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A93386	Heights in depths and depths in heights or Truth no less secretly then sweetly sparkling out its glory from under a cloud of obloquie. Wherein is discovered the various motions of an experienced soul, in and through the manifold dispensations of God. And how the author hath been acted in, and redeemed from the unknown paths of darkness; wherein, as in a wilderness, he hath wandered without the clear vision of a Divine Presence. Together with a sincere abdication of certain tenents, either formerly vented by him, or now charged upon him. Per me Jo. Salmon	Salmon, Joseph.	1651 (1651)	Wing S415; Thomason E1361_4; ESTC R209192	18,864	71

1. 12.2 cor 12.7 Ep. 2.2 2 Thes 2 9. who was once an Angel of light yet not keeping his first state became a Denne and receptacle of darkness reserved in chains from the presence of the Lord til the great day He is that spirit or Mystery of Iniquity which continually envies God in his pure ways and workings That dark Angel or Messen ger employed by the Almighty to effect the purposes of his wrath and vengeance The Prince of the powers of the air an airy fashionist that can assume any form That can form * Transform him self into an Angel of light conform resoim and deform at his pleasure one that chiefly rules in the hearts of the children of disobedience Let the wise judge and the righteous gently smite me if I deserve censure in what I have spoken I proceed Of Heaven Heaven is the center of the souls bliss and happiness I can in no wise deny it because my conversation is in it Phil. 3.20 If there be no heaven where 's our present enjoyment Or what shal become of that future happiness which we all expect 1 Cor. 15 19. Heaven is the Christians rest his divine Sabboth Rev. 14.13 where he keeps holy day to the Lord. Did I ever insinuate a deniall of heaven certainly it was because the darkness of hel covered my understanding To live with John 17.24 and in God to be raised up into the nature and life of Christ out of the somnolencie of flesh Eph. 2.6 is to live in the heavenly place this we enjoy partly here more fully hereafter Of Hell THat there is no Hell I in no wise can imagine but contrarywise say That Hell is the appoynted portion of the * The wicked shall be turned into hel and all the Nations that forget God Mat. 24.51 Tophet is prepared sinner where in sinfull man is for ever to be tormented from the presence of the Lord the inhabitants of whose dark mansions are ever weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth Hell is a * The wicked shall be turned into hel and all the Nations that forget God Mat. 24.51 Tophet is prepared Tophet of scorching displeasure a fire kindled and maintained by the continued breath of the Almighty whereby it becomes a dying life or rather a living death The breath or life of Eternity augments and increases this death and misery which death and hell hath a greedy Lake to receive it I hope malice it self will consent that I am not guilty of this blasphemy I therefore proceed for my sweet invitations to my silent feast solemnize my devotions thitherward Of the Scripture CHrist is the Eternall word of the Father the saving teaching enlightening Oracle of heaven to whom the Scriptures ascribe all honor and dignitie I do not remember that in any thing which I have written or declared I have given the captious world the least ground to render me guilty of denying the Scriptures Yet because I am charged with it through weakness and mistake in some malice and impudence in others I give this satisfactory hint I own the Scriptures as the inspirations of the Holy Ghost to holy men of old a history or map of truth wherein if our learned Translators have not deceived us is contained a true discovery of the dealings of God with his people in former times and ages of the world wherein the life of many a precious promise is lockt up They are known to be the word of God to those in whom the spirit declares them others do but call them not knowing them to be so They bare Testimony to the great Oracle of Life and Salvation Christ Jesus Joh. 5.38.39.40 They are the letter 2 Tim. 1.13 sound of truth The form and but the form of sound words where they are not corrupted with the false glosses of the learned I must embrace them own them honour them yea I cannot but delight in them because they bear the image and feature of that pure word which was from the begining Joh. 1.1.2 and is to everlasting Of sin or God being the Author of sin THe vulgar censure is a many headed ill favoured monster it lookes many waies it favourably entertains and smoothly invites and eagerly gapes after all reports whatsoever Some say I hold no sinn and with the same mouth will be apt to conclude that I make God the author of sinn Here must needs be a gross mistake on the one hand or other certainely I humbly acknowledg my over readiness to present some notions of this nature to a publique view In Divinity anatomized If any things that I have written will claime relation to these I here recede them and leave them to the mercy or rather judgment of those to whom their nakednesse and folly are palpably evident and further say concerning sin That sin is that contagious leprosie Ps 14.2 3. Rom. 3.10 Prov. 20.9 which hath Epidemically spread it self over the whole earth Neither the * The righteous sineth seven times a day righteous nor the wicked are free from it Sin is