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A91934	Jegar-Sahadvtha: an oyled pillar. Set up for posterity, against present wickednesses, hypocrisies, blasphemies, persecutions and cruelties of this serpent power (now up) in England (the out-street of the beast.) Or, A heart appeale to heaven and earth, broken out of bonds and banishment at last, in a relation of some part of the past and present sufferings of John Rogers in close prison and continued banishment, for the most blessed cause and testimony of Jesus; the sound of the seventh trumpet and the gospel of the seven thunders, or holy oracles (called rayling by them in power) sealed up to the time of the end. From Carisbrook Castle in the third year of my captivity, the fifth-prison, and the third in exile, having been hurried about from post to pillar, quia perdere nolo substantiam propter accidentia.	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?	1657 (1657)	Wing R1809; Thomason E919_9; ESTC R207526	168,327	179

it is by his grace I will look thee in the face Thou proudest Tyrant thou canst but batter the vessel thou canst but hurt the bark but my life is hid with Christ O sweet word they cannot finde it it is out of their reach for it is hid with Christ in God Amen! Lord and keep it there that I faint not Thus far for the second Reason arising from my sufferings 3. Another Reason why I appeared not publikely from prison before was impreparation having been in the valley for the vision many days and months before I could come to this in many travels trials and pangs of Spirit upon me before it could be brought so neer the birth as now it is waiting for a safe and seasonable deliverance This made me sit up mourning in the night-season and laid me low in the flesh for many a week together with little joy of this life as we say though with no little joy of cheary faith and sweetness in divine life and being waiting for the Anointing to bring forth this little being loth it should prove abortive though but an Embryo of what I hope will be born in due season But some labour with more difficulty pains and dangers to bring forth a little birth by reason of impediments then others do in the greatest and indeed because of the Times a fixed and clear judgement is so incumbent that I could not content my self with the speculation of the present Truths Prophecies and Visions which begin to break out of Daniel and the Revelation with such dazling and amazing light but I must be sure of a sound Practical judgement too and principle in the heart which puts into one balance with Christ and his Controversie God and his Commands and into the other with the Beast and his present Controversie the Sins and Apostacies of the Times and of this Street and upon poysing on all Sides and setting all it can cost me before me chuses my duty to God and Christ against the sins and abominations of the Times or the Powers which occasions the hard Travel And I must confess I did deliberate with too much flesh and blood at first contenting my self more with the heavenly Prison and presence of Waiting then of Writing of Praying then of Publishing any thing to the world that so I might run the less hazard to life liberty fame or estate c. But I was soon rouzed up out of this Contentation and kinde of Contemplation whether I will or no by a loud Call to me for what is already born of God in me about the Work of this Age yea of the 45. ensuing yeers after this wherein the Lamb's followers and sufferers under the Banner of Christ are to know their Places maintain their Watches keep their Motions continue their Marches renew their Charges till they rout Babylon and destroy the Beasts Dominion root and branch yea until they do Wonders in this old world For the years of Wonders Dan. 12.6 are now entering upon the descension of the Spirit of life from God And in order I am to sound the ensuing Trumpet to the Two Witnesses and remnant of the womans seed for it is no time to dally the danger is great the day is come and we are engaged there is no going off live or die stand or fall fight or flight is at hand and Num. 10.5 6 8. When ye blow an alarm then the camp shall go forward VVhen the Congregation is to be gather'd together ye shall blow but not an alarm and this shall be an indelible ordinance to you in your generation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that after a long and humble attendance at the Throne for my present work The Order of the Author's Call to this Treatise I am put upon this whatever I must do or endure for it so Jesus be but magnified my spirit is pitched having so manifest and manifold a Call to it in order thus 1. A special Message from the LORD brought by a choice servant of Christ and his Church 1. A Message brought me the 10 of this month by our S. H.T. who had a weeks close communion and conference with the Lord in heavenly Visits and Visions singing praying contemplating communicating and receiving amongst other things a Message to deliver me in the Prison which I had to this effect That the Lamb's book should be unsealed and the Visions opened to me