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A39271	A sudden and cloudy messenger, with glimpses of great joy to the Israel of God declaring the hastning of that day of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus in his saints, tending to a deliverance from spiritual and temporal captivity ... / by a lover of peace and purity, though appearing so terrible and dreadfull, Edward Ellis.	Ellis, Edward, lover of peace and purity.	1649 (1649)	Wing E576; ESTC R22890	25,381	33

see it and be glad their heart shall rejoyce in the Lord And I will strengthen them in the Lord and they shall walk up and downe in his name saith the Lord Hearken and observe Churches the Strength spoken of here is because of the fulnesse of God he will fill his Israel with me thinkes there is one prop of your building gone But Hearken still there 's more behind Isa. 60. 22. A little one shal● become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it In his time Isa. 25. 7 8. He will destroy in this mountaine the face of the covering cast over all people and the vaile that is spread over all Nations He will swallow up death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall he taken away The Lord hath spoken it Hearken yet Zec. 9. 15. 16. 17. The Lord of Hosts shall defond them and they shall devoure and subdue with fling stones and they shall drink and make a noyse as through wine and they shall be filled like bowls they shall be like a Crown lifted up as an Ensigne upon his Land corn shall make the young men chearfull and new wine the maids Churches harken this mirth presages sadnesse to your building doth it not appear to you weaker then it was how ever hearken there 's more yet Zach. 14. 8. 21. And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Ierusalem half of them towards the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea in Summer and in Winter shall it be and there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord Mic. 3. 7. And I will make her that halted a remnant and her that was cast far off a strong nation and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Sion from hence forth even for ever Isa. 33. And the inhabitant shall not say I am sick Rev. 21. 1 2. And there was no more sea and I John saw the holy City coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband All these Scriptures do clearly prove the abundance of grace and spirituall glory the Saints shall have powred upon them from that fulnesse of their head the Lord Jesus When this time comes surely Churches you will stagger like a drunken man You that are not taken up into and made partakers of this glory you will not know what to do with your selves you le be like him that cryed after his God Awaken your selves and hearken still and secondly consider those Scriptures that hold forth a dissolution of your Formes of worship what if I should say Ordinances as you converse in them Remember it is but a Spark from the Altar a beam of the light of God that declares your dissolution if your light be as a full Sun sit still and ●●e through me fall not upon me with harsh censures What can a Spark a beam of light see but consider for in that Rev. 21. 22. 23. And the Street of the City was pure Gold and as it were transparent glasse and I saw no Temple therein for the Lord God almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it and the City had no need of the Sunne neither of the Moon to shine in it for the Glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof If this Scripture may be interpreted concerning the Glory of the Church on earth as it may be compared with others which cannot fully be done now with a beam of light but if the Lord please it may hereafter but if it may be interpreted so as you cannot clearly deny then what will become of your Churches which many expect shall even last near as long as Sunne and Moon endures Hearken still Ier. 31. 34. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the Lord 1. Epist. John 2. 27. But the annointing which you have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same annointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no ly These Scriptures I expect shall be fulfilled in the very letter of them I conceive your quick apprehensions in part to quarrell against this but I le let you alone till the Spark or beam of light be increast I le leave to your further consideration to confirm the scattering of you Rev. 22. 3. 4. 5. Isa. 60. 19. 2 Pet. 1. 19. and when you have considered these and those quoted and set down before tell truly what will become of that famous building many so much adore I shall hardly heare of the result of your thoughts therefore know from a beam of the light of God concerning your building there will not be one stone left uponanother The house of your glorie will be left desolate But come now let us reason I know you startle and are affrighted at the Spirituall and heavenly voice of Christ as the Disciples were when Christ spoke to them in a form they had not conversed with him in so do you let the Spirituall voice of Jesus come amongst you which tends to destroy your fleshly forms or knowledge you are terrified and affrighted and cry out a Spirit but a deceiving one I grant you it is abroad the deceiving one may act very like the true breakings forth of the Spirit of God take heed you be not offended at the truth because error is abroad I certainly believe there are many choise spirits among you to them I declare my desire is not to force you out of your particular wayes of worship but if you meet with the presence of the Lord walk there and I say unto you as it was said to the Disciples tarry at Ierusalem till you be endued with power from on high to arise from what you are but in the mean time beware of passing such censures as usually comes from many that are of your Assemblies you think it is possible you are very high in Principles there be those that are higher they will not despise you if their highnesse be of God it teaches no such thing so far as they are acted by the true light of God if they do it is from the darknesse that is in them do not you judge them Hearken still and more which proves your scattering or the dissolution of your practise though many of you be glewd as close to it almost as your flesh to your bones consider that Scripture Mal. 3. the coming of the Lord Jesus to his Temple as a devouring fire to burn and destroy the filthinesse that is in his Saints The effects of his coming is to difference between the righteous and the wicked between them that fear God and them that fear him not this

