to know his wiles to fight Against this Power of death and darkness so That thou maist give the Devil such a blow That he with his dark Kingdom may lose ground Till they shall fall and never more be found Then for thy further information know The Devil will for ever be thy fo And wil the foe of all men ever be And them beguile with feigned flatterie Do thou resolve his works and him to hate And never bite nor tast the Devils baite But him resist withstand and alwayes be For evermore the Devils enemy If so my soul thou must not think to please Thy fleshly lusts nor think to live at ease But hardness as a Souldier must endure A Souldiers life is such thou must be sure But please thy Captain he that hath thee chosen To be a Souldier thy assections loosen From such affairs as now may hinder thee From serving him whose Souldier thou must be To fight this fight of Faith if thou intend To overcome then hold out to the end For those that overcome the Spirit saith And do his Works continue in the Faith That keep his holy Word his Word of Patience Shall be exalted they shall rule the Nations And he that overcomes the same shall be A Pillar in God's holy Temple he Shall go no more from thence out of the same But Jesus Christ will write on him the Name Of God and of the City that is nam'd The New Jerusalem so greatly fam'd For beauty glory wealth that cometh down From God and out of Heav'n where there are none Can entrance have which doth not overcome Both Sin the World and Satan where 's no room For such for none but them that do prevail Shall cloathed be in white such shall not fail To sit with Christ in glory on his Throne And sing the praise of God the Lord alone And though by fighting none can nothing merit He must orecome that will all things inherit Then now my soul it 's good thou ponder well What is thy work while thou on earth dost dwell Make it thy study how thou maist be found In Faith and Holiness more to abound Behold what beauty is in Christ thy Jesus Him love and prize for he is very precious Solace thy self with love his Love so choice Delight to do his Will to hear his Voice What though in strait and narrow paths he lead He in those paths thy soul doth sweetly feed Thou hast by good experience found and known That in those paths thou walkest not alone But he goes with thee leading by the hand Thee where thou canst not hardly go or stand And makes those strait and narrow wayes to be So pleasant and so easie unto thee That thou canst walk those paths with so much ease That many times they much delight and please Thee so that thou maist say and never cease His wayes are Pleasantness his paths are Peace What though no beauty nor no comliness Be seen in him by wise men ne'retheless Think ne'r the worse of him but love him throughly Though he be black he is exceeding lovely Set thy affections on him so delight In his refreshing Presence day and night That thou communion with him maist maintain And labour in his Fear more of 't to gain Bear thou his Image learn of him to be More humble harmless holy that as he A perfect pattern was so is he still Him follow fully and no doubt he will So entertain thee with such great delights So ravishing thy heart with heav'nly sights Thou wilt be so inflam'd in Love so grow With Heav'n thou 't live no more on Earth below My soul sing praise unto the Lord Declare his mighty Works abroad Praise thou his great and holy Name That men his wondrous Works may know His mighty Acts do thou forth show His Glory Kingdom and his Fame Who though thou wast a poor posthume He kept thee in thy mothers womb And there and then thy life preserv'd He brought thee forth and gave thee breath And oft deliver'd thee from death Though thou hadst nought of him deserv'd When thou hungst on thy mothers breast And on her milk didst richly feast He was thy God and did thee keep He watch'd ore thee and did defend Thee from that fierce infernal Fiend He slumbred not nor did he sleep Thou wast a Child and Parentless Praise thou the Lord his goodness bless He rais'd thee up a faithful Friend That was a Mother unto thee This was his goodness verilie Praise thou the Lord world without end All this the Lord did that he might Open thy eyes and clear thy sight That thou maist understand and see His Goodness Mercy Grace and Truth Which thou beheldst whilst but a youth To him the glory honour be And though thy troubles have been great With which thou hast in this world met They never could make thee to yeeld He never in them thee forsook But on thee did in mercy look And for thee car'd and thee upheld What reason then hast thou to fear Or think he will not for thee care In these thy bonds and captive-state Such good experience thou hast seen Of him from time to time I