secure thee from all beleaguerings hiding thee within the Pavilion of his Power To this oh my Soul do thou enter and for ever rely for here is hiding from the Serpent's Eye August the 31st 1676. Upon these sweet Words of Counsel and Emanations I sprung out in Prayer renewing my Vows formerly made pouring forth the Oyl of Joy and Gladness upon Jacob's Pillar which is the standing Witness betwixt me and Jehovah Nissah Henceforth resolving to adventure only with Jacob's Staff in my Hand finding fresh Power animating my Faith so that I neither feared Famine Nakedness or any Distress that could happen Being resolved to abide where my Lot was cast and to go thro' with my Associate with whom the Spirit of Caleb was to proceed and to go forward unanimously with me till we might reach to the high Calling and Apostolical Power which I felt mightily impulsing to hazard the loss of all reckoning nothing of Validity or worth making Interest for but that which spoken of hath been yet reserved for us in the Everlasting Treasury Whereto upon all accounts I will apply my self for thereout will be given to that Eye which waiteth steadily Which was assured and confirmed to me from that Example of Moses his Hands being held up The Lord said to me if ye will be prevailing Conquerors over your deadly undermining Soul-destroying Foes your Hands of Faith must at no time fall down but when you find them heavy call in Aaron and Hur the Spirit of Prophecy and Prayer which props up and maintains the Affiance still to rest upon the Stone of Strength and Almightiness by which great Conquest and Success will come to be witnessed Thus happy shall ye be in holding out firmly because the Shield of your help shall tread down all strength for you September the 1st 1676. THe Doctor this Morning Praying with me the Word said while he was in Prayer Here is a Ship in full Sail directing to that Prophetical Blessing which was pronounced upon Zebulun whose dweâ—…ing should be at the Haven where all rich freighted Ships should unload themselves September the 3d. 1676. This Morning considering of some Passages which were read to me of a Fore-runner who had wonderful things by Vision revealed unto him with which I was much affected they being so weighty much answering to what I did believe might be brought to pass according to the Spirit of Prophecy who did see into the same Mystery of Christ coming While I was Praying in my self for to see this wonderful Time a Pair of Ballances was put forth by a Hand as out of a Cloud where appeared a great Roll writ upon within and a Golden Ball or Globe These in each Scale were weighed The Golden Globe immediately carried the Scale down and thus it was said Vision is not so weighty as Fruition These Writings are as the Bonds of Obligation but the subsisting thing is from this solid Body which turns Vision into Fruition which set thy Heart chiefly upon September the 4th 1676. After this passed I considered how to be changed into this Globe of unmixed solid matter groaning after the contaction of his Heavenly material thing which in Vision I had seen Then heard I Wisdom's Word to cry within me saying Thy Mind must be cast into a new Mold of Imagination that so thy thoughts may come to answer mine That Scripture being brought to me Let the unrighteous Man forsake his thoughts and turn to his God At this Word I said Oh my Lord who can nullify and put a stop to his own thoughts which is a connexion to his Life For every sight of the Eye and hearing of the Ear doth stir up and awaken these Essences therefore there is no possibility of stopping the current of them but they will run their Course as the Sun Moon and Stars in their Order will Under whose Constellations while we are living such common thoughts wilâ—… arise which though not wholly evil yeâ—… because they are not holy and perfectly good they cannot be according to what proceeds from the Heart of God who would that our Thoughts and Ways should be like unto his This case I presented before my God and my Lord Jesus to be answered September the 5th 1676. Who the next day thus resolved me saying As thou hast desired that great sublime change which is the Transmutation into the pure solid Body so know thou that for the obtaining of this there must of necessity be a superimaginariness from which fanned are all chaffy Cogitations For such is the Man as the Conceptions of his Mind are Now this is only on thy part to do whereby the circulation of profuse Imaginations may be stopped when wisely and foreseeingly thou dost prevent all occasions which administer such hard matter for such a muddy Spring to generate it self into such Multiplicities as generally fill the whole House of the Mind I Jesus do therefore come to be thy anointed Eye that so thou mayst discern the thoughts of thy Heart what to imbrace and what to forsake For know that a thought is a more considerable thing then hitherto ye have understood for their Nature are most subtle swift Spirits who numerate as the Sand upon the Sea-shore so as they make a World invisible in every Creature From whence first come all Wars Insurrections and Mutations these being first inkindled from the Fire-flash which openeth from its own center which divideth it self part into the Evil and part into the Good For so it is now that two Sources are opened in every Creature his Will standing free being redeemed out of the necessity as adhering to the Earthly the treasury of the Heavenly being free to resort to But that part from whence the pure River doth bubble up and spring multipying divine Conception is a very deep Well into which the Will-Spirit doth launch sâ—…nking down into the Depths before it can fetch up those precious Thoughts which work from the Source of all pure Deity They will through an habitual Course so unite as to rise up like an Army of great Might able to put the other to flight Here is the great Conquest to subdue every Thought and first to bring down these high Towers of the imaginary part Demolish but these and you will do your work to purpose Now that ye may be wise to know how to stop this muddy Source observe these following Rules Rules for the Government of the Imagination First Wind out of all occasions which from this World may minister and present fruitless and unnecessary Objects and Things which will kindle Essences according to their empty and profuse Likeness Secondly Keep thy self much within thy Holy Temple and Holy Place of Silence where the Trinity with their whole train delight for to descend with whom being much conversant the sight of the Eye and the hearing of the Ear within this Heavenly Sphear will both beget nourish and maintain pure Cogitations Thirdly Thou wilt see feel and know
