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Prophet; No more carnal weapons thenceforth; they fall all be beaten into mattocks and pruning hooks, when the earth fhall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the Sea; then I looked and every Island fled away, and the Mountains were not found; I faw none but the Lamb ftanding on the Mount Sion, and with him a hundred, forty and four thousand, having his Fathers name written on their foreheads, and I heard the voyce of Harpers harping with their Harps, and they fung a new Song.

This manner of War, God was pleafed to come forth in, in the Apoftles, and Primitive Chriftians, who had laid the world on its back, and made it like Sodom and Gomorrah, had not the Trumpet founded a retreat, and that power which was abroad, retired again, that the world might recover its deadly wound, and get up upon his legs again, that the man of fin might be fully revealed, in the return of this power to be utterly confumed when it shall come in the brightness of its glory.

And thou Rule, authority and power earthly, that wilt not acknowledge the Lord; thou earth that doft not tremble at the prefence of the Lord, his day will be on thee to put thee down: if the Hoft of Heaven, thofe Powers be shaken, thou must not look for a priviledge and exemption; and though thou hast been made like Nebuchadnezzar, the fervant of the Lord to pull down thofe beavenly powers, that kept not their firft eftate, and baft been a fcourge upon the Powers of the Earth, and fmote them in wrath, though thou haft been a feller among the Cedars of Lebanon, thou that haft broken the Gold and Silver, and the Brafs with thy Iron feet; remember that the Iron is mix- Dan. 2, 31 ed with clay, that shews thy weakness; thou shalt (b)

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be shattered to pieces by that ftone cut out of 'the mountain without hands, when Satan fhall lead thee against him as against a Blafphemer.

Therefore, you Heavens and Religious Forms that are putting for the Government of the world, and fadling Kingdoms and Republicks, and making them the Beaft to carry the falle Prophet, which now begins to kick and winch, and look upon thee that rideth.

And you Mountains of the earth; worldly Powers that say in your hearts, We will afcend into Heaven and set our throne above the Stars of God; that will exercife a Judicature in Heaven, and determine of things of the Kingdom of God, which the Spirit hath kept in his own bands; you may break one the other, earthen potfheards; But if you joyn against the Spirit, and be one as few and Gentile, Herod and Pilate against Chrift, it will be your everlasting breaking; fo that a man cannot gather a Sherd of you to take fire from the hearth, or water out of the Pit; for God hath fet his King upon his holy Hill; and you are but fheaves against a hearth of fire. The Power of Chrift is coming forth; happy they that wait for it. The Lord fhall fend the rod of his Power out of Sion; be thou Ruler in the midft of thine enemies: Pfal. 100. 10. All Forms and Shadows fhall flie away; and the new creature only abile; and they that walk after this Rule, peace be Pfalin. 148. on them, and mercy, and upon the Ifrael of God.

Gal. 6.

The fpiritual Church fhall rise and be established in the beauty of holiness. These are the tidings of this Book; And I heard a voyce faying Hallelujah, Praise the Lord from the Heavens, praise him all ye heights, praise him all ye Angels of his; all the wisdom of man; Praise him Sun and Moon, all worldly Magiftrates; praife him all the Stars of light, all Minifters, Paftors, Teachers; praife him ye Heavens of Heavens; all Forms and Churches, and whatever of you excell, and are lifted up above others; exalt the Lord, not your felves; .rf. 13. 14. for his name only is excellent, his glory is above the Earth

and Heavens; he also exalteth the Horns of his people, the praife of all his Saints, even of the Children of Ifrael a people neer to him. Thy part be among these, whoever art the Reader, it is the defires and prayer of him who knows no greater, no other happiness.

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Chriftian's Strength.

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A Plain Discovery of the Mighty and Invincible Power that all Believers receive through the Gift of the Spirit.

Firft held forth in Two SERMONS, on Acts 1. viii. and after Published for the Inftruction and Ufe of those that are Spiritual, Anno MDCXLV.

By Willian Dell, Minifter of the Gospel of Jefus Chrift; at Telden in the County of Bedford.

1 Cor. iv. 19, 20. I will come unto you fhortly if the Lord will, and will know not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power. For the Kingdom of God is not in word but in power.

2 Tim. iii. 5. Having a form of Godliness, but denying the power of it; from fuch turn away.

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