AWAKE, Awake all people; Arise, lift up your eyes, watch to the Morning, the Day is come, and the glory of Israel is risen; all things is manifest as they are; Darkness is dangerous, and the Ways thereof leads unto Death; Why will ye walk therein? And why will ye dye? O ye yeople! Everlasting Mercy from the Lord God is held forth, that none might be lost, but all might be saved. Bow down your ear, and hear; be diligent, and encline; for that is come which was before the Subtilty, and that is manifest which in the beginning made all things, and was before the Serpent prevailed, or before that sin or death entered; and this h • th God revealed in his tender mercy, and hath visited many therein, whose Understandings are opened, and their eyes enlightened to behold the way of life; and they are come to that which was before the World was made, and knows a part in that, which was Moses life, whose understanding was opened to see to the beginning, and beheld God's Eternal Power in the Creation, and the movings of his Spirit upon the face of the Waters, and his bringing Light out of darkness; and when this was opened to his understanding, and he had seen it, then he declared it, and it was written, and that which was written, was called Scriptures; but that which Moses declared, as the Word of o • Life, which was in the beginning; and this Word was with God, and was God; who said, Let there be Light, Gen 1.3. (mark) God said it, this was the Word) the thing was done, and came to pass: Then God saw the Light that it was good, and he called the L • ght, Day, and the Darkness he called Night, and the Evening and the Morning were the first day, Gen. 1.4. (Mark this:) The Word said, Let there be Light, and the Light was brought out of Darkness; so the Morning was come and the first Day was created in the Eternal Word; and • nto this Life was Moses gathered, and had his Understanding opened, that he could see to the Beginning, and behold the Works of God in the Creation, which was wrought and brought to pass before his time upon the Earth; & there was no Tradit • on to give him the knowledge of it, but the Light which shone out of darkness in his heart, in which he was gathered unto God, and had union with his Life; and in the L • fe revealed, Moses had clearness in his Understanding to the Beginning, and beheld the six dayes Work, and the Creation finished, and also the seventh Day in which God rested: He • eheld man in his Innocency and Vprightness, and saw the Image in which he was created, and the purity and glory in which he was formed; he beheld the Habitation in vvhich he vvas placed; and he saw the covering with which he was clothed, and in which he stood, before the Creator, and was not ashamed; he beheld Paradise, and all the Trees of the Garden, and saw what was allowed unto man for Food, and what was forbidden▪ He beheld the Serpents subtilty, and his deceitful working, and saw how he entered, and how he prevailed over man; he beheld how he drew & enticed man's mind from his obedience unto God; and he saw how man fell and degenerated from the Power that had made him; and he beheld the entrance of sin and transgression, and saw the Curse and Death that came over all men in the Fall; he beheld and saw the Love of God open, and the Seed of the Woman promised to break the Serpents Head. This was • oses understanding opened in the Light that shone out of darkness, which was manifest within himself, in which the Morning appeared, and the First Day did break unto him; then in the Light he read thorow the generations that were before him, and declared of their states and conditions, and of their wayes and doings; and then it was written, and became Scriptures; (Mark) It was not Scripture before Moses had declared it, and what he hath declared, and what is written, is true, and given forth by him in the Power that made all things manifest to him: So he declared of Adam, and of h • s Innocent state, and of his Fall, and of his driven-out-state; he declared of Cain, and of his Sacrifice, and of Abel, and of his Sacrifice; he declared of the Flood that came upon the World of the ungodly; and of Noah a just person, who with his Sons and Daughters were preserved in the Ark: He declared of Abraham the Father of the faithful, and of the Covenant that God made with him and his Seed for ever; he declared of Ishmael and Isaac, of Esau and Jacob, and through all the generations that had gone before him; and he did not receive these things by Tradition, or by any knowledge that came without him, but as they were opened and made manifest within him, where he beheld and read them in the Light and Life by which all things were made and created, and into which he was gathered and united. This is that Moses whom God sent into Aegypt, to bring up Israel his chosen, who with mighty Signs and Wonders delivered them from under Pharoah's Power, and was a Leader unto them, out of Aegyptian Darkness, and from under the heavy Tasks that they we • e oppressed withall. He received the Law at Mount Horeb, and he writ it in Tables of Stone, that Israel might know the Statutes and Ordinances, which the Lord required that they should observe and keep, and that they might obey the Lord their God; this was the Covenant which God made with Israel in those dayes when he brought them out of the Land of Aegypt; and it was committed unto Moses, who was made a Minister of it, and taught the people to observe and do it, that they might possess the Land which the Lord their God had given unto them, and that they might not forget the Lord and his Benefits: And this was Moses Ministration, for the Law came by him; howbeit this Ministration was not the Thing it self, neither could make the comers thereunto perfect; yet in its time was glorious, and was a true Figure and Shadow of him that was to come, which afterwards was to be more fully revealed, whose glory exceeded▪ and Moses Ministration was but a Type of him, and a School-Master to bring unto him, who was before the World was; and it held forth, though more darkly, as in a Glass, the glorious appearance of CHRIST the Word of God, and Power of God, who was yet to come, and to be made manifest and revealed, of whom Moses truly prophesied, when he said, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you like unto me, him shall you hear in all things; and who will not hear the voice of that Prophet▪ shall be cut off from amongst the People: (Mark:) They were to be cut off that would not hear the voice of him of whom Moses prophesied, who was yet to come, and to be the end of the L • w for Righteousness, and to be the fulfiller of it, and to save and redeem from under it, seeing that no flesh could be • ustified by it, because of the weakness and unprofitableness of it, and because it was a Ministration of Conde • nation unto such as did not continue in all things written therein▪ therefore Moses testified of him who was to be raised up, and directed all to hear his Voice, whose Ministration was to bring in Everlasting Righteousnesse, and to redeem from under the Bondage of the Law; and this was Moses Testimony unto CHRIST the Power of God; and he did not direct People to look at any thing, or hear any thing that was written before his time, but to look to Christ, and to hear his Voice, that they might come to that which made the World, and was in the beginning, with whom Moses had then true union, and felt his life, and beheld the Excellen • y of his glory, which was still to be revealed; and both the Law and Prophets bear witness unto him, and the Scriptures throughout testifies of him, and declare his unchangeableness, who through all abides the same; what he was in the beginning▪ he was the same to Moses, and to David, and all the Prophets, and Holy men of God, who all received a measure of his unchangeable life, and were thereby inspired; and as that in them moved so they spake and declared, and their Testimony agree • in one; for they were all come to that which vvas in the beginning, and all declared the same thing according to its manifestation unto them; that from Moses until John, all the true Prophets bo • e their Testimony unto CHRIST the Power of God, whom they knew to be freely▪ given of God to be a LIGHT and a LEADER, that he might be salvation unto the ends of the Earth; & as they received, they Ministred, and truly testified of his Power; and what they knew him to be made unto them, so they declared of him, and witnessed him to be a King, a Judge, a Law-giver, a Rock, a Fortress, a Deliverer: And so according to the Manifestation they Ministred, and not by Tradition or Custom, That the Testimony of John agreed with the Testimony of Moses, and they both witnessed the same Thing, and had Union with the same Life: So John was come to that which was in the Beginning, and in that he was the greatest of all the Prophets, and was sent of God to prepare the Way, and to make the Pathes streight; for he was near to be revealed in glory, of whom Moses and the Prophets had testified; and John declared of the Word which was in the beginning, by which all things were made; And he testified, That in the Word there was Life, and the Life was the Light of men, John 1. (mark:) The Word in the beginning is the Life and Light of men, by which all things were made: This was his Testimony who was sent of God to bear witness unto the Light; and he did not declare of another then the holy men of God had done the same, that Moses and the Prophets had testified of; and he was sent of God to bear witness unto this Truth which was in the beginning, and he did not testifie of that to be the Light, which Moses and the Prophets had written before him; neither did he testifie of himself to be the Light, but that is the true Light (saith John) that enlightens every man that comes into the world, John 1.9. Here was the Light shone out of Darkness in John, the Morning and the first Day was come unto him, as was unto Moses, and he beheld his Glory as the Glory of the onely begotten of the Father, full of Grace and Truth: Then God sent him to bear witness unto the Light which in him was made manifest, that all in the Light might believe; and he called unto others to behold him, and said he was the Lamb of God, and was come to take away the sins of the World, John 1.29. (Mark:) He beheld him and his Glory, and felt his Power, and what his Power tooke away; then he declared him as he knew him, and not from any Tradition or Writing before him, though then there was much written which did truly testifie of him. Weigh this Truth all ye Priests and Professors, and ponder it in your hearts; Have you beheld Christ, and seen his Glory whose Name in Words you declare? Have you felt his Power to take away your sin? If yea, then why do you teach for Doctrine mens Traditions, and build upon other mens labours, and stretch your selves beyond your own measures, running into the Lines of what others have written? And if nay, then how dare any of you make mention of his Name, or speak of his Glory, or of his Power, seeing you have not beheld him yet made manifest in your selves? You are not sent of God, no not one of you, who cannot witness in some measure, the glory of the onely begotten of the Father revealed in you: Therefore let all flesh be silent, and the mouth of Iniquity for ever stopped, and let none speak more of Christ, or his Glory and Povver, then they knovv a measure of his Life made manifest in their mortal bodyes, by vvhich they come to know their sin taken avvay; For John testified, that the giving forth of the Law vvas by Moses, but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ, John 1.17: (Mark:) Grace and Truth vvas come unto John by Jesus Christ, and he had beheld and had felt the Virtue of it, by vvhich Moses Administration vvas fulfilled in him: And this is John's Record, who vvas sent of God to bear Witness unto him in whom is life, the same vvhich was in the beginning, of vvhom Moses testified, that so their Record agrees in one, and their Testimony is unto the same Life in Unity; for they vvere gathered unto Him vvho vvas in the beginning, and vvas made manifest through Generations to be a Light and a Leader; and all that believed and obeyed him, had Life Eternal in him: And this is he that vvas made under the Law, to Redeem them that vvere under the Law, and in fulness of time came and vvas made manifest to Israel, and vvas the end of the Law for Righteousness, unto all that did believe; and so he fulfilled the Ministration of Condemnation, which could not justifie any because of its weakness; & he brought in a Ministration of Righteousness, which did exceed in Glory; And this was the Word in the beginning, which became flesh, & dwelt amongst them, & they beheld his glory, and received him; and as many as received him, unto them he gave Power to become the Sons of God, even to as many as believed in his Name: And John preferred him before all▪ saying, He that comes after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me, and his shoo-latchets I am not worthy to unloose: I baptize with water, but he shall baptize with the Holy Ghost and with Fire, whose Fan is in his hand; he must encrease, but I must decrease, saith John. And when he came and was made manifest unto Israel, of whom Moses and the true Prophets had testified, and whose Glory they saw was to be revealed, he Ministred forth of his own Fulness, and of his Fulness they received, who upon him waited, and in him believed: Then he confirmed the Testimony of all the Holy Men of God, saying, I am the Light of the World, he that followeth me, shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life, John 8.12. And this Testimony the Pharisees could not receive, but told him he bore Record of himself, and his Record was not true: These were the wise Generation, and the Scripture-learned ones in that day, who had the Law and the Prophets read amongst them every Sabbath, and yet did not behold his glory when manifest amongst them, of whom Moses and the Prophets had testified; nor did not believe his own Testimony, who spake the Things that he heard and received of the Father: Mind this all you wise people of this present Age, who are wise in your own eyes, and hears and reads the Testimony of the Prophets, Christ, and the Apostles, and is searching the Scriptures from one end to another, and yet you come not to him, nor cannot receive his Testimony of whom the Scriptures do declare, & in whom is life: Now there was a poor people in that day, that did own his Testimony, and received him, and believed in him, and became followers of him, though by the Wise, and Mighty, and Noble, he was despised and rejected: And those that followed him, were made Witnesses of the Works and Miracles which he did whilest he was in that Body prepared; and they beheld great and mighty things done by his Power, the Dead raised, the Lame restored, blind Eyes opened, deaf Ears unstopped, the Tongue of the Dumb unloosed, Lepers cleansed, Devils cast out, with many other Signs and Miracles which in the days of his Flesh was done by him: And when the Work was near finished which the Father had given him to do, and the time of his Departure drew nigh, and that he was to leave them who believed in him, and were Followers of him, all things drawing near an End, he said unto them, It is expedient that I go away, that I may send you another Comforter to abide with you for ever, the Spirit of Truth, which the world cannot receive: And when he had finished, he departed from them, and left them, and entered into the Glory that he had with the Father before the World began, and sits at his Right Hand in the highest Heavens, Principallities and Powers being subject to him. This is he that doth redeem and save his People from their sin; and there is not another Name given whereby any can be saved; but the Name of Jesus. And after he was taken up from them, and was ascended, then did they wait for his Promise to be fulfilled; and they tarryed in Jerusalem, and waited until they were endued with Power from on High; and he did not leave them Comfortless, but in his Faithfulness he came unto them, & fulfilled his Promise, and poured forth his Spirit upon them, & they all spake the wonderful Works of God; then they preacht his Name from City to City, and published Salvation in his Life, and so they Witnessed that which they received in the pourings forth of the Spirit; and they were made able Ministers of the Spirit, and in the Spirit the things of God were unto them revealed, and they then laboured and travelled, that others who were Strangers and Aliens unto that Life which in them was revealed, might be gathered and brought to have union with it: So their Ministry in the Spirit was to turn people from Darknesse to the Light, and from the Power of Satan unto the Power of God, that they might receive forgiveness of sins; (mark) There must be a coming from Darknesse to the Light, and from Satan's Power unto the Power of God, before that sin be forgiven, or transgression blotted out: And this is that which so many vvants, they want the Light and Power of God, and lyes in Darknesse, and under the Power of Satan; so their sin • emains, and they live in it, and sayes it must be so whilst they are in this World; and they come not to that in which sin is forgiven and done away: And so people preach and believe in another Doctrine and Gospel then they preached and believed in, who vvere Witnesses of his Majesty, and were true Labourers in the Gospel who converted and gathered many unto God, who sometimes were afar off from h • m; and many came out of Darknesse to the Light, and from under Satan's Power, unto the Power of God, vvhich vvas the Gospel that they preached, and laboured to gather people unto; and all that believed and received their Testimony, set to their Seals that God is true; and Witnessed Salvation and plentious Redemption in the Light and Power of Christ, and they knew the Gospel, and Life, and Immortality brought to light by it; and then they stood in the sanctification of the Spirit, and knew the Povver of it in their Inward parts, and their hearts vvas by it purified, and they were made Saints