vvalked the Iews of old said they vver the children of Abraham but they being found in vvays of deceit hypocrisy Oppression Idolatry persecution and murdering the Innocent saints and holy profets of the Lord Christ told them they vver children of their father the Devil being found doing his vvorks so that if yee be found commiting of sin and not vvalking as Christ vvalked and guilty of thôs evil practises vvhich the Jevvs vver then ar yee not such as ar born of God nor tru Christian Emperors Kings Prinses and Rulers by the grâs of God but the children of that Father vvhos works yee do and a company of usurpers such as hav no tru Ryt to exercys Dominion over the nations But that yee ar such is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor your claym of Ryt by heir-ship prescription is rotten nul voyd What it is to be Christs vicar And for the Pôp to affirm himself to be Christs Vicar it Implyeth no les then to represent his person in his spirit and Power to do his work now it s recorded of Christ that he was meek and lowly in heart holy harmles undesyled seperat from sin siners in lyf going up down doing good reproving sin teaching and exhorting peepel to ways of mercy truth ryteosnes purity meeknes humility and holynes But that the Pop is found acted by a spirit and in a practis of dyrect antipathy against the Spirit of Christ and so is rendred to be the Antichrist is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor his pretens of being Christs vicar is fals voyd The Pop succedeth Peter as Sin succceded innocency in order of tym or as a thorn doth a vyn when it grows in the sam plas wher â—ns a vyn did grow And for the Pôp to say he is Peters Successor Importeth no les then to represent his person in his spirit Power to do his work Now Peter in his epistel upon record saith thus the elders which ar amongst you l exhort who am also an elder and a vvitnes of the suffering of Christ a partaker of the glory that shal be revealed feed the flok of God which is among you taking the oversyt therof not by constraint but wilingly nor for filthy luker but of a redy mynd nether as being Lords over Gods heritag but as being good exampels to the flok that when the great shepherd shal appear yee may receiv a crown of glory that fadeth not away But that the Póp is found nether in that spirit or work in which Peter was is playn and evident in the precedent charg evidensed by a cloud of witneses and therfor his claym of being Peters successor is fals voyd also And for the whol body of thy Ecclesiastical Power so caled with al the worshipers to them belonging to affirm themselvs to be the tru church and faithful spous of Christ the holy church vvhich ons appeared and vvas mâd manifest in and throuh the saints vvhich dvvelt at Rôm It importeth no les then that they must be found holding the sâm pur mystery of faith in a pur consciens be the caled and sanctifyed of God according to his purpos vvalking in the sâm holy fellovvship in the Spirit of truth vvhich the saints of the church of Christ vvhich in the Apostels days appeared in Rôm held walked in But that thy Ecclesiastical body or clergy so caled with al the worshipers to them belonging ar corrupt in Doctrin fellowship conversation and faln away and apostatysed from that Pur Doctrin worship fellowship holy conversation with vvas held vvalked in by them is Playn evident in the precedent charg evidensedby a cloud of vvitneses therfor their claym of being the holy Church of Róm is fals voyd also So that upon the whol O Christendom thou art found to be the houshold of an old thief a cruel oppresing murderer and a most filthy abominabel whor standing naked in the syt of God Angels and Men found guilty of al thos great provocations and bloudy abominations which in the precedent charg is prodused against thee Now therfor O thou Leopold thou O Póp of Rom with al yee Kings Prinses Rulers Governors al in authority under you of what degree rank or order soever whether Military Civil Spiritual or Ecclesiastical so caled al Peepel both hy and low rich and poor bond and free smal and great mâl and femâl even the whol body of thee O Christendom with al the Dominions Territorys to thee belonging who ar under the Command Government teaching of Man Givear and hear the most just ryteos decree irrevocabel Sentens of the Lord God Omnipotent of Heven Erth even the living God former of al things against and concerning thee The dredful and most terribel Battel Ax of the most just Ryteos Powerful Lord God of vengeans is now laid to thy Root and that Power and spirit by which thou art now acted and in vvhich thou now standest vvil the Lord God novv hew down root up and utterly destroy yea his most just and Ryteos vvrath plagu's and vengeans is even alredy bròk forth upon thee and shal dayly mòr and mòr appear be revealed from heven against thee even as pangs upon a traveling vvoman from which thou canst by no means escap Thô thy Potentats Prinses Rulers Peepel hav do shal set them selvs and tak counsel against the Lord and his anoynted yet he that sits in heven now lafs them to scorn yea the Lord hath them in derision and he is now speaking to them throuh his sanctifyed ôn's in his wrath hath yet mor mor wil vex them in his sor displesur his Yron rod is novv taking into his hand vvith vvhich he hath begun dayly mor mor dash the Nations to pieces as a poters vessel in thee O Christendom and they shal dayly môr and môr fal be subdued under him til al his enemys becom his foot-stool The Rod of his strength is sent out of Syon he in mesur ruls dayly môr môr shal rul in the midst of his enemys in thee At his ryt Hand he is now stryking throuh Kings yea he is judging among the heathen in thee wounding the heds over dyvers Cuntrys his hed is now lifting up in throuh over al his enemys in thee The evening of that day known to the Lord is now com in which the lyt hath appeared the morning of that day is approached in which the just in mesur hath dayly môr môr shal hav pur Dominion over al their enemys in thee Deth is now feeding on thee thy beauty fading withering away as the gras upon the hous top And for as much as God hath caled thou hast not regarded but set at nouht
of vvhom the vvay of truth vvas evil spoken of vvhich cursed Spirit taking hold of the flok also many appeared vvho vvould not endur soünd Doctrin but after their own lusts gat to them selvs heapâ— of sals Teachers turning away their ears from truth unto fabels And so it cam to pas by degrees that such as refused to answer their covetos desyrs and to put into their months they prepared war against them counting them enemys to the ministry of Christ to be against the propagation of the gospel such as bòr Testimony against refused to follow their Pernicios ways Practises wer counted Erronious Enemys to the church good order so truth the followers therof got the Nams of Error heresy Non conformists disorderly Persons And Deecit Error the Practisers therof assumed to themselvs the nams of holy church tru Christians ministers of Christ in their own faln wisdoms set up On amongst them as chief Father Overseer or universal Bishop vvhos successors wer stil ar caled Christs Vicars Peters successors hed of the church and Póps whos Personal seat is ROM but his spiritual seat the Peepels Kindreds Tongu's Nations who in the whol Body of them caled the Clergy throuhout Christendom ar the woman that great City that hath yet Doth rul over the Kings of the Erth so proceeded to erect Counsels and Synods in them to mak many unryteos and Antichristian Laws Decrees which they cal Spiritual Holy Canonical Orders of Holy Church imposing their own commands inventions upon the Peepel as the Commands of God Holy Church assuming to themselvs in their faln Wisdom Power to bynd loos to set up put down Powers things both in heven in Erth to retain remit the sins of the Peepel in their own wils for Mony Dishonest gain such as refused conformity to their wiked Orders Carnal laws Commands Canons Devilish injunctions they cast forth as Heritics suffering non to buy or sel but such as would bow under their Spiritual wikedneses receiv their Idolatros mark in their hands or on their forheds thes their proud Antichristian Iezabelish Luciferian practises hav reached al Christendom mâl femâl from the lowest to the hyest of you your predecessors in government causing Emperors Kings Prinses Potentats to bovv dovvn to the sôls of her feet deposing disposing of Powers Potentats Crowns Kingdoms at their ovvn vvils and plesurs therby falsly and blasphemosy pretending to trampel upon the Powers Pomp Glory of this World whylst themselvs ar delyting affecting living at eas in the sensual lusts Pryd Plesurs therof to the hyest degree And so they proceeded to set Bounds limits to Congregations caling them Parishes erecting houses with steepels Croses on them Bels Baptysed in them falsly ignorantly caling them Churches appointing Arch inferior Bishops Priests Curats with several other Kynds of Hyrlings over them appointing them great Revenus Stypends yearly Incoms by Church lands gleab lands tyths taxes easter reckonings offerings sprinkling of Infants Churching of women Marriages Burials Prayers for the Ded Dirges Masses for Redemption of souls out of Purgatory Confession of sins Smoak-pennys Indulgenses Buls Pardons c. With many other Antichristian ways inventions to mak Marchandys of the Bodys souls of the Peepel throuhout Christendom The elergys spiritual weâ—pons of wikednes fayling they fly to the carnal weapons of the Magistrats But when they found that their own spirtual laws Canons helish church orders wer not of fo rs enuf to keep al in subjection to their carnal orders and Inventions in Matters of Religion worship and to answer their covetos and greedy desyrs after Mony tyths and larg yearly Incoms they Addresed themselvs to the Potentats Kings Prinses and Rulers of the Erth requyring their help and Assistans pretending that they therby would be servisabel to God holy church furtherers of the propagation of the Gospel good Countenansers Patrons Incoragers of the Ministers of Christ c. Whom they met with in the twylyt of the evening of the Blak Dark nyt of Apostacy as so many young men voyd of understanding who by their good words fayr speeches pretenses wer easily drawn to go after her as Oxen to the slauhter