upright moral Conversation the Law of God written in their Hearts according to the Letter As it is said their Conscience accusiâ—g or excusing according to Truth or Falshood acted by them for by Nature things contained in the Law may be done so that you may take in this higher degree of things into the knowledge of the Spirit of a Man as an earthly Man and yet not able to receive or comprehend the more high wonderful and deep things of God It is only possible to that which is the meer Birth of the Spirit distinct from the Earthly Now then said the most holy Anointing that ye may know that this Spiritual Man is born shall appear by what shall be revealed unto it March the 2d 1676 7. Now as to the things of God which are given only to the Spirit of a Spiritual Man to find out verily they are so great various and numerous as in times Volumâ— they can never be unfolded Only the Spirit for the use of this new Born Creature or Spiritual Born Man doth bring down a Breviate of those invisible Things that are in heavenly Places or rather that are in God who is the Original from whence all glorious things that are in Existency are brought forth which may be named as the Back-parts of God framed and stretched forth into a Light Seraphick Globe which God furnisheth with his own Majestick Forms which no one ever saw or therfore can take upon them to describe The Spirit only hereof can make report to the Spiritual Man while yet imprisoned in a corporal Shrine and Shape But you will say what more of the things of God are discoverable when you are wholly in the Spirit you need not thus Quere but in the mean time there is a Spirit which will take it's range for you to view the Fathers Goods Possâ—ssions and Eternal Lands because as Heirs ye are concerned thereunto To proceed then to the heights depths and bredths of what are yours in Reversion within the Circle of Mount Sion state Consider then what of God's is there they are all yours as ye stand engrafted into the Tree of Life Now what hath the Spirit found out in all the heights above this earthly Sphere First into Paradise it doth take its Flight where all things are in good Order and flourishing state as before Adam had lost his Virgin Mate Paradise is now stock'd again with such as have waded through the floating Sea of Sin and Mortality in order to the putting on that image of Purity where the least Guile or Fault may not be found in any there The Spirit doth see all in wonderful Harmony for this Voice was heard to say from the high and lofty One with Men risen from the Dead I will also dwell though it be alotted for a time to be a separated Mansion till all be gathered into â—that one superior Kingdom Thus you hear good News that is all rich and flourishing within the Paradysical Kingdom no decay since Adam's day but much encrease and augmentation is daily through the Resurrection of a Spiritual Man March the 3d. 1676 7. These things whereof an account has been given you may be defined as the local Place of Paradice whereinto Spirits separated in a natural Death putting off there mortal Bodies do enter into it and there put on their Virgin Body which doth prepare them to meet their Bridegroom who from thence fetcheth them up to mount Sion These are such who in this very time have fought the good Fight of Faith and had very near overcome this World What is lacking to make them fully perfect in this Paradisical Place they are appointed to stay here till all their Bridal Trimming be finished and they find that they can pass the way to the Tree of Life through the flaming Cherub who still is a Guard upon that figurative Tree In that place holy Angels do there also wait by their course to minister to those who do come here as designed Heirs of that more glorious State which in Sion is revealed This is some part of those good things which belong to your Eternal Father But to open to thee a further Mystery which is what may be entred upon in this very Life time know there is a mystical Paradise as well as a local which springs metaphorically opening from a pure magical Center this is a wonderful state to know and wittness it chiefly stands in divine Visions Revelations Ideas Presentations Manifestations in Sounds Trumpets Voices in Speakings in Powers Raptures Joys and sensible-Feelings I say all these Golden Springs do flow from out of the Bowels of the new Paradisical Earth This will amount to your present Peace and Joy Wait I say to feel that Now that your Spirits may give a Seal with me that ye have received the anointing and that you do walk with your Spiritual Man in this Paradise where you do often hear the Eccho of the Bridegroom's Voice calling to you still to hast the getting on all that which will make you look sweet and amiable and the fragrant Sweets that may you perfume and scent that so all your Garments may smell of these Beds of Spices upon which you may stretch your selves Here a while confined be to dwell after the manner of Spirits in Spiritual Bodies till you shall all of this visible Orb over-come and much excell all Creatures in it having the Tree of Life to live upon Which is that which will rarify and put upon you a more transparent Body for they who here do daily feed upon it shall be in good deed metaphorized Behold to you this Paradise Gate doth open stand and what of the things of God is there not only to know but them as your own to enjoy But this Word of caution to you who resolved are to tast more deep of these flowing Sweets take heed of the Laws of Paradise which once in particular were given to you remind and observe them For you must not be in the Quality halting between two Principles but here keep company each with other and your Jesus will most frequently talk with you and shew himself according to the Love's betrothment that is made a fresh with you in this Paradise March the 4th 1676 7. The GLASSY-SEA Now from hence the Spiritual Man must make another remove to see what doth lie for him beyond this among the pretious things that out-flow from that rich Ocean-Sea which is betwixt Paradise and Mount-Sion This is that Glassy-Sea spoken of which doth encompass the Beloved City where is the residence of God your King and the Throne of the Lamb and the Seaven Sealing Powers that do go forth from the most Holy One. Now this Burning Sea is for Probation who is able to pass through here but they who have got a thorough Victory over the Beast and his Image that nothing more of his Mark do bear They and they only can stand here because they are signatur'd from this
World that may deliver from all the evils of it There is nothing but an Omnipotent Force will conquer the sinful Authorities that have been so long in Government over all the Creation Therefore what are ye to look and wait for but the Birth of this Mighty Prince Cyrus to arise in and to go before you for it is by meer strength that he must prevail to subdue all Nations whether they be within or without Many have been the forerunners of this by inferiour Births which ye have passed through As those of Regeneration and Divine Inspirations and Productive Revelations all in order hereunto But all these have been too weak and too short to deliver out of the Servile Spirit The Babylonish Power doth yet keep and serve it self upon you and will not let you go free till this Mighty Prince doth arise to remand you back unto your own Land and native Freedom again Thus I did evidently see nothing but the all-saving Arm could pluck us back again And moreover this word was with me and in me spoken Pray for the Cyrus Might to be joined with the Nazarite Wisdom of Purity for without Power ye cannot perform any of my Pleasure in subduing the Babylonish Power that hath enlarged it self over the whole universal state of things It is well for the elected ones in this World that their Redeemer is now a Mighty King over all Kingdoms And this day is drawing near for the revealing of this his shut up Power that hath been reserved with him in the Heavens By reason of which a sorrowful bondage and servile Life hath been upon the very Nerves of the New Ierusâ—lem Who are now sensible and do now cry unto this Mighty Cyrus to appear and to break for them this Babylonish Yoak which hath made them so long groan and mourn as being made to serve with rigour under the Prince of Darkness Who hath had a long Reign through his Agents in this Principle but his Time is â—igh worn out Of which this is an assured hope when a deep sense is upon any of the Children of the Captivity As upon Daniel and Ieremiah Ezra and Nehemiah who set themselves to enquire for that Messiah who is to restore and gather together the Stones for to build the Mystical Ierusalem Verily to such as do sigh and mourn for all the Abominations of Desolations which they see to be of Authority To such I say the Most High will have respect not only to reveal but to intrust the Scepter of his Kingdom with them Who he knows will sway all in righteousness according to his own heart They shall be his Kings and Savâ—ours upon Earth Yet once again they who are of a Daniel Spirit wholly addicting their Minds hereunto and in nothing else taking pleasure but in diving into the Secrets of the Most High that if by any means they might find out the Jubile-year of release when the Mourning Tribes might return again to their own possessions even they shall be chose hereunto Oh the wise in heart after this do look waiting in true spiritual abstinence as Daniel did that so eternal Secrets may be revealed unto them Know ye how beautiful would those be who shall bring news and glad-tidings hereof from the Most Holy to the Mourners in Sion That the Lord is indeed without delay coming for a full and perfect Redemption to the Groaning and Oppressed Creationâ— Even so Lord Jesus come quickly Iuly the 1st 1677. THIS Morning after some special Manifestations and intimate Communion with the invisible Trinity whereby my Spirit was as ingulphed into this sweet Celestiality of that which passeth all understanding This word uttered it self Is it not good to dwell here where the Covert is all Love and defensive Power Oh call in others with thee here to meal if you do delight to sip of this Cup of Divine Pleasure and then according to the vigour of Spirit felt herefrom dispence hereof And commend it to him who is a noted consecrated Vessel to take in of the same with the unknown Rarities which the Father doth â—rovide for his own Houshold that so no cause ye may have to wander out of his rich and fat Pasture While keeping here your Shepherd will you feed and by his Golden Crook will you guide and translate out of one glorious place to another till ye shall come into the beloved City This blessed winding in of my Spirit was an introduction hard usage of the King of this Bottomless Pit who would keep them evermore in bondage and would not that they should ever remember that once they had a pre-existency in that Paradisical World of Liberty Iuly the 2d 1677. But now the Ancient Records are brought to Light whereby it is given to the Wise among the Children of the Captivity to understand their high and eternal Nativity and that for the cause of sin they were brought into this dark and evil Region yet not so as for ever herein to be included till natural death doth release as they would persuade For no such Decree did ever go forth from the Throne of the Most High For after this dark grisled Globe with its natural Inhabitants all which like troubled whirling Wheels do grind the Faces of one another there shall another arise which shall set free from this Old Creation Captivity Upon which there was a mighty cry by some that here were sealed to the day of Redemption saying Holy Lord God of the Sabbath let us come to rest with thee For in six days labour we have been and now full weary we are of sinful thrall and cannot but remind thee of the promised Liberty which is for to be brought to pass by the travelling Daughter of Ierusalem Then was portraied before me a Mourners Zion-eye beholding a bright flaming Globe upon the rising of which the other Globe like a dark Stone sunk down before it into a bottomless depth And this was in the sight of the right-born Israelite who here was suddenly snatched out and translated into a higher and more quiet Sphere Oh here was indeed the Sabbath of the 7000 years all here were clothed in white lying down as Flocks by their Shepherd of all Princely Might all fastned together in a Golden Chain to shew there was no more to be a dividing for the Sheep never more was to be scattered out of this eternal Fold For nothing but Seraphical Pleasure is here with the highest Peace Joy and Rest from all former Toil Labour and Sorrow And the Law of God as a Gulf is here broke up and drowns all in its own Sea of Endless Love This is what was presented for the inforcement of our travel in Spirit for Sion deliverance out of the Babylonish servitude which now is throughout the whole World Iuly the 3d. 1677. Then was it with me to enquire with earnestness Oh my Lord when shall be this Zions Reign All things yet in visible view appear in a dull sluggish
their course to renew your strength through the mutual concurrence of your wills Which to me I your Lord do own you have given in Therefore my Spirit I am moving upon the Face of your inward Deep till the whole mystery of the Celestial Figure shall again be restored Therefore I am calling the Eye of your Minds inward that so ye may take knowledge how many steps you have gone up to this Throne and so be encouraged to pass forward You are arrived to the third measure which is the Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation here is a pleasant standing because you have prospects of the unknown Scenes of Gâ—ory great advantage is from hence because you do live in the divine Idea's of what is contained in the invisible Sphear Yet far be it from thee to â—ake up rest here or like Moses for to die in journying to the Land where the New Ierusalem doth stand Yet four 〈◊〉 higher there are which have been seen in the Mount of Vision Who then now as high descended Spirits will in mighty Faith attempt them and renounce what ariseth of fear and doubt As Faith and Love are the Wheels that do hither bring so fearfulness and unbelief do the Wings of the Mind bind down Oh how flow of heart have you been to believe what of these Ministrations hath been so frequently prophesied by my Spirit Come forward on and put forth that little grain of Power which you have already in your selves and see what you can make hereof The more you act it forth the more it will encrease For as the Ministration of Immediate Revelation doth more clearly immerse you into the knowledge of what is unknown So the Mystery of the highest degree of Faith must necessarily therefrom begin to work and that in such a way as may be a sealing to what is revealed for manifestation For a let into invisible Species of things cannot but quicken up Faith and make it strong in God by which it may easily yea most naturally act and go forth in mirâ—culous Deeds for confirmation to others of what by a bare Testimony will not be believed in a residue of Spirit For this is also surely reserved which is the sixth step to Sions Glory But before this can be perfected in any one that do look Here for it they must be of a through grown experience in the Life of Revelation These Gifts will not come down by sudden rushing showers as it was in the Apostles times But henceforth they will be Consequents which will follow those who do gradually grow up from the very Birth-day of the Spirit into all the sublime perfections of Holiness as their constitution into a Christ-like Nature For it is the Root of that Heavenly Matter from whence Gifts of this kind do proceed and will in such pure and sanctified Vessels be inherent For they only stand in the Light Councel and Will of the Trinity ready to obey and execute his Will here on Earth as the Angels of the Presence who truly and faithfully do go forth in the Light Power and Force of the seven Spirits whose fortitude it is to secure from all the wrathful conspiracies which are in this evil World Iuly the 20th 1677. This day upon a foregoing Word which opened it self in me as we were met together to breath the Life to each other a superaddition thereof was given me The word was from that of Jesus crying in the great day of the Feast If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink then out of their Bellies shall flow Rivers of Living Waters speaking of the Spirit The Jews Feast being the Feast of Tabernacles was highly at that day solemnised from which the Lord did take an occasion to invite to another manner of Feast presenting himself as the principal Dish to feed upon and Well of Life to draw the Waters of Salvation from It was again revived to me in this word You are come to the festival day of the Spirit Set by it esteem it spare not to take your fill Tell me Oh ye that beloved are what from this Heavenly Table where all variety of Spirit is what is most relishable to your Heavenly Palate Had not I known you to have been in the vehement hunger and thirst after that Food which is all Spirit and Life you should never have drawn near to my Table For to others this kind of Fare has been little understood or tasted of and therefore not desired It is the pure Birth of the Spirit that can only live upon that which is Spirit as none can know the things of God but the Spirit so none can taste God but what is born of God What else did your Lord Jesus live upon during the time of his abiding in the humanity but the Essential Power of the Deity He still drew it in as the Invisible Bread of Life which he had to eat that the World knew not of Now said the Spirit unto me It will be to you according to what you believe or thirst for or after whether for the Milk or the strong Meat of the Spirit For this is called the Feast of the Spirit because it multiplies it self into Corn Wine Oyl Milk Hony Marrow and Fatness There is nothing that can be named for refreshing and strengthning which the Spirit of Jesus doth not afford to the strong in Faith Then again a further Information was given concerning the Ministration of Revelation that though this Mount of Divine Vision was not to be for ever the fixed Rest of such who are under such a dispensation which must be owned as a high and rich Prerogative Yet warning I had this day hereupon still to wait For the Spirit did expresly speak that we were come but to the shallows of that unmeasurable Deep our Feet did but yet stand upon the Golden-sea brim and that we must yet abide a while upou this Chrystalline Stone till launched into the deep ocean of all Manifestation and Knowledge of what is within the Vail Where all things of the Temple Glory are to be seen not as in Metaphors or Figures but in their own express Beings as the heavenly things themselves Then through the Oracle-ear this word did sound to me Ye have not yet known what it is to be wholly contracted into the Spirit that is as if you were without a Body of animal sense and changed into an unmixed Body of Spirit For thus it was with Iohn when he saw and talked with the Alpha and Omega Then the word of Jesus was made good to him as one of them who did not see death till he had seen the Son of Man in Majesty coming in the New Ierusalem Glory But this he could never have beheld if he had not been changed for the time being into a Spirit Which had so penetrated through his gross material Body as that he knew himself only in a Body of Light Therefore he called it the Lord's Day such a
or Iron with Gold The Spirit of this Heart is most subtle penetrating bubling and still flying upward above all low things As its Birth is from the Heart of the Deity so there again it will live Truly at the consideration that there is such a Heart to be given my Spirit is in an astonishment Therefore I call all ye Throne-Angels and Seraphims to be with me in wonderment that such a Heart shall come in any one to be fixed substantially For what less will this come to but the making good of that saying of the Lycaonians who said to Paulâ— The God's are come down in the likeness of Men. For as the Heart is so is the Man a Godlike Heart overturns the whole Course of Nature and changes all into another Scheme answerable to the first moving Cause Which sends forth Life and heat into all parts as naturally so spiritually for the existency of the divine Nature And further it was given me to know that it was a renewed act Creation A drop let fallen from the Heart-blood of God for Life inkindling into such in whom the Virgin Crystal Mold is formed that here for hath been making way in preparation through many Washings and Cleansings and Heart-relinquishings For this Word came closely unto me from the Lord and home to me Suffer and endure ye must who are looking for the gift of this New heart Such a breaking up of the Old as a dying man when his heart-strings are loosening This is the true mystical Death this is to be a dead man indeed which many have sought but could never find Because they did not strike at the heart-root for so long as there is life remaining it will Send forth it sin-reviving Effectâ— For what if thou shouldest cut off this that member yet life may be at heart still and then what avails hewings and hackings and suppressing the root of the evil life being still there The work is never done because the life of sin is still sending forth one bitter â—ume or other to pain and afflict what would be at ease and rest Now what remedy can for this be considered said the Holy One but the plucking up and breaking the very heart-strings that its Life may be a Sacrifice to divine Justice for so it must be both a passive and an active Offering for the Sin that hath been commited in the body of the flesh Which mystery hath not been understood but know it for an everlasting Truth Let not the Sentence of this Death be grevious because it will certainly usher in some what that will be Equivalent to the deep springing heart of the Deity whereout issues of Life Love Joy and Peace will flow They thou shalt know no more strife sorrow or pain because the root of all this is by death taken away Therefore Repent not that ye are entring into the very way Fear not to fail the old heart melting for when that faileth another heart and Spirit will be given Which is of that strength courage and perfection as that ye shall be spirited for the great and primary business and for the work of trust for God and the Lamb. So all may see what the effect of this New Heart will visibly produce in you November the 23d 1677. This Morning I was in a very deep and secret consultation with the holy inspiring Word concerning this great Change For this is but yet known in us how that every motion and thought springs from the mixed heart But now great searching thoughts were how we if possible by any means might attain to this perfect Heart which was all clean within For it was made equivalent that hereby would be the whole overturning of the old Creation making way for the new in each one in working a through demolishment For which this Word of advice was given Let it not seem incredible unto you that the old Heart shall fall away though it is as thy Life-Essence where that Law is engraven which hath brought all into perdition At the release of which a wonder working Heart shall be planted in its place in great renown Therefore watch daily hereupon for believe affuredly that this Covenant will be made good as ye have Faith to believe that the old stony Heart shall be rolled away which only hath kept and would still prevent this Heart rising far Where new Laws according to the new frame of things shall be understood by such a chosen Priesthood as all of Spirit shall be compacted and by Gods own Heart-strings of Love stand everlastingly together tied as Christ's perfect Spouse and Bride Now then hoist up your Sails of Faith and keep upon the broad Waters of Love's deep that spring from the silent Desart till all full Treasures of Joys and Peace shall upon you meet November the 24th 1677. This Morning after much sweet Communion had in a Contemplative way with him who is invisible I saw of a suddain a Rock fashioned out like an Arch whereinto a way was made to pass and it was pretty spacious At the first it seemed to be somewhat dark which made me fear to enter in but presently a Table was there upon which was a blazing Light and it then became all shining and exceeding lustrous to invite into it But about the Light there did appear a company of dark coloured Flyes which flâ—ttered so about it as that they would have obscured the Light but as they came up to it they were consumed by it So considering these divine Idea's the Word came saying Enter ye hereinto whom the sacred Vow of Separation is upon For here is a Munition-Rock for your Security Oh that here you may be hid and hope and quietly wait for the Birth of the pure and perfect Heart In which ye shall see the Face of God whose Voice may be frequently heard in this secret place therefore Love here to abide for here is the Heavenly stillness November the 26th 1677. The whole employ and exercise of my Mind was now to have the old Heart transmitted into a new one according as it is meet 〈◊〉 because therefrom the perfect New Creature is formed with all new and fresh Organical Senses and Affections proper for Communion with the highest purity and goodness As it was shewn me that the Heart and Spirit that movâ—th and acteth the old Creature is capable to comprehend nothing higher then what lieth within the circumference of its own Sphere and low Birth of Life that only reacheth to things that are seen and knowable by the highest graduated Life of Reason which is altogether to seek in matters Celestial and Eternal Now that we might come to know the Invisible only wise and everlasting God our Father it must be through the medium of such a Spirit as may be the very conceptive part of the New Heart From which springs a clear Light that giveth understanding in the mystery of God and in what relates to the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Which
