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
judged and so Out of your Own mouths you are judged Rom. 2.2 And this is the Judgement which is of GOD which is according to Truth which that of GOD in all your Consciences sets to seal and shall set to seal the Truth of GOD's Judgments Now such men which by their own Confessions who out of their own mouths are judged which the Light in their Consciences witness that they are the servants of the Devil and the slaves of the Devil and the Devil is their Lord they will go to a Priest which Priest sayes he is the servant of God and they will confess to him some of their wickedness and the Priest will judge of it Now I will tell you what Paul saith to such a Priest Rom. 14.4 What hast thou to do to judge another man's servant to his own master he standeth or falleth So this I find the People in the Iniquity and the Priest in the Iniquity each one partaking of each others Iniquity Again There are those which do say they are Gentlemen and say such a one is a Gentleman and such a one is a Gentleman and such a one is a gallant Gentlewoman which are well bred he is a very understanding man he can complement well he is a man that can sing well and among such as are his Equals he is very Noble and will keep company and drink and be merry and knows very well how to behave himself amongst Gentlemen in all manner of good behaviour and courteous salutation And as for that Lady she can sing well and play well upon Musick and she knows how to behave her self well towards Gentlemen in bowing the body and speaking pleasant words But now if I were to ask a wise man Of what Kingdom is all this Is it of the Kingdom of GOD which is come down and is coming down among men or is it the Devil's kingdom which is the ground of deceit in the hearts of men Christ said Be not you called of men Masters Matth. 23.7 8 10 nor be not you called of men Lord for one is your Master and one is your Lord which is in Heaven Christ did never teach Lying nor Pride nor Vanity nor Lust nor no such evil thing but his Life bore witness against them for he said My Kingdom is not of this World if it were Joh. 18.36 then would my Disciples have fought Now hereby I know that all these who are in the fore-mentioned Lust Vanity Lyes Flattering and Deceit in their words works carriages and behaviours that they are not of Christ's Kingdom for being vain in their mindes and proud in their hearts after that they have flattered and complemented one with another when a matter or cause comes in competition between them to have the Superiority and Mastery and the most of the goods riches and glory of the kingdom of this World they fall into contention strifes debates quarrellings and fighting one with another somtimes to the slaying and murdering one of another Now these are they which the World call Gentlemen Oh! utter shame to all the World If they came but to see their own Ignorance in this matter Christ said Learn of me for I am Meek and Lowly Matth. 11.29 And He forbad His Disciples which learned Meekness of Him and Lowliness of Him to be one with the World in that which they feigned as their lowliness and which the World do now say is their lowliness and humbleness Matth. 23.5 6 7 14. Luke 6.26 in salutation Be not you as the hypocrites are that love greetings and salutations in the Market-places and love the uppermost Rooms at feasts and that love to pray to be seen of men or to have the praise of men or to be well spoken of in the worlds wayes Wo be unto you when all men shall speak well of you saith Christ For those which were in the customs of the World then which were vain-glorious and proud loving the praise of men and the flattering-words of men to flatter men with words of praise they were at enmity with Christ and his Disciples then Of which disciple-ship Paul bears his Testimony exhorting the Brethren saying Be not conformable to the things of this world Rom. 12.2 but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mindes And now such as are called and do call themselves the Gentlemen in these dayes they have done and in all places are ready to do the same things which the former evil generation did unto Christ and the Disciples and the Brethren which were transformed by the renewing of their minds to as many which also are now led out of the vanities of the World to bear witness against the deceits of the World and the Iniquity in the hearts of the sons of men Furthermore those which say they are Gentlemen Some are Scoffers that 's Ishmael's brood and have Envy in their hearts which are Cain's Brethren They will pull off their Hatts to a man's face and envy him in their hearts and mock him behind his back and will smite and fight and quarrel and yet such are called Gentlemen and are said to have good breeding and good manners whilst they have