working Properties which are variously manifested according as in the Glass of God's Wisdom is known The one great and principal Instrument to turn wind move â—…nd â—…ct all by is the strong Arm and nimble swift Spirit of Faith to whom nothing wiâ—…l be hard or mysterious to find out This Hâ—…nd of Faith hath an Eye that is fiâ—…ed in the Palm of it so as it hath a piercing Sight to see what was is and must further be yet wrought till the whole Science of the Eternal Mystery shall be understood and wrought out Here then is required to learn of thy Jesus all that which was acted forth in his Humâ—…nity there hath been a great default and hanging off as if it were a Criminal thing to expect or make out for the same Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding whereby the same Life might reign in Power again Whereas much more is to be looked for because he that was dead liveth evermore to see greater things then those now to be accomplished in them in this Age that in the unfeigned Faith and steady Eye shall search deep to know what their part and share with him will be in that most high and singular Profession Which none can come to imitate till truly simplified as new-born Babes Oh that is the great thing to come to be little again pretending to know nothing but as its Knowing shall proceed from that Prophet which is risen to destroy and nullifie all other Traditional Teachings Which are far too short to find out what in the Arcanum of the Holy Ghost doth lie hid which will open the Heavenly Depths Whereof a Witness thou mayst be if thou canst stop thy Ears to those many false charming Cries of which beware lest thou be swayed by the Multitude Who will assault the Will of thy potent Might which is as in the place of Pilate that hath power to reserve or release to kill or save alive Take heed of Pilate's Spirit who fearful is to displease the great thronging out-cry of People thereby preserving Barabbaâ—… the seditious false and faith-murthering Life to crucifie Jesus the inspirating Word of Truth and Spirit of Prophecy If thou makest this Choice and be only owning its Authority then he will be free to train thee up to know every degree of the High Calling which may make thee of mighty ability when once fully understood Fear not but it shall surpass and outvy all low Earthly Employs that hitherto have vaunted high above all that is called the New Creation working Property But now arise I will and set afoot this new Mysterious Calling that hath not yet been understood but it shall be revealed only to those who shall be thus wise in Heart to suffer their Ears to be bored through so as my Counsels to hear and retain without demurr or doubt Thus and after this manner did I hear the Bridegroom's Voice sweetly alluring to impress his own likeness which gave me boldness to retort back again upon him with the freeness of Espoused Mate to offer what lay upon my Heart Oh thou Celestial Joy of the Internal Part how is it that thy Calls are thus day by day renewed What more is to be done till thou the working motion in Nature dost absolutely raise anew to be all in all in mighty Supremacy according to the moving of the last finishing Mystery that God the Holy Ghost may expresly swallow up all our Mortality Thou hast said We have long enough dwelt in the first Mount and bid us pass on till we this Day of the Bridal Glory see but hast not shewn me when or how it must be obtained or who they are that shall the first Fruits here bring to thee Oh! I want a clear and full description hereof my dear Jesus Then should I be of one fixed Mind and delivered from all Jeopardy if once sealed up to be privy to the Secrets that still are shut up within thee Who must be the Revelation of that which my Spirit hath desired with desire to see before I lay aside the Corporality Oh! now then in plainness déclare to me the Particulars of my High Calling which thou hast said we must follow thee in July the 28th 1676. Here follows that which opened upon this my Inward Communing with the Spirit of the LORD JESUS True O Soul I have strongly moved thy Will towards me yet thou art upon the Jealousie as if I kept much hid from thee Now as to that thou must be subjected and always allow me my prerogative to open and to shut to reveal or to conceal who know my own Times and Seasons best when and to whom to break open my Seals that so knowing in my Book of Life who those may be that shall persevere and look not back but are waiting for the fulfilling of all my pleasure But know that to thee much hath been given the Dew hath lain upon thy Branch while others have been dry and thy Fleece hath been watered and yet thy expectation may be much more abundant in and from him who is the Alpha and Omega Who is now from Heaven revealed for this end to instrnct you who are seeking to be fellow workers with me for the bringing to pass that which will Crown the Love Labourers herein who can with me endure to bear the burthen and heat of the Day then for a Reward expect the Golden Penny will come in the Mouth of the Dove Who then will make all Labours to cease for the Everlasting Gospel will run through those who shall give themselves to be faithful Workers Therefore be apt wise and diligent now to every Rule which shall be revealed unto you who have chosen the same Calling with me and you may know Effects answerbly The first Rule You are called out of this Babylonish Country into the Land of Immanuel where in the first place you are to learn the Language of that Country among the Divine Magicians and Spiritual Natives there and then in the next place to understand the Manufactory how to deal and traffick in that high Merchandize of the Pearl of the Kingdom with all the Precious Stones of value as the Bdellium and Onyx which this Land doth afford The second Rule You are called to Trade from that Stock and Golden Coin which bears my Image and Superscription that will procure all the Precious Goods of this Heavenly Country For it is Expedient that you should be made skilful in and understand all these weighty Things that may be serviceable to your self and those that are in the same Calling and Vocation united with you And I would not have you after the Manner of the World to go on Trust upon anothers Talent but to Improve your own which I have committed to you The third Rule Seeing now your JESUS hath furnished you with a good Stock the Golden Mine being set open to you you may Adventure to Buy and to lay up in Store as a true Joseph the sevenfold Increase of
