that is and is to come The little Stone cut out of the Mountains without a hand which smiteth at the feet of the great Image of the Earth whose head is gold the body and members part silver part brass part iron and part iron mixt with clay Dan. 2.32 33. Until all the Images and Image-makers of the Earth be confounded before the LORD and the great Image of the whole Earth become like the chaffe of the summer-threshing-floors and the wind carry them away that no place be found for them and the little Stone which smiteth the Image become a great Mountain and fill the whole Earth For now is the Lord God of Heaven and Earth about to set up his own Kingdom which shall never be destroyed and the Kingdom shall not be left to other People but it shall break in pieces and consume all other Kingdoms and it shall stand for ever I am the Light of the World saith the Lord of the Kingdom he that believeth in me shall not abide in darkness but have the Light of Life The Trumpet of the Lord hath sounded and is sounding and many that are dead in Christ have heard the voice and are already risen out of the grave and have appeared at the Judgement of the Lord of the whole Earth who cometh quickly to Judge all the Inhabitants thereof 1 Cor. 15.51 52. both quick and dead And now are the words of Paul fulfilled We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trump shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible John 8.51 And furthermore He that now shall keep the words of Him who is the Light of the World shall never see Death All this cometh and is come according to the Everlasting purpose of the glory of the LORD and that men may no more make a talk of the Scriptures but that they may be all fulfilled Awake awake therefore you that slumber in your confessions and yet are asleep in your sins awake to the turning from your sins that ye also may hear the voice of the trump of GOD and the joyful voice of the shout from Heaven with Him who cometh in the glory of his brightness cloathed in white whom no flesh can see and live Awake awake to the Judgement whilst the day springeth from on high and visiteth you For of a Truth whether you will hear or forbear the LORD GOD cometh who hath shewn signes in the Heaven in the Firmament above the Earth and darkened the Sun at his Word and turned the Moon into blood even whilst the Nations were asleep and shewed it to the thousands which he hath gathered from Sea to Sea and from the Islands in the Sea and shewed his Wonders unto them fire and pillars of smoak and blood and vapours whereof I am a witness for the LORD GOD of Heaven and Earth who am of him sent to declare his mighty day which is at hand to the Inhabitants of the Earth A warning therefore to the World whilst you have time Repent lest he who cometh as a thief in the night find you in the cursed nature of iniquity and you be judged with the condemned for ever unto wrath and think you of the perverseness of that faithless generation in the dayes of Noah who continued eating and drinking in the strength of their lusts and would not take warning until the Flood came and made an utter destruction of them all for as the dayes of Noah were so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be Matth. 24.37 So if You perish in your sins and the People for their sins the blood be upon Your own heads henceforth and for ever Remember you were warned to Repent Now the LORD is coming to blind the World which do say that they see and to bring to nothing their wisdom and to confound all the Will-worships of all the sons of men upon the face of the Earth who can Sing and Preach and Speak and Pray in their own time and in their own wills that is to say when they will even in the same will wherewith they Swear Col. 3.5 1 John 3.15 Psal 109.7 John 4.23 Rom. 8.4 and Lye or are Proud or Covetous which is Idolatry or Envious which is Murder All these things in the Will and Time of Man both in Priest and People being but one as saith the Scripture Let his prayer become sin and again saith Christ God heareth not sinners for the Worship of God is in Truth and in Spirit such Worshippers the Father seeks to Worship him such as walk not after the Flesh in whom the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled who walk after the Spirit in the Spirit Now who are in the Spirit and led by the Spirit into all Truth in the true knowledge and understanding of the mysteries of Truth which is hid from those which walk after the flesh in sin and are sinners walking against the Life of the Spirit which leadeth the true Worshippers of GOD in the Spirit out of all sin into all truth John 16.13 By which Spirit of Truth the Scriptures were spoken forth and the Prophecies of the Prophets were spoken forth as Parables as saith the Prophet The Vision of all is become unto you Isa 29.11 12. as a book that is sealed which men deliver to one that is learned saying Read this I pray thee and he saith I cannot for it is sealed And again the book is delivered to him that is not learned saying Read this I pray thee and he saith I am not learned So that it is hid from both the learned and the unlearned being not in the life of the Spirit by which it was written and given forth and Christ spake not any thing to the World but what he spake in Parables Matth. 13.34 2 Cor. 4.3 1 Pet. 3.19 And if our Gospel be hid it is hid from them that are lost saith Paul who live in their sins against the life of the Spirit by which the Gospel came and was preached to the Spirits in Prison to the lost sheep of the house of Israel And now if the World knows not how to try their own Spirits let me shew them a little by asking a few Questions according to the Scriptures which by the Spirit of Truth and Understanding were given forth which if you have the Spirit and do walk according to the Truth of the Scriptures by the Spirit of Truth of Wisdom and right Understanding then with the Life of the Spirit you will be able rightly to answer them all else you will know of what Spirit you are as it is more necessary that the World should know of what Spirit they are then to imagine that they worship in the Spirit whilst yet they are in their sins and as men in the flesh walking and living in the lust and liberty of the flesh
