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
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
of those Mansions that are near to me let them be driven out for the present Therefore let this suffice from the Scriptures themselves not to mention those particular Idea's and Manifestations that to some it hath been given to see these several Heavens which upon others cannot be imposed for to believe who yet have not those anointed Eyes given to see withal But surely there are some standing in the figure of the Body Whose Spirits have roved to and fro to see these several Mansions with Spirits of all sizes and degress who are herefor designed Only hereout excluding those who are for the Dragon's Kingdom Who do pass away in a reprobate sense out of the Body Those left-hand Goats have no portion within these Eternal Gates a deep Gulf is fixed It is only of the Sheep and Lambs that I am to treat who have found out this new and only Life path-way Who though they are not come to the top-stone of perfection before they see the dissolution of the body Yet having attained to a good degree they may come unto the very next Throne Region and there awhile stay till they have drawn and assumed a heavenly clarity that is such an Essential Body against which no exceptions by the highest Courts of Dignities can be objected These now are the highest degrees of those who before Perfection be wrought do cease out of the Mortal Body Then again there are of a lower degree of growth Now what reservatory is there for them who may be but young in the New Birth As to this it was clearly imparted unto my Intellect that such did enter into a more inferiour Mansion than Paradice for that was too pure and serene for such Therefore a lower degree is prepared for them till they do attain to an Increase of the Divine Nature They want not here their true Pastoral Teachers for the Spirit of Christ is every where with his own Therefore it was said that he went and preached to the Spirits in Prison that were disobedient in Noah's days For should all the old world have been cut off at once and sealed under a final condemnation the Attributes of God's Love Mercy Goodness Truth and Long-suffering would have been obliterated wherefore he must have yet had respect unto such after the dissolution of their bodies as had a sense in them awakened for compunction and sorrow for what Evils they had committed in their Bodies To confirm this that we might not be altogether out of hope for such as may die in the first beginnings of Regeneration it is given me to declare that if these pass out of the Body such cannot go indeed immediately to God For such will find it otherwise they must wait till they have got somewhat more then what they went out withall in this world and then shall they be admitted to see God Surely there is a Provision made for a perfect Salvation in another Principle besides this For which we have that word in Peter 1 Pet. 3. 19. by which also he went and Preached unto the Spirits in Prison Also these words seem to speak fully to this 1 Pet. 4. 6. For this cause was the Gospel preached to them which were dead which generally is applied to such as are living and yet dead in sins But by the foregoing verse it concerns the first Position verse 5. who saith the Apostle speaking of Christ is ready to judge the quick and the dead so that it implieth there is a Ministry belonging to the dead that are not here made perfect Much more might be enlarged upon some particular sights and manifestations that have hereof been given to some in the Spirit From hence ariseth this Objection If this be a Truth why was it not positively declared and clearly revealed as a foundational Doctrine To which it may be answered That the Infinite Wisdom did judge it meet to conceal this mystery because none might take advantage to turn the Grace of God into wantoâ—ness and thereby to neglect the present opportunity for working out their own Salvation in this present time which would make for a far and more exceeding weight of Glory Therefore left it was for the Worthy to have this Secret made known to them by the Spirit of Revelation who God foreknew would not take Liberty to continue in sin that this Grace after Death might be made manifest towards such as did stand in need hereof But now to great holy and aspiring Spirits these lower Mansions in their Fathers house are too mean who cannot be satisfied to be so many degrees remote any time after death from their God and Lord Jesus since Liberty is proclaimed to work through all while we are in this terrestrial Body For there will be more joy and acclamations in Heaven for one such as shall finish their work here so as to make a full conquest then for milions of Souls that in the invisible Regions must perfect what was lacking to compleat them here Oh said the Spirit it will be well worth your Labour and great Travel to break open this deep Gate and so to put on Christ your Lord as in his all-powerful body that ye may make hereof but one ascending flight This was the Mark that was after Christs ascending so eagerly aimed at and by some in that Age reached to For Christ could not lose the effect of his prayer in that he did make his request that those whom the Father had given him might be with him where he was that so they might see and possess the same glory which could not be till they had gotten the victory For to none else is the admission given into his Kingdom according to that in the Revelations to him that overcometh will I grant saith Jesus to sit with me in my Throne But this may be objected further Those who had the Holy Ghost poured down in such an eminent manner had their way made very easie who was as their fiery Chariot that cut their work short And if any now in this Age had such a high endued Power it might soon give them a translation out of all mortal impediments As to answer this The Holy Ghost in that day was given after a visible manner as a sealing Character displaying and acting forth himself in Gifts and Power and miracles but now the same Spirit works in its beginning after another manner where it falleth it doth all its mighty works Within before it will shew forth his power Without For if the Apostles had not been purified by the Holy Ghost and inwardly sprinkled with the Water of Life for Soul cleansing they could not have rejoyced in that assured hope of entring into the joy of their Lord and Master Then was it plainly opened to me by the Spirit that the Holy Ghost would not now in this latter Age act out his Mighty Deeds by any one till their Hearts were perfectly purified by Faith That Scripture being repeated to me who after believing were
sâ—aled with Holy Spirit of Promise Though in that day soon upon Christs ascending the Spirit of working power was suddainly showred down upon some as in the Acts mention is made who had no foregoing work of sanctification upon them Upon which it made the Apostles themselves astonished that the Holy Ghost should be sent down upon the Gentiles also who did not believe in the Lord Jesus But that is now ceased The giving forth of the Holy Ghost in this day will first produce inward effects and be a Spirit of burning seasoning the Vessels within and inflaming it with the pure fire of Love and Joy And then being all divinely leavened there will be found all sufficiency to do the most wonderful things easily flowing forth from the substantial body which by degrees may work it self fixedly through the humane form in great splendor and glory So from hence we are taught how the Holy Ghost hath his first inspiring work upon us To make all clean pure and perfect within our Minds and Wills For we shall be Witnesses what he doth first in and for us before he will shew forth by us the Seal of his great Power to what lies without us Who by signal Working Powers and Gifts are to be convinced and brought over to the Faith which will work by that Love that will be shed abroad by the Holy Ghost Whos 's first enkindlings and stirrings ye are saith the Holy and True to cherish and wait upon till ye are leavened throughout with Righteousness Light Love and Joy Which will make way for the going out of Wisdoms Power and God's all sufficiency in a more marvelous manner then ever Blessed highly are they whose lot it shall be to come up to the Mount of God's Habitation through all these degrees This word take along with you for certainty that it is possible for the close wise persevering diligent Spirits to see this great and mighty salvation in the Lord Christ's Kingdom in and through the ghostly power working mightily April the 28th 1677. This Morning awaking about three of the Clock my Spirit after some divine ejaculations was inkindled through the Love-melting Powers of the Spirit of my Lord Jesus which did pass as a burning Lamp through all my Intellectuals finding there matter to feed upon answerable to its own light property whereby refreshing was found After this I slept till five a Clock or somewhat more as by me surmised Then I was awakened with the beholding one in the figure of a man in a blue clear firmament enclosed as in an oval frame Rainbow-like his Countenance was grave and majestical facing me with great majesty Upon the sight of whom I did feel within me a mighty rapture of joy So I making to get nearer to this Person thus plainly portraied then he did further withdraw for such was the â—ervour of my Spirit that I would have proceeded into the very Circle where he was Who seemed to be in the very fashion of a man from the Loyns upward but I saw no Legs or Feet but he fixed his Light Countenance still on me which was no way terrible but all reviving Now I was expecting somewhat to be spoken from him but the voice was uttered within me saying thus This is the Sign of your Lord from Heaven that Jesus whom you have desired to see Upon which words I attempted again to break through to him upon which this Representation did pass away that I could no longer gratifie my spiritual Eye with this blessed Personality After whose departure I was left sad for I would willingly have left my corporeal form to have entred into that Oval Cloud where I might have joined the Hand of my Spirit with his But then it was again further revealed to me that if this sight was so pleasing and grateful what would the coming in of the Fathers glory be which would be much more then what I now did see Then this word spake in me go on to believe and ye who look for me shall yet further see greater things then all this Some days after this Vision it was further manifested to me that this visible Figure of my Lord Jesus did signifie the formation of himself in our corporeity which would be much more advantagious then in beholding him in a distinct Personality as without us till we can come to say as he is so are we Till which there can be no fixed view for a constant retaining of his now glorified Person in our Eye Now it was given me to understand that the Reason I could not be admitted to enter into that Oval Light where he was presented was because said the Spirit thou art not come to the same perfect state and degree in which you did him see wanting yet your more high clear and elementary Body so that ye could not possibly make your pass unto him But only hereby your Jesus knoweth that these transient sights would have a pure magical power upon you for the begetting of the same likeness within you that was shewn outward For it was revealed to me that all representations that did not work to this effect would be little available as to the fruition of the blessed Object it self Then I was cautioned to be heedful in this respect and to watch how to receive all powerful impressions hereby all which was for the bringing on the heavenly Birth to every degree of perfection Then no strange nor unusual thing it shall be to see the very express glory of the Majesty when you are Christed and all clothed upon with him Then shall ye see That in your selves which to others is invisible Philip could not see the Father in Christ while he was looking outwardly for some wonderful appearance of God in visible Glory he did not consider how uncapable he was of that sight but Jesus invites him to see and know the Father in the pure simplified humanity God will to all first manifest himself here in that which can assume the Christ-like Life which is the only light and medium in which we can see God Christ would have directed Philip to have looked for this Vision of God in himself but he knew he was not clarified in his Mind and Spirit for that species his Eys were not anointed the Holy Ghost not being yet given to him Therefore Christ directed him to turn his Eye inward to see the influence of the Divine Power and Presence of the Father in and by Christ. Who gave him this rebuke Have I been so long with you and yet have you not seen the Power of the Deity acted forth in me The Disciples were but of dull sight and flow of belief so that it was not the conversation of Christ although all holy perfect and good in his Visible Figure That did give the transformation till he did convey his Spiritual Body into them they could not rightly know him nor yet the Father in him Then the Spirit ecchoed this through me O haste
but of an immortal Virtue Power and Strength answerable toâ— what will suit with the Heavenly Jerusalem State Then was it further shewed me That through these three Conveyances did run all and every weighty precious thing that was now inherent in God the Son For want of understanding and not finding out the way of this mighty attraction from the head-substance We have discovered the shame of our Nakedness wearing only the vile cloathing which is infirm and weak obnoxious to all evil and death fit and meet only to walk and converse with Creatures of a mean and inferiour sort such as this World is replenished withal But now a Summons is to call and shew unto us what will qualifie and furnish â—s out for a higher Society as when the pure native Life of a compleated Christ is sucked in by us then shall we be as he is not longer in a condition of â—â—â—â—ering sorrow and indigency but of God-like Authority Which will be the Sealing Commission of the Everlasting Gospel Prerogative that will no more go forth in weakness but in the finishing Power of a mighty Salvation Seek and pray ye for such a triumphant day Iuly the 13th 1677. We being met together in Prayer owning and presenting our many deficiences as to Spiritual Abilities This word was spoke to me Apply your selves to Christ your Treasure who is made of that Lineage and Nature that he might consider the better those who are of his own Spiritual Flesh For none else could so naturally care for them as he who had assumed that Nature which was liable to weakness temptation and all distresses And as your Lord Jesus did out-grow all this and swallowed up mortality and all infirmities by attending thereupon so changing his Corporeity into an Aetherial Spirituality whereby a Translation was obtained by him into Mount Sion Glory So was it advised me from that Spirit that standeth always in the Spirits Councel That an express charge was given by the Father unto the Lord Christ to take care and provide for us also after the like manner as having received all infinite fulness from the Godheads all-sufficiency for the same that so he might be able to do for us according to his â—â—boundless Power Aâ—d therefore he hath invited us to urge it close upon him our appointed Trustee that so we might be brought up through all the several changes to the same perfect and all powerful degree even till we come to possess the self same beatifical Vision of the whole Trinity in Glory For it is so willed by the Lord your Creator that he should now raise you up by his secret Spiritual Intrinsical Operations to his own Heavenly Stature till that ye may be presented faultless as he himself is Therefore let none glory in Christ as their saving Iesus till they can come to witness his Life-blood in them thus redeeming and cleansing them from every blemish For till this be done Christ cannot bring them into his Fathers presence to sit down as his Bride in heavenly places there with him Now is there an open Door to you set wide open for you to enter through his re-entring into you Make all present advantage thereof in him who is your Spiritual Banker Iuly the 16th 1677. These weighty intimations coming from our Lord are well worthy of all observation from us from whose great Love they do come to perâ—ect what is yet to be done for us For while the Ear of my Spirit as the Oracle of God doth stand open clear and free from the twisting stuff of all low imaginary things the voice of the Most High doth frequently cry through me From whence I can conclude that the Spirit of Revelation is not in this Age alâ—ogether excluded For this word did 〈◊〉 a-fresh speak to me I the Lord 's Annointed will give forth the residue of my Spirit for which do ye who are one in Faith steadily wait Then after this Voice it was discoursed in the way and method of a Spirit how that the latter Crop of the Spirit should be much greater and more plentiful than what was in the first fruits after our Lord 's Ascending which was but as a â—â—ower or sudden â—light which soon again stopped For after the decease of the Apostles iâ— soon began to withdraw and a long restraint hath been as to what they witnessed in their day All that can be said of what hath been enjoyed by the highest order of Saints since the Apostles days is but a sowing into the Spirit through divine and radical Light entring in for conviction illumination thereby to make the conversation more pure and shining which hath been wrought from the belief of that Testimony left by these holy ones who were immediately inspired with the Annointing Vpon which to this day there hath been a total and full resting as if God had nothing more to reveal to all eternity to any Which is not so For the Scriptures or rather the Spirit of them did point out in them to a greater reserve of Spirit that was to be poured forth But till then saith one in his Epistles Ye do well to take heed as to a present measure of Light which in this long and cloudy day seemeth great and lustrous but there is a Star to rise out of your own hearts that may outshine all that hath gone before if you watch to it The Vision may there speak though it hath been hitherto silenced and that partly through unbelief but the same Spirit of Revelation shall much more in this last Age revive again For through Grace and Love deeply imprinted it is given me to believe in another rising day of the Spirit according to old and new Prophecies Some breakings forth hereof are already witnessed And that we might have further grounds of hope who do fly hereunto for fresh teachings and discoveries of the Mind of God I did see a Vision of a bright oriental Star which did spring as out of the low center of the Earth at which I marvelled and I called one to rejoyce with me to see the Effects of this rising Star as also another Person to the view hereof I did with joy call in And we beheld it till it did enlighten the whole Earth with its Beams which it did cast forth as if it had been the Body of the Sun The last Vision of the Star explained This sweet Manifestation this divine Opening or Vision was granted to me to view that so the end why it did appear might be known First it was shewed me that as the Wise Men â—â—d see in order to the Birth of Christ in the Flesh his Star rise and go before them till they came to Ierusalem even so this Star did in its rising signifie the mighty Birth of the Spirit which would open through the womb of the earthly property Where the Spirit hath been long 〈◊〉 â—â—d its Glory clouded as in the dark gross Body of sensual Corporiety but it
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
