Freedome let them know that the time is drawing on that your staffe of beauty and bonds that have been broken the Lord will bring them together againe and they shall be stronger than they were before Lord thou wilt suddenly come to thy Temple the foolish Virgins shall then cry but saies the Lord I have an open gate onely for mine that have oyle in their Lampes You great Professors you who are but lamp ones you shall not enter in when he comes he will not come as a torn battered crusht Jesus but as a lovely king as one full of favour though many say Io here is Christ and there but these are deceivers but oh the children shall by thy spirit know the countenance of the true Christ his true breath his looks from all painted looks that are upon the earth Jesus Christ will not come flashily but with such a light as shall endure such a light as you shall see that all other lights are counterfeit to him though never so many languages utter their voices but when thou commest thy language shall be discerned Many are come forth into the world but thou sayest try the spirits my Saints it is not they can try the spirits that have read many volumnes University men have great knowledge but they cannot try the spirit can those that have the form without the power that have great arguments No they onely can try the spirits that are children indeed the other by virtue of their literall knowledge their own understanding their own apprehensions their own light oh such are taken with flesh and say this is Christ and that is Christ but thy people will not onely try Ranters for they are known in the face of the Sun but they will try whether men be for a crucified Christ that suffered upon the Crosse or a Christ within thine indeed are for Christ within them and they doe love Christ as he suffered at Ierusalem and manifest within them Oh but thine are too apt to run away from the simplicity of the Gospel though things be high yet if they have not a footing in a crucified Christ in God manifest in the flesh then let not thine embrace them Having with these uttered many other things she sung of the glory of the new Ierusalem which escaped the Relators pen by reason of the lownesse of her voice and the noise of the people onely some pieces were taken here and there but too broken and imperfect here to relate After her song she proceeded again to prayer wherein she uttered the words following It is now much that great Ones do not tremble that they have such greedy mindes after things here below if they did take things into their understanding least they should not be entertained at thy Table How do they think that are in high places to manage their proceedings aright if they have not the presence of God with them if they have Prayer and Faith against them O saies Ioshua I will rather have all the Armies of the world against me than want the presence of God! oh if they were jealous that they had many enemies within then they would doe as Ioshua did they would set themselves to seek the Lord they would say come souldiers let us seek the Lord thou hast now put them to the trial now let them examine whether their former prayers promises and declarations came from a legal and slavish or a Gospel-fear a fear that they should be smitten down to the earth or a filial fear a feare that the name of the Lord would fall upon the ground O what will become of thy great Name had you had the name of God in your eyes then you would have it still if the true fear of God wrought in you such effects before why does it not so now why are you now so little for the name of the Lord and so much for your own name If you had acknowledged my supremacy then in truth you would acknowledge it now O the Lord cannot endure hypocrites Rational men themselves abhorre that which is flattery and dissembling and what is not from an ingenious frame of spirit and will not God much more Now that you come to have fine houses warm beds sweet meats doe you now pay your Vowes unto the Lord Oh let them not side with the crookednesse of this Generation let them draw nigh to meet their God Oh come come when you were trembling Ones praying Ones then Israel exalted you and delighted in you and went to God for your sakes and now you have offended in Baal you are dead your spirits are dead will you not be told of it You shall be told of it Come O you that are in any Authority in any Office study what you are to doe for the Lord wherein you might redeem the time wherein you might serve the Lord though you have given up your members to serve sin and vanitie let the day suffice that you have recreated sported filled feasted your selves Now say Lord we will be for thee and he will receive you If they now set to Temple-work thou wilt say to them thou though test to have taken them away in the Wildernesse because they have done thus and have gone back in the wildernesse Yet the Lord will say to them as to David I accept of it at thy hand of the thoughts of thy heart yet thou shalt not build my house Pray for your children that they may not be taken with crowns nor with the summers increase as their Fathers have been O let them not die without a repenting frame of spirit Oh thou lovest them that confesse their sinnes true confession of sin will go with an endeavour against it Or as David said I have made the hearts of the righteous sad and to mourn and grieve Oh that they might say so Lord I have been a back-slider but I will yet return Let them not harden themselves and become accusers against thine let them not think much to be accounted Revolters when you are so you shall be called Revolters when you are so when you act like Demas doe you think you shall go untold of it the Lord will make you to know it by a witnesse within you Doe thou recall them they have been a pleasant voice to thy people but now they have a confused language and chill and cold spirits thou wilt make them to know it Lord If they sin openly then reprove them openly Let not thy people feare to reprove them to their face Let them do that which is just Father Shall they run into fiery Temptations and shall we not tell them They cast out thy people but thy people will not cast them out thy people pray that they might see thy kingdome and partake of the breath of his nostrils and of the brightnesse of his comming Is it not pure Gospel for thine to tell them that they are grosse finners against free Grace against the Lord Jesus the Sorr Oh the
