A blast from the Lord, OR A WARNING TO ENGLAND, By way of Exhortation to take heed, and not run upon their own destruction; which will be speedily, without true repentance. By a Lover of the Truth, and a Prisoner for declaring Truth abroad BEN: NICHOLSON. Thus saith the Lord, behold I make all things new: Take notice, All things new 2 Cor. 5.17. Rev. 21.5. For Zions sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. Isa. 62.1. London, Printed for Giles Calvert, and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle, near the West end of Paul's. 1653. To the Reader. Reader, IF for telling thee the truth I become thine enemy, Gal. 4.16. Pro. 12.17. I am willing to suffer for the truth's sake; If for hating iniquity I become a prey to the teeth of all ungodly ones, let them make a prey upon me: for such as I have from the Lord, such will I declare for the children of the Lord's sakes, that they, if the Lord so please, may look into the secrets of their hearts, and see how the Lord acts in them for the establishing of his Throne and Kingdom in righteoustess in the midst of every one his sons and daughters, the Zion, or City of the living God: and if the Lord so please to bring it home to those who sit in darkness, that light may spring forth, and the glory of the Lord may appear among the sons of men, that the dark places of the earth may be enlightened, and the barren wilderness may become a fruitful land, to bring forth fruits of righteousness to adorn the Temple of God; that whereas there hath been stinking savours in the land of Canaan, the stinch thereof may be taken away; and whereas thiefs and murderers lodged in the City, now truth and peace may take place only; and whereas the walls of Zion hath been pulled down, they may now be built again; and whereas Jerusalem hath been without Inhabitants, it may now be inhabited with much joy; and that Joseph which hath been long in prison may come forth and be set up to rule next the King (let him that hath wisdom understand;) and that Daniel may sit in the King's gates, and bear rule over all the great men of Babylon, and Joseph over all Egypt: which shall be at the time of God's deliverance (though now in prison) bear rule over all them which were their accusers and persecuters. A Blast from the Lord. Arise O God and scatter all thy Enemies, Jer. 4.12. Num. 10.35. Psalm 3.7. smite them upon the Cheek bone, let none remain: Go on to Judgement, and destroy every wicked Worker and Evil doer. O ENGLAND, take warning, Psalm 68.1. to the end. Nah. 3.3, 4. the Lord is risen, he hath drawn out his sharp and glittering Sword, he hath furbushed it, and made it fit for the slaughter, to cut down all things that stand up in opposition against the pure being of his everlasting Love and eternal Happiness. Deut. 32.41. Rev: 2.16. Now is the time of the breaking forth of God's love upon the children of men; Job 22.28, 29, 30. of the Son of Righteousness shining in the clear Firmament of Truth in the hearts of his Sons and Daughters, which will dispel all the dark clouds and thick Mists of boisterous storms and darkness, 1 Jo. 2.8, 9, 10. Isa, 25.6. to end. even the veil of Ignorance and gross Hypocrisy; the veil of the covering spread over all Nations, which thou O England livest under, even all of you from the Ancient and honourable, to the false Preachers that deceiveth the People with their lies; both Head and tail, Branch and Root: Therefore take warning, Zep. 3.3. to end. O ye Cruel and Bloodthirsty Judges, which have changed the Law of God into your own corrupt wills, and turned the Truth into a Lie, you should have judged for God, Lam. 4.3. 1 Cor. 19.6, 7. but you judge to please men; and for Rewards you stand up, taking Hire for your judgement, putting many to death for Money, and without Money you will do nothing; 2 Cor. 4.4, 5. the God of this world, Money, hath blinded your eyes, and by taking gifts your eyes are quite put out, you have no light of God in you, to discern how to do Justice in any thing; you are all turned aside out of the way of God, every one to his own way, following the imaginations of your own devilish hearts, Jer. 18.12, 13. and you hate to be Reform, behold the Lord is fierce in his anger towards you, and he will pour down the Vials of his wrath upon your Beastly power, Isa. 40.23. to the end. Dan. 7. and cause your own Rod to consume you, and will judge you out of your own mouths; you are the Beast which the Whore rideth upon, that painted Whore who hath beguiled this Nation with her enchantments; which hath painted herself with the Prophets, Jezebell-like, 2 Kings 9.30. Christ, and the Apostles words, but never knew that power and spirit of Life which they lived in, yet is upheld by you; you defend her by your Beastly wills, in her Lies, and you uphold her in her false, vicious, and divinations of her own Brain, and in the filthy smoke of the imaginations of her Hellish heart; Jer. 14.14. Ezek. 13.23. you protect her; the Horseleech hath two daughters which cry Give, Hos. 4.18. give: You Judges that judge for Reward are one, and the Priests that preach for Hire are another; Behold, the Lord