fools to the corection of the stoks making dyvers unreasonabel Penal Wiked Antichristian bloudy cruel laws and statuts with cursed Inquisition courts to fo rs al to a conformity to their Antichristian Idolatros Canons Institutions Inventions Injunctions Cursed Practises in matters of Religion church worship which are Extant and upon Record unto this day for vvhich they Rewarded the Potentats Kings and Rulers of the Erth with the Nams of Defenders of the faith c. who also received dyvers of them into their counsels to sit negotiat vvith them about the spiritual Affairs of holy church falsly and blasphemosly so caled pretending therby to bring al into unity uniformity to the tru Christian Church Faith Practis with which cam in the treading the holy city under foot and the Prophecying of the witneses in Sak-cloth and the flyt of the vvoman into the vvildernes and so it cam to pas that if any did bear Testimony against their Apostat Antichristian vvays and Practises or Refused to be conformabel to their Invented Laws Commands and Canons in Matter of Religion and vvorship they vver summoned to appear at their spiritual courts so called and if after three tyms summonings or appearans they would not deny the truth conform to their church orders and satisfy their covetos desyros they proceeded gradualy to censur Fyn cast out or Excommunicat them as heritics ordering that non should buy or sel eat or drink with them turning them over to the vvorldly or secular Povvers of the Erth to deal vvith them acording to the cruel Antichristian unmanly Inhuman Bloudy Laws statuts vvhich in such cases they had lyk bruit beasts not Men mâd provyded to wit the Emperors Kings Prinses Rulers throuhout Christendom who hav bin as cruel Unnatural beastly bloudy in the execution of them on thousands of Gods Dear Innocent ôns as they wer blyndly zealos Beastly in making of them spoyling many familys of their goods cruely dealing with others in their persons by bonds imprisonments cruel rackings torturings banishings secretly openly Murdering kiling the innocent Saints Martyrs faithfull witneses of Iesus by hanging burning with dyvers other ways of open secret cruelty murder the cry of al which cruelty bloud Murder of the Innocent hath piersed the hevens entred into the ears of the Lord God Omnipotent who is now risen in his holy plas causing the vengeans of his Tempel to tak hold of al his his dear oppresed cruely tortured murdered Innocent peepels Unnatural bloudy
destroying of Deth and the ful subjection of al Christs enemys under his feet the surrendering the Kingdom to the Father the subjection of the Son also to him that puteth al things under him and God the Eternal Fountain and fulnes to becom al in throuh and over al to the ends aforsaid This I say to thee O Christendom in general to every ôn in thee in particular from the greatest to the least of what Nation Tongu or Peepel soever dred fear yee the living God stand in aw of him giv glory honor worship to him alôn for the day and hour of his most dredful and ryteos Judgments is now in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear let al Bow fear and trembel befor him that mâd heven and erth the sea and fountains of vvater and knovv this that the great faling avvay and apostacy from the tru Christian Spirit faith and lyf had its first entrans in thy teachers throuh their going out from the mesur of the pur Spirit of grâs the free gift of God given to them and plased in them of the pur fulnes of Christ the lamb of God to lead and establish them in al truth and giving ear to the voys motions and dictats of the Carnal mynd that cursed spirit the seed of the serpent vvherby sin and deth entered and the lavv of it took plâs in them and throuh them hath spred it self throuh and over the whol body of thee O Christendom which hath rendred thee a body of sin and deth in the general and in every particular From this cursed root of bitternes hath sprang up that abominabel Spirit of Covetosnes pryd wickednes oppresion Idolatry cruelty wars stryf contentions debats sheding the bloud of the Innocent with al other the hy cryms provokations and bloudy abominations which hav bin stil ar found in thee which hath rendred thee to be the dragon beast great whor and fals profet in thy military civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled and thy peepel unstabel as water even the great raging sea which cannot rest foaming out its own shâm casting up Myr and dirt out of which the skarlet colored beast aros who Power seat great authority was given him is stil up held by the great red dragon to wit the military power which hath rendred thee to be an Akeldama even a field of bloud oppresion cruelty ful of hye cryms abominations even Spiritual Sodom Egypt in which the Lord lyeth crucifyed And now ther is no way of restoration from this faling away cursed apostacy from the tru Christian Spirit faith and lyf to know redemtion from sin deth and from under the law sting curs power ther of either to the general or any particular but by returning the Ey and ear of the mynd to that which is pur eternal and Immortal of God in the inward parts even the mesur of the tru lyt and Spirit of the free grâs of God in the general and in every Particular from which euery on in the general in the particular in thee hath erred gon astray and as every ôn ether in the general or particular coms to giv ear to the motions crys groans of the oppresed pur seed of God in them they wil com to see him whom they hav pierced and as that which doth burden oppres keep the pur seed of God in bondag coms to be removed mortifyed subdued Ether in the general or in the particular so his pur Power Spirit lyf and presens wil be felt working salvation redemtion in the Erth and be known by the Judgments which he executeth in the erth in the general in the particular throuh which ryteos Judgments in the Inward parts salvation tru redemtion coms to be knovvn vvitnesed So that eternal Judgment in the invvard parts being brouht forth into victory at last he coms to arys and rein in pur Povver lyf Dominion overal vvhos ryt it is both in the general in every particular even he vvho leads al vvho ar led by him in the pur plesant everlasting path of pur lyt lov lyf ryteosnes everlasting joy happynes even forevermor A door of hôp is left open for you in the vally of Achor as the just and ryteos Judgments of the Lord â—om ther to be executed on the troubler of Israel in the invvard parts vvith his vvedg of gold babylonish Garment and Silver vvith his seed and al that he hath so an entrans vvil be administred in throuh Christ the lyt way eternal door by vvhich al vvho enter in hav salvation and com to be reconcyled unto God and saved from vvrath vvhich is to com This is the Zoar into which al who flee ar saf from the devouring fyr vvhich from the Lord is novv com and coming upon Spiritual Sodom in thee This is the Ark of the nevv yet most old and everlasting covenant into vvhich al vvho mak speed get entrans shal escap the great delug overflovving floud vvhich God is novv bringing in upon the vvorld of the ungodly this is the cloud and Pillar of fyr in man vvhich al vvho faithfully and constantly follovv ar sâfly led throuh the wildernes of temtations fears snars vvhich God is novv rayning dovvn upon the vvorkers of Iniquity This is the strong towr in vvhich al vvho ar found ar sâf from the horribel tempest which is now com coming upon the Proud and al that do wickedly in thee O Christendom This is the litel sanctuary in which al that hyd themselvs the blast of the teribel ôns against them shal be but a a storm against a wal This is the holy Mountain whos Inhabitants the oppreser or destroyer cannot touch or hurt This is the city of most sur refug whos wals and bulwarks ar salvation and the gâts therof prays into which nothing can enter that defyleth or worketh abomination thô the gâts therof stand open continually whos inhabitants can do truly say thô the erth be removed yet we wil not fear thô the mountains be hurled into the midst of the sea yet wil we not be dismayed thô the waters therof roar be troubled the mountains shà k fal with the sweling therof for ther is a River the streams wherof mak glad the city of God the holy plas of the tabernakel of the most by the living God is in the midst of her shee cannot be moved God shal help her that Ryt early Wherfor I say unto al and it is the counsel of the Lord God to them in the bowels of pur and tender lov to his own oppresed burdened slayn seed in thee oâ— Christendom in every particular mak hast mâk hast do not stay nor linger but speedyly turn in hither least the storm the dredful storm of the most Iust ryteos vengeans Jndignation of God which remains at hand to be poured
of the Erth for its possession rul them with a rod of iron al its enemys becom its footstool that as a ston cut out of the mountain without hands it should smyt the Imag ' to wit the Powers of sin darknes in the feet therof so that the Yron Clay Silver Gold therof to wit al the strength Glory of the Power Kingdom of Darknes from the foundation to the Top ston in that cursed building shal be broken to pieces together becom as chaf which the wynd carrieth away that the ston should becom a great mountain fil the whol Erth And the Dominion of sin transgression shal be finished an end put therunto everlasting Ryteosnes be raised up established in Man Kynd they in it that as in Adam al dyed so in Christ the seed al shal be mâd alyv as sin hath reined unto Deth so Grâs shal Rein throuh Ryteosnes the seed unto everlasting lyf John in the Spirit of Profesy heard him that sat on the Thrôn say Behold I mak al things new saw the new Hevens the new Erth wherin ryteosnes dweleth the Holy City the new Jerusalem into which nothing that defyleth or worketh abomination can enter or that maketh a ly but they who ar writen in the Lambs Book of Lyf wherby was for shewn The restoration of the seed Christ in mâl and femâl of them in it to that pur Dominion Glory which he had with the Father in Man-kynd Man-kynd in him befôr the foundation of the World which lyeth in wikednes began The promis fulfild in the hed many members a strong ground of Hôp II. Secondly he hath alredy in mesûr mád thos promises Covenant good performed it to in som to wit in Christ Jesus that Lamb of God