his Jealousie and it is his Day to work and none shall let and he which rules against Him he will remove from the Throne for He will set up an Everlasting Dominion and Government and of his own Scepter of Righteousness even from end unto end of the four Winds of the Heavens Seven-fold happy therefore is that Soul that beleives in Him and suffereth for his Righteousness sake And is it not an unspeakable shame to a Ruler to persecute innocent Souls new created Souls in the Glory of the similitude of their Maker Is it not a woful shame to Rulers to persecute them that watch to recompence good for evil and to shew the deeps of the bowels of Love and Mercy to such as heaped upon them extream weights of Oppression and Cruelty Can Rulers answer the bonds of humanity in such acts Nay How then can they answer the power of Sanctity in them For the sake of Edification of all Souls to Three Questions more I am drawn forth in the Light to answer Quest 1 What are the first powerful Operations of the Light in the Soul after Convincement of Sin Answ JUDGMENT CONDEMNATION and DEATH of the Mind of Transgression which must of necessity be for the cause of the Righteousness of the King of Glory unto whom no life in Sin and Corruption can unite for the Soul going into it went out from Him into the Enmity against Him and His Law of Righteousness and no part of that can ever enter into Him because it was never of Him and because He hath infused a righteous Law into the Inward parts of necessity therefore there must be a power of Judgement to execute the Righteousness of the Law in the place that it is put upon that which brake it which Power in Righteousness must absolutely bring Condemnation upon that mind which is the Transgressor in man and the Condemnation must as surely bring Death by the power of the Executor that no part of that Mind may evermore live but the Mind in which no Transgression is which was before Transgression was which must be perfectly wrought before Man can enter again into the first Similitude to unite with the King of Glory So here all may see the Judgement truly set up and executed in the inward parts bringing Death upon the Transgressor produced the benefit of a most Blessed Fruit viz. of Life Peace and Joy and openeth the door of the Fountain of Mercy giving the perfect knowledge thereof which then rejoyceth over Judgment for which cause of Mercy the Eternal Wisdom first instituted the Law and Power of Judgment to come fulfilling Righteousness in the Inward parts which thus appears bringing a Righteous Death upon an Unrighteous Life that by its Death a Righteous may for ever live wherein the Joy and Glory is partaked and inherited So then in the Judgment and Condemnation of that Life unto Death the Power and Glory of Mercy appeareth in the wonderful Wisdom that it might be for ever loved and lived in and the work of Wisdom admired and prized and the Worker of Salvation in the Power and most Excellent Glory of Mercy manifest in Judgement magnified over all everlastingly without end in all that love the Operation and accordingly are partakers of the sweet and happy Fruit of its Salvation in which the Unity with the King of Glory is witnessed Quest 2 Of every frame of Soul or fashion of Mind in Man which is the most certain of holding the Vnion and Fellowship with the King of Glory in Spirit Answ Watchfulness in Fear and Crosse Watch to fear the risings of the Concupisence which the Soul feeleth in the flesh towards the flesh and the World and also now lastly towards the Devil and there enter into that Internal Power which stands in the Crosse to the other Nature which will daily slay every carnal Affection in the first suggestion and appearance and break the Cockatrices Egg before the Serpent is hatched and thus all will come to see that the inward and visible Cross to the inward Mind of the World and the Flesh keeps the Soul clean out of the mind of the World and the Flesh in the mind of the Eternal Spirit Again Watch to fear in every Joy and Enjoyment of every Glorious and Heavenly Gift lest the Joy should slip out of the true measure and a sence of the Glory of the Gift exalt the Heart above the measure of the Light through which it comes and in which the Unity with the King of Glory stands and here all which come to see that Fear keeps every Joy and Enjoyment of Heavenly Gifts perfect to the measure wherein all Perfection is witnessed according to the proportion of all Gifts as they are given and come down from the perfect Giver So then the invisible Cross which keeps clean and Fear that keeps the Soul low and humble to the measure within in the Conscience will alwayes be found the safest frame and fashion of every man's mind to hold the most certain Vnion and Fellowship with the King of Glory as long as they are cloathed with the body of flesh untill it turns to the dust from whence it came and the Soul be from thenceforth cloathed and arrayed with the Glory of the Life of the King of Glory even for ever and evermore Quest Whether Man after being restored unto the Brightness of the first Similitude and entred into Unity with the Incorruptible Glory through death of the degenerated part may not fail from the Glory and enter again into the Degeneration and Curse Answ In the work of Creation it is to be known as formerly mentioned that the Soul of Man simply was not created immutable though clean pure and holy in a state of Innocency for the Eternal Wisdom reserved that Virtue Power and most glorious Property of Immutability in Himself only that He above all things might be known as the Supream Power over all the created things and accordingly feared loved obeyed and lived in which state I have shewed Man went out of and degenerated from and also have opened the direction unto the way and power of Redemption from the fall and losse and Restoration unto the first Similitude of the Holy One which unites with the Incorruptible Glory unto which state it is possible in the Light for all Mankinde to attain yet if they abide not in the immutable Power of Perservation that created their Souls but go from the unchangeable Life into the variable consultation with Flesh and its reason and sensual Wisdom they may return backwards as the Sea Locust and Canker and become as the Swine that was once washed but lo wallows again in the mire and the house may be clean swept yet except there be a Watch still kept seven unclean Spirits may enter that are worse than the former which were driven forth and a Virgin state may be attained unto but unless the Oyl of Wisdom in Watchfulness Diligence and Fear be
