come and the Glory of the Lord is risen and arising upon her and though the Darkness doth cover the Earth and the gross Darkness the People yet the Lord shall arise upon her and his Glory shall be seen upon her and the Gentiles shall come to her Light and Kings to the Brightness of her rising and she shall awake and put on her Strength and her beautiful Garments shall be put on for henceforth there shall no more come into her the Uncircumcised nor the Unclean therefore cleanse your Hands ye Sinners and purifie your Hearts ye double-minded that you may be accepted in this the Day of the Lord 's lâ—rge Love and Mercies that is so largely held forth and proffered unto you to invite you that you might not partake of the Plagues of BABYLON which shall speedily come upon her at unawares in an Hour when you least think of it shall Desolation and Destruction come upon her and upon all them that are found in her partaking with her of her Sins O therefore as you tender the Eternal Welfare of your precious Souls which ought to be counted as dear and as precious in your Sight as any Man's Soul that ever lived on the Earth for they are precious in the Sight of the Lord therefore prize them and this the Day of your Visitation for you know not how soon the dark Night may overtake you and you may be sealed up in the Pit of utter Darkness and no Means afforded you whereby you may be redeemed into the Light again therefore consider of these Things while you have Time and Space and come forth of Babylon and touch no more of her Uncleanness lest you perish eternally with her in your Stubbornness and gain saying the VVitness of God in your own Consciences which dâ—th stand a true VVitness against you in these things and let not the long Forbearance of so merciful a God whose Spirit hath for a long time striven with you and still rises up to condemn you in your own Hearts for your evil Deeds I say let not his long Forbearance harden your Hearts against the Day of Slaughter because his Judgments are not speedily executed upon you for verily his Spirit shall not alwayes strive with Man but at last you will provoke his VVrath cause it to be kindled against you his fierce Indignation will break forth of a sudden upon you and Horror Dread and Terror will take hold on all such ungodly VVretches which do Despight to his Spirit of Grace which hath long striven with them in their own Hearts and Consciences and have turned it into Lasciviousness and VVantonness and put the Day of the Lord their God afar off from them yet let all such know that he is nigh unto every one of them to smite them in their own Hearts and in their own Consciences for disobeying of his righteous Law and just Command which he hath clearly made known unto them for what may be known of God is made manifest in thee for he hath shewed it unto thee O Man And though there hath been a long time of Darkness Ignorance whereat the Lord hath winked but now since the true Light hath shined in all Hearts so manifestly so that none can plead Ignorance after they once come to be acquainted therewith now doth he command all Men every where to repent he that shall deny to obey his Commands shall be left without Excuse in the Sight of God and in the Sight of his Witness which shineth in his own Conscience for the Commands of God are not grievous but they that love him keep his Commandments and meditate upon his Law Day and Night for their whole Delight standeth in walking in his Statutes The Man of Sin Death separated from the Man of Righteousness and Life wherein the first mâ—n Adam is manifested to be of the Earth earthly and the second Man Adam to be from Heaven heavenly THou that hast any Longings or Breathings after the Lord God that made thee and formed thee in the Womb who stretched forth the Heavens as a Curtain and by whom the Foundations of the Earth were laid and thou that hast any Thing in thee that is oppressed by the unrighteous Power and groans under the Burden of Oppression and desires to be set at Liberty even into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God arise out of thy dark Slumbers for the Night is far spent and the dawning of the Day of the Lord God of Power is come and the everlasting Son of Righteousness is risen and arising even Christ Jesus the eternal Son of God the Son of the everlasting Day who is the true Light of the World and hath enlightned every Man and Woman that cometh into the World with a Measure of his true Light which Light shineth in the Consciences of all the Sons and Daughters of Men and this is the Light that lets thee to see the Thoughts of thy own Heart For he that formed the Mountains and created the Winds he declareth unto Man his Thoughts and the secret Intents of his Heart whether they be good or evil and this the Lord hath placed in thee to bear a