profession soever and it shall prove you who say you are Jews and are not and every mans works shall be tryed of what sort they are and all coverings besides the pure Holy Spirit of the Lord shall be as Adams fig-Leaves were and when the Lord shall call them to an account they shall fear to appear before him because of their transgressions and Gods witnesse in all shall answer unto his just judgments which shall come upon them the hypocrites shall weep and howle and many shall call to the Hills and Mountains to hide them from the wrath of the Lamb whom they have willfully despised and rejected Therefore be ye warned in time and see and search diligently what you are built upon for no other foundation shall be able to abide the dreadful day of Gods controversie with the sons and daughters of men but the Rock of ages and he which is not built upon this let him be never so secure in his own conceit or in the eye of flesh his building shall utterly perish and come to nought and great shall be his ruine Therefore come all to the Light and make no other foundation but that if ye desire to abide the day of tryal which is neer even at the dore therefore this warning is sent unto you in an acceptable time that ye may take warning before it be too late for a consummate decree is determined of the Lord which shall consume and destroy all the workers of iniquity for ever therefore blessed will the man be who hath not walked in their way nor sitteth in the seat of the scornfull after he is warned but shall cleave to the Law of God and meditate therein his off-spring shall be prosperous in the Earth and his name shall be written in the book of life for ever he shall wash his garments white in the blood of the Lamb and follow him who hath a Bow and a Sword and maketh war in righteousness against the Dragon and his Followers even the Man of Sin who hath long sitten in the Temple of God and said He is God but by the Lamb shall he be overcome and his followers and all that are found in resistance of Gods power shall be cast into the pit of endlesse torments for ever and the day is already dawned wherein this glorious work shall be accomplished Therefore beware with whom ye joyn in battel for the Lamb makes war in righteousness against all sin and the appearance thereof but the Dragon and his followers shal be to uphold it and plead for it and imprison such as bear testimony against it so each will be known by their weapons their fruits and their colours the one's weapons are spiritual the others carnal the one is in unrighteousnesse the other in righteousnesse the one is in blood and revenge the other in suffering and patience so you may easily distinguish between them and will not be able to plead ignorance in the day of account for it was ever so from the beginning the just suffering by the unjust the seed of the Bond-woman persecuting the seed of the Free-woman which never persecuted any therefore be ye warned of joyning with the persecuting spirit of Antichrist for if you doe you shall assuredly as the Lord God of Heaven and Earth lives partake of his plagues but rather cast out the Bond-woman and her son that ye may be heirs with the seed of the Free-woman which keep the Commandements of God so will ye be heirs of the promise and of the mercy of God which is freely tendered unto you through his simple servant who is at present a sufferer in the patience and tribulation of the Lamb on whom the Lord hath laid a necessity to warn thee O nation of France that thou mayst find mercy in this the day of Gods free love which is tendered unto thee and though this reacheth unto the whole Nation yet in particular it is sent to you who are called by the name of the Reformed Religion to the end that ye may not only be so in name but also in life and practise without which your name will but adde unto your condemnation as hath already been told you God is purposed to try you and your foundation and a name will not serve the turn and except ye partake of the nature of the sufferance of Gods seed and spirit of truth in you and turn to the Lord by putting away the evil of your doings ye shall surely partake of her plagues which is the word of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth unto you all for her sins have exceeded the sins of Sodom and the measure of her iniquity is even up and judgment is already prepared for her therefore be ye seperated from your iniquities in time for the word is gone out of the mouth of the Lord and can never be recalled but shall surely accomplish the thing which he hath purposed therefore my bowels are drawn forth in love towards you that ye may not perish with the uncircumcised and unclean but that rather ye may come to repentance and amendment of life and live for ever which is the true desire of his soul Friends the Lord is about to do a wonderful work in the Earth which many cannot believe though it were told them but the upright in heart shall see it and praise him yea the youth shall rejoyce and the virgins shall be glad and the Saints shall admire and smite upon their breasts in beholding the wonderful works of the Allmighty which he purposeth to doe in this generation And therefore give ear unto me and be not hard of heart nor unbelieving and I will through the spirit of the Lord which is upon me shew unto you the certainty of things which shall shortly come to passe The Lord will cast down the haughty and the proud from his throne and will exalt the humble and the meek yea he will rebuke the proud and give grace unto the humble He will exalt his horn over all that shall rise up against him he will break the bond of oppression and set the Nations at liberty that his name may be glorified from one end of the Earth unto the other though at present his name is not known amongst the sons of men and he be more a stranger and less known amongst them then the Ox to his owner or the Ass to his masters crib yet shall the knowledge of him cover the whole earth even as the waters cover the Seas He will overturn all Idolaters and all Idols for ever and all who shall set a hand to uphold them all Idol Priests shall be turned into confusion for ever the haughty seat shall be laid low and the humble and the meek shal be exalted yea he will by his own arm and Allmighty power arise and plead the cause of the innocent and set the oppressed free and enlarg the borders of the innocent and the meek shall take the possession and the glorious
glory of his renown shall go over all which shall strike dread unto his enemies he will thresh the mountaines to dust before him and the wicked shall be but as the stubble which is dried before the fire and shall be consumed for ever he who is mightier then the mightiest will doe this he even he before whom all Nations are but as the drop of a Bucket and weigheth the hills in a scale and the mountains in a ballance and measureth the waters in the hollow of his hand will accomplish the thing which he hath purposed and the word which is gone out of his mouth for as the rain which falleth upon the Earth and returneth not again so is the word of the Lord which is gone out of his mouth which shall not return but shall accomplish his purpose which is to subdue all the Kingdomes of this World into the subjection of his own only anointed seed to live and reign over all and in all who is blessed for evermore in whom all the promises of the father are Yea and Amen for the promise was not unto many but unto the seed when he spake unto Abraham the Father of the faithfull In thy Seed shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed which Seed is Christ which shall have the Dominion in all and over all for ever Let him which readeth understand The Government shall be put upon his shoulder and who will not willingly subject unto it shall be beaten to pieces with his Iron Rod with which he shall rule all Nations and this is the little stone which is cut out of the mountain without hands which became