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
I do unto such a People as this And therefore let the German Princes prepare for he is come forth that hath measured thy day the glory of Imperial Support cannot any longer defend the PAPAL Throne on which Foundation thou hast been raised up in great Excellency and exalted in mighty Pomp. Oh! how hath thy practice clouded the Glory of thy Profession and because of a Spirit of Cruelty that hath possessed the strength of thy Zeal in a mis-informed mind how hast thou laid a stumbling block in the WAY of the simple and caused the Ignorant to despise the truth of sound Doctrine XI Dost thou believe Purgation of the Body of Nature from the cause that hath held it down under the Power of Death wherein the Souls of the Righteous have remained crying and groaning under the Altar of God Why then continue ye in the enmity and Spirit of Cruelty to the life of the Just both in your selves and others for where that Life is not refreshed and nourished it dieth for want of strength because it is the Souls strengh to be fed with the Bread of Comfort in God wherein it receives all blessing from him and the Body also without that Spirit is dead XII It is the living therefore that can praise God aright in that power that entereth the Ear of the Dead for whom they stand in Jeopardy every hour making their Supplications unto God in his Spirit that breaketh open the Prison Doors and is come to Preach to the Spirits in Prison comforting the sick and weak that lyeth languishing under the Power of Death and visiting the needy in the day of its distress and calamity through which the dead becometh again raised up to life and immortality in GOD. XIII Many things I have to say unto thee because thou mixest thy inventions with the Doctrine of Truth and hast exalted thy self in the superstition of those gain-sayers that perished before thee great are the Tryals that have overtaken thee and that which is come upon thee cannot be parallel'd because of the end of all things that is come up before the LORD Have I not seen the going down of thy Glory among the Stars of the Night surely it is set in the WEST and it hath a SOUTH Cloud over its Beam but from the EAST is the Morning broke forth and towards the NORTH doth the Star shine that hath burning flames mentained in the dissolution of such forms of Nature that have caused an exhaling in the excremental parts of the fiery Heavens XIV And unto the Angel of the Churches in the separated Islands in the North the transplantation of Europe thy Names are many and divers art thou in the perswasion of thy Judgement in the Doctrinal part of Truth And these are become the Horns on the Heads of the BEAST in Nature which shall hate the WHORE that hath exalted SELF in the destruction of the glory of two Tribes for ten Tribes shall return to behold that which hath been healed up deceitfully in the appearance of the RAM from the EAST whose coming forth is to ex lt his Horns wherewith he shall be found pushing three wayes to wit WEST and NORTH and SOUTH XV. And there will be striving in the EARTH until a HOLY PEOPLE cometh to sit down in their own Land for God is come down into the forms of Nature and will work as in the dayes of old and every on that seeeth him shall be affected with his LOVE and shall mourn bitterly over him as his beauty cometh to be seen in the Earth and overspreadeth the Worlds but none shall be able to awaken his displeasure against others though he will cut off great and strong Nations in his way in his own time and not for the sake of the Wishers of mischief that may inkindle a fire in the Center of the ground from whence their life doth spring XVI But the Angel of my BELOVED hath given in charge unto the Daughters of SION that they awake not Gods displeasure neither stir up the Beloved desire of the welfare of all Nations before he please for you that profess zeal against Superstition see that you stand not above the ground of Humility from whence charity doth spring unto the distressed which worketh the WILL of God in the manifestation of Glory through the LIGHT of his countenance that is lifted up over the Nations by the arising of the Sun of Righteousness with healing in his WINGS XVII For I am well assured of the love of God to his despised Remnant and handful of little Ones trampled on by all and now set in the Front of the BATTEL in which Gods Cause hath engaged them though by the Mighty they are deserted as left to the rage and fury of the Devouring Enemy And I have beheld also such that have plenty in their own Houses yet are they found covetously lusting after one EWE-LAMB of the POOR And shall they prosper saith the LORD since his Sword which he hath not