THE Revelation OF GOD & his GLORY SOUNDED FORTH For the opening the Mystery of the Seven SEALS, on the Book of the WONDERS of GOD in the hand of the ANGEL.  
BEING A True and Faithful TESTIMONY Of the Enochian Prophecy Of the Rise and Fall of ANTICHRIST, And of the Restauration of ZION to its Primitive Glory.  
London, Printed in the year 1665.   

The EPISTLE To the READER.  

I.  
LEt the Impartial Reader seriously weigh what is herein set down, and rashly pass no Sentence on a Work of this concernment; neither scruple at the Form and Method in which it is come forth to the view of all sorts of Spirits, wherein I cannot expect so kind entertainment, in matters of such nature, as to have all Men speak well of it, or of me therein, because then had I my Reward with men.   

II.  
For my whole and sole aim and intention in this work (as far forth as I know, and am made sensible of my own frame and temper of Spirit) is and hath been other ways grounded and founded in Truth, than to seek other Honour and Glory than what is of, and cometh from GOD; wherein I have a Witness both in Heaven and Earth, which I might call to bear Record with and for me, that I considerately love not vain ostentation, or to boast over the Weak, by soaring aloft out of the reach of their Capacities, that something else than the Spirit of GOD should be exalted in the Temple and Throne of God's DIGNITY.   

III.  
Because than might I expect that God should glory over me, in the WORK of DESTRUCTION: Though I know in the following Treatise much is come forth in an unpleasant form and dress, to the curious search of some that may count themselves wise; and it will be accounted (at the first sight thereof) rather FORM and SHADOW then SUBSTANCE; and many will be ready to judge the truth of its Concern locked up in SIMILITUDES, and sealed in an unknown Tongue, in that through good Experience of the Enemies Work, I am taught not to be too prodigal in opening Terms, wherein some have suffered and come to a loss, by such means, and the Truth itself is thereby made of low esteem in the EYES of many proud and haughty Ones.   

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Therefore have I employed my Endeavours (under the workings and motions of the Spirit of God, wherein many Mysteries of truth pertaining to the Establishment of his Kingdom, have been revealed in and unto me) that I might leave no room for contention, to feed the snarling nature of those dogged qualities in such that are gone out of the patience and content of God, where the Charity of Life is abounding, wherein Covenant is kept with the LORD, in that Spirit which particularly openeth and revealeth the Mysteries of Truth, in all to whom it pertaineth to know the same.   

V  
And though such that hunger after Advantages (in that Swinelike Nature, which is ready to return again, and rend those that cast their Pearls before them) are in the nature of the Harlot, who is not to be fed with the portion of a true Matron, neither is children's Bread to be cast before them, in that adulterating spirit (which openeth the Quiver out of which the Darts of Disdain are sent forth, do fly abroad) and yet shall not the Truths of God always continue clouded or obscured in silence, as a Treasure hid in the EARTH.   

VI  
But the Time is come that the oppressed Life hath gathered strength, and the groans of the Sufferer have made way for the resurrection of the slain; and the Poor and Despised doth and will arise over all the contempt it hath met withal in its Way onward to the Land of REST; and the Disdainful are ashamed to see the Beggar taken from off the Dunghill, and such exalted in the Favour of God, that were of low degree in the Eyes of the Admirer of the Persons of Men, because of advantage, who have said, Sat thou here, and be my Footstool, since thou hast no Gold Ring, nor gay Garment; else depart, and be thou warmed and fed: but therefore are the Rich afflicted, and the Full are given up into the Tormentors hands.   

VII.  
For a Day is already appeared, in which the simple have been preserved in their Way, and they shall grow in the Favour both of God and Man, through all opposition they meet with, by the fierce and cruel HUNTERS, for their Prey: And those that have said, Come up higher, and sit thou here, because of thy covering and outside Garment; shall themselves be seen naked and hungry, and in want of all things, and many shall behold their shame; for they shall no more wear a rough Garment to deceive, or through austerity appoint places to such that may serve their Interest: but the Voice of the LORD shall be heard in the EARTH, calling and inviting many to the great and last Supper of the LAMB, who shall have on the Wedding Garment of a meek and quiet Spirit, which is of great price with the Lord.   

VIII.  
And this covering will never prove too narrow, neither shall it be ripped off; though such may come up in an appearance of Glory, to manifest the end of the Worldly Sentence that is gone out against them: but seeing fiery trials are come, wherein all Foundations are to be searched into, that every Birth may live in, and receive the Reward of that which it hath been sown in and to, and that it may appear whether they can endure and hold out in the time of affliction: Blessed are all they that have found out, and are builded on the unmoveable and lasting Rock of Ages, and Foundations of many Generations, that have passed before them: for I have seen many good beginnings in the Work of God, wherein his Grace and Love was and is sufficient to perfect and finish the same, had it been trusted to, wholly and fully.   

IX.  
But such that have leaned to their own understandings, have given heed to lying Vanities, and have forsaken the FOUNTAIN of endless Mercies and Refreshments, having still that of their own reserved, (which they are very loath to part from) that separates between GOD and them: these have begun well, but who hath hindered them, that they are so ready to sit down by the Way in a false Peace and Rest? wherein they come short of perfect Satisfaction in God, looking on a self-sufficiency, in something done as an Act of the Creature without the assistance of the Spirit of GOD to keep in the way of Peace.   

X.  
For their beginning was in and by the Spirit of GOD, why then seek they to be perfect by the Flesh, and in a Name of Profession of Truth, while they have the approbation of such that have convinced the Understanding of that which is Truth in the Judgement of Creatures? but in a time of the trial of their Faith, the ends of the World are manifest before them, and then is there a running to and fro, to increase the Knowledge of the WORK of GOD, as it is in themselves, though many have learned in this day to add to their Faith, Virtue and Patience, and all good Fruits of the Spirit of God, because of the Experience of the Work of Faith, which through Patience they are kept in the sense of, in the midst of Fiery Trials; and they hold fast the beget of God thereby, in a confidence of good in him.   

XI.  
And then as they increase in Knowledge, it is on a good ground and foundation, that hath learned them to rejoice in the FLAMES of DEVOURING FIRE, whose devouring QUALITY cannot reach their SENSE with any BITTERNESS of its Sting; but through Patience and Submission thereto, it is made sufferable, and the Cross is made easy therein, and the BURDEN light, because of a quenching property in that love, against whatever maketh the Judgement of God to be unsufferable Torment to his Creature: for part of their Knowledge is, that it is not only given them to believe, but to suffer for the namesake of God, though in the beginning of the Work of Faith, the belief that was wrought by the Spirit of God in them, is a Convincer of sin, under which there was and is a suffering in the nature that hath contracted the guilt thereof on the Soul, by unity of Spirit therewith, even the Spirit and God of the World.   

XII.  
Further, knowing and being persuaded, in patience to wait for the perfecting of the Work of God in the Heart, in that Faith and belief of the love of God therein shed abroad, that they are kept sensible of a good experience of the Work thereof, having the Testimony of a good Conscience to manifest the same in the World; these can show their Faith by its Works, and have a birth thereof that makes not ashamed of a good CONFESSION among Men; and the feigned Humility, and appearances of Love, from the untimely Fruit of the Womb, that can never come to see the glory of the Sun of this day, withereth in its way: for that which can endure and hold out to the End, worketh by the love of God, that hath begotten into a lively hope, concerning the Resurrection from the Dead, having a Life tinctured in the Souls reach after true Charity in God, and Love unfeigned, which is the highest attainment in a Christians state, and the greatest Gift that can be attained by men under the Bond of Perfection.   

XIII.  
Sealing the Work in which God doth glory and delight, in that which is made able to pass through the stroke of Death, to leave an Earnest of the expectations of the Creature (after the day of Redemption) in that which is much more precious than that of Gold that perisheth: But how have I seen many in this day, loading themselves with the Fancy and Imaginations of their disquieted Mind? and then being burdened with a Fear and Jealousy that ariseth from the Unbelieving Heart, and distrustful ground, they are ready to cry out of the Burden of the Lord, whereas their own words and thoughts are become their Burden; who have taken that on them, which God never laid on them; and yet they make the concern for the Lords sake, that lays no more on any than they are made able to bear in the Life of Patience.   

XIV.  
And in this ground stand all the several Separations, and hasty receivings into Fellowships, with sudden hands laid on Proselytes; for herein is the ground of prejudice, swayed by the creaturely affection: yet in this mind may be maintained a fierce and fiery Zeal, for the opiniatedness, that may often call for fire to come down from Heaven, and to have Vengeance and Plagues speedily executed on such against whom their Spirit is bend: for having wished evil in their Hearts, and mischief against the Persons of such (towards whom they cannot admit of any CHARITABLE thoughts) they proceed in a hasty Prophecy of their utter confusion, and then would they rather that both Soul and Body of the subject (over whom they seek to be avenged in that rejoicing) should for ever perish, than that they should be found False Prophets: so evil a thing it is to be engaged in a Spirit of Enmity and Envy.   

XV.  
But such Extremities many have this day put themselves on, through rash censure, and then run back to former Ages and Generations of the World, for a Precedent and Example to help them out, as they think; whereby they oft are ready to plead the lawfulness of cursing their Adversary, who standeth not justified in their sight and approbation, because ELISHA was once acted in that Ministration, through the heat and zeal of his Spirit; it being so far from their nature, to live in that which is waiting for the World's redemption from sin, and reconciliation to God, that they rather strengthen their FURY in the expectation of utter Consumption and Destruction on all that cannot for wraths sake stoop to their persuasions; and it is the end of such willings, to see a People perish in their sins.   

XVI.  
Because of that misinformed Zeal, under which their Spirits are acted, against the Enemies and Foes of that Cause for which they have found the life emboldened towards God, according to the quickening of his Spirit, as tinctured with that Power before which the Heavens have opened, and do shut; and in the like desire THEY are moved, as was HE before whom Fifties were destroyed, whose Spirit resteth Judgement on a Ground wherein God hath prepared Messengers to go before his face: But considering the difference in Administrations, that Zeal which runneth out after an Object to maintain the heat of Spirit against which it is enkindled, is not now held and retained in the like Cause and Ground as that in which it first appeared.   

XVII.  
For God is gone out of that Administration, as acted towards the Persons of Men in their Generations, and cannot own any glory therein, but as that which had a Testimony of his day in the Prophecy thereof, wherein the Messengers went before his Face, in a sense of that terror that was come on the Wicked World; because such that wear the soft Clothing are got into King's Houses, and they shall no more wear a rough Garment, or prophesy in their Sackcloth Robes; therefore whom would men go out to see? since Times are come, that the Sacrifice of the Rebellious savoureth of the Work of Death, and there is not fire enough to kindle the combustible matter, in the House, on the top of which they are exalted; while the Displeasure of God continueth unawakened in the Pleasure and Will of Men that bring Wood, but where is the Flame of that other Spirit which God requireth? even of Reconciliation to Himself, in the Life of Forgiveness, in that which is able to Appease and Quench the Wrath and Rage of the devouring Enemy, and make Friends in the  Life.   

XVIII.  
Yet where is Love and Forgiveness enough to heap Coals of Fire on the Heads of Enemies, the Gift hath been first left at the Altar, and such are in the way of Reconciliation to God and their Brother, and have their Sacrifice salted with Salt, and do find Acceptance before God, without any loud Cry to the Worlds BAAL, or Lord, as did the Priests in Days of old; and they awaken nothing before its time, but are waiting on the Power of what is already kindled and awakened against Self, which is God's Displeasure, wherein the ENEMY hath been strengthened for a time.   

XIX.  
Thus desiring, if it be possible, to live in peace with all Men, no Spirits can be awakened in the wrathful Principle to their hurt, because such things are not easily allayed again in their heat and sting; for the Executioners of God's Displeasure, as destroying Angels in God, rejoice in the Power of Death, taking occasion by Sin to tempt, and then to accuse, as sin hath taken occasion by the LAW, (once ordained in the hand of Angels) to revive a strength of Condemnation, under the Power of Death, wherein the Devourer and Destroyer employeth his Instruments in the Working of Concupiscence, like a roaring Lion seeking to betray under his Baits and Snares, as a ground of Enmity and Revenge, in which he lurketh with accusations, after he hath once conquered under the Power of his Dominion, and to condemn before God, that the Patient in Spirit may be delivered into his hand for torment, the time he hath to sift and try them.   

XX.  
For I have always desired of the Lord, to keep out of the ground and Cause of Just Offence to any, and to avoid occasions of Enmity, which is so ready to spring up in the distempered and discomposed Minds of Men of unruly Passions, who have let in the SEED of Discontent against the Deal and Proceed of God, either in Themselves or Others, wherein many are both seeking and taking occasions unjustly against those they are out of Charity with, because of a mind filled with prejudice and gainsayings, though to me such things are no whit strange, in that I know there is no temptation suffered to work against the life of God in any, but what was common to the Saints in days of old, who with the Temptation have found out a way to escape the evil and danger thereof.   

XXI.  
Yet am I clear herein, that I have not sought to hid the Counsel of God from any, by delivering forth the truth of what I have received from GOD, in an UNKNOWN Tongue, wherein I could keep my Conscience void of offence towards GOD and Man; but there is a Spirit which is Worldly wise and subtle, yet covered with Religious pretences, which is at this day seeking Pre-eminence in the House and Temple of God, and that is it which I desire to live and act out of the reach of, in what form, or by what name soever they may be called; therefore from such I keep in the Clouds, and from thence must I in the Truth hereof, and the Truth in me descend to their Capacities, as way is made therein, through the fulfilling of the Prophecy.   

XXII.  
But though this is and hath been my Care and Conscience towards God, and love to the Creation of him that form his Workmanship in the Womb of Nature, and curiously wrought the form wherein he rejoiceth, in the Mother's Belly, not to seek or give any just occasion of offence to Jew or Greek, or cast a stumbling Block in the way of the Gentiles, in which the House of Israel remaineth under sufferings; yet as far forth as I am redeemed out of the ground of hurt, which worketh in the excess of Love or Fear of the Creatures, I question not but my LIFE will be preserved through all in my Way, and out of the reach of evil Tongues, in the bewitching faculty of prejudice, that swelleth with Envy.   

XXIII.  
My Bow's bend being wholly drawn against the persecuting Spirit of the World, about Religion and Worship of God, under what name or pretence soever such are covered, who seek to keep the Innocent under the sufferings of Cruelty, in the Holes and Dens of the Earth, that are filled with a People more righteous before God, than themselves; though it was Israel's Choice to have that Dominion established, wherein they might be like unto other Nations of the Earth, which is given them in the Ministration of Wrath and Fury; and in all Forms of Government he hath come forth higher than the common People by the Head, as King in Nature; and though he hunt for his Prey, as a Partridge on the Mountains, yet doth God watch over and preserve his own, through all conspiracies of ACHITOPHEL, which shall come to nought.   

XXIV.  
Notwithstanding many are hereby given into the Hands of the Tormentor, for the destruction of the Flesh, whose Spirits are saved alive in this day of the Lord, and they are now coming forth in that Power which hath conquered the strength of the old Deceiver, which is ready to betray with a Kiss of Flattery, and they are made able to trample on the Dominion of Death and Hell (in the worldly Spirits Excommunications, and Banishments, and sensual Separations (having not the Spirit of God) in a patiented, suffering, and bearing Principle, that cannot rejoice to see and behold any evil in others, but mourneth over such that are left to themselves, and the pernicious ways of that Will, which is deserted by God, in the ground and Principle of the Life's operation, though in his Sufferance they live, and move, and have their Being, while they grow in that which is past feeling of his Love, and are dead to the apprehension of his Power, in the motion of which they were first quickened, as given up to a reproved and reprobate sense.   

XXV.  
Therefore let the goodness of God to his Creature, lead to Repentance (as that which shall leave all Men without Excuse before him) which is the only way to bring out of a perishing Estate, under which the Worlds are fallen, wherein his LOVE and MERCY maketh sensible of the Danger, concerning which they are forewarned, that as God cometh to leave any to themselves, in the danger of their own Pernicious Ways, so in like manner they be dealt withal by them that profess his Name and Truth, and none to continue contending with the World in the wrathful Principle, for it is not lawful striving with any People out of the Power of God, in the Ministration of his Love, because all wrathful furious drivings and strive are under the Power of the Destroyer, and it is the Devil's strength to lead into the same, though therein Divine Justice cometh to be exalted over the Creature (in the execution of Vengeance that repayeth double to all the Rebellious.)   

XXVI.  
Let the stiffnecked consider therefore why many have been given up unto Satan, and delivered into the Tormentors hands for a season, while Destruction and Contempt hath come on the Glory of the Flesh, which is stained: for the Hunter after mischief shall fall in his own Snare and Gin; and the Trap he hath laid for the Innocent, shall take hold of his Feet in the Way he is walking, when the wronged comes to be apprehended on a Hill that is higher than that on which the Enemy and Destroyer hath been exalted; and into the Hands of the PURSUED is put a sharp Instrument, the strength of that Reason whereof the World is rob and bereft, (even the Sword of Goliath, and Spear of their Adversary) with which they shall wound the Head of RAHAB, and the Dragon, and thereby they shall do EXPLOITS.   

XXVII.  
Though they are kept from using it in a time of advantage, yea, I have seen, I have seen, while the Envious have been hunting abroad, the Pursued have been led into the Tents of those that are Mighty in Battle; and the Man of War hath been found sleeping over his Master, until a Lap of his Garment (with which the Envious hath covered the Cruelty of his Spirit) is brought forth into open view; and the Cruse and Spear at his Bed's head, can now be shown to his shame, because the Blood-Avenger hath kept the Innocent from putting forth his Hand to touch Him that had once the Anointing Oil on his Head, that had the favour of a Lot in Israel, when the Spirit of God rested on Him, that made it a Proverb, Is the Son of Kish also among the Prophets?   

XXVIII.  
But the Cry of the Poor is heard, that hath been compassed about with Tormentors, who hath said in his heat, What shall I now do? for behold here cometh a whole Army, and I have no Sword but that of Goliahs', and the Lord hath said, Take it, for there is none like it: and it shall be known that a Stripling is engaged in the Lord's Battle, and is able to make war against Israel's Enemies, though he could not use the Sword in his own defence, neither dares he be too bold in the exercise thereof abroad, lest the bruised Reed should be broken, and the smoking Flax quenched, before Judgement is brought forth into Victory (at home, where the War is begun, by such that are engaged in the Lamb's Battle.   

XXIX.  
Therefore in the Mystery of what is herein treated of, is the depth of whatever hath relation to the concern both of SOUL or BODY'S Welfare, in the Knowledge and true understanding of its state; and the universality thereof, is a Testimony worthy to be heeded in the General or particular Concern, because of the relation it hath to the true and right Information of the Mind of all that are capable of benefit therein, through a pointing property at that which gives unto the Reader a sense of the Day, in which many in old time were made Prophets and Messengers, and have largely testified and prophesied thereof, in the Restoration of all Principles of Nature it hath possessed and inhabited in the BODY, into its first Glory, which is the MYSTERY of the Second Resurrection, in those in whom the Power of the first Death is weakened, and over whom the second Death hath no power.   

XXX.  
For the Life of JESUS is manifest in their mortal Flesh, discovering the Glory of which they are made Partakers, in a Kingdom everlasting, and World without End, because of their Faith and Belief in the changing and renewing Power of GOD, wherein the JUST do live, and witness Redemption from the Sting of SIN, and Strength of the LAW (which is the Power of Death) and the GRAVE hath not Dominion over the Soul; therefore you that profess Scriptures, contend not against the Verity and Infallibility of the Testimony hereof, because for your sakes and satisfaction I am constrained in some cases, to use such Words, that the RECORD of TRUTH is sealed by, in the Testimony of the PROPHETS of GOD in former Ages and Generations of the World.   

XXXI  
Neither let it scruple any (on the other hand) that I use not an exact FORM and METHOD of Scripture-Terms, but am oft constrained to apply the bent of my Spirit toward such significant terms as are brought to my Understanding in the exercise of the VISION; for the Words are but an outward Sound and Declaration of what hath relation to an inward and invisible Work, in the Heart of the Creature, through the Salvation of the Soul from Death: but I see it hard for many professing SCRIPTURES, and the Knowledge of the TRUTHS of GOD therein declared, to own it nakedly, for its own sake, and yield and bend to the disposings of God, in matters of such concern; for than would it be consented to, in what hath relation to the Minds Information, without respect to the Persons of such that are found differing in Judgement, concerning outward Circumstances in Gestures, or PRINCIPLES in DOCTRINE, while in the End and Aim there is a respect to Truth in the Heart.   

XXXII.  
And there will be a joining in the Acceptance, against whatever hath relation to Controversies, in a state of disobedience against the Spirit of God, in which the WORLD is endeavouring to settle a Rest: and hence have I seen the Complainer vexed with Burdens of his unruly Passion; but that God may more and more unseal the Fountain of endless Good and Happiness (in the Knowledge of the Glory of his Kingdom, that is everlasting) is my Souls desire, that Truth and Righteousness may be set up in the WORLD, and the Glory of the ANCIENT OF DAYS (proceeding in the increase of the Knowledge of GOD) may run down like a River, and cover the Earth like as the Waters cover the Sea.   

XXXIII.  
And as this hath its due acceptance in the Heart of the Upright and  in Censure and Judgement, for the sake of the Controversies among men, about their Opinionatedness concerning the Truths of God contained in the Scriptures, with which the World is filled) they will more and more come to see into its service, and the end for which it is given forth, which will make way for the opening and discovery of many precious Secrets, pertaining to the Restauration of Nature, in its depraved Body of infected Elements, that are generated under a Power of Corruption, that Creatures may come to see into the Mystery of what is contained in many words therein, that hath a signification very intricate to the common sense of private Interpretations thereon, which the limiting spirit of the WORLD is apt to tie up the Faith of their Communicants in, because of the vulgar acceptance it hath in the Heart of a Multitude: But the Encouragement I find for the prosecution of what is remaining in this Tract (wherein I am taking view of my passage through those Forms of Nature in which I am embodied in time and place, is centred in an higher Object, than the Readers well or ill Acceptance.   

XXXIV  
Though I am satisfied in the end thereof, that coming to be seen into, will cause many to say, Now I know thou speakest no more unto us in PARABLES, but hast plainly showed us of the Father. But among the Multitude, how hard a thing is it to believe well of future Events, either in general or particular Concerns? so narrow is the Heart of the Creature tied up in his Generations, and cannot see the good of any thing in Posse, though that which is in Esse, Self is continually labouring for Interest in; yet consider the want of Faith in the World, concerning any Help and Deliverance to the Oppressed (after which they have fixed Expectations) shall not always keep down and hinder the day we groan after, but it shall come when Faith is scarce to be found on the Earth, and Deliverance shall spring up to the Afflicted, (as well concerning outward Oppressures as inward, when they are left as Men without hope.   

XXXV.  
But none of those that are in the fanning Love, and outside shows of Humility in appearances, under any pretence whatever, of a universality of Spirit (while in a sensual Separation they continue rending themselves from the Body of Fellowship [in God] wherein is the holy Order of Saints) will be able to stand and hold out the endurance of the Trials that are come into the Worlds; though for a Time they make Parties, and have Headships in the Divisions of Men, about Opinionatedness; for it is that every thing may appear in its birth, that the Mystery of Iniquity hath been suffered to work: and the Selfish Love (in appearances of Humility) is one with the Spirit of the WORLD, in which it is grounded and founded, and the day hath made it manifest.   

XXXVI.  
For it is not lo here! or lo there! will now hid the Professor, neither A. nor P. in Profession, or that thou hast Love or Zeal in thy Heart, but what art thou joined to, in the exercise thereof, that leveneth NATURE into a Principle; it is that which will discover whose Side thou art on; which I long since have had a perfect sight of; and that both the fearful and unbelieving of God and his Goodness, that for want of Zeal to God (in the Cause and Case in which they once have appeared) seek to cover their dead mind in a habit of Love and Forgiveness, and while filled with the Power of Death, they move and reach after a sense (in others) under which they would be apprehended to live; and also the Proud and Presumptuous who are heightened in a fierceness of that fiery Zeal) could be content to persecute for their OPINIONATEDNESS, with Tongue or might of Arm, and both will join hands to conclude the matter, under which a Mystery doth work.   

XXXVII.  
This is already seen; and that Doctrines of Truth may be received and believed, that have Universal Principles, and yet retained in a narrow empty Heart, whereby the Cause for which the Just doth suffer, is maintained in a Ground that is evil to the Life of Jesus who lighteth every man, etc. and therefore the Nature of what springeth from thence, effecteth that which is contradictory to good sense: but I leave the Issue thereof to God, who is the Highest and Chiefest GOOD; whereby the Creature (who is the Subject on which it doth work) may come to grow into Unity of Spirit with Him therein, wherein Time and Place is measured and comprehended, in the incomprehensible Beauty of Holiness, which shineth in and over all his Works, and standeth in the excelling Properties of that Virtue that transcends the worth of all visible created things, which are all to perish in that state of Corruption under which they are brought forth BEAUTIFUL into MANIFESTATION, that many may come to comprehend, with all Saints, what is the height and depth, and length, and breadth of these things, as they are in JESUS.   

XXXVIII.  
But the order of what hath relation to a Public Good herein, depends on a Ground that hath the Truth of all Prophecy opened, in the concern it hath to both outward and inward man, of which a large Testimony is already given forth, in the passage of all those that died in the Faith of the Day, many are become Witnesses of, and do see and possess great Glory therein, through a sense of Redemption and Restauration, come unto, and come up in the Worlds, in its Principles, in the several and respective States, where many have been found wandering from Satisfaction, (in the progress of the Work, which leads up unto God) and therefore concerning the Times and Seasons, for which the Vision is set, and made to speak, thou shalt count a year for a day, from the Creation of the Worlds in the Generations of ADAM, according to the days of the Life of ENOCH, which were 365 years, wherein is the ground of all Prophecy comprehended, in number and figure, that is now made able to utter its voice.   

XXXIX.  
And it will appear to be the fifteenth day of the fifth Month, of the sixteenth year, since the Creation of the Worlds (in the Generations of Adam, to this present year 1665.) wherein thou shalt count in each month 28 days and ⅔ parts, between New Moon and New Moon, counting the beginning of the Month from the Phasis, or first appearing-time thereof; and from the fifteenth year the Worlds stood divided in that which rested the Judgement of GOD (which is brought thereinto) on its fourth part, or North Quarter, over which the Eagle hath had Power (in the time the Dragon remained bound down in the bottomless Pit) with a chain of the Angel of GOD, while those that had received the first Fruits of Joy and Comfort (in the Spirit of God, and that are made partakers of the first Resurrection) have reigned in the Dominion and Power of God, in that which hath quickened the Spirit of the Souls of the once dead in Sins and Trespasses, as of those Spirits in Prison, unto whom the Preacher of Redemption is become manifest.   

XL.  
And by fifteen degrees of the Sun (according to which it hath gone ten degrees backward on the Worlds, and in which the Days of the Month, and Months of the Year are equally divided) thou shalt be made able to measure the Worlds in what is discernible, and whence Glory descendeth into Nature, from the Equinoctial Pole, according to its Elevation; counting in the Diurnal Motion of the Wheels, wherein a Day standeth for a Year (in its figure) according to the times and seasons under which the Worlds have multiplied their number, to the Generations that are come to possess the Substance of the Wilderness Travel, where Moses saith, I appoint ye a Year for a Day, etc. for fifteen Minutes of one degree of the Sun, to make one minute of an hour of the day (each hour being fifteen degrees of the Sun) but in the Annual motion in the Wheels, by ONE degree of the Sun there is signified a year, and in a month is signified five minutes, as doth one minute signify six days, and some odd hours) of a degree of the Sun, which hath four minutes of an hour to every degree of the Sun in its diurnal Course of Motion.   

XLI.  
But wherein the fifteenth year made its Revolution (in the first month of the sixteenth year) as the Sun came to enter the first point of Aries,) on the tenth day of the Month, the first or Spring-Quarter of the World's growth, standeth manifest in the Signs of the Times, while Glory ascendeth the three Vernal Signs of the Zodiac in an inward World) called Aries, Taurus, and Gemini, and from the eleventh Day of the Fourth Month, did the Sun enter the first point of Cancer (in its degrees) wherein is revealed the Summer-Quarter) with the Rays and Beams of scorching Heat, dispersed through Leo and Virgo, the Heart and Bowels of Nature, this being the fifteenth day of the fifth Month, from the time that the Power of the Dragon hath been loosed out of the bottomless Pit, in the form of those Beasts like unto Goats, called Locusts, wherein he had given up his Power unto the Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns, for the thousand year, which is the time he was bound.   

XLII.  
For from thence count thou the beginning of the five months, that torment hath rested and seized on a third part of men, in this fourth part, or North-Quarter of the Worlds, that have the mark, and name, and number of the Beast, and the first Woe is manifest therein, because the Devil is come down in great rage among men, and the Inhabitants of the Earth are therefore terrified and afraid, by the sounding of the fifth Trumpet of God (after which these evils have followed the Worlds, in the casting down out of Heaven the Accuser of the Just) to the awakening a sense of what is thus come on and into the fourth part of the same, wherein the Beast hath made his Seat; but the second Woe followeth what is awakened out of the bottomless Pit, whence a sense of torment resteth on those men, from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on that Great River EUPHRATES.   

XLIII.  
Wherein a sense of the destroying Power of God, exalted in the Angels of the four Beasts that stand on the four Corners of the Earth, to hold the four Corners of the Winds, and whose Power is to withhold those Winds from blowing, is come into the renewed World, (under the Redeeming Power of God) through the Sounding of the seventh and last Trumpet of God on the Air, from the time that the Commandment of God went forth, for the again building up and restoring Jerusalem, in which the Mystery of what pertaineth to the Kingdom of God, is come to be fulfilled and finished; therefore a third Woe cometh, and shall stand manifest, from the concluding of the fifth month, wherein the fourth Beast with the Face of an Eagle, shall give up his Power, which are the seven last plagues, to come on the Earth and Worlds, (even seven Golden Vials, filled with the wrath of God and the Lamb) unto the seven Angels of God, that are come forth of the Temple to sound.   

LXIV.  
For in the number of Years in thirty two Jubilies (since the great Prophet and Minister of a better Tabernacle and Temple than that which is built by Man, finished his Testimony therein) and in the sixtieth Jubilee, since the beginning of those Offerings wherein was the daily Sacrifice, which hath been made to cease in time; those seven Angels of God that came forth of the Temple of God, with their seven Golden Trumpets, have been manifest in the Parts and Quarters over which they have sounded; it being the tenth day of the Fourth Month, from the awakened sense (that came into those Parts of the World over whom the Trumpets had sounded) of the torment of those Women that sat weeping in the North Gate, over TAMUZ.   

XLV.  
So that counting four minutes of an hour to one degree of the Sun, (in the Diurnal Motion of the Wheels) and fifteen degrees of the Sun, for an hour of the DAY, wherein the Heavens (in Man) are brought under fiery Trials, by the sounding of the Trumpets of God, in the Angels of his Covenant, on all the Glory of Worlds, (in its third part of Earth, and Waters, and Sun, and Moon, and Stars, that stand manifest in what thereof is smitten, according to the breaking forth of the day) it is now 120 degrees of the Sun, from the fifteenth Revolution of Years in the Heavens, according to the fifteenth Year that the Forms in the Heavens have remained a Testimony of what was finished in the lively Patterns themselves, that have their figure in the Tabernacle of Witnesses.   

XLVI.  
And reckoning from the tenth day of that first month, (wherein the Sun made his appearance in the first degree of the Ascendant;) from the sixth Hour of the Day, which was his hour of rising in three minutes of ARIES, to make his Right Ascension over the Heart of the Orient (in the fire of the Meridian) from the twelfth hour, or Midday, called Noon, wherein he gave fourteen degrees to the Succedant; it will now appear to be the last hour of the Day that many are called to be Fellow-Labourers and Workers together with God, in his Vineyard, counting the Suns rising in the degrees of the Meridian, from the first degree of the Ascendant in Aries, according to the motion of the Moon in her passage through the twelve Signs of the Zodiac.   

XLVII.  
For the Sun increasing the strength of 22 minutes in ten days of the first month, to make his rising to be the fifth hour of the 11th day of the second month (in his passage through the Houses of his Ascendant, Succedant, and Cadent) in the Vernal, or Spring-Quarter, there being thirty degrees in each House of the Heavens, (according to the Signs they have in the Zodiac of the Moon) the Sun's setting is made in the seventh hour of the day, and further increasing strength, for timely rising, in his passage through Taurus, that is, the second House of his Dignities, governing the left part of the Meridian in the middle of the Spring, wherein the Dominion of the House is in the Neck and Throat of NATURE, over Melancholy, and the Earth (in the Succedant) he maketh his rising to be 10 minutes past four in the Cadent, on the eleventh day of the third Month.   

XLVIII.  
And the eleventh day of the fourth Month (wherein the Sun entereth the first minute of Cancer, to make the Summer-Quarter, as he riseth in the degrees of the Meridian) 47 minutes past three hours from Midnight, he maketh it the longest day in the Year (in this Latitude, and under the Horizon in which the Works of Wonder are to be finished and fulfilled) and then the Sunsetting is as long after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day (which is Noon, or Midday) as it riseth before twelve, to make an Evening of the day; according to the hours wherein many have been bidden, and are called and invited to a Feast, through the ANGEL of Strength, and Prayers of the JUST unto God, that He might send forth Faithful Labourers into his Vineyard.   

XLIX.  
For that which is come into and on the Earth and Worlds, in its fourth part, or North-Quarter, will continue to magnify and exalt the four destroying Angels of Strength, that are loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES (by which Europe hath been compassed about) until the end of seven Months and five days; though in the time of the sounding of those Trumpets, the Winds have been suffered to blow [on the Earth] by those that have held their corners, as four Angels standing on the four Corners [of the same;] and the Spirit of God hath and doth yet strive with a Generation and Generations on whom the fierceness of God's wrath (in the Plagues of those Vials) is to be poured forth, and is come.   

L.  
And the Creature Mankind embodied in this third Principle, in which he is called the Microcosm, or little World, is that third part of the Macrocosm, or great World, as it standeth divided into its four parts or Quarters, wherein the Eagle hath had Power over the North Quarter, or fourth part of the Worlds, where those Trials are manifest, under which the Lion came first forth, with four Wings of the Foul on his Back, in which were Golden Feathers, with the names of 36000. Men in each Golden Wing, while the striving continued between the four Winds of the Heavens, on the great Sea, and from the loss of dominion therein, in the plucking of the Lion's Wings, wherein came forth four other Beasts, and took head (in the Nature of that which separated the Man from the power in which he was first planted and placed) the Kingdoms of the Earth and World became dispersed abroad the same.   

