no other Medicine here prescribed for it but to wash often in those clear and pure Waters which do run from the Crystal Throne into one Pool This doing day by day minding when those Crystal Springs do bubble highest the strong force of which doth wash off the rough scales of Sense Then shall we become all seeing into what is both near and afar off as to the working of the divine Mystery This word of Counsel was also added that whoever did seek this great gift to know the Divine Magia in its Eternal Motion they taken up will be like Enoch to walk with God from among Men in an unknown Region where no evil Wind or corrupt Air may blow upon them These great and weighty Crown-Jewels which for the last Age are reserved will be conferred upon such separated Nazarites whose Walks and Conversations are in the Immanuel where the Vail and Face of the Covering will be done away when no need there will be of crying Come up and see for in the very Eye of Light we then shall comprehend and all Invisible things shall stand as naked before us But oh thou Lamb of God when shall thy Hand of Might be stretched out to bring these mighty things to pass for any one December the 8th 1677. This Word visited me saying How great is the goodness that is treasured up for those that love and long for the mighty God and the everlasting Saviour Dress therefore and trim your selves every day for your Bridegroom who doth take great pleasure when he finds you all comely and sitting at the deep Manifestation Gate Oh sweet Jesus if thou wilt this Gate open and give us out from thence thy Loves we will not remove because of the sweet and pleasant savour that from thee doth issue forth Oh come with all pulling force that as a bright Cloud we may be of a dissolving Nature for all Love's impressions from thee and that so we may see our selves one with thy Celestial Nature unchangeably December the 9th 1677. In the Night I had hard wrestling with somewhat which had brought an overcast of gloominess upon my Heavens which I could not well bear but did row as against Wind and Tide to get out of the danger of those Floods that did violently break in And through earnest and strong Supplications I was heard in that I fear'd For my Jesus to my aid did come in and in truth made all miraculously to be still within me and did charge with great authority all those troublers of my Joy and Peace to depart saying Who is it that hath any thing to do here where my living Name is engraven Have not I chosen thee for my own purpose What then do mean these strange Injections here to throng Fly O ye dark Clouds from my habitation for I will dwell in all Light with my separated Spouse who hath Covenanted within the Circle of a Love-flaming Heart still to wait for me her Lord. Accordingly so soon as I could thereinto retire a mighty sweet transfusion of Light did every where about me meet And this did verily usher in the whole influencing Body of the Trinity I was never made more internally sensible of their environing and out-spreading Banner which as in a moment was stretched out to secure me from the Waters which the Spiritual Harlot sitteth upon and that in and very near us For the Seat of all these whirling Imaginations are shewn me not only to be as an Accident now and then happening but this adulterous Spirit claims and would have a fixed Seat in the Mind and therein bring all her worldly Sorceries to infect the mind and betray it into the gulf of Perdition Which was prevented and kept off by the suddain and secret introducing Power of the Trinity that encompass those who are in fear of such overflowing from these bitter and brackish Waters For this I may give as a known experience and write upon it probatum est that we at no time are now necessarily exposed to be overcome with any evil of Sin though it lurks and beleagers very close For strong and mighty is now the Spirit of the Lamb who is assigned to come in for our rescue Therefore if we do earnestly implore for the Captain of the Lord's Hosts who is to deliver his Lambs from the Mouth of the Lyon that roareth for his Prey upon immortal Souls they will be delivered This often witnessed hath been that we might not cowardly fall under the Hand of the Man of Sin For this Word was given while I was in spiritual Combate Hold out for Victory I am your Life-guard and ye shall never perish out of my Hand There is nothing sure more pleasing then to see the Enemy of Truth and Righteousness so worsted and kept under Ground that he may lift up his Head no more within your Tent. Where then like Iael thou shalt be called Blessed of Women that art so skilful as to smite Sisera to the Ground never more to rise again There is a Nail within thy Tent which thou shalt be taught how to use it that so the full Execution may be upon the troubler of Israel by the united force of Barak and Iael together Barak signifies Jesus Christ the Prince of strength valour and might that makes Sisera to fly into that Tent where the Nail by Wisdom's Hand will surely be fastened Then not only the Song of Deborah but of the Bride and the Lamb will be sung When thus overturned shall be the whole Principality of Sisera's Kingdom that so nothing of his Seat and Throne within us may be found This for us the Lord is now doing and it is marvellous in our Eyes Being we are called out to be Followers of the Lamb in spiritual War till all shall bow and fall down dead before us that hath contradicted the absolute Reign of Jesus in us Let us go forth in that mighty JAH that is with us who will make all Kings and Nations to tremble before us as we shall move forward in that power Who hath promised that yet in the Wilderness we shall be secured till the mighty Prince thereout shall go before us as the CYRVS which shall perform all those great things promised concerning the bringing in and establishing of the everlasting Kingdom Which the Holy Ones hath so long kept out in waiting for this Man of Spiritual Might to go forth for the recovery hereof For hitherto little hath been done as to a full and total Conquest over those great potent Powers of Darkness that have withstood Michael and his Followers But this Word was given me That though it hath been so permitted yet now the Day of the Lord's controversie for full Vengeance was near upon those secret and home-bred Enemies of all Righteousness Therefore according to our present Might we should strike the Nail into the Head of the Sisera And this will give such a proof of divine valour to our God that we shall be
though thus made to fly from the earthly Man yet she is in safe and sure Custody to bring her forth again in the most needful and seasonable time which will be when you see the Pride and stately Insolency of Vashti's Spirit generally grown so high in the World for contempt and neglect of those Superiour and Paradisical Laws which by God the Creatour were upon all enjoyned But now being by all universally forfeited What is decreed henceforth to be done Why Vashti who hath wrought all this Evil and doth work still in every one must depart from the Crown Dignity and no more appear near the Throne of the Majesty of Holiness but evermore be counted as dead to the eternal Royalty Then heard I this Voice sound saying Come come a Virgin Mate must be found for the King search and see she must be found among the Children of the Captivity one more excelling for Beauty Amiableness Wisdom and Meekness Humility Love and Patience than any other by which Endowments the true Virgin Queen that is allotted to be in Vashti's room shall be known For such aâ— one is in the Eye of the great and mighty Ahashuerus for to find Favour and Kindness Then was it further shewed to me that such a one so excellently qualified in all perfection of Holiness is to be admitted into the Bosom of the most Holy That she would have hereby great Opportunity to plead for the Liberty of the Captive Seed This Wise Virgin I did now see in a Figure that she by Council with the upright Mordecai did bring to pass great and mighty Deliverance according to the literal similitude Now then the true Mordecai's Spirit is that which was still in Unity with Esther without whom she would do nothing Whereby it is worthy to be observed that where two Spirits are thus in Harmony upon a high and spiritual Account there is great Force and Strength united to a blessed Success Both ways considered as each one having a Mordecai Councelling Spirit within themselves or distinct as in a Person without both of which are of great service in the Work of the Lord. Some Rules were given to her who is to succeed Vashti that so she might gain Esteem and Favour with the King As first a Child like Innocency and humble Simplicity and staid Sobriety which may render her as a blushing Bride of Virginity all pure and fair as the Lilly Such a one will be most meet to represent and personate the eternal Virgin that so the Crown of Queen-like Power might be set on her Head Then she may have access upon more equal terms to this mighty potent King for herein lieth the great Priviledge that upon any straits or distress as may happen this worthy Esther knoweth whither to repair having both the Heart and Ear of that mighty one who hath Dominion every where She knowing her times seasons and Cause is Just for which she makes her Application Here also I was incited from this History for to take notice of the state of this Ahashuerus who had a Court and Tendance for himself and another for his Queen with her Attendance Even so the high and holy One hath two most holy Courts for Purity and heavenly State The one is the great Pallace Shusan which represents the Ierusalem state of Glory the other is the Celestial All-springing Paradise provided for the Virgin Queen and her most honourable Women where she that principal One in whom the King delighteth is often sent for to see and to be honoured among that high Assembly She at no time is Disobedient to her Lords Command but rejoyceth to be admitted to every spiritual Feast and then again by reciprocal Love invites also her Lord and King to banquet with her of such Fruits as she well knows will please him so that there is no end of Love's Commerce This chast and loyal Bride loveth not if it might be permitted to make one Meal without her beloved King She admitteth none into her secret Courts but such grave Mordecai's and such as are Virgins like unto her self The Haman once or twice intruded with the King which doth allude to the invading Serpent Seed of which the wise and prudent Esther with her Mordecai did foresee the Danger and the subtle Plot for eternal Ruine and therefore wisely grounded themselves first in the Love Favour and good Will of their King Even so do ye imitate the Examples of these worthy Ones observe all things as in the History so in the lively track of the Mystery Let it be your grand Design to ingratiate your selves in this your Captive state with the mighty Potences in heavenly Places Act each one both these Parts Oh Mordecai if any thing of Treachery or Dishonour thou knowest against thy Lord the King be faithful to bring it before him that when need is it may be remembred for hereby the Virgin Seed in time shall rise to promotion Oh Esther maintain that Love and Favour which thou hast obtained hold fast what thou hast received of that Love Pledge do thou prepare often in thy Paradisical Mind what may please and have influence upon thy mighty Sovereign Lord. Be sure to maintain all intimacies for verily the Day is not only comming but now is when both Mordecai and Esther shall have occasion to set a work the utmost interest they have both for themselves and for a scatter'd Seed with the great King to give sealing Power for Confirmation and Justification in a wonderful way As also Decrees to reverse and change what seems so unalterable in the visible state of Things among the oppressed Captives Here now somewhat of Wisdoms Book is opened seek the right Eye Salve that ye may plainly read these things and make high and spiritual Use of them that Esthers good Day may overtake you March the 22th 1676 7. In the Night as I was waiting in my wonted solemn Retirement what might further be administred I was cast as into a magical Sleep where I saw my self carried into a Wilderness where I saw only pleasant pastoral Walks and Trees which much suited with my Mind and Inclination there to walk where I found nothing to disturb my superiour Meditations In which place I promised my self opportunity as not willing that either my Name or Place should be known to any saving One. But while I was thus pleasured in my reserved state I suddainly did see one that was known to me walking very strait and upright with a Book reading in his Hand He seemed to be as one that would not look awry But it was said presently that this Person was a Spy Then presently two more did appear of the Female Sex both which did make a kind of Assault upon me but one of the Females was more fierce and did give my outward Skin a prick as with a sharp Needle Upon which I called for Angelical aid to succour me or else too hard they would be Whereupon I was parted from
them and saw them in that place no more A voice saying None here shall henceforth come but such as can agree to walk with thee perfectly And so the Vision broke up The Interpretation Some Days after I did further enquire into the more full meaning of this Vision why such should so conspire against my solitary reserved Life but especially that one who was in my Eye of more value because of a known Life of Truth and Integrity I found this written upon my Heart Their Eyes must for a while be with-held they will not you know till ye can get the new Name engraven as of pretious Stones upon your Forehead For it was secretly whispered to my Spirit that in some there might be a refined and spiritual Emulation as in others a more Gross and Sensual Both of which I had councel and caution how to walk with so as no occasion of stumbling might be given justly to the gainsaying Spirits Whose pryings were to see how we would walk while in the Wilderness state Out of which we were not to come till our beloved Lord should bring us forth as in another form wherein me might be known as those who are to live in another Sphere where neither the hissing Serpent or biting Adder will adventure to appear in that High-way where nothing which is unclean can pass It is only for those who have held out the Wilderness probation waiting in Faith Love and Patience till the jubilee Year In which the Ransomed shall go forth out of their solitary Place into the New Sharon where the Glory and Excellency of their God as a circling Saphir-bow will be for their Defence March the 23d 1676 7. This Word spake with great Majesty Behold I come quickly hold fast that which thou hast Upon which I considered what that thing was which was to be held so fast This Word then opened it self in great Force and Consequence to me for I was in great suspence among the many Gifts received what most primarily should be taken care of among those things which were intrusted with me Still my Spirit was harping hereupon waiting for a clear Resolve which this Morning was given to me by a distinct Word passing through me saying Hold fast that which is my Witness iâ— thee as the Gift of Revelation and Prophesy Which bind fast by the Girdle of Faith or else it may be wrested from thee for thou art not freed from the Serpent's Conspiracy Who by all subtlety would circumvent my anointed Prophets by mixing and casting in what is not of my Spirits pure intent Watchful then now be least that high spirited Wine which flows so readily from the eternal Vine should be either adulterated or stopped in its flowing Source Therefore from your holy Watcher take this following Rule and thereby you shall be able to keep the Crown of anointing upon your Heads in despite of the Serpent's Rage March the 24th 1676 7. To you then to whom this worthy portion of Prophesie and Revelation is given as what ye are to keep and hold fast till your Lord shall come it will be expedient to observe this Rule Take this Councel that Elisha gave the Prophet's Widow that had 〈…〉 all her living Furnish thy House and stock it well with choice Vessels of all kind that are fit for reception washed and wrinsed with the scented Water of Life Let no other Furniture be within the Mansion-house of the great Prophet but set all in Order ranck by ranck and expel every other thing Taking the Authority also to stop all of the nether sensual Springs and a way is to be found out to cut off those Pipes through which the muddy brackish Water of strong scented Reason issues out For if at any time while this pure Oyl is running this should happen therewith to mingle it would be like that Herb in the Pottage which made the Sons of the Prophets to cry there was Death in the Pot. Therefore obey this Councel when thou hast brought in all those Vessels that have been tried as Gold in the celestial Fire of God's Love Faithfulness and Truth then use thy Skill to suspend and stench the Bleeding of that old degenerated Vine Which when your Obedience herein is readily fulfilled then to you will be given that Precious Blood Ruby-Stone that will eternally put a stop thereto But at present all Care and Diligence is charged upon you that a restraint according to your present Ability may be put to all those sprouting Essences which are contrary to the Paradisical Nature Here is a Break for several Days in the Original April the 8th 1677. THis Word I was reminded of as a Prophesie to be fulfilled in this laâ—t Age of Time Rejoyce O ye Souls in what I am about to do which is to create new Heavens in your old Earth to change it into a spiritual Frame and Model wherein the holy Ghost that I will send down shall evermore abide and dwell Then shall ye bear the Name of Immanuel Now it is to be understood what the reason was why the holy Ghost could not transform the Soul before into its first Original Purity which was because the new Heavens were not yet Framed which do represent a Mind renewed and a Heart purified For that Scripture was opened to me If Christ be risen in you than hath Sin no Power over you but its Body sinks and dies away For till the Body of Sin be laid there can be no assuming of a celestial Body at least for duration Then again the great Prince and Shepherd had another design to gather up holy choice Spirits that had lived in mortal Bodies to come up after him to make up the Mount Sion Church in the invisible Heavenly Sphere And those that have kept fast the Word of Truth in Patience and have fought the good Fight of Faith if that they dye in the Warfare they shall loose nothing of what they have so far wrought there is a Reservation and a Place for such to perfect what is lacking For 1. Christ himself did not go out of the Body into the highest mansion of Glory but he first entred Paradise So likewise those whom the Father hath given to him must whether in the Body or out of the Body make their first remove thither to be fully made meet to be gathered up to the Fountain-head of all springing Wisdom and Glory A known Number here is to make up the Flock for this upper Fold whereof are the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles who are nominated to be Elders among that great Assembly who are moved out of Paradise to sit in heavenly Places with their head Prince and Mediatour To which holy Place there are some holy and perfect Spirits in every Age added as Saints breaking away from this Principle This now is a Dispensation of that Time mentioned of a gathering in of heavenly Spirits to Christ out of the reformed Paradise But there is yet a fuller Time and
sâ—aled with Holy Spirit of Promise Though in that day soon upon Christs ascending the Spirit of working power was suddainly showred down upon some as in the Acts mention is made who had no foregoing work of sanctification upon them Upon which it made the Apostles themselves astonished that the Holy Ghost should be sent down upon the Gentiles also who did not believe in the Lord Jesus But that is now ceased The giving forth of the Holy Ghost in this day will first produce inward effects and be a Spirit of burning seasoning the Vessels within and inflaming it with the pure fire of Love and Joy And then being all divinely leavened there will be found all sufficiency to do the most wonderful things easily flowing forth from the substantial body which by degrees may work it self fixedly through the humane form in great splendor and glory So from hence we are taught how the Holy Ghost hath his first inspiring work upon us To make all clean pure and perfect within our Minds and Wills For we shall be Witnesses what he doth first in and for us before he will shew forth by us the Seal of his great Power to what lies without us Who by signal Working Powers and Gifts are to be convinced and brought over to the Faith which will work by that Love that will be shed abroad by the Holy Ghost Whos 's first enkindlings and stirrings ye are saith the Holy and True to cherish and wait upon till ye are leavened throughout with Righteousness Light Love and Joy Which will make way for the going out of Wisdoms Power and God's all sufficiency in a more marvelous manner then ever Blessed highly are they whose lot it shall be to come up to the Mount of God's Habitation through all these degrees This word take along with you for certainty that it is possible for the close wise persevering diligent Spirits to see this great and mighty salvation in the Lord Christ's Kingdom in and through the ghostly power working mightily April the 28th 1677. This Morning awaking about three of the Clock my Spirit after some divine ejaculations was inkindled through the Love-melting Powers of the Spirit of my Lord Jesus which did pass as a burning Lamp through all my Intellectuals finding there matter to feed upon answerable to its own light property whereby refreshing was found After this I slept till five a Clock or somewhat more as by me surmised Then I was awakened with the beholding one in the figure of a man in a blue clear firmament enclosed as in an oval frame Rainbow-like his Countenance was grave and majestical facing me with great majesty Upon the sight of whom I did feel within me a mighty rapture of joy So I making to get nearer to this Person thus plainly portraied then he did further withdraw for such was the â—ervour of my Spirit that I would have proceeded into the very Circle where he was Who seemed to be in the very fashion of a man from the Loyns upward but I saw no Legs or Feet but he fixed his Light Countenance still on me which was no way terrible but all reviving Now I was expecting somewhat to be spoken from him but the voice was uttered within me saying thus This is the Sign of your Lord from Heaven that Jesus whom you have desired to see Upon which words I attempted again to break through to him upon which this Representation did pass away that I could no longer gratifie my spiritual Eye with this blessed Personality After whose departure I was left sad for I would willingly have left my corporeal form to have entred into that Oval Cloud where I might have joined the Hand of my Spirit with his But then it was again further revealed to me that if this sight was so pleasing and grateful what would the coming in of the Fathers glory be which would be much more then what I now did see Then this word spake in me go on to believe and ye who look for me shall yet further see greater things then all this Some days after this Vision it was further manifested to me that this visible Figure of my Lord Jesus did signifie the formation of himself in our corporeity which would be much more advantagious then in beholding him in a distinct Personality as without us till we can come to say as he is so are we Till which there can be no fixed view for a constant retaining of his now glorified Person in our Eye Now it was given me to understand that the Reason I could not be admitted to enter into that Oval Light where he was presented was because said the Spirit thou art not come to the same perfect state and degree in which you did him see wanting yet your more high clear and elementary Body so that ye could not possibly make your pass unto him But only hereby your Jesus knoweth that these transient sights would have a pure magical power upon you for the begetting of the same likeness within you that was shewn outward For it was revealed to me that all representations that did not work to this effect would be little available as to the fruition of the blessed Object it self Then I was cautioned to be heedful in this respect and to watch how to receive all powerful impressions hereby all which was for the bringing on the heavenly Birth to every degree of perfection Then no strange nor unusual thing it shall be to see the very express glory of the Majesty when you are Christed and all clothed upon with him Then shall ye see That in your selves which to others is invisible Philip could not see the Father in Christ while he was looking outwardly for some wonderful appearance of God in visible Glory he did not consider how uncapable he was of that sight but Jesus invites him to see and know the Father in the pure simplified humanity God will to all first manifest himself here in that which can assume the Christ-like Life which is the only light and medium in which we can see God Christ would have directed Philip to have looked for this Vision of God in himself but he knew he was not clarified in his Mind and Spirit for that species his Eys were not anointed the Holy Ghost not being yet given to him Therefore Christ directed him to turn his Eye inward to see the influence of the Divine Power and Presence of the Father in and by Christ. Who gave him this rebuke Have I been so long with you and yet have you not seen the Power of the Deity acted forth in me The Disciples were but of dull sight and flow of belief so that it was not the conversation of Christ although all holy perfect and good in his Visible Figure That did give the transformation till he did convey his Spiritual Body into them they could not rightly know him nor yet the Father in him Then the Spirit ecchoed this through me O haste