of the Most High, and they all had their Life in one Spirit, according to the Measure received, and in the Spirit they served and Worshipped God Day and Night, and their Worship and Service he accepted; these were the faithfull in Christ Jesus, vvho had crucified the Flesh with all the Affections and Lusts of it, and vvere born of the Spirit into a new life, vvhere they Witnessed the Work of Regeneration and Renewing in the Power of God: And then there vvas Epistles written unto such to edifie and comfort them, and to build up and strengthen them, that they might stand in the Faith vvhich they had received, and in the Faith resist the Devil, and all his fiery Darts; and so by Faith in the Power, they Witnessed the World, and Flesh, and Devil overcome, and Victory obtained over all the Povvers of Darkness, and in the Povver they vvere kept, that the Wicked one did not touch them: So these vvere exhorted to stand fast in the Liberty vvhere • ith Christ had made them free, and and not look back again, to be entangled vvith a yoake of Bondage, Gal. 5.1. (Mark:) their Liberty was in Christ, and he had made them free, and they were come out of bondage, and were not to look back again, least they should be entangled; these had the Mark before them in the Light, and was to press forward, and not look back again; and the knowledge of the glory of God was given unto them in the Light which shone in their hearts, 2. Cor. 4 6. (Mark) The Light was in their hearts, by which, they came to know God and his Glory; and they that did not believe in the Light which was manifest in them, they did abide in Darknesse, and the God of this World blinded their minds, and kept them from the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, 2 Cor. 4.4. (Mark.) The Light was there, but they believed not; So the God of this World ruled over them, and kept them from it; but unto those that did Believe, it was the Mighty Power of God unto Salvation; and by it were they gathered unto God, and had fellowship with him & one another: So had they the true knowledg of God being in the Light gathered into fellowship with him; then they testified, That God is Light, and in him is no Darknesse at all, 1 Joh. 1.5. (Mark) This was John's Message which he had heard of him, & declared unto the Saints, That God is Light, & in him • s no darknesse at all; and those that say they have fellowship with God, and walk in darkness, they lye, & do not the Truth▪ but who walk in the Light, as he is in the Light, they have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanseth them from all sin; And this is John's Testimony unto the Saints gathered in the Light; and then he exhorted them to abide in it, and walk in it, and receive the Teachings of it; For saith John, You need not another Teacher, but the Annointing which you have received of him, and abideth in you, (Mark;) the Annointing which the Saints had received, it did abide in them, and they needed not that any man should teach them, but as the same Annointing taught them all things, and is truth and no lye, 1 John 2.27. And in the Truth received, they lived, and it did abide in them; and by the same Spirit of Truth were they led into all Truth, and had Fellowship and perfect unity one with another in the Truth, and they were dear and tender over one another, and loved one another with an unfeigned Love; and these were they that were born of God, and were Children of the Light, and of the Day; and they were not of the Night, nor of Darknes • , but out of that state were redeemed and saved by the Power of Christ, and in his Light they were led into the holy City, which John in the Spirit saw descending out of Heaven from God, having the glory of God, and her Light was like a Stone most precious, and the City had no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon to shine in it, for the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof, and the Nations of them that are saved, shall walk in the Light thereof, and the Kings of the Earth bring their Glory and Honor into it, Rev. 21. (Mark) all that are saved must walk in the Lambs Light which shines in the Holy City, and thither the Kings of the Earth must bring their Glory and Honour, and all must be laid down at the feet of him who reigns for ever; for unto the Lambs Power must all be subject, he is greater than all, there was none before him, neither is there another after him; the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and Last, Rev. 22. (Mark:) I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and Last: And here Moses and John meets in unity, and their Testimony agrees in one, and all the Dispensations and Administrations did hold forth this excellent Glory which unto John was revealed in the Spirit; and from the beginning to the end of all that is declared and written in so many Words, it is but a Testimony of him whose Name is called the Word of God, Rev 19▪ (Mark,) The WORD is his Name, and it was in the beginning, and by it was all things made that are made; and all the Holy Men of God received it, and had a part in it, and by it they all obtained Life, and they testified that there was not another Name given whereby any could be saved: And this is declared in Words, and is called Scripture of Truth, but is not the Word whereby Life and Salvation comes; For that was in the Beginning, and is the same this Day, and abides for Ever; CHRIST the Power of God, the Salvation of God, without any variableness or changing; and what Moses saw him to be in his time, John saw him to be the same in his time; and as he was made manifest unto them, so they testified of him, and exalted him above every Name, and laboured to gather people unto him; and many believed in him, and were united to him, and by one Spirit were baptized into one Body, and had fellowship and communion in one life, and in the Spirit they worshipped God with one accord, and served him with one consent: And this was glorious in its time, and a Service accepted of God; for they were single and upright to God, and worshipped him in his own Spirit, and his living presence was amongst them, and the Light of his Countenance did shine upon them, and their hearts were made glad, and rejoiced in him, and they offered up a living Sacrifice of Praise unto his Name: Then did Antichrist begin to work amongst them, and with his subtilty entered and prevailed over some of them, and through his deceivableness entangled them, and drew them from their obedience unto the Power in which they were gathered; then did those forsake the rest that in the Power were kept, & went out from them, and turned the Grace of God into wantonness, and made Shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience; then Night came upon the Disobedient, and the Vail spread over them, and darkness covered them, and they lost the Life and Power of God, and went out from the Spirit and from the Truth, and so became false Apostles and Deceivers, holding the Form, but denyed the Power, had the Sheeps Clothing, kept the Words, but inwardly ravened from the Spirit; And these Apostates who were gone from the Life and Power of God, and had lost the Leading of his Spirit, they turned into the Flesh, and joined to the Harlot, and committed Whoredom, and generated in the Flesh, and conceived a false Birth, and in their own strength brought it forth, and it turned a Persecutor of the Birth born of the Spirit, and exercised Dominion and Lordship over others, and sought to pervert the Right Way of the Lord, and to turn people from it; and after the Saints decease, who by the true Spirit were guided, then the false Apostles and Deceivers prevailed, and drew people, unto their Way, which stood in the Form, out of the Power so that the people were covered with gross Darkness, and their minds blinded, that the things of God were not at all perceived, then they sought out many Inventions, and made many Likenesses, and set up Forms, and every man's Way seemed right in his own eyes, and all became observers of their own Way; so set up the Kingdom in their observations, and all crying, that Christ was in that Way which they had made and observed. Now Christ beheld the coming of such, and exhorted to beware of them, and not believe them, nor go forth after them; for he declared that they were false, who shall cry him up in any observation, or set up the Kingdom of God in any such thing; therefore saith Christ, The Kingdom of God is within you, Luk. 17. So in this dark Night of Apostacy that was entered, people ran into Confusion, and did not understand one another: And when this glorious Day was lost that the Saints lived in who gave forth the Scriptures, and that people were gone astray, and erred from the leading of the Spirit, and had no union with the Life and Power that the Saints enjoyed, then they got their Words, and in the strength of their Imaginations, they set up a Way, and formed a Likeness, then centered in the Form, and rested there for Life; so was the Light and Day of God lost, and no Morning in them appeared, but gross Darkness was over them, and they did not like to retain God in their knowledge; then they went into the Visibles, and grew wise in the Letter, and read of the Saints Practice, and of their Worship, and laboured to form up some thing like it; and what they made and formed, in that they worshipped, and it seemed to be right in their own eyes. So they kept the Words, and with them stood cloathed, but were from the Life and from the Spirit, inwardly ravened. And this is Babylon the Mother of Harlots, where the Seed of God is in Captivity, & where people are distracted and confused, all tossed like waves of the Sea, and all unstable as VVaters; and out of this the Beast rises, and his Heads and Horns appeares, and he opens his mouth in Blasphemy against God, and blasphemes his Name and his Tabernacle, and them that dwell in Heaven; And this John in his time saw in the spirit; and when the Beast had got up his Heads and his Horns, he began to make war, and to force and compel subjection to his Power, that all might bow unto him, and receive his Mark; then did the world worship the Beast, and wondered after him, whose Names were not written in the Lambs Book of Life; and they that would not worship the Image of the Beast, was to be killed, And none was to buy or sell, but those that had the Mark, or the Name of the Beast, or the Number of his Name, Rev. 13. so came People under the Beasts Power in the Darkness, when they were ravened from the Spirit in which they should have worshipped the Father; then they worshipped the Image of the Beast, and received his Mark, so turned against the Lamb and his Followers, and made War with them, that when any thing of God appeared which was made manifest in people, then the Beast rose up, and made War against that, and reached unto it with his Horns, and pushed it down; so the true Church hath been driven into the Wilderness, where she hath been through time and times, and dividing of times,, and now is coming forth in the purity and glory of her Beloved, upon whose Breast she leans; and thus people have erred and gone astray from the Way of God, and have not known their part in that Life into which the Saints were gathered who gave forth the Scriptures; neither hath their Ears bin open to hear the teachings of God's spirit, which is manifest within them; so they have heapt up Teachers without them after their own ungodly lusts, and their ears have been itching after them; and they have built Houses for them, and called them Churches, and they have crept into them, and there have they led the silly Women captive, who have been laden with sins and divers lusts, and have been ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth, so hath the false Church and false Teachers spread over the Earth in the Night of Apostacy, and the people they have loved to have it so; there was liberty for the flesh, they could sit down in that Way, and eat, and drink, and rise up to play, and that pleased the carnal m • nd, and satisfied the affection and lust of the Flesh; and so hath all the vain Worships and Customs which people are this day worshipping in, who yet abides in Forms and Traditio • s, they are all come up since the dayes of the Apostles, and are after mens Traditions, and not after Christ; and the Conception of all hath been in man's Imagination, and hath been brought forth in his own Will and Wisdom; and so is a fleshly Birth, which hath ever persecuted the Birth of God; for man's heart adulterating from that of God in him, he goes into the Flesh, and unto the Flesh he joins and commits VVhoredom, and brings forth a Child of VVhoredom (and so have all Conceptions and bringings forth since the Dayes of the Apostles, been Bastards, and not Sons) then the Father that Begets, and the Mother that Bears, would have their Son to be set up, and they clothe him, and adorns him with fair coverings, that he may appear beautiful, and be beloved, & then would have all be subject to him, bow down, and worship him; and though all these Bastards differ much in their Likenesse, and cannot joyne, nor own one another, yet is their Conception all in one womb, and they all partake of one Nature; and that which makes the difference, is the Garment which they are dressed withall, in which they appear outwardly to the eyes of the beholders; and when the true Birth appears, they all take a part, and joins together, and conspires to kill him and to cast him out of their Countrey; So doth all the Harlots Children stand this day, every one for themselves, and one against another, but all against Christ the Son and Heir; and not one of them by what Name soever known, that would have him to reign, but strives with him, and makes War against him, as hath been experienced in this present Age; So every one likes and loves their own best, and labours to cherish and to strengthen that, and would have it to have a Name and Power in the Earth; and this is the great Contention amongst all the Apostates, who Wars, and Fights, and Destroys one another about their Religion, they would all set up their own Birth, and would have that Adored and Worshipped, and if there be but a bowing unto the Appearance of it, they are satisfied with it, though the heart be in the Hypocrisie; but if any deny to Worship that which they set up, and cannot bow unto it for Conscience sake, then they are offended, and provoked, and so Wars, and Fights, and Destroys one another, because their Image is not adored, nor their Birth worshipped, and all runs to the Scriptures for shelter, and from the Scriptures would prove their Birth to be lawfully begotten, and from that ground would have their Son Worshipped, or would have such as cannot, to be persecuted; And thus do all lye in Darkness, and in Confusion, in the Night of Apostacy, and understands not one another, nor knows not what they would have done; for they being from the Life that gave forth Scriptures, their understandings are darkened, and they erre, and knows not the Scriptures; nor the Power of God; the Light not shining out of Darkness, nor the Morning having not appeared in them, they be still in the Earth, where Darkness covers, and are all Wanderers and Vagabonds in the Earth, and hath no part nor union with Moses's Life, the Prophets Life, and the Apostles Life, who had unity together in the one Spirit, and all walked in the manifestation of it, and so declared the things they heard, and saw, and tasted, and handled of the Word of Life; and they knew the Son of God to be come, the same that was in the beginning, and their Understandings were opened by him, and then they knew him that was true and was in him that is true, even in his Son, JESUS CHRIST; this is the time GOD, and ternal LIFE, 1 John 5. (Mark) the Son of God was come, the true Birth was born in them, and they knew him to be the only true God, and obeyed and worshipped him, and in him they had Eternal Life; and this they witnessed to be true: But who knows him not to be come that is True, they are not in the Saints Life, so runs into their Words, and gets their Words, and sows them together, and makes themselves Coverings, but abides in the Darkness, and brings forth that which is false, then searches the Scriptures for Words, to prove their Image a lawful Son: And this is the bottom and foundation of all professed Religions this day, centring in the Letter, and running thither for shelter, but are all from the Life, and out of that which is the sure Refuge and Defence; and though all these Births differ in their Form and Likeness, yet in the Ground one, and all nourished from one Root; and the difference is in their branchings forth, and appearances; for they reach to the Letter in their comprehensions and from that imagines how the Saints practised and worshipped, and then they adde their own Inventions and Conclusions concerning it; and so makes it up as a thing that is true, and these are divers in appearance; some carved out into one likeness and some into another; some appearing more excellent and glorious than others; and some being more painted with Scripture-words than others are; and so they make up the Image which Daniel saw, whose brightness was excellent, and the form terrible, the head of the Image was of fine gold, his Breasts and his arms of Silver, his Belly and Thighs of Brass, his Legs of Iron, his Feet part of Iron, and part of Clay, Dan. 2. (Mark) here was divers appearances in the Image; and some more glorious than others to behold, yet but one Image, and from the Feet unto the Head it seemed more excellent in shew, but all must fall together, for the foundation is in the mixture, and the little Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands it smites the Mixture, and brings down the whole Image, and in the fall of it there is no difference made from the Feet unto the Head; but the Iron, the Clay, the Brass, the Silver, and the Gold was broken to peeces together, and became like the chaffe of the Summer-threshing-floors, and the wind carried them away that no place was found for them; and the Stone that smote the Image, became a great Mountain, and filled the earth, Dan. 2 23.

