Love of Money is the root of all Evil now let all Christians especially such as profess to be Prophets desire that the Ax may be laid to this Root of the Tree I greatly Value the Sage Advice Counsel Blessing of such a Person I expect their Blessing should convey fome real Advantage as the Patriarchs of old did if such should deliver a Person up to Satan he may expect to feel the Effects of it but when Sentence is pronounced by such as have Word without Power upon a mistaken ground a Person against whom such a Sentence is pronounced feels not the sad Effect but it may be the contrary more of the Spirit of God then ever But if I am overtaken with a fault I hope one that is Spiritual may Restore me again in the Spirit of Meekness if a Spiritual Man who hath a Discerning desire me to Speak or Write it hath a great Authority with me if such an one say to me forbear it hath great Power however I have not Consulted any in the begining of these Writings nor had either Counsel or Assistance of any Man yet when I have written I submit them to the Judgment of such if such a one gives me a piece of Bread a Cup of Wine or of Cold Water I believe he will have a Disciples Reward and I a Disciples Blessing if such an one goes about to instruct me in Sacred Mysteries I hearken with great Attention knowing he hath a deep sight into the Wonders of God manifested in the Creatures for by the things that are made are seen his Eternal Power and Godhead Such Persons live not in this World so full of Wisdom and Beauty only to look on the outsides of things and only to reason about them why this is so and that so this Hot and that Cold only for Discourse sake no they Live in the World as Priests in a Temple and Praise God for the things that are as Hermes speaks they have an Eye opened by the Spirit of God by which they have an Intellectual Sight into the Creatures and thereby have a power given also to alter and change them and to turn their Insides Out to make the Light which was hid in the Center appear through its outward Shell the dark Vail and Shadowy Covering it hath upon it and thereby regain the Honourable Authority Man had given him at first of Subjecting the Creatures to his Rule and making them serve his Necessities tho at present Persons thus Highly Endowed with Wisdom Divine Natural if I may use that distinction at all both coming from one root are obscure and not much known in the World yet I firmly believe the time is very near when the World shall be Blest with the knowledge of their Persons and the opening the Treasures Wisdom hath furnished them with Now to the Honourable Fathers and Worthy Brothers of this Happy Society who are thus Led and Taught wherever you are through the whole World I send greeting you are all my Fathers you are all my Masters and Brothers particularly my Master T. 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I humbly desire to be received by you as a Pupil as a Servant to Wash your feet however suffer this Word of Exhortation from me at present let us all sing the Hymn of Silence within our selves till we are permitted to utter the Praise of the Great Jehovah in the Great Congregation so that our Voice may be heard through the whole earth for the whole World is our Temple our Church and we desire to joyn with every Creature things in Heaven things on Earth and under the Earth to praise the All-glorious GOD that created all things by whom and through whom are all things To whom be all Glory World without End Amen My Soul shall sing Jehovah's Praise Let that Great Name my Spirit raise That I may with the Angels joyn To sing a Hymn that is Divine That I may reach the Seraphick Quire Being quickned with the same pure Fire That makes them sing and makes them love In their Harmonious Orbs above Let such high Praise in Heaven abound May make Earth eccho to the sound That all the Creatures her below The Mighty Power of Love may know Good Will to Man so doth appear As makes him know his GOD is near To save poor Mankind'd fallen Race And bring him to his Native Place The Second Part. SOME Discoveries of the Mysteries of the Creation in the Six Days Work and the Seventh Days Rest O Eternal Father of Life and Power how sweet a Sabbath hast thou made this to me in giving my Soul Rest and Repose in thy self Blessed God of Sabaoth I find Rest in thee is sweet since thou hast made that blessed Promise good to such as are weary and heavy laden that in coming to thee they find rest to their Souls Dear and blessed JESUS thou Shepherd and Bishop of my Soul lead me in thy green Pastures by the still Waters of Quietness till thou dost make me to know where thou makest thy Flocks to rest at Noon that the hottest Affliction the most fiery Tryal may not interrupt my sweet Repose in thee Let me no more seek Rest and Satisfaction in the Creature where it is not to be had let me no more seek the Living amongst the Dead but as the World is crucified unto me let me be crucified unto the World Lord help me to dye daily to live continually in holy Resignation that when thou shalt call me to lay down this house of Clay this Earthly Tabernacle I may be enabled to say with my blessed Saviour No man takes away my Life if it is by the hand of Man or whatever other way I may freely lay down my Life and be willing to be Uncloathed that I may be Cloathed upon with my House from Heaven that being Cloathed upon I may not be found Naked