LI.  
Until the great Bear or Leopard (who hereby purchased the strength of those four Wings) had them also taken away; and the Man came to regain his dominion over all the Works of God's Hands, as Lord in the substance of what is already communicated to his understanding: and through those four first Beasts, that now have taken unto them (each of them) the six Wings of the Cherubims (every one in their order calling to come and see) the Mystery of what is come forth to the Trial of the Year, Month, Day, and Hour, over which they have Power and Dominion in their Angels, the Glory of the Father is hallowed, having in each Wing two thousand Feathers and names of Men, which makes the Glorious Host of God in the Heavens, Numerable in their Tribes, and according to the Families of those scattered Nations, over the face of the whole Earth.   

LII.  
Which are the dispersed Army of God, and goodly company of that Mighty Host in the four Wings of the living Creature, by which they stand figured forth 144000. (of the first Body, in which God hath his sealed Number of Instruments, that are engaged in the Lamb's Battle, as the MEMBERS of what hath continued like unto dry Bones in the Valleys:) And for the exalting their Angels in the Heavens, their destroying power over the Earth and Worlds is loosed, out of the great River (over which the winds of the Heavens have striven and blowed, while their destroying Power was bound.)   

LIII.  
But now are the Winds in the Hands of the Angels, to be withheld from blowing, and the Spirit of God from striving any longer with the Creature Mankind, (by the Prophecy of the Witnesses, or sounding of the Trumpets of God, committed to the Angels) and the whole Worlds shall be smitten with Plagues, through that which is thus loosed out of the bottomless Pit, wherein the Earth hath been covered with those Beasts, (called Locusts) and they have overspread the same, in its third part smitten by the sounding of the five first Trumpets,) and that which is awakened by the sounding of the sixth Trumpet, hath command in and over those four Winds of the Heavens, to withhold them from blowing as oft as they please, because God will not always strive with Man, who is but flesh.   

LIV.  
And when the Earth is quiet and still, according to the silence that hath been in HEAVEN, for the space of half an hour, and the Worlds begin to settle in the ease and content of the flesh; then remember what I say; for before this day, there hath come Wars, and rumours of Wars, and the smoke of the torment of those Men, (on whom Judgement hath rested under the Power of the Beast) shall be seen & known to be the SEAT of the Beast, in a fourth part of the great World, that hath yet hitherto escaped Death, in what came on that third part thereof, (in the little World Mankind) like the fume of a boiling Furnace, whence hath ascended the thick Cloud of Darkness, that filleth the Heavens, and the Power of the DRAGON, who had delivered up his Seat and Throne unto the Beast, for the time he remained bound in the bottomless Pit; (But that now is loosed in the sounding of the three last Trumpets) is a Spirit working Miracles in the Earth, in the execution of the three last WOES that are come thereinto, for the awakening and rising up of three therein, that do bear witness for GOD, of what hath been crucified and slain in the Streets of the great CITY of the Worlds.   

LV.  
And into those Kings of the East (that have their Power again revived, and their Heads healed, which is a second Beast come out of the Earth, with two Horns of a Ram, pushing three ways, to wit, West, and North, and South, shall enter those three Unclean Spirits of the Beast, Dragon, and Whore, like Frogs, through the drying up of the Waters, in the great River EUPHRATES, in the World's Sea) they shall come over the same, and into the place where God hath settled his glorious City, and they shall strive to defile and overcome the Holy Land (between the Seas) but the end shall come with an over— flowing Scourge, and great Flood; and out of the Mouth of the Dragon, Beast, and false Prophet, shall great things be performed and done.   

LVI.  
Yea, all these things have a lively Character of the Truth hereof, recorded in the Heavens, by the Verity of Just Measure in time and Place, for God is not to be limited to time and place in his Work, or to the prescription of men; but he hath a time and season for every work, according to which he hath determined and decreed an order, wherein they are all to be fulfilled and brought to pass, according to the measure by which they are measured and weighed in their day; and the times and Seasons of their fulfilling have been in the Father's hands, until the hours thereof became made known to the Son of Man who is in Heaven, in that which communicateth the sense thereof unto, and in the World, in whose behalf he came to lay down his Life (in the Body of Flesh which he took up for the reconciling of the World unto the good will and pleasure of the Father.   

LVII.  
And the Star that is fallen from Heaven (as an Angel that hath the Key of the bottomless-Pit) I have beheld, and do see the returning of such torment (come on those men that have the Beasts mark) on his Seat, that shall fill it with Pangs, and many shall blaspheme God, because of those Pangs that are come on them, that have defiled the Temple of God, created to be his House of Praise, though now made that over which the Great Whore hath reigned, that sitteth on the Kings of the Earth; and this shall be known in the time that the beloved City becometh encamped about by the great Armies of the Aliens.   

LVIII.  
And concerning all these things, the times are coming that they are to be fulfilled, and in Europe will FALL suddenly a great Prince; but England be thou still in thy Dominions, until GOD come to exalt, and set up His TRUTH over all the Powers of Darkness; for thy striving for Conquest by the Sword, and to get into Dominion, is but vain.   

LIX.  
In that the Powers of the Air must heighten their glory, before it can be seen what is smitten therein, under the Power of the Eagle, or King of the North (that hath reigned more years than the King of the South) and therein remaineth the Holy Seed; and let him that hath Wisdom number and count those days past, and yet observe that which is to be fulfilled to make up the expiration of the time; and let it not be hard to believe well, of that which crosseth thy expectations, that thou shouldest be filled with the distrust of GOD and his Goodness, and put an evil Construction upon that which answereth not thy Opinionatedness.   

LX.  
And in the reading hereof, the God of Life and Peace open your Understandings, and bless and keep all in his Fear, that those Sparks that have been raked under the Ashes of what was once enkindled in a consuming Flame, may be blown up into a second Flame, the Light of which I desire never more to see extinguished and put out, as it keeps burning in and against Self; for it is nothing else that burns up the Combustible Matter that hath been brought into the Temple of God. And in this doth my SOUL continue praying to GOD: Amen, and Amen, saith  
Thy Friend in all Love, R. B.    

A TABLE Of the Contents of the CHAPTERS.  

The First Part: Describing,  Chap. 1. 
The Vision of the Wheels.  Chap. 2. 
The Diurnal Motion in the Wheels.  Chap. 3. 
The Mystery of the four large Hours in the Day, and the four Watches of the Night.  Chap. 4. 
The degeneration of all Forms in Nature.  Chap. 5. 
The Government of Nature, under the Power of four Beasts.  Chap. 6. 
The seven Nations of the World, as they came forth embodied in the Forms of Nature.  Chap. 7. 
The manner how they became thus embodied.  Chap. 8. 
The operation of the Vision, in the opening of the Heavens.  Chap. 9 
The exercise of the Power of God over the mind, wherein the Vision of these things wrought.  Chap. 10. 
The power of the Waters in the Vision of the Wheels.  Chap. 11. 
The nature of the World in its Principles.  Chap. 12. 
The manner wherein those Vessels were beheld unburdened, that arrived from off those Waters, separated into four Heads.   

The Second Part. Greeting to the FOUR CHURCHES in EUROPE. Describing,  Chap. 1. 
The coming forth of those four Beasts.  Chap. 2. 
The motion of the Wheels in their seven turns.  Chap. 3. 
The Forms of Nature, under the renewing Power in God.  Chap. 4. 
The effect of the descending of Angels into the Forms of Nature.  Chap. 5. 
The order of those four Angels loosed out of the great River Euphrates.  Chap. 6. 
The Restauration of the Heavens in the Worlds.  Chap. 7. 
The form of the Temple which settled therein.    

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The Introduction.  

I.  
IN the year 5594, according to the most just and true account of the Creation of the Worlds in Adam, and in the thirty-second year, after the thirty-second JUBILEE, since the finishing of the Testimony of that great Prophet, in his Body of Flesh, who came forth into appearance and manifestation from the World's account, 1664. being the year of his Incarnation, who was the Glory & Well-beloved of the Father's Soul, conversing with men in the substance of that Power, in which all the Works of God were finished from the beginning, the perfection of whose Nature, had glory, in what was effected in the SIX day's work of Creation, through the glorifying cause of all beings in Nature.   

II.  
In the year aforesaid, the REVELATION of JESUS, the Son of the living God, came unto me, even unto me, a Native of England, sojourning among the scattered Nations and ungathered Families of the Captivity of Judah, waiting for the Earth's return, to bring forth new fruit unto God, throughout the four Quarters thereof, which I am commanded of God, to communicate to the Generations of the Worlds amongst which I am fallen.   

III.  
Unto whom be Greeting and Salutation, from your Brother in Tribulation, and Companion in all afflictions (for the Seeds sake) whom Bonds have daily attended, both inward and outward, while for the sake of many and great Nations, the travel of my Soul continueth, that my groan and labour in the Lord, may procure the joy and rejoicings of as many as have a heart open to receive the benefit of what is brought forth through great conflicts.   

iv  
And from the Spirit of Jesus, is my Souls enlargement, to the disconsolate Babe of Hope, and in the Authority of God, I have a hand reached forth to the helpless, towards whom my tender Bowels are moved, that they may partake of this VISITATION, which is given for the sake of many and great NATIONS; This great Salvation of God being revealed to all them that are made partakers with him in the Faith of God's Elect, in which the like precious Promises do work.   

V  
To all the People of God, whether gathered or ungathered, my love reacheth forth; though most especially to the scattered Nations over all the Earth, that are the Household of Faith, in which it is not only given them to believe, but also to suffer for his Names sake whom they profess: Love Mercy and Peace, together with all fruits of the Spirit of God, to the Brethren of him, who is come to possess the Life of Patience, under the sufferance of the Spirit of this World, through the Revelation of JESUS the Son of God, by whom the whole Glory of the TEMPLE of God was brought forth, into which entered the Host of the Heavens, the SEVENTH day, wherein God came to rest in the finished settlement of that in which all labour ceased, as to the working power of his Spirit, in the frame of the Creature and Creation, that is become the workmanship of the Father.   

VI  
I am filled, I am filled, with the motion of his Power, in the workings up of his informing Spirit, that sendeth forth its sound through an Earthen Vessel; and in as much as its concern is Universal, the peculiar relation and respect which it hath unto People of those Generations, is the breathe of Life from a follower of the Lamb of God; And the Life of the JUST, in his Name that is faithful and true, and full of long-suffering; and that which is certified concerning these things, is what will assuredly be fulfilled, and shortly come to pass.   

VII.  
Therefore blessed are they that can read or hear, and in whom there is a heart inclined to understand the MYSTERIES herein, wherein the Testimony of TRUTH is confirmed amongst the CHURCHES, in the Spirit of Jesus; unto which Churches in the WORLDS, in their divided quarters, JESUS (who is the Author and Finisher of the Faith of God's Elect, whose Nature had glory in raising up that Body out of the Grave, and from the power of Death and Destruction, in three days) is now dispersing bowels (in which are the Fountains of all good) that have been sealed and shut up, but are now freely set open for sin and for uncleanness, for Judah and Jerusalem.   

VIII.  
And thus saith the Ancient of days, the AMEN, the FIRST and the LAST, (who hath glory in the Work of God, through the Redemption of Souls up unto himself) come wash and be clean, for he that is faithful and true, hath yet a little while a gathering Hand and Arm stretched out towards you all; & the Bride saith, Come, as hath been the Voice of the Spirit of God, which by many hath been rejected; But yet hear what the Spirit saith unto the CHURCHES.   

IX.  
Unto the Churches of ASIA, and the ANGELS of these Churches, saith the Beloved of God; O yet gather, if it be possible, and behold, the Wing of Mercy and everlasting Salvation hover over you! your works have been tried in the fire, and hitherto they have not made weight in the Balance of God's Sanctuary; neither are they able to stand before him, but are like the STUBBLE in his way, and are driven before the Bow of his Fury.   

X.  
Yea unto thy PRINCES, saith the AMEN of all Glory, in Heaven and Earth, bend your Necks to the Yoke, and learn to Blow, else sorrow will be your portion. To thy PRIESTS I say, Howl & Lament, and be threshed upon the FLOOR, by him that can handle the FLAIL; to thy PROPHETS, I say, Take the Cup and drink a mighty draught; for as ye have had your fills of Pleasure on the Earth, so shall you drink your full Portion of sorrow, howling and lamentation.   

XI.  
I know all thy works and thy do, for the secrets of thy Heart are not hid from me, thou exalted HORN of ASIA; PERSIA and MEDIA, are the strength of thine ARM; ye Daughters of K'TURAH, therefore be ye wakened in time, and behold how the ASSYRIAN is broken on the right Hand and on the left.   

XII.  
And unto the ANGELS of the Churches (Mystically) in AMERICA, in thee are a People whom God will yet gather to his Praise, but thou wilt be broken as a Potter's Vessel, and turned on a fiery Hearth; Thou hast of the Captivated TRIBES and scatterd-brokens-off-branche bound in Chains under thy quarter; let them forth, for the mighty Day of God is Proclaimed, and come.   

XIII.  
Unto the Angels of the Churches in AFRICA, writ what is ready to befall them, in the Day and Hour of their Exaltation; Since thou wast lifted up, thy day is measured, and when thou wast cast down, thou hast been warned. Yet once more hear; pity the Captives, and give of thy Bread to him that cometh under the smiting of the South Wind, lest when the awakened North Wind returns its blown Breath out of the Bellows of the Almighty, it make thy burden more than thou art able to bear.   

XIV.  
Thy Feet must tread on Mire and Clay, and in like manner will Feet be set over thee; But thou the darkest of countries', I have many NAMES to be gathered out of thee, therefore hasten and return, when thy WORK is done; and remember that thou art warned of what shall come to pass, lest on the one hand thou shouldst be heightened in the day of thy Exaltation, or left without information of that which will befall thee when thou art cast down: for as thou dost unto others (to wit, the Captivity of the North) so will it be done unto thee, in the return of measure and weight.   

XV.  
Say not any more, I am strong, for one of thy PRINCES is strong above thee; and the Daughters of thy Land, that have made up thy agreement with the King of the North, will not retain the ARM, nor prevail in thy strength and Dominion, though thou carry away Captive the Inhabitants of that Land, whose King hath reigned more years than the King of the South.   

XVI.  
Repent therefore quickly, is the Voice of the Angel, lest I come and smite thee unawares; and remember when that is loosed and awakened, which hath been compassed about by PISON and GIHEN; he that invadeth a strange Land, shall place his glorious Habitation between the Seas, that the scattered TRIBES may behold the Glorious City, which they have been seeking, and come forth into the NORTH, to see a place prepared in the Kingdom by the Father; for ASIA hath fallen, and is turned to Idols, and hath given heed to lying Vanities.   

XVII.  
But both of you shall be purged together in a fiery Furnace, until your supplication for Mercy be made able to prevail; therefore let thy Princes consider, for whom the controversy betwixt two great Kings doth work; and thou that wert raised up for the making known the Power of God, and the Vessels fitted for destruction, know that thy time is numbered to fill up the TWELVE years, wherein the King was subject to K'DORLAOMER.   

XVIII.  
I counsel thee therefore, in the Seed capable of gathering, that thou come forth from among the Robbers and Spoilers of my People; and let not thy horn be exalted, because of the King of the North, that is delivered into thy hands (for a season) for both your hearts have been set to do mischief, and ye have spoken lies at one TABLE; but that little space that is given thee to repent, is to humble thee, that thy Soul may live, and thou not die in thy Iniquity.   

XIX.  
Now let him that is hungry come, and let all that are thirsty come and drink a mighty draught, at the Fountain of endless Mercy; for this is the day of Mercy proclaimed towards a stiffnecked People, a Rebellious House; This is your day and hour to repent and return to God, and there is not another season for Mercy, or to mend that which is amiss; for ye are become a wicked People: but he that hath an Ear may hear, though the hardened must remain in their guilt, and the unclean be unclean still.   

XX.  
For the spot of the LEOPARD cannot be washed off, nor the skin of the Aethiopian changed; and the filthy must have time to fill up their measure, that it may be known that they are left without excuse, who have slighted timely warning, when the hour is come that they are concluded in the WILL of that which continueth filthy still.    

The FIRST PART.  

CHAP. I. The beginning of the REVELATION; describing the Vision of the WHEEL in its Motion.  

I.  
ACcording to the space of time (before mentioned) as I was waiting upon the Lord, with my heart deeply exercised, in his fear and dread, the glory of what for a long season I had been visited with, descended upon me in a Tempest and WHIRLWIND; and I beheld until the Tempest was over, yet the Whirlwind remained, whilst I was taken into the Habitation of Wonders; and the Glory of the Angel of God compassed me about, in the form of TWO WHEELS, moving one within the other, as a Wheel within a Wheel.   

II.  
By which means I came to the sight of TWO WORLDS, standing the one in the other, in the manner and form of the Wheels, moving the one in the other, as a World within a World; And while I was thus beholding the Vision thereof, the Power of the LIVING CREATURES, that moved in the Wheels overcame me; for the Spirit of the Living Creatures that moved in the Wheels, was in the Wheels; and it rested on my left Arm, in form of a STAR, and quivered in the Blood of my Body, betwixt the skin and flesh of my left Arm, for many days continuing thus upon me.   

III.  
For in that in which the Worlds were settled and sought rest, there was a continuance and abiding under subjection to such Power, though fallen from what it was in the first work of God's Creation of all FORMS into being, (for the first FIVE days, I thus beheld it) and in every of these five days, I saw a change and alteration in the Face of the HEAVENS, which was like unto WATERS.   

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Whose way and course I observed, until the whole frame of the Worlds became like unto a SEA of GLASS mingled with Fire; and in the midst of these Waters broke forth a CLOUD, which moved up and down like a Man's HAND; and the Form of a Man was wrought up through the Cloud, travelling in the Heavens with his Hands on his Loins; in whom was a sense of pangs and hard labour, from whence I beheld a struggling and striving on the Face of the Waters, as from the WOMB of ETERNITY, of TWO NATIONS to come forth into appearance and manifestation.   

V  
And from the Heavens, I heard a cry of pangs and hard suffering, because of the labour and travel which the Body of NATURE was subjected under, for such sufferings sake; which was like to the sorrow of a Child-bearing-WOMAN, who had brought to the Birth, but had not power to bring forth, until the appointed time of deliverance from the Father was come.   

VI  
But as the Womb of Eternity became eased of its suffering and hard labour, the struggling and striving rested, and seized on the Body of Nature, wherein the Travel remained and continued until the END of TIME and PLACE; For on the Face of the Waters, on which the SPIRIT of God did breath (while a Cloud of darkness was over, and covered the face of the mighty Deeps) was hidden the form of all CREATURES, thus come forth.   

VII.  
And the Womb of NATURE was also opened in and before me, in which instant was made intelligible to my understanding, the working of all forms in Nature, that strove to come up in the bodily Frame and Temper, that stood in the ground and cause of such suffering.   

VIII.  
And the NAME of the FIRST DAY was called LIGHT, because in it the Light and Darkness were separated and divided; and in this day came forth all that stood hidden in the Womb of Eternity, in the form and likeness of WATERS, that were of a distinct quality and operation in the creaturely being, until the Word of God had commanded them into form through the work of Creation.   

IX.  
For as the division and separation of such Powers-work through the WORD of God, wrought up the Will of the Worker into appearance and manifestation, the WATERS had their enlightening quality and property in the separated beings, shining out from the Face of that which gathered together in the Heavens, from the three that therein bare Record; yea and in the work of the first day's separation, which was betwixt Light and Darkness (in these Waters on which the Spirit of God breathed in the light-part of the Waters, which was the Face of the Heavens therein) there became exalted the HEAD and FACE of a Man (for a season;) and in the darkness, or dark parts, which is the dark parts thereof, I saw working hiddenly the form of a FIRE-DRAKE, or Serpent, called Satan, and the Dragon the old deceiver of mankind, who was got behind God, in the coming forth of his Glory in his Son or Image.   

X.  
And the Waters that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity, out of which sunk all forms in Nature, that took being in the earthly frame and form, being gathered together into one PLACE, became an overflowing scourge and inundation of miseries, and were like unto a great SEA, which was the gathering together of all that came forth out of many Fountains and Rivers (of Water.)   

XI.  
Which thus I beheld, until the SECOND DAY was passed over, wherein was made a separation betwixt Waters and Waters, that thus came forth out of the Womb of Eternity (in a Mystery.) And in the Womb of Nature was the MATRIX of conception brought into a working frame, wherein the SPERMATIC Vessels of the SEEDS ingendring opened the Gates of Glory into an inward world, where the King's Daughter was, whom I saw all Glorious within.   

XII.  
And the separation that was made betwixt those Waters, was a Power of firm glory in its working frame, as a FIRMAMENT placed in the out-spread Air, wherein every thing came forth in its DUAL number, through divided qualities; and the name of the SECOND DAY was called EXPANSUM or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, because of what came thus forth in the out-spread Firmament.    

CHAP. II. A Description of the DIURNAL Motion in the Wheels, in the coming forth of all forms in Nature into manifestation.  

XIII.  
THus beheld I the form of the Heavens, like unto WATERS, but of a more CRYSTALLINE and transparent brightness, than the SUBLUNARY Waters; for they were not Waters of such a gross and terrene Body, as is centred in and on the EARTH, in the harshness and astringency of depraved Nature, fallen under the power of Corruption; but they had a peculiar quality (in the HEAVENS) through the work of Separation, in the Principles of the WORLDS, being of an enlightening Nature in which the POWERS of all Celestial Bodies were moved and BURNED over me, as an enkindled flame, mentained in the UNCTUOSITY of the life's Operation, in the Body of Nature.   

XIV.  
For the ground of all being in the Creature and Creation of God, in its sinking condition, became corruptible EARTH, in the fallen state and condition of the embodied being of Creatures and Things, wherein the Earth centred and settled its rest in the Creature of God, in what stood in and out of the WATERS; and out of the Bowels of the Earth issued FOUNTAINS and Rivers of Waters, which ran in the several Streams and Channels of the Earth's 〈◊〉 thus fallen under the power of Cor●●●●…on; And the whole returned and met in the Ocean Seas, which became the Womb of Nature, in that they stood in the wide and open courses of the Earth and Worlds, which notwithstanding was drawn up into the Heavens, through a purgation by fire.   

XV.  
But as all PROPERTIES and Principles came into the Womb of Nature, in which the contest wrought betwixt THREE, that laboured to come forth embodied in form in the creaturely being, I beheld the Womb of Eternity shut against the Third and LAST, that was in the cause of such strife and contest, who notwithstanding wrought up his way to come first forth out of the Womb of Nature.   

XVI.  
And in the Heavens I beheld the form of a great RED DRAGON, sucking into his Belly the HEART of these Waters, which was their Fatness and Unctuosity, like a River of OIL, wherein was an enkindled fire that burned inwardly, and was mentained and strengthened by the oiliness and fatness thereof; together with the combustibleness of the material qualities, engendered under the Power of Corruption, for destruction's sake.   

XVII.  
And in the light of what continued thus burning and inflaming, I beheld an innumerable company of divided ESSENCES, which shined in the Heavens like STARS above, and PLANTS beneath; wherein was a tincture that wrought and moved in the Essence of each; the one in and by the other, as the Wheels wrought one in the other for TWO DAYS.   

XVIII.  
For in the contest in the Heavens were THREE, though only TWO came forth embodied in the creaturely being, out of the Womb of Nature, so incorporated into form, under the power of corruption fallen and sunk, that wrought up their way out of all the powers of the Heavens, so to come forth.   

XIX.  
And after the finishing of the third DAY, which was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 BEGOYM, because of what came forth in the Dual number, I beheld a perfect separation made in the WHEELS motion, betwixt that which is DIURNAL and NOCTURNAL, which was the motion in and of the inward Wheels, for in the Wheels was both a Diurnal & Annual Motion; and in the Power that wrought up its way and work through the course in and of Nature; All Principles of Nature came forth in their separated and divided being.   

XX.  
In which I beheld FOUR large hours in the day, each hour containing three computed hours of the natural day; And in the NIGHT were FOUR Watches, in the which the ANGEL and the Watcher came down, and the order of the Night-Watch I beheld, from the evening of the Day, until the first Cockcrow, which was after the conclusion of the FIRST WATCH.   

XXI.  
At length I beheld until a perfect separation was made in the Wheels, and between PRINCIPLE & Principle in the WORLDS; And in the SECOND WATCH of the Night, which was Midnight, an ANGEL and a WATCHER came down before me, in the form and appearance of a MAN; and with an Iron Instrument he smote me on the HEAD with both Hands, for he had the Face of a good man, and lifted up both hands to smite me.   

XXII.  
And I submitted to the Hand and stroke of the Watcher; and lay DEAD IN MY BLOOD until the Night-watch was over, wherein the HOLY ONE came down, (for it was the hour of the Bridegroom's awakening, and the coming of the Son of Man) and the conclusion of the second Watch was when the COCK had crowed TWICE: and in the DAWNING of the DAY the Womb of the MORNING was opened in and before me; and after the THIRD Cock crow, all Powers in the Heavens were shaken, and the Body of Nature was taken in a trembling state and condition, for it was the conclusion of the Third Watch.   

XXIII.  
Wherein all self-confidence became judged to be the TRUTH'S denial and resistance, after the Cock had crowed Thrice; because the day began to DAWN, & the DAYSTAR to arise in the Heart of the inward Worlds, whereby the stumblings had been raised, by that which became a ROCK of OFFENCE to both the Houses of ISRAEL.   

XXIV.  
And the FOURTH COCKCROW, was after the Days breaking forth, wherein the Rock and Foundation of true confidence in God was raised up, by turning Satan behind the back of God's Glory, in the renewed day of the Son of Man, which brought forth the Keys of him that unlocked the Treasury in the Heavens; After the building of the CHURCH of God, became settled on that raised Rock, on which the LYON was made to tremble, by the Crowing of the Cock, before the Day dawned.    

CHAP. III. Wherein the effects of the four large Hours of the Day, and the four Watches of the Night, in the inward Worlds, are described.  

XXV.  
AND in the HEART of the WATERS, which became like an enkindled flame, burning in the order of the Eternity's holy Will and working Power, was HARSHNESS in what wrought for Separations sake; like unto Fire mingled with Blood in a Mystery, which became bound in the form of the Heart of a LYON, under which I saw the Bowels of Creation also comprehended in a state of Darkness to the VIRGIN in Nature, who sat mourning as one disconsolate, with an EAR of WHEAT in her right Hand; and the cry was from a solitary place.   

XXVI.  
The separation in the Heavens being made betwixt the two great Lights, by which the day & night was ruled, & the first that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity, into the Womb of Nature, had slain his Keeper; for he was a monstrous shape and form of the Beast in Nature, with the Head and Face of a RAM, the Neck and Throat of a BULL, the Wings of an EAGLE, the Breast of a CRABFISH, the Heart of a LYON, the Bowels of both MAN and BEAST, but downwards like a SCORPION.   

XXVII.  
And he sat on all the FORMS in Nature, which became this Beast's seat; who went THIRTY DAYS backward in the Rings of the outward Wheel, after he had slain his Keeper; for by the struggling of TWAIN, the VIRGIN in Nature was slain, which the man should have kept alive, who was made Keeper of his Virgin, that had the Face of Man both Male and Female.   

XXVIII.  
And by him was slain the Face of a Man, who was exalted in the Principle of Air, in the glory of Angels, in an Angelical Paradisical being and state; After the Virgin in Nature was thus lost and became slain, in the place of Conception and Field of Nature, whereby the Creature Mankind became as made a little lower than the Angels, subjected in that state wherein the Creation of God was brought forth.   

XXIX.  
So that as NECESSITY came to work in a Mystery, through the ground of what was brought forth in the created Forms in Nature, it became a LAW in Nature, under the power of which every Creature was brought, for the grounds sake, that thus stood under subjection to the Power of God; and that a man might be brought forth to till and tear up the ground (under which I beheld the subjection of all forms in Nature) after all the works of God were seen to be good.   

XXX.  
And then as the Keeper of the living had the glory of the Life of God in Nature subjected in hope, the groan and waitings of the Creation became a longing expectation of God afterwards to be revealed; whereby he that remained with his Face exalted in the Air, was made the Keeper of the Vineyard of his Brethren.   

XXXI.  
For as the Work of God became embodied in the Creaturely being, from the Womb of Nature, I beheld the form of a Man (who was that GOOD Man that smote me on my Head) casting SEED into a Ground; in which I saw the working form and frame of all these things, and he afterwards fell asleep. And a SECOND man also came forth, and he likewise cast in Seed into a GROUND, scattering it in the Air towards the NORTH- Wind, of which some fell on the good Ground.   

XXXII.  
Whereby the Face and form of a Man, who came forth out of the Womb of Eternity, became the SECOND, who was embodied from the Womb of Nature, and was slain in the Field of Conception, by the FIRST and LAST that became thus embodied from the Womb of Nature; by which means the Face of FOUR Beasts in Nature became exalted in the Heavens; and the WOMAN was taken from him whilst he fell asleep, though like a good man he had first sown his Seed, before the envious man came.   

XXXIII.  
Yet was it not then good that the Man should be alone, under the workings of that NECESSITY, in the LAW of Nature, for he had neglected his own Vineyard, that was overgrown with Nettles, Briars, Thorns, and Weeds, whereby sin and the concupiscence of the Flesh took occasion to work in the Members of him, who was the tiler and tearer up of the ground of Corruption, into which Death entered, who came first forth out of the Womb of Nature, because of his need for the MEET HELP.   

XXXIV.  
And this became the FOURTH day in Nature, but it was the first day in the work of Creation, in Celestial Bodies, called TREM, for it was FULL time and tide in turning the Worlds about backward, wherein all that came forth embodied from the Womb of Eternity, took form from the Womb of Nature, in the changeable being, through a Government that God had settled over all, that should come forth thus embodied in form.   

XXXV.  
For the night came over all glory in the first Creation of God, so that the FIFTH day of the Work of God in all forms of Nature, was the SECOND DAY of God's Holy Weeks; concluding a cessation from all labour, in what was brought on the Creation of God, by means of the Curse come over mankind, in his Exercise of these the Creatures of God.   

XXXVI.  
And there arose a WEST-Wind, out of which flamed a Sword of the Cherub, which drove the form of the Man (that I saw) EASTWARD; and he went his way, so that the FIRST which came forth out of the Womb of Nature, in which the Creature became thus embodied into form, took being on the FIFTH day, in such state as the Creature and Creation was fallen under, in that form wherein he came forth.    

CHAP. IU. How all forms in Nature began to degenerate, into the monstrous shapes of deformed Beasts.  

XXXVII.  
AND the ANGEL of God said, Come up hither, and I will show thee the MYSTERY of all those WATERS; and of that which came forth out of the Womb of Eternity, from whence all those Waters came, and whither they shall return; and until the end of the FIVE days, I beheld the working-frame of what stood manifest from the Womb of Eternity. And I saw all the Earth overspread with Creatures and things; yet nothing was moved out of the ground, under which it was subjected, by the Creating power, that wrought for manifestations sake, until the end of FORTY DAYS.   

XXXVIII.  
And there was also, from the THREE that bare Record on Earth, a SECOND great LIGHT that ruled the Night, in the glory of the Terrestrial Body, borrowing a lustre from the Sun's clarity; For as I traveled through a great trance of the minds perplexity, I beheld the whole frame of the works of God, from the beginning, to the END of time and place, as of TWO and TWENTY day's labour, wherein I saw the Sun and Moon stand in a distance of course, two and twenty Degrees of the Sun's Motion, that wrought up their glory in and through all the Powers of Nature, unto which the life of the Creature was subjected, under a change in time and place.   

XXXIX.  
Which became the Glory of the Sun, of the day of the Son of Man, in and through all Celestial Bodies, comprehended in the forms of Nature, as a great Light, whereby the great and LAST day was ruled, and overruled, in which God is working up his Eternal Glory, through what is come forth into manifestation in time and place, dignifying the Creator of all forms into being, that is able to reveal the Mystery of satsfaction to Divine Justice, through what appeareth magnificent, in works of Wonder.   

XL.  
For all Motion in Wisdom, from the beginning of FORM, through the WORD of Life, was the Creator's Glory, without any consideration of a dividual Will in Creatures, though sinking & fallen from the glory of the Creator of all forms in Nature, so subjected under a state of Corruption.   

XLI.  
And as the FIFTH day became subjected unto the Government of that, under whose power all forms in Nature were brought forth; I saw a THIRD PART of the Stars in the Heavens, moved from the WEST to the EAST, for the Glory of the Sun in the midst of the Heavens, suffered the Motion of what drew TWO (and as it were both) WAYS, as the Clouds of Darkness came to intermix their darkening quality, in the Air, between the Original Cause and Centre of such Glory, in its shining Properties and Virtues, and the Creatures sense, wherein the Lustre became apprehensive.   

XLII.  
And God beholding all Forms in Nature, in the state of Subjection, wherein they were placed in Creation, as labour came to be felt, coming up into the Body of Nature, after Gods forming and finishing of Work, on all that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity, he became moved for his Creatures sake, that second time, which creature remained subject, in the ground of the Life's first motion, to the unmoveable power, from which SELF could not separate him, without the yielding of his own WILL.   

XLIII.  
But the MAN in divided qualities, who was thus made Keeper of the Vineyard of his Brethren, came forth as a WAY-FARING Man and Pilgrim in the Earth, whose Face was exalted in the Principle and Region of AIR, and in the World was his Body afflicted, wherein he lost his way (as a stranger) to his Journeys end, (though attainable) and sought it with Tears, for Rests-sake.   

XLIV.  
Yet for FORTY DAYS was he tried in that state, whether or not he could live without the food of that which drew the LIFE under the power of corruption; And for FORTY WEEKS was the form of Nature subjected for Generations sake, (after it became thus degenerated into its Principle) for the replenishing the Earth anew, in the state under which the Worlds were fallen.   

XLV.  
For all that came forth from the Womb of Eternity in FIVE DAYS, took form from the Womb of Nature on the FIFTH day of God's Glory, in the Body of Creation, and came forth embodied in the Creaturely form, whereby it was separated in its own Region and being, as a peculiar SOURCE in the SPHERE wherein it was brought forth, thus embodied in form, over which the WHEELS moved, in their SEVEN TURNS and overturnings.   