the Eyes of many and even of our Brethren as we still esteem them as the Dung of the Earth and as the Offscouring of all the present Forms of Religion because we have believed they Word and have listened to thy Voice calling unto us in the Evening of this Sixth Day Wherefore dealest thou thus with us O Lord our God Surely thou answerest us Why are ye so jealous of mine Honour as if the Times were not in mine Hand and the Seasons ordained in my Counsel Arise and hold not your Peace though ye be but the Offscouring of the Earth and lie as among the Pots Blow ye the Trumpet and cease not till I shall appear Suffer me to plead my own Cause and at my own time Remember my Servant John that I sent to prepare my Way how he wrought not any mighty Deed yet was sound faithful in his Ministration and prevailed abundantly Think not that I am slack in performing my Promises of destroying the Adversary that Man of Sin by the Ghostly and Miraculous Powers going out of my Mouth as streams of Fire For 〈◊〉 my Promises are at hand to be fulfill'd Hold but fast unto the Endâ— and rejoice greatly that ye are counted worthy to suffer shame for my Name Wherefore we shall not be Solicitous what may be Said or Thought of us by Any Our Part is Defensive not Offensive and so Only but with respect to the Honour of God and the Immutable Truth of his Word And therefore it will be incumbent on those who would oppose us to shew the Invalidity of that Charter which we pretend to have from the Mouth of Christ himself Luke 11. 10 13. Matth 5. 48 compared with 1 Cor. 13. Iohn 16. 10 12 13 14. compared with Chap. 17. 20 21. and Acts 2. 17. 39. Or to produce but any one Testimony either out of the Old or New Testament which they themselves dare to rely on for the Final Cessation of Revelation and Prophecy in the Church of God either with the Apostles or shortly after or even after several Centuries of Years as the more Moderate and Learned do Assert Or else to shew that what we do profess to have thus learnt when rightly understood is Clearly contrary to what is conâ—â—'d in the Law or in the Gospel or to some thing deliver'd by the Holy Prophets or Apostles Either of which if these Gentlemen can prove they will do much towards the Sapping and Overturning the whole Foundation upon which we stand But till this shall be done all this other Labour will be but in vain and instead of retarding will but serve more Vigorously to promote the Work that is undertaken and carried on by some that are of a Nehemiah Spirit and not to be daunted with big and terrifying Words If there be then any Dissatisfied as to the Contents of this Volume or of the former or other Writings hitherto Printed of this Author let them if their Dissatisfaction be out of a Zeal for God and the Truth of Religion consider with cool and sedate Thoughts whether there be not as good a Ground in Scripture for the Expectation and Belief of such a Kingdom of Christ to come as is herein expressed and said to be revealed by the Powers of the Holy Ghost as there is for many of the Opinions in Religion which they do receive and Articles which they have subscribed to Let them consider what is the Sanctification of the Divine Name on Earth to be daily Pray'd for and therefore to be believ'd in what the Coming of the Kingdom of our God on Earth and what the Doing of his Will on Earth in like manner to be Pray'd for and Believ'd in as to the very same degree that it is in Heaven that is both with the same Oneness of Spirit the same perfection of Purity and the same Vniversality of Extent with respect first to the Name of the Father to be sanctified by such as shall have receiv'd the Seal of the Adoption of Children secondly to the Kingdom to be manifested which must be in the Power of the Father and thirdly the Will to be performed which must be by the Holy Ghost ministring in the inward Sanctuary which he fills Let them consider what other Systems do say as to these matters and then let them examin what a System may be drawn out of this Book when well digested and fully comprehended After which let that which is hence drawn be compared with those and both together be compared with the Sacred Scriptures taken in their easie plain and natural Sense without running to or depending upon the Glosses Interpretations or Comments of any whatever Let them further consider whether in these Scriptures there be the least Footsteps to be found for such a prevailing Opinion as is at this day grown in a manner Universal amongst us that the Prophetical and Miraculous Gifts of the Spirit were design'd by Christ for the establishment only and Foundation of his Church and not for its Building up and Perfection in the Work of the Ministry till all should be brought hereby into the Unity of the Faith and the Knowledge not only of the Mysteries of Religion but a full conformity to the Stature of Christ in the most perfect and stable Model of it concerning which much is spoke both here and in The Message to the Philadelphian Society It is to be confessed that there are indeed several things that will be apt to shock the Readers at the first view who have not had any such Experiences in themselves but chiefly through the Strangeness of this Parabolical and Mystical way of Writing which is fallen under as great a Disreputation in this present Refin'd Age as it was of Esteem in the first Ages of the Church But upon a most nice and accurate Examination these Stumbling Blocks will either all or for the most part moulder away of themselves And whereas it is generally Objected against every one that steps out of the Vulgar and Ordinary Road and speaks but of any Divine Favours above what are common That all proceeds from the Root of Pride in them variously transforming it self you may be Here assured that there is the most Solid ground Established by what you shall read in these so Peculiar Memoirs for the Humility of the Cross without making it to interfere with Faith or Hopeâ— or to impede the Progress of any Generous Design for the Good of this Nation of Christendom and of the whole World And no where better you may find what a vast distinction there is of a True and Christian from a False and Beggarly Humility Another thing that may recommend this with the other Treatises of the same Author is that there will not herein be found any vilifying or reproaching the Sacred Customs among Christians any Lessening or Derogating from any Institutions either of Christ or of his Apostles as is usual unto Some but a just Deference to the truth of the
Walks of the Spirit p. 352. 361. The Alpha and Omega p. 363. The Water-Stone p. 365. An Apparition of a Deceased Friend and the Discourse with him p. 372. The Curious Workmanship p. 377. The narrow Passage p. 380. The priestly Magi p. 386. The Able Physician p. 396. The School of the Divine Magia p. 399. The Tree of Faith p. 407. The Fathers Name p. 409. The Mount of Elijah or the Mistery of Faith p. 441â— 424. The Lilly Spirit p. 427. The two Golden Candlesticks p. 435. The Hand of the Lord p. 463. 465. The Nuptial Dish p. 478. The Way of the East p. 483. The Entrance of Caleb and Ioshua into the Land of Beulah p. 489. The Cessation and Return of Miracles p. 492. The Overthrow of Sisera and the Song of Deborah p. 498. The Conflict of Fire and Water p. 503. The Jasper Circle p. 509. The Golden Tree of Beulah p. 512. The Hand-Writing p. 516. A Caution against Prophets of Judgments p. 520. The Daily Expectant not frustrated p. 522. The Conclusion p. 524. Postscript p. 526. Scriptures Explained or Applied 1 King 8. 27. pag 209. Mat. 17. 1. 12. pag. 413. Mark 10. 28 29. p. 55. Iohn 3. 6 7 8. p. 413. 6. 45 50. p. 414. 53. p. 366. 7. 37 38. p. 314. 11 26. p. 414. 14. 2. p. 208 9. p. 221 Rom. 5. 19. p. 142 20. p. 171. 8. 6. p. 273. 23. p. 414 1 Cor. 15. to the end p. 414. 55. 205 2 Cor. 3. 18. p. 248. 5. 1 2 3 4. p. 414. Epâ— 1. 13. p. 215. 4. 10. p. 209. 1 Tim. 2. 15. p. 103. Heb. 2. 15. p. 177 6. 11 12. p. 241. 11. 1. p 407. 1 Pet. 3. 19. p. 212. 2 Pet. 4. 5 6. ibid. Rev. 3. 21. p. 214. 12. p. 126. A Fountain of Gardens Watered by the Rivers of Divine Pleasure Vol II. Ianuary the 1st 1676 7. A Commemoration on New-Years Day IN and about the middle of the Night being called out in Prayer I did feel a mighty throng of Invisible Powers that filled me so as if I had put on the Immortal Vehicle for the Sacred Trinity to act in with Love and Joy-Powers during sometime upon me with great ravishing Sweets In the Morning this Word did me greet When will you begin to draw out some part of that stock which you have trusted with him who is so ready with you to account The great and mighty One hath charged himself with a Debt unto you by all and every act of Faith which at any time had purely flown out from either joyning hereunto in one Spirit as Co-partners in Spiritual things Then was it further opened unto me that we had been careless in that we had neglected in not keeping our Accounts clear both in relation to the Lord and to our selves 1. First as to the Talent and Gift intrusted with us as a Provision bestowed upon us from our Father to traffick withal during such a time as might bring the intended encrease unto effect Now the Spirit who keeps the Heavenly Records said unto me Search and see and be well advised what hath been freely given from your God to you For you are Debreâ—s to his Grace for a new Adoption who hath again begotten you not only to the Hope but the real Possession of that which belongeth unto Children Though ye have not hitherto understood the Royalty of your own Beings nor yet the greatness of your Strength and Might For be assured upon this New Creation score in which ye now are considered thereto doth belong Sion's rich Provision Now then it is but meet as dear and grateful Children to keep your Accounts clear and to charge your selves with so much stock of Life and Spirit as ye have received It must be called out for and nothing of this Treasury must lie idle or useless but all is still expected upon the encrease till ye come to be a numerous Seed 2. In the Second place said the Spirit Consider and call over what you have adventured and returned back into that great City wherefrom the rich Exchange of Spiritual Goods is to be produced Know for your great Comfort that ye have a faithful able Correspondent in this high and Heavenly Country that you may fully assure your selves of great gain in Spirituals according to the kind of what the high Region doth afford Which is of that unknown and excellent value as these Worldly â—â—â—bitants will not care for to purchase because they have no Judgment of such invisible mystical Treasury But to you who are only for the Heavenly Merchandize more Bills of Store shall yet be given forth Fear not to make fresh charges upon that great Trustee who commandeth all in Wisdom's vast Bank Nothing is more pleasing then to make out what resteth due unto you upon the Spirit 's Births Account Little have you examined how Matters and Things of this nature stand betwixt God and you Who thinks it no Impeachment to his Soveraign Greatness to be endebted unto such as have returned Lading back again on Faith's bottom All which hath been committed in trust with this Charge to traffick with no other for it would be an Evil to spend your Corn Wine and Oyl upon the fine trimmed Harlot which yet being so high in Appearance is more then half divided in the true Love's Property Therefore be wise for your selves and scatter not till ye have reaped and got your own Crop in Hearken then and observe this weighty Rule to carry all this high Spiritual Commerce in the hiddenness of the Eternal Spirit There are but few in this professing Age that do understand the rate of that Precious Stone ye are Adventurers for with all those other Celestial Ornaments for to bring in against the Bridal Day which will not be solemnized with the Lamb till ye have fetched in all your Eternal Revenue Therefore be not afraid to urge and to account with your God for what the Spirit of Faith hath sent out for the bringing in that which is of the greatest weight and consideration that hath been known since the World of Creatures hath been existing Ianuary the 7th 1676 7. THis Night I found the Life-Center much open and the Oracle for to sound clear and somewhat to talk with me from the Heavenly Sphear The sum of which was to perswade unto a decease from all that low activity and concern about things and matters Tâ—rrestrial For as I was mourning in the feeling sence of that dark Stone weighing the Superiour part down upon every slight occasion ministred from this Principle Which I found in my very tast to be as brinish Salt Waters that fretted and eat upon that interiour vigorous part of the Spirit so feebling it as its force was evidently felt to be abated until the Shiloh-Spring did open again Which washed up the healing Stone which put all into place and order which by the Corrupter was made diseased Then this Word spake to me Dost
to be seen or known by us after the manner of what hath been so as without you follow this Example to go apart you will hardly dye away quietly but you will be disturbed to bring your Life back again so as it will be a lingring dying Death therefore well consider this impeding thing and that you might not be alone in a suffering dying state I have provided one that will be a dying-Mate with you to support and strengthen each other till a Dissolution is finished Then you may totally cast your selves upon your dying Beds there waiting for the Hour of your Change The utmost grievousness of it will be but as a slumbering Trance that will make you forget this Principle with all its good or evil Properties all things will be alike unto you because gathered unto your own People in the Land of Light where more transparent things will take up your Minds and satisfie your Sights There be certain measures and rules whereby ye may know whether or no your approaching End be near First Consider the Years and Date of your Age there is a set and appointed time for Spiritual Death as well as for the Natural The bounds thereof are determined though few or rarely any have tasted this Spiritual Death before their outward Man hath been broken by Natural Death Yet some known and some unknown Examples hereof have been as Enoch Moses and Elias with the Lord of Life who though he suffered Death yet rising in that Body again was with it for a certain time conversant in the Earth to testifie another Change was to pass thereupon or else he never could have stood upon the Sea of Glass without being changed into another Figure meet for Mount Sion Light More also have found this Translation though happily concealed But it is enough that you know by what means it may possibly be reached through the serious disposing of your selves unto this dying state Making observation by self-Examination of those Signs and Marks that you may certainly conclude that the time of your departure is at hand Secondly For the Bounds and Time without all controversie the Body of Sin is old enough to dyeâ— it is not few but many and evil have been its days which have been spent unprofitably therefore the Life thereof is not to be prolonged but to seek the cutting of it off as an unprofitable Member with all that do pertain unto it As the vile Body which through the corrupt Principle entring in changed the very Form into the like deformed Image which being brought back again unto a Nullification then the Eternal Life will spring and set all in order as to the very outward Vehicle again The Third Symptom you are to take notice of is this how your Life-Pulse beats weak or strong that is whether the Life and Vigour of the Heart be much deaded and spiritless to all whatever can be named that hath its Root from this degenerated Principle The Fourth Symptom is this do you feel your Stomach and Appetite fully gone that yon cannot digest any of the Fruits that is brought forth by the Sweat of the Brow and Toil of the Hands all which was the product of the Curse A Fifth Symptom is this nay more try your selves that to all which seems to carry a more refined excellency in it are you able to distinguish it as garnished only with somewhat out of Paradise but mixed with the wild and sowre Vintage of this World whether you do feel real disgusts and loathing hereunto The Sixth place this is another palpable Sign the Life-Breath is much pent and stopped The thick Air and unsavoury Fumes of this worldly Region have near stifled the very Life-Breath so as it will be unbearable finding nothing at all in this whole Universe pleasant unto you because of this your Spiritual Sickness which presageth Death to be so near Can you now but give a real Proof of such languishing Symptoms then may you hope and believe a glorified Translation is hereby working out where nothing more that is uneasie shall be felt Concerning some means to this perfect Death consider these that follow Ianuary the 27th 1676 7. First Let your Bridegroom Spirit you who are thus truly dying and direct you wisely to put your visible Affairs into order as only using them as for a meer constrained necessity during the time of your sick mortal state always expecting that their Date is wearing out For a transformed Body will hereof have no need Secondly Then yet again take this Rule from your dear Comforter who would have you finish all things that may be in order to this accomplishment of what may make perfect and entire lacking nothing that may make comely The Third Place There is another Act as necessary to be performed as this in passing away and making a disposal as your last Will of all that you possess in and from the Spirit of this mutable Region that doth constitute and give forth to the fallen Ones their several Portions by and through the visible Constellations that work uncessantly in all the Rational and Sensitive Faculties as also from the subtle introducement of the Prince of Darkness who thereby holds the Life captive that it cannot so easily come to its total decease Therefore give up all as they have proceeded from the Earthly Rudiments let them inherit them as their own again For the Spiritual Birth and Body that is to take place upon the Remove of this hath more high graduated Intellectuals and Faculties supersensually engraven upon the Mind which will always generate from the Crystal Source of the Immense Being Ianuary the 28th 1676 7. This Morning the Spirit gave this Word of Counsel as also for a Caution in and upon this great Expectation Beware of the Tempter in relation to the Hope of Transmutation Who subtilly stands ready here to mingle who waiteth to see if you should hereby be exalted by any elevated aims that are not clear and justifiable in the Eye of the Holy Trinity Therefore keep down upon the sure ground of Deaths deep Humility make no terms or conditions what Body you shall come forth with leave that to him who is the Resurrection and Life Who will give every Spirit a Body as may answer to what for them is designed whether to appear or disappear in this Principle according as the most Holy shall see meet to employ you in new raised Bodies or to draw up into that Orb which is all invisible to officiate as an Eternal Sanctuary Only in this be watchful and purge out all high and self-ambitious aims testifying how great your Rejoycings are in the dying Marks and Signs whereby as it is said the World is crucified to you and you unto the same and hereby you shall lose no due Fame whether or no ye look unto the Reward that shall follow all this God himself hereunto will have respect for you upon whose Faithfulness and Truth you may well rest Who
crazy Building you may take the Word of your Lord Jesus who by his Spirit is now come to tell you the material Matter of this House which you are to enter upon the Matter and Form of which is God himself Who hath had the Denomination of Old to be the Dwelling-place of his People and the Saints Pavilion throughout all Generations This Building is all of Saphire Stone having perfect measures of Length Breadth and Heights according to the Figure de-declared by Ezekiel who obscurely pourtraied out this high and wonderful Palace for the most holy Priests to enter in and to perform their daily Worship God is not a naked unfurnished House you will find it already provided to your Hand without any care or toil in first second and third Story with suitable Furniture to every place So that you will cry Oh how amiable are the Courts of Holiness Here you will desire to dwell for ever in him who doth so splendorously dilate himself to your Internal Senses that all may have a satisfying Content Now the next thing to be considered is to know what is here included in the Promise Ans. Here is included the whole Number of Divine and Celestial Relations promised upon a new Score of which Iob was a true Similitude who lost all in this very same kind and had all again restored as a Figure of this new replenished state All the Comfort that may be expected further from hence is Marriage-Union From whence Encrease may come without this the other will not altogether perfect the Joy Therefore be assured that Care is taken for this also there is a numerous Off-spring out of this Holy Habitation to be Born Your Father hath already made the Match before Hand before you do come thither All things while you are in this Principle are determined upon Oh! here you will know the unutterable Pleasure of a Bridegroom who will be so intimately tender over you that you shall say Never was such kind of Love known or fathomed when you shall know no more any Interposing Lover but can appropriate each other in all Purity A blessed exchange here will then be understood But yet there are higher Degrees of Joy when you shall bring forth after your own Heavenly perfect Likeness The great Blessing that is promised upon this Conjunction with the Virgin-Bride is Fruitfulness Ye shall also see of the travel of your Spiritual Bodies and therewith be satisfied Wisdom as a fruitful Vine upon the sides of this Eternal House and Building will spread forth her self Consider that of Isaiah which Prophecy is yet to be fulfilled Isa. 49. 20 21. In this time the Children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other shall say the Place is too strait meaning this earthly Principle they cannot thereto be confined they may look into it and pass through it as Strangers to shew themselves as Jesus did after his Resurrection but no continued Habitation for them is here v. 22. But thou shalt say in thy Heart who hath begotten these seeing I had lost my Children and was left alone This represents your dead and deplorable state once and the suddain and unexpected Restoration In that clause Where have they been So that a Nation and Kingdom of Priests seems to be born in one Day This is marvellous indeed when ye shall see your Spiritual Offspring as Olive-Plants about your Table set This must needs heighten your Peace and Joy in him who is your Tabernacle framer who hath such durable and pleasant Comforts provided in this Mountain of Holiness Besides there are also Brethren and Sâ—sters which are born with you from one and the same Eternal Spirit whose Loves are pure and immutable as God's Love is rejoycing Not envying at each others Degrees of Glory No grudgings there is though a Benjamin's Portion be doubled Among these nothing known is but an high sweet refreshing Harmony A blessed Family thus compact It may well make you groan to put off this Earthly House that so this Royal Society may be made known to you And as ye have been long herefrom kept as Exiles so let this true and faithful account which now is given by that Spirit who doth bear a true Witness hereof provoke you this Translation to seek and that withal your Might For the Emphasis lieth in that Word of your Jesus his Promise if you well observe which runs Now in this Time or in this very time signifying all Here to be made good Which will awaken great Persecutions as it is said strange Uproars within and without you Which the Prince of this World will raise when he seeth that any one shall in great earnest resolve to put off all that he can challenge right unto It is the earthly Sinful Body that he disputes for leave it him for after this manner he contended for Moses Body which God had hid Be ye henceforth Exiles here but real Inhabitants with God your appointed dwelling Place Leave this Principle and all what is its own care not but render up what you had from it For when you have quitted all doubt not but the hundredfold will come upon you according as hath been revealed Be you the first Adventurers here for it and ye shall be undoubtedly highly blessed The same Day I had this Word spake in me thy Soul is among tearing Lyons but a Daniel guard is about thee They shall make no Prey whilst thou dost fly to thy Rock for shelter thou shalt see their Mouthes sealed up forcibly February the 18th 1676 7. Arguments to plead with the Lord were given to me this Night Which I found was from the Spirit of Prayer that urged strongly and potently in me for our remove out of this Tent of vile Humanity into what I did in Spirit see Upon which I had this Word spoke to me Be patient in Hope stedfast in Faith ardent in Love and ye will move the Trinity to send forth Decrees for your enlargement Then again was given into me an Idea as the Dr. and I did mutually joyn in Prayer in and for the same thing that our Condition was like to Ionah swallowed up in the Belly of the Whale shut up in the House of Death enclosed in the Body of Sin round which the Seas and Floods did beat upon and the Deeps did roar and boil as a Pot of Ointment All which presented this World with the mutinous Spirits that are as the restless Waves that would as the Belly of Hell devour us if not bounded It was thus shewed to me that the true Prophetical Ionah was in us who was cast into this boisterous Sea which would drown the Prophetical Life but that the wise preventing Love of God hath provided for Ionah's safety in the very Belly of Death Out of this Grave the Lord our God doth hear our Voice though the Earth with her Bars are about us yet said the Living Word out from Corruption your Lives shall be brought Thus
