was This should be effected by Dying out of Creaturely Censation whereby a vacancy of Place for the Holy-Ghost to rise and spring and move as One Entire Spiritual Body within for so it will be when ever there is a cessation and a rest from the whirling Thoughts and Motions which from the outward Astral Birth is This will be the manner of my coming in this Latter-Day to stand upon the Earth which thus emptied is and refined by the Fire that never dieth which Fire is that Seed of God that shall multiply it self to bring your Christ forth numerously to overspread this World till all shall be formed a new Thus shall each one become a Christ or an Anointed from this Deified Root opening within their own Soul And when this Life of Christ shall out-grow its Minority and come to Maturity of Wisdom and Strength then it shall be known what you are made Heirs to and shall possess while in the age of time you do remain for Christ fully Grown will bring such Gain as Trains of Heavenly Powers will open and fly like Lightning that shall reach from one Nation to another by which the dark Corners of the Earth shall become light This is the New and Living Model which your Lord Christ will now begin to manifest himself in Therefore hereunto Let the Holy Anointed Ones be ever waiting for me till Power come over all that is Nature and Creaturely Spirit Seeing I have Oh my Lord Liberty of Speech further to proceed for Enquiry into this deep condescending Love of Thine what upon my Spirit do move which is How the ardent Soul that so great a lover of Thee is may have frequent admittance into Thy Council-Chamber to know hear and learn what may be conduceable to such an high degree of Unity as hath been mentioned by Thee For thou art so over cloathed with Greatness and Majesty that it is no light or easy thing to maintain such Accesses unto Thee as required is in so high an Import as this is For to know the Secrets that do concern the Kingdom of Thine and my Joy and Glory in Thee O my Lord be pleased in This to satisfy me Which was answered most sweet and mildly of my Lord in these words O thou Soul of mine thou hast searched deep for to find a Path of Life that few have found because it is all Holy Ground where none but Spirits that have put on my Spiritual Body can ascend and keep their feet steady in this Track which I to God the Father did freely pass and so may you as I in you this Risen-Body shall quicken up That so as hereby you may know it is not my Personal Glory that shall prevent such Spirits in this their humble and Love attempt For I your Lord do well know it is but expedient you should thus keep up your acquaintance with me For great will be your advantage hereby in taking and receiving from Me such fresh and wonderful Supplies of Wisdom and Knowledge in the Heavenly Mysteries as shall satisfy and quiet the Mind in the middest of an unquiet and disturbing World And now I have informed you in what you are priviledged in take all care to keep this way of the Spirit all free and clear that your Flight may not be stopped so then you will keep your Dwelling securely above with me in the Heavens and need not be careful what happeneth to the World beneath for your Mountain Scituation in God shall never be moved Therefore only happy unutterably are they who knows me thus for to be their new living and ascending way that as with my Spiritual Body they may go in and out taking what is for their present use which they may have from me all free as coming in the Faith of Sanctity Now having taken in these Communications from my Lord I found a precious feeding hereupon and did feel such a spreading and quickning Life come upon me as if all were filled with Christ in every part which may be compared to Elijah's stretching himself upon the dead Child which was made alive thereby Thus the Lord Christ draws a lively Draught of Himself in every part in the Soul and nourisheth it with his own Royal Blood which runneth thro' every Vein by which we know we have put on Christ in his Resurrection-Spirit and inward Body to which Perfect Thing coming Redemption is Finished Highly blessed are those that shall arrive hereunto By all these Manifestations I see the Day of Love is breaking out to compass the whole Earth and Christ will no longer a Stranger be for so he doth Prophesy in me That in the Holy-Ghost he will in this Last Age of the World more wonderfully appear therefore I am press'd in Spirit to Excite all that love and longeth for to see feel and know Him as a Present Counsellor and Comforter that they would thus prepare by Pureness of Heart and Mind waiting for this Love-Star to rise and multiply it self to numberless Stars of Love and Power that may a Heavenly Host be to proclaim the Glory of Christ's Kingdom Even so Come Thou Mighty King of Glory and make us Kings to Reign over all That of the Earthly Life as so redeemed by Thee Thou Lamb of God to whom the Hallelujahs is given A Post-Script Being a Question put to the Author which is this viz. Q. GOD being so Pure Holy and Good in Himself How comes Evil and Sin to be awakened since God is the Original from whence All Created Beings have proceeded As now both Angels and all Rational-Creatures are infected therewith all As this was answered privately so it is thought necessary and serviceable for the publich Satisfaction of All in General to be incerted Here being of a weighty Concern for to be Resolved in which is not from the Reach of Man's Knowledge or Wisdom but from the Revelation of the Spirit of Christ so given in and in This wise opened viz. A. That the Great and Mighty God and Creatour had all Principles and Centers both of Light and Darkness in Himself with Good and Evil Death and Life But all of These tho seeming contrary were bounded in Unity and Harmony So that the Darkness did not mingle to Ecclips the Light Nor the Evil to lessen and diminish the Good Or the Death to be hurtful to the Life The Divine Wisdom kept All in their Place and Station Vnviolated in Himself But what the Mighty God Procreated and Generated out of Himself Angels of That Kind which kept not their first Station they derived from their Creator All Essences both in the Light and in the Darkness and were very Noble Potent and Great But being now Distinct and apart from their Original Root The Being of God They found a Power in themselves to awaken what Principles or Essence they would standing in a Free-Liberty either to the Good or to the Evil But not being watchful to keep All in our Bounds in a meek
