destroying of Deth and the ful subjection of al Christs enemys under his feet the surrendering the Kingdom to the Father the subjection of the Son also to him that puteth al things under him and God the Eternal Fountain and fulnes to becom al in throuh and over al to the ends aforsaid This I say to thee O Christendom in general to every ôn in thee in particular from the greatest to the least of what Nation Tongu or Peepel soever dred fear yee the living God stand in aw of him giv glory honor worship to him alôn for the day and hour of his most dredful and ryteos Judgments is now in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear let al Bow fear and trembel befor him that mâd heven and erth the sea and fountains of vvater and knovv this that the great faling avvay and apostacy from the tru Christian Spirit faith and lyf had its first entrans in thy teachers throuh their going out from the mesur of the pur Spirit of grâs the free gift of God given to them and plased in them of the pur fulnes of Christ the lamb of God to lead and establish them in al truth and giving ear to the voys motions and dictats of the Carnal mynd that cursed spirit the seed of the serpent vvherby sin and deth entered and the lavv of it took plâs in them and throuh them hath spred it self throuh and over the whol body of thee O Christendom which hath rendred thee a body of sin and deth in the general and in every particular From this cursed root of bitternes hath sprang up that abominabel Spirit of Covetosnes pryd wickednes oppresion Idolatry cruelty wars stryf contentions debats sheding the bloud of the Innocent with al other the hy cryms provokations and bloudy abominations which hav bin stil ar found in thee which hath rendred thee to be the dragon beast great whor and fals profet in thy military civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled and thy peepel unstabel as water even the great raging sea which cannot rest foaming out its own shâm casting up Myr and dirt out of which the skarlet colored beast aros who Power seat great authority was given him is stil up held by the great red dragon to wit the military power which hath rendred thee to be an Akeldama even a field of bloud oppresion cruelty ful of hye cryms abominations even Spiritual Sodom Egypt in which the Lord lyeth crucifyed And now ther is no way of restoration from this faling away cursed apostacy from the tru Christian Spirit faith and lyf to know redemtion from sin deth and from under the law sting curs power ther of either to the general or any particular but by returning the Ey and ear of the mynd to that which is pur eternal and Immortal of God in the inward parts even the mesur of the tru lyt and Spirit of the free grâs of God in the general and in every Particular from which euery on in the general in the particular in thee hath erred gon astray and as every ôn ether in the general or particular coms to giv ear to the motions crys groans of the oppresed pur seed of God in them they wil com to see him whom they hav pierced and as that which doth burden oppres keep the pur seed of God in bondag coms to be removed mortifyed subdued Ether in the general or in the particular so his pur Power Spirit lyf and presens wil be felt working salvation redemtion in the Erth and be known by the Judgments which he executeth in the erth in the general in the particular throuh which ryteos Judgments in the Inward parts salvation tru redemtion coms to be knovvn vvitnesed So that eternal Judgment in the invvard parts being brouht forth into victory at last he coms to arys and rein in pur Povver lyf Dominion overal vvhos ryt it is both in the general in every particular even he vvho leads al vvho ar led by him in the pur plesant everlasting path of pur lyt lov lyf ryteosnes everlasting joy happynes even forevermor A door of hôp is left open for you in the vally of Achor as the just and ryteos Judgments of the Lord â—om ther to be executed on the troubler of Israel in the invvard parts vvith his vvedg of gold babylonish Garment and Silver vvith his seed and al that he hath so an entrans vvil be administred in throuh Christ the lyt way eternal door by vvhich al vvho enter in hav salvation and com to be reconcyled unto God and saved from vvrath vvhich is to com This is the Zoar into which al who flee ar saf from the devouring fyr vvhich from the Lord is novv com and coming upon Spiritual Sodom in thee This is the Ark of the nevv yet most old and everlasting covenant into vvhich al vvho mak speed get entrans shal escap the great delug overflovving floud vvhich God is novv bringing in upon the vvorld of the ungodly this is the cloud and Pillar of fyr in man vvhich al vvho faithfully and constantly follovv ar sâfly led throuh the wildernes of temtations fears snars vvhich God is novv rayning dovvn upon the vvorkers of Iniquity This is the strong towr in vvhich al vvho ar found ar sâf from the horribel tempest which is now com coming upon the Proud and al that do wickedly in thee O Christendom This is the litel sanctuary in which al that hyd themselvs the blast of the teribel ôns against them shal be but a a storm against a wal This is the holy Mountain whos Inhabitants the oppreser or destroyer cannot touch or hurt This is the city of most sur refug whos wals and bulwarks ar salvation and the gâts therof prays into which nothing can enter that defyleth or worketh abomination thô the gâts therof stand open continually whos inhabitants can do truly say thô the erth be removed yet we wil not fear thô the mountains be hurled into the midst of the sea yet wil we not be dismayed thô the waters therof roar be troubled the mountains shà k fal with the sweling therof for ther is a River the streams wherof mak glad the city of God the holy plas of the tabernakel of the most by the living God is in the midst of her shee cannot be moved God shal help her that Ryt early Wherfor I say unto al and it is the counsel of the Lord God to them in the bowels of pur and tender lov to his own oppresed burdened slayn seed in thee oâ— Christendom in every particular mak hast mâk hast do not stay nor linger but speedyly turn in hither least the storm the dredful storm of the most Iust ryteos vengeans Jndignation of God which remains at hand to be poured
them as so many sorts of incarnat Devils in their Military Civil Ecclesiastical Powers so caled ryding on the Nations Robing Spoyling and plundering the peepel of their Estats tresurs and fruits of their Labors at their own cursed wils and plesurs to uphold and maintain them in pryd deceit eas fulnes and oppression over the peepel causing also their Bloud as a continued Issu to run sorth to fulfil their cursed vvils and plesurs as also the Dear Innocent Saints Martyrs faithful witneses of Iesus vvho throuh ages and generations past unto this day hav born their Testimony against their vviked vvays and practises Which Spirit and povver must novv be cast into the Lák of Eternal Perdition Destruction and suffer the vengeans of Eternal fyr and be limited and chained dovvn in the Bottomles Pit in every particular out of vvhich it aros and the smok of the torments herof to ascend up for ever mor vvhich is the second Deth even the Hel of Hel. Furthermâr the Apostel told them to whom he wrot that they could not be partakers of the Tabel of the Lord the Tabel of Devils reproving that disorder exces with was amongst them in eating and drinking for which caus many becam weak and sik The Tabel of the Lord what how it becâ—â—â—s a curs and fala asleep for the Tabel of the Lord to wit the varios Kynds stors of provisions which the Eternal Power the Father of the houshold doth dayly produs giv freely forth to feed and sustain Man-kynd and every Cretur becoms a trap a snar a gin a Curs even a Tabel of Devils unto in such as eat drink therof in exces to the satisfaction of