A Sudden and Cloudy MESSENGER With Glimpses of great joy to the Israel of GOD Declaring the hastning of that day of the Resurrection of the Lord JESUS in his Saints tending to a deliverance from spiritual and temporal Captivity but much sorrow woe and calamity to the Lords and his peoples Enemies in England Presented especially to the waiters for this day of the Lord to the gathered Churches Parliament Army City of London and Ministers of England A Spark from the Altar or a Beame of the Light of God declaring the scattering of the gathered Churches in England A voice out of Cloudy Discoveries to the Army A further warning to London of the dreadful coming of the Lord God Almighty A voice to high and low shewing what the determination of the Lord seems to be on this Land A warning to awaken all the Idol Shepherds in England otherwise called Ministers with friendly advise to those in the Ministry that have the true Spirituall life of Jesus brought forth in them By a lover of peace and purity though appearing so terrible and dreadfull EDWARD ELLIS Gal. 1. 15. 16. 17. When it pleased God to reveale his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen immediatly I conferred not with flesh and bloud neither went I to them that were Apostles before me Cant. 2. 11 12. Loe the winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowres appear on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come and the voice of the Turtle is heard in our land the Figtree putteth forth her green figs and the Vine with the tender grapes give a good smell Arise my love my fair one and come away untill the day break and the shadows fly away Cant. 3. 11. Go forth O ye daughters of Zion and behold King Solomon with the Crown wherewith his Mother crowned him in the day of his Espousals and in the day of the gladnesse of his heart London Printed for the Author 1649. An Epistle to the Churches Parliament Army City of London and Ministers so called in ENGLAND CHurches should I tell you of more Warres Pldgues Famine Staining of all Worldly Glory shaking all Earthly Powers you would it may be beleeve me But if by a Beam of light I tell you of the shaking and scattering of your Heaven your Sumptuous and Glorious Building the Churches gathered You say This is a hard saying who can heare it but surely it will be done whether you beleeve it or no But heare a word more I told you my Spark of light was well nigh spent it s now suppli'd or anointed with fresh oyle mistake me not my design is not presently if I could to take you off those wayes wherein you are or may be profitable in building up one another in your most holy faith so long as there is Lambs smoaking flax or bruised reeds or babes in Christ among you there is need of your helping one another till power from on high be brought forth in a more immediate way to do it which shall be in the time appointed by the Father The end of that which is declared unto you is to prove you are not of so long continuance as many of you imagine Honourable Parliament of England who are managing the great Affairs of this tottering Kingdom you are now higher than you were I have nothing against it but there is one higher than you the Lord of Hosts who has his designs in the midst of yours In this small volume written by a glimse of his light you may take a small view and sight of his footsteps that are and will be upon this Kingdome even the overturning all worldly powers and Governments that His may be set up whose right all Government is the Lord Jesus which is more pure and spirituall than any is yet in the world to which if you or others shall act subserviently you may flourish if not expect yours or their designs frustrated or broken that tend to Exaltation This Kingdome to whom you ought to be as Fathers how many Stormes has past through it and been upon it Al 's pretty quiet now and they begin to strengthen and settle all almost exalting themselves as though all evill were past though not a whit bettered by those judgments that have been already But behold that line of desolution that is spread over this Land to lay its Excellencie yet more lower I wish you would lay it to heart and tremble before the Lord put off and lay by your brave Ornaments within and without that the Lord may know what to doe unto you Could I command as many drops of bloud as teares have fallen from mine eies or sighs from within as have been in beholding the miseries hang over this Kingdome I would write unto you in a more scarlet die If you will read this Book you shall find nothing but joy and gladnesse proclaimed to the Israel of God and that the day of their Redemption drawes nigh but lamentation mourning and woe to the wicked be they high or low rich or poor noble or ignoble those in power or not in power I can proclaim nothing else what it will cost me I know not Storms I have met with already but they caused me not to desist from my work but were as wind to the fire which makes it flame the more so long as God thought fit to imploy me I have lived among divers Great Persons many years a poor servant and now come to this hard incounter with them it seems harsh but surely the strong Lord of Hoasts is before he leads he is Light Life and Strength a strong Tower a Buckler and Shield to help me to beare stripes if need be and to avoid their scornes although they should say as Eliab to David 1 Sam. 17. 28. I know thy Pride and the haughtinesse of thy Spirit Or as Michal to David 2 Sam. 6. 20 21. That I have uncovered my selfe as one of the vaine fellowes it is before and at the command of the Lord But I will yet be more vile then thus in this manner if the Lord think fit and will be base in mine owne sight Plainnesse and truth is almost out of fashion it was once otherwise Job 32. 21 22. Let me not I pray accept any mans person neither let me give Titles unto man For I know not to give flattering Titles in so doing my Maker would soon make me away Zech. 8. 16. Speak you every man the truth to his neighbour But Idle Shepherds awake call upon the Lord come you should be wise if you read what is said concerning Powers great ones City and you What will you do even like your brethren in former times will you not you know who smote Michaiah on the cheek 1 Kin. 22. 24. and said which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to thee so Amos 7. 10. a Priest that ought to have been wiser when a Heardsman comes with a true

