After she had breathed forth this Song with more enlargement then could be noted by the Relator; She proceeded in Prayer, which for the press of people crowding and darkning the Chamber, could not be taken; She continued that day in prayer and singing four or five hours together, and was then silent.

The next day, being the eleventh day of the moneth, the Relator came in and heard her in prayer, wherein she delivered many things: some whereof being of publique nature were taken: And are presented in the account following.

Must thy Servant that now is upon the Throne, must he now die and go out like a candel? Oh that thy servant could mourn day and night for him! Oh that he might be recovered out of that vain glorious Counsel, out of their Traps and Gins! Oh his soul is in bon­dage, he will not hear New Jerusalems Sermons if thou convince him not! Oh that he might be laid in thy bosome, that he might not re­fuse to come among thy people! Oh that he might hearken to a pray­ing people, rather then to a wicked Counsel, rather then to a Poli­tique crue about him! Father, that he might Lord God come out of those Fetters and Chains; And then do thou shew him his work, and his transgression wherein he hath exceeded, and open his eyes to re­ceive instruction; He is in Chains by reason of that outward-glory and pomp that is round about him: Oh he thinks he is taught by thee thus to go and to act! Oh, but blessed Lord, let thy handmaid intreat thee to perswade him; For thy perswasions are more then the per­swasions of all the great Doctors and Rabbies that are about him! Oh that they also might consider what they do, they have been Preach­ers of free Grace to thy people: Let them not now come forth with the voice of Haman, but with the voice of Mordecai; let them be faithful, and say unto him, thou art but a man that doth thus; let them not joyn with that that thou art breaking in pieces, Thou wilt not have thine to sit upon thrones now, till all thine shall sit together upon those twelve Thrones; Is it not better that he shall pry into the Laws of King Jesus, then of those that are about him? he little thinks that they would bring him into jeopardie; Let him not entertain any upon the account that they are grave, wise, judicious men; But let him look whether Godliness be in them: Oh, but he will say, they are Godly too! Oh, but let him look at actions, whether these actions do speak them Godly! Oh, this is a day of Jacobs trouble, thine looked for refreshment, and behold greater trouble, they looked for a birth, and behold it is yet in travel; Many of thy children are put to a stand, and know not what to do; though he doth repulse them, yet let them tell him of his sins, and tell him with humility, and with tears; not as those deluded spirits, that go running about the streets, and say, we have such Visions and Revelations, who come out with their great speeches of vengeance, and judgement, and plagues: Oh, but thine that come from thee, thou givest them Humility, Meekness, Bowels and Tears. Pluck out those of the Counsel that are thy Children, tell [Page 23]them that thou dost not love linsey wolsey garments, linnen and wol­len mixed together, neither in the thrones, nor in any building, or Temple, or Concernment of thine. It is true, Authorities and Powers are by the permission of the most high; He gave Commission to the Assyrian to be a rod to Israel, till he had accomplished his work upon Mount Sion; But here is the difference, that was an enemy, whom God would destroy with eternal fire, and perpetual burning; But these come forth as brethren, as thy children; and therefore thine do not know how to bear it from them: Oh, it is a grief to the heart that they should smite and grieve thy Saints; Besides, the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus is at hand, all the Monarchies of this world are going down the hill: Now is a time that thine should look off from these things, and lift up their head, for their Redemption draws near; Now thou requirest a greater going forth of the Spirit; What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation? we are not to be for our selves but for Christ; Now the treasury is open, and every one is to cast into it; now all is spread open, for all to come, to cast in something: Oh come forth thou great Builder in thy glory! Oh what sheddings of blood have there been in order to this work! Let there be days of Glory; Hear the voice of thine, yea, thou dost hear them, though thou wouldest have them to wait, they shall not be ashamed; they that tarry and rest upon thee, thou wilt come and lead them with thy sweet spices: Oh that the souldiery might now come forth out of their bravery, and say, shall there be some that shall come up to that glorious building, shall they reign in that day, and shall we that have gone forth for the Lord thus far come short thereof, and be laid aside! Oh help them to entreat thee that thou wouldst not spue them out of thy mouth as luke-warm ones, nor let them not be cast out of thy Temple; Now is a measuring time that thou art measuring thy own Temple, not the world, but thine own Saints, there is a little silence from Trumpets and Battels, and now is a time of silence: Oh but there is a time of the shooting of bullets, and they will come forth again! Oh that thy Temple might not fall to pieces, the stones that are joyned to the Corner stone, that they may not have the hammer come upon them; no, nor any Iron tool come into thy work.

Oh let him be willing to part with such things as may hinder the prosperity of his soul; make him out of love with the wine and feasts below, and bring him in love with thy liquors and flagons from hea­ven! Oh but their vains are so full of blood before, that they have no [Page 24]room, but do thou cast the overflowing blood, and then what can hinder thy work! Oh but can these dry bones live? give thy hand­maid leave to tell thee that thy children are like dead bones now in the Valley; But thine say Lord, thou canst make them live, thou canst bring nerves and bones, and knit them together again; Let thy servant never be silent till they be brought out of the Valley, out of the slimy pit! Oh do thou fill their pools, thou causest rain to come and fill the pools! Oh fill all places, all things with water from above, that thine may drink thereof; bring forth that water, that may make them Warriours for thee, and not any longer for themselves, and let them know that thy servant doth abundantly tender them! Oh let all that thy servant hath go for Sion; First, Second and last breath; Were it not for thine, thou wouldest send the Nations into this Nation; thou hast a people in this Nation, who have thy name upon them, therefore thou wilt not let out the boars, and the wild beasts against them, for they would spare none; Thou hast a few names that are cloathed in white, whom thou dost abundantly delight in, and they delight in thee; they commit their way unto thee, and thou wilt not destroy them, though they live in Sodom; thou hast many precious lights in this Nation, in this City, or it would be suddainly burnt with fire: Oh how beholding is this tumultuous City to thine inheritance!

THerefore Father teach him, let him know that he may reign as one of thine: Oh, is it not a sweet thing to be crowned by thee? and that is sweeter then to be crowned by man: Oh says Gideon! I will not be your King, the Lord shall reign over you: Oh, it is enough for him to be one of thy Kings! Oh let him now deny, and cast it down, and say; Without these Dignities, and great Titles, I will serve the People and Commonalty; and then wilt thou say to him, thou art my Gideon; Let him consider that thine shall rule over all Nations; and let him say, why may not this be the time that it does draw near? Let not him say as they said of old, who put the day far from them, that the Vision was for many days; for a time yet afar off; But let them accept of the day and time that thou hast put into their hand; The Lord is building his Temple, it is no time now for them to build Tabernacles; Now thou art upon thy Temple-work, shall they be building great Palaces for themselves? The Souldiers slight thy hand­maid, but she matters not, they shall and must consider in time; they say these are Convulsion-fits, and Sickness, and diseases that make thy handmaid to be in weakness; But oh they know not the pouring forth of thy Spirit, for that makes the body to crumble, and weakens nature; In these extraordinary workings thou intendest to shew what is coming forth hereafter; something is a coming forth, there is so Lord; and oh how does thy handmaid bless thee!

These were uttered and sung the twelfth day of this eleventh month.

Upon the thirteenth day she uttered many precious things in Prayer and Songs, which the Relator could not for the press of people write down.

Here followes some short account of some things she uttered the 14th. day, as the Relator could take them in some scattered expressions.

