if people come not to him nor believe on him nor receive him nor are in him how can they through him be saved for that which comes through must come to and be in or it can never come through there is no Salvation but through Christ Jesus and as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive but it is in Christ and that which believes not on him is not in him and that which is not in him cannot be made alive by him and he gave himself a ransom for all but if all will not come to him who ransometh he doth not become a ransom for all And so I have finished what I have also to say unto you in the Name of the Lord whose word it is of whom I am moved to write unto you also that you may see who are here how the case stands with you for I bear you Record there is a zeal in many of you as to God but you are mistaken as to the main thing on which Salvation dependeth and by which you must come if ever it be so to be saved For If ye believe not that I am he ye shall die in your sins said he to the Pharises John 8. 24. and if ye belive not in that which witnesseth unto God in you which reproves you which checks you for evil which judgeth it If ye believe not that this is he the measure of him in you he who is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God you will die in your sins all your Notions will not save you how strong so ever in your Imaginations they will come short of the Power which is the Power of God to Salvation and this you will find in the day of the Lord wherein this shall be witnessed and you shall witness unto me in that day as many as so abide that my testimony is true For the Lord hath spoken to me and his Word is in my mouth and he hath said unto me what I shall say and I have spoken what he hath said If you believe not that that is he which witnesses to God which reproves which judges which makes manifest evil in you you shall die in your sins It is the Word of the Lord. Therefore dream not of any other Jesus to save from wrath to come to deliver you then he in you who also is without you that shews you when you do amiss that reproves you that judges you for evil for this is the Judge of all the Man Christ Jesus And so I am clear of you also in the presence of the Lord who hath moved me to write thus to you and to take the stumbling blocks out of your way also that you may see and be saved for the day is near wherein you also will be concluded with the God whom you serve for the Lord is no respecter of Persons but in every Nation and among every people he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him and the proud he beholdeth a far off and 't is not saying Lord Lord Open to us have we not prayed have we not prophesied and in thy Name cast out Devils have we not eat and drank in thy presence and hast thou not taught in our streets will suffice when he shall say Depart from me I know ye not ye workers of Iniquity So deceive not your selves God is not mocked as men sow so shall they reap if you sow unto the flesh of the flesh ye shall reap corruption and if you sow unto the Spirit of the Spirit you will reap Life and take heed how you be mistaken in a thing of this nature which hath that weight least ye perish for ever The Lord is not willing you should die but rather that you turn unto that in you which is of him which is near you in your mouth and your heart and obey it and believe in it that ye may know his vertue who redeems and that so ye may be redeemed least whilst ye hold forth a Notion to all of the Redemption of all you come short of it in your own Particulars and so be cast out with the fearful and the unbelieving and the abominable and Murderers and Whore-mongers and Sorcerers and Idolaters and all Lyers into the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimstone which is the second death The Bowels of the Lord are to you because the fear of him hath been before many of you and there is that in you that truly desires after him though you yet know him not therefore hath he moved me to write that you may know him after whom you desire that Salvation may be the Portion of your Cup and your Lot for ever If you hear it will be well for you if you will not the stone that is refused of the Builders is made the Head of the Corner and a Rock of Offence it will be and a Stone of stumbling till you be broken to pieces and your dayes be cut off from the earth and in darkness which is everlasting you languish for ever For the Lord will not alwayes wait on man nor his Spirit strive A day of conclusion there will be as there hath been a day of beginning and the hour of your visitation being over in what case are you when no offering can be accepted for you who have refused him who speaks from Heaven and rejected the Son of God made manifest in your mortal flesh to redeem you to God and so farewel I have done with you also in the movings of the Lord and to those who remain I must yet proceed to speak because time is short and this lay upon me to write to you all that all may be warned and that the stumbling blocks may be taken out of the way of all and that all may be left without excuse because the Day is nere wherein all must witness what I have said either to their everlasting wo or to Life eternal and however you may think of these things yet so it will be and the time is near Our God shall come and shall not keep silence A fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him he shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth that he may judge his People and the Heavens shall declare his righteousness for God is Judge himself Selah Psal 50. 3 4 6. So let all be warned that all may be left without excuse for there is a day as I have said and it still presseth upon me to speak the same thing from the Spirit of the Lord and to repeat it often that so you may hear ere it be too late I say there is a day very near wherein you will witness this to be true to whom this shall come and because the day is very near therefore hath the Lord laid it upon me to speak â—t often that you may hear ere it be too late for hours of visitation have been
hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the World in Righteousness by that man whom he hath Ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Acts 17. 31. And who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom 2 Tim. 4. 1. And who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead who only hath Immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen or can see to whom be Honour and Power everlasting Amen 2 Pet. 3. 5. 1 Tim. 6. 17. Who is The Judge of all Heb. 12. 23. The Mediator of the New Covenant v. 24. of a better Covenant Heb. 6. which was established on better promises for if that first Covenant had been faultless then should no place have been sought for the second but finding fault with the first he saith Behold the day is come saith the Lord when I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah not according to the Covenant that I made with their father in the day that I took them by the Hand to lead them out of the land of Aegypt c. But this is the Covenant c. that I will put my Laws into their minds and write them in their hearts c. He that speaketh from Heaven v. 29. The Lord from Heaven 1 Cor. 15. 26. The blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of Abel whose voice then shook the earth but now he hath promised saying yet once more I shake not the earth only but also Heaven and this Word yet once more signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things that cannot be shaken may remain wherefore we receiving a Kingdom that cannot be moved let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and Godly fear For our God is a consuming fire vers 26 27 28 29. So then the Way that leads to Life being strait narrow and few there being that find it or walk therein and his Flock being a little flock to whom it is the Fathers pleasure to give the Kingdom And those of Israel that shall return being but a Remnant and seeing that without are the Doggs and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie and these shall go into everlasting punishment but the Righteous into Life eternal it follows that all are not redeemed for though his life be given a ransom for all that whosoever cometh unto him may have Life and ye will not come unto me that ye may have Life yet all are not redeemed all are not Ransomed all enter not into Life all are not saved and the Reason is plain because all come not to him who is the Ordinance of God to Salvatiâ—n which is Christ in them the Hope of glory the Mistery hid from ages and generations but now made manifest to his Saints the Wisdom of God and the Power of God that which witnesses that which reproves that which makes manifest in them and so they are not saved they are not redeemed they are not ransomed they are not delivered for how can it be that they should be delivered ransomed redeemed saved who come not to him though he be in them a measure of him in every one that which reproves that whick makes manifest that which shews a man all that ever he hath done that searcheth the heart that trieth the reins is not this the Christ nor believe in him and so lay not hold of him to deliver them from death to ransom them from the Power of the grave to redeem them from destruction to save them from wrath to come Nor obey him who shews them wrath and destruction and the grave and death For he became the Author of Eternal Salvation to all them that obeyed him Heb. 5. 9. And as many as received him to them gave he Power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe in his Name John 1. 12. And Fight the good fight of Faith lay hold on Eeernal Life 1 Tim. 6. 12. And ye will not come to me that ye might have Life said he to the Pharisees as aforesaid John 5. 40. Now if people believe not on him that of him in them that witness to God if they obey him not if they do not receive him who stands at the door and knocks that which witnesses that which moves to God the Voice of Wisdom which cryeth without which uttereth her voice in the streets which cryeth in the chief places of concourse in the opening of the gates which uttereth her words in the City saying How long ye simple Ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge Turn ye at my reproof behold I will pour out my Spirit upon you I will make known my words unto you because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh when your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction as cometh a whirl wind when distress and anguish cometh upon you then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me for that they hated knowledge and did not chose the fear of the Lord they would none of my counsel they despised all my reproof therefore shall they eat of the Fruit of their way and be filled with their own devices for the turning away of the simple shall slay them and the properity of Fools shall destroy them but who so hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from the fear of evil Prov. 1. 20. to the end If they lay not hold on him if they come not to him how can they know his power how can he be to them the Author of eternal Salvation and this is manifest Now if any man say in the words of the Apostle as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15. 22. And who gave himself a ranson for all to be testified in due season 1 Tim. 2. 6. And God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life for God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved John 3. 16 17. I Answer that was not the end of the Lord in sending of his Son into the world to condemn the world as I have shewed at large before but that the world through him might be saved as are the words of Christ as aforesaid but it is through him so that
chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my Name he may give it you If ye were of the world the world would love its own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen ye out of the World therefore the World hateth you v. 11 12. 13 14 15 16 19. So here 's the Election as I have said Christ the Seed which God hath blessed but the seed of evil doers shall never be renowned and as every man is found in him as he is accepted of the Lord in that which witnesses to God which shews which makes manifest which judges which reproves in man Every man as he is found in him in this is accepted of the Lord This is my well beloved Son in whom I am well pleased saith the Lord Who hath accepted us in the beloved saith the Apostle This is he by whom we have accesse unto the Throne of Grace Who is the Propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole world The Mediator if any man would know who he is and what that is that witnesses that searches the heart that tries the Reines the Candle of the Lord that searches all the inwards parts of the belly that reproves that makes manifest that shews a man what he should do between God and man that comes between to stop his wrath that it break not forth as a floud then who can quench it and wooes man to turn unto the Lord whilst his wrath is not broke forth and the fire of his wrath is not kindled which will burn to the lowest Hell It s ever and anone between the Enemy and man shewing man his enemy and what man should do near with his power to help man and deliver him It s always between the Fathers wrath and man for the movings of this is the Visitation of the Lord and his long-suffering for he waits whilst this is whilst this strives with man whilst this tries if I may so say and I speak after the manner of men what it can do So this stops all whilst its time of working is whilst its a Trying a seeing whether man will be reconciled to God This will not let God alone let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under Heaven as the Lord said to Moses Deut. 9. 14. Whilst its day of working is to spare his people but steps between and shews and makes manifest and tries and judges and speaks to the Lord and saith Lord let it alone this year also till I shall dig about it and dung it and if it bear fruit well and if not then after thou shalt cut it down when the Lord saith behold these three years I come seeking fruit on this Fig tree and find none cut it down why cumbreth it the ground As the Parable of the Man and his Vinyard and his Vinedresser hath it which was spoken by the Lord by him who is it That which digs about and dungs that waites that speaks that calls that 's ready to remove iniquity to open the heart to God-wards to visit the Plant of the Lord that lies in death that it may spring and bring forth fruit that man may not be cut down in whom it is and made to cease to cumber the ground That is ready with every good Motion with every good Thought with every good Opportunity to incline man to the Lord to bring him to rest to bring him to God that watches all approaches of evil that shews the appearance of it encounters with it is ready to assist man against it and to overcome it which hath turned man from God and the Lord from man if man would let God arise that his enemies might be scattered and thus follows after man from year to year and interceeds and mediates and comes between whilest as I have said the day of long-suffering is of mans visitation which is the day of mans visitation Therefore to day whilst it is called to day harden not your hearts as in the Provocation in the day of Temptation in the Wilderness as the Apostle expresseth it Heb. 3. 7 8. Me thinks every man should hear what I have I said in himself and turning his eye within should see this and inclining his ear should hear all this and all the wooing and entreatings and the seekings of him to turn man unto the Lord and waitings and bearings and sufferings for that purpose every man that doth but this must needs hear it and see it and be sensible of it and this as he lets it work will affect his heart and break him to pieces that ever he hath resisted it that he hath been an enemy to his own peace Me thinks I hear such bemoaning themselves I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoak turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confunded because I did bear the reproach of my youth and see what follows hereupon and how the bowels of the Lord turn to that which thus turns to him and see how ready the Lord is to receive such and his tenderness unto such and bow as it were if I may so speak after the manner of men I have too the Scripture for it which will bear me out in what I say the Lord is in an Agony for such and in a distress of love Is Ephraim my dear Son what can be more breaking and near Is he a pleasant Child for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord Jer. 31. 20. See the Heart of the Father to the Prodigal that returns whom he goes forth to meet and runs and even while he is yet a great way off sees and hath compassion on him and falls upon his neck kisseth him and puteth on him the best robe the covering of his Son and a Ring on his Hand the band of Love and Shoes on his Feet the preparation of the Gospel of Peace for this is the way to it coming to that which witnesseth in him that gives him to see his state and where he is that brings to himself and when he came to himself see what it is that brings a man to himself that which shews him his state that gives him a sence of his condition that is it and how a man is from himself in an extasie as it were out of his wits in a sown from the sence of his understanding as a man from that which should guide him as one in another world as they use