XLVI.  
And all properties in the outward Wheel, came forward in the Annual Motion thereof, but that which came forth in its DIURNAL Motion, went BACKWARD from the first moving cause of all beings in Creatures and things, though it was also forward in the course and race which it had to run, which in reference to the INWARD WHEEL, was SIDEWAYES from EAST to WEST, whereby the Wheels came to move through the whole frame of the Heavens, both EAST, WEST, NORTH, and SOUTH, in its course, which was of thirty years, of thirty months, of thirty days, and thirty hours.   

XLVII.  
But the course in the Inward Wheel, was of TWELVE YEARS, making a separation of all that came forth in the twelve hours of the day, in the light whereof it was given for man to work; and TWELVE HOURS of the night, (that came stealing on Men and all other Creatures) wherein no man can work; and of the Twelve MONTHS of the year, whereby the hours of the day became multiplied into their number, separating between Winter and Summer.   

XLVIII.  
And this was the ground of all ANNUAL Motion, in the Wheels, which from the fifth day came FIVE YEARS forward, wherein God had glory in the work of Separation, in its divided Properties and Qualities, that made SEVEN REVOLVES in a Week, a Month and a Year, of a natural Day, of TWELVE HOURS, divided from the night.    

CHAP. V Describing the Government of Nature, as it was brought forth under the Power of four Forms, in the first FOUR BEASTS.  

XLIX.  
THen I saw until the BEAST himself had taken unto him FIVE HEADS and NINE HORNS, on each Head was a Horn, but on the Head in the midst of the four, which was the fifth Head, were FIVE Horns; and over his Heads and Horns past THIRTY-FIVE DAYS, and a course in the Moon was exalted for a season, but the Beast was driven EASTWARD; and he came forth again, and received a Wound on the Head, which was in the midst, but the Wound was healed up, and he was driven from the Face of the Earth; and I said, Whither is he gone? To which the Angel replied, He is gone into the EAST, until THIRTY DAYS: divide what cometh forth in FIFTEEN YEARS.   

L.  
But Day and Night being separated in both Worlds, in which the Two great Lights were moved about in their overruling Power, the glory of the Power of Supremacy in GOD became manifest in both grounds (to wit, the ground and cause of both the DAY and NIGHT) for the man whose Face was exalted in the Principle of Air in the Heavens, magnified the sufferance of God, by his Spirit for a season, against the Creature and Creation of God, which became a MARRED IMAGE of the IDEA in all Forms in Nature, though it was the Workmanship of his Hands.   

LI.  
And the Glory and Lustre of all STARS, distinguishable in their Operation and Qualities over Celestial and Terrestrial Bodies, became exalted forms which had TINCTURE among the dignified Virtues in Nature's Course, and Bond of Equality in Government, out of which the DRAGON made up his Tail in the division of the Heavens, which were moved about, and drew the Creature under the power of Destruction.   

LII.  
Though the Body of Light and Glory, through which the Sun's Lustre came thus to shine, was and is UNMOVEABLE, except thus in its suffering, wherein it did move as it was MOVED, and no otherwise; for it was not movable from the Eternal CENTRE in all beings, (which is unalterable) but from (or in) Nature, whereby the fullness of all glory remained incomprehensible, but the WORKER was therein apprehended in a shadow, and the glory of God seen darkly, as in a Glass.   

LIII.  
For after all forms in the work of Creation were finished, according to what I saw come forth out of the Womb of Eternity, the WHEELS came to move over these forms in Nature, which stood subject to the Power of God, in the CHANGE which was come into the WORLDS; and the name of the FIFTH DAY'S work in God, was in the Heavenly Language, the ORB of MAHALALEEL, in which the QUINTESSENCE of life strove in a Mystery, among the forms of Nature.   

LIV.  
But as the Worlds continued sinking in their state and condition, wherein I beheld all things and Creatures, thus borough forth; that THIRD which abode exalted in the Region of Air, could not come into form in that creaturely being, without great hurt and wrong to the Body of Nature, therefore were all forms in Nature corrupted into MONSTROUS SHAPES, through the striving and struggling which I saw in the Air.   

LV.  
And as that which came forth out of the Womb of Eternity, was brought FIVE DAYS forward, for manifestations sake, I beheld a Principle of Corruption and Destruction that came to be allowed, to work up its Power in a Mystery, through and over all forms that were come into being, in the OLD WORLD, which remained suffering under those THREE, and under that, through which these Two became embodied from the Womb of Nature, (in the Creaturely form and being, in that FIFTH DAY) who were separated into the Principles of AIR and WATER thus made distinguishable.   

LVI.  
For of the THREE that strove to come forth out of the Womb of Eternity embodied in the Creaturely form and being, there were but only Two that became incorporated from the Womb of Nature, though there was the MULTIPLICITY of FORMS and the variety of ESSENCES concerned therein; And as I beheld the effect of what came forth, through the contest in the place of Conception, the BEHEMOTH possessed the SEVENTH PART of the Worlds, in which the WATERS were held, even as LEVIATHAN possessed the Waters themselves.   

LVII.  
Yea through the drying up of the THIRD PART of the corruptible Waters on the THIRD DAY, that which abode in the Air, in which the Firmament was placed, became a mighty and Potent PRINCE and GOD of the WORLDS, which impregnated on, & blew up the stern-harsh-FIRE, in the enkindled qualities of Divine Justice against the Creature, by whom SIN took occasion to work up the power of Death (over the Body of Nature) through a Law in the Members, wherein the concupiscence wrought, against the Law of the Mind, under which the Nature of all Creatures was brought forth and subjected, through the contrariety of the Spirit of Enmity, that tinctured the ELEMENTAL qualities of the Worlds, with the harshness thereof, against the regulating power of order.   

LVIII.  
For that which sunk in the fall, became embodied again, in form anew, after I had beheld the dispersing abroad of all that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity, in its fallen Properties and Qualities, which settled in the Created being of all powers of Nature in the embodied form, which was brought forward into BEING, under the power of Corruption, over which I beheld the motion of the WHEELS, until it became EQUINOCTIAL.   

LIX.  
And it was SIX DAYS forward, and six days backward, in what was wrought up into FORM, through the operation in Properties and Qualities of what was endless, in the WORLDS, wherein the FOUR BEASTS which I beheld, came forth into manifestation; and these four had the Face of a LYON, and the Face of a CHERUB (or Calf) and the Face of a MAN, and the Face of an EAGLE; and they moved in the WHEELS, over all that came forth embodied in FORM, while place and time endured.   

LX.  
And thus did I behold, until all that came forth thus FALLEN in the bodily frame, was again returning and centring in an Eternal Rest and Quiet IN THE LORD, where it became , steadfastly abounding in the good Fruit of Joy and Rejoicing, wherein the Creator of all forms in NATURE had first planted it; and therein had God finished all work and labour in the beginning of CREATION, which is become the Seventh DAY in NATURE, to that which remaineth capable of entering into Rest, that is form therein, which is the ground of torment and disquiet to the Spirit of the WICKED ONE.    

CHAP. VI Describing the coming forth of the first Seven Nations of the Worlds into the forms of Nature.  

LXI.  
THese are the Generations of the the WORLDS, in the day that God created the HEAVENS and the EARTH, when he beheld it without form and void, for it was an Emptiness and dark NOTHING, before he Created it into FORM; through the power of the Word of LIFE, in which God willed the coming forth of that which was to replenish it in time and place.   

LXII.  
Wherein all that was brought forth, in the Dominion of Innocency; In ADAM, was a subjection to the forming part of the IMAGE that mankind was stated in, according to the Mind and Will of the Spirit of GOD in him REVEALED, whose conditions for Good or Evil, are concerned in what he ruleth in and over.   

LXIII.  
For the Earth was not now, without form, nor in its voidness and emptiness, but was filled and replenished with Creatures and Things, which were created beautiful in their place and season; and the World was set in their Hearts, the beauty and glory of which, did whither and pass away, as the flowers of the Field; And all that stood EMBODIED, under the power of corruption in time and place, was consumed, so that the Works of God in that STATE, could not be beheld from the beginning to the end thereof.   

LXIV.  
And the Government of God, through the power of all Properties (in the ELEMENTAL WORLDS) was manifest in those Four forms of the BEAST in Nature, wherein the effect of all produced from the FIERY HEAVENS, was comprehended for Governments-sake, in the form of a LYON, and there came a Voice from the HEART of the fire, as from the Heart of the LYON, let the Earth keep silent, while the Islands renew their strength.   

LXV.  
For darkness came over all that stood manifest in form (wherein the Creature sought to glory in the embodied will of SELF-EXCELLENCY) which was moved towards the PIT of perpetual SILENCE, to inhabit the nothingness through such a REVOLVE in the turning about and overturning of the Worlds in the motion of the WHEELS.   

LXVI.  
And over the face of the mighty deeps was a thick Cloud, and over the PEOPLE, who are the unstable Waters, was the gross thick darkness, and the Nations of the Earth were angry, and moved at this coming forth of the Lord. And I beheld the Worlds in their divided Qualities and Properties, wherein was preparation for a NEW Heaven and a NEW Earth; and the Face and form of the MAN whom I saw, went both forward and backward in the Heavens, according to the form and frame of the Worlds, in the VISION of the Wheels, from those FIVE DAYS wherein I beheld the MOON striving to increase her recovered strength towards NEW MOON, to the reducing of that which was lost in the KALENDS of the Months.   

LXVII.  
And until the end of NINE and TWENTY days, I saw the IDESES of the Month in a Mystery, working up a form to the new created being of all things substantial in an eternal existence. And the Face and form of the Man, whom I beheld exalted in the Heavens, was turned towards the South. For he was not able to behold the illustrious breaking-forth of the glory of the DAY that was risen upon the Earth.   

LXVIII.  
And the form of the Man whom I had seen placed in the GARDEN, was divided into TWAIN, to wit, into Masculine and Feminine, through whom the Heavens came to multiply their forms in the Dual number over the Earth, whereby the strive in the Earthly Womb came to be, through these Two NATIONS.   

LXIX.  
For by reason of a settled subjection in the ground of Nature, from which the Man took being, (to wit, out of the LINCUS of the Earth) there had not come forth a Man to till and tear it up until a Second motion from God did work and operate, after all his works were finished in the DIURNAL MOTION, which became the NIGHT of the FOURTH DAY in Nature, or FIRST DAY of God's glory in the Celestial Body, (betwixt the Principles whereof a Separation was made) which had a great LIGHT to rule its darkening qualities.   

LXX.  
And through the working properties in Nature, which had the Annual Motion, the preparation of a SECOND separated day in NATURE came up in the Resurrection of Glory in the JUST, wherein the partakers of glory in a FIRST Resurrection were planted together in what the SON of MAN wrought up into the World through suffering.   

LXXI.  
And the Motion of Separation in the Turns of the WHEELS, came forward, until the midst of FIVE DAYS; And I numbered the days of the continuance of the FIRST MAN, that came forth embodied from the Womb of Eternity (to keep and dress the Vineyard wherein he was placed) which were 930 days, or Two years and Seven MONTHS, which work was settled among the forms in NATURE, and therein made destinguishable.   

LXXII.  
And I beheld the course of the SUN, of the Glory of the Day of the SON of MAN, moved FIVE MONTHS backward, to bring forward the SEVEN MONTHS, under which the BODY of NATURE stood subjected, for a change sake, in the separation of the THREE PRINCIPLES, that became embodied in the Two NATIONS, that strove in the WOMB of NATURE, to bring into appearance and manifestation the WORKS of WONDER, through which the man tra●…l all the two YEARS and SEVEN MONTHS, under the workings and motions of the power of DEATH.    

CHAP. VII. Describing the manner how those seven Nations, came forth thus embodied in FORM.  

LXXIII.  
AND those SEVEN NATIONS, that strove in a Mystery, came forth in the Two GENERATIONS, that degenerated from the glory of his DAY, in which day his Sun was divided after that, of ONE, the MAN was become TWAIN, standing in the midst of that wherein he was brought forth, wherein I beheld the course of the Sun of his Day, steered through Two WORLDS, and the MOON became exalted thereby, in the changeability of her way and course; by which the Body of Nature was afflicted, to the subjecting the Woman's will and desire, to BODILY PANGS, in which was endurance and suffering to the Creature of God; And as the ORDER of Nature, grew under corruptible courses in the WORLDS, the shining of Glory (in both WORLDS,) was a lustre in the frame, standing still TEN DEGREES, to bring back and recover what was lost in the course of Degeneration.   

LXXV.  
And on the Sun's coming into Virgo, which is the Virgin's Night-house, in the BOWELS of GLORY in the HEAVENS, of an INWARD WORLD, I beheld the form of Two SUNS placed in the Firmament of the Father's Glory; for the ECLIPSE of the Sun was very great, while this LABOUR continued in the Body of Nature, wherein that which was divided from the Man, came forth in the midst of the FIFTH MONTH, (after the Works of God were finished) but counting those days wherein the Sun stood at a stay, and the five days wherein the Virgin in Man's form, was slain, it was the concluding of five MONTHS (under that which moved neither forward nor backward for a day.)   

LXXVI.  
And as the forms of NATURE stood thus divided and separated, I beheld the Woman travelling in the Heavens, to bring forth into being what became embodied from the WOMB of NATURE; and the Body of Nature came under SUFFERINGS, by the twain with whom she was in labour, in the production of which, the one came forty five days before, and the other forty five days after her forty weeks, under which the course of Nature was subjected.   

LXXVII.  
And for SEVENTY DAYS, did the Moon prevail again, in the Woman's labour for strength towards a Second Birth, which was thirty days, after the Sun had recovered strength in the course, under which the WORLDS were subjected, in the frame of all forms in Nature, for it was the expiration of the FIRST YEAR; and FORTY DAYS after, the Woman again conceived a MAN, whose glory came forth in the SECOND YEARS WORK.   

LXXVIII.  
But in the conclusion of labour to the Creature; In the first year, the Body of Nature stood divided in the Creaturely Form, (wherein I came to the Sight of the Mystery of what stood unrevealed to the World, under Characters of Blood) the wonderful frame of the Works of God (in the Book of Life) wherein he is well pleased, was thereby written in the sealed Testimony of the Spirit of Prophecy, committed to the Hand of the Angel of Strength; And the course of the Sun wrought in a MYSTERY of distance from the MOON, in the changeability of what it effects over the Body of NATURE.   

LXXIX.  
But the exaltation of Beauty, in the lustre of what the Creature was Planted in, (according to the Seed of its Birth) was a moveability in its GLORY, towards the Head of NATURE, which broke forth in the Head and Face of a RAM; for after the Seal of God, on the day of the FOUR BEASTS in NATURE came to be taken off the Book of Life, in which sense stood manifest, the virtue of the Wonderful and Miraculous frame of his Spirits working, (in its various dispensations) yet the destroying power of the four Angels, that stood on the four corners of the Earth, was bound in the great River EUPHRATES, until their Year, Month, Day and Hour came to be revealed to the Glory of a Wonder-working-God.   

LXXX.  
And on the tenth day of the first Month of the second Year, the Sun came up again in his course, and entered the first Point of ARIES; and as the Woman also recovered her strength, she was delivered of that for which she travelled on the second day of the second Month, as the Moon was entering her House of Exaltation; for that which she laboured to bringing forth, was five Nations, which stood separate among the forms in Nature, in the second years Revolution, which was thirty days onward in the year; and from the ground of destruction, to the first FORM in the Woman, was Seventy days; it being effected Forty days before the Revolution of the first Years.   

LXXXI.  
This was a fifth Man in his Nation, come forth into Form in the Creaturely being; And on the first Day of the fourth Month, the Woman was again delivered of a SIXTH MAN, form in his Nation in the Creaturely being; as the Sun came towards Cancer, (the Breast of Nature) in which the Moon stood exalted nine degrees in Taurus, before the Sun entered the first point of Cancer, in which the Sun was greatly Eclipsed.   

LXXXII.  
But the last day of the ninth Month, the Woman was delivered of a seventh Man in his Nation, wherein the Bowman was concerned, for he road in the Chariot of NATURE, as a great PROPHET, who continued a just year, and was not, for God took him to himself, (in the Revolution of the Heavens) until the times of Restitution came, for the delivering up of what had been retained in a Mystery; and through the loosening of the Angels in the great River Euphrates, the Bowman came forth manifest, in the house of the Angel's Exaltation, (to wit, the ninth House of Mansions in the HEAVENS.   

LXXXIII.  
And the eighth Day of the eleventh Month, the Woman again conceived and brought forth an Eighth Man, form in his Nation, who saw the end of the old and first Worlds; And after the revolution of the Second Year, I beheld the Moon regaining strength and glory from the course of the Sun, from which she borrowed her light; And on the second day of the fifth Month of the third year, the Moon was strong in her own House of Exaltation, whereby the Sun suffered a third Eclipse, on his coming into the Heart of Nature, which is the House wherein he glorieth as his own.   

LXXXIV.  
And the Woman was delivered of a ninth Man in his Nation, for the bringing forth of whom the first seven were destroyed in their Nations, yet in him was a Seed preserved to replenish the Earth anew; and into the renewed Habitation of Wonders in the Translations of the Body of Nature (working among the forms of Creation) the substance was taken and gathered, but from the Heavens was a Voice, The young Man's wound hath cured my hurt.    

CHAP. VIII. Describing the wonderful operation of the Vision, in the opening of the Heavens, testified through the Judgement of God, against what came forth embodied in Form, in those seven Nations.  

LXXXV.  
THrough the striving of three Nations, from the Womb of Eternity, two Generations of Men continued labouring under what was degenerated into the embodied FORM for Generations-sake; And between those three was two Months for the separation of each, in their Revolution, wherein the Virgin in Nature suffered, by the power of Death, that entered the Creation of God.   

LXXXVI.  
On the last day of the Seventh Month, of the third year, died the first Man that became embodied in FORM from the Womb of Nature, as the Virgin in Nature lost her Crown, and the Woman also come to suffer Death, in Two Generations of Men, concerned in the contest in the Heavens; but the cause of such pangs and sufferings that rested on the Body of Nature, was a fallen ground in the Earthly Principle, which stood in and out of the WATERS, as a fourth part of the Elemental Worlds; and it was the last FORM, under the power whereof the Life of the Creature remained suffering.   

LXXXVII.  
For the Seventh FORM in Nature, that became embodied in the Creaturely being, was exalted on the Earth, which proceeded from the FIERY Heavens, from whence the Man took his dominion, who was taken up unto God, and was not, on the last Day of the ninth Month, of the third Year; And the THIRD that proceeded from the Man, embodied from the Womb of Eternity, and that took being amongst the Forms in Nature, died in that FIRST Principle, after the conclusion of the Eleventh Month, and was dissolved in the Earth.   

LXXXVIII.  
But those Two by whom the Woman in Nature came to suffer Death, who were slain by the hard labour, under which the Creature and Creation of God remaineth groaning, died also in the Earth, in the Fourth Year; The One on the Sixteenth day of the Second month; The Other on the sixteenth day of the Fourth month; And a Fifth Man embodied in Form, died on the Thirteenth day of the Twelfth month; The Sixth, on the nineteenth day of the Seventh month of the Fifth year; And the Seventh, on the Twenty-fourth day of the Seventh month, which from the finishing of God's Work, into that wonderful frame, in the Generation of the Heavens, was the Seventeenth day of the seventh month.   

LXXXIX.  
For that which came Seven days and seven years Forward in the motion of the WHEELS, was brought under five months' trial, both by WATER and by FIRE, (being that which came forth manifest in five Days) and grew up under the Revolution of Seven Months, as the forms of Nature were moved backward, under the power of Destruction; that through the dissolution of that which came into being, fallen under the power of Corruption, that which is Heir of Immortality might arise, and come to possess a Crown of Rejoicing in God, through the work of Restauration of those forms in Nature, into their Eternal Existence, that have a substantial being in the first forming cause of an IMAGE to the work of Creation.   

XC.  
And while the VISION of God was on me, and the ANGEL of God was talking with me, I saw the Man that was driven out of the Garden of God, (which is the Glory of the World in its Paradise) came again onward in the way from which he went towards the rest of SELFS' Annihilation, that had caused the bodily form to come under the power of death, who (notwithstanding that he remained embodied in Principles fallen and sunk under the power of Corruption and Destruction in the forms of Nature, did yet abide in the WORLD, and the World in him, until Paradise, that was lost and died from him, and he from it, began again to spring up in the place and condition wherein he was put; as considered in that state.   

XCI.  
And from the Heavens I heard a Voice, Death and Destruction; I am become thy Grave, and O Grave, I am become thy Plague; But dread and fear compassed me about as with a Garment, for the miraculous workings of the Power of God in the Vision had bent me, until all faculties of my mind became subject to that invisible sense, from whence my Spirit received the Illuminations of that which sought to come forth, though for a trial's sake to my patience, the understanding of that which came up in the MOTION, was ofttimes sealed before me, after I began to write thereof.   

XCII.  
For as I was amongst a number of people assembled to wait upon the Lord, I was taken in a TRANCE, and my knees smote together, trembling, because of the fear of God in my Heart, and the terror of his Judgements on my Spirit; But on that same night, as I lay on my Bed, I saw the form of a GREAT MAGISTRATE, and the Honour and Respect which he had, was different from all the powers of the Earth, for before him went the form of DEATH, as a man walking on his Feet, and about him were great Attendance sounding Bells on every side; and they continued thus to ring these little Bells, till he ascended a place of Judicature, where he had great reverence and respect.   

XCIII.  
And amongst the crowd that bended to his power, I was acted in the like posture; and being otherwise convinced in my Spirit, I was smote with great dread, and sought ease by weeping and mourning; and coming to sit down by the side of a Wall, I was awakened in a sense of the Agony which was upon me: after which the glory of the SUN, through which I beheld the Wonders of God in the Vision, came out of the HEAD of Nature's Government descending towards its HEART, (which was like the Heart of a LYON) the Glory of which SUN, was exalted in the Head and Face of a RAM amongst the forms of Nature.   

XCIV.  
And in the night season, being perfectly awakened, I was brought into an enclosed ground, which was very dark, wherein boisterous storms and tempests were arisen, for I was led somewhat out of my way in the conflict; and drew towards a little Town, near my way, wherein I was cruelly dealt withal; and though it was late in the night, yet I gave up in patience, and drew towards a heap of straw in the wayside, whereon I lay down to rest me.   

XCV.  
And by the excess of Rain which began to fall, I was driven to leave that place also, and went into the Fields again, where there broke forth before me a WHITE LIGHT in the shape of a SHEEP, so far as I could discern it, which being round about me in a flame, did surprise me with fear, whereby the form of the ANGEL vanished; and before him went a noise like the crackling of the rotten Hedge, which left me much in amazement, so that I could not find the way out of the Field, or Enclosure, in two hours' time, till I had given up in my mind, and forgiven those that thrust me out, after which I found my way, and came quietly to the Journeys end.   

XCVI.  
After which the Angel of God led me about the circumference of the Worlds, to behold the surface thereof; and he brought me into a green Field, where I saw the frame and form of the HEAVENS, and of the Natures of all Creatures in the Worlds, and the WHOLE was like unto WATER; And there were a THOUSAND Hills, and a Thousand Springs of Water; And in the same manner, as I was acted under the exercise of the Vision, so appeared the form of the Worlds, wherein came forth a great Number of WOMEN, who at last were reduced into SEVEN, and each of them sought to lay hold on me, but I fled in great fear; and lost the sight of the Angel's Glory for a time.    

CHAP. IX. Declares how I was exercised under the Power of the Vision.  

XCVII.  
AS I was carried by the Spirit of the Lord, into a great WILDERNESS, the Angel of God, by whom the Forms of Nature were thus awakened in me, brought up the appearance of that Wilderness-state, into manifestation, in which the Woman continued labouring in the Heavens, which Heavens did multiply all forms in Nature into their number and order, in which the power of Creation (in individual Bodies) was separated in its being, into two third parts of such forms, and the seventh part of the Worlds became corruptible Earth.   

XCVIII.  
From which one THIRD PART thereof was dried up on the third day, wherein Nature had its operation over all Bodies brought into Form, in the Work of CREATION, which was the TENTH PART of that which remained under the exercise of TRIALS, both by FIRE and by WATER, and the two third parts of those WATERS were comprehensible in their Qualities, from the fiery Heavens, whence the circumference of the out-spread Firmament was filled with Airy Bodies, and the Earth and Waters were replenished with living Creatures, which came under the refining power of those renewing Faculties and Virtues in the forms of Nature, embodied from those WATERS.   

XCIX.  
But what came thus forth, in seven natural days, came under trial, in the operation of three essential days, wherein the power of God was manifest for the recovering of a SENSE in the Creature, of that work wherein God doth glory and is praised, which is the Resurrection of the Just, in the first and last power of Creation, wherein Majesty is Exalted; and therein was manifest A restauration to all forms in NATURE, fallen in the WORLDS, wherein the MAN, who had caused destruction to the Body of Nature, was called to account in the Trial, while suffering remained in that third PRINCIPLE, in which he was embodied.   

C.  
And as the WATERS were gathered together in their Course, into the seventh part of the WORLDS, which had form in the Earth, those two living Creatures, called BEHEMOTH or HENOCH & Leviathan, were separated into their being, because it was so ordered in Wisdoms Counsellings, that they could not both live together in one place; But according to the operation of the day in Nature, in which they were brought forth, they possessed each part of the Worlds, wherein the great WHALE had dominion in the moist part thereof, and the Behemoth caused the Image of Giants in the forms of Nature, brought forth in Woman, in the coming down of the Watchers into the Creaturely conceivance (through that which possessed the Earth.)   

CI.  
For in the Firmament, placed between Waters and Waters, living Creatures were multiplied (in Airy Bodies) from those Fiery Heavens; which Creatures possessed that third part of the Worlds, in which the Waters were dried up from the Earth sixty thousand furlongs in its circumference, which is the fourth part of what remaineth measurable in the forms of Nature, wherein one third part of the Waters is comprehended.   

CII.  
And as the way and course of what was Generated from the HEAVENS above, and Earth beneath, was traced in the HEIGHTS and DEPTHS of the WORLD, there appeared portrayed forth (through the motion of the Wheels) in the Vision, a GREAT CITY built on seven Mountains, which were seven Foundations on which it settled, and the Mountain in the Midl of the Seven, which was the Seventh, stood higher than the rest, on which was built and founded the tenth part of the City which I thus beheld.   

CIII.  
In which place it was compassed about with Fowls of the Air, and wild Beasts of Prey, wherein the Enemy, who is the power of Destruction, went about continually seeking to betray and devour; but I could not conceive that those BRUIT Creatures did build and rear up the Foundation of that City; therefore I concluded in my mind, that some Men had been there to build its Foundation, though their Houses were left unto them DESOLATE; And as I was thus musing in my mind concerning these things, I came to apprehend myself a wayfaring Man, and a wanderer in the World, groaning in Spirit to see the issue of what was thus visioned for; I came again to behold the form of the Woman in the Heavens, that continued in labour and travel, in that Wilderness-state, until the time of her deliverance was come.   

CIV.  
And as she had conceived the Birth of Life, under the power of contrariety, that wrought in the HEAVENS, through two Nations, on which the blessing of God began to rest, the Woman prevailed in the World, for their bringing forthout of the WOMB of Nature, though the forms in Creation remained fallen & sunk, under the Image of the Beast (on those that have received his Mark, or have his Name and number) while the Woman remained clothed with changeable raiments.   

CV.  
And on the tenth day of the fourth month of the fifth year, I beheld a great Eclipse of the Moon also, which became divided in Cancer (the Breast of Nature) for the burden of struggle and strive in the Heavens, that had rested on the embodied being of the shoulders of Nature, wherein the Man took form, came into the Breast of the Created being, wherein he stood embodied, though driven from the face or first beauty of the Earth, in that double-bodied Form, against whom the flames of the Cherub turned every way, to preserve the way of the Tree of Life.   

CVI  
While the Face of the RAM in Nature, stood behind the Man, who was created LORD in that Dominion, that form in Nature became therein, a House of Exaltation, (to the Sun of his day's Glory:) and while the Vision hereof continued, and that the Angel of God was thus talking with me; I was pursued by those living Creatures, in the form of Women, and I took my flight over the Mountains, the entrances of which were wide and very broad, at my going forth thereon, but in the conclusion they grew very narrow in the World (about the circumference of which I was led.)   

CVII.  
But the forms of those Women were dispersed and fled into dissolution, as I was in a great strait of my mind, through which the entrances led me (in my passage,) and they were reduced into one in number, as I came through those straits, wherein I beheld the parting of the great Seas, my way was so narrow, that I could not pass any further, but in great danger of falling.   

CVIII.  
For the Precipice was very steep, (as I looked down toward the ground) which was like a WALL of Stone; And being made sensible of the danger wherewith I was beset in my way and passage, I was taken in great fear, and trembling seized me, because of the terror of the Lord on my Spirit, until I came to sit down on the dust of that Hill or great Mountain, in that I could not go on any further, with security of life, and therefore sought to ease me, by mourning alone; and there broke down and fell on my left HAND, the form of a tottering Wall, whereby I came to the sight of a Pleasant Field, and therein continued for a time.    

CHAP. X. Describing the Power of those Waters in the Vision of the Wheels.  

CIX.  
AND as I continued separated from the comfort and enjoyment of good, in the visitation of the Angel, there appeared before me a great and deep Pit, which was very Green, yet like unto WATERS, and as I climbed up to the top of these Waters, they appeared to be a great Mountain, that stood on HEAPS above the Earth, though they still bore the form of WATERS, whose concavity swollen under me, turning its hollowness into that Mountainous shape of Waters, (as I came to stand upright on the top thereof.)   

CX.  
Wherein I beheld my pass ge over all these WATERS, and had nothing to support me, but a Line in the Hand of the Angel, by which I was born up and kept from falling; and the Angel of God brought me a LADDER, which he lifted up towards me, while I came to see myself as on the top of a high House, driven thither by the Woman's fury and rage, whereon I rather choosed to dwell, then to come down unto the Ground, and possess the Palace with the Brawling Woman; yet was there a WOE remaining on the World, in the state wherein I beheld it overtaken with afflictions.   

CXI.  
But I was to come down on the Ground, and the place whereon I alighted, was like to a great CITY that stood beyond the Waters; and in the night season, as I was laid down to take my rest, the form of the Woman was again awakened before me, and there stood near her the appearance of a Man of fierce countenance, with very long Hair, whom she instigated to disquiet me from my rest, because I lay not straight in the Bed, and accordingly by violence I was pulled out of the Bed, and was both Naked and Hungry, and mourned in Spirit at the sight of her Discourtesy.   

CXII.  
And because she proffered to turn me out of Doors, & to dispossess me of a Habitation, it was very irksome for me to come forth; but with yearning Bowels I bemoaned the state under which I was fallen by her does ourtesie, and refused to departed WILLINGLY, without leaving the sense of my wrong upon her; after which I was brought forth towards the place of my ABODE; and as I came before the Posts of my Door, there was enkindled a great flame, & a fire broke forth, in the midst of which was a Brass Pan, and under it was a Morsel baked, with which my Body was refreshed, and I had a place of accommodation suitable to my necessity.   

CXIII.  
Thus was the truth of the Angel's Visitation confirmed to me with signs of deliverance, though a secret incredulity wrought against my life's peace and satisfaction (in the conflict) with the sense of which I was daily beset, yet durst not any more ask a sign, or tempt the LORD my GOD; but I afterwards beheld a great flame towards the South, and towards the East, and it being at a great distance from me, the Angel of God lifted me up from the ground to behold it, and my Head was born up as with a Man's Hand, and I had the sense given me (secretly) of great calamities that should come from the South; And I again saw the form of a fiery Furnace, in which was the Fat of fed Beasts, which boiled up with a great scum, and it arose over the Furnace, and enkindled a great flame in the House, which I expected to see consumed, but it was miraculously preserved, and I had no hurt therein.   

CXIV.  
And the day from whence I beheld the multiplying of all forms in Nature from the Heavens, was a day of gloominess and darkness, and thick Clouds broke forth from the awakened tempests and storms, until the Earth was overwhelmed with the scourge, that covered the same in the overflowing of its deluge, from the Fountain of great DEEPS that were opened, and the great City that I saw was overspread, even unto its tenth part, wherein the WORLD stood six parts under the WATERS, and that sixth part was a tenth from the Heavens, in which all forms in Nature became more narrow (to the Creaturely sense) through a palpability in the WATERS.   

CXV.  
In which time the Waters prevailed over the Earth sixty thousand Furlongs, and they abode thereon for the term of five Months, and Blood prevailed for sixteen hundred Furlongs, unto the Horse-Bridles, from the Wine-press of the great City; For after I came to see the appearance of two Moons, (in the Firmament of the Heavens) I beheld the Worlds moved two ways, for the bringing forth of those two Nations for which the Woman was in Labour, (in Her two day's Travel) and there were two day's difference between them, as they thus came forth in that which brought all forms in Nature under a power of Corruption and Destruction.   

CXVI.  
Of the One she was delivered on the tenth day of that fourth Month, and of the Other, on the twelfth day of the same Month, which through a backward drawing in the Worlds, did cause the Month to be divided in the account of days; for he that came first forth, drew the power of the Heavens Northward, whereby the second, who came under the power of the Awakened South wind, and whose Face was Southward, drew the Worlds under the power of the Waters, through which that second Man was exercised in his Dominion, by the Increase and Decrease of the Waters, for the full term of a Year, which I beheld in the accomplishment of that sixth Year.   

CXVII.  
And in a Month and twelve days did they increase to their height, though they continued prevailing on the Earth for five Months, and for seven Months did they fall backward, the conflict of which Year I beheld, in which time I saw the form of the two Men in their Nations, awakened in the Worlds, and wandering in that Wilderness, both under the Denomination of VAGABONDS, for they appeared like Wanderers and Wayfaring Men in the Earth; and there was a third Man in form, that came forth in the condition of a Wanderer or Vagabond.   

CXVIII.  
The one of them I beheld flying from those Wild Beasts of PREY that possessed that desolate Place, and that which he fled from, was the danger of pernicious ways under the Beasts power, who made haste to flee out of Babylon, lest he should partake of her Plagues; and thus flying, he sought another and better Country and City; but the other, by means of a discontent with the pleasure and delight, in the state of the glory (in which that City and Country was first Planted) hunted after another and better state than that (in which was the first blessing of God) and so wandered from, and lost its first Habitation, which was defaced under the Enemy's power, and become fallen under the workings of corruption and darkness; and thus by conforming to, and complying with the Enemy's Power, he became really a VAGABOND from the Lord, and from the Glory of his City and Habitation, though in the World he may have a Habitation very Glorious, and be Lord of a City in the Earth.   