but the breeding of the wicked and the manners of the scornful and this is rottenness and dirt and chaffe the drosse and off-scouring of the Earth and when any of them come to know GOD they shall know this to be Truth according to the mind and will of GOD answering that of GOD the Light in all Consciences And again some of your Gentlemen will Lye and swear to a Lye in whose mouths Lying and Swearing is as common talking and some know how to complement to go a whoring and to be drunk with Whores and to make themselves merry upon the beds of Whores and they dresse up themselves in gay apparrel and perfume their apparrel to come with pleasant smels in the nostrils of Whores to be accepted in the house and eye of the Whores And Whores doing the same to be accepted of Whore-mongers to smell sweet in the nostrils of Whore-mongers and they paint their faces and put black spots in their faces the Devil's Mark in their faces that they may be well accepted in the sight of their Lovers and that their beauty may be pleasant to the eye and their smell sweet in the nostrils of their Lovers Many of these are your well-bred Gentlemen and Gentlewomen but they are a stinke in God's nostrils and an abhorring in the eye of the Lord whom the LORD GOD in his mighty Day which is at hand will make an everlasting abhorring unto all flesh Your well-bred Gentlemen and Gentlewomen which are said to be of great Parentage and of great Births Noblemens Children their Fathers men of great Estates they must be honoured and they must be respected for they are gallant-bred Gentlemen and Gentlewomen and are full of good manners whilst the least part is not equal in all their members
many large words and Shews and likenesses yet not being in the substance in the Righteousnesse of God which is Christ the Light By the substance which is the Light the Lord God who is Light will overturne them all and by the breath of his mouth will blow over all confessions and professions and those which make them and like as untimely leaves they shall fall Jer. 48.11 and perish and rot on the Earth For behold the Lord God hath looked and hath seen and seeth all the World asleep and like unto Moab setled upon their lees which have not been emptyed from vessel to vessel and the old scent of their traditions in whom iniquity is increased by their traditions remaines in them and the tast is not changed at all And now is the Lord of Hosts which brought Israel out of Egypt stretching out his Arme for the sake of the Captivate to break the bonds and loose the captivity for he hath said in his righteousnesse they which have lead into captivity shall goe into captivity Rev. 13.10 and the captivate shall goe free Oh all ye Sons of men who are endued with sobriety and moderation ponder your waies and consider your doings for behold the Lord lifteth up his hand against all the ungodly and now the voice behind you saith Isa 30.31 this is the way walk in it who therefore sent his Son into the world a Light who hath lightned you with his true Light that you should walke in the Light which convinceth you in your consciences of all sin when you are in secret and none eye seeth your hearts and the Light tels you in your minds your wicked evil intents and when the thoughts of sin arises in your mindes the Light shewes it to you which if you love and join your mindes to the Light it wil save you from your sins then you wil know the end of Christ's coming in the flesh which was to save his people from their sins Math. 1.21 1 Jo. 3.8 and that he might destroy the works of the Devil the works of him which doth evil that is the wicked one in man which was a lyar from the beginning Wherefore all people prove your waies and prove your hearts for the Mighty God is coming to search the Earth and to make a narrow search through it And this is the Inquisition which the Lord of Hosts will make through the whole Earth for the Soules which have been slautered and starved and all the wrongs which the Innocent have suffered by the Inquisitions of the Sons of men who have as it were hunted after mischief and blood in all their waies Woe to the Shepherds to the Prophets and Pastors of the Flocks which feed their flocks upon the mountaines and nourish their increase with winde the wind of the Lord God will disperce them and make their heritage a howling Look to this thou populous Noe Nahu 3.8 that art scituate among the Rivers that hast the waters round about thee whose ramparte is the Sea and thy Wall is from Sea to Sea when the Lord God dries up Euphrates then shall his army have a passage unto thee And then his Priests shall sound about thy Walls with Rams-hornes Rev. 16 12. and in a day thou shalt fall as Jerico except thou repentest and this unto thee is the word of the Lord God whether thou wilt hear or forbear Therefore to the way which