thy City and thy glory oh world is falling is falling is falling Rev. 14. 8. And now thy great strength is gone and therefore nothing but trouble cometh in the roome by reason of the Lords appearing And it will not be long ere the earth shine or be enlightned with the Lords glory and the shining and enlightning is for to let thee know that thy kingdome and glory is going being but a Babylonian glory Rev. 18. 1. 2. And I saw an Angel come down from Heaven having great power and the earth was enlightned with his glory and he cryed with a strong voyce saying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and become the habitation of Devils Thou oh world hast the mysterie of iniquity dwelling in thee and by thy mysterious iniquities hast carried the Lords Israel captive at thy will for many thousand years and now the years of thy power is up and the day of thy ruling is at an end because all thy actions have been unrighteous actions and all thy wayes and paths which thou hast walked in have been sinfull wayes and paths and therefore now after thy iniquity woe be unto thee Ezek. 16. 23. Woe be unto thee indeed saith the Lord for thy sins have reached up to heaven and have raised the Lord of hosts out of his place Isa 33. 10. Now will I arise saith the Lord now will I be exalted now will I lift up my self behold now he is come down and is with thee to be exalted over thee and to recompense upon thee according to thy works Rev. 18. 5. For her sins have reached up to Heaven and God hath remembred her iniquity your wayes oh ye sons of men and all ye rulers of the Earth have been and are still Canaanitish wayes and ye have all run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward but in the end will perish in the gainsaying of Core Jude 11. ver Thy end is now begun I the end of your evill wayes oh Saints and worldlings is come up before the Lord and what do you think to doe for Job whom the Lord honored with the name of my servant and faithfull one and just in all his wayes yet though so when the Lord who is a God of so pure eyes that cannot behold iniquity did but once rise up Job feared with a saying What then shall I do Job 31. 14. When God ariseth up and when he visiteth what shall I answer him If the Sion of God do as it were fear what wilt thou do oh world then the Lord arises up to the prey and to gather thee for eternall ruine and to judge thee with an eternall Judgment attended with a just sentence and a just reward like thy works Oh all ye workers of iniquity and by the light of God ye shall see it and then your wailing will begin What ailest thou oh world for to waile why do ye not know oh ye blessed of the Lord the light of him who is your King and therefore raigneth over you and in you even he whom I scorned and rejected with a saying This man shall not rule over me hath wounded me to the heart by this light and this light by which he hath enlightned me carrieth me forward and backward backward and forward just as he did David after he had committed adultery with Beersheba and slew Vriah with the Sword he carrieth me backward to behold all my evill deeds which I have done and the many wounds that I have given him and you And also carrieth me forward to behold what once was offered me what mercies and what blessings what glory and what life what peace and what rest with an eternall salvation with your eternall King but now rejected of him by my own rebellious and scornfull denying of him and you and I behold all this by the light of God and this light of God causes me to waile with an everlasting wailing and therefore what condition can be like unto mine why no condition can be like unto thine for thou art doubly miserable and therefore shalt be doubly plagued by that light that shall come down from the Lord to shine upon thee Secondly from the Lords coming for to give rewards to his Saints what a plague will it be to thee oh world for to behold Gods Israel whom thou thoughtst not worthy to live nor yet the remembrance of them in the earth for to be that they so little esteemed of the earth among men should come to be cloathed with such glory and righteous robes and to be invested with all the glory of heaven called the glory of the father didst thou never hear of Mordecai and the royall cloathing he wore and the horse that he rid upon and the Crown Royall which was set upon his head and the Proclamation which was made before him by one of the most royallest Princes of that Court and of the ring that was put upon his finger this is a mysterious type these are the Lords Mordicai's that I now tell thee of and they shall all of them ride upon the wings of the Lords free grace ere long although thou now disesteemest of them and they shall have given them all manner of change of raiment called the white robes though for the present their cloathing is but ragged and filthy and an old cloathing thou art angry with them now and enviest them with thy very heart although they do but bear a dark Image of God and their light is but an imperfect light that they have yet O world And though their gifts knowledg and understanding be imperfect and their cloaths ragged yet thou hatest that in them they have Well thou shalt not hate this imperfect image long for the Lord is coming for to take them away and methinks I hear a voyce crying in my ears Take away take away take away these filthy rags Zach. 3. 