AN ANSWER To the Arguments of the Iewes, in which they go about to prove, that the Messiah is not come; In which Answer it is proved, that the Messiah is, and hath been come about 1661. years; and theirs and other Arguments of the Christians laid aside, which is not to the purpose.  
THou sayest, The first Argument is to be taken from the time in which the Messiah is to come, and it will be thence manifest that he is not yet come, and that is thus; Thou sayest, That the Messiah in his coming is to consume and destroy the Empires of the Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks and Romans; but thou sayest, The Roman Empire, wherein the other are contained, is yet in being; therefore the Messiah is not yet come: To prove which, thou quotest Daniel 2. Chapter, where Nebuchadnezzars dream is interpnted of the Image, whose Head was of Gold, his Breast and arms of Silver, his Belly and his Thighs of Brass, his Legs of Iron, the Feet, part of Iron, part of day; And a ston cut out of the Mountain which smote the Image upon his Feet, and broke both the Iron and the Brass, the Silver and the Gold in pieces; and explaining the same, saith, Thou O King art King of Kings, and the God of Heaven hath given thee a Kingdom, Power and Strength; and wheresoever the Children of men dwelleth, and the Beasts of the Field, and the Fowls of Heaven hath he given into thine hands, and hath put them all under thy Dominion; Thou art this Head of Gold: Thus( sayest thou) you have the Empire of the Chaldean, represented by the Gold, because it excelleth the other three Empires, as Gold excelleth the other metals in dignity; besides, that it hath been very rich and prosperous, by subduing in a short time the Syrians, Jews, Tyrians, Ammonites, Moabites, and other Kingdoms, and so becoming of a vast extent, &c.  
Answer, This Argument is comprehended concerning the time that thou sayest the Messiah is to come in, which Messiah did come, and is come, according to the number and time of Gabriel and Daniel, as thou mayst red Daniel 9. And the Messiah his time there is numbered, Daniel being a Captive in Babylon, whom Gabriel spake to, who said, 70 weeks are determined upon the people, and upon the Holy City, to finish the wickedness, and to make an end of sin, and to bring in everlasting Righteousness, and to seal up the Vision and prophesy, and to anoint the most Holy; therefore from the going forth of the Commandement, to bring again the people to build jerusalem,( for then it was down when Daniel prophesied, and Gabriel spake to him) and this building was unto the Messiah the Prince, which should be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks, The Streets shall be built again, and the Wall in troublous times; So now mark, what Prince or Messiah had you in this time when the City was builded, and the Walls? And did not he come according to Gabriels time, and Daniels prophesy, that was called the Messiah, when the City was builded? And was it not built then when he came? And did not Gabriel speak thus to Daniel? Now if you do believe that Gabriel spake truth to Daniel and his number, then you must believe that the Messiah is come, who brought in the everlasting Righteousness; And was not this time within the four Monarchies? Speaking afterwards of the Messiahs coming, and so of his Kingdom setting up, for he shall set it up in the time of these Monarchies. And so was not this number of the Messiahs coming in the time of the Monarchies, and so setting up his Kingdom which should dash them all to pieces? But to the matter again; concerning the time, After threescore and two weeks shall the Messiah be slain: Now was there not one slain who was called the Messiah, according to this number by you called Jews, which Gabriel numbered to Daniel? And did not the people of the Prince that should come destroy your City and Sanctuary, after the Messiah was slain? And did not this Messiah confirm the Covenant with many? Did they not preach the Messiah, and his Resurrection up and down in your Temple & Synagogues? Also it is said, He shall confirm the Covenant with many, for one week and in the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifices and oblations to cease; so after the Messiah was slain, he caused your oblations, offerings and sacrifices to cease: Christ the Messiah, who was the offering; for as it is said, The seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head: And you by your Law you warred with Creatures, and killed Creatures, yea, and one another, that did not comform to your Religion; but it's said, The seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head; who was before your Law, which is Christ, that reconciles to God, who is this offering, and caused all your offerings to cease, and put an end to them; who offered up himself, and that is the Word of the Lord God to you, as true as ever Daniel or Gabriel spake to you, or Moses that had the Law, to set up your offerings; so red you this number and time, and number it yourselves, and believe Gabriel and Daniel, then you will believe that the Messiah is come, for this doth prove that the Messiah is come, which seven weeks are 49 years, in which the Temple was builded, after which there was threescore and two weeks which are 434 years, unto the Baptism of Christ, and after the threescore and two weeks there was one week, in which the Messiah should be slain; So now red these numbers, in which you may see that the Messiah is come, and you have slain him; So you hid your faces from him( as the Prophet Isaiah said) who said, A virgin should have a Child, whose name should be called Emanuel, who prophesied long before your Captivity, yet he  told you of the New Covenant, of A virgin should have a Child, and his name should be called Emanuel; and it was according to Isaiahs prophesy, that when he was come you were all in an uproar, who came according to the number of Gabriel and Daniel, and you killed him according to the number, and he 〈◇〉 again according to David the Prophet, who saw it about 1073 years before Christ; who said, His Holy One should not see Corruption; and ye gave him Vinegar and gull, according to the Prophets words: Now here you may see that the Messiah Christ is come, and you by your sins and iniquities have lost your number, and have not given ear to Gabriel the Angel, and the Prophet Daniel, but yet to this day have stood in the hardness of yours hearts against their words.  
Thou sayest, The Messiah in his coming is to consume and destroy the Empires of the Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks and Romans, but the Roman Empire, wherein the others are contained, is yet in being; therefore the Messiah is not yet come.  
Answer, In this thou hast contradicted thyself; for thou sayest, He shall come in these Empires, who shall destroy them; and yet thou sayest, They are not destroyed; therefore the Messiah is not come in: Which Argument is contradiction, and weak, and doth not prove that the Messiah is not come; for according to thine own words, he shall in these dayes come( that is of these Empires) his Kingdom shall be set up, and this is according to Gabriels words, and Daniels; and therefore because they are not all destroyed, therefore sayest thou, he is not come: Now if his Kingdom were set up in the dayes of any of them, and if any of these Empires be destroyed, which is by the ston cut out of the Mountain; and if one of these Empires were not destroyed, yet this doth not prove, that the Messiah is not come; if some be destroyed, and some be not destroyed, but this doth prove that he is come; for thou sayest, In those dayes of these Monarchies he should set up his Kingdom; and so it should be set up in their dayes: If the Head of Gold be down, and the Breast of Silver, and the Thighs of Brass; for thou sayest, In these dayes; therefore it is not, when they are all gone, but it must be before they are all gone; therefore if most of them be gone, or if they be weakening or going, or are gone, as I shall prove hereafter, this is to prove thy Argument weak against the Messiah being not come, and that he is come, proved by thy own words.  
And thou sayest, The Roman Empire is yet in being, which doth contain the other three, that is, the Persians, Greeks and Babylonians; and this thou wouldst prove out of Daniel, which is resembled to Iron, because it is the last of the Empires; and this Empire thou sayest shall be divided into Turks and Christians: Now this is thy imagination, the Prophet Daniel doth not say so; and thou sayest, In the dayes of these Empires the God of Heaven shall set up a Kingdom which shall never he destroyed, and shall not be given to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these Kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.  
And again thou sayest, Here you have the Kingdom of the Messiah before your eyes, consider, and see whether he is not to come after the four Empires, and whether he shall no● destroy and consume them; but all this is not yet done, therefore the Messiah is not yet come.  
Answ. In this Argument thou contradictest thyself; for thou sayest, The Messiah shall come after the four Empires, which the Prophet doth not say so; but he saith, He shall set up a Kingdom in the dayes of the 4 Empi●es, which Kingdom was set up according to Gabriels number of time before mentioned, and many of his Subjects have been Witnesses of it to this day: and yet thou sayest, He shall se● up a Kingdom in the dayes of these Emperours; and again thou sayest, He shall come when they are destroyed; and yet says, He shall dash them to pieces: Therefore if his coming be when they are destroyed, and in their dayes when he shall set up his Kingdom, which is the ston that shall dash them to pieces, this shows thy words are opposite one to another, and are not proper and good sense, and does not agree with Daniel, who says, In their dayes he shall set up his Kingdom; therefore thou hast proved he is come: for if they be not ended, the four Monarchies, if some of them be dashed apieces, it must be by the ston cut out of the Mountain without hands, therefore thou provest that he is come; and therefore to say, he must ●●me after the four Monarchies, are destroyed: This con●radicts thine own words and the Prophets, which proves he is ●ome, acco ding to number and time and work, in dashing to pieces; And so if he come a●ter them, how doth he dash them to pieces? For if they be dashed to pi●ces before he come, then they are dashed in pieces by another, and not by the ston, according to thy Argument? But if they be dashed in pieces as it is p●oved, or dashing, then that he is come is proved.  
And as touching the Roman Monarchy of Iron( as thou sayest) which is part broken, part whole, which containeth the rest of the four, that thou hast yet to prove, neither canst do it, as it stands now; for the Chaldeans, Persians and Greeks, and the Iewes, Ammonites and Moabites, and other Kingdoms; for that Empire of Rome which was Heathenish that did contain these, is long since broken, who was mingled among themselves, and the seed of men, that took the Noble men to be Heads to them; this Empire hath long since come to an end of the Romans, in which all these was contained, and broken to pieces; for Constantine 320 years after Christ overthrew those Empires, and turned the Romish Empire upside down( as Eusebius saith) when he professed Christ, and owned him that Daniel spake of, and Gabriel; and the Pope then was not in being, nor the Turk, who gave liberty to Christians, and all other people; therefore he was not of the Iron, who broke in pieces: for his Mother was a britain, and did deny the practise of all the Emperours before, of persecuting the Christians, who gave liberty to them, and all other people; therefore he was for the Messiah and his Kingdom, and against such as had persecuted it, and opposed it, who shewed it in his practise against the Monarchies before; Therefore it was one that was for Christs Kingdom, that broke the rest to pieces, and came over them with the ston, and was for the setting up of Christs Kingdom over them: And so he was not a Heathen but a Christian, and so here Christs Kingdom came over the Iron Monarchy, which was part Iron, part day; and these Kingdoms and Monarchies might be given from one people to another, and so were not everlasting( as Christs Kingdom is,) which the ston doth break the Gold, doth break the Silver, doth break the Brass, and break the Iron and the day; and so the power of Christ the Messiah was seen, and felt, and known, when Constantine did root out, and turn upside down the Empires of the Heathen: And this doth prove that the Messiah is come, and his Kingdom is set up that is everlasting, without end; and this overthrows thy Argument, for when Christ the Messiah came among your fathers, in the dayes of Pilate and Herod, they would not own him, but fulfilled the saying of Isaiah, David, and the rest of the Prophets, that they closed their eyes, and stopped their ears, and choose Caesar before the Messiah; And the Messiah sent out his Disciples, Messengers and ambassadors into all Nations, to Kings and Peoples, as to Rome and other places preaching his Kingdom, who  told them, He had all power in heaven and earth given to him, and this was after he was risen from the dead: And for farther proof concerning the destruction of the Roman Empire, red this as followeth;  
In the time of Augustus Emperour of Rome, which was in the year from the time that Rome was built 1229, and was from the time that Caesar subverted the Government from a Commonwealth into a Monarchy 529; and from the birth of Christ 477, that Odoaces Ahund was made Captain by the Heruly, and the Vuringis, with which people he marched against the Roman Empire, and in Italy he met with Augustus, with whom he joined in battle, overcoming in him fight, & driven him out of his Dominion, and seated himself in the Throne, and possessed the Government in peace 14 years; after which time, Theodoricus King of the Ostrogothes made Wars with Odoaces, whom he overcome, and possessed the Government 30 years, from which time forward the Roman Empire expired; so that for 330 years there was no Emperour of the West part of the World; And in the time of Mahomet the great Turk was Constantinople taken,( Constantine the last of the Roman Emperours holding the Monarchy of the East) which was in the year 1453. This as History do declare is a true account of the final end of the Roman Empire.  
And so the true Christians are not convinced by this Argument, but the Argument may convince thyself, and the Dart turn back to thyself, which is not sure in opposition against the Messiahs being come; And the being wrested expositions is thy own, as thou mayst red above.  
And as for those that say, That Iesus of Nazareth shall not now, but in the end of the world, that is, in the ●ay of Judgement, destroy all the Kingdoms of the world, and that then this prophesy shall have its accomplishment; this thou sayest, that the Christians bring to overthrow thy Argument of the Monarchies.  
My Answer is this, That in the end of the world, and when it is ended, what is there then to destroy, when it is ended? Therefore this doth not hold, neither is it owned by us; for it is said, In the dayes of these Kingdoms, he shall set up a Kingdom( Mark, in their dayes) he doth not say, when they are destroyed, that Christs Kingdom shall be set up; therefore such contradictions and falsities we do deny, whoever speak them, Christians( so called) or others; for the prophesy of Daniel was to be fulfilled, and was come to pass in the dayes of the four Monarchies, and upon them.  
And now thou sayest, Who would not laugh at this solution? For thou sayest, his Kingdom should be set up in their dayes, who seeth not that that ston shall be raised in the days of those Kingdoms; now in this thou contradicts thyself, for thou saidst that it should come when these Kingdoms are destroyed before, and so in this thou art not unlike the Christians thou laughs at; And thou sayest again, That this work was to be done at his first coming, and then it must be in their dayes, and not after they are destroyed, and then this proves that the Messiah is come, and Gabriels and Daniels words is fulfilled, and this is before the world is destroyed, and the Monarchies; for when those Kings and the world is destroyed, that does not belong to Daniels prophesy nor this matter, for when it is destroyed, what have He the Messiah to break in pieces? If he come when it is destroyed; for thou sayest, he shall come after the Monarchies is destroyed; and thou sayest the Christians say, In the end of the world: Here in this you are both out, and ignorant of Christs Kingdom, who is come, and hath set it up.  
And for thy saying, that those Christians that say, that Iesus of Nazareth shall in the end of the World, destroy all the Kingdoms of the World; therefore sayest thou, if it be so then Christians must be destroyed, which thou sayest, no Christian will grant; and therefore thou sayest, the Argument remains vallid, at the coming of the Messiah the four Monarchys shall be destroyed, but they do yet last, therefore the Messiah is not yet come.  
Answer, this is no proof because the Monarchies as thou sayest last, that the Messiah is not come; for thou sayest he shall come in their days: Mark, in their days, and because they stand, therefore is he not come sayest thou; this shows contradiction, for he may be come, and set up in their days, and they not destroyed, but destroying; but as is proved above, they are destroyed and rooted out, and so thy Argument doth not stand vallid, but rather then it proveth that the Messiah is not come, it proves rather that he is come: And the Messiah being raised up in the days of those Emperours, to beat a pieces, is before the end of the World, who is the Saviour of Christians, and all men that believe in him; and this is long, and was long before all things be destroyed, the Kings of the Earth, and all such things: And the Empire of the Romans is none of the true christians Empire, neither is he that Empire spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, long destroyed before as above mentioned; for the true Christians come into Christ the Messiahs kingdom, the little ston that was to beat all those Monarchies to pieces, whose beginning was in their days; and this thou calls Empire of Rome are called Christians, which those Empires that was to be beaten to pieces by the ston, that was cut out of the Mountain without hands, in their days, was not Christians( so called) but Heathens, so they were not of the Messiah the ston, nor doth Daniel mean Christians, of those that do profess his Name.  