LEt thy Servant beg high springs for Saints; come in with full springs in such a time as this, when that the waters are brought so high, that thy poor children are ready to be overwhelmed by them, in their snares and entanglements; they say these waters are very clear and sweet that come from men, but at length they make the Soule very muddy; Why is thy Handmaid so long with thee upon the Mount, seeing thy sparkling glory, and those reviving springs, but that thy Handmaid may plead with thee concerning thy Saints, thine Inheritance, and that her heart may take in the things concerning thy Saints. There is now a great deale of provision for a poore man, and yet hee will wi­ther and come to nothing; certainly folly will be writ upon his labour, Thou wilt not commend it as a peece of wisdome, Thou wilt not give it a badge of honour, Thou wilt rather put a blot upon it, Thou [Page 36]wilt never write faire concerning it; Thou art coming to write faire concerning the Palace of the Lord Jesus, and the Glory of that Kingdome; oh, but they have a veil over their eyes that they can­not see it; Oh, but saies God I have a Jacob, a dew, a Lyon, and they shall know it: I have but a few names among you, in whom my Name is found, though I have a great many soules; Thou wilt find. Lord, but a few that have kept themselves undefiled from the world, that are pure Religious ones; there are may fleshly, nationall, formall religious ones, but the poore, fatherlesse and widow are the companions of the pure religious ones. They think it scorne if one should tell them they are not Religious, they will say you are censori­rious, Oh, but thou wilt tell them, that they doe not doe that which is pure Religion, that is so before God; who is such a burning and shining light as John was, who gives forth such a Testimony of Jesus as John did? Is it not said, that they who faint in adversity, it is an ar­gument that their strength is small? When they are in prosperity then they can speake large and high things of Jesus Christ, but then to hold out in time of temptation, that hath a good report with God; God saith, I will judge righteous Judgement, I will not judge what you doe, when you meet, and speake and pray together, but I will follow you into your secret places, your Houses, your Callings, your Offi­ces, &c. those that breath after thee Lord, they are searching after their secret sins, for thou commest into the heart; they cannot prosper that co­ver their secret sins; there is such a covering of secret sins, that prosperity flyes from us, and takes wings and flies away.—

It is not a time now to raise States, and Names, and great things, for thou art now pulling downe, they will set up their Beacons upon their owne hills, when thou sayest thou wilt have thy Beacon upon thine own hill, and thy Standard set up there; oh how do men set up their posts by thy posts?—

When thou dost make Bars and iron gates they will endeavor to break them open, and beat them down, that the enemie may come in among us; they think if they have armied men about them, it is well with them; O, but to have thy armed men which are Chariots of fire about them that were safe indeed: When thou commest with thy hand, what are all these before thee? they are crushed on a sudden. Take away Lord all that sowre leaven that is upon the earth, it savors all the meal, that it has a brackish taste; though many of thy children in their affections and judgements may bee sowred by this leaven, yet thou hast some [Page 37]into whom this sowre leaven cannot enter: Take it out of thy Chil­dren that are in the midst of the earth, and keep thy lump that it may not be infected; many are infected, their language is infected, it was sweet before, but now it is confused, it had an harmony, but now it hath no rellish.—

Thou hast declared the comming of the Lord Jesus, that he shall come suddenly, so the transactings of things here below do come sudden­ly, and poore man, how is he confounded, he is in a smoother in his own judgement, he is in the smoak, and cannot find the door! Let not thy Children be blinded and blood-shed, oh take them out, and let them take heed that they do not return into such smoaky houses againe; oh, let thine blesse thy Name, that thou hast proved a cleare flame for their eyes, a burning flame, that shall burn up all smoaking things, as crack­ling thorns under their feet

Oh, that thy Children should drink up inflaming Wine, not like thy inflaming wine, for that's a beautifull inflaming, but an inflaming to rednesse and burning.—

Thine that thou keepest from such things, they shall walk with thee, thou wilt make them partakers of glorious Priviledges, thou wilt bring them into thy Territories above, into thy sweet Walks, how wilt thou hang them about with Hony-Suckles? not like the hony that is of the earth, that is clogging, but pure hony that is reviving; thy Ezekiels that behold thee by the River Chebar, Oh what sights, what glories, what rivers, what springs do they enjoy! and yet thy chil­dren are affraid to suffer; Oh what a spirit of slavish feare hath seized upon thy own children! though thou hast said the Lord will be with you in the fires and in the waters, yet what pale faces are there amongst thine, oh, is this to professe Jesus!—

Thou wilt make the whole earth to be thy children, and wilt make them to be the honourable ones, and yet they will not know, nor confider it; Oh this is a time not for man to reign, but for the Lord Jesus, and this voyce sounds out here and there by a Son or a Daughter; Oh, but when shall all the Sons, and all the Children cry for King Je­sus? the Reason is, Because of the infirmities of the flesh, and be­cause thine are of a stammering speech, and of stuttering tongue, but thou hast premised that the time shall come that there shall not be a people of a deeper speech then thy people, and they shall not be of a stammering tongue. Come O all you Disputants, Monarchs, Scribes [Page 38]and Rabbies of the world, come forth now, and let us see what Ar­guments you can bring forth against the Spirit, the pourings forth of it, the rising of the Sun of Righteousnesse upon the world, against the influ­ences of the heavenly Orion; oh, you shall be the men that shall be of a stammering lip and of a stuttering tongue.—

Oh what a doubting is there now among thine, what disputing, what reasoning what they shall doe, whether they shall cry up a Man or King Jesus! let them take the engagements of Man, and lay them under their feet, and take the engagement of Jesus, and lay that to their heart; Let thy servants now be of a publique spirit, let them now flie high above the Skies, not into vaine conceits, vaine speculations, and high notions; oh but thou callest to an exalting high through Jesus unto thee; they that have kept to a crucified Jesus, they are thine: Oh, here are good words, great allegories, and high expressions, oh, but they that honour thy Sonne, thou wilt honour them; they that honour the Son honor the Father; Oh, they that say they will honour the Father alone, and live in the Father alone, and lay aside the Son, they are deceived, thou wilt have them keep within thy bounds, and not to stretch the Point beyond the Compasse. Oh, let thine take a thorow view, and not rashly take up any thing: Thou wilt have thine try the gold as well as the drosse; thou wilt not have thine take up any thing, while they know not the life of it.

Oh, But who is he or she that admires the Lord Jesus through all, in all, and above all; He is all in nothing-Creatures, the Creature is nothing, but thou hast said, thou dost great things through nothing: Oh, that thine were taken with Truth for Truths sake, that they would seek into the bottome, and goe into the golden Mine, and not onely gather up the shavings thereof, let them not take up the sparks but the fire it selfe.

That a poor Creature should subsist without sustenance, what a ga­zing is there at this poor thing, while you forget the glory that is in it, go into the Marrow, what matters it for the bone, let them have the Spirits, it is no matter for any thing else,—

Oh that thy poor servant should thus long converse with thee, and so long sit at thy fire, and feele the warmth thereof, and so beare te­stimony against all false fires, and all things that are against King Je­sus.

Having uttered forth this Song (as she did all the rest) with melodi­ous voice, she proceeded to prayer without any intermission, somethings wherein were, as followes.

It is not now as it was in times past, that a Kingly Progeny should reigne, for that was but for a time, and then after they should be judg­ed, destroyed, and taken off, and be no more, and then should the Kingdome of the Lord Jesus come forth, and all the Kingdomes of man throwne downe before it; And how has thy Servant disputed, declared, remonstrated and appeared in the field against Antichrist, and how is his language now confounded? it was the language of Canaan, but now it is the language of Ashdod.—

Oh thy Servant (speaking of her selfe) must now come forth a­gainst [Page 42]the great Rabbies of the world: Oh, thou knowest that thy Ser­vant hath often wrastled with thee that thou wouldst employ some other, but thou hast over-ruled her, and hast put her to silence? and shall I not be willing to do or suffer thy Will?

And thou givest strength unto her, and bearest up the Spirit of thy servant to go thorow with the Work, thy servant is not an enemy to these men, thou knowest, but a friend; Oh, it is for thy sake, and for thy servants sakes, that thy Servant is made a voyce, a sound, it is a voyce within a voyce, anothers voyce, even thy voyce through her; Thy Servant knew that she was beloved of thee, and that she lay in thy bosome from a child, and there she might have lived without the con­demnings or reproaches of men, or of this Generation; but since Fa­ther thou wilt have it so, thy Will be done. If the body suffer never so much, if it be for thy Selfe, thy Saints, thy Kingdome, it is better for her then to be in her own Habitation, and in pleasant Gardens; and when thy Servant has done thy work, she shall be willing to lock up her selfe in her Closet againe, and not to be seen of men; Oh Lord, thy servant knows there is no selfe in this thing.

