London, Printed by /. C. for Giles Calvert^ 
 the Blackjpread-Eagh, at the Weft end 
 of Pauls, j ($4y. 
 
5 it bondage, butJet mt at liberty^and caufed rue to 
 fee much glory in thcfefotleming truths; and when 
 Ged works none can hinder. It may be feme things 
 herein may feeme very ftrangc at the fir ft reading 
 
iing of the great day ef judgment, for as he H 
 mored in favingyon of the Citie that were loft ifo 
 will be honored in redeeming thefe that lye tin¬ 
 ier the power of the fecond death, and that emred 
 ■ot into the City, feeing there was no difference bt- 
 weenyou and them , till the will of God made the 
 iifference, in taking yon at the firft and leaving 
 '■cm till the laft hsttre j for Chrift gave hiptfelf 
 
aranfome for all, to be revealed in due time. God 
 doth not reve.de his love to all at one time but when 
 he will • and God hath feme thing to do after the re- 
 furre3ion,as he batft^afd willy et'd? much before 
 that day. Well ., 1 leavs x not questioning, but if any 
 ofyou-be unfatisfied tyitb what I have.writfhatyou 
 Voillfpeakjo tne, andlhope God will be my Vtlfdom 
 andftrexgth to confmie it ; face I had writ it, I 
 met with more Scriptures to confirme Ufa that it is 
 net a fpirit of private fancied but it is.agreedble to 
 the written Word. FarVf elL 
 
 Your Country-man,. 
 
 that loves the life o£ 
 
 ■ your Soule, 
 
 Cjerrard ffw^anle^ 
 
vThefe, Paiticalarsy and fuck like 
 
 are contained; inthis Difcourfe, ' 
 
 , fifan^ndewas, k, andJhatlfidj.. . . 
 
 • if$atSerpent k,thateaufeddiims 
 fall, and whence beJprang, S\ . 
 
 Tbe Serpent is not Gods Creature. . \ " 
 
 What the bondage of death is, that Adam dr M 
 mankind lie's under .. , • ' 
 
 Wbatthe.giod, and what the had Angels are.. 
 
 God bath caft the-twofoldmurderer out of heaven, 
 and what, that is. ’ 
 
 God will fubdue the Serpent -, not under part, hut 
 ; under, the whole Creatien,Mankinde. 
 
 When Jlcreatures, except Man, aye to be dijfol- 
 . ved.intomthingf - . : 
 
 ’Seven Ibijfenfationr which God, Void have Man¬ 
 kind to.pajfp through before he fubdue the 'Ser- 
 pent under the feet thereof, *ind what.they. are. 
 f he Citie Sion,or the EleU, are in gathering up 
 to God in fix of thofe-difyenjations, in. every fea- . 
 fon oftimcy.and in (he 1 {event h the my fiery of 
 
 Goa jhall be finijhed,andmt till then* - £•._* 
 
 The C it ieffort,or the EleU,-Jhallfirfl be taken tip 
 to G.od,afu?fcards they that ipete cafllinto evcr- 
 Idfiing.frre,' while’tht f feil- yeere in gathering. 
 Shall be redeemed,and partake of the glory of. the 
 
 Ci^VjV v . , .- ' vc 
 
 What is meant by everlafiing fire, and'the -'Word, 
 for ever and everfo ofien u/ed in Scripture^ 
 pedis honoured In the falvation of Beleevefs, and 
 in the Ioffe and Jhame of ttnbelee vers. - 
 
Gods piglpgtht ferptntfis mankinds redemption 
 What the day of pidgin entt*. 
 
 Tbough loft man drwkjhe top, jet the Serpent 
 JbaUdrinkjhe drtgiof Gods judgment, before the 
 Son can deliver ftp the Kingdom to the Father. 
 What the fir ft andfecond death it , or the fir ft re - 
 furreFito/i^and fecund death 
 what the Books s are that m/ft he opened at the 
 great day of judgement. 
 
 God hath bee* judging the Serpent ftnee Adams 
 fail,and willftillfit upon the Throne till the lafi 
 dy befiniihed,r$-yet all but one day of judgment 
 God hates none out the Serpent andhts feecT ; hee 
 loves every branch tfmankinde, and in his oVFne 
 fteafms Wflmanifeft his love to every one,though 
 to fame at the ninths fame at the tenth, and feme 
 at the laft houre. 
 
 God hath given a time, times, andhalfe time to 
 the Serpent nOW in the Utter day es to reigne 
 inthefe. 
 
 ‘ How tie Serpent under the names of Beaft, where 
 'andfd e Prophet, mefiesufe of that tim God 
 hath given him. ' 
 
 The bitten: effe that is in tttens ftirits in thefe 
 dayes, is the fmoakjf the Serpents torment, the 
 reftlef cfte of that wicked me day and night, 
 and beginning, of hisfemmes. 
 
 Three fcraples againft this my ft try tf God an* 
 fteertd. 
 
 -Ajeafmahle advice iri the chfe ., 
 
 _ The 
 
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 The Myftejy of God, con* 
 
 ccrningtke whole Creation, 
 
 Mankind e. 
 
 Whfit mankinds is, was, ana/ball bt. 
 
 ^ en ^ad ma< k Adam, there 
 ,waf t ^ en two Beings, diftinft - 0 
 the one from the °ther, that is, 
 Godhimfelfe, that was anun- 
 created Being, and the Humane 
 Nature, that was a created Be¬ 
 ing: And though <iAdam was Gen. 
 pure and fpotleffe.yet he had no other wifdome, 3 x. ; 
 beauty,and power,hut what God hid created. 
 
 God himfelf, who is the infinite & eridlefs Being, ' •: 
 did not dwell bodily in Adam , as he did dwell c . 
 bodily in the Humane Nature, Jefus Chrift, 
 
 •the fecond xAdam, in after-times; but a pure 
 created wifdome, beauty, and power, did rule, . 
 dwell, and aft in that created Humanity. 
 
 And after God had made Adam, he put him 
 into a Garden, called Eden , which was full of 
 Trees, Hearts,Creatures, for pleafure and de- Gtn: 
 light, thathefhould drefleit, and live con- 9, 
 tentedly in the ufe of all things therein; which ^; 
 ', .. . indeed J 
 
(*•). 
 
 indeed^ the.Hiftory sofche creatures Rapacity, 
 ii Cant. 4. Yet thereby God oedfirfcs, Tha£stfJi» hiril- 
 |T2.1 6. felfe, or that living flefh, rtankinde, is a Garden 
 ufai. 5 8. which God hath jnadeJ^r his Owri delight, jto 
 'll 1 . dwell, and walk in, wherein he had planted va¬ 
 riety'®f Hearbs, & pieafant Plants, as ; k)ve; joy, 
 peace, humility, knowledge,obedience, delight, 
 
 . and purity of life. 
 
 But all thefe being created qualities,and a Be- 
 ; ing diftindl from the Beingof God ; God knew 
 ; and law; tliar there would fpring up as a weed, 
 
 ’ and- the firft fruits of it likewife, an inclinable 
 
 n 6 P r ‘ nc ‘P' e 5 Qr fpiric of felf-Iove afpiringup in the 
 j . -5 ' ' inidftofthis created, living Garden, and in the 
 l midft of every plant therein, which .is indeed, 
 
 ' 'F. afpifing to be asGod, or to be a Being of it 
 felfe, equal! to, and yet djftinft from God; as | 
 ■f; .. we fee by vifible experience, in every creature, 
 
 !* • as Horfes, Cowes, Beares^ and the like, there 
 ■ • * appeared an inclinable,difpofition to promote it 
 
 . fel ! ’e,or its.ewn Being : But this is but the fruit, 
 or invention of the creature after he was made, 
 God did not make it. 
 
 Now as.'the pureft water being let ftand,does 
 • in time putrihc,fo I fay, God knew that the firft 
 )ef. 2. fruit tharthis created Being would bring forth, 
 j would be an afpiring:defire to be equal!, py like 
 \ to God.Kimfeife, which if the cre^tqre r de ; jight- 
 i ‘ ed in, and fo ate, or fatis'fied bimfelfe in bis own 
 f fruit, he ihpBldHie; but if he forfopk n hls : qw.n 
 
 \ ' invention, ^^.ftudclQfe to Go^ a fkn 0 ^i e ^©^ 
 
 V ; . . " ' * ' ing 
 
U) ^ 
 
 inghisBeingto be his life, and all in all, then he_ 
 fhouldlive. 
 
 Therefore God made it under a law, that the 
 creature might know himfelfe to be a creature, 
 and acknowledge pod his maker to be above, 
 to whofe command he was to fubjedt himfelfe ; 
 for when God had made him a pure livi ng crea¬ 
 ture, verygood,'and a being dittinft from the 
 being of God,yet in the image of God, like two 
 trees from whence fruit fhould grow, for Adam 
 would bring forth fruit to maintain his’created ; 
 being equall with God j and God would bri hg ? 
 forth fruit to maintain his uncreated being, and 
 to fwallow up all other beings into himfelf, anij -.-s, 
 he to become all in all to every Creature that 
 he made. ;i 4 * M 
 
 Now faith God, I have made thee the Lord 
 of all my Creatures, and for thyufe I made 
 them; and thou may eft make ufe.of any that t 
 pleafes thine eyes, and eat of the fruit of any 
 tree that delights thy tafte, excepting the tree of . £ 
 knowledge of good and evill that hands- in the ;1 
 middle of the Garden, and of that thou (hale 
 not eat; for in that day that thou eateft ther.ej 
 of, thou ftiall die the death, ; And'this is the 
 Law or -Covenant' that I have made between' I 
 me, that am a Being of my felfe yand thee, thac r 
 art a Being created by me.. - ;• - O ' 
 
 Now when Adam had taken of ghe tree-of ^ 
 fcnowledgeofgood and evill, that was-in the •' 
 parden of Eden,\hs Hiftoryfand dideat'of it£j 
 
to..', 
 
 , It declares, • that he did eat likewife, and, efpe- 
 
 ciallyofthe forbidden fruit that afpired up in 
 f himfelfthe living Gardenof Eden the myftery, 
 
 y« 4. and gave way with content and delight to that 
 ! t. afpiring felfifhncfle within himfelfe, to be as 
 God, knowing good and evill • for eating ira- 
 'plies delight and' fatisfacfion : for Adam did not 
 onely eat ofthe tree in EdensGardcn, but he 
 I had a fecret tickling delight arifing in him, to 
 f - be a more knowing man then God made him, 
 and thereby hegap to rejeft God; and not be¬ 
 lt ihg content wilndSie Being God made him in. 
 
 which if hee li# been content with, he had 
 ‘"C acknowledged God all in all, and the onely 
 ily ' infinite and one Being, that fhall ftand un¬ 
 it ■ moveable. 
 
 jiv But he eats, delights in that afpiring Weed, 
 ii (or Myftery i^piiquityj for himfelfe to have 
 
 a Being-above,' equallto, or diftinft from 
 God: S6 that the ground of Adams fall, ari- 
 ' : .a S fes upfirftin tAdams heart, as fruit growing 
 up froma created Being ; for in that it was in 
 ; his heart to doeeviil, God imputes it to him for 
 V evill. ’ ■ " • 
 
 . Well, this felfiftineffe in the midle of the 
 f living garden,ixf<Aw», is the'forbidden fruit,and 
 this is called the Serpent, becaufe it windeS-ie- 
 t felfe into every creature, and into every created' 
 
 . facukv.and twifts it felf round about the Tree, 
 1 ’ .' Mankind. • ^ 
 
 i , v Avi vflKn pqt forth his hand to take. 
 
fs) 
 
 and eatofthefruif ofthe Jrefi inthe Hiftory, 
 his hand was guided thereunto by phis Serpent, 
 whofe fecre-t w ( hifperihgs he delighted in: And 
 truly this delight in felfe, was the eating, and it 
 Was the chiefe forbidden fruit; Awe! grew up in 
 the middle of the Jiving gardes, a/ffiww, w^ich 
 God forbad him -to eat of, or delight inVBut 
 tsidam did begin te delight in that inward fruit 
 of wickedneffe; and then by the.inotion therer. 
 of, took the fruit of the Tree 1 inthe middle of 
 Sden, and delighted liis outward fepfes there¬ 
 with,; and fo brake tfieLa\vdnd.toyenant of. 
 God, fell from his purity,:, and di^iaccording 
 to the word of. his.Mdkef, That'O^ t^daj ihfft 
 catefi, thou ?)ak dje. 'h.n& all thpfacglties and 
 powers of that living efeated Benig^d®^, aye 
 now become abfolute rebellions,;, and.enmity it 
 felfeagainft the BeingqfQod.o . . ... 
 
 And that garden pleafant .plants, Jdkfn, is 
 become a ftfnking dunghil 1 pfw.ecd.sifanil brings 
 forth.nothing b#t pride, enyy^idifephtent, diC- 
 obedience, and the whole aftings of the fpirir, 
 aad power of darknes. . 
 
