VVHether you will hear, or forbear, this is the word of the Lord God unto all you ſcattered Jews throughout the whole Earth, God of a truth is ariſen to gather unto himſelf his peculiar Seed, from the four winds of the Earth, Iſa 41. • 25. Jer. 13.6. 7, 8. Jer 16.14, 15, 16. Ezek. •• 41 to the end. that Jacob may poſſeſſe and inhabit his inheritance, and the Seed of Iſrael the Holy Land.

And according to the Prophets, he hath began at the North, and is ſtretching, and hath ſtretched forth his Arm over the South, and over the Eaſt, and over the Weſt.

And behold it cometh to paſſe, and is at hand, and not as a day afar off, but even nigh unto the door, that the Lord will ſeparate of all Nations, both Jew, and Gentile, the juſt from the vile, him that feareth God, from him that feareth him not; him that keepeth the Law of God which is written in his heart, (through the ſanct • fication thereof by the power of the Lord ruling in his conſcience, mind, ſpirit and life) from him that in words which profeſſeth God, and his Law and Statutes, and Ordinances, and yet walks in his life and daily practices, contrary to the Law written in the heart, which God ſpake unto Moſes ſaying. The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, Deut. 20.14, 15. and in thy heart, that thou mayeſt do it, See, I have ſet before thee this day life and good, death and evil.

And unto ye, Oh Jews is the ſame come, and before you, in the Name of the Lord coming unto you, do I ſee life and death, light and darkneſſe, in this the day of the Lord, which is dawned unto a meaſure of the Remnant, even in this day which is light and not darkneſſe, wherein the promiſe of God is fulfilled; and it came to paſſe according to the Propheſie, in a day when it was neither night nor day, Zach. 14 7. neither dark nor light, but in the evening it was a little light.

And not as from the traditions of my forefathers, or the generations of men in the corrupt and polluted nature, in the degeneration from God, and alienation from the Covenant of life and promiſe: (who confeſſed the Meſſiah as this generation doth, to be come in words, with their corrupted tongues, and polluted lips, but in their works, and by their practiſe and life, make his coming void, and of non-effect unto them) neither by the reading of the Scriptures came I to know that he was come as he is come, but by the Spirit of the Lord, (by which I was choſen in the womb, and ſanctified in the day of my birth, by which alſo I am ſeparated from the Land of my natural nativity, and brought unto the feeling of ſorrows in a ſtrange Land for your ſakes) I come to know, and now do declare unto you, that Immanuel, who is God with us, who is the light of the world, the Meſſiah in the power of God, who is a ſpirit, is come reigning in ſpirit in the hearts of his people, over whom, and in whom he rules as King, treading down, and trampling upon all principalities and powers, making the Earth new, and the Heavens alſo, warring againſt all which is contrary to his own pure nature, in many, untill he hath put all his enemies under his feet, and then will he give up the Kingdome to the Father, that God may be all, in all.

And for this cauſe alſo, even for your ſakes (who are of moſt men deſpiſed in heart) I paſs as one deſolate, and deſpiſed, and hated and mocked of many, and many more of the nation of my naturall birth, would gladly have my blood; yet am I not forſaken of him that ſent me with his meſſage unto you of ſalvation, and everlaſting glad tidings of Redemption.

And now he that hath an ear, let him hear, and a heart to perceive, let him underſtand.

Be it known unto you all, That God hath more regard to your ſouls then that you ſhould periſh in your ſins, and your ſouls is more precious in his eye (for which he hath ordained life everlaſting, for as many as come to believe) then the pleaſure and eaſe of your corrupt carcaſes, which are to rot in the Graves and Sepulchres.

And therefore for the the Lord to regain his own Image which is loſt in man through fall in the tranſgreſſion, and to reſtore man unto the ſame uprightneſſe, wherein man was created, which was the promi • e of God unto man, in this wiſe the ſeed of the woman shall bruiſe the Serpents head.

