And it is the female Seed that had the Promise of
God, the “Serpent’s Head to bruise,” Gen. 3.15.
And by whose Seed it is the Earth and World will be
restored from the bondage of corruption, under which
they groan, Rom 8.22. For the Lord of Life came of
a Maid or Virgin, without Man, Luke 1.26, 27, 34,
35. According as it was by the Prophet fore-told, Isa.
7.13, 14. “Hear ye now, O House of David; is it a small thing
for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? Therefore
the Lord himself shall give you a Sign, behold! a Maid
or Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call his
Name Immanuel.” We are here to take notice, That
this Son who is called Immanuel, was given as a Sign
to the House of David, and not to the King that desired
none. For this Sign was not to be in his Day.
And of this Immanuel, the Prophet saith, verse 15.
“Butter and Honey shall he eat, that he may know how to refuse
the Evil, and choose the Good.” From which Words
is a clear Information, that this Son was to be good:
And therefore not as the Jews have represented him.
And for farther Proof, that this Son here spoken of,
was not to be in that King’s days, as the Jews imagined;
The words of the Prophet make plain from the
16 verse. For “before the Child shall know to refuse the Evil,
and chuse the Good, the Land that thou abhorrest shall
be forsaken of both her Kings.” This seems to be spoken
of Assyria, and Babylon, because the Prophet saith, “the
Land which thou abhorrest.” And both Assyria, and Babylon
were, conquer’d Kingdoms before this Son was
born, and so forsaken of both her Kings, as well as Israelrael A2v 4
and Judah were forsaken of both their Kings before
this Child was born. This is the Son on whom
“the Government shall be upon his Shoulder,” Isa. 9.6.
Who, at his first coming, was laid as a “Stone of stumbling,
and for a Rock of offence to both the Houses of Israel,”
Isa. 8.14, 15, 16, 17. Isa. 28.16, 17. Isa. 49.
7, 8, 9. Isa. 53.2, 3, 4 “But Emmanuel, which being
interpreted, is God with us,” when he comes the second
time he will appear in glory. And Immanuel’s Land,
Isa 8.8. will then be restored. And this Immanuel,
is the it, or one Seed, or he that should “bruise the Serpent’s”
Head, and the Earth or World restore again to
that perfect state, as at the first Creation. The which
he will accomplish at the time of the restitution of all
Things, Acts 3.19, 20, 21. “For he will return to Sion,
and build again the Tabernacle of David, which is fallen”,
Acts 15.15, 16. And then the Lord will not only restore,
but secure all his People in that perfect state
they were in before the Fall: And then the Punishment
that Sin brought into the World, will be excluded
from all God’s People, so as then the Husband will
not be above the Wife, nor the Wife above the Husband;
but as they were in the first Creation, before
Sin entred into the World. Neither now is there any
difference between them in the Lord, Gal 3.28. But
them that love him best are best accepted of him. But
because Woman was first in the Transgression, Women
have been laid under subjection in this time: But
the Lord of Life coming by Woman, he who is the
Reconciler between God and his Creature, by him
the Women will be deliver’d from that Bondage, which
some has found intollerable.

And in reference or allusion to this glorious Kingdom,
the good Women have all along bore great sway.
For tho’ it was said, that Sarah obeyed Abraham, yet,
as concerning this Kingdom, she commanded: For she
said to Abraham, “cast out this Bond-woman and her Son,
for the Son of this Bond-woman shall not be Heir with my Son, A3r 5
Son, even with Isaac.” And the thing was very grievous
in Abraham’s sight, because of his Son, Gen. 21.10.11.
Yet notwithstanding, God said unto him, “in all that Sarah
hath said unto thee, hearken unto her Voice,” verse 12.
God could have declared to Abraham his Mind and
Will as to this thing, without Sarah his Wife shewing
her Authority herein. But that this thing was of
God, to shew that the Women in the Kingdom which
is to come, should be restored to that perfect state Woman
was in before the Fall.

And likewise the Church or Spouse of Christ, is always
compared to a Woman, the which, in time to
come, will bear sway above all the “Queens, and Concubins,
and VirginsVirgins without number,” Cant. 6.8. “For
that Nation and Kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish,”
Isa 60.12. Which thee, is Israel in the glorious time:
And then it is, that those who afflicted them, shall come
bending unto them, “and all they that despised thee, shall
bow themselves down at the Soles of thy Feet,” verse 14.
And none can come into the Glory promised, that does
not in this time come in as the Seed of Abraham.

