Fire from Heaven, Falling upon the Present Army and Churches: OR, TWO WORDS FROM THE LORD To Both. Held forth to the Understanding of those, that make not flesh their arm, and whose hope the Lord is, that cease from Man (a piece of earth) whose breath is in his nostrils. As also to the terror and astonishment of all those, who lean upon the broken staff of Egypt, and trust in Horses, and strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and joy in the shadow of men; and cry to themselves, The Temple of the Lord, The Temple of the Lord.  
By a MAN of their COUNCIL.  
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: Truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.  Jer. 3.23. 
Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first Love.  Revel. 2.4. 
LONDON, Printed in the day of Battle, and year of Slaughter. 1649.   

To his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, With all the Officers and Soldiers of the ARMY; And to all the Churches, visible and outward, whatsoever.  
May it please your Excellency, with you all,  
WHat I have heard, seen, and understood, is presented to you in this book; it craves your attention, because it relates to you: It hath the boldness to cry aloud, and not to spare, to show the Lords Host their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sin: It breaks the order and custom of the world in courting you, and, clothing itself with the spirit of Truth and burning, judges you. Peradventure it may be a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence to you, yea, to both the houses of Israel: The Spirit would have it so; for you must fall, that you may rise; die, that you may live; be nothing, that you may be all. You have much glory to lose, some of you the Glory, Rule, and Government of the World; others of you the Glory and Rule of the Church, and yet many of you have a greater Glory to possess: Your wood, hay, and stubble, shall be burnt up, you shall suffer loss, but ye shall be saved, yet so, as by fire: Your loss shall be your gain, and your shame, your praise; yet for the present you will be so shameful as to cover the glory of the Lord, rather than you will lie in the dust, and part with what you have by strength obtained.   

The Epistle general, To all the King's Party, with the Bishops, Priests, Presbyters, Independents, Anabaptists, Seekers, etc. To men of all sects, of all degrees, of all conditions where and whatsoever.  
Dear Hearts,  
IF the Lord rend that vail of flesh, wherewith you are covered, what is herein spoken shall be plain and easy to you; it shall be yours, as well as mine: It contains in it a fire that will try every man's work, it refines and purifies the Sons of Levi, that all their offerings may be in Righteousness: You may behold in it the voice that cries, All flesh is as grass, and all the goodliness of man as the flower of the field. It preaches forth the Love of God, and drives poor creatures to an abhorring of themselves in their murdering, destroying and revengeful way, That the Wolf may lie down with the Lamb, and the Lion eat straw with the Ox, and no hurting in all the holy Mountain. I have to do in this book with the Army and Churches, which contains a great part of the Nation, and the Sentence of the Lord passed against both, and Judgement begun at the House of God. I have presented it to your view, that you may know the design of God in these latter days, viz. to plead with all flesh, and throughly to purge his floor. Ye that are men of several forms, dressed with several attire, different and various in Religion, may yet unite, and be one in the Spirit and Power of Jesus, when he shall come stealing upon you, and plunder you of all that you now, or have, gathered to yourselves, and lead you from one dispensation to another, from strength to strength, and from glory to glory, until you eat bread, and drink wine now in the Kingdom of God. The Lord is in your darkness, and provides for you in the wilderness. Therefore, first, to you that are the Royal Party, know this, The King is an Image of God, a lively figure of the King of Kings; but you in your darkness are enthralled to the Idea and outward form, yea to the weakness and imperfection of it, and thereby kept from that truly Noble and Royal Spirit, that freely flows from the Lord (the represented) to all the Royal Priesthood. You so much deify the sovereignty of a man, that only bears forth what of God is given in, that you rob the Lord, the mighty, not giving and bowing to that Allmight, though the curse is threatened, and before you executed on those that make flesh their arm: Yea, this Power, when sometime exercised against the Child Jesus, is by you justified, and no room in the Inn when he is brought forth among you. And to you the Bishops and Priests, who are a dark figuring out of the true Bishop and overseer of the soul, yet you feed yourselves, and not the Flock, preaching and praying in a formal customary way. stinting yourselves and others in all your duties, going not in yourselves, nor suffering those that will, endeavouring to quench the spirit that rises up in opposition to those ties and bonds that leads it captive. And to you the Presbyterian Party, that, to be more excellent than your fathers, make long prayers, having great shows of Reformation, and greater zeal, and larger actings for God, than those before you; yet sit down satisfied with yourselves, having thus painted over the Sepulchers of your fathers, and with them assemble your power and authority to stop that River of God which flows to the sons of men, if not running in your channel. Yea, you of the Independent Party, to write a fairer Copy than all these, separate from their society, as unclean and unholy, and yet assuming to yourselves the privilege of an outward holy seed, and all that spring from your unholy holy loins, to be interessed with yourselves in these promises, though the Lord hath pronounced Judgement against all outward and carnal marks and distinctions, as thereby differencing the Lord's People, disclaiming all right not derived from that truth and glory within you, which is truth, and needs not that any man teach you. And you the Anabaptists, to make a stricter separation than these before you, begin from and of yourselves to set up that carnal & outward way which God hath thrown down, and to set up John the Baptist in the room of Christ, though he tells you his Ministry and Doctrine must decrease, and Christ's increase; yet will you sit down under the cloudiness and twilight of John, and not assemble to the Day and Morning, Christ, who is risen upon the earth: Yea, though the Spirit, by the  Messenger, tells you, This is not the Reformation, but a figure of it, and after him cometh he whose sand is in his hand, and throughly purge his floor; yet do you sit down on this side Reformation, not approaching to that House made without hands eternal in the Heavens: Yea, others of you, passing through all these, arrive at a seeking what hath been, and not reaching forth to that which is before. Some of you are content with the borders of Canaan, and think not of entering in and possessing the good Land, expecting Moses, that angered the Lord at the waters of strife, a Minister of weakness, to lead you to your Rest; and not Jesus, who is a Saviour and Deliverer from being captive to any thing below God whatsoever: and therefore stay on this side Jordan, not believing the waters shall divide, and be cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, born by the Melchisedec of God: Therefore all of you whatsoever that are working in your six days under sundry and several dispensations, tiring and wearing out yourselves in your own vanities, shall lie down in sorrow, and be bitten by the Serpents in the Wilderness, until you pass over into the Lord your Canaan, and Day of Rest, where you shall all of you rest from your labours, and your works follow: And this Day of the Lord is coming upon you, it is near at hand, even at the doors; the fullness of the Gentiles coming in, and all Israel shall be saved. And in this Day, who so will not come up of all the families of the earth to Jerusalem, to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, upon them shall be no rain, there shall be a famine in all their dwellings, a drying up of all their gifts, parts, excellencies, righteousness, praying, reading, preaching; yea all that they have be taken away: For the Day of the Lord is upon all the proud, and upon all that are lifted up, and upon all that being taken up into this high Mountain, a figure of the true, say, Come, let us build three Tabernacles, let us never move from this station, let us never go beyond Moses his legal and carnal administrations, let us retain what we have, and seek not to attain what we have not. O let not this mind be in any of you, lest the Day of the Lord come upon you, and your oil being out of your lamps, and you not ready, are shut out of doors, and cast into the fire that burneth, and never goeth out. The sinners in Zion are afraid, Who shall dwell with devouring fire? Who shall dwell with everlasting burn? The clean hands and upright heart: Therefore cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; wait under your dispensations, inquire under your old fabric, and in the desolations thereof for him that shall make all things new, and then shall I be  
Yours, new in the Kingdom.   