Behold unto you it is given forth and declared, for the redemption and reſtauration of the ſeed, the Meſsiah came, and now is coming the ſecond time without ſin unto ſalvation, even he cometh now in ſpirit and in power, who was the Rock whom your Fathers in the Wilderneſs forſook; and the light of the world whom your Fathers ſlew at Ieruſalem; which brought a a grievous curſe upon you of being a people troden upon by all the world, and not onely ſo, but the moſt lamentable thing and curſe which is over you; for which cauſe my ſoul mourns for you, that ſuch cruel hard heartedneſs, diſtruſt, doubt, jealouſies and unbelief, coveting, fraud, deceit, diſſimulation, and Hypocriſie hath vailed your hearts, and groſsly darkned your underſtandings.

Oh that is the worſt of all! that is the greateſt curſe, in how much throughout ages, the Iews have been given over unto vile affections, hard heartedneſs; ſinne and unbelief; which is the cauſe why ye cannot rightly ſpeak of the things of God, and underſtand the Prophets writings which were ſpoken, Ezek. 17 2. and do ſtand as myſteries, yea deep myſteries to your thick hearts, your underſtandings being covered as with a thick cloud of darkneſs, (which now we the ſeed of Abraham, of the true Iew inwardly, Hoſ 4.1.2:3:4:5.6, 7, 8, 9. Ier. 23.22. Ier. 31.22. Ier. 30 6 do walk by the light thereof as a Pillar of fire by night) and therefore ſaid the Lord by his Prophet, for want of knowledge my people perish.

The Prophets they propheſied of the Meſsiah to come in ſpirit, in a myſtery to the whole world Iew and Gentile, ſo that when he came he was not received but by the Remnant in them dayes, as he is received now in theſe dayes; but unto whom the ſpirit of wiſdome and underſtanding was given, to read and underſtand that which the Prophets ſpake forth in Parables, to the whole world of mankind, Ezek. 20 49. which lay in ſin and wickedneſs.

And therefore ye Iews now in theſe dayes, ye ought not to ſpeak of God, or to name his name in perverſeneſſe, whileſt ye hate to be reformed in your hearts, minds and ſpirits, but ye ought to hear the meſſage of the Lord God, and to ponder it in your hearts, that you may ſee how farre ye are yet from the Promiſe, being not come in truth, in ſpirit and in life, unto the condition thereof fulfilled and made up in you, untill which ye cannot juſtly expect the fulfilling of the promiſe unto you in the ſubſtance.

For whileſt you are in your ſins, as your Fathers were in their ſins in the day that they ſlew Ieſus at Ieruſalem, you cannot but as men in the fleſh, look with any other than an eye of fleſh, for a God of fleſh to come among you, and to ſave you by the Arme of fleſh. Oh blind and ſottiſh, of dull ears and dark underſtandings! and ſo could not your Fathers, neither can you now as you ſtand, ſee him that cometh to ranſome the ſeed in ſpirit and in power.

Behold none other but Immanuel the Meſsiah which is God with us, the light of the world that is come unto us, and is paſſing through the whole world, who will ſmite the earth with the Rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he ſhall ſlay the wicked.

Iſa. 11.4.Now this is wiſdome, to know and underſtand that birth, and nature of the wicked in you, and to feel the power of that breath in you, thereby to taſte of the pangs of that ſlaughter in you, and then ye will witneſs the Meſsiah come in you in ſpirit, and in wiſdome, and in a deep and quick underſtanding; making the Heavens new in you, Iſa. 11.2 Eccles 3.11. and the earth new in you, as Solomon ſaith, God hath ſet the world in mans heart, wherefore man cannot find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end thereof; he that hath an ear to hear, and heart to underſtand, may now come to diſcern and read (Nations, Kingdoms, Countries, Armies, Philiſtins, Egyptians, Aliens, the ſeed of the Iew, and the Generation of the Gentile) in him, Mountains, heaps of Stones, Sodom built, and Gomorrah fenced, Ieruſalem trodden down, Zion and her Daughter in bondage, and her ſeed in great Captivity, lamenting as in ſolitary places, left and forſaken as in a wilderneſſe, and as a Virgin Daughter in a ſtrange land altogether left comfortleſſe, the poor, the Widow and the fatherleſſe, the blind, the halt, and the maimed, all left without pity; I ſay, ſearch your hearts in ſecret, and ſee if this be not truth, the light of Immanuel, anſwering in all your conſciences and hidden parts.

