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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54433	Immanuel the salvation of Israel the word of the Lord came unto me the twelfth day of the sixth month, in the year accounted, 1657, concerning the Jews and scattered tribes of Israel, as I was waiting upon the Lord in spirit, in Legorne in Italy, which in the name of the Lord I give forth to be copied, and sent throughout the world / written by ... J.P.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1660 (1660)	Wing P1620; ESTC R40666	8,533	14

dayes as he is received now in these dayes but unto whom the spirit of wisdome and understanding was given to read and understand that which the Prophets spake forth in Parables to the whole world of mankind which lay in sin and wickedness And therefore ye Iews now in these dayes ye ought not to speak of God or to name his name in perversnesse whilest ye ha●e to be reformed in your hearts minds and spirits but ye ought to hear the Message of the Lord God and to ponder it in your hearts that you may see how farre ye are yet from the Promise being not come in truth in spirit and in life unto the condition thereof fulfilled and made up in you untill which ye cannot justly expect the fulfilling of the promise unto you in the substance For whilest you are in your sins as your Fathers were in their sins in the day that they slew Jesus at Ierusalem you cannot but as men in the flesh look with any other than an eye of flesh for a God of flesh to come among you and to save you by the Arm of flesh Oh blind and sottish of dull ears and dark understandings and so could not your Fathers neither can you now as you stand see him that cometh to ransome the seed in spirit and in power Behold none other but Immanuel the Messiah which is God with us the light of the world that is come unto us and is passing through the whole world who will smite the earth with the Rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked 1.4 Now this is wisdome to know and understand that birth and nature of the wicked in you and to feel the power of that breath in you thereby to taste of the pangs of that slaughter in you and then ye will witness the Messiah come in you in spirit 〈◊〉 1.2 ●●e 3. and in wisdome and in a deep and quick understanding making the Heavens new in you and the earth new in you as Solomon saith God hath set the world in mans heart wherefore man cannot find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end thereof he that hath an ear to hear and heart to understand may now come to discern and read Nations Kingdoms Countries Armies Philistines Egyptians Aliens the seed of the Iew and the generation of the Gentile in him Mountains heaps of Stons Sodom Built and Gomorrah fenced Ierusalem trodden down Zion and her Daughter in bondage and her seed in great Captivity lamenting as in solitary places left and forsaken as in a wildernesse and as a Virgin Daughter in a strange land altogether left comfortlesse the poor the widow and the fatherlesse the blind the halt and the maimed all left without pity I say search your hearts in secret and see if this be not truth the light of Immanuel answering in all your consciences and hidden parts Again I say wait upon God with your minds staid upon the light in all your consciences and thereby God will shew you even by the coming of his son Iesus the Messiah the light of the World the fulfilling of the Law and of the Prophets in you that is to say thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy mind and with all thy soul and thy Neighbour as thy selfe this is the sum and substance of all which the light in all your consciences if ye follow it in your minds will perfectly lead to the fulfilling of and then ye will know that Immanuel the light of the World came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill the Law that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit which is according to the leadings of the light in all our consciences and this is from the Lord both to the Iew and the Gentile Furthermore to the scattered Tribes of the house of Israel this is the word of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who by a mighty hand and out-stretched arm by the hand of Moses his Prophet and Messenger unto the seed in Bondage in great Captivity brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt Even vnto you Oh ye Iews this is the word of the dreadfull Lord God of Hosts and as a sign unto you and among you and in you it shall stand unto the end of your dayes if you perish in unbeliefe and in your sins that the Messiah is come Jesus whom your Fathers slew through unbelief and hard-heartednesse in their dayes who slew him for saying in words that which they themselves did own concerning themselves in the substance according to their profession that is to say he declared that he was the Son of God and therefore they put him to death as a Blasphemer and they said that God was their Father yet were in their wilfulnesse so far blinded that they could not discern that their words in manner of the declaration tended to the same thing and was of the same nature and this shall stand the sign thereof unto the end if ye perish in unbelief to your perpetuall judgment that he hath lightned you