who was the first begoten from the Ded the Hed of the Body the Church in whom the Eternal Word of Lyf the Seed of God slain from the foandation of the World which lyeth in wikednes was brouht forth in its Holy Pur perfect Estat of innocency in whom the old Serpent the Divel the Tempter found no Plas who pased the tym of his sojourning heer on Erth in that mortal body in the pur fear lyt lyf Wisdom Power of God his Father faithfully finishing the work given him by the Father to do in the sam Eternal pur Spirit offered up himself again unto God without spot returned into the Bosom of the Eternal Father fountain of lyf from whens he câm proceeded As also dyvers of the Saints and Holy Men of God by and throuh a participation of the Sam Eternal pur fulnes of God which dwelt in him wer turned from the darknes to the lyt from the Power of Sathan to the Power of God and witnesed Salvation from sin and had learned to deny al ungodlynes worldly lusts and to liv soberly Ryteosly holyly in this present World wer clensed from al filthines of flesh and Spirit and had overcom the wiked ón wer mâd free from sin becom the Servants of Ryteosnes risen with Christ siting together in hevenly plases in Christ Jesus and wer com to the new Jerusalem to Mount Syon the city of the living God to the innumerabel Company of Angels the general Assembly Church of the first born to God the Judg of al and to the Spirits of just men mâd perfect in them III. Thirdly Becaus the sâm Eternal Power which hath acomplished it in the hed Som of the members The Power of God sufficient to perfect the rest is abel to acomplish the sâm in every member according to it's plâs throuhout the whol body being abel to sav to the uttermost al that com to God in him who is abel to work so as non shal hinder for Heven and Erth shal pas and now is pasing away but not ôn Jot or tittel of al that he hath spoken or promised shal fal to the ground unfulfiled IIII. Fourthly The Day is now com in which an end to the World which lyeth in wikednes shal be put the Kingdom of darknes sin and transgression finished and the pur and everlasting Ryteosnes of God to wit Christ in mâl and femâl be mád manifest in and throuh mankynd and mankynd in it reconcyled to God and to ón another in the ever lasting Covenant of lyf never mor to be forgoten in which the whol creation shal hav deliverans from the bondag of corruption in to the glorios liberty of the Sons of God The grouâ—d of al outward Rul ordinanses in Church stat declared And as concerning al Rûl Dominion Authority Power whatsoever that hath bin or shal be exercysed in throuh man over others wirh al the Ordinanses Appointments of God in the Church The ground of the Rys Manifestation Administration Continuans of them al was is mans transgression in sining departing from the Lord the lyt Spirit power of God in the inward parts And mans Restoration redemtion from sin transgression returning again unto the Lord in obediens to the lyt Spirit The most universal gathering greatest glory to be after the Apostacy and power of God in the inward parts puteth an end unto them al. But according as it was fôrseen fôrtold by the Spirit of Christ in the Holy Apostels a faling away Apostacy from the tru Christian faith lyf should com that the most spreding manifestation of the most Excelent glory day of the Lord the most universal gathering into him was not to com except ther cam ' first a faling away the Man of sin revealed and Holy Paul in his Advys to the over seers of the flok told them that after his departur greevos wolvs would enter in amongst them not sparing the flok that from among themselvs should men arys speaking pervers things to draw Discypels after them further said that the Mistery of Iniquity did then already begin to work John in his Epistel advyseth them to whom he wrot to try the Spirits not to beleev every Spirit becaus many fals Profets wer then gon out into the World The â—ôp confesseth that the Christ cam in that on body of flesh saying that every Spirit that confesseth not that Iesus Christ is com into the flesh is not of God that was the Spirit of Antichrist of which they had heard that it should com said then that it was already com into the VVorld that they went out from Among themselvs And so it was that the seed of the Serpent having found Plâs in som beguyling them as of old he did Eva drawing their mynds from the simplicity of the Spirit of Christ in them leading them out into the World Inclyning their hearts after outward visibel things it ceased not working even in a mystery of
iniquity covered over with outward shews pretenses of Christianity Holynes even in the Elders teachers leaders of the flok til at length from throuh them that cursed seed spred it self as evil leven throuhout the whôl lump becâm a Man of sin opposing and exalting himself abov the pûr seed of God in Man-kynd siting ther as God in the Tempel of God And from this cursed root of biternes hath sprang an evil tree whos Branches hav over spred al Christendom bringing forth the evil fruits of Covetosnes Pryd Oppression Cruelty Idolatry VVars Divisions Persecution sheding the Bloud of the Innocent Murdering the harmles Saints of Iesus by many Cruel Antichristian Vnmercyful Inhuman Torturings Rackings Dâ—ths by Hanging Burning with dyvers other open secret ways of Cruelty Murder under a cursed fals pretens of their being Heritics and lykwys the Apostel Peter whos Successor the Pôp of Rôm falsly pretends to be saw this also taking root in the Elders Lording preaching for filthy Luker of as great antiquity as any other part of Popish faith or a practis teachers that even a Spirit of Covetosnes Pryd Lordlynes was taking root in them therfor exhorted warned them in his Epistel saying thus the Elders which âr amongst you I exhort who am also an Elder a vvitnes of the sufferings of Christ a partaker of the Glory that shal be revealed feed the flok of God which is amongst you taking the oversyt therof not by constraint but wilingly not for filthy Luker but of a redy mynd not as Lords over Gods heritag ' but as good exampels to the flok In this Spirit sprang up al thôs invented Nams Orders Garbs Manners of habits of the Póps Cardinals Fryars Monks Capuchins Nuns c. And the voluntary humility pretended vows of poverty chastity and seperation from the World imitated devotion Worshiping of Angels intruding into things which they hav not seen the Doctrin of Devils spekinglys in Hâ—pocrisy of a Purgatory to purg ' Peepl from sin after they ar Ded forbiding Meats and Marriages which God had ordained in his own fear Wisdom to be enjoyed without respect ether to Tym or Persons injoyning the Observation of Days Tyms Months Years imposing their own corrupt Inventions Traditions upon the Peepl for Doctrin The faith of Devils and from this Root sprang the faith of Devils in an Imaginary God without them and at a distans from them abov the skys comprehended in three Persons and of a Resurrection of their Carkases with the Carkases of al others that hav bin sins man was created an Imaginary expectation of Christ to com in the sâm body os flesh in which he suffered Deth without the gà ts of Jerusalem out of the visibel hevens upon the material Clouds to Judgments of a heven to the injoyed after they ar Ded above the skys and an Imaginary hel or plâs of torment for the wiked after they are Ded with material fyr brimston of al which they cannot giv ether themselvs or others a Rational Account from this Root sprang the tabel of Devils to wit eating the tabeâ— of Divls drinking to exces Ryot to the raising norishing of that Spirit in man which is enmity against God leads in to al the ways of Deceit Covetosnes Pryd lust Cruelty unryteosnes which ar the Spirits of Devils in al manner of the cursed fruits of the works of sin darknes throuhout Christendom among al sorts Hy Low Rich Poor Rulers the Fellowship of Devils what VVariors Teachers Peepl which cursed seed evil leven took plà s Rooting in many in the Apostels days and they seeing feeling the working therof did according to the wisdom of the Spirit of Christ in them wryt concerning the sà m to the end that such as wer wavering myt be established in truth that such as wer gon astray myt be brouht bak and that such as did wilfuly persist in ways of Apostacy myt be left without excus that a testimony myt be left upon record unto succeeding ages to stay comfort such as should suffer for truths sà k at the hands of thos that were faln under the Spirit of Apostacy and that at the appearans of Christ in his Peepl now mà d manifest in the brytnes of his coming to Reveal Consum Destroy the Man of sin The recorded Testimony of the Profets Christ the Apostels migt be prodused as A trù Witnes or Testimony against the spirit of Apostacy warning thos to whom they wrot Not to be beguyled of their Reward or Spoyled by vain Philososij voluntary humility Or worshiping of Angels for al performanses what soever which are don Only in the wil of Man or Imitation of others ar nether acceptabel to God nor truly profitabel to man The worsshiping of Angels what Which worship of Angels is the Creaturs being exalted in its self becaus of the Operation of the Power Or gift of God in throuh it or to lift up Or exalt Others becaus of the Eminent operation of the Power Or gift of God in throuh them The Operation of which Power Or gift of God is an Angel of God in Mál femál which things wer taking Root Amongst them the strong despysing the weak the weak judging the strong Others making partys lifting up of Instruments ón abov against another som saying they wer for Paul Others for Apollo Others for Cephas Others boasting in others lyns of things mád up to their hands intruding into things which they had not seen wher as the Apostels said That which they declared was that which they had seen tasted handled of the word of lyf And the grás ' of God had tauht them not in shew or desaitful hypocritical profession but in truth of Practis to deny al ungodlynes and vvorldly lusts and to liv soberly Ryteosly in this present vvorld vvhich vvas and is the tru Purgatory vvhich they held The tru Purgatory is the clensing vertu of the bloud or lyf of Christ even the Bloud the Pur spirit of Christ in them vvhich purged clensed them from al filthynes of flesh and spirit whyl they wer living in the Body wherby they vver presented in Body soul spirit blamles with out spot befor God befor his thron Affirming that ther is nether vvork Knowledg Or vvisdom in the grav that as every tree fals so it lys as Deth leavs so Judgment fynds al and as concerning meats and drinks observation of Days tyms Marriages the Apostels advysed not to Judg ón-another in thos things and that the strong should bear with the weak not to pleas them selvs but when he wrot to such as had seen beyond thos things wer Apostatysing and faling bak again into thos begerly Rudiments he reproved them sharply saying that the Kingdom of God
