CHAP. II. The sight, reception, and enjoyment of the TRUE BLV (which far surpasseth the Philosophers Stone, &c. Hinted at.

—Hoc accidet dum vile fui

For wo is me, I am undone, I have seen the Lord the King.

I am undone. I am a fool.

Suffer fools gladiy; if you may, if you can.

If I am a fool, it is for your sakes.

I am besides my self; and if I am—it is to God

I am not—for God hath took me.

I am undone, yet gloriously and joyfully undone.

I have seen the Lord. THE King;

Who appeared unto me

On [Innocents Day] the 28 of the last moneth.

He spake to me and with me, (as a friend speaketh to his friend) of things unspeakable and unutterable.

By viz 28 Jan. from ten at night til about 3 i'th' morning. night (on my bed also) he whom my soul loveth, set before mine eye, both mental and corporal.

BLV

Exceeding glorious, most transparent and most transplendent.

And what I am now about (with fear & trembling, as also with high rejoycing) I can present to you, no more, no otherwise, then as part of the black, dark shadow of a man, against a sun-shine wall, &c.

At this strange, glorious, and unexpected sight,

The Spirit of Burning (by which the filth of the daughter of Sion is purged) did so surround me, and took such real possession of me,

That it not onely waxed hot within me;

But also (on a sudden) set my body on such a flame; that (at a distance) it would warm the stander by, as if they were warm­ing their hands at a burning fire, &c.

Then was I raised to sit up in my bed (in my shirt) smoaking like a furnace.

And with glorious holy fear and trem­bling, I bowed the Knees of my soul; as also my body

With all awful reverence before the dread­ful, (yet to his friends) the glorious presence of the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob,

With my hands wringing, the Spirit groaning,

And at length saying,

I beseech thee, I beseech thee, I beseech thee

Tell me what is this?

Then HE spake;

Whose voice once shook the earth; But now not onely the earth, but the heavens also.

Saying,

Fear not, it is I BLVI.

Whereupon the Spirit within me (with exceeding joy) exceedingly groaned; & with a loud voice, out-sounded

O the BLV! O the BLV! O the BLV!

And the worm, and no man said, what BLV;

Lord

He, as a loving Father, gave me (as it were) a box 'ith' ear, saying,

Dost not remember, when thou was't a

School-boy, thou heard'st this saying,

TRUE BIV wil never stain, will never fail, White is the signal of Innocency. BLV, of Truth.—

And I that am incomprehensible, without colour, invisible,

Yet in (an unfathomable sense) as visible,

And as I may, can & wil so say; Heb. 11. 27

I both have, can, wil, & do ap­pear in my COULORS, at my pleasure.

The White—as Innocency, the BLV—as trueth.

TRUE BLVI, True BLVI IAM.

And though I am in heaven, earth, & hel, &c

Yet earth, hel & heaven, yea the heaven of heavens is not able to contain me, &c.

Now have I in an unspeakable eminent way bowed the heavens, & am come down upon the earth. And will shew my self,

As in my Coulors,—&c.

Whereupon he drew a sharp two edged flaming sword, &c.

(Another manner of Sword then that hee wore on Mount Sina)

Saying,

Bear thou the typical testimony thereof.

And in a dark, low, beggarly shadow, wear BLV, With this Superscription,

And (not conferring with flesh and blood) I was obedient to the heavenly command­ment.

Whereupon with an exceeding holy fear and trembling, fiilled brim-ful [also] of joy and rejoycing,

I bowed down hoth soul and body, before the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And the Spirit within me sounded forth, O eternal spirit of TRUTH, which wil ne­ver fail.

What am I, a worm, and no man? ——A Nazarite (By the Lord of Hosts, which dwelleth in Mount Sion) made blac­ker then a cole—

—Not known in the streets—

Known at home Only.

Fear thou not, I am thine, & I am with thee and a wal of fire round about thee.

I will also tell thee what I am doing in These whipping Times,

And in this my Day

Which burns as an OVEN.

Hark!

Chap. III. What the Lord is doing these whipping Times? &c.

Hark!

The noise of a whip, on the top of the Mountains,

Whip and burn, whip and burn, whip & burn.

