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<P>AGAINST BABYLON AND HER MERCHANTS IN ENGLAND, ONE GROAN MORE, From under the Altar, breathed forth from the grief of the Spirit, for the Sufferings of the Saints by rea&s;on of her cru|elties and Abominations, and the filthine&s;s of her Fornications.</P>
<P>Under the Burthen of God's wrath again&s;t the pre&s;ent <HI>Rulers, Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>People</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> that repent not, and give glory to God; that have drunk of her Cup, and Refu&s;e to come out of her at God's Call, but remain in the fal&s;e Church and Wor&s;hip &s;till, that's not taught by God's Spirit.</P>
<P>With a Warning to all &s;uch, that they prepare to meet the Lord in the Way of his Judgements; and as they have partaken with her in her &s;ins, that they expect al&s;o to partake of her plagues which are ready to be poured forth from the Lord God who is Mighty, that judgeth her, and will certainly a|venge the blood of the Martyrs on her; for <HI>Babylons <HI>De&s;tru|ction</HI></HI> is God's Determination in <HI>England</HI> and the World.</P>
<P>Behold your Day is pa&s;t, and the Night cometh, and God's ful|filling Day draweth nigh.</P>
<P>Therefore let all the Lord's People ha&s;ten out of <HI>Babylon,</HI> in which all men are that follow not the Light of the Lamb, that are not guided and led by the pre&s;ent Teachings of God's Spirit, and let them that are faithful in the Land, be faithful &s;til to follow the <HI>Lamb</HI> whither&s;oever he goes; for it's given to him and his Followers to overcome.</P>
<P>Written by one that travels in Spirit for <HI>Sions</HI> Deliverance, JOHN ANDERDON.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Robert Wil&s;on,</HI> in <HI>Martins</HI> near <HI>Alder&s;gate.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>To tho&s;e of the pre&s;ent RULERS PRIESTS and PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, That repent not, and give glory to God.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>Cain</HI> hath &s;lain his Brother <HI>Abel,</HI> becau&s;e he was more Righ|teous than him&s;elf: <HI>Therefore thus &s;aith the Lord.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>WO to that bloddy City,</HI> to that <HI>rebellious hou&s;e,</HI> who&s;e Tents are the coverings of Antichri&s;t, who&s;e deeds out-pa&s;s the deeds of the wicked, who&s;e habitations are the habitations of cruelty, which mur|ther the ju&s;t, and &s;hed the blood of the innocent, who&s;e ini|quities cover the earth, as the waters cover the &s;ea; who&s;e a|bominations are gone up to heaven, that the holy God of hea|ven and earth is provoked to anger again&s;t you; who yet &s;ay in your hearts, <HI>Is not our &s;trength great,</HI> &amp; <HI>is it not our right to Reign,</HI> &amp; <HI>is not this great Babel that we have built?</HI> wherein you in|tend to make you a name, that you may not be &s;cattered in the Earth, as a people driven out from the pre&s;ence of the Lord; &amp; the arm of fle&s;h is your confidence; as if the &s;trength of <HI>Sodom</HI> &amp; <HI>Egypt</HI> &s;hould keep you from the wrath of the God of <HI>I&s;ral,</HI> and that <HI>great Whore <HI>My&s;tery Babylon the Mother of Harlots,</HI></HI> that rides on <HI>the &s;carlet-coloured Bea&s;t,</HI> that decks her &s;elf <HI>with fine Linen, Purple and Silk,</HI> who&s;e Merchandize is <HI>on Gold</HI> and <HI>Silver,</HI> and <HI>precious Stones,</HI> on <HI>Wine,</HI> and <HI>Oyl,</HI> &amp; <HI>fine Flower,</HI> and <HI>Wheat,</HI> and <HI>Bea&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>Sheep,</HI> and <HI>Hor&s;es,</HI> and <HI>Bodies,</HI> and
