chief Dowry which she makes Inquisition for and therefore of all low amorous entangling Loves we had need to be well aware to one only Mate we must for ever cleave and so bear his Name and so we are all his Royal state These Counsels still daily followed me since his deliverance out of the Snare and Pit of Death so did I believe to see all Cords would be broken for that Word came to me the 20th Instant I will arise saith thy God as in Mount Perazim that he may do his Work his strange Work and bring to pass his strange Act. This Scripture was brought to me and opened thus being much stated and presented as our Cause was parallel with David whom God highly approved for that being newly settled in his Kingdom after great Wars was again invaded by the Philistines and having brought up the Ark of God enquiring had a resolve that his Enemies should be subdued before him as he acknowledged saying That God had broken in upon them like the breaking forth of Waters therefore they called the Name of that place 1 Chroâ—… 14. 11. Baal Perazim Now this by the Prophet Isaiah is called over and made mention of Prophecying for such a Manifestation of his Rising Power yet to come when again he will set his Hand as in our Day to recover us out of the Hand of the Spoiler Being much distressed for the Work least these Inundations should stop the Life-Wheel either in them or in my self going forward this sweet Word was opened to me I will arise as in Mount Perazim your Enemies shall know ye do not go out in Battel without a God's Armory Your Ark which is rising will and shall make all in you and all without you to reâ—…l stagger and fall before you for I have yet greater and more mighty Deeds and strange Acts to appear in for my own renown in by and through those in whom I find a David's Spirit and Heart according to my own with such shall not only go forth my rushing Sounds but strong Powers to effect and bring to pass strange and mighty Acts whereby it shall be known in whom my Temple-Glory resteth I will now arise to give my signal Mark of Honour to my defied and contemned ones my Spirit shall begin to move even now at times as ye shall look and wait for it within the Tent of Nature as the forerunning Scatterings of that promised all Chostly Dominion and Power that is very ready and near to be revealed to the pure Jerusalem-Worshippers and constant Waiters upon whom my Eye will be to confer upon them this great Dowry which will not be entrusted but with most constant Attenders in the pure Temple-Body of Jesus waiting and offering upon that Altar within being determinated into a stable fixed unchangeable Mind and Spirit This is that which is expected from you both whom Wisdom hath with her Love-guile caught in with her Golden Cords that ye may to this great state of glorious dominion reach though it doth cost you so high as the death and breach to all other Lives wherein the vain empty solacements of this visible State stood in the despising of which no Repentance shall ever be but Reward upon Reward after all Tribulations out of your Mother Wisdom's Treasury shall you fetch out whatever good and profitable things you shall thereby espy to use and spend to the account any praise of my Glory March the 25th 1676. This Morning I felt mighty strong Gusts and Powers come into me which ascended out in Prayers that the Sign might follow to give the demonstration of our particular Election and Calling as it did upon the first Gospel Professors that we might have Power to cast out unclean Spirits So to co-work and mingle with the Meek and Eternal Life-Essences of the Lamb as that we may be able to send forth such vertual Rays of Powers and Sweetnesses for our own and others Safety Guard and Relief For I heard this Word Go not out without your Shepherd's Bag and his Staff for out of an Invisible Store ye must spend and bring out from your own Heavenly Country and Father's House as unknown and Strangers in this Land where your outward Feet do stand who will not trust or credit further to you give then they shall see that ye have got with you Great Cesar's Decree and Superscription upon your Coyn written round about with that Name I am the Alpha and Omega This will O my Dove Spirits with you every where pass and all your Enemies and all that are alieâ—…ated and Strangers to you now shall seek to make a Covenant League and Peace for why they will cry the Name of God wherein all the believing doth lie upon the Foreheads of these is written most visibly This is the Strange Work that I am for you bringing to pass if ye still will guided be by Wisdom's Counsel and her bright Eye ye shall to this most high Degree arise and thereby Honour you Spiritual Parentage Henceforth forbear to sort your selves with what is not of the same most inward Fold with whom your great Shepherd doth walk and can only with new risen Spirits talk and be open and free as lodging in one Heart of Purity together for mutual Joys and Embracings highly Magical whereby you will draw out most mighty Force and Strength to aid and back whatever in my Work and Service ye are intent upon as thou hast witnessed already a good Confession of me so still maintain Truth 's liberty stand up in the Christ-like Might and in him thou wilt tread down strength and nothing shall be too hard for thee Thy defence and security shall be from the flowing Oyl running through the Unicorn that mighty is to push and batter down all exalted Towers which now will be raised against those who my appointed Standard-bearers are to proclaim my Flag of defiance in the view and sight of such as live in great despight decrying down my Paradisical Laws Liberties and Kingly Rights March the 26th 1676. The Lord's Day we met together by our selves a Word was spoken for the Measuring-Line to compare and measure our selves by the perfect Love which casteth out all other Fears and Loves but that which is Above and of the Virgin-Purity where the danger was shewn of Treachery to forestall this chaste Love from our Love for our Jesus Much in power was sounded forth to this purpose and whom it did hit it was a good Word to such March the 27th 1676. This Morning great Emanations flowed in upon me from out of the Vital Center as the springing Flowers from the Rivers of Joy Out of the Sanctuary this Word of Comfort opened that though Balack had called out Balaam to curse you that are my choice Seed yet I Wisdom as your good Guardian-Angel have stood to resist him and have frustrated all the Tokens of the Diviners The depths of Satan began mystically to work calling the furious Might as
