had then some Conversations concerning the Conversion of Israel and the Kingdom of Christ For this Person happening afterward to Travel through the Town in which dwelt the Widow with her Daughters was informed by some Friends how there was in that Town a Godly Family in which a young Maiden had by particular Illumination received very much from God concerning the Future Grace and Restoration of the Tribes of Israel As the said Person writ this to us withal adding that all this Agreed with what we had been discoursing together we resolved in the Name of God to write to the said young Gentlevvoman from whom we received such an Answer as wonderfully heartned us and gave us presently to see that it must be an higher Hand that guided her's in writing XXI As therefore we knew not yet any thing of these Heavenly Testimonies or of the manner in which the Lord gave and dictated them he was pleas'd to comfort and lift us up who were wearied and tired and despised before the World for having believed and witnessed his Kingdom by a dear Kingdom Testimony which was sent us upon October the 20th of the Year MDCXC by this B. Maid which here follows I the Spirit of Love I the Truth of Jesus Christ do in the Spirit witness and declare that ye my dear Friends do stand in the Truth In which being firmly grounded be sure to hold fast the trust of my Love and I who am the Hope of Israel will bring you forth safe notwithstanding all the oppositions of the Incredulous for I am a Strong Castle wherein ye may securely dwell And the more simple ye grow so much the greater delight do I take that ye may see deeper and deeper into my Mysteries which I will reveal to those that are of a Contrite Heart and will lay open to the Simple in the Faith In this latter time I will declare my Wonders I say it who am the Lord of Faith Jesus Christ to you my beloved having Loved you from the beginning of your Life It is I who bind up what is Sore and heal what is Wounded for I am Love and whosoever remains in Love dwells in God and the Father dwells in him Dear Friends Farewel I have witnessed this in the Spirit from the abundance of the Love which I bear towards you Amen Reading then this Divine Exhortation Encouragement of which we had no manner of doubt we fell upon our Knees giving thanks for it and directing our Vows to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of Sacrificing up to him our whole Life of placing our confidence in him preferably to all Men and of declaring abroad his holy Truth Hereupon we resolved to be acquainted with such dear Friends of God and accordingly we parted hence on the Third of November and arrived there on the Sixth of the same in the Evening where we saw in them much more then we could have before believed and were immediately convinced of the Divinity of the Matter And for as much as they had not hitherto observed in the Holy Scripture that which the Lord had spoken to them as God had made it knovvn to us by his Spirit and also for as much as there vvere also some things contained in those Divine Testimonies vvhich they had received vvhich they did not as yet understand and as vve confer'd one vvith another of the Gift vvhich vve had received from God vve vvere mightily comforted together We my Wife and I for that we saw how that which we had Comprehended and found out in the Prophets and in the Apocalypse concerning future things vvas not according to our ovvn Fancy but in the Truth according to the Sense of God And they for that by our Instructions they came to knovv hovv that vvhat the Lord had given them after an Extraordinary manner had been before conceived by the Spirit of God in the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles XXII We vvere then also mightily refresh'd by our dear Lord and Saviour vvho during this Intervievv vvas Graciously pleased to give us this follovving Testimony Be ye joyful be ye joyful ye vvho knovv my Name and have my Love for I will do great things for you Therefore be ye chearful Look and observe well for I am here I go in to the Work Be ye affectionate be filled with Joy and with Psalms of Praise Verily I say unto you the Hour cometh and is now come in which I judge according to Truth and Righteousness I am Christ the Lord who have Compassion over dear Sion and over Ephraim my Beloved I have brought you together with a Blessing and am in the midst of you I am the Light and the Love and I delight to abide with you I have said it unto you but who is there that can discover that which is my Intention Amen I have said it unto you Now according as the Lord who both knows all things and can make all things subservient to his Will had said it so it came to pass While by his Marvellous and holy Conduct we have now had with us this dear Family for these Nine Months past which we had not at our first Meeting any reason to hope for and have according to his Will been by wonderful steps brought to dwell together So upon the Tenth day of November we parted thence with Joy and were led home in Peace But as soon we were return'd the Slanders began afresh to be reviv'd against us but we took new strength from all the Benefits which we had received from the Lord and one day we had this Encouragement given us Peace be with you ye Blessed here am I your loving Saviour your dearest Friend and Brother whose Everlasting Love and Faithfulness cannot be bounded for my Love is flaming and my Heart is all on fire But ye do not yet conceive my Love it is so very great O be glad O cry aloud and sing O praise ye and magnifie my Name for my Right shall get the Victory and my Truth shall be made great It shall arise and spread like the break of the Morning Rejoice ye in my help ye who are driven out I run after you to bring you back to lead you home unto me I who speak it am Christ the Lord. Believe only and hold fast to me and then let not your Hearts be troubled for I will make my Name to be great and my Statutes I will cause to be received Ye are those whom I love confess ye therefore that I am the Lord from Everlasting who lye not that I should be slack to fulfil the Word of my Promise And I would that every one should be converted and live My Hand is not shortened my Faithful Mercy hath no end and my Love grows not cold O Sing with a joyful Melody for my Hour is come and the Day of the Bridegroom is at hand Love ye one another and live happily To your upright Friends in the Truth
