A PACKET OF NEWES Yea True and Faithful News of ISRAELS and JUDAHS Call AND Of the Manner Place and Time of Christs Coming and reign in glory among his Saints upon the Earth As also Judahs Past with Englands Present Miseries Parallel'd With sundry other Particulars very profitable and necessary for Christians of all Degrees to know the Mysteries of God Collected out of the Scriptures this 22. of the 11th moneth corruptly called January 1647. for the benefit of all but chiefly for such who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness Err in Vision and stumble in Judgement By JAMES FRESE Merchant Ps. 96. 10. and 104. 5. Eccles. 1. 4. 1 Chron. 16. 30. The World shall be Established that it shall not be moved for ever Eze. 43. 7. Even the place of the soals of my feet where I will dwell for ever Zach. 2. 12. For the Lord shall inherite Iudah in the holy land and chuse Ierusalem again Ier. 31. 6. 8. And then shall they say Arise Let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God Zac. 8. 7 8 23. And then shall ten Men of all Nations take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you LONDON Printed for Matthew Simmons 1651. To the RIGHT HONORABLE Most Truly NOBLE And VICTORIOUS HIS EXCELLENCY Oliver Cromwell Lord General of all the Forces raised in England and Ireland for Defence and Regainment of Englands Rights and Liberties MOst Noble and Victorious Sir whose Name by the Will of Divine Providence is become Englands Honor Her Enemies Terror and Europes Wonder For the Continuation Increase and Perfection whereof to the Glory of God your Countries happiness and Your own eternal Fame he most heartily and earnestly wisheth who in his greatest straits under the Iron yoke of Cruelties close restraint many yeers was sundry times made partaker of your truly Christian bounty to the preservation of his Life and Being and after many years Imprisonment of some breathings of Liberty For which in way of due thankfullness as ever in his heart abhorring the grand sin of Ingratitude he returns unto Your Excellency most humbly and hearty thanks and in assurance of the continuation of your most noble Paternal favour towards him he presumeth to shroud this ensuing treatise of the Personal Reign of Christ upon the earth under the wing of your Execllencies favorable Protection most humbly presenting the same unto your Excellencies view acceptance and most noble Boerean perusal The glimpse of which favour extended is the highest pitch of his ambition who in all true Christian humility to his God and fidelity in the band of love to his Country and your Excellencie Subcribes himself Most Noble Excellent and Right Honorable Your Honors most humble Servant to be commanded James Frese London the 19th of the 6th Moneth corruptly called August 1651. To all such true and faithful members of the Lord Jesus as walk close to the Sacred Truth by the rule of Righteousness and stand as firm as Nehemiah for the advance of the true honor of God in true judgement justice and mercy and the speedy restauration of the fundamental Laws Rights and Liberties of this their Native Countrey Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus I Here present unto your favorable view and Christian perusal this small Treatise containing some Collections of holy Scripture cleerly manifesting the Personal Reigne of the Lord Jesus among his Saints upon Earth in the Land of Israel it being the choisest Fruit of my Labors in the time of my close Imprisonment in the Tower-Chamber in the Fleet-Prison for the space of almost four yeers by Henry Hopkins Warden of the Fleet under locks and bolts to the apparent hazard of my life without any just cause by him shewed to this day for his so doing craving in all humility your favourable acceptance of these my Labors and a Berean perusal of them In the reading wherof the Lord Jesus grant unto you his sacred Spirit of Wisdom to be your Directer and Instructer bringing the Truth thereof home unto your souls that so your hearts being seasoned with the apprehension of the expressed joys and comforts contained in it you may live in expectation of the Lord Jesus his glorious Appearing with all Saints in the glory of God the Father and of the holy Angels and in his Kingdom and of the enjoyment of eternal life in glory with him and all the Saints within his holy habitation in the land of the living even in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord Christ shall reign for ever and ever even as he assuredly remaineth in expectation of the same who in all humility subscribes himself Excellent Honorable and truly Beloved in the Lord Jesus Yours in all love and Christian Charity and his Countries Servant in all Fidelity during the short time of his continuance in this almost expired vanities world of misery James Frese London this 15th of the 10th moneth 1650. The Epistle To the Honest Impartial Reader COurteous Reader I do earnestly wish and heartily desire of the Lord that thy perusal of these few Collections of holy Scripture taken as a drop of water out of the vast Ocean of Gods Word and sent forth as a Lamb among censorious Wolves may be seasoned to thy soul by the Spirit of Truth that so the eyes of thy Understanding may thereby be inlightned to Gods glory and thine own souls eternal comfort and joy unexpressable in the glorious eternal world to come And for the better help and inlightning of thy Understanding in the profitable reading of this Treatise I do earnestly desire thee to note well these particulars following 1. That the ten Tribes a which fell from Rehoboam and made Jeroboam their King were then called The Kingdom of Israel whose Kingly Seat or City was Samaria And the other two Tribes under Rehoboams government were called the Kingdom of Judah and the People Jews whose Royal Seat was the Mount of the Lord God called b Zion adjoyning to the North side of Jerusalem The City of the great King * Christ Jesus 2. That all the ten Tribes of Israel were c carried away into captivity beyond the River of Aethiopia called Euphrates d by Shalmanazer King of Assyria in the days of King Hoshea into a far Country about eighteen moneths journey from the holy land of Palestina called in the Syriack Assareth but in the Hebrew Sinin three hundred twenty and six yeers before Judah was carryed captive into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon from whence Judah returned to their own Land again within seventy yeers But the ten Tribes called Israel as yet never returned to this day So that Israels captivity hath now continued about two thousand six hundred and twelve yeers Therefore will the Lord make Israel that was wholy cast out a mighty Nation but Judah or the Jews that returned and halted e
