Unity and seeke the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Pilgrims and Strangers and seek our native Countrey 31. In this time a Zyon verily shall be found and the Heaven shall drop downe its dew and the Earth yeeld her fatnesse yet not so as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Sonne of man shall come that there will be Faith upon the Earth And though the Children of Zyon shall have a fiery deliverance that they shall remaine Maugre the will of the Devill insomuch that God will worke great things as at the time of the Apostles yet it endureth not unto the end for as it was in the dayes of Noah when he entred into the Arke so shall the comming of the Son of man be as it is written 32. But that the holy Ghost shall be in the hearts of the faithfull in Zyon I acknowledge I know it for Zyon shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne hee that would seeke it let him but seeke himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and hee shall finde whether Jesus bee borne in him 33. If he findes it not let him enter into himselfe and seriously consider himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him these he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be revealed in him and he shall be born with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda in the darke Stable not in Jerusalem as reason faine would have it that Christ should be born in the old Asse the old Asse must become servant and serve the new man in Zion 34. But that in Foure hundred yeares there shall be a meer golden Age I know nothing of it it is not revealed to mee also the limit of the Worlds End is not revealed to me I cannot speake of any four hundred Yeares for the Lord hath not commanded me to teach it I commend it to Gods might and leave it for those to whome God would vouchsafe the knowledg of it seeing therefore I have not as yet apprehended it I rest satisfyed in his gifts yet I despise no man if he had a knowledge and command so to teach 35. For the fourth Book of Esdras is not sufficient as I understand to give a positive assurance to it yet I wait for my Saviour Jesus Christ and rejoyce that I may finde my Lord when I have him then I hope after the death of my old Adam fully to recreate my selfe in the Still rest of Zion and to wait in my God expecting what he will doe with me in his and my Zion for if I have but him then I am in and with him in the Eternall Sabbath where no strife or contention of the ungodly can any more reach me in my New man at this I doe in the meane time rejoyce in this miserable Vale of Tabernacles 36. The first resurrection of the dead to the thousand yeares Sabbath of which there is mention in the Revelation is not sufficiently made knowne to me how the same may be meant seeing the Scripture doth not mention it elsewhere and Christ also and his Apostles give not an hint of it in other places save only John in his Revelation but whether they shall be a thousand Solar yeares or how it may be referred seeing I have not full assurance I leave it to my God and to those to whom God shall vouchsafe the right understanding of it till God is pleased to open my eyes concerning these Mysteries 37. For they be Secrets and it belongeth not to man to make conclusions about them without the command and light of God but if any had knowledge and illumination of the same from God I should be ready and willing to learne If I could see the ground thereof in the light of nature 38. But seeing it behooveth me not to hide my knowledge of it so farre as I apprehend it in the light of Nature I will therefore set downe some Suppositions or considerable Opinions which are in my minde not positively to affirme but give it to consideration for good and wholesome instructions may be drawne forth thereby and t is also profitable for man so to search I will doe it in all syncere uprightnesse to see if we might attaine somewhat neerer the matter and perhaps there may be some to whom God shall bestow such a gift stirred up thereby to write more clearely 39. As first whether or no it be certaine that the World must continue Seven thousand yeares and one thousand of them should be a meere Sabbath Seeing that God created all in six dayes and began the rest on the sixt day towards evening whence the Jewes begin their Sabbath on Friday evening and Elias also saith that the World should stand but Six thousand yeares and Christ likewise declareth that the dayes of tribulation shall be shortned for the Elects sake else no man should be saved which you apply to the fall of Babel and to the time of Zyon but it seemes as if Christ spâ—ke of the fall of the Jewes and the end of the World and foresheweth an evill End 40. Also Christ saith that it shall be at the time of his comming to judgement as it was in the dayes of Noah where men did Marry and were given in Marriage now we know very well as the Scripture testifieth what manner of wicked World was in the days of Noah that the Deluge must come and destroy them This would intimate and denote a very meane Sabbath 41. And though a man should otherwise expound the words of Christ concerning his comming yet that would not be sufficient to prove it being also that the Disciples of Christ doe alwayes represent the End to be nigh and Paul saith That the end should come after that Antichrist is revealed 42. But that the Resurrection of the dead and the last Judgement should