for certain is the only thing that will bring the long expected Redemption to its finishing End § 46. After which as from a New Gust the Eternal Word open'd it self Expresly in my Heart's Center informing and declaring the High Prerogative of such a Spirit in whom the Power of Transmutation did lie For in whom ever this comes to be witnessed it is no less then the Seed of the Trinity retained in the pure Matrix of the Virgin Wisdom which driveth forth till it cometh into Transubstantiation Nothing goeth beyond this for as much as it is the Beginning Strength Might and Excellency of the Father of all Spirits who generateth in Nature this High Birth of Power the true Heir of Faith as it did appear in the Immaculate JESVS How great is this Secret and to whom hath it been Revealed or who hath found this Wonderful Stone True it is that in all Ages it hath had its Seekers but none have digged deep enough for it Every Arm for these many Hundred Years hath been too short to reach it Now unto thee who art duly upon the Inquiry and watching for the highly precious Gate to open while thou art knowing in thy self the Invalidity of all other foregoing Births and Powers that yet have been rested upon as if this had been attained to which thou art now pressing to find within the Borders of Immanuel where the Seven Baptizing Pools are to be passed through before this Transmuting Stone comes to its perfection of Colour And though several of them thou hast been plunged into yet know this that there remain Three Which were shewn me to be Blood Oil and Fire The Four that I had passed through were first the Pool of Conviction secondly Repentance thirdly Renovation fourthly passing my Spirit over by pure Dedication By all which I was made meet to enter upon the last Three Baptisms which would finish the whole Mystery of the Incarnation The Bloody Pool is the Dying with JESUS the Offering up thy self through his Spirit to which end the many Lives are to suffer Death without pity or sparing any one of them as they were allied and in concord with the sensitive Root from whence they all do spring haply thou mayest believe thy self to have pass'd through every Death I grant that thou hast done so in thy Will yet art thou not come to an actual open and Triumphant shew hereof perfectly so expiring as to a Total giving up the Ghost of that Birth which was out of the Womb of that which was from the Earth earthly and into which it must be again delivered up through Death Now no more would I have thee to draw any Breath of Life from that Principle which is the Gulf of Seperation but to pass undauntedly through this Pool of Blood which is the Fifth Cirling Pool that surrounds that Wonderful Tree of Faith and Life which thou hast seen § 47. Now having after some Years pressing forward since this last Manifestation passed through these Deaths in a good Degree as hath been witnessed the Lamb having been slain in me gives a Resurrection of a New Life which standeth clearly out of all that is of the Out-Birth and that consisteth of the Astral Reason and Animal Sense which the being dead to gains the wonderful Conquest that maketh way for the being plunged into the Pool of Oil. Which Oil is the Matter and Essence from which the Holy Ghost doth spring Then passing from this to the Pool of Fire which also opens it self from this being a Fiery Seed from the Deity and so coagulating together it makes up a Deified Body which only can be capable to live in the Supercelestial Air of the One Element This we may entitle the Divine Magical Body whose Motions and Operations are all subsisting going forth in pure Acts of Faith For that is the Life that the Risen in Christ are called to to live by alone for as much as by this they are always ascending above the Earth as if they had no more to do with it bringing down by Faith all needful Things out of the Store-house of Heaven while yet they are in Bodies Terrestrial Our Spiritual Merchandizing is only to be upon the Fruits of Faith's Tree which will bring in both for Food and Cloathing abundantly while there is need for it But there is an Age coming as this Tree of Faith grows up in Persons in their inward ground to its full ripeness when the Fruit being eaten thereof Magically will Transfigure the very Elementary Body and give it a Radical Ruby Glory so that Mortality shall be hid in Immortality which is the Garment that may last the Thousand Years Reign of CHRIST and may be said to be the First Resurrection Body whereby Death shall be swallowed up All this will be effected by the Mighty Operation of Faith which subdueth all things to it self and changeth this visible Body into the Likeness of the Glorious Body of our Lord JESUS For when this Faith shall be wrought up to its highest Perfection it will be such a Prospective-Glass through which the Glorified Person of our Lord and the Father in him with the Virgin Wisdom