Destruction or for the Destroyer two shall be in a bed the one shall be taken away and the other lefâ— to Destruction two shall be grinding at a Mill the one shall be taken away and the other left to Destruction or for the Destroyer SECT. XIIII THe Disciples then asked him where all this should be or whither all these should be gathered together He answered where the body is or Christ shall appear thither wil the eagles or elect be gathered together even to Mount Zion For they shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying come let us joyn our selves unto the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall never be forgetten and arise let us goe up to Zion unto the Lord out God and say O Lord save thy people the Remnant of Israel Yea many people and strong Nations shall come To the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem At the same time will the Lord be The God of all the Families of Israel and they shall be his people In Zion his dwelling place the holy Mountaine SECT. XV ANd for a further proof of the time of this his glorious Coming Compare Daniel's visâ—on which he had in Babylon about the seventh yeer of his Captivity which was about six hundred forty three yeers before Christ's Nativity with the expressions of our Saviour Christ in the aforesaid place of Matth. 24. and yâ—u shall find them to agree together in the number of years And I heard onâ— Saint say to the Wondâ—rful Nuâ—berer of Secrets Christ which spake How long shall be tâ—e vision concerning the Transgression of making Desolate And he said untâ— me Unâ—o two thousand three hundred days Then shall the Sanctuary or holy land be clensed For afâ—er two days will he the Lord Revive us and raise us up and we shall live in his sight Which two days I understand to be these two laâ—t days under the gospel which days Christ hath promised â—o shorten for the Elects sake and will as I finde and beleeve be shortned answerable to the first two days of this world which was destroyed by water being at 1657. yeers of age For so our God shal come and shal not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempâ—stuous round about him saith David when he shall come down upon the Mountains of Zion as Rain upon the Morning grass for there God hath commanded the blessiâ—g to man even life in Glory fâ—r evermore SECT. XVI ANd in that very place where the first Adam was created and transgressed there did the second Adam Christ Jesus make full satisfaction for that Transgression in Paradice and there the old Serpent Sathan bruised his heel and there shall he break his head when he shall be there placed by his Father As King of Eternal Glory in the lot of his Inheritance where he the Lord shall Reigne with all his Saints gloriously for ever and ever And I heard a voyce saying Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he the Lord will dwell with them and then shall all the Kings of the Earth praise and sing in the waies of the Lord When they shall hear the words of his moâ—th Then the praises of God shall be in their mouths and a two Edged Sword in their hands Terrible as an Army with banners as it were the company of two Armies Israel and Judah to execute vengeance â—pon the heathen to bind their Kings with chains and their robles with fâ—tters of Iron to execute upon them the judgement writtenâ— This honour have all his Sâ—ints Then shall they Inherit the Earth and delight themselves in the aboundance of peace and then their Inheritance shall be for ever For know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world for then judgement shall be given to the Saints and the saints shall then possess the Kingdom for it is their Fathers pleasure to give them the Kingdom for his is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever and the Saints shall possess the Kingdom of Glory for ever even for ever and ever There where God hath commanded or ordained for man the blessing Even life in Glory for evermore Therefore let the Children of Zion be joyfull in their King the Lord of life Christ Jesus who shall also judge the dead men of this world of Darkness In the valieâ— of Iehosaphat And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and the dead were judged Then shall they The dead see him whom they have pierced and shall know that he is the Lord God dwelling in Zion his holy mountain For the wicked shall be shut up in the prison of the grave and after many days even the sabbattical thousand years rest in glory shall they be visited and in that day will the Lord punish Leviathan that piercing crooked Serpent the Dragon in the Sea or in the multitud e of Nations in this world and he shall be cast into the lake of fire and Brimstore where the Beast or Imperiall power and the False Prophet Mahomet are and shall be tormented for ever and ever SECT. XVII ANd this Judgement day of the dead shall be after Christ hath Reigned the thousand years or day of rest among the Saints Bodily yea in that very body which he hath carried up for that purpose and hath raised all the Elect out of their Graves From the dead or children of death and Hell called Sathan For Christ being the Resurrection and the life shall come down upon them that are his as the Rain upon the Mown grass For thus saith the Lord I will open your graves O my people and bring you into the Land of Israel then shall ye know that I am the Lord your God when I have opened your graves and put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I shall place you in your own land then shall ye know that I am the Lord that have performed it For those which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him For the councel of peace eternall life and glory shall be between them both even Father and Son and so shall they the Saints be ever with the Lord This shall be written for the Generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord In the Regenâ—râ—tion or Resurrection when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his Glory Then will he make them even Israel and Judah one Nation in the holy land upon the Mountains of Israel the land of his Inheritance A Glorious high Throne is the Place or land of our Sanctuary from the beginning of the Creation of God for though all the earth be his yet Zion hath he chosen to be the place of his habitation for ever and will goe in and out before his people there even as
the glory of this latter house shall be greater then that of the former built ly Solomon and when the Children of Israel shall be thus planted and dwell in their own land and place in Glory Eternal to be Removed no more Nor the Children of wickedness that is of the Divel to wast them any more as at the beginning Then the Lord will build the house and God the Father will establish his Throne and Kiâ—gdom for ever for of his Kingdom there shall be no end SECT. XXXIII ANd when his Tabernacle or personal presence shall be among them Then shall they say among the Nations The Lord Râ—igneth and the heathen or Gentiles shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel when my sanctuary shall be in the middest of them for evermore and my servant David shall be their Prince for ever The Figure of the holy City Jerusalem with the proofs out of the Prophets and Apostles for the same Aeronâ— Br st plate was a figure of â—hâ—â— City Exoâ— 8 1◠〈…〉 21 12 North East South West Ruben Judo Levy Josepâ— Beâ—ianâ— Dan. Simem Jsochaâ— Zâ—bvlou Ezek. 48. 31. Rev. 21 16. Isa. 26 1 Rev. 3 12 Isa. 33 17 20 24 Isa. 66. 18 19. Isa. 60. 11 14 15. Ier. 31. 38 39 40. Isa. 49. 16 17. Heb. 11 10 14 16. Ezek 47. 7 12. Baruch 4. 30. Zach 14. 10 11 Iâ—a 54. 