make them partakers of glorious Priviledges thou wilt bring them into thy Territories above into thy sweet Walks how wilt thou hang them about with Hony-Suckles not like the hony that is of the earth that is clogging but pure hony that is reviving thy Ezekiels that behold thee by the River Chebar Oh what sights what glories what rivers what springs do they enjoy and yet thy children are affraid to suffer Oh what a spirit of slavish feare hath seized upon thy own children though thou hast said the Lord will be with you in the fires and in the waters yet what pale faces are there amongst thine oh is this to professe Jesus Thou wilt make the whole earth to be thy children and wilt make them to be the honourable ones and yet they will not know nor confider it Oh this is a time not for man to reign but for the Lord Jesus and this voyce sounds out here and there by a Son or a Daughter Oh but when shall all the Sons and all the Children cry for King Jesus the Reason is Because of the infirmities of the flesh and because thine are of a stammering speech and of stuttering tongue but thou hast premised that the time shall come that there shall not be a people of a deeper speech then thy people and they shall not be of a stammering tongue Come O all you Disputants Monarchs Scribes and Rabbies of the world come forth now and let us see what Arguments you can bring forth against the Spirit the pourings forth of it the rising of the Sun of Righteousnesse upon the world against the influences of the heavenly Orion oh you shall be the men that shall be of a stammering lip and of a stuttering tongue Oh what a doubting is there now among thine what disputing what reasoning what they shall doe whether they shall cry up a Man or King Jesus let them take the engagements of Man and lay them under their feet and take the engagement of Jesus and lay that to their heart Let thy servants now be of a publique spirit let them now flie high above the Skies not into vaine conceits vaine speculations and high notions oh but thou callest to an exalting high through Jesus unto thee they that have kept to a crucified Jesus they are thine Oh here are good words great allegories and high expressions oh but they that honour thy Sonne thou wilt honour them they that honour the Son honor the Father Oh they that say they will honour the Father alone and live in the Father alone and lay aside the Son they are deceived thou wilt have them keep within thy bounds and not to stretch the Point beyond the Compasse Oh let thine take a thorow view and not rashly take up any thing Thou wilt have thine try the gold as well as the drosse thou wilt not have thine take up any thing while they know not the life of it Oh But who is he or she that admires the Lord Jesus through all in all and above all He is all in nothing-Creatures the Creature is nothing but thou hast said thou dost great things through nothing Oh that thine were taken with Truth for Truths sake that they would seek into the bottome and goe into the golden Mine and not onely gather up the shavings thereof let them not take up the sparks but the fire it selfe That a poor Creature should subsist without sustenance what a gazing is there at this poor thing while you forget the glory that is in it go into the Marrow what matters it for the bone let them have the Spirits it is no matter for any thing else Oh that thy poor servant should thus long converse with thee and so long sit at thy fire and feele the warmth thereof and so beare testimony against all false fires and all things that are against King Jesus Then she uttered forth this Song the greatest part whereof as much as the Relator could take runs as followeth OH it is that light that burneth bright a flame that is so clear The Soul and tongue yea every part unto thee shal draw near And praiseth his free grace for all and sets out Jesus too Who came forth from the Fathers seat to bring that love unto Which is a fire so hot and which its warmth gives forth most clear Oh it is a fire that is brought forth by him that paid full dear Oh when thy love sent out thy Son he sweetly did reply That he would hasten through the earth and on the Crosse would dye Oh when love did warm his bosome there was no stay at all But the Lord Jesus he did reach forth that which was royal And saith that love had sent him forth to dye for Rebels great That they might come that enemies were unto this Mercy-seat And be did fulfill his great work with courage that was bold That there might come forth unto his that pure and beaten gold Which was for to inrich them that before were poor and mean Who hath bestowed here on them a glory pure and bright Which none can purchase by their worth nor treasure that is here For Free Grace it is to them rich and