and all the Saints shall so appear before the Spirit 's Eye that according as it is written beholding the Glory of the Lord as in Glass we shall be changed from Glory to Glory for when we see him we shall be made like unto him Thus hath it been shewn to me what the wonderful Effects of Faith shall do in its Time and Age. But it may be said who shall live such an Age as this to see To which I Answer though this be Prophesied in me yet it is not Determinated whether as to my own Particular I may it in my Age of Time see For I rather think that I may pass into Faith's Mystery where with the High VVorthies of Faith who died in the Faith not having received the Promise but seeing it afar off rejoyced in Spirit as I do hoping that others in the succeeding Age or Ages may this Transformation of Bodies know which Joy will be so to me when I into the Heavenly World translated shall be having put on Glorification which I do now already see my Superior Angel in the Mount Sion Kingdom cloathed withal in which my Rest and Satisfaction in assurance hereof do remain not knowing whether it may not be my Lot with the Elders and Worthies of the Faith to descend with CHRIST again upon the Earth to Reign The 4th of January 169 A Continuation of what further hereupon followed § 48. THis divine Opening was with me holding me in converse for some Hours in my Spirit saying Though the staff of Time for an expected deliverance seemeth to be broke yet cast not off the work you are called to abide and stand together in and understand it is the prerogative of God to change Times and Seasons who under no bounds of Time will be that his depending Creatures may
THE TREE of FAITH OR The Tree of Life Springing up in the Paradise of GOD From which All the Wonders of the New Creation in the Virgin Church of the First-born of Wisdom must proceed By J. Lead Matth. 13.32 It is the Least of all Seeds but when it is grown it is the Greatest of Herbs and becometh a TREE LONDON Printed and Sold by J. Bradford in Jewen-Street near Crowder's-Well 1696. TO THE READER HAving given an Account of the Confusion of the Babylonish Forms being rejected by the Head Shepherd from whom an Angel is gone forth that hath sounded the Trumpet to proclaim That all Formal Worships set up by Man and constituted by Rational Inventions as a Shadow must pass away For nothing in this Day shall stand but the Power and Spirit of the Lamb that will cast up his Church into no other Mold but that in which he himself in his Resurrection-State did Appear So that the Gathering together of his Flocks from all Parts shall be for the making up this Resurrection Church as New born into the Faith For which Reason I have here superadded a Manifestation which some Years since was given me which I judge may now be of as General Vse to make Publick as it was first for my own Particular Information and Instruction whence it was never design'd to see the Light But seeing that this Church that hath been describ'd by the Spirit of Christ is to consist of the Branches of Faith growing up from the Root and Stock of Abraham it was found very Expedient that this should follow the foregoing Treatise Because the New Creation which is to be brought forth must have their Consistency of Life by the Faith of the Son of God that as he was in this World so may also his Bride and Spouse be acting in the Holy Ghostly Property to do the Wonders which the Last Age of the World is to produce For it is expected that mighty Deeds and Works shall be wrought by this New Risen Virgin Church such as have and such as never have been For the Patriarchs Prophets and most highly Spirited in the Faith and Love Power and Purity shall again descend to assume Persons that are of this Resurrection Life so to do all the Worthy Exploits according to the Lot in which each Antient Saint did stand All which shall be renewed again for the state of the Prophesies relating to Christ's thousand Years Reign which will overspread the Earth with the Kingly Prophetical and Priestly Train I had some thoughts of Obliterating the beginning of this little Treatise being only a Private Recollection of my Spiritual Travels which I have used to make from Year to Year but I quickly check'd my self herein for that it was mov'd upon me that it might be Vseful and Beneficial to some Souls and for a Pattern to excite them to the Recollection Wherefore I resolved to let it go without any Alteration according to its full and Genuine Sense J. L. THE Tree of Faith c. § 1. BEing come to the Conclusion of this Year 1686. recollecting and making Observation from one New-Year to another of what hath passed both in reference to the Internal Attainments Growths and Degrees arrived to in Spirituals and what hath happened by special Providence concerning the outward Bodily Man both which I have for some Years kept a Memorandum of for my own private satisfaction taking