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<P>A LOVING SALUTATION</P>
<P>To The &s;eed of <HI>Abraham</HI> among the <HI>Jewes:</HI> where ever they are &s;cattered up and down upon the face of the earth. And to the &s;eed of <HI>Abraham</HI> among all people upon the face of the earth; which are all out of the way: wandering up and downe from Mountaine to hill, &s;eeking re&s;t and finding none.</P>
<P>And The way of truth opened to them, which is the way of holine&s;&s;e which all that comes to be made alive unto God mu&s;t walke in, where the uncleane cannot pa&s;&s;e, but is for the ran&s;omed and redeemed to returne to <HI>Zion.</HI></P>
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<Q><HI>Saith the Lord thy Redeemer, the holy one of</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth the by the way that thou &s;houlde&s;t goe,</HI> <BIBL>I&s;a. <HI>48.17.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q><HI>As many were a&s;toni&s;hed at thee, his vi&s;age was &s;o marred more then any man, and his forme more than the Sons of men; &s;o &s;hall he &s;prinkle many Nations. The Kings &s;hall &s;hut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them &s;hall they &s;ee, &amp; that which they had not heard &s;hall they con&s;ider,</HI> <BIBL>I&s;a. <HI>52.14.15.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q><HI>In the la&s;t dayes it &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e, that the Mountaine of the Lords hou&s;e &s;hall be e&s;tabli&s;hed in the top of the Mountaines, and it &s;hall be exalted above the hills, and people &s;hall flow unto it: And many Nations &s;hall &s;ay, Come, let us go up to the Mountain of the Lords, and to the hou&s;e of the God of</HI> Jacob&punc; <HI>and he will teach us of his wayes, and we will walke in his pathes; for the Law &s;hall goe forth of</HI> Z<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">on, <HI>and the word of the Lord from</HI> Jeru&s;alem.
<BIBL>Mal. <HI>4. and</HI> I&s;a. <HI>2.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<HEAD>A <HI>Loving Salutation, To the &s;eed of Abraham among the Jewes; where ever they are &s;cat|tered up and down upon the face of the Earth. And to the &s;eed of Abraham among all people upon the face of the Earth; which are all out of the way: wandering up and down from Mountaine to hill, &s;eeking rest but finding none.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_DAVID</HI> &s;aith, <HI>The foole hath &s;aid in his heart, there is no God;</HI> They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doth good; and the Lord looked down from Hea|ven upon the Children of men, to &s;ee if there were any that did under&s;tand,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 14. and 53.</NOTE> and &s;eek God; and they were all g ne a&s;ide, they are altogether become fil|thy, there is none that doth good, no not one. Here you may &s;ee and read your &s;elves where you are, who are out of the way of peace, and the way of truth, and the life.</P>
<P>Now this is unto you all, who are out of the light, from the &s;eed which hath obtained the promi&s;e, that ye may come to partake of the &s;ame, and be brought to the fold where there is one Shepheard, and one &s;heepfold, where the promi&s;e of the Lord is fulfilled, who hath &s;aid; It is a light thing that thou mighte&s;t be my &s;ervant to rai&s;e up the tribes of <HI>Jacob,</HI> and to re&s;tore the pre&s;erved of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> I will al&s;o give thee for a light to the <HI>Gentiles,</HI> that thou maye&s;t be my &s;alvation unto the ends of the Earth. Thus &s;aith the Lord the Redeemer of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and his holy one, to him whom man de&s;pi&s;eth, to him whom the Nation abhorreth, to a &s;ervant of rulers: Kings &s;hall &s;ee and
<PB N="2" REF="3">ari&s;e, Princes al&s;o &s;hall wor&s;hip, becau&s;e the Lord is faithfull, and the holy one of <HI>I&s;rael.</HI> In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of &s;alvation have I helped thee, and I will pre&s;erve thee,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 39.</NOTE> and give thee for a Covenant of the people, to e&s;tabli&s;h the earth, to cau&s;e to inherit the de&s;olate heritages, that thou maye&s;t &s;ay to the pri&s;oner, goe forth, and to them that are in darkne&s;&s;e, &s;hew your &s;elves, they &s;hall feed in the wayes, and their pa&s;tures &s;hall be in the high places: So here is your mercy offered freely unto you, and the good will of him that dwelt in the bu&s;h, and there is no God be&s;ides him, neither &s;hall ye find &s;alvation in any other; By the hand of the mighty God is <HI>Iacob</HI> and <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> made &s;trong, from thence is the Shepheard, the &s;tone of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and the precious things &s;prings from him, who is <HI>Davids</HI> root. Therefore come, Oye hou&s;e of <HI>Iacob,</HI> and let us walke in the light of the Lord. This is the day of your vi&s;itation, Therefore &s;eeke the Lord while he may be found, call upon him, while he is neare; let the wicked for&s;ake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and &s;leight not the mercies of the Lord, and his gracious vi&s;i|tation unto you; for he hath brought &s;alvation neare, and his Covenant is he performing with you; If you doe turne to that mea&s;ure of light which you have received from him, who is the light of <HI>I&s;rael;</HI> The Covenant of the Lord is given for a light to open blind eyes, which brings &s;alvation to the ends of the earth; which light lets you &s;ee the thoughts of your hearts, that they are vaine, which light lets you &s;ee when you doe a|mi&s;&s;e, when you beare fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e, when you tell a lye, when ye doe wrong to any man: which light will lead you unto Ju&s;tice and equity, which light will teach you to fulfill the law of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and to doe to all men as ye would they &s;hould doe to you, which light will lead you unto righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, by which ye may fulfill, and an&s;wer to the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the Law, and &s;tatutes, and commandements of God, which ye can never doe, your mindes being from the light.</P>
<P>Therefore in the feare of the Lord God, turne your minds to within, where the light &s;hines in the heart, where the Lord teacheth all his people; who are taught of him, are taught by the light; and guided by the light, for God is the light of his
<PB N="3" REF="3"><HI>I&s;rael;</HI> All the Children of the Lord are taught of the Lord, and they are e&s;tabli&s;hed in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and they are farre from oppre&s;&s;ion, and great is their peace, and the Lords chil|dren are taught by the light.</P>
<P>And &s;o as ye de&s;ire to be the children of the Lord, and taught of the Lord. Turne your mindes to the light that &s;hewes you &s;in and evill, and checks you when you doe tran&s;gre&s;&s;e. This will guide your mindes to God, and bring you out of the tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ion, and out of the &s;in, into the new Covenant, which the Lord doth make with his people, which is not according to the old Covenant, which Covenant you broke, but this is an ever|la&s;ting Covenant, which never can be broken, to tho&s;e who lives in it, and walkes in it, and obeyes the leading and guiding of the light, which is the Covenant.</P>
<P>This an&s;wers and fulfills the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the Law of God, and brings you through, to fulfill the whole Law, and Co|venant of God, which you could never doe, your minds being from the light, which light is the &s;ub&s;tance of the Covenant of the Law, of the commandements, of the &s;tatutes and judge|ments; which light an&s;wers, and fulfills the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of them all, and takes them away outwardly: and tho&s;e who dwells in the light, and &s;tands in it, dwells in the &s;ub&s;tance, out of the &s;hadow, forme, and likene&s;&s;e; So here is your way, in the light, which ye feele and &s;ee in you, not a thing without you, but in that which is in you, which you know of, which you can beare te&s;timony of, this is a &s;ub&s;tance and not a &s;hadow: and by no other way nor means under Heaven, &s;hall you ever come to know the &s;alvation of <HI>I&s;rael;</HI> but as your minds are turned, and joyned to the light which is in you, which brings &s;alvation to the ends of the earth. And the prophecy is fulfilling, which cryeth. Ho, every one that thir&s;teth, come ye to the waters freely, without money; buy wine and milk: hearken diligent|ly, and eat ye that which is good, and let your &s;ouls delight it &s;elfe in fatne&s;&s;e; Incline your eare, and come unto me, hear, and your &s;ouls &s;hall live: and I will make an everla&s;ting Co|venant with you even the &s;ure mercies of <HI>David.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 55.</NOTE> Behold I have given him for a witne&s;&s;e to the people, a leader and com|mander to the people.</P>
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<P>And this is he which all Nations mu&s;t follow, who is given a witne&s;&s;e, and a leader, and a Commander to all the people of God, who is the de&s;ire of all Nations, which is come a witne&s;&s;e to all people, and a leader of all unto God: who are like &s;heep gone a&s;tray, who hath turned, every one to his own way. But now is the Lord gathering them that will be gathered, all that doe turne unto this witne&s;&s;e of God in them, the Lord will heale them. Behold I will bring health, and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveale unto them the abundance of peace and truth: and I will cau&s;e the Captivity of <HI>Judah,</HI> and the Captivity of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> to returne, and will build them as at fir&s;t, and I will clean&s;e them from all their iniquities, whereby they have &s;inned again&s;t mee: and I will pardon all their ini|quities whereby they have &s;inned again&s;t me; and whereby they have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed. So if ye will be clean&s;ed from your iniquity, turne to the light within you, which makes manife&s;t the deceit of your hearts, if ye will have health and cure, turn to the light that lets you &s;ee your &s;in, and tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, and your iniquity which &s;eperates you from God; And if ye de|&s;ire your iniquity pardoned, and if ye de&s;ire to returne from your captivity, and to be built as ye were at fir&s;t, turne to the light that &s;eperates from iniquity, and depart from evill, and hearken there in the pure light in your con&s;ciences diligently, and there you will hear as you abide in the light, and dwell in it, and walke in it; &s;o you will come to heare the voice of joy, and the voice of gladne&s;&s;e, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">3.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">.</NOTE> the voice of them that &s;hall &s;ay, prai&s;e the Lord of Ho&s;ts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endu|reth for ever: for I will cau&s;e their Captivity to returne as at fir&s;t, &s;aith the Lord.</P>
<P>So here is the Lords love freely tendered to you, if ye come into the light, by which the Lord God teacheth his people; that in the pure obedience of the leading and teaching, and guiding of the light turne your mindes to within, into the light, which convinceth of &s;in and evill: here you will come to have your hearts circumci&s;ed, and the foreskin of your heart taken away: here ye will come to have your hearts rent, and not your garments, here ye will turne to the Lord, and receive his