Againe I ſay waite upon God, with your minds ſtaid upon the light in all your conſciences, and thereby God will ſhew you, even by the coming of his Son Ieſus the Meſsiah the light of the World, the fulfilling of the Law and of the Prophets in you, (that is to ſay, thou ſhalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy minde, and with all thy ſoul, and thy Neighbour as thy ſelf,) this is the ſum and ſubſtance of all, which the light in all your conſciences if ye follow it in your minds, will perfectly lead to the fulfilling of; and then ye will know that Immanuel the light of the VVorld, came not to deſtroy the Law but to fulfill the Law; that the righteouſneſſe of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the fleſh but after the ſpirit; which is according to the leadings of the light in all our conſciences; and this is from the Lord both to the Iew and to the Gentile.

Furthermore to the ſcattered Tribes of the houſe of Iſrael: This is the word of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth; who is the God of Abraham, Iſaac and Iacob, who by a mighty hand and cut-ſtretched arme, by the hand of Moſes his Prophet and Meſſenger unto the ſeed in Bondage in great Captivity, brought the children of Iſrael out of the land of Egypt: Even unto you Oh ye Iews this is the word of the dreadfull Lord God of Hoſts; and as a ſign unto you, and among you, and in you, it ſhall ſtand unto the end of your dayes, if you periſh in unbeliefe and in your ſins; that the Meſſiah is come, Ieſus whom your Fathers ſlew through unbelief and hard-heartedneſſe in their dayes, who ſlew him for ſaying in words, that which they themſelves, did own concerning themſelves in the ſubſtance, according to their profeſſion; that is to ſay, he declared that he was the Son of God, and therefore they put him to death as a Blaſphemer, and they ſaid that God was their Father, yet were in their wilfullneſſe ſo far blinded that they could not diſcerne, that their words in manner of the declaration, tended to the ſame thing, and was of the ſame nature, and this ſhall ſtand the ſign thereof unto the end, if ye periſh in unbelief to your perpetuall judgement, that he hath lightned you all, with his true light which ſhineth in all your conſciences which ſheweth you in ſecret, the deceitfulneſſe of your hearts, and convinceth you in your minds, of lying, cheating, coveting, envy and of all ſin and unrighteouſneſſe, (which is not according to the Law of God, written in your hearts, this ſign) the light in your conſciences ſhall never dye in you, which all your burning Lamps, and waſhings, and Altars, and vails, and holyeſt of holyeſt, and all the other ceremonies, were but ſigns and figures and ſhadows of this everlaſting ſigne and ſubſtance which ſhall perpetually ſtand to juſtifie you if you love it, and follow it, and walk according to it, or to condemne you for evermore if ye have it, and walk contrary to it.

And be it alſo known unto you, that if you expect another Meſsiah then him that is come (which is Immanuel, God with us in ſpirit and in life and in power), leading out of ſin, the land of bondage and darkneſſe and in vertue, and in wiſdome, and in counſel, and in judgement, not judging according to the ſeeing of the eye, or hearing of the eare, but with righteous judgement in ſpirit, who ſearches every ſpirit, and the bottome of every heart, with his light in every conſcience ye are but Seekers unto this day for fleſh to come; yet farther to be an eaſe unto your fleſh, and to purchaſe more eaſe and liberty for your fleſh, in which ſtate ye already ſtand, even in the eaſe and luſt of the fleſh, which God Almighty by the coming of his Son, will deſtroy, for becauſe of ſin and iniquitie, and men living in the eaſe and luſt of the fleſh, the Lord God will haſten iudgement upon the earth.

