as it is in themselves though many have learned in this day to adde to their Faith Vertue and Patience and all good Fruits of the Spirit of God because of the Experience of the Work of Faith which through Patience they are kept in the sence of in the midst of Fiery Tryals and they hold fast the begettings of God thereby in a confidence of good in him XI And then as they increase in Knowledge it is on a good ground and foundation that hath learned them to rejoyce in the FLAMES of DEVOURING FIRE whose devouring QUALITY cannot reach their SENCE with any BITTERNESS of its Sting but through Patience and Submission thereto it is made sufferable and the Cross is made easie therein and the BURDEN light because of a quenching property in that love against whatever maketh the Judgement of God to be unsufferable Torment to his Creature for part of their Knowledge is that it is not only given them to believe but to suffer for the namesake of God though in the beginning of the Work of Faith the belief that was wrought by the Spirit of God in them is a Convincer of sin under which there was and is a suffering in the nature that hath contracted the guilt thereof on the Soul by unity of Spirit therewith even the Spirit and God of the World XII Further knowing and being perswaded in patience to wait for the perfecting of the Work of God in the Heart in that Faith and belief of the love of God therein shed abroad that they are kept sensible of a good experience of the Work thereof having the Testimony of a good Conscience to manifest the same in the World these can shew their Faith by its Works and have a birth thereof that makes not ashamed of a good CONFESSION among Men and the fained Humility and appearances of Love from the untimely Fruit of the Womb that can never come to see the glory of the Sun of this day withereth in its way for that which can indure and hold out to the End worketh by the love of God that hath begotten into a lively hope concerning the Resurrection from the Dead having a Life tinctured in the Souls reach after true Charity in God and Love unfained which is the highest attainment in a Christians state and the greatest Gift that can be attained by men under the Bond of Perfection XIII Sealing the Work in which God doth glory and delight in that which is made able to pass through the stroke of Death to leave an Earnest of the expectations of the Creature after the day of Redemption in that which is much more pretious than that of Gold that perisheth But how have I seen many in this day loading themselves with the Fancy and Imaginations of their disquieted Mind and then being burdened with a Fear and Jealousie that ariseth from the Unbelieving Heart and distrustful ground they are ready to cry out of the Burden of the Lord whereas their own words and thoughts are become their Burden who have taken that on them which God never layd on them and yet they make the concern for the Lords sake that lays no more on any than they are made able to bear in the Life of Patience XIV And in this ground stand all the several Separations and hasty receivings into Fellowships with sudden hands laid on Proselytes for herein is the ground of prejudice swayed by the creaturely affection yet in this mind may be maintained a fierce and fiery Zeal for the opiniatedness that may often call for fire to come down from Heaven and to have Vengeance and Plagues speedily executed on such against whom their Spirit is bent for having wished evil in their Hearts and mischief against the Persons of such towards whom they cannot admit of any CHARITABLE thoughts they proceed in a hasty Prophecy of their utter confusion and then would they rather that both Soul and Body of the subject over whom they seek to be avenged in that rejoycing should for ever perish than that they should be found False Prophets so evil a thing it is to be engaged in a Spirit of Enmity and Envy XV. But such Extremities many have this day put themselves on through rash censure and then run back to former Ages and Generations of the World for a President and Example to help them out as they think whereby they oft are ready to plead the lawfulness of cursing their Adversary who standeth not justified in their sight and approbation because ELISHA was once acted in that Ministration through the heat and zeal of his Spirit it being so far from their nature to live in that which is wayting for the Worlds redemption from sin and reconciliation to God that they rather strengthen their FURY in the expectation of utter Consumption and Destruction on all that cannot for wraths sake stoop to their perswasions and it is the end of such willings to see a People perish in their sins XVI Because of that mis-informed Zeal under which their Spirits are acted against the Enemies and Foes of that Cause for which they have found the life imboldened towards God according to the quickning of his Spirit as tinctured with that Power before which the Heavens have opened and do shut and in the like desire THEY are moved as was HE before whom Fifties were destroyed whose Spirit resteth Judgement on a Ground wherein God hath prepared Messengers to go before his face But considering the difference in Administrations that Zeal which runneth out after an Object to maintain the heat of Spirit against which it is enkindled is not now held and retained in the like Cause and Ground as that in which it first appeared XVII For God is gone out of that Administration as acted towards the Persons of Men in their Generations and cannot own any glory therein but as that which had a Testimony of his day in the Prophecy thereof wherein the Messengers went before his Face in a sence of that terror that was come on the Wicked World because such that wear the soft Cloathing are got into Kings Houses and they shall no more wear a rough Garment or prophesie in their Sackcloth Robes therefore whom would men go out to see since Times are come that the Sacrifice of the Rebellious savoureth of the Work of Death and there is not fire enough to kindle the combustible matter in the House on the top of which they are exalted while the Displeasure of God continueth unawakened in the Pleasure and Will of Men that bring Wood but where is the Flame of that other Spirit which God requireth even of Reconciliation to Himself in the Life of Forgiveness in that which is able to Appease and Quench the Wrath and Rage of the devouring Enemy and make Friends in the Well-Beloved Life XVIII Yet where is Love and Forgiveness enough to heap Coals of Fire on the Heads of Enemies the Gift hath been first left at the Altar and such
either in general or particular Concerns so narrow is the Heart of the Creature tyed up in his Generations and cannot see the good of any thing in Posse though that which is in Esse Self is continually labouring for Interest in yet consider the want of Faith in the World concerning any Help and Deliverance to the Oppressed after which they have fixed Expectations shall not always keep down and hinder the day we groan after but it shall come when Faith is scarce to be found on the Earth and Deliverance shall spring up to the Afflicted as well concerning outward Oppressures as inward when they are left as Men without hope XXXV But none of those that are in the fanning Love and out-side shews of Humility in appearances under any pretence whatever of a universality of Spirit while in a sensual Separation they continue rending themselves from the Body of Fellowship in God wherein is the holy Order of Saints will be able to stand and hold out the indurance of the Tryals that are come into the Worlds though for a Time they make Parties and have Headships in the Divisions of Men about Opinionatedness for it is that every thing may appear in its birth that the Mystery of Iniquity hath been suffered to work and the Selfish Love in appearances of Humility is one with the Spirit of the WORLD in which it is grounded and founded and the day hath made it manifest XXXVI For it is not lo here or lo there will now hide the Professor neither A. nor P. in Profession or that thou hast Love or Zeal in thy Heart but what art thou joyned to in the exercise thereof that leveneth NATURE into a Principle it is that which will discover whose Side thou art on which I long since have had a perfect sight of and that both the fearful and unbelieving of God and his Goodness that for want of Zeal to God in the Cause and Case in which they once have appeared seek to cover their dead mind in a habit of Love and Forgiveness and while filled with the Power of Death they move and reach after a sence in others under which they would be apprehended to live and also the Proud and Presumptious who are heightned in a fierceness of that fiery Zeal could be content to persecute for their OPINIONATEDNESS with Tongue or might of Arm and both will joyn hands to conclude the matter under which a Mystery doth work XXXVII This is already seen and that Doctrines of Truth may be received and believed that have Universal Principles and yet retained in a narrow empty Heart whereby the Cause for which the Just doth suffer is maintained in a Ground that is evil to the Life of Jesus who lighteth every man c. and therefore the Nature of what springeth from thence effecteth that which is contradictory to good sence but I leave the Issue thereof to God who is the Highest and Chiefest GOOD whereby the Creature who is the Subject on which it doth work may come to grow into Unity of Spirit with Him therein wherein Time and Place is measured and comprehended in the incomprehensible Beauty of Holiness which shineth in and over all his Works and standeth in the excelling Properties of that Vertue that transcends the worth of all visible created things which are all to perish in that state of Corruption under which they are brought forth BEAUTIFUL into MANIFESTATION that many may come to comprehend with all Saints what is the height and depth and length and breadth of these things as they are in JESUS XXXVIII But the order of what hath relation to a Publique Good herein depends on a Ground that hath the Truth of all Prophecy opened in the concern it hath to both outward and inward man of which a large Testimony is already given forth in the passage of all those that died in the Faith of the Day many are become Witnesses of and do see and possess great Glory therein through a sence of Redemption and Restauration come unto and come up in the Worlds in its Principles in the several and respective States where many have been found wandering from Satisfaction in the progress of the Work which leads up unto God and therefore concerning the Times and Seasons for which the Vision is set and made to speak thou shalt count a year for a day from the Creation of the Worlds in the Generations of ADAM according to the days of the Life of ENOCH which were 365 years wherein is the ground of all Prophecie comprehended in number and figure that is now made able to utter its voice XXXIX And