Dispensation Which hereby is as the New and best of Wine that hath been reserved for this Last Time Whereby it may be understood that Christ has not forgotten to make good his Promise to renew the Spring of his Spirit by a continued Succession of it And as we see and hear the Fruitfulness of it doth more generally abound and find entertainment in the World by a New Generation of Apostolical Spirits so doth it presage a New Kingdom and State is near approaching Which is Argument enough to provoke all that would be Subjects of this Kingdom which the Lamb has only Right unto to be preparing and making Ready as the First Fruits that they may be Qualified to make up this New Jerusalem-Bride Therefore as my Fellow Denizens of this City which is from Above where-ever ye are hidden whether as Exiles or Captives scattered to and fro I beseech you let your Inward Ear he attentive keeping Watch and Ward in great Calmness and Stillness of Mind Then may ye bear the Love-Calls passing through that Horn which is filled with pure Oil that will gather and draw you into the High Celestial and Spiritual Pasture and Fold where our goodly Tents may be Pitched and of which we may go in and out to that rich Sharon which springs and flowers round about our Kingly Shepherd that so as his Sheep and Lambs we may be gently led from Fountain to Fountain and drink and feed together in the same Harmony and Unity as do the Saints in the Upper Fold so we in this Lower I shall now wind up all with a Cautâ—…n to two Ranks the First shall be to the Unlearned and Ignorant in this Method and Way of the Spirit 's Manifestation Which is that they do forbear Rash and Censorious Judgment upon those Things that are at present above their Reach For as they desire not to be prevented and bereaved of the Great Benefit of Divine Inspiration and the Assistances of the Holy Ghost my Advertisement to such is that they become Simple and Child-like and adventure upon the Conduct and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit then will they find another manner of fruitful Life will in them spring and no reason shall they have to repent for Acquiescing to the Divine Will herein The Second Caution shall be to that sort which are already Initiated into this our Mystick and Supersensual Wisdom that may have with me run deep into the Ocean of what is Mysterious and Wonderful for Knowledge First I must caution you with my self to keep very Low entring into a Self-Annihilation so as a Nothing to be with reference to the Creaturely Being that the All-Deifick Unction may arise as an overflowing Tide and never to think we have obtained by all that we have yet reached to what yet remains of those Immense Treasures which are yet further to be Revealed For there is still a growing Tree of Life that reneweth all Variety of Wisdom as you will in part find by this Present as well as by some Foregoing Books by me Published Thus having given you a true Narrative of the Several Removes and Risings from one Degree to another from Depths to Heights and from Heights again to Depths out of which hath been Brought forth very Marvellous and Wonderful Secrets which it was the pleasure of the Fountain of Spirits to distribute and communicate being such Mysterious Things as haply may be rarely found elsewhere which hath often me astonished that such Unusual and Strange a Method the Spirit should take with me opening such things But it hath been given me to know upon a Diligent Inquiry that there is an Age coming on the like to which hath not yet been to whom these Prophesies and Revelations do belong So that though the Day of my Life is far spent so that I may not see the full Harvest of what is by the Spirit sown here to be reaped yet assured I am that all is reserved for a Glorious Time wherein shall arise a New Generation that clothed upon will be with such a Mantle as is interwoven with Light Wisdom Knowledge and Flaming Power Among which there may be some that I may bear the Memorial of a Mother to as well Natural as Supernatural that may possibly succeed in the same Spirit which I shall pray may be as Wisdom's Key to go on to open in them the Golden Remains which are yet to be brought forth for the promulgation of the Priestly and Prophetical Kingdom upon the Earth So now I shall conclude requesting you as you shall draw in any Light or feel any Refreshment herefrom that you would join with me in Acclamations and Praises to the Antient of Days who hath put into the Hands of a Good-willer to these Divine Mysteries to bring forth into the Publick what might otherwise have been left in Oblivion and Secresie And it is my pecuâ—… Request which I this place leave that the Nâ—…ons may bless and pray for such an Instrument that hath given a Proof of so Universal a Love to All. So that the Fulness of all Blessings and Showers from the Heavenly Powers may 〈◊〉 upon the Impartial and Single-hearted Readers and Good-willers hereof shall be the constant Invocation and Prayer of her who while living in the Body shall never cease to serve all her Fellow-Members in the Gift of God Universally J. Lead THE EDITOR TO THE READER THERE having been a Promise made in the Preface to the Ark of Faith that the Diary of this Author should follow the First Volume of the same is now accordingly Published for an Universal Good For â—…he Author or the Instrument rather â—…ade use of by the Divine Wisdom is known to be of so Universal a Spirit â—…hat nothing less hereby can be designed And howsoever what is herein Deâ—…ivered as well as the Manner of the Deâ—…ivery it self may come to be opposed either on this hand or on that I think I can say that I am more than Morally Assured That the All-wise God hath hereby Ends to bring about which the most Acute and Vulturous Eye of the Greatest Rationalist shall never be able to dive into and that all will serve but to a Fuller Breaking out of the Truth and the Divine Light that True Light which Enlightens every one that comes into the World so far as it is not Resisted and according to the Degree of Purity in the Vessel for the Reception and Reflexion of its Rays This is an Age that thinks it self to excel all that have ever went before it in the Discovery and Improvement of Truths and it cannot be denied but that of these late years Mechanical Knowledge hath been brought up to a very great Height which hath had both its Good and Bad Effects in the World But notwithstanding all the Fancied or Real Light in matters either Physical or Theological which the Present Age doth so much boast of it may perhaps not unfitly enough be said of those of that
