do I speak, that you who can live without this living bread, your souls lie in death still, and the witness lies slain in Sodom and Egypt, in you, and the seed lies covered under the clods of the earth in you; and unless it arise and live in you, you cannot be saved, nor enter into the land of rest, which is prepared for the faithful, who are regenerate and born again of the holy seed, which shall inherit the blessing, the Son of God, which is heir of the promise, and in Him is our life hid with God from the vulturous eye and venomous beast; and from the Lord are we refreshed, day by day. So, dear people, let the witness of God arise and be awakened in you all, that the seed may come forth from under the clods of your hard and stony hearts, that so the prisoner may be set at liberty which long hath been oppressed; and for the sake of it in you am I constrained to write unto you, not knowing whether I may see your faces in the flesh any more, yea or nay. Oh that you would lay these things to heart, which I in love have written to you, not knowing how soon your breath may be stopped, and your life taken from you; and as death leaves you, so must you appear before the Lord, and be judged according to your doing. So, dear hearts, do not slight the day of your visitation, nor the tenders of God's love, which is yet held forth to you, lest you be taken away in your sins, and die in your iniquities, and then I know your portion will be sad. Therefore do I warn you, in the bowels of tender love, and in pity to your captive souls, that you run no longer in your former vanities, in spending your time out of the fear of God; for all they that live out of the fear of God do not feel His presence, nor enjoy His blessing. So, all hearken to the counsel of God, and be attentive to His voice, and lend your ear to His call, while He is knocking at the door of your hearts. Oh, do not resist Him, but let Him in, that He whose right it is, may take possession; for verily, if you resist Him when He calls upon you, and will not lend your ears to His counsel, nor give ear to His words, a day of trouble and perplexity of spirit will assuredly come upon you; then will you call upon the Lord, but He will not hear you, but will hide His face from you; even so will it be with you at that

day, because the Lord called, and you would not hear Him; so when you call upon Him, He will not hear you. And this I declare unto you from the Lord God, that if you perish, your destruction is of yourselves, and the Lord will be clear of your blood in the day of your account. So, dear people, let the patience and forbearance of our God towards you lead you to repentance, and go now no longer on in sin, against that of God in your consciences, but all stoop down to the witness of God in you, that the seed may arise to live in you; for the blessing is upon England for the seed's sake, which God hath raised, and it is growing, and the virtue of it is spreading over the nations, and the kingdom of Christ begins to flourish in the earth; but this I say unto you, that unless you feel the seed of God to arise and live in you, you cannot inherit the blessing; for the blessing is to the seed, the plant of God's renown, which He hath regard unto, (for it is of His nature and image, and proceeds from Him, who is meek and lowly, and easy to be entreated by the upright,) for His ear is open to their cry, who hunger and thirst after His presence to refresh their souls. So, dear people, lie no longer in death, but come out of the grave of carnal security, wherein you lie, that your souls may live; then will you prize with me the love and presence of the Lord above all things. But unless that be restored to life in you, which lies in death, you cannot prize the love of God, for you do not feel His presence; and this you know by experience, that a dead child is not sensible of want, neither doth it hunger after the breast; but a living child that is born into the world is soon sensible of want, and in it is a hunger raised after the milk, which comes from the breast to refresh it withal, for it cannot live without it, or some other food like unto it; and this is a true figure to you, and all, and through it you may read yourselves, and how your conditions are, every one in particular, that so you may no longer be deceived, nor rest in a false hope, which will fail you; and even so it is with you all, who never found a true hunger raised after the Lord, and after His presence, to refresh your souls; but you who can live content and rest satisfied without nourishment from Him, you are as a

