present unto them half moons and stars, and sometimes thick darkness, darker than any natural darkness whatsoever; also he did present his head only in the day time, without a body, to a gentlewoman that I know, in her chamber; also presenting unto her, to deceive her, the forms of strange beasts, as namely, dragons and such like. Again, I declare from the Lord, that this John Robins did present the form of his face, looking me in the face in my bed the most part of a night, insomuch that I cried in my spirit unto the Lord, and the Lord, by his Spirit, revealed this great Antichrist unto me, to my exceeding joy and his everlasting praise. Much more might be spoken of his deceits in this kind; but now I shall declare the manner of his being worshipped as a God by those deceived by him. They prayed unto him, and they fell flat on their faces and worshipped him, calling him their Lord and their God: also he gave commandment to some of them, that they should not make mention of any other God, but him only also he gave authority to some of his disciples, both men and women, to change their wives and their husbands, telling them that they were not united to their own bone. This cursed Cain changed his own wife first, for an example, and called her name Eve, telling his disciples that she should bring forth his Son Jesus, and it should be caught up into Heaven: many of his disciples following his cursed example, to their utter ruin in this life, and that to come. Also he commanded his disciples to abstain from meats and drinks, promising them that they should in a short time be fed with manna from Heaven, until many a poor soul was almost starved under his diet, yea, and some were absolutely starved to death, whose bodies could not bear his diet; for those

that believed on him indeed, they brought in their whole estates unto him, so that then he had full power over their souls, and bodies, and estates, and he did plague their spirits and bodies at his pleasure in a most dreadful manner, if they were not obedient to his commands, of the which I myself was an eyewitness. I could speak more of this prince of devils in this last age, but I know I have written enough for a spiritual Christian to discern something of this great deceiver in what I have written. When his wickedness was at the full, the Lord Jesus sent me, as beforesaid, unto this John Robins, to declare his wickedness unto him, and immediately to pronounce him cursed in soul and body, from the presence of the Lord Jesus, to all eternity, unto the which I, with my fellow-witness, were made obedient. Then about two months after this sentence of the Lord Jesus, this John Robins wrote a recantation of all his seeming great matters declared by him, and sent the writing to General Cromwell, and so obtained his liberty; and when he was out of prison, he gave all his disciples about London the slip, and with what silver he had left, that he had cheated from them, Cain-like, instead of building of cities, he went into his own country and re-purchased his land; but it was rebought with the innocent blood of many poor innocent souls, in the highest nature, that ever any man gained such a sum of silver as he did.

CHA P. III.

Of the Unlawfulness for a Spiritual Christian to war with a Sword of Steel.

AGAIN, I declare from the Lord Jesus, that all those that bear the name of Christians, and yet make use of the sword of steel to slay men, who are the image of God, they are utterly ignorant of the true God, the Man Jesus, and enemies to his gospel, that commands them to love their enemies; therefore their fleshly reasoning causeth them to forsake the gospel of suffering the cross of Christ, and they apply themselves to the law of Moses, to prove it lawful to kill the gospel of Jesus, instead of yielding obedience unto it. Unto you that are chosen to work righteousness, I declare, by revelation from the Holy Spirit, that no spiritual Christian hath any thing to do to meddle with any Scripture from the law given by the hand of Moses, to prove it lawful to war with the sword of steel, because it was lawful for the nation of the Jews only, by commission from the Lord, to war against all the heathen Gentiles that rose up against the Jews, because they worshipped the God of Israel, who was contrary to the heathens' Idol-Gods; and this war of the Jews was lawful until God the Father became flesh, to reconcile both Jew and Gentile into that one faith in the body of his flesh, and no longer. Therefore, since God became flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone, sin only excepted, I declare from the Lord Jesus, that they that are Christians indeed, they are not under the law of Moses, that is, a sword of steel, but they C

are under grace, or the gospel of Jesus, that is, the sword of the Holy Spirit, that makes all true Christians to understand, that in this world their portions is to suffer all kind of wrong from all men, and to return mercy and forgiveness unto all men, yea, and to forgive those that would kill them, because they know that all vengeance is the Lord's, and he will repay it; therefore they dare not rob God of his glory. Again, when the Lord Jesus gave that new law of love unto all his elect believers, where he saith, It was said of old, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. These be those Christians indeed that may be called perfect, as their Heavenly Father was perfect; the Lord Jesus, who did all good, and suffered all wrong, yea, and laid down his life for that whole world of his elect, when they were all become his enemies. Again, I declare from the Lord Jesus, that they that are new born by the Holy Spirit, they are so farfrom killing, or consenting to the killing of any man, offensively or defensively, in their own behalf, or in the behalf of any other man, that they are afraid of their own evil thoughts, and much more of evil words or deeds, against God or men, because they know nothing but pure righteousness, pure love without envy, and pure innocence, shall reign in eternal glory with the only eternal Father, the Lord Jesus. And, on the contrary, they know all man-slayers, under what pretence soever, and all covetous, idolaters, drunkards, swearers, liars, sorcerers, whoremongers, and all those that vindicate unrighteousness, through the love of silver, in opposing of that pure law of love, that commands all Christians not to do as they are done unto-that is the hypocrite's righteousness: but, on

the contrary, to do unto all men as you would they should do unto you: this is the righteousness of pure faith, which is the righteousness of God, which makes men to fulfil all righteousness. For want of this, those unrighteous persons beforesaid must all perish to eternity. Again, I declare from the Lord Jesus, that all those that hate to yield obedience to this pure peaceable law of love, proceeding from the pure spirit of the Lord Jesus; I say, in the great and notable day of the Lord, by his decree, or by a word speaking from his mouth, they shall every one of them rise out of the dust together, not with the same bodies they died, or fell asleep in, because there was somewhat of God in those bodies, whilst they lived, which perisheth with them in death; but the bodies which they shall have shall be in form of their former bodies, but they shall be fiery bodies, of spiritual darkness, yea, bodies of all unrighteousness, having all their wicked deeds of their former bodies conveyed into these bodies, as fuel to kindle the fire of new sorrows in these bodies of hell and utter darkness, and their spirits in their bodies shall be all fiery devils; so their bodies shall be their kingdom of hell, and their proud spirits, that had pleasure in unrighteousness, shall be the devils, that shall be barred in close prisoners within their bodies, from all motioning or thinking of any former comforts, either spiritual or natural, to give them any ease at all, because all time is past; then, as beforesaid, shall their spirits and bodies burn together like a flame of fire, that is, all as dark as pitch, they never stirring from the place of their resurrection, nor never seeing one another's faces more, much less shall they see the faceof God, just men, or angels, to all eternity; and the place of their eternal torment shall be