true and faithful Testimony for him against every Appearance of Evil is God's Gift unto thee which Gift is perfect and without Sin for it is a true Measure of his Son Christ Jesus which hath enlightned every Man and Woman this did never at any Time consent to the speaking of any evil Word or the acting of any unrighteous Action by thee or any other of the Sons or Daughters of Man but hath and doth at all Times stand a Witness for the Lord God of Life and hath at all Times been the Condemner of the Transgressor and the Worker of Iniquity in thee and them Now fallen Man being Darkness it self having no Means whereby to discern his own Thoughts yet this Light hath shined in the Darkness but the Darkness could not comprehend it therefore hast thou and all Mankind for a long time walked in Darkness and thy Deeds have been the Deeds of Darkness and thou art become a Stranger to God and to his Wayes of Light and Life by Reason whereof thou lovest Darkness rather then Light because thou lovest thy own Will thy evil Deeds which proceed from thence whereby the Heritage of God in thee hath beenlaid waste his Righteous Seed oppressed and trampled under Foot in thee by the Power of Unrighteousness through thee but now after his long Forbearance and after many gentle Admonitions which he hath held forth to the Rebellious Sons and Daughters of Men after all this is he appearing to make himself known and now are the Cries of the Oppressed entred into the Ears of the Lord God of Sabbath and he is now jealous for his Seed's sake which hath long suffered under the Burden of Oppression and he is now manifesting himself in this his great Day to plead with all Flesh
therefore am I out of the Tenderness of my Soul and in bowels of Compassion towards thee moved to warn thee and to advise thee in dear and tender Love to the oppressed Seed in thee which groans to be set at Liberty Now the Desire of my Heart is that thou shouldst awake out of death and come unto CHRIST the LIGHT that he may give thee Life and to cast off every weight and burden and the Sins that so eaâ—â—ly beset thee and that thou shouldst put off the Armour of darkness and put on the Armour of light for assuredly there is nothing that makes a Separation between thee and thy God but Sin but now herein stands the wonderful Love of God towards the fallen Sons and Daughters of Men who were dead in Sins and Trespasses and altogether in Darkness without any Means or Hope of Recovery in themselves now the Lord beholding poor distressed man in this State whereinto the Prince of Darkness hath captivated him out of the Tenderness of his Compassion unto the poor distressed Sons and Daughters of men he gave his only begotten Son into the World for a Light and to every man and woman which is born upon the Face of the whole Earth hath the Lord in mercy given a measure of this true Light which hath enlightned every one which cometh into the World in which Light standeth the Power of God and in this Light man comes to see his Sins and to see the Deceit of his own Heart which otherwise he could not have seen and though thou art unacquainted with it yet that is it that lets thee see the actings of the Prince of Darkness in thee for if he plotteth in thee any mischievous Intents whereby to destroy any man's Person or Estate and so endeavours to make thee an Instrument whereby he may do it secretly in the dark and although no Eye of man can see thee nor see his secret acting in thee yet this Light will follow thee and discover his subtil Delusions unto thee and make him many times appear odious unto thee and calls thee and invites thee from following of him and many times brings Fearfulness and Dread upon thee for thy wicked Actions now this is that that would redeem thee out of Sin which saves all them that believe in and follow the Son of God the true Light of the World out of Sin and Death which is the Wages thereof Now it is but vain for thee or any other to call Christ thy Redeemer and thy Saviour and to say that thou hopest to be saved by Christ after thy Death because he was crucified at Jerusalem sixteen Hundred years ago and yet thou livest in Sin and Wickedness in Pride and Vain-Glory of this world which passeth away as a Vapour of the Night afore the Morning Sun but for all this let me tell thee plainly without Deceit nevertheless for all thy high Conceits of thy self and for all thy vain Hopes and thy feigned Faith thy Hope is the Hope of the Hypocrite which will perish in the time of Trial and thy feigned Faith cannot give thee victory over the world therefore if ever thou comest to witness Redemption to thy Soul thou must witness Christ's Death to kill Sin in thy mortal Body and thou must witness his Resurrection in thee And as for his Sufferings at Jerusalem I own according to the Declaration of the