bidding me be of good chear for I should shortly know my own work and what Israel ought to do This I confess was a word in season to me and as sutable at that juncture as if an Angel had come with it out of heaven on purpose which much raised and revived my spirit as Solomon says Prov. 13.17 A faithful or as in Heb. a true Messenger is health in the Abstract 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I found it when the visions of mine head troubled me and made me sick it is medicina as some read it Prov. 25.13 Besides upon the first of the third m. last after a very solemn Fast all day with my con-Captive to know our work and what we should do the succeeding night in my sleep I thought I lay under the shadow of a great Mulberry-tree which hung full of great ripe mulberries I lying with my face upward and mouth open saw many of the boughs crowded together which I thought by impression upon my heart in my bodily sleep to be the Lord on the top treading them down together whereby as the boughs so the brave large berries struck one against another and brake one into another and ran all that were so broken by one stream into my mouth and belly whereby I thought I was abundantly refreshed and when I awaked I was so indeed full of joy and could not hold but told my wife of it presently and afterwards my friends But before noone the same day I received a Letter from the foresaid person with these lines Truly brother I have seen you frequently in the divine bosome and have sung abundantly Hallelujah for the Cordials which I saw poured down your throat which made you I apprehended like a Champion and like a triumphing Conquerour Go on thou Champion for he hath said he will stand by thee who stood by Paul at his first answer when none stood by him c. Some may muse at my admittance of these things but I do assure them it is neither to boast of them for what hast thou O man to boast of but what thou hast received nor to build upon them which is very dangerous but it is to observe the concurrence and good effects of such passages for though I am as far from taking notice of or having dependance upon Dreams or Visions as any man alive yet I must not omit the night-teachings of the Spirit nor such Dreams or Visions which bring forth blessed effects upon the spirits of men or are ratifications of the truth and minde of God for

whom you speak against and despightfully use you should do well your selves to be reading praying and preaching to one another not so unchristian like to blaspheme and scoffe thereat at which they were incensed and turned upon me brustling like wilde Boars whose tusks were whetted in their own foam and so fell bitterly upon mee and told mee I was their prisoner and I did not know it meaning I suppose for that I durst be so bold as to reprove them I told them I was the Lords freeman for all that and therefore could not but speak for the Lord for whose sake I was willing to suffer bonds but said K. the Serjeant you are not in prison for the Lord for what then said I nay faies he they that sent you hither knows why truly said I but I know not then neither do they they that keep me here I believe for I am sure in none of their Orders or Mittimusses that ever I could see yet did they ever signify any cause why they committed me and have kept me now in severall prisons near two years already and in banishment but as the Town-cleark answered the hurly burly Acts 19. Yee have here in prison men that are neither robbers nor blasphemers and yet you use us worse then the very●st Rogues in New-gate Robbers or Blasphemers are used for they if they have money can send for meat to cat or be ministred to or receive Letters necessaries but you hinder us most tyrannically and unjustly by your ungodly Swords even from our very necessaries without Law of God or Nation Reason Equity or Conscience wherefore as Acts 19.38 If we are transgressors and you have matter against us the Law is open why do you not try us but if not why do you thus use us who have done you no wrong Nay and now too my wise being so ill and she that is with us for a servant lame c. O search into your consciences for you never treated the Cavaleres so bruitishly here with you Nay you could give the Cavaleres that were here liberty to go abroad and ride about to Newport and up and down to Alehouses drinking feasting gaming and commiting sinne every day and partake with them too in it yet we must gnaw upon the bitt and be kept without bread is this righteous in the sight of God Corporall Haddiwayes answered me that we were worse then the Cavaleres therefore and S.K. said in a scoffing manner give me money and I 'le go fetch you things Ah! said I to S. K. for I directed my speech to one now you have declared your painciples to be to obey Orders whatsoever they be you say so When if a Superiour Officer do bid you in your ear put two penny worth of poysonor Ratsbane into the meat or what you buy for us you must do it you say and the sinn be upon them that bid or ordered you no! no! it is dangerous dealing with men of your principles then I perceived their teeth were