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The laws of paradise, given forth by wisdom to a translated spirit.
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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THE LAWS OF PARADISE Given forth by Wisdom TO A Translated SPIRIT The LAW shall go forth of ZION Mic. 4. 2. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street 1695. ERRATA PAge 65. line 17. read by the Decease of my Father I came to be involved But not being able to be long Absent from THE PREFACE TO a certain Person that for many Years had been led wonderfully in the Ways of God it came to pass that one day upon a deep Contemplation of the Paradisical World there appear'd in the midst of a most bright Cloud a Woman of a most Sweet and Majestick Countenance her Face shining as the Sun and her Vesture of Transparent Gold who said Behold I am God's Eternal Virgin Wisdom whom thou hast been enquiring after I am to unseal the Treasures of God's deep Wisdom unto thee and will be as Rebecca was to Iacob a true natural Mother for out of my Womb thou shalt be brought forth after the manner of a Spirit being Conceiv'd and Born again This thou shalt know by a new Motion of Life stirring and giving a restlesness till Wisdom be Born within the inmost parts of thy Soul Now consider of my Sayings till I shall return to thee again Then after three days the same Figure appear'd in greater Lustre and Glory to this Person bearing a Crown on her Head and spake to this effect Behold thy Mother and know that thou art to enter into Covenant with me to Obey the Laws of the New Creation which shall be revealed And upon this a Golden Book being Seal'd with Three Seals was by her presented to the said Person declaring that in it were declar'd the deep Mysteries of the Divine Wisdom which had been Sealed up from the past Ages and were now to be opened and manifested to her Children that should be found willing to receive and to observe such LAWS as she should deliver forth in the New Heart and in the New Spirit After Six days the Vision again return'd and the Virgin Queen shew'd her self in most Mighty Majesty being attended with a numberless Train of Virgin Spirits and with a very great Army of Angels and this Person was call'd by Name to come and view Her with her First-born Children and invited to join with them To which there being a ready and hearty Consent given the said Person was immediately admitted into their Number Then said the Divine Virgin I shall cease to appear in a Visible Figure to thee but I will not fail to Transfigure my self in thy Mind and there open the Spring of Wisdom and Understanding She also promis'd that by the Opening of this Spring there should be reveal'd Great and Wonderful Things that were to be made Publick in the Appointed Day And so exhorting to Vigilance and Obedience to those Counsels and Laws which should be given out from her she disappear'd having first receiv'd such an Answer as the Blessed Virgin Mary gave to the Message of the Angel Gabriel from this Person who was encompassed about with the Heavenly Host and made a Spirit of Light And as the Law was given to Moses of old being taken up to Mount Sinai to converse with God so in like manner it hath pleas'd the same God our Father to give forth in these Last Days the Law of Paradise to This Spirit who was some Years after this caught up on purpose into Mount Sion to receive it There is no doubt to be made but that these holy Commandments so receiv'd will carry along with them to many Awaken'd Souls the Evidence of their Divine Original And as for such as from the many horrid Abuses that have been made through Pretensions to the Holy Spirit cannot believe that there either is or can be any True Inspiration at this Day in the World I doubt not to convince the Sober amongst them and all such as are willing to humble themselves before the Truth of the Possibility Expediency and necessity of Revelation to be again restor'd in a Particular Discourse which is design'd to come forth very shortly As for any Particular Objections against either the Manner or the Matter of these Laws then when they shall be Proposed it will be time to consider of them Now let us who know that the Law is spiritual Rom. 7. 14. be altogether spiritually-minded and worship him who is Spirit in Spirit and Truth The MOTTO WIsdom I have sought and Wisdom I have found And now I wear her as My Garland and Crown THE LAWS OF PARADISE CHAP. 1. The Delivery of the Law in Ten Particulars given forth by Wisdom to a Translated Spirit THese are the Laws of Paradise which must be observed by All who set footing there according as they were declared and given forth by Wisdom as I was in the Spirit Who thus spake unto me Having caution'd thee that thou maist not be secure telling thee that the Tempter and the Tree are both here I Wisdom bid thee take good heed considering thou art yet but a Stranger and knowest not the Constitutions Orders and Worships required by the King of this Holy Land Lest therefore thou shold'st miscarry here as did the First Adam and many more since who have come thus far after the Similitude of the Second whom the Dragon hath plucked down again awakening in them the Essences which were slain by the Death I do now present to thee out of my peculiar Love CHRIST thy Looking-glass In Him behold thy self who was thy Dying Pattern and now must be thy Living Spirit to act answerable to Him Bodily and Spiritually And as he was in Paradise Invisible and in this World Visible in like manner as now thou art so the same Law which was enjoined by the Father to Him is expresly to be observed by thee Not one Jot or Tittle is to be abated therein For here the New Covenant is to be re-established in which the Laws of pure and uncorrupted Nature are again revived which were Engraven upon the Heart before Sin entered to obliterate them And as this Internal Law of Liberty was lost in Paradise so in all Ages it could never be found by any till they returned thither again to fulfil the whole Righteousness hereof through the Birth Power and Spirit of JESUS that hath imprinted the Law of Eternal Nature upon the Fleshly Table of a pure Heart which becometh a Law of Life unto it self that none need to say Know the Lord from henceforth if once come to know themselves after the Law of this Paradisical Life which I will give thee out as GOD gave to Moses in Ten Particulars that what is given thee may answer to the Out-spoken Word from ME Who for a General Benefit do require thee to Record these following Precepts purely as they flow from my Unknown Deep The First Commandment THou shalt own and bear witness to the True God manifested through his Virgin Wisdom as come to restore Nature