<PB N="4" REF="3"><HI>Souls of men,</HI> who hath drunk <HI>the blood of the Saints,</HI> now &s;aith in her heart, <HI>Am not I a Queen, and &s;hall &s;ee no &s;orrow?</HI> And her <HI>Merchants</HI> and <HI>Trade&s;men</HI> of all &s;orts, ranks and orders, cry aloud, <HI>Great is Diana of the Ephe&s;ians,</HI> becau&s;e of their crafts which brings them their Gain from their Quarters; her Pro|phets <HI>prophe&s;ie fal&s;ly,</HI> her Prie&s;ts <HI>bear rule by their means,</HI> and the people <HI>love to have it &s;o;</HI> who &s;ay unto them that de&s;pi&s;e the Lord, <HI>ye &s;hall have peace;</HI> and to them that walk after the ima|gination of their own hearts, <HI>none evil &s;hall come upon them;</HI> &s;o that they are Prophets of lyes, deceit and fal&s;hood, that &s;ay, <HI>the wicked &s;hall pro&s;per:</HI> And a horrible thing is committed in the Land, the whole head is &s;ick, the whole heart is &s;aint, that from the &s;ole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no &s;ound|neis in you, but full of wounds and putrifying &s;ores, full of cor|ruption, which &s;tink in the no&s;trils of our God; yea, and your wayes are become wholly corrupt and abominable before the Lord; &s;o that <HI>Mercy</HI> and <HI>Truth, Righteon&s;ne&s;s</HI> and <HI>true Iudg|ment</HI> are not found <HI>among&s;t you;</HI> but <HI>Cruelty</HI> and <HI>Oppre&s;sion</HI> lodgeth within you; <HI>for by <HI>Swearing,</HI> and <HI>Lying,</HI> and <HI>Killing,</HI> ye break out, and <HI>Blood</HI> toucheth <HI>Blood:</HI></HI> So that the Lord God is come down, and will &s;urely vi&s;it for the&s;e things; he hath taken view of all your actions and evil deeds done under the Sun, which grieve his Spirit all the day long, that his Soul is weary to bear your abominations, which are great in the Land for ye have not done the thing that is right in the &s;ight of the Lord, but have provoked him more than any that have gone before you, having again &s;et up the abominable thing in the Land which maketh de&s;olate, and have not regarded the Coun&s;el of the Lord, to walk in his ways, and to bring forth Righteou&s;ne&s;s and Truth in the Earth, which the Lord expects; that Chri&s;t's Kingdome might be known among&s;t the &s;ons of men, who&s;e right it is to Reign, who is <HI>King</HI> of <HI>Kings,</HI> and <HI>Lord</HI> of <HI>Lords.</HI></P>
<P>But you would not have this man to Rule over you; but have gone a whoring after the gods of the Heathen in fal&s;e ways and wor&s;hips, after the corrupt lu&s;ts and wicked imaginations of your own hearts; ye have &s;tumbled al&s;o at that &s;tumbling-&s;tone and Rock of offence, <HI>CHRIST JESUS</HI> the Light of the world, and the onely way to the Father, upon which many have
<PB N="5" REF="3">fallen and are broken; And what think ye, that they on whom the Tower in <HI>Siloe</HI> fell, were greater &s;inners than any that dwelt at <HI>Jeru&s;alem?</HI> Nay verily, ye al&s;o that repent not &s;hall know, that it &s;hall be more tollerable for <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah</HI> in the day of God's Judgments <HI>than for you,</HI> who have had &s;o much &amp; large experience of the Lords wayes &amp; dealings towards you and the people of the&s;e Nations, of what the Lord required at your hands in the day of your vi&s;itation, which ye have not regarded, but have ca&s;t the Lord's Coun&s;el behind your backs, and would not come to him who is the <HI>New</HI> and <HI>living Way;</HI> the <HI>Truth</HI> and the <HI>Life; <HI>CHRIST JESUS the Light of the World,</HI></HI> the <HI>rightful King</HI> and <HI>Law-giver</HI> of Nations, that ye might in him have found peace and re&s;t in the Land of your Nativity; that ye might have eaten the good of the Land, and pro&s;pered as the glory of Nations; but ye have revolted and rebelled again&s;t the God of Heaven yet more and more; and though he hath &s;mitten you, ye have not regarded, but have forgotten him dayes without number; and though he hath wai|ted long al&s;o to be gracious unto you, to have gathered you, but ye would not, but are gone back again into <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Aegypt,</HI> into your <HI>bad old wayes</HI> of <HI>Sin</HI> and <HI>Inijuity, Super&s;tition</HI> and <HI>Vanity, <HI>in the lu&s;ts</HI> of the fle&s;h, <HI>the lu&s;t</HI> of the eye,</HI> and <HI>pride <HI>of life;</HI></HI> that your wickedne&s;s and abominations are abounding in the Land more than ever; as if ye had &s;aid in your hearts, <HI>that God &s;ees you not, and that the Lord hath for&s;aken the Earth,</HI> becau&s;e his Judgements are not &s;peedily executed upon &s;uch evil-doers as the&s;e are, that &s;it down to eat and drink, and ri&s;e up to play, and commit Whoredoms, and &s;ay, <HI>To morrow &s;hall be as this day, and much more abundant;</HI> as if your <HI>Return,</HI> and all the <HI>&s;trange Acts</HI> and <HI>Works</HI> of <HI>Wonder</HI> which the Lord hath wrought and brought to pa&s;s in this Nation, were even to this very end, that you might live <HI>at ea&s;e</HI> in <HI>the fle&s;h</HI> in your <HI>plea&s;ures, pride</HI> and <HI>vanities,</HI> and in <HI>cruelties</HI> and <HI>oppre&s;&s;ions,</HI> to triumph o|ver the ju&s;t on your old dregs and lees of corruption, &s;ettled as if ye could not be moved.</P>