special notice how the Work of God hath gone on in order to the perfecting of what my Soul hath been these many Years in great travail for but in special for what hath been in sight and view through the Spirit of Prophecy declared unto me since 1670. in the which Year and so forward on to this time entring upon this New Year I have found the working Wheel from the strong Hand of the Most High and have driven hard on for the bringing back of my Soul into Eternal and pure Nature's Originalty again the which to be plain is no less then to be Born again into another World where this visible Birth in Sin with its world is as forgotten and shut out no otherwise remembred but to give occasion of the greatest Wonder and admiration of that great and infinite goodness that hath unfettered and set the Soul free to be born into a divine and spiritual Body so to dwell and inhabit in the high and heavenly World where my Correspondency hath been maintained much since the Year 70. gaining Year by Year some increase and higher degree of Wisdom and Understanding in the secret Mysteries of Eternity as to what doth lie hidden there which through our abstraction of Mind and watchful Attendance in new Varieties from that World do present themselves § 2. Now as to this last past Year many have been my Internal provings and secret Combates that have followed me hard to shake my Faith as to the great and wonderful Revolutions relating to the accomplishment of a full and perfect Redeemed State among Mortals here to be seen and known in order to which I have been followed with renewed Predictions and Promises for the keeping up and open the Springs of Faith which otherwise would have been stopped therefore I must proclaim the goodness of God who hath kept the stock of Faith going on in me for the hopeful consummating of what is yet behind which are great and weighty things worth waiting upon which if succesfully I may attain will quit all suffering loss of what ever can be called Earthly and Terrene in sensible things which are of this World only among Mortals seen from all which I have been much called from as finding every Year hath renewed upon me great abatements and weariness of Life and Love to all perishable things A good reason there is why because the Heavens do before me open stand by which my Mind and Spirit is so well entertained by the Objects there seen with all substantial Varieties that I need not care any more to look out for these § 3. When at any time drawn and pluck'd away I am by strong motives from this World then great Wo Pain and Trouble do me possess for so it is when at any time I am out of the Heavenly Places where now only my Life doth lie within that secret Cabinet of Eternity preferring that as my chief and only Excellency So I resolve to go forward by the Power of the Most High this ensuing Year for what of this kind may multiply and prosper in my Hand mightily For the which all care and strict Watch I see must be that so I may not overslip my Day acting accordingly as Power doth move and rise the which is to be attended upon Day by Day as God shall clear up the way otherwise all Attempts are but in vain which set upon may be as I have proved by what hath been undertaken contrary to this all high and approving Eye Therefore Wisdom doth me teach in a passive brokenness of Will
to stand till my God shall come forth with the Express Word of Command that so the Heavenly Plantation may go on and nothing it withstand for lets and interposings have got in as I have from Year to Year seen and will be still I do find until the Spirit of Faith do get the upper-hand which in God the driver on is to be that so the long set back Work in Pentecost Day may after so many Years delay come forward once again For the which I have been a private and earnest waiter and diligent seeker where ever I might find Spirits that hereunto were inclined to wait in a pure Temple-mind unitedly for the great Dowry of the Holy Power again to rise but to this Day a scattering and dividing among the Holy People hath been who hitherto are scared and affrighted away from each other upon poor low and worldly Circumstances so as no Body of Saints can yet get together The which hath been very grievous unto me carrying a secret Sorrow and Mourning in my Soul here for I having according to the power given me made offers here and there but oh how little hath this Call been understood No not even by those who might become of the high and holy waiting Disciplehood so as that upon this account in long-suffering I have been looking this way and that way for the most holy Wind to blow some one or other in for a beginning into this great and Spiritual Gathering § 4. I have often seen my own Angel Spirit fluttering to and fro from Plant to Plant and so on to each Lebanon-Tree to find where the Eagle-Body might make her Nest her Young there 〈◊〉 Hatch and Brood in safety