The Revelation of God & his glory sounded forth for the opening of the mystery of the seven seals on the book of the wonders of God in the hand of the angel : being a true and faithful testimony of the Enochian prophecie of the rise and fall of Antichrist and of the restauration of Zion to its primitive glory.

The EPISTLE To the READER.

I.

LEt the Impartial Reader se∣riously weigh what is herein set down, and rashly pass no Sentence on a Work of this concernment; nei∣ther scruple at the Form and Me∣thod in which it is come forth to the view of all sorts of Spi∣rits,

wherein I cannot expect so kind entertainment, in matters of such nature, as to have all Men speak well of it, or of me therein, because then had I my Reward with men.

II.

For my whole and sole aim and intention in this work (as far forth as I know, and am made sensible of my own frame and temper of Spirit) is and hath been other ways grounded and founded in Truth, than to seek other Honour and Glory than what is of, and cometh from GOD; wherein I have a Wit∣ness both in Heaven and Earth,

which I might call to bear Re∣cord with and for me, that I con∣siderately love not vain osten∣tation, or to boast over the Weak, by soaring aloft out of the reach of their Capacities, that something else than the Spirit of GOD should be exalted in the Temple and Throne of Gods DIGNITY.

III.

Because then might I expect that God should glory over me, in the WORK of DESTRU∣CTION: Though I know in the following Treatise much is come forth in an unpleasant form and dress, to the curious search

of some that may count them∣selves wise; and it will be ac∣counted (at the first sight there∣of) rather FORM and SHA∣DOW then SUBSTANCE; and many will be ready to judge the truth of its Concern locked up in SIMILITUDES, and sealed in an unknown Tongue, in that through good Experi∣ence of the Enemies Work, I am taught not to be too prodigal in opening Terms, wherein some have suffered and come to a loss, by such means, and the Truth it self is thereby made of low esteem in the EYES of many proud and haughty Ones.

IV.

Therefore have I employed my Endeavours (under the workings and motions of the Spirit of God, wherein many Mysteries of truth pertaining to the Establishment of his Kingdom, have been re∣vealed in and unto me) that I might leave no room for contention, to feed the snarling na∣ture of those dogged qualities in such that are gon out of the pati∣ence and content of God, where the Charity of Life is abounding, wherein Covenant is kept with the LORD, in that Spirit which particularly openeth and reveal∣eth the Mysteries of Truth, in

all to whom it pertaineth to know the same.

V.

And though such that hun∣ger after Advantages (in that SWINE-like Nature, which is ready to return again, and rend those that cast their Pearls before them) are in the nature of the Harlot, who is not to be fed with the portion of a true Matron, neither is Childrens Bread to be cast before them, in that adulterating spirit (which open∣eth the Quiver out of which the Darts of Disdain are sent forth, do fly abroad) and yet shall not the Truths of God always

continue clouded or obscured in silence, as a Treasure hid in the EARTH.

VI.

But the Time is come that the oppressed Life hath gathered strength, and the groans of the Sufferer have made way for the resurrection of the slain; and the Poor and Despised doth and will arise over all the con∣tempt it hath met withall in its Way onward to the Land of REST; and the Disdainful are ashamed to see the Beggar taken from off the Dunghil, and such exalted in the Favour of God, that were of low degree in the

Eyes of the Admirer of the Per∣sons of Men, because of advan∣tage, who have said, Sit thou here, and be my Footstool, since thou hast no Gold Ring, nor gay Garment; else depart, and be thou warmed and fed: but therefore are the Rich afflicted, and the Full are given up into the Tormentors hands.

VII.

For a Day is already appear∣ed, in which the simple have been preserved in their Way, and they shall grow in the Favour both of God and Man, through all opposition they meet with, by the fierce and cruel HUNTERS, for their Prey: And those that

have said, Come up higher, and sit thou here, because of thy covering and out-side Garment; shall them∣selves be seen naked and hun∣gry, and in want of all things, and many shall behold their shame; for they shall no more wear a rough Garment to de∣ceive, or through austerity appoint places to such that may serve their Interest: but the Voyce of the LORD shall be heard in the EARTH, calling and inviting many to the great and last Supper of the LAMB, who shall have on the Wedding Garment of a meek and quiet Spi∣rit, which is of great price with the Lord.

VIII.

And this covering will ne∣ver prove too narrow, neither shall it be ripped off; though such may come up in an appear∣ance of Glory, to manifest the end of the Worldly Sentence that is gone out against them: but seeing fiery tryals are come, wherein all Foundations are to be searched into, that every Birth may live in, and receive the Re∣ward of that which it hath been sown in and to, and that it may appear whether they can indure and hold out in the time of af∣fliction: Blessed are all they that have found out, and are builded

on the unmoveable and lasting Rock of Ages, and Foundations of many Generations, that have passed before them: for I have seen many good beginnings in the Work of God, wherein his Grace and Love was and is suf∣ficient to perfect and finish the same, had it been trusted to, wholly and fully.

IX.

But such that have leaned to their own understandings, have given heed to lying Vanities, and have forsaken the FOUNTAIN of endless Mercies and Refresh∣ments, having still that of their own reserved, (which they are

very loth to part from) that se∣parates between GOD and them: these have begun well, but who hath hindered them, that they are so ready to sit down by the VVay in a false Peace and Rest? wherein they come short of perfect Satisfa∣ction in God, looking on a self-sufficiency, in something done as an Act of the Creature without the assistance of the Spirit of GOD to keep in the way of Peace.

X.