mean When ere thou wast in any strait What needst thou care for all thy foes There 's none of them but he well knows And knows the way how to prevent Them all from doing thee that harm Which they do threaten when they storm And may be often their intent What though the world against thee rise With tongues of falshood and of lyes In him alone put thou thy trust And though they persecute thee sore And hate thee without cause the more Praise thou the righteous God most just My soul then magnifie the Lord Let all his Saints like praise afford His Praises sing both night and day He hath regard to all the meek He strengthens those that are but weak Let all Saints sing Hallelujah Well now my soul wee 'l leave a while rest And then we will discourse again it 's best I think we should talk next of other matter And forasmuch as it is now the latter Most evil times of which we are forewarn'd By Christ himself 't is good we should be arm'd Against the perils which that time attends Then if the Lord us help and to us lends Assistance we will speak of such a thing As may unto our mind and mem'ry bring What Judgments God intends and hath in store Against that great and Scarlet-coloured Whore And of that glorious blessed holy Day When Christ shall sit upon his Throne for aye Here followeth a brief Discovery Of Romes soul filthy stuff and trumpery Together with the Plagues laid up in store Against the day that God will plague the Whore VVE read in Scripture of a Scarlet Whore That hath opprest the Nations very sore Who with her filthy Cup of Fornication Hath made the people drunk in ev'ry Nation This Harlot sits upon a Scarlet Beast A Beast that
fading Its greatest glory is not worth the having These are such fools they can more glory see In Christ their Prince than any there can be In all Honor Glory Beauty Fame The world affords or any tongue can name A crucified Christ these fools would know As for the world say these tush let it go The world no peace nor comfort can afford Like to a minutes presence of the Lord. Though wife and children unto them be dear Yea dearer far than any thing that 's here That if the world were theirs at their dispose Yet would they be content it all to lose Before they 'd part with either wife or child Their pretty babes so tender and so mild And yet the Love of Christ is dearer far Unto their souls than wife or children are The love of Jesus Christ surpasseth all These fools are ready when their Lord doth call To leave for him their Wife and Children and Their Goods and Houses Countrey their Land Yea Life it self though sweet for his sweet sake That for their filthy sins did undertake These know their Life is hid with him in God And that he will them help to bear the Rod. These are such fools they know that persecution Is unto them a token if salvation And that unto their persecutors 't is A certain token of perdition is Such fools as these I therefore highly prise For there are none but such that 's truly wise 'T is true to worldly wise men he 's a fool That seeks no other wisdom then the School Affords that Christ instructs his Schollars in There 's none of them that values that a pin The Spirits teaching such laugh at and scorn And do resolve that of it they 'l not learn And therefore God that 's just and only wise Doth justly stop their ears and blind their eyes And from the prudent hides his precious truths When he to babes reveals them from whose mouths He wil have praise they shall the good way find When those that say they see are wondrous blind Well then I am content a fool to be But not a fool that loves iniquity But such a fool who for eternal bliss Am well content to suffer more than this For his sweet sake that suffer'd more for me When for my sake he dyed on a tree A shameful cursed bitter cruel death On my behalf to expiate the wrath Of God his Father there was none but he Could do 't and that the more engageth me To be a fool as fools please to esteem me For precious Jesus seke who did redeem me Whose love unto my soul I far more prise Then all the fading-wealth beneath the skies And for his glorious Name am well content To suffer and endure imprisonment And do resolve through Christ strength of grace I nere will be so filthy vile and base By any means my liberty to gain Whereby the Name of God I might prophane I were a fool indeed if for a trifle I should so much my Conscience wrack and rifle Of all that consolation joy and peace And in a moment cause it all to cease That I now have and feel in Christ my Lord By Faith and Grace and comfort of his word And wrack that Faith by which I know I stand In full assurance that the Holy Land That Paradise of God that Rest I mean That goodly place no mortal eye hath seen Is mine by right of testament