Dead out of sight that it may dissolve into the New Earth which I have prepared From whence ye may expect that new Creaturely Body which is all available and goeth beyond the first Fruits of Circumcision For Renovation in the Mind may be brought forth and yet this New Creature not raised which is the very Body appertaining to the Ghostly Spirit which can only mount and give this New Creature the Wing of Ascension Here is a new creating Word which now upon the Sounding is what excellent new framed Piecemay be expected hence from its Matter and Composition What think you now must this New Creature be made of that it may transcend the Old That must dry moulder and vanish away as it is decreed that so room may be for the new Body to take place Which is to be coagulated from the Virtual Golden Mould as the material Matter of this All-Spiritual Creature which is appointed for Mount Sion's Communion Oh! the first Adam was created for Paradise out of the Dust of that Earth he was made a living understanding Soul sparkling in the pure Innocency From which degenerating he hath changed both the inward Principle and outward Body into the Nature of Sin and Corruptibility Which now must be put off before the most Holy will know you in the way of delightful Conversation for which end every Trumpet doth sound till ye be framed and raised out of Holy Ground made all of one entire Piece a Massy Lump which may out-ballance that which as a Shrine adulterated is with other false Metals as in the first Adam's state you have seen where the Good and Evil do dwell that makes all the Strife and Uneasiness For which no other way is found for the putting an End thereunto but by a total dissolving of the old Creature wherein this Mixed thing is found Here arose this Objection in me Ah my Lord and Master I grant and acquiesce with thee concerning this new Bodifying for the Eternal Spirit to act through in pure new raised Humanity but why is thy Word still directed to me who find hereunto no Sufficiency for it is the business of a God-creating Power I do see as thou dost take this Prerogative unto thy self saying Rejoice in that which I do create Answ. True Oh Shunamite this Glory thy Father only appropriated unto himself and none else can assume it or counterfeit it For here are no painted Forms that can serve for to make Images without Life will not do Hereby shall the face of the Covering be discerned that hath deceived all Nations that have still cryed the Temple-Body when it is no other but a dead piece of Formality which is at least no way able to effect beyond the Species of a poor piece of impotent Mortality which under great disability doth lie Therefore the Voice in thee doth Cry Call and Incite that thou mayst look within for this Creating Might Lo it is not so lost or gone out of Sight but it will be found upon search and seeking being at hand to renew and change the Vile and bring forth another Body and Spirit that may God's Virgin-Bride inherit with all her Mountain Arabian spicy Wine which is refined from the Lees. That is the Spirit which is purely extracted from the Deity to move in a Body that is all contacted of Sion's Matter For the New Creation will be filled with such Inhabitants as mighty Princes each one in their own Power moving with such anointed Shields as all Earthly Weapons will be too blunt and too short to annoy such Spirits or new Creaturely Bodies that are compacted of this sublime matter But here this Jesus whose Spirit searcheth the inward deep of this Soul meeteth with somewhat which is still questioning and asking How can this great thing be seeing I am not come to live out of sensible Mortality that is touched with every Essence which appeareth from that ground sometime listed up then again cast down according to the mutation of the Starry Region Well I know saith he it is so but art thou here confined for ever to stay Hath Bounds been set that beyond this thou art not to pass Dost thou think my Calls and Invitations are only verbal or that I put you upon that which the Omnipotency of co-working Power cannot make good Only believe laying the stress of all upon my Creating Word which will move till the Number Three be witnessed for the raising of this Temple which all fill'd shall be with their own silent Company walking all in holy Order according to the living Testimony Which openeth a new To which inspiring Word ever more watch and it shall be your safe Guide and Guard till you are come here to abide within this fixed Sphear August the 22d 1676. In the Night I was much in Prayer minding my Lord God of the many particular Prophecies concering our Jesus coming to quicken and assume his own Spiritual Body in us being mighty