in all wariness Then is this word uttered as I was hereof writing You of all others I saith the Lord have desired for to keep separated for my use therefore take heed what you let in to my Temple Body Oh saith the Just One that I could but have such large Credit from you as I had from some in past-ages that could lean and rest upon me without the Crutch of Reason under their Arms. For alas you are yet but as Children that are not able to stand alone You dare not trust your selves upon the bare ground of Faith and that makes you fly so readily to what is before your sensible Eye True Oh Soul thy terrestrial man hath a near disposition to the production of this earthly Climate and runs thereunto upon all occasions as to its nourishing and providing Mother knowing yet no better having found all sensible sustainment thereby according to the manner of this fallen Creation But know you have a Mother of a higher degree that is more true and natural to your Spirits and she would now you should come to understand and know her to be the Everlasting Wisdom of the Mighty God that can do much above Nature and Creature for you Who would have you desert all other and hear and learn from her mouth from which doth drop the Law of Love and Kindness Iune the 3d. 1677. Upon this Manifestation and Councel of the Spirit I found all my internal Powers strongly knit together to find out this more sure and all-sufficient Providence For there was somewhat in me of Infinite Being that was too great to be kept under the tuition and law of that which was earthly and terrestrial From out of the bounds of which my Spirit would break away to live to obey that Law of Faith which hitherto no Adeptist that I know hath arrived to Which hath failed as to my own part because so oft have I given place to self-reasoning being by a Foster-Mother so long brought up in that way that death it is therefrom to withdraw But taught I am not to favour my Life herein though daily solicited hereunto by thousands of Spirits Who do cry spare that delicate natural thing which this world doth glory in For indeed it hath carried all in a forcible stream but now in Spirit I do see this great Volative will be dried up For this Night I did see by way of Vision a muddy Sea boyling as a Pot but under it to my great marvel there was an invisible Fire hidden under the Mud and Water Which I did view thinking at first sight nothing less but that the Fire would there be choaked but it did get the Victory And in the Morning as I was hereof considering it was opened to me that this Muddy Sea was the natural rational Life that must be purged by Fire till all consumed it be in such who like worthy Champions shall come to shew themselves in the Life of Faith I did also see a Clear Water separated from the Muddy Water which by the Fire was driven upward as if it had been a Spring From whence it was given me to understand That there was a pure Heavenly Matter which when the Celestial Fire did work in any it would separate from the gross and evil quality This Muddy Sea was said to be the rolling Motions that work from the common sense of earthly things taken into the Mind which makes it soul and muddy Now what can purge this but fire that lieth in the deep beneath which gradually worketh through it by virtue of an Eternal force and might when once struck in by the Saphire Stone of the Deity Then it inkindles every property and becomes a pure Fire Element which suffers nothing combustible to mix with it After this I did see when the Fire had got the mastery of this pudled Sea that it became all as a bright Firmament and there sprung up a wonderful Tree Iune the 4th 1677. The Saphire Tree In Vision was shewn me a wonderful Tree which was strange and amazing being out of the course of Nature of all which formerly I had seen The Body of it was of the Fire Element and the Branches thereof were clustered with various sparkling Stones of all manner of Colours which were of such a dazling Glory that nothing less than the reflexion of this Tree could give the capacity of sight For as the day doth exceed the night for Light so did these Stones for lustre excel what are of the choisest of this Creation It no sooner appeared but it did again disappear but it left its light Raies upon my Mind for some certain time Whereupon this word was spoken This is the great original Saphire-Tree which as a Light springeth up out of the Dark Valley Iune the 5th 1677. Being much inquisitive to have the Mystery of this Oriental Tree that sprung out of the pure Element opened further unto me as I was waiting in the Fire of pure silence it was revealed that the Tree was shewn to make known that this was a degree beyond all in Paradise For no such lustrous Tree could be manifested in that Sphear Trees of Life and Righteousness might spring thereout but this Tree was a Diadem of Glory that doth grow out of the Element of the New Ierusalem Then was it upon my heart to plead thus with my Lord Ah my Jesus what doth this signifie to us as to our present state This surely presents the highest latitude of Glory which thou thy self art capable of We have many removes yet surely to pass through before we can come to the Clusters of this Stately Tree As we now appear what is more contemptible and vile And if so in our own Eye what in thine Therefore what Time will or may be allowed for our transportation into such Fire Stones of amazing Glory This and much more which would be too numerous to record was my Expostulation To which the Spirit made reply thus that this Vegetable Stone must have several Transplantations before it could rise to such a degree of Celestiality of Glory As first out of the dry hungry barren Earth to a Ground moistned with the dew of Paradise there it hath a certain season to work through as a Plant of Righteousness sending forth its fruitful operations according to the heavenly constellations which work with it It shifteth it self into various forms as the Center doth open for Multiplication of the Vegetable Life to bring it forth into manifestation of those more eminent Fruits of the Spirit As in clusters of Love Patience Meekness Faith Hope Joy to perseverance All which are to spring up unto Perfection as making way for a higher Transformation For when these Fruits are grown to their full Ripeness in any then expect such a pure conjunction as doth make up the very matter of this Saphire-stone Which may be adventured to be cast into that most holy burning Element that thereout all these may come forth
such an incorruptible state that should never see death was by us to believed in Iohn 31. 26. And whosoever believeth in me shall never die believest thou this Many more to this purpose were called over and interpreted which may come forth in their season these for the present may suffice These Holy Scriptures give us to know That we as to our visible Bodies are in a strange deformity out of which we may lawfully hope to be redeemed And whoever have Faith herein without wavering may certainly see such a translation For this word did sound in me According as your Faith extends so it will in this respect make an alteration Oh who but such as are mighty in Faith shall live to see the old Mark of of the Beast worn out and the Fathers Name planted and engraven on us Which will make us as the sparkling Stones of a Crown lifted up and as an Ensign where the place of our Habitation by the Most Holy shall be appointed October the 1st 1677. The Mount of Elijah UPON this I did much strive to thwart my Sense which was in great mutiny against this Gospel transmutation And as my Faith did get up so Reasons Club did beat me down so passing some hours in great controversie here-about in my self After my natural repose I saw my self with some others standing as on a Hill where no visible fence was but the loftiness of the place Which the Inhabitants that were in the Plain below observing us there to walk were in great indignation and summoned us for to come down to share in what was in common Which not yielding to they provided Instruments of War as Arrows and Guns to shoot at us which passed over us and beside us so that no harm befell us For we withstood them all in great confidence of that fortitude which those lower Inhabitants could see nothing thereof And the shout of the Voice went forth The Spirit of Elijah will be seen again on the Mountain of Faith October the 4th 1677. This Morning it was thus spoken in me Into what Heart hath the mystery of Faith wrought forth it self in the true Nature of Creating Faith No resurrection it hath had in these last Ages Therefore ye do well who now are searching for it be wise to undermine what hath as a Mountain prest it down For it is that which will bring back what was banished out of Paradice October the 5th 1677. I heard this Night in my sleep a Voice calling me saying Draw near that so you may know great and deep things Upon which I was awakened and saw a clear Glassy Trumpet held out and a great Councel was held by some that all were in privacy in a reserved place only I did hear their Sounds and Voices but I could not see their Persons After which musing hereupon because all passed away before I could make any thing hereof The word said Yet for this Secret thy Spirit must launch and wade â—nto a deeper Ocean Upon which my Spirit sunk unto a good degree into the still Abyssal Center out from which all Light of Wisdom doth open And this pure Glassy Trumpet was made mention of again For it was said That none should ever sound this Trumpet but such who could attain to walk and move upon Faith's holy ground Then took I occasion herefrom earnestly to interceed and while I was praying for this Mystery of Faith to be revealed it was spoke in me Thou seekest that which is so weighty and mystical that time must be allotted to draw or extract out of the full and perfect Number of Coessentiality of Spirit which is attributed to the Holy Trinity Into this thou must search and dive for thy Spirit is of the same Eternal Line and Nature and it may recover what it hath lost by descending into this terrestial World of which course matter thou hast formed a body of flesh about thee wherewith be content for a while till the pure spark Faith shall refine it for thee and make it all sublime October the 8th 1677. The profession of Faith was still urged upon me as the only Gift which would renew all things out of the old frame of Nature For the teaching unction did further reveal to me the supereminency of this Golden Grain of Faith which is the product of the Deity where-ever it shall be found Therefore I had a charge in these words given me saying Suffer not so rich a Talent as this to be hid only in and with the Sacred Trinity Come Oh thou restless Mind and I will shew thee where and how thou must feel this Creating Breath in its first beginnings of Life These Rules therefore observe constantly First Then know that the Center of this high extracted Spirit of Faith lies in the Golden Ocean deep of Love So then herefrom take notice that only a mighty vehement Spirit of Love shall bring forth the Life-acting Body of the Holy Ghost which indeed will all be manifested in Loves strong ardency See now then in what ground this choice Pearl be found the meer strength of Love must give entrance where this almighty Dowry is Love raised up to its first Virgin Purity will make Faith descend in all it s asâ—umed Majesty Love and Faith have an overcoming Omnipotency attending them God will suffer himself to be conquered by the Spirit of Love and Faith as he saith concerning the work of my hands command ye me Nothing can God detain from such if they remain in the ardency of this meek Love-fire as in a still flame Therefore through the augmentation of this pure burning Breath of Love which as an ascending Spirit can pass into the very secret abyssal Deep to draw into it self that very Faith by which all things have received their existency Such a Spirit sent forth in the cooperation with Love will effect that transparent formation which may well become the pure Beaming Glory of the Blessed Trinity Therefore receive this from the true and faithfull Witness That Love is and must be as the circling Ring in which this sparkling Stone of Faith will fix it self as a signal Monument Wherefore now see a pretious bundle of Love is all necessary as a prepared Vessel into which the highest drawn Matter of all Spirits may be put This pure essence of Faith can live or lodge no where but in the Virgin Bosom of Charity Which is so comely and innocent as a trueâ— qualiification hereof cannot be nominated God is Love and therefore how can he be strange or unknown where the sâ—ame of his own essential property is sound No doubt but to such all-transforming Faith will be givened as a Golden Balsom to heal that which is demolished As witness the Body of frail Mortality which is shue out from all those that are of Aeâ—herial Forms and Angelical Figures Let this Medicinal Stone be of all value to you for renewing of Immortality that ye may be like those of that high
of Comfort was given that we should here cast the Anchor of Hope for the passing through every Door of our own Senses till we had got beyond the Vail of Flesh into the Circle-Body of the Holy Ghost which is appointed for our present Mansion and Dwelling Where no more working Source shall open to disturb our Peace and Joy Our Life sustainment shall be effected by the holy Seraphim day by day till the half time shall fully be expired Then it is given me to see and to believe that guarded along we shall be out of the Wilderness by this Angel of God's presence who hath promised he will not leave us but see us safe within the Everlasting Gate This is only the charge that is left us to observe at present that we keep the Inward Court of our Minds from all polluted things and as hollowed Vessels to take in what from God's own Table as a daily portion is sent in Who will never fail to give what shall seal us for the day of this full redeeming Power Therefore upon this promise we are to hope and quietly wait for he will come with the shout of a King to the pure and Virgin-Spirit wherein Love and Faith have looked for him Therefore be not weary not faint in your minds for to you the Son of Righteousness will appear for full Salvation December the 22d 1677. This Morning I saw a Hand with a Pen writing upon a little Square like Steel or Slade which was repeated to me saying Despise not that holy degree to which my Spirit hath wrought you Know ye not that the Holy thing which is rising out of the Center must have time to work through all that dark matter which doth lie in the vail of Flesh. Therefore patiently give way to that which will go its own pace for the Spirit doth well know its own tract And if you wholly trust him for your guide he will bring you to the right Door which shall never more be shut upon you December the 23d 1677. I was invaded in my Mind with that which would have awakened a distrust concerning the Consummation of that perfect degree into which I have been thus far wrought up unto through Internal Purity attained Yet finding the Waves of Sense apt to break in upon this I was made to pray with all vehemency lest the Spark of Faith should hereby be quenched So after much strife this Word came in for comfort saying thou shalt yet Honour the Lord thy God with that substance that will open out of Wisdom's treasury Abide but firm and unmoveable in the Heavenly Calling from which expect the Blessing of the encrease for the bringing in of that which will assuredly bring joy and ease to the heavy and oppressed in Mind December the 24th 1677. My Spirit deeply sympathized with one that was in travel with me for the Revelation of Christ's Heavenly Kingdom Who in bindings and spiritual droughts famine passing often through with me therefore obliged to be fellow-helpers of each other in every Hour of Tryal and Temptation I besought the Lord and made enquiry on his behalf and this Word on his behalf was given in saying I have heard the bemoaning of Ephraim against whom a Confederacy of Spirits have been working but they shall all be broken as a Potters Vessel while he in Love and Faith adhereth fearingly to my living Word Then know that he the Ephraim may of the Righ-hand Blessing come through all Tribulations to stand in Victory with the Lamb upon the Mount of Joy and Liberty To which dear Lord bring him through all that which would hold him under and depress him Oh that oily Pool that can soon the dark stone dissolve let it rise and spring that we may find our way made free and clear up unto thee forever to be conversant in Spirit with thee all Heavenly One December the 25th 1677. This Word visited me saying How great is the goodness that is treasured up for those that love and long for the mighty God and the everlasting Saviour Therefore dress and trim your selves every Day for your Bridegroom who doth take great pleasure to find you all comely sitting at the deep Manifestation Gate and there waiting Oh sweet Jesus if thou wilt this Gate open and give us out thy Love from thence then we will not remove because of the sweet and pleasant savour that do's issue forth from thee Oh come with all pulling force that as a bright Cloud we may be of a dissolving Nature for all Love's impressions from thee that we our selves may be one with thy Celestial Nature unchangeably December the 26th 1677. This Word was opened in me this Morning saying After all knowledge and believing in him with whom your superiour Life lieth hid Now your great business and concern is to travel for its manifestation in and according to redeeming Power By which it may appear in its own native liberty and act for it self in Soveraignity as having put on the Lord Jesus as your Cloathing of Power For nought else will commend you in the sight of Men. December the 29th 1677. Upon the Consideration of A. W's Prophecy it was advised me that we should have no part with her in divine Justice nor be Agents in the avenging property in desiring Plagues and Vials of Wrath to come so immediately upon the Formal Churches It was shewn me that it was not the Time nor the Manner revealed yet how they should be overturned God had permitted her though a Lamb of Christ's Fold to be sifted and tryed through the opening of a Center from whence Spirits did strongly thus prophecy as to the time and manner and did upon her Spirit impress the time and so deceived her herein The Lord restore her and give her a more distinct discerning of Spirits from the several Centers from which Sounds and Voices do proceed The Kingdom of Love cryed the Voice in me is that which will open and be strong to prevail Even that Ministration of Love shedding abroad by the Holy Ghost is to drown and quench the Wrath and Angels that are strong and powerful in the Compassionate Love the Lamb of God will raise up to be eminent for trust in the agitating and managing of the great Spiritual Affairs belonging to his Priestly Kingdom that is upon its revealing to be more visible and shall mightily prosper in the hand of such who are the pure and meek of the Earth Who thereby do open the Love-Center whereout the Unction of Prophecy and true Revelation do's infallibly proceed for their direction December the 30th 1677. Upon some Considerations which were weighty upon my Mind concerning the daily expectation of that Kingdom which by the Holy Ghost comes to be manifested And calling over many foregoing things which as to this might usher in the Temple-Glory which is so beautiful and desirable to Spirits that are waiting here for it This was shewn me from hence that Vision
