mouth thou shalt be judged either for salvation or damnation and therefore Christ saith The words that I have spoken and you have rejected shall judge you at the last day John 12. 48. You are got into the last dayes yea unto the last dayes of the last dayes that is into the half time Daniel spake of and that half time is almost out too Oh world and therefore a spirituall judgment is near to be revealed to us all And the words that Christ hath spoken shall judge us all that is God will open the eye of the understanding of all by his spirituall light by the which light you shall know and see what you did reject and what you have done in rejecting and also what Christ said and how you all have answered him again and also how you have lived and you shall need no other Judge then the light of God which shall shine upon your understanding and consciences for that shall give you light into all your wayes in the which ye have walked and this your enlightned understanding and convinced consciences shall condemne you all that is all flesh There is a mysterie John 8. 9. And they that heard it being convinced in their consciences went out one by one their consciences bearing witness again Romans 2. 15. Their consciences also bearing witness and their thoughts the meane while either accusing or excusing and a convinced conscience either of good or bad lyeth in the understanding being enlightned your understanding and consciences oh Saints and worldlings is all the book that God needs to use in the day of his spirituall judging of you and behold he is coming to Judgment and every eye shall see by this light of God every one shall be saved that have part in the first resurrection and by the same light every one shall be destroyed that have not part in him so that this light of God will bring salvation and destruction both at one time unto the two hoasts that stand at the right and left hand of God Isa 33. 4 5. The sinners in Sion are afraid fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites and who among us shall dwell with devouring fire reade one of the next verses and it tels you who shall and who shall not the Lord is come and coming still for to destroy and yet to save and that 's the reason why all flesh doth so fear Ezek. 39. 21. I will set my glory among the heathen and all the heathen shall see my Judgments that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them Isa 66. 14. The hand of the Lord shall be known towards his servants and his judgments towards his enemies ye shall not only have judgment but see the judgment of the Lord upon you yea eat your own flesh and drink your own blood and the Lord will come for to open your eyes for to see it And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together Isa 40. 5. And again that they may see know and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this you shall see the Lord oh ye nations ere long in his Saints with great power for to consume thee oh world and all that is in it that will be the next dispensation of God after the cloudy Sion stand up now and rejoyce for thou hast almost received double for all thy sins Isaiah 40. 2. Therefore comfort thy self in thy God for my King is very near bringing double joy double peace double rest and double glory with a double spirituall power Isaiah 61. 7. And all shall be thine and therefore gather to thee And the reason is because the Lord will glorifie the house of his glory and all shall call thee the City of the Lord the Sion of the holy one of Israel for the Lord will give thee such a spirituall power that by that power thou shalt consume all the wicked in thee so that no oppressor shall passe through thee any more Zach. 9. 8. And I will encamp about my house because of the Army and because of him that passeth by and because of him that returneth and no oppressor shall pass through thee any more for now have I seen with my eyes this is a mystery the light of God is a consuming and a destroying light Isaiah 11. 4. Hear oh world your fall is begun for your Prince that is your leader is wounded by the light of God and so wounded that he bleeds all the way he goes and so he will untill he hath bled himself to death for the wound that is given him is an uncurable wound for it is given him by a mighty Prince called the Lion of the Tribe of Judah Sions King and your terrible Judge and from this arises all your fear and you know it not Oh who shall stand before this great Judge when he cometh out of Clouds into light to judge with light and glory why this the Lord is coming near withall and the day of the Lords light will be the day of the Lords dividing Joel 3. 