the carnal mynd the inordinat desyrs of the flesh And as concerning the fellowship conversation of Devils it was springing up amongst them and therfor the Apostel exhorted them to whom he wrot to hav no fellowship with the unfruitfal works and workers of darknes saying that it was even a sham to speak of thos things which wer don of them in secret but al things reprovabel said he âr mâd manifest by the Lijâ— Which cursed Spirit of Apostacy having thus taken plà s Rooting in amongst them in the Apostels days hath grown and spred it self in and over al Christendom which hath rendred Christendom in their Military Civil Ecclesiastical Powers to be the Thron Seat of Iniquity of Belzebub the Man of sin a habitation of Devils the hold of every Foul Noâ— ysom Spirit a Cag of every unclean hatful Bird which must now Receiv the Reward of Devils even Destruction and perdition from the presens of the Lord from the glory of h s pur power who is now risen in his holy Tempel to shak terribly the Hevens the Erth not only in Christendom but in al nations that so what is shaken may be removed and that which cannot be shaken may remain and shyn forth in its pur natural and proper glory and Beauty al the works of God becom as a wel formed harp with every string wound up to its du proper pitch on which the Lord God may forever Delyt to mà k sweet Melody unto himself they in him forevermôr So that this Spirit of Apostacy faling away from the tru christian faith lyf took plà s rooting first in the Elders teachers of the flok which cursed seed grew spred it felf in and throuh them over al Christendom the whol being on s comprehended in the Church of Rôm subjected under that fals hed universal Bishop or Pôp so caled and took hold and brouht forth its cursed fruits among al Nations Kindreds Tongu's Peepel of every Ranks degree order from the Hyest to the Lowest hath had its Rooting Growth Fulnes even in a most abominabel mistery of Iniquity Corrupting the vvhol Body of Christendom so that in sted of being a pur chast virgin fit to be marryed to the Lamb and becom his faithful Spous she becam a defyled strumpet even in her beginning bruised the Brests of her virginity by harkening to and obeying the voys of the old Serpent that adulteros Spirit in her so becam a harlot and grevv to be the Mother of harlots and abominations of the Erth vvith vvhom the Emderors Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel of al Ranks and Degrees Mal Femal hav comited Spiritual fornication and bin mâd drunk vvith the cup of her Abominations and she hath sit as A queen upon many waters vvhich ar Peepels Kindreds Tongu's Nations being mà d drunk vvith the Bloud of the Profets Saints Martyrs of Iesus even in her skirts is found the Bloud of al that hav bin slayn upon the fà s of the Erth. Thus this cursed Seed of the Serpent having taken plà s and Rooting did gradualy grow and spred its self dayly and as it grew spred and prevayled so the tru pur Seed of God towit the Seed Christ in Mà l Femâl was oppresed kept under brouht into Bondag as the cursed fruits of the Seed of the Serpent appeared wer brouht forth so the blessed fruits of the tru pur Seed of God the truly Nobel plant of Gods Renown in mâl Femâl withered decayed and that pur fresh appearans of the truly excelent Glory which was in mesur as a dew from the Lord God of heven upon the Church of the Romans did by degrees depart and utterly wither away throuhout Christendom The Apostacy first entring the fals teachers thó on s trû having freely received from them over spued the body So that wher as in her virginity the Elders teachers wer tender cârfulover the flok of God to whom the câr therof was comited not by constraint but wilingly not for filthy Luker but of a redy mynd not as Lords over Gods heritag but as Holy good exampels to the flok freely communicating their Spiritual things partaking in lov of the Peepels carnal things who having food rayment had learned therwith to be content yea Holy Paul wrouht with his hands that so the Gospel myt not be Burdensom or chargabel to the Peepel But that covetos Spirit vvhich is the root of al evil being thus crept in and having taken plà s in som ther soon appeared such amongst them who wer not wiling to communicat freely of what they had freely received of God but throuh covetos practises souht to mà k a gain of the flok going in the vvay of Balaam for gifts and revvards having Mens Persons in admiration becaus of Advantag imbrasing this present World loving to hav the preheminens and so being faln under the Spirit of deceit in themselvs grevv dayly vvors and becam deceivers of others by good vvords and fair speeches deceived the hearts of the simpel causing many others to bovv and submit to their covetos ends and to follovv their vviked and pernitios vvays by reason
throuh them hath grown spred it self as evil leven throuhout the whol lomp that cursed seed of the Serpent hath grown up in thee not only in thy Elders teachers but also throuh them in thy Rulers war â—â—rs Peepel is becom a Man of sin mystery of iniquity even the Son of perdition yea a strong man armed with the dragons Power keeping possession of the hous to wit of thee O Christendom siting as God in thee who ouhtst of ryt to be a living Tempel for the tru living Lod God omnipotent to dwol and walk in Which hath rendred thy Military Power even the whol body of them to be the great Reed Dragon that gav to the beast his power seat and great Authority with seven heds ten horns seven crowns upon his hed which hath stil doth stand befor the woman which did now doth bring forth the man-chyld who in mesur doth and dayly môr shal Rûl the nations with a Rod of Yron who failing in his first enterprys against the bâb of glory being cast out of heven into the erth hath stil doth persecut the woman which did and now doth bring forth the Man-chyld hath doth cast out water as a floud out of his mouth to cary her away therwith making war with the Remnant of her seed which keeps the commandements of God hav the testimony of Jesus even the arm of the ungodly which must now be broken a standing engyn to oppres spoyl consum the tresur bloud of the nations Who 's Rys continuans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent which was in Cain in Simeon Levy thos brethren in Iniquity in whos habitations ar the cursed Instruments of Murder Bloud cruelty whos practis was and stil is whylst pretending overturs treatys of peas agreement to seek tak advantages to Kil Murder Destroy But the day is now com in which they must receiv their Iust Reward from the Lord God they shal be divyded in Iacob scattered in Israel a Fugityv vagabond on the erth from the Lord God for ever must that Power and spirit be in which they stand and by which they ar acted Thy Civil Power so caled even the whol body of them Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers their predecesors in the fal hav bin stil remain that scarlet colored beast ful of the nams of Blasphemy having seven heds ten horns which ascended out of the bottomles pit upon vvhom the scarlet whôr that adulteros Woman â—esabel to vvit the whôl body of thy spiritual men or Clergy so caled hath stil doth sit which hath mà d war with the two vvitneses of God and overcom them vvhos Power seat great authority was given and is stil upheld by the dragon or military Power whos mouth hath uttered great things blasphemys vvhich vvas to continu trampeling the holy city fourty two months opening his mouth in blasphemys even against God blaspheming his Nà m tabernakel and them that dwel in heven who hath mà d vvar vvith the saints over com them hath had stil hath Power over Kingdoms tongu's and nations and vvas and stil is vvors hiped by al vvhos Nà ms ar not writen in the Lambs book of lyf Their several throns and Seats of residens exampels of villany al manner of