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spirit_n	bear_v	son_n	witness_n	5,359	5	7.9501	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49870	The laws of paradise, given forth by wisdom to a translated spirit.	Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.	1695 (1695)	Wing L786; ESTC R222655	24,432	80

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

be Solemnized For I am now kept in suspence not knowing how long my Iesus in Paradise will yet prove me to try my Loyalty who like a desponding Lover would fain know the very Day and Hour that so I might get my self all in a readiness to meet my Beloved that when he calls I may not be surprized This is a Query that may be allowed tho' not as to the date or prefixed time to be resolved Hast thou not learnt how the Times and Seasons the Father still reserveth in his own Power who keepeth always this Prerogative to himself while he admitteth none to look into his Calender no not the Angels till they are ordered the Trumpet to sound for Proclamation when the Marriage Feast is ready Therefore go thou thy way and stand in thy Lot It is enough thou art chosen and elected hereto Thy present Business is to observe this Law of pure Chastity in which thou art to wait patiently the Motion of thy Bridegroom who doth not forget the Cry of the Spirit and Bride but suddenly may come e're thou art aware Therefore at all times watch and have thy Virgin Robe on and thou shalt not need to fear that he will stay long The Eighth Commandment WHereas it is said Thou shalt commit no Theft so by Me it is again confirmed as the Law of Paradise that thou this Rule also observe as it relates to thy God in the first place and in the second to thy Neighbouring Inhabitants in the Outward World where thou visibly art resident Now wherever there is a peculiar Property there may be an Offering of Violence by way of Robbery to it Here therefore understand that the Everlasting Father doth appropriate unto himself that which he will not give to much less be robbed of by any What is that You will say It is his Godhead which none are to assume to themselves after any manner whatever For in this doth absolute Soveraignty and Greatness of Majesty and Honour consist which are Essentially Appropriable to Him and to none other Wherefore of this high Sacriledge be thou aware and give not this Honour or rather steal it not away from that Holy Being to whom it doth belong But you will say Far be it from me ever to rob the most High of his Honour Knowingly thou wouldest not do it but I shall unfold to thee a most subtle and hidden way of deceit which the First Adam was guilty of so making it Hereditary to all his Posterity who by that first Act of Disobedience purloined from God his Maker the Glory of his Soveraignty and would have assumed the Godhead to himself by going forth into a Divided Essence to be wise in a Self-property which awakened the sinful Arrogancy to those sad Effects that are known throughout the whole Universe of Fallen Spirits to this very day For Adam committed this high Theft in Paradise and stole out there in the Divided Property from God with whom he should have kept in an Indissoluble Band of Unity whereby he lost his Godlike Power and Dignity which would have been appropriated to him had not he rent and gone out from the Eternal Essences of God the Abyss of his Being out of which he was generated to be a Mighty Potent King and Hierarchy in the Angelical and Paradisical World the which under God he was to have Ruled like a God uncontroulably and did so till it was lost most Cowardly Well but now in thine Heart I know thou sayest How may I bring back into Paradise this Honour Name and Praise which I would not for a Thousand Millions of Worlds be reckoned to rob my God of now that I O Mother see in thy Glass the Evil Consequences hereof If so then Call and Summon in all those Essences wherein stand the Virtual Powers and Mights which belong to thy God to whom thou art to return with them and to work in an Undivided Spirit according to the Operative Power which will work Godlike through all thy Properties unto the recovering of those lost Goods which the subtle Serpent together with the Harlotry Spirit of this World had Cheated thy God in Thee of But now Wisdom is come to direct how all should be cemented and gathered in again that so thou mayest not take from the Inhabitants of the Outward World any of their bitter unsavoury Morsels in all which lyeth hid to this day the secret Venom of that Evil Tree which the whole Universe of Spirits do still take and feed upon as if it were lawful for them so to do making it matter of Necessity or even of Ordination from the most High But that this is not so will soon be made appear when the Sun shall break forth the Day spring being now upon its Rising that shall convince the Unbelievers that there is quite another way for the Ransomed of the Lord to live Which way I will declare and open to thee that thou mayest take nothing of Egypt's stuff along with thee into thy Father's House where is All in abundance But these Treasures indeed cannot be come at but by the Key of Faith which opens and shuts and doth all here at pleasure bringing down and carrying up as a mighty Power which Spirit is God's only Familiar Friend that can do any thing with him Then with all gettings do thou aim at this which will make thee do Exploits indeed As it is my Gift and Skill to make this Key so it lyeth in thy power to turn it into the Lock which will make this Magical Door to fly open uniting the Divided Essences to act Miraculously The Ninth Commandment HEre thou art required not to bear false Witness against thy Neighbour but to love him as thy self being one with or nearer to thee than thy self But you will say Who is this my Neighbour Dost thou not know him thou that hast been so long an Inhabitant in the Paradisical Ground He is even that true Samaritan who hath poured in the Restorative Oil for thy Healing who hath taken the care of thee wholly and undertook thy Cure then when he saw thee wounded unto Death His Eye pitied and officiated in this Love Service as one that had a fellow-feeling of thy Calamity and Suffering under the Violence of Cruel Blood-thirsty Spirits under whose power thou wert fallen And seeing thee now in such imminent danger to lose thine Eternal Life he was immediately sent by the Everlasting Father to rescue thee out of the Hands of these Robbers that designed to kill the Heir of Life and Glory in Thee So here you may see who is that true Worthy Neighbour whom you are obliged to bear witness to and for and not against stedfastly bearing Record of the Truth from the Spirit of God's Wisdom dwelling in you which is the only True Prophet and Witness for Jesus in Thee Verily there are intruding Spirits that would come in as False Witnesses of whom be thou aware and be not found in the