For their beginning was in and by the Spirit of GOD, why then seek they to be perfect by

the Flesh, and in a Name of Pro∣fession of Truth, while they have the approbation of such that have convinced the Under∣standing of that which is Truth in the Judgment of Creatures? but in a time of the tryal of their Faith, the ends of the World are manifest before them, and then is there a running to and fro, to increase the Knowledge of the WORK of GOD, as it is in themselves, though many have learned in this day to adde to their Faith, Vertue and Patience, and all good Fruits of the Spi∣rit of God, because of the Ex∣perience of the Work of Faith, which through Patience they

are kept in the sence of, in the midst of Fiery Tryals; and they hold fast the begettings of God thereby, in a confidence of good in him.

XI.

And then as they increase in Knowledge, it is on a good ground and foundation, that hath learned them to rejoyce in the FLAMES of DEVOURING FIRE, whose devouring QUALITY cannot reach their SENCE with any BITTERNESS of its Sting; but through Patience and Submission thereto, it is made sufferable, and the Cross is made easie therein, and the BURDEN light, because of a

quenching property in that love, against whatever maketh the Judgement of God to be unsufferable Torment to his Creature: for part of their Knowledge is, that it is not on∣ly given them to believe, but to suffer for the namesake of God, though in the beginning of the Work of Faith, the belief that was wrought by the Spirit of God in them, is a Convincer of sin, under which there was and is a suffering in the nature that hath contracted the guilt thereof on the Soul, by unity of Spirit therewith, even the Spirit and God of the World.

XII.

Further, knowing and being perswaded, in patience to wait for the perfecting of the Work of God in the Heart, in that Faith and belief of the love of God therein shed abroad, that they are kept sensible of a good experience of the Work there∣of, having the Testimony of a good Conscience to manifest the same in the World; these can shew their Faith by its Works, and have a birth there∣of that makes not ashamed of a good CONFESSION among Men; and the fained Humility, and appearances of Love, from

the untimely Fruit of the Womb, that can never come to see the glory of the Sun of this day, withereth in its way: for that which can indure and hold out to the End, worketh by the love of God, that hath begotten in∣to a lively hope, concerning the Resurrection from the Dead, ha∣ving a Life tinctured in the Souls reach after true Charity in God, and Love unfained, which is the highest attainment in a Christi∣ans state, and the greatest Gift that can be attained by men un∣der the Bond of Perfection.

XIII.

Sealing the Work in which

God doth glory and delight, in that which is made able to pass through the stroke of Death, to leave an Earnest of the expecta∣tions of the Creature (after the day of Redemption) in that which is much more pretious than that of Gold that perisheth: But how have I seen many in this day, loading themselves with the Fancy and Imaginations of their disquieted Mind? and then being burdened with a Fear and Jealousie that ariseth from the Unbelieving Heart, and distrustful ground, they are ready to cry out of the Burden of the Lord, whereas their own words and thoughts are be∣come

their Burden; who have taken that on them, which God never layd on them; and yet they make the concern for the Lords sake, that lays no more on any than they are made able to bear in the Life of Patience.

XIV.

And in this ground stand all the several Separations, and hasty receivings into Fellowships, with sudden hands laid on Pro∣selytes; for herein is the ground of prejudice, swayed by the creaturely affection: yet in this mind may be maintained a fierce and fiery Zeal, for the opiniatedness, that may often

call for fire to come down from Heaven, and to have Vengeance and Plagues speedily executed on such against whom their Spirit is bent: for having wish∣ed evil in their Hearts, and mis∣chief against the Persons of such (towards whom they cannot admit of any CHARITABLE thoughts) they proceed in a ha∣sty Prophecy of their utter con∣fusion, and then would they rather that both Soul and Bo∣dy of the subject (over whom they seek to be avenged in that rejoycing) should for ever pe∣rish, than that they should be found False Prophets: so evil a thing it is to be engaged in a

Spirit of Enmity and Envy.

XV.

But such Extremities many have this day put themselves on, through rash censure, and then run back to former Ages and Generations of the World, for a President and Example to help them out, as they think; whereby they oft are ready to plead the lawfulness of cursing their Adversary, who standeth not justified in their sight and approbation, because ELISHA was once acted in that Mini∣stration, through the heat and zeal of his Spirit; it being so far from their nature, to live in

that which is wayting for the Worlds redemption from sin, and reconciliation to God, that they rather strengthen their FU∣RY in the expectation of utter Consumption and Destruction on all that cannot for wraths sake stoop to their perswasions; and it is the end of such wil∣lings, to see a People perish in their sins.

XVI.

Because of that mis-inform∣ed Zeal, under which their Spi∣rits are acted, against the Ene∣mies and Foes of that Cause for which they have found the life imboldened towards God, ac∣cording

to the quickning of his Spirit, as tinctured with that Power before which the Heavens have opened, and do shut; and in the like desire THEY are moved, as was HE before whom Fifties were destroyed, whose Spirit resteth Judgement on a Ground wherein God hath prepared Messengers to go before his face: But conside∣ring the difference in Admi∣nistrations, that Zeal which runneth out after an Object to maintain the heat of Spi∣rit against which it is en∣kindled, is not now held and retained in the like Cause and

Ground as that in which it first appeared.

XVII.