Therefore take good heed thou dost it not mistrust or deny For herein was the Transgression of that Chosen Generation whom JEHOVAH by his Wonder-working Deeds would have convinced and made to understand that no other Fountain Blessing they should ever stand in need of having given so many proofs of his All-sufficiency bringing them even through the deep Red Sea that so they might have no cause to question but that the same Almightiness would still be their subsistence in all places by the means of which the barren Wilderness should have been as a fruitful Lebanon had they not revolted God intended no less than miraculously to feed and cloath them but the Inundation of Sense overwhelmed them with such Diffidence as turned that which would have been a Paradise into a waste howling Desart as the Reward of Unbelief This Instance I have set before thee that cautioned thou maist be to hold out the set time of Probation in the pure Faith of Dependance on the Almighty Power that then will be a perpetual springing Paradise be thou wherever thou wilt with fresh and new Ideas of Powers and Love-joys which will always thy pure Spirit greet Receive now this Charge from Me who say unto thee Live only by the Virtual Power of the Generating Word which reneweth Bread every Hour as being that true Multiplying Virtue which beware thou do never more quench or kill For in this lyeth the Precious Gem the All-acting Stone which only can give the Remove to Mount Paran The Seventh Commandment THou art not to break the Marriage-knot which is tied betwixt thee and the Lord thine Husband to whom thou art betrothed through the Eternal Spirit For it is an high Breach of the Covenant of Love which is established upon immutable Promises on God the Father's part and on thine Wherein there is a passing over to each other before Witnesses that bear Record in the high Court of Heaven of this Espousal betwixt Thee and my Beloved Son the Heir of all the Riches of Heavens Glory Now seeing this Royal Match is made and concluded on by consent of the Everlasting Father and of Wisdom thy Mother who could not propose a more Honourable Worthy Person to unite thy Spirit unto thou art required to abide most Constant and Loyal to Him and never more so much as to look upon or entertain any other Lover thereby to defile the Marriage-bed in committing of spiritual Adultery which doth consist in these following Particulars I. First in the Lust of the Eye after this or that Creaturely Object which soon betrays the Heart stealing it away insensibly before it is aware of it In great Temptation thou dost here stand having such variety of Objects still to court and captivate thy Mind from thy True and Royal Consort who watcheth every Motion and Affection thereof which way it worketh being a very Jealous Lover and one who is resolved to prove thy Constancy in this time of his absence He therefore permitteth this and that Dalilah to allure and subtilly to encroach into thee that he may know what is in thine Heart And according as in this time thou dost carry it so will the Decree come forth for a further proceeding as to the Consummating part II. The Second Caution I have to give thee is not only to make a Covenant with thine Eyes but also with thine Ears For all Enchantments come in through the Senses which though even in Paradise are yet obnoxious to be ensnared as Adam was with his Eve by their means Who taken with the sight of their Eye and entrapped with the hearing of their Ear were drawn on by one Sense after another even to the tasting of Eternal Death and the cutting asunder hereby the Golden Link which gave them the heavy Fall out of Paradise into This World This was the Effect of the Adulterous Eye and Ear. Stand then upon thy guard with fear see thou be not snared in by them hearken not to any other Voice but what thy JESUS through ME shall to thee speak by whom thou art prohibited to confer with any other well-knowing of what dangerous consequence such a Liberty would prove It would provoke thy Lord to Jealousie who cannot bear that thou shouldest be familiar to talk with any other Spirit For as much as the Serpent is most subtle and seeks many ways to make a Prize of thee watching to break the Royal Band of this intended Marriage-Union which hath been so long contrived by Me and which I would now see Finished Let therefore my Counsel take place with thee so as thou neither taste nor handle those inviting pleasant Fruits that seem to say Come eat of me try whether I do not excel all whatever is in Paradise who have all that is capable to suit the Palate of thy Sense Why shouldest thou deny thy self to taste hereof depending only upon what the Spirit of Faith must bring down to thee which also is not always present with thee to be commanded to run to and fro on thine Errand as occasions require But I will be sure never to fail thee who am thine old Lover and Friend Why then shouldest thou forsake me for one that is unseen and that cannot be handled sensibly After this manner O my Bride wilt thou be exercised if that so by any means thou canst be drawn away to break thy Faith with me who would fain knit thee wholly to my self so as thou maist not regard at all this Spirit of Reason that thus seeks to flatter and entice thee from me who have plighted my Troth unto thee never to forsake or cast thee off if thou thy Virginity do retain and suffer thy self by none of these fine twisted Cords from Me to be drawn down For thy JESUS cannot admit any other Lover to sit in thine Heart And if at any time a Stranger he shall find there know that from thee he will take the same most unkindly Although they may say perhaps they are the Friends not the Enemies of the Bridegroom being of a more Spiritual Train yea such as are perfumed with a Paradisiacal Scent against which thou must also stop that Sense For it is possible to commit Adultery with Seraphick Angels if thou awakenest any Lusting Desire to them more than to thy Iesus So beware then of running into any Spirit though never so sublime for there is more danger in this than in those Objects that are of a more visible gross and earthly Dress thinking with these who are Spiritual thou maist be more free and more bold True it is thou mayest but yet here it is good to be limited that thou be not circumvented and suffer thy Virgin Head to be deflowered Wherefore from all keep thy self an unspotted Mirrour and so shalt thou come to be the Chaste Bride of the Lamb and to enjoy the Nuptial Bed But after all this methinks I hear this Question in thee to arise How long shall it be before the Marriage shall