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
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
gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chik-ens under her wings but thou wouldest not ô that thou hadst known at least in this thy day the things which belong to thy Peas but now they ar hid from thy eys Dauhters of Ierusalem weep not for me but for your selvs sor your children for behold the day cometh that thy enemys shal cast a trench about thee keep thee in on every syd and lay thee even with the ground becaus thou knewest not the tym of thy visitation At the tym of whos suffering soon after as also by the Entrans and prevailing of the Apostacy in the Gentils or Romans the Word of the Lord by the Profet Ioël was fulfil-ed to wit that the Sun should be turned into darknes the Moon into bloud befor the great not abl day of the Lord should com which was fulfil-ed on the Sun Both of the visibl invisibl heven a vail of darknes being drawn over the Lyt Lyf Glory of God in them both which began to com over him in the garden causing that great agony bloudy sweat desyring the Father that if it were possibl that cup myt pas which vail of darknes over him vvas then at the heighth vvhen on the cros he cryed my God my God why hast thou forsaken me And the Moon in him also vvas turned into bloud by their Piercing his Innocent hands feet syd out of vvhich cam forth both Bloud VVater vvhich he that savv bâr record of his record is trû vvherby as in a figur vvas signifyed that notvvithstanding according to their own saying the guilt of his dear pretios lyf bloud myt hav stood unremovably charged on them their children yet in throuh him should that pûr clensing fountain of living water the vertu wherof should wash clens them their posterity coming into it from the guilt filth of al their abominations reconcyl them to God to òn another vvhich Bowels of the lov pitty and mercy of God in him tovvards them vvas mâd manifest throuh him on the cros Christs sufferings and desertion not for his but others sins the just for the unjust in the heighth extremity of his sufferings saying Father forgiv them they knovv not vvhat they do Who 's sufferings vvith that great vail of darknes dravvn over the Lyt Lyf and Glory of God in him vvas not throuh or becaus of any sin transgression or disobediens found in him against his God and Father but it vvas by throÌ„uh becaus of the sins transgressions disobediens cruelty unryteosnes of the Poepl it being then the hour power of the Kingdom of darknes in vvhich the transgres-ing povver from its first entrans into the World vvas com to its hyest pitch as to the vvhol body the povver strength of the seed of the old Serpent being unyted combyned in both Iew and Gentil against that Innocent pur Lyf Seed VVisdom Power Lyt Glory of God vvhich in and throuh him appeared and vvas manifest vvherby the shepherdvvas smit-en even the man vvhich vvas his fellow the sheep scattered and he bearing the sins and transgressions of many in his body on the tree vvas numbred vvith transgressors mâd and reputed as accursed the end of Christs sufferings suffering under their unjust and cruel wils and laws the Iust for the unjust That so thos vvho by their disobediens transgressions vver justly lyabl to the Cros condemnation of the most just and ryteos Law of God aliens enemys in their mynds against God him by vvik-ed vvorks myt receiv forgivnes of sin an inheritans vvith them vvho are sanctifyed and be reconcyled to him and ôn to another and mâd partakers of the Ryteosnes of God in him And soon after his deth was the Moon to wit the whol body of the Iews turned into bloud also The Judgment exalted which appeared in thoâ— great destroying wars enmitys destructions and desolations vvhich wer amongst them ôn against another vvhich just and ryteos wrath and vengeans of God on them declared against them throuh Christ and the Profets vvas fulfil-ed by the Romans vvhom God suffered to com on them and utterly to destroy and overturn their glorios City Templ Priest-hood Government disposses them of the good land leading them captyvs into dyvers other Cuntrys in which they stil remain scattered up and dovvn ár mâd a scorn a derision a by-word among the nations under the ours unto this day and as for any outvvard visibl or Erthly power dominion they shal never mor be restored to the exercys of it but according to the prayer of Christ the promis of God throuh the holy Profets recorded in the Scripturs of truth if they abyd not stil in unbeleef they shal be re-in-grafted into the good oliv tree mâd again partakers of the bles-ed Root and Fatnes therof and God vvil povvr on them the Spirit of grâs and supplication and they shal see him in them vvhom they hav pierced not only in that Innocent ôn vvhom they vvith cruel hands murdred and crucifyed on a cros vvithout the Gâts of Ierusalem but also in themselvs by their Rebellions and disobediens against the motions dictats of the sâm living vvord of Faith Lyt lyf and power of God in themselvs and shal mourn for him as ôn mourneth for the los of his first born Son and God vvil vvryt his púr law of Spirit lyf in their hearts and invvard parts and be their God and they shal be his Peepl and becom Citizens of the new Ierusalem vvith the chosen generation the Royal and everlasting Priesthood fellow theyrs vvith the truly nôbl seed in that Kingdom Glory Dominion vvhich is pûr Eternal and be redeemed from that Scorn Reproach Contemt Captivity and curs under vvhich they novv âr At the sâm tym also was a vail of Darkness drawn over the sâm lyt lyf glory of God which is in the Son of the visibl heven so that Darknes was over al the Land from the sixth to the nynth hour wherby as in a figur was sórshewn the faâ—ing away Apostacy of the Gentils or the Romans which Apostacy had its Entrans Growth Fulnes in the Opening Sounding Powring forth of the second third fourth Seals Trumpets Vyals wherby a vayl of gros Darknes cam over that Pùr lyt Lyf Glory of Christ which was in mesur manifested shyning forth in throuh them therby crucifying to in themselvs the Son of God afresh put-ing him to pen shâm having murdered slayn the Lyf of Christ that just ôn in themselvs they stretched forth their hands in ways of Persecution Cruelty Murder against the appearans of the sâm Pûr Lyt Innocent Lyf Glory of God in others til they becam Drunk with the Bloud of the dear Innocent Saints Martyrs faithful VVitnes-es of JESUS so that the Sun
feet dyvers from al the beasts that wer befor him having ten horns even yee ar the feet and Toes of that Imag seen by Nebucadnezzar in his dream spoken of in the Book of Daniel the servant of the most Hy God in a mesur of whos spirit Power I am now standing up in my Lot in the ending of the days Even yee vvith your predecessors ar that Beast vvhich John the faithful witnes and servant of Jesus savv to arys out of the sea having seven Heds and ten Horns lijk unto A leopard vvhos feet vver as the feet of a Bear The dragon without what his mouth as the mouth of a Lyon vvhos Power seat great Authority was given to him by the Dragon or Military Power which Beast the world wondred after spoken of in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gav unto him to shew unto his servant things that must shortly com to Pas which he sent signifyed by his Angel in his servant Iohn in Amesur of whos spirit Power I am Novv brouht forth to declar Prophesy of thes things unto many Peepl Nations Tongu's Kings And as I hav already said God mâd ûs of your predecessors towit the Roman Power to Execut his most just Ryteos Decree upon the Iews vvhich Povver in their Rys Growth Continans in you their Succescors to this present day hath ansvvered vvhat vvas forseen Declared and vvriten by the spirit of Prophesy in by the Mouth of his servants concerning them you so that it vvas of the Lords Permsssion that Povver Brak forth in your predecessors in A military from which in its first Appearans VVorking Growth Counsels Becam Strong Dredful Valiant VVys Vnanimos and succesful Among the Romans both befor after they professed Christ wer many wys good men laws which way soever they turned spreding the wings of their power far and vvyd Comprehending in it many contrys and Nations of Dyvers Tongu's and languages In vvhos counsels and Senats wer found many Grav VVys prudent truly vertuos and holy Men amongst whom Dyvers Good and wholsom Laws Decrees for the preservation and good Goverment of the Peepl wer mâd and against Images as being contrary to the scripturs And freedom and liberty of Consciens in Matters of Religion and Worship to such as lived peasably under their goverment ther being Atym when the churches had Rest throuhout al Judea Galilcâ and Samaria and wer Edifyed walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost so that in Mesur they Becam Agoverment answering its proper ends under whom such as feared the Lord lived A peasabel lyf in Godlynes and honesty which Rendred them Nobl and honorabl at hom and famos Renovvned and Dredful broad so that it vvas counted no smal priviledg to be Afree Born Rôman Aliens Judging It vvorth their whyl to Part vvith great sums of mony to be naturalyzed under the ROMAN Goverment And as in their Military and Civil Povver and Goverment so caled they becam thus Dredful Valjant VVys Nobl Succefful and spreding so also in their Religion and faith they wer truly famos The Leed us d som of the Romans as his Ax Others he brouht in to nearer communion with himself Renowned and glorios so that as God had mà d ús ' of them as An Ax in his hand to cut of the Jews vvho vver the Natural Branches Becaus of their vvikednes and unbeleef in Denying Betraying and Crucifying that Just ón The Lord Extended his Kyndnes Mercy and Goodnes to them to wit your predecessors being Gentils Or heathens and Aliens from the Commonwelth of Israel making vvay throuh their fal to Ingraft your predecessors into the good Oliv Tree causing them to Partak of the Root and fatnes therof and the Blesed and glorios fruits of the good Olyv tree was in mesur brouht forth in and throuh them so that the glorios holy workings operations of their faith was spoken of throuhout the World as holy Paul in his Epistel to them declared So that notwithstanding they wer Gentils by Natur had not the outward law of God which was writen on tabels of ston nor the ûs ' of the outward Templ nor circumcision nor the exercys of any outward Worship Ordinanses Cerimonys Observations contained in the Levitical Priesthood which was amongst the Jews Yet they turning the ey of their mynds inward to the lyt of Christ in them walkiug answerabel to that perfect Law of liberty lyf which God had ingraven by his Holy Spirit in their hearts inwards parts the Apostel declared them to be the trû seed of Abraham The tru Circumâ—ision â—ew Children of the promis of the trû circumcision for non els âr counted by God for the trû seed but the Children of the lyt for notwithstanding they wer un circumcysed in the flesh yet keeping the Ryteosnes of the Law of God writen in their hearts they wer counted of the trû circumcision the trû Jews seed of Abraham For said he he is not a Jew who is on outwardly nether is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew that is on inwardly the trû circumcision is that of the heart in the Spirit not in the flesh or letter whos prays is not of men but of God For al who truly turn their mynds to the lyt of Jesus the Mesur of the Spirit of the Grâs of God placed in them and com truly to know ansvver the leading The law not for the Ryteos but for the unryteos and dictats of the Law of the spirit of lyf vvriten in their hearts by God such com truly to know Redemtion and Salvation by Christ Jesus the trulyt and lyf of God in them seting them free from the Law of sin and deth and against such the out ward law of God was not given forth nether ouht any outward Law to be mád by Man against such for they com to inherit the tru substans even Christ the wisdom and Power of God in them which is the nevv and Everlasting Covenant of Salvation eternal lyf and pur Peas with God and real fellowship and communion in the Father and in the Son the lyt and lyf in them which maks the comers ther into perfet as pertaining to the consciens by the Resurrection of Christ from the ded in them even tru Redemtion deliverans Salvation out of spiritual Egipt from under the bondag of cruel Pharo and his task-masters in them and to be safly led as throuh the red sea of dredful fears clear of al drowning and over-whelming difficultys and thretning dangers both without and with in them As Pharo and his host pursuing them to over whelm and destroy them and to see al their oppressing enemys as ded on the sea banks in them and feel the pur power of God in them descending as on the Mount