 And if the cteatuffe; fhould bee fjOROured in 
 this condition,' then God wduld;be dimpnott^ 
 snbfbecaufe his command is broke, ; dnd yet. tbs 
 ^feature remains glorious, thetefore hedied, . I , 
 ^ndiffobe.the creature be utterly lpft and 
 perifh, and this garden fhonld never Be fo dref- 
 fed^s^pbringfoithfruit to G.oddd.!e,light s then 
 iikewife Cod would'fuffet difhoh9ur,.b.edaufe 
 V.' ' " ' '' " '•.his 
 
 
bereltored 
 
 5 ved condition i and the fruit of the created 
 ’ Being fhall utterly periffi and bealhamed* 
 
 ' And things being thus considered, God is 
 pleafed to lead us to fee a little into thefe two 
 myfteries: Firf^ the myflety of Iniquity, or 
 work o? the Serpent, .which Was the afpiring 
 fruit of pride, arid felfe-love, that fprurig up in 
 the created Being, to be as God, and fo to be an 
 ! • abfolute Being of himfelf, as God is an abfolute 
 : Being of himfelfej andfo this felfe-honouring 
 5 would fit in Gods Temple; that is, the humane 
 Nature, which God made a Garden for Hitn- 
 felfe to walk in; and if that Spirit of i’elf- love 
 could not be deftroyed, and the Humane Na¬ 
 ture recovered from that bondage, God: would 
 fuffer much dilhoHOUr $ becaufe he being ‘glo¬ 
 rious andhappy in himfelfe^ hath made a crea¬ 
 ture to be a vexation andfeourge to him, and 
 cannot fubdue it. And this myftery of iniqui¬ 
 ty, or power ofdarknefTe, hath, does, and .will 
 fight agalnft the Being of God, till it be taken 
 out of the way, and quite fubdued • as the Fa¬ 
 ther hath prqmded he Will fubdue it under the 
 feet of his.Sonne, the Hmhane'Nature. . 
 
 Thenfecondly, God leads us to the myftery 
 Of himfelfe,and makes us able to fee aiitO the 
 knowledge of that great worh that hetf is in 
 workingand that is, to deftroy this Serpent 
 
put hftBSfefii, ftn& r a1P ®eings, that'is enmity l.> 
 'againfe^Mtn^ slhd'^firailiw up ' ! fj$ Creature 1 Cor .15 
 - W»' ifit^liimfelfeV'tTfaHo there day Bee but aS * 5 4* ’ 
 one'orieiy-pure, end']e{Te,afod infinite Being, e- 
 ven $od feirhfelfe all Will, dwelling aMwalfe '•» 
 
 ing tn fefe garden-, in which hp will 
 
 planrpiealant friiit trees-and piuckup alf weeds. 
 Cant.%t6i • ‘ ■ v ^ ! r:! ' ■ ; ‘ • • ; ?r 
 
 Since ifc&zw fell, fethisprefent^a^'wee fee' 
 the’wlfdWne, powdr, and affcftifcihthat drivels 
 and rules ftMah,ieids ; him any way,- either to 
 juft orfcnjuft attioiftf fdthat-Selfemay be pre- < 
 
 ferred,not caring whether God be honoured, 
 yea^tf-fio: ; ' 1 ”^“7 ' ;S ' 
 
 NoW ; thd myftery ofGodistKL4-beeiv.il \dt-JJhi. 6ii 
 ftroy-and fubdue this power ofdarknefie, under J. >j 
 
 the ftefof the whole Creation, rid Luke^ 
 
 everyhattiinlaf branch-, and Wafrjuf, deli T 1 8 . ' .1 
 
 ver hftfrfidtbthis4orid'ag£ ! and prft6ri,a;nddwel fer. 
 in his' tfWniHoufe and^arden hirhlBlFejfp that 
 the dme, : power^- Rivfci' life£ b&tty' J ajnd 
 Spirit'iff-truth that^^fls 
 
 ihay : W^o^ i himfelfc,''ir^e5r if|;e ; i,'frii! $?'l^tghn-. \ 
 wifmffcj&cA no otfief teirig or pow^Kut’jum- .) 
 
 felfe.;'A ( MasGod diid dwell bodilyii) the .Hu^ ' 
 
 ritanelMtfre; jelus l 'Ghrift, whorwa?-£Ke;iirff ; a^j 
 mahiftftititih ofthiS'gieat 'myfteryof (Jod, for m *’ p 
 whehKisWork jscdmpieatcd, hewill^dWellinf 2 , 2 5 : 
 the wkile <dreatipn, :: that- is, eveiy;hian ,and’ r 
 woman Without exception, as he fdid ( ^well' f im. 
 that one branchjb/w Cbrifl^yfho is the pledge,* 
 fruits, j And 
 
j <*y 
 
 j And therefore yon ftiall finde, that when Ar 
 
 ; 'Jam had broke the Covenant, and died by the 
 
 | ; , Law, God did not denounce an utter deftru- 
 
 j dKon, without recovery to the Creation, Man- 
 
 i . kinde, which was his own work, which his own 
 | wifdome and power did produce and. bring 
 
 j >,-the Serpent, or mans work, which was the fruit 
 
 I - ' 3 ' 1 * that fprung up in, and was a&ed both in* 
 
 wardly and outwardly by the Creation, or crea- 
 j ted Being, in rebellion againft the Being of 
 
 I •’God: Therefore finne is properly man^bwnc 
 i a£L 
 
 i ■-* The words of the Father run thus,, jpeaking 
 
 ijV to theSerpent: / 'ifid fat entnitj between thee 
 ; y , and. the Vfeman, and between thj feed and her feed, 
 | v , . it flail brnyi fhj head, and thtajhaltbruife hit 
 j heels : So that the Serpent muftbekillpdifor 
 
 | . fcrnife his head,and he dies. Now the curie that 
 
 I w«dec4redto^^w,wastbmporary ; : Jhatihe ' 
 
 I fliould undergoe furrows, and finfera, bririfoig 
 
 [ in his out-member; but not a killing, though 
 
 | Adambzi killed himfelfe: focha^he^hatli; 
 
 | not ftrikehim now he is downe, iuf 
 
 i, , - death without recovery j but Godwijiifefopy 
 * *• death, and quicken Adent* or Manktude^jne;. 
 p°; that wemayall fee our fafyationis foom:Godj- 
 f though our, mifery was fron? our fejves ,; that; 
 
 ■ fo whofoever glories, may glory onely in the, 
 lord. ■ - - •.. " • . i; 
 
 1 • - And 
 
1 (9) 
 
 And now by*the way mind one thing. That 
 hen this Serpent rules, and caufes che crea¬ 
 te to aft, fuch aft mg's become the creatures 
 [fe&fliame;but whenGodaftsinthecrea- . , 
 res life, glory, and redemption • to advance Ltt ^ 
 fe, and deny God, ; is the creatures death. 2 3 * 
 it to deny felf, and to acknowledge God, is 
 e creatures life; btimc Adam afted Rebelli- 
 i, this afpiring fpirit ofpride, : to be as God, iTim-il 
 1 the humane nature, to difobey God; And z 6 . 
 erlincc the fall,’the fame felfifh fpirit, leads 
 ery man and woman captive at his will, and ' 
 
 (laves them in that prifon, and bondage, arid 
 .rkriefs, to Walk in wayes direftly contrary . 
 the God of light: and yet many times per- 
 rades them, tharthey do God good fervicej 
 l a man read, hear, ftudy, preach, pray, per- 
 rm aftions of juftice ; yet if God be not 
 ercifull to the man, this power of darknefs 
 ill deceive him; making him. to conceit or 
 link he pleafes God, when the truth is, he 
 rves but felfe all the .time, it is fo full of fe-* 
 et ftrong delufions. J ; 
 
 Therefore I fay, the myftery of God is this 
 Od will bruife* this Serpents head, and caft 
 lat murderer #ut of heaven, the humane na- , 
 ire , wherein it dwels in part, as in the man 
 hrift Jefus: And he will dwell m the whole 
 eacion in time, and fo deliver- whole man-. 
 nd out of that bondage. j 
 
 rhis l feefo be a truths both In my own es>» 
 
 B ' periencejl 
 
♦•V (io) 
 
 p£rience, and by teftimony offcripture,as God 
 is pleafed to teadrme. 
 
 As firft, by cxperience,I fhall inftance in my 
 felf, who am a branch of Adam ; or part of the 
 humane creation; And I lay under the bondage 
 «ftheSerpent,my own invention,as the whole 
 creation does from Adams fafl, and I faw not 
 any bondage; but fince God was pleafed to 
 manifeft his love to me, he hath caufed me t o 
 fee that,}, lay dead infin,weltring in blood and i 
 death, was a prifoner to my lufts, for though 
 through h&Erace, I faw pride, covetoufnefs, 
 
 | envy,uneie |jae fs.,ignorancp, injuftice, and the 
 .‘ whole bo^punbelief, working and ruling in 
 me; yet nfc afhamed men fhould know it, 
 this felfifh fpirit fought to hide himfelf fo 
 dofe; and ftill made provifion to have the will 
 ofthefe lufts fatisfied in me. 
 
 And before God manifeffed his love to me, 
 I delighted in the favt&r of thefe weeds, "but 
 fince God revealed his Son in me, he lets roee 
 fee, that thofe things wherein I did take plea- J 
 fure, were my deach,my fhame, and the very j 
 power of darknefs, wherein I was held, as in a' 
 prifon; fo that although I felt this deadly bo- j 
 dy, or wicked one adt within me,arid although;j 
 I have been troubled atlt, fighed and mourn¬ 
 ed, ftrove againft it, and prayed againft it; yet 
 . 1 .could not deny felf, and the riiore I ufed 
 meanes to beat him down, as I thought /the 
 more did thispewer of darknefs appear in me. 
 
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 like an overflowing wave of mckednefs 
 drowning me in.flavery, and I faw I was a 
 wretched man,wrapped in mifery,' I mourned ; 
 that I was fo rebelliousagainftGod v - and! ; 
 mourned to fee I had no power to get out of 
 that bondage of feffifhnels. And fo I continu¬ 
 ed tillGod was pleafed to pul me our of feififh 
 ftriving,& feififh a6lings,& made ail meanes lie 
 dead before me, and made my, deadxo fuch 
 means as I made ule of, and thought .that ’deli-, 
 verance muftcome that way: Arid fo made £ me 
 to lie down at hisfeete, & to waite upon him,' 
 & to acknowledg,thac unlefs Gotldid fw allow, 
 me up into his own being , I fhould never be 
 delivered, for I. faw that the power within me; 
 jitrived to maintain its being , againft the be¬ 
 ing of God; and all that while Iwas a ftran- 
 ger to God, though among men, I was a pro- 
 [ftflbr, as I thought, of God.. 
 
 . But now God hath fee me free from that 
 bondage, fo that ic rules not, though fome- 
 6 ?me it feemes to face me, like a daring cor.- 
 luered enemy, that cannot hurt. And like- 
 IwiTe God caufes me to fee with much joy and 
 peace of heart,into this myftery of himfelfthat 
 his eternal! cornice!, which was grounded up¬ 
 on the Law of love, hiqrfe'if,' .was. riot to de- 
 ftroy me, nor any of his own creation jbut on¬ 
 ly the Serpent, which is my work, or the fiffl-. 
 fruit that fprung up out of the creajfipn;Wfij£l| 
 [is our bondage, and'that he h'imfelfwiH b‘e- ; 
 
 Bi come" 
 
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 come my felfiand liberty, and the life and liber¬ 
 ty of his whole creation. And in thefe two j 
 things he hath caufed me greatly to re-! 
 joyce. j 
 
 Firft, I fee and feele, that God hath let me i 
 free from the dominion and over-ruling pow- j 
 Rom. 8. er 0 f that body offin.lt raines not as a King, ] 
 I 3 - though fometimes it appeares creeping in like | 
 a (lave, that is eafily whipped out of doores by j 
 ftrengthofG'od. | 
 
 Secondly, I rejoyce in perfeft hope and af-1 
 furancein God, that although this Serpent,or j 
 murther^r do begin, by reafon of any tempta- j 
 tion, or outward troubles, to arife,and endea- j 
 vour to aft in ralh anger, in pride , in difeon- 
 tent, or the like, as fomeiimes it docs, yet eve¬ 
 ry' appearance of this wicked one in me be¬ 
 comes his further ruine, and Ihall never rife to 
 rule and enflave me as formerly; for God 
 thereby takes the occafion to call me up high¬ 
 er into himfelf, and fo makes me to fee and 
 peffefs freedom, in my own experiente,from 
 him, every day more and more; I am not ftill a 
 captive, in a being of darknefs diftinft from 
 God, but God hath freed me therefrom, and 
 taken me up into his own being; fo that now 
 his wifdomdiis love,his life, his power, his joy 
 and peace, is mine, I glory here, I can glory no 
 where elfe. And here I wait upon God with 
 a-fweet peace, under reproaches, under .Ioffes, 
 under troubles of the worl^beingthat difpen- 
 lation 
 
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 ation of his patience which God will have me 
 vait upon him under, til! I partake of the full 
 mjoyment ofthisinheritance, which I have 
 ally, in hope and afiurance, but in polfefilon, 
 but in part. 
 
