glory appears for his Day will dawn and break in Peoples Hearts in all Nations of the Earth when he shall terribly shake the Earth and all Nations and the keepers of the House will tremble and all proud Flesh shall be made to tremble before the Lord at hiâ— appearance he will make known his Voice he will make the Earth to hear and the Heavens shall be astonished at his Power Glory and Majesty and every false Foundation shall be shaken and every high Tower and fenced City built upon a false Foundation will fall and tumble down tho' never so strong and lifted up in their forms of Worship and formal Profession without Life and Power that will not be able to stand in the Day of the Lord 's fierce Wrath which is against that City of Confusion which the Lord God will break down and race it to the Ground then will her Merchants and such as have traded with her lament and cry Alas alas none will buy her Merchandize of us any more Thus will the Lord bring down and destroy Babylon that great Whore that hath with her Cup of Fornication made drunk the Kings of the Earth who have committed Fornication with her and her Merchants that traded with her with great endeavours and all their Babylonish Skill and Trumpery have brought Darkness and Ignorance over the Earth and so would still keep People but the Day of the Lord is come and coming and the Knowledge of the Lord shall cover the Earth and many shall hate the Whore and burn her Flesh with Fire for by Fire and Sword will the Lord plead with all Flesh where-ever the Flesh of the great Whore is the Sword and Fire of the Lord of Hosts will find it out and pursue it till it be devouered to the end that the which is for the Sword and Fire of the Lord may be cut down burnt up and consumed then Envy Malice Cruelty Hatred and Unrighteousness so much abounding in Man and Woman will have an end and People will not be over-come of evil but over-come the evil with good and provoke one another to Love and good Works and not to Hatred Cruelty all manner of Unrighteousness which is Sin and punishable by the great Judge of Heaven and Earth that cometh quickly and his reward is with him although many shut their Eyes against his Appearance are so blinded by the God of this World that you do not see or behold him tho' his Light shines in all your Hearts by which you may all see behold him who is not far from any one of you yet you do not see him nor know him and that is the Condemnation of the whol world that lieth in wickedness that Light is come into the world but darkness is loved rather than Light because their deeds are evil Now it is as if I heard the noise of Trumpets sounding and Drums beating an Alarm to battle in many Kingdom and Nations and the Sword drawn to execute the Wrath of God for Sin and Transgression by the ungodly committed to the great displeasure of the Almighty God who now will shew himself a terrible God to the Workers of Iniquity by Wars Famine and Pestilence with other Judgements and Calamities that God will bring upon many Cities and strong Nations to bring down their Pride and Haughtiness and to abase them for their sleighting and Contemning his Appearance in the Light of his Glorious Gospel which shines in their Hearts to give them the Knowledge of the Glory of God to humble you under his mighty Hand that all might turn to him who smites and corrects Men and Women that they might see his Hand and acknowledge his Power and Soveraignity over all and what we can do with strong and fenced Cities and indeed with all Nations that are but as the drop of a sucket and the small dust of the Ballance to the Lord and his strength and great Power when in his sore displeasure he gives them up to the Sword Famine or Pestilence how soon can he make of a fair and flourishing City on heaps and a strong City a desolation when they Inhabitants thereof will not be reformed from the evil of their Ways and doings nor Repent of the same how often hath the Lord brought Plagues and heavy Judgments upon such Cities and Nations how glad should I be to see the Inhabitants of England in general and the City of London in perticular bringing forth Fruits meet for Repentance that they would whilst they have time be Afflicted Mourn and Weep for the great Evils that daily are committed by many of them that your Laughter might be turned into Mourning and your Joy into Heaviness that those great Calamities which threatens both City and Nation the mercisul God might turn away from my Native Country and every Inhabitant may be humbled for their Transgressions that the Lord may repent of the Evil that doth so much threaten this and many other Kingdoms O that there were such a Heart in all People of all Nations that they would seek after the living God and that they might know him and receive everlasting Lise by Christ Jesus and leave off doing Evil and learn to do Well that instead of hating and killing one another about Religion and worldly Glory and Honour they might feel the Love of God shed abroad in their Hearts and in that love God above all and one another as the Children and Off-spring of God for all Nations upon the face of the Earth being of one Blood made by the great and heavenly Creator all were created by him to fear reverence and serve the eternal God So all you who do pretend that you are Servants of God and Christ Jesus sear reverence serve and obey him in a measure of that Love of God wherewith he hath loved you and all mankind and desireth the Salvation of all men and not the death or destruction of the Wicked but rather that they would turn from their Wickedness and live for evermore to serve worship and obey the living God whose Servants you call your selves and think you worship him