bids them come full near Where they may have that which will make them rich for evermore And will be alwaies unto them a bright and golden Oare Where no drosse shall at all it reach nor cover it from sight To those that Christ do bring it for who tels them 't is their right And therefore saith receive of him who purchased hath for thee Redemption out of all thy filth and from thy slavery Rather then all Crownes or Palaces wherein you do delight Oh covet more the brightnesse of him which doth make us white Oh 't was indeed great love that such which are so black below Full of the spots of filthinesse that thou shouldst them love so He that was God-man understood the love was in the Father Whom none can see nor can shew forth but he that was his Lustre O thou most deare and only Lord that lookest down below Who in thy love thy Spirit brings forth and it doth on us blow Oh it is it which doth maintaine all vitals that are within Oh it repairs all parts throughout and filleth to the brim Then raising her note she proceeds as followes O King Jesus King Jesus thou in apparrel art rich A Diadem about thy neck and forth it thou dost reach Of thy rich Diademt to thine and of thy Crowns of Pearl And thou sayest unto thy poor Flock Oh I will make you Earls Oh I will make you Potentates and then beleeve my word For it is true sayes Jesus Christ looke into my record And see whether I have not declar'd what you are unto me Also what I am for your sakes and that you shall me see And look into the written Word and there you shall behold How I have beautified and have made you as bright as gold O look
The Cry of a Stone OR A RELATION OF Something spoken in Whitehall by Anna Trapnel being in the Visions of GOD. RELATING To the Governors Army Churches Ministry Vniversities And the whole NATION UTTERED In Prayers and Spiritual Songs by an Inspiration extraordinary and full of wonder In the eleventh moneth called January 1653. London Printed 1654. To all the wise Virgins in Sion who are for the work of the day and wait for the Bride-grooms coming IT is hoped in this day a day of the Power of God a day of wonders of shaking the heavens and the earth and of general expectation of the approachings of the Lord to his Temple that any thing that pretends to be a Witness a Voice or a Message from God to this Nation shall not be held unworthy the hearing and consideration of any because it is administred by a simple and unlikely hand far be that from us who have soon the foolish things of the world to confound the wise babes and children to bring to nothing the Scribes and Disputers of this world the first to be last and the last first far be it from us who are and shall yet be named the Vally of Vision to bind up the goings forth of the most free and Eternal Spirit at any time especially in these last dayes Within any Law custom order or qualification of man how antient or accustomed soever or within any compass narrower then the Promise it self Joh. 7.37 who may binde where God hath loosed canst thou binde the sweet influences of the Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion he openeth and no man shutteth and let it be considered if upon this stumbling stone of the Spirits freedom the wise and learned Ones both in the dayes of Christ and of the Apostles and in our dayes have not stumbled and fallen and been broken to pieces Two things are foretold by all the Prophets shall be brought to pass which seal up the Prophesies and finish the mysterie of God The Lords appearing in his Glory upon Mount Sion and the darkning of Sun and Moon that is the shaming confounding and casting out of all wisdom and power and whatsoever is but the excellency and glory of man now if we see these high and precious effects beginning to put forth either in sons or daughters in handmaids or servants let us rejoyee and be glad for the summer is nigh at hand It was the desire of this Maid to present this her Testimony to you though it is not for you only but for all If any may be offended at her Songs of such it is demanded If they know What it is to be filled with the Spirit to be in the Mount with God to be gathered up into the visions of God then may they judge her until then let them wait in silence and not judge in a matter that is above them There being various reports gone abroad concerning this Maid too many being such as were not according to truth Whereby it comes to pass that the things shespake do not appear to men as they came from her but as deformed and disguised with the pervertings and depravings of the Reporters therefore it was upon the heart of some that heard her as judging it might be a service done to many hurt to none but such as fear the Light to present to publick view a true and faithful Relation of so much as for some 7 or 8 dayes could be taken from her by a very slow and unready hand whereby a fair opportunity is laid before offended and unsatisfied spirits to examine try and judge and happily to correct their Censures and also the things herein related may come to the knowledge and reach the hand of them whom they especially concern if so be they will in meekness search and enquire whether it be the Lord that hath spoken to them in it VPon the seventh day of the eleventh month called January 1654 being the sixth day of the week Mr. Powel Preacher of the Gospel in Wales being according to Order from the Council now sitting in Whitehall come thither to give an account before them of some things by him delivered in his publique Exercises in London among other friends who came thither to see what would be done with him