subsist answerably upon its own native Food O let it not seem strange that this Life-Birth of Jesus is now upon its rising again it will be defended and protected by the conquering Right of the Mighty Alpha who will have regard unto this Kingly Heir while he is in his Young and Infant state that he may not be bereaved of his Kingdom There is no fear of this last high and perfect Birth to be hereof supplanted because the Foundation-Seal is upon it which is the Lord that quickening growing Life and Spirit that makes all that is not for it to fly away before it May the 19th 1676. Now knowing in my self another Spirit acting and moving in this new begotten Birth I was now apt for Phylosophick teaching in the all hidden Magia of Wisdom's Secrets In which this holy born Thing might attain skill and understanding as being thereunto constituted For as its Birth is from Mount Sion high great pure and Spiritual so must its Learning and Education answer thereunto No Tutour Teacher or Governour to it must be but what out of the Royal City the New Jerusalem doth come from thence by God the Father's Commission Who will new string our Tongues so as the Stammerer shall speak in that one pure Language which is only understood by Jesus and the Brotherhood Oh the Spirit of this New Creature dives deep and is of a piercing Understanding and of a quick Ear. Now upon this Birth 's opening and shewing it self as the true Nazarite it was set much upon my Heart and great awfulness was upon us who were Witnesses of this rising Birth how to carry it and behave our selves towards it So we sought earnestly by Prayer to be directed in the management thereof as desiring to answer this great love-Love-Gift according to the requiring of the gracious Donour This was my Morning consideration after which being much kept waking in the Night about it I fell into a slumber about the Morning and here was presented unto me a Book open and a Finger pointing to me to read it being very fair and legible Which I engaged my Mind to understand the meaning of but it seemed to be written in another Language then I had yet learned and so I could make nothing out of it But when I awaked and had waited a while in the interiour Silence it was said to me This was the Book of Prophecy which could not literally be read but it was given forth for the new living Birth to feed on it and to be eating it down and so ye shall feel it become a springing Source bringing forth deep precious and weighty things After this way and manner the holy Birth shall be disciplined and thus taught by a secret intrinsical mingling and conveying Power that shall all other Teachings drown nullifie and obliterate This shall only be of force and authority according as it was with Jesus who only is to be your Precedent of whom by way of derision it was said How comes this Man to be so understanding and knowing seeing he never was learned He being poorly and meanly Educated as they judged and not come up so high in their Form as to be bred up a Scribe therefore it was admiration to them how he came by that Wisdom and Knowledge Which so outvied all and made them astonished when they reasoned with him He brought forth all his Sayings from this deep central Birth of the holy overshadowing Breath-Power which issued continually affording still fresh and new Matter Now then to you who have partaken of the same Life and Birth with your Jesus and are come to feel this Word of Life stirring within you ye are charged to live by this Word which is the Book of Life incorporating it self in you Mistrust not but you will find enough herefrom to nourish and strengthen all your Internal Senses Expect no less in this Birth of Life then what was manifest in your Jesus the same budding Fruits there will be from the same Spirit as ye grow up in it Fear not but the anointing Powers and Gifts will open and flow as Antecedents belonging hereunto And whereas you have desired to know how you may manure this holy Birth You are required to bring him into the Temple of the Lord and there to dedicate him up in the Covenant of an Everlasting Priesthood Whose growth will be great and signal in the Courts of Holiness for evermore May the 20th 1676. This Morning this Word run through me and still cried in me Knowest thoâ—… what a Treasure thou standest charged withal Consider the high worth oâ—… this Birth and give all Attedance to it wait upon it and minister to it as youâ—… great Prince and Saviour For behold it is come to Redeem you out of all Siâ—… and Thraldom and will be a growing Tree of all fruitful Boughs excellently and richly laden Therefore be choice of it and tender it as the very Apple of your Eye and permit nothing to offend it Your Will-Spirits who from the high Eternity are tinged are commanded to Watch and Ward about it and to unite entirely with this perfect thing For it is a Stone out of the Sion Rock that will be your Covering of Strength and Salvation and the opening of the Store-house of all Blessings to run out freely It is but natural for you to grow and spring out of this Central Birth operating from within Your charge is only to attend this Altar-Fire and the pure Celestial Oyl that is the Free-will which the holy flaming Body doth subsist of from the Everlasting Mountain of Holiness distilling down to your Hands Therefore your only Business is to wait to take it in and upon this Holy Altar to pour it That so hereby it may become a very strong sweet and savoury Meat to the nourishing of the pure part which must be one with it through our being turned into a Golden perfect lump So solid and stable it must be as neither Clay Iron Brass or Tinn may or can here penetrate in No contrary Metals can run into this pure Body or what is not of its own high extracted Matter Therefore now this thing consider well and suffer this Lily Birth alone by it self to dwell undisturbed in the Sacred Temple till grown out of all Fear and Jeopardy to the state of Eldership to which full grown Body and Head the Crown is made only fit May the 22d 1676. These Internal Openings and Manuductions following me still so as they would hardly give room for any thing of a Worldly Sense to enter in contrary Seeds in my inward Ground could not be born there being something in me that was now grown so strong as to resist and throw out all other light and scruffy Grain For my Granary must be reserved for the one pure Birth-Seed according as my Jesus hath his Mind to me revealed Who said expresly Come come shut up the Grates and Windows of thy low carnal earthly Senses by which the
