God are made and live That soul that is awakened and risen with Christ to live in the light of the inner world or new Creature and to slide from thence forth unto the darke world in the works of righteousnesse and true holiness is the soul that brings his Talent out of the earth it to improve Quest Who are they that hide their Talents in the earth to their condemnation Answ Men that sin away the light and Spirit or promise of the Father made out in their Spirits and consciences by the noble wisdome of God woing and importuning them within in the Center of their souls to turne unto the Lord and so love darkness rather then light to their owne condemnation or rather men who love to live below in flesh and sin and this creation or world rather than above with the Father and the Son making out love and truth and grace in their Spirits to bring them reconciled to God these are they who hide their Talents in the earth to their condemnation Quest Where is it and by what that God speakes unto man Answ God speakes unto man within there he stands in the gate of the soul and by many invitations woings operations which are as so many Angels or messengers of love and life he entreats men to come in and be saved as it is written Looke unto me and be ye saved for I am a God and there is none else This inward speaking of God is backed likewise with outward speakings from the heavens and earth and things that are made from the Scriptures which are a firme testimony and witnesse of the mind of God to man sometimes from Mercies sometimes from judgements sometimes from the words or mind of God put into other mens moneths All which varietie of witnesses declare the one will and mind of the Father which he is pleased more immediately to declare within by his owne voyce Quest What is that which unto the gentiles is manifest shewing unto them what of God may be knowne Answ It is the truth of the Deity or the eternall power and God-head which teaches them by the things that are made to owne and glorifie a Creator and so the unthankefull and stubborne are left without excuse Rom. 1. 20. 21. Quest. What is its operation in all from the rising of the Sun to the going downe thereof Answ The light and truth of the Deity which is manifested to and shewed in every man from the things that are made teaches every man to owne a God and to worship him and so to abstaine from evill and do good which operation being choaked and abused by most hence these wallow in the mire of sin and wickednes and superstitious vanities being given up thereunto by the Lord as a just punishment for their loving darkenes rather than the light of God Quest What is the flaming sword which turnes every way to keepe the tree of life Answ It may be the Administration of the Law within which as a light or flame shewes every man his sin and shame and so as with a sword cuts him off every way in the midst of his best actions performances and obedience from entring into life by his owne power Or the fierceness in the anger of God which turnes every way to keep every uncleance person and thing from entering into the Paradise of God to eat of the tree of life till it be washed and cleansed from its filthines as 't is written Rev. 21. 22. there shall in no wise enter into the holy City any thing that is unclean c. Quest What is the City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt Answ All the unregenerate world which are as Sodom and Egypt full of sin and wickednesse or the Antichristian formal Church which strouts it out with a shew of wisdome learning letter and History as if it were a well built City or a true Church of God but within is Wolvish Envious Dogged full of blood cruelty and persecution against Christ and every appearance of Christ in his saints This is the great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord was crucified And in her is found the bloud of Prophets and of Saints and of all that are ssain upon the earth In brief Egypt and Sodom are the kingdome of flesh and darknesse where Christ and the true Church are presecuted and crucified in Spirit Quest What is the language of Egypt Answ Egypt speakes nothing but bondage and warre to the people of God Egypt cannot endure that an holy Church should grow up in his dominions he will murder Abell or the innocent still Egypt is all for himself to manitaine himself in greatnesse and pompe and dominion in the world to rule and be a great potent Lord in the flesh If hee preach or pray or read or hear or appear sometimes as a seeming holy man yet all is ayming at his name greatnesse and credit in the world His heart cannot cleave to and love the Son of God He must persecute and devour the poor and needy in the earth This is the language of Egypt or that which Egypt declares Quest What is the cry of the wildernesse and what is the language of the wildernesse and whether thou wert ever in the wildernesse yea or nay Answ The wildernesse unto some is a state of confusion sin and death where God is not at all remembred minded or known The wildernesse unto others is such a state wherein the soul is awakened by the voice of Christ within to remember and mind the Lord and in the midst of all its confusions to cry and long and wait for his revealing coming manifesting And in this wildernesse I have been and here I have cryed been payned and the Lord hath heard my supplication and delivered me from my feares and brought me out into a wealthy place or into a condition of love joy rest and fullnesse in