want Empyreal Flame Through whose clear Stile in each Transparent Line Thy rough cut well-set Polisht Diamonds shine Each Page outstreaming Light kindling Love Divine All Barrs remov'd at last Heavens Dawn appears The Virgin blushes round the Hemispheres Shedding Celestial Rosie Tincture pure From Sharon's Spicy Beds of radiant Hue Mixt with her own fair Lilies Silver Dew The Morning-Star true Venus high Aspires Darting on ev'ry side unblam'd and free Her gracious glittering lambent amorous Fires Bright Morning-Star of Gods Eternal Day For this we shout aloud we Sing we Pray Amen Hosauna Hallelujah Ah dear Divine Urania now be kind Speak thou and leave the wretched Man behind THE Glorious Aera Now Now Now begins Now Now the Great Angelick Trumpet sings And Now in ev'ry Blast Loves Everlasting Gospel Rings The Glad Triumphant Sounds Through Vales ore Hills rebound Glory to the Eternal King of Kings Glory to the Eternal King of Kings The Glorious Aera Now Now Now begins O may through me the Mighty Trumpet sound And spread its Fame the Woods and Plains The Isles and Seas around Let Sportful Eccho's play And Dancing all the way Swell and Intune the trembling Sounds anew All well-tun'd Voices raise To Great Elchâ—…jahs Praise Peace to All Worlds Dear Love to Man to God his Honour due O may through me the Mighty Trumpet sound And spread his Fame the Woods and Hills and Plains Tho Isles and Seas around Proclaim aloud the mighty Jubilee That sets each World of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim the mighty Jubilee Let all the Heavenly Nine Wreath Arm in Arm entwin'd All in one high Love-labour'd Song agree Let Muse and Grace combin'd With Harmony Divine In sweetest Consent perfect Unity Melodious Voices joyn Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee That sets whole Worlds of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim aloud the Mighty Jubilee Hail Morning-Star of God's Eternal Day For this we shout aloud we Sing we Pray Amen Hosannah Hallelujah O Bless the Dawn salute the Morning-Star Thrice bless the happy Womb that bare Sophia's Darling Child Lustrous All-charming Mild Bless Bless and Kiss the Daughter fair And for the Nuptial Bowers prepare Of God's Eternal Bride Bless bless the happy Lovers by her side Arise ye Lovers true Arise arise ye wondrous few Apparitors Divine ordain'd fore-sent Heavens beauteous Virgin Queen To attend and Usher in The Mother to Adore the Bride to Complement Blest Virgin Mother Bride in One Thrice sacred Band of Love and Mystick Union Arise arise ye wondrous few Arise ye Lovers true Long in in glorious Ease obscur'd ye lie Despis'd neglected yet neglecting too Nor caring what the Impious trifling World Could either say or do Orelookt by Man yet Lov'd and favouâ—…d high In Heavens Regard and God's Auspicious Eye Whom neither high Preferments Charm can move Ambition Fire or Beauty prompt to Love And yet to Love most true Out of the Everlasting Virgin 's Womb Sons of the Morn already born anew Born into Time And Wing'd at will to ascend the Aetherial Clime Angelick Men Imbodied Seraphim All Captives to the blest Sophia's Charms Thro Wisdoms Mazes bright Wandring in Tracks of Light By her still guided and exempt from Harms Still kept From mazy Errors tangling step From Paths untrue By her fair Silver-twin'd Mercurial Clue Dear Captives to the bright Sophia's Charms And yet more loudly to proclaim Transcendent Love's and Beauties Fame Long wrapt in the Divine Urania's Arms. Wrapt in the Dear Divine Urania's Arms Plundring her Sweets and Risâ—…ng all her Charms Ye wondrous few arise God's Heralds true throw off your mortal Guise Now lift your sweet loud speaking Trumpets high Now let your â—…ocund Levets fill the Sky Tell tell the drowsie World their God is Nigh Now let Eternal Song unbounded flow With Torrent deep serene Majestick flow Disdaining Arts Controll Like Heavens full spangled Canopy Most Nice and yet most Free Rang'd by Dame Nature's artful Liberty Let evr'y Point a Star each Line In Constellation shine Each Living Word a Soul In Thousand differing wayes Varying to God new Praise Now Now let your Inspir'd Seraphick Strains In mighty Numbers Roll. Proclaim proclaim the Gracious Jubilee And set the Sin-bound Captives free Proclaim proclaim the gracious Jubilee O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread its Fame the Woods and Plains The Isles and Seas around Let Sportful Eccho's play And dancing all the way Swell and Inâ—…une the trembling Sounds anew All well-tun'd Voices raise To great ELCHAJAH's Praise Peace to all Worlds dear Love to Man to God his Honour due O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread his Fame the Woods and Hills and Plains The Isles and Seas around And ye fair Virgin-Daughters of the Morn â—…on's first Blossoms from New Salem born High Paradisial Nymphs appear The Virgin Queen's attendant Graces dear Hast hast away And joyn your Powers unanimous to Proclaim The Wondrous Year The Great the Good the Now-Revolving Day Full Period-Circle bright of Endless Fame Ye Paradisial Nymphs appear The Virgin Queen's Attendant Graces Dear Sions first Blossoms from New Salem born Rise ye fair Virgin-Daughters of the Morn Arise and Shine Illustrious Troop of Heroin s Divine Celestlal Amazons untaught to yield With Heaven-Aspiring Ardors sprightly vigor filled In this The Virgin 's Day most forward bent Zealous their very Hero's to prevent In Terrible-Majestick-Gay Parade Hell 's fierce Imbattel'd Legions first t' Invade With Orient Beams of Light Scattering the Misty Gloom of Night And chasing every black Infernal Shade Arise and Shine Illustrious Heroines Cherubick Phalanx bright of Amazons Divine Arise Arise and Shine Yet tho' deep skilled in Spirits War-like Arts Nature has fram'd Love Arm'd ye too too free â—…ar deeper Wounds to give and nobler Darts To fix in pure and captivated Hearts In whose High-tinctur'd Forms harmonious move The fiery quick Serpentine Energy Charm'd by the mildness of the Peaceful 〈◊〉 Inviting still to Love Contraries here agree In strictest Unity Each other to improve The fierce and powerful Sting and lofty Spire Co-mingling to exâ—…t the Amorous Fire You at whose Presence Mortal Beauty must Abscond and in Confusion kiss the Dust. Beauties too flaming Bright To be endur'd by Humane Sight Which but unveil'd would quench the Inferiour Outward Light The Glances of whose Eyes are Lucid Beams In-drawn from the All-radiant One Divine Superca Iestial Sun Where his full Streams Pointed in Central Union Himself produce in Lustrous Image fair Of his Belov'd Eternal Son Henee darting ev'ry way In each reflecting subdivided Ray The little Loves intranc't With innocent and wanton Dance Thousand enshrin'd celestial Cupids play From whose Coralline Lip Angels their Spicy Draughts of Nectar sip Quick darting the divine Love-flaming Kiss In free Enormous Bliss In whose fair Cheeks the Tinctures pure combine The matchless Diamonds sparkle Paler Bright And in their Orbs of Light Enchase the Glittering Rubies Sanguine Flame In radiant Blush of Modesty Divine Exempt from
Mortal Shame Here Re-aspiring from their humble Vale To meet the inclining vigorous scented Male In their Dewie Fruitful Bed Their Sharon Rose the Virgin Lilies wed Whom as with strict Embrace inwrapt They lock within their Flowery Lap A Stock of Graces numberless proceed A Spring of lesser Beauties breed The clear tralucent Forms all Shade disdain Disclosing freely to be seen The Wonder-World within Each Argent Nerve and ev'ry Azure Vein The beauteous Love-Eye burning in the Heart From whence Loves Centres endless multlply As thick-set Spangles of the Sky Raising a Sting of Joy in ev'ry Part. In ev'ry Point a Venus bright Each Star a World of new Delight Opening an unexhausted Spring of Bliss Each Nymph her self a Paradise So fine so pliant the external Mould That ev'n therein the brighter Soul With all its Graces Train Imprints it self distinct and plain And as in Fabled Streams Where Silver Currents roll On Orient Pearl and Sands of Gold Displays her rich inestimable Gemms Which free exposed to view In their untarnisht native Hue Reflex thrâ—… Bodies Chrystalline In their transparent Mirror shine But deeper yet and more amazing Fair Out-shines out-flames thro' her Express the Only Sons refulgent Character Now now ye Paradisial Nymphs appear The Virgin Queens Attendant Graces Deâ—…r Arise arise and shine Illustrious Brigade Of Heroines Divine In Terrible-Majestick-Gay Parade With Orient Beams of Light Scatter the miâ—…y Gloom of Night And banish every black Infernal Shade Arise and shine Illustricuâ—… Heroines Cherubick Phalanx bright of Amazons Divine Arise Arise and Shine Hast Hast away And let your well-trim'd flowing Tresses fair Waving in wanton Ringlets Gild the Air Ont-beaming Sun-bright with pellucid Ray And as they loosely move Fan'd by fresh Odorous Gales of Love With Heavens warm Gentle-breathing Zephirs Play Hast to Proclaim The Great the Good the Now-Revolving Day Amen Hosanna Hallelujah Hast to Proclaim The Period-Circle Full of Endless Faâ—…e The Great the Good the Now-Revolving Day For this we shout aloud we sing we pray Amen Amen Hosanna Hallelujah Hero's fall back again Lead up the Virgin Train And Hand in hand as Love-pair'd Twins advance In Sacred well-pac't Mystick Dance Tracing on holy Ground Circling Jehovah's Altar round Where Ay Love-Incense burns Goodness and Grace abound Whence Living Coals out-fly Generate and multiply Seraphick Ardors ev'ry way to impart To each bright-flaming and Love-melting Heart The quick Celestial Fire 's Straight their Sweet-warbling Tongues inspire While ev'ry Voice and ev'ry Trumpet sings Glory to the Returning King of Kings Lov 's Golden Aera Now Now Now begins Now Now in ev ry Breath in ev'ry sound The Universe around Loves Everlasting Gospel rings Glory to the Returning King of Kings Loves Glerious Aera Now Now Now begins Fresh springing still th' Inspir'd Harmonious Vein Tunes up to higher Key and loftier Strain In more Inchanting Layes Varying new Hymns of Praise Jointly th' ascending Voice and Soul to raise Ev'n till they both aspire And join with the Seraphick Quire And under Gods bright Eye In Influence serene they lie Dissolv'd in Rapturous Hallelujahs As that sweet little Chorister that flies And singing mounts the Skies Till all his Breath and Song be spent Then down he falls in sweeter Languishment So do Angelick Souls in Sounds aspire They mount and Sing Upon the Doves bright Wing That gently fans and feeds th' Ethereal Fire All Emulous to win the steep Ascent The mighty Mountains Seven Those Lilie-deckt and Rosie-flowring Hills Form'd by th' All-bounteous Hand of Heaven Its Darling Sons with meer Delight to fill Till in Melodious Ravishment Their Powers their Voice their very Soul be spent The Light Becomes too blazing bright The Bliss Unsufferable is Then down with speed they