Elementary requirings and accordingly make Provision as the rest of my fellow Creatures in the World which were under the Government of that great Monarch Reason to whose Scepter all must bow that live in the Sensitive Animal Life These and such Arguments I was assaulted with and pursued as Jacob was by Laban when he took his Flight to return to his Father's House so greatly distressed was my Spirit seeing it self so oppressed that it could not tell where to make its escape or how to discharge my self from being a Subject to his Starry Kingdom as I stood in the Line of Nature I was under the dominion of the Starry Region in the strife of the four Elements which brought in the Curse where Care and Fear and the toil and labour of the Body did consist Saith the Prince of the earthly Life How wilt thou acquit thy self from my Laws and break thy Brother Esau's Yoke from off thy Neck Thus in obedience having drawn up my Charge and having good proof and witness hereof I presented it to the view of my Mother who said Are these things so indeed I shall advise with the Deity how to destroy them out of thy inward Coasts seeing thou dost not join or take any part with them but hast brought in Evidence against them as Traytors to the Crown Dignity and Dominion of the Lamb whose Power they would depose him of in his chosen and elect Seed and though these evil seducing Spirits think their Mountain so strong that it is never to be moved yet know their Day of Judgment is hastening on apace and they will be given up to be tryed by the Fiery Law which issueth forth from the Ancient of Days who hath appointed a Day in which he will avenge his Elect that cry mightily to him as oppressed by these invading Spirits Be of good Comfort the Judge is nominated the Jury is chosen by whom the Verdict will be given therefore bâ—… true to the Interest of my Son who iâ—… appointed to judge the World in thee and to cast out Hell Sin and Death the Beast and his retinue into that Lake where there shall be no return out thence to assault thee more with their Dregs and Poysonous Floods This is to be done by joining Issue and Power with me who am come to help thee against the great Leviathan who makes War most where he sees his Time of Reigning is almost worn out and that he must have no more place who thinks it very great Injustice to be cast out of Man's Nature before the laying down the Mortal Body But oh to thee let me commend this present state that in my Virgin-Purity thou mayst still be found for I delight thee all fair to see then with my presence frequently I would visit most satisfiedly wherein you tell me all your Joy doth lie Then droop not but most pleasant be as those whose Name and Place is ever with me Call in also those who of doubtful Heart are apt to be Unanimously go forward remembring what the true Nazarite is to be of Holy Courage and Divine Magnanimity no more must such hang down the Head or to feebleness of Mind give way but the Power display which in the Seven Locks concealed are it is but needful that you all Force do draw out for while these Earthly Spirits do border upon your Land they will be scouting out therefore without my proved Armour dare not with them to parley this is the Charge I shall leave with thee August the 10th OH the Wrestling Wheel that I did feel moving to grind the Earthly part down setting all at Variance in me that so it might still keep uppermost and subdue the numerous Hosts that would my Will have forced for did that but yield then the Field where the Treasure and Substance is concealed would obnoxious to the Robber and Spoiler be who hath watched the Prize to take from me Therefore in variety of Temptations I placed am to prove whether or no I can stand and let the Waves still beat and go over me and no ill fear while the Ark of Faith about doth inclose me the great Swellings of Jordan shall not afright me while I do see the strength of Salvation so nigh that willeth and bringeth to pass according to the out-flowing of the Omnipotency which from the new-born-Will most prosperously effecteth all things Then will it be seen what the Conjoyning of the Eternal Constellations bringeth forth upon the hidden Man through their Fiery Drivings which now thrust forward for Consummation that I might see the issue of what I have been made to hope and believe and pray for Though Prophecies and Revelations do for a time most delightfully entertain the Internal Senses yet short they are of the Body which consisteth of the Heavenly Things themselves as it is well said Prophecies Tongues and Faith and Hope shall have their Cessation but the Kingdom of the Love all Concord the bright Bodified Spirit that hath received Dominion as a super-addition is beyond the Priestly and Prophetical Office But while I was reaching after and inquiring when I might expect the coming down of the Seven-Throne-Powers which are the Pillars of this Kingdom by whom it will be established for ever in the Perfection of Righteousness the Word said to me Rest a while these two are the foregoing Ministrations that will make much for the third the Holy Order of a Priest to give attendance in the Tabernacle is no light thing to be near to the Majesty of Purity which requires a perfect Consecration For the Holy Being will have none about him to minister to him but anointed Ones from whom may be smelt the Spicy Perfume that so nothing of the dead unsavory part may be felt this will qualifie for the Ordination of the Power Here wait till made perfect then thy own Hands shall be sufficient for thee whereby thou wilt find ability to fetch in out of the secret Tower where is kept for every full grown one this presented great Jewel of Power which I dare not to any commit till they perfectly become wise of a sound and unchangeable mind to keep secret what the will-pleasure of the Deity is to have from the unworthy to be concealed no unfaithful Dalilah ever more shall here with be intrusted which of a double mind be which goeth after any Lover besides me therefore make proof of Truth Love and Loyalty in a fixed Virginity before this discovery be made forth in Verity but this know the true Nazarite is with Him who will not be deceived in his choice as the figurative Sampson was This mighty Man of strength will take none into his Bosom but such as may be confided in Therefore if thou wouldst his Dalilah be of perfect Beauty with spotless Chastity which will well please this mighty Prince of Peace who will not thence refuse thee when well assured that thou hast declined and forsaken thy Father's House and Kindred