Will that Men should believe righteously of me even as I have revealed my self in the Scriptures when not drawn aside with one's own Reason but opened with and by the Holy Ghost who is promised to and resteth upon all those that are upright in my sight As for those who Fight against my Truth with pretence of knowing better and trust to the darkness of their own imaginary Reason they go down into darkness be they of whatsoever Religion they will But as many as love me and seek seriously to be sanctified by me not being content to believe outwardly which is without Foundation or to sit still with outward Worships but searching after me in the Ground of their Hearts in Spirit and Truth they find Grace before me and with me in all Generations and in all Religions If so that they do not wittingly and after that they are once convinced deny me the Everlasting Son of the Father For all must go to the Father by me and all must be purified in me for out of me there is nothing of Purity The Ignorant let no Man presume to condemn for who is there to Judge them but I And my Judgment is Righteous and for this cause they are not judged to Everlasting Misery Otherwise my Judgment would not be Righteous Here is the depth of my Secrets All must praise me and be subdued to my Truth and be hallowed and washed thro' me All must be put under me and thro' me be made Righteous in the true acknowledgment that I am the Lord. But how this shall be done and how it shall be accomplished in the very Heathens ye are not yet able to comprehend and therefore I do not explain it to you This is my word and the Testimony of Truth For I the Lord even the Lord JEHOVAH have spoken it who can do beyond all comparison more than ye are able to comprehend Watch for I come XXXIII After some days there came to this B. Maid a Principal Officer who deliver'd to her a Seal'd Letter which he said came from a Person of Quality The Name of whom he told her which afterwards was found to be a meer Falshood and pray'd her to propose the same as from the said Person to the Lord. The Answer was this I the Lord of Hosts who come upon a Cherub who destroy all Falshood and root out all Deceitfulness even I it is who speak here Who is it that persecuteth me And who is it that is not discovered before me I say unto thee Repent Awake for it is high time and I am coming to thee yea I come speedily For my Love and Mercy is great And to such as have a clean Heart free from all filthiness and dead Works I am gracious and hear their Cry Sighs and Moans And Lo this is my Will and the Testimony which I give to every one that whosoever shall lay hold on me with a pure Heart and with a strong Faith the same shall attain to all that remaineth and shall even in all things be able to find it Yea Amen I the LORD even the LORD who speak with my Voice as the Voice of Thunder have witnessed this and spoken this And there is none that can withstand me For I am risen up and do many Signs and Wonders And blessed is that Person who loveth me and keepeth my Commandments for at the end it shall go well with him See that thou mistake me not so as to do any thing that may mislead thee Follow that which is right before me according as I do in thy Conscience witness to thee in the Truth and be godlily-minded and so shalt thou with me be well led and shalt dwell with me in the Light and not be cast out into the Darkness This is enough for thee and I say no more A little while after the aforesaid Officer sent a Letter Seal'd in his own Name which the Blessed Maid receiv'd thinking that he had enquir'd something of the Lord from a remorse of Conscience And this I thought too for as much as he had frequently said to me that he wish'd to discourse with me about God and in what manner one might advance in Piety And hence I could not but conclude that the Lord would give him a gracious Answer But we were struck with a mighty Astonishment when we read the Lord's fierce Answer Which behold I the LORD have in abhorrence the Blood-guilty and the False And he that is Wicked shall not stand before me Therefore take away the Evil from before mine Eyes that this my Word may not become to thee a Terrible Judgment in the Day of my Wrath For I am a consuming Fire The Elect Virgin made a difficulty of sending him presently this dreadful Testimony Whereupon she sent him back his Letter Sealed without having open'd it and wrote to him at the same time that she had receiv'd a very harsh Answer which startled her the which if he desir'd to see he might send for which he did the next day After some few days he came to Visit us and speaking about the matter of the Letter he told us what had been in it which was such a Question as at which he might for ever blush But he confess'd that he had not well done in it However he endeavour'd to excuse himself with this that in the first Letter among other Religions Questions he had demanded something concerning the Word Sacrament which having not been exactly answer'd to he did not think it was the Lord who spake by her And this he said was the Reason why he had put such sort of Questions into the Second Letter which notwithstanding he wish'd he had never done He also confess'd that the First Letter was written by himself and not by a Person of Quality as he had before pretended As we then read over again the First Answer we saw clearly that it agreed exactly to him containing an express mention of Deceit and Falshood as also that one ought not to resist the Lord to whom all things are discover'd and from whom nothing is hid Lastly That he should take care not to be mistaken so to mislead himself nor to do any thing which might not succeed well with him or lead him into Evil. So that in the First the Lord would answer him not to his Questions but to his Heart And in the Last he hath given him very sharp menacing words that so he might not persist to kick against the prickles God grant that these Testimonies may pierce into his Heart that he may be Converted and do true Repentance XXXIV Upon this Encounter the B. Maid became somewhat more reserv'd and resolv'd not to receive for the future any Letter that should be Seal'd from any Person whatsoever since she must do it in doubt and could not know whether it be writ from an Heart that is upright and humbled before God or not She therefore neither would nor could after this unpleasant