take their humble flight In Adoration deep yet but retire Tâ—… embrace more Near and be exalted higher Now Loves last sweetest Mystick Death to try Rapt in sublime Exstatick Joys Expire Intranc'd and Silent lye Thus in soft languent Slumbers sweet true Sleep That Rests in Gods Abyssal Deep The rest in Visionary Dreams they See They Tast they Feel What is unknown Immense Unspeakable Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee That sets each world of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim aloud the Mighty Jubilee O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread its Fame thâ—… Woods and Hills and Plains The Isles and Seas around Let Sportful Eccho's play And dancing all the way Swell and Intune the trembling Sounds anew All well-tun'd Voices raise To great ELCHAJAH's Praise Peace to all Worlds dear Love to Man to God hiâ—… Honour duâ—… O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread his Fame the Woods and Isles and Seas And Heaven and Earth around Too long too long the wretched World Lies wast in wild Confusion hurl'd Unhing'd in ev'ry part each Property Strugling disrang'd in fiercest Enmity The whole Creation Groans And Labouring with Perpetual Toil In Man's Rebellion vile Her own Hard Fate bemoans But now shall Natures Jaâ—…r Cease her Intestine War Now shall the long Six working Days of Strife â—…ttain their Line and to their Crown arrive At last set free In peaceful Rest of Sabbath true Heav'n and Earth created new â—…o Celebrate a Universal Jubilee Concord divine now meets in ev'ry Part. And Love subdues and Reigns in ev'ry Heart Ore all In Summ or Individual Triumphant Harmony Triumphant Love In Sweetest Unity Combin'd together move Ev'n from the Zenith high Of the clear boundless Empyrean Skie The Throne of God â—…own to Earth's inmost Central deep abode â—…ll is Concent and perfect Amity All in Proportion due In Weight and Number true Ev'n from the Zenith high Th' All-radiant Throne of God â—…own to Earths inmost central 〈◊〉 Abode â—…othing but Love but Love and Harmony â—…here every Voice and every Trumpet sings â—…lory to the Eternal King of Kings â—…oes Golden Aera now now now begins Now now in every Breath in every Sound The Universe around Her Everlasting Gospel â—…ings â—…lory to the returning King of Kings â—…ves Glorious Golden Aera now now now begins Now harmless thro the Skie â—…et the sweet whisking treble Lightnings fly Full Base frm Shoar to Shoar Shall in deep Thunders Roar â—…ot Death not Horror now but Melody Now Mighty Bard sing out thy Sonnet free Nor doubt it true shall be Come Thou and joyn Thy loud Prophetick Voice with mine `` Ring out ye Chrystal Sphears `` Now bless our Humane Ears For ye have Power to touch our Senses so `` Now shall your Silver Chime `` Move in Melodious time And the deep Base of Heav'ns great Orb shall Blow From the bright Zenith high Of the clâ—…ar boundless Empyrean Skie From the All-radiant Throne of God Down to Earths inmost central deep Abâ—…de Nothing but pure Concent and Unity All in Proportion due In Weight and Number true All Universal Love and Harmony This Globe Terrene no longer turn'd Askanee Hitch't in her Poles shall now direct advance And thro
the liquid Aether dance And on her Axle Spin In an Harmonious round Breathing Substantial Dense imbodied Sound Then shall surcease the Ungrateful Din Of jarring Sphears and clashing Orbs around While this Wonder-Machine Engine of Harmony divine Shall through the Ecchoing Welkin play And every where Its melting Air In clear Triumphant Sounds convey Into each obvious rowling Sphear Mingling her Ringing Atmosphere Which as it springs Still more transparent bright and sounding clear At first divides in lesser Rings Compacted close in Voice acute and shrill More to the Surface near Then wider Waves Indented till The Circles swell the Sounds begin to fill Still Wid'ning more and more Till with deep Gamut Roar In full mouth'd Peals Orb within Orb resound Here in Epitome Shall the vast Heavenly Sphears collected be And down through them transmit their Harmony Each Sphear each Star shall now dispence With Passage free in direct line And full Aspect Benigne It s various Powers and proper Influence Which in Her hallow Womb This Globe shall deep Intomb Where from her Central working Urn They shall arise and into Body turn And shoot from Centre to Circumference Her Caverns dark must now enlightned be Unfetter'd free As one transparent vast self-moving Wheel Of liquid Crystal open to Reveal Her rich innumerable Stores Her various Wonders great and her own Acting Powers These upward move and on the Surface play Adorn'd all Beauteous Bright Amazing Gay And there Themselves in Radiant Flowers Fruits Metals Gems display All Living Breathing sounding free Into the All-uniting Element The One Capacious Air Blowing from ev'ry Pipe a Different Harmony Still from the Lower Circlets upward sent `` Thus every grateful Note to Heav'n repays `` The Melody it Lent Thus from Earth's inmost Central-deep Abode Ev'n to the Zeinth high Of the clear boundless Empyrean Sky To the All Radiant Throne of God All is Conâ—…ent and perfect Unity All in Proportion dâ—…e In Weight and Number true In ev'ry Motion ev'ry Sound The Universe around All is Triumphant Love and Harmony Thro' All the Heav'nly Dove Breaths Hen Eternal Love Collecting ev'ry various Tone All Acts all Powers all Hearts in One Center'd in Beatifick Union Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee That sets each world of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee Let all the Heav'nly Nine Wreath Arm in Arm entwin'd All in One high Love-labour'd Song agree Let Muse and Grace combin'd With Harmony Divine In sweetest Concent perfect Unity Melodious Voices Joyn. Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee That sets each World of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim aloud the mighty Jubilee O may thro' me th' Awakening Trumpet sound And spread his Fame the Woods and Isles and Seas And Heaven and Earth around Let Sportful Eccho's play And dancing all the way Swell and Iâ—…tune the trembling Sounds anew All well-tun'd Voices raise To great ELCHAJAH's Praise Peace to all Worlds dear Love to Man to God his Honour due O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread His Fame the Woods and Isles and Seas And Heav'n and Earth around While ev'ry Voice and ev'ry Trumpet sings The Glorious Aera Now Now Now begins Now now th' Angelick Trump His Message brings And now in ev'ry Blast Loves Everlasting Gospel rings The glad Triumphant sounds Thro' Spheres and Worlds rebound Glory to the Returning King of Kings Glory to the Returning King of Kings The Glorious Aera now now now Begins For this we shout aloud we Sing we Pray Amen Hosannah HALLELUJAH HAst now my Soul and lay thy humble Ode Low at the Feet of thy Returning God Make hast to Welcome Heaven's Eternal Queen She is by some already seen Come here to Live And ere 't is long to Appear Transfus'd in Her Great Representative Sure when she leaves the blissful Seats above And comes to Teach and Give us too Celestial Love None can the Rebel play To that dear Scepters sway She thinks none here can Disaffected prove Great Hero's ye must now give way And learn a Female General to obey Led on to mighty Deeds and vast Renown To Eternal Glories Crown By the Divine Illustrious Deborah The High-born Beauteous Amazonian Queen Immortal Heroine Of all the Virgin Train most dazling fair Mother of All and All compriz'd in Her Who ere She Dies Up to Mount Siâ—…n's blissful state arrives And in Her Age On the Celestial Rosie Bed Of fragrant Spices lies True Phâ—…e who in Heav'nly Flames Revives To Her Heav'ns lofty Virgin condescends familiar Unlocks Her Secret Cabinet and shows Where Her inestimable Pearl is hid Where run the Golden Mines so long forbid To Purblind Mortals Where the Unction flows Divine and where Lost Paradise on Earth Restor'd Immortal springs and fairer grows She teaches Her how to Project alone The Divine Magick-wonder-working Stone But that to purer Souls as free she may Her Secrets Wisdom Stone convey To fix the true Ascension Ladder high That leads directly to the Sky The rising Cherub Soul ev'n here to Glorify And to Proclaim the Gospel Pure Wonders unknown of Gods surprizing Love Which Firm and Sure Spight of fierce Demons Hate or Sins controul For ever shall endure To Her she gives all free Her Privy-Garden Key That leads us to the Still Eternity Which only is The true Transcendent Virgin-Paradise Whence she such Flowers of various Kind and Hue Imbalm'd in Odorous Heav'nly Dew Into her own Spicy Garden brings In which each Flower Indued with multiplying Power Pregnant becomes of Thousands more Hence th' unexhausted Fountain of fresh Gardens springs Here living Trees their glittering Armâ—… extend Apples of Gold the Silver Branches bend Plenty Luxuriant without End Here round the Oak of Strength entwines The softer Amorous Eglantine Which hitherto tho' wild and barren-wast Here bring their proper Fruits too high for Mortal tast The stately Elm still Weds the creeping Vine Whose Branches wide-Embrac'd prosusely Pour Their large Escolian-clâ—…er'd Dower The Princely Cedars Heaven aspiring Clime And fit to build the Presence-Ark Divine Th' Incorruptible Trees of Sbiâ—…tim Nor wants Improv'd that Indian Wonder-Tree All Spices in Bpitome Whence we the true Perfumes and Incense bring To Ingratiate and Attone the Offended King Ev'n till the Savour of our Ointments move The Bridegroom dear to grant his Love Amidst the Trees of Faith and Life aspire Most Virtuous-rich and Goodly to behold O see 'em Blooming fair With Orient Pearl and pure Ambrosial Gold Hail Blest Elysian-flowery fruitful Vale Eden transplanted new Here Blushing Roseâ—… Lilies Love-sick Pale High-Purpled Mourning Violets humbling low With Pinkt Carnatians of collected Graces grow Here is the Sun-Flower true Of steady fixâ—… Love-Contemplation high That from th' Eternal Sun ne're turns its Eye Here the Dove-Gales in Gentle Zephirs Blow Here Sions Golden Rivers boundless flow Pure Nectaro-Ambrosial Streams that spring With Quintessential Element Divine And the New Kingdoms Flaming Wine From the clear Glassy Sea Loves Ocean bring These are the Gardens of Mount Lebanon