himself Further the wildernesse unto others is a condition of temptation which the Lord sometimes leades his people into to try and refine them and to make his might and power known in their preservation deliverance salvation Unto others yet the wildernesse is a condition of solitarines and retiredness of spirit where the soul is carried away from the fashions and practises of the world as likewise above the tumults rage and violence of the world sweetly to solace herself in her beloved and to walke in his way which is a way of peace light and holines The cry of the soul in this state of lonenesse is all for God and the will of God it s risen as it were out of the world and gone away from all other company to enjoy a fuller sight of the Lords beauty and to have a more exact communion with his Majestie And this is a wildernesse a gracious heart delights much to be in Quest What is the language of Canaan Answ In Canaan is heard the voice of peace love and meekenesse
and this builds the Temple and makes the Soul the Citie and House and Church of God by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God this grace springs out of the heart of God not out of the will of man and it's grace makes us his workmanship Citie and dwelling place and where 't is created that Soul is said to be of God and Christ is made unto it wisdom and righteousnesse and sanctification and redemption efficiently and formally by working these and forming these in the heart of man and this pure building Babylon and Egypt cannot endure to see neither any that make it their businesse to wander abroad from God and go down into the Sea in ships and this Citie is the Lilly among the Thorns planted under the shadow of the Almighty where she sits down with great delight and inward recreation my Meditation of him shall be sweet I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live and I will go unto him mine exceeding joy This is she who rejoyces because the Bridegroom is come and though she have infirmities yet she 's washed and washing in the bloud of the Lambe and so the dayes of her sorrow and widdow-hood flee away this is she who is still adorning till the head and all the Members meet together in the fulnesse and joy of God and this spouse is nâ— Adulteres she loves not the voice nor love of strangers she is not something and great in her self for she is nothing but what she is in her husband by the grace of God I am what I am she cannot vvorship a shadow or form or idel as others to get her self a name in the vvorld she makes no mention but of one and to him she bowes and because all this glory is powred upon her therefore she 's despised of men hated persecuted and every where evil spoken of yet blessed because great is her reward in Heaven out if this Cities are all Harlots all vvorldlings shut all Hypocrites Backbiters strikers of their fellow servants all that make a mock of Christ of the sufferings and precious bloud of Christ all that say they are Christ lo here lo there all that stand upon their toyes ceremonies vvil-worships making the commands of God of none effect by their traditions see whether or no thou hast the name of this Citie written upon the forehead where so much railing flows from thy tongue and heart Quest 22. What is the Garden of Eden out of which Adam was driven whether it be the same with Paradise Quest 23. What is the Paradise of God and the Tree of life in the midst of it of which whosoever overcomes shall eat Quest 24. What is the hidden Manna and the white stone and the new name written in the stone which he that overcomes shall know Answ To these three queries he sayes Eden is no Garden known to the vvorld where 't is overcome with weeds and who are driven out of it is not the same with Paradise but who are come to the Tree of life the old Adam dead the man quickned which death passed over there the Garden is pressed and dressing here Eden and Paradise came to be known Repl. All this gives no satisfaction to what Eden and Paradise is though some truth there be in thy words for though Eden be every where where the presence of God is in Christ and this presence fills all places and all things we see yet 't is not known unto the world who are cast out and see Christ no more Eden was a figure of heaven where 's no want but all fulnesse all pleasure and this heaven is all over within and without unto a childe of God within he sees the Lord raiguing in his spirit without he sees the Lord in every creature the heavens declare his glory and the firmament sheweth his handy work all creatures are as Jacobs ladder to him with God at the top these are the Angels assending and dessending in continual motion but God who stands at the top hidden from the world but known unto his Saints he 's still the same and his presence in love and light is the Garden of Eden and within is Paradise joy singing and so in the presence of God in love every place is a place of joy every condition every dispensation heavenly and here the Soul has learned to discern between the form and the truth the out-birth and the father he looks unto God he 's the wheeâ—â—ithin the wheel and so a gracious Soul will honour God who is the 〈◊〉 being in every created being he can converse with God in all he sees anâ— say of every place creature condition and thing this is none other but 〈◊〉 house of God and the Gate of Heaven into this Garden the righteous 〈◊〉 and here they are inclosed and kept by the Almighties arm and here they 〈◊〉 not upon