will lead thee from the woe which will redeem thee and lead thee from the cause which is the multitude of thy sins The Light will lead thee unto Fear and Dread and trembling and palenesse and feeblenesse before the Lord of Truth and Righteousness whose vials are filled and prepared and behold God's long patience is exercised to try thee and to prove thee and now a warning is come and cometh to thee and the whole World Enter therefore into the straitnesse of the way the Light which God setteth as a marke either for thy rise and salvation or miserable downfall into Judgement and Destruction which if thou repentest not as sure as the Lord lives he will make thee to know that thou shalt become as Babylon which he shall be called blessed that dasheâ—h the Brats of thy uncleannesse and Whordoms against the Stones and this upon thee shall stand as the Word of the Lord to be fulfilled in Judgement except thou repentest And now I tell thee there is no salvation under Heaven for thee but the way which is set for the simple the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World in which the wayfaring men though fools cannot slide nor erre therein and this is the Declaration of the Lords Truth to be witnessed by the seed in all even by that of God in every man's conscience Now if any man or Woman upon the face of the Earth King or Queen Prince or Princess Priest or People from the highest to the lowest in all Nations of the Earth do say That the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World is not the true way to God's Kingdome or if they say that there is another way under Heaven which leads to Life besides the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World I say their way is darkenesse or if any manner of persons do hate the Light and mock the Light they are witnesses to themselves that they are yet in darknesse And they who have another Rule or Guid to lead them than the Word of God which is nigh you saith Paul in your mouth Rom. 10 8. and in your heart or if they say they have another guid than the Light which shineth in their consciences it is a false Guide and leads into Darknesse Again if any Priest or People from the highest to the lowest do Scoffe and Mock the Messengers of the Light let that stand before all grave sober-minded men as a signe of the last times and of the Spirit of Antichrist in those which are the Mockers and the Scoffers whether Priest or People from the highest to the lowest 2 Pet. 3 3. and so here Peters words are fulfilled In the last daies shall come scoffers walking after their own lusts But God will make them all to know concerning all Mockers and Scoffers of his Light and the Messengers of his Light that he sits in Heaven and sees them and laughes them to scorne for they are the despisers wonder and perish Act. 13 41. for whom this was written Behold I work a work in your daies saith the Lord a work which you shall in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you and so those who despise the Light they are in Darkness and so great is their Darknesse that they cannot see their darkness but I feel their Darkness to be thick and like a cloud which the Light hath covered them with because they despise the Light and Mock the Light wherewith they are lightned
which hath shined in all their consciences and this to that of God is Truth and shall stand to be witnessed by that of God in all consciences which the World hate who make a Mock of the Light for the Truth is but one and the Way is but one and that one is Christ the Light which lightneth every man that cometh into the World which Baal's Priests and Prophets did alwaies despise and mock and this standeth over all decitfull hearts and Tongues Concerning Righteous Judgement GIve eare give eare ye Iudges and hear ye Rulers and Iustices of the whole Earth The Lord God is come coming to look for the fruit of Righteousnesse and Truth from you all Livit. 19.15 God looks for true Judgement from all without respect of Persons in judgment that justice and true judgement may give the Widdow her right and let the oppressed of the Land goe free and God looketh that you should incline your eare to the Cry of the poor and answer the lamentation of the needy and the fatherless in his time of need God heareth their cry even the cry of the poor and needy the fatherless Widdow and oppressed who cry for judgement which cries for mercy Behold the Lord cometh to look for the fruits of Righteousnesse among you mercy and true judgement to be found in you Oh all you high exalted in the strength of the conceits of your Wisdome you must come downe from the top of Mount Carmel come down to the true measure of equity come down to the just weight and ballance of true judgement in which all the Kings Princes Judges and Justices of the whole Earth shall be weighed and measured by