Hear, O BABYLON! for this is the Lord's Decree against thee this day▪ and all the Apostates that inhabits within thee; though many may be climbed up to the Head of Gold, yet they are part of the Image whose feet is Iron and Clay, and the little Stone will bring them down with the Rest, and they must fall and be destroied before the brightness of his Rising who is come to fill the Earth with his Glory; and though Babylon be diverse in appearance, and there be many branchings forth in her, and that there is not an agreement amongst themselves, yet they differ not in the root, but all springs up from the heart that is deceitful and desperately wicked, which lieth degenerated from God, and the night of Apostacy spread over it, and the fruit that is brought forth by them hath one taste, and is all bitter, and no savour of the life of God is felt amongst them: And though it be so, that all sorts and sects profess God, and with their lips seem to honor him, yet is their hearts far off from him; and their fear towards him is taught by the precepts and traditions of men, and in their works they are all found to deny him, and lies in darkness and confusion; some setting up, and some pulling down; some building, and some destroying; so doth the Inhabitants of Babylon dash one against another, and breaks one another, and destroies one another about their professed Religion, and are all out of that which m • kes for Peace, and that wherewith one may edifie another: So the Image hath been made and set up, and all these branches put forth since the daies of the Apostles, the Spirit of Truth being lost, and people having run in the night of Apostacy, they have been like blind men groaping for a Way to walk in; and when they could not find the Saints way, then in their inventions they made wayes to themselves, and what they made, that seemed right in their own eies: So have all the people a way and a worship, and in their own way their hearts is most delighted, and in that they are • est satisfied, though it never bring them near to God, or to feel the refreshings of his living presence.