a great mountain and covered the whole Earth which hastneth apace to be fulfilled even so saith my Soul Amen and Amen And for the fulfilling of this his glorious word the Lord will not onely shake the Earth but the Heavens also and will Overturn Overturn Overturn Kings Princes and Powers even all those who shall rise up against him and will tear them in pieces as he hath already apparently done when the Lord will work who shall lett the Heathen may rage and the people imagine a vain thing and the Judges of the Earth may take counsell against the Lord and against his Anointed but all in vain for he will exalt him to reign upon his holy hill of Sion for evermore in the sight of all his enemies to their utter overthrow and confusion for ever Your Judges shall be restored as at the first and Counsellers as at the beginning who will not judg for gift nor reward the wicked shall no more be called good nor the churle liberall light shall not be put for darknesse nor darknesse for light but all shall be judged by him who seeth in secret and who lives for ever whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion of which there is no end Therefore come to the just in you all in the particular even to the Seed of God in you all which of his infinite mercy he hath left in you else long ere now had ye been destroyed and made like unto Sodom and Gomorrah but for his seed sake hath he withheld his hand from destroying you untill this day and consider the end of Sodom and the inhabitants thereof and their end when the just was taken from amongst them and even as it was with them so shall it be with you if you harden your hearts and will not hear the Lord will take the just Seed from you which suffereth dayly by you and is oppressed in you even as a Cart which is pressed and loaden with sheaves and grieved as the just was in Sodom by their unrighteous and ungodly conversation and if it be once taken away from you though the faithfull may make intercession for you as Abraham did for them yet as sure as the Lord God of Heaven and Earth lives your end shall be as theirs for if once the just in you be taken away nought but fury and vengeance will be poured upon you from Heaven untill you be utterly swallowed up with the eternall flames of Gods fury and vengeance for evermore for whose sake I am now moved to warn you from the wrath which is to come and if you refuse and reject and despise his everlasting Messengers as they did take them for an example for God hath made them so of his wrath to all who shall reject his loving kindnesse mercy and counsel Therefore in bowels of mercy and pity am I drawn forth again and again to warn you and advise and beseech you to turn unto the just pure holy principle of God in you and give up to be guided by it and governed by it in all things that ye may be leavened into its own nature even the incorruptible nature of God that ye may come to witnesse the new creature which is the first Resurrection over which the second Death hath no power and as many of you as come to walk according to this rule peace will be unto you and with you for ever peace which the world can neither give nor take from you even the peace of God which will rule in your hearts which will keep your hearts and minds spotlesse and blamelesse for ever and the power of the crosse of Christ you will come to witnesse to be the power of God unto salvation as you believe and are subject unto it whereby the world will become crucified unto you and you unto the world and nothing else will you desire to glory in but will come even to be ashamed of those things which ye now delight in and have no more pleasure in them nor fashion your selves as you did in the former time of ignorance as the Heathen did in vain and foolish habit idle and foolish talk such things will be an abomination unto the Lord of your life by whom ye breath and nothing can or will proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying and according to the promise of God you will come to witnesse even the pouring out of his Spirit upon you and your Sons and your daughters shall prophecy your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams and every one of you shall sit under his own Vine and under his own Fig-tree and none shall make you affraid and you will not need to go to men for teaching nor every one say to his neighbour know the Lord for all of you shall know him from the least unto the greatest and shall say one to another come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and he will teach us of his wayes and we will walk in his light for ever and the Lord will make a hedg about you and set his holy Angels to watch over you and prune you that as ye come to bring forth fruit unto him ye may bring it forth more abundantly to the honour and delight of the Lord will ye be for ever which
his own right hand hath planted and none shall be able to pluck you up for he will keep you in the hollow of his hand and they which shall touch you to harm you shall be as though they touched the apple of his eye and though for a time some of you may be suffered to be tryed for the tryal of others yet assuredly it shall be but for a short season a book of remembrance thereof will be written before the Lord and you will delight to meet often together to speak of his goodness and he will assuredly be in the mid'st of you and ye shall be his Temple Sanctified and made meet for his Use and he will delight to take up his habitation with you for ever and remember Satan may have power given to kill some of you and put some of you in prison ten days Read and understand and be not dismayed at these things when they shall come upon you For so did they persecute of old the holy Prophets of God before you and if any of you shall go in this cause to save your lives ye shall assuredly lose it but they which shall lay it downe for this testimony shall surely save it And whosoever shall forsake Father or Mother for my sake saith Christ shall receive in this life an hundred fold and in the world to come life everlasting And as I have said a day and a time of tryal may come over you But a short worke will the Lord make in the earth for his Seeds sake And the Rod of the wicked shall not alwayes rest upon the back of the righteous saith the Lord God Allmighty But I have said in and through the good Spirit of the Lord and by the strength of his own Arm which is made bare he will burst the bonds of your oppressors asunder that his oppressed seed may go free even to the ends of the uttermost habitations of the earth Therefore I say again to the holy Seed in you even the Seed of the Kingdome Which is as a grain of mustard seed yea the least of all things in you which if ye diligently need prize and follow it will become a great plant and cover the whole earth in you which if ye do the good which I have shewed you in faithfulnesse to God and which is to all your immortal souls will come upon you but if ye refuse and reject the good councel of the Lord unto you and joyne to the power of the oppressor to keep the Seed in bondage then know as sure as the Lord liveth the just shall be taken from you and all the evil I have been made to Prophecy of shall come upon your heads in a day when ye looked not for it even when ye may be eating and drinking and Marrying and giving in marriage Remember the old world and take ye warning before it be too late For the Spirit of the Lord will not alwayes strive with man which is the Word of the Lord God unto you all and wo be unto that man or Nation as the Spirit of the Lord shall cease striving with better were it that they had never been born for a manifestation of his holy Spirit hath been given to every one to profit withall which is the Lords money and your talent and misery will be the portion of those that hide their Masters money in the earth for such have grieved his righteous Spirit which will be too heavy for them to bear in the end Read the parable and