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<P>A Fiery Flying Roll: A Word from the Lord to all the Great Ones of the Earth, whom this may concerne: Being the la&s;t WARNING PIECE at the dreadfull day of JUDGEMENT.</P>
<P>For now the LORD is come to
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<ITEM>1 <HI>Informe</HI> the Great Ones.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Advi&s;e and warne</HI> the Great Ones.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>Charge</HI> the Great Ones.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 <HI>Judge and &s;entence</HI> the Great Ones.</ITEM>
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<P>As al&s;o mo&s;t compa&s;&s;ionately informing, and mo&s;t lo|vingly and patheti<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">ally advi&s;ing and warning <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>With a terrible Word and fatall Blow from the LORD, upon the Gathered CHURCHES.</P>
<P>And all by his Mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, dwelling in, and &s;hining through <HI>AUXILIUM PATRIS,</HI> &finalpe;&kaf; alias, <HI>Coppe..</HI></P>
<P>With another FLYING ROLL en&s;uing (to all the Inhabi|tants of the Earth.) The Contents of both following.</P>
<Q><BIBL>I&s;a. 23. 9,</BIBL>
<P>The Lord of Ho&s;ts (is) &s;taining the pride of all glory, and bring|ing into contempt all the honourable (per&s;ons and things) of the Earth.</P></Q>
<Q>O London, London, how would I gather thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, &amp;c.</Q>
<Q><P>Know thou (in this thy day) the things that belong to thy Peace&mdash;</P>
<P>I know the bla&s;phemy of them which &s;ay they are Jewes, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan,</P>
<BIBL>Rev. 2. 9.</BIBL></Q>
<P>Imprinted at <HI>London,</HI> in the beginning of that notable day, wherein the &s;ecrets of all hearts are laid open; and wherein the wor&s;t and foule&s;t of villanies, are di&s;covered, under the be&s;t and faire&s;t out&s;ides. 1649.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
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<HEAD>THE PREFACE.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">An inlet into the Land of Promi&s;e, the new <HI>Hieru&s;alem,</HI> and a gate into the en&s;uing Di&s;cour&s;e, worthy of &s;erious con&s;ideration.</HEAD>
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<L>_MY Deare One.</L>
<L>All or None.</L>
<L>Every one under the Sunne.</L>
<L>Mine own.</L>
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<P>My mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty (in me) hath &s;trangely and variou&s;ly transfor|med this forme.</P>
<P>And behold, by mine owne Almightine&s;&s;e (In me) I have been changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the &s;ound of the Trump.</P>
<P>And now the Lord is d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;cended from Heaven, with a &s;hout, with the voyce of the Arch-angell, and with the Trump of God.</P>
<P>And the &s;ea, the earth, yea all things are now giving up their dead. And all things that ever were, are, or &s;hall be vi&s;ible&mdash;are the Grave wherein the King of Glory (the eternall, invi&s;ible Almightine&s;&s;e, hath lain as it were) dead and buried.</P>
<P>But behold, behold, he is now ri&s;en with a witne&s;&s;e, to &s;ave <HI>Zion</HI> with vengeance, or to confound and plague all things into him&s;elf; who by his mighty Angell is proclaiming (with a loud voyce) That Sin and Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion is fini&s;hed and ended; and everla&s;t|ing righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e brought in; and the everla&s;ting Go&s;pell preaching; Which everla&s;ting Go&s;pell is brought in with mo&s;t terrible earth-quakes, and hea|ven-quakes, and with &s;ignes and wonders following. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P><PB REF="3">And it hath plea&s;ed my mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, (who is univer&s;all love, and who&s;e &s;ervice is perfect freedome) to &s;et this forme (the Writer of this Roll) as no &s;mall &s;igne and wonder in fle&s;hly <HI>I&s;rael;</HI> as you may partly &s;ee to the en&s;uing Di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
<P>And now (my deare ones!) every one under the Sun, I will onely point at the gate, thorow which I was led into that new City, new <HI>Hierulalem,</HI> and to the Spirits of ju&s;t men, made perfect&punc; and to God the Judge of all.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, all my &s;trength, my forces were utterly routed, my hou&s;e I dwelt in fired, my father and mother for|&s;ook me&punc; the wife of my bo&s;ome loathed me, mine old name was rotted, peri&s;hed; and I was utterly plagued, con&s;umed, damned, rammed, and &s;unke into nothing, into the bowels of the &s;till Eternity (my mothers wombe) out of which I came naked, and whetherto I returned again naked&punc; And lying a while there, rapt up in &s;ilence, at length (the body or outward forme being aw<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ke <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ll this while) I heard with my outward eare (to my apprehen&s;ion) a mo&s;t terrible thunder-clap, and after that a&punc; &s;econd. And upon the &s;econd thunder-clap, which was exceeding terrible, I &s;aw a great body of light, like the light of the Sun, and red as fire, in the forme of a drum (as it were) whereupon with exceeding trembling and amazement on the fle&s;h, and with joy un&s;pe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">k<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ble in the &s;pirit, I clapt my hands, and cryed out, <HI>Amen, Halelujah, Halelujah, Amen.</HI> And &s;o lay trembling, &s;weating, and &s;moaking (for the &s;pace of half an houre) at length with a loud voyce (I inwardly) cryed out, Lord, what wilt thou do with me; my mo&s;t excellent maje&s;ty and eternall glory (in me) an&s;wered &amp; &s;ayd&punc; Fear not, I will take thee up into mine everla&s;ting Kingdom. But thou &s;halt (fir&s;t) drink
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a bitter cup, a bitter cup, a bitter cup; wherupon (be|ing filled with exceeding amazement) I was throwne into the belly of hell (and take what you can of it in the&s;e expre&s;&s;ions, though the matter is beyond expre&s;|&s;ion) I was among all the Devils in hell, even in their mo&s;t hideous how.</P>