And as for Cornelius a Lapide, who thou saith acknowledgeth the falsity of this Exposition, and gives this answer; that the Messiah hath broken all these Empires, not as to their Earthly but Spiritual Dominion, by freeing and delivering gentilism from their Idolatry, and the slavery of the Devil; and thou says, this is the Common Solution, and almost all Christians answer after this manner: To which I Answer, that Christ the Messiah have broken them Spiritually and Temporally; those former Monarchies as above mentioned: And Christs kingdom is everlasting, and is not consistent with their kingdoms which hath an end, nor to be parrallel'd: And as for Cornelius a Lapide confuting that above mentioned, and which thou thyself saith that thou dost not believe that Christians do believe that Christ shall come to destroy them whom thou numbers in the fourth Monarchy, and if the Christians do believe that those Monarchies must not be destroyed, until the end of the World, for when the World is ended they are destroyed, and then the ston, the Messiah, need not to destroy them; and so then if the Christians be of the fourth Monarchy undestroyed, then the Messiah when he come is to destroy them, such as profess him upon thy account; which I say, the Heathen Monarchies was destroyed before, and he the ston was brought forth long before there was any Christians at Rome: And as for others Interpretations, in which the contradictions is denied; and so Jesus the Saviour truly believed, which hath broken, which is the ston, and doth break, and is breaking up and down in the World to pieces, subduing all things to himself; for both nabuchadnezzar and Darius had a sight of his kingdom; and likewise had Alexander before they deceased; and Christs kingdom is not Temporal but Spiritual, for Christ said himself when he was come to his Disciples, his Kingdom was not of this World, this said he to Peter, when he bid him put up his sword; for if his kingdom had been of this World, then should his Servants have fought; and this he said, when he was delivered by your fathers the Jews to Pilate to be Crucified, and if his kingdom had been Temporal, and of this world, then his Servants should have fought for it with Carnal weapons; but as I said before, his kingdom is not of this World, but is an everlasting kingdom, and he it is that bruseth the Serpents head, and destroys the Devil and his works, who is the Author of all strife and enmity, Wars and Fightings among all people; and he it is that Christ destroys, and this is done by his power, and in his kingdom no unclean thing enters: Therefore every man that comes to know this kingdom, must come to the power of Christ in himself; which overcomes the evil, and these feel it overcoming the evil; and the Prophet doth not say that Christ the Messiahs kingdom shall be Temporal, as thou sayest; neither doth the true Christians that be in Christs power: And many of the Gentiles and Jews both were, and are freed from Idolatry, and the slavery of the Devil, as many thousand of the Jews was above sixteen hundred years ago, and many of the Gentiles, which did receive Christs Law. And as for Cornelius saying, he destroyed them spiritually, I say both Temporally and Spiritually, for Chrstis kingdom must be set up, and should rise according to the Prophet which hath no end, and his Law is to be observed, which is to be written in the hearts of the Jews and Gentiles, who wait for his Law, which now thousands have received.  
And first thou sayest, because the other Empires have been Temporal, therefore the fifth, that is the Messiah, is so to be, as appears by the context of of the History; but in the objectors sense it is Spiritual thou sayest, therefore not consonant to the Prophet.  
Answer, Now to say that the Messiahs kingdom is Temporal, that is not consonant with the Prophet, because the other was Temporal, and was to have an end; for the Prophet saith, thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy Dominion an everlasting Dominion, and this kingdom was set up in those dayes of the Emperours, which is everlasting, and hath no end; and he hath had some subjects always to bear witness to it.  
And neither doth it appear by the History, that Christs the Messiahs Kingdom is temporal, though he doth reconcile all things in one, who destroys the enmity( the Devil) that made separation between God and man; And Christ the Messiah doth destroy, who reconciles all things in Heaven, and things in Earth into one, who was with the Father, who said let us make man, by whom all things was made, who doth reign until he hath subdued all things to himself.  
And whereas thou sayest secondly, Because in the other Empires, the people of one hath been differing from that of the other, as the Chaldeans from the Persians, but in this Solation there is no other people in the fifth than in the fourth, but the Roman people in both.  
Ans. As the people was differing one from another, the Chaldeans & the Persians, so they are another people that are in the fifth, that is the Messiahs, than was in the fourth, or when they was under the Roman Heathen Monarchy; or though they should be the same people, yet if they come into the Messiahs Kingdom they are changed, from that they was formerly when they was Heathens, and them that are not, but do profess him the Messiah, are like unto you Jews, that profess the Law and live without the life of it, such are not ●ustified: And Christ doth not come to destroy mens lives, but to destroy the Devil and his works, and to save mens lives, and so he doth not destroy all the people under the Heathen Monarchies; If he should, where were his subjects?  
And again, There is many people that are distinct from those thou lookst upon to be the Roman Monarchy, which is not the Monarchy that hath Iron and day which is to break in pieces, for that is broken to pieces before the Pope for he is called a Christian, for there was about 650 years before a Pope ga● up after the Messiah was come, and so the Messiah is he that leads into unity, and in his Kingdom is peace and unity, and his Kingdom stands in power, an● in Righteousness, peace and joy: Now the other Monarchies people, amongs● them there is and have been difference, and them that profess Christ in words 〈◇〉 but do not live in his power; but they that do, are changed by the power o● the Me●siah, and so they are not the same people in the fifth Monarchy, as they was in the fourth, for they that comes into the Kingdom that is everlasting that hath no end, they must come into the everlasting Kingdom, by the everlasting power which hath no end, and so by this people are changed, an● are not the same in nature, nor life, nor practise, nor Kingdom; and therefore thou and they that say they are, do err.  
And the Prophet Daniel doth not say, That the Roman Empire shall be divided into Turks and Christians, or goths, as thou sayest, for the Roman Empire was destroyed before the Turk and the Pope got up, and it is an unlikel● thing, that Christs the Messiahs Kingdom should be divided, that the Roman Empire should go into Turks and Christians, for Mahomet came not of the Roman Empire, and the true Christians are of the Messiahs Kingdom, though ●ll that be not of the nature, or in the nature of the Messiah, be in the Hea●henish nature; so in this thou perverts the Prophets words, in saying, that ●he Roman Monarchy shall be divided into Turks and Christians, for it was divided before the Turk or Pope got up; And so this I tell thee, that Christs Kingdom doth break in pieces the Monarchies, and do not join with ●hem, and they do not divide with the true Christians, but are broken to pieces by the Messiah; And the Roman Empire was cruel against you Iewes, that did not own the Messiah, and they was against those Iewes and Gentiles, that did own the Messiah, and his Kingdom; Therefore those Roman Empires was overturned by Constantine, who gave liberty both to Christians and Iewes, therefore you cannot own him to be of that Iron Monarchy, as he did own Christ the Messiah, his Power and Kingdom, which I say is set up, whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and Dominion without end.  
And thou sayest, If we understand by the fifth Empire the Christian Law, it will not be distinct from the fourth, containing in it the Christians, and since it hath been proved, that it must be a distinct Kingdom, it follows that this Interpretation is false.  
Answer, We say the Kingdom of the Messiah is a distinct Kingdom, for it ●s an everlasting Kingdom, the fifth Empire is not understood altogether by ●he Christian Law, nor known, so far as they are contrary to his Law, the Messiahs Empire is not known so by the Christians Law, if they be contrary to his Law; but this we say, that there is many that have received the Law of the Messiah, whom the fifth Empire may be understood by, as being in that which ●ll the holy Prophets testify of, and Gabriel; And so as for other interprera●ions, that be contrary to the Messiah Christ, and out of the Law of Christ, ●nd they known out of Christs Law, we deny; and though they be out of the Law of Ch●ist, yet they cannot be contained i● the fourth Empire, seeing that Em●ire of the Romans is destroyed, so both Christs Law and Kingdom is di●tinct from those Empires, and his people, who are subjects of his Kingdom, which dashes in pieces that which is not everlasting.  
And thou sayest fourthly, Because this fifth Kingdom shall be everlasting, ●ut that i● not found in the Law of Jesus, seeing the greater part of Asia, all afric and part of Europe, have lost that Law.  
Answ. The Kingdom of Christ is everlasting, and so is his Law, though a great part of Asia, &c. have lost it, and they that have lost his Law have lost ●is Kingdom, and therefore that doth not prove his Law not to be everlasting, because they have lost it, in this thou errs for the Law of God was true, though you Iewes departed from it, and so from God, and so did not wait to receive the Messiah, and his Law and Kingdom, which is everlasting.  
And fifthly, thou sayest, Because the fifth Kingdom shall break and consume all the Kingdoms, which cannot be understood of the Law of Jesus, seeing the Christians have not broken nor destroyed all Kingdoms, &c.  
I Answer, The Kingdom of the Messiah shall break and subdue all Kingdoms, Power and Authority unto himself, and this Kingdom was set up in the dayes of those four Monarchies, and so then did begin to subdue, which since hath been subduing, and is subduing, until he hath subdued all things to himself, and them that are subdued by this Power, the Kingdom, and the ston, receives the Law of Christ, and are the true Christians; but because that you have rebelled and others, and Crucified Christ, and so neglected your Salvation, and closed your eyes, and stopped your ears, and hardened your hearts, therefore judgeth the Kingdom itself, and that others have not received it, that it is not come; And all the Christians as they be in the power of Christ, that are his subjects be subduing, and this fifth Kingdom the Kingdom of the Messiah is spiritual, and doth subdue the power of darkness, and gather people up into unity, and is not to be understood literally, for it is everlasting; And Mark, thou sayest this fifth Kingdom shall destroy, Mark, because it is not all done, therefore this doth not prove but that it is the Kingdom of the Messiah, and the Law of Jesus is spiritual which doth subdue.  
Sixthly, thou sayest, The fifth kingdom shall be eternal, but in the Law of Jesus there are many Contradictions, as appears by the Sects, &c.  
I Answer, We say the fifth Kingdom is eternal and everlasting, and so is the Law of Jesus eternal and spiritual, and unchangeable, and no Contradiction; And all the Sects is such as live out of the Kingdom of Jesus, out of the Power of Jesus, out of the Law of Jesus, for his Law is one which is everlasting, and his Kingdom is one which is spititual, which is one, and in it no Sect; was not the Law of God one, because there was so many Sects amongst you Iewes? and perfect, because people contradicted one another, which lived out of the life of the Law, in the lust, which the Law saith thou shalt not, for the lust is the ground of the Contradiction, which is not in the Law, for the Law is spiritual and good, and the Law of life makes free from the Law of sin and death, where it is lived in; So the Sects among you Iewes, and the Sects among those called Christians, is out of the Law of God, the Law of Jesus and his Kingdom.  
Again seventhly thou sayest, If his interpretation were true, there should be not four but onely two, &c.  
Answ. The Prophet doth say there was four Monarchies, which doth prophesy of the Kingdom of Jesus; and another of the Prophets doth prophesy, how the Gentiles shall wait for his Law, and the Law of the Gentiles is the Law of Jesus, those Gentiles that have received it, but as for all others, they all live in their own inventions, so if they be Gentiles, Iewes, or whatever, that witnesseth Daniels prophesy, the ston cut out of the Mountain without hands, and his Kingdom set up, and received his Law, one Kingdom, one Law and not two, and so one life, and one Saviour, who makes all things new, and reconciles to God, and destroys that which made the separation betwixt him and God, they witness the Kingdom of the Messiah which is one and everlasting.  
And eightly thou sayest, The Roman Empire should be divided before the coming of the messiah, but before the coming of Jesus the Roman Empire was not divided, &c.  
I Answer, This doth not prove that Jesus is not the Messiah; for the Prophet Daniel doth not say, that the Roman Empire shall be divided before he comes; but saith, his Kingdom shall be set up in their dayes, and the Roman Empire was divided, and broken, as is proved; therefore this doth not prove that Jesus is not the Messiah, but that Jesus is the Messiah, and that he is come, and thy Argument, and the Interpretation is proved not to be true; the Law of Jesus is not contrary to the Law that is spiritual, and to equity and justice, and truth, but the Law and first Covenant of types and figures, and shadows, and offerings and sacrifices, that Law Jesus did end, and fulfil, for that was given to man since man fell, which Jesus redeems man up into the state he was in before he fell, and he is the sacrifice and offering, and there we see the end of all those sacrifices, and the spiritual Law end in him; and so he doth bring forth everlasting Righteousness, according to Daniel, which we witness, who set up his Kingdom, that is spiritual just and holy; and the righteousness, and the justice, and equity of the Law, which is spiritual, Christ is one with all, which would have all to do to others, as they would be done by: And as for the word Trinity, there is no Scripture for it in the Old and New Testament, but Father, Son and Spirit, that we do own, and God is one, yet he said, let us make man, and the Son was with him who came from the bosom of the Father, seen by all his Prophets before he came, rejected by you, who did come to fulfil the Prophets, and so the Son of God and the Spirit of God was not hide from your Prophets; yet one God, but the Scriptures of Truth do not call the Holy Ghost a person, they that do so, do not know what they say; but in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and that Word was God; and the Prophet saith, A virgin shall have a Child, his name shall be called Emanuel, and the everlasting Father; so the Son is in the Father, and the Father in the Son, but this is a Mystery I perceive to you, and so he that denies the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is in an error, and do not observe the Law of God; for Moses who had the Law saw the Son, saw the Messiah, and said, like unto me will he raise up a Prophet, him shall ye hear, whom the Prophets of God after Moses did see and foretell, who came according to the prophesy, which when he was come, you and your fathers did not nor have not heard, which as your fathers had heard Moses, so was they to hear him in all things: And Exodus, and Psalms, and Isaiah is known, and the Law that is spiritual, and the justness of it, and the holiness of it, which is Light as Solomon speaketh, is everlasting, we say so, which Christ the Righteousness of God doth fulfil; being a greater Righteousness, in whom it ends, for the Law served until the Seed came, and this must be known in every particular of you, till Christ be revealed in you, and the Son of God, which Moses and the Prophets shewed the coming of to your fathers, which God did not hid from them; so he was not hide from them, but he is hide from you, that be not in the power and spirit as the Prophets was in, that by the Spirit of God, did see the Son of God, who was to come, and is come, according to the prophesies; And you, though you had figures, types & shadows in the first Covenant, yet you were to hold them in the faith, as the Prophets did, of the Messiah to come, and you being out of the Prophets spirit, sees not, nor receives not, that which the Prophets saw and held in the faith; but looks onely at the outward Ceremonies, that turned against Christ when he was come; so not in the spirit and power as Moses, David, and the Prophets was in, and Daniel, who saw that he was to come; but as David said, let your eyes be blinded, who saw Christ, and you bow down your backs always, and your Table made a snare; so your outward figure is a snare, and your back is bowed down to every power: red this and consider. Now if you were in, and your fathers had been, in the Spirit that David was in, then you would have seen the Son that came from the Father, and would have received him when he did appear, and have received that which they held in the faith, which was above the Ceremonies, which are looked at by you more than the Messiah, that they fore-saw; and David called Christ Lord, Psalm 110. who said, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool; mark, until, take notice of that word; and so God did not hid this from David, though hide from you that be out of the power of God.  
Thou sayest, though the precedent Argument hath clearly convinced, that the Messiah is not yet come, yet the same Prophet hath taught it us more clearly, in the 7. Chap. where he saw four Beasts which by common consent signify the four Monarchys &c.  
Answer, Here is nothing in thy Argument, to prove that the Messiah is not come; but to prove that he is come, and the Prophet clearly speaks that the Messiah shall come in the days of the four Monarchies; and though the four Beasts which thou sayest by common consent signify the four Monarchies, and so omitting the three thou sayest, wherein is nothing new, we will come to the fourth, which is the Roman, and then saith, that without all doubt the Messiah is not yet come; Here is this thou overthrows thy own Argument, and shows thou understands not the Prophets words, who saith he shall come in their days, and because the Roman Monarchy was not gone, that doth not prove he is not come, but if any of them be gone, or he come in any of their days, and before they are gone, which must be dashed in pieces by him, this p●oves that that the Messiah is come: And thou again sayest, the holy Text saith thus, verse 7. And after this I saw in the night Vision, and behold a fourth Beast dreadful and terrible, and had great Iron teeth &c.  