Law of Sin hath Dominion so long as he liveth So from hence the Spirit did testifie that nothing less then a Thorough Death would put me into a Capacity of this Marriage with the Lamb. For he will match himself only to a Virgin Spirit incorporating and thereby changing into his own pure Humanity and this is a Begetting into a Living Substance which springeth through the Death of the Old Which as the Grain that dissolveth in the Earth and generateth a New Body so in like manner doth the New Creature spring forth which indeed is Christ our Life whose appearance will put an end to Sin in us Now what brought in the Curse the Care the Toil and the Impotentcies which distress poor Man in this his fallen estate but a Deviation from his God And while in this state he stands as a Debtor to Sin being under the Dominion of it this maketh him obnoxious to all the Calamities which do attend those that live in Bodies Elementary But now to hear of a Possibility of a Putting off of this Body of Sin this is good Tidings indeed and verily the Prophet which is risen in me hath prophesied that such a Day is at hand And that I shall be a Witness of Jacob's Star arising and shall see for my self and not for another Then shall that saying be fulfilled Death is swallowed up in Victory even the Death of that First Husband who so long hindred my Marriage with the Lamb. Who by a New Law from Mount Sion hath set me free from the Law of Sin and Death Be astonished O ye who are Wounders and Despisers of this Grace which I now see is near to be Revealed For the Garments of the Bride are making ready and it is granted to me to see in whose hand they be O Wisdom to thee is committed only the Ordering of this Wedding Garment which of divers Colours shall be that known from all others may be the King's Daughter who under thy Teaching and Discipline is committed April the 20th 1675. The Shulamits Debate Expostulation with Wisdom OH my Mother how is it that thou hast shewed me of the Glory of thy House and of the Honour Riches and Dominion of thy Kingdom and hereby hath allured and drawn the Spirit of my Mind that I cannot turn my Eye from thee my Senses being refined and with thy Life close touched that I altogether incapable am to join to Baal or to immerse my self with the druggy polluted Life of this outward Principle which hath no consistency with that transparent state where unto thou hast called me with thee to have my Conversation as one that hath obtained Grace to be sirnamed by thee and admitted into the secret of thy Counsel in order to some peculiar Service for thee If so why is it I am yet straitned in force and power What signal mark do I bear to demonstrate my holy and consecrated Calling to wait in thy Pavilion What Commission have I from thee to shew whereby all unbelieving and gain-saying Spirits may be convinced and put to silence true it is I have had free Communications through Transportation of my Spirit but what is this without fixation and Seal of the Power which may bear Record of its own Omnipotency working forth to redress all Maladies and Grievances seeing I have taken upon me to plead suffer me yet a little to empty and unload my self to thee whom I well know to have the tender working Bowels of a Mother and numbrest all my Complaints the first Argument is from thy free choice of me calling me out of all Nations Tongues and Peoples no more to know my Fathe'rs House or the Land of my Earthly Nativity but to renounce and seperate from all attending thy Appointments only at whose Knee I have been for some time brought up to hear and learn the manner of the worship of my God which is expected in a different Living All-Powerful Ministration which to know is indeed Life but to act forth from that Life brings the Joy Peace and Glory which will be the Renown of Wisdom's Nursery among whom I have thus far found favour as to have her Friendly Salutations with Word upon Word sealing Instructions to me but this is not enough Oh the Spirit and Breath that goeth forth with all Influencing Powers to create new Forms of things this I know will give the express signature of a Godlikeness putting forth through Nature's contemtible Appearance Here is surely a matchless Glory to break forth the highest Mystery which was ever unveiled the best and choicest of all Wisdom's Treasury yet to be brought out for such as pursue and make it their only one Interest minding and regarding nothing else Oh my Mother while herein have I busied my self in putting and throwing off all Weights that I might come a naked Spirit unto thee How have the pernitious Necessities cryed for the out-part to have Right done it to act and work and plot in Reasons Counsel-House as the manner is of all which live in the gross Animal Body is known to thy all-viewing Eye which runneth to and fro and what my Conflicts have been and still are while I have studied to evade and make my escape through the Throng of Worldly-Wise Reasons Guard who have by order of their great Prince watched me in every going out and in when with my only Friend I would my Time secretly in all sweetness spend contrivance hath not been wanting to draw me down to wear again the dark Linsywolsey-Gown I being well aware through divine caution These are the Pirats that have lain in wait for me to take what Substance is with me embarked So that Perils on all kinds do beset but this my Ark above all Waters doth keep floating a Man of War is within which will keep this Vessel from being a Prize to the subtil Man of Sin pitched within and without by Wisdom's Skill no fear of leaking while I thy bottom am so saith the Amen Thus encountring fresh with Temptations and strong Gusts from the cold North which I feel many times blow so sharp as if they would put back the Spring from coming on upon which only my Hope is entertained which keeps up my Spirit from fainting Thus while I was pleading and pressing hard for the finishing Power to come down that might put an end to all Strife whioh is from the Root of Sin Here is a Break by the loss of the Original Therefore O Shulamite do not thou judge thy Furnace to be too hot it well becomes thee the same with thy Lord in all things to be who in thee beareth and endureth and suffereth Were it not that hadst high Conjunction with the Deity thou wouldst not stand in that Enmity universally to what from the Root of Iniquity doth spring How much better is it to be numbred with thy Jesus amongst the Transgressors and to bear the Sins of others rather then thy own that the Evil One may