For God is gone out of that Administration, as acted towards the Persons of Men in their Generations, and cannot own any glory there∣in, but as that which had a Testimony of his day in the Prophecy thereof, wherein the Messengers went before his Face, in a sence of that terror that was come on the Wicked World; because such that wear the soft Cloath∣ing are got into Kings Houses, and they shall no more wear

a rough Garment, or prophesie in their Sackcloth Robes; there∣fore whom would men go out to see? since Times are come, that the Sacrifice of the Rebellious savoureth of the Work of Death, and there is not fire enough to kindle the combustible mat∣ter, in the House, on the top of which they are exalted; while the Displeasure of God continueth unawakened in the Pleasure and Will of Men that bring Wood, but where is the Flame of that other Spi∣rit which God requireth? even of Reconciliation to Him∣self, in the Life of Forgive∣ness,

in that which is able to Appease and Quench the Wrath and Rage of the de∣vouring Enemy, and make Friends in the Well-Beloved Life.

XVIII.

Yet where is Love and Forgiveness enough to heap Coals of Fire on the Heads of Enemies, the Gift hath been first left at the Altar, and such are in the way of Re∣conciliation to God and their Brother, and have their Sa∣crifice salted with Salt, and do find Acceptance before God, without any loud Cry to the Worlds BAAL, or Lord,

as did the Priests in Days of old; and they awaken no∣thing before its time, but are wayting on the Power of what is already kindled and awakened against Self, which is Gods Displeasure, where∣in the ENEMY hath been strengthened for a time.

XIX.

Thus desiring, if it be pos∣sible, to live in peace with all Men, no Spirits can be awakened in the wrathful Prin∣ciple to their hurt, because such things are not easily al∣layed again in their heat and sting; for the Executioners of

Gods Displeasure, as destroy∣ing Angels in God, rejoyce in the Power of Death, ta∣king occasion by Sin to tempt, and then to accuse, as sin hath taken occasion by the LAW, (once ordained in the hand of Angels) to revive a strength of Condemnation, under the Power of Death, wherein the Devourer and Destroyer imployeth his In∣struments in the Working of Concupisence, like a roaring Lyon seeking to betray under his Baits and Snares, as a ground of Enmity and Revenge, in which he lurketh with accu∣sations, after he hath once

conquered under the Power of his Dominion, and to con∣demn before God, that the Patient in Spirit may be de∣livered into his hand for tor∣ment, the time he hath to sift and try them.

XX.

For I have always desired of the Lord, to keep out of the ground and Cause of Just Offence to any, and to avoid occasions of Enmity, which is so ready to spring up in the distempered and discompo∣sed Mindes of Men of unru∣ly Passions, who have let in the SEED of Discontent

against the Dealings and Proceedings of God, either in Themselves or Others, wherein many are both seek∣ing and taking occasions un∣justly against those they are out of Charity with, because of a mind filled with preju∣dice and gainsayings, though to me such things are no whit strange, in that I know there is no temptation suf∣fered to work against the life of God in any, but what was common to the Saints in days of old, who with the Temptation have found out a way to escape the evil and danger thereof.

XXI.

Yet am I clear herein, that I have not sought to hide the Counsel of God from any, by delivering forth the truth of what I have received from GOD, in an UNKNOWN Tongue, wherein I could keep my Conscience void of offence towards GOD and Man; but there is a Spirit which is Worldly wise and subtil, yet covered with Re∣ligious pretences, which is at this day seeking Prehemi∣nence in the House and Temple of God, and that is it which I desire to live and

act out of the reach of, in what form, or by what name soever they may be called; therefore from such I keep in the Clouds, and from thence must I in the Truth hereof, and the Truth in me descend to their Capaci∣ties, as way is made therein, through the fulfilling of the Prophecy.

XXII.

But though this is and hath been my Care and Conscience towards God, and love to the Creation of him that formed his Workmanship in the Womb of Nature, and curiously wrought the form wherein he rejoyceth, in the Mothers Belly, not to seek

or give any just occasion of of∣fence to Jew or Greek, or cast a stumbling Block in the way of the Gentiles, in which the House of Israel remaineth under suf∣ferings; yet as far forth as I am redeemed out of the ground of hurt, which worketh in the excess of Love or Fear of the Creatures, I question not but my LIFE will be preserved through all in my Way, and out of the reach of evil Tongues, in the bewitching faculty of pre∣judice, that swelleth with Envy.

XXIII.

My Bow's bent being whol∣ly drawn against the persecu∣ting

Spirit of the World, about Religion and Worship of God, under what name or pretence soever such are covered, who seek to keep the Innocent under the sufferings of Cruelty, in the Holes and Dens of the Earth, that are filled with a People more righteous before God, than themselves; though it was Israels Choice to have that Dominion established, wherein they might be like unto other Nations of the Earth, which is given them in the Ministration of Wrath and Fury; and in all Forms of Government he hath come forth higher than the common People by the Head,

as King in Nature; and though he hunt for his Prey, as a Par∣tridge on the Mountains, yet doth God watch over and pre∣serve his own, through all con∣spiracies of ACHITOPHEL, which shall come to nought.

XXIV.

Notwithstanding many are hereby given into the Hands of the Tormentor, for the destructi∣on of the Flesh, whose Spirits are saved alive in this day of the Lord, and they are now com∣ing forth in that Power which hath conquered the strength of the old Deceiver, which is ready to betray with a Kiss of Flatte∣ry,

and they are made able to trample on the Dominion of Death and Hell (in the worldly Spirits Excommunications, and Banishments, and sensual Separa∣tions (having not the Spirit of God) in a patient, suffering, and bearing Principle, that cannot re∣joyce to see and behold any evil in others, but mourneth over such that are left to themselves, and the pernicious ways of that Will, which is deserted by God, in the ground and Principle of the Lifes operation, though in his Sufferance they live, and move, and have their Being, while they grow in that which is past feeling of his Love, and

are dead to the apprehension of his Power, in the motion of which they were first quick∣ned, as given up to a reproved and reprobate sence.

