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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93386	Heights in depths and depths in heights or Truth no less secretly then sweetly sparkling out its glory from under a cloud of obloquie. Wherein is discovered the various motions of an experienced soul, in and through the manifold dispensations of God. And how the author hath been acted in, and redeemed from the unknown paths of darkness; wherein, as in a wilderness, he hath wandered without the clear vision of a Divine Presence. Together with a sincere abdication of certain tenents, either formerly vented by him, or now charged upon him. Per me Jo. Salmon	Salmon, Joseph.	1651 (1651)	Wing S415; Thomason E1361_4; ESTC R209192	18,864	71

1. 12.2 cor 12.7 Ep. 2.2 2 Thes 2 9. who was once an Angel of light yet not keeping his first state became a Denne and receptacle of darkness reserved in chains from the presence of the Lord til the great day He is that spirit or Mystery of Iniquity which continually envies God in his pure ways and workings That dark Angel or Messen ger employed by the Almighty to effect the purposes of his wrath and vengeance The Prince of the powers of the air an airy fashionist that can assume any form That can form * Transform him self into an Angel of light conform resoim and deform at his pleasure one that chiefly rules in the hearts of the children of disobedience Let the wise judge and the righteous gently smite me if I deserve censure in what I have spoken I proceed Of Heaven Heaven is the center of the souls bliss and happiness I can in no wise deny it because my conversation is in it Phil. 3.20 If there be no heaven where 's our present enjoyment Or what shal become of that future happiness which we all expect 1 Cor. 15 19. Heaven is the Christians rest his divine Sabboth Rev. 14.13 where he keeps holy day to the Lord. Did I ever insinuate a deniall of heaven certainly it was because the darkness of hel covered my understanding To live with John 17.24 and in God to be raised up into the nature and life of Christ out of the somnolencie of flesh Eph. 2.6 is to live in the heavenly place this we enjoy partly here more fully hereafter Of Hell THat there is no Hell I in no wise can imagine but contrarywise say That Hell is the appoynted portion of the * The wicked shall be turned into hel and all the Nations that forget God Mat. 24.51 Tophet is prepared sinner where in sinfull man is for ever to be tormented from the presence of the Lord the inhabitants of whose dark mansions are ever weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth Hell is a * The wicked shall be turned into hel and all the Nations that forget God Mat. 24.51 Tophet is prepared Tophet of scorching displeasure a fire kindled and maintained by the continued breath of the Almighty whereby it becomes a dying life or rather a living death The breath or life of Eternity augments and increases this death and misery which death and hell hath a greedy Lake to receive it I hope malice it self will consent that I am not guilty of this blasphemy I therefore proceed for my sweet invitations to my silent feast solemnize my devotions thitherward Of the Scripture CHrist is the Eternall word of the Father the saving teaching enlightening Oracle of heaven to whom the Scriptures ascribe all honor and dignitie I do not remember that in any thing which I have written or declared I have given the captious world the least ground to render me guilty of denying the Scriptures Yet because I am charged with it through weakness and mistake in some malice and impudence in others I give this satisfactory hint I own the Scriptures as the inspirations of the Holy Ghost to holy men of old a history or map of truth wherein if our learned Translators have not deceived us is contained a true discovery of the dealings of God with his people in former times and ages of the world wherein the life of many a precious promise is lockt up They are known to be the word of God to those in whom the spirit declares them others do but call them not knowing them to be so They bare Testimony to the great Oracle of Life and Salvation Christ Jesus Joh. 5.38.39.40 They are the letter 2 Tim. 1.13 sound of truth The form and but the form of sound words where they are not corrupted with the false glosses of the learned I must embrace them own them honour them yea I cannot but delight in them because they bear the image and feature of that pure word which was from the begining Joh. 1.1.2 and is to everlasting Of sin or God being the Author of sin THe vulgar censure is a many headed ill favoured monster it lookes many waies it favourably entertains and smoothly invites and eagerly gapes after all reports whatsoever Some say I hold no sinn and with the same mouth will be apt to conclude that I make God the author of sinn Here must needs be a gross mistake on the one hand or other certainely I humbly acknowledg my over readiness to present some notions of this nature to a publique view In Divinity anatomized If any things that I have written will claime relation to these I here recede them and leave them to the mercy or rather judgment of those to whom their nakednesse and folly are palpably evident and further say concerning sin That sin is that contagious leprosie Ps 14.2 3. Rom. 3.10 Prov. 20.9 which hath Epidemically spread it self over the whole earth Neither the * The righteous sineth seven times a day righteous nor the wicked are free from it Sin is a transgression of the Law unity