is coming with Thousands, and ten thousands of his Saints to render vengeance upon all the ungodly, Dan. 7.10. and to reprove the wicked, and recompense wickedness upon the head of evil doers, and to convince the World of all their wicked deeds which they have most maliciously done against him; 1 Sam. 2.9, 10. all you wicked ones, your downfall is at hand, your sorrow is coming on apace, now is great Babylon come in remembrance before the Lord, Isa. 10.2. to end and he will recompense her double upon her Head, for all the evil that she hath committed, and for the wickedness that she hath done against the Lord, shall she receive a full reward; Rev. 18.2: to end. all Nations have been made drunk with the Wine of her fornications, and she is drunk with the blood of Saints; therefore shall a Cup of the fierce wrath and fury of the Lord be given her to drink, and the dregs thereof shall she drink; she shall spew and fall, and never rise again: Take heed all ye upholders of her, Hos. 7.16. come from under her, seprrate yourselves from her, lest you perish with her. Hear of ye Judges and Nobles of this Nation, take heed you be not found partakers with this great whore, give over committing adultery with her, she is a strange women, her feet abideth not in the house, she gaddeth abroad to change her ways, she is barren, her womb cannot be satisfied, she is a grave where dead men lieth, and she like the witch of Endor conjureth them up to stand before a many saul's whom the spirit of God reigneth not in, 1 Sam. 28.11, 12, 13, 14. making a trade of raising up of the Apostles, Prophets, and Christ's words, feeding the poor people (which they have led blind) with apparitions and falcities of their own corrupted wisdom, not knowing at all the wisdom of God, nor being made partaker of the power and life which the Apostles, Prophets, and Jesus Christ lived in, yet they preach forth lies in hypocrisy, telling the people that God, and the Kingdom of God is without them, or in a place in heaven a great many miles above their heads, making the ignorant people think that God is as some great man sitting in a Throne in the natural heavens: 1 Kings 8.27. and thus they either know not, or else are willingly ignorant of, that God fills heaven and earth, and all things, and that the hea- of heaven's cannot contain him, and that he is Omni present in all places, and that he lives in himself, and of him all things consists, and in him have their life and being, to whom belongeth all honour and glory and everlasting praises, and to none else. O ye whose strength upholds this deceitful, lying, and bloodthirsty whore, take warning; and all you who have loved her, and helped to bear her up, and that have given your power unto her, now bestir yourselves and discover her wickedness, hate her and burn her with fire, for this is the decree of God upon her, Rev. 19.20. and he hath put it into the hearts of those who once loved her, to do so unto her: Rev. 14.10, 11. I cannot but take notice how she is already burning, and how the fire of God's wrath descendeth continually down upon her and scorcheth her; Rev. 17.12. to end. that I am sure it is the breath of God's mouth, and the brightness of his appearance in his Saints that shall wholly destroy, her, this whore the Antichrist, who make a profession of God and Christ in words; but in power and practice deny them. Every one who makes a profession of Christ in words, & denies him in their practices, and keeps not his Commandments, is an Antichrist (saying lie down and let us go over you) a deceiver which the Lord will cut off suddenly from amongst his people without speedy repentance: 1 Joh. 4.2, 3. He is not a jew who is one outwardly only, but he is a jew who is one inwardly; neither is he an Antichrist which is one outwardly only, but he is an Antichrist which is one inwardly. This is the true jew and the false Christ, or Antichrist, which jew God will call and save; and which Antichrist God will judge and destroy: A warning to all Antichrists and dissemblers, who profess much, but practice little; who speak forth the word of God and hear it, but do it not, and so deceives their own souls; and these are children of the whore of Babylon, Mat. 21.44. which the Loud jesus will dash in pieces: he is that stone that being fallen upon will bruise, but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind them to powder; and by it shall the whore of Babylon which is made rich by the great company of her ships, Merchants, and Mariners (that trusted in Egypt) in one day become desolate, all her ships shall fail for want of water, her Merchants shall become poor, Rev. 14.9, 10. and her Mariners wall be terribly afraid, and shall bewail her, and stand afar off when they see the smoke of her burning ascend up towards heaven, saying, Rev. 18.18. alas, alas, the great City Babylon, how is thy destruction come upon thee in one day, (but shall not come near to help her, Ezek. 27.29. to end. thou Babylon art confusion, thou whore which rulest therein is the wisdom of the flesh, and the brats or children which thou bringest forth are