11 12 13. Isâ— â—2 18 1â— And they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and work iniquity And there shall no unclean thing enter into it nor any that worketh abomination but only they that are written in the Lambs book Therefore Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may enter through the gates into the City Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God Ierusalem the holy City from thenceforth shall no more come into thee the unclean I have raised him up and he shall build my City for we look for a City whose Builder and maker is God for I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of God Christ Jesus in the land of the living I will place Salvation in Zion for Israel my glory for when the Lord doth build up Zion he shall then appear in his glory Then Jerusalem shall be called the City of truth and he will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem And the name of City from that day forth shall be the Lord is there Yea he shall build the Temple of Jehovah For he hath prepared for them a City having twelve foundations For he will glorifie the house of his glory and I will make he Place of feet glorious But the Scepter was departed from Judah about 640. yeares before Shilo Christ came in the flesh Neither were the people of Judah gathered unto him but rejected him and Israel heard not of him being carried away by Shalmanazar King of Assiria about 964. years before Christ's coming in the flesh For Christ his coming in humility was when Judah's Iniquities were fully ripe and thus he came in the fulness of time to be a light to us Gentiles that had then fate almost 1800. years in Darkness and under the bondage and shaddow of death and Hell But shall then at his coming be the glory of his people Israel who as yet have not known him nor shall not know him till they shall see him and say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord for so is God's decree Then all things shall become new for the Lord will renew the face of the Earth and then the whole earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea for he shall come in the glory of God the Father yet that which is to be hath already bin and they shall all know the Lord from the least to the greatest of them from a childe of a span long to the man of full stature And then will he Remember their sins no more for the Lord shall then appear in his glory and shall stand upon the Mount of Olives and the mount of Olives shal cleave in the middest towards the North and towards the South and it shal become a very great valley yea all the land of Palestina shal be turned into a plain from Gheba to Rimon south of Jerusalem and shal again be meted out to the Tribes of Israel as at their coming out of Egypt SECT. XXXIIII THen shal they say arise let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God and they shal go from year to year and from one Sabbath to another to worship the King the Lord of hosts at Jerusalem for I will bring them from the north Country and gather them from the coasts of the earth for he that scattered Israel wil gather them even as a shepherd gathereth his flock and they shal come and sing in the height of Zion and flowe together to the goodness of God Christ a great company shal return thither and mine Elect servants only shal dwel there and inherit it for I wil Create Jerusalem a Rejoycing and her People a joy And I wil rejoyce in Jerusalem and Joy in my people for there God the Father comanded the blessing even life for evermore And then all things shall become new or the natures of all creatures shal be changed to the state and condition wherein they were first created for the wolf and the lamb shal feed together the Lyon shal then eat straw like a Bullock and dust shal be the Serpents meat They shal not hurt nor destroy any in all my holy mountaines saith the Lord For the very brute creature who was made subject to corruption through mans transgression waiteth for the Time of the manifestation of the Sons of God and to be restored into the glorious liberty of the Sons or Saints of God even eternal incorruptible being For then shal the creatureâ— also be delivered from this bondage of corruption Death and then all his works shal praise him and all flesh shal bless his holy name for ever and ever for in that day wil the Lord make a Covenant for his people with all the beasts of the field with al the fowls of heaven and with al creeping things of the ground and al evil beâ—sts shal then cease out of the land and his people shal dwel safely in the wildernes and sleep in the woods and they shal be safe in their land For he wil sowe the portion of Israel and the portion of Iudah even the land of Palestina with the seed of man and with the seed of beasts for he that hath delivered them in these six troubles or these 6000. years or days of labour trouble and sorrow will not suffer evil or the Divel to touch them in the seventh day of his glorious Rest for the beastes of the
For since the beginning of this world ear hath not heard nor eye seen what is prepared for them that love him the obedient and beloved Son Righteouâ—â—eâ—s and are made to wait for Christ his appearing in glory whom God the Father hath exalted highly above all and hath given him a name above every name In whom the father created or decreed all things and by whom all things were made into external shape and being according to the fathers decree or production of spiriâ—s in this sacred beginning Christ who is the beginniâ—g of the creation of God the father the first created oâ— every creature to be the immediate image or visible personal presence of the father Incompreâ—enâ—ible Who is the God of â—ur Lord Jesus Christ who hath made or decreed that same Jesus both Lord and Châ—ist saying by Jeremy This is his name whereby he shall be called and known The Lord our rigâ— hteousness the God of Salvation the ordained Judge of quick and dead Even the power of God unto salvation to reign in and among the elect 〈◊〉 oâ— unto eternall life For the gift of God the Father to all the elect is eternall life in glory through and by Jesus Christ whom he hath made both Lord and Christ yea The only true God of salvation the living God or God of life and everlasting King of glory who proceede h from the father everlasting for him hayh God the Father sealed or decreed for the work of mercy and glory to the creature and conferred by the God of the Prince of Peace and Father of this our Lord Jesus Christ on the elect Sainâ—s who shall be inhabitants of the everlasting Kingdom For the Kingdoms of the world shall be the Kingdom of our great incomprehensible God the father and of his Christ and â—e the Lord God of salvation shall reigne over the Saints in Mount Zion for ever O who can think upon these things worâ—â—â—y Or know the waies of the most â—hgh God and father of all and his power Christ Whose incorruptible Spirit is in all things for he is the â—oye of â—ouâ—s and by whom the heavens and all things were made into external visible form and being O therefore who can truly think what this our Lord God of salvation is much less to comprehend the infinite Majesty of God the father and Creator of all Spirits of light and