<P>And under all this terrour, and amazement, there was a little &s;park of tran&s;cendent, tran&s;plendent, un|&s;peakable glory, which <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">urvived, and &s;u&s;tained it &s;elf, triumphing, exulting, and exalting it &s;elf above all the Fiends. And confounding the very blackne&s;&s;e of dark|ne&s;&s;e (you mu&s;t take it in the&s;e tearmes, for it is infi|nitely beyond expre&s;&s;ion.) Vpon this the life was ta|ken out of the body (for a &s;ea&s;on) and it was thus re|&s;embled, as if a man with a great bru&s;h dipt in whi|ting, &s;hould with one &s;troke w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pe out, or &s;weep off a picture upon a wall, &amp;c. after a while, breath and life was recurned into the form againe; whereupon I &s;aw various &s;treames of light (in the night) which appea|red to the outward eye; and immediately I &s;aw three hearts (or three appearances) in the form of hearts, of exceeding brightne&s;&s;e; and immediately an innumera|ble company of hearts, filling each corner of the room where I was. And me thoughts there was variety and di&s;tinction, as if there had been &s;everall hearts, and yet mo&s;t &s;trangely and unexpre&s;&s;ibly complicated or fol|ded up in unity. I clearely &s;aw di&s;tinction, diver&s;ity, variety, and as clearly &s;aw all &s;wallowed up into unity. And it hath been my &s;ong many times &s;ince, within and without, unity, univer&s;ality, univer&s;ality, unity, Eter|nall Maje&s;ty, &amp;c. And at this vi&s;ion, a mo&s;t &s;trong, glo|rious voyce uttered the&s;e words, <HI>The &s;pirits of ju&s;t men made perfect&punc;</HI> the &s;pirits &amp;c, with whom I had as ab&s;olut, cleare, full communion, and in a two fold more fami|liar
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way, then ever I had outwardly with my deare&s;t friends, and neare&s;t relations. The vi&s;ions and revela|tions of God, and the &s;trong hand of eternall invi&s;ible almightine&s;&s;e, was &s;tretched out upon me, within me, for the &s;pace of foure dayes and nights, without inter|mi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>The time would faile if I would tell you all, but it is not the good will and plea&s;ure of my mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty in me, to declare any more (as yet) then thus m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">ch further: That among&s;t tho&s;e various voyces that were then uttered within, the&s;e were &s;ome, <HI>Blood, blood, Where, where? upon the hypocriticall holy heart, &amp;c.</HI> Another thus, <HI>Vengeance, vengeance, vengeance, Plagues, plagues, upon the Inhabitants of the earth; Fire, fire, fire, Sword, &s;word, &amp;c. upon all that bow not down to eternall Ma|je&s;ty, univer&s;all love; I'le recover, recover, my wooll, my flax, my money. Declare, declare, feare thou not the faces of any; I am (in thee) a munition of Rocks, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Go up to <HI>London,</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">It not be|ing &s;hewen to me, what I &s;hould do, more then preach and print &s;ome|thing, &amp;c. ve|ry little expe|cting I &s;hould be &s;o &s;trange|ly acted, as to (my exceed|ing joy and delight) I have been, though to the utter crack|ing of my credit, and to the rotting of my old name which is dam|ned, and ca&s;t out (as a toad to the dung|hill) that I might have a new name, with me, upon me, within me, which is, Iam&mdash;</NOTE> to <HI>London,</HI> that great City, write, write, write. And behold I writ, and lo a hand was &s;ent to me, and a roll of a book was therein, which this fle&s;hly hand would have put wings to, before the time. Whereupon it was &s;natcht out of my hand, &amp; the Roll thru&s;t into my mouth; and I eat it up, and filled my bowels with it, (<HI>Eze.</HI> 2. 8. &amp;c. <HI>cha.</HI> 3. 1, 2, 3.) where it was as bitter as worm-wood; and it lay broiling, and burning in my &s;tomack, till I brought it forth in this forme.</P>
<P>And now I &s;end it flying to thee, with my heart, And all</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Per AUXILIUM PATRIS</HI> &finalpe;&kaf;</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE CONTENTS.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>CHAP. 1. SEverall &s;trange, yet true and &s;ea&s;onable informations to the great ones, as al&s;o an apologeticall hint of the Authors principle, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 2. Severall new, &s;trange, yet &s;ea&s;onable and good advice, and whol&s;ome admonitions, and the la&s;t warning to the great ones, as from the Lord.</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 3. Severall di&s;mall, dole|full cryes, &amp; out-crieo, which pierce the eares and heart of his excellent Maje&s;ty, &amp; how the King of Kings, the King of heaven charges the great ones of the earth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 4. How the Judge of heaven and earth, who judgeth righteous&punc; judgment, pa&s;&s;eth &s;entence again&s;t all tho&s;e great ones, who like &s;turdy O akes &amp; tall Cedars wil not bow, and how hee intends to breake them, and blow them up by the roots&punc;</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 5. A mo&s;t compa&s;&s;ionate in|formation, and a mo&s;t loving &amp; pa|theticall warning and advice to <HI>Lon|don.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 6. A terrible word and fatall blow from the Lord upon the gathe|red Churches, who pretend mo&s;t for God, yet defie the Almighty more then the vile&s;t.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The &s;econd Flying Roll.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>CHAP. 1. The Authors commi&s;&s;ion to write. A terrible woe denounced again&s;t tho&s;e that flight the roll. The Lords claim to all things; Together with a hint of a two-fold recovery, where through the mo&s;t hypocriticall heart &s;hall be ripped up, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 2. How the Lord will recover his outward things (things of this life) as money, corn, wool, flax, &amp;c. and for whom: And how they &s;hal be plagned that detaine them as their owne. Wherein al&s;o are &s;ome mi&s;tical hints concerning St. <HI>Michaels</HI> day, and the Lords day following it this yeare; as al&s;o of the dominicall letter D, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 3. A &s;trange, yet mo&s;t true &s;torie, vnder which is couch<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d that lion, who&s;e roaring &s;hall make all the bea&s;ts of the field to tremble, and all the kingdomes of the world quake.
Wherein al&s;o (in part) the &s;ubtility of the welfavour'd harlot is di&s;covered, and her fle&s;h burnt with that fire which &s;hall burn down all Churches, except that of the fir&s;t borne, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 4. That the Author hath been &s;et as a &s;ign and wonder, &amp;c. as well as most of the Prophets formerly; as al&s;o what &s;trange po&s;turs that divine Majestie (that dwels in his forme) hath &s;et the'forme in: with the mo&s;t &s;trange and varions effects thereof
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upon the &s;pectators. His communion with the &s;pirits of ju&s;t men made perfect, and with God the judg of all hinted at.</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 5. The Authors &s;trange and lofty carriage towards great ones, &amp; his mo&s;t lowly carriage towards beg|gars, rogues, pri&s;oners, gyp&s;ies, &amp;c. Together with a large Declaration what glory &s;hall ari&s;e up from under all the&s;e a&s;hes. The mo&s;t &s;trange &amp; mo&s;t &s;ecret and terrible, yet mo&s;t glo|rious de&s;igne of God, in choo&s;ing ba&s;e things, to confound&punc; things that are: And how, A mo&s;t terrible viall pou|red out upon the well-favoured har|lot; and how the Lord is bringing in|to contempt not only honourable per|&s;ons (with a vengeance) but all ho|nourable holy things al&s;o.