Now conſider, ſearch and ſee, ponder it and lay it to heart, that you may know what you have waited for; that you may underſtand whether you have waited and ſought for the true thing to come to paſs, that henceforth ye may ſeek aright elſe you may all waite till your limbs fails you, and your eyes periſh in their holes, and in the end you fail of the expectation and fulfilling of your vain conceptions, and blind imaginations; wait therefore in ſpirit in humility of heart, that Immanuel the light of the World, Ieſus the Meſsiah, by whom ye are lightened, ye may come to know and feel the power of his light in your conſciences, by it leading you out of all your ſinnes and iniquities, which is Satans bond, the Devils chain of darkneſs, linking you together in hard-heartedneſſe, and binding you in the luſts, ceremonies, cuſtomes, and traditions of blindneſs and ignorance, thereby ruling in your minds and ſpirits, Iſa. 28. that knowing him, ye may alſo know by him the breaking of the bonds of Hell, and the diſanulling of the Covenant, which is made with death, and ye ſet at liberty in life and ſpirit to ſerve the Lord God of life who is a ſpirit (and of purer eyes than to behold iniquity or countenance ſinners in their evil wayes) in the uprightneſs of your hearts and integrity of your ſouls, Hab. 18.1.13. that ye may be made unto him the praiſe of his name throughout the whole earth, according to his promiſe; that ſo ye may diſcern and feel the curſe removed and taken from you, which for many ages paſt, hath ſtood upon the heads of the generations of your forefathers, and remains unto this time upon you, untill the eye of your minds which the God of this world hath blinded, be opened by the Meſsiah, Iſa. 42.7. which is come and coming to open the eye of the blind, and to give the ſimple an underſtanding to diſcern the day of redemption, and to be made partaker of his hour of ſalvation, which is held and hid in a myſtery, Iſa. 35.8 who is appointed for a way, and to be a high way for the ranſomed of the Lord, ſuch as the wayfaring men, though fools ſhall not erre therein.

Oh how do I mourn! Oh how do I travel as in pain and great grief and ſorrow for your ſakes O ye Iews! reading, ſeeing and feeling, that darknes which is over your hearts, even the ſame which was, and is in Egypt; (Spirituall Sodom and Egypt) even ſuch thick darkneſs as may be felt.

Oh why do ye yet in your hearts ſeek murther? Why ſay and contend ye for more blood? Seeing the ſlaughtered Lamb is already come, whom you ſay is to come, and not yet come; for if he were to come, whom I declare in the name of the Lord is already come, behold your generation are to be his ſlaughterers, and the ſhedders of his innocent blood, for the fulfilling of the Prophets, that by the offering of his blood once for all, he may for ever perfect them whom God ſanctifies, read Iſa. 53, Chapter, which is fulfilled, and ſee how far you put your ſelves from ſalvation, by ſeeking yet cruelty and murder in your hearts, which your unbelief and wilfulneſſe is the ground of.

How many ſigns would ye have? ye have heard how many were ſhewed unto Pharaoh, yet would not he let Iſrael go free, and will ye have, • oel 2.31 or do ye ſeek greater then the Sun to be darkned, and the Moon not to give her light, and the Stars of heaven to fall? and is not this manifeſt unto thouſands? And cannot you yet read within? Will you ſay that you believe all that the Prophets have written? Or can you ſay ſo, and ſpeak truth, whil • ſty you have not that ſpi • i • by which the Prophets writ forth the Scriptures? Or could your Fathers underſtand the writings of the Prophets, who wickedly perſecuted and ſlew the Prophets? Nay, nay.

Behold this is the word of the Lord unto you all Ieſus the Meſsiah hath caſt his Rod before Pharaoh the Prince of darkneſs in you, and it is become a Serpent which woundeth you in ſecret; (I ſpeak unto you that have any ſenſe, or the leaſt feeling of God) and it devours your rods, yea and will eat your life, and will bring all the plagues of Pharaoh upon you, (foraſmuch as your unbelief is but his ſin) un • ill deſtruction unto death as a flood overwhelms you, exept ye repent, that God may be intreated for you.

And know ye that God hath been long ſuffering, and now ſheweth his mercy in this viſitation of his love unto you, ſhewing you the Meſsiah which is come, and hath lightened you, and is the light of the Gentiles alſo, Iſa. 49.6. Iſa. 60.1.13.19. that he may be the ſalvation of God unto the ends of the earth.

