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A54452	A visitation of love, and gentle greeting of the Turk and tender tryal of his thoughts for God, and proof of the hearts of his court, and the spirits of the people round about him, in his own dominion, and the inhabitants of the earth that are borderers upon his skirts, in their declared religious wayes : and is a warning to all men that are in the corrupted wayes of sin and iniquity, to repent and turn to the living God ... : to which is annexed a book, intituled, Immanuel, the salvation of Israel / written in the will and countenance of God, by ... John Perrot.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?; J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671? Immanuel, the salvation of Isreal.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1639; ESTC R40666	27,935	40

day afar off but even nigh unto the door that the Lord will separate of all Nations both Jew and Gentile the just from the vile him that feareth God from him that feareh him not him that keepeth the Law of God which is written in his heart through the sanctification thereof by the power of the Lord ruling in his conscience mind spirit and life from him that in words which professeth God and his Law and Statutes and ordinances and yet walks in his life and daily practices contrary to the Law written in the heart which God spake unto Moses saying The word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it See I have set before thee this day life and good death and evil And unto ye Oh Jews is the same come and before you in the Name of the Lord coming unto you do I set life and death light and darknesse in this the day of the Lord which is dawned unto a measure of the Remnant even in this day which is light and not darknesse wherein the promise of God is fulfilled and it came to pass according to the Prophesie in a day when it was neither night nor day neither dark nor light but in the evening it was a little light And not as from the traditions of my forefathers or the generations of men in the corrupt and polluted nature in the degeneration from God and alienation from the Covenant of life and promise who confessed the Messiah as this generation doth to be come in words with their corrupted tongues and polluted lips but in their works and by their practise and life make his coming void and of non-effect unto them neither by the reading of the Scriptures came I to know that he was come as he is come but by the spirit of the Lord by which I was chosen in the womb and sanctified in the day of my birth by which also I am seperated from the Land of my natural nativity and brought unto the feeling of sorrows in a strange Land for your sakes I come to know and now to declare unto you that Immanuel who is God with us who is the light of the world the Messiah in the power of God who is a spirit is come reigning in spirit in the hearts of his people over whom and in whom he rules as King treading down and trampling upon all principalities and powers making the Earth new and the Heavens also warring against all which is contrary to his own pure nature in many until he hath put all his enemies under his feet and then will he give up the Kingdome to the Father that God may be all in all And for this cause also even for your sakes who are of most men despised in heart I pass as one desolate and despised and hated and mocked of many and many more of the nation of my naturall birth would gladly have my blood yet am I not forsaken of him that sent me with his message unto you of salvation and everlasting glad tidings of Redemption And now he that hath an ear let him hear and a heart to perceive let him understand Be it known unto you all That God hath more regard to your souls then that you should perish in your sins and your souls is more precious in his eye for which he hath ordained life everlasting for as many as come to believe then the pleasure and ease of your corrupt careases which are to rot in Graves and Sepulchres And therefore for the Lord to regain his own Image which is lost in man through fall in the transgression and to r store man unto the same uprightness where in man was created which was the promise of God unto man in this wise the seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head Behold unto you it is given forth and declared for the redemption and restauration of the seed the Messiah came and now is coming the second time without fin unto salvation even he cometh now in spirit and in power who was the Rock whom your Fathers in the Wilderness forsook and the light of the world whom your Fathers slew at Ierusalem which brought a grievous curse upon you of being a people troden upon by all the world and not onely so but the most lamentable thing and curse which is over you for which cause my soul mourns for you that such cruel hard-heartedness distrust doubt jealousies and unbelief coveting fraud deceit dissimulation and Hypocrifie hath vailed your hearts and grossely darkned your understandings Oh that is the worst of all that is the greatest curse in how much throughout ages the Iews have been given over unto vile affections hard-heartedness sinn and unbelief which is the cause why ye cannot rightly speak of the things of God and understand the Prophets writings which were spoken and