A Publishing of the Peace upon Earth/ and of the gracious Time and acceptable Year of the Lord/ which is now in the last time & out of the Peace of jesus Christ/ and out of his holy Spirit of Love; published by HN/ on the Earth. Wherewith all Men that make Worre or Battle one against another/ together with all wise and Scripture-learned which contend and dispute against each-other/ are exhorted unto Peace. and warned of the great Woe and Misery/ which shall come upon them all/ if-so-be that they give them not unto Peace. Translated out of Base-almayne into English. O/ how lovely are the Feet of the Messenger which proclaimeth Peace/ preacheth Good-tydinges/ and publisheth the Salvation. Esa. 5●. b. Nah. 2. a. Rom. 10. c. I will make fruitful Lips/ which shall preach Peace/ Peace/ both unto them that are far-off/ and to them that are neere-by/ saith the Lord. Esa. 57 d. Luk. 2. b. Ephe. 2. d. ANNO. 1574. Now goeth the judgement over the World: Now becometh the Prince of this World cast-out. john. 12. Now is the Salvation/ the Power/ and the Kingdom/ become our Gods: and the Might his Christ's. Apoca. 12. This is the publishing/ wherewith the Peace is proclaimed upon Earth: and with which all Vnpeaceable ones are warned of their Destruction. The First Chapter. leave-off/ leave-off / and quiet you now in this same Day⁏ O all ye People upon Earth; in all your Exercysinge-of-warre and tumult of Battle/ Seeing that it is⁏ doubtless; all unprofitable and Eccle 12. consumeable/ whereabout ye destroy you/ and make War one against another/ And Esa. 55. a. joel. 2. b. Eccli. 5. b. Math. 18. a. turn you about betimes to the peaceable House of the Love of jesus Christ/ to the Concord and Peace of you all/ ere-ever ye be utterly vanquished by the Iniquity and swallowed-up by the Eccli. 5. b. Rom. 2. b. Wrath of God. 2. leave-off now also/ and quiet you in this Day⁏ O all ye Wise and Scripture learned; in all your Contention 1. Tim. 1. a. 2. Tim. 2. b. c. Tit. 3. a. b. and disputing one against another/ seeing that the Arguments whereabout ye contend/ strive/ and dispute the one against theother/ are all dark Esa. ●● b. Math. 11. d. 13. b. and secret before your Eyes/ Ears/ and understandings/ And turn you about betimes to the peaceable House of the Love of jesus Christ/ and walk in the jer. 13. b. john. 12. d. e. true Light of his godly Doctrine/ ere-ever ye be utterly 〈◊〉. 94. b. Heb. 3 4. b. hardened in your Hearts destroyed or clean brought-to-confusion by the Darknesses/ even Math. 25. d. Apo 20 d. into the Bottomles-pit and 2. 〈◊〉. 1. c. banished from the clearness of the uncovered Face of God/ into the Condemnation. 3. FOr that cause⁏ O all ye People upon Earth/ Rulers and Commonalty/ with all Wise and Scripture-learned; give now good ear hereto/& take it to heart/ and understand what serveth you all unto Luk. 19 c. Peace: And have now all a good regard to the godly Testimonies of the Truth/ which flow out of the holy Spirit john. 7. d. of jesus Christ/ and are set fourth out of his Service of love. 4. Which holy Spirit with his Winds of godly Testimonies/ is now in this day blowing or breathing down unto us/ from the Face of the Lord/ and from the Seat of his godly Majesty: wherein the Scripture becometh fulfilled in this present day/ like as there standeth written thereof: 5. A Spirit Esa. 57 b. shall blowe-fourth from my Face/ and I will make Breath/ saith the Lord. 6. Therefore give-ear now/ and comprehend in your Hearts/ what thesame Spirit saith from the Face of the Lord/ and publisheth to the Peace and Blessing of all People. For thus saith thesame holy Spirit/ which breatheth-downe from the Face of the Lord: 7. THe God of Heaven hath determined to erect and establish upon the Earth/ for evermore⁏ you in the last Esa. 2. a. joel. ●. a. M●●h 4. a. Act. 2. b. time; the Peace and Blessing of all the Generations of the Earth/ under the Obedience of his Love/ like as He hath heretofore promised through the holy Father's/ and his Propheates؛ Gen. 22. b. Luk. ●. g. Abraham and his Seed punctel. 