And as concerning this Kingdom, also Rebeckah, after
Esau had sold to Jacob his Birth-right, and so he by
Purchase became the First-born, Jacob then by obeying
the Voice of his Mother, obtained the Blessing,
Gen. 27.8 28, 29. Unto which is annexed the promised
Glory. The which is to be made good in
time to come, “when the promised Land will be their own”
so as “they shall move no more.” 2 Sam. 7.10.
When they, according to Promise, receive it for an
“everlasting Inheritance.” Gen. 17.8. And then it is, “Japhet
shall dwell in the Tents of Shem,” Gen. 9.27. For the
true Believer is to come in with them. And then it
is “they shall be all taught of God,” Jer. 31.31, 32, 33,
34. And then it is of which the Lord said, Isa. 59.21:
“My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have
put into thy Mouth, shall not depart out of thy Mouth, nor
out of the Mouth of thy seed, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seeds A3v 6
seeds seed, saith the Lord from henceforth and forever.”

And Miriam the Prophetess, when Israel was gotten
from under the Egyptian Bondage, and thro’ the Red
Sea, “she took a Timbrel in her hand, and all the Women
went out after her, with timbrels and with dances,” Exod.
15.20. in token of Victory. According to which,
it will be in time to come, Jer. 31.10, 11, 12, 13.

And when “Sisera, the chief Captain of the King of Canaan,
was with his host to be destroyed, whose Land was
given to Israel for an Inheritance;” at the time of
the great Conquest, Deborah the Prophetess govern’d
Israel. And then it was that Jael the Wife of Heber the
Kenite, killed Sisera, for Deborah, had before told Barack
that was to be the Leader of the Army, “that the Victory
should not be to his Honnour, for the Lord should sell
Sisera, into the Hand of a Woman,” the which did not make
Barak refus’d to do the thing, that was reqiredrequired of him,
and made known to him by “Deborah, and then did the hand
of the Children of Israel prosper, and prevailed against Jabin
King of Canaan, until they had destroyed them.” And of “Sisera’s
mighty host, with nine hundred Chariots of Iron, there was
not one man left,” Judg. 4.4, 9, 16, 21, 24. Hereby is represented
Israel’s Victory in time to come. And likewise
we are to take notice, That the Government and
Victory was not given to Woman, until Israel, by
their often transgressing, “did evil in the sight of the
Lord;” for which he sold them into the Hand of the
King of Canaan, verse 2. “And the Lord wrought their
deliverance,” and his destruction, in the time the Woman
had the Government; so likewise when the Lord
and his raised Saints, and Spouse doth Rule, then Israel’s
Enemies will be subdu’d, Isa. 60.14.

But whreaswhereas it is said, Isa. 3.12. “As for my People, Children
are their Oppressors, and Women rule over them.” Here God
by the Prophet must have his reference to those Women
that usurpt Authority over the Men, and were
not of his setting up. For God set up no Woman Ruler A4r 7
Ruler in Israel to judge the People, but Deborah. Judges
4.4 Of whom the Scripture doth not say, she did any
thing amiss. The like of which is not in Scripture, to
be found of any King. But in this place God speaks of
those women that set up themselves in Authority: Such
as “Jezabel, who stirred up Ahab to work wickedness,” 1 Kings
21.25. And she said to Ahab, “I will give thee the Vineyard
of Naboth the Jezreelite,” vers. 7. And by her wicked
contrivances, she did accomplish it. And also Athaliah
the Daughter of Ahab, 2 Chron. 21.6. drew “King Jehoram
to walk in the ways of Ahab.” And likewise her Son
“Ahaziah walked in the ways of Ahab;” for his Mother was
his Counseller to do wickedly. Chap. 22.3. And after
her Son was Slain by Jehu, She then arose, and destroyed
the Seed Royal of the house of Judah. verse. 10. And
set up herself to reign by Usurpation and Murder. And
when such Idolatrous women rule, there can be no good
Government expected.