vvickednes to the several Kingdoms Dominions and territorys over vvhich they rul sending forth the stinking smels of vanity Pryd Lust VVantones VVhordom Exces Drunkenes vayn Plesurs Oppression Cruelty Injustis Deceit Envy Murder making aprey of the Innocent such as de part from Iniquity Who 's rys continnans to this day is in the Spirit of the old Serpent which vvas in Cain that city builder in Ismael Nimrod Esau and in thos Kingly Governers of Sodom and Gomorrha and the citys therabouts vvhos practis vvas and stil is by stryf contention and vvars to destroy and murder the Peepel under their government therby to vvrest Dominion out of the hands of ech other amongst vvhom just Lot is mâd a prisoner and captyv But the day is now com in vvhich Abraham the Brother of Lot is arming his houshold Gideon the Lords Thresher vvith his sharp threshing instrument having teeth hath taken the field vvith his three hundred Men and the Lord vvil smyt them as in the day of Midian mâk their Prinses as Oreb Zeeb as Zeba Zalmunna vvhich perished at Endor the habitation of the Spirit of vvitch craft and becam as dung upon the Erth. The Captyr Exyl hasteth to be delivered and shal be lifted up out of the pit and redeemed and brouht bâk vvithout money vvithout prys but thâ— prey shal not be taken from the myty nether shal the lavvful captyâ— be delivered out of his hand vvho had descended into the lovver most parts of the Erth even into the Belly of hel but is novv ascended and ascending up far abov al hevens leading captivity captyv giving gifts unto Men spoyling Principalitys Powers even the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers of the Darknes of this World making an open shevv of them triumphing over them and trampeling on them in his cros vvho is the lyt lyf of Men the VVisdom and Power of God Thy Ecclesiastical Power even the whol body of them caled the Clergy or Spiritual Men with their predecessors in the fal apostacy wer and stil ar that great skarlet whor wich seteth upon many waters even the mother of harlots abominations of the erth with whom thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel even the whol body of thee O Christendom hav commited spiritual fornication arrayed in purpel skarlet and fyn linnen deked with gold c. having a golden cup in her hand ful of abomnations filthynes of her whordoms on whos forhed is writen Mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots and abominations of the whol Erth who hath bin and stil remains drunk with the bloud of the Saints and of the Martyrs of Iesus Thy several plases of worship Tempels of Ydols plases of the forms of godlynes with out the lyf and power therof which ar to be turned from the vvhol body of thy vvorship as an Altar vvith an inscription to the unknown God The several exercyses of prayer preaching sacraments singing with the observation of days tyms sabbaths performed and observed at loathsom stinking most abominnabel in the nostrils of the put God of lyf no other but as the offering of swyns flesh blesing of Ydols or murdering of men being performed in that spirit Povver vvhich is enmity against God Who 's Rys and continans to this day is in the spirit of the old serpent vvhich vvas in Cain vvho could offer a sacrifys then murder his brother in Balaam Athaliah Iezabel vvho hav riden the several nations of Christendom as an As for dishonest gain the
of the Erth for its possession rul them with a rod of iron al its enemys becom its footstool that as a ston cut out of the mountain without hands it should smyt the Imag ' to wit the Powers of sin darknes in the feet therof so that the Yron Clay Silver Gold therof to wit al the strength Glory of the Power Kingdom of Darknes from the foundation to the Top ston in that cursed building shal be broken to pieces together becom as chaf which the wynd carrieth away that the ston should becom a great mountain fil the whol Erth And the Dominion of sin transgression shal be finished an end put therunto everlasting Ryteosnes be raised up established in Man Kynd they in it that as in Adam al dyed so in Christ the seed al shal be mâd alyv as sin hath reined unto Deth so Grâs shal Rein throuh Ryteosnes the seed unto everlasting lyf John in the Spirit of Profesy heard him that sat on the Thrôn say Behold I mak al things new saw the new Hevens the new Erth wherin ryteosnes dweleth the Holy City the new Jerusalem into which nothing that defyleth or worketh abomination can enter or that maketh a ly but they who ar writen in the Lambs Book of Lyf wherby was for shewn The restoration of the seed Christ in mâl and femâl of them in it to that pur Dominion Glory which he had with the Father in Man-kynd Man-kynd in him befôr the foundation of the World which lyeth in wikednes began The promis fulfild in the hed many members a strong ground of Hôp II. Secondly he hath alredy in mesûr mád thos promises Covenant good performed it to in som to wit in Christ Jesus that Lamb of God who was the first begoten from the Ded the Hed of the Body the Church in whom the Eternal Word of Lyf the Seed of God slain from the foandation of the World which lyeth in wikednes was brouht forth in its Holy Pur perfect Estat of innocency in whom the old Serpent the Divel the Tempter found no Plas who pased the tym of his sojourning heer on Erth in that mortal body in the pur fear lyt lyf Wisdom Power of God his Father faithfully finishing the work given him by the Father to do in the sam Eternal pur Spirit offered up himself again unto God without spot returned into the Bosom of the Eternal Father fountain of lyf from whens he câm proceeded As also dyvers of the Saints and Holy Men of God by and throuh a participation of the Sam Eternal pur fulnes of God which dwelt in him wer turned from the darknes to the lyt from the Power of Sathan to the Power of God and witnesed Salvation from sin and had learned to deny al ungodlynes worldly lusts and to liv soberly Ryteosly holyly in this present World wer clensed from al filthines of flesh and Spirit and had overcom the wiked ón wer mâd free from sin becom the Servants of Ryteosnes risen with Christ siting together in hevenly plases in Christ Jesus and wer com to the new Jerusalem to Mount Syon the city of the living God to the innumerabel Company of Angels the general Assembly Church of the first born to God the Judg of al and to the Spirits of just men mâd perfect in them III. Thirdly Becaus the sâm Eternal Power which hath acomplished it in the hed Som of the members The Power of God sufficient to perfect the rest is abel to acomplish the sâm in every member according to it's plâs throuhout the whol body being abel to sav to the uttermost al that com to God in him who is abel to work so as non shal hinder for Heven and Erth shal pas and now is pasing away but not ôn Jot or tittel of al that he hath spoken or promised shal fal to the ground unfulfiled IIII. Fourthly The Day is now com in which an end to the World which lyeth in wikednes shal be put the Kingdom of darknes sin and transgression finished and the pur and everlasting Ryteosnes of God to wit Christ in mâl and femâl be mád manifest in and throuh mankynd and mankynd in it reconcyled to God and to ón another in the ever lasting Covenant of lyf never mor to be forgoten in which the whol creation shal hav deliverans from the bondag of corruption in to the glorios liberty of the Sons of God The grouâ—d of al outward Rul ordinanses in Church stat declared And as concerning al Rûl Dominion Authority Power whatsoever that hath bin or shal be exercysed in throuh man over others wirh al the Ordinanses Appointments of God in the Church The ground of the Rys Manifestation Administration Continuans of them al was is mans transgression in sining departing from the Lord the lyt Spirit power of God in the inward parts And mans Restoration redemtion from