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
building of great fortitude and strength it was compacted so within it self as nothing by many miles could come near to it All the scituation of it was green and pleasant but the ascent to it was so high as it seemed impossible for any to come up thereunto who had not the Wings of a Dove Neither could I discern any Road or Path-way thither After the representation hereof was passed away leaving much thoughtfulness in me I had for that present time this word given to me That this separated Building was called the City of strength Some three nights after as I was in a slumber this high Mountain appeared again and I saw two Persons beckoning out of that place to come up then I attempted to ascend or to walk up to them but found my Corporeity so weighty upon me as I could not by any means at that present make up thither which caused great anxiousness in me for my will was very earnest to make up to that desired place April the 23d 1677. A further Discourse upon this high Mountain Upon which I moved my Lord who was nigh in Spirit why such inviting Ideas should so attract both Heart and Eyes and yet no might or power to come up to that holy Mountain upon which this glorious City stood which would be strength and fortitude from all sufferings and evils which while below this Mountain we are obâ—oxious to Upon which complaint the springing word thus said how is it that thy soul is hereat disquieted that thou canst not possess so immediately what is made known to thee in Vision and Prophecy The ground hereof is known to Wisdom who also will satisfie thee why this cannot yet be attainable First consider thy present Existency that it is in a very low degree inferior to the Angelical Sphear nay hardly meet for what might be enjoyed in the Paradisical Orb. That pure leavening Unction hath not gone through Body Soul and Spirit so as to change throughout into its own Nature which hath hindred you For nothing of corporeal matter could ever thither up ascend though the Will and Spirit put forth with great earnestness out thereunto But then again be it given ye to understand that this presentation doth signifie the reviving the remembrance of what hath been prophesied in foregoing Ages For Similitudes will go before to usher in the real thing The Preludiums of which have so long slept that some fresh warnings hereof will be given to them that wait for and believe in their day to see the Kingdom of God in its height of glory As this City is a true figure hereof which seems yet to be at a great distance from this low World as to its mighty height Which is a Confirmation to that old Prophecy the Mountain of the Lords house is established above all moâ—ntains and thereto will be the flowing of Dove Spirits as to their own habitation From hence a sweet and fresh Manifestation by way of a renewed Prophecy did open from those words That it shall come to pass in the last days and which thus spake That the Lot of this fulfilling Prophecy might be witnessed by some in this Age. For which end this Transient Vision of the City was shewed for to quicken and revive the hopes of those who were Mourners to see themselves remote herefrom because of the wonderful distance and height in the situation thereof which caused such anxiousness through their own insufficiency to reach up thither as not seeing any possibility to come to God's Holy Palace where only was our hoped for freedom But while I was in this demur and fear a swift Messenger from this high and lofty Place did reach out his hand to me and suddainly this House which was so far off was now to me as nigh For I did see it pass by me as in a clear Glass-case as if it had run upon a Chariot Wheel so swift that I could only spy through the Glass a light transparent Glory Which left me in no little Concern because not taken in hereinto But that word was spoken presently for support Thou canst not follow now but shalt afterwards Then did the Comforter commune of these things further unto me revealing the mystery of this City as to its consistency It s Building is of a threefold quality as to the making out of its glorious Variety The first foundation-matter was all Saphire-like of such virtue and clarity as it extracts the Jasperstone and so consequently the the ghostly Ruby of which three this City is compacted And is exalted above all degrees of created beings that none can come to dwell here within this deified place till a high Chymical Virtue do proceed from each stone in this Building for a separated operation For these stones will attract only out of the Soul and Spirit what is their own Therefore expect no less then three baptizing fires to pass upon you before ye can be Inhabitants in this transparent City of Glass The Saphire which is the Fathers fiery Property operates in the Spirit of Salts searching quality to find out all corruptibility Then secondly Christ the Jasper-light sends out his warm fire Blood-stone both to purge cleanse and heal Then the third dispensive Power will let out such a flood of Oyl of his own high persumed Nature mingling all through the foregoing Celestial fires in a blessed light flame as will burn away the first gross Elemental Matter which hath prevented the Spirits ascent into this Mountain of the Lord's House But however draw you near to the foot of this City-mountain which while ye fit therein waiting this very Mountain may melt and before you bow And this City which is called everlasting Righteousness and Strength will through its pure constellative virtue exhale and draw you up into it self Where ye then ever will be with the Deity in Berill flaming Bodies and Spirits according to the ghostly Purity of might as those who are ready for this spiritual and suddain flight April the 26th 1677. As I was considering of the openings which I had of that Vision relating unto the Cherubim-birth which was hatched under the Hand of the Power This Query arose in me how the Spirit of this New Creature was sustained And which way it could draw in that food that constituted it to be of that strength and excellency of Body and Spirit that it could mount away as a Dove into an unknown Orb Ah my Lord what manner of Birth is this Shall such a Birth ever be known to have existency in this terrestial sphere Sure such a Birth is only meet to be Born where is a pure and unmixed Element which may not be in strife against it For verily it is hard and very difficult for such a Birth to be nursed and brought up to perfection where all things work cross rising up against it Because it is a strange Child that beareth not this worlds Image as for example in our Lord Jesus his
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
the sweet sappy flowings of the Spirit as Rivers of Oyl which will make all these flaming Wheels work up to a Seraphick height so as hereby to look terribly for Glory and Beauty for Perfection May the 23th 1677. As we were met together at prayer I had the presentation of a Golden Cup out of which did rise a flame of Light as Fire bubling beyond the Brim of the Cup and it was thus spoke who so are able let them drink of it Upon which I considered hereof expecting a further explanation of this Vision Which this Morning thus opened it self that the Cup which was all of Gold presented Christ in his pure Corporeity who had been tried through all Fires and thereby was made a meet Vessel to retain the essential Spirit of the pure flaming Deity that springs high beyond the bounds of humanity as the Fire did above the Cup. Then it was revealed and uttered by a still voice that as I did see the rising of this Fire even so should be the flowing of the Holy Ghost For it was his Fiery Baptism wherewith many should be sprinkled from its going out Oh my Lord why was this Cup tendered for those who were not able to drink down this Spirit of Fire Would it might be our lot Who surely would rejoice to drink down a full draught hereof Oh dear Jesus that by thy self thou wouldst hand this Cup unto us as once thou didst in the figurative way to thy Disciples After I had much after this manner inlarged my self in Spirit to my God and Father the Word then spake in me Ye must first arrive to this Golden Degree then ye shall be flowingly filled with this high spirited Flame Christ the Lord is here â—ory our Example Now then take good heed to those great fiery working Wheels which will frame for you this Golden Vessel Suffer gladly the mighty force of them which will form this Golden Cup in each one where the heavenly and pure elementary matter is prepared Be only found in your diligency and then your great Work-master will be under an engagement to finish this unknown Mystery That so ye may be Golden Cups of Blessings to your self and others May the 26th 1677. In the night being cast into a sleep I saw this Golden Cup again which was presented to my intellectual sight some days before as I was in prayer Now again passing from one to another some few Persons of us being met together The Person that handed this cup to us was in the Garb of an Officer with a Gown and when he came to give it to me somewhat he seemed secretly to whisper which the rest were not to hear which I thought carefully to observe but when I awaked I could not remember any thing of the words which I did believe was of concern I only well retained the Ministrator of this Golden Cup which did not flame out as it did before but there was an Oyly Liquor of flame colour in it which tasted like to pleasant Wine After I was come out of this Night Vision I waited what would be spoken herefrom further to me which interpretation was presently given the Officer personated our Lord Jesus to whom the great Majesty had given the Power of Administration For there is no true Sacramental Institution but when he is present himself who knows those Sanctuary Vessels of his own Body that be thereunto affixed and who are separated from all common use He walks amongst the Golden Cups to convey Flaming Spirit and pure Oyl of Light he doth not put off with dead heartless Signs but letteth in his flowing Nature as Spikenard that when any have drank hereof they do feel an inebriating Spirit that burns as fire upon the Altar of their hearts as a signal witness that the right Administrator hath opened himself in a Celestial Fire-spring Which is the Pool of the Holy Ghost from which every Sanctuary Vessel is to be sprinkled Take ye heed hereto Iune the 1st 1677. This Vision was just upon the Doctor 's taking a House THIS day I had a very deep sense opened in me upon a Vision of several Pits that were filled with muddy Water so thick they were together that my self with some other Persons could not know how to pass without peril of falling into some one or other of them But our way lying through this place we could no way avoid but we must go through it Which was very hazardable irksome and grievous but through fear and heedfulness watchfulness and prayer we did get through And this word I did hear speak saying This shall also turn to your salvation through earnest prayer from the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Then again this night I saw as two of us were going upon our way with great earnestness to be at the end of our Journey there fell a suddain showr and stopped us so as we feared lest the night should come upon us before we should reach the place we were designed to This Vision did plainly speak out there was some present danger at hand which made me desire to be apart to know the mind of the Spirit herein bemoaning those Dicissitudes which might happen for our further probation Then was it shewed me that those Pits which I saw were promising advantages from the Earthly Region Which stood open to plunge us into their deep Abyss as which would drown our superiour Life in their muddy waters For this word came to me while I was considering hereof Escape here for your Life sake for what have you to do in the way of the Assyrians Upon which I prayed earnestly that we might be kept from the many evil occurrences that might happen upon the removal to an outward habitation which I foresaw might be hurtful for the present to our Spirits For which cause those things were presented for how would the Prince of this Earth and Aiery Region triumph to see us who have disdained his Kingdom and all the preferments of it to be catched by any baits from it For I heard this word say in me there would be a great acclamation from out of the bottomless Pit could they but bury your fire-sparkling life therein Therefore fear always while you have any thing to transact where Satan hath to do Then as to the Showr that came while we were journying on it was opened to me that as to the working-wheel of Fire there might be some stop For there was nothing more injurious than floods of Water upon fiery Wheels that is heavenly Spirits involving themselves with earthly things though good and lawful to others yet not to us who had the Nazarite Vow upon us and under such Laws and Institutions as were not made known to others Therefore that which might be justifiable in them would not be to us because under great Light Revelation and Direction The Spirit in us bearing witness hereunto that is to be of great binding Force and Powers to keep us
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
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
only to be had from the pure Altar-coal Which must alone feed and increase this Spirit of Fire-life which mutually co-works in order to the great design of a Christ-like Perfection which fallen man is to be raised again to the enjoyment of Now this word with great Power was spoke unto me Be ye whose Sparks of Fire are added to your Persons by the inspiring breath of Al-mightiness still so industrious as to recruit and gather in what hath been even before you were visibly existing unadvisedly run out and lost of this weighty Substance Which I the Spirit of Jesus am come to tell you is yet recoverable as you do stick and cleave to me in that all-furnished Heart of most purified Properties Then I your Golden Case as a defence will be to secure your springing Treasure within that Heart-excellency which will advance you to a much more higher state than that of the first Adam's degree Oh how will it make for the Praise of the Head-Power and Prince of this New Creation to rake out of the dark Embers of Terrestriality such sparkling Diadems of Glory Therefore ye holy Ones this is well worthy of your persuit For what a dignity will it be for you not only to recover in what your first Father Adam lost but to come into an Augmentation in a Spiritual State And as you are now sunk down so many degrees below the Paradisical Life to your shame and great debasement So by virtue of this renewed Heart annexed to the Golden Caul as its Habitation ye shall rise seven Steps beyond whatever your Predecessors knew in Paradise For had they stood but in this Innocent Hearts Unity they should have known greater tranquillity in a God-al-sufficiency and would have been more satisfied in an open Vision of Glory Oh my Lord thou bringest wonderful things to Light and hast added hereby a new Life to our Hopes therefore we will be encouraged onward to proceed this perfect Heart for to attain Which is to be separated from all Hearts that are centered in the gross sensuality and which are circled about with the Gall of bitter Enmity unto thy Nature which is all Gentle Meekness and Seraphick Purity August the 1st 1677. THIS Morning there was presented to me being the first of August with some other Idea's Three distinct Hearts The one was a dark stony Heart it looked like a piece of Flesh that was dead and rotten upon which did fasten many grievous Serpents that fed upon the flesh thereof Then I saw another Heart that had all the pleasant aspects of a Face with Wings fastned by the Ears wherewith it did fly away from the dismal Heart up to another Heart that was fixed in a bright Orb it being all in Charity sending forth streams like Gold to relieve the other Heart which did fly unto it And it was said in my hearing These are the Streams that shall for ever make glad thy Heart because thou hast from the Vile Heart fled away Here is Life-food for thy Heart everlastingly therefore with it stay August the 7th 1677. As I was casting up in my Mind the necessitous state that all mankind was plunged into and why it should be that that there was no difference made as to the Just and Unjust but it fell alike to both as to all external things Nay that the Unregenerate did much more abound with all this Worlds goods than those who were of the Spirits-birthâ— I found a great dissatisfaction in my self why Infinite Wisdom should so permit it seeing that those who are of a sober mortified and watchful Carriage Life and Conversation should not have the Soveraignty and Lordship over what in this Principle might serve their more superiour Life Hereupon I sunk down into the quietness expecting some Resolve might hereunto be given Which by a certain Dialogue betwixt two I was given somewhat of the mystery hereof to understand The One of these two appeared in a bright Aetherial Cloud in Person The other in a Humane Shape but all like putrified flesh unsound of an Egyptian hue or colour Oh see cried the Bright One into what a strange degenerate Life-being art thou become What makes thee come so near to face me who am in a clear Body that can have no fellowship with such dark Bodies Then spake that deformed One which was the Prince of this World I have assumed this Body of Deformity of which it was promised thou great Prince of Might Glory and Majesty shouldst set free out from the impâ—iring Element which hath brought all this uncomliness Then spake the high One What further hast thou to charge me with Go forward on For I know thou art come to upbraid the Son of God Then rowsed up the Accuser like a Lion bold and thus wise did speak Oh thou great Melchizedeck where is the effect of thy Râ—deeming Blood as to release from this Vile Body that is obnoxious to all Maladies as to Complaints of Penury and Distresses Even whereof those that are given to thee no more be exempted than the Children of my Kingdom Nay they are necessitated to come oftentimes for succour and supplies to relieve their exteriour part or else their very animal life might fail and die Entitled thou art indeed to be that Shepherd which careth for thy Sheep but they are found stragling and shifting up and down even for their temporary sustinance They are apt to crave among those of my Fold who do make no pretence to any thing which is brought in by the Spirit of Faith Such who are of my Lineage go upon a more sure way prospering by their industry day by day they as the Palm Tree do flourish and spring through all Toyl and do wait and so become Honourable and great in the World While thine as poor Abjects are the scorn and derision of all my Kingdoms Preferments debar'd from them they have looked long for the day of Jubilee when they should return to their great Lordships and Dominions but nothing hereof is yet seen Even they who obtain the greatest Friendship with the Almighty nothing hereof do yet come to know Where is now then if thou a Mighty God and Saviour art any thing signal for the Complainants that are in distress in Bodies yet so grosly Corporeal So that no distinction is made from mankind in common in any visible Power or Dignity As to this my Off-spring do much exceed thine Therefore I need not fear but my Kingdom will yet encrease while thy little Flock are kept so low poor and needy in this Region Here ended the Serpents expostulation with the Lord Jesus August the 8th 1677. The Reply of that Bright Spirit against whom the Charge was O Satan thy Nature is to vilifie and to strike with thy Scorpion Tail against my Head-soveraignty pouring out Floods of Contempt which do rebound back to thy self Now to answer thee in all particulars of thy Charge First As to thy assuming the Figure of that
