GODS Truth is faithfull in what it speaketh unto Sin and Death Jt giveth it not too bad a name because truth is justifi'd by him which is just therein it hath a crown of Life and shal have though death like swarms of Wasps are reund about it Wirtten by one called John Cole-Venman London Printed in the yeer 1658. THere is much talk of Christ being a Saviour without understanding what the Soul must be saved from and unto the soul being under deceit and torment it standeth in need of truth and rest the Saviour by placing truth and rest in the soul wil level so that none shall possess more then they want he will first level the inward by casting out the thief-mind then these outward riches will fall into necessities possession it s the souls necessity that must be joynt-heir with Christ in possessing It s father hath power to bruise the Serpents head and body which doth withhold from necessity to its lust which lust or thief-minde is instituted by the Serpent to do all wickedness he causeth some to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel and they do falsly assume they sin not when some of them have many slaves and acres of land houses horses linnen wollen corn wine oyl and flocks of cattel and all manner of the fruits of the earth that necessitie is kept in slaveriâ— from them This murderer and thief doth act all evil in scorn and contempt of truths union which it hath in it self and it wil fil the soul with it self to the downsal of that young Harlot that doth strain at a gnat which gnat nature hath a lust in it and it doth swallow all that it can from the slave necessitie to its selfâ— destruction that which is in more haste for the true Sun for to shine then it hasteth in it self to shine must be by its beams consumed It s a common thing for the young Harlot to say Minde the light in thee now saith Truth thy ly-light must be putout nay saith she I am sent of God to fore-warn thee of evil and to turn thee to the light This false lye-light in its coming in exhortations doth assume perfection therein Truth-union doth hold some souls from the mother of Harlots and her daughters so that their threatning wooing exhortings is all as rubbidge in their way The yong Harlot doth transform her selfe like truths appearance in words and in straining at a gnat there is no straining in truthunion the straining is in that which doth dress or shape its self like truths government that it may the more bewitch that which can be bewitched The yong Harlot falsly loves or lusts for to have all her kindred for to commit adultery with her calling them harlots and bastards if they do not The true Spouse hath been very often wooed to commit adultery with her she saying she was the Spouse of Christ and did loath to commit adultery The mother of Harlots have many daughters as bad as her self all the daughters do fall out one with another and with their mother crying Harlot harlot harlot Truth knows that she that is a shaping her self like it in words is the beautiful yong Harlot which wil stand against the union-nature longer in some â—ouls then others None that live with God do lodge with her Them that true union doth hold they can be bold all her evills to unfold without being by her power controld Her Mother and her Sisters do all cry her downe saying she is not worthy to live they all hate her for her beauty because she is almost like the Spouse of Christ in words not in deeds The yong Harlot can but mend evill old Adam by her exhortations and instructions and wooings and threatnings she doth fright some unto her obedience in setting them to look to her Ly light in them This Harlots power is the tree of good and evil and this is the cause why it 's called a tree of good and evil it rejoyceth some and it woundeth others it starveth some it seedeth others it giveth some too much of the earth and its fruit and others too little it giveth some the best of things and others the worst it maketh some great Landlords and others Slaves it causeth sickness and health to its people it causeth some to depart out of the body and some to live its life therein it causeth its slave Necessity to come to its tyrants to say with his hat in his hand What curious works shall I do for you alas poor Necessity thou hast a hard Master it s not long that he shall reigne over thee At the first fall this tree or power did exalt some of its fruit-eaters higher then other so that those exalted ones did thieve from the rest the greatest part of the earth and its fruits did cause them to make Laws which yet are in force by the same tree or power to the oppression of all poor men This gold and silver ticket they caused to be quoined in opposition to the want of poor men so that they was quite shut out of all unless they would come to be their slaves and tenants then they should have some of the fruits of the earth or their ticket of gold or silver or any ticket that was in force It s so yet that the gold and silver ticket are the devils Ticket and true wanting necessity is Gods ticket for it shall purchase of him whatsoever it needeth one day without the Devils ticket yet for present it s ordained that 〈…〉 necessity so long as its in its enemies country it should carry its enemies ticket This was and is contrary to the tyrant for he made Lawes that they