Having further in prayer made mention of the University-learning and the National Clergy (as they are called) she proceeded unto singing, seven or eight of the first verses of the Song could not bee taken by the Relator, it being Evening, and no light in the Chamber: The rest were as follows.

She proceeded againe unto Prayer, and among many other, expressed these following passages.

They that are thy true Seers shal stand, when they that are false Seers shal fall, and wither, and dye; the true Seers they shal goe on and prosper, thou wilt provide for them sufficient mainte­nance; Oh, let not men thinke that thine doe cry downe the Mi­nistry of them that are full of the Ministerial Office, and of thy Spirit, and doe speake from thee; but there are that are called Ministers, that doe deny Jesus Christ his coming to set up his Kingdome, O thine would have them throwne downe before thee, the Lord wil not let there be a famishing of the Word in the Land, and he wil take care of them; let there not be a cry a­mong [Page 44]them, that if maintenance goe downe, the Ministery wil downe; let them know that thy servants are not enemies to them that are truly taught of thy Spirit; let them looke into the Scrip­ture, and there see what is the true Ministry, and what is their pay; let them see what those were who were thy true Ministers, were they such as did pamper their bellies, and their backs? were not thine willing to feed upon any thing, to goe in Skins, to bee any thing for the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Has not their fulnesse brought blindnesse upon them? Oh, where has been that mar­row and fatnesse flowing forth from them? Oh, let there be more of that, thou wilt delight in such as delight in thee, they that delight to serve Tables more then thee, and thy flocke, thou wilt not serve them, what ever judgement or opinion they are of.—Is not the Narrative come from Heaven con­cerning what thou art a doing? Oh, let all thine know it in time; they that are such as are true Students, doe thou fill them more and more, let them come forth as Trumpeters with a ful sound, for if they give forth an imperfect sound, how shal the Horse pre­pare to the Battel? let them not goe forth with the sound of their owne mindes, and their owne carnal studies, but with the sound of thy Spirit, and that is a right sound, and such wil follow thee with Timbrels, and with Musick; O let such rejoyce evermore, and let them pray continually; oh, they love alwayes to be pray­ing, they can never be weary; not that Prayer that is called a Gift, or an Habit, but it is a spirit, it is the out-goings of thy Spirit, it is an Harmony that they that have only a Gift cannot understand, and it is but like a beating of brasse; true Prayer is an excellent talking to the most High, it kindles up the affections, and sokes into the judgement; for thy people are accounted by the world a people of much affections, but of little judgement; but by this thou dost try thy People, for they that have little affecti­ons doe soone change their note; but they that have sound judge­ments, soaking judgements, and then the affections right set, they Center then in thee alone, every way the Soule is raised that is indeed wrapt up in thee; there are raptures in the Tongue, and in the Braine, but the raptures of the Heart no flouds can drowne, no fire can quench; the Tongue, and the Fancy, and the Natural life may be taken away, but the Spiritual sense that returnes into the Sun; oh what is the Carcasse, the Vessel? they are [Page 45]nothing, but when these are gone, then where am I but there where I am made perfect in thy selfe; thou wilt bring thine into the Grave before thou raisest them up to live; til thou com­mest and puttest a sentence of death upon all things here below, they wil not look upon that which is glorious.

Here she passed off from Prayer to Singing, some, or most of the Song was taken, and was as followes.

The foure last words of the last Verse are added by the Rela­tor, who could not take the Maids owne words, her voyce as it were dying, and sinking into her breast, with which the closed for that time.

The fifteenth day being the first day of the Weeke, she began with Prayer, the principall things whereof are noted in the fol­lowing account, in the Language they were delivered by her, though much more largely then the Relator did, or could take them from her.

He that is entred into rest, hath ceased from his owne workes, as God did from his. Where Lord dost thou take up thy rest? O Lord, doest thou take up thy rest in man? thou art the Center of rest, yet the out-goings of thy rest were upon man; man must have thy Breath breathed into him, other Created pieces must have thy Name, but he must have thy Breath; O how great is his Fall, and thou hast showne kindnesse to him, yet he doth not consider, he doth not take notice what he fell from, and what thou hast restored to him; Oh, thy Servant loves to travel with [Page 46]thee in these created Pieces, to see thee the Alpha and Omega, the great beginning, and the end; O what sights of the world, what fashioning of curious Wits can compare with that infinite Wis­dome! O that thy Breath should be life to Man, that thou shoul­dest come and breath upon him, that thou shouldest give forth substance about a poor shadow, and take counsel about a poor shadow. Oh Father, what disputes there are about the Souls mor­tality and immortality? Oh, it is because they do not thorowly search into things, they do see no more then the breath: Oh, who can set it out, who can give a definition of mans soul, which is the breath of God? Thou Lord alone knowest what it is! Thine that have conversed with thee in it, do see it is a most ex­cellent out-going of God into a poor carkass: It is a most excel­lent breath of God into a poor creature: Mans life as confidered as the breath of God, and the work of the Counsel of God, Oh how watchful should they be over their breath, that they do not breathe against their Eternal Breath, against the Work and Lan­guage of God. When thou hadst made Man, then thou saidst thou hadst finished thy work, and wouldst take thy rest: Who was this Rest? why Jesus was this Rest from the beginning; he was the prepared Rest from the Creation: Thou broughtest forth a Se­venth-day, wherein thou saidst thou restedst, and a work where­in thou restedst, and all to shew that Jesus Christ is the true Rest; who is the true Sabbath-day, the prepared Rest, the Eternal Rest; Oh, that there might be no more wallowing in Satans fires and quagmires! Oh they do miss of their Rest; they do not enter in­to their true Sabbath; they do not see their first-day: Let them see Jesus Christ to be the true Rest, the true first-day: Thou first appeared as the first day to poor contemptible Creatures, to poor Women. Oh Mary, I am thy Rest, and she answered, Rabboni. When thou appearst to be Rest, then how do they take thee into their bo­som, then they see no Peace under the Sun but in thee? if he be gone, Rest is gone, Sabbath is gone, Peace is gone; that bright day of the Resurrection which is brighter then the rising of the Sun, does not then appear: When a poor soul knows not what to do, temptation weighs them down, corruption sinks them; they know not what way to turn from Bryars and Thorns. Oh, then, thou appears and gives Rest, and makes them go forth with joy- and leads them forth with peace, and then thou makes all me­lody [Page 47]before them. Tempted souls can tel what it is to enjoy their Maker, they can say he is their onely Rest. Oh, who would not make thee their Rest?

Thou singledst out a Day, because thou knewest mans cruelty, and covetousnesse, that he would not give rest to Man or Beast; but whatis a day, if thou in a day wert not the Rest? The time will come that the whole Creation shal have a Rest and Redemp­tion which shall abide not for a day, but shall continue.

Lord it is a Fasting day, indeed when thou art a Rest, when thou commest out with a sparkling rest; if thou hadst given a rest in thy Ordinary way, that had been very sweet, oh but a rest in the Mount with thy selfe, a transfiguring Rest among Angels with the brightest sun, oh can there be eclipses upon this Sun, the Sun of Righteousnesse? who is the same, and there is no alteration, no cloud can cover it.

Who can mix Water and Oyle together? will not the Oyle be always above? so thou dear Jesus wilt stil be above upon the top; if trouble come, thou sayest begone; Surely Lord, I will make men­tion of thy Rest for ever; thy Rest hath so many Companions with it, Peace, and Quietnesse, and Regulation throughout the whole Man, all is put to silence before it.