then in all former Ministrations whatever Oh now then to my Call and Cry within you take special Recognizance it is my Elijah's Voice that the Way of the Holy Ghost might be made plain and strait Take heed no Lyon or Wolf so much as once set their Foot on it Make your Watch still strong for slimy muddy Pits are on each hand the great Levia than there doth under Water lie waiting to see if here you do set your Feet awry For this subtle Serpent doth well know hereby all former and present Prophecyes will be prolonged if not cut off So that if by any means he could Ingulf you within this noisome Pit where all devouring Fish of Prey do lie which still would be eating out your Belief and Confidence in what do's lie beyond the Border of the Senses he will not fail to do so Because it is not for the gross but for the pure and immaculate Eye only to espy those Celestial Glories Whereof not only to the Sight I do here you my beloved Lambs invite but come I say and tast what in my upper Banquetting-House is to be found to which ye yet so high never ascended where the Ghostly Body upon the Crystalline Sea is set But stay yet ye must and ye must it not touch with unwashen Hands with strong scented Oil your Finger must drop while in this Dish ye them dip to give proof ye are a prepared Guest who have put on the Bridegroom your Robe this will be your Tickets Testimony that right you have to eat of this choice Mess which only for the Bride and Bridegroom are set forth Though with many sweet and pleasant Fruits I have out of my Paradisical Garden you fed and with the Spirit of the Vine I have your Thirsts often satisfied yet none like or to be compared to this Therefore it is reserved as the strong Meat which only those that are come to ripe and perfect Age can bear thereof to eat Therefore go thy way and be comforted that ye are entred into Love's Eternal Calendar and may assuredly of this last and great Gift partake as ye shall in the bright Temple grow reaching to the full Stature of your Jesus To which Coming fear not but your Father will equally dispence the Holy Ghost as his free Benevolence Grow grow get up to this high Nativity with all speed The Most High hath great need of such worthy high Disciplined Spirits to go forth bearing the Heavenly Trophy and Banner of Glory which may take away fallen Nature's reproach How much will it be the joy of Wisdom your Mother to see you come up through all Tribulations to inherit the Antient and Royal Seat near unto that Great King your Prince and Personal Saviour through the introducing of his pure Spirit and Nature without which ye never had been capable of so high a Calling as to have fellowship with him not only in the Knowledge but in the joint Possession without any defraud as ye shall see impartially when this Ghostly-Dove with her Cherubin-Wing doth with all Power upon you rest so as no more from you ever to flye or withdraw O run hard still cry knock and call I will assure thee from the Word of a God it shall abundantly answer to all A Memorandum March the 13th 1675 6. FRom the 6th of this present to the 13th I have been exercised in great Conflicts upon and through a sudden surprize upon the mortal part of my Companion and Fellow-Labourer in that Paradisical Husbandry he being smote and struck as with a Leviathian Dart upon his Animal and Vital Spirit the first time was on the Monday being abroad upon his returning home which went over again The next Day about the same time a Feaver took him and in great Violence ceased on his Heart and so he wrestled a good space of time in great Anguish which so affected me that I drew in and awakned a great Travel for his escape from these Sorrows of Death which had so ceased upon him I having had some warning of an imminent Danger and Peril which I saw the Night before he was first affâ—…cted and came down to advertise him hereof before he went from home As thus there was a deep Pit with great Swelling Waters under which the subâ—…il Levia than with his outstretched Jaws did lie to grasp in such as near there did walk Now the Doctor with my self being that way to pass I heard a word uttered Be ware come not too near it is a dangerous place Upon which I watchful was and took good heed and avoided it that the Doctor might not therein be ingulphed but draw off with all speed Which did predict there was some Danger nigh this being the Pit of Death as by the effect thereof soon did shew it self But the mighty Jehovah hereunto a Counter-check did give to reverse what the destroying Angel was upon executing For this second assault was very grievous being upon Tuesday which did abide on his vital Spirits from 4 in the Afternon till 10 at Night In which interim a Daniel's Spirit did come down which in us did Pray with mighty fervency winged up by Faith as knowing that in this ascending Power stood our help For after I had ceased and the Doctor began to Pray I saw a bright Star dance about his Bed and a Word came with it unto me I have heard and I will deliver for my own Name sake out of the present Jaws of Death This was a signal Evidence that Saving Health was near and that in this Hour of Exercise Jesus with his Healing Vertue would appear which soon after was witnessed So the Pains for that time were asswaged and he slept that Night and the next Day had respite So as we did hope this Storm was gone over But on Wednesday Night he found himself ill again So together we did seek the Lord for his Counsel whether or no he might venture upon some outward means to help to remove that violent Humour which by that strong Leviathan would have grasped away his Life For without permission from the Court and College of our Spiritual Physicians we dared not to adventure because we had committed the whole Cure of this deadly Wound to those All-healing Soveraign Powers While then we were supplicating and soliciting to know the Mind of Wisdom â—…erein this Word came It is suffered â—…n condescention to the instability of â—…our Faith however by Grace the corruptible Drugs shall be changed in their Constitution and Quality for else they in this case could not be available For know that my secret Medicine must be the Preparative Then after this the Doctor was free to take a Powder which gave him two or three Vomits and Purgations On Thursday Morning after which he was very cheerful and thought himself to be eased of his weight and talon which had so terrified him but after he had Dined it beset him again more fiercely and violently then at
