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

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

to mittigate the severity of peoples spirits and to give a by hint of that doom and judgement that is at hand upon the world For my own part I do most ingeniously and candidly confess that the worst of men cannot out-vie my iniquity Hell it self cannot hatch that mischiefe which my heart hath not been a receptacle to imbrace and if ever a proud Pharisee in the world dare stept up and plead his own innocency let him cast the first stone at me If every man be found guilty and there is none that doth good why should we so unseemly envy and not rather pitty and lament over each others miseries But to return being thus clouded from the presence of the Lord I was violently posted through most dark paths where I ever and anon stumbled and fell into the snare of open error and profaneness led and hurried by what power let the wise judg in a principle of mad Zeal to tear and rend the very appearances of God which I had formerly cherished in my brest Delighting my self in nothing but in that which rendred me most vile and ugly in the sight of all men and glorying in nought but my own shame I could not have imagined that such deadly poyson had lodged within me had not the dreadful piercing lance of vengeance let it out before my face and made it palpably manifest to all men I was indeed full sick of wrath a vial of wrath was given me to drink the heavenly pleasure would not exeuse me a drop of it which no sooner had flesh received but it burst in sunder polluted and defiled my wayes and actions with its filthy poysonous nature Well drink I must but mark the riddle 'T was given me that I might drink I drank that I might stumble I stumbled that I might fall I fell ☜ and through my fall was made happy It is strange to think how the hidden and secret presence of God in me did silently rejoyce while flesh was thus manifested I had a sweet rest and refuge in the Lord Spiritual I or the new man even while my flesh was frying and scorching in the flames of ireful fury I was ark'd up in the eternal bosome while the flesh was tumbling in the foaming surges of its own vanity And although the beast ascended out of the bottomless pit and cast out a flood of envy against me yet I was preserved in the Lord from its insulting fury and this I know is a riddle to many Jesus Christ which none but the true Nazarite can expound and til he is pleased to unfold it it pleases me it should lie dark But to conclude Thus have I been forc't into the strange paths of obscurity driven up and down in a tempestuous storm of wrath and split upon the rocks of dreadful astonishment All the waves and billows of the Almighty have gone over me I am now at rest in the silent deeps of eternity sunk into the abysse of silence and having shot this perilous gulf am safely arrived into the bosome of love the land of rest I sometimes hear from the world which I have now forsaken I see its Diurnals are fraught with the tydings of the same clamor strife and contention which abounded in it when I left it I give it the hearing and that 's all I meddle with none-of them though they are daily censuring me at their pleasure My lovely silence contributes so large a parcel of Peace to me as that I would gladly be at Peace with all men but yet such is the restless fury of the disturbed world that it will not upon any terms enter into a league of concord with me I cannot inveigh against any form party or religious interest it becomes not my sweet silence to bawl and brawl with the unquiet spirits of men who are therefore swoln with madness and frenzy against me because they cannot by their bitter emulation either disturb the peace and rest of my spirit or provoke me to a contest with them upon such poor base and beggerly terms I see there is nought that can satisfie under the Sun And certainly were men possessed of that true enjoyment which they pretend to they would be better satisfied and more at peace in their spirits My great desire and that wherein I most delight is to see and say nothing I have run round the world of variety My mind is wholly bent to contemplate that and am now centered in eternity that is the womb out of which I was taken and to which my desires are now reduced There is nothing in the world of so great amplitude as to comprehend or contain my spirit within its measurable orb something that is more durable then any thing that is extant in the world is that which my souls press after And in the interim I find my self mostly comprehended and best satisfied in my still and silent reserves I am or would bee very little or nothing in shew yet I am indeed both what I would be or may desire to be I am drawne from off the stage of outward appearances on which of late I have acted a most sad and Tragicall part I am bound in the close Galleries with my beloved where under the sweet verge of his Love and shadow of his wing I am wooed to refresh my selfe with most mellifluous delights I am as the Lords Lillie amongst Thornes I stand in a very fertile soyl though it be a valley yet it s both fat rich and pleasant I cannot envy the Thornes that are about me neither can they hurt mee I grow quietly by them stand peaceably amongst them and they are made against their wills a defensive hedge about me In summ While I view with a serious inspection the state of things about mee I clearly perceive how every thing prides it self in a momentany state when alasse after it hath shewed it self it suddenly is swallowed up by that being whence it first came Every thing beares a constant and greedy motion towards the center and when once we are wearied in the prolixity of variety wee revolve into silence where we are as if we had never been Every one stands up Vi armis to plead the prerogative of his own interest the World is so filled with Verbosity that I am gladly constrained into silence till I have time and opportunity to offer my minde amongst them I see partly what the end will be but I must not declare neither will the world hear it I have stept out of my silent Mansions to offer these few words to the Vulgar view how hardly I was perswaded to it my own heart can evidence and many in my behalf can testifie some engagements urged me to it more then any desire of mine to become publick I am quite a weary of popular applause and I little value a vulgar censure the benefit of the one cannot at all affect me nor the prejudice of the other much molest me I