1. Now the POPE, & those that walk and worship with him, they have a way, and unto them it seems right as others do, and they strive and contend for it, and counts all Hereticks that differ from them; and in their zeal to their way and worship, they make Laws and Decrees for to cut off and destroy such as cannot own their way, and walk with them; and the Pope challengeth the first place in Government and Power, as to those things that concerns Religion, and sets himself over all, and sits as a holy Father and Head of the Church, and institutes and orders what his will leadeth him to, and that he sets up in practise and profession; then unto that must all bow, or draw his displeasure upon them, and he concludes something from the Scripture that may be a ground for him in his practise; imagining that he is as Peter was, and hath power as Peter had, and fits in Peters Seat to rule, but is not found in Peters life, so an earthly carnal man, dark and blinde, not perceiving the things of God, and is far off from that in which Peter had power to binde and loose; so sits in a decked Seat in the pride and hautiness of his hear • , and in that rules over people by the might of his earthly powers, which Peter never did; so the Thing he maketh to himself, and sets up a likeness, out of the power, and the form is practised, and a Will-worship performed, and in that is the Pope with his people satisfied, and thinks that they do God service, but are found in the degeneration and alienation from the life of God, and the in dark night of Apostasie, where the mystery they cannot perceive, so in darkness walk, and know not whither they go, because that darkness hath blinded their mindes.