3 4. And he spake to them that stood by him Take away those filthy Garments which they stand before the Angel withal they shall be suddenly taken away for that is the reason why Michael the Prince stands up that Arch-Angel and that is the reason why the breaker up is come up it is I say For to take away all our putrified and corrupt cloathing and upon the remove there will be trouble in thee O Israel And now they are risen it will not be long ere it is finished Dan. 9. 24. It is but as it were a seventy weeks before it shall be done seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy City to finish transgressions and to make an end of sin and to bring in everlasting righteousness This is a Mystery you have this Mystery opened in part in Heb. 9 28. unto them that look for him he shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation It will not be long ere this Scripture be fulfilled upon thee O Israel for thou art the City spoken of in Daniel The world is old and
in the world great commotions there are troubles and fears shakings and tremblings hearts-failings and faith-dying the whole land is barren of faith the way of truth is hid Wit that hath hid it selfe and understanding hath withdrawn it self into its secret chamber indeed it is sought of many but not found for unrighteousness and unconstancy prospereth upon earth Friends the world is grown very weak by reason of age and therefore needs must the evils be very great that are upon it I and so they are for my heart can say Amen to this evill world These are the evill dayes the perilous dayes the sin-multiplying dayes dayes in which the word do violence to no man is forgotten and for love in the spirit it cannot be found in neither kingdome nor heart Judgment and Justice with all the other righteous streames is departed and run sarre away from Kings Princes Rulers Judges Magistrates Priests people and from thee oh Israel too and therefore the Lord is come down to destroy all Jer. 7. 28. Oh England thou art the nation of all nations that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord Isa 59 3 4. and so along to the 15. ver Your hands oh people throughout the Land are defiled with blood your fingers with iniquity your lips speak nothing but lies not a man in thee oh England acts in a just way not any plead for truth The way of peace ye know not there is no Judgment in your goings ye grope like blinde men and are in desolate places as dead men sin and iniquity is grown almost to the height in thee oh Land and therefore now behold the Lord Isa 59. 16 17. I saw and there was no man and therefore behold I the Lord will put on righteousness as a breast plate with salvation and vengeance for to repay every man Ye have lost all oh ye Kings and Rulers people and Ministers of all Lands for Gospel-light and truth is taken away by the Lord from you as well as judgment justice and righteousness from Kings and Rulers Isaiah 29. 10 11. The vision of all is become unto you as a book sealed Hear oh ye Ministers your gifts are perished and quite blasted and your sheep are scattered Hosea 4. 6. Think what you will your gifts are perished although you may say it is not so Jer. 18. 18. Ye and 〈◊〉 gifts are lost and the judgment of the Lord is upon you as well as upon Kings and Rulers for the night of darkness which the Lord spake of long agoe is fallen upon you all and darkness hath covered you all even thick darkness Micah 3. 6 7. Here is mischief upon mischief to the purpose Ezek. 7. 26. Kings Priests and people and thou oh Israel ye are all turned backward The wise men shall be turned backward so that the way of truth and Gospel-light is hid from you all your condition hath been a perishing condition many hundred years Prov. 29 18. Where there is no vision the people perish The word of the Lord is a precious thing and it is grown very precious amongst us Ruling in judgment is very precious Magistracy according to the order of God is very precious too for I know not where it is There is a perfect losse of all Iustice and Iudgment righteousness and truth there is a famine upon you all Kings and Rulers they are famished and lost in their judgment Ministers and people they are famished too for the Gospel-knowledg of the Lord which is bread indeed is taken by the Lord from you all yea and my very pen speaks out to you all that I am one whose soul is half famished for want of bread what a cloudy day are we in it is no wonder to me to see the Lord come now with Clouds to overturn all because all is grown corrupt and fit for nothing else for the wisdome of both Kings Priests and people and thou oh Israel is all turned into folly our knowledg into ignorance and our light into darkness and our peace into trouble this is by reason of the Lords being come down for to fight against all Nations and all things and to plead with all flesh for with fire and with sword the Lord is now pleading with all flesh and the slain of the Lord are many and shall be more and the Lord is gathering all together for that end Zepha 3. 