should not have his ticket or any of the earth or its fruits without being his slaves the tyrant said and doth say to necessity if thou wilt not be my slave thou shalt not eat Now saith Necessity thou hast stolne from me all that thou possessest that is more then thy Necessity wantest Now saith the tyrant I have made a Law for thee if thou takest any thing back from me thou shalt be hanged till thou art dead and if thou wilt not work for me but go a begging thou shalt be whipped Thus is poor Necessity the Devils slave unless the God of uprightness doth take it into his blessedness his blessedness is thus Needest thou truth and rest or any of the earth or its fruits he will supply thee one day without thy death-obedience for it s not to him that death obeyeth The young Harlot saith she is Christ God life light and all good when he which is so savoureth nothing of her he savourelh life unto life or a clean soul All her inward and outward preachings are uncertain for they do not give to the soul the union-nature of God but are enemies to it The young Harlots threatning and exhortings doth evilly reform the Aegyptians mindes but its righteousness that must lead them to Canaan not
anie thing of that mind shall enter therein because its Reformation maketh nothing but lies When the tree or power of life shall give the soul its word-conjunction then this tree or power of life goeth forth in Ministration to fulfil its words effect then down goeth this tree which is good and evil in its self to its self and it must be a prisoner to the tree of life then all those souls that are its slaves shall go free So sure as God ever did answer any expectation of his promise made so sure he will answer the expectation of his promise now made to some souls that have received of measure of his minde The young Harlot and her children doth scorn to own their kindred they scorn to say Grand-mother Mother Sister Aunt Cosen but do call Whores Harlots and Bastards If any of her kindred do lack â—ood or rayment she is no more free of her superfluity then anie of her kindred are Some of her next Sisters are more kinder to all the kindred then shee for they have often wooed the Grandmother for her Grand children and for their young sister telling her Our sister and her children are the greatest sufferrers for Christ on earth the old Harlot answers It 's not so they are disobedient to me and Christ yet being much wooed she lets some of them go This Harlot appeareth where the Divine Nature doth and doth shape it self as neere it as it can in all its appearances if I meet with this Harlot she loathes mee because I do not commit Adultery with her she saying That I will be made to do that which I call Adultery She hath many hangers on her that would be very much falsly refreshed if that she would let them commit Adultery with her in her secret chamber Shee hath many that were once of her bodie that do now grieve her yet they are not espoused to Christ There are some of her falsly reformed Kindred that love her for her beauty that makes the Harlot proud Some do think she is not sent of God but do verie much disturb her in her adultery in tormenting her by her mothers and sisters power shee answers them with the like though self-righteousness cannot see it God tormenteth no soul but bringeth the tormemtore into subjection to him and delivereth is to himself The cormentors are evill Angells that do not carry fleth but do govern some soulessences by ingrafting their nature in them to do what they please unless the redeeming Angels do prevents by their ingrafting their nature which nature it all goodness and true strength without is the soul is dead I do not say the most beautiful Harlot is the most abomination of the earth but the will be when the is cast out of those souls that are to be the first fruits to the redeemer for present her mother and some of her elder danghters under her are the most obomination of the earth yet their mother doth keep all of them in subjection to her as much as she can When the mother is cast downe the daughters will strive who shall be greatest and this strife will be till all be down but the youngest sister then the will be the abomination of the earth will rule over all souls that are not espoused to Christ the will be the last Harlot that shall adulterate the soul This is verie little minded to wit The redeeming Angels have a greater ministration on the evil Angels to subject them then they have on their captives to redeem them The young Harlot speaks of redemption and subjection and knowes not where the true power placeth either The true Angels act is redemption to the soul and subjection to the evill one that doth ingraft his sin against the soul Angell or Essence The young Harlot doth speak much against the carnal Libertine called Ranter some of them are now her Proselytes Where that loathsome filthy Harlor called Ranter deceived one thee will thousands when the is cast one of those souls that are to be the first fruits to redemption The true Sponse shall very much rejoyce in being alone with Christ. The young Harlot and some of her sisters do say they deny self they being but self cannot do it When Christ cameth to them he will shew them that neither they nor the soul can do so nothing but him can deny self the