earnest in Soul-wrestling for the accomplishment thereof against which I saw a great Strife and Wars by Spirits and Powers from the high fallen Angels above and the middle Regions and Depths below all conspiring to keep down the Body that is sown in that New Tomb where none but Jesus the Lord lay After this Conflict in Prayer I fell asleep where the dark Magia followed me with Apparitions from their Kingdom which I endeavoured to adjure Upon which I awaked waiting for the sweet Emanations and Teachings from my Immanuel who a present Word of Comfort ministred to me saying Behold the Dews from Hermon-Hill shall distill upon what you have sown ye shall not always lie in the Dust of the Earth For this Dew is as the Water of Life that will make the dead Body again to live As my dead Body it shall rise Metamorphosed as the Lily all white and fair to take in the Golden Sun and the Crystalline pure Air. Such a Body will be meet to move from and to draw in that Everlasting Gospel-Breath which will tinge whatever it doth touch Now as to the time when this Legacy will be due to you you must look into the last Testament and Will of me your Testator Who have made an Everlasting Covenant firmly ordered in all things where all Precious Promises concerning things to come run in general to those who successively in time shall come into the Resurrection-Body for to be born For none else can make challenge to that great income of the Holy Ghost which is the principal Gift in my Will Why have you let this lie as dead and making no more matter about its search And why see ye not whether this Revenue belong not to your New Names which ye have been baptized into I would not that ye should be ignorant of what might come to you if you live in the Resurrection-Body till it gets up into its mature Stature a full grown-Body which may be of ability for the discharge of so great a
be seen of all People and Nations and all Languages shall hear of the Fame thereof Therefore these Gates are set towards the Four Quarters of the Earth that whatever belongs to this Sion and had its Birth out heuee may return and give it up to it again Now as to the Gates themselves as it is said They are of One Pearl signifying their Oriental Purity without mixture as it is written My Name shall be ONE in these and they one in me as selected Ones to be at the Gate 's Entrance to whom I will give the Charge and Trust peculiarly to open and to shut out for they shall have all Power given to them The burthen of the Government shall not lie only upon your great High Priest but ye shall bear an equal share with him as so many Elders Spirited from the same Anointing Oâ—… it is a high Dignity to be chosen an Angel-Keeper and Opener of these Everlasting Gates to let in and shut out according to the Light and Law of this City Query Now why hast thou seen three Pearl Gates united as in One Answer To manifest the Trinity in Unity All concluded it is to dwell in one Pearl spiced Gate so spiced throughout as it may smell only of pure Deity that can never more admit of Putrefaction Q. But further you enquire Why are they named with several Names seeing all is one only Pearl or Body of Purity Why twelve Names answering to the twelve Tribes of Israel or to the twelve Apostles of the Lamb A. It was only so in way of Similitude for their many Names are all but one as deriving their Name from their Anointed Lord. Who was their Head Principality according to that which was written That they were baptized into that One Name by the Holy Ghost and from thence were called Christus as a Body that anew was to present this Assembly in Mount Sion the Bride of the Lamb. Who henceforth will be called by no other Name then the Lord our Righteousness which is the true Inscription that shall be written upon every one of these Gates April the 13th 1676. The Jerusalem state opened further upon me as my Spirit was caught up there to see and hear how Affairs were managed in the high Kingdom of the Love knowing that my Name was written there and a place preparing and now my Mind was no longer wavering or nalting betwixt two Kingdoms For I did see so much of the reality of this Zion Glory that all within me was poteâ—…tly provoked to make after it according to the Hand of Power which had touched me The Queen of Sheba had not more lost her Spirits in the view of what was but the shadow and type of this then I had from the time of its Manifestation upon me The Lamb and Wisdom the Bride still conferring and illustrating the Glory thereof unto me even so much as with the Shulamite Cant. 6. 