and last Appearance when he shall come to judge the quick and the dead where will pass just and righteous Sentence according to every ones Work yet will this Iudge reserve in himself the liberty to Release and Remission give to all that in fiery Purgations have passed and are humbled thereby Take notice of what the Apostle Paul speaks of in this Matter to be saved so as by Fire and as to that great Objection made from Christ's Words Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Punishment which is opposed to the short Limits of this World and admits only of number of ages which Suffering and Punishments there may yet be yet it is not to be beyond the Time of CHRIST the LORD's compleating and delivering up the Kingdom to his Father for GOD was is and so hath designed in CHRIST to reconcile all to himself which was at odds with him for it is not to be the least doubted but the Efficacy of Christ the second Adam by the merit of his Blood-shed and his Spirit given therein which will make all good again which the first Adam had made evil Much more I might inlarge but I hope this may suffice only to consider That Scripture of the Romans Chap. 6. Ver. 14 15 and 16 which is enough to clear and satisfie that the Plaister provided is much broader than what the Wound of Sin hath made This O Reader who ever thou art know I have been hereto from a heavenly Power driven to clear up and vindicate the Royal and Generous Goodness and love of the Holy Trinity agreeing all in Vnity for the reconciling and bringing back again into themselves whatever of a spiritual quality was scattered and divided from them which in the Dispensation of the fulness of Time will be made manifest to the wonderful Amazement for all of GOD's Creation to Love and Praise and Exalt and pay their Adoration to their merciful Creator that hath compleated such an Vniversal Redemption only suffer this Word of Caution and Councel That none presume to turn This Grace of GOD into a vitious and careless way of Living For Anguish and Terrour of Soul and Suffering will be upon them here and hereafter all which may be prevented in the time of this Life by an inward Circumcision in Spirit and mortifying the Evil Nature bringing it into a Subjection to the Law of the Spirit of Holiness For I must solemnly Profess to all such as do loosely and vainly live That they will have no part in the first Resurrection but be cut off from all those pleasant and unconceivable Ioys and glorious and filling Springs of refreshing from the Presence of GOD and the Lamb which in this present Life may be tasted as the first Fruits of the full Harvest I do this aver as from what I have known in my own Particular That if there were no Reward of a future Blissful happy State when this Life shall end I should think it a very great Felicity to have a present Participation of the Spirit of Christ and thereby be cloathed with his Divine Nature and live in the present Enjoyment of all those Ineffable Immunities that I have here given a Real account of according to Experience which I do hope and pray with all Power of Prayer That what hath been by the Holy Spirit of Imanuel unfolded here may be Received and Entertained as the golden Oyl from the Dropping Olive-Tree that as the anointed Ones of the LORD do multiply for a priestly Kingdom here upon the Earth The which Subject hath been Treated of and Published by the Author in 1683. Entituled The Seven Seals ' broke open by Divine Revelation some of which are yet to be had in my possession and as the Day of the Spirit does more get up and shine forth in this present Generation in Heart and Mind which only can be expected from such upon whom the Anointing is poured forth plentifully That may be so well stored with That Pure Grain and golden Seed as they may as Sowers go forth to Sow it every where Oh how were it to be wished and how much would it be my Ioy to know such powerful Sowers in this our Day which may bring forth a pure white Lilly Crop of Spirits with whom Christ our Kingly Shepherd may walk and feed Then he will be no longer a stranger to his Fold here upon Earth but be well known to be our feeding Pasture continually But I shall here now stop and with this Word conclude as if it were my last Dying-Speech which I do direct to all Ranks Sorts and Degrees and more especially to them who are Called and Liberty have to exercise a true Spiritual Ministry That they may know what This Season and Time may call for being now past the first and second Number of Time and are come to the Half-time Therefore go forth with your anointed Shield and with your Horn fill'd with Oil of the Spirit Spare not to sound your Trumpets of the Spirit that may gather in from the utmost parts of the Earth that they may both see know and partake of this Dawning and Day-star rising first in our Hearts and from thence lead most rightly where we may our Princely Redeemer see Eyé to Eye in Kingly Majesty For the which end it is Incumbent and chargeable upon you to propogate