of God's wrath are poured forth upon this wicked, unbelieving, idolatrous world; neither shall there be any more vials of wrath, or plagues poured out upon men any more to eternity.

For that voice John heard out of the temple in heaven from the throne, it was from no other but from God himself, saying, It is done. And immediately upon that voice, there were other voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great as you may see verse 18.

These 18, 19, 20, 21, verses have all of them relation to the end of the world, which thing will be done in the pouring out of the vial of the seventh angel; which seventh angel is now pouring out his vial of wrath upon the men of this world. For as the seventh and last anti-angel, namely the Quakers ministry, doth sound, and hath sounded near upon twenty years, so likewise the seventh vial hath been poured out these twenty years also: and it will last pouring out to the end of time, even as the seventh anti-angel's ministry will last to the end of the world, as aforesaid. And, as I said before, much like unto those plagues that Moses brought upon Egypt, God will bring upon the earth, upon the sea, upon the sun, and upon the air, at the end of the world.

And as there was a great hail in Egypt, so that the Egyptians blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hail; even so will it be in the end of the world, when those great voices of the four and twenty elders, the four beasts, the holy angels, and

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saints shall utter their voice in Allelujahs unto God their King and Redeemer, it will be as the voice of thunders, and lightnings, and will cause a mighty great hail, every stone the weight of a talent. That is, God will rain down fire and brimstone upon the earth, and sea, sun, and air, so that none of these four, which are the life of all creatures, shall yield refreshment to the mind of man, but it shall rain stones of fire mingled with brimstone, which cannot be dissolved. So that men shall blaspheme God eternally, because of the hail, it being exceeding great. It must needs be exceeding great, because it is eternal, it being the last plague, or last vial of God's wrath, it being the end of all time, there being now nothing but eternal misery to remain. For there will fall upon every wicked man's soul, whose name is not written in the book of life, such an hail stone of fire and brimstone, that shall weigh a talent. That is, it shall weigh so heavy upon his heart, that it shall press his soul down into the second death, which is eternal. So much for the interpretation of the chief matters in the sixteenth chapter of John's Revelation.

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CHAP. LVIII.

N the sixteenth chapter of John's Revelation, it doth prophesy of the seven last plagues that God will pour out upon this wicked, unbelieving, idolatrous world; much like unto those plagues Moses poured out upon Egypt, at the begining of his commission. So likewise will God pour out the vials of

his wrath upon the earth, at the end of the world; which will be at the end of the commission of the spirit. Now what these seven vials are, I have opend in chap. xvi.

Now this seventeenth chapter it doth contain a prophesy of the downfall of the spiritual Babylon, or mystery Babylon. It is compared by the spirit in John, to a woman arrayed in scarlet, to an adulterous woman, to a whore, to a great city. Now this is to be minded by the reader, that there are two Babylons spoken of in scripture, two sorts of whores, two sorts of fornication, two sorts of cities, two sorts of vials of God's wrath, to be poured out upon the earth. That is, there is a temporal Babylon, and a spiritual Babylon, or Babylon in the history, and Babylon in the mystery; or a natural fornication of the flesh with woman, and a spiritual fornication in the soul and mind of man with idols. And so the one is called a whore, or an adulterous woman in the temporal, and the other is called a whore in the spiritual. So that there are two sorts of whores, and two sorts of fornications; likewise there are two sorts of cities; that is, a temporal city, and a spiritual city.

The temporal city is that which the resaon of man hath built for its own glory, ef wood and stone, gilded with silver and gold; the spiritual city is that which God hath built, which is the body of man. Therefore it is said in scripture, Your Bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost; so likewise the believing Jews and Gentiles, they are called by the spirit the holy city, so that there is a spiritual holy city, and I i

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there is a spiritual unholy city: that is, there are true worshipers of God, and false worshipers of God; a mystery Babylon, a mystery of God's temporal plagues, and spiritual plagues.

To sum up all the meaning of John's Revelation, is this, that all the true believers, both Jews and Gentiles, that do worship God according to the tenor of that commission they are under, whether it be the worship of the law of Moses, or the worship of the gospel of Jesus, set up by his apostles, or the worship of the spirit, set up by the witnesses of the spirit, these three being all commissionated of God, so that whoever doth truly believe in these three commissions in their time, and place, when they were in being upon the earth, I say they are all counted by the spirit but one city, or one woman, as Revel. xii. 1, A woman cloathed with the sun, &c.

So on the contrary, all false worship that is set up by non-commissionated men, who do resemble or imitate the true worship set up by true commissionated men, I say, those men having no commission from God so to do, their worship is meer idolatry, and all those people who join in that worship so set up, they are all idolatrous people; and so counted by the spirit in John that great city Babylon, in opposition to the holy city of God, as aforesaid.

So that this is to be minded by the reader, that there are but two cities; that is to say, the city of saints, and the great city of devils. That is, all true worshipers are called the holy city, and all false worshipers are called by the spirit, the great city Babylon,

Babylon, as aforesaid. So likewise they are all called but one woman, or one whore.

So that you that have any true light in your understandings, you may see that all the messengers of idolatry, and all idolatrous people, they are called by the spirit but one whore, or one fornication. So that look what worship hath been set up by a non-commissionated man at the first, in that they did imitate Moses in his worship, and so afterwards did imitate the apostles worship, without a commission from God.

I say, that the first broachers, or imitators of Moses, and the apostles worship, with all the adherents thereunto, and the multitudes of people that are deceived by them, who were the first broachers of this idolatrous worship set up by noncommissionated men, I say they are all counted by the spirit but a whore, in that they and all people who do join in worship with them, they do commit fornication in their spirits with idols. So that whoever doth worship false gods, by the instigation of the false prophet, or false priest; he doth commit fornication or whoredom with idols. So that this is to be minded, that all opinions in worship that people are in, who have not a true commission from God to be a minister, or preacher, he and they do all commit fornication with idols; for every opinion in religion that doth not worship the true God, they do commit fornication with idols; neither can they do otherwise, because their teachers are false; like priests, like people.

Also this is to be observed by the reader, that the li 2 revelation