thou think to recover Immortality of Life with that Inheritour who doth belong unto it while there is a divided Eye and Ear which still open are to see and hear all those Charming Sensualities which for this Earthly Kingdom do plead and do engage you still here to be Traffickers from which ye are prohibited by Mount Sion Laws Is not Wisdom's Merchandize more worthy to be all in your Eye who will assuredly find you daily employ as to work off your selves from all those Habits and Customs as have been brought in Traditionally from the Fall From which ye are redeemed as ye do feed upon the true Mystical Passover which will â—orestall the Earthly Life giving way to that pure thing which ye do feel stirring from the light Region This hath greâ—â— sufficiency to clear that evil staining Nature from out of which strange Essences do so turbulently arise to annoy and disturb that which would be free from all Sins Casualties reigning in the Princely Spirit of what will become the absolute King of Righteousness Who hath already set a Foot upon your Heavens and Earth for this very end that his Throne and Dominion might be so fixed within the circumfering Powers of your Wills that so Time may be swallowed up from an entire Act going forth from this Soveraignty which in an intrinsical way will bring all into subjection that is within He will first begin with the Judgment for cleansing the floor make but the inside clean and pure then Power will soon be known and understood whereby a Body suitable to such a Spirit may come to be perfectly framed As thus if the Pith of a Tree be by its Life extensive it makes the Bark through which it riseth fresh fruitful and beautiful that so you may easily conclude that a Life-Sap is vailed under the Bark but it is not perceiveable till it shoots forth it self getting through every branch and twig even so it is in you considered as Trees of a new Plantation in whom the Spirit riseth as an essential Pith of Life and distributeth it self through every Property permitting nothing to mingle with it that should abate its vigorous penetration for to assimulate and qualifie the very outward Bark or Body into a Iustrious Appearance and palpable Fruitfulness The meaning of the Spirit as to fruitfulness is not only the first and second Birth-degrees of Regeneration and here to stop as in measures of Love Joy Faith Hope Meekness and Patience which are the first Fruits of the Spirit But hereunto are to be added Fruits yet more super-eminent as the product of these When so ripened as each one their Seed do shed into the pure Heart whereinto the Blood of the New-Testament is poured in From hence now it is saith the living Word that a Spiritual Body will be driven forth all in the Heavenly Form acting forth in another kind of fruitfulness then the foregoing As thus a Terrestrial Creature worketh and produceth acts answerable to his Animal rational Life which may be justifiable before Men and nothing beyond his Life-Sphere is expected But now from a new-made Creature that deriveth a Birth so high as nothing less then God's own Likeness is to be evidenced in it This must needs work like it self in various Powers of another sort of miraculous Fruitfulness by which Jesus through this Ghostly Spirit and Body is glorified Ianuary the 12th 1676 7. IN the Night there was presented unto me two Forms very displeasing to my Eye being Cloathed with a Hairy Goats-Skin where spots and botches did appear so unlovely as I was much disgusted at the sight of them But while I was viewing them first the one rent this outward Deformity in twain and likewise the other following the example of the first did also rend open And I beheld two sweet amiable Children came forth from within this deformed Figure but at first sight they were as Babes still-born Upon which I took up one and it soon revived with all motions of Life and answerably the same vigorous Spirit manifested it self in the other so as I saw them able to stand upon their Legs and so the Vision shut up in the Formality of it and opened it self in the Spirituality as I thereupon waited After a little season the Spirit thus spake within me What have you seen in these two strange pieces of Deformity but a rough and unclean Vestment that is so ignominious Behold and see your own vile Bodies thus pourtraied out while that ye do bear those uncomly Shapes which as a Vail shall rend away that so the truly begotten of the Ghostly Body may appear Who is as those innocent and all-beautiful Babes that have been shut up under a Covert as in a twofold Body As first that thick and cloudy smothering Body of Sin Secondly the very visible form of Corporiety which is but a disgraceful Image being the product of a degenerate Spirit Which with the other must be put off For corruptible Humanity in its fleshly Figure is too mean for the high Birth degree of the Eternal Spirit Though it may be suffered for a time as a disguised Cloathing till that which is born without Sin be strong enough to break through the rough humane and Animal Beast that was ever designed for a Sacrifice That so all brought in by the Fall might come to be anatomized that in the room thereof another Body might rise not only like what was in Paradise but one Degree yet higher according as your Jesus hath assumed a more transparent Body As these things were plainly discoursed of to my Spirit an Objection did arise How this twofold Body should come to be so demolished while we live in this visible Sphere as no more to appear in its sinful Frailty or Elementary Ponderosity Having not heard or seen any one that hath yet so put off the vile Body though hereunto incited and prophesied of that such a Change is upon the Inward and Outward Man to come but it hath not yet happened in this Orb. Nay our Lord Jesus himself did not alter his humane Figure to endure till he had ascended out of all mortal sight and though after his Crucifixion he did appear and disappear at pleasure yet he always assumed a body like to ours as bearable to the view of those whom he delighted to shew himself unto in and after his Resurrection Therefore though he had no Body of Sin to put off yet he had a Body of Mortality which was not put off to the humane Eye till he gave up the Ghost of his Animal Life upon the Cross. All which strengthning the Argument that our Corporeity hardly in this Region admitteth of such a Transformation as thereby to pass out by and through a sublime airy Body in and among the high enthroned Powers and Dignities resident in the New Ierusalem This Doubt lay much upon my Spirit importuning a clear resolve that the mind of my God herein might be expresly revealed through
will dignifie and honour what hath been set mostâ— light and contemptably by therefore observe and narrow up to this Death-Path in the first place and that most circumspectly Aâ—d the Blessing of Life will evermore attend you Ianuary the 30th 1676 7. In the first part of the Night my Meditations were wholly intent upon that Way Order and Method by which a Decease might be to the Body of Sin For the Spirit intimated and declared plainly that while it was alive there could be made no Claim to Mount Sion's Revenue For as much as the wise and holy God and our Father had made a Settlement according to eternal Counsel upon the true Birth-Heirs begotten of the virgin-Virgin-Spirit who only the Eternal Goods can inherit Now then so long as the false evil intruding Birth reigneth in the Mortal Body the Heavenly Off-spring must needs be kept down and made to serve in a strange Country Because of their first-born Lord Esau that is so potent and great in this earthly Principle that until such time as the Iacob's Birth is grown strong and mighty he cannot look the supplanted Esau in the Face Therefore full armed with God's Host we must maintain our Battel and be in no fear but the Edomites will fall down when they shall see the Angel of the Most Holy with his Flaming Sword passing before us to make our way into our own Land where our Inheritance doth lie God saying unto us Come return unto your Rock and there I will hide you till the Fury Wrath and Indignation shall pass away and I will be unto you and Eternal Cleft of Stillness Where secured ye shall be as in Death's sweet passive Liberty so as ye shall no more hear the noise of the pransing Warriour who always is annoying while he can find you on this side of Death Therefore see it of necessity ye must from Mount Nebo into this Rock ascend where buried as out of sight ye shall be for your Dying shall only be Hiding till such time as the Life Power and Goodness of the Deity shall re-enter as a quickning Breath all fully to Spirit you withal That so the very Nature and Goodness of this Rocky precious Stone may out-flow in you Then when-ever you will smite this Rock with the Rod of the Spirit it shall gush out Rivers of Living Waters to be come in each of you a Springing Well That so you may Proclaim the mighty Name of him that hath gotten unto a Life and Victory by lying close hid as in the Heart of this ever blessed Saphire Rock February the 1st 1676 7. AFter this Opening I saw as I lay in my Bed waving Clouds descend upon me one after another as the Night and the Day dark Clouds and Light swiftly following one after another At which I was somewhat amazed till I did understand the meaning hereof Which was thus manifested that the black Clouds were hard pursuing as the dark Shadow of Death that still would be enterposing with the light Cloud which presented the Life that was to reign over Death I saw the Sâ—rife and Contest was very great but the bright Cloud was last which descended By which assurance was given that Death 's black Cloud of Mortality in the Light of the Crystal Rock should be swallowed up If we thereto did resort and fixedly abide as the unknown Sepulchre where the Dead in the Lord as Lillies of Paradise shall first thereout spring as the Glory renewed for to plant as encrease a most Holy and Priestly Generation For this Word followed also sayiâ—g What Goodness the Lord hereby shall shew unto you the same shall ye be able to do and shew forth in marvellous Deeds as giving Proof that the Cloud of Death is passed away and that Life which hath been hid with God is risen with a Body like to the Rock from whence it hath proceeded Then with the high Saints in Light ye shall be equally Sharers in what hitherto hath been kept from you February the 2d 1676 7. There was this Day set before me a Crystal Gate by which Glassy clearness we might see and take a measuring view of that wonderful place Wherein was the New Ierusalem-Seat with all her Temple-Magnificency which was shewn to be the high Serene Majesty who as circling Bow all of Saphire Stone did include such as could pass through chis Gate For only those true and Sacred Worshippers who with the Lamb had overcome could stand within that Temple as Kindly Priests of the high Tabernacle-Order for to be Then this Word hereupon followed What have you through this Glassy Gate beheld but such things as might make you strive hard and even force an entrance within the Glassy Screen For these Presentations are given forth from the Celestial Globe to set a Work that transforming Stone that must all-power fully Anatomize the gross fleshly Body that no way can pass through here till it is changed like to that Door which you did see which till then is as a bright Bar of Separation This Privilege only you have a Prospect as Moses had of the Figurative Land but hereinto you can by no means come till you have endured the Refining Fire of the Saphire Stone Which will be given for to do the last finishing part that so Transubstantiation may be set afoot The Worthy will certainly it see who are found in the Life of Conquest resolving to beat down that Sinacting Body which is all the Alienation that separates you from your God and this Holy Place which within the pure Gate hath been viewed These words lay up as from the Holy and Just One and go forward to this high Procedure As not being satisfied with these transient Discoveries no further then as Mediums of Provocation to call up all your Powers and thereby to encourage that other who is to be for me a Witness in Priestly Power working in his measure steadily till the Shadow of Death shall fully flee away That so successively each one may be cloathed substantially with a Body declaratively which will be God's mark to testifie who are partakers of the First Resurrection Therefore set your Hearts hereunto fully for your Labour shall not be in vain as co-working with the Lord whose Spirit will have its day for to do Wonders February the 3d. 1676 7. Thus I did by all come to learn and know how strait the Passage would be into that Temple which all over was a God-flaming Glory with the mighty great Change that must come upon Soul Spirit and Body before entrance here could be Which awaked and set all my Intellectual Powers fresh awork to Nothingnize what in me was found in the non-conformity to the Rule day by day set before me Such a force of Attractive Sweetness did take hold upon my Heart that I did desire upon some other to shed of the same abroad that they might not faint or be weary till we might walk and talk together as in the
transparent form of God having no more Shadow of Mutation to prevent those higher Degrees of Glorification which but by the ascended cannot be known or felt Hereupon I called all in me to account to be judged by the Superiour Will and Spirit of Light which gave me to see what was in Bondage and what was free that would not now be any longer in Bondage to the Condemnation of Sin Having that Word brought to me to search and find out that Salt Stone that would make all perfectly sound and savoury which the Corrupter had most subtlely defiled For I saw for every Sacrifice to be salted with this Stone of Fire was absolutely necessary for in it lay hid all Perfuming Sweets Therefore an express Charge came down to re-assume it to our selves as the choice Altar-Stone where the unknown Superscription should be written Oh then said the Spirit of Truth ye cannot ask any thing fruitlessly as ye have done do but will and it shall be done Oh that the Most High could have such as were so fixed in Body Soul and Spirit to this all-seasoning Stone of Wisdom as to trust them with this Jewel of Superiority so as to leave all Matters whether great or small with them in whom his Heart might rest That all and every Circumstance of things might be managed for those Ends and Services which might agree with the In-written Name that as a Fountain of Oyl doth run into those Vessels which are seasoned by this Salt Stone of Fire For know in Verity the most Holy hath no pleasure to see his own in this World to live and walk up and down in so mean a Capacity unskilful to set a Foot or Hand to what lieth in the Divine Magia Root Which you may lawfully stir up since for you Christ the Lord hath made the Way by ascending on High for to subdue all things under him that so of the same Power he might subordinately pass away from himself unto you Who calleth you to draw out the Purchase of his Death by like dying and by like immortal Living according to the penetrating quality Which by stirring up may effect thereby great and mighty things answerably to the Wisdom and Soveraignty of Holiness which all as in Inclosure doth lie about this holy thing for you You little know what a Principality is nigh to you but your Superiour Will hath yet somewhat that doth clog its Wheel which is designed for to be the running Chariot whereunto the Spirit of Infinite Might must joyn Now then by all means seek the unthralling of your Will for could nothing mingle therewithal but what did fall from the pure Deity how would you find God all-active in and through you But herein lieth the great Nicety to keep the Will-Spirit untouched that nothing from the Bryery Root doth twist about it if this is kept spotless and free what may you not find Power to do with the Most Holy Observe and keep this great Secret it is from great and high Love that I have given an insight to thee that so all Offences may be removed who would you should come to Reign over all of the Earthly Further of this I besought the Lord might be revealed For the great Depravation was in the matter of the Will for it was shewn me it was unequally yoked and had married strange Flesh from which there must be a Separation by Death Had not the Royal Will yielded to the tempting Eve but had kept its Priority how great and mighty a Lord might Man have been in and over the whole Creation of God having absolute Power in himself But hearkening to the Dalilah that is still acted by the Serpent-like Spirit to this day it becometh successively despoiled of this Lock of Strength and Power and so hereby the Shame of our Nakedness doth appear as to what Cloathing we might have been made known in Had not Adam thus lost his Dignity and so hereby brought forth Fruit unto Death running through all his Posterity in and after the Similitude of his Sin Which hath brought Impotency deflowring us of all that Spiritual Might of this we need no other Proof then what we do each one carry about with us But the great Thing is Oh thou who art promised as the mighty Restorer of this Breach What must we do who are so unavoidably overtaken with the same Thral and come bound with the same twisting Cords which hath altogether weakened the force of our Wills To this great Query as I humbly pursued so I had my desire resolved February the 7th 1676 7. This know and well consider that your Original is from high extracted Matter which is so Eternal that it cannot dye but it stands at the pleasure of the Will what way it will drive forth it self into For now it is a distinct Essence and had it not been corrupted from that simplified Being of Purity you could never have fallen into such an dishonourable state wherein the Royalty of your Power is so withdrawn as ye have no defence nor can make against those numerous Circumstances of Evils that do conspire where they may find degenerated ground for to work upon Now then yet for a more clear and perfect Information what further on your behalf is to be done that the choice faculty of the Will may come to regain its Primary Liberty that so it may have all powerful success as before it was enthral'd by the tempting Eve No other way there is but for the Will to be born again that thereby it may recover its Virgins Might and Force then every right Essence will move and open from pure Nature's Center This Birth is not according to the Will of Man but God Who out and from an infinite Pity and Love is come by Water Blood and Spirit to recover and lift up your relasped Wills that so they may stand upon their true native Prerogative being also set free from the flattering Dalilah which includes the whole variety of all attractive Delights from this Principle that as with Cords hath bound the Will down Oh now then as beloved of your God for ever drink in this Word of Counsel and herein joyn and work with the Spirit of your Lord Jesus who is come to perswade and allure you to fuffer joyfully the breaking up of your whole Earthly Family Which only consisteth of what is indged but lawful and expedient by the false Seers who are Babylon's Merchants But to you I have other things revealed and do incite you to be at variance with whatever will not consist with the new-born Will Who is to be matched with her who is the real Bride and Heir to whom a great Retinue doth belong of which Family you are to bear the Name only Therefore let it not seem grievous to rend and divide from what is of this evil World for verily hereby as God is true ye shall sustain no loss For your Superiour Will will hereby be so free chast pure
though thus made to fly from the earthly Man yet she is in safe and sure Custody to bring her forth again in the most needful and seasonable time which will be when you see the Pride and stately Insolency of Vashti's Spirit generally grown so high in the World for contempt and neglect of those Superiour and Paradisical Laws which by God the Creatour were upon all enjoyned But now being by all universally forfeited What is decreed henceforth to be done Why Vashti who hath wrought all this Evil and doth work still in every one must depart from the Crown Dignity and no more appear near the Throne of the Majesty of Holiness but evermore be counted as dead to the eternal Royalty Then heard I this Voice sound saying Come come a Virgin Mate must be found for the King search and see she must be found among the Children of the Captivity one more excelling for Beauty Amiableness Wisdom and Meekness Humility Love and Patience than any other by which Endowments the true Virgin Queen that is allotted to be in Vashti's room shall be known For such aâ— one is in the Eye of the great and mighty Ahashuerus for to find Favour and Kindness Then was it further shewed to me that such a one so excellently qualified in all perfection of Holiness is to be admitted into the Bosom of the most Holy That she would have hereby great Opportunity to plead for the Liberty of the Captive Seed This Wise Virgin I did now see in a Figure that she by Council with the upright Mordecai did bring to pass great and mighty Deliverance according to the literal similitude Now then the true Mordecai's Spirit is that which was still in Unity with Esther without whom she would do nothing Whereby it is worthy to be observed that where two Spirits are thus in Harmony upon a high and spiritual Account there is great Force and Strength united to a blessed Success Both ways considered as each one having a Mordecai Councelling Spirit within themselves or distinct as in a Person without both of which are of great service in the Work of the Lord. Some Rules were given to her who is to succeed Vashti that so she might gain Esteem and Favour with the King As first a Child like Innocency and humble Simplicity and staid Sobriety which may render her as a blushing Bride of Virginity all pure and fair as the Lilly Such a one will be most meet to represent and personate the eternal Virgin that so the Crown of Queen-like Power might be set on her Head Then she may have access upon more equal terms to this mighty potent King for herein lieth the great Priviledge that upon any straits or distress as may happen this worthy Esther knoweth whither to repair having both the Heart and Ear of that mighty one who hath Dominion every where She knowing her times seasons and Cause is Just for which she makes her Application Here also I was incited from this History for to take notice of the state of this Ahashuerus who had a Court and Tendance for himself and another for his Queen with her Attendance Even so the high and holy One hath two most holy Courts for Purity and heavenly State The one is the great Pallace Shusan which represents the Ierusalem state of Glory the other is the Celestial All-springing Paradise provided for the Virgin Queen and her most honourable Women where she that principal One in whom the King delighteth is often sent for to see and to be honoured among that high Assembly She at no time is Disobedient to her Lords Command but rejoyceth to be admitted to every spiritual Feast and then again by reciprocal Love invites also her Lord and King to banquet with her of such Fruits as she well knows will please him so that there is no end of Love's Commerce This chast and loyal Bride loveth not if it might be permitted to make one Meal without her beloved King She admitteth none into her secret Courts but such grave Mordecai's and such as are Virgins like unto her self The Haman once or twice intruded with the King which doth allude to the invading Serpent Seed of which the wise and prudent Esther with her Mordecai did foresee the Danger and the subtle Plot for eternal Ruine and therefore wisely grounded themselves first in the Love Favour and good Will of their King Even so do ye imitate the Examples of these worthy Ones observe all things as in the History so in the lively track of the Mystery Let it be your grand Design to ingratiate your selves in this your Captive state with the mighty Potences in heavenly Places Act each one both these Parts Oh Mordecai if any thing of Treachery or Dishonour thou knowest against thy Lord the King be faithful to bring it before him that when need is it may be remembred for hereby the Virgin Seed in time shall rise to promotion Oh Esther maintain that Love and Favour which thou hast obtained hold fast what thou hast received of that Love Pledge do thou prepare often in thy Paradisical Mind what may please and have influence upon thy mighty Sovereign Lord. Be sure to maintain all intimacies for verily the Day is not only comming but now is when both Mordecai and Esther shall have occasion to set a work the utmost interest they have both for themselves and for a scatter'd Seed with the great King to give sealing Power for Confirmation and Justification in a wonderful way As also Decrees to reverse and change what seems so unalterable in the visible state of Things among the oppressed Captives Here now somewhat of Wisdoms Book is opened seek the right Eye Salve that ye may plainly read these things and make high and spiritual Use of them that Esthers good Day may overtake you March the 22th 1676 7. In the Night as I was waiting in my wonted solemn Retirement what might further be administred I was cast as into a magical Sleep where I saw my self carried into a Wilderness where I saw only pleasant pastoral Walks and Trees which much suited with my Mind and Inclination there to walk where I found nothing to disturb my superiour Meditations In which place I promised my self opportunity as not willing that either my Name or Place should be known to any saving One. But while I was thus pleasured in my reserved state I suddainly did see one that was known to me walking very strait and upright with a Book reading in his Hand He seemed to be as one that would not look awry But it was said presently that this Person was a Spy Then presently two more did appear of the Female Sex both which did make a kind of Assault upon me but one of the Females was more fierce and did give my outward Skin a prick as with a sharp Needle Upon which I called for Angelical aid to succour me or else too hard they would be Whereupon I was parted from
