A short Relation or Testimony of the working of the light of Christ in me, from my Childhood, by one who is now a witness of the spirit of truth (whom the world cannot receive) which doth convince of sin, of righteousness and of judgement: and brings all things to remembrance, and shows me things to come, glory to the Lord for ever: W: B:  Come see a man which told me all things that ever I did, is not this the Christ: Joh: 4: 29: 
IN the eternal light and life of God, (wherewith stand all mankind are lighted) do I now stand and rejoice over the world and all its glory and enmity over the beast and false prophet with in and without having received power from the father of life (in the way of his judgements) after which my soul had long breathed and thirsted, even from a Child, though then I knew not what my soul panted for, but now know the mysteries of Gods everlasting Kingdom are revealed to the babes that fear him, but to others its parables.  
When I was about 10 years old, I do remember, that sometimes I desired to go and sit alone quiet in some desert place, where I might bemoan myself and weep in secret even until my heart was broken, not knowing wherefore, and did begin to pray in fear to God with tears though I knew not who or where he was, but had little to speak only some thing cried in me and breathed, confidently believing that God heard me where ever he was, and would pity me and save me, at which thanks did arise unto him, not knowing it was a seed in me which was and is beloved of God, (contrary to the course of this world) to which the blessing and promises are, that did arise in the quiet of my mind to break down that which the Serpent and my own will had wrought in my heart contrary to God, that thereby I might enjoy peace in the everlasting covenant of light; for at any time when I had done or spoken that which was contrary to God, I was soon checked for it, judged and condemned and put in fear, by his witness in my conscience which beheld all my ways and wo●ds though never so secret, and is the same that Job speaks of, which set a print upon his heels, and mark his steps, Job 13.27. in which light I can see all that ever I have done, and do remember the first oath that ever I swore, (being provoked by another lad) and that I was smote with trembling scarceable to stand on my feet, by the witness of God in my conscience which I know not then what it was, but could have fled any way from it, being put in such horrible fear and condemned by it when I had done any evil, so there is no place at last where the worker of iniquity may hid himself, from the dreadful presence of God as David saith.  
So about 15 years old I went among the Soldiers (being the time of war) not heeding the true guide, the light and spirit of God which strove often with me, to lead me in meekness and fear, out of all strife which comes from the lust that wars against the soul, I then was entertained, and became one among them both in garrison and Army, where for a season I was kept and preserved out of much wickedness by the fear of God in me, though I knew not then where he was, nor long after; yet by his secret hand of power unexpected and undeserved, was I preserved when many were slain on my right hand and on my left hand, glory and praises to his power for ever, and ever.  
But about 17 years old I was under the command of him called Major General Massey, where I found many wicked and ungodly men, and some that had turned from goring Army among them, through which company the honest principle in me was betrayed, and even murdered, and I begin to be hardened from the fear of God (for I was but a youth, and of a bashful countenance naturally, and was soon checked for any evil, and felt the condemnation for it, quickly.) but now I could swear and vapour among them and drink till I was sometime drunk, and grew in it, until I even took delight in swearing and drunkenness, yet oft times when I was gone from my company alone and quiet, fear and dread from the witness of God in me would seize upon me, in great and horrible terror and in the night in dreams, was I often fearfully scared and tormented with fearful sights and visions of Hell and Devils, death and damnation which indeed (in that state) was my just portion, and so in the cool of the day I heard the voice of God and was afraid, like Adam in the transgression and though I would have hid my sin like him, yet the Lord did search it out.  