Fire from Heaven, Falling upon the present ARMY and CHURCHES; OR, TWO WORDS from the LORD To Both.  

First, to the Army.  
YOu have had many words from the Lord, many sweet invitations, tenders, embraces, and kisses from the God of the whole earth: You have been dandled upon his knees, and gently led by his right hand; but yet, with Jesurun, have you waxed sat, and kicked. They have been to you either words of contempt and reproach, or of momentary excellency and good, like the morning dew, that by the glorious sun of outward good and prosperity, have wasted and consumed away. Yet behold one kiss more, one cord of love more, drawing you; peradventure the last word of good you shall have. I am at first to rebuke you, then to advise you. In the reprehension of you, I shall tell you what you are, viz. The executioners of God's wrath and vengeance; you are men conversant in the lower-most parts of the earth, in hell, the place of God's wrath; You are God's sword, and it is in your hand to execute wrath upon the Heathens: You are skilled in the wasting Kingdoms, burning Cities, Towns and Villages, but not in the repairing the breaches that are broken down, nor closing the gaps that are made, nor raising up it ruins. The way of peace you have not known, you have declined the steps that lead to that blessed centre, the foundations of love and peace are not founded and bottomed in your hearts, therefore no marvel the buildings appear not: Love and goodness, meekness and gentleness, cross your designs of greatness, pomp, glory, safety and security: You cannot make salvation your walls and bulwarks; You cannot sing (the Day of the Lord is not yet come upon you) we have a strong City, and yet without gates: You cannot see Jerusalem inhabited as a Town without walls; You cannot march forth like the virgins of Zion in their dances; nor, with Noah's dove, return with an olive leaf in your mouth. You have, for many years, faced the Nation, with a sharp glittering sword in your hands, executing vengeance, but have not appeared in the majesty and brightness of God, and thereby gathered them up into him.  
Object. But you may object, and say, Why, what can we do? have we a Will of our own thus to act forth that glory and brightness of God?  
Answ. No, in no wise; It is not in him that willeth, nor in him that runneth, but in God that showeth mercy. But you pretend it is God that acts you, and carries you forth to act for the People, and to be a wall between them and ruin, and upon this account you break through all opposition, and answer what ever is objected against your actions, being in themselves (as you yourselves confess) unlawful: You pretend you are not mercenary and servile in the work you do, but free and volunteer, and all is for God and the People, otherwise you would leave off. A company of hypocrites, and carnal Christians, you are, that plainly act the contrary. Hath not God, by a mighty hand of his own and through an unexpected way, made you this day the lords and rulers of the Nation, that all freely or forcedly pay tribute unto you, serve and bow to you? Is not the great Council of the Nation your Council, your Election? Are not all their actings, and what ever is by them brought to the birth, that which hath been first begotten, and bred within you? Have not you prescribed a pattern for the removal of the King, and judgement upon his party, and the house of Lords to be useless, and they oppressing creatures? and have not the great Council writ after it? Nay, are not you soared so high, that now we may truly say, If any of the people of the Nation are in captivity, if any Saint afflicted, it is you that afflict and oppress them? either because you will have it so, or neglect the relieving of them, though you may and can. All your pretences, Oaths and Covenants have preached forth thus much to us; if the Lord should ever set us up in authority, O how would we relieve the oppressed, & help the fatherless! What a joy would we be to the righteous, and terror to the wicked? How would we have separated between the precious and the vi●e? And this have the people long expected from your hands, but behold oppression, ernesty and revenge, slaying the innocent and righteous ones, whom God would have kept alive. You have discovered the covering of Judah, and treacherously slain your friend and brethren, and given up Judah to the sword, and Israel to captivity: And in that day did the Lord of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth, and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and kill sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, giving gifts and taking rewards; and thus your are feasted with the blood of the righteous, and drunk with their blood, until you fall and never rise again. Behold, Tithes, the great oppression of the Nation, with its triple damages recoverable of the People, if refused, though you rule, and your own consciences, with others, are against it, yet will you have it so: Who would have thought that you would have maintained such a company of Priests, whom God (as you know and say) hath spewed cut of his mouth, and yet that you should support their Diana, and nourish those dark places of the Land, called and reputed of many the two eyes of the Land, the fountain and seed-plots of all good learning, and become Doctors, Masters and Fellows in Babel's arts and sciences, bringing stone, timber, and mortar to the building that City and Tower, whose top may reach to Heaven. But this is a fruit of the blood of the Saints which you have shed, and a return of praise to the Holy One, who, in his descension upon men, was crucified by you: Nay, how can you suffer faithful members to be excluded the House, for professing and asserting the pure Divinity of God, no way mixed or compounded? That God is not three, but one, and not many gods, as you in your imaginations think: That there is no such thing in God (though to men) as Father, Son, and Spirit, but all one in God, though not in man, and is thereby only distinct to men, and that to the darkness of men, not to the light of God within them, which reads God under another notion; for that Soul beholds him all love, excellency, and goodness, and this in all his ways, to all, in all, upon all, and that this God neither is or can be divided, not admitting a seam in his garment: Nay, what enmity is there in your spirits, or at least in your actions to Papists, not suffering them, or men in gross darkness, viz. the Prelates, who, being in the dark, and under cloudy dispensations of God, should therefore have the going forth of the morning among them, that they might be brought out of darkness into light, and won by that love and meekness, that is or should be in you, to them; yea, I say, not admitting them into the liberty and freedom with yourselves: I know your hearts, you could many of you tolerate Papists and Prelates among you, but that the Nation look upon them under such a gross notion, that you, to please men, dare not do it, thinking hereby your repute and credit among men