8. Therefore biddeth Her now all People/ that they turn them away Esa. 55. a. Eze. 18. d. Act. 17. d. from the Iniquity/ shewe-fourth upright Math. 3. a. Luk. 3 a. Act. 2. d. 3. c. Fruits of Repentance/ and humble their Hearts under the Obedience of the Service of his Love/ and so enter into the Way of Life and Peace/ To th'end that the true Love⁏ both towards God and their Neighbour; may have a being like john. 14. ●. 15. b. 17. c. Eph. 3. c. Shape in them. 9 For the true Love towards God and our Neighbour/ Deu. 30. d. is the true Life: and thesame Life/ is a true john. 1. a. Light of Men: and that Light of Life/ is the true john. 1●. c. 1. john. 2. b. Love itself. 10. Thesame true Love/ is the Delight or Good-pleasure of the Lord/ and the Fullness or Perfection of the Life. 11. Thesame Love/ is also God-his Paradice؛ the Pleasant-garden of the Lord punctel wherein the Tree of Gen. 2. a. Psal. 1. a. Use with his Growing/ standeth fast/ and bringeth-fourth his living Fruits/ to an everlasting Rest and joy of Life. 12. Behold/ and consider: This Rest and joy of Life/ in the Love/ this day of Love/ whereout the true clearness of God/ and his heavenly Goods are declared/ is now appeared/ and brought▪ from the Grace of the Lord; unto Us Little ones and God-his Elect/ under the Obedience of his Love: and in thesame He hath rejoiced us. 13. Which Day or Light of Love/ and of everlasting joy/ we publish now⁏ to a Math. 24. b. Marc. 16. c. Apo. 14. b. joyful Tidings of the Kingdom of Peace, in all the World/ to the Blessing of all the Generations of the Earth/ To th'intent that everyone⁏ which adjoineth him to the Love& her Service; might have the Fullness of john. 10. ●. Life/ through the Love/ that his joy may john. 1●. b. 16. d. 17 b. c. 1. john. 1. a. be perfect/ and that he may obtain the Peace and Blessing/ according to the Promises. 14. Take now all good-heed to this Day of Love/ and consider well thereon/ what he, out of the Service of his Love; requireth: and john. 8. c. 12 d e. 1. john. 2. b. walk even so obediently in the Light of the same/ that ye stumble not. 15. Run not fourth in the Darkness/ that ye err not in the by-ways/ nor fall on the Vncenen-places. 16. For behold/ There 1. Cor. 4. a. Apo. 18. a. appeareth now unto Us a Light from on-high/ with Bright-beames of clearness/ over the whole Earth: the which is the Day of Love/ that God hath constituted/ ordained/ or appointed/ In Act. 17. d. which He will judge the Compass of the Earth/ with Righteousness/ through one Man/ in whom He hath decreed it: which holdeth-fourth the Belief before everyone/ seeing that God hath raised Him from the Death/ to th'end that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 17. LEt now all Iew. 19 b. Esa. 57 d. 62. Stumbling-stones/ which are laid to 'cause the Blind to stumble/ be done out of the Way: and let even so all what is uneven on the Way/ be made plain/ To th'end that the Blind hurt not themselves on the Way/ neither stumble nor fall. 18. Let now all High-places Esa. 40. a. Math. 3. a. and Valleys be made very even and plain/ on the Way to the Life: Let now all Mountains/ Highplaces/ and Little-hilles be cast-downe: And let now all Valleys and Dales be highthened or filled-upp/ To th'end that there may be everywhere an even and free Path/ and a good and peaceable Walking/ to the Life in the Peace. and that the Num. 14. Mich. 5. Glory of the Lord may become great/ and inlardge itself wyde-abrode over all Lands. So shall then Esa. 52. Luk. 3. all Flesh behold the Salvation of God/ according to the Promises. 19 This is the Word of the Lord/ Esa. 2. ●. which He hath spoken in times-past/ to a righteous judgement/ in the last Days/ To th'end that it all should give itself to the Preservation. namely/ under the Wings of the Love: wherunder everyone shall devil free/ Mich. 4. ●. without fear/& be defended from all Hindrance or Danger/ according to the Promises. 