Answer, Although Daniel did see a fourth Beast dreadful and terrible, which had great Iron teeth to devour, which was diverss from all the Beasts, and it had ten horns; And Daniel considered the horns, and there came up another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots, and in this horn were Eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things; And the Prophet saith, these four Beasts are four Kings, which shall arise out of the Earth &c. Now the fourth Beast shall be the fourth Kingdom, & the ten horns of the fourth Kingdom are ten Kings, that shall arise, and the little horn made war with the Saints, and prevailed against them, until the ancient of days came, and judgement was given by the Saints, and the Saints possessed the kingdom, saying, the kingdom and Dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole Heaven, shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all Domions shall serve and obey him; here we have sayest thou four kingdoms, and the kingdom of the Messiah destroying and consuming them, as the Prophet saith ver. 11; I beholded then, because of the voice of the great words, which the horn spake; I beholded even till the Beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flamme, and now( thou sayest since we see the fourth which is the Roman Empire to be yet lasting, it necessary followeth, that the Messiah is not yet come.  
I answer, all this doth not prove that the Messiah is not come, but proveth that he is come, destroying and consuming, for some of these Monarchies are destroyed, and consumed, according to thy own confession, and yet thou sayest the Messiah is not come, and who have confessed it in words, yet after denied it, which shows contradiction, and if all these have made battle against the Saints, until the ancient of days, and that these must be overcome by the Messiah, and he is come according to Gabriel and Daniel, killing and destroying, for this horn, and these should prevail against the Saints until the ancient of days, which Saints should possess the kingdom, which now many doth; And if the Roman Emperour were not destroyed, which is the last according to thy words, that doth not prove but that the Messiah is come, for if he come in any of their days, and have subdued any of them, or if he but subduing, though thou do not see all things yet subdued unto him, this a proof that he is come, and disproves thy Argument to the contrary; and the Messiah is he that shall make all powers to serve and obey him, and Christs government is set, which taketh away the Dominion of all that which opposed the Saints of the most High, until he hath consumed and destroyed them to the end; therefore who knows not the Messiah, knows neither Gabriel nor D●niel, nor the holy Text thou speaks of, for if the Roman Empire according to thine own words, be the last of all these Kings, Emperours and horns, and if the Messiah be come in these days, who hath consumed, and is consuming that which did oppose the Saints, this doth prove that the Messiah is come, and proves thy Argument to be in contradiction, who saith there is four kingdoms, and the kingdom of the Messiah consuming and destroying them, which thou callst the four Monarchies; And so judgement was set, and the ancient of days, and the Saints come to take the kingdom, the time of those Monarchies come to an end by Christs the Messiahs power, though there is more in all these words of Daniel, which is hard to be uttered which is hide from you, and many Christians; therefore they fall out about Interpretations, for it is the fourth Beast that come out of the earth, that turn against the Saints, whose Kingdom is of this world, which the Messiah destroys such as turned against the Saints, and makes all powers to serve and obey him.  
And so the Messiah is come according thine own words, though the Roman Empire should be yet lasting, for thou confesses that Daniel beholded till he saw him killing and destroying the four Empires, and i● the Roman Empire were gone before he come, who should he kill, and destroy? And thou sayest the Messiah is consuming and destroying, the four Kingdoms, which Daniel beholded, which thou doth not behold but says he is not come, and this shows much Ignorance; Daniel beholded the kingdom of the Messiah destroying the four kingdoms, and Daniel beholded till the Beast was slain, and his body given to the flamme, which speak the great words; and yet thou sayest that the Roman Empire is yet standing, and therefore the Messiah is not come, and yet thou sayest he was destroying the four kingdoms, before that; the kingdom of the M●ssiah was destroying the four kingdoms, consider this, if it be not confusion, and that thou contradicts thyself.  
To make this clearer( thou sayest) this can by no means be understood before the coming of the Messiah, &c.  
Answer, Thou sayest he was come destroying and consuming the four Kings, so instead of making clearer, thou hast made it dark as to thyself, and the Beast was consumed, and his body given to the flamme, this Daniel beholded; First thou sayest, because then the Roman Empire began, and the ten Horns of Kings had not yet been; If the Roman Empire had not been, and the ten Horns came after, if that the Messiah came in their dayes, if the Roman Empire or any of the other, and if the little Horn, and the three Kings, which should be humbled by him, which should take the Kingdom from the Saints, and afterwards be restored by the Messiah, which little Horn, when that was thou sayest there was neither Turk nor Pope, therefore in this thou hast convinced thyself, that he was in the four Empires, the little Horn, or of the same nature, in which dayes the Messiahs was to come to destroy, and seeing that three of the Empires are destroyed, and that one is standing, here thou provest the Messiah to be come, which is proved before, that which thou says is standing to be destroyed( to wit) the Roman; And as for what prophecy saith of the little horn, and Luther saying it is the Pope, or Vatablus, and others saying it i● the Turk or Mahomet, and what Cornelius a Lapide saith, and other Fathers of the Church, that's nothing to me, but thou sayest, that the horn was before turk or Pope was; and thou hast confessed that the kingdom of the Messiah doth come in the dayes of the Emperours, so though they be not all destroyed, and their horns, it is sufficient in thy confession that he is come; and here in this thy saying to the contrary, that he is not come, art as blind as those thou speaks of in the world: And as for others Interpretations, what are they to me? As knowing they nor you, are not in the same Spirit as Daniel and Gabriel, and the Prophets was in, and therefore you cannot see their words: As for Cornelius a Lapide saying that at the end of the world, there shall be ten Kings; for at the end of the world, the Kings are ended if the world be ended, so that is Ignorance; And as for the Maccabees, I do believe there was some among them that was the people of God: And thou sayest that this little horn shall overcome three ten parts o● the fourth Monarchy and so the fourth Mon●rchy was destroyed before there was a Pope, as abov●-mentioned is proved; and so in the dayes of these four Monar●hies, the King●o● of the Messiah should be set up, and was, but blindness have happened to your e●es, that thou do not see it; And it is the judgement of many of the Christians, that the little horn was in the Monarchies contrary to the dreams tho● speak of and the Judgement of others, and if the little horn doth ove●come a great part of the Monarchy, which thou sayest was before Pope or Mahomet was, which the Messiah must come in the Monarchies, this doth not di●p●ove but that the Messiah is come; And as for Anti-Christ, those are them that are for Christ in words but against him in life, and that have spread to far up an down in the world, so that the Messiahs power & his spirit, though he be p●ofessed in words is not lived in which to you( by them and other of the Gentiles) occasion to stumble and to question, which such practices we deny, and Judge them that do so and have done so; but all this is no proof but that the Messiah is come, and the words of the Prophets is sure, and he is come that hath fulfilled them: And the four Monarchies with their horns, was such as was against the Kingdom of Christ, therefore he come to destroy them, which when they came to fall, then Anti-christ came up in great power, such as I said before professed his name, but lived not in the power of Christ, nor observed his Law, and did not the thing he commanded them, which had the words but not his Power and Spirit, as many of you which professed Abraham, but did not the works of Abraham, neither was in his Faith, that saw Christ and his Glory; And so the fifth Monarchy as thou calls it, which is the Messiah, is he that endeth them, that endeth the four, which was destroyed before the Pope got up, and though there is more in this which can hardly be uttered or born to be declared; And as for the Kingdom of the Saints, which is an everlasting Kingdom, who makes them to reign as Kings and Priests upon the earth, who redeems them from the earth, yet makes them reign as Kings and Priests upon the earth, and this is the Messiahs work, who destroys and subdues all things that is contrary to himself; So come to that which is pure, and so this Kingdom is spiritual, and they that are in it are in Christs power, and they that know this shall know what Heaven is, and that which the Prophet declares there of the Kingdom, that the Kingdom and the Dominion, and the greatness of it, I own in its place, which is given to the Saints of the most High, which many thousands have possessed it, which is the Kingdom of the Messiah; And as for you Iewes, Daniel did foresee of your coming out of Captivity, and jeremiah; and of your coming back again into your own outward Land, out of your Captivity, and the coming of the Messiah, and his Kingdom which is everlasting, for your Kingdoms is not everlasting, but Christs Kingdom, he ends Davids and Solomons which were anointed Kings, and he is the King, and his Kingdom is everlasting, and never hath an end, and never shall have an end, but is over all Dominions, and stands when both yours is gon and the Monarchies; for you opposed Christ as well as the Monarchies did, and his Kingdom, but his Kingdom shall prevail, and his judgement is set, and the Sain●s of the most High shall take the Messiahs Kingdom; you had your outward Land according to Daniels prophesy, if you will take it that way, that you are the people of God, as you were then called the people of God, but you never had a promise that you should be brought into your own outward Land, out of your Captivity, to offer now burnt-offerings and sacrifices; but your houses should be left desolate, and they have been so; so now if you will come to the Messiahs Kingdom, you must come into the Light( as the Prophet speaks of) who will give him for a Light, and a Covevenant, who shall be Gods Salvation to the ends of the earth; so his Light and Power you must feel in your own particulars, before you can come up into the Messiahs Kingdom, and know the end of Daniels words, and the Prophets, but you having hated this Light that checks you for sin and evil, so you have lost the Kingdom, and lost vn●●y amongst yourselves; which, I say, the same of those Christians that hate the Light, and do not walk in the Light and Power of God, they stumble about the Scriptures, as you do, and the Prophets words.  
And you being carried away by the Babylonians, and so kept Prisoners among the Persians and Chaldeans, yet you was brought back again to your own Land, you was gathered to build again the Temple to the Messiah the Prince, according to Daniel whose Kingdom should be set up, and abundance of your Iewes, yea many thousands when he came did own his Kingdom as in the dayes of Herod; and when Christ was cut off according to Daniel and Gabriel, he prophesied to you that your Temple should be destroyed, who ended your sacrifice, and who is the substance; And many of your fathers did not receive the Messiahs when he was come, but kept still in the outward things, though they were ended; And Titus came and threw down both your Temple, and your City, and the place of your offering; and now you have no Kingdom to look for, but the Kingdom of the Messiah, and turn to it, and believe in him, who is come long ago, who remains in the Heavens until the things be restored, that which he do restore by is his power, so his power in you and his Light you must feel, to receive him, and believe in him; and come from your hardness of heart; and so in that feel the New Covenant within your hearts, which all the Prophets prophesied of, who prophesied of your Captivity, and of your Return; and when you returned they prophesied of the New Covenant to you, but did not prophesy that now you should return to your outward Land, in the Captivity which you are in now, but then; and that then when you was come, the New Covenant should then come, and the Messiah, and the Temple should be built to him, which was done according to his words; so you had your Land according to Daniels prophesy, and according to his prophesy likewise the Messiah came, who hath ended those four Monarchies that were contrary to him, which dashed to pieces; that which is of his own power he doth not dash to pieces: And the Kingdom spoken of in Daniel, is the Kingdom of the Messiah( Dan. 7.10, 17.) which if you come to, you must come to own Gabriels words and Daniels, and the Prophets, that that was the Messiah; And you had power given you of God to carry you into your outward Land, which if you had abided in the power, then you all, when the Messiah came, had received his Power and Kingdom; and so you denying the Messiah, have lost the power, but they that have received the Messiah, have received the power, and his Kingdom which is everlasting: And you had power to build your City, and to go to it according to Daniels prophesy, which if you do believe that that City was built after the Captivity, which was according to Gabriels words & Daniels, then thou and you must throw out the Argument, by which you do pretend to prove that the Messiah is not yet come, which is sufficiently proved to all those that believe the Prophets and Gabriel, and their writings that the Messiah come, and hath fulfilled Gabriels and Daniels words, of whose kingdom there is many witnesses, that is the Messiah who is subduing, who hath all power in Heaven and Earth to subdue, and to reconcile in one, all things both in Heaven and Earth; And you being the people of God, God did bring you to your Land as God did foretell by his Prophets; And according to the number of time you came, and so likewise according to the number of time the Messiah came, & as you do believe the number of time of the one, you must believe it of the other; and so if you do believe the Prophets and Gabriel, you must believe their words of the Messiah, that he did come, and is come; and so you were restored to your own Land: And all that do believe Gabriel and Daniel and the Prophets words, and the number of time of the Messiahs coming, and the number of the time of your Captivity, and the number of the time of your coming into the Land, do believe in the Messiah that he is come, and have received of his power, who doth restore them into his kingdom, many thousands do witness this; And although your Fathers were restored to their own Land, City and Temple, according to the Prophets words, by the Almighty power of God, yet when the Messiah did come amongst you in your own Land, when you were restored, many of you received him not, as you have continued to this day, and so hath not been made free by him; and so hath not enjoyed his everlasting kingdom; which after God had restored you into your Land, the Messiah coming, you should have received him, then had you received Gods promises and his Kingdom, but you soon turned from the power that God brought you into your own Land by, and so turned against the Messiah, and so turned into the Earth, and your Fathers said, they would have Caesar, Caesar was their King, and so would have none of the Messiah, nor his kingdom, so that is the cause that you lie in Thraldom and bondage, because you have not received the Messiah, and his Kingdom, which all the Prophets of God gave testimony of, but have stumbled at the stumbling ston and so to you he became a Rock of offence, and so you builders, are them that have rejected the Corner ston, which is become the Head of the Corner, seen of all them that do believe; and so you being restored to your Kingdom, according to the prophecy, and the kingdom of the Messiah coming, according to the prophecy, and because you do not believe in this, it doth not follow that the Messiah is not come, because of your unbelief; but it is proved that the Messiahs is come, according to the Scriptures of Truth, and many are restored by him, and much have been overturned and dashed to pieces by him.  
This assertion( sayest thou) is further proved by the following Argument; The Messiah must come after the Captivity of the people of Israel, and not before, but none is come after the Captivity, in whom the Prophesies are fulfilled, therefore the Messiah is not yet come.  
I Answer, the Messiah did come after the Captivity of you jews, according to jeremiah, who numbered your Captivity, and prophesied of the Messiah, as in the 33. Chap. How God would bring forth his good things, and set up Righteousness in the Land, and according to Daniels words, who was a Captive; and so in the Captivity your Temple was raised to the ground, and you gathered to build your Temple again to the Messiah, the Prince; So number you the time( Daniel 9.) and this Captivity that you be in now, Ieremiahs number did not reach to, they that think it doth deceive themselves; And the Prophets do not say that your Temple shall be builded again, after the Messiah, your outward Temple, and you should come and offer there, you have no prophecy for that; and so this doth prove, that you have fulfilled the Prophets words, in stopping your ears, and closing your Eyes, and hardening your hearts and in hiding your faces from him, when he came, who came poor, and was a man of sorrows, and so the Messiah did come after the Captivity, and the building the Temple which did fulfil the Prophesies; And if you believe Gabriel and Daniel spake true, you must of necessity believe that the Messiah is come: and so to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, and judge and condemn your own ignorance and blindness; And the Messiah did come before the Temple was destroyed again, for it was built unto him, and he Prophesied to your Fathers, that the Temple should be destroyed again, and the walls trodden under foot, and you scattered over all Nations; And he doth not prophecy, neither have you any that you should be gathered to that outward place again to offer outward Sacrifices; So now I say, if you would come to God, and believe his Prophets, you must own and believe that the Messiah is come, and he it is that gathereth up to God, who is the New Covenant, and whom God hath given for a Light, and a Leader, and counsellor, and a Prophet like unto Moses, to be heard; Now if you hear him, you must hear the Light, and his power that discovers Sin and evil, to led you from it, and this is that that brings into his Kingdom, and so as I said before, the prophecy of Daniel in his number, reach to the building of the Temple to the Messiah, and it doth not speak of the last throwing of it down, as that now it shall be builded again, but that the Messiahs kingdom should be set up which is everlasting; which is sufficiently proved we say, whose power we have received, and his Kingdom is come, which doth dash to pieces, and doth set free, and which many of your fathers was freed by it, who did receive him at his coming, and afterwards did believe in him, and likewise many Gentiles; so this Kingdom I say again, in it is the freedom of the Messiah, that doth dash to pieces all that is contrary to it, which is holy, and make them all subject to him, and so that is clear by all the places, that the Messiah did come before this last Captivity of yours, that you are in now & before your Temple & Walls was thrown down; for it was builded unto his coming, and afterwards thrown down, which it you receive him, you must feel the light of him, and the power of him in your own particulars, and so believe in him; if not, to you yet he is a stumbling ston, and a Rock of offence, as it is spoken of in the Prophets; And have not ye and your fathers fulfilled this prophesy? Seeing the Prophets prophesied of him, that prophesied of your Captivity, of your coming out of Captivity, and of his coming, and how he should be a Rock of offence, and a ston of stumbling; And now therefore is not these prophesies fulfilled upon you? Let the witness of God in you all answer; and so with that consider how you are without the life of the Prophets, and so have not seen that which they prophesied of: Therefore consider your conditions and states, which are sad; which now many that are called Gentiles have seen, and received that which the Prophets gave testimony of, and that all your Prophets, and many of your Kings should see the Messiahs, and should prophesy of your Captivity, and see your coming out of Captivity, and see the coming of the Messiah, and yet you not believe in him, nor your Prophet; so to you he is a ston of stumbling, and a Rock of offence.  