will fall to the ground, and be esteemed by many such yourselves. And therefore, to retain and keep up your glory among men, will you break the rules of love, mercy, and goodness, and make shipwreck of your own and others consciences: Yea, you can command the People to fast, and restrain the Nation from working on those days, annexing penalties (as formerly) to the breach thereof, thereby bringing in those legal and Mosaical Fast, Jewish and National, which Christ, by a more pure and glorious ministration, hath abolished: Nay, let me discover what I know of you, viz. That many, if not the most of you, are wholly dead in yourselves to fastings of that nature, your souls loathing it, but only that the Nation may judge you to be religious, and zealous to make every one your proselyte, and not deem you to be for such an universal toleration of all sects and sorts of men in their religion, until the day and pure glory of God break forth, causing all darkness to sly before it, yea, turning the Sun into darkness, and the Moon into blood, not admitting any thing, save this pure light, then to be, and converse among men: I say, for this cause do you thus dissemble with the Nation, and seem as if you accounted the people's fastings a sacrifice that God accepts.  
Object. But you may peradventure say (through the hardness and obduracy of your hearts,) This is sedition, and a stirring up, and enraging the people against you.  
Answ. Though I might, or could by means procure it, I would not lift up, or have a sword lifted up against you, nor a hand in wrath and indignation; The worst mischief I would do you, were it in my power, would be to create a heart of love and peace among you, to engrave upon all your hearts, and upon the hearts of the whole Nation, an entire perfect union and agreement in God, and a beating of your swords into plough shares, and your spears into pruning hooks, and to learn war no more. I am for peace, but you are for war, and in times of peace shed blood; therefore hath the Lord prepared you a cup to drink, and you shall drink deep of it: Death shall swallow you up alive; and the grave shall open for you, and hell shall be your portion, because they that have killed with the sword, shall be killed by the sword, and they that have led into captivity, shall go into captivity: This is a sweet word, wait for the fulfilling of it. The Lord will destroy you all, the Lord will give you blood to drink, you shall drink and be drunken with your own blood. It is a mystery, and you, it may be, understand it not, and therefore admire it; Remember you not the voice of the Church of old, In the way of thy judgements have we waited for thee, O Lord? Great is the mystery of godliness, thus it is:  
You have shed the blood of thousands, thousands, you have have wasted Cities, Countries, &c, God hath provided a double portion for you, and both of judgement and destruction; The one is to destroy your flesh, to give it up to the sword: A second, to cut off two parts of you out of the land of the living.  
First, The Lord will destroy your flesh, and make a great slaughter among you, even of your reason, wisdom, judgement, credit, glory, repute, & all that is flesh in you, to lay your glory in the dust, to turn your wisdom into folly, to burn up your righteousness, holiness, to give you a new heart, to destroy that warlike, envious, and bloody spirit that is in you, to create peace in all your dwellings, and love in all your hearts, not suffering any thing of the earth to have a being among you, in no wise admitting flesh and blood entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. God is coming upon you as a thief, in the night of your beating your fellow servants, eating and drinking until you are drunk, and will plunder you of all you have, and cast you into outer darkness; you have a will within, and among you, that rules and reigns, this will the Lord steal from you in the night, and leave you none at all, but his will shall do all, and carry on all, and be in you all: And thus doth the Kingdom of God come, not with observations, saying, Lo, here is Christ, or lo, there; for behold it is within you: and thus shall the Kingdom of God take place, and all Kingdoms bow, and come in to it. This is the only King and Kingdom that shall be set up, and there shall be but one in all the earth: This is the time when God takes to him his great power and reign, and then shall you be ashamed of all your do: And as you have cut off much of the unrighteousness of men, and gross corruption of the world; so shall the Lord, in this day, cut off all your righteousness, holiness, goodness, beauty, and comeliness, leaving you none at all, but you shall be the vilest among men.  
2. There is a second judgement (which is proper to you) and that you shall find mentioned Zech. 13.7, 8. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones: And it shall be, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts thereof shall be cut off, and die, but the third shall be left therein. Note the word, his hand shall be turned against the little ones: Two parts of you, and two parts of the Land and Nation, shall be cut off and destroyed: God hath used you in this work, you have wounded, destroyed, and slaughtered multitudes of people, Captains, mighty men, and nobles have you cut off in one day. Thus the Day of the Lord is begun, and you see it not; this is the day of Judgement, and you say, it is afar off; Joel 3.12, 13, 14. Let the Heathen be wakened, etc. and Vers. 14. Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision; for the Day of the Lord is near, in the valley of cutting off. God hath roused up the Nation out of that careless and secure posture in which they lay: God is a disquieting the whole earth; multitudes in the valley of slaughter: people gather and aslemble to this destroying Angel; People muster their forces, and march along with this destroyer, they delight in blood: and thus the people are consumed for their parts, and destroyed out of the Land, and blood toucheth blood: And yet in these is the design of God carried on, in a slaughtering the pride of all flesh, in putting a final period to the credit, repute, excellency, goodness, hopes, and comforts of man, blasting all that outward glory, because the Spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it; and now every man beginneth to be weary and ashamed of himself and of all others, and doth hug and embrace to them a naked, pure, and divine God; yea, cry out, creatures have been our destruction, men have undone us: we have built our hope, joy, and peace upon the sands; O how have we been deceived! O how vile is every man? how have we called good, evil, and evil, good? O how have we deified those, which had any good, holiness, or righteousness dwelling in them? burying God, the goodness and holiness wrapped up in that earth, and dwelling in those houses of clay; and heathen-like have changed the truth of God into a lie, worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, God blessed for ever.  