drawn in vain shall not depart from their House until Jerusalem become a quiet Habitation for evermore for an exercise hath sprung from their own Bowels through a Rebellious Seed that flattereth in the WAY XVIII But the ground of all this awakened Fury did break forth in the Spirit of the WORLD in the Nature of sensual Separations in the dispersed forms of the Apostatizing Spirit from its first Love by which the Faith of Gods Elect worketh But Gods intention is to purge his own House and Sanctuary first that his People may be white and clean from the Worldly Spirit of enmity and bitterness which springeth from the covetous Root that standeth in the lusting ground wherefore the BEAST hath power to exalt his HORN for a season XIX Therefore cease Oh cease ye MIGHTY of the EARTH to strive against the Lord for ye have been contending with one another in selfs concernment until your time of healing is well nigh spent in controversies and now hath God taken his own cause into his HANDS and hath it in consideration which he will plead for the Meek of the Earth in the Heart of their Enemies And notwithstanding many things are suffered for a Tryal of their FAITH to God who profess his Name and Truth yet is it not to destroy them but to purifie and refine them wherein Judgement is still strengthened against that part which hath given way to the power and work of the Enemy either in the Particular or General And I am assured deliverance will come in Gods time which is when his People are so sitted thereby that God can get himself a Name in their Salvation XX. And alas you Professors of Cristianity that are quarrelling with each other about the formal part of your Worship how have you lost your day until you are overtaken with a power of Darkness have ye not been afraid of those that should change your Laws and Customs and bring in contrary Orders wherein the ROMANS Power
prevailed in the months thereof until the seven Mountains could be seen on which the great CITY was erected through the decreasing of the Waters in what remained falling backward for the space of seven Months XI And the CITY that thou sawest built and setled on those Mountains and high Hills which became the Foundations of all that fell into and under the palpability of WATERS is the City HENOCH which the first born of Nations erected under the power of Corruption from the ground which he became the Tiller and tearer up of when driven Eastward from the Face of the Earth and Presence of God into that Land where he took his Wife that he might call the name of his Buildings after the name of his Son for whom it was built XII For he possessed the seven forms of NATURE the number of years according to which the year increased its dayes and hath all the properties of the Heavens through a Translation wrought on the Body of Nature in what came forth mamfest in each line of the Fathers resting in LAMECH whence two Wives prevailed over the Man five years short of a sight into the destruction which prevailed over the Worlds in the state it was first planted CHAP. III. Describing the property of Enochs Prophecies XIII THose seven forms of Nature whose Characters are Figures in Hieroglyps have the property of Prophecy among the Works of Wonder which cannot be understood in the Creaturely Capacity but through the translations of ENOCH for whom the ground of conceiveability was torn up and no less power is requisite herein than that which smiteth the World in its third part of both Earth and Waters and all that lives therein or moves thereon wherein the Beast hath had his Seat as a Temple in which hath shined the glory of Sun and Moon and Stars XIV And for the revealing the true ground from whence all those glories may come again to shine in the Principles of Nature as in the beginning consumption and darkness must come before his Face who rideth in the Chariot of Nature wherein those glories are smitten in the third part until the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about the fourth part of the WORLDS over which the EAGLE hath prevailed XV. And though as those Angels stand manifest in the Heavens they are seven in number according to the seven forms of Nature through which are sounded the Mystery of God's Works of Wonders from the seven Golden TRUMPETS yet is their destroying power bound down in the four last forms only in which the Elements of Nature have spheared into Corruption for the discovery of the Lake of Fire that is hidden in the great River EUPHRATES from what is thence loosed XVI But the Witnesses hereof are only two manifested in each three Principles of both Heavenly and Earthly being in which the AIR is commanded until FIRE and WATER is become united in its ANGEL that hath one