Whol&s;ome advice, with a terrible threat to the Formali&s;ts: And how BASE things have confounded ba&s;e things: And how ba&s;e things have been a fie|ry chariot to mount the Author up into divine glory and un&s;peakable Maje&s;tie: And how his wife is, &amp; his life is in that beauty, which maketh vi&s;ible beauty &s;eem meere deformity.</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 6. Great ones mu&s;t bow to the poore&s;t pea&s;ants, or el&s;e they &s;hall rue for it; No material &s;word or humane power (what&s;oever) but the pure &s;pi|rit of univer&s;all love, who is the eter|nall God, can breake the necke of ty|ranny, oppr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ion, and abhominable pride and cruell murther, &amp;c. A ca|tologue of &s;everall judgments recited, as &s;o many warning-pieces to appro|p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">iators, impropriators, and ant<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc;free communicants.</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 7. A further di&s;covery of the &s;ubtilty of the well favoured harlot, with a parley between her and the &s;pi|rit. As al&s;o the hor<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">id villany that l<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">es hid under her &s;mooth words, and &s;weet tongue (in pleading again&s;t the letter and hi&s;tory, and for the &s;pirit and mi&s;tery, and all for her own ends) detected. Al&s;o upon what account the &s;pirit is put, and upon what account the letter, &amp;c. And what the true communion, and what the true brea|king of bread is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>CHAP. 8. The wel-favoured harlots cloaths &s;tript off, her nakedne&s;&s;e di&s;|covered, her no&s;e &s;lit. Her <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">unting after the young man void of under|&s;tanding, from corner to corner, from religion to religion: And the &s;pirit pur&s;uing, overtaking, and de&s;troying her, &amp;c.
With a terrible thunder-clap i'th clo&s;e.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A word from the Lord to all the Great Ones of the Earth (whom this may concerne) being the la&s;t Warning Piece, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P>1 The word of the Lord came expre&s;ly to me, &s;aying, Sonne of man write a Roule, and the&s;e words, from my mouth, to the Great ones, &s;aying, thus &s;aith the Lord:</P>
<P>Slight not this Roule, neither laugh at it, lea&s;t I &s;light you, and cau&s;e all men to &s;light and &s;corne you; lea&s;t I de&s;troy you, and laugh at your de&s;truction, &amp;c.</P>
<P>2 This is, (and with a witne&s;&s;e, &s;ome of you &s;hall finde it, to be) an edg'd toole; and there's no je&s;ting with it, or laughing at it.</P>
<P>It's a &s;harp &s;word, &s;harpned, and al&s;o fourbi&s;hed&mdash;</P>
<P>No &s;leepy Dormou&s;e &s;hall dare to creep up the edge of it.</P>
<P>Thus &s;aith the Lord, You &s;hall finde with a witne&s;&s;e, that I am now comming to</P>
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<ITEM>1 Informe you, O ye great ones.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Advi&s;e and warne you, O ye great ones.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Charge you, O ye great ones.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Judge and &s;entence you, O ye great ones.</ITEM>
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<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. I.</HI> Containing &s;everall &s;trange, yet true and &s;ea&s;onable Informa|tions, to the great ones. As al&s;o an apologeticall hint, of the Authors Principle, &s;tanding in the front.&mdash;</HEAD>
<P>1. _THus &s;aith the Lord, <HI>I inform you, that I over|turn, overturn, overturn.</HI> And as the Bi|&s;hops, <HI>Charles,</HI> and the Lords, have had their turn, overturn, &s;o your turn &s;hall be next (ye &s;urviving great ones) by what Name or Title &s;oever dignified or di&s;tingui&s;hed) who ever you are, that oppo&s;e me, the Eternall God, who am UNIVERSALL Love, and who&s;e &s;ervice is perfect freedome, and pure Libertini&s;me.</P>
<P><PB N="2" REF="6">2 <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">An Apolo|geticall hint concerning the Authors Principle, the re<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ult&mdash;is ne|gative; hee &s;peaks little in the affirmative becau&s;e not one in a hun|dred, yea even of his former acqu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">intance, now know him, neither mu&s;t they yet.</NOTE> But afore I proceed any further, be it known to you, That although that excellent Maje&s;ty, which dwels in the Writer of this Roule, hath reconciled ALL THINGS to him&s;elfe, yet this hand (which now writes) never drew &s;word, or &s;hed one drop of any mans blood. [I am free from the blood of all men] though (I &s;ay) all things are reconciled to me, the eternall God (IN HIM) yet &s;word levelling, or digging-levelling, are neither of them his principle.</P>
<P>Both are as farre from his principle, as the Ea&s;t is from the We&s;t, or the Heavens from the Earth, (though, I &s;ay, reconciled to both, as to all things el&s;e) and though he hath more ju&s;tice, righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, truth, and &s;incerity, &s;hining in tho&s;e low dung|hils, (as they are e&s;teemed) then in the Sunne, Moone, and all the Stars.</P>
<P>3 I come not forth (in him) either with materiall &s;word, or Mattock, but now (in this my day&mdash;) I make him my Sword|bearer, to brandi&s;h the Sword of the Spirit, as he hath done &s;e|verall dayes and nights together, thorow the &s;treets of the great City.</P>
<P>4 And now thus &s;aith the Lord:</P>
<P>Though you can as little endure the word LEVELLING, as could the lat-&s;laine or dead <HI>Charles</HI> (your foretunner, who is gone before you&mdash;) and had as live heare the Devill named, as heare of the Levellers (M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n-Levellers) which is, and who (in|deed) are but &s;hadowes of mo&s;t terrible, yet great and glorious good things to come.</P>
<P>5 Behold, behold, behold, I the eternall God, the Lord of Ho&s;ts&punc; who am that mighty Leveller, am comming (yea even at the doores) to Levell in good earne&s;t, to Levell to &s;ome purpo&s;e, to Levell with a witne&s;&s;e, to Levell the Hills with the Valleyes, and to lay the Mountaines low.</P>