againe I say be ye warned and while ye have time prize it before it be too late Remember Esau who after he had despised his Birthright sought it carefully with teares but there was no place found for his repentance And do not think it will be sufficient for you to deny bowing unto the Images and Idols of the Nation while ye live openly in the same abominations of those which went before for the voice saith Be ye separated and touch no unclean thing and I will accept you saith the Lord which the Light of Christ Jesus in you search whether it be not so as I say and have said in every particular and let Judgement pass upon the head of the transgressor in you that the oppressed Seed of God may go free to Reigne and Rule over you and in you for ever for Sion is to be redeemed by Judgement and her Converts with righteousnesse and the Prophet said He would bear the indignation of the Lord because he had sinned against him Therefore give up freely to the judgement that ye may reape righteousnesse for God hath said that judgement shall be given for a Light to the people and truly the judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether for by them is thy servant forewarned I call Heaven and earth to record this day That you are truly and faithfully warned to fly and escape the evil to come and life and death is set before you and if ye chuse the Light ye shall live for the Light is the life of men but if ye refuse to be guided by it then darkness shall be your habitation for ever for a true Jubilee and release is tendred unto you of the Lord freedome from bondage and corruption within and and without and if ye reject this glorious freedome even freedome from your old master which is sin and Satan then hear ye the word of the Lord ye shall be boared through the eare and be made to serve your old Master for ever not one jot or tittle of this which is here written shall pass away unfulfilled be it with you or against you I shall be cleare of your bloud before the Lord for ever God will be Justified and glorified in all Even in them which believe and in them which perish Think not that going unto the Temple once or twice a week and there to hear what a man hath studied in his own will and time will serve turn nay nor yet the taking of Davids words and singing of them who was a man of a true penitent heart before the Lord who fasted cryed and mourned because of his transgressions and watered his Couch with his teares yea and so abhorred all workers of iniquity that he said He would not keep a lyar in his house which is far wide from your state who take his words and say you are not puft in mind you have no scornfull eye and you have fasted untill one may number your bones and you have roared for the disquietnesse of your hearts and are you not a company of liars and offer a sacrifice of lies unto the Lord And do you not think the Lord will Judge you for these things Yea verily do you not read That all liars shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and no liars can enter into the holy habitation and rest of God Consider these things and lay them to heart and put away lying out of your
make Instruments in his glorious worke in this the day of his power if ye reject not his loving counsel and visitation of love which to you is tendred in particular O ye Priests of this Nation to whom this is sent But if ye reject his counsel and will have none of his reproof then hear what the Spirit of the Lord saith the Lord will make you examples of his wrath above many and that is a word of truth unto you all that ye may truly be warned and repent before it be too late And I warne you as from the Lord God of Heaven and earth that ye be not Instruments of stopping this from passing amongst the people by rejecting it or casting an odium upon it thereby to incense the peoples minds against the truth of God and things that do belong to your peace which if you do better were it that a milstone were hanged about your necks and you cast into the midst of the Sea then you should hinder the least from receiving this testimony for Gods dreadfull and terrible day is at hand in which he will render to every one according to the fruits of his own doings both Priests and people for every one shall give an account of himself to God and every one shall die for his own iniquity Therefore againe and againe I say be ye warned and if ye Priests or any of you shall hearden your hearts against this visitation of love from the Lord which is sent amongst you by esteeming that you are the true Ministers of Christ and the spiritual weaponed men then come forth openly into the field and make it appear by answering the Queries which are propounded unto you in this book that ye may through it come to understand and the truth may yet be made further manifest in the eyes of all And this proffer do not slight least the people grow jealous of you but this I say in love to your immortal souls happy will ye be if ye receive the love of God in it and submit unto his holy will and receive his counsel and be advised betimes for the fruits of your Ministry doth testifie to your faces that it is not of God for if it were it would turn the people from the evil of their wayes and from Satan to God My little children saith Paul of whom I travail in birth againe untill Christ be formed in you Mark the words and consider them Christ was to be formed in them and this was the true Saints and Christians life to witnesse him to rule and Reigne in them for saith Paul I live yet not I but Christ in me so in the Saints was the only hope of their glory and without this all are without the true hope and God in this world which is the unregenerate state where the new birth and creature is not witnessed nor known but are captives unto sin and Satan lust and uncleannesse but where Christ is witnessed the body is dead because of sin and the spirit is life because of righteousness And blessed are they who witnesse this in deed and in truth such are the true Israelites in whom there is no guile which the Lord of glory delights in but abhorreth all faire sayers and not doers such shall have their portion with the hypocrites and unbeleevers for ever but whosoever heareth the sayings of the Lord and doth them he is like unto a wise man which built and founded his house upon a Rock which the stormes could not move and they are Heirs of happinesse for evermore world without end Crowned with the faithfull for ever Many are called but few are chosen even only those who are faithfull therefore I say againe through the Spirit blessed and happy are they world without end And that many of you might come to enjoy this eternal blessed and happy end I could lay down my life were it required of me Consider will a call save you nay Therefore consider what will it availe you to gaine the whole world and lose your own souls for the transitory pleasures of this fading world O let it never be but embrace mercy while it is freely tendred unto you and ye will enjoy an incorruptible Crown which the Lord hath in store for all who forsake all corruptible things for his sake And these are words and counsel of life unto you all which springeth from the true fountain of life and love which you will come to witness And truly friends there is no life but through death nor no Crown but through the Crosse nor no victory but through War and tribulation of the Lamb And consider the Lamb was slaine from the foundation of the world and the world is set in mans heart And the whole world lyeth in wickedness saith the Apostle for it is in you the Lamb is slaine even in spirituall Sodom and Aegypt Behold a Mistery read and consider spiritually called Sodom and Aegypt even idleness and fullnesse of bread and adultery and the like and this crucifieth the just in you daily and if ever you turn to the Light of Christ in you you will witnesse my words to be true and will come to mourn over him whom we have pierced even as a man mourneth over