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
of them the which they having fulfilled quieting themselves as it falls in a sphear or degree lower here unto them the Promise is fulfilled which was prophesied of to the Jews saying from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same Incence and Sacrifice shall be offered in the Temple of the Eternal Power Moreover As all men abide in the same Power of the Rising of the External Sun through a careful and constant watch of the mind in it they will come to see it arise in such a glory that as first the Light of the Moon that ruled the night became as the Light of the Sun which ruleth the day So the Light of the day that is now spring from on high shall be as the Light of seven dayes abiding as an Everlasting Glory of Brightness even for ever and ever and then will their Maker make his Tabernacle among them and they shall be his Temple and Habitation and he will be their Dwelling Rest Peace Joy Life and Glory eternally Amen Quest Hereby all men may see the true Worship ond Sacrifice what it is and in what Life and Power it is to be performed to find acceptance and answer concerning which if any should say that I have neither told them the matter nor the manner nay nor the times plainly in which man shall worship in Prayers c. Answ To such I answer Touching the matter of Prayer It is to be understood that Prayer is a Petition or Desire poured forth for something that is needful either to a mans own particular state and condition or else that is necessary for other men Now seeing the whole Creation stands in the alone disposal of the glorious Wisdom of the Cretor of all things he therefore knows best what is needful unto every mans estate which no man of himself doth know neither can know what is necessary for himself or any other Soul but by the pure and immediate openings of the Light in the Soul which purely doth proceed from the eternal glorious Wisdom therefore I teach no man words but labour to lead all men to the understanding of the eternal Wisdom and Power within them in this Light to wait that in his Life they may feel the Risings of the Power of his Wisdom which then may give utterance of words unto a man that were never known before by a man even such words as shall be suitable to the state of want either of himself or others and sometime also for the preservation of all souls in the blessed state all which in the good time of the Eternal Wisdom shall be answered who cannot deny himself nor that which is of his own Nature and performed in his own Life and Power So then this in brief no man of himself knows what to Pray for as he ought but the Spirit of Light of the Eternal-Wisdom helpeth the sanctified man's infirmities that is to say his weakness of knowledge and giveth unto him either sighs groans thoughts or words which answereth his Eternal Will in the Power of Wisdom which is the true matter of Prayer whereby every man's Formality and Will-worships comes to be abolished wherein also much may be understood as to the manner and time seeing it leads out of prefixed words and times that likwise stand in the adulterated will wholly into the will and time of the Eternal Wisdom in which still as a motion is inwardly found the matter was given and so his purpose comes to be revealed and known In this order of Worship all People may be thorowly satisfied That that which a man receives in the Eternal Power and immediately from the Eternal Wisdom into a sanctified Vessel is a Matter and Worship at a real certainty and assurance and in no wayes dubious and therefore may well be believingly received and perfectly owned by a man whilst all other sort of Worship if the eyes of men were but a little open to see it must needs be doubted because it is of that which a man knows not what nay nor can say that his method matter time nay nor yet his own person or soul hath any acceptance of the unknown thing that he doth worship in his vain imaginations Yet it is in me to instance another uncovered Case that in its nakedness every man may discern between the true and the false Worship and accordingly chuse the better if their hearts can take an affection to the better All People upon the face of the Earth may take one set form of words manner and time and in that custom pray all dayes of their lies and yet live and dye in enmity one to another as it 's this day manifest among many Sects that have set-forms of words manner and times appointed for Worship yet are of these minds some of them flattering others of their Brethren and Fellow-worshippers to their faces whilst they hate them in their hearts and revile them behind their backs And others of them there are that love one another to day for the sake of the corruptible things and the same persons on the morrow seen fighting one against another to gain the most of the corruptible things or a seat of presumption one above another and so rest in envy and malice one towards another even unto death this is the spirit of the power of darkness and all the Prayers and Worships in it stand in the adulteration and separation from the Life and Power of the Eternal Immutable Love and therefore is absolutely manifest to be the Cursed state But all People drawing to worship in the Spirit of the Power of Light which is the Eternal vertue of Love and Vnity here must certainly be found unanimous prayers with joynt hearts or rather as I have formerly shewed with one heart and soul because the one Spirit and power of Love makes all but of one soul so to every Prayer and Supplication in this Spirit all souls in the same Spirit say Amen in Truth and when they are according to every mans occasion separated and departed in body one from another yet still they are together as one individual body in the individual Spirit of eternal love and unity and thus they live in the body to the end and thence for ever in the same Spirit rest everlastingly out of the body without end These therefore I call the true Worshippers in the true worship and is the Blessed State Because as the first stands in the Adulteration and Degeneration from the true likeness of the holy Creator and therefore impossible that that state can have acceptance of him so this latter mentioned being in the true likeness and therein finding the true Unity with the Power of Brightness in which the Worship is performed and therefore must infallibly have acceptance of him From this Testimony which stands not only in the Letter or Declaration but in the power of an Endless Life and Unity it appears without controversie that this and only this latter