but may be ready to enter into the Rest that remains for the People of God into that good Land the heavenly Canaan where sorrow and sighing shall flee away where I may sing the Song of Moses and of the Lamb who is worthy of Praise and Adoration for ever The 29th of July 1688. I may say with the holy St. John I was in the Spirit on the Sabbath Day on the Lords Day he was pleased to show me as before I had seen how Stillness and Rest is the true ground of Motion in God himself and of all true good regular Motion of the Creature so all such Motion is in order to Rest God himself after the six Days Work rested on the Seventh Day so the Lord blessed the Seventh Day And it is a blessed thing indeed when we come in any degree to this perfect Number Seven The Number of the Beast is Six hundred Sixty Six and if you add more Sixes it is but the Number of the Beast or at most but the Number of a Man it cannot be a perfect Number no it is the Number Seven is the perfect
a Woman in Governing a Family which is usually allowed them is Honourable and Comfortable if it is faithfully and prudently managed But Women are capable of other Employments than these Their Mother Wisdom who hath builded her House and hewn out her seven Pillars hath called simple ones to come in hither and she doth not exclude Females but they may receive the Law from her Mouth she will open her hid Treasures to them and shew them that Wisdom is better than Gold yea than much fine Gold better than Rubies that the Merchandise is better than Silver and the gain thereof than much fine Gold If Man did but know himself he would soon find Wisdom's Golden Mine If Man did but know and would consider his Divine Original his admirable Make in his Paradisical state that his outward Form was so lovely his Noble Soul was easily seen through it surely he would not behave himself unseemly towards his own Body which is a Temple for the holy Ghost to dwell in as the blessed Apostle tells us And did Man and Woman consider though now they are in a distinct Existence they were once One and when they are United in Marriage come to be so again surely they would behave themselves well in that Relation each in love and honour esteeming the other especially let the Woman be careful to perform her Duty for she was first in the Transgression she hath the more need to watch and pray that she enter not into Temptation When this Relation is thus lived in with this regard to themselves and one towards another it is a holy happy state and if ye be holy the Apostle tells us then are your Children also holy Jacob Behm that enlightened man saith Endeavour to get your Children good Souls This state so lived in is not unbecoming a Paradisical state and certainly entails a great Blessing upon Posterity But notwithstanding there is an Excellency in the Paradisical state yet the Heavenly is most Excellent wherein there is neither Male nor Female Bond nor Free but we are all one in Christ Jesus Our blessed Saviour tells us In Heaven there is neither Marrying nor giving in Marriage but we shall be like the Angels in Heaven And as all Variety proceeds from Unity so they must return to Unity again Christ himself shall deliver up the Kingdom to the Father and God shall be all in all Unity is the Beginning and End of all things and Rest is the Beginning and End of all things which leads me to the Seventh Day 's Rest The Evening and the Morning was the Sixth Day Now let all Creatures praise the Lord my Soul shall bless him while I have a being Glory to him that sits upon the Throne for ever and ever Amen Hallelujah The Lord Omnipotent reigns Let the Earth rejoyce and the multitude of Isles be glad Rejoyce O my Soul Rejoyce in the Lord evermore The Wise Mans Sixth Day is When his Work comes to Animality shall I say It hath then a Paradisical Body and rather more then so for it can penetrate Bodies and it is not the Property of Bodies to have Penetration of Dimensions But draw a Vail here lest Unhallowed Hands Touch or their Eyes See Whoever is a thirst let him come If he is not athirst for Gold but for Wisdom he will find Wisdom's House Open to Receive the Hungry and Thirsty And for such she hath prepared a Feast she hath mingled her Wine and made ready her Delicacies The Internal Sixth Day 's Work is When we come to the state of Manhood To be a Man in Christ Jesus is a blessed happy state nay to be a Babe in Christ is so but much more to be a strong Man There is Food prepared for all these states Milk for Babes Meat for Men strong Meat for strong Men when we grow up to the measure of the stature appointed to us in Christ Jesus All true Life and growth is from our being united to Jesus Christ our Head who will perfect and compleat his Body Now to our blessed and glorious JESUS who is able to perfect what concerns us and to sanctifie us wholly in Soul Body and Spirit To Him be Glory Honour and Praise for ever He will in his own time bring us to the Day of Rest the perfect Number Seven And God Rested the Seventh Day So God blessed the Seventh Day and hallowed it This Seventh Day was a Day without Clouds It is not said of the Seventh Day The Evening and the Morning were that Day as it was said of the First and so on to the Sixth Indeed the Natural Day that appears to this lower World is as other Days and to those who dwell in the mixtures of Light and Darkness Good and Evil nay they love Darkness rather than Light to