CXIX.  
But the third that I saw, bore the AFFLICTIONS, and abode in the CAUSE thereof, until he became hardened under the Enemy's Power, and suffered the sting of that which overtook him in the Wilderness, which rested in the GROUND of DESTRUCTION to the first Beauty and Glory of God in the Work of Creation; for having neglected his own VINEYARD, whereby his BROTHER was SLAIN, (who was made keeper of his VIRGIN) and his Garden being thereby overgrown with WEEDS, and Nettles and Briers, (the Thorns of Corruption) he was made Keeper of the VINEYARD of his BROTHER; and the Keeper of the Living LAMB of GOD, and SHEEP of that everlasting sold, having his Life made a Sacrifice unto GOD, as Inquisition came to be made for Blood, when the Voice came, Where is thy Brother? and he replied, Am I my Brother's Keeper?   

CXX.  
And so came the Man that was thus made a Steward over that which was his Brother's right, (as his Birthright therein was lost and forsited) over which Vineyard he was appointed as a Keeper and Dresser, as a Servant in the Minority of the Heir and owner thereof, (in the Resurrection of that which was first and is last, the Elder Brother of all that believe in the Spirit of the JUST) to Challenge a SELF-INTEREST & PROPRIETY therein, and refused to give the Owner Due and Right, but did beat the SERVANTS that were sent for the Last Fruits thereof, and sent them empty away, and in the end slew the Lamb and Son himself, and scattered his Sheep from the Flock and Fold of Everlasting Rest, which became a daily Sacrifice unto God, in the suffering State and Principle, to reconcile the WORLD unto himself, through the destruction of the evil therein, in that Nature that saith SECRETLY, Come let us kill the Heir, that the Inheritance may be ours.    

CHAP. XI. Describing the Nature of the World in its fallen Principles, through the Bondage of the Power of Corruption.  

CXXI.  
FOR while I beheld both these Wayfaring Men, in that WANDERING conditon, the WATERS did MULTIPLY in abundance, and became a GREAT SEA, and the Angel of God shown me a VESSEL that was erected and built in the Heavens, in four Months, in which was the Pattern of that Heavenly Form, which through the Government of God was manifest, in the Heavens of an Angelical World; in that all forms in Nature fell under the Power of Corruption and Destruction, (while I beheld Gods and Lords many concerned in the dominion of those THREE PRINCIPLES in Nature) because of dishonourable USES in which their LORD employed them, though the whole three were comprehended in that which was built and erected in the HEAVENS.   

CXXII.  
And the Lordlike Mind and Spirit, that could not suffer any thing to be equal with it, or to balance that self-conceit (through which he sought to subject all to his own Will) was betrayed, and is the Betrayer; from the lovely TENT of the Plain Man, whereby he weighed and measured (in that selfish-will) what was proper to his state, that would rule alone, and purchase an Authority and Dominion that was absolute, that he might be chief in the WORLDS, though (for pre-eminence sake) he ventured the destruction of Glory (in that state) under the workings of which, the FIRST PRINCIPLE in Nature led the Man that was first brought forth under a suffering condition.   

CXXIII.  
For the MAN who was become PLANTER of a Vineyard, under the Power of Corruption, grew slothful therein; and as he was surfeited with the Fruit thereof, I beheld his nakedness in the TENT wherein he was placed, though self was exalted and rejoiced, because of what was brought forth from the Ground of CORRUPTION, that was thus tilled and torn up (under the power of the Enemy) for Materials, wherewith the CITY was built, thus portrayed forth in the Vision; therefore was that CITY called by his Name HENOCH, or the Son of Man in those fallen Principles, who was become a discoverer of the nakedness of that (and of himself therein) which was by Nature his FATHER, and a Revealer of the SECRETS thereof, in the Forms of Creation, possessing a REGION in the Seventh Part of the WORLD, that is separated from the MOIST.   

CXXIV.  
And this Third Principle in Man, and Third Man in those three Principles, who were in the cause of Destruction to the GLORY of the CITY which I saw, (through whom notwithstanding it became Built, under that POWER of Corruption) was acted in and under the POWER of both Good and Evil, while the World continued in that State, wherein was Winter and Summer, and Seedtime and Harvest; But in the State under which the Worlds were FALLEN, and under which all Principles in Nature were subjected, in the Dominion of the BEAST over mankind, thus degenerated from the Image, in which he was planted; there remained a Second WOE on the Creature, who being found flying away, fled on (and from) the Sabbath Day and Rest of God, through that which sought to avoid afflictions, and shunned to keep in the Way wherein a sense of sufferings grew, on that which was come on the Body of Nature.   

CXXV.  
And a THIRD WOE remained on the WOMAN that was with Child, and upon her that was giving SUCK, though the time had been wherein the SHEPHERD carried his Lambs in his Arms, and gently drove those that were with young, until he became SMITTEN for the sake of his Flock, (from whom he durst not fly in the Winter, or because of the WOLF) and through the Life which he laid down for his SHEEP, prevailed with the Father, against that which had hindered the Creature from its entering into the REST of God, whereby a DART was struck through his SOUL, that every Man might be driven to his OWN; and that the thoughts and secrets of many HEARTS might be REVEALED; for he could not draw back in a time of DANGER, but endured the contradiction of sinners.   

CXXVI.  
And as I came to behold a strong ANGEL of God, with a Sealed Book in his Hand, he placed one Foot on the Earth, and the other on the Waters, and stood on both, between the Banks of HIDDEKEL, and the great River EUPHRATES; and he lifted up the little Book unto the Heavens, and went backward to the parting of the great SEAS, where were two great PROPHETS clothed in Sackcloth, whose Prophecy was (one thousand two hundred and threescore days) a TESTIMONY of what remained under suffering, to the preparing the way of the JUST, that the Son of Man might come to inherit the Glory of his Temple, and unseal the Mysteries of the Lamb's Power, in opening the Book of Wonders written in the Heavens, while I beheld the prevailing of the Waters, until a third part of the EARTH was covered thereby.   

CXXVII.  
In which time the WATERS were decreased from off the Earth, and the Angel of God gave me a Reed of a measuring Line, to measure the Waters and the Earth, over which they prevailed (in the World;) and I measured the Waters at the highest, ten Cubits over the Earth, and five Cubits under the Earth, in the circumference of which a Man might Swim as in a great RIVER; And from the Heavens, as all forms in Nature were multiplied, I beheld on the great Seas, until there appeared the number of seventy Vessels sailing over the same; in the front they were seven, and in each row ten, and in the midst of the six stood that seventh Vessel, which was the first, into which was gathered the Patterns of all forms in the Heavens, where the Creation of God did multiply.   

CXXVIII.  
And the VESSELS that I saw were born up above the rage and fury of the WATERS, from whence the out-spread Firmament was enlarged in the Air, seven Cubits upward, and ten Cubits from the Waters downwards to the Earth, on which it centred, which was sventeen Cubits to the Head of the Image which I beheld, that stood before the seventh Vessel, which was in the midst of the six, in the front of the seventy; And behind the Vessel was the form of a DOVE, with golden Wings stretched abroad in the Airy Firmament, and the Image glisteren like the Sun, and had the tincture of fine Gold, where the property of the Heavens beautified the Feathers, that took form in Nature on the living Creature.   

CXXIX.  
And from the face of the Waters, as they prevailed over the Earth, was fifteen Cubits to the Centre of the Earth, in its sinking state, and it was two and twenty Cubits in the circumference of the height, wherein the WATERS prevailed for the space of these five months that they covered the Face of the EARTH, after which I beheld them divided into four HEADS, as they came to be dispersed (by an East-Wind) which compasseth about the whole EARTH, in its divided QUARTERS.   

CXXX.  
And as the Vessels thereon became eased and delivered of their Burden, in that which fell under the Power of Corruption, in the contrariety of all Elemental Properties, embodied in the Forms of Creation (wherein I beheld the perishing of the first WORLD'S glory in natural MAN, through that fallen state) the Heavens also were discharged of Labour and Travel, under which the BODY of NATURE suffered (in those forms) wherein that which caused the Sun to go back ten Degrees, became manifest (among those forms in Nature) through the corruptible Ground.   

CXXXI.  
And in the separation of the WORLDS, over which the Waters (that were driven in HEAPS Westward) prevailed for the space of their five months, the falling back of those WATERS, (driven by an EAST WIND) was North and South, wherein the VESSELS arrived in their order place and number, but every thing that the Enemy had power over (in that Corruptible state) perished in the WATERS, yet was a SEED preserved through all those Storms and Tempests, (the strength of which continued a Month and twelve Days) to replenish the Earth in its renewed state, which was five days backward to the Months Nones, and seven days forward in its IDESES, from the seventeenth day of that seventh month, to the twenty fourth day of the Month.   

CXXXII.  
For from the New of the MOON in that seventh month, (wherein the Waters broke first forth) to the new of the MOON in the eighth month, was twenty nine days; which month called BUL or a BUBBLING, because of what again sprung up in the WORLD (after the falling back of the WATERS under the Power of Corruption, through which the Fruits of the EARTH perished) was the Month from whence the Heavens began to manifest the multiplied Forms in Nature, under a corruptible State, which is MARCHESHUAM in the falling away, but in the bubbling up of all forms of Nature in the New-created-Being, and renewed State of the WORLDS, (in that same place) it is the springs of the WORLD, that are refreshing and restorative, through the open Fountain of an everlasting good.    

CHAP. XII. Describes the manner how those Vessels were discharged of their burden, (among the created Forms in Nature) as also the Four Heads of the River in the dividing of the Waters.  

CXXXIII.  
FRom the Tempests and Storms that I beheld, in the increase and prevailing of those WATERS, whereby the World was overspread and overwhelmed in its old corruptible State; the Heavens were darkened, and all forms in Nature remained under a Cloud, until each month in the year had finished its COURSE in the Bodily frame, through the Revolution and change that is wrought up in the Vegitative Being, wherein the TREE of LIFE came to bear twelve sorts of FRUITS, changing its Fruit every Month, until its Leaves came to heal the NATIONS.   

CXXXIV.  
For that which divided between Principle and Principle in the Worlds, said, let there be light in the Firmament of the Heavens, wherein the Waters are gathered together unto their own PLACE, and Light shined from the Firmament of the Heavens in those Waters, in the Separation of all darkening Qualities into its NIGHT of Obscurity, which notwithstanding was overruled in the hour of Darkness, until the second great Light broke forth in the subjected Qualities of that Spirit in the Body of Nature, by, which the Night hath been ruled.   

CXXXV.  
And those VESSELS that were fitted and prepared for the use of the Creator, from the Heavens, were ordained to the service of the LORD and MASTER by whom they were employed, and it was the Creator's Glory to suffer them to be raised up, whatever dishonourable uses they were employed to; which falling under the rage and fury of the ENEMY, that first prevailed over the World, (by those Waters) the Vessels (in which were God's Tents) were notwithstanding preserved, and discharged of their Burdens, in the manner following (through all opposition in the fury of what the Waters were raised unto.)   

CXXXVI.  
And whatever the body of Nature traveled under, the WOMAN was eased of, in the discharge of what was carried on the Waters to a HAVEN of REST, of the burden whereof the Heavens were discharged in the strength of the Storm, or according to the decrease of the Waters, wherein a third part of those Vessels which were drawn towards the SOUTH, came under a Trial by fire, and the seventh part of the Earth was tried by Waters; but that other third part that was drawn towards the NORTH, was reserved to a Trial (in the third and last day) by the strength of Judgement in both.   

CXXXVII.  
Of the first Vessel, the Heavens were eased and unburdened on the first day of the ninth Month, whereby the World was first planted, in that which hath overspread its QUARTERS; and the time wherein I beheld the Heavens to be discharged, was two days after the last quarter of the Moon, in the eight month, whereby the Work of God, in the seven days, wherein it was finished and settled, recovered the Ideses of that Month, after new Moon; and on the last day of the ninth month (which was the first day after the first quarter of the Moon) the Heavens were unburdened of a Second NATION, in bodily Form, into that second Vessel; And in the conclusion of the ninth Month (called KISU, because it did bring Tempests before it) the Waters were fallen back in the Degrees whereunto it overflowed by measure.   

CXXXVIII.  
And on the third day of the eleventh month (which was the third day after new Moon) the Heavens were unburdened of a third Vessel; but the tenth month being concluded, which was called THEBET, because of comfort in bad times, Israel (began to forget the days of her MOURNING; for the name of the Angel of God was called HEBER, that had the conduct of that third Vessel; and the name of that eleventh month was called SHEBAT, because a Judge was brought up in that Vessel in the midst of the seven, that swayed the Sceptre in ISRAEL.   

CXXXIX.  
And on the second day of the twelfth month (which was two days after new Moon) the Earth and Worlds became divided, in the dispersing abroad of the Waters, which continued decreasing, until the end of seven months, whereby the tops of the Mountains were beheld, and the Worlds came forward to their day of Trial, wherein the WATERS settled about the form of the Earth.   

CXL.  
For from the time that the WATERS decreased, I measured them up to the Neck of the GIANT in the Forms of Nature, after the measure of a Man, which is the Angel; And I observed their order in the falling back, wherein the first Head of the River (called PISON) compassed about the Land of HAVILAH, into which fell the Golden Head of the Image; (after the River was divided into four Heads) And thence came forth the ASSYRIAN, in the dispersing abroad of those seven Nations that came out of the seven Vessels, according to the seven Months of the YEAR, in which the WATERS decreased, wherein the Revolution of all Powers in Nature (thus embodied) came under a second Trial by Fire.   

CXLI.  
And according to the NATURE of the EARTH, in which the Worlds were settled (in their sinking condition) there was GOLD and BDELLIUM and the ONYX STONE, and that Gold was good, for it was Gold of OPHIR, wherein was discovered the Beauty and Luster of what first fell, in the WORLD'S backward course, and now was come forward for manifestation sake; And under the second Head of the River, called GIHEN, which compasseth about the Land of Ethiopia, that hath its Spiritual signification among the Names in Nature, fell the Silver Breast of the Image.   

CXLII.  
But on the fifth day of the first month (which was five days after new of the Moon) a fifth Vessel came forward, in which the Heavens were unburdened, of that which came forth manifest (in the Line of Blessing) to the discharge of the Powers of NATURE in God, for whom the Bowels of the Earth were torn up, that the replenishing forms in Nature might overspread it, (in the New Created Being) and the name of the twelfth month was called ADAR, because of an excelling Governor, that came forth to sway the Sceptre in Israel.   

CLXIII.  
And on the fourth day of the second month, (which was five days after new Moon) a sixth Vessel was unburdened (in the Heavens) through the discharge of the Power of God in the Body of Nature; and he came forth under the conduct of a strong ARM, wherein was displayed from the Heavens a Banner flying; and the name of the first month was called JEHOVAH NISSAN, but among the forms in Nature, it had a name in the Earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of the Green Ear.   

CXLIV.  
For on the third day of the third month (which was the fourth day after new Moon) there was beauty on the new Created EARTH, among the Forms in Nature, because of the Flowers that did shine bright, (in the finishing of that second month, which was called ZIU. because of the lustre (in the Heavens) but in the Earth it is Jar, because of the Veil and Covering preceding. And I turned me towards the place, in which I beheld the Form of the Image; and I beheld the falling of the BRAS BELLY, under the third Head of the River, (called HIDEKEL) and there was nought remaining but the stumps of the Image, which fell under the fourth HEAD of the River, called EUPHRATES, in which it was bound down in my sight with an Iron Bond, for the stumps remained in the Earth, until seven times passed over my Head, in which the Wheels were moved about, in their seven Turns and overturnings.     

THE SECOND PART. With greeting to the four Churches in EUROPE.  

I.  
SInce the WORLD is fallen under the power of Corruption, and Affliction hath overtaken the Inhabitants of the Earth, (in its divided Quarters) let this Epistle be sounded throughout thy Borders (O ASIA!) wherein is Power communicated to an Instrument in the Hand of God, to raise up and awaken the sense of what hath overtaken thee, (in the Glory of thy seven Churches, now dispersed abroad over the Earth) that it may be known throughout the whole Land of JUDEA, that our God is King in Israel, who is come to Rule and Reign in RIGHTEOUSNESS, and is arisen as a Giant refreshed with WINE; for he hath taken unto him VENGEANCE for a Clothing, and is clothed with ZEAL as with a Cloak; before his face goeth a consuming Fire, and it is very tempestuous round about him.   

II.  
For he hath raised up unto himself a Horn of Salvation, which is a Witness awakened out of the Dust, and from the Holy Place wherein it hath slept in the Earth, and hath commended his love unto us (while we were yet sinners) having laid down his Life for his Enemies, that he again might come to take it up, in as many as are willing to join to his SPIRIT in the Work of Redemption and Reconciliation of the WORLDS to himself.   

III.  
Whereby the Worlds are convinced of their SINS and their RIGHTEOUSNESS, in that Life of Sufferance, wherein the Spirit of Reconciliation is manifested as a witness against the Spirit God and Spirit of the World (in several sorts of Judgement) for which the World is reproved, that remains in unbelief, and continues joined to that cursed Spirit of Enmity, being subject to sore Trials, (of Bondage and Captivity to the Spirit of Darkness) in which the Curse first wrought, and therein is caused the groaning and waiting of the whole Creation of God.   

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And thou O Europe, let this have its free passage throughout thy quarters, lest I tear thy flesh with Thorns, saith the Mighty One, that is High and Holy in the midst of this the day of his Exaltation, as his Beloved becometh raised out of the dust, (a beautiful Daughter of dejected Zion, whose glory hath been covered with Ashes, while she hath sat mourning on the Floar of Corruption) and all that are Enemies to my WORK, and stand in my WAY, shall be made like unto ZEBA and ZELMANA, saith the FORMER of great Nations, mighty and strong; for by the Breath of his NOSTRILS, and through the BRIGHTNESS of his Appearance he will consume and destroy the Man of Sin; and where will the WICKED appear? since the Day of God is come on all the pleasant PICTURES, and upon all that is lifted up above its SPHERE and ORB, to the staining of the beauty and glory of all FLESH, that all high Oaks and sturdy Cedars, in LEBANON, may be made to bend to the Power of God, which is the subjecter of all forms in Nature to their first servitude.   

V  
And unto the ANGEL of the Churches in EUROPE, writ these things, (saith the first born of every Creature under the Heavens) The day and hour of thy Trials is come, therefore let thy Rulers hear, and let thy Priests give ear, for their Sacrifice hath been defiled, while their Hands are full of Blood; in the right Hand of thy Prophets is a lie, and they feed upon Ashes: Remember therefore the Day of God, that hath measured the Ground, in which thou hast been exalted in a time of prosperity, because of the night that hath overtaken thy Glory; and say no more, I am prosperous in that strength which is the help of Nations.   

VI  
For because of transgression in JUDAH, the Land doth mourn, and through the iniquity of BENJAMIN, they are scattered in ISRAEL, and the ten Tribes have lost their name, wherein the Glory of SAMARIA is rooted out of the Earth; Hear therefore you that can, for if your breaking off was that which made way for the reconciling the World unto God (in the Life of the Sons Glory) what will be your reconciling again, but life from the dead? Oh alas that I am born to see your Rebellion! ye stiffnecked people, and gainsaying house.   

VII.  
Ye have cast others out of your Synagogues and places of Worship; and now are you cast off by all, and made a scorn to the Inhabitants of the Earth, and are become a Song of the Profane: for wherein you have despised the Servants of the Lord, and slighted his Messengers that were sent unto you, rising up early, because the Lord did send them, God hath given you up to be tormented by that Spirit of despite: Yet are his Bowels again turned towards you, and though you could not come up unto him, nor receive him that came down unto you, (to suffer your contempt in a Servants state) yet in the last day of the World's visitation, he hath taken notice of your calamity, and hath prepared a way for your return, through the everlasting Gates of Glory set open, that the Nations of the EARTH might enter in thereby.   

VIII.  
And unto the Angel of the Churches in ROME, (saith the searcher of all Hearts) what hast thou done? for thy nakedness is discovered, and thy shame is seen, though thou hast emboldened thyself in the calamity of Nations, and in the destruction of mighty People (great in their Generations) Alas for thee! that hast been cast out of the fellowship and community of a People that were more ancient in Name to God, (than thyself) and in like manner hast thou been found casting out of thy Temples, and excommunicating from thy Church-Fellowship, such that for Conscience sake could not conform to thy invented and superstitious Ceremonies.   

IX.  
But now what is come upon thee, that art rejected by thy lovers? For although the time is come that God will laugh at thy calamity, and mock when thy fear cometh; yet is there pity to a handful of People (that are in thee) and the yearning Bowels are towards that which is ready to die under such Oppressors, (that are found in the cause of what hath stained the Day of thy Excellency) my Heart, my Bowels! I am pained for thee, in whose currant are centring all the divided streams, that have been boasting themselves in what hath caused the breaking off the Branches from the Root, in which they were first planted; but they run in that wide and open way that leads to everlasting destruction, that are boasting against the Root which first bore them. Oh that thou mightest be yet helped.   

X.  
But you have hardened yourselves in the way that leadeth thither, and therein you are become blind, and cannot see the danger before you; Is Italy strong enough to support thee? or what defence is the House of Austria to that which is broke forth against thee? See you not the flames! the flames thereof in the Heavens? and the glory of its brightness amongst the Stars in their Constellations? I am weary, I am weary of your ways (saith the Lord,) but what shall I do unto such a People as this? And therefore let the Germane Princes prepare, for he is come forth that hath measured thy day, the glory of Imperial Support cannot any longer defend the PAPAL Throne, on which Foundation thou hast been raised up in great Excellency, and exalted in mighty Pomp. Oh! how hath thy practice clouded the Glory of thy Profession? and because of a Spirit of Cruelty, that hath possessed the strength of thy Zeal (in a misinformed mind,) how hast thou laid a stumbling block in the WAY of the simple and caused the Ignorant to despise the truth of sound Doctrine.   

XI.  
Dost thou believe Purgation of the Body of Nature, from the cause that hath held it down under the Power of Death, wherein the Souls of the Righteous have remained crying and groaning under the Altar of God? Why then continue ye in the enmity and Spirit of Cruelty to the life of the Just (both in yourselves and others?) for where that Life is not refreshed and nourished, it dieth for want of strength, because it is the Souls strength to be fed with the Bread of Comfort in God, wherein it receives all blessing from him; and the Body also without that Spirit is dead.   

XII.  
It is the living therefore that can praise God aright, in that power that entereth the Ear of the Dead, for whom they stand in Jeopardy every hour, making their Supplications unto God, (in his Spirit) that breaketh open the Prison Doors, and is come to Preach to the Spirits in Prison, comforting the sick and weak, that lieth languishing under the Power of Death and visiting the needy, in the day of its distress and calamity, through which the dead becometh again raised up to life and immortality in GOD.   

XIII.  
Many things I have to say unto thee, because thou mixest thy inventions with the Doctrine of Truth, and hast exalted thyself in the superstition of those gainsayers that perished before thee; great are the Trials that have overtaken thee, and that which is come upon thee cannot be paralleled because of the end of all things that is come up before the LORD. Have I not seen the going down of thy Glory, among the Stars of the Night? surely it is set in the WEST, and it hath a SOUTH Cloud over its Beam; but from the EAST is the Morning broke forth, and towards the NORTH doth the Star shine, that hath burning flames mentained in the dissolution of such forms of Nature, that have caused an exhaling in the excremental parts of the fiery Heavens.   

XIV.  
And unto the Angel of the Churches in the separated Islands in the North, the transplantation of Europe) thy Names are many, and divers art thou in the persuasion of thy Judgement, in the Doctrinal part of Truth; And these are become the Horns on the Heads of the BEAST in Nature, which shall hate the WHORE, that hath exalted SELF, in the destruction of the glory of two Tribes; for ten Tribes shall return to behold that which hath been healed up deceitfully in the appearance of the RAM from the EAST, whose coming forth is to ex lt his Horns, wherewith he shall be found pushing three ways, to wit, WEST, and NORTH, and SOUTH.   

XV.  
And there will be striving in the EARTH, until a HOLY PEOPLE cometh to sit down in their own Land, for God is come down into the forms of Nature, and will work as in the days of old, and every on that seeth him, shall be affected with his LOVE, and shall mourn bitterly over him, as his beauty cometh to be seen in the Earth, and overspreadeth the Worlds; but none shall be able to awaken his displeasure against others, though he will cut off great and strong Nations in his way, in his own time; and not for the sake of the Wishers of mischief, that may enkindle a fire in the Centre of the ground; from whence their life doth spring.   

XVI.  
But the Angel of my BELOVED, hath given in charge unto the Daughters of ZION, that they awake not God's displeasure, neither stir up the Beloved desire of the welfare of all Nations before he please, for you that profess zeal against Superstition, see that you stand not above the ground of Humility, from whence charity doth spring unto the distressed, which worketh the WILL of God, in the manifestation of Glory, through the LIGHT of his countenance, that is lifted up over the Nations, by the arising of the Sun of Righteousness, with healing in his WINGS.   

XVII.  
For I am well assured of the love of God to his despised Remnant and handful of little Ones, trampled on by all, and now set in the Front of the BATTLE, in which Gods Cause hath engaged them; though by the Mighty they are deserted, (as left to the rage and fury of the Devouring Enemy,) And I have beheld also such that have plenty in their own Houses, yet are they found covetously lusting after one EWE-LAMB of the POOR; And shall they prosper? saith the LORD, since his Sword (which he hath not drawn in vain) shall not departed from their House until Jerusalem become a quiet Habitation for evermore; for an exercise hath sprung from their own Bowels, through a Rebellious Seed that flattereth in the WAY.   

XVIII.  
But the ground of all this awakened Fury, did break forth in the Spirit of the WORLD, in the Nature of sensual Separations, in the dispersed forms of the Apostatising Spirit from its first Love, by which the Faith of God's Elect worketh. But God's intention is to purge his own House and Sanctuary first, that his People may be white and clean from the Worldly Spirit of enmity and bitterness, which springeth from the covetous Root, that standeth in the lusting ground, wherefore the BEAST hath power to exalt his HORN for a season.   

XIX.  
Therefore cease, Oh cease! ye MIGHTY of the EARTH, to strive against the Lord, for ye have been contending with one another (in selves concernment) until your time of healing is well nigh spent in controversies; and now hath God taken his own cause into his HANDS, and hath it in consideration, which he will plead for the Meek of the Earth, in the Heart of their Enemies; And notwithstanding many things are suffered for a Trial of their FAITH to God (who profess his Name and Truth,) yet is it not to destroy them, but to purify and refine them, wherein Judgement is still strengthened against that part which hath given way to the power and work of the Enemy, either in the Particular or General; And I am assured deliverance will come in God's time, which is, when his People are so sitted thereby, that God can get himself a Name in their Salvation.   

XX.  
And alas! you Professors of Cristianity, that are quarrelling with each other, about the formal part of your Worship; how have you lost your day, until you are overtaken with a power of Darkness? have ye not been afraid of those that should change your Laws and Customs, and bring in contrary Orders, wherein the ROMANS Power was working to take away your Place? And therefore cast out you have, and cast out you are, which is the ground of your fear; but you are not in that Power, which can separate any from God, and excommunicate such from the enjoyment of his presence (who have seen the end of Man's days Glory) though by continuing in the Ground of Hardness, you may be in that which may separate your selves from the enjoyment of good in that God which you profess.   

XXI.  
But oh ye hardhearted! that have waited for the destruction of the Innocent, that for Conscience-sake cannot bow to your Haman-like wills; what have you to answer before God in this kind? that have caused any to stumble and turn aside through your cruelty; I am burdened and grieved hereat saith the LORD, and my Soul is weary with waiting to do good to such an unthankful people; therefore shall distress come on distress, and captivity will follow captivity until ISRAEL come to know herself to be the WOUNDED that is fallen among THIEF'S, wherein the Priest and Levite have passed by, but a poor Samaritan hath proved the good Physician, as a healer of the Breach, and restorer again of a Path to dwell in.   

XXII.  
For in the coming forth of all forms in Nature, I have seen thy state and standing, thou poor and distressed People over the face of the whole Earth; and though there is a Ground, wherein a fourth Beast, with the face of an Eagle, hath exalted power in the fourth Angel of God, that hath stood on the North corner of the Earth; in that which hath called to his day, Come and see, yet a DANITE hath slain the Lion that was found in the way of the Philistines, wherein I have seen awakend in all the powers of Nature a sense of such Labourers under the Power of Corruption, who have swarmed together unto the dead Carcase, until it hath been filled with the sweetness of the Conquest; yet lest self should thereby become emboldened, a greater glory is raised up in the LION'S day, and an Angel of the Sun hath proclaimed the Summons to all Fowls in the Heavens, in the Trial of that which is brought out of the Heavenly Ark.   

XXIII.  
And from the Heavens is enkindled a fiery Constellation, flaming in that which is sunk into the Creaturely perspection (from the highest Heavens) that causeth a burning discovery of that which dissolves the Excremental properties, engendered as a Star among the Powers of Nature; and through a discovery of the Evening Wolf, (or little Bear) who is got before the LION'S Face, all shall be effected, which pertaineth to the Ministration of Severity, in the appearance of Glory (by the second Resurrection of what hath slept its time) And where the Carcase is, thither do the eagle's resort; let not Ephraim  envy Manasseh, though she be not called to go up to Battle against the Midianites; for the Glean of Ephraim shall be better than have been the green Fruits of Manasseh.   

XXIV.  
Neither ought Israel to quarrel by the way, for before God hath effected the glory of the work he hath begun, every one that maketh mention of his NAME, shall know himself, what he hath been in his own strength, and there will not need any fierce drivings in the Camp to scatter every one to his own; for before Light shall shine out of any Vessel, the Pitcher must be broken; in which Case, it will be Israel's safety to take out a Lot from the URN (wherein are three hundred bended Instruments) before thou aspire to put forth thy Torch; for so did Israel of old, whom the Father drew, through the catching of the Foxes that were tied Tail to Tail, that the firebrands which are between, might be the Executioners of God's fury on his Enemies; a great WOLF grew up in their stead, as a Constellation, in which three hundred STARS are commanded from the little BEAR'S Tail, in the Motion of the Heavens. This therefore is the Sentence of the Angel of God to thy Northern Quarters, and inhabited Islands of Europe and Asia, God hath beheld your state, and you must be tried yet under the SOUTH Wind, but the glory of the day will return to the KINGS of the EAST, it is done, saith the Lord, and their work shall end in that which prepares the way before my Face.    

THE SECOND PART.  

CHAP. I. Wherein is described the coming forth of the FOUR BEASTS in the Forms of Nature, in the losing of the Seven Seals from off the Book, etc.  

I.  
NOW that seventh Vessel, which had the fourth place among the forms in Nature, was that from whence sprung the Glory of the Heavens, in the created being, whence ASIA took ROOT, through what fell in the Earth; And as the Worlds became overspread, the Waters which compassed about ASIA, on the left hand, enlarged their course, whereby the Land of EUROPE (in the same Continent) was compassed about on the right hand by the great River EUPHRATES, which became manifest in the decrease of the WATERS.   

II.  
And I beheld on the four Corners of the Earth, the appearance of four Angels of God, that held the four Corners of the WINDS, and they had power to withhold the Wind from blowing, and to smite the Earth with Plague; but their Power had been bound down in the great River EUPHRATES, until the losing of the Dragon's Power (out of the bottomless Pit) who had been also bound therein for the space of a thousand years, in which the Holy Nations did arise in their Glory and Order; and those four Angels were prepared for an hour, a day, a month, and a year.   

III.  
And from Assyria (in whose fall arose the Mede and Persian, which are the two Horns of the RAM in Nature) the Ishmalite took root in the fall of the Silver Breast of the Image, for there was substance in the Neck of Nature in that which descended from its Head, wherein the Face of the RAM was seen; but the Yoke being cast off, the Spirit of God was made to suffer that which rested as a BURDEN on the Shoulders of the embodied Form; the sense of which came downward in his Creature and Creation, and entered the Breast of the Created Being.   

iv  
For from the Heavens of an inward World, descended into the Bodily Frame a pierced HEART, and from the multiplied Forms in Nature, there was moving on the Waters, the great VESSEL that I saw, which rested in the EAST, where the Waters first prevailed, wherein was the seventh part of all forms in Nature, brought forth in that middle Row, to replenish the new Created Earth; And in the Hand of the Lion was the Sealed Book, and the Seal of God was on his day, (to wit, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah) while the strong Angel of God proclaimed with a loud Voice, Who is worthy to open the BOOK and lose the Seals thereon, wherein the Wonders of God were written within and without.   

V  
And in the opening and losing of the first Seal on the BOOK, and on the day of the first Beast in Nature, I beheld the coming forth of the great LYON, that stood Rampant in the WHEELS, among the forms in Nature, and he called to his DAY, Come and see; And I beheld on the back of the LYON four Wings of a Fowl, in which were thirty six thousand Feathers in each Wing; and therein were written so many names of Men, for the Wings were of Golden Feathers, and his Face was towards the WEST.   

VI  
But on the coming forth of this first BEAST, the Winds were moved, and greatly strove on the face of the WATERS, which were gathered together in heaps on the great SEAS; And in the Night season, there broke forth flashes of Lightning and Fire, under the Roof of the House, wherein I was exercised with the Vision of the WONDERS of God and his Glory which the PEOPLE saw, but understood not the Mystery thereof; and great fear fell upon them, being not usually exercised with things of that Nature; but I laid up all these things in my Heart, until I came to know the meaning thereof.   

VII.  
And I cried unto the Lord with a loud Voice, What is the Mystery of all these things that I have seen? For lo I am become weak and feeble like a little Child, and have beheld until nought was remaining in the Heavens, but a Sealed Book under the Power of a Strong Angel of God; and it hath been taken to the Learned to Read, but they said, Lo it is Sealed, and we cannot read nor open the Book, or lose the Seals thereon, and also to the hands of the unlearned it hath been communicated, and they say, We are not learned, so that through the power of the Lion it hath been shut up for a long season, that hath caused weeping in the Heavens.   

VIII.  
And through the losing of the Seals of God from off the Book of Wonders, that was taken out of the Angel's Hand, at the appearance of the Lamb of God, that taketh away sin from the WORLD, (and that was slain from the Foundations thereof, that in the Father's time he might come forth a Witness of the fulfilling of the daily Sacrifice unto God) I beheld the Lamb with his seven Horns full of Eyes, as the seven Spirits of God, that walketh among the seven Golden CANDLESTICKS, and are like unto seven Lamps of fire burning, which are seven Stars in the Angel of God, whose form is like unto the Son of Man, and who traveled among the Churches (who are saluted in their seven Angels) until a second Seal on the Book became loosed in my sight.   