And as for the Iewes abiding many dayes without a King, without a Prince, without a Sacrifice, without an Altar, without an Ephod and Teraphim, which shows the Captivity to be long, &c.  
I Answer, This doth not manifest the length of the Captivity, the many days; but Hosea prophesied about 733 years before Christ, and so your Captivity into Babylon, who was long without a King, and without a Prince, and Offerings, and such like Services and Altars; and when you had transgressed Gods Law, then he put you from him, under the Heathen; and so your gathering again out of Captivity unto jerusalem, should be unto Messiah the Prince, and there was your place of offering, which he by his offering up himself ended; and so this proves that the Messiah is come according to Daniel, who prophesied in Captivity; And many did in the latter dayes, when they came out of Captivity receive Christ, who came of David, and they that did seek the Lord, and owned Christ their King, th● Messiah; and so the Messiah did come after the Captivity, according to Daniels prophesy, and Ieremiahs, who numbered the time of your Captivity, and then numbered the time of the coming of the Messiah; And this may convince you Iewes of your Ignorance, for the Prophet nor Gabriels number doth not reach to this Captivity, but to that then; therefore your condition is sad, you may consider yourselves, and mind the power of the Messiah within you, who is gathering, that you may be gathered up to him, who is reconciling in one by his power, and so every one who have received the Messiah, have received Christ, whom David called Lord, and these have received of his goodness.  
And as for them that say, It was the Christians that was to be without a King, &c. Such do not know what they say, for it was spoken to the Children of Israel, in the prophesy, who should remain without a King, Prince, Sacrifice, Altar, Ephod and Teraphim, which was before the Christians was; for when Christ came according to the Prophets, then had you Offerings, and Sacrifices, &c. when he the Messiah was come, who was King, though you would not own him, of whom the Christians came. Thou sayest, Next we must know, that this Captivity cannot be understood of the Babylonians, &c.  
Answer, This proves nothing to the purpose against the Messiahs being come, for Hosea prophesied long before the Captivity by the Chaldeans, and Christ came after your Captivity, who was in the latter dayes of all your services, who came to fulfil them; And if the ten Tribes were not come forth( as thou sayest) this doth not prove Daniel and Gabriel and other Prophets false, that the Messiah is not come, according to their words; And Zachary saith, that they of all Nations that came against jerusalem, should come up to worship and then do thou think, that none of the ten Tribes came up to worship, that none of them was left, when all they that had come up against jerusalem, should come up to worship; And Zachary prophesied about 520 years before Christ; And this Captivity, if you will own Gabriels words, and see if it do not reach to the Babylonians dayes, and in the dayes of those Monarchies, there was a Commandment to gather the people, to the building of the Temple unto the Messiah the Prince; And it is strange, that you that profess the Prophets, and Moses, and Gabriel, and Daniel, cannot believe this, cannot see this, who numbered the time of his coming, and of your gathering; And consider, what Prince was cut off, which you will say it was according to the number of Gabriels time? What Prince among yourselves that was cut off in that year, that he numbers? And what Prince you had that came, according to the year? You that do not believe that that was the Messiah, and so cannot believe the Prophets words, and Gabriel, consider and reckon with yourselves.  
Thou sayest, That the ten Tribes are not returned from their Captivity, and that in the end of this Captivity, the coming of the Messiahs shall be.  
Answer, Christ the Messiah came before this Captivity of yours, that you be in now, and if that you be gathered it must be now by his power, and those prophesies of Hosea, and jeremiah, and Daniel, reacheth to the Captivity by the Babylonians, and those four Monarchies, in whose dayes Christ the Messiah came, as thou hast confessed formerly that he should come in their dayes; so by this thou hast overthrown thy own Argument, if the ten Tribes were not gathered, as thou sayest; which if they( and who) are gathered, it is by the power of the Messiah, up into the Messiahs Kingdom, who came according to Gabriel and Daniel, who prophesied in the Babylonians Captivity, and numbered the time of his coming, and shewed how long it would be, so number thou the time, and thou wilt number the latter dayes, and how long the Prophets did reach, and to what time, and so by that thou mayest judge thy own Argument, and thy Ignorance of the Messiahs coming, and of the Prophets, and of the Kingdom of the Messiah, which is come, and is everlasting; And so you that look for the Messiah bringing you to your outward jerusalem, and Offerings again, are utterly deceived; for he came before this Captivity, and was Crucified, and killed before this Captivity, as you may red by Gabriels number; And so there was a Captivity before this Captivity, as you may red in the Prophets, that you be in now, and so if you would be gathered out of this Captivity, you must own that the Messiahs is come, and to be gathered by his power.  
But sayest thou, Before we leave this place, we must observe from the third of Hosea and fourth verse, That the Israelites shall in this Captivity keep the Law of God, and his true worship, seeing the Prophet saith, that they shall be without Teraphim, which Authors understands of false gods, &c.  
I Answer, In the fourth verse of Hoseas third Chapter, you Children of Israel was without a King, Prince, Offering, Altar, Ephod and Teraphim; and dost thou say that the Children of Israel kept the Law of God, when they was without a Sacrifice, Offering and an Altar? And had they the Offering, and the Altar, and did they keep the Law of God, in the dayes of the Chaldeans? Or have you kept the Law of God since that the Messiah prophesied of your scattering over all Nations? How do you keep the Law of God when you are without an Offering, and an Altar? Was not ye in the dayes of the Chaldeans and other times without these things? Was not your chief place of Offering at jerusalem? And was you not brought back again into your own Land, the chief place of offering? And had you not there your Offerings again, which the Messiah( as the Prophet saith) should cause them to cease? And yet you would not until your City was destroyed, and your place of Offering; And do you now keep the Law of God? Have you not been scattered for transgressing of it? For had you lived in it, then had you received the Messiah when he came; and had you lived in it, then would you have enjoyed that which Moses, and the Prophets saw that which was to come, and is come, then you and your fore-fathers would have received him, for had you not transgressed Gods Law, you then had not gone into Captivity; but they, after their Captivity that Hosea speaks of, did seek the Lord their God, & David their King, these feared God and his goodness in the latter dayes, these enjoyed the end of the Prophets, the Messiah which the Prophets and Gabriel spake of, which came long since according to the prophesy; And had you kept the true worship, and your fore-fathers likewise, then had you as the Prophets did, seen the Messiah, and known him when he came, for Daniel did worship God though a Captive, and many others, which I will not say all did bow to their false gods, their Teraphim as thou calls it; for some would not bow down to them; And so all you now that be in Captivity, and hath been, and are for transgressing Gods Law, and not for keeping of it, for had you kept it, you had not come into it; for had you kept it, and been in it, you had received the Messiah and King and Saviour, whom you must all look for, and there is no other, but him who is King and Saviour, that redeems and brings out of Captivity, and makes free from Captivity, and brings into his Kingdom, which is everlasting; But I do believe, and know this, in this scattering over all Nations, you have not, nor do keep the Law of God, but doth bow and hath bowed, and conformed to the Nations and Customs, yea of the Heathens, which is contrary to the Law of God, which had you kept it, and been in the life of it, you would have been in the Kingdom of Christ, the Messiah before now; and have seen him who is the end of the Prophets, that came according to their words, and prophesies, which on the contrary you are stumbling at the Corner-stone, and remain in your scattered state, which as I said before, there is nothing must gather you but the power of the Messiah in one, through whom you believe all the Prophets, and the end of their words and sayings, that he is come; who hath, and doth fulfil them, who came, and set up his Kingdom long since; And that is the Word of the Lord God to you: And God doth not require your Offerings, and Sacrifices now, for the Messiah hath caused them to cease, according to Daniels words( Chap. 9.27.) so you that do not see the Messiah come, are without the Law of God, that is to say, the life and the power of it, and doth not hear the Prophet, whom God hath raised up, you do not hear the true Teacher.  
And thou sayest, That in the dayes of Asa( 2 Chron. 15.3.) they did not observe the Law, &c. but thou sayest in this Captivity, they observed the Law, &c.  
I Answer, The dayes of Asa was before the Captivity, and by their worshipping what was in the Law forbidden, by that they forsook the true Teacher; And as for the state of you lying in the state of Captivity, under the power of darkness, is because ye forsake the mercy, the true Prophet, whom you should hear, who comes to fulfil the true Prophets, the end of his coming, and if Asa did harken to the true Prophets, and put away the Idols, so if you harkened also to Daniel and Gabriels words, and to the Messiahs, which are spoken forth, then you would put away all that which have caused you to stumble, for Cyrus may condemn you, who red in the Prophet about 210 years after Isaiahs dayes, and did believe, and do much according to Isaiahs prophesy, which may condemn and judge your unbelief of your own Prophets, for he being a Heathen, and you professing yourselves the people of God, cannot believe your own Prophets.  
Thou sayest, They observe the Law, and the true worship, else the Prophet would have blamed them here, as Azaria did Asa; and so say that Hoseas is far from taxing them, that he saith rather they are without Idols, and so observers of the Divine Law, &c. which thing( dear Friend) I wish by thee might be considered with open eyes, &c.  
I Answer, That Captivity was before Christ came, for you had followed Idols before, and gone into whoredoms; and therefore saith the Prophet, though you had had your Kings, and Princes & Alters, therefore saith the Prophet to you, you should be many days without either King Prince, Alter, Sacrifice, Ephod and Teraphim; and this reaches not to the State you now be in, and then after you should seek the Lord which many did, as I said before, and was brought out of Captivity, for Daniel kept himself from the Idols & others, & you was whi●ld up & down many days without them, but when you came to be brought back again to your own offering place, & gathered back to the Building the Temple to Messiah the Prince, the King, who ended all your outward Tipical services whom we own is the Substance; and the Prophet doth not say that you kept the Law of God in Captivity, but he blames you for breaking the Law of God, and for breaking the Law of God you should suffer; neither did you Worship God, and for not worshipping of God, and not keeping his Law, was the cause of your going into Captivity, which is your cause of being there; And as I said before, not being in the Life and power of it, which if you were, you and your Fathers before you would see the Messiah his Kingdom and power come; And they that did, and do observe the Law of Moses, which is the Law of God, do see what the Prophet said concerning the Messiah, his coming and time, but you did not, nor have not observed the Law of God, therefore went you and they into Captivity; And because of your Idols and transgressions, which those lovers of Idols the Lord God would restrain you from, and make you to suffer, and they that did, and do observe the Law of Moses the life and power of it, did own the Messiah when he was come, and do own him to be come, and so they that own him come, do see him who is the end of the Law of Moses, for Righteousness sake, and do come into his Kingdom and power where no unclean thing entereth: And so in this Captivity you have neither observed the Law of God, nor the true Worship, for you cannot observe the whole Law of Moses,, unless you be out of the Captivity, and if you come out of Captivity, you must own the Messiah is come, and his power; And now you that do not own the Messiah to be come, do not own Moses nor his Law, nor the Prophets, nor God, and so you that do hold up offerings and Sacrifices which Christ the Messiah hath ended, and caused to cease, you make Idols of them; And are all your people free from Idols, and National worships and offerings, and customs, if you were so, all this doth not prove that you keep the Law of Moses, nor own the Prophets because you do not own the Messiah, and the Prophet whom they foresaw, which lived in the Law, which you live out of, and the Worship of God; And I say that the Law of Moses is and was true in all particulars, and we do know the Righteousness of the Law fulfilled in us, who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit; and we do live in the life and Equity and Justice, and to do to all men as we would have others do to us, and this is the Law and Prophets, and this is considered by us with open eyes, who have received Christ and his Kingdom that hath no end, that is is everlasting; who is the end of the Law( as I said before) for Righteousness sake; for the Law was to limit people from Sin, and added because of transgression, and came by Moses after the fall, that man had transgressed, so it was not made for the Righteouss, but for sinners and transgressors, which Christ the Messiah bruising the Serpents head, and Redeeming out of the fall, up to the state man was in before he fell, we know the end of Moses Law, and for what end it served, and the Messiahs Kingdom which hath no end, in which Kingdom nothing but what is pure enters; when Christ was offered up, your offerings, and Sacrifices, and Alters ceased, therefore your being without offerings and Alters, do not reach to this Captivity, for Christ the Messiah came and ended your offerings, and Sacrifices before this Captivity, as you may number Daniel and Gabriels words, of the years he was to be offered up in, and caused them to cease; therefore of necessity you must conclude it was in the Captivity before, if you will believe the Prophet Daniel and Gabriel, who said that Christ the Messiah should cause your offerings to cease, who came in the end of the Babylonians Captivity, proved out of Daniel, chap. 9.26, 27, verses; so he should cause your offerings to cease, who put an end to them above 1600 years ago, and so through this, your applying the Prophets words to this time, shows Ignorance of the Prophets, of Gabriel and Daniel, there words and prophesies, concerning the coming of the Messiah, number and time; Therefore as I said before, consider how you have spent your days ever since, and brought yourselves into Thraldom, which if you come out, it must be by the Messiahs power, by his power and light that you have been in so much unbelief of, and to aclowledge him your Saviour, whom your Fathers crucified, 1600 years ago, according to the number of Daniel, so this remember and consider.  
And thou brings Isaiah( Chap. 24.22. ver.) to prove that the Messiah shall not come till after a long Captivity that the Children of Israel should be gathered together as prisoners in the Pit, and shall be shut up in the Prison, and after many days they shall be visited.  
I Answer, Isaiah saw your Captivity, and Cyrus red in the book of Isaiah the Prophet how that he should build the Temple; so Isaiah prophesied long before the Captivity, and likewise he prophesied of the Messiah, and his name should be called Emanuel, and so that doth not reach to your days, for they were in the Pit that were among the Chaldeans, and they were visited, for Isaiah saith Kings and Queens shall be nursing Fathers and Mothers, and they should carry them with their heads downward, which came to pass in Daryus and Cyrus days, and so now this doth not suit your minds; now that the Messiah should come after this Captivity, and visit you, and restore you to your Sacrifices, do not look for that now, for that will never be, for by the offering up of himself he ended your offerings, and so if you be visited now, it must be by the power of the Messiah, to bring you out of the Pit of darkness, into his Kingdom, and to wait for him to be revealed in you, and so to come to his Light, and so to Salvation, for I will give him for a Covenant of light, and he shall be my Salvation,( Isaiah 24.)  