pride, covetousness, lying, swearing, stealing, whoring, anger and revenge, hating one-another, evil communication, idle talking, and foolish jesting, etc. all the Priests in England are full of confusion, both in themselves, and one against another, by the wisdom of the flesh they are set up, Rev. 18.23. and bear rule: their Merchants are the great men of the earth, and the wise men thereof their Mariners: the water wherein they have their great traffic, is the light of the first nature; and their ships their human learning, & many Books, in which they heap up all their wares to traffic with, and make sale on; the walls which defend them, are the people living in sin, even all her children; Read Ezek. 8.27. the Beast which they ride on, are all their followers. Then see what follows, The Priests of England are part of Babylon, members of the Whore thereof, Ez k. 27.27. which are maintained by the great men of England, and by the wise men thereof are helped to steer on their design in the old sea of frothy invention (the Schools of learning their Ship-Carpenters) their learning and books their rotten ships: and their preaching out of their human learning and heathenish Author's books, many lies and foolish histories are their wares which they counsel people to buy; the wall which defendeth them, and the Beast which they ride on, are almost all the men in England, but that of late much of their wall is fallen off from them. Then look to it thou Babylon, thou whore in Babylon, you Merchants and Mariners, the waters and ships with the wares, thy walls, and the Beast which thou ride upon, shall all be shortly burnt, dried up, and broken to pieces, and the glorious Lord God will be unto his people a place of broad Rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with Oars, Psa. 46.4. Isa. 33.21. to the end. nor gallant ships pass there, but the Lord will be their King and save them, and their Lawgiver, and he will plead for them, the Saints of God shall need no steering by the powers of the world in the light of Nature, or in the waters of the old frothy sea of the filthy inventions of the natural man, nor need they any to fight to defend their cause, or plead for them, for the Lord will save, protect, Dan. 7.27. defend and deliver them from all their enemies, & will give the rule, the power and dominion of the world to the Saints of the most High, and they shall rule in peace and govern in righteousness, and their Kingdom shall be an everlasting Kingdom, and Christ's Dominion shall endure for ever in them, and of the rule and government there shall be no end: for when they die, or leave the visible body, they shall be wholly swallowed up into him who reigned in them, and so from the time of Christ's first reigning in them, 1 Thess. 4.17 they shall not departed out of his presence, but be ever with the Lord singing praises & Hallelujahs to the most High, which reigneth in his Saints over all the earth, who is the only King of Saints, the Lord blessed for ever, at whose presence when he appeareth, Isa. 45.23, 24, 25. jer. 30. 5 to 10. Joel 2.6. Nahum 2.10. Psal. 114.7. all the nations of the earth shall tremble, and every knee bow before him, and all hands shall be weak, the great men of the earth shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow down to him, and all faces shall gather paleness, fear, and be exceedingly amazed when the Lord comes to reign in mount Zion and before his Ancients gloriously sing and rejoice. O ye daughters of Zion, and ye sons of the Ancients, be exceeding glad, for hehold your King is coming, and he will speedily be in his Temple to visit and to inquire how it hath been decked with precious things, and in them will delight; but all the vile and abominable things he will cast out. The whole creation of man is his Temple, whereof Christ is the head every member that is corrupt and rotten he will cut off; Christ is the vine, John 15.1. to the 8. we are the branches every branch that bringeth not forth fruit in him, the Lord will hue down and cast into the fire: M●. 13.3. to 10. Heb. 6.7, 8. but every branch that bringeth forth fruit in him, he will purge it that it may bring forth more fruit: We are the ground, he is the good seed; and all the ground or earth which bringeth forth fruit meet for the Lord our tiler, and Dresser, shall receive a blessing from God; but that earth which bringeth forth thorns, or evil fruit, is rejected, is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned. God made man only to serve and obey him, and every nation, and kingdom, and people, and particular person that will not serve and obey him, shall be consumed by the breath of his mouth, and the brightness of his coming which is near at hand; add woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants of the earth, for the Devil is come down to you, and is in great rage in you, because he knows he hath but a short time to reign. All you whose minds are following after the things of this world, return to the Lord speedily, lest he come upon you at unawares, and destroy you, and cast you into utter darkness, there shall be weeping & gnashing of teeth. Take heed that you kick not against all warnings, for suddenly shall these days come upon all that dwell upon the earth; for as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man, they eaten, they drank, they married wives, Matth. 