them this Day hath not much more in it than other Days But the All-glorious God tho' he condescended to work and operate in this Principle wherein is some mixture of Darkness and we cannot but say God was in the Darkness yet he dwells not in the Darkness he dwells in the Light he Rests there he entred into his own Light Principle and Rests there God is Light and in him is no Darkness at all He is Love Anger is his strange Work so it should be with his Children Anger rests in the Bosom of Fools If a Prophet or Prophetess have a Command from God to go forth with a Message of Wrath a Denuntiation of Threatning they must be obedient but they must not rest in it they must not stir up the Wrath they must rather qualifie it with the Meek Love of JESUS there they may Rest in him they find Rest to their Souls I did in the beginning of my Writings say something as I was enabled of the Rest and Repose of the glorious Deity before his going forth into Manifestation or Operation It was then and is now an harmonious Stillness a sweet Repose only now there is an Additional Joy The Lord saw his Works and they were all very good He was pleased to behold his Works having so much of his own Image of Goodness in them this causeth Joy in God himself And tho' Sin did Cloud and Vail this Image yet the Lord in infinite Mercy and Wisdom did by Jesus Christ restore the faln Creation of Man break down the middle Wall of Partition not only between Jew and Gentile but between God and Man And our blessed Lord Jesus himself is the New and Living Way by which we enter in within the Vail now When one Sinner returns there is Joy in Heaven over one Sinner that repents and the Father receives the Prodigal with Joy till at last the whole Work shall be accomplished and every Creature of things in Heaven things on Earth and under the Earth shall bless and praise the Lord for ever O what a blessed Sabbath will that be But who can express any thing of it Only the Lord makes a poor weary
thereby put it into its right order of moving and established the Laws of its Motion in which course of moving it remains to this Day only to show that he is a Wise and Free Agent that moved it at first and continues present with it to direct all its Motions the usual Course of it hath sometimes been a little altered and new Workmanship hath been made to appear to show the Soveraignty Wisdom and Power of the Maker and Mover of all things Some have compared this World to a Clock-work that kind of Work may a little explain to us the Matter and Motion of this great Machine or Engine the great World but in this they greatly differ the little Clocks and Watches are made and put into Motion but left by the Maker to move a determinate time without him or he leaves it to some other Agent to carry on the Motions But if by Accident or some Ignorant Hand something should come in between the Wheels it would wholly stop or disorder the whole Frame but if the Wise Artist brings in any new Movements they may be for Ornament and Use in the Work this hath been done in the upper Wheels of the great Clock-work our Visible Heavens which proves what I before asserted the presence of an Omniscient Mover And as the Visible Heavens may be discours'd of as the upper Wheels of a Clock for their Circular Motion so may the Earth and its Motion be a little explained by comparing it with the Pendulum that ponderates and gravitates the Motion of the Earth being somewhat like this not as some have supposed whirling about its Axis but moving as we call it forward and backward Eastward and Westward which causes the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea which whirls not about like a Whirlpool but moves constantly East and West the cause of which I shall by and by intimate a little more fully that the Visible Heavens are kept in their Beauty Order Motion by the Power of Attraction of Divine Energy Power Virtue from the upper Light World I am well assured but how this is performed I shall not more largely express at present such Knowledge is too wonderful for me yet sometimes such a little Living Engine as my self in its moving up and down this great World feels something of the Divine Magnetism and Attraction in such a manner as no words can express fully yet it is such as gives a little Knowledge of such Powers and Virtues in their various Degrees and Measures through the whole Universe But to speak of Motion as it is performed by Second Causes it is performed in the great World by the Attraction or Magnetism of Light and Fire that Fire draws Fiery Substances is obvious to common Understanding and Experience The Lights and Fires of the Visible Heavens are placed quite round the Earth and so draw and Attract strongly the Internal Heat and Fire contain'd in the Earth drawing thus every way as a Second Cause keeps the Earth and Water whereof the whole Globe consists in equalibrio but at the Rising of the Sun which is a large Aggregate of Light and Fire the Earth enclines that way and at the Setting the other but that it Constantly keeps not this Motion and no other is from the interveening of the Moon and other Heavenly Bodies which also have the strong Power of Attraction And there is also in the Earth some large Orifices 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which more strongly may attract and so move and encline the Earth but in what part of the Globe these are placed I either have