Thy Servant wondered at those words, the Lord is risen, let all the earth keep silence; What art thou a coming forth? art thou putting a stop to all the Nations of the earth, their designs and projects, all enemies both by Sea and Land?

But I will put to silence (saith the Lord) all enemies within; O arise against all inward Enemies, and let them be put to silence; Let there be no more the voice of the Earth heard in thine; thou hast put the earth in thy poor Servant to silence, thou hast made thy Heavens to come down into her Earth.—

Whom the Son makes free, they are free indeed; Oh freedome indeed, other freedom what is it? a poor freedom; but this free­dom within is through the resurrection of thee rising in the soul; there is such an harmonious company, there is such an abundance of thine, when thou putest the earth to silence: Oh put the earth to silence, that so they may come to the glorious stature of the Lord Jesus, which none can fathom nor reach the depth thereof:—

Oh that poor creatures might not heare of a Jehovah of Righte­ousnesse, but that they might also receive thee; thou sentest down [Page 48]a Ladder to the earth, the humane nature of Christ, to gather up our Nature to the Divine: Oh how did that humane Nature ap­pear at the bottom of the Ladder upon the earth? oh what steps did he tread, what steps in the Divine Nature to gather up Humane Nature into it? thy poor shall lead up to the top, you are kept by the mighty power of God unto salvation.

Oh it is good to walk up that Ladder, where there is such pre­cious Aire, and such sparkling Stars, where there is not only seven daies light, but seven thousand such as none can number; Oh how can any get near unto thee, if they will throw away the Lad­der? poor hearts, they marvellously mistake, you cannot come to the Father but by the Son, you must take both together, therefore this Rest came forth, that so there might bee a com­pleatnesse, that there might bee nothing wanting; every way what a perfect rest is the Lord Jesus? Oh dear Christ, dear Christ, can any that have taken thee in, hear thee vilified? couldst not thou keep silence concerning them, and can they indure to hear thee contemned, to hear thee to be called onely a Form, and to cal themselves a Christ? How can they chuse but say wee will have a Scripture Christ? O dear Rest, the declaration of thee is marvel­lous sweet, the Declaration tels of thee that thou art the true rest in the power thereof.

Here closing her song, she proceeded without any pause to prayer, therein uttering here and there as the Relatour could take them, the things following. The poore carcasse shall moulder be­fore thy being, through a fight of thy bosom thine are dazled; in thy nest they see none of their own feathers, but a new nest of thy own making: the very victualls dye before thee, that eternall life that is sweeter than naturall life, than all strength, all naturall parts, what are these to it? Father, when thou withdrawest thy glory from thy handmaid, thou shalt leave so much heat as shall refresh the body, and her health shall return again from thee to her, thou wilt give her strength to persevere to the end. Oh when shall men speak forth from the demonstration of thy Spirit? [Page 50]when shall they go forth in thy garments, not their garments, not with their Surplices and Tippets; Oh no, they say, these they have abhorred and put off, Oh but they speak their University language, their head-piece language, their own sense: Oh but where is the voice of the new Covenant-teaching, are not they hid and concealed: the Beast hath got in his foot, and hath mud­ded the waters; men are mudded, they speak a little of the new Covenant, a little of thee, and a great deal of themselves; but thine have hope in thee, they have confidence that way shall be made that shall be brought to light, which is thine indeed, men shall not alwayes be content with the outward relation of the word, without the whisperings of thy spirit. Oh saith Christ, when I come forth with my power, and spirit, and Majesty, then there shall be more converted: now they think they have done a great matter, if they have spoken twice a day, Oh but have they had spirituall appetites? is there quicknesse in them? is the Lord Jesus more drawn and set forth by them: let them wait that the Lord will come forth more than he did upon the Primitive Saints, that there were longing and panting after thy coming.

Here she closed for that day; upon the 16 day the Relatour came in and found her in prayer, wherein she uttered among o­ther things, these which follow, the chamber being, as at other times, full of hearers.

If he were not (speaking of the Lord Cromwell) backsliden, he would be ashamed of his great pomp and revenue, whiles the poore are ready to starve, and art thou providing great Palaces? Oh this was not Gideon of old, oh why dost thou come to rear up the pillars, the stones which are laid aside? tell him, Lord, thou art come down to have a controversie with him; Oh sin will lay thee flat to the earth; Oh sin will bring down a dark smoke into thy judgement, oh sin will hinder that judgement thou intendest to bring forth in the earth oh Gideon, is it thy Statesmen shall carry on the work of the Lord, when they are together in brain­work. What is an head-piece to an heart-piece? O dost, thou think to joyn hand in hand with head-pieces? Oh thou thinkest, (because I cry out for heart-pieces for thee) thou thinkest hardly & jealous­ly of me, Oh but thou art deceived, I am for the Lord Jesus alone, it is neither advantage nor disadvantage to me who is set up, or who is thrown down here below, for thy servant O Lord, is for that pure interest of Jesus. Who would care a rush or a straw, for [Page 51]the interest of man? What are they that are of his chief Coun­cell? they are the chief men in the places of Judicature, but saith the Lord, I have said, that the Righteous, who are choice, who are dead to all outward things, they shall be my Judges: but they will say, oh but they are godly too, but saith the Lord, they are such godly as I will none of, for they are ready to joyn with any corrupt party that comes forth, they will own any thing, and say unto any, you are my King, so they may have their fat and Fleeces, and all bow down to them. Oh but know, the Lord is the great Redeemer in Israell, and he is risen now, and will break all yokes as fast as they can put them on.