IX.  
And the second Beast, with the Face (and in the form) of a Cherub or Calf, called to his day, Come and see; and I beheld on the EARTH the form of a great BULL, and he came at his Liberty, and came towards me with Violence, breaking over all bonds in his way; and though I had by me a Weapon of Defence, yet had I not power to use it to that end, but was otherwise preserved from hurt of that Wild Beast: But as the West Wind was reproved, as the Waters were moved on the great SEAS, by the striving of the Winds, the second Beast roared, rearing himself on his hinder Legs, whereby he stood upright, which was terrible to behold.   

X.  
And I said unto the Angel of God, How long shall this continue? Then I beheld the BULL cast into a deep and dark Pit in Nature, while the fourth Beast in the forms of Government, in the Body of Nature, was set to watch over him, (by the third Beast, with the Face of a MAN) for as the third Seal on the Book came to be loosed and taken off, the third Beast called to his day, Come and see; And I beheld from the Face of the Heavens, (wherein a course of Glory in the Sun of the day of the Son of Man, was comprehended in the Heart of the Lion) that night which was come into the Body of Nature, was dispersed, and the power of the Heavens, over the forms in Nature, were divided into four Parts, in the coming forth of the Worlds into manifestation.   

XI.  
Then appeared the form of a little BEAR, that arose on the LION'S side, and he took three Ribs out of the Lion's side, and held those three Ribs in his Mouth for a long season; And from the Tail of the little Bear, (among the Signs in the Heavens) the Power of the DRAGON was loosed, and appeared among the Forms in Nature, who made up his Tail out of a third Part of the Stars in the Heavens, which were drawn towards the NORTH.   

XII.  
And I beheld until the LION'S Wings were plucked from him, and he stood on the EARTH like a Man, and a Man's HEART was given unto him, for out of the EAST came the form of a RAM, with two Horns, and his pushing was three ways, to wit, WEST, and NORTH, and SOUTH; and when he had lifted up the BULL out of the PIT, he was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth; And in the Heavens was the form of the WOMAN, exalted in the Bull's Eye, (called Oculus Tauri) And she had in her Hand a Crown of twelve Stars, which was taken from her Head, and put on the Head of the Lyon.    

CHAP. II. Describing the Motion of the Wheels, in their seven turn, over all that came forth into manifestation, in the losing of the seven Seals on the the Book, etc.  

XIII.  
BUT as the fourth Beast called to his day, Come and see, (through the losing of the fourth Seal on the Book) I saw the Face of an EAGLE in the Heavens, in whose right Eye, the form of the VIRGIN in Nature was exalted among the Forms; and the second great light in the Heavens, was comprehended in the Breast of a great Bear, who had also the four WINGS of a Fowl on his Back; And the Winds again strove on the great Seas, wherein the WATERS were greatly moved in the coming forth of this fourth Beast.   

XIV.  
And as the MAN prevailed in the Heavens, I beheld all consumed, which stood under the Power of the Waters, and the Name of the third Month was called SIVAN, in the Nature of what was produced from the Heavens, whence came a Voice from the Heart of the LYON in the fiery Heavens, Let the Light shine into the Earth, that that which is done may appear and be seen; And the form of the Heavens stood divided, in a double Relation of that which is comprehended in Day & Night, wherein the Day in Nature had its twofold Operation over all forms subjected into being in that State, and the Clouds of the Heavens were folded up together, wherein I saw the form of the RAM coming down out of the Head of Nature, descending the right Arm of the Man (in the forms of Nature) and there went up towards his Head the form of a HE GOAT, mighty and strong, and there was labour in the Heavens, for the space of sixty one Weeks, from the time that I beheld the prevailing of those Waters on the Earth.   

XV.  
For as the Heavens were discharged of this third Man in the Forms of Nature; there was a great change and revolution in the Worlds, wherein the Winds came again to strive, and the Storms and Tempests prevailed on the great Seas, and I beheld until there arose an  Wind, called AEOLUS, which caused the Foundations of the House, wherein I lay to shake; and the Fowls of the Heavens made a groaning noise like a young Child, for the place was beset with terrors of the Night; but the sound of the Voice, was like unto the Ringing of BELLS under my Head, as I was laid down to rest; And I was charged by the Angel of God, not to move from the PLACE where I lay, in which I was preserved from hurt, until I beheld the Tempest over.   

XVI.  
Then I was led by the ANGEL of God, to a very high Mountain, on which I beheld myself riding over the Land; and in the bottom thereof stood a great CITY, at some distance towards which I was travelling, and there came forth the He Goat of a year old, who was driven towards the WEST, in which I beheld him a escape Goat, (for the yearly Sacrifice) and behind the form of the Man that I saw in the Heavens, the RAM prevailed, (that was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth) who became a daily Sacrifice for the Sins and Transgressions of the first Covenant, which were committed in the times of Ignorance, wherein God winked at them.   

XVII.  
And the escape Goat also grew, and became mighty and strong, and came forth out of the WEST, pushing three ways, to wit, East, and North, and South, and he broke and stamped in pieces those two Horns of the RAM, whereby the BULL was lifted up out of the dark Pit in Nature; and as I was enquiring of the Angel of God, how long also this should continue? He replied, Until the Heifer be yoked, and hath learned to tread out the Corn, that it may be known the House of Jacob is like a fire, and that the House of Joseph is the flame, and the House of Esau the stubble, whom God will leave, nor Root, nor Branch; for Ephraim shall learn to tread out the Corn, as one that is taught to Blow, and Judah shall be enlarged in him, while God doth ride and is exalted, but Jacob shall break the Clods in pieces.   

XVIII.  
And while I was beholding the Glory of the ANGEL, I was dismounted from the BEAST whereon I Road, and sought to turn it down before me, as I apprehended myself walking down the steep of the Hill; but the Beast could not go any further, either up or down, and striving to turn him about, he fell to the bottom of the Hill, which was very steep and terrible to behold; yet he came to the ground without hurt, which was much more Admirable, and he ran towards the CITY that I saw with great speed, leaving me for a season to wander on the Mountain, which was on the fourth Month of the seventh year, for which the Vision was set, and there did sit the form of Women weeping for TAMUZ, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which is the Name of the month, in the discharge of the Heavens, but in the Earth it is called Mazah.   

XIX.  
But through the opening and losing of a fifth Seal on the Book of Wonders, (taken out of the Hand of the Angel of God) which was on the Temple or House of God, which had been made the seat of the BEAST in Nature; I saw and heard from the Throne of God and the LAMB, a great cry and lamentation, How long Lord God, holy and true, wilt thou suffer the Members of Christ to be joined to an Harlot, and the Temple of thy Holy Ghost to be defiled, that our Blood may be avenged on the Inhabitants of the EARTH; for from the Blood of Righteous ABEL, until the Blood of Zacharias the Prophet (who was slain between the Temple and the Altar) Blood hath cried in thine EAR, to be avenged on such a wicked Generation.   

XX.  
And there was also a Seal on the Sun of the Day of the Son of Man, which was taken off in the opening and losing of a sixth Seal of the Book; And all that was in the Temple of God was smitten thereby, until I beheld the Sun turned into Darkness, and the Moon into Blood, and the Stars of Heaven withdrew their Light, being shaken as with a mighty Wind, and they fell unto the Earth, as a Figtree that casteth her Leaves; and all dominion in the Powers of Nature was terrified, by which that subdued the Government of all Authority, in the Kingdoms of the Earth, wherein is the signification of the Birth of Kings and Captains, and mighty Men, and Noble Men, and Bond and Free, that fled to the Rocks and Mountains of the EARTH to hid them, and crept into the Cliffs and Dens for shelter.   

XXI.  
Then saw I the first turn of the WHEELS, which made a perfect division between property and property of all SPIRITS, thus fallen under the Power of Corruption, in the embodied being of what standeth manifest in three Principles of Government over Nature (in time and place) for after I had beheld distinction of Motion in the Rings of the WHEELS, and the separation of each, I beheld their order in their turns, over all that became embodied in the Ground of Corruption, as it came forth out of the WOMB of Nature.   

XXII.  
And in this sirst turn of the Wheels, all that came out of the Womb of Eternity rested in the Womb of Nature, though therein was a continual Motion, (while time and place endured) whereby the VIRGIN in the Forms of Nature, came under the sufferance of the Power of Death, and endured the bodily pangs, that were opened through the way and course of Corruption, which caused the FIELD of Nature and Place of Conception, to become a field of Blood, (through that which strove there) in which state was placed the Man that was form to be Keeper of the Vineyard that he possesses in that corruptible state; so that in the second Turn of the Wheels, all came forth distinguishable in that separated being of fire, Air, and Water, that had received a tincture of Glory in each Principle.   

XXIII.  
Which according to those three PRINCIPLES, was in the Forms of Nature, wherein the Man had both Soul, Spirit, and Body, form under the Workings and Motion of an incorruptible and immortal Power, to the renewing of all faculties of the Mind, wherein Man is embodied; And as it sought to settle under a Power of Corruption, I saw, wherein it became a ground of all Motion, though a stillness and silence was in the Original Centre of all Creaturely beings, whereby the four destroying Angels of God, were bound down under a course of Corruption, in which the Enemy prevailed to ripen and hasten the day of everlasting Trials, (in the sufferance of God's Spirit) and they were prepared in time, that came up in the Hours of the day, and days of the Month, and months of the year, into Number and Order, wherein the substance of what Nature was ordained to manifest, is become measurable and intelligable.   

XXIV.  
For herein is made manifest a Government springing up from the Head, and Heart, and Womb of Nature, through which the Body of Nature was placed in subjection to an unchangeable and everlasting Power of renewing in God, whereby I came to discern of those three in Heaven that bear Record, to wit, the FATHER and Creator of all Spirits and Principles of Nature into being, and the WORD through which the Creature was brought into the lovely form of Sonship, and the Holy Ghost which is the Power of the Word in the Creature (as he is acted in the Will of the Creator) and these three are one witness for God in the Heavens, as a Sun of that Glory whereby the Creation of God is enlightened.    

CHAP. III. Describing the Forms of Nature, as they are wrought up in the the change of the renewing Power in God.  

XXV.  
AND this was manifest in Terrestrial Bodies, through the three that bear Record on EARTH, to wit, the Spirit of God which first breathed on the WATERS, which is a power of all individual Spirits in Natural Bodies form, and the Waters themselves, on which it thus breathed, and the BLOOD enkindled in the fire of Life, through which those Waters do ebb and flow, to the Creature that hath the embodied being of Soul and Spirit; And those three also agree in one, and are one Witness for God in Terrestrial Bodies, wherein the MOON hath prevailed to dignify her course that turneth Waters into the Blood of the Spirit of Life, in that borrowed light wherein she hath exercised her dominion under the Power of Corruption.   

XXVI.  
This therefore did I observe in the Motion of the WHEELS, that the ground of their Motion was everlasting, whereby that which had not any beginning in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity's Power of Existence, took being in time and place, wherein every thing that was created into Form, became conceivable and comprehensible in the embodied being of NATURE, as it stands thus fallen under the Power of Corruption, wherein the Work of God hath been narrowed to the sense of the Creaturely capacity; and from the CENTRE, in which is an eternal stillness, will every man receive his reward according to his WORKS, and to what he hath sown in the Body of Nature, thus fallen under the trials of a cross to the Creaturely affection.   

XXVII.  
Though every thing is brought forth in its order, which is again to be reduced into its Centre, as all Powers of Nature come to run their race, in what is awakened and come forth in time and place, to the judgement of Eternity, against all such Powers of Darkness; wherein I beheld the EARTH standing in and out of the Waters from whence the Light shined in each principle, in which the separation was made between the Darkness, which was expelled from the new Created Forms in Nature, and driven into its Centre, wherein the Creation remained groaning under its NIGHT of sorrow, as in the fallen Properties that proceeded out of the Womb of Nature, (in which Self became embodied in the Creature of God) which was and is the cause of the fall, and of all degeneration in Spirits and Properties of Nature in those Principles.   

XXVIII.  
And out of this EARTH, sprung up all that lay hid under the Power of Corruption, thus form into being in time and place, which was a fourth part of the WORLDS in form, as its two third parts were separated into the Waters above, and under the Firmament, resting under the Government of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature, over which the Wheels moved their third turn, separating between all Creatures that abode in the Region of Air, and those that rested on the EARTH, and in those Waters under the Firmament, who were enlightened by the three Glories of the Father, that shined from the Heavens above the Firmament, wherein the Worlds stood manifest in their renewed Principles, after this third turn of the Wheels.   

XXIX.  
For the Seal of God being on his peculiar Number of faithful Ones (though little in the Eye and esteem of the World) a Cloud of Darkness remained over the day in which they had glory, until the seventh Seal of God was taken off from the Book of Life, in which their names were written among the WONDERS of God, whereby I beheld each Beast in the Forms of Nature, take unto him six Wings, in which were six thousand Feathers, and six thousand Names of Men on each Wing; and on each Beast were thirty six thousand Feathers and names of Men, which became a great Army in the Heavens, of one hundred forty four thousand names of Men, according to the four Wings of what came forth first manifest on the Back of the LYON, wherein each Wing of the Army in the Heavens, was dispersed to its Quarters on the Earth. And the Wheels were moved about in their fourth turn, over all Principles in Nature, thus come forth into form, in its time of Trial.   

XXX.  
Which was very miraculous to behold, that through all this striving and contest in the Heavens, not one Feather of those Beasts, was diminished though the Wings of the Beasts in those forms of Nature, were suffered to be plucked, and were taken from off the Back of those living Creatures, on which they sought to rest and settle; And after an Angel of the Sun came forth in the Glory of the Son of Man, there stood a second Angel of God, who daily ministereth at the Altar of God, & hath power over FIRE, and he road on a WHITE Cloud; and I heard a voice from the Heavens, the number of Gods chosen are Sealed, and they are faithful Witnesses and Followers of the LAMB; and I beheld out of the Temple of God, Trumpets sounding forth Praises and Hallelujahs to him that Rules and sits on high, until the four Angels of God became loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES, and stood on the four Corners of the Earth, and held the four Corners of the Winds from blowing.   

XXXI.  
But the Earth was exercised with great afflictions, and the Waters also, and all that lived therein and moved thereon, were come under sore Trials, (in one third part thereof) and the cry was very grievous, because of the burning Coals that were taken from the Altar of God, and fling on the Earth, which caused Tempests therein, and from the Heavens proceeded Thunders and Lightnings, and great Hail, after all motion therein began to cease, and that I had beheld a silence in the Heavens, for the space of half an hour.   

XXXII.  
For as the WINDS of the Heavens were at rest, wherein the Spirit of God ceased to strive any more with his Creature, neither suffered the breath of its Almighty Power to blow any more on that fourth part of the WORLDS, wherein the whole Earth had corrupted its way before the Lord, that which bond the Nature of the Heavens, from striving any more with mankind, gave way to the power of destruction (in a Mystery) to increase its swelling Tempests over a third of the Earth, out of which the forms of Nature were embodied in the divided quarter or fourth part of the Worlds.   

XXXIII.  
And I beheld until the seventh year passed over my Head, and there appeared an Angel of the Waters, whose power began to be prevalent over the South Wind, and seven Kings of the South fell, and the KING himself, under whom the South Winds wrought, was subjected by the dispersing abroad of those seven Nations of the Worlds, through whom the Generations of the Heavens were multiplied; but two days before the expiration of the seventh year, the Hands of the Angel grew weak; for he went backward unto the parting of the great SEAS, and brought up the Vessel that stood in the midst of the six, in the front of the seventy, which was born about by twelve Bulls, six on the one side, and six on the other.   

XXXIV.  
And the Sun recovered the strength and glory of that which stood still in the Heavens, to manifest judgement over a backward course in its Worlds, according to the degrees therein, by which the Enemy prevailed over the Body of Nature, to move the frame thereof under the Power of Destruction; And from the expiration of the seventh year, was fifteen days, that the Vessel was subjected in the strength of the Angel; for after I beheld the appearance of a second Angel, with the Garment of the high Priest, on whose Head was a Crown, and on the Crown a Cross, the form of the Crown was turned about, like the Moon in its second Quarter, and had two Horns like unto the Letter X, wherein the Letter X stood in the midst of the Crown, like unto two V A or V and A, and I did read it one hundred and ten, as though I had read in a Book.   

XXXV.  
For from the beginning of the appearance of the second Angel, was seventeen days; After which I beheld raised up out of the Earth, a Wall of Brass, and its Foundations rested on two and twenty Pillars, that had on them two and twenty names of Men, and the two and twenty Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet; And on that WALL were twelve Towers, on which Towers were placed twelve Angels, each Tower stood between two Pillars, and the Wall stood four square, wherein there were three Gates on each side of the WALL; But the Tower on the North-side of the Wall, towards the East Corner thereof (whereon was exalted an Angel, who sat on a Beast in the form of an EVENING WOLF) had no Pillars for its Foundations, for its foundations fell in the raising up the structure of the WALL, and I beheld until the Foundation of the whole was removed.   

XXXVI.  
And an Angel came down from his Tower, on the East side of the WALL, towards the South Corner thereof (who was exalted on the first Beast in the forms of Nature, like unto a RAM) and he had made a breach on the WALL, against whom an Angel (who was exalted on the form of a Beast, like unto an ASS) smote his Foot; And the Glory of the Angel on the North Corner of the Wall EASTWARD (who was exalted on that Beast in the form of an Ass couching down between two burdens) saw that rest was good to the heavy laden, and they alighted from off those Beasts whereon they were exalted.    

CHAP. IU. The effect of the descending of ANGELS into the Forms of Nature.  

XXXVII.  
FRom the middle Tower on the Wall Eastward, did the Angel prevail in the HEAVENS, who was exalted on a BEAST in the form of a LYON, until the Angel that came from the South Corner of the Wall, was held in a dark place, because that self-will slew a man to dig down the Wall of Separation to ISRAEL, from those Nations of the Earth, that were fallen into Idolatry, whereby they caused their Seed to pass through the Fire to Molech and Ashtaroth, and followed the invention of the HEATHEN, who thus continued worshipping in the Fire.   

XXXVIII.  
For wherein the West-wind prevailed, I beheld the form of the Cherub set up to be Worshipped in the WILDERNESS, whereby the TABLES were broken that were wrote therein, by the FINGER of God, that his Hand might more eminently appear through that which was engraven the second time: for the Angel that was exalted on this Beast, came off from his Tower; and there appeared another Angel that came off from his Tower, on the East Corner of the Wall Southward, that was exalted on a little Lion that roared towards the North, and the Woman that had on her Head a Crown of twelve Stars, cast it down at the Foot of the Angel, that road on the Beast in the form of a CALF, and I beheld until it was put on the Head of the Lion.   

XXXIX.  
And the Woman was exalted QUEEN of the South, but the Virgin Daughter of the NORTH, stood afflicted in her Seed, sixty one weeks and three days, while the Daughter of the SOUTH, made herself great towards the four Winds: And for sixty eight weeks and four days, I beheld the four Winds striving in the behalf of the Daughters of the North, and the form of the Temple that God had builded and finished in the HEAVENS, descended in a Cloud into the City that I saw, erected under the Power of Destruction, and in seven days was its Foundation settled therein; in which time I beheld the form of the Wolf, who was got before the Lion's Face, enlarging himself in the power of the Lambs suffering, whose Angel prevailed therein, until I beheld the form of the Beast driven into the Wilderness, in which time I saw the linen EPHOD Worshipped.   

XL.  
And an eighth Angel came off from his Tower, sailing towards the Land of Rest, to a Haven of Ships; and there was also a ninth Angel, who had in his right Hand a Cup filled with goodly dainties, with which those that traveled over the Deeps were refreshed; after which appeared a tenth Angel, exalted on a ROEBUCK, who came leaping and skiping over the Mountains, with glad Tidings to them that dwelled in the Valleys; for he proved a good Hind, and came home betimes, giving goodly words; And I beheld until there stood only TWO Angels exalted on their middle Towers, (North and South) and I looked towards the Fields of the Earth, which were white unto Harvest, and ripe for the gathering.   

XLI.  
And the Angel led me into a Garden enclosed, (which was the Garden of my Beloved) and I beheld how the spikenard budded and grew up, and how the Vines put forth their tenders Branches, and the Pomegranet, and all Spices flourished, as the North Wind came thereon, (after the South Wind had blowed) and the Daughter of the South had wandered from the Garden, after the bewitching Vanities and Pleasures of the WORLD, as one charmed among Wild Beasts of prey, and stung by fiery flying Serpents, and the devouring Creatures of that Field, which afterward became healed by the lifting up of the BRAS, and those Women came forth to reap the Fruits of the Earth.   

XLII.  
And from the Captivity of the South Wind, did deliverance spring up to the Daughter of the North, on whose back rested the two WINGS of an EAGLE, wherewith she had fled into the Wilderness, wherein she had a place prepared from the rage and fury of the DRAGON for time, times, and the dividing of times; for as the North Wind came to prevail, the Queen of the South was removed out of her own Land, who wrought by craft and much subtlety, to corrupt the Seed in the North; for therefore was the Daughter of the SOUTH given to the King of the NORTH, wherein the Enemy prevailed over the Daughter of the North, forty and two months, that the Holy City was trodden under foot, in which time the TWO WITNESSES finished their Testimony, of one thousand two hundred and threescore days, wherein they prophesied in Sackcloth.   

XLIII.  
Yet the King of the SOUTH did not retain the Arm, for one of his Princes was exalted above him, (a man of fierce speech and dark countenance) though a vile Person, who stood up in his stead; but the Hearts of both those Kings, (to wit, of both North and South WINDS of the Heavens) were set to do mischief, and they spoke lies at one Table, whereby the fourth part of the Worlds came under fiery Trials, through this fourth turn of the WHEELS, which I beheld over the forms in Nature, thus brought forth under the Power of Corruption, wherein the Waters had prevailed that were smitten by those Trials.   

XLIV.  
And through the sounding of the Trumpets, the Earth was smitten in its third part, wherein a third part of its Fruits withered and died; And I beheld until the form of that third part became like unto a burning Mountain cast into the Sea, which made its Waters like unto Blood, and there was Thundering, and Lightning, and Tempest, (while the Mountain continued burning, with Bounds placed about it) so that no Beast could come near it, but if he touched it he was struck through with an Iron Dart that he died; neither was any to gaze thereon while the fury continued.   

XLV.  
And on the Rivers and Fountains of WATER also, which did run in the several Streams and Channels of the Courses in the Worlds (in their renewing state) fell a STAR, called COR LEONIS, (the Heart of a Lion, or WORMWOOD) and those Waters were made BITTER, and darkness came on all Celestial Glory in the Heavens, wherein both Sun and Moon, and Stars of Heaven were smitten in their third part, which became black, like Cloth of Hair, and Fire mingled with Blood, and those Lights shined not in their third part.   

XLVI.  
And there fell from Heaven a second Star, called Sagitarius, who descended on the bottomless Pit, in which the Power of the great Red Dragon and old deceiver of mankind (Satan, and the Devil) had been bound, by the Chain in the Hand of the Angel, and the Seal on the Pit, which a strong Angel of God had put thereon (who had bound him down for a thousand years) was taken off, in which time I beheld the Resurrection of the first Fruits of the Work of the Spirit of God, which followed those that were made partakers of that first Resurrection, over whom the second death had no Power, though the Devil went about to deceive those Nations of the Earth, that he had power over; And the WHEEL moved about its fifth time and turn, over those properties of Life, wherein the forms of Nature remained embodied (subjected to a Power of Corruption) in which those four Angels remained bound, in that great River EUPHRATES.   

XLVII.  
Then came up on the Earth, the form of Beasts like unto GOATS; and their Faces were like unto the Faces of Men, and their Hair like unto the Hair of Women, and they had Tails like Scorpions, and Stings in their Tails, and their Power was over a third part of men (embodied in the Creaturely Being and forms of Nature) the exercise of which Beasts was for the cleansing God's Sanctuary, and therefore had they power to exalt to Horn, that the Wound of the Daughter of ZION (which had been healed up deceitfully, & daubed with untempered MORTAR) might be throughly searched into; for the separation of that and those over whom the Beasts had Power (on whom was his Mark) into their Mystery, in reference to what was effected in those five Months; through which the Wheels came again to move about (in their SIXTH time and turn) for the losing of their Angels, out of that great EUPHRATES; and the name of that fifth Month was called A B   

XLVIII.  
Yet had not the BEASTS power to kill those men, in whom their dominion was exercised, but to Torment them for those five Months, whose Wound was like unto the biting of an ADDER in the Way, or sting of a Serpent (as when a Scorpion striketh a Man) wherein the bruise on the WOMAN'S Heel was felt; for as the Horse Heels (the Beast on whom the destroying Power of God in the Heavens, was exalted) became bitten by the SERPENT, its Rider fell backward, and they lost the first shape of Men; and through the Pangs of those Men, a night of sorrow came over all their WORLDLY Glory; and I beheld their Wound like unto a Plague-sore, which came on the THIGH of Nature, whereby many were made to seek Death (because of their PANGS) but it fled from them, and they could not find the way of Dissolution, though they sought it; for the Darkness that was on the SUN and on the AIR, was like unto the smoke of a Furnace, and it was the Fume of the Bottomless Pit, out of which the Nature of those BEASTS called Locusts, was embodied in FORM.    

CHAP. V Describing the order of those four Angels, that were loosed out of the great River Euphrates, and came forth exalted on the four Horses of several Colours in those forms of Nature.  

XLIX.  
THrough the sounding of the sixth Angel, on the great River EUPHRATES, the power of those four Angels became loosed on the Earth, towards the four Winds, as it stood divided (in its four Quarters) and the destroying Power thereof (in which Death became Potent) was a strength in the North Winds of the Heavens, over that fourth or North Quarter of the Worlds, as it stood thus separated in its continent, over which those Winds were withheld from blowing or striving therein (with his Creature;) and through the losing of those four destroying Angels, I beheld wherein their Power was bound, in that fourth part or quarter of the WORLDS (compassed about by the great River Euphrates) for the space of five years and five months, and five days, and five hours; wherein each ANGEL became exalted on his Beast, in the forms of Nature, and those Beasts guided the Chariot of Nature (wherein the ANGEL was exalted) according to the time for which they were prepared, and wherein they were loosed, an hour, a day, a month, a year.   

L.  
For in the year for which those Angels were loosed, I beheld seven Months, wherein the dead were left to bury the dead; And from the expiration of those five months, was thirty days, wherein the Angel that was loosed for his Month, prevailed under the power of Destruction, and the name of the sixth month was called ELIL, because of the Fields that were Reaped, wherein there was nought found; And I beheld the ANGEL, who was exalted through the appearance of the first Beast (in the form of a Lion) that came forth on his White Horse, on which he road, in the form of a MAN, with a BOW in his Hand, conquering and to conquer.   

LI.  
And the afflictions that followed, came over that third part of the Worlds, that the Dragon prevailed in, and had power over, through the Stars of Heaven that he drew after him (wherein he made up his Tail from a third part of the Heavens) And the Angel that was raised up in form, through that second Beast, (with the face of a Cherub) road on a red Horse, wherein he came forth exalted in the Heavens, and he had a SWORD in his Hand, and came to take Peace from the Earth, through the occasion of the fall of that first Star, on the Rivers and Fountains of Water, which made a sharpness in the Springs of VIRGIN Earth, in the Bowels of Nature.   

LII.  
And through the fall of this second Star, the face of a MAN became exalted in the Heavens, in which third Beast the Angel of God came forth, riding and exalted on his Black Horse, with his Balances in his Hand, wherewith the Fruits of the Earth were weighed and measured forth to the Inhabitants thereof, (who were found labouring therein under the power of Corruption) by just weight and measure, according to every Man's works and do in the Earth, a measure of Wheat for a Penny, and three measures of Barley, and the Wine and the Oil was not hurt, until a fourth Angel of God, who was exalted through a fourth Beast (in the forms of Nature) with the Face of an EAGLE, had finished his work that he had to do in the WORLDS.   

LIII.  
Who had power over a fourth part of the Earth, and he came forth on his Pale Horse, like unto Death, and Death and Hell followed him, wherein his power was executed by Pestilence, Famine, and Wild Beasts of Prey (on that fourth part of the Worlds) until the whole power of the Heavens, became subject to the first former; And I said unto the Angel of God, How long shall this continue, and the power of this Beast prevail in the HEAVENS? To which the Angel replied, Until the eagle's Eye be plucked out, and he be made blind as in the day that he was created.   

LIV.  
Then shall the Accuser of the Just, be cast down out of the Heavens, and all Power in Heaven and Earth, shall be delivered up unto the FATHER. And I beheld until that fourth Beast came to deliver up his Power unto the seven Angels of God, which was seven Golden Vials filled with the Wrath of God and the Lamb, (to wit, the seven last Plagues to come on the WORLDS) and they came forth out of the Temple of God, in the sounding of the seventh Angel, on the AIR, whereby were finished the Mysteries of God's Kingdom: And therein I beheld in the Vision, an apparition of the Horses, very dreadful and terrible, with Brest-plates of fire and Jacinth, and their breaking down was as with an Iron Rod, breaking and stamping in pieces strong Nations, mighty and great; and out of their Mouths and Nostrils streamed forth fire, and Brimstone, and smoke, and their Power was in their Mouths, and in their Tails (which had Heads like the stings of Serpents) wherewith they came to hurt and destroy.   

LV.  
For they had Wings like a flying FOWL, and did fly along in the AIR, making a great noise, like unto the rattling of Chariot Wheels, and on their Heads were Crowns of Gold, and they had Teeth like unto Lions, who were called DAN'S Horses, (through a sense of the bruise on the WOMAN'S Heel) but their Riders were like unto Sagitarius, or men that had lost their shape and were fallen backward, for they had not the use of their Legs; and the Captain of the ARMY that I beheld in the Vision of the Heavens, had a name which signifieth a POWER in the DESTROYER, or a POSION; wherein I beheld his Followers, a great number, being thousands of thousands, which no man could number, and until the end of those months, they were not to hurt any Herb or green thing; for four Woes were passed, and two were yet remaining.   

LVI.  
And there was also of the LAMBS Followers, sealed a great number, which could not be counted, who came through those two WOES to the Inhabitants of the Earth, in its fourth part, wherein the Eagle had power, of which he was discharged; And the Angel that I saw, had in his Hand, the Keys of the Covenant of Love and Mercy, to the Faithful and Chosen of God, who took unto them their Golden Harps, and stood on Mount Zion with their Harps harping, and singing and praising God, who had brought them out of great Captivity, whereby their Garments were made white (that were washed in the Blood of the Lamb) whose names were written in Heaven, in the Book of the Lamb's Life; for they were preserved from the hurt of what was come into the Earth. And the Angel had also in his Hand; the CHAIN wherewith the great Red DRAGON had been bound down for this thousand years, out of which Pit those living Creatures were loosed.   

LVII.  
And as I beheld the BODY of Nature, in its afflicted state, I came to hear the Voice of seven Thunders thundering; and their thunderings were to prepare a ground in which the sense of things wrought; the first Thunder was from the unconceivable WOMB of Eternity, which prepared a ground for the sense hereof in the WOMB of Nature, which continued everlastingly thundering over the cursed Ground, (in which the ●eed of Enmity had entered the Creation of God) And there appeared the form of a VIPER, who had gnawed his way out of the Womb of Eternity, to come into the Womb of Nature; yet was he shut up in the place of Conception, as a third Principle of the Man, embodied in the Creaturely being, of whose birth was made a Separation in one hour, wherein came forth a Generation of VIPERS at once in Man's form.   

LVIII.  
And the Angel of God led me aside, into the great Wilderness, and I there beheld the WHORE magnifying herself for a season; and she road on the scarlet coloured Beast, with seven Heads and ten Horns, which were ten Kings, who had power with the Beast for an hour, (because of the Wound on his Head, which was healed up again) by the coming forth of the Ram, from the EAST, who pushed three ways, after I had beheld five Horns fallen from a fourth Head (that stood in the midst of five) and unto this Beast did the Dragon give up his Power, and also the first Beast, and the WHORE, which were the three Ribs, in the Mouth of the Bear, in the NORTH, and they became three unclean Spirits, like Frogs that entered this second Beast, who caused the Image of the Beast to be again revived, and to be worshipped, that all men might receive his Mark, else were they not to buy and sell with the Nations of the Earth, who received his Mark and Names, and Number, on their right Hand or forehead; and they were angry with those that could not bow down with them.   

LIX.  
And this was the Spirit of Devils, working Miracles in the Name of God, and thereby they caused the Generations of the World to fear and dread; for the Nations of the Earth repent them not of their great evil and wickedness, and sorceries, and thefts, and murders, and worshipping of Devils, and bowing down unto Graven Images, and of all Idolatry and Uncleanness, notwithstanding those afflictions that were come into the Worlds: But a second Thunder also thundered from the Throne of God and the Lamb, which came into the Temple of God, wherein God had placed a Government over Nature, in those four forms of the Beast, and all Foundations in HEAVEN and EARTH were shaken, for the preparing and raising up a Ground for that  Rock and Foundation of many Generations.   

LX.  
And a third Thunder also thundered from the great River Euphrates, out of which those four destroying Angels of God were loosed, by which those afflictions came on a third part of those Men, who had not on them the Seal and Mark of God and the Lamb, in whom a ground was awakened and raised up, which made sensible of that which was come into those parts of the Worlds: And a fourth Thunder thundered also from the Wilderness, in which the Woman had remained travelling in sorrow, for the forty two Months, wherein the Holy CITY was given into the Gentiles hands, to be trodden under foot, wherein the great DRAGON stood before her, ready to devour that for which she was in Travel, which was a Manchild (who was to Rule the Nations of the Earth in a Rod of Iron) whom he sought to destroy.    

CHAP. VI Describing the Nature of the WORLDS, in their raised and renewed state, through a Restauration of the Heavens, etc.  

LXI.  
AS I came to behold the daughter of the NORTH, returning from the Wilderness, (in which was her travel and hard labour) I saw TWINS of which she was delivered therein; and the Children were nourished, for the space of forty days, by the WOLF, who had fled thereinto, wherein they became great: And the Queen of the SOUTH, who was come out of her own Land, (wherein she had been fruitful and was exalted in the Bull's Eye) being delivered of a FEMALE Child, her Seed was dispersed into the North, and over the four Quarters in the World, wherein the Waters had prevailed over the Earth.   