8. O world me thinks I hear a rumor from my Lord and I see an Embassadour which is sent from the Lord to all the world to tell them they must gather themselves together for ruine Esay 24. 22. And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered together Who why Kings and the host of the high ones that are on high The dayes in which we live are the Lords gathering dayes Joel 3. vers 2. The Lord does gather and that round the world and all Ploughshares are a beating into swords and Pruning-hooks into spears and you will see all kingdoms watered with blood ere long clouds full of blood and sea full of blood and the whole world full of blood too and a man shall come to be more precious then the golden wedge of Ophire therefore you that are for the sword and you that are for the famine to the famine and you that are for the pestilence to the pestilence for this is the great day of the Lord his dividing day his cloudy dividing day his cloudy gathering day and his cloudy ruining day your day is come O worldlings and now fall you must for you are but the left hand hoast of God the Lord hath two great hosts that have lived together many a day let them alone till the harvest saith Christ now the harvest is ready and therefore ye begin to fall I saw the hoast of heaven 1 King 22. 29. Here is two hoasts and these are called multitudes Joel 3. 14. And these multitudes are gathered together by the Lord into the valley of Jehosaphat and by reason of the multitudes it is turned into a valley decision all the world is turned into Jehosaphats valley or into a valley of decision in the world nay it is for the Lord is come and by his cloudy appearing hath made a great division in the world Thy King O Sion is come and the end of his coming is to take thee from the enemies and the enemies from thee and the world from both and when this old world is gone thy kingdom and glory is gone O worldling the Lord is making great hast to remove you and for that end he is gathering you Ezeck 38. 14 15 16. In these verses they gather vers 18. the Lord rises up at vers 19. they shake at his rising and Israel also and they fall in Ezeck 39. 4. Thou maist read thy doom here O worldling ye are in gathering by the Lord and ye are and shall be slain by the Lord and his Israel do and shall go away conquerers and sing praises to
about him There is a three-fold appearing of this King upon Earth for to be first with Clouds and that is now Secondly with his Spirit and that is neer the pouring forth Thirdly with the brightness of his coming 2. Thessalon 2. 8. Then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming And all these appearings will be in order according to the order of God and all of them destructive to the world and to all things below God and therefore the word Mystery is brought in The first appearing of this King upon the Throne is such a dark and cloudy appearing that he is scarce known to be there because his first appearing and power is a cloudy appearing and power but the second will be more light because spirituall and therefore more destructive then the cloudy And the third will be more excellent more powerfull then both because it will bring along with it the perfect brightness of your King and a perfect brightness of his glory shining out to the view of all the world which glory will not only consume but destroy all seeming glorious good and excellent things I say the first appearing of this King is so dark and cloudy that it is hard to be known whether he be come to sit upon the throne of Judgment or no and the reason why the Lord comes first with clouds is because he taketh great delight to let his Israel know first of him and where he is whether in the place he spake of returning to Hosea 5. 15. or whether risen out of his holy habitation Zecha 2. 13. Be silent oh all flesh before the Lord for this my Lord the King is risen up out of his holy habitation and that the Lord lets some of his Israel know and understand where he is whether come down or not come down witness Noah Genesis 6. 13. witness Abraham Genesis 18. 17 18. Witness Lot Gen. 19. 12 13. witness all the Prophets and among the rest Huldah 2 Cron. 34. 22. And witness Ezek. 4. 1. and 12. v. Witness Daniel Dan. 10. 14. and 21. Now I come to make thee understand what is noted in the Scripture of truth Witness the language of Paul 1 Thess 5. 4. But you bretheren are not in darkness that that day should take you as a thief witness John who saw by clouds the Lord coming to Judgment and witness oh thou my soul to the coming of Jesus thy King and long-lookt-for Lord and Saviour but let me tell you one thing by the way and that is this the Lord hath yet Messengers for to raise up and to send forth which Messengers mouths he will fill largely with good news and that with great power too and the news will be this behold your King Isaiah 52. 