poor soul can do nothing it s like a dead thing carryed from death to life When the breath of life shall breath on the soul so that it doth consume all the breath of death that was there then it may be said of a truth there is a living soul As some souls now are they are part in life part in death yet they go not forth in the true powers ministry till they be as lively as the power of life then they have its word-conjunction till then the soul it a middle nature betwixt the oppressor and the redeemer Blessed is that soul that hath Gods look to see what is his els all is vanity Man in his best estate in being governed by the evil Angels is worse then vanity for whom they blesse in the event it doth prove the greatest curse Vanity as it standeth out of vexation of mind in this or that so that it doth not abuse any in the inward principle or outward things that do belong to its or their necessityes Sure eternity is neer to this vanity and will bring a consummation on it suddenly Then to the wonderment of all perishers eternity will appear with an army of souls with its word in their mouths which power of eternity will effect in their speaking Our fathers host when they appear no Beelzebub can hold up their armies against them no evill angels can stand unsubjected before them no captives will they make afraid of them but the evill Angels that are not in flesh will so far as they can ingraft feare in opposition to their soules redemption These belzebubs make their own people afraid of one another and of the lover of their soules At the first these belzebubs were all as one in their first fallen union and so did continue a space of time but at the last they did fall out one with another and â—id raise their creation in armyes and did cause them to fight who should have most of the earth and its fruits for their false right as the length of time these belzeebubs will Joyne againe in their first fallen union at which shall stumble every one so far as they stand out of true union They will cause all their people to agree as one to make war against the lamb The young harlots head it distinct from her body and it doth commonly commit adultery in a more secreâ— manner then her body doth know of her heads secresie will be the height of abomination when it shall come forth in its practice it will blast all deceit but itself deceit and will incompass all souls that are
not espoused to Christ This harlot is in some souls that God wil have to be his first fruits When this harlots power shall receiue all bolzebubs into conjunction with it As it was at the first begining of the fall then thee will be the head of the deuils captives in flesh the evil one will dress and shape her so that none shall know her but gods light Nothing can see but light nothing can live but life nothing can love but love nothing can abide Christs coming but the soul if it hath any thing in it that is not as upright as Christ that shall not abide there This young harlot doth hang forth a signe and deth sweep before her dore that makes her very much respected by her devout kindred thee will as much as shee can furnish her house with that that is like trve good whereby shee may invite all that pass by her to come and feast with her inward and outward Idolatryes thee Calling them by the name of trve goodnesse she is alwayes assisted by the father of her intrest to worke her designe against the soul and trve union in it shee and some of hee sisters are the theiues that goe before Christ with their ministryes in biding men looke to them to be an example or pattern This harlots nature is so proud saying shee Rules in heaven and hell it s but her own fathers heaven and hell that shee can or ever must live in For ever all false mindes shall be shut cut of the hoaven of heavent Thus saith truth trust not him that would be trusted till his soul is ascended into the holy angels word and pewer in conjunction to redeem from deceit torment and destruction He that hath an ear to hear cannot but hear When nature hath receiued its Change it will not be tyed unto any Crab-tree neither will it that forest range where nothing but crab-trees gâ—â—w because every thing that it meeteth withall there it s the souls soe The deceiâ—er doth assume a ripeness in the soul in opposition to righteousnes and all harlots are acters theirin to adulterate the soul when the beauty full harlot is cast out of some souls and nothing but Christ there then his minisry is a clean sw eeper of souls and will bind all divells that did foul them in the inward principall in giuing some a mind to inslaue the necessity from its proper right Many harlots haue spoken against the beast saying they were sent from God but he would not beleiv them but keeps them in subjection and shal do till Christ hath his most powerfull ministery in forâ—â— thou the beast and all harlots and false prophets shall joyn with him that will drag them along to fight against the lamb and his army READER it s the true spirits spy-right mind that gives life to word And makes knowne what the 24 Letters do afford Either in the single letter or in the compacted word The Lord cometh to confound all mens talk because when they talk they do not understand name or nature which of they talk The spi-right of truth is the confounder Whosoever