and cruel adversarys and to aveng al the oppressions crueltys and Innocent bloud of his harmles lambs and Saints on them that dwel upon the Erth fro the least to the greatest of them even upon this present age and generation And heer it may be noted how this old Serpent vvhich goeth upon its belly hath throuh ages generations in thos cald Priests Levits spiritual men and the Clergy conformed and transformed it self unto any thing and into any form and lyknes except the lyf and Povver of godlynes in to which it can never com provyded they myt hav the nations and Rulers of the Erth as beasts and asses for them to ryd on and their tresurs and fruits of their labors to be at their command to feed pamper their bellys The World is the Who the Spirit of truth in throuh the Holy Men of God Profets Christ Apostels said wer grievos Wolvs such as mâd their their God making again of the flok would stil so ar its Ministers the sam they ever wer so many receiv the sam nams now from the sam Spirit exercysed in covetos practises going in long Robs loving to be cald of men Master and to hav the greetings in the market plas the uppermost Rooms at Feasts such as did say not do teaching for Doctrin the tradiditions of Men Hipocryts whyted wals painted sepulkers such as teach for hyr and Devyn for mony greedy dumb dogs that cannot bark loving every on his gain from his quarter preparing war against such as put not into their mouths filthy Dreamers that defyl the flesh runnng greedily in the error of Balaam for gifts rewards spots in their Feasts of charity feeding themselvs without fear clouds without Water carried about with Wynds trees whos fruit withereth twys Ded and plucked up by the Roots Raging wavs of the Sea foaming out their own sham wandering stars to whom the blaknes of darknes is reserved for ever When Israel of old in the wildernes turned their Baks upon the God of their saluation this spirit in Aaron and thos confederat with him complys with them and maks A Calfs and they said thes be thy Gods o Israel vvhich brouht thee out of the land of Egipt and built an Altar to it and yet proclaiming and pretending to mak A feast to the Lord siting dovvn to feed and pamper their bellys together and rysing up to play and vvhen Israel in the laind of Canaan revolted from the Lord to serv the Idol Gods of the heathen this old Serpent in the Priests Levits conforms ther unto Exercysing the several forms Manners of Idolatros worship to the several sorts of Ydols and Images provyded they may nat sail of provision for their bellys when Micah gat à Reliv a Teraphim an Ephod A graven Molten Imag to erect an Idolatros way of worship in his own family he wants not à Levit to excercys à worship ther unto provyded he may hav ten shekels by the year Asuit of Apparel provision for his Belly and when Ieroboam mad Calvs sit them up in Dan Bethel he wanted not enuf to be Priests to exercijs a form of vvorship to them provyded they may not fail of provision for their bellys and vvhen ydol Tempels Images wer Erected for the worship of Baal if Achab and Iesabel wil hav eight hundred fisty Priests to exercys à vvorship therun to they redyly Conform provyded they may dayly eat Drink at Iesabels tabel when Israel took up an Imagination of A Queen of heven they want not enuf of thos cald Priests spiritual men devyners to Exercys a worship to her provyded they may hav the Cáks Meat Drink offerings which ar baked offered to her to feed pamper their bellys And when the spirit of Apostacy took hold on the gentils Or Romans turning their ears away from truth unto fabels this old Serpentyn spirit provyded them heaps of fals teachers provyded they may mà k a gain of them get filthy luker by them exercys Lord ship Dominion over their Persons estats faith conscienses whos Practis hath bin for ages and generations Past throuh the Apostacy to this day to prepar war against such as put not into their mouths to spoyl the goods whip Banish Tortur Burn and hang the Persons of the Innocent who in the spirit Power of the Lord hav born testimony against their ways of Idolatry deceit covetos Practises Proud and Bloudthusty spirits And when Henry the Eigth of that nam so caled King of England mád a breach upon that cursed Idolatros sea of the Roman ecclesiastical Power threw of the Pops supremacy they in words and outward profession cast it of also lyk unnatural children cal'd their Mother the Whor of Róm swearing Allegians Supremacy to the King receiving their inductions into their Spiritualy wiked Plases Orders Proffits from him his Substituts teling their God in their Prayers that in al Cases over al Persons as wel Ecclesiastical as temporal the King is supream hed Governor he confirming them in their Church gleab lands tyths yearly Stypends Revenus to feed pamper their Bellys And when Mary his next Successor cam into the Thrón turned al as it wer bak again then they fased quyt about with the Dog to their own vomit submiting conforming to that which they had in word profession outward Practis denyed cast of viz. the Póps supremacy persecuting burning such as Heritics who for Consciens sak towards God could not conform therunto She securing to them their yearly Incoms to feed serv pamper their God which was their Bellys And when Elizabeth her next Successor aros then they turned quyt about again disgorging the vomit which befor they had re-eaten swearing allegians Supremacy unto her teling their God in their Prayers that shee the Queen was in al cases and over al persons as wel Ecclesiastical as Civil supream hed Governor He securing confirming to them their provision for their Bellys And when the Parliament which was in the Reyn of Charls the first of that Nam so caled King of England mád a defensyv War against the said King The said Parliament making provision for their Bellys erecting a Commitee to provyd augmentations yearly Stypends som of 50 som of 100 pound or mor and laying 2 or 3 Parishes somtyms together that they myt hav wher with to maintain them in pryd eas pamper their Bellys they in words outward Profession and Practis cast of not only the Tóp his Supremacy but also submit to lay asyd the ûs of their Servis-book of Common Prayers Organ Pyps and other Music Singing Men and Boys Gowns Flat-Caps Surplises Tippets and ras even their King also out of their Prayers stiring up the Peepel to go forth to war against him as to the help of the Lord
faith of Christ crucifyed manfully to fyt under his Banner against sin the VVorld the Devil to continu Christs faithful soldiers servants unto their lyvs ends c. which as any hav com truly to do be they hav bin mâd a prey on by them their Nâms cast forth as evil counted Heritics not fit to liv whos practis towards such for ages generations past to this day hath bin spoyling their goods imprisonment banishment whiping torturing racking hanging burning their persons Others ther ar who thô they ûs not such a heap of lys ceremoys about it yet ar they acted by the sam spirit Power in the ground in the administration therof som sprinkling infants others diping persons of ryper years affirming it to be the baptilm of Christ uring a necessity ther of as unto salvation wher in they agree with the whor of Rom wher as John who was the minister of water baptism said thus I baptys you with water but ther cometh òn after me mytyer then I to wit Christ he shal baptys you with the holy ghost or spirit and Christ himself in his charg to his discypels said go yee and teach al nations baptysing them he said not in water but in to the nam of the Father of the Son of the holy spirit which baptism of Christ by the holy spirit was administred throuh preaching in thè demonstration of the spirit Power of God wherby Peepel wer brouht in to a participation of the lyt lov wisdom Power and spirit of holynes which is the Nà m of the father who is the God of lyt and lov the nam of the Son who is the wisdom and Power of God the Nà m of the holy ghost who is caled the spirit of holynes this is the òn baptism which saveth which the Apostel said is not the washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good consciens towards God by the refurrection of Christ from the ded in them the baptism which is by the òn spirit into the òn body of Christ vvhich body of Christ is the whol creation visibel invisibel of which every living cretur of God is a member the tempel the hous of Prayer unto al nations the visibel and sensityv part wherof is the womam that was deceived and first in the transgression the evil effects of which transgresing Power hath throuh thos angels that kept not their own habitations spred it self over the whol body wherby a dark vail of covering hath bin drawn over the Pur lyt glory of God in every cretur visibel invisibel otherwys ther had not bin need of making a covenant for the redemtion Salvation Deliverans and restoration of the whol body had not the effects of the curs bondag of corruption bin over al that it hath bin so hath evidently appeared in the several ecclipses darkning of the Sun the turning of the moon in to bloud the faling of the stars of the hevens the Extreams of heat cold natural spiritual tempestuos and blasting Wynds outward Inward Infectios clouds vapors mildews on the outward Inward man overwhelming destroying showers of snovv rayn hayl the enmity that is not only in Man-kynd but in every cretur òn against another not only of ôn sort against thos of another sort but against ech other of the sam kynd sort which ar al the effects of the curs that entred by transgression it cannot be other wys For if God cast out God then wer his Kingdom divyded against it self so should hav an end but the eternal Power the former of al things being the spirit of Pur lyf