sin transgression returning again unto the Lord in obediens to the lyt Spirit The most universal gathering greatest glory to be after the Apostacy and power of God in the inward parts puteth an end unto them al. But according as it was fôrseen fôrtold by the Spirit of Christ in the Holy Apostels a faling away Apostacy from the tru Christian faith lyf should com that the most spreding manifestation of the most Excelent glory day of the Lord the most universal gathering into him was not to com except ther cam ' first a faling away the Man of sin revealed and Holy Paul in his Advys to the over seers of the flok told them that after his departur greevos wolvs would enter in amongst them not sparing the flok that from among themselvs should men arys speaking pervers things to draw Discypels after them further said that the Mistery of Iniquity did then already begin to work John in his Epistel advyseth them to whom he wrot to try the Spirits not to beleev every Spirit becaus many fals Profets wer then gon out into the World The â—ôp confesseth that the Christ cam in that on body of flesh saying that every Spirit that confesseth not that Iesus Christ is com into the flesh is not of God that was the Spirit of Antichrist of which they had heard that it should com said then that it was already com into the VVorld that they went out from Among themselvs And so it was that the seed of the Serpent having found Plâs in som beguyling them as of old he did Eva drawing their mynds from the simplicity of the Spirit of Christ in them leading them out into the World Inclyning their hearts after outward visibel things it ceased not working even in a mystery of
fear him vvhich shal caus the Pur Lyt knowledg and glory of the Lord to overspred fil and dwel in the whol creation and mercy and truth to meet together and Ryteosnes and Peas to kis and imbrás ech other and truth to spring out of the Erth and Ryteosnes to look down from heven and everlasting joy to rest upon the heds of al the Sons and dauhters of Syon and al caus of syghing and sorrow to flee away forever mor. But to proceed this cursed seed of the Serpent took Root the mistery of Iniquity hath abounded over spred al Christendom the abomination which maketh desolat was stil is standing wher it ouht not abominabel covetosnes Pryd Cruelty Oppression Idolatry sheding the bloud of the innocent saints of God hath bin stil is Practised in thee O Christendom even with a bold impudent fà s which hath long cryed aloud how long Lord holy tru dost thou not judg aveng ' our bloud on them that dwel on the Erth notwithstanding al the Abominations Oppressions Idolatry murders great provocations against the Lord vvhich yee your predecessors hav bin stil ar so openly impudently found guilty of yet exceeding long and larg hath bin the Patiens forbearans of God towards them you many hav bin the Fatherly warnings chastysments vvholsom counsels of the Lord towards them you but yee your predecessors ar found mor abominably guilty of thos abominations crueltys oppressions Idolatrys sheding the bloud of the Innocent then the Jews of old wer for which the Lord mà d ûs of your predecessors of the Roman Power as instruments in his hand to execut his just dredful wrath vengeans on them yee hav not only moked Gods messengers despysed his word misused his Profets Saints as they towit the Jews did befor you but yee hav mà d cruelly executed dyvers Antichristian Cruel bloudy laws statuts to keep them from coming amongst you to Murder Kil Burn destroy them if they open their mouths on the behalf of God his truth ryteosnes or bear their faithful testimony against the cruelty oppressions Idolatrys sheding the bloud of the Innocent exhorting them to repent turn from your their evil cruel and abominabel ways and Practis which yee your predecessors wer and stil ar found guilty of And so both they you hav returned unto God his dear saints servants which he hath raysed up many tyms sent amongst you in Lov mercy hatred for their lov yea cruel torturings murdeings even the worst of evil for their good wil towards you al which provokations crueltys murders rebellious practised against the Lord in his dear precios innocent ôns are Exceedingly heihtened aggravated in you even to the hyest pitch in regard that the hav hard and hav upon record befor you in the Scripturs of truth the many precepts commands of God against such abomniabel ways practises the many woes Judgments dredful Curses denounsed by God against al who ar found guilty of them and the many Just and Ryteos plagu's wrath and dredful Judgments of God Executed on the ages generations past befor you who wer found guilty of the lyk abommations but mor especially in regard that the Lord mâd your predecessors instruments as an Yron rod in his hand to execut his Just wrath dredful Indignation upon the Jews for the sam sins and abominations which your predecessors yee hav bin and stil ar found guilty of and verely the day is now com in which yee wil fynd that he is a God that changeth not but abyds stil the sam as wel in Power ryteosnes wrath and justis as in long forberans patiens goodnes Mercy The Apostels tru Ministers of Christ wer not mâd so by men nor sent forth in the wil or by the approbation of Man nether did they Minister forth from the Letter vvhat others had received by their own acquyred parts learned at Schools universitys for mony nether did they complain or addres themselvs to the Potentats and powers of the Erth to mák laws to fo rs compel peepel to giv them tyths great sums of Mony or yearly Incoms for their preaâ—hing or to defend them in their Doctâ—ins faith Church Order Holy and Christian practises which they held forth and walked in or to fo rs Peepel to conform therunto upon pain of being fyned imprisoned racked tortured banished hanged burned or cruelly put to Deth No No. But they wer caled sent forth by the wil Power and appointment of God the Father the Lord Jesus Christ ministring forth freely and with a redy mynd what they had freely received of God throuh the Revelation of Jesus Christ the tru Lyt and gift of God in them What they had seen felt handled and tasted of the grás Eternal Word living pur Power of God in themselvs they preached forth and declared to others to the end that they also to whom they preached myt hav fellowship with them in the sam whos fellswship was in the Father in the Son Jesus Christ they ministred forth according to the mesur of the gift of the Spirit of the free grâs of Christ in them they wer tauht of God and had learned of the Father and ther by mâd abel Ministers of the New Testament the eveâ—lasting Covenant of God needed not outward laws of Man to fo rs Peepel to maintain them or giv them Mony for their preaching but such as becam obedient to the faith and Christian practises which they preached walked in the constraining Power therof wrouht such a lov of God in them to whom they preached which drew them forth in lov freely to communicat of their carnal substans to them as their Needs necessitys required who having food and raiment had learned therwith to be content And the way and weapons which they took used to defend their Holy Faith Christian Doctrins and practises by to convins gainsayers and Herities wer not outward or carnal not spoiling of goods prisons banishments racks hanging burning other cruel ways of open and secret Murder but Holy Spiritual The saints weapons even by the armor of ryteosnes on the ryt hand and on the left by arguments of sound truth pur and wholsom doctrins Holy harmles innocent and godly conversations Nether was the end of their preaching that Peepel should be ever learning never abel to com to the knowledg of the truth nor that Peepel should be only talking of God The end of the tru Ministers Preaching Christ and Holynes and abyd strangers enemys to ignorant of the lyt lyf Power and Spirit of God Christ and godlynes in themselvs but the end of their preaching was to bring Peepel to the knowledg feeling and obediens of the Spirit pur power and presens of God in themselfs and to