 And as God is pleafed thus to deal with me, 
 
 , ir with any branch of Adam, in the fame kind; 
 
 ; o he hath caufed me to fee, and to rejoyce in. 
 
 :he fight,that he will not lofe any of his work, 
 
 jut he will redeem his own whole Creation, r Cor,t} 
 
 [ :ohimfelf,anddwell,andruleinithimfelf,and 
 fubdue the Serpent under his feet, and take up 
 ill his Creation, Mankind, into himfelf, and 4 
 will become, the only, endlefs, pure, abfolute, 
 
 ! and infinite being,even infinitely for ever all in 
 all, in every one,and in the whole,that no flelh ; ; 
 
 ( may glory in it fclf, but in the Lord only. 
 
 But this myftery of God iSnot to be done 
 all at once, but in feverall difpenfations, fome 
 whereof are paid, fome are in being, and fome 
 are yet to come ; but when the myftery ofGod 
 is abfolucely finilhed, or, as the Scriptures 
 fay , The Son hath delivered up the Kingdom x Cor , 15 
 tothe Father, this will be the uplhot or con- 
 
 clufion,that Gods work fhall be redeemed,and j 3^4. 
 
 live in God, and God in it; but the creatures 
 Jwork without God, fhall be loft and perifh, 
 
 Man, Adam , or whole Creation of Mankind, 
 which is Gods work, fhall be delivered from 
 
 Corruption,Bondage, Death,apdFaimandthe 
 
 Serpent that cauied'the fall, fhall only perifh, 
 
 B 3 and 
 
£i 4 ; 
 
 and be cafl: into the lake; and God will be the 
 fame in the latter end, accompliflung what in 
 the beginning he promifed, that is, tobruife 
 the Serpents head, and fubdue him undef the 
 feet of his Son, the humane nature, wherein 
 he will walk, as a Garden of pleafure, artd 
 dwell himfelf for ever. 
 
 I flnll now in the next place mention fome 
 Scriptures as a Teftimony that does counte¬ 
 nance this truth, that God will not lofe any 
 part of his Creation,Mankind,but will redeem 
 and preferve it, both in particular, & in whole, 
 and will deftroy nothing but the Serpent, that 
 wicked one, that would be a being equall to, 
 or above Godjbut Gods work fhallftand, and 
 the creatnres work fhall perifH and fuffer 
 ' loflb. ^ * 
 
 'Cor.?, The firfl Scripture I fhall mention, is, i Cor. 
 j. 5.13. Evcrj mans Workjball be made mamfefl, 
 for the day IhaK declare it, becaufe it pi all be re¬ 
 vealed bj fire: and the fire Jball try evert mans 
 2 rerkj, ofvhat forth is. That is, whetherit be 
 ofGod, or of the Serpent. Ifany mans work 
 abide, he fhall receive a reward, that is he ■ 
 vhall live in God, and God in him, becaufe 
 God in the man; was theftrength of his work. 
 If any mans work fhall be burned, he fhall 
 fuffer Ioffe,. but he himfelf fhall be faved, 
 (mark this ) yet fo, as by fire; not by materiall 
 fire of purgatory, but by the bright, and clear 
 ‘ ■ • coming 
 
Cu7 
 
 .(coming of God into this miH^wliofe indwel¬ 
 ling prefence dike fire,burnes up the ftubble of 
 mens own inventions, and. purges the droffe 2 xhef. 
 
 ; from the gold, & divides between the marrow j 8 " 
 
 and the bone, that is, nukes a feparation be- 
 tween his own work and mans work. 
 
 So likewife%z/. 20.10. isindthe Devil!, w • 
 murderer, that deceived the Nations, Veas ettfi 
 into the lake of fire and brimflone , andv. 14. 
 
 And death and he l tyerecafi into the lake of fire: 
 the Nations were not call in at this time; foe 
 this Scripture 1 believe points outthe great 
 day of Judgment, when Nations (hall be de¬ 
 livered out of that fire, and there lhall be no 
 more curfe,death,forrow, nor pain lie upon a- 
 ny part of the Creation, butall teares (hall be 
 wiped from its eyes, and the Serpent only 
 lhal 1 perilh in the Lake; for after that the Ci r 
 ty-workisfinifhed, and the number of the E- 
 left gathered in, and eftabliihed in glory; then 
 the difpenfations of God, who is the tree of Rfv.n r , 
 life, fend forth a healing vertue totheNatf- 24. .■ 
 
 ons, and then the Nations likewife that are Rev - 
 faved. or thofe that were loft, while the City 2. 
 
 0: Elect was in gathering, do now bring theic 
 gloiy into the City; likewife; for every man 
 (hall be faved, faith God through Paul, with¬ 
 out exception , ‘though fome at the pinch 
 houre, fome at the tenth houre, and fome at . ; 
 
 the'laft houre;and thisfalvation of every man, •; ;| 
 or the making of the whole creation, a' pure • v i 
 B 4 ' ' ' River. .• 
 
 § 
 
c**; 
 
 River of the water of life, deer as Criflall,pro¬ 
 ceeds from the throne of God and the Lamb, 
 that is, from the judgment feat of God, judg¬ 
 ing, condemning,and killing the Serpent, and 
 fo reftoring his own creation to purity and 
 life. 
 
 Solikewife2 CV.J.4. ForweixthieTaber- 
 nacle do groans, being burdened , not for that We 
 would be unclo at bed, but cloathed upomthat mar* 
 talitj might befwaJlowedupef life. By mortali¬ 
 ty here,is not meant the laying of the body in, 
 or railing of it out of the dull or grave, but it 
 is the very death which Adam, by difobeying, 
 fell under, and that is che death of his purity, 
 or pure being, which is a fallingfrom God in¬ 
 to a being direftly: oppofite to the being of 
 . God j as rottonnefs of flefh, is death to found- 
 refs of flefh, darknefs is the death to lightjfor 
 whereas before the fall, Adam knew God, 
 loved and acknowledged God, and was in e- 
 : very part fo pure, as, God faid. Behold, it is all 
 
 . ygry good, but after the fall he became envi- 
 \ . pus, proud, difobedient, full of all lulls and 
 
 concupifcence of evill, even as we find by ex- 
 ? perunce our bondagejand fo from a friend, he 
 
 fell to be enmity againft God, of a pure crea¬ 
 ture, he became unclean, and of a Child of 
 _ Gods delight, he fell to be a Child of wrath; 
 .Fphef. - and of a pure garden, he became a {linking 
 dunghill, and this is the death or mortality^ 
 ) which not only Adm i a particular, but all the 
 
 i branches 
 
( 17 ) 
 
 branches of Mam , men and women, lie under. 
 Even under a corrupt Being. 
 
 Now this rottenneffe.or death, under which 
 the whole Creation is fallen, and lies in bon¬ 
 dage too, it is that Serpent, or power of dark- 
 neffe which P aul defires might be fwallowcd 
 up of life j that is,that God,who is life,would 
 be plcafe d to come and dwell in him, and in his 
 creation, and fo caft out that mortality, or 
 ftrong man that is fo ftrongly armed: and this 
 is the Serpent that God hath pronounced the 
 dreadfull curfe againft; for this is mans work; 
 and it muft bee deftroyed. I conceive God 
 calls it mans own invention, becaufe it was 
 the firft fruit that the creature brought forth j 
 after he was made, and left tohimfelfe, even 
 this afpired and fphing up in him, to which he 
 gave confent to promote-Selfe, and become as 
 God. • ' 
 
 I (hall onely mention one Scripture more, 
 though I beleeve I could bring above a hun¬ 
 dred Scriptures that doe countenance this 
 truth. And if you ferioufly minde what you 
 read, you (hall finde that this is the Royal! 
 blood that runs through the golden veines 
 of the writings of the Prophets and Apoftles: 
 It is Rem. 8. from verf. 19. tp 26. but for 
 (hortnefle foke I (hall mention ©ne!y the ai. 
 and 22. vetfes; Beeaufethe creatien it felf alfi 
 Jhall be delivered (as well as we thak are mem¬ 
 bers of the elefted Citie ) from the bondage ;of 
 \ \ '■ . ■ cor-' 
 
fiS) 
 
 corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children 
 of God : For we know ( by our. experience) that 
 the whale creation (of which we are branches ) 
 groaneth and travelleth in pain together mtiil 
 . now. By Creature, or whole Creation , I fee it to 
 be acleareand foul-comforting truth, to be 
 only mankinde, for whofeufe, or for the time 
 .that God hach determined to finifh this great 
 defigns, to make his garden Man, a garden of 
 piealure to himielfe, when he hath plucked up 
 : all the weeds, and fo husbanded the ground, 
 
 that weeds (hall never grow again, I fay, all 
 jr- the time, God hath made all other creatures 
 
 for mans ule, or rather to ferve his own provi¬ 
 dence, while he is in working this great myfte- 
 
 i ry about manpand when the work is finilhed, 
 
 | ^ then all other creatures (hall bee diflolved in- 
 
 6 £0 n0C Wng ) as at firft - for as God is a Spirit, 
 | * he delights in fpirituail things, hutthefe out- 
 
 r ward creatures were made for the pleafure, 
 
 ii i '-** P ro fi c >andufeofman, while he is carnali, and 
 
 I.’ 12 ‘ (lands in a Being diftinftfrom God: and when 
 | min is made fpirituail, and fwallowed up in 
 
 I' life,or taken up into the Being of Gojd, there 
 
 | will then be no more ufe or need of thefe out- 
 I. wa rd creatures, as Cartel l,Corn. Meat, Drink, 
 
 anil the like; nor o^Sunne, Moon, nor Starre, 
 ... nor of Creature- light, either literall or jnyftir 
 
 p* ' tall; for God and the Lamb (hall dwell in the 
 |ro.2i. Citie, and in the whole Creation, and be the 
 p. • light thereof, as the Lord. Chrift faid. In that 
 
Ci 9 ) 
 
 day you fhalt tyiow,that lam in my Father, and John 14. 
 yon in Me, and I inyoii. And, labour not for the zo. 
 meat that ferijheth, but for that tybictj endures 
 to eternali ze. - - - . ' •' 
 
 Some may fay. If this he true* that God 
 will fave every one, then I will live, and take 
 my pleafure in fin, and ear,drink, afldbeitkr- 
 ry, and take all delights while I live;, for I am 3 
 Gods workmanfhip, and he will not lofe his 
 own work,I fhal! be faved. 
 
 But if he will not lofe his work,yet thy work* 
 fhall perifh, think upon that; and truly! be- 
 leeve that the Serpent in thee, will' iiaakd fuch I 
 
 a merry conclufion, andcry down tliis tftrCh of 
 God for an errour prefently in others^ becadfe ^ 
 itbeares teftimony of his deftruftion, as the- : j 
 
 Jewescalled Chrift a deceiver,<>r a man of er~- n 0 y - 
 rors, and killed him, becaufe he. bore wkneffe( 2> •;> 
 
 that their deeds were evill." ' ' ■ j 
 
 Well, make that conclufion. and cake liber- J 
 ty to fin, yet for all that know, thou enflaved ^ 
 creature, that thou fhalt be brought to judge- 
 ment, and thou fhalt not efcape punifhment 5 • I 
 
 for though finne be fweet in thy mouth, ask I 
 was in fudat,to take the 30 pieces Of filver, and | 
 
 to aft treachery againft hisMafier, : t wil be bit- "| 
 ternefie in the belly, as it was to hira * for the’ | 
 jealoufie of the Lord fhall burn- hot againfV /J 
 thee,fo that thou fhalt cal upon the mountains. Rev -\ 
 to cover thee from his prefence, andwiftv’tliat; 1 !) :}&. 
 thoii hadft never b<enborn-' and all theTor-'- 
 ' ' • ' rowes j 
 
( 2 'o) 
 
 iowes fpoke of in Scripture, fhall overtake- 
 thee, and fuch prefumptuous finners as thou 
 art j and thy joy fliall be turned into mourn- 
 ■ rag, and thou (halt be call into the everlafting 
 ’ fire, which God hath prepared and appointed 
 for the Serpent and his feed, or for the Devil 
 and his Angels: and while thou art in it, the 
 worm of thy gnawing confidence lhall never 
 die,nor the fire of Gods wrath, or the fenfe of 
 his anger upon thee, ftiajl never goe out, and 
 fliall be a pain more intolerable, then the 
 plucking out of the right eye, or the cutting 
 off the right hand. 
 