while on this side of the mortal death Happily some there be who in Purity and Faith having finished their terrestrial Life here after their bodily dissolution may unknown to us Inhabitants of this working restless World enter in there But no President we have of any that could ever pass but through that known universal death of the Corporeal Body For that would be a great and marvellous thing beyond ever what was yet heard of that ever any went in and out amongst us that could give an account of passing out from us into that Paradisical Sphere it being shut up ever since Adam's turning out therefore in this present time we must not look for it For this weighty matter of doubt I besought the Lord earnestly for a resolve in whether or no such a Translation might be hoped for and believed in before death was tasted of My Spirit did very watchfully wait for an Answer hereupon which after some time was thus given to me to understand and from the Word of Knowledge was uttered True it is Oh Soul that none hath entred these Gates in a mortal shape neither can any more than a Camel can pass through the Eye of a Needle unclothed ye must be of sins body the gross bulk thereof cannot pass in And though ye have been Let hitherto by this full fraughted Principle yet possibly ye may grow so wise and subtile as to pass through by the virtue of that pure leavening Name Which like Oyl of Gold will all overflame you and so turn Gross Earthly Matter into an Aetherial Spiritual Body for none but such can come to be so near the Trinity Neither is it the death of the outward Body that can fit it hereunto for if the inward body of sin be not as well put off as the outward it will avail little as to thy entrance into this Supernal City Therefore now if in the throng of all present Temptations ye can but get the conquest then this blessed change will be from a Terrestrial Glory to a Celestial What though this hath not been evidenced neither before or since the Lord 's appearing in flâ—sh let not that sink down your hearts into discouragement For there is such a Fire-stone to burn that now is kindled that will effect greater things than yet ever have been Therefore stretch out the Neck of your Faith right forward hereunto for the fearful doubtful and impure will be shut out of all hope of entring here Therefore said the Just One Faith in God will remove this laded Cart which did appear to stand in your way The fury of the Beast and Dragon also are very great against you animating such as are nearest unto you and of dearest concern to stop your way But be ye both advised by watching all opportunities through Patience Wisdom and Lowliness of Mind to keep on your way For by the creeping through is signified great Humility by which the Serpents subtilty may be supplanted Let this then now stir up all care and watchfulness for ye will be put oft-times while ye are in this process to great distress but keep the blessed issue always in your Eye and that will renew strength continually For all of this high concern must be effected through immutability pressing hard though the Wheel of this oppressive Principle threatens to grind you Yet be constant and persevere unto the end and ye will receive the Crown of Life August the 31th 1677. I saw multitudes of People this Night presented to me of several Habits and Languages all in business and traffick saving a few that were together gathered out of these Who were in a cessation from all matters of entanglement in a waiting interceding posture Of whom it was said That these few should become a strong Nation and rise up to take the Prey from the strong and mighty For if there were not some allotted only for the Sanctuary Attendance in a Consecrated Spirit of anointing to approach the immense Glory nothing of the Mind of the Most High would come to be known in their days Herefrom it was shewn me that by those Multitudes which were of all sorts and kinds in their several employes that run on in the concerns of those are petty things and satisfied with such mean atchievements as this Creation affords it hath been permitted that they should arrive to no greater than visible things and That only by continued exercise both of Minds and Hands But now by that other sort which I did see do nothing but stood waiting in a silent posture as if they had departed from the whole universe of their Fellow-creatures These united ones were to break open a fast enclosed Center where the natural freedom and commanding Power of Paradise lieth These all are by pure severation not only from the mixed Congregation of the wilder sort but from those who were as Cakes baked but of one side who were not throughly leavened with the Altar-fire themselves also to divide For the Word thus spake Such who are all of one refined mould who do seek nothing else but the plucking down of the man of sin from his great Seat which he hath gotten in the World and this must be done by sequestring from the confused noise of all what may promote hereunto For to some it will be given thus closely to set to the work Or else what can be brought to effect of the primary state for to regain the antient Liberty and sinless Innocency with higher degrees of what is now the superadded state Which will ask the whole Age of man's Life for to give attendance hereupon Which will be worth your daily setting to that hereby you may undermine the Strong Tower of him who would keep up his regency in the divided property of part good and part evil For so long as this is allowed him he will have the greatest share of this Worlds Kingdom Now then who would not set close to this more superiour Business to find out what lieth hid in the Magia Storehouse Arts of a wonderful degree present themselves here For as ye can wade through this deep Ocean great mysteries will flow out As ye may see comparatively what the spirit of a man hath attained to by external industry This hath brought forth all that is delightful to the humane sense whereby all are deluded who have looked hereinto Oh the lustrous state that now this Principle is wrought up toâ— it is become such a Golden Bait that rare it is to find any who are not biting and nibling hereupon If therefore the wisdom of that which is but Earthly hath found out and invented such an inviting variety to make this Creation so desirable What may not such reach unto who have the advantage of that Spirit of Wisdom that truly inspireth to know from the originality of all whatever is to be comprehended This Anointing is the light that makes manifest what lieth in the Abyss of Eternity And verily such as
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
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
account of him But it was further revealed to me that he was that Alpha and Omega the Second Person who had his Existency from all Eternity and was in a high Priestly Order from the time of Adam's Fall and did Officiat in the Heavenly Sanctuary and real Tabernacle in the Heavens Whereof Moses had a Sight and Pattern given him to figure out according to the low Capacity which the Church in the Wilderness then stood in But this great Melchizedeck incarnated himself in Flesh that he might visibly make an Offering thereof to testifie that an end must be to that weak corruptible and unprofitable state as now henceforth is to be thereunto put by the crucifying what he had assumed that so that mean and despicable Image might for ever be demolished That the first perfect glorious Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedeck might again rise and be in full accomplishment in the Residue of the Anointed hereunto who for this cause are putting off their Vile Body that they might be counted worthy to follow their Melchizedeck King where they shall not only pay their Praise Offerings but receive there a most high Priestly Portion which is an unknown and vast Spiritual income of Riches which shall be brought from all Parts as obligatory Ianuary the 14th 1676 7. In the forepart of the Night being newly fallen asleep I saw the Heavens as it were part and rend and mighty Commotions in it The earthly Inhabitants in great Trouble running up and down as fearing some unexpected Change was coming upon them Which awaked me and there was immediately presented unto my view as breaking through a bright Element two glorified Bodies of a bright Beryl Colour in such a wonderful Portraiture as did excel all I had formerly of this Nature in Vision seen Upon which my Eye kept fixed without any surprize or fear and still it was brought nearer The one seemed in a Manly Vissage and the other as a Woman very Lovely in her Countenance then soon after two or three more broke forth and joyned themselves unto them as in like glorified Figures This Sight was so pleasing that I could not but Pray Oh that we might be added unto them For it was said Behold this is the Lamb and his Bride which first I did see Oh this great Vision had so mighty an Influence upon my Spiritâ— as grievous it was still for to be confined in the Corporeal Body only hourly waiting for to see its Redemption But it was said Abide Patiently till your Salvation shall be fully wrought out then you shall swiftly be cloathed with the self same Body all Spiritual bright and airy as my Bride for to unite in one Body with me Then I replyed Ah my Lord why must this Translation be so earnestly sought and still prolonged It was again answered it was so considerable a Change as could not be without passing through many further Degrees For Sin and Mortality would not be so easily vanquished while we did abide in this tempting Region Ianuary the 15th 1676 7. This Morning it was much upon my Spirit how to quicken our Progress so as to arrive to that Nuptial Conjunction which did open unto me in the Heavens The Spirit sent forth deep and strong Invocations for the Consummation of this high Matrimonial Unity that so we might together display our Loves and Joys to each other in that Spicy perfumed Bed of the Celestial Orb. Oh the Eccho's which I did hear in me sound the Spirit called to the Bride to descend down the Bride called for the Spirit to ascend Thus cry upon cry did as a pure cloudy Incense send out which brought this Answer down Oh ye who are in the betrothed Spirit why may not the assurance hereof yet a while stay your most eager and Spiritual Passions of Love till such time as your Vessels of Clay be turned into the fine Ophire Gold through the working forth of that Saphire Stone that is formed in you Which shall work through all in its degrees till it hath brought you up to that perfect Stature as ye may make challenge with holy Boldness to the Marriage-state according to that pleasant and glorious Manifestation which you did see in the Heavens Which was shewn to you for this very end that so you might see your own Nuptial Day solemnized Before the accomplishing of which yet great Commotions will be permitted as you did see in the Vision See first what is still left alive of your dying part that will mutiny For the Sensitive Life cannot consent that ye should be married away out of their known Linage and Country Therefore they will lie in wait to entercept all Messages and Love-Tokens from your Immanuel to prevent the success of so great a Wedlock change Therefore I the Spirit of your Lord do warn you that you turn away from all self and creaturely Parly The Serpent also will subtlely back with Arguments in forms of Flesh that so ye might grow cold in your Love and slack in your Faith but spur forward and faint not for the everlasting Gate is set open by Soveraign Command The Trumpet doth daily sound to enter into Love's Holy Ground where only the Friends of the Bridegroom shall attend you at the Banquetting Feast of Bread and Wine Now away and draw from all the cursed things of Iericho and you shall meet assuredly your Melchizedeck King with a full Cup of Blessing This receive as a faithful and true saying from the Yea and Amen Ianuary the 20th 1976 7 About the Morning-break as I was contemplating upon the change of the Body for Translation A further Confirmation was given with Joy and Peace unutterable in hope of this Glory to be revealed My Spirit praying that we might obtain Grace for to be admitted of the same Order with our great Melchizedeck This Word immediately sprung saying The way and manner for it hath been most evidently set forth and plainly taught you as my Spirit could demonstrate it unto you You can find no surer Footing then first to be found in the walk of Death Trace it then so throughly till you can see no more Earth yield ye up the utmost ends without any reserve For no mingling state after Death but all immaculate the Feast of Tabernacles to celebrate within the most Holy Place Therefore fear not to pass through this Valley for I the Spirit of Truth will assuredly finish this Mystery because you have applied your Hearts to me having sought Death as a Treasury trying all ways and means for to expire out But as a deadly Enemy that is loath to be conquered it still revives which makes you to suspect that you shall never get rid of this grand and last Enemy but it will still hang a weight disgracing and separating from your high Priesthood But seeing you have cast your selves wholly upon me your Comforter to be advised in this matter Now then know I will cast you with the free
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
and mighty as by its Conjunction with its Bride may out-spread into a wonderful fruitfulness more terrible then whatever hath been displayed to the check and rebuke of all and the best of those Mortals that yet are come no further than to a lame and divided Property of Will who nothing of Might can do February the 8th 1676 7. It was further discoursed to me the great and mighty Effects that would accrue to that Will which could from its Original Purity spring passing as a Golden Arrow with mighty swiftness nothing thereof touching by the way to spoil its force and with a fixed Eye dertermining to bring about that very thing which the Arrow of the Will is gone into Which verily will have the same success that our Lord had when he said I Will such and such to be made whole All those great and marvellous things which have been done in the World before and since Christ's time have been by the Act of the Will as delivered from the Poysonable Web of Mortal Self Oh then how free is it in it self to summon in the mighty Force which is laid up in God's strong Tower for the unbyassed Will to draw out to act and do upon the Holy Ones account as a just Steward entrusted with a power of so high a Nature as all Matters to determine in the Counsel of a simplified Will This was shewed to me as a great and wonderful Prerogative into which the holy Driver made me search and still further to pry into the Mystery hereof opening that Scripture to me in the Revelations Whosoever will let him come and take of the Waters of Life freely The force lay all in the Will taking and recovering by lawful Violences the Crown of Immortality and Life that hath during the Captivity of the Mind and Will been out of reach and sight But now our dear Immanuel in Spirit is come to unbind and set our Wills free revealing what the clog and stop hereunto hath been which hath prevented the going forth of the Will-Spirit in Soveraignty Who this more said Yet I will give thee a deeper Sight that ye may see what hath lain as upon the Mouth of the Cave which hath kept down the rising Power of the Will that it could do no mighty things February the 10th 1676 7. As I was Considering in my self to wing up in the Power of a Free-will according as it is said There is a willingness in the Day of God's Power and making an Enquiry throughout all the Regions of my Mind how in this matter it stood with me I found the Will deficient much after the manner as the Apostle Paul in the 7th of the Romans gives a Character in which is presented a divided Will in an uncertain Motion which argued great Strife Weakness and Imperfection Which by no means was to be found in us staying here For said the revealing Unction To this end I have manifested unto you the adjoyning Power of Supremacy Which must be looked after as the Bride-Mate of the Will which addeth the Dowry of all-sufficiency in the Lord's Work and Business to go forward uncontroulably carried up in the Chariot of the free willing Spirit that trampleth all down before it Upon this Word of Counsel I had a mighty Voice with it crying thus in me with many Ecchoings following upon it saying You now know the way why is it that you still stay with the viler sort try and see every day what force ye can raise for your Revenue to that Heavenly born Family where is nothing but Peace and Unity with Palm Trees of Victory and Wells of Salvation that so ye may come to tast that which is so sweet while you are yet but in your way The smell and sight of Paradise will you first entertain through the perfect Death of the mortal Life and a while must stay with those lower Inhabitants well viewing that native Place and Country for somewhat that was lost there shall be upon recovery as soon as you there appear Then the Tree of Life will invite you to eat of it that so Immortality may be regained Then your Souls and Spirits are with Bodies suited for a higher Degree to come up among the greater Dignities For Paradise is as your Bride-Chamber where ye must put on again your Virgin Body February the 11th 1676 7. After this Call to Paradise the Spirit presented that Scripture to me Mark 10. 28 29. and opened very powerfully to me every Sentence of it as shewing we both should sustain no Loss by acquitting all those Particulars there mentioned The occasion of our Lord Jesus giving forth the assurance of a better exchange upon the very fore-going of what was in present view and possession This Query was started upon the coming of the Young Man who had as he thought bid fair for the Kingdom of God supposing none could go higher then to observe and keep all the Commandments but our Lord had a more searching thing to try him withal which he was not aware of when he so confidently moved his question The Answer to which brought great Anxiousness that no doubt he repented him that he urged such a Discourse whereby as in a Glass he might see the impossibility of inheriting Eternal Goods till that he was stripped of all that whereby he was inriched from this lower state of things Which made our Lord to cry out of the great Hardship and Difficulty that would be to quit all to follow him to come to be no more of the World then he was but as a Stranger not having any dwelling place but to pass through it as a foreign Country only biding so long as to do the Lord's Message and perform his Work which ought to be our end and design For the whole drift of our Jesus in and by all his Life Example and Doctrinal Admonition was still to wind us off and ungraft us from out of the strange degenerated Vine from whence we so readily suck that Life from which a Death is to come upon But to come to what was opened to me from Peter's asking Christ so bluntly what they should have upon the account of forsaking of all for him Which seemed to be a pretty selfish Question but however our Lord overlooked that giving an high encouragement to whomsoever shall by forsaking of all give proof of their Love to him and esteem of the Heavenly Treasury above the Earthly Now upon the Call and Cry which I had follwed me to draw off and come away from what would make a Prey of us My Heart ecchoed back again saying Ah Lord how is it possible we should put off all so quickly when so deeply engaged and settled as House-keepers amongst the Inhabitants here below as not seeing our selves capable of passing into another Sphere because we do bear gross Bodies Upon which the Spirit brought those Words to me As first Whosoever shall forsake Houses that Word in Particular was thus interpreted