<P>6 High Mountaines! lofty Cedars! its high time for you to enter into the Rocks, and to hide you in the du&s;t, for feare of the Lord, and for the glory of his Maje&s;ty. For the lofty looks of man &s;hall be humbled, and the haughtine&s;&s;e of men &s;hall be bowed downe, and the Lord ALONE &s;hall be exalted in that day; For the day of the Lord of Hoa&s;ts, &s;hall be upon every one that is proud, and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he &s;hall be brought low. And upon all the Cedars of <HI>Lebanon,</HI> that
<PB N="3" REF="6">
are high and lifted up, and upon all the Oaks of <HI>Ba&s;han;</HI> and up|on all the high Mountaines; and upon all the Hils that are lifted up, and upon every high Tower&punc; and upon every fenced Wall; and upon all the Ships of <HI>Tar&s;hi&s;h,</HI> and upon all plea&s;ant Pictures.</P>
<P>And the LOFTINESSE of man &s;hall be bowed down, and the haughtine&s;&s;e of men &s;hall be laid low. And the Lord ALONE &s;hall be exalted in that day, and the Idols he &s;hall ut|terly aboli&s;h.</P>
<P>And they &s;hall go into the holes of the Rocks, and into the Caves of the Earth, for &s;care of the Lord, and for the glory of his Maje&s;ty, when he ari&s;eth to &s;hake terribly the earth.</P>
<P>In that day a man &s;hall ca&s;t his Idols of Silver, and Idols of Gold&mdash;to the bats, and to the Moles. To go into the Clefts of the Rocks and into the tops of the ragged Rocks, for feare of the Lord, and for the glory of his Maje&s;ty. For the Lord is now RISEN to &s;hake terribly the Earth, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 2. 10. to the end of the Chapter.</P>
<P>7 Hill! Mountains! Cedars! Mighty men! Your breath is in your no&s;trils.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that have admired, adored, idolized, magnified, &s;et you up, fought for you, ven<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ured goods, and good name; limbe and life for you, &s;hall cea&s;e from you.</P>
<P>You &s;hall not (at all be accounted of (not one of you) ye &s;tur|dy Oake) who bowe not downe before eternall Maje&s;ty: Vni|ver&s;all Love, who&s;e &s;ervice is perfect freedome, and who hath put down the mighty (remember, remember your fore-runner) and who is putting down the mighty from their &s;eats; and ex|alting them of low degree.</P>
<P>8 Oh let not, (for your owne &s;akes) let not the mother of Harlots in you, who is very &s;ubtle of heart.</P>
<P>Nor the Bea&s;t (without you) what do you call 'em? The Mi|ni&s;ters, fat par&s;ons, Vica<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s, Lecturers, &amp;c. who (for their owne ba&s;e ends, to maintaine their pride, and pompe, and to fill their owne paunche<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, and pur&s;es) have been the chiefe in&s;truments of all tho&s;e horrid abominations, helli&s;h, cruell, devilli&s;h p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;ecuti|ons, in this Nation which cry for vengeance. For your owne &s;akes (I &s;ay) let neither the one, nor the other bewitch you, or charme your eares, to heare them &s;ay, the&s;e things &s;hall not befall
<PB N="4" REF="7">
you, the&s;e Scriptures &s;hall not be fulfilled upon you, but upon the Pope, Turke, and Heathen Princes, &amp;c.</P>
<P>9 Or if any of them &s;hould (through &s;ubtilty for their owne ba&s;e ends) creep into the My&s;tery of that forementioned <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">I&s;ay 2&punc;</NOTE> Scrip|ture.</P>
<P>And tell you, Tho&s;e words are to be taken in the My&s;tery on|ly; and they onely point out a &s;pirituall, inward levelling (once more, for your owne &s;akes, I &s;ay) believe them not.</P>
<P>10 'Tis true, the Hi&s;tory, or Letter, (I &s;peake comparatively) is but as it were haire-cloth; the My&s;tery is fine Flax. My flax, &s;aith the Lord, and the Thief and the Robber will &s;teale from me my flax, to cover his nakedne&s;&s;e, that his filthine&s;&s;e may not ap|peare.</P>
<P>But behold, I am (now) recovering my flax out of his hand, and di&s;covering his lewdne&s;&s;e&mdash;<HI>verbum &s;at</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P>11 'Tis true, the My&s;tery is my joy, my delight, my life.</P>
<P>And the Prime levelling, is laying low the Mountaines, and levelling the Hils in man.</P>
<P>But this is not all.</P>
<P><HI>For lo I come (&s;aith the Lord) with a vengeance, to levell al&s;o your Honour, Riches, &amp;c. to &s;taine the pride of all your glory, and to bring into contempt all the Honourable (both per&s;ons and things) upon the earth,</HI> I&s;a. 23. 9.</P>
<P>12 For this Honour, Nobility, Gentility, Propriety, Super|fluity, &amp;c. hath (without contradiction) been the Father of hel|li&s;h horrid pride, arrogance, haughtine&s;&s;e, loftine&s;&s;e, murder, ma|lice, of all manner of wickedne&s;&s;e and implety; yea the cau&s;e of all the blood that ever hath been &s;hed, from the blood of righte|ous <HI>Abell,</HI> to the blood of the last-Levellers that were &s;hot to death. <HI>And now (as I live &s;aith the Lord) I am come to make in|qui&s;ition for blood; for murder and pride, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>13 I &s;ee the root of it all <HI>The Axe is laid to the root of the Tree</HI> (by the Eternall God, <HI>My Self,</HI> &s;aith the Lord) <HI>I will hew <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> down.</HI> And as I live, I will plague your Honour, Pompe, Great|ne&s;&s;e, Superfluity, and confound it into parity, equality, commu|nity; that the neck of horrid pride, murder, malice, and tyran|ny, &amp;c. may be chopt off at one blow. And that my &s;elfe, the Eternall God, who am Vniver&s;all Love, may fill the Earth with univer&s;all love, univer&s;all peace, and perfect freedome; which
<PB N="5" REF="7">
can never be by humane &s;word or &s;trength accompli&s;hed.</P>
<P>14 Wherefore bow downe, bow downe, you &s;turdy Oakes, and tall Cedars; bow, or by my &s;elf Ile break you.</P>
<P>Ile cau&s;e &s;ome of you (on whom I have compa&s;&s;ion) to bow &amp;c. and will terribly plague the re&s;t.</P>
<P>My little finger &s;hall be heavier on them, then my whole loynes were on <HI>Pharaoh</HI> of old.</P>
<P>15 And maugre the &s;ubtilty, and &s;edulity, the craft and cruel|ty of hell, and earth: this Levelling &s;hall up.</P>