them and saw them in that place no more A voice saying None here shall henceforth come but such as can agree to walk with thee perfectly And so the Vision broke up The Interpretation Some Days after I did further enquire into the more full meaning of this Vision why such should so conspire against my solitary reserved Life but especially that one who was in my Eye of more value because of a known Life of Truth and Integrity I found this written upon my Heart Their Eyes must for a while be with-held they will not you know till ye can get the new Name engraven as of pretious Stones upon your Forehead For it was secretly whispered to my Spirit that in some there might be a refined and spiritual Emulation as in others a more Gross and Sensual Both of which I had councel and caution how to walk with so as no occasion of stumbling might be given justly to the gainsaying Spirits Whose pryings were to see how we would walk while in the Wilderness state Out of which we were not to come till our beloved Lord should bring us forth as in another form wherein me might be known as those who are to live in another Sphere where neither the hissing Serpent or biting Adder will adventure to appear in that High-way where nothing which is unclean can pass It is only for those who have held out the Wilderness probation waiting in Faith Love and Patience till the jubilee Year In which the Ransomed shall go forth out of their solitary Place into the New Sharon where the Glory and Excellency of their God as a circling Saphir-bow will be for their Defence March the 23d 1676 7. This Word spake with great Majesty Behold I come quickly hold fast that which thou hast Upon which I considered what that thing was which was to be held so fast This Word then opened it self in great Force and Consequence to me for I was in great suspence among the many Gifts received what most primarily should be taken care of among those things which were intrusted with me Still my Spirit was harping hereupon waiting for a clear Resolve which this Morning was given to me by a distinct Word passing through me saying Hold fast that which is my Witness iâ— thee as the Gift of Revelation and Prophesy Which bind fast by the Girdle of Faith or else it may be wrested from thee for thou art not freed from the Serpent's Conspiracy Who by all subtlety would circumvent my anointed Prophets by mixing and casting in what is not of my Spirits pure intent Watchful then now be least that high spirited Wine which flows so readily from the eternal Vine should be either adulterated or stopped in its flowing Source Therefore from your holy Watcher take this following Rule and thereby you shall be able to keep the Crown of anointing upon your Heads in despite of the Serpent's Rage March the 24th 1676 7. To you then to whom this worthy portion of Prophesie and Revelation is given as what ye are to keep and hold fast till your Lord shall come it will be expedient to observe this Rule Take this Councel that Elisha gave the Prophet's Widow that had 〈…〉 all her living Furnish thy House and stock it well with choice Vessels of all kind that are fit for reception washed and wrinsed with the scented Water of Life Let no other Furniture be within the Mansion-house of the great Prophet but set all in Order ranck by ranck and expel every other thing Taking the Authority also to stop all of the nether sensual Springs and a way is to be found out to cut off those Pipes through which the muddy brackish Water of strong scented Reason issues out For if at any time while this pure Oyl is running this should happen therewith to mingle it would be like that Herb in the Pottage which made the Sons of the Prophets to cry there was Death in the Pot. Therefore obey this Councel when thou hast brought in all those Vessels that have been tried as Gold in the celestial Fire of God's Love Faithfulness and Truth then use thy Skill to suspend and stench the Bleeding of that old degenerated Vine Which when your Obedience herein is readily fulfilled then to you will be given that Precious Blood Ruby-Stone that will eternally put a stop thereto But at present all Care and Diligence is charged upon you that a restraint according to your present Ability may be put to all those sprouting Essences which are contrary to the Paradisical Nature Here is a Break for several Days in the Original April the 8th 1677. THis Word I was reminded of as a Prophesie to be fulfilled in this laâ—t Age of Time Rejoyce O ye Souls in what I am about to do which is to create new Heavens in your old Earth to change it into a spiritual Frame and Model wherein the holy Ghost that I will send down shall evermore abide and dwell Then shall ye bear the Name of Immanuel Now it is to be understood what the reason was why the holy Ghost could not transform the Soul before into its first Original Purity which was because the new Heavens were not yet Framed which do represent a Mind renewed and a Heart purified For that Scripture was opened to me If Christ be risen in you than hath Sin no Power over you but its Body sinks and dies away For till the Body of Sin be laid there can be no assuming of a celestial Body at least for duration Then again the great Prince and Shepherd had another design to gather up holy choice Spirits that had lived in mortal Bodies to come up after him to make up the Mount Sion Church in the invisible Heavenly Sphere And those that have kept fast the Word of Truth in Patience and have fought the good Fight of Faith if that they dye in the Warfare they shall loose nothing of what they have so far wrought there is a Reservation and a Place for such to perfect what is lacking For 1. Christ himself did not go out of the Body into the highest mansion of Glory but he first entred Paradise So likewise those whom the Father hath given to him must whether in the Body or out of the Body make their first remove thither to be fully made meet to be gathered up to the Fountain-head of all springing Wisdom and Glory A known Number here is to make up the Flock for this upper Fold whereof are the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles who are nominated to be Elders among that great Assembly who are moved out of Paradise to sit in heavenly Places with their head Prince and Mediatour To which holy Place there are some holy and perfect Spirits in every Age added as Saints breaking away from this Principle This now is a Dispensation of that Time mentioned of a gathering in of heavenly Spirits to Christ out of the reformed Paradise But there is yet a fuller Time and
corruptible Flesh. As first for its Probation it cometh into such Bodies to exercise and to put forth its Superiour Might for Mortifying and to correct and check all the natural Propensity which the mortal Spirit would tempt that which is Eternal to joyn with it in The which not yielding to but maintaining its own Superiority in curbing and suppressing all of the earthly part God is hereby greatly pleased and highly honoured Therefore think not much that for the present there is such incongruousness betwixt that which is Intellectual and that which is Terrestial That which is Eternal may command and subdue all what ever is Temporary Therefore be not ignorant of your own Spirits Soveraignty but call up its true Authority for the Spiritualizing of what would be clouded with Sensuality For if you yield hereunto and are overcome then your Talent lies as dead and buried And what account can any such give to their Lord when he comes who are thus slothful Therefore that Parable consider of it about the Talents improving had a very deep meaning if you should not be faithful in the first stock of Life and Spirit you must not expect that more high and full Trust and latter Crop both Ghostly Spirit Body Celestial will be given Therefore be patient hold out and do the preseâ—t work of the day and know your Reward is not far from you Then was the Vision of the Holy Element to me opened as thus The bright Airy Cloud which gathered it self into a round compass and was mixed with flame Colours so subtle and pure this was said to be the Matter of all Celestial Bodies and those innumerable Stars which were veiled under the bright Cloud were naked Spirits that did ascend out of Bodies terrestial into this pure Element and put on Figurative Bodies bright and Aetheral corresponding to the Nature of the Star-like sparkling Spirits who did appear to be fixed in this pure Element Then further as to that Majestical Eye which did appear so terribly piercing it was shewn me nay the Spirit did plainly in a still Voice eccho in me that from this pure Eye all distinct Sparks of Life did proceed and did fly into mortal Bodies according to the hour of Life and did come piercing into the fleshly Womb there to unite with a corporeal Spirit which is naturally introduced from Adam's lapsed day Then was a Secret whispered into that Ear which open stood to hear what the Spirit dictated so uear saying Hast thou not read that one Star differeth from another in Glory and one Angel is more mighty and powerful and greatly dignified then others yet all of and from that pure Eye extracted Even so further learn and receive this That in the productions of Spirits there is great difference some greater and more deeply comprehensive and intelligent and strong to encounter with the averse matter to which they are united For know this prerogative of Will which with God the Fountain of all Spirits is to be left free is not here to be called to an account by his Creatures Who gives Spirits successively to Bodies according for what he hath for them more eminent and extraordinary work to act and do in the lower Region of this World Therefore God hath left himself this Liberty to give to one five Talents and to another but two or one But if to that one any shall be faithful to improve it while he lives in this Body doubt not but it is of very dear acceptation with their Lord to enter into his Joy though somewhat different according to the Spirits degree Thus Abraham and Lot were both from a pure righteous Seed yet Abraham's Spirit of Truth did much excell And so ye may recollect innumerable Instances throughout all Ages as Enoch Moses Ioshuah Elias who had answerably great Service to do for their God though so unsuitably matched by Bodies yet such was the greatness of their Spirits as they made their very terrestial Man to keep pace with their Spirits Nay such is the power and ability of an Eternal Spirit through piercing into its original center that it may attract and cloath it self with the inward Virgin Body which is the Matter of that pure Element which thou didst see and so for Times and Seasons the gross Nature sublimated and over-powered may be as oft of this kind as was formerly according to the might and potency of the Spirit existing in Bodies As this was shewn in your Lord Jesus both before and after his Resurrection Now what doth this Vision predict but the cloathing of some great Saints with this pure Element Who do often withdraw from the Corporeal Sense Oh who can tell What is here to be enjoyed but such as do slide away from this vile earthly Climate The Seven-Star Planets will be given into their Hands the Influences of which are all of pure Ghostly Inspiration to out-set and overthrow the earthly gross Element which so long hath prevented the Heavenly Community Now then dive into your own Celestiality and see with what manner of Spirits ye are endued for in them the Powers do entirely lie for Transformation From the fore-going Revelation it was fully cleared unto me for what cause pure Spirits which did proceed from the holy Being came to exist in mortal Vehicles It was not for any Sin or Transgression which they acted or did in the times of their pre-existency in any Etheral Region as some do believe being bare abstracted Spirits without any Figurative Bodies Only Adam and Eve may be considered as the whole Universe and all included in them as the representative Heads of all successive Generations who were mortalized after their similitude For which cause Sin and Curse and Death enter'd but none for Adam's Transgressions shall be condemned for shall not the Judge of all the Earth do and pass righteous Judgment Shall any suffer for what they could no way avoid God forbid as in Sin all Men and Women were conceived and born so likewise in a Seed of Truth and Righteousness which is invisibly introduced for to destroy and overpower the Serpently Seed both growing up together which of them doth obtain the mastership doth remain in each ones Principle The most wise God having laid in a sufficiency of Spirit who in the days of Noah said My Spirit in them was tired out striving still with them so God will clear and acquit himself of all that of this Nature can be charged upon him Then further it was opened unto me from that Scripture That as Sin hath abounded Grace shall much more abound This Grace was revealed in the Gift or Infusion of the Spirit of Christ as the promised Seed of restoring Life unto Adam and Eve upon their very degeneration that they might not be as without God in that corporeal Image which they now were changed into If the Eternal Word which was from the beginning had not been their Light and Life and so likewise generative
to their future Posterity they had been in the same condemnation with the fallen Angels but the Eternal Word did even then incarnate himself for their help and recovery and to save them from sinking into that horrible Lake which the Serpent had prepared for them Thus did the Eternal Love immediately move towards them to free them out of the Dragon's Power whose design was to make them of their own Hierarchy in their Princely power of Darkness out from which the Lamb of God did redeem them Who from the Foundation of the World was the Salvation of God so still going on to the Ends of the Earth But while this new thing sprang in my understanding which seemed to differ from what I had formerly received as Truth I besought the Lord my Teacher to answer this Objection that was raised thereupon That if so immediately upon Adam's Fall the Eternal Word who is the new Birth-Seed did incorporate with Eve whereby power and ability were given to bring forth wholly after the Spirit how was it then that she should and did bring forth after the fleshly Image as appeared by the first Man which she brought forth in the wrathful Property first awakened In Answer to this I found Light at hand to resolve me As thus it did not seem good to the Wise Creator to obliterate and so presently to wipe off the Stain with which they by the act of Disobedience had blemished themselves Some marks of Displeasure the most Holy did still include them under as a Terrestial Body and to bring forth in Travel and Sorrow what should have been by Magical Power and Joy 〈◊〉 Celestial Angelical Forms but now as the effects of disregarding the Command of God they brought forth a mean and despicable Image according to their own Likeness But then I further queried but this Corporeity might have been Sinless 〈◊〉 Original Righteousness was also infused by the immortal Spark of Life entring in to incorporate with the outward Elementary Birth That Spirit which had so pure an Existency and was in free Liberty should come into a necessitated thraldom as in Cain was manifested As to this I also obtained Satisfaction that Cain had the Eternal Light of Life with him that did fore-warn him and convince him of the end and danger of Sin and that he was under Probation and that the Serpent had liberty still to â—â—â—mpt a new sutably to the Condition he wâ—s fallen into Who had an absolute Liberty of Will and Sufficiency of Power to stand his Ground as God said to him by way of Reproof If thou dost well shalt not thou be accepted but if not Sin lieth at thy own Door Which plainly doth declare that Cain should not have yielded himself Sins Captive So that in all Temptations you may know whither to fly even to that eternal Word within you who is mighty to Save who Is and Was from the Beginning the First and the Last Visible and Invisible Deity in Humanity and Deity out of Humanity all making and tending to the fullfilling and Manifestation of the Mystery which hath been hid in the Trinity Which Arcanum will be daily revealing in this latter Age. Then arose a further Query to be answered If Christ as a Seed of Life was infused into every individual Birth throughout the Line of Terrestial Propagation whereby a Sufficiency was found to bear down and overcome what the Serpent had introduced of this Venome and Sting of Sin add Death What further need was there of Christ to assume a Body and to be proclaimed in the World as a Personal Saviour by and through the offering up himself a Propitiatory Sacrifice for Sin If it could have been expiated by the Production of Internal Light and Life thus originally Springing according to that Scripture Christ the Light of every one that cometh into the World As this is a weighty and considerable Question so resolved it shall be from That which seeth into the first Ground of what cometh to be manifested in time Now then for these Reasons it was expedient for him who was nominated the Second Person in the Trinity to be exhibited in a corporal Form upon this Account First To declare the possibility of bringing in and acting forth an everlasting Righteousness in â—rail humane Nature which every way was beset and assaulted with Temptations from all dark Powers which from their evil Center did conspire to overturn Truth and Fidelity in this Immaculate Lamb for had the Dragon prevailed upon him here Mount Sion and the Heavenly Ierusalem should never have been revealed Secondly Then again for this Cause Christ was to be manifested in Flesh in God-like Power as very needful to become that great High-Priest to attone and make expiation for the Sins and Defectiveness under the first Covenant which was given in Paradise all since having sinned after the similitude of Adam's Transgression The holy Seed in them being weak through the Body which is included and falling under the gross Element which hath and doth in some much more then others choak and smother the Life and doth greatly cloud and darken universally this pure Light whereby the good part doth rarely get the Victory in any till they attain to a good degree of Illumination and Purification For this Spring of Light doth get through but by degrees for tho in it self its of great Potency yet need enough there is for Sins committed in the times of Ignorance and Minority before the Spirit comes to make the Soul understand it self from whence it is relapsed I say for the Remission of these Sins past through the forbearance of God not less then such a Sacrifice was your Jesus for you to become In the Third Place Then as Christ fulfilled all Righteousness in his Humanity for an Example to his fellow Breathren so they might come to the unity of the same perfect Life by the same perfect Spirit which was in him through the dying Life For thereby your Lord Jesus obtained a super-additional force and power of Spirit to give and shed abroad into you for the working out a full Liberty and Salvation For seeing his pure Life-Seed was under oppression he also came into a Body of Flesh to relieve and free it from the Bondage of Sin and Evil and also the very Mortality antecedent thereunto according as it is written delivering them who through fear of Death were all their Life-time subject to bondage Which no way could be effected but by Death destroying Death First in the humane Figure of your Lord Jesus who hereby shewed you the way to do mystically that so thereby you might escape the Second Death through the Resurrection which is said to quicken Mortal Bodies Fourth Place Now then further consider that thâ—s was the very great and primary end of Christ coming into a Body of Flesh to transfigure and to shew the way of Immortalizing of it as he did his own after his Resurrection when he ascended into
the Kingdom of his Father Then this was also noted to me from hence that had not Christ come down into a Body the highest Saint could have attained no higher State than Paradice though endued with all the internal Excellency from the Word of Life as a Seed incorporating with it For their highest dimensions was Adam's Paradise beyond which Region neither Patriarchs nor prophets did arrive before Christ's appearing in the World Therefore you see Christ imbodying himself in a Terrestial Form brought forth many considerable Advantages if they may now be considered of by the wise hearted so as to wait and expect the fruits of that additional Spirit that is some degrees higher than any Seraphick Flame of Light Believe it and know it that this Breath of Fire breathed and sucked in will melt away all your gross Metalline Corporeity April the 18th 1677. The True Shunamite As soon as I awaked in the Morning this Word spake in me What is to be done for thee Wouldst thou be spoken for to the King This Word I pondered often upon what should be the meaning hereof and for what intent it did so speak Which after some days was thus resolved that such who signatur'd are with Spiritual Generosity and Largeness of Love answerably to that Shunamite who was so careful of Elisha as to provide for his Entertainment even so grateful would Christ the true Spirit of Prophecy be unto them who have such a Proof of Love and Esteem for him as to furnish out a most holy separate Place for this Prophet still to turn in into First then it was given me herefrom to observe that this Shunamite as she did understand him to be a Man of God gave him great Reverence and would not lodge him in her own mixed Family as judging none there worthy of his Conversation and therefore did on purpose build a place of Apartment for vacancy that this holy Seer might have opportunity for enquiry with the Deity Therefore she took care he should not be disturbed Then further this Word came unto me as not only for Council but for Information that Knowledge was taken of such a true Shunamite who was in Council with her Eternal Mate that had prepared according to this similitude for this Spirit of Prophecy a most holy inward place with a true Spiritual furnishment of what was necessary to tempt this true searching Seer to take up here his abode Then was it shewn me what I did not know to be in my self so clearly thus figured out dstinctly by way of Allegory First a new Edifice on purpose was framed by the wise Master Builder in us Then a Table-Heart in which the Law of Love was written Then a Bed for to give ease and rest to our Beloved that he might not be as a wayfaring Man Know this in each of us so furnished out as his own home where we might retire to him in the Light and Spring of Understanding Which is the Candlestick and Candle fixed in us before-hand without which no comfortable abode for this Prophet would be in us Then again the Stool signifies a quiet fixation with us without weariness a blessed contentation In that there is but one Seat it shews that here is an excluding of all other out of this Place The Elisha Spirit admitteth none to sit with him in his Lodging for this sitting or waiting posture is proper for the Spiritual Diviner that night and day may minister hereupon Upon this I did receive an approbation or Sealing Word for good Hope and rich Consolation to us who could witness that large generosity of Spirit in Love to this Prophet before whom we are called to stand Who did put indeed and verify this Question a second time unto me saying What shall be done for you who have cared all this Care for me in giving me a place of Apartment where nothing might mingle with me Tell me now what I shall speak on your behalf whether to the King or Captain of his Host The King here represents God the Father the Captain your Lord Jesus the Elisha Spirit the Holy Ghost Either of them both can be heard at all times Therefore see that ye be free in Humility with your Prophet Now having such a Grant made to me I consulted how to act the part of a wise Shunamite though I could and might take herefrom great Liberty yet I am taught to weigh all my Request that nothing rash or unadvised may proceed from me Oh my Lord and great Prophet I cannot compare with the Shunamite in all things who said That she was in her own Land and People But we may be said to be on some account as exile Captives while living in Elementary Bodies also in a Land under Babylonish tribute which is very grievous to the Supernal part Who knows its own true Nativity as seeing through the Glass of Eternity what we once were in pre-existency But now as existing in Forms of Mortality it cannot be said that we need nothing further in the highest degree of this Terrestial state Therefore in blushing Fear and holy Modesty I did declare the Sense hereof to my Prophet If now my Lord will speak for this unto the great and mighty King and Captain of the Lord's Host that we may have release out of all Babylonish thrall and be brought back again to our own People to dwell in the Heavenly City What greater express of kindness can be compassed for us by the Prophet But the Spirit of Elisha replyed to me There is yet a greater thing then this of which thou hast made no mention that must go before it Which is the one pure Elementary Birth for that which is born from beneath of fleshly Corporeity can never be gathered among those Celestial Denisons till immortaliz'd with pure and Aethereal Bodies Ah my Lord if so what hopes can there he for us who are so united unto this out-Birth Then said the Prophet Be quiet and still and after a while this pure Birth that is all of Spirit may freely Spring in which you will pass where you so much long and desire for to dwell But then this was further revealed that many would be the cross workings of this Worldly Element therefore very wary we must be to avoid all Minglings with it For we stood here upon a very nice point therefore know and be only conversant with this God-Man from whom is diffused that which is of pure Birth Impregnancy that will excell in Perfection all of former Births Yet said the Prophet consider further this If you do attain to this Birth know while ye are in this Principle it is not out of all danger Hazards do attend it as in the case of the Shunamite while but in the Childish state The Four Elements may specially be in strife against the Life hereof when the Elisha-Power may be with-drawn away Therefore keep up all Love and sweet Correspondency with this Spiritual Prophet that ye may
