And the Lord commandeth and raiseth up the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof, and not your witches nor ill-tongued people.

And David saith, 'They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep for he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof: they mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble: they reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits ends; then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still; then are they glad, because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. O that men would praise the Lord, for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men.' Psalm cvii.

So ye may see it is the Lord that commands and raiseth the winds and the storms, and allays them (again, and not the witches, or ill-tongued people; and that brings men to their desired haven, both outward and inward.

And again, David saith, He (to wit, the Lord,) causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, he bringeth the wind out of his treasure.' Psalm cv. 7.

And now mark all ye seamen, when ye have wind that maketh a storm in the sea, the Lord hath brought it out of his treasure: but the disobedient and rebellious against God's power, spirit and faith, and enemies to his truth and people say, when a storm or wind is raised in the sea, some witch, or some ill-tongued people have raised it; and these are erred from the true faith as David was in, who said, 'whatsoever the Lord pleaseth, that does he, in heaven, and in the earth, and in the sea, and all deep places.' Psalm cv. 7.

And God causes the winds to blow, and the waters to flow.' Psalm cxlvii. 18.

And David saith, fire, and rain, and snow, and waters, and winds fulfil God's word.' Psalm cxlviii. 8.

And now if the witches raise the storms and the winds, then the winds and storms must fulfil your witches' and ill-tongued people's words; but the storms and the winds fulfil God's word; and he raiseth up a storm or a wind, that walks upon the wings of the wind. And your witches cannot come into God's treasure, to fetch his wind out there, for they be out of his power. Nay, have not some of your faithless seamen, and you that think so, pretended to buy winds? oh! darkness and ignorance, and a shame to christianity! you are like to the clouds and winds without rain, and wells without water, and trees without fruit, as you may see in Prov. xxv. 14. and in Jude.

"Who hath gathered the winds in his fist? who hath bound the waters in his garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his Son's name, if thou canst tell? Prov. xxx. 4. Who with thy dark spirit imagines, that the witches can fetch or pluck the wind out of God's fist. Oh! abominable! it is much if the Lord doth not let his wind fly at you, and raise a storm against you, who are erred from the faith of the holy men of God: for Christ commandeth the winds and they obey him. Luke viii. 25.

And where do you read in all the scriptures, that the witches raised winds, or that any seamen did go to buy winds of them? let us see the chapter and verse for it; either among the people of God, or among the heathen; and if you cannot, stop your mouths, and of such practices be ashamed, for dishonouring christianity, who are contrary both to the law and gospel and turn to the Lord, who walks upon the wings of the wind, and holds the winds in his fist, and can let them fly out in blasts to terrify the wicked; but the just live by the faith in God and Christ, who is the author of it; who makes the storm a calm, and commands the winds, and brings them out of his treasure at his pleasure: and the righteous know, that the stormy winds obey and fulfil God's word.

And so the righteous can praise the Lord that created the winds, and all things in the heaven and in the earth, and in the sea; and renews man by Christ, into his image, and gives him dominion over all; praise and glory, honour and thanks be unto the Lord, who is over all, from everlasting to everlasting.

And all the faithful know, that a sparrow shall not fall to the ground without the will of the Father,' much more a man, who is of greater value than many sparrows.

And therefore be not faithless, but believe in Christ the light, who commands the winds and storms; by whom all things were made, and are upheld, by his word and power. Heb. i. 'the law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.' Psa. cxix. 71. Swarthmore in Lancashire, the 28th of the 8th month, 1676.

Concerning how the World is called the Sea.

G. F.

AND God will dry up Babylon's sea, and make her springs dry; for God brought them like a sea over the Jews, when they transgressed his law, and went from the Lord their rock and salvation.

And again it is said, 'the sea shall come upon Babylon, and she shall be covered with the multitude of her waves.' So when the Medes and Persians came upon Babylon, then the sea came over them, and the Jews had their liberty. Jer. xv. 42.

So spiritual Babylon is the mother of harlots, she sits upon the waters,

which are nations, people, and tongues; but God will dry up her waters, which have overflown since the apostles' days, who hath persecuted the people of God: and out of her sea hath risen the great storms of persecution, and the beast which rose out of the sea, with his storms of persecution. And it is the power of darkness, which keeps the people in spiritual Egypt, Sodom and Babylon, in this sea.

But in Christ's peaceable kingdom, and on his holy mountain, the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.'

• And the cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like an ox.'

And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp; and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den.'

'They shall not hurt, nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.'

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand up for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek, and his rest shall be glorious.'