4. I cryed Turn away thinâ—… Eyes from me for they have overcome me such was the wonderful bright terribleness of this Beautiful Jerusalem in its continued presentations to my Mind so as I complained of my Lovefaintings and dyings Now for this my Bride she talked with me in the Night when Sleep was upon the Elementary part but my Internal Ear Kept awake to hear new things out of this Sion Pearl Ruby Gate An out cry I heard and my self by Name called upon Arise shine for thy Jasper-stone is for thee come make ready put off mount away with me Let no Essences ever more touch thee that so my incorporated Spirit may alone give unto thee the Jerusalem free Who according to Knowledge Light Joy Peace and Love will as to thee my Dove there live to spend the full Revenue of this unknown fresh renewing Stock of all out flowing Gifts and high deified Powers which will then shew whereunto thou art come In the Morning when I came to have these Sayings repeated over to me by that Magical Spirit who inspired those things into me I did really feel all my coâ—…poreal Spirits dye and saint within me and some what to fail and melt away While it was thus with me I had this Word came to me saying This must be therefore suffer and know now a dying into a Life-rising and free liberty within this City of a God-spreading Glory Whereof the Throne-River shall be given thee to drink which is called the Water of Life as a deep rooted Tree do thou suck it in and from hence spring in the Love-Unity from the Father and the Jerusalem Bride which generate their Fruit Monthly I do this Tree not only to thee but to him who a Mourner is for his lovely yet once grieved Bride recommend To you both I do it present not only to view and the Beauty hereof to admire but for encouragement hereunto that of the same Fruit ye may bring forth within these high Walled Gates Where the Nations that are to be saved shall partake of these healing Leaves and more perfect Cures then ever shall be done herefrom These Trees therefore which I now shew thee thou art made to behold through their various Operations how they remain still together United which though signified in Number Three yet all but One are in their rich and high Extracted Quality Out from which now see your selves shoot forth as incorporated Branches having living Food in your own Root which encircled round with Sion's broad River which turned is into a Golden Nature as of transparent Amber For such as the Soil is whereout this Tree doth grow so answerably doth it give forth its Fruit for Substance and Quality for Virtue and Tast. O great and unknown Mystery Which lieth here to be both the Tree and the Feeder thereupon as knowing here no Curse is ever to be seared because nothing but the pure good sappy Life moveth here which will so perfectly Naturalize you into it self as will transform you by constant feeding upon it in your self into a solid Body as weighty as Gold and so by Degrees it will be known to grow hereunto This will the whole Course of your unsteady and Sin-obnoxious state change into flaming Pillars for fixation The Spring-Tides of this Healing River will grow so high that it will be unpassable no more coming out is from within these Cherubin-Walls but growing up as Trees of Righteousness from the Seed and Water-Fountain of Life Which by and through the Measuring Compass of the Spirit makes heights depths lengths and breadths all proportionable to lie square and to move here in one Equality permitting nothing out of order Still the Golden Line measureth to the highest Perfection in every degree any one who comes to inhabit within this Jerusalem Whose Streets being all of Gold most clear sure Footing there is for Fire-Stones to walk up and down without fear of sinking for all their Goings are here established and made prosperons For no Warfaring Spirit can err out of his Way Light doth
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
of being Tributaries to these Usurped Powers From which nothing can you Totally free but Total Death after that way of Spiritual Dying which both Mystically and Magically by and through the Heavenly Constellations doth operate This is a Death worthy of all Acceptation indeed which at once shall put an End to all Earthly Sense and Sin Then room there is O Soul for the Superiour Life to come in which shall reign as God enthroned in Nature's Kingdom that is restored to its first Institution First Breath then take and saint not but forward to the Mount of Olives go the Mountain is indeed high to which you are to ascend but my holy Gales shall drive you on that so you may come thither to sup with the Lamb. A Sheet is here wanting July the 8th 1676. THis Morning after some private Ejaculations to the Throne Majesty this Word came unto me Will ye actually deny your Active Life as you denyed passively your