from the ravenous Birds of Prey but no sooner was I here alighted after many a long Flight but the flying Serpent hath with great sury come forth to prevent and demolish what was prepared for this intent and so hath often permitted been hitherto to keep off a selected gathering as a Heaven-Born Society which by coming together may make up the holy Priestly Body whom God may give witness unto by pitching with them his Tabernacle-Presence in great Power and Glory O for this how hath my Soul and Spirit been carried forth to seek and wait upon it and still must it pursue till my God shall it fulfil as decreed it is in his Will § 5. Now as to what hath passed this present Year relating to the outward Being with all Circumstances thereunto relating it hath been very considerable and worth taking notice of Wherein my God hath appeared greatly for my support answering all Bodily Necessities which hath been brought in by a signal Hand of renewed Providence as occasion hath required Although great plunges and difficulties with Temptations thereupon attending for my proving did meet upon me for the tryal of my Faith Which the Power of the Most High did still maintain and uphold invisibly and thereby brought me forth out of all most victoriously My Tribulations and Distresses were known to God only For I saw it in vain to complain to any Creaturely Being but still in all I did apply my self to that Name Great JEHOVAH whom I found a Refuge at all times very nigh procuring deliverance oft-times unexpectedly For the which great goodness from my God thus by me proved I have so much to say and make mention of by way of thankfulness and praise that the number of Times and Days are far too little to rehearse and proclaim the Bounteousness of this great Love that hath thus minded me in a desolate Widowhood state But what I may be short of in Time let Eternity while in Time and out and beyond all time for ever celebrate one Everlasting Sabbath of Laud with pure and powerful Praises to thee oh Holy Holy Holy Infinite Almighty whom my Soul doth so greatly adore that Silence must speak much more with a Life that must excel both § 6. Now waiting still upon thee O God for what may further produce this Approaching Year in order to the accomplishment of what hath been the main drift and whole Scope of my Life's attendency since the unsealing of the Heavenly Mystery By which the obligation hath pressed in so deep upon me that hath made me to relinquish all impeding Multiplicities which possiby I could wind my self off from that so I might follow on in pure Heart Spiritual-mindedness that so I might be a partaker and a possessor of what is to follow as hath been accordingly made known through the Spirit of Revelation unto me which have raised all the powers and forces of my Soul for the giving up it self to this high and heavenly Calling which is the Holy Profession of Faith which now my Life that I am henceforth to live must wholly consist of for so my Lord hath averred and established his Word renewedly unto me § 7. The Spirit doth hard upon me for this ply declaring unto me that upon Faith's bottom I must stand and go forward on all steadily the Work is great which I do stand chargable withal for the which oh God my own strength is but small therefore to thy Omnipotency I do call for that must be my all in all to make me a Practitioner in this high and Heavenly Calling The Matter which I have to work upon is only from that Word of Faith which did create all Worlds the which doth greatly support and satisfie and support me as a stock of strength and power that will carry on to Victory keeping my Eye always staid hereupon as the Priestly Portion which is set out for me who no Propriety have among the Tribes whose Inheritances are of another kind and therefore the Lord will still my Portion be in full for all things that shall needful be The Vision of the Tree § 8. Now in order to this there was shewn to me a Tree that should all suddenly spring up in me which spread forth its Branches for increase and fruitfulness and that no dependency would have upon any other Tree but it self Which was intituled to me to be Faith's Tree on which without fear the Eagle-Bird may build her Nest and not be disturbed while she is hatching her most holy Priestly Brood who from the Fruits of this Tree are to be fed and nourished till unto such strength arrived as to take their flight transcendently up unto their own Priestly Thrones near to CHRIST their Priestly Head there to meet that Company which of their own Royal sort and kind in sacred and pure White Robes all cloathed are So that here a mutual fellowship betwixt the lower and higher Worlds all agreeably will be which is the great Wonder that in the Heavens hath lately been opened to me not for Speculation only but for Provocation to set upon this Work with such as shall hereunto added unto me be For the which a pure bright attractive Eye is gone forth to fetch in such as are numbred to stand with