And now I know God speaketh unto man once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not, in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed, that he may withdraw man from his purpose and hid prides from him, Job: 33: 14: And in this company I continued near 2 years until all was disbanded; about which time I was so smitten by God's witness, the light in my conscience that I began to leave of my swearing and lewdness, and my profane compapany became even loathsome and burdensome unto me, and I never swoar an oath from that time to this day which is about 10 years ago; so at length I became a little zealous to hear the Priests, and began to look into the Scriptures to get them to talk of, as many profane ones do now, to make a covering; and then thought I must be guided by the Priests, who had the learning and the tongues which they called the original, not knowing then that their original began at Babel, where God confounded the languages, and the people before were of one language, in the beginning (which is the original) so their original is from Babel (which is confusion) where they still are, and all their followers, who will partake of their plagues if they come not forth to the light which is the original, before Babel or the Priests, or Latin, Greek, and Hebrew was, which Pilate set over him that is the original, Christ, the true Prophet, which all are to hear, his name is called the word of God which was in the beginning, John 1.1. so poor ignorant blind people that be from the light which they be lighted withal, they cries up Greek, and Hebrew with the Priests to be the original, and that the Scriptures cannot be understood without it, not considering that they who had Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, crucified the son of God, who was in the beginning glorified with the Father before the World began, (the original) by whom the world was made, the power and wisdom of God, whose cross to the Greeks is foolishness, and to the Jews a stumbling block, and the Greeks have Greek, and the Jews have Hebrew, as well as the Priests and Pilate which knew not the son of God the original, but set Latin, Greek, and Hebrew atop of him, when they had crucified him, John 19.19: 20.  
So for a season, these Merchants of Babylon I traded with, receiving and buying their wares, hoping it had been good durable stuff I had got of them, being it was prised so high, and people cried they had the original and could give the meanings of the Scriptures, and none else, and the Beast upheld or carried the Whore and all the World wondered after them, as I did then; at length something in me began to be more and more awakened and hungered after true bread, yet thought I should be still fed at their Table, and did, until I was near starved with the husks that the swine did eat, for a stirring word in me was, give me food or else I perish, and went to hear them even with tears for hunger many times, until I perceived they spoke not out of the mouth of the Lord, the word of life, the true bread that came down from heaven; but had studied and patched up something from the Scriptures without them, mixing their meanings and Babilonish whoreish wisdom and Serpent's subtlety with it, and bid us hear the word of God, and so we looked for light, but behold darkness and dust we were fed with; and that was made sad in me, by them, which the Lord God proclaimed joy and liberty to, as the Deceivers and false Prophets in ages past did whom God was against.  
And upon these Crafts men and Merchants of the great Whore, will the perpetual plagues and vengeance of the Lord God be poured down without mixture, and as they have done, so shall it be done to them, and God will fill double to her, and she shall know that he is the Lord, that search the heart, and shows unto man his thought, and that God is light, and in him is no darkness (or mixture) at all, and the day is hastening in which they shall howl and lament, for no man buyeth her ware any more that is taught of the Lord, and the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of his power as the waters cover the Sea; and in that day the thief shall be ashamed that have stole the word from his neighbour, and the false Prophet which deceived the Nations shall be ashamed of his vision, and Diviners will be mad, and the Beast will hate the Whore and burn her flesh with fire, and there will be dissolation, widowhood, and loss of children come upon her in one day, (he that readeth let him understand)  
And this I can truly say, and do testify in the Lord,  
That when a true hunger and thirst in me did arise after the living God, it was often hurt, darkened and spoilt by the earthly wisdom, Philosophy and vain deceit which came out of the Priest's mouth, which beguiled me of my reward, drawing out my mind from the pure measure of God within, insomuch that the simple honest and meek principle which stirred in me was weary to hear them any longer; and from no other ground did I at first deny them, but as that of God in me discovered (and witnessed against) them as such, as should never profit the people at all, being out of his council not able to turn any from their evil ways, but strengthening the hands of the wicked, and making the righteous sad, this is their work as by their fruits is made manifest whose reward shall be accordingly.  
So in those days my soul was awakened by the witness of God, feeling the burden of sin, and was of●en afraid of death, and misery, without end, but knew not how to get out from under the power of sin and death, nor to escape the wrath to come: being ignorant of him that saveth from it, which is Christ the power of God, that lighteth every man which cometh into the World which condemns sin in the flesh, but now I see that people perish for lack of knowledge, and that the leaders of the people cause them to err, and they that are led of them are destroyed, Isa. 9.16. for nothing will help or satisfy the longing soul immortal, but the eternal true bread of life, the power of God, which he giveth to as many as ●●●ives him that condems for sin, and destroys the works of the Devil who hath the power of death, for the sting of death is sin: so he delivers them from that which is the ground of bondage and fear of death, who believes in him that is the resurrection and the life, over whom the second death hath no power, glory to the Lord for ever and ever.  