Scriptures but thou must witness him nearer to thee then at Jerusalem if ever thou witness him to be thy Redeemer and the Salvation of thy Soul Now let me reason with thee a little in Coolness and Moderation if Christ be thy Redeemer what is it that he hath redeemed thee out of seeing thou yet livest in Sin and in the Polutions of the World And if he be thy Saviour what hath he saved thee from seeing thou art yet in Bondage to Sin and Iniquity Therefore the sting of death is not yet taken away while Sin remains so thou canst not call him thy Redeemer in Truth and Righteousness unless thou couldst witness him to have redeemed thee out of sin and transgression and thou dost but deceive thy self to call him thy Saviour unless that thou couldst witness that he did save thee out of temptations when they arise in thee from thy own Lusts and so from Sin which they bring forth and from Death which is the Wages thereof Now as the first Nature hath reigned which is of the Earth earthly in all mankind which is the first Adam over whom Sin came to have the Dominion whereby Death came to reign over all Mankind in that nature so now as the Children of men come to be begotten into Christ the Second Adam and so born of the new Birth of Righteousness they come to know what the Immortal Seed is whereunto the Promises are Yea and Amen and come to witness Christ to be the Redeemer and Saviour in Deed and in Truth and that his Cross in them is the Power of God unto Salvation and they see as they abide faithful in that which crosses their own fleshly wills therein they come to see the power of God and as they stand stedfastly faithful in it they come to see the Power of Light in them which is far stronger then the Powers of Darkness for they come to see Victory in it over the Devil all his subtil Delusions and over the Flesh and all its Lusts and over the World and all the Vanities thereof and as they abide in this Power which is CHRIST the Light of the World and the Power of God unto Salvation and as they follow him faithfully through all Sufferings and all the Hatred and Malice which arises against them in the Children of Darkness they will come to see him to trample down all his Enemies in them and make them his Footstool but as any man or woman goes out of the Cross wherein standeth God's Power and let their own wills rule in them then they go into the Power of the Prince of the Air which ruleth in the Children of Disobedience whose Dominion wholely standeth in man's corrupt and carnal will and then he leads them captive at his own Pleasure and so as they stand in his Dominion Sin comes to have Power over such in all his Motions and then comes in Complainings and Murmurings against the Lord who made them and so they come to cry out for want of Power and because they cannot have power and victory over Sin in their own wills and in their own time which is the very Ground wherein the Power of Sin standeth then when they see they cannot have Power over Sin there which is impossible for any to attain to unless they come out of the Power of their own will into that Power which crosseth it then they come to plead for Sin in themselves then they not having Power over it there they inform all others that they can never have Power over Sin nor be set free from
nâ—t but go unto my Brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God your God and Mary Magdalen came and told the Disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things unto her and now the Seed of the Woman was raised up mightily to bruise the Serpent's Head He afterwards appâ—ared unto his Disciples at sundry times and Places bidding them to go and preach the Gospel to all Nations he told them that he would be with them to the End of the World and commanded them to go to Jerusalem and there to wait till they should receive Power from on high even the Holy Ghost the Comforter which he had promised to them before and he told them that after the Holy Ghost was come upon them They should be Witnesses unto him both in Jerusalem and in Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost Parts of the Earth which accordingly came to pass when they were met together with one accord on the Day of Pentecost for there suddenly came a Sound from Heaven as of a rushing mighty Wind and it filled all the House where they were sitting and there appeared upon them cloven Tongues as of Fire and sate upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues as the Spirit gave them Utterance and there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews devout men out of every Nation under Heaven and now when this was noised abroad the Multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own Language and they were all amazed and marvailed saying one to another Behold are not all these that speak Galileans