<P>Not by &s;word; we (holily) &s;corne to fight for any thing; we had as live be dead drunk every day of the weeke, and lye with whores i'th market place, and account the&s;e as good actions as taking the poore abu&s;ed, en&s;laved ploughmans money from him (who is almo&s;t every where undone, and &s;queezed to death; and not &s;o much as that plaguy, un&s;upportable, helli&s;h burden, and oppre&s;&s;ion, of Tythes taken off his &s;houlders, notwith&s;tanding all his hone&s;ty, fidelity, Taxes, Freequarter, petitioning &amp;c. for the &s;ame,) we had rather &s;tarve, I &s;ay, then take away his money from him, for killing of men.</P>
<P>Nay, if we might have Captains pay, and a good fat Par&s;onage or two be&s;ides, we would &s;corne to be &s;word&s;men, or fight with tho&s;e (mo&s;tly) carnall weapons, for any thing, or again&s;t any one, or for our livings.</P>
<P>16 No, no, wee'l live in de&s;pite of our foes; and this level|ling (to thy torment, O mighty man) &s;hall up, not by &s;word, not by might, &amp;c. but by my Spirit, &s;aith the Lord.</P>
<P>For I am ri&s;en, for I am ri&s;en, for I am ri&s;en, to &s;hake terribly the earth, and not the earth onely, but the heavens al&s;o, &amp;c.</P>
<P>But here I &s;hall cea&s;e informing you.</P>
<P>You may for your further information (if you plea&s;e) reade my Roule to all the rich Inhabitants of the earth.</P>
<P>Reade it if you be wi&s;e, I &s;hall now advice you.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="6" REF="8">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. II.</HI> Containing &s;everall new, &s;trange, yet &s;ea&s;onable Admoniti|ons, and good advice; as the la&s;t warning to the Great Ones of the Earth. from the Lord.</HEAD>
<P>1 THus &s;aith the Lord: B: <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ser&ograve; &s;apiunt P<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ryges, &s;ed nunquam Sera e&s;t ad Bonos mores via, 1 Admonition to great ones.</NOTE> wi&s;e now therefore, O ye Ru|lers, &amp;c. Be in&s;tructed, &amp;c. Ki&s;&s;e the Sunne, &amp;c. Yea, ki&s;&s;e Beggers, Pri&s;oners, warme them, feed them, cloathe them, mo|ney them, relieve them, relea&s;e them, take them into your hou&s;es, don't &s;erve them as dogs, without doore. &amp;c.</P>
<P>Owne them, they are fle&s;h of your fle&s;h, your owne brothren, your owne Si&s;ters, every whit as good (and if I &s;hould &s;tand in competition with you) in &s;ome degrees better then your &s;elves.</P>
<P>2 Once more, I &s;ay, own them; they are your &s;elf, make them one with you, or el<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e go howling into hell; bowle for the mi&s;e|ries that are comming upon you, &s;owle.</P>
<P>The very &s;hadow of levelling &s;word-levelling, man-levelling, frighted you, (and who, li<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e your &s;elves, can blame you, becau&s;e it &s;hook your Kingdome?) but now the &s;ub&s;tantiality of level|ling is coming.</P>
<P>The Eternall God, the mighty Leveller is comming, yea come, even at the door; and what will you do in that day.</P>
<P>Repent, repent, repent, Bow down, bow down, bow, or howle, refigne, or be damned; Bow downe, bow downe, you &s;tu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">dy Oakes, and Cedars, bow downe.</P>
<P>Veile too, and ki&s;&s;e the meaner &s;hru<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s. Bow, or el&s;e (by my &s;elf &s;aith the Lord) Ile breake you in pieces (&s;ome of you) others I will teare up by the roots; I will &s;uddenly deale with you all, &s;ome in one way; &s;ome in another. Wherefore</P>
<LG>
<L>Each Begger that you meet</L>
<L>Eall down before him, ki&s;&s;e him in the &s;treet.</L>
</LG>
<P>Once more, he is thy brother, thy fellow, fle&s;h of thy fle&s;h.</P>
<P>Turne not away thi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e eyes from thine own&punc; FLESH, lea&s;t I pull out thine eyes and throw thee headlong into hell.</P>
<P>3 Mine eares are fill<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d brim full with cryes of poore pri&s;oners, Newgate, Ludgate cryes (of late) are &s;eldome out of mine eares.
<PB N="7" REF="8">
Tho&s;e dolefull cryes, Bread, bread, bread for the Lords &s;ake, pierce mine eares, and heart, I can no longer for<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eare.</P>
<P>Werefore high you apace to all pri&s;ons in the Kingdome,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Admonition to great ones.</NOTE></P>
<P>4 Bow before tho&s;e poore, na&s;ty, lou&s;ie, ragged wretches, &s;ay to them, your humble &s;ervants, Sirs&punc; (without a complement) we let you go free, and &s;erve you, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Do this (or as I live &s;aith the Lord) thine eyes (at lea&s;t) &s;hall be boared out, and thou carried captive into a &s;trange Land.</P>
<P>5 Give over, give over, thy od<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ous, na&s;ty, abominable fa&s;ting,<NOTE PLACE="marg">3 Admonition to great ones</NOTE> for &s;trife and debate, and to &s;mite with the fi&s;t of wickedne&s;&s;e. And in&s;tead thereof, loo&s;e the bands of wickedne&s;&s;e, undo the hea|vy burdens, let the oppre&s;&s;ed go free, and breake every yoake. Deale thy bread to the hungry, and bring the poore that are ca&s;t out (both of hou&s;es and Synagogues) to thy hou&s;e. Cover the raked: Hide not thy &s;elf from thine owne fle&s;h, from a creeple, a rogue, a begg<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r, he's thine owne fle&s;h. From a Whoremong<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r, a thief, &amp;c. he's fle&s;h of thy fle&s;h, and his theft, and wheredome is fle&s;h of thy fle&s;h al&s;o, thine owne fle&s;h. Thou mai&s;t have ten, times more of each within thee, then he that acts outwardly in either, Remember, turn not away thine eyes from thine OWN FLESH.</P>
<P>6 Give over, give over thy midnight mi&s;chief.<NOTE PLACE="marg">4 Admonition to great ones</NOTE></P>
<P>Let branding with the letter <HI>B&punc;</HI> alone.</P>
<P>Be no longer &s;o horridly, helli&s;hly, impudently, arrogantly, wicked&punc; as to judge what is &s;inne, what not, what evill, and what not, what bla<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">phemy, and what not.</P>
<P>For thou and all thy reverend Divines, &s;o called (who Divine for Tythes, hire, and money, and &s;erve the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t for their owne bellyes) are ignorant of this one thing.</P>