thy Refuge and thy strong Rock I say Amen! 15. A very lovely Consolation for Judah and Israel with a Comfortable word to the First-born of Joy in their Posterity Hope in the Lord O Israel shout for joy O Judah for the Lord hath looked upon thee in kindness He shall make thee to rejoyce O thou First-born in thy Posterity I am He that hath said it But to whom is my secret known and who is there that understandeth my meaning Nevertheless the Deep shall utter forth the praises of my Righteousness and the Clouds shall declare my Truth Dear Children be not afraid for I am the Truth Abide in my Truth and what is there that can disturb you Unto you I am All in All. He that loveth me hath Everlasting Life and is Justified in me through the power of Faith Cry aloud lift up your Voices for I am a wonderful God one who levelleth the Mountains and pulleth up Men from the Deep of the Earth Be at peace my dear Sion Waver not my Child Behold in thine hands I have signed thee I am a God of thy Name a Keeper of Israel a Friend of Sion a Benefactor of Ephraim Trouble not your selves dear Friends for no Evil shall be able to reach you and as for what you undertake it shall prosper for I will set your Feet in a large place XVIII All these Testimonies and many more were given by God to this Blessed Maid before I had any manner of Acquaintance with Her Upon the Evidence of which she is so Convinced of the Divinity of this matter that not withstanding all the Contradiction and Opposition of Men she doth without the least mixture of Doubt or Fear believe in pure Simplicity and Child-like Confidence that whatever the Lord hath told or shall according to the expectation of her Faith hereafter tell her shall be punctually fulfil'd both in Her and in others She knows in whom she Believes and understands to distinguish between the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Errour with a clear Eye She bears with those who are not as yet able to own in her the Lord's Work but withal she believes that if they be of upright Hearts they will not be swift to pass Sentance upon Her as also that as many as are Enlighten'd by the Divine Light will be capable to feel that to be from God which God has bestow'd upon her But in bearing thus with the weak she permits not her self to be made Weak And so far is she from being disturb'd at the Blasphemous Sentence of the Unbelievers that she prays for them that God would not therefore on a sudden bring them into Judgment as might justly be fear'd but that he would in mercy delay it who is a God using terribly to punish the Blasphemy of imputing that to the Devil which proceeds from the Holy Ghost She says and maintains No body can make me doubtful of that which I have seen and heard No body knows the New Name but he that receives it None but the Spirit of Man which is in him knows what is in Man even so the things of God are not known to any save to the Spirit of God Now we have received not the Spirit of the World but the Spirit of God that we might be able to know what is given us of God With this one Testimony of the Holy Spirit She overthrows all the Objections made against her from Without which for the most part come from those who cleave too much to the Flesh Notwithstanding all which she trusts that in the end God will manifest His Work so as all the World may own that it is even He himself who hath witnessed all these Words by Her XIX But that you may understand the Method in which these Revelations pass and how this B. Maid doth not see with her Gross and Corporeal Eyes or hear with her Corporeal Ears but doth see and hear the Lord in Spirit and how she doth from time to time write down from his sweet Mouth the Words which she thus hears I will here import a Testimony which was given her on the Twelfth on November in the Year MDCLXXXVIII The LORD himself dictating the same as she wrote to the end that if any were desirous to be inform'd concerning the manner of the Revelation she might be able to answer them in His own Words Which are these Peace be with you the Friends of Our JESUS the Saints Blessed and Beloved I speak with you as one Friend Speaks with another I speak at this time with the Mouth of Truth that I may be heard yet not outwardly by the Bodily but inwardly by the Spiritual Ear which is a Thousand times more delicate then the Outward one I speak to you by my self as true God and true Man and cause my self to be seen not by the Eyes of the Body but by the Internal Eyes the Eyes of the Spirit of such a Spirit naturally as is united and betrothed most strictly to me And this manner of Sight is real tho' it be hidden and subtil This I know will seem strange to you who do not yet understand my Mysteries and my Wonders Yet I tell it you that you may be able to discourse of it properly according to my Inspiration For so and by this means have I spoken to you all those sweet Words which you have hitherto written I have this further in love to speak and say to you Rejoyce ye for your great Glory and Honour since you are rendred so bright through my Righteousness as to become white as the Snow to be cleansed and purged from all Sin yea to be one Heart with me and to be my Temple and Holy Habitation Keep now the House of your Heart clean and let it be mine neither suffer your corrupt sinful Will nor the Love of the Creatures to Lord it therein So will I sink down very deeply into you and then will arise up again in you and such a purifying will I make within you that you shall praise me both with Heart and Mouth My dear little Children rejoice ye for my sake and be of good Courage for I am with you Lay your selves now to rest in my Holy Will and pursue it that I may make you the Instruments of my Graces and Gifts XX. But as the Divinity of this Affair hath been witnessed particularly to some Friends so hath it been to my Wife and Me. For after that God had before this even while we were yet in Holstein made known to us not by such high and extraordinary Revelatiosn but by his Spirit in his Word the great Promise made to Israel in Scripture and the Mystery of his Kingdom and that we for the sake of this had suffered a great deal it pleased him to let us have for about a Year since the knowledge of this Gentle vvoman of whom we had not then heard any thing by the means of a devout Person with whom we