and how hear we every man in our own Tongue wherein we were born we do hear them speak in our own Tongues the Wonderful Works of God and they were all amazed and in doubt saying one to another what meaneth this Now the Seed of the Woman was raised up in many of these devout men and the Serpent's Head came to be bruised but yet there were others in whom the Seed of the Serpent ruled which caused them to mock and to say These men are full of New Wine but Peter was raised up amongst them by the Power of the Almighty to declare unto them the Eternal Truth of God whereby the Serpent's Head came to be bruised in many and the Seed of God to be raised up even in three thousand whose Souls were then converted and the Seed of the Woman still prevailed more and more and the Apostles went on in the Dread and in the Authority of the Lord declaring unto the Nations what tho Lord had made manifest in them even by the Operation of his Powerful Spirit they turned People from Darkness to Light and from the Power of the Serpent even Satan to the Power of God which was Christ in them the Hope of Glory and they told People that Christ was in them except they were Reprobates yet they met with strong Oppositions even within them and without them which arose from the Seed of the Serpent but yet they witnessed the Cross of Christ to be the Power of God to Salvation Now do but behold how suddenly the Seed of the Serpent came to be destroyed in Paul even by the Seed of the Woman who bruised his Head who being a violent Persecuter came suddenly to be convinced even by the Voice of Christ Jesus the Light of the World which Light shined round about him and he became Blind to what he had formerly seen and that Eye which formerly was blinded came to be opened and that Eye which formerly had been opened came to be shut and the Scales fell from off them and that Tongue that had formerly been drunk came to sound forth the Praises of the Lord in the Declaration of his glorious Gospel and not only Paul but whole Nations came to be converted unto God to be turned from Darkness unto the Light of the glorious Gospel and the Sound of God's mighty Day went through all the Earth this was a good Day wherein Christ warn'd his Disciples that they should work but yet this Day was to be darkned for Christ told them That the Night should come wherein no man could work for he saw that the Seed of the Serpent yet lodged in many of them who then professed him therefore he gave his Disciples Warning of them and told them by what Signs they should know them which were That they should come in Sheeps Clothing a fair outward Shew but inwardly ravened from the Nature of the Sheep and the Wolfish Nature should lodge in them which would make a Prey of the Sheep and continually seek to devour them and this Nature did arise from the Seed of the Serpent which lodged in the Hearts of many and came afterwards to work in a Mystery even in the Mystery of Iniquity and this was the man of Sin which sate in the Temple of God as God and exercised himself above all that is called God which was then vailed and not known except unto a few to whom the Man of Sin came to be revealed and the Everlasting Day of the Lord came to be known and they came to give forth their Testimony from the Seed of God which was raised up in them that the Ends of the World were come upon them and that the latter times were come whereof Christ had fore-warned them wherein Antichrist should come and that he was then in their Dayes come and that there were many Antichrists then gone forth into the world which Antichrists made up the one great Antichrist in Process of time and they declared that the Mystery of Iniquity did then in their Dayes begin to work and that the Form of Godliness should come to be followed and the Power of Godliness to be denyed And the Apostle exhorted the Thessalonians Not to be troubled neither by Word nor by Spirit nor by Letter as from us that the Day of Christ is at Hand So he declared that there should be a Night for else he had not spoken of a Day to be at hand which Night was then drawing on therefore he advised the afore-said Thessalonians Not to let any man deceive them by any Means as concerning the Day of the Lord for that Day should not come except there came a Night or a Falling away first that the Man of Sin might be revealed the Son of Perdition which Man was conceived from the Seed of the Serpent who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God even the God of the world who blindeth the eye of the mind of many And the Apostle declared unto the fore-mentioned People that the Mystery of Iniquity did already work only he who now letteth would let until he were taken out of the
