consequently not to judge any man in any other way and manner or by any other Precept or Law than in and by that Law which judgeth and saveth themselves in the Inward Parts which still draws to the Similitude and preserves the Soul in the likeness of the Eternal Power and Wisdom that created it So then in case of Rebellious Subjects in a Land that would live in a lawless life of destruction of the King of Glorie's Creation wilfully and presumptuously in Lewdness Beastliness Violations or what other wickedness so ever Kings Pinces Rulers and Judges shall have no need to turn out their Minds from the Law within to search Books or Records of their Lands or Peoples without them to find a Law to judge such Transgressors by for that alienates and adulterates from the pure Similitude seeing the Creator cannot go out of Himself into Books without Him for a Law but keeping to the Inward Law of the Creator that preserves in the Glorious likeness and judging all in it and according to it answereth the same in all and leaves them without Excuse in the sight of the Eternal Searchers of all hearts in which Judgment they hold the Vnity with their Creator and stand justified before Him and by that of Him in all Consciences which answereth the Judgement of it Seeing therefore it is evident that the eternal Judge is but one and his Law but one the Judgement that is of Him in it is the Blessed State but that which is contrary to it is the Cursed State Moreover it may be plainly understood That he who made all Men in his own Eternal Wisdom certainly was and is the Wisest to make a Law for all Men that he created which in His Wisdom is evident He accordingly did decree and hath placed it in the Inwards near unto the most noble part of Man which ruleth all his Members to wit the Soul wherein all Transgression comes first to be conceived before any is ever brought to the birth So then he that altereth from his Law and maketh another Law to judge Men by contrary to that Law which his Creator hath placed near unto the most noble part of all Mankind and even in his own Conscience as well as in the Conscience of an another Creature that very Ruler stands in the Presumption adulterated and separated from his Creator shewing himself as if he had a Wisdom above his Creator to make a Law to judge his creatures by which is a most horrid Rebellion against his Creator and his holy and just Law Awake awake therefore O all ye Kings Princes Rulers and Judges upon the face of the whole Earth and answer your Creator in this true point of Judgement Now if the poor men should make forth their Convincement of the Truth saying We are perswaded of the Glory of the Truth of the Sun of the Soul for we experience it in the inward parts and can set our Seal to the Testimony thereof to be altogether Holy and Pure within us in which sence of the Love of our Creator towards us we are truly willing and desirous to live and walk so as that our Souls may be made worthy of such a glorious Infusion and Inspiration of the Eternal Love and Mercy Quest But what shall we do seeing the Rulers of our Land stand in opposition and we cannot so walk without an absolute peril of severe Imprisonment sharp Tortures loss of earthly Estate or Life it self Answ He that created you is the Eternal Power and Almighty King of Kings who reigneth over all in the Kingdoms of Men and giveth them to whomsoever he pleaseth Stand ye therefore in the Life of his Pleasure which is in that whereunto you are inwardly directed which begetteth and formeth you in the pure and perfect similitude of your Creator and there you will come to see Him to be the everlasting Patience and Eternal Content which is a greater Felicity and Glory for you to know in your selves as being moulded into the same Resemblance and so united to Him in the Power and Life thereof than the enjoyment of outward Liberty possession of Ease in the Flesh Earthly Treasure or Life it self in the body yea a Heavenly Happiness it is infinitly surpassing all that ever can be thought of below the visible Sun the living sence and feeling of which in the Eternal Power makes the Imprisonment of the body a sweet freedom of the Soul the Tortures of the Body the joyful pleasures of the Soul the loss of Earthly Goods the purchase of an Heavenly Treasure and the Death of the Body of Flesh the Everlasting Glorious Life of the Soul Thus for every finite Loss is reaped an infinite Treasure of Gain So then as ye grow into this Life committing all things House Goods Silver Gold Wife and Children Liberty and Life into the good pleasure of the Everlasting Patience and Eternal Content you come to reign as Kings in the glorious Life of the KING of Kings over all Earthly Kings and they see it not nor know it not who persecute you being themselves in the act of Persecution adulterated and alienated from the Life of the Eternal Patience and Content and in enmity to his power of Love and Mercy which is the Cursed State of Darkness So you knowing your Advantage of Treasure and Prerogative of Dominion in the power of Patience and vertue of Content ye may well say in your selves As we live and abide in the fear of our Creator which preserves in the continual possession of his Immortal Rewards and Treasures of all Joys we need not fear Earthly Kings nor Princes nay nor loss of Lives nor any other Creature for here we perceive temporal losse can be no losse