But why do I( sayest thou) stand long upon this, for if the Messiah should come before the Captivity, why doth the Prophet Isaiah complain chap. 49.14? And zion saith, the Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.  
I Answer, The Messiah did come long before your Captivity, that you be in now, who came as I said before according to Daniel; And Isaiah saying, zion saith the Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me; this now thou mayest know; that Isaiah prophesied long before the Captivity which Isaiah prophesied of, and saw your coming out again, and who should build your Temple, Cyrus; and saw the Messiah: And did not you cry when you were in Captivity, red the Prophets, which was before the Messiah came according to Gabriel; red how Ezekiel, and jeremiah complained, and others that prophesied in Captivity? How the Iewes complained, red Ieremiahs Lamentation; how zion cried out there; and so there thou may see this was in the Captivity of the Chaldeans, which we say was spoken of the jews, which was before the Messiah was come, according to Gabriel and Daniel.  
And David saying, Why sleepest thou O Lord, awake; be not far off for ever, why hidest thou thy face, and forgetest our affliction, and oppression, arise for succour, and redeem us for thy mercys sake; and other Scriptures thou brings to prove that the Messiah shall come after a long Captivity, and David prophesied and speak who was in misery, in his own Generation and sufferings, 1070 years before Christ; Also David he saw Christ, and called him Lord, and saw his sufferings; what you did inflict on him, as Psalm 22. and others, and Isaiah 53; who was shown to Daniel by Gabriel, and the number of his time, and coming, who came before your Captivity,( and before your City was destroyed) that you be in now; which as I said before no prophesy you have in all the Prophets, to bring you back again to outward jerusalem, to set up a Temple, and Sacrifice, and Alters; but if you have any gathering to God, it must be by the power of the Messiah up into his Kingdom and you must never look to be gathered into these outward things again, and if you do believe ever to come out of Captivity, it must be by the Messiah whom your Fathers killed above 1600 years ago, and who leads into his Kingdom, who ends your outward services according to Daniel the 9. And as for the saying in Daniel 12. chap. where after he had sealed the Book( which in the Judgement of Cornelius( thou saith) and others signified the length and certainty of the Captivity, and asking the determination of these wonders, he received this answer ver. 7. when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished, what can be clearer to prove that the Messiah shall come after the Captivity of the people of Israel, wherefore since none is come after it, it follows that the Messiah is not yet come.  
I Answer, all this doth not prove that the Messiah is not yet come, and your power you had lost when the Messiah did come, according to Gabriels words, after the Captivity, for had not you been scattered from the power of the Lord, you had received the Messiah, for they that were not did receive him, but many stop there ears, and closed their eyes, and would not see, therefore came the just Judgments of God upon them; And if the shuting of the book, and sealing of it, signified the length of the Captivity, until the Redemption, and the Messiah, as I said before, the same Daniel that saw the one shuting of the book saw the time of the Messiah who should come after the Captivity of the chaldeans, & did come according to his prophesy whom your Fathers put to death; And therefore it is proved, that he came after the Children of Israels Captivity spoken of by Daniel; And thou and you that say, that the Messiah is not come, do not believe the number of Gabriel to Daniel, of the coming of the Messiah, which was after the Captivity, and set up his everlasting Kingdom that hath no end, whose power you must know in yourselves, before you come to it; And it is weak in you to put this state of your Captivity, to other states spoken of in the Prophets, to prove that the Messiah is not come, whose power and Kingdom hath been and is set up long since, therefore believe Gabriel and Daniel, and then you will believe he is come, who must bring you out of Captivity by his power, into his kingdom, that hath no end.  
Again thou sayest, The evidence of this Truth will further appear from the peace that shall be in the world at the coming of the Messiah, whence I thus Argue, in the days of the Messiah, there shall be a perpetual peace over all the world, but such a peace there hath not been hither to, therefore the Messiah is not yet come; Now in this thou dost contradict thy former words, fo● dost thou not Remember that thou saidst, he must dash to pieces and destroy the Monarchys, and his judgement must be set, therefore because he is dashing and destroying, and throwing down and subduing to himself, and because you be 〈◇〉 that nature that must be thrown down by him, and so be not in the peace, t●●●efroe thou and you do say he is not come, but they that are in his kingdom have peace, and do see he is come; red the second Psal. After the anointed is come, the King is come, on the holy ●i●l, ●n● what combining there was against him, but he must break to pieces, before there is a peace, people must be broken to pieces, for the peace lies in his Kingdom; therefore as many as are brought into his Kingdom have peace, and are in the peace over all the World, in his Kingdom that is everlasting, and so Christs Kingdom stands over all the World, and not of the World, though thou do not see it, that doth not believe in Gabriels words, for if thou did, thou would see it, who hath all power in Heaven and Earth given to him, for the subdued are in peace, the unsubdued the Messiah make war within Righteousness, until the unrighteousness be destroyed, for the peace lies in the Righteousness, and so in the Messiah, and his power and Kingdom.  
And again thou saying, That there shall be a perpetual peace over all the world, in the days of the Messiah, & yet thou sayest according to Isaiah, he shall judge the Nations and rebuk many people; Mark now, is not this contradiction? First thou sayest there shall be peace over all the world, and then thou sayest he shall Judge the Nations and rebuk the people? Now in this state there is not peace, for the peace lies in the unrebukable state, and amongst them that come through the judgement, into the Kingdom of peace; And so after the Nations are judged, and people are rebuked, & come out of the rebukeable state, and through the Judgement, into the Kingdom of Christ Jesus, then they shall beat their swords into plowshares & their spears into pruning hooks, & Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation, neither shall they learn war any more; and this Scripture I and thousands more do witness fulfilled, that knows the power of Christ and his everlasting Kingdom, the same is spoken of in Micha, & David singing of the eternity of his peace, who saw Christ whom we enjoy, which you that do not believe his coming, according to Daniel and Gabriel are far of it, and we know the Righteousness and the peace that shall continue as long as the Moon endureth; yea the peace I say that is in the Messiah Christ, by wom the Moon and the Sun was made, and all things, and was before they were made.  
And thou saist, Zachary giveth us full assurance hereof( chap. 9.13.) saying, I will cut off the Chariot from Ephraim, & the horse from jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off, &c. Is not your Chariot cut off from Ephraim? and your horse from Jerusalem? and your battle bow cut off, that ever since the Messiahs came, you could do no good with it; and hath not peace been spoken to the Heathen, which many thousands of the Gentiles and Heathen do confess his name, and have received his Law, whose Dominion is from Sea to Sea, for he hath all power in Heaven and Earth given to him: yea him I say by whom all things are made and created, for he came from the Father, and his kingdom is everlasting, so the peace is everlasting in it, and his Throne is over all, and such a peace thou say over all the world hath not been, and therefore thou saist the Messiah is not yet come: Now mark the contradiction of thine own words, as in Daniel, thou saist the Messiahs kingdom must come in the four Monarchies, who shall break them to pieces, therefore if thou look for peace, thou must first know a dashing to pieces, for it is proved that the Messiah is come; if he be dashing to pieces though there be no peace in the world, for in dashing to pieces what peace is there? now thou must understand, that peace lies in the Messiahs kingdom, that do save and redeem; for as David saith in the Psalms, how they combined together against him, but yet they should be laughed to scorn, and when he was come according to Davids words, all Jerusalem was in an up●oar, when Herod gathered all the chief Priests together, to know where Christ should be born, it was said in Bethlem of judea, for so it was written by the Prophet: therefore this proveth that the Messiah is come if he be making war in righteousness, in dashing to pieces, and he hath dashed to pieces, and yet doth, and they that did receive him when he came, and hath believed in him since, they know this peace spoken of by David, and by the Prophets, that came into his life and power, which they that do profess him, and doth not come into his life and power, have not the peace, but we know it, and it is over all the World, and by his power he is subduing, and who comes into his kingdom and power, they beat their swords into Plough-shares, and Spears into pruning hooks, and do not learn war any more, for the Messiah said after he was come according to Daniel and Gabriel, that his kingdom was not of this world, therefore his servants should not fight; and many of you Jews above 1600 yeares ago did own the Messiah, and that that was he that did come, according to Daniel and Gabriels words, the Prophets, who did fulfil their sayings; and so you Jews and other Nations which had carnal weapons to war with one another, and learned war one with another, the Messiah Christ came to end all those weapons, and warnings, and learning wars, who destroy the Devil the Author of wars, and his works, and reconciles to God, and set up his own kingdom, in which stand the everlasting peace; and so he put you to other work with your weapons, your swords to make plough shares of them, and your Spears to make pruning hooks of, so there must be a general subduing, of all that is contrary to Christ in the world, and a dashing in pieces before there be a general peace; and as many as are dashed to pieces, and are come to be Sub●ects of his everlasting kingdom, they know his everlasting kingdom from Sea to Sea, though all things be not dashed in pieces, and is not in unity, yet it is the Messiah that is come that doth dash to pieces, & reconcile in one, and so in him and his power must your faith be, and so to receive his kingdom, in which kingdom there is not fightings and strife, as there was among you and the Gentiles, but it is a kingdom of peace, an everlasting kingdom, which is not divided against itself, as your kingdoms were; and this is known to all them that be in the power and life of Christ Jesus, but to them that be not, are as you are, and the rest of the Gentiles, which they that be in the kingdom sees over all that, and is in peace that shall never have an end.  
The Adversaries( saist thou) take much pains to make solutions, seeing they find themselves pinched by this Argument, to confess, the Messiahs is not yet come, and Hierom answers that Iesus was born the 42 year of Augustus, when there was peace over all the world, and the Temple of Ianus shut, which was not done but in a time of high tranquillity, and that here in the prophesies were fulfilled, in th● same manner do answer Chrisostom, Cyril, Eusebius and others.  
Answer, Those which say there was a peace over all the world when Christ was born, which afterwards there was great wars, that many thousands of the Christians suffered, now that was by them that were to be subdued by Christs kingdom, that Christs Subjects of his kingdom suffered by, and so the Messiahs kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, in which there is no wars, not in his kingdom, for the rebukings, and the judgements, and dashing to pieces is without his kingdom, which he is subduing to his kingdom, and if those whom thou hast mentioned, as Hierom, &c. Do say that there was not such wars after Christs birth, as there had been before, that is manifested to the contrary, for there was as great wars, as witness among you when jerusalem was destroyed, and besides others before the Roman Monarchies was destroyed; but that which doth give the everlasting peace, and doth subdue people, and pacify them, and quiet them into peace, is the power of the Messiah; And if that there was a peace over all the world, when the Messiah was born, that the power of the Lord did go over, that the spirits of people was a little quieted, which then it might show what he would do in his Kingdom, break all to pieces, and bring in everlasting peace; and if among themselves they did break open into Wars afterwards, this shows that it was amongst them that was unsubdued, and was to be broken a pieces by the ston, and the power thereof; and there is none of this doth disprove that the Messiah is not come; And the prophesies relate to the everlasting kingdom of peace, that Christs Kingdom so shall be, and so is; and there is no wars at all in his Kingdom, for all the wars that be, are in the world without, which he doth subdue; And as for their own and the other, which doth say, that there was peace over all the world when Christ was born, therefore that was the everlasting Kingdom prophesied of, and fulfilled the prophesies( thou sayest) they, said; And the people breaking out into Wars again as was before, this is but an Imagination, for if the power of Christ do give peace, and still and quiet peo- for a time, this doth not oppose the kingdom of Christ, for being everlasting, for his Kingdom is everlasting, and doth and will dash to pieces all that is contrary to him; nevertheless the power that giveth peace, is not to be judged but is true; And if people rise up in Rebellion against him,( as you jews did) then the Messiah  told them what wars they should have, Rumors of wars, such as never had been, and it came to pass according to his words, for the like never was heard of be●ore in jerusalem, when it was destroyed last; nevertheless the Messiah is come, and his kingdom is set up, that stand in power and peace, and is everlasting; And if there was peace over all the world when he was born, yet according to the Prophets words, he was to dash to pieces, therefore what peace is this then, and so is to Rule and reign until he hath put all power and Authority under his feet, and until he hath subdued all things to his own Kingdom, in which is peace, and is everlasting; And as fo● that wi●h Hireom say and others, and puts that for the Kingdom which is not, that we do not own, but as Christ being born according to Gabriel and Daniel, which is proved that he is come, and his Kingdom is everlasting, of which Kingdom now thousands are heires, and they are come to possess it, this we do own, and know, and are assured of, and they that say to the contrary, that he is not come, know not what they say; and such poor souls we pitty that be in the Captivity under the power of Satan, out of the Kingdom of the Messiah, and his light, life and power, that goes over the whole world, yea the whole Creation of man, who will by it, it subdue, whose Kingdom reaches from Sea to Sea, and happy are they that are in this Kingdom, and have received it, and this is everlasting peace, an everlasting Kingdom it stands for ever, it never alters, it never changes, it is not divided in itself, as the Kindoms of this world are; and it stands in power and Righteousness, and goes over the world, and the power of darkness that is in it; and by his power all things contrary to the power, and the Kingdom, comes by the power to be dashed in pieces of the Messiah, and he reigns whose kingdom is set up, in which we have everlasting peace,  
But that all these things are false( thou sayest) we shall easily demonstrate, if we only consider the words of the Prophet that saith, that there shall not only be a peace, but an everlasting one, &c.  
Answer, So the Kingdom of Christ is an everlasting Kingdom, and there is no wars in his Kingdom, and those Kingdoms in which are wars, the ground thereof comes from the Lust, and which be in the state as Adam and his sons and daughters be, in the earth, in the fall, driven from God, among whom is the wars, and fightings, and learning wars, one Nation against another; But who comes into the Kingdom of the Messiah which is everlasting, are Redeemed out of that state, that Adam and Eves Sons and daughters in the fall, in the wars, driven from God, in the earth are in; and so in the Redemption; is out of this state of the fall, up to God again, and so out of the wars, and before the wars was, which have all been since the fall; All there weapons come to be broken to pieces, who come into the kingdom of the Messiah, that is everlasting, that never comes to end; and them that be in the fall, fighting and dashing one against another, Christ by his power, dash and breaks them one by another; And so who are come out of all these Wars and Fightings, into the Kingdom of the Messiah, sets every one under their own Vine, and are as the lilies, and witness the Messiahs that doth fulfil the Prophets words, they do do so; and this is witnessed by them that are redeemed from the earth, and that owneth the Messiah, that do fulfil the Prophets words, who are we.  
But then thou sayest, We may confidently say, that after the coming of Iesus there have been Wars as great, if not greater, than those that went before, &c.  
Answer, And I do say, That there hath been Wars, and great Wars since Jesus the Messiah has come, and he prophesied of them before they did come, which are come to pass according to his words, that you are scattered, and your Wall broken down under foot, and such there was that was never before, nor never was the like since.  