there came a maid M rs Anna Trapnel by name who waiting in a little room near the Council where was a fire for Mr. Powells coming forth then with a purpose to return home She was beyond and besides her thoughts or intentions having much trouble in her heart and being seized upon by the Lord She was carried forth in a spirit of Prayer and Singing from noon till night and went down into Mr. Roberts lodging who keeps the Ordinary in Whitehall And finding her natural strength going from her she took her bed at eleven a clock in the night where she lay from that day being the seventh day of the month to the nineteenth day of the same month in all twelve days together The first five days neither eating nor drinking any thing more or less and the rest of the time once in 24. hours sometimes eat a very little toast in small Bear sometimes only chewed it and took down the moysture only sometimes drank of the small Bear and sometimes only washt her mouth therewith and cast it out lying in bed with her eyes shut her hands fixed seldom seen to move she delivered in that time many and various things speaking every day sometimes two three four and five-hours together and that sometimes once a day and sometimes oftner sometimes in the day only and sometimes both in the day and night She uttered all in Prayer and Spiritual Songs for the most part in the ears of very many persons of all sorts and degrees who hearing the Report came where she lay among others that came were Colonel Sidenham a member of the Council Colonel West Mr. Chittwood Colonel Bennet with his wife Colonel Bingham Captain Langdon Members of the late Parliament Mr. Courtney Mr. Berconhead and Captain Bawtrey Mr. Lee Mr. Feak the Minister Lady Darcy and Lady Vermuden with many more who might be named The things she delivered during this time were many of the four first days no account can be given there being none that noted down what was spoken For the rest of the time from the fifth day to the last some taste is herein presented of the things that were spoken as they could be taken by a slow and imperfect hand And to hold out all just and full satisfaction to those Questions Scruples or Demands which a Relation of this nature is apt to beget touching the condition of the Party where or what she is to whom is she known is she under Ordinances what hath been her conversation formerly c. Before you come to the Relation it self Here is first offered to you an account of the Parties condition in her Relations her acquaintance her conversation the dispensations of the Lord
to her in Clouds and bitter storms of Temptations in Manifestations of light and love in Visions and Revelations of things to come all this is presented to you in the following Narration taken from her own mouth I Am Anna Trapnel the daughter of William Trapnel Shipwright who lived in Poplar in Stepney Parish my father and mother living and dying in the profession of the Lord Jesus my mother died nine years ago the last words she uttered upon her death-bed were these to the Lord for her daughter Lord I Double thy spirit upon my child These words she uttered with much eagerness three times and spoke no more I was trained up to my book and writing I have walked in fellowship with the Church meeting as All-hallows whereof Mr. John Simpson is a Member for the space of about four years I am well known to him and that whole Society also to Mr. Greenhil Preacher at Stepney and most of that society to Mr. Henry Jesse and most of his society to Mr. Venning Preacher at Olaves in Southwark and most of his society to Mr. Knollis and most of his society who have knowledge of me and of my conversation If any desire to be satisfied of it they can give testimony of me and of my walking in times past Seven years ago I being visited with a feaver given over by all for dead the Lord then gave me faith to believe from that Scripture After two days I will revive thee the third day I will raise thee up and thou shale live in my sight which two days were two weeks that I should lye in that feaver and that very time that it took me that very hour it should leave me and I should rise and walk which was accordingly From this time for a whole year after the Lord made use of me for the refreshing of afflicted and tempted ones inwardly and outwardly And when that time was ended I being in my Chamber desired of the Lord to tell me whether I had done that which was of and from himself Reply was thou shalt approve thy heart to God and in that thou hast been faithfull in a little I will make thee an Instrument of much more for particular souls shall not only have benefit by thee but the universality of Saints shall have discoveries of God through thee So upon this I prayed that I might be led by the still waters and honor God secretly being conscious to my self of my own evil heart looking upon my self as the worst of all Gods flock the Lord upon it told me that he would out of the mouth of babes and sucklings perfect his praise then I remained silent waiting with prayer and fasting with many tears before the Lord for whole Sion And upon that day called Whitson-monday which was suddenly after I finding my heart in a very low dead frame much contention and crookedness working in my Spirit I asked of God what was the matter he answered me thus I let thee see what thou art in thy self to keep thee humble I am about to shew thee great things and visions which thou hast been Ignorant of I being thus drawn into my Chamber after this there was a day of thanks giving that I kept with the Church of All-hallows in Limestreet for the