it will appear to be the fifteenth day of the fifth Month of the sixteenth year since the Creation of the Worlds in the Generations of Adam to this present year 1665. wherein thou shalt count in each month 28 days and â…” parts between New Moon and New Moon counting the beginning of the Month from the Phasis or first appearing-time thereof and from the fifteenth year the Worlds stood divided in that which rested the Judgment of GOD which is brought thereinto on its fourth part or North Quarter over which the Eagle hath had Power in the time the Dragon remained bound down in the bottomless Pit with a chain of the Angel of GOD while those that had received the first Fruits of Joy and Comfort in the Spirit of God and that are made partakers of the first Resurrection have raigned in the Dominion and Power of God in that which hath quickned the Spirit of the Souls of the once dead in Sins and Trespasses as of those Spirits in Prison unto whom the Preacher of Redemption is become manifest XL. And by fifteen degrees of the Sun according to which it hath gone ten degrees backward on the Worlds and in which the Days of the Month and Months of the Year are equally divided thou shalt be made able to measure the Worlds in what is discernable and whence Glory descendeth into Nature from the Equinoctial Pole according to its Elevation counting in the Diurnal Motion of the Wheels wherein a Day standeth for a Year in its figure according to the times and seasons under which the Worlds have multiplied their number to the Generations that are come to possess the Substance of the Wilderness Travel where Moses saith I appoint ye a Year for a Day c. for fifteen Minutes of one degree of the Sun to make one minute of an hour of the day each hour being fifteen degrees of the Sun but in the Annual motion in the Wheels by ONE degree of the Sun there is signified a year and in a month is signified five minutes as doth one minute signifie six days and some odd hours of a degree of the Sun which hath four minutes of an hour to every degree of the Sun in its diurnal Course of Motion XLI But wherein the fifteenth year made its Revolution in the first month of the sixteenth
OUTWARD COURTS of the CITY in which the holy BUILDINGS were defaced for the FORTY TWO MONTHS is accomptable from the TIME wherein was brought forth a TESTIMONY of that LIFE in which the DAYLY SACRIFICE under the LAW was made to cease THE MEASURE OF TIME Ballancing all Actions in the Hand of the Angel I. THus saith the Angel of God Seal up the Vision according to the appointed time for which it is set and is made to speak For in the fifth month called JULY wherein JULIUS CAESAR was made the first Dictator in ROME will be the finishing of that Roman Monarchy in the year 666 and a great PRINCE will fall in Europe in the first month according to the expiration of the Prophecy of the two Witnesses who then will put off their Robes of Sackcloth and they will stand clothed in WHITE Garments wherein the sixty two Weeks that the Power of the Gentiles prevailed will discover the Mystery of DAYS in the number of Years that the Beast established his Throne in what went before the Face of the God and Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth II. And in the sixth month called August wherein Augustus Caesar was made Consul that Imperial Throne will be made subject to a Power of the Kings of the East but number thou a month of years according to the days of the year whereby the VISION is made to speak forth the Mystery of those forty two years wherein the Seat of his Imperial Dignity was exalted and then propose thy sayings before the Wise counting from the Creation of the Worlds in the Generation of ADAM that which standeth figured forth in the Mystery of the Number 62. according to the WEEKS in which the Power of God wrought in the work of Restoration III. But from the FLOOD of WATERS which prevailed over the Earth are fifty two Generations of men to the birth of him in whom that work of Restoration standeth manifest which are the Number of Weeks in the Year through whom the Worlds have multiplied that which is come forth in time and place And from the days of Abraham whose Seed he took on him rather then the nature of Angels are forty two Generations every Generation signifying the Change that is come into the WORLDS through the operation of the Moon over the Body of Nature wherein the Woman hath stood afflicted in her Seed for the destroying of that which corrupteth the way and courses under which the Worlds are generated until all things become changed into ETERNITY and the everlasting Body recover its first beauty and glory through all those Revolutions and Changes that are come into the World IV. And in the beholding of the glory of the ANGEL of God while he thus talked with me I saw his Eyes sparkle like flames of FIRE and he gave forth his Testimony concerning the Covenant of God that is confirmed with many and great Nations ratified in the BLOOD of that Life which hath entered the WITNESSES of GOD who are made able to seal their Testimony herein after which followeth an utter consumption on all the Enterprises of the ENEMY wherein the end of Time will finish the glory of God in the destruction of that Spirit in which the abomination of Desolation hath wrought in a Mystery and the consummation will make the Worlds desolate in the forms of Nature that will come into dissolution for the recovering Beauty in the Image of the first and last Element like unto the Glassy Sea of Transparent Glory out of which the Power of God will shine in subjected Nature V. For the KING of BABYLON who hath seen into the glory of the House of God wherein are many goodly Vessels shall not be able to remove thy Diadem O thou afflicted Daughter of a Land which God is laying waste out of the place wherein GOD will settle his Delight in the midst of thee until the transgressions of those that have sought to bear rule over thee by rigor and const aint is fully ripened and come to its end wherein God will purge forth all iniquity out of his own HOUSE and TEMPLE on which Judgement is first begun and thou that hast been tributary to KINGS of a strange Land fear not though thou art tossed up and down for thou art not forsaken and God will comfort thee in his due time VI. Who is come to lay all thy stones in fair colours though the House of God hath suffered defacement in its first and primitive beauty but the Glory of the later House shall be greater then the Glory of the first for thy Gates are CARBUNCLES and thy Windows are AGATES and thy inward PARLOUR is paved with LOVE and when I look unto thy Galleries I behold crowned KINGS rejoycing in the upper ROOMS and the best Wine is kept until now because of the last Glory of him that is bringing into the Wine-Cellar in exchange of FLAGONS with which the sick of Love hath been stayed VII And from the Feast in the Wilderness wherein was a Table spread and FAT things prepared MARROW and WINE from the lees well refined he is bringing to the WEDDING and LAST SUPPER of the Marriage of the LAMB where are all the Varieties in the Banquetting House and his Banner over them is LOVE Speak that my Soul may be refreshed and keep thou no longer silence O my Beloved And as the VISION receiveth Voyce let it testifie of thy Authority in the Heart by that which is ready to be fulfilled VIII For the DAY is come and yet cometh that the Power of God will so appear and break forth through his chosen VESSELS in whom he taketh delight to manifest his good pleasure that nothing shall be able to stand before it and obstruct the WAY thereof but IRON BARS and BOLTS shall be broken and snapt asunder as a Thred of Flax and PRISON DOORS shall fly open before them that dwell in the power in which God is enlarging the Hearts of the Poor and Upright yea great Seas shall be divided and stand on heaps when they move forward and the Waters therein shall be dried up for the KINGS of the East to pass over IX And there shall be no need of outward Laws of Men to restrain Vice and Wickedness neither shall any covet high Places of Renown and conditions of that State unto whom Trust in Government is reposed but rather shall say In my House is neither bread nor cloathing make me not a Healer nor let not the breach of Ruines rest under my Hands for I came out of Prison and have the Garments of Captivity how then can I govern Nations but like unto a Child And wo be unto that People because of a KING in Woman that setteth the Beggar on horseback while the PRINCE doth walk on his Feet yet he will raise up the Poor from the Dunghil and exalt him of low degree when the Image of God doth so appear and break forth on the Heads of his Beloved and Chosen that it shall be able to raise a Witness in the worst of Men. X. But under the Anger and Fury thereof they shall not be able to stand though it hath not any other compulsive Power but what is exercised in the Conscience because it will either cast out or conquer the Unclean Spirit that acteth evil and detaineth Right from the Oppressed or destroy the MAN that remaineth joyned thereto though it delighteth not in the Destruction of Creatures or to be avenged on the WORKMANSHIP of GOD but is constrained by the necessity of a LAW in Nature under which Divine Justice seeketh to be magnified when the patience of God hath discovered the end of the work of his Spirit which doth all to praise him even by his own Work out of the Mouth of the Babe XI Which is the Sword in Gods Mouth and Breath of his Nostrils the Word that proceedeth from the holy Lips whereby the Nations shall be consumed and destroyed that stand in his way and remain in opposition to his Power because he is a great and mighty KING and GOD above all LORDS that are many in the Earth who wil conquer and destroy the Power of DEATH and remove the GRAVE into the Land of forgetfulness that his Will may be done in Earth as in Heaven and his Work effected on the BODY of Nature in both outward and inward WORLDS through the power of Redemption and Restoration of all created Principles in Nature unto their first Beauty and Glory where is no more SEA but the SEA of pure Water transparent in the reflection of its Element XII Before which time there shall be seen many signs and Wonders in the Clouds of the Heavens and the work of God will appear and break forth from thence and in that Power shall a People whom God is gathering to himself from the ends of the Worlds dwell for evermore and the firmament of both outward and inward World shall be filled with Stars that remain fixed in their glory and luster as Morning-Stars that sing together and Sons of God that shout for joy and out of all the Glory Pleasure and Profit of the Worldly Spirits Interest their Hearts shall be redeemed and from the Allurements of the same shall be found dayly dying and then dead whereby they will be the Terror of the NATIONS when in the power of God who hath kept the Creature poor and low and weak that God alone might inrich the Soul in his due time the Life ariseth in glory in that sence of Poverty of SPIRIT from whence the Power that is able to make many Rich breaketh forth BLESSED BLESSED and Everlastingly HAPPY therefore are all those that wait for and throughly believe in the redeeming Power of the Work of God by this Spirit that is broke forth and come into the Worlds to the destruction of that Evil One the Man of Sin Lord Let thy Will be done yet hasten thy WORK to cut it short in RIGHTEOUSNESS wherein thy Name may be exalted in Mercy that delighteth not in the destruction of Creatures and Souls of Men. Come quickly saith my Soul that causest Joy in thy holy Way Amen and Amen THE END