message from God he like a deceiver sent to the King saying Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the Land of Israel the Land is not able to beare all his words go saith he flee the way into the Land of Judah eat bread and prophesie there But prophesie not again at Bethel for it is the Kings Chappel and it is the Kings Court He might as well have said Amos this is no place to entertaine such Persons as shall Prophesie of Ruine or Desolation although commanded by God if you will come hither and be welcome you must speak pleasing things prophesie of Wine and strong drink and pleasures such as are fit for great persons prophesie flatteries as Ahabs Prophets did 1 Kin. 22. 6. and then thou shalt be entertained at Court and with great ones as they were it may be so now in our Land flattering and deceitfull Priests that prophesie lies and pleasing things to the fancies of great persons may flourish when as they that declare the truth of God to them may go in danger of the losse of all outward injoyments but they will say I am beside my businesse towards you O watchmen therefore hearken do not you like Amasiah say I have conspired against this Land nor that it is not able to bear all my words nor bid me Prophesie somewhere else or of pleasinger things they are the true sayings of God would you have me cry Peace when the Lord cryes trouble and so be consumed for my pains what the Lord hath spoken to me that declare I to you Oh you l say Observe what he makes himself a Prophet this is as Christ saith false Prophets shall arise and deceive many well they shall so take heed you be not a kin to them do you thinke I am guided by a deceiving spirit come then handle me pry into me try and search me by the Scriptures I am willing to be tryed but you want sight I le refer my self to the judgement of those that have a clearer light then you even the Saints But secure London what say you to me what 's your judgement concerning these sad things threatned against you you have had many warnings from the Lord by divers men you haue taken little notice of them to believe them would you believe one that should be raised from the grave to declare against you from the Lord why behold he hath sent one with a message raised from the valley shadow of death from the powers of darknesse that were within him even from the belly of hel The floods compassed him about his billowes and waves passed over him he was even broken and shattered in pieces his strength of inward and outward man was well nigh spent as to his own view and the view of others laid aside as a vessel of no use yet suddenly by an Almighty power raised him like a Lion roaring for his prey of a fearfull and faint heart made bold of weak was made strong to declare as sad a message elsewhere as to you even with and not minding the hazzard of life Wilt thou believe now and turn to the Lord whether you will hear or whether you will forbear know you have had a message you shall be inexcusable As for you of the Army of Officers and Souldiers the least part of this small book concerns you as you are Souldiers but if you war against Heaven you will be conquered notwithstanding all your victories the line of dissolution will reach you you have been such as have been made use of by God to work great outward salvation for Israel that before was in and under the hands of cruel and unreasonable men blessed be his great name for it and the Lord reward your kindnesse and labours into your bosomes with spirituull and temporall blessings I know you will many of you confesse that you have seen much of the power of God with you subduing your enemies and that God hath shown much of his kindnesse to his poore Israel as in giving them such deliverance as at this day they are so precious and dear in his sight that he hath reproved and given men I may say to the slaughter for their sakes but as if that were not enough he is following them with more excellent things even the breakings forth of his own Glorie in a more large manner which you may see a glimpse of in this book and what ever desolations shall come upon this Kingdome through his fullnesse in them they shall lift up their heads when others shall call to rocks and mountaines to cover them from that wrath which will be upon them The Temple of the Lord Jesus is to be built and exalted yea glorified with his own Glorie the time and day growes on apace though Israel it self knows not what to make of it when Moses walkt into Egypt saying Let Israel go though there were great combustions amongst the Egyptians and Israel hearkened not to the voice of Moses for anguish of spirit and cruel bondage and Moses was troubled and much discouraged in his work complaining to the Lord that Israel would not hearken to his message Exod. 6. 9. 12. Yet it presages Israels deliverance is nigh at hand Israel is in boudage now and hath been a long time and for the Lord to snatch poore persons out of the fire and cause them to walkup and down in the middest of great ones as hath been done through the strength of God in Cambridge-Shire and now in this Citie the great ones must know Israel must be delivered out of Captivitie and Bondage spirituall and temporall let the world and Israel too think what they will of a truth God is hastning with the breakings forth of some great spirituall Glory Where your Scouts were met formerly it argued your Army was near the Lord sending his Scouts or fore-runners crying the Lord is come and coming it presages he is at hand if the Lord send watchmen that shall lift up their voyce like singers and call upon the waste places of Jerusalem to break forth into joy and sing together and say to Zion thy God raigneth and the Lord will bring back their captivity read Isa. 52. 7. 8 9. and tell me what you think This the Lord hath done of late in England and does still though they be accounted mad men men wondred at scoft at as Neh. 4. 2. What do these feeble Jews will they fortifie themselves will they sacrifice will they make an end in a day Scoffers hearken Israel must sacrifice otherwise than they have done the spirituall Temple of Jesus must be built We care not though for walls bulwarks or Armies for this work God is all this to the building of this Temple Isa. 26. 1. Zech. 9. 8. Nay hearken The Lord himselfe will be the alone Erecter and Exalter of it Zech. 16. 12. 13. Not by might or by power but of the Spirit of the Lord of Hoasts Zech. 4. 6. The Lord will