his Counsels wouldst nôn of his reproof he now lafs at thy destruction moks at the fears which ar coming upon thee on every hand even as desolation thy destruction as a whirl-wind and althô thou cryest yet wil he not hear even to the Lord yet vvil he not answer thee becaust thou hast hated instruction rejected his warning and Counsels throuh his Servants Messengers Therfor shalt thou now eat the fruits of thy own doings be filed vvith the just revvard of thy own ways of vvickednes the tokens of thy south sayers vvil he frustrat mâk thy Divyners or Spiritual Men mad Thy Sun thy Moon thy Stars ar becom dark the Keepers of thy hous begin to trembel thy strong Men to bow themselvs dredful fears ar coming on thee on every hand becaus Man is now going to his long hôm the mourners begin to go about the streets he is coming forth out of the wildernes with his beloved leaning on him lyk Pillars of smoak who looketh forth as the morning and is terribel as an army with banners yea he is making hast as a Roe or yong hart upon the mountains of Bether and wil now most assuredly eas himself of his adversarys and aveng himself upon al his and his dear oppresed despysed and cruelly murdered Saints and Peepels enemys from the least to the greatest Thy youths shal faint and thy strong men shal utterly fal yea even becom as Tow and the maker of al as a spark in them and they shal burn together and non shal be abel to quench them The Lyt of Israel is becom a fyr the holy on A flâm in thee which shal not ceas burning til al the bryars and thorns in thee be utterly consumed burnt up the loftynes of Man is now bowing down the hauhtynes of man is the Lord now laying low the day of the Lords just wrath and vengeans is now com shal be upon al the proud that ar lifted up they shal be abased and laid low even in the dust and the Lord alôn in his sanctifyed ôns shal be exalted in throuh and over al in thee His and his dear despysed afflicted peepels enemys in mesur hav dayly mor and mor shal run into hôls and Cavs of the Erth for fear of the Lord and becaus of the greatnes of his glory pur Power presens in his Peepel who is how risen in them throuh them in mesur hath and dayly mor and mor shal shâk terribely the erth The Rod is sprung forth out of the stem of Iesse with the sword of his mouth is he smyting the erth and with the breth of his lips slaying the wicked the Lord hath raysed up ôn from the North who from the rysing of the sun hath cald upon his nâm and he is com coming upon thy Prinses as upon mortar and vvil tread them as the poter doth the clay in thee O Christendom And althô the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers and Peepel do associat themselvs together yet they shal be kroken to pieces thô they tâk crafty counsel speak the word yet it shal not stand but be utterly frustrat com to nauht for the Lord God ommipent is in with his heritag who âr now becom a holy Tempel and dweling plâs for the Lord God of Jacob even apur tabernakel for the sun of ryteosnes vvho is novv risen in them rejoycing as a strong man to run his râs his glorios beams of pur and eternal lyt break forth over the tops of the mountains vvhich novv begin to smoak he is looking from the top of Amana and from the top of shynar Hermon even from the lyons dens and mountains of the leopards he hath caled his myty ôns for his anger even them that rejoys in his hynes The bauner of the Lord is now lifted up against spiritual Babylon in thee O Christendom the noys of a multitud is now breaking forth even a tumultuos noys of Kingdoms nations gathering together The Lord of hosts is mustering his hosts for the battel they com from the end of heven even the Lord and the weapons of his indignation to destroy the whol land to wit that Power and spirit in vvhich thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers VVariors Teachers and Peepel now stand and by which they ar now acted He that is Red in his apparel is now com forth shal dayly mor and mòr appear in dyed garments traveling in the greatnes of his myt who speaks in Ryteosnes myty to sav and to destroy the day of vengeans is in his heart and he wil tread the VVynpres of his fiers wrath in thee even tread down thy Peepel in his fury trampel upon them in his anger and stain al his rayment yea mâk them drunk in his fury bring down thy strength to the ground O Christendom His sword is in mesur drawn furbished for the slauhter he wil even bath his two edged sword in heven in thee thou that hast spoyled must now be spoyled the Lord with his great long sword in mesur hath dayly mòr mòr shal piers Levyathan that piersing crooked Serpent slay the dragon in thy sea he is novv declaring publishing among the nations the standard is up and spiritual Babylon in thee shal be confounded utterly destroyed and her Images ydols broken to pieces for out of the North ther cometh a nation against her vvho in mesur alredy hath and dayly mòr mòr shal mà k her land desolat he is causing to com up an assembly from the North cuntrry vvho in mesur alredy hath dayly mòr and mor shal set themselvs in battel array against her and from thens shal shee be utterly destroyed not by myt or power of the arm of flesh but by my spirit even the sword of my mouth saith the Lord God their arrows ar as of a myty expert man nòn shal return in vain a sound of battel is in thy land and of great destructions the hammer of the whol Erth in thee shal be cut and broken to pieces spiritual Babylon in thee shal be an utter desolation among the nations thy yong men shal fal by the sword in battel and thy myty men of war be cut of the most proud shal utterly fal non shal be abel to rays him up yea a fyr is in mesur Kindled in thy citys which shal devour round about the sword of the Lord is drawing upon thy inhabitants upon thy Potentats upon thy wys men thy lying Profets fals teachers they shal doat upon thy horses upon thy chariots they shal fal be broken to pieces upon al thy mingled peepel they shal becom as VVomen upon thy tresurs they shal be Robed even a drouth upon thy waters and they shal be dryed up for thy land is a Land of graven images they ar mad upon their Ydols A peepel ar and shal
and bulwarks But as for thee the pryd of thy heart hath deceived thee thou that dwelest in the clefts of the roks and sayest in thy heart who shal bring me down Thô thou hast exalted thy self as the eagel set thy nest among the stars yet from thens wil I bring thee down saith the Lord God ommipotent Wherfor hear O yee mountains giv ear yee strong foundations of the Erth in thee O Christendom for the Lord hath a controversy with you he is drawing neer to plead the caus of his crucifyed â—on his cruelly tortured and murdered saints his greatly burdened spoyled and oppresed Peepel in thee VVo VVo VVo to the bloudy city that is ful of lys robbery the noys of the whip the noys of the rateling of the wheels the cransing of the horser is coming on thee the hors man draweth near to lift up the bryt sword the glittering spear and a multitud of carkases shal fal and they shal stumbel upon the corps becaus of the multitud of the whordoms of the great skarlet whor the mother of harlots and mistris of witchcrafts that hath sold the nations throuh her crafts behold I am against thee saith the Lord of hosts and wil discover thy skirts upon thy fâs shew the nations thy nakednes and Kingdoms thy shà m cast abominabel filth upon thee mà k thee vyl yea even set thee for a gazing stok al thy strong holds shal be as figtrees with the first Ryp figs which when they ar shaken shal fal into the mouth of the eater thô thou provyd for the sieg and fortify thy strong holds and garrisons