A FOUNTAIN OF Gardens WATERED by the Rivers of Divine Pleasure And Springing up in all the Variety of Spiritual Plants Blown up by the Pure Breath into A PARADISE Sending forth their Sweet Savours and Strong Odours for Soul-Refreshing P. J. De Loutherbourg By JANE LEAD Cantic 4. 16. Awake O North Wind and come thou South blow upon my Garden that the Spices may flow out let my Beloved come into his Garden and eat his pleasant Fruits Chap. 6. 2. My Beloved is gone down into his Garden to the Beds of Spices to feed in the Gardens and to gather Lillies LONDON Printed and Sold by J. Bradford near Crowder's-Well 1696. A Bundle of Revelations United And to be Dispersed to such as are Impartial Seekers and Unwearied Searchers into the Deep Things of GOD Which are only Knowable to that Holy Spirit that diggeth into the Rich Mines and Treasury of WISDOM Of which the Author hereof was under a Powerful Driving for the Space of about Thirty Years keeping a Private Recollection to her self as they did from Time to Time open and come down as a Burning Shower not knowing whether they should have been made Publick in her Age but thinking rather they might be kept as a Garden Enclosed and as a Fountain Sealed PRovidence having opened a Door unexpectedly through the strong Instigation of an highly Worthy Person truly enobled in the Spirit of his Mind who having had a savour and Relish of some Foregoing Books that had been Printed did make a generous offer to have the Bank and Stock of what the Holy Unction had dropped in brought forth into Manifestation for the Universal Enlightening Leading and Refreshing for the Dove-Flocks belonging to the Great Shepherd to whom such Pastures lie open to be freely fed upon I think my self obliged to Publish for these Ends what can be recovered of the Process and Diary of my Life since I have been under these Love-Visitations from the Spirit of my Lord. The Time being now accomplished wherein the Hour-glass of the Spirit is a second time turned up for the which there is a Call from the New Jerusalem World that all Persons of every Quality Rank and Degree under what Denomination soever they be throughout all Nations Peoples and Languages do give eart and watch every Golden Sand that this Glass doth run that nothing of it may run wast For it is the Morning-Watch and Day-break of the Spirit that is to spread forth its Light and Glory whereby is to be enlightned the Dark Ignorant State of the World who have sat in the Region of Traditional and Literal Knowledge according to the Rational Wisdom of Man which through the Innundation of the Spirit must all be drowned and a New Earth prepared wherein the Sowing of the Spirit is to be with one pure Golden Grain that can admit of no mingling of what is from Man for another Time is now at hand wherein nothing but what is purely taught of God shall abide and stand Therefore as one that hath obtained through Infinite Love and large Grace to be Baptized into this Glorious Manifestation of the Spirit I do beseech and excite all to whom this Journal shall come that they do well observe and take diligent notice of the Method and Way which God took with me in order to the bringing me forward to the Arrivement at the manifold Degrees and Growths which is here in a most simple and undress'd manner brought forth without any Alteration but just as the Spirit was pleased to render it self in its own Cloathing So in obedience to the Call of Wisdom may the same Visitation of Immediate Divine Teaching as a Day-star in your Hearts appear which may your Souls greatly revive and chear Now give me leave to tell you the Beginning of my Way that the Spirit first led me into In the first place then after some Years that I had lived in some good Degree of an Illuminated Knowledge setting under the Visible Teachings of Men that could give no further Light than that they had arrived from others through all of which I traced as a wandring Spirit that could find no Rest but something still I found within my self that did open to draw in from a more pure Air then I could meet without me Whereupon I introverted more into my own Inward Deep where I did meet with that which I could not find elsewhere except it were with such as were brought under the same Dispensation of whom a few Names were made known unto me Wherefore I do give my own Experience that I would have every one that desires to be Sealed with the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation not to take in any Fears Jealousies or Prejudices concerning the Emanations and Manuductions that the Holy Ghost will dispense forth as any shall be found Lovers and Waiters thereupon For I my self found all other Grounds and Pastures dry and barren as a parched Desart until I came to this Fruitful Lebanon where all Variety of sweet scented Flowers did as another Eden flourish pleasantly Which were known and enjoyed by giving up to the Teaching of the Holy Unction which as the Waters of the Sanctuary will never cease springing till they become an Overwhelming River which is the true Baptizing Water of Life This you will find to be true as you seriously apply your self to this Way and Method of God's Immediate Teaching Which then you shall find to open in the Center of your own Soul And this way manifesteth it self in a various Dispensation Sometimes this is by Inspeaking from the Essential Word which giveth its own certain Sound as different Occasions do offer upon a Soul 's waiting thereupon For it would be a very deplorable Case if Christ should leave his Flock and seal up the Fountain of all Future Revelation that is no necessary to be Renewed in every Age of Time Therefore he brings us to lie at the Mouth of this bubling Well of his Spirit for to drink in what is New and Fresh which doth greatly delight the Soul that would otherwise be apt to faint and flag before it come to the end of its Race Wherefore he doth strow our Way witâ—… fragrant Flowers all sweet and pleasant and of many and beautiful Colours as you may observe when you read the Similitudes and Visions which are here Published God many times coming down to unfold himself in this Figurative and Parabolical Yet more Essentially and Deeper above and beyond all Figures and Representations of which I shall give you some account as being under Command not to keep back or shun to declare the whole Purport whereinto I have been carried for the universal Refreshment and Benefit of such who are as meaned Children from every other Breast but that of their Eternal Mother whence all Wisdom and Understanding doth stream forth Intellectually which is the growing Nutriment as it doth pass Radically into the Soul as the Blood doth into the Veins Now here is a
hath seemed good to the Most Wise God and Father of our Spirits to raise up according to the necessity of this present day an Instrument by him fitted through many Fires and Waters and through all manner of Temptations both in the Heighths above and in the Depths beneath and immediately instructed at Wisdoms Oracle for so great a Work as the education of the King's Children and the leading them up step by step to their Fathers Throne that they may be Kings and Priests upon the Earth unto God and unto the Lamb for ever and may from the Righteous Virgin Earth spring up as Plants of mighty Renown in a well-watered Paradise and as Olive-branches continually empty the Golden Oyl out of themselves and drop their fatness for maintenance of a Perpetual Light in the Sanctuary that was before darkned This will easily be seen to be the Drift of these Writings by any one that is but a little skilled in their Dialect And it is no contemptible Providence of the All-seeing Eye of Etâ—…rnity that this Book after having laid so many years as in the dust should now come to be brought forth into the Light in such a Critical Juncture of Time and in this very Year which is full of great Expectations on this hand and on that To which nothing is given me in Particular to say but only this Word of Caution to the greedy Expectants and Waiter for some Outward visible Revolution in Church or State Let such be Sober in their Hopes and take good heed to themselves of their Observations or Calculations and let them not lay too great a â—…ess upon any external Delivâ—…ance how