20. LEt now all destroying Weapons/ be done out of the Sight of the Eyes/ to th'end that the Children or Youngones wound not themselves/ and that the Elders make no longer Battle. 21. Let everyone lay-away now from him/ his Weapons of War/ and give him unto Rom. 12. Heb. 12. Peace: and be joyful/ because of the great Grace/ Tit. 1. which is now made-manifest and come unto Vs. 22. For behold/ The Esa. 61. a. Luk. 4. Golden-yeare appeareth now unto Us/ that free acceptable Year of the Lord/ to the Releassing and Setting-free of all the lords People[ namely/ of all the Tribes of Israel] to the Blessing of all the Generations of the Earth/& to the Salvation of all Heathen/ for that the Scripture might be fulfilled/ according to the Promises. The second Chap. TAke now 2. Cor. 6. a. good-heed to this acceptable Time؛ the free Year punctel wherein everyone is called and bidden/ to come to Levi. 25 a. Deu. 15. a. Esa. 49.60. d. his right Inheritance/ under the Obedience of the Love/ To th'end that everyone may possess in Freedom/ that which belongeth unto him/ and obtain thesame/ whereunto he is Gen. 1.2. Sap●. 2. 〈◊〉. 17. ●. created/ And that it may all even so be inhabited, under the Obedience of the Love, in Peace/ through the mighty 〈◊〉 52. c. 66. Hand of the Lord. 2. Let everyone prepare him now to the Eph. 1. b 4. Col. 3. b. upright Being/ whereunto he is created of God. For lo/ God Gen. 1. Sa●. 1. 〈◊〉 ● 9 1. 〈◊〉. 4. a. hath created All/ that is anything/ each-one to his Ordinance and Righteousness/ and to the Preservation of the Life/ To th'end that it should go-well with everyone/ and that they might live free without Sap 1. destruction. and so God to have the Praise of all/ through the love. 3. Therefore hear the Word of the Lord/ ye all which now make battle/ or are Men-of-warre▪ all ye Nobles/ Lordes-of-the-campe/ Captains/ Horsemen and Soldiers/ and all which deal with Weapons-of-warre/ to the use of Battle: Make now Plowsheares Isa 2. a. Math. 4. a. / of your Sweardes'/ and Sickles/ of your Spears/ For to plough all wildernessed Land/ and to prepare all unprepared or untilled Fields/ to a mollified Earth/ To th'intent that Bread-corne may be sown therein/ and multiply itself through the Rain& Dew of Heaven: and that meet or apt Deu. 28.〈…〉 Za●h 1●. a. Fruits may even so be reaped and gathered of all Lands/ To the end that there may be always Bread-corne in-store/ to a Food of satisfying/ and that the Children of Men may always have Isa. 33. ●. ●5. Bread for to live by. 4. Look to it betimes/ ere ever the Amos. ●. a. great Hunger or Lack of Bread fall over the Land/ that ye all( when the Hunger cometh) pine not away: but may then have Corn for your Food/& Bread to live by. 5. Wherefore consider now/ that the Land is very hard/ and the 〈…〉 a. b. 33. b. Earth/ very stubborn: in such-sort / that⁏ for the Hardness cause; the Fields are waren dry/ and become unfruitful of the good Seed. 6. Although the Rain and Dew fall thereupon/ yet notwithstanding thesame soaketh not therein/ to the Moisteninge of the Earth. 7. Albeit that Seed be sown thereon/ yet cometh it not to Fruitfulness. 8. And although the Seed get a little Growing therein/ yet hath it not any Math. 25. Mark. 4. Luk. 8. deepness of root: and cannot therefore endure the Heat of the Sun. 9 For that cause it either withereth of itself: or else the Esa. 5. b. 32. c. Math. 13. Thistles and Thorns keep it down: so that it getteth not his Fullness of ripe Seed/ to Fruitfulness. For it hath not any growing-up to his Perfection/ Because the Earth is so utterly unprepared/ and desolated with Abominations. 