unto us but as an Earnest-peny offered and given by us for the price of an Eternal Gain And therefore we will run our Race in the fear of our Maker with joyfulness holding the similitude of his own Holyness that if we are persecuted we will love and pray for our Enemies even as our Creator loved us whilst we were his Enemies and we will bear with them as he bore with us and forgive them as he hath forgiven us Thus will we live and thus will we dye and the Name of our Maker be evermore sanctified hallowed honoured and praised by and in us to the end Amen And ye being entered into this everlasting blessed State you stand as I have said in his good pleasure who reigneth in in the Kingdoms of Men and giveth them to whomsoever he pleaseth and then whosoever turneth against you to persecute you turneth against the pleasure of his Creator And mark the battle the Pot fighteth against the Potter who will therefore break it to pieces in his sore displeasure the Dust fights against its Maker who therefore will blow it away even with the fierce Whirlwind of his utter displeasure and gain himself a Renowned Glory over every rebellious Creature for even now is He arisen in
retained in the Lamp alwayes burning and giving light to the whole Soul it may turn into the darkness of folly and filthiness and again may become adulterate and degenerate from the Life of Incorruption and Immortal Unchangeable Glory which is the Cursed State Wisdom therefore smites the stroakes of Death upon the head of Presumption and keeps the Watch upon the Watch-Tower of the Light which discovereth the Approach of the Enemy and retains the Fear as a strength for Courage and cloathes the Soul with the humbleness and contritedness of heart for with such the Immortal Power dwelleth in whose immutable strength the Salvation and Preservation is witnessed so in Him the Redeemed have the continual enjoyment of a surpassing Sweet and consolating Repose and Rest First in the knowledge that the Gracious Power that hath united them unto Himself in the Life of Incorruption and Innocency can never vary change nor altar from his Grace Love and Faithfulness and next though a change may be which cannot be by the unchangeable King of Glory unless it be first by the degeneration of Man's weak and mutable mind from his Power of Holiness yet the Soul in the fear and watchfulness out of the Presumption and Arrogancy in the ground of Meekness and Lowliness comes to grow in such a strength of the power of Hope Faith and Trust in the Immutable Preserver of the Low and Humble that in the living and sensible perswasion it comes to utter through its assurance of the immediate Unity that neither Afflictions Tryals Tribulations Temptations Reproaches Buffets Wounds Tortures Prisons Life nor Death Principalities Powers Heights Depths Things present nor Things to come shall be ever able to separate the Soul from its Life and Vnity in and with the Immutable Preserver and King of Glory in the Joy of his Everlasting Virtue Ah! who therefore would not run as a Greyhound in the course and flow as the Floods of the Spring-Tyde yea and fly as the Dove to her Nest unto that which unites with the Original Fountain of all Excellency Wisdom Sweetness and Joy to be swallowed up in its Ocean for ever Oh! the Felicity of Consolation in the state of Redemption how can my weakness declare its Ravishing Power forasmuch as in the state of the Souls Restoration unto the first Beauty Glory and Vnity with the King of Glory there is found a Tower of joyous Safety far exceeding the Safety that the first Man had in his state of Innocency knowing that though he was innocent and pure yet wanted the knowledge of the mutability and changeableness of his Soul from the Power that only could preserve it in the Immutable Life and therefore the Concupisence said Ye shall not surely dye which was a Lye by which the Innocency was beguiled and overcome to taste of the fruit of knowledge in his own flesh and then in the Losse he saw not the Recovery but clouded himself more under it by covering the defiled parts but whereas the Soul now sees its unity with the Immutable Glory and knows the changeableness of the Souls of all Men out of the Vnchangeable Power and comprehends the Power of Darkness with its Works and Perdition and also knows the Power of Redemption from Curse Restoration to Blisse and Vnion with the Immutable Glory I say in the knowledge of all this which Man in his first state of Innocency knew not stands more glorious armed and securely fortified on the Watch-Tower of the Light in the pure fear than the first Man in his state of Innocency did And by how much also the Mercies Pitties Compassions Love and glorious Wisdom of the Creator is now revealed in his work of Redemption Restoration and uniting the Soul of man again unto Himself in the power of his quickened Spirit these Walls of the Eternal Love which the united Souls now enter to within is a Glory Fort and Fortress infinitly exceeding that of the first Man's state of Blisse in Innocency Yea I might even speak as a tongue without end of this matter and yet never speak enough of the revelation of the Power appearing in Glory to the Redeemed Restored and United Souls how far it surpasseth that of the knowledge of the first Man in Blisse who in his state of Innocency before Transgression was could not know what Pitty Compassion Mercy and Reconciliation