of Knowledge and Skill in all True Learning and Solid Wisdom that they may be found ten times better and more Skilful than all the Magicians and Men of Faâ—… that are in the Universities throughouâ—… 〈◊〉 Europe For when Wisdom's Key is obtained and her Book unsealed in any according to the Process here described then may all the Depths of Philosophy as well as of Divinity and all the Hidden Treasury of Wisdom in All Worthy Arts and Sciences be successively broken up And thus as from one Foot of the Rhodian Coloss which is to This Day preserved every one that is but skilled in the Proportions of the Human Body can exactly Calculate what the Whole should be and Know thence how to frame one accordingly so every one to whom God has given some good degree of Understanding in the Symmetry and Proportions of the Spiritual Body will notwithstanding any Intervening Breaches or Abrupt Transitions be able hence to Frame some suitable Idea of the whole Design and Oeconomy of God in the Manifestation of his Kingdom to Separated and Virginiz'd Souls Now the Manifestation of this Divine Kingdom is Various in Several Persons and in the same Person at several Times Whence this Variety in the Descent of the Heavenly and Ghostly Powers whether in this Principle or in another and of the Joys of the World to come is here not unfitly Symboliz'd out by a Garden or Paradise as it was by the King thereof himself in his truly Gracious Answer to the Penitent Thief And yet more Expressively is this Flourishing State of the Lamb's Elect Bride Cipher'd to us by a Fountain of Gardens or Paradises planted with all Trees of Frankincense Myrrh and Alloes and with all the chief Spices out of which the Royal Ointment is prepared for the Consecration of such Priestly Kings as are to Reign upon the Earth in the Lamb's Nature and Name Which shall make all the Wild Beasts of the Forest to fly into Dens and Lurking Holes and every Venemous Creature to hide it self from the Great Attick Iomin in his Representatives and from the Fiery Stream issuing out of his Mouth by which the Spirit of Antichrist that Huge Leviathan shall be utterly Destroyed So will the Kingdom of Christ manifest it self by a Gradual but Total overthrow of that of Him who has Usurped all the Kingdoms of the Earth until all that which he has caused to be as a Wilderness by the Blast of his Poisonous Breath be again Renewed and made to be as the Garden of God filled with Wells of Living Water and Streams from the Upper Lebanon A Garden giving forth all the Variety of Flowers and Fruits of Life according to the Seasons and according to every ones Essential Ground and Internal Soil a Garden in which there is not any mixt Tree existing from the Root of the outward Elements containing Good and Evil Truth and Falshood Light and Darkness but all whose Trees are Trees of Life all whose Plants are Plants of Righteousness all perfectly Good and True All-beautiful and Lustrous How various the Manifestation of this Lebanon-Kingdom will be no Pen can describe no Tongue can express That is Various indeed but the Manifester all the while is but One and the Essential Word of God which is the Worker of all these things is most Uniform The Manuductions Illuminations and Inspirations are very different but still there is but one Way one Light and one Spirit one Lord and one God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and of us all who in these last Days is about to appear yet more fully to us by his Son setting him Openly upon his Holy Hill Thus he who is the Abyssal Unity of all Beings clotheth himself as with several Names râ—… forth in several Powers weareth on his Head several Crowns and glanceth from his Eyes several Lights And yet there is but One Crown One Power and One Name as there is but One Light which diffuseth it self in all the variety of Colours Which Unity and Variety of Light is well to be heeded in the Reading of this Book and of all other Spiritual Treatises whatever of what Rank or Degree soever they be For God sometimes appears in the Darkness and yet in that Darkness there is Light again he appears in the Light and yet Darkness may be mixed with this Light till the Perfect Day do spring from on High Thus he appears to some at a distance as in a great and strong Wind to others in an Earthquake in both which Formes he eminently manifested himself through some about the Beginning of the Last Century Then after this approaching still nearer he apppears to a third sort in the Fire as at this very Day he powerfully doth to some that are known to Wisdom's Disciplehood And lastly he demonstrates his Presence to some as to this his Chosen Vessel in a still small Voice and in a sweet gentle lambent Flame Sometimes God manifests himself to the Eye or Ear of the Receptive Heart according to the several Properties Operations and Influxes of this or that Name which he puts on of this or that Attribute which he communicates of this or that Sphere in which the Living Wheels of the Creatures before the Throne of God do move Thus was he manifested to the Unregenerate Spirit of Balaam according to the eficacy of the Name Shaddai who saw the Vision of him in this Similitude or Vesture falling into a Trance And this is the lowest sort of True Divine Prophesie Then was he Manifested unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the Name of El-Shaddai which is a much higher Degree than the former as that whereby is expressed not only the Paternal Property in the Absolute Soveraignty of his Will but also the Meek Love-Principle co-joined with it in a Federal Rite After this he was manifested under the Law at sundry Times and in divers Manners by the Most Essential and Great Name of the Covenant Jehovah but still according to the variety of the Vessel and its fitness to receive the Emanations thereof either in a High or Low Degree Then lastly he was made known under the Gospel to the Apostles to the Evangelists to the Prophets and to other Ranks mentioned in the Apostolical Epistles by the Name of Jesus which Name doth Unseal and Open that of Jehovah whence the Miraculous Powers did so abound in the Early Days of the Church while there was Faith in this Name But still it is the same One Holy and True God that revealed himself both to the Vile Son of Beor and to the most Heroick Father of the Faithful though not by the same Name And he is nevertheless One and having Appeared after Manner and in that Name to the Proâ—…hets of Old and then speaking after another Manner and by another Name â—…n their Successors the Prophets Neither would he be the less so should he even speak to us after another Manner than he hath yet spoken