That by Houses the Spirit that spake in Jesus then did aim at a further thing then an outward material Habitation Houses for shelter are harmless and without Offences But it is that Earthly House spoken of which is the Body of Sin which harboureth the whole Tribe and Family who are from the fallen Birth From which evil Seed a Corrupt Generation hath sprung and sheltred themselves therein There is Father and Mother Husband and Wife Brethren and Sisters as the most Holy Spirit declared saying All these in a compact are being of one Blood and Life strong Animal and mighty Rational and all these do lawfully plead for their establishment as in such who are refined from the more gross Pollutions not considering their own Originality that all do proceed from a corrupt Being and it is not the suspending their Evil Properties at sometime not suffering them to break forth washing that over which beareth the stain of a Leopard Spot This is too short and defective for to race the Foundation of the House and Linage you are called upon to pull it down The Incitement is to that superiour Will upon whom all these Combining Powers have encroached It therefore must act a Sampson part resolving to make a Battery that so a final Conquest may appear upon the visible Stage resolving to break the Brood though you do with them sink down into Death Call up your force the mighty strength of Israel is at hand yet once more to avenge you by not only shaking but by removing the Pillars of that House which hath been a receptacle of all this Evil Fraternity from which to go out ye are commanded Let not your Noble Will take any notice of their subtle and pretended Abnegations or upper Washings which cannot change the Blackamore It will be an Ishmaelite at best though a faithful Abraham's Son part thereof may bear yet because of a divided Seed born from the Aegyptian nothing of Wisdom's Inheritance it must ever share all of that is reserved for her own true Heir who hereupon will rid all of the Hagarites Offspring not one shall dwell in Isaac's Court. Thus I was made to understand the scope and drift of the Spirit what it was to forsake all it is no less then to be dead to all and to come so far in this Death as to strike at the very moving cause of what hath given Life unto these degenerated Plants at which very Root the Flaming Sword will pierce that so the Original Matter may be throughly consumed Ah blessed Lord such a deep Wound in that hidden part whereout all of this strange earthly brood begotten was do thou now give us from thy great kindness such a deadly stroke that no more of Life may ever stir from that Center and give unto us a release from that Ishmaelitish Family to all Eternity Ah dear Lord Jesus February the 14th 1676 7. Being this Night much carried forth in full Sail of the Spirit of Faith which was the more set afloat from the contradicting and opposing Spirits who were raised as so many Pyrats that did attempt to take away our Prize after this manner it was presented to me that the most Holy One had built for us a passing Ship to sail upon the broad Heavens to fetch home the rich Cabinet-Treasure that is disposable by Wisdom she giving out upon every arrival fresh Lading Now the Serpent this seeing said If we let them alone in this way of high and Spiritual Traffick then they will come to a mighty Increase For if the good and choice things of Mount Sion should be brought into this Principle and the worth of them should come to be understood then Babylon's Wares could not bear that rate that now they do Therefore said the blessed Comforter Marvel not that wait is laid by that Evil One who in several Vessels as a Man of War doth strongly stear them Who deem it but just and lawful to riffle and despoil what are prohibited as unlawful to be brought in into this earthly Region The wise and learned Rabbies of this Age do take Counsel how to prevent the Landing of these uncustomed Goods that are not Liceâ—sed after the known Traditional Laws But at this be ye not terrified who well know your Merchandize is good and valuable and in its time it shall have Vent amongst those who hereunto are elected Therefore your goodly Ships rigged with Flying Banners of Faith do you not fear still to send forth for Guardian Hosts of Spiritual Powers shall surround you Only this let your Bow of Faith abide in strength and do not give the least ground to what would dis-settle you Trust in the Most High as your Strength and ye in Unity shall find an Almighty Defence February the 14th 1976 7. Being upon a deep Consideration how and after what manner our God would give witness that we are chosen as Paul and Barnabas for a special Work and Ministry in this World it was answered me It should be known by a great Gift that should come upon us February the 15th 1676 7. Then this Word came to me saying For as much as ye have with one fixed Mind for my Truth and Honour stood expect Prophecies shall to you be made good It was again thus to me said That by Constancy we should wear out every Enemy with this Word of Charge to hold the Helm of our Ship fast for it would then bring us to our own Country Coast. Where we should be beyond the fear of every lurking Pyrate February the 17th 1676 7. The second part of that of Mark 10. 30. was by the sweet Flowing Unction expounded to me being the reward of what should ensue upon the denying and forsaking this whole earthly Life giving and taking a general Release from it This Word came as a Preface to it Know that the most mystical and deep Sence of this Scripture is now opened unto you who are beloved of your Lord not only for the enriching of your Minds with right Knowledge and Understanding but to give firm ground to stand upon And hereby to believe as from a sure and fresh Word of Prophecy which ye may expect the accomplishment of upon the laying down of your Lives and suffering a real devestment of all thereto pertaining The summ of which is the putting off the House of this earthly Tabernacle that ye may be cloathed upon with this House which is here mentioned in the Plural Number Houses to shew that there is variety of Habitations to take your delight and pleasure in But what manner of Buildings are these Houses the material matter of them you would willingly know First by a true description from such a one as is already entred into them who is so gloriously settled herein as he it is who doth invite you to be his Neighbourhood saying to the Conquerors Come up and sit with me in my Throne Now then till you have laid down your Earthly Tabernacle of this
Flaming Glassy Sphear that will make your Bodies Clear and Shining as the terrible Chrystal Oh then qualified Seraphick-like enter into that Jasper City which is all Light where-unto coming the Pearly Gate will open wide the Door-keeper there knoweth well who are worthy having the Register Book in his Hand where-into will be given you to look that so ye may see your own Names and thereby have boldness to enter among this great and glorified Assâ—mbly Where a Seat among the Elders is prepared when once arrived here you are past all future Dangers and Fears Who but the great and mighty God and King so soon as you do here appear will hold out his Golden Flaming Scepter and bid you draw more near and take knowledge of him who hath thus prepared all these good things after so much Tribulation suffered in the Flesh for the Over-comers Therefore saith the All-searching Spirit who hath foreseen all this for you think not much that ye are called hereby out from all Terrestial Things yet to be a great Seperatists from all of this visible Creation and from the Inhabitants that are so strongly centred with the Earthly Life who may infect you with their poysonable Fumes and spot your Paradisical Lilly while it is upon its new Blossoming for to this End I have revealed these great things of Paradice and of the Holy City to you that so it might be as strengthning Food while ye are in the Warfaring state Care not to save that Life which stands upon Worldly Interest but study daily to loose it then shall you surely find that and much more than is yet declared of the things of God For greater Secrets within the Bosom of Eternity may yet be revealed to the Spiritual Man Who shall for this purpose and use give up their pure Minds to Wisdom's private Cabinet for to be filled with her daily Treasury Whose delight is much with such who do stand clear from all Creatures who are apt to ensâ—are with corrupt Communications For who doth know the full Extent of that Natural Law but such as have received it from the Mouth of Jesus none else are under such a strickt Obligation Therefore upon you who have so greatly sought this Favour as to come within the compass of the Nazarite Vow keep to it and do it not forsake upon your Spiritual Life Peril But if to this Vow ye do keep then all those rich and unutterable Perfections of Glory which are in Paradise and Mount Sion shall be your Portion and Reward While this was Opening upon the Author the Distinction of the Mount Sion and the Jerusalem-state was not yet so clearly revealed to her whence she comprehendeth them here in one which was afterward more distinctly and fully Opened in the Revelation of the Eight Worlds as they were made known gradually and Experimentally to her Which she thinks fit to declare in this Place as well with relation to this as to some other Passages which she would not at all alter but leave in its first native simplicity in which it was delivered down March the 5th 1676 7. Rules given how a Spiritual Man is to walk towards God and those that are without who are not in the discerning of the Lord's Temple-Body into which there must be no thrusting in that which is unhallowed FIrst as to the Lord the Spiritual Man stands in that high Relation as he is perfectly under the Law and type of such an Eternal Obligation as to do nothing but by Counsel Commission and Ordination still having recourse to God as his Father and to the Lord Jesus and to the Spirit of Wisdom who is at hand to direct every Thought Word and Motion Be chast keepers at home is a Spiritual Charge upon the Spiritual Man in God his Habitation Where all his Content and Pleasure is to be taken up not gadding with the Eye of his Mind out of this Spiritual Holy Place Now as to Creaâ—urâ—s how to walk to them who are of the Earth All care is to be had to maintâ—iâ— a wise and holy distance as our Lord Jesus did giving no offence to the Caesars of this World about their Dues But have no Fellowship or Conversation more than what is of absolute Necessity For he can hardly match our spiritual Man to any Being that will suit it but God himself into whose Bosom it will fly like to an eageâ— Bird. Remembring we are to be redeemed from Men and not to walk as Men in the Flesh but as those who are justified in the Spirit Keeping Company with the Flocks that are come forth all washed in the Blood of the Lamb who is that Shepherd who will sound his sweet ecchoing Trumpet of Peace Love and Joy wherewith we may be so inebriated as not to go out of this Fold to other strange Flocks where only Goats are who are excluded from the great Shepherd March the 7th 1666 7. This Word came also to me I again will choose a Disciplehood upon the Earth who shall know me in my inward Spiritual Figure as I was known in former times by a terrestial Voice and Shape Now I will walk again upon an invisible Earth where none but the Spiritual Man can understand my Speech or see my transformed Shape To such who are my chosen Disciples I will appear familiarly Behold I am upon a new Election to call such who are found in the Crown number Roll. Now one by one till an encrease may be of this holy Priesthood to the Hundred and forty four thousand Blessed are they who are the first foundation Pillars of this Virgin Church upon which I can allow to be found neither Wrinckle or Spot for if Faulty I cannot be their Head to walk among those who in any wise are Defective For the Case is now clean altered of what it was in the days of my Infancy when I broke forth in the fleshly Form it was of necessity a Tribulated suffering State should succeed after me that so Sin might expire through daily Dyings which did take great effect among my Disciplehood in that Age but they deceasing before he reaching to that perfect Date of what was to be the Churches glorified State Now something greater and more perfecâ— is to be revealed after so long and cloudy a Day of Apostacy A sparkling Star shall rise out of that Orb and Climate whereof it shall be said this is Wisdom's fruitful Day out of whose eternal Morning Womb ye shall see bright Stars of Glory generated for a glorious Temple Who then will now sound this my Trumpet and will call to break away from their iron Yoaks to come to be dignified as hewed Pillars for Wisdom's Temple to be built upon Oh! what saith the Spirit who shall I find that can say accept of me for holy Use who without shadow of change will no more turn into this World For such a Pure and Apostolical Foundation the Father of Spirits will lay for his corner
Stone yet in the Earth again Who will open in some such first that in a seperated Mind and Spirit do wait herein as Virgins not as with a double Eye to look forward and backward up and then down no such unsteady Spirit will ever be taken in Therefore the Spirit of Jesus doth give you this seriously to weigh as a seasonable Caution who would that this Prophecy might be fulfilled on you Oh pray for Stability and constancy continually March the 8th 1676. A Vision which I saw I with another Person was walking and conferring about the things of God in a by-place where no resort of Creatures use to be nor any did we see But suddenly lifting up my Eyes upon a lofty Tree I saw an Eagle's Nest they bâ—ing fledged did all present themselves to view The old one was flown from them to bring Provision to them At which sight of these young Eagles we who walked together consulted how to take them and to bring them away as a Prize While thus considering how to climb the Tree we were on a suddain carried level with the Nest and did not know how we got so high But one Eagle I did see had fluttered out and hung by the Twig of a Tree all martyred the Legs and the Neck all Bloody and broke The rest suffered themselves to be taken though they were so strong and fledged as they might have flown from us But that other Person took the Number of them which were Six and I did receive them into my Apron and so as strangely we were let down from this high Place as we were drawn up to it After this I set the Eagles down and they did very tamely eat Bread which I did provide for them I did remember nothing further hereof March the 9th 1676. But when I came to call over this Vision with all the Circumstances of it much from the Lord was opened to me from it Whose Spirit did immediately open this as he did the Parable to his Disciples as when he appeared in Person upon the Earth For this Word did through me pass Thy Jesus is at hand in Spirit to give the meaning of these presented Similies that so a Teaching by and through all ye may obtain for the perfecting of what doth remain behind that so ye may be gathered up among the Eagle train with that mighty Throne Eagle to Reign The Interpretation of the Vision Then was the Vision which I saw thus Interpreted The lofty Tree which thou didst see in that desert Walk presents that living Tree whereto none can reach but such who be of an Eagle birth whose Eye is fixed steddily on high where that mighty she Eagle hath fixed her Nest as in the munition of Rocks there to hatch her Number Seven Who then is this that favour hath found and that leave should be given to build upon this Tree of Life where of the holy one hath given such charge to the watching Cherub In plainness of Speech then it is Eve her self that hath lain long as dead under the Tree of Good and Evil whose time of raising is very nigh But with what Body will she now be raised up Look and see what is Prophecied of her Then I was pointed to the 6th of the Canticles ver 8. Who is she that looketh forth in the Morning fair as the Moon clear as the Sun terrible as an Army with Banners Then again ver 13. which was opened to me to be the Resurrection Call to lâ—psed Eve Return return O Shulâ—mite return return Thuâ— the lapsed Soul of the inward eternal Man is this fallen Eve here she is called to return to her Restoration State that we may again see her as bringing forth another more happy Generation a true Eagle Off-spring indeed But how and after what manner shall this be My Spirit was in deep Query as also when it should appear Then it was thus said Know ye not that Eve lost her Virgin Eagle Body and so hath long been sown into a slumbring Death in Folly Weakness and Dishonour But now the Life-Tree hath so fluently conveyed it self in this long Vacation as to raise Eves dead Body in the Strength and Honour of the Eternal Virgin Wisdom of God So as old Eve will now come forth as a mighty strong terrible Eagle And henceforth will more wisely build her Nest than at first she did through the Lord's permission For now she will be dignified with the Spirit of Virgin Wisdom to outvie the Serpents Subtilty according as it is written She now will build her House or Nest more sure to wit upon seven Silver Pillars Which do present the seven Eagle Birds which were seen in Vision they Wisdoms fiâ—st Brood shall be through Eves Wombs Restoration who will bring forth a most glorious Church in the Earth without Spot or Wrinkle Wisdom hath made choice of Eve for to be her Mate that is the lapsed Soul of the inward Man whose Hand must help to build this Nest for her Thus choice Eagle Spirits will be raised up out of old Eves Dust for this use and service to be Members of this perfect Church on Earth You may evidently see with an Eagle Eye that thus and after this sort a new Virgin Body must be raised up by Virgin Wisdom in this World for the Spouse and Church of Christ and so for every Member of that Body and so consequently for every lapsed eternal Soul to be cloathed upon with its new Virgin Body Oh! who then will strive first to mount and fly up in Spirit liberty hereunto being granted from the Power of the risen Body to prepare the First Matter for this Nest Because this Tree of Life is so pure that nothing but what is of its own must come upon it Which are the young sprouting Twigs and golden Leaves whereof the matter is to be which are no other then as in the Mystery Hereby they signifie a pure solid weighty Off-spring of holy Cogitations Words and Actions Which do ye skilfully unite for this purpose bâ—inging nothing out of the low â—â—ruâ—â—y Principle to enclose here Then your defence will be mighty and sure and your Bread and Waters will be serene The true Eagle Bird need not fly far the Tree of Life so nigh here are still fresh Fruits upon the Branches from it by no means start aside but keep close upon the Nest. You cannot yet be able to conceive what here by abiding close may be brought forth from this vertual Eagle Body to wit Throne Eagle Powers mighty to ascend to the number seven But if any shall look again downward into this Principle to descend before it is fully Feather'd great damage and hurt will necessarily accrue as in the Similitude I did see Therefore cauâ—ion take and let none trust themselves that would be of this Number to wander out before their time Ye had need to be strong as Eagles to encounter with what aversness you may meet withal from this