And thou sayest, As to prove it, that there hath been the War of jerusalem, then which there was never any more grievous and dreadful; and thou sayest, What shall we say of the City of Rome, so often taken and sacked by the goths and other Barbarians? Of the Roman Empire, so often shaken by War, till at last it was ruined? Now mark this word, the Empire was ruined; now hath not this word thrown out thy former Arguments, which saith the fourth Monarchy( which was the Roman) was still standing, and in being, and therefore thou sayest the Messiahs was not come, and yet thou sayest he was come in the dayes of these Monarchies, and then thou sayest again the fourth Monarchy was standing, and now thou sayest it was so often shaken by War, till at last it was ruined; Therefore, O dear Friend, consider what thou speakest, for now here the Messiah is come according to thine own words now, that the Roman Monarchy is ruined; Therefore the Messiah is come then according to thy own words, who said he should come after it, but this is contrary to the Prophet; who said he should come in their dayes, not when they are overthrown, but in their dayes; for their dayes is not when the thing is overpast; and so here if there have been Wars and rumours of Wars, and the Roman Monarchy ruined by thy own confession( though before it was proved) here thou hast made it good that the Messiahs is come, who have dashed to pieces, for they shall be dashed to pieces by him; so his Kingdom is set up they being dashed to pieces, and in their dayes it was set up, that is in their dayes before they were destroyed; and now thou sayest the Roman Empire is ruined, therefore it hath been ruined by the Messiahs power, and though the Messiahs did say, that such Wars you should have at jerusalem, which is come to pass according to his words, and who came according to Gabriel, yet you are in the unbelief of him, which is your weakness, and you should not do so: And what of other Wars in all Ages, of whose terribleness Histories are full, and neither did( sayest thou) Augustus, &c. of the Emperours want Wars and Tumults; But all this( I say) is nothing as to prove that the Kingdom of the Messiah was not set up, which is an everlasting Kingdom, in which no impure thing can come, nor enter, in the dayes of those Monarchies: And for the shutting of Ianus Temple, and opening it again, What is that to the Kingdom and power of Christ the Messiah which is everlasting? And Christs power overthrows Ianus Temple, and said yours should be overthrown too, and that not one ston should be left upon another, as was according to his words, and doth come to take away the peace that is in the earth, and set up his everlasting Kingdom of peace; And Christs Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom,( according to the Prophet) and an everlasting peace, which Ianus may be broken, and come to an end, but Christs is without end.  
And as for Cornelius thou speaks of, who thou sayest the modern Christians do follow him, who says that this peace is not to be understood of a peace over all, but over Christians onely.  
I say the Kingdom is over all the power of darkness, the power of God is over it, and before it was, and stands when it is gone, in which Kingdom Christ Reigns, and all which believes in him, and live in his life and power, are partakers of his Kingdom which is everlasting, and so they that are in the Kingdom are all Christians, owning his power and his Light, and feeling it, and living in it, that doth save them, and subdue them into the Kingdom; And let them be whatsoever name or people, if they be in the power of the Messiahs they are one, and here is no War in the Kingdom, nor strife, that is all without in the fallen estate from God, and his Image, and Righteousness, and Holiness, into the lust and earth, where Wars and Strife is, which the Messiahs Christ destroys, and brings out of, and so all them that be in the Wars, and Fighting, and Strife, and Nation against Nation, when they come to own the Kingdom of the Messiah, and live in the Power and Kingdom, then they shall lay all their busling away, and break all those weapons apieces.  
And besides( thou sayest that Cornelius saith) That the Law of the Gospel hath plucked up the Roots of War, Covetousness, Ambition, Unrighteousness and Wrath: And I say, The Law of the Gospel doth pluck up the Roots of War, Covetousness and Lusts, which Gospel is the power of God, that sets people free from such things, therefore it is glad tidings, and brings into peace, to see before those things was, that is before men fell into the earth, which all have come up since; And as for all those Christians, that have been against Christians, and shedding one anothers blood, among themselves, let Italy witness( thou sayest) and Spain and France, and Portugal; And what horrid Wars there have been between Lutherans, Calvinists, and other Sects, let Germany, Flanders, and England testify, &c.  
Answer, To this I say in their practise of killing and destroying one another, shedding one anothers blood, they are not in the Kingdom of the Messiah that do so, though they profess his Name in words, yet they are not in his power, for his Kingdom is peace, and the Messiah taught not such Doctrine, but that they should love one another, and he came to save mens lives, and not to destroy them, therefore they that destroy mens lives, and do no save them, they are not of his mind, nor Royal Kingdom, that never will have an end; ●or the destroying and killing one another is amongst those Kingdoms that have an end, and must change, but the Mess ah doth not, for he came destroy the Devil and his works, for as it is written, The seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head; so who are in Christs Kingdom are in peace, and knows him that destroys the Devil who is the author of all Wars and Strife, and Misery & of peoples destroying one another, for the Wars arise from the Lust; therefore who comes to the Kingdom, and to the Messiah, come over all this, and have it destroyed in them, by the power of the Messiahs; And the practise of the Christians killing and persecuting one another, it is not the mind of the Messiah, for he saith, love one another, and love enemies; so they should not kill enemies, and they should love them that persecute them & hate them, this is the mind of the Messiah, and much more to love one another, if to love their enemies; And it is the mark whereby Christs Disciples are known, if they love one another; So they that have killed one another, & persecuted one another, have not been the Messiahs Disciples, and they that have not loved enemies, neither are they the true Christians, neither are they that are fighting and killing, and destroying one another, are they in the Kingdom of Christ that is everlasting, without end, that stands in peace; but they are in the world, in them that must have an end; And though all the Christian Princes be at War one with another. which signifies that they are not in the Power and Kingdom of the Messiah, in which is the everlasting peace,( in which there is no dividing) neither love, though they do profess Christ in words, as you do Moses and the Prophets without life, because you Iewes are, and were without the life of the Law of God, and the Prophets, though having the words, so not seeing the Messiahs come, as the Christians which be in strife, which have the Messiahs words, and be not in his life and power, but be in the strife as you and other people are; therefore this is not to prove that the Messiah is not come; those Iewes that were in the life of Moses and the Prophets, saw the Messiah when he came, and received him, as those Christians that be in his life and power, know his Kingdom that is without end, and everlasting peace, and they that be in peace and love, though those Christians that be in heaps one with another, which show that they be not in the Kingdom, that do no ways prove that the Messiah is not come, but as the Prophet saith, They call upon me with their lips, and their heart is afar of; And so this doth not make that the Messiah is not come, because they be not in the peace, and the Kingdom that is everlasting without end, which strife is out of that Kingdom; And the Messiah is come, whose Kingdom is set up, which many thousands do enjoy, though millions should profess Christs Name being in strife one with another, being out of his power and life, which if they was in they would love one another, but being out of it, and because that they be in strife one with another; Is this a sufficient proof for thee to say that Christ the Messiah is not yet come? There is an Anti-christ spoken of, which should come, which should profess the Messiah, and yet be against him, which should have the sheeps clothing, and yet be without him, and be ravening Wolves; Therefore in this saying, we see his prophesies fulfilled, and do declare to the whole world, to all such as are called Christians, that be not in the power of Christ, and his Kingdom of peace, but fighting one with another, that if they come to be the Messiahs Disciples, they must love one another, and love enemies; And we deny the practise of all people that are fighting, and striving one with another, which have been the work amongst the sons and daughters of Adam, since the fall was from God, which as they come to be redeemed out of it by Christ, then will they love one another and love all, yea them which are not yet brought out of the fall, and not kill them, and destroy them: This is the state driven from God in the earth, not redeemed out of it, for there they war and fight for the earth, these are not like to look to Christ to be redeemed out of it, that are warring for it, but are of the same mind with them that slay him.  
And again thou sayest, There are very few among the Christians that hold War unlawful, and those that do maintain this Paradox, that even Turks when they invade the Christians, ought not to be resisted, because they are the scourge of God, and he that resists them, resists God, &c.  
Answer, There is many thousands of Christians that deny outward Wars and Fightings, and do hold the thing not to be according to the Law of the Messiahs, who says, they shall love enemies, and one another; therefore their Swords must be broken into Plough-shares, and Spears into Pruning-hooks, and all them that are called Christians are not in the Law of Christ, that do not love one another, and love enemies, neither are they in his Kingdom of peace; So if a Turk, or a Heathen, or a jew, or a Christian, out of the power of Christ, which will strike one another, they are all one that will war and fight one with another, this is below that state that man was in, in the beginning before he fell from God, and is below Christs Kingdom, and out of it, and contrary to it that stands in peace; and so who be in the Kingdom of Christ, that stands in his power and dominion, that are to love enemies and one another, they cannot strike one another, nor such as strike them, but to love them, and one another, and to overcome evil with good; and if one strike on the one cheek to turn the other; and this is above the Law, for by the Law people might revenge themselves, an Eye for an Eye, and a Tooth for a Tooth; but Christ the Messiah when he was come, he was struck and smote by you, he did not avenge himself, for his Kingdom was not of this world; And so all the Fighters their Kingdom is of this world, that must have an end, which the Kingdom of the Messiahs is everlasting and hath no end; So if Turks, or Iewes, or Christians, out of the power of God, if they do strike thee on the one cheek, thou shouldst turn the other to them, and love enemies; And if job did restrain evil, and the Law did punish and put to death, but the Messiah which doth destroy the Devil and his works, doth end and fulfil the Law; he and his power is to be believed in, and his power to be come into, and his Kingdom which stands in peace; and so they that do strike and fight they do resist the Command of Christ, and so Christ the Messiah doth not provoke men to War that be in his Kingdom of peace, but saith to such as be his Disciples, love one another; he provokes them to love, and to love one another, and he that heareth God heareth him.  
Wherefore sayest thou, As God permits the wicked to provoke good men to War, and suffers the Devil and his Instruments to tempt the Godly, so he Commands us to resist them unless he reveal the contrary, as he did to our people, that they should surrender jerusalem to nabuchadnezzar; Thus also God left some Canaanites in judea, that thereby he might teach and exercise Israel to worship him, as well as to learn War.  
Answer, As for your particular Cases, as surrendering jerusalem to nabuchadnezzar, but you had obeied the Command of the Lord, he would have taught you to destroy the Canaanites, and so you might have learned to worship God without the Canaanites teaching, and had you obeied the Law of God, you had not gone into Captivity; and your learning War was commanded by the Law of Moses, which the Messiah fulfils; but had you lived in the life of the Law, you had had more peace amongst you; but Christ he saith, you must beat your Swords into Plough-shares, and Nation shall not learn War with Nation any more, and many thousands of people are come to this love, unity and peace, and coming, and the Kingdom of Christ is set up, and people are flocking into it, & Christ ends that Command of the Law that does commands a War, and says they must not learn War, but break their weapons; And though they were in the dayes of Ioshua, Moses and the Maccabees, this is nothing as to Christs Kingdom, which is a Kingdom of peace, who destroys the Devil the author of strife; for we do aclowledge that in the time of the Law, there was Wars with them that was Heathens, the Iewes that had the Law of God, the Gentiles that were in their Inventions, they warred one with another, but Christ destroys the Devil, who is the author of your Wars, and the Heathens, and the Christians that be out of the power of Christ; and you must be dashed to pieces by Christs power, who be out of his Kingdom; And so them that be in the power of Christ, if one strike them they cannot strike again, for they are Lambs and Sheep, and comes to be innocent, yea to know the innocency that man was in before he fell, and the state of Christs Kingdom that shall never fall, that is everlasting; So if Turks or Christians, or whatever they be strike at us that be in the power of Christ Jesus, who have broken our Swords into Plough-shares, and Spears into Pruning-hooks, we cannot strike again, nor learn War, nor lift up Sword nor Spear, for our Kingdom is everlasting, which destroys the Devil, nor revenge ourselves, but vengeance is the Lords, and he will repay it, and he doth repay it, our Kingdom is everlasting and peaceable.  
Thou sayest, Good Lord! what blindness hath overspread the World, and I know not what to say herein, but what David saith Psam, 147.19, 20. He shows his word unto Jacob, his Statutes and his Iudgdements unto Israel, he hath not dealt so with any Nation, &c.  
Answer, And so all they that be in the blindness, and in the wo●ld, and that be out of the kingdom and power of the Messiah, and who comes to that, comes to see the end of the Jewish Ceremonial Law; and God showing his word to jacob, and his Statutes and Judgements unto Israel, mark, jacob saw Christ whose name was called the word of God, and your Fathers had the Statutes, which other Nations had not; And now the word, Christ, the Messiah, that jacob saw, when he spake to his Sons of Shiloes coming, which you and your Fathers had the Statutes; when the Messiah, when Shilo was come, they and you received him not, but many of the Gentiles are come to receive him; And now how have you requited God, who dealt with you as he did not do with other Nations? Yet when his Son came you put him to Death, and now to this day you do not believe that he is come; And many other of the Gentiles of other Nations have received him, to whom the Statutes and the word had not been formerly given, and they have received the Messiah, the substance, and therefore ye may see what blindness and darkness have happened amongst you, that you have lost the Light, and salvation to the ends of the earth, which was spoken of by the Prophets.  
But to finish this Argument( thou sayest) We are to note that the Prophets do not speak of particulars, but universals, that all Nations shall flow unto him, and that no Nation shall lift up a sword against Nation, and that they shall not learn War any more.  
I say yes, he doth speak of particulars and universals, for that all Nations, shall flow unto him, and Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation and they shall not learn wat any more, and this is amongst the good christians, that be flown to him, the Messiah; who sitteth under their own Vine; So now as he doth subdue, he brings up into his Kingdom, and under their vine, and brings out of the Wars and striffe, for the learning War is without th● Messiahs Kingdom, which he doth dash to pieces, and in his Kingdom is no learning Wars, not Carnal weapons; but therefore, because this is not done in the general, therefore the Messiah is not come thou sayest: Now this shows both Ignorance and contradiction, for he must come in the four Monarchies, and set up his Kingdom in their days, when all things was not subdued, and he was to subdue the warriors, and the Wars, and so Nations must be rebuked, he must rebuk the Nations, and judge the Nations for their wars, for their contentions, for their strifes, and for what they have done contrary to God, and then when they are come through the Rebukes of the Messiah, and the Jugdement, up to his kingdom, they shall sit under their own Vine, and so here the Nations shall flow to him, so then to one kingdom, one people, one body, and one Messiah; so this is a particular, and it is a Universal; as it goes over the Universal; which every particular in the universal, must find it in their own particulars, the power of the Messiah, subduing and beating down that nature that runs into Wars and strifes, and so the Prophets words are true, and are fulfilled in many, and come to be fulfilled.  
Whereas( thou sayest) In that sense they should at the least fear War and Invasions from the wicked, &c.  
And as every man sitting under his Vine, and they that are there, do not fear the Wars of the Nations, for they are in the Kingdom of Christ, that bruiseth the Serpents head, and destroy the Devil the Author of war, & shes to pieces, and rebukes, and judges all them that be in such things; and thus they must be rebukesd and Judged, before they break their spears and Swords according to the Prophets; And that which doth rebuk you, it is the power and light of the Messiah, and that must be felt within you, before you come to sit under your own Vine; So this doth not prove the Messiah is not come, because Nations are learning war one with another, and lifting up sword one against another, for in the days of the Monarchies he was to come, which thou sayest the Roman is ruined, which was the fourth, the last of the four, wherein the other three were contained; So therefore if he come and find Nations at wars, they are to be rebuked and Judged, and dashed to pieces: And the Nations are angry at him, and the Kings of the Earth take Counsel against him, yet he must break their bands asunder, therefore to say he is not come, because of this work, the Messiah is come and there must be a great deal of war before peace, for the Devil must be destroyed in every particular, in the whole Universal, before every particular man sit under his own particular Vine; And as people love one another, they will not be afraid one of another; And here in the Messiah did that manifest in his doctrine to his Disciples; when he was come, that they should love one another, which was a mark of his Disciples, and then that they should love Enemies, and so lift not up a sword against them; So all that comes to Christ the Messiah, and are gathered into his Kingdom, they are true Christians, and do witness the Messiah is come, and his Kingdom set up, and he reigns who was by you Crucified, above sixteen hundred years ago; And in this Redemption through the power of the Messiah, that destroys the Devil the author of oppression, the very Creation of God have liberty, through Christ the Messiah, and comes to the blessed state, and is known so as they was in the beginning, before man fell; and as many as are subdued into the Kingdom of the Messiah knows this, and cannot oppress the Creation; And that of the Prophet Isaiah, which thou speaks of, as that the Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb is known by us, and the Panther with the Kid, a Calf, a lion and a Sheep shall lie down together, and a little Child shall led them, and this Scripture I witness and know fulfilled in the life of it, and he that doth fulfil this is the Messiah; Therefore, because this is not done in the universal, therefore sayest thou the Messiah is not come: Now this is ignorance, for didst not thou say before, he must rebuk the Nations, and judge them, and destroy, and dash to pieces; therefore this is now by the Messiahs power, which must be known in every partilar, and so then in the universal, for universals comes to be known by particulars, and so goes on in the general; And if thou didst believe the Messiah was come, according to the Prophets, then thou wouldst feel it in the particular, and his Kingdom would be set up, and he subduing and dashing to pieces; and because the Christians do not lie down together, but are one against another, and other Nations, this now is all wrong; for the Messiah speaks to them to love one another, and enemies; and not to kill one another, and this was agreeable to the Prophets words which said, they should beat their Swords into Plough-shares, and Spears into Pruning-hooks, and not learn War any more, and so the Messiah said when he was come, he that killeth with the Sword, should perish by the Sword; and bid Peter put up his Sword, and said his Kingdom was not of this world, and therefore his servants should not fight; and here thou mayest see that he is come according to the Prophets, and his Kingdom is set up which is everlasting, without end, in which is the everlasting peace, but out of him is not the peace, but the state to be rebuked and judged, and out of him people do not sit under their own Vine, but in him they do.  
