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A testimony for all the masters of ships and seamen to read over Reprinted the second time, with an addition. By George Fox.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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God And out of her Sea hath risen the great storms of persecution and the Beast which rose out of the Sea with his storms of persecution And it is the power of Darkness which keeps the people in spiritual Aegypt Sodom and Babylon in this Sea But in Christ's peaceable Kingdom and on his Holy Mountain the Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb and the Leepard shall lie down with the Kid and the Calf and the Young Lyon and the Fatling together and a little Child shall lead them And the Cow and the Bear shall feed their Young Ones shall lie down together and the Lyon shall eat Straw like an Ox. And the Suckling-Child shall play on the Hole of the Asp and the weaned Child shall put his Hand on the Cockatrice Den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my Holy Mountain for the Earth shall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea And in that Day there shall be a Root of Jesse which shall stand up for an Ensign of the People to it shall the Gentiles seek and his Rest shall he Glorious And this is Christ who sets up his Ensigne for the Nations and shall assemble the Out-casts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four Corners of the Earth So he gathers them with his power Spirit and Light and his Ensigne is not set up for the Jews or a Nation only but for all Nations in general Who enlightens every Man that comes into the World that with his Light they may see him and his Ensigne Christ the Heavenly and Spiritual Man So the Gathering of all Nations is unto him by his Heavenly Light which he enlightens them withal And the Lord shall utterly destroy the Tongue of the Aegyptian Sea and with his mighty Wind shall he shake his Hand over the River and shall smite it in the seven Streams in the Perfection of it and men shall go over dry-shod Isa 11. And the Lord will destroy in this Mountain the Face of the Covering that is cast over all people and the Vail that is spread over all Nations mark all Nations not a Nation That all people may see the Salvation of God which the Light which comes from Christ their Saviour and if they do not believe in it it will be their Condemnation And this Covering must be taken off all people before the Knowledge of the Lord covers the Earth as the Waters cover the Sea For the Beast had his power from the Dragon and the Whore is erred from Christ the Truth And Aegypt in the Spirit and the spiritual Aegyptians will say Who is God or his Son the Light that they should obey him like the old Aegyptian and Christ was crucified in spiritual Sodom and Aegypt So here the Jews Scribes Pharisees and High-Priests who crucified Christ without the Gates at Jerusalem are called spiritual Aegypt and Sodom who are the greatest professors in the World But Christ is the Ensigne set up to the Nations who stilleth Mystery Babylon's sea and after Babylon is fallen and the Seas dryed up then the New Heaven and the New Earth is seen for the First Heaven and First Earth were passed away and then there was no more Sea So when the first Heavens and the first Earth are passed away then the New Earth and the New Heavens are seen and here is seen the Holy City New Jerusalem prepared as a Bride for her Husband Christ And here is the first and last seen their Husband Christ and the Marriage of the Lamb is come And the force of the Gentiles shall come to his Light and abundancâ— of the Sea shall be converted unto Christ Isa 60. So here is Abundance of the world which is called the Sea that shall be converted to Christ Jesus for the Gentiles are the Nations and the Gentiles shall come to Christ's Light from the Sea the world For Nations and Tongues are called Waters And The Sea saith Wisdom is not in me Job 28. Now the Wisdom that is pure is from above the Sea and them that fear God receive it And he shall pass through the Sea with Afflictions and shall smite the Waves of the Sea and all the Deeps of the Rivers shall be dried up And the Priae of Assyria shall be brought down and the Scepter of Egypt shall depart away And Christ's Scepter shall be set up his Scepter is a Scepter of Righteousness Zach. 10.11 Thuâ— saith the Lord which maketh a Way in the Sea and the Path in â—hâ— mighty Waters that this People may pass Glory to his Name for ever 〈◊〉 43. Aâ—d the Lord saith When I came was there no Man When I called was there none to answer Is my Hand shortened at all that I cannot redeâ—m or have I no Power to deliver Behold at may Rebuke I dry up the Sea And here the great Power of God and Christ is seen Isa 50. The wicked are compared to a troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose Waters cast up Mire and Dirt their Waters are foul There is no peace to the wicked saith my God for they are always roaring and wallowing and making a Noise Isa 1.57 And the Cruel People that have no Mercy their Voice roars like a Sea as in Jer 6.23 This Sea this Merciless cruel People which is like a roaring Sea was to come over the Jews for disobeying the Lord and therefore for all People to believe in the Light that Christ hath enlâ—ghtened you withal and walk in the Light that you may see Christ the Rock and build upon him who is sure against all weather Storms And Christ will bruise the Head of the Serpent for the Lord with his sore and great and strong Sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing Serpent even Leviathan that crooked Serpent which makes the World both men and women crooked And he shall slay the Dragon that is in the sea mark in the Sea for his Habitation is in the wicked like a roaring Sea and they plead for him and his sin till they go to the Grave and not for Christ that bruiseth his Head and the Lord that destroys him with his great sword But they that plead for Christ Can sing unto the Lord of his Vineyard for the Lord doth keep it and will water it every Moment lest any hurt it I will keep it Night and Day saith the Lord Glory to his Name for ever who is the Keeper of his People and this we witness who are his Vineyard as in Isaiah 27. POSTSCRIPT DAvid saith in the Lords hands are the deep places of the Earth the Strength of the Hills and the height of the Hills his his also and the Sea is the Lords and he made it and his hands formed the dry Land O come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker for he is our God and we are the people of his Pasture and the sheep of his hand hear his Voice