exchanged Here only is the Place for the Bridegroom and his Bride after long Exile to meet again Oh then be wise and for your Bridal Spirit and Garment of Power undeniably wait None out of this Treasure-City can ever it obtain for in this Sion must all be born again after many other preceding Births which fore runs this great and last Transmuting Birth Which to that Perfection is brought that no desire there will be for to see another change then what this Jerusulem-state will translate thee into For which cause I have it to thee shewn that ye might here into enter in in that I see your Minds so refined that ye disdain among Beasts any longer to live and feed Come O ye blessed of my Father who out of these Prison-Walls and defiled Pastures shall steal and depart away as who are no more to touch with that which makes this City from you to shut it self up I have this 1600 Years expected still Comers up to me into my Personal Glory here But few have made their way all clear unto me not having skill or known the Art of dying to the Earthly part fully and totally Half dead and half alive many have so far tryed and therefore could no entrance find here because a putrified part still was found Which hath made me so unknown and to such necessitated ones to carry it strange they not considering the Disproportionableness of my present state and how that I am iâ—…stated in the highest degree of the Father's Glory of Purity that so if even my Affectons and Heart were touched to descend upon any that ardently seek Personal Union and Manifestation with me yet it would not be permitted till this Mount Sion-Birth is brought forth which makes the high Clarification and all Perfection of Beauty desirable without exception to the everlasting Father of perfect Spirits Who willeth that I should take none into the inward secret Court where all Dignities and Princely Throne-Powers and Glories are till throughly purified and cloathed upon with the Jasper-stone This anointed Cherubin-covering hath been scarcely put on therefore they could not come up to bring down the Everlasting Kingdom which must again to a certain Number be restored Blessed are they who shall know it in their Day looking hereunto and waiting for it within the Jerusalem-Walls where this new Off-spring and Generation must be born Yea Blessed are ye my Beloved and those that are with you United in Me for the Bringing down of this Happy Day upon the Earth April the 27th 1676. His further Admonition In or about Break-of-Day I prayed as the present state of things were shewn me and matter therefrom given me I never felt a greater Efflux of Spirit Power Joy and Peace came into me then did at this season which opened that Word and made it known in its Living Witness saying Now feel and tast what the Kingdom of God is it is made to thee a Substantiality and shall out-flow according to its working Property Henceforth then in Wisdom's Balance weigh and consider every thing you say that your Words may no more be Naked but cloathed with the Guardian Power Which will come to be of great Consequence as managed in Dove-Simplicity and shall defeat the Serpent's Subtilty Who strong Poyson had for thee prepared but could no way send it in thy Vessel being with the Antidote Liquor and juice of Life before-hand filled Which still take thou care to keep brim-full that so nothing which is of crude anxious Nature into thee may come upon thy Ascension which is to bring down another Spiritual Form For I see it is time and expedient that to my Jerusalem Waiters I should appear to bring them up where new Robes and Vestures are fitted out for the new-born Inhabitants to wear That so without a Vail upon my Face I might to you plainly speak for I have no pleasure to carry it at this distance towards you could you bear but the â—…ight of my terrible Crystalline Glory which I am so deeply ingulphed withal that I cannot be conversant after that way and manner which I was before I ascended into this high Throne-Power and Heavenly Place conversing with those for whom I went to prepaâ—… Mansions for in my Father's House a much highâ—…t Purity I now require in such who are to be my fellow Associates then what was existent in that day This is a new Law not understood and will be only received to a small number for know that to thee I will this thing reveal what Wisdom is about to do in order to the bringing the Bridegroom and Bride together For while the Bâ—…ide is found unready and all undressed and out of the Jerusalem's Glory I could in no wise acquaint my self with her otherwise then by Secretaries and influencing Breathings to let her know by these what she must further be wrought into for more minute Sight and Knowledge with me her designed Bridegroom and Mate April the 28th 1676. The Love-Chain According as the Living Word who spake thus by way of Prophecy in me did further by Similitude present it self as thus A Golden Chain in Links was let down from the high Throne Sphear where Jesus in the Love-Kingdom reigns This Chain had a Golden Ball at the end and the Voice said Hold fast if thou wilt come up unto me if thou shouldst gad abroad with thy Mind or Eye and let this slip out of thy Hand then thou wilt be prevented of cohabitation with me in my Princely Glory For this is the strong Power of Might which brings the Bridegroom and the Bride together Every Link in this Chain hath its proper use and service Wisdom is the great Engineer which did this contrive for my Spouse and I to meet and each other to greet While then in the Heavens I must be contained this Chain shall descend still to help up such as are risen out of the dark Night dress of a corruptible Life into a Body of Light This Chain is of so high a refined Mettal that it admits of no Hand to lay hold of it but the pure Lily Hand which is strong in Faith who is perswaded that this Love-Chain is sufficient to bring one up after the manner of Elijah's Chariot Who was mighty in Faith and so brought down this Ascending Chariot by this Chain of divers Links But he had first ascended by it as appeared being one who had power with God upon all occasions even to shut and open the Heavens when he pleases what else are these Links of drawing Powers but this Elijah's Spirit of Prophecy and Prayer of Faith perfect Love Patience Hope Weekness Long-suffering Peaceableness Temperance and immutable Perseverance These are the Link-fastening tyes on your parts Then that which answers on mine are these Light Greatness of Power and Might Love Grace and Good-will Kindness Pity and all Tenderness without variableness with the watchful protecting and safe-guarding Eye which shall maintain all this for a