<P>But <HI>blindne&s;s</HI> and <HI>&s;ecurity</HI> in judgement is happened <HI>unto you,</HI> that ye having eyes <HI>might not &s;ee,</HI> and hearts, and <HI>might not per|ceive</HI> that the Lord God Omnipotent ruleth &amp; reigneth in the
<PB N="6" REF="4">Kingdoms of men, and giveth them unto whom&s;oever he will; that in the Clouds he is come to Judgement, yea and he will ari&s;e and plead the cau&s;e of the innocent, and by no means acquit the guilty: He will make Inqui&s;ition for the blood of the &s;lain, and certainly avenge the blood of the Righteous, which cries loud from the Earth for vengeance upon <HI>Cain</HI> that hath &s;lain his Brother, and his cruelty &s;hall not pa&s;s unpuni&s;hed; but he that hath done this wickedne&s;s in the Land, with God's Mark is he marked, and &s;hall become a <HI>Fugitive</HI> and <HI>Vagabond</HI> in the Earth, and &s;hall &s;eek to hide him&s;elf from the avenger of blood, but &s;in &s;hall lie at his door, and God's Righteous Judgements &s;hall overtake him where&s;oever he flies, becau&s;e of his Brothers innocent blood, that cea&s;eth not to cry day and night for Ju&s;tice to be done upon the Murderer, that hath &s;lain the Ju&s;t; yea, and God &s;hall multiply his Plagues and Judgements upon them that have &s;hed Innocent Blood in the Land, and no coverings &s;hall hide them from the fiercene&s;s of Gods Wrath; neither &s;hall the City that <HI>Gain</HI> hath built with Blood, nor the Tow|ers of <HI>Babel,</HI> though never &s;o lofty, be able to &s;helter the wick|ed from the terrible &s;troke of Gods anger &amp; ju&s;t Judgments, which ha&s;ten to be accompli&s;hed in this Nation; for they are a Rebellious and Gain-&s;aying people, with whom the Love and Mercies, the Patience and Long-&s;uffering of our God prevails not: But ye have hardned your Hearts, and &s;tiffned your necks even for a Day of &s;laughter, that the Lord is wea|ry to bear your Iniquities, and to &s;uffer with your &s;ins any longer: And therefore hath determined to cut &s;hort the work in Righteou&s;ne&s;s for the Elects &s;ake, who are made as the dung of the Earth, and off-&s;couring of all things; but <HI>the meek of the Earth the Lord <HI>wiil exalt,</HI></HI> and the <HI>high and lofty ones <HI>he will bring down from their Seats,</HI></HI> the wicked will he &s;catter in their imaginations. And all your <HI>Carnal Confidences</HI> &s;hall fail you in the day of <HI>great di&s;tre&s;s, perplexity</HI> and <HI>angui&s;h</HI> that's coming upon every &s;oul that obeys not the Light, the Go|&s;pel of God, by which ye might have been gathered, and &s;o have been honourable by doing the Lord &s;ervice in the day of his love to you, if ye had known and con&s;idered the things that belongs to your peace, and the Kingdoms happine&s;s.</P>
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<P>But now <HI>the Day</HI> is gone over <HI>your heads,</HI> your <HI>Time</HI> is pa&s;t, your <HI>Glory</HI> &s;hall be turned <HI>into &s;hame,</HI> your Sun &s;hall &s;et at <HI>noon-day,</HI> and the night is come <HI>upon you,</HI> that ye &s;hall not &s;ee to work any more for the Lord, but &s;hall grope in the dark to fulfil the mea&s;ures of your Iniquities, and trea&s;ure up wrath again&s;t the Day of Wrath, and Revelation of Gods ju&s;t Judgements, until the overflowing Scourge of De&s;tructi|on come upon you, for the Abominations that are gone forth into all the Land; And who is there among&s;t all the Lords Servants in the Land, that &s;hall &s;ay, <HI>Lord &s;pare them?