and serve him whilst you are out of his holy Spirit and Godly Fear in your vain superstitious and idolatrous ways of Worship which are so unprofitable and of no berefit spiritually to you that vainly pretend to worship the living God who is a Spirit and will be worshipped and served in the Spirit and in the Truth as it is in Jesus for their is no other acceptable worship or serving of God but in his holy Spirit and Truth which the Devil is out of and all his Servants are erred from the Spirit of God and doth imagine that God acceptably may be worshipped and served well enough by them is another Spirit than his own holy Spirit then it must be an unholy Spirit in which you can offer toe God no Worship or Service but what is vain unprofitable and unholy which is rejected of the Lord God as but vain worshipping of him and for this many spend their Money and Labour many Years together but gain no advantage or satisfaction to their immortal Souls being from the Spirit of God and Word of Life that was in the beginning and which is eternal so obtain not Life or true satisfaction to their Souls and therefore cannot livingly move or act spiritually in the service or worship of God but it seemeth to them as a strange thing and the pure God hath but blind and dead service and worship from such and indeed it is no marvel that so many wise and learned men in Arts Sciences and natural Tongues are unskilled and ignorant in spiritual waiting upon serving and worshipping the living God whilst they question whether any doth receive from God the gift of the holy Spirit now in these dayes then let such men in coolness of mind consider with what they adventure to serve and worship God and approach before him not receiving the spirit but will draw nigh to God serve and worship him out of the spirit and what may you expect who are in that deplorable state but that the Lord should say unto you Who hath required such Worship or Service from you now in this Gospel day the spirit of God being poured fourth Do you think People that God will be mocked with such service or worship to be offered to him that doth appear but the fruits of the Flesh or sowing to the Flesh O that you would come to see and seriously consider that the Flesh profiteth nothing nor any of the fleshly motions ways services or worships of fallen man performed in the Wisdom of the Flesh although performed in never so much skill and cunning outwardly can give man acceptance with the Lord nor can at all give Life to the Soul for its the spirit that giveth Life and this Spirit first must be received by you and work in your Hearts to will and to do before your Hearts can be fitted or prepared to serve or worship God acceptably so all of you wait upon God for his holy spirit receive it into your Hearts and no longer reject it but in the silence of all Flesh feel the spirit of God to quicken your mortal Bodies that in and by the spirit you to God may present your Bodies to him and draw night to him with your Flearts fitted and spiritually prepared to offer to God spiritual sacrifice holy and acceptable in his sight who cannot be pleased with Iniquity nor the Works of it in their service or worship for Sin and Iniquity must be done away before you can graciously be received of the Lord or know how to render to him the calves of your Lips or draw nigh to him aright with your Tongues or Lips why should you hate to be reformed or cast off from you that which is good to cleave to the evil and perish therein Beware of that left the Lord utterly reject you and cast you out of his fight and deprive you of his Mercy and Favour that he upon your real Repentance and Amendment of Life would bestow upon you Which is the fervent Desire of a cordial Well-wisher of all your Souls who seeketh the Glory of God the Peace of all Nations and the general good of all Markind to Eternity James Parke Hostedown the 7th day of the 3d. Month 1690. THE END
and is everlasting that you may possess that and be established in that and not have on your own Righteousness in your vain Imaginations therefore will the Righteous God by his appearance in Spirit convince the world of Judgment also and the Prince of this World is judged and the World 's corrupt and erroneous judgment through the appearance of the Spirit of Truth being received it discovereth the World's judgment to be contrary to the judgment of Truth and how the wrong judgment got up in the world that so People may see the deceit and darkness of this World's judgment and that they who are in it have no judgment in their goings such have no right divine or heavenly judgment but are in the Prince of this World 's dark judgment that turneth against the Righteous Prince and his Righteous Judgments which are all true just and faithful And the Prince of Darkness with his fallen Wisdom and Judgment by the coming of the Lord in judgment shall be judged and condemned by that which convinceth the World of Judgment for what but the Spirit of Truth can judge the Spirit of Error and what but the righteous judgment of the Spirit of Truth that bringeth Man and Woman to see their deceit falshood and hypocrisie to judge it down and to save out of it And indeed what but want of the sence and feeling of this that causeth many to stumble at that that is good even the pure Light of the Lord Jesus Christ and some do fall and rise not again but fall into mischief and violent dealing and it pursueth them and cometh upon them in the hour of God's Judgments the Inhabitants of the Earth will learn Righteousness And what but the want of the judgment of Truth and Righteousness is the cause that Error so long in the world hath been taken and passed for Truth and Truth hath been