yet a fyr shal devour thee the sword shal cut thee of and eat up thy flesh lyk fyr thou hast multiplyd thy marchants abov the stars of heven thy shepherds stumber thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Counselers dwel in the dust thy Peepel ar as a flok scattered upon the barren mountains ther is no healing of thy breach thy wound is incurabel such as hear the report of thee shal clap their hands for upon whom hast thou not caused thy filth abominabel wickednes to pas continually The vision that was for an appointed tym is now speaking thô it hath tarryed long yet it is now surly com they shal suddenly awak that shal byt thee arys that shal vex thee thou shalt be for a booty unto them becaus of innocent bloud for the spoyl vyolens found in thee thou shalt be filed with shâm for glory the cup of the Lords Ryteos indignation is now handing forth unto thee shamful spewing shal be on al thy glory thy graven Images shal not profit thee for the Lord is in his Holy Tempel al the Erth shal be put to sylens befor him â—he is now drawing near to dryv in sunder the Nations to scatter the hy lofty mountains yea al the hils shal bow befor him whos way is everlasting Affliction dredful trembling is now seizing on thee for the Lord is near to march throuh thy Land in great dredful indignation yea he is going forth for the salvation of his peepel even for the salvation of his anoynted wil wound the heads of the hous of wickednes in thee O Christendom discover overturn the foundations of them scatter the wicked as with a Whirlwynd whos rejoysing hath bin to oppres spoyl murder the Poor Needy Innocent yea he wil march throuh thy Sea and trampel upon the heaps of thy great Waters The Day is now com that he is risen to the prey for his determination is to gather together the Nations to assembel the Kingdoms in thee to pour on them his most ryteos vengeans indignation even al his fiers wrath Anger the Erth shal be devoured with the fyr of his Jelofy But the Peepel of pur Languag shal cal upon his Nâm get them a prays a goodsavor fâm in every Land my Peepel shal never he ashamed saith the Lord God who is now shaking the Hevens the Erth overtuâ—ning the Thrôns of Kingdoms thâ—y shal be brouht down by the sword utterly broken to pieces The great Mountain in thee shal be com a plain befor him The flying rowl is seen which contains the terribel curs which is now going forth over the fâs of the whol Erth every ón that stealeth sweareth shal be cut of according to it The Lord hath brouth it forth it is entering into the hous of the thief of him that sweareth falsly by my Nâm saith the Lord which fals swearing hath bin the practis of thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Magistrats at their Coronations or Instalments so caled into their Governments as also other inferior Officers Jurors Evidenses in thy Courts which ouht to hav bin Courts of trû Judgment Justis becaus of which oaths thy Land shal mourn The Holy City which is free the Mother of al the Children of tru freedom is in mesur descended from God out of Heven shal dayly mor mor appear whos wals Bulwarks ar salvation the gats therof Prays is now in mesur becom a Burdensom stôn to al Nations al vvho burden themselvs vvith her shal be broken to pieces yea she is becom as an herth of fyr among dry vvood as a Flaming Torch in the midst of a sheaf of dryed stravv or stubbel vvhich shal devour the vvicked in thee round about The lofty City he is bringing dovvn laying it lovv even vvith the ground the foot is treading it dovvn even the feet of the poor the steps of the needy The wynd is goten into the two womens wings bearing up the Epha vvherin the vvoman vvhich is vvickednes even the man of sin siteth vvhich must novv be born into the land of shynar and be sit and established upon her own Basis in which land was the building of Bâbel the begining of Nimrods Kingdom that myty hunter befor the Lord to wit the lâk or bottomles pit in every Particular mal femal eternal Judgment ther plased on the hed of the transgresing Power in the in ward parts which is the ground out of which it sprang even the Topht prepared for the King and every subject in the Kingdom Spirit and Power of darknes Dives the Rich man that hath bin cloathed in purpel skarlet fared delitiosly every day born after the flesh that hath bin cruel and mercyles Persecuting him that is born after the Spirit most now go to his Plâs of torment not hav ón drop of water to cool his tongu ' and Lazarus the man of sorrovvs must novv be carryed into Abrahams Bosom an eternal seperation must novv be mad betvvixt the tvvo seeds an irremovabel Impassabel Gulf fixed betwixt them both the man of sin the Man of sorrows he seed of ech of them must now be put ech in
Patient constant faithful lamb lyk sufferings vvhich ar the spirit water bloud of the lamb vvith vvhich they over com and stand in Pur Dominion over al their enemys both in them and vvithout them the great Erth quak ther to wit in England Scotland Yrland is wel ny over the tenth Part of the city neer hand fallen the seven thousand men of Nà m Rul authority in the Dragons Beasts fals profets spirit Power neer hand slayn in the Erth quak and that which Remains to be don and fulfiled on the Dragon's Beast's fals Proset's Power spirit and on the great sea out of which the Beast aros the many waters on which the skarlet whor sits is now in hand and shal dayly mor and mor be carryed on til it be finished fully don and accomplished The Battel of the great day of God almyty is in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear he is even com and coming as a thief in the Nyht blesed is he that watcheth he is gathering them together for the Battel the Kingdom of the great skarlet coulored beast in thee o Christendom whos present chief hed art thou O Leopold is now weihed numbered found to lyt 666. is determined by the Lord God for the finishing puting an end therunto The lamb is now standing on mount Syon the hundred forty four thousand ar in mesur gathered dayly gathering into him having his Fathers Nam in their for heds The new hevens ar in mesur opened the whyt hors him that siteth ther on in mesur appeareth in his sanctifyed ôn vvho is caled the word of God and in ryteosnes doth he judg and mak war is cloathed in a gartment diped diping in bloud whos nam is caled faithful tru the armys which ar in heven ar following of him out of his mouth goeth as harp sword with vvhich he in mesur alredy hath dayly mor mor shal smyt the nations rul them with a Rod of Iron having on his vestur on his thyh a nam written King of Kings Lord of Lords the fouls which fly in the midst of heven at caled caling to the super of the great God they in mesur alredy hav dayly mor and mor shal eat the flesh of Kings the flesh of Captains the flesh of myty Men the flesh of Horses them that sit on them of al men both free bond smal great And the Beast fals Profet already in mesur hath been dayly mor mor shal be taken a lyv cast into the Lâk of fyr burning with brimston al the fouls filed with their flesh in thee o Christendom Great Babylon is novv com into Remembrans befor God the gre at City is novv divyded into three parts viz Catholiks Lutherans Calvinists in the Roman Imperial Dominions vvith this Heds Hornt But in England Scotland Yrland under the nâms of Papists Episcopacy Presbytery And as for her suburbs thôs other Nâms Sects to the hyest of them under the Comand Government teachings of Man thô they be got A step in form profession beyond the other yet being gon from the mesur of the Spirit of grâs in them which drew them forth in mesur to seperat in form lyf practis from the other they ar novv becom ôn in natur ground practis with the great whor of Rôm And being found Partakers with her in her sins thy must also unavoydably receiv of her Plagu's which great City is in mesur