Because the Pastors of Churches some of them do own thee; will the Lord therefore own thee. Oh no, the Lord will own such only, who are true in heart, and in his sight; some of these have made as great an Alarum as others, and have appeared as much as others; but now if they must suffer a little, they will flie, oh, this is a base frame of spirit, sayes Christ, where is a spirit for me; thou art going up and down the earth to seek where is a spirit for thee that will cast down the Jezabels, there are but a few such, but they are beautifull ones; Oh, thy servant hardly knows a volunteere that will go forth, though they be slashed in the first going on; but thou knowest where such are, oh fetch them out of their Cottages and holes where they lie in obscurity; they have kept their gar­ments clean.—Israel would have a King, if you will have a King, saies God, you shall have him in my wrath; so it is now, people are of such a mad frame of spirit, when the Lord sayes, do not do thus, they say, they will do so, like old Israel, who were murmuring upon every occasion: because thou hast declared con­cerning the coming of the Lord Jesus, and wilst give them Judges as at the first, therefore because thou doest not give them presently, therefore they will not stay, but will have their own first: when the Resurrection did appeare, presently the very Disciples were doubting and begun to scruple; so it is now, thine have hardly faith to believe the second coming of the Lord Jesus: Oh say they, we thought it had been by this time, but now we see it is not yet, but for a longer time.—Lord, let it be sounded in their ears, and let them mark it, there will be as great superfluity, as great lust and filthinesse, as great wickednesse and enmity, yea and greater than were before, oh they are all for themselves and Sathan, does not he appear in their Feasts, in their garments, in their locks, yea, O [Page 52] Gideon, when in thy own family there shall be that shall go naked and wanton; Oh this is found in thy family! David had not such in his family as thou hast, so many of these: and must thou rule a whole Nation, and canst not rule thy own family: Oh, thou sayest, I cannot rule them! canst thou not, sayes God? but I will make thee know what I did, to Eli of old, because of his sons.—How can any go and cry out for King Josus, if they have him not in their own bosome? Oh, he is a sealed one; and they that are sealed ones can go forth for him! Oh Gideon, art thou one of those sealed ones? Then how beautifull would thy walks be? O, but he hath taken away thy glory here from among thy people? Oh Lord, help him to search into his own family; let him consider to have such evil doings, & actings in his own house, and shall he be afraid to reprove in his own family? Oh then, where is his courage? will he blinde his eyes, and bawlk as to them? then he will blinde his eyes as to other things; if the Lord Christ doe not raign in his soule, he cannot raigne for Christ; therefore you doubting Chri­stians, have a care that you have courage given into your hearts from the Lord, and that the Throne of Christ be set up there, before you go out to plead against the Throne of Antichrist, and the Devill and wickednesse.—I hou wilt not have thy son so despised, therefore come you mockers, your bands shall be made strong, you that mock at the goings forth of the spirit of the Lord, at the wisdome that comes forth through fools; I tell you O ye mockers, your bands shall be made strong, the bands of filthinesse, flesh and carnality made strong upon you. Oh is it not better to have the bands of man, than to have the Lord put bands upon you? Can you break the bands of the Lord from off you? O you that have given your strength to the Delilahs of the earth; every thing shall overcome you, every threed shall bind you, every thing shall close your mouths, you shall be as weak as water, but they that have kept their garments clean, they shall have strength and might, and they shall stand up for the Lord, and shall have liberty, Oh but you will say, you were free men, and we were in bondage, oh but if so, where are then the works of zeal? of love and courage? the works of Abraham? Abraham was for five righteous ones: oh he breathed after such as had deeds not words of righteousnesse, oh to be wrapt up in that glorious Royalty, to have that compleat garment, oh the effects of that are precious, quietnesse and assurance for ever.—Come, acquaint your selves with Jehovah. You great Professours and [Page 53]Army-men, have you not acquaintance with God? then all you have is nothing: oh do Justice, and do it for Justice sake, and thou Gideon, that hast assumed the highest place to thy self, thou art not onely to do Justice thy self, but thou art to see Justice done in all places, Committees and Judicatures abroad, that they may not feed upon the poore; thou art not to wallow in pleasures at home, but thou art to be labouring for the Lord; are these like to be thy Judges that take any into office whomso­ever; thou art to go forth, thou counsel (as thou art called) go and see that the flock of Christ have Justice done them, oh look to the whole Israel, to the earth, to the whole earth, for the earth is theirs, and so manifest that you love Justice and Mercy, as you would seem to do; oh remember Absalom, who was of a very fair carriage, and of good words, take him to thee, for thou shalt not have David, Absalom he was of a lovely nature, that he might steal away the people from his father David, oh do not thou bring in that rubbish now, that thou hast cast out before; they have cryed down the King, the Court and such things, and how are your tongues now tipt with their language, if your hearts had not now turned you aside? Oh Gideon, in Scotland thou didst read what great things were going forth against Jacob, and thou wast afraid, that thou wast that Jacob, but in the latter end thou didst take in, that Jacob was to overcome, to be a Conquerour; why? the Lord sayes, if thou be the true Jacob, thou wilt do then as he did, act, and glorifie, and sanctifie the Lord; he was not for great revenues, great increase, though the Lord gave him great increase; if the Lord gave in to your increase it were well, oh but you take it in from the poore, and from Gods Israel, oh that you would take up Jacobs practice, as well as you are willing to take in his comforts when you were in the fields.

Having added many other things, she uttered forth a large song, some part and parcells whereof, the Relatour, as he could understand her words, did take, and they are as follow.

Much more she uttered in her song, which the Relatour could not take, the presse and noise of people in the Chamber swallow­ing the voice of her words, that they could not be distinctly un­derstood: After which she proceeded to prayer, wherein were de­livered, besides, many other, the passages following,

O poore Souldiers, take heed that you never draw your sword against the Saints; do not smite with your tongue, as they did a­gainst Jeremiah! oh poore souldiers, why do you appear against those, you have had their breath, their tears, their prayers! do you think they are against you, when they would take you out of your quagmires, when they tell you, you are upon slippery places; they would not rest night nor day for you; and will you now mock them, who are for the designe for the Lord Jesus? Will you now speak that against them, which you would have bit your tongue in the field, rather then to have spoken? Do not the hearts of those pitty you, that you think are against you? If you draw spears a­gainst them, they will draw nothing but Faith and Christ against you, and can you then stand? Oh no, you will fall backward. When they came to seek Jesus and take him, they could not look upon him, but fell backward: Jesus Christ set his face like a flint a­gainst his enemies for you, that he might take you up and crown you, that so you might stand for him: Oh, the Lyon of the tribe of Judah calls upon you, will you not heare the voice of the Lyon? do men affright you to make you stoop and bow to them, oh here is the voice of the Lyon of the tribe of Judah, he will lend you pri­viledges, your golden cups and brave things you have in the earth; Oh Lord Jesus come quickly. Do thou tell them what a Lyon thou art; Oh, Lord thou wilt not honour them with the great things thou hast for thine that shall raign with thee. Oh that they would repent, that they would look with pale faces upon him.— Thy servant will leave a Testimony within these wals, this Palace against them, for that they have jeered against the kingdome and raign of Jesus Christ.

Oh you Serjeants! then your hearts shall tremble to put forth your hand against one of the Prophetss, or people of the Lord; must you Serjeants, that have prophesied and prayed with the peo­ple of the Lord, now put forth your hand against them? come Lord Jesus and fill them with trembling, and let them rather feed upon crusts, than to hold their places under these men: Know [Page 57]that the glorious time is coming, when that blessed Tribe of Ju­dah shall come in, what will become then of the swift motions of your feet, where you have run for them that build calves in Bethel. Oh when the Glory of that thy People shall appeare, what Lan­guage shall then come up; Oh! you will say, if that were coming it were well, but will you make no preparation for it? If you will not stand up for the deliverance of the People, deliverance shall come, though we know not from whence: If thou art afraid to goe into the Kings Palace; thou shalt be ashamed when that day cometh: The Lord is bringing about a glorious Freedome, let them know that the time is drawing on, that your staffe of beauty and bonds that have been broken, the Lord will bring them toge­ther againe, and they shall be stronger than they were before— Lord, thou wilt suddenly come to thy Temple, the foolish Virgins shall then cry, but saies the Lord, I have an open gate onely for mine that have oyle in their Lampes. You great Professors, you who are but lamp ones, you shall not enter in, when he comes; he will not come as a torn, battered, crusht Jesus, but as a lovely king, as one full of favour; though many say, Io, here is Christ and there, but these are deceivers? but oh the children shall by thy spirit know the countenance of the true Christ, his true breath; his looks from all painted looks that are upon the earth. Jesus Christ will not come flashily, but with such a light as shall endure, such a light as you shall see that all other lights are counterfeit to him; though never so many languages utter their voices; but when thou com­mest, thy language shall be discerned: Many are come forth into the world, but thou sayest try the spirits, my Saints; it is not they can try the spirits that have read many volumnes: University men have great knowledge, but they cannot try the spirit; can those that have the form without the power, that have great ar­guments? No, they onely can try the spirits that are children in­deed; the other by virtue of their literall knowledge, their own understanding, their own apprehensions, their own light, oh such are taken with flesh, and say, this is Christ, and that is Christ: but thy people will not onely try Ranters, for they are known in the face of the Sun, but they will try whether men be for a crucified Christ that suffered upon the Crosse, or a Christ within? thine in­deed are for Christ within them, and they doe love Christ as he suf­fered [Page 58]at Ierusalem, and manifest within them; Oh, but thine are too apt to run away from the simplicity of the Gospel! though things be high, yet if they have not a footing in a crucified Christ, in God manifest in the flesh, then let not thine embrace them.