do stand as mysteries yea deep mysteries to your thick hearts your understandings being covered as with a thick cloud of darkness which now we the seed Abraham of the true Iew inwardly do walk by the light thereof as a Pillar of fire by night and therefore said the Lord by his Prophet for want of knowledge my people perish The Prophets they prophesied of the Messiah to come in spirit in a mystery to the whole world Iew and Gentile so that when he came he was not received but by the Remnant in them dayes as he is received now in these dayes but unto whom the spirit of wisdome and understanding was given to read and understand that which the Prophets spake forth in Parables to the whole world of mankind which lay in sin and wickedness And therefore ye Iews now in these dayes ye ought not to speak of God or to name his name in perversnesse whilest ye hate to be reformed in your hearts minds and spirits but ye ought to hear the Message of the Lord God and to ponder it in your hearts that you may see how farre ye are yet from the Promise being not come in truth in spirit and in life unto the condition thereof fulfilled and made up in you untill which ye cannot justly expect the fulfilling of the promise unto you in the substance For whilest you are in your sins as your Fathers were in their sins in the day that they slew Jesus at Ierusalem you cannot but as men in the flesh look with any other than an eye of flesh for a God of flesh to come among you and to save you by the Arm of flesh Oh blind and sottish of dull ears and dark understandings and so could not your Fathers neither can you now as you stand see him that cometh to ransome the seed in spirit and in power Behold none other but Immanuel the Messiah which is God with us the light of the world that is come unto us and is passing through the whole world who will smite the earth with the Rod of his mouth and with the

rebel and tempt the Lord God although his mercies unto them were the greatest Yea I may say there was not a Nation that tasted of mercy as your fathers did eat and drink of salvation from many Enemies and deliverance from numberless afflictions yet how was it from age unto ages often in their streights they murmured and when they were at ease they waxed fat through mercies and kicked against God until Shiloh came the promise unto the Remnants of your Seed but he coming not according to your Fathers expectation even as the wonders of God in all ages were wrought contrary to the expectations or imaginations of the hearts of men and therefore they took counsel together and put him to death And thus the promise came unto many for without blood there could be no remission of sins although by the wilfulness of your Fathers in this matter ye have from that time been as a curse over the whole earth Neverthelesse for you there is a hope left yea for you a promise remains if yet ye return and enquire and seek diligently as in the morning and be found early and earnestly striving as in the timely season before the advantage of the day pass over your heads and ye be left as in the place of blindness where all your hope and expectation shall wither and be made fruitless as a thing of nought And therefore I say Not as you will have times and seasons and Dayes and Worships and Deliverances come to pass shall it come to pass unto you or be brought to pass concerning you but as the Word of the Lord God is and hath been the same from Ages which reacheth also unto this Age from the Dread of which the sons of men shall not escape nor find a hiding-place to rest themselves who walks in the wayes of uncleanness and doth traverse the paths of iniquity and unrighteousness And therefore wait for the word of the Lord God unto you that you may come to know your motion in righteousness that you may feel the vengeance removed which hath been long over your heads that thereby you may come toknow the redemption in your dayes and the restauration of God in the season of his appointed time until which in vain is all your Synagogue and Temple-worships and Altar-Offerings And therefore all people upon the face of the Earth Jew and Gentile Barbarian Scithian Bond and Free must all come to know that principle and measure of the gift of God which is in bondage in them to be made free by the powerfull operation of the work of the Lord through them which thousands and ten thousands for want of the good understanding are strangers unto and therefore are found actors daily in enmity to the motions of it and that is a dangerous state in whom the God of this world whom the Heathen worships hath blinded the eye of their minds mark hath blinded the eye of their minds whereby the whole world are but in the History out of the understanding of the Mystery and Power of godlinesse and life of the Prophets and holy men of God of old I say therefore unto all flesh living Keep silence and listen to the word of the Lord God in silence mark listen to hear the word of the Lord in spirit in silence when all reason and earthly consultations and disputings and questionings in the mind is cast out in the bed in the vineyards in the secret closet in the fields and then it shall come to pass to your remembrance that there is something in man which convinceth a man of the evil of his wayes and that will shew a man the iniquities of his youth