A call out of Egypt,: (where death and darkness is) into the glorious light and liberty of the sons of God, (where life and peace is.) The Lord fulfilling his promises declared by his holy prophets and Apostles, in these later dayes.

GIve eare O ye heavens and I will speak: and hear O earth the words of my mouth: I will declare unto you the wonders of God: I will publish the name of the Lord, and the mighty operation of his power: he is the Rock and the sure Foundation: his work is perfect: all his ways are judg∣ment and righteousness; he is a God of Truth, and without in∣iquity; just and righteous is he, and all his wayes are just and equal: he is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity; his way is pure, and his Worship is likewise pure and spiritual, and he sits in his Throne of Righteousness, Justice, and Judgment, and the wicked cannot stand before him; they are and shall be like the chaffe which the winde driveth away, and cannot stand in the Judgement, nor the Sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous: Holy and Righteous is the Lord God of Hosts, and delights in purity; Holinesse becomes his house for

ever: The Temple of God is holy, where he dwells and inha∣bits, and where he is worshipped; and he dwells not in Tem∣ples made with hands, as it is written in the Prophets, The hea∣ven is my Throne, and the earth is my Footstool; where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? for all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been saith the Lord: But to this man will I look, even to him that is of a meek and a contrite Spirit, and trembleth at my word. This is God, the living God, which the Prophets and Apostles, and all the Holy Men did bear witness unto, and declared of, even what they had seen and heard, and tasted of the Word of Life, which was in the beginning with God, and the Word was God, and shall endure for ever: The same God who at sundry times and in divers manners, spake in times past unto the Fathers by the Prophets, hath in these last dayes spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath given for a Covenant of Light, to lead his peo∣ple out of death and darkness into righteousness and peace, to have fellowship with the Son, and to be Heirs, Joint-Heirs with the Son, whom he hath appointed Heir of all things, by whom also he made the world, & all that is therein, the Sun, the Moon the Stars and the Fowls of the air, the Earth and all the Beasts of the Field, and the creeping things upon the Earth, the Sea and all that is therein; who being the brightness of his Glory, and the expresse Image of his substance, upholding all things by the Word of his Power; which power is now manifested, which makes the earth to shake, and the Inhabitants thereof to trem∣ble at the wonderful work of our God which is began in this Nation of England. The dreadful God of Host is risen in his majesty & great power, & is bringing to passe his strange work, which makes the heathen rage, & bite and gnaw their tongues, and stand astonished at the strange work of the Lord: Behold ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for I work a work in your daies, which you shall in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you; and this is fulfilled upon this Generation, who will not believe the work of the Lord though it be declared unto them; but do set themselves in opposition against the work of God both Rulers and Magistrates, Priests and People, all join themselves together in battel against the Lamb, but they shall not prevail, all is vain, the Lamb shall get the Victory, and

hath gotten the victory; our eyes have seen and beheld it; praises to his Name for evermore, who hath fulfilled, and is dai∣ly fulfilling his promise more and more; gathering his scatte∣red sheep together, where they have been scattered abroad in this cloudy dark day, many yeers the Lords people have been made a prey upon, but the true shepherd Christ Jesus is risen, & is bringing deliverance to his people; gathering them from the mouths of the false Shepherds, and bringing them into the fold of rest and peace, where they shall eat and be satisfied with li∣ving Refreshments in the bosome of the Fathers love, and there shall be one sheepfold and one Shepherd: Praises to the Lord the day is come, the happy day, the day of glad tydings which we long looked and waited for; the day of our God which is a day of glad tydings to weary and imprisoned Souls, and a day of vengeance and recompence of the Adversaries of God, as it is declared in the Prophets, The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath annoynted me to preach good tydings unto the meek, he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted; to proclaim liberty to the CAPTIVES, and the opening of the PRISON to them that are bound; to pro∣claim the acceptable YEER of the LORD, and the DAY of VENGEANCE of our God; to comfort all that mourn, to appoint unto them that mourn in ZION, to give unto them Beauty for Ashes; the oyl of joy for mourning; the Garment of Praise for the Spirit of Heavinesse; that they might bee called Trees of Righteousness, the Planting of the LORD.

And this is the Lord fulfilling in our days, he is planting a garden of pleasant Plants, and watering and dressing them, that they may be fruitful, and is plucking up all the wild and fruitlesse plants, and casting them into the fire of his wrath there to be burned, that so his people may bee a holy and a peculiar people, that he may bee glorified; for hee is come (who is pure) to look for FRUITS, and all fruitlesse TREES must bee cut downe, and cast into the fire; For the LORD hath looked downe from Heaven, and behold the Land is corrupted; The Garden of the Lord is overspread with weeds; briars & thorns doth the earth

bring forth: and the faithfull City is become an harlot, as faith the Prophet, It was full of judgment: righteousness lodg∣ed in it, but now murderers: thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixt with water: thy Princes are rebellious, and com∣panions of thieves, every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards.

