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A49872
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The revelation of revelations particularly as an essay towards the unsealing, opening and discovering the seven seals, the seven thunders, and the New-Jerusalem state ... / published by J.L. ...
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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The first Objection that meets me asking How and after what manner are these great and deep Mysteries revealed and made known for we are in doubt whether any since the Apostles days can have so pure and clear a Discovery of the Mind of God by way of Vision or Revelation As to this I Answer The thing is weighty and may be allowed of to search and follow this Query close and home for too many there be that are Pretenders to the Gift of Prophecy and Revelation whereby they put a cheat upon themselves and others and bring themselves under that Wo of taking up the Lords Spirit for their covering which is the greatest of all Evils to be under a spiritual Fraud Therefore I say let every one search try and examine from what ground and spirit they come forth as the Oracles of God to give his Mind out for assuredly they will be called to a severe Account by the Spirit of Truth Now as to this I will assure thee O Querior whoever thou art it was my great fear and jealousie even upon my first entrance into this Ministration and was made well aware of the wiles and subtilties of Satan that was ready enough to mingle his Deceits with Truth but divine Wisdom was my Counsellor and Cautioner and her Spirit became the Conduct to Truth and Separater she still throwing out what would not bear the touch of the burning Stone which Wisdom had placed in the Center of my Heart by which a wonderful Light of Manifestation did spring for the knowledge of the Truth in the deep Essentiality of it the Way Method Measure and Rules of it as experienced by me I shall demonstrate for the service and benefit of such as are true Seekers and fervent Lovers of Truth how they may come to know the true Revelation of the Spirit of Christ from those mixed Spirits that are apt to inject their Motions and so mudy the pure Springs of Revelation for know it is a nice and difficult matter to know the Spirit 's speech and voice in his day since Christ the Lords ascending than what it was before when as the Word of the Lord came expresly to the Patriarchs and Prophets articularly by immediate Voice God was very familiar in way of Speech as with Araham Moses and so to the Prophets till Christ's time but now in these last days he speaks to us by the Spirit of his Son which is the Spirit of Truth and Comforter that is the Spirit we are to try and to be proved by whether or no he is come into us as a Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation which you shall know first by way of Preparation of the inward Mind for the speaking Word or Oracle of God must have a most holy separated place distinct and apart from the outward Man for there is to be prepared an inward Temple body else no expectation of the holy Ghost without a suitable Body be prepared for him as the living Ark in which the Oracle of Truth may open and shew the Records of the Heavens But it may be further queried How can this Temple Body be raised up and kept so spiritually as to be distinct and separated from the mortal body with its senses and earthly Motions I Answer Herein indeed lieth the great Mystery of all Mysteries how to keep the spirit of the outward birth with all his infecting Multiplicities from rushing into the inward Court where the Soul and God are to be in private Counsel together for if there be a breaking in of the troubled Sea of thoughts this is that which adulterates the pure revealed things and brings a false covering upon them therefore I shall give these following Rules as they were given me by the holy Anointing when I first sought this Priviledge of divine Inspiration I was counselled as to the outward state of things To avoid as much as I could the choaking intangling Cares of this Life and also to sequester my self from all wordly Conversation and give up Spirit Soul and Body in pure dedication the which I can say in my measure I have been obedient to and have found good things as to the spiritual part have accrued thereby which I shall never have cause to repent of let my losses be what they can be as to the worldly lot of things Now the next Rule which is more interior and Evangelical as to the inward and holy place of the Mind For this take more special care and keep the outward Birth at distance from the superior and inward birth call in your heavenly guard upon it enter into no Parley with the outward Man of Reason concerning spiritual matters for you will find him a false Prophet and no way consonant to this Ministration the Soul is waiting upon therefore to watch and be in a defensive Posture against all invasions of this kind Then again take a further Caution concerning a more finer subtiltier sort of imaginariness which comes in the appearance of spirituality here lieth the greatest danger for mistake when seeming good Motions do rise and spring and yet but from the Astaral Kingdom but they are sometimes so divine as you can hardly discern them from the true teaching of the holy anointing there are Spirits that will put on such a Priestly dress like those that rose up against Moses the Lords infallible Prophet saying Are not we spiritual and therefore may be admitted into the secret of God with you and there give our Verdict as front the Oracle of God Thus we are in danger to be encompassed with Spirits so finely clothed as they would think much to be refused but where the Urim and Thummim of sound judgment in such is come that can only discern and taste Spirits of all sorts of Qualities Natures and Degrees for I well know a Mind may be replenished with knowledge and understanding of divine Mysteries from the outward Tongues receiv'd and taken in and yet have been kept strangers to the flowing Springs of Wisdom and Revelation within from whence the certainty of the true Prophet is to be known therefore let every one look to it what they speak teach or write for it will pass through the inward ground for trial where the fiery Region will prove it But now I shall come to describe the true and more certain way of divine Openings and Revelations know then where holy Consecrations and special Separations as the foregoing Preparation to this high Ministration those are as such may come to feel in themselves one essential Birth of Life to spring which is not to be catched in by verbal Comprehension Knowledge or Understanding No such thing But the Spirit of Truth and Revelation openeth himself in the fiery Essence of the Soul in a sweet silent stillness where out all thoughts are excluded then doth the light Ray of the Deity rise and overshadow and fill the Temple of the Mind with light and glory then will the soul sink away deeper