passive Life Even that Life which ye so often have decryed down because it is found in that room from whence proceeds all Unbelief and Deceiveableness of Unrighteousness which naturally generateth those Essences from whence the Thoughts that are light and evil do spring The great conquest will be to put a stop to these till thou hast found the way utterly to undermine and for ever to bind them Yet thou shalt be allowed warranted and justified to stifle them before they can come to a Birth Though Reason may tell thee this would be as a new Entity and that it would straitway overturn and overthrow thy breathing Existency yet give thou not any ear to such Objections that are cast in from that Principle perhaps then no more in a Creaturely Being thou canst be known Well admit it and suffer thy Creaturely Self thus far for to expire as to the imaginary Life be assured that all Peace and Safety hereby will accrue For by this silent Vacancy another Source will open All dyings thou hast indeed gone through to this which is the main Head-Vein which doth lie so deep under Ground thereby preserving under it self hidden even from the Vultur's Eye Oh this Original Root is that which must be struck at Up and Out with it and overturn it and thou wilt see what doth lie in the depth beneath it to wit every precious thing which without care or toil will voluntarily spring when this imaginary Root is quite cast out For the croppings of this Evil Seed will never free thy inward Ground Come then and descend with me and I will shew thee where this Grand Enemy doth lurk who unconceivably doth send forth those dark Fumes which hath hitherto prevented the overflowing Breath of the Holy Ghost If then thou canst not to a cessation from every unruly motion come which works from the Astral Spirit then try the Power and Might of that Spirit which in thee doth reside and cross these strong Tides and through all break and leave behind the Flowings of Jordan and look not back but forward do thou pursue and keep up to thy Region high and as an Eagle Spirit bear up most mightily no more returning to take up any weight of earthly stuff which in the Imaginary Mind doth lie But away away ascend with thy Jesus unto another Principality where other Presentations will all thy Senses employ when once thou hast forgot and lost this World out of thy Eye and Heart What other meaning dost thou think those Words do bear which are upon old Records which saith Except ye deny relinquish and suffer the loss of that Life which is bundled up tied and knit together with the stringing Sinnews of the imaginary Mind ye cannot enter into Life into the Life of God and Christ which to know is Life Eternal Therefore it is again said That none can receive the Kingdom of God till they can come to be as a little Child that is new born who is passive having no thoughts of reluctancy working to hinder the opening the Everlasting Kingdom of the Light Joy Love Power and Peace Wouldst thou know why so few have got entrance here It is because they could not untwist nor get from under this binding Cord of the Natural flowing Cogitations which beset the Spirit every way holding it under a most slavish Captivity Yet is it not perceived but by most it is believed that this whirling Wheel must run round of absolute necessity and there is no way for it to be avoided while subsisting in a Body of Elementary Corporality True O Spirit those who in this gross state only care to be do walk and abide with and amongst those which are of their own likeness relishing and corresponding with what doth proceed from this unsavory part But from you I your Lord expect another thing who have taken the Vow of a Nazarite's Life upon you invocating me so often for a remove and translation into the same Life and Liberty with me your forerunning President Now then I must plainly make known to you the Mind of God and your Father which is to Famish all those numerous and multiplying Essences which mutiny against the Eternal Stillness and Eternal Nothingness where the all sublime Goodness and Everlasting Rock of Power is to be seen felt and known Verily this is the way I can only describe to thee and those who the mark of this high Calling would reach and would be traffickers within the Holy City which is all Crystalline Through which none can pass that hath the least Lumber of imaginary stuff yet hanging upon him Now weigh these Sayings for they are from the Yea and Amen who hath good-will to make riddance of all those superfluous Thoughts that have been as the gulph separating Principle To which thoughts by one act God moving in the Mystery of the Fiat yet once again will put an end quite to them For a New Heart will be