2. Now, as I have rebuked you, viz. that evil in you, am I, in the second place, to counsel you, and therein not I, but the Lord: And this is twofold; 1. To cast off your filthy polluted garments, to wear your garments of blood no longer. 2. To become a white Army, clothed in white linen, therein following the Prince of Peace.  
First, Cast off your filthy polluted garments, shake yourselves from the dust, strip yourselves of your bloody garments; leave off contending, you have a long time been disciplined in war, to the ruin of yourselves and others: And as you have ruined and killed others, so the sword of the Lord hath killed you, and stained your pride and glory, self-interest, self-preservation, the outward liberties of you and the people: You must die to your outward peace and liberty, and lay down your lives, and thereby take it up again; yea, I mean, all you, that are the little ones of Christ, shall thus have power, as well as the man Christ, to lay down your lives, and take them up again. Come with me, my friends and dear hearts, come with me from the Lion's den, from the fury, wrath, destruction, and violence that have dwelled in your borders; Come, beat your swords into plough shares, say to the people, We will no more oppress you, we will no more fight you: O my hearts, let the oppressed lord go free, you have taken the Lord captive for these many years, your God and King on high is your prisoner; he preaches peace to the Heathens, and compassion to the Nations, and yet you take him captive, and you preach blood, contention, and make laws to destroy every man that dislikes your government, it must be called treason, that you might thereby kill all that do oppose you. What still shedding of blood? Are you not wearied in your vanities? When, when shall nothing bind but love?  
Object. But if we should thus leave off sighting, our Liberties, and all that we have striven for to obtain these many years will fall to the ground, our righteous cause die, and the people return either to their former bondage, or to Anarchy and Confusion, and the godly party become the prey of their and the Lords enemies.  
Ans. In answer hereto, I could first tell you, (that which every man knows,) That though you rule, the people still remain in bondage, and the righteous souls are cut off, and many Saints afflicted and persecuted for their zeal to God, and worshipping him according to their Consciences, which may sufficiently discover your pretended zeal for God, and how little truth there is in it, but I forbear: And in answer to your scruple, know, That the way to the pure and upright Government of the great God, among and towards men, is, by Anarchy and Confusion. This doctrine is strange, yet true, That the only way God hath declared he will use in the promoting and carrying on that design of greatness and Majesty he is intended to advance in the world, is, by depopulating, defacing and wasting Kingdoms and People, and this design of God hath been actually carried on among us. God hath hastened to this work of his in our days, and his Chariot wheels have run swiftly this way. When we build a new house, if there be an old one in the room, we first pull that down, and make it a desolation, and then lay a sure foundation for a more glorious one: Thus doth God, Your house (saith he) shall be left unto you desolate. The people boasted in the Temple, God had a Temple to build; Well, saith God, I will first destroy yours, desolation shall first attend your worldly, earthly Temple: God hath now a pure glorious House to build, a pure Government, to which the Nations must all bow, and bring their glory to: Now the Saints, that are under dark and cloudy dispensations, say, Come let us govern and rule, and we will rule for the Lord; but they, alas, by reason of their darkness, patch and piece up a Government, made up of the Laws and Statutes that our forefathers in their days (not partakers of our light, or rather the Lords in us) form and made; and their Reformation is a retreating back to prestine purity, but not a going forward pressing after that purity and glory, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor entered into the heart of man to conceive. For further testimony see Isai. 24. the whole Chapter, especially 20, 21, 22, 23 verses, Chap. 26.20, 21. Chap. 65.15, 16, 23. Zeph. 3.8, 9 where you may plainly read, that when the Lord will do his great work, when all shall confess to him, and every knee bow, when his glory shall be lifted up, and peace and love shall dwell in the hearts of men and women, and no hurting in Gods holy mountain, That destruction shall go before, and the high and lofty ones shall be brought low; a consumption will the Lord bring, and make a short work in all the earth.  
Object. But it may be said, and that by honest hearts, That Anarchy and Confusion is that aspersion which the world casts upon the Saints, by reason of the changes the Lord makes in the Government of the Nation, and the people of God conceive themselves wronged in it; and will you own that which they disclaim?  
Answ. I am against Anarchy utterly, as that which hath no Order and Government, and the dissolver of all Order; but yet as it leads to the setting up of a pure, righteous, and everlasting Government, I quietly and contentedly submit to it, and behold the strange and marvellous actings of the Lord in it, and there feasting myself with those dainties that are secretly involved in those black and dark dispensations, and in this confusion find a sweet and blessed Order begun in me, and behold the Lord bringing it forth to the view of the world, that every eye may see him, and all shut their mouths at him.  
2. That you would remain naked and senseless before the Lord and men, to be as helpless creatures: You could be content, many of you, peradventure to be naked before the Lord, but not before men; O then, say you, will the world trample upon us, and we shall be destroyed, and that without remedy, and make ourselves a reproach and contempt to all Nations, when we shall thus freely and voluntarily resign up ourselves, Wives, Children, City, Country, and Nation into the Father's hands; and so to have no Wife, Child, Servant, or Habitation; yea, no Husband, Parent, or Master, but what is in the Father's resignment: To have no Keeper of the Vineyard, but the Lord, no Watchman, but the Watchman of Israel; to have no bulwarks, and no walls, but Salvation, Freedom, and Liberty from on high; to have a strong City, and yet without Gates: To be presented to the Lord and men as creatures undone, broken in their estates, glory, and repute, having nothing to live upon, but what the Ravens, by the Word of the Lord, bring morning and evening to them, beholding all the vessels of the earth broken to pieces, and not a potsherd left to take up coals withal. You must lose all, part with all, have nothing, be nothing to God, to the world: Have nothing, but what the barrel of meal, and cruse of oil affordeth; a famine being in the Land, upon the Prophet, Teacher, mighty men, and men of war, upon the Captains, and men of strength, and no bread but in the Lord, nor water, but in this living fountain.  