 But now left fcruples fhould arife in others, 
 as though I writ contradiftions, or as though 
 I made God changeable. Firft, to bid afinner 
 depart into everlafting fire,and yet afterwards 
 .take him out again. Now t© give anfwer here¬ 
 unto. 
 
 Firft know, that this was and is the great 
 myftery, worke, and counfell of God, after he 
 had made a vifible creature, in a pure Being, 
 diftinftfrom himfelfe, his purpofe being to de- 
 ftroy all the inventions and aftings of this crea¬ 
 ture, that did fpring up and arife from the 
 creatures Being, as a creature, and not from 
 Gods afting in the creature: and God forefaw 
 that the firft buddings of this creature would 
 be a defire to maintain s Selfe,or Creature-Be¬ 
 ing, and fo call God off; therefore God made 
 him under a Law, that if his creature didcon- 
 . ' fent 
 
(ix) 
 
 feat to that felfifh defire, he (hou) d die; if not, 
 he fhould have lived a pure Being ftill, though 
 diftinft from God, yet under his proteftion, as 
 a Creator. Now every thing that is in, op a- 
 bout the Creature, that i* of God, {hall Hand; 
 but every thing that is in,or from the creature, 
 that is not of God, fhall fall and perilh.* 
 
 Therefore to proceed ajittle further, that •' *"• 
 this truth may fhine in its own beauty, God 
 does teach me to fee, that every aftion, ordif- 
 penfationofGod, is called a Spirit, or an An¬ 
 gel, and every aftion, or afpiring principle 
 that tile up in Adam, which led him to difobe- 
 dience, it pleafed God that it fhould have a 
 Being, and likewife be called a Spirit, but it is 
 a dead Being, and a Spirit of darkneffe, quite 
 oppofite to the God of Light and Life, and 
 God gives it the name of Serpent, Dragon, 
 Murtheren wicked one ,and unclean Spirit, be- 
 caufe it twitted it felfe into the middle of the 
 Creation,and was an afpiring to be like God, 
 but God did not make the nature of it; for it 
 w as the firft fruits of a created Being, without : 
 
 God. 
 
 Now God is pleafed to make known hitafelf 
 in divers difpenfations in the carrying on of 
 this great work of his. 
 
 As firft, he declares himfelfe by way of a 
 Law, In the day thou eat eft, those Jhelt J.te ; now 2 
 this Law, though it was holy, juft,and good, 
 yet it was.a killing word, or the killing Letter, 
 for 
 
r«) 
 
 for it took hold of Adams difobedience, and 
 flew him; fothat Word y ThtaJbaltdje , becaufe 
 flefli, fof all flefli broke the Covenant in A- 
 dam, and sil flefli died, and all humane flefli 
 was' caff • under that difpenfatioh of death, 
 and the more we ftirre to climb up to God by 
 the workes ofthe Law, the more we ihtaiigle' 
 bur {elves in deaths for by the workes of the 
 law no flefli(hall be faved. 
 
 And here is two murtherers which mankind 
 is to be delivered from,bcforeit can live again; 1 
 Firft, this word of the Law, Which is hoi}',juft, 
 and good, which ties the creature onely to ac¬ 
 knowledge the Being of God, and no other.- 
 when the creature began to mihde another 
 Being, this righteous Law killed him ; for if is 
 not the King,but the Kings Law that hangs an 
 offender; andif the rigorous Law Hands ftiil in 
 force, no flefli can be faved, becaufe every 
 knan and woman are felfifli, and minds a fin- 
 full Being,oppolite to God,therefore the con¬ 
 demning power of the Law is to be taken a- 
 way 
 
 The fecond murtherer is the Creatures own - 
 invention, or afpiring fpirit to bg as God, 
 knowing good and evill, or to maintain Selfe, 
 and this killed the creature, and threw him 
 under the curie ofthe righteous Law, becaufe 
 this would be a Being equall with God, and 
 acknowledge another being befides God,' 
 whereas there is rio other righteous Being to 
 
C*3) 
 
 be acknowledged, but onety God, or what is 
 in God, or God ink. 
 
 Now in the full difcovery of Godscounfell 
 and purpofe to the Creature, if he be redeem¬ 
 ed, this compound murtherer xtuft be caft out • 
 of heaven by a ftrong hand, and out-ftrerched 
 arm of God, fo that the Being of God might'' 
 be preferved, the Law of God kept pure, and 
 y et fallen man redeemed. As fhft.this difpenfa-- 
 tion of death,De this.and in e ; Do Wot thts^ and 
 die , muft be caft out of Heaven, that is. Gut of-. 
 
 Gods hand, and God muft not, in"the redeem- 1 
 ingof him,appeare to the creature under that' 
 dilpenfation: for if he doe, it will ftill hold . 
 the loft creature under death and bondage 
 and ifthecreacure were made pure again, and- v .Yf 
 left ftill to deale with the Law by his created} •' ‘. 
 
 ftrength onely, as Adam was, truly.;he would 1 
 fall again; for a'meere created ffrength, being- ^ 
 diftinct from God the Creator, would falf-a- 
 gain; for no Being can ftand pure, but fuch S’ 
 created Being as God is pleafed to dwell bodi- 1 
 ly in - for every oppofite Being willTeek to ad-- <; 
 |r'Vance it felfe. 
 
 Therefore if God redeem his creature from 
 death, he muft appeare abfolutely a God'of- Ifd. af. 
 love, under no other difpenfation but the law'ia. 
 of love, doing all in, and for tlic creature,- atid-j Cor. 3, 
 thus in the Gojpel he does ; for-this is the Spi-y„. 
 rit that quickens and faves the creature: and ; i^itv4c 
 when this Wqrd of Love was nside'Fkfk it-p.- 
 
( M) 
 
 was the firft difco'very from God, to affure thd 
 creature of his redemption from death* and 
 this was when fefiu Cbrifl , or GW was manife- 
 fied inflefi, working, doing* fuffering all things 
 for the crcatufe, pardoning, accepting, and ta¬ 
 king the creature freely into communion with 
 God, by Gods o wn'power,and for his own name 
 fake, promising never to remember drfobedi- 
 ences anymore, hut woajd blot out that 
 handr writing, the Law, of Doe and live,mt doe 
 and die. And now the killing letter, or mur¬ 
 derer is caft out of heaven, out of Gods hand, 
 God will never have that to ftand between him 
 and his creature any more; but hee himfelfe. 
 Who is the Law of Love, even Love it felfe, 
 vfohtSL, will dwell and rule a King of Righteoufnefleb 
 $; £ e ^ in th& Creature, and be the Creatures wif- ! 
 doffie,ftrength, life, joy, and comfort, and his 
 AS in All. „ 
 
 Bur fecondly, the other murderer, which is 
 worfe then this, muft be caft out of heaven 
 too.or elfe the creature cannot live,and th^t is 
 jggj, the Serpent, or this afpiring fpirit in him to 
 gaj promote Selfe • for folong as the creature 
 r **' acknowledges any other being but* Gods, he is 
 loft; and truly I think not\e can be ignorant of 
 this, that the fpirit of felfifhneffe is in himfelf, 
 andin every man and worrian,therfore it muft 
 be caft out of this heaven. Mankinds, before it 
 can live again to Gad. 
 
 fohr. i. When Jefus Ghrilt, or God in Man ap- 
 
 -.■ ■ peared, 
 
peared, then the word of Love was made 
 flefll, That the feed of the Woman JhaU hrbal^ the 
 Serpents head. And when Jefus Chrift fought 
 the great battell, or rather God and the Serpent Rev. i a;' 
 did fight in heaven, that is in the creation, the 7. 
 man Ghrift fefiuj and God, or the anoynting, 
 prevailed, he caft the Serpenc out ofheaven, 
 out of that humane flefli which he cook up as 
 a part for the whole, or as an earneft of the 
 Fathers love to all the reft ; for I beleeve„ that 
 all temptations that Jefus Chrift met withall, flat. 4*- 
 (for in all things he was tempted like unto us) 
 they were but the ftrivings of the Serpent, as 
 he did ftrive in Adam that fell, to maintain its 
 being oppofiteto God- but Jefus Chrift; or 
 the anoyntiug in flefh, being not a created 
 power,- but the power of God in that created iC«\ J« 
 hunjamty.did not confentas the fir fcAdam did, 1 9 . 
 for he with ftrong hand refilled the whilpe- 
 ring of the Serpent, and would acknowledge 
 no other Being But God, and fo prevailed, and 
 caft the Serpenc out of fldh, and hath obtain- ... 
 ed a legall power to quicken whom he will,or foh. j. at 
 to caft the Serpent out of what man or wo¬ 
 man he will: fo that it is this ahoynting that, 
 fetsus at liberty from the bondage of fin and; 
 the Serpent,and he himfelfe becomes our, fife 
 and ftrength, andr/je Lord our Rightcoufneffe. 5 '• 
 
 And when Miehaeloxxt Prince had preyail J - J -® e,y ' 
 ed over.the; Dragon, then there were;.yqy«:gSi I 
 andSangs heard inheaven, chat is, in the crea- 
 ‘ <3. . 'ttQr£ 
 
(26) 
 
 tfon. Mankind i Now is come foliation and 
 firength, and the Kingdome of oar God, and the 
 power of his Chrift ; for the aecttfcr of our Bre¬ 
 thren is eafi doVm,,which accufed theta before 
 God day and night. Thisfong, I conceive, was 
 fung by the Elect, the Citie Sion, or Saints of 
 God, who are firft enlightned, and they, fing 
 Glory to GW in the name of the reft that fhall 
 be redeemed ; for the Serpent that accufed 
 the Creation before GW, is caft out in part for 
 the whole, or a part for an earneft pcny to the 
 whole. 
 
 So that now mark, The Law of God that 
 did accufe and condemne the offending crea¬ 
 tine, this is caft out of Gods hand, and here¬ 
 after he will be a God of love , in an intire dif- 
 penfation of love; I fpeak as God doth ma- 
 nifeft himfelf now under the Gofpel and as he 
 ever will be when the creature is perfectly re¬ 
 deemed. 
 
 And the Serpent, which is the Sting, or 
 Worme to the Creatures confidence, becaufc 
 it was ftillading a felf-being, oppofite to God, 
 and then accufing the creature before God day 
 and night, by the force of a condemning Law, 
 for difobediences, which is the creatures bon¬ 
 dage and mifery ; forthe fpirit of fin within, 
 this en-ftaves him, and the condemning Law, 
 this cafts 'him from God , and fo throwes the 
 finner under utter darknelfe and forrow. I,bnc- 
 for the creatures comfort, this Serpent is- caft 
 
U7) 
 
 out of heaven, the Creation like wife, 1 and. 
 though for the prefent many poore creatures 
 lie under the bondage,- yet the time is drawing 
 neer that they fhal bVdelivered, and the wick¬ 
 ed one himfelfe, the Serpent, fhall be caft intd 
 the Lake, and perifh for ever. Indeed the Ser¬ 
 pent would have Gods created work to die 
 withhim,forhe knoweshe muft dye irreco- 
 ve-sblv, but God will redeem his creature, and 
 tl e Serpents head only fliall be bruifed, which 
 will be his death; 
 
 Wcii, this two-fold murderer is caft out of 
 Heaven, that is, the condemning Law is caft 
 out oi Gods hand by Jefus Chrift, the Law of. 
 grace and love 5 and the Serpent is caft out of - • 
 
 the creation in part,and fhall be caft out of the 
 w hole w hen the Mjjterj of God is finifhed by 
 the power of the fame anointng, Jefus Chrift;' ' 
 fr God the Far her is reconciled, and he hath 
 taken the creature into fellowlhip with him-, 
 fejfp,: ’Fot-God'd/at in the. Man Chrift jefw^re* iCer.f 
 C'w filing the world, that is, mankind, to him]elf, i 9 ,zo ,. 
 mwpntiirg their fins to them. • - . . 
 
 ’^hjv.this Myfterjr, or work of (?o^is finifh¬ 
 ed fully,-and eompleatly in a twofold fenfe, ■ - ■ ' 
 but not in.a third, as yet; and when this thiffj 
 term is firiiihed* then the whole work isfiniffi*.1 i: •: a;\ 
 ed, and not till then. ' ■ ,•, 
 
 Firfl;, in Gods everlafling counlell and ~ pm u 
 pofe, this worke was done from allcterHitySi ' 'v / 
 iore the found ation of the world was lakiancf ■ • 
 
 - ‘' e * ^ 
 
. (*?) 
 
 CW declared fo much ,twhen he uttered this 
 word, I wi/lput enmity between thee and the tyo- 
 tnan ) & between thy feed & herfeedfe /hall breaks 
 thy head, and thou Jbdlt bruife his heele. Here 
 the Curfe and Death isfealed up to the Ser¬ 
 pent, but here is Mercy and Redemption feal- 
 ed up to the creature; the creature (hall bee 
 redeemed, but he (hall goe through bruifings, 
 or pain. 
 