the Innocent shall take hold of his Feet in the Way he is walking when the wronged comes to be apprehended on a Hill that is higher than that on which the Enemy and Destroyer hath been exalted and into the Hands of the PURSUED is put a sharp Instrument the strength of that Reason whereof the World is robbed and bereft even the Sword of Goliah and Spear of their Adversary with which they shall wound the Head of RAHAB and the Dragon and thereby they shall do EXPLOITS XXVII Though they are kept from using it in a time of advantage yea I have seen I have seen while the Envious have been hunting abroad the Pursued have been led into the Tents of those that are Mighty in Battel and the Man of War hath been found sleeping over his Master until a Lap of his Garment with which the Envious hath covered the Cruelty of his Spirit is brought forth into open view and the Cruse and Spear at his Beds head can now be shown to his shame because the Blood-Avenger hath kept the Innocent from putting forth his Hand to touch Him that had once the Anointing Oyl on his Head that had the favour of a Lot in Israel when the Spirit of God rested on Him that made it a Proverb Is the Son of Kish also among the Prophets XXVIII But the Cry of the Poor is heard that hath been compassed about with Tormentors who hath said in his heat What shall I now do for behold here cometh a whole Army and I have no Sword but that of Goliahs and the Lord hath said Take it for there is none like it and it shall be known that a Stripling is engaged in the Lords Battel and is able to make war against Israels Enemies though he could not use the Sword in his own defence neither dares he be too bold in the exercise thereof abroad lest the bruised Reed should be broken and the smoaking Flax quenched before Judgment is brought forth into Victory at home where the War is begun by such that are engaged in the Lambs Battel XXIX Therefore in the Mystery of what is herein treated of is the depth of whatever hath relation to the concern both of SOUL or BODIES Welfare in the Knowledge and true understanding of its state and the universality thereof is a Testimony worthy to be heeded in the General or particular Concern because of the relation it hath to the true and right Information of the Mind of all that are capable of benefit therein through a pointing property at that which gives unto the Reader a sence of the Day in which many in old time were made Prophets and Messengers and have largely testified and prophesied thereof in the Restoration of all Principles of Nature it hath possessed and inhabited in the BODY into its first Glory which is the MYSTERY of the Second Resurrection in those in whom the Power of the first Death is weakened and over whom the second Death hath no power XXX For the Life of JESUS is manifest in their mortal Flesh discovering the Glory of which they are made Partakers in a Kingdom everlasting and World without End because of their Faith and Belief in the changing and renewing Power of GOD wherein the JUST do live and witness Redemption from the Sting of SIN and Strength of the LAW which is the Power of Death and the GRAVE hath not Dominion over the Soul therefore you that profess Scriptures contend not against the Verity and Infallibility of the Testimony hereof because for your sakes and satisfaction I am constrained in some cases to use such Words that the RECORD of TRUTH is sealed by in the Testimony of the PROPHETS of GOD in former Ages and Generations of the World XXXI Neither let it scruple any on the other hand that I use not an exact FORM and METHOD of Scripture-Terms but am oft constrained to apply the bent of my Spirit toward such significant terms as are brought to my Understanding in the exercise of the VISION for the Words are but an outward Sound and Declaration of what hath relation to an inward and invisible Work in the Heart of the Creature through the Salvation of the Soul from Death but I see it hard for many professing SCRIPTURES and the Knowledge of the TRUTHS of GOD therein declared to own it nakedly for its own sake and yeild and bend to the disposings of God in matters of such concern for then would it be consented to in what hath relation to the Minds Information without respect to the Persons of such that are found differing in Judgment concerning outward Circumstances in Gestures or PRINCIPLES in DOCTRINE while in the End and Aim there is a respect to Truth in the Heart XXXII And there will be a joyning in the Acceptance against whatever hath relation to Controversies in a state of disobedience against the Spirit of God in which the WORLD is endeavouring to settle a Rest and hence have I seen the Complainer vexed with Burdens of his unruly Passion but that God may more and more unseal the Fountain of endless Good and Happiness in the Knowledge of the Glory of his Kingdom that is everlasting is my Souls desire that Truth and Righteousness may be set up in the WORLD and the Glory of the ANTIENT OF DAYS proceeding in the increase of the Knowledge of GOD may run down like a River and cover the Earth like as the Waters cover the Sea XXXIII And as this hath its due acceptance in the Heart of the Upright and Unbiassed in Censure and Judgment for the sake of the Controversies among men about their Opinionatedness concerning the Truths of God contained in the Scriptures with which the World is filled they will more and more come to see into its service and the end for which it is given forth which will make way for the opening and discovery of many pretious Secrets pertaining to the Restauration of Nature in its depraved Body of infected Elements that are generated under a Power of Corruption that Creatures may come to see into the Mystery of what is contained in many words therein that hath a signification very intricate to the common sence of private Interpretations thereon which the limitting spirit of the WORLD is apt to tye up the Faith of their Communicants in because of the vulgar acceptance it hath in the Heart of a Multitude But the Encouragement I find for the prosecution of what is remaining in this Tract wherein I am taking view of my passage through those Forms of Nature in which I am imbodyed in time and place is centred in an higher Object than the Readers well or ill Acceptance XXXIV Though I am satisfied in the end thereof that coming to be seen into will cause many to say Now I know thou speakest no more unto us in PARABLES but hast plainly shewed us of the Father But among the Multitude how hard a thing is it to believe well of future Events
greeting to the four Churches in EUROPE I. SInce the WORLD is faln under the power of Corruption and Affliction hath overtaken the Inhabitants of the Earth in its divided Quarters let this Epistle be sounded throughout thy Borders O ASIA wherein is Power communicated to an Instrument in the Hand of God to raise up and awaken the sence of what hath overtaken thee in the Glory of thy seven Churches now dispersed abroad over the Earth that it may be known throughout the whole Land of JUDEA that our God is King in Israel who is come to Rule and Reign in RIGHTEOUSNES and is arisen as a Giant refreshed with WINE for he hath taken unto him VENGEANCE for a Cloathing and is cloathed with ZEAL as with a Cloak before his face goeth a consuming Fire and it is very tempestuous round about him II. For he hath raised up unto himself a Horn of Salvation which is a Witness awakened out of the Dust and from the Holy Place wherein it hath slept in the Earth and hath commended his love unto us while we were yet sinners having laid down his Life for his Enemies that he again might come to take it up in as many as are willing to joyn to his SPIRIT in the Work of Redemption and Reconciliation of the WORLDS to himself III. Whereby the Worlds are convinced of their SINS and their RIGHTEOUSNES in that Life of Sufferance wherein the Spirit of Reconciliation is manifested as a witness against the Spirit God and Spirit of the World in several sorts of Judgment for which the World is reproved that remains in unbelief and continues joyned to that cursed Spirit of Enmity being subject to sore Tryals of Bondage and Captivity to the Spirit of Darkness in which the Curse first wrought and therein is caused the groaning and waiting of the whole Creation of God IV. And thou O Europe let this have its free passage throughout thy quarters lest I tear thy flesh with Thorns saith the Mighty One that is High and Holy in the midst of this the day of his Exaltation as his Beloved becometh raised out of the dust a beautiful Daughter of dejected Zion whose glory hath been covered with Ashes while she hath sat mourning on the Floar of Corruption and all that are Enemies to my WORK and stand in my WAY shall be made like unto ZEBA and ZELMANA saith the FORMER of great Nations mighty and strong for by the Breath of his NOSTRILS and through the BRIGHTNES of his Appearance he will consume and destroy the Man of Sin and where will the WICKED appear since the Day of God is come on all the pleasant PICTURES and upon all that is lifted up above its SPHEAR and ORB to the staining of the beauty and glory of all FLESH that all high Oaks and sturdy Cedars in LEBANON may be made to bend to the Power of God which is the subjecter of all forms in Nature to their first servitude V. And unto the ANGEL of the Churches in EUROPE write these things saith the first born of every Creature under the Heavens The day and hour of thy Tryals is come therefore let thy Rulers hear and let thy Priests give ear for their Sacrifice hath been defiled while their Hands are full of Blood in the right Hand of thy Prophets is a lie and they feed upon Ashes Remember therefore the Day of God that hath measured the Ground in which thou hast been exalted in a time of prosperity because of the night that hath overtaken thy Glory and say no more I am prosperous in that strength which is the help of Nations VI. For because of transgression in JUDAH the Land doth mourn and through the iniquity of BENJAMIN they are scattered in ISRAEL and the ten Tribes have lost their name wherein the Glory of SAMARIA is rooted out of the Earth Hear therefore you that can for if your breaking off was that which made way for the reconciling the World unto God in the Life of the Sons Glory what