24.37 and were giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the Ark, and the Flood came and took them all away; Luke 19.27. Isa. 11.15 even so shall it be with this wicked generation at the coming of the Son of man, who shall utterly destroy all those that would not that he should reign over them, and burn up all those murderous Cities, even every thing that they lived in, Rev. 16.12. all pride, covetousness, lying, swearing, and drunkenness, and what sin soever was by the world loved and lived in, shall the Son of man take away and burn up in his people who obey his voice, and keep his say, Isal. 51.10, 11 when the Floods of wicked and ungodly men (even all the waters of their Egyptian sea) shall be dried up, and they not able to steer a ship therein, all their false faith, or light (which is the waters) the holy Scriptures speaketh on, shall become dry, Isa. 35.12. that there shall be a way for the Kings of the East (who hath by these fierce waters been kept back) and for the ransomed to pass through, to enter into their glorious good Land, that they may till it to make it bring forth good fruit, and abide therein for ever. Then shall the Arm of the Lord awake and put on strength, he shall wound the Dragon, and dry up the deep seas, that the ransomed of the Lord may pass over. Thus shall the Redeemed of the Lord return with joy and songs unto Zion; but the wicked shall mourn for sorrow of heart, and howl for vexation of spirit. O all ye powers of the earth, God is coming to overturn, overturn, overturn your power, and give it to him whose right it is: Jesus Christ shall have the rule and dominion over all Nations, and he alone shall rule in his Saints, and not by might nor power of man shall we be redeemed, or shall a reformation be established, saith the Lord, but by the Spirit of the Lord shall we be redeemed and reformation established, and by his Spirit shall we be redeemed from all our vain conversation and evil practices, which is the only true Reformation which God delighteth in: the high & lofty ones Come down and sit in the dust, humble yourselves in the sight of God, that he may lift you up be afflicted and mourn, Jam. 4.6 to 11 cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purify your hearts ye double minded men, seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his evil ways, and the ungodly the imaginations of their own hearts, and turn every one to the Lord, and he will have mercy upon you; but to every one who is contentious, and will not obey the truth, 2 Thes 2.11, 12. nor return speedily to the Lord, but takes pleasure in unrighteousness, the indignation and fierce wrath of the Lord shall consume you at unawars. You Magistrates of England take warning every one of you, turn from your evil ways; God hath a great controversy with you for your living in pride and covetousness; you put trust in the arm of flesh, you therein go down to Egypt for help, and for that woe is coming upon you, without you repent speedily: you live in pleasures and wantonness, you nourish up yourselves as in a day of slaughter, whereby the just one Jesus Christ is killed in you; you spend the creature (which was given by God to the naked, to feed the hungry) upon your lusts, jam. 1.27. in gorgeous apparels, and gold rings, and needless adorn, and instead of covering the naked, and feeding the hungry, you set out Laws to punish them: my heart bleeds to think of the hard usage of my poor fellow creatures who have no abiding; whereas you ought to take those in who want harbour, and to see that none want maintenance. You wallow yourselves in the earth's treasure like swine in the mire, and never consider that the earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof, and that he hath given it to the sons of men in general, Psal. 115.15.16. and not to a few lofty ones which Lord it over their brethren: and if a poor creature steal a horse, ox, or sheep, he is either put to death, or burned in the hand; but you never consider how many horses, oxen, and sheep you steal from the Lord, and use them to satisfy your wills and lusts. O you great men of the earth, it is long of you that there is so many thiefs, for you hold the creation in your hands, Mat. 16.26. and by all means go about to defraud the poor, more every day than other: it is but a small advantage for you to gain (and make yourselves possessors of great live, and lose your souls, as you put them upon the venture; repent speedily, or else you shall all utterly be consumed; for the great day of the Lord is coming to call you all to a● account how you have spent that Talon which he hath given you: have you made yourselves rich with the mammon of unrighteousness, then are you happy; but to the contrary, you have spent it to the satisfying of the devil's lust in you, and shall thereby become miserably unhappy, and the Prince of darkness which hath blinded your eyes by the God of this