renew Incorruption where the Selfhood of Corruption hath so long reigned for my Lord hath said this to me in solemn Verity henceforth therefore I see what it is which must be dismissed before ever I can come to say God is in the Act of a continued flowing Spring from the Express Deity passing through the Image of the Anointed Christ into me distinct from all Creaturely Images that are raised otherwise in the Mind § 27. This is the summity of the Everlasting Gospel that some Angels who thus qualified are shall as flying Messengers from the Heavens declare Then said my Spirit which was taken up into the Lord Oh who and where are the Angels of the Power that have prepared their Trumpets to sound no Tidings of them yet can be heard No said my Inspeaker they have not yet acquitted their Earthly Tombs nor put on their Resurrection Bodies that so they may have boldness to be witness-bearers to this Gospel-Revelation which yet to very few is made known and but darkly understood because there hath not been Credit given to that still Way of the Holy Spirit 's infusion and dictation which requires great heedfulness and an interiour watchfulness within the Mind at all times § 28. While thus I was entertain'd with a pleasant Internal Conference in the Spirit with my Lord I moved on the behalf of a Person Whether or no he might not be designed to go forth in this Everlasting Gospel-Message as having been a waiter with me for this And it was Answer'd me It might be his Lot if he could fix to it and observe the Method and Rules now given not digressing or dividing in his Mind but sticking close to the One Thing as gained to it he hath been for the Ministry of the Spirit was a very nice and pure thing that did require extraordinarily qualified Persons to speak God forth therein for if any thing of Self-hood should entervene it would quench the fiery Lamp of the Spirit and make it burn weak and dim This is caution for my self and Friend and such also who do separate themselves to this end to build up an Holy Priesthood and Tabernacle in which the Holy Ghost may come to Evangelize with a new Spring which will work away the pudled Matter of every Selfish born thing that hinders the Live Coal of the Spirit from Burning § 29. Then was I minded also of our Nazarite Vow whether or no we had kept to it for default herein found might keep back the Crown of Anointing which is and ever will be the true Mark and Character of Christ's anointed and most Holy Priests who are called within the Vail of the most Holy Place ever to attend There is no going out to pollute our selves with dead and unprofitable things as we would succeed and prosper in this High and Honourable Profession of Faith which by holding fast to my Lord hath it verified we shall become his anointed Priests and Kings being impowered to work the New Creation-Wonders according to the Holy Ghost's pure Act and Will in us § 30. This is the great encouraging Motive which the High Throne and Kingly Priest doth set before us to enkindle fresh Love and Zeal to compleat what lieth yet imperfected in the Ground-work in us for further purification so as passing through to the very root Essence of the Soul by the Hand of the Separator whose Love Fire it is that cleareth the morsy rough Metal from the Golden Ore that lieth so deeply hid which O God is that we would no longer be at a loss by seeking for and not finding But through the lustre of thy shine and Glory We in our selves this Golden Deep may find Still Watching to the Furnace of our Mind July the 26th § 31. THe Eternal Word did open it self thus in me how that the Spirit from this Word of Life had at sundry times and diversly by Vision and Prophecy been opening the Mystery of Faith unto me for the end that I might a skilful Practitioner in it come to be and now again a Live Coal was put into my Hand with an inspiring Breath that I did feel as Wind did blow upon it while I held it in my Hand so as that many Sparks were blown from it Which observing and inquiring into it was revealed that those Sparks were the Seeds of Faith that had been already in me sown which had for several Years been putting forth only as Sparks but the Live Coal it self which is the Root and Body of the Sparks of Faith had not till now been given the Power Nature and Quality of which I should well understand for it was designed I should still carry it in my Hand to go forth to touch such as called and chosen aâ—â— to wait and live with me in Love's Burning-Bush being thereto invited with my fellow Believers hitherto to turn in for out of this Flaming Body the Wonders of Faith should evidently be seen § 32. And it was further denoted unto my Intellectual Mind that God is upon Spiriting some in special to be as Moses and Elijah to act in the Spirit of Faith to deliver as Moses