was being not then in a condition of the service of such properties and qualities that were hid in the Eternal Wisdom of Glory who though He was dishonoured at first by Transgression yet such is his infinite Wisdom that He gains Himself the greater Honour through the Power of his Redeeming Man out of Transgression Wherefore the discovery of the face of Glory being now the more excellent and greater the Walls and Bulwarks of Love must needs be the stronger and the Unity infinitely nearer and dearer than the tongues of ten thousand multitudes can ever utter or express which may be joyfully received as the Everlasting Consolation of all Consolations by all the Innocent Lambs who through the Glorious Redemption do know their Vnity in the Immutable Power that created them Who therefore thus in brief can witness to every Opposer and Gain-sayer that questioneth their state and condition We are in the Immutable Life and Power Finally The knowledge of Unchanableness only consisting in the Eternal Power cuts off the strength of all Insults of Reproach by the seed of enmity cast upon the Truth and the Redeemed People that do abide walking in it because one or two or a few have turned from it like the Dog to the vomit and the washed Swine again to the wallowing in the mire which cannot stand upon the Immutable Power or Principle of Holiness because if all Souls should turn from it as it is a manifest Light in every Conscience yet the Light and Truth changeth not but is still the same in it self in Nature Power Vertue and Glory which no man can justly deny though vailed clouded and in greater measure hid from the mutable Soul that is turned from it Nor can Reproach or Infamy justly stand upon them that abide in the Unity with the Immutable Glory because by the Power thereof they are preserved out of evil walking before all men innocently not giving any occasion but of good reports to fill the mouths of all men Therefore if any man should reproach me and my Brethren whilst we continue and persevere in the Life of Restoration united to the Unchangeable Holiness because others one or two or a few are gone out into the Defilement and Curse this sheweth that he which so reproacheth us stands disunited unto and adulterated from the Life of his Creator who is the Power of Equity and entred into the power of the blackness of Iniquity giving false weight and false measure in the Ballance and Bushel of Enmity which is the Cursed State Because his Creator cannot do the like in the Ballance of his Sanctuary but is righteous to every mans cause So then the Reproacher by his own unrighteous reproach writes the mark of Guilt in his own Forehead and draws the sentence of Righteous Judgement upon his own head as a rebellious son of Enmity and Despiser of the life of Integrity And thus the Eternal Sun of the Soul Power Wisdom Holiness and King of Glory in Himself and in all his Redeemed People stands magnified honoured glorified praised and renowned eternally Amen THE END
them and dwelling in it as He abideth and resteth in Himself will come to see themselves swallowed up as in a bottomless and endless Ocean in the same property of his Nature viz. in Everlasting Peace of the Soul felt and enjoyed inwardly which will wrap up all Souls in such a height above disquiet or any thing of that Nature that is adulterated from the Holy Similitude that all will chuse that their Earthly Members may dye that their Souls may for ever possesse the Peace rather than to live in the body of flesh to break the Peace of their particular Souls or the Peace of any of the Souls of the Spiritual Body of Peace to whom in the Eternal Peace they are united which is the immeasurable state of Blessing passing all Understanding 2. Another Property of the Nature of the Holy One is Love perfect Love without Hypocrisie or Envy in Himself All therefore uniting unto the Power of Restoration unto the Glorious Likeness will come to see the Eternal Love feeding and saving his Enemies and the Restored being of the same Similitude of their Maker must in that respect do as their Creator doth love and feed Enemies for they cannot do otherwise being of the Bowels of their Maker And whilst this Spirit loveth Enemies much more must love the united in the Love unto it if it cannot hate not envy Enemies much less the united Friends But all in this Spirit are full partakers of the unspeakable Bowels of Eternal Love to each other which is the immeasurable state of Blessing passing all Understanding 3. Another Property of the Nature of the Holy One is Mercy perfect Mercy without passion of Cruelty in Himself All therefore joyning to the Power of the New Creation will come to see the Power of Mercy which is able to rent all Hearts perceiving it for whilst Man hath turned in Cruelty even unto murder of the sighing and groaning measure of the Light in himself against his Creator who first gave the measure in the bounty of his Everlasting Love that Man by it should be led to be like Him the Giver of it in holy merciful bowels Yet as in Mercy upon Mercy hath now lastly provided Him a Voice to call unto it as a crying Bloodshed upon the Earth and also to awaken his Bloody Soul that shed it drawing his Soul near unto it to reconcile himself with the Soul in and by it though the Soul hath treacherously dealt with him and murtherously fought in Rebellion against him This shews Mercy to Enemies