So now having in measure began to leave the Priests, I kept at home, not desiring for a season to hear any, but to be private and quiet alone, which was a great cross to my Parents, Wife and Relations, and also to something in me, and to my Companions and acquaintance which loved me with that love which quickly turned to hatred, so I found it hard to break the customs that I had lived in, and to become contrary to all my neighbours and acquaintance, and to lose the love of them all, as that I saw I should, if I followed that which let me see the Priests and the vanity of the World, and the Scripture speaks not in vain, Jer. 13.23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, no more can they do good that are accustomed to do evil; hear this ye careless ones, that live in the vanity of your minds, pleading for your customs, vanities, traditions and fashions of the World that lie in wickedness, and for the fleshly lusts which wars against your own souls; the Lord God will plague you with it, and that will become the greatest torment to you, in which you have most delighted, in the day of your visitation, than you shall know you were warned in your life time; but in the midst of these my trials and temptations within and without, a word was very nigh me, even in my heart, though I then know not what it was, saying seek first the Kingdom of God; and mind eternal life, yet not knowing where to seek or find it, but the deep consideration of it did much strengthen me towards God, and some times even breathe and cries would ascend up from the prisoner of hope in me, and my heart was even broken and melted by the power of the word of life, which I felt therein hammering down the hardness thereof, and renting the veil that separated me from peace with God; but not knowing Christ within the hope of glory, which lighteth every man that cometh into the World, whose name is called the word of God, the Male in the flock which opened the Womb, holy to the Lord, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the World, (which lies in wickedness) the first and the last, the holy one in the midst, whom my soul loveth which had been pierced, wounded, and as it were slain by that, which wars against the soul, and was a sufferer in Sodom and Egypt, but now is Lord of lords, and King of kings, glory to him that sits upon the Throne, and to the Lamb for ever more, amen.  
So I began to heed and love that in me, which discovered sin and vanity and the course of the whole World, and to take it to be my companion (or Kinswoman as Solomon speak of wisdom) not knowing it to be the light of Christ, (the wisdom and power of God) in my conscience in those days of ignorance, but I saw often by it my own folly, and the whole World was out of course (or the way of peace) in confusion and abomination, without the fear of God before their eyes, in pride and envying one another in covetousness and wantonness, dissimulation and falsehood, every one for his own ends and gain, even from the Judge to the Priest, and likewise their followers, not a wise man found among them, that feared the Lord and departed from evil, this I saw, and was sometime even grieved at the consideration of it, wishing in my heart I had power to have helped it all, being much affected with unity and peace, meekness and quietness, love and justness amongst men, that they might have lived as Children of one Father, saying in my mind, did not all we come of Adam and had we not all one Father and Mother in the beginning, why then should one envy another and be high, proud, and stubborn against another, and murder each other about a little earth or vain glory that will whither, and hate, and strive, and be angry about religion, and judgements, and opinion, and even fight one against another about these things: when I considered these things in my mind, I desired God (in my heart) would remedy all this, and once put an end to it, for I even felt the whole Creation groaning in bondage under these oppressions at that time, yet not knowing that it was the light of Christ in me, which sometimes checked me for sin and evil, that discovered these things unto me, and did open my understanding that I might have known and understood the thing that belonged to my everlasting peace; so that I can boldly say, people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: and that straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to the l●fe, and few there be that have found it, and that the mysteries of the Kingdom are hid from the wise and prudent of the World, but revealed to babes, and to such as can become fools for Christ's sake who is the light of the World, the wisdom and power of God, glory to him for ever in the highest, who hath brought me out of darkness into his marvellous light, where I behold his likeness.  