did God's Israel out of the servitude of the oppressing Pharaoh Whose Spirit in this day doth trouble molest usurp oppress and trample down the Holy People and no deliverance there will be till the lifted up Standard of Faith's Power shall into the Hand of some be put who set apart are to go forth in the Power and Spirit of Elijah The which Manifestation of Faith is to be set afoot and revived now in this present time for which purpose the Revelation of it is renewed § 33. The mighty Powers from the Heavens do in me râ—â—â— with the mild and sweet yeâ— thunder Cries which from the Heavens I do hear to call and gather in the dispersed of the Dove Flock who in Thrall and Bondage have all their days been locked up that now into Faith's School they may come there to be taught the true Antient and Eternal Freedom Of the which I shall as I my self have been taught by the great Master of this Divine Mystery somewhat thereof declare from that Scripture which was brought and opened unto me Gal. 4.22 23 24 25. For being all included under Sin this brings cursed Miseries as Cares Toils Sorrows Fears Distresses in Mind and upon the Soul's account also Clouds Doubts and Anxeities So that both inwardly and outwardly here is a sunk deplorable Case and what must relieve and redress and redeem Souls out of all these Evils but Christ who is the saving Ark of Faith giving himself to such as can receive him to be the Body in which the Live Coal of Faith by its Heat produceth vigorons Acts of Faith Now before this Faith is received or Christ who is the Power and Spring of this Faith we who were as the Scripture saith under the Law Under what Law even that Law of an Earthly carnal Sense that is ever more
never be off on their Knees as to Prayer and watchfulness Then after some large Conference with the Spirit which cannot be brought forth in words There was presented to me in sight a wonderful great Wheel which seemed to spread over the whole Earth the Colour was as a Ruby-Red and it was full of Eyes round the circle of it very piercing Then it was said to me This presents God the Almighty working Wheel of which there is no beginning or end so I saw a living Spirit moving in the Wheel hoisted up as between the Heavens and the Earth then saw I four small Wheels descend out of this one of the same colour and had Eyes also then I enquired Ah Lord tell me what this meaneth And it was answered These are the Charriot-Powers which pass through all things in Centers high and Centers low and to whom these Wheels shall be joined unto they only shall be able to act the great Wonders of time then saw I where they descended and rested for a while and then they went forth and were lifted up by the great Wheel which as a Loadstone drew them up and my Spirit was presently gone to them and presently the Angelical Center stood open and from thence my Spirit was carried by these Wheels into the Apostles Center then into the Son's Center then into the Father's deepest deep of all Centers where I was to center and abide till the Wheels went forth then my Spirit should go with them who would be Eyes to see what way and whither my Spirit was to go do and act for it was said to me Now no Creaturely Will can move here for the Holy Spirit assumeth all Will Power and Act here and then no defeat is to the high holy pure Enterprize which you together in the Faith and Love co-working with these Wheels it shall be as the spreading of the Net aright and casting it to the taking of a worthy and rich Prize so go forward on and prosper February 10. 1694. § 49. This Morning the Vision of the Four Wheels appeared again which moved in the Four Elements each one being carried upward by a Spirit that was as a bright Flash of Lightning The which considering in my Mind with an inquiry hereupon made it was told me That they did represent the working Wheels of Nature that the All-powerful Spirit doth drive upward to reach the One Eternal Element which being touched with it would penetrate through the whole Bodily Man that was made up of the Four Elements Then did I see these Four Elements expire into one great terrible Flaming Wheel that spread it self over the whole Heavens and in the middle of the VVheel there were Seven Eyes § 50. Which I waiting upon was thus opened to me that the gross Earthly Part in the nature of the Four Elements should by the Spirit of Christ who took upon him the Elementary Body so come into ours as to wind them up by a strong Circling Motion as every Part may be so touched as to be tinged with and to partake of the Superiour Properties and Powers of this pure and unmixed Element and so be swallowed up in this Great Governing Wheel that ruleth over all the lower Wheels with all the Planets which thereto do coagulare and work For all by Outward Nature are under their Power and Empire till got free by ascending up to this upper ruling Wheel with its Seven