that misery toyl and curs under with it groans in the general in the particular by reason of the ground which the Lord hath cursed And the woman saved in chyld-bearning both má l femal The spous the bryd the tambs wyf the Kings dauhter who is al glorios within with whos Pur beauty and comlynes the Kings heart is ravished he held in the gallery who is greater then Solomon yea her feet ar beautiful with shoe which he is now casting over Edom the strong city which is Efau in which the VVolf shal dwel with the lamb the Leopard ly down with the kid among the goats they shal not hurt or destroy in al my holy mountain saith the Lord wherfor arys my lov my fayr ôn and com away the winter as to thee is neerhand past the stormy Rayn and showers neer hand over and gon the sweet smeling tender flowers appear in throuh abov the Erth the tym of the singing of the birds is in mesur com the voys of the turtel is heard in our Land the figtree puteth forth her green figs and the vyns with the dear tender grâps giy a goodly smel wherfor arys my lov my fayr ô and com away In that Spirit which offereth fo rs or vyolens to the Power of God is the Barren womb that never saith it is enuf the adulterer and the Adulteres which hunts for the pretios lyf even the Spirit of sorcery and witchcraft Balaams Spirit the witch of Endor which Israel ouht not to suffer to liv I speak not of destroying the lyf of the eretur but that astop deth may be brouht over that Spirit in Mál◠and femâl which offereth fo rs and vyclens to the Power of God in this is the Spirit of Saul that is not wiling to wait the Lords leisur which at both ôn in the ground as wel that which is not wiling to wayt as that which offereth fo rs and vyolens to get an answer for rebelion is as the sin of witchcraft in this also is the ground of the fals and lying Spirit of Prophesy who fayling in their work of offering fo rs and vyolens to the Power of God run in ther own wils uttering forth the devinations and Imaginations of their own brains as also that Spirit which runeth forth hastily rashly to Iudg censur others vvhos vvords or vvorks may possibly be brouht forth in the motion of the Power of God thô throuh much weaknes such do not only offer fo rs vyolens to the Power of God in themselvs but griev oppres quench it in others hens it coms to pa◠somtyms that the bruised Reed is broken and the smoking Flax quenched and the Appel of Gods Ey touched and the littel ôn offended And from this root springeth the fearful unbeleeving Spirk also which is fearful unwiling to mov or go when the tru Powertroly movs and draws which ar al to be shut out of the Holy City among the Dogs Which offering fo rs or vyolens to the Power of God in mâl or fen âl is the reaching forth the hand to lay hold on and eat of the forbiden tree and fruit therof by which fin and transgression entered and entereth The door or way by which al the wo's miserys plagu's madnes folly curses not only on Man-kynd but on the whol body of the creation past present and to com entered and entereth And he hath in mesur opened sounded and poured forth the sixth seal trumpet and vyal the effects therof hav do and shal dayly mor and mor appear the great Erthquak is in mesur com dayly mor mor coming ôn thee O Christandom Thy sun is becom blak dark and thy Moon alredy hath and dayly mor and mor shal be com bloud Thy stars in the sur do and dayly mor and mor shal fal to the erth Thy hevens ar in mesur departed and shal dayly mor and mor depart as ascroul The Mountains and yls in thee ar in Mesur removed and shal dayly mor and mor be removed out of their plases til al becom a dlayn Thy Kings great on 's Rich men chief captains myty men every bond man and every free man shal say to the Roks and mountains fal on us and hid us from the presens of him that siteth on the thrôn from the wrath of the lamb for the great day of his vvrath is com non shal be abel to stand the first wo is past the waters of the great River Euphrates ar dryed up and the way of the Kings of the east perpared The dov in mesur hath found rest for the soal of her foot and is returned with an Oliv branch in her mouth The four Angels bound in the great River Euphrates ar neer hand loosing which ar prepared for an hour a day a month and a year to slay the third part of men The Spirit of lyf from God is entered into the slayn witneses and they ar in mesur standing on their own feet in England Scotland and Yrland the dominions and territorys therunto belonging and