from it or withdraw me from a dedicated and devoted Life Which I have till this Day persued and continued in and shall so do till I shall have finished my Course in the hopes of Entrance into the Triumphant Ioy of my Lord. Thus worthy Reader I have given you a Brief Narrative of the Beginning and Progress of my new born Life which is elsewhere more enlarged on in a Particular Treatise But this may suffice for an Introduction into the following Volume of my Journal Wherein as in a Glass you may see under what Leadings I have been where you may read the express manner and method of the Spirit 's Communications in which I can soberly avouch that I my self was wholly Passive and the Spirit altogether Active For my Creaturely Being was so bounded up as nothing to know or contribute hereunto all being laid in silence while God was to arise and speak forth himself through this Earthen and empty Vessel For the sake of which let no Contempt or Slight be poured out for it is what God in his Wisdom did reserve to bring forth for the Vse and Service of as many as are ordained to receive and take hold of these Divine Mysteries for improvement and growth to all those Degrees of Perfection which are herein made mention of Surely for this End Wisdom's Book of Secrets was opened that by this Divine Learning her Children might be brought up and made meet and ready for their Bridegroom the Lamb. For undoubtedly the Day hereof draws near whence these Writings having been kept in Obscurity these Twenty Years as taken by me for Private Memorandums according as they were given day by day forth they are now by a strange and unexpected Hand being a Person of great Piety and Worth brought out into the Light Whose Fame and Reâ—own shall out-live all Writings of Time and who perpetually shall wear Love's Diadem and Crown I have no more now but to beseech and entreat those to whom these Sacred Truths shall come to be Perused that as they would reap Benefit and Advantage herefrom they might fear and dread to pass any Iudgment or Censures in a gain-saying way to the Spirit the Opener of them And let me humbly give this my Advice that the Full-grown and the highly Advanced in all Rational Learning and Wisdom and in all great and honourable Acquirements do become as Children committing themselves to Wisdom their true Mother that they may be broughs up at her Feet Which they will find to turn to a thousandfold better Account than all that ever they have before learnt For I have made it my Observation that the Rashness of many Spirits in Condemning what they are absolute Strangers unto hath shut the Gate of Wisdom upon them Therefore this Caution accept of from your little and low Fellow Member O all ye that would be growing Plants under the Shadow of Christ the blessed Vine that ye refuse not to seek and draw from the Royal Grape continually the Iuice whereof is pure Spirit to strengthen you with the Balsam of Life All this the Child-like Spirit will come to Tast and Know and by obeying these Rules and Manuductions you will have occasion to adore bless and magnifie what of the Spirit of GOD shall hereunto move and drive you For the Commission is already gone forth to the Angelical Messenges that constrained are to sound the Horn of Salvation which is filled with the Ghostly Oil. Which will so abundantly flow as to heal all the Divisions and Controversies whereby the several Parties do wound each other Who would not Ambitious then be among these Shepherds to hold out the Love golden Crook to fetch in the torn rent and scatter'd Sheep and Lambs into Christ their Princely Shepherds Fold where they may quietly lie down in those refreshing Pasturâ—s that do Spring again as fast as they are fed upon The Door for Entrance hereinto stands open let none shut it upon themselves For a thousand times Thousands of Blessings are pronounc'd upon the Publishers and Promoters of this Glorious Ministration of the Spirit And a Cry there is now sounding from the Heavens unto all Preachers and Teachers of all Ranks and Degrees and whatever Titles and Denominations they do bear that in pure Vnity and Harmony they do together agree to Declare and Held forth the Everlasting Testimony of the Spirit of Jesus from the Springing Vnction that will be the Sealing Mark of the Apostolical Day that is now again to be Revived For which evermore Prayeth she Who in Incessant Travel is till all this shall be Accomplish'd I. Lead July 29. 97. The CONTENTS OF THIS Second Volume A Commemoration on New-Years-Day pag. 1. Wisdom's Merchandize p. 2. 60. 233. 370. The Parable of the two Children p. 9. The Transfiguration p. 205. The Melchizedeck Priesthood p. 18. 100. The Marriage of the Lamb represented p. 20. The Death of Moses p. 30. The Crystalline Gate p. 42. The Altar-Stone p. 46. The Royalty of the Will or the Root of the Divine Word p. 48. An Opening upon Mark x. 28 29 30. p. 55. 63. Ionah in the Whales Belly p. 70. The Originality of Evil p. 73. The Spiritual and Natural Man compared p. 80. Of Natural Conscience p. 89. Paradise Local and Mystical p. 91. The Glassy Sea p. 95. Rules given how a Spiritual Man is to walk towards God and towards those that are Without p. 99. The Morning Star of Wisdom p. 102. The Eagle-Brood being as an Interpretation of 1 Tim. 2. 15. p. 103. The Wonder-Woman p. 121. Adam's Fig-Tree p. 139. Queen Esther p. 144. Seven Principal Shepherds p. 162. The Revelation of the Holy Element p. 164. The Necessity of a Personal Saviour p. 175. The True Shunamite p. 179. The Mountain of Faith and the City of Strength p. 191. The Cherubinical Birth p. 196. The various Mansions and Regions of Seperated Souls p. 207. The Vision of Christ p. 218. The Original Language p. 224. The Whole Sale p. 233. The Trial of Love p. 236. The Unmix'd Ministration p. 240. The Glassy Book p. 245. The Burning Wheels p. 252. The Cup of Eucharist p. 256. The Transmuting Fire p. 264. The Sapphire Tree p. 266. A Sight of the Wars in Christendom p. 269. Rules to be observ'd by the Passengers through Paradise to Mount-Sion p. 271. Sarah and Abimelech p. 275. The Birth of Cyrus p. 286. The Mystery of Babylon p. 287. The Holy Sabbath of the Church in the 7th Millennim p. 290. The Intellectual Fountain in the Breast of JESUS p. 293. The Spirit of Revelation not ceased p. 301. The Seven Ascending Steps or Seven Degrees of the Spirit p. 305. The Feast of the Spirit p. 314. The Magical Heart and its several Properties p. 319. 334. Meditation and Recollection p. 328. The Measuring Line in the Hand of a Child p. 332. A Dialogue betwixt Satan and Christ about the Redemption of the Body p. 341. The Cloud of Temptation p. 351. The
Walks of the Spirit p. 352. 361. The Alpha and Omega p. 363. The Water-Stone p. 365. An Apparition of a Deceased Friend and the Discourse with him p. 372. The Curious Workmanship p. 377. The narrow Passage p. 380. The priestly Magi p. 386. The Able Physician p. 396. The School of the Divine Magia p. 399. The Tree of Faith p. 407. The Fathers Name p. 409. The Mount of Elijah or the Mistery of Faith p. 441â— 424. The Lilly Spirit p. 427. The two Golden Candlesticks p. 435. The Hand of the Lord p. 463. 465. The Nuptial Dish p. 478. The Way of the East p. 483. The Entrance of Caleb and Ioshua into the Land of Beulah p. 489. The Cessation and Return of Miracles p. 492. The Overthrow of Sisera and the Song of Deborah p. 498. The Conflict of Fire and Water p. 503. The Jasper Circle p. 509. The Golden Tree of Beulah p. 512. The Hand-Writing p. 516. A Caution against Prophets of Judgments p. 520. The Daily Expectant not frustrated p. 522. The Conclusion p. 524. Postscript p. 526. Scriptures Explained or Applied 1 King 8. 27. pag 209. Mat. 17. 1. 12. pag. 413. Mark 10. 28 29. p. 55. Iohn 3. 6 7 8. p. 413. 6. 45 50. p. 414. 53. p. 366. 7. 37 38. p. 314. 11 26. p. 414. 14. 2. p. 208 9. p. 221 Rom. 5. 19. p. 142 20. p. 171. 8. 6. p. 273. 23. p. 414 1 Cor. 15. to the end p. 414. 55. 205 2 Cor. 3. 18. p. 248. 5. 1 2 3 4. p. 414. Epâ— 1. 13. p. 215. 4. 10. p. 209. 1 Tim. 2. 15. p. 103. Heb. 2. 15. p. 177 6. 11 12. p. 241. 11. 1. p 407. 1 Pet. 3. 19. p. 212. 2 Pet. 4. 5 6. ibid. Rev. 3. 21. p. 214. 12. p. 126. A Fountain of Gardens Watered by the Rivers of Divine Pleasure Vol II. Ianuary the 1st 1676 7. A Commemoration on New-Years Day IN and about the middle of the Night being called out in Prayer I did feel a mighty throng of Invisible Powers that filled me so as if I had put on the Immortal Vehicle for the Sacred Trinity to act in with Love and Joy-Powers during sometime upon me with great ravishing Sweets In the Morning this Word did me greet When will you begin to draw out some part of that stock which you have trusted with him who is so ready with you to account The great and mighty One hath charged himself with a Debt unto you by all and every act of Faith which at any time had purely flown out from either joyning hereunto in one Spirit as Co-partners in Spiritual things Then was it further opened unto me that we had been careless in that we had neglected in not keeping our Accounts clear both in relation to the Lord and to our selves 1. First as to the Talent and Gift intrusted with us as a Provision bestowed upon us from our Father to traffick withal during such a time as might bring the intended encrease unto effect Now the Spirit who keeps the Heavenly Records said unto me Search and see and be well advised what hath been freely given from your God to you For you are Debreâ—s to his Grace for a new Adoption who hath again begotten you not only to the Hope but the real Possession of that which belongeth unto Children Though ye have not hitherto understood the Royalty of your own Beings nor yet the greatness of your Strength and Might For be assured upon this New Creation score in which ye now are considered thereto doth belong Sion's rich Provision Now then it is but meet as dear and grateful Children to keep your Accounts clear and to charge your selves with so much stock of Life and Spirit as ye have received It must be called out for and nothing of this Treasury must lie idle or useless but all is still expected upon the encrease till ye come to be a numerous Seed 2. In the Second place said the Spirit Consider and call over what you have adventured and returned back into that great City wherefrom the rich Exchange of Spiritual Goods is to be produced Know for your great Comfort that ye have a faithful able Correspondent in this high and Heavenly Country that you may fully assure your selves of great gain in Spirituals according to the kind of what the high Region doth afford Which is of that unknown and excellent value as these Worldly â—â—â—bitants will not care for to purchase because they have no Judgment of such invisible mystical Treasury But to you who are only for the Heavenly Merchandize more Bills of Store shall yet be given forth Fear not to make fresh charges upon that great Trustee who commandeth all in Wisdom's vast Bank Nothing is more pleasing then to make out what resteth due unto you upon the Spirit 's Births Account Little have you examined how Matters and Things of this nature stand betwixt God and you Who thinks it no Impeachment to his Soveraign Greatness to be endebted unto such as have returned Lading back again on Faith's bottom All which hath been committed in trust with this Charge to traffick with no other for it would be an Evil to spend your Corn Wine and Oyl upon the fine trimmed Harlot which yet being so high in Appearance is more then half divided in the true Love's Property Therefore be wise for your selves and scatter not till ye have reaped and got your own Crop in Hearken then and observe this weighty Rule to carry all this high Spiritual Commerce in the hiddenness of the Eternal Spirit There are but few in this professing Age that do understand the rate of that Precious Stone ye are Adventurers for with all those other Celestial Ornaments for to bring in against the Bridal Day which will not be solemnized with the Lamb till ye have fetched in all your Eternal Revenue Therefore be not afraid to urge and to account with your God for what the Spirit of Faith hath sent out for the bringing in that which is of the greatest weight and consideration that hath been known since the World of Creatures hath been existing Ianuary the 7th 1676 7. THis Night I found the Life-Center much open and the Oracle for to sound clear and somewhat to talk with me from the Heavenly Sphear The sum of which was to perswade unto a decease from all that low activity and concern about things and matters Tâ—rrestrial For as I was mourning in the feeling sence of that dark Stone weighing the Superiour part down upon every slight occasion ministred from this Principle Which I found in my very tast to be as brinish Salt Waters that fretted and eat upon that interiour vigorous part of the Spirit so feebling it as its force was evidently felt to be abated until the Shiloh-Spring did open again Which washed up the healing Stone which put all into place and order which by the Corrupter was made diseased Then this Word spake to me Dost
account of him But it was further revealed to me that he was that Alpha and Omega the Second Person who had his Existency from all Eternity and was in a high Priestly Order from the time of Adam's Fall and did Officiat in the Heavenly Sanctuary and real Tabernacle in the Heavens Whereof Moses had a Sight and Pattern given him to figure out according to the low Capacity which the Church in the Wilderness then stood in But this great Melchizedeck incarnated himself in Flesh that he might visibly make an Offering thereof to testifie that an end must be to that weak corruptible and unprofitable state as now henceforth is to be thereunto put by the crucifying what he had assumed that so that mean and despicable Image might for ever be demolished That the first perfect glorious Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedeck might again rise and be in full accomplishment in the Residue of the Anointed hereunto who for this cause are putting off their Vile Body that they might be counted worthy to follow their Melchizedeck King where they shall not only pay their Praise Offerings but receive there a most high Priestly Portion which is an unknown and vast Spiritual income of Riches which shall be brought from all Parts as obligatory Ianuary the 14th 1676 7. In the forepart of the Night being newly fallen asleep I saw the Heavens as it were part and rend and mighty Commotions in it The earthly Inhabitants in great Trouble running up and down as fearing some unexpected Change was coming upon them Which awaked me and there was immediately presented unto my view as breaking through a bright Element two glorified Bodies of a bright Beryl Colour in such a wonderful Portraiture as did excel all I had formerly of this Nature in Vision seen Upon which my Eye kept fixed without any surprize or fear and still it was brought nearer The one seemed in a Manly Vissage and the other as a Woman very Lovely in her Countenance then soon after two or three more broke forth and joyned themselves unto them as in like glorified Figures This Sight was so pleasing that I could not but Pray Oh that we might be added unto them For it was said Behold this is the Lamb and his Bride which first I did see Oh this great Vision had so mighty an Influence upon my Spiritâ— as grievous it was still for to be confined in the Corporeal Body only hourly waiting for to see its Redemption But it was said Abide Patiently till your Salvation shall be fully wrought out then you shall swiftly be cloathed with the self same Body all Spiritual bright and airy as my Bride for to unite in one Body with me Then I replyed Ah my Lord why must this Translation be so earnestly sought and still prolonged It was again answered it was so considerable a Change as could not be without passing through many further Degrees For Sin and Mortality would not be so easily vanquished while we did abide in this tempting Region Ianuary the 15th 1676 7. This Morning it was much upon my Spirit how to quicken our Progress so as to arrive to that Nuptial Conjunction which did open unto me in the Heavens The Spirit sent forth deep and strong Invocations for the Consummation of this high Matrimonial Unity that so we might together display our Loves and Joys to each other in that Spicy perfumed Bed of the Celestial Orb. Oh the Eccho's which I did hear in me sound the Spirit called to the Bride to descend down the Bride called for the Spirit to ascend Thus cry upon cry did as a pure cloudy Incense send out which brought this Answer down Oh ye who are in the betrothed Spirit why may not the assurance hereof yet a while stay your most eager and Spiritual Passions of Love till such time as your Vessels of Clay be turned into the fine Ophire Gold through the working forth of that Saphire Stone that is formed in you Which shall work through all in its degrees till it hath brought you up to that perfect Stature as ye may make challenge with holy Boldness to the Marriage-state according to that pleasant and glorious Manifestation which you did see in the Heavens Which was shewn to you for this very end that so you might see your own Nuptial Day solemnized Before the accomplishing of which yet great Commotions will be permitted as you did see in the Vision See first what is still left alive of your dying part that will mutiny For the Sensitive Life cannot consent that ye should be married away out of their known Linage and Country Therefore they will lie in wait to entercept all Messages and Love-Tokens from your Immanuel to prevent the success of so great a Wedlock change Therefore I the Spirit of your Lord do warn you that you turn away from all self and creaturely Parly The Serpent also will subtlely back with Arguments in forms of Flesh that so ye might grow cold in your Love and slack in your Faith but spur forward and faint not for the everlasting Gate is set open by Soveraign Command The Trumpet doth daily sound to enter into Love's Holy Ground where only the Friends of the Bridegroom shall attend you at the Banquetting Feast of Bread and Wine Now away and draw from all the cursed things of Iericho and you shall meet assuredly your Melchizedeck King with a full Cup of Blessing This receive as a faithful and true saying from the Yea and Amen Ianuary the 20th 1976 7 About the Morning-break as I was contemplating upon the change of the Body for Translation A further Confirmation was given with Joy and Peace unutterable in hope of this Glory to be revealed My Spirit praying that we might obtain Grace for to be admitted of the same Order with our great Melchizedeck This Word immediately sprung saying The way and manner for it hath been most evidently set forth and plainly taught you as my Spirit could demonstrate it unto you You can find no surer Footing then first to be found in the walk of Death Trace it then so throughly till you can see no more Earth yield ye up the utmost ends without any reserve For no mingling state after Death but all immaculate the Feast of Tabernacles to celebrate within the most Holy Place Therefore fear not to pass through this Valley for I the Spirit of Truth will assuredly finish this Mystery because you have applied your Hearts to me having sought Death as a Treasury trying all ways and means for to expire out But as a deadly Enemy that is loath to be conquered it still revives which makes you to suspect that you shall never get rid of this grand and last Enemy but it will still hang a weight disgracing and separating from your high Priesthood But seeing you have cast your selves wholly upon me your Comforter to be advised in this matter Now then know I will cast you with the free
transparent form of God having no more Shadow of Mutation to prevent those higher Degrees of Glorification which but by the ascended cannot be known or felt Hereupon I called all in me to account to be judged by the Superiour Will and Spirit of Light which gave me to see what was in Bondage and what was free that would not now be any longer in Bondage to the Condemnation of Sin Having that Word brought to me to search and find out that Salt Stone that would make all perfectly sound and savoury which the Corrupter had most subtlely defiled For I saw for every Sacrifice to be salted with this Stone of Fire was absolutely necessary for in it lay hid all Perfuming Sweets Therefore an express Charge came down to re-assume it to our selves as the choice Altar-Stone where the unknown Superscription should be written Oh then said the Spirit of Truth ye cannot ask any thing fruitlessly as ye have done do but will and it shall be done Oh that the Most High could have such as were so fixed in Body Soul and Spirit to this all-seasoning Stone of Wisdom as to trust them with this Jewel of Superiority so as to leave all Matters whether great or small with them in whom his Heart might rest That all and every Circumstance of things might be managed for those Ends and Services which might agree with the In-written Name that as a Fountain of Oyl doth run into those Vessels which are seasoned by this Salt Stone of Fire For know in Verity the most Holy hath no pleasure to see his own in this World to live and walk up and down in so mean a Capacity unskilful to set a Foot or Hand to what lieth in the Divine Magia Root Which you may lawfully stir up since for you Christ the Lord hath made the Way by ascending on High for to subdue all things under him that so of the same Power he might subordinately pass away from himself unto you Who calleth you to draw out the Purchase of his Death by like dying and by like immortal Living according to the penetrating quality Which by stirring up may effect thereby great and mighty things answerably to the Wisdom and Soveraignty of Holiness which all as in Inclosure doth lie about this holy thing for you You little know what a Principality is nigh to you but your Superiour Will hath yet somewhat that doth clog its Wheel which is designed for to be the running Chariot whereunto the Spirit of Infinite Might must joyn Now then by all means seek the unthralling of your Will for could nothing mingle therewithal but what did fall from the pure Deity how would you find God all-active in and through you But herein lieth the great Nicety to keep the Will-Spirit untouched that nothing from the Bryery Root doth twist about it if this is kept spotless and free what may you not find Power to do with the Most Holy Observe and keep this great Secret it is from great and high Love that I have given an insight to thee that so all Offences may be removed who would you should come to Reign over all of the Earthly Further of this I besought the Lord might be revealed For the great Depravation was in the matter of the Will for it was shewn me it was unequally yoked and had married strange Flesh from which there must be a Separation by Death Had not the Royal Will yielded to the tempting Eve but had kept its Priority how great and mighty a Lord might Man have been in and over the whole Creation of God having absolute Power in himself But hearkening to the Dalilah that is still acted by the Serpent-like Spirit to this day it becometh successively despoiled of this Lock of Strength and Power and so hereby the Shame of our Nakedness doth appear as to what Cloathing we might have been made known in Had not Adam thus lost his Dignity and so hereby brought forth Fruit unto Death running through all his Posterity in and after the Similitude of his Sin Which hath brought Impotency deflowring us of all that Spiritual Might of this we need no other Proof then what we do each one carry about with us But the great Thing is Oh thou who art promised as the mighty Restorer of this Breach What must we do who are so unavoidably overtaken with the same Thral and come bound with the same twisting Cords which hath altogether weakened the force of our Wills To this great Query as I humbly pursued so I had my desire resolved February the 7th 1676 7. This know and well consider that your Original is from high extracted Matter which is so Eternal that it cannot dye but it stands at the pleasure of the Will what way it will drive forth it self into For now it is a distinct Essence and had it not been corrupted from that simplified Being of Purity you could never have fallen into such an dishonourable state wherein the Royalty of your Power is so withdrawn as ye have no defence nor can make against those numerous Circumstances of Evils that do conspire where they may find degenerated ground for to work upon Now then yet for a more clear and perfect Information what further on your behalf is to be done that the choice faculty of the Will may come to regain its Primary Liberty that so it may have all powerful success as before it was enthral'd by the tempting Eve No other way there is but for the Will to be born again that thereby it may recover its Virgins Might and Force then every right Essence will move and open from pure Nature's Center This Birth is not according to the Will of Man but God Who out and from an infinite Pity and Love is come by Water Blood and Spirit to recover and lift up your relasped Wills that so they may stand upon their true native Prerogative being also set free from the flattering Dalilah which includes the whole variety of all attractive Delights from this Principle that as with Cords hath bound the Will down Oh now then as beloved of your God for ever drink in this Word of Counsel and herein joyn and work with the Spirit of your Lord Jesus who is come to perswade and allure you to fuffer joyfully the breaking up of your whole Earthly Family Which only consisteth of what is indged but lawful and expedient by the false Seers who are Babylon's Merchants But to you I have other things revealed and do incite you to be at variance with whatever will not consist with the new-born Will Who is to be matched with her who is the real Bride and Heir to whom a great Retinue doth belong of which Family you are to bear the Name only Therefore let it not seem grievous to rend and divide from what is of this evil World for verily hereby as God is true ye shall sustain no loss For your Superiour Will will hereby be so free chast pure