LXII.  
And as she came to settle herself in the pleasure and ease of the Flesh, and to delight herself in the Worldly Spirit, wherein she sought satisfaction, she overlaid and slew the Fruit of her Womb (in the Seed of Life) through a drousiness and carelessness that came over her Spirit, whereby she became dead while she lived; and there appeared the form of two Children sporting themselves in the Field of the World, for they were scattered from the House of NATURE, whom the EAGLE beheld from his Nest, and the one of them was caught by the Eagle, who envied the Eye of the Child, and by his Bill (which was renewed) he pierced the sight of the BABE, and made it blind, but he was frighted away, while there was yet life in the Child.   

LXIII.  
And the Women met in the Wilderness, wherein the Queen of the South, sought to compass a Man (in the Seed of Life) under the Power of the North Wind, because of the Brass Belly, in which the ETHIOPIAN was separated, that had cured the Wound of those that had looked upon it, the Remnant of whose SEED were multiplied over the Quarters of the World, that had escaped the sting of the Serpent in that WILDERNESS, wherein Generations had perished, and the Face of God was towards his Israel, to gather and deliver them from the Hand of the ASSYRIAN, the second time.   

LXIV.  
For as those Women were sound striving about the living Child, who had escaped the fury of the EAGLE, though it grew blind under the same there arose the wisdom of a King in Israel to decide the matter through sound JUDGEMENT, that divided things aright, for the distinguishing of the true Mother, whose Bowels yearned in tenderness over the Birth, in the time it stood under the censure of Separation, wherein the HARLOT manifested her cruelty; And the venom rested in the Eye of the Eagle, like unto the poison of Asps, though therein he grew sharp and quicksighted, while his Wings overspread the Body of Nature in the Heavens, from whence I beheld him exalted in the Air, with two Heads, in which the Seed of the North prevailed, though the Daughter of the South enlarged the dominion of what proceeded from the Female Child; and she was established Queen in that strange Land.   

LXV.  
And I beheld how the Image that had fallen in the Earth, grew secretly invisible, under the power of Corruption, which increased its strength; in the changeable ways and courses of the WORLD; wherein the Head of the RAM stood exalted in the fiery triplicity of the Aerial Heavens, compassed about under the Waters, that suffered the Power of Corruption, over which the Heavens were moved, while from the Neck downward the Body of the Earth strove, to reign in dominion over its Head, and in the Heart of the Earth, was enkindled a flame from the Fiery Heavens, as it stood moved about in the midst of the Body of Nature, which had the lower parts of the BEAST downward, but the Legs of a Man, which stood at a distance in the form of the Letter A, as from the Shoulders upward, there did reach toward the Heavens, the form of the Arms of a Man, and both Arms and Legs, were partly Iron, and partly Clay.   

LXVI.  
And among the forms of all buildings which I had seen erected from the Heavens, and standing in the Nature of the WORLD, I beheld until the Temple (that in its first appearance was very glorious) was defiled with the Nature and Spirit of the WORLD, and it became the seat of the Beasts, which enlarged its power, in that which overspread the Foundation of the Earth, wherein the great City (that I had seen) had begun to rest and settle its first glory (in which the Worlds were planted) and the weight thereof, was the structure of the Temples Beauty, which settled that which was therein finished on those seven Mountains or high Hills, that became its Foundations, and they had an eighth Mountain.   

LXVII.  
These are the Mountains on which descended the Form of what ever was first built and erected in the Heavens, settled among the forms in Nature, wherein the fashions of all glory in the Worlds are decaying, and are ready to pass away, though it seemeth to be adorned with magnificence, with Towers great and strong, and its situation very pleasant and beautiful, while the ancient breach that hath been made thereon in its ruinated state, many are seeking to prop up, by worldly inventions; the discovery of which is become the torment of the Worldly Spirit that hath sought a Life therein.   

LXVIII.  
And the Angel of God shown me the whole frame of this building, and bid me tell its Towers, and count its Foundations, and number its Mountains, and behold its Situation, that it may be said in Generations to come, This is she of whom we were forewarned: And while the Angel of God was thus talking with me, I beheld the appearance of a living Creature, that woven out of his BOWELS, the form of the Heavens, and it stood in the Firmament, placed between Waters and Waters, as between the Heavens and the Earth.   

LXIX.  
As to the living Creature, he had eight Legs, and through the Clouds of the Heavens (which were over the face of the Waters) he woven out of his Bowels, Cover, like unto the Spider's Web, which had their course and motion, according to the frame of the Worlds, in their Corners and Quarters, wherein his labour was in the Night, in the distance of Degrees from the Sun of the Glory of the Son of Man, form in the Clouds of the Heavens, which went before, and came after the Sun of such Glory, (in which the Creation of God was first form and brought forth) who had his Star called HESPER and VESPER, as Morning and Evening Stars; And I beheld and harkened, until a Voice came from Heaven, like unto those four Thunders which passed before me, which had an interpretation among the sounds in Nature; and the Voice was, Over hundreds they have moved a hundred times, as over ten thou movest, because of Wages that have been changed ten times, but over one I am once moving; and the dividing of times hath discovered a time that was Man's glory to see and behold, while good followed the WORLD, in the state wherein it was planted, though times are past, in that wherein the Wheels have made a difference.   

LXX.  
And the fifth Thunder thundered, from the New Jerusalem, that descended from above out of Heaven, as a BRIDE that is readily adorned for her Husband, the Voice of which did reach into the great CITY, that is Spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord lieth Crucified and Slain; Wherein I saw the fall of that which was settled on five of those Mountains, and the sixth Foundation was also shaken, that the seventh might come up and be revealed, and in that seventh, were the seven manifest, from whence the WORLDS had bubled, through the renewing of all forms in Nature, which were tried by Tempests, until God's goodness came up through that which swayed the Sceptre in Israel, and brought forth Judgement in the power of the Heavens.   

LXXI.  
For those seven Mountains, had the names of seven Months in the Years in which God was manifest (in the work of Creation) according to the Power of his WORD in Nature, by which the works of Wonder in GOD, are established through that which wrought in a Mystery; And they are the Months in which God discovereth the going forth of the WORLDS, as they have their Foundations in the EARTH, settled among the forms in Nature; and the Towers which settled, in that which adjoined to the Body of that Temple (as Heads of the Beast) had the name of the seven days in the Week.   

LXXII.  
Wherein the beginning of Beauty and Glory (revealed through the Foundation in which it settled) rested its ruins on ASSYRIA, through which the forms of the Towers were put forth, as a Banner displayed towards ASIA, and the name of that first Mountain was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, whereon stood a Man with both hands dipped in BLOOD, and in his right Hand was a Sword, but I beheld until the form of the Man vanished, and there was nought left but the Head and Face of the RAM, wherein was erected the form of the TOWERS and from the second Mountain, which had the name of the second Month called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, proceeded splendour and brightness, as the flowers of all increasing properties in the power of Nature, and from the third Mountain, which had the name of the third Month (called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉) proceeded the Veil and Covering of Green Leaves.    

CHAP. VII. Describing the form of the Temple, which settled its Foundations on SEVEN MOUNTAINS of the EARTH.  

LXXIII.  
ON four of those MOUNTAINS, rested the Body of the Temple, according to its Foundations, and the names of the Months, by which they were called, which stood in the fourth part of the WORLD, (with its Corners and Quarters, East, West, North, and South) according to the four Winds of the Heavens that were moved from thence, with their four Angels exalted on their Towers from the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES, through that which prevailed in the fiery triplicity of the Heavens, over the Earth and Waters, in their third part.   

LXXIV.  
Wherein the Vernal Quarter was Manifest, in a fourth Mountain, from whence all Fruits of the Earth came under fiery Trials, to the scorching and consuming all that stood on that foundation (in the Ground of such a Nature) whence it received the name of the 4th Month (called THAMUZ) and on the fifth Mountain, which had the name of the fifth Month (called AB) was manifest the Image of Jealousy, from whence proceeded the fiery Zeal of that consuming power, which prevailed over the Fruits of the Earth, until they became reaped, after which was nought found, through the appearance of a sixth Mountain, which had the name of the sixth month called ELUL.   

LXXV.  
And in the Temple there appeared the form of a WOMAN exalted in the Heavens, on whose Forehead was written JEZEBEL, the Mother of Harlots; and I beheld until nought was remaining, but the Palms of her hands (which the Dogs refused to eat) yet did she reign as Queen of Nations, and had power over the Kings of the Earth: & there appeared the Scarlet coloured BEAST, on which her form was exalted, who was very gloriously decked and adorned with Gold, and precious Stones, and Pearls, and Purple, and delicate array, and on her forehead was a name wrote, MYSTERY BABYLON, the Great, the Mother of all Fornication.   

LXXVI.  
And she was carried into the Wilderness, whither I was led by the Angel, who shown me her Cities of Refuge; and there was a very great City, in which the sixth Thunder thundered, from the power of all Motion in the WHEELS, which came on the ground of all Principles form in Terrestrial Bodies and beings, wherein all powers of Nature were shaken, and moved about in the Wheels, which carried every thing about swiftly, to its appointed place; And there was a great Earthquake, through which the foundation of the City was shaken, and a tenth part of the City fell, wherein were slain the names of seven thousand Men, that those who escaped, might give glory to God on high.   

LXXVII.  
And on the seventh Mountain, which had on it the name of the seventh month (called ATNIM was manifest the Angel of strength, over new Wines that were in the Cluster; And I beheld until the EAGLE had given up his power, which were the seven last Plagues to come on the Earth; and the power which that fourth Beast gave up, rested in the Angel of strength, wherein there came forth TWO WITNESSES of God, which are the two Olive Branches, and two Candlesticks, who prophesied before the Kings of the Earth, clothed in Sackcloth for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore days, and their power was to open and shut Heaven, until the days of their Prophecy were finished.   

LXXVIII.  
Whereby the way of God was prepared into the HOLIEST of all, and the Witnesses were clothed in White, signifying that God was come into his TEMPLE, and all sorrow was fled away, yea the times of mourning were come to an end, and all Tears were wiped away from their Eyes, neither was sighing to be heard in that land; but there was a separation made between the Courts thereof, where was both inward and outward glory, according to its course, wherein the Witnesses had prophesied, for the time that it was given into the Gentiles Hands to tread under foot, accomplished in those forty two months.   

LXXIX.  
And as the Towers were shaken, in which the days of the week were multiplied, into number and order, there was manifest the substance of time, wherein was the Week in which the Witnesses thus fulfilled and gave up their Testimony to the Father, and in the midst of the Week they came to seal their finished Testimony, and ascended to Heaven in the sight of their Enemies, and great fear came on all flesh; but from those Mountains, in which a third part of the Earth was separated, in the trial by fire there sprung Flowers of Virginity, from the bowels of TERAH, in that created form, in which the WORLDS were planted, whence the frame of the WORLDS were overspread in those seven Nations, that were multiplied from the Heavens, in that which escaped the rage and fury of the WATERS, as they came to prevail over the Earth, until a barren Wilderness was become again a fruitful Field unto God, and a fruitful Field suffered barrenness in such that see not the danger in their way, wherein they were overtaken.   

LXXX.  
For where I had seen the Angel of God, with a Golden CUP in his hand, filled with goodly dainties, he suffered the WOMAN that was gloriously decked on the Scarlet-coloured Beast in Nature, to take from him the CUP which she took into her Hand, and filled with Fornications, & all abominations of filthiness, with which she made herself drunk, and there was mixed with her Sorcerers, the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of God, who were slain for the Word of God, and Testimony that they held; and the Angel of God said, Come up hither, & I will show thee the judgement of this great Whore, who sitteth on many Waters, with whom the Kings of the Earth have committed Fornication, and with the Wine of her silthiness have made themselves drunken, from the Golden Cup which she reacheth to their Head.   

LXXXI.  
And there came a Voice from the HEAVENS, unto the Mountains on which the Whore sat exalted, Arise and stand on your feet; and they appeared like unto a MAN, standing on the great River EUPHRATES, and from thence moving about the form and frame of the Heavens in the Worlds; and the seven Angels of God came out of the Temple, and took the seven last Plagues, (which were the seven Vials filled with the wrath of God, etc.) and they poured them forth on the whole frame of the Worlds; and there was a great noise in the Heavens, which became divided into three parts, and she came into the remembrance of God, and the Whore that was exalted in the midst of her, was discovered, and her skirts seen.   

LXXXII.  
And there was joy and rejoicing in the Heavens, and thence proceeded Thunders, and Lightnings, and Earthquakes, and great Hail, the weight whereof slew those on whom it rested, and such an Earthquake was not since the World began, to the moving and removing of all Foundations: And the appearance of the Angels that came out of the Temple, was sparkling, like the fiery Heavens, and they were clothed as with fire, and their Raiment shined like unto fine Gold, and on their Heads were Crowns, and their Paps were girded as with golden Girdles.   

LXXXIII.  
But the seventh Thunder sounded through the AIR, the effect of which descended on that great CITY, in which Babylon was erected; wherein the seven Angels of God, that had sounded the seven Golden TRUMPETS, and who had power over the Worlds, came forth from the holy Place, clothed with Heavenly Glory; for an Angel of the Sun, who was manifest in the fiery TRIPLICITY of the Heavens, together with all the glories of the Father, until the Clouds of HEAVEN became dispersed, in that which was manifest in three Principles of the WORLD, wherein the glory of the Woman's return from her travel through the WILDERNESS, was revaled among the WONDERS of Heaven, to be the Celestial beauty of a third Principle in which she was clothed with the Sun, and had the Moon under her Feet, and on her Head was the Crown of Twelve Stars (that are moved about in the ZODIAC of the Heavens of an Inward World.)   

LXXXIV.  
For TWO WOES are past, in the diveing of the Worlds, in their six Principles, into two third parts, wherein five are comprehended in one third part of that which is past, and they are fallen for the revealing of the SAMARITAN, in that which is come forth against ASIRIA the second time, in which the Woman continued joined to one that had buried five, yet was he not the HUSBAND to the five wise VIRGINS, but he remained married unto her, in that foolish state wherein the Law had dominion over the MAN as long as he lived, in whom the foolish Virgins are concerned, to reveal a sixth that is past, and seventh that is come, for the bringing forth of whom the Creature suffereth death all the day long.    

CHAP. VIII. Describing the Power of God, manifested in the execution of the seven last Plagues to come upon the Earth.  

LXXXV.  
THE BEAST himself, who is the Eighth, and who is the Son of Perdition, is now revealed, in her that shall bury SEVEN, wherein the Harlot hath lurked, unto whom the Man hath remained joined in one Spirit of the Beast, while the Temple of God hath been defiled, in such worship and bowing down to the Spirit of defilement, and the glorying therein, is become an incestuous BED that procureth torment; because of the Resurrection, in which none can remain joined to that Spirit, and possess the Glory in God's Temple, who is come to destroy the defiler thereof.   

LXXXVI.  
For the three Angels of God, that have power over that which came on the Worlds in their third part, through the sounding of the seven Trumpets of God, that awaken the execution of Justice from the Heavens, are now manifest in the three remaining Principles, that have a fourth part in their Quarter reserved to those fiery Trials, effected in that which manifesteth the end of all gloryings in the dominion of the fourth Beast in Nature.   

LXXXVII.  
Wherein the fiery Triplicity in the Heavens, through which those Angels are revealed, hath been covered as with a Cloud, until the Son of Man came to be revealed, riding on the White Clouds of the Heavens, and clothed with incomparable Beauty, before whom three Angels have been found flying through the Heavens, proclaiming the everlasting Gospel of Peace and glad tidings, and the destruction of Babylon, in her great CITIES, which were come up before the remembrance of God, warning the Inhabitants of the Earth to come forth from her, and flee out of her glory; lest partaking therewith, they came to partake with her in those Plagues that were upon the Earth.   

LXXXVIII.  
These three are the Witnesses of God in Heaven, filling the Heaven of Heavens with Glory, in one power that comprehends all Principles in Nature, which are swallowed up in its immenseness. Greater testimony of God hath none; for since God hath a Witness on Earth, how much greater is that in and from the Heavens? wherein an Angel hath come forth out of the Temple, in which the first Witness of God finished his Testimony; and beholding the Fruits of the Earth, that they are ready for gathering, and that the Harvest is White, he hath said unto the Angel that sitteth on the WHITE CLOUD, Thrust in thy sharp Sickle, because of the Harvest of the Earth which is ripe, and the Earth hath been reaped, until nought can be found, but that which hath remained for a second Harvest and Trial.   

LXXXIX.  
But he that hath lain slain in the streets of that great City (in which the Inhabitants of the Earth, have made merry over the crucified Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth) is now come forth raised and exalted on that White Cloud, from whence the Earth is reaped; And a second Angel of God is come forth out of the Temple, with his sharp Sickle in his Hand, and an Angel of the Altar (under which the Souls of the Righteous lie groaning) saith unto that second Witness or Angel that is come forth out of the Temple, Thrust in thy sharp Sickle also, and reap the fruits of the Vine, the Clusters of the Vine Grapes, and spare not the Olive Yards.   

XC.  
This is he that daily ministereth before the Lord, and attendeth the Altar of God with the Prayers of Saints, which are daily offered up, with sweet Incense, put into his Golden Censer, and his power is over fire, by which all untimely Fruits are scorched and consumed (in their third part) by the bright rays of the breaking forth of the Summer, in the Sun of Righteousness, which is arisen, with healing in its Wings; though in the passing away of the Winter, and in the dispelling of Clouds of Darkness (which were over, and had covered the Face of the Earth) the Summer is broke forth, wherein many remain unsaved from the wrath thereof, to come upon the ungodly World.   

XCI.  
For in that which descended through the Clouds of the Air, the first beauty and glory of the Temple, (in that which was built in the Heavens) is discovered to be movable, though therein God was worshipped, as in the Ark of his Testimony, in the Covenant of Promise, which was carried about from place to place, while the Temple remained under a Cloud, in which are the more lively things themselves, then that in which the forms of Nature were gathered, as patterns of what remained under a Cloud, until the time of the restitution of all in the Heavens was come, wherein hath wrought the Power and Spirit of Preparation, in the Spirit of Creatures, to the perfecting the Work of God, and bringing into the unity of the Spirits of just Men made perfect in God, until all becometh complete in him that holdeth the HEAD, unto which the Body is knit, in several Joints and Members.   

XCII.  
Yet in this time of ISRAEL'S sojourning through the Wilderness, the Power of God hath been manifest, to those strangers in the Earth, in that strange Country, through which they have their passage, and therein have pitched their movable TENTS; though Beauty and Glory hath shined through such Vessels, in the time of their preparation from transgression, that came under the Judgement of the great Day of God, in the ground wherein God first chose a People to himself, and to be called by his Name, until the Glory of the Earth is become laid waist; the third and last WOE is come into the World, discovered in the pouring forth of those seven Vials, to the utter consumption of the Spirit and Power of Darkness, ruling and reigning in the God of the World, wherein Death and Hell are conquered in their full strength, & the Enemy of all Souls vanquished and overcome in that which is come to destroy the ground of Destruction by utter dissolution.   

XCIII.  
And the sense of these things was manifest in the World; in that which came on the Earth and great SEAS, and all Rivers and Fountains of WATER, and all that lived therein or moved thereon, and on Sun and Moon, and Stars, and the seat of the Beast, and great River EUPHRATES, and on the Air; wherein the Fruits of the Earth withered and were destroyed, and the Waters became like unto the Blood of the dead, and on Men fell a noisome Plague-sore and Headly Wound, because of the infection of the Air, wherein was Hail ●ike unto Fire mingled with Blood, each being of great weight, and at the appearance of God, there was wrought up through the EARTH, a burning Mountain, under which fell the Powers of Nature in Earthly Forms.   

XCIV.  
And all the WATERS were dried up in the great River Euphrates, wherein the way of the Kings of the EAST was prepared, who gathered themselves together into a place called GOLGOTHA in the Hebrew Tongue, which is a place of dry Bones and dead men's Skulls, on whom the Spirit of God had breathed, and they did live in his sight, and stand on their Feet like Men; and it was the Valley of Megiddon and of Hadadrimmon, even the Valley of Jehoshaphat, or the Valley of Slaughter, where RACHEL sat weeping for her Children, because they we●● not, and she would not be comforted but herein is manifest (in the Valleys ANCHOR, which is given for a Doo● of Hope.   

XCV.  
For God was descended into all the Powers of Nature, through his destroying Angels, changing all Powers, and Laws, and Customs of the HEATHEN and uncircumcised, in the ground wherein destruction wrought, and renewing the Created FORMS in Nature, into their first lovely Being (as into these Kings of the EAST, the Nature of the Beast had descended, which had his Power renewed in an eighth Head and Mountain) and they had the Power of the Beast and false Prophet, or Whore) wherein they were exalted to hasten the utter ruin and downfall of the DRAGON, and Beast, and false Prophet, yet wrought Miracles in the Earth, and encamped about the Beloved City, the New Jerusalem, which descended from above out of Heaven, and they caused fire to come down from Heaven.   

XCVI.  
But the Holy People waxed strong, and did exploits, although the Foundations of all buildings, in the Earthly Principles of Nature, suffered great shake, and an utter overthrow, wherein darkness filled the Seat of the BEAST, and every Mountain was removed out of its place, and great BABYLON fell, as the nether Millstone that is cast into the Sea, and every Island fled away before the Face and Presence of the Lord, and were cast into the deeps of Waters, that were drying up into their Anihilation, and the smoke of the Torment of those Men that had the Mark of the Beast ascended upward, as a place of Torment to the Spirit of the WORLD, incorporated into the form of the Image.    

CHAP. IX. Describing the Glory of the New Jerusalem, in the renewing Power of God, which wrought up the efficacy of its change in the Forms of Nature.  

XCVII.  
AS all forms in Nature, were subjected under the Power of God; there was manifest a Spirit of ZEAL, in the Qualities wherein the Creature became embodied, through which the change was wrought; for the ten Horns of the BEAST, did hate the WHORE, whose flesh they consumed with fire; and the Minstrels were all turned out of Doors, because the Damsel was raised; and the Bridegroom was come at Midnight, wherein the Wise Virgins had prepared Oil in their Lamps, which were lighted and trimed, burning in the flame of that which was gathered and reaped in the Earth, by the Angel; but the Apples of Sodom, and Grapes of Gomorrah (after which the Souls of many have longed) became unpleasant Fruit, because of the sound of the Millstone, which could not be heard, neither was there any Voice of the Turtle, or the singing of Birds.   

XCVIII.  
Nor did the Light of any Candle shine therein, but the sound of the Tabret, and the Viol was departed out of the Land, and the Sun ceased any more to shine, while there continued a cry for want of Oil among those that were foolish, and at the Voice of the Grasshopper, the Aged rose up and were afraid (as the Pillars of the House were shaken) and the Windows grew dim, the Grinders failed, and the Pitcher that went oft to the FOUNTAIN was broken, and the limit of the circumference of the Waters, which were bound in that great River, was loosed and enlarged, and the Streams of Corruption dried out of the same wherein it had compassed about the frame of the WORLDS, like unto the Arms and Legs of a Man; for every thing perished in its corruptible state and course, until the form of the World became thus changed, and the Dragon and Beast, and false Prophet (who had deceived the Nations of the Earth) were laid hold on, and bound down by the Chain in the Hand of the strong Angel of God, never to rise again.   

XCIX.  
And Death and Hell was cast into the Lake of fire, and a Seal was set on the power thereof, that it never more should appear in the Worlds, to mar the Workmanship of God, and form of his Image, and all forms of Nature shined out of the Glassy Sea, (on which the redeemed of God stood Harping and Singing, and Praising God) which was sprakling like fire; for the Heavens were rolled up together like a Scroll, and the Elements were consumed with servant heat, wherein was no more Sea, but that Sea of Glass, or first Waters, in which was a new Heaven and new Earth, and therein did Righteousness dwell, for ever and ever.   

C.  
For former things were remembered no more, but the former Heaven and Earth was passed away, and there was a Voice from the New Heavens, Behold the Tabernacle of God is among Men, and he is come to dwell in them, and to walk among them, for ever and ever; who hath wiped away all Tears from their Eyes, and sorrow and sighing is gone into perpetual silence; and beautiful was the Countenance of him that came from Mount TIRZAH, clear as the Sun, and bright as the Moon, and terrible like an Army with Banners, whereby the power of the second Death was Conquered, and came not into the new Heavens and new Earth.   

CI.  
And there was the CITY of God, which was placed between the SEAS, in which was no need of the Sun by day, nor of the Moon by Night, nor was there any need of the light of a Candle to shine therein, but the light of the Moon, was as the light of the Sun, and the light of the Sun, as the light of seven days; and all labour in the Earth ceased to be, neither did it Travel and bear its former burdens, but the Lamb & the Lord were the Light thereof, for ever and ever; and all things brought forth as in the beginning; wherein the WOMAN was redeemed from sorrow and labour of Childbearing, and brought forth her SEED as Angels of God, nourished in the Womb of Health, wherein saving blessings were sprung up to heal the Nations; and from the place of Conception, from whence sorrow was removed, did life break forth into being, and the birth thereof was glorified in the sight of GOD; but time and place were no more.   

CII.  
Sing therefore, O ye Heavens! and let the Inhabitants of the EARTH rejoice, because time is changed into Eternity, and the WOES are removed out of its Quarters; Death and Hell are Conquered in its dominions, and the Sea and Grave have given up their slain; the dead are come forth out of the secret Chambers of LEVIATHAN, and the BEHEMOTH is overcome by him that sitteth on his WHITE Throne, and rideth on his White Horse; and the Walls of Brass and Iron are broken down, and the Word by which every thing was created, saith unto the hard Rocks, Be ye soft, and unto the high Hills, Be ye bended down.   

CIII.  
The strength of the strong is bound in CHAINS, and the Power of Mighty binder's is loosed from Iron Fetters; and the King over NATIONS, hath said unto the Power of FIRE, Be thou kindled into a burning flame to consume, until Consummation become reproved, and devouring flames are quenched; the forms of Nature are comprehended, under the renewing Power of God in the HEAVENS, and all things that have being are changed through dissolution.   

CIV.  
For the God of Life is come into his Holy Place, he is come forth from the midst of burning flames, and hath descended through the Clouds of the Heavens; the Mountains of the World do tremble, and the form of the whole Earth doth shake in his Presence, before his Face they are lightly MOVED, that stand in his way; for a devouring fire accompanieth his progress, and it is very tempestuous round about him; because he ariseth as a Giant refreshed with WINE, who hath took unto himself Vengeance for a clothing, and is clothed with Zeal, as with a Cloak; under his Shoes are high Hills become like unto dissolving Snow, and he that treadeth thereon, hath his Feet like unto sparkling Brass, come out of the Refiners Furnace.   

CV.  
His Eyes are like a flame of fire, and his Face shineth as the Sun in its full strength; he subdueth great Nations with the Breath of his Lips, and when he speaketh the Word, all things are done at his command; for in his Mouth is a sharp twoedged Sword, and therewith are his Enemies slain, and brought down to be his Footstool: Who would not but fear before him; for when his displeasure is moved, his Foes are consumed with anger; and when he comes to be awakened, before he please, who can stand in his Way? when his Wrath is but a little kindled, Blessed are all they that trust in his Name, for those that flee from the LYON, are overtaken by a BEAR in the way, and a BASILISK doth by't those that would lean on a Wall. O Heavens! hear, and O Earth give Ear, for the Lion is come forth out of the Thickets, and the Destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way.   

CVI  
And while I was thus beholding the Angel's glory, I was again led into the Wilderness, until the Mystery of all those things came to be fulfilled, in the number of days; for the space whereof the World's abode under sore Trials, for the manifesting of what hath relation to the Kingdom of God, and Glory of his Power. And I observed the result thereof, until eighty five days were passed over, for any longer I was not able to see and perceive for glory; but I rested greatly astonished to behold the effect of that which came forth in those days, until faintness of Spirit overtook me, and I was not able to stand upright on my Feet any longer, because of the Temptations of the Devourer, which became very prevalent, (through Darts that were shot against my Soul in secret) wherein he laboured to betray my Life under his Snares and Baits.   

CVII.  
And I stood before the ANGEL of God, as one clothed in vile RAIMENT, and as I came to present my supplications unto the Lord, the Devil came also into his presence, as one ready to resist me; for he having a desire to sift me (as one would winnow Wheat) I was delivered into his Hands (as into the Hands of the Tormenter) whose power was for the destruction of the flesh, that the Spirit might be saved alive in this day of the Lord Jesus: And I appeared as one destitute of a Habitation in the EARTH, and cast out into the open Fields, as in the day that I was born, striving in my Blood; yet was my right Leg bound with fear, and on my Shoulders I bore the Yoke, from whence Blood ran down on my Garments, defiled and torn, in meddling with the Worldly Spirit, before which I was thus seen to bear my reproach.   

CVIII.  
Yet while thus in my Blood, and gasping after the Breath of Life, God said, Thou shalt live in my sight to feel the Infirmities wherewith the World is touched. Then cried I out unto the Lord, Wonderful are all thy ways and works, which my Soul knoweth right well; for in three times five years, thou hast brought me through very great Trials and Alterations in my condition, but what I now see and behold is of great concern, through the Vision of Wonders that hath seized my Spirit; and the Glory of God resteth weightily on me, though I am oft ready to conclude, it had been more happy for me that I had been prevented by my Mother's Knees, and that her Paps had never suckled me, then to see this day; for than had my Soul never grown up under the sense of such sorrow as I have passed through, neither had I been pursued for my Life by those that seek it for a prey.    

CHAP. X. Describing the time for which the Dragon was loosed, until the Mystery of that which is seen in the Vision came to be fulfilled.  

CIX.  
While I continued thus Praying and making Supplications unto the Lord, I was touched in the night season, by the Angel URIEL, and my Bowels were moved towards the Lord, and rolled within me, and I was carried by the Spirit of God, on the WATERS where the WOMAN sat; and there came a Voice from the Heavens, Behold now, thou art not born for thyself, but to be tried in the behalf of thy People: and while the Angel was communing thus with me, TEMPESTS arose & continued in the WORLD, and over the same did the WATERS swell and rage, until I came safely to arrive at the Haven of Rest.   

CX.  
And being again beset with the Rage and Fury of the Woman, I came to pass through great buildings, which were reared up sumptuous and fair to the Eye, and I was led about its MANSIONS, though the rage and fury of the WOMAN followed me for hurt, causing grief and mourning on my Spirit; And I said unto the Angel, What evil have I done unto this envious WOMAN, who is seeking to betray my Life? But he quieted my SPIRIT in a moment, saying, Fear not those that seek thy Life, for I will smite thy Foes in my fury (as already thou hast seen them smitten in their erterprises) but continue thou still, and humble thyself daily before the Lord, with fasting and prayer, and therein shall thy abstinence be accepted.   

CXI.  
For when thy Heart is lifted up above the sense of what is thy preservation, deliverance cometh to stand afar off, and in the needful time and hour thou mayest cry out for help, when strength is departed from thy HEAD, and none is found near to put forth an assisting Hand and Arm to restore: And I again said unto the Lord, Though I have not a Habitation and certain dwelling place on the EARTH, I cannot be discontented at thy deal O God And why should I murmur and repine at thy disposings? Though in the WORLD I am comfortless, since thou, O Lord, art good in all thy ways, and thy Mercies are over all thy works.   

CXII.  
Then appeared there great preparation for WAR; and I beheld many go forth to the BATTLE, while I continued exercised under the besetments of the WOMAN, until she vanished, and I saw not any more her form to disquiet me; but through the WILDERNESS, in which the WOMAN sat exalted, (on the Scarlet-coloured BEAST) I beheld the pleasant Field and fruitful Garden, working up the form of what endured and continued patiented under those fiery Trials, until they became passed over; though many therein did dwell on a barren Heath, who could not see when good comes, whereby they perished in the Night of Obscurity and worldly sorrow that overtook them (in their way) wherein the power of DEATH wrought and became strong in the WORLDS.   

CXIII.  
And in the place of the fifth Head of the Beast (in the midst of four) which I had beheld Wounded as it were unto death, were sprung up three other Heads; And the Horns on that fifth Head (which had received that deadly Wound) were increased, through the healing up of the Wound, wherein a little Horn that sprung up between the Eyes of the Beast, received Voice, and began to speak great swelling words, against the God of Heaven, and his SAINTS that dwell on the Earth, and the little Horn waxed strong towards the four Winds of the Heavens, wherein the BEAST appeared with seven Heads and ten Horns, (which had Power in in the Beast to reign with him as Kings for their hour.)   

CXIV.  
And whereas (after I had seen the fall of five Horns, on that fifth Head of the Beast) I beheld remaining four Heads, from whence sprung up four Horns, in the dispersing abroad the Kingdom and Power of the BEAST, under the four Winds of the Heavens; so in the reviving of his power, that which became exalted in the reducing of four (to its first subjection) ruled over five (in which the wound was received, and wherein the Beast came forth first manifest) and in the discovery of both the rise and fall of the BEAST, though through the great Horn of the Hee-Goat, who did not touch the ground, until he had accomplished his design (after he had power given him, in the awakened fury of the West-Wind) the two Horns of the RAM from the EAST, were broken and stamped in pieces, that great Horn was also broken, when its fury was accomplished.   

CXV.  
Yet was the power of the four Horns on those four Heads of the BEAST, bound down in the four Heads of the great River, until the time of the losing of their four Angels, that stood on the four Corners of the EARTH, to hold the four Corners of the WINDS from blowing on the EARTH, while the little Horn was magnified, whereby the third Head which sprung up in the midst of the seven, recovered four Horns, from that which was dispersed under those four Winds of the Heavens; and on the other six Heads, were manifest six Horns.   

CXVI.  
Thus was the BEAST more monstrous than all those other Beasts that passed before him, with Iron Teeth, by which he did break and stamp in pieces; And his Face was like unto a Leopard, with the form of a third part of the Stars in the constellation of the HEAVENS on his Back; but he had the Feet of the great Bear, and discovered his power through the four Heads of the great River EUPHRATES, in the losing of those destroying Angels, who came first out from the WATERS, but the reviving of his strength (from those deceitful healings) proceeded out of the Earth, through the power of the RAM in Nature.   

CXVII.  
And in the time of the sounding of the sixth Trumpet, this BEAST came forth, through the losing of those destroying ANGELS out of the great River; and through those earthquakes and shake that were come into the WORLD (wherein fell that tenth part of the great City) God had returned unto himself his Tenths, to be eaten as a Teyl-Tree, and as an Oak, whose substance was in it; these were the remnant of the Holy Seed, who worshipped the Lord with a pure Heart, even in Spirit and in Truth, and whose Garments were washed White in the Blood of the Lamb.   