See if it be not so now: They judge not the fatherless, neither doth the Cause of the Widdow come before them: therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah! I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine e∣himies, and I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tinne, and I will restore thy Judges as at the first, and thy Counsellors as at the be∣ginning: afterwards thou shalt be called The City of righte∣ousness, the faithfull City, Sion shall be redeemed with judg∣ment, and her Converts with righteousness: And now is this day come that the righteous God is pleading his Cause with his Enemies, and purging them with the spirit of judgment and of burning.

And Judgment is begun, according as the Apostle foretold: for the time is that Judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God? Woe and misery will be their portion, and the destruction of the Transgressors and of the Sinners shall be together: and they that forsake the Lord, shall be consumed: for he will be glorified in this his day of Righteousnesse and just Judgement, which is now set up in the earth, which makes the Inhabitants thereof to learn righteous∣nesse, according to the saying of the Prophet Isaiah, The way of the just is uprightnesse, thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just; yea in the way of thy judgements, O Lord, have we waited for thee: the desire of our soul is to to thy Name, and to the remembrance of thee: With my Soul have I I desired thee; in he might; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early; for when thy judgements are in the earth, the Inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness: Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness, in the Land of Uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold

the Majesty of the Lord, though he stretcheth forth his Hand and calls to come forth of the Land of Darkness, and waiteth to be gracious; yet all this will not move him, nor break his heart, but goes on carelesly to destruction; and because sentence against an evill work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the Sons of Men is fully set in them to do evill.

But now the day of just Judgement is come, and woe unto the wicked, it shall go ill with them, they shall not prolong their Days, because they fear not before the Lord, the righte∣ous God of Heaven and Earth who loves Righteousnesse, and no unrighteous one can have union and fellowship with him.

And this is he, the living, pure, holy, righteous God, which the holy men of God did bear Testimony of, and the same pure holy God do I bear Testimony of, which is Light, and in him is no darknesse at all; who created man, and made him in his own Image, and gave him Dominion over all other creatures: But all have gone astray, and turned aside from the holy Com∣mand of God, and so have falne from the pure living God, and lost his Image, and are become aliens and strangers to Him, their Maker; the God of the world having blinded their minds, and stolne away their hearts from the love of the Creator, in∣to the Creature, and so their love is in the Creature, and worships and serves that more then the Creator, and their Bodies, which was the Temples of God, and in which was his image and likeness, the same is become a habitation for the Devil and all unclean lusts; and so the image and likeness of the Devil, who hath gotten possession, and sits as ruler and king in the heart, and leads the Creature captive at his will, to do his work which is unrighteousness: And here is the first mans state, which is from below of the Earth earthly, and mindes Earthly things, careing for the things of this life, what to eat, what to drink, and what to put on, labouring and stri∣ving by all ways and means to get great possessions, and to become great in the Earth, and to have the honour of the World which is below and lies in wickedness: and in this state men and women are striving to come again unto the Tree of life, and by their Earthly wisdom which is sensual and di∣velish, goes about to comprehend the things of God, but ne∣ver

can: it is a mysterie hid and sealed from this wisdom, and never can be known there: for the World by wisdom knows not God.

But good and full of love is the Lord the righteous God, and by his wisdom hath found out a way contrary to the wit, will and wisdom of man, and that is of himself: for he hath given his son, his only begotten son, who is the son of his love: him hath he freely given for a Covenant of light to bring back a∣gain fallen man, which is driven from God into the Earth: and to reconcile him to his Maker, and renew that Image of God again, which by his disobedience he hath lost: and there is no way but by the Son: none knoweth the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him: And this is he which the Prophets prophesied of, and which the Apostles wit∣nessed to be the Light of the world, as John testifies, who came for a Witness to bear witness of the Light, and saith he, that was the true Light which lightneth every man that cometh into the world: and the same do I bear testimony unto, he who is the life and light of men, which lightneth every one that com∣eth into the world: and this light is true and pure, and stands a witness for the true and pure God, against all sin and un∣righteousness, and all the deeds done in the body, though ne∣ver so closely acted or intended: this true light doth not con∣sent, but reproves in secret for the secret evils that are con∣ceived in the evil heart against God: And when this witness doth arise in the conscience, and trouble man for his sin, and brings him to some sense and feeling of his miserable condition, that he lies under the Curse and wrath of Almighty God, and gives him some wound for his sin, and: and so man comes to see his nakedness with the light of the Sun: then fearing the wrath of God, doth fly from his presence, to actsomething to pacify the wrath of God: and so Adam-like, makes garments of fig-leavs to cover his nakedness: And here is the ground of all the forms and professions of godliness, that stands not in the Light, but are turned from the Light and fled the judgment, and run to the Scriptures without them, and so reads and gets a no∣tion of words, decking and painting themselves with the sheeps cloathing, and so read, and pray, and sing, and goe to hear