will be your reconciling again but life from the dead Oh alas that I am born to see your Rebellion ye stiff-necked people and gainsaying house VII Ye have cast others out of your Synagogues and places of Worship and now are you cast off by all and made a scorn to the Inhabitants of the Earth and are become a Song of the Prophane for wherein you have despised the Servants of the Lord and slighted his Messengers that were sent unto you rising up early because the Lord did send them God hath given you up to be tormented by that Spirit of despite Yet are his Bowels again turned towards you and though you could not come up unto him nor receive him that came down unto you to suffer your contempt in a Servants state yet in the last day of the Worlds visitation he hath taken notice of your calamity and hath prepared a way for your return through the everlasting Gates of Glory set open that the Nations of the EARTH might enter in thereby VIII And unto the Angel of the Churches in ROME saith the searcher of all Hearts what hast thou done for thy nakedness is discovered and thy shame is seen though thou hast imboldned thy self in the calamity of Nations and in the destruction of mighty People great in their Generations Alas for thee that hast been cast out of the fellowship and community of a People that were more antient in Name to God then thy self and in like manner hast thou been found casting out of thy Temples and excommunicating from thy Church-Fellowship such that for Conscience sake could not conform to thy invented and superstitious Ceremonies IX But now what is come upon thee that art rejected by thy lovers For although the time is come that God will laugh at thy calamity and mock when thy fear cometh yet is there pitty to a handful of People that are in thee and the yearning Bowels are towards that which is ready to die under such Oppressors that are found in the cause of what hath stained the Day of thy Excellency my Heart my Bowels I am pained for thee in whose currant are centring all the divided streams that have been boasting themselves in what hath caused the breaking off the Branches from the Root in which they were first planted but they run in that wide and open way that leads to everlasting destruction that are boasting against the Root which first bore them Oh that thou mightest be yet helped X. But you have hardned your selves in the way that leadeth thither and therein you are become blind and cannot see the danger before you Is Italy strong enough to support thee or what defence is the House of Austria to that which is broke forth against thee See you not the flames the flames thereof in the Heavens and the glory of its brightness amongst the Stars in their Constellations I am weary I am weary of your ways saith the Lord but what shall
THE Revelation OF GOD his GLORY SOUNDED FORTH For the opening the Mystery of the Seven SEALS on the Book of the WONDERS of GOD in the hand of the ANGEL BEING A True and Faithful TESTIMONY Of the Enochian Prophecie Of the Rise and Fall of ANTICHRIST And of the Restauration of ZION to its Primitive Glory London Printed in the year 1665. The EPISTLE To the READER I. LEt the Impartial Reader seriously weigh what is herein set down and rashly pass no Sentence on a Work of this concernment neither scruple at the Form and Method in which it is come forth to the view of all sorts of Spirits wherein I cannot expect so kind entertainment in matters of such nature as to have all Men speak well of it or of me therein because then had I my Reward with men II. For my whole and sole aim and intention in this work as far forth as I know and am made sensible of my own frame and temper of Spirit is and hath been other ways grounded and founded in Truth than to seek other Honour and Glory than what is of and cometh from GOD wherein I have a Witness both in Heaven and Earth which I might call to bear Record with and for me that I considerately love not vain ostentation or to boast over the Weak by soaring aloft out of the reach of their Capacities that something else than the Spirit of GOD should be exalted in the Temple and Throne of Gods DIGNITY III. Because then might I expect that God should glory over me in the WORK of DESTRUCTION Though I know in the following Treatise much is come forth in an unpleasant form and dress to the curious search of some that may count themselves wise and it will be accounted at the first sight thereof rather FORM and SHADOW then SUBSTANCE and many will be ready to judge the truth of its Concern locked up in SIMILITUDES and sealed in an unknown Tongue in that through good Experience of the Enemies Work I am taught not to be too prodigal in opening Terms wherein some have suffered and come to a loss by such means and the Truth it self is thereby made of low esteem in the EYES of many proud and haughty Ones IV. Therefore have I employed my Endeavours under the workings and motions of the Spirit of God wherein many Mysteries of truth pertaining to the Establishment of his Kingdom have been revealed in and unto me that I might leave no room for contention to feed the snarling nature of those dogged qualities in such that are gon out of the patience and content of God where the Charity of Life is abounding wherein Covenant is kept with the LORD in that Spirit which particularly openeth and revealeth the Mysteries of Truth in all to whom it pertaineth to know the same V. And though such that hunger after Advantages in that SWINE-like Nature which is ready to return again and rend those that cast their Pearls before them are in the nature of the Harlot who is not to be fed with the portion of a true Matron neither is Childrens Bread to be cast before them in that adulterating spirit which openeth the Quiver out of which the Darts of Disdain are sent forth do fly abroad and yet shall not the Truths of God always continue clouded or obscured in silence as a Treasure hid in the EARTH VI. But the Time is come that the oppressed Life hath gathered strength and the groans of the Sufferer have made way for the resurrection of the slain and the Poor and Despised doth and will arise over all the contempt it hath met withall in its Way onward to the Land of REST and the Disdainful are ashamed to see the Beggar taken from off the Dunghil and such exalted in the Favour of God that were of low degree in the Eyes of the Admirer of the Persons of Men because of advantage who have said Sit thou here and be my Footstool since thou hast no Gold Ring nor gay Garment else depart and be thou warmed and fed but therefore are the Rich afflicted and the Full are given up into the Tormentors hands VII For a Day is already appeared in which the simple have been preserved in their Way and they shall grow in the Favour both of God and Man through all opposition they meet with by the fierce and cruel HUNTERS for their Prey And those that have said Come up higher and sit thou here because of thy covering and out-side Garment shall themselves be seen naked and hungry and in want of all things and many shall behold their shame for they shall no more wear a rough Garment to deceive or through austerity appoint places to such that may serve their Interest but the Voyce of the LORD shall be heard in the EARTH calling and inviting many to the great and last Supper of the LAMB who shall have on the Wedding Garment of a meek and quiet Spirit which is of great price with the Lord. VIII And this covering will never prove too narrow neither shall it be ripped off though such may come up in an appearance of Glory to manifest the end of the Worldly Sentence that is gone out against them but seeing fiery tryals are come wherein all Foundations are to be searched into that every Birth may live in and receive the Reward of that which it hath been sown in and to and that it may appear whether they can indure and hold out in the time of affliction Blessed are all they that have found out and are builded on the unmoveable and lasting Rock of Ages and Foundations of many Generations that have passed before them for I have seen many good beginnings in the Work of God wherein his Grace and Love was and is sufficient to perfect and finish the same had it been trusted to wholly and fully IX But such that have leaned to their own understandings have given heed to lying Vanities and have forsaken the FOUNTAIN of endless Mercies and Refreshments having still that of their own reserved which they are very loth to part from that separates between GOD and them these have begun well but who hath hindered them that they are so ready to sit down by the VVay in a false Peace and Rest wherein they come short of perfect Satisfaction in God looking on a self-sufficiency in something done as an Act of the Creature without the assistance of the Spirit of GOD to keep in the way of Peace X. For their beginning was in and by the Spirit of GOD why then seek they to be perfect by the Flesh and in a Name of Profession of Truth while they have the approbation of such that have convinced the Understanding of that which is Truth in the Judgment of Creatures but in a time of the tryal of their Faith the ends of the World are manifest before them and then is there a running to and fro to increase the Knowledge of the WORK of GOD
God I have a hand reached forth to the helpless towards whom my tender Bowels are moved that they may partake of this VISITATION which is given for the sake of many and great NATIONS This great Salvation of God being revealed to all them that are made partakers with him in the Faith of God's Elect in which the like pretious Promises do work V. To all the People of God whether gathered or ungathered my love reacheth forth though most especially to the scattered Nations over all the Earth that are the Houshold of Faith in which it is not only given them to believe but also to suffer for his Names sake whom they profess Love Mercy and Peace together with all fruits of the Spirit of God to the Brethren of him who is come to possess the Life of Patience under the sufferance of the Spirit of this World through the Revelation of JESUS the Son of God by whom the whole Glory of the TEMPLE of God was brought forth into which entered the Hoast of the Heavens the SEVENTH day wherein God came to rest in the finished settlement of that in which all labour ceased as to the working power of his Spirit in the frame of the Creature and Creation that is become the workmanship of the Father VI. I am filled I am filled with the motion of his Power in the workings up of his informing Spirit that sendeth forth its sound through an Earthen Vessel and in as much as its concern is Universal the peculiar relation and respect which it hath unto People of those Generations is the breathings of Life from a follower of the Lamb of God And the Life of the JUST in his Name that is faithful and true and full of long-suffering and that which is certified concerning these things is what will assuredly be fulfilled and shortly come to