this fore-runner of our Lord Christ which is the Spirits ministry as the One and All that I have to leave and commend to you who Lovers and Walkers are in this Spiritual way which hath been here described by the May 12 th 1694. A Flower from the Paradisical ground hath appeared the Nature and Property of which is never to fade or die for its descent is from on high which is the Lord the quickening Spirit from Eternity THis is the Plant that has put forth it self distinct from the outward Nature in me well known it is by its pleasant Scent qualifying with Fragrant Love so very sweet and mild that it harmoniseth the Soul to that degree That it feels no other life than a Ghostly Deity That is the Root which feeds this Rosie Flower of the Mind with a certain kind of Balsamick Vertue that so its beauty is of a Blushing freshness always Now herein lieth the greatest of all Mysteries That under the Covert of a mortal Humane form such an anointed Cherub should There live and move as having the fire-sparkling Eye that pierceth into the Heavens there to view and see what is of its own Kind and Property transplanted into That upper Region for known it is to me that Spirits Pure and Separate from this gross Earth may be both with Christ the Head and with his body of Saints who in the Heights of Glory are Yet mutual Greeting and Conversation allowed may be as springing from one Eternal root and ground coupled together in Loves golden Chain of Everlasting Unity But it is given me to understand that such Saints which are yet in the
that makes the Soul fly so High that nothing of the crawling Earth worms can reach to molest or hurt it The sixth Divine Power that attends the Traveller is the Live-Coal of Flaming-Love that so vehemently Longeth to arrive to the visional Fruition of GOD and CHRIST with all the glorified Train of Blessed and Perfect Spirits This Love-Gale is so Mighty strong that it makes the Soul pull up and run swiftly in this Race Seventhly That which doth most compleat this Holy Guard is Impregnable Strength and Power for if GOD did not take care to Fortify the travelling Soul with His own Invincible strength there were no possibility to reach this Mark of the New-Jerusalem-State but Christ the Lord takes good care and will not omit to provide Munition-strength for accomplishing this Heavenly Journey for Christ the Lord longeth more to see the Soul-traveller safely landed in his own Bosom of Love than the Souls desire is to appear before him So by this mutual Love-Agreement the Everlasting Knot of Marriage-Union will be tyed when there once it is arrived Now then by this time you see what the Company is that will support the Soul in its Travels but the Chief of all is Christ in Spirit that walks in This Holy qualified Soul as in the midst of the Seven Golden Candlesticks The second Proposition is what Stages or Rests that may be allowed the weary Traveller to take up in a while which are Three This second Days Journey is more easy and refreshing the Walks gives a sweet Smell from the Evangelical Promises giving assurance by the Atoning Blood of the Covenant that all Guilt of Sin is obliterated whereby the Soul is Incouraged and Comforted But from this it passeth on to a Second Rest which is the Record and Seal of the Spirit That which was now from the General Promises Literal is not to be staid in Christ in Flesh withdraws and will be known no more in That Figure but in the All-filling Power and Presence of Spirit whereby the Soul shall know him in Her-self So He does then become Salvation to the purpose No outward Application of Christ is of That Availance as a Christ within who pours in His Saving-Name as Oyntment which performs the Cure of the lapsed State of the Soul because an inward Disease must have an Intrinsical Medicine that may penetrate through the Inward Parts that all may be made whole This is the intended Redemption by Christ and nothing less will set the Soul to Rights again so as to give it Boldness to come to appear before That great Assembly of Perfect-Spirits Mount Sions-Kingdom Now we proceed to the third Rest which is yet more pleasant because it is Paradisical As the Travellor passeth through this Country there are various delightful Entertainments Ministring Angels and Spirits that in This Divine Principle do meet the Soul There also are the Sharon's Walks adorned with the Spicy-Beds that gives forth their Ravishing Odours This sometimes opens in the Soul with Sweet-Tastes and Refreshing Draughts for the Godhead Diffuseth it self through All of That Climate so as many Spirits are made vigorous and Joyful knowing nothing but an All-filling Sweetness all calm and still in the mind free from the terrifying Cares and Combustions of this World though in it yet forgotten by it at least during the time it is round beset with this Light and Heavenly Paradise so that the Soul is afraid to be disturbed as to the lower Descent into mortal things again Now we come to the third particular which is the last remove that bringeth up to That Mount-Sion which is mentioned in the Hebrews Thus the unwearied Soul goeth on from strength to strength and is now come to the Fourth particular That is to the Arrival to appear before GOD in Sion This is a High and Glorious Arrival This is a Rest never to be disrested of Now open do the everlasting Gates to receive the faithful Traveller that hath held out its Probation-State It further remains to give you an account as the fifth particular of the Traveller's welcome up There The first Appearance are the Angelical Order that stands before the Throne who commanded are to Usher in the Arrived bringing forth the Royal Robe which is all Pure and Light without spot of the Fallen-Night which giveth the Soul an Holy Boldness to