the true measuring line of Judgement such as have judged for gifts and rewards and have not turned their hands from Bribes but have loved the liberal hand of I will give you Sir This is a present for my Lord which hath blinded the eye of Righteousnesse and so Equity and true Judgement hath been turned backward and here corruption Reigns and the fruits of Righteousness not brought forth for the true judgement is wanting and the ballance is not used to weigh a trive and a present the Life of the needy is not set in the Scale against it which in the ballance of true Judgement is the greatest weight here the Innocent is undone the Widdow poures out her Teares and the groanes and cries of the poor the fatherlesse and oppressed goe up to God and God weighs that in the ballance of his Sanctuary Amos 2.6 Mich. 3 against the lightness and wickedness and corruption of the unjust Judges vanity who turn the poor and stranger from his right and sell the needy for a pair of shoes and here Zion is built up with blood and Jerusalem with Iniquity when the heads thereof judge for rewards Wherefore all ye Rulers Justices Judges come and learn to rule and judge aright in your own house that you way become Ministers in the house of the Lord for he which judges in Truth and executeth Judgement in Righteousnesse he is a Minister in the Lord's house he bears not the sword in vain but with the Sword he is a terror to all evil doers and a praise to them that do well here the wicked come to be cut off and the murderers slain with the edge of the Sword and this cleanseth the Land of Evil doers and from shedding all Innocent blood here the Just rejoiceth and the Vpright and Innocent is made glad when the Harlot is cut off and the Whoremonger destroyed and the sword in Judgement held over the head of the wicked then there is no more filthinesse in the Land there is no more uncleanness in the City for Truth runs downe like a stream and Righteousnesse covers the Earth and the Knowledg of God the Land as waters cover the Seas A man's enemy saith Christ is that of his own house Come learn Judgment true Iudgement ye Nations of the Earth that the fruit of Righteousness may be brought forth amongst you and in you Draw the Sword and set up the Sword first in your own house and learn to know the Murderer there and the Harlot there and the Wicked there and the Lyar in your own house which David said he would not keep in his house he loved Judgement and therefore from a Shepheard God exalted him upon the Throne Ps 101 7 8. and with him the Sword of Judgement was set up in his house and in the Land to root the wicked out of his house and out of the Land and to cut off the seed of the evil-doer Now the false lover in you which loves Rewards Gifts and Presents or any Love which is not the Love of the Light the Love of Christ in you that 's the Harlot which betraies you and the murderer which murders the Innocency of the Just and perverts his cause and strangles the Innocency of his cause which the Sword ought to right and that which swears and tells a Lye in you that is the wicked one who was a lyar from the beginning who was a murderer and that which lusteth unto Envy in you because you have not your wills in the flesh that is Cain's seed his own nature and life which slew Innocent Abel which is for Judgement and for the Sword for God hath set a mark upon it to that end Now Abel's blood mark Abel's blood which is the Life that little grain of Innocency which is oppressed in your hearts and minds that little poor seed which never did consent unto evil in you but was pressed down with heavinesse to heart and laden and burdened in you even to the Soul which the Soul felt in time of sinning and when you had committed sin the Light in you which cries for Justice the Blood which cries from the Earth for Judgement Amos 2.13 which God hears that is the oppression of God's Soul which the wicked in you have laden and pressed down as a Cart is laden and pressed down with sheaves over which wicked one in you the Sword is to be set in your own house the two edged Sword of the Lord his Word the Light which will slay the enmity in righteous Judgement and the life of the wicked-cut off And so measuring and ruling your own house with the Judgement of Truth here you become equal Rulers for God of all the world without you for the Just hath his right within the ballance of equity is set up within and here the true eye is open which looks into the Justness of a cause and sees the Justness thereof and loves it and for the sake of truth deals Justice to the Innocent and Judgement to the Oppressor then the eye discerns aright and gives unto every one his right and cannot look upon any with prejudice because he is thus or thus or because he was thus or thus here no man is respected because of his place or because of his