pass VII Therefore blessed are they that can read or hear and in whom there is a heart inclined to understand the MYSTERIES herein wherein the Testimony of TRUTH is confirmed amongst the CHURCHES in the Spirit of Jesus unto which Churches in the WORLDS in their divided quarters JESUS who is the Author and Finisher of the Faith of God's Elect whose Nature had glory in raising up that Body out of the Grave and from the power of Death and Destruction in three dayes is now dispersing bowels in which are the Fountains of all good that have been sealed and shut up but are now freely set open for sin and for uncleanness for Judah and Jerusalem VIII And thus saith the Antient of days the AMEN the FIRST and the LAST who hath glory in the Work of God through the Redemption of Souls up unto himself come wash and be clean for he that is faithful and true hath yet a little while a gathering Hand and Arm stretched out towards you all the Bride saith Come as hath been the Voice of the Spirit of God which by many hath been rejected But yet hear what the Spirit saith unto the CHURCHES IX Unto the Churches of ASIA and the ANGELS of these Churches saith the Beloved of God O yet gather if it be possible and behold the Wing of Mercy and everlasting Salvation hovering over you your works have been tryed in the fire and hitherto they have not made weight in the Ballance of Gods Sanctuary neither are they able to stand before him but are like the STUBBLE in his way and are driven before the Bow of his Fury X. Yea unto thy PRINCES saith the AMEN of all Glory in Heaven and Earth bend your Necks to the Yoak and learn to Plow else sorrow wil be your portion To thy PRIESTS I say Howl Lament and be threshed upon the FLOOR by him that can handle the FLAIL to thy PROPHETS I say Take the Cup and drink a mighty draught for as ye have had your fills of Pleasure on the Earth so shall you drink your full Portion of sorrow howling and lamentation XI I know all thy works and thy doings for the secrets of thy Heart are not hid from me thou exalted HORN of ASIA PERSIA and MEDIA are the strength of thine ARM ye Daughters of K'TURAH therefore be ye wakened in time and behold how the ASSYRIAN is broken on the right Hand and on the left XII And unto the ANGELS of the Churches Mystically in AMERICA in thee are a People whom God will yet gather to his Praise but thou wilt be broken as a Potters Vessel and turned on a fiery Hearth Thou hast of the Captivated TRIBES and scatterd-broken-off-branches bound in Chains under thy quarter let them forth for the mighty Day of God is Proclaimed and come XIII Unto the Angels of the Churches in AFRICA write what is ready to befal them in the Day and Hour of their Exaltation Since thou wast lifted up thy day is measured and when thou wast cast down thou hast been warned Yet once more hear pitty the Captives and give of thy Bread to him that cometh under the smiting of the South Wind lest when the awakened North Wind returns its blown Breath out of the Bellows of the Almighty it make thy burthen more then thou art able to bear XIV Thy Feet must tread on Mire and Clay and in like manner will Feet be set over thee But thou the darkest of Countreys I have many NAMES to be gathered out of thee therefore hasten and return when thy WORK is done and remember that thou art warned of what shall come to pass lest on the one hand thou shouldst be heightned in the day of thy Exaltation or left without information of that which will befall thee when thou art cast down for as thou dost unto others to wit the Captivity of the North so will it be done unto thee in the return of measure and weight XV. Say not any more I am strong for one of thy PRINCES is strong above thee and the Daughters of thy Land that have made up thy agreement with the King of the North will not retain the ARM nor prevail in thy strength and Dominion though thou carry away Captive the Inhabitants of that Land whose King hath reigned more years then the King of the South XVI Repent therefore quickly is the Voice of the Angel lest I come and smite thee unawares and remember when that is loosed and awakened which hath been compassed about by PISON and GIHON he that invadeth a strange Land shall place his glorious Habitation between the Seas that the scattered TRIBES may behold the Glorious City which they have been seeking and come forth into the NORTH to see a place prepared in the Kingdom by the Father for ASIA hath faln and is turned to Idols and hath given heed to lying Vanities XVII But both of you shall be purged together in a fiery Furnace until your supplication for Mercy be made able to prevail therefore let thy Princes consider for whom the controversie betwixt two great Kings doth work and thou that wert
through the striving and strugling which I saw in the Air. LV. And as that which came forth out of the Womb of Eternity was brought FIVE DAYES forward for manifestations sake I beheld a Principle of Corruption and Destruction that came to be allowed to work up its Power in a Mystery through and over all forms that were come into being in the OLD WORLD which remained suffering under those THREE and under that through which these Two became imbodied from the Womb of Nature in the Creaturely form and being in that FIFTH DAY who were separated into the Principles of AIR and WATER thus made distinguishable LVI For of the THREE that strove to come forth out of the Womb of Eternity imbodied in the Creaturely form and being there were but only Two that became incorporated from the Womb of Nature though there was the MULTIPLICITY of FORMS and the variety of ESSENCES concerned therein And as I beheld the effect of what came forth through the contest in the place of Conception the BEHEMOTH possessed the SEVENTH PART of the Worlds in which the WATERS were held even as LEVIATHAN possessed the Waters themselves LVII Yea through the drying up of the THIRD PART of the corruptible Waters on the THIRD DAY that which aboad in the Air in which the Firmament was placed became a mighty and Potent PRINCE and GOD of the WORLDS which impregnated on blew up the stern-harsh-FIRE in the enkindled qualities of Divine Justice against the Creature by whom SIN took occasion to work up the power of Death over the Body of Nature through a Law in the Members wherein the concupiscence wrought against the Law of the Mind under which the Nature of all Creatures was brought forth and subjected through the contrariety of the Spirit of Enmity that tinctured the ELEMENTAL qualities of the Worlds with the harshness thereof against the regulating power of order LVIII For that which sunk in the fall became imbodied again in form anew after I had beheld the dispersing abroad of all that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity in its fallen Properties and Qualities which setled in the Created being of all powers of Nature in the imbodied form which was brought forward into BEING under the power of Corruption over which I beheld the motion of the WHEELS until it became EQUINOCTIAL LIX And it was SIX DAYES forward and six dayes backward in what was wrought up into FORM through the operation in Properties and Qualities of what was endless in the WORLDS wherein the FOUR BEASTS which I beheld came forth into manifestation and these four had the Face of a LYON and the Face of a CHERUB or Calf and the Face of a MAN and the Face of an EAGLE and they moved in the WHEELS over all that came forth imbodied in FORM while place and time endured LX. And thus did I behold until all that came forth thus FALLEN in the bodily frame was again returning and centring in an Eternal Rest and Quiet IN THE LORD where it became immoveable stedfastly abounding in the good Fruit of Joy and Rejoycing wherein the Creator of all forms in NATURE had first planted it and therein had God finished all work and labour in the beginning of CREATION which is become the Seventh DAY in NATURE to that which remaineth capable of entring into Rest that is formed therein which is the ground of torment and disquiet to the Spirit of the WICKED ONE CHAP. VI. Describing the coming forth of the first Seven Nations of the Worlds into the forms of Nature LXI THese are the Generations of the the WORLDS in the day that God created the HEAVENS and the EARTH when he beheld it without form and void for it was an Emptiness and dark NOTHING before he Created it into FORM through the power of the Word of LIFE in which God willed the coming forth of that which was to replenish it in time and place LXII Wherein all that was brought forth in the Dominion of Innocency In ADAM was a subjection to the forming part of the IMAGE that mankind was stated in according to the Mind and Will of the Spirit of GOD in him REVEALED whose conditions for Good or Evil are concerned in what he ruleth in and over LXIII For the Earth was not now without form nor in its voidness and emptiness but was filled and replenished with Creatures and Things which were created beautiful in their place and season and the World was set in their Hearts the beauty and glory of which did wither and pass away as the flowers of the Field And all that stood IMBODIED under the power of corruption in time and place was consumed so that the Works of God in that STATE could not be beheld from the beginning to the end thereof LXIV And the Government of God through the power of all Properties in the ELEMENTAL WORLDS was manifest in those Four forms of the BEAST in Nature wherein the effect of all produced from the FIERY HEAVENS was comprehended for Governments-sake in the form of a LYON and there came a Voice from the HEART of the fire as from the Heart of the LYON let the Earth keep silent while the Islands renew their strength LXV For darkness came over all that stood manifest in form wherein the Creature sought to glory in the imbodied will of SELF-EXCELLENCY which was moved towards the PIT of perpetual SILENCE to inhabit the NOTHINGNES through such a REVOLVE in the turning about and overturning of the Worlds in the motion of the WHEELS LXVI And over the face of the mighty deeps was a thick Cloud and over the PEOPLE who are the unstable Waters was the gross thick darkness and the Nations of the Earth were angry and moved at this coming forth of the Lord. And I beheld the Worlds in their divided Qualities and Properties wherein was preparation for a NEW Heaven and a NEW Earth and the Face and form of the MAN whom I saw went both forward and backward in the Heavens according to the form and frame of the Worlds in the VISION of the Wheels from those FIVE DAYES wherein I beheld the MOON striving to encrease her recovered strength towards NEW MOON to the reducing of that which was lost in the KALENDS of the Months LXVII And until the end of NINE and TWENTY dayes I saw the IDES of the Month in a Mystery working up a form to the new created being of all things substantial in an eternal existence And the Face and form of the Man whom I beheld exalted in the Heavens was turned towards the South For he was not able to behold the illustrious breaking-forth of the glory of the DAY that was risen upon the Earth LXVIII And the form of the Man whom I had seen placed in the GARDEN was divided into TWAIN to wit into Masculine and Feminine through whom the Heavens came to multiply their forms in the Dual number over the Earth whereby the strivings in the
