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The laws of paradise, given forth by wisdom to a translated spirit.
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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1695
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THE LAWS OF PARADISE Given forth by Wisdom TO A Translated SPIRIT The LAW shall go forth of ZION Mic. 4. 2. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street 1695. ERRATA PAge 65. line 17. read by the Decease of my Father I came to be involved But not being able to be long Absent from THE PREFACE TO a certain Person that for many Years had been led wonderfully in the Ways of God it came to pass that one day upon a deep Contemplation of the Paradisical World there appear'd in the midst of a most bright Cloud a Woman of a most Sweet and Majestick Countenance her Face shining as the Sun and her Vesture of Transparent Gold who said Behold I am God's Eternal Virgin Wisdom whom thou hast been enquiring after I am to unseal the Treasures of God's deep Wisdom unto thee and will be as Rebecca was to Iacob a true natural Mother for out of my Womb thou shalt be brought forth after the manner of a Spirit being Conceiv'd and Born again This thou shalt know by a new Motion of Life stirring and giving a restlesness till Wisdom be Born within the inmost parts of thy Soul Now consider of my Sayings till I shall return to thee again Then after three days the same Figure appear'd in greater Lustre and Glory to this Person bearing a Crown on her Head and spake to this effect Behold thy Mother and know that thou art to enter into Covenant with me to Obey the Laws of the New Creation which shall be revealed And upon this a Golden Book being Seal'd with Three Seals was by her presented to the said Person declaring that in it were declar'd the deep Mysteries of the Divine Wisdom which had been Sealed up from the past Ages and were now to be opened and manifested to her Children that should be found willing to receive and to observe such LAWS as she should deliver forth in the New Heart and in the New Spirit After Six days the Vision again return'd and the Virgin Queen shew'd her self in most Mighty Majesty being attended with a numberless Train of Virgin Spirits and with a very great Army of Angels and this Person was call'd by Name to come and view Her with her First-born Children and invited to join with them To which there being a ready and hearty Consent given the said Person was immediately admitted into their Number Then said the Divine Virgin I shall cease to appear in a Visible Figure to thee but I will not fail to Transfigure my self in thy Mind and there open the Spring of Wisdom and Understanding She also promis'd that by the Opening of this Spring there should be reveal'd Great and Wonderful Things that were to be made Publick in the Appointed Day And so exhorting to Vigilance and Obedience to those Counsels and Laws which should be given out from her she disappear'd having first receiv'd such an Answer as the Blessed Virgin Mary gave to the Message of the Angel Gabriel from this Person who was encompassed about with the Heavenly Host and made a Spirit of Light And as the Law was given to Moses of old being taken up to Mount Sinai to converse with God so in like manner it hath pleas'd the same God our Father to give forth in these Last Days the Law of Paradise to This Spirit who was some Years after this caught up on purpose into Mount Sion to receive it There is no doubt to be made but that these holy Commandments so receiv'd will carry along with them to many Awaken'd Souls the Evidence of their Divine Original And as for such as from the many horrid Abuses that have been made through Pretensions to the Holy Spirit cannot believe that there either is or can be any True Inspiration at this Day in the World I doubt not to convince the Sober amongst them and all such as are willing to humble themselves before the Truth of the Possibility Expediency and necessity of Revelation to be again restor'd in a Particular Discourse which is design'd to come forth very shortly As for any Particular Objections against either the Manner or the Matter of these Laws then when they shall be Proposed it will be time to consider of them Now let us who know that the Law is spiritual Rom. 7. 14. be altogether spiritually-minded and worship him who is Spirit in Spirit and Truth The MOTTO WIsdom I have sought and Wisdom I have found And now I wear her as My Garland and Crown THE LAWS OF PARADISE CHAP. 1. The Delivery of the Law in Ten Particulars given forth by Wisdom to a Translated Spirit THese are the Laws of Paradise which must be observed by All who set footing there according as they were declared and given forth by Wisdom as I was in the Spirit Who thus spake unto me Having caution'd thee that thou maist not be secure telling thee that the Tempter and the Tree are both here I Wisdom bid thee take good heed considering thou art yet but a Stranger and knowest not the Constitutions Orders and Worships required by the King of this Holy Land Lest therefore thou shold'st miscarry here as did the First Adam and many more since who have come thus far after the Similitude of the Second whom the Dragon hath plucked down again awakening in them the Essences which were slain by the Death I do now present to thee out of my peculiar Love CHRIST thy Looking-glass In Him behold thy self who was thy Dying Pattern and now must be thy Living Spirit to act answerable to Him Bodily and Spiritually And as he was in Paradise Invisible and in this World Visible in like manner as now thou art so the same Law which was enjoined by the Father to Him is expresly to be observed by thee Not one Jot or Tittle is to be abated therein For here the New Covenant is to be re-established in which the Laws of pure and uncorrupted Nature are again revived which were Engraven upon the Heart before Sin entered to obliterate them And as this Internal Law of Liberty was lost in Paradise so in all Ages it could never be found by any till they returned thither again to fulfil the whole Righteousness hereof through the Birth Power and Spirit of JESUS that hath imprinted the Law of Eternal Nature upon the Fleshly Table of a pure Heart which becometh a Law of Life unto it self that none need to say Know the Lord from henceforth if once come to know themselves after the Law of this Paradisical Life which I will give thee out as GOD gave to Moses in Ten Particulars that what is given thee may answer to the Out-spoken Word from ME Who for a General Benefit do require thee to Record these following Precepts purely as they flow from my Unknown Deep The First Commandment THou shalt own and bear witness to the True God manifested through his Virgin Wisdom as come to restore Nature