of the Spirit of Love and Unity is the Blessed State A few things I have still to shew unto the INDIANS even such of them who have not yet known the eternal glorious Wisdom and Power of Creation who of himself being without beginning of days and end of time made composed and created all things in the beginning of time that as they come to the true knowledge of him may be turned from trusting in or worshipping of any created Glory and only believe and trust in him and come to worship him who is the Creator of every Soul on Earth as likewise every visible Glory that is placed in the Firmament of the Heavens To all therefore that believe that the visible Sun in the Firmament which ruleth the visible day is the Supream Power by which all things are ruled and governed and accordingly do worship it and the Moon that ruleth the external time of the night I have to give you to understand that in the whole Creation of Fishes and Worms which are in the Waters under the Earth together with the Worms that are in the Earth the Plants Trees and other living things that are upon the face thereof with every Glory of the Heavens viz. the Sun Moon Stars Clouds of Rain Hail and Snow Dews Winds Rainbow Lightnings and Thunders and whatsoever else may be sensed by the external Seeing Hearing Feeling Tasting or Smelling of the body of man I say in all these the Eternul most holy Wisdom and glorious Sun of the Soul is hid and vailed from man in his state of Sin and Corruption agreeable to what I have signified touching the contrariety between Corruption and Incorruption Light and Darkness Purity and Beastlinesse the which I passe by for the present drawing to the discovery of a few things in the Light of the Day wherein it may be understood That the visible Sun in the Firmament is not the Supream Power but that it is a Created Glory by the glorious Sun of the Soul which is the Eternal Invisible and Supream Power First from the nature of the visible Sun as it is a simple creature which is hot fiery scorching and burning so that if there were not a Supream Power above it ruling and governing it in a most glorious Power of Wisdom by sending Rain in due season which as a distinct and simple creature is contrary to the nature of the Sun being cold and moist the whole Earth would become dried up and utterly unfruitful by which means every thing upon the face thereof must of necessity die and perish Wherefore in the Light of thee Sun of the Soul you will come to know that the visible Sun in the Firmament was made and created to serve man and consequently not for man to how down and worship it To serve Man thus In one respect as a light to the sight of Mans fleshly or bodily Eye whereby he might travel work and labour in the time of the day for the sustenance of his outward being as the Eternal Power in his Wisdom hath appointed And in another respect tending also to Mans subsistence the Eternal Wisdom hath created it to serve Man yeelding unto the Earth of the strength of its heat after the cold times and rain drawing up from the Earth visible and bodily shapes of Trees Herbs Corn and all the good Encrease that the Earth in due season doth yeeld Again It is to be understood that the visible Sun hath its Decree and Appointment from a Power above it as it is manifest in its Rising and Falling in sundry Degrees in Winter and Summer and also by its constant course in twenty four hours compassing the Earth as a Circle and so it is evident that it is not its own Ruler and Governour because it is limitted to a course in all Seasons of its Appointment and therefore cannot be the Creator of any thing but must of necessity be as the other Creatures a Created thing because if one thing visible be created by a Power certainly all things visible must be created by the same Power and consequently the visible Sun and Moon also and that Man Beasts Worms and Fowls were created by a Wisdom and Power is very plain appearing by their several kinds and services and also being dead and rotten their very dust sheweth of what they were made in the beginning for whilst their End is seen to be dust their Beginning or Creation must needs be understood to be of Dust also and the same Power that created the Earth and all that in it is also created the Seas and all that in them is which is an Element contrary to the nature of the visible Sun where the visible Sun hath no power of burning nor yet of making Food in the Deeps to grow at the bottoms thereof to feed the Fishes that are therein But the same Eternal Power and Wisdom which filleth all places provideth a sustenance as well for the Fishes in the Deeps and all the Worms of his Workmanship in their Bottoms as He doth for Man Beast Fowls and Creeping-things that live upon the face of the Earth unto which the visible Sun Moon and Stars with the Clouds of Rain Dews and Winds are servants ordained and appointed by the Eternal and infinitly wise Creator of all things visible and invisible So then thus it may be clearly apprehended touching the Work of Creation That none other can possibly be the Creator of all things besides a Power and Eternal Essence which hath something of a Being in all things in the Tranquillity Love and Peace of His own Life in Himself by and in which all things are upheld and preserved in their due and appointed courses for that which Created all things must absolutely be the Life and Preservation of all things by his Continual Presence and undenyably also the death of all things through the withdrawing of his Essence and Presence because as the Creator is but one and his Life but one doubtless therefore it is but his Life alone that doth or can give Life his Presence that gives Being and preserves Life and the withdrawing thereof the fall of all flesh unto Death Whereby it appeareth that his Glorious Wisdom hath hid and concealed Himself from all the children and seed of Corruption in the Decree of the Death of Man's Body by Sickness Poysoning Drowning Burning Strangling Wounding Starving c. for He having created all things could make Man to live Under Waters in Fires not feeling Wounds without Food c. but his Glorious Power and Wisdom will not be tempted because He will be reverenced and greatly feared in all things and in Fear worshipped and served as the Creator of all things Now as for the visible Sun being naturally contrary to the Element of the Rivers and Seas cannot possibly dwell with the Fishes that are in their Waters so as to give them a constanr subsistance of Life the which the meanest capacity may easily perceive being a fiery
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