crazy Building you may take the Word of your Lord Jesus who by his Spirit is now come to tell you the material Matter of this House which you are to enter upon the Matter and Form of which is God himself Who hath had the Denomination of Old to be the Dwelling-place of his People and the Saints Pavilion throughout all Generations This Building is all of Saphire Stone having perfect measures of Length Breadth and Heights according to the Figure de-declared by Ezekiel who obscurely pourtraied out this high and wonderful Palace for the most holy Priests to enter in and to perform their daily Worship God is not a naked unfurnished House you will find it already provided to your Hand without any care or toil in first second and third Story with suitable Furniture to every place So that you will cry Oh how amiable are the Courts of Holiness Here you will desire to dwell for ever in him who doth so splendorously dilate himself to your Internal Senses that all may have a satisfying Content Now the next thing to be considered is to know what is here included in the Promise Ans. Here is included the whole Number of Divine and Celestial Relations promised upon a new Score of which Iob was a true Similitude who lost all in this very same kind and had all again restored as a Figure of this new replenished state All the Comfort that may be expected further from hence is Marriage-Union From whence Encrease may come without this the other will not altogether perfect the Joy Therefore be assured that Care is taken for this also there is a numerous Off-spring out of this Holy Habitation to be Born Your Father hath already made the Match before Hand before you do come thither All things while you are in this Principle are determined upon Oh! here you will know the unutterable Pleasure of a Bridegroom who will be so intimately tender over you that you shall say Never was such kind of Love known or fathomed when you shall know no more any Interposing Lover but can appropriate each other in all Purity A blessed exchange here will then be understood But yet there are higher Degrees of Joy when you shall bring forth after your own Heavenly perfect Likeness The great Blessing that is promised upon this Conjunction with the Virgin-Bride is Fruitfulness Ye shall also see of the travel of your Spiritual Bodies and therewith be satisfied Wisdom as a fruitful Vine upon the sides of this Eternal House and Building will spread forth her self Consider that of Isaiah which Prophecy is yet to be fulfilled Isa. 49. 20 21. In this time the Children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other shall say the Place is too strait meaning this earthly Principle they cannot thereto be confined they may look into it and pass through it as Strangers to shew themselves as Jesus did after his Resurrection but no continued Habitation for them is here v. 22. But thou shalt say in thy Heart who hath begotten these seeing I had lost my Children and was left alone This represents your dead and deplorable state once and the suddain and unexpected Restoration In that clause Where have they been So that a Nation and Kingdom of Priests seems to be born in one Day This is marvellous indeed when ye shall see your Spiritual Offspring as Olive-Plants about your Table set This must needs heighten your Peace and Joy in him who is your Tabernacle framer who hath such durable and pleasant Comforts provided in this Mountain of Holiness Besides there are also Brethren and Sâ—sters which are born with you from one and the same Eternal Spirit whose Loves are pure and immutable as God's Love is rejoycing Not envying at each others Degrees of Glory No grudgings there is though a Benjamin's Portion be doubled Among these nothing known is but an high sweet refreshing Harmony A blessed Family thus compact It may well make you groan to put off this Earthly House that so this Royal Society may be made known to you And as ye have been long herefrom kept as Exiles so let this true and faithful account which now is given by that Spirit who doth bear a true Witness hereof provoke you this Translation to seek and that withal your Might For the Emphasis lieth in that Word of your Jesus his Promise if you well observe which runs Now in this Time or in this very time signifying all Here to be made good Which will awaken great Persecutions as it is said strange Uproars within and without you Which the Prince of this World will raise when he seeth that any one shall in great earnest resolve to put off all that he can challenge right unto It is the earthly Sinful Body that he disputes for leave it him for after this manner he contended for Moses Body which God had hid Be ye henceforth Exiles here but real Inhabitants with God your appointed dwelling Place Leave this Principle and all what is its own care not but render up what you had from it For when you have quitted all doubt not but the hundredfold will come upon you according as hath been revealed Be you the first Adventurers here for it and ye shall be undoubtedly highly blessed The same Day I had this Word spake in me thy Soul is among tearing Lyons but a Daniel guard is about thee They shall make no Prey whilst thou dost fly to thy Rock for shelter thou shalt see their Mouthes sealed up forcibly February the 18th 1676 7. Arguments to plead with the Lord were given to me this Night Which I found was from the Spirit of Prayer that urged strongly and potently in me for our remove out of this Tent of vile Humanity into what I did in Spirit see Upon which I had this Word spoke to me Be patient in Hope stedfast in Faith ardent in Love and ye will move the Trinity to send forth Decrees for your enlargement Then again was given into me an Idea as the Dr. and I did mutually joyn in Prayer in and for the same thing that our Condition was like to Ionah swallowed up in the Belly of the Whale shut up in the House of Death enclosed in the Body of Sin round which the Seas and Floods did beat upon and the Deeps did roar and boil as a Pot of Ointment All which presented this World with the mutinous Spirits that are as the restless Waves that would as the Belly of Hell devour us if not bounded It was thus shewed to me that the true Prophetical Ionah was in us who was cast into this boisterous Sea which would drown the Prophetical Life but that the wise preventing Love of God hath provided for Ionah's safety in the very Belly of Death Out of this Grave the Lord our God doth hear our Voice though the Earth with her Bars are about us yet said the Living Word out from Corruption your Lives shall be brought Thus
Death shall not at all hurt you let not your Souls faint but direct your Prayers to the Holy Temple that so through great fervency from these nether Depths you may there into enter and from Death's Bands ye shall beloosed The Body of mortality as the Fish shall vomit you up when great IEHOVAH shall once the Word give forth These Openings are still for your Support February the 21st 1676 7. I saw a Vision thus presented to me I did see a green Cloath-Covering which was sown over a White Sheet which was let down and I was bid to unrip it which after a metaphorical manner was done I know not how And under it there were Creeping Creatures that were of a devouring Quality then under the Linnen there appeared a Lamb pure and white with sparkling Eyes as Flames of Fire Which thing considering it was thus opened unto me This was the Face of the Covering that the Word of Command came forth to have unripped and taken off By which the very inward ground might be discovered where the fatned Beasts did lurk under who by the Covering were bounded But now the shame of their Nakedness did appear so as they crept away and could no longer abide by reason of the Lamb's sparkling Eye which caused the Remove to be made saying to me Now give place who am come to scatter and destroy all of this evil quality from before my Face I can no longer bear this Covering upon me this partition Vail must be rolled away even that dark Body of Sin which hath been as a weight upon the Lamb of God Whose Eyes do pierce to find out every thing that hath made a breach that so the Heart of God should not be concealed from you into which you could never see so long as this thick dark Covering remained whereby hid hath been the very Original matter that hath brought in all the Woe and Sorrow For which purpose by way of this Similitude you may come hereby to understand the force of that great Love that moveth to lay all naked and bare that so through the medium of that light Eye which did lie under covert for a time ye might see the Image of that Sin-breeding Beast that could multiply into such encrease under the green Covering Whose Seat and breeding-place shall make discovery to the most innermost Ground unto thee that so thou mayst be at rest from the source of Sin 's working property Let us in the first place now make enquiry into the Originality of this Monster how he came to have a Being For in the beginning of the Paradisical Creation all was created by God comely good and perfect how came then this strange Essence to be brought in to dispoil and alter the whole Heavenly Course of things in this Paradisical Creation Now know that before this there was a Creation of Angelical Hosts as an immediate product from the everlasting Being Who delighted to generate Thrones Mights and Powers that so God through distinct Existencies of Celestial Spirits of that high Angelical Order might come to manifest his Attributes which before lay void and hid in an Eternal Stillness So as here was the Angelical World in pre-existency before the Paradisical The Superiour Heavens were furnâ—shed in the first Place with Dignities suited for God's own peculiar Habitation Of which Number there was a Spirit of high Elevation that did awaken in some of them who were Principalities in this Kingdom to exalt themselves equal or above the Lord their Maker For which cause being cast out from the most meek and holy Presence they consulted how to spoil and infect having great Envy against God's new Creation and formation of Man in and after the express Image of himself This blew up their Coals of Jealousie and fiery Indignation which as deadly Arrows were soon sent forth namely so soon as Adam came to have an existency He must be tried by this subtle Serpent And the first onset was whether they could by their Magical Art cast him into a deadly Sleep that so thereby his Impotency might be manifested stupifying his seven high graduated Faculties Who hereby before he was aware did loose his Virgin generating strength and whereas it was said That God cast him into that Sleep the meaning is God suffered it and permitted the probation to come upon him to see whether he could stand this first Insinuation which was by some secret Poyson that he had drunk in from the fallen Spirits who had somewhat already of their evil Seed cast in In that God said Seeing Man is already fallen from that primary force and strength that he cannot bring forth from that Virgin Female property Now it will not be good for him to be alone he shall have a Companion answerable to his present state which is already lower by many degrees then when the pure immortal Breath did enter in But had Adam with his Eve here staid and had not been brought in a further Premunire Mankind had not seen the Sin fatal Death of Mortality But the Serpent seeing his Invisible Sorcery had taken so good â—ffect he now is more bold to adventure upon the second Tryal suiting his Temptation more subtlely telling them they should be as Gods Which was an inducing Argument at which Sugar-Bait they presently nibled and did eat of it and in that very moment were turned into that mortal Beastly shape the Figure whereof you do to this Day wear But well had it been if this had been all the injury but oh the Serpently Seed was cast in there who at once sent in that Poyson that hath had its death operation ever since Thus you see the Originality from whence ye have derived your Earthly Life of Mortality which is so inherent that as a boiling Source it is maintained from this strange introduced Fire so as though you are in continual Labour to scum off the Filth thereof yet it still renews again So while the root of this corrupt Matter remains your toil fear and care will have no end Now what is it think ye must enter in so deep as to suck out the Serpent's deadly Sting that hath made all this disorder in Nature Many Medicines have been applied and some have been safe and undoubted of yet they have not reached the place of Sin 's Conception to destroy both the Serpently Seed with the first Earthly Eve which is the Mother of all Living in the Earthly Property Her Womb is fruitful still to bâ—iâ—g forth Viperous Thoughts and evil Earthly Motion from a flowing Source throughout all Generations Now you will say how and by what means shall this be remedied You cry the Power is not in us how can that come to be nullified that is so essentially in us The Boughs may while but tender Boughs be bent and when strong grown they may be cropt but the stock as a deep grounded Oak our Arm is too short to reach We cannot move it the very Earth will
rend and shake when ever it shall come to be displaced Hear now and consider ye whose lawful Objection is come before me it is granted to you that the everlasting Father through the Mightiness of the Spirit in the Lamb's Nature must displace for you the Root of this Oak that is so deeply rooted in the Ground of Nature But what Tool or Instrument will he take in his Hand but the Ax of your Wills Then a through stroak will he strike by the piercing Eye of his Spirit who seeth the very depth from whence its Essence doth proceed For without a discovery made where the Cause of this defect is nothing hereof could be made or for you wrought out Therefore the Lamb of God is come the Vail of Covering to unspread that so by the sparkling Fire of his Eye ye might see from the Depths beneath the Birth-Source of Sin which doth open wide Also with the same Eye ye may behold within the heights of Sion a flowing Ocean of molten Gold to this for healing do ye fly For no other Medicine can heal the Sâ—rpent's Sting within you These are the Golden Floods which by the Spirit are daily poured forth to drown the first Birth of Eve that so an end may be of that generating Source and her Womb for ever henceforth may come to be barren in you To which end Orders and Decrees are made in Heavenly Places that Virgin-Wisdom shall take place in her room and her Seed shall be destructive to the Serpent's and to all his Hierarchy and you shall see his Head-Power bruised to purpose when all Sin in its Originality shall be blotted out by the Hand and working Source of the Deity Who will give also to you the Key and Chain of Power that so in the Name and Authority of the Lamb ye may take hold on the Dragon and bind him and shut up his flowing Source of Evil and with the Seal of the Living God to seal him up that he may find no way to come out of his own Lake to corrupt or deceive you any more Then you will begin in all stillness upon the Earth the Reign of Christ within the pure Region of Wisdom's Climateâ— For in the Singular Number it will begin to work forth The Day therefore is near or far off according as ye are carried forth in Zeal Power and Faith hereunto giving up your selves totally to observe the Word of Wisdom In which whosoever are found so doing they shall all be Crowned with this Diadem of Power February the 22d 1676 7. This Word spake thus to me do ye joyntly put on the Body of the Love in which the Spirit of Jesus will make known the Father of Glory to you for an Everlasting Reconciliation as to Children new born February the 24th 1676 7. Feeling great Peace and Joy so long as I could restrain the moving acting Life of Sin then I did obtain near access to the most Holy during the seasons and times when I could reign over all the Region of Natural Sence Which the Interiour Spirit may thus keep upon its Watch-Tower so it would then be altogether a subject meet for the Holy Trinity to open the Depths belonging to their Immense Love-Being Which by reason of these Cloudy Vails are little understood for when I did measure my self at such a time when so raised as to desert all that might be called carnally rational then little enough I seemed to be so light and so free so purely sprightly to pass through the Glassy Gâ—te But while I am again cast into the Nature of a gross thick Body tinged with Sensibility then no Ability there is for me to pass where I would As the Day and Night be thus in a moment still of force to oppose each the other in the divided Property till the everlasting Day of the Spirit shall altogether dis-inherit the dark benighted Sense Whereof hopes given are by that Spirit who thus spake from my Lord Jesus putting this Question unto me saying How dost thou think it possible to know the Majesty who is encircled in such excessive Light whilst thou livest in so many Degrees below the Seraphick sphere For great is the remoteness that may be from hence to them Who altogether are confined to a Terrestrial state For in that Word is weight that divided hath the Spiritual in and from the Natural Who is uncapable to know discern or judge of any matter but what is his own that is which lieth within the Sphere of his understanding as a rational Man who is wise for himself Which Wisdom is all to protect and hold up and save what is to be cast down and be destroyed Thus the Serpently Birth of Wisdom will hold its own in opposition to the pure meek essential Being and Birth which is from the Spirit Who is a great Sufferer while he is so near adjoyned to the Natural Man who is a fit Recptacle for what this evil Principle can shake him withal which the Prince and great Commander of this World will enough of this trash and earthly stuffâ— load him withal to give the mind full employ to prevent that which is Sublime and Celestial Therefore in vain the Scripture hath not said None can know the Thoughts of a Man save the Spirit that is in him that is none can pry or reach into the subtlety of the deceitful Heart that is working and busie minding and Plotting to compass the heighth of earthly things to which his Life would wholly extend As desiring to know nothing more or above or beyond his Natural Sphere being satisfied with the sight of his Eye with the hearing of his Ear being wholly taken up with what is mistred from this mortal state which finds out a daily variety to hold this Life in Captivity Thus you see the Earthly Man made out he is distinct from the Heavenly He knows nor perceives nothing of the Spiritual Man's concerns but as living in one and the same Body hath great advantage to interfere and cast in many times his cloudy Reasonings This natural part as the Night doth cleave to the Day but yet they have their divided Court they may be possiby kept a part through the constant Watch and Calling in Wisdom's succour and aid Eve's Birth is yet permitted thus near Immanuel's Nature to live for probation For the Dragon must try successively upon every one his Temptation Which could not be if he had not recourse to Eve's depravity that hath lodged you in Elementary Bodies by which the Strife is occasioned For the Serpent doth make great claim to what he finds sticking and still abiding within the corporeal case Which hath so degraded you as to the Visibility of and from that God-like Image in which ye once were considered as now verily ye little differ from that low degree of the pure Animal Creatures but that your inward Mind is yet of a superiour Magnanimity that was still kept and preserved within
Flaming Glassy Sphear that will make your Bodies Clear and Shining as the terrible Chrystal Oh then qualified Seraphick-like enter into that Jasper City which is all Light where-unto coming the Pearly Gate will open wide the Door-keeper there knoweth well who are worthy having the Register Book in his Hand where-into will be given you to look that so ye may see your own Names and thereby have boldness to enter among this great and glorified Assâ—mbly Where a Seat among the Elders is prepared when once arrived here you are past all future Dangers and Fears Who but the great and mighty God and King so soon as you do here appear will hold out his Golden Flaming Scepter and bid you draw more near and take knowledge of him who hath thus prepared all these good things after so much Tribulation suffered in the Flesh for the Over-comers Therefore saith the All-searching Spirit who hath foreseen all this for you think not much that ye are called hereby out from all Terrestial Things yet to be a great Seperatists from all of this visible Creation and from the Inhabitants that are so strongly centred with the Earthly Life who may infect you with their poysonable Fumes and spot your Paradisical Lilly while it is upon its new Blossoming for to this End I have revealed these great things of Paradice and of the Holy City to you that so it might be as strengthning Food while ye are in the Warfaring state Care not to save that Life which stands upon Worldly Interest but study daily to loose it then shall you surely find that and much more than is yet declared of the things of God For greater Secrets within the Bosom of Eternity may yet be revealed to the Spiritual Man Who shall for this purpose and use give up their pure Minds to Wisdom's private Cabinet for to be filled with her daily Treasury Whose delight is much with such who do stand clear from all Creatures who are apt to ensâ—are with corrupt Communications For who doth know the full Extent of that Natural Law but such as have received it from the Mouth of Jesus none else are under such a strickt Obligation Therefore upon you who have so greatly sought this Favour as to come within the compass of the Nazarite Vow keep to it and do it not forsake upon your Spiritual Life Peril But if to this Vow ye do keep then all those rich and unutterable Perfections of Glory which are in Paradise and Mount Sion shall be your Portion and Reward While this was Opening upon the Author the Distinction of the Mount Sion and the Jerusalem-state was not yet so clearly revealed to her whence she comprehendeth them here in one which was afterward more distinctly and fully Opened in the Revelation of the Eight Worlds as they were made known gradually and Experimentally to her Which she thinks fit to declare in this Place as well with relation to this as to some other Passages which she would not at all alter but leave in its first native simplicity in which it was delivered down March the 5th 1676 7. Rules given how a Spiritual Man is to walk towards God and those that are without who are not in the discerning of the Lord's Temple-Body into which there must be no thrusting in that which is unhallowed FIrst as to the Lord the Spiritual Man stands in that high Relation as he is perfectly under the Law and type of such an Eternal Obligation as to do nothing but by Counsel Commission and Ordination still having recourse to God as his Father and to the Lord Jesus and to the Spirit of Wisdom who is at hand to direct every Thought Word and Motion Be chast keepers at home is a Spiritual Charge upon the Spiritual Man in God his Habitation Where all his Content and Pleasure is to be taken up not gadding with the Eye of his Mind out of this Spiritual Holy Place Now as to Creaâ—urâ—s how to walk to them who are of the Earth All care is to be had to maintâ—iâ— a wise and holy distance as our Lord Jesus did giving no offence to the Caesars of this World about their Dues But have no Fellowship or Conversation more than what is of absolute Necessity For he can hardly match our spiritual Man to any Being that will suit it but God himself into whose Bosom it will fly like to an eageâ— Bird. Remembring we are to be redeemed from Men and not to walk as Men in the Flesh but as those who are justified in the Spirit Keeping Company with the Flocks that are come forth all washed in the Blood of the Lamb who is that Shepherd who will sound his sweet ecchoing Trumpet of Peace Love and Joy wherewith we may be so inebriated as not to go out of this Fold to other strange Flocks where only Goats are who are excluded from the great Shepherd March the 7th 1666 7. This Word came also to me I again will choose a Disciplehood upon the Earth who shall know me in my inward Spiritual Figure as I was known in former times by a terrestial Voice and Shape Now I will walk again upon an invisible Earth where none but the Spiritual Man can understand my Speech or see my transformed Shape To such who are my chosen Disciples I will appear familiarly Behold I am upon a new Election to call such who are found in the Crown number Roll. Now one by one till an encrease may be of this holy Priesthood to the Hundred and forty four thousand Blessed are they who are the first foundation Pillars of this Virgin Church upon which I can allow to be found neither Wrinckle or Spot for if Faulty I cannot be their Head to walk among those who in any wise are Defective For the Case is now clean altered of what it was in the days of my Infancy when I broke forth in the fleshly Form it was of necessity a Tribulated suffering State should succeed after me that so Sin might expire through daily Dyings which did take great effect among my Disciplehood in that Age but they deceasing before he reaching to that perfect Date of what was to be the Churches glorified State Now something greater and more perfecâ— is to be revealed after so long and cloudy a Day of Apostacy A sparkling Star shall rise out of that Orb and Climate whereof it shall be said this is Wisdom's fruitful Day out of whose eternal Morning Womb ye shall see bright Stars of Glory generated for a glorious Temple Who then will now sound this my Trumpet and will call to break away from their iron Yoaks to come to be dignified as hewed Pillars for Wisdom's Temple to be built upon Oh! what saith the Spirit who shall I find that can say accept of me for holy Use who without shadow of change will no more turn into this World For such a Pure and Apostolical Foundation the Father of Spirits will lay for his corner