think that That which is written and manifested from above in the crystalline Glass of Divine Wisdom is mere Confusion Therefore you must distinguish between Eve and Eve between the eternal Eve and the mortal Eve the one belonging to the inward eternal Man the other to the outward mortal Man and the Prophesie is only to be understood of the eternal Soul and not of the mortal Soul Secondly You must distinguish in the eternal Eve between her fallen state and her restored state for the Prophesie is not what she is at present but what she is to be in her restored state In the Third place You are to consider that the eternal lapsed Soul is unable to effect it but it is the Work of God's eternal Wisdom who will freely espouse her self to her again after this long time of separation and alienation and then she shall be the Mother of a holy Generation Her Womb shall bring forth no other Children but such as shall make their Nest upon the Tree of Life And these things premised and understood the Representation will be easily understood by Wisdom's Eagles and confirmed sufficiently by the Holy Scriptures For you may read that Adam and Eve were both created eternal immortal and incorruptible Creatures in their Paradisical state and they both were created perfect without any spot of Sin or blemish of Weakness while they stood in their Paradisical Innocency and they were both to have brought forth an eternal holy Generation a perfect Church on Earth had they remained in Paradise But sinning in Paradise they thereby lost their Virgin Power and so consequently their Virgin Birth and they could not bring forth a perfect Generation having transgressed and lost their Virgin Power through Wisdom's withdrawing and estrainging her self therefore they were driven out out of Paradise But now being banished from their Paradisical Power and having both eaten of the Tree of Mortality and having both of them both Adam and Eve cloathed themselves with mortal Cloathing with a mortal Spirit that is with a mortal Adam and with a mortal Soul that is with a mortal Eve and with a mortal Body of Flesh. Now the mortal Eve hath been very Fruitful in the Birth of her Mortality but the eternal Soul the eternal Eve that Eve typed out in the state of Paradise to be the representative Mother of a perfect Generation to make up a perfect Church on Earth The Womb of this eternal Eve hath been barren to this Day but now Wisdom Prophesieth and Predicteth that she will look upon this eternal Eve this eternal Mother and will make her the fruitful Mother of a joyful Generation but she will reject the outward earthly Eve and will make her Womb to be barren that hath exalted her self in the Multitude of her Children but they were only to be the Brats of Babylon But the Children of the eternal Eve shall be the Children of Mount Sion and the Children of the New Ierusalem And this is the meaning of this Vision and divine Presentation for to support those that wait for Wisdoms Day to appear in Eves Birth through the eternal Souls Restoration in Union with eternal Wisdom It is not only the inward Man the eternal Adam that is an eternal Spirit with his Mind Will and Senses that shall now be restored but also his eternal Eve this is his eternal Soul withal his Affections and Passions shall be also restored And though the holy Scriptures make mention chiefly of the first Adamical Man's Restoration but yet it also mentioneth Eves Restoration I say the Womans Restoration as well as the Man's It is also clear that the whole inward eternal Man shall be Restored and not only one part of him not only the Will-Spirit which is but the superiour part of the inward eternal Man commonly called the first Adam that sinned but also his eternal Eve that is the eternal Soul the inferiour part of the inward eternal Man called the Woman this shall be Restored also So that the whole Man with his Spirit and Soul with his Adam and Eve shall be Restored in the Day of his Restoration when divine Wisdom shall espouse and contract her self to the inward Man Oh blessed Day Come dear Wisdom and finish this Act of Restoration in the Body Soul and Spirit of the inward eternal Man who is hid within the outward March the 10th 1676. This Day we were set upon by that strong Warriour that had assumed a poor corporeal Shape to shoot forth his venemous Arrows in great bitterness for to disturb us Which Grievance I did present in Prayer to my God that these raging Spirits might be bounded My Spirit crying and bewailing this wrathful boyling Cauldron that the Infernal dark Powers had kindled the Fire hereunto that so unsavoury Fumes do Daily as Scurn herefrom rise I besought then the Lord that if by any means both she and we might be delivered from these Buffetings and serpently Stingings My Spirit crying Oh Lord what have we done that this foaming tempestuous Sea must still roar about our Ears Is it needful it should be so Then reveal thy Mind herein still further to us Upon which I quietly reposed committing the whole of this Concern to that mighty One from whom both the Help and Power must only come to allay all of this boisterous Nature About break of Day this Word came to me saying Behold and see it is but a Worm that is of no moment who thus troubleth you only the subtilty of the Serpent hath entred to work through it but if you knew your own Spirit of Might and Fortitude ye might easily it suppress and bring all of this under and â—o nought Then again this Word came saying To what end is that Nest prepared upon the Tree of Life Is it not that you might fly away from all these hurtful Beasts Why do ye walk upon their Ground corrupting your pure spiritual Minds while ye do talk with serpently Worms Consider that to you both is given an Eaglewing that whenever you will its Rayâ— out-spread it will soon release you from all prickling Thistles Therefore give charge to your fellow Eagle from him who is the holy Watcher that henceforth ye wander not out from that munition Rockâ— where ye have that which is more weighty to regard than all of this low Oâ—b Then this Word run like Lightnâ—ng through me Oh faint not but as mighty Eagles renew your Strength and then ye will have rest from out all Tribulation Then this Word immediately also followed Though the evil One moves in the form of a Worm yet fear not for ye shall bruise him as a Worm March the 11th 1676. In my first Sleep in the Night time many magical Workings and Ideas were presented to me As first a Figure of a Woman with a Crown upon her Head who seemed to me to be but of a small Stature but her Visage was bright as the Sun and clear as the Moon with a
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
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
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
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
day as the dark Night of an earthly Body must fly away from For it could not abide when though but in the Vision of so immense a Glory that dispersing it self so variously into the Images of what so long had lain unseen Even so verily deeper may be your entrance into the Heavens to hear and see what there is reserved as your Dowry among those High-Throne Principalities which Iohn did see Fear not I say through this bright day to pass though the night of your Body of earthly sensuality shall by degrees pass away Care not to hazard all that so as ye may be taken up still in the Visions of the mighty Alpha where new Scenes of Glory may open to you daily Iuly the 21th 1677. As we were in Prayer met together this word passed through me which plainly thus spake These are the wrestling Spirits O Father that will not let me be at rest till they have possessed the Kingdom with me This word did not a little revive me and added a renewed strenght to urge the more full Manifestations of this Kingdom and that we might still our force unite who have been hitherto so prosperous in our way through recourse by prayer Which being done in Faith hath great and mighty influence with God Iuly the 22th 1677. This Morning I had this further Presentation pourtraid out to my Internal Eye The Figure of a Fleshy Heart with many Eyes and a Mouth from whence issued out a white Stream like a Breath From which it was said draw near and receive in what floweth out here which I assaid to do magically as well as I could Then when I was come to my inward understanding Spirit to know what this might signifie This word did pass through me This Breath is thy Spirits Meat by which ye are to live day by day This Vision contained very much in it which was made out as it was cast up and called over again in my Mind afresh teaching being herefrom given unto me How this was the new Heart which would be as the Well of deep Waters in whomsoever it was fixed Many were the worthy Properties which do belong to this Heart For it was the Figure of the very Heart of God the Son lively discribed in the rising Magia Then were the several Working-Powers and Properties manifested unto me and I was also made to understand what I never before did sound For it was whispered to my inward Ear saying Thou little thinkest or perceiveth what lieth concealed within these Triangles An immense Treasury is here couched Who can fathom his own heart much less this which is so all-seeing Now to give the several Properties of the Heart full of Eyes First Property No slumber doth happen on them at any time For flumbring and sleepy Eyes argue a state of weakness but these are perfect Eyes strong Eyes in their full strength and clarity Second Property They are watchful Eyes waking Eyes looking every way unto the heights above and down to the depths beneath and to the bredths and lenghts of what in all the World are seeable Third Property These Eyes are discernaing and piercing Eyes The wonderful excellency of these Eyes is this because their faculty is to pierce into things so as nothing can be hid or concealed from them This all-seeing Heart was with the Prophets of old from whence they were called Seers When Gehazi would have hid from Elisha the gifts of reward received from Naaman faith Elisha went not my Heart with thee There is no hiding from the Eye of the Heart Samuel from this inward sight could tell Saul that his Asses were found and how that he was designed for a more weighty business than to look after them having the matter of a Kingdom to propound to him from the Lord. Fourth Property The Eyes of this Heart are clear single pure Eyes and purged from every Mote It is the peculiar property of this Heart to see God and this Heart hath a Mouth in it to speak from and it speaks to the Most Holy and it hath an Ear to hear also therefrom So that it is both a seeing hearing and speaking Heart therefore God sets a value upon such a good Heart Such a Heart Caleb hâ—d and David had which Heart much answers to God's own Heart for it is God's own Heart in man's Heart As it was said by one We have the Mind of Jesus it is as if he had said we have the Heart of Christ. Therefore the New Covenant runs all upon a New Heart Gods Heart in man's Heart making man's Heart a New Heart All the Revenue of Eternal Life is Entailed upon what issues from a renewed Heart made new from God's Heart indwelling in man's Heart Here verily you are come to the grand business for what the whole tenure of all Prophecies and Promises points out unto is to this seeing hearing and speaking Heart as it belongs to the New Creature which is God's Heart in Man's Heart making it a new Heart For God's Heart or Christ's Heart is the warm Life-motion that floweth through man's own inward Heart Thus God's Heart in man's Heart makes man's Heart a new Heart and a good Heart and makes man's Heart a seeing hearing and speaking Heart When man's Heart is made single clear and pure purified from every mote of imperfection and from all sin and self then it can see God and hear God and speak to God For it hath the Heart of Christ in his own purified Heart David foresaw the worth of such a Heart when he so earnestly prayed for the creating a clean Heart in him It is a meer act of Creation by first raising or putting forth a power to dissolve the old dark earthly stony Heart which the new Heart of Christ must come in the place of For there cannot be any agreement betwixt them while they are together For till the old Heart is worn out by degrees Oh what strife war and contention is between them so long as the earthly part can hold it out as is found by the Saints experience till the Heart of Jesus comes fully to be fixed in the old Heart Then from the sight of Christ's Heart-Eye in our new Heart the pure Life will stir essentially and such Spiritual Motions will spring as great Peace Love and Joy will come in upon you as a bubbling Water of Life Fifth Property From Christ's Heart in a good Heart made good the new World and the Nature of Paradise is placed there and this new World is always provoking the good Heart by internal Species of Heavenly things generated therefrom answerably to what the Mind is employed upon and raised up into As in an old unregenerated Heart this earthly World is placed in the midst of it provoking the Mind with those earthly species that riseth from it to a close with them So here new Idea's arise and are abundantly brought forth from the Divine and Heavenly World placed in a new and
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
Prove me herein if I do not answer to that Conjugal Marriage-state after which you do make I will be yours as you are mine and free from all others No cause of jealousie shall be ministred on my part for as a sealing witness you may daily read me as ye are fixed with the pure ointment for to dip your finger in and therewith annoint your Eyes that so ye may have a right and clear sight of me and of all that is of a Celestial Nature and that is set out for your more pleasant and full rejoycing as you shall take up your living in me Oh here I do invite you as my Bride to make your abode Let all know who have their habitation in this World of distress and confusion that ye have found out a rest which is far more excelling being lodged in the Bosom of the Triune Soveraignty that can command all great and good things to satisfie you as ye remain in constancy Therefore over all this Worlds Temptations maintain victory that ye may inherit with your Bridegroom revenues of Crowns Princedomes Principalities over all universally in the Marriage Knot of Unity August the 27th 1677. Then there was presented unto me a fine piece of Wrought Work that was given one to take out and one said they could never learn it without going to some skilful one to teach them therein Then heard I a grave wise Person say No find it out of thy self Stir up the Gift which is within thee that is sufficient hereunto and thou wilt have the glory of it rest upon thee August the 28th 1677. An Interpretation was given to me of this Vision and thus it was interpreted That this Vision alluded to and did present the Workmanship of God renewed in Christ Jesus and so successively in those who are created again in him Now the draught without is Christ the Lord in all his holy and perfect Deportment as he lived without sin in this World in that he is become our example that according as it is written we might be as he was in this World Now this Pattern of Perfection was given to us but the curiosity and difficulty thereof put us to whom it was offered to a plunge not knowing how to take it out without a Guide And so likely we might spend and run out our whole time before we had attained half thereof always learning and yet not perfected Therefore while I was in this demur a word came to me This skill must spring from that New Birth within Yet it is in vain for any by imitation ever to attempt the Christ-like Life till they be born again As that grows up to the degree of Divine Capacity so it will be all perceiving and will aptly find out the Mystery of a God's likeness though incarnate in this terrestrial State Where Precepts and Patterns of Evil are continually inviting so that ye are in danger of taking a wrong Pattern out But this pure Birth in you will prevent that for it scents all what is of this Principle as a putrefactious life and therefore flies from it to its own express incorruptibility For which will proceed Gifts and Powers answerably to what your Head Pattern here acted marvelously Look to it for the Root of this Matter must rise from within your own inward holy ground Call up the Ghostly Power of Might that lieth hidden there and then ye may be able to produce the same wonderful working piece according to the form of the New Creation which must bear down and outdo all which came in by the fall Then was it further given me to know that there would be a trial and probation made of what ever was wrought it must be brought to the view of the Impartial Judge whose rejoycing it will be to pass the Sentence of Justification found in the imitation both of the Death and Life from the Birth Spirit which was in Jesus and is now entred into us to bring forth the same express Workmanship in all glorious variety as in the dying so in the rising conquering reigning Life Which is not to be manifested barely by Words but by mighty Deeds and Works from the Alpha and Omega Whose day of Love Light Peace and Joy is already working known and felt in the New Born August the 29th 1677. This Night I saw my self making hard towards a place wherein I was assured of all desirable good as relating to Company and Place And as I was striving to reach thereto there came a stubborn prancing Horse in a Cart and there was one went by to guide him but the Horse was so headstrong that he would no way be governed but would run in a hostile way towards the Gate that gave entrance into this secure place Seeing which I ran with all might and hast lest I should be stopped and just as I was entring in at the passage he came furiously upon me to grind me with the Wheels So that I was put to it hard but I passed through to great admiration as if I only had a Spirit without a Body so swift was my escape out of this danger For I saw it a perfect design to have prevented my going in then took I care of the well minded Person that would have otherwise ruled this head-strong Beast if he could have managed him but such was his inkindled rage that he would stand cross the Gate to hinder him that was to be his Governour from following after me But he wisely crept upon his Knees under the Cart and so got in and shut the Gate upon this tyrannical Beast This Vision had a considerable speaking in it unto us when we cannot but understand there is a foreseeing watchful Eye that does warn us of all evil occurrences that may ensue while yet we are but in our travelling way True it is we are running hard to enter within the everlasting Gate but much lumber and stuff there is which hath loaded the Cart of the Mind which is drawn by the prancing Horse of the Will that doth drive furiously and will not be under check or controul by that which doth see its danger This Principle with all its cares businesses and employs are dangerous to step in as a grinding Wheel to prevent our passing into that pleasant place Where not any of those Inhabitants are found in any working dress For they lived there by a Creating Breath that renews all fresh supplies There needed neither Building nor Planting nor Vine-dressing nor Seed-sowers for it was uttered by voice to me that passed through me This is the place of Iehovah's rest Who so can get through hereinto shall have cessation from all their works considered as they relate either to the Mind interiour taking thought or concern about its Salvation or to the Body exteriour for Food and Raiment Health or whatever else makes the Life worth living in it is to be here But then my Spirit objected Ah my Lord who ever could pass in here
wholly bend the force of their Spirits hereunto may attain to great Wisdom and Knowledge and so bring forth that which may far outshine what is now existent in this Creation For till such deep magical Spirits are born who come to make Projection through internal sight of what is in the first cause of things the Kingdoms of this World with the Potentates thereto belonging will be too hard for you For that Grand Prince that ruleth and hath such command in this lower Sphere hath since the first Age of this World raised ten to one his Magnificent Seat in the Heart of poor deluded man So that they whose lot it is to live in this latter day have greater provocations to overcome as it is truly said the last days will be perillous indeed through the devises of the Evil One who in and by his Agents finds out new inventions to enthral and busie the Mind withal to prevent the taking in the true sense of what was and might be again that blessed state of sinless Liberty For such hath been this Serpents subtilty as to be a Lying Spirit in those who are Teachers to make believe the impossibility hereunto By which he doth keep his Seat of Supremacy universally hereby in the Mind For so long as this is he knows no Power of Soveraingty will outvy his Therefore this Councel of my Lord was expresly given And further this word this Morning was added hereunto That we should drink in this Pure Doctrine from the Spirit who said Be ye found faithful to the interest of your Lord's Kingdom that it may through you while in the World be so manifested in Wisdoms Force and All-spiritual Might through studying out all Divine Arts as hereby you may pluck down the Proud and Lofty from their self exalted Spirit in the Diabolical Might Your true Labour herein shall have such success as you may bring great acclamation and renown to your Lord and Saviour through all Worlds and to your selves Peace and Joy Honour and Dignity because many hereby will flow in into my Great Name When they are convinced that you do bear the Standard of my Spiritual Might in Truth and Righteousness Now therefore be vigilant according to what hath been revealed for the Love that ye have for my Kingdom to appear so in this World as all of the Old Dragons may come absolutely to be shaken and overthrown thereby For whatever ye do think this Prince of Darkness can suppress he will Who is so Mighty in this Low Region till Great Michael doth arise to give Crowns to those who have been long in the War To whom yet no Kingdom hath been given but do wait here in expectation for it and do not start from their Standard Such Oh such be ye that yet ye may be trusted with great Command to magnifie Great Michael in your mean estate September the 10th 1677. THIS Day I was calling my self to an account being sensible of that usual Springing Light that was something shaded and Revelations restrained for the space of a Week occasioned by dispersing thoughts and letting in and busying my Mind upon inferiour things of this Worlds concern Whereby I was made suspicious of a greater loss sustaining than any thing of this World could repay me And although there was nothing which I did engage in but what might seem very just and reasonable to the Eye of all Creatures yet that could not be my justification Because we were under an unknown Nazarite Law that was in special given and therefore accordingly we are bound to obey it who are concerned herein Hereupon I descended down into the deep Region of the Spirit where I did attend to hear what would be answered Which was again through Grace renewed For thus I did the inspeaking word hear Did not I by my Spirit oft declare that it would be hard for any one to keep my charge who had not first cleared all scores of this Worlds Accounts that so ye might have nothing to do but to attend fully your Lord's business who hath called you for such a Principal End out from all this Creation Service Henceforth then cease to be the Servants of Men for since the day of your free assignment of your selves His you are to whom you did your selves bequeath Upon this word I found a great conflict in my self having a great desire to depart and to throw off every weight that would tie and engage my Mind For I did well see an absolute necessity to be alone the Lord's servant and to give my self up in constancy to that new revealed Ministery though I should hereby incur all Creatures enmity For my Lord by a secret voice doth follow me close so that from Loves Charms I can hardly get loose Yea he drives upon us so hard as plainly we might see the Holy Ones design is to make a breach betwixt this World and us as foreseeing that none till then can aptly be for his use and service And verily this is the Cup that is given us to drink of and to leave nothing thereof behind It was what our Lord proposed to the two Sons of Zebedee who were ambitious to be equal in the Kingdom with him Who told them They did not consider what they did ask For if they did come to understand what a Death-cup they must first drink of they would not have climbed so high in their desires Therefore he dealeth plainly with them and shews them both the necessity and possibility thereof but gives the disposal of those Throne-instatements to his Father only It was also at this time spoken in me that we had begun to drink of this Cup wherein the deadly draught was which would crucifie us to this world but as yet we had but drunk the Upper part of it the Portion being so bitter we indeed could never get it down at once Upon which the Spirit giveth this advice Not to let one day pass without imposing upon our selves a draught out hence to take till all be exhausted and drunk out For the Cup is very deep and at the bottom thereof doth lie that which will us from this Principle absolutely unty Therefore let us not herefrom cease to drink each one to whom this Cup is given and no time let us lose for through continual sipping we shall see it lessen and so by degrees the effects thereof upon that which is to die will be felt O who will be so valiant and worthy in this Age as to hold out to the very last as the bottom of this Cup to see Then was it said to me There was at hand immediately for such another Cup wherein was the everlasting Water of Life The operation of which is not expedient yet for to be uttered till some have of the first Cup drunk all O Lord Jesu be thou to us what thou wert when thou didst take the last part of this Cup. September the 11th 1677. Being in great agony in my Head and Teeth