2 And from the same Root another branch springs up something higher, and is called PRELACY, whose birth is conceived in the same womb as the other, and brought forth in the same strength, and they flye to the Scripture to uphold that part of the Image which they bear forth, and from the Scripture they would prove their's a lawful birth, having read of Bishops and Church-order of Prayer and Preaching, of serving and worshipping God; and in words they deny the Pope and his practises, and cannot joyn, nor own his Birth to be lawfully begotten; yet there is none nearer in the brotherhood, nor none more like in their form and appearance; but are all in darkness, and neither knows nor understands one another, though children of one house; so they live in strife and contention, warring and fighting about their likenesses, because different in form, and neither of them a true birth; but lye in darkness, and under the shadow of death, where peace they know not.

3 And then another branch puts out something above either of these, and is called PRESBYTERY, and they make a great noise with the Scriptures and Form a great Likeness, and bears forth a higher part of the Image, and they contend more earnestly by how much they have a fairer shew; and they would have their Son to rule over all, and would have all compelled to fall down, and worship their likeness which they set up, and presses to a conformity under penalties, and punishments; and they have Scripture to turn unto, by which they would prove their Birth to be the onely childe; so they plead their call to the Ministry lawful, because they read some were ordained by the gift of the Holy Ghost, and by the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery; and they ordain Elders and Deacons, and Officers in their order and practise, having read of such names in the Scripture; and they contend against Pope and Bishops, and those Names, and cannot own nor joyn with them, but wars, and fights, and destroyes them; and so Babylon lyeth in darkness and confusion, and yet in the ground one; for the Presbyter's Branch is from the same Root, and his birth conceived in the same womb with the Popes and Prelates; and no difference but in the likeness made to themselves; for they be all in darkness, and from that which was in the beginning, and doth not know a part in the life which the holy men of God enjoyed, and from which the Scriptures were declared.