and nature they are In order therefore to the true and pure Knowledge of the eternal Sun of the soul it is absolutely necessary for all people to understand That nothing corruptible can see that Glory and Brightness which is incorruptible to discern aright what it is that they may not be alwayes seeking and never come to find and ever learning but never able to come to the true Knowledge seeking in the backward way and learning in a Book of Lyes And next to know that man's station is in sin and corruption in absolute contrariety to the Pure Nature of Incorruption and consequently hath no unity with the Glory of the Incorruptible One nor hath the true knowledge of Him and therefore in worshipping he worshippeth he knows not what which if contrariwise all were united in the Life to the Life and Glory of the Eternal Sun and Power then would they all know that Incorruptible One and accordingly worship in the true Knowledge of Him who is the Eternal Brightness Glory and Power over all things Seeing then that no man knowes aright but he which is redeemed out of Corruption and consequently not worshippeth aright being in Corruption the next thing that is needful to be informed of is Quest How and by what means all men may come to be redeemed out of the state of Corruption thereby to have a true knowledge of and unity in Life with the Incorruptible One and so to worship aright By which assuredly all Nations will come to be of One heart mind and soul seeing the cause of Variations and Divisions may hereby be perceived to stand in the Life and Nature of Corruption Sin and Transgression which if all come to be redeemed out of and united to the Life Power and Glory of the Incorruptible One must infallibly be united to each other being all in Him who is but one in Love Peace pure Life and Nature To which purpose and glorious matter tending to the everlasting Blessing of all Nations and Peoples upon the face of the Earth I as followeth hold forth and shew that plain and easie path of which it was prophesied to the Jews that it should be revealed in which the wayfaring men though fools cannot erre which leadeth out of Transgression into a pure life of Incorruption Of which perfect happy way I speak to every Conscience of man to whom this shall come that it may witness in themselves to this living and pure Path of the glorious Sun of the Soul and Eternal Power of Creation whereby all shall be for ever left without Excuse in the sight of the Eternal Sun who hate and refuse the way and by the Power of the Eternal Sun shall be judged condemned and cast out for ever from the Eternal Life and Glory thereof Introd Man into whom a rational Soul is infused by the Eternal Power who created him which is more than the Beasts or any other creatures have yet is brutish in his understanding and knowledge occasioned through the Law or rather lawlessness of his Lusts which as I have hinted are worse than beast-like daily put in practice both by utterance of words and operation of acts in his Life and Conversation so that although his Creator hath provided him a Law a Way and a Leader by and in which he may come to be redeemed out of that sad and miserable state and condition of his blindness darkness and ignorance of soul and mind in which he is bound and chained by the power of Evil and Corruption which I call the Power of Darkness inasmuch as that spirit is the original and principal cause yet he giving more way unto the Power of Darkness than yeelding unto the other Power which is Light hath lost the true Way and erred from the true Guide and Conducter which is able to lead him into an unity with his glorious Creator who is the Power of Brightness and entered into the Adulteration and now lies wallowing like the Swine in the mire of filth and loathsomness of his own excrement yea rouling himself in the blood and pollution of his unwashed body tumbling upon the ground of noisomness and abominable stink as a helpless wretch without a shelter and without a shade naked and miserable without a garment or skirt of covering without the Bread of Hope or Water of Faith beaten of his Foe without hope of Redemption from his Oppression and bruised of his Enemy without belief of his Restoration unto his first innocent Freedom and thus stands bound unto death in the heavy chaine of captivity and alas poor miserable blind man though this is his lost condition yet he knows not nay nor perceives it not and so layes not his misery to heart which is his double fetters of Iron so though he hath a feigned hope and imagined faith in himself yet being in the Adulteration from the Life of his Creator as his life is sinful so his faith and hope in that corrupt nature is utterly deceivable which can never unite his soul again to his Creator but fraudulently perish it everlastingly in the darkness under which he is held through sin and corruption And though thus hath been the state of man almost from the Creation in the beginning nevertheless it hath pleased the Eternal Wisdom now in these latter dayes as it was prophesied of to the Jews to open a path wherein man may return again unto Himself in that pure and perfect shape and likeness in which he was created by his Glorious Power In order to which Return through the living Way and leading by the true Leader I hold it in estimation of the Eternal Wisdom and Counsel first to shew all the Indians That Man in the beginning was created holy and pure and not in sin and corruption which in this manner they may all plainly understand viz. That whereas the Eternal Power and glorious Sun of the Soul is in Himself pure and incorruptible in Life and Nature could not therefore create a thing corrupted simply so that is to say made in Corruption in his hand without becoming corrupt himself thereby which is impossible that ever that should be Because as his Essence is Eternal from all Eternity so his Nature is immutably and unchangeably pure And again Because He being the Eternal Wisdom who made the Sun in the Firmament of the Heavens a glorious brightness and the Moon and Stars glorious Lights in their places which are visible Creatures to the corruptible eye of Man it would not stand with his Wisdom as unto the retaining of his Glory in Himself to beget an invisible soul in an unclean filthy and polluted state which was the greatest of all Glories which were ever created Wherefore I say for these three Causes of his Purity Immutability and Wisdom ye may perceive that Man was created a pure Soul in the beginning by His pure Power in His pure Glory through His pure Wisdom of which the Jews have the Record written from the