14. Or the day of the Lords great separating not only a dividing or separating the powers of evill men far from you oh Saints or you from them but a dividing or separating two ancient warriers flesh and Spirit so that you shall never learn war more Why oh soul thou shalt never learn war more for the Lord who is thy King will conquer all thy inside enemies as well as thy outside enemies and there shall be a great valley between ye both and that is the reason why he comes with his glorious light for to destroy all and then for to make known all to you Israel thou hast been a long time under a vaile the which vaile so covered thy fathers glory that ye could not see nor yet discern him but now ye shall very suddenly for it is neer taking away Isaiah 25. 7. And he will destroy in this Mountain the face of the covering cast over all people and the vaile that is spread over all Nations A spirituall light brings a spirituall discerning along with it Malachi 3. 18. Then shall ye return and discern and Isaiah 14. 16. And they that see shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying Is this the man Thy eyes shall be opened too oh world and thou shalt see and know what Israel is thou shalt know the Lords Sion but with another manner of knowledge then ever yet thou knewest them withall and by that sight thou shalt confess this is the seed which God hath blessed Isa 69. 1. And as the light of the Lord in thee causes thee to know his Israel so the light of the Lord in them shall destroy thee as well as that in them that bears not his image and therefore is but stubble and not fit for any thing but to to be destroyed by the light of God Isa 10. 17. 18. And the light of Israel shall be
have an end therefore thus saith the Lord remove the Diadem take off the Crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high for I will overturn overturn overturn and it shall be no more untill he come whose right all is Let me tell you all that are in power let it be kingly or not kingly you shall all be overturned and for the Kings of the earth if they were once as the signet upon the Lords right hand yet now their time is come of being pluckt from thence Oh how all the world startles at the footsteps of the Lord upon earth being they are cloudy dark bloody and tempestuous steps indeed well ye may fear when the Lord appears surrounded with clouds and tempests who is he that will not fear and be in great trouble in that day why this is the day Psal 50. 3. Our God is come ye must now reade it the verse indeed runs Our God shall come and shall not keep silence a fire shall devoure before him and it shall be tempestuous round about him Esay 30. 30. The Lord shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard and shall shew the lightning down of his arm with indignation of his anger with the flames of devouring fire scattering hail-stones and tempests you know clouds are the forerunners of storms and tempests and this the cloudy appearing of the Lord hath caused for to be great storms and amongst many one is this the storm of war Esay 3. 25. Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in the war Is it not thus let me tell you the war that is now in the world is the war that Christ spake of long ago and that was the war of wars though not the first yet the last war and that war is the confused and unnaturall war a war having many divisions in it Luke 12. 51 52 53 here is division upon division the father and the son the mother and the daughter each one against the other and a war that causeth most to be offended Matt. 24. 10. Then shall many be offended and betray one another and hate one another it is an iniquity-abounding war verse 12. great tribulation attending of it vers 21. This shall be in the day of the Son of man how is it that ye do not discern this time you shall hear of wars saith Christ but not only kingdom against kingdom but kingdoms divided Cities Towns and Families divided and divisions in every mans heart too as well as in the kingdoms Hear all once more The Lord is come down with a sword in his hand which sword hath a long time been bathed in heaven and now it is fallen upon every accursed thing or upon the people of his Curse Esa 34. 5. Come near O Nations and hear Kings Priests and People and thou Israel for you are all turned out of the way and now the Lord hath met with you look how every man comes bleeding back some die in the place where the Lord met them and some falne by the way in their retreat We have all turned aside from the Lord and therefore wo be unto us Esay 10. 1 2 3 4. Wo be unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and turn aside the needy from judgment and take away the right from the poor that widows may be their prey O how is this Scripture fulfilled in this our age therefore all our glory is like to come down nay it is falling it is falling it is falling for the Sword is drawn I must call it the Sword of the Lord the Lords sacrificing Sword which will not regard neither Kings Priests nor People because all are falne from the Lord Jer. 6. 13. For from the least of them to the greatest from the People even unto the Priest all are given unto covetousness Israel thou art not out of the number the Lord hath a controversie with you among the rest Hosea 4. 1 2 3. Hear the word of the Lord ye are all unclean and a polluted generation fit for nothing but to fall by the Sword of the Lord and to be devoured by the fire of his jealousie not regarding Kings Ezec. 39. 18. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the earth every one hath taken of the accursed thing and every one shall drink of the bloud which his bathed Sword lets out and therefore the Lord hath called for a Sword Esa 13. 3. I have commanded my sanctified ones I have called my mighty ones for my anger vers 11. He will punish for iniquity and cause the proud to cease vers 12. The Lord will make a man more precious then the fine gold behold this is the day the Sword of the Lords vengeance is come down in this the day of the Lords vengeance and in the year of the recompence of the controversie of Sion therefore behold the day of the Lord God of Hoasts the day of his vengance a day of wrath a day of trouble of distress of wastings of clouds of thick darkness that no man knows where he is for every man walks up and down like blind men that is the reason that every man runs upon the sword of his brother friends All things and all powers and all practises are corrupt and perfectly corrupt and this cloudy power is to destroy them and now being come destroy he will and that Nations not a few and for that end the Lord hath called for a Sword and this Sword shall enter into all the inhabitable parts of the earth Me thinks I see where the Lord hath called up his sanctified ones and I hear him still calling them up in all the kingdoms of the world and ere long you shall hear of the Sword of the Lord being drawn and sheathed in the sides of all Kingdoms by a civill war England thou hast begun to drink blood and thou shalt yet drink one draught more to all the world and they shall pledge thee round in a bowl of blood again for the Lord will give them all blood to drink therefore Hear all ye sanctified ones of the Lord whom he hath called up to offer up a sacrifice of blood in what Nation or Kingdom so ever you are Esay 13. 3. Esay 54. 16. The Lord hath created you for to destroy and called you to do that that never was done and to unthroan that never was unthroaned throughout the world yea and that quickly Jer. 25. 26. And all the Kings of the North far and neer one with another and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the face of the earth wherefore look now on your left side for there I suppose is a sword it is the Lords bathed sword his sacrificing sword the sword of the Lords vengance turn you whether you will ye shall never be prevailed against so as to be conquered by a sword of steel of the world you shall have power
to conquer all and so to overturn all and to break down all powers wayes and governments but let me tell you one thing you shall never have power to settle any thing for ye have not wisdom enough nor is it any of your work that is the Lords do you yours and let the Lord alone with his and take heed of abusing your power and corrupting of it with injustice if you do God will raise up a more refined power then yours and more just and conquer you who have been conquerors and send you to your graves in blood for this is the bloody age and when you are gone the Lord my King will arise and by his glorious light conquer the most just and most refined conquerers and so you shall all fall by the Sword of the Lord and the last power by the light of the some Lord in the day of the Lords spiritual and light appearing This is the cloudy day of the Lord and the day in which he judges men by the sword and therefore it is no more mans but the Lords Jer. 12. 12 The Spoylers are come up upon all high places and the sword of the Lord shall devoure from one end of the world to the other and no flesh shall have peace A second reason why the Lord comes with clouds and blood is this because his feet stand upon a place where much blood hath been spilt Rev. 17. 6. I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus You Kings and Rulers of the Earth you have spilt the blood of the Saints by your Law throughout the world And the Lord my King is come down to follow you throughout the world again for to give you a deadly draught and to avenge the blood of his Saints and so give you blood for blood Rev. 8. 6. In the cup which she hath filled fill to her the double to her utter ruine and perfect removing 14. ver and Rev. 16. 6. Oh nations the cup of the fierceness of the wrath of God is put into your hand by my King and I cannot but tell you of it You have drunke blood oh Kings for many an Age and now the Age is up and time fulfilled and you shall drink blood again oh Rulers and all people Isaiah 49. 25. I will contend with them that contend with thee I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunken with their own blood let me tell you oh Kings and all ye Rulers of the earth from the first day ye wore a Crown and had power put into your hand even unto this my day you have all along slain better then your selves and each one of them resembled the person of a King and now the Lord is come with Clouds to make inquiry who they were you slew you have the type in Judges 8. 