Another Argument of thine is, That in the time of the Messiahs, all Israelites are to be redeemed from the four parts of the world; but such a Redemption hath not yet been, therefore the Messiahs is not yet come.  
Answer, Whereas thou sayest to prove that the Messiahs is not yet come, that all Israelites shall be redeemed, and because all Israelites is not redeemed, therefore the Messiahs is not come, now this doth not prove that the Messiahs is not come, because ye are not all redeemed, because when the Messiahs was to come according to the Prophets, many of you should stop their ears to him, and close yours eyes, & turn your backs upon him, which he wept over you when he did come, and would have gathered you as a Hen gathers her Chickens under her wings, and you would not; so you fulfil the Prophets words seeing you see not, and hearing you heard not, and stop their Ears, and closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes, and have heard with their ears, and been converted, and the Lord should have saved you, this saw the Prophet; so now when the Messiah was come according to the Prophets words, and time and number, your Fathers would none of him, but cried away with him from the earth, and so he  told your Fathers, that your Temple and Wall shall be thrown down, and you scattered over all Nations, and had the things been done in tyre and Sydon which was done amongst you they would have reputed, therefore Nineveth should rise up in judgement against you; nevertheless, I say to you all Israel s●all be saved by the Messiah for he is the Saviour, & many thousands of you was saved in the day when he came and many of you did not believe: And if the casting away of the jews was the bringing in of the gentiles, which many gentiles did believe at your casting away, and if you came to be cast away until the fullness of the Gentiles should come in, and this is the state of your Captivity now, now then for you to know him that doth save Israel, and is the Saviour of all men, but especially of them that believe, and if you know him, you know Life from the Dead; And I say all Israel shall be saved, mark that word, all Israel as the Scripture saith, but do you come every one to feel that you are saved, feel it in your own particulars, and then you must know Israel, and believe your Salvation, then you must believe him, that many of your forefathers believed in long ago to be your Saviour, which came above sixteen hundred years ago, and was put to death according to Daniels number.  
And where as thou speakest that Moses( Deut. 30.3.) saith, Then the Lord will turn thy Captivity and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the Nations, whether the Lord hath scattered thee, &c.  
Answer, This gathering of you to your own Land, and turning you from your Captivity, relates not to the scattered state that you be in now, that you should be turned and brought out of all Nations and Countrys, where you have been scattered to your own Land, there to offer burnt-offerings and Sacrifices; neither Moses nor Zachary, nor Isaiah ever prophesied of that; And you was brought from Egypt, Assiria, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the Isles of the Sea, according to Isaiahs prophesy into your own Land; for Isaiah prophesied long before you Captivity, and you were brought out of Captivity, and gathered into your own land to your own offering place, out of the Lands where you had been scattered, according to Moses, Isaiah, and according to Zachary, and you had your offerings, and you had your Sacrifices; And therefore all this relates to the Captivity by the Chalde●ns, & th● rest, for after your coming out of Captivity there, then the prophesy was that the Messiah should come as in Daniel, and the Messiah should be slain, cut off, and he should cause the Sacrifices and Oblations to cease in the middle of the week; Therefore for your expecting to be brought to your own Land, and to offer Sacrifice( for that was in the other Captivity before this, and not spoken to that state you be in now) therefore I say thus, that the Messiah is come, and his Kingdom is set up, and the gathering is to him now, who is the offering that have ended all your other offerings, and you are never to expect such a thing as to be gathered to your own outward Land, to offer Sacrifice more, and never look for it, for that will never be,  
And further thou sayest, And he shall set up an ensign for the Nations, and shall Assemble the Out-casts of Israel, and gather together the Dispersed of judah, &c.  
This doth fulfil Daniels prophecy still, in his time & numbe●, that the Ensign should be set up, and this was proved to the other Captivity, he shall Assemble the Out-casts of Israel, and gather the Dispersed of Iuda, from the four corners of the Earth, the envy of Ephraim also shall depart? yes, for the Messiah brings peace, for this we own, Ephraim shall not envy Iuda, nor Iuda vex Ephraim, for being brought to the ensign, the true Messiah, they come into true peace life, and rest; that which dasheth to pieces the envy, and this is the new thing that is brought forth, which makes your ears to tingle, and many of your fore Fathers did wit●ess this, sixteen hundred years ago, which you since their time have rejected, and so lie in Captivity; So this is clearly proved, that which Isaiah, and Moses and Zachary spoken of relates to the former Captivity, not to this that you be in, for in the end of the Chaldeans Captivity, Christ the Messiah came, as is sufficiently proved by Daniel; which now if you look for Redemption and Salvation, you must look at the Messiah for salvation; whom as I said before you have Crucified.  
Some say( thou sayest) That all this was fulfilled in the Redemption out of Babylon, but this is affirmed at pleasure &c.  
Answer, All this doth not prove the Messiah not come, for if all this was done when the Messiah, did come, or as soon as he is come, but he hath all the power in the Heaven and in the Earth who is to subdue, scatter, rebuk, judge, and gather up to God, and to him must the Nations flow; And if all Israel did not return out of Captivity of the Chaldeans, yet the commandement was to gather the people which had been scattered; And Nehemiah saith, the first chap. But if you will turn to me, and keep my commands and do them, though you were scattered to the uttermost part of the Earth, yet I will gather you from thence, and bring you to the place that I have chosen to place my Name, this he spake when the people was gathering out of Captivity, and likewise when the Commandement went forth to gather the people, and to bring them again to build jerusalem to the Messiah; And Zachary spake. Who so will not come up of all the families of the Earth, to worship the Lord of Hosts, even upon them shall come no rain, and keep the feast of Tabernacles, and if the Families of all the Earth was to come up, and Zachary prophesied long before the, Messiah, and Nehemiah; So this shows now that this was in the first Captivity, and if all Nations did come up, then surely some of them did come ●p that were Captives, therefore this feast of Tabernacles, and these Sacrifices, and offerings, and Alters, Christ ends, as thou may red Zachary 14. who prophesied 520. years before Christ: And you were gathered out of Egypt, and came over the streams, that was by the power of God, the time before the Messiah came, and so that power did dry the power of the Egyptian Sea that did bring you up; but this I say now, that the gathering of you now, the offering being offered up, Christ Jesus, that ends your Sacrifices, and outward Offerings, the gathering of you now is by the power of the Messiah up in into his Kingdom, & so that which doth gather you & all people now, is the power of the Messiah, who came long since, and you Crucified him, which doth dash to pieces, rebuk and judge, until he hath made all quiet and peace able; therefore his power you must believe in, that you may come to know his Kingdom which is without end; And as the lion and the Lamb lie down together, the tongue of the Egyptian Sea ceases; and now as for signs, you must look at jonas, so was the son of man in the heart of the Earth, as he was in the Whales belly, suffered and butted among you, who is risen again to the right hand of God, who remains in the Heavens, until all things be restored.  
And as for Ribera, Cornelius, and Iosephus, and both Christian and Hebrew Authors, in believing the ten tribes not being return'd, that is nothing to the purpose to prove that the Messiahs is not come, for the Commandement( as in Nehemiah) went forth to gather the people, to the building of the temple unto the Messiah, overthrow this; and in Daniel the 9th. where Gabriel and Daniel, numbered the time to the building of the Temple to him, the City to him, and numbered the time that he should be put to death, so this do prove the Messiah to be come very sufficiently, who by his power( as I said before) gather the out-casts, and the dispersed; but his gathering is in●o his own Kingdom; And if the tongue of the Egyptian Sea be not destroyed, this doth not prove the Messiah is not come, for if that were all destroyed( according to thine own words) he must come & destroy, and if he come when all is destroyed, he then hath nothing to destroy, nor rebuk, nor judge; And this I say to you, you must never look for the Egyptian Sea( the seven st●eames) to be smote for you to go over dry-shod, to go to jerusalem to offer Sacrifice, for the Messiah is come, and is offered up, who hath put an end to all those offerings; and therefore the gathering must be to him, and his Kingdom, and that must be by his power, as I said before; you were like Sodom and Egypt, when you transgressed the Law of the Lord, and was perfect in your streams, when the tongue Roard of the Egyptian Sea, and turned against the Lords Prophets, and transgressed Gods Law; And you may mind as I, said before, this Captivity Isaiah did foresee, the tongue of the Egyptian Sea to be drying up, and the seven streams smitten, which was spoken of by Isaiah, this Isaiah prophesied long before Christ, about 730 years, and a great while before the Captivity of the Babylonians, and who saw you Captivity and drawing out of it; And how Cyrus should build your Temple, and then the same Isaiah spoken of the Messiah his coming, and what his Name should be, and how they should draw out of the wells of Salvation, & sing of the Salvation, Isa. 12. And so the Messiah doth not make the high way for the people to come up, for he gathers them up to his Kingdom out of Sodom and Egypt spiritual, for you must understand, there is a spiritual Sodom and Egypt and the force of Egypt with their streams, with their tongues, which must be destroyed by the power of the Messiah, and is destroying, but this is sufficient to prove that the Messiah is come, in the end of the Babylonian Captivity, whom you must know to be your Redeemer, if you come out of Captivity.  
As for Cornelius Rebera, and other sayings, that the Christians are the Children of Israel in whom all these thing were fulfilled.  
Answer, When the Prophet spake of gathering you to your own Land to build the Temple to the Messiah, and out of the Nations where you have been scattered, this he spake of Israel, for they were to build the temple to the Messiah which was not the Christians work, for they witness the Messiah which came after your Temple was builded, and you came out of the Captivity, who was the offering that ended your Temple and offerings  
And those that believe in the Messiah, be they jews or Gentiles, and come to receive his Kingdom, they were gat●●red to him and had the Wells of Salvation, and had the Covenant according to jeremiah and Ezekiel, which we witness, whereby we need not say one to another know the Lord, for all do know him from the greatest to the least, for we do witness the Covenant of light, the salvation to the ends of the earth; the light of the gentiles that prophesy fulfilled of Isaiah; and so now the gathering of jews and Gentiles is by the power of the Messiah, up into his kingdom, who is the offering for the sins of the whole world; And your other gathering before this last Captivity, was to be at jerusalem the place of offering, where you had been scattered up and down, unto the Messiah the Prince, who came according to the prophesy, and you were gathered according to the prophecy, & he suffered according to the prophecy; & as I said before, now your gathering must be out of the earth, & redemption up to know the state that Adam was in before he fell, by the power of the Messiah, who is come, Crucified, dead and risen, and it is by his power that all is restored out of that state that man is in the fall, up to the state man was in before he fell; And all the true Christians are in the Kingdom of Christ, gathered by his power, and as for all the false, they be out of the power, and are to be gathered by it, where they have been scattered into their several Forms and Sects, but this doth not relate to the gathering of them that are called Israel, but I do speak this to them that are called Christians, which are broken into many Sects and heaps, into hatred one of another, out of the Love, in which they should love one another, out of Christ and his power, by which they should come into his Kingdom which hath no end; So the spiritual Sodom and Egypt must be struck, that people in the general may walk in the way of Salvation.  
And further thou brings that of Ezek. 37.16. See of man take thee one stick, and writ upon it for judah and the Children of Israel his Companions; then take another stick, and writ upon it for Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and all the House of israel his Companions, and join them one to another into one stick, and they shall become one, &c.  
I Answer, Ezekiel taking two sticks and joining them together, which signify a joining of Iuda and Israel together; Ezekiel prophesied in the Captivity and before, which was many years before the Messiah came, and this doth show that this was the Captivity of the Chaldeans, for he saith they shall be brought up into their own Land, and mind Zacharys prophesy, and so when you were come into your own Land, then the Messiah did come, he saith one King shall be unto them all, and they shall be no more two peoples, not two Kingdoms, for in the 21. ver. he saith how he would bring the Chirldren of Israel from among the Heathen, and gather them into their own Land, and then he saith I will make an everlasting Covenant( 26. ver.) so now mark, all this doth relate to Daniels prophesy, and Gabriels words, that is to the days of the Messiah, and this is to the coming of you out of the Captivity of the Chaldeans before the Messiah came according to Daniel; nevertheless as I said before, who are gathered now must be by the power of the Messiah, but not to an outward jerusalem, and the Messiah did come according to the prophesy, he was to be your King, and Pilate that Crucified him said, behold your King, and yet you would not own him; And Christ when he was Crucified said, for that end he was born to be King of the jews, and yet you cried out you would have none of him, but Caesar your King, but as many as owned him were joined together in own, and acknowledged this King; and all the Gentiles likewise aclowledge this King that believed in him, the Messiah Christ, according to the Prophet Daniel; and all that now have not received his Kingdom, and his power, are one against another, and are to be rebuk't and judged, and dash to pieces by the power of the Messiah, and so this is sufficient to prove that the Messiah is come.  
Thou saist, All Christians affirm that all the evil, foretold to Israel by the Prophets, shall befall the Jews, and then they understand the Hebrews by Israel but when they meet with any good in the Prophets, that they presently understand, meant to the Christians, that is the Heathens turned to the Law of Iesus; but this is not worthy to be answered, for who hath  told them that all the good is to be understood of the Christians &c.  