not read in my little Knowledge of Geography or have forgot these hints if worthy consideration may put some more fit Person upon the Enquiry and they may express their Thoughts in a better Method Some may say these indeed are some Theoretical Discourses Particular Opinions or Apprehensions of Things but of what use we know not either to the Minds of Men or their outward Condition Whether these Considerations may be useful in the Mechanicks I know not to such as have been long Studying to make some Engine with a Perpetual Motion what they mean 〈◊〉 â—â—â—petual I know not I suppose only a long Duration I am apt to think something of this kind may be made that by the Power of Magnetism may continue longer moving than any thing else hath been found But though I see something how this may be done yet not so as to give a perfect Model to any Body nor can I at present work it with my own Hands I know not what time may produce of this kind I am not yet any good Mathematician Secondly These two Principles of Philosophy Matter and Motion simply considered may if made use of produce things useful to the Health of Mankind and may cause strange Changes in many Substances I will instance only in an Experiment I think call'd the Torecellian Experiment performed in the King of Denmark's Laboratory where the Compact Body of Gold being for a considerable time ground in a Gold or Steel Mill was so opened and changed as to become a high useful Medicine for the Bodies of Mankind and I know not but in this way it may be made capable of penetrating Mineral Substances and thereby become useful many ways wherein the Consideration of what hath been said may be useful to the Minds of Men I shall say a little and so Conclude this Discourse The Great and Good God did make all things and put them into motion for great and wise Ends nothing moves that it may move but that it may be of some use and service while it moves and in order to Perfection and Rest hardly any Man moves but he intends Health or Business and in a little time Rest The motion of the whole Creation is in order to Perfection and Rest and this is only by terminating in the Blessed Fountain of Being Some Creatures do wander and seem to go out of their way but he that guides all their motions knows how to reduce them to their true end his Glory and their Happiness There is a Line in the Heavens called the Zodiack through which all the Planets move some of them seem to wander up and down this Line transverse up and down but all come to the same end with those that keep a direct Line that runs through this great Circle The Sun keeps its constant Course through a Line called the Ecliptick Line we may imitate this Heavenly Body in a constant even motion some other Lights do move in the same Circle but by their wandrings are longer e're they perfect it I find my self liable to wander and stray but I often pray seek the â—oul of thy Servant O Lord and I beseech thee seek all thy straying Sheep gather them into one Sheepfold that every Creatâ—re of Things in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth may praise thee Alpha and Omega Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Amen Bless the Lord O my Soul FINIS
Number when we come to know in our own Souls the sweet Rest to rest from our Labours as God did from his when we die in the Lord and rest from our Labours and our Works do follow us He that can understand let him understand This 30th of July the sweet Teachings abide upon me and I must follow my Guide who now shews me something of the Six Days work in opening the First Chapter of Genesis to me thus In the beginning In principio in the beginning or first Manifestation of this Principle Elohim the Mighty God of Power Created made out of Nothing some say I know not what Nothing their Imaginations frame to them but I am sure when about Seventeen or Eighteen years of Age I look'd into their Expositions Annotations Commentaries all I could find no other account was given but made out of Nothing which left me not at all satisfied but the Lord is pleased to open to me one Scripture by another The things that are made are not made of things that do appear they are made of Nothing that does appear but of Something that doth not appear viz. of that which is invisible In the beginning God made created produced the Heavens and the Earth the substance of which both were formed but the Earth was then without Form and Darkness was upon the Face of the Deep Some represent this Chaos methinks but oddly calling it rude Chaos where all things lay they say confused I will not cavil about Words but this gives a strange Representation of this Principle out of which such a beautiful and orderly World was produced Now to me this very Chaos hath a Beauty in it I cannot but say O beautiful Darkness O holy Night The Mother of all things In this dark Chariot doth the Omnipotent Creator the Great Jehovah ride forth magnificently and when the Vail was drawn away the Light appear'd And God said Let there be Light and there was Light This Light was before hid in the Darkness till it it was manifested at the Command of God the Light was mingled with the Darkness in the Chaos and innumerable other seeming Contrarieties but not confused none of God's Creatures can be so for God is a God of Order not of Confusion his Works are performed with the swift motion agility powerful operation of a most glorious