appear in That New World or Principal of Light as becomes all manifest So as Christ the Kingly Priest doth to the Soul Appear and as a Bridegroom Greets it with such a kind of Love-Gratulations as followeth My Bride and Spouse I joy to see thy Soul in my Righteousness and that thou hast past through a dangerous Evil Tempting World and hast escaped with That tender Life of Mine in Thee by which thou art come up a Conquerour here and now behold and view the Gloâ—y of my Kingdom which the Father hath placed me in and over all Principalities Powers and Dominions both in the Heights above and in the Earth below so as I can give to whom I will to Possess with me Ioy for Ioy and Glory for Glory with me as I have received of my Father so freely I give to thee and as many as from an evil World shall break and get away and in a Pure Naked-Spirit in Loves flame Thus ascend Ask now Oh Spouse of Mine what it is that I should further for the do I give Thee Liberty to ask most free for thou hast found favour both with the Father and me Whereupon the arrived Traveller-worships and Bows before the Throne of GOD and the Lamb and in great Humility doth make this Reply saying in the Language of the Spirit Oh my Lord I am come up to this degree but sensible I am it is all of Benignant-Grace and Love from my GOD and Father and thy Spirit O Lord Christ that my Conduct and Guardian-strength hath been in This my Journey One great proof I have had of a mighty Strong Guard with continual supply from Thy Fountain-Heart or else I had fainted and failed by the way The consideration of it takes such deep Impression upon me that I am at a loss and know not wherewith to pay my Debt-Offering of Thanksgiving unto thee my God and King only accept of what I have which is beyond all Sounds of words that are too finite to express praises for such Boundless Goodness which my Spirit hath tasted so largely Hence it is now that I do study to offer That unto Thee which hath been refined and purified by the Spirit of Love-burning given from Thee unto me This then which is of Thine Own receive for I joy to pass it all away as my true Thanksgiving-Offering unto Thee No part shall I keep back from Thee had I ten thousand Immaculate Lives to give up to Thee all would be too little to run their strength of Love into Thee who hath wrought out so great a Redemption for me And now my Lord seeing I am thus
far admitted into Thy Presence and Liberty to ssk a Boon of The for Thou knowest well what occasion I may have Thereof being yet in the Region of time where obvious I am to Assaults and Temptations manifold All be it illuminated in a good degree of Light in Thee yet subject to drawings down by Spirits from this World and the Astral Kingdom that may pervert by mingling with the Super-Celestial Part of the Heart Knowing and observing in my day what Miscarriages among great Inlightned Saints have been who as bright Stars hath shined and then again under a Cloud have been Therefore O my Lord premising these things I in Fear and Humility am and dare not trust my Self at any time lest that a Slip out of the Right-Way should be Therefore This is my principal Request to Thee that Thy Spirit may be my constant Overseer Guide and Teacher as Imediate from the Father and Fountain of Wisdom Flowing from Thee then no Errings from the Truth can be This is the one absolute needful Request for we stand all upon a nice Point and if the Petition of Solomon was so grateful to God in His-day then I in no wise do doubt Oh my Lord to ask of Thee the Spirit of Truth which promised by Thee may never cease to be the Oracle fixed in me and all that do desire to be led Rightly for it is already by Thee given as a Caution to beware of transformed Lights that do pretend to the Right yet Thou only art the True Light springing from within Essentially And as Thou hast this Record been in me Oh multiply of This Spirit of Wisdom and true Revelation yet more fully so that what remains yet of Thy Councel and Mind to be further declared and known may still as an Enlightning-Beam pass through me and with them also who mutually shall in Enoch's Walks be found with their faces towards Sion the Court of Thy All filling Majesty Oh! Evermore find Room and Place for me and all of Thine that love thy Appearance To see Thee as Thou art will surely change us into the same Similitude of likeness unto Thee for so it becometh each one that still would keep their way open and free for Conversation with all the Priviledges that to the dilating of the Kingdom which shall be given forth with the Holy-Ghost as the sure Pledge of all those Perfections that may agree with Oneness of Life and Spirit with Thee my Lord. Thus I have offered my Requests and do commit my self to Thy Disposing in all Terrene matters and Things Here follows the Kind and Courteous Reply of the Souls Immanuel ALL Hail with Love Peace and Good will to the Virgin Spouse who is in Spirit come up here to make Request for That which so much is in congruity with the Father's Heart and mine This answer therefore receive that This Thy Petition shall be fulfilled on my Spirits part who shall not fail to open in thee what hath lien under Seals of Secrecy Do thou but attend Him and He will attend thee and whoever shall watch in their hearts His movings for He is the bright Mornning-Star who is to be the Conduct and Leader of my little Flock now in my personal absence from this lower World where the Evil-tempting Tree doth in all Souls spring Therefore great need they have I know of This my Anointed Shield that may be a defence upon every Onset of perverting Spirits of which in danger all are while in this Body Elementary Therefore I have provided This Spirit of Truth to be with thee for Councel and Comfort