be understood of both namely that the righteous shall arise to the thousand yeares Sabbath and among them some ungodly and that Gog and Magog at the End of the thousand yeares should fight against the Saints it seemes to run quite contrary to the light of Nature 43. For first I cannot apprehend how the first Resurrection must come to passe seeing the Saints shall have their workes follow them according to the words of the spirit besides wee know very well that all our workes are sowne into the great Mystery that they are first brought forth into the foure Elements and so passe into the Mystery and are reserved to the judgement of God where all things shall be tryed by fire and that which is false shall consume in the fire and the figures shall fall unto the Centre of Nature Viz. the darke Eternity 44. But if mens workes shall follow them in the first
Eternall Word which hath manifested it selfe with the true Milk of salvation in our humanity being blind in regard of God and sucketh this Milk of the Mother into his hungry soule whence the new spirituall man ariseth and thereby the fiery dark and dry soule proceeding from the Fathers property doth reach and obtaine the place of Gods love in which place the Father begetteth his beloved Sonne and therein onely the Temple of the holy Ghost which dwelleth in us is found and therein also the spirituall mouth or beleeving desire of the soul which eateth Christs flesh and drinketh his blood is understood or experimentally and essentially enjoyed 5. For he onely is a Christian in whom Christ dwelleth liveth and hath his Being in whom Christ as to the internall ground of his soule is arisen and made alive in the heavenly Essence which did disappeare and depart in Adam even he I say is onely a Christian that hath put on Christs Victory that is to say Christs Incarnation Humanity Sufferings death and Resurrection against the anger of God and also Hell Devill Death and Sinne in his eternall ground where the Seed of the Woman to wit Christ in his conquest doth also conquer in him and daily trampleth upon the Serpents head in the wicked carnall will and killeth the sinfull lusts of the Flesh 6. For in Christ alone we are received to be Children of God and heyres with Christ not by an outward adventâ—â—ouâ— strange shew of a sundry select Appropriating of Grace I say noâ— through a strange merit of grace or application of promises imputed from without or received in an Historicall apprehension of being justified and acquitted by another as Malefactors but through a child-like regenerating innate in-dwelling member-like and essentiall Grace Where Christ the conquerour of death doth arise in Us with his life Essence and power from Our death and hath his mutuall ruling influence and operation in us as a branch on its Vine as the Writings of the Apostles doe throughout witnesse 7. He is farre from a Christian who onely comforteth himselfe with the Passion Death and Satisfaction of Christ and doth apply and impute it to himselfe as a pardon or gift of favour and yet remaineth still an unregenerated wilde worldly and sensuall Beast such a Christian is every ungodly Man For every one would faine be saved through a gift of favour the Devill also would very willingly be an Angell againe by grace received and applyed from without 8. But to turne and become as a child and be borne anew of Gods grace-water of love and the holy Ghost that pleaseth him not Even so it pleaseth not the Titular Christian who will put upon himselfe the mantle of Christs grace and apply his merits unto himselfe by an Historicall laying claime to a promise and yet will not enter into the Adoption and New birth albeit Christ saith that he cannot otherwise see the Kingdome of God 9. For what is borne of the flesh is flesh and cannot inherit the Kingdome of God John 3. To be fleshly minded is enmity against God but to be spiritually minded is life and peace And he onely heareth Gods Word that is borne of God for onely the spirit of grace in Christ heareth Gods Word 10. For no man hath ever seen God the Sonne alone who is in the unmeasurable bosome of the Father declareth unto us the Word and Will of God in our selves so that we heare and understand his will and good pleasure within our selves and are willing to follow the same yet we are often kept back by the outward sinfull flesh so that the operation or effecting of that same Divine power purpose and godly resolution in our mind doth not alwayes come into the outward Figure yet it goeth into the inward Figure in the inward spirituall World concerning which St. Paul saith Our conversation is in Heaven 11. Of which also all the Saints of God and especially St. Paul hath complained that they had an earnest syncere will and did serve God with the minde of the internall Ground but with the flesh the Law of sinne so that the Flesh lusteth against the Spirit which lust and evill concupiscence is daily drowned and mortified in the death of Christ by the inward ground or the centre of light regenerated in the darke abysse of the soule but this is in those onely in whom Christ is arisen from death and thus there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walke not after the flesh but after the spirit c. For the bestiall body belongeth to the earth but the spirituall body belongeth to God but whosoever hath it not he is dead while he liveth and neither heareth nor perceiveth any thing of