Foot on the Earth and hath his other on the great Seas for the Angel of the Waters saith It is done but an Angel of the Fire who continueth alwayes ministring before the ALTAR hath touched my Tongue with a live Coal he hath brought from thence wherein I am made able to declare of what he hath flung on the Earth XVII And beholding the seven Mountains of the Earth on which is setled the Foundations of that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Worlds in the in kindled Fire burning under its Foundations I see terrible shakings that are yet to pass through the Worlds over all buildings therein after the tenth part of the CITY is seen become fallen in the assending up of the Witnesses unto Heaven in the sight of their Enemies wherein the ten Horns of the BEAST shall hate the Whore and burn her flesh with FIRE XVIII Then shall be seen the seven Horns of the LAMB full of Eyes which are the seven Spirits of God which do walk among the seven Golden Candlesticks and the Books shall stand open on which hath been put those seven Seals that he may be known come into the Worlds that holdeth in his right Hand a Crown of seven Stars as seven golden Lamps burning before the Throne of God and the Lamb and lighting the whole Earth with his Glory in the form of the Pleiades for the seventh Trumpet shall sound forth the Mystery of what is thus unsealed over the mighty deeps which have filled the Worlds XIX And in the finishing of this great Mystery all Nations of the Earth shall be gathered to their appointed place that the Spirit and God of the World may bear the wrath of Indignation of what is poured forth on the frame of all created Principles into form without mixture which is the second Death executed in the seven last Plagues wherewith the seven Golden Vials are filled wherein God will appear in ten thousand of his Saints CHAP. IV. Describing the ground in Nature from whence the Wheels are moved about the frame of the WORLDS XX. THe seven spirits of God are moved about the frame of the WORLDS according to what doth operate and work up the way and course he is manifest through in the Seven forms of Nature which are become the Seven heads of the BEAST and the Seven Mountains of the WORLD on which the City is built wherein the WHORE doth sit exalted and therefore is God manifest in the Spirit of Judgement in those Forms of Nature that every thing may come forth tryed undeâ— the motion of the WHEELS XXI But though the BEAST hath taken Head in these forms of Nature Nature is again returning to its firsâ— subjection in the utter consumption and destruction of the power of the Dragon Beast and False Prophet ouâ— of those forms in Nature for now are the Wheels moving over the greaâ— River Euphrates on which the trumpet of God hath sounded and thence are loosed his destroying Angels which cause thunders and lightning in the Heavens XXII And the Clouds of Heaven are already tinctured with that which Ascendeth upward to prepare its motion in the Air whence his appearance is expected who judgeth the Prince thereof and casteth down the Accuser of the Just from those Airy Heavens wherein he hath been exalted though the Seven Forms of Nature which are moved about the heavens of the Worlds attend the first mover wherein the Work of God is manifest in the Seven Spirits of Nature XXIII For this center of the Inward WORLD which was thus unmovable had a power in and over all that was movable and changeable which became a cause in the motion of the WHEELS that was over-ruled by the wisdom and power of the first mover wherein all Glories of the FATHER shined in the Firmament of his POWER in which he remained unalterable and unchangeable the same without any shadow of turning or variation XXIV Yet is it only in Nature that God is become thus a cause
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
are in the way of Reconciliation to God and their Brother and have their Sacrifice salted with Salt and do find Acceptance before God without any loud Cry to the World 's BAAL or Lord as did the Priests in Days of old and they awaken nothing before its time but are wayting on the Power of what is already kindled and awakened against Self which is Gods Displeasure wherein the ENEMY hath been strengthened for a time XIX Thus desiring if it be possible to live in peace with all Men no Spirits can be awakened in the wrathful Principle to their hurt because such things are not easily allayed again in their heat and sting for the Executioners of Gods Displeasure as destroying Angels in God rejoyce in the Power of Death taking occasion by Sin to tempt and then to accuse as sin hath taken occasion by the LAW once ordained in the hand of Angels to revive a strength of Condemnation