Spirit and also as a wise Architect with order weight and sure proportionates all things and made the lower Orders of things answer to their Patterns in the Heavenly A man doth not make any thing but what hath some sort of spiritual existence in his Mind before it can be produc'd into Out-working with his hands Infinitely transcendently more hath all things substantially really a being in the Eternal Idea's in the Divine Mind Man hath power over the Creatures to change and alter the Substance but he hath not power to make the substance not the least part of it but God produceth the substance form and all from himself The Light of this Creation is a Reflexion of the Supercelestial Light And God saw the Light that it was good and God divided the Light from the Darkness and God called the Light Day and the Darkness he called Night and the Evening and the Morning were the first Day When the Light was separated from the Darkness and brought forth into a distinct Existence this was the end of the First Day 's Work There is a Philosophical Work which is an Excellent Figure of this First Days Work When an enlightned Man a wise Man takes some part of the Creation of the Substance or Matter and causeth it to pass into Death and Putrifaction it comes to be like the Chaos of which it was once a part it goes into a state of Darkness and Blackness but the wise Man is not frighted at this sight but knows this doth necessarily precede the Light and that it doth include the Light and if he continues his Operation he knows he shall certainly see a bright white Light appear and there will be a separation between this Light and Darkness which is an end of his first Days Work This also is a Figure of the New Creation which God works in bringing Man to himself out of the fallen state which is done by bringing Man to a state of Dying he must be brought to a state of Contrition Crucifixion a spiritual Dying with Christ Dying to Sin Dying to Self now this is a state of Darkness and of the Shadow of Death indeed But the Spirit of God moves upon these dark Waters upon this Deep and causeth the Light to appear he illuminates the Man causeth the Light to shine out of Obsecurity for this Light is in the Darkness though the Darkness comprehendeth it not Now this Enlightning this separation of the Light from the Darkness is the First Day 's Work of the Spirit of God in the Minds of Men. Thus there is an Excellent Agreement and Harmony in all the Works and Ways of God Let none think it strange that I make use of Natural and Artificial things to explain Divine Our Lord Jesus made use not only of Natural Productions but of Artificial Employments as Metaphors he mentions the Sower of Seed the Vine-Dresser the Woman's hiding her Leaven in three Measures of Meal till all is leavened This last Parable hath an excellent Significancy in it of things Divine Natural and Philosophical or Artificial but it is now as it was then to some it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom to others it is not given But there are some now who think so high of themselves that it is below them to look into the Creatures notwithstanding the Great and Mighty Jehovah did condescend to make them and doth preserve them every moment and takes such care that the meanest of them falls not to the ground without the Will of our heavenly Father I am now to say something of the Second Day 's Work of Creation And God said Let there be a Firmament in the midst of the Waters and let it divide the Waters from the Waters and God made the Firmament and divided the Waters which were under the Firmament from the Waters which were above the Firmament and it was so and God called the Firmament Heaven And the Evening and the Morning were the Second Day After the Light was separated from the Darkness in the First Day 's Work the Second Day the Light was Rarified and Expanded it was extended or spread forth to a wonderful Circumference and so it became the Firmament which God called Heaven It is said The Lord stretched out the Heavens as a Curtain as a Tent to dwell in Thus as a wise Builder a curious Architect the Lord covers the top of the Structure before he finisheth the curious In works The Chaos was a Watry Substance an Unctuous Humidity the Principle of the Water was predominant therefore the Scripture here calls it Water saying The Spirit of God
heavy laden Soul to feel something of it in himself when we die in the Lord and rest from our Labours When we die into the Lord out of all things besides we shall know what it is to Rest and to rejoyce with Joy unspeakable and glorious To rest from our Labours and to have our Works follow us this is not a working for Life by Legal Performances it is rather a working from a Principle of Life where the Works follow and go not before the Life But there is something more than this there is a State of Rest and Joy wherein the Works of the Spirit that are wrought in us when the Lord works in us to Will and to Do follow us and are set before us to cause in us Joy and Rejoycing To look back upon our own Works which are performed from a Legal Selfish Princiciple causeth no true Joy nor Rest but rather lifting up in Pride and Self-will But in the true Work of the Spirit tho' we may go forth weeping bearing precious seed we shall return rejoycing bringing our Sheaves with us These Fruits of the Spirit Love Joy Peace follow such a Soul into the Rest