and professing Christians That is their false god even the love which is not of the True GOD who is Love and who is Light for the Light in all your Consciences upon a due search of all your hearts will reprove it And again Gen. 6.5 Where the Imagination of the heart of man ruleth which is only evil continually I say where the Imagination worketh in Jew or Gentile to walk according to the Law or the Gospel being not in that by which the Law was given forth and the Gospel preached they worship a false god that which their own hearts do imagine to be God whilst the True GOD is hid from Imaginers the worshippers of strange gods which their Imaginations do make in their minds Now that is the ground of an Idol and the ground of Idolatry The Imagination which blinds the eye and blinds the heart Rom. 1.28 and blinds the understanding altogether concerning the true Knowledge of the True GOD. For they like not to retain GOD in their knowledge who like to retain Imaginations in their minds Many have heard it said that GOD is a Spirit Joh. 4.24 and he will be worshipped in Spirit and do think from that report they have enough of the knowledge of GOD and of the True Worship and yet the World that thus confess are divers in their Worships being not yet in the Spirit in which GOD is truly known and witnessed to be a Spirit they worship they know not what Joh. 4.22 who are in the flesh in the lust nature and deeds of the flesh which is at enmity with God who is a Spirit Here I find all the World Jew and Gentile Professor and Prophane of all Nations in sin in the flesh at enmity with GOD and the Spirit and with all that walk with GOD and Worship GOD in Spirit and do hate and persecute them Gal. 4.29 according to that which Paul said As then he that was born after the Flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now mark even so it is now because they know not GOD which hath begotten us into the Spirit and therefore they hate the Father and them whom the Father sendeth And this to all the Idol Worshippers within and the Idol-worshippers without in the World is the Word of the LORD GOD. Concerning the strait Way to Life IT is not the will of the LORD that alwayes the simple should be held in a by-way Therefore let me declare unto the simple Isa 35.8 the strait-way of the Lord which the way-faring-men though fools shall not erre therein All the World is yet ignorant of that way being in divers pathes in the going forth of their Feet but in the substance and body their footsteps lead them Matth. 7.13 to meet all in the one broad wide way of sin and transgression which leads to the Pit of Perdition This is glad-tidings to the Seed of the captivity which I sound among the sons of men The LORD is come and coming to fulfil the Promise of his Covenant which he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophet Jeremiah whom GOD sent as a Child among the Nations with his Word and to confound the counsels of the wise by the Revelation of his Wisdom in Childhood Behold the dayes come Jer. 3.31 33. saith the LORD that I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their GOD and they shall be my People 1 Cor. 10.1 2 3 4. That was the Law which God gave unto Moses who was a Follower of Christ which was not written in tables of stone but engraven upon the table of the heart For this commandment which I give thee this day is not hidden from thee neither is it a far off it is not in heaven Deut. 30.11 12 13 14. that thou shouldest say who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it to us that we may hear it and do it neither is it beyond the Sea that thou shouldest say who shall go over the Sea for us and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it But the Word is very nigh unto thee in thy Mouth and in thy Heart that thou mayest do it Rom. 10.8 2 Pet. 1.19 And this was the Word of Faith which Paul preached and the same Word of Faith which Peter also bore witnesse to saying We have a more sure Word of Prophecie whereunto ye do well if ye take heed as unto a Light that shineth in a dark Place until the day dawn and the day-Star arise in your Hearts Now all that are not come to this Word of Faith which is a Light that shineth in a dark Place they are out of the true Faith of Christ whose Name is called the Word of GOD Who saith Rev. 19.13 John 8.12 Joh. 12.46 I am the Light of the World which lighteth every man that cometh into the World saith John 1.9 And Christ the Light of the World who said I am the Way the Truth and the Life no man cometh unto the Father but by by me John 14. v. 6. This is the Way which for Ages hath been hid from the simple the Light which leadeth to the Father who giveth Life everlasting to all that love the Light and follow and walk in the Light wherewith they are lightened which tells you in youâ— own mindes and consciences that you must not Swear nor Lye nor Steal nor Covet nor be Proud nor Scornful nor vain in your Words and Hearts nor wanton in your Mindes unto uncleanness and lust of the Flesh nor Envy any man which is murder nor be Drunk nor Gluttenous nor to do any Wickedness This is the strait-way Matth. 7.14 and the little narrow way which Christ the Light who is the Way spake of leads to Life it is strait and narrow to that Nature in all flesh living which walks in sin enemies to the strait way of Life John 16.8 The Light which convinceth the World of sin if you love it and follow it will lead out of all sin this is the way which the Prophets prophesied of should be to the wayfaring-men though fools wherein they should not erre This is tryal to all the Worlds ways of Jew and Gentile upon the face of the earth Are they entred in that way in which a Sinner cannot walk 1 Jo. 3.8 Joh. 3.19 No Sinner doth walk in the Light for all Sin is of the Devil And he that commits Sin is of the Devil And this is the condemnation of the world that Light is come into the world and men love Darknesse rather than Light because their deeds are evil The Lord God is come to put all Professions in the Ballance and wil weigh them in the Ballance of Equity and that which is found in the vanity of