lov peas wisdom ryteosnes holynes thos effects formentioned could not proceed from him for every effect proceeds from its natural proper caus had the creation stood under the goverment of that Pur Power spirit by which it was created brouht forth the transgresing Power curs could not hav entred al thos evil effects ther of had never bin brouht forth for deth folly unryteosnes desylment destruction enmity could never Possibly hav bin the effects or prodùs of that spirit of Pur lyf wisdom Ryteosnes Salvation Preservation lov From this cursed Root the transgressing Power that old serpentyn spirit which took plà s in Eva and Adam and throuh them hath spred it self over the whol body hath sprung al the wars murders Persecutions Enmity Deceit Plagu's Pestilenses sikneses Famins Destructions wo's Calamitys Miserys which hav bin stil ar not only upon in Man-kynd but in upon the vvhol body of the creation and as the everlasting covenant of God to his ovvn Pur Seed vvhich is Christ not only in Man-kynd but in the vvhol body of the creation every cretur therin contained coms to be mà d good the corrupt bondag of the transgresing Povver chal be broken al the miserabel cursed effects therof shal ceas According to the promis of God by throuh his holy Profets which body of Christ is his spous his church to for which he giveth himself that he may redeem wash clens it that it may becom holy blâmles without spot in the midst of which even in throuh every creturth declareth the Fathers Nà m unto his brethren sings Prayses unto him This is the sweet singer of Israel Christ is al in al betxixt God and man whether in disâ—ensing mercy or execuring Iudgment visibel or in visibel in upon Mankind as first to upon Adam Eva. who throuh al ages generations hath in Ryteosnes faithfulnes sung the sweet song of mercy judgment as a Son over his own hous to wit Christ the eternal word of lyf the vvisdom and Povver of God vvhich was in the begining vvith God befor his vvorks of old by vvhom al things wer mâd and ar upheld It was he that mâd Man-kynd in his own pur Imag plased him in Dominion over the works of his hands who in lov and Kyndnes gav them freedom to eat of every tree of the garden prohibiting them only from eating of the tree of knowledg of good and evil warning them in mercy of the evileffects of transgresing against his Just command therin yea even when the lust was conceiving and the Tempter working in Eva it was Christ the sâam eternal Wisdom and Power of God which in Just Ryteos Judgment after sin and transgression had taken plâs and got entrans in them that pronounsed and executed on in them the Just and Ryteos Judgments of God becaus of their sin transgression It was he to wit Christ that in mercy to in the old World exercysed patiens To and upon the old wrold long forbearans by his spirit in stryving with them til al flesh had corrupted their ways befor him so that it repented him that he had mà d man And
with the sam glory which he had in with the Father befor the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes began And as the natural Body of Christ is but òn so the lyf spirit or soul which is the Spiritual Body is but ón also throuhout the whol Body The whol creation is the body of Christ. every living member therof which is God manifest in the flesh The sâm Eternal lyf pur Power which giveth being and form to ôn Cretur giveth form being unto al not only to in Man-kynd but to and in every Cretur so that the whol is but ôn Body filed acted by ôn soul guyded governed quikened by ôn Eternal Spirit which ar ôn and agree in ôn in him who is the incomprehensibel Lord God Omnipotent the Eternal Fountain and fulnes of al and heer in is seen that imaginary faith of a God-hed comprehended in three Persons for according to their own apprehensions a person being a body in conjunction with a soul then it may be affirmed that ther ar as many Persons comprehended in the God hed as ther ar Kynds of living Creturs and distinct Creturs of every Kynd which ón Body with the ón soul acted and governed by the on Eternal quikening Spirit is the ón only Son of God which cam out of the bosom of the Father in whom he was is ever shal be wel pleased and as the Father hath lyf in himself so hath he given the Son to hav lyf in himself to every living cretur or member in him to hav lyf in it self both in the natural spiritual body the lyf of al in the seed preserved as Christ who is the eternal quikening Power to in the seed both of the natural spiritual body appears so do they al appear with him in tru Pur glory the communication of the vertu of the eternal quikening Power to in the seed both of the Natural Spiritual Body is throuh the cros of Christ which to in the seed of the natural body is communicated throuh natural sensibel visibel things to wit Winter Summer heat cold seed tym harvest hunger food thirst drink Nyt Dây motion rest But to in the seed of the Spiritul Body after a Spiritual and invisibel manner either secretly in the Reyns heart and inward parts or throuh erthen vessels which he hath filed with that tresur a dispensation therof comittent to them which is the Spirit of Prophesy a ded becaus of transgression which shal ceas fayl as into the everlasting Covenant Man-kynd is brouht which Communication of the vertu of the Eternal Power throuh the cros to and in the seed of the Spiritual Body answereth Spiritually to al the dimensions therof to and in the seed of the natural body which ar al of them as truly necessary to the being and welbeing of the seed and lyf of God the ôn as the other both in the natural and spiritual body and as desyr fayls in the on the natural body returns to the Erth and the spirit to God that gav it and as desyr fayls in the other such becom ded whyl they liv which cros is the everlasting covenant o God to and with the seed his own lyf both in the natural and spiritual body which in ôn in and throuh the whol creation and every living cretur therin contained only differing in degrees and manner of working and operation And for an assurans of his faithfulner in making good the covenant on his part to the seed in the natural visibel body he hath given an outward or visibel syn or token plasing his Bow in the clouds of the visibel hevens And to the seed of the invisibel or spiritual body he hath given an invisibel or spiritual witnes or token to wit the lyt which shyneth in the dark plàs in the inward parts the faithful tru witnes of God the word which liveth and Abydeth for ever neer in the mouth and in the heart concerning which the covenant Promis of God is that it shal not depart out of the mouth of the seed nor of its seeds seed for ever even so long as the Sun and moon endureth And heer I Judg it expedient further to declar that I do not herin ether deny or under vallu ether the person work or Son-ship of Iesus Christ that just and innocent ón who witnesed a good confession befor Pontius Pylat But what the holy Profets Apostels declared recorded in the spirit of truth concerning him I do own acknowledg to be tru do heerby affirm that the sam eternal Pur holy Innocent lyf fulnes of God which dwelt bodyly in him was the lamb which was slayn from the foundation of the world which lyeth in wikednes the holy seed of the woman to which the covenant of God is mà d in which al the Promises of God ar yea and Amen in which al the familys of the Erth shal be blesed the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world the Shylo into whom the gathering of the Peepel shal be the Alpha and Omega the begining the end of al the works of God without begining of days or end of lyf who was is is to com abydeth the Sam for ever world without end and that he cam out of the bosom of the Father in whos mouth was found no guyl in whom the temter nether had nor found any Plàs was the first begoten from the ded the first born amongst many brethren the Author and Captain of eternal salvation who pased the tym of his so journing on Erth in that mortal body in the Pur fear lov of God faithfully finisingh the work given him by the Father to do in the sà m eternal Pur spirit offered up himself unto God without spot returned into the bosom of the Father innocent holy harmles undefyled as he proceeded cà m forth from the Father And as concerning that body of flesh in which he appeared this I say as himself also testifyed that the flesh profiteth nothing but it is that eternal word of spirit and lyf which was mà d manifest in throuh that body of flesh was and is the wisdom and Power of God to salvation in al them that beleeved and that he had power to lay it down and tak it again and did lay it down upon the cros and took it again out of the sepulker and in it was received by a cloud out of the syt of his discypels and according to the scripturs this I say that the things which ar seen with the outward or visibel ey ar but temporal and fading but the things which ar not seen they ar eternal Nòn hav advantag by the deth of Christ but such as partak of his Lyf And as concerning what was don said suffered by the lyf wisdom and Power of