a greater Portion Be not afraid to sink down into the Spirit 's Pool or Pot of Oyl that is within the House of thy Heart It was Elisha's Spirit that entred in or else the Oyl had never run so free So do ye likewise with your Spirits Descend where this spring of Blood doth so deeply run which will be of such rich Merchandize as it will make all of this Creation-traffick to be of no validity Observe with all heedfulness the track and way of the Spirit in its own Eternal Ground Follow hard venture to pass through every Region whether in Darkness or in Light loose not this your Leader out of sight Who will certainly bring you to the Oily Flood which meeting with the flaming Juniper-Wood will send forth such sparkling Powers and miraculous Glories as may plainly declare the Spirit of that one Elisha is risen October the 12th 1676. This greatly beloved Spirit and Comforter sent from my dear Lord Jesus coming now to be known by Name Power and Virtue through a more free and intimate way of converse had hereby forestall'd all other taking off all delight and pleasure saving in himself alone I knowing that with him were all the Secrets of the Bridegroom and that no other besides him could give me to understand the high and deep Concerns relating to the Kingdom which by my Jesus are now in agitation Therefore who by us is to be prized like to this Visitant that can give such a true account how Matters and Things there do succeed during the time of our Exile Who so ready and officious is as he to find out for us the grand Mystery of the Knowledge of the Deity which doth lie hidden in pure Nature's Ground And though it is so nigh to us yet without this Unction Light we might have look'd long enough and never have understood or espied any thing of this Glory But now he is become our Friend and Counsellor and doth bring us glad-Tydings from the Heavenly Quire-Whence this Morning he proposed this Question to me Dost thou believe I am the very only and true Discloser of the Father's Will who designs to bring thee into the New Jerusalem to see there the Lord Jesus in all his Princely Dignity If satisfied thou art herein then wholly rest upon me as thy sufficient Stay and Guide then press I say into me Who am the All-flaming Stream with whom mingling thy self thy Natural Property shall be so alter'd as thou wilt be able to pierce into the very Body of the Deity which is my dwelling-place Where I am careful to fix together with my self such who are given me in charge by him who hath great regard for you and hath Commissioned me to demand and ask of you who have made such Love-acknowledgements whether or no ye can leave and forget all whatever is so affecting to the sensitive Eye and without much debate to fly away with me to Mount Sion For there the perfect in Spirit do rest from all Cares Labours and Strife for that is a City free Oh now take leave of this imbondaged state and trust to me for what your Lot shall be in that lovely Land Where into now venture through all the cross Streams of Rationality as valiant Worthies resolved throughly to follow me who cannot live in this Region but only for your sake I am sent from above but with no intent to abide long here beneath only to cloath you Essentially upon as a Bride to enter in with me where ye shall see no more Evil and though in the World yet so separated from it as those who are no more of it Read and see a full discharge brought down by me if ye can receive it then it will be your everlasting Liberty October the 16th 1676. This Word also opened and cryed in me Who shall see that one Day that shall be lengthened out to Thousands of Years It is the Spirit 's day in which none can live but such who are entred into the very Body of the Spirit that can bear the Light of the Temple-Glory within the Holy City The Light of this Day is of that excessive Burning that it will scorch up every Covering which is not of the Spirit Therefore ye who have prayed to see this New Creation-Day consider what you must suffer first to come upon your vile corruptible Body which must be fashioned in this pure Spirit 's property Which by its Golden Flood may wash and wast away the muddy part with all that contemptible covering of Clay which in this Day of Burning can in no wise be able to stay Now then know the Time and Season of this my Spirit 's Visitation and be subject to every transforming Power Which worketh yet by degrees till it hath brought thee unto a solid Body as refining into that Clarity that the sevenfold Sun ye may plainly see in its strength of Glory without a Vail upon your Face Do not say How shall this be brought to pass seeing I am a piece of brittle Mortality subject to an universal Creaturely malady nothing differing from what I see expire Daily These are the thoughts which do arise in thee out of Fear and Spiritual Modesty But thy Humility must be the only Foundation for the Spirit of Faith to rise and effect what may be done in order to the rising of this everlasting Day of the Spirit 's cloathing Body of Light Which Oh thou Shunamite shall make thee all fair and give thee acceptance in my sight October the 18th 1676. O! the resistency that the Spirit of Reason did raise pleading Impossibility that ever gross earthliness should be so covered over and impregnated with a Ghostly Body generated and consubstantiated from that one Eternal Element so as to hide the now appearing frail piece of Mortality The Spirit of Prophecy in me which opened and declared of these things which were to come to pass in us said If hereunto we could set our Seal of Beiief and give place to the Spirit of Truth they could not fail of their accomplishment But if Faith over Reason did not get Victory the Amen did testifie the Spirit would be too weak to bring forth such a miraculous Body for himself organically in every part to the fulfilling of the great Mystery which has been so often and largely predicted of Here I had renewed subject matter for Prayer that our Faith might not fail earnestly invocating that the holy Breath might fill up our Sails here withal continually Upon this I did see in Vision A Covering let down upon me of all wrought Gold enterwoven with Scarlet-coloured Silk so as it looked wonderful rich to my Eye Which I viewed with great marvel attending the Word of Signification which thus opened in me saying This is the Workmanship of the Spirit Who hath only Wisdom and Skill to inlay the weighty Gold and work it in with the Silk to make it thus lustrous as thou seest But herein lieth a greater