words Look here my Brother it is I who do it that I may accomplish it even so as I have purposed to do it And if I be thy Tower and thy Fortress who is he that can offend thee For this reason set up now thy Standard in my Name for I will destroy them when I awake up but I will be with thee and with thee will I fight against the Enemies yea yea it is I who do it therefore be thou joyful in my strength and let nothing hinder thee from doing it for I am the Lord thy God who accomplish this thing my self Amen 2. As the Calumnies yet more and more encreased against me I received still further Comfort of which this word of Testimony that follows is an Instance Be not wearied in patience thou blessed One even as I am not wearied However as for the Implacable them I will cast out into Darkness But have thou a good Courage and be not faint in the Profession of my Truth for one Day thou shalt be Victorious and having obtained a glorious Conquest shalt then Feed upon the Fruits of thy Labour Therefore be thou refreshed in my strength which shall be given to thee in abundance 3. In the same Month I received of the Lord another powerful witness proceeding from the freeness of his Grace which pierced me into the Soul and Spirit yea into the Marrow and Bones as may easily be imagined by any one who shall but-weigh the Circumstances which accompanied the same my Wife and I in Company with the Blessed Maid and with her Mother and Sisters whom we could not leave alone in the House took a Journey to Lubeck to set in order all my Affairs in which by the Decease of my Father from hence by reason of my holy Function I left my Wife and these good Friends at Lubeck and returned Hither by Post I arrived here upon Sunday and the very same Evening at Six a Clock I was filled with such a Divine Joy that came upon me as an Armed Man as in all my Life I had never felt the like though my dear Heavenly Father by the sweet Call of his Mouth has oftentimes put into me Life and Gladness In this Joy I had a Fore-taste of the Glory of the World to come and saw in a Moment that which God hath prepared for those that Love him by the means whereof my Heart was so Enlarged that I thought my self strong enough to throw down Walls and Pillars but there happening to be some Strangers then at the Table I concealed this Joy as much as ever I could till that it was impossible to hide it longer and then I began with a Voice of Jubilee to Sing Sion heard the Watchmen Sing Her Heart inflam'd with Joy does spring She wakes she rises strait and hastes away Her Friend comes down in Glory Bright Rich full of Grace of Truth and Might Her Morning dawns her Star proclaims the Day Come now Celestial Crown Dear Jesu God's Eternal Son Hosanna Into the Joyful Court we follow all And Celebrate with Dance and Festival The Happy Nuptial Day Hallelujah The same a little Paraphras'd Hark hark from Salem's Tow'rs the Watchmen sing The signal of the long-expected King And Sion's Courts with loud Hosanna's ring See how with eager Joy all Hearts around Tremble and dance to the Melodious Sound She shakes her from the Dust she flies all Gay To meet or to prevent the Glorious Day In solemn Pomp her Joy from Heav'n descends Him mighty Truth and ev'ry Grace attends She sees her beauteous Morning-star arise And bright Aurora Purpling round the Skies Now come Dear Glorious Crown Lord Jesu come And lead us to our long lost wisht for Home We into the Inmost Court all follow Thee The Glorious Happy still Eternity Or thus according to the Letter Sion heard the Watchmen sing Her Heart springeth for Joy She awaketh and riseth up presently Her Joy cometh down from Heaven Gloriously In Grace strong in Truth mighty Her Light breaketh out her Star is risen Now come dear Crown Lord Jesu the Son of God Hosannah We all follow into the Joyful Court and keep the Supper 4. My whole Family observ'd this Joy in me with Astonishment and my Son's Tutor said There must certainly some Great Thing have passed at Lubeck at this very time and that we were now in the Communion of Their Joy This Adventure the next Day I sent by the Ordinary Post to my Dear Wife and the very same Day being Monday she writ also to me by a good Friend what had passed with them at Lubeck in that very same Hour when I was seiz'd with so extraordinary a Joy Which Letter I broke open in the presence of Two Pious Young Ladies who were come thither from Staden on purpose to Visit this Dear B. Maid And having but a Minute before related to them that which had happen'd to me upon the Sunday Evening I read to them these words of the said Letter Child prithee write to me how thou didst find Thy self upon Sunday at Six a Clock in the Afternoon and whether thou didst not then feel in thy Heart a certain Joy For about that time the Lord spake to Thee with so much Affection and so stirr'd thee up as is not by me expressible Of which thou maist best judge from the Testimony that is here sent thee 5. Which I afterward read and is as follows Courage my Elect one Make haste and meet me for I am risen up to come toward thee yea toward thee and therefore come I so lovingly that I may knit my self unto thee For mine Heart is wounded therefore am I so enflamed and therefore am I so very Zealous for thy sake Receive then my Living Breath and Burn thou so that the Fire of it may give a loud and crackling noise And let thy Zeal be such that the Flame of it may break violently forth For I come leaping upon thee on a sudden and I throw down the Mountains with the Voice of my Coming Yea yea Amen! Amen! I am JEHOVAH the Lord. 6. Having read this I was mightily surpriz'd and letting the Two Young Ladies read it themselves they were much Astonish'd at it and Magnify'd God who deals thus wonderfully with his Children As this now for my own part gave me perfect Satisfaction that my dear Saviour was resolv'd by thus raising my Heart in the very same Hour wherein he gave me this Animating Word at the distance of Ten German Miles from hence to Convince me as it accordingly did of the Truth of this Divine Testimony in such a manner as I might not hereafter have room for any Doubt of His Words which should be sent to me at any other time So on the other side my Wife with the rest of our Friends at Lubeck were in like manner hereby strengthen'd and by it fully assur'd even to that Degree as it is not possible to be more that it was the