under the Power of Death wherein the Devourer and Destroyer imployeth his Instruments in the Working of Concupisence like a roaring Lyon seeking to betray under his Baits and Snares as a ground of Enmity and Revenge in which he lurketh with accusations after he hath once conquered under the Power of his Dominion and to condemn before God that the Patient in Spirit may be delivered into his hand for torment the time he hath to sift and try them XX. For I have always desired of the Lord to keep out of the ground and Cause of Just Offence to any and to avoid occasions of Enmity which is so ready to spring up in the distempered and discomposed Mindes of Men of unruly Passions who have let in the SEED of Discontent against the Dealings and Proceedings of God either in Themselves or Others wherein many are both seeking and taking occasions unjustly against those they are out of Charity with because of a mind filled with prejudice and gainsayings though to me such things are no whit strange in that I know there is no temptation suffered to work against the life of God in any but what was common to the Saints in days of old who with the Temptation have found out a way to escape the evil and danger thereof XXI Yet am I clear herein that I have not sought to hide the Counsel of God from any by delivering forth the truth of what I have received from GOD in an UNKNOWN Tongue wherein I could keep my Conscience void of offence towards GOD and Man but there is a Spirit which is Worldly wise and subtil yet covered with Religious pretences which is at this day seeking Preheminence in the House and Temple of God and that is it which I desire to live and act out of the reach of in what form or by what name soever they may be called therefore from such I keep in the Clouds and from thence must I in the Truth hereof and the Truth in me descend to their Capacities as way is made therein through the fulfilling of the Prophecy XXII But though this is and hath been my Care and Conscience towards God and love to the Creation of him that formed his Workmanship in the Womb of Nature and curiously wrought the form wherein he rejoyceth in the Mothers Belly not to seek or give any just occasion of offence to Jew or Greek or cast a stumbling Block in the way of the Gentiles in which the House of Israel remaineth under sufferings yet as far forth as I am redeemed out of the ground of hurt which worketh in the excess of Love or Fear of the Creatures I question not but my LIFE will be preserved through all in my Way and out of the reach of evil Tongues in the bewitching faculty of prejudice that swelleth with Envy XXIII My Bow 's bent being wholly drawn against the persecuting Spirit of the World about Religion and Worship of God under what name or pretence soever such are covered who seek to keep the Innocent under the sufferings of Cruelty in the Holes and Dens of the Earth that are filled with a People more righteous before God than themselves though it was Israels Choice to have that Dominion established wherein they might be like unto other Nations of the Earth which is given them in the Ministration of Wrath and Fury and in all Forms of Government he hath come forth higher than the common People by the Head as King in Nature and though he hunt for his Prey as a Partridge on the Mountains yet doth God watch over and preserve his own through all conspiracies of ACHITOPHEL which shall come to nought XXIV Notwithstanding many are hereby given into the Hands of the Tormentor for the destruction of the Flesh whose Spirits are saved alive in this day of the Lord and they are now coming forth in that Power which hath conquered the strength of the old Deceiver which is ready to betray with a Kiss of Flattery and they are made able to trample on the Dominion of Death and Hell in the worldly Spirits Excommunications and Banishments and sensual Separations having not the Spirit of God in a patient suffering and bearing Principle that cannot rejoyce to see and behold any evil in others but mourneth over such that are left to themselves and the pernicious ways of that Will which is deserted by God in the ground and Principle of the Lifes operation though in his Sufferance they live and move and have their Being while they grow in that which is past feeling of his Love and are dead to the apprehension of his Power in the motion of which they were first quickned as given up to a reproved and reprobate sence XXV Therefore let the goodness of God to his Creature lead to Repentance as that which shall leave all Men without Excuse before him which is the only way to bring out of a perishing Estate under which the Worlds are fallen wherein his LOVE and MERCY maketh sensible of the Danger