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A89677	A blast from the Lord, or A vvarning to England, by way of exhortation to take heed, and not run upon their own destruction; which will be speedily, without true repentance. By a lover of the truth, and a prisoner for declaring truth abroad Ben: Nicholson.	Nicholson, Benjamin.	1653 (1653)	Wing N1104; Thomason E689_19; ESTC R203018	15,970	22

house she gaddeth abroad to change her ways she is barren her womb cannot be satisfied she is a grave where dead men lieth and she like the witch of Endor conjureth them up to stand before a many Sauls whom the spirit of God reigneth not in 1 Sam. 28.11 12 13 14. making a trade of raising up of the Apostles Prophets and Christ's words feeding the poor people which they have led blind with apperitions and falcities of their own corrupted wisdom not knowing at all the wisdom of God nor being made partaker of the power and life which the Apostles Prophets and Jesus Christ lived in yet they preach forth lies in hypocricy telling the people that God and the Kingdom of God is without them or in a place in heaven a great many miles above their heads making the ignorant people think that God is as some great man sitting in a Throne in the natural heavens 1 Kings 8.27 and thus they either know not or else are willingly ignorant of that God fills heaven and earth and all things and that the hea of heavens cannot contain him and that he is Omni present in all places and that he lives in himself and of him all things consists and in him have their life and being to whom belongeth all honour and glory and everlasting praises and to none els O ye whose strength upholds this deceitful lying and bloud-thirsty whore take warning and all you who have loved her and helpt to bear her up and that have given your power unto her now bestirr your selves and discover her wickedness hate her and burn her with fire for this is the decree of God upon her Rev. 19.20 and he hath put it into the hearts of those who once loved her to do so unto her Rev. 14.10 11. I cannot but take notice how she is already burning and how the fire of Gods wrath descendeth continually down upon her and scorcheth her Rev. 17.12 to end that I am sure it is the breath of Gods mouth and the brightness of his appearance in his Saints that shall wholly destroy her this whore the Antichrist who make a profession of God and Christ in words but in power and practice deny them Every one who makes a profession of Christ in words denies him in their practices and keeps not his Commandments is an Antichrist saying lye down and let us go over you a deceiver which the Lord will cut off suddenly from amongst his people without speedy repentance 1 Joh. 4.2 3. He is not a Iew who is one outwardly only but he is a Iew who is one inwardly neither is he an Antichrist which is one outwardly only but he is an Antichrist which is one inwardly This is the true Iew and the false Christ or Antichrist which Iew God will call and save and which Antichrist God will judge and destroy A warning to all Antichrists and dissemblers who profess much but practice little who speak forth the word of God and hear it but do it not and so deceives their own souls and these are children of the whore of Babylon Mat. 21.44 which the Lovd Iesus will dash in pieces he is that stone that being fallen upon will bruise but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind them to powder and by it shall the whore of Babylon which is made rich by the great company of her ships Merchants and Marriners that trusted in Egipt in one day become dessolate all her ships shall fail for want of water her Merchants shall become poor Rev. 14.9 10. and her Marriners wall be terribly afraid and shall bewail her and stand afarr off when they see the smoke of her burning ascend up towards heaven saying Rev. 18.18 alas alas the great City Babylon how is thy destruction come upon thee in one day but shall not com near to help her Ezek. 27.29 to end thou Babylon art confusion thou whore which rulest therein is the wisdom of the flesh and the brats or children which thou bringest forth are pride covetousness lying swearing stealing whoring anger and revenge hating one-another evil communication idle talking and foolish jesting c. all the Priests in England are full of confusion both in themselves and one against another by the wisdom of the flesh they are set up Rev. 18.23 and bear rule their Merchants are the great men of the earth and the wise men thereof their Marriners the water wherein they have their great traffick is the light of the first nature and their ships their human learning many Books in which they heap up all their wares to traffick with and make sale on the walls which defend them are the people living in sin even all her children Read Ezek. 8.27 the Beast which they ride on are all their followers Then see what follows The Priests of England are part of Babylon members of the Whore thereof Ez k. 27.27 which are maintained by the great men of England and by the wise men thereof are helped to