<P>7 That &s;inne and tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion is fini&s;ht, its a meere riddle, that they, with all their humane learning can never reade.</P>
<P>Neither can they under&s;tand what pure honour is wrapt up in the Kings Motto, <HI>Honi Soit qui Mal. y. Pen&s;e.</HI> Evill to him that evill thinks.</P>
<P>Some there are (who are accounted the off &s;couring of all things) who are Noble Knights of the Garter. Since which&mdash;they could &s;ee no evill, thinke no evill, doe no evill, know no evill.</P>
<P>ALL is Religion that they &s;peak, and honour that they do.</P>
<P><PB N="8" REF="9">But all you that eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evill, and have not your Evill eye Pickt out, you call Good Evill, and Evill Good; Light Darkne&s;&s;e, and Darkne&s;&s;e Light; Truth Bla&s;phemy, and Bla&s;phemy Truth.</P>
<P>And you are at this time of your Father the Devill, and of your brother the Phari&s;ee, who &s;till &s;ay of Chri&s;t (who is now alive) &s;ay we not well that he hath a Devill.</P>
<P>9 Take heed, take heed, take heed.</P>
<P>Filthy blinde Sodomites called Angels men, they &s;eeing no further then the formes of men.</P>
<P>10 There are Angels (now) come downe from Heaven, in the &s;hapes and formes of men, who are full of the vengeance of the Lord; and are to poure out the plagues of God upon the Earth, and to torment the Inhabitants thereof.</P>
<P>Some of the&s;e Angels I have been acquainted withall.</P>
<P>And I have looked upon them as Devils, accounting them De|vils incarnate, and have run from place to place, to hide my &s;elf from them, &s;hunning their company; and have been utterly a&s;ha|med when I have been &s;een with them.</P>
<P>But for my labour; I have been plagued and tormented beyond expre&s;&s;ion. So that now I had rather behold one of the&s;e Angels <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Rev. 15, Judges 5, Revel. 10, Neh. 13. 25,</NOTE> pouring out the plagues of God, cur&s;ing; and teaching others to cur&s;e bitterly.</P>
<P>And had rather heare a mighty Angell (in man) &s;wearing a full-mouthd Oath; and &s;ee the &s;pirit of <HI>Nehemiah</HI> (in any form of man, or woman) running upon an uncleane Jew (a pretended Saint) and tearing the haire of his head like a mad man, cur&s;ing, and making others fall a &s;wearing, then heare a zealous Presbyte|rian, Independent, or <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This will come in re|que&s;t with you next; you may remember that Independency, which is now &s;o hug'd, was counted bla&s;|phemy, and bani&s;hment was too good for it.</NOTE> &s;pirituall Notioni&s;t, pray, preach, or ex|erci&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
<P>11 Well&punc;! To the pure all things are pure. God hath &s;o clea|red cur&s;ing, &s;wearing, in &s;ome, that that which goes for &s;wearing and cur&s;ing in them, is more glorious then praying and preaching in others.</P>
<P>And what God hath clean&s;ed, call not thou uncleane.</P>
<P>And if <HI>Peter</HI> prove a great tran&s;gre&s;&s;or of the Law, by doing that which was as odious as killing a man; if he at length (though he be loath at fir&s;t) eat that which was common and unclean &amp;c. (I give but a hint) blame him not, much le&s;&s;e lift up a finger
<PB N="9" REF="9">
again&s;t, or plant a helli&s;h Ordinance&mdash;again&s;t him, lea&s;t thou be plagu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d, and damned too, for thy zeale, blinde Religion, and fle&s;hly holine&s;&s;e, which now &s;tinks above ground, though for|merly it had a good &s;avour,</P>
<P>12 But O thou holy, zealous, devout, righteous, religious on<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> (whoever thou art) that &s;ee&s;t evill, or any thing uncleane; do thou &s;weare, if thou dare&s;t, if it be but (l'faith) I'le throw thee to Hell for it (&s;aith the Lord) and laugh at thy de&s;truction.</P>
<P>While Angels (in the forme of men) &s;hall &s;weare, Heart, Blood, Wounds, and by the Eternall God, &amp;c. in profound pu|rity, and in high Honour, and Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>13 Well! one hint more; there's &s;wearing ignorantly, i'th darke, vainely, and there's &s;wearing i'th light, gloriou&s;ly.</P>
<P>Well! man of the earth! Lord <HI>E&s;au!</HI> what ha&s;t thou to do with tho&s;e who &s;weare upon the former account?</P>
<P>Vengeance is mine, Judgement, Hell, Wrath, &amp;c. all is mine (&s;aith the Lord) dare not thou to &s;et thy foot &s;o impudently and arrogantly upon one &s;tep of my Throne: I am Judge my &s;elf&mdash;Be wi&s;e, give over, have done&mdash;</P>
<P>14 And as for the latter &s;ort of &s;wearing, thou knowe&s;t it not when thou heare&s;t it. It's no new thing for thee to call Chri&s;t Beel-zebub, and Beel-zebub Chri&s;t; to call a holy Angell a De|vill, and a Devill an Angell.</P>
<P>15 I charge thee (in the name of the Eternall God) meddle not with either, let the Tares alone, lea&s;t thou pull up the Wheat al&s;o, woe be to thee if thou do&s;t. Let both alone (I &s;ay) lea&s;t thou &s;houlde&s;t happen of a holy &s;wearing Angell; and take a Lion by the paw to thine owne de&s;truction.</P>
<P>&mdash;Never was there &s;uch a time &s;ince the world &s;tood, as now is.</P>
<P>Thou knowe&s;t not the &s;trange appearances of the Lord, now a daies. Take heed, know thou ha&s;t been warned.</P>
<P>16 And whatever thou do&s;t, dip not thy little finger in blood<NOTE PLACE="marg">5 Admonition to great ones</NOTE> any more, thou art up to the elbowes already: Much &s;ope, yea much nitre cannot clean&s;e thee, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Much more have I to &s;ay to thee (&s;aith the Lord) but I will do it &s;ecretly; and dart a quiver full of arrowes into thy h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">art; and I will now charge thee.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="10" REF="10">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. III.</HI> Containing &s;everall di&s;mall, dolefull cryes, and outcries. which pierce the eares and heart of his Excellent Maje&s;ty, the King of Kings. And how the King of Heaven char|geth the Great Ones of the Earth.</HEAD>
<P>1 THus &s;aith the Lord, Be &s;ilent, O all fle&s;h, before the Lord; be &s;ilent; O lofty, haughty, great ones of the Earth.</P>
