Magitians Wisemen c. to come unto you commanding them to tell you the meaning of those strange and wonderfull Appearances and Apparitions that have been seen by many upon the Earth and in the Ayre in England and Wiles and Else-where But when the Magitians Southsayers Socerers and Astrologers Wisemen so called could not tell these Kings the meaning of those wonderfull things that had then appeared though they were sent for on purpose to tell them the meaning and interpretation of their Visions and Dreames also to read and interpret the strange vvritting that had appeared and to tell them the meaning thereof But when those Wise-men that the King sent for could not Read the writting nor tell King Nebuchadnezzar the interpretation of his Visions and Dreams Then was the Prophet Daniel spoken of after which the King commanded the Captain to fetch Daniel unto him and when Daniel came before the King Nebuchadnezzar then said the King thou art greatly beloved of God tell me therefore if thou canst the meaning and interpretation of those Dreams and Visions of the night which haveappeared unto me also read the writting and tell me the meaning thereof Now mark Daniel was not hasty to answer the King in these things nor was hee though a Prophet of God and filled with the Spirit of the holy God swift in speaking unto this great King nor did the Prophet when he did speak tell the King any thing but the truth and that which God gave him a perfect and cleare sight of and then with holy booldness in no small authority did Daniel tell the King the meaning and the interpretation of the whole matter Farther Daniel spake of great and wonderfull things that God had then given him to behold and see But neither the King councellers preists not subjects understood him nor do very many unto this day This Prophet of God was then had in great Esteem by the King for that of God which was manifested by him in so much that Darius highly promoted and greatly Esteemed him so did all save the evell and wicked Priests Counsellers and People such wicked ones as had before instigated King Nebuchadnezzer to throw Shadrach Meshach and Abednego into the fiery furnace only for their speaking the truth unto all to wit to the People Priests Counsellers and Kings Now take notice and see where any of those sad things had ever come upon those great Kings of Babylon had they not suffered the Children of the most high God to have been so wickedly abused as they were But God is just and a recompeneer of every one according to his or their deeds done in the flesh whither they be good or evill for Kings or Emperours must not thinke to escape the just hand of God though they may be above law and out of the reach of man And a just recompence of reward ye an exemplary one doth God usually render unto every man that turneth not to him in time such was Belshazzars reward for while he was Drinking wine in Booles to the confusion of the God of the children of light his Kingdome was taken from him mark that And after him succeeded King Darius who had Daniel the Prophet in very great Esteem yet how wickedly did Darius and his evil counsellers Act in making a Law that none should for forty daies pray for any thing save unto the King and unto this decree did Darius unwisely signe and when he had so inconsidratly signed that Law and decree Marke and see what followed They threvv Daniel the Prophet into the Lyons Den onely for praying unto the God of light And hath not this been the wicked practices of the Kings Counsels priests and powers of the Earth unto this day Yes yes it hath And no sooner at any time when light hath sprang up and broke forth and God raised up Prophets and People unto himselfe then the powers of the Earth both Kings Priests and Rulors yee and soldiers too have combyned together and taken counsel of the evill one and one of another and thereupon they have made decrees and laws to throw in to holes and dens and to stone kill burne hang frye broile banish and to destroy the Prophets yee the true Prophets children of light who have not provesied lyes in the Name of Iesus but truth nor have they divined for mony nor preached for hire nor for filthy Luker and Gayne as persecutors and blood-suckers belly-gods and blind guides do use to do Who do greedily seek at this very day and time to devoure the flock of Christ ye the true and lively flock and followers of God and Christ Now is there not very great need and necessity that you the people and powers of the Earth should be put in mind of these things Least you should post altogether into blood misery and confusion and many of you goe headlong to Hell for such Priest such a and People Be therefore warned intreated once more you that Rule over men to be just loving tender kind merciful for the merciful shall find mercy and they that rule over men should and ought to be just and for the praise