Spirits of darkness who loveth none but this sacred Spirit of Wisdom Light and Glory and all his Saints For God his God hath anointed him the Emanuel with the oyl of gladness above his fellows above all Spirits and hath made him most blessed for ever Honour and Majesty hath he laid upon him and through the mercy of the most High shall he not be moved who hath given him Power over all Flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as he the Father hath given him Who of his own Will begot the Creatures with the Word of Truth Christ Jesus and thus is he 〈…〉 Beginning of the Creation of God The Word of God The King of kings and Lord of lords The God of Isrâ—el or Elect whose glorious coming is at hand Even so come Lord Jesus the Beauty of Holiness the Christ of the most high God the Father ordained by him to be the God of our salvation and the power of â—od â—o eternal life and glory determined for the creature for this life eternal is in his Son and his Name is in him The Lord Jehovah the Truth the Light the Life the Begining of the works of the most High God and Father of all Spirits who is above all and by his holy Spirit worketh through and in all being the Invisible or only wise God or God of wisdom Christ whom no man hath ever seen nor can see for no man hath seen God the Father at any time nor ever heard his voice by whom all things invisible were created in Christ Jesus the Beginning that are in heaven and earth but only as he hath been pleased to manifest himself to the creature in and by his Name Face Presence Power Wisdom and Love Christ the visible God of salvation the Lord God of the elect with whom Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Joshua the 70. Elders and all the Prophets talked face to face and mouth to mouth as one friend talketh with another even with the Lords anoynted the Lord God of Israel merciful and gracious whose Nature and Property is Mercy and Love by whom the whole family of Heaven and earth is named and to whom all power is given from the Father both in Heaven and Earth who is the Image Face and Presence of the great invisible God the Father and in whom the invisible and incomprehensible God-head dwelleth personally bodily or representatively who of God the Father is made unto us creatures wisdom righteousness sanctification and Redemption Who also is the blessed Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of lords and who only hath immortality dweling in the light the Father which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see even the Christ the Power of God the Wisdom of God the beginning of the Creation of God in whom all things were created by the Father the God of all Spirits For to us there is but one God of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ the God of Israel or Elect by whom are all things made and we by him who is the Lord God former and maker of all things being the express visible likeness or Image Face Presence Hand and active Power of the Invisible God the Father for the work of mercy salvation and glory to the creaturâ— whose excellency of being is in no manner revealed to the Sons of men other then in and by his comprehensible beloved Son and heir of all things The visible God Christ Jesus The Lord the life and hope of glory of and by whom we shall receive the reward of the inheritance even eternal life For the Father being the author and produce of all Spirits even of light and darkness from himself his glory must needs be far ecxeeding theirs who is pleased in special to delight love and dwell in Emanuel the Anoynted or Ordained God of love and Salvation light and eternall glory by whom he made the worlds and by whom all things were made yea all things were made by him and he is before all things excepting him the Father that hath made him Lord of all things and hath put all things under him to whom all power is given from the Father both in heaven and earth who is the beginning of the workes of God the first begotten of every creature O Lord our God the God of salvation thou hast made al these things the Lord of hosts is his name Behold I the Lord
foundations whose builder and maker is God the Lord For it shall be built to the Lord upon the hill Gareb and shall compasse about to Goath and the whole value of the dead and all the fields unto the Brooke Kidron unto the Horse gate shall be holy unto the Lord yea it shall not be pâ—ucked up nor thrown down for ever Even this great City the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from my God ready â—â—amed of material precious stones Even as Solomons Temple was brought out of the wilderness ready framed and so built and laid together without knock of hammer or axe or any other toole of Iron The streetes of this City shall be of pure transparent Gold whose wals shall be great and high built of Jasper and garnished with all manner of precious stones having twelve Gates on the East side three Gates and on the North side three Gates on the South side three Gates and on the West side three gates and the gates of the City shall not be shut and the fashion of the City shall be foure square the length bredth and height of the wals of the City shall be of equal measure Twelve thousand furlongs broad and twelve thousand long and twelve thousand furlongs high and the thickness of the Wall shall be one hundred forty and foure cubites of a man which is six foot and makes up in the whole thickness eight hundred sixtie and foure foot SECT. XXIIII ANd the most high God the Father and the Lord Christ shall be the Temple in it and the glory of God the Father and of the Lord Christ shall be the light thereof and onely those nations that are saved shall walke in it and Kings shall bring their glory and honor into it and none shall enter into it but they that are written in the Lambs Book For thus saith the Lord The place of my throne Palestina and the place of the soals of my feet where I will dwell in the midd'st of the children of Israel for ever and my holy name shall the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their Kings The whole limit thereof shall be round about most holy And the name of the City from that day shall be The Lord is there Then the heathen or Gentiles shall know that I the Lord build and plant the ruines and desolate places of the land of Israel I the Lord have spoken it and I will do it SECT. XXV FOr God will save Zion and will build the Cities of Judah that they may dwell there The seed of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein and shall be Kings and Priests unto God and raign on the earth For when the Lord Christ shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory when the people are gathered together and the Elect out of all Kingdoms to serve the Lord to declare his name in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem Then will he receive them unto himself that where he is in glory there they may be also and they the Father and Son will love them and will come unto them and make their abode with them For the Councell of peace and eternal glory shall be between them both in the Kingdom of Christ and of God and the people and kingdoms shall be gathered together to