a Refuge have in whatever may happen for present or future time or may fall out upon you making use of this his great Friendship at all times when need doth require who hath a reviving Breath for Life still to inspire So then according to what hath been revealed herefrom do you make use hereof in a wise and understanding Spirit April the 20th 1677. I did see a Vision which was thus presented as the form of a Hand which seemed to be grasped very close out of which sprung a living Creature peeping through the Fingers and so by degrees did quite break through the Fingers First appeared the Head as in the Likeness of a young Dove but the Body was of the colour of a Ruby having Wings and Fire-sparkling Eyes which as soon as it got through the Hand it mounted away as into the Air where I saw it no more This thing seemed very strange to me and for some days the meaning was concealed having other Ideas intervening wherein my Intellectuals were exercised But this being brought to remembrance there was something considerable to be understood from it as by the Spirit of Wisdom and Light was made out very significantly The Interpresation of this Vision As first by the Hand which represents Strength Power and Activity as when God is said to do any marvellous or unusual thing it still goeth under the denomination of his Hand As it was upon Ezekiel when he was in the Visions of God his Hand was said to be upon him And again The Hand of the Lord is nor shortned but said to be stretched out as a strong over-spreading Hand Therefore after the similitude of a Hand the Creating Power doth go forth as in Vision it was shewn thee what in time might be effected Then this Question was put to me What now dost thou believe that living Creature to be which was so wonderfully formed in the Hand Ah my Lord I do make no conclusion hereof I wait singly to participate of thy Mind whose sweet Voice and Sound I through thy Grace am learned in and do hereunto attend Therefore speak my Lord yet again Then did this Word pass through me after the manner of a Spirit 's Speech saying The Living Creature which did break away through the Hand doth figure out that which is of great import as namely a Cherub Birth Whereof the Elisha Spirit hath Prophesied should be brought to pass where the least expectation might be As in the case of the Shunamite who was strangely surprized when the Prophet did her greet herewith Even so unexpectedly will the Earth be blessed with such a Birth that shall be hatched under the mighty Hand of Power which will ascend straitway to this Mountain high And it was further hinted to me that as I could not see nor understand any matter contributed to be the substance of this Living Creature so it must be here Which as I was considering of in my self that Scripture was struck upon me It is the Stone that is cut out without Artificial working or known matter Therefore said the Spirit so consider of it this is that holy Breath that none indeed can tell from whence it comes nor whither it goes it resteth upon whom it self willeth and there contracts incorporeal matter that so a Body Cherub-like may go forth from under the overshadowing Hand Know of such like the New Heavens and Earth are henceforth only to be furnished withal Therefore for certainty that Word will be made good Behold the Face of all things will renew But how No otherwise but by the Powers that shall go forth from this Cherub-Birth That when once got through will numerate as those mighty Angels of the Resurrection who will be of great force to pour out the Vials of Wrath upon the Dragon and Beast Who hath had his Root and Seat in man's inward part and there hath made all the defilement Therefore Vengeance upon the Beast will be ere long taken because he hath been so mingled not only with gross Sensuality but also with the Serpently Property That all now who are herein found who are designed for the Kingdom of Heaven must suffer under the Violation of this blest Birth whose rising will be the fall of what is Fleshly For saith he that maketh all things Yet once more an End is come of all Flesh before me A New Creation is to succeed out of and from under the hiding Power of the Almighty Hand in such who now cloathed are with this present Creation in such rough Beast-like Garments whereof they are ashamed Therefore it is that such mean perishing Coverings which are not so much as Moth-proof they do seek to make comely to each Mortal Eye but here is a Birth of another Nature and Consistency that neither needs nor will accept of any of this vile matter from the grosser Elements knowing well that course Linnen which is spun out from thence will no way become such as must pass into that City Which is so bright and clear where nothing is worn but what is Aethereal and trausparent The Light there is such as soon makes a discovery of what is contrary Then said my Spirit Ah my Lord thou hast spoken of great things to come happy is that Age who shall see such a Birth-day as this But this question my dear Lord resolve to me which is this What hath made this Spiritual Birth thus long to stick in the World Ans. Because this out Birth by way of Natural Generation hath now had such a long circling Life in the deep impression of the Stats that it is rooted as a strong Oak that would give way to no other but to the flaming Ax of this Birth of the Spiritâ— Which by reason of long custom and habit is grown too stubborn and strong for the young plant seed to deal with it It meeting with many disadvantages both as to place and Persons and constitution of things in and from this Principle That so it need to be no wonder that this Birth find such difficulty in any for to get through But this old oaky Birth shall not be only lopped by degrees and the root of the matter left still to spring from generation to generation in those who are allotted for Redemption No know you Jesus will not have it run by natural Course to the end of Time Thus his Trumpet hath already sounded to awaken some that did as others sleep in the dust who are risen to a better hope seeking to be cloathed with immortal Robes To such as first do look and do keep close under this hand of power this Cherub-Birth will appear and then let not such fear that their old terrestrial Birth shall their more superior and heavenly Image outwear The wise in heart are given to understand these things who are diligent to enquire when this Birth will be perfected April the 22d 1677. About the break of day there appeared to me as upon a Mountain a stately
these essences did therewith mix Nâ— depravity in the Nature of sin was here infused Therefore this Birth may stand upon its royal freedom for to be born free from sin is a great and mighty thing Therefore know your New Birth-prerogative and come not under the power of what this holy inspiring breath is come to set at liberty from For the true Heir is a Son of Liberty in bondage to nothing when once he comes to know himself he will then assume that Sovereignty which shall make the corporeal life bow unto him Nay as this encreaseth and grows up to its princely greatness this Land will be too strait For out of Egypt God will call this his Heir through all terrestial Walls and Gates to come up unto that free City where the Trinity in Majesty will give out their sealed Commissions for what this Birth of might and excellency hath further for them to do in this low Region For that which hath been as the high builded wall of Perdition betwixt these Principles and the Mountain upon which the New Ierusalem stands by such strong Angels as these you shall see broken down without tool or weapon and passage made which the Eagle Eye of this Birth will spy and will be so skilfull as to know its way through the cloudy Air to mount Sion Hill the mystery of God in both Principles to fulfill April the 27th 1677. In the Morning after the Doctor had prayed I awaked and sunk down into the center of Life And there appeared unto me a pure azure blue streamâ— which was said in me was that Spirit and Breath of Life that must put the grosser Element to flight Then it was further opened to me that from this perfect thing would go forth an enriching Mist that should renew the face of all things in such whose inward ground was measured out by the Golden Reed of the Spirit Then was further shewed me the twofold nature and property of this Breath That as it could quicken and be a seed of Life in matter meetly prepared for it So likewise this Breath would extinguish that Life which worketh in contrariety against it According as it is written Oh Death I will be thy Death When all conclusions be tried for the expiation of the earthly birth there is no other that can so eternally anatomize it as the Body of Sin may be said to cease and not to be but by the Spirit of the Lord blowing upon the fleshly form of it which seemeth to be so goodly Verily this Life hath been too hard for all other weapons that have been tried upon it since the full outward death could not conquer this Life of Sin As Christ told the Iews if they did not believe on him as the resurrection of another Life they should die in their sins So as the mortal death cannot quit from that second death which follows that corrupt Birth-seed which was not in this Life demolished But then from hence this doubt will arise Who is it that hath left this Testimony behind them of all past Generations that before the mortal death did overtake them they had first cleared themselves of that vile and corruptible birth of sin Sure saith the objective Spirit if this be strictly examined how few or scarce any will be found but did mortally die before the inward body of sin was totally expired If so how then could they immediately pass where nothing that ever was of the polluted Nature of Sin could come in As to this obscure and deep Query of which I my self with others have been universally ignorant as not finding out the several reservatories that Spirits did pass into The letter of the Scripture not opening so positively what relateth hereunto as plainly to determine this doubtful matter But it hath been kept dark in the foresight of the most holy wise God Who hath left himself free to give the key of the knowledge hereof in what Age and to such in that Age as shall be worthy of such secret My Spirit hath been often solicitous with the Lord for this thing as in case my Body mightâ— break from my superior Spirit and the Mortal part die before the evil essences which are called Sinn be extinguished as to their very originality then into what Orb shall such a Spirit enter that may be almost but yet not quite got free from every relick of sin The Key of this unknown Door was hereupon put into the hand of my Guardian Spirit the mystery hereof to unlock that this great secret might be revealed and that hereby the Elect might be undeceived Who have nothing less believed but that though they should not come to see and feel sin finished through everlasting Righteousness coming in as a Conqueror Yet wheâ— got loose from this temporary life they should strait ascend into that principal City of the great King Which was once my belief according to that tradional manuduction that I was under But since of meer great and unparalled Love another deep is discovered from out of which a sure and pure word of Revealation hath sprung both as to this and other Obscure things And that the opening of this Truth might not go forth only in the authority of a private Revelation when indeed there is need enough for all Spirits to be tried that do take this Covering For this cause a Scripture foundation was given to confirm and ratifie what was so freely inspired into the mind As first that word was given to me to consider of as in the 14th of Iohn 2d verse In my Fathers house are many Mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and when I have done that I will come and receive you to my self From which words it was given me thus to understand that by House the Spirit doth signifie the Locality of God's invisible Kingdom that hath various Regions for dwelling places as it is said there are many Mansions in which are degrees of Glory Solomon in the mirror of Wisdom had an account thereof when he had built that Magnificent House and Temple for the Most High Which made him as in a Spiritual Extasy cry out The Heavens of Heavens cannot contain thee So it is said of our Lord Jesus that he ascended up above ALL Heavens By all which we may conclude that there are degrees of Heavens and yet all within the Celestial Sphere For Adam before he had awakened the sinful essence was an inhabitant in one of the Heavens which had the Title of A Paradise because of its serene and fruitful soyl But yet God's local Habitation was not here but he sent forth his influencing mist and here did with Adam and Eve frequently commune while they were undefiled but they being once found in the depravation of this purity this Heaven could not bear their corruptible Image for the worm of mortality could not here live Upon which God said Let them out
Vail was removed seeing I had sound that favour as to have that covert taken off that had darkned and hid the Heavenly Mystery from the understanding Why might it not be given me to know also what was in that Inscription Answer To this it was whisper'd by a soft voyce that there was something in that which was yet to be kept secret it contained that whereof the Scripture had made no mention and therefore it was presented to me in an unknown tongue and language which should be learned in its time and understood being reserved for its proper season For as there was a new song that none could learn but such as were perfectly redeemed from the earth so verily there is an everlasting Gospel that none shall understand the language of but such as are made again all new from this pure extracted matter Which will be all spiritually organised whence they shall be apt then to hear and learn what is yet concealed by the Deity for a future day of Manifestation This is only your present business and work to gather in more golden soil to inrich your Land that your Lilly-birth may arrive to a spotless perfection Then with clear Eyes ye shall see what is written within the Table-mind of the Spirit for this is the day when there shall be no need of teaching one another Wisdoms-birth carrieth that Lamp which never goeth out All of her Births will have the light Element evermore encompassing them so that whatever may come forth in Proverbs or Dark-sayings the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation is at hand to interpret None of her Off-spring shall be brought up illiterate but shall be taught in their own Mother-tongue who shall come to be a People of a Pure Language and Seraphick Speech Therefore saith the Spirit consider of all those things that may make you acceptable and meet here for it For it is the Fathers pleasure that in this very Principle this great change should be wrought in reference to this immortalized state Upon this Birth then will be hung all those sparkling Stones and beautifying Gifts that will be the true Royal Stamp upon you But this caution take be sure to carry a deaf Ear to all that will solicitate you herefrom Remembring while ye live in this Aery Region the Prince thereof will readily mingle his corrupt elementary matter with your will Spirit then in danger is all to be turned into a blank as in Vision ye did see Therefore watch and keep to that which will keep your Lilly-birth herefrom May the 7th 1677. Being met together in the Power of the Lord to breath out to each other what was opened from this Life-spring Just upon the concluding part thereof I saw in Vision a Covering passing before me the ground was scarlet all set or wrought with studs of sparkling Gold with this word going along with it Of such like as this will be the Furniture of that place where the Most Holy will dwell Then in Prayer I had a suddain aspect of a Countenance who looked all pleasant and this word came with it and said Iesus lookâ—npon them and said Ye are not far from the Kingdom of God May the 8th 1677. This Morning a shivering influencing Power and Presence was witnessed about my heart After which this salutation I had in the known speech of that which did so gird about the Intellectual Mind uttering these words wilt thou make a full dispose of thy Spirit Soul and Body unto thy Lord who is willing to assume all to himself that he might make it his proper Workhouse But consider well and be not rash in this thing for if thou dost contract to make all over unto me thy true Immanuel then nothing is henceforth hereof to be parcelled out from him who is come to be a Purchaser for the whole that none may come in for any part besides me For I have a sufficiency of stock to set all awork In this your Jesus will be properly all who well knows upon what account he demands to have all turned over to him to act work and do wholy after the pleasure of his own Spirit For while the exteriour Will and the rational Mind with all their train of senses do but in part bare rule and here up and down float though giving their Vote according to the moral and sober part of things all those must give place to another Birth that will excel all this Righteousness Now you that are come to that degree of knowledge as to discern the right-hand Gate from the left Who have been sometimes under the Discipline of the Spirit as also sometimes under the Gifts aud Powers from the Celestial Orb to you then who have thus tasted the Lord is gracious can ye give up all propriety in your selves to be in very deed no longer your own Being come to that grown Age as to make a true sale of your selves to such a Purchaser as is come to buy without Mony or Price or any thing of this Worlds Merchandise You are now known to him and he to you who now proffers to give his own Life for yours Oh who would not strike up such a bargain as this is that so henceforth for you to live it may be Christ. Who will at another rate manage your very corporeal state and upon much better advantages then ye have done while ye live under this Starry Regions influences which is the light and might of the Man of Sense and Reason whose Sun must so go down as never more to rise When this Day-star appears in you all the exteriour Lights will go out May the 9th 1677. This day my Spirit was cast into a very serious and deep debate about that Proposal which was the other morning so audibly made by the Spirit of our Lord Jesus unto us Whose Faces hereunto were set and our Minds hereunto inclined I had another onset by the Friend of him who most willing is to become our Bridegroom Who still urged this thing mightily concerning the actual passing away of our selves so as to be entirely the Lords moving it again in this word Who who can come as a very Christ to be who stands in humane property but those who have bequeathed themselves away as to move from another Life in which they may in winged Power go forth I found my Spirit as in Peter's frame when our Lord repeated the question so often and so suspiciously concerning his loving of him Even so verily I found my Heart troubled and my Spirit grieved that my Lord did by his Spirit press this thing so hard upon me as if my Love and Will were hereunto doubted of by this my Lord from whom knowingly I would reserve nothing that could be demanded from me Whose Love-fervour hath been so strong as to give away my whole Spirit to him who I do believe will renew another more pure and powerful Spirit in us Then was this by the Spirit further spoken in me
True it is that thou lovest the Lord thy God with thy whole Soul and Spirit which is more then all Burnt-offerings or Worship though spiritually instituted yet this is not enough For Love as it may work in an ardent Spirit by and through internal flowings to the Object may stop again This many have reached unto and yet have doubted in it again Therefore God would have a pledge left in his hand something given him as a fruit of Love to wit Life it self must seal the Truth hereof as going along with it Christ was put upon giving this proof to his Father not only in bare love but by laying down of his Life for which saith he I am beloloved of my Father Iohn 10th So as God had this proof from him so he expects the same from you who if you love the Father and Him then his Commands will not be to you grievous Ye will then observe all the Antecedents belonging to this Law of Love Which Love rightly born carrieth a mighty force with it it cannot deny or keep any thing back from that which it is centred in as hath been evidenced by those great Saints before Christ's Manifestation and since As Abraham he did unfeignedly love God when he forsook his own People and Land of his Nativity to go where the Lord gave him a word of Command to go yet this was not sufficient but ye did see God would prove him further as in Isaac's death Which when God saw that he stopped not in that which touched the very Life nay then said the Lord Because thou hast done this thing in blessing I will bless thee I am now sure thou lovest and fearest me and therefore God will be thy exceeding great reward which the Patriarck did fully witness in his day Numerous instances might be added out of the Scriptures hereunto as also the late and private experiences of holy Souls that have been obedient to that true Prophet and Seer that daily giveth and maketh known the Councel of God Under which seal opening ye are come To which Spirit of Wisdom give now an obedient Ear saith the Holy and True Upon this I made my application in great earnestness according to that Power and Life that stirred in me being greatly distressed to know what was further to be given up and parted withal that consisted in the power of our own Wills having gone far in the self-abnegation suppressing and keeping under the earthly part that so sin could not reign but be kept under condemnation So as to this degree some are come As I was thus silently in the Spirit of my Mind parling this word was uttered to me All this is acceptable but the very giving up of the Life must be that my Name may be written in the very Blood thereof and be returned in a Life-quickning Spirit again Then will the property of that which was dull dark and corrupt become all light vigorous pure and Chrystalline as the Spirit of Christ was in the Corporeal Figure The same Mind which only respects things that are above in the Fathers Kingdom of Glory is to be in you as it was in Jesus your Lord. For this is the sum and head to which all Prophecies and Revelations tend even the finishing of this Mystery Christ the Light Wisdom Power and Righteousness of God Which can be brought to pass only by giving up and laying down our Life as to all sensitive properties which is the highest and most resolute act of the Will-spirit to give its Name up thus and to subscribe your Spirit Soul and Body in the Blood of that Life that must die that so Christ may be only alive in you And albeit while ye are laying down with great reluctancy that Life which is so agreeable to this terrestrial Life because of contempt and dishonour that it suffers hereby As your Lord in his Crucifixion went through so by your spiritual mystical giving up your Lives though as to this worlds eye in shame rebuke and weakness yet in Truth and Verity it shall rise in Strength Victoâ—â— and Power in Ghostly Majesty whereby ye will possess the Gates of your Enemies This is most wonderfully deep if it may be fathomed by the Spirit in you May the 11th 1677. My Spirit entred into a deep sense upon some occasion that was administred how apt it was for such who had taken upon them part of the Ministry to ingross and confine it to Persons and Sexes and to bring down the superior Spirit and Light under the inferiour Government of the low and mean Spirit that respecteth man and savours that Glory which is after the Flesh. For Christ told the Jews they loved the praise of men more than that of God in that they sought honour from one another as the great and learned Rabbies who in their high learning despised an illiterate Christ as they called him From whence I did observe that the leaven of such a Spirit might be ready to mingle with some in this present Age though partly illuminated in and through the knowledge of the Mystery of God in Christ As I was pondering I say and considering these things in my Mind and making request that nothing of the exterior might have wherein to glory but that God would appear in such as little and nothing were in their own account and that all Flesh might be silent that Spirit might only go forth in its own Power and Clearness Upon this I had a full gust come in upon me with this word speaking in me There is a Gospel that nothing of man shall mingle with that shall only be intrusted with such Child-like Spirits For which nothing of the Creatures Testimony will be needed for it will be the Breath of an irresistible Power of which none shall be ashamed Then was that Scripture the next Morning spoken to me Be not slothful but followers of them who through Faith and Patience inherited the Promises Which word was taken up by the Spirit and spoken audibly unto us upon the account of thatâ— which opened before in way of Prophecy as to that unmixed Ministration that should arise in some qualified for it Of which much was revealed in the discoursive way of the Spirit that there was now given to all an open Door that would look hereinto from that in the Heb. 6. v. 11. where Paul directs this word in general to the whole Body consisting of Men and Women And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope to the end Here is none left out but both Sexes implied Whose work and labour of Love in Ministring to their fellow Saints according as they had tasted and received of the heavenly Gift God was not unrighteous to forget Therefore from hence he did incite them to go forward not excluding the Female but laying it as a weight upon both Male and Female as all one in the Spirit to shew the same diligence