also to Guard thee up to me where thou mayest know and see by this Glass of the Spirit what I am a doing and making ready for the present and future Day when uncloathed of the Garment of Mortality also But for the present come and see and taste of the Heavenly-Fare and Powers and Joys of my Kingdom The Spring of Life and Love shall rise so high as to drink thy Spirit up Thus with me thou shalt feast and sup and never empty away to go which shall be such an Encouraging motive as will make thee to bend all thy Force still in Spirit to be with me Thy Lover in my secret Pavilion where thou mayest have liberty of discourse with me in those weighty Affairs that do pertain unto the New-Jerusalem-State So then Oh Spouse of mine if This thy Entertainment is thou wilt fly as a Spark of Light to the Body that is the Body and Fulness of all Light These are the Sweet-Meats I shall leave with my Espoused ones to feed upon for a refreshing support till a further day shall break though through the shadow of Death which shall consummated the Everlasting Marriage-Feast with me thy Christ and Living-head with all the Royal Society and with Myriads of Angels that shall their Trumpets of Joy sound at the Lamb and Brides-Nuptial-Day and Marriage-Feast So Ends these Hony-Drops from the Mouth of our dear Immanuel Now by all this which hath been declared you may see the Blessed Issue of an unwearied and Faithful Traveller to the City of our God which may Invite and Allure such as have not yet set their foot in This way and for them which have to make the same progress which will requite a thosand times over the Loss and pains here sustained in the way Oh ye that are Friends and Lovers of this way and would arrive to be Fellow-Citizens in the Court above with God and Christ and the numerous Company of Spirits Pure and Glorious There give me leave before I conclude to commend these following Motives for Incouragement to set forward and go swiftly on in this Path of Life The First Motive is a full assurance of all Love-Acceptance with Dear Embraces and most free Communications all Veils and Bars taken away thy Lord Christ upon this Mount will shew Himself and talk with thee as God did with Moses Only thou must put off thy Shoes because it is holy Ground you will walk upon as much as to say come Here all Bare Pure and Clear leave all at the foot of the Mount that would contract of the worlds Earthly Dust then shall you know hear and see That which is so ravishing for the feeding of all your divine Senses that you will say It is good to Tabernacle Here and so it may be permitted for so long time as you can abide cloathed with the Transfigured Robe of the Spirit of Christ but That will be but at certain times and seasons but it will be enough to know such a thing as This is and yet in the Body of Corporiety Now then the second Motive is that Hereby It is made acquainted with This Heavenly Country before it quite leaveth its Mortality in this low World it is an high and extraordinary Priviledge to see and know its place and company beforehand for our Lord Christ is very free to shew unto the spiritual-minded the
which God the Supream Majesty opened to be the Glory of it to which the lower Ranks and Orders of Spirits were sometimes admitted to worship There Thus is this Holy and Heavenly Assembly Imployed and Exercised with all variety of Motion tending to a Divine Adoration to the Rock Eternal which does multiply amongst them most Amazing and renewed Wonders which gives perpetual Matter to renew Love-Admirations So that I was given to understand that in this World was no cessation of Spiritual Vocation for out of God's infinite Depth and Fulness should Matter still renew and also with Power be endowed as fixed in the Humility all skilfully and learnedly to act and do after the manner and way of God their Life Root and Being subjected always to the Laws of of this New VVorld and Kingdom But Liberty is granted to many of this holy order that of the highest Saintship are to communicate to them who are not yet come up to their degree they may help them much in order to the bringing these their Fellow-Members higher up the great Saints will much delight in this Office and Service to their Fellow-Members for their Joy cannot be compleated until all come up unto the Unity of Love in a pure Deifick-Spirit Now to make out this there was shewn to me some chief ones in the Ministry of Love as Enoch and Abraham Iohn the Apostle and Paul with others of their Order that had golden Vials given to them to pour forth for Annointing and Healing and Peter with some of his Rank to unlock Centers and set free those who in those upper Regions wanted to be perfectly set free and in this lower VVorld also Now follows an enquiry whether there may not be a correspondency and intercourse maintained by these Holy and devout Souls who are departed this Body as to any Love or Pleasure in it living yet here such assuredly are very capable to hold and to have a holy League and very near Affinity with the glorified Person of Christ and with the heavenly Frame of Glorified Saints which have put on Bodies of Immortality for the high Illuminated Souls spirited with Christ's Spirit Here but yet abiding in Bodies Corporal they may have liberty of recourse by the Spirit into the divine and light Principle where the antient VVorthies are who would most willingly meet and confer with us about the things pertaining to our Progress to the Kingdom of Christ they are very free to discourse us in what may refer to a perfect Life that so we may be made meet to come up to them in unity of love to God as in Triune-Deity which filleth all There with a full Body of Light But it may be asked how and after what way does Spirits accompany Souls here