Having with these uttered many other things, she sung of the glory of the new Ierusalem, which escaped the Relators pen, by rea­son of the lownesse of her voice, and the noise of the people; onely some pieces were taken here and there, but too broken and imper­fect here to relate: After her song, she proceeded again to prayer, wherein she uttered the words following:

It is now much, that great Ones do not tremble, that they have such greedy mindes after things here below, if they did take things into their understanding, least they should not be entertained at thy Table: How do they think, that are in high places, to manage their proceedings aright, if they have not the presence of God with them, if they have Prayer and Faith against them? O, saies Ioshua, I will rather have all the Armies of the world against me, than want the presence of God! oh, if they were jealous, that they had many enemies within, then they would doe as Ioshua did, they would set themselves to seek the Lord, they would say, come soul­diers, let us seek the Lord: thou hast now put them to the trial, now let them examine whether their former prayers, promises and de­clarations came from a legal and slavish or a Gospel-fear, a fear that they should be smitten down to the earth, or a filial fear, a feare that the name of the Lord would fall upon the ground! O, what will become of thy great Name? had you had the name of God in your eyes, then you would have it still; if the true fear of God wrought in you such effects before, why does it not so now? why are you now so little for the name of the Lord, and so much for your own name? If you had acknowledged my supremacy then in truth, you would acknowledge it now? O, the Lord cannot en­dure hypocrites! Rational men themselves abhorre that which is flattery and dissembling, and what is not from an ingenious frame of spirit, and will not God much more? Now that you come to have fine houses, warm beds, sweet meats, doe you now pay your Vowes unto the Lord? Oh, let them not side with the croo­kednesse of this Generation; let them draw nigh to meet their [Page 59]God; Oh, come, come, when you were trembling Ones, praying Ones; then Israel exalted you, and delighted in you, and went to God for your sakes: and now you have offended in Baal, you are dead, your spirits are dead; will you not be told of it? You shall be told of it— Come, O you, that are in any Authority, in any Office, study what you are to doe for the Lord? wherein you might redeem the time? wherein you might serve the Lord? though you have given up your members to serve sin and vanitie; let the day suffice that you have recreated, sported, filled, feasted your selves: Now say, Lord, we will be for thee, and he will re­ceive you: If they now set to Temple-work, thou wilt say to them, thou though test to have taken them away in the Wildernesse; because they have done thus, and have gone back in the wilder­nesse; Yet the Lord will say to them, as to David, I accept of it at thy hand, of the thoughts of thy heart, yet thou shalt not build my house: Pray for your children, that they may not be taken with crowns, nor with the summers increase, as their Fathers have been; O let them not die without a repenting frame of spirit: Oh thou lo­vest them that confesse their sinnes; true confession of sin will go with an endeavour against it: Or as David said, I have made the hearts of the righteous sad, and to mourn, and grieve; Oh, that they might say so; Lord I have been a back-slider, but I will yet return: Let them not har­den themselves, and become accusers against thine; let them not think much to be accounted Revolters, when you are so, you shall be called Revolters when you are so, when you act like De­mas, doe you think you shall go untold of it; the Lord will make you to know it by a witnesse within you: Doe thou recall them, they have been a pleasant voice to thy people, but now they have a confused language, and chill and cold spirits, thou wilt make them to know it, Lord; If they sin openly, then reprove them o­penly: Let not thy people feare to reprove them to their face; Let them do that which is just, Father; Shall they run into fiery Temptations, and shall we not tell them? They cast out thy peo­ple, but thy people will not cast them out; thy people pray that they might see thy kingdome, and partake of the breath of his nostrils, and of the brightnesse of his comming: Is it not pure Gospel for thine to tell them, that they are grosse finners against [Page 60]free Grace, against the Lord Jesus, the Sorr. Oh, the Sun disco­vers all things: that which is thrown up against the Sun, that ap­pears most clearly; the sun will make you known what you are in secret? can you stand it out against the Lord himself? let not them that have given up their names to thee, be found flighters a­gainst thee; Shall thine, oh Lord, be swallowed up? O [...] no, thou wilt but hisse, and Armies shall comeeven from heaven for thine, and then those that do task and seek to lay on the burthens what shall they doe?

Having uttered these with some other things concerning the new Jerusalem, she sung forth the further enlargements of her heart in the song following.

Here she ceased and lay silent for the space of some two or three hours, untill about eight of the clock in the evening, the company being all departed, excepting about four or five persons, she coughed, and being asked by a friend or two with the Rela­tour how she did, with two or three such like questions, she an­swered in a very few words (this being the first time the [...]elatour had speech with her) and suddenly was carried out in singing, and after wards in prayer, wherein the Relatour left her about ten a clock in the night speaking to God.

The day following being the 17^th day of the Monethand the last day she spake, in White Hall, she begun with prayer, wherein she was very large, and amongst many other, she uttered the things following.

Though they (speaking of the Souldiers) may build Tabernacles, and may strengthen their cords, yet thou art risen. O poore crea­tures [Page 62]that they should have no heart to hear. O Lord, they are given up to blindnesse, they will refuse to hear, they will turn a-and go away. Blessed father, wilt not thou follow them and shake them? Though they may shake off faith and prayer, yet they shall not shake off thee: oh when the hand-writing is come up in their veins, will not their knees smite together? They shall see that an evill heart is in them, and that godlinesse is another thing, than they thought on, though they speak of light, yet they shall know that they are darknesse, for they act nothing but darknesse, discover nothing but vilenesse and evill, that such creatures should live in a time of so much Mercy, and trample them under seet, wilt not thou reckon with them? Dost not thou reckon with the Nations throughout the whole earth? and wilt thou suffer them to go unreckoned with? it is not every one that hath a tongue to speak great things of thee, that are thy friends; for if it were so, this Nation would be full of excellent ones, oh but their heart is de­ceitfull. When Ananias and Saphira did ly against the Holy Ghost, they were struck dead; oh but how often have they lyed a­gainst the Holy Ghost, and yet thou forbearest: oh thy servane will not let thee alone till thou risest.