till they could get through the vail where they might come to the lively Oracle leaving the lower Principles and Administrations as to the very knowledge of Christ in his first appearance Who hath left the whole Creation still groaning and waiting to be delivered from the present mixed and imperfect state Such I mean in this Creation as are here fore-ordained to a more high grown state as to be minding and waiting for that blessed hope and more wonderful and glorious appearance of Christ no more to leave us in the weakness of sin and corruptibleness This hath had its long day in the world its Sun is upon setting and then but one short interposing Night will be before the everlasting Gospel-day shall break forth whose Breath is at once all redeeming power So it was further shewed me that there should not be another Christ revealed but the same that was in a more high and transparent manner Who as the mighty God and Saviour is to compleat the work of Salvation through a more perfect Ministry that shall be committed to elected Angels that shall be sent forth in such a Gospel-seal as none shall be able to counterfeit For this word as a secret was given me to hear That the Gospel that in these last Ages since Christ was preached to the Nations of the World was not of that force and might as to overthrow the Seal of the Beast and thereby to recover man out of his deep relapse For though somewhat of this all-powerful Gospel did for a little moment after Christ's ascention break through with the Holy Ghost as some first fruits thereof yet it soon retired and shut up again But the Spirit said expresly Be ye of good chear whom God doth greatly love and know this gloomy day is far spent there is but a short night before the everlasting Gospel shall break out Then be ye Watchers till this Morning do dawn put on your armour and be not as others who slothful are not believing to such a Gospel-day But pray that ye may be intrusted with the first openings of this Gospel-breath which will devour and lay waste the Kingdom of the Dragon and the Beast that so in the Power and Splendor of a glorified Christ ye may come to reign on and over the Earth This everlasting Gospel will soon gather in its own heavenly Train but in Hope Diligence and Patience do ye remain for it May the 13th 1677. The Glassy Book In the Night when the outward Senses were reposed I saw at a distance a reserved or separated place which was as light as the Firmament and there I saw the figure of a Book it had no Clasps or Seals upon it neither was there any thing therein written that I could perceive but the Leaves appeared all as transparent as the flaming light After this came forth out of that bright Orb a Flock all in white Robes in a triumphant posture rejoycing about me with pleasant bright Countenances and would have me repose my self in the same alacrity with them but I was more sad and ponderous and could not move with that agility which they did with their Airy Bodies But I soon did feel a mighty influence from their Bodies though at their first appearance I was as one surprised but such was their great affability and friendliness towards me that in a little while I was in their liberty and joy Which no sooner I was made sensible of but they told me they must withdraw unto their own place I then desired they would not leave me but let me go along with them which they could not permit at this season This brought heaviness upon me again May the 15th 1677. Being together met for the mutual enkindling of the Life and Power in each other while the Doctor was breathing out what was given him from the Spirit This voice uttered it self in that time All flesh shall see the Glory of the Lord several times it passed through me The next Morning the Doctor being at prayer I heard mighty internal sounds and one distinct shout which was astonishing which was so loud an acclamation as I never had the like before May the 17th 1677. Then being in the Morning in prayer together the word thus moved in me saying Let the Glory of the Lord return unto his Sanctuary May the 18th 1677. In the Night in my first sleep I saw the Doctor in a place wide and spatious it seemed to have no limitation either by Walls or Gates and I being alone with him suddainly a great throng of people did come in upon us So then the Doctor said this multitude will not be dismist till they receive somewhat of that which the Lord hath made us Stewards of Then did the Doctor preach that which was of great force and power so that they appeared to be very attentive thereto Upon which I awaked and the word said that there should be a clear and pure Gospel Ministry not by man nor after man but by and according to the Revelation of Jesus Christ. May the 19th 1677. This Morning the Mystery of the Glassy Book which was revealed unto me by way of Vision in the 13th of this Instant was opened very conspicuously For as I was walking in the solitude of my Spirit this stirred again in my Mind being presented with this Scripture We all as with open face beholding as in a Glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same From whence it was manifested unto me That this Book did represent the Spirit of the Lord Jesus which was the mirror by which we only could see the Father's Glory And further in that this Book was different from all other Books because there was nothing therein written which was more marvelous and gave me occasion to query with my Lord about it What this Book was which had no Seals upon it nor any engraving in it Then was it thus resolved me That it was that which would put an end to all other Books it was beyond all literal Ministrations they would not be needed when this Chrystal Glass was revealed This would be the sum and substance of all Times finishing Mystery according to that in the Revelation mentioned of the Book which was open in the Angels hand which Iohn saw when the seven Thunders uttered their voices and he was ready to write but till the dispensation of the fulness of time there was a prohibition The Glass that compriseth all Wisdom Knowledge and Sight of Eternal things being given forth or held out for such who do really prize the substance which is the Living Word it self and that above all Shadows Sounds and Declarations Christ is to arise to them higher from a sealed Book to an open one that is from Letter to Spirit giving himself not only as a Book to read but to eat down Ye shall tast this Chrystal Book and thereby come to be in the express clarity of it all clear in Judgment and
in all wariness Then is this word uttered as I was hereof writing You of all others I saith the Lord have desired for to keep separated for my use therefore take heed what you let in to my Temple Body Oh saith the Just One that I could but have such large Credit from you as I had from some in past-ages that could lean and rest upon me without the Crutch of Reason under their Arms. For alas you are yet but as Children that are not able to stand alone You dare not trust your selves upon the bare ground of Faith and that makes you fly so readily to what is before your sensible Eye True Oh Soul thy terrestrial man hath a near disposition to the production of this earthly Climate and runs thereunto upon all occasions as to its nourishing and providing Mother knowing yet no better having found all sensible sustainment thereby according to the manner of this fallen Creation But know you have a Mother of a higher degree that is more true and natural to your Spirits and she would now you should come to understand and know her to be the Everlasting Wisdom of the Mighty God that can do much above Nature and Creature for you Who would have you desert all other and hear and learn from her mouth from which doth drop the Law of Love and Kindness Iune the 3d. 1677. Upon this Manifestation and Councel of the Spirit I found all my internal Powers strongly knit together to find out this more sure and all-sufficient Providence For there was somewhat in me of Infinite Being that was too great to be kept under the tuition and law of that which was earthly and terrestrial From out of the bounds of which my Spirit would break away to live to obey that Law of Faith which hitherto no Adeptist that I know hath arrived to Which hath failed as to my own part because so oft have I given place to self-reasoning being by a Foster-Mother so long brought up in that way that death it is therefrom to withdraw But taught I am not to favour my Life herein though daily solicited hereunto by thousands of Spirits Who do cry spare that delicate natural thing which this world doth glory in For indeed it hath carried all in a forcible stream but now in Spirit I do see this great Volative will be dried up For this Night I did see by way of Vision a muddy Sea boyling as a Pot but under it to my great marvel there was an invisible Fire hidden under the Mud and Water Which I did view thinking at first sight nothing less but that the Fire would there be choaked but it did get the Victory And in the Morning as I was hereof considering it was opened to me that this Muddy Sea was the natural rational Life that must be purged by Fire till all consumed it be in such who like worthy Champions shall come to shew themselves in the Life of Faith I did also see a Clear Water separated from the Muddy Water which by the Fire was driven upward as if it had been a Spring From whence it was given me to understand That there was a pure Heavenly Matter which when the Celestial Fire did work in any it would separate from the gross and evil quality This Muddy Sea was said to be the rolling Motions that work from the common sense of earthly things taken into the Mind which makes it soul and muddy Now what can purge this but fire that lieth in the deep beneath which gradually worketh through it by virtue of an Eternal force and might when once struck in by the Saphire Stone of the Deity Then it inkindles every property and becomes a pure Fire Element which suffers nothing combustible to mix with it After this I did see when the Fire had got the mastery of this pudled Sea that it became all as a bright Firmament and there sprung up a wonderful Tree Iune the 4th 1677. The Saphire Tree In Vision was shewn me a wonderful Tree which was strange and amazing being out of the course of Nature of all which formerly I had seen The Body of it was of the Fire Element and the Branches thereof were clustered with various sparkling Stones of all manner of Colours which were of such a dazling Glory that nothing less than the reflexion of this Tree could give the capacity of sight For as the day doth exceed the night for Light so did these Stones for lustre excel what are of the choisest of this Creation It no sooner appeared but it did again disappear but it left its light Raies upon my Mind for some certain time Whereupon this word was spoken This is the great original Saphire-Tree which as a Light springeth up out of the Dark Valley Iune the 5th 1677. Being much inquisitive to have the Mystery of this Oriental Tree that sprung out of the pure Element opened further unto me as I was waiting in the Fire of pure silence it was revealed that the Tree was shewn to make known that this was a degree beyond all in Paradise For no such lustrous Tree could be manifested in that Sphear Trees of Life and Righteousness might spring thereout but this Tree was a Diadem of Glory that doth grow out of the Element of the New Ierusalem Then was it upon my heart to plead thus with my Lord Ah my Jesus what doth this signifie to us as to our present state This surely presents the highest latitude of Glory which thou thy self art capable of We have many removes yet surely to pass through before we can come to the Clusters of this Stately Tree As we now appear what is more contemptible and vile And if so in our own Eye what in thine Therefore what Time will or may be allowed for our transportation into such Fire Stones of amazing Glory This and much more which would be too numerous to record was my Expostulation To which the Spirit made reply thus that this Vegetable Stone must have several Transplantations before it could rise to such a degree of Celestiality of Glory As first out of the dry hungry barren Earth to a Ground moistned with the dew of Paradise there it hath a certain season to work through as a Plant of Righteousness sending forth its fruitful operations according to the heavenly constellations which work with it It shifteth it self into various forms as the Center doth open for Multiplication of the Vegetable Life to bring it forth into manifestation of those more eminent Fruits of the Spirit As in clusters of Love Patience Meekness Faith Hope Joy to perseverance All which are to spring up unto Perfection as making way for a higher Transformation For when these Fruits are grown to their full Ripeness in any then expect such a pure conjunction as doth make up the very matter of this Saphire-stone Which may be adventured to be cast into that most holy burning Element that thereout all these may come forth
Posture The Prince of Might yet hath no Birth in the World for to bring into existency this New Creation Who then shall be the beginning of this Celestial World seeing that from some one or other the Birth of this Creating Power must go out Oh by whom shall Iacob's Star arise that is to bear the â—â—cepter of Power and Dominion that is to overturn the whole Scene of present things which hath been under oppression Iuly the 11th 1677. As to this some days after I was answered with good and comfortable words that we might not sorrow as those who do see nothing of this rising day For while my Spirit was groaning in the Kingdom of Tribulation and Patience I heard this sweet saying The Birth is Love That shall restore the Kingdom of Ioy and Power And as it doth grow near the Pangs of Love will flow upon you which will be Sions mighty deliverance Therefore revive when Loves throws do take hold upon you for it certainly foreruns the breaking forth of the Son of Ioy and Strength who will rule the Earth and ease the Nations of their Burthenâ—â— Griefs and Torments Then was somewhat opened to me of the Mystery of a great Key which I did see in way of Vision held out unto me which was so great and weighty that I made question in my self whether I could carry it and was loth to take the burthen of it not then understanding the intent why it was shewn and tendred But this Morning considering hereof a voice did sound through me This is the mighty Birth-Key which shall open the New Ierusalem Glory No terrestrial Being can it hold for it is all massy and refined Gold that will open the seven-fold Wonder and unlock every unknown Treasury which hath been sealed from the foundation of the World â— hen was it highly impressed upon me what this Key did further signifie unto us Then another word did swiftly put forth in me saying Those to whom this is given will have power to bind or loose to shut or open to kill or save alive and also to charge or discharge from the guilt of siâ— For it is the Key of Knowledge and sound Judgment and acteth absolutely in the express Power of the Most High to fulfill every jot and tittle of his Eternal Will God the Father will well satisfie himself in such whose propriety it shall be to possess this all powerful Key Ah my Lord is there any â—ow abiding in corporeity that is so eyed by thee to be an Instrument to act in the Power of this mighty Key Sure no Prohibition or Decree is gone forth but some one or other may be designed by thee hereunto in this Age. But then the Spirit said they must be such as are annointed with that high Composition Oyl which at once doth clarifie and perfume as an attoning Incense whose flame never goeth out till this Key be wrought out in the Fire Center Then was this word of Councel given unto me Set a work all your present force and might it will be worth the laying out all your cost and labour hereupon You have an all-skilful Guide that is master of this Mystical Science but he loveth not to have to do with any Spirit that is divided with one Eye looking forward and with the other backward He knows he shall never have Honour or Credit by such as are halting between two Principles sometimes rising up in the Fiery Wheel of Faith then sinking down in the Leaden Scale of Sense which bringeth back what Faith hath brought forward Which is the great Energy that giveth the formation to this all-sovereign Key that is prophecied of but none have been found here for worthily qualified of many Generations past Therefore neglect all things of this low Region that so you may make this your entire business From which let there be no starting as ye would enjoy the blessed Projection of this Key that will open for you and will unfold to you the 1000th Number in Wisdom's Roll. Iuly the 12th 1677. As my Mind was contemplating of the great advantages that an Eternal Almightiness would bring in to such who would thereby endeavour wholly to deâ—â—â—â— and make an end of sin There was suddenly a very fit similitude set before me in order to this to shew what would be effectual thereunto There appeared a bright Jasper Body or Person in the middle of whose Breast was set a Pipe of Gold Colourâ— and two more each one out of his side the one was of Scarlet Colour the other White or Glassy This was a very suitable Idea to the present concern of thoseâ— who did know themselves to be under a mourning state of indigency upon an eternal account For whose revivingâ— this word did further proceed Whoever there be who do thirst to drink out here in nakedness of Spirit let them draw near for only pure simple naked Spirits can suck here After this Voice the Intellectual Spring did freely run and made me capable of more deâ—p reception concurring with the tâ—â—e Inspiratour who did give me to understand the use and operation of these conveying Powers shewing what the Virtue of each Pipe was As first that in the midst of the Breast signified the sending forth the â—â—ction of Spirit The Scarlet Colour'd Pipe the Bloodâ— that is the Life of the Heavenly Body anâ—â—â—â—d to it The third Pipe was the 〈◊〉 Water which keeps and maintains all in an immaculate Life of Purity Out of these the Divine Nature is extracted And who ever do not lay their internal Spirits to suck out of these Pâ—pes can never arrive to any strong Spiritual Stature For what doth it avail to have the knowledge and revelation of this in Mystery and be at a spiritual distance herefrom If Jesus while iâ— visible Corporeity had not lain close to his Fathers heart drawing continually although highly Fssenced in Spirit yet he could never have grown if he had not derived fresh Infiniteness of Strength and Power to hold up the God head Soveraignity in the Manhood So likewise the Spirit herefrom did teach us that we should strive to reach to the heart of Iesus in Spirit Here did meet me this Objection But how shall we thus abstractedly have access in our Spirits to our 〈…〉 is in his Personalâ—â—y all 〈…〉 and we in bodies of 〈…〉 so that we know not how to meet him This Question was thus resolved me These Pipes like Iacob's Ladder were fixed for descending Powers to descend through them It is granted that we cannot reach up to our Lord till we have a full grown Spiritual Body Therefore this mystical way of conveyance is contrived to bring us up to that high degree of fellowâ—hip with the Trinity though no congruity there be as to the visible Body Yetâ— there is that Spirit in us which by the drawing down this Life sustenance may recover its ancient sublime and paradysical Body which consisteth not of Flesh Blood and Bones
will verily work it self through And the more wise and excellent in Spirit shall first see it and feel its rising effects upon themselves as their Birth-Star Which shall multiply unto the seventh Number which only qualifies to stand within the Circle Throne of the Most Holy The seven Stars which are mentioned to be held in the hand of Jesus your mighty Prince of Peace are to be distributed as the Badge or Inscription of such as shall be so perfected for a free pass into the Jerusalem-glory there to be in Oneness with him without robbery to their Kingly Priest in all his Thronely Principality and to be added to the enrolled numbers of the Ancients which are come to be Victorious over the World through great Tribulation So ye will be followers of him through this Rising Star Iuly the 17th 1677. The Seven Ascending Steps This Morning the Living Word spake in me Thou dost not yet sound the meaning and depth of that which is further to be understood of the Residue of the Spirit but I am come to search and give thee further knowledge herein As thus the Golden Cask of this Rich Oyl hath been in part let forth seven Pipes for the venting hereof are as an Emblem to present the seven Spirits that hereout do proceed Now well observe how many of these Spirits have been drawn out of the Golden Vessel which represents the Body of the Deity either in the foregoing or present Age and you will see what is come and what is yet more to come till the seventh Number be finished First consider the Prophecies and Promises how they run in the Scripture Roll. The Spirit is distinguished with seven Properties or Operations and Working-powers each of these Spirits hath their Office and Ministration as dividing to each one in the Body of the Spirit according to the measure of the Gift of Christ. As First The Promise of Grace and Supplication is to empty out it self Then a Spirit of Love Joy and Peace is the second Thirdly a Spirit of Consolation of Prophesie and Revelation Fourthly A Spirit of Councel and Sound Mindedness Fifthly A Spirit of Truth Wisdom and Knowledge Sixthly The Spirit of Faith for Heating Internally and Externally and doing thereby Miracles of all kinds The Seventh This is a Creating Spirit that goeth forth to give Being and Existency to what seemeth not to be it works on this hand and on that and yet nothing which is inferiour unto it self can it see It works all in a silent still way what it speaks it effects and what it effects speaks forth what it is It needs no Orator to go before it to declare from whence this Holy Breath of Almighty Power doth move it resteth where it will yet unseen yet felt known tasted to good purpose where-ever it abides it being the head principle Spirit that governeth and sendeth out the foregoing Spirits and uniteth them into one entire Spiritual Body Now said the Most Holy Inspirator I have here shewn to you the seven Ascending Steps by which you must come up to your Mansion Glory to your Throne Dominion to be what you were designed for to be from before all Worlds Come now and see what process you have made hereunto and how many Degrees ye have taken Comforted ye may be who do ascend up here together in Faith though many attempts and that strong ones have been to pull you down and to prevent your further ascent But be strong and resolute this day from that power already received that you may go up and stand upon that last pâ—ved stone of Wisdoms strength and might Which will bring Majesty and Honour to you but Horror Confusion and Shame to what ever hath sought hence to draw and plunge you in with them into the dark center of this dismal Sphere The which evermore fear and avoid as the Dragon's Cell where he loves to dwell Iuly the 18th 1677. This day much refreshment from the bright beaming Countenance of my beloved Lord through free converse with him came thereby to my Spirit My Spirit being moved to plead propriety in what the Father had given unto him Whom after the way of Spiritual Sight I did behold a smiling Face looking through a ray like to the Sun and a voice spake I will see you Face to Face that you may hear my voice then will your Joy be daily full Then this word I did hear It is well you now do believe that all Spirit and Mighty Power is with me to provide for those whom my Father hath given me in charge I am no engrosser to my self of this Ierusalem treasury but do will that ye should be joint-heirs with me in the same Body of Glory But it is the vehement strong thirsty Ones who can draw out that Life which I now do live in and that in the highest degree of Perfection Which makes me stand up in the head fountaincapacity to impower gifts of great consequence according as you are able to partake of them Oh that you would lie close in your Spirits to that Breast which is in pain by reason of its fulness till it hath emptied it self with the sweet lusciousness of the Gospel Milk When tasted it will make you be always lingring and strongly desiâ—ous hereof The office of my Spirit is like a true and faithful Nurse to lay and to give the Mouth of your own Eternal Born-Spirit hereunto but then of it self it must draw and ye must not be discouraged though at first it doth not come so flush But some pains must be taken by you in this Spiritual Exercise before the Breast of Life will open fluently But when herein you have once got the victory the Bottles of Heaven will run free emptying forth the very marrow and strength of the Deity What else think ye can make great strong and powerful in the Divine Nature but this very Life-substance which by the Mouth of the Spirit highly magical is constantly attracting Then will ye be answered in what you have been so long in Soul-travel for Iuly the 19th 1677. This word was with me early in the Morning Pass on ye Worthies of the Lord through all measures of my Spirit till you come to all seven Degrees Rest not in the shallow parts or streams before ye come to float in the place of the Broad-waters where the Spirit will be to you unmeasurable For though it is an undiscernable strength yet in it lieth the whole omnipotent force both of saving and destroying creating and nullifying This Power will be inherent in them upon whom the seven united Powers shall rest and dwell Which indeed will make you excel the very Angels as to dignifying Power which never was their natural dowry as it was yours in the beginning but that you have lost through sin and earthliness entring in which hath made you thus feeble impotent and weak that you can do nothing till these my seven Spirits do come each one gradually in