all with his true light which shineth in all your conscences which sheweth you in secret the deceitfulnesse of your hearts and convinceth you in your minds of lying cheating coveting envy and of all sin and unrighteousnesse which is not according to the Law of God written in your hearts this sign the light in your consciences shall never dye in you which all your burning Lamps and washings and Altars and vails and holiest of holiest and all the other ceremonies were but signs and sigures and shadows of this everlasting signe and substance which shall perpetually stand to justifie you if you love it and follow it and walk according to it or to condemne you for evermore if ye hate it and walk contrary to it And be it also known unto you that if you expect another Messiah then him that is come which is Immanuel God with us in spirit and in life and power leading out of sin the land of bondage and darknesse and in vertue and in wisedome and in counsel and in judgment not judging according to the seeing of the eye or hearing of the eare but with righteous judgment in spirit who searcheth every spirit and the bottome of every heart with his light in every conscience ye are but Seekers unto this day for flesh to come yet farther to be an ease unto your flesh and to purchase more ease and liberty for your flesh in which state ye already stand even in the ease and lust of the flesh which God Almighty by the coming of his Son will destroy for because of sin and iniquitie and men living in the ease and lust of the flesh the Lord God will hasten judgement upon the earth Now consider search and

see ponder it and lay it to heart that you may know what you have waited for that you may understand whether you have waited and sought for the true thing to come to pass that henceforth ye may seek aright else you may all waite till your limbs fails you and your eyes perish in their holes and in the end you fail of the expectation and fulfilling of your vain conceptions and blind imaginations wait therefore in spirit in humility of heart that Immanuel the light of the World Iesus the Messiah by whom ye are lightened ye may come to know and feel the power of his light in your consciences by it leading you out of all your sinnes and iniquities which is Satans bond the Devils chain of darknesse linking you together in hard-heartednesse and binding you in the lusts ceremonies customes and traditions of blindness and ignorance thereby ruling in your minds and spirits Isa 28. that knowing him ye may also know by him the breaking of the bonds of Hell and the disanulling of the Covenant which is made with death ye set at liberty in life and spirit Hab. 1.13 to serve the Lord God of life who is a spirit and of purer eyes than to behold iniquity or countenance sinners in their evil wayes in the uprightness of your hearts and integrity of your souls that ye may be made unto him the praise of his name throughout the whole earth according to his promise that so ye may descern and feel the curse removed and taken from you which for many ages past hath stood upon the heads of the generations of your forefathers and remains unto this time upon you untill the eye of your minds which the God of this world hath blinded be opened by the Messiah Isa 42.7 which is come and coming to open the eye of the blind and to give the simple an understanding to discern the day of redemption Isa 35.8 and to be made partaker of his hour of salvation which is held and hid in a mystery who is appointed for a way and to be a high way for the ransomed of the Lord such as the wayfaring men though fools shall not erre therein Oh how do I mourn Oh how do I travel as in pain and great grief and sorrow for your sakes O ye Iews reading seeing and feeling that darknes which is over your hearts even the same which was and is in Egypt Spiritual Sodom and Egypt even such thick darkness as may be felt Oh why do ye yet in your hearts seek murther Why say and contend ye for more blood Seeing the slaughtered Lamb is a●ready come whom you say is to come and not yet come for if he were to come whom I declare in the name of the Lord is already come behold your generation are to be his slaughterers and the shedders of his innocent blood for the fulfilling of the Prophets that by the offering of his blood once for all he may for ever perfect them whom God sanctifies read Isa 53. Chapter which is fulfilled and see how far you put our selves from salvation by seeking yet cruelty murder in your hearts which your unbelief and wilfulnesse is the ground of How many signs would ye have ye have heared how many were shewed unto Pharoah yet would not he let Israel go free and will ye have or do ye seek greater then the Sun to be darkned Joe● 2 31. and the Moon not to give her light and the stars of heaven to fall and is not this manifest unto thousands And cannot you yet read within Will you say that you believe all that the Prophets have written Or can you say so and speak truth whilest you have not that spirit by which the Prophets writ forth the Scriptures Or could your Fathers understand the writings of the Prophets who wickedly persecuted and slew the Prophets Nay nay Behold this is the word of the Lord unto you all Iesus the Messiah hath cast his Rod before Pharoah the Prince