XXV.

Therefore let the goodness of God to his Creature, lead to Re∣pentance (as that which shall leave all Men without Excuse before him) which is the only way to bring out of a perishing Estate, under which the Worlds are fallen, wherein his LOVE and MERCY maketh sensible of the Danger, concerning which they are forewarned, that as God cometh to leave any to

themselves, in the danger of their own Pernicious Ways, so in like manner they be dealt withal by them that profess his Name and Truth, and none to continue contending with the World in the wrathful Principle, for it is not lawful striving with any People out of the Power of God, in the Ministration of his Love, because all wrathful furi∣ous drivings and strivings are under the Power of the Destroy∣er, and it is the Devils strength to lead into the same, though therein Divine Justice cometh to be exalted over the Creature (in the execution of Vengeance that repayeth double to all the Rebellious.)

XXVI.

Let the stiff-necked consider therefore why many have been given up unto Satan, and deli∣vered into the Tormentors hands for a season, while De∣struction and Contempt hath come on the Glory of the Flesh, which is stained: for the Hun∣ter after mischief shall fall in his own Snare and Gin; and the Trap he hath layd for the Innocent, shall take hold of his Feet in the Way he is walking, when the wronged comes to be apprehended on a Hill that is higher than that on which the Enemy and Destroyer hath been

exalted; and into the Hands of the PURSUED is put a sharp Instrument, the strength of that Reason whereof the World is robbed and bereft, (even the Sword of Goliah, and Spear of their Adversary) with which they shall wound the Head of RAHAB, and the Dragon, and thereby they shall do EXPLOITS.

XXVII.

Though they are kept from using it in a time of advantage, yea, I have seen, I have seen, while the Envious have been hunting abroad, the Pursued have been led into the Tents of

those that are Mighty in Battel; and the Man of War hath been found sleeping over his Master, until a Lap of his Garment (with which the Envious hath cove∣red the Cruelty of his Spirit) is brought forth into open view; and the Cruse and Spear at his Beds head, can now be shown to his shame, because the Blood-Avenger hath kept the Innocent from putting forth his Hand to touch Him that had once the Anointing Oyl on his Head, that had the favour of a Lot in Israel, when the Spirit of God rested on Him, that made it a Proverb, Is the Son of Kish also among the Prophets?

XXVIII.

But the Cry of the Poor is heard, that hath been compas∣sed about with Tormentors, who hath said in his heat, What shall I now do? for behold here cometh a whole Army, and I have no Sword but that of Goliahs, and the Lord hath said, Take it, for there is none like it: and it shall be known that a Stripling is engaged in the Lords Battel, and is able to make war against Israels Ene∣mies, though he could not use the Sword in his own defence, neither dares he be too bold in the exercise thereof abroad, lest

the bruised Reed should be broken, and the smoaking Flax quenched, before Judgment is brought forth into Victory (at home, where the War is begun, by such that are engaged in the Lambs Battel.

XXIX.

Therefore in the Mystery of what is herein treated of, is the depth of whatever hath relation to the concern both of SOUL or BODIES Welfare, in the Knowledge and true understan∣ding of its state; and the uni∣versality thereof, is a Testimo∣ny worthy to be heeded in the General or particular Concern, because of the relation it hath

to the true and right Information of the Mind of all that are capa∣ble of benefit therein, through a pointing property at that which gives unto the Reader a sence of the Day, in which ma∣ny in old time were made Pro∣phets and Messengers, and have largely testified and prophesied there∣of, in the Restoration of all Prin∣ciples of Nature it hath posses∣sed and inhabited in the BODY, into its first Glory, which is the MYSTERY of the Second Re∣surrection, in those in whom the Power of the first Death is weakened, and over whom the second Death hath no power.

XXX.

For the Life of JESUS is manifest in their mortal Flesh, discovering the Glory of which they are made Partakers, in a Kingdom everlasting, and World without End, because of their Faith and Belief in the changing and renewing Power of GOD, wherein the JUST do live, and witness Redemption from the Sting of SIN, and Strength of the LAW (which is the Power of Death) and the GRAVE hath not Dominion over the Soul; therefore you that pro∣fess Scriptures, contend not against the Verity and Infallibility

of the Testimony hereof, be∣cause for your sakes and satisfa∣ction I am constrained in some cases, to use such Words, that the RECORD of TRUTH is sealed by, in the Testimony of the PROPHETS of GOD in former Ages and Genera∣tions of the World.

XXXI

Neither let it scruple any (on the other hand) that I use not an exact FORM and ME∣THOD of Scripture-Terms, but am oft constrained to apply the bent of my Spirit toward such significant terms as are brought to my Understanding in the exer∣cise

of the VISION; for the Words are but an outward Sound and Declaration of what hath relation to an inward and invisible Work, in the Heart of the Creature, through the Sal∣vation of the Soul from Death: but I see it hard for many pro∣fessing SCRIPTURES, and the Knowledge of the TRUTHS of GOD therein declared, to own it nakedly, for its own sake, and yeild and bend to the dis∣posings of God, in matters of such concern; for then would it be consented to, in what hath relation to the Minds Informa∣tion, without respect to the Per∣sons of such that are found dif∣fering

in Judgment, concerning outward Circumstances in Ge∣stures, or PRINCIPLES in DOCTRINE, while in the End and Aim there is a respect to Truth in the Heart.