Sermons, and cover themselves with a Covering like the Spirit; but is not the Spirit, and so Wo is their Portion who are cover∣ed and not with the Spirit of the Lord: All this will not hide them nor cover their nakedness in the day of the Lord; all this doth not cleanse the heart, nor reform the inside; all this which the world calls Worship and Service of God, as Reading, Pray∣ing, Singing and Preaching (as it is called) or whatever is done in that state, it is no more but a Garment of Fig-Leafs, or patching a piece of new cloth in an old Garment; it is a false cover which wil not stand in the Fiery day; and this was the state of the Scribes and Pharisees, who had the Scriptures, Moses and the Prophets words, and were painted over with good words, but had not the Word of God abiding in them; so they were strangers to the Life and Power of God, and they did not be∣lieve in the Light Jesus Christ, who was the sum of all that which they upheld, which were but types and shadows and figures of him who was the Substance; and therefore Christ the Light cry∣ed wo unto them, calling them Hypocrites, whited Walls, pain∣ted Sepulchres, Serpents, Generation of Vipers who shut up the kingdom of heaven against men neither going in themselvs nor suffers others: And these were of the great men of the world, and learned men, Doctors and chief Priests, and the learned Rabbies; yet for all this their learning they knew not Christ, but called him a blasphemer, and those that did believe on him were called a cursed people that knew not the Law.

Thus in all Ages profession was blind, who were not guided by the Light of Christ; & as it was then, it is now; all the world, Professors, Priests and People who deny the Light of Christ, and are not guided by it, all their Prayers and Sacrifices is abo∣mination, and stincks in the Nostrils of the pure God, iniquity being found within and regarded in their hearts; this will be the Sentence from the Righteous God, Go ye Cursed Workers of Iniquity, depart from me into everlasting Fore pre••a••ed for the Devil and his Angels. And here lies the world in wickednesse; and though many have long been seeking after God, yet have not found him, because they have been seeking the living among the dead; and though many have long been talking of the name of God and of Christ, yet few there be that walk in

the living way, and live the pure life of Christ; but Iniquity doth daily abound in the Nation amongst those that professe God: and that Pride, and Envie, and Wrath, Strife and Debate, Co∣vetousnesse, Cruelty, Tyranny and Oppression Drunkennesse, Lying, foolish Jesting, vain Sporting and Pleasures, that the Lands mourns, and the whole Creation groans with the Bon∣dage of Corruption; and the Name of the Lord is daily disho∣nored by this wicked and untoward Generation of Professors, both Priests and People, all are out of the pure Path in the hy∣pocrisie making a shew of Godlinesse, and drawing neer to God with their lips and with their mouths, but their hearts are far from him; and their Sacrifices and Prayers are as Cains Sacri∣fice who murdered his Brother.

So these who live in Envy and Wrath, and false Accusing, Back-biting, Slandering, and Persecuting and Reproaching the Innocent harmlesse Lambs of Christ, and so are found in the same nature with Cain, for saith the Apostle, He that hateth his Brother is a Murderer, and no Murderer hath Eternal Life abi∣ding in him.

And here all who are not wilfully blind may see the National and Parish-Teachers in the nature of Cain, in envy, and so not accepted of God: and all that uphold them they are seen in the Light of the Lord Jesus to be blind and are led by the blind, and both are going into the Ditch, who have turned from the measure of God, the Light that did and doth convince and re∣prove for sin and evil; and are soared up in the air climbing up another way: But if ever you know God or true peace to your souls, back you must come to that which doth reprove and trou∣ble for sin, that must speak peace if ever you know peace; and that will not speak peace to any who lives in sin; but he that fears God and departs from Iniquity, and waiteth upon God shall finde Peace and Rest to his Soul.

Therefore all people whatsoever who read these Lines, seri∣ously consider your wayes, and no longer follow the Parish-Priests who preach for hire and seek gain from their quarter, and through feigned words and covetousnesse make merchan∣dise of your souls; they were never sent of God, and therefore they shall not profit you: Cease from them all, and wait on

the Lord in the Light of his Son Jesus, and learn of him who is meek and low in Spirit, and you shall finde rest to your souls: But while you live in your sins there is no rest, as saith the Pro∣phet, There is no peace to the wicked; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, for the Lord is come in power and great glory; and is fulfilling his promise made of old, pouring forth his spirit upon his Sons and Daughters, and they shall be all taught of God, a••d in righteousness shall they be established, and shall be far from Opprrssion, and no worker of Iniquity, nor any unclean thing can enter into the Covenant of God for this is the Covenant of the Lord, I will write my Law in their hearts, and put my spi∣rit in their inward parts, and they shall no more teach every man his Neighbor, nor every man his Brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all shall know me from the least to the greatest, and I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more saith the Lord: And this is our God ful∣filling in these our dayes his own Glory; to whom be everlasting Honor and Dominion for evermore.

Witnessed by a Servant of the Lord who is come out of Egypt and through the Red-Sea and the Wildernesse, and arri∣ved at the Land of Rest, whose Name is after the flesh called, ALEX. PARKER.