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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95810	Unpremeditated thoughts of the knowledge of God, whom to know, is life eternal. With some discoveries of the mysteries of creation, in the six days work, and the seventh days rest. : To which is added, a short discourse concerning those two great principles of natural philosophy, matter and motion. / Humbly offered to consideration, by one of the Philadelphia Society, who calls her self Irena.	Institut de recherches européennes sur les noblesses et aristocraties.	1697 (1697)	Wing U92A; ESTC R185871	42,220	173

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. S. 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

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 〈◊〉 ●●●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 ●oul of thy Servant O Lord and I beseech thee seek all thy straying Sheep gather them into one Sheepfold that every Creat●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