the shadow but upon the substance within they feed not upon the earthly but upon the heavenly fruit the vertue and power of God And so they live upon God in the Creatures upon God in the Scriptures upon God in every thing but the man in darknesse sees not God has not the benefit and comfort of God and so he is cast out of the Paradise and joy thus you see that Eden the wicked man knows not he sees not the presence of the great King and so he can not feed upon him the Weeds cover God and among them he hides himself and there he feeds upon the flesh not upon the substance the Tree of life this he dares not middle with being a guilty sinner and so if he would enter into the Garden he can not there is a whole principale between and the Sword is set and dye he must and come in by a Saviour and in him he must be born before the entrance can be made and when this is done and the man of sin in some measure crucified then the vilest sinner may go boldly in because the way is open by regeneration and live with God and know Eden Paradise And thou who grutchest another entrance into this Garden of Eden into the Lords presence there to be in joy and rest by feeding upon the bread of life it appears that thou art a stranger unto the Garden it is not drest for thee and though faign thou would'st put forth thine hand eat live for ever be thine own Judge enter into life through thine own power and crucifying yet there is an Angel will keep thy out till the old man begin to be annihilated and he who was dead begin to leave in thee who onely prepares the Soul for the Lord and brings it into his joy Answ Further thou sayest as the Serpent is overcome by the seed of God the Tree of life is seen and fed on which stands in the midst of the Paradise of God Repl. All this is true when man is nothing
trick thou mayest still be an Egyptian For the Egyptian is one who wars in his heart against all the Church of God that grows not up out of his form And the Egyptian is one who for uniformities sake can endure to hear of no variety of gifts dispensations or administrations of God And thus thou and thy sect are in the proud Egyptian spirit I know other forms have too much of the Egyptian too and this makes them have bitter envyings and strivings one against another but the Egyptian in thee exceeds them all for thou Diotrephes-like lovest the preheminence thou must be the top and head of all and so art breathing out fury and madnesse against all others under what form or way soever as if God must needs forget all to honour thee Repl. As for any thing arising which strikes at my images idols groves and makes me angry as thou sayest Answ Let the Lord arise and sweep them all clean away I shall not murmure but be glad to see the Lord exalted within and without and to see all the Sons of God learn to know one another more in spirit and in the Lord lesse in flesh and form Neither is there in me any war at all against any appearance of God in thee or any other but onely against the Egyptian that exalts himself in any But thou tellest me Repl. I preach and pray for greatnesse Answ And yet I tell thee if that had been mine aim I might have been as great in esteem as other men But on the contrary I am content to be despised hated and evil spoken of by all the Egyptians in the world But Repl. I give flattering titles and use heathenish words of salutation which I have no example for in Scripture Answ Something thou must say because thou art an Egygtian If thou say thou to me or you to me the Greek hath but one word for both and both is all one to me who knows the Kingdom of God stands not in observation If thou say yea or yes nay or no all is one to me for Christ aims at nothing but this that men should be faithfull and plain in all their words and carriage one towards another And if thou pluck off thine hat or not all is one to me though another it may be cannot bear it If thou wilt be like the Horse or Mule without wagging moving speaking for fear of offending thy dark fancie in being guilty of saluting then be so It becomes thy religion well to be like the beasts unreasonable There is example enough in Scripture for all the salutations I desire or use but thine eye is Divine and thou takest so much onely as will serve thy turn and no more but a little to help thee though I cannot flatter thee read Gen. 32 4. and 33. 4. to 16. when thou hast made good use of these two Scriptures to do thee good I shall shew thee more Repl. Further about mine answer to what the language of the wildernesse is thou pretendest how that I conform my self to the fashions and practices of the world contrary unto mine answer and whether that be so or no then biddest my conscience and all that know me judge Answ Friend thou keepest much ado about my conscince faine thou wouldest be Judge and Master there But my conscience watches to hear the Lord not man speak unto him it boweth not to thy broken idol And that within me and all thy friends that know me cannot but bear me witnesse that through the grace of God I am made to walk much contrary unto the world I do not say I have gotten a full conquest over all the Relicks of the world in me and yet through the grace of God I can see the world under my feet and I can see the Lord at this work of crucifying me unto the world and the world unto me more and more And this is the ground of all my glorying in that wherein I appear contrary unto the world Further thou sayest I told thee Repl. There was a time when I was much