the BOOK and on the day of the first Beast in Nature I beheld the coming forth of the great LYON that stood Rampant in the WHEELS among the forms in Nature and he called to his DAY Come and see And I beheld on the back of the LYON four Wings of a Fowl in which were thirty six thousand Fethers in each Wing and therein were written so many names of Men for the Wings were of Golden Feathers and his Face was towards the WEST VI. But on the coming forth of this first BEAST the Winds were moved and greatly strove on the face of the WATERS which were gathered together in heaps on the great SEAS And in the Night season there broke forth flashes of Lightning and Fire under the Roof of the House wherein I was exercised with the Vision of the WONDERS of God and his Glory which the PEOPLE saw but understood not the Mystery thereof and great fear fell upon them being not usually exercised with things of that Nature but I laid up all these things in my Heart until I came to know the meaning thereof VII And I cryed unto the Lord with a loud Voice What is the Mystery of all these things that I have seen For loe I am become weak and feeble like a little Child and have beheld until nought was remaining in the Heavens but a Sealed Book under the Power of a Strong Angel of God and it hath been taken to the Learned to Read but they said Lo it is Sealed and we cannot read nor open the Book or loose the Seals thereon and also to the hands of the unlearned it hath been communicated and they say We are not learned so that through the power of the Lyon it hath been shut up for a long season that hath caused weeping in the Heavens VIII And through the loosing of the Seals of God from off the Book of Wonders that was taken out of the Angels Hand at the appearance of the Lamb of God that taketh away sin from the WORLD and that was slain from the Foundations thereof that in the Fathers time he might come forth a Witness of the fulfilling of the daily Sacrifice unto God I beheld the Lamb with his seven Horns full of Eyes as the seven Spirits of God that walketh among the seven Golden CANDLESTICKS and are like unto seven Lamps of fire burning which are seven Stars in the Angel of God whose form is like unto the Son of Man and who travelled among the Churches who are saluted in their seven Angels until a second Seal on the Book became loosed in my sight IX And the second Beast with the Face and in the form of a Cherub or Calf called to his day Come and see and I beheld on the EARTH the form of a great BULL and he came at his Liberty and came towards me with Violence breaking over all bonds in his way and though I had by me a Weapon of Defence yet had I not power to use it to that end but was otherwise preserved from hurt of that Wild Beast But as the West Wind was reproved as the Waters were moved on the great SEAS by the striving of the Winds the second Beast roared rearing himself on his hinder Legs whereby he stood upright which was terrible to behold X. And I said unto the Angel of God How long shall this continue Then I beheld the BULL cast into a deep and dark Pit in Nature while the fourth Beast in the forms of Government in the Body of Nature was set to watch over him by the third Beast with the Face of a MAN for as the third Seal on the Book came to be loosed and taken off the third Beast called to his day Come and see And I beheld from the Face of the Heavens wherein a course of Glory in the Sun of the day of the Son of Man was comprehended in the Heart of the Lyon that night which was come into the Body of Nature was dispersed and the power of the Heavens over the forms in Nature were divided into four Parts in the coming forth of the Worlds into manifestation XI Then appeared the form of a little BEAR that arose on the LYONS side and he took three Ribs out of the Lyons side and held those three Ribs in his Mouth for a long season And from the Tail of the little Bear among the Signs in the Heavens the Power of the DRAGON was loosed and appeared among the Forms in Nature who made up his Tail out of a third Part of the Stars in the Heavens which were drawn towards the NORTH XII And I beheld until the LYONS Wings were pluckt from him and he stood on the EARTH like a Man and a Mans HEART was given unto him for out of the EAST came the form of a RAM with two Horns and his pushing was three wayes to wit WEST and NORTH and SOUTH and when he had lifted up the BULL out of the PIT he was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth And in the Heavens was the form of the WOMAN exalted in the Bulls Eye called Oculus Tauri And she had in her Hand a Crown of twelve Stars which was taken from her Head and put on the Head of the Lyon CHAP. II. Describing the Motion of the Wheels in their seven turnings over all that came forth into manifestation in the loosing of the seven Seals on the the Book c. XIII BUT as the fourth Beast called to his day Come and see through the loosing of the fourth Seal on the Book I saw the Face of an EAGLE in the Heavens in whose right Eye the form of the VIRGIN in Nature was exalted among the Forms and the second great light in the Heavens was comprehended in the Breast of a great Bear who had also the four WINGS of a Fowl on his Back And the Winds again strove on the great Seas wherein the WATERS were greatly moved in the coming forth of this fourth Beast XIV And as the MAN prevailed in the Heavens I beheld all consumed which stood under the Power of the Waters and the Name of the third Month was called SIVAN in the Nature of what was produced from the Heavens whence came a Voice from the Heart of the LYON in the fiery Heavens Let the Light shine into the Earth that that which is done may appear and be seen And the form of the Heavens stood divided in a double Relation of that which is comprehended in Day Night wherein the Day in Nature had its two-fold Operation over all forms subjected into being in that State and the Clouds of the Heavens were folded up together wherein I saw the form of the RAM coming down out of the Head of Nature descending the right Arm of the Man in the forms of Nature and there went up towards his Head the form of a HEE GOAT mighty and strong and there was labour in the Heavens for the space of sixty one
hath remained joyned in one Spirit of the Beast while the Temple of God hath been defiled in such worship and bowing down to the Spirit of defilement and the glorying therein is become an incestuous BED that procureth torment because of the Resurrection in which none can remain joyned to that Spirit and possess the Glory in God's Temple who is come to destroy the defiler thereof LXXXVI For the three Angels of God that have power over that which came on the Worlds in their third part through the sounding of the seven Trumpets of God that awaken the execution of Justice from the Heavens are now manifest in the three remaining Principles that have a fourth part in their Quarter reserved to those fiery Tryals effected in that which manifesteth the end of all gloryings in the dominion of the fourth Beast in Nature LXXXVII Wherein the fiery Triplicity in the Heavens through which those Angels are revealed hath been covered as with a Cloud until the Son of Man came to be revealed riding on the White Clouds of the Heavens and cloathed with incomparable Beauty before whom three Angels have been found flying through the Heavens proclaiming the everlasting Gospel of Peace and glad tydings and the destruction of Babylon in her great CITIES which were come up before the remembrance of God warning the Inhabitants of the Earth to come forth from her and flee out of her glory lest partaking therewith they came to partake with her in those Plagues that were upon the Earth LXXXVIII These three are the Witnesses of God in Heaven filling the Heaven of Heavens with Glory in one power that comprehends all Principles in Nature which are swallowed up in its immensness Greater testimony of God hath none for since God hath a Witness on Earth how much greater is that in and from the Heavens wherein an Angel hath come forth out of the Temple in which the first Witness of God finished his Testimony and beholding the Fruits of the Earth that they are ready for gathering and that the Harvest is White he hath said unto the Angel that sitteth on the WHITE CLOUD Thrust in thy sharp Sicle because of the Harvest of the Earth which is ripe and the Earth hath been reaped until nought can be found but that which hath remained for a second Harvest and Tryal LXXXIX But he that hath lain slain in the streets of that great City in which the Inhabitants of the Earth have made merry over the crucified Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth is now come forth raised and exalted on that White Cloud from whence the Earth is reaped And a second Angel of God is come forth out of the Temple with his sharp Sicle in his Hand and an Angel of the Altar under which the Souls of the Righteous lie groaning saith unto that second Witness or Angel that is come forth out of the Temple Thrust in thy sharp Sicle also and reap the fruits of the Vine the Clusters of the Vine Grapes and spare not the Olive Yards XC This is he that daily ministreth before the Lord and attendeth the Altar of God with the Prayers of Saints which are daily offered up with sweet Incense put into his Golden Censer and his power is over fire by which all untimely Fruits are scorched and consumed in their third part by the bright rayes of the breaking forth of the Summer in the Sun of Righteousness which is arisen with healing in its Wings though in the passing away of the Winter and in the dispelling of Clouds of Darkness which were over and had covered the Face of the Earth the Summer is broke forth wherein many remaine unsaved from the wrath thereof to come upon the ungodly World XCI For in that which descended through the Clouds of the Air the first beauty and glory of the Temple in that which was built in the Heavens is discovered to be moveable though therein God was worshiped as in the Ark of his Testimony in the Covenant of Promise which was carried about from place to place while the Temple remained under a Cloud in which are the more lively things themselves then that in which the forms of Nature were gathered as patterns of what remained under a Cloud until the time of the restitution of all in the Heavens was come wherein hath wrought the Power and Spirit of Preparation in the Spirit of Creatures to the perfecting the Work of God and bringing into the unity of the Spirits of just Men made perfect in God until all becometh compleat in him that holdeth the HEAD unto which the