sets free in the liberty from Sin and unites the Soul to the Original Glory from whence it is descended Wherefore this appears to be the true and undeceivable Hope in which the Soul witnesseth its Purification and the true Faith which gives Victory over Sin which is the Blessed State but all other Faith and Hope in the Life of Corruption under the Power of Darkness is that which deceivably perisheth the Soul and is the Cursed State Yet besides this Declaration of the Power which unto every Rational Intellect may appear plain clear and manifest doubtless thousands who of a truth this day do live in the Light and are directly led and guided by it together with this Witness can experimentally testifie at large that they in substance Truth and very deed have found and constantly do find it redeeming delivering and saving them from all verbal and actual Sin and from all resignations of mind unto Sin in which formerly they were held under a woful Captivity by the predominating Power of Darknesse these therefore are they to whom the true and living Sun of the Soul is truly and rightly known who answerably to the true and living knowledge do worship in the true and living Way and these are all of one mind and soul living joyntly and unanimously in one individual Spirit of Brightness which created all Souls and in this Life are at peace together for ever So here are no Quarrellings nor Wranglings Stirs Brauls Fightings suing nor persecuting one another for the visible created things which in the Worlds nature are corruptible and cursed neither can such a thing be among them because the free Law that is in them leads to the nourishing and cherishing each other as flesh of the same flesh and bone of the same bone being all Members but of one incorruptible body And ye know that no man hateth his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it much more therefore they though many yet being moulded from the corruptible into the incorruptible Spirit of Light and Glory are become but one living in the Unity which is everlasting as Members meetly composed to shew forth the Glory of the Eternal Sun of the Soul in the endless Life of Love Concord and Peace Thus having shewed the Way or Redemption from Sin and sanctifying the Soul unto its Creator which leads unto the true Knowledge in a pure Union with its Creator I would next shew the true and living Worship according to the true Knowledge which I have received from him in the true Way The first step of which as I have before said is To bow down and encline the Mind unto the Light which inwardly enlighteneth the Soul and the next step after bowing down the Mind unto it is To wait in it to know the Mind made subject in all Obedience unto it whereby the perfect work of Sanctification may be thorowly wrought in you that ye may be all made meet Vessels Tabernacles and Temples to receive the Virtue into which make the Sacrifice Service and Worship accepted of the Holy Eternal Power before whom you draw near to offer for except the Sacrificers and Worshipers be of the nature of the Holy Power to whom they sacrifice that their Worships may be performed in the same both the Adorations and the Adorers are but a stink in the pure sence of the holy Life of the Eternal Power and Sun of the Soul and this you may all easily know for if you put Christal Water into a stinking noysom unprepared Vessel the Water immediately corrupteth and partaketh of the stink of the Vessel and being poured forth is unfit then to be put into another clean Vessel lest that Water that was first sweet in its own simple nature should defile the other Vessel thereby and the like is if Excremental Water should be first put into a clean Vessel c. And since it is so much lesse then can Corrupt Sacrifices or Sacrificers have any Acceptance with the Holy One for in such a thing he should be no more Holy but as one that is joyned in unity with the Defiled and Unclean which thing can never be because as I have shewed of his Eternity and Immutability But ye by waiting in the Light in all pure and living Obedience wiâ—l come as pre-cited unto the true purification and Renovation of the whole Mind and Soul which bears the fleshly Tabernacle or Temple about it Again Waiting in the Light with your Minds turned in all singlness into it in your inward parts being patient in that state and condition of Waiting and standing a while in holy Content in that step of the true Worship of the Eternal Power who spake to the Hebrews saying To obey is better than Sacrifice you will at length in His Glorious good Pleasure come to feel the Rising of His Glorious Power in you which Appearance I call The Dawning of the Everlasting Day for it is to be understood that all the time of the Darknesse is the time of the Night of which Sin and Corruption are the Clouds which bar and bolt men from the Glory of the shining Day yet in that state of the night there is a secret power set to rule which dispensation is called the Light of the Moon that as the visible Moon was created to rule the Night in the visible appearance even so the Invisible Light was put into the Invisible Soul to rule in the time of darkness and ignorance by which power though the whole world stands in a Chaos of Confusions and because of the darkness they know it not yet the World is preserved so as that every man thirsteth not after the blood of his neighbour which if there were not an invisible and secret Power of the Light ruling in the darkness of the Night the whole Earth would outwardly become as an Ocean of Violation and her face be overwhelmed with Blood yea what might I say Murders would reduce all men to the last man and what would he do even Murder himself also under despairation of the former works of his hands But all men now coming to grow in mind and soul out of the Night into the glorious Light of the Sun of the Soul which opens the Everlasting Day through waiting in it will come to feel the rising of the Power unto a greater beauty and splendor whereby they will come to see the Light of the Moon to become as the Light of the Sun which is arisen in the open day and finding the operation of it encreasing in the inward parts breaking them forth either into brokenness and contriteness of heart or the spiritual praise of the Eternal power or forcing them to pour forth Supplications and Prayers unto Him or in his dread to sound the Trumpet of his Voice declaring his Jubilee and acceptable year which is at hand this I still call the rising of the Eternal Sun in his glory and brightness in them and they in this performing the duty required