</HI> again&s;t whom <HI>God's wrath is kindled,</HI> and upon whom he purpo&s;eth to <HI>pour out <HI>the Vials</HI> of his &s;ore di&s;plea&s;ure;</HI> becau&s;e they have re|jected his Son from being their King and Lawgiver in the&s;e Nations, unto whom all Principalities and Powers mu&s;t bow; who&s;e Scepter is a Scepter of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, in which the e&s;tabli&s;hment of God's Government is for ever. And whither think ye to flye? And what think ye to do in the Day of your Calamity, who are covered over with the Tents of the Wicked, with Sin and Iniquity as with a Garment, in that day when the Lord &s;hall &s;trip off all fal&s;e Coverings, and &s;earch and try you to the uttermo&s;t of his Judgements? That as God's Patience and Long-Suffering hath appeared more abundant to you than others, &s;o &s;hall his Judgements and Execution of his fierce Wrath be more &s;wift and &s;udden upon: And as <HI>your Return <HI>hath been more wonderful in the eyes of the Nations,</HI></HI> than tho&s;e No|ble Acts the Lord hath done before in the Land; by &s;o much the greater <HI>A&s;toni&s;hment</HI> and <HI>Iudgements, Terror</HI> and <HI>A|mazement <HI>&s;hall you be &s;mitten;</HI></HI> Yea, and the nearer <HI>I&s;rael's</HI> deliverance out of Bondage is at hand, &s;o &s;hall <HI>the Plagues</HI> of <HI>Aegypt</HI> encrea&s;e <HI>upon Pharoah</HI> and his <HI>Ho&s;t,</HI> who will not let <HI>I&s;rael</HI> go to &s;erve the Living God. And the <HI>Nations</HI> &s;hall know that our God <HI>is the God of Abraham,</HI> the God of <HI>I|&s;aac,</HI> and the God of <HI>Jacob,</HI> which worketh Wonders in the deep, and maketh War with <HI>Amaleck</HI> from Generation to Generation; and who &s;hal pro&s;per that is again&s;t the Lord and his annointed ones, the cho&s;en <HI>Generation</HI> that are <HI>ble&s;&s;ed with God's pre&s;ence?</HI> And who is there among&s;t all the mighty Ho&s;t
<PB N="8" REF="5">of the Uncircumci&s;ed, that &s;hal lift a hand <HI>again&s;t the Sword of the Lord, and of Gideon, and pro&s;per? <HI>for it's God's determina|tion that Chri&s;ts Government in Righteou&s;ne&s;s and Truth &s;hall be e&s;tabli&s;ted in this Nation;</HI></HI> And ble&s;&s;ed are that remnant that know it &amp; are made &s;ubjects thereof, though all the World band again&s;t them, yet the faithful followers of the Lamb &s;hall prevail and raign with him <HI>on Mount Ston</HI> for <HI>ever</HI> and <HI>ever;</HI> for God <HI>hath ble&s;t them,</HI> and who <HI>&s;hall cur&s;e them?</HI> And they that have been <HI>the envy of Nations</HI> in God's work, &s;hall be <HI>the Glory of Kingdoms;</HI> and they that have been <HI>as it were not a People,</HI> &s;hal become <HI>a great and mighty Nation,</HI> as they are Cho&s;en, Faithful and True in the Lambs War of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, in which Victo|ry and Dominion over all &s;hal &s;tand for ever, <HI>without <HI>Sword</HI></HI> or <HI>Spear;</HI> for the Lord God wil work wonders in the Earth, and accompli&s;h his great work in this the day of his Power; the which ye will not believe, though a man declare it unto you: Behold therefore <HI>ye De&s;pi&s;ers</HI> and <HI>&s;oonder,</HI> when the day of Your mi&s;ery cometh upon You as a Thief in the Night, when there &s;hal be none to deliver You, though you then cry <HI>to the Rocks</HI> and to the <HI>Mountains</HI> to fall upon You, and cover You from the wrath of the Lamb, who mu&s;t reign until all his Ene|mies are &s;ubdued, and who &s;hal with&s;tand his Spirit, or re&s;i&s;t his Power, that he &s;hould not ride on <HI>Conquering,</HI> and to <HI>Conquer,</HI> until he hath accompli&s;hed God's great work of Salvation in the Earth? In which <HI>Reformation, Liverty</HI> and <HI>Freedom</HI> to the <HI>Sons</HI> and <HI>Daughters</HI> of <HI>Sion,</HI> is known, and perfect Peace and E|&s;tabli&s;hment in God's Covenant of Light and Life witne&s;&s;ed; a|gain&s;t which the Gates of Death and Hell &s;hal not prevail; Though the people rage, and the Heathen imagine mi&s;chief in their hearts, <HI>Yet the Lords work &s;hall go on and pro&s;per in the Land, to the &s;hame and confu&s;ion of all the oppo&s;ers thereof,</HI> who take not warning by the downfal of others that have gone before them. But here is our Rock that &s;plits all the Powers of the Earth, even that Rock of Ages, of which <HI>I&s;rael</HI> drank in the Wilder|ne&s;s, out of which flows the Waters of Life for ever: But ye have hewen out unto your &s;elves broken Cy&s;terns that will hold no water, and will not come to the Lord the Leader of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and Fountain of Living Waters, that your Souls might live; So that <HI>Your Rock</HI> is not as <HI>Our Rock.</HI></P>