his only begotten son for truly untill you come here ye remain guilty of the blood of the Son of God and all mankind upon the face of the whole earth And these few words was I moved of the Lord to write unto you that ye may consider well your state and read within your selves with the Light whether it be so or no So God Almighty open and pierce through your understandings that ye may perfectly come to see and comprehend with all Saints what is the mistery and love of God in Christ Jesus concerning you and all mankind which is the true desire of him who is ready to lay down his life for his vilest enemies And seriously consider whether the world stands not yet whole in you which is truly to be destroyed even by fire as truly as the old was by water and untill this be witnessed the just in you suffereth for it is the just that suffereth by the unjust in the particular as well as in the general Ponder these things well and truly weigh them and the just in you will answer to my words from whence they come and to what end they are spoken and so will ye find mercy and not till then professe what ye will for except ye witness Christ risen in you all Preaching and Profession is in vaine whatsoever These are perfect and true sayings and will stand a witnesse against you for ever if ye reject them for if you will or dare come to your tryall it will be manifestly proved that you are not the true and faithfull Ministers of Jesus Christ neither by Call Maintainance nor manner of worship as Preaching Praying or Singing Baptisme or any other thing which is used or taught by you or amongst you
without respect of persons judgeth according to every mans work passe the time of your sojourning here in feare and redeem the time for the days are evil and work out your salvation with fear and trembling which if ye doe ye shall be everlastingly blessed in the end which is the word of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth unto you all Therefore while you have time prize it this word doth the Lord often put into my heart unto you for the dreadful day of his fierce unresistable wrath is nigh at hand in which he wil destroy all workers of iniquity from off the earth root and branch for ever and to that man will he look who is of a humble and contrite heart trembleth at his word and only such shall obtain favour of him in that his dreadful day and controversie with all Nations therefore is he sending and hath sent his dear and precious Lambs and Servants forth to warn them that they may repent and find mercy least his vengeance overtake them and that they may be lest without excuse and for this cause is this warning sent unto you O ye Protestants and inhabitants in France that ye may also be warned to fly the wrath which is even at the door for your measure of iniquity is even full and hastneth apace the finishing Therefore be awakened and warned that ye may find favour with him who will not judge according to your persons but in righteous judgement will he judge you even from the King that sitteth upon the Throne unto the slave that grindeth at the mill and neither money nor favour shall be able to deliver any therefore that ye may repent and find mercy is the true and faithfull desire of my soul to the Lord for you my Countrey-men whom the Lord hath warned to warn you and hath shewed me his silly worm the evil and the good which shall surely come upon you who in love and faithfulnesse to God and your Souls hath not concealed it from you whether you doe embrace or reject his love and counsell which is freely tendred unto you that so in the day of account with my Maker I may be found clear of your blood and the blood of all men which if I had it would be too heavy for me to bear for the Lord would require it at my hands who hath called me from a far countrey where I was an inhabitant about fourteen yeares untill this work was laid on me to visit you Protestants in and about Paris but ye rejected me and despised me and would not permit me to declare my message of love unto you which was from the Lord and not my own in testimony of which I was ready to seal it with my blood but seeing ye would not receive it from the Lord who called me from the Indians in America to minister and serve the Indians elswhere in his truth and gospel I shall be clear of your blood for ever and at my return from Paris the Lord laid it upon me to write this testimony unto you before he would suffer me to go out of your Nation and happy will ye be if ye receive it but if ye wilfully reject it as ye did me and contemned my person then wo will come upon you from the Lord God of Heaven and Earth for evermore Therefore Countrey-men I beseech you in the bowels of endlesse and unfeigned love for ever in and with the same the Lord hath loved me to lay it to heart for my God is a consuming fire who will not in any wise condemn the innocent nor acquit the guilty for with him alone dwelleth equity and justice which is the habitation of his Throne for ever which you shall be made partakers of who turn to him and peace shall never depart out of your habitation Let this thing be considered by all who love their souls for what will it avail you to win the whole world and lose your own souls is there any thing below the Sun but what is vanity and vexation of Spirit and must come to an end nay verily there is not therefore spend not your precious time any longer in taking care what you shall eat or what you shall drink or what you shall put on for all these things such seek after who know not God but cast your care upon God who will care for you if ye come to walk and live in his holy fear and seek not honor one of another but only that honour which comes from him so will ye honour him and he will make you truly honourable in the midst of a rebellious and stiff-necked people and seek not to lay up treasures on earth but first seek ye the Kingdome of Heaven and all things which are needfull for you shall be added unto you for if the Lord taketh care for the birds of the aire how much more will he take care for those who put their trust and confidence in him therefore spend not your time in chambering and wantonnesse neither make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof for the lust warreth against the soul but be ye sober and watch for the day of the Lord will come upon you as a thief in the night and he will call you to an account of your stewardship and how you have spent his money for every one hath a manifestation of the spirit given him to profit withall which he must give an account to his Lord of for that 's the talent and wo be to him that hath not been faithful to improve it but the diligent hand maketh rich and he which hath been faithful to a little shall be made ruler over much so consider seriously how you spend your time and whose money you are improving and to what use you put it to for accordingly shall your reward be Therefore Friends as in the sight of the living God in whom I live and serve with my Spirit I am very plain with you recommending my self to every mans conscience in the sight of God that I have not hid the counsel of God from you so far as he hath made it manifest to me concerning you neither have I gone to heal your hurt deceitfully nor sowed pillars under your arm-holes nor daubed you with untempered morter as the false prophets do crying peace peace to the wicked but as the Lord hath shewed me the sword of his wrath which is ready to be sheathed in the bowels of the wicked I have in faithfulnesse warned you of it that ye might escape it by turning from the evil of your wayes for by no other way or meanes can you possibly escape it therefore let not me be counted your enemy for telling you the truth knowing that the reproof of a friend is better than the kisse of an enemy and an open reproof is better than secret love therefore saith David Let the righteous smite me and it shall be as an ointment upon my head and you will