<PB N="5" REF="4">Covenant and promi&s;e, who hath &s;aid, I will make an everla&s;t|ing Covenant with you, that I will not turne away from them, to doe them good: but I will put my feare in their hearts, that they &s;hall not depart from me: yea I will rejoyce over them to doe them good, and I will plant them in this land a&s;&s;uredly, with my whole heart, and with my whole &s;oule. See here the faithfulne&s;&s;e of the Lord, and his loving kindne&s;&s;e holden forth unto you: in giving to you his light and te&s;timony, whereby you may be guided up unto him, which makes manife&s;t his will and likewi&s;e &s;hews unto you that which is contrary to his will in turning of your minds to the light you will come to know the one teacher, by which the Lord teaches his people <HI>Jew</HI> and <HI>Gentile, Barbarian, Scythian,</HI> bond and free.</P>
<P>By this eternall light of the Lord doth the Lord gather all his people into one; and fulfills his promi&s;e, who &s;aith. Be|hold, I will gather them out of all Countries, whither I have driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in my wrath, and I will bring them againe into this place, and I will cau&s;e them to dwell &s;afely, and they &s;hall be my people, and I will be their God, and I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may feare me for ever. See here the infinite goodne&s;&s;e of God, who hath manife&s;ted his one way, and there is no other to the father, his eternall light, which makes manife&s;t and di&s;covers all &s;in and uncleane&s;&s;e, and leads up into purity and righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, which purifies the heart, and places the pure feare, and brings into the one heart, and into the one way, where the feare of the Lord is for ever, and the truth in the inward parts, which only is accepted with the Lord. Behold the dayes come &s;aith the Lord, that I will performe that good thing which I have promi&s;ed to the hou&s;e of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and to the hou&s;e of <HI>Ju|dah,</HI> In tho&s;e dayes, and at that time, will I cau&s;e the branch of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e to grow unto <HI>David,</HI> and he &s;hall execute judgement and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e in the land: In tho&s;e dayes &s;hall <HI>Judah</HI> be &s;aved, and <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> &s;hall dwell &s;afely, and this is his name wherewith he &s;hall be called, the Lord our righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e. <HI>David</HI> &s;hall never want a man to &s;it upon the throne of <HI>I&s;rael.</HI> So to the light of the God of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> turne your minds, and here ye will &s;ee him performe the good thing that he hath
<PB N="6" REF="5">promi&s;ed: And this pure light of God will lead you into righ|teou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and will bring forth the branch of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, where you may dwell &s;afely, where ye may have the Lord for your teacher, and leader, and guider: Thus &s;aith the Lord God, the Holy one of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> in returning and re&s;t &s;hall ye be &s;aved, and in quietne&s;&s;e, and in confidence &s;hall be your &s;trength. Therefore doth the Lord waite, that he may be graci|ous unto you, therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you, for the Lord is a God of judgment, ble&s;&s;ed are all they that wait for him: he will be very gracious unto thee, at the voice of thy cry, when he &s;hall heare it; he will an&s;wer thee: and though the Lord give you the bread of ad|ver&s;ity, and the water of affliction; yet &s;hall not thy teacher be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes &s;hall &s;ee thy teacher, and thy eares &s;hall heare a voice behind thee, &s;aying, this is the way walke in it; when ye turne to the right hand, or to the left. So this is the word which thou mu&s;t hear, which teacher will never more be removed into a corner, which &s;hews thee when thou turnes to the right hand or to the left, which &s;hewes thee the intents of thy heart, and is a di&s;cerner of thy &s;ecret thoughts: by this eternall light doth the Lord God teach his people, which reveals all &s;ecrets, which rips up, and layes open the hidden things of <HI>E&s;au:</HI> And &s;o waiting here in the light, the minde being &s;ubjected to the leading and guiding of the light, then the power of the Lord will be manife&s;ted, which brings the &s;eed out of bondage, out of the hou&s;e of darkne&s;&s;e: &s;o the &s;eed being rai&s;ed by the power of the Lord God out of Aegypt and darkne&s;&s;e, the fir&s;t borne will come to be &s;laine, when the Lord calls his Sonne out of Aegypt, <HI>I&s;rael</HI> his fir&s;t borne, and then the law will be given, and written in the heart, and the Covenant of the Lord will be performed, with his own &s;eed, as he calls <HI>I&s;rael</HI> out of the hou&s;e of bon|dage; the darkne&s;&s;e of Aegypt: where the dead bodies lyes in the &s;treet of the great City, <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Egypt,</HI> which is all the world &s;piritually: but the free Covenant of everla&s;ting love and life is &s;et open, and the voice cryes freely. Ho, every one that thir&s;teth come to the water of life, and he that hath no mo|ney, come, and buy wine and milke, you that have &s;old your
<PB N="7" REF="5">&s;elves for naught; &s;hall be redeemed without money: If you turne your minds to the light within you, which is freely given you of the Lord, which &s;hews you &s;in and evill, by which the Lord teaches his people, <HI>Jewes</HI> and <HI>Gentiles.</HI></P>
<P>This is the promi&s;e of the father, the light, which is his Co|venant, Behold my &s;ervant which I uphold,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 42.</NOTE> mine Elect in whom my &s;oule delighteth, I have put my &s;pirit upon him, he &s;hall bring forth judgement to the <HI>Gentiles:</HI> I the Lord have called thee in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, I will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a Covenant of the people, for a light to the Gentiles. Marke, here is the Covenant, and here is the light, and this is for the opening of the blind eyes, to bring forth the pri&s;oner from the pri&s;on, and them that &s;it in darkne&s;&s;e out of the pri&s;on hou&s;e. There is the pri&s;on, in dark|ne&s;&s;e: there is the <HI>Aegypt</HI> and the bondage, in the darkne&s;&s;e, who are not in the light. But who&s;e minds are turned into the light, there will be a ri&s;ing out of the darkne&s;&s;e; and here the blind eyes will be opened, and deafe eares will heare, and the pri&s;oner will come forth of the pri&s;on, and here the promi&s;e of the Lord will be fulfilled.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zach.</HI> 9.11.</NOTE> As for thee al&s;o by the blood of thy Covenant, I have &s;ent forth the pri&s;oners out of the pit where|in there is no water.</P>
<P>Turne ye to the &s;trong hold ye pri&s;oners of hope, I am the Lord, that is my name, my glory will I not give to another, neither my prai&s;e to graven Images: Behold the former things are come to pa&s;&s;e, and new things doe I declare, before they &s;pring forth I tell you of them: &s;ing unto the Lord a new long, and his prai&s;e to the ends of the earth, ye that goe down to the Sea, and all that is therein, the I&s;les, and the Inhabitants thereof, let the Wilderne&s;&s;e, and the Cities thereof lift up their voices, let the Inhabitants of the rocks &s;ing; let them &s;hout from the top of the mountains, let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his prai&s;e in the I&s;lands, for who&s;e minds are turned into the light, and free Covenant of the living God, there to abide, and dwell, and live, &s;hall have cau&s;e to prai&s;e the Lord for ever, and &s;hall receive his everla&s;ting free promi&s;e unto them for ever, which is freely tendered unto all, and all have received a light from him, that &s;hewes the &s;ecrets of their
<PB N="8" REF="6">hearts, and te&s;tifies again&s;t &s;in and evill, and that mind that is led and guided by this pure light, will be guided up unto God, and will receive his everla&s;ting promi&s;e, which is as &s;ure as the Covenant is with the day and with the night; Thus &s;aith the L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rd, If you can breake my Covenant with the day, and with the night, that there &s;hould not be day and night in their &s;ea&s;on, then may al&s;o my Covenant be broken with <HI>Da|vid</HI> my &s;ervant, that he &s;hould not have a &s;on to reigne upon his Throne, for the Mountaines &s;hall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindne&s;&s;e &s;hall not depart from thee, neither &s;hall the Covenant of my peace be removed, &s;aith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted and to&s;&s;ed with tem|pe&s;t, and not comforted, Behold I will lay thy &s;tones with fair colours, and thy foundation with Saphires, and I will make thy windowes of Agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of plea&s;ant &s;tones. So if you will lay your foundation with Saphires, come into the light wherein dwells purity, if ye will lay your &s;tones with faire colours, come into the light which teacheth righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, uprightne&s;&s;e, and purity: and if you will have all the borders of plea&s;ant &s;tones, come into the light, dwell in the light, live in the light, by which the Lord God doth teach his people: here is the border of the &s;anctua|ry, God is light, and in him is no darkne&s;&s;e at all: and the Lord hath &s;aid, all thy children &s;hall be taught of the Lord, and great &s;hall be the peace of thy children;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 54.</NOTE> In righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;halt thou be e&s;tabli&s;hed, thou &s;halt be far from oppre&s;&s;ion: no weapon formed again&s;t thee &s;hall pro&s;per, and every tongue that ri&s;eth up again&s;t thee in judgement thou &s;halt con|demne.</P>
<P>This is the heritage of the &s;ervants of the Lord, and their righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is of me &s;aith the Lord; So if ye de&s;ire this in|heritance, turn your mindes into the light which is of God, where righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e dwells, which teaches righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, which leads into righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and e&s;tabli&s;hes in righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, which light is of God, which God hath given, which light &s;hines in the con&s;cience, which light keeps the con&s;cience tender; which light was, before man was, which is of God, and comes from God; and as it is minded, and dwelt in, the
<PB N="9" REF="6">feare of the Lord is placed, which is to depart from evill, which feare of the Lord is the beginning of pure wi&s;dome,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mal.</HI> 4.</NOTE> and unto tho&s;e that feare my name, &s;aith the Lord, &s;hall the Son of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e ari&s;e with healing in his wings, and ye &s;hall goe forth, and grow up, as Calves of the &s;tall; and the &s;ecrets of the Lord are with tho&s;e that feare him: And <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aith, The feare of the Lord is a fountaine of life. So as ye mind the light, that &s;hines in your con&s;ciences, the feare of the Lord will be kept, and &s;o ye will be kept low, and tender, and humble. What man is he that feareth the Lord,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 25.</NOTE> him &s;hall he teach in the way that he &s;hall chu&s;e; The &s;ecrets of the Lord are with them that feare him, and he will &s;hew them his Covenant: The meek &s;hall he guide in judgement, and the meek will he teach his way; all the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto &s;uch as keep his Covenant and te&s;timony.</P>