4 Then springs up another branch over all these, and is called INDEPENDENCY; and these have something like a form of godliness, and their Birth appears more glorious than any of the other, but is not the true Son; and though in many things they be separated, and differs from them, yet in others they joyn and consent unto them; and these bear but a higher part of the Image, by how much they have more of the form of godliness, and are more zealous in their practise and professed worship; and these do not so much strive after Compulsion, as some others do; though they would set up their Son as Chief, and would have him adored and worshipped above all; and they cannot own neither Pope, Prelate, nor Presbyter in their practise, but seperates from them and gathers into more particular union and fellowship together, and they run to the Scriptures to prove their Birth lawful, and their practise warrantable; but are with the rest in darkness, and in confusion, degenerated from the Power of God, by which all things were made, and knows not the life of Moses, the Prophets, and the Apostles▪ but stands • loathed and decked with their words, and there seem▪ to be something, and to stand above others in their shew of godliness, and Will-worship, but knows not the life revealed; so their strength lyes in the letter, and what the Saints have declared who were in the power of God redeemed▪ That they build upon as their foundation, and in their imaginations, practices in some things as they read the Saints did, and there they rest satisfied, and contented with their present states, and conclude to themselves a belief in Christ, and applie his promises, and what he did for them in that body that suffered without the gates of Jerusalem, and by his death and offering all things is accomplished for them, and no sin shall be ever imputed unto them though they live in it, and through his Mediation and Intercession for them, as he is at the right hand of God at a distance from them, they believe that they have access to God, and to the Throne of his grace, and are accepted of him; and yet they neither know God nor Christ, nor the place where they say he sits at the right hand of God; and upon confession made of this belief, and if there be something of soberness in people, that they do not appear openly prophane, such they receive into fellowship and brotherhood; when the birth of God lyes oppressed under the pride of their hearts, and no fellowship with God, nor one with another in the life of God; then they break bread together, and calls it an Ordinance of Christ, and meet together, and speak and pray in words, which is a branch of the old Root; and a higher part of the IMAGE, seemingly more glorious; and this is the faith which all people in words wil confess as they do, and doth not at all differ from the faith of the POPE, the PRELATE & PRESBYTER, all confessing faith in Christ, and a hope to be saved in Christ, and that he hath satisfied for all sin past, present, and to come, and in the life to come they shall obtain eternal salvation by Christ; and this is but the same which all will acknowledge in words, and differs nothing in the ground from the faith of those they are separated from, but branches forth of the same Root, and all their practise springeth out of the same ground, and is the Harlots Childe, though dressed with a fairer Covering.

Another branch there is which makes up the form of the Image, and branches forth from the old root, and is called BAPTISTS, who have formed a birth fair in shew, and is seemingly more glorious than any of the other, and they are also in strife and contention about it, and they flye to the Scriptures to defend it, and to prove it to be the lawful Childe; and because they read of some that went into the water, and were baptized, they observe and do the same; and reading in the Scriptures that there were some who met together, and exhorted one another, and were edified and comforted one in another, they observe and do as near as they can what they read of the Saints practise; and so conceives a birth in the same womb, and brings it forth in the same strength as others do, and in the ground it differs not; and concerning Christ and salvation they are of the general faith with the other parts of the Image, and many of them hath the strongest confidence in it, and contends most earnestly for it, being in their mindes perswaded that Christ hath satisfied for all their sin, and hath reconciled them unto God though they be sinners, and by him they hope to be saved after this life is ended, and so are set down in a carnal security, and rest at ease in the formality, and are strangers to the quickning Spirit; and the faith that they have made is not held in a pure conscience, but is conceived in the heart that is degenerated and corrupted: So people being from that of God in them, which he makes manifest unto them; 〈◊〉 god of this world rules over them and blindes their mindes, that those things which are eternal they cannot perceive; then doth he lead forth their mindes into the temporals, and they make haste thither, and opens their eyes to look at the things which are seen, and this is pleasing to the carnal minde which is willing to turn any way that it may escape judgement: And what was by the Saints given forth, and appears in writings without them, that their life is in, and that they contend about, and all strives to set up their own Conceivings, and teach for Doctrine mens traditions, and minde not the measure of God in themselves, but stretch beyond it in the comprehension, and run into other mens lines and labours, and are all upon the earthly root, and in darkness and confusion in their practise and worship; that from the crown of the head, to the sole of the feet the Image hath no whole part in it, but is full of putrifaction and corruption, and every branch rotten and deceitful, and no good fruit is found; for the bringing forth of all is from the heart that is deceitful and corrupted, which lyes fallen and degenerated from God, and cannot bring forth any thing that is pleasing to him, or accepted by him; for as is the root, so is every branch in its nature from high to low; and through all these appearances there is not a sound part found, but some of them abominable filthy, & others have healed the sore sleightily, and are all out of the life & power of God, and are all found wanderers in the night of Apostasie, and in the darkness have taken the Whores Cup, and do drink it, and received the mark of the beast • , and do bear it; and this is Babylon the Mother of Harlots, and the abomination of all uncleanness, who hath held forth a Golden Cup in the night of Apostasie, and hath through her Sorceries and Inchantments bewitched many to receive it, and drink it, untill they have been drunk with the Wine of her Fornication, and have committed Whoredome with her; that many children have been begotten, and many Bastards brought forth of flesh and blood, and of the will of man, which is the birth that persecutes the Son and Heir: And unto all those is the Cup of Gods indignation poured forth, and they must all come under the severity of his Judgement, because they are Bastards and not Sons; for these adulterous births have provoked the Lord, and grieved his Spirit, and he hath long forborn, and spared: But on Babylon he will be avenged, and all her Brats and Children he will dash in peeces in the fierceness of his anger, and not one of them must stand, though never so seemingly glorious; for the day is come, and the true Birth is born, whose right it is to Reign, and his glory he will not give to another, nor his praise to graven Images; he is the Son, and in him is life, and his life is the light of men; all must bow before him, and all that is contrary to him must under his feet be troden down; for unto him alone belongs the issue from death, the same that was, and is, and is to come, Everlasting, Powerful, God over all for ever and ever.

Hear ye wise, and consider ye prudent of the world; Is not this your Way? and, Is not this the fruit of your doings? Do you not walk in darkness? and are you not building in your Imaginations, and setting up your own inventions, and brings forth likenesses? and, Are you not from that which was in the beginning, and from the Saints life? and, Do you not want rest and peace to your souls? Be stayed, and feel Gods witness in your own selves, which will return a true answer in your own bosomes.

And now a few words of • ender Counsel from the Lord God unto you all, that you may see the form of the Image, and how uncomely every part of it is, that you may not love, nor delight in it any longer; for the Lord will destroy it together, and the little Stone cut out of the Mountains without hands, will dash it all in peeces, and there will not be a man upon the earth found to save or uphold any part of it.

So all watch to the Morning, that the day may break upon you, and the Light shine out of darkness in you, that your eye may look into the Glass of Righteousness, the pure Light of Christ in your own consciences, and there you may behold both the Ill-favoured, and Well-favoured Harlot, and what Image you all bear, and what Cup you all drink of, and what Mark is in your foreheads; and if you be diligent, and incline to the Lords Counsel, and hearken to his witnes in you, your understandings wil open, and you will see to the beginning, and know that which was before imaginations, or any inventions was found out; and you will come into unity with the Saints life, and know every word you utter forth to be spoken in the life, and all flesh silent before God, and so will your gatherings be unto Christ, who is set up for an Ensign, that all may come unto him and be saved; and you will feel his life in you revealed, and in his face behold the express Image of the Fa • hers glory, and his Power he will make known in you, and baptize in the death, and every formed fleshly birth that exalts it self against him; and he will save you as you in him beleeve, and redeem you from your vain conversations which you have in the world, and give you life and peace for ever.