thy self be not asham'd For I my self will do good unto thee and thou shalt be greatly honoured in my presence As I live it must needs be that all that is Paradisiacal be again restored and all that I have spoken be fulfilled Who is there that knoweth the Glory of my Bride then when I shall effectually Espouse her or rather when the Espousals shall be published And in like manner as I was manifested in the Flesh to Die for you so must the Blessed * This was the Name of the Mother of this Elect Maid who deceased the Fourth of August this very Year 1691. with these Words in her Mouth Death is become a Jest Gerdrude re-receive her Promise when that which is Paradisiacal shall come when the Lambs shall leap on Mount Lebanon and shall wait upon the Marriage Verily I say unto you all things must be fulfilled through the Seventh Number And that which I say to you at this time you understand not but the Hour cometh in which ye shall understand it Be joyful and couragious for I am the LORD and I will not suffer you to perish When therefore the Hour shall come that it shall be required of you confess and deny not for I my self will have it to be declared Be ye then at rest looking up to my Goodness 2. Now behold just at this very instant there comes hither a certain Clergy man who spreads it abroad among diverse Persons that a Prophetess was here The Rumour of which coming to the Ears of the Senate they sent their Secretary to me to take my Examinations upon this Head I answer'd That though I did not pretend to make her pass for a Prophetess she had receiv'd from God great and extraordinary Gifts which I would make no difficulty to discover to them if it were desir'd requesting in the mean time the favour that they would let me know the Person who had advis'd them of these things Hereupon the matter was variously discours'd and the Calumnies being very many one of which was that she had a Spirit of Divination in her it pleas'd the most Righteous God upon the Eleventh of the same Month to vindicate her in these Words Shout for joy O ye Nations And be ye joyful O ye Heavens For to vindicate I am risen up yea to vindicate my Daughter Sion I will destroy the Blood of the Dragon from the Face of the Earth for my Wrath is kindled and who is there that can withhold me The Foundations upon which he standeth shall be shaken when I awake up As for his Boils and his Wounds behold they shall find no Cure there shall not be any hope left of healing them Wherefore I say as I live I will utterly destroy him and will cast out his Skull to be devoured by the Dogs Have Courage then O Daughter of Sion in all Afflictions for thou shalt suffer for my Name sake and shalt be rejected and despised But rejoice thou and be of good Heart for the Light shall be divided from the Darkness and I the LORD will become to thee a sure Habitation and a strong Rock Yea Amen! My Wonders must be revealed and it must be done so Wherefore lift up your Heads and be without fear for I am in the midst of you Yea Amen XXX As upon the Sixteenth of August it fell out that One in Preaching out of the Second Chapter of the Prophet Joel did not clear him up according to the Sense and Meaning of the Holy Ghost but maintain'd that God would give no more such extraordinary Revelations to Mankind one of our Friends that was then present being much troubled at this Explication was desirous that the Lord our Saviour who had hitherto witness'd so much favour and condescension towards us would be pleas'd himself to declare the true Intent of that passage and to give us his Divine Instruction upon it And accordingly the next day He vouchsaf'd to open the Prophet's Meaning and at the same time to let us see his Wrath against those who give such Prevaricating Explications to his Prophesies I the GOD of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the God of Sion will bring out of Mount Sion Deliverance to my Ephraim who is the Child of my Love Verily as I live the Fire of my Wrath is kindled and I am Zealous for the sake of my Word They imagine Lies and their Heart is filled with meer Abomination But I come suddenly O deceitful Generation that I may spew you out for you are a deadly Poyson and that I may make you a Desolation say I the LORD even the LORD Observe then dear Sion that the Total Accomplishment of my Word written by Joel is yet to come For my Spirit cometh then upon all Flesh in a greater measure than that in which it came upon my Apostles which was no more than as it were a foretaste of what is yet to be And then was the fulfilling of it published in that manner that it is yet to be done when even Sucking Children shall receive the Spirit to such a degree as not only to see Visions but also to interpret them Then shall such a Faith appear as by it greater Works shall be wrought than those which I have wrought And when one saith to the Mountain be thou lifted up and be thou cast into the Sea it shall be done accordingly And then will I shew such Signs as ye have not yet seen and such as never yet have been in the former Times before you What should I speak to the Winds or let my Words be without effect No far be it from me But those who make my Word to lye and who will not suffer it to abide in its strength must come to perdition Wo to you who Preach but your Imaginations Let every one take good heed to that which he doth For I am the LORD and will maintain my Word But whosoever would blacken it or would apply it to his unclean Brutish Thoughts may find it an hard matter to contest with me For I roar as a Lion against every Abomination and I break forth as Smoke out of the Forest to dry up the false Cedars which without are very beautiful but within are filled with the Abominations of Dogs Wherefore I have a loathing unto them and will dreadfully come upon them and will root them out and will cast them into the deep of the Bottomless Pit where is weeping and gnashing of Teeth But thou O my Sion and Ephraim my Beloved fear not for I am thy Friend and I am with thee Amen XXXI Soon after this the Elect Maid that she might set in order her Domestick Affairs upon the Death of her Mother parted from me being accompanied with her Sister In the mean while a Report was rais'd how it was I my self that had spoken by this Maid and had made use of God's Name to give a colour to that which I pretended to establish for a Divine Truth which