world (gold and silver) shall now after the blinding of your eyes, and the darkening of your hearts, torment and scorch both body and soul for ever, without unfeigned repentance. you wise in this world, your wisdom is turned to folly, God hath looked down from heaven upon you, Psa. ●4. and behold you are all turned aside out of the ways of God, every one to his own ways, following the works of your own hands, and walking in the imaginations of your own hearts, (I bewail your condition) you keep alive that which should die; and that which you kill should be kept alive: 1 Io. 3.15. He that hates his brother is a murderer; but you kill, prison, Isa. 29.31. and banish the just ones; you make a man an offender for a word, and lay snares for them that reprove sin in the gates, you condemn Jesus Christ the just one in you, and keep alive your own wills and lusts, and by the power thereof rule over your brethren. Blush for shame you Rulers, that you should know, or profess to know much, and practice so little; you profess to have the Scriptures for a rule; but you act contrary to them; you profess to be Judges in the steed of Moses, Isa. 5 22, 23. but you like the corrupt Judges of Israel, have turned the Law of God into Customs, and the truth of God into a lie, setting up your own wills instead of God's will; and whereas you ought to judge for the Lord in truth and righteousness, you judge for men, and for men's rewards, you execute what their wills is, with your own wills upon all offenders; and yet profess yourselves to be Judges under the Gospel, whereas you cannot find one Text in all the new Testament, will warrant you to do or practise any thing you do, in prosecuting of your Law, but contrary: therefore because you turn your backs off Christ's Council, he will make you ashamed of your evil ways, Mat. 5.37. to the end. and laugh when your fear cometh, and you shall be had in derision with those whom you hated, yea your lovers shall turn their backs on you and laugh at your folly: Isa. 24.59.8. thus shall you be cast down, and the Lord shall place in your rooms upright men, Exod. 18.21. fearing God, hating covetousness, which shall neither take gifts nor rewards, nor judge for hire at all; but shall defend the cause of the poor, the widow and the fatherless, without taking money, they shall judge for the Lord, and of the Lord shall they receive a reward, Isa. 26. and no reward of man shall at all be given or taken; Psal. 85.11, 12, 13. for the Lord shall surely give wisdom to judge aright (that they need not go to Schools of learning (so called) to learn wisdom of men, Luk. 1.33. and they shall freely communicate righteous judgement to every one who come before them: Dan. 7.13, 14. Thus shall the Lord be King in his Saints, Dan. 2.44. and rule all Nations in righteousness, he shall be judge in his Saints, Dan. 7.9 10. and shall judge all Nations in truth; he shall be their Lawgiver, Rev. 5.20, 21 to end. and save them from all their enemies, and make all Nations subject to them: the Kingdoms of the world shall be given to the Saints of the most high; Dan. 7.18, 22, 26, 27. it shall be an everlasting Kingdom; and of the dominion, rule, and government there shall be no end until Jesus Christ have by ruling in them, Mic. 4 2, 3. Isa. 2.3, 3, 4, etc. made all his foes his footstool, and subdued all things to himself, than death shall be swallowed up in victory, 1 Cor. 15.24. & 51. and Christ shall appear a second time without sin unto salvation unto all that wait for him, and love his appearing: for unto you that fear the Lord, shall the Son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and shall bind up every broken soul, H s. 9.28. and pour in oil, which oil or anointing shall teach those who receive it all things, and they shall not need that any man teach them, Mal. 4.2, 3. but as that anointing directeth them, Isa. 10.22. to 28 so shall they walk in all things: this is the spirit of the Lord which directeth aright how to walk in all things, joh. 2.20, 27. and they need not the light of the Sun, Rev. 21.1, 2, 3. read all chap. Moon, or stars to guide them; that is, no help of the natural man to direct them, for the Lord shall be the light thereof, and the lamb the glory of the same: and this is new Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven, and the new heavens, and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, to the which ere long, all that fear the Lord in truth, shall be brought, and like a bride made ready for the bridegroom; but the wicked shall be shut out, for the uncircumcised and the unclean shall not enter in thither. In the midst of this new Jerusalem runs pure streams, as clear as Crystal, these are the streams of righteousness which shall run down our streets like mighty rivers, which shall sweep away as with the bosom of God's wrath: (the love of God to the Saints, is fury to the wicked,) All the ungodly powers of the earth, and destroy every evil doer: repent, Mar. 13.36. for at unawares shall this day come upon you, Read Isa. 29. and happy shall all they be who are found working in the Lord's vineyard, for suddenly shall