and wil Confirm'd to me by blood which Christ did spill To purchase that possession for my soul Where him I shall enjoy without controul And there I know I God and him shall see In perfect joy and true felicity All sorrow then with me shall have an end No more Oppression shall my soul offend What ever now I lose I then shall find Oh how the thoughts of this contents my mind There shall I see a joyful goodly sight Those precious souls and those Saints in light That have before endur'd the Cross and shame Reproach rebuke and scorn defame and blame With cruel mockings scourgings whippings and Most barbarous deaths almost in ev'ry Land Which for a Crown of Life they did abide A Kingdom Glory and a Throne beside What tongue can tell me what that joy will be When I so many blessed Saints shall see All glorifi'd and shining as the Sun And as the Stars far brighter than the Moon With blessed Abram Father of the faithful The thoughts of this methinks is wondrous joyful There will be Isaac Jacob and the rest That in the Lord are sweetly gone to rest There Peter Paul and John with many more That in their Pilgrimage laid up in store A good foundation ' gainst the time to come VVho for Christ sake forsook both all and some With all those blessed Martyrs that have bore A faithful testimony ' gainst the Whore Those hellish filthy cruel brats of Rome And all their Romish stuff their dross and scum Their god of bread their great abomination Their idle brain-sick Transubstantiation If I among all these do get a share As praised be the Lord I nothing fear But in this place of joy I have my portion A place of Rest a Stock a House a Mansion As Christ my Jesus when he went away Did to his well-belov'd Disciples say That sure within his Fathers House were many And this I doubt not but if there be any He will prepare a dwelling-place for me VVhere I shall all this glory find and see Then were not I a fool if for my freedom I should offend dear Christ and lose a Kingdom A throne a Crown of Life and endless Glory If I were such a fool I should be sorry VVhat would it my profit should I gain the world If shortly into Hell my soul be burl'd Among the damn'd not only for a moment But if ever to endure eternal torment In flames of fire to waste and not consume In dreadful dismal sights where is no room Left for Repentance no Redemption new From this Tartari'n Lake infernal Crew Where Dives may to Father Abra'm cry Oh Father Abram see what torment I Endure in flames of fire my scorched tongue Doth burn and fry Oh Father be not long But send good Laz'rus who I once rejected I now in torments am but he 's respected Send him I pray to ease my tongue my grief And with cold water give me some relief But Abraham thus answer'd him and said My Son remember when thou wast array'd In Purple and fine Linnen and didst fare Deliciously thou wouldst by no means spare The sorry crumbs that from thy Table fell But now he is in Heav'n thou art in Hell Thou hadst thy portion in that World before Thy torments now must be for evermore You 'l then conclude with me as I hope well I 'd better dye in Jayl than burn in Hell A Gaol what 's that it's no unpleasant thing If Christ be there that only blessed King He with his Love doth make a Prison
trust thou in God alone fear not what man can do For Christ will sit upon his throne and then to them wo wo. This I have learn'd and by experience found The more my troubles for Christ do abound My joy and comfort by Christ doth encrease And daily grow and multiply not cease Decay nor vanish but my Lord doth still Exceedingly my soul with his sweet will Affect please and delight there 's nothing more Can do 't the King of Saints be prais'd therefore It 's true there can be no affliction joyous Unto the flesh but very sore and grievous The flesh doth not esteem a Prison gainful But bitter and most miserably painful And so I find it sometimes is with me It makes me wish in heart I could get free Alwayes provided I could have the same With honor to my Lord the King and 's Name Which is more dear to me than is my life My little all my Children and my Wife And they are dearer to me tho I say 't Then all the world beside I 'm sure I know 't Then if I with my flesh and blood should reason I ne'r had staid in Jayl so long a season I have not been from all temptations free But many times they have assaulted me But Christ with 's Grace my soul hath so sustain'd That on my soul temptations have not gain'd Such ground or root against me to prevail Through him they have not made me faint or fail And though they seem to be no pleasant things Yet are they such as profit to me brings For by temptation is my Faith so prov'd And made more precious when I 'm nothing mov'd But helpt against them