Terra pacis a true testification of the spiritual land of peace, which is the spiritual land of promise, and the holy city of peace, or the heavenly city of Jerusalem, and of the walking in the spirit, which leadeth thereunto / set forth by H.N. and by him newly perused and more plainly declared ; translated out of Base-Almaine.

CHAP. XXIIII.

THis false Prophet hath also an horrible beast with him, which assisteth ora 1.1 aideth him; which beast is likewise won∣derfully extolled and served in the deso∣late abominable Land.

2. Yea, all people that have not Gods nature, or his true Being of love, neither yet do love the godly goods, do honor and serve the sameb 1.2 beast, and do all re∣ceive her mark. And they deal with the same in all their affairs; yea, the same mark do all those receive and use, that are not assembled to the Family of Love, nor written in the living Book of the Lamb.

3. The beast is named,c 1.3 Ʋnfaithfulness. And the same beast, is the Kingdom, or the Government of the false King, Bitterness. And such as is the beast, and her name, and Government, such ad 1.4 mark giveth she likewise to the people that serve her, and that cleave unto, and honor her King∣dom or Government; therefore is also the mark of the beast, named, Ʋnfaith∣fulness.

4. This beast and her make (being both

named, Ʋnfaithfulness,) do make the people utterly divided.e 1.5 And forasmuch as the people (that cleave unto, and serve the same beast, and that have received her mark) are all likewise false of heart, un∣faithful, and self-seeking, and do willingly cover their own shame;f 1.6 and so walking in hyppocrisie or dissimulation, the one trusteth not the other, and they dealg 1.7 de∣ceitfully, or with falshood, among each o∣ther; and that is the venome of the beast, the which she soweth or spueth forth a∣boundantly among theh 1.8 people.

5. Therefore there is also no open-heartedness among those people that do carryi 1.9 the mark of the beast, but they are ashamed of their inward nakedness,k 1.10 both before God, and before one another; and therefore likewise, they walk not with naked hearts before each other, neither will they also in any wise, make manifest themselves with naked hearts, before the Elders in the Family of Love.

6. For thel 1.11 mark of the beast hath hunt∣ed shamefastness upon them; therefore they do cover them also with their own Garments, orm 1.12 Aperns, which they them∣selves have made. Their Garments or A∣perns, are named,n 1.13 Fear of being despised.

7. Forasmuch now as this horrible beast, and false Prophet, have sown such seed in the people; so doth there come to pass through the same, wonderful greato 1.14 dis∣sention or division, to the breeding of manifold self willed services, where∣through all kinde of fal••hood, craftiness, and railing against one another ariseth; yea, so that the people also speakp 1.15 blasphe∣my, or railing against God and his Saints, and against the house of his love, wherein God will dwell, live, and walk, for ever.

8. And although there should be any unity erected in this said Land, yet cannot the unity continue there; but it becometh rent and broken immediately, through the presumption (whereof there cometh no∣thing) and through the unfaithfulness, whereout springeth much malicious blame∣ing.

9. Wherefore, because of this false Prophet and the horrible beast,q 1.16 there can no unity of the people bide standing, in the unity of peace.

10. This horribler 1.17 beast (Ʋnfaithful∣ness,) this false Prophet (Presumption,) and the cruel King (Bitterness) have a mar∣vellous great dominion in this same deso∣late abominable Land.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Apo. 11. & 13.
• b 1.2

  Apo. 13.
• c 1.3

  Isai. 1. Hosea 4.
• d 1.4

  Apo. 13.
• e 1.5

  Apo. 13.
• f 1.6

  Gen. 3.
• g 1.7

  Jere. 9.
• h 1.8

  Apo. 16. & 17.
• i 1.9

  Apo. 13.
• k 1.10

  Gen. 3.
• l 1.11

  Apoc. 15.
• m 1.12

  Gen. 3.
• n 1.13

  Joh. 12.
• o 1.14

  Apo. 16.
• p 1.15

  Dan. 11. Heb. 10. Jude 1. Apoc. 13.
• q 1.16

  Tim. 3. Apoc. 16.
• r 1.17

  Apo 13. & 16. & 17.