time After I had prayed I was encompassed with white waving Clouds for a good space together with this Word So shall ye your Lord in the Airy Body meet Therefore we must be all pure and clarified and constituted in and through the essential Birth of Life for the fruition and sight of the Flaming Body of Light December the 11th 1676. This Day this Word came to me I thy original Sower am come into my Garden to see what wanting is to make up the full Beauty and Glory of my Husbandry in your most refined and separated Mould I see you are careful to keep it for a higher degree of Seed as not being satisfied with what is sown and sprung up though there be many young and fruitful Plants all Plants of Righteousness Yet here is one principal Tree that is wanting in the midst of these to grow for the better feeding and establishing of these All which are worthy of acceptation to me your Spiritual Sower I am come now to that Plantation which I can call my own where the Virgin Lily of Faith and the blushing Rose of Love and Marigold of Hope and that sweet-scented Violet of Meekness and the Cordial Gilliflower of Patience and the Honeysuckle of Abnegation to all whatever proceeds from this cursed Earth all these are pleasant in my Eye Ye being found faithful anâ—… vigilant in these behold one reserve I have yet more for you who are beloved as the most principal and weighty Seed which is from the Olive-Tree a Berry hereof I bring to let fall into your selected Ground This is that from which ye may expect an Olive-Tree to spring that will feed all the rest from its oily property which will flow not by constraint but voluntarily and will all these Plants re-establish and refresh as shall be felt in you as Witness-bearers hereunto This is that Olive-tree which emptieth it self forth upon these several Plants being higher graduated and enriched containing in it the all fluent dispersive Life that ascends upward and again flows downward with oily Dews Which as a Mist Waters the whole inward Ground for a daily flowry Spring that I your Lord may walk in the midst of these fresh scented â—…lowers For as much as they were weak in themselves and apt to withdraw and dye therefore I have sown this pure Olive-Seed in the midst of them which will arise to fulfil and perfect what the several Seeds Births have left behind and short of bringing this to effect For this Life-Tree acteth all free because it hath in it self all-sufficiency not by a forced Might or constraint in Contest with a contrary Birth of Life No in this Olive-Tree there is no such dividing property it is from the one pure and perfect Essence of the Deity which never ceaseth till it hath wrought out all Contrariety whereto it comes to be a fixed Root Now then try your selves hereby for thus it will work to give proof that this Seed is of the right Olive-kind It is indeed come in you withal great Love to restore therefore as the thirsty Ground open wide for this pure Oil-Olive to drink in that so all Sin may be cleansed out of your Ground for this Original Righteousness to take place laying the old Foundations waste Whereout the false Births Seeds so plentifully did spring to which a stop must be verily be put For though every Fruit of my Garden-Plantation in you have had its opposite suffered to spring up by it yet it must be so no more after this Anointing hath throughout searched and drenched every part that belongeth to the new formation store December the 12th 1676. Being still followed with fresh Manuductions to wait for the Manifestations of what is yet but in us as the Spring I was opened in my Spirit to be very sollicitous that we might be of that account with our Lord Jesus as for to go through this Birth in all its gradual Perfections till the Holy Ghost should absolutely have a Throne in us Upon which earnestness this Word came to me Where two are agreed to prosecute what hath been predicted with the particular Love-design it shall certainly be fulfilled in its Day and in God's most glorifying season Therefore unite and strengthen each other from the Oily Might which shall upon you still encrease till that great Blessing you seek out of each one successively hath its proceeding Volatile according to the Nature of a Spirit Who out will fly no curb or restraint upon this Birth Power shall lie when found all of one sacred Matter and Mould for the holy Breath-Spirit to move and raise up to its own Aâ—…ry Sphear all in a body of Light and Spirit pure and clear This may only be called the true redeemd state that delivers out of all Fears and Sin-obnoxious Cares into the highest Liberty where all free access into Mansions of Glory may by the taking Wing from this everlasting Birth spring and so enter into the Holiest of Holies This only is possible to such who the anointed Shield of Faith do bear that will not be daunted nor quieted but ride on upon the mounting Horse of this Spirit of Faith till ye may cry over all Victory For of all that hath been said of this Birth verily this Faith is the Sum out going Power that will make the Passage and reach God's Omnipotency December the 13th 1676. In the Night I had a bright shine all about my Bed which was signified to me that as without so it should be all Light from the seven Oily Lamps that should be as a covering Flame to cloath the Virgin Woman who should be impregnated with the Birth of the most holy Seed of God Then queried I who this Woman should be It was said the Name was known and written in one that was to be of a perfect Heart meet for high and Heavenly Converse and so thereby contract a Sun-shine body of Light Crystalline and clear to wing unto the Heavenly Sphear which is the Habitation for Spirits of Light This Woman that is certified of by John in the Revelations hath not had its fulfilling Prophesie to this day therefore yet to come as it was in Spirit said to me and that the pure and perfect in Heart might come this Woman to be as the Wonder of all Wonders which hath been since Time's Creation The Birth of Jesus was great and marvellous but this shall far excell it because it will be of such high extracted Quality as no Terrestrial can or shall see its God-like-form but as its going forth may be felt and understood by Effects to be indeed the Birth of the Holy Ghost Then I further started this Question to my Lord and Spiritual Informer Whether this Birth should distinctly be manifested from this Sun-like Creature that is said to travail with it to bring it forth For this Objection arose in me that the Virgin that brought forth Jesus in a Fleshly Figure she remained still the