that myt not be touched giving forth his most just and Ryteos law of Spirit and lyf the coming and first appearans wher of in the inward parts giveth the tru knovvledg of sin causing it dredfully to revyv The first appearans of God to faln man is in conviction and self to dy in them and their bodys to be the holy tabernakels of the most hy God of Jacob and he to dvvel and vvalk in them and the Pûr pillar of fyr and cloud ordering them vvhen to mov and vvher to stay and pitch their tents leading them safly throuh the wildernes of temtations fears and difficultys as by the hand of Moses and Aron giving them lyt dyrection and saf protection in their way even in the way everlasting and eternal in them and the hiden Manna and pur living water out of Christ the eternal Rok of ages Issuing forth and dayly faling down in them to sustain norish and refresh the lyf which is pur Christ the hiden Manna living Water Eternal rok c. in his Peepl and immortal of God in them and the Holy armor of ryteosnes vvith the Holy operations of the pur lyf povver and vvisdom of God in them teaching their hands to vvar and their singers to fyt giving them mor understanding then the ancients making them vvyser then ether their teachers or their enemys yea to be strong in the Lord and in the povver of his myt to fyt the good fyt of faith and giv them tru victory over al their spiritual enemys real quyet possession of the good Land of eternal rest and pur peas vvhich flovveth vvith milk hony even with al the unspeakabel blessings of God the eternal Rok Fountain out of whom both the upper nether springs of pur living vvater of lyf do flow issu forth in throuh them and the glorios Rul Government and Kingdom of God to be ther set up their bodys to be the tru Templs of the living tru God even the Ark of the new yet most old Holy everlasting Covenant in which is the tabel on which the pur law of Spirit lyf is writen with the finger the Spirit of the living God the golden pot of hiden Manna which dayly norisheth the lyf which is pur and the Rod buding springing forth of the stem of Jesse the root of spring of David in them bringing forth the pur peasabl fruits of ryteosnes holynes dayly in and throuh them And the Holy Altar of God which sanctifyeth the gift the eternal fyr and the Holy Incens with which every man is salted in which every acceptabel gift sacrifys is offered up a sweet Savor unto the Lord And the Holy hy Priest in them which is after the order of Melchisedek without begining of days or end of lyf who ever liveth to mâk intercession in for the Saints acording to the wil of God this is he vvhom the Father heareth always even when no outward audibel voys is heard or vvord spâk And the pur living Orakel of God in them at which never failing Advys Counsel is to be had in al things which is that Word of God that liveth abydeth for ever even Christ the faithful tru vvitnes of God the Word of lyf quik povverful the fôr runner within the vail towit the flesh The lyt which maketh al things manifest in the inward parts which giveth the most tru discerning of the most secret purposes thouhts intents of the heart divyding betvvixt the lyt the darknes the vvays vvorks of them both as betwixt the soul Spirit the joynts the marrovv Even the Eternal fountain of pur living Water of lyf in vvhich the clensing preserving healing vertu vvas is for ever shal be found to in al such as in the faith patiens of God vvait for the descending of the Angel of the Covenant vvhich moveth therin And to know the Holy Profet raised in them vvhom al ouht to hear vvhich al vvho refus to hear cut themselvs of from being of the tru Israël of God And to fynd the pur incorruptibel tresur as hid in the field in them vvhich nether moth nor rust can corrupt nor theevs break throuh to steal The grain of Mustard-seed even the pur seed of the Kingdom of God sovvn grovving up in them bringing forth the Peasabel Holy plesant fruits of Ryteosnes lov joy pur peas in them throuh them in som thirty in som sixty in som an hundred fold And the vertu of the pur leven in them levening the vvhol lump causing the whol man Body soul Spirit in al manner of holy conversation svveetly to smel Savor of the pur vvisdom Ryteosnes Innocency holynes of Christ in throuh them therby to becom as the Lyt of the World Salt of the Erth even a sweet Savor unto God both in them that âr saved in them that perish to fynd the lost groat in them vvhich sileth the heart invvard parts vvith living pur joy rejoysing And to vvitnes the birth of the lyf vvhich is pur immortal eternal in them even the chyld born in them the Son given unto them the Immanuel tovvit God in them the governmâ—rt over al laid on his shoulders in them as King Lawgiver Priest Profe Savior causing the ded to rys the blynd to see the lâm to walk even leap as hâ— yong hart the dumb to speak sing forth aloud the living pryases of the pur God in them in the midst of the Church of the first born in God throuh them And to becom crucifyed ded with Christ to the World the carnal mynd vvith the affections lusts therof to be risen ascended vvith Christ out of the sepulker out of the Erth al visibl things out of days tyms Sabbaths up to God the Eternal Rest Sabbath fountain of pur lyt rest peas vvher mortality is svvallowed up of lyf al rùl Authority Power risen standing in the faln Spirit Wisdom Power put down utterly destroyed And to partak of posses injoy the most excelent Glory in their inward parts and speak the pur Languag And be Baptyzed with the ôn Baptism which saveth from a vain conversation the pur living VVater of lyf which sprinkleth from an evil Consciens And the glorios coming of the Father Son in them to sup with them and they with them feeding dayly on the pur living bred of lyf drinking the new VVyn of the Kingdom of God which refresheth norisheth the lyf which is holy harmles undefyled pur immortal of God in them And to feel the presens of the great Sepherd the Bishop of the Soul in them dayly taking tender câr of them leading them in and out in al their ways causing them to feed
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
was not meats and drinks and that both the Belly and meats was for destruction demanding of them who had bewitched them and whether having run wel and begun in the Spirit they thouht to be mâd Perfet in the flesh teling them that he was fraid of them least he had bestowed his labor in vain on them becaus they observed days tyms and sabbaths and ther wer such amongst them as wer Eried from the faith and had mád ship wrak of a good consciens deceived and deceiving others in doctrin and practis and for dishonest gain gon in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards And they affirmed that the Body Spirit Hôp Lord Faith Baptism God and father of al is but ôn vvho is in throuh and over al Who 's eternal pur fulnes dvvelt bodyly in Christ of vvhos fulnes of pur lyt and lyf al vvho receiv and vvalk in becom Children and heyrs of God in and vvith him vvhich is the faith of the son of God by vvhich the Iust livs in Mâl and femál the ón Baptism vvhich saveth vvhich is not the washing away the out ward filth os the flesh but the answer of a good consciens by the Resurrection of Christ the Lord that spirit from the ded in mâl and femâl vvhich al vvho hav the Son hav the Father also dvveling and Walking in them as saith the scripturs of truth and Christ said that he vvas the Resurrection the lyf al vvho did do or shal liv beleev in him do and shal liv thô they vver Ded Such becom Children of the resurrection throuh the participation of the sâm Pur Divyn Natur Lyt Lyf fulnes of God vvhich dvvelt in vvas mâd manifest throuh Christ Jesus vvherby the Saints then novv vvitnesed themselvs to be not only crucifyed and ded vvith Christ unto the World vvith the inordinat affections lusts therof but also to be quikened and risen vvith him siting together in hevenly plases in Christ The Resurrection Redemtion Salvation is of Christ the Seed of God in Man-kynd vvhich in Man as unto Man becâm as captivated slain in bondag throuh the entrans prevailing of sin transgression vvherby the becâm the Lamb slayn from the foundation of the World vvhich lyeth in vvikednes in Man-kynd The laying down the outward body no Curs The bâr laying down of the body vvhich is called Deth is not the effect or revvard of sin the laying dovvn of the body had bin thô Man had never faln in to sin and transgression vvhich vvould not hav bin nether shal be to such as à r truly Redeemed ether cursed or any ground of fear or terror but in the vvil of the Lord Rather desyrabel as a Bed of Rest in its plàs season is as truly vvelcom and desyrabel as ether food or the morning or any part of the day to him that is in the vvork of God That Deth which is the reward of sin what That Deth and Curs vvhich vvas and is the Reward of sin transgression entred into Mankynd in the sâm day instant of tym that sin entred acording to the Word of the Lord to and in them after vvhich Adam lived several hundreds of Years in the body yet this I say That the shortnes and uncomfortabel being of the lyf in the Body is the Effect of Sin Christ Said to the father of al that thou hast given me I have lost Nón that it was the wil of the Father that he should raiss it up again at the last day he spak not of Carkases Or Persons But of the Pur glory Dominion of his own lyf which in man as unto man throuh the Entrans of trangression becam as slain captivated and in bondag yet in it self lost nothing but retaind stil retains its Purity Dominion in and over Mankynd throuh al Ages for ever abyds the sam for Christ the sà m Eternal