 Secondly, it is compleatly done in afliori, in 
 the pledge and earneft-pennv. When God was 
 manifefted in flefh, in the Man Chrift Jefu*, 
 who was born of a woman. And this is the 
 f .... firft fruit of the Fathers love manifefted and 
 ' fealed up to the whole Creation, Mankinde, 
 
 f«hn 4. that as he dwels bodily in "that part of humane 
 5 ' ■ nature, Jefus Chrift,fo in time, according to I 
 
 his own counfell andpleafure, heewill dwell 
 bodily in the whole creation likewife; there¬ 
 fore faith Chrift, I goe to my Father and jour- Fa¬ 
 ther, to my God and your God ; and he doth not 
 onely fpeak to his twelve Difciples, but to all 
 others that fhall beleeve through their word.- 
 Rev 22 w ^ en c ^ e Kings of the Earth, aiid^he 
 r 2 ’ ’ Nations are healed by the leaves of thd Tree 
 
 Rev n ^ c p and f© bring in their glory into the 
 24 ' * City Sion s as it ihall be in the latter end j I be- 
 
 ** fceve there will not be a man that' partakes of 
 
 humane nature, nor wortian neither; that (Hall 
 hot partake of faith,&fo beleeve in God through 
 Chrift the anointing,that fils all,and is all in all 
 
(*9) \ 
 
 But now in the third fenfe, the worke is not 
 yet compleatedin the whole Creation; for 
 God is pleafed to doe this worke in. length of 
 time, by degrees, calling fome at one houre, jV 
 and fome at another, out of the Serpents bon- 
 dage,and the times and feafons God hath refer- 
 ved to himfelf. 
 
 Therefore in the further clearing of this 
 Truth, God is pleafed to (hew forth fix difpen- 
 fations ot difcoveries of himfelfe more, which 
 k will have the creature to paflfe through be¬ 
 fore he finifli his work, to call: the Serpent, _ .* 
 Death, and Hell, into the Lake, and before he ^' 5 ' 1 20, ' 
 himfelfe appearc to be the Tree of Life on * 4 * 
 each fide, and in the middle of the pure River ReV 22 ; 
 of the water of Life: which I conceive is the £ ; 
 
 whole creation, Man, perfedlly redeemed * ’ 
 which River proceeded out of the Throne of 
 God, and of the Lamb; take notice of that. , ' 
 
 The fecond Difpenfacion, for there are ie- 
 ven Difpenfations in the whole; the firft I have 
 fpoken of already, which was, when God 
 gave the Law to a Adam, as foon as hee had 
 made him And now the fecond lies, in that - ' 
 
 firft promife, or manifeftation ef love to the 
 Creature,and curfe to the Serpent, in thefe.-, 
 words. The feed «/ the woman Jballfnsife the ' 5 ' : 
 
 Serpents head, and this continued ftom jtAdam 1 ' ‘. . 
 till Abrahatn. 1 ’ ' 
 
 Then the third difpenfation or difcoyery of . 
 
 God is more cjeare then the former, for to.^- 
 C J brahm 
 
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 Gen.'iZ. brahm he fpeakes more particularly;he doth 
 .18. riotftill lay in generall terraes, Thefeed efthe 
 'tooman,&c. But in thy feed, nAbraham , all na¬ 
 tions of the earth fhall be bleffed, and fo 
 points-out more direftly in what linage and 
 generation of mankind, God would firftap- 
 Zah 1. P sare into bt'uife the Serpents head; and this 
 jy" ' difpenfation continued from a Abraham til! 
 • ’ Mojes time, and Our Fathers embraced thefe 
 promifes, arid rejoyced in them. 
 
 The fourth difpenfation is from Mofes, till 
 God mauifefted himfelf in fiefh, or till J efus 
 Chrift was born of Alary, that was one of the 
 houfe of Duvid, of the lina ge of Abraham-, and 
 fleb. 10. this difpenfation is more then the former, for 
 pr, God, by types, figures, ceremonies, andlha- 
 dowes, did more manifeftly fet forth his love 
 to his creature, and his wrath to the Serpent; 
 when the facrifice was (lain and offered, God 
 received an attonement, it being a type of 
 Gods ir-dwelling in fiefh, or a fhadowof 
 Chrift, the Lamb, the fubftance of all thofe fa- 
 crificcs. 
 
 fojb.7. ' And when Achan that troubled ifra'el was 
 - 6 . pat to death in the valley of Achor,the fierce- 
 
 neffe of Gods wrath was turned away. And 
 J believe God doth teach us by the Prophet 
 Hof. 2. Hofea 2.T4. where he faith, I will give the val- 
 14. lej .of Achsrfer a doore of hope „ which wasthe 
 place of Achans death; fo when the Serpent, 
 who is our trouble, is fiibdued and killed in 
 1 the 
 
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 the valley, humane flefh, then the difpenfation 
 of Gods anger is turned away from us. 
 
 ’ The fifth difpenfation is from the time that 
 God was manifeftedin flefh, in the perfon Je- 
 fus Chrift, to the time that he appeared in the 
 flefh and perfori of his Saints likewife^and this 
 is more cleare then the former, for Jefus the 
 anointed, was the fubftance of all thofe types 
 and fhadowes of the Mofaicall Law, for now 
 God doth manifeftly appear to dwell in flefh, 
 in his creature,and he hath broke the Serpents 
 head, and cafi: him out of heaven {'his creati¬ 
 on ) and now this JefusChrift is the Lamb of 
 God that takes away the fins of the world,that 
 is, deftroyes the Serpent, who is the fin that - 
 dwells in mankind, for now the life of God 
 doth vifibly appear to fwallow up the death of 
 the creature, and a manifeft beginning to fet 
 the creature free from bondage; and this dif- - 
 penfation of God was fpoke of by, the 
 Prophets very often before ir appeared, that a 
 Child fhould be borne, a Virgin fhould have a' 
 ion, which .fhould be called Emmanuel , God 
 Wuth m ; and God would bring forth, his 
 branch,and the Redeemer fhould come out of 
 Sion , that is the anointing that is in Sion 
 the Church, fhall in Gods time go forth 
 to heal the Nations likewife; now God throws 
 down the fhadowes of theLaw and drawes- 
 his creature tef'eye Jefus, the anointed, or, m r 
 God manifefred rn flefh, and this is the appea¬ 
 rance of vifible Gofpel, or of God himfelf,. Rev. 5. 
 
 C 4 bring- ip. 
 
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 bringing glad tydings to men^ and To worthily 
 deferving everlafting honour and praife from 
 all creatures. 
 
 - The fixth difpenfation is,from the time that 
 God appeared in the flefh of Saints, till the 
 ; perfeft gathering up of t he Eleft, which is 
 
 called the Refurre&ion day, or the great day 
 of Judgement. And this is ftill more cleare 
 then the former, for though God appeared in 
 the perfon J efus Chrift, who was a branch of 
 mankind,yet we might ftill be in doubt, and 
 ^ lie under .death ftill, if he there remain; But 
 
 God did not appeare in the man Chrift Jefus 
 only, but in the Saints hkewife, according to 
 his promife by ^eel, in the letter dajes , I will 
 ■power out inj (first upon ah fief , upon mj Sons 
 \ and Daughters , and joting men Jhall fee vifions , 
 
 i and old men fell dreame dreames , and this was 
 
 l fulfilled in the Apoftles, for the famefpirit of 
 
 Chrift was fent down upon them, APIs 2. And. 
 f Jfnovrfizxth Pmljh.it I have the /pint of Chrift; 
 
 ^ 'And knoutje not that the anointing dwells injoti y 
 
 '•p.cm.%. exceptjebe reprobates. And again, We , l’aith 
 ■ Paul f that have received the firfi fruits of the 
 
 I ffir it , we grbane within our felves , Waiting for 
 
 \ the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our bo- 
 
 i. dies. ' ' 
 
 Now the Apoftles in their firft preaching, 
 they preached" Jefus, the anointed, or the 
 APIs 4. Lan.b, or God manifefted inflelh , and this 
 theyfaw and heard, and they could not hut 
 [ ' - • ■ ■ fpeak 
 
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 fpeaH the name of Jefus,andGod command¬ 
 
 ed themfoto do. 
 
 But when God had fully declared himfclf in 
 that difpenfation, he fent forth his Apoftles 
 then to preach more fpiritualiyjand now,laith 
 Paul, though formerly we have known Chrift 2 Ctr. 5. 
 after the flefti, that is, GW only maniftttedin i<j, 
 that one man Jefus, the anointed, yet hence¬ 
 forth know we him no more, (inluchare- 
 ftraint) for now the my fiery of Goa, which 
 hath been hid from ages and generations paft, r l Avt 
 is now revealed to hisSaints in thefe 'aft dayes, * 
 
 which is Chiift, or the anointing in you, the '. 
 
 hope of glory; not only God manifefted in the 
 man Chriftjelus, but the fame anointing, or 
 tree of life in you likewife, according to that 
 of the Prophet, A KingJhaUr eigne in the earth , fw.a 3 .fe 
 that is, in mankind, and his name Shall be called 
 the Lord our right ecufneffe: and again, The a- I f ohn 2, 
 minting 'which je have received abideth ihjou,VJ. 
 andje need not that atj teachjou , for the fame 
 anointing teathethjm (fall things. And truly;I 
 believe, that whomever preaches from, his s 
 look, and not from the anointing., andlfo . r 
 fpeakin0h experience what he hath feem and 
 heard from GW. is no Minifter fent of GW,bpt .f 
 
 in hireling, that runs before he be fent,only to % 
 get a temporal living; therefore O England, 
 mind what thou doft, leave off:to irobrace 3 ,. 
 ■hirelings, that come in their own name^. and ' - 
 it|ceivr^‘ 
 
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 receive fnch id love whom Chrift hath feet in 
 his name, and his Fathers. 
 
 Arid in this difpenfation we are to'note two 
 things; firft, when as fabri the Baptift prophe- 
 fied, it was neither light nor dark, for it was 
 ^ between the legall worlhip that was falling, 
 andgofpel truths that were riling, upon the 
 very parting of time between the lhadowes of 
 the Law of Afofesjind the appearance ofChrift 
 the Lamb, who was the fubftance thereof; and 
 troubles and vexations began to arife in and 
 ^ahtt 7 . among theftrift profeffors of the Law, fo that 
 they could not be fatisfyed till they had killed 
 Chrift, whom they called the man full of er¬ 
 rors, that deceived the people. 
 
 So now the Church is at a ftand , and the 
 y . worfhip is partly light, and pardy dark; fome 
 feftingupon.the bare letter, according to the 
 • r example of Chrift, and the Apoftles only, 
 
 • • which is a worfhip after the flelh, and was 
 true, and was of God in the time of its difpen¬ 
 fation. 
 
 ■ And others do acknowledged, not exem- 
 plarily,butby the faith, the name, and anoin¬ 
 ting of Jefus Chrift, ruling, teaching, adting, 
 
 . and dwelling in them; therefore think it riot 
 Arrange, though fome old profeffors, and the 
 book-hirelings efpecially, be offended hereat, 
 and brand the Saints for men full of errors,arid 
 feeke-tofupprefletheir teftimony; it wap fo' 
 then, it will be fo now, for the fame fpirit of 
 
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 the world, the Serpent, does ftill the 
 
 fame anointing of God in this, as in the former 
 dlfpenfatioHjbut you Saints of GW, be patient, 
 v^aite upon God, this troubled fea,the Serpent, 
 
 (hall not over-whelm you, forftroHger is he 
 
 that is in you, then he that is in the world; re- AGtt.24.' 
 
 joyce, the time of your redemption drawes 
 
 ncere. 
 
 And againe, think it not ftrange to fee many 
 of the Saints of GW at a ft and, in a wildernes,& 
 at a Ioffe, and fo waiting upon GW to difcover j r a -• 
 himfelf to them; many are like the tide at fall j 3 
 Sea,which ftands a little before the water runs *. 
 
 either way; and affure your felves, I know 
 what I fpeak, you muftbedeadtoyourcu- 
 ftomes before you can run in the Sea of truth, 
 or the River of the water of life; fome walk 
 ftill according to example, and have either 1 
 
 feerre nothing, or very little of the anointing \ 
 
 in them; and fome walk more infpiritand r -vj 
 truth, as the fame anointing of the Father, ■; 
 
 which dwells bodily in Chrift, teacheth them, t 
 
 and leadeth them into all truth. , t?. P 
 
 The lame anointing unites Chrift and,the t cv. 
 Saints, and makes them but onemyfticallbo^ J2 ■ 
 dy: I pray not for thefe alone,faith Chrift, but ny j*_' 
 for all that fliail believe through their word, ' 
 that they all may be one, as thou Father art in ' * 
 me, and I in thee, that they atfo may be one in • ! 
 
 us, I in them, and thou in me, thit they may \\ 
 
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 be made perfeft in one, that is in thee, who 
 art the only pure arid holy being. 
 