spent and the Summer draweth on the Fig-tree hath put forth her Bud and the Vine her tender Grape the singing of Birds and the Voice of the Turtle is heard in our Land and now after all this Dark Night of Apostacy is the Glorious Day dawned and dawning unto many which many precious Souls have longed and breathed after desiring that they might have seen it but they could not attain thereunto but by Faith therefore consider what Age and Generation thou art fallen in even in a Day that is neither dark nor light but as the Evening-tide wherein the Son of Man is come and coming therefore trim up thy Lamp and provide Oyl in thy Vessels for verely the Bridegroom is coming and the Voice of them who rejoyce and sing Halelujah thereat is heard therefore prepare and come away left thou be shut out of the Bride-Chamber and so remain in Eternal Darkness even with the Prince thereof his Legions who is bound up in Everlasting Chains of Darkness never more to come into the Light therefore this is the Word of the Lord God unto thee whoever thou art Rich or Poor High or Low If thou sleight this the Day of thy Visitation which the Lord out of his tender Mercy hath freely given to thee the time will come that thou wilt see these things to be an Everlasting Truth then thou wilt see how thou hast spent thy precious Time in Vanity Therefore come unto the Light come unto that which makes manifest Iniquity in thy own Heart for that is the Light and obey it that thou mayest find Eternal Peace and Rest to thy Soul R. M. A Word of Love unto the Sons and Daughters of Zion and a Hand held forth unto them who are yet in Egypt's Captivity and to them who are yet in the Desert Wilderness My dear Friends you whom the Lord hath gathered and is gathering into the Chosen Generation and into the Royal Priesthood and you whose Garments are washed in the Blood of the Lamb which hath been slain from the Foundation of the World which Lamb of God you can behold and witness that he is come and hath taken and is taking away the Sins of many who have formerly lived in the World but now they are come to be chosen out of the World and are many of them become a peculiar People unto the Lord therefore you dear Sons and Danghters of Zion arise let your Light shine forth into the dark World that you may be faithful Witnesses that Zion's Redeemer is come and is redeeming Zion through Judgments her Converts through Righteousness that so they who turn Judgments into Wormwood and Righteousness into Hemlock may come to see the Gloriousness of Zion's Light to shine forth through you that 〈◊〉 Shame may come to cover their Faces and the Dread and Astonishment of the Lord may take hold of them for assuredly Friends this I know that as you stand in the pure Light and in Obedience to the Measure of God made manifest in you your Words and Actions being all spoken and acted therein will reach to the Witness of God in all Hearts and in all Consciences and so as you stand faithful to the Lord he will make you a Dread a Terror to your Enemies let them be ever so many and you will triumph over them all in the Lord yea the Devils shall bend and bow before you Neither shall the Gates of Hell or Death prevail against you for you are of the Seed of Abraham which are numberless to whom the Lord hath sent a Deliverer to redeem you out of your Captivity even out of spiritual Egypt and the House of Bondage therefore dear Friends be wise and walk circumspectly and let the Tenderness of your Love flow forth freely one to another for the Lord your Redeemer is Love and those that follow him are begotten into Love therefore Christ Jesus the Captain of our Salvation gave a remarkable Sign whereby all men might know that you are his Disciples which was Your Love one towards another therefore let your Moderation and Love appear to all men that so they may be convinced in their own Consciences that the Lord is at hand for verily Friends there is yet a mighty Seed which is under the Hand of hard hearted Pharach who will not let Israel go free to worship the Lord his God but the Lord is raising up his Prophet like unto Moses who shall bring Plagues and Vengeance upon spiritual Pharaoh even that corrupt Nature which lodgeth in the Hearts of the Sons and Daughters of Men which oppresseth the Seed of God which Seed groans under the burden of Oppression unto whose sighs and groans the Ears of the Lord God of Hosts are opened he will redeem it all in his own appointed time therefore Dear Friends as the Lord hath spared us in our Transgressions and in our Iniquities even for his own Seed Sake that his Mercies might be made known by us unto the World let us now wait with Patience until the Lord hath finished his own work who will redeem his own Seed in his time that so we may all sit down in his everlasting Land of Rest when Pharaoh and all his Egyptian host shall be destroyed even in the red Sea of his Wrath therefore thou sâ—ed of Zion