Where Wisdoms Temple can be raised alone By the True second Solemâ—…n Whose Glorious Representative shall here Become its Mighty Founder Himself most radiant and Head Corner-Stone Next to th' Eternal One Hail Great and Powerful CYRUS Thou art He Forenam'd and Chosen from Eternity True Hyacynth who to thy Jasper Bright Loves charming Queen shalt evermore unite Mingling thy Streams of Power with Rays of Light Hail Glorious King DAVID and MARY One Hail Types of Greater Glories yet to come Hail Pledges of the Blest MILLENIUM Blest Pair 't is Now Now you begin your Days when the Divine SOPHIA Sings your Praise The Rose and Lilly of th' Imperial Crown The Flower and Beauty of the Heavenly Throne The V and M of the Creation Blest Pair thrice happy now begins your Days When the Divine Sophiâ—… Sings your Praise Hail Glorious King DAVID and MARY One Hail Types of Greater Glories yet to Come Hail Pledges of the BLEST MILLENIUM Hail Powerful Beauteous Kind Harmonious V. M. Arise arise ye glittering Temple Stones Arise ye Precious Twelve Foundations Hast and your Ravisht Souls in one combine All in One Heart One Life One Glory shine To Raise of Spirits all compact and Pure Wisdom's Magnificent Immortal Structure Each Princely Pillar Generating more Story on Story rais'd with Golden Spires Waving their Streamers of Celestial Fires While the true Doves from ev'ry distant Shoar To the Love-Windows fly and Add their Store Till to the Heavens they Build her Lofty-Tower Then down in Love the very Heavens shall Bend Then shall the Still Eternity descend And shouts of Victory the Skies shall rend With full-ton'd Acclamation-Anthems clear And Love Congratulations Dear Thus down in Love the Heavens themselves shall bend Thus shall the New Jerusalem descend And God shall Tabernacle Here with Men World without End And here at Rest Heav'ns Glorious Virgin Queen â—…n all her Darling Beauties Charms Divine Majestick Port and Glories unconfin'd Sits on her Royal Throne in her high Faâ—…e Enshrin'd And in the Mirror of her Heavens so clear Presents her Lustrous Son in whom Express Outshines the Glory of his Father Dear â—…n and through All the Eternal Peaceful Dove Out-pours the Burning Sea of Everlasting Love â—…hile loud each Arch-Angelick Trumpet Sings Glory to the Eternal King of Kings While ev'ry Breath and Sound The Ecchoing Spheres and Worlds around 〈◊〉 Universal Hallelujah Rings Glory to the Returning King of Kings â—…or this we Shout aloud we Sing we Pray â—…MEN HOSANNA HALLELUJAH MEAN while we turn our Eyes and Ears attent To Heavens Embassadress to Mortals sent â—…o shew her Virgin Mother's Love-Intent Through her a sweet Inchanting Ray she flings â—…nd purer Souls Inviting Thus Divinely Sings Now Open wide ye Everlasting Doors And swiftly Fly the Winged Hours â—…ill your Great Lebanon Prince the Mighty King In Solemn Triumph enter in All your Fresh Springs with Heavenly Dews to fill Flowing from ev'ry Spicy Quill That you may Drink those Nectarine Draughts so pure To Effect the Universal Cure Quint-Essence streaming from the Godhead Source So Ravishing sweet of such high Force As to transmute Man's Earth and drossy Mold To Pearly Beauty Living Gold Crown'd with the Sun and Star-bright Glory high Clear Substance of a Deity Thus meetly Qualified and All Divine Companions to the Glorious Trine Such Heavenly Virgin Soulâ—… shall freâ—… Command The Treasures of their Nat vs Land Those hidden Mines whose Springs of Golden Ore Shall decaid Nature full Restore Fountains of â—…ebanons Generated free Shall from this Golden Ocean be The Rapturous Joys whereof no Tongue can tell But Godhead-Plants that in it dwell Who under th' shady Rocks high Banner grow Whence Love 's spic'd Liquors ever flow O come and tast what Pleasures here abound Where would ye move in Endless round You must from Dross Refine and Mount away Mingling no more with Earth and Clay But as New-Risen Souls make your Ascents To dwell in Lebanon's Golden Tents O England Hear thy Genius loudly Call O Hear and ere'tis fixt Prevent thy Fall Of Heaven thou most Abhorrd thou dearest Lov'd Whom one by True Poetick Instinct mov'd Well Jews has call'd `` A moody Murmuring Race `` As ever tried th' extent and stretch of Grace Ah stop take heed heed leâ—… thou so Head-strong move As ev'n to 〈◊〉 the very Câ—…in of Love Still with Godâ—… Prime â—…ulgent Fâ—…vour Bleâ—… And Prov'd as 〈◊〉 by bitter Plagues distrest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spare Yet cannot thee forgo O how 〈◊〉 â—…ary teaâ—… how His Comâ—…ssions slow Maâ—…k thy mild Saviour well how once he stood Shedding at Saleâ—… Gates his tender Flood Ore thee again He Mourns in Tears in Sighs Wrung from his Bleeding Heart and Melting Eyes Once more from the Exuberant Mercy-Store A Glorious Day shall â—…ouch Fair Alblon's Shoar Take Heed Prepare for if thou wilt not see The Visitation Day-spring offer'd Thee If thou neglect the STAR that will Appear First Rising Glorious in thy Hemisphere Thou of thy Birth-right wilt Suplanted be And Heavens full Shower of Blessing pass from thee The Morning-Star despis'd must Glide away And to a better Land its chearing Beams display Then at thy Loss and Folly for a while Shall the Fair-sprouting German Lilly smile Yet kind and free Assist thy Labouring Toil. Then Britain then Prepare for Scenes of Woe Then Nilus shall the wicked Land Ore-flow A a's Stately Pride must tumble down And B b's Lofty Towers must Kiss the Ground Then Happy who in Goshen's fruitful Land Sheltred beneath th' Almighties Wing shall stand In â—…afety Peace and Plenty at Command Till the short Gloomy Day be past and gone And soon another Brighter Morning Dawn Gods Hand and Will shall be too Glaring plain Longer to meet Neglect or bear Disdain Jealous provok't with Emulation-Fire Again shall British Piety Aspire As it sunk Low so shall it now Rise Higher His First-born God in Thee again shall Own And pour the Vast the Double Blessings down And England's Monarch High shall wear the Nations Crown The Fivefold-Portion-Right belongs to Thee Then shall the Land from Curse and Toil be free And England Benjamin Restored shall be Onesimus A Garden of Fountains c. OR Divine Openings and Revelations since the Year MDLXX The First Vision that appeared to me was in the Month of April 1670. Which was on this wise BEing my lot at that time to visit a Friend in a Solitary Country-place where I had great advantage of Retirement often frequenting lonely Walks in a Grove or Wood contemplating the happy State of the Angelical World and how desirous I was to have my Conversation there my thoughts were much exercised upon Solomon's Choice which was to find out the Noble Stone of Divine Wisdom for by acquainting my self with her all desirable good in Spiritual things would meet upon me The Report and Fame that Solomon gave of Wisdom did much excite me to seek her Favour and Friendship demurring in my self from whence she was descended
make the chiefest Cry that the Veil is still before their Eyes And let these Imagin what they please and Pride themselves in the Penetration of their Sight they must all sooner or later be convinced that it will be impossible without the Immediate Hand of Christ to rend away the Veil or to penetrate through it into the Sanctuary of God or of Nature without the Great High Priest bearing the Oracle of Truth upon his Breast do make a way for them to enter in and do both open their Eyes and Ears that seeing they may see and hearing they may hear whatever is written by his Finger or spoken by his Mouth Let not the Blind think they see or the Deaf believe they hear but especially let both take heed not to be Offended at those Little ones as the Jews were of old whose Eyes or Ears have been Opened by the Word and Power of JESUS And that there may be some Such even in This Day wherein Materialism and Sadducism do certainly no less if not much more eminently than in the First Day of Christs Appearance in a low Corporeal Form Reign and Triumph will not seem perhaps so very strange or incredible as to many it may at first appear to be when what is Now here Published as well as what hath been already Publâ—…shed of this Nature through the same Hand shall come to be Thoroughly examin'd and scan'd into by any Impartial Inquirer Yet indeed such are justly to be esteemed worthy of all Commendation that shall not from any evil Propension but purely from an Holy Jealousie for the Honour of God and out of a true Tenderness and Veneration for the Sacred Scriptures which undoubtedly do contain his Revealed Will to Man withhold giving their Assent hereto if they yet Oppose not what they may not at present comprehend Who if they do indeed take heed to that most sure Word of Prophesy and do suspend any Positive Determination in this Matter while they have no other but this Light as of a Candle or Torch shining in a Dark Place are in a good disposition to receive whatever further Manifestations of himself the most wise God may please to communicate And will be then fully satisfied when the Day shall dawn and the Day-star arise in their own Hearts Which it will not fail to do according as they shall be found true to what they have already received and believing in the Promises that are therein given for their sakes from Him who is the Faithful Witness and that is the same Now as he was Yesterday in the days of the Patriarchs the Prophets and the Apostles and will be the same for ever the Yea and the Amen For in all Ages of the World God hath had some special Friends though perhaps hidden for the most part from the World because they were not of it with whom in a more Familiar and Intimate manner he hath chosen to converse and manifest himself In all Ages God hath been known to be the God of the Prophets and for his Honour some have been consident to say That he never did any Great Thing in the Economy of his Church or in the Kingdoms of the Earth in order thereto but that he hath always before revealed his Secret unto his Servâ—…nts the Prophets and given express Manduductions and Rules for the Effecting of every such Work as particularly in the days of Moses of of the Tabernacle with all its Vessels in those of Solomon of the Temple in those of Ezra of the restitution of That and of the Law and in those of the Apostles of the Foundation of the Spiritual Kingdom of Christ which is now in the Fulness of Time about to be re-revealed at His Second expected Coming in the Power and Glory of the Father to Judge both the Quick and the Dead according to everlasting Righteousness and Equity and to put down all Enemies under his Feet that so he may not only for a Thousand Years which are to him but as One Day but for Ever sit upon his Holy Hill of Sion governing all Worlds with a Scepter of Holiness as the LORD of LORDS and KING of KINGS Wherefore the Spirit of the Lord which hath more or less in all Ages thus moved as in a particular Treatise on this Subject shortly to be Published is at large Proved upon the face of the meek and deep silent Waters in the Souls of such as have been first made clean through the Washing of the Word will certainly not fail to move upon them in this Last Age in order to a New and Glorious Creation of New Heavens and a New Earth And the Inspiration of the Almighty which giveth man Understanding may with some reason be hoped not to have been quite Exhausted in the former Ages but that he will appear even unto Us as he did appear unto Them opening Variously the Springs of all Spiritual and even Natural Knowledge and will thereby renew also those Noble Works and Deeds of Royal Power that he did in the days of our Fathers the Holy Prophets and Apostles and in the Old time before them even in the beginning of the Creation of God Before Man had corrupted his way or had alienated himself from the Image of the Everlasting Light and the Unspotted Mirror of the Power of God While not having cut himself off from the pure Streams flowing from the Glory of the Almighty he might as His Representative Oversee and Govern all the Creatures of this Globe whether in the Earth or in the Water under the Earth or in the Air above it by virtue of that Soveraign Charter committed to him Gen. 1. 