Now amplier known thy Saviour and thy Lord,

Secular power, though feigning still to act

What Man can do against them, not affraid,

Well deem in outward Rites and specious formes

Of lucre and ambition, and the truth

Thir doctrine and thir story written left,

Left onely in those written Records pure,

Great numbers of each Nation to receave

Bestuck with slandrous darts, and works of Faith

With inward consolations recompenct, [ 495 ]

Who against Faith and Conscience can be heard

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On every conscience; Laws which none shall finde

With spiritual Armour, able to resist

Who all the sacred mysteries of Heavn

The Womans seed, obscurely then foretold,

To thir own vile advantages shall turne [ 510 ]

They die; but in thir room, as they forewarne,

Places and titles, and with these to joine

Appeer of respiration to the just, [ 540 ]

To bring forth fruits Joy and eternal Bliss.

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Satans assaults, and quench his fierie darts,

Baptizd, shall them with wondrous gifts endue [ 500 ]

Of Spirit and Truth; the rest, farr greater part,

And oft supported so as shall amaze

Working through love, upon thir hearts shall write,

Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous Wolves,

With joy the tidings brought from Heavn: at length

His consort Libertie; what, but unbuild

Thir own Faith not anothers: for on Earth

To guide them in all truth, and also arme [ 490 ]

T九九藏書he promise of the Father, who shall dwell

Powrd first on his Apostles, whom he sends

Though to the death, against such cruelties

His Spirit within them, and the Law of Faith

Satan with his perverted World, then raise

In glory of the Father, to dissolve

By spiritual, to themselves appropriating

To good malignant, to bad men benigne,

Thir Ministry performd, and race well run, [ 505 ]

To speak all Tongues, and do all Miracles,

His living Temples, built by Faith to stand,

Rarely be found: so shall the Whttps://read.99csw.comorld goe on,

Spiritual Lawes by carnal power shall force

Shall on the heart engrave. What will they then

Religion satisfid; Truth shall retire [ 535 ]

Left them inrould, or what the Spirit within

To all Beleevers; and from that pretense, [ 520 ]

Thir proudest persecuters: for the Spirit

Under her own waight groaning till the day

Hee to his own a Comforter will send,

Whence heavie persecution shall arise

On all who in the worship persevere

With superstitions and traditions taint,

As did thir Lord bef九*九*藏*書ore them. Thus they win

Infallible? yet many will presume: [ 530 ]

The Spirit of God, promisd alike and givn

And vengeance to the wicked, at return

Last in the Clouds from Heavn to be reveald [ 545 ]

Founded in righteousness and peace and love [ 550 ]

New Heavns, new Earth, Ages of endless date

Of him so lately promissd to thy aid

From the conflagrant mass, purgd and refind,

Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names, [ 515 ]

Though not but by the Spirit understood.

To evangelize the Nations, then on all