great soever or upon the Rise or â—…ll of any Earthly Monarch Potentâ—… 〈◊〉 State neither let them seek for the Kingdom of Christ in their own Will nor according to certain preconceived Notion â—…d Images nor binding it down to any Sect or Party in the so called Christian World for they shall find iâ—… no where but in the Triumphant Resignat on of Jesus Christ. When therefore they shall be certain that they have drunk of the 〈◊〉 â—…me Cup which he did drink that they 〈◊〉 passed through the strait and wrestling Gate of Death that they are entirely passed from all their Own into the Liberty of the Divine Will and have broken down every Image and Boundary that Man as Man hath set up then let them know that the Kingdom of Christ is near to them and upon its very breaking forth in much Glory Majesty and Power And when they themselves are thus got without the Walls of the Great City Babylon then and 〈◊〉 before let them expect the Descent of the New Jerusalem out of Heaven For most assuredly to none but Virgin Souls to the true Nazarites that for the Hope of Israel do wait in the Inward Temple Day and Night with their Lamp-spirits ever burning that so they may be ready to go forth at their Bridegroom's Call to meet him to the Lillies of the Vallâ—…y who though they neither Reap or Spin for themselves are yet arrayed more gloriously than Solomon in the Immaculate Robe of the Lord their righteousness yea to none but the Undefiled Doves that are in him made all beautiful and fair and that having washed themselves seven times in the Pool of his Blood are thereby set apart and redeemed from the Earth to be His Companions will this Beloved City come down Of the Truth of which every one must necessarily be convinced that doth but consider seriously the Process that this Author hath been Led in according as the same from these ensuing Memoirs may be gathered in order to the drawing down the Powers of the Heavenly Worlds and the unsealing the Fountain of the Holy Ghost and the Book of the Refurrection Neither can this Jerusalem Glory be disâ—…erned by any others or after any other method than is herein laid down from the Opener of that Principle let them look never so long about crying Lo here in the East or Lo there in the West For this High Promotion of Wisdom's Children cometh neither from the East nor from the West neither out of the North as some some are gazing after it at present nor yet from the South But the Lord cometh from TEMAN where the glorious Virgin Principle is Unlocked whence the warm holy Supernal South-wind doth blow upon the Gardens of Lebanon and cause the Spices to flow out whither the Patriarch Abraâ—…am always directed his Travels and where Jacob saw the Ladder of Heaven and the Gate thereof The Key of which Gate is there presented by the Hand of Divine Wisdom to all her Children to whom she crieth aloud standing at the entry of the Celestial City and proclaimeth the Joyful JUBILEE inviting them to return Now from their Captivity and Presently to come forth from the Tottering Babel which is founded upon the Sands and to enter with her Key into this City which hath Foundations For this She standeth in the top of the Heavenly Places and putteth forth her Voice to them at the coming in at the Doors for this She meeteth them in every Path layeth hold on them that having tried them with her Laws they may enter in Hereby and feast at the Table which she hath furnished for them But alas I see that the most even of those that have been enroll'd under Her Discipline will be not a little afraid to lay hold on this Key of the Kingdom when it is reached out to them and will shrink from it beholding how large it is and that it is made full of all Solid Gold even as this very Author did at its first Presentment as thinking it impossible for any ever to bear the Weight of it Besides this there is a Mercurial Serpent which twineth himself about it whose Life can be destroyed no otherwise but by the Royal Antidote of the Unicorns Horn. Let not any therefore think it a Light thing or easily Attainable to bear the Key of the Government on their Shoulders But let them examin thoroughly tâ—…e several Progresses and Steps of this Author in order to its Attainment that are Recorded for the space of about Six Years in This present Volume Of which it must be confessed that much has bcen Lost so that the Links of Wisdom's Chain may often seem to be broken But as the greatest Architect Statuary and Painter of these Last Ages is said to have become so Excellent meerly by his Observations drawn from a most Imperfect Maimed Statue or Bust being the Work of a most Exquisite and Masterly Hand so it is not at all to be despaired but that there may be found also in This Day some of Rare and Excellent Abilities of Spirit who notwithstanding any Imperfections or Maimings of this Spiritual Register or any Defects in its Exterior Habit of Languge or Style may by the assistance of their Supream Tutor ' draw forth even from the Disjointed Parts of This Work such an excellency
those that follow the Lamb do long to sing Glory to God in the Highest c. and to publish the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of Our God and Saviour flying in the midst of the Heavens upon the Wing of the Dove-Spirit and Proclaiming with a Loud Shout FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME Rev. 14. 7. Timotheus January 1st 1697. A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS AN Account of the first Appearance of Wisdom's Star to the Author pag. 17. Of the Book of Wisdom sealed with three Seats pag. 19 The Key of the Great Mystery p. 22. The Mystery of Rebeccah and of Jacob's obtaining the Blessing unfolded p. 25. The Mystick Death p. 32. Wisdom's Flaming Heart with the Budding Tree for Transmutation p. 34. The Mystery of Laban and Jacob or the strife of the Sensual and Supersensual Life p. 37. The Faithless and Faithful Dalilah compared p. 42. The true Nazarite p. 43. The Book of Life and the Book of Death p. 46. The Divine Angler p. 49. The Magical Journey with an account of Wisdom's high Stone of Wonder p. 53. The Eternal Matter of this Stone together with the Chain of the Creator with the Creature p. 64. An Expostulation of Wisdom's Pilgrim p. 66. The Voice of the Bridegroom p. 67. The Answer to the Spirit of the Soul p. 68. The Reply of the Bridegroom ibid. Thi Preparations of the Second Marriage p. 69. The Shulamite's Debate p. 72. Wisdom's Charge to the Shulamite admitting hâ—…r into the New Mystical Paradise p. 80. What is required to a Divine Association p. 85. An Experimental Reâ—…lation of the Lords Day and of being in the Spirit p. 86. The Hidden Mystery of Faith's Seed p. 88. Wisdom's Call and Direction for the Tabernacle Building p. 91. The Holy Composition Oil p. 101 102. The Garden of Beulah in the Land of Havilah p. 105. The Originâ—… and Nature of the Royal Ghostly Power in the Tabernacle-Body p. 117. The Renewed Spiritual Wooing p. 120. The Mystery of Spiritual Sol and Venus or the two Hoavenly Tinctures Male and Female p. 124. The going up from the Low Valley towards SION-Hill p. 126. A great Combat of the Dark world against the Ascending Traveller p. 131. The Lamb worried by two Dogs p. 135. A Visional Manifestation of the Various Growths of the New Birth before the Winged Power â—…f the Holy Dove p. 136. A further Declaration and Demonstration of this last Fixed State and of the Power of the