any time before the extremity being so great as he desired to be released by Death as the greatest kindness which he could in this hour of Extremity of his Heavenly Father seek and request for At this sudden onset upon him I was somewat staggered for the Black Cloud of Death seemed all over to cover him which seemed to make void and frustrate those Words and Tokens I had received for his Restoration on the Tuesday Night before But in this juncture of time I felt a Power upon me to descend that made me Pray as in an all-Bloody-Agony and a mighty Strife betwixt Fear and Faith was in me But the strong Angel of Faith prevailed and I felt something move that was all aiery mighty and swift to overcome and conquer and which would not permit to give him up to what he himself desired Then had I a sight of all the dark afflicting Powers to be put under his Feet and that they should no longer over his mortal part have power The Relation of which I did to him declare but such was his anguish that at that time he could nothing from me hear So this Day and Night was passed away in this terrible Conflict All Night I retired from him wrestling with my God on his behalf waiting and watching what the issue of this trial would be For I do not know that I ever was in any one thing more proved because of the Word that came that he should be saved from Death Towards the Morning this Word came to me God is not a Man that he should repent or reverse what he hath spoken as to him for whom thou hast prayed Then coming to him I found him yet Ill. Then had I another Word all that Day followed me saying I am come to give him Life and that more abundantly therefore let thy mind hereupon be stayed So I saw the good Hand of our God was near and did the whole Cure and after this Bleeding he found a great alteration although before that his Extremity was much mitigated but not so sensibly taking it away as he now in himself did see So that by the Counsel of Wisdom he was hereunto directed most expresly to whose sight the Malady was only conspicuons all outward Physicians in their sight would have been too short and their power too weak and had been befooled and frustrated if any expectation had been thence For the Word for immediate Healing still followed close one upon another as matter of doubt arose Again the Word thus spake O faithless and unbelieving have I not said I will make him perfectly whole Which was the last Confirmation that I had on his behalf as to his outward Recovery Upon which I fully rested and was quieted as to him who from this time recruited his Natural Force and Strength which was abated more then he himself was sensible of But gradually he shall grow to his former strength again as a Monument of Praise to him who had renewed his Life and Being which the Princess of this World did War against with all the poysonable Influences of the lower Elements concurring and triumphing that their Mortal Robe was wrought out in him For the Dragon did see he would much more be a prosessed Enemy than ever to all his strong Holds and Territories But Wisdom's Antidore of such an high extracted Composition was made up that it expelled all his poysonable Influences she coming in with her Adjuring Power and unresistible Spell saying O Death I will be thy Death Thus the Victory was obtained through the Life-Blood â—…prouting fresh from the Fountain God-â—…ead Praise Praise Glory Glory all in us all round about us go forth with Acclamations and Thanks-giving-Offerings for such a signal Deliverance as we have been madâ—… Witnesses of which for our future Encouragement Jehovah hath wrought March the 15th 1675 6. After all this coming into my solitary composure of Spirit waiting upon my Temple-Office and Service where I met with a bright encompassing Cloud the Tabernacle-Witness rose and spake thus in me I have now answered to thee the desire of thy Heart who pressed me hard to give thee a Sign to effect somewhat through the operating force of Faith that it might work to a Deed and Wonder Behold and see this in the reviving and restoring thy Friend's dead Body which is to be great and marvellous to each Spiritual Eye For know all this restoration was managed by my Omnipotency that ye might not doubt the Root of this all sprouting Power will yet further work out and that youâ—… Prince and Saviour may yet live again that hath been so long slain Expecâ—… him he is at hand to take now foâ—… himself in you a Kingdom wherein thâ—… peaceable Reign shall be by this Solomaâ—… And the Holy Temple must be Built by Wisdom's Hand that the most Holâ—… Dove Hereupon may descend most swiftly to rouse and raise up the dead Seed which asleep is yet in Jesus therefore know as a Type of this was this late raised Man who through great Strife hath obtained his Life Now the same strong Angelical Powers that here did move in thee on his behalf must doubled be upon you both for the drawing down the Riding Power and Triumphing Birth of this more excellent Life of the Holy Ghost March the 16th 1675 6. The Dâ—…ctor being much recover'd and the Mountain and heavy Talon of Death removed he was very sweetly Spirited on the Lord's Day and carried out in Prayer speaking singing A few of us meeting together did own that day his Signal Deliverance The next day being Munday in the Forenoon waiting together I had this Word put into my Mouth immediately and unexpectedly As verily as ye have been Witnesses of my Power in plucking him out of the Pit of Death and guarding him from the violent Executioner thereof so this shall be a Sign that ye shall ascend up into the House of the Lord even the Holy Mountain of that God who hath in this hour of distress appeared and ye shall surely inherit the precious things that your Eyes shall there see Which have been long laid up in store to be given to such as can ascend with their bright Temple-Bodies which are now to be your Change of Rayment that ye may in this Holy Place both meet and know I am and will be unto you what yet cannot be conceived or believed Therefore to the charge of Wisdom expresly keep and ye shall see what the issue of being obediâ—…nt to the Law of her Mouth shall be who would not that ye should have less Purity Power and Dignity then your Jesus who is exalted and hath the Command to give and take whatever doth lie in the Father's vast Treasury Know then no less freedom ye shall have with Wisdom in her secret Stores who nothing will or can deny to conquering Spirits who through all Throngs do push and through all Armies do pass and will not be fearful or so
a fruitful Womb always bringing forth that which may grow up to the Ghostly Fountain-Body To which giving heed thou mayst at the Mouth thereof set and draw up Water of Life I say of Life abundantly Fourthly Oh then love to live within thine own Fountain which is blessed desire not to taste of any other which may be Salt or Sweet or of a Mixed property Fifthly Wait upon the Effusion of this rising Sanctuary-River which will run till it become broad all over Which is the right and true covering of the Spirit Under this no evil surmisings can dwell all of that Nature hereout will be expelled at the opening Source of the holy Ghost Sixthly This is the true and everlasting Sign that shall no more be worn out nor be cut off but it shall be a sure Nail fastened within for the more signaâ—… and lasting Impression That thou maysâ—… see all shadowy Ministrations of little use and service to the Substantial thing Which will grow from the pure rarified Mind that hath got victory from superfluous Thoughts from which do thou divide and then another Spirit within thee will reside Seventhly Having considered thus the Immutability and Unchangableness of this substantial Thing growing from the pure Mind and of all the