Body is knit in several Joynts and Members XCII Yet in this time of ISRAELS sojourning through the Wilderness the Power of God hath been manifest to those strangers in the Earth in that strange Countrey through which they have their passage and therein have pitched their moveable TENTS though Beauty and Glory hath shined through such Vessels in the time of their preparation from transgression that came under the Judgment of the great Day of God in the ground wherein God first chose a People to himself and to be called by his Name until the Glory of the Earth is become laid wast the third and last WO is come into the World discovered in the pouring forth of those seven Vials to the utter consumption of the Spirit and Power of Darkness ruling and reigning in the God of the World wherein Death and Hell are conquered in their full strength the Enemy of all Souls vanquished and overcome in that which is come to destroy the ground of Destruction by utter dissolution XCIII And the sence of these things was manifest in the World in that which came on the Earth and great SEAS and all Rivers and Fountains of WATER and all that lived therein or moved thereon and on Sun and Moon and Stars and the seat of the Beast and great River EUPHRATES and on the Air wherein the Fruits of the Earth withered and were destroyed and the Waters became like unto the Blood of the dead and on Men fell a noysom Plague-sore and Headly Wound because of the infection of the Air wherein was Hail â—ike unto Fire mingled with Blood each being of great weight and at the appearance of God there was wrought up through the EARTH a burning Mountain under which fell the Powers of Nature in Earthly Forms XCIV And all the WATERS were dryed up in the great River Euphrates wherein the way of the Kings of the EAST was prepared who gathered themselves together into a place called GOLGOTHA in the Hebrew Tongue which is a place of dry Bones and dead Mens Sculs on whom the Spirit of God had breathed and they did live in his sight and stand on their Feet like Men and it was the Valley of Megiddon and of Hadadrimmon even the Valley of Jehoshaphat or the Valley of Slaughter where RACHEL sat weeping for her Children because they weâ—â— not and she would
WORLDS in their Generations where wild BULLS of Bashan are reared up to push and devour each other and from DAN there is in mine Ear the snorting of Horses and ratling sound of the Chariot Wheels like rumblings in the Air hurling up and down for REST from noise And what is herein written is of things past present and to come which are all to be fulfilled in their place and order according to the Dayes and Hours for which the VISION doth work and is made to speak in what is narrowed to the Creaturely Capaciiy through him that hath cut the Work short in Righteousness that is manifested throughout this la lâ— and Age of the WORLD LX. For from the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about EUROPE in its fourth part and Quarter is the destroying Power of God loosed for the Execution of Divine Justice on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast on whom the torment of those Months is accomplished to the finishing the work in which Death hath Dominion over that Nature wherein the WORLDS are imbodied in its Quarters therefore is the time near at hand wherein the Worlds will suffer very great shakings and Earthquakes will break forth in divers parts thereof to the overturning of many Foundations and changing of Laws and Governments of Men whereby coldness of Spirit and deadness hath over-taken the Multitude in a dull and secure state and afterwards will follow a great Power of HEAT in kindling its FLAMES of DESTRUCTION throughout the BODY of the ELEMENTS CHAP. XI Describing the MYSTERY of Time for which the Vision is set c. LXI Concerning the TIME for which the VISION is set it is now near the expiration of one hundred and twenty days since the finishing of the fifteen years wherein I beheld the prevailing of the Waters over the Earth in the fifth year that I saw the fall of the Worlds under a Power of Corruption through which the Waters became smitten in their third part under which the WORLDS stand divided in their four Quarters in the dispersing abroad of the FLOODS on which the People were moved and tossed up and down as the Waters fell BACKWARD into their four Heads by which every thing hath been tryed and carried into its appointed Place through the Tempests and swelling Waves of awakened Storms that are come into the Worlds LXII For from those TWELVE Years wherein the Nations of the Earth were subject to one KING a Spirit of Rebellion against the Power of the Beast entered four Kings of the four Winds of the Heavens who fell before five in the Vale of Siddim that is full of slime-pits whereby the remainder of those that escaped were reduced to the Mountains on their flight yet the thirteenth year which was the year of their Rebellion was it in which the Power of the BEAST stood dispersed in the striving of the four WINDS of the Heavens on the great River EUPHRATES out of which their Power is again revived and loosed though from the Seat of the Beast which is the BOTTOMLESS-PIT from whence proceeded those living Creatures called LOCUSTS that I beheld in the Vision in the form of Goats c. Life again entred that on which rested the First Wound in Nature LXIII And as the LEOPARD or Great BEAR came forth manifest with four Wings on his Back like the Wings of a FOWL his Kingdom stood dispersed abroad the Earth and Worlds and in the place of the Great Horn of the RUFF GOAT of GREECE which was broken by the power under which the Worlds stood divided those Four notable Horns were seen that became exalted towards the four Winds of the Heavens which are the Power of four KINGS and four Heads of the Beast that did spring out of the first Breach whose Kingdoms are not so mighty as the first wherein the Little Horn came forth between the Eyes of the Goat c. LXIV And that little Help through which the fifth Head in the midst of four on which sprung up five Horns that were broken and fell in the first King received that deadly Wound c. is a Power in the North Wind of the Heavens under which the Wound is become again healed up that is the Feet of the Image which is partly to break and partly to be broken for it is both Iron and Clay And this is the King of the NORTH who may be manifest in the Person of a Man of fierce Speech and dark Countenance as he is indeed manifest through many in whom a Power of the North Winde hath been dignified as Kings in that REGION wherein is a cold binding Climat of dark Air. LXV For since the fourteenth year wherein the South Winds of the Heavens were reproved and corrected for their Rebellion in those four Kings whose Kingdoms were enlarged in the dispersing abroad of the Power of four that sprung out of one who retained not the ARM that which grew up towards its tryal by FIRE was separated into its Mystery in what was effected through the fifteenth year from whence the Worlds have been warned one hundred and twenty days according to the days of the Life of Man of that destruction and desolution by the over-flowing Scourge wherein the Waters have exercised a Dominion that is ome under the smiting of the four Winds of the Heavens LXVI And wherein both the HEADS and HORNS of the Beast are KINGS and POWERS in Nature that have their Form in and on Men yet the King himself of that North Wind is not the Person of any ONE Man but a Power in One as well as in Many that are wholly under the Dominion of the Beast or that have his Mark c. according to the Power of the Constellations under which the period of all Signs in the Heavens are moved and do work over such that have their concern therein in a mystical and spiritual sence to all NAMES in Nature but now is it manifest that the MYSTERY of Time is compleat in the Figure of the FORMS in Nature wherein every thing that is either past present or to come remaineth MEASURABLE and DISTINGUISHABLE according to that Spirit under which all Powers in Nature doth WORK and and whereby all that is wrought in its BEING is come forth into FORM. LXVII Yet Nature that is Creatable suffereth through all Changes and REVOLUTIONS that are MANIFEST on and in the BODY of ELEMENTS subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption both the Good and the Evil of which the MAN hath tasted in the exercise of his Sence according to the operation of Qualities that are predominate in his BIRTH though nothing is absolute in time and place to the MAN but in the Power under which his Life is concerned operating in all the faculties of Nature in which is the holy and glorious Land whence tidings shall come out of the North and from the East which will trouble the NATIONS and Inhabitants of the Earth who are yet to
be disquieted and unsettled from their Lees whereby Destroyers have been suffered in the Way that are come on the Holy People where they are scattered in the North Country situated between the Seas CHAP. XII Describing the MYSTERY of Time according to the end for which the FORMS of Nature came forth into Manifestation on which Consumption and Desolution hath over-taken the Abominations for which the WORLD is made desolate in this last day and Age c. LXVIII AS to the Time for which the VISION is made to speak it is from and of the Beginning and to the End of Time and Place whereby every thing standeth manifest under a Figure according to the Days and Years under which all FORMS in Nature do labour and work which have their Hours and Months in the measure of Time c. wherein the Frame and Form of the Work of God in the power of Creation was laid in the Line of ADAM in his Generations answerable to the Years of his Life in which the Days of the VISION do manifest the whole WORK raised up from that in which it was sown LXIX For as from the Creation of the Worlds according to the most just and true accompt of Men is three thousand years to the finishing of the TEMPLE which SOLOMON built in which the first Glory of the Work of God stood manifest and from the finishing of that Temple which was built and erected in seven years to the Birth and Incarnation of the Son of Man through the Power of the SECOND ADAM a quickning Spirit c. was nine hundred and thirty years so doth all things stand manifest in NUMBER under the same figure in the coming forth of the WORLDS which in seven days was brought into form according to the sence of the first Man ADAM through whom the Works of GOD was comprehended in Natural Body wherein the seed of Life was known by which his living Soul became apprehensive in the breathings of the SPIRIT and Breath of GOD. LXX Whereby NATURE multiplied in its Forms according to the course they were subjected under in that Dominion wherein the MAN was made LORD over all the Works of GOD's Hands answerable to the sensibility that was wrought up through the seventh Form descending in which HENOCH continued imbodyed as many years