be not Ministers of Satan And whether they in effect do not prefer the power of Satan to be greater to keep people in sin than the power of Christ is to redeem and set at liberty from sin yea or nay Whether the Cross of Christ be not the power of God unto Salvation to every one who believes through which all who live in it come to be crucified to the world and the world to them And whether any be true Disciples of of Christ but those who witnesse it and bear it dayly about with them and follow Christ taking him for their perfect example in all things yea or nay Whether do not they who are true Ministers of Christ turn people from darknesse to light and from Satans power to God And whether are not they who are so turned come to witnesse that which was before Satans power was or sin either yea or nay Whether doth not all true Ministers of Christ Jesus bring people off from mans teaching and wisdom unto Christ the wisdome of God and his teaching And whether he doth not bring them to the Anointing in them which is the gift of God so that they need not mans teaching yea or nay And whether all they are not Ministers of Satan who Preach and teach otherwise whose eyes are full of Adultery and cannot cease from sin while they promise to others liberty they themselves are not servants unto corruption yea or nay And whether they be not such of whom the Apostle speaketh Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth teaching things they ought not for filthy lucre sake who have not the word they speak from the Lord but seek it every one of his neighbour and against whom the Lord is yea or nay These things being truly of absolute concernment for every one who sincerely desireth salvation to their immortal souls to know and be rightly informed therein therefore I propound them unto you to be answered by the heads and wise amongst you who seem to be pillars to the rest that thereby your Priests and Teachers may manifest themselves whether they are true Ministers of Christ yea or nay which will appear by their answer if they are the spiritual weaponed men Who wrestle not with flesh and blood but with principalities and spiritual wickednesses in high places which captivates the creature and keeps him in bondage and corruption for to no other end are these propounded unto them but that truth may appear and the simple come to be instructed and that they may come to be redeemed from the power of their adversary the Devil Who goeth about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devoure and that righteousness and truth may be set up amongst the sons of men for God of a truth will be known to be greater in power to deliver his creature from sin then the Devil is to keep them in sin and this work hath the Lord already begun in the earth and will hasten to finish it for his own glory sake for the glory of his renown shall go over all and his name shall be dreadfull among the heathen and greatly feared and honoured of all them who put their trust in him who are and shall be the onely blessed for evermore But the wicked shall be turned into hell and all who forget God Therefore O ye Protestants in France to whom these things are sent I charge you all in the power and vertue of the living God who hath created the Heavens and the earth as you shall answer it in the dreadful day of account not to slight these things but receive them as they are given forth to you and if your Priests shall withstand it let them answer those plain demands which are propounded in it that so Gods eternal truth may stand over all for ever and let their answer be sent to any of the people of the Lord called Quakers in England And they your Teachers who say they have the charge of your souls and receive wages of you under that pretence I shall yet adde this Query unto them for to answer What the soul of man is And as you prize the salvation of your souls mind these things and cease from man in time whose breath is in his nostrills for whereof is he to be accounted and come all to God alone for teaching who hath promised to teach his people himself which is his true living and everlasting Covenant with his people for ever which the people in England called Quakers do witnesse glory and immortal praise be unto him for ever who hath manifested his name power and glory amongst them as in the days of old by which he hath struck dread unto their enemies and set them as a Signet on the Crown of his head and hath put a new Song in their mouths even the Song of Moses and of the Lamb for he hath manifestly overthrown their enemies in their sight and will do the like for you O ye Protestants and inhabitants of this Nation if ye hear and obey his voice in this the day of his Almighty power which if ye do happy happy happy will ye be and your posterity for evermore but if ye refuse then cursed cursed cursed will ye be from his holy pure presence for evermore which is his eternal word unto you all and thus far I shall be clear of your blood if ye perish Remember Korah Dathan and Abiram who perished in their gain-saying and in love and bowels of pity I say be ye warned betimes Truly friends I was a man as ye are subject unto all manner of vanity which was under the Sun passing my time in Singing and Musick foolish talking and idle jesting and so was a captive to sin and Satan untill the Lord out of the boundlesse riches of grace and mercy towards me and many more in those remote parts of the earth where I dwelt who had as large a talk of Christ and what he did and suffered at Jerusalem sixteen hundred years since as any people as ever yet I came nigh and could talk of Faith in Christ and being saved by grace and the like while his pure grace was turned from by us and we in wantonnesse and the grace of God which was freely bestowed upon us was our condemnation and in this lost and undone state the Lord sent one of his messengers who declared the way and path of holinesse unto us whose message was light and that Christ Jesus had enlightned every one of us with his true light which condemned us for sin and evil in our consciences from our youth up and if we heeded this light it would lead us up to God and we should know him alone to be our teacher This was the message of glad tidings unto us and their feet were beautifull upon the mountains who brought it and I may truly say blessed be the day of their going out with the message of peace in their mouth for
for he hath prepared a way and a means for the Salvation of all that they might be saved For he so loved the world that he hath given his onely begotten Son into the world that all through him might believe for he is the Covenant of God even a Covenant of Light unto all Nations that he might be his Salvation unto the ends of the earth This testimony John did bear of him that he was the true Light which enlightens every man which cometh into the world and as many as receive him and believe in his name even in the Light to them he giveth power to become the Sons of God which is another birth then yours Which is of the flesh and will of man Read and consider you that desire Salvation unto your souls for it is the visitation of Gods eternal love unto you for I am truly constrained by his pure Spirit hereunto therefore whether you will hear or forbeare I shall be a sweet savour unto God Even in them which believe and in them which perish But my hearts desire is that ye may come into the Covenant of God and be saved even to be taught led and guided by him for the way is plaine and it is but one in all even the Light which reproves for sin maketh manifest all the deeds of darkness though never so secret for saith the Apostle whatsoever makes manifest is Light he that comes to that which makes manifest cometh to Christ for saith he I am the Light of the world I am the way No man cometh to the Father but by me So come to the Light and then you will come to the Way the Truth and the Life this will be more then a bear name unto you life truth even truth in