Now in these days, when I had even resolved never to hear the Priests, as to be a follower of them any more, yet being out of my outward employment, and for fear of losing all, I through persuasions of the Serpent within, and of others without, did hear them again, lest I should have angered them, who had intent to employ me, and prefer me, but I was terribly judged and condemned by God's witness in me, which before had let me see the deceit of the Priests, and the vanity and error of their worship and ways, contrary to Christ and his Apostle and their Doctrine, so in process of time I went into France 2 small voyages, where having time, the Serpent led out my mind wholly to delight in the art of Arithmetic, and the study and practise of navegation, which I saw I might in short time attain, (being acquainted with numbering which is the ground of many arts) which things took me up into an exceeding high mountain, showing glorious promises of the preferment riches and love of the world and respect among men, which tickled the nature in me which went out from God's witness, even the pride of life which is not of the Father but the world, which is the glory of the rich men, great men, and chief Captains, whose flesh is to be given to the souls of heaven, in this the Supper of the great God. So through the strong temptations and allurements of this flattering harlot (the whoreish spirits gone from the light of whose cup all Nations and Kings of the earth have drunk) the honest tender principle of equity, love and meekness was even covered, lost and dead in me, and the spirit of the world I let in again like a flood, (whose foundation had in some measure been shaken, and the earth that lay upon the precious seed removed by the power of God) and gross darkness again covered my soul and vailed its life and peace from it which formerly it had felt and breathed after; so I can seal to the scriptures, they that will be rich, fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in perdition and destruction, but the snare is broken and I am escaped, glory to the living God for ever more. Yet in that time I was in France, I was so much in the fear of God kept, by his pure witness the light in my conscience, which shown me sin and evil, that I dared not to be lewd or drunk, or act such wickedness as the Tempter would have led me to, not knowing that it was the light of Christ which I obeyed then, which saved me from that which the Devil would have drew me into, so I can say with Jacob, God was in this place and I knew it not, therefore all people, come to him that tells you all that ever you did, for if you knew the gift of God, and loved him, you would ask of him water of life, but the rebellious dwell in a dry Land: but though I was preserved out of these gross evil outwardly, yet the love of the World, and the things of the World had a strong hold in my heart, whereby the true love to equity, righteousness, and mercy was vanished away, and the place of wisdom I knew not where to find, though I sought it carefully when I felt the loss of it, but in a cross to the will of man and of flesh, is that born which inherits God's kingdom of peace; for after a while, when I was in the midst of my vain thoughts and imaginations, how to build great things in the earth, (to become rich, knowing and honourable therein, to obtain the friendship of the World, and praise of men,) a sudden stop like a cloud came upon it all, and I was struck with a still silence in my mind, (like Adam's cool of the day) wherein I saw that I strove and wearied myself for very vanity that would perish with the useing, and that I like a fool might leave them in the midst of my days, so as I gave heed to that which let me see these things to be but as shadow, and that it was folly so eagerly to pursue that which made themselves wings, and thereby to be beguiled of an eternal Crown of rest to my immortal soul, my former condition came fresh into my remembrance, and I began to feel something stir in me for life, which lay in death and bondage under Pharaoh in spiritually Egypt, and as it were a cry ascended from the Prisoner, groaning afar off for deliverance: and then I began to be troubled and condemned in myself; and my peace in the earth was broken, and the flaming sword turned every way upon it; then being afraid of shame, I strove with God's spirit in me (not knowing what it was all this while nor some time after) and would pass away the trouble as much as I could sometime, and even wished I could be meek like others, for I often witnessed Solomon's words: (in the midst of laughter the heart is made sad,) and was nearer weeping then mirth many times in such Company, so I had no rest to my soul in those days, being ignorant of my Teacher, the true Shpeherd of Israel, which gives his sheep (that follow him) eternal life, meek and low in the heart.  
But now my soul being like one awakened from sleep, and hungry after that which satisfieth, I began again to seek for food and rest, and to enjoy life and peace which changeth not, than I thought in my mind what shall I do? remembering the Priests (which were discovered by the same witness of G●d again) to be miserable Comforters, and such as daub with untempered mortar, (as all the World shall witness in the day at hand, when the wall is no more nor they that daubed it) and Physicians of no value, but rather robbers and murders of the innocent and just principle in poor ignorant people that cries for deliverance.  