Thoughts therefrom arising and also considering the great Mutability and Instability of whatever groweth and proceedeth from the Imagination it remaineth that thou wholly divide and seperate thy self from every vain superfluous mutable and Imaginary Thought looking up only to receive such Idea's into thee as are Solid Necessary Immutable and Spiritual According to which thou art to try examine and prove whatever would enter into thy Heart and accordingly to Acquit or Reject them if thou wouldst remember to keep a true and perfect Sabbath unto thy Lord rising in his Spirit from all that is Earthly Elementary and Imaginary September the 6th 1676. My Friend being at Prayer my Spirit ardently joyning therewith This Word in the Heavenly Orb was spoke What shall be done for these diligent Seekers and Heaven-violaters who for the Kingdom thus persue Upon which Word pausing and finding that within my self to Echo hereunto I waited to hear what Answer would follow hereupon I then in my Spirit saw there was a demurr or consultation thereupon but had not at that time any positive Answer from the Lord. September the 7th 1676. In the Night I awaked upon some Voice that was uttered but could not remember what it spake And then I saw a Book that was opened of an unknown Print that I could not read it which also passed out of sight Then was this Word sounded forth Here are the Children of the Bride-Chamber who to me do cry for stronger Meat they have weaned themselves from the nutriment of the Breast telling me they can digest Spiritual Flesh. Then was let down a Charger to me with a Lamb that had been slain and the Word said Take hereof and eat this is Paschal Meat Then said I Lord not so this is raw and undressed who can feed hereof Then this was drawn up and behold one as in the Figure and Stature of a Man but not in a fleshly Image only the fashion of a Man all bright as the Body of Heaven for clearness out of his Mouth went a white Mist or Breath having seven Pipes or conveying Powers one of each side and another at the Navel where somewhat was as the Form of a Belly but all after a very lustrous manner Out of his Mouth went forth pure Breath and Air then out of the Pipes that were fixed on the Breasts sprouted Milk Then from the Heart went forth Streams of Blood and upon one side grew out a Branch bearing Olive-Berries then a Stalk which did bear some kind of large solid Grain Then on the other side from the Navel-Pipe did spring clear Crystal-Water After this manner did this Spiritual Body appear and said to me Draw near for this is the great Day of the Feast where the Spiritual Body doth convey it self in variety Here is high spirited Blood and Flesh for the strong in Spirit to digest Whoever can on this my Body feed Of no perishing thing he will have need September the 8th 1676. The Interpretation of the former Vision The Representation of this former Conveying Body of my Lord Jesus did not only affect my in-seeing Eye but by it I found my Life-Spirit fed succoured and strengthned The very sucking down these Spiritual Sweets as compounded all at one draught had their operative Power for some hours after And again this Morning they did plentifully give out themselves after the manner of a Conduit that hath many Pipes at once springing yet all in their Order and as soon as one stops another opens Oh who can of these deep Manifestations judge but such as are overtaken with these Golden Floods that from the glorified Body do thus open for the nourishing up of every part till we answer hereunto in a perfect lustrious Body like to like Which my Spirit prayed vigorously for seeking also to have a clear understanding of this Vision waiting in great and pure awe for my Immanuel to give me his Mind herein Who said to me By this is shewn thee what the Counsel of the Trinity hath determined to do for you that have out-grown the Child's Food Here are new and fresh sprouting Powers which will make my imbreathed Spirit grow into a Body As a Nazarite it is to be who must wait continually hereupon and must be under a restraint so as only to take in what these Pipes shall give forth that so the pure Crystalline thing may live in you which will Leaven you throughout Whereby the Most High and wonderful Consubstantiation will be effected to the glory of the New Creation Then I further queried about the Book and the Lamb which was first presented to feed upon It was said as to the Book though opened none could it read because we were not come to such a growth of understanding as being such as are newly weaned from the Breast Then it was opened to me concerning the Lamb that it was the Dying Dispensation which did go before the rising Living Body which quickens and brings to Life again as it is written I am the Lamb slain that is risen and do live to feed my Flock for evermore from that Body wherein is the chiefest store Then it was revealed to me that the Book which I saw opened was and still should have been sealed up had not the Lamb in me over Death prevailed but now the Seals are undone and it is given to the Redeemed for to look into it though not learned yet high enough to comprehend those great and wonderful things which are reserved for the full grown Spirit Who understands all of the high Tongue and Seraphick Canaan Language in which we shall be taught as we are strong and have aptness of Ability to take in from this sevenfold Fountain-spring of which
exercised Authority over you and thereby you shall know the first formation into the clear and pure Airy Body which will carry you though obscurely as Christ your Lord did that shall hereout appear in another form as he did when risen from the Dead who did only to a few appear discending from his Paradisical Sphear Even so by the same quickning Spirit pass over with your Jesus till you arrive beyond Paradise and come to assume that third Birth Degree which alone is appropiated to the all-Ghostly-Trinity which as in one shall swallow up every lower Degree that now must go forward in you in order to this superiour Birth Which only can be born out of these who are ascended to Mount Sion as the proper Region for the pure Virgin to travail with this Birth in Oh it is so high great and principal that out of this holy Climate it cannot be manifested therefore consider what holy separated and sequestred Spirits the hopes of this third degree of the Spirit 's Birth do call you for to give up your selves unto Faint not but stick close unto that which as a munition of Rocks will be to you for Strength Light and Counsel till to this last degree of glory you shall be brought and therein your Jesus will appear Therefore do you set forward be as those that are dead and yet alive Be Ye not any longer but let the second Degree of the Spirit 's Birth live in this very time