in which they also must receiv the just ryteos reward of their doings from the ryteos Lord God omnipotent the hand of the Lord is smyting at al your dishonest gain VVo misery weeping bitter howling lamentation must now be dayly mor mor your portions deth and withering is now seizing on you which shal continu until your ships shops Ins victualing-houses fayrs marktes weihts and mesurs ceas to be frequented or mad ùs of The Lord wil recover his corn wyn wool and flax even al the stors of his hous out of your hands and wil feed cloath his houshold himself and giv them food rayment in du season and in du proportion al who shal putâ—r ôr ether on their baks or into their bellys shal receiv in themselvs the just reward of their own shâm and folly from the Lord God Thy several Nations Kindreds Tengu's and Languages ar as the dispersed divyded and confounded builders of babel as so many several fields over grovvn vvith brambels bushes bryars and thorns abounding bounding in al manner of the cursed fruits of the seed of the old serpent redy ryp to be cut down consumed by the vengeans of the eternal fyr of Gods just Ryteos wrath vengeans which is now broken forth on them and shal dayly môr and môr be revealed from heven against them Thy whol body even hed and tayl branch and Root rulers wariors priests peâ—pel by low rich poor bond and free great and smal mâl femal even al under the dragon's beast's fals profets spirit Power ar a corrupted loathsom defyled body of sin deth even the body of that beast which Daniel in the spirit of prophesy saw which is now to be slayn and his body destroyed and given to the burning flâms by al which it hath doth appear that great hath bin is the mystery of Iniquity to wit the old serrpent the God of the world the devil mâd manifest in flesh novv Judged and condemned in the put Povver of the eternal spirit seen and comprehended by Angels beleeved on vvorshiped in the vvorld by al whos nâms ar not writen in the lambs book of lyf and novv thrusting dovvn to everlasting sham contemt suffer the vengeans of eternal fyr vvher by the habitabel parts of the erth hav bin the cros on which the lamb slayn from the foundation of the world vvhich lyeth in wicdednes hath bin crucifyed and mankynd ground throuh vvo misery grief and pyan as betwixt the nether and upper milstons to vvit that cursed cruel oppresing helish power dominion which hath bin stil is exercysed over man kynd by such as hav stil do rûl over them in the spirit and Power of the old serpent the devil as the Nether mil-ston And thos just ryteos Judgments tribulation wrath of God which hav seized on body soul spirit of every particular that hath don evil as the upper milston So that the Eden of God hath bin mâd as a desolat wildernes the hous of liberty freedom a hous of misery thraldom cruel bondag the Tempel and seat of God the synagogu ' of sathan even the thron and seat of the Man of sin siting in it as God the hous of prayer A den of murdering thievs Robers and the garden of the Lord a field of bloud and murder But the voys is goâ— forth from the Lord God whos vvords ar spirit lyf and Power for Mans return and as Man-kynd coms to inclyn the ear and heart to hear and obey the reproofs of instruction in the inward parts which is the way of lyf and door of Eternal salvation the vois of this cursed mil shal ceas and the nether ston ther of be cast into the bottom of the Sea never to arys mor and the upper ston in mercy and lov by the Lord be removed and so the field of bloud cruelty shal be com the garden of the Lord in which Man-kynd shal dwel walk reconcyled unto God ôn to another unyted together in the everlasting bond Covenant of pur lyf lov Peas Ryteosues never mor to be forgoten the den of thievs a Hous of Prayer to al Nations Generations the Thrôn seat of the Man of sin the Tempel seat Thrôn of the living and pur God the Hous of misery thraldom bondag ' the plâs of the glorios Manifestation injoyment of the glorios freedom liberty of the Son of God the desolat VVildernes shal becom the Eden of God Throuh al which Man-kynd hath yet mor perfectly shal experiens the differens betwixt the cursed fruits of the ways of his own choys and the sweet plesant blesed fruits of abyding in that stât of pur Lyf Lov Peas Ryteosnes Dominion over the works of Gods hands in which he was plased befor the entrans of sin transgression to which Christ the Lyt Wisdom Power of God in mâl femâl is now redeeming restoring Man-kynd again into VVherfor o thou Leopold thou o Póp of Róm al yee Kings The Body arrained Prinses Rulers Governors with al in Power under you of what degree rank or order soever whether Military Civil Spiritual or Ecclesiastical so caled al yee Peepel hy low rich poor bond free smal great mál femâl even the whol body of thee O Christendom with al the Dominions Territorys to thee belonging every particular Person comprehended in them who ar under the Command Government teachings of Man summoned to Answer she charg Stand up see what thou canst say forthy self as to this charg of by cryms great provocations bloudy abominations which on the behalf of God his crucifyed Son his grieved Spirit his murdered Saints his burdened cruelly oppresed Peepel is now prodused against thee For to the Bar great Tribunal of the Living Eternal Ryteos Just Pur Powerful Lord God omnipotent Who is a consuming fyr everlasting burnings to al the workers of iniquity art thou now brouht And strong is the Lord God who judgeth thee his most Ryteos wrath plagu's vengenas thou canst not escap out of his hand non is abel to deliver ther. If thou seekest to justify thy self plead not Guilty Thou canst not ansvver ôn of a thousand Thy abominable Exces Pryd Exces Pryd c. Drunkenens Gluttony Ambition testifyeth against thee to thy very sâs In thes thou art seen known a far of in the many varios vain fashions of attyr deked vvith costly vain Lyr needles ornaments vvith thy stout lofty looks countenanses speeches deportments carriages Cruelty Oppression If of cruelty oppresion thou vvouldst clear thy self even a numberles number of vvitneses bear testimony against thee tovvit the Groans general complaints crys of al sorts of Peepel Nations
his Counsels wouldst nôn of his reproof he now lafs at thy destruction moks at the fears which ar coming upon thee on every hand even as desolation thy destruction as a whirl-wind and althô thou cryest yet wil he not hear even to the Lord yet vvil he not answer thee becaust thou hast hated instruction rejected his warning and Counsels throuh his Servants Messengers Therfor shalt thou now eat the fruits of thy own doings be filed vvith the just revvard of thy own ways of vvickednes the tokens of thy south sayers vvil he frustrat mâk thy Divyners or Spiritual Men mad Thy Sun thy Moon thy Stars ar becom dark the Keepers of thy hous begin to trembel thy strong Men to bow themselvs dredful fears ar coming on thee on every hand becaus Man is now going to his long hôm the mourners begin to go about the streets he is coming forth out of the wildernes with his beloved leaning on him lyk Pillars of smoak who looketh forth as the morning and is terribel as an army with banners yea he is making hast as a Roe or yong hart upon the mountains of Bether and wil now most assuredly eas himself of his adversarys and aveng himself upon al his and his dear oppresed despysed and cruelly murdered Saints and Peepels enemys from the least to the greatest Thy youths shal faint and thy strong men shal utterly fal yea even becom as Tow and the maker of al as a spark in them and they shal burn together and non shal be abel to quench them The Lyt of Israel is becom a fyr the holy on A flâm in thee which shal not ceas burning til al the bryars and thorns in thee be utterly consumed burnt up the loftynes of Man is now bowing down the hauhtynes of man is the Lord now laying low the day of the Lords just wrath and vengeans is now com shal be upon al the proud that ar lifted up they shal be abased and laid low even in the dust and the Lord alôn in his sanctifyed ôns shal be exalted in throuh and over al in thee His and his dear despysed afflicted peepels enemys in mesur hav dayly mor and mor shal run into hôls and Cavs of the Erth for fear of the Lord and becaus of the greatnes of his glory pur Power presens in his Peepel who is how risen in them throuh them in mesur hath and dayly mor and mor shal shâk terribely the erth The Rod is sprung forth out of the stem of Iesse with the sword of his mouth is he smyting the erth and with the breth of his lips slaying the wicked the Lord hath raysed up ôn from the North who from the rysing of the sun hath cald upon his nâm and he is com coming upon thy Prinses as upon mortar and vvil tread them as the poter doth the clay in thee O Christendom And althô the Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers and Peepel do associat themselvs together yet they shal be kroken to pieces thô they tâk crafty counsel speak the word yet it shal not stand but be utterly frustrat com to nauht for the Lord God ommipent is in with his heritag who âr now becom a holy Tempel and dweling plâs for the Lord God of Jacob even apur tabernakel for the sun of ryteosnes vvho is novv risen in them rejoycing as a strong man to run his râs his glorios beams of pur and eternal lyt break forth over the tops of the mountains vvhich novv begin to smoak he is looking from the top of Amana and from the top of shynar Hermon even from the lyons dens and mountains of the leopards he hath caled his myty ôns for his anger even them that rejoys in his hynes The bauner of the Lord is now lifted up against spiritual Babylon in thee O Christendom the noys of a multitud is now breaking forth even a tumultuos noys of Kingdoms nations gathering together The Lord of hosts is mustering his hosts for the battel they com from the end of heven even the Lord and the weapons of his indignation to destroy the whol land to wit that Power and spirit in vvhich thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers VVariors Teachers and Peepel now stand and by which they ar now acted He that is Red in his apparel is now com forth shal dayly mor and mòr appear in dyed garments traveling in the greatnes of his myt who speaks in Ryteosnes myty to sav and to destroy the day of vengeans is in his heart and he wil tread the VVynpres of his fiers wrath in thee even tread down thy Peepel in his fury trampel upon them in his anger and stain al his rayment yea mâk them drunk in his fury bring down thy strength to the ground O Christendom His sword is in mesur drawn furbished for the slauhter he wil even bath his two edged sword in heven in thee thou that hast spoyled must now be spoyled the Lord with his great long sword in mesur hath dayly mòr mòr shal piers Levyathan that piersing crooked Serpent slay the dragon in thy sea he is novv declaring publishing among the nations the standard is up and spiritual Babylon in thee shal be confounded utterly destroyed and her Images ydols broken to pieces for out of the North ther cometh a nation against her vvho in mesur alredy hath and dayly mòr mòr shal mà k her land desolat he is causing to com up an assembly from the North cuntrry vvho in mesur alredy hath dayly mòr and mor shal set themselvs in battel array against her and from thens shal shee be utterly destroyed not by myt or power of the arm of flesh but by my spirit even the sword of my mouth saith the Lord God their arrows ar as of a myty expert man nòn shal return in vain a sound of battel is in thy land and of great destructions the hammer of the whol Erth in thee shal be cut and broken to pieces spiritual Babylon in thee shal be an utter desolation among the nations thy yong men shal fal by the sword in battel and thy myty men of war be cut of the most proud shal utterly fal non shal be abel to rays him up yea a fyr is in mesur Kindled in thy citys which shal devour round about the sword of the Lord is drawing upon thy inhabitants upon thy Potentats upon thy wys men thy lying Profets fals teachers they shal doat upon thy horses upon thy chariots they shal fal be broken to pieces upon al thy mingled peepel they shal becom as VVomen upon thy tresurs they shal be Robed even a drouth upon thy waters and they shal be dryed up for thy land is a Land of graven images they ar mad upon their Ydols A peepel ar and shal