Pitty to Rebels Compassion to Bloody Traytors wherefore as all come to Unite unto the Power of Mercy to be led into the true Image and accordingly in Union with the Eternal Fountain of Mercy not one will be able in it to do a thing contrary to the nature of it But the whole World comes to be as one intire glorious Body of Mercy Pitty and Compassion whereby no Distress Languishing Want or Misery will be found upon the face of the Earth which is the immeasurable state of Blessing passing all Understanding Haply some may say Quest That it is evident that Peace Love and Mercy is the immeasurable state of Blessing passing all understanding and therefore Discord Envy and Cruelty being the three quallities in contrariety must be the woful estate of the Curse yet may desire more largely to know How the Curse came through an opening of the Original Cause and Universal Chain of Discord Envy and Cruelty which is the Cursed State Introd There is but One Original Good as I have plainly manifested who created all things and put into his creature Man that living part that sensibly thinketh which is called the Soul and Mind the which he created in an infinite degree below his immutable holy Essence who can never change from his pure Nature to think in Himself a thought of Evil yet he knoweth the thoughts of Evil in every Man's Heart For though He made it in his likeness pure clean holy innocent and wise yet made it in none other state than that he ought to know that it had a Creator and Maker and by whose Power that made it could only be kept and preserved in the similitude of Him that created it for being put into a body of flesh he gave it a sense of Feeling there as likewise in it a sence of the rest of the Creation as Beasts Fishes Fowls c. to whom this was the substance of the first Comandment given him in his state of Innocency That he should not go in his Mind out from the Power that created him a living Soul into the flesh for knowledge or pleasure for thereby he should adulterate his Soul with the flesh and so both the Soul and the flesh become a Corruption and Curse of Death and in so doing he should go from the Likeness of his Creator who cannot go out of Himself into any creature for knowledge or pleasure But Man's Soul entring into consultation with an aspiring Concupiscence in the feeling of his own flesh yeelded to know and gave himself thereinto and so became as a wedded spouse unto Corruption in that day was his first Evil and the Birth of the first Devil whereby it may be understood that the Eternal Wisdom never derogated from his Glory of Holiness in the Creation so as that any man may say he created a Devil immediately in his hand which could never be as I have formerly shewed more largely by his Eternal Holiness Immutablity and Wisdom but creating all things in themselves mutable even Man's innocent Soul also in it self mutable as well as any other of the Creatures and reserving Immutability onely in himself that Man might know Him as his Maker and so live only in Him as the Immutable One in his Holiness Wisdom Life Glory and Joy but he letting forth his Mind out of the Immutable Power of Wisdom and Preservation became as aforesaid an Evil-doer and then his Thoughts were not like unto the Thoughts of his Maker nor his Knowledge nor Nature like unto that in which he was created but all his Faculties alienated degenerated and separated in the Adulteration from the Likeness Life and immutable Power and Wisdom of his Creator so that being the first actual Evil must needs be the birth of the first Devil seeing the Devil is that Mind that doth evil in every man and therefore nothing could be called an Evil-doer until an Evil was first done and committed which I speak to the end of stopping and putting an end to all blasphemous suppositions and imaginations and of sanctifying the Name of the Holy One in the eyes of all Nations whilst I speak of Him in the Glorious Power of His Wisdom in the Work of his Creation Thus then as followeth in Answer Man's Adulteration from the vertue of the Life of his Maker alienated the Faculties of his Soul and brought upon it horrid Darkness and Confusion which spread over him as an extream and
his Jealousie and it is his Day to work and none shall let and he which rules against Him he will remove from the Throne for He will set up an Everlasting Dominion and Government and of his own Scepter of Righteousness even from end unto end of the four Winds of the Heavens Seven-fold happy therefore is that Soul that beleives in Him and suffereth for his Righteousness sake And is it not an unspeakable shame to a Ruler to persecute innocent Souls new created Souls in the Glory of the similitude of their Maker Is it not a woful shame to Rulers to persecute them that watch to recompence good for evil and to shew the deeps of the bowels of Love and Mercy to such as heaped upon them extream weights of Oppression and Cruelty Can Rulers answer the bonds of humanity in such acts Nay How then can they answer the power of Sanctity in them For the sake of Edification of all Souls to Three Questions more I am drawn forth in the Light to answer Quest 1 What are the first powerful Operations of the Light in the Soul after Convincement of Sin Answ JUDGMENT CONDEMNATION and DEATH of the Mind of Transgression which must of necessity be for the cause of the Righteousness of the King of Glory unto whom