XXXII.

And there will be a joyning in the Acceptance, against what∣ever hath relation to Contro∣versies, in a state of disobedi∣ence against the Spirit of God, in which the WORLD is en∣deavouring to settle a Rest: and hence have I seen the Complai∣ner vexed with Burdens of his unruly Passion; but that God may more and more unseal the

Fountain of endless Good and Happiness (in the Knowledge of the Glory of his Kingdom, that is everlasting) is my Souls desire, that Truth and Righte∣ousness may be set up in the WORLD, and the Glory of the ANTIENT OF DAYS (proceeding in the increase of the Knowledge of GOD) may run down like a River, and cover the Earth like as the Waters cover the Sea.

XXXIII.

And as this hath its due ac∣ceptance in the Heart of the Up∣right and Unbiassed in Censure and Judgment, for the sake of the Controversies among men,

about their Opinionatedness concerning the Truths of God contained in the Scriptures, with which the World is filled) they will more and more come to see into its service, and the end for which it is given forth, which will make way for the opening and discovery of many pretious Secrets, pertaining to the Restauration of Nature, in its depraved Body of infected Elements, that are generated un∣der a Power of Corruption, that Creatures may come to see into the Mystery of what is contained in many words there∣in, that hath a signification ve∣ry intricate to the common

sence of private Interpretations thereon, which the limitting spi∣rit of the WORLD is apt to tye up the Faith of their Com∣municants in, because of the vulgar acceptance it hath in the Heart of a Multitude: But the Encouragement I find for the prosecution of what is remain∣ing in this Tract (wherein I am taking view of my passage through those Forms of Nature in which I am imbodyed in time and place, is centred in an higher Object, than the Readers well or ill Ac∣ceptance.

XXXIV

Though I am satisfied in the end thereof, that coming to

be seen into, will cause many to say, Now I know thou speakest no more unto us in PARABLES, but hast plainly shewed us of the Fa∣ther. But among the Multi∣tude, how hard a thing is it to believe well of future Events, either in general or particular Con∣cerns? so narrow is the Heart of the Creature tyed up in his Generations, and cannot see the good of any thing in Posse, though that which is in Esse, Self is continually labouring for Interest in; yet consider the want of Faith in the World, con∣cerning any Help and Delive∣rance to the Oppressed (after which they have fixed Expecta∣tions)

shall not always keep down and hinder the day we groan after, but it shall come when Faith is scarce to be found on the Earth, and Deliverance shall spring up to the Afflicted, (as well concerning outward Op∣pressures as inward, when they are left as Men without hope.

XXXV.

But none of those that are in the fanning Love, and out-side shews of Humility in appearan∣ces, under any pretence what∣ever, of a universality of Spirit (while in a sensual Separation they continue rending them∣selves from the Body of Fellow∣ship

[in God] wherein is the ho∣ly Order of Saints) will be able to stand and hold out the indu∣rance of the Tryals that are come into the Worlds; though for a Time they make Parties, and have Headships in the Di∣visions of Men, about Opini∣onatedness; for it is that eve∣ry thing may appear in its birth, that the Mystery of Iniquity hath been suffered to work: and the Selfish Love (in appearances of Hu∣mility) is one with the Spirit of the WORLD, in which it is grounded and founded, and the day hath made it manifest.

XXXVI.

For it is not lo here! or lo there! will now hide the Pro∣fessor, neither A. nor P. in Profession, or that thou hast Love or Zeal in thy Heart, but what art thou joyned to, in the exercise thereof, that le∣veneth NATURE into a Principle; it is that which will discover whose Side thou art on; which I long since have had a perfect sight of; and that both the fearful and unbelieving of God and his Goodness, that for want of Zeal to God (in the Cause and Case in which they once

have appeared) seek to cover their dead mind in a habit of Love and Forgiveness, and while filled with the Power of Death, they move and reach after a sence (in others) under which they would be apprehended to live; and al∣so the Proud and Presumptious who are heightned in a fierceness of that fiery Zeal) could be content to persecute for their OPINIONA∣TEDNESS, with Tongue or might of Arm, and both will joyn hands to conclude the matter, under which a My∣stery doth work.

XXXVII.

This is already seen; and that Doctrines of Truth may be received and believed, that have Universal Principles, and yet retained in a narrow empty Heart, whereby the Cause for which the Just doth suffer, is maintained in a Ground that is evil to the Life of Jesus who lighteth every man, &c. and therefore the Nature of what springeth from thence, effect∣eth that which is contradi∣ctory to good sence: but I leave the Issue thereof to God, who is the Highest and Chiefest GOOD; whereby the Crea∣ture

(who is the Subject on which it doth work) may come to grow into Unity of Spirit with Him therein, wherein Time and Place is measured and comprehended, in the incomprehensible Beau∣ty of Holiness, which shineth in and over all his Works, and standeth in the excelling Properties of that Vertue that transcends the worth of all visible created things, which are all to perish in that state of Corruption un∣der which they are brought forth BEAUTIFUL into MANIFESTATION, that many may come to com∣prehend,

with all Saints, what is the height and depth, and length, and breadth of these things, as they are in JESUS.

XXXVIII.