And this is Christ who sets up his ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

So he gathers them with his power, spirit and light, and his ensign is not set up for the Jews, or a nation only, but for all nations in general; 'who enlightens every man that comes into the world,' that with his light they may see him and his ensign, Christ the heavenly and spiritual

man.

So the gathering of all nations is unto him, by his heavenly light which he enlightens them withal.

And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, in the perfection of it; and men shall go over dry-shod.' Isa. xi.

And the Lord will destroy in this mountain, the face of the covering that is cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations, [mark, all nations,] not a nation: that all people may see the salvation of God, with the light which comes from Christ their Saviour; and if they do not believe in it, it will be their condemnation.

And this covering must be taken off all people before the knowledge of the Lord covers the earth, as the waters cover the sea.

For the beast had his power from the dragon, and the whore is erred from Christ the truth: and Egypt in the spirit, and the spiritual Egyp

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tians will say, 'who is God, or his Son the light, that they should obey him?' (like the old Egyptian.) And Christ was crucified in spiritual Sodom and Egypt.

So here the Jews, scribes, pharisees, and high priests, who crucified Christ without the gates of Jerusalem, are called spiritual Egypt, and Sodom, who were the greatest professors in the world. But Christ is the ensign set up to the nations, who stilleth mystery Babylon's-sea; and after Babylon is fallen, and the seas dried up, then the new heaven, and the new earth is seen; for the first heaven and first earth were passed So when the first heavens and and then there was no more sea. away, the first earth are passed away, then the new earth, and the new heavens are seen; and here is seen the holy city, New Jerusalem, prepared as a bride for her husband Christ.

And here is the first and last seen, their busband Christ; and the marriage of the Lamb is come.

And the force of the Gentiles shall come to his light, and abundance of the sea shall be converted unto Christ.' Isa. lx.

So here is abundance of the world, which is called the sea, that shall be converted to Christ Jesus; for the Gentiles are the nations, and the Gentiles shall come to Christ's light; the sea the world: for nations and tongues are waters.

And the sea saith, wisdom is not in me. Job xxviii. Now the wisdom that is pure, is from above the sea, and them that fear God receive it.

'And he shall pass through the sea with afflictions, and shall smite the waves of the sea, and all the deeps of the rivers shall be dried up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.'

And Christ's sceptre shall be set up, his sceptre is a sceptre of righteousness. Zech. x. 11.

Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and the path in the mighty waters, that his people may pass, glory to his name forever.' Isa. xliii.

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And the Lord saith, When I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that I cannot redeem, or have I no power, to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea.' And here the great power of God and Christ is seen. Isa. 1. The wicked are compared to a troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt; their waters are foul.

'There is no peace to the wicked, saith my God; for they are always roaring, and wallowing, and making a noise.' Isa. i. 57.

And the cruel people that have no mercy, their voice roars like a sea, as in Jer. vi. 23. This sea, this merciless cruel people, which is like a roaring sea, was to come over the Jews for disobeying the Lord: and

therefore for all people to believe in the light, that Christ hath enlightened you withal, and walk in the light, that you may see Christ the rock, and build upon him, who is sure against all weathers.

And Christ will bruise the head of the serpent; for the Lord with his sore, and great and strong sword shall punish the leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent, which makes the world (both men and women,) crooked.

And he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea, [mark, in the sea,] for his habitation is in the wicked like a roaring sea, and they plead for him and his sin till they go to the grave, and not for Christ that bruiseth his head; and the Lord that destroys him with his great sword.

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But they that plead for Christ, can sing unto the Lord of his vineyard; for the Lord doth keep it,' and will water it every moment, lest any hurt it: 'I will keep it night and day, saith the Lord;' glory to his name forever, who is the keeper of his people, and this we witness who are his vineyard, as in Isaiah xxvii.

G. F.

Concerning Christ the Spiritual and Holy Head over his Holy Church, and his Church's steadfastness, and confidence, and unity and oneness in him. By G. F.

CHRIST prayed for his church, and said, for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth; neither do I pray for these alone, but for them also who shall believe on me through their word.'

And Christ further said, 'I have given them thy word, and the world hateth them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the

world.'

And further, he saith, 'that they all may be one, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, (to wit, the Father and the Son,) that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.'

So here was Christ's prayer, that his church might be kept in oneness, in the Father and in the Son.

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And further, Christ said, the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one.'

Now here is a heavenly oneness in the heavenly unity.

And further, Christ saith, I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.'

So here Christ's desire is to the Father, that the world might know