HEar and consider, you that set your selves on high, and boast in the Works of your own hands; you are weighed and tried, and your Way and Work is proved, and you are found to be out of the Saints Life, and from the Scriptures of Truth; for the Lord spake by Moses, saying, Thou shalt have no other Gods but me; thou shalt not make to thy self any Graven Image, nor the L • keness of any thing in Heaven above, or Earth beneath, or Water under the Earth; thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them; For I the Lord thy God am a Jealous God, Exod. 20. Are you not found Transgressors of the Holy and just Law of God, making to your selves Likenesses, and bow down to them, and Worship them, and forget the Lord, who saith, Thou shalt have no other Gods but me? And are not these your Gods which you make to your selves, and sets them up to Worship? And do you not adore them, and bow and cringe to them? and doth not this practise erre from the Scriptures of Truth, and from the Saints life? Where do you read that the Saints made Images, and set them up, and bowed unto them, and worshipped before them? Or did they pray unto Images, or make an Image of Christ, or of the Saints, and fall down before it, and pray unto it? Or did they ever sprin • le Water one upon another, and called it Holy Water? And did they ever pray by their Beads, and use Crosses and Crucifixes? And had they a POPE to rule over them, and to order them in the Worship of God? Who first made Cardinals, and Fryers, and Nuns, and erected Abbyes, and Monasteries? Who first set up Houses of Wood and Stone, and called them Churches? Are not you the Inventers of all these things which are come up since the dayes of the Apostles? Who made Saint dayes, and called them Holy Dayes? And who set up Colledges to make men Ministers? And who gave the Colledges their several Names? And who brought up Tythes, and gave them to the Ministers made at Colledges? And who made a Law to compel the payment of them unto such a Ministry? Who first brought up Bread and Wine, and called it Sacrament? And who first gave Power to the Colledge-Ministers to communicate it unto People at certain Times and Dayes? And who first ordained that every Receiver of it from their hand, should give them two pence for so doing? Who first brought up those Easter Reclignings, and Midsummer-Dues, and Ten-shilling-Sermons? Whether was this the Saints practice who lived in the Life and Power of God; Or are not all these things come up in the Invention since the Spirit of Truth was lost and ravened from? How will you clear your selves before the Lord, when he calls you up to the Ba • of his Justice, to give account of your doings? How wil you make these things (with much more that might be mentioned) warrantable or lawful, seeing that the Scripture doth not declare of them, nor the Saints, who were by the Power of God Redeemed, and Regenerated into newness of Life, they did not live in them, nor set them up? From what Root then doth all these things spring? Do they not come up from the Carnal mind that is at enmity with God? And is it not the flesh that brings forth such a Birth as this? Have you not committed shameful Whoredom, and run into deep Fornication, who are so far degenerated from the holy Spirit, and from the Scriptures, that your Birth is not at all shaped or formed like unto that which is true? So that your Birth is conceived in the Adulteress Womb, and is a Child of Whoredom, and there is no Scripture to prove it lawful; Your building Houses, and calling them Churches, your setting up Crosses in many Towns, making Saints Dayes, praying to Saints, erecting Colledges, calling them Christ's Colledge, and John's Colledge, and such like Names; your making Ministers at them, and your giving them the tenth part of Peoples Encrease to maintain them, and making a Law to compel it, with much more by you brought forth in the Mid-Night of Apostacy. Have you not erred exceedingly from the Scriptures, and from the Spirit that gave the Scriptures forth? And so are neither found in the Saints Life nor Practice.

Therefore be stil, and hearken to the Lords Counsel, and reject it not; it is near you to reprove you for your abominable Idolatries; Turn to it, for it is Truth, and there is no deceit in it; the Lord hath placed it in your Consciences to be a Witness for him, from which none can hide their Counsel, nor cover their secret Thoughts; and Cease from your doings, and give over making Likenesses and forming Images, and turn to that of God in you which the Imagination cannot comprehend, nor the Invention make any Likeness of: Bow down and worship it, and be subject unto it in all things▪ it is CHRIST the Power of God, the Heavenly Image, who is jealous of his Glory, and wil smite all other Images, and Image-Makers; For Babylon must fall before him, and Antichrist he wil destroy with the brightness of his Appearance. Oh ye people! your Way is corrupted, and is not found right before the Lord, though you challenge the first place after the Apostles, and set your selves on high with that you call your Mother Church; yet the Lord hath found you out, and all your deceitful workings, and Whoredoms, and Abominations, whither your hearts have run out of God's fear; that your Mother Church doth now appear, and is made manifest in this Day of God, to be MYSTERY BABYLON THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, which hath made all Nations drunk with the Wine of her Fornication, and hath handed forth a Golden Cup full of Abominations, by which she hath deceived the Nations. But the Day hath declared you, and your Work is seen of what sort it is; and it is not like the Saints Work, who drunk of the Cup of Salvation. And thus have you spread your Skirt over the earth, and have pollutted it with your abominable Idolatries, and have caused many to drink of your Cup of Fornication, and have bewitched them with your Sorceries, and the abundance of your Delicacies: But the Lord is rending your Skirt, and taking away your Covering, and your nakedness appears to your shame; for you are seen to the bottom, and your Root is the corrupted heart of the old Man in the degeneration▪ and you lye in the Fall, and in the Transgression, where not one doth good; and the Lord hath no pleasure in you, neither doth he require your Worship, nor your Offerings at your hands, but is weary of them. Therefore Arise out of y •• r Idola • ry, and depart from it, for it is polluted, and the Lord will suddenly come upon it, and destroy it with a sore destruction: And cease from your Cruelty and Blood-thirstiness, and lay by your Stocks, and Whips, and Pris • ns, and do not use such Weapons to defend your Religion; for that makes you manifest to be out of the Saints Life, who never used such things to compel any to Conformity, or to punish such as differed from them in Practice and Worship.

Therefore all turn to that by which they were guided, and in which they walked and lived, the Spirit of Truth by which they were led into all Truth, and were kept from Idols; and as it is made manifest in you, wait to receive it, and then fight against Spiritual Wickedness in High Places, that sin and transgression may be cut down in your own particulars, that you may live no longer▪ in Pride and Haughtiness, Envy and Malice, Riotting and Drunkennesse, and such like filthinesse, which you like to retain, and have a love to, more then the Light that doth reprove you for them; but all come to the Light, that in the Light your Minds may be ordered and exercised; and it wil gather you into a measure of the same Life the Saints enjoyed, and raise your souls from Death, and it wil destroy all your Images and Bastard-Births which in the Earthly corruptib • e Wisdom you have formed and brought forth; and as you obey and believe in it, it will lead you to God, where Life and Eternal Salvation is obtained, and Peace and Unity is enjoyed and possessed for ever—Depart from Vanity, and live.