and sweet Repose it attains here and also into the Rest which remains for the People of God Lord Let me know such a lasting permanent sixt Rest as may not have Evening nor Morning but may be a Day without a Cloud that I may have thy Light shining in me brighter and brighter to the perfect Day when thou wilt be my Light for ever The Wise Men whom God himself hath Enlightned are the only Wise Men and the most Happy having the inward Repose which the World cannot give nor take away Wisdom enables them to work and when their Work is come to the Seventh Day of Perfection they rest from their Labours their Work which was bulky and laborious comes to be easily portable pleasant Employment which they account rather Rest than Labour and the effects of their Works and the Work it self follows them where-ever they go and so mighty Works shew forth themselves in them as in their glorious Lord and Master who promised that the Works that he did they should do also Now these Works shew forth themselves in them more in their Patience Stillness and Rest than in all their busie Working 'T is but little Man hath to do in inward or outward Working when he hath committed himself and all his ways to the Lord. Now it is a blessed thing to feel any beginnings of this sweet Day this holy happy state of Rest within tho' it may not be brought forth thro' the whole Person But the Lord is the Rock and his Work is perfect He will perfect what concerns those that trust in him Wait patiently on the Lord O my Soul for he will give thee Rest for the Days wherein he hath afflicted thee O that the Peace of God that passeth all Vnderstanding may guard my Heart and Mind that no Storm nor Tempest may break in that I could retire into my strong Hold as a Prisoner of Hope waiting for the Redemption of my Body and not mine only but of the whole groaning Creation that the Year of Jubilee may be known to them when there shall be proclaimed Liberty for the Captives that the Creation may be brought forth into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God O happy time when Jerusalem shall become the Praise of the whole Earth when the Lord shall set his King upon the holy Hill of Sion when our King shall be exalted by and upon a People who are as a barren Mountain nothing in themselves that so our King and our God the blessed JESUS may Reign to whom all Power in Heaven and Earth is given and of whose Dominion there is no End To whom be Glory and Honour and Blessing and Praise for ever and for ever Amen Hallelujah Great Lord of Lords and King of Kings Thou mak'st my dry and thirsty Earth to sing And in the Desart causeth a New Spring Awake my Soul and sing Jehovah's Praise Who giveth Life and from the Dead doth raise Mercy and Goodness are in all his Ways Hymns IN lowly Meekness I will dwell The Lilly of the Vale is sweet Ofttimes the loftiest Cedars fall And then alas their fall is great The Sp'rit that in the Myrtles moved Is a pure breath of holy Air Sometimes these Shrubs are visited Whilst higher Trees neglected are Come my Beloved o're Mountain top Come skipping o're the highest Hill Let thy Winds on my Garden blow Do thou with sweets my Spices fill When thou bright Sun vouchsaf'st to shine On my Beloved Sharon Rose It hath its sweetness all from thee And with thee takes a sweet Repose It opens as the Morning fair When thou bright Sun art pleas'd to appear Then shuts up all its hidden store Till thy Sight does again draw near Thus I 'm a Garden clos'd to all A Fountain seal'd to all but thee Lest little Foxes should spoil my Vine The tender Grape planted by thee And lest the Silver-running Stream That is pure as it comes from thee Should mingle with the muddy Earth Partake of its impurity Hymns OH how shall I the praises sing Of our great God and glorious King Vnless his Spirit doth indite What I should sing what I should write His Spirit doth Secrets Reveal He opens the Mystick seventh Seal The seventh Seal the seventh Thunder Opens in me a sacred Wonder He leads me to the Centre deep Where Spirits dark their Prison keep Yet in this doleful Night does dwell A Light that Conquers Death and Hell For from the dark and hidden Ground The Light arising may be found I have seen a darksome gloomy shade Aweful and Majestick made But at Sun-rising with his light Hath been more pleasing to the sight With the sweet and lovely Green Guilded with the Sun between So have I seen a Picture fair Made by Artists Hand more rare When from darkest shades I see The Light arising to a degree Most perfect pleasing and most sweet Made from Variety so great So have I heard a pleasing sound Arising from deep Gamuts ground But Oh my spirits how they fail When I in this vast Ocean sail Now I 've a deep and hidden sense From the Centre to the Circumference Most holy Spirit keep me still I may be guided by thy will Oh how can I describe the fall My self so great a Criminal Darker than night darker than shade Or all things else that have been made More sad than Musicks deepest ground I must my Lamentation sound And from this doleful dismal Cry I would call all the standers by To see this sad and tragiâ—k sight Which may the hardest Spirits fright Here you may see a Lamb lye slain With the deepest sharpest pain There you see Spirits Captive led Sure they are free amongst the dead Here are Spirits led in Chains Vnder cruel torturing pains There lye dry and ghastly Bones With hearts more