Element for if a burning Coal of Fire be cast into Water it becomes quenched by the Water or if a Drop of Water be cast into a great Flame of Fire it consumes to nought in a moment therefore it is not the visible Sun that gives the Fishes their being in the Seas nor yet Man his life upon the Earth but the visible Sun as aforesaid together with the Fishes and all other Creatures was made a servant unto Man unto whom all things unto this day are so continued that he having the service of all things visible yea of the Glory of the Winds which is an invisible Creature attending him with sustentation according to the Providence of the Glorious Eternal Wisdom should with his whole soul seek and feel after his Creator to attain unto the true knowledge of Him therein to worship Him with all Thanksgiving Glory Honour Obedience and Praise who as he made every thing to serve his Body into which his Glorious Wisdom infused a perfect and upright Soul which was the greatest of all Glories that in the beginning were created in how much it had a true resemblance in invisible manner of the Invisible Power and Glory that created it of which none other creature had the like could not expect lesse from Man than that he should worship and serve his Eternal Goodness with every Faculty of that Soul which He put into him But yet I draw nearer to the most certain and true Witness in every Conscience of Mankind to remonstrate a little the Glory of the most Glorious Sun of the Soul shewing how it is a Glory in the most Glorious Part where the external and visible Sun reacheth not to enlighten nor shine about That so in a little measure discerning the Excellency of the One in Glory exceeding the Other you may come to know aright the True Living Eternal Wise and Supream Power which ruleth and reigneth over all things In proceed whereof it is to be apprehended That the Soul and Mind of Man is the most noble part of Man in as much as every Member of the Body is acted as a continual Servant in Obedience to the Motions of the Soul and Mind of Man and also because the Soul is the Immortal Part being not formed of a dead substance as the Body was of the Earth which returneth to Earth but of an inspiring Breath of Life that for ever abides in a quick and feeling state the which Soul being taken out of the Body leaves it as aforesaid to a Conversion unto its first Mould Wherefore seeing the visible Sun only enlightens the Eye of flesh which is the servile part and reacheth no further to shine about a Man than without a Man from which a Garment Shelter or House is able to shade Cannot be the Supream Power and Glory But the Eternal Sun of the Soul shines into the Soul and enlightens the Inward Parts and searcheth the Heart and tryeth every secret Thought and is secret unto all things as having perfect knowledge of all things from which nothing can be hid For let a Man ascend to the Skyes it will reach him and search his dark heart there or if he go down into the Deeps it will follow him and be with him there and when the visible Sun is set and gone down under the Horizon even at Midnight the Light of the Soul can rip up every word and work in the inward secret thoughts of Sin and Evil done and committed by a Man and call the Soul to witness with it which brings a Judgement and Condemnation in the Conscience that smites a Man with Fear and Trembling within himself which the visible Sun in the Firmament cannot do for a Man may commit Beastliness and Murder whilst the visible Sun shines on him which he cannot do in Countenance nay nor without Condemnation of the Light of the Sun of the Soul and therefore the visible Sun must needs appear to be infinitly short of the Glory of the Invisible Light that created all things Again If the visible Sun had created the invisible Soul of Man then must it also search and save it and so be the greater Power and of a Nature doing all things which all may know that it is not so for in its proper nature as a single Creature it doth but serve in the things afore-mentioned not blowing any Wind nor raining any Water nor can it so much as drive back one Cloud of all that the VVind bloweth over it and so shaketh not the Trees nor troubleth the Seas which the storms of Wind do all which are created ruled and governed by the Eternal Power and Sun of the Soul of whom I speak but as a Child and Suckling He being in his Power Wisdom and Glory Infinite and Incomprehensible Yet in His Light I shew that although the Soul of Man is so inferiour to Him that the Souls of all Men in the Earth are comprehended of Him as a drop of Water in the Sea and as a Sand in the bottom thereof which every Man may feel within himself in his own particular Soul yet the low and poor Soul of Man reacheth to the heighth yea and far above the height of the prefixed Course and Circle of the visible Sun 's appointed daily Race So then the visible Sun as I have said reaching not within a man to search his Soul nay nor as it 's placed in the Firmament neither by Ray nor light of Ray thereof can enter so much as into divers Artificial places Caves or holes of Darkness made in the Earth through the Invention of the Soul of Man where the more servile part to wit the fleshly body of Man can enter being therefore in its glory so far yea and far more than I stand to mention below the poor Soul that it is infused by a Power into the body of Man Surely infinitly much more must it needs appear to be below the Glory of the Eternal Sun of the Soul and Power of the Creation by which the Soul was first made in His own likeness of Holiness and Innocency and comes again to be renewed into the same Image and Similitude to live in the invisible Glory of his most Glorious Life in the perfect Inheritance Fruition and Possession of his unspeakable Joyes and Pleasures for ever and evermore Now to the Purpose of the Universal and Everlasting Unity I am opened to speak of Three Properties of the Eternal Brightness That as all Men come to the Renovation into the first Similitude of Innocency and Union with their Maker in that Glory as the way is plainly and easily held forth unto all wherein they may so come to unite in their Maker as one sanctified Body for ever may see and sit down in the Joy of their happy Benefit therein 1. One Property of the Nature of the Holy One is Peace perfect Peace without ever having disquiet in himself All Souls therefore uniting to the principle of his Brightness in