 ■ Secondly, not, that under th:s difpenfation 
 is the time that the eleft, which is fo much 
 fpoken of in the Scriptures, are to be gathered 
 into one City, and perfected, and this anoint¬ 
 ing is the Angell which God hath lent forth 
 in thefe laft dayes, to gather together his e- 
 ledt, from one end of heaven to the other, or 
 out of every nation,kindred,tongue & people, 
 - in the earth. And where it is faid, that God 
 ; will lend forchnot his Angel, but his Angels, 
 
 * to gather his elect togetlief, it points out the 
 feverall meafures , 'or dilpenfations ofthe a- 
 nointing, to every Saint, as God will, accord¬ 
 ing to the meafure of the guift of Ghrift. 
 -■’Now'fomecime God calls his eledt by the 
 name ef one, in the Angular number,and here¬ 
 by God declares hisfirftborn, Jefus Chrift, 
 who'is che head in the name of the whole bo¬ 
 dy. As che Prophet writes, behold ray Servant 
 whom I have chofen, mine elect, in whom my 
 foule delighteth: God hath not chofen the 
 Serpent,or creature-invention to dwei in flefh,. 
 forthishe hath rejected, and takes no delight 
 in. But he hath chofen the anointing, or his 
 own power and name to dwell in flefh, and 
 this he delights in, therefore J efus thaanoint- 
 ed, is called the Son of (Jiod, in whom he is 
 well pleafed. 
 
 r - And fometimes God calls his elect in the 
 plural! 
 
plurall number, as many, and theirhe declares MMAe t • 
 the myfticall body, or the City, Sion , or thofe **• 3 r * 
 that he hath given,to Chrift,and whofe names ':^ I 3 * 
 are written in the Lambs book. And in this 6 . "• 
 generall di.fpenfation, thefe only fhallbe ga- Kev ' — V 
 thered into the City, and whofoever is not I 5 * ; . 
 
 writ inthe Lambs book of life, (hall notenter , 
 
 in at this time and feafon of the Father, though ' ’ v i 
 there is a time and feafon known to the Fa¬ 
 ther, When they fhall be healed likewife, and 
 enter in; and eat of the heavenly Manna, the Rev. 22,, 
 tree of life, that is in the middle of the a* 
 
 City. ' ■ > .‘4 
 
 Now this City Sum, which' confifts of head jj 
 
 and members; Jefus Chrift and his Saints, whq 
 are all baptized ihto, and knit together b.y one 
 fpirit of God, the anointing. And this City* Rev. lit 
 God will redeeme firft, ■ or he will, fujbchie the, g t ; 
 
 Serpent under the feet of this, his Son firft \ : Rev. as;; 
 All that do his Commandement^that is, have 1^.15^ 
 faithandlove, thefe fhall enter into the City, ^.i >4 
 but the fearfull and unbeleevers, murderer's,]^ . j 
 
 dolaters,and every one thaE loveth,and maketh 
 a lie,' are without, and are caftinto thlelake 
 which burneth with fire and briniftone, which r, ,3 
 is the fecond death, or the deat h of the Ser? . .-i 
 pent, and the Serpent ruling in naan is tKefir(| ■ 
 
 death which God redeemes us from . i ’J». 
 
 ■ All thofe that were not found writ in the . 20 
 
 Lambs book of life, ;Wei;e caft into the lakeor iy 8 
 fire,. Or as Mathe'W calls it, into evejjlaftihg i” vj 
 
 . iT ' ' fire, • '1 
 
Rev. 22, 
 
 3 - 
 
 . Rev. 20. 
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 Sew. 12. 
 
 fire. Or as Matthew calls ir, into everlafting 
 fire, and (ball lie under that difpenfation of 
 wrath for ever, that is, all the time of 
 this difpenfation,- or till the day ot judge¬ 
 ment be ended, that the Serpent, Death, and 
 ’ Hell, are caft into the Lake of fire, and that 
 there fhall no more curfelie upon the Crea¬ 
 ture, but from the judgement feat, or Throne 
 of God; the whole Creation being redeem¬ 
 ed, fhall flow forth a pure River of the water 
 of life; for every Difpenfation is called a full 
 period, or tearme of time, and an everlafting 
 feafon. 
 
 All this time that God is gathering toge¬ 
 ther his eleft, he hath given a time, times, and 
 Sialfe time to the Serpent. Which in thofc 
 threefold fhapes and a haife, or in thofe three 
 dayes and halfe, he is called theBeaft, or the 
 Whore, and this time is given him to make 
 Warrc,andtofightagainftthe Prince of Prin¬ 
 ces, and his Saints, and to overcome them, 
 and to wafte and deftroy the holy people 
 mightily. 
 
 And this appointed time is the yeare where¬ 
 in the Beaft lives, and Ged gives all advantages 
 to the Beaft, as riches,outward liberty, world¬ 
 ly power, and generally humane Authority 
 into his haijd. And puts no weapons into the 
 hands of his Saints; but faith, or the anoint¬ 
 ing, to fight againft the reproaches, fland^rs,. 
 epprefltons, poverties, weaknefle,prifons, and 
 the 
 
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 the multitude of temptations which the leaft, 
 through her wit, malice, and power, calls up¬ 
 on the Saints, like a flood of water to drowne 
 them. And to overthrow the work of God by 
 gr.at hand, if it wereDoflible. . ‘ 
 
 Likewife the Serpent ftirs up fome, whom 
 {he deceives, to be Teeming profeflors, out-, 
 wardly religious, having a form of godlinefle* 
 but through hypocrifie, pride, and felfifl}ne(fe s; 
 might dilhonour God, difeourage the tender; 
 
 Lambs of Chrift, and bring an ill report upon 
 the wayes of God. 
 
 And hence it is that Ifraeloi old were tram-, 
 pled upon by the Gentiles chat were not io’Ca.- Ir * 
 venant. And hence it- is, that the Eeaft muft 2 , * 
 treadthe holy City under foot 42 monetbs.:/ ' 
 
 That in the day of judgement it may be-laid*, 
 that the Serpent had faire play given him, hee 
 had all advantages, he had a long time; given; • 
 him to ingage warre. I, but God did beat, 
 him with his own weapons, and encounters-^* *4* 
 with all the temptations, malice and hypocri-., 
 fie of the Serpent, by the faith and patience ofj 
 his Saints, and thereby fairly deftroyes him,: 
 himfelfe may be judge. '1 
 
 _ But in the latter dayes, when the time, 
 times, and halfe drawes to an end, then God; r 
 fends forth feverall difpenfations, or Angels* 
 asaffiftances to this fixth and great Difpenfa-d 
 .Hon^ to poure out Vials of wrath upon all thef 
 glory ofthe Beaft, and curies alibis, glory by; 
 
 - • . . " . .. ' feyen 
 
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 feven degrees, and founds forth feven Trum¬ 
 pets of glory to God, one after another; which 
 implies perfeftion of mine upon every parti- 
 Rev, cular. blafting, curling, or downfall of the 
 Beaft. 
 
 And when thefe dayes appeare, then the 
 rage of the Serpent increafes, becaafe his time 
 ' growes fliort, and his violence, wrath, re¬ 
 proach, oppreflion, provocations and mur¬ 
 ders againft the Saints are multiplied , and 
 times grow very bad: for now iniquiry a- 
 bounds, and the love of many in whom the 
 Serpent dwels, waxes cold, and excreamly bit- 
 : . ter, and mad againft the Saints, in whom the 
 .-.anointingdwells, fo that they gnafh their 
 ' tongues with vexation of fpirit, and the fmoak 
 of their corraenc afcends upwards (towards 
 God and his Saints, that are above, not fo 
 much downward to fuch like themfelves) and 
 that for ever and ever. By the doubling of this 
 ■ini' T4 Wor <L,ever and. everjcie declares that this mifery 
 * ' Continues untill the fixth Difpealation be 
 - * ended,thatis, the one far ever ; and all the 
 '£• time of the great day of judgement, that is 
 the feconifir ever, and fo they have no reft,, 
 day nor night, who worihip the Beaft aiid 
 bis Image, and whofoever receiveth the mark 
 of his name; here is the patience of the Saints, - 
 here are chey chat keep the Commandments of- 
 God,and the faith of Jefus • for truly chefaith - 
 and patience of the Saints are tried to- fome- 
 purpofe. 
 
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 purpofe,while the Beau thus rages, and fwels 
 with malice againft them; 
 
 And I beleeve it will app'eare more general¬ 
 ly vifible in time, to me it appears very plain, 
 that the great bitterneffe, envy, reproachful! 
 languages, and exprefsions of malicious wrath,' 
 in and among men and women in thefe dajfes, ^ 
 againft others whom they brand Sedaries, by 
 feverall names, will prove part of the fmoakof 
 her torment, and part of the reftlefneffe of her. 
 
 Spiric day and night , which is the beginning 
 of her forrowes ; for this is the raging Sea that: U 
 cafts out its own lhame: and men in whom 1 
 the Serpent dwels, fpeak evill of that they " 
 know not, . .. J ' 
 
 Now atl the time of this fixth Difpenfatiori, 
 
 God is declaring his great power, in pulling 
 what fire-brands he will' out of the Serpents 
 hand,and he will cake here one,and there one, 
 as he pleafes himlelf. And let the-Serpent put 
 forth all his wit arid power,he rfiall not hinder 
 the falvatioa of one man or woman, whom 
 God hath chofen.arid purpofes to deliver from : _ 
 his bondage; but he will fave under every dif- 
 penfation whom he will, and bring them ii$o 
 Sion, Neither ftiall the Serpent, nor- any of his 
 feed, ever attain communion with God. by aft ■ • 
 his wit, learning, ftudy, adings and power jbut 
 lie fhaH perifli, and all creatures in whom the'j 
 Serpent reignesand ads, (hall be loft and-.a- x , 
 flamed in their work, yet every man dull 
 . D be 
 
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 be faved m the end, yet fo, as by fire. 
 
 And here mind two things, Firft God is ho¬ 
 noured in the falvation of beleevers, becaufe 
 he hath undertaken to puli them out of the 
 Serpents hand, and to bind that ftrong man, 
 and to bring in the Citie to himfelfe, and to 
 appeare in them firft; therefore it is laid,7 "hat 
 judgement begins at the Houfe of God firft , that 
 is, God judges. condemnes T and cafts the Ser¬ 
 pent out of his eleft, and faves the whole, and 
 evfery member of that Citie, before he judge, 
 -- " cohdernne, and caft the Serpent out of them, 
 
 Rev. 20. that'did not enter into the City,but were with- 
 15. but; becaufe theiir names were not written in 
 - that LambsJBook of life. 
 
 ' Now for God to fave fome at one houre, 
 
 and feme ar another, both when he will, and 
 'whom he will, and thofe fcattered'fheep of, 
 ■ the Houfe of Ifirael- whom God hath chofen, 
 i. thele fhalfenter into the Citie, though all thej 
 / wit and power of the Serpent ftrive to hinder 
 them from entring. And thofe whom God 
 hath not chofen, fhall not enter into the Ci¬ 
 tie,though ail the learning, ftudy, and felfifh 
 and-meritorious atftings of the Serpent, ftrive 
 to' enter in never fo much: It makes much 
 f or the honour of his Wifdome, Power, and 
 Name. 
 
 Secondly, God is honoured in the Ioffe, 
 death, or as the word is interpreted, damna¬ 
 tion ofunbeleevers ■ for faith, or the anoint¬ 
 ing 
 
; Mi; _ _ v 
 
 ing, which is born of God, land whereby the' 
 Saints overcome the World, is, the,power of 
 God dwelling and ruling in Man •- And un-. 
 beliefe is che Serpent, which is born .of the. 
 flcfh ' arid perfecutes Chriflr.till the time-ofthe 
 Gentiles be fulfilled; and this power of dark- 
 neffe is that which dwels and rules in' the chil¬ 
 dren of difobedience. 
 