Holy Ghost p. 137. A Preparation for fresh Assaults from the Dark Kingdom p. 140. A Memorandum how the Leviathan Spirit â—…nded the Author's Companion which caused a mighty Conflict for several Days and how he came to be again Restored p. 143. The Application hereof made by the Witness of the Tabernacle p. 150. Fresh Instances and Encouragements from the Spirit of Wisdom p. 15â—… The Union of the Zeal of Phineas with the Nazarite Purity p. 156. A Brâ—…viat of some late Perils we were in p. 157. The Divine Appearance from Mount Perazim p. 163. The Unicorn-Power p. 164. A seasonable Caution against Treachery p. 165. A Pâ—…servative against Dark Magick p. 166. The Allegory of Balak and Balaam ibid. The Case of Jacob's Servitude and Deliverance p. 167. The Cloud of Glory upon the Spiritual Tabernacle p. 170. Of Maimed Births p. 171. The Foundation Stones of the Holy City p. 172. Wisdom's Rock of Glory upon which it is founded p. 173. The twelve Foundation-Stones that every one is to bear who is thereinto admitted p. 178. A Call to this Searching Spirit from out of the New Jerusalem p. 183. The Reason of the Scituation of its Gates p. 185. Another Call to this Ascending Spirit p. 187. The Descent of the Jà sper-Stone for this End p. 188. The Tree of Life which is Three and One p. 189. The River of Sion p. 190. The Spirit 's Eccho to Wisdom's repeated Call p. 192. The earnest Expostulations of this Spirit with her Mother and with her Beloved p. 193. The Nazarite-Diet for the Jerusalem-Born Spirits p. 195. The Voice of the Bridegroom to the Spirit of the Bride after she had found an entrance into this City p. 198. The Bridegroom 's further Admonition to her and to the Jerusalem-Waiters p. 201. The Love Chain 203. The Chariot of Elijah p. 204. The New Book Opened or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS containing the Process of the Regeneration in his Mystical Incarnation Death Resurrection Ascension and Glorification p. 206. The Paradisical Sowing p. 207 211. The Spring or the Resurrection p. 208. The Ascension of the Bridal Spirit p. 209. The Glortfication of the same p. 210. Another Seal of this Book of Life opened or an Experimental Passage through another Death p. 212. Quench not the Spirit p. 213. The Mocking Ishmaelite p. 214. The Magdalen Waiter p. 215. The Salutation of the Risen Jesus p. 216. The Immutability of the New Creature p. 219. The Witnesses of the Resurrection p. 220. The Immediate Robe given to the Risen of Jesus p. 221. The Wonder-Birth p. 223. It s Education p. 225. The Book of Prophecy and of Life to be eaten down p. 226. The Food from the Altar p. 228. Aurora or the Day-spring from on High p. 231. The Threefold Appearance of the New Adam or the Three Degrees p. 233. The Ocean-Treasury p. 237. A Digression concerning the Communication and Interpretations of Magical Representations p. 238. The Passage to the Mountain of Pretious Stones p. 241. The Sapphire-Stone p. 243. The Spirits eager Search and Sighing after this Treasure p. 244. The Oppositions made from the outward Astrum p. 245. The Holy Root of the Magical Life ibid. The Globe of Light or the Perfect Day p. 247. The â—…ight of Paradise compared with that of Mount Sion p. 249. The End of all Things at hand p. 251. The Fall of Babylon p. 252. The Magical Seals p. 253. The Restoration of the Magical Might or the Spirit Ascension to the Monnt of Olives p. 256 The Extirpation of the Imaginary Root p. 258. The Superimaginary State ibid. The Eternal Stillness or the Rock of Power p. 262 A Vision of God's Flaming Eye p. 263. The Interpretation of the Vision p. 265. The Believing Rest p. 267. The Lily of Faith p. 268. The Flying Banner p. 270. The Parting Principle or the Shooting of the Gulph p. 271. The Box of Spikenard or Divine Love p. 275. The Blessing made a Curse or the Ark in the Temple of Dagon p. 276. The Travelling forward of the Ark of the Presence p. 277. The Joseph's Blessing p. 278. Joshuah or the Conquering Worthy p. 280. The Ark-Drivers p. 281. An Appearance of the Personal Humanity of Christ and of the Father's Glory p. 282. The Arcanum of the Holy Ghost taught by Christ p. 283. Take heed of Pilate's Spirit p. 285. The Rules of Merchandize p. 288. The Oracle within the Veil The Michael-Unction p. 293. The Opening in Heaven of the most
Holy Place p. 294. The Seven Compassings p. 298. The Golden Fleece ibid. The Uncloathing of Joshua the High-Priest p. 299 A 〈◊〉 against the Composition-Poyson p. 303. The Consubstantiation of the Heavenly Bread p. 304 The Gourd ibid. The Jubilee 305. The Covering of the Son of Man p. 306. The Pot of Manna and the Bowl of Oyl ibid. The Fair Achsah presented to Othniel p. 307. The All-Golden Grain or the true Masculine Spirit p. 309. The New Creation p. 311. A great Battel against it from the Dark and middle Worlds p. 31â—… A Renewed Evidence hereupon of the Resurrection Body p. 316. The Dew of Hermon ibid. The Swan-like Washings p. 318. The Return of the Beast to the Lake and the Chaining up of the Dragon p. 〈◊〉 323. The Name aâ—…d Mark of the Lamb p. 321. The Guardian Eunuch p. 324. A sâ—…t Battel from the Outward Worldly Principle p. 527. The Captain of the Lords Host appears to the Combatant p. 329. A Call to the Shulamite p. 350. The Shulamite's Obedience so this Call p. 331. The Blessing of Zebulon p. 332. Vision and Fruition p. 333. The Golden Globe or the New Mold of Imagination p. 334. Rules for the Government of the Imagination p. 337. The Lamb's Book p. 340 344. The Lamb's Feast p. 341. Ejaculations after the Lamb 's Great Appearance p. 345. His Fountain-Body unsealed ibid. The Golden Mist or the Circling Breath of the Deity p. 346. The Holy Incense p. 349. The Healing Word p. 352. The Eâ—…postulation of the Spouse p. 354. The Bridegroom's Answer by his Spirit p. 357. The Marriage-Union p. 360. The Working Mines p. 362. The Divine Chymist p. 364. The Chrysolite p. 366. The Virgin in Labour to bring forth her First-born p. 367. A Râ—…sentation of the Lamb and of his Bride Triumphant p. 369. Her Cup of Blessing p. 372. The Royal Purchase p. 374. Wisdom's Wardrobe or the Virgin Rayment p. 375. Repeated Cautions and Reproofs from the Importunate Lover to his Beloved that she might hasten out of the Land of her Captivity p. 376. The Eunuch-Spirit or the Sabbath of Rest p. 380. A New Onset causing an Interruption in the Spiritual Calling p. 382. The Sabbatical City p. 383. The Breaking through of the Divine Glory p. 384. The Oracular Glory speaking Mouth to Mouth p. 386. The Ministration of Elisha p. 387. The Comforters Message from the Bridegroom p. 392. The Day of the Spirit p. 394. A fresh Attack against the Spirit of Faith p. 396. The Covering of wrought Gold interwoven with Scarlet Silk p. 397. The Caterpillars p. 399. The Viâ—…eyard or the Magical Ground p. 401. The Weighty Drop p. 403. The Life of Divine Soveraignty or Man is become as one of us p. 404. The Gods ascending out of the Earth p. 406. Ahasuerus or the King as the Banquet p. 408. Esther's Preparatory Fast p. 410. Her Feast and Petition p. 411. Mordecai and Haman or the Princely Spirit of Faith and the Insulting Spirit of Reason p. 413. The King's Answer to Esther's Petition p. 416. The Flying Horse of Power ibid. The United Crown or the Nazarite Covering p. 418. The Burning-Wheel or the Spirit 's Workmanship p. 419. What it is to be a Standard-Bearer of the Spirit p. 420. The Seraphim covering the