Up in thy glory and thy Majesty, thou wilt make some to rise that are feeble, poore, low creatures to utter forth against the wise ones of the world: oh they have not thy sap, thy spirit, what ever they pretend. Wilt not thou come forth and confound their language? Oh! thou wilt say, what have you to do to take the name of God in your mouths, when you act for your bellies? If all thine should hold their peace, thou wilt come thy self and appear against them: Oh they shall be called the Jeroboams of the earth, they have made I srael to sin: oh they would not be called Jeroboam, but the Israel of God, and therefore poore Israel is bowed under them, and drawn under their skirts, when Ephraim offended in Baal, then he died in spirit, in the affections of thine: oh then they will come off with a great deal of dammage and rust oh that they might now be ashamed, now whiles they are peeping in at the crevice, let them see their abominations; oh take them aside and tell them they ought not to do so; let them not go and assume that to them, which belongs to God; tell them thou wilt make them to (mart and seel thy rod for it: if they had stooped to [Page 63]the powers before, the sin would not have been so great; but to stoop to those Powers that have appeared against the Lord Jesus; Oh, who can be filent and hold their peace at this? Thou wilt poure out thy spirit upon sons and daughters, and they shall wit­nesse for thee against them: Thine may be Lambes and Sheep, meek and lowly; yet they shall be, as thou hast said; as a young Lyon, and shall teare all that rise up against them— Oh, where is thy voice, Lord, thou that speakest with a mighty alarum, and thy voice breaks the Cedars; oh, thy voice comes forth with much power! oh, let that voice come forth concerning Restauration, and Generation-work; Oh, thou hast put a price into the hand of thine, and they have no minde to it! You shew your selves to be very low; the Prophets of old were willing to look to the Lord, and he sent siery chariots round about them: Oh, if thine would go forth, who should be able to stand before that wisdome and spirit, by which they speak— Everlasting burning shall come forth in righteousnesse against you that have put your shoul­ders to a power that is against the Lord: Shall they go about to reare up that, which thou hast said fights positively against the crown of the Lord Jesus; It is not like the other, for them thou hast taken out of the way: but oh, these have raked up their ho­nour out of the grave; If you will have a Resurrection of it a­gain, you shall have prayer against you; and the voice of the Lord shall come forth against you: They think if they could get Nati­ons on their side, then they were well enough! Oh but thou wilt scatter the Nations, thou wilt overturn them? and do they think they can hinder thine overturnings? Thine can rejoyce, though they mourn to see poore Israel cheated and cozened by them; the spirit blasphemed by them, they can mourn for the sin of the daughter of thy people; yet they can rejoyce, for new Jerusalem is coming forth through all this: Thou wilt go on, Lord, and strike down all their inventions, though they have a great com­pany of great head-pieces together; yet a little true wisdome shall break down all their Policy: What is all their wisdome, if they have not thy feare, thy spirit among them? Thou hast told them plainly, but they cannot abide to heare it, that the wisdome of the wise shall perish; and thy poore and contemptible ones [Page 64]shall carry on thy work for thee in the world; the time is coming that they shall be fruit, that they shall bring forth no more fruit for thine; They pretend they will doe great things for thee and thine: Oh, but if the eyes were not blinded, they might see the partiality that is in them! Here is one, no sooner were the Po­wers put to him, but he took them: Oh, poore creature, how hast thou deceived us? if thou hast free grace, that must be ad­mired indeed in thee! oh but thou shalt have no more, for he will honour thee any more. The people of the Lord cry to the Lord a­gainst thee, though thou was a sweet perfume and a lovely song to the people of the Lord; yet they doe not know how to speak for thee; and if all should come forth, and own thee, yet thy servant will never do it, she cannot do it, for the work is on foot, and it is not men nor Devils can stop it: when thine take a view of thy great works in the Nation; how thou hast taken away them that made the Nation nauseous and stinking, and did build up Babylon, shall now refined ones come & build up Babylon again? oh thy love to thy handmaid wil not let her alone, but she must cry unto thee, if thou lovest thy Saviour then stand up, it is no matter if that be laid aside and cast into the Dungeon. There are a great many whose God is their bellie, and they are willing to be filent; oh but you Saints, do you go and speak to such as would shut this open door, as is open to the sheep.—Do you thus requite the Lord who laid down his life for you? O Souldiers, you said you acted for Christ and his flock, oh but your heart is deceived, and hath turn­ed you aside. Come you mockers, you Army-men that are mock­ers, the Lord saith your bonds shall be made strong, you do adde to the strength of that promise and vow-breaking which went be­fore: you sometimes said, let us have the prayers of poore Saints, and now you can take turns in your Galleries, and say they are yours, you have fought for them? is it so? who gave you your life and fought for you? was it not the Lord Jesus? it is not yours, but the poore's and thy peoples, the Lord will cast you out, and whereas you were expected to be Oaks, full of shelter, of fruits and of refreshing, Oh but you have beene but blustering Oakes without root, without Sappe. [Page 65]Oh let thine be ashamed, that they have so much looked upon man, which to day is, and to morrow withers; Oh thy people suffer even for their own sin; for they have made Idols of men; and thou sayst, thou wilt not give thy glory to graven Images, and now thou wilt make thine to smart for it, and to smart a while; were it not for thine, that they shall be purged and purified to make them asha­med, and lay them in the dust, to mould them into thy fashion, and to take away their sowre leaven, were it not for this work, thou wouldst make these to crumble ere a day come to an end; the Assyri­an must be burned, when thou hast done thy work upon Mount Sion. All you great Ones, you shall not at all fare the better for these ma­nifestations of Grace which the Lords people shall have; oh that you might be humbled at the last breath; was there ever any laden with so many mercies, and yet so much tin and dross found in them? Oh poor Soldiers, your errour was here, that while you did strike down the Philistin without, you have not been watchful to draw your swords against that that is within; here you were not inquisicive, and this hath made you to fal so flat, and this hath deadned you: thou wouldst have thine full of eyes: poor Souldiers, you have had eyes without, but not as those creatures recorded, have you had eyes within?—Lord, they can resist the holy one of Israel; come, can you resist the Lord? you may shoot against the creatures mud-walls, but can you batter the Towers of the Lord? oh poor man, wilt thou contend with thy Maker? how wilt thou contend against so glorious a King? Dost thou think to come with thy brazen face, and jeering countenance against the Lord of glory? though Christ when he came at first, was willing to become weak, and to be thrown into the Grave, but he will come in flames of fire; you Soldiers, he will come as the Messen­ger of his Temple.—Oh poor creatures, this wine of the Earth will enflame your blood, but oh that you might have the wine from above, then would you be beautified, and then would he say, well done good & faithful servant.—O thy servant is come neer that Council, and thy servant will pray that they might see and hear, and be delivered from that great fury that is coming forth. Oh souldiers, can you stand against the sword of the Lord, that great shield? can you pierce the Breastplate that is from on high? Oh, the Saints are able to fight with you, not with material weapons, but with the sword of faith and the Spirit; oh where is the sword of Goliab that can come and fight against that? oh poor Souldiers, the Lord hath sent his servant [Page 66]to tell you of your wickedness, and to tell you what hath been done in Scotland, Ireland, and elsewhere: if you keep not Chronicles, others do; the Lord hath written them down, and he will bring them forth. — Thou hast a controversie with all languages, and they only that have the language of Canaan shall be taken into thy Canaan, and shall have the honey drops there; They cannot be­lieve such great things are coming out, as the raign of Jesus Christ; that thou art staining the pride of all Glory, and that thou wilt have no more Monarchies till the Monarchy of Christ come forth: it is be­cause they are so much seeking one from another; they are so taken up and wrapt up in their own mantles, that they have no eyes to look up for Elias his Mantle: They have the spirit of Man, and the cou­rage of Man, but what is all that courage? says Elihu, I have seen that for all that, Ages should teach wisdom, and Years give under­standing; yet you could not bring forth an answer in wisdom to the condition of Iob; so I waited for others, and was afraid my self to speak, untill the Spirit came upon me, then I was carried forth to speak beyond my own courage; Oh thy Spirit is above the spirit of man; thy Spirit informs and teacheth, and brings forth new things, and declares old things; thy Spirit brings forth what the ways of men are, it doth declare the great overturnings and disappointments that men shall meet with; when thou openest, who can shut? it is not all their jealousies and surmisings concerning designings, and this and the other thing, it is not all these things that can stop the pipes of Christ that are golden; can you hinder the oyl that runs so sweet? Blessed be thy Name for that glorious Priviledge that thine have, they are made partakers of thine Annointing, and he calls them fel­lows; oh they are poor Mortals that he should call them fellows! oh some poor creatures call themselves Christ: because of this oneness with Christ, they will have no distinguishing, thou wilt make them to know that there is a difference between Head and Members: there is a wicked Generation that are risen up about this place that do say so, that do pretend many spiritual things, who are enemies to Jesus; others come out more openly, others more secretly, how are they ready to joyn their evil spirit with the Spirit of the Lord Jesus? thy Servant sometimes contended against them neer this place, and now she is come to bear a greater testimony against them; when thy sweet wine comes forth, and thy Spirit is poured out, then they being in their false wine: oh but it shall never enter into thy treasu­ry, [Page 67]where thine are; they say, they (speaking of some rude spi­rits which came to hear her) are one spirit with thy servant, but thy servant abhors it through the Spirit of that crucified Jesus. — This that thou hast now done upon thy servant, they will not under­stand that it is an intimation to them of the pouring out of thy Spirit upon thine own, wherein they shall go forth against the world: thy servant was one that was simple, an Ideot, and did not study in such things as these, and must thy servant now float upon the mighty and broad waters? [meaning of the Spirit] thou saidst indeed that thy servant should declare in Gath and publish in Askelon: They will say the spirit of madness and distraction is upon her, and that it is immo­desty; but thou knowest Lord, that it is thy Spirit; for thou hast cast thy servant where she would not, and hast taken her contrary to all her thoughts; surely thou shalt be glorified and advanced by it; it is the Lord that comes, and enlarges, and fils with his Spirit, and lays his foundation with precious stones and sparkling colours; thy servant would not have any take it in without tryal: let them try whether it is from thy Spirit, or from what it is; Oh thy servant knows it is from thy Spirit; let them know that it is so too, by the language of it, by the Rule through which it comes; how is the written Word carried forth in it! thy Spirit takes the Scripture all along, and sets the soul a swimming therein; oh, those things that are concealed are made manifest, when thy Spirit comes forth; oh that they might know what is the true sountain, and what is pudled water; wilt thou dip them Father in the spiritual Baptism, this Baptism of Fire cleanseth: Zeal is another thing then a passionate humour, where true Zeal is, there the flame of the Lord is; there is much in nature that may de­ceive; A fine curious nature may seem to be Grace, which is not: an amiable carriage and good words, these are all nature: Tell the sons of Issachar that go forth to the work of the Lord, what qualifi­cations, what manner of conversations should be in them, and in the World, sutable to such a day as this; this is a day wherein thou callest up thine to glorifie thee in the fires: or that the names, Courtier and King should never come up again; and though there be now a finer name yet there is the same thing, the same superfluity and vanity as was among the Kings of old; they come forth in sheeps clothing: you Councel, you think you have done well in this, but surely the pas­sing-Bell shall ring for you: this is the saddest day that ever poor England had; formerly their Children had their black patches, and [Page 68]naked necks, and powdered locks, and so it is now; Kings must then sit alone, and so they do now; What David! thou whom I have raised up from the lowest of men, from the dust, wilt thou do this? these are crying things that are come up in thine ears oh Lord; how can they be fit to Rule and Judge a Nation, to reprove sin in a Nation, when they cannot Rule, and Judge, and reprove their own Families? they that will not hear of their sins, they shall feel of the smart thereof, That is, the sins they are galled within their Conscience; but it was not so with David; For when Nathan told him of his sin, he struck upon his brest and mourned.—Though the name of Gideon was upon him (speaking of the Supream Magistrate) in the field, yet now it is taken off from him, thou shalt no more be called Valiant, because thou canst not be contented with the name of thy righteous ones; therefore thy name shall not be long: As to the name General, thou hast Lord, been with him, and hast shewed him thy presence; But in thy other name, where is thy Victory, thy Righteousness, thy Zeal, thy Love, thy Conquest now? Will not the Lord shut thee out, thou that goest about to shut out the Saints? the Lord will shut out thee; It is a King, not Saints, but King Jesus that thou hast sought to shut out; hadst not thou better to have died in the field, to have fallen in thy Tent, then to come into this great Pallace which the Lord will rent from thee? Oh that he might be wrung out from among them, that he might not seek the living among the dead; He seeks to do living actions, and says he is not against us, but for us; How can he do any living things among dead men, dead things? Does not he confound himself in his own Language? do not his actions flye in his face? does not his conscience say, thou tongue, thou saiest not right? tell him Lord God, though he thinks he is so wise, and others about him; Yet tell him they are taken in their own wisdom, they do not think what a Poison it will become unto them? Art thou a rati­onal man, a wise and a valiant souldier? how can the Commonalty be relieved, and thou hast such great things for thy Table? Wars shall come out against other Nations, and what will you do then for pay, Souldiers? Oh you old Prophets! that you should applaud him, and be Chaplains to him! I tell you the Lord God will Ecclipse your Glory, he will put a stammering speech into you, you shall not suck from Gods Wine-cellars, the Lord will not bring so much as a taste of his Wine to you: You have turned his Wine into water, will you sow your downpillows of flesh under his Elbows? Hast not thou a [Page 69]great deal to reckon with them for that greatness they have had a­bove all other men? he hath now a greater controversie with you then he had before; you amended the matter well indeed, when you gathered up a Magistracy that might uphold you, when you must both fall down into the ditch; The Lord hath said, That both Prophet and Priest, and all that have cleaved together, they shall fall; You will say, why do you call us Priests? Indeed thy servant would not call you so, it is a grief to her heart; but you do their actions, and will not you be likened to them? You will not hear; you will say, do you think to contradict us who are wise, great Schollars, and University­men? Yea Lord, thou wilt make a poor silly Creature to come out against them, because they have acted so sillily, and thou Lord wilt now take away their glory out of this Nation: You will say, you are not to meddle with the Powers, but who meddles more then you, who have provoked the Magistrate to this, and have helped to lead them into the Pit? If you were the Daniels of the Lord, you would not care for the Kings Portion, as you do: Oh poor Clergy! you have put off the outward badge of Antichrist, and you have retained the inward: What is become of your Zeal and Exaltations of Christ, have you ever a New-Covenant-Sermon to bring to your great Ru­ler? you will mud it before you come; the Lord will have it set out in the freeness, and fulness, and Glory of it in all the tendency and fruits of it; Are they like to the Sermons of the Saints formerly, to the Apostles Sermons which the Lord Jesus brought forth? more of their own heads and fancies are in it, then of thy dainties; of their flowers, then of thine; Thou doest not, Lord, look at the curious decking of the dishes; No, thou lookest at the meat in it: Flowers will soon wither, and their fine adornings will come to nothing, but the true meat, that will abide for ever: Lord, rowse the poor Clergy; thy ser­vant is perswaded some of them are thy dear ones; wilt thou bring up them as thy great Alarm to battel? Let their Trumpet sound forth, not with such an uncertain sound as they do, but with a compleat sound, that we may prepare to the Battel, to stand, appear, and go forth for the Lord; If you bring forth true salt, then all unsavory salt shall be discovered by it; the unsavory salt now comes in, which is fit neither for the Land, nor for the dunghill.—Hear oh house of Israel, you Clergy, and oh house of the King! Why is thy servant come forth in thy Spirit to proclaim your sin, and lay open your ini­quity, and is not this to be considered by you? Oh, you cannot abide [Page 70]to think it comes from God; for then you would tremble; they say, we will not own it to be from God, but from some evil Spirit, some Witchcraft, some design or hiring of men; But oh! says God, though you would not acknowledge it, yet you shall acknowledge it, Says the Lord; I would have it come against you at your first entring in; those of the Clergy that are about you, they do not speak plain­ly, and faithfully against you; therefore the Lord hath sent a poor handmaid into the Pallace, and there she shall declare it, and though you will not come your selves, yet your Servants shall declare it to you, and it shall be left upon the beams and walls of this house against you: I have brought my word into thy place, thy very Pallace, and it shall enter the very walls and hangings thereof against thee; and at such a time, Lord, as now, if not now, it would not have been suf­fered; For when they had got in their great body, then she must not have spoken here, that they might see, that it is thou Lord, that makes a cry to come out against their transgression; The Lord would have your Protestations, Vows, Covenants and Narrrations brought into your Pallace against you, this shall be bitterness in your dishes; You shall have plenty and fulness, but without comfort.