of them that do well and for the punishment of evill doers least God smite you with his severe rod and judgements before you are willing or are prepared for it And now you that rule for God labour to feel the blessing in well doing and to see how many have suffered before your faces for evill doing and you that are in adversity as vvell as they that are in prosperity Consider I beseech you what God requireth at your hands also what he is now doing upon the Earth O that it might not be laid any more to your charge you mighty and powerful men the neglecting of your duties vvhen you have had povver enough in your hands to do good that then you have not done it But evill and thus evilly have yourequited God for all his kindness love mercies goodness and good vvill tovvards you Friends have not some in these dayes bin beaten vvith many stripes and hovv can you your selves think to escape the hand and just Judgments of the Lord God sure you cannot Escape them for Gods hand is stretching out against you Therefore all yee children of men learn to know that God is good to Israel and unto them that are of a pure and upright heart for a vvitness yee a svvife vvitness he is and vvill be against the evil ones Especially against the lofty ones of the Earth that vvorke iniquity And novv unto you O People Priests Kings and Rulers that have been in England vvithin this 20 years last past are now there Query Whither you have not found that to be true vvhich the Prophets have spoken off and foretold you vvhat vvould come And as sure as that is come vvhich is already past so sure vvill the remainder of this Prophesy be fullfilled and Heaven and Earth shall pass avvay before
Rule in and over them the mouth of the Lord off Hosts hath spoken it unto me O Remember remember therefore all ye Sons and Daughters of men yee that drink Wine in Boules and go on in your forgetfullness of God and his mercies you that sport your selves in your ovvn lusts yee in the lust of your mindes the lust of the Eye and the pride of life vvhich is the flesh the World and the divell I say remember that Tophat vvas prepared of old for such yee for the Rebellious and disobedient though they were never so mighty and great and novv learn to knovv that God the Lord of Hosts is no respector of Persons and for Bishops that are not as the Bishops spoken off in the Scriptures of truth vvere They are a loathing and an abomination unto God for such God hath allready spevved out of his mouth and so vvill he do again And for all you that are novv in prosperitie take heed least that glory you novv have be stayned againe by your slaying more of Gods poor Babes and Lambs and Sheepe of our Fathers pasture O that ever fulness of bread and plenty should cause great men so to forget God and that ever Gods goodness and mercie should so puffe up men as it hath novv in this generation done many vvho not long agoe had scarce Bread to eat or Garments to put on Verily friends vvhosoever you be that vvill not turn to the light and living God but vvill goe on in your fins ' abyde in your filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit God vvill judge you and at last destroy you Youridols Temples cannot nor shall 〈◊〉 you the decree of God is gon forth and sealed against such as vvorship idols and vvill not turn unto him And for you that vvill and doe but truly turne from the evill of your vvays and come unto God God vvill love and imbrace you in his everlasting armes of kindnes and cover you as vvith a garment and then you shall by little and little see the glory of God in the Land of the living and perhaps you shall as others have done before you see Gods wonders in the deep for so did King David vvho after his great abominations and turning unto God again and so have some others done after there returne unto God their maker insomuch that their whole lives have been lives of hearty sorrow and of everlasting praises And such can never sufficiently nor enough admire God and as David saith in the 107. Psalme so say I. O That the Children of men would but admire God for his vvonderfull works done unto and amongst the Children of men And in the conclusion of that Psalm the writer thereof saith Who so is vvise let them observe these things and they shall see the loving kindness of the Lord And so say I though they be Kings And when God shall raise up such a King to beare rule amongst any people let it be where it will the Lord God of heaven and earth will bless and prosper such a one while he shall faithfully continue and abide in God and then all his works and undertakeings for God on Earth shall prosper and such a King shall be blessed for ever and ever And then none can nor shall make such a one affraid for if he doth well who then shall harm him but if he doth evill while he so doth sin will continue and lie at his doore yee at Kings doors as well as at others