concerning which they are forewarned that as God cometh to leave any to themselves in the danger of their own Pernicious Ways so in like manner they be dealt withal by them that profess his Name and Truth and none to continue contending with the World in the wrathful Principle for it is not lawful striving with any People out of the Power of God in the Ministration of his Love because all wrathful furious drivings and strivings are under the Power of the Destroyer and it is the Devils strength to lead into the same though therein Divine Justice cometh to be exalted over the Creature in the execution of Vengeance that repayeth double to all the Rebellious XXVI Let the stiff-necked consider therefore why many have been given up unto Satan and delivered into the Tormentors hands for a season while Destruction and Contempt hath come on the Glory of the Flesh which is stained for the Hunter after mischief shall fall in his own Snare and Gin and the Trap he hath layd for
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
not be comforted but herein is manifest in the Valleys ACHOR which is given for a Dooâ— of Hope XCV For God was descended into all the Powers of Nature through his destroying Angels changing all Powers and Laws and Customs of the HEATHEN and uncircumcised in the ground wherein destruction wrought and renewing the Created FORMS in Nature into their first lovely Being as into these Kings of the EAST the Nature of the Beast had descended which had his Power renewed in an eighth Head and Mountain and they had the Power of the Beast and false Prophet or Whore wherein they were exalted to hasten the utter ruine and downfal of the DRAGON and Beast and false Prophet yet wrought Miracles in the Earth and incamped about the Beloved City the New Jerusalem which descended from above out of Heaven and they caused fire to come down from Heaven XCVI But the Holy People waxed strong and did exploits although the Foundations of all buildings in the Earthly Principles of Nature suffered great shakings and an utter overthrow wherein darkness filled the Seat of the BEAST and every Mountain was removed out of its place and great BABYLON fell as the nether Milstone that is cast into the Sea and every Island fled away before the Face and Presence of the Lord and were cast into the deeps of Waters that were drying up into their Anihilation and the smoke of the Torment of those Men that had the Mark of the Beast ascended upward as a place of Torment to the Spirit of the WORLD incorporated into the form of the Image CHAP. IX Describing the Glory of the New Jerusalem in the renewing Power of God which wrought up the efficacy of its change in the Forms of Nature XCVII AS all forms in Nature were subjected under the Power of God there was manifest a Spirit of ZEAL in the Qualities wherein the Creature became imbodied through which the change was wrought for the ten Horns of the BEAST did hate the WHORE whose flesh they consumed with fire and the Minstrels were all turned out of Doors because the Damsel was raised and the Bridegroom was come at Midnight wherein the Wise Virgins had prepared Oyl in their Lamps which were lighted and trimed burning in the flame of that which was gathered and reaped in the Earth by the Angel but the Apples of Sodom and Grapes of Gomorrah after which the Souls of many have longed became unpleasant Fruit because of the sound of the Milstone which could not be heard neither was there any Voice of the Turtle or the singing of Birds XCVIII Nor did the Light of any Candle shine therein but the sound of the Tabret and the Viol was departed out of the Land and the Sun ceased any more to shine while there continued a cry for want of Oyl among those that were foolish and at the Voice of the Grashopper the Aged rose up and were afraid as the Pillars of the House were shaken and the Windows grew dim the Grinders failed and the Pitcher that went oft to the FOUNTAIN was broken and the limit of the circumference of the Waters which were bound in that great River was loosed and inlarged and the Streams of Corruption dryed out of the same wherein it had compassed about the frame of the WORLDS like unto the Arms and Legs of a Man for every thing perished in its corruptible state and course until the form of the World became thus changed and the Dragon and Beast and false Prophet who had deceived the Nations of the Earth were laid hold on and bound down by the Chain in the Hand of the strong Angel of God never to rise again XCIX And Death and Hell was cast into the Lake of fire and a Seal was set on the power thereof that it never more should appear in the Worlds to marr the Workmanship of God and form of his Image and all forms of Nature shined out of