declare the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Ierusalem For unto the Father incomprehensible shall be glory given in the Church Triumphant by Christ Iesus and all his Saints world without end SECT. XXVI FOr this Mount Zion scituate on the North side of Ierusalem is the Hill which the Lord desireth to dwell in yea the Lord will dwell in it for ever where his Throne and Scepter of Righteousness shall be for ever and ever even in the World to come whereof we speak and he shall raign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end even upon the throne of David Then shall they say The Lord raigneth The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved for the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more then all the dwellings of Jacob Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God For the highest himself shall establish her Yea he hath desired it for his habitation saying This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it For in Salem is his Tabernacle his dwelling Place in Zion For the Lord will comfort Zion he will make her wilderness like Eden and mount Zion shall never be removed but abideth for ever Being the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem which cannot be shaken but shall remain like the earth which abideth for ever for I know saith Solomon whatsoever God doth it shall abide for ever and that which is to be hath already been and God requireth that which is past even the world to be restored to its first Purity Glory Excellency and determined perpetuity Spiritual which is eternal for the spirits of all men are eternal whether for Light or Darkness and the Saints continuance in glory shall be eternal For their bodies shall then be of the same eternal duration as their spirits are this being the true state of the things we call Spiritual which is eternal for there our mortal bodies shall put on immortality and this corruption shall put on incorruption to and for which a true pious and charitable life in this world â—its us by the sacred Spirit of light Christ Jesus SECT. XXVII FOr God will establish the Earth for ever when the time of refreshing shall come and Restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his Prophets since the world began For the Lord that hath chosen Zion will dwell in the midd'st of her And inhorit Judah his Portion in the holy land and choose Jerusalem again For heaven is the throne of God but the earth hath he given to the Sons of men to be inhabited for ever being their proper Sphere For the Lords Portion is his people Iacob is the Lot of his inheritance For he will remove the iniquiâ—y of that land in one day and Jerusalem shall then be called the City of Truth when the sons of Zion are raised out of the pit or grave wherein is no water and shall save them as the flock of his people and the Lord by David their leader shall save the tents of Iudah first for David shall be their Prince and Nations that know not Iudah shall run unto them who shall then be terrible as an army with Banners as it were the Company of two armies Iudah and Gentiles whose arrows are sharp and all their bowes bent their horses hoofs shall be counted like flint and their wheels like a whirl-winde their roaring of their hosâ—e shall be like the roaring of a Lyon yea they
shall roar and lay hold of the prey and shall carry it away safe and none shall deliver it as it was at their coming out of Egypt yea they shall mount like Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint Then the sinners in Zion shal be afraid fear shal take hold on the now inhabitants of Palestina because of the Lord God Christ who also will then plead with his people in the wilderness of their own land face to face like as he pleaded with their forefathers in the wilderness of the Land of Egypt thus will he cause them to pass under the Rod and then will he bring them into the bond of the Covenant made with Abraham Isaac and â—acob and then will he speak comfortably to them and they shall then enjoy their vineyards as in the dayes of their coming out of the land of Eâ—â—â—p so will he shew unto them marvelious things SECT. XXVIII THen shall the great River Euphrates be dried up in the seven streams thereof and the Egyptian Sea utterly destroyed that the way of the Kings of the East the leaders of Israel may be prepared even of the seven shepherds and eight principal Leaders that they and all the people of Israel may go over dry-shod as when they came out of Egypt and then will he raise unto Israel Sâ—viours called Kings such as Ioshuah for Leaders even Abraham Isaac and Iacob Hesea Amoâ— Micha Ioâ—l Obadiah Ionah Nahum Habbakuk Zâ—phany Haggaiah Zacharâ—ah and Malachy For these fifteen Saviours Kings or Leaders shall come on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esâ—â— or Kingdom of Edom Gog and Magâ—g who are hated of Christ for they shall put all the wicked to shame because God hath despised them therefore shall they never see the light Christ Jesus in his Glory then the Kingdom shall be the Lords when he bringeth back the Captivity of his people then Jacob or Iudah shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad when the Lord God of Israel Christ Jesus shall appeare in his glory even in the glory of God the Father which is and shall be in the face and presence of Jesus Christ being that individual glory which he had with the Father before the world was made by him For it pleased the father that in him should all the fulness of his glory dwell even in that measure of unexpressible transcendent glory which the sacred Excellenâ— glory and incomprehensible Maiesty the Father hath pâ—edetermined from all eternity to be from him by Christ the God of mercy conferred upon the Creature accordiâ—g to the Creatures meted out capacity or predetermined Capabillity then to be conferred on him by the inviâ—ible and incomprehensible Majesty of God the Father whicâ— shall be a fulness of joy exceeding glory and unexpressâ—ble pleasures in the Kingdome of glory for evermore SECT. XXIX ANd this excellent eternal life joy and glory is to be manifested to the creature and conferred on them in and by his beloved Son Christ Jesus the visible God of Salvation and in whom the invisible Godhead dwelleth bodily And thus is he the true Image of the most high invisible God the Father and also his sacred comprehensible glorious presence in the lot of his inheritance Palestina The holy land The hill of the Lord The holy place The Mounâ—Zion The glorious world to come given unto him by the most high God and Father of all Spirits being the Excellent Glory To whose excellency and incomprehensibleness of most glorious being man's comprehensible and limited capacity cannot attain or reach unto no more then to pourtray a true shape to a voyce to the winde or to hold the Sea in his hand for no man hath ever heard the Fathers voyce at any time nor never seen his shape Therefore what person shape or voyce can the limited frail fancy or wit of man prescribe devise imagine or attribute to this most High most Sacred most Mighty most Excellent and most Incomprehensible Unrevealed Deity and primary Fountain and Cause of all Being