that day come, Isa. 30.31 & ch. yea like a thief in the night to all that put the Lord afar off: Take warning, 47.10, 11. for the Lord will finish his work upon Mount Zion, and finish his work, his strang● work upon the earth, and cut it short in righteousness He that hath ears to hear let him hear, jer. 51.6. to 14 and he that readeth let him consider, for the words hereof are true, Mal. 3.1. and the time short: Repent, repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand, and ye that fear the Lord, rejoice, for he is risen, and will come speedily to his Temple. All you Town Clarks in England, Ier, 50.28. or parish (ing) prophets, your downfall is at hand, Isa. 5.20. read all the chap. and God hath bid me forewarn you, and cry out against your ungodly and wicked practices, blasphemous and beastly worship, you put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter; you call evil good, and good evil, which God abhors; you put light for darkness, darkness is by you called light; and thus you deceive and delude poor souls into error, by your vain immaginary minds; and by the fancy and brats of your brain, you draw away three parts of England after you (the stars to the earth) you have nothing of God in you; but what you preach, Io 4.5. to 28. you like the woman of Samaria, have a rope, and water-pots, to draw out water of wells which others digged: your rope is the learning you get at Oxford and Cambridg; and your water-pots is your wisdom, with which you draw water out of wells which others digged: (is not this so?) do you not tell all who have received the testimony of Jesus Christ in the spirit of truth, that they have nothing to draw with? and the well is deep? that is, you want Learning, and the Scriptures are deep mysteries: but let one tell you the waters that they drink is a wellspring of life living in them, Io. 4.7. to 27. and to all that daink thereof, than you say, What art thou greater than our forefathers who gave us the Scriptures? and they were made partakers of the blessings spoken in them: Whence hast thou this new light and thoughts? O ye false worshippers, stand contending against jesus Christ by telling him of outward worships; but never considers the words of jesus Christ, which saith, the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for he seeketh such to worship him: and no outward worship was accepted by him, nor the Temple at Jerusalem, which was far better than the Idol Temples of our days. Thus you cover yourselves with fair words as with fig-leaves, Mic. 7.2, 3, 4. glorious outsides, but within full of filthiness; no fruit nor performances is found in or among you; you commit evil with both hands; but how to do well you know not: O you blind guides, how dare you profess yourselves to be the Ministers of jesus Christ, and never yet knew him? neither dare you trust him for your wages; is he so little credited by you that you dare not believe him? he saith, cast your care upon me, and I will care for you. Do you take him to be your Master, and will you not trust him for your Wages; for shame give over pretending serving of him, 1 Pet. 5.7. Mat. 20.10. Isa. 56 9 to end for he hath Servants, whole thousands, which dare trust him, and will labour in his vineyard, and ask him nothing, but freely be content with his Penny. O you greedy Dogs, idle Dogs, and dumb Dogs, which will not bark without one put into your mouths, and lies down to bark in your Parishes, where every one looks for gain from your Quarters; how do you conjure up your dead Doctrines, dead Reasons, and dead Uses; nay, and more than that, 1 Sam. 28.15. you like the Witch of Endor, conjure up the dead bodies of the Prophets and Apostles out of the Letter, which is Death, making the Letter to stand before a many deceitful saul's, whom the Spirit of the Lord ruleth not in, not knowing the living power of them who gave them forth; nor have you the Spirit to administer by, but death in you raiseth up death to speak to death; all is Death, and to death you shall speedily be brought by the Spirit of the Lord, who shall by the Breath of his mouth, 2 Thef. 2.3, 10 11 and the brightness of his coming destroy all which opposeth the true light of God, as you Parish (ing) Ministers do, by your seeking to put to silence all who have not the mark of the Beast in their Right hands, or in their Foreheads; none but themselves must buy or sell (Trade in) Spiritual things: But take warning, God is coming to burn, that great Whore whereof you Priests of England are members; and shall one member be burnt, and not the other suffer. Howle and weep you proud ones of the Earth, Rev. 16.19. ch. 17.16, 17, 18. ch. 18. for your Mother Babylon is falling, is falling, and all her Children shall taste of her plagues, and great is the fall thereof, for God hath put it into the hearts of the Powers of the Earth, to hate the Whore, and to burn her with Fire; the Battle of the Lord of Hosts goeth on apace, Rev. 19.11. to end. and he will cut down every son of Babylon, and dash all her Brats against the stones, (every Truth of God is a stone, which dashes in pieces all Babylon's children) both Bond