7. But his appearing as yet is but a dark and cloudie appearing so his Messengers dark and cloudie Messengers see what order there is in the goings of this King look to it worldlings and watch ye Saints for the Lord my King is risen out of his holy habitation Jer. 25. 30 33. The Lord shall roare from on high and utter his voyce from his holy habitation I must say the Lord does the word shall is forgotten with my King and the word does is come in the roome of it therefore be silent oh all flesh before the Lord for he hath a controversie with you all and he is in this your day come downe to put an end to the controversie Jer. 30. A noyse shall come even to the ends of the Earth for the Lord hath a controversie with the nations he will plead with all flesh and give them that are wicked to the Sword and they shall pass from end to end why the noyse is come and the controversie is in dispute what do not ye hear the voice of God he calleth to you all not one is excepted that is this day in the world and the voice is Hear oh ye Priest and hearken ye house of the Kings and give ear oh ye house of Israel Hosea 5. 1. Here is Kings Priests and Israel I must put in one number more that is all ye people of the world because the Lord is come to end his controversie with all flesh therefore not one shall escape no not Kings and for you oh Emperors Kings and Rulers and Princes of the earth I must tell you one sad thing you and your names are dying and your Crowns are taking off from your heads throughout the world and the Saints King Jesus by name the ancient of dayes Son the Lord of Hosts righteous Branch he shall be set up King in your rooms And that 's the reason why he is coming now with clouds and it will not be long ere all the Kingdoms of the world be broken down nay they are in this your day ruining by the King of Kings Dan. 2. 44. In the day of these Kings shall the God of heaven set up a Kingdom which shal break in pieces all other Kingdoms Where do you think to stand O wordlings who have made gods of earthly Kings ye and your gods are fallen like the Philistims false gods and shall never be remembred more I must confess with you God by his own providence suffered Kings in the earth for to be and caused them there for to reign but now their reign is almost up and their glory is almost at an end and when it is not almost but altogether up then the Lord will do to you as he did to Nebucadnezar let me tell you O Kings you are all weighed in the ballance of the King of Kings and being weighed you are found too light and I hear a voice from the Lord saying to you all as the Lord said to Belshazer The Kingdoms are departing from you and are to be divided among them who are more fit to reign then you a great deal this a mystery to you Dan. 4. 31. Dan 5. 20. The Lord is come to unthrone you all O Kings and that is the judgment of the Lord upon you in this your day but doth that he doth after a cloudy manner that you cannot understand nor see and therefore you contend for your Crown still but the Lord will conquer you and therefore is he risen to unthroan all Haggai 2. 22. I will overthrow the Throan of Kingdoms and bring down the power of Nations and their riders shall come down every one by the sword of his brother Take notice how they shall come down and see if the Lord be not risen to pull down all powers hear again what the Lord saith and in his word manifests that he regards no power but that that is righteous and just like himself and if they be not so he will unthroan them all and therefore it is he is come Eze. 21. 25. your day is come all ye Rulers of the earth in the which your iniquity shall
have an end therefore thus saith the Lord remove the Diadem take off the Crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high for I will overturn overturn overturn and it shall be no more untill he come whose right all is Let me tell you all that are in power let it be kingly or not kingly you shall all be overturned and for the Kings of the earth if they were once as the signet upon the Lords right hand yet now their time is come of being pluckt from thence Oh how all the world startles at the footsteps of the Lord upon earth being they are cloudy dark bloody and tempestuous steps indeed well ye may fear when the Lord appears surrounded with clouds and tempests who is he that will not fear and be in great trouble in that day why this is the day Psal 50. 3. Our God is come ye must now reade it the verse indeed runs Our God shall come and shall not keep silence a fire shall devoure before him and it shall be tempestuous round about him Esay 30. 30. The Lord shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard and shall shew the lightning down of his arm with indignation of his anger with the flames of devouring fire scattering hail-stones and tempests you know clouds are the forerunners of storms and tempests and this the cloudy appearing of the Lord hath caused for to be great storms and amongst many one is this the storm of war Esay 3. 25. Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in the war Is it not thus let me tell you the war that is now in the world is the war that Christ spake of long ago and that was the war of wars though not the first yet the last war and that war is the confused and unnaturall war a war having many divisions in it Luke 12. 51 52 53 here is division upon division the father and the son the mother and the daughter each one against the other and a war that causeth most to be offended Matt. 24. 10. Then shall many be offended and betray one another and hate one another it is an iniquity-abounding war verse 12. great tribulation attending of it vers 21. This shall be in the day of the Son of man how is it that ye do not discern this time you shall hear of wars saith Christ but not only kingdom against kingdom but kingdoms divided Cities Towns and Families divided and divisions in every mans heart too as well as in the kingdoms Hear all once more The Lord is come down with a sword in his hand which sword hath a long time been bathed in heaven and now it is fallen upon every accursed thing or upon the people of his Curse Esa 34. 5. Come near O Nations and hear Kings Priests and People and thou Israel for you are all turned out of the way and now the Lord hath met with you look how every man comes bleeding back some die in the place where the Lord met them and some falne by the way in their retreat We have all turned aside from the Lord and therefore wo be unto us Esay 10. 1 2 3 4. Wo be unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and turn aside the needy from judgment and take away the right from the poor that widows may be their prey O how is this Scripture fulfilled in this our age therefore all our glory is like to come down nay it is falling it is falling it is falling for the Sword is drawn I must call it the Sword of the Lord the Lords sacrificing Sword which will not regard neither Kings Priests nor People because all are falne from the Lord Jer. 6. 13. For from the least of them to the greatest from the People even unto the Priest all are given unto covetousness Israel thou art not out of the number the Lord hath a controversie with you among the rest Hosea 4. 1 2 3. Hear the word of the Lord ye are all unclean and a polluted generation fit for nothing but to fall by the Sword of the Lord and to be devoured by the fire of his jealousie not regarding Kings Ezec. 39. 18. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the earth every one hath taken of the accursed thing and every one shall drink of the bloud which his bathed Sword lets out and therefore the Lord hath called for a Sword Esa 13. 3. I have commanded my sanctified ones I have called my mighty ones for my anger vers 11. He will punish for iniquity and cause the proud to cease vers 12. The Lord will make a man more precious then the fine gold behold this is the day the Sword of the Lords vengeance is come down in this the day of the Lords vengeance and in the year of the recompence of the controversie of Sion therefore behold the day of the Lord God of Hoasts the day of his vengance a day of wrath a day of trouble of distress of wastings of clouds of thick darkness that no man knows where he is for every man walks up and down like blind men that is the reason that every man runs upon the sword of his brother friends All things and all powers and all practises are corrupt and perfectly corrupt and this cloudy power is to destroy them and now being come destroy he will and that Nations not a few and for that end the Lord hath called for a Sword and this Sword shall enter into all the inhabitable parts of the earth Me thinks I see where the Lord hath called up his sanctified ones and I hear him still calling them up in all the kingdoms of the world and ere long you shall hear of the Sword of the Lord being drawn and sheathed in the sides of all Kingdoms by a civill war England thou hast begun to drink blood and thou shalt yet drink one draught more to all the world and they shall pledge thee round in a bowl of blood again for the Lord will give them all blood to drink therefore Hear all ye sanctified ones of the Lord whom he hath called up to offer up a sacrifice of blood in what Nation or Kingdom so ever you are Esay 13. 3. Esay 54. 16. The Lord hath created you for to destroy and called you to do that that never was done and to unthroan that never was unthroaned throughout the world yea and that quickly Jer. 25. 26. And all the Kings of the North far and neer one with another and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the face of the earth wherefore look now on your left side for there I suppose is a sword it is the Lords bathed sword his sacrificing sword the sword of the Lords vengance turn you whether you will ye shall never be prevailed against so as to be conquered by a sword of steel of the world you shall have power