that so a Stock of Spiritual Goods being taken in may be to support and carry on the Heavenly Calling withal which if found diligent in may mount to a mighty Encrease for the making of a Dowry so great and large as may somewhat agree with him with whom we are to be matched unto So here we see what is appointed and cut out to be the Saints Business and Employment which is not mean but high and noble answering to that of the glorified Saints in the VVorld above who will in this Holy Calling our Factors and Correspondents be and meet us frequently And as those who are more skilful and knowing in This way than Mortals can be will very friendly the Ignorant inform and such among us that may be more knowing still somewhat more secret and deep out of the Eternal Virgins Center may us meet By all which the Saints here upon the Earth may hereby be made meet for to be Companions to them of high Degree in Heaven I shall now this Subject conclude praying with all Prayer in the Spirit for an Increase of the Number of such as may be diligent Followers of This High and Mighty and most advantagious Calling Happy and blessed thousands of degrees are such who chusing are made Partakers of this heavenly Vocation and that shall so prize the Priviledge hereof as to set light by all that shall hinder and stop the freedom of This All-spiritual Employ wherein exercised as high born Spirits they may be in Love with the Eternal Unity The Manner of Christ's Appearing HEarken O Daughter of Sion Behold thy Bridegroom cometh no more a Servant but to be served by all Flesh The Word that was manifest in Flesh reign in Spirit to Prepare for Christ's Kingdom to come into a visible Dominion Here upon the Earth by Signs and Miracles wrought by the Spirit in forms of Flesh to confirm Christ the Lord is Coming to appear in his Saints to set them over the Earth For to the Daughter of Sion the Dominion shall be restored through Marriage Vnion with the Lamb of God This is the first Resurrection of the Holy People which shall be the Trumpet-Voice that shall awaken the rest that lie Dead in Sin THe Hour of God's Judgment will thus come upon the Evil Nature that hath hitherto reigned in Man the Spirit shall be so fully poured forth upon These first Risen-One as to go forth with a quickenning Life to raise the Dead Spiritually and Bodily This shall be the Terrible Day of the Lord for the condemning and destroying not Persons but the Sin in Flesh so it is declared unto me which will be fulfilled in its Season and Time which time will be when the wind of the Spirit shall rise more strongly for the Holy-Ghost is to be the latter day Glory prophesied of and the Expected Kingdom of Christ to be manifested Here upon the Earth in which he will Reign Personally in his Saints who anointed are first with such measures of the Spirit that do highly sanctify which do prepare for this great Day of the Thousand Years Reign Prophesied of but whether it be so to be understood according to our number of Years is not to be determined but glorious Reign in the Spirit there will be before Christ in His glorified Person will come distinctly upon the Earth to turn it into a Paradise to make these lower parts of the Earth glorious upon which in the last of times he will stand and model it into a Christalline Land which will be New-Earth and Heavens as declared of in Scripture is So from hence it is made known to me what the work and business of our present Age and Day is which is to pass daily through the Baptizing River that may drown and keep all of Sin down that the Spring of Righteousness may rise for the true washing of Regeneration Then will the Holy-Ghost be renewed and set up his Reign in Souls and will exercise Power and Dominion so as it shall be known Jehovah-Shammah the Lord and Mighty King liveeth and reigneth Here for this must be the Forerunner of that more great and notable Day of Christ as to his Appearance in his own Personal Glory It is advertised me that there is much to be done in the Kingdom of this World by a more plentiful Effusion of the Spirit then yet hath been Therefore each one in their own Jerusalem within be waiting for the Spirits Day which is the great Increase and mighty Power that will turn the World upside down Therefore nothing is more expedient for the hastning this Blessed day of our Lord's Appearance Therefore all that are Watchmen and Holy-Seers to sound out That Trumpet of the Spirit that may gather the Dove-Spirits together to wait in Love-Unity that the Thousand Years Reign may have a speedy beginning and entrance upon the which it will follow as enquiries made into This Spirits Reign and Dominion shall hereunto be encourag'd Even so and Amen in the Spirit Come Lord Jesus quickly A Dialogue betwixt Christ and the Spirit of my Mind which was upon Enquiry whether I might not be Initiated into a present Dowry and Spouse to my Lord to partake of the Heavenly Possessions which he Himself is Inheritour of as the Father's Heir And it was replied unto me Yea surely It will so follow to be to the Soul that has put on the Deiformation of Christ the Lord such hath a Good and right Claim to His Person and Possessions And when thus believed and apprehended Liberty is granted for to draw out of this Stock and Treasury as the present occasion shall require for out of this Fulness an Emptying into the most holy and sanctified Vessel may be most easily proportional to its Growth and Degree For my Lord said to me You are not ignorantly to suppose that I willingly do hold back from that which stands in Unity with me But there is a Cause if any stop be Then replied my Spirit Oh my Lord Let it be given to me to know and understand where the Obstructions hath lien Answered I was That the Veil of not Knowing and not Believing the Things reported of which do of right belong unto my Virgin Spouse also wanting are holy Boldness and Courage to come freely and take what is mine and make it your own For be it Known to Thee It is far from Me to ingross to My self what the Father hath so much and liberally bestowed on Me was it not that I might give out as Plenteously Therefore come with full Assurance of Faith to Me and ye shall receive Grace for Grace Wisdom for Wisdom Love for Love and Power for Power As I have obtained and received of my Father in Heaven so you from Me all answerably Pondering in my Spirit these words of my Lord's I Replied How shall it be that a Spirit should thus be mingled and made one Pure Lump with Thee so as nothing of it self for to be Answered it