<P>Here is the path of the Lord in the mercy, and in the truth, and in keeping his Covenant, and his te&s;timony, and his feare, and this is in the inward parts, who dwells and abides here, will have the new heart given, which the Lord hath promi&s;ed; a new heart al&s;o will I give you,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 36.26.</NOTE> and a new &s;pirit will I put within you, and I will take away the &s;tony heart out of your fle&s;h, and I will give you a heart of fle&s;h, and I will put my Spirit within you, and cau&s;e you to walke in my &s;tatutes, and ye &s;hall keep my judgements and doe them. And againe,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 11.</NOTE> I will give them one heart, and I will put a new Spirit within you, and take the &s;tony heart out of their fle&s;h and I will give them a heart of fle&s;h, that they may walke in my &s;tatutes, and keep my Ordinances, and doe them, and they &s;hall be my people, and I will be their God.</P>
<P>So here now you may &s;ee, the Lords work is in the inward parts, there doth he look for the truth within, and there doth he make his Covenant, and write his law in this his day, for the dayes are pa&s;t and gone; wherein the Covenant was written in Tables of &s;tone; and the dayes are come, which the Lord promi&s;ed, who &s;aid, Behold the dayes come &s;aith the Lord, that I will make a new Covenant with the hou&s;e of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and <HI>Judah,</HI> not according to the Covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring
<PB N="10" REF="7">them out of the land of <HI>Aegypt,</HI> which my Covenant they broke, but this &s;hall be the Covenant that I will make with the hou&s;e of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 3.</NOTE> after tho&s;e dayes, &s;aith the Lord, I will put my Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they &s;hall be my people, and they &s;hall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, &s;aying, know the Lord, for they &s;hall all know me from the lea&s;t to the greate&s;t, &s;aith the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquities, and will remember their &s;in no more.</P>
<P>So this is the Covenant, which the Lord is making in the&s;e his dayes, with the hou&s;e of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and with the hou&s;e of <HI>Ju|dah,</HI> and with all that doe flow to the Mountaine of the Lords hou&s;e, which is e&s;tabli&s;hed in the top of the Mountaines, where all Nations &s;hall flow unto it, for out of <HI>Zion</HI> goes forth the Law, and the word of the Lord from <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> which he writeth in the heart, and putteth in the inward parts: &s;o here mu&s;t ye look for your law, and for your te&s;timony, which hath been bound and &s;ealed up among the Di&s;ciples, which <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;aw, who &s;aid, I will waite upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the hou&s;e of <HI>Jacob,</HI> and I will look for him; <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> knew that he would hide his face, and that the Law and Te&s;timony &s;hould be bound and &s;ealed, yet he did looke for him, who is now come in the&s;e his dayes, who&s;e law and Te&s;timony is ma|nife&s;ted and written in the inward parts;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Joel</HI> 2.</NOTE> and the dayes are come which <HI>Joel</HI> prophecyed, who &s;aid it &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e afterward, I will pour out of my &s;pirit upon all fle&s;h, your &s;ons and your daughters &s;hall prophecy, and al&s;o upon the &s;ervants and on the handmaids in tho&s;e dayes will I poure out of my Spirit, for behold in the dayes, and at that time, when I &s;hall bring againe the Captivity of <HI>Judah</HI> and <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> I will al|&s;o gather all Nations,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Joel</HI> 3.</NOTE> and will bring them downe into the valley of <HI>Jeho&s;ophat,</HI> and will plead with them there. And a|gaine, feare not, I am with thee, I will bring thy &s;eed from the Ea&s;t, and gather thee from the We&s;t, and I will &s;ay to the North give up and to the South keep not back, bring my &s;ons from farre, and my daughters from the ends of the Earth; bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deafe that have eares, let all Nations be gathered together, and let the
<PB N="11" REF="7">people be a&s;&s;embled, for I will poure water on him that is thir&s;ty, and floods upon the dry ground, I will poure my &s;pi|rit upon thy &s;eed, and my ble&s;&s;ing upon thine off &s;pring.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 43.</NOTE></P>
<P>Here you may read the large love and mercy of the Lord to all that will turne to the mea&s;ure of his Spirit, which is light, which he hath given to every one. If you looke for the pro|mi&s;e of the Lord to be fulfilled, you mu&s;t look for the Spirit, for the promi&s;e of God is the Spirit; untill the Spirit be pou|red upon us from on high,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 32.</NOTE> and the Wilderne&s;&s;e be a fruitfull field, and the fruitfull field be counted for a Forre&s;t: Mark, here your fruitfull field mu&s;t be counted for a Forre&s;t, when the Spirit is poured from on high, and that which hath been the Wilderne&s;&s;e mu&s;t be the fruitfull field, then &s;hall judgement dwell in the Wilderne&s;&s;e, and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e remaine in that fruitfull field, the worke of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;hall be peace, and the effect of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, quietne&s;&s;e and a&s;&s;urance for ever, and my people &s;hall dwell in a peacable habitation, and in &s;ure dwellings, and in quiet re&s;ting places.</P>
<P>See now if ye can come to this, and own this Spirit to teach you, and guide you, and lead you, this promi&s;e you will re|ceive and enjoy, when the Lord &s;peaks comfortably unto <HI>Jeru|&s;alem,</HI> and bids the Prophet cry that her warfare is accompli|&s;hed, he &s;aith, The voice of him that cryeth in the Wilderne&s;&s;e, prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make &s;traight in the de&s;ert a high way for our God, now God is a Spirit, and his promi&s;e is the Spirit: The Lord came down in a cloud, and &s;pake unto him, and tooke off the Spirit that was upon him,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Numb.</HI> 11.</NOTE> and gave it unto the &s;eventy elders, and it came to pa&s;&s;e that when the Spirit re&s;ted upon them that they prophe&s;ied, and did not cea&s;e: Turne ye at my reproofe, behold, I will poure out my Spirit upon you, and I will make known my words unto you,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Porv.</HI> 1.</NOTE> The Lord hath &s;aid, the parched ground &s;hall become a poole, the thir&s;ty land &s;prings of Water, and an high way &s;hall be there; and a way that &s;hall be called the way of holine&s;&s;e, the uncleane &s;hall not pa&s;&s;e over it, but it &s;hall be for tho&s;e, the wayfairing men, though fooles, &s;hall not erre therein; No Lion &s;hall be there, nor any ravenous bea&s;t goe thereon, which &s;hall not be found there, but the redeemed &s;hall walke there;
<PB N="12" REF="8">and the ran&s;omed of the Lord &s;hall returne, and come to <HI>Zion</HI> with &s;ongs, and everla&s;ting joy &s;hall be upon their heads, and they &s;hall obtaine joy and gladne&s;&s;e, and &s;orrow, and &s;igh|ing &s;hall fly away.</P>
<P>So here is your way which you mu&s;t pa&s;&s;e, even in the puri|ty of the Spirit, which is the way of holine&s;&s;e, where the un|cleane cannot pa&s;&s;e, and when ye are come into this way, and pa&s;&s;ing on in this way, then ye may look for your outward pri|viledges, for he to whom the promi&s;e is, the Spirit of the Lord &s;hall re&s;t upon him, and the Spirit of wi&s;dome and under&s;tand|ing; the Spirit of councell and of might, the Spirit of know|ledge and of the feare of the Lord, and with righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e doth he judge, and reproves with equity; and he is &s;et for an en&s;igne for the Nations, and &s;hall a&s;&s;emble the outca&s;ts of <HI>I&s;|rael,</HI> and gather together the di&s;per&s;ed of <HI>Judah,</HI> from the four corners of the earth, then &s;hall the Lord utterly de&s;troy the tongue of the Aegyptian Sea, and all the power of dark|ne&s;&s;e, and with his mighty winde, which is the Spirit, &s;hall he &s;hake his hand over the River, and &s;hall &s;mite it in the &s;even &s;treames thereof, which is the power of <HI>Aegypts</HI> darkne&s;&s;e, and &s;o make men goe over dry &s;hod, in the Spirit: there is the high way for the remnant of his people, who heares the voice which doth cry, unto every one that thir&s;teth, which &s;aith en|cline your eare and come unto me, heare and your &s;oul: &s;hall live, and I will make an everla&s;ting Covenant with you, even the &s;ure mercies of <HI>David:</HI> Behold I have given him for a witne&s;&s;e, unto the people, a leader and Commander to the people, this leader, and this witne&s;&s;e is in the Spirit: &s;eek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him, while he is near. Behold thou &s;halt call a Nation that thou knowe&s;t not, and Nations that know not thee &s;hall run unto thee, becau&s;e of the Lord thy God, and the holy one of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> for he hath glorified thee, this promi&s;e is unto <HI>David,</HI> and unto his &s;eed for ever, in the Spirit: for of the increa&s;e of his government and peace,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 9.</NOTE> there &s;hall be no end, upon the Throne of <HI>David,</HI> and upon his Kingdome to order it, and to e&s;tabli&s;h it with judgement, and with ju&s;tice from henceforth even for ever.</P>
<P>The Lord &s;ent a word unto <HI>Jacob,</HI> and it hath lighted upon
<PB N="13" REF="8"><HI>I&s;rael.</HI> Now if ye will minde the word, which the Lord hath &s;ent unto <HI>Jacob,</HI> this will lighten and open your blind eyes,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 42.</NOTE> and the Lords promi&s;e will be fulfilled unto you, who hath &s;aid, I will bring the blind by a way that they know not, and I will lead them in paths that they have not known, I will make dark|ne&s;&s;e light before them, and crooked wayes &s;traight: In tho&s;e days and at that time will I cau&s;e the branch of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e to grow up unto <HI>David,</HI> and he &s;hall execute judgement and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e in the land. In tho&s;e dayes &s;hall <HI>Judah</HI> be &s;aved, and <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> &s;hall dwell &s;afely; and this is his name where|with he &s;hall be called, The Lord our Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: For thus &s;aith the Lord, <HI>David</HI> &s;hall never want a man to &s;it upon the Throne of the hou&s;e of <HI>I&s;rael.</HI></P>