the spirit of God It is foolishnesse to him as the Scripture saith 12. Therefore this point is not sufficiently understood and cleared by teaching and maintaining onely and alone an outward receiving and application of grace and forgivenesse of sinnes The pardon of sinne and the receiving of us into filiall adoption and grace consisteth in the justifying blood and death of Christ when Christs heavenly blood tinctured us and with the highest love of the Deity in the name Jesu did overcome the anger of God in our soule and inward divine ground proceeding from the Essence of Eternity and did turne it againe into the Divine humility meeknesse and obedience whereby the rent torne and divided temperature of our humane property and spirit of obedience and good will entered again into the harmony and unity of the properties Viz. into Paradisicall light love and life that Reall Temperature where variety doth concenter and accord in unity 13. And even then the wrath of the Father which was awaked in the properties of our life and had set it selfe to be Lord and Master in soule and body whereby we were dead to the Kingdome of Heaven and become children of wrath was turned againe into the unanimous love likenesse and unity of God and our own humane will dyed in the death of Christ from its selfnesse and selvish willing and the first humane will which God breathed from his spirit into Adam did spring forth afresh through the conquest of Gods sweetnesse and love in Christs heavenly blood and then the Devill and Hell which held men captive were confounded and made a scorn This the dry Rod of Aaron which budded in one night and bare sweet Almonds did typifie 14. Now as Sinne came from One and passed from one upon all so also the sweet grace and victory in Christ passed pressed and pierced from one upon all Now this death and the anger of God was broken in pieces in that one Adamicall soul in Christ and a possibility to grace was opened through the disclosing of death through which disclosed gate the will of the soule may re-enter into its first Mother whence it came in the beginning that is into the filiation adoption or
Resurrection as you affirme then God must verily move the Mystery that is himselfe which denotes the last Judgement 45. For God hath moved himself but twice onely from Eternity once in the Creation of the World and secondly in the Incarnation of Christ according to his heart the first motion belongeth to the Father of all beings and the second to the Sonne according to Gods heart now the third motion of the holy Ghost is yet to be accomplished both in love and anger according to all the Three Principles where all what ever hath beene corrupted shall againe be restored in the motion of the holy Ghost and each given unto its owner 46. How can then the dead arise in their workes without the motion of the holy Spirit both in love and anger When as the restoration of life doth onely consist in him moreover I doe not know how the first resurrection should come to passe whether it should come to passe in the twofold man which cannot otherwise be understood that is in good and evill but what perfect Sabbath can we hold therein was not Adam unable so to stand 47. Now if the new man should onely arise then he would not be in the foure Elements of this World moreover the new body in Christ need no resurrection it liveth eternally without any want necessity or death in Christ and doth onely wait when God shall move the Mystery where he shall then put on the Crowne of his wonders and workes 48 The manner of the Resurrection is thus the Mystery shall restore what ever it hath swallowed up mans workes shall be put upon him and therewith he shall Passe through the fire and it shall be tryed what will endure the fire or not 49. Now I cannot apprehend how this should agree with the dwelling upon the Earth for if it should be after a Paradificall manner that man should arise with the wonders then it could not be done without the motion of the great Mystery for your writings say that also some wicked men shall arise this sheweth that the Mystery must be moved and at the motion the inflamation or last Judgment of fire must needs be if now the Mystery should be moved it would not onely move awaken and raise up some and that in one source onely seeing that likewise some ungodly shall arise 50. Besides you say that they shal all dye at the end of the six thousand Yeares then there must be a dwelling upon or an inhabiting the Earth where the ungodly that arise should again marry and build of whom there should not be onely some as according to your opinion but according to the Scripture they shall be as the Sand upon the Sea shore whence else should Gog and Magog come or how should they fight against the Children of Paradise for in the Paradisicall Children there is no strife 51. Also it were not necessary that they should dye at the END of the six thousand yeares if they should arise in the twofold body as we are now but if they should arise in the new body then no ungodly man can eyther see or touch them like as we now doe not see Paradise even such is the new body no ungodly man can fight against it 52. What should they fight for Are the Saints in Paradise Then they make no use of the externall Elements but onely of the internall Element wherein all the foure are couched in unity so that they have nothing to strive for but they are separate in the Source 