the deeds thou hast done in the body and the sentence of wrath and judgement passed out of the mouth of the Lamb on thee for every idle word and all that thou hast done and in this thy condemned estate thou runnedst too and fro to hide thee from the wrath of the Lamb in reforming thy wayes and strictly observing what thou wast convinced of to bee the Will of God but what way soever thou turnedst in thy obedience towards God to get life thither the flaming sword turned that proceeded out of the mouth of the Lamb and cut thee down and cast thee into hell where thou lyest weeping and waling under the wrath of God sealed down under his eternall judgment for evermore for any help or power thou hadst in thy self untill Jesus Christ manifested eternal love and mercy freely to thy poor lost condemned soul and raised thee up to a lively hope and sealed thee up in the Covenant of life with his own blood Now after the witnesses have sealed up their testimony the Beast which is thy will that ascends out of the bottomlesse pit of thy deceived heart which is deceitful and desperately wicked hath made warre against the witnesses Christ in thee and slain them and they lie dead in the spiritual City of Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is Crucified and thou art made drunk with the wine of the wrath of the fornication of the whore and bewitched with her witch-crafts who now tells thee whom he loves he loves to the end and to the pure all things are pure thou art no more under the Law but under grace and all things are alike that when thou disobeyest the pure Law which once had power over thee and it witnesseth against thee secretly crying in thy heart use thy liberty but not as an occasion to the flesh thou regardest not the counsel of the Lord but harkens to the Mother of Harlots in thee and causes thee to wrest the Scriptures to thine own destruction and tels thee the Law hath no power over thee thou art under Grace it is but the Law in thy Members that wars against the Law in thy mind the acting of the humanity which acts in its place that the Grace of God may appear more gloriously God sees no sin in thee for it is no more thou but sinne that dwels in thee and the former misery thou was in under the wrath of God for the dis-obeying of the righteous Law thou now treadst under thy feet and lies slain in spriritual Sodom and Egypt in thy heart yet not put in grave but lies in thy sight and lets thee see the evil of thy doings and vexes and torments thy earthly and carnal heart in the midst of all thy joy but the Whore in thee tels thee that the former trouble thou wast in it was through the ignorance of God but now thou art grown up to a higher stature in Christ to see nothing but love in whatsoever thou doest and now thou knowest nothing but to eat and to drink and be merry for the Children of the Bride-Chamber cannot mourn while the Bride-groom is with them time was thou didst mourn but it was when the Bride groome was not with thee but now the Winter is past and Summer come and singing of birds is heard in thy land and now wash thy face and anoint thy head with Oyl that thou appear no more before men as thou didst when thou wast a Pharisee now to be a friend to Publicans and Sinners and become all to all that thou mayest win some and whatever thou doest it is God that acts thee for thou art not stronger than he to resist him and if hee would have it otherwayes how couldst thou hinder it so it is as it must be and it cannot be otherwise thus the subtle Serpent winds into the minde of man and causeth him to wrest the Scriptures to his own destruction to draw back into perdition Woe woe unto thee thou Back-slider in heart who chargest God who is purity it self to be the Authour of sinne and the actor of thee in all thy filthy and unrighteous walking and hast turned the Grace of God into wantonnesse and takest liberty to sinne because Grace abounds and makest the comming of Christ who came to fullfill the Law to destroy it through the evil of thy heart that when the righteous Law cries in thee for purity and condemns thee for thy unrighteous walking then thou fliest to the free Grace in Christ to save thee from the power of the Law but thou shalt finde the Law hath power over the fleshly man as long as hee lives and the fleshly man that now guides thee is under the Law untill it be destroyed through faith in Jesus Christ for he came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it and the Saints witnesse it though thou wrest the words of Paul when he declared his condition before he came to the fullnesse of stature in Christ to thy own destruction I see a Law in my members warring against the Law of my mind and brings mee into Captivity into the Law of sin which is in my Members but he gave not up himself to be a servant of sin as thou doest it was his burthen that made him to cry Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death and he waited in the Faith untill hee was freed Romans 8. 2. For the I aw of the spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of sin and death that the righteousnesse of the Law might bee fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit He witnessed Christ came in him to fullfill the Law and so do all the Saints now according to their growth some witness the Law fullfilled in them and others are waiting in the faith patiently following the Lord dayly through the Crosse until the Law be fulfilled But thou art departed from the counsel of the Lord thy God and caused his name to bee evil spoken of and hast made the hearts of his people sad as they did that the Apostle speaks of For many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are the enemieâ—… of the Crosse of Christ whose end ù destruction whose God is their belly and whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things These Scriptures are fullfilled in thee which the Apostle mentions And while they promise them liberty they themselves are the servants of corruption for of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought into bondage for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are again intangled therein and overcome the latter end of them is worse with them then the beginning for it had been better for them not to have known the
hast done and thy reward is wrath and condemnation which will pass upon thee from the presence of the Lamb for thy disobedience and breaking of the righteous Law which must be fulfilled and what way soever thou turnest to get life in outward formes and observations the flaming sword which is the righteous Law that goes out of the mouth of the Lamb it will turn every way and meet thee and cut thee down and cast thee into hell where there is weeping and wailing for want of the presence of God and thou canst doe nothing to pacifie the wrath of God which is gone out against thee Now wouldst thou hide thy self as Adam did when he appeares in thy heart thy fig-leafed garment of prayers tears forms outward observations according unto thy comprehensions of the letter will not cover thy nakedness it served to cover thy nakedness from the sight of men but now when the Lord appears in thy heart thou canst not stand before him now comes Cain in thee to be driven from the face of God to be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth notwithstanding all his sacrifice and Esau in thee reprobated never to have the blessing though he seek it with teares and the bond-woman and her son cast out and the first Adam now slain with the sharp sword that goeth out of the mouth of the Lamb and art made to give up thy soul to God whose it is to doe with thee what he will if he destroy thee for ever he may and if he save thee from eternall death it is his free love now art thou baptized with Christ into his sufferings and death where thou liest sealed down under the eternal judgement of God and there perishest for ever for any power or help thou hast in thy self and this is the administration of Moses where thou lyest condemned for ever under the righteous Law without any help or hope untill the administration of the Prophets that prophesie of a Christ that hath satisfied the righteous Law of God for thee who art lost and condemned under the power of the Law of Moses and now there is a secret hope raised up in thy soul and thou lookest up from under the condemning power of Moses for a Saviour and the Prophets are until John and of all that were born of woman there was not one greater than John for he is a burning and a shining light that lets thee see the filthiness of thy heart and the Law shines in its purity to condemn the earthly man in thee but he strengthens the hope in thee that was raised up by the Prophets to see the beauty and excellency of Iesus Christ which ravishes thy lost condemned soul that thou art willing to sell all for him the Scripture being now fulfilled in thee who witnesses this from the daies of John even until now the Kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force now is every mountain and hill layd low in thee and crooked wayes made strait and the rough way in thee made smooth and thou wait in the wiâ—…derness and lost condition of thy self for the salvation of God to be manifest to the in Iesus Christ and in the appointed time of the Father the Son of man comes to thy soul as a Thief in the night as the lightning from the East to the West so is his appearance in thee and causes thy dead soul to hear his voice which witnesses to it eternal life freely through his own blood and thy soul heares his voice and by the word of his power is made to live and are sealed up by the holy spirit of promise the Spirit of God bearing witness with thy spirit that thou art his child now comest thou to witness the second Adam to be a quickning spirit and Isaac the promised seed to be heir for ever and that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life and that by grace thoâ—… arâ—… saved through Faith in the Lord Jesus not of works lest any should boast and he that hath hope in him purifies himself as he is pure and the love of Christ constrains thee now who can witnes this work of Regeneration manifest in thee to follow him whither soever he goes no more to obey him for life as thou didst when thou wast without seeking him in forms and observations but now the love and life thou enjoyest in Christ Jesus constrains thee to deny thy self and take up thy Cross daily and follow him Now art thou come into the beginning to live in the Lord guided by the powerfull word of faith the light that shines in thy heart which is the light of the City New Jerusalem to whom thou art come to worship the Father in Spirit and Truth and all that are come to walk in the light of the City New Jerusalem are the true Israel of God that are taught of God to whom the New and everlasting Covenant is made according to the promise of the Lord This is the Covenant I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah after those daies saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people and they shall teach no more every man his Neighbour and every man his Brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them I will be mercifull unto their unrighteousness and their sinnes and their iniquities will I remember no more and in this City tâ—…ere is no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it which are borrowed lights outward dispensations and teachings of men for the glory of the Lord God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof and the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it and the Kings of the earth bring their glory and honour unto it and theâ—… shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abhomination or worketh a lye but they which are written in the Lambs Book of life and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day for there shall be no night there for the Lord giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever HALLELUIAH to the Highest A Word from the Lord to all that are waiting on the Lord in Sion And to those that are weeping and are seâ—…king the Lord their God asking the way to Sion with their faces thitherwards FEar not ye mourners in Sion the Lord waits on you to be gracious unto you though he give you the bread of adversity now and the water of affliction yet shall not your Teachers be removed into Corners any more but your eyes shall see your Teachers and your