regenerated Heart Which the Spirit of a good Heart feeds upon miraculously while this Worldly Heart doth see nor tast nothing hereof So strong so high are Zions Walls that are built for these holy Hearts that no groveling Spirits nor low earthly Hearts can tast any thing of their Seraphick Life Whose natural soil it is to live like the Hearts of Beasts breathing after their perishing Fodder and sensual Pleasures but this Heart from Jesus in a Regenerated good Heart is created for better things It knows its own true temperature to be such as can no more lust after what is terrestrial Because it hath been so much touched upon by the Divine Flames of the most Holy Altar Because also it hath been so often impressed from the sealing Powers of the Deity Whose breath doth so strongly move as to maintain upon the good Heart a pleasant soft Fire burning as a signal Witness that a Sacred Presence liveth there for whom is provided the best of Celestial Chear Also because the creating Word may still renew a fresh Life with all its secret and unknown Retinue of pure Spirits that may be refreshing to the Solitary who indeed have made their choice to live in the Heart of Jesus till with their inward Eyes they have spied where that only massy Gold-stone of all-working Powers doth lie Which is only sounded by these Hearts but to raise up this all-golden Power is not found out by them till they are come to have more innate Union and Communion with this Heart For by virtue of their Co-Union there will be co-working For thus it was betwixt God and Christ there was but as one Heart betwixt them in which they did in all things agree From whence it was said hitherto the Father doth work and I work that was by a mutual agreement going out in acts of Power from deep Councel and Wisdom as foreseeing all events of things So it will be between Christ and a Christian when they have co-union of Heart then there will be co-operations together bâ—tween Christ and a Christian Co-union of Heart is when Christ's Heart dwells in a Christian Heart and the Heart of a Christian is one in Union with Christ's Heart Then will follow intimate communion and co-operations in harmony together Iuly the 23th 1677. This word run through me as a burning stream saying Seek make out with all speed for a partnership with this perfect and all-powerful Heart For it will not only discover a Spiritual Substance by a Reflective Light but it will give an Inherent being in it self Hence it is that Wisdom's Pearly Stone doth shine and hence all her Divine Magia doth work Let it not stagger thee that little hitherto thou couldst do as to works of Eminency that might demonstrate the Heart-Power of the Deity See what wanting hath been the Heart of Jesus is a Seal must be set upon thine that what as his may be thine in an absolute propriety Such an innate life of conjunction will be of most wonderful consequence Consider now then and know nothing is more expedient than to be found in this most perfect and all-seeing Heart that all you do may be wrought herefrom Then further it was testified that it was not the sudden flights of the Spirits up into this Heart which would do or perfect the remainder of what was to be finished For in that there might be an uncertain motion as our own Hearts sometimes being up and then again down by reason of which so little hath been brought to pass For a steady Heart and Mind is Wisdom's Pavilion where she dwelleth Therefore this caution and word of Councel the Spirit did give that when carried up at any time by the Spirit into the Heart of Jesus there to fix for ever and there to abide till so knit as Twins of Hearts to grow up together in then Powers and Gifts there will spring Iuly the 24th 1677. The word of Admonition was given unto me Take heed unto the Spirits Doctrine and continue stedfast in the things which ye have learned and have been assured of knowing of whom ye have received them From these words it was shewed me that it was not sufficient that we were under the distillings of the Spirit-doctrine to drink it in so as to let it pass away again but this word of Truth was to dwell and to be deeply rooted in us as it is brought forth into a plain discovery by way of Precept For in this day the Word of the Lord coming to any one immediately is so rare and pretious that God looks that they whom he shall herewith favour should more than ordinarily set by it and wisely observe and make great improvement of this more excellent Ministry For every slight neglect or disobedience is weighed over as done agaâ—â—â—â— the Love which not being answered by the fruits of Love again will cause the Spirit to retire to its own center Therefore henceforth live by every word that shall proceed from the Spirit This Councel did very much reach my Soul engaging all the Faculties of my interiour Mind lest at any time I should let slip any word so expresly spoken unto me from the Spirit for it is love and grace worthy of all acceptation And I must own it is good dwelling under the droppings of this Fruitful Bough which is loaden with all sweet Hony-dewes that no sooner are touched with the twig of Faith but the Eye of the Heart is both enlightned and is therewith highly refreshed as with its true natural food Therefore One many Ages past experienced this when he cried out Oh how sweet are thy words unto my taste yea sweeter than hony unto my mouth The respect that the Most Holy and Worthy Ones will have for this Living Testimony will be evidenced by a disrespect and a real disgust to whatever is not given out from a fresh annointing For the Right-born Spirit trieth all by its tast it can know old stores that has not that juicie Life and vigour in it like Fruits that have been long plucked off from the Tree or like a Flower that hath lost its true Life-scent by being cut off from the springing Root and so both Fruits and Flowers though once fresh and good in their proper time yet when laid up and their moisture gone and dried up are no longer so And this is well known and discerned by such a Spirit as has liberty to go into the Vineyard and Garden of God to pluck fresh and gather according to present spending And although there has been a living upon an old Store laid up yet know it is not to be so always The seven years Famine of the Pretious Word and Ministry of the Spirit is come to an end with some already Who have made use of it for those ends designed which was to sow their ground with it and that by the hand of the true Seedsman the Spirit who hath made choice of good and well-prepared ground to
cast in that which will bring up a fresh Crop of Spiritual Plants and so still As it was in an inward Idea shewn me A Field of Corn when ripe it sheds it self into the same ground out of which it sprang and so renews Food again Even so the Eternal Grain of the Living Word sowes it self and thereby we have it fresh in all its springing variety Now who once have a Seed of a right kind and a Ground or Holy refined Mould choicely separated from all vile and earthly mixtures they may promise themselves such a wonderful rich encrease as thereof not only to feed the Mouths of their own hunger but may furnish others with this Life-bread which springeth out from this Celestial Grain Which will not come up barely as it enters into the pure soil but it will be still shooting up and altering it self till the gross Body of it be changed into a more excellent property even so the Celestial Grain sown in good Ground will not come up bare Grain but it will bring up with it the Stalk of Plenty and Fruitfulness with it self even the one Stalk with sevenears which number signifieth the seven Spirits before the Throne in which subfists Perfection Iuly the 26th 1677. I saw in the Night Vision a Measuring Line and it was in the hand of a Child who hereby was to fathom aâ—deep Ocean Over which some were designed for to pass and were commanded to follow this Child clothed in white Linnen in a swiming posture without fear For there would be no danger so long as the Child with the Measuring Line went before us as our Guide Then answered my Spirit I am not skilful to swim over such deep Waters as these are and how may we trust our selves with one that seemeth to be of so little stature as that of a Child Then when I came to consider of the Vision I was made to understand the meaning of it Why a Child must be the Guide and Leader of such as were to swim from one measuring deep to another till they had reached to stand upon the Rock where the everlasting hidden Power was Then said the Word know thou herefrom that it pleaseth the Ancient of days to take up the form of a Child to shew there must be all Innocency and Passiveness no resistency noâ— repugnancy of Will for contradiction God will fill such with a Spirit unmeasurable and make them skilful Guides to launch the Ocean deep to fathom the secrets of the Immense Treasury None can be Swimmers here but such as little are who are come back to a Child-state All that are within this Compass of the Measuring Line are ruled to search out what its Length shall give forth day by day For that Ancient Spirit which was said did move upon the Face of the Waters to bring forth the first Creation doth now move through a Figurative Body of a Child-like Spirit to fathom that Wisdom Knowledge and Power as may bring forth the New Creation Which is to be more splendorous than all foregoing Monarchies which have been known in all Worlds From this then learn who they are that shall be greatest in Trust Power and Dominion and who are to have the Golden Line of the Spirit committed to them even the Child that is clothed in white Innocency of which Child-like Spirit you are taught hereby to be Iuly the 31th 1677. This Night I dreamed of a Person that was unknown to me who came and put a Piece of Mony in my hand and said go with this and recover that Estate that hath been so long kept out of thy hand I was much taken with the kindness of this Stranger and as I was considering how to effect it I awaked And thereupon found my Spirit in a dispose for Prayer breathing forth according to the present sense that was upon me and indeed it was a mere Ghost-like Power that moved me and made request freely in me After this my Spirit sunk down into a deep immersement with somewhat of a high Celestiality that I felt as a Covering upon me which drowned all my outward sense During which time the Heart which I had formerly seen as in a fleshly Mold was now presented with a Golden Case on it Which was some few days past intimated or called by the name of a Caul of the Heart Upon which I had several matters of importment glansed in upon me which this Morning were more clearly made out in the Divine Magia This Heart thus clothed upon was presented in a wakeful Vision as the piece of mony was in my natural sleep and I heard this word saying Oh here is inclosed within this Heart that which will fetch back all those riches of eternal substantiality which was forfeited into the hands of the great Landlord who is Owner and Possessor of Heaven and Earth and is relapsed ever since Adam's day Which none from his time could ever buy out the full and perfect Revenue hereof till a Marriage Union was entirely made with this perfect Heart Which was thus further amplified by the Spirit That the Heart was of it self to be considered distinct from the Caul so figured out in a fleshly form as it first did appear unto me Which signified the gift of the New-born Heart for softness ready to take in what Impressions the Creator would make upon it Meekness and Gentleness being the matter of its Composition its Element which it liveth in is the Water of Life from whence the Pulse thereof doth beat and work It swims in its fire-spark of Life in Shiloh Streams of all â—ove and Joy and so it is suckled with 〈◊〉 meek Water of Chrystalline Purity Which rendereth it meet for to be the Eternal Virgin that reviveth again in Mother Eves place Somewhat of the Root of the first Created Matter being left in Adam's Line and Posterity which in some who are foreknown in the Love-decree will have it awakened and thereby obtain it through strong Attraction which can never cease working through internal violation Which indeed proceedeth from the Fountain-Heart of Jesus that now stands in the room of the degenerated Adam Who by dividing from the Heart of God had lost his spiritual force and might for communication of Goodness to his Off spring So that there must of necessity be found another way of conveyance to feed and supply the awakened Hunger which is very mystically introduced in None can any thing thereof discern but such as are centered in the very Life-vein of the Holy Trinity from whence the true feeling and feeding is known The Talent that Christ makes mention of is thus to be understood A spark of Celestial Life is to be found in the Embers of Naturality in us which being sought out and found and separated from what would have extinguished it then becomes desirous of an Inkindling For if it abides alone it will die therefore it would attract a help for to maintain its Life which is
a Mount which was all green and we were discoursing if we could come up there how we should then have escaped what we saw cause to fear For I did see many Vipers lie in our way and one did seem to fasten upon the Heel of my Fellow-traveller which I set my Fooâ— on and so escaped from it And as we passing still on after some space of time there fell a Dark Mist so dismal as we could not see each other which was very rerrible to me for we had lost each other but I saw it dissipated and the lost found again Upon this was opened unto me in what danger we were And it was said Pray for there is Cloud of Temptation that hath already essaid that the work might be retarded Moreover this word was with me Rise O Abigail with Wisdom and Might and give out what thou art withal replenished and thereby stop the ensuing Flood For all things do conspire from the Dark Kingdom to keep you from finding the way to my Holy and Separated Choir Therefore those dark Fumes and Smoak will rise that so you might not find your way into that mâ—niâ—ion-strength where ye will be secured out of all peril August the 18th 1677. After this I had a word followed me crying still in me Turn not out of the way of the Spirit Which the Morning before was in the Scripture Phrase given to me Walk in the Spirit or else it will little avail you to have transient visits from the Spirit only to give councel and instruction if it be not in every jot and tittle obeyed For walking implies that primarily Then was it shewed to me where and what were the Walks of the Spirit First they were walks very high and remote and private The Region or Climate was so pure that no gross earthly Spirit could have any consistency with it Then it was said again to me that such Spirits could only live here that had their first inkindled breath from this pure Element And such as are born again out hence can well agree with no other Air. These pleasant walks of the Spirit are all very lofty and those who stand in the low bottom of this Principle cannot see into that pure Sphere nor yet be walkers there For they are among pure Spirits all of one sort such as Ioshua was to have the priviledge to walk amongst If he would walk in the ways of the Most Holy and keep his charge and abide in the Inward Court The Angel protested he would give him walks among those who stand by the Lord. Which was no small preeminence thus to be among the Triune Society Even so it was to me â—estified That if we would but keep within the circle-walks of the Spirit we should be conversant with the Trinity And hereby it was said we should escape the hurtful influences of those who walk and live after the fleshly Birth For what we are conversant withal such we are For whether Spiritual or Carnal according to either it 〈◊〉 its impression readily Therefore this word came expresly Know and keep Company with your Bridegroom's Spirit That will bring you into high and worthy acquaintance indeed Now then consider ye stand now betwixt two Cross-ways the one is on the Right-hand the other on the Left the one ascends the other descends into this Worlds deep Now there are those who would keep their walks in both these ways sometimes they would be soaring up to God's Holy Mount then descending into the Foxes holds and dens where all unclean Spirits are And such as are of this sort will never make any riddance up to the Mount of Glory Therefore this word of Loves advice I give saith he that is the way of Truth to you who are called out of the Worlds walks That you stedily keep your Eye where the Spirit doth make his Tract for you and that you do keep on your daily pace Follow still the Measuring Line that doth ascend strait upward For there is no admittance herefrom to turn aside because great loss will be sustained To go backwards and forwards can produce nothing but wo and ill For no progress can any such make in this Ascending State And as these walks are high so they are very private and reserved No evil Eye can espy the Roads of the Spirit What of gross Corporeity can pierce into this bright burning Element where the pure in heart walk A strong enclosure here is so as no Beast of Prey can break in to disturb the solacements of â—â—rene Souls that have got in here they are secured by Cherubims who hold out for their Guards Flaming Spheres that so they may rest void of fear Then as to the pleasantness of Walks they are all smooth and plain A sound bottom they tread upon being all paved with solid Gold which is so transparent that its very reflexion gives light to walk by Then again of each side such Plants do grow as are known by Name They be most odoriferous sending out such sweet perfumes each Flower spinging out of the Spirits Root such as Joy Peace Love Meekness Gentleness and Faith with all tender Compassionateness encreasing to all perfect Good You may easily know when you are in the right Walks by these springing Fruits on either hand of you and by the high Throne Powers here greeting you with fresh and new discoveries of their Kingdoms Secrets None that have walked here can ever more desire to turn aside because they can see taste and feel in their degree what the very Trinity can make them blessed in from what they possess in themselves as immense Ioys that are unknown of which some daily droppings ye will still meet with For as ye do abide in the Spirits habitation Worthy things ye may expect which your Father doth secretly keep in his own Breast as ye are made meet for them To which end I will open a burning Spring within you which through a soft breath of Celestial Air shall maintain heavenly clarity Then will your God walk absolutely with you and will be henceforth no stranger to your habitation But then watch to it that when he come he may find you waiting there within that pure and all-indurable burning Sphere sucking and drawing still in the fresh gusts of Endless Love which may work up to a refining Element Whereby Paradise that hath fled away from this Principle may now again bud forth and recover you out of the Curse This is the very way hereunto therefore saith the Just One take all heed to keep in the Spirits Walks as you would see that renewed state of Liberty yet once again revealed in you August the 19th 1677. There appeared to me two Trees the one in a Field the other grew under the shadow of a mighty Tree as in an enclosed place with a Wall about it that was all set for Fruit the other was all blossomed but on a sudden a shaking Wind came and blasted the whole Tree
while I was viewing it Then it was cried in my hearing Transplant this Tree or else never to Perfection will any 〈◊〉 come answerable to that Tree Let it be fixed under the warm shade of the almighty Tree for fruitfulness From this presentation I was given to understand somewhat that answered to that matter of doubt which was often raised in me what was the Reason that such a fair progress should be made of growth in this Tree richly flowred from the very Life-sap with beauteous appearances Which in way of similitude answers to the state of a Soul that hath the Life-root in her but its plantation being out of the warm shelter standing bleak and open to the sharp blasts on every side cold storms beating upon it cuts off the tender Blossom which would come to substantial Fruit. This was shewn me to be the very cause why so many holy good Trees of Righteousness could not reach to the full grown Fruit but withered off in the very prime of their spring For by fruitfulness here I was given to understand something above and beyond a pure and lively Conversation and a shiâ—ing forth in those known Ornaments of Love Joy Meekness and Patience These I may call the sweet scented Blossoms here many one stops and goes no further on but sheds them abroad And then by the mortal Life commixing with the cold sharp Element of this visible Region are they generally cut off before any such high degree of all-fruitful Power is got up unto As was expressed in former Ages when their Fruit was apparent from the root of God's Almightiness Our Lord means this fruitful Birth of Power when he telleth them of the absolute necessity of their abiding in him as the Branch upon a Tree As much as if he had said ye can do no mighty works till you come to be brought under me as that out-spreading Tree of Life If so as he told his Disciples ye abide in me and my words abide in you then ask what ye will and it shall be done From hence it may be truly inferred that the eminent fruitfulness which God the Father may come to be glorified in consists in a large and full ability to do and act such things as Christ himself did in his assumed humanity who was a Tree of all kind of Fruitfulness Now by this Vision it was also thus given me to know that the Tree which did stand in the wild field of Nature with a Fence did well signifie the true Life-off-spring of the Most Holy who might proceed to such a degree But while walking in the open bare Principle of this World where storms of all kind of Temptations would set on it it is altogether improbable that any such could come to any ripe powerful fruitfulness Therefore the Voice did cry from the upper Spheres in Loves Compassion for a Transplantation to be made that so the designed fruitful Plants might come for to be shaded under the great and mighty Lebâ—non-Tree O what less will this be but a very Translation from one Principle to another where Life of another kind will most naturally â—low not a weak deficient barren fruitless Life but a strong invincible all-powerful Heart of Righteousness in the Faith-opreation of the mighty God Who to this Tree shall make all Shrubs and even Cedar Trees of the outward Principle to bow when as your Branches shall sprout out with such Christ-like fruitfulness Suffer ye gladly then the gentle pluck even by that good hand though ye are hereby severed from the very Root of this Earth Because ye well see that the Destroyer and Despoiler of all your desired fruitfulness lurks at the bottom of that ground as a subtle Serpent making new offers of Temptations to beguile you Therefore the Holy Watcher cries still fly away from his Inchanted Tree August the 20th 1677. I have great Soul-wrestlings about a restraint from the Broad Walks of the World The former part of the Night I spent thus being made sensible of the divine pleasurableness of keeping to the Narrow Track of the Spirit I was then greatly thoughtful how we that were as in the midst of a thicket of wild thorny Briaâ—s should pass out as untouched to get into that privacy of walking with God according to the late words of Councel received from the Spirit which word followed me still In the midst of these solicitations that sprung in me I was overset with a drousiness upon my animal sense And immediately I saw my own Person with another got up a good height upon a mighty Bank where some stragling Houses were and we were minding to do and act some petty matters and concerns in them Of a sudden I looked down and beheld a Sea at the bottom floating and a Voice cried Hast way for here is no stay This Bank with all its Buildings will be overflown when the Sea breaks in With that I was afraid and called to my Friend with me to draw up higher for here was no standing for us the danger was so imminent Then was shewn to us through some degrees of ascent a place all plain of each side railed in into which we designed to make our way with all expedition But the ground being parched and bare and slippery we were constrained to stay each other by the hand till we came to that pleasant Walk which was so secured as before was mentioned where we were without fear Then were we in another Region all encompassed with a bright Element with two Globes all with spangling Sparks about them Which was a Vision so Glorious as could not well have been born if the bodily senses had not been suspended that so the Spirit might actuate free in its own Specie Whereby it may positively be concluded that the activity of the corporeal faculties are a great impediment to Divine Vision Therefore taught I am whenever I would attain any thing of this kind that then I must be slain to the exteriour imaginariness and that an absolute death is very meet in this case For there by the Spirit of the Mind is made free to slide down into its own Abyss from whence it was before it came into Nature August the 21th 1677. This Night I heard a Voice cry within me I am Alpha and Omega this is the Name by which I will be known unto thee Which sound awaked me and thereby quickned up all the internal Powers of my Mind to attend the meaning hereof Which as from a Spring thus opened That to know the Lord Christ by this Name would be of a very considerable advantage to us upon several accounts For consider what this Name carries and bears on it signifying everlasting Power Strength and Fortitude I am saith he not only to be known in my Weak Ignominious Suffering Dying Name but in my Living All-powerful Name especially to them who are now to be raised up by me to this state of Celestial Dignity as to be anointed Kings and
