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A65941 The VVidow VVhiterows humble thanksgiving for the Kings safe return With an account of John Hall's vision upon the first day of the eleventh month, 1693/4. And also a letter to a friend concerning John Hall's message with a letter from Jamaica concerning the earthquake that happen'd there; a warning to the inhabitants of the earth, to fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgments are come Licensed, D.P. April 18. Whitrowe, Joan. 1694 (1694) Wing W2035; ESTC R221007 38,667 41

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they know all things and lovingly they supplicate and propitiate the Father and blessing him they give him thanks and sing Hymns unto him being ordered and directed by filial affection and natural love and before they give up their Bodies to the Death of them they hate their Senses knowing their Works and Operations Or rather I that am the Mind it self will not suffer the Operations or Works being the Porter and Door-keeper I will shut up the entrances of Evil and cut off the Thoughtful Desires of filthy Works But to the foolish and evil wicked envious and covetous murderous prophane I am far off giving place to the revenging Demon which applying unto him the Sharpness of Fire tormenteth such a Man sensible and armeth him the more to all wickedness that he may obtain the greater Punishment and such a one never ceaseth having unfulfillable Desires and unsatiable Concupiscences and always fighting in Darkness For the Demon afflicts and tormenteth him continually and increaseth the Fire upon him more and more For the Soul entring into the Body of Men if it continue evil shall neither taste of Immortality nor is partaker of the Good But the Soul of Man which is pious and religious is Angellical and Divine and such a Soul after it is departed from the Body having striven the strife of Piety becomes either mind or divine and the strife of Piety is to know GOD and to injure no Man and this way it becomes Mind But into a pious Soul the Mind entring leads it into the Light of Knowledge and such a Soul is never satisfied with singing Pra●se to GOD and doing good to all Men both in VVords and Deeds always doing good in imitation of her Father And this Mind in Men is GOD and therefore are some Men Divine and their Humanity is near Divinity For the good Demon called the Gods Immortal Men and Men Mortal Gods Man had more than all living Creatures and the World because of his Speech and Mind also Man became the Spectator of the Works of GOD and wondred and acknowledged the Maker for he divided Speech among all Men but not Mind and yet he envied not any for Envy comes not thither but is of abode here below in the Souls of Men that have not the Mind But wherefore Father did not GOD distribute the Mind to all Men Hermes Because it pleased him Oh Son to set that in the middle among all Souls as a Reward to strive for And where hath he set it Hermes Filling a large Cup or Bowl he sent it down giving also a Cryer or Proclaimer and he commanded him to proclaim these things to the Souls of Men. Dip and wash thy self thou that art able in this Cup or Bowl thou that believest that thou shalt return to him that sent his Cup thou that acknowledgest whereunto thou wert made As many therefore as understood the Proclamation and were Baptized or dowsed into the Mind these were made partakers of knowledge and became perfect Men receiving the Mind but as many as missed of the Proclamation they received Speech but not Mind being ignorant whereunto they were made or by whom But their Senses are just like to bruit Beasts and having their temper in Anger and Wrath they do not admire things worthy but wholly addicted to the Pleasures and Desires of the Bodies they believe that Man was made for them But as many as partaked of the gift of God these Oh Son in comparison of their Works are rather immortal than mortal Men comprehending all things which are upon Earth and which are in Heaven and lifting up themselves so high they see the good and seeing it they accounted it a miserable Calamity to make their abode here and despising all things bodily and unbodily they make haste to the one and only Thus Oh Son is the knowledge of the Mind the beholding of divine things and the understanding of GOD the Cup it self being divine And I Oh Father would be baptized and drench'd hearin Hermes Except thou first hate thy Body Oh Son thou canst not love thy self meaning the Soul but loving thy self thou shalt have the Mind and having the Mind thou shalt also partake of the Knowledge or Science How meanest thou that Oh Father Hermes Because it is impossible Oh Son to be conversant about things Mortal and Divine for the things that are being two Bodies and things Incorporeal where is the Mortal and the Divine the Election or choice of either is left to him that will chuse for no Man can chuse both and of which soever the choice is made the other being climinished or overcome magnifieth the act The choice of the better therefore is not only best for him that chuseth it by defying a Man but it also sheweth Piety and Religion towards GOD but the choice of the worst destroys a Man for God is innocent or guiltless but we are the causes of Evil preferring them before the good Therefore whether are you carried O Men drunken with drinking up the strong Wine of Ignorance which seeing you cannot bear why do you not vomit it up again Stand and be sober Look up again with the eyes of your Heart for the malice of Ignorance surroundeth the Earth and corrupteth the Soul shut up in the Body not suffering it to arise at the Haven of Salvation Suffer not your selves to be carried with the great stream but stem the Tide you that can lay hold of the Haven of Safety and make your full course towards it seek one that may lead you by the hand and conduct you to the door of Truth and Knowledge where the clear Light is that which is pure from Darkness where there is not one drunken but all are sober and in their Heart look up to him whose Pleasure is to be seen for he cannot be heard with Ears nor seen with Eyes nor expressed in words but only in Mind and Heart But first thou must tear in pieces and break through the Garment thou wearest the web of Ignorance the foundation of all mischief the bond of Corruption the dark Coverture the living Death the sensible Carkass the Sepulchre carried about with us the domestical Thief which in what he loves us hates us envies us Such is the hurtful Apparel wherewith thou art cloathed which draws and pulls thee downward lest looking up and seeing the Beauty of Truth and the good that is reposed therein thou shouldest hate the wickedness of this Garment and understand the traps and ambushes which it hath laid for thee filling what it presents unto thee with hateful Pleasures that thou canst neither hear what thou shouldest hear nor see what thou shouldest to understand so great a GOD. Here you may see what I have delivered to you is no Fancy or Imagination of my own Brain no new Doctrine but what came from the old Aged for so he is called in the old Translation but in the new the Aushout of days Dan. 7.9 From