dayly mor and mor appear coming up from the North agreat nation many Kings shal be raysed up from the East and coasts of the earth cruelly their voys shal roar as the sea and shal set themselvs in array against thee Round about and the hands of thy Potentats Kings Prinses Rulers Peepel shal wax feebel sorrovv shal dayly mor and mortak hold on them as Pangs upon a traveling woman This is the decree irrevocabel sentens of the Lord against spiritual Babylon in thee O Christendom The Lords faners ar com and coming upon thee who shal fan and emty thy land shal not spâr thy Yong nien but utterly destroy al thy host the slayn shal fal in thy land they that ar thrust throuh in thy streets his Arrows ar making bryt the Lord is raising up the Spirit of the Kings of the East for his decree is against spiritual babylon in thee utterly to destroy it now is the day of the Lords most ryteos vengeans even the vengeans of his Tempel O thou that dwelest upon many vvaters abundant in tresur thy end is com and shal dayly mor and mor appear I wil fil thee with men as vvith caterpilars and they shal lift up A shout against thee saith the Lord of hosts who hath mâd the erth by his Power and established the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heven by his understanding who is the Portion of Jacob former of al things the Lord of hosts is his nâm and his own pur seed Immortal is the tru Israel even his Battel Ax and weapons of war with which he in mesur alredy hath and Dayly mor and mor shal break in sunder the Nations and destroy Kingdoms and render to spiritual Babylon al the evil which they hav don in Syon even in your syt saith the Lord God I am against thee o destroying mountain wil stretch forth my hand upon thee and rowl thee down from the roks and mà k thee a burnt mountain the trumpet is blown and blowing amongst the nations and they ar preparing against thee the Kings of the east the Captains and Rulers of the land of his Dominion and thy land O Christendom shal greatly trembel for every purpos against spiritual Babylon in thee shal be performed to mà k her an utter desolation Thy myty men shal fal becom as women they shal burn thy dweling plases and break al thy bars ôn post shal run to meet another to shew to the King of spiritual Babylon that his city is taken ar ôn end therof which is wel ny alredy accomplished mark that for the Passages begin to be stoped the Reeds ar in mesur burnt the Men of War ar affryted and yet a very littel whyl and the tym of her harvest threshing shal com saith the Lord of hosts who alredy in mesur hath dayly mor and mor shal Plead the caus of his Peepel with thee dry up thy sea yea even mà k dry thy springs thy inhabitants shal roar lyk bears yel lyk lyons whelps and becom drunk and sleep a perpetual sleep and not awà k any mor saith the Lord who vvil execut judgment upon thy graven images and the slain shal fal in the midst of thee for spoylers ar com coming upon her from the north saith the Lord and as spiritual Babylon hath caused the slayn of Gods seed to fal so at Babylon shal fal the slayn of al the Erth Thy Broad wals shal be utterly broken and thy hy gats burnt thy wariors shal contend in vain labor in the fyr and I wil mà k drunk thy Potentats Prinses wys men Captains Rulers and myty men and they shal sleep a perpetual sleep and not awà k any mor saith the Lord God The ston is cut out of the mountain without hands and in mesur hath and dayly mor and mor shal smyt thee and break thee to Pieces even thy military Civil Ecclesiastical Power so caled which ar the feet and toes of that imag with Nebuchadnezar savv and the Yron the Clay the Bras the Silver and the Gold in thee shal be broken to pieces and becom as the chaf of the summer threshing floor and the fiers wynd of the Ryteos vvrath of God shal carry them avvay and their plas shal no mor be found and the ston is novv in mesur becom A mountain even the mountain of the hous of the Lord vvhich shal be exalted on the top of al mountains and shal dayly and gradually mor and mor grovv til it fil the vvhol Erth novv is the God of heven seting up a Kingdom that shal never be destroyed nether shal it be left uuto another peepel but it shal break in Pieces and consum al Kingdoms in thee Thrôns ar novv casting dovvn and the Antient of days is novv siting vvhos thrôn is lyk a fyery flâm and his vvheels as burning fyr a fyery stream Issueth forth befor him ten thousand tyms ten thousand Minister unto him the Judgment is set the books ar in mesur opened and dayly opening the beast is now slaying and his body giving to the burning flam The littel horn that subdued three Kingdoms whos look was mor stout then his fellows his Power is taken from him and the tym is now com and shal dayly mor mor appear that the Kingdom Dominion and greatnes of the Kingdom under the whol hevens shal dayly mor and mor be given unto the Peepel of the Saints of the most hy whos Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and al Dominions shal serv obey him Troubelsom tydings Out of the * From the Fast outward armys with outward Weapons of cruelty from the North the spiritual Battel Ax from wheas Babylon shal be utterly destroyd not by myt but by the sword of the spirit or word of his mouto North East ar now seizing on thee the Lord wil gather thy nations together and bring them down to the vally and vvil plead with them ther for his Peepel and for his heritag whom they hav scattered and cruelly delt with spoyled and murdered in thee o Christendom he is preparing war and wakening up the myty drawing them near to com up beat their plow shars into swords and their pruning hooks into spears and they shal awak com up to the vally for ther wil the Lord sit to Judg al the Hethen in thee round about The harvest is even ryp the siâ—kel is puting in the pres is filing and the fats shal over flow for wickednes is Exceeding great in thee multituds multituds is the Lord gathering into the vally of decision The great and notabel day of the Lord is now appearing he is now roaring out of Syon and uttering forth his voys his terribel voys from his Holy habitation and the erth in thee shal terribely shà k trembel for the Lord is becom the hôp of his Peepel who hav a strong city to which God hath appoynted salvation for wals
Patient constant faithful lamb lyk sufferings vvhich ar the spirit water bloud of the lamb vvith vvhich they over com and stand in Pur Dominion over al their enemys both in them and vvithout them the great Erth quak ther to wit in England Scotland Yrland is wel ny over the tenth Part of the city neer hand fallen the seven thousand men of Nà m Rul authority in the Dragons Beasts fals profets spirit Power neer hand slayn in the Erth quak and that which Remains to be don and fulfiled on the Dragon's Beast's fals Proset's Power spirit and on the great sea out of which the Beast aros the many waters on which the skarlet whor sits is now in hand and shal dayly mor and mor be carryed on til it be finished fully don and accomplished The Battel of the great day of God almyty is in mesur com shal dayly mor and mor appear he is even com and coming as a thief in the Nyht blesed is he that watcheth he is gathering them together for the Battel the Kingdom of the great skarlet coulored beast in thee o Christendom whos present chief hed art thou O Leopold is now weihed numbered found to lyt 666. is determined by the Lord God for the finishing puting an end therunto The lamb is now standing on mount Syon the hundred forty four thousand ar in mesur gathered dayly gathering into him having his Fathers Nam in their for heds The new hevens ar in mesur opened the whyt hors him that siteth ther on in mesur appeareth in his sanctifyed ôn vvho is caled the word of God and in ryteosnes doth he judg and mak war is cloathed in a gartment diped diping in bloud whos nam is caled faithful tru the armys which ar in heven ar following of him out of his mouth goeth as harp sword with vvhich he in mesur alredy hath dayly mor mor shal smyt the nations rul them with a Rod of Iron having on his vestur on his thyh a nam written King of Kings Lord of Lords the fouls which fly in the midst of heven at caled caling to the super of the great God they in mesur alredy hav dayly mor and mor shal eat the flesh of Kings the flesh of Captains the flesh of myty Men the flesh of Horses them that sit on them of al men both free bond smal great And the Beast fals Profet already in mesur hath been dayly mor mor shal be taken a lyv cast into the Lâk of fyr burning with brimston al the fouls filed with their flesh in thee o Christendom Great Babylon is novv com into Remembrans befor God the gre at City is novv divyded into three parts viz Catholiks Lutherans Calvinists in the Roman Imperial Dominions vvith this Heds Hornt But in England Scotland Yrland under the nâms of Papists Episcopacy Presbytery And as for her suburbs thôs other Nâms Sects to the hyest of them under the Comand Government teachings of Man thô they be got A step in form profession beyond the other yet being gon from the mesur of the Spirit of grâs in them which drew them forth in mesur to seperat in form lyf practis from the other they ar novv becom ôn in natur ground practis with the great whor of Rôm And being found Partakers with her in her sins thy must also unavoydably receiv of her Plagu's which great City is in mesur falen faling as shee hath don must novv be dôn unto her yea doubel according to her vvorks In the cup vvhich shee hath filed must novv be filed to her doubel And according to that heiht in vvhich she