created out of which will flow continually such a choice Treasury answering to the Sight of the Flaming Eye July the 16th 1676. A Vision of God's Flaming Eye This Morning as I was in my Spirit let down into the deep Abyss attending the pure Openings from that Central generating Source or Fountain Life In a moment there appeared to me an Azure blue Firmament so Oriental as nothing of this in this Visible Orb could parallel with it Out of the midst hereof was a most wonderful Eye which I saw Sparkling as with Flaming Streams from it Which I am not able to Figure out after that manner in which it did present it self unto me But according to this Form it was as much as I am able to give an account of it it was thus or after this manner There was a Flaming Eye in the midst of a Circle and round about it a Rainbow with all variety of Colours and beyond the Rainbow in the Firmament innumerable Stars all attending this Flaming Eye From which the Word said the Earth and Heavens shall
15. 26. were thus opened to me Here is a stock of Life to be given out in an absolute way of propriety but to whom is it but to the Royal Birth of such as are born into the Spirit Whereof ye who through strong travail are hither come are to be fellow-sharers in this Life with God the Son But ye are yet but young and do not understand what this Life will extend unto if preserved choicely you shall find in it the the root of that matter to work upon which is sufficient to create and translate according to the will and skill of thiâ—… Life-Operator Which derives a Power out of its own free Birth-center which hath no dependency out of its own Being Call to remembrance that saying Man is become like one of us and he would still have exercised the same authority as a God had the evil been only known and eschewed for which end Jesus hath sent his redeeming Spirit to clear off all your old Accounts as being found in the Debt-Book of Sin and also to convince you there is no necessity that you should run one Mite more upon that score ye being born of a free estate of Righteousness of your own which now you are charged to expend upon For in the time of Ignorance before you came to know what was sown in your Ground ye might be more excused But now I have revealed where doth lie the rich Revenues of the all-sufficiency ye need neither seek ask or borrow did you know â—…ow to stir up and awaken your own Magia Through which all wherein you have been taught must throughly â—…e wrought as the mighty Engineer to bring forth what hath lain under the Vail of Faith and Hope Plunge plunge â—…et deeper in within the Circle-Birth of â—…his pure thing October the 25th 1676. As I was considering of this Discoursive Opening of the Spirit it was immediately confirmed to me by a presentation after this manner The Word said Behold the Idea of another Paradisical Sphear I saw a Tree spring suddenly out of a great River with three laden great Branches then sprang divers more young Plants all sprouting from the Veins or Strings from this one Tree Each one with no more then three Branches but of different growths Some new budded others bearing Flowers in order to Fruits others grown to palpable Fruit. All round about this one Tree Upon which it was said to me These are as so many Gods which are ascended out of the Earth to replenish that which lay void and desolate Here each one hath and is growing up in a Life of Subsistency and Almighty Soveraignty deriving all this Power and Might from the Tree of Life Which sheds its Kernel-Seed into this River for such is the Nature of this Thron-River that it no sooner falls in but it springeth immediately into this threefold Form of the Deity O stagger not neither be confounded at this for except ye had been born again of this Water and Tree of Life that sheds the Golden Seed of the Spirit ye should never have known the existency of a Life-Soveâ—…aignty Therefore to you not only the â—…ight and Spring of Understanding is â—…iven but the everlasting Life-Line from his Tree doth run free because you have â—…rned in your Spirits and hearkened to â—…y Inspirations But remember your â—…ife hath many subtle treacherous â—…riends that pretend to it that will say â—…s Peter did far be it to thee to give up â—…e loss of all the old Life and only rest â—…bsist and alone depend on this But â—…ow this is but the tempting Voice of â—…e Serpent as in the days of Eve by â—…hose Fall be thou aware And now â—…hile ye are but Infants suck and draw â—…ightily from this Tree of Life and you â—…ill soon grow to be strong to have this â—…se trusted in your own management â—…o you whose Ears are so open to hear â—…e I do greatly delight to commune with â—…ou that if by any