steer on their design in the old sea of frothy invention the Schools of learning their Ship-Carpenters their learning and books their rotten ships and their preaching out of their human learning and heathenish Authors books many lies and foolish histories are their wares which they counsell people to buy the wall which defendeth them and the Beast which they ride on are almost all the men in England but that of late much of their wall is fallen off from them Then look to it thou Babylon thou whore in Babylon you Merchants and Mariners the waters and ships with the wares thy walls and the Beast which thou ridest upon shall all be shortly burnt dried up and broken to pieces and the glorious Lord God will be unto his people a place of broad Rivers and streams wherein shall go no gally with Oars Psa 46.4 Isa 33.21 to the end nor gallant ships pass there but the Lord will be their King and save them and their Law-giver and he wil plead for them the Saints of God shall need no stearing by the powers of the world in the light of Nature or in the waters of the old frothy sea of the filthy inventions of the naturall man nor need they any to fight to defend their caus or plead for them for the Lord will save protect Dan. 7.27 defend and deliver them from all their enemies wil give the rule the power and dominion of the world to the Saints of the most High and they shall rule in peace and govern in righteousness and their Kingdom shall be an everlasting Kingdom and Christs Dominion shall endure for ever in them and of the rule and government there shall be no end for when they die or leave the visible body they shall be wholly swallowed up into him who reigned in them and so from the time of Christs first reigning in them 1 Thess 4.17

shall burn as a Fire Psal 2.12 and devoure all the wicked on the world yea all the ungodly shall be as stubble and the fire of the Lord shall burn them all up and leave them neither Root nor Branch Now the Sinners in Sion shall be afraid and all the hypocrites hope shall perish Isa 13.9 to end James 5.1 2 3 because of the fierce wrath of the Lord against the wicked in heart Howle all Rich men in the Earth for the rust of your Gold and Silver shall beare witness against you because you have not honored the Lord God with the increase of your Flocks the Fruits of your Corn and the Overplus of your Moneys but have spent them upon your Lusts and consumed them by pride banquetting rioting and drunkenness Now the Lord is comming to require an account how you have spent all his treasure for the Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof and not yours O ye wicked ones and he is comming to require his Corn Hos 2.9 his Wine his Oyle his Wooll and his F●●●… and to know how you have spent them whether you have bestowed them on those the Lord commanded you Zec. 7.9 10. Isa 58.6 to end to see if you have fed the hungry clothed the naked relieved the oppressed have you let the Prisoners goe free then have you made yourselves rich with the Mammon of unrighteousness Ezek. 18.7 8. and ye shall be received into everlasting habitation and rule as Kings among the Saints of the most high God Mat. 25.24 25 26. whose Kingdom shall be an everlasting Kingdom and whose truth shall endure throughout all generations Hear O yee just and upright ones the Lord is going to destroy all ungodly ones and to cut off from the earth all wicked workers and to place in their rooms just men and to set up in the earth the Kingdom of Iesus Christ which shall reign in his Saints which is the stone cut out of the mountain Dan. 2.44 that shall smite the great Image from off his seat and break all the powers of the earth to pieces and though that power of legs and thighs be the strongest power which now reigneth in England that breaketh in pieces and bruiseth all things therein yet this stone cut out of the mountain without hands as it hath broken in pieces all the rest of the Image in England shall break in pieces this breaker this strong part of the Image and shall reigne over it Read Dan. 2. and the other part or power of this Image which is to reign the Feet it shall be so weak and devided in it self that its time shall be very short and that by reason of its being devided in it self it shall stand but a little And I am sure it shall speedily begin Call it what Government you will in his days shall the great God of heaven and earth set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed And this is the stone cut out of the moun ain without hands Iesus Christ in his Saints which shall bruise and break in pieces all powers of the world Ier. 23.6 to end In his days shall Israel be saved and Judah shall dwell safely This is the name wherewith he shall be called The Lord our righteousness and in this Mount shall the Lord make unto all people a feast of fat things of marrow and of much fatness of good wine of wine on the lees well refined and in this Mount will the Lord God destroy all things that shall offend and he will rent and take away the vail of the covering spread over all Nations and he will shine