Wheels of Nature p. 421. The Progress of the Wheel-Work p. 424. The Cherub-Tent p. 425. The Way of the Spirit cleansed by the Cherubim Oracle p. 426. Wisdom's Armory disclosed ibid. It is broken up by the Mighty Cyrus p. 427. The Sign of the Son of Man p. 430. The Binding of the Four Winds p. 432. The Olive-Tree or the Sealing of the Deity p. 433. The Mystery of the three Heavenly Witnesses p. 435. The Ternary of Witnesses on the Earth p. 437. The Unity of these Three p. 439. Adullam or the pure Virgin-Tabernacle p. 440. The Great Day-Star p. 442. The Ark floating upon the Waters of the Sanctuary p. 443. The Seven Sealed Doors p. 444. The Transmutation into Birds p. 445. The Interpretation hereof p. 446. The Accusers Opposition to it p. 449. The Victory gained by the Spirit of Faith p. 450. Another Defeat of his Dark Magick p. 451 455. The Basis of the First and Second Creation p. 452. The Birth of Immanuel guarded against the Dragon p. 454. The Coming of Elias p. 455. The Conquering Bow or no Conquest no Portion p. 457. The Sword of the Lord in Gideon's Hand p. 458. The Fruits springing from One Eternal Element p. 461. The One Elementary Body p. 461. The Garden-Plantation p. 463. The Olive-Berry p. 464. The Strong Force of United Spirits p. 466. A Resolution of some Queries relating to the Wonder-Woman p. 468. The Wilderness-Temptation or Floods of Jealousie cast out against the Woman p. 476. The three Ghostly Bodies p. 479. The Three Distinct Births of the Spirit further unfolded p. 480. A Prolongation of the Outward Life promised to some that are to Open the First Seal p. 484. The Messengers of the Isaac-Birth p. 485. The Excellency of this Third Birth above the two former p. 487. The Young Elephant p. 091. A Letter of Resolution in Answer to some Objections sent from a Learned Physician to the Publisher hereof upon occasion of the English Edition of The Letter to some Divines concerning the Question Whether since Christ's Ascension God doth any more Reveal himself to Mankind And may for the like Reason refer to this present Work p. 493. How are Spirits to be discerned p. 499. Two Testimonies for the Ministration of the Spirit Revived The Testimony of Dr. J. P. the Author 's Follow Traveller The Testimony of Mr. T. B. An Advertisement WHereas in the Year 1683. there was Printed a Treatise of that Inlighten'd Philosopher and Profound Divine Dr. John Pordage this Author 's most Intimate Friend entitled THE OLOGIA MYSTICA or the Mystick Divinity of the Eternal Invisibles viz. the Archetypal Globe or the Original Globe or World of all Globes Essences Centers Elements Principles and Creations what soever wherein many Deep and Hidden Mysteries have been Unfolded from a Ray of the Divine Light and the same though Published with great Disadvantage to the Author's Memory and the Great Things therein deliver'd has excited in several Searching Spirits are eager and longing Desire to see the rest of his Writings made Publick This is to give Notice that Leave having been at last obtained after many reiterated Solicitations from the Executors of the said Dr. John and of Mr. Francis Pordage the Publisher of this Book will undertake to Gratifie the World with all the Theological Theosophical and Philosophical Works of the said Illuminated Son of Wisdom which are come to his Hands if there shall be any suitable encouragement given to such a Design The Titles whereof are these that follow viz. Mystica Philosophica or a Treatise of Eternal Nature wherein the Distinction of God from Nature is Discussed and many Weighty Questions both Physical and Divine relating
never to turn back to them more but constantly to him cleave then his Head on thy Lap he will repose and his hidden strength to thee reveal and nothing from thee conceal being in Joint-Union no more twain but one Spirit The Seven Locks of his Power he will suffer thee to unloose and draw out therefrom such Might as may slay and overcome the Philistines Host which such prickling Bryars have been to invade thy inward Coasts and most holy Place which is appointed for the Ark of the Covenant there to rest But behold now is risen a Judge and Law-giver one that is mighty to save and deliver out of the Hands of all thy Enemies who thy true Covering in the Day of Battel will be Therefore henceforth fear not those Warriours that come forth with the Goliah's Spear and Shield the Champion which keeps within shall make them all to stagger kill and fall for the true Sampson will maintain Victory over all it is well worth the sheltring under his mighty Wing here with safety thou mayst set and upon his Love do thou incroach still who will not offended be though thou intrude thy self his Dalilah to draw out his Heart more to thee till he shall make known his great Secrets unto thee I well know this is the only precious thing no one can ever privy here unto be made till Wisdom be the Bride-Garment upon their Eternal Man then ravished with thy Beauty and with a pleasant Aspect will Emmanuel look towards thee and give thee to read within the seven sealed Book There is the interpretation of all in the History as from whence I give thee to understand the Mystery of the Nazarite's seven Locks they answer to the seven Seals of this Book of Life which only is to be opened by the Virgin compleated in the seven number of Spirits which are the seven All-seeing Eyes that only can read in this Book which is the true Ground-work of all those wrestling working Properties which moved are by me as thou dost in thy self feel a new Frame and Model for great and precious substance to be taken into therefore take heed now and for no common use let thy inward part any more be for these Throne-Powers which have visited thee will admit no mixture of company all of one sort in pure Harmony will meet in this Lovepaved-Sanctuary where thy all desirable fellowship will there in the free Liberty dwell and where opportunity thou wilt have in Love's Sanctuary to dive and search till thou findest out what lieth hid within the Breast of thy worthy Nazarite who now hath received his full Dowry the Father hath invested him with all Power to a full and perfect state of Glory he is now instated then doubt not but he hath wherewith abundantly to gratifie thee a higher and greater Match I could not contrive for my self in thee consider hereof well and carry it according to my Counsel then shalt thou his Heart still draw down the Tabernacle of witness in thy Heaven the Rainbow in the Cloud which thou hast seen as the Mark or Seal of the Covenant betwixt God and thee according as it is written in the Prophets He shall be given for a Covenant What to do not to read over as a dead Letter no thou shalt witness him thy Prophetical Spring a Book written within thee to which now with all those seven Eyes do thou turn in that this Rainbow in thy New Heavens as a Throne-Circle may inclose thee with him as a secret Pavilion where no adulterated thing can break through to disturb while thou art looking into this New Testament which shall never be trusted out of this pure Circle of the Life's Covenant into which by my Virgin Purity thou only canst pass in if I were not at hand all over in an Oily Pool to bath and drench thee throughout that so the glorified Eye may think thee all fair send forth a Spicy Breath of Air which only agreeable is for thee with thy fellow Branch as not only worthy yeâ—… may be but also bold and free