And it was Idolatrous women that drew King Solomon
to “Worship false Gods” 1 Kings 11.4. For he should
not have taken of the Heathen women to wife, untill
they had been brought to the worship of the true God;
“but he let his heart go out to Idolatrous women, and took to
him seven hundred Wives, princesses, and three hundred Concubins.”
Now in that he said, “One Man among a Thousand
have I found, but a Woman among all those have I not
found.” Eccle. 7. 28. And no wonder, that among those
Thousand he found not one good one. And that he
spake of them Women by whom he was intangled, is
farther Evident from his words in the 26. verse. For
he saith, “I find more bitter than Death, the Woman whose
Heart is Snares and Nets, and her hands as bands,” &c. The
which he had found by wofull experience, And we often
read and find the good to be drawn away by the bad,
but rarely that the bad are drawn by the good. Now
without doubt King Solomon kept company with the best
of Men, tho’ not with the best of Women; and therefore
no wonder to find “a good Man amongst a Thousand.” A4 But A4v 78
But as King Solomon declares against evil Women; So
he doth as highly extoll the Vertuous and good Women.
Pro. 12.4. Chap. 11.16.

And it was a Woman, Rahab by Name, that received
and “Hid the Spies, that was sent to view Jericho.” Josh. 2.
1. “And she believed in the God of Israel because of the great
Signs and Wonders that had been done.” And therefore
“She covenanted with the Men which she had hid, for the Saving
of her self, her Househould, and Relations.” By which
means they were preserved. And she believing in the
God of Israel, She was afterwards taken to wife into that
Line of which the Messias came. Mat. 1.5, 6. Who
when his “Enemies are made his Footstool,” he will take to himself
his own great Power, and Reign, Rev. 11. 15, 17.

And Ruth, for the Love She had to her Mother-in-
Law, and Israels God: She forsook her Country, her
Kindred, and her Fathers House: And resolved to cleave
with her Mother to the true God. For which she was taken
to wife into that Line of which the Messiah came Ruth
1.16. Chap. 4.13.

And after the Reign of many wicked Kings of Judah,
who had set up false Gods, and worshiped them; and the
Law of the Lord was cast aside by them. But when
Hilkiah the Priest found the book of the Law of the
Lord, he sent it to the Good King Josiah; who when
he heard the Words of the Law, and the threatned
Punishments which God had pronounced against those
Sins which his Predecessors had committed in that
Place, He rent his cloaths. And at the time of this
good King, and good high Priest; Huldah the wife of
Shallum, was Prophetess, and the good and humble King
did not disdain to enquire of the Word of the Lord
by Her; and the humility of the good High Priest was
such, that he went unto her, 2 Chron. 34.14, 19, 22. to
understand the mind of the Lord, tho he was the high
Priest of Gods setting up. And with the high Priest
was the Ephod, with the Breast-plate, in which was the
Urim and Thummim, Exod. 28.28, 30. And the High Priest A5r 9
Priest might have said, I will rather euquireenquire of the Lord
by the Ephod, by which the Lord doth answer the High
Priest. 1 Sam. 23.9, 10, 11, 12. than go to a woman to know
the mind of the Lord. But his humility was such as to
desire the knowledg of the Word of the Lord; let the
Lord declare his Mind by whom he pleases. And now,
tho’ there is no Prophets nor Prophetesses as was formerly,
yet by whomsoever God makes the Scriptures to
agree, it is visibly evident the Lord must be assisting
therein; seeing no Mortal of themselves could do it;
Since by men they have been set at an unreconcileable
difference. The beast desiring to “change Times and
Laws; and it was given into his Hands untill a time,
and times, and the dividing of time.” Dan. 7.25. By
which we have lost the right Sentiments of the Word,
and of the World to come; By which means the Scriptures
are made to contradict themselves: So as thereby
the Sheep of “Christ Eat that which others have trodden,
and Drink that which others have fouled with their Feet,”
Ezek. 34.19. But by whomsoever the Lord shall
make the Scriptures to agree, whether by Man or
Woman; Man is bound to acknowledg it, and to own
the whole Truth, without they will for the sake of
by-ends be found in wilful Rebellion against God, and
thereby draw the threatned Judgments upon themselves;
which otherwise they might escape: And man
by the Apostasy having laid the World in darkness,
therefore God accordingly brings forth the whole
Truth another way.

Now Moses did prophesy to the Time of this Kingdom
that is yet to come. For he prophesied of the
Vine, whose Grapes are Gall, and Clusters Bitter.
For which their Foot shall Slide in due time, from the
greatness and Grandeur they are in, when the Lord
doth “Whet his Glittering Sword, and his hand take
hold of Judgment. And then it is the Lord will restore
his People, and cause the Nations to rejoyce with them,” Deu.
32.32, 35, 41, 42, 43. This Song gives an accontaccount of Israel’s A5v 10
Israel’s being brought into the Land of Canaan; their
waxing fat, and kicking therein: their being cast out of
their Land, their being moved to Jealousy, and provoked
to Anger by a foolish Nation. They were
moved to Jealousy, because the Heathen were brought
in to be the Vine of the Earth at the Messiahs first
coming; and they were provoked to Anger by a foolish
Nation; for the Romans took their Country, and destroyed
their Cities and Temple. And the Romans
were term’d a foolish Nation because, when they had
embraced the Faith, they soon let go the Truth.