Of a truth from this ye cannot be hid, neither can ye in righteouſneſſe deny but that ye are lightned with the light of the world, which is Immanuel the light of the Gentiles, which alſo enlightneth the underſtanding of the Iews, Iſa. 42.6. elſe could not the Iews unto this day underſtand that Moſes was a Prophet of the Lord, for he was and is the ſame, even the word from the beginning, which God ſaid unto Moſes is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, which ſhewed him the Law to be nigh, and not to be ſought for, from a ſtrange Land, by which the children of Iſrael were condemned for their ſins, ſo that the guilt thereof ſtood upon their heads from year to year, as in like manner the guilt of your tranſgreſſions ſtands unto this day upon your heads, which your ſacrifices cannot clear you in your conſciences from, for it is impoſſible that the carnall things can make ſatisfaction unto infinite Iuſtice, which ſtandeth over, and meaſureth all tranſgreſſion, and therefore ſaith the Prophet, Mic. 6.6, 7.8. VVherewith shall I come before the Lord? and bow my ſelf before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? VVill the Lord be pleaſed with thouſands of Rams? Or with ten thouſand Rivers of oyle? Shall I give my firſt borne for my tranſgreſsion, the fruits of my body, for the ſin of my ſoul? He hath ſhewed thee O man what 〈◊〉 good and what doth the Lord require of thee? but to do juſtly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.

In this ye are all concluded with the great idolaters of the earth, and with the Arminians and heathens alſo, they have their Images without, that is to ſay, beads, croſses, pictures, veſsels, and herein the Iews in the nature are alſo one with them, who have their Synagogues and Veſſels, and Offerings, and knows not him whom you imagine you make offerings unto, and theſe are offerings of ſtrange fi • e unto the Lord; for which cauſe God hath not regard unto your ſervices; Ier 2.3. for your Fathers forſook the Fountain of living mercies in their dayes, and then he ſp • ke by the mouth of his Prophet, Iſa 1.11 12, 13, 14. ſaying who hath required theſe things at your hands? your ſolemn meetings are abomination unto me

And ye are now in the ſame footſteps of your forefathers, in the corrupted way of ſin and blind path of hard-heartedneſs and unbelief, and yet ye ſay ye worſhip God aright; and furthermore this is your great ſin and dangerous evil, as other profeſſions have their abominable Idolatries in the ſhew without, your Idols are ſet up in your hearts, Ezek. 14.4. and ye put the ſtumbling block of your iniquity before your face; read diligently with true underſtanding Iſa. 8.14, 15. and marke your ſtumbling, offence, and fall.

And with you in the ſame nature all the Proteſtants, Presbyterians, Independants, Baptiſts, Seekers, Ranters, and the reſt called Chriſtians in generall, do worſhip, although you and they are all divers in the Traditions of your and their Fathers in the manner of the practiſing your ſervices; yet in the ſubſtance, you are but one; that is to ſay, Cains nature ruling in you all, who offered a ſacrifice and killed the juſt in him; he killed juſt Abel without him, and that nature which murdered Abel without him ſlew the juſt within him, and ſo your ſeverall words, and diverſities of opinions, which ſtands but in the ſhadow, is not at all that which makes a difference, in the ground and ſubſtance, being all but in one nature of tranſgreſſion, and way of the ungodly in unrighteouſneſs, and you cannot one ſtain or ſpot another, or take glory unto your ſelves over another, ſeeing the beſt of all your ſects upon the face of the earth, are but ſpeckled beaſts, and parti coloured birds, and not one of you all are come into the way of the promiſe of God, which is come to paſs, wherein the ranſomed of the Lord ſhall onely walk, and no unlean thing can tread therein.

And as for us who are the remnant of God, and his ſeed gathered to his honour, praiſe, infinite, endleſſe, everlasting glory; all ungodlineſs and wordly luſts our life abhors, and we are the redeemed of the Lord, through the purchaſe of the blood of Immanuel, the light with us, and in us, by which we are kept in the pure fear of the Lord God eternal, to ſpread his name among you, unto whom alſo the promiſe is, that the ſeed shall be gathered.

God hath began in the north Iſlands to perfect his praiſe throughout the earth; and becauſe the Lord hath redeemed us from Nations, Kindreds, Countries, tongues and people, we are deſpiſed of all Nations, both Iew and Gentile, and of the ſcornful people of our own Nation England, are called Quakers, who are the Servants of the Lord in ſpirit.