Army that was then drawing up towards the City in which I had a little discovery of the presence of the Lord with them in which day I had a glorious Vision of the New Jerusalem which melted me into rivers of tears that I shrunk down in the room and cryed out in my heart Lord what is this it was answered me A discovery of the glorious state of whole Sion in the raign of the Lord Jesus in the midst of them and of it thou shalt have more visions hereafter So then when the day was ended I retired to my Chamber at that time living in the Mineries in Aldgate Parish where I conversed with God by prayer and reading of the Scriptures which were excellently opened to me touching the Proceedings of the Army It was first said to me that they were drawing up toward the City I not knowing any thing of it before and that there was a great hubbub in the City the shops commanded to be shut up Upon this I went down and enquired of the maid of the house whether there was any stir in the City She answered me you confine your self to your Chamber and take no notice of what is done abroad We are commanded said she to shut up our shops and there are great fears amongst the Citizens what will be the issue they know not With that I answered blessed be the Lord that hath made it known to so low a servant as I Then repairing to my Chamber again I looked out at the window where I saw a flag at the end of the street this word I had presently upon it thou seest that flag the flag of defiance is with the Army the King of Salem is on their side he marcheth before them he is the Captain of their Salvation At the other end of the street I looking saw a hill it was Black-heath it was said to me thou seest that hill not one but many hills rising up against Hermon-hill They shall fall down and become Vallies before it It was then said unto me Go into the City and see what is done there where I saw various things from the Lord in Order to his appearance with the Army as I was going hearing of a Trumpeter say to a Citizen these words we have many Consultations about our coming up but nothing yet goes on presently it was said to me the Councels of men shall fall but the Councel of the Lord stands sure and his works shall prosper So repairing home I had many Visions that the Lord was doing great things for this Nation And having fasted nine days nothing coming within my lips I had upon the ninth day this Vision of horns first I saw in the Vision the Army coming in Southwark-way marching through the City with a great deal of silence and quietness and that there should be little or no bloud spilt this was some weeks before their coming in Then broke forth another Vision as to the horns I saw four horns which were four Powers the first was that of the Bishops that I saw was broken in two and thrown aside the second horn more white had joyned to it an head endeavouring to get up a Mount and suddenly it was pushed down and broken to pieces the third horn had many splinters joyned to it like to the scales upon the back of a fish and this was presented to be a Power or a Representative consisting of many Men having fair pretences of love to all under all forms this I saw broken and scattered that not as much as any bit of it was lest As to the fourth horn that was short but full of variety of Colours sparkling red and white it was said
glory in heaven That they might not like muckworms be and like such creatures which Have no sense for to reach to him which is their king and liege O he is a rest that requires all his to draw him neer And they shal have ful sights of things which in Creation are For he will shew that Sabbath and first day he will bring out Vnto his Saints and he onely shall draw the quintesence out Of all things they shall draw the sap that runneth from the root And get up into the high tree where none shall go and pluck No none shall be above to see thine when th' are in thy nest For they are closed in so round they lodge within that breast That none can scar nor them afflict no musquet shot can come There is not any can draw their spears or at all shoot their Canon Though nests in trees may shaken be yet thine shall e'r remaine They rest and nest in Jesus Christ his hand shall them sustain Here closing her song she proceeded without any pause to prayer therein uttering here and there as the Relatour could take them the things following The poore carcasse shall moulder before thy being through a fight of thy bosom thine are dazled in thy nest they see none of their own feathers but a new nest of thy own making the very victualls dye before thee that eternall life that is sweeter than naturall life than all strength all naturall parts what are these to it Father when thou withdrawest thy glory from thy handmaid thou shalt leave so much heat as shall refresh the body and her health shall return again from thee to her thou wilt give her strength to persevere to the end Oh when shall men speak forth from the demonstration of thy Spirit when shall they go forth in thy garments not their garments not with their Surplices and Tippets Oh no they say these they have abhorred and put off Oh but they speak their University language their head-piece language their own sense Oh but where is the voice of the new Covenant-teaching are not they hid and concealed the Beast hath got in his foot and hath mudded the waters men are mudded they speak a little of the new Covenant a little of thee and a great deal of themselves but thine have hope in thee they have confidence that way shall be made that shall be brought to light which is thine indeed men shall