<P>So this you mu&s;t look for in the Spirit, this branch of righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e is in the Spirit, and he executes judgement in the Spi|rit; and this promi&s;e of the Lord unto <HI>David</HI> is in the Spirit: And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and I will bring them againe to their foldes, and they &s;hall be fruitfull and increa&s;e, and I will &s;et up &s;hepheards over them, which &s;hall feed them, and they &s;hall feare no more, nor be afraid, neither &s;hall be lacking, &s;aith the Lord: And the righteous branch that the Lord doth rai&s;e unto <HI>David,</HI> the King that reigns and pro&s;pers is called, The Lord our Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, he is the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of all, and he executes ju&s;tice and judgement in the earth in righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and <HI>David</HI> in Spirit called him Lord,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 110.</NOTE> who is our righ|teou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of all who are guided by him, and taught of him; and here ye mu&s;t look for your King, and your Me&s;&s;iah, in the Spirit. So ki&s;&s;e the Son lea&s;t he be angry, and you peri&s;h from the way, when his wrath is kindled but little, ble&s;&s;ed are they that tru&s;t in him; who is light and a Spirit, that guides and leads his people in pathes they have not known, and this <HI>Michael</HI> the great Prince ye mu&s;t looke for within fir&s;t, and they that are wi&s;e, and lookes for him where he is to be found, &s;hall &s;hine as the brightne&s;&s;e of the Firmament, and they that turne many to righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, as the Stars for ever and ever,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Dan.</HI> 12,</NOTE> many &s;hall be purified and made white, and tryed, but the wicked &s;hall doe wickedly, and none
<PB N="14" REF="9">of the wicked &s;hall under&s;tand, but the wi&s;e &s;hall under&s;tand. Doth not wi&s;dome cry,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Prov.</HI> 8.</NOTE> and under&s;tanding put forth her voice, unto you O men I call, and my voice is unto the &s;ons of men: O ye &s;imple under&s;tand wi&s;dome, and ye fooles be of an un|der&s;tanding heart; councell is mine, and &s;ound wi&s;dome, I am under&s;tanding, I have &s;trength, by me Kings reigne, and Prin|decree ju&s;tice, by me Princes rule, and nobles even all the Jud|ges of the Earth.</P>
<P>Here you may &s;ee the univer&s;all leading and guiding and go|verning of the Lord,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zach.</HI> 4.</NOTE> is by his own wi&s;dome and coun&s;ell in the Spirit, not by my might, nor power, but by my Spirit &s;aith the Lord of Hoa&s;ts: Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his Coun&s;ellour hath taught him, with whom tooke he coun&s;ell, and who in&s;tructed him in the path of Judgement, and taught him knowledge,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 40.</NOTE> and &s;hewed him the way of un|der&s;tanding? Behold, the Nations are as the drop of a bucket, and all fle&s;h is as gra&s;&s;e, and the gra&s;&s;e withereth, and the flower fadeth, becau&s;e the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it, but the word of our God &s;hall &s;tand for ever.</P>
<P>This is the word which <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> taught <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> when he &s;aid, thou &s;halt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandements, and his &s;tatutes, and if thou turne to the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy &s;oul, for this Commandment, which I command thee this day is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, in thy heart, that thou maye&s;t doe it.</P>
<P>Mark, here the voice was in their heart, whereby they might keepe the Law and the &s;tatutes;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> 30.</NOTE> if they did turne to the Lord with all their heart, and with all their &s;oule, then they could keepe and doe it. <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;aith further, See I have &s;et be|fore thee this day, life and death, good and evill in that I com|mand thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walke in his wayes, to keep his commandements, and his &s;tatutes, and his judgements, that thou maye&s;t live, and the Lord thy God will ble&s;&s;e thee; If they walked in this, and kept this, it was life; But if thy heart turne away, &s;o that thou wilt not heare, but &s;halt draw away, and wor&s;hip other Gods, I denounce
<PB N="15" REF="9">unto thee this day that thou &s;halt &s;urely peri&s;h. So here comes the de&s;truction, by the heart turning away from the word, which is nigh in the heart, which teacheth to love the Lord with all the heart, which word teaches to keep the Law, the &s;tatutes, and the judgements, and to walke in them; And though the Lord give you the bread of adver&s;ity,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 30.</NOTE> and the wa|ter of affliction, yet &s;hall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes &s;hall &s;ee thy teachers, and thine eares &s;hall heare a word behinde thee, &s;aying, this is the way walke in it, when ye turne to the right hand, or to the left.</P>
<P>This is the word of the Lord that endures for ever; and by this doth the Lord teach his people:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a</HI> 40.</NOTE> I cloath the heavens with blackne&s;&s;e, and I make &s;ackcloth their covering. The Lord hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I &s;hould know how to &s;peake a word in &s;ea&s;on to him that is weary; he that hath an eare, let him heare: Is not my word like a fire,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 23.</NOTE> and like a hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces. And <HI>David</HI> &s;aith; Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not &s;in again&s;t thee: Thy word is a lampe, unto my feet, and a light unto my paths. The word in <HI>Davids</HI> heart was a light unto him, and &s;o it is unto all, who&s;e heart is upright, who is guided by the light, which is the word, which is the Spirit, which is the Law, which is written in the heart: <HI>David</HI> &s;aith, behold, thou de&s;ire&s;t truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part &s;halt thou make me to know wi&s;dome. <HI>David</HI> learned wi&s;|dome in the hidden part; Wa&s;h me throughly from mine ini|quity, and clean&s;e me from my &s;in, purge me with Hy&s;op, and I &s;hall be cleane, wa&s;h me and I &s;hall be whiter then the &s;now.</P>
<P>This is in the inward part, where the Lord de&s;ireth truth: Create in me a cleane heart O God, and renew a right Spirit within me; ca&s;t me not away from thy pre&s;ence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me: re&s;tore me unto the joy of thy &s;al|vation, and uphold me with thy free Spirit.</P>
<P>Here was <HI>Davids</HI> &s;trength in the free Spirit; who&s;e de&s;ire was to be renewed in the inward parts, who knew the &s;acrifice that God acepted, for thou de&s;ire&s;t not &s;acrifice, el&s;e would I
<PB N="16" REF="10">give it thee, but thou delighte&s;t not in burnt offerings: The &s;acrifices of God are a broken &s;pirit,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al</HI> 51.</NOTE> a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not de&s;pi&s;e.</P>
<P>This is the &s;acrifice God only accepts, truth in the inward parts, where the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of his law is known, and &s;een; The Lord is nigh to them that are of a broken heart, and &s;aveth &s;uch as be of a contrite Spirit. Here the Lord writeth his law, and here he placeth his feare.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 37.</NOTE> The mouth of the righteous &s;peaketh wi&s;dome, and his tongue talketh of judgement, the law of God is in his heart, none of his &s;teps &s;hall &s;lide. The Law of God is perfect, converting the &s;oule, the Te&s;timony of the Lord is &s;ure, making wi&s;e the &s;imple, the &s;tatutes of the Lord are right, rejoycing the heart, the commandement of the Lord is pure, enlightning the eyes, the feare of the Lord is cleane,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 19.</NOTE> enduring for ever, the judgements of the Lord are true and righteous, altogether more to be de&s;ired are they then Gold, yea then much fine Gold, &s;weeter al&s;o then honey, and the honey combe, by them is thy &s;ervant forewarned, and in keeping of them there is great reward.</P>
<P>See how <HI>David</HI> reads them in his pure heart, and ranks them up together, who knows the worth and value of them, who lives in uprightne&s;&s;e and purity, in keeping the righteous judgements,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119.</NOTE> and &s;tatutes of the Lord, who &s;aith, I will run the way of thy commandements, when thou &s;halt enlarge my heart: Teach me, O Lord the way of thy &s;tatutes, and I &s;hall keep it to the end, give me under&s;tanding, and I &s;hall know thy Law.</P>
<P>Here is <HI>Davids</HI> way in the commandements, in the &s;tatutes, in keeping of the Law, in the Te&s;timony, in the word, in the feare of the Lord, in the precepts, and in the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e; and this is the way of all the righteous who are pure in heart; who only &s;ees God, and unto this &s;pirit of <HI>David,</HI> which leads unto purity and holine&s;&s;e, is the promi&s;e of the Lord e&s;tabli|&s;hed for ever. Thus &s;aith the Lord, if ye can breake my Cove|nant of the day and of the night,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 32.</NOTE> that there &s;hould not be day and night in their &s;ea&s;on, then may al&s;o my Covenant be bro|ken with <HI>David</HI> my &s;ervant, that he &s;hould not have a Son to reigne upon his Throne; as the Hoa&s;t of Heaven cannot be
<PB N="17" REF="10">numbred, neither the &s;and of the Sea mea&s;ured, &s;o will I mul|tiply the &s;eed of <HI>David</HI> my &s;ervant.</P>
<P>This is the day of the fulfilling of this promi&s;e to all <HI>Da|vids</HI> &s;eed, and <HI>Davids</HI> &s;pirit, Ble&s;&s;ed are the undefiled in the way, who walke in the Law of the Lord: O how doe I love thy Law, it is my meditation all the day,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119.</NOTE> unle&s;&s;e thy Law had been my delight; I &s;hould have peri&s;hed in mine affliction: my &s;oule is continually in mine hand, yet doe I not forget thy Law. Take not the word of thy truth out of my mouth, for I have hoped in thy judgements, &s;o that I keep thy Law conti|nually for ever, and ever. Here <HI>David</HI> kept the Law through the word for ever: O Lord thy word is &s;etled in Heaven. The word of the Lord is right,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 33.</NOTE> and all his works are one in truth. Before I was afflicted I went a&s;tray, but now have I kept thy word; The proud hath forged lies again&s;t me, their heart is fat as grea&s;e, but I have kept thy Law: The Law of thy mouth is better to me than thou&s;ands of Gold and &s;ilver. The entrance of thy word giveth light. And <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aith, The commandement is a lampe, and the Law is light,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Prov.</HI> 6</NOTE> and the reproofes of in&s;truction are the way of life: This is the wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of life, the light, which is the Law, where reproofes are, where the in&s;truction is leading and guiding in the pure path. Hearken unto me ye that know righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 51.</NOTE> the people in who&s;e heart is my Law: Hearken unto me, O my people, give eare unto me, O my Nation, for a Law &s;hall proceed from me, and I will make my judgement to re&s;t for a light: My righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e is neare, my &s;alvation is gone forth, and mine arme &s;hall judge the people, and the I&s;les &s;hall waite upon me, and on my arme &s;hall they tru&s;t.</P>
<P>Here is the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the Law brought neare to them who&s;e mindes are turned to the light, which leads into righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and teacheth righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, all them that waites upon the arme of the Lord. For the Lord God is gathering his &s;heep, where they have been &s;cattered, for thus &s;aith the Lord God, Behold I, even I, will both &s;earch my &s;heep, and &s;eek them out, as a &s;hepheard &s;eeketh out his flock, in the day that he is among his &s;heep that are &s;cattered, &s;o will I &s;eek out my &s;heep, and will deliver them out of all places, where they