2. My counsel is, That you would come forth clothed with pure and white linen, with the man God, or the God-man in your arms, dressed with divine attire, clothed with embroidered garments, yea, of needlework, of all curious workmanship; and this work is not yours, but the Lords, in which you are only to wait until the Lord bring forth his name in you; in which day you shall go forth, bearing to men the meekness, quietness, peace, love, and goodness of God: as you did once administer to your brethren destruction, misery, wrath, and judgement, and as you soar up into God; so shall you, in the majesty of this God, heal and cure the Nations, even by the leaves that this tree of life shall yield: and thus shall ye become men of another garb, men of another dress, and you shall be named by a new name, which the Lord our God shall name; new Jerusalem shall be written upon you, and there shall be no go out, not a thought of man, not a word of man, that name shall be mentioned no more, unless as an abhorring to all the Israel of God: The earth shall cease to yield her fruit, man shall give forth no longer, he shall be emptiness unto the Lord, vanity shall be written upon every thing that remains, and all things shall sound forth God, a trumpet shall not blow that cannot echo forth the Lord; and this shall be the great conquest, and the great reward, That we ourselves are conquered, and brought in subjection to the Lord: That whereas, after all our victories and successes, there still remained Creature and God, now there remaineth after this success and victory, God, and nothing of Creature: And whereas you were the fear of men, when you were gift with a sword; so now, you are swordless and manless, you are the love and good will of the people: and what you are, you are to the Lord, and for the Lord, not to, nor for yourselves.  
Object. But you may object and say, This is a happy time, were it in our days, were it to be fulfilled upon us, but the time is not yet.  
Answ. All that dye, shall live, and all that live, shall die: They that now have neither house, land, credit, profit, repute, glory, wife, child, brother, and sister, but having had all, do now part with all, shall find all these in God; And they that have these, as you have in abundance, shall lose all, and be without all: You that cease from your own honour, shall enjoy far more in God, and cease as to your offices among men, shall obtain greater in God, and from a common Soldier, shall become a Captain, and from a Captain, a General, and from a General, to be One with the great God of Heaven and Earth, who is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords: And for the time, behold it is at hand, Summer is near, even at the door, for the Fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the Vines, with the tender Grapes, give a good smell; every creature hath a sweet smell of God in it, God is written in lively characters upon every creature in heaven and earth: There is in all these, more or less, a giving and resigning up to the sweet and gracious dispose of the Lord; As the Lord passes before them, so are they ashamed and confounded in themselves, for when he appeareth, who can ●…an●…▪ By which you may know, the Day of the Lord draws near, therefore say not, it is afar off, for it is near, and shall overtake you, even ere you are ware, and your souls shall be made like the charets of Aminadah.   

A Second WORD TO THE CHURCHES.  
YOu have a name that you live, you have the image and representation of God amongst you; you assume to yourselves the name of the Churches of God, Churches of the Gospel, of clear light, and yet live in the darkness and cloudiness of your own spirits: You have made flesh and forms your habitation, you have offered upon every mountain, and sacrificed under every green tree, and bowed to graven images: You have in truth so hug'd and embraced the outmost and lowermost dispensations of God, as you will not, nor durst not leave them for the enjoyment of a pure and naked God: You have known Christ after the flesh, and have eat and drunk with him in this fleshly way, you have seen the miracles that he hath wrought, and the wonders he hath done among men, and you by him have repent, and turned from your own works of righteousness to the righteousness of God, as thus held forth unto you: And you have had much sweetness and comfort under all these, for the Lord hath lived in them: Now, saith the Lord unto you, Behold, I go to my Father, I withdraw from the creature, and ascend into my own glory, into my pure self; I leave the earth, I will abide no more in the Temple, I will forsake my dwelling place: Note the word, God doth sometimes leave his dwelling place; I have made my abode and dwelled in Water, Bread, and Wine, in the observation of days, in praying, fasting, reading, writing, preaching, hearing; I will now leave them all. O than sorrow fills your hearts, and you begin to weep and lament, seeing the flesh of Christ crucified before you, hung between two thiefs; but his Holy One cannot die, nor see corruption, but his flesh is abased, shamed, disgraced; the Lord gives up those garments and vestures, wherewith he was clothed, to the moth to devour, to the enemy to make a prey of; and the worldly Christian parts his garments, and casts lots for them, and rejoices in the spoil, and embalms the body of the Lord with sweet spices, though the soul and life is departed from it, yea, though it be but a mere carcase, the spirit of Christ leaving it, yet this poor man loves it as much as ever, delights and pleases himself in it; and Christ being dead and buried, you go to his Sepulchre, wherein he is laid, seeking for him, and Mary-like ask the Angels where your Lord is; they answer, He is not here, he is risen; why seek ye the living among the dead? You go to fasting and prayer, and inquire, saying, Did you see the Lord? No, say they, He is not here; He was here for three days, but he is risen and gone: Then you go from one Church to another, from society to society, and inquire, but he is not here, say they, he is risen: Then you go to the rudiments of the world, to elementary things, and they give you the same answer, saying, He was here, but he is risen, behold the linen clothes and the napkin in which he lay; you may see his grave-clothes, his outward garments, his several and sundry appearances, but he is gone, he hath left them all: Then you begin to be afraid, you know not what to do, now you have lost your Lord, and there is nothing now remaining to take pleasure in, and to enjoy, but a few grave-clothes, some old castoff garments; no place now to live in, but a desolate and forsaken house, a habitation for Dragons, and a Court for Owls, a place which the wild beasts of the field have made their rest.  
Object. But you may object, and say, We are a Church form according to the pattern in the Mount, according to the Scriptures prescribed by Christ and the Apostles, and in obedience to these we walk and abide.  