not alwayes be content with the outward relation of the word without the whisperings of thy spirit Oh saith Christ when I come forth with my power and spirit and Majesty then there shall be more converted now they think they have done a great matter if they have spoken twice a day Oh but have they had spirituall appetites is there quicknesse in them is the Lord Jesus more drawn and set forth by them let them wait that the Lord will come forth more than he did upon the Primitive Saints that there were longing and panting after thy coming Here she closed for that day upon the 16 day the Relatour came in and found her in prayer wherein she uttered among other things these which follow the chamber being as at other times full of hearers If he were not speaking of the Lord Cromwell backsliden he would be ashamed of his great pomp and revenue whiles the poore are ready to starve and art thou providing great Palaces Oh this was not Gideon of old oh why dost thou come to rear up the pillars the stones which are laid aside tell him Lord thou art come down to have a controversie with him Oh sin will lay thee flat to the earth Oh sin will bring down a dark smoke into thy judgement oh sin will hinder that judgement thou intendest to bring forth in the earth oh Gideon is it thy Statesmen shall carry on the work of the Lord when they are together in brain-work What is an head-piece to an heart-piece O dost thou think to joyn hand in hand with head-pieces Oh thou thinkest because I cry out for heart-pieces for thee thou thinkest hardly jealously of me Oh but thou art deceived I am for the Lord Jesus alone it is neither advantage nor disadvantage to me who is set up or who is thrown down here below for thy servant O Lord is for that pure interest of Jesus Who would care a rush or a straw for the interest of man What are they that are of his chief Councell they are the chief men in the places of Judicature but saith the Lord I have said that the Righteous who are choice who are dead to all outward things they shall be my Judges but they will say oh but they are godly too but saith the Lord they are such godly as I will none of for they are ready to joyn with any corrupt party that comes forth they will own any thing and say unto any you are my King so they may have their fat and Fleeces and all bow down to them Oh but know the Lord is the great Redeemer in Israell and he is risen now and will break all yokes as fast as they can put them on Because the Pastors of Churches some of them do own thee will the Lord therefore own thee Oh no the Lord will own such only who are true in heart and in his sight some of these have made as great an Alarum as others and have appeared as much as others but now if they must suffer a little they will flie oh this is a base frame of spirit sayes Christ where is a spirit for me thou art going up and down the earth to seek where is a spirit for thee that will cast down the Jezabels there are but a few such but they are beautifull ones Oh thy servant hardly knows a volunteere that will go forth though they be slashed in the first going on but thou knowest where such are oh fetch them out of their Cottages and holes where they lie in obscurity they have kept their garments clean Israel would have a King if you will have a King saies God you shall have him in my wrath so it is now people are of such a mad frame of spirit when the Lord sayes do not do thus they say they will do so like old Israel who were murmuring upon every occasion because thou hast declared concerning the coming of the Lord Jesus and wilst give them Judges as at the first therefore because thou doest not give them presently therefore they will not stay but will have their own first when the Resurrection did appeare presently the very Disciples were doubting and begun to scruple so it is now thine have hardly faith to believe the second coming of the Lord Jesus Oh say they we thought it had been by this time but now we see it is not yet but for a longer time Lord let it be sounded in their ears and let them mark it there will be as great superfluity as great
they shall be as thou hast said as a young Lyon and shall teare all that rise up against them Oh where is thy voice Lord thou that speakest with a mighty alarum and thy voice breaks the Cedars oh thy voice comes forth with much power oh let that voice come forth concerning Restauration and Generation-work Oh thou hast put a price into the hand of thine and they have no minde to it You shew your selves to be very low the Prophets of old were willing to look to the Lord and he sent siery chariots round about them Oh if thine would go forth who should be able to stand before that wisdome and spirit by which they speak Everlasting burning shall come forth in righteousnesse against you that have put your shoulders to a power that is against the Lord Shall they go about to reare up that which thou hast said fights positively against the crown of the Lord Jesus It is not like the other for them thou hast taken out of the way but oh these have raked up their honour out of the grave If you will have a Resurrection of it again you shall have prayer against you and the voice of the Lord shall come forth against you They think if they could get Nations on their side then they were well enough Oh but thou wilt scatter the Nations thou wilt overturn them and do they think they can hinder thine overturnings Thine can rejoyce though they mourn to see poore Israel cheated and cozened by them the spirit blasphemed by them they can mourn for the sin of the daughter of thy people yet they can