and free, Male and female, Young and old, that stands up in opposition against the great God, shall be cut off. Rev. 12.12. Chap. 18.5, 6. & 20. ver. Rejoice O ye holy Apostles and Prophets, for the Lord is coming to avenge the blood of his Saints upon that great Whore, which hath made herself drunk with the blood of Saints: not by might nor power of men, but by my Spirit saith the Lord God shall ye be redeemed from out of the hands of them that hate you. O you Just and upright Ones, lift up your Heads, your Redemption is at hand, even at the Dore. All people in England take warning, Rev. 17.18. & 19 ch. the Lord is coming to pour out the Vials of his wrath upon the Whore that prostrates herself to all that pass by (as the Ministers of England do, and to plague the Beast, the Majesty which she rideth upon, and which she is upheld by: Yea, and all the people which are at one with her, (without a speedy departing out of her) shall taste of her plagues; Come out of 〈…〉 for my people, saith the Lord God, separate yourselves from among them; touch no one 〈◊〉 thing, and I will receive you: It is nothing to be separate from the inwar● Worship of Babylon, and yet inwardly be full of uncleanness; Therefore all you which live in sin, High and low, Rich and poor, Bond and free, Male and female, take warning, and repent speedily, and turn every one of you from your evil ways, lest the Lord come upon you at unawares, and cast you into utter darkness; f●●… behold the Lord is risen, he is good fo●th Conquering and to Conquer all his Enemies, and happy are all those who trust in him; for how his wrath is kindled in his breast, and it shall burn as a Fire, Psal. 2.12. and devour all the wicked on the world; yea, all the ungodly shall be as stubble, and the fire of the Lord shall burn them all up, and leave them neither Root nor Branch: Now the Sinners in Zion shall be afraid, and all the hypocrites hope shall perish, Isa. 13.9. to end. James 5.1, 2, 3 because of the fierce wrath of the Lord against the wicked in heart. Howle all Rich men in the Earth; for the rust of your Gold and Silver shall bear witness against you, because you have not honoured the Lord God with the increase of your Flocks, the Fruits of your Corn, and the Overplus of your Moneys, but have spent them upon your Lusts, and consumed them by pride, banqueting, rioting and drunkenness. Now the Lord is, coming to require an account how you have spent all his treasure, for the Earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof, and not yours, O ye wicked ones; and he is coming to require his Corn, Hos. 2.9. his Wine, his Oil, his Wool, and his F●●●…, and to know how you have spent them; whether you have bestowed them on those the Lord commanded you; Zec. 7.9, 10. Isa. 58.6. to end. to see if you have fed the hungry, clothed the naked, relieved the oppressed; have you let the Prisoners go free then have you made yourselves rich with the Mammon of unrighteousness, Ezek. 18.7, 8. and ye shall be received into everlasting habitation, and rule as Kings among the Saints of the most high God, Mat. 25.24, 25, 26. whose Kingdom shall be an everlasting Kingdom, and whose truth shall endure throughout all generations. Hear O ye just and upright ones, the Lord is going to destroy all ungodly ones, and to cut off from the earth all wicked workers, and to place in their rooms just men, and to set up in the earth the Kingdom of jesus Christ, which shall reign in his Saints, which is the stone cut out of the mountain, Dan. 2.44. that shall smite the great Image from off his seat, and break all the powers of the earth to pieces, (and though that power of legs and thighs be the strongest power (which now reigneth in England) that breaketh in pieces, and bruiseth all things therein; yet this stone cut out of the mountain without hands, (as it hath broken in pieces all the rest of the Image in England) shall break in pieces this breaker, this strong part of the Image, and shall reign over it; Read Dan. 2. and the other part or power of this Image which is to reign, the Feet, it shall be so weak and divided in itself, that its time shall be very short; and that by reason of its being divided in itself it shall stand but a little: And I am sure it shall speedily begin. Call it what Government you will, in his days shall the great God of heaven and earth set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And this is the stone cut out of the moun ain without hands (jesus Christ in his Saints) which shall bruise and break in pieces all powers of the world: jer. 23.6. to end. In his days shall Israel be saved, and Judah shall dwell safely. This is the name wherewith he shall be called, The Lord our righteousness: and in this Mount shall the Lord make unto all people a feast of fat things, of marrow and of much fatness, of good wine, of wine on the lees well refined; and in this Mount will the Lord God destroy all things that shall offend, and he will rend and take away the vail of the covering spread over all Nations, and he will shine through all clouds and darkness, and will rend the vail of the Temple, and shake the Foundations