and the sinnes of his riper years and bring all unto his remembrance in the fight of the Lord and then it will be seen that not any Sacrifice or Oblation hath blotted out any one sin out of the remembrance of God when as man in his own Conscience is accused for all yea then is the sacrifice short of blotting out iniquity and his prayers short of removing his transgressions nay further If a man should offer ten thousand Rivers of Oyl and the blood of a thousand Bulls and He-Goats and as many Rams and were it the Fruit of his body for the sinne of his soul it cannot purge the heart or cleanse the spirit and therefore not clear the conscience from the just accusation of God in the hidden parts of a mans mind and secret meditations of his spirit and if in this state a man perisheth where is the refuge which he shall flie unto in the last hour and in what standeth the hope of life everlasting all sober hearts in this may read the danger of ignorance and peril of blindness in the lust of sinne and unrighteousnesse out of the true understanding of the true worship and service of God And forasmuch as wisdom removeth the vails of darknesse and openeth the path of iniquity and leadeth to the Fountain of righteousnesse and bringeth to the Well-spring of truth I hereby hold forth the ground thereof and from whence it springs and how it comes to be received and stood in to the honour of the living God and beautifying the Face of the just and renown of the upright The dreadfull God of Heaven and Earth who is a spirit infinite who is light is the Vertue Fountain and Treasure of wisdome peace and life everlasting Mark and read with understanding God who hath been a stranger unto the Inhabitants of the Earth is light who searcheth every heart and tryeth the reins and the hidden part of the bowels hath sent his onely begotten Son a Light into the world whose light shineth in the consciences of every man that cometh into the world by which light in a mans conscience he is convinced and condemned for his wickednesse This light convinceth a man in his own heart and understanding of lying and swearing and pride and envy and persecution and dissimulation and murder and whoredome and all unrighteousnesse and uncleanness both of flesh and spirit This light is pure which sheweth a man every unclean spot of his life and unto this light in a mans conscience must a man turn in his mind to be guided by it in his heart which cometh from God who is light and by it which cometh from God who is the Fountain a man will be led to the first principle of the good understanding that is to say unto the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdome which Solomon the wise King spoke which was not only his words but also it was his life whereby he came to grow in the wonderfull Understanding and admired wisdome which Regions round about were amazed at And unto this day the Lord God is the same to all that fear his Name in truth and his loving kindnesse is not shortned not his mercy and favour slackned but as man hath slackned his steps in diligence waiting upon the Lord in the fear

breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked Now this is wisdome to know and understand that birth and nature of the wicked in you and to feel the power of that breath in you thereby to taste of the pangs of that slaughter in you and then ye will witness the Messiah come in you in spirit and in wisdome and in a deep and quick understanding making the Heavens new in you and the earth new in you as Solomon saith God hath set the world in mans heart wherefore man cannot find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end thereof he that hath an ear to hear and heart to understand may now come to discern and read Nations Kingdoms Countries Armies Philistines Egyptians Aliens the seed of the Iew and the generation of the Gentile in him Mountains heaps of Stons Sodom Built and Gomorrah fenced Ierusalem trodden down Zion and her Daughter in bondage and her seed in great Captivity lamenting as in solitary places left and forsaken as in a wildernesse and as a Virgin Daughter in a strange land altogether left comfortlesse the poor the widow and the fatherlesse the blind the halt and the maimed all left without pity I say search your hearts in secret and see if this be not truth the light of Immanuel answering in all your consciences and hidden parts Again I say wait upon God with your minds staid upon the light in all your consciences and thereby God will shew you even by the coming of his son Iesus the Messiah the light of the World the fulfilling of the Law and of the Prophets in you that is to say thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy mind and with all thy soul and thy Neighbour as thy selfe this is the sum and substance of all which the light in all your consciences if ye follow it in your minds will perfectly lead to the fulfilling of and then ye will know that Immanuel the light of the World came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill the Law that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit which is according to the leadings of the light in all our consciences and this is from the Lord both to the Iew and the Gentile Furthermore to the scattered Tribes of the house of Israel this is the word of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who