to take and read this Book of Life which now upon the opening is as I this Day have shewn to thee with that other Book which wide open in the common and outward place always is to be found to which thou art by the earthly dark part invited thereinto to look and it would there retain thee but out of this Book of Death thou mayst not look which is a flowing Source of strong reasoning that as a Wall would inclose and captivate thy Mind that it should need only the Death's Lines that hath the putrefying been that have kept the whole Universe Prisoners in the black Dungeon of Sin Now to this end I have presented thee with these two Books that henceforth thou mayst avoid consulting with that which always is at hand and so readily doth offer it self unto the view But I am come absolutely to forewarn not only thee but such as are growing up with thee upon pain of my displeasure you would not turn your Eyes out any more for great is your danger if under the Law of this first Covenant wherein Eternal dying is that you still in parly therewith should be found but come now draw in my wise and obedient Children I have provided this other Book to be unloosened the Seven Seals no longer shall before it stand because I in favour am with the Lamb who from his Virgin-Spouse will nothing hide Therefore in my Light you may in this Book see where you may come to your lost dignity It may well be Wisdom's Book of Revelation entituled for without me you here could nothing understand though it stood all open to you the Interpreter I my self must be to tell you Letter by Letter for you know not yet what number it is that makes up your New Name which till you do see what challenge can be made to the rest of the whole inrouled Mystery but as in a Metaphorical Look through my Glass in the first Leaf unfolded thou wilt see the engraving of that Name with Letters of Gold November the 3d. The Divine ANGLER THere was presented to me a Person Angling upon the Brink of a River to catch Fish but his Labour was fruitless So that he gave off being hopeless Then came another Person and said Be not Discouraged but follow me Behold and see I have got an Angle that hath such a Bait as all the Fish in the River will fall upon it And accordingly I beheld multitudes in a cluster brought up by it Then cryed out that first Person Surely the Lord who is the great Fish-taker in verity is come here and hath wrought this Miracle indeed Whereupon the Person went into the Deep and having vanished down into it drew up the Fish and cryed If ye will here follow me ye shall the Principal Fish take but under Water ye must learn to Dive and again know how to Rise Consider and sind
sure binding and a Wedlock-tye betwixt bright raised Spirits and me till the Great Day of the Visible Marriage shall be Solemnized in the Free Jerusalem Till which hold ye fast and take good heed that not one of these Links on your parts be broken if but from any one of these ye should unlink ye would fall down by the way and never to me ascend But I know that Wisdom is thy Friend who will not suffer thee to break from me She is a busie Agent still to spur thee on her Law of kindness is found to me thy Jesus in thy Heart which will give an Ascending Might that so ye may come down again in a flaming Body of Light Which is the only design of Wisdom that blessed Engineer who by these Golden Links draweth you continually nearer to her City This was further Opened in the Seven following Days by Wisdom but the Copy is here Deficient May the 1st 1676. The New Book Opened Or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS THis Morning my Spiritual Informer came and presented to my view a Book wherein great and hidden Secrets were writ telling me here was neither Parable nor Allegory but the plain Doctrine of the Everlasting Gospel Into which it was said it is given thee to look for it is an Epistle of good-will and love to thee and thy fellow Waiter that ye may come to a right and genuine understanding of those weighty things which lay concealed under the Vail of the Letter The summ of which is the Incarnation Dying Rising Ascending and Glorifying of thy Jesus All which being finished in his own Personality I now look to see that all should be actually wrought in you to which end I have poured out of my Spirit upon you which may bring you up through all to me Read then and see in Wisdom's Glass what is contained in this Book for a further instructing of thee into a Gospel Death and Rising into Victory Many are the Deaths ye have passed over and I grant every Death hath brought forth a rising Body so that ye are come so far as to bear the very Image of the Heavenly Man in which the Life-Seed doth spring But this is not all you are to aspire unto but you are here to dye with Jesus For in all those foregoing Deaths you had not that fellowship as ye shall have with me when I am grown up in you For I the Just One died for the Unjust so I must Personate this dying again in you after a Paradisical manner sowing my own pure Grain and Seed into the Mount Sion Ground For as it is said such as the Seed and Soil is such a Body in the Resurrection it will be and such a Body it will produce And although you come thus to dye in the Lord I mean in your Lord Jesus Christ in whom your Life lies safe and inoculated there will be no danger And while you are sowing here be not as others without Hope for indeed you sow not that Body which shall be to the account of a Bare return as Spirit for Spirit or Body for Body For though it was sown a single Seed yet it shall be various and manifold though the Seed is sown contemptible yet it shall rise honourable and though sown as weak yet it will rise mighty in strength So mighty potent strong and honourable this Resurrection will be as it will bring forth the Seed sown with another manner of Body then what hath yet been known For ye shall know all Blessedness indeed by thus dying into me fear it not therefore but valiantly spill your Life and mingle it with me then shall ye know a cessation to your own busie-acting Properties For that Spirit which dyeth into me ceaseth to Sio sweetly sleeping and slumbering in Sion's Golden Dust till I my secret Trump shall sound with the Vial of Life quickening Oyl poured in which shall make the dead in you to come forth with an unchangeable habit and form of the Holy Ghost of which I speak I will after this manner raiâ—…e up at the last Day which day to thee is very near if thou canst sink and dye so totally into me who do promise to thee long here lay buried thou shalt not be This is the Connexion to the former Part. Before I the LORD will move again to the finishing of the last glorious Mystery the first that can dye thus into me shall rise as the first Fruits out of me into a Body Celestial and mighty Powerful For my Seed shall never Corruption see it shall soon rise into a Mount Sion Body Lay but the Ground-work hereunto sure and ye shall see and feel another Spirit and another Form after this passive Sleep For after it ye shall awake in that Image which shall be no more despised being all compleat and giving proof of my Resurrection and Life Oh blessed are they who can say that they were dead in me and are alive evermore to Reign with me in my Kingdom waiting for me their Lord from Heaven to bring them thither For in this new risen Body I shall not be ashamed of thee it is so Signatured into the Father's Nature of Purity