of the earth, the gross darkness which the world liveth in, and by their dark lanterns (the Priests of England) are lead blind by, and are bewitched from the truth, and trust in lying words. jer. 7.3. to 9 The Temple of the Lord, or the Church of the Lord, calling a house of stone, the Church or Temple of God; but the Temple of God are these, if you throughly amend your ways: (Take notice) Amend your ways, and do that which is justice and right betwixt man and man: If you relieve the oppressed, fatherless, poor and widows, and deal your bread to the hungry, cover the naked with a garment, and take off every yoke and burden, relieve the captives, and let your prisoners go free, then shall your light shine clear, and break forth as at noonday; Isa. 61.4. to end. you shall be called the habitation of the Lord, the repairer of the breaches, and the builder of the old wastes, for men to dwell in; then shall the Lord take delight in you, and dwell with you for ever. The veil of the Temple is the dark ministry which liveth, and leadeth others to live in gross hypocrisy, which clothes jesus Christ with the filthy, unclean, rotten rags of their own righteousness. Their fair glosses and false interpretations of jesus Christ, Ezek. 32.2: the Prophets and Apostles words, which darkens the pure light by which they were guided, and thus they muddy the clear waters, Ez 34.18, 19 and drink up the sweet waters, and trouble the rest with their feet, their unjust paths treading down the good pastures which they do not eat up, which all the Saints of God have ever eaten on, and drunken of, and shall do unto the end of the world, yea and for ever lie down safely, Psal. 11.4, 7. against all the powers of hell and death: and the rule and Kingdom of the Lord jesus in his Saints, Psal. 82.5. to end. shall overturn and overcome, and rule over all Nations in peace, and in righteousness shall the Kingdom be established in their hands, and they shall have peace for ever; and all powers of the earth, Psal. 18.15. or the foundations whereon the whole world standeth, all the Magistrates of the world shall be shaken; the pillars whereon the earthly worshippers worships, Exe. 13.14, 15. Isa. 24.17. to end. and carnal Ordinances standeth on, which must not only shake, but be made empty, and turned up-side-down, and left without a man, and without an Inhabitant, and none shall dwell therein for ever, This is Babylon's fall, and jesus Christ his rise, for it is only jesus Christ that shall by the breath of this mou●h, and the brightness of his coming destroy him, even Antichrist, who with all powers and lying wonders, have deceived the Nations of the whole earth, etc. now is the time near at hand, wherein all the spears of the world shallbe beat into pruning hooks, and their Swords into plowshares; Nation shall not rise up against Nation, Isa. 2.4. neither shall they learn War any more, there shall be nothing but peace within our borders, and plenty within our palaces; there shall be no sorrow nor sighing at all, jer. 31.12. Isa. 25.8. Rev. 21.4. for all tears shall be wiped away from all eyes, and joy and gladness, and fullness of rejoicing shallbe the reign of Zions King in the midst of all his people. Thus shall great Babylon which is come into remembrance before the Lord, be cast down, and never rise again, and Zion, which hath lain waste shallbe inhabited, and never destroyed any more for ever; neither shall come up thither the ravenous Beasts and Birds of prey, nor any Wolferous eye shall ever see the beauty of Zion, the perfect City of the living God, whose praise shall spread throughout the whole Earth; neither shall any thing that is polluted or unclean come in thither, Rev. 21.27. yet the Gates thereof shall not be shut at all. They that have ears to hear let them hear; But Babylon shall be the place of darkness, for nightbirds and Scriechow's, for the wild beasts to lie down in, Isa. 13.9. to end. & 34.8. to end and for the birds of prey to make their nests in, and for the Satyrs to dance in. Thus shall that great Whore, the woman leapt in an Ephod, the Talon of lead, Zac. 5 5 to end. be cast into the midst of the Sea with great force, for strong is the Lord of Hosts which hath determined her utter destruction, and she shall never rise again, she shall be carried into her own land (Forge fullness) and set upon her Basse (misery) and there shall abide for ever and ever. Thus farewell all wickedness, and welcome Truth and Righteousness, for thou shalt live for ever, and rule over all thine enemies. So shall it be, even so be it, Amen. FINIS. A Postscript to the Reader. Reader, THat thou mayst know what is here spoken is no more but what the Scriptures beareth witness to, (I have taken a little care for the edifying of them that desire to know truth, and that by the mouth of two witnesses it may be established) I have set down the Scriptures in the margin of this little volumn, which bear witness to what is in it declared: therefore search the Scriptures, and see whether those things be not so or no, and take warning, lest thou perish with the disobedient. Farewell. Benjamin Nicholson. FINIS.