toiling Day into which all are fallen but can bear the Burthen as if it were indeed a Paradisical Sphere so lightly hath the whole Creation yet cared for its relasped state How choice and few are those that do seek herefrom to be released being of that Perswasion that the Earthly with the Heavenly must unseparably grow together as Twins Which is not so determined by the great God and Creator but he doth still expect that through the many depressions both in Spirit and Body some one or other are this long-run out time would be so weary of the Body of toil sorrow and Sin as to violate upon the Love Pity and Power of God the Father who cannot resist to send forth saving Succour to ransom such as still do fill his Ears with Cries and Groans for Redemption out of that which is the external Original matter of all and every kind of thraldom Hearken now and hear the Glad-tydings which is sent from your Father to you who hath taken notice of your travelling Sorrows while yoked with that Man upon whom Sentence is past that he might live by care and labour yet to you I say he shall not always and for ever be your clog There is a Birth of Strength upon the rising that will easily throw off this depressing Weight Yet a little while and the Iron-rod shall rule the Man of Sin so as to divide him from thee Many ways have been tryed to make him dye but all have been too short for he hath been a Warriour from his Original Sin-Conception and will keep the Field of this out-birth as he hath done from Adam's Day What hopes then say you that out of us he shall be thrown out for here I did object in Love Fear and Faith that many worthy Ones had striven hard to conquer by Death some of whom did go very far but scarce in any did this Death-Arrow so hit as to obliterate Sin altogether in its Root Then was it replyedâ— It is sufficient that one was perfect and just without Sin in a humane Figure then was that Scripture spoken in me Rom. 5. 19. As by one mans disobedience so by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous The Words were thus opened by the Spirit who said God revealed to Paul in his Day that nothing less was designed than a full and clear Acquitment from that first Man which did so naturally work in toyl and labour bringing only forth Fruit unto Death And who but that Man called the Branch shall answer to that defectiveness in abolishing the very Sperm of Sin that as nothing thereof could be found in himself so likewise in those who are elected for to be in joynt Heir-ship in the Kingdom of Mount Sion with him Whereunto he translates none till the old Adamical Life is laid in an everlasting Sleep of Death no more to awake for Contempt and Shame As often now it doth which hath stopped the New Ierusalem from descending down because once hath been perfect ready to meet this heavenly City Therefore saith the most Holy and True another manner of Church must be gathered from among Men who out of the Womb of that first Morning Star that is now upon breaking out a Star-like Off-spring is to proceed that shall go forth with the iron Rod of Power and dash in pieces every one of the Dragons Heads till this Church be born upon the Earth Who all are of Angelical Natures till then expect no Power over the Dragons and Beasts to reign To you who Numbred are to bear the Lambs Trophies stand to your Virgin Call fly not from her innocent White Colours whatever shall be here said against her If ye shall be the first born Star who shall shine upon Wisdoms Crown the Loves eternal Testimony for this end hath opened the clear Body of the Heavens that ye might understand what may be looked for in this Age. Therefore do you stand as mighty and immoveable Pillars for the Lamb and the Brides Church and great Indignation have against those that would it down decry Fear not those pushing Horns that war here against her she will make the glittering Sword of Power to be your defence against all your Enemies Be not troubled at the fewness of your Number for out of one or two that shall be perfect in their Generation a strange Generation may proceed who all mighty Warriours shall be for God and the Lamb to follow him in trampling down all earthly Powers Keep but up to your Leaders and ye need to fear no ill for invisible Seraphims shall still pitch a mighty Pavilion round about you March the 20th 1666 7. Thus ended this Revelation from the Vision I had seen which left a sweet perfumed Sence of Love Peace and Joy to feed upon Another Idea was presented to me from the History of Ahashuerus and Vashti his first espoused Queen Who by her act of Disobedience to her Royal Consort was banished his Throne This Word with great Power did through me sound A Virgin Queen among the Captives shall be found that shall be crown'd in the room of Vashti Then saw I one in the similitude of a Woman cloathed with Scarlet which was said This is one of Wisdom's Houshold who but she for the King of the New Ierusalem whose Garment is of an unstainable Dye From hence the Spirit made use of the whole literal Discourse Ahashuerus Vashti and Esther The most high Majesty hereby Figuring out himself having created and made for the Excellency and Glory of his Kingdom according to the state of so wise and infinite a Being That so he might take Pleasure in all the Glory and Riches of his Kingdom or Creation being all made perfect and good and high Princely Angels and Powers for Attendance As also Creating one more Noble Image as Male and Female who was in Election to be advanced to very high Dignity no ways inferiour to any Princely Spirit in the Angelical Figure But now the Sovereignty of the most High resolved to try this his new formed Creature with a Law of Restriction as from the Lord their Maker and Husband who might well expect a ready and punctual Obedience Who Vashti like was disobedient to the great King's Command and so thereby was turned into an earthly Eve and immediately banished out from the high Throne Presence For else it would have been an ill President if God should not thus have done the heavenly Hierarchy might have questioned God's immutability and thereby have taken advantage to deviate from those known Angelical Laws which the great Creatour had to them perfixed Thus much was opened of this Original Eve from whence the contradicting and slighting Vashti Spirit doth proceed The true Virgins Life which the first formed Man was once in is now as to him and all of his Posterity carried away as a Captive and sold for nought For this Virgin Nature was wholly taken away upon this act of Disobedience Who
the Kingdom of his Father Then this was also noted to me from hence that had not Christ come down into a Body the highest Saint could have attained no higher State than Paradice though endued with all the internal Excellency from the Word of Life as a Seed incorporating with it For their highest dimensions was Adam's Paradise beyond which Region neither Patriarchs nor prophets did arrive before Christ's appearing in the World Therefore you see Christ imbodying himself in a Terrestial Form brought forth many considerable Advantages if they may now be considered of by the wise hearted so as to wait and expect the fruits of that additional Spirit that is some degrees higher than any Seraphick Flame of Light Believe it and know it that this Breath of Fire breathed and sucked in will melt away all your gross Metalline Corporeity April the 18th 1677. The True Shunamite As soon as I awaked in the Morning this Word spake in me What is to be done for thee Wouldst thou be spoken for to the King This Word I pondered often upon what should be the meaning hereof and for what intent it did so speak Which after some days was thus resolved that such who signatur'd are with Spiritual Generosity and Largeness of Love answerably to that Shunamite who was so careful of Elisha as to provide for his Entertainment even so grateful would Christ the true Spirit of Prophecy be unto them who have such a Proof of Love and Esteem for him as to furnish out a most holy separate Place for this Prophet still to turn in into First then it was given me herefrom to observe that this Shunamite as she did understand him to be a Man of God gave him great Reverence and would not lodge him in her own mixed Family as judging none there worthy of his Conversation and therefore did on purpose build a place of Apartment for vacancy that this holy Seer might have opportunity for enquiry with the Deity Therefore she took care he should not be disturbed Then further this Word came unto me as not only for Council but for Information that Knowledge was taken of such a true Shunamite who was in Council with her Eternal Mate that had prepared according to this similitude for this Spirit of Prophecy a most holy inward place with a true Spiritual furnishment of what was necessary to tempt this true searching Seer to take up here his abode Then was it shewn me what I did not know to be in my self so clearly thus figured out dstinctly by way of Allegory First a new Edifice on purpose was framed by the wise Master Builder in us Then a Table-Heart in which the Law of Love was written Then a Bed for to give ease and rest to our Beloved that he might not be as a wayfaring Man Know this in each of us so furnished out as his own home where we might retire to him in the Light and Spring of Understanding Which is the Candlestick and Candle fixed in us before-hand without which no comfortable abode for this Prophet would be in us Then again the Stool signifies a quiet fixation with us without weariness a blessed contentation In that there is but one Seat it shews that here is an excluding of all other out of this Place The Elisha Spirit admitteth none to sit with him in his Lodging for this sitting or waiting posture is proper for the Spiritual Diviner that night and day may minister hereupon Upon this I did receive an approbation or Sealing Word for good Hope and rich Consolation to us who could witness that large generosity of Spirit in Love to this Prophet before whom we are called to stand Who did put indeed and verify this Question a second time unto me saying What shall be done for you who have cared all this Care for me in giving me a place of Apartment where nothing might mingle with me Tell me now what I shall speak on your behalf whether to the King or Captain of his Host The King here represents God the Father the Captain your Lord Jesus the Elisha Spirit the Holy Ghost Either of them both can be heard at all times Therefore see that ye be free in Humility with your Prophet Now having such a Grant made to me I consulted how to act the part of a wise Shunamite though I could and might take herefrom great Liberty yet I am taught to weigh all my Request that nothing rash or unadvised may proceed from me Oh my Lord and great Prophet I cannot compare with the Shunamite in all things who said That she was in her own Land and People But we may be said to be on some account as exile Captives while living in Elementary Bodies also in a Land under Babylonish tribute which is very grievous to the Supernal part Who knows its own true Nativity as seeing through the Glass of Eternity what we once were in pre-existency But now as existing in Forms of Mortality it cannot be said that we need nothing further in the highest degree of this Terrestial state Therefore in blushing Fear and holy Modesty I did declare the Sense hereof to my Prophet If now my Lord will speak for this unto the great and mighty King and Captain of the Lord's Host that we may have release out of all Babylonish thrall and be brought back again to our own People to dwell in the Heavenly City What greater express of kindness can be compassed for us by the Prophet But the Spirit of Elisha replyed to me There is yet a greater thing then this of which thou hast made no mention that must go before it Which is the one pure Elementary Birth for that which is born from beneath of fleshly Corporeity can never be gathered among those Celestial Denisons till immortaliz'd with pure and Aethereal Bodies Ah my Lord if so what hopes can there he for us who are so united unto this out-Birth Then said the Prophet Be quiet and still and after a while this pure Birth that is all of Spirit may freely Spring in which you will pass where you so much long and desire for to dwell But then this was further revealed that many would be the cross workings of this Worldly Element therefore very wary we must be to avoid all Minglings with it For we stood here upon a very nice point therefore know and be only conversant with this God-Man from whom is diffused that which is of pure Birth Impregnancy that will excell in Perfection all of former Births Yet said the Prophet consider further this If you do attain to this Birth know while ye are in this Principle it is not out of all danger Hazards do attend it as in the case of the Shunamite while but in the Childish state The Four Elements may specially be in strife against the Life hereof when the Elisha-Power may be with-drawn away Therefore keep up all Love and sweet Correspondency with this Spiritual Prophet that ye may
True it is that thou lovest the Lord thy God with thy whole Soul and Spirit which is more then all Burnt-offerings or Worship though spiritually instituted yet this is not enough For Love as it may work in an ardent Spirit by and through internal flowings to the Object may stop again This many have reached unto and yet have doubted in it again Therefore God would have a pledge left in his hand something given him as a fruit of Love to wit Life it self must seal the Truth hereof as going along with it Christ was put upon giving this proof to his Father not only in bare love but by laying down of his Life for which saith he I am beloloved of my Father Iohn 10th So as God had this proof from him so he expects the same from you who if you love the Father and Him then his Commands will not be to you grievous Ye will then observe all the Antecedents belonging to this Law of Love Which Love rightly born carrieth a mighty force with it it cannot deny or keep any thing back from that which it is centred in as hath been evidenced by those great Saints before Christ's Manifestation and since As Abraham he did unfeignedly love God when he forsook his own People and Land of his Nativity to go where the Lord gave him a word of Command to go yet this was not sufficient but ye did see God would prove him further as in Isaac's death Which when God saw that he stopped not in that which touched the very Life nay then said the Lord Because thou hast done this thing in blessing I will bless thee I am now sure thou lovest and fearest me and therefore God will be thy exceeding great reward which the Patriarck did fully witness in his day Numerous instances might be added out of the Scriptures hereunto as also the late and private experiences of holy Souls that have been obedient to that true Prophet and Seer that daily giveth and maketh known the Councel of God Under which seal opening ye are come To which Spirit of Wisdom give now an obedient Ear saith the Holy and True Upon this I made my application in great earnestness according to that Power and Life that stirred in me being greatly distressed to know what was further to be given up and parted withal that consisted in the power of our own Wills having gone far in the self-abnegation suppressing and keeping under the earthly part that so sin could not reign but be kept under condemnation So as to this degree some are come As I was thus silently in the Spirit of my Mind parling this word was uttered to me All this is acceptable but the very giving up of the Life must be that my Name may be written in the very Blood thereof and be returned in a Life-quickning Spirit again Then will the property of that which was dull dark and corrupt become all light vigorous pure and Chrystalline as the Spirit of Christ was in the Corporeal Figure The same Mind which only respects things that are above in the Fathers Kingdom of Glory is to be in you as it was in Jesus your Lord. For this is the sum and head to which all Prophecies and Revelations tend even the finishing of this Mystery Christ the Light Wisdom Power and Righteousness of God Which can be brought to pass only by giving up and laying down our Life as to all sensitive properties which is the highest and most resolute act of the Will-spirit to give its Name up thus and to subscribe your Spirit Soul and Body in the Blood of that Life that must die that so Christ may be only alive in you And albeit while ye are laying down with great reluctancy that Life which is so agreeable to this terrestrial Life because of contempt and dishonour that it suffers hereby As your Lord in his Crucifixion went through so by your spiritual mystical giving up your Lives though as to this worlds eye in shame rebuke and weakness yet in Truth and Verity it shall rise in Strength Victoâ—â— and Power in Ghostly Majesty whereby ye will possess the Gates of your Enemies This is most wonderfully deep if it may be fathomed by the Spirit in you May the 11th 1677. My Spirit entred into a deep sense upon some occasion that was administred how apt it was for such who had taken upon them part of the Ministry to ingross and confine it to Persons and Sexes and to bring down the superior Spirit and Light under the inferiour Government of the low and mean Spirit that respecteth man and savours that Glory which is after the Flesh. For Christ told the Jews they loved the praise of men more than that of God in that they sought honour from one another as the great and learned Rabbies who in their high learning despised an illiterate Christ as they called him From whence I did observe that the leaven of such a Spirit might be ready to mingle with some in this present Age though partly illuminated in and through the knowledge of the Mystery of God in Christ As I was pondering I say and considering these things in my Mind and making request that nothing of the exterior might have wherein to glory but that God would appear in such as little and nothing were in their own account and that all Flesh might be silent that Spirit might only go forth in its own Power and Clearness Upon this I had a full gust come in upon me with this word speaking in me There is a Gospel that nothing of man shall mingle with that shall only be intrusted with such Child-like Spirits For which nothing of the Creatures Testimony will be needed for it will be the Breath of an irresistible Power of which none shall be ashamed Then was that Scripture the next Morning spoken to me Be not slothful but followers of them who through Faith and Patience inherited the Promises Which word was taken up by the Spirit and spoken audibly unto us upon the account of thatâ— which opened before in way of Prophecy as to that unmixed Ministration that should arise in some qualified for it Of which much was revealed in the discoursive way of the Spirit that there was now given to all an open Door that would look hereinto from that in the Heb. 6. v. 11. where Paul directs this word in general to the whole Body consisting of Men and Women And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope to the end Here is none left out but both Sexes implied Whose work and labour of Love in Ministring to their fellow Saints according as they had tasted and received of the heavenly Gift God was not unrighteous to forget Therefore from hence he did incite them to go forward not excluding the Female but laying it as a weight upon both Male and Female as all one in the Spirit to shew the same diligence