<PB N="18" REF="11">have been &s;cattered in the cloudy and dark day, and I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own Land, and feed them upon the Mountaines of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> by the Rivers, in all the inhabitable places of the Country: I will feed them in a good pa&s;ture, and upon the high Mountaines of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> there &s;hall their fold be, Mark, there is the Lords hou&s;e e&s;tabli&s;hed, in the top of the mountaines unto which the Nations flowes, there &s;hall they lye down in a good fold, and in a fat pa&s;ture &s;hall they feed, and I will cau&s;e them to lye down &s;aith the Lord God, and I will &s;eek that which is lo&s;t, and bring againe that which is driven away, and I will binde up that which is broken, and will &s;trengthen that which is &s;icke, but I will de&s;troy the fat, and the &s;trong, I will feed them with judgement: There|fore will I &s;ave my flock, and they &s;hall be no more a prey, and I will judge between cattell,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 34.</NOTE> and cattell, and I will &s;et up one &s;hepheard, even my &s;ervant <HI>David,</HI> he &s;hall feed them, and he &s;hall be their &s;hepheard, and I the Lord will be their God, and my &s;ervant <HI>David</HI> a Prince among them, I the Lord have &s;po|ken it.</P>
<P>This prophecy is the Lord bringing to pa&s;&s;e, and gathering his flock, and rai&s;ing up the plant of his renowne, which &s;hall never be con&s;umed, but &s;hall grow up to the prai&s;e, and glory of his name, for the &s;tone cut out of the Mountaine without hands is &s;miting the image upon his feet, which is iron and clay, and the bra&s;&s;e, and the &s;ilver, and the gold is he breaking to pieces, and it is becoming as the chaffe of the thre&s;hing floore, that withereth away; and the &s;tone that &s;mites the i|mage is becoming a great Mountaine, and it &s;hall fill the whole earth, and the Thrones are ca&s;ting down, and the ancient of dayes doth &s;it, who&s;e garment is white as &s;now, and the haire of his head as pure wooll, his Throne is like the fiery flame, a fiery flame i&s;&s;ueth and cometh out before him, thou&s;and thou|&s;ands gives prai&s;es to him, and ten thou&s;and times ten thou&s;and gives glory and honour before him, and judgement is &s;et, and the bookes are opening, and the bea&s;t is coming to be &s;laine, and his body to be given to the burning flame; who beares his image and have his marke, who have fallen down and wor|&s;hiped
<PB N="19" REF="11">him; his power is fall ng, and the Dragon that gives him his power is chaining, and the mea&s;uring reed is gone forth that mea&s;ures the Temple, and leaves out the court, and the ju&s;t ballance is weighing, and the tryed &s;tone is judging, the precious corner &s;tone, which layes judgement to the line, and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e to the plummer, &s;o all that de&s;ires to know the living God, who de&s;ires to have the light of his countenance to &s;hine upon them, turne to the light within you, this is the way, the truth and the life, and there is no other way, nor name under Heaven by which any &s;hall be &s;aved, or come to the knowledge of the true God, for God is light, and God is a Spirit, and God is the word; and this is the ble&s;&s;ing where|with <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> the man of God ble&s;&s;ed the children of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and he &s;aid, The Lord came from <HI>Sinai,</HI> and ro&s;e up from <HI>Seir</HI> unto them, and he &s;hined forth from mount <HI>Paran;</HI> from his right hand went a fiery law for them.</P>
<P>This is the law which the Saints receive from the Lords right hand, which burnes up all the chaffe, and cuts downe all that is contrary to it. The flaming &s;word that keeps the Tree of life, he that can receive it let him.</P>
<P>So now, if ye will come out of the old Covenant, which Co|venant ye have broken, and &s;o are Covenant breakers with God, and cannot be accepted in that condition, but lyes de&s;o|late and for&s;aken; So if ye will be accepted of God, or recei|ved unto him, ye mu&s;t come into the new Covenant, for there is God engaged to you, and there is God known, in the Spi|rit, and there is God wor&s;hiped in the Spirit, where the Law is written in the heart, and the Spirit put in the inward parts, which teacheth righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and leads and guides into puri|ty, which Spirit circumci&s;eth the heart, which is the &s;eale of the new Covenant, circumci&s;ion which is of the heart, in the Spirit.</P>
<P>So be not faithle&s;&s;e and unbelieving, &s;till going on in hard|ne&s;&s;e of heart, and in the provocation, as your fathers did, which grieved the Lord, that he &s;wore in his wrath, they &s;hould not enter into his re&s;t, they tempted him, and proved him, and would not believe in his works, and &s;o entered not becau&s;e of unbeliefe. And the Prophet <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> complained, and
<PB N="20" REF="12">&s;aid,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 28.</NOTE> who hath believed our report, hardne&s;&s;e of heart, and unbeliefe hath been your ruine, ye would not believe your go|ing to <HI>Babylon,</HI> which the Lord &s;poke by <HI>Jeremiah,</HI> but would rather hearken to <HI>Hananiah</HI> the fal&s;e Prophet. And the Lord commanded you, &s;aying let not your prophets and diviners be in the midde&s;t of you, which deceives you, for they prophecy fal&s;ly in my name; and I have not &s;ent them &s;aith the Lord, and the Prophet <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> cryed,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 29.</NOTE> woe to the rebellious hou&s;e, &s;aith the Lord, that taketh councell, but not of me, that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit.</P>
<P>Now goe ye write it before them in a Table, and note it in a booke, that it may be for the time to come, for ever and e|ver, that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not heare the Law of the Lord,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 30.</NOTE> which &s;ay to the &s;eers, &s;ee not, and to the Prophets prophecy not unto us right things, &s;peake unto us &s;mooth things, prophecy deceits. And you would not heare the roule that the Lord by <HI>Jeremiah</HI> made to be written,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer,</HI> 36.</NOTE> but when it came to pa&s;&s;e, when <HI>Jehudi</HI> had read three or four lines, he cut it with the pen-knife, and ca&s;t it into the fire that was on the hearth, &s;o cau&s;ed <HI>Jeremiah</HI> and <HI>Baruch</HI> to be ca&s;t into the dungeon, and thus you requited the Lord evill for good, who had alwayes thoughts of good towards you, and thoughts of peace; Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of <HI>Aegypt,</HI> unto this day &s;aith the Lord, I have &s;ent my &s;ervants the Prophets,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 7.</NOTE> &s;aith the Lord, dayly ri|&s;ing up early, and &s;ending them, yet they hearkened not unto me, nor enclined their care, but hardened their necks, they did wor&s;e then their Fathers.</P>
<P>This hath been your &s;in all along, you would not believe the Lord when he &s;poke to you, neither by <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> nor by his true prophets, but ye did &s;et up and e&s;tabli&s;h fal&s;e prophets among you; your fathers received the Law by the di&s;pen&s;ation of An|gells, and have not kept it; but have broken it, for <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;aid, Thou &s;halt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy &s;oule, and with all thy minde, thou &s;halt be perfect with the Lord thy God: And <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;aid, The Lord thy God will rai&s;e up unto thee a Prophet like unto me, unto him &s;halt thou hearken, according to all that thou de&s;ired&s;t of the Lord thy
<PB N="21" REF="12">God in <HI>Horeb,</HI> in the day of thy a&s;&s;embly; &s;aying, let me not heare againe the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me &s;ee the great fire any more, that I dy not.</P>
<P>This was terrible to you, thundrings, and lightenings, and the noi&s;e of the Trumpet, and the Mountaine &s;moking; and the thick darkne&s;&s;e, which was where God was; This ye de&s;i|red to &s;ee no more, and God was plea&s;ed to an&s;wer your de|&s;ire, and &s;aid unto <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> They have well &s;poken that which they have &s;poken, I will rai&s;e them up a prophet, from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, he &s;hall &s;peake unto them, all that I command him: and it &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e, that who&s;oever will not hearken un|to my words, which he &s;hall &s;peake in my name, I will require it of him.</P>
<P>And unto this prophet ye have not hearkened, yet, unto this day; nor obeyed his voice: And now is the prophet &s;peaking unto you in the Spirit, which is light, which is in the mid&s;t of thee.</P>
<P>And now if ye will heare, and believe in this Prophet, this is the word which <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;aid was nigh in the heart, which the Lord hath rai&s;ed in this his day, that all men through him might believe: the light is ri&s;en in the hearts and con&s;ciences of men, by which the Lord teaches all Nations, and gathers all Nations into one, which is like unto <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> who &s;aith, this commandement which I command thee this day, is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off, it is not in Heaven, that thou &s;houlde&s;t &s;ay, who &s;hall goe up for us to Heaven, to bring it unto us, that we may heare it, and doe it, neither is it beyond the Sea, that thou &s;houlde&s;t &s;ay who &s;hall goe over the Sea for it, to bring it to us, that we may heare it, and doe it, but the word, (and the Prophet) is very nigh in thy heart, that thou maye&s;t heare it, and doe it. Here thou mu&s;t finde the Pro|phet that the Lord promi&s;ed unto <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> that he would rai&s;e up, if ever thou finde him. I have not &s;poken in &s;ecret, &s;aith the Lord, in a darke place of the earth, I &s;ay not unto the hou&s;e of <HI>Jacob,</HI> &s;eek ye my face in vaine;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 45.</NOTE> I the Lord &s;peake righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, I de&s;ire things that are right, a&s;&s;emble your &s;elves, and come near together, who hath declared this from
<PB N="22" REF="13">ancient times, who hath told it from that time, have not I the Lord, and there is no God el&s;e be&s;ides me, a ju&s;t God and a Saviour, and there is none be&s;ides me, look unto me, and be ye &s;aved all the ends of the earth.</P>
<P>And to this word and Prophet mu&s;t all the ends of the earth looke, that are &s;aved. Therefore thus &s;aith the Lord God, Behold I lay in <HI>Sion</HI> for a foundation a &s;tone,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 28.</NOTE> a tryed &s;tone, a precious corner &s;tone, a &s;ure foundation, he that believes &s;hall not make ha&s;t, judgment al&s;o &s;hall he lay to the line, and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e to the plummet.</P>