53. But should the ungodly dye and also arise againe in the soure Elements this seemeth much more strange but if they should â—â—ise in the spirituall body then the foure Elements could not containe it but the Abysse and still they would be separate as light and darknesse what pleasure or likeing should God have to bring the Saints againe into the combate and source of the foure Elements unto which they have beene so long dead And yet should they then begin to fight with the wicked Much more fit and agreeable were it for those who here have suffered nothing for Christs sake that is for those who here upon the Earth have not lost their lives for Christs sake 54. And though you would say that they should not fight but the Lord for them what liking could God take to raise up the Saints and to set them againe in the presence of the ungodly or should not the joy in Abrahams bosome be much greater then this in the foure Elements whence naturall strife and contention doe arise but if they should dwell in Paradise without the four Elements then no strife or ungodly man can reach them 55. Besides to what end should the ungodly be upon the Earth if there shall be such a Sabbath Their source is not in the foure Elements but in the Abysse whither their soule goeth when the body dyeth 56. Besides should none but those dwell in the Sabbath who have dyed for Christs sake of which verily there cannot be such a number as is set downe in the Revelation that they should be sufficient to possesse the Earth and should the ungodly also dwell upon the Earth and hold their Hellish Sabbath This runs directly against the light of Nature 57. Moreover Christ saith That they shall marry and bee given in marriage as in the dayes of Noah Also two shall be grinding in one Mill and two sleeping in one bed and the one shall be taken and the other left when the last day shall come 58. Besides Christ saith also That when he shall come to judge the World All generations and kindreds shall see him and tremble before him and the wicked shall waile and lament and say to the wise Virgins give us of your oyle all this denotes a Generall expectation of the last Judgement 59. For if at the last Trumpe two shall bee lying in one bed namely one holy the other ungodly this shewes no difference and if the Saints be mixed with the ungodly then verily there must needs be a poore Sabbath 60. When we looke upon the words of Christ and his Apostles they will not in the least manner agree thereto and though there is mention made of a thousand yeares in the Revelation yet the same is hidden from us and wee know not when they may begin or whether they are begun if the first Resurrection bee Paradificall then it may be done without our knowledge 61. They shall not dwell among us also they shall not Marry for we dye once from Male and Female and we shall not arise Male and Female but we shall live in Paradise in the forme of Angels Matth. 22 30. 62. Besides the wicked shall in the appearance of Christs comming entreat the wise for Oyle of Faith and you write that the fire of God being the anger and hellish source shall be in them and that they shall be tormented here upon the Earth in the foure Elements
in God joyfull new yeare and all bodily welfare premised 2. I am glad of your bodily health and yet much more glad am I that I observe how the drawing of the Father in the spirit of Christ doth continually stirre up and worke in you a constant hunger after the precious Pearle of the Divine knowledge which being it hapneth in the tree and growth wherein I also spring up and grow doth bring to me as from a fellow-branch in our Angelicall Paradificall Corall meer desire and acceptable Love will and it rejoyceth me in my meditation that the spirit of Christ hath yet his Church and Temple in the midst of the thornes as it now appeares and I wish from my heart with panting desires that it might flourish and grow yet stronger that Babel and the Kingdome of contention and strife might thereby be abolished and taken away that we might converse and walke together in love and union as the Children of Christ 3. I should be glad withall my heart seeing you read some of my Writings that they might be understood according to my comprehension and minde not for a temporall praise and glory to me which is in Christ onely and not mine but for our eternall fellowship and fraternity sake which we shall have in Generall one with another after this life 4. And I would very heartily impart to my loving bretheren my Pearl which God hath given me that they also with me might in Divine knowledge and love bring in their fruits upon the table of God which worke and labour is more acceptable to me then all the temporall praise honour and goods of the World 5. And though I am in comparison to you as a child void of understanding yet my Saviour hath beene pleased out of his love and grace to bestow his sence minde and understanding upon me and to open it through himselfe that I effectually know him and his will 6. Which albeit it seemeth foolishnesse unto reason is as cleare as the sun-shine unto me and it affordeth me joy and desire that I in all temptations and afflictions from the Devill and his confederates am able boldy and confidently to hide my selfe therein and my hope is therein stirred up and enkindled with Gods love-fire and I have as it were a fair Garden of roses therein which I doe not onely beteem unto my bretheren