Answer, The promises was to you and your Fathers being jews of good, likewise the promise was to the Gentiles; I will give him for a Covenant, a light to the Gentiles, which the Gentiles do enjoy, and the promise was that you should be brought out of Captivity into your own Land, and the promise the blessing was good to you, as you obeied the Law of God, but the bad came to you as you transgressed the Law of God, and have Rebelled against him, his Law, his Prophets, and killed his son, who was the offering for your sins, therefore I say, turn and believe in him, that you may have life and mercy; And if Christians do say, that not the good was to you but the bad, and the good to them being Christian Gentiles, that is their ignorance, for as I said before, the Promise was to you, and the blessing, as you lived in the Law of God, & harkened to the Prophets, and all the miseries came upon you, you not regarding Gods Prophets to you, nor his Law, nor his Son, which as I said before you must turn to, come into the life of the Law, the Prophets, through which you may see the Son is come, and through it come into his Kingdom, which is everlasting without end, and then you will see through all that have an end; And so the Christians that do enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ, they do enjoy the end of the Prophets, and this we do, though I cannot say all the Christians do it, but those Christians that live in the power of the Messiah, and are new Creatures, changed, and are converted out of their old state, and turn from the power of Satan and his power of darkness, to the light, for the promise was with Abraham before he was Circumsised, that the promise must stand with the seed, and who are of faith are of Abraham, for he is the father of the faithful, of whose seed Christ came according to the flesh, with which is the promise; And so Christ the seed must you know revealed in you, and then you enjoy the heir of the promise of all the good, for this you know yourselves, that the promise of the good lay in the obedience of the Law, and the Prophets, and the promise of the bad came in the transgression of the Law, and the Prophets; And your Captivity, and your dissolation, and your banishing from your own country, as Adam was out of the Garden, when he transgressed Gods Law, which if you come to know the Law itself, you will know the Prophets, and know the Messiah is come, and receiving him by whom all the good is enjoyed, for he destroys the Devil and his works for which cause the Curse, and the wo, and the misery is come upon man; and so through the Messiah is peace b●ought, and good will towards man, and this thousands do witness; So as Iuda and Israel come to be saved by the Messiah the Prince, you come to be a blessing, for that is the thing as to your present condition, and state, ye are to look at the Messiah the Prince, and his Kingdom which is everlasting; And if that the Christians do say that the misery belong to you, and not the Consolation, and such like expressions, I do say as before, the promise was to you, and your Fathers, and not only to you, but to the Gentiles; and such Christians as do not see wherein the promise of the misery is to you, and in what state the promise of good is to you, they are ignorant, them we do not own; and it was and is the same Spirit of the Prophets, that doth testify how the good do come to them, and how the bad do come to them; so as you come to the Messiah the Christ, he takes away the Curse, and destroys the Devil that brought it, both to Israel and Iuda, and other people, and him you must own and receive, before from under the Curse ye be brought; And Isaiahs words are true, he will bring the evil upon you, as you be in the transgression, but as you came, and come out of transgression, and turn from it, and receive his Son the End of the Law and the Prophets, that Isaiah speaks of, then you have all the good that all the Prophets of God prophesied of, and all that which the Law and first Covenant typed forth, yea the everlasting Kingdom and riches, and happiness, this you enjoy, if you receive the Messiah which is come; And his words were they not fulfilled upon your fathers? Who prophesied be●ore their Captivity, when many of them had no mercy, which when ye came out of Captivity, had not the Lord mercy, in bringing you out into your own Land, though you unmerciful people went from God and his Law both, both before and afterwards; for you have been unworthy people of Gods tender mercies and love, for you have broken his Law, persecuted his Prophets, killed his Son; you neither believe in the Law, Prophets nor Son, and so not in God; for if you believed Moses, you would believe the Son who is come, and if you believed the Prophets & the Law, and Gabriel, then you would believe the Messiah was come, & then of necessity you must be in the life of the Law, But what good doth the profession of the Law do you, and of Messiah to come, and of the Prophets words & ye out of the life of them? therefore do ye rest in Captivity; Therefore as I said before, a true belief of God, of Moses, of the Prophets and the Messiah, it is in the life of the Law of Moses, of the Prophets, by which life he come to be enjoyed, which they all say; and so the blessing and his kingdom which is everlasting; And so this is sufficient to prove the Messiah is come, and your unbelief in the Messiah, and so be ignorant of the life, Moses life, the Prophets life, and your eyes shut to that, and ears stopped, and this was the cause the Prophets  told your Fathers, and the Messiah when he came, and his Disciples, and which is the cause that keep you from believing in him receiving of him to this very day, and the cause is, you not living in the life of the Law and Moses, if you did, you would come into the life, and rejoice with us in his power.  
And as to thy four particulars, First thou sayest, The Messiah is not come because the Roman Empire lasts yet, which at the time of the Messiah shall be destroyed, because also it should be divided before the coming of the Messiah, but i●… was not so divided before the coming of Iesus.  
Now in this thou may see thy Contradiction, for thou sayest, what Wars was at Rome by the Goths and other Barbarians, and the Empire so often shaken by War, till at last it was ruined, and now mark thou sayest it is standing, and yet say it was ruined being so often shaken with War, and yet thou sayest he the Messiah shall come in the days of these four Emperours, who came in the dayes of the four Emperours according to the Prophets, and he was to dash them to pieces thou sayest, therefore if he come when they are all gone, then what must he dash to pieces? But thou sayest the Roman Empire should be divided before the coming of the Messiahs, & now thou sayest it is ruined, and he not come, and yet thou sayest before, he shall come in their dayes; therefore thou hast overthrown all thy Arguments by thy own words, and it is a sufficient proof that the Messiahs is come, according to the Angel Gabriels number.  
Secondly, Because( thou sayest) the Messiah is to come after a long Captivity.  
Answer, I say yes, according to Isaiahs prophesy, and according to Gabriels, words to Daniel, and jeremiah, and Davids words, who came after they were brought out of the 70 years Captivity, Gabriel numbered the time to Daniel, & they were brought into their own Land, to offer out of Captivity but you must never look to be brought into your own Land, to offer again out of captivity, that you be in now; Therefore you are to look at the power of the Messiah to believe he is come, and to believe in his power, which must bring you out of this Captivity, by which power you may see that he came after the Captivity of the Chaldeans, according to the Prophets, and blessed is he you may say now that comes to you in the name of the Lord, the Messiah; so do not feed yourselves with dreams, and to believe that ever you shall be restored to your outward Temple again, to Sacrifice and worship; for they that worship the Fa●… her now must worship him in Spirit and in truth, and the truth that is, that ●… he Devil is out of; so the Messiah came after the long Captivity whom your Fathers put to death, which you must own, if you own Salvation and Redemption, out of the state you be in now; And many of your Fathers did own ●… he Messiah, and the new Covenant,( as you may red in books) great num●… ers of them, sixteen hundred years ago.  
Thirdly, Because in the times of the Messiah, there shall be an everlasting ●… eace( thou sayest.)  
Answer, And in the times of the Messiah there is an everlasting peace, ●… nd an everlasting Kingdom, yet a Rebuking and a Judging, Judging the peo●… e, and Rebuking the Nations, and breaking in pieces, and destroying, so he ●… arks War there in the earth, yet peace in the end, everlasting peace, and all ●… at is come into his Kingdom do know it,  
Fourthly, Because in the the time all the Iewes shall be saved, and redeemed from Captivity, but seeing( thou sayest) they are yet there, it is but a dream that the Messiah is come.  
Answer, The jews were sent to build jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince from their Captivity, before the Messiah came; And so the Messiah who destroyeth the Devil and his works, which is the cause of mans destruction, is he that says and is the Saviour of all men both jews and Gentiles, who destroyeth the Devil that hath kept them in Captivity, and so he Judges and Rebukes the Nations, and dashes down their power, and dashes down their Monarchies; So as I said before he came above sixteen hundred years since, and because all the Iewes, and all the Gentiles are not saved and in peace, this doth not signify that the Messiah is not come, but your unbelief in him; for he came poor according to the Prophet, and therefore ye hated him, and came meek, and came low, who was despised and a man of sorrows; so every one of you that would have salvation, you must believe in him, shall he save you and you do not believe in him? you do not believe in him I say, who is the Saviour of all men, not only Israel, but especially of them that believe, therefore if you will come out of your Captivity, you must believe that, that was the Messiah, for if you will believe the Messsiah, you shall come out of Captivity; and so you will believe the Prophets words that he is come, and would have gathered you as a Hen gathers her Chickens under her wings, and you would not, in the days of his flesh, when he was come above sixteen hundred years ago; Therefore if you will have Salvation, you must mind his power that came and suffered amongst you, by you, according to Daniel, and Isaiah did not he say, that your Fathers should spit upon him, and buffet him, and hid your faces from him; and was not this fulfilled upon him by your Fathers, though God had brought them out of Captivity, thus they served him, that would have brought them into his everlasting Kingdom, so Christ came after that Captivity by the Chaldeans, spoken of in Daniel, and in the four Empires, which thou sayest now the Roman Empire is ruined which contained the rest; Therefore according to them words, he must of necessity come after that Captivity, who should rise in their days of the four Monarchies; And it is no dream to say the Messiah is come, for if thou sayest so, thou may say all the Prophets dreamed, and Gabriel, who numbered the time of his coming, and they were awake when they spake: Now all they that do not believe that he did come, and did not receive him when he was come, they were and are in a dream, and their eyes closed, and their ears stopped; And the equity, and the Righteousness of the Law of Moses,( as I said before) the life of it, and the Iustice which is light, and spiritual, that never changes, but ends in the life of Christ Jesus, who ends all the Ceremonies, outward Fgures and shadows that be tipicall, and not eternal; and all the Scriptures and thy Arguments doth not prove, that the Messiah is not come, but if thou didst red this over, which is something in answer to it, though there is much more might be spoken, and thou wilt see there is many Contradictions in thy words, the latter end contradicts the former; that is, when thou sayest the Messiah shall come in the four Empires; and yet he is not come now they are destroyed, and yet thou sayest he must come in the four Empires; Therefore lay down these weapons of Arguments and come to the Messiah, to feel his light, life and power, and spirit in thine, and in all your hearts, that you may come to live in the end of the Prophets, whom all the Prophets prophesied of, who is the end of the Prophets and the Law, and know him who is the end of the first, and the everlasting Covenant of God, prophesied of, and his Kingdom which lasts for ever, and so his Kingdom is everlasting.  
And remember( sayest thou) all those places, by which I have proved that the Law of Moses shall be observed at the coming of the Messiahs, see also Zach. 14.16. &c.  
Answer, After Christ was come the Law of Moses was observed, for he came not to break the Law, but to fulfil it, and when he was offered up it was finished, he ended the Law; & so when the Messiahs was come it was to be observed until he was offered up, as in Dan. 9.26, 27. And in jeremiah thou mayest red, who prophesied 618 years before Christ, Chap. 3. & 16. verse, which saith, that when ye be multiplied and increased in the Land, in those dayes saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, neither shall it come to mind, neither shall they remember it, neither shall they visit it, neither shall that be done any more; So jeremiah prophesied in your Captivity and before, and this was to be when you were brought into your Land again, & he prophesied of the New Covenant, Christ, the Messiahs, as you may red in many places; For Abraham, jacob, Isaiah, jeremiah and Ezekiel, and most of the Prophets and Daniel, who saw the Messiahs, whom Gabriel numbered the years to of his coming; It is no strange thing that you will not believe the Messiahs that he is come, for your fathers would not believe in the Prophets who prophesied of him, but persecuted him; they shewed the coming of the Just One and your fathers killed him, and said let his blood be upon our heads, and our Childrens; And all the Scriptures that you can bring and Arguments, to prove that the Messiahs is not come, according to the Prophets, and according to Gabriel and Daniel, the number of time of his coming, and the time of his being put to death, and causing your daily Sacrifices to cease, all your Proofs and Arguments will not overthrow this; So come out of all History, and other mens Judgements, and Interpretations; for in those things people many times errs, to know the life of the Prophets, and the life of the Messiahs, who ends them; in that there is peace and no error, for the Messiahs destroys the Devil the author of error, for all the cumbersomness is out of the Messiahs Kingdom, which we do know; And the way by which you may come to receive the Messiahs which is come, is to come to know the Word in your hearts, and in your mouths, which Moses spake of; And the way to receive the New Covenant, is to receive the Spirit of God in your hearts, and to feel that manifest in you, as jeremiah and other Prophets prophesied of; that so when you come to feel this in your he●●●s, then by this will you come to know the Messiahs, for by this did the ●●ophets see him, and then you need not to go over the Sea for him, but what saith it, It is in the heart, and the mouth, to obey, and to do.  
From a Lover of thy Soul, and all your Souls, and your eternal good. GEORGE FOX.   

YOU Iewes, your fathers was warned by the Prophets of God of your transgressions, and of the coming of the Messiahs, that you might not be ignorant; you were warned of the very time, to the very year of his being slain, yet all this came to pass according to the Prophets, and yet you do not believe to this very day, neither Prophets, nor Son; for if you did believe the Prophets, then you must believe that the Messiahs is come; So now you have Warnings again, for the Prophet is risen up like unto Moses, whom you should hear, who is to be heard, now if you will hear him, you must hear the Light that discovers sin and evil, for he is the Light that doth enlighten every man that comes into the world, that all through him might believe, and as many as do receive him, he gives them power to become the Sons of God; And this we know, and thousands do witness; but as every one that comes into the world is enlightened by the Messiahs, and loving the darkness rather than the Light, because they know it will reprove them, and will not hear it, when it tells them what they have done, and will not come to it, because it will reprove them, and so love the darkness more than the Light, because their deeds are evil, and have so been, therefore this Light in your Consciences shall condemn you, which shall be a Witness in you for Jesus, for he is the Light promised by the Prophets, and the Covenant, and the Salvation to the ends of the earth; mark again, doth not the Prophet say, that after those dayes( jer. 31.33.) I will writ my Law in their hearts; So after those dayes of your Babylonian Captivity came the Messiahs, and the New Covenant.  

So here is a few Queries for you to Answer.  
FIrst, Have you the same Power and Spirit as Moses and the Prophets had? Or can any understand the Scriptures of the Prophets, and Moses and the Law, except they be in that Spirit and Power that they were in?  
Secondly, Have you heard the voice of God, as Moses and the Prophets did? Or do you hear it? And is not all the cause of your Captivity and Affliction your transgressi●●? And is not the cause of your remaining in Captivity your not obedience to the Law and Prophets, and not receiving that thing that they prophesied of?  
Thirdly, Do you believe that you shall come up to the state that Adam and Eve was in before they fell, that is to that Image of Glo●●● and Holiness, and Right●ou ●ss? Do you not believe that the Messiahs brings up into 〈◇〉 ●●●dition, & a higher condi●●on, that is into a state that shall never fall; for it is said in 〈◇〉: New Covenant, that I will writ my Law in their hearts, and they shall never depart from me?  
Fourthly, What was the three of Knowledge of good and evil, which eating of came transgression, and Adam lost his Dominion, Image and Righteousness? Whether it be an outward three? And whether any people eat of it, that is any of the Sons and Daughters of Adam since Adam fell?  
Fifthly, What is the Serpent which did beguile the Woman? And whether there be any now of those Serpents, that do beguile in the fall in the same manner as Adam and Eve was? And what was the fruit that the three of Knowledge bore? And therefore as I said before, whether you do believe that any shall come into the state that Adam and Eve was in before they was tempted by the Serpent? And if that three was an outward three, whether there be any of them growing now?  
Sixthly, Whether or no all Sacrifices, Offerings and your Temple hath not been set up since Adam fell? And whether or no then man being redeemed out of the state he was in the fall, up to the state he was in before he fell? Whether or no then Sacrifice doth not cease? And whether or no the Messiah doth not redeem up into that state? And so then, whether or no he doth not end all the Offerings, and Sacrifices, and Ceremonies that have be●n set up to man in the state be was in, in the fall; as he is brought up to the state he was in before he fell, by the Messiah?  
So consider of these things, and Answer them.  
God said at the coming of the Messiahs according to the Prophets, that he would make a New Covenant, and put his Law in their inward parts, and he would dwell in them, and walk in them; so such are the Temples of God, which now many witness this; Glory to the Lord God the highest for evermore, that made the Heavens and the Earth, and the Sea and all things therein, that placed man upon it, though man lost his Authority and Dominion, by which he went out of the paradise, through the disobedience; And by the obedience of the Messiah the Prince, who laid down his life to purchase the Sons and Daughters of Adam, into the life and state as their father was in before he fell, who hath brought many into the state that Adam was in before he fell, who knoweth the state that shall never fall; And here we have the Wells of Salvation, and the Walls of Salvation, and enjoying him whom many Souls have waited for; And at the putting of the Messiahs to death, sixteen hundred years ago, the hearts of many was pierced through.   
G. F.  
THE END.   

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