28. Which Charter having been forfeited the Divine Character expunged the Seals broken all the Ensigns of Royalty defaced the Virgin Image deflowred and the Angelical Life and Might exchanged for that contemptible weak Form which we now wear that is subject to the curse of Mortality and Sin It is again renewed to us much more strongly than at first through the Pure Humanity of Christ which is exalted above all the Principalities and Powers in the Heavenly Places the express Character of the Father afresh imprinted as in the very Forehead a new and everlasting Commission established to go forth and act in the Tri-un Name of Father Son and Holy Ghost which is sealed with the Heart of Jesus All the Royal Ensigns are redelivered the Crown of Immortality the Scepter of Righteousness and the Love Imperial Standard of JEHOVAH the Violated Image is restored the Image of the Beast ground to Powder and his Number perfectly raced So that the Bestial and Antichristian Kingdom being hereby brought to an end a new Aera of the Kingdom of Christ doth there upon Commence first in particular Souls then in the whole Family of the First-born after that in the Great Assembly of the After-born and so on till the whole Mass be Leavened and Transmuted by the Ferment of the Divine Nature passing through
either to the Prophets or to the Apostles or should he make himself known to us by a Name whereby he was not known to them He is still the same let the Vessel be never so Different and is equally to be Adored and Believed whether he takes up an Honourable or Dishonourable Vessel Learned or Ignorant Noble or Plebeian whether the Instrument be a Priest or Levite Israelite or Proselite Male or Female Young or Old Some has he called from the Plow others from gathering of Sycamore Trees and others from their Drag-Nets whom he has set over the Nations and over the Kingdoms to Root out and to Plant to Throw down and to Build up by the mighty Power of his Spirit according to its various Operation and Manifestation It matters not what the Subject is into which the Divine Influences are receiv'd and through which they pass even though it should be an Heathen as in the Case of Jethro or a Brute Beast as in that of Balaam The Gradation nevertheless of these Influences may be computed according to the Scituation and according to the Proximity and Remoteness of the Subject which is to receive them from the Source or Center of Divine Light and according to the several Channels and Ducts that they must first pass through before they are therein received But the All-wise God is never wanting in the Preparation of such Vessels as may be suitable for the Reception of such Degrees of his Light as he designs to Communicate And this Beautiful Variety is in the Writings of the Old Testament and also in those of the New most Remarkable For it is one Degree of Inspiration that Moses had and another that Isâ—…iah had and third that Daniel had Neither is the Inspiration of the Writer of the Chronicles the same with either of these Three And yet both the one and the other are all from the True Inspiring Breath of God The Like may also be observed in the New Testament But to Treat of this would require a large Discourse What has been here already said will suffice for the Wise in Heart that they may understand the Voice of the Lord their Bridegroom when he shall call to them in the Cool of the Day and present himself walking in the Garden that they may not seek to hide themselves from him but may walk therein leaning upon his Breast and refresh themselves with its Flowers and Fruits that do there present themselves to be Plucked As for the Removal of that Great Milstone which is thrown in the way That God hath ceased to Reveal himself to Man since the Days of the Apostles and that all Pretensions to the same are but Illusions and at best but the Dreams and Fancies of a Natural Enthusiasm I am not very sollicitous as well knowing that the same God who hath already appeared in a most Wonderful Manner to give his Testimony to Souls concerning what hath been hitherto Published from the same Spirit and Instrument will not be wanting Now to give his Seal lo This or to what Hereafter may come to be Published and even in a more ample and fuller manner to Vindicate his Honour than he hath been yet known to have done since the Primitive Days of Faith But howsoever the Wisdom of God may with respect to these Particular Writings shew it self at present this Milstone must shortly be cast into the Sea Otherwise the Kingdom of God which we daily ought to pray for can never come And it is little better but a Mockery of his Name to sollicite him for the Calling of the Jews and the Fulness of the Gentiles and for Unity Peace and Concord to all Nations till this Beam be removed from before the Eye of our Spirits For which End there hath been some while since a Treatise writ to Prove not only the Possibility and the Expediency but even the Absolute Necessity of Divine Revelation both Private and Publick as in the Ancient Times so no less in the Present Time toward the Restitution and Winding up of All Things Which the Author of it undertakes to evince from plain and evident Principles not disputed by the very Deists and having done with them to Clear up many Passages throughout the Prophets and throughout the whole New Testament which are impossible as he holds to be Accounted for by any other Principles But how Successful such a New and Surprizing Attempt may be is entirely submitted to the Disposal of the Infinitely Wise God when he shall order it to come forth for his Honour alone and for no other Aim whatever And unless he gives this Order and by his Blessed Spirit do Accompany it let it never see the Day And whatever disagreeable to his Glory or Inconsistent with his Truth may have at any time been sent abroad of such a Nature let it moulder away in Perpetual Obscurity and let it not be remembred by Him when he maketh Inquisition or even known among Men. But whatever is consistent with his Eternal Truth and makes for his Glory upon the Earth in this Latter Day let that break forth with mighty and irreâ—…istible Power to the Confusion of all Flesh. Wherefore I do bow my Knees continually before the God of my Fathers that he would give me who Wriâ—…e and Thee who Readest This Wisdom that siâ—…eth by his Throne and reject us not from among his Children the Children of his Kingdom and of his Right Hand but â—…eal us against the Great Day of Temptation which is coming upon the Face of the whole Earth with the Spirit of Truth the Spirit of Jehovah the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding of Counsel and Might and of a Sound Judgement Which is the Testimony of JESUS That so by the Inspiration of this His Holy Spirit we being Preserved against all the Illusions of the False Prophet and the Subtilty of the twisting Serpently Spirit for the Day of His Appearance may Perfectly Love Him walking with Him as Enoch or as John in this Paradisical Garden the Entrance whereto that has been Shut up is setting Open and may Worthily Magnifie His Holy Name even as in Heaven it is Magnified by the High Principalities and Thrones and by the Harpers upon the Sea of Glass To which Burning Sea of LOVE these Secret Spicy Walks will lead thee while the Holy Angels and Perfected Saints will accompany thee all the way reaching out to thee such fragrant Immortal Flowers and such Refreshing Transforming and Transubstantiating Fruits as do spring forth from the very Root of the Deity Here therefore I would gladly leave thee If thou art not already Entred Wisdom calls unto thee Hereinto to enter and to pass quickly the Sword of the Cherub which she will assist thee to Break. But if thou art Entred then Here abide and Walk till thou art brought to the Shore of that Sea by this Experimental Traveller described which will wâ—… thee over to the New Jerusalem Where I with thee and with all
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
exchanged Here only is the Place for the Bridegroom and his Bride after long Exile to meet again Oh then be wise and for your Bridal Spirit and Garment of Power undeniably wait None out of this Treasure-City can ever it obtain for in this Sion must all be born again after many other preceding Births which fore runs this great and last Transmuting Birth Which to that Perfection is brought that no desire there will be for to see another change then what this Jerusulem-state will translate thee into For which cause I have it to thee shewn that ye might here into enter in in that I see your Minds so refined that ye disdain among Beasts any longer to live and feed Come O ye blessed of my Father who out of these Prison-Walls and defiled Pastures shall steal and depart away as who are no more to touch with that which makes this City from you to shut it self up I have this 1600 Years expected still Comers up to me into my Personal Glory here But few have made their way all clear unto me not having skill or known the Art of dying to the Earthly part fully and totally Half dead and half alive many have so far tryed and therefore could no entrance find here because a putrified part still was found Which hath made me so unknown and to such necessitated ones to carry it strange they not considering the Disproportionableness of my present state and how that I am iâ—…stated in the highest degree of the Father's Glory of Purity that so if even my Affectons and Heart were touched to descend upon any that ardently seek Personal Union and Manifestation with me yet it would not be permitted till this Mount Sion-Birth is brought forth which makes the high Clarification and all Perfection of Beauty desirable without exception to the everlasting Father of perfect Spirits Who willeth that I should take none into the inward secret Court where all Dignities and Princely Throne-Powers and Glories are till throughly purified and cloathed upon with the Jasper-stone This anointed Cherubin-covering hath been scarcely put on therefore they could not come up to bring down the Everlasting Kingdom which must again to a certain Number be restored Blessed are they who shall know it in their Day looking hereunto and waiting for it within the Jerusalem-Walls where this new Off-spring