18. Then said he unto Zeba and Zalmunna What manner of men were they whom you slew at Tabor And they answered as thou art so were they each one resembling the person of a King They were my brethren even the sons of my mother hadst thou saved them I would not have slain you Here is a mysterie but now the time of slaying is come slay I must This is the dispensation of the Lord throughout the world and all this ariseth from the Lords being Generall of all Armyes which are sanctified by him for this work Rev. 19. 11 12 13. v. And he was cloathed in a vesture dipt in blood ye have great trouble in the Earth and all ariseth this day from the Lords being come with clouds and by reason of his cloudie presence all Councels are darkned and all powers are broken down let them be powers temporall or spirituall as you call them and therefore the Lord hath it mentioned three times overturn overturn overturn untill he come whose right it is and he will give it him indeed it is my happiness that the Lord will do this for by this I know I shall in due time be perfect as my heavenly Father is perfect but for the present there is nothing in my heart nor in the world but that that is fit for ruine for truth is fallen in the street equity cannot enter into her kingdom nor the heart worldly wisdome is turned to folly Isaiah 29. 14. Spirituall and heavenly wisdome that is returned into the Fathers bosome Isaiah 41. 28. There is not a man no not yet a Counsellor among you all that is able to answer the Lord a word if he should ask you out of the Cloud what you are doing for he hath taken away all wisdome from you Is wisdome no more is Councell perished from the prudent is their wisdome vanished Jer. 49. 7. Yes the Lord hath destroyed all the wise men of the world or else turned their wisdome into foolishness Obadiah 8. verse Shall I not in that day destroy the wise men and the understanding men In what day oh Lord my King why in my cloudy day in a day which I come to recompense with an overturning all and making the earth empty and in turning all out of the world that is in it Isaiah 24. 1. I will make the earth empty make it waste and turne it upside down Oh! what haste the Lord maketh to finish his work in the world my King turneth and turneth removeth and scattereth and yet not a man takes notice of it and I beholding my father cannot but speak to you and therefore awake oh soules for me thinks I hear Israel begin to sing in this the cloudy day of God Isaiah 24. 14. They shall lift up their voice and shall sing for the Majestie of the Lord and shall cry aloud from the Sea but for thee oh world wisdome and understanding hath left thee and the Lord hath befooled all thy Counsels and put a spirit of fear into the heart of every man and whatsoever men do they do in fear and much trouble for this is the fearfull Age Hath not the Lord scattered all power being but corrupted tyrannicall beastly power so that there is no way left to save the kingdomes of the world no nor thee oh England but by another manner of power thou dreamest of but I see for that way by which the Lord once saved kingdomes is now become the only way to ruine kingdomes And by this you may see that this cloudie appearing of my Lord hath turned the world upside down this is the Lords unthroning day it is the Worlds-power-changing day and it is a flesh-ruining day and for this end the Lord is come out of his place with clouds for to punish the Inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity and to cause it to disclose its blood and therefore it shall no more cover the slain Isaiah 26. 21. At this Scripture in his fulfilling even in this our day the earth shakes and trembles Psal 18. 7. He hath made great divisions
John is a spirituall eye or ye may call it the eye of the Lord gone forth from the Lord to the works of his hands to behold their great Workman the Lord of hosts for nothing can behold the Lord but that which comes from the Lord I am apt to think that the eye which the Lord will open to all flesh in the day of his glorious light appearing will be the eye of the Understanding and my reason is this because that Paul saith that by that eye when once opened they shall know what is the hope of their calling what is the riches of his glory of his inheritance in his Saints Ephes 1. 18. Isa 41. 20. That we may see know and understand together and then shall they see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Sion and then shall we behold him as he is Hear Israel and ye gentile world too for ye are both brought in hear Israel the first sight that thou shalt have of thy King will be a sad sight for thy wounded Saviour will be represented unto thee which thou hast wounded pierced and grieved all thy days but the time now of thy grieving him is almost up and he is coming out of cloudy dispensations for to cause thee by his light to see what thou art and what thou hast done and what a condition thou art in and when he hath carried thee hither and thither up and down here and there and shewed thee all thy abominations and all thy idols and imaginary religious Exercises as he did to Ezekiel in Jerusalem and in the Temple there Ezek. 8. 