lyt The lyt always the sam in its self but as to man the dispensation changeth as he changeth lyf wisdom Povver of God which in Mankynd befor transgression rendred him to be the Imag of God and sat him in tru Pur honor Dominion over the works of his hands becam in Man-kynd after the Entrans of sin A Reprover judg in them so that the lyf Power of God in them was the sâm in its Purity undefyled not consenting to the evil only differing in the working manifestation of its self in Man-kynd and the last day is novv com in vvhich Christ the Lyt Lyf VVisdom Power seed of God shal be Raised up again in Man-kynd man-kynd in it to the Sám Pur Dominion and glory which he had with the Father and Man-kynd in him befor the vvorld vvhich lyeth in wikednes began And as concerning Eternal Judgment it is commited by the father to the Son to wit Christ the Lyt VVisdom and Power of God the faithful tru witnes of God in Mà l and femal vvhich vvas vvith the father befor his works of Old which Eternal judgment hath bin faithfuly Executed in On throuh al ages generations in on the general and in and on every Particular soul of Man-kynd that hath don evil vvhich shal continu to be Executed by him til al his Enemys becom his footstool and that Sà m Eternal Judgment vvhich is in Christ the Lyt the faithful tru witnes of God in Mâl Femà l shal stand for ever in Pur Dominion over the hed seed of the serpent vvhich is the transgresing Power in Man-kynd And as concerning heven it is that pur stât of eternal Lyf Lov Dominion glory which is the Imag of God in which Man-kynd was plased befor trans gresion Heven what into which Man kynd by throuh a participation of that pur Divyn Natur fulnes of God wich dwelt bodyly in Christ Jesus coms to be again Redeemed Restored which al who truly enjoy partak of do enter in by Christ the lyt lyf way eternal door ar saved redeemed risen standing up from the ded receiving Eternal lyf in him siting in hevenly plases in Christ And hel is no other but that Deth Curs wo Misery and Tribulation which entreth and tà ks hold on body soul and Spirit throuh transgression but that Deth and hel which John in the Spirit of Prophesy wrot of and saw as cast in to the lâk of fyr is no other then that cursed Spirit Power Dominion of the darknes of this World which throuh the faling away Apostacy of the Gentils or Romans arôs and hath bin for ages and generations excercysed over the several Nations Kindreds Tongu's and Languages throuhout Christendom in the Dragon 's Beast's and fals Profets Spirit and Povver vvho under fals pretenses of protecting governing and teaching the peepel in safty Peas Ryteosnes Holynes hav bin a Hel of cruelty Oppression unryteosnes and deceit unto and over
them as so many sorts of incarnat Devils in their Military Civil Ecclesiastical Powers so caled ryding on the Nations Robing Spoyling and plundering the peepel of their Estats tresurs and fruits of their Labors at their own cursed wils and plesurs to uphold and maintain them in pryd deceit eas fulnes and oppression over the peepel causing also their Bloud as a continued Issu to run sorth to fulfil their cursed vvils and plesurs as also the Dear Innocent Saints Martyrs faithful witneses of Iesus vvho throuh ages and generations past unto this day hav born their Testimony against their vviked vvays and practises Which Spirit and povver must novv be cast into the Lák of Eternal Perdition Destruction and suffer the vengeans of Eternal fyr and be limited and chained dovvn in the Bottomles Pit in every particular out of vvhich it aros and the smok of the torments herof to ascend up for ever mor vvhich is the second Deth even the Hel of Hel. Furthermâr the Apostel told them to whom he wrot that they could not be partakers of the Tabel of the Lord the Tabel of Devils reproving that disorder exces with was amongst them in eating and drinking for which caus many becam weak and sik The Tabel of the Lord what how it becâ—â—â—s a curs and fala asleep for the Tabel of the Lord to wit the varios Kynds stors of provisions which the Eternal Power the Father of the houshold doth dayly produs giv freely forth to feed and sustain Man-kynd and every Cretur becoms a trap a snar a gin a Curs even a Tabel of Devils unto in such as eat drink therof in exces to the satisfaction of the carnal mynd the inordinat desyrs of the flesh And as concerning the fellowship conversation of Devils it was springing up amongst them and therfor the Apostel exhorted them to whom he wrot to hav no fellowship with the unfruitfal works and workers of darknes saying that it was even a sham to speak of thos things which wer don of them in secret but al things reprovabel said he âr mâd manifest by the Lijâ— Which cursed Spirit of Apostacy having thus taken plà s Rooting in amongst them in the Apostels days hath grown and spred it self in and over al Christendom which hath rendred Christendom in their Military Civil Ecclesiastical Powers to be the Thron Seat of Iniquity of Belzebub the Man of sin a habitation of Devils the hold of every Foul Noâ— ysom Spirit a Cag of every unclean hatful Bird which must now Receiv the Reward of Devils even Destruction and perdition from the presens of the Lord from the glory of h s pur power who is now risen in his holy Tempel to shak terribly the Hevens the Erth not only in Christendom but in al nations that so what is shaken may be removed and that which cannot be shaken may remain and shyn forth in its pur natural and proper glory and Beauty al the works of God becom as a wel formed harp with every string wound up to its du proper pitch on which the Lord God may forever Delyt to mà k sweet Melody unto himself they in him forevermôr So that this Spirit of Apostacy faling away from the tru christian faith lyf took plà s rooting first in the Elders teachers of the flok which cursed seed grew spred it felf in and throuh them over al Christendom the whol being on s comprehended in the Church of Rôm subjected under that fals hed universal Bishop or Pôp so caled and took hold and brouht forth its cursed fruits among al Nations Kindreds Tongu's Peepel of every Ranks degree order from the Hyest to the Lowest hath had its Rooting Growth Fulnes even in a most abominabel mistery of Iniquity Corrupting the vvhol Body of Christendom so that in sted of being a pur chast virgin fit to be marryed to the Lamb and becom his faithful Spous she becam a defyled strumpet even in her beginning bruised the Brests of her virginity by harkening to and obeying the voys of the old Serpent that adulteros Spirit in her so becam a harlot and grevv to be the Mother of harlots and abominations of the Erth vvith vvhom the Emderors Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel of al Ranks and Degrees Mal Femal hav comited Spiritual fornication and bin mâd drunk vvith the cup of her Abominations and she hath sit as A queen upon many waters vvhich ar Peepels Kindreds Tongu's Nations being mà d drunk vvith the Bloud of the Profets Saints Martyrs of Iesus even in her skirts is found the Bloud of al that hav bin slayn upon the fà s of the Erth. Thus this cursed Seed of the Serpent having taken plà s and Rooting did gradualy grow and spred its self dayly and as it grew spred and prevayled so the tru pur Seed of God towit the Seed Christ in Mà l Femâl was oppresed kept under brouht into Bondag as the cursed fruits of the Seed of the Serpent appeared wer brouht forth so the blessed fruits of the tru pur Seed of God the truly Nobel plant of Gods Renown in mâl Femâl withered decayed and that pur fresh appearans of the truly excelent Glory which was in mesur as a dew from the Lord God of heven upon the Church of the Romans did by degrees depart and utterly wither away throuhout Christendom The Apostacy first entring the fals teachers thó on s trû having freely received from them over spued the body So that wher as in her virginity the Elders teachers wer tender cârfulover the flok of God to whom the câr therof was comited not by constraint but wilingly not for filthy Luker but of a redy mynd not as Lords over Gods heritag but as Holy good exampels to the flok freely communicating their Spiritual things partaking in lov of the Peepels carnal things who having food rayment had learned therwith to be content yea Holy Paul wrouht with his hands that so the Gospel myt not be Burdensom or chargabel to the Peepel But that covetos Spirit vvhich is the root of al evil being thus crept in and having taken plà s in som ther soon appeared such amongst them who wer not wiling to communicat freely of what they had freely received of God but throuh covetos practises souht to mà k a gain of the flok going in the vvay of Balaam for gifts and revvards having Mens Persons in admiration becaus of Advantag imbrasing this present World loving to hav the preheminens and so being faln under the Spirit of deceit in themselvs grevv dayly vvors and becam deceivers of others by good vvords and fair speeches deceived the hearts of the simpel causing many others to bovv and submit to their covetos ends and to follovv their vviked and pernitios vvays by reason
and cruel adversarys and to aveng al the oppressions crueltys and Innocent bloud of his harmles lambs and Saints on them that dwel upon the Erth fro the least to the greatest of them even upon this present age and generation And heer it may be noted how this old Serpent vvhich goeth upon its belly hath throuh ages generations in thos cald Priests Levits spiritual men and the Clergy conformed and transformed it self unto any thing and into any form and lyknes except the lyf and Povver of godlynes in to which it can never com provyded they myt hav the nations and Rulers of the Erth as beasts and asses for them to ryd on and their tresurs and fruits of their labors to be at their command to feed pamper their bellys The World is the Who the Spirit of truth in throuh the Holy Men of God Profets Christ Apostels said wer grievos Wolvs such as mâd their their God making again of the flok would stil so ar its Ministers the sam they ever wer so many receiv the sam nams now from the sam Spirit exercysed in covetos practises going in long Robs loving to be cald of men Master and to hav the greetings in the market plas the uppermost Rooms at Feasts such as did say not do teaching for Doctrin the tradiditions of Men Hipocryts whyted wals painted sepulkers such as teach for hyr and Devyn for mony greedy dumb dogs that cannot bark loving every on his gain from his quarter preparing war against such as put not into their mouths filthy Dreamers that defyl the flesh runnng greedily in the error of Balaam for gifts rewards spots in their Feasts of charity feeding themselvs without fear clouds without Water carried about with Wynds trees whos fruit withereth twys Ded and plucked up by the Roots Raging wavs of the Sea foaming out their own sham wandering stars to whom the blaknes of darknes is reserved for ever When Israel of old in the wildernes turned their Baks upon the God of their saluation this spirit in Aaron and thos confederat with him complys with them and maks A Calfs and they said thes be thy Gods o Israel vvhich brouht thee out of the land of Egipt and built an Altar to it and yet