Now Moses prophesied of this time, and of the day of
Judgment; but Hannah was she that first prophesied
what should be done in the Kingdom or World that is
to come. “That God will raise the Poor out of the
Dust, and lift up the Begger from the Dunghill; to set
them among Princes, and to make them inherit the
Throne of his Glory,” 1 Sam. 2.8. according as in Psal.
113.4, 5, 6, 7, 8. And though the Lord be high, yet
hath he “respect unto the Lowly,” but the “Proud be knoweth
affar off,” Psal. 138,6. “And before destruction, the
Heart of Man is Haughty, and before Honour, is Humility,”
Pro. 18.12.

And in this time it was, the Women Midwives that
saved all the Male Children of the Hebrews alive, when
Pharaoh, through Self-interest, Pride, and Cruelty,
ordered them to be destroyed. For which the Lord
rewarded the Midwives, Exod. 2.15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22. And it was Pharaohs Daughter, who
brought up Moses as her Son, And he was the Type of the
true Messiah. And for Pharaohs Wickedness and Cruelty,
God hardened him in Unbelief of his Power, so as
he followed Israel into the Red Sea, in which he and his
Host were overthrown, Exod. 14.28.

And when Christ came into the World to suffer, he
did not only come of a Woman, but the knowledg of
his coming, first came amongst the Women. For the
blessed Virgin went and acquainted her Cozin Elizabeth with A6r 11
with the Glad tidings; who upon the hearing of the
Sound of her Salutation, “was filled with the Holy Ghost,”
Luke 1.41. We are here likewise to take notice, that
Women were first said to be filled with the Holy Ghost.
And the Blessed Virgin said, “He that is mighty, hath
done to me great things, and holy is his Name. For behold
from hence forth, all Generations should call her blessed,” Luke.
1.48, 49

And it was Anna the Prophetess published in the
Temple Christ’s first coming, to all them that looked for
Redemption in Jerusalem, Luke 2.38.

And it likewise was a Woman that anointed Christ’s
head with the precious Ointment, at which some murmured,
the Ointment being of such Value Mark 14.
3, 5.

And it was a Woman that washed the Lords Feet
with her Tears, and wiped them with the Hair of her
Head, and anointed them with Ointment, Luke 7.38.

And it was Women that did Minister to Christ of
their Substance, Luke. 8.2.

And a Woman of the Gentiles, a Samaritan, the
Lord Chirst declared himself to, and she made him
known to the Men of Samaria; and brought them to
Christ, John 4.26, 28, 29, 30, 39, 40, 41, 42.

And at the time of Christ’s Sufferings, the Daughters
of Jerusalem wept for him, Luke, 23.28. But the Sons
of Jerusalem, cryed, “Crucifie him, Crucifie him,” Verse 21.
And “Herod with his Men of War, sat him at nought, and
mocked him.” Verse 11.

But the Women that followed Christ, stood beholding
him all the time of his Crucifixion, Mark. 15.
40, 41. Luke. 23.49. When all his Disciples forsook
him and fled. Matt. 26.56.

And it was the Women that was first at the Sepulchre,
where the Body of the Lord, was laid, early in the
Morning, when it was yet Dark, John 20.1. Matt. 28.1
And So by their Love and Diligence, they got the first sight A6v 12
sight of the Lord after he arose, And the Lord sent
them to be the first publishers of the Resurrection to
his Disciples. Matt. 28.10.

And it was the Women of Macedonia, who first
embraced the Faith in that Place. For a Vision
appeared to Paul in the Night: There stood a Man of
“Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, come over into Macedonia
and help us.” Acts 16. 9. Which accordingly he did.
And he, and they that accompanied him thither, were
“in that City abiding certain Days,” Verse 12. In which
time it doth evidently appear, they had gotten to themselves
Hearers. For it is said in the 13. Verse. “On the
Sabbath Day we went out of the City by a River side,
where Prayer was wont to be made.” A place chosen
Sutable to their purpose: that those that embraced the
Faith, might there be Baptized. And we are to take
Notice, that it was the Women that met there; For St.
Paul saith, “We Sat down, and spake unto the Women
which resorted thither. But the Men of the City rose up against
them, And the Magistrates rent off their clothes, and
commanded to beat them, and when they had laid many
Stripes upon them, they cast them into Prison, Charging the
Jaylor to keep them safely.” Verse 22, 23. At which time
the “Jaylor and all his were convicted, and baptized.” Verse
30. 31, 33. And Lidia was a Succourer of them, both
before and after their imprisonment, Verse 15, 40.