For such as wee sovve such usually do we reap yee some times double and what measure men meet it is usualy measured unto them again Therefore leave off all your Idoll-Gods for shame all ye Kings and pretended Christians leave of say I all you High priests your superstitions Cerimonies Surplisces Pipes singing-boyes and sursingles for they are all a loathing and an abomination unto God plaine down right Popery against which the vvitness of God is gone forth And now take heed I pray and beseech all you Kings Priests and People of the Earth for the Lord sake of praying or finging out of the Spirit of God for that is but a deceiving of your selves and others that is a mocking of God and whither you see it or believe it or no it is so and where you will hear or forbear it is all a case for Gods word and witness is true and it will in his owne time prove so and you the powers of the Farth shall assuredly know and feel it so to be And for you that scoffe at the light you Ignorantly or knowingly scoffe at that vvhich you live move by for by the light all men have their moving living and being even while they dvvell in darkness and in the shadovv of death do doe the deceivers vvork upon the Earth for light hath shined in darknes but the darknes comprehendeth it not Take heed therefore and bevvare of Gods heavie judgments all you that laugh and scoffe at Gods people that vvalk in God are turned to the light and at their praying in the Spirit or by the spirit for such their have been and novv are that have been and are vvhole days in the Spirit yee and nights too vvhom the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath heard and ansvvered And though you the povvers of the Earth should combine altogether and make never so many decrees against such a praying People as Daniel the Prophet c. vvas yet they vvill vvhile they have life pray as Daniel did and some such do certainly knovv that God vvill at last break all your cords in sunder and in the mean time preserve them And novv vvhile you the povvers of the Earth doe make such lavvs and decrees against Gods praying Spirit in man the mouth of the Lord of Hosts vvill be against you I say in God that God hath determined that his People must and shall pray unto him in the Spirit yee and vvorship him in the Spirit and honour him and all men in the Spirit for God himselfe is head over all yee over all principallities and povvers and Spirituall vvickedness in high places and thus God hath and vvill rebuke Kings for his ovvn and Peoples sake the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it And novv the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in him our Father hath required commanded and in abled us 〈…〉 to pray against Spiritual vvickedness in high places and for all them that are in Authority over us that so under them vve may live a godly and peaceable life vvhich vvee the People of God doe and shall doe Farther I am sure that God hath novv made some of his People vvatchmen in Israel vvhom he hath commanded and required to give him no rest untill he hath made Ierusalem the praise of the vvhole Earth And this the Lord our righteousness who is life light povver and glory hath raysed up Prophets and children unto himselfe to pray unto him in the spirit
whole Earth Friends these things have been wonderfully revealed and made manifest unto mee from the Lord God Almighty in so much that I have often times been made to tremble before the living God in the seeing and beholding thereof And Verely true it is the Lord God Almighty is just in bringing thee O King of England with others in over your enemies it being according to his revealed word in and unto me long before it came to pass And as true it is that God the Lord of Hoasts is a rewarder of every man according to his or there workes and deeds done in the flesh wheither they be good or evell And wheither canst thou O Man O King flye from the presence of the Lord God Almightie Lord of Lords and King of Kings Verelie I knovv not vvheither thou canst flye from the presence of the great God for fly whethersoever thou wilt God will follovv thee vvith his judgments untill the measure of thine iniquities are full This have I seen and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it unto me Forther I have in the light of God seen terrible and dreadfull things that shall come upon the Earth some of vvhich are not as yet lavvfull for me to utter but vvhat is lavvfull and layd upon me to signifie unto thee and unto the children of men I have and shall freely doe it marke therefore vvhat followeth I have often times seen acertain number of men nigh thee O King of England I say I have certainly seen a number of men nigh thee O King severall times in consultation counselling thee to doe the things that are not good neither in the sight of God or man viz consulting together hovv they with thee