But the order of what hath relation to a Publique Good herein, depends on a Ground that hath the Truth of all Pro∣phecy opened, in the concern it hath to both outward and inward man, of which a large Testimony is already given forth, in the passage of all those that died in the Faith of the Day, many are become Witnesses of, and do see and

possess great Glory therein, through a sence of Redem∣ption and Restauration, come unto, and come up in the Worlds, in its Principles, in the several and respective States, where many have been found wandering from Satis∣faction, (in the progress of the Work, which leads up unto God) and therefore con∣cerning the Times and Sea∣sons, for which the Vision is set, and made to speak, thou shalt count a year for a day, from the Creation of the Worlds in the Generations of ADAM, according to the days of the Life of ENOCH,

which were 365 years, where∣in is the ground of all Pro∣phecie comprehended, in number and figure, that is now made able to utter its voice.

XXXIX.

And it will appear to be the fifteenth day of the fifth Month, of the sixteenth year, since the Creation of the Worlds (in the Generations of Adam, to this present year 1665.) wherein thou shalt count in each month 28 days and ⅔ parts, between New Moon and New Moon, coun∣ting the beginning of the Month from the Phasis, or first

appearing-time thereof; and from the fifteenth year the Worlds stood divided in that which rested the Judgment of GOD (which is brought thereinto) on its fourth part, or North Quarter, over which the Ea∣gle hath had Power (in the time the Dragon remained bound down in the bottomless Pit) with a chain of the An∣gel of GOD, while those that had received the first Fruits of Joy and Comfort (in the Spirit of God, and that are made partakers of the first Resurrection) have raigned in the Dominion and Power of God, in that which hath

quickned the Spirit of the Souls of the once dead in Sins and Trespasses, as of those Spirits in Prison, unto whom the Prea∣cher of Redemption is become manifest.

XL.

And by fifteen degrees of the Sun (according to which it hath gone ten degrees back∣ward on the Worlds, and in which the Days of the Month, and Months of the Year are equally divided) thou shalt be made able to measure the Worlds in what is discernable, and whence Glory descendeth into Nature, from the Equinoctial Pole, according to its Elevation;

counting in the Diurnal Motion of the Wheels, wherein a Day standeth for a Year (in its figure) according to the times and sea∣sons under which the Worlds have multiplied their number, to the Generations that are come to possess the Substance of the Wilderness Travel, where Mo∣ses saith, I appoint ye a Year for a Day, &c. for fifteen Minutes of one degree of the Sun, to make one minute of an hour of the day (each hour being fifteen degrees of the Sun) but in the Annual motion in the Wheels, by ONE degree of the Sun there is signified a year, and in a month is signified five minutes, as doth

one minute signifie six days, and some odd hours) of a de∣gree of the Sun, which hath four minutes of an hour to eve∣ry degree of the Sun in its diur∣nal Course of Motion.

XLI.

But wherein the fifteenth year made its Revolution (in the first month of the sixteenth year) as the Sun came to enter the first point of Aries,) on the tenth day of the Month, the first or Spring-Quarter of the Worlds growth, standeth manifest in the Signs of the Times, while Glory ascendeth the three Vernal Signs of the Zodiack in an in∣ward

World) called Aries, Tau∣rus, and Gemini, and from the eleventh Day of the Fourth Month, did the Sun enter the first point of Cancer (in its de∣grees) wherein is revealed the Summer-Quarter) with the Rays and Beams of scorching Heat, dispersed through Leo and Virgo, the Heart and Bowels of Na∣ture, this being the fifteenth day of the fifth Month, from the time that the Power of the Dra∣gon hath been loosed out of the bottomless Pit, in the form of those Beasts like unto Goats, called Locusts, wherein he had given up his Power unto the Beast with seven Heads and

ten Horns, for the thousand year, which is the time he was bound.

XLII.

For from thence count thou the beginning of the five months, that torment hath rested and seized on a third part of men, in this fourth part, or North-Quarter of the Worlds, that have the mark, and name, and number of the Beast, and the first Wo is manifest therein, because the Devil is come down in great rage among men, and the Inhabitants of the Earth are therefore terrified and afraid, by the sounding of the fifth Trumpet of God (after which

these evils have followed the Worlds, in the casting down out of Heaven the Accuser of the Just) to the awakning a sence of what is thus come on and into the fourth part of the same, wherein the Beast hath made his Seat; but the second Wo followeth what is awaken∣ed out of the bottomless Pit, whence a sence of torment rest∣eth on those men, from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on that Great River EU∣PHRATES.

XLIII.

Wherein a sence of the de∣stroying Power of God, exalted

in the Angels of the four Beasts that stand on the four Corners of the Earth, to hold the four Corners of the Winds, and whose Power is to with-hold those Winds from blowing, is come into the renewed World, (under the Redeeming Power of God) through the Sounding of the seventh and last Trumpet of God on the Air, from the time that the Commandment of God went forth, for the again building up and restoring Jerusalem, in which the Myste∣ry of what pertaineth to the Kingdom of God, is come to be fulfilled and finished; there∣fore a third Wo cometh, and

shall stand manifest, from the concluding of the fifth month, wherein the fourth Beast with the Face of an Eagle, shall give up his Power, which are the se∣ven last plagues, to come on the Earth and Worlds, (even seven Golden Vials, filled with the wrath of God and the Lamb) unto the seven Angels of God, that are come forth of the Temple to sound.

LXIV.

For in the number of Years in thirty two Jubilies (since the great Prophet and Minister of a better Tabernacle and Temple than that which is built by Man, fi∣nished his Testimony therein)

and in the sixtieth Jubilie, since the beginning of those Offer∣ings wherein was the dayly Sa∣crifice, which hath been made to cease in time; those seven Angels of God that came forth of the Temple of God, with their seven Golden Trumpets, have been manifest in the Parts and Quarters over which they have sounded; it being the tenth day of the Fourth Month, from the awakened sence (that came into those Parts of the World over whom the Trumpets had soun∣ded) of the torment of those Women that sat weeping in the North Gate, over TAMUZ.