through a mighty flux of Rheum this exercised my Faith and proved my Patience internally for some days together and gave me to see I was under a mortal influence as well as all others To which in humility I bowed using yet some means to free my self from the present malady and grief that was upon me After which not being answered in the effect but my distemper still abiding I was convinced that I should have only applied my self to that Sovereign Name wherein my healing was to be found Upon which I prayed to the Divine Omnipotency owning my neglect herein in that I had not looked only for cure therefrom to bring down help For which cause I did believe that I suffered under the Starry Constellations with which the Grand Adversary did conjoyn and concur and send out his evil influences rejoycing to see any who thought themselves above his poysonous raies should fall under and be subjected thereunto with others universally The sense of which I deeply took in and found in my self a disquietment thereat uttering to my God many Complaints Upon which this word came to me saying When thou hast tried all ways and means know for a surety it is the touch of the Deity alone that must thee ease Hadst thou here first fixed thy Faith thou mightest have been released from thy mortal grief Therefore now get up upon the Legs of thy Faith and stand without staggering and thereby saving health may flow in This was a mighty word of support but much more ado I had to rally up my Faith to eye no other but this Invisible Power for ever September the 12th 1677. The next day I had a sweet respite from the raging force of that predominant humour which had so afflicted my exteriour part And in the Night I saw my self taken into a place of which it was said the Night shall not be known from the Day For though it was in the Dead of the Night yet for brightness it was as the Noon Day which light seemed to me to descend out of a quite different Orb than this visible Element And I felt presently therefrom a warm Beam sent from the pure Deity which did me exceedingly lighten so that for the present time I was as one out of the Body of ponderosity dreading again therein to be found For who can do less than despise their corruptible Image that is so subject to these outward elementary diseases of all kinds when once they come to know and feel in any measure and degree that one Element of which Celestial Bodies are framed which can know neither sorrow nor pain Oh how may we come to be constituted hereinto so durably as no more to see the vile nature of siâ— or putrefaction Is it lawful to have an expectation hereof before we lay these Bodies in the Grave Yea assuredly such a day there is to be which will swallow up the night of mortality that all of the one clear matter of that invisible Element shall be in such changeable Raiment as that it will us give to see the face of God in Clarity For this word was given into me that those who could hold out in a steady strong Faith might know in verity such a transformation so as to pass out of Corporality into an Aethereal Glory putting on that which can pass into the everlasting burning-day which no shadow of the night or mortality of death can approach But it was further said The putting off what should be in order hereunto would be very hard yet sufficiency will be given to some who are concurring in mighty Faith Therefore go ye on believingly such a change yet possibly to see September the 13th 1677. In the Night I had a Vision of the Doctor whom I did see in great concern about building a foursquare Room all of clear Glass neither Timber nor Stone was in any part to be added thereto And I viewed it from first to last till I saw it finished by his own hand Who with great alaâ—rity said to me Here we will wait in all reservedness till the Glory of the Son of God appear But I answered This will be hardly secure for we shall be seen through this Glass and envious Spirits will break in and so disturb our attending here No said the Doctor we shall here learn the Art of the Divine Magia whereby we shall keep all Invaders out Or else that indeed would not be a sufficient Fence for us in regard found there is none who are resolved to enter in there with us but we both will abide there till others of the same Spirit shall come into us September the 14th 1677. The Opening and Interpretation of this Vision Was given to me That this denoted the Doctors care and diligence in making provision for that which was of greatest consequence in his Eye by methodising first all things outwardly for this free and quiet assignment Though according to the present conjuncture of things this seemed then much to contradict and to prevent the same which was objected to me But it was answered again by the all-knowing Spirit That there was that so deeply inlaid that would thrust out whatever would detard from setting upon this more Principal Building to which all must give way This Glassy Room doth represent a pure and clarified Mind in the which we jointly wait together as in one Room being of one Mind and the same Belief upon the great Work minding one Calling and Election hereunto and not giving herein any account to any one that hath not Faith For I had advice that it would little signifie to make any publication hereof otherwise than Noah did to wit by an actual building for convincement that we are of those who are forewarned to withdraw from all of this tempting Region For a deluge upon the World is foreseen that will strip her naked of all her pompous appearances for all of this shall be once again desolate Therefore the Word pronounced a Blessedness indeed upon those who were found enclosed within this Glassy Ark. For it was testified that Noah 's Spirit would yet return again to condemn this present World and that it would be demonstrable in some one or other In whom a Spirit of Faith would stir as from the Light and Knowledge of what the Spirit of Wisdom dictates to them and so it will be given to One to proceed from It was also signified to me that such Preachers of Righteousness would rise near upon the third and last Ministration who will internally prepare the Transparent Court for the Holy Ghost by disappearing and winding off from that first Building Which is so thick dark and gross as through that no sight into matters of Celestiality could ever be attainable Therefore a Chrystalline Body is to be built up by the Tool of Faith to be an Eternal House for the Spirit to dwell and act in As of Enoch it was said he was translated by Faith so as he did
possession him who is the Author and Spring of this Almighty Faith that can do whatever it pleaseth Therefore it is said seek and ye shall find that is we must grow from one ground of Faith to another and not give over as fainting and disponding till we ascend from Faith to Faith so near to the heart of God our Father as to affect him with such Faith as worketh by Love that so the grand mystery of tâ—â—s all-effecting Faith may be both revealed and dispensed as a Gift unto us and then we have the Substance of whatever hath been hoped for September the 29th 1677. As the Doctor was in Prayer this word passed through me Ye shall be marked with the Fathers Name then no slaughtering weapon can harm you Upon which word I much exercised my Mind diving to know the Spirits meaning what that Mark would be and after what manner it might be imprinted on us And I as attended with all heedfulness the rising Spring of pure Revelation it was thus given me to understand That to be marked with the Father's Name is no less than to be transformed into a Virgin Body The bearing of this Name in the Forehead was shewn to me would be the putting on a visible Form of God as considered in a glorified Figure Which may admit of such a kind of pure matter as hath not been seen or understood therefore it is well said none can know or conceive what they may be changed into Iohn in his Visions saw the Lord in several appearances of Lustre and Glory There are degrees of Celestial Clothing Esaiah had a sight of God that made him cry out he was undone seeing the disprotionableness betwixt the brightness of a sparkling Glory to a dark polluted Being Likewise Ezekiel saw the flaming Majesty of Glory that the very Seraphims covered their Faces at Upon which the Spirit did set it home upon me that we might not over-rate our selves while the Lamp of our Eternal Spirits were but yet under the covert of a dark earthly Pitcher For no Glory can shine out till that be broken away from the internal Flame that lieth hid within Which is the true and right begotten Spirit who when it comes to call over its high and eternal pre-existency considering what it was before it came into this Body and taking in the Divine Sense hereof is not at rest while yoaked and hanked with such course and putrified matter as these fleshly Bodies do consist of Seeing therefore a Promise is left us both in general and in particular for returning in to such a refined corporeity as may best agree with the pure Trinity Let us draw up hereunto with full assurance of Faith that so we may hereby reach to this all-securing Mark which will redeem us from among the Inhabitants of the Earth and give us entrance to our own Heavenly Place What is it that hath made all to die and leave their Carcases unchanged in the Region of this Wilderness but the resting satisfied in that corruptible form of Flesh in all its diseased properties There hath been only a talk and a belief concerning a Redemption but all the highest have reached no further than a Regeneration in Part and an illuminating of the Mind But where is there that fair Image of the Heavenly that shall never fade nor die that our Lord verifies he would raise up in the last day Which was declared to me to be a Resurrection out of the Grave of that Mortal Body which at present we visibly carry as a Sepulcher in which there may mistically lie hid such a Spiritual Body as only the Trumpet sound of all-powerful Faith can bring forth into visibility That so to some it may be given to see the breaking through of that which may resemble the Glorified Figure of him who is the First-born from the dead This is that Body in which the Lord Christ did the Will of his Father and we can never expect to go on to do it but in the like Figure of all-powerful Spirituality In which the Life-quickning Spirit may have a suitable Organical Body to actuate it self according to â—ts own original purity Who by coming into a terrestrial Form that is only animated by a Life which is from this visible Element causeth the great contest and strife so as the Spirit cannot do or act according to its own eternal property The which we now coming to understand do see how by this animal Life of sense we are bounded and limited from this we are made to seek after our disappeared and paradisical Body And truly were it not for the provocation and strong instigation which I feel again from him who would be unto us altogether this immaculate body I have enough strong Temptations from my sensitive part to acquit all such hopes and expectations and to be satisfied with a mixed state as to the one part heavenly and the other part earthly the whole term of Life here But having had so many remembrances by Voice and Vision that constrained me to pry into this Mystery and having many Testimonies from the Holy Scriptures to confirm what was secretly revealed which came in and were opened to me to prove the certainty and and lawfulness of such a Hope as cannot make ashamed I am not suffered to let go the Faith and shall only in brevity mention those which were brought before me As first That of the 17 of Matt. Christs own Transfiguration as the first fruits of this New Ierusalem state Then that of the 3d of Iohn 6 7 8 verses That which is born of the Flesh is Flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit though this hath been hitherto understood only of the Birth of the Mind and of the Souls Regeneration yet a much deeper thing hath been manifested to me to which I must give ear to wit the Fleshly Birth brings forth the Feshly Body but the Spirits Birth brings forth a Spiritual Body I am not ignorant of the many Objections that will be made against most of these Scriptures by all such as only do look through the vail of sense Then again that of the 1st of the Cor. 15. beginning at the 12th verse to the end of the Chapter That whole Chapter is to be understood according to a transforming sense Then the 2d of the Cor. 5th Chapt. 1 2 3 4. all which shews the expectation of the Apostle in this matter Then again Rom. 8. 23. v. waiting for the Adoption to wit the redemption of our Body That of Iohn 6th Chapt. 49th verse Your Fathers did eat Manna in the Wilderness and are dead 50th verse This is the Bread that cometh down from Heaven which a man may eat thereof and not dye 58th verse This is that Bread which came down from Heaven not as your Fathers did eat Manna and are dead he that eateth of this Bread shall live for ever These pretious Scriptures did fully learn and satisfie me that
Order who can behold with great freedom the Face of God and may have room to continue among that Royal Society Then search and try your selves hereby whether you have this Faith of Activity which will go forth in all Spirit and Life There hath been a great mistake about that which is called Saving Faith whenas there hath been no Salvation wrought by it because the old form of a sinful Body hath not been put off thereby the whole professing Number of Christianity hath very much dâ—ceived themselves in a dead actless Faith but to you it is given to search and seek that ye may find the quickning Spirit of Faith Which ye shall know by its working effects St. James in his Epistle gives a true Character of it when he speaks of Abraham 's Faith which was evidenced by Works by which Faith was perfected Henceforth saith the true Author of it Let mighty Works and Deeds justifie the Spirit of belief according to what degree it is risen Contend for the ancient prerogative which was with the Saints of old for it is that Energy of God by which all in you must be created new to the magnificency of your Saviour who will first appear to you by this Spirit of Faith that so you may raise your own dead and set at Liberty that which hath groaned under the first Adamical Birth This pure extraction of Spirit may have a hidden Birth in those who are in the Life of perfect Charity and they not know at first that this worthy Gift is there For the very hour and time of this Golden Balsom droping in may not be perceived by the Vessel or Person that receiveth it As Christ told Nichodemus that this Holy Breath none could perceive its coming in or going out so Christ in the Spirit doth again confirm this word And this Councel is given to you who are stirred up here for to wait seek and pray know it may be with you e're you are a ware Your Obedience will be fulfilled in sending up constant flames of Love to the fountain heart of the Blessed Trinity In which at one time or other the Breath of the Holy Ghost will mingle and then in pure humility you may try to excite its Power forth so as it may be brought into no derision But first find such ability as your Lord did when he said Lazarus come forth which was Faiths undeniable Seal which both lawful and expedient is for the Lambs followers to receive Be you now then such as need not be ashamed of this lively Hope and steddy Profession of this Faith of God as an Inspiring Breath which will certainly give a high and wonderful witness No impossibility in this Vocation will be understood because its Working Tool is the Creating Word After this free and open discovery let into my Mind I found Faith and Love winged up as a Twin Spirit springing that if possible this superexcellent Gift might be so given unto us that confession might be made to the Lord that this Spirit of Faith is truly risen therefore great and mighty things do shew forth themselves though for a long season it hath been hidden October the 9th 1677. The Interpretation of the Vision upon the first day of October As to this Vision the Interpretation thereof plainly is read in the Book Within which beareth the living Testimony hereunto signifying those living Acts of Faith which sometimes have carried our Spirits up to Elijah's Hill Where not only Batteries are from the potent King of this low Region but he doth make war with and by his Agents as taking notice we are those which do separate from his Kingdom Therefore we may expect nothing less but a Beleagering throughout especially when they perceive that we are such as would overturn that indeared Life of Sense that hath been maintained so long in its range in opposition to Faith's Sâ—veraignty But while here we stand like Elijah upon Faith's Mount we can command Invisible Bands Chariots and Horsemen of Fire that will come in to help upon Faith's Alarm and so shall all weapons of War be frustrated Therefore fear not ye who are upon Faith's Ground saith the Almighty But the word of his Councel thus spake in me rather beware of those more close and subtile Enemies that are within your own house which will every moment make war upon those lofty aspirings and ascensions of Faith they are more dangerous Enemies who can so swiftly raise indeed up the strong Forts of Reason and can display all their Faith-destroying Arrows to wound the Heart and Life thereof Threatning if ye still hold out and will not again descend into the gulf of Sense then ye must be liable to the peril of Famine Nakedness Poverty and all kind of Reproach If ye will not yield to the Laws of Reasons Kingdom such Destructions must necessarily befall you Now then for caution said the Spirit of Life cast up the Accounts of present and future times and in the clear Eye of Light thou both backward and forward maist make discovery that such Arguments as these have frighted down thousand thousands of Souls which otherwise would have kept Faiths Ground Therefore at this very day among the professing part of Christianity such a Faith is only of reputation as will not expose to loss shame and disgrace but can fall in and hold correspondency with what is agreeable to the animal Body But hearken ye who do so much search after this life consider if you will adventure up to this Hill what shots not only from the World below but what will break in as Floods from all dark Centers to bring you back to live in the warm habour of Sense and Reason Then this word further arose from the pure motion saying Therefore now that ye are diving for this pretious thing I would that no mistake should be upon your Mind if you would come to recover that Life that Adam had Which was indeed an unmixed Life of Faith before the relapse did take hold upon him I say if ye will fix your Minds to this Life then stay and lean your selves upon this Faith-alsufficiency and do not think to carry two Lives in one Body that are contrary to each other For this Spirit of Faith can only agree with what is willing to bow and be all friendly with it as a suitable Maâ—e unto it Canst thou saith the Spirit of Faith walk out as Abraham Isaac and Elias did with me they saw nothing before them as to the visible but Earth and Air and yet nothing mistrusted but confided in what was not seen who therefore were abundantly recompensed Such as these who have put out the Eye of their Sense and have thrown away the Crutches of Reason doth the Spirit of Faith seek to walk with that so they may live upon Hony out of the Rock October the 10th 1677. There was this Morning a place presented to me like a Garden where many sorts of Flowers were
is hereby to be revealed only as this pure Spirit comprehends its own Original from whence it proceeds infinitely and so sounds and finds infiniâ—â— things contained in the immense Being By vertue of a new Covenant tye which the Spirit of a new and perfect Heart is for ever under the obligation of a Love constraining Law from which there may be no departing But while upon these Myrrh-dropings my Soul was feeding this Word for Confirmation was added What if this may become such a time of Love as by passing by to look upon thee I shall Swear unto thee and not repent that I thy God will be unchangeable And will enter into such a Covenant as thou mayst henceforth become mine Then shall I know what to do with thee for further Glory and Excellency For in that thou wilt be commendable to thy God whose Eye only can take pleasure therein Then was presented a transient sight to wit a Pool wherein I was bid constantly to wash and bathâ— for the Word signified that such Virtue was herein as it would make White the very Blackamore's Skin and cleanse away every Leopard's Spot For it is a Bath of burning Oyl that will the first Birth of the earthly Heart to purpose try and melt away that so all pure Spirit of Life may spring and a body of a shining Skin as a Cherub-Covering be given For it was revealed to me that this should be done unto us as we were become the Lord 's by League and Covenant Whence it stood upon the Honour of the Lamb and of his Kingdom for us to be found all clear and perfect through this Pool of Balsoming Blood that throughly Baptizeth all who are in the true Memberhood of his Body November the 28th 1677. A holy and pure Communion and freedom being maintained in a Spiritual way betwixt the Spirit of the Bridegroom and the Spirit that is preparing to be the Bride of the Lamb thus it was manifested by this similitude presenting before my in-seeing Eye a Golden Charger and in it somewhat of a Spirit of an extracted Virtual Matter upon which fell a sparkling Star as from the Invisible Orb and caused the Liquor in the Charger to flame up And I heard presently the Word say Come my Spouse and draw near for here is provided Heavenly Chear Behold the Lord the Spirit is presented here in a Lordly dish wherein the true Body of your Jesus is both tastable and discernible Whosoever of this are able to drink in it will make them Spirits as all burning Flames Upon which great things were further opened in the Magia Line Which could I have but totally acquitted all those motions that concur to sense-awakening I might have given an account of an infinite space into which my Spirit was launching but was driven back by some stirring Essence that would not let my Spirit pass naked and pure in But this Word came tho thou canst not pass now yet thou shalt after thou hast eaten of this Lordly dish Which will turn Nature into Spirit then thou may into the secret ranges of all eternal heights and depths as an Eagle flye and see and know what lies beyond the Starry Sky November the 30th 1677. This divine Speculation which I had begat a mighty Magical drawing into those infinite heights and depths which did but just open upon me but then shut up But my Spirit did make again a fresh onset if by any means I might pass into that profound light Orb according to the Nature of a Spirit For an eccho did cry in me from that Sphere that the holy Trinity was there in the highest dimensions of Glory Which was a sufficient motive to attract my Spirit out of this vile Corporeity from which I found much resistency For I perfectly felt somewhat therefrom did rise that did bind my Spirit I was in great struggle for some hours for the Spirit wrestled for a full Liberty Then came this Word saying By all these Encounters the way will be made Only keep thy course strait on towards the everlasting deep Gate according as ye shall feel the Wind of the Spirit driving thereunto and so wait with it to moâ—e Oh to have a spirit in a Body of Flesh to be as free as a Bird which can when it will fly from his Nest This was to me a new revealed thing by which great discoveries may be made in the invisible Region who have been altogether Strangers to what is transacted there because the sensitive Soul doth claim such a Marriage Union with the Spirit that neither what is present or what is to come must sever them This is the Law of degenerated Nature which lawfully may be broken For the Spirit of the Soul is not for ever to be confined to the soulish depravity when once it comes to know and understand that it is a pure Grain let fall from the Deity into the soulish property Then it will not suffer it self to be imprisoned as under a Mountain-weight No sooner doth it spring and rise above the Ground as an ear of Corn which doth grow ripe but a separation from the earthly part or ground may be made by the mighty Lord of the Harvest who will come to reap where he hath sown pure Spirit And that in the very time of this exteriour Elementary Being Christs Last Day of Resurrection and Ascention shall appear through the Might of this precious Grain of the Deity by which I mean the Eternal Spirit of the inward man which is a Spark descended from the Deity and it differs from the eternal seed of Christ's Deity which is incorporated with this for its Resurrection and Ascension sake This spark of Eternity the Spirit of the eternal Soul belonging to the inward man will free it self from all and every corporeal tye For no â—errestrial Image though accomplished with all external Righteousness can ever attract this superiour spirit to be in a conjugal Union because it is too much below therefore it now seeks release from it as being ashamed of all and every circumstance concurring to the outward Life which would hold it so fast But Wisdom and Counsel is come from him who will be Salvation to the ends of our Earth His Spirit it is that hath called us from the other to an eternal conjunction with that wherewith it might most suitably agree so as to raise and heighten the Spirit to such a high degree of sublime purity as that it might pass as swift as a thought into the deep space where the infinite Globe of Eternity might come to be conspicuous with the glorious Trinity and with all those innumerable Spirits who incompass the Throne-Majesty Such Visions of Glory Spirits have been carried into while in the Body and so it shall come to be again and that more frequently and durably For upon an earnest enquiry hereunto it was revealed unto me by this Word The Way of the East should be prepared and the Gate thereof