and made to endure They work such patience in me I am sure That I 'm contented to abide the storm Because they work for good and not for harm I plainly find by tribulations I Have learn'd my many frailties to espye Such as I never knew nor learn'd before I little thought that I had had such store I now can see my heart so vile so base So prone to start aside sin to embrace So ready to betray me to my foes That lodge within my breast and with them close So dull so stupid and so indispos'd So vain so foolish seldom well compos'd So ready to affect the world and'ts pelf Secretly saying Master save thy self Why shouldst thou thus thy tender self expose To be so long afflicted by thy foes Why shouldst thou man so long in Prison lye Thou maist fall sick and of that sickness dye Ponder the matter well tender thy life Thy pretty children and thy loving Wife So selfish is my heart so prone to please This sinful flesh of mine that loves its ease So full of unbelief and diffidence So ready to let go all confidence So fruitless negligent ungrateful So crafty and so subtile so deceitful I find it hard my heart to understand It hath so many turnings windings and So many evils doth it still attend I dare not trust it nor unto it lend An ear to hear its many cunning quirks That in it secretly lies hid and lurks But watch against oppose and crucifie Lest it prevail ore me and so I dye And sleep the sleep of death and all in vain I do or suffer prove my loss no gain Now then my soul behold what cause thou hast To look back to the time that 's gone and past And see consider weigh remember and Bewail thy sins for number as the sand Thy self abhor and loath and mourn for thy Uncomeliness and great imparity To Christ thy Prince that ever blessed one That dy'd for thee else hadst thou been undone And held in Chains of darkness evermore In Hell thy self to moan thy sins deplore A bond slave held in Satans Chain and Kingdom Subjected to his will his wiles and wisdom If thou shouldst have what thou by sin didst merit Thou never wilt eternal life inherit Look back I say behold and see what case Thou' rt in through sin that so by thee the Grace Of Christ thy King may so be magnifi'd His Name exalted and so glorifi'd That thou maist live for ever in his sight And that the King in thee may take delight And now behold my soul how thou art bound Here the rich love of the Lord to sound Declare and publish that all men may see How dearly Christ thy King hath loved thee And what the manner of that love hath been In taking thee from such a state of sin From Satans pow'r of darkness into light Translating thee into that Kingdom bright Of his dear Son that Prince of Life and Peace And Lord of Glory who will never cease By 's blood to speak far better things than all The blood of Abel did which loud did call For God's just veng'ance ' gainst his brother Cain Who had his brother murder'd kill'd and slain I say that speaks far better things for thee On thy behalf to God his Father he By virtue of his Death and Mediation Who lives for ever making intercession By which he pleads thy cause where now he 's sitting And answers for those sins thou art committing In weakness frailty and against thy will Consent good liking and doth daily fill Thee with assurance that thy sin 's forgiven And blotted out and all those scores made even That thou stoodst charged with before the seat Of God's tribunal terrible and great Which in that Court of Conscience there was plac't In which thou wast arraign'd condemn'd and cast 1. How wonderful thy goodness Lord hath ever been to me That thou such kindness shouldst afford of Grace and Mercy free 2. To such a sinful wretch as I so empty and so vile So fill'd with such iniquity that 's ready me to file 3. O Lord it 's wondrous in my fight that thou shouldst have regard To such a worthless nothing-wight which makes my heart though hard 4. To melt as wax before the fire when I thy Grace do weigh It so enflameth my desire Come Lord and make no stay 5. And let my soul taste more of love my soul is not content Without those show'rs fall from above that may my soul prevent 6. Those show'rs of mercy love grace that may be to my heart As show'rs to the new-mown grass that I may ne'r depart 7. From thee who art my God and King my Refuge and my Stay But that I may thy praises sing Come Lord without delay The more Christ doth himself to me make known The more to me his love and Grace is shown The more my soul enjoyes and doth possess The more it longs to have that happiness More to receive enjoy find feel and tast That by its force and strength and power at tast All those remains of sin might be subdu'd And that no fair pretence might me delude Deceive and harm by taking of my mind From Heav'n Heav'nly things nor me so blind Or cause to dote on any thing below Or make my