CXVIII.  
For they came to pass through great tribulations and Trials in their WAY, because they could not Worship the BEAST, nor receive his Mark, but they were preserved blameless before the Lord in that hour wherein Iniquity was not found in their HEARTS, neither was there guile in their MOUTHS, to be uttered with their Tongue: And I beheld until the sin of MANASSEH became ripened, and was filled up, and the high Altars (in both Courts) whereon had been offered Sacrifice to IDOLS, and Incense burnt to strange Gods (which neither we nor our Fathers have heard of) were pulled down, because of the God of FORCES who was worshipped, neither was the desire of Women regarded.   

CXIX.  
And after I came to see the WOMAN'S deliverance, from the rage and fury of the great Red DRAGON (who had cast his floods of Water after her, in the time and times wherein she had been helped by the EARTH, and sheltered by the Wings of the EAGLE, with which she had fled into the Wilderness) as the Dragon came to give up his Power to this monstrous Beast, the remnant of her Seed was persecuted in the World, for the space of full forty days: And wherein the Sun had gone back ten Degrees, for the prolonging of Life in the Just, after he came to discover and reveal the glory in which was his safety, before Babylon's King, (who wrought by subtlety and much craft) whereby fifteen days were added to his dying state.   

CXX.  
Those days were again doubled, in the renewed Zeal, wherein the Favour of God was multiplied (to the purging his House and Sanctuary) according to the fifty-five days, wherein Manasseh had caused the Israel of God to err in following after Idols; And for ten days the Devil had power to cast many into Prison, that they might be tried and sifted by his cunning devices, until their Garments became thus made white in the Blood of the slain Lamb of God.    

CHAP. XI. Describing the Form of the WHEELS, in the VISION, according to their MOTION, wherein are numbered the days that the BEAST hath yet to reign and continue on the Earth.  

CXXI.  
AS to the form of the Wheels, as they wrought and moved one within the other (as a Wheel within a Wheel) like unto the form of the Worlds, (which are moved the one within the other) the WHEELS never rested, but went straight forward towards Eternity, wherewith they were tinctured, and moved (in the power thereof) as though they crossed, each other, and yet there was no crossness, in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity from whence they were moved, in the power of him that first wrought and laboured in the motion thereof.   

CXXII.  
For all crossness that appeared in the motion thereof, wrought in the Earthly ground, wherein the Worlds laboured to Centre in a Glory below the power of Eternity, from whence every thing first proceeded, and was brought forth (to a day of Trial) in the FRAME under which the Body of Nature was constituted to exercises, from the Glory of the HEAVENS, wherein the Will of the Creature was subjected to a change, through vanity that entered the WORLD (in a state of corruptible Glory) which was suffered to work in a hidden ground, to manifest the deceit of the TEMPTER.   

CXXIII.  
And Nature had not a Will of its own, to move about the Wheels in the Power of the Heavens, that wrought on and over Creatures, that took being in time and place (according to the form and frame of the Worlds in which all Glory wrought) without the ENEMY, neither was the Enemy's power any thing prevalent, but through a subjection in the Will of the Creature, in that Power wherein he was made able to resist him; but time and place became measurable from the Heavens, wherein the comprehensible course of all forms in Nature had their end come up in the World, in that which was manifest through distinction.   

CXXIV.  
But Number and Order remaineth manifest among the forms in Nature, in which every thing cometh forth into being, according to the Figure of its Birth, constituted in the power of the Heavens, in respect to the dignification of the Mind, in the thing wherein it delighteth, through which the Man cometh to sow the Seed from whence he expecteth to reap Fruit answerable thereunto; though in the flesh of Creatures, there is that already sown and spread abroad, which worketh in the Members, against that which dignifieth the mind, that remaineth as a Thorn in the flesh, to make sensible of its pricking pangs, when the Creature goeth forth into self-exaltation, beyond or above the measure of power and ability which he hath received from God.   

CXXV.  
And this is to humble the Creature, and make him sensible of the need he hath of the preserving Power of God, in that which keeps open the Eye of the MAN, at all times to see himself upon the Watch; for every Principle of Nature hath a contrariety attending that which is form in its Birth, according to the Diurnal and Annual motion in the Wheels; wherein that which causeth a change in the state of the Creature, multiplieth days and hours in the course through which it is manifest, according to the sufferance, or according to the delight of SPIRIT, in which he is attended.   

CXXVI.  
This do I see in each Birth, and moreover I observe how Nature ripeneth that which the Man reacheth after, in the number of hours or days, according to which the mind standeth afflicted thereby, wherein nothing can exceed the number thirty, (in the course of Nature) for that which is changeable returneth to the beginning of the WORK, by which it is Judged, to be manifest in its Birth; And thirty years are the largest extent of motion (in the Rings of the outward Wheel) as thirty days accomplish the race of the swiftest motion in the Wheel's Rings, according to their Orbs in the Heavens.   

CXXVII.  
And in like manner, as in twelve hours, a day in Nature is complete, in that which divideth it from the night, so in twelve years, that which moveth in the most equal ORB (among the forms in Nature) returneth to the Centre from which it was moved; though it be straight forward, that the Wheels are moved in the Heavens; for all that hath its Period in time, Centereth and endeth its course in the Will, and under the power of God, in that which is suffered to labour and work up the form, over which Death and Dissolution hath had power.   

CXXVIII.  
But the Inward Heavens being tinctured with the love and delight of God, all BEAUTY and glory centereth therein, and shineth therefrom, as from the FIRE of God's Jealousy, whereby his honour is mentained, in that which hath kindled and inflamed a desire burning after the highest good, which hath its similitude in the WATERS, wherein Nature is moved in its Principles, according to the several ORBS and Spheres, in which the Power of the Heavens doth labour and work.   

CXXIX.  
Wherein the Heart of Eternity inflameth through the forms of Nature in a yearly course, under which the Heavens have doubled the effect, of that which riseth up enkindled in the ORB, which breaketh all essences in form, and maintaineth War in the source in which the RAM hath taken Head, distributing power under the four Winds of the Heavens, in which the Elements of Nature stand divided, and under the same came forth the faces of the four Beasts, according to the third Ring in the Wheels, through which the fourth BEAST, is become exalted in his dominion, over a fourth part of the WORLDS.   

CXXX.  
For the course of motion in this Ring of the WHEEL, is forty nine Weeks, to regain that which is lost in form, through the Beauty & Glory of what was finished in seven days, from whence the Heavens have multiplied all forms in Nature, until the day and hour under which Death is dispossessed in its dominion (for the separation of day and night in Nature) met in the Power of the Heavens, through that which discovereth the Period of all changeable Courses, in which the Moon hath strengthened her Revolutions, while Winter and Summer, and Seed time and Harvest continue.   

CXXXI.  
And while I thus beheld the motion in the Wheels, there came forth out of the Heart of FIRE in Nature, an ANGEL of the Sun, clothed with the Rainbow of the Heavens, and he road on all the Powers of Nature, proclaiming with a loud Voice, a Feast that was prepared for the Fowls of the Air, which were gathered together under the conduct of the EAGLE, and they were a great Multitude and very numerous; and on my other Hand stood the ARK of God, which was taken in BATTLE by his Enemies, wherein Glory was departed out of the Tents of those that God had first chosen to be his own.   

CXXXII.  
For the Aged departed in Sorrow, and the Old Man died full of Grief, and pained in Heart, until there came a Voice from the Heavens, Behold the result of Israel's deliverance, from their Enemy's Hands, wherein the Servant in God's House (in his good Old Age) hath his Eye open to see the Salvation of God, and is enabled to departed in Peace; And henceforth shalt thou no more count an Infant of days, nor Old Man full of years, because of the sinner that dyeth accursed, but a Child shall die a hundred years old, where the Hoary Head is not reverenced, nor the tenderness of youth respected.    

CHAP. XII. Wherein the substance of the VISION is concluded, in a PROPHECY of that which is yet to come to pass, directed in an Epistle, (to all that are separated into several Fellowships) concerning the third part of the Book.  

CXXXIII.  
AS I beheld the Ark of God's COVENANT, which was made with many People and great Nations, brought up from the Waters, in the new Created HEAVENS, wherein the forms of Nature stood MANIFEST in their Figure and order of Number; Among three hundred URNS or earthen PITCHERS that were broken, (that Light might spring forth from the Power of the Heavens, whereby the Enemies of God were discomfited) there remained only two of those Vessels in the forms of Nature, wherein every thing in being was doubled, and the Heavens were drawn both ways, through a fiery Constellation therein enkindled.   

CXXXIV.  
And in one of those Urns were the Names of the twelve Tribes of ISRAEL, but in the other was a particoloured Blank, on which was wrote PREROGATIVE, to which the ANGEL said, This is Israel's desire, and therefore hath Benjamin had a Prerogative to be higher than his Brethren by the HEAD, and his raving up hath been like an evening Wolf, while Israel hath sought the Rule and Dominion of other Nations of the Heathens; for from the seven Families of FATHERS, the Lot resteth on an eighth Head, who is discovered by his ANGEL, wand'ring after the lost Asses, who have a month to be tamed, in the power over which he is set to be their KEEPER.   

CXXXV.  
After whom came the lowing of the OXEN, and bleating of the SHEEP (in the restraint of Fodder) of the KING of God's Enemies; Then said I, What must be done? Or hath this fault been in one only, that Iniquity should rest on his TRIBE? For lo, Israel standeth before the ARK, enquiring into the MATTER: And there was in the hands of the Angel, (over whom inquiry was made) a Signature; in one Hand was a CROWN dipped in Blood, and in the other Hand a ROD, touched with Hony, concerning which the Angel bid me choose, wherein I was covetous of both.   

CXXXVI.  
And while my Tongue touched the Honey, it was in my Mouth sweet; but immediately was the form of the ANGEL divided, and there remained other Signatures in each Hand of the form of the living Creature, like unto a suit of tried Armour, and Sheet, in which was tied the form of every living Creature under the HEAVENS, according to the Corners of the Heavens from whence they were let down bound. And as I was trying the ARMOUR, finding it cumbersome, as that in which I was not accustomed to wage War, therefore thought I hastily to cast it off, that I might take hold of the Sheet, in which were those living Creatures, there came a Voice from the Heavens, as from the Angel, whose form was again united in a Body, Thou hast chosen that which will make thee a Wonder in the World.   

CXXXVII.  
And he yet cried aloud, The bitterness of the Miracle is in thy Belly, for know thou assuredly, thou hast Part and Lot in this Matter; And to my astonishment, the Body again revived instantly before me, and it was made to stand up before my Face; And there came a second Voice from the Angel, Is it a time to be delighted, with sweetness in the midst of Battle? Or to feed on Honey while Enemies are on the pursuit? And I was afraid I should die, and durst not any more ask any Question in this matter: But after the Voice from the Heavens, became intelligible, wherein an Angel of God said, Arise from thy slumber, thou that art glutted, in that which thou hast killed and eaten, for therefore is thy Head filled with Wonders.   

CXXXVIII.  
I beheld until the forms of all those living Creatures were again awakened before me and they came forth to make WAR in my way; and before me stood the unsealed Book of Wonders, which the LAMB of God had taken out of the Hand of the ANGEL, for the losing of the Seals thereon, which was like unto that which I had eaten, from what was tendered by the ANGEL: And while I beheld the Book lifted up unto the Heavens, I was mourning in Spirit, and said in my Heart, Wherefore hath my life been prolonged for such exercise as this? For now I am become the scorn of cruel Enemies.   

CXXXIX.  
And I returned to the Angel of him that I had seen divided, and who was again united before my Face, and found him clothed in the Armour, as one riding forth to a Battle, unto whom I said, Boast not thyself in putting on, and in thy going forth to War, as may he that putteth it off, and returns a Conqueror; for twice hast thou deceived me, let therefore my wrong rest on Thee (that coverest a WOLF) according to the time I have become a stranger to my own FAMILIARS, when driven forth as among the BEASTS of Prey.   

CXL.  
My Hair was like unto the Plumes of a FOWL, and my Nails like unto the Talents of a BIRD, and because of the Vow on my Head, I was as one forlorn; for thou hast counted the hours of my mourning, and knowest the days wherein pleasant Bread came not into my Mouth, under which my Spirit was ready to faint, but let the Issue be glory to the Highest; Turn again therefore my reproach, I pray thee, that I may know and be assured that thou hast taken notice of the innocency of my SOUL in thy sight, and that thy love is yet towards me.   

CXLI.  
And the Angel of God, again took me into the Habition of WONDERS, where I heard an interpretation of the Mystery of the seven Thunders, and he said unto me, These have made way for the preparing a ground, wherein is revealed what was opened and loosed from the BOOK in the Hand of the Angel; and the time is come that nothing hidden shall remain in its secret Chamber, but the Seal of God shall be taken off from the Spirit of Wonders, and Truth shall have its common recourse, in the fellowship that publisheth abroad the say and report of Wisdom: Therefore prepare thee to write, for thy Prayers are come up before the Lord, and thou shalt yet PROPHESY before the Nobles of the Earth, and thy say shall terrify Kings and mighty Men, as in their appointed season they become fulfilled.   

CXLII.  
And unto the Angels of all Fellowships of People write these things saith the searcher of all Hearts, before whom my desire hath been granted, and he answereth daily my request, revealing the Mystery of all depths concerning the glory of God's Kingdom, and the sum and substance of all Prophecy in Words is transferred to the sensible Reader in a Figure, until the substance thereof become fulfilled, on a Generation of Men, through which it will be made to speak, in an Universal Character of good to Nations, in the generous Spirit of that love, in which many suffer despite.   

CXLIII.  
I know your Thoughts, from the greatest to the least, and you all are expecting alterations and changes in the Government of Nations, and state of public affairs; but believe it, truly, it will not come in that way you expect it, who would gladly see your Enemies destroyed, and utterly confounded, that you might not hope in vain; Alas! the Life of Creatures is precious in God's Eye, and God hath determined no other Judgement to the Wicked, then that which remaineth to be the utter Consumption and Destruction of the Spirit of ENMITY (in the Man of SIN) by which NATIONS are oppressed under his Power, whose destruction cometh to be of themselves, in choosing that which leadeth and guideth under that which of necessity must fall on the World, in a wicked state.   

CXLIV.  
But God is not the Author of all the evil and mischief that is expected to befall NATIONS, in such a Case, though his displeasure may be AWAKENED, against a People or Nation, and in his sufferance are destroying ANGELS loosed out of the great River of the WORLD'S Sea, and often is he stirred up, to that which he delighteth not in, even to appear like unto a LYON roused up before he please, and as a Giant disturbed from his sleep; yet will great Alterations and changes come into the World, and they will happen unto the secure, like Events determined from an overruling Power.     

THE THIRD PART.  

CHAP. I. Wherein is opened the Mystery of what came forth in the Worlds, in the form and frame of the Heavens, from whence the Vision had power to work up its discoveries.  

I.  
THE principles of ETERNITY in God, or God in his eternal existence, is the fire of Life, burning in jealousy (over his own Honour and Glory, that gave being to Love) in which remaineth ●he Original Centre of all good from whence his pre-eminence is maintained (in and over his Creature) through that which he first enkindled ●n the Ground and Centre of Nature, in which is both a good and an evil; But Waters are the first and all Principle in NATURE, through the sinking frame of the WORLDS, into and under palpability, wherein EARTH took form, as a third Principle in Nature, separated into being on the third day, from whence all Creatures became embodied in the substantial form of Palpability.   

II.  
And all separated qualities remain in the ground of substantiality (while time & place endureth) wherein the Life of the Creature centereth, in that which is come forth into its individual being, among the forms of Nature, according to the source it possesseth and inhabiteth for these beings are form in and from the Earthly Principles, which are separated from the Heavens (in what remaineth sinking under a power of Corruption) wherein thre●… do bear record for God, which are the glory of Terrestrial Bodies, Essentially forming Nature into being, in that which continueth breathing through the out-spread Firmament of the Atry Heavens, under the Waters.   

III.  
As also from the fiery Heavens, (from whence a third part of the Waters was dried up from the Earth in their Principle) on the third day, and by a third day's work of God therein manifest, the three Glories of the Father do shine through all Celestial Bodies, to wit, one Glory of the SUN, which is a great LIGHT, to rule the DAY; and another of the MOON, which is the lesser LIGHT, to rule the NIGHT; and another of the STARS, according to their differing Glories, in which the overruling Power of the Heavens, subjecteth the forms of Nature, in their several Constellations, that gives life to the Creatures being in the Earth.   

iv  
In this respect, God is considered and become the cause of all causes in ETERNITY, and ground of all being in NATURE (as Palpability is the ground of Corruptibility) wherein he is called a consuming and everlasting FIRE; and yet as substantiality is not without the Creature, he is absolutely the cause of nothing, as well as of all things, where nothing (without God) is God without Nature, which is a cause of both good and evil, wherein the Worlds do remain unmanifest, but in Nature, and wherein the work of God is comprehended in the forming qualities of that which is brought forth in the effect of labour in seven Natural days.   

V  
Therefore (said the ANGEL of God) these WATERS that thou sawest, are those on which the multitude of the WORLDS and great Nations are moved and carried to and fro, according to the course of time and tide, the WOMAN remained exalted on them who alured many into those Vessels, that begin to swim pleasantly over the streams of Corruption (singing a Requium to their Souls) that they might not remember the danger in their way, wherewith they are daily beset, and they are called the PEOPLE, and Tongues, and Nations (of the Kindred's of the Earth) that are divided under the four WINDS of the Heavens, tossed up and down, through the boisterous Storms, and swelling Tempests, that are again gathered together in HEAPS, over the main Sea and Ocean of Trouble, in which is the Lake and Bottomless Pit, from whence all Monstrous shapes in Creatures are come forth to cover the Earth.   

VI  
And the Vessels that thou sawest carried thereon, are those which were first built and erected from the Heavens, into which the Patrons of all Earthly forms were gathered in one, and were again distributed through many, according to the Nature of the BEAST, wherein wrought the confusion of Languages, in the prevailing of the MOON over Woman, in the changeable ways and course of the WORLD, under which the Heavens stand thus divided.   

VII.  
In seven they took Head, and in ten was each Horn exalted, over nine, which is an intricate number (among the Figures, in forms of Nature) wherein those seven that thou sawest come forth into the Creaturely being, first embodied under the power of Corruption, are the seven forms of Nature, subjected under a power, in which the Heavens and Earth are multiplied, in and according to their Generations, generating Nature and name to the being of each form Corporal.    

CHAP. II. Describing the Nature of the degeneration of the WORLDS, in those Principles wherein the Creature became embodied in time and place.  

VIII.  
FOR answerable to the time and place wherein all Created Prinples (in the forms of Nature) remained sinking under a Power of Corruption, working properties in the Heavens, prevailed over the bodily frame to afflict it with labour, according to the motion in the Wheels (in which those Principles suffered and were acted) and that which suffered the glory of the frame of the WORLDS to work up the gross form of Palpability, in the way and course the Body of Nature became acted by a motion in the Heavens, was subject to Corruption, that came into time and place, through the change of the frame in the Worlds.   

IX.  
And agreeable to the Name and Nature of those Men that were FATHERS in their Generations (through whom palpability prevailed, in the Waters) whereby the Worlds were first overwhelmed in the deluge and overflowing scourge; the glory of the World, embodied a form in Nature for the Seed of Life to work up the first Beauty of CREATION, according to what was manifest in time and place, wherein each day had its year, multiplied in Nature from the Heavens, as each Month hath its Hour, in what is divided to every particular state and condition of the Creature, under which Death and Afflictions have increased their dominion over the ends of the Worlds.   

X.  
And as from the Womb of Eternity, the BEAST in the forms of Nature, prevailed in a backward course, under which the Heavens were subjected, for the manifesting of each day in Nature, wherein the Principles of the World were acted and wrought, in a frame that discovered its revolutions; so according to the years, wherein the multiplicity of such forms increased, the WATERS prevailed in the months thereof, until the seven Mountains could be seen (on which the great CITY was erected) through the decreasing of the Waters, in what remained falling backward for the space of seven Months.   

XI.  
And the CITY that thou sawest, built and settled on those Mountains and high Hills, which became the Foundations of all that fell into and under the palpability of WATERS, is the City HENOCH, which the first born of Nations erected under the power of Corruption, from the ground which he became the tiler and tearer up of, when driven Eastward from the Face of the Earth, and Presence of God, into that Land where he took his Wife, that he might call the name of his Buildings, after the name of his Son, for whom it was built.   

XII.  
For he possessed the seven forms of NATURE the number of years, according to which the year increased its days, and hath all the properties of the Heavens, through a Translation wrought on the Body of Nature, in what came forth mamfest in each line of the Fathers, resting in LAMECH (whence two Wives prevailed over the Man) five years short of a sight into the destruction, which prevailed over the Worlds, in the state it was first planted.    

CHAP. III. Describing the property of enoch's Prophecies.  

XIII.  
THose seven forms of Nature, whose Characters are Figures in Hieroglyps', have the property of Prophecy, among the Works of Wonder, which cannot be understood in the Creaturely Capacity, but through the translations of ENOCH, for whom the ground of conceiveability was torn up; and no less power is requisite herein, than that which smiteth the World, in its third part, of both Earth and Waters, and all that lives therein, or moves thereon; wherein the Beast hath had his Seat as a Temple, in which hath shined the glory of Sun, and Moon, and Stars.   

XIV.  
And for the revealing the true ground, from whence all those glories may come again to shine (in the Principles of Nature) as in the beginning, consumption and darkness must come before his Face, who rideth in the Chariot of Nature (wherein those glories are smitten in the third part) until the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES, which compasseth about the fourth part of the WORLDS, over which the EAGLE hath prevailed.   

XV.  
And though as those Angels stand manifest in the Heavens, they are seven in number, according to the seven forms of Nature, through which are sounded the Mystery of God's Works of Wonders from the seven Golden TRUMPETS; yet is their destroying power bound down in the four last forms only, in which the Elements of Nature have spheared into Corruption, for the discovery of the Lake of Fire, that is hidden in the great River EUPHRATES, from what is thence loosed.   

XVI.  
But the Witnesses hereof, are only two, manifested in each three Principles (of both Heavenly and Earthly being) in which the AIR is commanded, until FIRE and WATER is become united in its ANGEL, that hath one Foot on the Earth, and hath his other on the great Seas; for the Angel of the Waters, saith, It is done, but an Angel of the Fire, who continueth always ministering before the ALTAR, hath touched my Tongue with a live Coal he hath brought from thence, wherein I am made able to declare of what he hath fling on the Earth.   

XVII.  
And beholding the seven Mountains of the Earth, on which is settled the Foundations of that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Worlds, in the in kindled Fire burning under its Foundations, I see terrible shake that are yet to pass through the Worlds, & over all buildings therein, after the tenth part of the CITY is seen become fallen, in the ascending up of the Witnesses unto Heaven, in the sight of their Enemies, wherein the ten Horns of the BEAST shall hate the Whore, and burn her flesh with FIRE.   

XVIII.  
Then shall be seen the seven Horns of the LAMB, full of Eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, which do walk among the seven Golden Candlesticks; and the Books shall stand open, on which hath been put those seven Seals, that he may be known come into the Worlds, that holdeth in his right Hand a Crown of seven Stars, as seven golden Lamps burning before the Throne of God and the Lamb, and lighting the whole Earth with his Glory (in the form of the Pleyades) for the seventh Trumpet shall sound forth the Mystery of what is thus unsealed over the mighty deeps, which have filled the World's   

XIX.  
And in the finishing of this great Mystery, all Nations of the Earth shall be gathered to their appointed place, that the Spirit and God of the World, may bear the wrath of Indignation of what is poured forth (on the frame of all created Principles into form) without mixture, which is the second Death, executed in the seven last Plagues, wherewith the seven Golden Vials are filled, wherein God will appear in ten thousand of his Saints.    

CHAP. IU. Describing the ground in Nature, from whence the Wheels are moved about the frame of the WORLDS.  

XX.  
THe seven spirits of God, are moved about the frame of the WORLDS, according to what doth operate and work up the way and course he is manifest through in the Seven forms of Nature (which are become the Seven heads of the BEAST, and the Seven Mountains of the WORLD, on which the City is built wherein the WHORE doth sit exalted;) and therefore is God manifest (in the Spirit of Judgement) in those Forms of Nature, that every thing may come forth tried unde● the motion of the WHEELS.   

XXI.  
But though the BEAST hath taken Head in these forms of Nature Nature is again returning to its firs● subjection, in the utter consumption and destruction of the power of the Dragon, Beast and False Prophet (ou● of those forms in Nature; for now are the Wheels moving over the grea● River Euphrates, on which the trumpet of God hath sounded; and thence are loosed his destroying Angels which cause thunders and lightning in the Heavens.   

XXII.  
And the Clouds of Heaven are already tinctured, with that which Ascendeth upward, to prepare its motion in the Air, whence his appearance is expected, who judgeth the Prince thereof, and casteth down the Accuser of the Just (from those Airy Heavens, wherein he hath been exalted) though the Seven Forms of Nature, which are moved about the heavens of the Worlds, attend the first mover, wherein the Work of God is manifest in the Seven Spirits of Nature.   

XXIII.  
For this centre of the Inward WORLD, which was thus unmovable, had a power in and over all that was movable and changeable, which became a cause in the motion of the WHEELS, that was overruled by the wisdom and power of the first mover, wherein all Glories of the FATHER, shined in the Firmament of his POWER, in which he remained unalterable, and unchangeable, the same, without any shadow of turning or variation.   

XXIV.  
Yet is it only in Nature that God is become thus a cause of moveability, because God is the unchangeable being of Love & Delight in REST, in the Centre of all that is good; and Nature is that into which good and evil hath entered, from whence its TREE hath sprung up and doth grow, which the Creature (who is the cause of work and labour in God) hath fed on, that hath brought the sense of pangs and misery into the World, where is the worldly sorrow that worketh and bringeth under the power of Death, and all other afflictions they meet with in their way.    

CHAP. V Describing the Form and Order of the WHEELS in their MOTION.  

XXV.  
FOR God is the cause of nothing without NATURE, though in the Wheels there appeared two Motions, whereby the cause of moveability was kept from centring in the ground of Corruption and Mortality, under the power of which the Creature of God was thus fallen in a NATURAL Body, through that which was sown in Weakness; therefore in what ever the Creature was betrayed under the power of its guidance, it was a CROSS to all proneness and adiction of Motion, that did arise from the ground of Corruption.   

XXVI.  
And about the CENTRE, in which stood a Heart inflaming, was made a Diurnal Motion in the Wheels, which moved at a distance in two Rings of the inward Wheels, wherein the third and inward Principle, moved equally with the ground of Motion, from the first CENTRE; and the two outward Principles of the inward World, acted according to what was form in a third Principle, by which those three Principles came to manifest their CENTRE in Nature.   

XXVII.  
But in the WHEELS, there was also an Annual Motion, that moved round that which stood fixed in the Centre, and this caused a ground without the Centre (as it stood manifest through the inward Motion) to be corruptible, and to Centre under a power of Corruption, though in those inward Rings of the Wheels, there were kept and preserved a tincture of the first Motion.   

XXVIII.  
Yet having let in another Tincture from the power of Corruption (under which the Worlds were labouring to Centre) what ever came forward under its motion, must again be brought back, into the sense and feeling of that which it reacheth after, through DEATH, to the cause of all labour and pangs, wherein the Body of Nature standeth afflicted.   

XXIX.  
For there was neither East, West, North, nor South, from the Centre, in the inward Rings of the Wheels, though it appeared to me in the ground, whereon I lay (for the beholding of the Vision) that as the outward Rings in the Wheels were moved in a power of the four Winds of the Heavens, the inward motion was from East to West, and the Wheels went side ways in all courses of the World.   

XXX.  
In which the three Rings of the outward Wheels did move and were moved, according to the frame of the Worlds, wherein centred the Principles of the whole; but the inward Wheels moved by reflection, the CENTRE being unmoveable, wherein two Rings only were discerned at a distance (in that inward Wheel) though in the Principles of each and both Worlds, there were moved about three Rings in each Wheel.   

XXXI.  
And though in the outward Ring of the Inward Wheel (in its Diurnal Motion) the Heavens did move, and were moved, in what stood fixed toward the CENTRE, yet the outward Ring of the outward Wheel, standeth 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 distance of years, from the motion in the 〈◊〉 as doth the inward Ring of 〈◊〉 inward Wheel, from the revolution of the Moon, in the Annual Motion of the Wheels: And in the second Ring of the outward Wheels, the Heavens were moved about, in their Annual Motion; at the same distance from the Centre, as they were in the second Ring of the inward Wheel, in their Diurnal Motion.    

CHAP. VI Describing the MYSTERY of the sounding of the seven Golden TRUMPETS, and the seven THUNDERS, that are for the preparing a ground in which the Judgement of God is manifest.  

XXXII.  
ON the Ground and Principles of a third part of the Worlds, into which the DRAGON drew a third part of the Stars of Heaven after him, did five of these Golden Trumpets sound forth the Judgement of God, in what is loosed and unsealed from the BOOK of WONDERS in the Heavens, wherein the four BEASTS were manifest each in their day, calling to come and see what lay slain under the ALTAR of God (in his Temple and House) wherein the Sun, Moon, and Stars of Heaven did shine, through that which was smitten in its third part.   

XXXIII.  
And herein is discovered the seat of the BEAST in Nature, whose torment is awakened out of the bottomless Pit, though as yet the number of Horsemen and Riders do multiply on the Earth, through that which is awakened from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on the great River EUPHRATES, in which hath been bound the four Angels (that were prepared according to the time in which standeth the Execution of their destroying Power) in withholding the Winds from blowing on the EARTH, as they are seen come up exalted on the four Corners of the same, holding the four Corners of those Winds.   

XXXIV.  
Wherein each of those four Beasts, in the forms of Nature, recovereth six Wings, according to the six Spirits of God, in which the seventh unchangeable Spirit of Rest (in him) is begotten into the Creature and Creation, that are become his Workmanship; and they cover the living Creatures, who day and night are crying HOLY unto the Lord and by the lifting up and letting down of their WINGS, is the whole Earth and Worlds darkened or enlightened with GLORY,   

XXXV.  
And the Mansions or twelve Houses of the Father's GLORY in the Heavens, have their form defended, with the WALL that is raised up on its ancient Foundations, wherein are twelve Pearls on its twelve Gates, and under it are the twelve Foundations, settled in the Refining Power, through which are to be brought other three parts of a new World, in its Heaven & Earth, in the destruction of a fourth part, over which the fourth BEAST hath ruled with the Face of an Eagle, who is come forth on his PALE HORSE, like unto Death, and Death and Hell follows him.   

XXXVI.  
Whose Power is by Famine, Pestilence, and Sword, with WILD Beasts of Prey, in all that lives in, or moves on the GROUND and PRINCIPLES, over which the seven THUNDERS are awakened to Thunder, from those Places wherein Life doth strive, to break forth and come into the CENTRE of the creaturely being, where every Birth hath its SIGNIFICATOR, and the twenty four Wings of the four Beasts, are the Army of the HEAVENS, according to what came forth first MANIFEST in the four Wings of the FOWL, that was stretched forth over the LYON, in what strove to come up, under the four Winds of the HEAVENS, wherein the Heavens contended.    

CHAP. VII. Describing the MYSTERY of the four Beasts, in the seven Forms of NATURE, and of the Beast himself, who is the Eighth.  

XXXVII.  
FRom the THUNDERS in the Heavens, I beheld a prepared Ground, unto which the Gates of Eternity were opened; and from the Elemental being, in which four Gates were opened into the Worlds, whence strove the four Winds of the Heavens, I beheld the coming forth of the four Beasts in the seven forms of Nature, wherein their Power was first manifest; after whom arose those other four Beasts, in the dispersing abroad of the powers of Nature, through the plucking of the Wings from the LYON.   

XXXVIII.  
Wherein the Power of the RAM in Nature (who came forth first exalted, through the plucking off the LION'S Wings, and dispersing abroad of the power of five Kings that were fallen) had his HORNS first broken, in the separated power of the Heavens, under the striving of their four Winds, and he is the last Power in Nature, under which the Heads of the Beast have been healed.   

XXXIX.  
For through the appearance of the ANGEL of God, in the forms of Nature, I beheld how the whole Earth was lighted with the Glory of that which is broken forth into the Worlds; and there came unto me one of those seven Angels of God, who had the Golden Vials, that were filled with the seven last Plagues, even the wrath of the Lamb, ready to be poured forth on the wicked and ungodly world, and he talked with me, as doth a Man with his Friend, and said unto me, This is the Mystery of that first Beast thou sawest come forth with five Heads and nine Horns.   

XL.  
These are nine Kings, five against four, who served and were subject to one King twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled; and in the fourteenth year his power was again revived, in what had received that deadly wound, wherein was broken the first five Horns, from the fifth Head of the BEAST, whose Seat was in MALE, called ELAM in the Hebrew Tongue, which you read backward, and his Name is KEDORLEOMAR, in SHINAR of BABYLON, where is the VOICE of an ANGEL, I-AM-RAPHEL, revealed in TIDAL (LAD it) KING of Nations.   

XLI.  
This therefore is the Mystery of all those Beasts, and of what thou hast seen come forth, according to the times in the Vision, for which it hath wrought; the LYON is the Heart of that Nature, in which the first ADAM was Created, from whence the RAM in Nature hath Head and Face, which is the first House among the Mansions in the Heavens, of the Father's Glory, and the CALF is the Neck and Throat of Nature, which is the second House of the Father's MANSIONS in the Heavens, whence the escape GOAT took form, through the bended KNEES of what descended from the Heavens, in the state of subjection, under which Nature was framed.   

XLII.  
And in those two first Houses of the Heavens (wherein the Glory of the Sun and Moon, of the Son of Man, in the FIRST ADAM was exalted) the fiery Heavens had tinctured the forms of Nature, in the double Bodied being (through a separation made between Day and Night) wherein the Man was oppressed, that bore the weight and burden of the wrong in the Fall, on the shoulders of the created Body, overruled through its two great Lights, whereby his ARMS were spread abroad, as the appearance of his form, wrought in the Clouds of the Heavens, whence those Beasts did both ascend and descend.   