proclaiming and pretending to mak A feast to the Lord siting dovvn to feed and pamper their bellys together and rysing up to play and vvhen Israel in the laind of Canaan revolted from the Lord to serv the Idol Gods of the heathen this old Serpent in the Priests Levits conforms ther unto Exercysing the several forms Manners of Idolatros worship to the several sorts of Ydols and Images provyded they may nat sail of provision for their bellys when Micah gat à Reliv a Teraphim an Ephod A graven Molten Imag to erect an Idolatros way of worship in his own family he wants not à Levit to excercys à worship ther unto provyded he may hav ten shekels by the year Asuit of Apparel provision for his Belly and when Ieroboam mad Calvs sit them up in Dan Bethel he wanted not enuf to be Priests to exercijs a form of vvorship to them provyded they may not fail of provision for their bellys and vvhen ydol Tempels Images wer Erected for the worship of Baal if Achab and Iesabel wil hav eight hundred fisty Priests to exercys à vvorship therun to they redyly Conform provyded they may dayly eat Drink at Iesabels tabel when Israel took up an Imagination of A Queen of heven they want not enuf of thos cald Priests spiritual men devyners to Exercys a worship to her provyded they may hav the Cáks Meat Drink offerings which ar baked offered to her to feed pamper their bellys And when the spirit of Apostacy took hold on the gentils Or Romans turning their ears away from truth unto fabels this old Serpentyn spirit provyded them heaps of fals teachers provyded they may mà k a gain of them get filthy luker by them exercys Lord ship Dominion over their Persons estats faith conscienses whos Practis hath bin for ages and generations Past throuh the Apostacy to this day to prepar war against such as put not into their mouths to spoyl the goods whip Banish Tortur Burn and hang the Persons of the Innocent who in the spirit Power of the Lord hav born testimony against their ways of Idolatry deceit covetos Practises Proud and Bloudthusty spirits And when Henry the Eigth of that nam so caled King of England mád a breach upon that cursed Idolatros sea of the Roman ecclesiastical Power threw of the Pops supremacy they in words and outward profession cast it of also lyk unnatural children cal'd their Mother the Whor of Róm swearing Allegians Supremacy to the King receiving their inductions into their Spiritualy wiked Plases Orders Proffits from him his Substituts teling their God in their Prayers that in al Cases over al Persons as wel Ecclesiastical as temporal the King is supream hed Governor he confirming them in their Church gleab lands tyths yearly Stypends Revenus to feed pamper their Bellys And when Mary his next Successor cam into the Thrón turned al as it wer bak again then they fased quyt about with the Dog to their own vomit submiting conforming to that which they had in word profession outward Practis denyed cast of viz. the Póps supremacy persecuting burning such as Heritics who for Consciens sak towards God could not conform therunto She securing to them their yearly Incoms to feed serv pamper their God which was their Bellys And when Elizabeth her next Successor aros then they turned quyt about again disgorging the vomit which befor they had re-eaten swearing allegians Supremacy unto her teling their God in their Prayers that shee the Queen was in al cases and over al persons as wel Ecclesiastical as Civil supream hed Governor He securing confirming to them their provision for their Bellys And when the Parliament which was in the Reyn of Charls the first of that Nam so caled King of England mád a defensyv War against the said King The said Parliament making provision for their Bellys erecting a Commitee to provyd augmentations yearly Stypends som of 50 som of 100 pound or mor and laying 2 or 3 Parishes somtyms together that they myt hav wher with to maintain them in pryd eas pamper their Bellys they in words outward Profession and Practis cast of not only the Tóp his Supremacy but also submit to lay asyd the ûs of their Servis-book of Common Prayers Organ Pyps and other Music Singing Men and Boys Gowns Flat-Caps Surplises Tippets and ras even their King also out of their Prayers stiring up the Peepel to go forth to war against him as to the help of the Lord
crafts was is the intemperans inchastity inordinacy of Peepel So al thes may say If Peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt lyf of God in them the good physician which purgeth clenseth from al filthines of fleâ—h spirit leads al vvho ar led by him in ways of temperans sobryety chastity in the fear of the Lord then they wil com to be Inhabitants of that city which shal say they ar not sik the Lord to be com the helth of their Countenanses their God and abyding therin the ground of al Diseases distempers in Body soul Spirit is kept down in peepel Such wil not hav need to com to us with their Urins giv us larg sums of mony for our Advys Counsel to maintain us in pryd eas or to mak ûs of our salvs deceitful Compounds so our deceitful trads wil dy and wither away also And al sorts of Marchants traders in Ships Shops wââ—houses Ins Victualinghouses Fayrs Markets may say If peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt everlasting covenant of lyf in them be tauht led by him in them then they wil com to tak cà r for nothing to tak no thouht what they shal eat drink or put on but cast al their câr upon the Lord vvhos eternal power wisdom dayly produseth sufficient to feed sustain every cretur so to becom as ôn houshold or family children of ôn Father heirs together in with Christ of the ôn Inheritans caling nothing their own injoying al things in the pur fear lyf lov wisdom of God as in ôn common ryt or intrest Such wil not hav need to mak ûs ' of our deceitful Inventions of mony to buy sel mak Marchandyz of the gists several stors of the hous of God wich al flow from the ôn gist which he freely gav to the children of men without respect to Persons neither wil such frequent or mak ûs of our Ships Shops Ins victualing-houses fayers or markets And so we may lay asyd our ships shut up our shops wâr-houses Taverns and victualing-houses and ceas frequenting our fayrs and Markets for no Man wil buy our wârs any Mor and so our trads of deceit oppression wil dy and wither away also Thos cald Land-Lords who in the spirit of the world hav raked great quantitys of the Erth into their hands may say If peepel be bourht to Christ the lyt way of peas saluation in them then having food and rayment they wil learn ther with to be content not Covet or desyr to grasp farms into their hands to serv their own particular intrests to spend their tym in sweating toyl cà r and labor as under the curs to giv us larg and yearly rents by sums of mony to manitain us in pryd lusts eas fulnes so that our Lands must â—therly unstok-ed until-ed or vve must let such us ' it vvho vvil only let us hav a part of the produs therof vvith them for our necessary supplys of food and rayment and so our Lordly Covetos and oppressing vvay of farming Lands for great and unre sonabel sums of mony by the year vvil dy and vvither avvay also Thos cald by-way thievs Robers may say if Peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt the strong Tower of sasty eternal salvation in them then the us ' of mony wil com to be laid Asyd by them and as for food rayment if we be Really in want therof the lov of Christ in them wil mak them wiling to supplys our real necessitys so that if we com to them on the by ways filver and gold they wil hav non and if we should tak their cattel they ryd up on or cloths from their baks it would be an unkyndnes offered to such as ar really wiling to feed cloth such as ar really in want and necessity nether can we lykly pas long with such things without being discovered and so becom lyabel to sham and suffer the strok of Justis from the hand of the Magistrat for the sam And therfor it wil be mor manly honorabel for us to fal into som way-of honest and moderat labor that so we may eat our own bred and wear our own cloths in Peas and quyetnes without condemnation in our own conscienses or fear of sham by the strok of Iustis Thos cald way going Peepel ydel and sturdy begers may say if peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt and wisdom of God in them then alth ô the bowels of the lov of Christ in them constrain them to do good unto al as need and necessity requyreth yet if we com to beg of them having bodys abel to work they may justly say unto us that such as wil not labor ouht not to eat and may offer us labor and food which if we refus the ôn they may justly with hold from us the other So that we shal be forsed to lay asyd our ydel dronish trád of beging and ether to work or starv which if we do our blouds wil be upon our own heds The whol body of the world which lys in wikednes may say if peepel be brouht to Christ the lyt wisdom Power eternal salvation of God in them then the end of the world even of al things wil be com upon them as it was on the Apostels Saints in their days and al the many vvays vviked inventions and Practises which hav had their Rys Continuans to this day throuh the entrans of sin trangression by the first Adam wil be ended finished and Eternal ryteosnes brouht in and established in Man-kynd and Man-kynd in it al Rúl Authority Power it standing in the spirit Power of the old Serpent put down and destroyed the vvhol creation delyvered from the bondag of corruption into the glorios liberty of the Sons of God and al things in heven Erth visibel invisibel reconcyled to God in him every Knee mà d to bovv and tongu ' to confes to him to the glory Prays of God the eternal Father Pur fountain of lyt lov wisdom glory and Dominion vvho is in throuh and over al God blesed for ever this is the God whom many hav waited for and this is the salvation expected by him and for ever blesed be his Nà m as non ever did so nether hav they wayted on him in vain nor bin ashamed of their hòp in him for according to his promis declared and recorded by throuh the holy Profets he hath now set to his hand again the second tym for the redemtion and salvation of himself his own oppresed seed in the ends or inhabitants of the Erth not only in Man-kynd but even in the whol creation who vvorketh so as non can hinder and shal not be discoraged til he hath set Ryteosnes in the Erth surly his salvation is ny unto them that