THE Enochian Walks with God Found out by a SPIRITUAL-TRAVELLER Whose Face Towards MOUNT-SION Above was Set. Gen. 5. Verse 22 Enoch walked with God and was not for God took him WITH An Experimental Account of what was Known Seen and met withal there As to an Essay to a further Revelation of an Immense and Infinite Latitude of GOD's Love to the Restoring His whole Creation and How and after what Way and Manner we are to Look and Wait for this Last Appearance and Coming of our Mighty GOD and Saviour CHRIST JESUS O come and see what the Holy One in His Spirit is working down and revealing in order to His Appearing Written by IANE LEAD in this Year 1694. P. J. DE LOUTHERBOURG Printed and Sold by D. Edwards in Nevils-Ally in Fâ—tter-Lane 1694 Imprimatur Iuly 24. 1694. D. C. AN Introduction and Apology To the following DISCOURSE MY Friends who in the universal Love of the God of Love do dwell to you I doubt not but the Matter of this Discourse may find Acceptance as it is a Message from above of good and Glad-tidings to the whole Creation from the beginning of Time to the final End and extension thereof for God's bounteous Grace will thereto reach But this Love doth express it self not only by saving and delivering from an endless Punishment as the just Merit of Transgression and Disobedience which is proclaimed to the whole Adamical fallen Race by him who was made an Offering for Sin But be it known God's Love is not so clearly seen or illustrated If O if Here it should stop in this visible way of Redemption by Christ but it must go much deeper in bringing forth a new created God-like Similitude in the Soul that what was dimunished and disappeared may be repaired by the Birth of the Holy Ghost conceived and so springing up Intrinsical for a thorow Renovation in every part of the Soul This you will find to be the whole scope and drift of what is written here God having Taught me by his Spirit in this great Mystery of Inward Redemption I found my self Impulsed and under a Constraint to make it Publick before my Disease being aged 70 Years that so this Treasure might not die with me not knowing but that it may be my last Farewell to this World Therefore have hastned to do my Lord and Master's Work whilst the Day spring from on high doth shine upon me if the outward Day of my Life is lengthened out to me it shall all-improving of it be as my most delightful Employ being called to it from on high Now to come to the matter in hand as to the Title which this Subject doth bear it is not an outward flourishing sound but from a most Essential and Experimental ground from which this goeth forth which if otherwise in my Circumstances I should not have rendred my self publick For every Wo her Head 1 Cor. 11. 5. But Christ being my Head-covering I have both Commission and Munition-strength upon which I shall proceed and go forward and say something as to the first part which is the Spring-flower of the Mind Essenced in a Never-dying Root which renders the face of the Mind perfect in Beautifulness for Love and delight to him who is the Express brightness of the Father's Light in which you will as in a Glass see the Royal Degrees and Spiritual Assents with Festival Entertainments in the Spirit so prepared that may be for an Inviting Imitation to the Heaven-born Spirits as also to them that are yet unborn that all may labour in such a heavenly Habit of Mind for to be found The next part which I have to commend to the Reader is according to the Inscription of the Book The Enochian Life that so hidden and unknown hath been yet by the Spiritual Pilgrim and Traveller found and may still be found by such as shall cease from walking after the Flesh and Worldly ways and resolve to take up to walk with God in the Spirit For if once you can clear and get off here from these low clogging and heavy sandy ways then you may enter into these high and pleasant Walks with GOD which when you are once come into you will meet with those various Sweets and Delights that will Ingage you to keep to them because good Company you will here meet if but few among Mortals yet numerous of the Heavenly Society will walk and talk with you from those upper Regions whereto your Travels tend of the which I have given an Account for Encouragement and Motive to draw up Holy and separated Spirits Hereunto who have Liberty and Opportunity to know beforehand the Riches and pleasant Things of this Heavenly Country to contemplate upon them for which End I have joyned and added to this first Part what was opened and revealed to me last Year 1693. where you will see a particular Knowledge and Experience of what the Saints yet abiding in this lower World may enjoy of Communion with Holy and Separated Spirits of the Higher World which may be of great advantage Also a little Tract lately manifested in what way and manner we may expect the LORD IESVS his Appearance about which so many prophecies and sounds in this present Age have gone forth I have