the Reward his Father hath him paid For that most great and glorious victory He did obtain ore Death when he did dye He overcame and sate down on the Throne With God his Father so shall ev'ry one That overcomes sit down with him and be Plac't in the Throne of Christ by vvhich vve see As God the Father hath his Throne so shall Our blessed Jesus have his Throne an'all From vvhence vve learn that certainly 't is so That Christ sits on a Throne his Father 's tho And so as true and certain also 't is There is another Throne that vvill be his Of vvhich most glorious Throne I am to speak VVhich vvill that other Throne in pieces break That throne I mean the Pope and Beast sits on I do not mean the throne God sits upon And therefore that I might not tedious be I 'le fall upon it straight novv presently A Throne in Scripture vve read of that shall As an Inheritance to Jesus fall It is the promise of the Father he Shall one day sit thereon exalted be To rule the Nations with an Iron Rod This shall be given to him by his God For 't is the Covenant his Father made With him that he as I before have said Should sit and rule upon the Throne for ever Of David dispossest he shall be never When once the throne he doth and shall obtain He then will ever govern rule and reign The Prophet Esay did this truth foresee That Jesus Christ should thus exalted be To us saith he a Child is born a Son Is given unto us there shall upon His shoulders be the Government his Name Shall called be the Wonderful for Fame A Counsellor the mighty God the Prince Of Peace the everlasting Father hence It is his Government shall still encrease For of his Government nor of his Peace There is no end upon the Kingdom and The Throne of David he shall sit his hand Shall hold the Scepter and he Davids Kingdom Will rule and order shall with so much wisdom And shall establish it with Judgement and With Justice too likewise throughout the Land That henceforth and for ever if shall be The zeal of God the Lord of Hosts shall see This done his zeal shall this perform and then Our blessed Lord shall rule and reign and when He sits upon his Throne the Throne of David Then shall the Seed of Abraham be saved If this be truth as doubtless but it is I think there 's few that lives so wicked is Plain Scripture to deny except it be The Pope of Rome that whorish State and he That saith he hath got such a Light within That sheweth what is not and what is sin The first indeed as I before have said The Scriptures by command and threats have laid Aside that no man dares in them to look Nor scarce at I have shewn no other Book The other saith the Scriptures he don't need He hath a Light with which he can both read And see and know what 's good and what is bad And should if he the Scriptures never had These both a crafty subtile trick have got That none may do or say what they think not Agrees with eithers mind or interest But I to heed the Scriptures think it best But to go on this is but by the by Yet I do think and know they must the lye Give to the Scripture that will not believe Or do deny that Christ the Throne shall have That throne of David and his Kingdom sway And that the Nations ever shall obey His Laws and Precepts so his will shall even Be done on earth as now 't is done in Heav'n But that I may this truth yet further clear Which is so precious lovely and so dear To all that wait and long and love to see That Christ alone should thus exalted be See what Jehovah unto David said Who by an Oath a Covenant had made With David That unto his Seed for ever His throne he would establish and would never Break that same Oath that Covenant that Word That is gone forth out of his mouth the Lord Once swore to David by his Holiness That he his Seed for evermore would bless And should endure for ever and his Throne As long at there was either Sun or Moon By Davids seed must needs be understood The seed of Faith for there 's no likelihood That any other seed should keep his throne For after the Messiah came was none Of Davids nat'ral seed that did possess His Throne or Kingdom yet nevertheless The oath God swore to him was that for ever His seed should sit upon his throne and never Be dispossest thereof But now it 's plain His throne is empty til it shall again By Christ be mounted who God wil enthrone And set thereon he is that Seed and none But he and those that he then shall now hath Made one with him through Grace not Works but Both he and they together shall sit down On Davids throne and wear a glorious Crown-Faith We find that Peter in the Acts confirms This exposition fully in plain terms Knowing saith he that God had sworn an Oath Which cannot be a