 Now both thefe are grinding at. the Mill , 
 and are at work for life in humane flefti; and 
 it advances the glory of God , That they Jbjd 
 live in 'fohom his Divine fewer amis, thought hey 
 be fail of weakyeffe in themfdves, and though ■ 
 they be compared about with divers, temptations 
 being dejpifed of all, and regarded ofne/ie, butane 
 the ivea^pthepoore,the foslijh things of the world. 
 And it makes for the glory of Goa, tfiat un- 
 be lee vers, in whom the power ofthe Serpent 
 | dwels. fhdll die, though they haw all advanta-, 
 ges^and rne.msoiKward,as mayhejandtho.ugh' 
 they ftrive much by learning, ftudy,2c agings, 
 aS Ifrael of old did,Wj<? attained net,to right eouf-.j 
 neffe,thoxgh he fottg . t after itgreqtkfi becafifehe ^ 
 fought for it as it were by the wonfef ofthe Lfiwf 
 and not bj faith,’tint is, he fought for it in the 
 ftreugth ofthe Serpent,or felfifoneffe,bqlj.aot 
 intheftrength.ofGod. . /-I , 
 
 Well, this fixt.h Difpenfation is. the gaffie-. 
 ring time, wherein God fumraes;.up.the whole 
 number ofhiseleff; and as every beleever, hath 
 fo.aght his fight, kept the faith, and finifoed: 
 
 Da ins 
 
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 his courfe, they return to duft; and the unbe* 
 leever he retui ns to duft, for as the one dies,fo 
 dies the other; and as in this world all things 
 come alike to all, we cannot tell either love 
 or hatred by any thing that happens in this 
 life; and both return to duft alike, as if there 
 were no other reckoning to be made of ei¬ 
 ther. 
 
 » And fo from Adams time,til the whole num- 
 
 ev ‘7'9' her of the elect be taken up to God, out of 
 every nation,kindred,tongue, and people, out 
 of which God in all ages of the world is plea- 
 : fed to choofe fome to be Members of his Son, 
 or Citizens of Sion , and hath appointed in his 
 Councel, that mankind (hall increafe in the 
 world, and a<ft a while, and then return to 
 duft, and one generation paife away, and ano- 
 -2 , ' ther come in the place; but when the eleft are 
 
 gathered as wheat into Gods ftore-houfe,and 
 the City made compleat, and the chaffe burn¬ 
 ed in the fire, and none enters into the City, 
 but fuch whofe names are written in the 
 • : Lambs book of life; and none enters into the 
 lake of fire, but fuch as are not writ in the 
 Lambs book; fo that Gods will under this dif- 
 penfation is done; then followes immediately 
 the great day of judgment. or the refurreftion 
 of mens bodies out ofthe graves. 
 
 And this day of judgment is the 7 . dilpenfa- j 
 tion ofGod,and this day windesup the whole 
 pyftery of God. and makes the eternal coun- 
 ~ .cel 
 
cel of God compleatly manifeft and trae;That 
 the Serpents head is bruifed, and the whole 
 creation, Adam, redeemed from the bondage 
 of death, and in this difpenfation we are to 
 mind two things. 
 
 Firft, in this great day of the Lord he raifes 
 up the bodies of believers,and unbelievers out 
 oftheduft again, wherein he hath referved 
 them all the time of the battel, between the 
 anointing and the Serfent, as a man would . 
 keep his jewels in a box for an appointed 
 time. 
 
 Secondly, God brings every man to judge- John J. 
 ment, and rewards every man according to his 29. 
 work, fome rifes to the refurretftion of life, 
 and others to the refurredtion of Ioffe and Rev. 20. 
 death: and the bookes were opened, as John 12. 
 writes; that is, firft the book of the myftery of 
 iniquity, or the nature of the Serpent in flefh 
 laid open, and made mariifeft to be a power 
 and fpirit of darknefs, that ftrived to be a be¬ 
 ing equal with God, nay, above God; but be¬ 
 ing weighed in the ballance, it is found too 
 light. 
 
 And then the book of the myftery of God, or 
 the anointing of God in flefh, this is made 
 manifeft,andlaidopentobe the great pow¬ 
 er of God, and the fpirit of truth, which hath. 
 advanced God to be the only one infinite be¬ 
 ing; even God, all in all, and that befideshim 
 there is none. 
 
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 And’then another book was opened, th?t 
 is," the book of life and death, or the book of 
 the Law, and of Judgment, which gives the 
 fentence , Comejeblejfed, inherit the King- 
 Mat. 2.5 dom prepared ferjett from the foundation of the 
 34. world ; and to unbeleevers, Geje curjed into e- 
 'verlaflingfire : And now eveiy man is judged 
 , according to his works; the anointing,or the 
 righteous one, is rewarded with life , and all 
 they in whom the anointing did dwell, who 
 are the eleft City, and fpoufe of Chrift, are 
 called bleffed, and taken up into Gods King- 
 dome, that is, into love never to fall again. 
 
 ! But the Serpent, the wicked one, is rewar¬ 
 ded with death,and all thofe difobedient ones, 
 ' ' in. whom the Serpent dwelt, are call: into the 
 
 everlafting fire, prepared for the Devill and his 
 Apgefs; this is a fecond part in the day of. 
 judgment, which is a trying of every mans 
 work, and the eftablifbing the City , which is 
 the Lambs wife, in perfeft glory } and in juftly 
 condemning the reft : and here God is gloria 
 Eed in the falvation of believers,' and in the 
 damnation,’ or Ioffe of unbelievers • for his 
 work ftands, and abides triall; but mans work 
 fuffers Ioffe, and is afhamed: But this is not 
 the end. For as yet the Son hach not delivered 
 up the Kingdom to the Father, for he muft 
 raign till all enemies be fubdued, but death, 
 - turfe,and furrow is not yet quite fubduedjfor 
 ‘ 'gnes over part of the Creation ftill, even 
 
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 over thofe poor creatures that were loft, or 
 that did not enter into the City, but were caft 
 into the lake of fire. The Serpent as yet holds Rev, 
 a power, for there is part of Gods work not 15. 
 yet delivered from his bondage .• And the 
 Serpent would be glad, and it would be fome 
 eale to . his torment, if any of Gods work 
 might die and perifh with him. As I have heard 
 lbme fay, that they would be content to fuffer 
 the milery of anew vizxm England > fo that - 
 fuch as they mentioned, might luffer as well as 
 they; this is the fpirit of the Serpent. I, but ' 
 the Serpent only fhall perjfh, and God will 
 not loofe a hair chat he made, he will redeerae 
 his whole creation from death. The fpirit of 
 darkneffe cannot beafe this fpeech, therefore 
 reader obferve thy heart, as thou readeft, it 
 will either clofe with a tender fpirit of pitty 
 and love herewith,or elfe fwell and fret againft 
 it. 
 
 Therefore in the third part ofthis great day „ 
 of judgment, after the City work is finifhed, - ev ' 
 and the triall over, then does the tree of life, 2 ^* 
 God himfelf that dwells in the City, and is the 
 light, and life, and glory of it, fend forth dif- 
 penfations, or Angels, bringing love to heale 
 the Nations, and to bring their glory into the- 
 City; likewife that for the prefent lies under 
 the difpenfation ofwrath,and throws the Ser¬ 
 pent that deceived them, death, and hell, into 
 the Lake, but there is no mention thatthe na- 
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 tions are caft therein, in this iaft tailing in, for 
 they are redeemed from it; as the tree of life 
 bronght forth fruit every change of time, and 
 age of the world, to heale the eleft, the loft 
 flieep, or City; fo in this laft and great day it 
 brings forth leaves to heale the Nations, or 
 fuch as were not of the City; their turne to 
 receive mercy comes , though it be at the laft 
 Sera. I x.. houre; And then all Ifrael, or whole .creation, 
 26. that groaned under the bondage of death, ftial 
 partake of the glorious manifeftation of the 
 Sons of God, for now the deliverer comes .out 
 Rev. a. of Sica , ana ftia.ll turne away ungodlineil'e 
 j. j. from Jacob. 
 
 ■'■r.' Therefore faith Iohtt, I faw a pure River of 
 the water of life, cleare as Criftall, proceeded 
 out of the throne of God, and the Lamb. 
 Now I conceive clearly that this pure River, is 
 the whole creation, mankind, fully and com- 
 pleatly delivered from death, and curfe, as in 
 thatq.verfe. And this pure redemption pro- 
 ceedesfrom the throne of God and the Lamb, 
 that is, from the judgment feat of God, judg¬ 
 ing, condemning, and bruifing the Serpents 
 head, and fo fetting his own work, mankind, 1 
 free from that death and bondage. 
 
 I {hall mention one Scripture more that 
 countenances this truth : And Hooked, and 
 behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one 
 fate like the Son of man; having on his head a 
 Cro.wn of gold,and in his hand a fliarpe fickle: 
 i ' And 
 
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 And another Angel came out of the Temple, 
 crying with a loud voice to him that fate on 
 the cloud,faying.thruft in thy fickle and reape, 
 for the harveftofthe earth is ripe; and he that 
 fate on the cloud, thruft in his fickle on the 
 earth, and the earth was reaped. And then an- * 
 
 other Angel came out of the altar, and cryed 
 in the fame manner, to him that had the fickle, 
 as you may read. 
 
 By a white cloud, I conceive is meant the 
 City Sm, or fpoufe of Chrift,that is arayed in 
 pure and white, in whom there is no fpot,for 
 lhe is perfectly redeemed;by him that fate upo 
 this white doud,is ment the whole anointing, 
 or the great manifeftationofGod in one per- 
 fon, Jefus Chrift; And the leverall Angels that 
 cryed one after another, are feverall difpenfa- 
 tions, or dilcoveries of God, that proceed 
 from Chrift at feveral times, and feafons. 
 
 Therefore the City being made white,now iThtf.%. 
 the manifeftationsofGods love begin to ap-7. 8. 
 peare towards the earth, or nations,which en- 
 tred not into the City; now the time and fea- 19. 
 fon requires, that the fickle of Chrift fhould 2Ji 
 be thruft into the earth, that is, that the 
 brightnefsof jefus Chrift,the Lambj might ap- j 
 
 pear and fhine forth upon the Nations alfo, as 
 it did fhineupon the City, / " ' 
 
 And we fee the conclufion in the io. verfe* 
 
 And the wine-preffe was troden without the 
 City, ('mind that j and blood came’out .Of the 
 wine- 
 
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 wine-preffe, even unto the horfe bridles, &c. 
 This phrafe I conceive points ouc the ut¬ 
 ter mine and' deftruction of the Serpent, 
 that held.the earth or Nations which were 
 without the City, in bondage. But now the 
 anointing, er the great difpenfation of the 
 love of God, hath reaped the earth as well as 
 the City, and deftroyed the Serpent there, as 
 well as in the City • the wine-prelfe, or the 
 bruifing of the Serpents head e and fhedding 
 his blood, was without the City; and fo both 
 City and Country, City and whole earth of 
 mankind, is made a pure River of the water of 
 life, which proceeds frorh the throne of God 
 and the Lamb. 
 
 But here arife 3. fcruples: Firft,isnot God 
 changeable faith one. In faying, goyecurfed 
 into everlaftingfire; and yet afterwards takes 
 them outagaine? 
 
 I anfwer, this fire is the difpenfation of Gods 
 wrath; and it iseverlafting,without end to the 
 Serpent; it was prepared for him and his An¬ 
 gels; andthoughGod bid theunbeleevers de¬ 
 part into it; yet he did not fay, you fhall lie 
 there, and never be redeemed. 
 
 - But the fcruple lies in the word ever Lifting 
 which I as well as you have taken it to be a 
 mifery without end to the Creature. But I 
 anfwer, that in feripture phrafe, every difpen¬ 
 fation OfGod was called an everlafting timers 
 in the .day of Mofes, every fervice in the 
 Temple 
 
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 Temple that Aaronyzs to perform, GodfaidZmr.' 
 it {hould be a Statute and a Law forever, 16.25?. 
 which notwithftanding ended to be a Law in Nam, 
 the beginning of the next difpenfatien, or the i o. 8. 
 appearance of Chrift in the flefh ; and fo,: 
 though God fend unbelievers to lie under the : 
 difpenfationof his wrath, and call it everlafting 
 fire, it is but for the time of his difpenfation,, 
 while he is finifhing City work, and judging, 
 and rewarding every man, that is,the Serpent,- 
 and the anointing, according to tKeir works 
 and after this, comes in their healing time ana 
 feafon, and thefe times and feafons the Father -dtlt 1 1 
 hath referved to himfelf, the Son knowes them 7 - 
 not. - ■ 
 
 A fecond (cruple is this; Shall a man be e-t 
 ver delivered out of hell? out of hell, faith 
 fome, there is no redemption. 
 
 I anfwer,firft, that there is no Scripture, as 
 faith , out of hell there is no redemption, 
 therefore the fcruple is raifed upon.icwithout 
 ground; indeed the Prophet fpeaking, bow 
 that the living praife God, and the dead canr 
 not, hath thefe words in preferring lire before 
 death: The grave cannot praife tl?ee,death can- Jf a t. 38c 
 not celebrate thee , they that go down into tbefit, jg, 1 V 
 cannot hope for.thy truths 
 
 Butfecondly, to anfwer more diredtly r let 
 us confider what hell is, and then whether a- 
 hy fhall be delivered out thatisthererHellis 
 called death, or a condition below Iifejand this 
 
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 is twofold, either a death of purity, far below 
 the nature of God, or a death of forrows, 
 which is a condition far below thecomfort and 
 joyes of God. Mow every man and woman,as 
 they are branches of Adam^ have no purity in 
 them, and therefore are in a hell far below the 
 fife arid nature of God; and likewife they are 
 unavoidably fubjed: to the forrowes of that 
 death,a»an effeft following the caufe,therefore 
 unavoidably lubjeftto a condition far below 
 the comfort and j'oyes of God. This is the 
 condition ofevery man and woman, and they 
 have no power for to deliver themfelves, for 
 God only is our Redeemer. 
 