of your attained process having so far obtained the potent Power of the free willing Spirit as this to effect by the Birth-Spirit which is already born in you which will so far perfect the Death as to bring forth that Body of the Resurrection Which gradually proceeds from the Root of that Eternal Spirit which raised Christ from the Dead this shall also be that generating Life-quickning Spirit in you to bring forth the last and principal Birth-degree which growing will be till the compleat Death and Resurrection are passed through Thâ—…n may ye expect the breaking forth of this high and great Manifestation of God the Holy Ghost who will Reign indeed Omnipotently over all that hath lain under the Fall No Song of full Redemption can be sung till this Kingdom of the Lamb and Bride mutually do meet The counsel of the Spirit is to you who have this pure Unction Matter in you that you give it all scope and liberty for its further driving forth in you For ye may be as many who have gone forth in this generating Birth but have stopped the Life-Vein before it could come to breath in a risen Body all of pure Air. Therefore double your Watch and be heedful for it is no light or trivial work that you must herein set upon for wâ—…re you to begin your whole Life again days few enough they would be to clear and acquit all to make room for this rising Bâ—…rth forth to go But to such as shall hereunto set themselves with a perfect Heâ—… Hezekiah-like I will saith the Sâ—…irit add unto their days some degrees of the Sun of their outward Life which shall not go down till you have finished that Faith which will give the power to open the fiâ—…st Seal where doth lie under the Saphire Stone Obey and flee to your appointed Wilderness that this fore-running Life of Faith may have all supremacy over your sensitive part to work down and bury in the Death-Grave all which would this Birâ—…h Lily with its Rose-Mate oppose These things in charge the Spirit of Jesus doth mutually leave with you the terms and conditions are faithfully revealed to you you may either win or lose this great Pâ—…ze as to the Manifâ—…station hereof in this Principle But be ye wise December the 23d 1676. It was this Morning further manifested to me that those three who so appeared unto me were the same which appeared to Abraham bringing the good News that the Isaac-Birth was near Only they were in humane Shapes these were all in a pure Mist and formed into Airy Bodies only for Spirits to behold But this was the Secret that was opened to me from hence according as was cryed in me which was this as the Word opened Understand now and kâ—…ow oh ye Intellectual Spirits for what end did these appear to thee What less but to advertise that the great and last Birth-Day of the Spirit is drawing near The barren Sarah shall again bear from the Youthful Nature of the Virgin which hath its time for to flower in Nature's Ground for the Trinity to consummate all by this one passing act of transfused Spiritual Generation This is that which must do the Cure upon the Mortal Sore as this whole Birth-Trinity is born in each one Births there have been from the Fathers and Sons property as that of Isaac and of Jesus in the Flesh being figuratives which have had their Mystery fulfilled And here hath been the stop being baptized into the Father and the Son but not knowing that last and Celestial Baptism of the Holy Ghost Who beareth no other similitude but what answereth and is consonant to that eternal Element from whence this Ghostly Body is contracted Which is all Breath of Power a Flame of Purity clarified Earth through which Golden Streams do run through every Vein to make up a transparent Body which may well become the Holy Trinity for to dwell in Here is the Birth that is not yet come into the World there hath wanted the Woman-Virgin cloathed with the Sun for to bring it forth Who must be drawn aside from all and kept up only for this mighty travelling Work who hath an appointed daily Portion from the high Father of this Birth sent in for the nourishing of this which is so highly compacted of the threefold Seed of the Deity That so nothing of defect shortness of power and disability may be which have been complained of hitherto But when this Trine do agree as one to pass through the Virgin-Mind then shall such walk as full Victors over the Sea of Glass having Bodies sutably framed unto those Spirits which ye receive in the second Birth-Ministration Which for want of such a Ghostly Body through a Christ-like Spirit yet remaineth weak till the whole Mystery of Father Son and Spirit comes and shall appear to Move and open in the eternal Birth-center evermore December the 26th 1676. It was further noted unto me from that Vision of the three Spiritual Bodies That all Discovery and Revelation of the Will and Mind of the Dâ—…y would now be from these three bearing Witnesses for themselves in our pure eternal part Who there will never cease to be a Speaking Oracle for Manifestation if we stick closely to observe and obey what daily proceedeth herefrom For it was said to me Turn and dive deep in for the Living Word is become a bubbling Spring that shall work out all mâ—…d things that would corrupt and make void the Law of my Spirit which
the Earthly Life in our selves for to the Conquerors the Glassy Sea and the New Jerusalem as a reward will be given for it will open within the Soul-Center Let us remember our Calling We were called to Fight with our inward Spiritual Enemies for the Garland of Paradise aad for the Garland of Flowers which were wont to be given to the Conquerors And we are to contend for the the Crown of Pearl which is Christ's perfect Deity in his Eternal Humanity in our Souls we are yet to strive with all earnestness for to obtain the Banner of Victory over the Hell Sin Death and Curse in our Souls by reigning with the risen Lamb 〈◊〉 dominion over all Devils and wicked Babylon from whence we are called to Separate from Yet Good and Evil are wrestling within us Day and Night in Strife Life and Death Light and Darkness are in Contention who should Reign and which should have the Dominion therefore in the Unity and Harmony of the Love we are to persevere till we see Christ's Coronation-Day till he in us and we in him come to see him Crowned and all our Enemies under his Feet This will be our Reigning-Day indeed when Hell and Sin and Death and Mortality in us shall be swallowed up of Immortal Life and Glory When we shall know but one Heavenly Life moving and acting through every form of the Soul Seeing such a Ministration is left us by Christ on this the Grave to be enjoyed when the Seventh Angel shall sound his Trumpet and it is so near us and we near it let us give all Diligence all Watchfulness all Labour for the Possession of it Then Christ within us and Christ without us will meet in one Center of Glory and both will make up but one Wonder These Lines I hope will be no Block in your Christian Progress If a Spark of Love-â—…ire inflame your Soul to seek after the Center of Perfection in Christ I shall rejoyce Christ in us can do it in a moment by opening the Glassy Sea in the Soul's Property This is the Mark we are pressing after as fellow Travellers Wherefore we make our selves Strangers and Pilgrims to this Earthly Principle I commend you dear Soul into the Arms of our Emmanuel who will bring his Constant and Faithful Seekers to be with him in his Kingdom of Glory So I rest Your fellow Traveller in the Patience under the Cross J. P. II. Mr. T. B's Testimony of this Dispensation THis Dispensation does not only keep us close to the Person and Offices of our Lord Jesus Christ but with it or in it is conveyed the very essential Grace or the Body Spirit and Power of Christ to abide in us as a constant Spring of Divine Teaching and of Spiritual Sensation and as the true and great Root of Regeneration which is Christ in us the Hope of Glory So that in this Dispensation we do essentially and vitally enjoy that which many other Christians do but discourse of and breath after as a thing mostly unknown keeping close to it iâ—… purifies us Soul and Body and leads us most directly into Mount Sion or the Heart of God this is most essentially true and a long considered experimental Testimony T. B. FINIS Errors Corrected Page 7 line 22 f no read now p 8 l 8 r Parabolical way and yet p 9 l 1 f Indea r Idea p 13 l 5 for Objection r Object p 32 l 19 f r while p 33 l 13 dele to p 34 l 4 dele as p 37 l 17 f r p 53 l 4 f This r This is p 64 l 19 f 1675 r 1674. ibid l 21 r is not to be p 65 l 4 f Eternity r Emnity ibid l 16 f Fuition r Fruition p 76 l 23 f is r are p 80 l 22 f Trusty r Trustee p 81 l 3 dele do p 87 l 13 f World r Word p 93 l 15 f Security r Purity p 94 l 24 f working r wonderworkingly p 95 l 7 f Promise r Province p 96 l 4 f belingrings r Beleagerings ibid l 7 f cleaving to r cleaving close to ibid l 20 f strong hold is the r Strong hold is is the. p â—…8 l 18 f with me r with mine sâ—… Chariot p 100 l 25 f aimable r amiable p 106 l 7 f Life r Leaf p 107 l 19 f was hither r was upon the fiery Wheel hither ibid l 2â—… f thy r this p 108 l 20 f Corruppter r Corruption ibid l 8 f mingled hereupon By r mingled Hereupon by p 110 ult f Coagulation by r Coagulation or mixing by p 115 l 7 f set r sit ibid l 19 f our Ap r our spiritual Appetites p 116 l 10 f terrour r fervour p 119 l 18 f into one Spirit I was r two into one Spirit was p 112 l 19 f Spirit or Wisdom r Spirit of Wisdom ibid l 18 f meet r neat ibid l 21 f was to pr. r was in great concern to pr. p 123 l 3 f akin read a Kin. ibid l 14 f which r in which ibid ult Spirits will be p 125 l 4 r propagation through ibid l 7 f Man-God r God-Man p 127 l 8 f Shion read Heshbon p 128 l 6 f Court r Covert ibid l 13 for the in outw r in the outward Lifes Form p 133 l 8 f passive process r passive Process dele to commate ibid l 18 19 f shall by r shall be by p 131 l 16 for uncloyed r unclogged p 132 l 4 f Serenity r Security p 134 ult for to be r fit for to be p 142 l 2 f nativity r maturity p 143 l 15 f ceased r seized p 144 ult for dance about r Star-glance about p 853 l 19 f believe r believe it p 156 l 11 f Salvation r pointing to the Doctors Salvation p 154 l 23 f whether r whither p 159 l 26 f we are all r we shall wear all p 162 l 21 f for any praise of r and way of p 163 ult f believing r blessing p. 166 ulr f to that r to be the. p â—…67 l 18 f in Bonds r and Bonds p 168 l 13 f to him to his r to see his p 170 l 18 f unto r unto you p 172 l 12 f are Found r are to be Found p 177 l 21 f away r a Way p 180 Col 1 l 3 f Ex. 28. â—…7 r Ex. 28 17. ibid Col 2 l 5 Rev. 19 20 21. r Rev. 20. v. 19 20. ibid Col 3 l 8 f or r and. p 182 l 14 and 28 13. r Ezek. p 187 l 12 f the Bride r as the Bride p 194. l 〈◊〉 f will r will the p 203 l 3 f Secretaries r secret Rays p 204 l 10 f hold of r hold on p 221 l 12 f besides r besides me p 229 l 18 f Freewill r Fewel p 231 l 6 f upon you impressed you 〈◊〉 upon you impressed you are p 234 l 18 f is r are p 236 l 17 f over r overcome p 237 l 5 〈◊〉 repass r repast p 241 l 2 f didst steer and run r didst see râ—…n p 243 l 23 f which r with p 245 l 24. f who it r who is p 250 l 1 for Mountain r Mansion ibid l 3 f driven r you have been driven p 252 l 11 f an r no. ibid l 25 f shall r shall be p 253 l 9 f Revelation r Revolution p 266 l 2 f came it r came in ibid l 7 f numerously r numerously ibid l 12 f circling r circling Eye p 269 l 6 f Aim r Arm. p 271 l 8 f Covenant r Covenanter ibid l 23 f comes r came p 274 l 9 f of r after p 277 l 16 for yea r yet p 278 l 11 12 f Horan r Horon p 281 ult 282 l 12 f For out-proceed r For out of the Thundering Voices glances of Light from the Majesty will proceed p 288 l 14 f so r am p 295 l 3 f Mounts r Mount Sions ibid l 28 f whither r whether p 305. l 12 f hear r here p 319 l 21 f looking r footing ibid l 22 f their r there p 321 l 21 f we r he p 322 l 16 f to r so p 326 l 9 f King r Thing p 334 l 5 f contaction of his r contraction of this p 336 l 5 f their nature are r in their nature they are ibid l 10 f Mutations r Mutinees ADVERTISEMENT WHereas some Things have been Scandalously set forth and Printed under the Name of this Author to the Reproach of Truth and the Dishonour of that which is Holy it is thought fit for the putting a Stop to such Impostures and the Evil which might thence ensue to give a Catalogue of the Books which the Author hath hitherto Published 1. THe Heavenly Cloud or the Ascension Ladder 4to 1682. pag. 40. 2. The Revelation of Revelations an Essay towards the Unsealing Opening and Discovering of the Seven Seals the Seven Thunders and the New Jerusalem State 4to 1686. pag. 130. 3. The Enochian Walks with God found out by a Spiritual Traveller 4to 1694. p. 38. 4. The Laws of Paradise Given forth by Wisdom to a Translated Spirit 8vo 1695. pag. 69. 5. The Wonders of God's Creation manifested in the Variety of Eight Worlds as they were made known Experimentally to the Author 8vo 1695. p. 89. 6. The Messâ—…ge to the Philadelphian Society whithersoever dispersed over the whole Earth together with a Call to the several gathered Churches 12ves p. 108 1696. 7. The Tree of Faith or the Tree of Life springing up in the Paradise of God from which all the Wonders of the New Creation must proceed 12ves p. 122. 1696. 8. The Ark of Faith pag. 33. See the Preface to the Laws of Paradise This having been found without any Date of the Year and the Author having forgoten when it was cannot find any one that more nearly succeeds the foregoing one * The Laws of Paradise were hereupon given down * The Father