taken for Error and condemned for it People calling good evil and evil good putting Light for Darkness and Darkness for Light And therefore by the judgment of this world it being dark blind and erroneous from Age to Age hath the Wicked been justified and how have men endeavoured in most of the Governments of this World to take away the Righteousness of the Righteous from them having judged rather according to outward appearance then given Righteous Judgment in matters and Causes of Differences in Religion and the worship of God but such as are in the judgment of Truth and Righteousness neither can nor will do so but speak of things and judge with Righteous Judgment Now the Spirit of Truth being received and continued in it quickens the Soul and giveth Spiritual Life to them that were dead in Sins and Trespasses against God therefore it ought not to be vexed grieved or rebelled against as it hath been to the great provocation of the Mogh high God and kindling the fierce Wrath of a merciful and long-suffering God who is slow to wrath and of great kindness how hath he been forgotten and no more minded by many than if he were no All-seeing God but rather People have thought him like themselves who are wicked as if God would not take any notice of their Ways and Doings neither set their Sins and abominable Practices in order before them and punish them for the same with a sore destruction who do not receive nor obey the Gospel-offers of Salvation of Peace and Good-will towards mankind in general Oh! how hath my Soul been often afflicted within me because of the Wickedness of the Wicked disebedient and ungodly Men and Women to see them even sowing to the Flesh that hath so much appeared both in Papists and Protestants so called they having not minded the former Mercies nor Judgments that came from God in love to them care for their Souls well-fare and that they might learn Righteousness when his Judgments were in the Earth that People might not utterly perish in their gain-saying and that his future Judgments threatning might be turned away But Oh! how have you sinned and provoked God more and more with greater and greater Evils What will it avail any of you to come before the Lord or to draw night to him with their Tongues and Lips whilst your Hearts are afar off from him and gone a Whoring from him after your Idols set up in your Hearts or whether any Idol of Silver Gold any Creature or outward thing which can save no man or woman's Soul nor is able to hide or deliver you in the day of God's Wrath and Indignation against a wicked and untoward Generation ought not to be put away because of the blackness of such Now Desolation Perplexity Wo and great distress of Nations hasteneth and is even ready to come upon many People and Nations but especially Nations and Peoples that God hath loved and done most for and most appeared in by the Light of his glorious Gospel of Grace and Truth that the same have rejected sinned against and walked contrary to such will the Lord shew most displeasure against and punish most severely when his Hand is lifted up to smite hew down and thin the People and to bring down the abominable Pride and Haughtiness of mankind in all Nations for he will make all Nations tremble and bow before him Astonishment Fear and Trouble on every side will appear when the Righteous Judge will plead with all Flesh in the way of his Judgments being wroth and cometh to punish the Inhabitants of the Earth for their Iniquity Who shall stand before him or who shall stop him or prevent the Execution of his Wrath upon the Ungodly Therefore O all ye wicked ungodly of the Earth be ye warned be ye warned Repent Repent and come to a Godly Sorrow for all your evil wayes and doings and turn to the Lord with your Hearts rent for what will the renting of your Garments profit you whilst your Hearts are not rent nor broken before the Lord but you remain as whole in your Sins as ever you were and your Hearts hardened thereby more than ever Now there is no other way for People of all Nations to appease the Wrath of God and turn away his Judgments threatning them for Sin but for all wicked People to take warning in time by former Warnings Judgments and Calamities and what Nation is there in the Earth where God's Voice is not heard in Judgment when his Goodness Mercy and Favours are abused and sleighted for before God punisheth not in his fierce Wrath. And all you that would escape Miseries and Calamities feel and bear the Indignation of the Lord inwardly for Sin and Transgression Put away the evil of your wayes and doings from before his Eyes who hath an all-seeing Eye and seeth all the Wayes and Doings of all Men and Women both High and Low Rich and Poor in every Nation throughout the World And now the Hand of the Lord is lifted up in Judgment and the Lord is smiting the
then Wars and Fightings would cease with Carnal Weapons then Kings and Princes and their Subjects would learn to be quiet peaceable and love one another indeed and in truth which would make Nations happy and flourishing Kingdoms and they would learn War no more but beat their Swords into Plow-shares and their Spears into pruning Hooks and Peoples Fleshly Lusts would dye which doth so often and so much prompt Peoples and Nations to Wars and Fightings but Christ's Doctrine and Example all People ought to mind and follow who command his Followers to love their Enemies as well as to love another and to do good to them that did hate them and to pray for such as dispitfully used and persecuted them and in so doings we manifest our selves to be the Children of our heavenly Father who causeth the Sun to shine and the Rain to fall both upon the Just and Vnjust and all People