falen faling as shee hath don must novv be dôn unto her yea doubel according to her vvorks In the cup vvhich shee hath filed must novv be filed to her doubel And according to that heiht in vvhich she hath glorifyed her self living delitiosly so much torment and sorrovv must novv be given unto her The ten Horns on the Beast's Hed in mesur do and dayly mor and mor shal hât the vvhor mak her desolat and naked eat her flesh and burn her vvith fyr The was betvvixt Michael his Angels the Dragon his Angels is begun and shal dayly mor and mor appear and be carryed on til it be fully finished The Lamb the Saints in mesur hav and dayly mor and mor shal hav pur Victory and Dominion over al his their enemys from the greatest to the least he that hath led into Captivity must now go into Captivity And that Spirit in Man which hath kiled with the sword must now be kiled by the sword even the sword of the mouth And the Hevens even the Spirit of the Holy Profets Aposlels in his Peepel of this present Agâ—â— generation shal rejoys over her thus with vyolens shal that great City Spiritual Babylon Sodom Egypt be thrown down as agreat Milston into the Sea be found no mor at al for ever for in her is found the Bloud not only of the Profets Saints but of al that hav bin slain upon the Erth This Generation shal not pas away until it be fulfiled thes ar the tru sayings of God he that hath an ear to hear let him hear But for the sak of the burdened oppressed slain Seed of God in thee O Leopold thee O Póp of Rôm al the Kings Prinses Rulers Governors with al in Authority under you of what degree rank or order soever Whether Civil Military or Spiritual and Ecclesiastical so caled with al Peepel by and low rich and poor bond and free smal and great mâl and femâl of what Nation Kindred Tougu or Peepel soever under the Command government and teachings of Man in the bowels of dear tender lov for the sâk of the slain Seed of God in thee O Christendom to the end that he who is in mesur already risen may dayly mor and mor arys to Judgment in thee to sav â al the meek of the Erth that the Sea Deth hel in thee may mor and mor deliver up the Ded incorrupâ—ibel in them and be judged every ôn according to their works and that the oppresed groaning creation in thee may mor mor be delivered from the bondag of corruption into the glorios liberty of the Sons of God which is the first Resurrection in which the Jews shal be visited in which al ar blesed who hav their parts for on such the second Deth shal hav no Power but the shal be Priests of God of Christ and Rein with him a thousand Yeers which with the Lord is but as ôn day in the end of which the seven thunders shal utter their voys the effects wherof ar of a larger Extent then Christendom containing in them the seâ—ching out to the bottom the hiden things of Esau and the laying of his mountain also utterly wast and desolat the compleat deliverans of the whol creation from the bondag of corruption the
caused to be mà d a multitud of abominabel Idolatros images and ydols in their and your spiritual adulteros abominabel blasphemos and idolatros hearts and mynds to represent God Christ the spirit angels and saints mà d of gold silver bras yron wood and ston after the manner of the ignorant and idolatros heathen of old which they and you hav caused to be set up in your hyh ways Markets Streets Courts of judicatur and plases of your idolatros vvorship and set up and hang in your houses and carry about you throuhout Christendom filing the land with ydols and picturs and abominabel images of jelosy ther by grievosly provoking the just and ryteos Lord God omnipotent to caus his fiers vvrath indignation and jelosy to smoak burn against you having worshiped the works of your own hands even that which your fingers hav mâd the mean Man hath bowed down even Mâl Femâl Rich Poor Bond Free Smal Great and yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers great ôns hav Debased your selvs beforthem THERFOR WIL I NOT FOR GIV OR SPAR YOU saith THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT And yee the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom and your predecessors having forgoten turned your baks upon and becom Ignorant of the God that formed you and raised you up in whos hand at whos dispos your breth lyvs dominons ar it hath rendred both them and you voyd of that nobel Spirit of tru wisdom counsel gravity Prudens vertu holynes which appeared ons in som of your predecessors rendring them famos terribel dredful to their enemys abroad their Goverment lovly desyrabel at hom among the several Nations tongu's and languages under their subjection They you becam stil remain lyk Cruel Uunatural bruit-beasts or evening wolvs turning that sword which ons rendred them dredful terribel to their enemys unto their own bowels therwith by wars division stryf contentions murdering kiling and destroying on Another in the wikednes pryd stoutnes of their your ambitios hearts mynds quarreling ôn with another about Erthly dominions greatnes and preheminens emty blasphemos Antichristian Nâms tytels of worldly Antichristian and Spiritually wiked Honor Dominion to wit Master worshipful Hy Myty Lords Stâts General most Illustrios Nobel Vertuos Honorabel Excelent Sereen Earls Duks Lord Protectors Prinses Kings most invincibel Emperors Cardinals Eminency Archbishops Bishops Grâs Ryht Reverend Fathers in God common Priests Reverend Divyns c. with the Pôps Holynes al the other Nâms Tytels assumed in the Military Civil Ecelestastical Powers so caled which ar not of Christ but cam out of the bottomles pit ar Erthly sensual Devilish into the Lâk of Gods most Just Ryteos Dredful wrath vengeans Plagu's Indignation must that Power Spirit be cast in which yee now stand by which ye ar acted Yee hav not learned of Christ to lov ôn another who said to Peter put up thy sword into its plas for al that ták the sword must perish by the sword and heer by both yee and your goverment ar rendred odios yea even most intolerably burdensom cruel and opresing in the syt of God and in the hearts of the Peepel over whom yee rul lading them with Burdens taxes oppresions labor Sôr travels in bloud wars on against another And althô yee cal your goverment The Holy Roman Empyr the Pop blasphemosly his holynes and the Rest of that spiritual Babylonian Antichristian crew holy Bishops patrons Fathers of holy Church so caled and profes your selvs to be Christian Emperos Kings Prinses Rulers and Peepel yet ar yee found voyd of the tru Christian Spirit lyf bav not learned of Christ nether ar found in his nor the tru Christians ways practises who said lov your enemys bles them that Curs you do good to them that hât you pray for them that persecut you despytfully ûs you be not overcom of evil but over com evil by doing good But yee hav bin môr barbaros stil ar mor cruel to your Enemys then any that ever I hav heard seen or red of causing them to be with Yrons ôn their legs lyk horses nyt day and their hands in Yrons chaining them by the neks lyk dogs to a post or wal with their feet in the stoks lying on the ground with litel under them cruelly torturing their bodys to fo rs them to confes and tel what ther outward estats ar or what rich abel friends they hav ther by to procur great sums of mony for their ransoms causing them to work dayly with thos Yrons upon their legs provyding no cloths for them allowing them only water to drink and hardly bred enuf of the courser sort to fustain their outward man yea causing som of them to work without allovving them ether bred or mony hardly permiting them to fetch good water or go to such as pased by them wher they wer at work to beg buying seling them ôn to another as slavs lyk beasts for mony according to what was of old forseen fortold by the Spirit of prophesy in John the faithful witnes of Jesus recorded in the Scripturs