might rid thy Territories and Dominions so called of an innocent harmeles quiet peacable people that hurt you not nor vvill they harm any body Though the bloody minded of all sorrs doe goe about to make thee O King and others believe other ways of us But my God vvill Ere long revvard all such with the evell of there ovvne doings For there vvill yet be greater tribulations upon the Earth then ever Also I have in the light of the Lord seen great Lightnings and Thunders that shall be the tirribleness thereof shall make both men and beasts affraid insomuch that they shall not know what to do nor whither to goe to hide themselves from the presence of the Almighty I have also seen other dreadful and tirrible sights vvhich shall be seen upon the Earth such things when they come as will amaze terrifie and confound many of them that believe not in the living God For Signes and Wonders there must be for a while that so the unbelievers may believe and know that Gods Word is true which he hath spoken in these last dayes by his Servants and Prophets Now in this Book is part of Englands dome to come Demonstrated Therefore do I once more according to the Requirings of God made manifest in and unto me beseech you the Povvers and People of that place not to harden your hearts any longer least more of you become as Pharoahs And do not you blind guids of the Earth Hirelings of any sort go about any longer to make your Masters and People believe that there are no true Prophets novv upon the Earth for in your vvillfullness darkness blindness and ignorance of God and of his misteries Christ being unto you a misterie I say in your ignorance and blind Zeal you have hitherto gon about to make both the Povvers and People of the Earth believe a lye and you have insenced both the People Povvers of the Earth against the Children of Light Servants and Prophets of God vvhom God hath raised up to bear testamony unto his name and truth as it vvas in the begining and it vvould have been better for you if you had not so doné sure I am if the Testamony of Jesus be the spirit of Prophecy as I both knovv believe it is Then God hath many true Prophets novv upon the Earth who have and do in Gods Name Authority Power and Strength Prophecy yea and they have foretould you the People Priests and Powers of England c. what would come upon you part whereof is already come to pass and the remainder is comming and such dare not Preach Lies in the Name of God and Christ as the false Christians blind Guides and Hirelings of the Earth do vvho Preach for Hire and Divine for Money and so Ride both Povvers and People even to Death And now had not the Lord God Almighty given such his servants 〈…〉 of things to come they durst not have so spoken and vvrote as they have Novv vvould the former King Povvers Priests and People of England but have believed that vvhich vvas said unto them from God by his servants vvho vvere Inabled both to speak and write unto them sure there had been no more Innocent blood spilt after the first War in England was ended but they vvould not believe nor take council of God by his Children but in stead thereof they to wit the greatest and vvisest of them vvould do as many Great Mighty Wise and Noble novv do laugh jere scoffe at them vvhich God had inabled comanded to speak to them vvho from God did positively fore-tell them of their ruine destruction as they do of yours novv if you repent not and turn not unto God For there vvill yet be greater trouble upon the Earth then ever vvas Also there vvill be Earth-quakes in some places of the World that vvill svvallovv up many if not vvhole Countries Farther there vvill be a Nation born in a day These things hath the Almighty God given me a perfect and clear fight off as if they were already past vvith many more vvhich as yet I have no Authority nor command from on High to publish but this my God and Father hath already assured me that whatsoever of it shall make for his Glory and for his Peoples good he will in his ovvn time give me povver and strength to declare it and for that vvhich doth particularly concern some men I shall in Gods time faithfully signifie it unto them Novv blessed are the Mercifull for they shall find Mercy in the day which is nigh at hand when God will poure forth the Vials of his wrath judgment and Indignation upon the disobedient for Gods determination is so to do also God is staining the Glory of all flesh that so none may glory any more in the flesh but in the Lord aloan who is Head over all Now judgment is not only begun at the House of Gōd but it is gon and going forth against Sathan and his Instruments every where and all such as are found in Rebellion and Disobedience against God shall have no true comfort rebellion against God being as the sin of witchcraft say for all such as shall be found in this iniquity of rebellion against God and in truth and