to partake of but I also desire and wish from my heart that the golden roses might also blossom in them 7. I have understood how that you are yet solicitous and troubled in the Article about the will of God and his Election of mankinde and are yet in a deep conceit in reference to the Decree concerning man as if God chose some according to his purpose and some again he chose not out of his decree and purpose and therefore he draweth them not in the spirit of Christ to the Father or that the father draweth them not in Christ which for my part hath very often perplexed me and I wish unfeighnedly that it might be apprehended how the ground is in its owne property 8. For the words of the Scripture are right and true about Election but they are not understood aright and thence commeth the great Evill and Mischeife with contending and eager contests when I goe into the centre then I finde the whole ground there is nothing so subtile or profound there is nothing that can be asked about the will of God but it is manifest therein as clear as the sun 9. For I finde the whole understanding both of good and evill of Gods love and anger both desires Viz. of the darknesse and of the light these I set into the humanity of Christ how God is become man and I consider how the formes of the humane properties in the humanity of Christ were wholly and universally without particularity tinctured with the love of God in Christ with the eternall word or voice of the deity that is with the Divine mercury with Divine essentiality namely in the blood of Christ and the wrath which was manifest with Adam in the humane property was wholly drowned and shut up in eternall death of which the Scripture now declareth Hell where is thy Victory Death where is thy sting 10. As the Artist or Philosopher doth change Saturne and Mars in the Mercurie which in Saturne and Mars in their owne fierce wrathfull might is an evill poysonfull source or quality into a Panacéa that is into a Paradificall source and property where neither Saturne Mars or Mercurie are perceived in their wrathfull properties but out of their fierce wrathfull Malignant property there is an ascension of love and great joy thus it is now also with the evill man when he departeth out of his wrathfull malicious will and in resignation wholly giveth himselfe in the death of Christ into the Panacéa Christ 11. And as the sun in the Firmament shineth upon the good and evill so likewise the desire of the Panacéa Christ being the Divine sun that shineth therein presents it selfe to all men if they would but open their will and depart from their selfehood and set there desire into that Christ would be borne therein 12. For the soul as it is purely in it selfe was spoken or breathed into the humane body out of the eternall speaking word of the Father out of the fire and light World as out of Gods owne Being and it hath both wills Free out of the fire that is out of the Fathers anger which is the eternall nature in which shee is a creature in the spirituall Sulpher Mercurie and Salt and out of the light of the Divine power in the Divine sound in which the soule is an Angel and an Image of God 13. And though it hath lost the light with Adam yet Christ hath regained the same and hath again moved or awakened the centre of love that the life of the light if it stirreth up its desire may again in the humanity of Christ which passeth from one upon all as the anger passeth from one upon all enkindle it selfe 14. And though it might be said that he enkindleth whom he pleaseth yet I declare it as a precious truth worthy of acceptation that the Divine light is not ingressive or a light comming into a man from without but it is hidden even in the wicked man in the Centre as God is hidden in the time but it is Arisive that is a light springing up or opening it selfe from within as the light of the Candle ariseth out of the Candle 15. Man is not so altogether corrupt forlorne or decayed that there should not be any possibility at all left in him and though he be corrupt and spâ—yled yet God when he received and took pity on man againe stirred up and awakened the Centre of his Love being the true Deity which hidd it selfe or disappeared in the Sinne or fall of Adam in the humane Property 16. And as
time given me out of his wel-spring of Grace 3. And albeit I have no ability to doe it at my pleasure yet my minde is so wholly enkindled in its Centre that I would very heartily and readily impart it to my bretheren in Christ and I continually entreat the Lord that he would be pleased to open the hearts of men that they might understand the same and that it may come in them to a right quick essentiall and living effect and operation 4. And from a syncere intention I would not conceale from you that I since the new Yeare upon the desire of some learned men and persons of quality have written a treatise of Election or of Gods will concerning man and so expressed and inlarged it out of such a ground or deep soundation that all Mysteries both of the outward visible Elementall and then also of the hidden spirituall World may be therein discerned and thereunto I have in an especiall manner alleadged the sayings of the holy scripture which speake of Gods will to harden and then of his un-willingnesse to harden and so tuned or harmonized them together that the right understanding and meaning of the same may be seen 5. And it is so proved and