whom they never saw nor heard at any time So that it is very plain and most true that Christ Jesus onely and alone being the beloved and from all eternity the anointed visible God of Salvation light and eternal glory is the onely and alone true representative capable apprehensive visible personal presence of the Invisible Un-apprehensive and Incomprehensible Father and holy Spirit of God The beginning of the Creation of God the Father SECT. XXX FOr this God of salvation the Lord of life and glory Christ Jesus will yet chuse Zion the place where his Congregation hath dwelt and wherein he hath dwelt and will set Israel in their own land and the strangers or Gentiles shall joyn themselves unto them and cleave to the house of Jacob or Judah saying we will goe with you for we have heard that God is with you and the people shall take them and bring them to their place or land and the house of Israel shall possess them In the land of the Lord for servants and handmaides for Salvation is of the Jews to whom pertaineth the adoption and the Glory and the Covenants and the Promises of eternal blessedness whose are the Fathers to whom the promises were made and of whom concerning the â—lesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever of or by the Father SECT. XXXI THen shall this world of sin and grace be dâ—stroyed by fire as the firstworld of sin was by water wherein it repeâ—ted the Lord Christ that ever he made man but the third world of grace and eternall Glory shall continue for ever then shall they say now is Salvation and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ the God of salvation The voyce of the beloved behold he commeth leaping upon the mountaines skipping upon the hills travelling in the greatnes of his strength for lo the winter of affliction and misery is past the Raine or stormes of persecution is over and gone and the flowers of glory and eternall excellency appear on the earth and the time of singing of birds of Paradice or Saints is come and the Glorious voyce of the Turtle Dove Christ Jesus is heard in our Land of Palestina saith Solomon coming from Edom from Bozra the chiefe City of Edom Glorious in his apparel travelling in the greatness of his strength nughty to save SECT. XXXII FOr the hastning of which sacred Kingdom of glory he the Lord hath taught us to pray continually saying Thy Kingdom come and thy will be done on Earth as it is now in heaven and by faith to acknowledge and beleeve that his is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever For then in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen saith Abraham even in Mount Zion the Transcendent Glory and Excellent perpetuity of being And
field shall be at peace with them and Sathan shall be shut up al that thousand years or seventh day of rest in glory all which is typified unto us by Exo. 9. 4 6. Exo. 10. 23. SECT. XXXV IN that time shal the present be brought unto the Lord of hostes by the faithfull Gentiles of a people scattered and peeled from a people terrible from their beginning a nation meted out and trodden under foot whose Land Palestina the Rivers or Nations of the Gentiles have spoyled they shall be brought to the place of the name of the Lord to mount Zion In that day shall the branch of the Lord Israel and Iudah and all the saints be beautiful and Glorious for I am the vine saith the Lord and ye are the branches and the fruit of the earth shall then be excellent for I say unto you I will no more eat nor drink of the fruit of the vine untill the Kingdom of God shall come and untill I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdom and then the meek shal eat and be satisfied and shal live for ever when the Lord hath washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion then shall we see his glory and live ever in his sight For all the earth shall be filled with the Glory of the Lord Then shall it be said to the Israel of God by the Angels of Christ that shal be sent forth to gather them together Arise for the light is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee the sons of them the wicked that afflicted thee shal come bending and bow themselves down to the soals of thy feet even as Joseph's Brethren did to Joseph for thou shal suck the milk of the Gentiles and the brests of Kings then shalt thou know that I the Lord am thy Saviour the mighty one of Jacob For the Nation and Kingdom that wil not serve thee shal perish and shall be utterly wasted but the Lord shal be unto thee O Israel an everlasting light and thy God thy Glory the people also shall be all Righteous they shall Inherit the land for ever For thy maker Christ Jesuâ— the God of salvation light and glory is thy Husband and thy Redeemer the Lord of hostes is his Name The God of the whole Earth shal he be called then shal wee see heaven open and the Angels of God ascending and descending as Iacob did who in a vision was shewed the glory of it and by the spirit of truth was forced to confess that the place was none other then the Gate of heaven the house of God and that the Lord is in that Place SECT. XXXVI BUt darkness shall then cover the earth or the men of this part of the world of darkness and grosse darkness the people such as shall be felt typified unto us by the severall great plagues of darkness inflicted on Egypt and shall be acted in like manner on the now inhabitants of Palestinaâ— by the two witnesses conceived to be by their workes Moses and Elias at the time of Judah's gathering together for three years and six moneths for they shall have power to send forth fire to turne the waters into blood and to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they list yea they shal have power to shut heaven all that time that it raine not even for three years and six moneths as Elias did before in Ahab's time for three years and six moneths SECT. XXXVII THen all the wicked of the land shall be as though they had never bin because Israel shall be a fire and Judah shall be a flame and the wicked shall be as stubble and they even Israel and Judah shall kindle and devour them for they shall be utterly burâ—t with fire in the same place of their abode and all the wicked shall become ashes under their feet for this battel against the wicked shall be with burning and fewell of fire for a fire shall devour his enemies before them death shall feed on them and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning or when the morning Christ Jesus appeareth upon mount Zion and before his antients Abraham Isaac and Iacob and al the Prophets gloriously for Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in his own place and the Lord shall save the tents of Judah first SECT. XXXVIII THen all the nations of the world even Gog and Magog East and West Turkâ— and Pope shall be by the evill spirit Sathan brought into the land of Israel to fight against Judah in Ierusalem that now is where our Lord was crucified for tydings out of the East shall affright Gog and Magog when they shall hear of the gathering together of Judah and all the saints and they Gog and Magog shall go forth with great fury to destroy when they shall hear that Judah hath taken Ierusalem for Gog and Magog