Eyes Concerning which it was told me that they were the Seven Supercelestial Planets or Constellations that did govern and controll all in this lower World and its Planets This is that which will reach to Redemption of the Body § 51. Much more the Spirit of my Lord discoursed me upon this Matter which must be concealed till my Outward Elementary Wheels shall fully expire into the upper and superiour Wheel Only this I may declare for the present time that the upper Flaming Wheel with its Seven Eyes as a Loadstone is drawing mightily some known to me that have been touched therewith And it will not rest in its wheeling Motion till they shall be as to their weak Elementary Life changed into the One Superiour Element whereby the Heavenly Constellations shall predominate over all of these outward Ones which hitherto have reigned over the Elementary Part that yet lieth Unredeemed February the 12th § 52. This Day being much drawn inward in the Spirit of my Mind this word met me Arise and ride upon the Mule of Faith stand over all that is Elementary There is a Thing to be done by some that in the Crown Number do stand who shall the Land of Havilah command but Abraham's High Faith for this must spring February the 14th § 53. VVhile I was in a deep Introversion about this Matter this Word spake in me saying There is a Birth that is upon breaking forth that shall bring the Blessing of mighty Increase to present and succeeding Generations Sarah in her Old Age is near her time of bringing forth the Heir who must possess the good things of the Upper and Neather World Understand thou then what this meaneth the Old Age is an arrivement unto the Mystery of Faith Now excite thou those that are of Good will to encourage themselves with the Hope this good Old Age to see as mighty Hero's in this Faith that so ye may bring forth the Blessing to the weary and oppressed Gird up I say and take heed ye do not falter or turn out of Faith's way then shall ye bring forth a Nation as in One Day § 54. Now as some of us were hereupon waiting together and while one was in Prayer there appeared this Vision from the Light World From the which the Virgin descended and met an ascending Spirit that was pressing and expecting to come up to the Mount Sion Orb unto the Glorious Lord. But there was a stop by the Descent of the Virgin of that Orb who appeared to us in great splendour and congratulated us saying Thus I know whereto ye would in your Spirits have arrived but I am come from your Lord to make known the Thing which ye have long been in travail for And now I do appear to you for this purpose that you may be overshadowed with my Virgin Nature which may be the Womb all sanctified for the conceiving of the Holy Ghost which will be the Lordly Birth in Spirit And as he was brought forth in the Fulness of Time by a single Personal Virgin so now in Plurality in Virgin Spirits to multiply upon the Earth that so Evil Births may sink and dye as these Virgin Births shall rise And therefore to you who in holy Dedication are this Counsel is given Observe from this Day how this Birth in you shall go forward on and therefore watchful each one of you be And after this Saying she cast a wonderful bright shining Ray of Glory as we were sitting together upon each of us § 55. Now at her first Appearance St.
entertained by these Magi to whose Care by the great Shepherd of this Fold we were committed Who were to usher us back to the Ark to bring in others and transport them hither Which accordingly was done § 8. After which it was said to me this Ark doth represent the Body of Faith of which the Lord Christ is the Head of whom the Church that is to be gathered into this is the Bride the Lamb's Wife Then did it float and fly with great force with outspread Banners and a mighty Angel that was in it did sound forth his Trumpet that all that would come out of the Babylonish Confusion should admittance have At this Alarm came divers in the mighty Spirit of Cyrus resting upon some the Spirit of Elijah upon others of Nehemiah and Zorobabel upon a third sort of Gideon Barak and Deborah upon others of Miriam Huldah Dorcas and Lydia upon some of Titus and Omesimus upon others with the beloved Mary Martha and Hephzibah with numerous others both Males and Females that were unknown of this and other Nations For they flocked from the utmost Parts of the Earth as Doves to the Windows of this Ark having heard the report of this Good Land from those who had been sent thither as Spies to seek it out And when thus the Ark was filled it was by a Principal Angel sitting at this Helm Steered to this Paradisical Land where they were Landed with a joyful greeting and had all their Tents here prepared for them this being said to be the Plantation for the Virgin Philadelphian Church which has in former Treatise been Desoribed § 9. And upon an Inquiry made whether all were now Landed It was by the