Than not knowing what to do for life (being gone fo●th hunting abroad like Esau and all his stock of Priests and Professors in the World for food) I went among the people called Baptists to see if I could obtain rest and peace there among them, thinking if they be the people of God, I had right to have fellowship with them, and to partake of their promises and privileges, for I often felt something in me which was beloved of God, so concluded that I was one of the elect, not then knowing and discerning things that differ, that it was a seed in man (which may be by him, oppressed and trod under foot) to which the promises and the blessing is, and the elect is before the foundation of the World, and the whole World lies in wickedness: Read this if thou can that cry the election of a particular people, and the rest left to themselves, and beware of the Doctrine of Devils, and remember that God is no respecter of persons, and Christ the true light, lighteth every man that cometh into the World, in whom is the election and redemption, and he that knows not Christ in him is a reprobate as saith the Scripture 2 Cor. 13.5. So then I became a constant follower of them, and at length was in that fellowship with them, and Brotherhood which the natural carnal visible water was the ground off; for before I was dipped in water they called me not Brother, but suddenly after they did, yet I was the same every way as before, no more bettered nor satisfied by the water after I came to God's witness in me in the cool of the day, which let me see my soul lay in death, though the comprehending mind had got a l●fe and food in a profession, in which I had no true peace when all was performed and done by which I thought to obtain: But it still fled from me as I tu●ned to that in my heart which let me see my state and condition, even the light of Christ though I knew not then what it was: so now I know there is no peace to the wicked, and that the woe is to them that are covered with a covering and not with the pure spirit of God which reproves the World of sin, neither should I ever attained it in that way if I had walked therein 100 years: for we came not to Christ (but denied him) whose flesh is meat indeed, and is the true bread which gives life to the World: neither were we joined together in the unity of the faith of the Lord of glory which is without respect of Persons, and is a mystery held in a pure conscience, giving victory over the World, being all from the light which we were lighted withal, that is to give people the knowledge of God, in which the Saint's inheritance and fellowship is.  
But we were building a Tower (hoping the top would have reached to Heaven) in our imaginations like the confounded Builders of old (like Nimrods' stock) the beginning of whose Kingdom was Babel that hunted before the Lord, who is that spirit which will confound all your wisdom who build without his light, the Cornerstone, the sure foundation, though you may say Lord, Lord, this avails not, while ye are workers of iniquity you are shut out, so we were professing and talking of the truth (which makes free) Christ the light, the way to the Father, but we were in bondage, darkness and falsehood in the broad way, wherein many hypocrites, deceitful workers, envious, proud, and covetous may walk, keeping their covering of their profession, and talking of him that leads to life out of death, darkness and all unrighteousness, in which you hold the truth of God, his witness the light that you be lighted withal, which lets you see you have not the true bread of life that gives peace, rest and satisfaction to the soul, but feeds on the husk: notwithstanding your great noise of him that is the substance of all, which ends the shadows, but expects his Kingdom and glory and reign without you, o ye fools and blind; is not the Kingdom of God within you? and is not the King's daughter all glorious within? and did not the King say: go not forth when they shall say lo here and lo there, believe them not?  
But in this state I was once with you until the Son of God opened his eyes that was born blind, whom the Pharisees cast out, as they have many in this age that tremble at the word of the Lord, but the Lord God of power hath appeared to their joy, and you shall be ashamed, though you may say the Lord be glorified; in whose eternal light I then saw in this profession without life, I was never like to have peace to that which was awakened in me, breathing for the pure righteous power of the living God, which all men had been erred and estranged from by transgression (the middle wall that separates) which by the higher power is broken down where the salvation is wrought out with fear and trembling, which the professor denies, casting out such as tremble at the word which is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, and the time is come that they cannot endure sound Doctrine: this is to you all Priests, Baptists and people that be from the light which you be lighted withal, that lets you see your ungodly deeds and hard speeches, what shall I say more of you. Why you pass over judgement, and so the love of God you know not, this is from the Lord God to you, as shall be witness on your death bed:  
So after a season, in this my breathing and longing condition, in which I desired that God would make an alteration and change among us (being in all we performed dead to the pure simple life of God, for which my soul thirsted) it happened, that I heard a book read of the sufferings of some of the people of God (who were called quakers) in a dungeon at Suesham, whose name and sufferings was strange to me at that time; yet at the hearing of it, something in me did arise with much tenderness and pity toward the innocent suffering people, which drew tears from mine eyes, believing they did suffer for conscience sake, and the same thing in me even said that God would avenge them on the bloody persecutors, (which hath been performed by his mighty hand of power on some of them even to the cutting them of the earth as briers and thorns for the fire) but did not know all this time what it was that let me see these things, and knew not light from darkness (as is the state of thousands, who profess Christ (as I did in words,) who lighte●● every man that cometh into the world and leads his sheep out of darkness into the fold of eternal life and peace from which the wise and prudent withal their knowledge, comprehension and imaginations are shut out for ever.  