on edge to be upon mee and one bad mee be gone in but being warm in my Spirit Quo magis illi furunt eo amplius procedo as Luther said I told them that I was doing no harme and prayed them to consult with the word of God about their present condition but then came out an old man and bid mee be gone in I told him I was about the Lords worke and did no harm nor was I ever forbid to stand in that place where I stood and I did think it as good ground to stand on as that in my prison but now they began fierce upon me many at once like so many wide-mouthed Wolves to fall on as if they would not have left the bones untill the morrow and out came Bull who imediatly without hearing mee gave them either the sign or the word to fall upon mee notwithstanding I cryed out unto him what have I done only rebuked sin and blasphemy c. but he was farr more barbarous than the Heathen chief Captain of the band Acts 21.31 32. who as soon as he came they left beating of Paul and he rescued him yea then the Captain and his Officers Acts 5.26 who brought them without violence but this worse than Heathen was hot in his Gall and greedy Surdis auribus sed plenis faucibus he commanded and encouraged them and looked on and directed them with his Cane to do it and as soon as he came the cruell Souldiers armed as for a combate fell thick upon me with their bent fists bearing some haling as if they had intended my death forth with Acts 21.31 Colaephis verberibus pluentes grandinantes and after a while two or three of them espeially S. King the Cap tain of the Guard then cryed out let us carry him to the Dungeon to to the Dungeon to the Dungeon to the Dungeon with him at which I was by some hawled and turned about that way and then I sayd as they were thrusting pulling and strikeing mee Yea yea with all my heart with all my heart I rejoice more therein for I shall finde my dear Christ there I am sure it is sweeter than a Chamber for this cause I shall finde my God there as well as in my Chamber do what you can and indeed I was refreshed thereat and now now I think of John Carelesse his comforts in prison F●x voll 3. page 716. I am disposed to be merry to sing and dance with David before the Arke saies he to Mr. Bradford and though you play upon a pair of Orgons i. e. in the Stocks not very easie to the flesh yet the sweet sound that cometh from the same causeth me to do thus that I may sing all care a way in Christ for now the time of comfort is come meaning by greater afflictions for Christ I hope to be with you shortly for my old friends of Coventry have put the Councill in remembrance of mee saying I am more worthy to be burn'd than any that hath been burned Gods blessing on their hearts for so good report God make me worthy and hasten the time c. Thus in effect I said and my Spirit leaped but when they saw my comfort and courage in it when they cryed out to the Dungeon to the Dungeon with mee they were daunted at that and then hawled mee up a pair of stairs at the foot of which came some fresh Souldiers to help the rest who were weary with haling and abusing me one Robert Jenkins particularly with his fists ready bent first held them to my face to shew mee them to whom I said Ah! I know your weapons and then he fell upon mee ●main these greedy bruits learning no other way of preferment and favour with the grand Goaler Bull before whose eyes he shewed his valour in violence but by such exploits as we say that when they cannot shoot men they will shoot Pigeons or any thing Bull with others crying and following

Vapours and exhaled from the Dunghill of one CRAFTON a Malignant Priest in London a little before my imprisonment escaped the publique Fire upon its slimy Matter so as to have burnt it up in the sight of the Sun whose Tabernacle he fumed and fomed against but the long lawlesse Sword interposed took away my papers and plundered from me amongst them the Reply to what is Sober in his Stage-play-Treatise Neverthelesse I doe yet more abundantly blesse the Lord for his light of the seven Lamps of fire which burn before the throne Rev. 4.5 whereby I see the better end of the staff in my hand while the Truth is still with Mee onely I must intreat thee my Reader and Friend to wait with patience and in hope with us till Deliverance and Liberty to the truth be restored and in the interim mend with thy pen the following Errataes before thou proceedest in this part called the Introduction c. What the other part called Jegar-Shabadutha or a Heart-Appeale c. is for Errataes I am ignorant nor have I yet seen sheet of it Onely I fear so hard a travel through so many extraordinary obstructions of the birth and so little help from the Neighbourhood will at the least deform it if not indarger the very being of it in my absence and exile which accordingly you must consider because the cruel Decree of Pharaoh hath put the Hebrews upon bringing forth such male-truths without the help or skill of the Egyptian Midwives Yea and which is worse I am informed those few seeming friends that do assist the birth have agreed to cut off some Members if not integrals of that little