your selves lie waste Then again this word met me Take heed of the Commonsewer that corrupteth the whole Earth that it break not in upon you For it is a Noah's flood it will sweep all away that are out of God's Ark. Upon which warnings I guirded up upon my Watch-Tower to hear what would be further opened to me Having had somewhat yesterday passing through me upon Abimelechs taking Sarah from Abraham The Meaning of it was this day made out further unto me the Spirit taking up that Scripture as in way of a Parable to shew us the danger in passing through with the Virgin Mind amongst Foreigners and Strangers though not intending to take it up as a dwelling place but only to sojourn as Abaham did in Gerar. Iune the 24th 1677. Now after this manner the Spirit did parly or commune with me Know that ye have had a call to pass out from among the throng of the worldly Spirits whereof Abraham was a type whom God called to sojourn as a Stranger removing from place to place till he did come to live alone by himself and to be planted as a Root for a mighty Off-spring Wherefore the Most High had designed him and so Abraham with his Sarah went through the Philistines Country and was in danger to have had Sarah violently taken from him who was to bring â—orth the blessed Seed Even so it was opened after a high mystical manner that this Abraham did represent the Spirit of Faith whom God would bless and make fruitful through Marriage-union with the Virgin Wisdom And it was further shewâ— me that there should be a Male and a Female that would be made choice of to bring forth an eternal spiritual Off-spring for a true Church Which should be known from all others by terrible things wrought in righteousness through the Ghostly Power breaking forth And therefore note and observe said the Word of Life whether or no God in the Spirits voice hath not spoken to you to come out of the Chaldeans Country considered both as to the vain evil conversations of Persons without and to internal Spirits within the Region of the Mind from both which there is to be a real departure out And as there are two Persons that are thus to be deputed visibly who are to wiâ—hdraw and and plant themselves as out of all other gathered Fellowships of the World So are they to be extraordinarily endowed in giving proof of Love Faith and Obedience to him that hath power thus to dignifie and make blessed God knows Abraham was such as one as would approve himself in all perfect walking before him and answer whatever Trust was committed to him by the Most Holy and just one to keep every Charge and Command given as did appear when he came out of his own Land to go where he knew not Now it was from hence revealed that those who shall be counted worthy to bring forth a pure spiritual Generation must come out internally as well as externally from that Native Country where numerous Spirits that have no Visible Bodies do dwell and have their concourse in the Mind after a magical manner Now here will be the trial for to go through their Eartbly Regions and not be hurt For no sooner did Abraham falter in his Faith through fear but his Spouse was taken away which if he had kept up in the majesty and authority of Faith and had owned her then the dread of that Power and Spirit of Faith and the Virgins Beauty and Innocency would have been upon Abimelech so as there would not have been any attempt of that kind From whence this was a warning councel in particular unto us given in our present journying on through strange People and Nations which lie in our way before we can come to Hebron the City of David our King And these are mystically opened from within us as occasions offer from without For the Prince of this World knowes herein he hath great advantage while but passing through his Dominions he will have one device or other against those who are designed to pitch their Tents remote from his Territories Therefore he doth bestir himself to raise all Forces to stop their Progress that if possible he might keep them under his Arbitrary Power Seeking always of subtilty to weaken the hand of Faith by alluring away the Virgin Love and so he would make a separation For in the pure conjunction of Faith and Love they are knit together as the Bridegroom and the Bride to travel together till they obtain the promised Seed To whom all excellency of strength doth belong and Wisdom to govern those Nations that would usurp an evil Power over the blessed Seed Oh saith the living Oracle take heed of denying your pure heavenly Mate that is found in the comely dress of Love Purity Meekness simplicity and holiness For this is that vertuous Woman who is a Crown to her Lord and Husband She will never depart from him without she be disoâ—ned through fear and incredulity None shall imbrace her but the Arms of Faith If she at any time be violated from her true Abraham she will be as the Ark that will bring plagues and and death upon those that would engross her to themselves from him whose true Spouse she is Therefore consider this O ye to whom this word and councel is givenâ— Keep up Faith in its own true Royalty Fear not Earthly Powers While ye must pass through their Land Trust in Iehovah your sheild Forfeit not that Dowry which the Virgin Spirit of Love will bring to you Be watchful to strengthen what is in you already wrought that ye may not lose what ye have thus far â—un and suffered for even so you will find the Sealing Power from the Amen Iune the 30th 1677. The Birth of Cyrus The Voice of the Daughter of Sion cried in me what ailest thou who art travelling for the Birth of Power Faint not for it is a God Almightiness that will be the issue of all those internal pangâ— of her who is travelling in the greatness of his strength Every Arm of created Power is too short to bring it forth God must bring forth God Then queried my Spirit where and how and after what manner will be so marvelous a thing Sure nothing of mortality can compass such an Immensity as a Gods excellency in this World to be manifested No said the Spirit of Councel the Terrestrial Man cannot have any share herein either to conceive or bring it forth But yet such may be the high act of Love in the Most Holy as to open his Mighty Name Iehovah through that mean form of Mortality and send forth somewhat of a deified express of his Existency in terrestrial Creatures so as to make them signifie unto the World what power it is that moves through them Who have been in strong and unwearied travel for this all-saving Birth of Almighty Power For indeed such a Birth is needed in the
Posture The Prince of Might yet hath no Birth in the World for to bring into existency this New Creation Who then shall be the beginning of this Celestial World seeing that from some one or other the Birth of this Creating Power must go out Oh by whom shall Iacob's Star arise that is to bear the â—â—cepter of Power and Dominion that is to overturn the whole Scene of present things which hath been under oppression Iuly the 11th 1677. As to this some days after I was answered with good and comfortable words that we might not sorrow as those who do see nothing of this rising day For while my Spirit was groaning in the Kingdom of Tribulation and Patience I heard this sweet saying The Birth is Love That shall restore the Kingdom of Ioy and Power And as it doth grow near the Pangs of Love will flow upon you which will be Sions mighty deliverance Therefore revive when Loves throws do take hold upon you for it certainly foreruns the breaking forth of the Son of Ioy and Strength who will rule the Earth and ease the Nations of their Burthenâ—â— Griefs and Torments Then was somewhat opened to me of the Mystery of a great Key which I did see in way of Vision held out unto me which was so great and weighty that I made question in my self whether I could carry it and was loth to take the burthen of it not then understanding the intent why it was shewn and tendred But this Morning considering hereof a voice did sound through me This is the mighty Birth-Key which shall open the New Ierusalem Glory No terrestrial Being can it hold for it is all massy and refined Gold that will open the seven-fold Wonder and unlock every unknown Treasury which hath been sealed from the foundation of the World â— hen was it highly impressed upon me what this Key did further signifie unto us Then another word did swiftly put forth in me saying Those to whom this is given will have power to bind or loose to shut or open to kill or save alive and also to charge or discharge from the guilt of siâ— For it is the Key of Knowledge and sound Judgment and acteth absolutely in the express Power of the Most High to fulfill every jot and tittle of his Eternal Will God the Father will well satisfie himself in such whose propriety it shall be to possess this all powerful Key Ah my Lord is there any â—ow abiding in corporeity that is so eyed by thee to be an Instrument to act in the Power of this mighty Key Sure no Prohibition or Decree is gone forth but some one or other may be designed by thee hereunto in this Age. But then the Spirit said they must be such as are annointed with that high Composition Oyl which at once doth clarifie and perfume as an attoning Incense whose flame never goeth out till this Key be wrought out in the Fire Center Then was this word of Councel given unto me Set a work all your present force and might it will be worth the laying out all your cost and labour hereupon You have an all-skilful Guide that is master of this Mystical Science but he loveth not to have to do with any Spirit that is divided with one Eye looking forward and with the other backward He knows he shall never have Honour or Credit by such as are halting between two Principles sometimes rising up in the Fiery Wheel of Faith then sinking down in the Leaden Scale of Sense which bringeth back what Faith hath brought forward Which is the great Energy that giveth the formation to this all-sovereign Key that is prophecied of but none have been found here for worthily qualified of many Generations past Therefore neglect all things of this low Region that so you may make this your entire business From which let there be no starting as ye would enjoy the blessed Projection of this Key that will open for you and will unfold to you the 1000th Number in Wisdom's Roll. Iuly the 12th 1677. As my Mind was contemplating of the great advantages that an Eternal Almightiness would bring in to such who would thereby endeavour wholly to deâ—â—â—â— and make an end of sin There was suddenly a very fit similitude set before me in order to this to shew what would be effectual thereunto There appeared a bright Jasper Body or Person in the middle of whose Breast was set a Pipe of Gold Colourâ— and two more each one out of his side the one was of Scarlet Colour the other White or Glassy This was a very suitable Idea to the present concern of thoseâ— who did know themselves to be under a mourning state of indigency upon an eternal account For whose revivingâ— this word did further proceed Whoever there be who do thirst to drink out here in nakedness of Spirit let them draw near for only pure simple naked Spirits can suck here After this Voice the Intellectual Spring did freely run and made me capable of more deâ—p reception concurring with the tâ—â—e Inspiratour who did give me to understand the use and operation of these conveying Powers shewing what the Virtue of each Pipe was As first that in the midst of the Breast signified the sending forth the â—â—ction of Spirit The Scarlet Colour'd Pipe the Bloodâ— that is the Life of the Heavenly Body anâ—â—â—â—d to it The third Pipe was the 〈◊〉 Water which keeps and maintains all in an immaculate Life of Purity Out of these the Divine Nature is extracted And who ever do not lay their internal Spirits to suck out of these Pâ—pes can never arrive to any strong Spiritual Stature For what doth it avail to have the knowledge and revelation of this in Mystery and be at a spiritual distance herefrom If Jesus while iâ— visible Corporeity had not lain close to his Fathers heart drawing continually although highly Fssenced in Spirit yet he could never have grown if he had not derived fresh Infiniteness of Strength and Power to hold up the God head Soveraignity in the Manhood So likewise the Spirit herefrom did teach us that we should strive to reach to the heart of Iesus in Spirit Here did meet me this Objection But how shall we thus abstractedly have access in our Spirits to our 〈…〉 is in his Personalâ—â—y all 〈…〉 and we in bodies of 〈…〉 so that we know not how to meet him This Question was thus resolved me These Pipes like Iacob's Ladder were fixed for descending Powers to descend through them It is granted that we cannot reach up to our Lord till we have a full grown Spiritual Body Therefore this mystical way of conveyance is contrived to bring us up to that high degree of fellowâ—hip with the Trinity though no congruity there be as to the visible Body Yetâ— there is that Spirit in us which by the drawing down this Life sustenance may recover its ancient sublime and paradysical Body which consisteth not of Flesh Blood and Bones
while I was viewing it Then it was cried in my hearing Transplant this Tree or else never to Perfection will any 〈◊〉 come answerable to that Tree Let it be fixed under the warm shade of the almighty Tree for fruitfulness From this presentation I was given to understand somewhat that answered to that matter of doubt which was often raised in me what was the Reason that such a fair progress should be made of growth in this Tree richly flowred from the very Life-sap with beauteous appearances Which in way of similitude answers to the state of a Soul that hath the Life-root in her but its plantation being out of the warm shelter standing bleak and open to the sharp blasts on every side cold storms beating upon it cuts off the tender Blossom which would come to substantial Fruit. This was shewn me to be the very cause why so many holy good Trees of Righteousness could not reach to the full grown Fruit but withered off in the very prime of their spring For by fruitfulness here I was given to understand something above and beyond a pure and lively Conversation and a shiâ—ing forth in those known Ornaments of Love Joy Meekness and Patience These I may call the sweet scented Blossoms here many one stops and goes no further on but sheds them abroad And then by the mortal Life commixing with the cold sharp Element of this visible Region are they generally cut off before any such high degree of all-fruitful Power is got up unto As was expressed in former Ages when their Fruit was apparent from the root of God's Almightiness Our Lord means this fruitful Birth of Power when he telleth them of the absolute necessity of their abiding in him as the Branch upon a Tree As much as if he had said ye can do no mighty works till you come to be brought under me as that out-spreading Tree of Life If so as he told his Disciples ye abide in me and my words abide in you then ask what ye will and it shall be done From hence it may be truly inferred that the eminent fruitfulness which God the Father may come to be glorified in consists in a large and full ability to do and act such things as Christ himself did in his assumed humanity who was a Tree of all kind of Fruitfulness Now by this Vision it was also thus given me to know that the Tree which did stand in the wild field of Nature with a Fence did well signifie the true Life-off-spring of the Most Holy who might proceed to such a degree But while walking in the open bare Principle of this World where storms of all kind of Temptations would set on it it is altogether improbable that any such could come to any ripe powerful fruitfulness Therefore the Voice did cry from the upper Spheres in Loves Compassion for a Transplantation to be made that so the designed fruitful Plants might come for to be shaded under the great and mighty Lebâ—non-Tree O what less will this be but a very Translation from one Principle to another where Life of another kind will most naturally â—low not a weak deficient barren fruitless Life but a strong invincible all-powerful Heart of Righteousness in the Faith-opreation of the mighty God Who to this Tree shall make all Shrubs and even Cedar Trees of the outward Principle to bow when as your Branches shall sprout out with such Christ-like fruitfulness Suffer ye gladly then the gentle pluck even by that good hand though ye are hereby severed from the very Root of this Earth Because ye well see that the Destroyer and Despoiler of all your desired fruitfulness lurks at the bottom of that ground as a subtle Serpent making new offers of Temptations to beguile you Therefore the Holy Watcher cries still fly away from his Inchanted Tree August the 20th 1677. I have great Soul-wrestlings about a restraint from the Broad Walks of the World The former part of the Night I spent thus being made sensible of the divine pleasurableness of keeping to the Narrow Track of the Spirit I was then greatly thoughtful how we that were as in the midst of a thicket of wild thorny Briaâ—s should pass out as untouched to get into that privacy of walking with God according to the late words of Councel received from the Spirit which word followed me still In the midst of these solicitations that sprung in me I was overset with a drousiness upon my animal sense And immediately I saw my own Person with another got up a good height upon a mighty Bank where some stragling Houses were and we were minding to do and act some petty matters and concerns in them Of a sudden I looked down and beheld a Sea at the bottom floating and a Voice cried Hast way for here is no stay This Bank with all its Buildings will be overflown when the Sea breaks in With that I was afraid and called to my Friend with me to draw up higher for here was no standing for us the danger was so imminent Then was shewn to us through some degrees of ascent a place all plain of each side railed in into which we designed to make our way with all expedition But the ground being parched and bare and slippery we were constrained to stay each other by the hand till we came to that pleasant Walk which was so secured as before was mentioned where we were without fear Then were we in another Region all encompassed with a bright Element with two Globes all with spangling Sparks about them Which was a Vision so Glorious as could not well have been born if the bodily senses had not been suspended that so the Spirit might actuate free in its own Specie Whereby it may positively be concluded that the activity of the corporeal faculties are a great impediment to Divine Vision Therefore taught I am whenever I would attain any thing of this kind that then I must be slain to the exteriour imaginariness and that an absolute death is very meet in this case For there by the Spirit of the Mind is made free to slide down into its own Abyss from whence it was before it came into Nature August the 21th 1677. This Night I heard a Voice cry within me I am Alpha and Omega this is the Name by which I will be known unto thee Which sound awaked me and thereby quickned up all the internal Powers of my Mind to attend the meaning hereof Which as from a Spring thus opened That to know the Lord Christ by this Name would be of a very considerable advantage to us upon several accounts For consider what this Name carries and bears on it signifying everlasting Power Strength and Fortitude I am saith he not only to be known in my Weak Ignominious Suffering Dying Name but in my Living All-powerful Name especially to them who are now to be raised up by me to this state of Celestial Dignity as to be anointed Kings and
Prove me herein if I do not answer to that Conjugal Marriage-state after which you do make I will be yours as you are mine and free from all others No cause of jealousie shall be ministred on my part for as a sealing witness you may daily read me as ye are fixed with the pure ointment for to dip your finger in and therewith annoint your Eyes that so ye may have a right and clear sight of me and of all that is of a Celestial Nature and that is set out for your more pleasant and full rejoycing as you shall take up your living in me Oh here I do invite you as my Bride to make your abode Let all know who have their habitation in this World of distress and confusion that ye have found out a rest which is far more excelling being lodged in the Bosom of the Triune Soveraignty that can command all great and good things to satisfie you as ye remain in constancy Therefore over all this Worlds Temptations maintain victory that ye may inherit with your Bridegroom revenues of Crowns Princedomes Principalities over all universally in the Marriage Knot of Unity August the 27th 1677. Then there was presented unto me a fine piece of Wrought Work that was given one to take out and one said they could never learn it without going to some skilful one to teach them therein Then heard I a grave wise Person say No find it out of thy self Stir up the Gift which is within thee that is sufficient hereunto and thou wilt have the glory of it rest upon thee August the 28th 1677. An Interpretation was given to me of this Vision and thus it was interpreted That this Vision alluded to and did present the Workmanship of God renewed in Christ Jesus and so successively in those who are created again in him Now the draught without is Christ the Lord in all his holy and perfect Deportment as he lived without sin in this World in that he is become our example that according as it is written we might be as he was in this World Now this Pattern of Perfection was given to us but the curiosity and difficulty thereof put us to whom it was offered to a plunge not knowing how to take it out without a Guide And so likely we might spend and run out our whole time before we had attained half thereof always learning and yet not perfected Therefore while I was in this demur a word came to me This skill must spring from that New Birth within Yet it is in vain for any by imitation ever to attempt the Christ-like Life till they be born again As that grows up to the degree of Divine Capacity so it will be all perceiving and will aptly find out the Mystery of a God's likeness though incarnate in this terrestrial State Where Precepts and Patterns of Evil are continually inviting so that ye are in danger of taking a wrong Pattern out But this pure Birth in you will prevent that for it scents all what is of this Principle as a putrefactious life and therefore flies from it to its own express incorruptibility For which will proceed Gifts and Powers answerably to what your Head Pattern here acted marvelously Look to it for the Root of this Matter must rise from within your own inward holy ground Call up the Ghostly Power of Might that lieth hidden there and then ye may be able to produce the same wonderful working piece according to the form of the New Creation which must bear down and outdo all which came in by the fall Then was it further given me to know that there would be a trial and probation made of what ever was wrought it must be brought to the view of the Impartial Judge whose rejoycing it will be to pass the Sentence of Justification found in the imitation both of the Death and Life from the Birth Spirit which was in Jesus and is now entred into us to bring forth the same express Workmanship in all glorious variety as in the dying so in the rising conquering reigning Life Which is not to be manifested barely by Words but by mighty Deeds and Works from the Alpha and Omega Whose day of Love Light Peace and Joy is already working known and felt in the New Born August the 29th 1677. This Night I saw my self making hard towards a place wherein I was assured of all desirable good as relating to Company and Place And as I was striving to reach thereto there came a stubborn prancing Horse in a Cart and there was one went by to guide him but the Horse was so headstrong that he would no way be governed but would run in a hostile way towards the Gate that gave entrance into this secure place Seeing which I ran with all might and hast lest I should be stopped and just as I was entring in at the passage he came furiously upon me to grind me with the Wheels So that I was put to it hard but I passed through to great admiration as if I only had a Spirit without a Body so swift was my escape out of this danger For I saw it a perfect design to have prevented my going in then took I care of the well minded Person that would have otherwise ruled this head-strong Beast if he could have managed him but such was his inkindled rage that he would stand cross the Gate to hinder him that was to be his Governour from following after me But he wisely crept upon his Knees under the Cart and so got in and shut the Gate upon this tyrannical Beast This Vision had a considerable speaking in it unto us when we cannot but understand there is a foreseeing watchful Eye that does warn us of all evil occurrences that may ensue while yet we are but in our travelling way True it is we are running hard to enter within the everlasting Gate but much lumber and stuff there is which hath loaded the Cart of the Mind which is drawn by the prancing Horse of the Will that doth drive furiously and will not be under check or controul by that which doth see its danger This Principle with all its cares businesses and employs are dangerous to step in as a grinding Wheel to prevent our passing into that pleasant place Where not any of those Inhabitants are found in any working dress For they lived there by a Creating Breath that renews all fresh supplies There needed neither Building nor Planting nor Vine-dressing nor Seed-sowers for it was uttered by voice to me that passed through me This is the place of Iehovah's rest Who so can get through hereinto shall have cessation from all their works considered as they relate either to the Mind interiour taking thought or concern about its Salvation or to the Body exteriour for Food and Raiment Health or whatever else makes the Life worth living in it is to be here But then my Spirit objected Ah my Lord who ever could pass in here