HEar, Oh ye people! BABYLON must be destroyed, and and all the Pride of her glory must be spoyled, the Lord God hath so determined, and no part of her Countrey must be spared; for the Scourge is to pass thorough her Land, and to find out high and low, rich and poor, who inhabits within her Borders, and to smite them and spoil them, that a dreadful cry will be heard amongst them, all slying for their lives, and none able to escape the severity of God's Judgement.

Therefore all Arise, come out, make haste, who desires to live; for destruction comes as a VVhirl-wind, and there will not be a hiding place found in BABYLON; for strong is the Lord that judgeth her, and in one day will Judgement fall upon her, and the Lord will make a full end concerning her.

Oh! my heart is heavy, and my Spirit sad, when I behold the Viol filled, and how near it is to be opened and poured forth; the Day hastens upon thee, Oh BABYLON! yea, sudden Destruction is coming swiftly, and in flames of Fire it will be rendered, and will take hold upon thee, and kindle within thee, as Fire kindles in the midst of Tow; and who shall then stand up for thee, or bring deliverance to thee? Not a man within thee will be able to lift up his head to do any thing for thee; for all hearts will fail, and all faces gather paleness, who are found within thy borders, and thou must drink the Cup of God's Indignation, because thou hast rebelled against him; for thou hast been a HARLOT from thy youth, and hast decked thy self with costly Ornaments, that thou mighest entice Lovers to thee; and many have been deceived by thee, and have beeen overcome to commit VVhordom with thee, and many Children are brought forth by thee, which are sons of thy Whoredom; and these thy Children would rule in the Earth, and would have all bow unto them, and strive amongst themselves who should be greatest: Is not this the fruit of thy womb O BABYLON, that runs into all confusion and distraction, and have no agreement amongst themselves, but would devour and destroy one another? And dost thou not dark thy Children with costly Attire, and • eautifie them with fair Ornaments, that they may be beloved because of their Comeliness, in which they appear to men? Is not this thy VVitchcr • f • and Sorcery which thou hast spread over the Earth in this night of Apostacy? Hast not thou sitten d •• ked as a QUEEN, and thy Children like PRINCES Sons? And hast not thou, and thy Children been the wonder of the World? And have not all been subject to thee, and bowed before thee, and thy Sons VVhoredome? And hast not thou handed forth a CUP of FORNICATION? And have not the Nations received it at thy hand, and drunk so deep of it, until they have been made drunk? What is this that thou hast done, thou MOTHER of HARLOTS? Hast thou deceived all Nations, and made them drunk, and then enticed them to commit VVhoredome with thee? Must not thou be done unto, as thou hast done unto others? And must not thou be rewarded double for all thy sins? I tell thee yea, for he is just that will render unto thee a recompence; and though thy Kingdome seem to be strong, and thy City to be walled, and thou enriched therein with the best things of the Earth; all this will not save thee from the hand of him that pursues thee swiftly in Judgement: And though thou hast gathered Nations unto thee, and hast many Merchants that trade in thee, and they all with their strength joyn together to save thee, yet thou must fall, and all that strive to uphold thee; for thy Ruine is near to come, and the wrath is kindled against thee, and ready to take hold upon thee, and to destroy thee Root and Branch, that thy place will be no more found; and it is the Lords long-suffering and patience that hath spared thee from utter Ruine untill this day, and hath not as yet out thee off in the fierceness of his wrath, with all those that are Inhabitants in thee: It is not for thy sake that the stroak hath been kept off, but for his own Name sake, who delights to save in his Mercy, that some of thy Inhabitants might behold his patience and his goodness, and thereby come to repentance, as some of them have done who were once in the midst of thee; but his own arm reached unto them, and hath gathered them out of thee, and hath brought his Sons from far, & Daughters from the Ends of the Earth; yea, from all quarters of thy Dominion, hath the Righteous God brought up a Remnant, who in thy Kingdome were once scattered and dispersed, and were amongst thy various Observations, and thy Forms and Traditions, where they could not finde a Resting-place; and there is yet a Remnant that God will not destroy with thee, who sit by thy Rivers, and weep; and it is for his Chosen sake that thou art spared unto this day; but God is making haste, the work to finish, and is opening the Eyes of many, who yet remain within thee, thy filthiness to see, and thy abominations and wickedness to loath and abhor; and many will the Lord gather out of thee, who now sit in sorrow within thee, and wait to be delivered by the Arm of his Power; such doth he reach unto in his Mercy, and is drawing them out with the Cords of his Love.

So all people hear and consider, from the highest to the lowest, and let not this seem small in your eyes, though your wisdome may account it so, and sleight it, and reject it as a tale that is told, and still make your necks stiffe, and your hearts hard against the Lord, yet shall you all one day know that the Lord hath spoken it.

And all you tender ones that breathes after God, under what Form soever you do yet abide, or in what part of BABYLON soever your habitation is; Arise, come forth, do not delay, neither look behinde you, but make haste to the City of Refuge, that you may live; for the Lord with▪holds in pity towards you, and long hath he striven with many of you, but you have been slack in your obedience, and have not regarded the Lords Visitation, and yet doth he wait upon you, that he may save you, and shew mercy to you; and though you trifle and put off from day to day, yet is he striving with you, that you may not perish in Babylon's Ruine: Oh! do not delay any longer, lest he leave you, and depart from you, and you continue touching the unclean thing, and will not be separated from it; then he will certainly smite you, and none will be found to heal you: Therefore give up to the Lord freely; obey, beleeve, and follow the Light, that out of Babylon you may clearly come, and leave not a Hoof behinde you, and stick not in any part or place of her, though it seem never so glorious, for • o part of her will the Lord spare in the day when he smites.

And all you whose delight is in BABYLON, and whose love is to her, and who are trading, and making your selves rich in her, the voice of the Lord reacheth unto you, that you might come ou • and be saved, for he would have none of you destroyed, therefore they who come under destruction destroy themselves, because they refuse to hear and obey the Lords Counsel. So let the Inhabitants of BABYLON consider, and all her Merchants ponder the thing, for the time of desolation comes; yea, it is near at hand, he is making up his Jewels, and gathering the Wheat into his Garner, and when he hath finished, and his own pleasure is performed towards his Chosen ones, then will the storm fall upon thee O BABYLON; yea, fiery Indignation will proceed out of the mouth of the Almighty, and from the fierceness of his wrath thou canst not escape; but sorrow will come upon thee as p • ngs upon a woman in travel; then WOE, WOE, WOE unto thee O BABYLON, thy Brats and Merchants▪ and all thy Inhabitants who in thee have lived in pleasure, and have made themselves rich with Trading in thee; this will be thy portion (with all that belongs unto thee, and refuse to come out from thee) Weeping, and Howling, and Wayling, and Lamentation for ever; and this Cup must thou, thy Sons and Merchants receive from the Lords hand, who is just in his Judgements, and Righteous in all his wayes.

FEAR and REPENT, before it be hid from your Eyes.