Spirit of Wisdom answered No For that the Ark was not to rest but to Fly and Float for more to be gathered in till the Full Body of the First Resurrection state was compleated and brought hither to put on their Immortal Robes for the Triumphant Consummation of the Marriage of the New Jerusalem Bride This is a wonderful Mystery which in its Fulfilling Day will better be understood for which we are to wait in great clarity of Mind and sanctity of Heart in pure and perfect Dedication and Seperation from all that is gross and vulgar for that none else can have admittance into this Holy Ark but such as are fully and wholly Purified by Faith February the 20th § 10. Here I thought to have stopped as not knowing there should be any further Addition from the Spirit of my Lord but the next Morning February 20. all was opened to me again the Ark descending and a Commission given from the Lord to the Beloved John to steer it with some Few Names born into the Love and Practicioners of the High Mystery of Faith who were here with him to abide and as Heraulds to Proclaim the Love-Message and to call in such as were willing upon the Report made concerning this New found Paradisical Land to leave the Land of the Curse and to wind themselves out of the Sensitive Principle so as to be Disciplined into the Faith So accordingly as Report was made by these Persons of what they had seen in this New Paradisical Country the strength and power of Faith and Love did so manifestly appear and give such a Witness in those that were in this Ark that they did attract many from all Parts And when the appointed number was fulfilled the beloved Great Apostle spread out the Wings of the Ark in which were fixed the piercing Eyes that did see the way by which they were to move till they came to this goodly Land who then delivered up his Charge to the Princess and Governess of this Land Who received all out here with an amiable Reception telling them this Climate was of a Transmuting Property which would put another kind of Body upon them that should be of such Agility Purity and Clarity as the Old Body should in all its Infirmities be swallowed up into this Then was there given a Roll wherein there was written certain Rules which they were to Act and be Practioners in as the Laws of this Kingdom whereof the Kingly Shepherd himself did give them a Pattern and said Ye are to Act and Work as my self have done and acted as an obedient Son to the Father What ye have seen me do that are ye also to do as Followers of me for hitherto the Father worketh and I work and ye must be fellow-workers with me as risen with me and so must all your Works now be by the Faith of my Operation in you Then the Roll was Read to these that were now Landed as it had been to those that were before admitted to be Inhabitants The Laws of the High and Holy Calling that are to be Observed by those that are admitted into this Paradifical Land § 11. THese are the Particulars of that Holy Calling which all are in this Place to Profess I. The First of these is to learn of me saith JESUS to be Lowly and Meek in Spirit even as I am being contented with no lesser Degree For this is the first Fundamental Qualification for as much as my Lily grows only out of such a Ground as is all leavened and of an even Temperature neither too Hot or Cold Moist or Dry but found always in Contrition and Humility from whence Exaltation to Higher things will certainly arise II. The Second Degree which ye are to take from hence is to know how to understand the Manual Operation of the Haâ—d of Faith by which the goodly Tent must be wrought for Shem and Japheth to dwell together in great and full enlargement For through the Exercise and nimble Activity of this Hand all Provisions necessary will be brought in for the Bridegroom and Bride to live upon III. A Third Particular relating to your High Calling is to attend and officiate in the most Holy Inward Court there to wait and be at hand to receive evermore fresh Command as also to hear and learn what further is requisite to reach to the highest Accomplishment towards Natures most Perfect Restauration IV. The Fourth Particular or Law is to come to a putting forth of all the Essential Properties into Activity according to what ye have seen and been instructed in from the Father and me stirring up the Gift that so it may not lie useless in you in any Degree V. Ye are not to think it sufficient that ye have Learned Part of my Calling but ye are iâ—â—is Place to learn All even to the full Vnity according to the Example which I have set you Therefore come set your Hand of Faith to Work and Act as I your Lord have done who expect you should come up to those Measures I have set before you who am and will be to you the same flowing Sourse of Life-quickning Power if called out that I was when planted in your Likeness Behold I am at hand to do as great and mighty Works as ye