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<P>The Lord hath often <HI>Declared</HI> and <HI>Proclaimed <HI>Repentance</HI></HI> to the <HI>Rulers, Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>People</HI> of this Nation, from time to time, by his Servants the Prophets that have been &s;ent forth in the Power of his Spirit, and that he expects a Wor&s;hip in Spirit and Truth (and a Government in Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e) in this Na|tion to be e&s;tabli&s;hed in his own way; <HI>No longer in the oldne&s;&s;e of the Letter, but in the newne&s;s of the Spirit;</HI> and that he re|quires &s;uch to wor&s;hip him, and that he will no longer be &s;erved with the abominations of the Aegyptians, which &s;it in Dark|ne&s;s &amp; under the Power of Death, and come not to the Light of Life in which God is well plea&s;ed; but this Seed of the King|dom that's likened to a Grain of Mu&s;tard-&s;eed, is that which all the wi&s;e Builders in the worlds wi&s;dom have &s;tumbled at, and re|jected as a thing <HI>Common</HI> and <HI>Unclean,</HI> and too <HI>mean</HI> and <HI>foolish</HI> for them to take Coun&s;el of; and &s;o all their wi&s;dom hath been confounded and turned into fooli&s;hne&s;s, becau&s;e they would not become fools, that they might be wi&s;e in the way of Gods Salva|tion; for it is a Righteous thing with the Lord, to &s;tain the Glo|ry of all fle&s;h that hath been exalted above his Fear in the Earth, and that that which hath boa&s;ted and gloried above the Cro&s;s of Chri&s;t, &s;hould now be aba&s;ed and a&s;hamed, yea and &s;hame &s;hall cover the Faces of the Wicked, and all <HI>Vizards</HI> &s;hall be taken off <HI>from all Faces,</HI> and every man &s;hall appear <HI>to be as he is</HI> in the Day of the Lords Search in the Land; and all <HI>the deceitful Coverings of Antichri&s;t,</HI> &s;tollen from the words of the Prophets, of Chri&s;t and the Apo&s;tles (without the Life and Power of God in Chri&s;t Je&s;us) &s;hall be &s;tript off, and found too narrow to hide from Gods wrath, as the&s;e that have gone be|fore you, and exceeded you therein, finds true by &s;ad experience, that its not <HI>Words</HI> and <HI>Pretences,</HI> but <HI>Truth</HI> and <HI>Righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, <HI>(the Coverings of Gods Spirit) that &s;aves and delivers a Peo|ple in the time of Straits and Di&s;tre&s;&s;e of Nations.</HI></HI></P>
<P>And though you or others could now after &s;o many Years ex|perience, beget a <HI>Reformation</HI> and <HI>Wor&s;hip</HI> (of which there is little Hopes and le&s;s appearance) that you could make your I|mage &s;peak, even with the Tongue of Men and Angels, and come not into the right Spirit, to know the Voice of the True Shepheard Chri&s;t in you, all your <HI>Labours, Services</HI> and <HI>Per|formances</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="6">of VVor&s;hip (as you may call it) would be no better than the cutting off a Dogs Neck, or offering of Swines Blood, which is altogether abominable in the &s;ight of the Lord: For men have &s;o long talked in words of Religion, Righteous Laws and Ju&s;t Government to be &s;et up and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that the Lords Spirit hath been long grieved therewith, and he hath ca&s;t them out as unprofitable Servants, becau&s;e they came not to the Light, to Gods Righteous VVitne&s;&s;e and Principle <HI>in them|&s;elves,</HI> which teacheth men <HI>to do <HI>Iu&s;tly,</HI> to love <HI>Mercy,</HI> and to walk <HI>Humbly</HI> with their God;</HI> for Gods Government is a Righ|teous Government, and its laid on Chri&s;t; And can men rea&s;o|nably expect, that Mini&s;ters of unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, and Servants of &s;in and Satan, &s;hould &s;et up a Righteous Government for God, as they &s;tand in that Ground and Nature which is condemn|ed by Gods Righteous Laws forever? Can he that is not Born of God, do the Will or VVork of God to his Prai&s;e? Or can any evil Tree bring forth good Fruit? no not one.</P>