henceforth to you is to be a standing Rule For all other ways and means for Information and Discourse with the most Holy are now ceased God used and took up outward Figures to reveal his Mind by in former Ages and Times as by the Ministration of Angels and then by his Son who came to reveal what was meet to be known and understood in that day of his visible Appearance in the World Who could hardly bear to hear what was reported by him who would have had as little credit in the World as any now if there had not been the Sealing Power of the Godhead by which the World was convinced for Obedience to the Faith which then was required But this Ministration of Jesus shutting up what must the Just now live by in these last times Your Jesus doth not turn you over to a dead Stock to live upon as to what was done and written in his Day but transferreth you over to a lively Manifestation and fresh Openings from his Spirit 's Birth in you Whose leadings and drawings observed it will further point you to what may still be generated from Spirit to Spirit Yet in a higher Birth-Degree for that which is at first but a Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation will turn it self into a fixed Body All which proportionably is to ascend into the New Jernsalem for to bring it down in the transparent Ghostly Power For when Spirit and Body do mutually agree together and knit after the manner of that secret Formation then it seeks its own Region to dwell in For if the Trinity will appear among these low Inhabitants then a Body must for them be prepared Oh then see what the Light and Life-quickning hath yet in you to do to wit a travelling Work still that as Jesus hath had his Birthformation so now the Holy Ghost may be fully formed that so ye may not need to have a Star-Leader or depend upon this way of Revelation that now you are waiting upon For you shall know in the first Root of knowledge as God himself knoweth But in the present time the Spirit measureth out according as you are able to bear which are but as Sprinklings to what the broad Waters shall coâ—…er your Earth withal However hereunto ye do well to attend as unto the sure Word of Wisdom that shall drop in the all-healing Gold to make ready for what hath been fore-told One thing more in order I do require that seeing I have made choice of you to bear my Name mystically upon your Breast or Table-Heart where I do answer all your Enquiries that you reserve for me that most Holy Place to commune with you there alone suffering no polluted thing to enter in for to raise any fume or dark Vapour upon the Breast-Plate Stones which will ecclips the lustre of them so as no Light they will give to you for further proceeding And if they should be clouded through cold earthly Damps your way would soon be dark and at a loss ye would find your selves Therefore beware of darkening your Foundation-Light for withoâ—… great heedfulness ye may cast a Shadow upon 〈◊〉 then no certain discovery or resolve â—…an be given though ye make never so â—…rict an Enquiry This was the cause â—…nd ground of all Apostatizing in former â—…nd present Ages having stifled the â—…peaking Oracle by crouding earthly â—…uff into that which should be the seâ—…arated and consecrated place for the â—…iving Testimony thereout to open for â—…aily Instruction and Guidance Which â—…s of absolute expedience in such a danâ—…erous state where so many cross false â—…nd by-ways do offer themselves to the Eye But keep you to your own Breast-Plate of light sparkling Stones and they will give to you sound Judgment and Sion-Laws and as need is still Renew you till you in all things shall be perfected for Jehovah Shammah to fill up your Temple-Body with Glory December the 28th 1676. In the forepart of this Night I was much pondering and considering the weightiness of the Ghostly Formation how difficult a thing it was and hard to be by any brought forth though many have hard â—…ravelled for it yet there wanted both Strength and Perfection of Righteonsness which I saw we also were deficient in Therefore not sufficient to carry through such a wonderful Restorative Birth of Life But as I was complaining and owning our impotencies and unmeetness hereunto this Word came My Grace can make strong where sence of the greatest Weakness is therefore hope and believe down all Discouragements Which Word much comforted and quieted me and I fell asleep In which I saw a young Elephant that was to be bred up and it was presented to be my care and charge to feed it When I awaked it was said to me That as this Elephant for strength so we should grow to be And no burthen oâ—… weight what ever cast upon us should cause any shrinking or bowing under it For such a strong Elephant-Power should by degrees grow upon us if careful we would be here to feed up thiâ—… young Elephant which was by this Figure presented to us The Mystery hereof lying hid in us for its appointed time A Letter of Resolution in Answer to some Objections sent from a Learned Physician to the Publisher hereof upon occasion of the English Edition of The Letter to some Divines concerning the Question and may for the like reason refer to this present Work Whether God since Christ's Ascention doth any more Reveal himself to Mankind c Dear Sir I Do not at all wonder at the Difficulties that are made by the excellent â—…rson your Friend to credit those more Secret and Extraordinary Favours of God which some are Witnesses to in these Latter Days and â—…e might be were they but qualify'd to receive them For it was not but after much doubting and long Examining as I have said that I came my self to be satisfy'd in this matter and therefore I can with the less difficulty allow it in others I 'm indeed made truly sensible that Unbelief is that Sin which doth so easily Beset us and having found it to be so in my self I know how to pity it in any one else and can't but think the Warning of the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews against it to be as highly seasonable as it is little regarded It s plain enough that no other then this can be there understood as well from the Context and whole Design of the Apostle as from the entire History of the Old and New Testament For this very reason it is that we are encompassed about with such a Cloud of Witnesses who exercising the most Heroical Acts of Faith were admitted to a more immediate Conversation with the Divine Being during their Pilgrimage on the Earth and to a more illustrious Communication of his Light Love then the Presumptuous and Incredulous Spirit of Human Reasoâ—… can ever dive into that we seeking to tread in their Steps might