<P>This is he that is laid in <HI>Zion,</HI> a &s;ure foundation, who ever believes in him layes judgement to the line, for <HI>Zion</HI> is re|deemed through judgment, and her converts with righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e; ye are my witne&s;&s;es &s;aith the Lord, and my &s;ervant whom I have cho&s;en, that ye may know, and believe me, and under&s;tand, that I am he, before me there was no God formed, neither &s;hall there be any after me; I have declared, and I have &s;aved, and I have &s;hewed, when there was no &s;trange God in you; Therefore ye are my witne&s;&s;es, &s;aith the Lord, that I am God. Remember ye not former things, neither con|&s;ider the things of old, Behold I will doe a new thing, &s;hall ye not know it,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 43.</NOTE> I will even make a way in the Wilderne&s;&s;e, and ri|vers in the de&s;art.</P>
<P>Now &s;ee if you can believe in the Lord, which is doing a new thing, and is bringing forth his mighty workes, even a|mong the Heathen; The Lord is working a work in the&s;e dayes, which ye will not believe though it be told you.</P>
<P>Now if ye love your &s;oules, and your eternall good, be no more &s;tiffe necked, and unbelieving, but come down into the feare of the Lord, and let the light of the Lord, which checks you for &s;in and evill, &s;earch you, and try you, and &s;ee your foundation where you &s;tand, who alwayes was a rebellious people again&s;t the Lord, &s;o that he complains my people would not hearken to my voice, and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> would have none of me; Oh that my people would have hearkened unto me,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 81.</NOTE> and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> would have hearkened to my wayes, how &s;oon would I have &s;ubdued their enemies, and turned my hand again&s;t their adver|&s;aries, and <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;aid of the rock that begat thee thou art un|mindfull,
<PB N="23" REF="13">and ha&s;t forgotten God that formed thee; And when the Lord &s;aw it; he abhorred thee, and he &s;aid, I will hide my face from them, I will &s;ee what their end &s;hall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom there is no faith.</P>
<P>And again, the Lord &s;aith unto <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> how long will this people provoke me, and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the &s;ignes that I have &s;hewed among&s;t them. So here you &s;tand yet in the unbeliefe and hardne&s;&s;e of heart, and &s;tiffneckedne&s;&s;e, and now it is time for you to returne unto the Lord who calls you, and to believe on him, and hearken to his voice within you, his witne&s;&s;e and te&s;timony which he hath given you, which te&s;tifies again&s;t all &s;in, and all unrighteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, and all unbeliefe, and hard-heartedne&s;&s;e, and unclean|ne&s;&s;e, and this te&s;tifies again&s;t all oppre&s;&s;ion and wrong, there is that in your hearts which tells you, that you &s;hould doe unto all men, as ye would they &s;hould doe unto you; this is ju&s;t, this is righteous, this is equall, there is that in you which te&s;tifies again&s;t lying and fal&s;e &s;wearing, and bearing fal&s;e wit|ne&s;&s;e again&s;t your neighbour, there is that in your con&s;ciences which tells you, you &s;hould have no other God but the living God, and that ye &s;hould not make any graven Image.</P>
<P>Now if you doe not minde that of God in you, to guide you and leade you, you &s;erve not the living God, but makes an I|mage in your mindes of him, which the light of God in you lets you &s;ee is not the truth. If ye will come downe to the light of God in you, it will &s;hew you your hardne&s;&s;e of heart, and your hypocri&s;ie, and your rebellion again&s;t the living God, and if you mind the light of God in you, which will rip you up, and lay open all the &s;ecrets of your hearts; It lets you &s;ee that you have taken the name of the Lord in vaine, and that you are guilty before the Lord of &s;in, and tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion; and the light of the living God will let you &s;ee, that you have not kept the &s;abboth and fa&s;t to the Lord, which is, to loo&s;e the bonds of wickedne&s;&s;e, and to undoe the heavy burdens, and to let the oppre&s;&s;ed goe free, and to breake every yoake, this is the fa&s;t which the Lord hath cho&s;en, and this ye have not done yet, the light will let you &s;ee the bonds of wickedne&s;&s;e,
<PB N="24" REF="14">are yet unbroken, and the ju&s;t of God &s;uffers in oppre&s;&s;ion in you, for if you had kept this fa&s;t, then &s;hould the light breake forth as the morning, and your health &s;hould &s;pring forth &s;pee|dily, and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;hould goe before thee, and the glory of the Lord &s;hould be thy reward, here would be a &s;abboth and re&s;t to the ju&s;t of God, which is in bonds in you, and in op|pre&s;&s;ion, which the true fa&s;t of the Lord would breake; The pure light of God in you doth let you &s;ee, that you ought not to &s;teale, nor to kill, which &s;aith thou &s;halt doe no murther, thou &s;halt not beare fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e, thou &s;halt not covet; If you would bring your minds to the pure eternall light of God in you, you would heare the &s;ame voice of God, as ever was, who is manife&s;ted in this his day, in his Spirit. And this light and Spirit of the living God will let you &s;ee your &s;elves to be commandement-breakers, to be &s;abboth-breakers, and Cove|nant-breakers; this will let you &s;ee that you are out of the way, and that you are become filthy and corrupt.</P>
<P>And in this condition there is no peace for you, nor recon|ciliation with God; if ever ye know peace and atonement with God, ye mu&s;t come to the light, to be proved by the light, and tryed by the light, and led by the light, and guided by the light,</P>
<P>And this will lead you into all truth, and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and peace; and here you will be wa&s;hed, and purged, and purifi|ed, and the vaile will be taken off and rent, which is over your heart, and the true circumci&s;ion will be known, which is of the heart, in the Spirit, and the offering of a broken and con|trite heart, which the Lord only accepteth will be known, and the &s;abboth of the Lord will be known, where there is true re&s;t and peace, and true wor&s;hiping in the Spirit, and the holy day will be known, but all this is known by the wa&s;hing of the blood of the everla&s;ting Covenant, which clean&s;es from all &s;in.</P>
<P>And &s;o if you would abide here in this pure light and Spirit, ye would know life eternall, and then ye would know what the Lord &s;aid, when he &s;aid, I would have fed them with the fine&s;t wheat, and with honey out of the &s;tony rock would I have &s;atisfied thee.</P>
<PB N="25" REF="14">
<P>And &s;o as you come to waite in the light, and abide in the light, you will come to know this, and &s;o the ju&s;t will come to live, for the ju&s;t lives by his faith.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hab.</HI> 2.</NOTE></P>
<P>So wait in the light of the Lord, who is &s;ending forth the light of his truth in this his day; They that waite in the Lord &s;hall renew their &s;trength, ble&s;&s;ed are all they that waite for him; <HI>David</HI> &s;aith, Let integrity and uprightne&s;&s;e pre&s;erve me, for I waite on thee, and againe; waite on the Lord, be of good courage, and he &s;hall &s;trengthen thy heart; waite I &s;ay on the Lord, tho&s;e that waite on the Lord &s;hall inherit the earth, I waite for the Lord, my &s;oule doth waite, in his word doe I hope; My &s;oule waiteth for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning; Let <HI>I&s;rael</HI> hope in the Lord,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 130.</NOTE> for with the Lord there is mercy, he &s;hall redeeme <HI>I&s;rael</HI> from all his iniquity.</P>
<P>Now if ye can believe <HI>David,</HI> you will come to waite upon the Lord, your &s;oule will waite upon the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning, And <HI>David</HI> &s;aith, The Lord is my light and &s;alvation, in thy light I &s;hall &s;ee light; And a|gain, he &s;hall bring forth thy righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e as light; And a|gain, God is the Lord who hath &s;hewed us his light.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Prov.</HI> 20.</NOTE> Here did <HI>David</HI> waite upon the Lord in his light, And <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aith, waite on the Lord and he &s;hall &s;ave thee.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a.</NOTE> He &s;hall not faile nor be di&s;couraged till he have &s;et judgment in the earth, and the I&s;les &s;hall waite for his law, and they that waite upon the Lord &s;hall mount up as with Eagles wings, they &s;hall walke and not be weary, run, and not faint.</P>
<P>So here is your way, and no &s;alvation &s;hall ye find in any other, but as you come into the feare of the Lord, to waite upon him in his light in you, to guide your mindes, when you turne to the right hand, or to the left; being guided by the light, this will &s;trengthen your heart, and this will lead you to uprightne&s;&s;e and &s;inglene&s;&s;e of heart.</P>
<P>And here ye mu&s;t know your King he is ju&s;t and righteous, having &s;alvation, and he rules and reigns in ju&s;tice and righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and &s;o waiting here in the Spirit, you will come to re|ceive the promi&s;es of the Lord unto you, who is now holding forth his hand of love unto you, and if ever ye come to know
<PB N="26" REF="15">him, or to know the Kingdome re&s;tored unto <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> ye mu&s;t prepare to meet him in the Spirit, eternally ye &s;hall witne&s;&s;e this to be truth: and as ye are &s;ubject and obedient to the teaching and leading, and guiding of the Lord in the Spirit, &s;o will he &s;ave you from all your uncleanne&s;&s;e, and you will receive his promi&s;e, and &s;o the dry bones will come to live, and the wind will breath from the four windes, that they may live; and you will receive this promi&s;e. Thus &s;aith the Lord, I will open your graves, and I will cau&s;e you to come up out of your graves, and you &s;hall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, and brought you up out of your graves, and I will put my Spirit within you, and ye &s;hall live; Moreover I will make a Covenant of peace with them, it &s;hall be an everla&s;ting Covenant with them, and I will place them, and multiply them, and I will &s;et my &s;anctu|ary in the mid&s;t of them for evermore. My Tabernacle al&s;o &s;hall be with them,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 37.</NOTE> yea, I will be their God, and they &s;hall be my people, and the Heathen &s;hall know that I the Lord doe &s;anctifie <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> when my &s;anctuary &s;hall be in the mid&s;t of them for evermore.</P>
<P>So as you waite in the pure eternall Spirit of light, this you will come to &s;ee fulfilled, according to your faithfulne&s;&s;e, and according to your obedience, for obedience is required, and the new Covenant which is light, leads into obedience which is better than &s;acrifice.</P>
<P>This <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> prophe&s;ied of, when he &s;poke of your trouble and afflictions, which were to come upon you, he &s;aith; Even in the latter dayes if thou turn to the Lord thy God,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut</HI> 4.</NOTE> and &s;halt be obedient unto his voice, the Lord thy God is a merci|full God, he would not for&s;ake thee.</P>
<P>And againe; It &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e when all the&s;e things are come upon thee, the ble&s;&s;ings and the cur&s;es, which I have &s;et before thee, and &s;halt call them to minde among all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, and &s;halt returne unto the Lord thy God, and &s;halt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> 30.</NOTE> with all thy heart, and with all thy &s;oule; That the Lord thy God &s;hall turne away thy captivity, and will have