and Generation must be born Yea Blessed are ye my Beloved and those that are with you United in Me for the Bringing down of this Happy Day upon the Earth April the 27th 1676. His further Admonition In or about Break-of-Day I prayed as the present state of things were shewn me and matter therefrom given me I never felt a greater Efflux of Spirit Power Joy and Peace came into me then did at this season which opened that Word and made it known in its Living Witness saying Now feel and tast what the Kingdom of God is it is made to thee a Substantiality and shall out-flow according to its working Property Henceforth then in Wisdom's Balance weigh and consider every thing you say that your Words may no more be Naked but cloathed with the Guardian Power Which will come to be of great Consequence as managed in Dove-Simplicity and shall defeat the Serpent's Subtilty Who strong Poyson had for thee prepared but could no way send it in thy Vessel being with the Antidote Liquor and juice of Life before-hand filled Which still take thou care to keep brim-full that so nothing which is of crude anxious Nature into thee may come upon thy Ascension which is to bring down another Spiritual Form For I see it is time and expedient that to my Jerusalem Waiters I should appear to bring them up where new Robes and Vestures are fitted out for the new-born Inhabitants to wear That so without a Vail upon my Face I might to you plainly speak for I have no pleasure to carry it at this distance towards you could you bear but the â—…ight of my terrible Crystalline Glory which I am so deeply ingulphed withal that I cannot be conversant after that way and manner which I was before I ascended into this high Throne-Power and Heavenly Place conversing with those for whom I went to prepaâ—… Mansions for in my Father's House a much highâ—…t Purity I now require in such who are to be my fellow Associates then what was existent in that day This is a new Law not understood and will be only received to a small number for know that to thee I will this thing reveal what Wisdom is about to do in order to the bringing the Bridegroom and Bride together For while the Bâ—…ide is found unready and all undressed and out of the Jerusalem's Glory I could in no wise acquaint my self with her otherwise then by Secretaries and influencing Breathings to let her know by these what she must further be wrought into for more minute Sight and Knowledge with me her designed Bridegroom and Mate April the 28th 1676. The Love-Chain According as the Living Word who spake thus by way of Prophecy in me did further by Similitude present it self as thus A Golden Chain in Links was let down from the high Throne Sphear where Jesus in the Love-Kingdom reigns This Chain had a Golden Ball at the end and the Voice said Hold fast if thou wilt come up unto me if thou shouldst gad abroad with thy Mind or Eye and let this slip out of thy Hand then thou wilt be prevented of cohabitation with me in my Princely Glory For this is the strong Power of Might which brings the Bridegroom and the Bride together Every Link in this Chain hath its proper use and service Wisdom is the great Engineer which did this contrive for my Spouse and I to meet and each other to greet While then in the Heavens I must be contained this Chain shall descend still to help up such as are risen out of the dark Night dress of a corruptible Life into a Body of Light This Chain is of so high a refined Mettal that it admits of no Hand to lay hold of it but the pure Lily Hand which is strong in Faith who is perswaded that this Love-Chain is sufficient to bring one up after the manner of Elijah's Chariot Who was mighty in Faith and so brought down this Ascending Chariot by this Chain of divers Links But he had first ascended by it as appeared being one who had power with God upon all occasions even to shut and open the Heavens when he pleases what else are these Links of drawing Powers but this Elijah's Spirit of Prophecy and Prayer of Faith perfect Love Patience Hope Weekness Long-suffering Peaceableness Temperance and immutable Perseverance These are the Link-fastening tyes on your parts Then that which answers on mine are these Light Greatness of Power and Might Love Grace and Good-will Kindness Pity and all Tenderness without variableness with the watchful protecting and safe-guarding Eye which shall maintain all this for a
sure binding and a Wedlock-tye betwixt bright raised Spirits and me till the Great Day of the Visible Marriage shall be Solemnized in the Free Jerusalem Till which hold ye fast and take good heed that not one of these Links on your parts be broken if but from any one of these ye should unlink ye would fall down by the way and never to me ascend But I know that Wisdom is thy Friend who will not suffer thee to break from me She is a busie Agent still to spur thee on her Law of kindness is found to me thy Jesus in thy Heart which will give an Ascending Might that so ye may come down again in a flaming Body of Light Which is the only design of Wisdom that blessed Engineer who by these Golden Links draweth you continually nearer to her City This was further Opened in the Seven following Days by Wisdom but the Copy is here Deficient May the 1st 1676. The New Book Opened Or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS THis Morning my Spiritual Informer came and presented to my view a Book wherein great and hidden Secrets were writ telling me here was neither Parable nor Allegory but the plain Doctrine of the Everlasting Gospel Into which it was said it is given thee to look for it is an Epistle of good-will and love to thee and thy fellow Waiter that ye may come to a right and genuine understanding of those weighty things which lay concealed under the Vail of the Letter The summ of which is the Incarnation Dying Rising Ascending and Glorifying of thy Jesus All which being finished in his own Personality I now look to see that all should be actually wrought in you to which end I have poured out of my Spirit upon you which may bring you up through all to me Read then and see in Wisdom's Glass what is contained in this Book for a further instructing of thee into a Gospel Death and Rising into Victory Many are the Deaths ye have passed over and I grant every Death hath brought forth a rising Body so that ye are come so far as to bear the very Image of the Heavenly Man in which the Life-Seed doth spring But this is not all you are to aspire unto but you are here to dye with Jesus For in all those foregoing Deaths you had not that fellowship as ye shall have with me when I am grown up in you For I the Just One died for the Unjust so I must Personate this dying again in you after a Paradisical manner sowing my own pure Grain and Seed into the Mount Sion Ground For as it is said such as the Seed and Soil is such a Body in the Resurrection it will be and such a Body it will produce And although you come thus to dye in the Lord I mean in your Lord Jesus Christ in whom your Life lies safe and inoculated there will be no danger And while you are sowing here be not as others without Hope for indeed you sow not that Body which shall be to the account of a Bare return as Spirit for Spirit or Body for Body For though it was sown a single Seed yet it shall be various and manifold though the Seed is sown contemptible yet it shall rise honourable and though sown as weak yet it will rise mighty in strength So mighty potent strong and honourable this Resurrection will be as it will bring forth the Seed sown with another manner of Body then what hath yet been known For ye shall know all Blessedness indeed by thus dying into me fear it not therefore but valiantly spill your Life and mingle it with me then shall ye know a cessation to your own busie-acting Properties For that Spirit which dyeth into me ceaseth to Sio sweetly sleeping and slumbering in Sion's Golden Dust till I my secret Trump shall sound with the Vial of Life quickening Oyl poured in which shall make the dead in you to come forth with an unchangeable habit and form of the Holy Ghost of which I speak I will after this manner raiâ—…e up at the last Day which day to thee is very near if thou canst sink and dye so totally into me who do promise to thee long here lay buried thou shalt not be This is the Connexion to the former Part. Before I the LORD will move again to the finishing of the last glorious Mystery the first that can dye thus into me shall rise as the first Fruits out of me into a Body Celestial and mighty Powerful For my Seed shall never Corruption see it shall soon rise into a Mount Sion Body Lay but the Ground-work hereunto sure and ye shall see and feel another Spirit and another Form after this passive Sleep For after it ye shall awake in that Image which shall be no more despised being all compleat and giving proof of my Resurrection and Life Oh blessed are they who can say that they were dead in me and are alive evermore to Reign with me in my Kingdom waiting for me their Lord from Heaven to bring them thither For in this new risen Body I shall not be ashamed of thee it is so Signatured into the Father's Nature of Purity that in it thou mayst freely ascend to me Where I will in the Light Airy Region meet with thee and bring thee through all the Pearly Gates O come resign and dye know me no more out of this Dying and Resurrection State Thus Death is not Metaphorically but Really the last Enemy that is to be destroyed Here Sing ye may that dwell in Sion's Golden Mold and triumphantly Cry Oh Death by this Spiritual dying I am mortally become thy Death and so swallowed up as you can nothing of it see Go go preach thou this for the Everlasting Gospel to such as have an Ear to hear it rejoyce and give Glory to God on high Now when the Hour of this Judgment shall fully come by ushering in the New Jerusalem freedom through the Streets of Nature This Gospel Ministration which is all Love Grace Mercy and Peace by those shall then be proclaimed who do partake of this Resurrection as the first Fruits They shall be honoured with this Message to all those who in this Noah's Age are asleep in their dark Prison-Houses For an Almighty Voice I in you my Sion-born Spirits will utter forth to call in more to know this Death-Liberty and Life-Resurrection and Ascension into all Fellowships and free Communions with the High Eternity and Me the chief Head of all Sion's new risen Body Whereunto being come no other Banner will I display there but that Love which casteth out all Bondage and Fear May the 6th 1676. In the Morning being the first Day pondering and considering this last Opening which shewed me the necessity of dying into my Jesus and of sowing the Seed of my Eternal Spirit as an unmixed Grain sifted from all Chaffiness or Cockle or any such thing for to twist about it Thus the Word said