a transgression of the Law unity was once the Law of man he brake the Unity run into to the wilie intangles of devision and distance and did plunge himself into the gulfe of sin the abysss of misery The Law or Command of Unity Exod. 20 ver 3. was to know one and only one God Man will know more then one know himself in a state of division Gen 3.5 6. here creeps in sin and brings down man from his uprightness under a state of obliquity Man as man growing from the root of the first Adam 1 John 18.10 the Earthly-fallen principle is nothing else but a massie heap of sin a cursed lump of foul impiety and must certainly expect to receive the wages of iniquitie Sin makes every thing a curse and bitterness to us Were it not for this sin or breach of the Law of Unity all things would be sweetned with blessing yea blest with a Divine sweetness Death it self the bitterest potion of sorrow would be nectarized with a pleasant dulcitude which through sin brings with it 1 Cor 15.56 and bears in it an unpleasing mordacity In fine t is sin that corrupts our judgements stains our natures burthens our spirits and betrays our souls into the snares of endless and easless Torment Again This being the lothsome nature of sin who will dare to be so impudent as to affirm That God is the Author of it t is true the Scripture in many places seem to countenance such a thing if not wisely and soberly interpreted But it is not my work as I said before to condemn any before I have cleared my selfe it is enough for me to exonerat my spirit of that load which is laid upon me by a fair recession of the Error I stand charged with Let all therefore know 1 Ioh 1 5.6 That I look upon God to be a single object of pure light whose glorious nature cannot be touched with the least tincture of dark ness evill or sin may not cannot * He is of more pure eyes than to behold inquitie approach his perfectly pure presence He is good the good it self he doth good Mat. 19 17. nothing but good al good good is God there 's nothing good but himself Men the best of men things the most excellent of things they are all vanity a lye worse then vanity vexation of Spirit God the Unity is good all vertue and true worth is bundledup in it Contrary wise The Divel division distance sin they are naught stark naught evil nothing but evil continually evil The Divel is a lye believe him not sin is a lye all that you see below besides God it is a lie froth emptiness winde and confusion God hath nothing to do with any thing that existeth not in himself or is divided from himself he is not the Author of division Col. 3.11 he is all one in all variety the divider is the Divel God knows him not the division is sin God owns it not I say not then that God is the Author of sin Lastly Of the Trinity GOD is one simple single uncompounded glory nothing lives in him or flows from him but what is his pure individual self Unity is the Father the Author and begetter of all things or if you will the Grandmother in whoseintrinsecal womb variety lies occult till time orderly brings it forth Christ sayes of himself Ion. 14.9 I and the Father am one and the Apostle saith 1 Ioh. 5.7 there are three that bare record in Heaven the Father the Word and Spirit and these three are one Without controversie great is the mystery In the multiplicity or variety they are three but in the unity or primary state all one but one The Father is not the Son the Son is not the Spirit as multiplied into form and distance I may lawfully and must necessarily maintain three but then again trace them by their lineal discent into the womb of eternity revolve to the center and where is the difference The unity or Father in it self is a massy heap of an undiscovered glory which branches out it self into an orderly variety and so admits of various names and titles Father Son Spirit three in name but all one in nature Unity without variety is like the * Gen. 2.21 man in the Garden solitarily slumbering in its owne profound retires having nothing to delight in but it self The Father will not therfore be without the Son Gen. 2.18 without the Spirit It is not fit the Man should be alone But then again to contemplate variety without Unity is to bee over-much expensive upon the weakness and to set up the woman without the man which are not indeed two but one in Christ I love the Unity as it orderly discovers it self in the Trinity I prize the Trinity as it beares correspondency with the Unity Let the skilfull Ordipus unfold this FINIS

enjoy greater treasures in my happy silence then all their cruelty can make me capable of the want of 'T is true I have lost a good name and honorable esteem in the world I have also another name which is a new one which none can read but he that hath it none can blast with the least blot of infamy I can cheerfully bear the indignation of the Lord for I have sinned It is not for me to reply against the dealings of the Eternal Wisdome it is rather good for mee to bear the yoke in my youth with a Christian silence and gravity I am made willing to give my * In any christian contest cheek to the smiter to sit alone keeping silence and put my mouth in the dust any thing with the Lord is to mee very acceptable nothing without God dares approach my quiet and still Mansions In a word I am able both to doe and to suffer all things thorow an Eternall Almightinesse And resolved I am to gaine a conquest over the World by prostrating my self a subject to