shall come roaring like the roaring of the Sea and shall come in like a flood but the Lord shall lift up a standard against him and they shall come upon the mountaines of Israel but then shall darkness sorrow and â—ear take hold of them as it did on the Egyptians in the red sea and a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them and every ones hand shall be against his neighbour and every mans Sword shall be against his brother for the Lord shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard and shall shew the lighting down of his arme with Indignation and anger and with devouring fire with scattering tempest and hayl stones and then shall they be destroyed upon the mountaines of Israel by the hand of the Lord for God in his Eternal decree hath scattered the bands of him that incampeth against thee O Judah who shall all be buried in the valley of Hamon Gog and they shall never see light or Christ in his glory and when the wicked are cut off the Saints shall see it SECT. XXXIX ANd with whose Innumerable carcasses will the Lord make a feast unto all the beasts of the field and fowls of the aire who shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the Earth And for an eternal memorial of this great deliverance there shall be a City built in the valley of Hamon Gog and it shall be called Hamona and seven years shall the Saints be burning of their weapons of war and seven moneths shall they be burying of the bones of Gâ—g and Magog's mighty Hoste that was as the sand of the sea for Multitude and the land shall be soaked with their blood and the dust made fat with the fatness of their bodies for it â— the day of the Lords vengeance and the year of recompence for the controversie of Zion in the latter dayes ye shall consider it SECT. XL THus shall the Lord punish the host of the high ones and of the
Kings of the earth upon the earth and â—hey shal be gatheted together as Prisoners into the pit or grave and shall there be shut up and after many dayes ever after the thousand years of rest in Glory shall they be visited And they shall be called the border of wickedness against whom the Lord hath Indignation for ever and your eyes shall see this and you the Saints shall then say the Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel when he shall take them away as with a whirlewind both living and in his wrath then shall the righteous rejoyce when he seeth the vengeance for they shall wash their feet in the blood of the wicked And when all the host of heaven shall be rolled together like a scroll and the trump shall blow and the Judgement shall be set and the dead raised at the end of the thousand years rest in glory and Judged and cast into hell into the dry land wherein is no water even these parts of the earth or lowest of the Globe whose streams shal be turned into pitch and the dust thereof into brimstone and the land or earth shall become burning pitch and it shall never be quenched for the smoke thereof shall go up for ever O who among us shall then dwell with everlasting burnings Then the saints shall go forth to the border and look upon them that have transgressed whose fire shall not be quenched and they the wicked shall be an abhorring unto all flesh and there shall be a great gulf fixed between the Kingdom of heaven or glory and the Kingdom of hell and darkness Sathan and the wicked shal â—ee the glory and blessed state of the Saints in Christs Kingdom a far ost And shall weep and howl and gnash their teeth SECT. XLI IN thosedayes Judah shall walke with Israel in the land given for an inheritance unto their Fathers and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered unto it yea all nations whom the Lord hath made shall come and worship before him and Israel shall sing there the new song as in the dayes of their youth when they came out of the Land of Egypt Then shall the sword and the battel be broken out of the earth for the Lord Christ the God of Salvation light and Glory will marry his people unto himself in peace and in righteousness and in loving kindness and in mercies for he will plant his people in the earth and they shall see eye to eye yea face to face as Moses and the seventy Elders did as also all Israel Then shall they say cry out thou inhabitant of Zion for great is the holy one of Israel in the middest of thee and his place of rest shall be Glorious for then shall all the earth be fillâ—d with the Glory of the Lord even the earth or place of Glory for in this world ye the Saints shall have tribulations because my Kingdom is not of this world but in me or my Kingdom of Glory ye shall have rest saith our Saviour and we must through many tribulations enter into the Kingdom of heaven the land of Glory and happiness for he will make the place of his feet the earth Glorious And the Saints shall come with speed swiftly none of them shall be weary nor stumble none shall slumber nor sleepe neither shall the girdle of their loynes be loosed nor the latchet of their shooes be broken for the Lord shall set his hand againe the second time to recover the remnant of his people and shall assemble the out-casts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth SECT. XLII Then shall the waters fail from the sea and the rivers shall be dryed up for the Egyptian sea shall be utterly destroyed that men may go over dry shod or in â—hooeâ— then shall there be an high way for his people the Saints as it was to Israel in the day when they came out of the land of Egyyt then shall the King of righteousnes Reigne and prosper and Execute Justice and Judgement in the earth In his dayes Judah shall be saved and Israel the ten tribes shal dwel safely and this is the Kings name that shal Reigne in the earth of glory the Lord our Righteousness for in that day there shall be but one Lord and his name one SECT. XLIII ANd he that sate on the Throne shall dwell among them the Sainto and they shall Reigne with him on the earth and he said unto me write for these words are true and faithful Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have Right in the Tree of life Christ Jesus and their parts in the first Resurrection on such the second death shall have no power neither shall evill the Divell dwell with him and his saints as he doth in this his own world of sin for Christ his Kingdom is not of this world but of the Glorious world to come Out of which world of Eternal glory the Divell called Evill Sathan death and Hell shall be banished and not suffered to molest disturbe or suggest any of his evill disobedient thoughts into any of the children of the Kingdom of glory or to have any rule at all there as he hath in this his world Therefore is Christ said not to Reigne in this world but only to rule and to carry the predominent power in the hearts of all his Elect who though through Sathans suggestions they fall into sin daylie yet Christ supports and holds them up by his power whom the father hath Sealed and given unto him out of this world of evill the Divell who being the Prince of this world Ruleth in the hearts of all his the Children of wickedness disobedience darkness Evill Sathan Death and Hell for so is he called in the holy Scriptures The Priests Gods ordinance of mercy sell The Lawyers by injustice them excell Thus one The word of mercy sells for Gold The other Justice Impiously and bold An Exhortation to the conscientious Reader ALye therefore that truly love and fear the Lord God of salvation Christ Jesus and by patient continuation in well doing seek for glory Immortality and eternall life and have tasted of the good word of God Christ and of the power of the world to come and look for the day of his glorious appearing When the time of refreshing shall come of the Restitution of all things and our gathering together unto him at his appearing and his Kingdom Comfort ye one another with these things that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord Jesus direct your hearts into the true love of God and the patient waiting for Christ and grant you to be like minded one towards another in love or in the God