the Corn of Heaven that in all times of Famine may replenish thee with all the Heavenly Family that in this High Calling numbred with thee shall be The fourth Rule Now further on thou must proceed till thou reach to a larger Patrimony yet which is to Adventure upon that Vinyeard which enclosed is with Love's Flaming Wall where the Red Wine doth flow out of the Grape For this also thy Purchase must be Vessels prepare thou not a few for it will run till thou canst no more find to bring The fifth Rule Now all this Treasury Imbarked must be and quick Sail upon the Floating Sea which is the pure Love-Deity must have and here fear not to be robbed by any Pirate while I your Pilot shall present with you be to Land you safe upon your Spiritual Goods here and taking New Lading in to make still fresh Returns for the Universal Profit and Benefit to all those that have Dependency and Need of such Relief Afterward this Manuduction ceasing another opened in this wise July the 29th 1676. This Night I was much in Prayer and Contemplation according as the Center cast up variety of Spiritual Matter to exercise my Internal Powers as sometimes offering this and that for to be resolved in by the Word of Wisdom Which I knew was nigh unto me Then finking down into the unknown Deep where the unmixed thing might open which I did both feel and hear even to a Soul satisfying pleasure this Word spake to me thus as in all Cases and Matters of doubt Whither should ye go have not you found that within you is the Ark of Enquiry To which ever more do you give great heed which shall fill all your Treasures that so no Famine of the Food of Life shall ever be known in your Habitation For the Tree thereout will spring whose Fruit is ever thereupon to be found because its Root is in Oily Ground all from the depth beneath answering to the Fountain from above which meets together in the God of Love from whom the Word of Truth doth richly flow July the 30th 1676. This Day being filled with great Zeal Love and Power finding Faith mightily raised to believe that some good thing was nearer to be revealed to us that were diligent and servent in Spirit While we were met together in our private Exercises the Powers did open and stir In which interim I saw in the Spirit of my Mind one in the Figure of a Man but not in gross Corporality but rather like a Seraphick or as a flâ—…ming Body pouring out a Vial of Oyl in the colour of Amber upon our Heads Which Sight was a satisfying Resolve to the large and big expectation for the pouring out of the Spirit This Word attending it wait still for with this ye are to be filled preserve it pure in your Vessels and it shall never cease to run so long as your Needs require For this is the inspirating Power that will fill with Ghostly Might to do the Father's Will Great Michael-like who may proclaim that he is come to give and shed abroad of this Oyl that will give Light and Joy all full and sweet August the 5 th 1676. THis Morning I heard this Word saying to me Ye have compassed this Mount long enough Which was opened to me further as thus you have gone your Rounds and are come unto the measures of the Second Temple-Worship which is the Holy Place ye are compassing the most Holy City also which is the higher Court but ye have not yet found entrance into it But now to this Holy of Holies draw you near each one with his Golden Trumpet and do not fear for the Oyl of Faith must run to make a clear and certain Sound at which the Heavens may rend and open wide that ye may read and see what within the most Holy do lie Now as you have served in the due order and course of the New Testament Ministration with an Eye to what this will bring up further into For the Ark of this Covenant can rest in no place till it be fixed in the beloved City which presseth hard until it comes to the Rivers of Broad Waters that run pleasantly within Mounts or Walls Which is that restless rising that ye feel stirring that makes after its own place Now as you have been upon your daily Offerings and Services in this second place of Tabernacle-Service which for its time during ye have done well to obeserve yet from hence you must make a Remove to a more excelling Habitation Where you may come to possess what Prophecies Prayers Revelations and Faith expectations have hitherto detained you in But you will say how shall we arrive hereunto for this is a great and wonderful state we know not whither it may be decreed for our Age As to this matter of doubt consider there is no date of Time determined though known seen in the all-knowing Eye of the Detty when and upon whom the Godhead Power shall descend and ascend to fuâ—…fil all general and particular Revelations and Prophecies Therefore here is all Liberty and Scope for Faith to stretch forth and put in for its right having a Propriety in this high and super-eminent thing according to the free donation of Grace which hath and shall still abound towards thee Now then be assured that no Bar shall stand before you that ye may not summon in and call up Power to break down whatever is Opposite so that ye may raise the Eagle-Body by Spiritual Force and Might that only can mount up to take this worthy Prey that shall decide all Controversies that do arise to cast in fear and doubt Awake call up and gather together all those Celestial Powers which within thy Heavenly Orb do dwell For they must go forth as the Lord's Hosts in their Day to lay close Siege and by a wise Spiritual S ratagem to scale the Walls of the most Holy Place that so thou mayst have entrance for it is allotted that by meer Conquest the Prize within this City will be taken Now then raise up all the Internal Force you are able to make and set upon storming it violently sounding forth the seven Trumpets from all the Seven-Throne Spirits which are fiâ—…led with Oily Power and will be of mighty conquering force to Alarm down that last reserved Almighty outgoing Breath which doth bring absolute Soveraignty in all Heavenly 〈◊〉 renewing that Eveâ—…lasting Morning which from the Antient of Days did spring when all the Sons of God shouted for Joy and as Stars of Glory did siâ—…g knowing nothing then of Mortality or Sin To which state ye by this Life-quickening Ghost are to be reduced again that so in the Primiâ—…ive Angelical Figure you may appear as mighty Oâ—…es to act according to what you have by Conquest obtained within this Seraphick Kingdom through Love's violent onset Where ye shall then be confirmed Denizons having all freedom to exercise your Heavenly Calling
with me your Jesus having faithfully fought for your Corporation-Liberty serving out your time in the Faith and Patience according to the Father's Will Which for a Recompence the holders out are to be endued with all Power Dominion with that unknown glorious Liberty which shall impower you all Wonders for to declare by that Living Word which was is and will arise up in this sparkling consuming all-acting dividing Flame that is come to melt down every Metal and to try which and which is sound because nothing but pure Gold for this Profession will hold or shall the Seven Trumpets in the Hands hold thereby to ascend into my upper Sheep fold where all my Lambs are cloathed with Fleeces of the most fine Gold Therefore now Oh my Friends see who they are that must ascend up hither to me Lo I have the Way disclosed yet to you more full and free that so you may rise up and go forward greatly Conquering till that ye may come to the Seventh Trumpet Compassing about Which Seventh Compassing maketh all Gates within the Pavilion of Light open for to fly that the desired Throne-Majesty you may there espy Which I know will suffice and please your Eye when in my Glorified Nature you shall be able to great with boldness the Father of Spirits and Glory having upon you my tryed Golden Fleece without which ye will be speechless but with it ye have all freedom to commune and with your God to talk and to have place evermore with him to Sing the New Jerusalem Hymns which flow out most naturally from the Seventh Conqueror who is brought up hither to hear the great Last Shout August the 12th 1676. I did hear from the Angelical World great and mighty Sounds round about me with one distinct Word saying Behold him who descends upon the White Throne Who are there ready with their Garments washed clean and white thus to meet their Jesus Which Word or Alarm cast me into some Fear and Despondency being conscious that I was not cloathed with such a perfect White Robe as might answer to that White Throne for to such only was this Call to Q. Therefore what must now be done for us that we may straitway find our selves here enthroned The Reply was this Oh fear not remember how Joshuah's filthy Garments were taken off and then he could stand before me even so it is decreed and an express Charge is given to your Guardian Angel to uncloath and pluck off your Purple Robe of Sin Ignominy and Scorn For there is yet reserved one principal White Robe which yet was never seen but the Body upon which it is put must be all Immaculate for it will be no Covering to any polluted thing because it is pure and transparent throughout Be of good chear for this also is with me who want not Love Power and Strength to bring this great translation about As for your Spiritual Adversaries whom I see so vigilant they shall never tire out that Spirit of Faith which shall be animated still by that Word that riseth fresh and new Keep but your Faith me and I will from all Viper Spirits secure you that no hurt shall be to you though their Scorpion Tongues would send forth Anguishing Fire to detain you if possibly it were in their own hellish dark Sphear which shall fly from you as you fixed be to desert all but what can enter with you into this bright Ivory Throne of the Everlastlasting Deity Whereto I now expresly charge you to put all things in order hereunto and be most free for the Unbodying your selves that I may see no more a vile Nature upon you who am come my self to be your Body For no other will this unmixed Garment fit being spun out from the Golden Fleecee which is all of the working Power of he Holy Ghost who interweaveth it in great variety with bright Oriental Golden Clouds For to express that this is â—…he cloathing of Soveraignty and Righâ—…eousness in which I will avouch you before the High Throne-Majesty my all fair Spouse and Bride Who may sit with me on my White Throne freed out from all former Slights and Contempts Until this state of Zion-Beauty shall appear watch and keep Company only with Lilly Spirits feeding upon the Olive-Berries that grow upon the Mountains of Bether whereby you may become all lovely and fair ready and meet for this high Princely decking Wearing your present Garments so loosely that so soon as I call ye may let them fall though you may think there â—…s something good which is not to be parted withal as to that be not concerned for what is pure and hath been tryed by Fire shall still endure all serving to