their weakness I must submit to them that I may raign over them and even then I trample them underneath my feet when I am most subdued to their will and pleasure Well to draw neer to my chamber for it 's bad standing without doors while a storm is impending I am to this day set upon the account of a blasphemer a seducer what not I will not say but I have given some former ground of suspition both by my unwary walking and heedless expressions Somewhat I have formerly vented in certain papers Especially the book intituled divinity anatomized which the weak stomacks of many can hardly digest and truely I could heartily wish that some expressions had been better pondered and not so untimely exposed to a publick view though I also beleeve that if they were well chewed and not so suddenly swallowed without relishing the nature of them they would be better digested then they are 'T is a vanity and sore travail for a man to unbosom his life in the face of a confused multitude and to offer it up to the rude censure of the no less mercylesse then ignorant world I clearly see that the understandings of men for the most part are too gross and corpulent to turn and winde in the nice and narrow criticismes of truth their spirits too dull and plumbous to mount above their wonted notorious and thread bare principles Whatsoever stands out of their Sphear or bears no proximity to their commonly received maximes must presently be deemed as blasphemy and sentenced to the infernal lake as most odious and abominable That which men call truth to day they proclaim error to morrow and that which now is adjudged and condemned as error anon is embraced and extolled as truth That man certainly is not otherwise that will regard the uncertain censures of men Truely for my part as I sit still and behold how the over-busie world is acted so I can quietly let them alone to roul in their confused labyrinth but because in many things I have offended and the froward spirits of men are not easily courted to a pardon I have here thought meet to cite a small parcel of the most crying errors of the times and before I withdraw into my sweet and safe retires spend a little time in sweeping them from my door that so the evil of error may not lie in the porch to disquiet my blessed rest and dissturb the sweet slumbers of my silent mansions Which done I shall then as well resolvedly as quietly bid adeue to the wretched world and wrap my self up in my mantle of silence where I shall refresh my defessed spirit with the pure naps of divine pleasure while the beloved is pleased to awaken me into a more active state Priefly then in one word I shall linck the most capital errors now extant in one chain and expulse them by a free vote form having any future commerce with me or claiming the least propinquity to my reformed judgment A sincere Abdication of certain Tenents either formerly vented by or now charged upon the Author I Am daily accused as one that holds these horrid opinions Viz. That there is no God no Devil no Heaven no Hell as one that denies the Scripture and the blessed Trinity of the God-head that saith there is no Sin or otherwise that God is the author of Sin these among others of less consequence are chiefly alledged against me to all which I reply as followeth And first of God THE fool hath said in his heart Ps 14.1 there is no God 'T is the greatest folly and madness in the world to assert or give credit to it The wise man whose eyes are in his head cannot harbor such a motion in his heart I wholly banish such conceits from my minde Act. 17.25 26 27 28. and on the contrary assert That God is that pure and perfect being in whom we ail are move and live that secret blood breath life that silently courseth through the hidden veins and close arteries of the whole creation Every thing both visible and invisible is fraught with his presence Col. 1.16 17. Isa 45.8 Ps 65.8 9 10. c. Col. 3.11 brim'd up w th the plentiful distils of a divine life he is both all and in all Isa 54.16 he truly is and there is nothing besides him that derives not power from him He hath but a weak eye that sees not the sparkling beams of eternity darting out their refulgent beauty in and through variety What madman or fool will then deny a divine and eternal being Where can we go Ps 19.1 2 3.4 If I descend into Hell thou art there what can we do without him heaven hel earth sea sun moon stars al that you see all that you possess is sweetly replenished with the glory of this pure majesty every thing receives from him and gives up to him More might be said but I hope this is sufficient to inform any reasonable man that I wholly abjure this conceit or rather deceit of the world Now to the next Of the Divell THe Divel is understood variously amongst men either grosly or corpulently by some or more subtilly and mistically by others I am not now either to advance my own or to fly in the face of any mans judgement I am one under censure it becomes not me to be over-busie in judging others till I have cleared my self They say I hold no Divel Truly if any thing ever was vented by me that is infected with the least tang or tincture of such a principle I shall heartily deplore my own weakness in it and shall be ready to disown it as the bastard brat of a vain and empty notion And on the contrary doe affirm That the Divel * A true history and pure mistery Ep. Jude v. 6. Pet. 2.2.4 2. Thes 2. v. 3.4 7.8.1 Sa. ch 19. ve 9. Job