And it was the men that pretended to be knowing
in the Scriptures, that withstood the Apostles Doctrine
and stir’d up the devout and Honourable Women, and
the chief Men of the City, Acts 13. 50. against St. Paul
for declaring the Truth. And of the Greeks it is said,
“That the Honourable Women Believed,” Acts. 17.12. where
by it is signifiyed that there was not many honourable
Men that did there believe, because there is no mention
made of them.

And that God, who for Abrahams Love and Obedience
to him, because his exceeding great reward: So
that for Abrahams sake, all the great Blessings promised are A7r 13
are to come upon “him and his Seed” in time to come, Gen.
12.2, 3. Chap. 15.1. Chap. 22.15, 16, 17, 18. So the
Lord will not let the Love of the Women pass unregarded
by him. Who hath promised, “that those that
Love him, should be Beloved of him,” Pro. 8. 17. John. 14.
21.

And the Messiah being the seed of the Woman, so as
Women with the Tribe of Judah may say, 2 Sam 19.
42. “The King, the Lord Christ, is near of Kin
to us, therefore let us prepare, and wait and pray
for his return, that we may be found ready for the
Bridegroom of our Souls.” When, as for them that will
not prepare, of his Supper they shall “not have any share,”
Luke 14.24. For of such, the Lord saith, They shall
not tast of his Supper.

And of Woman came the chief Corner stone: And
by Man has been lost the right knowledg both of
Christ’s Kingdom and Throne. Therefore God saw
good, that from his Word, Woman should conceive
aright how to bring the true knowledg of both again
to light. And as Zerubabel laid the FoundaaionFoundation Stone,
“so his hands finished it,” Zech. 4.7, 9 And accordingly
Zerubbabel truth to Woman doth Joyn 1 Esd. 4.13. because
she was to bring to light, that truth which Man
had declin’d.

And that God that caused a Woman, Anna by name,
to declare in the Temple “the Coming of Christ to all
them that looked for Redemption in Jerusalem,” Luke 2.38.
When the Scribes and Pharisees understood it not. Therefore
no wonder that God should now again bring to
light the truth of that Doctrine, which Man did first
Slight.

Now whereas St. Paul saith, 1 Cor. 14.34. “Let your
Women keep Silence in the Church, for it is not permitted unto
them to speak,” Verse 35. And if they will learn any
thing, “Let them ask their Husbands at home.” These
words of St. Paul could have no general reference. For
many of the Women did embrace the Faith before their Hus A7v 14
Husbands. As those of Macedonia did. So as had they
been to ask their Husbands at home, it had been the
ready way to have turned them to have been Infidels
again. But St Paul wrot this to the Church of Corinth,
where without doubt, he found the Men more Industrious
to understand the Truth: and that the Women
might be too troublesome to them, by asking them
too many impertinent Questions, in the Church or publick
Meetings. Therefore he saith, “Let your Women
keep Silence in the Church, for it is not permitted unto them
to speak, but to ask their Husbands at home.”

And whereas St. Paul saith, 1 Tim. 2.12. “I suffer not
a Woman to teach.” Thereby shewing he spake this from
himself. And if it is to be taken as here exprest, the
which I cannot so understand him, because then he contradicts
himself: and also it not being agreeable to the
rest of the Scriptures, therefore of no force. And he
desires the Churches to be “Followers of him, even as he is
of Christ,” 1 Cor. 11.1. But the Churches are to follow
none, but as they follow Christ. But Christ gave no
such Command as this of St. Paul, but left other Examples,
as I have before cited. And in St. Pauls time one
Man had Four Daughters, Virgins, which did Prophesie,
Acts 21.9. And were they not to speak in the
Church, which then were in the Believers Houses: to
whom were they then to declare their Prophesies to?
And the Women were to instruct and teach their Children,
and Neighbours and acquaintance in the Truth,
And St. Paul saith, “The Elder Women should teach the
Younger Women,” Titus 2.3, 4, 5. And their Husbands
too, no doubt, if they were Ignorant in the Faith.