according to my Gift laid the sure Foundation for both his present and future Appearance in the World Sure I am he doth and will send his Messenger before his Face which is the Spirit of refining Fire to prepare for his more Visible and Splenderous coming in his Kingdom to make Kings Priests and Prophets to Reign in and with Him on the Earth and when we shall see more of this multiplying Oyl of the Holy Ghost poured forth upon those that are Lookers for this Blessed Hope and most glorious Reign of Christ then we may expect he may be drawing near Therefore in order hereunto all Publick and private Pastours and Teachers should know what to go forth with and declare and Preach up the Ministry of the Spirit to make ready all Nations People and Languages to call them in and by the Power of the Everlasting Gospel the which powerful Sound may reach in Christ's Spirit to the Free and Bound whether in the Body or out For this Gospel will so far extend beyond the Limits of time to Creatures in ages yet confined of the which Latitude of redeeming Love you will in this Volume find declared of being also a revealed Truth which I was not from the World to conceal And as for those Scriptures that may be alledged against it they were to me Interpreted This Point to reconcile and thus opened that as the LORD CHRIST did go and preach to the Spirits in Prison that were disobedient in the days of Noah or before and since who in Bonds did remain in low Regions at whose appearance did Then find deliverance or else to what end did he preach to them as you may see in Peter and so again at his second
and last Appearance when he shall come to judge the quick and the dead where will pass just and righteous Sentence according to every ones Work yet will this Iudge reserve in himself the liberty to Release and Remission give to all that in fiery Purgations have passed and are humbled thereby Take notice of what the Apostle Paul speaks of in this Matter to be saved so as by Fire and as to that great Objection made from Christ's Words Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Punishment which is opposed to the short Limits of this World and admits only of number of ages which Suffering and Punishments there may yet be yet it is not to be beyond the Time of CHRIST the LORD's compleating and delivering up the Kingdom to his Father for GOD was is and so hath designed in CHRIST to reconcile all to himself which was at odds with him for it is not to be the least doubted but the Efficacy of Christ the second Adam by the merit of his Blood-shed and his Spirit given therein which will make all good again which the first Adam had made evil Much more I might inlarge but I hope this may suffice only to consider That Scripture of the Romans Chap. 6. Ver. 14 15 and 16 which is enough to clear and satisfie that the Plaister provided is much broader than what the Wound of Sin hath made This O Reader who ever thou art know I have been hereto from a heavenly Power driven to clear up and vindicate the Royal and Generous Goodness and love of the Holy Trinity agreeing all in Vnity for the reconciling and bringing back again into themselves whatever of a spiritual quality was scattered and divided from them which in the Dispensation of the fulness of Time will be made manifest to the wonderful Amazement for all of GOD's Creation to Love and Praise and Exalt and pay their Adoration to their merciful Creator that hath compleated such an Vniversal Redemption only suffer this Word of Caution and Councel That none presume to turn This Grace of GOD into a vitious and careless way of Living For Anguish and Terrour of Soul and Suffering will be upon them here and hereafter all which may be prevented in the time of this Life by an inward Circumcision in Spirit and mortifying the Evil Nature bringing it into a Subjection to the Law of the Spirit of Holiness For I must solemnly Profess to all such as do loosely and vainly live That they will have no part in the first Resurrection but be cut off from all those pleasant and unconceivable Ioys and glorious and filling Springs of refreshing from the Presence of GOD and the Lamb which in this present Life may be tasted as the first Fruits of the full Harvest I do this aver as from what I have known in my own Particular That if there were no Reward of a future Blissful happy State when this Life shall end I should think it a very great Felicity to have a present Participation of the Spirit of Christ and thereby be cloathed with his Divine Nature and live in the present Enjoyment of all those Ineffable Immunities that I have here given a Real account of according to Experience which I do hope and pray with all Power of Prayer That what hath been by the Holy Spirit of Imanuel unfolded here may be Received and Entertained as the golden Oyl from the Dropping Olive-Tree that as the anointed Ones of the LORD do multiply for a priestly Kingdom here upon the Earth The which Subject hath been Treated of and Published by the Author in 1683. Entituled The Seven Seals ' broke open by Divine Revelation some of which are yet to be had in my possession and as the Day of the Spirit does more get up and shine forth in this present Generation in Heart and Mind which only can be expected from such upon whom the Anointing is poured forth plentifully That may be so well stored with That Pure Grain and golden Seed as they may as Sowers go forth to Sow it every where Oh how were it to be wished and how much would it be my Ioy to know such powerful Sowers in this our Day which may bring forth a pure white Lilly Crop of Spirits with whom Christ our Kingly Shepherd may walk and feed Then he will be no longer a stranger to his Fold here upon Earth but be well known to be our feeding