be tauht therby of God which mesur of the Spirit of grâs in mâl femà l is the Spirit of truth which leadeth into al truth even the Holy anoynting which teacheth al things even the deep things of God teling them to whom they preached and wrot that a mesur of the Spirit of grâs was given to every ón to profit with al and that the Lord is that Spirit they labored to turn Peepel from the darknes to the lyt from the power of Sathan to the power and Spirit of God in them given to them by Christ the tru Lyt whom Holy Johon said was the tru Lyt which inlyteneth every Man that cometh into the World and to turn Peepel from dumb Ydols and Ignorant Id latros and Superstitios ways forms to know serv and obey the living and tru God in them even to present al perfect in Christ whom truly to know obey constantly to follow is eternal lyf salvation happynes pur rest and peas forever mòr But thy Clergy or Spiritual men so caled even the whol body of them from hed to foot ar found out of the Cal Power Doctrin faith order Practis Maintenans holy Conversation of the tru Ministers of Christ even in a spirit of Dyrect Opposition contrary ty to them so that they being Ignorant of the cal of God hav caled and sent forth ôn another in their Own wils appoyntments and hav run greedyly for gain advantag without being sent of God and being gon from the Power of God to uphold and provyd for them in their Minissty and defend them in their Doctrins faith practises they hav gon to the Powers of the Erth who hav mâd Antichristian cruel laws to fo rs Manitenans from the Peepel for them even from such as nether own nor hear hem and heer in thes Babylonian Marchants hav bin mor cruel and unreasonabel then al the other sorts of Babylonish Marchants who cannot compel others to buy their wà rs much les fo rs others to pay for it who have netheâ— bouht or received it who together al sorts of them ar but a Den of thievs Robers in my Fathers hous they cam not in by tâ—e eâ—â—rnal door to wit Christ the lyt wisdom Power of God they must al be whiped out of the Tempel and overturned even root and branch their coming and vvork hath bin and stil is but to steal murder and destroy That Spirit which hath and doth buy and sel the gifts of God wich do al flow from the òn gift must perish with its mony out of the Bottomles pit it cam and thither it must return the things of Cesar must perish with Cesar but the things of God the former of al things must be ordered in his own pur wisdom lyt counsel And as ther must not be a Beger so ouht ther not to be a drôn in Israel and as that Spirit which would lay on dayly tasks and tâl of brik on others is to be denyed so also that spirit which would liv at eas in the flesh upon the fruits of others labors is to be rejected al Mountains must now be leveled and al valys raysed and the pur Playn plesant path of wisdom ryteosnes holynes is that in which al the truly ransomed of the Lord must for ever dwel and walk This the Plain pur ' path in which the fool cannot err This is the Iewel the pearl of Invaluabel Prys the truly wel becoming Ornament which becometh the hous of God for ever to wit holynes and as every clensed tabernakel of the most by coms to savor and shyn forth in this so every ôn in in his Tempel wil com truly to set forth his living pur and eternal prayses and appear to be really the lyts of the world the salt of the Erth which al who loos the savor of com to be the very worst most unprofitabel of Mankynd not withstanding they may profes or talk of hy things wher the tru savor ons receved coms to be lost the most stinking dunghil is to be prefered befor such MARK THAT And further mor they being ignorant of the doctrin faith of Gods elect which purifyeth the heart worketh by lov keepeth the heart clean they hav ignorantly framed up a faith in their own faln wisdoms which they cal their Creed but cannot them selvs giv a Rational account therof to the bottom using therin Scriptur Expresions being ignorant of the mynd of the Spirit of Christ in them that gay them forth And having thrown asyd the tru church-order wich the A postels holy ministers of Christ walked in practised they hav mâd invented to themselvs many Nâms ranks orders in their own wils in their church to wit Pôps Cardinals Jesuits Fryers Monks Abbots Nuns c. with many mor Puting the nams of Jâ—sus of Saints up on them whylst they themselvs ar found strangers and emenys to the lyf of Christ the holy conversation of the saints in themselvs in others and wanting the pur Power Demonstration of the Spirit of God in their Ministry and practises to draw Peepels hâ—arts to Imbâ—ás conform therunto they hav caused the potentats Powers of the Erth to mâk penal cruel laws statuts to fo rs a conformity thâ—â— unto or els to spoyl their goods Imprison banish rack hang Burn murder destroy their persons under a fals pretens of their being Heritics which yee O Potentats Kings Prinses and Rulers throuh out Christendom and your predecessors hav Unnaturally cruelly lyk Bruit beasts put in execution in an abundant mesur Furthermor they being found naked of the tru Christian clothing which is the ryteosnes of Christ by faith in the lyt Spirit Power of God hav in their wils Invented to them selvs many strang foolish forms fashions of outward habit ther by to caus the Spirits of Peepel to fal down under them giv worldly Honor Respect Reverens unto them which ar not of God And being voyd of the Demonstration of the Power Spirit of God in the exercys of their worship they hav Dyvers invented garbs vain foolish syts Idolatros images picturs several sorts of Music with singing men boys which tend only to pleas gratify that Spirit in Peepel which is Enmity against God insted of teaching Peepel from the motion Dictats of the Spirit of Christ in them they pleas their vain ears with fabels orations which they in their faln wisdoms hav raked formed to gether out of old historys the wrytings of heathen Poets Philosophers antient Fathers Commentators with their own Imaginations from the Scripturs with dyvers other feyned storys lying syns wonders al which Renders their worship ro be mor lyk unto Astag ' play rather then the tru worship of God And as for al other sorts of worshipers to the byest in Nâm Form and profession
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
Father to be Gods salvation in the ends of the Erth even the way the truth and the lyf in Mâl and femâl to lead out of stryf and discord up to God in vvays of lov truth peas and ryteosnes whol Christendom is becom lyk the Raging sea tos ed to and fro vvith every vvynd of Doctrin runing al on heaps contending and quarreling ôn vvith another about emty nâms ways forms professions in Religion ôn sort or sect crying lo heer another lo ther a third this is the way being al of them strangers aliens enemys to the Power Spirit of God in themselvs in his Peepel Ignorant of him who is the former of al things and is without form was befor al forms or visibel appearances and abyds the sâm vvhen they hav their end vvrangling and contending about outvvard bred and wyn and water Baptisms and Carnal ordinanses which wer figurs in their tym but the living bred of God vvhich cometh dovvn from heven in his saints and the Pur Wyn of the Kingdom of God vvhich refresheth and norisheth the lyf vvhich is pur eternal and Immortal of God in the Imvard parts is not truly fed on or drank of by them And the ón Baptism vvhich saveth even the pur living water of lyf which clenseth washeth the Inward man and sprinkleth from an evil consciens is not known felt or truly Experiensed in them Betwixt thos two to wit the Beast fals Profet the Civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled hath the lamb slayn from the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes bin crucifyed afresh as betwixt two theevs the ón being accuser the old accuser of the Brethren the other Iudg the third to wit the Military Power the executioner which is the Barrabas vvhich they hav chosen in rejecting crucifying of Jesus by vvhom al the Insurrections Murders divydings of his garment to wit the creation into particular Intrests casting lots on his vestur hath bin don commited sins the entrans of transgression to this day vvhos practis hath bin stil is to Rob spoyl plunder the nations of their tresurs fruits of their labors to uphold themselvs in pryd lusts eas Fulnes cruelty oppression over the Nations under fals pertenses of protecting teaching them in vvays of Peas ryteosnes and salvation Thes ar the Phisicians of no valu the Nations hav bin the woman vvith the bloudy Issu that hath gon to them for help cur but notvvithstanding vvel ny al hath bin spent on them the bloudy Issu hath not bin healed but rendred by far the mor Incurabel but blesed be the Lord the vvoman hath now met vvith Jesus the good Phisician goten a touch of the hem of his garment feels in her self the healing vertu the Bloudy Issu is in mesur stayed vvhich blesed healing vertu shal not ceas vvorking til it pas throuh the vvhol body of the Creation and the cûr and redemtion therof be compleated the thre that beare Record in bel Thes tovvit the Dragon Beast fals profet à r the three that bear record in Erth and hel vvhich ar ôn and Agree in ôn to vvit the Spirit of the old serpent in man its corrupting of Man-kynd its cursed fruits and operations throuh Man kynd And heer may be noted that which I may cal the living or essential differens betwixt the living tru Lord God the Devil the old Serpent the God of the World about which the learned Disputers eloquent Orators Comentators in the Spirit of the World hav bin so long Disputing contending and wryting larg Commentarys Contradictory ôn to the other But having nether the Key of David nor the Heffer of Sampson to Plow with could never truly open or unfold the Matter and al thô they hav mâd ûs ' of the Words of the Holy Men of God recorded in the Scripturs yet ar they therin found fals witneses being strangers aliens from that Holy Pur Spirit Lyt Wisdom of God in the Holy Profets by which they spâk and wrot The living tru God is that Eternal Pur Spirit of Lyt Lyf Wisdom Power which hath its being in of its self and was befor al Creaturs visibel and in visibel wer is the lyf former fulnes end of them al abydeth the sâm when they hav their end But the old Serpent the Devil the God of the World was not befor things visibel and invisibel wer but was mà d manifest in tym throuh matter form and is not but by and throuh matter and form and ceaseth to be when they hav their end in every particular towit the Spirit of that old Serpent the carnal covetos mynd with the law therof which hath its Seat in the members the Erthly or sensual part of Man-kynd which is the Woman that was deceived first in the transgression both of mâl femâl which is Deth Hel a Devil in al in whom it dwels reins even the Kingdom and Power offin darknes the seat and Thrôn of al Iniquity and al who in that Spirit and Power Exercys Rul and Dominion ever others ar a hel of Devils and tormentors to them which is the Spirit of the Beast in Man-kynd that goeth downward and renders al in whom it Dwels ruls to be the Seed and Children of the Devil that old Serpent which is mor subtil then any beast of the field which the Lord God hath mâd whos curs and portion was is for ever shal be on their Bellys to go to eat dust al the Days of their lyf but the lyf which is pur of God in Man-kynd is not up held by bred alon but by the pur Word of the Lord of lyf and Power in the inward parts doth man liv whom God is now restoring and redeeming again up into himself to Partak o◠his own pur Divyn Natur and fulnes and to bear his Imag to the injoyment of the gift which he freely gav to the Children of Men whom the Lord wil again Crown with his own pur lyf Plas in Eternal Dominion over the works of his hands The Son is in mesur risen and the day com in which al the devouring Beasts of Prey shal ly down in their dens sleep a perpetual sleep man goforth unto his labor until the evening from under the curs Power of transgression sin Deth hel in the blesing of Eternal lyf pur lov Peas Ryteosnes for ever mor. And so having slayn the Innocent murdered and crucifyed the just to and in themselvs the tru Lord and heyr of al cast him out of his inheritans and possesed themselvs therof they contryved hovv to mâk sur the possession therof to themselvs theyr heyrs and Successors in that Serpentyn Murderos oppresing Spirit Power if possibel to al ages generations And the woman the Ecclesiastical Power being deceived first in the