make up One entire and perfect Body which shall be for a more sublimated use and service then what ye have hither served in when under the Law of Sin but now are ye under another denomination as Spirits made free to walk in White Garments within the Celestial Globe of Light Where now we enjoy each other in Spirit but there is yet a superaddition of Joy and Glory when Body and Spirit shall ascend together passing through all Vails Clouds Rocks and Stones nothing being able to sever her or it from the most Holy Place for which state do you passive stand till acted to go forth by the mighty and strong Lyon who must rise the Prey to take which hath been reserved for the Lyon-like Heart which no fear hath nor repulse will take but will enter through the Everlasting Zion Gates to which haste haste August the 13th 1676. This inspeaking was to me Let muddy Matter no more be cast up in thee for thou art called among the Golden Flocks August the 14th 1676. This Morning my Spirit was all free and serene meet to entertain Communion with him who is cloathed with the Golden Cloud and Rainbow on his Head who said thus unto me Escape the Spider's Web who is always spinning to invite to come under her covering Know you not a Composition of Poyson is there who cannot hurt you except she can find you there to hanker and so keep your pure mounting Spirits from their own incircling Globe and Heavenly Sphere Where you know I fail not to keep you Company when at any time you are found there For an uninterrupted Conversation is to be entred upon by that which is all pure born from the Virgin-Womb which is distinct from the dark and all defiled part and cannot incorporate with it Oh therefore avoid and quickly stop that muddy Source the smell of which is so unsavoury to him who can bear nothing but what proceeds from my implanted Nature that so we may together as upon one Stalk grow For to bring forth that choice Kernel which may be ripe for the Golden Dove to swallow down For herein lieth the most hidden of all Secrets which is to come up to the full grown Ear of one and the same pure Lump and Matter
according to the pure Element that is there At which offer and upon the terms specified I for my self and for my travelling Friend did perfectly agree on â—…o proceed as this our Dove-Mate should us bear upon her Wing of Power Not fearing to adventure through a Desert state and to draw off from all Communions which are of this visible Sphear For another Voice in my Ear did cry Depart and come out touch nothing neither mingle your Offerings with Korah or his Company who though they may appear with Censers in their Hands yet do you not them come near for the Earth doth close upon them as their most visible dark covering From whom Away with me your flying Horse of Power October the 30th 1676. Being in my private Ejaculations this Word sounded in me All Prayings Prophecyings Speakings are of no validity but what proceed from the Head-covering which is the Miter-Crown of Purity and Power which the Unction alone for you must draw down from him who holdeth in his Hand the Seven Star-Powers to encompass you round that so no nakedness may be more found upon you For what is more empty naked and void then Words that are not touched with the Altar-Coal that giveth Impregnancy where-ever it falleth Therefore hereunto watch and go not forth in any of these ministring Services without you wrap up close this Nazarite Covering of Strength about you for want of which your Labours have been fruitless and my Spirit hath been under reproach and derision to you which shame I am come to take off from you to whom this Caution I do give not to be too hasty to run out before you have put on your Garment of strength Better it is to wait in Secresie till thy Coverting is all finished by him who in his own method moveth and worketh all effectually into whose Mold being cast ye will certainly come forth a much more refined piece of glorious workmanship for the illustration of the Spirit 's Ministration Which Wheel hath by the decree of the Almighty begun to move Now see to it and keep it still going side by side with the Spirit that is the Life-motion of it who will plunge you in to know and see yet greater things as you can keep strait course with it Then may you dive into the Seven Star-Pool which will draw out the last Trumpet-shout of a God Omnipotent for a Covering throughout to thee Who but thee oh thou Spirit in the burning Wheel canst work which for us effect quickly October the 31st 1676. Towards the First Day in the Morning I saw the Dr. as in a publick Theatre bearing a high Testimony for the Spirit in a Youthful figure and Hair grown brown and bushy Who was acted forth that he bore down many that seemed to doubt and question what he from the authority of the Spirit witnessed to Upon which it was said to me This should be fulfilled in his season upon whose rising Day wait to the fulfilling Joy From this presentation it was given me to conclude that the D. should assuredly be made an able Minister of the Spirit in some signal proof of it Which I sought my God for in reference to the Glory that would be manifested through the lifting up the Standard of this mighty defensive Spirit Whom we do begin already to feel is so busie again in us as gives good ground of hope that somewhat is to be brought forth that shall make a free and clear place for the Holy Ghost to act forth his own Power in the Humanity November the 1st 1676. THis Day upon Mr. Bromley's account the Dr. was engaged to speak in Publick whose Sails were spread and filled with Breath from the Anointing Power After which I found my Spirit much called into an inward stillness to find out the original Wheel that turns the whole Creation about As seeing all things short though they are brought forth in Spiritual Appearances they pass away as yet too weak to bring forth the transfigured state Upon which consideration I went to my Nights Repose in some heaviness of Spirit mourning after the Life-working Power to deliver me from this every surviving Hour of Temptation importuning for a naked access to the Throne of Majesty where I might have freedom to open all in plainness of Speech and to hear without any other Medium but the Spirit 's Ear what God would answer to me Upon which I had presented four moving Wheels of Flame Colour As they turned they opened a deep in the ground which still dissolved and melted away where ever they went so they kept on their circling course having at last no more ground to move upon all being burnt up before them A Seraphim with six Wings all covered them only through every Wing an Eye was seen and then the Wheels were lifted up and did ascend Then a Voice came unto me saying Mark and see what you must be turned into if you will see the bare and naked Majesty of Glory Canst thou think to bear the presence of an Immense Light that is of such a transparency without a Cherub's covering upon all thy working Wheels If thou wilt come to the heights of Zion-Glory come prepare for to be undone in thy own sensitive Life the very Pillars of the House oâ—… Nature will be shaken the keepers thereof will tremple Man must cease wheâ—… God descends into his Holy Place these flaming Coverts of the Spirit will leâ—… nothing of the Flesh inherit with it Therefore till thou dost agree to thiâ—… there can be no possibility of coming in to that great Assembly where the Mosâ—… High doth over all Worlds reign witâ—… his Train of glorified Spirits When had after this manner discoursed the result of my importunity was thus given to me I was convinced what such an access for continuation there would cost For it was shewed to me there must be down right Payment Words would not alone pass All our earthly Goodness and Godliness was to be given away for this Cherub's Covering and no longer in the Tents of Babylon to stay there to live in the midst of a People of unclean Lips Now the great thing is how this shall be brought to pass for who shall live when God doth this Yet seeing the all-knowing Spirit hath plainly hereof advertised that so to us it may not come as a surprize when these burning Wheels shall wholly undermine and consume what it finds of that putrified Earth in us Oh then I do see the six Winged Seraphim will be our Covering through which we shall behold the Lord the mighty King upon his Throne of Glory according as hath been foretold and there his mighty Voice shall hear which now sounds in our Ears from that Seraphick Sphear November the 3d. 1676. As I was introverted into my self this Morning calling over those things revealed upon the Representation of the four Wheels that eat out the Earth which it moved upon this Word moreover cryed in
it given me to understand the several Offices and Business belonging to each one of these to make ready for the Birth-Day and to protect this High-born One from the raging Floods the tempstuous Winds of the Adversary The Spirit 's Work is to reprove convince exhort counsel caution and comfort in order to the carring on this great Affair The work of the Water is another witness as you find it in you as a bubling Pool cleansing every part within that so not the least defect may be found in the Matrix whereout the Birth must open Then the Blood is a great Testimonial Witness and Evidence as in a mystical manner conveyed tasted and drunk down by them that do carry the matter of this Birth for it doth produce a vigorous Life that will be known and felt to refresh both Mother and Babe So keeping all these in their several acting-Properties they will be the clear evidence unto thee that the Ghostly Birth is working out it self Therefore with these three let thy Will-Spirit agree hereunto to throw out every misconceived thought For now all things must be new again by the Father Word and Spirit through this new Birth wrought That ye may come to a mighty Record among the New Jerusalem Stones where all are waiting this rising day to see because it will fix in thee an unknown Liberty both in Spirit and Body November the 21st 1676. It was also further expresly opened unto me that we were at present brought thus far as to witness these three as Spirit Water and Blood being Witnesses in our Earth which did fore-run the Ministration of the Holy Ghost For they must go before as the Ministration of Jesus who came by Water Blood and Spirit that is Death Life and Resurrection from which he passed and so must we As he did bear our Record in Heaven which will be a different thing though agreeing to one and the same end as thus the three first make way as the Water-Baptism into the Death the Blood into the Life the Spirit quickneth and giveth a Body of the Resurrection So the Ministration of Jesus hath its twofold Use upon us in order to the second thus which are to bear Record as the Father Word and Holy Ghost in our Heavens So here is to be understood the rising Degree or changing from