the heart is not upright before the LORD but their bones are full of Rottenness And would not this very Generation make a mock of Christ if Christ should come to ask of them What was your Father Adam Did my Father say that he was a Gentleman when he was made in his uprightness â—or your Mother Eve a Gentlewoman as the proud deceitful flesh among you are titled Gentlemen and Gentlewomen What was Abel Seth and Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel Job Micha Zechary and the rest of the Prophets were they such Gentlemen as you Or if Christ should say was I reckoned such a Gentleman as you who was by such transgressors as you are numbred among transgressors Was Peter Paul Matthew Mark Luke or John Gentlemen such as you are If Christ should ask you these things would not you laugh at him and mock at him as the Jews laughed and mocked him upon the Crosse And now I ask you which of you is better than they were And further Where did any of the Apostles or Disciples or Brethren say one to another You are my Lord Sir I am your slave Sir with pulling off of Hats one to another and making great bowings one to another Where do you find that that was the manner of their salutation and greeting one another which you hold in deceit one towards another Yet these Gentlemen of your nature besides that Name in their cursed nature will say We are Christians and Christ is our Lord and Saviour Mat. 7.21 22. But I will tell you what Christ will say to such yea unto many such as will say Lord Lord In thy Name we have done many miracles in thy Name we have cast out Devils your Gentlemen are far from that of casting out Devils and if the Lord Christ will say to them Depart you cursed workers of Iniquity I know you not think you will he say lesse to your Gentlemen Again you that call Christ Lord hear you what the Lord Christ said unto such as you are Luke 6.46 Why call ye me LORD and do not the things which I say Now this Christ said Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy mind and with all thy soul and thy neighbour as thy self Paul witnessed to it Rom. 8.4 John 14.15 John 2.4 That the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit And again saith Christ He that loveth me keepeth my Commandments Unto which John bears Testimony saying Whosoever saith he knows God and keeps not his Commandments is a lyar So you are here brought to proof and tryal whether GOD is your LORD or the Prince of the power of darknesse he that was a Lyar from the beginning your principal Head and Ruler let that of GOD the Light in all your Consciences Answer Psa 50.16 17. How dare you take my Name in your mouthes saith GOD whilst you hate to be reformed This is to you also that take God's Name in vain when your hearts are vain and exercised in vanity and telling vain stories and speaking about vain things GOD will not hold you guiltless that take his Name in vain and the Name of Jesus in vain Exod. 20.7 yet you would have the Name of Christians because you confesse Christ to have been slain at Jerusalem but that will not serve you though also you call him Lord whilst you keep not the Commandments of the Lord. For I enquire among you all concerning the Lord of Life whether you know him to be daily crucified in your streets which spiritually are called Sodom and Egypt Revel 11.8 Here Christ is but called Lord with that Iniquity which for the love of the unrighteous Mammon call men Masters and Lords and saith I am your Servant Sir I am your Slave Sir whilst that is but a flattering Lye And here they flatter others with Lyes and flatter themselves with Lyes and in Lyes and are so vain in their Imaginations that they would flatter GOD with Lyes But GOD will make you all to know that he will not be mocked Gal. 6.7 Wherefore I say unto you that in vain hopes you expect Salvation whose pleasure is to persevere in Iniquity who are bound in the Womb of Witch-crafts in the loathsomness of all manner of unrighteousness If Noah Daniel and Job were among you Ezek. 14.14 their righteousness should but save themselves and but onely Jesus the Righteousness of GOD intercede for them or if Paul Peter and Mary were among this Generation of loathsome sinners their righteousness should but only save themselves and Jesus the only Intercessor and Mediator but only Intercede for them So wherein you hope to die the death of the Just and so to receive the Inheritance of the Just and live not the life of the Just I tell you nay The Inheritance of the Just will not be yours who live not the Life of the Just Your hope in the end Remember in vengeance when you are under wrath that I told you before mark the end their hope is the hope of the Hypocrite and their trust is as a Spider's-web Job 8.13 14. Luke 16.20 21 22 23 24 25. Isa 3.18 to 24. you that are called Gentlemen and Gentlewomen who live in your lusts and pleasures Read you your Figure as in a Glass the Scripture concerning the Rich man and Lazarus Read the Torment of Dives and mark his portion and consider your latter end Judah and Jerusalem had a day of warning whose Inhabitants were adorned with all manner of bravery and tinkling Ornaments with chains and bracelets and ornaments of the leggs and ear-rings and rings and changable suits of apparrel wimples and crisping-pins and glasses and fine linen and hoods and vails but the LORD GOD changed the glory of their Liberty and brought them down into Captivity Let their Sufferings be your Example and remember when Suffering comes upon you that you were warned to Repent And now you that would know the true adorning let me tell you what Peter witnesseth to be the true adorning he saith Let it not be the outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparrel but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price Now what will you all say for your selves who in your life are enemies to the Life walking contrary to the Doctrine of the Apostle Peter Deceive not your Souls if you would chuse to dye the death of the Just to have the Inheritance of the Just You must all choose first to come to the Light in all your Consciences which reproves you for all your sins and wickedness and following the Light which comes from Christ and none other Guide it will lead you to the Life