of darkness in you and it is become a serpent which woundeth you in secret I speak unto you that have any sense or the least feeling of God and it devours your rods yea and will eat your life and will bring all the plagues of Pharaoh upon you for as much as your unbelief is but his sin untill destruction unto death as a flood overwhelms you except ye repent that God may be intreated for you And know ye that God hath been long suffering and now sheweth his mercy in this visitation of his love unto you shewing you the Messiah which is come Isa 49.6 and hath lightened you and is the light of the Gentiles also that he may be the salvation of God unto the ends of the earth Isa 60.1.13.19 Of a truth from this ye cannot be hid neither can ye in righteousnesse deny but that ye are lightned with the light of the world Isa 42.6 which is Immanuel the light of the Gentilies which also enlightneth the understanding of the Iews else could not the Iews unto this day understand that Moses was a Prophet of the Lord for he was and is the same even the word from the beginning which God said unto Moses is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart which shewed him the Law to be nigh and not to be sought for from a strange Land by which the children of Israel were condemned for their sins so that the guilt thereof stood upon their heads from year to yeare as in like manner the guilt of your transgressions stands unto this day upon your heads which your sacrifices cannot clear you in your consciences from for it is impossible that the carnall things can make satisfaction unto insinite justice which standeth over and measureth all transgression and therefore saith the Prophet Wherewith shall I come before the Lard Mic. 6.6.7.8 and bow my selfe before the high God shall I come before him with burnt offerings with calves of a year old Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams Or with ten thousand Rivers of oyl Shall I give my first borne for my transgression the fruits of my body for the sin of my soul He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God In this ye are all concluded with the great idolaters of the earth and with the Arminans and heathens also they have their Images without that is to say beads erosses p●ctures vessels and herein the Iews in the nature are also one with them who have their synagogues and vessels and Offerings and knows not him whom you imagine you make offerings unto and these are offerings of strange fire unto the Lord for which cause God hath not regard unto your serviers Jer. 2.3 for your Fathers forsook the fountain of living mercies in their dayes and then he spake by the mouth of his Prophet saying who hath required these things at your hands your solemn meetings are abomination unto me And ye are now in the same footsteps of your forefathers in the corrupted way of sin Isa 1.11 12 13 1● and blind path of hard-heartedness and unbelief and yet ye say ye worship God aright and furthermore this is your great sin and dangerous evil as other professions have their abominable Idolatries in the shew without your Idols are set up in your hearts and ye put the stumbling block of your iniquity before your face read diligently with true understanding Isa 8.14.15 Ezek. 1● 4. and marke your stumbling offence and fall And with you in the same nature all the Protestants Presbyterians I●dependants Baptists Seekers Ranters and the rest called Christians in general do worship although you and they are all divers in the Traditions of your and their Fathers in the manner of the practising your services yet in the substance you are but one that is to say Cains nature ruling in you all who offered a sacrifice and killed the just in him he killed just Abel without him and that nature which murdered Abel without him slew the just within him and so your severall words and diversities of opinions which stands but in the shadow is not at all that which makes a difference in the ground and substance being all but in one nature of transgression and way of the ungodly in unrighteousness and you cannot one stain or spot another or take glory unto your selves over another seeing the best of all your sects upon the face of the earth are but speckled beasts and parti-coloured birds and not one of you all are come into the way of the promise of God which is come to pass wherein the ransomed of the Lord shall onely walk and no unclean thing can tread therein And as for us who are the remnant of God and his seed gathered to his honour praise infinite endlesse everlasting glory all ungodliness and worldly lusts our life abhors and we are the redeemed of the Lord through the purchase of the blood of Immanuel the light with us and in us by which we are kept in the pure fear of the Lord God eternal to spread his name among you unto whom also the promise is that the seed shall be gathered God hath begun in the north Islands to perfect his praise throughhout the earth and because the Lord hath redemeed us from Nations Kindreds Countries tongues and people we are dispised of all Nations both Iew and Gentile and of the scornfull people of our own Nation England are called Quakers who are the Servants of the Lord in spirit This is written by an upright tender lover of all souls John Perrot THE END