through all clouds and darkness and will rent the vail of the Temple and shake the Foundations of the earth the gross darkness which the world liveth in and by their dark lanthornes the Priests of England are lead blind by and are bewitched from the truth and trust in lying words Ier. 7.3 to 9. The Temple of the Lord or the Church of the Lord calling a house of stone the Church or Temple of God but the Temple of God are these if you throughly amend your ways Take notice Amend your ways and do that which is justice and right betwixt man and man If you relieve the oppressed fatherless poor and widows and deal your bread to the hungry cover the naked with a garment and take off every yoke and burthen relieve the captives and let your prisoners go free then shall your light shine clear and break forth as at noon-day Isa 61.4 to end you shall be called the habitation of the Lord the repairer of the breaches and the builder of the old wasts for men to dwell in then shall the Lord take delight in you and dwell with you for ever The vaile of the Temple is the dark ministry which liveth and leadeth others to live in gross hypocricie which clothes Iesus Christ with the filthy unclean rotten rags of their own righteousness Their fair glosses and false interpretations of Iesus Christ Ezek. 32.2 the Prophets and Apostles words which darkens the pure light by which they were guided and thus they muddy the clear waters Ez 34.18 19. and drink up the sweet waters and trouble the rest with their feet their unjust pathes treading down the good pastures which they do not eat up which all the Saints of God have ever eaten on and drunken of and shall do unto the end of the world yea and for ever lie down safely Psal 11.4 7. against all the powers of hell and death and the rule and Kingdom of the Lord Iesus in his Saints Psal 82.5 to end shall overturn and overcome and rule over all Nations in peace and in righteousness shall the Kingdom be established in their hands and they shall have peace for ever and all powers of the earth Psal 18.15 or the foundations whereon the whole world standeth all the Magistrates of the world shall be shaken the pillers whereon the earthly worshippers worships Exe. 13.14 15. Isa 24.17 to end and carnal Ordinances standeth on which must not only shake but be made empty and turned up-side-down and left without a man and without an Inhabitant and none shall dwell therein for ever This is Babylons fall and Iesus Christ his rise for it is only Iesus Christ that shall by the breath of this mou●h and the brightness of his coming destroy him even Antichrist who with all powers and lying wonders have deceived the Nations of the whole earth c. now is the time near at hand wherein all the spears of the world shal be beat into pruning hooks and their Swords into plowshares Nation shall not rise up against Nation Isa 2.4 neither shall they learn War any more there shall bee nothing but peace within our borders and plenty within our palaces there shall be no sorrow nor sighing at all Ier. 31.12 Isa 25.8 Rev. 21.4 for all tears shall be wiped away from all eyes and joy and gladness and fulness of rejoycing shal be the reign of Sions King in the midst of all his people Thus shall great Babilon which is com into remembrance before the Lord be cast down and never rise again and Sion which hath lain waste shal be inhabited and never destroyed any more for ever neither shall come up thither the ravenous Beasts and Birds of prey nor any Wolferous eye shall ever see the beauty of Sion the perfect City of the living God whose praise shall spread throughout the whole Earth neither shall any thing that is polluted or unclean come in thither Rev. 21.27 yet the Gates thereof shall not bee shut at all They that have ears to hear let them hear But Babylon shall be the place of darkness for nightbirds and Scriechow's for the wild beasts to lye down in Isa 13.9 to end 34.8 to end and for the birds of prey to make their nests in and for the Satyrs to dance in Thus shal that great Whore the woman lapt in an Ephod the Talent of lead Zac. 5 5 to end be cast into the midst of the Sea with great force for strong is the Lord of Hosts which hath determined her utter destruction and she shall never rise again she shall be carried into her own land Forge fulness and set upon her Basse misery and there shall abide for ever and ever Thus farewell all wickedness and welcome Truth and Righteousness for thou shalt live for ever and rule over all thine enemies So shall it be even so be it Amen FINIS A Postscript to the Reader Reader THat thou mayst know what is here spoken is no more but what the Scriptures beareth witness to I have taken a little care for the edifying of them that desire to know truth and that by the mouth of two witnesses it may be established I have set down the Scriptures in the margent of this little volumn which bear witness to what is in it declared therefore search the Scriptures and see whether those things be not so or no and take warning lest thou perish with the disobedient Farewell Benjamin Nicholson FINIS