 And then it followes, that a man may be in 
 hell, and yet maybe delivered out; for as in all 
 this difcourfe paft, it appeares , that as we 
 fpring from Adam,wt do all lie under the bon¬ 
 dage, and death, and powef of the Serpen", 
 which is one part of hell, and yet God deli¬ 
 vers his eleft from out of it; and therefore it 
 followes cleare, that if men are capable of fo 
 much mercy, being Gods creatures, as to be 
 delivered from fin anddeath,which is one part 
 of hell; or of a condition below God, they are 
 capable to be delivered through the mercy of 
 the fame God, from the forrowes and paines 
 that follow fin, both which are but the bon¬ 
 dage of the Serpent, Which God will deliver 
 his creature from: this twofold death is the 
 Serpents head, which God will bruife. 
 
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 A third fcruple'is, concerning the day of 
 Judgement: Some think it is but one Angle 
 day, of twenty foure houres long ; nay, fome 
 make it lefle, but the length of the twinkling 
 of an eye, becaufe the interpretation of Scrip¬ 
 ture runs thus. That in the twinkling of an eye, 
 at the found of the left Trumpet, the Dead Jhak 
 be raifed up to judgement. But to anfWer thi* 
 phrafe, Twinkling of an eye, ic onely (hewes 
 that the day of judgement is very ftiort in 
 comparifon of the dayes by-paft; like that in 
 Rev. 8. i. And there was filence in Heaven for 
 the [pace of half an houre, which is not a diredt 
 halfehoure, according as men account, but it 
 declares a very fhort time. 
 
 Therefo re I conceive,this is not a fingle day, 
 of 24. houres, but a longer time; while 
 the Judge fits upon the judgement feat,judges 
 ing theSerpent,fo long time it is callecU day of 
 judgement, becaufe that is the work of this. „ 
 day,or tearm of time,or the full length of that : 
 
 difpenfation; as formerly it was called the Day 
 ofMofes , which was the time while that dif¬ 
 penfation of the Law continued in force, 
 whereof Mofes was the Mediator j and fo A- . 
 braham defired to fee my Day , faith Chrift, and Htb.fy. 
 faw it , that is, the day and time that Chrift 
 reignes as King in the power and law of Love, 
 
 -in and over the Saints, and this Paul calls the ' . 
 
 Day of Chrijts reft. ■ 
 
 And this in the truth of it, is that which we 
 
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 -Call the Sabbath T>aj , or. Day of a Chrifiians 
 reft- and it is not one day in leaven, ftiil typi- 
 .call, as the Jemjh Sabbath was, but it is the 
 rronftant reign ofChrift in and over the Saints, 
 which is their reft,and which indeed is the fub- 
 itance of the Jeroijh typicall Sabbath • as Da- 
 vid faith, Let the earth rejoyce, the LORD 
 reignes. And, a King Jball reigne tn the earth , 
 faith Jeremy, and his name Jball bee ended. The 
 i LORD our Righteottfneffe. Now Chrift, or 
 the Anointing, doth not reigne one Angle day 
 in the feaven in his Saints, but every day con- 
 ftantly, which is the fubftance of the Je'toijb 
 £ngle Sabbath ■ therefore I wiflr that the Gcn- 
 ft'/f-Ghriftians could underftand.that what the ! 
 ,fewesA id in the type, thefe are to perform in 
 ' the fubftance,and it is not for the Gentiles to 
 
 Worfhip in Types, as did the 'femes. 
 
 Again, the time of the indignation, or while 
 Dan tt Offers the Beaft to reigne, is called. The 
 
 1 'dDay of the Beajl-, and God hath given her 
 gfv three Dayes and a halfe to tread the holy Citie 
 ' '-underfoot, or the fpace of 42 ntoneths, which is 
 -7 - three fhapes, three difeoveries of the reigne of 
 the Beaft, or three degreesand half of the Ser- ! 
 v pents reformation from bad to worfe, from o- 
 pen prophanenefle to clofe hypocrifie; and 
 ■not the Angle dayes ofa week. And fo hereit 
 is called the Day of Judgement ftom the work 
 and bufinefleef the day,"or full length of that 
 Difpenfatioh, To that the great and generall 
 
day of judgment,from the time that the bodies 
 of beleevers and unbelievers are raifed out of 
 the grave,till the Son deliver up the King dome 
 to the Father, I beleeve is a long time, of di¬ 
 vers yeares- the full length or fhortneffe of 
 it, God onely knowes, and referves the time 
 and feafon of that lecret to himfelfe ; but it is 
 called the day of judgement, while the worke Atts ijl : 
 of judgement lifts-; as in our language it.it 
 called the Day ofAJfizes, though the Seflions 
 orbuftnelfe continue divers dayes. 
 
 Now all tins day the condemned creatures 
 lie under the difpenfation of wrath, under the 
 curfe, and under weeping, wailing,andgnafh- 
 ing of teeth for anguifti,and this'Hell, Sor¬ 
 row, or Puniftiment, or Death, is everlafting, 
 becaufe it continues the full time of the difpen¬ 
 fation, & the worm never dies all the time,the 
 fire and fenfe of wrath fhall never'goe out- all 
 the time, the fire of luft fhall ftill be burning, 
 and the fmoak of blafphemy fhall afcend 'up- Rev. j : 4t 
 ward,and they fhal have no reft day hdr night, 
 and the fire of Gods wrath fhal ftill be fcorch- 
 i ng and confuming,which fhall be an iutollera- 
 ble pain to the creature. 
 
 Therefore if any man or woman take liberty 
 to fin, let them know this is a truth;' they fhall 
 be condemned and die, and depart into ever¬ 
 lafting fire,and punifhed in thafMeli, lie under 
 the difpenfation of wrath,andlie at Gods'mer- • 
 cy for delivery, fo that chofe that will not now 
 
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 waic upon God in his time ©f long-fuffering, 
 or in the difpenfation of his patience^they fhal 
 wait upon God whether they will or no in the 
 difpenfation of wrath, in forrow, which is in¬ 
 tolerable, which is the fecond death. The fii ft 
 death I conceive,and I clearly fee a truth in it, 
 is Adam death,or Adams bondage to the Ser • 
 penEjthe fecond death is theSerpencs death,af- 
 jer God hath judged him, which is to lie under 
 the wrath of God without end. 
 
 Now he that hath part in thefirfi refarreBion, 
 that is, to be delivered from the bondage of 
 the Serpent, and raifed up from the death of 
 . fin,and-fo made alive to God through the A- 
 nointing ; overfucha man, the fecend Death, 
 or the endleffe difpenfation of wrath, which is 
 - prepared for the Serpent, fhall have no poVeer. 
 jButifa man have not part in thefirfi refurre- 
 \ eUonpm& fo enter not into the City new Jeru- 
 , -falem , he fhal} then tafi of the fecend Deaths 
 
 . - -which is the everlafting fire, prepared for the 
 
 Serpent & his feed,and it fhal have power over 
 him,and he {hall lie under it for ever, that is, 
 till the difpenfation change, or till the myftery 
 of God be finilhed, that the Serpent, Death, 
 and Hell isfubdued, andcaft into the Lake, 
 and the whole Creation be fet free, and the 
 Son deliuer up the Kingdome to the Father, and 
 God become all in ali,zs at the beginning he was, 
 I Car. before any oppofite power appeared againft 
 >5 : 27« him. 
 
 But 
 
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 \ Bat doth not-God fit upon the Thr.one of 
 judgement before this great day of Judge- .- 
 ment appear? Yes, God & the Lamb have fate _ -, 
 upon t he judgement feat,or Throne,ever fince 
 Adam delighted in his own fruit, or confented- 
 to the Serpent,andGod hath been judging the 
 Serpent, and bruifidf his head in every difpen- 
 fationof his, ever fince that, time, and caft- 
 ing the Serpent, that ftrong Man, out of his 
 filed. 
 
 And by the powring out of the leven Vials, 
 and the founding of the (even Trumpets, de¬ 
 clares how God hath been fubduing the Beaft, 
 the Whore, 'and the falfe Prophet, which 
 hath been the feverall appearances of the Serr 
 pent under thofe names, by which he hath g 
 made warre with Chrift and his Saints, fo that 2/ , 
 
 God hath been about this work of judging ^ ^ 
 the Serpent long before this day of judgment ' 20 
 caniie. 
 
 Then it feemesGod hath two judgement, 
 dayes: No, it is all one • for from A dams time 
 till the Son deliver up the Kingdotne te thiFa¬ 
 ther, God hath fate upon-the Throne, judging 
 theferpentj but it pleafed God fo to eftablilh 
 his counfell,’ that he would not finifh this iriy- 
 ftery in a fhort tinie, but in feverall degrees of 
 times arid feafons, which he hath referued in his 
 ownpower : And this great and laft day, is the. 
 conclufion ofthis work, that the ferpcnt fhall 
 be fubdued under the feet of the whole Crest: 
 
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 tiou, and be deftroyed everlaftingly, as it i# 
 
 I Pet . 4. vitittenjadgement begins at the hotefe of Gad ; 
 17. ststd ifit Begin of us , faith Peter, ^ho are his 
 
 Temple, hts little Tloc \, his Roy all Nation, his 
 . peculiar people, whatjhall the end be of themthat 
 obey not the Gefpel? Why truly they muft come 
 to judgement too, but in Oie laft day,or in the 
 end of time; fo that it is not two judgement 
 dayes,butallone day. 
 
 And fo to wind upall, Ifliall defire men to 
 •' mind one thing, That though God hath in 
 Scripture declared feven great difpenfations, or 
 difcoveries of his Gounfel,and each one clearer 
 then the other; yet in every one of thefe God 
 fends forth feverall other difpenfations,or An¬ 
 gels, for the carrying on of the work of that 
 time, or feafon, which are difcoveries of his 
 glory; for whatfoever comes from God is 
 aSpitituall power, not a dead work, but a li¬ 
 ving. 
 
 As whatfoever came firft from Adam, it w as 
 a fpiritual power, as pride, difcontenr, envie, 
 and the whole body of unbeliefe, which flight¬ 
 ed the being of God, and feekes to preferred 
 Creature-being before him. This di fcovery of 
 Adam was a fpiritual power, which is the very 
 bondage which all creatures lie under, and itis 
 an unclean and dead power, but not a living 
 power. 
 
 . But whatfoever comes from God, is a parti¬ 
 cular Arjgel, orlefier difpenfation, as an aflift- 
 ant 
 
ant to the greater. As for example, whena^M 
 took flefh, and appeared in the Man Chrift 
 fus, it was the fifth great difpenfation, and the^ 
 Angel of Gods prefence, and Michttl our J| 
 Prince, that ftands before God for us. Yet his 8, 
 fufferings in that day,or feafon of time,was cal- , 
 led the Difyenfktim vf Gods fatience,m[dome and 
 love, &c. The ftrength of patience is an Angel 
 of God. 
 
 I mention this, hecaufe I know in my own 
 experience, that if God fet it home to others, 
 as I find, it quiets the heart under what con¬ 
 dition foever. If thou lie under forrowes for 
 fins, now know, that it is Gods difptniation 
 to thee, wait patiently upon him, hce will 
 work a good ifliie in his time, but not in thy 
 time. If thou lie under the temptations of 
 men, of Ioffes, of poverty, of reproaches, it is 
 Gods difpenfation to thee, wait with an hum¬ 
 ble quiet fpirit upon him, till he give delive¬ 
 rance. If thou lie under darknefle, emptineffe, 
 and in a loft and wildernes-condition. wait pa- 
 ' tiently (it is his difpenfation to thee ) till God 
 fpeak 5 for he will fpeak peace when thou 
 thinkcft leaftofit. If thou be filled with joy 
 and peace through beleeving, wait with an 
 humble thankfull heart ftill upon God, it is his 
 difpenfation to thee, and affure thy felfie, than 
 now God begins to difpenfe out love to thee, 
 he will ftill be feeding thee in difpenfations, ot 
 difcoveries o( his love - and he will never let 
 E 2 thee 
 
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 uader the fenfe of anger any more, for 
 ibme is a freedome indeed, to a full fa¬ 
 in; the peace that he gives, none can,; 
 11 take away: And be fare he will never 
 take it again, Forthe gifts and callings of ,G.pd 
 are without repentance. Andthis.is.alll haveto ; 
 fay concerning this truth. And I have done. 
 
 FIN iS,