Then I heard Jacob Behements books, and began to read much in them, and to gather something of that into my comprehension and imaginations in the brain, but this and all the other gave not p●ace and rest to the immortal soul which still lay in death and bondage, by reason of transgression and sin; but not long after came one, a Minister of the word of life (whose name few know) and preached to the spirit in prison which rejoiced much at the sound of his words to which I gave diligent heed, and was eternally convinced that it was the very truth he declared, and that there is no other way to know God (or to be saved) but as I walked in the light which I was lighted withal which did let me see all my ungodly deeds and hard speeches that ever I had committed, which light comes from Christ the Saviour, and leads all that follow it, out of the evil that is in the world, unto him that was before the world was, by whom it was made, glorified with the Father; the substance of all the types, figures, shadows, ordenances, of which might be spoken many things, but he is the sum, that redeems man by his blood (the life) out of the earth into which man was driven in transgression, up unto God again before transgression was to the beginning and the end:  
So as to the true light in my heart, my mind was turned, many Scriptures came fresh unto me confirming the truth of which he spoke, and the power of the word, in my heart, of God, which the light comes from, began to stir and work, and condemnation was administered upon all my former profession, and a sword was coming upon the earth, which had sat still in peace and open war was proclaimed against the beast, whore, and false prophet, by the lamb that was slain whose sword came out of his mouth, and the prisoner of hope rejoiced at the beginning of this day of vengeance, believing the year of redemption was come; so that here was a change began, and that which seemed strang● to me was happened, which was quickly perceived by the baptists, who were then my companions in profession (but not in tribulation) for I was made to weep and lament, seeing all the religion in the world to be but as a fading Leaf, without the pure life and power of God which saveth from sin, and brings into unity with him; so that I could no longer be satisfied nor live, in a talk of God and Christ, and not enjoy the eternal rest, even the sincere milk of the immortal word of life which my soul breathed after even from a Child, though I known not what it was, nor where to find it; but in this my troubled condition many baptists followed day and night to persuade me out of it, looking upon me, to be deluded and some with prayers, and some with flatteryes, and others of them with envious words strove to get me back to them, telling me that I was fallen from grace, and was become under the Law, and making the blood of Christ of none effect, but I not knowing then the blood to be the life, and that the life is the light of men, though I was convinced in my conscience of the eternal truth, yet my understanding God was confounding, and the day of the Lord was darkness and not light to that part which had held the truth in unrighteousness (as they shall all one day witness) where their covering is rend of them, and their inside made more manifest, who by their many tattling words drawn out my mind from God's witness in me, and from the Law written in the heart, to which I should have kept and been faithful (even the sure word of prophecy which let me see all that ever I did) for Moses was faithful as a servant in all his house, but this mystery I knew not then, and so to get ease turned out my mind from the truth which is required in the inward parts, and gave heed to seducing spirits, and words which darkened council, in so much that I joined again with them in more zeal than before, and encouraged others to follow their strong imaginations from the letter of Scripture, looking for a Saviour without us, though the Scripture saith Christ within the hope of glory, and know ye not that Christ is in you except ye be reprobates, &c: And for his coming without us, though he said, when they shall say lo here and lo there believe them not, and go not forth: and for his Kingdom and glory without us, though the King's Daughter is all glorious within, and the King said, the Kingdom of God is within you, and for his resurrection and life and reign without us, when as the King said, I am the resurrection and the life, and am come a light into the world, (who lighteth every man that cometh into the world) these things we imagined and builded one another up in contrary to the Scripture, and to the Saints which builded up in that which is a miistery held in a pure conscience; so we passed over judgement (like the Pharisees and hypocrites of