fable but a truth That of the fruit of Davids loyns should be According to the flesh undoubtedlie Christ should be rais'd to sit on Davids Throne This Peter saith I am not then alone If neither he nor I you will believe What wil you then an Angel now receive By whom this exposition likewise shall Confirmed be from Heaven I think then all Wil be content more of this truth to hear There 's some it love though others do it fear The Angel Gabril who from God was sent Unto a City nam'd Naz'reth he went Unto a Virgin ' spoused to a man He named Joseph was the line down ran From David unto him the Virgins name Was Mary unto whom the Angel came And her salute with saying to her Hail Thou highly favour'd blessed woman shal Conceive thy womb shall now bring forth a Son And thou shalt call his Name when he is born JESVS he shall be great and called be The Son of the Most High undoubtedlie God shall to him the throne of David give And on it he shall sit and ever live And ore the House of Jacob ever reign His Kingdom shall for evermore remain For of if there shall never be an end This God to do doth certainly intend If Peter were a man none could afford To Credit yet methinks an Angels word All men should credit out of doubt believe What they do speak from heaven and all receive What they do say as well as part or some For part of this believed is by Rome To wit that Christ was of a virgin born Though they believe God won't on earth his horn Exalt yet he the horn of his Anointed Wil sure lift up for so he hath appointed I here conclude it is a certain truth That Christ shal come and reign here on
the earth For on the Earth once Davids throne was plac'd And on the Earth it now is quite defac'd And on the Earth his throne shall be again Then Christ shall on the Earth both rule â— reign For on the throne of David he shall sit And ore his Kingdom rule and govern it But here by some it may objected be That Christ doth reign now on the earth and he Exalted is already by his Father And shall not rule nor reign on Earth no other Wise than by his Wisdom Strength and Pow'r He rules his Saints and People ev'ry hour And so the World by 's Might and Providence He govern'd hath ere since he went from hence Small sign it is that Christ on Earth doth reign When few his Laws obey and few refrain Him to blaspheme but ready are to evil What ever they are prompt to by the Devil Doth Christ now reign rule amongst those men That swear and curse and drink roar and then Fall out and quarrel fight and kill and whore Of whom the World doth yeild such mighty store That one would think and may conclude ful well That most are rul'd by Lucifer or Hell Can any one think or imagine how Christ should be said to reign on earth when now His people are most times so much oppressed So persecuted and so much distressed That for his sake they 're made a mock and scorn Whose time is now not to rejoice but mourn For what is done to them is done to him He takes it so and so 't will be all them That persecute his Saints shall find it so When he appears though now they won't it know When Saul with Letters went to Damascus To persecute and spoile the Saints then thus Christ said to him when on the way he smites Him to the ground with those bright shining lights That shone about him and all those that went With him no doubt the High-Priest had them sent Him to assist in this great work of darkness To persecute those men that were so faultless That Christ rebukes him as he on the way Did go and as I said did to him say Saul Saul why dost thee thus me persecute To kick against the pricks it is no boot Then Saul astonisht says Lord who art thou I 'm Jesus whom thou persecutest now For what thou dost to them thou dost to me Thou canst not them afflict but I must be Afflicted with them if thou art their fo I feel the stroke the wound is mine also If Jesus Christ will when he comes accuse All them that do his Saints to help refuse VVhen they in prison were or sick or lame Or naked hungry and will them so blame Because they did not cloath or them relieve Nor unto them would any comfort give Nor visit when in Gaol or sick they were And them refuse to succour and to cheat And takes what 's done to them done to himself When he shall say to them that have much wealth Depart you cursed into scorching flames Eternal burnings hound in fiery Chains Of dreadful darkness now and evermore Prepared for the Devil for before When I was sick you did not visit me That is you did not comfort them that be My little ones when they distressed were No help nor no assistance would you spare For as you did to them you did to me Depart then now for ever cursed be If Christ I say shall take these things as done Unto himself they suffer not alone That are