troubled about taking of Tythes oppressing of people and about fashions and wayes that were lived in so that I could not sleep in the night and that I was minded to take my self to some honest calling to provide for my family Answ Here thou hast served me as thou doest the Scriptures somethings thou hast added and somethings thou hast left out The truth is I heard a great clamour as I still do about Tythes what an oppression and grievous thing it was as men pretended this made me wait to hear what the Lord would speak touching this matter and through waiting I found this great out-cry against Tythes to be a wile of Satan to dishearten and destroy the best of the Ministery that in their ruine every carnal form might advance it self till all were confounded and further I learned that few scrupled Tythes out of pure conscience and tendernesse but out of meer covetousnesse and envy And in this manifestation I have freedom to take it and yet I oppresse none thou who criest out so much upon Tythes as if all the world were reformed if Tythes were taken away Oh this unclean filthy thing called Tythes Friend look a little into the Gospel and thee thou shall see it manifest that there is no Person place or thing without can defile a man onely that which defiles is within and comes from within Mat. 13. 11 20. and Act. 10 12. to 29. There thou mayest read of Peters scruple of going unto the Gentiles that were legally unclean and how the Jewes in the next chapter scrupled the same Act. 11. 2 3. And yet afterwards God makes it clear to them by his spirit in a vision that what they scrupled as unclean he had made clean therefore friend be not too hasty and angry that the unclean thing of Tythes as thou sayest is not yet taken away cry not out so greedily 't is swines flesh 't is an abomination for thou knowest not the freedom of the Gospel in outward things where the conscience is made clean neither doest thou know but that which thou criest out so much against even Tythes is made clean in thy brothers conscience Repl. But thy heart is hardened tendernesse lost thy conscience seared and now in the streets of the great City hast thou slain the witnesse Answ Whilst I was in the great City I know the witnes was slain Christ lay as one dead and put in his grave to me but since the Fathet was pleased with a strong hand to bring me out of Egypt and to lead me unto Canaan I finde the witnesse raised from death to life in me and he followeth me with goodness and mercy though Satan and the world with violence and fury This witnesse within Christ in me keeps my heart soft my conscience tender and he is mine and I am his and with him there is mercy that he may be feared and he keeps
with Christ during this spirituall reign with them in this body when Christ reigns with us here this is the first resurrection and when Christ takes us unto himself out of the body then this is finished and this is said to be a thousand years in reference to the Saints in all generations But where 's Satan when he 's cast out of the Saints or out of a particular soul what is he idle or lies still no he goes down to the earth and therefore woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the Sea for the Devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he has but a short time Rev. 12. 12. when Satan is cast out of one he reigns in another and the more he 's imprisoned in the Church and kept from hurting and tempting them by the strong power of God the more he 's tormented and the more he rages in the world and the more subtile and cunning and powerfull he is in the vessels of wrath and so shall gather them together with more subtilty and violence against the holy beloved City because of the great glory that shall be poured out on her that so he and all his followers may reap their deserved ruine and woe at the coming of Christ at the great day of wrath And so to summe up this as the reign of Christ draws nigh finishing so the reign of Satan and as the reign of Christ towards the finishing shall be most glorious so Satan most furious and crafty in the world working more in a mystery transforming himself into an Angel of light by his goodly outward shews and observations getting into the hearts of men saying he 's God and he 's Christ and by this means he shall be more fitted to deceive and prevail with Gog and Magog to gather them together against the Saints and people of God every where being given up as a just punishment from God for following their own vain imaginations I say the Nations shall be deceived as a just judgement of God upon them and vvorship the Dragon and the beast and the false Prophet and in their pride shall think to swallow up all and then receive their final overthrow ruine and woe when a fire shall be kindled in the whole frame of nature to dissolve the world and the works therein and all the wicked of the earth high and low shall say hide us from the face of him who sits upon the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. Quest 20. What is the last resurrection and the day of judgement which the Scripture speaks of Ans Thou who art ignorant of the first resurrection art inquiring in thy busie minde after the last resurrection which none can know where death reigns though the Scriptures declare of it and so such as you live in your lusts and scoffe at the Doctrine of Christ who is the resurrection and the life the first and last Joh 11. 25. Rev. 1. 