10. SEeing now that the Earth is not ploughed/ nor prepared to bring-fourth Fruit/ therefore lieth the Land everywhere thus 4. Esd. 16. wildernessed/ and unfruitful of good Corn 3. Reg. 18. ●. jer. 12.14. a. ●am. 2.4. a. . There is scarcely any-wheare Corn to be found/ for to sustain the Life of Men. 11. Oh! What a Woe/ 4. Esd. 15.16 Esa. 24. Apo. 8. Calamity and Misery cometh-ther over the poor People which devil upon the Earth/ and seek out of the unprepared Earth/ which bringeth-fourth nothing-else but Math. 13. Weeds/ Thistles Gen. 3. d. Heb. 6. / and Thorns; their Meat for Food and their Peace on Earth/ through Exercisinge-of-warre. and consider not that the Earth is Gen. 3. d. Deu. 28. cursed/ for the Wickedness cause of the People: and therefore lieth barren of Corn/ to the Food of Life/ and utterly void of the Peace of Christ. And if there come not any other Provision into the Minds or Understanding of the Rulers of the Earth/ and of the People which devil thereon/ so must they all Psa. 8. d. jer. 14. a. jam. 1.4. pyne-away/ Heb. 6. inherit the cursing with the Earth/ and perish in great Misery. 12. Wherefore learn ye not now⁏ in this perilous time; to use some right Understanding/ to a good Provision of Bread/ O ye Kings of the People? 13. Wherefore use ye now no prudency/ O ye Counsel-lordes over the Country's/ to th'end that the People might get Bread/ and live peaceably therewith? 14. Wherefore think ye not betimes/ what is most profitable or needful for you: and whereby ye might live longest in Peace/ O ye Men-of-warre/ ye all which now make Battle? For lo/ ye let the Land lie waste: and have turned/ armed/ and provoked yourselves to Battle/ one against another. 15. Ye slay one another of you/ with your Swords. ye destroy each-other/ with your Spears. and consider not that the Land lyeth-wast and waxeth-wilde by itself. 16. Therefore awake betimes/ and look into the Destruction yourselves. Esa. 1. a. O●● ●. d. Zach. 9 Break now your Swords and Spears to-peeces: and forge your Swords into Plowsheares/ and your Spears into Sickles: and give you to the Tillinge-of-the-grounde/ for to plough the Earth/ and to prepare thesame unto Fruitfulness of Seed. 17. Bide nolenger Men-of-warre one against another: but become Tillers-of-the-grounde/ and bring the Earth Gen. 1. under you/ to Fruitfulness/ that it may bring-fourth good Seed/ for to live by/ So shall ye then⁏ in the time of Harvest; have much to reap 2. Cor. 5. Gal. 6. / and obtain great Riches: and all Peace shall meet you. 18. But if ye do not so: nor yet consider/ that it is presently no time of War or Battle/ that can profit any man any-thinge at all in these Days/ for to obtain Peace& Food of Life upon the Earth: but will get your living with the Sword/ So shall ye yourselves⁏ according to the Word of the Lord; perish therethrough/ or be Math. 16. slain with the Sword. 19 It is true/ we have heard that Christ spoke/ in times-past; to his Disciples/ saying/ Luk. 1●. Whoso hath a Wallet/ let him take it: in like-maner also a Scrip: But he that hath none/ let him cell his Coat/ and buy a Sword. But now saith the Love of Christ: Whoso hath a Sword/ let him not cell it: but forge it/ Esa. 2. ●. O●e●. 2. d. Zach. 9 c. make thereof a Plowsheare/ and become an Husbandman. For it must all be fulfilled/ whatsoever is written of Christ Luk. 22. d. 24. g. / To th'intent that the End or Fulfillinge of all that is written/ 4. ●●d. 5. 1. Cor. 1●. 1. Tim. 1. a. may be the love. 20. This is the everlasting Esa 32. d. 54. d 66 d. Peace/ according to the Scripture. For what is written of Me/ saith Christ/ Luk. 12. d. hath an End or Fulfilling. and that End or Fulfillinge/ john. 17. d. 1. Cor. 13. b. 1. Tim. 1. a. is the Love which bideth for ever/ according to the Promises. 21. Therefore look into the Time/ and consider well whereto the Promises stretch. Not⁏ verily; to That which goeth before and ceaseth: but to the Tocominge/ that ceaseth not/ but shall bide for evermore. 22. For although in the Time when Swords were needful or required/ ther were Luk. 22. d. two Swords found/ yet is notwithstanding the End promised to be in Esa. 9 a. 32. d 57.60. d. 66. Dan. 2. d. Eph. 2. c. Peace/ under the love. The third Chap. IF he then⁏ O he Warriors; consider not heeron/ nor forge your Swords into Plowsheares. but will get the Victory with the Sword/ so shall it not prospero with you. For there shall now no Protection nor Peace be found/ under your Swords/ but only under the Love: wherein the Lord⁏ from the Beginning; hath preordained and determined thesame. 