had to this time been so generally spoken against doing herein as Numa Pompilius with his Goddess Aegeria to make the People of Rome receive that which he himself spake through her As this was said to a Person of great Quality he answer'd as I have been inform'd That the Cheat might easily be discover'd by Writing to this Maid who was then in a Place which was near Four and Twenty German Miles remote from me and proposing to her some Questions in a Letter that should be Seal'd desiring her to send the same back again Seal'd and together with it an Answer This was accordingly done and there came an Answer in few days to this Person of Quality who was at that time not so far distant as I was Whence the Conclusion is evident that it could not be me but that it must be an higher Hand that spake thro' her The Answer is this Peace be with thee hear my Word O my Servant Behold I am the Spring of Life and no Body cometh to me but whom the Father draweth Therefore give heed to my Word I purifie and sanctifie every one for they are every one in the Father And I finish my Work above all Reason and I replenish every thing with Beauty for I am the Light of the World I go forth in Sanctification over all in all the Depths and Breadths and have no respect for Persons but my Love is spread abroad as a Covering over Seeds and Seeds over (a) Births Generations to Generations In all Mysterious Deeps my Love passeth forth over all For who is he that can sound out my Ways and my Wisdom Behold I the God of Heaven and Earth go forth in all my Doings and no Body can comprehend them I see well thy Writings and even the depths of thine Heart For before me every thing is discovered and laid open Therefore comprehend thou well my Word and acknowledge my Wisdom according to my meaning Behold I JEHOVAH have said it who am made manifest and am about to Judge the World I come upon the Wings of the Cherubims no Body can comprehend me or know me but he that is humbled before me What is it therefore that thou keepest in thy Mind as though thou didst comprehend it Verily verily I say unto thee even I the Lord the Lord that the time cometh when it shall be said Thou shalt know my Name according to my Counsel and my Meaning I will do it my self in thee Thou whom I will form unto me that thou mayest be in me shalt be mine Instrument And many Spirits I do bind together in one and do teach by my Arm the Divine Generation to Fight I have loved thee from all time my Sion and dear Ephraim Be strong as a Lion of Judah and come from the North. I know it and all things are manifest before me but thou knowest not as yet that which I have now spoken unto thee And it is a strange saying to thee and it must be so till that my Hour is come Go then in Peace Thou needest not to know any more at present stand thou only quiet in my Meekness and Patience and be firmly grounded in my Love which endureth for ever and resist me not For I am the LORD who am with thee and who leave thee not alone Be then of good Courage and live well yea Amen We also receiv'd from the same Place an Encouragement not to conceal the Truth which had been entrusted to us but to publish the same to the end that it might be Openly Confess'd and Own'd As I live saith the LORD even I the LORD do say it Return again ye Children of Men And to the Islands I say Fly before my presence and to the Rocks be ye Opened As I sit upon the Cherubim and the Seraphim and rule over all Kings so verily will I make an end of Edom and will root out the Whore of Babel She shall eat her self all her Abomination and all the Storms of her Fury shall fall upon her own Head For she sitteth and lurketh privily upon all the Borders that she may destroy (b) Mode my Manner which I have bestowed upon my Daughter of Sion to instruct her how to lift up her Eyes toward me and to serve me with all Faithfulness Sit still a little while with patience For behold I come unto thee suddenly whom I preserve as the Apple of mine Eye and I anoint thy Head with Precious Oyl for thou art mine He that hath begun let him remain with the Truth And he that hath opened his Mouth let him finish it and not be silent for the perverseness is grown very great But mine Arm is made more powerful yet and my Truth overcometh Watch now and Believe for the Hour is come Display the Banners give a mighty shout and magnifie my Name for I am in the midst of you Yea. Amen! Be not fearful but couragious For I am your Help and Victory At the same time she also sent us from the Place whither she was gone that which had between Four and Five Years before been dictated to her by the LORD upon the XXth Chapter of the Revelations which has been already Inserted in the XIth Section And I can say in the presence of God that before this time I had never seen it with mine Eyes or known in what words it was conceiv'd although she had made some mention in her Mother's Life-time of her having had for a good while such a Manifestation given her XXXII Now as this Elect Maid was upon her Journey to return hither and some Persons of High Quality in the World that had been acquainted with her Sister that was dead and long heard of the Grace which God had conferr'd upon her were very desirous to see her we going out some Miles to meet her were obliged to pass by that very Place where these Persons then were And being by them invited we went along with Her and her Sisters to them and gave them an account of what Extraordinary Gifts God had bestowed upon Her and how wonderfully he is pleas'd to reveal himself in this last Age. Although there were here some Gainsayers yet God left us not without a Blessing For as there arose a great desire to be satisfied whether God whose Mercy is so highly extoll'd in the Holy Scriptures did everlastingly and without distinction reject the Heathen and all such either among the Jews or Christians as are in a False Religion And it being ask'd Whether this Question might be propos'd to the Lord it was done so accordingly And this was the Answer which came As Heaven is prepared by my Might and by my Will as I am from Everlasting and in me is no Beginning or End Besides what I beget as it were in my self and make a Beginning and an End so true is this my Word which in Meekness and Long-suffering I do speak It is well-pleasing and it is my holy Counsel and