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
but all single Plants save one Which grew up with Twins upon one Stalk three times two and one more from the same Root which grew right up with its Head bowing down towards the rest It seemed to be like a Tulip the Colour being of a very dark Murray The other Planâ—s grew round about it and they were overspread with Caterpillaâ—s and slugs which did devour and spoil the beauty of them which I much lamented to see But suddenly a shower came and washed them all away Yet afterward I saw them come on again when the shower ceased And I marvelled that the Tulip Branch was still kept free And while I made this Objection how it should come to pass that being in the same ground it should be exempted It was answered Thou dost not see the deep Spring that lieth under ground that watereth this Branch continually Then saw I waters rise and all over it baptise so as the dark colour was changed into a green pleasant appearance to my intellectual sight Then after a little space the Spring did rise mighty high and did it so drench as from its greenness it was changed into a Lilly whiteness which was very marvelous to see such a sudden transmutation upon this Branch Oh my Lord signifie the true meaning of this similitude for it seemeth to have much in it October the 11th 1677. This Parabolical Vision was as a Text and Doctrine given upon which the Holy Spirit might make its comment By the Garden was given me to understand that inward flourishing ground of the Eternal Mind out of which a crop of pleasant Plants did put forth from the Seed of the Spirit The Eternal Sower planting himself in the midst hereof as that Lilly Branch which grew up in its twined might and beauty to the perfect number Seven Now it was queried by me Why those single Plants which were Divine Qualifications of the Mind proceeding from the Root of Life should be under the Power of these Despoilers The cause hereof I was then made to understand why those heavenly cogitations that would proceed forward to all Divine Virtue were overâ—un by the devouring Worms It was therefore resolved that it would continue stâ—ll so to be while they did put forth themselves from one weak stalk in the scattered confusion of a dispersed property Now being thus obnoxious to the intemperate motions of the visible Element and mixing therewith they are subject to smitings of all kinds And though through the help of those distilling showers of the Word of Life oftimes refreshing this inward ground and cleansing it from this swarming flying and superfluous thoughts which the Slugs and Caterpillars did really figure out they are freed herefrom yet upon the cessation of these upper and outward Showers of a visible teaching Ministery they are apt to swarm again upon the Mind to stain and enveâ—om those Plants which do bud forth in the single and divided property So that while the inward is thus invaded upon no Fruit can be brought to perfection for as fast as it comes on it is eaten off so the Work while standing in this posture it is always doing yet never done nor perfected And yet the Soul in the mean time is in great earnestness after and for its Restoration always striving against the Stream and Tide of Profuse Imaginations which keep back the Harvest from ripening of what hath been still a sowing by the Spiritâ— fixed If you do attain to such an enrichment as to have this Plant of United Force and Power to grow in the Garden of your Mind ye may then be out of all fear that any evil of sin or the effects of it can come in to Spoil or to devour For upon its own guard it stands and can defend it self against all Invasions Now for this end that ye may persue hereafter these things are revealed Make it your own Spiritual Business to come out of the meek single Plantation into the strong Unity of that Plurality of Spirit which is able at pleasure to change you into a Body of Heavenly Lustre such as is meet for that Work whereto ye are designed For this O ye well disposed Souls keep an Holy day within the Borders of a pure Mind October the 12th 1677. This word visited me about break of day Run away to the Everlasting Morning-day there to be hidden from the wrath of the Lamb. Which will be certainly expressed against those who are found naked having only the mortal clothing for their câ—vert in this great Day which is breaking forth unavoidably upon all Flesh. October the 15th 1677. Being thus warned to pursue and make hard after that securing state and to keep all watchfulness over our Hearts lest the Evâ—l Spirit should us beguile This word was gâ—ven for further caution Far be it from him who in all things must be approved a man of God therefore he is not to be found amongst evil doers to be a reproach in such a time as this or to take liberty lest a Snare come upon the Superiority of that Life which requires great sequestration Then again this Word was with me And ye shall be Holy unto me for I the Lord am holy and have sever'd you from all others that ye should minister before me and be mine only October the 18th 1677. I saw my own Figure sitting in a solemn still waiting posture and there passed by a Golden Candlestick with many Branches and in the midst thereof was the form of a Cup or Bowl all which distinctly had Lights like Lamps burning from Oyl but that out of the Bowl in the midst gave a greater blaze then all the rest Then this Word sounded Up up Follow this Light before it be out of sight Then was given into my Hand such an other Golden Candlestick without any Lights in their Sockets but I hastily so soon as the Candlestick was given followed the other into a Room which was all enlightned with the brightness of the Glory thereof which I could only view but â—ound I could not there abide but was ordered at that open door to wait till every Branch of the Candlestick should be answerably filled with Oyl and give forth Light as the foregoing brightness did which was as a Heaven for Light This Idea or Manifestation drew my mind after it that if possibly Light might be set up in every Property accordingly October the 19th 1677. In the Night after my first Sleep there appeared unto me a bright Sun and many Stars were fixed in the circumference of it that sparkled forth with a wonderful fury so that it enlightned the Earth with its reflexion And it said hereto gathered is that which fills up and makes compleat the whole Body of Light October the 20th 1977. This Word came unto me Pray ye evermore in that Faith where each one is to be their own Advocate in the free Liberty according as it is written In that day ask what ye will and it
who is it that shall it not see Much more I wait herefrom to be revealed For it was a significant Vision that doth bring along its own Meaning That so we might hereby be warned what God in the Earth will appear to do November the 16th 1677. I had this Night much inward Expostulation tending to my full and perfect Change into such a Spiritual Corporiety in which the offence of Sin might altogether cease For since the Holy Teacher and Guide hath been plain with me that without I here attain to be Born again so as no composition of the first original matter of Sin may spring till then I can have no free access nor be taken up into all Spousal freedom in the Love-Joys that are only known by such who are redeemed from all Sin For the Lamb the Bridegroom can take no other into the Marriage-Bed of inflamed Love with him but an immaculate Bride all Fair and Serene The Father hath charged him to bring no other into his Kingdom Now then said the Spirit you see that my striving in you is all to make you commendable that the Father himself may love you and be at perfect Reconciliation with your Spirits For this is the considerable matter to have the whole Trinity agreeing to take up and pitch their Pavilion of Light round about you Then expect such a change as never yet hath come November the 17th 1677. In my Night Sleep I was Praying and awakened my self therewith which when I came to my self I saw a White Hand reached out dipped in some pretious Liquor of a deep red Colour and it dropped thereof on my Breast Which presently brought forth that Word to me in the Canticles his Fingers drop sweet smelling Myrrh The which pure thing thing I did feel upon my Internal part oâ—â— to a rising Joy in my self Then this Word came to me Now take heed of going out amongst the Deâ—d If any thing of this kind doth touch you watch the time do not rest till a fresh stream of live Blood doth all your Inwards wash and perfume your Seperated place with this pretious Myrrh For your Lord can no more live or lie among them who do smell of the Dead November the 20th 1677. The Lord looked upon us and said he loved us and was touched in all our Afflictions and Temptations and that our Tears and Sorrows should not be forgot for all were treasured up that so when the Sowing time hereof shall be passed over Salvation and Victory and Everlasting Joy shall be returned to us November the 21st 1677. This was the Word of the Lord that was with me Let not the various Sounds and specious Gatherings of them among whom is an uncertain Sound move you from holy ground Where still do you wait in the Spirits Arbour for I have yet Secrets in an immediate way to impart Therefore scatter not from your known though unknown Walks to others So hereby I was to understand that in the still and silent state we were to keep till the clear Trumpet of the Holy Ghost might sound through us For nothing of this could be found in the mixed Assemblies Therefore it was shewed to me that after a while there would be a dispersion of the pâ—incipal Shepherds and Flocks till the Horn be filled with the unmixed Oyl of the Spirit by a true Prophet that must raised up be from and by the Mission of the greaâ— and mighty Shepherd Who will then anoint with Power each one of his Flock that none may be found in his Pasture of a barren Spirit For each one shall sound forth the Mystery of their own Everlasting Redemption out of the falleâ— Stage November the 22d 1677. As soon as I came out of Sleep after the Nights rest This word met me Oh that I might awake with thy Image perfectly then should I behold thy Face and not be reproached because of an ignominious Body Whereupon I considered the weightiness of the Word and it was opened unto me that it related to a Resurrection stare after a Death-sleep in the Grave of the Body of Sin out from which the Spirit awakeneth into the God-likeness Upon which there was presented unto me a clear Crystal in the figure of a Heart which hung by a Pipe through which a stream like Blood passed into the Heart which was said to be the pure Life-Seed that conveyeth it self from the Fountain-Heart of the Godhead As it is the Production of a Birth answerable to the very Heart of God which would be the true and original matter of a divine Nature In which only the Life of God should move as it did in the Person of our Lord Jesus Whose Heart was fed from the Heart of his Father and so ours from his when so purely generated as his from the Seed or Incorporating Power of the Deity For it was made evident to me that the New Birth-heart conceived in us must be from the Root of the same holy and unmixed matter and answerably in order to a full redeeming from the old polluted Heart out from which are the Issues of Death which is said to be the heart of Stone Now it was shewed me that Fallen Man did carry about him three Hearts As first the Heart of a Beast as it may be said of Nebuchadnezzar he had a Beastial Heart 2dly The Heart of a Man which comes up to Sensibility and to Rationality 3dly A Heart in which as to the outward Birth remains somewhat of an Eternal Essence as a Spark of Light which Adam had in Paradise and this we call Man's Eternal Heart And this in the highest Improvement is in much Imperfection and Instability sometimes in a raised Life towards God then sinking down as a Stone again into the Earth according to the outward Constellations that do mutually concur in the good and evil The effects whereof we have sensibly felt by an inward strife and war through the divided property of the Soul which moveth sometimes from the Heavenly Center towards its primitive Being before the Fall So as in this contest without conquest over the earthly part Millions of Souls have past away out of the Body And fearing least it should be so with us another Heart is shewn unto us For none of these can bring us near unto God And therefore remove and give them up and pray vehemently that we may see this old stoâ—ey Heart fail within us and then such a new Heart to which is annexed a pure burning stream which becomes a quickning Spirit Which will make essentially the great alteration so as we shall find our selves new-born perfect Creatures For it is of that high deified Composition of Purity as it forceth all polluted matter of contrariety from it to fly It is such a pure thing as it will be contracted into it self and live alone in an absolute dominion There is no allowance given for any of those forementioned Hearts with it to commix no more then Clay
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
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
Jesus and so both do agree to pass and see the goodly Spaces of Eternity whether all things be so as hath been reported of concerning the matters of Christ's Kingdom To which we are annexed Heirs and therefore concerned to take our flight thither to view all within the New Canaan For our Lord did know that a sight before hand of this Inheritance would greatly satisfie As it was with the Queen of Sheba who gratified both her Eye and Ear in the state of Solomon's Kingdom Now then may not we in the Spirit of Faith and rising power of Christ's Spirit come to have such a pass over Iordan's flowing River Hereupon it is cleared up to me that it is most lawful and expedient to take such a heave or flight in the Spirit For which end in obedience to the counselling Word which to me was dropped in Let us then be as a goodly Ship who would launch into the Ocean deep and would swim upon the broad Waters all tackled and trimmed and pitched within that no place may be found for bleaking and our pure and white Sails stretched out all in a readiness lying at the very Haven upon the Anchor of Hope waiting to see when the Gusts and Breath of the Holy Ghost will turn our Ship about and blow all South that we may suddainly be cast upon the Rock of Pearls and Precious Stones in that Land Beulah that is so little known But who now must be hither our sure Pilate but he that hath already there been even that bright Star that can steer through Fire Water and Air having himself broke through all these and so will do no less for us if we shall be found in such a ready posture as here hath been described Now let us give all place to this Ioshua-Spirit in our Bark who will make a remove for us out of the Wilderness He doth but wait for the mighty Birth to be here brought forth that so we may pass away jointly and altogether It was further also denoted to me that all the murmuring and unbelieving Spirits should be wasted away in the Wilderness who have murmured through fear and distrust For these can have no share with us whether they be with or without us all are excluded none but Ioshua and Caleb will enter in with us to view and will have possession with us in the Land Beulah December the 7th 1677. A very curious Question did stir in my Spirit why such a concealment of the Heavenly Things was in this time of our Lord's mediating Priesthood And why no more visible Effects were produced upon his Members on Earth as to the Resurrection-day For since the Apostle's Age little hath been wrought in any miraculous way further then by internal Light and Spiritual renewings and the Love of God shed abroad with the Blood of Spriukling which is the highest degree that yet any have arrived unto But all this did not appear to me to be thâ—t which the perfect Restoration must further make out nay what the Apostles saw and heard in their time who had the first Breathings from Christ after his Ascension Yet all then and since have been exceeding short of what is in reserve to be revealed As I do know this from a sure Word of Intimation and so herefrom my expectation hath been greatned and the Pool of my Mind stirred and troubled and somewhat as from a central Fire boiling up to clarifie that and so the gross thick and dim Eye might be single and piercing to see if possibly into its own original body of Light That so hereby a clear Aspect might be of what hath been acting and working in order to the Consummation of another more pure and perfect Creation Thus being upon an internal search into matters of this high Nature this Word was brought into me saying Why art thou troubled that such long respit hath been as to the Manifestation of the absolute Reign of the Lamb that was slain because his Might hath not been shewn nor his Power wrought nor his Wonders done in the Earth Yet now look for a greater Overturn then ever through the whole fallen Creation This long cessation shall not nullifie it for this Kingdom will have its revealing Day for the Golden Sand of the half hours Silence is running out apace which must be first expired out in Heaven It was then given me to understand that this Half Hour of Silence hath been ever since the Holy Ghost appeared in Cloven Tongues of Fire upon those who in a travelling Birth did here wait for it upon the Lord's Promise For since that time little news hath been heard from Heaven only the Beloved Iohn had the last great and signal Revelation from Jesus Since that only such a Ministration hath been which hath taken up their Testimonies in a still and private way opening the Mind of the Spirit in the Doctrine of the Old and New Testament But for a new and fresh Word that may be said to come immediately from the Lord which hath not been before truly it may be said as it was in Samuel's time that the Word of the Lord iâ— pretious in this day We may travel from East to West from Nation to Nation and scarce find a true Seer with whom the expressâ— Word of the Holy One is Some hidden ones under the stuff of this Principle there may be who will not be known till the Lord calls them out to unfold boldly his Mind For this is an Age that can as little bear as any formerly such Truths as will shake their whole righteous Foundation as it may be so termed and others whose Lives and Loves are in that which must also be laid wast in the common destruction which is coming upon all visible things Therefore never more need then now is for true and anointed Prophets to enquire how things are going in the invisible Kingdom For all the Plat-form is first laid there how things in this external state will be Therefore it is needful that some must be here truly prepared for it and should never be off their Watch-tower but be listening continually For it was said upon the enquiry of a Spirit That the half Time of Silence was now upon breaking up and mighty Powers would begin to work Therefore let the regardful understand the present Motions of the Heavens Though our Lord Jesus is shut up from all mortal view yet the effect of those invisible Workings may be known in our low Heavens and may be felt by such whose Hearts are bent and full stretched out to the Heart of a glorified Jesus these will attract down Light and so the lower Heavens may so contact with the upper as to become all privy to the great Affairs Counsels and Designs which are stirring within the Globe of Eternity But the Query is By what way or meanâ— shall any one come to be so Inseeing that yet have upon them the thick film of Mortal Sense Answ. There is