great fear hath seized is seizing on them that see them and they ar ascending up to heven in a Cloud in the syt of their enemys which witneses ar ôn in Christ who not only in his own holy pur undefyled spotles conversation good works mirakels and preaching bôr testimony to the truth and against the wickednes of that generation witnesing a good confesion befor Pontius Pylat sealing and finishing the sam with laying down his own Pretios lyf bloud upon a cros without the gats of Ierusalem in that body in which he then appeared but hath don suffered the sam bearing the sam witnes in throuh his holy harmles Innocent and faithful Peepel even al this tym of the trampeling the holy city under foot unto this very day which is neer hand fully ended and accomplished in vvhom ar comprehended the three that bear vvitnes in heren and on Erth vvhich à r òn agree inòn tovvit the gift of God the Father unto man its purging clensing and sanctifying vertu in man and the blesed holy Pur operations and fruits therof in throuh man in an upryt holy harmles Innocent and godly conversation in the
it was he that in just and ryteos Judgment brouht in the floud upon the World of the ungodly It was he that in lov and mercy to Sodom and Gomorrah and thos other citys gav them rain fruitful seasons wherby they had fulnes of bred and plenty therby leaving them inexcusabel To and upon Sodom and Gomorra exercysing long forbearans patiens and mercy towards them til his soul in just Lot was vexed and grieved with their wiked deeds who having filed up the mesur of their abominations It was he that in and by fyr executed the just and ryteos Judgment of God on them turning them into as hes leaving them an exampel to succeeding ages It was he that To upon Pharo Egypt in lov and mercy to Tharo and the Egyptians and to sav much Peepel alyv in throuh Joseph dyrected Pharo to lay up several slôrs of corn in the seven Years of plenty against the seven Years of famin And it was he that in throuh Moses and Aaron executed just ryteos Judgments on Pharo and the Egyptians becaus of their unryteos cruelty and bondag exercysed over Israël refusing to let them go that in and by the Sea overwhelmed Tharô and his host in their Murderos and wiked pursuit after Israël It was he that in lov To upon Israel in the wildernes mercy to Israël in throuh Moses Aaron the cloud Pillar of fyr Brasen Serpent Manna Water out of the Rok Christ brouht them out of Egyptian bondag led them saf throuh the Sea mâd known to them his law Statuts Judgments guyding feeding healing and preserving them and it was he that in just and ryteos Judgment becaus of their unbelief rebellions hardnes of heart caused their Carkases to fal in the wildernes It was he To upon the Canaanyes That in mercy to in the inhabitants of Canaan which wer befor Israël exercysed patiens and long forbearâns giving them the long injoyment of that good Land and his blesing in it and it was he that in throuh Israël executed his just and ryteos Judgment on them they having filed up the misur of their sins to theful It was he that in lov To upon Israel in the land of Canaan mercy to the of springs of rebellios Israël of whom themselvs said they should becom a prey who for his own Nâm and Covenant sâk mâd with faithful Abraham gav them the Possession of the Land of Canaan performing his word of promis to the ful as is recorded in the Scripturs of truth and it was he that in just and ryteos Judgment suffered the hethen round about them to com upon them exercys Dominion over them in the Land and somtyms to carry them captyvs in to other Cuntrys they having by their often Provocations Rebellions Idolatry departed from the Lord and broken the Covenant And when any mesur of tru repentans appeared in them It was he that in lov and mercy raised up saviors for them and in and throuh them Delivered them returning their captivity dyvers tyms who having fild up the mesur of their provocations oppressions and Idolatry moking stoning imprisoning cruelly using and slaying his Holy Profets sent unto them yea even betraying rejecting crucifying the Son of God himself Christ Jesus It was the sâm Eternal Power of God which dwelt bodyly in him who in just and ryteos Judgment in throuh the Romans destroyed their glorios city Tempel over turned their ons famos Government led them captyvs in shâm scorn and contemt amongst the Nations who so remain unto this day It was he that in lov mercy to the gentils or Romans ingrafted them into the good oliv