Pasture continually But I shall here now stop and with this Word conclude as if it were my last Dying-Speech which I do direct to all Ranks Sorts and Degrees and more especially to them who are Called and Liberty have to exercise a true Spiritual Ministry That they may know what This Season and Time may call for being now past the first and second Number of Time and are come to the Half-time Therefore go forth with your anointed Shield and with your Horn fill'd with Oil of the Spirit Spare not to sound your Trumpets of the Spirit that may gather in from the utmost parts of the Earth that they may both see know and partake of this Dawning and Day-star rising first in our Hearts and from thence lead most rightly where we may our Princely Redeemer see Eyé to Eye in Kingly Majesty For the which end it is Incumbent and chargeable upon you to propogate this fore-runner of our Lord Christ which is the Spirits ministry as the One and All that I have to leave and commend to you who Lovers and Walkers are in this Spiritual way which hath been here described by the May 12 th 1694. A Flower from the Paradisical ground hath appeared the Nature and Property of which is never to fade or die for its descent is from on high which is the Lord the quickening Spirit from Eternity THis is the Plant that has put forth it self distinct from the outward Nature in me well known it is by its pleasant Scent qualifying with Fragrant Love so very sweet and mild that it harmoniseth the Soul to that degree That it feels no other life than a Ghostly Deity That is the Root which feeds this Rosie Flower of the Mind with a certain kind of Balsamick Vertue that so its beauty is of a Blushing freshness always Now herein lieth the greatest of all Mysteries That under the Covert of a mortal Humane form such an anointed Cherub should There live and move as having the fire-sparkling Eye that pierceth into the Heavens there to view and see what is of its own Kind and Property transplanted into That upper Region for known it is to me that Spirits Pure and Separate from this gross Earth may be both with Christ the Head and with his body of Saints who in the Heights of Glory are Yet mutual Greeting and Conversation allowed may be as springing from one Eternal root and ground coupled together in Loves golden Chain of Everlasting Unity But it is given me to understand that such Saints which are yet in the
Celestial Globe of Eternity while its outward body remains in time This is known to some For as there was an outward personal going up to the visible Jerusalem to eat the Feast of the Passover which was a Type of That great Day of the Feast which is now kept the in New-Jerusalem above where the Lord Christ in his Spiritual Humanity doth appear keeping up the solemnity of That Spiritual Feast with the body of his Saints There and sometimes doth admit of pure Spirits that yet in the body of visible Flesh are to come up for to view the stately Order and Government of That Feast and to taste thereof This is the true eating of the Supper of the Lamb and drinking the Royal Wine of the New-Testament with Christ in his Kingdom which puts an end to all Symbolical Ceremonies Blessing Joy and Glory we may pronounce to all which Called and Invited to come up to feed upon This Pascal Lamb. They will never care nor desire to go out here to take up in lower Administrations for This is the Sum and Substance of all to feed upon the Quintessential Body and pure Blood of the Grape that as often as it presseth it self out it filleth again for a continual emptying forth so that none that is come up here may Thirst any more This is the True Feast of Tabernacles which I have here described to you for no one can go up here without putting on their Tabernacle-Body which is the flaming Heart of the Holy-Ghost But now methinks I hear some say at the Reading of This Oh! You have mentioned a high and lofty State which is as a new thing that hath not been declared as that in this present Life there should be found any to ascend to the New-Jerusalem to feast and worship GOD There This you will say belongs to the Enochian Life but That Age of the World is not yet come so as to know a Translated State We grant it that it is not common only peculiar to some that in Enoch's Spirit are raised to walk with GOD and so are taken up in the Spirit wholly But we may hope This day of the Spirit is coming on whereby it shall be known more universally in the which Angelical Spirits shall ascend and That Divine Princicple shall open that now hath been so long shut up Then you will know a New-state of Living that you never knew before for it will turn the Love of all mortal Things out of the Hearts-door This will in very deed be known Seeing we have thus far proceeded in opening This Divine Mystery we shall not stop here but go on to reveal and communicate to such as desire to be Fellow-Travellers with me to This Holy City the New-Jerusalem the Track having been shewed unto me not by Vision only as in past times In my printed Book of Divine Revelation There you may see what I had by way of Vision Printed in 1683 but now the Spirit hath moved it self in another degree to bring forth Vision into an Essential Fruition which ratifieth That Scripture Psal. 84. Verse 7 They shall go from strength to strength each one appearing before GOD in Sion Now This I find is to be taken in a two-fold Sense as to That part which is to appear before GOD in Sion The first is while yet in the body of Corporiety The second is when stept out of it so as no more to return again to it Now hence I yet not I but the Spirit of my JESUS shall lead you on to the first part knowing well the way and have taken the measures thereof by the Measuring-Line in the Hand of an Angel