hath the spi-right minde that shal not be confounded There is a great deal of talk of taking God his name in vain all do take his name in vain but the spi-right mind in men which seeth all vanity in them The unfaln Angels will have the government of vailed soul from the deceit which they are vailed with by subjecting of the deceiver to have no freewil to deceiv or destroy but to become their foot-stool God doth cleanse away the evell minde then he speaks into the soul it receiveth him God will have all cleansed before him as he is clean The body of man is a Figure the soul in it is a subject or essence carrying or bearing the body about This subject is to be no subject to that that gives it any self carnall minde or subject to any other affliction it is to be a sâ—â— to life and not subject to death When the unsallen power hath raised it by his spi-right mind up into himself then man is in the eternal nature There is the unfallen undeceiuer and the fallen Deceiuer and the fallen deceived these are distinct one-from another The undeceiver is Minister of his spi-right to the soul that lieth under the alter or carnal minde which spi-right in it being set up doth see or spie all that is perishing and that which is everlasting The Lord wil have nothing to worship him but the spi-right in the soul which doth worship him discerning what it doth the man call'd Christreceivd the spi-right without measure into his soul which did spi-right-to all truth and lyes therefore it was said the Godhead in him dwelt bodily There is but one minister of the spi-right into men which doth by its ministry discover all Babell in them to its self within its self in them Nothing in man can receive the spi-right mind but the soul it being cleansed of all that is contrary to it it receiveth saith in God or spi-right of God which is the single eye everlasting truth The Father of the spi-right minde and soule will purge out the carnal mind and let nothing inhabit in his kingdom but spi-right Thus saith the spi-right that doth spy all truth and all lyes in men or in that power that is in combination to deceive his own whole creation that liveth within his own inclination he cannot deceive the spye for in it thore must live no ly or inclination to ly for it doth a ly defie saying thou shalt be reprobated for ever never to live in union with God the true spi-right to all false no spie-right or seer of truth which is the son of perdition that would be prying into all that the spi-right saith that he may be the nearest likeness as he can be to truth calling himself spi right when that he doth abominate the true spi-right that doth behold him in all his actions then he is in rage and madness and would not lose his cloke The spi-right mind saith all in the soul but me is a reprobate I do see with my single eye into thee whosoever thou be this is no mystery to the true spy but it is unto the ly that doth wonder and perish eternally All that ever did wonder was and is the reprobate at his self and at the everlasting truth The spi-right seeth all things and there is no new thing to it There is a great deceit in the interpretation of this saying no new thing under the sun Some say all things ever were as they are and that is the fool that doth expect any change in the world one generation goeth and another cometh and so it will be for ever as it is now with men living as they do in all manner of wickedness There is a truth in that saying but for this interpretation it is not of the spi-right of truth for the spi-right saith that as darknesse doth abound in men so that the light is not in them Thus saith the spi-right Light shal so abound in men that darknesse shal not be in them The spi-right is true all men are lyers There are two sowers two seeds one ground The true sower is the sower of the spi-right mind into the soul The false sower is the cumberer of the soul or ground with a false conception of a carnal mind having in it the false sowers inclination to all manner of his evils The carnal mind it is the bond-Woman that must be cast out of the soul which soul is to be the free-Woman when shee hath received the spi-right without any darkness in her Then the soul doth not groan in the strange wilderness of sin but is set free into Eternity where nothing but spi-right shall inhabit there shee is caught up into the Heaven of Heavens out of sin his sight which once with her did fight There is God spi-right And after the soul bath received the spi-right mind into it and the carnal mind done away then there is soul spi-right that seeth God it being the life of faith that it liveth which is one with God in all things seeing him face to face without any shame or disgrace There is a savour of death unto death which must be ashamed of his savouring of death because the Lord wilraign over the wicked nature The wicked nature never did savour truth nor never shal the righteous nature never did savour the wicked nature nor never will It is a clean soul that God doth savour with his true mind which is spi-right or discern right or see right with the single eye which hath in its self all light It is God the Father of life and light which doth spi-right of all things for there is nothing out of his sight by J.C.V. 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