was once the Law of man he brake the Unity run into to the wilie intangles of devision and distance and did plunge himself into the gulfe of sin the abysss of misery The Law or Command of Unity Exod. 20 ver 3. was to know one and only one God Man will know more then one know himself in a state of division Gen 3.5 6. here creeps in sin and brings down man from his uprightness under a state of obliquity Man as man growing from the root of the first Adam 1 John 18.10 the Earthly-fallen principle is nothing else but a massie heap of sin a cursed lump of foul impiety and must certainly expect to receive the wages of iniquitie Sin makes every thing a curse and bitterness to us Were it not for this sin or breach of the Law of Unity all things would be sweetned with blessing yea blest with a Divine sweetness Death it self the bitterest potion of sorrow would be nectarized with a pleasant dulcitude which through sin brings with it 1 Cor 15.56 and bears in it an unpleasing mordacity In fine t is sin that corrupts our judgements stains our natures burthens our spirits and betrays our souls into the snares of endless and easless Torment Again This being the lothsome nature of sin who will dare to be so impudent as to affirm That God is the Author of it t is true the Scripture in many places seem to countenance such a thing if not wisely and soberly interpreted But it is not my work as I said before to condemn any before I have cleared my selfe it is enough for me to exonerat my spirit of that load which is laid upon me by a fair recession of the Error I stand charged with Let all therefore know 1 Ioh 1 5.6 That I look upon God to be a single object of pure light whose glorious nature cannot be touched with the least tincture of dark ness evill or sin may not cannot * He is of more pure eyes than to behold inquitie approach his perfectly pure presence He is good the good it self he doth good Mat. 19 17. nothing but good al good good is God there 's nothing good but himself Men the best of men things the most excellent of things they are all vanity a lye worse then vanity vexation of Spirit God the Unity is good all vertue and true worth is bundledup in it Contrary wise The Divel division distance sin they are naught stark naught evil nothing but evil continually evil The Divel is a lye believe him not sin is a lye all that you see below besides God it is a lie froth emptiness winde and confusion God hath nothing to do with any thing that existeth not in himself or is divided from himself he is not the Author of division Col. 3.11 he is all one in all variety the divider is the Divel God knows him not the division is sin God owns it not I say not then that God is the Author of sin Lastly Of the Trinity GOD is one simple single uncompounded glory nothing lives in him or flows from him but what is his pure individual self Unity is the Father the Author and begetter of all things or if you will the Grandmother in whoseintrinsecal womb variety lies occult till time orderly brings it forth Christ sayes of himself Ion. 14.9 I and the Father am one and the Apostle saith 1 Ioh. 5.7 there are three that bare record in Heaven the Father the Word and Spirit and these three are one Without controversie great is the mystery In the multiplicity or variety they are three but in the unity or primary state all one but one The Father is not the Son the Son is not the Spirit as multiplied into form and distance I may lawfully and must necessarily maintain three but then again trace them by their lineal discent into the womb of eternity revolve to the center and where is the difference The unity or Father in it self is a massy heap of an undiscovered glory which branches out it self into an orderly variety and so admits of various names and titles Father Son Spirit three in name but all one in nature Unity without variety is like the * Gen. 2.21 man in the Garden solitarily slumbering in its owne profound retires having nothing to delight in but it self The Father will not therfore be without the Son Gen. 2.18 without the Spirit It is not fit the Man should be alone But then again to contemplate variety without Unity is to bee over-much expensive upon the weakness and to set up the woman without the man which are not indeed two but one in Christ I love the Unity as it orderly discovers it self in the Trinity I prize the Trinity as it beares correspondency with the Unity Let the skilfull Ordipus unfold this FINIS

its humble and gentle descensions Now I certainely enjoyed that substance which all this while I had groped after in the shadow My water was turned into wine-form into power and all my former enjoyments being nothing in appearance to that glory which now rested on my spirit Time would faile to tell what joy unspeakeable peace unconceiveable what soul ravishing delights and most divinely infatuating pleasures my soul was here possest with I could cast my eye no where but that presence of love presented it selfe to me whose beatificall vision oftimes dazeled me into a sweet astonishment In a word I can give you no perfect account of that glory which then covered me the lisps and slipps of my tongue will but render that imperfect whose pure perfection surmounts the reach of the most strenuous and high flown expression I appeared to my selfe as one confounded into the abyss of eternitie nonentitized into the being of beings my soule spilt and emptied into the fountaine and ocean of divine fulness expired into the aspires of pure life In breife the Lord so much