against its full powerful and unlimited Propagation that through its free and unlimited Operation it may lead all unto the Blessed state of Everlasting Vnion with the Holy Unlimitted One where there is no more Transgression nor Curse Now if any particular King Prince or Ruler should further adde to his perswasion saying This is the Truth and the true and living Way in which only the Holy One can be known and worshipid aright and therefore I am henceforth resolved and resigned in my whole Soul to live walk and worship in the same But whereas I have a Kingdom Province or Territory under my Authority Quest What shall I do to these People to make them be all of this mind Answ Thou having found the true and living way blessed art thou having found it if thou walkest and abidest in it therein to be led from degree to degree day by day more and more into the likeness of Him who anew createth thy Soul within thee for herein thou shalt reap a plentiful harvest of his Wisdom in thy Inward parts which will give thee in the Day of Brightness to see that He draweth all into Himself with the Cords of the Power of Love in his Glorious Wisdom whose Counsel will accordingly instruct thee to retain the perfect similitude of his Glory and therefore shall draw all by the same love of Wisdom into the same Light and Virtue of Love and Wisdom and in none other Power shalt thou work with any man besides that by which thy Maker worketh in thee for else thou wilt degenerate and go utterly from the likeness of thy Creator as the wicked and rebellious Rulers of the Earth do to Envy Imprisoning Persecuting Killing Murdering and spilling of Blood all which stand in the adulteration and separation from and in the cursed enmity to the Life of thy Creator which is Peace Love and Mercy and thus instead of seeking to draw others to Him thou thy self wilt run like a Fugative and Vagabond from Him and bring guilt upon thy own head by shortning the dayes of such as thou dost imprison and persecute to whose Life thou art not able to adde a day and for killing that which thou canst not make alive again And there also the weighty price of Souls will be charged grievously upon thee for which thou canst never make satisfaction and if through thy Cruelty thou shouldst turn any to thy self it is but unto that life which is wholly cursed and therefore keep thee towards all men as thy Creator keeps towards thee loving all men as He loveth enemies and hath greatly loved thee and wait upon thy Creator praying to Him for all men like as a long while He waited upon thee for thus thou growest into His true Similitude and mark the end in His Time he who formed and renewed thy Soul in Himself will do the like to many more of thy Region and Dominion and then as the Soul of thy Maker was rejoyced in thy Return unto Himself so wilt thou have an exceeding Joy in their Return unto Him also for whom thy Soul travelleth and thirsteth in secret fervent desires And as in this Particular so in every Particular Case walk thee as one that is moulded into a new frame like unto the Holy One thy Maker and in so doing thy Fruits will be abundant to His Praise and He will take pleasure to enrich thy Soul with His Everlasting Vertue and Treasure of Wisdom and his Spirit of Power and Glory will rest upon thee Yet in respect of the Universal Publick Service of the Holy One Quest How may it be ordered in relation to Assemblies and Congregations Answ Whereas the Eternal Wisdom of all Power is but one infinit Spirit of Love all that draw into Unity with Him must certainly draw into an infinit Love and Vnity one with another in which state that the Unity may be held in the Joy of Eternal Love the Power of Wisdom sets in this Order first appointing convenient Places for Publick Assemblies and next determining convenient Times wherein the Congregations may be kept not by constraint or violence for as the Love of the Eternal Virtue and Power of Love is free in Himself towards every Soul so requireth He that all Souls should be like Him ready in heart and free in mind to assemble together and not in any other way or manner because neither the Constrainer nor the Constrained retains the perfect similitude of his Love and Freedom but are in the degenerated Will wherein every Sacrifice is abominable And when both Place and Time is appointed for Publick Congregations all that are united in the Eternal Vertue as one Soul and Mind and Members of one Spiritual Body must needs congregate and flow together to the end of nourishing and cherishing their own flesh for waiting together in the one Spirit of Holiness and Eternal Power the Power will arise in and among you and the Word of Life will go forth of the mouths of many on which the whole Body will feed and by it be cherished and nourished unto a Life af Immortal Purity Joy and Glory So that when all have found the experience of this sweetness in the Order of Assemblies as we have found will make them flow even as we fly in the Spirit of Unity unto the Holy Congregations distinated and appointed by the Spirit of Wisdom Again in respect of Government Seeing the Creator of all things is an Infinit Wisdom must absolutely therefore be the Author of Order and not of Confusion Quest By what Laws then shall all Nations be ruled and governed for the preserving all things in meet and pure Order Answ Order and Government is of the Life of Eternal Wisdom Therefore in relation to the Love which keeps in the true Order whereby the true Government comes to be known this may you all understand He that created all Things and Kings I call the KING of Kings and of Glory is the One Almighty Ruler over all his Creation and Workmanship and requireth that all should be subject to his Government whose Law is but one which as I have shewed is written in the inward parts which is the Light of the Sun of the Soul that was before Transgression was and leads into that state where Transgression is not This only is the true Law that is to rule in all inward parts to rule all Minds which rules all Members and the Minds being ruled by it all the Members become subject unto it whereby the whole World of Mankind comes to be drawn into the Likeness of the Life and Power that created them in which state Transgression is not so here the Law is a Saviour and not a Judge which Law thus teacheth to wit Do unto all men as ye would that men should do unto you And again it alwayes teacheth That all Kings Princes Rulers and Iudges should keep to the true similitude like unto their Creator in matter of Judgement by a Law and