transgression act their parts carrying al under a fals feined pretens of Ryteosnes Holynes and good orders laying the foundation as sur and as deep as possibly myt be according to that Serpentyn Wisdom by with they wer acted Erecting Schools Colledges and Vniversitys under a pretens of up-holding of learning and to fit Instruments for the Servis of God in their Generation but to the end that such as ar taught and tutored in them myt be sur to partak and be filed vvith the sam Dyabolical Spirit and Povver by vvhich she is acted she orders that non shal be permited to teach Tutor or instruct in them But such as must pas her approbation or such as shee appoints causing them to com into her cursed leagu ' and Covenant of obediens and subjection to her and her Husband by the Oaths of Allegians Supremacy vvhich being don accordingly they proceed in their vvork teaching Children in their beginning to Read learn in Books of feined lying storys vvith many filthy and unsavory expressions in them vvhich tend to the corrupting and infecting them in their chyldhood and rays that Spirit in them vvhich is enmity against God and this under a pretens that learning may not be a burden to them and that Children may tâk delyt in their Books and having mâd som progres in this Kynd of learning they proceed further to teach them to act their parts on stages in Comedys Tragedys therby to gain skil and boldnes in the Rhetoric and Oratory of hel that so they may be the mor capabel to ascend further in acquyring of degrees in thos tongu's parts and arts standing in that Wisdom vvhich is enmity against God puting on them the Nâms of Masters and Bachelors of Arts Bachelors and Doctors in Divinity Lecturers and Fellows of Colledges c. The effects fruits of which cursed tutorag ' hav bin evidently mád manifest among the inhabitants of thos parts and plases wher such Schools Colledges Universitys ar in the Exercys of Drunkenes pryd swearing deceit reveling gaming whoring theft murder such Kynd of tutored ôns throuh ages generations past hav bin counted mâd ûs of as the only fit learned instruments to supply Vacancys and carry on a succession in commanding governing teaching the Peepel of the several Nations languages throuhout Christendom But if they hav bin the children of thos cald nobel men or Lords or such as hav great estats revenus to maintain them without seeking any military or ecclesiastical preferment or to be Doctors of Phisic so caled then must they be counted in the plases wher they dwel learned men wel bred Gentel men fit to mák Justises of the peas or Sherryfs of the county or to be Esquyrs Knyts Baronets Lords Earls Duks or Peers of the Land whos lyvs conversations ar generally spent in devouring dayly delitios food wyn strong drink wearing every vain foolish invented garb fashion of costly Attyr deked with need-les vain ornaments in lusts eas and Carnal plesurs gaming bowling hors-rasing hawking huuting breaking down fenses spoyling the gras and corn of the laborios husbandman as masters of wiked misrul disorder that must not be reproved or controuled and it may be assuming to them selvs a priviledg to the exercys of their wyld and wiked Practises by vertu of som Royalty or being Lord of the Mannor so cald Of such Kynd of vermin as thes hath the succession of Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers Teachers Comanders Iudges Sherrifs Counselers Phisitians Rectors Fellows and Teachers in Schools Colledges Vniversitys Court and Kingdoms with al plases af trust or profit in them bincarryedon for ages and generations past unto this day Next she tà ks away the ûs of the scripturs of truth the record of the holy men of God to wit the Profets Christ and the Apostels from the peepel this under a pretens least they being holy mysterios should be corrupted wrested and perverted but a Religion she wil uphold which must bear the Nà m of Christaninty holy church a form of Doctrin Fellowship breaking of bred prayer Preaching Singing Baptism Fasting c. shee invents and cals it holy Apostolical tho quyt voyd of that Pur Power spirit of holynes which was in Christ in the holy Apostels The ded bodys of the witneses must not be buryed but kept up to mà k merry with al â—ver the slain pur witneses of God which ons appeared in throuh them But to the end that they may appear with the shew of alovly acceptabel attractyv countenans to the peepel shee adorns Paints perfums Spyces and Imbalms them after the best skil wisdom which she hath in the art of her Dyabolical Apothecaryship adorning herself in Purpel Scarlee fyn linnen deked with gold and other ornaments adorning her hous with several sorts of picturs images and ydols to represent God Christ the Spirit Angels Saints under a pretens of their being insted of books to the ignorant Illiterat peepel covering her tabel with costly carpets fynlinen seting ther on a goldencup platter vvher in she ministreth forth her wârs of whordom witcheraft abomination to the peepel with sweet perfums several sorts of music singing men Boys wherby provision vvas mà d to pleas and gratify the sensual part of Man kynd on every hand and thus having deked herself in her harlots attyr furnished her hous spred her tabel and mà d al things Redy shee hath her Baptysed bels to giv loud notis vvhen the Doors of her hous or shop ar open and her wà rs to be put to sâl with a Clerk to lay the Cushion turn the glas by which they mesur out their wârs to the Peepel to say Amen to what soever the orakel of the devil in them uttereth forth in which Ydol Tempels or shops vvhich they Ignorantly cal churches ther ar several sials at which they Administer and lay Open their several sorts of Abominabel wârs of sorcery wherdom and with craft to wit thos cald Fonts Altars or communion tabels desks and Pulpits confessionstools in Scotland stools of Repentans so caled Their Font is a plâs wher they Administer an invention of their own Brains cald the Sacrament of Baptism about which they us a heap of ceremonys with Blasphemos lys and charms of witchcraft and sorcery using water which after they hav sprinkeled the Person with whether young or old they affirm them to be Regenerat Born again mâd members of Christ Children of God inheritors of the Kingdom of heven having Persons to stand by which they cal God Fathers and God Mothers to under tak or promis that the Person sprinkeled shal for sak the Devil al his works the Pomp vanitys of the VVorld and al the sinful lusts of the flesh Making the syn of a cros the whors mark on their forheds saying Intoken that afterwards they shal not be ashamed to confes the
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
their delyt to spend their tym in covetos vvays and practises to heap up to them selvs the Riches and tresur of the vvorld by dishonest gain having ther feet stiking fast in the myr of filth and unryteosnes the singing and praysing of such is not only a sacrifys of fools but a sacrifys of abominabel lys blasphemys And thus al the inward invisibelthings of God being changed into outward visibel syns shaddows of theÌ„ viz for the tru clothing of the ryteosnes of Christ the tru Imag of God and aros of Christ Holy-day of the Spirit Holy Water of byf inwardlyt c. they hav set up their paint ed Priestly rôbs outward Images Crosses Holy days Holy water outwardlyts of Candels And being strangers and enemys to thelyt and spirit of truth in man which sercheth the deep things of God vvhich is the eternal day the holy day of God vvhich al vvho truly keep ar children of the day they hav in their ovvn vvils mâd and set a part many days which they cal holy Days giving them the nâms of Christ-mas Candel mas Lammas Michael-mas days of saints as Iames Peters Thomas Iohn's day with many other Nams on which days after they hav bin at their charms of babbeling sorcery and Idolatros witch craft caled Mas divyn servis commy prayers sermons c. many tyms the priest taketh their consecrated breden-Y dol God which they cal the hallowed host the bedy of their Lord God having a canopy born over him others bearing dyvers standadrs or banners with Y dol picturs in them but the standard Banner of Christ which is Peas Lov Ryteosnes Meeknes they ar strangers Enemys unto going up and down the streets fields causing hy low rich poor smal great mâl femâl to follow them in their Idolatros pernitios ways to bow kneel down to their invented Y dol be subject to their Idolatros practises after which both priest peepel spend the residu of thos days som in Y delnes vanity others in the exercys of Ryot chambering wantonnes masking Dansing bowling delitios fâr feasting excesyv drinking VVyn strong drink to drunkennes with several other ways of vanity and wickednes And being strangers and enemys to the spirit of the Lord that pur living fountain of living holy water in the in ward parts which washeth clenseth the in ward man in which the saints draw ny to God God draweth ny to them by wich they resist the devil mak him flee they tak outward water which after the priest hath said his charm over cald consecration they cal holy water they sprinkel both them selvs and the Peepel causing also the Peepel to sprinkel them selvs crosing themselvs with their hands affirming that it wil keep away evil spirits dryv away the devil c. Whylst the bodys of both priests peepel ar becom the habitations of devils the cages holds of every fowl spirit the seed children of hel the devil for they being found in the ways of deceit enmity unryteosnes covetosnes oppresion hypocrisy Idolatry persecution and murdering of the saints thes being works of the devil torches c. the Peepel âr deceived of the trusubstans fed only with inventions in which ther is no vertu they ar therby rendred the seed and children of that Father whos works they do as Christ said to the Jews of Old who said they wer the children of Abraham And lastly they caus a Law to be mâd prohibiting any from assembeling themselvs together to the Exercys of any worship but only in their Mas-houses or Y dol-tempels under the penalty of being Reputed and delt with as Conventikelers holding unlawful assemblys Heritics Non conformists disorderly Persons which hath bin Executed on thousands of Innocent persons in ways of cruelty bloud and murder in ages generations past unto this day Thus having eaten of the forbiden tree which appeared beautiful to the ey shee the Ecclesiastical Power gav also to her husband to wit the Civil Power so caled even the whol body of them even al the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom who haveat also with her And that al myt be mad sûr on their Parts also they invented an oath caled the oath of Allegians to be