should stand open to such as could drink of the Brook in the Way And it was shewn by an Idea also that as yet there was a dark gulf fume from which did rise a thick smoke so that at present none could see their way till the Son of the Everlasting Morning doth wonderfully incorporate with our spirits to dissipate all of this Darkness through which force of Spiritual Might we may often come up to the Antient of Days and draw near and make Record of what we do apparenâ—ly hear from him For the Spirit doth affirm this that sound Truth Wisdom and Knowledge must from hence be let in to our Understandings and it will be much to our satisfaction when we shall hear and see what is without and beyond this gulf of Sense and Reason which have kept out of the Lamb 's fixed Kingdom And what will these storms be but the rushing Powers coming down through the Salvation-Horn which will be blown from God's Mountain-Habitation The sound of which is already heard to hasten for preparation to the Enoch's Translation That we may abstractively in Spirit and through the whirling strong Breath may be lifted up where our King and Lawgiver may deliver his Mind to us as face to face That we may come to know in certainty all those infinite and weighty Councils which have been long in great concealment so as they may run in as a flash of Lightning To which end the Star which I saw fall into the Golden Charger doth predict the high and mutual conjunction betwixt the Body and the Head-Throne-Prince The Vessel being all of pure refined Gold and spiritual matter infused therein together what must this make but a lordly dish for each one to feed upon This Star denominated was to be the Rose of Sharon that to the Spirit would give a pleasant Tincture to make it both white and ruddy Herein lieth the Mystery of all Mysteries according as it was revealed unto me through the virtue of this wonderful Commission This Rosâ—e-Star feeding it self from the matter which is so purely extracted as a Lamp feeds upon Oil and so both concurring makes a burning shining Light a Flame ascending might When this great and marvellous thing shall come by any one to be witnessed there will be no matter of doubt but the Gate of the East must be found at which we may go freely in and out as Princes Having right to follow the Lamb and to eat and drink with him in this lordly dish We shall then as Friends find entrance in where the Tent of his Glory is pitched to see hear and tast what hath been laid up in store for us from the Foundation of the World December the 1st 1677. Strong Instigations and travel in Spirit still attending me for the rising of the Star of glory in Eminency according to all that Prophetical Ministration under which Line we are cast and do find succour thereby through the fresh feeding Word of Life which within the first Watch of the Night thus spake saying The most High and Holy One seeketh and calleth up such to dwell with him in his Holy Tabernacle who have rejected and turned their Backs upon the Seat of the fine trimmed Babylonish Beast and will nothing therewith touch because it is under the Curse against which be ye ever zealous December the 2d 1677. I saw one cloathed in fine White Linnen and he had in his Hand a Censor and there was live Fire-Coals which were scatter'd abroad and it was said that upon whosoever they did light they should be inspired with a New Tongue to declare great things December the 3d. 1677. This Word ministred was Watch and keep the covering of the Spirit close girt about you against all Offences that may come abide still and quiet where the anointed Shield is given for your defence under the Banner of which abide close and hidden Be all pleasing and pliable to your internal Guide who is working to bring you into high and dear Friendship with the great and mighty Potentate to whom all Worlds must give obeysance Therefore only care and mind him who is so true and faithful as to raise and bring you into such Love and Favour that the God of Light may not walk as in a Cloud of Darkness but shew himself manifest to your Joy in peculiarity December the 4th 1677. This Word did spring in me saying Do you well consider what your Virgin Garment must be made of that no Moth may eat any hole in it For if any thing of the earthly Fleece should be interwoven with it it would damage the whole part Therefore all of one sort of fine Linnen let your Lord know you in upon which no Moth can come to eat Then it was further given by way of Command saying If ye resolve to follow the Lamb up to all perfect degrees then observe this as a new Commandment Take your self off from all old traditional Conformity which is after the manner of men who are after the Flesh. From such the Spirit calls to withdraw and to walk with him after another way according as divine Precepts shall be revealed December the 6th 1677. As we were in the Spirit of Supplication attending together a transient view of full ripe Sheaves was presented as a testification that we should bring of the first ripe Fruits as a pure Offering to the Lord according to what hath in the days of our sorrow heaviness and temptation been purely sown in the Spirit But it was also shewn me that this should not be accomplished till we had fulfilled our set-time in the Wilderness For this is an Ordinance that was given by God to Moses while Israel was yet in the Wilderness before they came into the good Land This instruction was for time to come sayingâ— Now behold the first Fruits of the Land which thou hast reaped thou shalt offer unto the Lord thy God So accordingly the first ripe Fruits of the Spirit must be wholly dedicated and brought into the Store-house of the Lord rejoycing and making everlasting melody in the Courts of Holiness as the Joy of Harvest Oh! this is the desirable day but who hath it seen because they have all dyed short before entring into the good and fruitful Land one Generation passing away after another as we have seen it But it is decreed eternally thus to be No assuredly no there is a Generation to come that shall not only sow but reap and pay their Tythe-Offerings to the great Melchizedeck King There is a Caleb and Ioshua who will out-live all the spirits of Unbelief Who have been faithful Spies to search and find out the virtue and glory of Mount Sion's Land Whereupon the Spirit did the History take up and did it mysteriously to our state at present very closely apply As thus that Ioshua and Caleb signified the Unity of the Spirit concurring in a strong Faith the Spirits of our Minds agreeing mutually with the Spirit of
spirited for more wonderful Conquest and so subdue mighty Thrones and Powers in wicked places in the Spirit of him who is the Captain of the Lord's Host hereby to lead captive what hath captivated us And then let us meet our Melchizedeck King with all the Spoil thereof as a Trophy of Victory Who hath ready in his hand the reward of a Diadem and Crown which he hath reserved for such Conquerors This is the great Motive to animate our Spirits that so we might know it is not a light or momentary thing we do fight for but what is weighty and eternal All which is to make us in good earnest according to a Word which through me did sound saying Put not off your Armory that is of the Spirit at all for in that ye will make all Life-killing Darts to rebound back again no Weapon thereinto can pierce And know that in this Holy War my Peace shall be your Garrison Therefore hold out till the Kingdom is given up unto you which hath been kept away and still will be except the Prince of Might shall take it again in you by violence For which cause I am come to stir you up that so what was designed from Everlasting may now be positively claimed by my Spirit in you Know it is all pleasing to your God that ye should be found in such great Undertakings As your Spirit is great and from a high degree descended so answerably do ye aspire for no less then what you believe your Lord through Conquest in possession hath now obtained December the 11th 1677. A Presentation was given me evidently of an enclosed Rock upon which Floods of Waters did break in to quench a Fire that therefrom did spring so as this Fire could not get the mastery till a descending mighty Flame from the light Orb did come down to keep it and to drink up all those Waters which as Wave upon Wave did beat in but so powerful was the Celestial Flame that nothing more of the Floods were seen And there did distinctly appear a Figure and Form of a light flaming Body that did descend and upward again ascend to a Heavenly Firmament where it was said Now all is swallowed up in Victory December the 12th 1677. This Manifestation was very suitably presented to my inward Mind which was drawn up into a deep and serious consideration how long it might be to the full Conquest and Victory over the original Spring of Sin with all the evil Consequences that thereupon have fallen out While my Spirit was herein much exercised this came before me and brought a Message with it for our comfort and support who are enclosed in Faith's Rock which in particular applied and made out to us that the Vision did plainly speak to us Who though gathered into this Rocky place said the Revealing Word yet see ye are exempted from the violation of these tumultuous Waves which at times and seasons may break in upon my precious Ones As in him on whom no matter of Sin could be found yet there Temptations did sometimes abound who was still found in the Rock of the Deity And thereupon told his Disciples that because they had continued with him in his Temptations therefore he would give them a Kingdom because they suffered and were one with him in all Temptations not to fall under them but to get power over them that this gave Title unto the Thrones there mentioned Now from hence it was further opened unto me That the Fire which first sprang out that was so often damped by the Floods and quenched by being too weak to encounter them it was shewn me to be somewhat that remained of a pure and divine Essence that would still live in Nature as for to refine it and reduce it into what might make it like to God again But being so strongly beat upon by the gathering together of all Waters which doth encompass as a full Sâ—a Tide upon Tide still breaking in upon this Fire-Root out of which also would spring the fiery Branches of Faith that would transplant the Soul into a far higher king of living All which is opposed by the â—â—nundation of many Waters in which the great Leviathan moveth which also are the Seat of the Beast that doth make War together against that Holy Seed yet remaining within the Rock of a Heavenly Humanity So that it is in great danger to be often extinguished for here is two contrary Elements the one in strife against the other the boisterous Waters of the Senses awakened from the tempting Region of these various things which do so well suite with fallen Nature that they may well be too hard for that little Spark that striveth to rise but hath been beaten down as we in our selves have witnessed Whereupon we may expect a stronger force will come unto our help seeing such a strong resistancy is made in order to the stifling of that breathing Life which hath struggled to live in dominion and to prevail over all but hitherto yet found insufficient Upon which this Word of Counsel was given from the Holy Breath that we should so powerfully pray in the Spirit of Elias as to open the pure Fire-Element that the Holy Ghost might thence form out a fiery Breath to consume and drink up every Flood For against this strong and mighty devoâ—ring Flame what Waters can stand before it Now wait again to see the same Victory for God will descend in Everlasting Flames and the Bush of Humanity will all certainly be enlightned with his Glory The time of it is said to be nigh when as the Child of the Burning Element will quench all Waters and by his Flaming Might will pass into the Heavens and rend all Mountains of Flâ—sh and will dry up all Seas before him Who now shall have Faith in their Earth for these things to what a Seraphick state may it bring them up unto Therefore let us improve every such discovery and extend our Faith to the great Augmentor of our weak Flame that if possible such an encrease of Celestial Flame may make with us as to dry up all that hath encompassed our Rock It may now be a time and season when that such a bright flaming Body may be of stead unto us which can at pleasure ascend and secure frail Corporeity It may be well worth enquiring after the excellent Properties of such a divine Creature which doth move under the Cherubs Wing where it can pass to and fro unseen Oh let us further dive into this Magia for great advantage may be made for us to raise out here such a defence as may set us above all fear of Mortality in a day when Perils and great dangers are threatned as an overflowing Scourge to break in upon the World It is time for us to know where to hide where no destroyer may find us Which only must be within the Flashing Skreen of the Holy Deity or Trinity where we may walk in all
Dispensation to come that shall answer to the Ierusalem above which is said to come down Here is a Mount Sion Church to be gathered out from among all Churches of Men by the preparing Ministry of an Elias Spirit who is to make ready against the Lord's return from that solemnized Wedding with the present triumphant Church Now what is meant by this Elias Spirit But such a Spirit as hath Power to transform and translate at pleasure This Elias is not an abstracted Ghost but is in Conjunction with a flaming Body of Light This was that which the Apostles eyed much in their Days and had the Revelation thereof but it was reserved for the latter Ages This pure abstracted ghostly Power did come upon them and did great things through their own Bodies but did not work to the height of a ghostly Body for then Mortality would have been over Cloathed with Celestiality Therefore it was reserved for a future Season This Apple is not yet fallen upon any one but is growing to the full golden Colour to give a full Body and Spirit to them For whosoever shall eat of this golden Apple shall be transmuted into a Body as of fine Gold And so who shall first partake hereof the Elias Spirit will soon operate to translate them from terrestial Things Then was this Question with me But who of all Flesh living now shall this great Elias personate Or ever come his Day to see Many various Visions and Prophesies and many Persons tending hereunto have been both in former and present times But oh dearest Lord when and how and upon whom shall this be accomplished seeing all so universally are slow of Heart to believe To know positively I dare not will lest I should grieve the holy Spirit remembring that Rebuke which Christ gave when his Disciples asked Whether he would at that time restore the Kingdom Who did not seem to be pleased that they did urge the thing so closely Which made me sober upon the like occasion though through the Vision and Revelation upon it I had some temptation to encroach upon that which is said to have the Mind of Iesus which had its Times and Seasons which waiting upon great things might be revealed And accordingly this Word in way of Answer sprang freely in me Go your way in that Measure and Portion of Spirit received and wait as Elias under the Iuniper Tree which signifies a Paradisical Preparation from which Tree all sweet Scents do flow as the holy Gusts thereupon do blow Which will send in that which will give a Rich and Pleasant smell to your God in order to somewhat else Oh who but those that are of an Elias Spirit that are weary and do make complaint of their mortal Terrestrial state and would know a Transmutation are fit for this which is here Prophesied of Then again this Word was spoken to me That the great Melchizedeck King who hath charge over the Houshold of Faith doth design before his own personal Manifestation in the World to depute and raise up some who shall be as the Seven principal Shepherds to go forth in the Power and Spirit of Elias to turn the Heart back again of the vagrant lost Prodigal Children to the Father of their eternal Spirits and thereby to reconcile the two different Principles That the Enochian state may be revived for a free walking with God by the Light of the one eternal Day to pass in and out not making reflect on upon this course material Body being supernaturally Cloathed upon with that which giveth holy Boldness to appear in that most pure Sphere Thus the Enoch and Elias Spirit are to arise upon some who will mutually together agree to break through this vile Principle though it be with Mountains rending and with Rocks breaking and Earth quakings All which make way for the dividing from that low terrestial state to incorporate with the very Body of God As to this query The Spirit hath only to say further thus Do not you put far away this Day through Fear and Unbelief but turn into the mystical Paradise and under the Iuniper Tree bemoan your disappeared Virgin Bodies which sweet unknown Solitude attend for its Restoration While you abide here the Angelical Powers shall minister spiritual Fare to strengthen you for what is further to be accomplished by you If you will hereunto fixedly wait then also given may be the deep magical Book in which Wisdoms Spirit will make you Skilful in the circling Planets appertaining to that invisible Element which governeth all belonging to the New Ierusalem with all its Inhabitants there Now then as any shall desire in Enoch's and Elias's Spirit to break away from this terrestial Globe let them faithfully Obey this deep Revelation â— with the Councel hereunto annexed April the 10th 1677. As I was in my Bed contemplating the unknown and invisible Orb of Glory longing for a Body with which I might have entrance thereinto While I was thus deeply mufing there first appeared to me a bright Cloud which gathered it self into a round Compass then it opened into various Colours wonderful Splendorous with numerous Stars which were only discernible as they did not so visibly appear because the brightness did overcloud them In the midst of this did suddainly break forth somewhat like the Figure of an Eye which did look terrible piercing through all with flaming Streams round it which were transcendently glorious Upon which I could not stedfastly look till I had closed my mortal Eyes which then for some space of time I did behold and then it vanished in the twink of an Eye then opening to see whether I could bear the glory of it it did retire out of sight with this Word What Flesh can live in this refining Element Then answered my Spirit True O Lord therefore the destruction of it I would see that I may come to live with thee in these New Heavens Why dearest Lord is this Crystalline Orb of Light let down only for view If we may not partake something of the Nature of it How is it that we have been so long lodged out of the sight of thee in this remote Principle if it must still be how can this vile Terrestial state be grateful to Spirits who did pre-exist in thee before all Worlds coming now to understand what is their true Eternal Dignity to live in such lucified Bodies free and unclogged of Corporeity After I had thus presented our deplorable Condition through the sight and sence of what was in the Idea of my Spirit I could not but move this Question to my Sovereign Creator Why such a pure Spirit generated out of the highest and super excellent Matter should unite with such course mean Corporal Forms acted by a mortal sensual rational Soul that governed it by the Starry Region To this deep Question the Spirit gave this Aaswer readily That the Immense Deity did hereby prepare high and worthy Ends in sowing pure Spirit into
no other Medicine here prescribed for it but to wash often in those clear and pure Waters which do run from the Crystal Throne into one Pool This doing day by day minding when those Crystal Springs do bubble highest the strong force of which doth wash off the rough scales of Sense Then shall we become all seeing into what is both near and afar off as to the working of the divine Mystery This word of Counsel was also added that whoever did seek this great gift to know the Divine Magia in its Eternal Motion they taken up will be like Enoch to walk with God from among Men in an unknown Region where no evil Wind or corrupt Air may blow upon them These great and weighty Crown-Jewels which for the last Age are reserved will be conferred upon such separated Nazarites whose Walks and Conversations are in the Immanuel where the Vail and Face of the Covering will be done away when no need there will be of crying Come up and see for in the very Eye of Light we then shall comprehend and all Invisible things shall stand as naked before us But oh thou Lamb of God when shall thy Hand of Might be stretched out to bring these mighty things to pass for any one December the 8th 1677. This Word visited me saying How great is the goodness that is treasured up for those that love and long for the mighty God and the everlasting Saviour Dress therefore and trim your selves every day for your Bridegroom who doth take great pleasure when he finds you all comely and sitting at the deep Manifestation Gate Oh sweet Jesus if thou wilt this Gate open and give us out from thence thy Loves we will not remove because of the sweet and pleasant savour that from thee doth issue forth Oh come with all pulling force that as a bright Cloud we may be of a dissolving Nature for all Love's impressions from thee and that so we may see our selves one with thy Celestial Nature unchangeably December the 9th 1677. In the Night I had hard wrestling with somewhat which had brought an overcast of gloominess upon my Heavens which I could not well bear but did row as against Wind and Tide to get out of the danger of those Floods that did violently break in And through earnest and strong Supplications I was heard in that I fear'd For my Jesus to my aid did come in and in truth made all miraculously to be still within me and did charge with great authority all those troublers of my Joy and Peace to depart saying Who is it that hath any thing to do here where my living Name is engraven Have not I chosen thee for my own purpose What then do mean these strange Injections here to throng Fly O ye dark Clouds from my habitation for I will dwell in all Light with my separated Spouse who hath Covenanted within the Circle of a Love-flaming Heart still to wait for me her Lord. Accordingly so soon as I could thereinto retire a mighty sweet transfusion of Light did every where about me meet And this did verily usher in the whole influencing Body of the Trinity I was never made more internally sensible of their environing and out-spreading Banner which as in a moment was stretched out to secure me from the Waters which the Spiritual Harlot sitteth upon and that in and very near us For the Seat of all these whirling Imaginations are shewn me not only to be as an Accident now and then happening but this adulterous Spirit claims and would have a fixed Seat in the Mind and therein bring all her worldly Sorceries to infect the mind and betray it into the gulf of Perdition Which was prevented and kept off by the suddain and secret introducing Power of the Trinity that encompass those who are in fear of such overflowing from these bitter and brackish Waters For this I may give as a known experience and write upon it probatum est that we at no time are now necessarily exposed to be overcome with any evil of Sin though it lurks and beleagers very close For strong and mighty is now the Spirit of the Lamb who is assigned to come in for our rescue Therefore if we do earnestly implore for the Captain of the Lord's Hosts who is to deliver his Lambs from the Mouth of the Lyon that roareth for his Prey upon immortal Souls they will be delivered This often witnessed hath been that we might not cowardly fall under the Hand of the Man of Sin For this Word was given while I was in spiritual Combate Hold out for Victory I am your Life-guard and ye shall never perish out of my Hand There is nothing sure more pleasing then to see the Enemy of Truth and Righteousness so worsted and kept under Ground that he may lift up his Head no more within your Tent. Where then like Iael thou shalt be called Blessed of Women that art so skilful as to smite Sisera to the Ground never more to rise again There is a Nail within thy Tent which thou shalt be taught how to use it that so the full Execution may be upon the troubler of Israel by the united force of Barak and Iael together Barak signifies Jesus Christ the Prince of strength valour and might that makes Sisera to fly into that Tent where the Nail by Wisdom's Hand will surely be fastened Then not only the Song of Deborah but of the Bride and the Lamb will be sung When thus overturned shall be the whole Principality of Sisera's Kingdom that so nothing of his Seat and Throne within us may be found This for us the Lord is now doing and it is marvellous in our Eyes Being we are called out to be Followers of the Lamb in spiritual War till all shall bow and fall down dead before us that hath contradicted the absolute Reign of Jesus in us Let us go forth in that mighty JAH that is with us who will make all Kings and Nations to tremble before us as we shall move forward in that power Who hath promised that yet in the Wilderness we shall be secured till the mighty Prince thereout shall go before us as the CYRVS which shall perform all those great things promised concerning the bringing in and establishing of the everlasting Kingdom Which the Holy Ones hath so long kept out in waiting for this Man of Spiritual Might to go forth for the recovery hereof For hitherto little hath been done as to a full and total Conquest over those great potent Powers of Darkness that have withstood Michael and his Followers But this Word was given me That though it hath been so permitted yet now the Day of the Lord's controversie for full Vengeance was near upon those secret and home-bred Enemies of all Righteousness Therefore according to our present Might we should strike the Nail into the Head of the Sisera And this will give such a proof of divine valour to our God that we shall be