consequently not to judge any man in any other way and manner or by any other Precept or Law than in and by that Law which judgeth and saveth themselves in the Inward Parts which still draws to the Similitude and preserves the Soul in the likeness of the Eternal Power and Wisdom that created it So then in case of Rebellious Subjects in a Land that would live in a lawless life of destruction of the King of Glorie's Creation wilfully and presumptuously in Lewdness Beastliness Violations or what other wickedness so ever Kings Pinces Rulers and Judges shall have no need to turn out their Minds from the Law within to search Books or Records of their Lands or Peoples without them to find a Law to judge such Transgressors by for that alienates and adulterates from the pure Similitude seeing the Creator cannot go out of Himself into Books without Him for a Law but keeping to the Inward Law of the Creator that preserves in the Glorious likeness and judging all in it and according to it answereth the same in all and leaves them without Excuse in the sight of the Eternal Searchers of all hearts in which Judgment they hold the Vnity with their Creator and stand justified before Him and by that of Him in all Consciences which answereth the Judgement of it Seeing therefore it is evident that the eternal Judge is but one and his Law but one the Judgement that is of Him in it is the Blessed State but that which is contrary to it is the Cursed State Moreover it may be plainly understood That he who made all Men in his own Eternal Wisdom certainly was and is the Wisest to make a Law for all Men that he created which in His Wisdom is evident He accordingly did decree and hath placed it in the Inwards near unto the most noble part of Man which ruleth all his Members to wit the Soul wherein all Transgression comes first to be conceived before any is ever brought to the birth So then he that altereth from his Law and maketh another Law to judge Men by contrary to that Law which his Creator hath placed near unto the most noble part of all Mankind and even in his own Conscience as well as in the Conscience of an another Creature that very Ruler stands in the Presumption adulterated and separated from his Creator shewing himself as if he had a Wisdom above his Creator to make a Law to judge his creatures by which is a most horrid Rebellion against his Creator and his holy and just Law Awake awake therefore O all ye Kings Princes Rulers and Judges upon the face of the whole Earth and answer your Creator in this true point of Judgement Now if the poor men should make forth their Convincement of the Truth saying We are perswaded of the Glory of the Truth of the Sun of the Soul for we experience it in the inward parts and can set our Seal to the Testimony thereof to be altogether Holy and Pure within us in which sence of the Love of our Creator towards us we are truly willing and desirous to live and walk so as that our Souls may be made worthy of such a glorious Infusion and Inspiration of the Eternal Love and Mercy Quest But what shall we do seeing the Rulers of our Land stand in opposition and we cannot so walk without an absolute peril of severe Imprisonment sharp Tortures loss of earthly Estate or Life it self Answ He that created you is the Eternal Power and Almighty King of Kings who reigneth over all in the Kingdoms of Men and giveth them to whomsoever he pleaseth Stand ye therefore in the Life of his Pleasure which is in that whereunto you are inwardly directed which begetteth and formeth you in the pure and perfect similitude of your Creator and there you will come to see Him to be the everlasting Patience and Eternal Content which is a greater Felicity and Glory for you to know in your selves as being moulded into the same Resemblance and so united to Him in the Power and Life thereof than the enjoyment of outward Liberty possession of Ease in the Flesh Earthly Treasure or Life it self in the body yea a Heavenly Happiness it is infinitly surpassing all that ever can be thought of below the visible Sun the living sence and feeling of which in the Eternal Power makes the Imprisonment of the body a sweet freedom of the Soul the Tortures of the Body the joyful pleasures of the Soul the loss of Earthly Goods the purchase of an Heavenly Treasure and the Death of the Body of Flesh the Everlasting Glorious Life of the Soul Thus for every finite Loss is reaped an infinite Treasure of Gain So then as ye grow into this Life committing all things House Goods Silver Gold Wife and Children Liberty and Life into the good pleasure of the Everlasting Patience and Eternal Content you come to reign as Kings in the glorious Life of the KING of Kings over all Earthly Kings and they see it not nor know it not who persecute you being themselves in the act of Persecution adulterated and alienated from the Life of the Eternal Patience and Content and in enmity to his power of Love and Mercy which is the Cursed State of Darkness So you knowing your Advantage of Treasure and Prerogative of Dominion in the power of Patience and vertue of Content ye may well say in your selves As we live and abide in the fear of our Creator which preserves in the continual possession of his Immortal Rewards and Treasures of all Joys we need not fear Earthly Kings nor Princes nay nor loss of Lives nor any other Creature for here we perceive temporal losse can be no losse unto us but as an Earnest-peny offered and given by us for the price of an Eternal Gain And therefore we will run our Race in the fear of our Maker with joyfulness holding the similitude of his own Holyness that if we are persecuted we will love and pray for our Enemies even as our Creator loved us whilst we were his Enemies and we will bear with them as he bore with us and forgive them as he hath forgiven us Thus will we live and thus will we dye and the Name of our Maker be evermore sanctified hallowed honoured and praised by and in us to the end Amen And ye being entered into this everlasting blessed State you stand as I have said in his good pleasure who reigneth in in the Kingdoms of Men and giveth them to whomsoever he pleaseth and then whosoever turneth against you to persecute you turneth against the pleasure of his Creator And mark the battle the Pot fighteth against the Potter who will therefore break it to pieces in his sore displeasure the Dust fights against its Maker who therefore will blow it away even with the fierce Whirlwind of his utter displeasure and gain himself a Renowned Glory over every rebellious Creature for even now is He arisen in