taken by such as ar within the Consyns of ech of their severaldominions causing their Laws with Bils Bonds and wrytings obligatory to be put in Latin under a precens to uphold and incorag learning wherby provision was mad to uphold that Proud Covetos Vnresonabel Extorting and Deceitful generation of men cald Doctors in the law Counselers Advocats Solicitors Atturnys Clarks and Scrybs and to the end that al myt be mád saf and secur on every hand they hav the red Dragon or Military Power which they Plâs and quarter up and down in and throuh the nations in thos fexes hòls to wit the fensed citys strong holds and garrisons standing ther as the angels of ech devil redy to obey and fulfil their cursed wils and plesurs So that they becam as a three fold cord or bond of wickedâ—es not easily to be broken wherby the nations becam subjected under the cruel bondag of corruption not wilingly but by fo rs and cruelty and becam as an As or the foal of an As on which never man sat but cruel devouring beasts of prey whos journy hath not bin to Ierusalem but to there building of Iericho which is cursed with the founder and the finisher who laid the foundation therof in his first born by whom sin transgresion had its entrans into the world which is now finishing in his yongest son the foundation of whos wals is bloud and murder the gats therof deceit and lys into which nothing can enter but that which defyleth and worketh abomination in the darknes wherof the nations of them that sit under the region of the shadow of deth do dwel and walk And thus the old serpent the God of the world having finished his work sat himself down in them to tak his Rest as a strong man armed concluding to keep his hous wyf children goods in sâfty and peas in their dyabolical order fraternity if poslibel to al ages generations making them selvs Merry together over the slayn Innocent witnes of God the tru heyr of al which they hav crucifyed to in themselvs afresh hav mád themselvs drunk with the bloud of the Innocent lying down together in their beds of Eas to tak their fil of Dyabolical lov together in the Exercys of al manner of A bominations filthynes both of flesh spirit until the morning the good man of the hous being gon from hôm not to return til the tym appoynted issuing forth the filthy seed of their corrupt bodys of adultery whordom in a continued succession throuh and over the nations to comand govern feed and teach the flok
vvalked the Iews of old said they vver the children of Abraham but they being found in vvays of deceit hypocrisy Oppression Idolatry persecution and murdering the Innocent saints and holy profets of the Lord Christ told them they vver children of their father the Devil being found doing his vvorks so that if yee be found commiting of sin and not vvalking as Christ vvalked and guilty of thôs evil practises vvhich the Jevvs vver then ar yee not such as ar born of God nor tru Christian Emperors Kings Prinses and Rulers by the grâs of God but the children of that Father vvhos works yee do and a company of usurpers such as hav no tru Ryt to exercys Dominion over the nations But that yee ar such is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor your claym of Ryt by heir-ship prescription is rotten nul voyd What it is to be Christs vicar And for the Pôp to affirm himself to be Christs Vicar it Implyeth no les then to represent his person in his spirit and Power to do his work now it s recorded of Christ that he was meek and lowly in heart holy harmles undesyled seperat from sin siners in lyf going up down doing good reproving sin teaching and exhorting peepel to ways of mercy truth ryteosnes purity meeknes humility and holynes But that the Pop is found acted by a spirit and in a practis of dyrect antipathy against the Spirit of Christ and so is rendred to be the Antichrist is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor his pretens of being Christs vicar is fals voyd The Pop succedeth Peter as Sin succceded innocency in order of tym or as a thorn doth a vyn when it grows in the sam plas wher â—ns a vyn did grow And for the Pôp to say he is Peters Successor Importeth no les then to represent his person in his spirit Power to do his work Now Peter in his epistel upon record saith thus the elders which ar amongst you l exhort who am also an elder and a vvitnes of the suffering of Christ a partaker of the glory that shal be revealed feed the flok of God which is among you taking the oversyt therof not by constraint but wilingly nor for filthy luker but of a redy mynd nether as being Lords over Gods heritag but as being good exampels to the flok that when the great shepherd shal appear yee may receiv a crown of glory that fadeth not away But that the Póp is found nether in that spirit or work in which Peter was is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor his claym of being Peters successor is fals voyd also And for the whol body of thy Ecclesiastical Power so caled with al the worshipers to them belonging to affirm themselvs to be the tru church and faithful spous of Christ the holy church vvhich ons appeared and vvas mâd manifest in and throuh the saints vvhich dvvelt at Rôm It importeth no les then that they must be found holding the sâm pur mystery of faith in a pur consciens be the caled and sanctifyed of God according to his purpos vvalking in the sâm holy fellovvship in the Spirit of truth vvhich the saints of the church of Christ vvhich in the Apostels days appeared in Rôm held walked in But that thy Ecclesiastical body or clergy so caled with al the worshipers to them belonging ar corrupt in Doctrin fellowship conversation and faln away and apostatysed from that Pur Doctrin worship fellowship holy conversation with vvas held vvalked in by them is Playn evident in the precedent charg evidensedby a cloud of vvitneses therfor their claym of being the holy Church of Róm is fals voyd also So that upon the whol O Christendom thou art found to be the houshold of an old thief a cruel oppresing murderer and a most filthy abominabel whor standing naked in the syt of God Angels and Men found guilty of al thos great provocations and bloudy abominations which in the precedent charg is prodused against thee Now therfor O thou Leopold thou O Póp of Rom with al yee Kings Prinses Rulers Governors al in authority under you of what degree rank or order soever whether Military Civil Spiritual or Ecclesiastical so caled al Peepel both hy and low rich and poor bond and free smal and great mâl and femâl even the whol body of thee O Christendom with al the Dominions Territorys to thee belonging who ar under the Command Government teaching of Man Givear and hear the most just ryteos decree irrevocabel Sentens of the Lord God Omnipotent of Heven Erth even the living God former of al things against and concerning thee The dredful and most terribel Battel Ax of the most just Ryteos Powerful Lord God of vengeans is now laid to thy Root and that Power and spirit by which thou art now acted and in vvhich thou now standest vvil the Lord God novv hew down root up and utterly destroy yea his most just and Ryteos vvrath plagu's and vengeans is even alredy bròk forth upon thee and shal dayly mòr and mòr appear be revealed from heven against thee even as pangs upon a traveling vvoman from which thou canst by no means escap Thô thy Potentats Prinses Rulers Peepel hav do shal set them selvs and tak counsel against the Lord and his anoynted yet he that sits in heven now lafs them to scorn yea the Lord hath them in derision and he is now speaking to them throuh his sanctifyed ôn's in his wrath hath yet mor mor wil vex them in his sor displesur his Yron rod is novv taking into his hand vvith vvhich he hath begun dayly mor mor dash the Nations to pieces as a poters vessel in thee O Christendom and they shal dayly môr and môr fal be subdued under him til al his enemys becom his foot-stool The Rod of his strength is sent out of Syon he in mesur ruls dayly môr môr shal rul in the midst of his enemys in thee At his ryt Hand he is now stryking throuh Kings yea he is judging among the heathen in thee wounding the heds over dyvers Cuntrys his hed is now lifting up in throuh over al his enemys in thee The evening of that day known to the Lord is now com in which the lyt hath appeared the morning of that day is approached in which the just in mesur hath dayly môr môr shal hav pur Dominion over al their enemys in thee Deth is now feeding on thee thy beauty fading withering away as the gras upon the hous top And for as much as God hath caled thou hast not regarded but set at nouht
and spirit of grà s in them but obey unryteosnes indignation wrath and tribulation on every soul of Man-kynd that doth evil the wrath of God is novv revealed and revealing from heven in and throuh his Peepel against al unryteosnes of men the Lord even the Lord himself is novv descended from heven vvith a shout the voys of the-arch angel is heard the trumpet of God is sounded and sounding and the ded in Christ ar in mesur risen shal dayly mor and mor arys in throuh and over al yea he is even com coming as a thief in the nyt and althô Peas Settelmen and sà fty hath bin looked for and expected yet even novv sudden and unvoydabel destruction is com and coming over al the workers of Iniquity as travel upon a woman with chyld and they cannot escap The Lord Jesus Christ the great shepherd Bishop of the soul is com and coming into him must the gathering of the Peepel be The Man of sin is now revealed revealing even the Son of perdition he that hath doth and yet for avery littel season wil let is in mesur alredy dayly mor and mor shal be taken out of the way even that cursed spirit and Power the seed of the old Serpent which in thee O Christendom hath taken rooting and grown up into a mystery of iniquity even a strong man of sin armed with the dragons or military Power in thy wariors Rulers teachers Peepel which hath rendred thee to be the Dragon Beast fals Profet great whor and mother of harlots and abominations of the Erth and thy Peepel to be the waters on which the whor sits and the sea out of which the beast aros according as it was revealed declared in by Iohn the servant of the Lord recorded in the book of his Prophesy vvhich spirit Power mystery of iniquity and Man of Sin the Lord in mesur alredy hath dayly now mor and mor shal consum with the spirit of his mouth by the brytnes of his coming in his peepel utterly destroy The Prophesy of Enoch the seventh from Adam is now in mesur fulfiled and dayyl mor and mor fulfiling for behold the Lord is now in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear in ten thousands of his saints in mesur alredy hath and dayly mor and mor shal execut Judgment upon al and convins al of al their ungodly deeds which they hav commited of al the hard speeches cruel dealings unmerciful bloudy Kilings murderings which ungodly siners hav spoken and don against and upon him spiritually in his holy innocent and harmles Peepel who ar the spiritual body vvherof he in them is the hed even the tru imag glory and fulnes of him who created fileth and upholdeth al things visibel invisibel by the eternal word of his Pûr Power vvho vvas befor al things and is