17. yet know this that to judgement thou shalt come for the Lord has appointed a day to judge the world by the man Jesus Christ who is the first and the last Repl. Here thou shewest thy self and in thine heart givest no testimony to the last resurrection and day of judgement making as if all were spiritual and onely in this life and so thou errest as they of old who said there was no resurrection nor Angel nor spirit not believing the Scriptures in this nor the power of God to which I adde as the execution of the first so the execution of the last is by one Jesus Christ onely the first resurrection is of the just onely the last of the just and unjust the first of the Saints of God this general of all men and as my faith in the first so of the last is grounded upon Scripture Joh. 5. 24. to 30. verily I say unto you the hour is coming and now it is when they that are in the grave shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live here 's the spiritual resurrection but it follows Marvail not at this for the hour is coming wherein all that are in their graves shall hear the voice of Christ and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of examination here 's the last resurrection wherein all shall arise either to salvation or damnation what more plain see Acts 24. 15. there shall be a resurrection sayes Paul both of the just and unjust this was Pauls faith and hope and such as deny this Paul disputes against at large 1 Cor. 13. and tells us if the Saints should deny it they are of all men most miserable 2 Tim. 2. 17 18. there Hymenius and Phyletus who said that the resurrection was passed already are compared to a Canker and said to subvert the faith of some hence Christ speaks of a last day and a resurrection at the last day so Math. 25. 31. to the end he describes the manner of it so Rev. 6. 11 12. and 20. at the latter end if these and the like Scriptures will not perswade men to believe a truth from God neither will they be perswaded though one should be raised from the dead Quest 21. What is the new Jerusalem which comes down from God out of Heaven which is as a Bride adorned for her husband Answ The new Jerusalem is the Citie of God the Church of God which Babylon and Egypt would devour now when it appears upon the earth so all that have Ships and Treasure in the Sea are gathered against her who is a Lambe among the beasts of the field under the defence of the shepheard who rejoyces over her as the Bridegroom over the Bride and the day of marriage is coming and come and the Bride is adorned and adorning for her husband who must commit no adultery with Babylons Merchants nor lye down to the great men of the earth therefore their rage is come up and Gog and Mdgog is gathered yet the spirit of the Lord our husband lifts up a standard against them and out of this Citie are all Harlots shut all covetous persons all that conform to the world all that in its customes and abominations live all that wastfully devour the Creatures on their backs and bellies all oppressors all that live by dishonest gain all that make a mock at the Doctrine of Christ c. read where thou art these are Harlots not Citizens Repl. This new Jerusalem comes down from heaven is not in the earth or man before the Lord pitch up his Tabernacle in man 't is not merited or gained by mans light or power 't is wholly out of grace and by Revelation as we see in the case of Paul 't is grace and purâ— love makes man the Citie of the great King not any thing in the first birth Ioh. 3. 3 5. There must be a second birth
must hold his peace for Christ must be all thou must not sacrifice to thine own net either thy righteousnesse or thine unrighteousnesse unto thy self to merit as thou weakly dreamest by thy Crosse though all must be offered up to him that he may reign and in his reign the life and power of the creature stands and whereas I must be a Ranter for talking of high things and doest not thou the same talk of the highest things that can be imagined perfection fulnesse resurrection first and last and art not thou in all this like thy brethren who thou callest Ranters they are full and rich and have need of nothing and know not that they are poor and miserable and naked and have need of all things and art not you the same they have the single eye they are the seers and art not thou the same thou seest all things thou knowest all things they are sinlesse spotlesse in the midst of all their madnesse so thou in the midst of all thy nakednesse and so thou and they are of one and in one father both given over to strong delusions to believe lies because ye have not embraced the truth in the love of it onely with this difference ye are they are over-wicked and ye are over-righteous and yet both these meet in one center of flesh and man and end in one center of sorrow and woe and so both the righteous and the wicked are alike abomination and under condemnation when their righteousnesse as well as their wickednesse springs but out of the first man hence is that of Solomon Eccles 7. 