by a mighty hand and out-stretched arm by the hand of Moses his Prophet and Messenger unto the seed in Bondage in great Captivity brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt Even vnto you Oh ye Iews this is the word of the dreadfull Lo●d God of Hosts and as a sign unto you and among you and in you it shall stand unto the end of your dayes if you perish in unbeliefe and in your sins that the Messiah is come Jesus whom your Fathers slew through unbelief and hard-heartednesse in their dayes who slew him for saying in words that which they themselves did own concerning themselves in the substance according to their profession that is to say he declared that he was the Son of God and therefore they put him to death as a Blasphemer and they said that God was their Father yet were in their wilfulnesse so far blinded that they could not discern that their words in manner of the declaration tended to the same thing and was of the same nature and this shall stand the sign thereof unto the end if ye perish in unbelief to your perpetuall judgment that he hath lightned you all with his true light which shineth in all your conscences which sheweth you in secret the deceitfulnesse of your hearts and convinceth you in your minds of lying cheating coveting envy and of all sin and unrighteousnesse which is not according to the Law of God written in your hearts this sign the light in your consciences shall never dye in you which all your burning Lamps and washings and Altars and vails and holiest of holiest and all the other ceremonies were but signs and figures and shadows of this everlasting signe and substance which shall perpetually stand to justifie you if you love it and follow it and walk according to it or to condemne you for evermore if ye hate it and walk contrary to it And be it also known unto you that if you expect another Messiah then him that is come which is Immanuel God with us in spirit and in life and power leading out of sin the land of bondage and darknesse and in vertue and in wisedome and in counsel and in judgment not judging according to the seeing of the eye or hearing of the eare but with righteous judgment in spirit who searcheth every spirit and the bottome of every heart with his light in every conscience ye are but Seekers unto this day for flesh to come yet farther to be an ease unto your flesh and to purchase more ease and liberty for your flesh in which state ye already stand even in the ease and lust of the flesh which God Almighty by the coming of his Son will destroy for because of sin and iniquitie and men living in the ease and lust of the flesh the Lord God will hasten judgement upon the earth Now consider search and see ponder it and lay it to heart that you may know what you have waited for that you may understand whether you have waited and sought for the true thing to come to pass that henceforth ye may seek aright else you may all waite till your limbs fails you and your eyes perish in their holes end in the end you fail of the expectation and fulfilling of your vain conceptions and blind imaginations wait therefore in spirit in humility of heart that Immanuel the light of the World Iesus the Messiah by whom ye are lightened ye may come to know and feel the power of his light in your consciences by it leading you out of all your sinnes and iniquities which is Satans bond the Devils chain of darknesse linking you together in hard-heartednesse and binding you in the lusts ceremonies customes and traditions of blindness and ignorance thereby ruling in your minds and spirits that knowing him ye may also know by him the breaking of the bonds of Hell and the disanulling of the Covenant which is made with death ye set at liberty in life and spirit to serve the Lord God of life who is a spirit and of purer eyes than to behold iniquity or countenance sinners in their evil wayes in the uprightness of your hearts and integrity of your souls that ye may be made unto him the praise of his name throughout the whole earth according to his promise that so ye may descern and feel the curse removed and taken from you which for many ages past hath stood upon the heads of the

therefore a warning to the whole Earth is sounded forth Repent repent repent the mighty day of the Lord God of Hosts is at hand a day of howling draweth nigh and the hour of bitter lamentation cometh to pass and thousands and ten thousands shall roar and lament and curse the day that ever they were born and yet not find ease of their misery behold behold Gods jealousie even already burns like fire and who can quench the flames Come forth come forth oh ye sons of men who have had ease in the flesh for many years have sported your selves in the pleasure thereof and made your hearts gross in uncleanness and fatted your selves with fraud and with the slaughter of your innocent Neighbor repent and turn from your sins let the Elders of the Nations lament themselves and the inhabitants of the earth rent their hearts whilest the Lord God is warning and visiting you before his judgements in sore displeasure as an overflowing irresistable flood overtakes the people and sweeps the Nations as with a beasom of utter destruction and scatters the wicked as the dust and chaff of the high-wayes as in a tempest of a mighty Wind with the breath of