And Timothy knew the Holy Scriptures from a
Child, being taught by his Mother and Grand-Mother, 2
Tim. 1.5. Chap. 3.15. And Aquila, and Priscilla took
the learned Apollo to their House, Who is said to be
Might in the Scriptures; him they took and instructed
in the “way of God more perfectly,” Acts 18.24, 26. And
St. Paul saith, “Priscilla and Aquila were his helpers in Christ A8r 15
Christ Jesus” Rom. 16.3. And in that Priscilla is put
foremost it doth signifie she was the better instructor of
the two. And likewise the same Apostle wrote to his
“Yoke-fellow to help those Women which labored with him in that
Gospel,” Phil 4.3. Whereby it doth plainly appear they
were to instruct and teach the People, tho’ not in the
great publick assembles or Synagogues, as the men were,
neither were they sent, but to them that had before embraced
the Faith; that they might further instruct them
therein. For if they had been sent to others, they might
thereby have been Slandered, and so brought a Scandal
upon Religion. Thus we see, by laying the Writings
of St. Paul together, we may understand his meaning,
which, if we take them, not considering how they were
spoken, then they are plain Contradictions as we here
see.

Now one Woman being first in the Transgression,
was the cause that God laid Women under Subjection
in this time, and Pain in Childbearing. And
hath given the Men the ruling Power in Church
and State, and in their own Families: Now that Judg
that hath been so severe on the Womans side, is near at
the door to call Men to an account how they have ruled
in Church and State, and in their own Families, and what
good example they had shewed, Therefore it is best for
them to consider and order their Conversation a right, before
it is too late, that they may not be reckoned as part
of that “Vine that will be trod without the City, when the
Lord comes.” Rev. 19 15. Chap. 14.18, 19, 20.

Eve was beguiled thro the Serpents Subtilty, 2 Cor. 11.
3. And did not willingly betray her Husband, for She
gave him of the Fruit, before she had found the evil effects
thereof. But Men who were intrusted with the word for
themselves and their Posterities, and they by their changing
Times and Laws, Dan. 7.25. “and Eating the good
Pastures, and in treading down the residue of the Pastures,
and fouling the deep waters,” Eze. 34.18, 19, 20. “And biding
the Talent,” Matt. 25.18. of the Word, which was left A8v 16
left to mankind to improve their time thereby, the
which man by his “turning things upside down” Isa 29.16.
he laid the “World in Darkness,” and “made Merchandize of
the Souls of the People,” Rev. 18.13. For which God hath
declared, “That the Prophets, the rulers, the Seers hath he
covered, and the vision of all is become, as a book that is
Sealed,” Isa. 29.10, 11. And the Apostle saith, “God hath
chosen the weak things of the World, to confound the things
which are Mighty.” 1 Cor. 1.27. Isa. 44.25. From which
it is plain, that the whole truth of Gods word was not
to be brought to light on that side by which it was
first lost. “And for those that will not read nor consider
because they will not understand, it is wilfull Ignorance, and
willfull ignorance is like to willfull Rebellion,” and that man
that will persist to set up his Wisdom above Gods
word, shall certainly fall thereby, for none is to “add unto
it nor diminish from it,” Deu. 4.2. Rev. 22.16. Num. 12.8.
and all that would not be Sharers of Gods Wrath,
should declare the whole truth, when God again
brings the true meaning of his Word to Light. But
how ready is Man in Religion to differ with one another
for trifles, because Interest lies at the bottom.
But when all Men are found in Mistakes, as to the great
part of their Fundamentals, then the Generality of
all Parties, is willing to Smother it, by reason they
think it not to sute with their interest; but what “advantageth
it for a Man to gain the whole World, and lose his
own Soul,” Matt. 16. 26. But it is want of a belief in
the truth, which makes many so regardless, and unwilling
to deny themselves the Injoyments of this World,
for the hopes of that of a better. And others thinking
to put off all, to, A Lord have mercy on them at the
last. Whereby multitudes will find themselves miserably
deceived. Therefore let every thinking Soul, break
off their Sins by Working righteousness; and such as are
Rich shew mercy to the Poor, 1 Tim. 6.17, 18, 19. And Labour
to attain to the true knowledg, and Love of God; And the Patient
waiting for of Christ, knowing that our Labour will not be in
vain in the Lord, 1 Cor. 15.58.

Finis.