old, which did profess and say, but do not) climbing up an easier way than by the door, (Christ who condemns sin in the flesh) like the thief that had stolen a covering, even words from the neighbour, but after a season these things came heavy upon me, and was more harder to be judged out and destroyed then all the other wickedness and iniquity that ever I committed; for when I being unsatisfied came from the baptists again, (having suffered persecution for the name of Christ) resolved with purpose of heart to wait on the Lord, whatever became of all the world, their glory, profession, or enmity: for a word was powerfully in me, [seek first the Kingdom of God] to which I gave heed, and turned my mind again to the light which had checked me for sin from my childhood, which Christ had enlightened me withal, and the power of God was manifested, and his dreadful judgements fell on the whore which went out from the life into a profession, and plagues, and famine, and earthquakes, and thunders, war and tremble, sighing, mourning, weeping, and fasting, and great astonishments came upon that ground in me which before professed the Scriptures: and all that ever I had acted or spoken out of the light, was judged, cursed and condemned, whether, eating or forbearing, or drinking or forbearing, lying down or rising up, sleeping or waking, going out or coming in, all was judged and condemned until the meek came to ride King upon the foal of an ass, and Zion redeemed with judgement, which came to pass as obedience was yielded to the higher power, who with his mighty and piercing sword wounded Leviathan and slew the Dragon that was in the Sea, and the great whore was plagued (the beast and false Prophet together) of whose cup of fornication all Nations and Kings of the earth have drunk who must drink freely as I have done, of the cup of the wine of the fierceness of the wrath of the Lord God almighty, or else shall never know rest and peace in the Land of the Living;  
For Cain the first birth, the envious one the murderer is vagabond from God, and Ishmaell the wild man, the mocker is cast out, and Esau the cunning hunter is rejected, the profane person, and all proud Hamans' stock, and nabals race, these must have their part in the Lake of torment, for dreadful plagues and vengeance is coming upon all the world's nature from the terrible God of power, who is now come to reign in righteousness, therefore woe to the inhabitant of the earth, all ye proud, wanton, envious, covetous, and deceitful ones, and all Hypocrites, and ungodly ones Torment, howling, wrath and perpetual misery with lamentation forever is your portion, except you speedily repent:  
Therefore all people upon earth turn your minds to light wherewith you are enlightened by Christ Jesus the Saviour which lets you see sin and evil, lest you be by him turned into everlasting misery and utter darkness, where will be no end of your sorrow and pain, and repent and prize your time, and stop not the care nor close the eye against that in you which rises for deliverance, and is sad in the midst of your vain mirth, which cannot be satisfied with any thing of this World; but heed that which showeth you the evil of the World, for that leads out of it, and all its ways, worships, fashion, and traditions, (which are vain and fading) up to Christ who is not of the world, by whom it was made, who lighteth every man that cometh into the world, the salvation of all that obey him: And this is he who hath led me out of the world through great Tribulations unto the good Land of rest, glory to him that sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever, whose power once killed, but now makes alive, and having slain the enmity by the blood of his Cross, whose own arm hath brought salvation, glory and everlasting praises unto the Lord God omnipotent, who have given power and strength, wisdom, dominion and eternal blessing to the Lamb slain, who was once in Sodom and Egypt crucified spiritually, but now his life the grave cannot hold, but hath risen triumphing over the principalities and powers of the world, by whose power the horse and his rider is cast into the sea, and now reigns in righteousness, and in it doth judge and make war, being Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, whose name is called the word of God, from whence the true light comes which lighteth every man that cometh into the world, everlasting prayers and glory to his powerful name in the highest, Amen:  
6th. Month, 59 This is given forth in true love to the yet scattered of the Flock, whom my Soul desires may come to know the rest at noon, in the life of the Son of righteousness. by William Bayly.  
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LONDON: Printed for Mary Westwood in the 6th Month, 1659.