of truth of al which Inhuman antichristian cursed and cruel dealings my self and companion in travel hav bin not only Ey and ear witneses but also in mesur hav gon throuh suffered and sustained So that this seed of the serpent even that cursed Spirit of apostacy and faling away from the tru Christian Spirit purfaith lyf having taken root in your predecessors it hath continued in its cursed operations fruits working in you to this very day and hens it hath com to pas that tru wisdom is Perished from thy anients good wholsom counsel is not to be found among the honorabel ôns and insted of governing the Peepel in truth peas and ryteosnes behold on al hands a grievos cry of vyolens spoyl oppression insted of unity and concord behold stryf debat rumors of cruel and dredful wars on al hands And not having Christ to be your hed Bishop King Priest Counseler Lawgiver and horn of your salvation yee ar becom broken to Pieces and divyded under dyvers heds Bishops Kings Blasphemos nams heaps and horns pushing stryving contending and waring ôn against another in bloud and cruelty wherby whol Christendom hath bin mâd an Akeldama or field of bloud even a plâs not of kyndnes and good entertainment but of cruelty and Murder and to bury strangers in even Christ the tru and Ryt heryr and Lord of al who hath bin long as a stranger in the Erth as driven out of his possession but now com to demand recover posses his inheritans which is the purchas of your denying betraying and Spiritually Murdering and Crucifying the Lord of lyf and glory And thy Peepel O Christendom being Ignorant of Christ vvho vvas given of the
Father to be Gods salvation in the ends of the Erth even the way the truth and the lyf in Mâl and femâl to lead out of stryf and discord up to God in vvays of lov truth peas and ryteosnes whol Christendom is becom lyk the Raging sea tos ed to and fro vvith every vvynd of Doctrin runing al on heaps contending and quarreling ôn vvith another about emty nâms ways forms professions in Religion ôn sort or sect crying lo heer another lo ther a third this is the way being al of them strangers aliens enemys to the Power Spirit of God in themselvs in his Peepel Ignorant of him who is the former of al things and is without form was befor al forms or visibel appearances and abyds the sâm vvhen they hav their end vvrangling and contending about outvvard bred and wyn and water Baptisms and Carnal ordinanses which wer figurs in their tym but the living bred of God vvhich cometh dovvn from heven in his saints and the Pur Wyn of the Kingdom of God vvhich refresheth and norisheth the lyf vvhich is pur eternal and Immortal of God in the Imvard parts is not truly fed on or drank of by them And the ón Baptism vvhich saveth even the pur living water of lyf which clenseth washeth the Inward man and sprinkleth from an evil consciens is not known felt or truly Experiensed in them Betwixt thos two to wit the Beast fals Profet the Civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled hath the lamb slayn from the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes bin crucifyed afresh as betwixt two theevs the ón being accuser the old accuser of the Brethren the other Iudg the third to wit the Military Power the executioner which is the Barrabas vvhich they hav chosen in rejecting crucifying of Jesus by vvhom al the Insurrections Murders divydings of his garment to wit the creation into particular Intrests casting lots on his vestur hath bin don commited sins the entrans of transgression to this day vvhos practis hath bin stil is to Rob spoyl plunder the nations of their tresurs fruits of their labors to uphold themselvs in pryd lusts eas Fulnes cruelty oppression over the Nations under fals pertenses of protecting teaching them in vvays of Peas ryteosnes and salvation Thes ar the Phisicians of no valu the Nations hav bin the woman vvith the bloudy Issu that hath gon to them for help cur but notvvithstanding vvel ny al hath bin spent on them the bloudy Issu hath not bin healed but rendred by far the mor Incurabel but blesed be the Lord the vvoman hath now met vvith Jesus the good Phisician goten a touch of the hem of his garment feels in her self the healing vertu the Bloudy Issu is in mesur stayed vvhich blesed healing vertu shal not ceas vvorking til it pas throuh the vvhol body of the Creation and the cûr and redemtion therof be compleated the thre that beare Record in bel Thes tovvit the Dragon Beast fals profet à r the three that bear record in Erth and hel vvhich ar ôn and Agree in ôn to vvit the Spirit of the old serpent in man its corrupting of Man-kynd its cursed fruits and operations throuh Man kynd And heer may be noted that which I may cal the living or essential differens betwixt the living tru Lord God the Devil the old Serpent the God of the World about which the learned Disputers eloquent Orators Comentators in the Spirit of the World hav bin so long Disputing contending and wryting larg Commentarys Contradictory ôn to the other But having nether the Key of David nor the Heffer of Sampson to Plow with could never truly open or unfold the Matter and al thô they hav mâd ûs ' of the Words of the Holy Men of God recorded in the Scripturs yet ar they therin found fals witneses being strangers aliens from that Holy Pur Spirit Lyt Wisdom of God in the Holy Profets by which they spâk and wrot The living tru God is that Eternal Pur Spirit of Lyt Lyf Wisdom Power which hath its being in of its self and was befor al Creaturs visibel and in visibel wer is the lyf former fulnes end of them al abydeth the sâm when they hav their end But the old Serpent the Devil the God of the World was not befor things visibel and invisibel wer but was mà d manifest in tym throuh matter form and is not but by and throuh matter and form and ceaseth to be when they hav their end in every particular towit the Spirit of that old Serpent the carnal covetos mynd with the law therof which hath its Seat in the members the Erthly or sensual part of Man-kynd which is the Woman that was deceived first in the transgression both of mâl femâl which is Deth Hel a Devil in al in whom it dwels reins even the Kingdom and Power offin darknes the seat and Thrôn of al Iniquity and al who in that Spirit and Power Exercys Rul and Dominion ever others ar a hel of Devils and tormentors to them which is the Spirit of the Beast in Man-kynd that goeth downward and renders al in whom it Dwels ruls to be the Seed and Children of the Devil that old Serpent which is mor subtil then any beast of the field which the Lord God hath mâd whos curs and portion was is for ever shal be on their Bellys to go to eat dust al the Days of their lyf but the lyf which is pur of God in Man-kynd is not up held by bred alon but by the pur Word of the Lord of lyf and Power in the inward parts doth man liv whom God is now restoring and redeeming again up into himself to Partak o◠his own pur Divyn Natur and fulnes and to bear his Imag to the injoyment of the gift which he freely gav to the Children of Men whom the Lord wil again Crown with his own pur lyf Plas in Eternal Dominion over the works of his hands The Son is in mesur risen and the day com in which al the devouring Beasts of Prey shal ly down in their dens sleep a perpetual sleep man goforth unto his labor until the evening from under the curs Power of transgression sin Deth hel in the blesing of Eternal lyf pur lov Peas Ryteosnes for ever mor. And so having slayn the Innocent murdered and crucifyed the just to and in themselvs the tru Lord and heyr of al cast him out of his inheritans and possesed themselvs therof they contryved hovv to mâk sur the possession therof to themselvs theyr heyrs and Successors in that Serpentyn Murderos oppresing Spirit Power if possibel to al ages generations And the woman the Ecclesiastical Power being deceived first in the