arise and shew thy self forth in thy Beauty that so Fear and Amazement may take hold on all thine Adversaries And you Sons and Daughters of Zion come forth and appear in your Might for before your Faces all Flesh is as Grass and all the Glory of man is but as the Flower of the Field for the Appearance of your Beauty is admirable for it stains the Beauty of all Flesh and marrs the Glory of all the Sons and Daughters of Men therefore arise and thresh the Mountains even to Dust and let the Hills be laid low before you and raise up the Valeys that so a plain Way may be made for the Lord and for his ransomed ones to pass over Go on my dear Friends go on in the Dread and in the Authority of the Lord cut down and spare not neither let your Eye pity that the Nations may know that the Sword of the Lord God is drawn forth and furbished to cut down and to destroy that Nature in all the Sons and Daughters of Men which have rebelled against him whereby his pure Seed hath been kept in Bondage And you my dear Friends who are yet but passing out of Egypt and you who are got into the Wilderness beware that you look not back into Egypt and that you hanker not after the Flesh-pots thereof even the Glory of this vain World but go on boldly and with Cheerfulness let your Eye be alwayes at all times fixed on him who first brought you out of Egypt even from out of your former gross Lives and Conversation and follow him in Truth and in Faithfulness he will bring you through the desert
whom he hath ordained to sound forth his Mighty Day in the Ears of all Flesh that so all may awake out of the Dust and come to Judgment for now is he risen and arising in all Hearts who sits upon the Throne from before whose Face both the Heavens and the Earth shall flee away and their place shall be no more found And this is he that has long been waited for by many a tender Heart and longing Soul but now is he come and coming and behold his Reward is with him therefore blessed are they that patiently wait for the Day of his Appearance who will wipe away tears from all Faces and Sorrow and Sighing shall be no more then shall all Tyranny and Oppression be destroyed and then shall Peace be establisht in the Earth and Love and Unity among Men even thus shall it be when Sion's King shall come to Reign in Glory for then the Beast and the False Prophet which have long ruled the Nations and deceived those that have dwelt in the Earth and compelled people to worship and bow down to their Abominations and to receive the Mark of the Beast in their Right Hands or in thâ—ir Foreheads even the Mark of Sin and Transgression that Monstrous Beast whose Mark hath long been upon the Nations without which Mark no man hath bought or sold for these many Generations and they that would not receive that Mark came to be slain But now Praises be unto the Lord he hath brought forth many who cannot worship Man's Proud Will that Monstrous Beast neither can they receive his Mark any longer for their Father's Name is written in their Foreheads and they are come forth of great Tribulation and their Garments are washed white in the Blood of the Lamb and these follow the Lamb of God who is now come to take away the Sins of the World whither soever he goeth even Christ Jesus who is the Light of the World who hath enlightned every one that is come into the World with a measure of his true Light Therefore dear Friends you that are obedient to the Light and own it to be your Rule and Guide you are they whom the Lord hath chosen to place his Name in for whose sakes the Lord is now risen to plead with Egypt's King and all his Host and though they now harden their Hearts as an Adamant and bend their Brows as Brass stiffen their Necks as an Iron Sinnew yet will the Lord God bring them low even unto the Dust in this his great Day wherein his Jealousie is broken forth against all Flesh because they have corrupted their Wayes and have not turned at his Reproof but have cast his Judgments behind their Backs and turned his Grace that hath appeared unto thâ—m into Wantonness and trampled the Blood of the Covenant under their Feet but as it was in the dayes of old so will it be now in this latter Generation when Iniquity was at the height and Oppression did most abound in Egypt upon the Hebrews who was the Fleshly Seed of Abraham then did the Lord arise to plead their Cause who brought Judgments and Plagues upon the Land of Egypt and destroyed Pharaoh Egypt's King with all the First-born and all his Mighty Host so likewise Sodom when Iniquities were at the very height and their Sins did greatly abound then did the Lord's Wrath suddenly break forth upon them as soon as Just Lot was put forth from amongst them even in Flames of Fire from Heaven and devoured them so likewise dear Friends you that sigh and cry for the Abominations that