YOu will say, have not our eyes seen this before, and have not our ears heard this before? Oh but when thou pourest forth by a vessell that is altogether unlikely that any such liquor should en­ter into it: though you that are the Great Ones, whom it concerned, would not lend your ears, yet the Lord hath accomplished his design in this work; and thy servant will leave this in the bosom of them that have heard these beatings of thy Spices, and have their senses open to feel the smell thereof: let thy servant request this of thee, that when she is at a distance, they would hold up a hand of prayer for her, that nothing may betray or enslave her; let them pray for the preservation of thy poor worm, that she may be delivered from all Satanical delusions and evil beasts: thy servant can as sweetly solace her self in thy bosom among the still-waters, as upon the great Seas.—Now any thing is taken for holiness, any thing is taken for the shining of the Sun, which is but the shining of a Glow-worm; these are but the shells and outsides, and the storm is coming, and where will all these be? — The Life of vision here is excellent, and precious, and glorious, when it is according to the Scripture, and comes from thy Spirit; but thine for their life of Faith can forgo vision, and live sweetly in that bosom that the Lord Jesus leads them forth unto; Vision! the body crumbles before it, and becomes weak: men are mistaken when they think that the great things of God will puff up; no, the more thou givest of thy self, the more they are humbled; they that have the flowings of thee, are self-denying; humility shall make a difference between that which is not, and that which is; let then thy servant to the end of her dayes be an example to all round about her.