XLV.

So that counting four minutes of an hour to one degree of the Sun, (in the Diurnal Motion of the Wheels) and fifteen degrees of the Sun, for an hour of the DAY, wherein the Heavens (in Man) are brought under fiery Tryals, by the sounding of the Trumpets of God, in the Angels of his Covenant, on all the Glory of Worlds, (in its third part of Earth, and Waters, and Sun, and Moon, and Stars, that stand manifest in what thereof is smit∣ten, according to the breaking forth of the day) it is now 120 degrees of the Sun, from the

fifteenth Revolution of Years in the Heavens, according to the fifteenth Year that the Forms in the Heavens have remained a Te∣stimony of what was finished in the lively Patterns themselves, that have their figure in the Ta∣bernacle of Witnesses.

XLVI.

And reckoning from the tenth day of that first month, (wherein the Sun made his ap∣pearance in the first degree of the Ascendant;) from the sixth Hour of the Day, which was his hour of rising in three minutes of ARIES, to make his Right Ascention over the Heart of the

Orient (in the fire of the Meri∣dian) from the twelfth hour, or Mid-day, called Noon, where∣in he gave fourteen degrees to the Succedant; it will now ap∣pear to be the last hour of the Day that many are called to be Fellow-Labourers and Workers to∣gether with God, in his Vine∣yard, counting the Suns rising in the degrees of the Meridian, from the first degree of the As∣cendant in Aries, according to the motion of the Moon in her passage through the twelve Signs of the Zodiack.

XLVII.

For the Sun encreasing the

strength of 22 minutes in ten days of the first month, to make his rising to be the fifth hour of the 11th day of the second month (in his passage through the Hou∣ses of his Ascendant, Succedant, and Cadent) in the Vernal, or Spring-Quarter, there being thirty degrees in each House of the Hea∣vens, (according to the Signs they have in the Zodiack of the Moon) the Suns setting is made in the seventh hour of the day, and further increasing strength, for timely rising, in his passage through Taurus, that is, the se∣cond House of his Dignities, governing the left part of the Meridian in the middle of the

Spring, wherein the Dominion of the House is in the Neck and Throat of NATURE, over Melancholy, and the Earth (in the Succedant) he maketh his rising to be 10 minutes past four in the Cadent, on the eleventh day of the third Month.

XLVIII.

And the eleventh day of the fourth Month (wherein the Sun entereth the first minute of Cancer, to make the Summer-Quarter, as he riseth in the de∣grees of the Meridian) 47 mi∣nutes past three hours from Midnight, he maketh it the lon∣gest day in the Year (in this Lati∣tude,

and under the Horizon in which the Works of Wonder are to be fi∣nished and fulfilled) and then the Sun-setting is as long after the eleventh hour of the ele∣venth day (which is Noon, or Mid-day) as it riseth be∣fore twelve, to make an Evening of the day; accord∣ing to the hours wherein ma∣ny have been bidden, and are called and invited to a Feast, through the ANGEL of Strength, and Prayers of the JUST unto God, that He might send forth Faithful Labourers into his Vine∣yard.

XLIX.

For that which is come into and on the Earth and Worlds, in its fourth part, or North-Quarter, will continue to magnifie and exalt the four destroying Angels of Strength, that are loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES (by which Europe hath been compassed about) until the end of seven Months and five days; though in the time of the soun∣ding of those Trumpets, the Winds have been suffered to blow [on the Earth] by those that have held their corners, as four Angels standing on the four Corners [of the same;] and the

Spirit of God hath and doth yet strive with a Generation and Generations on whom the fierceness of Gods wrath (in the Plagues of those Vials) is to be poured forth, and is come.

L.

And the Creature Mankind imbodyed in this third Princi∣ple, in which he is called the Microcosm, or little World, is that third part of the Macrocosm, or great World, as it standeth divided into its four parts or Quarters, wherein the Eagle hath had Power over the North Quarter, or fourth part of the Worlds, where those Tryals

are manifest, under which the Lyon came first forth, with four Wings of the Foul on his Back, in which were Golden Fethers, with the names of 36000. Men in each Golden Wing, while the striving con∣tinued between the four Winds of the Heavens, on the great Sea, and from the loss of do∣minion therein, in the plucking of the Lions Wings, wherein came forth four other Beasts, and took head (in the Nature of that which separated the Man from the power in which he was first planted and placed) the King∣doms of the Earth and World became dispersed abroad the same.

LI.

Until the great Bear or Leo∣pard (who hereby purchased the strength of those four Wings) had them also taken away; and the Man came to regain his dominion over all the Works of God's Hands, as Lord in the substance of what is already communicated to his understanding: and through those four first Beasts, that now have taken unto them (each of them) the six Wings of the Cherubims (every one in their order calling to come and see) the Mystery of what is come forth to the Tryal of the Year,

Month, Day, and Hour, over which they have Power and Dominion in their An∣gels, the Glory of the Father is hallowed, having in each Wing two thousand Fethers and names of Men, which makes the Glorious Hoast of God in the Heavens, Nu∣merable in their Tribes, and according to the Families of those scattered Nations, o∣ver the face of the whole Earth.

LII.