2. But if ye will now⁏ in this New and gracious Day of Love; yet fight and make War one against another/ and not once cal-to-minde the to-coming Deut. 28.〈…〉. 8. Hunger/ which shall▪ O all ye Men-of-warre; fall upon you thereout/ whenas ye are bee● utterlie-weerye and tired in your War or Fighting/ So think then upon the Infelicity and Misfortune which is published unto you before. 3. For behold/ the Days come/ saith the holy Spirit of Love yea/ they are already in the door; that your 4. Esd. 6. Binnes or Ambries shall be found with out Bread/ and your Barns without Corn: that your Lights also shall job. 18. a 1 a 1. b. ●8. b. Pro. 1● a 24. go-out/ and that ye▪ like the Math. ●●. a. foolish Virgins; having no Oil in your Lamps/ shall find yourselves buried in the Darkness/ like unto the Dead. 4. At that time verily/ much Calamity& Esa. 13. a. Misery shall come upon you: and much Land shall then lie so utterly wast/ that it cannot be tilled again: and⁏ as a Wilderness; be overgrown with Pro 24. ●●a. 5. Thisiles and Thorns. and ye shall be constrained to behold with great Sap. 5. 2. Discomfort/ the Misery of yourselves/ the Curse of the Wicked/ and the Malediction of the Earth/ and greatly lament and bewail yourselves/ with Wringinge-handes/ that ye have not hearkened unto the Pro. 5. b. Counsel of the Elders in the Service of Love/ nor ben obedient unto the holy Spirit of Love/ nor to his godly Testimonies. 5. Seeing then that ye have loved yourselves/ followed-after jer. 7. c. 9 c your own Counsel/ according to the Mind of your Good-thinkinge/ lusts/ and Desires/ and Pro. 1. c. despised the proffered Grace of the Love of jesus Christ/ So shall ye also plainly perceive/ that the Wisdom reigneth not by you/ and that ye have not the true jer. 8. a. Word of the Lord/ livingly in you: and shall even so find yourselves shut without the Kingdom of the Love/ and separated and Sap. 5. a. estranged from all lovely Being. 6. Therefore Eccle. 3. have now a regard unto this Time/ wherein the Love and Equity is exercised/ and the Virtues required: and consider what is most profitable or needful for you/ and take Warning. For behold/ it goeth presently/ eavenlike as the God of Heaven hath heretofore spoken thereof/ through his holy Propheates. 7. If therefore the Children of Men convert not/ neither yet leave-off from their Folly and Error/ So shall then all the Rom. 2. b. Evil or Infelicity which is for to come over the Ungodly/ fall also⁏ as a Luk. 21. Snare; upon them. For the Swords are Psal. 37. already naked/ and drawn out of the Scabbardes: and everyone is busily occupied with his Spear. 8. All that is any-what/ and can bear Stick or Staff( whether he be young or old/ little or great) will now fight/ and applieth him unto Battle 4. Esd. 6. b. 1●. d. 15. b. c. 16. ● Math. 24. b. for to make War: and getteth him a stout Courraige to the Exercisinge-of-warre/ for to take-in-hande and achieve Martial-affaires/ boldly and without discomfiture. 9 Therefore cometh-ther a great Alarm and Murder-crye over the Lands: jere. 25. d. joel. 1. a. b. Amos. 8. b. Soph. 1. b. For the Hearts of the People are kindled to Battle. They shall fall on the Edge of their Swords/ and slay Nah. 3. a. 4. Esd. 16 c. Luk. 21. c. one-another upon the Earth. 10. But after that shall the great Hunger come: little Amos. 8. b. Corn be found to live by: and the People shall seek Lam. 2. d. 4. Bread/ for to sustain their Life withal. 11. But▪ alas; when the great Hunger and Dearth or Lack of Bread shall fall upon them/ then shall they be fain to feed themselves with jer. 6.8. b. ●3 d. ●●. d. 29 b. Ezech. 13. b. c. strange Bread: Howbeit/ not find nor com-by the satisfying or Fullness of the Life thereout. 