the inward part which God onely accepteth out of which all profession is vain therefore he which comes to the Light comes to the truth and comes to know the teachings of God as it is written All thy children shall be taught of me and great shall be their peace so in the Light you will witness the teachings of God which is his holy Covenant with his people I will write my law in their hearts saith God and put it in their inward parts the law is Light saith Solomon and if you come to turn to the Light you will witness the same I will live in them and walk in them saith God Marke this is the holy true and everlasting Covenant of God to his people and this the true Christians came to witness even their bodies to be the Temples of God through the Spirit and God dwelleth with no unclean thing neither dareth such a one plead for sin as long as he liveth for they are sanctified and made fit for their Masters use not having only the forme of Godliness but the life and power and they who had the form without the power were to be turned from it which power is the Light which cometh from Christ and leadeth up to God and the Saints were Saints in Light for they were sanctified by it which was the will of God And as saith the Apostle this is the will of God even your Sanctification this is no new Doctrin but the good Old Way which God hath prepared even for his Ransomed ones to walk in in which path the way faring men though fools shall not erre therein for the way is Light as saith the Apostle if ye live in the Light and walk in the Light as he is in the Light then have we Fellowship with God and one with another Mark fellowship with God this Light leadeth unto in which the Saints fellowship onely stood which brought them to the knowledge of God and he which said he knew God and walked in darkness was a liar for the darkness comprehendeth not the Light which is the only habitation and Covenant of God so as you come truely to confess your sins you will witness the Blood of Christ to cleanse you from all unrighteousness but if you say you have not sin before you come to this and say it is done away in Christ then you are lyars and the truth is not you no more then it is in them who say they have not sinned as you come to witness the Blood of Christ and its vertue you will witness these sayings to be true and faithfull not onely to be talked of but to be witnessed in you and untill you come here you are perfect strangers unto the several states and growths the true Christians came through in their Warfare there was little children young men and old men for saith John I write unto you little children that ye sin not and if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole world Marke He freely offered up himself for all And by this we know that we know him if we keep his Commandements He that saith I know him and keepeth not his Commandements is a liar and the truth is not in him Marke the true Christians state is life And consider what state and nature you are in and whether ye keep Christs Commandement yea or nay for these things are of great weight and concernment unto you even you that have taken up the name but are out of the nature And againe saith the Apostle Whose keepeth his Word in him verily in the love of God perfected hereby know we that we are in him Marke by this they the true Christians knew that they were in Christ because they kept his word and he which dwelleth in him ought to walke even as he walked are you here nay your consciences witnesseth to your faces the contrary therefore forbeare the name untill you witness the life else the greater will be your condemnation which is the Word of the Lord unto you all therefore be ye warned in time And againe saith he A new Commandement I write unto you which thing is true in him and in you because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth Marke againe they did witness the darkness past and the true Light to shine which Light giveth the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ which treasure saith Paul we have in Earthen vessels this treasure even the Light they the true Christians witnessed in them and walking in it had fellowship with it and one with another For God is Light and he which liveth and walketh in the Light liveth and walketh with God and witnesseth a true translation as Enoch did and is not seen Because his life is hid with Christ in God and this is a true translation from death to life which is the true Christians life and he which saith he is in the Light and hateth his brother is a liar and is in darkness even untill now he which loveth his brother dwelleth
it and do you thereby take warning and read search and see your state if you are true Christians and redeemed of God and be no longer fed with a name for they were a Royall Priesthood a holy nation and did Reign as Kings upon the earth even over the World Sin Hell Death and the Devil and though on the earth yet they loved not the world neither the things of the world but used all those as though they used them not being in the Light which is Christ the wisdome of God they came to use all creatures in the same wisdome as they were created and to the same end for by Christ Jesus the eternal Word of the Father were all things created and as ye come to live and walke in him who is the wisdome of the Father ye will come to the right use and understanding of all things and know and witness the ends of the earth upon you and your conversation will be in Heaven far above all created things Therefore come all to the word by which all was created even the good word of God which is quick powerfull and sharper then any two edged Sword dividing between the precious and the vile the clean and the unclean for it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and this is the true word which sanctifies makes clean which is Christ the Light the Word of God which will be a Light and a Lanthorn unto your path if you diligently heed and follow it as David did witness and unless you come to witness this word in you you can never witness Christ nor the end of his coming Who hath given himself for us to redeem us from this present evil world according to the will of God These things are plain to every single eye Who desires not to hold the truth in unrighteousness nor make Christ a cover for sin and uncleanness by crying they are saved by Christ and have remission through his Death and shed his Blood for their Redemption and yet witness nothing they are redeemed or saved from and are aliens unto the Covenant of promise which is That he shall save his people from their sins and his Blood which purifies sanctifies and makes clean for so the true Christians did witnesse it even through it they had access to God and were redeemed from their vaine lives and conversations through and by it even By the Bloud of the Lamb which was offered up to God Without spot or blemish who hath also given himself for his Church that he might present it in like manner unto God which is a spiritual building Built and joyned together a spiritual house an holy Priesthood to offer up sacrifices acceptable to God Christ being the chief corner stone even he who the builders have in all Ages rejected and refused therefore come to the living Stone that ye may be joyned and united to it as the Christians were and as you come to be joyned here you will come to be one Spirit in the Lord and be covered with it without which covering wo unto you as it is written Wo be unto you who are covered and not with my Spirit saith the Lord for the day is come and coming even upon you O ye Protestants in France as well as in all Nations that all other coverings will be too short for to hide you and will stand you in no stead in the day of tryall Therefore be awakened and awake arise and stand up ye which sleep in the dust and the Lord shall give you Light and understanding of the things which belongeth unto your peace in this the day of your visitation