Which are the dispersed Army of God, and goodly company of that Mighty Hoast in the four Wings of

the living Creature, by which they stand figured forth 144000. (of the first Body, in which God hath his seal∣ed Number of Instruments, that are engaged in the Lamb's Battel, as the MEMBERS of what hath continued like unto dry Bones in the Valleys:) And for the exalting their Angels in the Heavens, their destroying power over the Earth and Worlds is loosed, out of the great River (over which the winds of the Hea∣vens have striven and blow∣ed, while their destroying Power was bound.)

LIII.

But now are the Winds in the Hands of the Angels, to be with-held from blowing, and the Spirit of God from striving any longer with the Creature Mankind, (by the Prophesie of the Witnesses, or sounding of the Trum∣pets of God, committed to the Angels) and the whole Worlds shall be smitten with Plagues, through that which is thus loosed out of the bottomless Pit, wherein the Earth hath been covered with those Beasts, (called Locusts) and they have over∣spread

the same, in its third part smitten by the sounding of the five first Trumpets,) and that which is awakened by the sounding of the sixth Trumpet, hath command in and over those four Winds of the Heavens, to with-hold them from blowing as oft as they please, because God will not alwayes strive with Man, who is but flesh.

LIV.

And when the Earth is quiet and still, according to the silence that hath been in HEAVEN, for the space of half an hour, and the

Worlds begin to settle in the ease and content of the flesh; then remember what I say; for before this day, there hath come Wars, and rumours of Wars, and the smoake of the tor∣ment of those Men, (on whom Judgment hath rested under the Power of the Beast) shall be seen & known to be the SEAT of the Beast, in a fourth part of the great World, that hath yet hitherto escaped Death, in what came on that third part thereof, (in the little World Mankind) like the fume of a boyling Furnace, whence hath ascended the thick

Cloud of Darkness, that filleth the Heavens, and the Power of the DRAGON, who had delivered up his Seat and Throne unto the Beast, for the time he re∣mained bound in the bottom∣less Pit; (But that now is loosed in the sounding of the three last Trumpets) is a Spirit working Miracles in the Earth, in the execution of the three last WOES that are come thereinto, for the awakening and rising up of three therein, that do bear witness for GOD, of what hath been crucified and slain in the Streets of the great

CITY of the Worlds.

LV.

And into those Kings of the East (that have their Power again re∣vived, and their Heads healed, which is a second Beast come out of the Earth, with two Horns of a Ram, pushing three ways, to wit, West, and North, and South, shall enter those three Unclean Spirits of the Beast, Dragon, and Whore, like Frogs, through the drying up of the Waters, in the great River EUPHRATES, in the Worlds Sea) they shall come over the same, and into the place where God hath settled his glori∣ous

City, and they shall strive to defile and overcome the Holy Land (between the Seas) but the end shall come with an over—flowing Scourge, and great Flood; and out of the Mouth of the Dragon, Beast, and false Prophet, shall great things be performed and done.

LVI.

Yea, all these things have a lively Character of the Truth hereof, recorded in the Heavens, by the Verity of Just Measure in time and Place, for God is not to be limitted to time and place in his Work, or to the prescription of men; but he

hath a time and season for eve∣ry work, according to which he hath determined and de∣creed an order, wherein they are all to be fulfilled and brought to pass, according to the mea∣sure by which they are measu∣red and weighed in their day; and the times and Seasons of their fulfilling have been in the Fathers hands, until the hours thereof became made known to the Son of Man who is in Heaven, in that which commu∣nicateth the sence thereof unto, and in the World, in whose behalf he came to lay down his Life (in the Body of Flesh which he took up for the reconciling of the

World unto the good will and plea∣sure of the Father.

LVII.

And the Star that is fallen from Heaven (as an Angel that hath the Key of the bottomless-Pit) I have beheld, and do see the returning of such torment (come on those men that have the Beasts mark) on his Seat, that shall fill it with Pangs, and many shall blaspheme God, be∣cause of those Pangs that are come on them, that have defi∣led the Temple of God, created to be his House of Praise, though now made that over which the Great Whore hath reigned, that sitteth

on the Kings of the Earth; and this shall be known in the time that the beloved City becometh en∣camped about by the great Ar∣mies of the Aliens.

LVIII.

And concerning all these things, the times are coming that they are to be fulfilled, and in Eu∣rope will FALL suddenly a great Prince; but England be thou still in thy Dominions, until GOD come to exalt, and set up His TRUTH over all the Powers of Darkness; for thy striving for Conquest by the Sword, and to get into Dominion, is but vain.

LIX.

In that the Powers of the Air must heighten their glo∣ry, before it can be seen what is smitten therein, under the Power of the Eagle, or King of the North (that hath reigned more years than the King of the South) and there∣in remaineth the Holy Seed; and let him that hath Wis∣dom number and count those days past, and yet observe that which is to be fulfilled to make up the expiration of the time; and let it not be hard to believe well, of that which crosseth thy expecta∣tions,

that thou shouldest be fil∣led with the distrust of GOD and his Goodness, and put an evil Construction upon that which answereth not thy Opi∣nionatedness.

LX.

And in the reading hereof, the God of Life and Peace open your Understandings, and bless and keep all in his Fear, that those Sparks that have been ra∣ked under the Ashes of what was once enkindled in a consu∣ming Flame, may be blown up into a second Flame, the Light of which I desire never more to see extinguished and put out, as

it keeps burning in and against Self; for it is nothing else that burns up the Combustible Mat∣ter that hath been brought into the Temple of God. And in this doth my SOUL continue praying to GOD: Amen, and Amen, saith

Thy Friend in all Love, R. B.