<P>It's high time for men (if ever they will) come to the Light, to the Root and Ground of things in them&s;elves that is good, that they may know of what Spirit they are of; for mo&s;t men in this Nation will confe&s;s (I believe) that there is a Spi|rit of Truth which doth the VVill of God, and there is a Spirit of error which is of the Devil, and again&s;t God in the VVorld; Now that Spirit (as the Scriptures te&s;tifie) that confe&s;&s;eth that Chri&s;t is come in the fle&s;h, is true, which is the Power of God that de&s;troys the works of the Devil in the Creature, in the Root and Ground that is evil, from whence all wickedne&s;&s;e proceeds, even out of the heart of man where Satans &s;eat hath been; And &s;o this &s;ame Spirit that reproves the world of &s;in, and condemns &s;in in the fle&s;h, leads us and tho&s;e that follow it, out of &s;in and tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, and mortifies lu&s;t in the Root, and leads us into all Truth, <HI>and teacheth us to deny ungod&s;ine&s;&s;e and Worldly La&s;ts, and to walk Righteou&s;ly, Soberly and Godly in this pre&s;ent World, no longer in the oldne&s;&s;e of the Letter, but in the newne&s;&s;e of the Spirit,</HI> according to the Rule of the new Creature, <HI>Chri&s;t in us the hope of Glory,</HI> Which changeth and reviveth us in the Spirits of our Minds, whereby we are inabled unto every good word and work, according to the mea&s;ure of his eternal Spirit working in us, in
<PB N="11" REF="6">which we are taught to deny our own wills, <HI>and to do Gods will in Earth as it is in Heaven;</HI> the enmity in the carnal Mind, being de&s;troyed by the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, which is the Power of God unto Salvation, unto all them that believe; From which all peo|ple and Nations that turn away, they crucifie Chri&s;t, and do but ca&s;t lots about his Ve&s;tment, and retain at the utmo&s;t, <HI>but a form of godline&s;&s;e</HI> without <HI>the Power;</HI> and &s;o wor&s;hip a God in their imaginations ignorantly, and come not to witne&s;s and feel the VVord of Life in them&s;elves, which begets the Creature again into the likene&s;s of Gods Image, by de&s;troying and ca&s;ting out that which is begotten in man by the Seed of the Serpent, which is Gods and the Creatures enemy. And &s;o as the enmity is de&s;troyed in the Root and Ground, and the cau&s;e of Seperati|on from God done away, &s;o the word of Reconciliation comes to be known and witne&s;&s;ed; for there cannot be Peace and Re|conciliation with God, &s;o long as that &s;tands, even Sin and Ini|quity which Separates from God, again&s;t which his wrath is for ever; and there can be no <HI>Communion</HI> between <HI>Light</HI> and <HI>Dark|ne&s;s,</HI> no <HI>Fellow&s;hip</HI> between <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> and <HI>Belial, <HI>for he that is joyned to an Harlot, is one with the Harlot, and he that is joyned to the Lord, is one Spirit, unto which no unclean thing can be joyned;</HI></HI> Therefore he that will be joyned to the <HI>Lord,</HI> and know his Maker to be his Husband, mu&s;t fir&s;t know a Separation <HI>from &s;in</HI> and <HI>Satan,</HI> by the VVord of God <HI>which puri&s;ieth the Heart, and clean&s;eth us from all filthine&s;&s;e of Fle&s;h and Spirit;</HI> And this is the Blood of &s;prinkling which clean&s;eth the con&s;cience, the Life of Chri&s;t made manife&s;t in us, in the mea&s;ure of his Eternal Spirit given every one to profit withall, in which we come to know the Father and the Son, whom to know is eternal Life, without which in the pre&s;ence of the Lord, all people and Profe&s;&s;|ons are yet dead in &s;ins and tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, and not come again out of the fall into Gods Creation which is ble&s;&s;ed, but remains un|der the Cur&s;e, Enemies in their minds to God and Chri&s;t, by rea&s;on of wicked works.</P>
<P>And as the Spirit of Truth draws the mind <HI>to within,</HI> to the knowledge of God <HI>in the heart,</HI> and worketh contrary to the will of man; &s;o the Spirit of Antichri&s;t worketh with the will of man contrary to the Will of God in all things, and draws the