the true working bubling Spring that maintains a divine clearness with wonder in which God the holy Ghost will make himself manifest in a more full and perfect manner than what ever in former Ages hath been witnessed Where-ever this powerful and piercing anointing shall first work through it will do no less than produce those creating Powers that shall another World renew God yet once more is to move himself in this Mystery from which such a Conflagration is expected that nothing more of the old Earth or Heavens shall remain For there is a Day that must burn as an Oven blessed are those in whom it shall have its enkindling wherein all dead fruitless Works shall be burnt up which makes room for the seven governing Powers of the holy Ghost to go forth whether in the Arch-Angel Trumpet-Sounds or Lightning-Voices Earthquakes Bindings Loosings Shuttings Openings working on this and on that hand as unperceiveable yet all things effecting through the impregnable motion of this invisible Operator Of this sort will be the New heavenly Hosts that created are again by the holy Ghost all lively sparkling Stones that are in their invisible Nature as fiery Flames that can go hither and thither to act according to the will of the great Elohim This is now the thing that we are day by day looking out for its all-powerful springing all other flourishings in the very Courts of Holiness in the use and exercise of divine Ordinances and solemn Convocations they are not to be staid in though they seem to be as the goodly Tents of Jacob. God the holy Ghost comes to move higher from his own essential creating Word by which he makes New Heavens that shall forever remain and no more subject be to vanishing It will be the last and greatest proving to the Saints themselves to have their Heavens not only shaking but melted all away which may be compared to an out spreading Garden of various Flowers which look pleasant and delightful but they are what must fade and dye these Garnithings are not to be trusted to for as Grass they will wither Something else that is stable and durable Iam taught and made to look for which is nothing less than the Creating Word of the holy Ghost that may be as a New Coyn'd Mint that will an ever alting Treasure renew which the Sun and Moon of these visible Heavens must bow unto All the Glory of Flesh rejected is when pure Breath and Spirit in a Body of Air shall as out of the Valley of dry Bones appear and move as a Coelestial Wheel both upward and downward carrying and bearing up as an anointed Cherub that may mount and ascend and face the supream Glory of the Lord Almighty This is the high Adoption that the Spirit in the living Creatures do move from the earthly Center up straight forward being circled about with the unfadeable Body of the immutable Heavens to whom the Heaven of Heavens will open and descend to take in such Royal clothed Priests that have put off their changeable Heavens and are all clothed with substantial Power If any one ask How this shall be and when VVe can only direct you to wait at the High-Priest's Gate by whom our inlet into all of this high inconceiveable working Powers in the holy Ghost which will the separating Description make and show by real Evidence who it is that from men and the Earth are in truth all fully redeemed Before we can give over this subject we are to make known for the Priestly Election sake that they may be strengthened supported and encouraged in their process from the knowledge of these special Royalties which to them do belong it having been specified what are the high Qualifications of this high Priesthood who must no more look down towards the creeping things of this Earth for here you must consider the Enochian translation these Priests being designed for the company of God the most holy separated Beeing for there is a real taking into God to be experienced and a ceasing from the Life of Sin Now for the bringing up hereunto there must be a passing through until the Holiest of all be entred into But now come we to describe what this holy Function stands chargeable withal as also the Dignity Power and Pre-eminence which doth attend it Every High-Priest taken from men is ordained in things pertaining to God that he may offer Gifts and Sacrifices for Sin This is a Charge which to this New Covenant Priesthood doth still belong for whoso meet to deal with God and to make intercession as the Pure and Merciful who have themselves been encompassed with Infirmity and passed through divers Temptations who but these can know how to have Compassion of the Ignorant and Knowing also that have turned aside from the Sanctuary of Gods Presence and Walks and thereby have lost their peace and joy therefore God hath as well provided in this case Priests and Mediators on the Earth as he hath provided that great High-Priest who is entred into the Heavens for the self-same Prevailency and Power will be found in and amongst this holy and undefiled Priesthood because where-ever Christ in his spiritual Body is present with the breathing Power of the holy Ghost it implies great Efficacy in every Oblation and Prayer which in their behalf shall be put up Thus a Spirit of attoning is appropriated unto the Melchizedeck-Pristhood from whom more fruitful Powers must branch forth for further service in their Place and Office There is also an Absolving Commission given That whosoever's Sins they remit they are from all Guilt discharged as pronouncing it in the Person and Power of him to whom the holy Ghost was given without Measure and who after his Resurrection breathed forth this Power upon his Disciples That whatever they bound on Earth should be bound in Heaven Hereby communicating his Priestly Power and Authority that as he the Son of Man had power to forgive sins so might they also have on Earth after his Departure to carry on their Apostolical Dispensation which only lasted for a while and being lost a feigned Form was set up in stead of it without any sealing Effects of Spirit or Power Thus the Shadow hath held up without any living presence in Babel which boasts of a Key which never yet could open nor give Enlargement to those who were bound in the Cords of Iniquity for how should they who are not purified themselves help or succour their Brethren And though this true thing hath been abused by the Arrogant and Self-exalting Spirit that with this Priestly Robe covers all manner of filch and Uncleanness all of which will come to bear its shame and have its Overthrow as this True and Royal Priesthood shall rise in Power in the true Tabernacle where the holy Ghost will present the Priestly Offerings and this is that which upon sure grounds we know is now reviving again the most Holy will bring forth his Priestly