rejoyce for new Jerusalem is coming forth through all this Thou wilt go on Lord and strike down all their inventions though they have a great company of great head-pieces together yet a little true wisdome shall break down all their Policy What is all their wisdome if they have not thy feare thy spirit among them Thou hast told them plainly but they cannot abide to heare it that the wisdome of the wise shall perish and thy poore and contemptible ones shall carry on thy work for thee in the world the time is coming that they shall be fruit that they shall bring forth no more fruit for thine They pretend they will doe great things for thee and thine Oh but if the eyes were not blinded they might see the partiality that is in them Here is one no sooner were the Powers put to him but he took them Oh poore creature how hast thou deceived us if thou hast free grace that must be admired indeed in thee oh but thou shalt have no more for he will honour thee any more The people of the Lord cry to the Lord against thee though thou was a sweet perfume and a lovely song to the people of the Lord yet they doe not know how to speak for thee and if all should come forth and own thee yet thy servant will never do it she cannot do it for the work is on foot and it is not men nor Devils can stop it when thine take a view of thy great works in the Nation how thou hast taken away them that made the Nation nauseous and stinking and did build up Babylon shall now refined ones come build up Babylon again oh thy love to thy handmaid wil not let her alone but she must cry unto thee if thou lovest thy Saviour then stand up it is no matter if that be laid aside and cast into the Dungeon There are a great many whose God is their bellie and they are willing to be filent oh but you Saints do you go and speak to such as would shut this open door as is open to the sheep Do you thus requite the Lord who laid down his life for you O Souldiers you said you acted for Christ and his flock oh but your heart is deceived and hath turned you aside Come you mockers you Army-men that are mockers the Lord saith your bonds shall be made strong you do adde to the strength of that promise and vow-breaking which went before you sometimes said let us have the prayers of poore Saints and now you can take turns in your Galleries and say they are yours you have fought for them is it so who gave you your life and fought for you was it not the Lord Jesus it is not yours but the poore's and thy peoples the Lord will cast you out and whereas you were expected to be Oaks full of shelter of fruits and of refreshing Oh but you have beene but blustering Oakes without root without Sappe Oh let thine be ashamed that they have so much looked upon man which to day is and to morrow withers Oh thy people suffer even for their own sin for they have made Idols of men and thou sayst thou wilt not give thy glory to graven Images and now thou wilt make thine to smart for it and to smart a while were it not for thine that they shall be purged and purified to make them ashamed and lay them in the dust to mould them into thy fashion and to take away their sowre leaven were it not for this work thou wouldst make these to crumble ere a day come to an end the Assyrian must be burned when thou hast done thy work upon Mount Sion All you great Ones you shall not at all fare the better for these manifestations of Grace which the Lords people shall have oh that you might be humbled at the last breath was there ever any laden with so many mercies and yet so much tin and dross found in them Oh poor Soldiers your errour was here that while you did strike down the Philistin without you have not been watchful to draw your swords against that that is within here you were not inquisicive and this hath made you to fal so flat and this hath deadned you thou wouldst have thine full of eyes poor Souldiers you have had eyes without but not as those creatures recorded have you had eyes within Lord they can resist the holy one of Israel come can you resist the Lord you may shoot against the creatures mud-walls but can you batter the Towers of the Lord oh poor man wilt thou contend with thy Maker how wilt thou contend against so glorious a King Dost thou think to come with thy brazen face and jeering countenance against the Lord of glory though Christ when he came at first was willing to become weak and to be thrown into the Grave but he will come in flames of fire you Soldiers he will come as the Messenger of his Temple Oh poor creatures this wine of the Earth will enflame your blood but oh that you might have the wine from above then would you be beautified and then would he say well done good faithful servant O thy servant is come neer that Council and thy servant will pray that they might see and hear and be delivered from that great fury that is coming forth