that in it thou mayst freely ascend to me Where I will in the Light Airy Region meet with thee and bring thee through all the Pearly Gates O come resign and dye know me no more out of this Dying and Resurrection State Thus Death is not Metaphorically but Really the last Enemy that is to be destroyed Here Sing ye may that dwell in Sion's Golden Mold and triumphantly Cry Oh Death by this Spiritual dying I am mortally become thy Death and so swallowed up as you can nothing of it see Go go preach thou this for the Everlasting Gospel to such as have an Ear to hear it rejoyce and give Glory to God on high Now when the Hour of this Judgment shall fully come by ushering in the New Jerusalem freedom through the Streets of Nature This Gospel Ministration which is all Love Grace Mercy and Peace by those shall then be proclaimed who do partake of this Resurrection as the first Fruits They shall be honoured with this Message to all those who in this Noah's Age are asleep in their dark Prison-Houses For an Almighty Voice I in you my Sion-born Spirits will utter forth to call in more to know this Death-Liberty and Life-Resurrection and Ascension into all Fellowships and free Communions with the High Eternity and Me the chief Head of all Sion's new risen Body Whereunto being come no other Banner will I display there but that Love which casteth out all Bondage and Fear May the 6th 1676. In the Morning being the first Day pondering and considering this last Opening which shewed me the necessity of dying into my Jesus and of sowing the Seed of my Eternal Spirit as an unmixed Grain sifted from all Chaffiness or Cockle or any such thing for to twist about it Thus the Word said
a fruitful Womb always bringing forth that which may grow up to the Ghostly Fountain-Body To which giving heed thou mayst at the Mouth thereof set and draw up Water of Life I say of Life abundantly Fourthly Oh then love to live within thine own Fountain which is blessed desire not to taste of any other which may be Salt or Sweet or of a Mixed property Fifthly Wait upon the Effusion of this rising Sanctuary-River which will run till it become broad all over Which is the right and true covering of the Spirit Under this no evil surmisings can dwell all of that Nature hereout will be expelled at the opening Source of the holy Ghost Sixthly This is the true and everlasting Sign that shall no more be worn out nor be cut off but it shall be a sure Nail fastened within for the more signaâ—… and lasting Impression That thou maysâ—… see all shadowy Ministrations of little use and service to the Substantial thing Which will grow from the pure rarified Mind that hath got victory from superfluous Thoughts from which do thou divide and then another Spirit within thee will reside Seventhly Having considered thus the Immutability and Unchangableness of this substantial Thing growing from the pure Mind and of all the Thoughts therefrom arising and also considering the great Mutability and Instability of whatever groweth and proceedeth from the Imagination it remaineth that thou wholly divide and seperate thy self from every vain superfluous mutable and Imaginary Thought looking up only to receive such Idea's into thee as are Solid Necessary Immutable and Spiritual According to which thou art to try examine and prove whatever would enter into thy Heart and accordingly to Acquit or Reject them if thou wouldst remember to keep a true and perfect Sabbath unto thy Lord rising in his Spirit from all that is Earthly Elementary and Imaginary September the 6th 1676. My Friend being at Prayer my Spirit ardently joyning therewith This Word in the Heavenly Orb was spoke What shall be done for these diligent Seekers and Heaven-violaters who for the Kingdom thus persue Upon which Word pausing and finding that within my self to Echo hereunto I waited to hear what Answer would follow hereupon I then in my Spirit saw there was a demurr or consultation thereupon but had not at that time any positive Answer from the Lord. September the 7th 1676. In the Night I awaked upon some Voice that was uttered but could not remember what it spake And then I saw a Book that was opened of an unknown Print that I could not read it which also passed out of sight Then was this Word sounded forth Here are the Children of the Bride-Chamber who to me do cry for stronger Meat they have weaned themselves from the nutriment of the Breast telling me they can digest Spiritual Flesh. Then was let down a Charger to me with a Lamb that had been slain and the Word said Take hereof and eat this is Paschal Meat Then said I Lord not so this is raw and undressed who can feed hereof Then this was drawn up and behold one as in the Figure and Stature of a Man but not in a fleshly Image only the fashion of a Man all bright as the Body of Heaven for clearness out of his Mouth went a white Mist or Breath having seven Pipes or conveying Powers one of each side and another at the Navel where somewhat was as the Form of a Belly but all after a very lustrous manner Out of his Mouth went forth pure Breath and Air then out of the Pipes that were fixed on the Breasts sprouted Milk Then from the Heart went forth Streams of Blood and upon one side grew out a Branch bearing Olive-Berries then a Stalk which did bear some kind of large solid Grain Then on the other side from the Navel-Pipe did spring clear Crystal-Water After this manner did this Spiritual Body appear and said to me Draw near for this is the great Day of the Feast where the Spiritual Body doth convey it self in variety Here is high spirited Blood and Flesh for the strong in Spirit to digest Whoever can on this my Body feed Of no perishing thing he will have need September the 8th 1676. The Interpretation of the former Vision The Representation of this former Conveying Body of my Lord Jesus did not only affect my in-seeing Eye but by it I found my Life-Spirit fed succoured and strengthned The very sucking down these Spiritual Sweets as compounded all at one draught had their operative Power for some hours after And again this Morning they did plentifully give out themselves after the manner of a Conduit that hath many Pipes at once springing yet all in their Order and as soon as one stops another opens Oh who can of these deep Manifestations judge but such as are overtaken with these Golden Floods that from the glorified Body do thus open for the nourishing up of every part till we answer hereunto in a perfect lustrious Body like to like Which my Spirit prayed vigorously for seeking also to have a clear understanding of this Vision waiting in great and pure awe for my Immanuel to give me his Mind herein Who said to me By this is shewn thee what the Counsel of the Trinity hath determined to do for you that have out-grown the Child's Food Here are new and fresh sprouting Powers which will make my imbreathed Spirit grow into a Body As a Nazarite it is to be who must wait continually hereupon and must be under a restraint so as only to take in what these Pipes shall give forth that so the pure Crystalline thing may live in you which will Leaven you throughout Whereby the Most High and wonderful Consubstantiation will be effected to the glory of the New Creation Then I further queried about the Book and the Lamb which was first presented to feed upon It was said as to the Book though opened none could it read because we were not come to such a growth of understanding as being such as are newly weaned from the Breast Then it was opened to me concerning the Lamb that it was the Dying Dispensation which did go before the rising Living Body which quickens and brings to Life again as it is written I am the Lamb slain that is risen and do live to feed my Flock for evermore from that Body wherein is the chiefest store Then it was revealed to me that the Book which I saw opened was and still should have been sealed up had not the Lamb in me over Death prevailed but now the Seals are undone and it is given to the Redeemed for to look into it though not learned yet high enough to comprehend those great and wonderful things which are reserved for the full grown Spirit Who understands all of the high Tongue and Seraphick Canaan Language in which we shall be taught as we are strong and have aptness of Ability to take in from this sevenfold Fountain-spring of which