Answ. You are much below (even all the visible Churches on earth) that pure and primitive order in the Apostles days; you have not that pure infallible doctrine to deliver as they had, nor that clearness of the Spirit poured down upon you; the Holy Ghost not falling upon you in cloven tongues, as upon them: nor that oneness of mind, as to sell all, and lay it down at the Apostles or Churches feet; you have not so learned Christ, you cannot do greater works than ever Christ himself did, when he was upon earth, and that because Christ is ascended: Yours, at the best, is but an earthly, weak, erring, imperfect Ministry, a worldly Sanctuary, a Baptism of Water, not of the Spirit, that which (as John said) decreases, not increases; a doctrine which, because of the weakness of it, cannot go beyond Repentance, Faith, Hope, Baptisms, Resurrection of the dead, and eternal Judgement, with laying on of hands; All which are but milk for babes: yet you are always contenting and satisfying yourselves with such a baby-condition, not going in yourselves, nor suffering (without offence) those that would; nay, you will not move a step beyond these, but asperse, as erroneous and blasphemous, all such that pass through hope and faith to sight and enjoyment, through the Flesh into the Spirit, and it is unseemly to name the word perfection (as attainable) among you. But further, were you as perfect and complete in all things as the Apostles were, yet must you, with such a Ministry and Church, cease, and give in, for behold, a greater than the Apostles and Prophets is here; here is one standing among you, whom you know and see not as yet, that will not own Paul, Peter, and John in this Apostleship, there being no manner of coparnership in it; and that it may appear that the Apostolical Ministry and Doctrine was but to continue its time and age, doth Christ himself, when upon earth, manifest as much to us, Matth. 28.20. Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you always, or every day, even to the consumption of this age; So the Greek reads it, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, in the singular number, not in the plural number, as in other places, where it is used for ever, the word is, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; and Peter bears witness hereto, 2 Pet. 3.12, 13. Looking for, and hastening unto the coming of the day of the Lord, wherein the heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved, etc. Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for new heavens, and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness: Peter though an Apostle and Minister of the Churches, and to the world, yet he expected a more glorious Church and Ministry, for you must not understand by heavens and elements is here meant those visible to us, as if they should be burnt up; or heavens and earth, to be that which you behold, and live in; but Churches and Ministry, Doctrines and teachings of and by men; Yea John will lead you to the knowledge of this, Rev. 21.3, 22, 23. Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and God himself shall be with them, etc. And I saw no temple therein; for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of it. He is a weak man, and a weak Christian, that is under the Ministry of the Apostles, that hath any man to teach him, or is under any teaching of God by men. And my dear friends, and brethren, let me tell you without offence, that you are not under the second Covenant, but under a Covenant of the outward man, under the Compact of the Letter, until you cease teaching one another, and preaching one to the other, but are taught of God only: So runs the terms of that Covenant, observe it Hebr. 8.10, 11. In that Covenant, when persons are under it, they shall not say one to another, brother, know the Lord; this is the voice of the Lord, that is not: This the Lord saith, that man saith; this is truth, that is error. No, in this Covenant you shall know God perfectly, fully, and clearly. O strange doctrine, and horrid blasphemy, will some of you, my brothrens, say; but I will bear with the fruits of your darkness. And now I am to deliver to you; First, a word of terror and judgement: and secondly of counsel and advice.  
First, Terror, and Judgement; I am to tell you, the Lord hath cursed the Figtree, he hath caused your gifts to whither, you tree yields no more fruit, your root is without sap, your teachings without life, your ministrations affording no peace; either, I say, none at all, but dejection and casting down; or else peace temporary, because of the uncertainty of your doctrine, peace mixed with enmity and break out; and a love with fear, when perfect love casts out fear, for fear hath torment; A Saint and yet a sinner, when he that is horn of God sinneth not. You shall call in this old Churchway, and not be heard, cry, and the Lord will turn from you; you shall sly at the rebuke of one, though you are a thousand, at the rebuke of five shall ye sly, until you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an Ensign on a hill. The Sun shall go down over the Prophets, and the day shall be dark over them; Emptiness and a shadow shall be written upon all that you 〈◊〉. This Sun and Moon of yours shall be ashamed, when the Lord shall reign in mount Zion. The Lord is sending leanness among you, and a famine not of bread, and a thirst not of water, but of hearing the Word of the Lord, and you shall wander from Sea to Sea, from Church to Church, from Society to Society, from Preacher to Preacher, from man to man, from brother to brother, from doctrine to doctrine, and shall not find the Lord: you yourselves shall shortly see this fulfilled upon you; you shall burn your books and writings, you shall see this mountain of yours forsaken; and thus judgement shall follow you, and a fire shall be kindled among you, and burn you up. And the Lord to make out tokens of his indignation against you, how he hath left you, as you have left him, and his glory, hath in these our days visibly discovered it, by a giving you up to the weakness and folly of your own hearts, which hath produced and effected in you, the betraying and shedding innocent blood, even the blood of those whom you formerly honoured; strengthening the hands of their oppressors, adding affliction to affliction, which the spirit of God calleth cruelty. In the day that the strangers carried away captive his, even jacob's forces; and foreigners entered into his, even the righteous gates, and casts lots upon them; even thou wast as one of them, thou stoodst in the cross-ways to cut off those that did escape: But the day of the Lord is near, as thou hast done, shall it be done to thee; the reward shall return upon thine own head, this innocent blood have you shed, even you, or most of you, that call yourselves the Churches of God. As I do not own their boasting in, or gathering to themselves an arm of flesh, and by a warlike way to endeavour to free themselves, and establish righteousness in the Land: So I cannot but testify against the bloody, unchristianlike thoughts, and actions that hath been manifested in you to them. And who should have thought, that no sooner could liberty be given you, which once were so enslaved, and captived in and for the practice of your Religion, that for so doing, you daily suffered, or in continual leopardy; I say, that you should seek to enslave and embondage others, whom you professedly honour as righteous; some to God, and others of them to men, save in this action. But sweet and good is the hand of the Lord in this, that he might thereby make a discovery of you to the World. Now I shall show you a few Reasons of the judgements of the Lord thus falling upon you.  
1. Because the Temple of the Lord, not the Lord is your glory. Every thing that God welleth in, you fall down to, and so fall down to Angels, Saints, Men, Ordinances, Ministers, and Officers, when these, at the best, are but God's habitation, garments of the earth, and decaying vestures wherewith God  himself. You are satisfied that you are a Church member, that you are of such and such a Congregation, that you have such a Pastor, that you have submitted to such an Ordinance, or Ordinances. O this doth tickle you, I know it when I walked among you; Nay, it further appears, by those mean and low thoughts you have of those that are not of your Order; some of you can hardly pray with them, others not own them as brethren, and the rest charging them with disobedience, in not walking up to those withered, dead, and decayed things, that you seek to keep alive.  