unaccountable to any but the Travellers thereto Some heads and propositions I shall lay down in order hereunto that our Fellow-Travellers may not fail to find sure footing The First is what Preparation or Qualification will be requisite for such intended Travellers Secondly What kind or manner of way Thirdly The several Stages or Rests by the way Fourthly Their arrival to This City of GOD. And Fifthly The Welcome and Entertainment the Travellers meets with There from all the Great Assembly of Mount Sion the Court of GOD. First then it is to be considered what this Traveller must be Not a Gross tangible Body but a Spirit that must thus take up Enoch's Walks separated and translated from a Terrestial Life to a Celestial This is our Spiritual-traveller's first alteration an Earthly Creature turn'd into a Spiritual And now we come to enter upon the way which looketh at first onset as the Valley of Baca that openeth the Floodgate of Teers and being now so environed with the Light of the Spirit that hath discovered to it an inward and outward Deformity degraded of its Angelical Image by the root of Sin in nature springing so that this Mourning and Sorrow not to be repented of And while in this first beginning-way the Soul will have many Enemies to encounter withal and Temptations from within and without and the more assaults will come because it is to rend away and leave the Walks of This Evil World and to betake it self to This New and Living-way But let not our fellow travellers be discouraged but guird up and go forward this days Journey will have its end though it may go heavily on this first day the second will be more lightsome and refreshing if it do but hold out this Probation and wrestle it out as Iacob did Then the Angels of GOD will meet the weary Traveller and accompany it throughout its way There are seven Angels or they may be called seven Spirits that are appointed to be the Guard of the travelling Soul whilst in this dangerous way I shall name them as I my self have found them a Fortitude of Strength in all my Journey on to this very Day So it may be to the Undertakers that will precisely keep to this Perfect-way The first of these Seven qualifying Spirits and Powers for a Guard is Holy Passive-Patience This is an absolute necessary Companion in this way No holding out without the Indowment of a Patient Mind that may hold out against all Contradictions and what will make offer to pull down from this High and Heavenly Walk The second is Deep or Meek Humility keeping low and humble for That secures the Traveller For GOD hath great Respect for a Soul that walketh softly and steadily The third Qualification is a Lively Hope which is as an Eye within the Soul carrying a Prospect of the Heavenly Sion That mightily strengthens it and bears it up Fourthly a Super-Celestial Wisdom that directs manages and governs the Soul as to the fittest times and seasons for Journeying on that is when to stop and when to remove on forward as the matter shall require The fifth is the Spirit of Faith This is a most Excellent Companion that carrieth through all Difficulties because it is the Evidence of Objects of things in the Heavens not visibly seen It is Wings
far admitted into Thy Presence and Liberty to ssk a Boon of The for Thou knowest well what occasion I may have Thereof being yet in the Region of time where obvious I am to Assaults and Temptations manifold All be it illuminated in a good degree of Light in Thee yet subject to drawings down by Spirits from this World and the Astral Kingdom that may pervert by mingling with the Super-Celestial Part of the Heart Knowing and observing in my day what Miscarriages among great Inlightned Saints have been who as bright Stars hath shined and then again under a Cloud have been Therefore O my Lord premising these things I in Fear and Humility am and dare not trust my Self at any time lest that a Slip out of the Right-Way should be Therefore This is my principal Request to Thee that Thy Spirit may be my constant Overseer Guide and Teacher as Imediate from the Father and Fountain of Wisdom Flowing from Thee then no Errings from the Truth can be This is the one absolute needful Request for we stand all upon a nice Point and if the Petition of Solomon was so grateful to God in His-day then I in no wise do doubt Oh my Lord to ask of Thee the Spirit of Truth which promised by Thee may never cease to be the Oracle fixed in me and all that do desire to be led Rightly for it is already by Thee given as a Caution to beware of transformed Lights that do pretend to the Right yet Thou only art the True Light springing from within Essentially And as Thou hast this Record been in me Oh multiply of This Spirit of Wisdom and true Revelation yet more fully so that what remains yet of Thy Councel and Mind to be further declared and known may still as an Enlightning-Beam pass through me and with them also who mutually shall in Enoch's Walks be found with their faces towards Sion the Court of Thy All filling Majesty Oh! Evermore find Room and Place for me and all of Thine that love thy Appearance To see Thee as Thou art will surely change us into the same Similitude of likeness unto Thee for so it becometh each one that still would keep their way open and free for Conversation with all the Priviledges that to the dilating of the Kingdom which shall be given forth with the Holy-Ghost as the sure Pledge of all those Perfections that may agree with Oneness of Life and Spirit with Thee my Lord. Thus I have offered my Requests and do commit my self to Thy Disposing in all Terrene matters and Things Here follows the Kind and Courteous Reply of the Souls Immanuel ALL Hail with Love Peace and Good will to the Virgin Spouse who is in Spirit come