wholly bend the force of their Spirits hereunto may attain to great Wisdom and Knowledge and so bring forth that which may far outshine what is now existent in this Creation For till such deep magical Spirits are born who come to make Projection through internal sight of what is in the first cause of things the Kingdoms of this World with the Potentates thereto belonging will be too hard for you For that Grand Prince that ruleth and hath such command in this lower Sphere hath since the first Age of this World raised ten to one his Magnificent Seat in the Heart of poor deluded man So that they whose lot it is to live in this latter day have greater provocations to overcome as it is truly said the last days will be perillous indeed through the devises of the Evil One who in and by his Agents finds out new inventions to enthral and busie the Mind withal to prevent the taking in the true sense of what was and might be again that blessed state of sinless Liberty For such hath been this Serpents subtilty as to be a Lying Spirit in those who are Teachers to make believe the impossibility hereunto By which he doth keep his Seat of Supremacy universally hereby in the Mind For so long as this is he knows no Power of Soveraingty will outvy his Therefore this Councel of my Lord was expresly given And further this word this Morning was added hereunto That we should drink in this Pure Doctrine from the Spirit who said Be ye found faithful to the interest of your Lord's Kingdom that it may through you while in the World be so manifested in Wisdoms Force and All-spiritual Might through studying out all Divine Arts as hereby you may pluck down the Proud and Lofty from their self exalted Spirit in the Diabolical Might Your true Labour herein shall have such success as you may bring great acclamation and renown to your Lord and Saviour through all Worlds and to your selves Peace and Joy Honour and Dignity because many hereby will flow in into my Great Name When they are convinced that you do bear the Standard of my Spiritual Might in Truth and Righteousness Now therefore be vigilant according to what hath been revealed for the Love that ye have for my Kingdom to appear so in this World as all of the Old Dragons may come absolutely to be shaken and overthrown thereby For whatever ye do think this Prince of Darkness can suppress he will Who is so Mighty in this Low Region till Great Michael doth arise to give Crowns to those who have been long in the War To whom yet no Kingdom hath been given but do wait here in expectation for it and do not start from their Standard Such Oh such be ye that yet ye may be trusted with great Command to magnifie Great Michael in your mean estate September the 10th 1677. THIS Day I was calling my self to an account being sensible of that usual Springing Light that was something shaded and Revelations restrained for the space of a Week occasioned by dispersing thoughts and letting in and busying my Mind upon inferiour things of this Worlds concern Whereby I was made suspicious of a greater loss sustaining than any thing of this World could repay me And although there was nothing which I did engage in but what might seem very just and reasonable to the Eye of all Creatures yet that could not be my justification Because we were under an unknown Nazarite Law that was in special given and therefore accordingly we are bound to obey it who are concerned herein Hereupon I descended down into the deep Region of the Spirit where I did attend to hear what would be answered Which was again through Grace renewed For thus I did the inspeaking word hear Did not I by my Spirit oft declare that it would be hard for any one to keep my charge who had not first cleared all scores of this Worlds Accounts that so ye might have nothing to do but to attend fully your Lord's business who hath called you for such a Principal End out from all this Creation Service Henceforth then cease to be the Servants of Men for since the day of your free assignment of your selves His you are to whom you did your selves bequeath Upon this word I found a great conflict in my self having a great desire to depart and to throw off every weight that would tie and engage my Mind For I did well see an absolute necessity to be alone the Lord's servant and to give my self up in constancy to that new revealed Ministery though I should hereby incur all Creatures enmity For my Lord by a secret voice doth follow me close so that from Loves Charms I can hardly get loose Yea he drives upon us so hard as plainly we might see the Holy Ones design is to make a breach betwixt this World and us as foreseeing that none till then can aptly be for his use and service And verily this is the Cup that is given us to drink of and to leave nothing thereof behind It was what our Lord proposed to the two Sons of Zebedee who were ambitious to be equal in the Kingdom with him Who told them They did not consider what they did ask For if they did come to understand what a Death-cup they must first drink of they would not have climbed so high in their desires Therefore he dealeth plainly with them and shews them both the necessity and possibility thereof but gives the disposal of those Throne-instatements to his Father only It was also at this time spoken in me that we had begun to drink of this Cup wherein the deadly draught was which would crucifie us to this world but as yet we had but drunk the Upper part of it the Portion being so bitter we indeed could never get it down at once Upon which the Spirit giveth this advice Not to let one day pass without imposing upon our selves a draught out hence to take till all be exhausted and drunk out For the Cup is very deep and at the bottom thereof doth lie that which will us from this Principle absolutely unty Therefore let us not herefrom cease to drink each one to whom this Cup is given and no time let us lose for through continual sipping we shall see it lessen and so by degrees the effects thereof upon that which is to die will be felt O who will be so valiant and worthy in this Age as to hold out to the very last as the bottom of this Cup to see Then was it said to me There was at hand immediately for such another Cup wherein was the everlasting Water of Life The operation of which is not expedient yet for to be uttered till some have of the first Cup drunk all O Lord Jesu be thou to us what thou wert when thou didst take the last part of this Cup. September the 11th 1677. Being in great agony in my Head and Teeth
Order who can behold with great freedom the Face of God and may have room to continue among that Royal Society Then search and try your selves hereby whether you have this Faith of Activity which will go forth in all Spirit and Life There hath been a great mistake about that which is called Saving Faith whenas there hath been no Salvation wrought by it because the old form of a sinful Body hath not been put off thereby the whole professing Number of Christianity hath very much dâ—ceived themselves in a dead actless Faith but to you it is given to search and seek that ye may find the quickning Spirit of Faith Which ye shall know by its working effects St. James in his Epistle gives a true Character of it when he speaks of Abraham 's Faith which was evidenced by Works by which Faith was perfected Henceforth saith the true Author of it Let mighty Works and Deeds justifie the Spirit of belief according to what degree it is risen Contend for the ancient prerogative which was with the Saints of old for it is that Energy of God by which all in you must be created new to the magnificency of your Saviour who will first appear to you by this Spirit of Faith that so you may raise your own dead and set at Liberty that which hath groaned under the first Adamical Birth This pure extraction of Spirit may have a hidden Birth in those who are in the Life of perfect Charity and they not know at first that this worthy Gift is there For the very hour and time of this Golden Balsom droping in may not be perceived by the Vessel or Person that receiveth it As Christ told Nichodemus that this Holy Breath none could perceive its coming in or going out so Christ in the Spirit doth again confirm this word And this Councel is given to you who are stirred up here for to wait seek and pray know it may be with you e're you are a ware Your Obedience will be fulfilled in sending up constant flames of Love to the fountain heart of the Blessed Trinity In which at one time or other the Breath of the Holy Ghost will mingle and then in pure humility you may try to excite its Power forth so as it may be brought into no derision But first find such ability as your Lord did when he said Lazarus come forth which was Faiths undeniable Seal which both lawful and expedient is for the Lambs followers to receive Be you now then such as need not be ashamed of this lively Hope and steddy Profession of this Faith of God as an Inspiring Breath which will certainly give a high and wonderful witness No impossibility in this Vocation will be understood because its Working Tool is the Creating Word After this free and open discovery let into my Mind I found Faith and Love winged up as a Twin Spirit springing that if possible this superexcellent Gift might be so given unto us that confession might be made to the Lord that this Spirit of Faith is truly risen therefore great and mighty things do shew forth themselves though for a long season it hath been hidden October the 9th 1677. The Interpretation of the Vision upon the first day of October As to this Vision the Interpretation thereof plainly is read in the Book Within which beareth the living Testimony hereunto signifying those living Acts of Faith which sometimes have carried our Spirits up to Elijah's Hill Where not only Batteries are from the potent King of this low Region but he doth make war with and by his Agents as taking notice we are those which do separate from his Kingdom Therefore we may expect nothing less but a Beleagering throughout especially when they perceive that we are such as would overturn that indeared Life of Sense that hath been maintained so long in its range in opposition to Faith's Sâ—veraignty But while here we stand like Elijah upon Faith's Mount we can command Invisible Bands Chariots and Horsemen of Fire that will come in to help upon Faith's Alarm and so shall all weapons of War be frustrated Therefore fear not ye who are upon Faith's Ground saith the Almighty But the word of his Councel thus spake in me rather beware of those more close and subtile Enemies that are within your own house which will every moment make war upon those lofty aspirings and ascensions of Faith they are more dangerous Enemies who can so swiftly raise indeed up the strong Forts of Reason and can display all their Faith-destroying Arrows to wound the Heart and Life thereof Threatning if ye still hold out and will not again descend into the gulf of Sense then ye must be liable to the peril of Famine Nakedness Poverty and all kind of Reproach If ye will not yield to the Laws of Reasons Kingdom such Destructions must necessarily befall you Now then for caution said the Spirit of Life cast up the Accounts of present and future times and in the clear Eye of Light thou both backward and forward maist make discovery that such Arguments as these have frighted down thousand thousands of Souls which otherwise would have kept Faiths Ground Therefore at this very day among the professing part of Christianity such a Faith is only of reputation as will not expose to loss shame and disgrace but can fall in and hold correspondency with what is agreeable to the animal Body But hearken ye who do so much search after this life consider if you will adventure up to this Hill what shots not only from the World below but what will break in as Floods from all dark Centers to bring you back to live in the warm habour of Sense and Reason Then this word further arose from the pure motion saying Therefore now that ye are diving for this pretious thing I would that no mistake should be upon your Mind if you would come to recover that Life that Adam had Which was indeed an unmixed Life of Faith before the relapse did take hold upon him I say if ye will fix your Minds to this Life then stay and lean your selves upon this Faith-alsufficiency and do not think to carry two Lives in one Body that are contrary to each other For this Spirit of Faith can only agree with what is willing to bow and be all friendly with it as a suitable Maâ—e unto it Canst thou saith the Spirit of Faith walk out as Abraham Isaac and Elias did with me they saw nothing before them as to the visible but Earth and Air and yet nothing mistrusted but confided in what was not seen who therefore were abundantly recompensed Such as these who have put out the Eye of their Sense and have thrown away the Crutches of Reason doth the Spirit of Faith seek to walk with that so they may live upon Hony out of the Rock October the 10th 1677. There was this Morning a place presented to me like a Garden where many sorts of Flowers were
shall be given you October the 25th 1677. Oh ye with whom is my charge this is no season to stop in the Way neglect not the Day in which the Mighty One in you may rise again upon whose Shoulder the Key of the Government is laid to open for you the Everlasting Gate October the 26th 1677. The first part of the Night I spent in recollecting and calling over this whole Weeks Transactions which I had little satisfaction in Because it was not upon such a Service as it was meet I should ever and always be found imploied in For whatever of the necessary concerns of this temporary Life did call me off from this Heavenly Calling it became as Gall and Wormwood and brought a heaviness upon me So that I made my â—pplication in the deep inward sense hereof that if possible no more such Earthly matters should croud in upon us Who had so much avowed our selves the Lords Servants only to be and therefore our Spirits could no otherwise be but troubled when hurried by that which was so great a Set-back to our Spiritual Profession that is in imitation to our Lord Jesus in his Holy Priesthood While I was considering the closeness of this Work I was cast into a Sleep and I was suddainly awaked by one that called and said If you do not take good heed and quicken your Pace a dark Mist from the Earth will rise upon you and then you will be prevented of entring into the Third degree where is no Eclipse Which Word I took hold off for it came very seasonably Some space of time after in the same Night I went in Spirit to One that also was herein concerned with me to give him a Spiritual caution and be moaned with him the loss of time And the same Person whose Figure was named to me appeared in a White Garment â—ullied with black dust so taking notice hereof it was advised to put it off and another to be put on But it was spoken in my hearing That will also be deâ—iled without you keep in that upper right-Hand way where no miery Waters overflow nor Winds do blow to raise the dust below Upon which Wâ—â—â—d I considered never to walk in the 〈◊〉 of this World and to keep our Nâ—izâ—â—itical Life unspotâ—ed would be a mighty Victory Having such hoâ—â—â—â— Provocations to be herewith overcharged and so our Minds corrupted For we have but one Heart which if it be chased as a Roe and Hâ—râ— upon the barren Hills and thorny Deâ—â—rt â—f this World where will the most Holy find a rest for himself in us who will noâ— set one Foot into the door of our Minds if we be parâ—ing with coâ—tâ—ary Spirit that â—asâ—eth into us earthly Fumes and Vapours Thus I was made to see the biâ—ing of the Serpent at our Heel as we did walk in the Way of the Earthly Inhabitants So my Mind was made serious and watchful herein lest herewith overtaken our Hearts invaded upon should be Therefore this way of prevention was revealed unto me that we might preserve the Virgin-Purity for her true Mate in these following Rules The First Rule I had given was to be true to the Solemn Contract and Espousal Vow which we had made to wit to be the only Bride to the Lamb. 2dly To be found always at home in the Spirit in a waiting posture setting all things in order minding only the entertaining of this our betrothed Husband sending out burning Floods of Love to bring him into the close centre of the Heart In the third place Be found in clean and whiâ—e Linnen that he may be delighted with your Innocency and Nazarite Purity Then another sort of a higher degree may be put upon us as was shewed me In the 4th place Have always that which may be most pleasant to his tast therefore bring forth those choice Fruits which the Tree of Love and Life doth bear And then it was testified unto me that this holy Order maintained would give us an escape and no trouble should be in our Habitation because the Lord Iehovah Shammah will dwell in us and will cut off all that attempts us to invade October the 27th 1677. 1. Upon an occasion of disturbance by a disquieted Spirit in the Family I poured out the sense thereof unto my Lord in Prayer why such a grieving Thorn should be our troubler So I committed all to him who I did believe would clear me from all unjust Clamours in Truth and Innocency After which I found a suddain sweet Calm and peace brought into my mind Which caused me to repose in a quiet natural Rest. In the Morning this Word came in to my support Be not dismayed at the Blast of the terrible one who hath poured forth Hellish Fury Be still found in the Long suffering and Patience and then this shall all turn to the furtherance of that Work which is decreed in Everlasting Counsel whereby the remainder of Wrath shall be restrained Though it is not taken well that such Insolency is permitted over thee 2. After this this Word was given in also saying Speak to Iosedech for to be strong servent and steady and nothing fear but to be faithful the Priestly Charge and Work For then â—aith the Lord I will be with him and he shall assuredly prosper according to the Covenant made when he dedicated himself mine only for to be in Nazarite separation 3. Then this Word visited me Yet once it is a lâ—tâ—le whileâ— and there will arise out of the Everlasting Priesthood that which shall shake all Nations in Earth Sea and dry Land Set therefore your Hearts hereunto with all watchfulness and diligence 4. As we were met together I saw a Flame pass through the Room and presently the Word spake All these must first be purged with Fire before they can stand with the Lamb upon the Mount October the 28th 1677. 1. This Morning I did feel in my self mighty Openings from the pure center of Love and Joy with some encouraging Words which did pass through me Afteâ— I had Prayed the Word to me was Go forward for I have accepted thee and I will be known Thy God in the Light of the Altar-Flame in Verity 2. Again it was said Appear thy self therefore insuch a Work whereof thou needest not be ashamed as having seen that Pattern in the Glass of Wisdom To which Eternal Idea keep fixed thy Internal Eye and thou shalt bring forth to Perfection that which hath been in the Perspective part October the 29th 1677. After my first Sleep being still somewhat drowsy and hardly come to my awakened Sense I saw a mighty great Hand lifted up upon a wonderful high Pole This sight was so amazing that though it was so high as it seemed to touch the Clouds yet I could see it very distinct as a large Hand When I came hereof to consider what it should signifie the Word was thus given This is the Lord's Hand which lifted up shall be and
should stand open to such as could drink of the Brook in the Way And it was shewn by an Idea also that as yet there was a dark gulf fume from which did rise a thick smoke so that at present none could see their way till the Son of the Everlasting Morning doth wonderfully incorporate with our spirits to dissipate all of this Darkness through which force of Spiritual Might we may often come up to the Antient of Days and draw near and make Record of what we do apparenâ—ly hear from him For the Spirit doth affirm this that sound Truth Wisdom and Knowledge must from hence be let in to our Understandings and it will be much to our satisfaction when we shall hear and see what is without and beyond this gulf of Sense and Reason which have kept out of the Lamb 's fixed Kingdom And what will these storms be but the rushing Powers coming down through the Salvation-Horn which will be blown from God's Mountain-Habitation The sound of which is already heard to hasten for preparation to the Enoch's Translation That we may abstractively in Spirit and through the whirling strong Breath may be lifted up where our King and Lawgiver may deliver his Mind to us as face to face That we may come to know in certainty all those infinite and weighty Councils which have been long in great concealment so as they may run in as a flash of Lightning To which end the Star which I saw fall into the Golden Charger doth predict the high and mutual conjunction betwixt the Body and the Head-Throne-Prince The Vessel being all of pure refined Gold and spiritual matter infused therein together what must this make but a lordly dish for each one to feed upon This Star denominated was to be the Rose of Sharon that to the Spirit would give a pleasant Tincture to make it both white and ruddy Herein lieth the Mystery of all Mysteries according as it was revealed unto me through the virtue of this wonderful Commission This Rosâ—e-Star feeding it self from the matter which is so purely extracted as a Lamp feeds upon Oil and so both concurring makes a burning shining Light a Flame ascending might When this great and marvellous thing shall come by any one to be witnessed there will be no matter of doubt but the Gate of the East must be found at which we may go freely in and out as Princes Having right to follow the Lamb and to eat and drink with him in this lordly dish We shall then as Friends find entrance in where the Tent of his Glory is pitched to see hear and tast what hath been laid up in store for us from the Foundation of the World December the 1st 1677. Strong Instigations and travel in Spirit still attending me for the rising of the Star of glory in Eminency according to all that Prophetical Ministration under which Line we are cast and do find succour thereby through the fresh feeding Word of Life which within the first Watch of the Night thus spake saying The most High and Holy One seeketh and calleth up such to dwell with him in his Holy Tabernacle who have rejected and turned their Backs upon the Seat of the fine trimmed Babylonish Beast and will nothing therewith touch because it is under the Curse against which be ye ever zealous December the 2d 1677. I saw one cloathed in fine White Linnen and he had in his Hand a Censor and there was live Fire-Coals which were scatter'd abroad and it was said that upon whosoever they did light they should be inspired with a New Tongue to declare great things December the 3d. 1677. This Word ministred was Watch and keep the covering of the Spirit close girt about you against all Offences that may come abide still and quiet where the anointed Shield is given for your defence under the Banner of which abide close and hidden Be all pleasing and pliable to your internal Guide who is working to bring you into high and dear Friendship with the great and mighty Potentate to whom all Worlds must give obeysance Therefore only care and mind him who is so true and faithful as to raise and bring you into such Love and Favour that the God of Light may not walk as in a Cloud of Darkness but shew himself manifest to your Joy in peculiarity December the 4th 1677. This Word did spring in me saying Do you well consider what your Virgin Garment must be made of that no Moth may eat any hole in it For if any thing of the earthly Fleece should be interwoven with it it would damage the whole part Therefore all of one sort of fine Linnen let your Lord know you in upon which no Moth can come to eat Then it was further given by way of Command saying If ye resolve to follow the Lamb up to all perfect degrees then observe this as a new Commandment Take your self off from all old traditional Conformity which is after the manner of men who are after the Flesh. From such the Spirit calls to withdraw and to walk with him after another way according as divine Precepts shall be revealed December the 6th 1677. As we were in the Spirit of Supplication attending together a transient view of full ripe Sheaves was presented as a testification that we should bring of the first ripe Fruits as a pure Offering to the Lord according to what hath in the days of our sorrow heaviness and temptation been purely sown in the Spirit But it was also shewn me that this should not be accomplished till we had fulfilled our set-time in the Wilderness For this is an Ordinance that was given by God to Moses while Israel was yet in the Wilderness before they came into the good Land This instruction was for time to come sayingâ— Now behold the first Fruits of the Land which thou hast reaped thou shalt offer unto the Lord thy God So accordingly the first ripe Fruits of the Spirit must be wholly dedicated and brought into the Store-house of the Lord rejoycing and making everlasting melody in the Courts of Holiness as the Joy of Harvest Oh! this is the desirable day but who hath it seen because they have all dyed short before entring into the good and fruitful Land one Generation passing away after another as we have seen it But it is decreed eternally thus to be No assuredly no there is a Generation to come that shall not only sow but reap and pay their Tythe-Offerings to the great Melchizedeck King There is a Caleb and Ioshua who will out-live all the spirits of Unbelief Who have been faithful Spies to search and find out the virtue and glory of Mount Sion's Land Whereupon the Spirit did the History take up and did it mysteriously to our state at present very closely apply As thus that Ioshua and Caleb signified the Unity of the Spirit concurring in a strong Faith the Spirits of our Minds agreeing mutually with the Spirit of