Experience propose to the Lord the Treachery and Abomination of any one else And concluded not to propose to Him any thing but what should proceed from an humble Heart wanting to be satisfied And in this Resolution she hath been Confirm'd by the Lord himself who spake to her in this manner I am Holy therefore let every one that cometh to Ask of me examine himself well whether he be likewise of a clean Heart And if not let him not think that I should visit him in my Word to Answer him For this end hold thou to Me for I will not that thy Righteous Soul should be importuned by the impure Wretches of this World Go out from their Abominations and receive not any thing at all from them For I am the LORD Nay even those who love Me if they come not to me in a Child-like and Humble Heart they shall not be heard by me Let every one that dareth to lift up his Eyes toward me come himself to me with his Heart and not by Letter and I will answer him willingly and will not shut him out I go before in Love For hitherto have I spoken in patience but they would make an ill use of it and would make thee to sin without thy knowledge Break then the Cords and suffer not thy self to be bound and take nothing from them but only from such as are true-hearted and humble Such will I hear when they complain and will answer when they enquire not out of Curiosity Now although the Lord will not Answer such Curious Enquirers and She Sanctify'd and Purify'd in the Blood of Christ will not admit of such like Questions yet nevertheless He was the very same day so Good as to give us that which follows Courage My SION thou dear Shulamite shalt now go suddenly forth out of Babylon I will give to thee the Wings of Righteousness that thou mayest fly away from the Abomination of Babel Thou shalt have no Communion with her that so thou mayest not be polluted For I will have thee to be clean and without Spot I will cloath thee with the Saphir and will Crown thee with Righteousness For thou hast been rudely treated and thy Wounds have been very bad but now it is all over For the Vine beginneth to put forth its Branches and I take pleasure in my Bride for she is become lovely in my Eyes Therefore will I deck her with Light and Glory without measure and she shall find that I deal kindly with her Let then the Babylonian Wicked insult over you with all their might Be ye not dismayed hereat I am your Buckler your Defence and your Armour and with Justice I cover you as with a Garment I the LORD am arming my self to fight for you with a Mighty Arm For now is the time that Light and Darkness must be separated from each other that so SION may dwell before Me. And verily the Cherubs with Thrones and Principalities are in Array to Fight for Sion against Babel But take this in a right Sense The Battel is for the sake of Sion's Spirit that her Cause may be strengthn'd and made certain and that there may be a Separation from the Works of Babel For this end it is time that ye watch and stand upon your Guards Night and Day For I come and do sound all the Depths And therefore I witness thus and will witness in all Languages and Tongues and will pour out my Spirit largely and adorn my Bride as to the Marriage-feast yea as to the Triumph She shall cry aloud for Joy and magnifie my Name aforehand When all this shall be transacted before in the Spirit then shall the Decree or Curse come forth against Babel And Sion shall then be as an Armed Man and I as a Roaring Lion against Babel and all her Abominations And then shall the Jdugment be revealed and come forth Wo to you ye Earthly-minded Men when I come Of whom is that saying true That I shall not find Faith upon the Earth But Blessed are the Simple and the Children for unto such doth the Kingdom belong Therefore be still rest in humility and fear not for I am before you Again I say Blessed are the little Children for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven Yea yea Amen! say I the Lord of Lords the God and Saviour in the Spirit of these Children Wherefore study that you may become like to them and so shall ye be made all Light Rejoice ye for the Victory is to Sion XXXV Before I consider the Questions I shall from some Passages of holy Scripture succinctly prove that God never declar'd it to be his Will that there should be no more Apparitions or Revelations after our Saviours Ascension but that on the contrary he hath given express Promises in his Word that before the Dreadful Day of the Lord he will send forth his Scribes Learned in the Kingdom of Heaven his Wisemen and Prophets for a Warning to the World and for an Encouragement to his Faithful Servants Neither have we any room for Doubt as to the Divinity of these Visions and Revelations if once it appear that the Lord according to his holy Purpose and Will doth really and according to the Rules laid down by Mr. Fabricius Superintendent-General of Pomerania in his Discourse * De Probatione Visionum of the Trial of Visions give to his Children in all Ages of the Church such Manifestations as these Of which the said Author has Collected together a great number of Examples from Approv'd Fathers Doctors and other Writers XXXVI That God therefore will for that he may if he will I suppose there is no Divine will deny grant such like Apparitions and extraordinary Revelations I prove first from the Prophet Joel Chap. 2. of which take this brief Account Now that the Contents of this Chapter have never yet been Accomplish'd since the time of Joel will be put out of all Dispute The time in which he Prophesied is not express'd but however certain it is that it was before the Captivity of Babylon Let us then see whether the Prophesie contain'd in this Chapter can have had its fulfulling either in the Calamity which the City of Jerusalem and the People of the Jews suffer'd by Nebuchadnezzar or in that other brought upon them by Titus Vespasian Now it is certain by these Verses viz. 1 7 9 and 11. that when this Chapter must have its Accomplishment then Mount Sion must be in a good Estate and the City of Jerusalem with its Temple be standing Moreover in ver 2. a Day which is call'd the Day of the Lord is describ'd as a Day of Darkness and of Gloominess of Clouds and of thick Darkness And this shall herein consist that a mighty and strong People of whom there has not been ever the like neither shall be any more to all Eternity shall come upon Jerusalem as the Morning spread upon the Mountains Now that this cannot be said