as are days in the year and all the days of YEARS wherein Adam continued imbodyed in that first Form are reckoned nine hundred and thirty which is two years and seven months according to the accompt of Time wherein the Forms of Nature do stand numbred in a figure under which they are multiplied a year for a Day LXXI And concerning the Time for which the VISION is made to speak in what is formed for a conclusion of the matter and wherein the Nature of that which worketh standeth figured forth to the bringing the WHOLE under its Day of Tryal as it was one thousand six hundred fifty and six years from the Creation of the Worlds into time and place to the over-flowing Scourge that followed them therein and over-took the Forms whererein they were created with the Deluge and from thence until the dayes wherein Moses became manifest in flesh c. was seven hundred seventy and seven years who continued therein one hundred and twenty years so it was twenty eight Jubilies from the beginning of those Services which rested under the Goverment of JOSHUA that succeeded him in that sixth YEAR to the anoynting of CHRIST to his Office that put an end to all those Offerings and Sacrifices c. thus typified out in JOSHUA which signifieth JESUS or SAVIOUR LXXII From which time there is past the number of YEARS in thirty two Jubilies and thirty two years to this year of the Worlds accompt 1665. And as from the finishing of the Temple in which those Services stood accepted under the Law c. to the destroying thereof by Fire was four hundred twenty and three years and after six years was the King of BABYLON established in his Kingdom and Throne which made him say Is not this great BABEL which I have built so unto that eleventh year wherein the HOLY ONE and the WATCHER came down to shew him the end of those Visions of the MONARCHIES of the Worlds and the state into which he should be driven among Beasts of prey was four hundred thirty and four years which is the number of sixty and two weeks of days A Conclusion To the whole WORK I. BUt in the time before-mentioned Life was prolonged in the Government over ISRAEL in its dying state as it received in the sence of the Wound come on a third part of its Glory that was smitten and the shadow of the SUN went back ten degrees on the Dyal in which the forms of Nature stand manifest according to the Significator of the Birth concerned therein wherein the SUN hath recovered the first point of ARIES from the tenth day of the first month in this sixteenth year for from the period of fifteen years the Pangs and Sufferings that came into the WORLDS in their third part hath rested in the Seat of the Beast on those MEN that have received his Mark. II. And after the MOON hath passed her Course through the Signs in the ZODIACK of an Inward World wherein she will be descending towards the House of her Exaltation in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and six and will renew her Entrance through ARIES on the concluding of the YEAR the effect of that which hath rested on those Men who are come under the smiting of the Beasts Power for those five Months wherein pangs have proceeded from his Seat will be seen in the WORLDS for from the concluding of that year is thirty days wherein the SUN hath his Passage through LEO the Heart of a Lyon which is his own House who entered the first point of Cancer wherein the Summer Quarter is manifest nineteen days before the concluding of this year 1665. III. And as the number of years for which Jerusalem was rebuilt the second time was sixty two Weeks until the MESSIAH was anoynted to his Office after the finishing of the second Temple in seven weeks which was for a Week and in the midst of that Week was the Prophet and SON of GOD cut off though not for his own transgressions so it was sixty two weeks more or an hundred thirty four days from the birth of JESUS that great PROPHET through whom the partition Wall was broken down between two Nations to the thirtieth year of the Reign and Exaltation of the Kingdom of Mystery BABYLON over the Kings of the Earth IV. Whose King spoyled the Glory of JERUSALEM and led away Captives from thence taking unto himself the VESSELS of Silver and Gold that were in the House of the Lord in the nineteenth year of his Reign over Assyria and in the twenty fifth year of his Establishment in Media and Persia saw the four Kings in whom the Image of
Glory became manifest in the WOLDS while the STUMPS thereof remained bound down in the Earth with an Iron BAND after seven times had passed over his HEAD which was wet with the Dew of the Night V. Wherefore from the time wherein the dayly Sacrifice was made to cease after the restoring of that breach on the Walls of Jerusalem to the finishing of the outward Court of the Holy City which was given into the hands of the Gentiles to tread under foot those forty two months or an hundred and forty two days being the concluding of a time times and the dividing of times which is seventeen hundred and fifty days wherein the Woman hath been nourished in the place that is there provided for her for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore days that the two Witnesses have appointed them to finish and fulfil their PROPHECY in sackcloth in which time the Earth doth help the WOMAN It is now eighteen days since the Commandment of God came forth for the rebuilding and restoring those outward Courts of the CITY TIME on a Prophetical account wch is the Language of the holy Scripture is five hundred years according to the life of Noah before he began to build his Family in the EARTH which was saved in the Ark of God and so long is accounted the days of Shem after the Flood of Waters as the mystical Number in which is contained ten Jubiles of years under the Law VI. And after thirty one days it shall be finished then shall be a WEEK to renew the Zeal of God and expiate sin to the sealing and binding down the power of the WICKED for evermore and in the midst of that Week those Witnesses shall seal their Testimony concerning the Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth who hath been crucified and lain slain in the streets of that great City spiritually called Sodom and Egypt but after three days and a half which is the concluding of the 1290 days they shall be seen to ascend up into Heaven in the sight of all their ENEMIES VII For it is now eighteen dayes since the WOMAN hath regained a sence of her deliverance from her great Captivity in that WILDERNESS-State in which the forty two months of her travel are expired and the Birth is brought forth in the EARTH which hath been preserved and delivered from the fury and rage of the great red Dragon by the Floods of Water which he hath cast out of his BELLY after her in the one thousand four hundred and forty and four thousands that are found standing on Mount Zion with their Harps harping but until the end of two days the Judgment of God set up in ISRAEL shall quicken the sealed number of Gods chosen and holy Ones who have remained as dry Bones in the Valley of Jehosaphat where the spirit of God hath breathed on the slain that from the third day will be found to live in his sight to seal the testimony of that birth which hath thirty days more to accomplish its growth into the power by which it is anoynted to finish that great Work in that Week wherein the dead are made able to stand on their Feet by the sound of the seventh and last Trump VIII And he that hath WISDOM let him count the time and number those days from whence the number of the BEAST which is the number of a MAN is compleat DCLXVI for from that day will the four destroying Angels of God stand loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES according to the hour day month and year for which they were prepared which after a month wherein those five months will be expired will leave seven months for the Dead to bury their Dead in the concluding of the year wherein Destruction is come forth against the WICKED IX Therefore count thou from the year 1656 wherein the Devil did exercise his power for ten days by casting many into Prison since the expiration of the WOMANS Tryals and sore TRAVEL that the forty days wherein the Seed of the Woman was left to be persecuted and tried by the fury and rage of the Devourer and his Angels that great Red DRAGON will make way for the power of God to be glorified after the third day in ten thousand of his SAINTS for from the expiration of those months wherein the striving continued between two Nations the King of BABYLON who had looked into the Glory of the Temple which God hath built in Israel wherein are many goodly Vessels of Gold and Silver hath been letted from spoyling and laying utterly waste the HOUSE in which are appointed those rich Treasuries about his Sanctuary X. Yet the Daughter of the NORTH suffereth Oppression under a strange KING unto whom the QUEEN of the SOUTH is joyned to corrupt their Seed though unto them the Mystery of that which pertaineth to the KINGDOM of GOD is opened in those that run to and fro to increase in knowledge and from the extirpation of the fifteen years from whence the WORLD hath been warned one hundred and twenty days and wherein the EXECUTION of that which was detained from the Earth and WORLDS in their third part to the prolonging of Life in the Government of Nature in which ISRAEL had their choice is to be MANIFEST the substance of what standeth in the end of time and place which is near to be revealed XI Therefore for the purging forth the Sin of MANASSEH through whom the HIGH ALTARS were erected in both Courts of the City for those fifty five days wherein the number seventy was accomplished in the concluding of fifteen years which discovered the Judgement that revived and was come on the Worlds that on whom the Image of JEALOUSY came forth manifest forty five days are yet determined from the midst of the WEEK wherein the Testimony of GOD will receive its everlasting Seal and it shall be the Joy of many to understand the Mystery of what is concluded in one thousand two hundred and ninety days but blessed are those that live attain to the end of those eighty five days which are the concluding of one thousand three hundred thirty and five dayes from those ninety five days before the Sacrifice was offered up wherein the ROMANS obtained their Conquest over JUDEA and throughout ASIA in which the Jews were scattered which was sixty two days before the BABE was brought forth through whom it became accepted XII For from the Conception and Birth of the MAN-CHILD through whom the LIGHT of GOD broke forth with which the NATIONS of the EARTH and REGIONS of the WORLDS that have sat under the SHADOW of Death are ENLIGHTENED on whom is come the GLORY of GOD to the GENTILES Their number is fulfilled and compleat wherein TIME and TIMES are past and HALF A TIME is divided in those Figures 1750 and yet the EXPIRATION of those SIXTY TWO Weeks wherein the GENTILES had power to erect their GLORY in the