his mouth and there be not a resting place upon the face of the earth left for the sons of men to inhabit because of their abominations and trangressions which God will repay with vengeance Remember Sodom and call to minde the destruction of Gomorah Nineveh also was warned and Nineveh repented and was spared in the dayes of Ionah and be it known unto you this also is the day of your visitation written forth according to the commandment of God and the motion of his word from on high And therefore whilest ye have time prize it that as wise ye may learn wisdome and live and not as fools hate instruction and persh I say unto thee O Turk the Great One I am not come into thy Coasts to hide knowledge from thine eyes or understanding from thine heart but in love to visit thee with the Message of a goodly Treasure which never failed to strenghen my Fathers in a strange Land or to nourish their seed in a Wilderness or to give courage to them in weakness to vanquish the mighty force of their Enemies that thou mayest come to the same to drink of the same and eat of the same to be nourished with the same unto the same life dignity which the Lord giveth which excelleth the honour of all mortall flesh which the Lord God will stain that his honor and such as he honors may be onely honorable Lo I declare the substance of all things that thou mayest apply thy heart in diligence to the fear of the Lord that thereby thou mayest know the operation of the substance in thee that with the vertue power and life thereof thou mayest come to prophesie upon thy Throne as Dauid did upon his Throne and judge in Wisdom in thy Pallace as Solomon did in his Pallace and Court unto whom a heart of understanding was given that he judged the people aright and sought not for counsel or instruction or advice from man but had the word from the Lord of Counsel of Prudence and of pure judgement so that his Courts was bounded with Peace as with an Iron Band and fenced as with a Fort of Brass untill Solomon committed idolatry and then was an adversary stirred up against him Behold the Lord God will work mighty wonders by thee and thorow thee if thou takes counsel of him with an upright sober heart upon thy bed God is a Spirit and in spirit the Lord God will inrich thee if thou keepest thy minde to the Light in thy conscience to be ruled by it that thou mayest rule and govern according to it all that are thy Subjects the inhabitans and people that are within the compass of thy Dominion And herein thou shalt come to bear me testimony in the Spirit of Light as thou turns thy mind to the Light which shews thee thy sins that will cleanse thy heart and purifie thy minde from the thoughts and motions of sin and evill and redeem thy soul and spirit from corruption and restore thee as in the day of the first Adam in innocency out of hurt and abuse unto that state which God Almighty blessed and all the creatures thou wilt come to have Dominion over and the Earth subdue and many will bless the day of thy birth if Gods Seed in thee comes to live that thy Seed may replenish every Island and Continent of the Earth Thou knowest not Gods work what he is about to doe if thou hearken and obey and with one heart and with one consent thy Nobles and Nation sayes Amen Let the work of the Lord be done I say then If thy Ancients and thy honourable men and the Mothers of many children in thy Coasts with the man of low degree turns from the evil of their walking and corruption of their wayes unto the Light in all their consciences to stand in righteousness for the renown of the Lord even the jealous God of his glory as they come to honour and worship in spirit them will he crown with dignity and cause their fame to spread and make the frame of thy Dominion to be the pattren of his mighty work until the whole Earth be subject unto the same dreadful authority and power and behold this is the good which I shew thee and the evil I have not hid from thy heart that thou mayest not meditate it upon thy bed but have opened both and therefore choose thee whether my conscience to thee in the sight of the Lord God I have cleared touching this matter in tender pure love to thy soul and prosperity of thy Nation in every quarter thereof Finally Take this for thy standing place that thou mayest never be removed Stand in the Light as thy heart comes to be turned to it and thou shalt know that as thou stands in it wisdome will never depart thy habitation and the deepest counsel thy secret Chamber which will establish thee in thy Throne as it did Solomon the wise King in his Throne But as thou hast sinned with thy lips so thou must come to the mourning of a broken heart that God may be honoured in the humility of thy soul and spirit and thou thereby come in mercy to be exalted in his Kingdom of peace plenty and prosperity Remember Nebucadnezzar the King unto whom Daniel the Prophet prophesied and shewed him the interpretation of hard things chap 4. Now I come to question a few things that the worth of Wisdome may be noted which giveth alwaies the answer of true things and such as none other can stand against to overturn or gain-say Query 1. God looked upon the earth and behold all flesh had corrupted his way before the Lord upon the earth Now I do ask In what can the truth and true worship of God be rightly holden and who are the