mighty Power until which there was no Enmity Envy Discord nor Cruelty known in the Earth but man was at Peace and Unity in his Innocency with the Holy One Therefore the Original Cause of Discord Envy and Cruelty was Transgression and the Chain thereof to this day among Men is the Power of Darkness For the sake therefore of your Redemption I am again pressed in Spirit to remind all with the Power that breaks the cursed Chain of Darkness which is the Light that is able to do it as all draw their minds into it and dwell in it in their inward parts and restore again into that state which was before Transgression was in the perfect Freedom and Liberty from Envy Enmity Discord and Cruelty in the Glory and Brightness of Innocency where the Wisdom comes to be received which keeps and preserves the Peace Love and Mercy in the Everlasting Power and Vertue of Life and here the Earth that once was the Kingdom becomes the Footstool and Heaven becomes the inherited Kingdom for ever which cloatheth the Soul with a Garment ten thousand times ten thousand fold brighter than is the Glory of the visible Sun for the Rayment is the perfect Glory of the Eternal Splendor which wraps it up as with the swadling of the Rainbow of Joys which is the Eternal Fruit and Benefit of the Blessedness of its Change from the nature of Discord Enmity and Cruelty to the Spirit of Peace Love Vnity and Mercy from Corruption to Incorruption from Folly to Wisdom from Darknesse to Light from Condemnation to Iustification from Death to Life Yet furthermore for the opening of the Counsel of the Mystery of Salvation O all ye Kings Princes Rulers and People every-where throughout the Earth know ye in your selves the Light of the Eternal Sun of Glory to be the bathing and washing Fountain that is able to make the Soul in every Thought even as white as Snow and feel it in your selves as the Refiners Fire which is able to purge you until you be made as pure as the Gold that is seven times tryed and therefore wait in the Operation thereof that you may see its blessed Effect in which Righteousness will run down as Streams and the Knowledge of the Glory of the Eternal Wisdom will cover the Earth as Waters cover the Seas and here you will come to see your selves as the Christal Chanels through which the living Waters of the Fountain of Heaven will be a continual Current the sweet Streams thereof overflowing the blessed Vallies within you and watering every Plant therein making all things fruitful in you and among you fruitful in Truth fruitful in Hope Faith Love Mercy Peace Fear Humility Meekness Patience Content Prayer Praises Thanksgiving Knowledge Wisdom and all Vertue this will be a Beauty in your Faces and a Diadem of Glory upon your Heads in which the Wonderful Counsellor will take pleasure to speak unto you in His Mysterious and Oraculous Language which shall be but one throughout all the Earth and will open an Incorruptible Eye in you even to see the Glory of his Eternal Face which will overcome you with Joyes and ravish you with Eternal Pleasures as a Generation that is carried up out of the Earthly Places Verily I cannot express the Sweetness as my Soul possesseth it within in the Spirit what besides my own state saved in the Eternal Sun of the Soul Oh! my Ravished Mind in the consideration of the Day wherein Nations shall imbrace the Heavens of all Love and plentifully suck the Milk of her Breasts which gives the nourishment of Eternal Life Oh! the Everlasting Consolation which the Children of Brightness shall possess and inherit in the Bosom of the Eternal Glory even for ever and evermore Amen And now Are not the thoughts of this Glorious Salvation Vnity Peace Love Ioy and Pleasure of Life which may in this way be found possessed and enjoyed to the End among all People and Nations upon the face of the Earth and in and with the Glorious Brightness in the Heavens above enough to perswade woo and compel all Souls even with one draught of the Cord of Love to receive and imbrace it as they may sink down into the Deeps and consider in what a good time their dayes are fallen into wherein so glorious a Way is now come to be opened in such plainness clearness nakedness and easiness wherein they may all attain to every tittle of the Benefits yea and a thousand fold more than the tongue of man can mention exceeding all that is before said inserted and written Surely methinks he that would miss a Portion of the pre-cited Blessings and eternal joyous Inheritance for want of looking for it in the True Way being so faithfully spoken unto him as to within him and therefore so easie to be found as not to look without himself to seek and find it must not only confess himself to be a Fool in his own heart but also as a Devil in his continual words and works and seven-fold worthy of Condemnation under the power of Darkness and Death unto its Pit of the burnings of Wo and Torment for ever and ever What therefore might I more say that the Dead might hear and live or that Rocks might rent and become hearts of flesh to perceive and understand for the Word is quick the Voice is piercing and the Life is powerful in and under which I rest in the pure perfect and blessed Peace hereby shewing forth in measure my Spirit and Soul created anew in the Holy Love unto all Nations and Peoples without respect of persons upon the face of the whole Earth wherein I stand clear whether they will hear or forbear By that all Kings Princes and Rulers are in the Light come thus far some may haply make forth their Convincement of the Truth saying It is certainly true and evident that an Universal Peace and Unity Love and Amity cannot be perfectly and purely had held and enjoyed among all Nations besides in the one Principle that unites to the Eternal Power in his own Life and Nature for He only being the Glorious Wisdom that created all things must necessarily be the alone Preserver and Upholder of all things and whatsoever stands united unto Him in the Life abides in the Perfection of the Peace Love and Mercy of the Immutable Spirit of Wisdom and Glory And none other way can there be unto Blessing besides the Light in the Conscience which is given of the Eternal Wisdom for a Way and Leader unto all Souls Quest But what doth this Light end and abolish Answ It endeth all the Wisdom with its effects and fruits which stands in the Adulteration and Separation from the Eternal and unlimited Wisdom of Holiness and Brightness It endeth all Customs Traditions Wayes and Worships and whatsoever may be thought that stand in the degenerate and cursed nature and breaketh all Bryars and Bulwarks of limitation that stand in the Curse as a fence