up here to make Request for That which so much is in congruity with the Father's Heart and mine This answer therefore receive that This Thy Petition shall be fulfilled on my Spirits part who shall not fail to open in thee what hath lien under Seals of Secrecy Do thou but attend Him and He will attend thee and whoever shall watch in their hearts His movings for He is the bright Mornning-Star who is to be the Conduct and Leader of my little Flock now in my personal absence from this lower World where the Evil-tempting Tree doth in all Souls spring Therefore great need they have I know of This my Anointed Shield that may be a defence upon every Onset of perverting Spirits of which in danger all are while in this Body Elementary Therefore I have provided This Spirit of Truth to be with thee for Councel and Comfort also to Guard thee up to me where thou mayest know and see by this Glass of the Spirit what I am a doing and making ready for the present and future Day when uncloathed of the Garment of Mortality also But for the present come and see and taste of the Heavenly-Fare and Powers and Joys of my Kingdom The Spring of Life and Love shall rise so high as to drink thy Spirit up Thus with me thou shalt feast and sup and never empty away to go which shall be such an Encouraging motive as will make thee to bend all thy Force still in Spirit to be with me Thy Lover in my secret Pavilion where thou mayest have liberty of discourse with me in those weighty Affairs that do pertain unto the New-Jerusalem-State So then Oh Spouse of mine if This thy Entertainment is thou wilt fly as a Spark of Light to the Body that is the Body and Fulness of all Light These are the Sweet-Meats I shall leave with my Espoused ones to feed upon for a refreshing support till a further day shall break though through the shadow of Death which shall consummated the Everlasting Marriage-Feast with me thy Christ and Living-head with all the Royal Society and with Myriads of Angels that shall their Trumpets of Joy sound at the Lamb and Brides-Nuptial-Day and Marriage-Feast So Ends these Hony-Drops from the Mouth of our dear Immanuel Now by all this which hath been declared you may see the Blessed Issue of an unwearied and Faithful Traveller to the City of our God which may Invite and Allure such as have not yet set their foot in This way and for them which have to make the same progress which will requite a thosand times over the Loss and pains here sustained in the way Oh ye that are Friends and Lovers of this way and would arrive to be Fellow-Citizens in the Court above with God and Christ and the numerous Company of Spirits Pure and Glorious There give me leave before I conclude to commend these following Motives for Incouragement to set forward and go swiftly on in this Path of Life The First Motive is a full assurance of all Love-Acceptance with Dear Embraces and most free Communications all Veils and Bars taken away thy Lord Christ upon this Mount will shew Himself and talk with thee as God did with Moses Only thou must put off thy Shoes because it is holy Ground you will walk upon as much as to say come Here all Bare Pure and Clear leave all at the foot of the Mount that would contract of the worlds Earthly Dust then shall you know hear and see That which is so ravishing for the feeding of all your divine Senses that you will say It is good to Tabernacle Here and so it may be permitted for so long time as you can abide cloathed with the Transfigured Robe of the Spirit of Christ but That will be but at certain times and seasons but it will be enough to know such a thing as This is and yet in the Body of Corporiety Now then the second Motive is that Hereby It is made acquainted with This Heavenly Country before it quite leaveth its Mortality in this low World it is an high and extraordinary Priviledge to see and know its place and company beforehand for our Lord Christ is very free to shew unto the spiritual-minded the
to a present account of Peace Joy and Glory But yet we have somewhat further to declare as to the Clearing and Vindicating of the Infinite and Unsearchable Love of our God to the whole Fallen-Race as to Angels that have had their time to deceive and tempt all Mankind which shall have its Period and End for All must be redeemed and restored to their first Estate at the winding up of all the various Scenes which were to manifest the Wonders of God's Wisdom in Love Power and Righteousness But you will say This is only a private Revelation though it be yet I know from whence it is and if I were not upon sure ground I should not dare to have declared it knowing it 〈◊〉 â—tumble many but I must pass That and must not baulk a Truth gâ—â—en me to make known for the squemish Stomach's sake but with all tenderness bear with such as may make scruple hereof for I my self did the same till by Divine seeing and hearing I was satisfied in this Point But that you may not be altogether left to my bare Testimony Mind That Scripture in the Ephes. 