hath glorifyed her self living delitiosly so much torment and sorrovv must novv be given unto her The ten Horns on the Beast's Hed in mesur do and dayly mor and mor shal hât the vvhor mak her desolat and naked eat her flesh and burn her vvith fyr The was betvvixt Michael his Angels the Dragon his Angels is begun and shal dayly mor and mor appear and be carryed on til it be fully finished The Lamb the Saints in mesur hav and dayly mor and mor shal hav pur Victory and Dominion over al his their enemys from the greatest to the least he that hath led into Captivity must now go into Captivity And that Spirit in Man which hath kiled with the sword must now be kiled by the sword even the sword of the mouth And the Hevens even the Spirit of the Holy Profets Aposlels in his Peepel of this present Agâ—â— generation shal rejoys over her thus with vyolens shal that great City Spiritual Babylon Sodom Egypt be thrown down as agreat Milston into the Sea be found no mor at al for ever for in her is found the Bloud not only of the Profets Saints but of al that hav bin slain upon the Erth This Generation shal not pas away until it be fulfiled thes ar the tru sayings of God he that hath an ear to hear let him hear But for the sak of the burdened oppressed slain Seed of God in thee O Leopold thee O Póp of Rôm al the Kings Prinses Rulers Governors with al in Authority under you of what degree rank or order soever Whether Civil Military or Spiritual and Ecclesiastical so caled with al Peepel by and low rich and poor bond and free smal and great mâl and femâl of what Nation Kindred Tougu or Peepel soever under the Command government and teachings of Man in the bowels of dear tender lov for the sâk of the slain Seed of God in thee O Christendom to the end that he who is in mesur already risen may dayly mor and mor arys to Judgment in thee to sav â al the meek of the Erth that the Sea Deth hel in thee may mor and mor deliver up the Ded incorrupâ—ibel in them and be judged every ôn according to their works and that the oppresed groaning creation in thee may mor mor be delivered from the bondag of corruption into the glorios liberty of the Sons of God which is the first Resurrection in which the Jews shal be visited in which al ar blesed who hav their parts for on such the second Deth shal hav no Power but the shal be Priests of God of Christ and Rein with him a thousand Yeers which with the Lord is but as ôn day in the end of which the seven thunders shal utter their voys the effects wherof ar of a larger Extent then Christendom containing in them the seâ—ching out to the bottom the hiden things of Esau and the laying of his mountain also utterly wast and desolat the compleat deliverans of the whol creation from the bondag of corruption the
forth overtak you yee perish in the sam for al who ar found ering from and walking contrary to the mesur of the Spirit of the grâs of God in them wil be found partaking with Babylon in her sins must receiv of her plagu's Your strength is to stand stil your work is to do nothing your wisdom is to becom fools patiently to wait to feel him to arys in you and bring salvation and work al your works in you for you for ever mor which al who com truly to experiens do enter into his rest which is pùr and eternal com to ceas from their own works as God did from his On thing mor I may not omit that so the Lord and his servant may be clear of the bloud of al man-kynd which was forseen and declared by the Lord of lyf Prins of pur peas in the days of his flesh to wit that ther should com many in his nam say that they ar Christ and deceiv many shewing great syns and wonders in so much that if it wer possibel they should deceiv the very elect The day is now com coming in which it shal be fulfiled The ground of the coming appearans of such hath bin for som tym laid working in thousands who go under the nâm of fift-Monarchy Peepel with many other who from an imagnation of their own brayns gathered from the letter of the scripturs expect and look for the appearans and coming of Christ in that sam body of flesh in which he appeared lived and suffered deth upon a cros without the gats of Jerusalem out of the material clouds visibel hevens and gather peopel unto him as an outward glorios king or great monarch by carnal weapons with an arm of flesh to overturn kil destroy out wardly the persons of such as oppos him and them and rein a thousand years Wherfor when any such do appear go not after them nether be yee deceived by them for destruction and misery ar in their path and the way of tru pur and everlasting peas they know not both them al others may know that the appearans and coming of Christ seting up of his Kingdom which is pureternal and everlasting is in the lyt or as lytning which cometh out of the east shyneth into the west as himself testifyed and that his Kingdom is within coms not by observation But as for the treading of the Wyn pres of the fiers wrath of God al myty it is to be troden without the holy city and the appearans The seting up of Christs Kingdom in the generaelis effected in the sam manner as in evch particular soul coming seting up of the Kingdom of Christ is the sam in the general as in every particular to wit not by outward myt and carnal fo rs Power destroying mens lyvs but by the sword of his mouth which is quik and Powerful in the Inward parts to discovet consum root out the ground of al unryteosnes in men and throuh their holy conversations faithful testimony to their innocent lamblyk sufferings for that mesur or Power of truth into which themselvs ar brouht they doâ—overcom bring down and in pur lyf and dominion trampel upon the contrary Spirit in them selvs in others both in the particular and in the general And concerning England Scotland and Yrland with the dominions and territorys therunto belonging this I further say that the seventh seal trumpet vyal is in mesur opened sounded and poured forth intot he ayr which shal quyt stop the breth of the dragon's beasts fals Profet's Power Spirit in them as to them tym shal be no mor as such Now is the expeling of al typs figurs clouds shadows Carnal ordinanses dispensations declarations administrations which hav bin over yet poynting at the most tru eternal and excelent lyt lyf glory and substans the opening of al dark sayings speeches and parabels upon the sweet Melodios harp of David and the tangue which is as the Pen of a Redy wryter the finishing of the mystery of God Wherfor rejoys O thou afflicted drunken but not with wyn for great is the holy òn in the midst of thee the enemys Rok is not lyk unto thy Rok even themselvs being judges ther is no God lyk unto thy God who rydeth upon the hevens for thy help in his excelency on the skys the eternal God is thy refug underneath ar the everlasting arms he shal thrust out the enemy from befor thee and shal say destroy them and thou the tru Israel of God the Nobel Plant the Royal seed the holy nation shalt dwel safly as in unwaled villages upon a land of corn and Wyn thy heavens do dayly mor and mor shal drop down the sweet living eternally refreshing dew happy art thou O seed of the God of Iacob ther is non among al the familys of the Erth lyk unto thee O Peepel saved by the Lord who is the shield of thy help the sword of thy excelency thy enemys ar dayly mor mor shal be found lyars unto thee and thou in mesur dost dayly mor and mor shalt tread upon their hy plases For thus saith the Lord even the Lord thy God which pleadeth the caus of his Peepel behold I wil now tak out of thy hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no mor drink it again but I wil now put it into the hands of them that afflict thee who hav faid unto thy soul bow down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over The day is com which shal shak open al thy prison doors for the first born of the Egyptians is neer hand slayn the great sea divyding and upon the sea of glas mingled with fyr must thou yet stand but al who witnes tru victory over al in their own particular shal stand theron in pur Power lyf Dominion with the harps of God in their hands singing the sweet Melodios glorios triumphant victorios song of Moses the servant of the Lord the song of the lamb for the Lord now taketh plesur in his Peepel wil mor mor beautify the meek with his salvations his saints shal be joyful in glory singing aloud upon their beds having the hy Prayses of God in their mouths a two edged sword in their hands with which they in mesur alredy havâ— dayly mor mor shal eâ—ecut vengeans upon the heathen Punishments upon the Peepel bynding Kings in chayns nobels in fetters of Yron execut upon them the judgments writen this honor hav al the saints Prays Prays Prays yee the Lord God of lyf lov Pur Power Dominion and faithfulnes in throuh and overal for ever mor. Amen I am your Brother companion in tribulation and in the Kingdom Patiens of Iesus JOHN READER Thes Errors being escaped in the Pres thou art desyred for thy own advantag in Reading first to amend them with thy pen becaus som of them do alter the Sens several other literal faults ther ar of which ther is no need to mak mention IN the Tytel Pag. l. 10. ad ryteâ—os p. 2 l. 20. for distinguish read distinguishing in the margent p. 7. for exalted read executed pa. 8. l. 25. for Word read Lord for Lord read Word pag. 9. l. 32. for yee read the l. 36. for the r. he pa. 11. l. 8. for from r. form pa. 14. l. 38. for Profer r. Profet p. 29. in the margent for overspewed r. overspred p. 30. l. 6. for desyros r. desyrs p. 31. in the margent for would r. world l. 26. for resir r. Relic pa. 36. l. 27. for other r. our pa. 37. l. 31. for the. r. them pa. 40. l. 40. blot out is l. 42. p. 12. for the hav hard r. yee hav heard p. 45. l. 8. ad is l. 12. blot out in pag. 47. l. 5. for her read hear l. 35. for filthy drous r. filthy dròns p. 48. l. 34. for stowish read foolish l. 36. for a rop of your mal houses r. atop of your mas-houses p. 57. l. for uring r. urging p. 73. l. 16. for Reed r. red Thes being amended tak notis that in sted of ce at the end of words in al words deryved from them I hav in speling us'd S. as for peace peas for grace grâs for place plâs for placed placing c. plâsed plasing c. becaus that e at the end of word doth so much stumbel strangers mislead them to sound two sylabels wher ther is but òn FINIS