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
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
BEAST I beheld the pleasant Field and fruitful Garden working up the form of what indured and continued patient under those fiery Tryals until they became past over though many therein did dwell on a barren Heath who could not see when good comes whereby they perished in the Night of Obscurity and worldly sorrow that overtook them in their way wherein the power of DEATH wrought and became strong in the WORLDS CXIII And in the place of the fifth Head of the Beast in the midst of four which I had beheld Wounded as it were unto death were sprung up three other Heads And the Horns on that fifth Head which had received that deadly Wound were increased through the healing up of the Wound wherein a little Horn that sprung up between the Eyes of the Beast received Voice and began to speak great swelling words against the God of Heaven and his SAINTS that dwell on the Earth and the little Horn waxed strong towards the four Winds of the Heavens wherein the BEAST appeared with seven Heads and ten Horns which had Power in in the Beast to reign with him as Kings for their hour CXIV And whereas after I had seen the fall of five Horns on that fifth Head of the Beast I beheld remaining four Heads from whence sprung up four Horns in the dispersing abroad the Kingdom and Power of the BEAST under the four Winds of the Heavens so in the reviving of his power that which became exalted in the reducing of four to its first subjection ruled over five in which the wound was received and wherein the Beast came forth first manifest and in the discovery of both the rise and fall of the BEAST though through the great Horn of the Hee-Goat who did not touch the ground until he had accomplished his design after he had power given him in the awakened fury of the West-Wind the two Horns of the RAM from the EAST were broken and stampt in pieces that great Horn was also broken when its fury was accomplished CXV Yet was the power of the four Horns on those four Heads of the BEAST bound down in the four Heads of the great River until the time of the loosing of their four Angels that stood on the four Corners of the EARTH to hold the four Corners of the WINDS from blowing on the EARTH while the little Horn was magnified whereby the third Head which sprung up in the midst of the seven recovered four Horns from that which was dispersed under those four Winds of the Heavens and on the other six Heads were manifest six Horns CXVI Thus was the BEAST more monstrous then all those other Beasts that passed before him with Iron Teeth by which he did break and stamp in pieces And his Face was like unto a Leopard with the form of a third part of the Stars in the constellation of the HEAVENS on his Back but he had the Feet of the great Bear and discovered his power through the four Heads of the great River EUPHRATES in the loosing of those destroying Angels who came first out from the WATERS but the reviving of his strength from those deceitful healings proceeded out of the Earth through the power of the RAM in Nature CXVII And in the time of the sounding of the sixth Trumpet this BEAST came forth through the loosing of those destroying ANGELS out of the great River and through those earthquakes and shakings that were come into the WORLD wherein fell that tenth part of the great City God had returned unto himself his Tenths to be eaten as a Teyl-Tree and as an Oak whose substance was in it these were the remnant of the Holy Seed who worshipped the Lord with a pure Heart even in Spirit and in Truth and whose Garments were washed White in the Blood of the Lamb. CXVIII For they came to pass through great tribulations and Tryals in their WAY because they could not Worship the BEAST nor receive his Mark but they were preserved blameless before the Lord in that hour wherein Iniquity was not found in their HEARTS neither was there guile in their MOUTHS to be uttered with their Tongue And I beheld until the sin of MANASSEH became ripened and was filled up and the high Altars in both Courts whereon had been offered Sacrifice to IDOLS and Incense burnt to strange Gods which neither we nor our Fathers have heard of were pulled down because of the God of FORCES who was worshipped neither was the desire of Women regarded CXIX And after I came to see the WOMANS deliverance from the rage and fury of the great Red DRAGON who had cast his floods of Water after her in the time and times wherein she had been helped by the EARTH and sheltered by the Wings of the EAGLE with which she had fled into the Wilderness as the Dragon came to give up his Power to this monstrous Beast the remnant of her Seed was persecuted in the World for the space of full forty dayes And wherein the Sun had gone back ten Degrees for the prolonging of Life in the Just after he came to discover and reveal the glory in which was his safety before Babylons King who wrought by subtilty and much craft whereby fifteen dayes were added to his dying state CXX Those dayes were again doubled in the renewed Zeal wherein the Favour of God was multiplyed to the purging his House and Sanctuary according to the fifty-five dayes wherein Manasseh had caused the Israel of God to err in following after Idols And for ten days the Devil had power to cast many into Prison that they might be tryed and sifted by his cunning devices until their Garments became thus made white in the Blood of the slain Lamb of God CHAP. XI Describing the Form of the WHEELS in the VISION according to their MOTION wherein are numbred the dayes that the BEAST hath yet to reign and continue on the Earth CXXI AS to the form of the Wheels as they wrought and moved one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel like unto the form of the Worlds which are moved the one within the other the WHEELS never rested but went streight forward towards Eternity wherewith they were tinctured and moved in the power thereof as though they crossed each other and yet there was no crossness in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity from whence they were moved in the power of him that first wrought and laboured in the motion thereof CXXII For all crossness that appeared in the motion thereof wrought in the Earthly ground wherein the World 's laboured to Center in a Glory below the power of Eternity from whence every thing first proceeded and was brought forth to a day of Tryal in the FRAME under which the Body of Nature was constituted to exercises from the Glory of the HEAVENS wherein the Will of the Creature was subjected to a change through vanity that entered the WORLD in a state of corruptible Glory which was