1. and Verse 10. That in the fulness of Time he might gather together in Christ all things that are in Heaven and Earth consummated in him whom the Father hath sealed for the Restitution of what Sin had brought into a disorderly confusion Some Scriptures more I could here bring which are mentioned elsewhere by me briefly tho' not Here. Oh my Friends what more joyful Tidings can come to our Ears than This one Everlasting-Age that shall swallow up all those Ages wherein Sin and Death hath reigned with all those miserable Effects that have been ever since the Creation of this World But a new and wonderful Model God will bring forth in a new-created State Behold saith the Lord ` I will make all things new the End shall return to its Original-Primary-Being let none grudge that the Grace of God of this Latitude is as to make a compleat Restauration for as there was neither Sin nor Center to it so it must be again when the Hour of God's Iudgment shall come to pass a final Sentence thereupon to cast all into That Lake and Bottomless Pit where all of Sin and Death Sorrow and Curse shall become a Non-Entity Then nothing of Diabolical Spirits any more God's Offenders and his Creaâ—ure disturbers or Tormenters shall be all This in the Prophesy of Eternity will be known and Everlastingly rejoyced in as a fore-runner of This Blissful Iubile the Trumpet of the Everlasting Gospel of Love Peace and Reconciliation to every Creature capable thereof in Flesh and out of Flesh that are not yet fully redeemed This Gospel is not a bare Sound to be heard only with Ears It is a Spirit that enters in and gives the power of a Resurrection-Life to the Dead that could no way raise themselves neither in Bodies nor out as is found in their several Confinement will hereby be loosned and set free But it may be asked when shall such a general and universal Restoration be as for all Apostatized Spirits and Creatures to be in favour and friendship with their God and Creator again Now in answer to this Query as to the time it is known only to God in the Secret Cabinet of his Councel only it is thus far revealed unto me that it will be at the finishing of the great Mystery when all Souls will have passed throuâ—â—â—heir Purgation in their several degrees that lacking is here for in all Cenâ—â—s are found Souls that shall be brought into a purified State by thorow Humlliation for all their Misdeeds And also when generating according to fleshly Births shall cease in this World Then this general Redemption will be compleated and the Mediating-Office of our great High Priest shall be at an end so that he hath nothing more to do but to deliver up the Kingdom thus compleated to his Father that God may be All-in-All possessing and satisfying himself in all of This his New-creation which will amount to a Perpetuity of Endless Joy from the various wonders and pleasures that will fill up Eternity with tuned Instruments of Praises to the Holy Trinity in their Unity as it was from the Beginning Thus I have given you a true and single account of what in my Spiritual Travels I have seen known and understood by being admitte into That Heavenly Court at certain times and seasons and shall leave this living Testimony to the Spiritual-minded hereof to judge For no other can receive or fathom this deep Wisdom of God I shall only leave This Caution and Advice as my concluding part The Caution is to those who would of the First Resurrection-Fold of Christ be as mentioned of hath Here been that they do not cavil and dispute the Holy Spirit away from them by their doubtful Jealousy concerning the Brightness of its Rising in the Pure in Heart and so thereby may prevent themselves of This most valuable and precious Gift who only is the true Intelligencer of God's Mind and the Breaker open of the Sealed Treasures that are of That weighty Import that a Soul that hath found the Good and Sweetness here will fling all Impediments away that hinder its manifestation and operation in the Mind But it may be objected there are many deluded Spirits that pretend they are of God Therefore it may admit of a Doubtfulness and an Enquiry to know the Right Spirit True it is This may well be granted to try the Spirits but then it must be by such as are of the true Spirit of sound Judgment and Discerning that can themselves give a Proof that they Here live and do walk in Christ his Spirit And that you may know where This your Anointing is poured forth by the Fruits that such bring forth which renders another kind of Life than can be imitated by a false Magus who may and do go forth with Erroneous Alarms and Empty Sounds which is to be Lamented and Mourned for that it is at this Day so frequent which fulfilleth the Scripture that Thus it will be as a forerunner of Christ the Lord's drawing near and that the ends of the World are upon us But nevertheless there is a Spirit of Truth that according to Christ's Promise is and will be plenteously poured forth also in This latter Age tho' permitted is the false and mixed-spirited which is a design of the Adversary to nullify and make void what is from the true Spirit of Christ. But let not This stagger or baffle us out of our Right to a Portion in this blessed Spirit but let it put you upon an Earnest seeking and a most watchful Survey what Spirits enter you to suppress motions so ready and numerous all which bring them up to the Throne in an humble Scrupulosity that the Lord in the Spirit may give forth right Judgment what is Pure of Himself and what not that may be tumbled in as a mixed
which God the Supream Majesty opened to be the Glory of it to which the lower Ranks and Orders of Spirits were sometimes admitted to worship There Thus is this Holy and Heavenly Assembly Imployed and Exercised with all variety of Motion tending to a Divine Adoration to the Rock Eternal which does multiply amongst them most Amazing and renewed Wonders which gives perpetual Matter to renew Love-Admirations So that I was given to understand that in this World was no cessation of Spiritual Vocation for out of God's infinite Depth and Fulness should Matter still renew and also with Power be endowed as fixed in the Humility all skilfully and learnedly to act and do after the manner and way of God their Life Root and Being subjected always to the Laws of of this New VVorld and Kingdom But Liberty is granted to many of this holy order that of the highest Saintship are to communicate to them who are not yet come up to their degree they may help them much