12. When they then ware hungry again/ and knowe-well that they cannot live by the strange Bread/ nor be satisfied therewith/ So shall their Souls Lam. 2. c. 4. a faint or be unlustfull/ through the strange Bread/ and much evil Corruption of the Pestilence shall take-holde of them. 13. Than whatsoever died not of Hunger/ and whatsoever is escaped the Sword/ and ye at remained-over therefrom/ shall, through bitter woefulness; in great Luk. 21. d. Desperation or Faintheartednes/ seek to dye jere. 7. d. O●●ç. 10. a. Luk. 23. c. Apoc. 9 a. of the strong Pestilence( wherewith they shall be caught) for to avoid the great Infelicity of the Ungodly/ and the Misery which shall take-hold of them: yet shall they not be able to escape the Plagues. 14. At that time shal-men count them happier that are Lam▪ 4.2. slain with the Sword/ then they that shall remayne-over to the strong Pestilence. 15. And upon all such as stand not submitted under the Obedience of the love. nor humbled under the Preservation of the Service of Love/ shall all this foresayed Infelicity not fail to come: and they shall jer. 42. b. Apoc. 9 a. not be able to avoid nor escape thesame. 16. There shall also great Tribulation/ Affliction/ and Misery be beholden/ in all Islands/ because they have not sought⁏ in the Service of Love; the upright Ways of the Lord/ nor loved the Life of Righteousness/ Esa. 5. d. 4. Esd. 7. c. nor yet had any desire to the Service of Love▪ but Pro. 1. c. refused/& resisted or slandered thesame/ and even so turned-back themselves: Going-fourth according to their Deut. ●9. a. jer. 7. c. 9 b. Goodthinkinge. 17. But what availeth it/ their Goodthinkinge will yet in the end/ betray/ deceive/ and beguile them all: Howbeit many of them will not presently believe thesame. But whenas the Plagues have caught them/ then shall they understand thesame in great Sap. 5. a. Misery/ and⁏ in their Misery; ruefully lament/ that they have so shamefully neglected the proffered Grace/ despised the Good/ and not geeven-care to the Pro. 5. b. Instructions of the Service of Love/ nor yet taken-heede to the Godliness of thesame. 18. For they shall behold and know/ that the old Heaven⁏ wherein they put their trust; and the old Earth⁏ whereupon they have builded; shall all be Esa. 51. b. 66. ●. Pet. ● b. Apoc. 21. a. consumed with the Fire. and her Elements melt/ through the Heat of thesame. 19 But the Love shall remain in her Service/ as a fast Stony-rocke: which Love/ in her Service can 1. Cor. 13. a. beguile noman. For in her Service/ she is a sure unremovable Stay and Salfgarde/ and her Counsel is undeceitfull: for She is nothinge-els in herself/ but Life and Peace. 20. Therefore shall it all⁏ whatsoever is or becometh used without the Love and her Service; cease/ and be changed/ and consume or vanish-awaye. But the Love in her Service/ shall 1. Cor. 13. b remain forever: and all what is of-one-minde with the Love/ shall never perish. but obtain the eternal Life/ and possess thesame everlastingly. 21. seeing now that the Love is the Pleasant-garden of the Lord/ so shall they all that are of-one-minde with her virtuous Nature/ have the Unity with the Love/ and live according to the Lust or Will of the Lord. 22. They shall eat of all the Trees of the Lord-his Pleasant-garden/ and of the Tree Gen. 2. b. Apoc. 2. a. ●2. of Life/ which standeth in the midst of the Paradise of God/ and live everlastingly. 23. For the Death shall be Ozeae. 13. a. 1. Cor. 15. f. Apoc. 20. c. swallowed-up by the Fullness of Life: and there shall be no Death more: but all the Ways of Death/ or which lead unto Death/ shall be locked or made-fast and filled-upp/ and clean growen-to/ To th'end that all People may walk in the Ways of Life/ under the Obedience of the love. 24. There shall be also an eternal Esa. 35. c. 52. 4. Esd. 2. c. Math. 25. c. joy in the Peace: which shall appear unto all them that love the Peace▪ with humble Hearts; under the love. For that is the Word of the Lord/ to a righteous judgement in these last days/ according to the Promises. TEAR JI ID HENRI. HN.