tree causing them to partak of the blesed root To the Romans fatnes therof and who throuh al ages generations sins the World which lyeth in wikednes began in throuh the Apostacy of the Gentils or Romans hath born the strôk of the Murderers hand and his soul bin mad an offering for sin giving his bak to the smyter and his cheeks to them that hav pluked of the hair who in and throuh the Holy Men of God Profets Christ Jesus the Holy Apostels Saints Martyrs faithful witneses of Jesus to this day hath bin siling up the mesur of his sufferings for his bodys sak which is the Church enduring bearing the Reproaches Blasphemys contradictions of sinners the mesur of whos sufferings is neer hand fild up the witneses Prophesying in sakloth neer hand ended the Spirit of lyf from God being entred into them they in mesur standing on their own feet the end of the World which lys in wikednes being in mesur com which shal put an end to the Power of sin finish transgression bring in everlasting ryteosnes and establish it in Man kynd and Mankynd in it who is now appearing by the brytnes of his coming in ten thousands of his Saints in mesur alredy hath dayly mor mor shal reveal consum and utterly destroy the man of sin The sâm◠that hath executed And now the Gentils or Romans having siled up the measar of their Apostacy bloudy abominations in degenerating faling away from that pur lyf of saith holy conversation in Christ Jesus which was ons appearing in their predecessors racking stoning Imprisoning banishing torturing Burning and hanging thos in whom the Innocent holy lyf of Jesus hath appeared whom God hath raised up sent often amongst them to warn them turn them from the evil of their doings whos warnings counsels being rejected and despysed Now therefor is Christ the sam Eternal wisdom lyt Power of God in Just ryteos Judgment raysing up the Turkish Power in throuh them wil he Execut on the Dragon 's beast's fals profet's power in the Romans or gentils the Judgments writen Who also when he hath don his work in Syon wil punish the stout heart of the King of Assyria the glory of his hy looks and the hauhtynes of man shal be abased and the loftynes of man laid low even with the ground every mountain leveled the Lord alon Exalted al his enemys becom his footstool swords beat into plovv shârs and spears into pruning hooks so that nation shal not lift up sword against nation nor learn war any mor the whol creation be delivered from the bondag of corruption into the glorios liberty of the Sons of God and the Kingdom and Dominion in throuh and over al surrendred up unto the Fáther and thus Christ the lyt vvisdom and Power of God the Root and of spring of David the sweet singer of Israel having glorifyed the Father on Erth finished the vvork given him to do in the faithful administration execution of mercy judgment shal be glorifyed with the Father and the whol creation in and with him
Patient constant faithful lamb lyk sufferings vvhich ar the spirit water bloud of the lamb vvith vvhich they over com and stand in Pur Dominion over al their enemys both in them and vvithout them the great Erth quak ther to wit in England Scotland Yrland is wel ny over the tenth Part of the city neer hand fallen the seven thousand men of Nà m Rul authority in the Dragons Beasts fals profets spirit Power neer hand slayn in the Erth quak and that which Remains to be don and fulfiled on the Dragon's Beast's fals Proset's Power spirit and on the great sea out of which the Beast aros the many waters on which the skarlet whor sits is now in hand and shal dayly mor and mor be carryed on til it be finished fully don and accomplished The Battel of the great day of God almyty is in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear he is even com and coming as a thief in the Nyht blesed is he that watcheth he is gathering them together for the Battel the Kingdom of the great skarlet coulored beast in thee o Christendom whos present chief hed art thou O Leopold is now weihed numbered found to lyt 666. is determined by the Lord God for the finishing puting an end therunto The lamb is now standing on mount Syon the hundred forty four thousand ar in mesur gathered dayly gathering into him having his Fathers Nam in their for heds The new hevens ar in mesur opened the whyt hors him that siteth ther on in mesur appeareth in his sanctifyed ôn vvho is caled the word of God and in ryteosnes doth he judg and mak war is cloathed in a gartment diped diping in bloud whos nam