demonstrated that I hope in God that it shall give furtherance and occasion to take away that strife and controversy in the Churches which is known and manifest that the time is nigh and at hand that the contentions about Religion shall enter into the Temperature but with great ruination of the false Kingdome in Babel that hath set up it selfe in Christs stead together with other great alterations concerning which although men now will hardly believe me yet in a short time shall really appeare and shew themselves and this beloved Sir I would not for your further consideration and christian meditation omit to hint unto you c. THE THIRTIETH EPISTLE IMMANVEL 1. MY very Christian Brother and Friend all Cordiall wishes of Divine Love and further illumination with true persevering constancy and patience patiently to endure the Crosse of Christ premised 2. God in the very beginning of your knowledge hath Sealed you with the mark of Christ unto a further confirmation and hath Crowned you to be a Champion that you should worke as a true owner in his Service 3. And I exhort you as a Christian that you would with Prayer and supplication commit the cause to God in patience and stand qnietly under the Crosse of Christ and be diligent in your Talent entrusted to you you shall see great wonders and your Talent will be more and more pleasant and beloved for so Christ hath also taught us that we should forsake all for his Name sake and cleave onely unto him for he requireth a pure resigned soule in that he will dwell 4. You have no cause to be amazed or terrifyed God knoweth well for what use he employeth you commit your selfe onely to him in Patience and strive against reason which gainsayeth and contradicts and so you will dye unto the World and live unto Christ and then you will exercise your warfare aright for his loves sake and therefrom gain the Noble Crowne of eternall life where we shall rejoyce and injoy one another eternally 5. God hath planted him a Rose Garden in your young heart take heed that the Devill sow not thornes and thistles therein there will soon come another time that your Rose-bud shall bring forth its fruits strive not to be in Office but stand still unto the most high to what he will have you let the smoak of the Devill passe away rejoyce rather at this reproach in the mark of Christ c. THE ONE AND THIRTIETH EPISTLE Our Salvation is in the life of Jesus Christ 1. DEARE Sir and Christian Brother all faithfull Cordiall and syncere desires of my spirit of true Divine light power and knowledge with intimate joy in the Divine contemplation and in our Eternall fraternity in the life of Christ 2. I have received your Letter which you sent and I rejoyce in the Lord my God who doth so richly and abundantly impart his grace unto us and so open our hearts that we in the conjecture of our Gifts desire to Search into his wisedome and wonders 3. And your tendred friendship is very pleasing and acceptable to me and according as this letter doth import I acknowledge you for a springing and very desirous branch on the Vine Christ and also for my member and fellow twig on this Corall and I wish in the power of my knowledge that it may be a true constant and immoveable earnestnesse as I make no doubt but the pretious Coralline branch of the new birth is begotten in you out of Christs spirit and wisdome 4. Thereupon I also would faine with all my heart impart my little sap strength and influence out of Gods gifts unto my fellow-branches and twigs and helpe to quicken and refresh them in my weake power and also receive enjoyment of their gifts as we are obliged and bound mutually to doe for each other both from the command of God and also in the right of Nature unto which I am in an especiall manner driven in my gifts and for which sake I have spent much time and paines yet in great desire longing and delight and it hath been continually my earnest hope and the very drift and ayme of my desire to serve my Brethren in the Lord in the Vineyard of Christ 5. And though I am a simple man and un-expert and un-experienced in Scholastick Learning and Arts neither have I ever been â—ayned up to exercise my selfe in the workes of high masters and to comprehend great Mysteries in my Reason but in my outward occupation I have been a Tradesman wherein I have honestly maintained my selfe a long time yet my inward occupation and exercise hath with very earnest strong desire entred into the mortification of my sinfull man inherited from the corrupt Adam how I might dye to my selfehood and selfe will in the death of Christ and arise in his will to a new spirit and will of Divine renovation of minde and understanding 6. Thereupon I once so strongly and sixedly resolved rather to for one my earthly life then to desist from this Purpose and Combate and â—hat I have suffered therein and therefore the Lord knowes who so led me through his judgement of my sinnes but afterwards Crowned me with the fairest tryumphing aspect of his Divine Kingdome of joy which to expresse I have no Pen sufficient but doe willingly beteeme and heartily wish it to the Reader of this Epistle and to all the Children of God 7. And from this Tryumphing light or joyfull convincing illumination of God that hath been given to me which I hitherto have written for many yeares for I obtained therein so much grace as to see and know my owne Booke which I my selfe am Viz. the Image of God and moreover to