before him there was no God created neither shall there be after him He is the Lord and besides him there is no Saviour For the Father is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ The Father is greater then all yea greater then he if we know these things happy are we for this is life eternal to know God the Father aright and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent whose being in the Father and the Father in him thought it no robbery to be one with him because the fulness of the Fathers spirit Power presence and Name God is in him and so the Father is glorified in the same Thus he and the Father are one because the Father acteth nothing for the worke of mercy and glory to the Creature but in and by Christ his beloved Son the ordained God of salvation life light and eternall glory the Lord God merciful and gracious the God of Israel For the most high incomprehensible God the Father is said to be the husbandman and the Lord God Christ Jesus the God of salvation is the true fruitful pleasant vine in whom God the Father delighteth and all the elect saints by calling are the branches of this sacred vine the Christ of God the Father For there is none so holy as the Lord neither is there any Rock like our God for God the Father hath blessed him for ever Therefore O Israel or elect fear this Glorious and fearful name The Lord the God Christ Jesus whose glory is great Dignity and Honour hath the Father laid upon him and hath made him most blessed for ever And through the favour of the most high God the Father he shall not be moved for Jehovah is the most high God for evermore Who governeth all things by his mercy Christ through and by whom all addresses must be made to the most high God the Father and by and with whom eternal life in glory is conferred on the creature and therâ—fore is he stiled the way the truth and the life the glory of God For he that hath seen Christ the God oâ— salvation hath seen the personal visible active powerful presence of God the Father and holy Spirit yea the word and work of the Father the first begotten of every creature who hath Power given to him by the Father over all flesh that he should give eternall life in glory to as many as the Father hath given him And thus is he God over all blessed for ever or for eternall being in glory with his Saints the elect in whom or in whose personal visible presence the God-head dwelleth bodily even in him whom the Father sent into the world to save sinners as he himself saith that they may be one as we are even as thou O Father arâ— in me and I in thee that they may be one in us as we are for we speak that which we know and testify that we have seen and ye receive not our testimony even the Father and Sons we will come and make our abode with him for man is become like one of us like the Image of God Christ for Christ is the Image of God the Father yea the spirit or Angell of his presence The face of God the Father the image person presence or likeness of the great Invisible God the Father who is the light that none can approch unto whom no man can see who only hath loved the Son as the Son loveth his Saints and hath ordained them to be partakers of his glory according to the predestinate decree of God his Father who created him Christ Wisdom counsell understanding strength Lâ—ve mercy Righteousness yea he God the Father possessed him in the beginning of his way before his works had any being he was brought forth by the Father and was his delight rejoycing alwayes before him He is the Lord God of salvation and besides him there is no Saviour for he is the ordained life and peace to the elect saints that love him But all they that hate him love death Beelzebub Luciâ—er Sathan darkness the ordnaied God of Damnation called the destroyer but the God of the elect to Glory is the God of salvation even the Lord our righteousness the ordained God of salvation by the Father who hath crowned him with glory and honour and hath so decreed that he the Christ shall sit on his right hand of power until he make his enemies his foot-stool For thus saith God the Father the redeemer of Israel by Jesus Christ and his holy one or of this his holy one Jesus Art thou lighter then that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob or Judah and to restore the dissolutions of Israel to establish the earth for ever that thou mayest be my glorious Instrument of Salvation to the ends of the earth Even to confirm the promises made unto the Fathers for God the Father shall give unto him the throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever because God the Father his God hath anoynted or appointed him for that work of mercy and glory to the creature above all other spirits whatsoever yet this sacred servant is not greatet then his Master neither is he the ambassador that is sent by the Father greater then he that sent him and ordained him the lâ—fe therefore because he is life We the elect shall live also for ever with him in Glory for he shall bruise Sathan shortly under our feet for the Father hath put all things under our feet even all Principalities and powers in heavenly places therefore it is most clear and manifest that he the Father is excepted which haâ—h put all things under him And when all things are subdued unto him then shall he himself also be subject unto God the Father that put all things under him and then shall wee know that he is in the Father and we in him and he in us for the Father is as the husbandman Christ is as the vine and the elect are the fruitful branches of that vine therefore let us wait for this his Son from heaven by whom he the Father hath called or Elected us unto his Kingdom of glory But that was not first which is spiritual or eternall but that which is naturall temporall or fading and as is the earth Adam such are they in the Fathers decree all that are earthly as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly or eternall and as we have born the image of the earthly or temporal Adam so shall the elect also bear the Image of the heavenly or spirituall Adam Christ which is eternall For as many as the Father hath given or alotted to Christ he hath lost none of them neither can they be lest because they are spirits of light decreed by the Father for glory who changeth not from his