safety though the whole Earth be laid in desolation Oh thou mighty Shield of Faith bear us up upon thy Wing Let thy Word oh Jesus which saith Come to me be sufficient to make us tread upon the Sea keeping off every boisterous Wave that would make us doubt Now then upon the broad Rivers oh mighty God let us come to thee and be afraid of no Flesh that would hurt or oppress Let thine who are environed with the Spirit 's Might make that only their Anchor-hold evermore December the 13th 1677. Do ye wait and expect the Word that was made Flesh fully to imbody in Spirit that so an engrafted Word may come to spring in you to Create new things and to command all old to depart away All this the Word God must do that is after a Creating manner December the 14th 1677. This Morning there was brought to my internal sight a Ring or Circle which was like a Jasper-stone for Light and sparkling Glory and within the Ring or Circle a Face of great splendour and Majesty did shew it self as in the twink of an Eye and withdrew again But this Word followed This is the Door that hath neither beginning or ending through which ye must enter Consider now and consult with what manner of Body it must be for nothing of a corruptible Form can ever pass here December the 16th 1677. As we were waiting together this Word came The Lord himself is come forth to serve you with the Bread and Wine as the great High-Priest to communicate and his Body to break which accordingly was experienced Therefore it is good at the Altar still to attend that so the holy Breath may there kindle the pure Flame through which may open his precious Name December the 18th 1677. An Interpretation of the former Vision In the Night my Spirit was carried inward taking in several Ideas of Heavenly things into my mind pressing hard to pass into the Circle-Door of Life But a sweet still Voice did eccho in me saying That pure thing only which through this Circle-Eye of Eternity did come down into Nature can be the Door of Entrance again as it circleth in its Blood-Life and thereby raise up it self and quicken it self into such a Spirituality as ye need to ask no leave to enter back to your own proper Place from whence your immortal part did proceed For now the Eye that is fixed in you will be both your Guide and Entrance hereinto if ye in Union will ever more with it keep and concur with it Then it shall carry and lodge you in the Bosom-Circle of Eternity as in a fiery Chariot The four Wheels upon which this Chariot doth move are Faith Hope Joy and Peace These will bear away the Lilly Branch to be planted where it may green and never fade because the River of Life runneth there evermore Oh when shall we be severed by this Chariot who would see it gladly that we may conclude thy Heart dear Jesus is towards us and that thou wilt live no longer without us For seeing none can enter into this Circle-Eye but in this Flaming Chariot that doth move upon four Wheels Let not the principal Agent be wanting but that all may concur together in us by that Ghostly Might that may give a suddain Flight to see that all satisfying Face which will make us feel everlasting pleasure And that no mortal things shall sever us from thee or come any more as a Vail between the Spouse and her everlasting King to hide the entring Door of Life December the 20th 1677. Great eagerness of Soul was renewed for the passing in through the Needle-Eye of the Glorified Humanity The Zeal and Love did wonderfully hereunto concur so as to devour and eat up all those strong Reasonings of Contradiction that else would be working in the Mind From which being in a good degree cleared through the Mystery of Faith working by the Spirits operation great calmness of Mind was known In which time the Circle-Eye did open again encompassing me round with waving white Clouds and one did descend and did pass through the bright Circle as an Arrow for swiftness in the Figure of a clear Body with a Branch in his Hand the Leaves whereof were shining as Gold the Fruits were as a Cluster were in variety of Fruits were growing together It was reached out and a Voice did after the manner of a Spirit speak saying This is Fruit from the Tree of Life that is now planted in the Land of Beulah Eat hereof and give forth and be blessed in it for ever Presently I did feel sensibly a little strengthning Virtue come in which I would have conveyed to another after a Magical and Spiritual way that was at a distance While I was in thoughtfulness hereupon the same Person was presented to me as if he had already hereof partaken for there was strengthning Meat given into his Hand wherewithal I did see him feed a Bird that flew gaping to him being all craving and hungry chirping still as it was fed at his Hand December the 21st 1677. After all which I was to attend the Effects of every such presentation This Morning I found my Mind wholly disposed for Introversion Upon which the Vision was more opened unto me For the Spirit did talk with me telling me that this was a manifestation to shew the Care Love and Friendship of our mighty Throne-Prince who does as truly convey the transmuting fruit invisibly from himself as the Tree of Life That so the introduced Birth of Spirit might grow and encrease it being its own natural nourishment without which it cannot live till it come up to a strong mans degree For that which is born of God doth feed only upon what may transform into a God-like Being Which is the Lord Christs office and business to heigten up to that that so there might not be any loss sustained by the fall of the first Adam in those who by this living Word are quickned again unto Life For it was opened unto me that none could be capable of this high kind of feeding but those in whom Christ was spiritually formed For this was all spicy and sacred virtual power to bring forth such Celestial new Creatures as may ascend up with the same swiftness as that Seraphim which did come down For it was said to such who are changed all Spiritual that inviting Word doth stand for ever good whosoever will to them the Door stands open to come themselves and take of the Tree of Life most freely And they will have the honour to bring down and give forth Heavenly Tasts and from their divine Bodies will go forth the healing Virtue As it was opened to me that these Golden Leaves had in them the Balsamick Cure to restore to a perfect divine Body where from all Soveraign Power should proceed immaculately according to that high state which our Lord is now in in the Body of Glory Therefore this Counsel and Word
of Comfort was given that we should here cast the Anchor of Hope for the passing through every Door of our own Senses till we had got beyond the Vail of Flesh into the Circle-Body of the Holy Ghost which is appointed for our present Mansion and Dwelling Where no more working Source shall open to disturb our Peace and Joy Our Life sustainment shall be effected by the holy Seraphim day by day till the half time shall fully be expired Then it is given me to see and to believe that guarded along we shall be out of the Wilderness by this Angel of God's presence who hath promised he will not leave us but see us safe within the Everlasting Gate This is only the charge that is left us to observe at present that we keep the Inward Court of our Minds from all polluted things and as hollowed Vessels to take in what from God's own Table as a daily portion is sent in Who will never fail to give what shall seal us for the day of this full redeeming Power Therefore upon this promise we are to hope and quietly wait for he will come with the shout of a King to the pure and Virgin-Spirit wherein Love and Faith have looked for him Therefore be not weary not faint in your minds for to you the Son of Righteousness will appear for full Salvation December the 22d 1677. This Morning I saw a Hand with a Pen writing upon a little Square like Steel or Slade which was repeated to me saying Despise not that holy degree to which my Spirit hath wrought you Know ye not that the Holy thing which is rising out of the Center must have time to work through all that dark matter which doth lie in the vail of Flesh. Therefore patiently give way to that which will go its own pace for the Spirit doth well know its own tract And if you wholly trust him for your guide he will bring you to the right Door which shall never more be shut upon you December the 23d 1677. I was invaded in my Mind with that which would have awakened a distrust concerning the Consummation of that perfect degree into which I have been thus far wrought up unto through Internal Purity attained Yet finding the Waves of Sense apt to break in upon this I was made to pray with all vehemency lest the Spark of Faith should hereby be quenched So after much strife this Word came in for comfort saying thou shalt yet Honour the Lord thy God with that substance that will open out of Wisdom's treasury Abide but firm and unmoveable in the Heavenly Calling from which expect the Blessing of the encrease for the bringing in of that which will assuredly bring joy and ease to the heavy and oppressed in Mind December the 24th 1677. My Spirit deeply sympathized with one that was in travel with me for the Revelation of Christ's Heavenly Kingdom Who in bindings and spiritual droughts famine passing often through with me therefore obliged to be fellow-helpers of each other in every Hour of Tryal and Temptation I besought the Lord and made enquiry on his behalf and this Word on his behalf was given in saying I have heard the bemoaning of Ephraim against whom a Confederacy of Spirits have been working but they shall all be broken as a Potters Vessel while he in Love and Faith adhereth fearingly to my living Word Then know that he the Ephraim may of the Righ-hand Blessing come through all Tribulations to stand in Victory with the Lamb upon the Mount of Joy and Liberty To which dear Lord bring him through all that which would hold him under and depress him Oh that oily Pool that can soon the dark stone dissolve let it rise and spring that we may find our way made free and clear up unto thee forever to be conversant in Spirit with thee all Heavenly One December the 25th 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 Therefore dress and trim your selves every Day for your Bridegroom who doth take great pleasure to find you all comely sitting at the deep Manifestation Gate and there waiting Oh sweet Jesus if thou wilt this Gate open and give us out thy Love from thence then we will not remove because of the sweet and pleasant savour that do's issue forth from thee 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 that we our selves may be one with thy Celestial Nature unchangeably December the 26th 1677. This Word was opened in me this Morning saying After all knowledge and believing in him with whom your superiour Life lieth hid Now your great business and concern is to travel for its manifestation in and according to redeeming Power By which it may appear in its own native liberty and act for it self in Soveraignity as having put on the Lord Jesus as your Cloathing of Power For nought else will commend you in the sight of Men. December the 29th 1677. Upon the Consideration of A. W's Prophecy it was advised me that we should have no part with her in divine Justice nor be Agents in the avenging property in desiring Plagues and Vials of Wrath to come so immediately upon the Formal Churches It was shewn me that it was not the Time nor the Manner revealed yet how they should be overturned God had permitted her though a Lamb of Christ's Fold to be sifted and tryed through the opening of a Center from whence Spirits did strongly thus prophecy as to the time and manner and did upon her Spirit impress the time and so deceived her herein The Lord restore her and give her a more distinct discerning of Spirits from the several Centers from which Sounds and Voices do proceed The Kingdom of Love cryed the Voice in me is that which will open and be strong to prevail Even that Ministration of Love shedding abroad by the Holy Ghost is to drown and quench the Wrath and Angels that are strong and powerful in the Compassionate Love the Lamb of God will raise up to be eminent for trust in the agitating and managing of the great Spiritual Affairs belonging to his Priestly Kingdom that is upon its revealing to be more visible and shall mightily prosper in the hand of such who are the pure and meek of the Earth Who thereby do open the Love-Center whereout the Unction of Prophecy and true Revelation do's infallibly proceed for their direction December the 30th 1677. Upon some Considerations which were weighty upon my Mind concerning the daily expectation of that Kingdom which by the Holy Ghost comes to be manifested And calling over many foregoing things which as to this might usher in the Temple-Glory which is so beautiful and desirable to Spirits that are waiting here for it This was shewn me from hence that Vision
and Prophecy were but as the Door-Posts and Threshold whereupon the Glory of the Lord doth often hereby break out as the Gate of Manifestation opens but it shuts and closes up as not to abide upon the Threshold of that which giveth entrance into the most Holy Place where the full and fixed residence of the Majesty of Glory is Which for duration upon any cannot be found till enâ—red beyond the Ministration of the Manifestation Door which doth make way here for it by raising the Mind of the Spirit through the Light For the true and real enjoyment of God's Pure Being Conjugally wherein all fulness of Joy Power and Peace may spring as from a Fountain openeth within as co-existing with that which is the matter for the Kingdom of Heaven that must bear rule over all that comes in by this fall To which end the light of Revelation is come to the door of the Threshold of the Lord's Tabernacle that thereby we might see our way to enter in by it Watching all opportunity for a through and clear pass into the fruitional Joy of the Lord. Patiently enduring till the Lord himself shall say Vp and Rise and follow me who as on an Eagle-Body will you my dear Ones mount and bear into my Father's inward Court. Where neither Care Fear nor Sorrow shall afflict you more Oh my Lord this is that perfect State that our Sighs and Groans have long gone up for Let full assurance be given for present support unto us who are looking for compleat Redemption Upon which this Word sprung Fear not that ye shall always stand as at the Entring Gate Iesus your Lord doth well know the Voice of his own Mates from whom he will not long separate himself Therefore believe and quietly wait in all pureness and meekness for he will come and will no longer tarry from his own lest their Spirits should be drunk up with Sorrow It was further said If ye be in Heaviness for me your Lord then may ye expect a return of Peace and Ioy successively in and through my Love abounding towards you THE CONCLUSION OF This SECOND VOLUME ALL these are the faithful and true Sayings wich are given in for a Stay and a Pledge of Love from God till the Morning STAR of Wisdom shall arise more fully in our Hearts to lead us up into the Fruâ—tion of all that has been here Prophesied of and Declared Which I excite all the Beloved Flocks that belong to the Great Kingly Sheherds Fold to Believe Hope and quietly Wait for as to the Fullfilling part of All that hath been in This Volume made known and revealed For it is now the Day of the SPIRIT which is beginning over the Earth to Spread Wherein the Empty and the Hungry who have long wandered upon the barren Mountains and been as in Famine shall be Satisfied and enter into those fat and full Pastures where the Lord himself shall be their Leader and Feeder That so we may in pure Love-unity together celebrate an Holy Feats to our High and Mighty IEHOVAH eating our Spiritual Morsels in Joy and Gladness and sending up our Offerings of Praise to him that was LOVE that is LOVE and that ever shall be the same Even so Amen POSTSCRIPT IT may possibly to some seem very Harsh what is found pag. 125. and 126. There is yet a Woman to be revealed out from the Heavens whereof Mary that brought forth Christ according to the Flesh was but a Type For it was neither Eve nor she to whom the Promise was made concerning the Birth which should bruise the Serpents Seven headed Power There must be another Genealogy found out from whence the Serpent treader must also come But it is very far from the Author's Intent as it may be plainly evidenc'd both from the Scope in this particular place and also from the whole Drift of her Writings to derogate hereby from the High Preeminence of Christ the Son of Mary above all Human Births whatever or from the Honour of that Holy Virgin whom all Generations of the World must call Blessed among Women But the Design of this Passage is no other than that of the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews when he represents the Great and True Melchisedeck to be without Father without Mother without Descent Which cannot be understood any otherwise then of an earthly Father and Mother and an Earthly Descent it being immediately afterward added having neither beginning of Days nor End of Life The which Words can by no wise be applicable to his Outward Corporeal Birth from the Virgin Mary Wherefore the Apostle herein directs them to look for another Genealogy and higher Descent while he seems to take away for the present or rather to pass over the former So that he would not have them to fix their Eye upon his Temporal Generation in an Elementary Form which had both beginning of Days and end of Time but rather to look to the Generation which was before all Time from the Eternal Father through the Womb of the Morning from whence all Angelical and Human Spirits were afterwards produced being call'd Sons of the Morning that is of the Immortal Virgin Heavenly Principle or Matrix Which Celestial Nativity being overclouded in many of the Angels through their Tartarosis mention'd by St. Peter in seeking to sink themselves into their own Independent Will that so they might be as Elohim by Precipitating their Spiritual Forces from the Centre of the Divine Will and going forth from a proper Centre of their own and also in all the Human Race through the Birth of Eve entring into the Lust and Strife of the Elements deluded hereto by the Seven-Headed Serpent cannot possibly reappear till the Seven Heads Powers or Forms of the Serpent be entirely Bruised or Crushed This is to be done in each particular Soul which hath within it self as the Kingdom of Heaven so also the Kingdom of Hell as it were in miniature before there can be an Attainment of that Person to the Redemption of the Body which is the visible Adoption Recognition and Sealing of the Sons and Daughters of God And it is likewise to be done in the whole Church Universally by the Seed of Immortality flowing through the Glorious Humanity of IESVs Which Seed as it raised up his mortal Body cannot also but raise up in due time all his Members and cause the vanished Image once more to appear and the Lustre of their first Nativity from God to shine forth as without any Cloud Wherefore let the Reader remember this Caution not at all to look Outwards or to seek here or there after Particularities or Personalities which will nothing avail him to know and probably may do him great Hurt but to retire into the inward Depth of his own Heart that he may there come to know such a Birth from out of the Womb of the New Ierusalem Mother as is so much spoken of in these Writings and may be a Witness of the trampling down the Serpents Power and Polity Then would he not be Solicitous about whom should be first Honour'd by Christ with the Marks of his Refurrection but would endeavour to press forward to it by the only allowable Emulation of Humility Love and Faith That if possible he may arrive to the Right of the First-born Heirs of God in the Melchisedeckian Line And then also would he clearly see that nothing that is here said tends to the Lesseuing but to the Greatening rather and extending the Merit of IESVS the Son of God and of Mary the True Christ Blessed and Adored for ever to whom every Knee both in Heaven and in Earth and under the Earth shall bow and Confess him that is that was and that is to come FINIS Advertisement WHereas some Things have been Scandalously set forth and Printed under the Name of this Author to the Reproach of Truth and the Dishonour of that which is Holy it is thought fit for the putting a Stop to such Impostures and the Evil which might thence ensue to give a Catalogue of the Books which the Author hath hitherto Published THE Heavenly Cloud or the Ascension Ladder 4 to 1682. p. 40. The Revelations of Revelations an Essay towards the Unsealing Opening and Discovering of the Seven Seals the Seven Thunders and the New Ierusalem State 4 to 1683. p. 130. The Enochian walks with God found out by a Spiritual Traveller 4 to 1694. p. 38. The Laws of Paradise Given forth by Wisdom to a Translated Spirit 8 vo 1695. p. 69. The Wonders of God's Creation manifested in the Variety of Eight Worlds as they were made known Experimentally to the Author 8 vo 1695. p. 89. The Message to the Philadelphian Society whithersoever dispersed over the whole Earth together with a Call to the several gathered Churches 12 ves p. 108. 1696. The Tree of Faith or the Tree of Life springingup in the Paradise of God from which all the Wonders of the New Creation must proceed 12 ves p. 122. 1696. The Ark of Faith or a Supplement to the Tree of Faith for the Further Confirmation of the same Together with a Discovery of the New World p. 33. 1696. The Fountain of Gardens Watered by the by the Rivers of Divine Pleasure and springing up into a Paradise Vol. I. p. 169â— A Revelation of the Everlasting Gospel-Message which shall never cease to be Preach'd till the Hour of Christs Eternal Judgment shall come Whereby will be proclaim'd the last Love Jubilee in order to the Restitution of the Whole Lasped Creation 8vo p. 39. 1697. The Fountain of Gardens Vol. II.
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