dead chiid, which feels neither hunger nor want. And this is the truth to you all, the Lord revive your senses, and quicken your understandings, that you may be sensible how your conditions are, which is the desire of my soul, that so you may not perish in your gainsayings; and for this very end is this written to you, as I was moved of the Lord, in bowels of compassion to you, knowing that you are, where I once was, in the perishing state, like the prodigal from the father's house in the far country, feeding upon the husks with the swine; and this was my state and condition for many years; but in the time appointed the Lord looked upon me with an eye of pity, and called me home to Himself out of the far country, where I was feeding on the husks with the swine, into the banqueting-house, where my soul is refreshed, nourished, and fed with the hidden manna and bread of life, which is prepared for the hungry and feeble-minded to feed upon. So, all dear people, turn in your minds, and read within. I speak not to the thing without, for all they that go from the Lord, they go into the strange land, into the far country, and all such are adulterers, that spend their portion upon harlots, and hide their talent, which was given them to profit withal, in the earth; and all such are wanderers and vagabonds, which have not a habitation in the Lord, in Cain's nature; and though they may be builders of cities, as Cain was, yet being from God, as he was, they are strangers and wanderers, being separated from the Lord, who hath prepared a rest for His people, where they are safe, and feed together, in the good land, where they are at home with their Maker, who fills heaven and earth with His presence, glory unto His name for evermore. So, all people, turn home into your own tents, that you may see where you are, and what you are feeding upon, and wander no longer abroad, with your minds in the earth, after that which will perish and come to an end, where the moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and steal, and deprive you of your substance that you have gathered together, which may be soon taken from you, and you left desolate, naked, and bare; therefore it stands you all in hand, to seek after that which will endure forever, the pearl of

great price, which doth exceed all the treasures in Egypt, for it is durable, and will last forever; the rock of ages, on which the saints were built, the chief corner-stone, elect and precious, the sure foundation of many generations, the pillar and ground of Truth, Christ the Light, the bright and morning star, the sun of righteousness, which is now arisen with healing in His wings, to cleanse the leper of his leprosy, and hath caused the dumb to speak, and the deaf to hear His voice and follow Him; and this hath He done, in this day of His power, which makes the heathen to wonder and be confounded at His appearance in His sons and daughters, who bear His image, who are meek and lowly, lamblike; the righteous know Him, who love His appearance, but to the wicked His presence is dreadful and terrible, like a lion of the tribe of Judah, to consume with the breath of His mouth, and break to pieces, like a potter's vessel, all the stiff-necked and strong ones, who live in the pride of their hearts, and at ease in the flesh, like fat bulls of Bashan, spending the creation upon their lusts. Oh, the day is at hand that all such must be as chaff before the wind, and as stubble before the fire, which will consume them, and leave them neither root nor branch; the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it; therefore take heed what you do, and follow not the multitude to do evil, for they walk in the broad way, which leads to destruction, and to the chambers of death, where the souls of men and women are plunged into misery and torment, and into the pit of perdition, where they cannot come out, nor be loosed from their cruel bonds, where they are chained and fettered fast, under the powers of darkness, the old dragon, who is king of the bottomless pit, who goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; and they that are from the watch, they are from the rock and sure foundation, Christ, the light and life of His people, and all that are from Him, they are in darkness, and such are taken in the snares of the devil, who rules in the dark, for there he hath his seat, in the earthly part of man, which is one with him who is the unclean spirit, which seeks to destroy and lay waste the heritage of God, that so his kingdom might be set up, who is a liar

and a murderer. But now is the day come that Christ is risen to reign as Lord and King in His people, and therefore doth antichrist rage in his members, because his destruction is at hand, and his torment is coming upon him, wherein he must have and receive a just recompense of his reward, and all that join with him must partake of his torment, for what they have done against God and His people. And so, dear neighbours and people, join no longer with him who is the enemy of God, lest you be cut off from the face of the earth, and destroyed with Leviathan, that crooked serpent, which must go into everlasting burning, there to remain for evermore, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, and no comfort nor ease to be found, but howling and bitter lamentation night and day; and this will be the portion of the wicked that live wantonly upon the earth. Oh, the day will come that they will wish they had their time to spend over again, when their misery comes upon them, and the darts of the Almighty strike them, and wound them to the heart; then will their pain be great, which cannot be expressed, which they must feel night and day! Oh, that you would lay these things to heart, and consider your latter end; and this I speak in love to you all, whether you will hear or forbear; you shall one day know, and be made to confess, what is written to you is true; therefore take heed what you do, who resist and quench the motions of the Spirit of God in you, when it doth arise to show you your conditions, wherein you lie; for you who do resist the Lord in His way do despite unto the Spirit of grace. So, dear people, young and old, resist the Lord no longer in His appearance in you, for you who do, you slay the witness, the messenger of the covenant, and so become guilty of blood; therefore take heed of going on in the hardness of your hearts, and in speaking evil of the Truth. Though Balaam erred from the Spirit of Truth, yet it was the same then that it is now; though Judas betrayed it, and Demas forsook it, and embraced the world, yet Truth is Truth, and will stand forever over the head of all its enemies; and here comes the Scripture to be fulfilled, "For many are called, but few are chosen." And this hath appeared in our