to be natural affectionated one towards another and they walk contrary causing poor people to pay to maintain them in pride and high ranks in the earth who can scarce get bread for their bellies and cloaths for their backs yet they force them to pay to them beeing void of all natural affections and they are truce-breakers breaking all Bonds and Covenants if they can get more mony in another place Thus they shew forth to all the world that they are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God have a form of godliness in words but deny the power thereof from such turn away for of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sin and divers lusts these Scriptures are fulfilled in your teachers every one hath his particular house to creep into where none must come but themselves or whom they please which is contrary to the practice of Christ or any that he sent forth they went through the Countries Towns Cities Villages according as they were guided by the spirit of God to declare what he gave them to speak and your Teachers lead silly women captives laden with sin and led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth do they not tel you to look for Christs coming in such observations as they set up which is nothing but the invention of their brains for Christ tels you The Kingdom of God comes not with observations but is within you But many of them that deny that the light in your conscience which makes manifest the evil of your hearts is the Kingdom of God calling it the light of a corrupt conscience so shuts the Kingdom of heaven against men and wil neither enter in themselves to be guided by the pure light of the Kingdom of Christ within them nor suffer them that are entring in to enter as the Scribes and Pharisees did now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these men resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobates concerning the faith but they shall proceed no further for their folly shal be made manifest to all men as their also was and no man shal buy their merchandize any more All you inslaved Captives in the Kingdom of Babylon why will you lay out your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfies not hearken diligently unto Jesus Chrst the light that lets you see the evil of your hearts to be guided by it and you shal eat that which is good Incline your ears saith Christ and come unto me hear and your souls shal live and I wil make an everlasting covenant with you even the sure mercies of David mind the call of a powerful and tender Father in the Lord Jesus who calls Come forth of Babylon my people and touch no unclean thing and I wil receive you wil be a Father unto you and ye shal be my sons and daughters saith the Lord God Almighty Friends prize your time sleight not the day of the Lords mercy for he waits to be gracious and saith I stretch forth my arm all the day long to a back-sliding and gain-saying people Every one mind your conditions deal justly with your own hearts see what your hearts hath fellowship with and what guides your minds for the Kingdom of Christ is within you it is not in observations as your Teachers tels you for they deceive you therefore Christ forewarned us for looking forth at those which would come in the latter daies that would say Loe here is Christ lo there is Christ as it is in these our daies some say Lo here is Christ in the Presbyterian practice the Independents say He is there and the Anabaptists say Loe he is here But friends mind what Christ saith unto you Beleeve them not look not forth the Kingdom of Christ is not in any of those nor in any other outward observations but be awarned the Kingdom of Christ is in you and that is the light which lets you see the evil of your hearts and Christ compares it to a grain of Mustard seed the least of all seeds it grows up above all other herbs and becomes a tree that the Fowls of the ayr lodges therein and he compares it to a little leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of meal and it leavened the whole lump These are earthly parables and figures which Christ laies down speaking to the earthly and carnal heart of man that he may read his condition within Therefore despise not the day of smal things but mind the counsel of the Lord Jesus the little light that shines in thy dark heart look upon the figures the parables the little leaven which is hid in three measures of meal it changes the whole lump into the nature of it self so the little light that shines in thy dark heart is the powerful word of faith which was in the beginning by which all things were created and without him was nothing made this word is life and the life is the light of men and light shines in darkness and the darkness comprehends it not this light is the word of faith the Apostle exhorted to take heed unto Say not in thy heart who shall ascend up to Heaven to fetch Christ down or down into the deep to fetch him up the word is nigh thee in thy heart and in thy mouth and this is the word of faith which we preach the unction of the holy one given of the Father whereby we need not to teach one another but as the anointing teacheth us which is truth and no lie which is the sure word of Prophesie whereunto ye do wel to take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts All people return within give up your selves freely to bee guided by that light that discovers to you the evil of your hearts and none be discouraged because you see an evil heart but prize the love of God that discovers it to you and whatever the light makes manifest to you to be evil wait on the Lord for power and he wil give thee power to obey and in being faithful in a little more wil be communicated from the Lord so wil the righteous law be set up into your hearts that wil cry through your earthly and carnal hearts for righteousness and judgment and so will bring you to an account for every idle word and all deeds done in the body Look up unto the Lord against whom you have sinned and he wil arm you with power to what he laies upon you with patience to undergo his wil until all the powers of the earth in you be famished and slain under his righteous judgments then wil judgment be brought forth unto victory that you can no longer live