Now as long as you remain under these dispensations, the Lord in, and under these, should only be your glory, 1 Cor. 1.31. He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.  
Object. But some of you will say, Though indeed we are under all these administrations, yet we glory not in them, if we may be said to know our own hearts, we are commanded so to do by God, and we dare not slight any injunction from the Lord.  
Answ. I know it is here you stick, you cannot get off it. O it is a command of God and you dare not omit it. To which I reply.  
First, That when God had an outward Tabernacle and Temple, Church, and Ministry, as under the Law, he was very exact with the people in the observation thereof, a Pin must not be left out, nor a Nail out of its place: but Look that thou make them after the pattern which was showed thee in the mount, Exod. 25.40. And this day shall you observe for ever in your generations, Exod. 12.14. And this the tenth day of the first month, vers. 3. And the seventh year should be a Sabbath to them, and the fiftieth year, a year of Jubilee, Levit. 25.4, 11. There must be no swerving from the observation of these.  
Secondly, When the Lord leaves this house, and will build another, Clothed with greater glory, he ties not his people to the outward observation of things: he is not now as formerly exact in them: Doth not command them to be baptised with water, but into the Spirit. Christ tells them, They shall be baptised with the holy Ghost and with fire; commands that they be baptised into the Name of Father, Son, and Spirit: viz: into the power and glory of these three, and yet one, into a clear knowledge and understanding of these: And for the Supper, doth not enjoin them to the strict and absolute observation of it, nor when; as under the law, such a day shall you observe the Passeover: but now, As oft as you do it, do it in remembrance of me, not telling them how oft they should do it. But how long must this eating bread and drinking wine last? during your continuance in the dark, until the Lord comes, and be a feast of fat things in the spirit and life to you, until he be revealed from Heaven, consuming this dross and earthly knowledge within you; and then shall you drink no more of this fruit of the Vine, but drink it new in the Kingdom. You used signs and tokens of his death, etc. had many letters representing him, but now he is come, what need these? he is come himself, even his sweet self; nay, further, as the Lord did not then bind his people to outwards, so were they used by the Apostles, as in them they might become all to all, stoop to them, and speak them in their own language, and as children to deal with them.  
3. Those Churches, with their glory, ministry, and all, were to die and whither away, apostatise and fall back, and this for time, times, and half a time, as the Scripture plentifully witnesseth, and the holy City under foot: and when Christ cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? And this should be until the Kingdoms of this world become the Lords & his Christ's, and God take to him his great reign, yea, till the Tabernacle of God shall be with men, and a new Heaven and Earth appear, and God make all things new: and this is the Church, and the Ministry, which, the Scripture tells you, shall be set up after the Apostatising days: Therefore, dear hearts, bind not yourselves, where God hath not bound you; be free in what the Lord hath made you free.  
2. A second Reason, why the judgement of the Lord shall from Heaven fall upon you, is, because you, by reason of your narrow thoughts and apprehensions, keep the Lord Jesus prisoner, will not permit him to go any where, or dwell in any, save yourselves: You are offended if the Lord break forth in a further manifestation of Glory to others, not of your rank and order; Lord, saith the Presbyter, here thou must abide, this is thy dwelling place, never remove from hence: And here, saith the Independent; And here, saith the Anabaptist, etc. Do you think that he that hath the key of David, that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth, will become your prisoner? No, no, his glory he will not give to another. The Lord, if he rend the vail of this fleshly Temple, and pass through it into the highest Heavens, you will serpentlike wait for this man-child brought forth by the woman, viz. weakness, that you may devour it; and therefore you cry out, Lo here is Christ, and lo there, and question people, saying, Are you a member of a visible Church, of what society? and so lessen that comfort and peace (or at least endeavour it) that poor souls have in God, by reason they are not joined to your societies: But in all their afflictions he is afflicted; the Lord in this weak brother, or sister, is afflicted, and beareth all he beareth: and thus you imprison and afflict the Lord himself.  
3. Because it is your shame to live upon a naked God, to have the Kingdom of God only within you; you are unwilling to leave outward bread and wine for God the bread and water of life: and he that is ashamed of God, of him shall God himself be ashamed. What say you? shall we by men be accounted no more praying, fasting men, hearing and preaching men? no more to weep and mourn, but all tears to be wiped from our eyes? to observe no Sabbath, but the Lord God, and to call him holy, a delight, honourable? not to think our own thoughts, nor speak our own words? O this is your shame, namely to leave the water in the cisterns, and that run in the channels, for that great river and fountain whose streams make glad the City of God: It is to you a greater shame to be at your father's house with the fatted calf, then in the Country to feed swine, and to eat their husks: therefore he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they shall all fail together.  
II. A second word, and that of advice and counsel.  
First, That you would assemble yourselves to the Supper of the great God: and this saith the Angel, the Messenger of God, that stands and abides in the glory of God, Rev. 19.17. And I saw an Angel standing in the Sun, and cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the Supper of the great God: The Lord invites you, the great and mighty God woos you by his Messenger, by another appearance of his: My advice is, That you would go, tarry not; and that you may understand the Supper what it is.  
1. The flesh and blood of the mighty men of the earth, the power and authority of the rulers of the world, which are bound in chains, Rev. 19.18. That ye may eat the flesh of Kings, and the flesh of Captains, etc. Ezek. 39.18, 19 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the Princes of the earth, of Rams, of Lambs, etc. And ye shall eat fat, until ye be full, and drink blood, until ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you: You shall fill and satisfy yourselves with the judgement of the Lord upon the great and high-looked men of the earth. You shall see the Day of the Lord upon all flesh, upon all might and power; you shall see all the pride of the earth stained and defaced, and this shall be your joy and rejoicing: And it shall then be said, Behold, the man, the woman, that gave not the glory to God; Behold, end see, every thing, that is not pure God, defaced, hath lost its life, its blood, runs to the Rocks and Mountains, there to hid themselves. O blessed Feast! O sweet Supper! nothing remaining but the Holy One; Iniquity hath here an end, and the terrible one is here brought low.  