Treatise to facilitate the birth but how can it then live or if it doe so monstrously mishapen as they think I heare to make it I shall want will and affection to own it for mine for I differ from their vote who had rather have it born a Creple then not at all My Dear Reader a word more It may be thou wilt wonder to see the Introduction to a yeer or two's prison-travel of spirit put in this place and therein here news of an ensuing Treatise or two about the two Brittish Witnesses and of a more obvious supputation of times according to the Danielian and Apocalyptick accounts then hath ever yet been extant a matter so important to be cleared and of the two Beasts with all the apurtenances Characters Seals works times and signes and also all the 42 m speriod upon us and of the slaughter of the two Witnesses in this street for the single time duall time and a devident with the mystery of that number 666. giving my reasons why I differ in the root from learned Mr. Potter canvasing traversing and trajecting his Arguments with modesty and submission Also a Synopsis of the Lambs Government shewing the difference between the Lambs and Beasts G. Civil and so between the Lambs and Beasts martiall Laws in all duties of Officers and of Souldiers the apparent discrepancy seen at once the Beasts in one Collume and the Lambs in the other Also a very lucid discovery of the Kingdom of Christ on Earth and the present work of Saints in England the order instruments and matter of the viols the holy war at hand the 1000 yeers and first Resur with the order thereof and much other matter which you hear of but see nothing Alas alasse as Lam. 4.3 it is because this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 T●nniu Serpent-Seamonster hath sought to devour it and the truth betrayers and Murtherers have pursued these males in the womb that they stick in the birth and cannot come forth none being so hardy to help them he that offers it makes himself a prey But this poor miscelany of generall matter hath with much a doe remained untaken to declare aloud their cruelty who have hindred and stifled the most speciail Wherefore in pitty I pray give quarter to this maimed that hath so hardly escaped the hands of the Cut-throats and allow it a little House-room with the other called a Heart-Appeale c. because it is a kind to that which delineates our Winforsuffrings and the present in this exile this beginning an abstract of our first triall at Lambeth in both which you wil have a History of above two yeers bonds and banishment in severall prisons to this present abiding me and mine which therefore may the more justly claim the company of each other Much more might be added in this Tragedy of our hard trials to the flesh both as to the present condition of my own body so much distempered in this unwholsome hole of this Castle whereinto I am cast it rising up with blisters aching with pains burning with hot humors and falling into unusuall fits full of pains inwardly and very often at the heart So also my Wife whose sufferings have been so great in this Gaole that severall Doctors of Physick in London have affirmed her sickness to have risen from the rude handlings and frights with the unwholsomnesse of the pit we are put into together to the evident hazzard of her life This is known to him in power Yea and the rest of my family with me some or other or all being continually ill and afflicted with distempers pains sicknesse lameness and other sore trials of the flesh But I much rather affect to make my condition known to God who hath the bowels of a father then to men who have not the bowels of men whose interest is neither to heare us nor believe us for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tsammetu babbor they have cut down into the pit ditch and Dungeon those sanctified ones that rejoyce in thy Highnesse Isa 13.3 whom thou Oh Jehovah wilt raise up Wherefore karenu shemcha Jehovah mibbor We have called upon thee O God from this Grievous Pit of Caines-Brook-Chaines To Conclude forasmuch loving Reader as I finde no faith no truth or constancy in Men but through the persecution of undoubted foes and perfidiousnesse of dawbing and doubtfull friends who promise faire but perform foully all I doe for the Publick is either betrayed pilled spoyled or obstructed in my absence and a true friend to one in prison being rara avis in terris I am forced now in this third yeere of my imprisonment and banishment to convert my time more particularly then I had intended to my own use and profit by perfecting my search of and studies in the holy Scriptures through the Hebrew Chald. Syriack Arabick and so Persian roets which is my present and daily Work and I doe blesse my God for this great blessing upon me in that little progresse which through his grace I have made into the Pentateuch Psalms and Prophets For by the Hebrew Chald. Samaritan Rabbinic Arabic Persian Aethiopick Armenian and Topick Tongues in all which except the two last I am now perusing the Scriptures of holy inspiration I have received a most sweet Light taste and singular comfort to my own soule