<P>There are &s;o many Bils of Indictment preferred again&s;t thee, that both heaven and earth blu&s;h thereat.</P>
<P>How long &s;hall I heare the &s;ighs and groanes, and &s;ee the teares of poore widowes; and heare cur&s;es in every corner; and all &s;orts of people crying out oppre&s;&s;ion, oppre&s;&s;ion, tyran|ny, tyranny, the wor&s;t of tyranny, unheard of, unna<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">urall tyranny.</P>
<P>&mdash;O my back, my &s;houlders. O Tythes, Excize, Taxes, Pol|lings, &amp;c. O Lord! O Lord God Almighty!</P>
<P>What, a little finger heavier then former loynes?</P>
<P>What have I engaged my goods, my life, &amp;c. for&s;ooke my dea|re&s;t relations, and all for liberty and true freedome, for freedome from oppre&s;&s;ion, and more laid on my back, &amp;c.</P>
<P>2 Mine eares are filled brim full with confu&s;ed noi&s;e, cries, and outcries; O the innumerable complaints and groanes that pierce my heart (thorow and thorow) O a&s;toni&s;hing com|plaints.</P>
<P>Was ever the like ingratitude heard of &s;ince the world &s;tood? what! be&s;t friends, &s;ure&s;t friends, &s;lighted, &s;corned, and that which cometh from them (in the ba&s;e&s;t manner) contemned, and &s;ome rewarded with pri&s;ons, &s;ome with death?</P>
<P>O the abominable per&s;idiou&s;ne&s;&s;e, fal&s;eheartedne&s;&s;e; &s;elf-&s;eek|ing, &s;elf-inriching, and Kingdome-depopulating, and deva&s;ta|ting, &amp;c.</P>
<P>The&s;e, and divers of the &s;ame nature, are the cries of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>And can I any longer for beare?</P>
<P>I have heard, I have heard, the groaning of my people. And now I come to deliver them, &s;aith the Lord.</P>
<P><PB N="11" REF="10">Woe be to <HI>Pharaoh</HI> King of <HI>Egypt.</HI></P>
<P>You Great Ones that are not tackt nor tainted, you may laugh and &s;ing, whom this hitteth it hitteth. And it &s;hall hit home.</P>
<P>And this which followeth, all whom it concerneth, by what name or title &s;oever dignified or di&s;tingui&s;hed.</P>
<P>3 You mo&s;tly hate tho&s;e (called Levellers) who (for ought you know) acted as they did, out of the &s;incerity, &s;implicity, and fidelity of their hearts; fearing lea&s;t they &s;hould come under the notion of Covenant-breakers, if they did not &s;o act.</P>
<P>Which if &s;o, then were they mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly, unnaturally, belli&s;hly murdered; and they died Martyrs for God and their Countrey.</P>
<P>And their blood cries vengeance, vengeance, in mine ears, &s;aith the Lord.</P>
<P>4 Well! let it be how it will; the&s;e <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Once more know, that Sword-level|ing is not my principle; I onely pro|nounce the righteous judgements of the Lord upon Earth, as I dur&s;t.</NOTE> Levellers (&s;o called) you mo&s;tly hated, though in outward declarations you owned their Tenents as your owne Principle.</P>
<P>So you mo&s;tly hate me (&s;aith the Lord) though in outward declarations you profe&s;&s;e me, and &s;eeme to owne me, more then a thou&s;and whom you de&s;pi&s;e, and account wor&s;e than your &s;elves, who are neerer the Kingdome of Heaven then your &s;elve.</P>
<P>You have killed Levellers (&s;o called) you al&s;o (with wicked hands) have &s;lain me the Lord of life, who am now ri&s;en, and ri&s;en indeed, (and you &s;hall know, and feele it with a witne&s;&s;e) to Le|vell you in good earne&s;t. And to lay low all high hils, and every mountaine that is high, and lifted up, &amp;c.</P>
<P>5 Well! once more, read <HI>Jam.</HI> 5, 1. to 7&mdash;Ye have killed the ju&s;t&mdash;Ye have killed, ye have killed, ye have killed the ju&s;t.</P>
<P>The blood cryeth in mine eares, Vengeance, vengeance, ven|geance, vengeance is mine, I will recompence.</P>
<P>Well! what will you do with <HI>Bray,</HI> and the poore pri&s;oners el&s;ewhere? You know not what you do.</P>
<P>You little know what will become of you.</P>
<P>One of you had be&s;t remember your dream about your Fathers Moule&mdash;</P>
<P>6 Neither do I forget the one hundred &s;pent in &s;uper&s;luous di&s;hes (at your late great <HI>London</HI> Fea&s;t, for I know what&mdash;)
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when hundreds of poore wretches dyed with hunger&punc;</P>
<P>I have heard a &s;ound in mine eares, that no le&s;&s;e then a hun|dred died in one week, pined, and &s;tarved with hunger.</P>
<P>Howle you great ones, for all that fea&s;t daies dole, &amp;c. heare your doome.</P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. IV.</HI> How the Judge of Heaven and Earth, who judgeth righteous judgement, pa&s;&s;eth &s;entence again&s;t all tho&s;e Great Ones, who (like Oakes and tall Cedars) will not bow. And how he intends to blow them up by the roots.</HEAD>
<P>1 THus &s;aith the Lord: All you tall Cedars, and &s;turdy Oakes, who bow not down, who bow not down&mdash;This &s;entence is gone out of my mouth again&s;t you, MENE, MENE, TEKEL.</P>
<P>Thou art weighed in the ballances, and art found wanting.</P>
<P>God hath numbred thy Kingdome, and fini&s;hed it.</P>
<P>And thou, and all that joyne with thee, or are (in the lea&s;t de|gree) acce&s;&s;ary to thy former, or like intended pranks, &s;hall mo&s;t terribly and mo&s;t &s;trangely be plagued.</P>
<P>2 There is a little &s;parke lies under (that huge heap of a&s;hes) all thine honour, pomp, pride, wealth, and riches, which &s;hall utterly con&s;ume all that is uppermo&s;t, as it is written.</P>
<P>The Lord, the Lord of Ho&s;ts, &s;hall &s;end among his fat ones, leanene&s;&s;e; and under his glory he &s;hall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire, and the light of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> &s;hall be for a fire, and his holy one for a flame, and it &s;hall burne and devoure his thornes, and his briers in one day.</P>
<P>And &s;hall con&s;ume the glory of his Forre&s;t, and of his fruitfull field, both &s;oule and body (<HI>i. e.</HI> this &s;hall be done inwardly and outwardly, and &s;hall be fulfilled both in the hi&s;tory and my&s;tery) and the re&s;t of the trees of his Forre&s;t &s;hall be few, that a childe may write them.</P>
<P>And the Lord, the Lord of Hoa&s;ts, &s;hall lop the bough with terror, and the high ones of &s;tature &s;hall be hewen down, and the
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haughty &s;hall be humbled, And he &s;hall cut down the thickets of the Forre&s;t with iron, and <HI>Lebanon</HI> &s;hall fall by a mighty one, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 10.</P>