the Glassy Sea on which the redeemed of God stood Harping and Singing and Praysing God which was sprakling like fire for the Heavens were rolled up together like a Scrole and the Elements were consumed with servent heat wherein was no more Sea but that Sea of Glass or first Waters in which was a new Heaven and new Earth and therein did Righteousness dwell for ever and ever C. For former things were remembred no more but the former Heaven and Earth was passed away and there was a Voice from the New Heavens Behold the Tabernacle of God is among Men and he is come to dwell in them and to walk among them for ever and ever who hath wiped away all Tears from their Eyes and sorrow and sighing is gone into perpetual silence and beautiful was the Countenance of him that came from Mount TIRZAH clear as the Sun and bright as the Moon and terrible like an Army with Banners whereby the power of the second Death was Conquered and came not into the new Heavens and new Earth CI. And there was the CITY of God which was placed between the SEAS in which was no need of the Sun by day nor of the Moon by Night nor was there any need of the light of a Candle to shine therein but the light of the Moon was as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun as the light of seven dayes and all labour in the Earth ceased to be neither did it Travel and bear its former burdens but the Lamb the Lord were the Light thereof for ever and ever and all things brought forth as in the beginning wherein the WOMAN was redeemed from sorrow and labour of Child-bearing and brought forth her SEED as Angels of God nourished in the Womb of Health wherein saving blessings were sprung up to heal the Nations and from the place of Conception from whence sorrow was removed did life break forth into being and the birth thereof was glorified in the sight of GOD but time and place were no more CII Sing therefore O ye Heavens and let the Inhabitants of the EARTH rejoyce because time is changed into Eternity and the WOES are removed out of its Quarters Death and Hell are Conquered in its dominions and the Sea and Grave have given up their slain the dead are come forth out of the secret Chambers of LEVIATHAN and the BEHEMOTH is overcome by him that sitteth on his WHITE Throne and rideth on his White Horse and the Walls of Brass and Iron are broken down and the Word by which every thing was created saith unto the hard Rocks Be ye soft and unto the high Hills Be ye bended down CIII The strength of the strong is bound in CHAINS and the Power of Mighty binders is loosed from Iron Fetters and the King over NATIONS hath said unto the Power of FIRE Be thou kindled into a burning flame to consume until Consumation become reproved and devouring flames are quenched the forms of Nature are comprehended under the renewing Power of God in
her borrowed Light from that fourth House which is become her seat in the second House which is her House of Exaltation CHAP. IX Describing the Properties of the IMAGE in the FORMS of Nature that fell in the WATERS XLIX THe Head of the IMAGE which was Gold was the LYONS four first Golden Wings wherein the strength of ASSYRIA was broken the first time in what was pluck'd from the LYON according to that which fell in the WATERS and the Silver Brest which was the two Horns of the RAM in Nature is the strength of the MEDES and PERSIANS that were broken by the Power of GREECE whereby BABYLON spread abroad her Kingdoms in the rising up of the little BEAR on the LYONS side wherein was that second great LIGHT comprehended L. But from the NORTH did he move about the Heavens through his TAYL wherein Centred the Meridian point thereof holding in his Mouth those three Ribs that were taken out of his Side in his rising up to devour much Flesh Furthermore said the Angel of God The great BEAR or LEOPARD that thou sawest is that in which a third part of the Stars of Heaven are comprehended that have fallen unto the Earth which is the brazen Belly of the IMAGE in the FORMS of Nature even the Power of GREECE in that which is dispersed under the Four Winds of the Heavens LI. This is a Power of the South Wind wherein the brass Belly of the Image remained bound down with an Iron Bond of the NORTH Strength from which it could not be loosed in the four destroying ANGELS of God until that was ripened to the Day of Destruction wherein the Wound of the BEAST had been healed up deceitfully though three Horns were plucked up by the Roots while the stumps of the IMAGE continued fallen in ASIA for the discovering of the four Heads of the Beast in which he bore the form of a Leopard or GREAT Bear but the LITTLE Horn waxed strong and became GREAT towards the four Winds of the Heavens LII For as I beheld