his people but he suffer so In them that this I 'de very gladly know How Christ on earth is said to rule and reign VVhen still on Earth he 's crucifi'd and slain When Christ his father David's throne shal mount He shall all evil works call to account The Heathen shall be his Inheritance VVhen he unto his Kingdom shall advance Then he the utmost parts of th' earth shall have And will his poor despised people save VVhen his Dominions shall extended be Through all the earth and eke from sea to sea And from the Rivers to th' ends of the earth This great Dominion is his right and birth For when his Kingdom that we pray for 's come VVhich strongly doth import there is no room Left to conceit he doth already reign And in his Kingdom is for then 't were vain To pray for that which now already is And hath been many hundred years if 't is But two as many now a-dayes do say Let 's tare out then that Pray'r he taught's to pray But when it 's come I was about to tell That all things ev'ry where will go full well For then the Will of God will likewise even Be done on Earth as now 't is done in Heaven There will be then no Ram 'um dam 'um Blades That tare stare fight would with their shades But all his creatures living will him praise Because of those most joyful glorious dayes That Christ shall rule and reign here on the Earth The Scripture plentifully holdeth forth That he that reads impartially may know It is a glorious heav'nly Truth although It is the most esteemed but a fable Yet those that be the born of God are able To see much heav'nly glory in 't they do Receive such comforts from 't and not a few That they are made through Grace nothing to fear What they may suffer for the Glory there But that I may a little further clear This much despised Truth to me so dear And choice and sweet I will some Reason show That Christ the Kingdoms of the Earth shall so Possess as yet he never did but shall One day them have in full possession all First then when Christ shall rule on Earth and reign And Davids Throne shall be set up again There shall be such so great increase of Peace That Quarrels Broils and Wars shall ever cease Then shall there be no envying nor hating No Titles unto this and that debating By Sword and Fire as now is and hath bin And ever will and shall be until then All men shall then so quietly enjoy What they do build and plant none shall anoy Nor them molest they in their habitation Shall then secured be no molestation Nor no disquiet shall e're them come near They shall possess without all kind of fear What is alloted them they 'l be so sure That none shall trouble unto them procure The Nations then though now and heretofore Have learned War they War shall learn no more Of Righteousness there then shall be a stream Shall run through ev'ry street this is no dream Nor fond conceit Justice and Equitie Will flourish then and there no more will be Oppression us'd the cause of him that 's poor Shall not perverted be nor nevermore The Widows cause or Fatherless sha'nt then Be turned back at that time shall no men Hate one another nor no man then shall Imagine ill against his brother all Shall live in such a blessed unity No man
hath Nor can deprive him of his right it 's sure To him and shall for evermore enoure Saith David in his Psalms The Heathen rage Vain things imagine what doth this presage God sits in Heav'n and hath them in derision And will at length himself make the decision Though they do set against him and 's Anointed And counsel take they shall be disappointed Vnto them all he 'l speak then in his wrath Though he forbears and seems to be so loth Yet will he vex them in his sore displeasure When he shall set his King his only Treasure Upon his holy Hill then the Decree Concerning him will soon declared be Thou art my Son I have begotten thee Then ask my Son ask thou I say of me And I will give thee thine Inheritance Thou shalt upon my Holy Hill advance The Heathen shall be to thee for a portion The Earth I give to thee for thy possession The utmost parts thereof I give and thou Shalt break them with a Rod of Iron now In pieces shalt thou dash them as a Vessel That 's broken a in Morter with a Pestle Again saith David in another place Such is the Majesty of Christ the Grace Of this most mighty Prince and Lord of all That Kings shall stoop and down before him fall And they that in the Wilderness do live Shall bow before him and him honor give His Enemies who will they nill they must Fall down before him and shall lick the dust The Kings of Tarshish and them of the Isles Shall presents bring to him to have his smiles The Kings of Sheba and of Seba too Shall offer gifts to him if that would do Yea all the Nations under Heav'n that are Shall him obey all Kings then