2. This Feast is the flesh of the Whore, an eating of her, and a burning her with fire: You know in the burnt-offerings under the Law, the flesh, and the fat, and all, was to be burnt, and nothing to remain: so nothing is to remain in this burnt-offering, but the Lord: For by Whore, I understand to be any thing, or person whatever, that you love and delight in, and go to bed to, save the pure and individeble God; any of those Lovers that give us our bread and our water, our wool and our flax, our drink and our oy●, whatever it be, that refreshes us inwardly, or outwardly, save God: Do you joy and delight in Forms, in outward Dispensations and Administrations? Nay, do you delight in Christ as after the flesh? Do you feast yourselves with the fleshly presence of Christ? This shall be burnt up with fire: And do you eat it up, and let not aught remain? There is a Strumpet within you, your wisdom, which is your snare, your knowledge, reason, and will, which will cause you to fall. O let all be burnt up, yea, this will of yours, let it not remain until the morning, and it shall be a sweet swelling sacrifice unto the Lord; let your will be terminated in God, let your reason be the Lords reason, and your judgement, his; let this affect you, and the zeal of the Lords house even eat you up.  
Secondly, Let me advise, that you go and return to your first husband, you were first espoused to the Lord, well, have but one husband, stray not from this man of knowledge any longer, be not a stranger at home; though you have played the harlot, yet will your husband receive you. Seek the Lord, and David your King, and fear the Lord and his goodness now in these latter days, Hos. 3.5. This is the first thing you must do, when you are come out of bondage, and out of the Land of Egypt, when delivered out of the strange land, ask for the Lord, seek him out, never leave until you have found him, even him whom your soul loveth; You must seek the Lord God, and then Zion. If you know God perfectly, you will know men as they are; but this is the reason, men and Saints are so much deceived; because they first seek the Church, and then Lord, men, and then God. But were you fully and prefectly acquainted with God, you would know men and things distinctly; O you would easily learn to distinguish between the light of God, and the darkness of men, between the emptiness and vanity of men, and things, and fullness that is in God. God is that blessed key that opens the door to every creature, giving a perfect and distinct knowledge of them: creatures shall be no more than creatures to you. Did you know the Lord by these espousals of his, were this the marriage day to you, it would work out all strangeness that is in your souls to this God, Hos. 2.17. For I will take the names of Balaam out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their names. They shall no more call God, my Lord, but my husband, vers. 16. There is not such a discovery, such an intimate understanding of secrets between the master and servant, as between the husband and wife. The servant knows nothing, but as it relates to his duty and obedience, as it relates to the servitude he is under. Well, saith the Lord, I will free you of this bondage, you and I will not be strangers but familiar friends. It shall be no more I and you, but you and I one; we will have one table, one house, one heart, one mind, and by the effecting this work, I will do it.  
First, I will first bring you into the wilderness, I will have you alone, your lovers shall no more remain before me; you shall be where there is no path, no way, no Church, no Temple, no company: O, then saith God, you will be glad of company, than society with me will be your delight; will in that day step in, and show myself, and then shall you freely come in worshipping and serving of me.  
Secondly, The Lord will in this day reveal and discover himself in a full and glorious manner. Your veils shall then be rend, and your cover removed; then shall ye say, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, This is the invisible One, whom no man have seen, nor can see, whom flesh and blood hath not revealed: this consuming fire is he, this everlasting burning is our husband. O, then shall you loathe yourselves for all your abominations; you shall then cease crying up that fleshly knowledge, wisdom, understanding, teaching, and hearing, which you now so much strive after, that it shall be an abhorring to you. Isai. 66.23, 24. And it shall come to pass, that from one new Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord. And they shall go forth, and look upon carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh. You shall go forth out of this holy City, and you shall look for the Praying, Fasting, Preaching, and Reading men and women, for all the carnal worshippers, and you shall see nothing but the carcases of these men remaining, and they shall stink in your nostrils, and be an abhorring to you; For, Behold the Lord creates new heavens, and a new earth: and the former shall be remembered no more.   

THE POSTSCRIPT.  
Reader in the Flesh, and Disciple in the Spirit,  
I Was encouraged thus to write to the Army and Churches, because Michael, the great Prince, is standing up, and it is a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a Nation, and yet at this time a people are delivered, and they are found written in the Book: Would you know them, who they are? Look among the writings of the Spirit, and that book will discover them. This Book (that I have in weakness written) tells you of a time of war, desolations, and forsakings of hosts of men, of an Army of brave spirited-men, zealous, professing men, an Army, that hardly any Army can write after them, lifted up to Heaven, and yet brought down to Hell; Of Churches forsaken, and made a desolation, yet reformed Churches, Candlesticks that hold out more than their Fathers did: Yet you hear of a people standing upon the same earth and sea, clothed with the Sun, and the Moon under their feet, that are at rest, that are entered into Canaan, and passed through the river Jordan dryshod. I have written to you, because it is the time that men are running to and fro, and knowledge is increased, That you, the Nations, and kindreds of the earth, fleshly societies, may see the Son of man coming in the Clouds, and weep and wail because of him: That you, that seek great things for yourselves, glorious structures, and buildings of men, a City made by hands, may know, the Son of man, the Emmanuel, God with, and in us, hath not in all these, where to lay his head. As you hear in this a house fallen, because built up on the sands, of a City whose inhabitants are sick, weak, dying; men that are flesh, and not spirit: So, if the Spirit will permit me to write again, you shall hear of a house, that, like Mount Zion, shall never be removed, and that because it is founded on a Rock; a City, the inhabitant whereof shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity, they shall weep no more, God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days; the child shall die a hundred years old, the full age of a man, or more: They shall be all, from the least to the greatest, perfect in knowledge, come unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: But the Sinner, being an hundred years old, the old professor, the man that hath known Christ after the flesh for a whole age and more, that hath trotted up and down all his life after Eli, the old man, the man Adam, the flesh that is corrupt, shall be accursed, shall, like the barren tree, whither and be cut down.  
FINIS.