in order to the bringing these their Fellow-Members higher up the great Saints will much delight in this Office and Service to their Fellow-Members for their Joy cannot be compleated until all come up unto the Unity of Love in a pure Deifick-Spirit Now to make out this there was shewn to me some chief ones in the Ministry of Love as Enoch and Abraham Iohn the Apostle and Paul with others of their Order that had golden Vials given to them to pour forth for Annointing and Healing and Peter with some of his Rank to unlock Centers and set free those who in those upper Regions wanted to be perfectly set free and in this lower VVorld also Now follows an enquiry whether there may not be a correspondency and intercourse maintained by these Holy and devout Souls who are departed this Body as to any Love or Pleasure in it living yet here such assuredly are very capable to hold and to have a holy League and very near Affinity with the glorified Person of Christ and with the heavenly Frame of Glorified Saints which have put on Bodies of Immortality for the high Illuminated Souls spirited with Christ's Spirit Here but yet abiding in Bodies Corporal they may have liberty of recourse by the Spirit into the divine and light Principle where the antient VVorthies are who would most willingly meet and confer with us about the things pertaining to our Progress to the Kingdom of Christ they are very free to discourse us in what may refer to a perfect Life that so we may be made meet to come up to them in unity of love to God as in Triune-Deity which filleth all There with a full Body of Light But it may be asked how and after what way does Spirits accompany Souls here that are Spiritual Is it by Apparition or com-mingling by Spirit In answer hereunto according to my present measure and experience I find it very rare in this latter Age that they visit Souls by visible Apparition though sometimes they may as Moses and Elias appeared to the Lord Christ since whose Ascention all of this kind is transacted more Invisible and Essential by passing in the way of a Spirit and having and influencing our Souls through which there is a sweet congruity and a reciprocal Love which is also in our Spirits towards them that hereby they often draw up to them our more Superiour Angel to be in Heavenly Places with them being very affable and friendly to shew their Princely Thrones and their delightful solaces and enjoyments they have from the perpetual motion of the Triune-Deity Now as any Soul here below do find Christ their Root of Love in them as their true Original for securing their Love first in the eternal Father and Spirit in Christ the Lord then most easily may we without being guilty of Spiritual Idolatry in this pay a veneration of Love and high respect to these great Potentates that have Power to befriend us upon many Accounts that we may need their assistance For during the time of our Probation in this Life so it is altogether expedient that we get acquaintance with the Servants in this high and Heavenly Court for they may do us many Kindnesses as they are in Offices of great trust from their head Prince and King it is made known to me that holy and good Souls have lost much as to the knowledge of Divine Arts and Holy Skillfulness to do and act forth the wonders of the heavenly Power in manifold VVisdom as Christ Moses and Elias and the Apostles in their day did Now it may be demanded what in Scripture have you to authorize this Assertion or Revelation First we bring you that of the Hebrews We are come to Mount Sion to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just Men made perfect See further hereinto Heb. 12. 21. 22. If there were no more it speaks full enough to the purpose to the confirmation that the Saints here upon Earth are allowed to come up to the Mount Sion perfect Spirits in Heavenly Places and do maintain a holy Conference mutually as there is to be Instanced in the fifth Chapter of the Revelations verse 4. How that the Elders talked with the Apostle Iohn and did show him several things Chap. 7. ver 23 24. And likewise in Daniel where Daniel asked questions and heard one Saint from the Heavens speaking one unto another for resolving of Daniel in his Enquirings so that here is a cloud of Witnesses to back it besides what of this kind is known by some in this present time and Age who do obtain and retain several of these Heavenly Intelligents whereby Knowledge is communicated and the Invisible things and objects there made manifest to such as are in Corporal Figures Now to instance somewhat relating hereunto in the first place we give you to understand whoever they be who would this Priviledge know and come to enjoy with holy Angels or separated Souls they are to be freed and sequestred in Heart and Mind from all mortal Entanglements as if they were divested of a gross Body with its Impediments and so reserving themselves in a most Inward Purity of Heart and Mind without which habit of spirituallity there is no commencing of this acquaintance with either Angels or Patriarchs Prophets or Apostles or any Evangellical Saints since those Ages for they having put on Incorruption and Glory and quite redeem'd out of the Earth they will not touch no more with such as are defiled with corruptible things now such Persons that stand thus pure and clear they may have much Assistauce from these Throne Spirits and Powers in their way and travel to their Heavenly Country for those Angelical Spirits that once liv'd in Flesh do more nearly sympathise with us in all our Infirmities and therefore all feelingly they tenderly consider our tempting-state and give themselves out most readily for our help nay they are Advocates and do remind the Lord Jesus of their Prophesies that