is caled faithful tru the armys which ar in heven ar following of him out of his mouth goeth as harp sword with vvhich he in mesur alredy hath dayly mor mor shal smyt the nations rul them with a Rod of Iron having on his vestur on his thyh a nam written King of Kings Lord of Lords the fouls which fly in the midst of heven at caled caling to the super of the great God they in mesur alredy hav dayly mor and mor shal eat the flesh of Kings the flesh of Captains the flesh of myty Men the flesh of Horses them that sit on them of al men both free bond smal great And the Beast fals Profet already in mesur hath been dayly mor mor shal be taken a lyv cast into the Lâk of fyr burning with brimston al the fouls filed with their flesh in thee o Christendom Great Babylon is novv com into Remembrans befor God the gre at City is novv divyded into three parts viz Catholiks Lutherans Calvinists in the Roman Imperial Dominions vvith this Heds Hornt But in England Scotland Yrland under the nâms of Papists Episcopacy Presbytery And as for her suburbs thôs other Nâms Sects to the hyest of them under the Comand Government teachings of Man thô they be got A step in form profession beyond the other yet being gon from the mesur of the Spirit of grâs in them which drew them forth in mesur to seperat in form lyf practis from the other they ar novv becom ôn in natur ground practis with the great whor of Rôm And being found Partakers with her in her sins thy must also unavoydably receiv of her Plagu's which great City is in mesur falen faling as shee hath don must novv be dôn unto her yea doubel according to her vvorks In the cup vvhich shee hath filed must novv be filed to her doubel And according to that heiht in vvhich she hath glorifyed her self living delitiosly so much torment and sorrovv must novv be given unto her The ten Horns on the Beast's Hed in mesur do and dayly mor and mor shal hât the vvhor mak her desolat and naked eat her flesh and burn her vvith fyr The was betvvixt Michael his Angels the Dragon his Angels is begun and shal dayly mor and mor appear and be carryed on til it be fully finished The Lamb the Saints in mesur hav and dayly mor and mor shal hav pur Victory and Dominion over al his their enemys from the greatest to the least he that hath led into Captivity must now go into Captivity And that Spirit in Man which hath kiled with the sword must now be kiled by the sword even the sword of the mouth And the Hevens even the Spirit of the Holy Profets Aposlels in his Peepel of this present Agâ—â— generation shal rejoys over her thus with vyolens shal that great City Spiritual Babylon Sodom Egypt be thrown down as agreat Milston into the Sea be found no mor at al for ever for in her is found the Bloud not only of the Profets Saints but of al that hav bin slain upon the Erth This Generation shal not pas away until it be fulfiled thes ar the tru sayings of God he that hath an ear to hear let him hear But for the sak of the burdened oppressed slain Seed of God in thee O Leopold thee O Póp of Rôm al the Kings Prinses Rulers Governors with al in Authority under you of what degree rank or order soever Whether Civil Military or Spiritual and Ecclesiastical so caled with al Peepel by and low rich and poor bond and free smal and great mâl and femâl of what Nation Kindred Tougu or Peepel soever under the Command government and teachings of Man in the bowels of dear tender lov for the sâk of the slain Seed of God in thee O Christendom to the end that he who is in mesur already risen may dayly mor and mor arys to Judgment in thee to sav â al the meek of the Erth that the Sea Deth hel in thee may mor and mor deliver up the Ded incorrupâ—ibel in them and be judged every ôn according to their works and that the oppresed groaning creation in thee may mor mor be delivered from the bondag of corruption into the glorios liberty of the Sons of God which is the first Resurrection in which the Jews shal be visited in which al ar blesed who hav their parts for on such the second Deth shal hav no Power but the shal be Priests of God of Christ and Rein with him a thousand Yeers which with the Lord is but as ôn day in the end of which the seven thunders shal utter their voys the effects wherof ar of a larger Extent then Christendom containing in them the seâ—ching out to the bottom the hiden things of Esau and the laying of his mountain also utterly wast and desolat the compleat deliverans of the whol creation from the bondag of corruption the