Jesus in Spirit to that degree of Unity of Father Word and Holy Ghost all which agree to enter into a Virgin Mind thus prepared and in it after a high Mystical mauner themselves conceive so as to include them as one only Being contracting the Virgin-Will and Spirit with it self hereby becoming one inbred with it as that Heir who was darkly prophesyed of in Micah's day who said the glory of Israel was to come unto the Adullam the very pure Tabernacle of the Virgin-Nature born again of Water Blood and Spirit so made indeed a meet reception for this holy thing to be sealed up as in an unknown Pavilion or hiding Place of Strength which must be till it hath attained every measure and part to the growing big and filling up the Birth 's place with Breasts full of Milk the Spring Word of the Spirit diffusing into them the natural course of the Bloody Issue of Sin also stopping all which will be evident Signs unto you that are still apt to be questioning whether this Ghostly Birth is in you forming Therefore be still and wait for that great travelling hour that is to come upon ye before which sometimes ye will be in Pains and Heaviness because ye may meet with many a throw of Temptation all which will work the Birth forward therefore be not dismayed Oh Daughter of my Zion so long as thou walkest steadily not going out of Sion Court where you are to wait at my Council-Board to enquire what shall fore-run and be in that travelling Hour which will make great Spoil of the Mortal Shell which must break away at this great Birth-day Therefore look and expect this will make a mighty alteration for the Heavens will rend that the Throne-Spirits and Powers may descend as helps and Guardian defence and Witness-bearers to this Sion-Birth For which great Provision is aforehand to be made to answer to the greatness of the Sion state all of the rich concealed Furniture and Golden Cups Pots and Vessels at such a time as this will be brought out with all the rich Robes for those to wear who do attend upon this Birth Great and mighty Preparations thou dost see are hereunto expedient for to be Because this World is so blind ignorant and unbelieving that it will be no less needful to rebuke by all high and Spiritual Magnificency in the very height of Sion Glory and to outvye hereby not only vain pompous Glory but those Abominations and false exalted Lighâ—… set up in Temple-Worships as no better then false Births Coverings which will not be removed till this mighty Standard of this Holy Ghost come to be lifted up and set upon the top of Sion-Hill in Visibility November the 22d 1676. I saw as a Preludium of this rising Birth of the Holy Ghost a bright Firmament opne and all dignified with splendorous Stars some much more blazing then others And one Star encreased so great as it became like the Body of the Sun Which Vision was thus opened unto me after some days being called over in me by a fresh vivification of Spirit that shewed me that the one Star which I saw so suddenly encrease to that largeness as the very Body of the Sun it was the Virgin-Woman that was all to be encompassed with the Birth Light of the Holy Ghost which would arise out of that Orb at which the rest of the Stars that did encompass it should shout for Joy and be Witnesses â—…hereof at the opening of this greater Day-Star which should enlighten the whole Earth Oh this left great Amazement in me provoking to some travelling Sorrows for to see this mighty Wonder â—…rought forth as in Vision so existently in that Star who is hereunto by the Omnipotency elected A further Confirmation hereunto was the Idea of an Ark that was shut up floating up and down not upon muddy troublesome Waters which once covered all Mountains and Hills whenas the Deluge was upon the Old World but these Waters were pure and healing like the Waters under the Threshold of the Sanctuary that where-ever they came quickned unto Life And it was said to me Behold the Dove is in the Ark and will be this place of broad Waters that shall cover the Earth no more to kill or destroy but to save alive according to the New Covenant that all shall know God from the least to the greatest When out of this Ark the Dove shall flye with the Everlasting Gospel as the Olive-Branch which carrieth in it that oily Property we will kindle a sweet Fire that can mix with these pure Waters and not bâ—… quenched but still maintain servent heaâ—…
established upon the Ghostly Nativity Instead of a Terrestrial there shall be a Celestial greatness of Dominion from this Birth-Lily springing that hath like the two Witnesses been long slain in the Seed and buried over with Earth so as forgotten in the World But now expect the raising of them up in each of you who shall stand as Olive-Trees before me still naturally flowing out with your Golden Oyl it shall not be as formerly by way of Gifts now and then but this Fatness and Olive-Sweetness shall spring out of your own Root being hereinto fully changed Then will you know the constant and fixed state and no more want your Eternal Bride and Mate December the 9th 1676. A mighty Saying was ecchoed to me brought forth out of the Counsel-deep pronouncing it should be our Lot to live by the Sword and Bow of Might by which Jacob of old took great Spoil out of the Hand of the Amorite Which was thus opened unto me that this Word came to me to let me understand that our Blessing and Portion would come in by meer Conquest For thus said the Holy and True Behold and see here is the Gift that I give to you as a Father's Blessing which is the Sword of my Spirit and the Conquering Bow whose Arrows are all of Gold with these expect ye must get your Living and also bring into me your God your worthy Prey Now therefore gird on this Sword that is so richly oiled with the purest of Unction and go forth all prosperously It is not only a defensive Weapon but it will cut down and destroy and resist every Balaam Spirit which standeth in your way None ever was possessed of this Sword but that strong Potent Will-Spirit that knew the Way to the Golden Pool of Oyl there still to bath it whenever occasion is for it to burnish and display The sight hereof will cause all about you to stand in fear and awe when they shall see you are so God-like armed with strength of Power which is so commandable that all resistency will fly away against it Oh this is that Spirit Weapon which makes riddance first within thy self it will suffer no Amorite or Cananite near its Borders to dwell But Gideon-like make havock hew and cut down every Grove where false Worships hath by blind Zeal been set up But verily the Day is near for the Sword of the Lord in Gideon's Hand to appear which will make a quick riddance in the Earth The Lamp of my Spirit in your Earthen Pitchers is now seated though the time hath not yet been for them to shine out by reason that the Olive-matter of the Holy Ghost is not yet come to that Perfection to sound forth the Trumpet for the total Victory over all Centers and Worlds which shall certainly be conquered by this out-going Birth But while this is perfecting here is Conquering Work that ye may not sit idle but now to go on every day somewhat to effect Therefore another Weapon is given into your management which is my Covenant Rain-Bow which will be to you of great consequence if you have skill rightly for to use it The use of an Eagle Eye that may this great Birth-mark espy Here lieth the grand deep-sighted Wisdom to shoot forth such a Golden Shaft as may hit and thereby make way for Wisdom's first-born to come forth through sending out this mighty Arrow of all precious Faith Nothing like this you will find will be of travelling force to help you out in your Births Agonies which upon you will come before you can imbrace this Ghostly Body imbodied with a Soul and Spirit That will spring all a new from the creating Word imbodied in a corporeal shape Which for a time shall remain a high degree of Wonder For to see the Ghostly Power to send forth through contemptible Humanity that high scented Breath of Air which may be felt tasted and smelt with whom it is resident Then this Question in me arose Ah my Lord when shall these Powers be set awork so as the doubtful in Heart may somewhat hereof see and we thereby from all upbraidings be set free I was thus answered The Day is not to be put far off for now is the acceptible time for Salvation to be wrought There is conquering work still to be done within the Flaming Sword must cut down every Briery Root and burn up every Thorny Thought which do near this Lily Birth spring and vanquish all vaporous Clouds that thicken the Heavenly Air with all the gross Animal Life of Sense which is the greatest of Impediments It is that Esau that holds Faith's Birth by the Heel that it might not break forth Therefore in the strength of Jacob's Angel do you strongly wrestle for by his Sword and Bow you must make your way and Conquest gain that so you may command both the Heaven and earthly store For Heirs of all Worlds ye will be then gird up and go forth all armed the munition of the Spirit is with you so as nothing can harm you who carry the precious and essential Root of Life in you Even now while but in it its Younglings day it is yet it will be a defence of Glory that now and then will sparkle through by which it may be known that in you is intombed a Precious Stone a White Stone that hath the Virgin 's Name engraven on it which must be for the Lamb a Spouse and Bride Therefore the Cry of the Spirit is Prepare make ready and Pray fervently for your Everlasting Birth-Door to open that the Heir of Glory may enter therethrough Even so let it be December the 10th 1676. The sweet living Pool this Night was mightily opened and stirred by the holy driving Spirit that brought choice and super-eminent good things out of the high Kingdom 's store saying also to me Come tast and see how you like the Heavenly Country-Fruit that is ripened from that unmixed Element Draw up unto my Table for you shall sit with me after the manner of a Spirit and eat such things as are set before you For I your Lord must take special care to feed and nourish those that are with Young with the highest of Birth degrees And indeed I did according to this Salutation find a sweet and pleasant tast to my Spiritual Appetite and a satisfying fulness Hereupon followed an occasioned great enlargement of Soul-magnifying in Prayer which at this time was more then usual mingled with an oily Incense Which feeling I took all advantage to put forward for the holy Birth-issue in each other who were noted in the Life-Book as was at this season asserted to me with many other Words of signal Favour that so we might have no cause to repent our Choice in being professed Traders for Wisdom's Merchandize which would turn to that account that we should not be ashamed of though now for it under disrepute as not understood or known but God will reveal us in his