I, THE consuming fire in An. BLVII—have bowed the heavens, & am come down, I am am come to baptize with the Holy Ghost, and with Some have felt it with a witness. Fire.

My Fan is in my hand, and I will throughly purge my Floor, &c.

But,

The chaff I will burn up, with unquench­able Fire.

O chaff, chaff, hear the Word of the Lord.

To the unquenchable fire thou must, it is thy doom.

It's a whipping Time. The day burns as an Oven.

Wherein (II) all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble. And the day that cometh, and [NOW is] shall BURN them up.

It shal leave them neither root nor branch, Mal. 4. 1. Learn what that meaneth, Whom it hitteth, it hitteth.

It's a whipping time.

And he that is TRUTH, and no Lye, hath bowed the heavens, and is come down. (III TO whip the Thieves out of his own Ye are the Temple of the li­ving God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them, &c. 1 Cor. 6. 2 Cor. 6. 10. Temple. And amongst all the rabble that are there, he wil whip out that old thief, that foul & unclean spirit that saith, Stand back, I am holier then thou, &c.

That Thief also shall not scape his Lash, who saith, Lo here, or lo there, &c,

These are whipping time; and

The day Burns as an Oven.

And thus saith my God,

Who (to my exceeding, exceeding joy) is a consuming Fire, I have bowed the hea­vens, and am come down.

(IV) To try every mans work so as by Fire; and this consuming fire shall enter in­to the marrow and the bones, and search the heart and the reins:

And shall go on and do its work, as it hath begun:

And turn the IN-side outwards.

To the eternal fame of some; and to the everlasting shame of others.

Let the later expect what is upon them coming with a vengeance.

The day burns like an Oven.

For (V) He hath bowed the Heavens—and is coming down in flaming Fire,

To render vengeance to those that know him not; especially to those who talk much of him, yet call him, Beelzehub, &c. &c. &c.

These are whipping times.

For [VI) he hath bowed the heavens, and is come down to whip

These froward foolish children who call their Father Rogue, if he appear in any o­ther garb then what they have usually seen him in, &c.

And he will never give over whipping them, till they give over saying to him, What dost thou?

Till they give over Injoyning him his way, &c.

And their daring to be so arrogantly foo­lish, as

To JUDGE the things THEY know not—

He that hath an ear to hear let him hear.

And AL shall feel

It is a whipping time.

For (VII) He hath bowed the Heavens, and is come down to whip and burn, whip and burn.—

None shall escape his lash,

No not his dearly beloved Daughter of Sion.

Among many other things he will sound­ly scourge her for her haughtiness, and outstretched-neckedness.

For holding her neck so high.

For her cursed Scorn, Hellish Pride and niceness.

For not remembring her Sister Sodom in the day of her pride, &c.

And the roaring ramping-Lyon, with the sharp two-edged Sword, wil run her through and through.

And with unquenchable fire

Will burn up the bravery of their tinkling Ornaments.

The bracelets, &c. The changeable Suits of apparel, &c.

The Glasses, and fine Linnen. The Hoods and the Vails, &c.

And instead of sweet smelling there shall be a stink; and BURNING instead of Beauty.

And because she turneth away her eyes from her own Flesh, yea, and denies her own Spirit and Life;

Yea, her Father that begot her; and

Her eldest Brother, the Heir of all,

For this her haughtiness, and stretch­ed-neckedness, she shall not onely be whipt, but also the crown of the head of the Daughter of Sion shall be smit­ten with a Scab. And

The Lord wil discover her SECRET parts.

And this shall be done to the green Tree.

And if this be done to the green Tree,

[VII] What shall be done to the Dry Tree?

At present I will not tell them.

They shall feel with a witness, &c.

And Ile only here insert a Prophecie, which sparkled forth from the Spirit of Prophecy, before these whipping times were thought on or expected.

The Prophecy.

Sith that their wayes they do not mend,

Ile finde a Whip to scourge them by;

And with my Rod Ile make them bend, and so divide them suddainly.

This is but the beginning of sorrows

And this that is now (in this dead Letter hinted) is but the bare contents of some of those many things which the consuming fire is about to do these whipping times; and in this day which BURNS as an Oven; and where in tri­umphs and joy I now live.

You shall have it more at large one way or other, one time or other.