therefore sleep not any longer in a false security least they be hid from your eyes you be left desolate and without excuse for ever for of a truth this is the day of Gods everlasting love and mercy unto you which constraineth me to warn you and wo would be unto me if I did not but whether you hear or forbear I shall be a sweet savour unto God if ye perish therefore I use great plainness of speech unto you and not as mans wisdome teacheth but in the demonstration of the Spirit I speak beseeching you to be reconciled unto God I being one who truly hath known the terrours of the Lord for sin and hath been accepted at the tribunal seat of God for Christ sake in whom and through whom I have had access unto God and by his stripes am healed and purged by his Blood from sin and corruption and this hath not been of works but by grace I am saved through faith in Christ by which victory is obtained through patience and hope which purifies even as Christ is pure Which hope is an Anchor unto the soul in the time of tryal And this hath God done for my soul not by any works of my own righteousness as though I had any thing to boast of above another for all boasting is excluded for ever by the Law of Faith neither have I any thing but what I have received of God whose love hath been in an unexpressible manner extended unto me since I gave up unto him believed his report by his holy servants messengers of his holy new and everlasting Covenant unto the sons of men which is Light and in and with the same love the Father hath loved me am I drawn forth to invite you my Countrey-men after the flesh whom God moved me to visit even from a far Countrey where my outward habitation was many years even in Virginia and truly my soul is often powred out unto God for you and sure I am if you do not wilfully reject his love but open freely unto him his love will touch many of your hearts as it hath touched mine which if you receive you will I know with a ready heart and mind follow him and forsake all earthly treasure to follow him in the delightfull way of peace and holiness And dear Countrey-men remember Moses who chose Rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God then to injoy the pleasures of sin for a season refusing to be called the son of Pharaohs Daughter and take all the holy Servants and Prophets of God for an example of patience and suffering through which and by which they plainly declared they sought not a habitation in this world but were strangers and Pilgrims therein Seeking a City whose builder and maker is God into which my soul desireth that ye may have an entrance and habitation even into the new and Heavenly Jerusalem which cometh down from God into which nothing that workes abomination or makes a lie can enter Though the gates thereof stand open day and night but without are Dogs and Sorcerers and all uncleanness And this the true Christians waited for even for a new Heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness therefore saith the Apostle Peter Seeing these things what manner of persons ought we to be yea they were
what end they were created even for them to serve his body and his body to serve his soul and his soul to serve his Creator in the body and as he thus stood in the fear dominion and wisdome of his Lord all things were blessed unto him and all things were clean and pure and being guided by the pure holy Spirit of his maker is counselled as in the beginning and hath a law-giver as at the first but when once he gave ear unto the voyce of the Serpent who was more subtile than any beast of the field consented to eat of that which was forbidden him that he should not touch to eat even of the tree of knowledge of good and evil let him which readeth understand he had liberty to eat of every tree but that all being good and that also for all that which God made was good and blessed but for food it was not to be eaten of nor touched And as I said when man once had transgressed the righteous Law of his Creator he lost his glorious Dominion he had and the pure Spirit of the Lord by which he was covered departed from him so that he was naked without a covering then shame entred in upon him and so he went to make unto himself other coverings then those which he had in the beginning to hide himself but all in vain So all the professors in the world who are not covered with the holy Spirit of the Lord may read and see what they are doing for this is truely your state and condition feeding upon your own knowledge which is forbidden and feeding thereon are thereby set on work to make unto your selves other coverings then that of the holy Spirit of truth and righteousnesse So read and consider when Adam had once done so the Lord cast him out of his Garden and he lost his dominion which he had and God placed Cherubins at Eden gate which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life so that men could never enter again that way but through death even the death of that nature and wisdom which he fed on which was of the earth and is earthly sensuall and devilish So read and consider whether you witnesse this yea or nay And so man being drove out of the earth the curse entred and the Serpent became head in him and he that was the sonne of God before and was guided by him in all his actions became the son and servant of the Devil and a bondslave unto corruption and thus was the Lamb slain even the just seed of God became oppressed in him even as a Cart that is loaded with sheaves which before bore rule in him wholly yet the Lord having regard to the works of his hands and his bowels being moved with pity towards them his mercy being over all the works of his hands took not his holy seed from him but made a Covenant with man that the seed of the woman should bruise the Serpents head which was become head in man then which promise was witnessed and fulfilled in Abel who was righteous and was accepted the seed of God bearing rule in him and the seed of the envious one was brused which reign'd in his brother Cain and so being one with the holy seed became a sufferer and suffered by the seed of the evil one in his brother and here was the first persecution and from that day unto this hath the just suffered by the unjust the seed of the Bond-woman persecuting the seed of the free-woman which kept the Commandements of God So here all men may read and see what stock and generation they are of and what seed is head in them for one of the two beareth rule in every individual man upon the face of the whole earth where the seed of the woman is head there is peace humility meeknesse long-suffering patience temperance love to all bearing and forbearing praying for enemies and suffering and enduring all things not having confidence in the arm of flesh nor yet a helper in the earth not seeking revenge but committeth its innocent cause to God knowing that vengeance belongs only to him praying for enemies doing good to those that despitefully use them and this this only is the life of the true christian for in him alone this holy seed of God beareth rule and hath dominion for they are the peace-makers but where the seed of the Serpent beareth rule there lust reigneth from whence cometh all warre strife contention and debate and this was Cains nature even to kill and murder who was a Vagabond drove from God yet he built him a City and called it by the name of his son and so from this stock hath risen oppression and murder and getting of possession in the earth and this was the fruit and effect of that seed which from him sprung for which cause the holy Spirit of God was grieved from day to day until it had repented him at the heart that he had made man which caused Noah to preach unto them righteousnesse but they rejected his counsel and would not be warned but they continued eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage all in the lust and unclean nature which crucified the just and so continued until the day of wrathful