means I might encourage you to hold out and not slide back from my Precepts Which will assuredly entrust you in all Zion heights and Spirit depths of unfathomed Treasury Now haste haste to your covering Strength of Glory your Nazarite Hair while abiding in this Paradisical Sphear will soon grow upon you that so therein may be your defence from all Philistines Powers Now then in Jehovah Magnanimity abide with me his Spirit evermore to dwell and be So Amen dear Lord I pray thee October the 26th 1676. Being met together to attend the Manifestation of the Spirit by which we might profit each other in the Afternoon as the Dr. was praying this Word came to me Make use of the present Opportunity when ye have the King at the Banquet then is the time to prefer your Request Upon which waâ—… brought to my remembrance the wise Pâ—…licy of Esther to King Ahasuerus Which that Night was more opened enlarged and applied for our present and further Peace Joy and Encouragement to follow on to know the whole Counsel of our God concerning us who now revealeth all Secrets by the Spirit who presented Mordecai in the Person of himself being left to him as Orphans The whole trust care and charge being cast upon this faithful Mordecai to bring us up to that degree of Humility Meekness Courage Zeal of Life and to all sweet Spiritual Disposition of Mind that the King the Father might greatly desire us for herein consisteth our Beauty and Comliness which is so taking Vashti was refused because of Arrogancy and Disobedience but Esther finds favour being mild and pliable yielding to her Guardians Commands though to the peril of her Life So assuredly said this Comforter Be ye but wise and obedient to me who will put you upon nothing but what I do fore-see will arise for your great promotion and considerable advantage as ye my dictates shall obey Who do make use of this History of the Scripture yet that my Mind may be more easily understood you not being able to bear nor understand me in my own Tongue till further learned For which I am come down to your understanding through the Skreen of the Letter October the 27th 1676. Now this Morning it was set before me according to the Example of Esther that for a certain time it was expedient that we should sanctifie our selves by a true Fast in pure Abstinency from their Assembly-Feasts 2dly From tasting any thing that is ministred from this gross Element but to draw apart from all keeping our Internal part from being defiled shutting up from all reminding only the overturn of Haman's device That great subtle Adversary that had laid the Plot against the new introduced Life to cut it off before the King had put Honour upon it to bring it through the City-Royal upon his own Eagle-Body of Power Now seeing the malicious design of the Serpent with all his Confederacy was gone very far in this matter there was no other way to reverse the
trust to hath already upon it the Foundation-Seal being already named which cannot be obliterated without it be by yielding to thy daily renewed subtilties Which as in the day of Eve so again thou wouldst be prevalent storming high so much as thou seest the Day grow nigh of overturning the Babylonish Captivity Much contest I had of this kind both sleeping and waking One thing more I remember was his charge that he some proof would see of the Father's Almightiness from his Birth in us With that I roused up my Faith and said that thou mayst wilt unto thy perpetual downfal therefore away depart with all thy Wiles from me For I will no more give Ear to the underminings of such a Serpentine Spirit who would circumvent me in the process of my New Birth after the manner of Jesus After this I fell into Sleep again towards the Morning then I felt such bitter Agonies in my outward Man as if my Life had been just parting asunder and throws and pains as if my Back had been cleaving in two which awaked me And I was amazed when I came unto my self that I found all was so well with me for I perceived the Evil One had beleagered me in his dark Magick but could neither hurt me in Mind or Body The watchful Eye of my Jesus being vigilant to preserve me from his Fury December the 6th 1676. After this Conflict I waited to understand the meaning of this terrible on-set upon me and it was thus spoken in me Satan hath desired to winnow thee and watched his opportunity to surprize thee while the Animal Life was reposed and might he have been permitted he would certainly have undermined the Virgin Birth by overthrowing thy Faith Which is the very Life-pulse of this Birth for if that stop the Life soon grows weak therefore still maintain and keep up that Faith which is the material matter of this Birth that the Evil