XLIII.  
Which stood manifest on the EARTH, whence the HEE-GOAT ascended, through the Man's sufferance, who had the face of the third Beast, among those forms in Nature, for the Arms and Shoulders of Nature, is the third House of MANSIONS in the Heavens (as the fourth BEAST in the forms of Nature, with the face of an EAGLE) wherein the four Angels are exalted on the Earth, in the sounding of those Golden Trumpets out of the TEMPLE, by their ANGELS in their forms of Nature.    

CHAP. VIII. Describing the Ground in Nature, wherein other BEASTS took Form, than those FOUR in which the Creation of God was FIRST planted in its Government over the BODY, wherein Man hath a Being.  

XLIV.  
THe IMAGE of God, in which was the Man's Dominion, had power over all those Earthly FORMS in Nature; though as ADAM was created an earthly Man, he was of the Earth earthly; for that was first, which is earthly; and yet in the similitude he bore of his Maker, there was a Government settled, to rule and have authority over the Nature of the BEAST (which made subject to Vanity, and a Power of Corruption) through a Generation and Generations that liked not to retain the KNOWLEDGE of God in their MINDS.   

XLV.  
Therefore did they change the Image of God into Gold and Silver, and fourfooted BEASTS, and creeping things, with Wood and Stone, and things graven out of the Invention of Man, which they have fallen down unto, and worshipped; because after they knew God (or rather were known of Him) this MYSTERY of Iniquity began to work HIDDENLY, wherein they were given up to a reprobate sense, in the UNBELIEF of the Truth, that caused the Condemnation.   

XLVI.  
And their DAMNATION slumbereth not, who believe a Lie, to the marring of that Form in which the MAN was an Image of his Maker: This therefore is prefigured forth to thee, that thou mayest apprehend the Generation of MEN on whom God hath set a Mark according to the IMAGE they bore, to distinguish them in their NATURE. And as the LION (whose Government is in the HEART of Nature) and CALF, whose government (in Nature) is the Neck and Throat of the untamed Will (that acteth the BODY) are the FIFTH and SECOND Houses of those Mansions from whence the SUN is moved, and wherein the MOON is EXALTED) so the RAM and HE-GOAT, who are the FIRST and TENTH Houses among the FORMS (in Nature) are those BEASTS in Nature, wherein a falsified Glory entered those FORMS in which the MAN lost Dominion, though the Light of the SUN of his day was and is Exalted in that FIRST House, as it fell in the TENTH.   

XLVII.  
And therefore in the sinking State under which those forms of Creation continued, Light was Exalted in the Reins of Nature (which is the SEVENTH House) whence came forth and appeared the Face of that THIRD BEAST like a MAN, with the BALANCES in his Hands, whereby every thing was weighed and tried by just Measure; though under him lurked the Form of a Leopard or great Bear, with four wings of a Fowl on his Back, and through him sprung up FOUR notable HORNS on the HEAD of the GOAT, in the dispersing abroad KINGDOMS of the EARTH, under the FOUR Winds of the HEAVENS.   

XLVIII.  
But in the dividing of the Heavens, whence came to be exalted the Spirit of Sound and Tone, uttering its Voice in the sound of seven golden Trumpets, as the WOLF or little BEAR, that hath for his Seat the Breast of Nature (which is the fourth House among the MANSIONS in the Heavens) got before the LION'S Face, who is the Heart of Nature, in that fifth House of Mansions, (wherein the SUN hath its seat) the Moon came to exalt her borrowed Light from that fourth House (which is become her seat) in the second House, (which is her House of Exaltation.)    

CHAP. IX. Describing the Properties of the IMAGE in the FORMS of Nature, that fell in the WATERS.  

XLIX.  
THe Head of the IMAGE, which was Gold, was the LION'S four first Golden Wings, wherein the strength of ASSYRIA was broken, the first time, in what was plucked from the LYON, according to that which fell in the WATERS; and the Silver Breast (which was the two Horns of the RAM in Nature) is the strength of the MEDES and PERSIANS, that were broken by the Power of GREECE, whereby BABYLON spread abroad her Kingdoms (in the rising up of the little BEAR on the LION'S side) wherein was that second great LIGHT comprehended.   

L.  
But from the NORTH did he move about the Heavens through his TAIL, wherein Centred the Meridian point thereof, holding in his Mouth those three Ribs that were taken out of his Side, in his rising up to devour much Flesh, Furthermore, said the Angel of God, The great BEAR or LEOPARD that thou sawest, is that in which a third part of the Stars of Heaven are comprehended, that have fallen unto the Earth, which is the brazen Belly of the IMAGE in the FORMS of Nature, even the Power of GREECE, in that which is dispersed under the Four Winds of the Heavens.   

LI.  
This is a Power of the South Wind wherein the brass Belly of the Image remained bound down with an Iron Bond of the NORTH Strength, from which it could not be loosed (in the four destroying ANGELS of God) until that was ripened to the Day of Destruction, wherein the Wound of the BEAST had been healed up deceitfully, though three Horns were plucked up by the Roots, while the stumps of the IMAGE continued fallen in ASIA, for the discovering of the four Heads of the Beast, in which he bore the form of a Leopard or GREAT Bear; but the LITTLE Horn waxed strong, and became GREAT towards the four Winds of the Heavens.   

LII.  
For as I beheld the Throne of God placed in his Holy Habitation, the Ancient of Days was sat thereon, wherein appeared his burning Wheels and the signs in the WATERY HEAVENS discovered that which rested in their TRIPLICITY from the Zodiac, whence those Houses of Mansions have their Constellations; And though the RAM in Nature had the first Form in the Fiery Triplicity, and was the first House of those twelve Mansions (as is the CALF the first Form in the Earthly Triplicity, and second House in those Mansions) yet through the WHEELS the HEAVENS and EARTH were moved toward a Change, throughout the seven forms of Nature in EACH Triplicity.   

LIII.  
Wherein the Lion hath the Face of the first Beast among the FORMS in Nature, though in his fifth House that which shineth (from his Seat) is exalted in the Head and Face of the Ram. But both the Created and Uncreated Being's, having their generated Forms in the Body of Nature, the first Form in the Airy Triplicity, hath the Face of an EAGLE (exalting that which is generated into the Double-Bodied-Being) to be his House, that is sheltered under the Wing of Favour (in that fourth Beast) through whom Death strengtheneth those Accidents that are drawn from the FIRST Form in the WATERY Triplicity, from whence all changeable Courses do work up Life in the Breast of Nature, wherein the SPIRIT of the Creature doth move, which is the Candle of GOD, through which Glory is put forth in those borrowed QUALITIES of Light.   

LIV.  
Though from Barenness in the worldly Nature, wherein the Glory of the Virgin hath been stained, cancered & crabbed Qualities have infected the Body, whereby it hath sprung up and grew, until from the second Form in the Earthly Triplicity, the VIRGIN (who hath sat in a dark place, even the Bowels of Nature, which is the sixth House in the Heavens) came to put off her night Robes for the Glory of the Birth exalted in the separation of all mixed Qualities, which is HEIR of everlasting Renown.   

LV.  
Yet in the Watery Triplicity, where in the Body's Courses have been defiled, through that which hath lain secretly lurking in the Members, whereby the FORMS of Nature have power to generate an IMAGE of the Minds Delight, the Womb hath opened to the Power of Death, and letting in Sorrow into that which is possessed in the Eighth House, whence the WORLDS are generated under a Power of Corruptian; the Nature of the SCORPION stingeth in the Habitation of that second Form (in the Watery Triplicity) through the Pleasure under which its Subjects are alured, for the multiplying of what is generated to secret content.    

CHAP. X. Describing the MYSTERY of the Four Horses of four several Colours, on which the four ANGELS that are loosed, etc. are come forth exalted.  

LVI.  
THrough the coming forth of the Son of MAN, in the CLOUDS of Heaven, who was clothed with a Rainbow, in which are all the colours of the Heavens in their pure Element, as the Powers of Nature became subject to the exalted of God, he rod on those CLOUDS that were dispersed abroad under the Four Winds of the Heavens, as on the Rainbow in the Firmament, whence every Angel of God is seen in his Beauty and Glory, bending to the Son of his Love and Favour, through whom he manifesteth the Life of Delight, according to the source they possess and inhabit from the eleventh House of Mansions (in the third Form of the Airy Triplicity) like unto HORSE- men that guide the Chariot of Nature.   

LVII.  
For the preparing of which DAY in its time, those Goats have been suffered to come forth embodied (in that which is loosed out of the bottomless Pit) whereby the Earth hath been covered with Locusts, wherein pangs have rested on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast. Therefore saith the Angel of God, In that third Being in the FIERY Triplicity, wherein the form of the Son of Man is come forth exalted in the Clouds of Heaven, (through that which smiteth the EARTHLY Triplicity in its third part among the Forms of Nature) the BOW- Man is riding on his White Horse, and over the White Clouds of the Heavens; he hath spread his Glory from the North, because of those flying Goats in his Way, whose ratlings are like the Chariot-Wheels of the FURIOUS Drivers.   

LVIII.  
And in the Watery Triplicity the burning Mountain continueth in flaming from that which is cast into the Sea, which doth rage and swell because of the disquiet that is come into its part of the Triplicity (in that Watery Form) over whom the Glories of the Heavens do not shine in that third part, and wherein both Earth and Waters, and all that live therein, or move thereon, are smitten in the aforesaid third part, that resteth its torment on the seat of the BEAST, into which Glory hath shined from the Heavens, in the operation of those Signs of the Times.   

LIX.  
From whence I see great Alterations and Changes, attending the WORLDS in their Generations; where wild BULLS of Bashan are reared up to push and devour each other, and from DAN there is in mine Ear the snorting of Horses, and rattling sound of the Chariot Wheels, like rumblings in the Air, hurling up and down, for REST from noise: And what is herein written, is of things past, present, and to come, which are all to be fulfilled in their place and order, (according to the Days and Hours for which the VISION doth work, and is made to speak) in what is narrowed to the Creaturely Capaciiy, through him that hath cut the Work short in Righteousness, that is manifested throughout this la l● and Age of the WORLD.   

LX.  
For from the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about EUROPE (in its fourth part and Quarter) is the destroying Power of God loosed, for the Execution of Divine Justice on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast, on whom the torment of those Months is accomplished; to the finishing the work in which Death hath Dominion over that Nature wherein the WORLDS are embodied in its Quarters; therefore is the time near at hand, wherein the Worlds will suffer very great shake, and Earthquakes will break forth in divers parts thereof, to the overturning of many Foundations, and changing of Laws and Governments of Men, (whereby coldness of Spirit and deadness hath over-taken the Multitude in a dull and secure state) and afterwards will follow a great Power of HEAT, in kindling its FLAMES of DESTRUCTION throughout the BODY of the ELEMENTS.    

CHAP. XI. Describing the MYSTERY of Time for which the Vision is set, etc.  

LXI.  
Concerning the TIME for which the VISION is set, it is now near the expiration of one hundred and twenty days, since the finishing of the fifteen years, wherein I beheld the prevailing of the Waters over the Earth (in the fifth year that I saw the fall of the Worlds, under a Power of Corruption) through which the Waters became smitten in their third part, under which the WORLDS stand divided (in their four Quarters) in the dispersing abroad of the FLOODS, on which the People were moved and tossed up and down, as the Waters fell BACKWARD into their four Heads by which every thing hath been tried and carried into its appointed Place, through the Tempests and swelling Waves of awakened Storms that are come into the Worlds.   

LXII.  
For from those TWELVE Years wherein the Nations of the Earth were subject to one KING, a Spirit of Rebellion against the Power of the Beast, entered four Kings of the four Winds of the Heavens, who fell before five in the Vale of Siddim (that is full of slime-pits) whereby the remainder of those that escaped were reduced to the Mountains on their flight; yet the thirteenth year (which was the year of their Rebellion) was it in which the Power of the BEAST stood dispersed in the striving of the four WINDS of the Heavens on the great River EUPHRATES, out of which their Power is again revived and loosed; though from the Seat of the Beast (which is the BOTTOMLESS-PIT, from whence proceeded those living Creatures called LOCUSTS, that I beheld in the Vision, in the form of Goats, etc.) Life again entered that, on which rested the First Wound in Nature.   

LXIII.  
And as the LEOPARD or Great BEAR came forth manifest, with four Wings on his Back, like the Wings of a FOWL, his Kingdom stood dispersed abroad the Earth and Worlds, and in the place of the Great Horn of the RUFF GOAT of GREECE, which was broken by the power under which the Worlds stood divided, those Four notable Horns were seen, that became exalted towards the four Winds of the Heavens, which are the Power of four KINGS, and four Heads of the Beast that did spring out of the first Breach (whose Kingdoms are not so mighty as the first) wherein the Little Horn came forth between the Eyes of the Goat, etc.   

LXIV.  
And that little Help through which the fifth Head in the midst of four (on which sprung up five Horns that were broken, and fell in the first King) received that deadly Wound, etc. is a Power in the North Wind of the Heavens, under which the Wound is become again healed up, that is, the Feet of the Image, which is partly to break, and partly to be broken, for it is both Iron and Clay: And this is the King of the NORTH, who may be manifest in the Person of a Man of fierce Speech, and dark Countenance (as he is indeed manifest through many in whom a Power of the North Winde hath been dignified, as Kings in that REGION) wherein is a cold binding Climate of dark Air.   

LXV.  
For since the fourteenth year wherein the South Winds of the Heavens were reproved and corrected for their Rebellion (in those four Kings whose Kingdoms were enlarged in the dispersing abroad of the Power of four, that sprung out of one, who retained not the ARM) that which grew up towards its trial by FIRE, was separated into its Mystery, in what was effected through the fifteenth year, from whence the Worlds have been warned one hundred and twenty days, (according to the days of the Life of Man) of that destruction and dissolution, by the overflowing Scourge) wherein the Waters have exercised a Dominion that is ome under the smiting of the four Winds of the Heavens.   

LXVI.  
And wherein both the HEADS and HORNS of the Beast are KINGS and POWERS in Nature that have their Form in and on Men; yet the King himself of that North Wind is not the Person of any ONE Man, but a Power in One as well as in Many, that are wholly under the Dominion of the Beast, or that have his Mark, etc. according to the Power of the Constellations, under which the period of all Signs in the Heavens are moved, and do work over such that have their concern therein, in a mystical and spiritual sense to all NAMES in Nature; but now is it manifest that the MYSTERY of Time is complete in the Figure of the FORMS in Nature, wherein every thing that is either past, present, or to come, remaineth MEASURABLE and DISTINGUISHABLE, according to that Spirit under which all Powers in Nature doth WORK, and and whereby all that is wrought (in its BEING) is come forth into FORM.   

LXVII.  
Yet Nature that is Creatable, suffereth through all Changes and REVOLUTIONS that are MANIFEST on and in the BODY of ELEMENTS, subject to Vanity, and a Power of Corruption, both the Good and the Evil (of which the MAN hath tasted in the exercise of his Sense, according to the operation of Qualities that are predominate in his BIRTH) though nothing is absolute (in time and place) to the MAN, but in the Power under which his Life is concerned, operating in all the faculties of Nature (in which is the holy and glorious Land) whence tidings shall come out of the North, and from the East, which will trouble the NATIONS and Inhabitants of the Earth (who are yet to be disquieted and unsettled from their Lees) whereby Destroyer's have been suffered (in the Way) that are come on the Holy People, where they are scattered in the North Country situated between the Seas.    

CHAP. XII. Describing the MYSTERY of Time, according to the end for which the FORMS of Nature came forth into Manifestation, on which Consumption and Dissolution hath over-taken the Abominations, for which the WORLD is made desolate in this last day and Age, etc.  

LXVIII.  
AS to the Time for which the VISION is made to speak, it is from and of the Beginning, and to the End of Time and Place, whereby every thing standeth manifest (under a Figure) according to the Days and Years under which all FORMS in Nature do labour and work, which have their Hours and Months in the measure of Time, etc.) wherein the Frame and Form of the Work of God (in the power of Creation) was laid in the Line of ADAM (in his Generations) answerable to the Years of his Life, in which the Days of the VISION do manifest the whole WORK, raised up from that in which it was sown.   

LXIX.  
For, as from the Creation of the Worlds (according to the most just and true account of Men) is three thousand years to the finishing of the TEMPLE which SOLOMON built, (in which the first Glory of the Work of God stood manifest) and from the finishing of that Temple (which was built and erected in seven years) to the Birth and Incarnation of the Son of Man (through the Power of the SECOND ADAM, a quickening Spirit, etc.) was nine hundred and thirty years; so doth all things stand manifest (in NUMBER) under the same figure in the coming forth of the WORLDS, which in seven days was brought into form, according to the sense of the first Man ADAM, through whom the Works of GOD was comprehended in Natural Body, wherein the seed of Life was known, by which his living Soul became apprehensive, in the breathe of the SPIRIT, and Breath of GOD.   

LXX.  
Whereby NATURE multiplied in its Forms, according to the course they were subjected under, in that Dominion, wherein the MAN was made LORD over all the Works of GOD's Hands, answerable to the sensibility that was wrought up through the seventh Form, descending; in which HENOCH continued embodied as many years as are days in the year; and all the days of YEARS wherein Adam continued embodied in that first Form, are reckoned nine hundred and thirty, which is two years and seven months, according to the account of Time, wherein the Forms of Nature do stand numbered (in a figure) under which they are multiplied (a year for a Day.)   

LXXI.  
And concerning the Time for which the VISION is made to speak (in what is form for a conclusion of the matter) and wherein the Nature of that which worketh standeth figured forth to the bringing the WHOLE under its Day of Trial; as it was one thousand six hundred fifty and six years from the Creation of the Worlds (into time and place) to the overflowing Scourge that followed them therein, and over-took the Forms whererein they were created with the Deluge, and from thence until the days wherein Moses became manifest in flesh, etc. was seven hundred seventy and seven years, who continued therein one hundred and twenty years; so it was twenty eight Jubilies from the beginning of those Services, which rested under the Government of JOSHUA that succeeded him, in that sixth YEAR to the anointing of CHRIST to his Office, that put an end to all those Offerings and Sacrifices, etc. thus typified out in JOSHUA, which signifieth JESUS, or SAVIOUR.   

LXXII.  
From which time there is passed the number of YEARS in thirty two Jubilies and thirty two years, to this year of the World's account, 1665. And as from the finishing of the Temple, in which those Services stood accepted under the Law, etc. to the destroying thereof by Fire, was four hundred twenty and three years; and after six years was the King of BABYLON established in his Kingdom and Throne which made him say, Is not this great BABEL which I have built? so unto that eleventh year wherein the HOLY ONE and the WATCHER came down to show him the end of those Visions of the MONARCHIES of the Worlds, and the state into which he should be driven (among Beasts of prey) was four hundred thirty and four years, which is the number of sixty and two weeks of days.     

A Conclusion To the whole WORK.  

I.  
BUt in the time  Life was prolonged in the Government over ISRAEL, in its dying state, as it received in the sense of the Wound come on a third part of its Glory that was smitten, and the shadow of the SUN went back ten degrees on the Dyal in which the forms of Nature stand manifest (according to the Significator of the Birth concerned therein, wherein the SUN hath recovered the first point of ARIES, from the tenth day of the first month, in this sixteenth year; for from the period of fifteen years, the Pangs and Sufferings that came into the WORLDS in their third part, hath rested in the Seat of the Beast, on those MEN that have received his Mark.   

II.  
And after the MOON hath passed her Course through the Signs in the ZODIAC (of an Inward World) wherein she will be descending towards the House of her Exaltation, in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and six, and will renew her Entrance through ARIES, on the concluding of the YEAR; the effect of that which hath rested on those Men who are come under the smiting of the Beasts Power for those five Months wherein pangs have proceeded from his Seat, will be seen in the WORLDS; for from the concluding of that year is thirty days, wherein the SUN hath his Passage through LEO, the Heart of a Lion, which is his own House, who entered the first point of Cancer, (wherein the Summer Quarter is manifest) nineteen days before the concluding of this year, 1665.   

III.  
And as the number of years for which Jerusalem was rebuilt the second time, was sixty two Weeks, until the MESSIAH was anointed to his Office, after the finishing of the second Temple, in seven weeks, which was for a Week, and in the midst of that Week was the Prophet and SON of GOD cut off, (though not for his own transgressions) so it was sixty two weeks more: or an hundred thirty four days, from the birth of JESUS, that great PROPHET, through whom the partition Wall was broken down between two Nations, to the thirtieth year of the Reign and Exaltation of the Kingdom of Mystery BABYLON, over the Kings of the Earth.   

iv  
Whose King spoiled the Glory of JERUSALEM, and led away Captives from thence, taking unto himself the VESSELS of Silver and Gold that were in the House of the Lord, in the nineteenth year of his Reign over Assyria, and in the twenty fifth year of his Establishment in Media and Persia, saw the four Kings in whom the Image of Glory became manifest in the WOLDS, while the STUMP thereof remained bound down in the Earth with an Iron BAND, after seven times had passed over his HEAD, which was wet with the Dew of the Night.   

V  

Wherefore from the time wherein the daily Sacrifice was made to cease (after the restoring of that breach on the Walls of Jerusalem) to the finishing of the outward Court of the Holy City, (which was given into the hands of the Gentiles to tread under foot those forty & two months, or an hundred and forty two days) being the concluding of a time, times, and the dividing of times (which is seventeen hundred and fifty days, wherein the Woman hath been nourished in the place that is there provided for her, for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore days, that the two Witnesses have appointed them to finish and fulfil their PROPHECY in sackcloth, in which time the Earth doth help the WOMAN. It is now eighteen days since the Commandment of God came forth for the rebuilding and restoring those outward Courts of the CITY.   

TIME on a Prophetical account, which is the Language of the holy Scripture is five hundred years, according to the life of Noah, before he began to build his Family in the EARTH (which was saved in the Ark of God) and so long is accounted the days of Shem, after the Flood of Waters, as the mystical Number in which is contained ten Jubiles of years under the Law.    

VI  
And after thirty one days it shall be finished, then shall be a WEEK to renew the Zeal of God, and expiate sin, (to the sealing and binding down the power of the WICKED for evermore) and in the midst of that Week those Witnesses shall seal their Testimony concerning the Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth, who hath been crucified, and lain slain in the streets of that great City, spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, but after three days and a half (which is the concluding of the 1290 days) they shall be seen to ascend up into Heaven in the sight of all their ENEMIES.   

VII.  
For it is now eighteen days since the WOMAN hath regained a sense of her deliverance from her great Captivity (in that WILDERNESS-State) in which the forty two months of her travel are expired, and the Birth is brought forth in the EARTH, which hath been preserved and delivered from the fury and rage of the great red Dragon (by the Floods of Water which he hath cast out of his BELLY after her) in the one thousand four hundred, and forty and four thousands that are found standing on Mount Zion, with their Harps harping, but until the end of two days the Judgement of God set up in ISRAEL shall quicken the sealed number of Gods chosen and holy Ones, who have remained as dry Bones in the Valley of Jehosaphat, where the spirit of God hath breathed on the slain, that from the third day will be found to live in his sight, to seal the testimony of that birth, which hath thirty days more to accomplish its growth, into the power by which it is anointed to finish that great Work, in that Week wherein the dead are made able to stand on their Feet, by the sound of the seventh and last Trump.   

VIII.  
And he that hath WISDOM, let him count the time, and number those days, from whence the number of the BEAST, (which is the number of a MAN) is complete DCLXVI, for from that day will the four destroying Angels of God stand loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES, according to the hour, day, month, and year, for which they were prepared, which after a month (wherein those five months will be expired) will leave seven months for the Dead to bury their Dead, in the concluding of the year, wherein Destruction is come forth against the WICKED.   

IX.  
Therefore count thou from the year 1656, wherein the Devil did exercise his power for ten days, by casting many into Prison, since the expiration of the WOMAN'S Trials, and sore TRAVEL, that the forty days wherein the Seed of the Woman was left to be persecuted and tried by the fury and rage of the Devourer and his Angels (that great Red DRAGON, will make way for the power of God to be glorified, after the third day, in ten thousand of his SAINTS; for from the expiration of those months (wherein the striving continued between two Nations) the King of BABYLON (who had looked into the Glory of the Temple which God hath built in Israel, wherein are many goodly Vessels of Gold and Silver) hath been letted from spoiling and laying utterly waste the HOUSE, in which are appointed those rich Treasuries about his Sanctuary.   

X.  
Yet the Daughter of the NORTH suffereth Oppression under a strange KING, unto whom the QUEEN of the SOUTH is joined, to corrupt their Seed; though unto them the Mystery of that which pertaineth to the KINGDOM of GOD is opened (in those that run to and fro to increase in knowledge,) and from the extirpation of the fifteen years, from whence the WORLD hath been warned one hundred and twenty days, and wherein the EXECUTION of that which was detained from the Earth and WORLDS (in their third part) to the prolonging of Life in the Government of Nature, in which ISRAEL had their choice is to be MANIFEST, the substance of what standeth in the end of time and place, which is near to be revealed.   

XI.  
Therefore for the purging forth the Sin of MANASSEH, through whom the HIGH ALTARS were erected in both Courts of the City (for those fifty five days wherein the number seventy was accomplished in the concluding of fifteen years, which discovered the Judgement that revived and was come on the Worlds, that on whom the Image of JEALOUSY came forth manifest;) forty five days are yet determined from the midst of the WEEK wherein the Testimony of GOD will receive its everlasting Seal, and it shall be the Joy of many to understand the Mystery of what is concluded in one thousand two hundred and ninety days; but blessed are those that live & attain to the end of those eighty five days, which are the concluding of one thousand three hundred thirty and five days, from those ninety five days before the Sacrifice was offered up, (wherein the ROMANS obtained their Conquest over JUDEA, and throughout ASIA, in which the Jews were scattered) which was sixty two days before the BABE was brought forth, through whom it became accepted.   

XII.  
For from the Conception and Birth of the MANCHILD, through whom the LIGHT of GOD broke forth, with which the NATIONS of the EARTH, and REGIONS of the WORLDS, that have sat under the SHADOW of Death, are ENLIGHTENED, on whom is come the GLORY of GOD to the GENTILES. Their number is fulfilled and complete, wherein TIME and TIMES are past, and HALF A TIME is divided (in those Figures 1750) and yet the EXPIRATION of those SIXTY TWO Weeks, wherein the GENTILES had power to erect their GLORY in the OUTWARD COURTS of the CITY, in which the holy BUILDINGS were defaced for the FORTY TWO MONTHS, is accountable from the TIME wherein was brought forth a TESTIMONY of that LIFE in which the DAILY SACRIFICE (under the LAW) was made to cease.    

THE MEASURE OF TIME: Balancing all Actions in the Hand of the Angel.  

I.  
THus saith the Angel of God, Seal up the Vision according to the appointed time, for which it is set and is made to speak: For in the fifth month called JULY, (wherein JULIUS CAESAR was made the first Dictator in ROME, will be the finishing of that Roman Monarchy, in the year 666; and a great PRINCE will fall in Europe in the first month, according to the expiration of the Prophecy of the two Witnesses, who then will put off their Robes of Sackcloth, and they will stand clothed in WHITE Garments, wherein the sixty two Weeks, that the Power of the Gentiles prevailed, will discover the Mystery of DAYS in the number of Years that the Beast established his Throne, in what went before the Face of the God and Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth.   

II.  
And in the sixth month, called August, (wherein Augustus Caesar was made Consul) that Imperial Throne will be made subject to a Power of the Kings of the East; but number thou a month of years, according to the days of the year, whereby the VISION is made to speak forth the Mystery of those forty two years, wherein the Seat of his Imperial Dignity was exalted, and then propose thy say before the Wise, counting from the Creation of the Worlds, in the Generation of ADAM, that which standeth figured forth in the Mystery of the Number 62. according to the WEEKS in which the Power of God wrought in the work of Restoration.   

III.  
But from the FLOOD of WATERS which prevailed over the Earth, are fifty two Generations of men, to the birth of him in whom that work of Restoration standeth manifest, which are the Number of Weeks in the Year, through whom the Worlds have multiplied that which is come forth in time and place: And from the days of Abraham, whose Seed he took on him, rather than the nature of Angels, are forty two Generations, every Generation signifying the Change that is come into the WORLDS, through the operation of the Moon over the Body of Nature, wherein the Woman hath stood afflicted, in her Seed, for the destroying of that which corrupteth the way and courses under which the Worlds are generated, until all things become changed into ETERNITY, and the everlasting Body recover its first beauty and glory, through all those Revolutions and Changes that are come into the World.   

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And in the beholding of the glory of the ANGEL of God (while he thus talked with me) I saw his Eyes sparkle like flames of FIRE, and he gave forth his Testimony concerning the Covenant of God, that is confirmed with many and great Nations, ratified in the BLOOD of that Life which hath entered the WITNESSES of GOD, who are made able to seal their Testimony herein; after which followeth an utter consumption on all the Enterprises of the ENEMY, wherein the end of Time will finish the glory of God in the destruction of that Spirit, in which the abomination of Desolation hath wrought in a Mystery, and the consummation will make the World's desolate in the forms of Nature, that will come into dissolution, for the recovering Beauty in the Image of the first and last Element, like unto the Glassy Sea of Transparent Glory, out of which the Power of God will shine in subjected Nature.   

V  
For the KING of BABYLON, who hath seen into the glory of the House of God, wherein are many goodly Vessels, shall not be able to remove thy Diadem (O thou afflicted Daughter of a Land which God is laying waste!) out of the place wherein GOD will settle his Delight in the midst of thee, until the transgressions of those that have sought to bear rule over thee, by rigour and con aint is fully ripened, and come to its end wherein God will purge forth all iniquity out of his own HOUSE and TEMPLE, on which Judgement is first begun; and thou that hast been tributary to KINGS of a strange Land, fear not though thou art tossed up and down, for thou art not forsaken, and God will comfort thee in his due time.   

VI  
Who is come to lay all thy stones in fair colours (though the House of God hath suffered defacement in its first and primitive beauty) but the Glory of the later House shall be greater than the Glory of the first; for thy Gates are CARBUNCLES, and thy Windows are AGATES, and thy inward PARLOUR is paved with LOVE; and when I look unto thy Galleries, I behold crowned KINGS rejoicing in the upper ROOMS, and the best Wine is kept until now (because of the last Glory of him that is bringing into the Wine-Cellar) in exchange of FLAGONS, with which the sick of Love hath been stayed.   

VII.  
And from the Feast in the Wilderness, wherein was a Table spread, and FAT things prepared (MARROW and WINE from the lees well refined) he is bringing to the WEDDING and LAST SUPPER of the Marriage of the LAMB, where are all the Varieties in the Banqueting House, and his Banner over them is LOVE: Speak that my Soul may be refreshed, and keep thou no longer silence, O my Beloved! And as the VISION receiveth Voice, let it testify of thy Authority in the Heart, by that which is ready to be fulfilled.   

VIII.  
For the DAY is come, and yet cometh, that the Power of God will so appear and break forth through his chosen VESSELS (in whom he taketh delight to manifest his good pleasure) that nothing shall be able to stand before it, and obstruct the WAY thereof; but IRON BARS and BOLTS shall be broken and snapped asunder, as a Thread of Flax, and PRISON DOORS shall fly open before them that dwell in the power in which God is enlarging the Hearts of the Poor and Upright; yea, great Seas shall be divided, and stand on heaps, when they move forward, and the Waters therein shall be dried up, for the KINGS of the East to pass over.   

IX.  
And there shall be no need of outward Laws of Men to restrain Vice and Wickedness, neither shall any covet high Places of Renown, and conditions of that State unto whom Trust in Government is reposed; but rather shall say, In my House is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a Healer, nor let not the breach of Ruins rest under my Hands, for I came out of Prison, and have the Garments of Captivity; how then can I govern Nations, but like unto a Child? And woe be unto that People, because of a KING in Woman, that setteth the Beggar on horseback, while the PRINCE doth walk on his Feet; yet he will raise up the Poor from the Dunghill, and exalt him of low degree, when the Image of God doth so appear and break forth on the Heads of his Beloved and Chosen, that it shall be able to raise a Witness in the worst of Men.   

X.  
But under the Anger and Fury thereof, they shall not be able to stand, though it hath not any other compulsive Power, but what is exercised in the Conscience, because it will either cast out or conquer the Unclean Spirit that acteth evil, and detaineth Right from the Oppressed, or destroy the MAN that remaineth joined thereto, though it delighteth not in the Destruction of Creatures, or to be avenged on the WORKMANSHIP of GOD; but is constrained by the necessity of a LAW in Nature, under which Divine Justice seeketh to be magnified, when the patience of God hath discovered the end of the work of his Spirit, which doth all to praise him, even by his own Work out of the Mouth of the Babe.   

XI.  
Which is the Sword in God's Mouth, and Breath of his Nostrils, the Word that proceedeth from the holy Lips, whereby the Nations shall be consumed and destroyed, that stand in his way, and remain in opposition to his Power, because he is a great and mighty KING and GOD, above all LORDS, that are many in the Earth, who will conquer and destroy the Power of DEATH, and remove the GRAVE into the Land of forgetfulness, that his Will may be done in Earth as in Heaven, and his Work effected on the BODY of Nature, in both outward and inward WORLDS, through the power of Redemption and Restoration of all created Principles in Nature, unto their first Beauty and Glory, where is no more SEA, but the SEA of pure Water, transparent, in the reflection of its Element.   

XII.  
Before which time there shall be seen many signs and Wonders in the Clouds of the Heavens, and the work of God will appear and break forth from thence; and in that Power shall a People whom God is gathering to himself from the ends of the Worlds, dwell for evermore, and the firmament of both outward and inward World, shall be filled with Stars, that remain fixed in their glory and lustre, as Morning-Stars that sing together, and Sons of God that shout for joy; and out of all the Glory, Pleasure, and Profit of the Worldly Spirits Interest, their Hearts shall be redeemed, and from the Allurements of the same shall be found daily dying, and then dead; whereby they will be the Terror of the NATIONS, when in the power of God, (who hath kept the Creature poor, and low, and weak, that God alone might enrich the Soul in his due time) the Life ariseth in glory, in that sense of Poverty of SPIRIT, from whence the Power that is able to make many Rich, breaketh forth.  
BLESSED, BLESSED, and Everlastingly HAPPY therefore are all those that wait for, and throughly believe in, the redeeming Power of the Work of God by this Spirit that is broke forth, and come into the Worlds, to the destruction of that Evil One, the Man of Sin. Lord, Let thy Will be done, yet hasten thy WORK, to cut it short in RIGHTEOUSNESS, wherein thy Name may be exalted in Mercy, that delighteth not in the destruction of Creatures, and Souls of Men. Come quickly, saith my Soul, that causest Joy in thy holy Way. Amen and Amen.   
THE END.