the Throne of God placed in his Holy Habitation the Ancient of Dayes was sat thereon wherein appeared his burning Wheels and the signs in the WATERY HEAVENS discovered that which rested in their TRIPLICITY from the Zodiack whence those Houses of Mansions have their Constellations And though the RAM in Nature had the first Form in the Fiery Triplicity and was the first House of those twelve Mansions as is the CALF the first Form in the Earthly Triplicity and second House in those Mansions yet through the WHEELS the HEAVENS and EARTH were moved toward a Change throughout the seven forms of Nature in EACH Triplicity LIII Wherein the Lyon hath the Face of the first Beast among the FORMS in Nature though in his fifth House that which shineth from his Seat is exalted in the Head and Face of the Ram. But both the Created and Uncreated Beings having their generated Forms in the Body of Nature the first Form in the Airy Triplicity hath the Face of an EAGLE exalting that which is generated into the Double-Bodied-Being to be his House that is sheltered under the Wing of Favour in that fourth Beast through whom Death strengtheneth those Accidents that are drawn from the FIRST Form in the WATERY Triplicity from whence all changeable Courses do work up Life in the Brest of Nature wherein the SPIRIT of the Creature doth move which is the Candle of GOD through which Glory is put forth in those borrowed QUALITIES of Light LIV. Though from Barenness in the worldly Nature wherein the Glory of the Virgin hath been stained cancered crabbed Qualities have infected the Body whereby it hath sprung up and grew until from the second Form in the Earthly Triplicity the VIRGIN who hath sat in a dark place even the Bowels of Nature which is the sixth House in the Heavens came to put off her night Robes for the Glory of the Birth exalted in the separation of all mixt Qualities which is HEIR of everlasting Renown LV. Yet in the Watery Triplicity where in the Bodies Courses have been defiled through that which hath lain secretly lurking in the Members whereby the FORMS of Nature have power to generate an IMAGE of the Minds Delight the Womb hath opened to the Power of Death and letting in Sorrow into that which is possessed in the Eighth House whence the WORLDS are generated under a Power of Corruptian the Nature of the SCORPION stingeth in the Habitation of that second Form in the Watery Triplicity through the Pleasure under which its Subjects are allured for the multiplying of what is generated to secret content CHAP. X. Describing the MYSTERY of the Four Horses of four several Colours on which the four ANGELS that are loosed c. are come forth exalted LVI THrough the coming forth of the Son of MAN in the CLOUDS of Heaven who was cloathed with a Rain-Bow in which are all the colours of the Heavens in their pure Element as the Powers of Nature became subject to the exalted of God he rod on those CLOUDS that were dispersed abroad under the Four Winds of the Heavens as on the Rain-Bow in the Firmament whence every Angel of God is seen in his Beauty and Glory bending to the Son of his Love and Favour through whom he manifesteth the Life of Delight according to the source they possess and inhabit from the eleventh House of Mansions in the third Form of the Airy Triplicity like unto HORSE men that guide the Chariot of Nature LVII For the preparing of which DAY in its time those Goats have been suffered to come forth imbodyed in that which is loosed out of the bottomless Pit whereby the Earth hath been covered with Locusts wherein pangs have rested on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast Therefore saith the Angel of God In that third Being in the FIERY Triplicity wherein the form of the Son of Man is come forth exalted in the Clouds of Heaven through that which smiteth the EARTHLY Triplicity in its third part among the Forms of Nature the BOW Man is riding on his White Horse and over the White Clouds of the Heavens he hath spread his Glory from the North because of those flying Goats in his Way whose ratlings are like the Chariot-Wheels of the FURIOUS Drivers LVIII And in the Watery Triplicity the burning Mountain continueth in flaming from that which is cast into the Sea which doth rage and swell because of the disquiet that is come into its part of the Triplicity in that Watery Form over whom the Glories of the Heavens do not shine in that third part and wherein both Earth and Waters and all that live therein or move thereon are smitten in the aforesaid third part that resteth its torment on the seat of the BEAST into which Glory hath shined from the Heavens in the operation of those Signs of the Times LIX From whence I see great Alterations and Changes attending the