One hunts to destroy For could he make void Faith he well knows that is the very Basis of the New Creation-building and thereby would throw down all what ever hath been wrought Consider oh ye upon whom this Probation time is come which will be the Birth growing that you carefully provide and gird on this defensive Weapon oyling it well that no rust on it at any time be found As it is given you to believe so mind to stir up this Gift in you remembring what all precious Faith hath done in this World through the very mortal Case Nay as ye read the very Visible Creation was brought about by the Word of Faith and can be no otherwise Restored to its first primary Purity Liberty and Glory but through the rising Life of Faith Of which the Serpent's subtilty broke the Golden Chain and cut that Silver Cord which held up the Paradisical Creation by introducing his Temptation into Adam Who hereby broke his Faith and Covenant with his God Now then by one Man's disobedience to the Faith all became faithless by which then it was impossible to retain the similitude of God for hereby he lost the use of the most holy generating property and brought forth strange Births as ye at this day do find the sad effects thereof But now yet once again an open Birth-Door is set for Wisdom's Life-Seed to enter in at which shall bring forth a new Creation store much excelling all the Births that have gone before To which good thing so much prophesyed of give great heed Marvel noâ—… that the accursed Serpent's Seed is so enraged night and day his Venom to let out it is because he suspects thou art designed for some eminent use through that principal Birth that may be a means to ransome many out of Turkish thrall Therefore at this Animal Life he did strike by his wounding Dart but I thy Jesus stood with Faith the Weapon Balsom nigh thee to heal And will not fail thee still to guard against his Wiles keep but my Faith and from it do not shrink And so give charge to such as engage with you upon the same account and you will see certainly the issue of that Birth that shall most perfectly restore the fallen Creation in your selves and others in such a way as yet no late President hath been since Immanuel's Birth did descend December the 7th 1676. In the Night season after some rising Ejaculations had ascended and I falling into a Sleep I was suddenly awaked as if some Person had been in the Bed with me Which in some kind of fear I rose up to see but saw nothing so lying still in the consideration a little while I felt sensibly a Hand all over-spread upon me with an influence of great Heat at which I marvelled what it should signifie Then this Word spake saying Fear not this Hand is stretched out for to encompass the Birth and by the Heat to fix the Life's impregnancy that it might be past the Dragon's power any more for to slay Who cannot cease to watch it with an Evil Eye for which cause I have overshadowed thee with my Airy Body which may bring forth accordingly as Faith shall operate in its own Mystery which is the great thing whereby the Paradâ—…sical World shall spring again without toil and care For this cannot be until such a Birth be brought forth that hath all Faith to go forth with all Power as without guilt of Sin for that quencheth the Seal of Love and Bird-limes the Wings of Faith which is also a twisting Cord to bind down its Eagle-Body but it is able to free it self from all that brought it under the bondage of Evil. Now this renewing Birth set your Minds fully upon for it will be to you the Noah that will comfort you by restoring a New World from which the Curse will fly I your Jesus must abide in my Heavenly Reservatory till this Birth in you grow ripe for it is the Elias that will come in another and more perfect Ministration then ever yet hath been that must prepare for the Coming of me your Lord from Heaven Who left this Work to be accomplished by the Buth of the Holy Ghost which was to bring forth the most perfect Restoration that so you might come to know Elias track through the burning Chariot for Translation It will certainly fall upon the Lot of some one or other that are hereunto predestinated to bring forth this mighty Elias in Spirit as the first born in Wisdom's Day to go before and overturn and make ready for my absolute Reign yet to be in the Earth in order to the New Jerusalem descending Glory Therefore take heed be circumspect believing this Birth for to see wing up your Faith and Pray and travel mightily that ye may be those Worthy Ones to bear a Living Testimony for me For a great and weighty Government will be entrusted with you when Wisdom's Birth shall be fully ripened for a much more glorious state then that of Solomon shall be