shall him fear And David in another Psalm doth say That God his Enemies will drive this day Before him God will then his foes down beat And plague all men he will that do him hate My faithfulness saith God with him shall be My mercy also and his Name I 'le see Shall be exalted I will set his hand Upon the Sea so in the Rivers and He 'l cry Thou art my God my Father then And say the Rock of my Salvation when My first-born I will make whose so by birth Far higher than the Kings are of the Earth But some it may be here will now object And say These Scriptures all have no respect To Christ but Solomon by them is meant And David penn'd these Psalms to that intent To shew he should be set on such a throne That like to him there should be never none So great so rich so mighty as was he If so then all these things fulfilled be I answer That these Scriptures can't be so Receiv'd nor understood for this I know That Solomon was never God's first-born Nor never did God so exalt his Horn To give to him such great and large Dominion To reach from sea to sea in my opinion Nebuchadnezzar was a greater man Then ever was the great King Solomon For Daniel said to him O King it 's thou Art grown so mighty strong and great that now Thy potent greatness reacheth unto Heav'n Such is thy boundless and thy large Dominion It doth extend unto the ends of th' earth God unto thee such glory given hath Though Solomon his glory was so much That in his day there was no King had such Yet consid'ring Nebusshadnezzar he Was great Commander universallie O're all the world it clearly follow will Those Prophesies God did not then fulfil In Solomon because it 's plain that he Had never such a glorious Monarchie I then conclude they meant and rather may The King of Babylon which none will say So universal as the others was Nor yet so great nor universal as Our Lords shall be when he doth come to reign As those fore-cited Scriptures speaketh plain Besides what I before did shew indeed That Christ must be that King of Davids seed These reasons then I end though many more I might produce in Scripture there 's such store But I with these shall well contented be Such satisfaction are they unto me But yet I matter not for th' sake of those That may more doubtful be before I close Bring forth such Scriptures which do more conduce To satisfaction then I here produce That prophesie of Balaam who when He hired was to curse Gods Israel then He prophesi'd and said My eyes shall him Behold but shall not now they are too dim I shall behold him but it won't be nigh Though I the knowledge have of the most High There shall a Star come out of Jacob and A Scepter out of Israel the Land Of Moab shall he smite the corners all The sons of Seth shall be destroy'd and fall And Edom shall because of their transgression So Seir likewise shall be a possession Unto his Enemies but Israel he Shall in those days do then most valiantlie Then out of Jacob will he come that shall Possess and have dominion o'ne them all Balaam then took up his Parable Beheld and saw that day was terrible And said Alas though 't is a day of bliss To Jacob who shall live when God doth this Again good Hannah when the Lord her Womb Had opened that she conceiv'd to whom He gave a Son which when she had brought forth She lent unto the Lord a son of worth He was to her yet for the Lord she 'l spare Her child her only son that was so dear And then to pray and praise the Lord goes she And thus she saith by way of prophesie The Adversaries of the Lord shall be All broke to pieces out of Heaven shall he Thunder upon them then the Lord will judge The Earth and ends thereof this priviledge The Lord shall have and strength he 'l give his King And will the Horn of his Anointed bring To be exalted and he 'l help the feet Of all his Saints though men them ill entreat As for the wicked they shall silent be In darkness when that they this day do see To do these wondrous things God will not fail For know by strength no man shall then prevail Oh what a glorious time this then will be When Saints shal reign with Christ triumphantlie That most transcendent glory and the state Christ shall be in which he 'l participate To them their lot their portion and a shares Because they 're sons they likewise are Joint-heirs With him and in his throne they shall sit down And shall receive a Kingdom and a Crown Not such a corrupt Crown that fades away But such a Crown of Life that won't decay Then fear not little Flock for 't is the pleasure Of God your Father to give you the treasure That 's in a Crown by Grace he will you save And hath thought meet the Kingdom you should have He that is Prince of Kings Kings of the earth Who you so lov'd that you he washed hath From all your sins in his