come to be in like manner Illuminated and Inspirited as they were laying aside This that besets us in the way to the ultimate Perfection of our Nature by the Union of it with the supream Good may run with Patience the Race of Faith that is set before us which they have already run And certainly this very Sin which so much hinders us in running this blessed Race and from obtaining the same glorious Privileges which they Here obtain'd is also a Sin that is easily to be avoided as some you know would have it translated if we can but reflect a little according to the direction here given us either upon Enoch or Noah or Abraham or Moses or David or any of those Worthies mention'd in the foregoing Chapter And still much more if we do as the Verse immediately following leads us to but look up to Jesus the Author and Finisher of this Faith who being the same Yesterday to Day and for ever will not be wanting to work it in us as he has wrought it in them but conditionally that we do look unto him with a constant and fixed Eye Upon which give me leave to say for your Encouragement as well as for my own that there is a certain Person well known to you and me whose Angel did lately appear in full Day in an upper Room where a few Names were met together to wait for the Promise of the Father in the Latter Effusion of the Spirit and these very Words were spoken by an Internal Speaking which are the second Verse of this twelfth Chapter and which therefore I the more heartily press upon you Now as to that little Book in particular I freely confess there may be several things in iâ—… which may appear to be beneath the Majesty of God or against the Truth of the Holy Scriptures before they are rightly and truly understood and so may be apt to offend all those that are possessed with contrary Preventions But if we have not Care our Zeal will carry us much too far and we shall soon effectually overthrow as to us that very Foundation which we would establish This Excess of Anti-Enthusiasm is truly a most compendious method of Moving the Boundaries of that we acknowledge Immoveable For if we should be for throwing away our Bibles presently when we are not able to answer all the Objections that a Sceptical Wit is able to bring against them as unbecoming the Divine Majesty I am afraid but very few would be able to keep them long Though indeed there be nothing in them but what when apprehended through and according to the Spirit by which they were written iâ—… most highly worthy of it this yet matters not And if I should stay to receive any single Book either of the Old or of the New Testament till I were so well furnished as to reconcile every Passage with all the rest it might be perhaps very long before I must admit some Books that are recognized to be Divinely Inspir'd None can be more firmly perswaded then I am of the Truth of Saint Peter's Word that the Heaven must receive Christ till the Times of Restitution but then I am not able to see how this does in any wise contradict his Internal Appearance and Speech to such Virgin Souls as he has wash'd and sanctify'd in his Blood Nay I do not comphehend why he may not manifest himself in this manner to Thousands of Persons in as many distant Places at the same time and never all the while come down from the Throne of his Glory in the Heavens I dare not limit the Operations of his Spirit which pierces every where I had much rather adore them and wait in a Child-like Disposition to be Disciplin'd by Him And indeed when I consider the utter Impossibility to explain any thing of the Soul's Nature without admitting his immediate Causality and Influence I do not think it so very strange to conceive that he should by opening the Inmost Center of that Principle or Life which is his own Inbreathing reveal himself to it as Present and hold therewith a very familiar Communication And seeing it is undeniable that Christ since his Reception into Heaven has actually both appeared and spoken to some Persons by the Sacred Records themselves it is no more difficult to suppose that he may do so again whenever he pleases and it will be certain that this can never be the meaning of that Text which this Gentleman seems to understand He that has appear'd to Saint Paul and to Saint John since his Glorification and shown to them things which they knew not and who has expresly declar'd Behold I am with you to the end can hardly methinks be supposed to have bound up himself for ever not to manifest himself in the same or like manner by Vision Intellectual Revelation or Extasie to any others while they are in these Mortal Bodies for the sake of some Great and Glorious Good Now what there is in all that Book so far as it is said to come from him which doth not directly tend to this end and which is not highly becoming the Majesty of God I most profess I am not able to find after the most curious Research it is possible to make As for those special and tender Endearments which are us'd by Christ to his Church and more immediately addressed to this holy Virgin standing in the Figure of it They are sufficiently warranted by Scripture and were they not very much might be said to vindicate them What-ever particular Objections he or you may have I shall be ready to consider with all Meekness and Sobriety when-ever they are produc'd But I tell you before-hand that it will be very hard to bring any which were not brought against the antient Prophets in their time and which may not be as easily remov'd from one as from the other As for those common Imputations mention'd in yours they have always been urg'd and always been despis'd by Persons under the Leadings of the Holy Ghost And I leave you to judge as a Physician whether all that is related in that Book can be accounted for by Fancy Vapours or Cerebrosity more particularly what you read in these Sections 11 27 31 33. For Mr. Mede I have indeed a very great Deference and too much ever to believe that he could intend to contradict himself or do it in such a great Point as this and not know it All the World who have but look'd into him or even but heard of his Name must needs know what was his Sentiment as to the Glorious Reign of Christ and if that Great and Judicious Man ranges the Milluaries amongst Hereticks and Apostates of the Latter Times it is easily to be gather'd that he could mean no others then such who by their gross and unworthy Conceptions corrupted that very Truth which he so strenuously asserted For if this be not a Truth I know not any one you can make out from