are done in the midst of the Earth let not your Hearts faint for behold he that is clothed in Linnen fine and white which is the Righteousness of him that sanctifieth and of them that are sanctified for he that sanctifieth and them that are sanctified are all one He is gone forth to seal and to set a Mark on all your Foreheads that sigh and that cry at the Abominations which are committed by him that makes desolate that sitteth where he ought not and after he hath sealed you all even unto Redemption then shall them that have the charge over the Earth draw near every one with his Slaughter Weapon in his Hand and shall follow after him that has sealed you shall smite and shall not spare neither shall their Eye take pity but they shall utterly slay Old Young both Maid little Children and Women but you upon whom the Mark is they shall not come near him that readeth let him understand for the Lord is risen and he will smite the Earth with a great Slaughter and all Flesh shall know that he is the Lord and that he ruleth over the Kingdoms of men and he will utterly destroy that Nature that hath oppressed his pure Seed in you and in all the Sons and Daughters of Men and his own Seed shall come forth to serve him in Righteousness and true Holiness and though the Whore the Beast and the False Prophet have long born rule over the Heritage of the Lord yet now is the time drawing near when they shall be taken and bound and cast into the Lake which is prepared for them even for that Nature which would not have the Lord nor his Christ to reign over them under that may all the Enemies of the Lord be justly included and that is it which ruleth in the rebellious Sons and Daughters of Men which carrieth them forth into Pride Envy and High-mindedness one towards another and into Disobedience to the Lord and his pure Commands and this is it which the Lord is risen to destroy and not the Creatures for Christ came not to destroy Men's Lives but to save them therefore where-ever thou readest any thing of Destruction it is not meant the Destruction of the Creature or of his Natural Life but the Destruction of that Life in the Creature which rebelleth against the Lord which Life may truly be called Death for if that be followed by the Creature it will be the Death of the Immortal Soul and this is him which the Lord is risen to destroy and not the Creatures therefore saith Christ Jesus O Death I will be thy Death O Grave I will be thy Destruction So Friends this is the Enemy that you are to wait with Patience to see it destroyed in your own Particulars first and then aftewards that you may see it destroyed in others in the general and blessed happy are all you who have witnessed the Dead raised which hath long lain in the Grave under the Chains of Death and can now truly witness your Part in the first Resurrection and that you are truly risen with Christ the Seed for over you the second Death shall have no Power And you Friends that are as yet brought but in part to the Knowledge of these things be still and quiet in your Minds and beware of feeding upon Knowledge which is out of the Life for Knowledge will puff up but it is Grace that edifies therefore wait in the pure Patience that you may feel the Life to stir in you for that is the True Bread that comes down from Heaven which Bread is the Soul's Food for the Soul cannot be satisfied with Knowledge for to Know the Truth and the Things of God and not to live in them therein standeth the Condemnation Therefore dear Friends to whose Hands this may come wait that you may feel the Life which will bring forth the Travails of your Souls and then Knowledge will be encreased and Truth will abound and Eternal Peace and Happiness will attend you wheresoever you go and the Dread and Authority of the Lord will be with you at all Times Seasons as it has been a Dread and a Terror to that Nature in you which rebelled against the Lord whilst you were in the Polutions so likewise if you are faithful the Lord will make you a Dread and a Terror to all Evil-doers wheresoever you come they will be afraid of your Faces and afraid to trasngress against the Lord in your hearing and these things I know that many Thousands can witness to be Truth and all that are faithful shall witness the same and see it accomplished in the Lord 's due time unto whom be Eternal Praises and Dominion given by all that fear him for that he has brought this his wonderful Work to pass and hath revealed his Secrets even to Babes and to such as fear his Name Given forth by one which hath long mourned in Sion and is a Sufferer with the Seed who waiteth for the Redemption of all Creatures from under the Band of Corruption that they may all be brought unto the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God known to many by the Name of Richard Moore THE END