appeared that * Viz the carnal self I was little or nothing seene but walked at an orderly distance from my self treading and tripping over the pleasant mountaines of the Heavenly land where I walked with the Lord and was not I shall be esteemed a foole by the wise world thorough an over much boasting otherwise I could tell you how I have been exalted into the bosome of the eternall Allmightines where I have seene and heard things unlawful I say * As to the weakness of many unlawful to be uttered amongst men but I shall at present spare my self the labour and prevent the worlds inconsiderate censure The proud and imperious Nature of flesh would willingly claim a share in this glorious work for which cause happened a suddain certain terrible dreadfull revolution a most strange vicissitude God sent a Thorn immediatly hid himself from me by a sudden departure and gives a speedy Commission to a Messenger of Satan to assault me The Lord being thus withdrawn having carried away in the bundle of his Treasures the heart and life of that * Note wel what I say that was reserved pure in the life of Christ while the flesh acted its part new seed in me there now remained nought behind but the man of sinne who for his pride being wounded with the thorn of Divine vengeance began by degrees to act its part This Thorn I say was in the flesh or fleshly principle the spirit or new man that was preserved still in the heart of eternal love and became a life occult hid with Christ in God Angry flesh being struck at heart with the piercing dart of vengeance begins to swell and contracting all the evil humors of the body of death into one lump to grapple with this thorne of wrath at last violently breaks out and le ts forth the very heart and coar of its pride and enmity The rankor and venom of this subtil serpent now discovers it self and being sore sick with a cup of pure wrath disgorges its foul stomack upon the very face and appearance of Truth I was now sent into a strange land and made to eat unclean things in Assyria walked in unknown paths and became a mad man a fool amongst men Thus tumbling in my own Vomit I became a derision to all and even loathed by those by whom I had been beloved being made drunk with a Cup of vengeance every one begins to cast a squint eye towards me O the deep drunken bewitching be sotting draughts of the wine of astonishment that hath been forced upon me Well my folly being discovered and the bowels of corrupt flesh being let out I lay as a spectacle of scorn and contempt to every eye yea my mothers children were angry with me and even those were apt to censure me for a firebrand of hell an hypocrite a cast away into whose hands when the Cup of the Lord shall come they may appear as bad if not worse then my self But most true it is he that slippeth with his feet is as a Lamp despised in the heart of him that is at ease Certainly if the Lord would but let loose the reins of mens hearts they should soon discover as bad or worse in themselves as they hate and despise in others The time of many is now at hand yea it s come upon them wherein the baseness and rottenness of their hearts are discovered they walk with their insides outwards and shew their nakedness and shame They are turned and tossed as a ball in a large countrey reel stagger stumble and fall with the desperate intoxicating draughts of wrath and madness tumble up and down in their own filthiness and beastiality and are become signs and wonders amongst men yea those that have been Rivals to the chiefest and most eminent in knowledge and enjoyment have been puld down from the Throne and set as mirrors of amazement in the world Judged with a witness both by God and man judged in themselves the damnation of whose flesh sleepeth not Judged censured stripped persecuted imprisoned by others The hand of the Lord meets them continually and the world knows not considers not their most heavy and sad pressures O God that men could a little consider the several disposings of the eternal wisdom I would gladly offer one silent whisper in the ears of the world and leave it to the wise and ponderous judgement of every Christian Hark then Think ye that those eighteen upon whom the Tower of Siloam tell were greater sinners then others I tel you nay Are their impieties on their foreheads and are not yours in your hearts is there not the same spring of enmity root of bitterness den of Darkness and spawn of folly and madness in you as in them What if the Lord should tear off your large Phylacteries of religion and righteousness and instead thereof stamp the foul image of that hidden enormity which harbors secretly in your breast What if God should uncloke you and strip you of your lovely garbes of pretended holiness and should let that apear which is hidden under this pleasing vesture Consider is there not in the best of you a body of death Is not the root of rebellion planted in your natures Is there not also a time for this wicked one to be revealed Do you think that God will not one time or other one way or another discover and judge that flesh which now seems to sleep securely under the specious pretences of righteousness You little think and less know how soon the cup of fury may be put into your hands my self with many others have been made stark drunk with that wine of wrath the dregs whereof for ought I know may fall to your share suddenly I speak not this either to extenuate my own evil or to cast approbries in the face of those who have to the utmost censured me but rather