safety though the whole Earth be laid in desolation Oh thou mighty Shield of Faith bear us up upon thy Wing Let thy Word oh Jesus which saith Come to me be sufficient to make us tread upon the Sea keeping off every boisterous Wave that would make us doubt Now then upon the broad Rivers oh mighty God let us come to thee and be afraid of no Flesh that would hurt or oppress Let thine who are environed with the Spirit 's Might make that only their Anchor-hold evermore December the 13th 1677. Do ye wait and expect the Word that was made Flesh fully to imbody in Spirit that so an engrafted Word may come to spring in you to Create new things and to command all old to depart away All this the Word God must do that is after a Creating manner December the 14th 1677. This Morning there was brought to my internal sight a Ring or Circle which was like a Jasper-stone for Light and sparkling Glory and within the Ring or Circle a Face of great splendour and Majesty did shew it self as in the twink of an Eye and withdrew again But this Word followed This is the Door that hath neither beginning or ending through which ye must enter Consider now and consult with what manner of Body it must be for nothing of a corruptible Form can ever pass here December the 16th 1677. As we were waiting together this Word came The Lord himself is come forth to serve you with the Bread and Wine as the great High-Priest to communicate and his Body to break which accordingly was experienced Therefore it is good at the Altar still to attend that so the holy Breath may there kindle the pure Flame through which may open his precious Name December the 18th 1677. An Interpretation of the former Vision In the Night my Spirit was carried inward taking in several Ideas of Heavenly things into my mind pressing hard to pass into the Circle-Door of Life But a sweet still Voice did eccho in me saying That pure thing only which through this Circle-Eye of Eternity did come down into Nature can be the Door of Entrance again as it circleth in its Blood-Life and thereby raise up it self and quicken it self into such a Spirituality as ye need to ask no leave to enter back to your own proper Place from whence your immortal part did proceed For now the Eye that is fixed in you will be both your Guide and Entrance hereinto if ye in Union will ever more with it keep and concur with it Then it shall carry and lodge you in the Bosom-Circle of Eternity as in a fiery Chariot The four Wheels upon which this Chariot doth move are Faith Hope Joy and Peace These will bear away the Lilly Branch to be planted where it may green and never fade because the River of Life runneth there evermore Oh when shall we be severed by this Chariot who would see it gladly that we may conclude thy Heart dear Jesus is towards us and that thou wilt live no longer without us For seeing none can enter into this Circle-Eye but in this Flaming Chariot that doth move upon four Wheels Let not the principal Agent be wanting but that all may concur together in us by that Ghostly Might that may give a suddain Flight to see that all satisfying Face which will make us feel everlasting pleasure And that no mortal things shall sever us from thee or come any more as a Vail between the Spouse and her everlasting King to hide the entring Door of Life December the 20th 1677. Great eagerness of Soul was renewed for the passing in through the Needle-Eye of the Glorified Humanity The Zeal and Love did wonderfully hereunto concur so as to devour and eat up all those strong Reasonings of Contradiction that else would be working in the Mind From which being in a good degree cleared through the Mystery of Faith working by the Spirits operation great calmness of Mind was known In which time the Circle-Eye did open again encompassing me round with waving white Clouds and one did descend and did pass through the bright Circle as an Arrow for swiftness in the Figure of a clear Body with a Branch in his Hand the Leaves whereof were shining as Gold the Fruits were as a Cluster were in variety of Fruits were growing together It was reached out and a Voice did after the manner of a Spirit speak saying This is Fruit from the Tree of Life that is now planted in the Land of Beulah Eat hereof and give forth and be blessed in it for ever Presently I did feel sensibly a little strengthning Virtue come in which I would have conveyed to another after a Magical and Spiritual way that was at a distance While I was in thoughtfulness hereupon the same Person was presented to me as if he had already hereof partaken for there was strengthning Meat given into his Hand wherewithal I did see him feed a Bird that flew gaping to him being all craving and hungry chirping still as it was fed at his Hand December the 21st 1677. After all which I was to attend the Effects of every such presentation This Morning I found my Mind wholly disposed for Introversion Upon which the Vision was more opened unto me For the Spirit did talk with me telling me that this was a manifestation to shew the Care Love and Friendship of our mighty Throne-Prince who does as truly convey the transmuting fruit invisibly from himself as the Tree of Life That so the introduced Birth of Spirit might grow and encrease it being its own natural nourishment without which it cannot live till it come up to a strong mans degree For that which is born of God doth feed only upon what may transform into a God-like Being Which is the Lord Christs office and business to heigten up to that that so there might not be any loss sustained by the fall of the first Adam in those who by this living Word are quickned again unto Life For it was opened unto me that none could be capable of this high kind of feeding but those in whom Christ was spiritually formed For this was all spicy and sacred virtual power to bring forth such Celestial new Creatures as may ascend up with the same swiftness as that Seraphim which did come down For it was said to such who are changed all Spiritual that inviting Word doth stand for ever good whosoever will to them the Door stands open to come themselves and take of the Tree of Life most freely And they will have the honour to bring down and give forth Heavenly Tasts and from their divine Bodies will go forth the healing Virtue As it was opened to me that these Golden Leaves had in them the Balsamick Cure to restore to a perfect divine Body where from all Soveraign Power should proceed immaculately according to that high state which our Lord is now in in the Body of Glory Therefore this Counsel and Word
and Prophecy were but as the Door-Posts and Threshold whereupon the Glory of the Lord doth often hereby break out as the Gate of Manifestation opens but it shuts and closes up as not to abide upon the Threshold of that which giveth entrance into the most Holy Place where the full and fixed residence of the Majesty of Glory is Which for duration upon any cannot be found till enâ—red beyond the Ministration of the Manifestation Door which doth make way here for it by raising the Mind of the Spirit through the Light For the true and real enjoyment of God's Pure Being Conjugally wherein all fulness of Joy Power and Peace may spring as from a Fountain openeth within as co-existing with that which is the matter for the Kingdom of Heaven that must bear rule over all that comes in by this fall To which end the light of Revelation is come to the door of the Threshold of the Lord's Tabernacle that thereby we might see our way to enter in by it Watching all opportunity for a through and clear pass into the fruitional Joy of the Lord. Patiently enduring till the Lord himself shall say Vp and Rise and follow me who as on an Eagle-Body will you my dear Ones mount and bear into my Father's inward Court. Where neither Care Fear nor Sorrow shall afflict you more Oh my Lord this is that perfect State that our Sighs and Groans have long gone up for Let full assurance be given for present support unto us who are looking for compleat Redemption Upon which this Word sprung Fear not that ye shall always stand as at the Entring Gate Iesus your Lord doth well know the Voice of his own Mates from whom he will not long separate himself Therefore believe and quietly wait in all pureness and meekness for he will come and will no longer tarry from his own lest their Spirits should be drunk up with Sorrow It was further said If ye be in Heaviness for me your Lord then may ye expect a return of Peace and Ioy successively in and through my Love abounding towards you THE CONCLUSION OF This SECOND VOLUME ALL these are the faithful and true Sayings wich are given in for a Stay and a Pledge of Love from God till the Morning STAR of Wisdom shall arise more fully in our Hearts to lead us up into the Fruâ—tion of all that has been here Prophesied of and Declared Which I excite all the Beloved Flocks that belong to the Great Kingly Sheherds Fold to Believe Hope and quietly Wait for as to the Fullfilling part of All that hath been in This Volume made known and revealed For it is now the Day of the SPIRIT which is beginning over the Earth to Spread Wherein the Empty and the Hungry who have long wandered upon the barren Mountains and been as in Famine shall be Satisfied and enter into those fat and full Pastures where the Lord himself shall be their Leader and Feeder That so we may in pure Love-unity together celebrate an Holy Feats to our High and Mighty IEHOVAH eating our Spiritual Morsels in Joy and Gladness and sending up our Offerings of Praise to him that was LOVE that is LOVE and that ever shall be the same Even so Amen POSTSCRIPT IT may possibly to some seem very Harsh what is found pag. 125. and 126. There is yet a Woman to be revealed out from the Heavens whereof Mary that brought forth Christ according to the Flesh was but a Type For it was neither Eve nor she to whom the Promise was made concerning the Birth which should bruise the Serpents Seven headed Power There must be another Genealogy found out from whence the Serpent treader must also come But it is very far from the Author's Intent as it may be plainly evidenc'd both from the Scope in this particular place and also from the whole Drift of her Writings to derogate hereby from the High Preeminence of Christ the Son of Mary above all Human Births whatever or from the Honour of that Holy Virgin whom all Generations of the World must call Blessed among Women But the Design of this Passage is no other than that of the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews when he represents the Great and True Melchisedeck to be without Father without Mother without Descent Which cannot be understood any otherwise then of an earthly Father and Mother and an Earthly Descent it being immediately afterward added having neither beginning of Days nor End of Life The which Words can by no wise be applicable to his Outward Corporeal Birth from the Virgin Mary Wherefore the Apostle herein directs them to look for another Genealogy and higher Descent while he seems to take away for the present or rather to pass over the former So that he would not have them to fix their Eye upon his Temporal Generation in an Elementary Form which had both beginning of Days and end of Time but rather to look to the Generation which was before all Time from the Eternal Father through the Womb of the Morning from whence all Angelical and Human Spirits were afterwards produced being call'd Sons of the Morning that is of the Immortal Virgin Heavenly Principle or Matrix Which Celestial Nativity being overclouded in many of the Angels through their Tartarosis mention'd by St. Peter in seeking to sink themselves into their own Independent Will that so they might be as Elohim by Precipitating their Spiritual Forces from the Centre of the Divine Will and going forth from a proper Centre of their own and also in all the Human Race through the Birth of Eve entring into the Lust and Strife of the Elements deluded hereto by the Seven-Headed Serpent cannot possibly reappear till the Seven Heads Powers or Forms of the Serpent be entirely Bruised or Crushed This is to be done in each particular Soul which hath within it self as the Kingdom of Heaven so also the Kingdom of Hell as it were in miniature before there can be an Attainment of that Person to the Redemption of the Body which is the visible Adoption Recognition and Sealing of the Sons and Daughters of God And it is likewise to be done in the whole Church Universally by the Seed of Immortality flowing through the Glorious Humanity of IESVs Which Seed as it raised up his mortal Body cannot also but raise up in due time all his Members and cause the vanished Image once more to appear and the Lustre of their first Nativity from God to shine forth as without any Cloud Wherefore let the Reader remember this Caution not at all to look Outwards or to seek here or there after Particularities or Personalities which will nothing avail him to know and probably may do him great Hurt but to retire into the inward Depth of his own Heart that he may there come to know such a Birth from out of the Womb of the New Ierusalem Mother as is so much spoken of in these Writings and may be a Witness of the trampling down the Serpents Power and Polity Then would he not be Solicitous about whom should be first Honour'd by Christ with the Marks of his Refurrection but would endeavour to press forward to it by the only allowable Emulation of Humility Love and Faith That if possible he may arrive to the Right of the First-born Heirs of God in the Melchisedeckian Line And then also would he clearly see that nothing that is here said tends to the Lesseuing but to the Greatening rather and extending the Merit of IESVS the Son of God and of Mary the True Christ Blessed and Adored for ever to whom every Knee both in Heaven and in Earth and under the Earth shall bow and Confess him that is that was and that is to come FINIS Advertisement WHereas some Things have been Scandalously set forth and Printed under the Name of this Author to the Reproach of Truth and the Dishonour of that which is Holy it is thought fit for the putting a Stop to such Impostures and the Evil which might thence ensue to give a Catalogue of the Books which the Author hath hitherto Published THE Heavenly Cloud or the Ascension Ladder 4 to 1682. p. 40. The Revelations of Revelations an Essay towards the Unsealing Opening and Discovering of the Seven Seals the Seven Thunders and the New Ierusalem State 4 to 1683. p. 130. The Enochian walks with God found out by a Spiritual Traveller 4 to 1694. p. 38. The Laws of Paradise Given forth by Wisdom to a Translated Spirit 8 vo 1695. p. 69. The Wonders of God's Creation manifested in the Variety of Eight Worlds as they were made known Experimentally to the Author 8 vo 1695. p. 89. The Message to the Philadelphian Society whithersoever dispersed over the whole Earth together with a Call to the several gathered Churches 12 ves p. 108. 1696. The Tree of Faith or the Tree of Life springingup in the Paradise of God from which all the Wonders of the New Creation must proceed 12 ves p. 122. 1696. The Ark of Faith or a Supplement to the Tree of Faith for the Further Confirmation of the same Together with a Discovery of the New World p. 33. 1696. The Fountain of Gardens Watered by the by the Rivers of Divine Pleasure and springing up into a Paradise Vol. I. p. 169â— A Revelation of the Everlasting Gospel-Message which shall never cease to be Preach'd till the Hour of Christs Eternal Judgment shall come Whereby will be proclaim'd the last Love Jubilee in order to the Restitution of the Whole Lasped Creation 8vo p. 39. 1697. The Fountain of Gardens Vol. II.
a Refuge have in whatever may happen for present or future time or may fall out upon you making use of this his great Friendship at all times when need doth require who hath a reviving Breath for Life still to inspire So then according to what hath been revealed herefrom do you make use hereof in a wise and understanding Spirit April the 20th 1677. I did see a Vision which was thus presented as the form of a Hand which seemed to be grasped very close out of which sprung a living Creature peeping through the Fingers and so by degrees did quite break through the Fingers First appeared the Head as in the Likeness of a young Dove but the Body was of the colour of a Ruby having Wings and Fire-sparkling Eyes which as soon as it got through the Hand it mounted away as into the Air where I saw it no more This thing seemed very strange to me and for some days the meaning was concealed having other Ideas intervening wherein my Intellectuals were exercised But this being brought to remembrance there was something considerable to be understood from it as by the Spirit of Wisdom and Light was made out very significantly The Interpresation of this Vision As first by the Hand which represents Strength Power and Activity as when God is said to do any marvellous or unusual thing it still goeth under the denomination of his Hand As it was upon Ezekiel when he was in the Visions of God his Hand was said to be upon him And again The Hand of the Lord is nor shortned but said to be stretched out as a strong over-spreading Hand Therefore after the similitude of a Hand the Creating Power doth go forth as in Vision it was shewn thee what in time might be effected Then this Question was put to me What now dost thou believe that living Creature to be which was so wonderfully formed in the Hand Ah my Lord I do make no conclusion hereof I wait singly to participate of thy Mind whose sweet Voice and Sound I through thy Grace am learned in and do hereunto attend Therefore speak my Lord yet again Then did this Word pass through me after the manner of a Spirit 's Speech saying The Living Creature which did break away through the Hand doth figure out that which is of great import as namely a Cherub Birth Whereof the Elisha Spirit hath Prophesied should be brought to pass where the least expectation might be As in the case of the Shunamite who was strangely surprized when the Prophet did her greet herewith Even so unexpectedly will the Earth be blessed with such a Birth that shall be hatched under the mighty Hand of Power which will ascend straitway to this Mountain high And it was further hinted to me that as I could not see nor understand any matter contributed to be the substance of this Living Creature so it must be here Which as I was considering of in my self that Scripture was struck upon me It is the Stone that is cut out without Artificial working or known matter Therefore said the Spirit so consider of it this is that holy Breath that none indeed can tell from whence it comes nor whither it goes it resteth upon whom it self willeth and there contracts incorporeal matter that so a Body Cherub-like may go forth from under the overshadowing Hand Know of such like the New Heavens and Earth are henceforth only to be furnished withal Therefore for certainty that Word will be made good Behold the Face of all things will renew But how No otherwise but by the Powers that shall go forth from this Cherub-Birth That when once got through will numerate as those mighty Angels of the Resurrection who will be of great force to pour out the Vials of Wrath upon the Dragon and Beast Who hath had his Root and Seat in man's inward part and there hath made all the defilement Therefore Vengeance upon the Beast will be ere long taken because he hath been so mingled not only with gross Sensuality but also with the Serpently Property That all now who are herein found who are designed for the Kingdom of Heaven must suffer under the Violation of this blest Birth whose rising will be the fall of what is Fleshly For saith he that maketh all things Yet once more an End is come of all Flesh before me A New Creation is to succeed out of and from under the hiding Power of the Almighty Hand in such who now cloathed are with this present Creation in such rough Beast-like Garments whereof they are ashamed Therefore it is that such mean perishing Coverings which are not so much as Moth-proof they do seek to make comely to each Mortal Eye but here is a Birth of another Nature and Consistency that neither needs nor will accept of any of this vile matter from the grosser Elements knowing well that course Linnen which is spun out from thence will no way become such as must pass into that City Which is so bright and clear where nothing is worn but what is Aethereal and trausparent The Light there is such as soon makes a discovery of what is contrary Then said my Spirit Ah my Lord thou hast spoken of great things to come happy is that Age who shall see such a Birth-day as this But this question my dear Lord resolve to me which is this What hath made this Spiritual Birth thus long to stick in the World Ans. Because this out Birth by way of Natural Generation hath now had such a long circling Life in the deep impression of the Stats that it is rooted as a strong Oak that would give way to no other but to the flaming Ax of this Birth of the Spiritâ— Which by reason of long custom and habit is grown too stubborn and strong for the young plant seed to deal with it It meeting with many disadvantages both as to place and Persons and constitution of things in and from this Principle That so it need to be no wonder that this Birth find such difficulty in any for to get through But this old oaky Birth shall not be only lopped by degrees and the root of the matter left still to spring from generation to generation in those who are allotted for Redemption No know you Jesus will not have it run by natural Course to the end of Time Thus his Trumpet hath already sounded to awaken some that did as others sleep in the dust who are risen to a better hope seeking to be cloathed with immortal Robes To such as first do look and do keep close under this hand of power this Cherub-Birth will appear and then let not such fear that their old terrestrial Birth shall their more superior and heavenly Image outwear The wise in heart are given to understand these things who are diligent to enquire when this Birth will be perfected April the 22d 1677. About the break of day there appeared to me as upon a Mountain a stately