<P>3 Behold, behold, I have told you.</P>
<P>Take it to heart, el&s;e you'l repent every veine of your heart.</P>
<P>For your own &s;akes take heed.</P>
<P>Its my la&s;t warning.</P>
<P>For the cryes of the poore, for the oppre&s;&s;ion of the needy. For the horrid in&s;olency of proud man, who will dare to &s;it in my throne, and judge unrighteous judgement.</P>
<P>Who will dare to touch mine Annoynted, and do my Pro|phets harme.</P>
<P>For the&s;e things &s;ake (now) am I arri&s;en, &s;aith the Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>In Auxilium Patris &finalpe;&kaf;</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>CHAP. V.</HEAD>
<P>1 O <HI>London, London,</HI> my bowels are rolled together (in me) for thee, and my compa&s;&s;ions within me, are kindled towards thee.</P>
<P>And now I onely tell thee, that it was not in vaine that this forme hath been brought &s;o farre to thee, to proclaime the day of the Lord throughout thy &s;treets, day and night, for twelve or thirteen dayes together.</P>
<P>And that I have been made &s;uch a &s;igne, and a wonder before many of thine Inhabitants faces.</P>
<P>2 Many of them (among other &s;trange exploits) beholding me, fall down flat at the feet of creeples, beggers, lazars, ki&s;&s;ing their feet, and re&s;igning up my money to them; being &s;everall times over-emptied of money, that I have not had one penny left, and yet have recruited againe&mdash;</P>
<P>3 And now my hearts! you have been forwardly in all the appearances of God,</P>
<P>There is a &s;trange one (now on foot) judge it not, lea&s;t you be judged with a vengeance.</P>
<P>4 Turne not away your eyes from it, lea&s;t you (to your tor|ment) heare this voyce&mdash;<HI>I was a Stranger, and ye tooke me not in.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="14" REF="12">Well! bow down before Eternall Maje&s;ty, who is univer&s;all love, bow down to equality, or free community, that no more of your blood be &s;plit; that pride, arrogance, covetuou&s;ne&s;&s;e, malice, hypocri&s;ie, &s;elf &s;eeking, &amp;c. may live no longer. El&s;e I tremble at whats comming upon you.</P>
<P>Remember you have been warned with a witne&s;&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER>Deare hearts Farewell.</CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VI.</HI> A terrible word, and fatall blow from the Lord, upon the ga|thered Churches (&s;o called) e&s;pecially upon tho&s;e that are &s;tiled Anabapti&s;ts.</HEAD>
<P>1. HE that hath an eare to heare, let him hear what the Spirit &s;aith again&s;t the Churches.</P>
<P>Thus &s;aith the Lord: Woe be to thee <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The hou&s;e of vanity.</NOTE> <HI>Bethaven,</HI> who calle&s;t) thy &s;elfe by the name <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The hou&s;e of God.</NOTE> <HI>Bethel,</HI> it &s;hall be more tollerable (now in the day of judgement, for <HI>Tyre</HI> and <HI>Sydon,</HI> for tho&s;e whom thou accounte&s;t, and calle&s;t Heathens, then for thee.</P>
<P>2 And thou proud <HI>Lu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ifer,</HI> who exalte&s;t thy &s;elf above all the Stars of God in heaven, &s;halt be brought down into hell; it &s;hall be more tollerable for <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah,</HI> for drunkards and whoremongers, then for thee. Publicans and Harlots &s;hall, Pub|licans and Harlots do &s;ooner enter into the Kingdome of heaven, then you.</P>
<P>I'le give thee this fatall blow, and leave thee.</P>
<P>3 Thou ha&s;t affronted, and defied the Almighty, more then the vile&s;t of men (upon the face of the earth) and that &s;o much the more, by how much the more thou take&s;t upon thee the name of Saint, and a&s;&s;ume&s;t it to thy &s;elf onely, damning all tho&s;e that are not of thy S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ct.</P>
<P>4 Wherefore be it knowne to all Tongues, Kinreds, Nations, and languages upon earth, That my mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, the King of glory, the Eternall God, who dwelleth in the forme of the Writer of this Roll (among many other &s;trange and great ex|ploits) hath i'th open &s;treets, with his hand fiercely &s;tretcht out, his hat cockt up, his eyes &s;et as if they would &s;parkle out; and with
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a mighty loud voyce charged 100. of Coaches, 100. of men and women of the greater ranke, and many notorious, deboi&s;t, &s;wea|ring, roy&s;tering roaring Cavalliers (&s;o called) and other wilde &s;parks of the Gentry: And have proclaimed the notable day of the Lord to them, and that through the &s;treets of the great Citie, and in Southwark; Many times great multitudes following him up and down, and this for the &s;pace of 12. or 13. dayes: And yet (all this while) not one of them lifting up one finger, not tou|ching one haire of his head, or laying one hand on his raiment.</P>
<P>But many, yea many notorious vile ones, in the e&s;teeme of men (yea of great quality among men) trembling and bowing to the God of heaven, &amp;c.</P>
<P>But when I came to proclaim (al&s;o) the great day of the Lord (among you) O ye carnall Go&s;pellers.</P>
<P>The Devill (in you) roared out, who was tormented to &s;ome purpo&s;e, though not before his time.</P>
<P>He there &s;hewed both his phangs and pawes, and would have torn me to pieces, and have eaten me up. Thy pride, envy, ma|lice, arrogance, &amp;c. was powred out like a river of Brim&s;tone, crying out, a Bla&s;phemer, a Bla&s;phemer, away with him: At length threatning me, and being at la&s;t raving mad, &s;ome tooke hold of my Cloak on one &s;ide, &s;ome on another, endeavouring to throw me from the place where I &s;tood (to proclaime his Maje|&s;ties me&s;&s;age) making a great uproar in a great congregation of people: Till at length I wrapt up my &s;elf in &s;ilence (for a &s;ea&s;on) for the welfavour'd harlots confu&s;ion, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And to thine eternall &s;hame and damnation (O mother of witchcrafts, who dwelle&s;t in gathered Churches) let this be told abroad: And let her FLESH be burnt with FIRE.</P>
<CLOSER>Amen, Halelujah.</CLOSER>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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