no life in Sin and Corruption can unite for the Soul going into it went out from Him into the Enmity against Him and His Law of Righteousness and no part of that can ever enter into Him because it was never of Him and because He hath infused a righteous Law into the Inward parts of necessity therefore there must be a power of Judgement to execute the Righteousness of the Law in the place that it is put upon that which brake it which Power in Righteousness must absolutely bring Condemnation upon that mind which is the Transgressor in man and the Condemnation must as surely bring Death by the power of the Executor that no part of that Mind may evermore live but the Mind in which no Transgression is which was before Transgression was which must be perfectly wrought before Man can enter again into the first Similitude to unite with the King of Glory So here all may see the Judgement truly set up and executed in the inward parts bringing Death upon the Transgressor produced the benefit of a most Blessed Fruit viz. of Life Peace and Joy and openeth the door of the Fountain of Mercy giving the perfect knowledge thereof which then rejoyceth over Judgment for which cause of Mercy the Eternal Wisdom first instituted the Law and Power of Judgment to come fulfilling Righteousness in the Inward parts which thus appears bringing a Righteous Death upon an Unrighteous Life that by its Death a Righteous may for ever live wherein the Joy and Glory is partaked and inherited So then in the Judgment and Condemnation of that Life unto Death the Power and Glory of Mercy appeareth in the wonderful Wisdom that it might be for ever loved and lived in and the work of Wisdom admired and prized and the Worker of Salvation in the Power and most Excellent Glory of Mercy manifest in Judgement magnified over all everlastingly without end in all that love the Operation and accordingly are partakers of the sweet and happy Fruit of its Salvation in which the Unity with the King of Glory is witnessed Quest 2 Of every frame of Soul or fashion of Mind in Man which is the most certain of holding the Vnion and Fellowship with the King of Glory in Spirit Answ Watchfulness in Fear and Crosse Watch to fear the risings of the Concupisence which the Soul feeleth in the flesh towards the flesh and the World and also now lastly towards the Devil and there enter into that Internal Power which stands in the Crosse to the other Nature which will daily slay every carnal Affection in the first suggestion and appearance and break the Cockatrices Egg before the Serpent is hatched and thus all will come to see that the inward and visible Cross to the inward Mind of the World and the Flesh keeps the Soul clean out of the mind of the World and the Flesh in the mind of the Eternal Spirit Again Watch to fear in every Joy and Enjoyment of every Glorious and Heavenly Gift lest the Joy should slip out of the true measure and a sence of the Glory of the Gift exalt the Heart above the measure of the Light through which it comes and in which the Unity with the King of Glory stands and here all which come to see that Fear keeps every Joy and Enjoyment of Heavenly Gifts perfect to the measure wherein all Perfection is witnessed according to the proportion of all Gifts as they are given and come down from the perfect Giver So then the invisible Cross which keeps clean and Fear that keeps the Soul low and humble to the measure within in the Conscience will alwayes be found the safest frame and fashion of every man's mind to hold the most certain Vnion and Fellowship with the King of Glory as long as they are cloathed with the body of flesh untill it turns to the dust from whence it came and the Soul be from thenceforth cloathed and arrayed with the Glory of the Life of the King of Glory even for ever and evermore Quest Whether Man after being restored unto the Brightness of the first Similitude and entred into Unity with the Incorruptible Glory through death of the degenerated part may not fail from the Glory and enter again into the Degeneration and Curse Answ In the work of Creation it is to be known as formerly mentioned that the Soul of Man simply was not created immutable though clean pure and holy in a state of Innocency for the Eternal Wisdom reserved that Virtue Power and most glorious Property of Immutability in Himself only that He above all things might be known as the Supream Power over all the created things and accordingly feared loved obeyed and lived in which state I have shewed Man went out of and degenerated from and also have opened the direction unto the way and power of Redemption from the fall and losse and Restoration unto the first Similitude of the Holy One which unites with the Incorruptible Glory unto which state it is possible in the Light for all Mankinde to attain yet if they abide not in the immutable Power of Perservation that created their Souls but go from the unchangeable Life into the variable consultation with Flesh and its reason and sensual Wisdom they may return backwards as the Sea Locust and Canker and become as the Swine that was once washed but lo wallows again in the mire and the house may be clean swept yet except there be a Watch still kept seven unclean Spirits may enter that are worse than the former which were driven forth and a Virgin state may be attained unto but unless the Oyl of Wisdom in Watchfulness Diligence and Fear be