that are Spiritual Is it by Apparition or com-mingling by Spirit In answer hereunto according to my present measure and experience I find it very rare in this latter Age that they visit Souls by visible Apparition though sometimes they may as Moses and Elias appeared to the Lord Christ since whose Ascention all of this kind is transacted more Invisible and Essential by passing in the way of a Spirit and having and influencing our Souls through which there is a sweet congruity and a reciprocal Love which is also in our Spirits towards them that hereby they often draw up to them our more Superiour Angel to be in Heavenly Places with them being very affable and friendly to shew their Princely Thrones and their delightful solaces and enjoyments they have from the perpetual motion of the Triune-Deity Now as any Soul here below do find Christ their Root of Love in them as their true Original for securing their Love first in the eternal Father and Spirit in Christ the Lord then most easily may we without being guilty of Spiritual Idolatry in this pay a veneration of Love and high respect to these great Potentates that have Power to befriend us upon many Accounts that we may need their assistance For during the time of our Probation in this Life so it is altogether expedient that we get acquaintance with the Servants in this high and Heavenly Court for they may do us many Kindnesses as they are in Offices of great trust from their head Prince and King it is made known to me that holy and good Souls have lost much as to the knowledge of Divine Arts and Holy Skillfulness to do and act forth the wonders of the heavenly Power in manifold VVisdom as Christ Moses and Elias and the Apostles in their day did Now it may be demanded what in Scripture have you to authorize this Assertion or Revelation First we bring you that of the Hebrews We are come to Mount Sion to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just Men made perfect See further hereinto Heb. 12. 21. 22. If there were no more it speaks full enough to the purpose to the confirmation that the Saints here upon Earth are allowed to come up to the Mount Sion perfect Spirits in Heavenly Places and do maintain a holy Conference mutually as there is to be Instanced in the fifth Chapter of the Revelations verse 4. How that the Elders talked with the Apostle Iohn and did show him several things Chap. 7. ver 23 24. And likewise in Daniel where Daniel asked questions and heard one Saint from the Heavens speaking one unto another for resolving of Daniel in his Enquirings so that here is a cloud of Witnesses to back it besides what of this kind is known by some in this present time and Age who do obtain and retain several of these Heavenly Intelligents whereby Knowledge is communicated and the Invisible things and objects there made manifest to such as are in Corporal Figures Now to instance somewhat relating hereunto in the first place we give you to understand whoever they be who would this Priviledge know and come to enjoy with holy Angels or separated Souls they are to be freed and sequestred in Heart and Mind from all mortal Entanglements as if they were divested of a gross Body with its Impediments and so reserving themselves in a most Inward Purity of Heart and Mind without which habit of spirituallity there is no commencing of this acquaintance with either Angels or Patriarchs Prophets or Apostles or any Evangellical Saints since those Ages for they having put on Incorruption and Glory and quite redeem'd out of the Earth they will not touch no more with such as are defiled with corruptible things now such Persons that stand thus pure and clear they may have much Assistauce from these Throne Spirits and Powers in their way and travel to their Heavenly Country for those Angelical Spirits that once liv'd in Flesh do more nearly sympathise with us in all our Infirmities and therefore all feelingly they tenderly consider our tempting-state and give themselves out most readily for our help nay they are Advocates and do remind the Lord Jesus of their Prophesies that
is the Testimony of Jesus the Lord which is the gift of Prophesy which is of very great use and service to the Church here on Earth to have a foresight and knowledge of what things are yet to come that all may be warned who are the Friends of the Bridegroom to make ready for his Kingdom and Appearance which now in very deed is knocking at our Doors Blessed are them that understand the voice of Prophecy and have it in themselves The second Gift is to have the Gift of Revelation opened as a spring that flows with Heavenly Doctrine for a true Teaching-Ministry to go forth with to give feeding from a fresh Pasture which hath not â—â—â—n defiled by unwashed Feet the Holy Spirit do now in some foretell such Principal Shepherds are now to stand in this Latter Day upon the Earth that shall not speak from Litteral Tradition but from the Revelation of the Holy-Anointing the pure and most excellent words of Wisdom which will not be in the weakness of the Lâ—â—ter but in the strength and power of the Spirit so made known The third is the Gift of Vision which is not by sight of the mortal Eye for that is too gross to see Spiritual Objects Now to describe the most pure and right kind of Vision is to have Eyes within fixed in the head of a bright and clear Understanding through this Organ of sight from pure and divine Light God in Christ may be seen and Christ as in the Glory of the Father and the Eternal Spirit streaming forth from both Father and Son Sometime thus seen all in One and at other times Distinct and yet never divided Thus is the Holy Trinity seen through the Pure Christalline Globe of the Eternal Wisdom Oh ten thousand degrees of Happiness to such as are thus