ought to cease from Anger and forsake Wrath not to fret themselves in any wise to do evil for Evil-doers-shall be cut off and who are of Caln's blood y race that slew his Brother Abel because Abel's Offering was accepted but Cain and his Offering was rejected and Sin lay at his Door and he was a Wicked One and they all are Wicked Ones who are in his wicked envions Nature which leads them to Hurt Kill and Destroy one another about Faith and Religlon now in the Gospel Day and Dispesation and Cain's envious Nature must be slain and dye in Man and Woman which hath caused so many Wars and so much Fighting in the World before Peoples and Nations come to a lasting Peace with God or one another for if People would truly Love God and one another as they ought and hearken to the Lords Voice then all would come to know great Peace with God and Concord and Agreement in that which is good which indeed is amiable and becometh Christian socioties for its want of love to God and Peoples not loving one another without Dissimulation out of a Fure Heart that there is so much envy and hatred amongst Men one towards another and so the envious one kindleth Passions stireth up Amimosities and Heats into a great Flame in Men and Women one against another to do Violence unto and destroy one another in self-love self-honour and about the Sinful Pleasures and Profits of this World with Fleshly Lusts that Wars against the Soul which all ought to abstain from high and low rich and poor and it s no marvil if People in that state ask but cannot obtain what they ask of God for they Kill and desire to have that they may spend it upon their Lusts which wars against their Souls and these Battlements ought to be taken away for they are not the Lord's but of the Divil's raising and building up in Man and Woman for the hurt of the Creature to do violence to and Kill one another but the War and Battlements of the Lord are against the works of the Devil that he hath wrought in the Creature and to save Mens lives not to destroy them So the Lord's War and Weapons that are Spiritual and mighty through God strikes at the power and spirit of the Enemy which captivates the Creature in that which is evil the power of the Enemy leadeth People captive into Sin and Evil but the Lord's Spirit and Power leadeth the Creature out of Sin and Evil and to free the Creature totally from it the spirit and power of the Enemy leads People to contend wrestle sight with Flesh and Blood Kill one another but the Spirit and Power of the Lord God Almighty leadeth the Saints to War and wrestle with Spiritual Wickedness in high Places and with the Rulers of Darkness not to harm or Kill Men but to love one another and forgive them that Traspass against us as we would be forgiven of God our Trespass against him but how can such expect the Lord should forgive them their Trespasses and Offences against him that are for revenging Trespasses which they have commited one against another also continuing in and revenging their Trespasses against the Lord and yet abink that he will Pardon and forgive them their Trapasses before they truly Repent or leave off so doing and so great Multituds are kept in miserable Blindness imagining the Pardon of Sin by Christ Jesus his Death and Merrits whilst in as much love to Sin and in the practise thereof as ever they were such do but deceive themselves being erred and gone astray from the way of Life and Salvation remain ignorant of that precious Redemption that Christ Jesus purchased with his own Blood from the bondage of Sin and Corruption for that was the great and Glorious end of his offering up himself a Sacrafice for Sin not that Men and Women should alwayes abide or keep in the practice of it but to be delivered from the practice of Sin and the Guilt and Condemnation removed and taken away that sinning against God bringeth upon the Transgressors of his holy commands that saith Thou shalt Worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve And such as Worship and serve another God than the Eternal God who made Heaven and Earth and the Fountains of great Deeps they Worship their own Imaginations in their dark Conceits and foolish Imaginations and with such Services and Worships the Lord is grieved and in vain do People draw near or come before him with such Worships and Service that yet many Socioties and false Gatherings in vain content themselves with being erred and strayed from that Spirit and Power of God where in all might come aright to serve and worship the only wise and true God no more to serve the Devil or Sln but to come to Serve God in newness of Life and living Soberly Righteously and Purely unto him his Honour and Praises the resudue of time yet to spend and abide in this present World which cannot be known but through a daily crossing thy own Will and vile Affections O vain Man and Woman come to deny thy self thy sensual desires and thy ungodly deeds take up a cross unto all that which is evil in which thou hast taken great pleasure and delight thou most renounce it part with and deny thy self of it to be a Desciple of Christ Jesus to be taught of him and follow him who will never lead thee into any Errour but out of all Sin and Errour and out of every by-path or crooked way that thou hast troden or walked in the Nations of the Earth are angry be cause God's glorious day is come which discovereth and layeth upon their hidden Works of Darkness and Dishonesty will come out and by the Light of Christ be manifest even that which long hath been hid and covered with thick Darkness and the Light God will cause to shine out of obscurity and his Day will break and the Shadows of the Night will vanish away as the heavenly Rayes of God's