<PB N="27" REF="15">compa&s;&s;ion upon thee, and will returne and gather thee from all Nations, whither the Lord thy God hath &s;cattered thee.</P>
<P>See now whether ye will believe <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and whether ye will be obedient to the Prophet, that the Lord is rai&s;ing, like unto <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> (which is light) to which if ye will be obe|dient, it will gather you from all nations whither you are &s;catte|red, and bring you into the good land, where there is one heart, and one Spirit, where the Lord is one, and his name one, and this is the land of promi&s;e, and the Covenant of God unto you, and all Nations, who come to know him in the Spi|rit, they that are willing and obedient eates the good of this land, and they that are far off, &s;hall come and build in the tem|ple of the Lord, and ye &s;hall know that the Lord hath &s;ent me unto you; And this &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e, If you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.</P>
<P>So here is the condition and promi&s;e and Covenant of the Lord; according to your obedience to the voice of the Lord in his Spirit, &s;o will it be unto you. And now the prophe&s;ie of <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> is fulfilled upon you, you have been many dayes without a King, without a Prince, and without a &s;acrifice, and without an Ephod.</P>
<P>Now if you would returne unto the Lord in obedience to his light in you, and &s;eek the Lord, and <HI>David</HI> your King, and feare the Lord and his goodne&s;&s;e in the&s;e latter dayes, it would goe well with you, for the Lord de&s;ireth mercy, and not &s;acrifice, and the knowledge of the Lord more than burnt offerings.</P>
<P>And if ye de&s;ire to know the Lord, you mu&s;t turne your mindes unto his light, there will you come to know him and feele him, and find him neare; then will you know the trum|pet of the Lord that is blown in <HI>Sion,</HI> and the alarme &s;ounded in his holy mountaine, which makes all the Inhabitants of the earth to tremble, when the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters"> .</HI> 2.</NOTE> And it is come to pa&s;&s;e which the Prophet pro|phe&s;ied of <HI>Zeph.</HI> At that time it &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e that I will &s;earch <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> with candles, and puni&s;h the men that are &s;etled on their lees, the day of the Lord di&s;covers them,
<PB N="28" REF="16">and will be &s;orrow and di&s;tre&s;&s;e unto them, the great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and ha&s;tes greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord; that day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble, and di&s;tre&s;&s;e, a day of darkne&s;&s;e and gloomines, a day of the Trumpet and Allarm.</P>
<P>So waite in the pure light that &s;hineth in you; and there you will &s;ee this day of the Lord, and heare the voice of this day near, Therefore waite upon me &s;aith the Lord untill the day that I ri&s;e up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may a&s;&s;emble the Kingdomes, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce an|ger, for all the earth &s;hall be devoured, with the fire of my indignation.</P>
<P>Who waites upon the Lord in his pure light and Spi|rit &s;hall &s;ee this fulfilled, and &s;hall be pre&s;erved in the Lords light, for then will I turne to the people a pure lan|guage, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to &s;erve him with one con&s;ent.</P>
<P>Here is the one light that gathers into one, here is the one Spirit, and the one heart; and here is the pure language learned, here the envy of <HI>Ephraim</HI> &s;hall depart; and the adver&s;aries of <HI>Judah</HI> &s;hall be cut off, <HI>Ephraim</HI> &s;hall not envy <HI>Judah,</HI> and <HI>Judah</HI> &s;hall not vex <HI>Ephraim,</HI> when the gathe|ring of the Nations is unto this en&s;igne, when the Lord thy God is in the mid&s;t of thee, who is mighty to &s;ave, he will rejoyce over thee;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 11.</NOTE> Then &s;ing, and rejoyce O daughter of <HI>Zion,</HI> for lo I come, and will dwell in the mid&s;t of thee, &s;aith the Lord; And many nations &s;hall be joyned to the Lord in that day, and &s;hall be my people, and I will dwell in the mid&s;t of thee; and the Lord &s;hall inherit <HI>Judah</HI> his por|tion in the holy land, and &s;hall chu&s;e <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> againe, but let all fle&s;h be &s;ilent before the Lord,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zach.</HI> 2.</NOTE> for he is ri&s;en up, out of his holy habitation; where no fle&s;h can come, nor the &s;ervice of no fle&s;h is accepted, but all fle&s;h is to be &s;ilent before the Lord, for the pure wor&s;hip of God is in the Spirit, which is one in all, which is the en&s;igne that is &s;et, for the gathering of all Nations together in the one Spirit, and one heart, where the Lord is in the mid&s;t, and the glory of this latter hou&s;e is
<PB N="29" REF="16">greater than the former, &s;aith the Lord of hoa&s;ts; In this place will I give peace, and in that day will the Lord defend the Inhabitants of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and he that is feeble among them, at that day &s;hall be as <HI>David,</HI> and the hou&s;e of <HI>David</HI> &s;hall be as God, as the Angell of the Lord before them, and it &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e in that day, that I will &s;eek to de&s;troy all nations that come again&s;t <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI></P>
<P>This you may look for, when there is pure obedience, and waiting in the light upon the Lord, to be guided, and his mighty power, and arme to carry on, then will the Lord ful|fill his promi&s;e, who &s;aith, I will make thee a &s;harpe thre&s;hing in&s;trument, having teeth, thou &s;halt thre&s;h the Moun|taines and beat them &s;mall, and make the hills as chaffe, and then the promi&s;e of the Lord will be fulfilled, I will poure upon the hou&s;e of <HI>David,</HI> and upon the Inhabitants of <HI>Jeru|&s;alem</HI> the Spirit of grace, and of &s;upplication, and they &s;hall look upon me whom they have pierced, and mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only Sonne, and be in bitternes for him, as one that is in bitterne&s;&s;e for his fir&s;t born.</P>
<P>Waiting in the light, in the pure feare, and &s;ubjection, there will ye come to &s;ee him whom ye have pierced, and when ye &s;ee him, ye will mourne over him, as one that mour|neth for his fir&s;t borne; and then the Spirit of grace and &s;up|plication you will know, and then the fountaine ye will &s;ee opened, which is to the hou&s;e of <HI>David,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zach.</HI> 14.</NOTE> and to the Inhabi|tants of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> for &s;in and for uncleane&s;&s;e; And in that day the living waters &s;hall goe out from <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and the Lord &s;hall be King over all the earth; In that day there &s;hall be one Lord, and his name one.</P>
<P>And &s;o here is your head, and your re&s;t, and your Kingdome, and your land of promi&s;e; and to this you mu&s;t pa&s;&s;e in the Spirit; There is no other way but the light, the way of holi|ne&s;&s;e, which is through the wilderne&s;&s;e, and through the de|&s;art.</P>
<P>And as ye pa&s;&s;e in this way, ye will know the &s;haking down of the power of darkne&s;&s;e; Thus &s;aith the Lord of hoa&s;ts, yet once, and it is a little while, and I will &s;hake the Heavens,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hag.</HI> 2.</NOTE> and the earth, and the Sea, and the dry land, and I will &s;hake
<PB N="30" REF="17">all nations, and the de&s;ire of all Nations &s;hall come, and I will fill this hou&s;e with glory, &s;aith the Lord of hoa&s;ts, glory and honour be to the Lord for evermore.</P>
<P>Now as ye waite in the eternall light, and your minds are kept to it, this you will read near, for the&s;e Scriptures were &s;poken forth, from an eternall Spirit within, and no other Spi|rit can read them, but the &s;ame that &s;poke them forth, which Spirit is light, which all the &s;ervants and me&s;&s;engers of God &s;poke from, which the naturall man knoweth not, where the power of darkne&s;&s;e reignes. Behold I &s;end my me&s;&s;enger, and he &s;hall prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom ye &s;eek &s;hall &s;uddenly come to his Temple, even the me&s;&s;enger of the Covenant whom ye delight in; Behold he &s;hall come &s;aith the Lord of hoa&s;ts, but who may abide the day of his coming, and who &s;hall &s;tand when he appeares, for he is like a refiners fire, and like fullers &s;ope, and he &s;hall &s;it as a refiner, and purifier of &s;ilver, and he &s;hall purifie the &s;ons of <HI>Levi,</HI> and purge them as gold and &s;ilver, that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, then &s;hall the offerings of <HI>Judah</HI> and <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> be plea&s;ant unto the Lord, as in the dayes of old, and as in former yeares; As the pure obedience to the pure light is given,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 25.</NOTE> &s;o there will be purging and puri|fying, and the refiner &s;hall &s;it, and purely purge away thy dro&s;&s;e, and take away thy &s;in, who &s;aith I will come near to you to judgement, and I will be a &s;wift witne&s;&s;e again&s;t the &s;orcerer, and the adulterer, and the fal&s;e &s;wearer, for I am the Lord I change not, therefore ye &s;ons of <HI>Jacob</HI> be not con|&s;umed.</P>
<P>So as ye love your &s;oules and your eternall peace turne to the Lord, that calls you, who&s;e &s;pirit will not alwayes &s;trive with man, who&s;e hand of love is continued and holden forth to you.</P>
<P>Doe not alwayes hate to be reformed, lea&s;t he breake in upon you, and de&s;troy you, for he hath put on righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e as a brea&s;t-plate, and a helmet of &s;alvation up|on his head, and he hath put on the garments of ven|geance for cloathing, and is clad with zeale as with a cloake, according to your deeds, accordingly he will repay fury to his
<PB N="31" REF="17">adver&s;aries, recompence to his enemies.</P>
<P>So when his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is revealed, in executing ven|geance on his enemies, then &s;hall they feare the name of the Lord from the we&s;t, and his glory from the ri&s;ing of the Sun, when the enemy &s;hall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord &s;hall lift up a &s;tandard again&s;t him; And the Redeemer &s;hall come to <HI>Zion,</HI> and unto them that turne from tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ion in <HI>Jacob,</HI> &s;aith the Lord; as for me this is my Covenant with them &s;aith the Lord, my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, &s;hall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy &s;eed, nor out of the mouth of thy &s;eeds &s;eed, from hence forth and for ever.</P>