where is thy Victory thy Righteousness thy Zeal thy Love thy Conquest now Will not the Lord shut thee out thou that goest about to shut out the Saints the Lord will shut out thee It is a King not Saints but King Jesus that thou hast sought to shut out hadst not thou better to have died in the field to have fallen in thy Tent then to come into this great Pallace which the Lord will rent from thee Oh that he might be wrung out from among them that he might not seek the living among the dead He seeks to do living actions and says he is not against us but for us How can he do any living things among dead men dead things Does not he confound himself in his own Language do not his actions flye in his face does not his conscience say thou tongue thou saiest not right tell him Lord God though he thinks he is so wise and others about him Yet tell him they are taken in their own wisdom they do not think what a Poison it will become unto them Art thou a rational man a wise and a valiant souldier how can the Commonalty be relieved and thou hast such great things for thy Table Wars shall come out against other Nations and what will you do then for pay Souldiers Oh you old Prophets that you should applaud him and be Chaplains to him I tell you the Lord God will Ecclipse your Glory he will put a stammering speech into you you shall not suck from Gods Wine-cellars the Lord will not bring so much as a taste of his Wine to you You have turned his Wine into water will you sow your downpillows of flesh under his Elbows Hast not thou a great deal to reckon with them for that greatness they have had above all other men he hath now a greater controversie with you then he had before you amended the matter well indeed when you gathered up a Magistracy that might uphold you when you must both fall down into the ditch The Lord hath said That both Prophet and Priest and all that have cleaved together they shall fall You will say why do you call us Priests Indeed thy servant would not call you so it is a grief to her heart but you do their actions and will not you be likened to them You will not hear you will say do you think to contradict us who are wise great Schollars and University-men Yea Lord thou wilt make a poor silly Creature to come out against them because they have acted so sillily and thou Lord wilt now take away their glory out of this Nation You will say you are not to meddle with the Powers but who meddles more then you who have provoked the Magistrate to this and have helped to lead them into the Pit If you were the Daniels of the Lord you would not care for the Kings Portion as you do Oh poor Clergy you have put off the outward badge of Antichrist and you have retained the inward What is become of your Zeal and Exaltations of Christ have you ever a New-Covenant-Sermon to bring to your great Ruler you will mud it before you come the Lord will have it set out in the freeness and fulness and Glory of it in all the tendency and fruits of it Are they like to the Sermons of the Saints formerly to the Apostles Sermons which the Lord Jesus brought forth more of their own heads and fancies are in it then of thy dainties of their flowers then of thine Thou doest not Lord look at the curious decking of the dishes No thou lookest at the meat in it Flowers will soon wither and their fine adornings will come to nothing but the true meat that will abide for ever Lord rowse the poor Clergy thy servant is perswaded some of them are thy dear ones wilt thou bring up them as thy great Alarm to battel Let their Trumpet sound forth not with such an uncertain sound as they do but with a compleat sound that we may prepare to the Battel to stand appear and go forth for the Lord If you bring forth true salt then all unsavory salt shall be discovered by it the unsavory salt now comes in which is fit neither for the Land nor for the dunghill Hear oh house of Israel you Clergy and oh house of the King Why is thy servant come forth in thy Spirit to proclaim your sin and lay open your iniquity and is not this to be considered by you Oh you cannot abide to think it comes from God for then you would tremble they say we will not own it to be from God but from some evil Spirit some Witchcraft some design or hiring of men But oh says God though you would not acknowledge it yet you shall acknowledge it Says the Lord I would have it come against you at your first entring in those of the Clergy that are about you they do not speak plainly and faithfully against you therefore the Lord hath sent a poor handmaid into the Pallace and there she shall declare it and though you will not come your selves yet your Servants shall declare it to you and it shall be left upon the beams and walls of this house against you I have brought my word into thy place thy very Pallace and it shall enter the very walls and hangings thereof against thee and at such a time Lord as now if not now it would not have been suffered For when they had got in their great body then she must not have spoken here that they might see that it is thou Lord that makes a cry to come out against their transgression The Lord would have your Protestations Vows Covenants and Narrrations brought into your Pallace against you this shall be bitterness in your dishes You shall have plenty and fulness but without comfort Here she begun and continued her Song much whereof the Relator did take and was as follows BLessed be thy name oh thou Lord Which wilt break forth herein Thou wilt declare thy glory bright Against all them that sin Enemies shall know their folly great Which Prayer and Songs do show When Songs and Melody come forth Thy wind shall on them blow A wind Lord that shall enter in Into their Pallaces great A blustring wind from the great God A whirlwind that 's compleat That will tear them up by the roots And cast them on the ground Where they no greenness shall have here No sap shall be there found Oh Clergy that you should so wrong And extenuate your joy By bringing forth unto proud man That which God doth not covey Oh that you should so Nurture them And chear them in their sin I tell you that Christ for this will Not make your souls to sing You shall not hear Sions songs so sweet Nor their mirth which draws nigh But when it cometh forth to light You suddenly shall dye Oh when that harmony comes out In the Reign of a Christ Oh then you