5 6 9 10 11. and so to the end of the Chapter that is a Gospel type we may read there what our condition is for thou art the Temple of God and this Temple of the Lord is defiled with all maner of unclean things O thou Temple of the Lord there is great abomination in thee spiritual abomination mysterious abominations and there dwells in thee thou canst not tell what for every thing that bears not the image of the Lord is sin upon thee and thou art defiled with all maner of unclean things with an unclean heart an unclean minde an unclean conversation O how death is written upon all thy labors and ways rathen then life Behold therefore the Lord is come down for to open an eye to thee wherewith thou shalt see all that thou hast done to be wicked fleshly and nought The first sight will be a sorrowful sight but after sorrow comes joy Israel the Lord will first open thy eye because judgment shall begin first with thee yea this spiritual judgment The Lord will first search thee with candles and after thee then thy enemies thou shalt see first because thou shalt rise first nay dost not thou begin to see for methinks the clouds begin to break if not what 's the reason of so much strange noyses among the Sion of God was there ever heard or seen the like that is in this our age what distress what blasphemies what cursings These days are the last days these days are the blaspheming days I tremble to think how all the world is and will be filled with blasphemy Revel 13. 5. 7. 3. 16. 9 11 21. Here is trouble indeed to the purpose war was but the beginning and this shall be the end and when ended never trouble more shall come neer thee O Israel for thou shalt see thy King ere long with great joy and with such a beholding of him as thou never yet didst behold him withall and by this thy beholding of him thou shalt goe forth and speak great things of his name to the consuming of all the world Ps 40. 3. And he shall put a new song into thy mouth even praise unto our God men shall see it and fear God will come and consume all within thee because thou shalt consume all without thee and make all fall before thee by the light and glory that God will cloath upon thee and all shall come unto thee in chaines and shall bow and make supplication unto thee and Ps 149. 8. To binde their Kings in Chaines 2 Thes 2 8. Whom he will consume with the Spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming all things below himself which destruction every one shall see and be convinced it is the Lord. Saints and worldlings your eyes shall be opened all ere long for to behold your selves first then the Lord after Israel the eye which the Lord will give unto thee shall as well behold all the glory of the fathers house as it did cause thee to behold all thy evill for this eye will carry thee into the secret chamber of God there to behold all the inside glory of thy father and thou shalt not only see it but be convinced all that is thine and laid up for thee of old yea and thine for to wear upon thy shoulders in the day when the Lord comes for to give reward unto his Saints and them that fear his name which day is hasting on amain and it will not be long ere thou seest thy King by the perfect light of God called the light of an eye And for thee oh world thou shalt have an eye opened unto thee by the Lord for to cause thee for to see him withall and so to convince thee of all thy evill wayes and of all thy evill deeds and hard speeches which thou hast moved withall towards his Israel You may all read your doome in Jude and hear there what the Lord saith He saith that the next appearing after the cloudy called the day of light or the day of Christ which day will be a day of conviction a day of enlightning throughout the world of good and bad a convincing day to all men of their wayes Jude 15. ver Therefore rejoyce oh Sion and fear oh world for the Lord is come near to Judgment and it will be a spirituall one attended with the spirituall light of God Isaiah 4. 4. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughter of Sion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem by the Spirit of Judgment and the spirit of burning This light of the Lord will be a reproving light a light which shall cause men to see and be ashamed and see and yet not be ashamed because he will bring a further wrath upon them it will be a reproving light John 16. 8. When he comes he will reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of judgment Oh the mighty great and unparallell fear that will fall upon all the world by reason of the light of God which shall break forth upon them for to behold the Lord withall and as they shall behold him so themselves too and reade their own charge and be their own Judges Math. 12. 33. For by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned That is by thy own