<P>This promi&s;e is eternall, and this remaines upon the &s;eed of the promi&s;e for ever, and the promi&s;e to the &s;eed is the Spirit; and the redeemer comes unto <HI>Zion</HI> in the Spirit, and he comes to tho&s;e that turnes from their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, and the mini&s;try of the Spirit is to turne from the darkne&s;&s;e to the light, and from the power of Satan unto God: And here comes the re&s;urrection, and the hope of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and here the valley of <HI>Achor</HI> is the door of hope. Thus &s;aith the Lord, as the new wine is found in the clu&s;ter, and one &s;aith, de&s;troy it not, for a ble&s;&s;ing is in it: So will I doe for my &s;ervants &s;ake that I may not de&s;troy them all; And I will bring forth a &s;eed out of <HI>Jacob,</HI> and out of <HI>Judah,</HI> mine elect &s;hall inherit it,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 65.</NOTE> and my &s;ervants &s;hall dwell there: and Sharon &s;hall be a folde of flocks, and the valley of <HI>Achor</HI> a place for the heards to ly down in, for my people that have &s;ought me.</P>
<P>This is to all the &s;ervants of the Lord that have &s;ought him, Jewes and Gentiles, where the new wine is found in the clu&s;ter, which the ble&s;&s;ing is to, <HI>Sbaron</HI> is a folde for all tho&s;e flocks that &s;eekes unto the Lord and &s;erves him, not of the Jewes on|ly, but al&s;o of the Gentiles.</P>
<P>And &s;o the promi&s;e is fulfilled, where it is &s;aid, God &s;hall enlarge <HI>Japhet,</HI> and he &s;hall dwell in the tents of <HI>Shem;</HI> and where the Lord &s;aith by the Prophet, I will &s;ow her unto me in the earth, and will have mercy on her that had not obtained
<PB N="32" REF="18">mercy,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ho&s;.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.23.</NOTE> and I will &s;ay unto them that were not my peo|ple, thou art my people, and they &s;hall &s;ay thou art my God.</P>
<P>Here is the large infinite love of God manife&s;ted, who &s;aith, It is a light thing that thou &s;houlde&s;t rai&s;e up the tribes of <HI>Jacob,</HI> and re&s;tore the pre&s;erved of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> I will al&s;o give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou maye&s;t be my &s;alvation unto the ends of the earth.</P>
<P>Here is the Covenant that reacheth unto all, the light; and all that come into the light to be guided, led, and governed, comes into the Covenant.</P>
<P>So think it not &s;trange, to receive this Te&s;timony from the Gentiles, who have obtained mercy, and received the promi&s;e of the Lord, according to <HI>I&s;aiahs</HI> prophe&s;ie: I am found of them that &s;ought me not,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 65.</NOTE> I &s;aid unto a people, behold me un|to a nation that was not called by my name, I have &s;pred out my hand all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts.</P>
<P>Here is your &s;tate and condition: Therefore be not high|minded but feare, for this is no new thing to you, for the Lord &s;aid by <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> 32.21.</NOTE> they have moved me to jealou&s;ie with that which is not good, they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealou&s;ie with tho&s;e who are not a people, I will provoke them to anger with a fooli&s;h Nation.</P>
<P>This ye have cau&s;ed the Lord to doe through your provoca|tions, who alwayes rebelled again&s;t him, and cau&s;ed him to turne to the Gentiles with &s;alvation, but though ye be provo|ked to anger and jealou&s;ie by a people that were not, and by a fooli&s;h Nation: yet be not angry but turn to him that &s;mi|teth, who&s;e hand of dear love is holden forth unto you, who waites to be gracious unto you, who is God over all, and rich unto all; that &s;o in your &s;tumbling ye may not utterly fall, but that rather through your fall, &s;alvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke you to jealou&s;ie.</P>
<P>And now that your &s;tumbling hath been the riches of the world, and your dimini&s;hing the riches of the Gentiles, how much more will your gathering be joy, and life, and rejoycing
<PB N="33" REF="18">to the Gentiles, which writes this unto you, which ye &s;hall eternally witne&s;&s;e to be an everla&s;ting te&s;timony of the love of God to you.</P>
<P>Therefore &s;tart not a&s;ide, nor ca&s;t not this behinde you, as ye have done all the gracious tenders of the Lords love for|merly: But come to this light that is in you, which will lead you into the paths of peace, and into the Covenant where the gathering is, that &s;o you may receive the promi&s;e of the Lord to you, who hath &s;aid; The &s;ons of &s;trangers &s;hall build up thy walls, and their Kings &s;hall mini&s;ter unto thee; and thou &s;halt &s;uck the milk of the Gentiles, and &s;halt &s;uck the brea&s;ts of Kings, and thou &s;halt know that I the Lord am thy Savi|our, and thy Redeemer the mighty one of <HI>Jacob.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a</HI> 66.</NOTE></P>
<P>Now if ye will know your Redeemer, and your Saviour, the mighty one of <HI>Jacob,</HI> turne to the light, joyne your mindes in|to the light, which is within you, and there will you &s;ee your Saviour and Redeemer, and there &s;hall ye &s;uck the milk of the Gentiles, and there &s;hall you receive your King. Thus &s;aith the Lord God, behold I will lift up my hand unto the Gentiles, and &s;et up my &s;tandard to the people, and they &s;hall bring thy &s;ons in their armes, and thy daughters &s;hall be carried upon their &s;houlders, and Kings &s;hall be thy nur&s;ing fathers, and their Queens thy nur&s;ing mothers, they &s;hall bow down to thee with their faces towards the earth, and lick up the du&s;t of thy feet.</P>
<P>See here now if this be not fulfilled: Is there not even a bowing down unto thee in this loving invitation, and even a licking of the du&s;t of thy feet with their faces towards the earth, who have the &s;tandard of the Lord &s;et among&s;t us, which is for the gathering of all nations together, that we might bring thy &s;ons in our armes, and thy daughters upon our &s;houlders, our &s;oules de&s;ire is that you might all be gathered, and come into the Covenant of light, and love, and partake with us of the everla&s;ting riches and inheritance that never fades away.</P>
<P>Therefore ari&s;e and &s;hine, for thy light is come, and the Gentiles are come to thy light, and Kings to the brightne&s;&s;e of thy ri&s;ing, thy &s;ons &s;hall come from farre, and thy daugh|ters
<PB N="34" REF="19">&s;hall be nur&s;ed at thy &s;ide, then &s;halt thou &s;ee, and flow together, and thy heart &s;hall feare, and be enlarged, becau&s;e of the abundance of the Sea, that &s;hall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles &s;hall come to thee.</P>
<P>This we de&s;ire to &s;ee fulfilled, and this we waite for, that e|ven the fulne&s;&s;e might come in, for <HI>Shiloh</HI> is come, unto whom the gathering is, though blindne&s;&s;e is happened unto <HI>I&s;rael:</HI> But the Redeemer is come to <HI>Zion,</HI> and unto them that turn from tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion in <HI>Jacob.</HI></P>
<P>So as you turne from your tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, this ye will &s;ee, and witne&s;&s;e. And &s;o whether you hear or forbeare, this &s;hall be an eternall te&s;timony for the Lord, for ever:</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>M. F.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER><GAP DESC="foreign"></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="queries">
<PB N="35" REF="19">
<HEAD>Certaine Queries, To the teachers and Rabbi's among the <HI>Jewes.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>What the way of holine&s;&s;e is,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 35.</NOTE> <HI>and where it is, where the uncleane cannot pa&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>What the way in the Wilderne&s;&s;e is,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 43.</NOTE> <HI>and the Rivers in the de&s;art?</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>What the voice of him is, that cryeth in the Wilderne&s;&s;e,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a</HI> 40.</NOTE> <HI>prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straite in the de&s;art, a high way for our God, and what this way is?</HI></P>
<P N="4">4.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 30.</NOTE> <HI>What the word is that is heard be|hinde, &s;aying; This is the way walke in it?</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>What the tongue of the learned is,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 50.</NOTE> <HI>that &s;peakes a word in &s;ea&s;on to him that is wea|ry?</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. <HI>What that wi&s;dome is which cryes,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Prov.</HI> 8.</NOTE> <HI>and under&s;tanding that puts forth her voice, to the &s;ons of men?</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>What that was in</HI> Solomon,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>ver.</HI> 15.</NOTE> <HI>which &s;aid, by me Kings rule, and Princes decree justice, even all the Judges of the Earth?</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. <HI>What was that in</HI> Solomon, <HI>which was
<PB N="36" REF="20">&s;et up from everlasting,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>ver.</HI> 23.</NOTE> <HI>from the beginning ere ever the Earth was?</HI></P>
<P N="9">9. <HI>What was that in</HI> David, <HI>which &s;aid, Yet have I &s;et my King upon my holy hill of Zion:</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2</NOTE> <HI>The Lord hath &s;aid unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee?</HI></P>
<P N="10">10. <HI>What was that in</HI> Job, <HI>which &s;aid, I will teach you by the hand of God:</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Job.</HI> 27.</NOTE> <HI>that which is with the Almighty will I not con|ceale?</HI></P>
<P N="11">11.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Job</HI> 28.</NOTE> <HI>What that path is, which</HI> Job <HI>&s;peakes of: And that wi&s;dome, and place of under|&s;tanding, which is hid from all eyes living.</HI></P>
<P N="12">12.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> 33.</NOTE> <HI>What the fountaine of</HI> Jacob <HI>is, which</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>&s;peakes of?</HI></P>
<P N="13">13. <HI>What that fountaine is, which &s;hall come forth of the hou&s;e of the Lord?</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Joel.</HI> 3.</NOTE></P>
<P N="14">14. <HI>VVhat that fountaine is which is ope|ned to the hou&s;e of</HI> David,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zach.</HI> 13.</NOTE> <HI>and to the inhabi|tants of</HI> Jeru&s;alem?</P>
<P N="15">15.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zach.</HI> 14.</NOTE> <HI>VVhat the living waters is that goes from</HI> Jeru&s;alem?</P>
<P N="16">16. <HI>VVhat tho&s;e rivers and fountaines are,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 51.</NOTE> <HI>which the Lord will open in the high places, and in the mid&s;t of the valleyes: when
<PB N="37" REF="20">he makes the wilderne&s;&s;e a pool, and dry land &s;prings of water?</HI></P>
<P N="17">17. <HI>How it is,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 12.</NOTE> <HI>and by what that waters are drawn forth out of the wells of &s;alva|tion?</HI></P>
<P N="18">18. <HI>VVhat that fountaine of gardens,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cant.</HI> 4.</NOTE> <HI>and well of living waters, and streams from Leba|non is, which</HI> Solomon <HI>&s;peaks of?</HI></P>
<P N="19">19. <HI>Where doth the ancient of dayes &s;it,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Dan.</HI> 7.</NOTE> <HI>when he eomes, when judgment is given to the Saints of the most high?</HI></P>
<P N="20">20. <HI>VVhat the Kingdome and dominion,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>ver.</HI> 2.7.</NOTE> <HI>which is given to the Saints of the mo&s;t high, is, and where it is, who&s;e Kingdome is an e|verla&s;ting Kingdome, and all dominions &s;hall &s;erve and obey him?</HI></P>
<P>An&s;wer the&s;e Queries, according to the Law and Prophets.</P>
<TRAILER>THE END.</TRAILER>
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