<PB N="12" REF="7">mind <HI>forth into Airy conceptions, into vain Notions</HI> and <HI>Imagina|tions,</HI> of wor&s;hipping an unknown God afar off; and he that is led by this &s;pirit &s;eeks &s;elf in all things, <HI>honour</HI> and <HI>prai&s;e</HI> of men; delights to live in words, in the talk of Gods Work, Kingdom and Glory to come, and cannot endure to &s;it &s;till to wait to feel the pre&s;ent work of Gods Power, and Enjoyment of Gods pre|&s;ence within; for that de&s;troys the Devils kingdom, root and branch; for if lu&s;t by Gods Power be mortified in the heart be|fore &s;in be conceived there, from whence &s;hall it be brought forth? <HI>For out of the heart proceeds Hatred, Malice, Murthers, Adulteries, Fornications, and all manner of &s;in and uncleanne&s;s;</HI> So that there can be no hopes of better fruits, until the Tree be changed, until a new heart be known, wherein the Righteous Law of God is written, and the Light &s;hineth; that &s;o out of a good heart, the good Trea&s;ures of life may flow forth, and fruit to the prai&s;e of God brought forth: And he is true in|deed, that &s;eeks not his own, but the glory of him that &s;ent him, which is Chri&s;ts work for ever, who is &s;ent of the Father to do his Will <HI>in us,</HI> and we <HI>in him,</HI> according to the mea&s;ure and operation of his Spirit in us, which worketh both to will and do according to his good plea&s;ure; in which as we wait and abide we are ble&s;&s;ed for ever, and the body is kept in unity, and every member in its proper place and office, which is the Order of Saints, and Government of the Church in God, in which is peace and &s;afety.</P>
<P>And now ye <HI>Wi&s;e Men, Rulers, Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>People <HI>of Eng|land,</HI></HI> who will not be in&s;tructed by Gods Spirit, that ye might learn Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and live: All ye that refu&s;e to come out of <HI>Babylon</HI> at Gods Call, that reject the Light of the Lamb, in which the Nations of all them that are &s;aved mu&s;t walk; ye that will not cea&s;e to do evil and learn to do well, that will not break the bonds of the Oppre&s;&s;or, and let the Oppre&s;&s;ed go free, but daily adde &s;orrow to the afflicted, and grieve the upright in heart in the Land; who&s;e fear towards God is not taught them by the precepts of men, whom the Lord regards and tenders as the Apple of his Eye, who have eaten his Pa&s;&s;eover with bitter herbs, and the Lord will &s;pare them as his choi&s;e Jewels in the day of his fierce wrath upon the wicked; after &s;o many years
<PB N="13" REF="7">experience of the grace, favour, patience, long-&s;uffering and goodne&s;s of our God, which &s;hould have led you to repentance, if you had obeyed Gods Voice, and followed his Coun&s;el; What have you now to plead for your &s;elves before the Lord, who&s;e wrath is turned again&s;t you, and the Te&s;timony of a good Con&s;cience ye have not, and who &s;hall plead for you? And what may be &s;aid on your behalf, that have neglected &s;o great Salvation, and kept Chri&s;t Je&s;us &s;o long out of his Right and Kingdom; Why the Lord God who&s;e wayes are equal and ju&s;t, &s;hould not ari&s;e in his fierce wrath, and in his hot di&s;plea&s;ure &s;weep you away with the be&s;om of de&s;truction, and give you your portion in that lake that burns with fire and brim&s;tone; and as ye have drunk of the VVhores Cup which hath made all Nations drunk with the VVine of her fornications; and as ye have partaken with her in her &s;ins, why ye &s;hould not according to Gods Righteous Decree and Judgement, partake of her plagues: Con&s;ider the&s;e things, and &s;hew a rea&s;on if you can? and who &s;hall deliver you in the day of her judgements, from her plagues and torments which ha&s;ten, and in one day &s;hall come upon her? And the Spirit &s;aith, <HI>Spare her not, but give her blood to drink, yea, fill to her double according to the mea|&s;ure of her abominations, for &s;he hath drunk the blood of the Saints, and is worthy to drink the Cup of the Wine of Gods fierce wrath and indignation, without mixture;</HI> And in the hour of her torments, when the <HI>Ten Horns,</HI> the Executioners of Gods vengeance on her, &s;hall &s;trip her <HI>naked</HI> and make her <HI>de&s;o|late,</HI> and &s;hall <HI>eat her fle&s;h,</HI> and <HI>burn her with fire,</HI> who among&s;t all the Lords people in the Land &s;hall pitty her or plead for her? But rejoice over her to &s;ee the &s;moak of her burnings, and give Prai&s;e, Honour and Glory to the Lord God Almighty, who&s;e Judgements are Righteous and True, for that he hath avenged on her the blood of the Saints their fellow Servants, that have &s;uffered and been &s;lain for the Te&s;timony of Je&s;us; yea, and my &s;pirit &s;aith, <HI>Come Lord Ie&s;us, come quickly, <HI>and give her the Cup of the Fathers fierce wrath to drink, for &s;he hath corrupted the whole Earth with her fornications.</HI></HI></P>