retained in the Lamp alwayes burning and giving light to the whole Soul it may turn into the darkness of folly and filthiness and again may become adulterate and degenerate from the Life of Incorruption and Immortal Unchangeable Glory which is the Cursed State Wisdom therefore smites the stroakes of Death upon the head of Presumption and keeps the Watch upon the Watch-Tower of the Light which discovereth the Approach of the Enemy and retains the Fear as a strength for Courage and cloathes the Soul with the humbleness and contritedness of heart for with such the Immortal Power dwelleth in whose immutable strength the Salvation and Preservation is witnessed so in Him the Redeemed have the continual enjoyment of a surpassing Sweet and consolating Repose and Rest First in the knowledge that the Gracious Power that hath united them unto Himself in the Life of Incorruption and Innocency can never vary change nor altar from his Grace Love and Faithfulness and next though a change may be which cannot be by the unchangeable King of Glory unless it be first by the degeneration of Man's weak and mutable mind from his Power of Holiness yet the Soul in the fear and watchfulness out of the Presumption and Arrogancy in the ground of Meekness and Lowliness comes to grow in such a strength of the power of Hope Faith and Trust in the Immutable Preserver of the Low and Humble that in the living and sensible perswasion it comes to utter through its assurance of the immediate Unity that neither Afflictions Tryals Tribulations Temptations Reproaches Buffets Wounds Tortures Prisons Life nor Death Principalities Powers Heights Depths Things present nor Things to come shall be ever able to separate the Soul from its Life and Vnity in and with the Immutable Preserver and King of Glory in the Joy of his Everlasting Virtue Ah! who therefore would not run as a Greyhound in the course and flow as the Floods of the Spring-Tyde yea and fly as the Dove to her Nest unto that which unites with the Original Fountain of all Excellency Wisdom Sweetness and Joy to be swallowed up in its Ocean for ever Oh! the Felicity of Consolation in the state of Redemption how can my weakness declare its Ravishing Power forasmuch as in the state of the Souls Restoration unto the first Beauty Glory and Vnity with the King of Glory there is found a Tower of joyous Safety far exceeding the Safety that the first Man had in his state of Innocency knowing that though he was innocent and pure yet wanted the knowledge of the mutability and changeableness of his Soul from the Power that only could preserve it in the Immutable Life and therefore the Concupisence said Ye shall not surely dye which was a Lye by which the Innocency was beguiled and overcome to taste of the fruit of knowledge in his own flesh and then in the Losse he saw not the Recovery but clouded himself more under it by covering the defiled parts but whereas the Soul now sees its unity with the Immutable Glory and knows the changeableness of the Souls of all Men out of the Vnchangeable Power and comprehends the Power of Darkness with its Works and Perdition and also knows the Power of Redemption from Curse Restoration to Blisse and Vnion with the Immutable Glory I say in the knowledge of all this which Man in his first state of Innocency knew not stands more glorious armed and securely fortified on the Watch-Tower of the Light in the pure fear than the first Man in his state of Innocency did And by how much also the Mercies Pitties Compassions Love and glorious Wisdom of the Creator is now revealed in his work of Redemption Restoration and uniting the Soul of man again unto Himself in the power of his quickened Spirit these Walls of the Eternal Love which the united Souls now enter to within is a Glory Fort and Fortress infinitly exceeding that of the first Man's state of Blisse in Innocency Yea I might even speak as a tongue without end of this matter and yet never speak enough of the revelation of the Power appearing in Glory to the Redeemed Restored and United Souls how far it surpasseth that of the knowledge of the first Man in Blisse who in his state of Innocency before Transgression was could not know what Pitty Compassion Mercy and Reconciliation was being not then in a condition of the service of such properties and qualities that were hid in the Eternal Wisdom of Glory who though He was dishonoured at first by Transgression yet such is his infinite Wisdom that He gains Himself the greater Honour through the Power of his Redeeming Man out of Transgression Wherefore the discovery of the face of Glory being now the more excellent and greater the Walls and Bulwarks of Love must needs be the stronger and the Unity infinitely nearer and dearer than the tongues of ten thousand multitudes can ever utter or express which may be joyfully received as the Everlasting Consolation of all Consolations by all the Innocent Lambs who through the Glorious Redemption do know their Vnity in the Immutable Power that created them Who therefore thus in brief can witness to every Opposer and Gain-sayer that questioneth their state and condition We are in the Immutable Life and Power Finally The knowledge of Unchanableness only consisting in the Eternal Power cuts off the strength of all Insults of Reproach by the seed of enmity cast upon the Truth and the Redeemed People that do abide walking in it because one or two or a few have turned from it like the Dog to the vomit and the washed Swine again to the wallowing in the mire which cannot stand upon the Immutable Power or Principle of Holiness because if all Souls should turn from it as it is a manifest Light in every Conscience yet the Light and Truth changeth not but is still the same in it self in Nature Power Vertue and Glory which no man can justly deny though vailed clouded and in greater measure hid from the mutable Soul that is turned from it Nor can Reproach or Infamy justly stand upon them that abide in the Unity with the Immutable Glory because by the Power thereof they are preserved out of evil walking before all men innocently not giving any occasion but of good reports to fill the mouths of all men Therefore if any man should reproach me and my Brethren whilst we continue and persevere in the Life of Restoration united to the Unchangeable Holiness because others one or two or a few are gone out into the Defilement and Curse this sheweth that he which so reproacheth us stands disunited unto and adulterated from the Life of his Creator who is the Power of Equity and entred into the power of the blackness of Iniquity giving false weight and false measure in the Ballance and Bushel of Enmity which is the Cursed State Because his Creator cannot do the like in the Ballance of his Sanctuary but is righteous to every mans cause So then the Reproacher by his own unrighteous reproach writes the mark of Guilt in his own Forehead and draws the sentence of Righteous Judgement upon his own head as a rebellious son of Enmity and Despiser of the life of Integrity And thus the Eternal Sun of the Soul Power Wisdom Holiness and King of Glory in Himself and in all his Redeemed People stands magnified honoured glorified praised and renowned eternally Amen THE END