unresistable vengeance and flood of Gods indignation brake out upon them And thus in all ages have those in whom this seed of enmity hath borne rule provoked the holy God to wrath against them yet he forbore with them until they had filled up their measure of iniquity in which time he sent his holy servants the Prophets to warn and forewarn them of the wrath which was due unto the transgressors and still as they did reject the councel of the Lord and his tender reproofs they felt his heavy hand in the end for he hath said his Spirit shall not always strive with man though men may as they did then seek by their own strength policy and wisdome to build them a Tower to reach up unto Heaven but God confounded their design for neither by that way nor by that meanes could they ever bring their purpose to passe and from that stock came and sprung all the divisions upon the face of the earth one building this thing and the other that thing and all in the confusion being confounded and dispersed in their understandings by the wise God though vain man may think by such meanes to build him a Tower to reach up to Heaven but such are the thieves and the robbers which climb up another way then Christ spake of who came not in by the door which is the light the onely and alone true way to God and there is not another but men are so hardened and their understandings so darkned through the deceitfulnesse of sin that though these things are plainly written and spoken of in the Scriptures yet they cannot perceive them the book being become to them a book that is sealed which one
took and gave another to read and said I pray thee read it and he said I cannot for it is sealed and he gave it to another and said I pray thee read it and he said I cannot for I am unlearned so to learned and unlearned it is a mistery And truely I freely declare unto all the sons of men that there is none that can open the seals thereof neither is there any found worthy in Heaven or in Earth but Christ Jesus the Lamb of God the Light of the World who hath enlightned every one which cometh into the World and till men come to give up to be led guided and directed by this pure Light in all their words and actions the mysteries of the Kingdome of God nor godlinesse they will never come to know nor understand for the vail is over their hearts and until it be rent and taken away by the power and vertue of the Light they run on as the Jews doe in darknesse and know not at what they stumble for though the mistery of godlinesse be great yet it is but one to all and in all either Jew or Gentile even God manifest in the flesh the Emanuel God with us even with men and in men and this is the Mistery of Mysteries which the Apostle said hath been hid from ages and generations which was Christ in them the hope of their glory and without this be witnessed there is neither true hope nor true glory though men talk of hope yet it is but the Hypocrites hope which perisheth and will never bring them to glory no farther then the earthly which is but grief and vexation of spirit but he that hath and is truly possessed with the true and living hope abiding in him purifieth himself even as Christ is pure even from all earthly affections either of glory honour or riches wisdom or any other earthly thing being given up in all things to seek the true honour and glory which cometh from God onely though for so doing he may and is accounted a fool poor and simple and rejected by those who possesse onely the false hope who seek the riches honour and praise of the Kings and Princes of this world which are the manifest fruits and effects of their hope And thus is Christ become the true riches of the soul and the creatures glory whereby he comes to tread all other things under his feet and counts them but as drosse and dung in comparison to it So here all may prove and try their hope by its manifest and apparent opperations in brief the one hoping this and that power will be the chiefest that they may have accesse unto it to maintain their Church and Religion and the other desiring that God onely may have and take the dominion and that he alone may rule and reign because he knoweth it is in God and the gates of Hell can never prevail against it therefore matters not nor fears any outward strength because his strength and hope is in God alone who purifies and makes clean all who hope and put their trust in him by the power of his own seed in them to rule and reign which bruiseth the seed and head of the Serpent for ever and conquers the last enemy and such onely come to witnesse the true and living birth which is of God which sinneth not and comes to be restored into the same glorious state and condition as Adam was in before he fell And this is the substance of all words and also it is the end of Christs ministring even to bring people unto this by which they come to know as I have said the promise of God fulfilled to wit the seed of the woman to bruise the Serpents head and their bodyes to be Temples and habitations of God through the Spirit and he to live and walk in them as he hath promised but the ministry of Satan is to preach up sin as long as men live by which means he may keep his Kingdome for he hath no other Kingdome but it Therefore let men professe what they will in word he matters not as long as he hath his Dominion in their hearts and his head unbruised there where he sitteth as God even in the Temple of God and this is the abomination of desolation amongst the sons of men which is to be made desolate in this the day of Gods Almighty power in which the mistery of the Man of sin shall be fully revealed and made manifest and the Kingdome of the most High shall be established with men and in them And this great and glorious work shall not be by might nor by force of men but by the arm and Spirit of the Almighty God whose power shall be evidently made manifest to free and set at liberty the sons of men from the bonds of sin and corruption that they may no longer be Satans bond-slaves I say all such shall come to witnesse this who shall cleave to the Lord with sincerity of heart in this the day of his gracious love unto the sons and daughters of men but those that reject his love and will none of his reproof shall witnesse and also feel his power in wrath and dreadful vengeance who will assuredly render unto them according to their deeds and so much the more as they have slighted the day of their visitation and rather believed Satan and his messengers that his power is greater to keep them in sin and bondage than Gods was to deliver them though the Scripture it self which they seem to professe beareth witnesse against them And the Apostles Ministry was to open the blind eyes and to turn people from darknesse to light and from Satans power unto God and they who believe in this Ministry and receive it in the love thereof they come perfectly to know as they are turned from darkness which is the power of Satan unto light which is the power of God and witnesse in deed and in truth the power of God greater to deliver from sin than Satans power is to keep in sin therefore the unbeliever and Satan and his Ministers shall all be taken and cast into the lake of Brimstone and Fire and be tormented for ever and ever and the little stone which is cut out of the mountain without hands shall become a great mountain and cover the whole earth for ever and shall grind all his enemies to powder for God Almighty hath determined it and his Decree is unalterable Therefore O thou Nation of France in particular I warn thee as one whom God hath warned and constrained so to do that thou stand not in the stubbornnesse of thy heart against the Lord and his Anointed in this the day of his power but submit unto him by repentance and forsaking of thy sins that thou mayst find mercy else he will teare thee in pieces and none shall be able to deliver thee out of his hands which is his eternal word unto you all Therefore lay it to