<P>And now thus have I written, that all the Lords People may ha&s;ten to come out of <HI>Babylon,</HI> and drink no more of her Cup;
<PB N="14" REF="8">and that all that remain in her, may expect to partake of her Plagues: And let all the faithful in the Land be faithful and watchful &s;till, that a &s;pirit of &s;ecurity and drow&s;ine&s;s, which is the &s;hadow of death, come not over them while <HI>Judas</HI> the Tray|tor &s;ells his Ma&s;ter, and betrayes the Son of man into the hands of &s;inners. But I &s;ay, <HI>watch</HI> and <HI>pray,</HI> and keep to the VVord of Gods Patience, that ye may be all kept in the hour of temp|tation and tryal that's coming upon all fle&s;h; for wickedne&s;s a|bounds, <HI>and the flood is nigh;</HI> I &s;ay, be faithful unto death, and ye &s;hall have a Crown of life; and account your lives of no value, that Gods glory may be made known among&s;t the &s;ons of men; and quit your &s;elves like men, and faithful followers of the Lamb whither&s;oever he goes, to whom its given to overcome, and ye &s;hall be ble&s;&s;ed for ever, and more than Conquerours, through him who is the Captain of our Salvation, in whom we are the called of the Lord in Truth and Righteou&s;ne&s;s, the re|deemed Ones of the Earth, that &s;hall reign with our King on Mount <HI>Sion</HI> for ever and ever; where Salvation is for VValls and for Bulwarks, into which the enemy cannot enter, but is &s;hut out into utter darkne&s;s, where is weeping and wailing, and gna&s;h|ing of teeth, torments day and night, in that lake that burns with fire and brim&s;tone, where the worm dyes not, and the fire is not quenched, in which the wicked and ungodly &s;hall live for ever, which is the &s;econd death.</P>
<P><HI>Prepare therefore ye People of England, to meet the Lord in the way of his Iudgements,</HI> for his <HI>mercies</HI> prevail not with you, and your iniquities are almo&s;t full; therefore the Lord hath a ju&s;t Controver&s;ie with the Inhabitants of the Land, and will plead with all fle&s;h touching his heritage; for with much Patience and Long-&s;uffering hath he tryed you all, and given you a Day and Time to Repent and Return, that ye might have brought your deeds to the Light, and the Tran&s;gre&s;&s;or to judge|ment in your &s;elves, where Satans &s;eat is, and &s;o have e&s;caped the wrath to come; but ye would not, but have cho&s;en dark|ne&s;s rather than light, becau&s;e your deeds are evil; &s;o that ye &s;it down in confu&s;ion in <HI>Babylon</HI> that's for de&s;truction, and reject the in&s;tructions of Gods Spirit that hath called you, and would have brought you out of her; And what can ye there ex|pect
<PB N="15" REF="8">in her, but to fall &amp; peri&s;h together with her, who&s;e <HI>Downfal</HI> certainly draweth nigh in this Nation of <HI>England</HI> fir&s;t the figure of Nations; for the Saints &s;ufferings are daily encrea&s;ed (as the Goals bear witne&s;s, &amp; their manifold other grievances and cruel oppre&s;&s;ions in the land) by her Sorceries, Whoredoms and Abomi|nations; and the Lords Spirit is grieved, which &s;hall &s;ink her down, even to the nethermo&s;t Hell, as a Mil&s;tone with violence by Gods Power ca&s;t into the bottom of the Sea, that &s;hall never ri&s;e again: Let him &s;ee that can &s;ee, and read what the Lord is doing in <HI>England,</HI> as the fir&s;t of the Nations in the Earth, where|in the wonderful works of the Lord declare them&s;elves in the Revelation of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, in this the Day of his Power; and let him that e&s;capes the Judgements of <HI>the fir&s;t Woe,</HI> repent and give glory to God before <HI>the &s;econd Woe come:</HI> Amen, Hallelujah.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>The 5th of the 9th Month,</HI> 1660.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>JOHN ANDERDON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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