Divine and Spiritual seeing so as to be taken up in viewing and speculating the Celestial and Light-World as filled and furnished with such variety of all amiable Objects as Seraphims Cherubims and several Degrees of these about God's Throne with the numerous Company of Angelical Spirits which once did live in Mortal Forms are There to be seen all cloathed with Bodies of Spangling-Light What the eye of the Spirit and Mind doth Here see may well draw and effect the Heart abundantly Now to proceed to the fourth Gift which is the Key that openeth the Kingdom of the Power which being endowed with do coe-work with the Powers in Heavenly Places for binding and loosning shutting up and opening which Power will be granted for to act and do mighty and marvellous Wonders according to what by the Saints in former Ages have been carried forth in this World to do And sure such is the present Time and Age which we now live in that do call for Greater and more marvellous Works than yet have been done Seeing that the Confusions and distresses throughout all Nations look so dreadful upon us that all Need there is of an Eliah's Spirit to arise up amongst us that may turn the Hearts of Fathers to Children and pour out Oil for Reconcilement and healing the bleeding Wounds of Wars and Divisions kindled up into a Flame through all Nations which only the strong impowered Angels that are filled with Spirit of Anointing shall in this Latter Day rise for the quieting these North-Winds that from these Tempestuous Seas of this World do so furiously blow for it is seen that Deliverances to this Nation will not by Carnal Weapons of Slaughter be effected but by the lifting up of the Standard of God's Spirit of Power only Now for the coming forth of which Power we are looking and hastning for in order to the making way for that Kingdom of Peace and Love that must over the whole Earth spread Even so Come Lord Jesus to reign on the Earth in thy Saints powerfully The fifth Gift is the laying on of Hands by such as are Baptised with the Holy-Ghost which being filled with may convey and let into such prepared Souls which have waited for it they may Hereof partake and be inspired from such a virtual fiery Touch and therefrom be so highly Illuminated and Deified as to be made New Creatures in very deed From this Ruby Tincturing Dye a God-like Purity and Power may suddenly arise to Anatomize and burn up the gross corrupt and earthly part For we do experimentally find that all Spiritual Medicines are too short and weak for the rooting out the Venom of Sin till the Holy-Ghost do enter in to refine and purify the Vessel within which may upon some come in more immediately by God's own Hand and then again by a Medium as the Holy-Ghost shall take up any to convey himself by their laying on of Hands which is not to be understood barely of the outward hands but as the inward Power and rich Virtue in the Spirit of Faith and Prayer shall be breathed forth for so it was when by the Apostles in their Day the Holy Ghost was given forth Oh how Great how Worthy is this Gift being the Root and Spring from whence all miraculous Works both inward and outward do proceed Now from this Holy Anointing the Healing-Gift may also spring for the curing of all bodily Infirmities for as much as the Mortal Form and Figure which we bear is the Temple of the Holy-Ghost and it being of a corruptible Matter of Flesh and Blood subject to putrefaction and thereupon painful Diseases do breed yet this often helped hath been and Cures have been performed upon the impotent Body by the Omnipotency of the Holy-Ghost moving through Mortal Creatures as we have numerous instances both in the Old and New-Testament and also since Christ and the Apostles by Saints of a lesser Degree who have been useful to those upon Sick and Dying Beds who have been raised up most miraculously And this Power will still attend to the Worlds end such holy Souls as can retain their Vessels this All-healing-Balsam having Love-Pity to their Fellow-members may much release and help in greatest Extreamity But this Power is not at all times commandable by any Creaturely VVill The Apostles themselves could not act it forth upon the Sick but as the Holy-Ghost moved upon them neither can any that received this Gift but as the Holy-Ghost stirreth this Healing-Pool within them which watching to Healing-waters may flow forth to effect all Cures bodily which is a great Immunity belonging to VVisdom's Children that are observant to all her Rules and Commands most willingly Thus having given an Account of what the Spirit of Christ hath given in as to what is expected and required for the accomplishing such as are to make up for an Espousal Bride to him Therefore it is absolutely needful that we should be furnished out with such Powers and Gifts as may qualify for such an High Marriage-Union with the First Begotten-Son and Heir of the High God who doth most willingly give out and bequeath these five golden Talents here mentioned