and is to com the Alpha O Mega the beginining the end of al the works of God the first the last even the lyon of the tryb of Iuda the root offpring of David that hath the seven spirits of God the key of David and of the bottomles Pit also that openeth so as non can shut and shuteth so as non can open the lamb standing in the midst of the Thrôn of the four beasts elders as slain who hath prevailed to open the book sealéd with seven seals hath taken the book out of the Ryt hand of him that siteth on the thron hath opene wel ny al the seals in their order which neither the learned or unlearned in thy hevens nor in thy Erth nor under thy Erth o Christendom wer abel or found worthy to open loos or look ther on four of which seals comprehend the appearans of that lamb of God manifest in the flesh conceived born of the virgin Mary throuh the overshaâ—owing of the Pur Power spirit from on hy who in his holy harmles undefyled innocent Pur conversation as on a whyt hors went forth conquering and to conquer and the taking plas of the seed of the Serpent that cursed spirit of apostacy and faling away with its growth and fulnes in the Dragon 's Beast's fals Prophets Power spirit in thee O Christendom til he becam the lamb spiritualy slain in thee vvho art novv becom spiritual Sodom and Egypt signifyed by the Red Blak Pâl horses And the three last Seals Trumpets Vyals comprehend his second appearans in his Peepel vvithout sin unto salvation in throuh the britnes of his coming in them revealing consuming utterly destroying the Man of sin bringing in establishing his ovvn Eternal pur lyf everlasting ryteosnes in Man kynd them in it which is the spiritual body which with the whol creation is God manifest in the flesh the visibel or sensibel part wherof to wit of the whol creation is the natural body of the Lord the Body of Christ the flesh wherof is given for the lyf of the world which al who truly discern eat drink therof in remembrans of him abyding in that which giveth preserveth in the tru discerning but such as go from that eat drink therof in their own time wils to the satisfaction of the Carnal Inordinat desyrs of the flesh the mynd heerby weaknes siknes deth taketh hold on many to the grieving wounding som tyms to the destruction of their beings both in the natural Spiritual body so that to in such the tabel of the Lord becoms a snár a gin a trap not eating drinking in remembrans of Christ not the Communion of the body bloud of the Lord not the bred cup of blesing but a curs even the tabel of divels not the chearing refreshing of God man but the norishing of the Brambel natur whos natur work is to consum devour destroy it s the poor needy the hungry thirsty soul which the Lord fils satisfyeth with good things even with his blesing both to the outward Inward man but the Rich the ful he sendeth emty away even with a curs And althô the Kingdom the Power of God hath and stil doth suffer vyolens both in the natural and spiritual body yet so it ouht not to be but al both in the natural and Spiritual body ouht to be subject to the motions of the eternal quickening Power to rest and may in it in al things without offering fo rs or vyolens therunto which is Christ the Lord that quikening Spirit in mâl and femal not only in mankynd but to in every cretur therfor the charg was stil is unto the dauhters of Jerusalem that they stir not up or awak the beloved til he pleas which is the dayly Cros of Christ to the carnal mynd but the lyt sweet Plesant and easy yaok and burden of Christ to the spiritual
forth overtak you yee perish in the sam for al who ar found ering from and walking contrary to the mesur of the Spirit of the grâs of God in them wil be found partaking with Babylon in her sins must receiv of her plagu's Your strength is to stand stil your work is to do nothing your wisdom is to becom fools patiently to wait to feel him to arys in you and bring salvation and work al your works in you for you for ever mor which al who com truly to experiens do enter into his rest which is pùr and eternal com to ceas from their own works as God did from his On thing mor I may not omit that so the Lord and his servant may be clear of the bloud of al man-kynd which was forseen and declared by the Lord of lyf Prins of pur peas in the days of his flesh to wit that ther should com many in his nam say that they ar Christ and deceiv many shewing great syns and wonders in so much that if it wer possibel they should deceiv the very elect The day is now com coming in which it shal be fulfiled The ground of the coming appearans of such hath bin for som tym laid working in thousands who go under the nâm of fift-Monarchy Peepel with many other who from an imagnation of their own brayns gathered from the letter of the scripturs expect and look for the appearans and coming of Christ in that sam body of flesh in which he appeared lived and suffered deth upon a cros without the gats of Jerusalem out of the material clouds visibel hevens and gather peopel unto him as an outward glorios king or great monarch by carnal weapons with an arm of flesh to overturn kil destroy out wardly the persons of such as oppos him and them and rein a thousand years Wherfor when any such do appear go not after them nether be yee deceived by them for destruction and misery ar in their path and the way of tru pur and everlasting peas they know not both them al others may know that the appearans and coming of Christ seting up of his Kingdom which is pureternal and everlasting is in the lyt or as lytning which cometh out of the east shyneth into the west as himself testifyed and that his Kingdom is within coms not by observation But as for the treading of the Wyn pres of the fiers wrath of God al myty it is to be troden without the holy city and the appearans The seting up of Christs Kingdom in the generaelis effected in the sam manner as in evch particular soul coming seting up of the Kingdom of Christ is the sam in the general as in every particular to wit not by outward myt and carnal fo rs Power destroying mens lyvs but by the sword of his mouth which is quik and Powerful in the Inward parts to discovet consum root out the ground of al unryteosnes in men and throuh their holy conversations faithful testimony to their innocent lamblyk sufferings for that mesur or Power of truth into which themselvs ar brouht they doâ—overcom bring down and in pur lyf and dominion trampel upon the contrary Spirit in them selvs in others both in the particular and in the general And concerning England Scotland and Yrland with the dominions and territorys therunto belonging this I further say that the seventh seal trumpet vyal is in mesur opened sounded and poured forth intot he ayr which shal quyt stop the breth of the dragon's beasts fals Profet's Power Spirit in them as to them tym shal be no mor as such Now is the expeling of al typs figurs clouds shadows Carnal ordinanses dispensations declarations administrations which hav bin over yet poynting at the most tru eternal and excelent lyt lyf glory and substans the opening of al dark sayings speeches and parabels upon the sweet Melodios harp of David and the tangue which is as the Pen of a Redy wryter the finishing of the mystery of God Wherfor rejoys O thou afflicted drunken but not with wyn for great is the holy òn in the midst of thee the enemys Rok is not lyk unto thy Rok even themselvs being judges ther is no God lyk unto thy God who rydeth upon the hevens for thy help in his excelency on the skys the eternal God is thy refug underneath ar the everlasting arms he shal thrust out the enemy from befor thee and shal say destroy them and thou the tru Israel of God the Nobel Plant the Royal seed the holy nation shalt dwel safly as in unwaled villages upon a land of corn and Wyn thy heavens do dayly mor and mor shal drop down the sweet living eternally refreshing dew happy art thou O seed of the God of Iacob ther is non among al the familys of the Erth lyk unto thee O Peepel saved by the Lord who is the shield of thy help the sword of thy excelency thy enemys ar dayly mor mor shal be found lyars unto thee and thou in mesur dost dayly mor and mor shalt tread upon their hy plases For thus saith the Lord even the Lord thy God which pleadeth the caus of his Peepel behold I wil now tak out of thy hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no mor drink it again but I wil now put it into the hands of them that afflict thee who hav faid unto thy soul bow down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over The day is com which shal shak open al thy prison doors for the first born of the Egyptians is neer hand slayn the great sea divyding and upon the sea of glas mingled with fyr must thou yet stand but al who witnes tru victory over al in their own particular shal stand theron in pur Power lyf Dominion with the harps of God in their hands singing the sweet Melodios glorios triumphant victorios song of Moses the servant of the Lord the song of the lamb for the Lord now taketh plesur in his Peepel wil mor mor beautify the meek with his salvations his saints shal be joyful in glory singing aloud upon their beds having the hy Prayses of God in their mouths a two edged sword in their hands with which they in mesur alredy havâ— dayly mor mor shal eâ—ecut vengeans upon the heathen Punishments upon the Peepel bynding Kings in chayns nobels in fetters of Yron execut upon them the judgments writen this honor hav al the saints Prays Prays Prays yee the Lord God of lyf lov Pur Power Dominion and faithfulnes in throuh and overal for ever mor. Amen I am your Brother companion in tribulation and in the Kingdom Patiens of Iesus JOHN READER Thes Errors being escaped in the Pres thou art desyred for thy own advantag in Reading first to amend them with thy pen becaus som of them do alter the Sens several other literal faults ther ar of which ther is no need to mak mention IN the Tytel Pag. l. 10. ad ryteâ—os p. 2 l. 20. for distinguish read distinguishing in the margent p. 7. for exalted read executed pa. 8. l. 25. for Word read Lord for Lord read Word pag. 9. l. 32. for yee read the l. 36. for the r. he pa. 11. l. 8. for from r. form pa. 14. l. 38. for Profer r. Profet p. 29. in the margent for overspewed r. overspred p. 30. l. 6. for desyros r. desyrs p. 31. in the margent for would r. world l. 26. for resir r. Relic pa. 36. l. 27. for other r. our pa. 37. l. 31. for the. r. them pa. 40. l. 40. blot out is l. 42. p. 12. for the hav hard r. yee hav heard p. 45. l. 8. ad is l. 12. blot out in pag. 47. l. 5. for her read hear l. 35. for filthy drous r. filthy dròns p. 48. l. 34. for stowish read foolish l. 36. for a rop of your mal houses r. atop of your mas-houses p. 57. l. for uring r. urging p. 73. l. 16. for Reed r. red Thes being amended tak notis that in sted of ce at the end of words in al words deryved from them I hav in speling us'd S. as for peace peas for grace grâs for place plâs for placed placing c. plâsed plasing c. becaus that e at the end of word doth so much stumbel strangers mislead them to sound two sylabels wher ther is but òn FINIS
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
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