your Heart wholly to the end I may dwell in it with all my Fulness And have no fear then for I am your Defence and your Shield and my Loving-kindness I will not turn away from you but will fill you with good things I will give you to drink of Pleasure I will sanctifie the bashful I will take care of the feeble I will refresh the weary and will keep mine Eye upon those that are unstable for I am the Everlasting Love and Friendship From me proceedeth the Light for I am the Light of the World and whosoever cometh to me must walk in the Light and have in himself the Works of the Light and depart from that which is unclean Make ready to divert me O my Sister who art to me as a rich Odour Drive away every thing that hindereth thee and be cheerful Pass mightily on let nothing stop thee O Daughter of Sion for behold I gird thy Loins with Truth Let thy Marching be stately as the little Hills of God and let my Voice be to thee a Melodious Sound that thou mayest go leaping with sure steps with shouts of Joy and great Acclamations to embrace me in the way where I wait for thee Come then my Dove O thou Godly one who art clean chaste and spotless For thou art escaped from out of the Abominations of Babylon and all her Darkness is to thee abominable and her Deeds loathsom Ah! How shall I sufficiently express how exceedingly I now love thee when I am become one Spirit with thee Now are we made one now is my Love fill'd up in thee my whole Heart floweth into thee I shine in thee and my Glory beholdeth it self in thee as in a Glass Such is my Spouse such is my Fair One as the very Angels long to behold her Behold how thou hast wounded mine Heart I am thine and thou art mine In this manner do I comprehend in One all that are fled out from the accursed Works of Babel and are of pure Hearts This is the Dove this is the Beloved as it shall be filled up and glorified Wherefore be not at all cast down ye who have the Heart pure I will make to you an Help which Babel shall not be able to resist Yea I will make it even I the Lord the LORD For I see your Hunger and Thirst after my Righteousness and your loathing of the Works of Babel Therefore will I be good unto you and will strengthen your Courage that you may have no Communion with the Whore or be defiled with her Uncleanness Labour then that with Indignation against her ye may be freed from the filthiness which it may be do yet stick to the Soles of your Feet and cast her Whorish Works into her Eyes to the end that her shame may fall upon her Head and that I may force her to eat up her own Abominations For I will overturn her say I the Lord the LORD yea I will overturn her and will recompence it upon her own Head Those at whom she now laugheth shall recompence her shame dishonour derision and contempt Tenfold in her Bosom for I the Lord the LORD have spoken it And against you ye Foolish Daughters I say this Ye hope in vain your hope shall vanish for I will shut the Door against you Believe ye that you have still time to rise up What mean you to cloath your selves in my Robe and to do the Lusts of the Flesh in the Faith and to have still delight in the secret Pleasures of Babylon Why insult ye over me Think ye that I do not see your Works How is it that ye look upon me with one Eye and turn the other to Babel and yet would constrain me and go in unto me Verily I say unto you I will make you Asham'd and will shut the Door against you and turn you away Observe this well and flatter not your selves then shall it be well with you This is what I say and swear to you XXXIX From hence may arise this Question in the first place Supposing that to any one among you it hath happen'd or should hereafter happen that which hath happen'd to me as that he should receive in his Heart a powerful and convincing Resolution from God's Prophetical Word as it is contain'd in the Scripture concerning the Last Times and the Thousand Years Reign of Christ with all that depends upon it and that then afterward he should receive from God by a most precious Instrument of his a very clear Testimony in Writing with full Conviction of Heart that he had rightly comprehended from the Scripture the Truth of this Kingdom and of the Judgments impending upon the World to the leading forth the Children of God and that he ought to declare the same before all the World how is he oblig'd to behave himself in this Case and whether he ought to be suspicious of so Powerful a Testimony and to avoid the Contradictions and Slanders of Men abstain from it as from a Diabolical Delusion XL. In the second place the Question is concerning Divine Revelations in general without respect had to this Matter of Fact in Particular About which notwithstanding we shall in the end add some Questions to be Resolv'd Query I. Whether Christ after his Ascension would not Reveal himself any more in the Latter Time to any of his Faithful Servants seeing that since that he appear'd both to Paul and Stephen and gave his Holy Revelation to the Beloved John after his Ascension what Ground is there to think that Divine Revelations should be no more after that time Q. II. Whether from that passage Heb. 1.1 2. that God after having at sundry Times and in diverse Manners spoken to the Patriarchs and Prophets hath lastly spoken to us by his Son it can be prov'd that Christ after having reveal'd to us in the Flesh the Will and Counsel of his Father will no more reveal himself for the future And whether this be not meant only of the Glory of the Revelation of God in the Last Time that after the Accomplishment of the time prepared according to his Purpose he has been pleas'd Lastly to speak to us by his Son come in the Flesh And whether in such manner it will not rather follow from this place that since God â—â—th Reveal'd himself more gloriously in â—â—e New than in the Old Testament acâ—ording as the Number of the Past Days enâ—reases as to this World and the time of Restitution or Refreshment in the future World daily draws nearer the Revelation â—f God will daily encrease in the Prelude â—f the Approaching Glory For if by Lastâ—… or in these last Times be understood â—hat God after having spoken to us by his â—on would no more Reveal himself to Mankind would it not thence follow that â—he Apostles Doctrine might be justly suspected in as much as they had after the time of Christ's being here in the Flesh many Revelations and would not St. Paul have