16 17. be not righteous over-much neither make thy self over-wise why should'st thou destroy thy self be not over-much wicked neither be thou foolish why shouldest thou dye before thy time and so as Job speaks God shall destroy both the righteous and the wicked and where then wilt thou appear who gloriest so much in thy Crosse Quest 28. What is the ground of your commission and call to speak and preach and how ye came by it seeing all you speak must needs be Scripture and infallible Answ The ground of our commission and call to preach is Christ revealed in us and by the will of God contrary to the will of man came we into the Ministry Repl. Here according to thine own language thou stealest the Apostles words and makest use of them to deceive the simple but thy shifts are seen and thou thy self has pulled off the cover and manifested by all thy carriage that thy commission comes from another power even thine own will thy proud haughty minde that takest this honour upon thee before thou art anointed of God and therefore thou art found to be a striker brawler of no good behaviour not apt to teach but to scoffe and rail a novice lifted up with pride a little knowledge and wisdom thou hast received formerly but it has perverted thee puffed thee up and so 't is taken away and fallen thou art into the snare and condemnation of the Devil and so all thy preaching which thou art anointed to tends to the bringing up an evil report upon the lowest degree of a man brotherly and orderly humanity much more upon the highest the high profession of Christianity so far thou art from the spirit of a Christian that thou art not a man so far from being a man that thou art below a beast for the Oxe knows his honour and the Asse his Masters Crib but thou regardest not the Lord nor man and yet thy father has deluded thee and told thee thou hast a commission from Christ revealed in thee but when did Christ revealed in any teach them to preach another Gospel and to say 't is a great sin to pull off the hat and to make any shadow of respect to honour fear or reverence any to whom 't is due nay not the image of God in fathers masters aged people and governours contrary to the Letter and meaning both of Law and Gospel and where did Christ say it was a great sin nay the language of Egypt to say you instead of thou and yes instead of yea to wear Bands Cuffs Ribbins or the like so as men did it with gravity surely Christ has something else to declare where he anoints to preach Further where did Christ command to preach up the light of nature instead of the light of grace as if the poor dark world had had light sufficient within and there had been no need of his coming or spirit or Scripture and where did Christ command to preach up the power and freedom and will of man as if man had all already and had no need to be endued with power from an high and where did Christ command to preach up our merits our holinesse our observations or so much as the bloud of our own sins to justifie us in the sight of God and to make his merits and bloud and Crosse a scorn and derision among the Heathen where did Christ thus dishonour himself to exalt proud flesh and man where did Christ call the Scriptures Letter Ink and Paper not known to any till this generation Friend I know notwithstanding all this thou canst not see thy shame but art like an hungry man that dreams he eats but when he awakes his Soul is empty so in thy dream thou eatest and thou drinkest and thou hast passed through all death judgement resurrection not in part but in whole and through thine own poor weak light and power and skill thou art gone up out of Egypt passed through the wildernesse through the Red-sea and hast seen all the Egyptians drowned and hast entred into thy full rest in Canaan and no more doest thou look for that is to come thus art thou high in thine imagination though low enough in thy foundation even building upon the sand of thine own will and though you strike at the very foundations of all society humanity charity Christianity endeavouring to lay all desolute and even with the ground yet thou and thy wandring generation must all have their Commissions from God and be infallible and all that will not believe it must be Anathema Maranatha Alas poor wretches ye have need of pity but ye cannot pity your selves ye have need of grace rich mercy great grace but ye want none I say no more to yee but this the spirit of the Lord cannot stoop to proud mens will therefore remember your Creatour betimes look to the Rock from whence ye are hewen pity Abraham your father and Sarah your mother leave off building up the Babel of your own light power merits will lest ye be made an hissing astonishment and desolation by the Lord of Hosts return to your first husband your first love that we with you may live with him in brotherly-kindnesse and charity seek not to make the breaches wider but rather to repair the breaches and to reconcile people that wander in the dark unto one another in the Lord seek the righteousnesse joy and peace of the Kingdom which comes down from the father walk in the light of the Lord which will reach you to be as the Lord is unto all men according to your measure you receive and so it may be lead some more of your feet out of this cunning snare as for me notwithstanding all your hard speeches which the evil one in ye has uttered against me yet I shall not cease to be your friend before the Throne of grace desiring to see and finde your hearts filled with sorrow and trembling for all your errours and mystical infatuations that so the name of Babylon may not still be written upon your fore-heads who is called Mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and of the abominations of the earth but rather the new name the name of God of the new Citie the new Jerusalem which comes down from heaven that so you may see your perfection here in the midst of imperfections and may come to that perfection hereafter which is in the midst of the fulnesse and joy of God FINIS