that so a Stock of Spiritual Goods being taken in may be to support and carry on the Heavenly Calling withal which if found diligent in may mount to a mighty Encrease for the making of a Dowry so great and large as may somewhat agree with him with whom we are to be matched unto So here we see what is appointed and cut out to be the Saints Business and Employment which is not mean but high and noble answering to that of the glorified Saints in the VVorld above who will in this Holy Calling our Factors and Correspondents be and meet us frequently And as those who are more skilful and knowing in This way than Mortals can be will very friendly the Ignorant inform and such among us that may be more knowing still somewhat more secret and deep out of the Eternal Virgins Center may us meet By all which the Saints here upon the Earth may hereby be made meet for to be Companions to them of high Degree in Heaven I shall now this Subject conclude praying with all Prayer in the Spirit for an Increase of the Number of such as may be diligent Followers of This High and Mighty and most advantagious Calling Happy and blessed thousands of degrees are such who chusing are made Partakers of this heavenly Vocation and that shall so prize the Priviledge hereof as to set light by all that shall hinder and stop the freedom of This All-spiritual Employ wherein exercised as high born Spirits they may be in Love with the Eternal Unity The Manner of Christ's Appearing HEarken O Daughter of Sion Behold thy Bridegroom cometh no more a Servant but to be served by all Flesh The Word that was manifest in Flesh reign in Spirit to Prepare for Christ's Kingdom to come into a visible Dominion Here upon the Earth by Signs and Miracles wrought by the Spirit in forms of Flesh to confirm Christ the Lord is Coming to appear in his Saints to set them over the Earth For to the Daughter of Sion the Dominion shall be restored through Marriage Vnion with the Lamb of God This is the first Resurrection of the Holy People which shall be the Trumpet-Voice that shall awaken the rest that lie Dead in Sin THe Hour of God's Judgment will thus come upon the Evil Nature that hath hitherto reigned in Man the Spirit shall be so fully poured forth upon These first Risen-One as to go forth with a quickenning Life to raise the Dead Spiritually and Bodily This shall be the Terrible Day of the Lord for the condemning and destroying not Persons but the Sin in Flesh so it is declared unto me which will be fulfilled in its Season and Time which time will be when the wind of the Spirit shall rise more strongly for the Holy-Ghost is to be the latter day Glory prophesied of and the Expected Kingdom of Christ to be manifested Here upon the Earth in which he will Reign Personally in his Saints who anointed are first with such measures of the Spirit that do highly sanctify which do prepare for this great Day of the Thousand Years Reign Prophesied of but whether it be so to be understood according to our number of Years is not to be determined but glorious Reign in the Spirit there will be before Christ in His glorified Person will come distinctly upon the Earth to turn it into a Paradise to make these lower parts of the Earth glorious upon which in the last of times he will stand and model it into a Christalline Land which will be New-Earth and Heavens as declared of in Scripture is So from hence it is made known to me what the work and business of our present Age and Day is which is to pass daily through the Baptizing River that may drown and keep all of Sin down that the Spring of Righteousness may rise for the true washing of Regeneration Then will the Holy-Ghost be renewed and set up his Reign in Souls and will exercise Power and Dominion so as it shall be known Jehovah-Shammah the Lord and Mighty King liveeth and reigneth Here for this must be the Forerunner of that more great and notable Day of Christ as to his Appearance in his own Personal Glory It is advertised me that there is much to be done in the Kingdom of this World by a more plentiful Effusion of the Spirit then yet hath been Therefore each one in their own Jerusalem within be waiting for the Spirits Day which is the great Increase and mighty Power that will turn the World upside down Therefore nothing is more expedient for the hastning this Blessed day of our Lord's Appearance Therefore all that are Watchmen and Holy-Seers to sound out That Trumpet of the Spirit that may gather the Dove-Spirits together to wait in Love-Unity that the Thousand Years Reign may have a speedy beginning and entrance upon the which it will follow as enquiries made into This Spirits Reign and Dominion shall hereunto be encourag'd Even so and Amen in the Spirit Come Lord Jesus quickly A Dialogue betwixt Christ and the Spirit of my Mind which was upon Enquiry whether I might not be Initiated into a present Dowry and Spouse to my Lord to partake of the Heavenly Possessions which he Himself is Inheritour of as the Father's Heir And it was replied unto me Yea surely It will so follow to be to the Soul that has put on the Deiformation of Christ the Lord such hath a Good and right Claim to His Person and Possessions And when thus believed and apprehended Liberty is granted for to draw out of this Stock and Treasury as the present occasion shall require for out of this Fulness an Emptying into the most holy and sanctified Vessel may be most easily proportional to its Growth and Degree For my Lord said to me You are not ignorantly to suppose that I willingly do hold back from that which stands in Unity with me But there is a Cause if any stop be Then replied my Spirit Oh my Lord Let it be given to me to know and understand where the Obstructions hath lien Answered I was That the Veil of not Knowing and not Believing the Things reported of which do of right belong unto my Virgin Spouse also wanting are holy Boldness and Courage to come freely and take what is mine and make it your own For be it Known to Thee It is far from Me to ingross to My self what the Father hath so much and liberally bestowed on Me was it not that I might give out as Plenteously Therefore come with full Assurance of Faith to Me and ye shall receive Grace for Grace Wisdom for Wisdom Love for Love and Power for Power As I have obtained and received of my Father in Heaven so you from Me all answerably Pondering in my Spirit these words of my Lord's I Replied How shall it be that a Spirit should thus be mingled and made one Pure Lump with Thee so as nothing of it self for to be Answered it