been understood All which shall be made good when the Soul shall be brought forth as a well tuned Instrument new strung and qualified in the deified man where the holy Spirit moves every Property according to the central Wheel in its new begotten Form which is set free to run its Races in the Sphere of Light where weak Mortality with its sinful Essences are out-run and left behind in the Fall Let not this seem strange or impossible for in the Deep a Mean is found for the bringing forth of this long buried Seed which hath long waited to arise in its original Body of essential Perfection and harmoniz'd Powers that it may appear that God is come to move and shew himself in the Covenant of his Love according to the Preordination in the heart of Christ for by him we do obtain this Resurrection in order to all the following Glories which the holy Spirit shall bring with him even so Anon. This Instruction being so immediately from the Lord carried great weight with it and made me resolve to wait upon the working Power in my inward Deep for the reducing of every divided Property to Unity for I was fully convinced that this Uniformity must be the Temple in which the holy Spirit will appear for the bringing of all working Powers to a heavenly Consort and Agreement I sate upon this day by day and as I found great drivings thereunto from the South Wind of Heaven so strong Storms were raised from the North with roaring Seas that lifted up their Waves to scatter and make void this holy Enterprize in injecting divers Temptations that such a thing as this could not hold or abide but would have its Overturnings and Changes for that nothing less than a God can always be in an equal Temperature and that this was rather the full effect of the holy Spirits coming than a Preparation for it Thus was I puzled and tossed to and fro in my Mind as if I were put upon that which could never be brought about or carried through to the desired End But the Lords Word was mighty and powerful to press me forward to this sweet and well ordered Composure of Mind to abide in an equal Temperature notwithstanding all that might come in to discourage me whether from those visible things or from the dark Principality which is much more hurtful in regard that they as Spirits can shoot in their Darts before we are aware so that this bath been my watchful Exercise for some days to resist what would have done Violence to that which in Concord and Peace would ever unshaken remain The holy One according to his friendly way and manner of Visitation did after all this exceedingly comfort and strengthen me to maintain his right of Conquest over all that which yet is left to vex and awaken Anxiousness or any Fear or Turmoile in the Soul My Jesus thus spake Consider and know thou art to hold fast what I have purchased by the fore-passed Death in thee as having assumed that Body of Sin to offer it up for a consuming Sacrifice once for all as was shewed in the Type of the visible Body which is now done again in the invisible So that you are to reckon and account your sins virtually done away they can claim no Law either to reign or condemn Look upon all Motions of this kind to be at the check of the Spirit who hath again quickned the dead and will no more give way to that which came in to flesh for to destroy And therefore let none pretend a necessity of continuing in that which hath brought in Confusion and Disagreement seeing a Redeeming Spirit is come down to renew and gather in the lost again to the divine Beeing from whence they did proceed at first pure as God is pure to which degree of Perfection that we may be restored again is the end of Christs Mediatory Office not only without but within us where the Body of Sin hath been yielded up for an Offering This confirming Word Christ the Lord who is arising left with me for them who have been in the Death with him that we henceforth may know our selves in him to be acquitted and released from all Claims which the evil Powers and Properties can make for upholding that Kingdom where the Beasts Throne is which consists of envy wrath strife from all which by an eternal Decree of the Lord Jehovah you are set free and brought into the Harmony of that Kingdom where the springing Joy from the Peace of God doth run as a River that hath its Division through all Properties for to bring them to the heavenly Unity whereby the Creature is set free from the Bondage of Sin and a wafaring Life according to the Pattern seen in the Mount of Vision to which my Spirit hath been oft taken up to see the wonderful Plat-form of the New-Jerusalem The Vision of the New-Jerusalem The Lord took me away from my mortal part and shewed me the Scituation of this great Glory and said Behold and see the Pattern of the heavenly Houses and Mansions which make up the New-Jerusalem where the Glory of the One only God doth fill all with the essential Light and Splendor of his divine goodness I shall as I am able describe what I did see in the Heavens of this Mother-City for so it was named to me who is to bring forth her first and free-born to replenish the New Earth and Heavens It appeared as a City sounded upon one square Stone whose Dimensions were very large It was all paved with light flaming Colours appearing like so many various sparkling Stones inlaid on the great Foundation Stone which gave forth a luster as if so many bright Suns had been there Towards the Verge or out-side of this square Stone were seen many Seraphick Bodies wreathing Arm in Arm and several rows of various spiritual Forms of different Ranks and Stature These Rews appeared like the Stories of a building which were carried up higher higher in a square Figure till it was wonderful high upon the Heads of the most inward glorified Bodies a Covering was spread by one more Diaphanous and of greater splendor than all the rest the Height of his Person was higher by the head then all the other who called to me out of this most glorious Building To take good heed of all I had seen for it had a further meaning which I was to have revealed when driven by the Spirit into the light Mystery where all deep things do open Oh my dear Lord be thou an All-springing Testimony within and from this New-Jerusalem My Spirit being drawn out for a further Enquiry concerning this New-Jerusalem state what the Appearance of it to us did signifie for this present time the Foundation Stone thereof gave forth this Word That such a City the mighty Cyrus would himself be the Founder of upon the visible Stage of this World although there be little appearance
But here it may be asked What manner and kind of Offerings will those first Fruits of Redemption be This is a Question which cannot be so fully answered till we are compleatly perfected in this Tabernacle which hitherto is only a rearing But what of these Immunities hath been expressed by the great Priest and opened from the Tabernacle-Testimony unto me shall be given forth for their sakes who may have right to bring in such perfect Offerings to the most holy and separated place in the day of their Restoration mutually with us who are expecting the accomplishment in all its divine Ordinances and Consecrations for the perfecting every Comer hereunto But now to define what kind of Offerings we shall bring as Priests to God they are the Fruits of the Magia in their out-flowing Operation which actually send out a most powerful Spirit from its own essential Spring of Spirit wherein God is the only pure Original of it What is sent forth to effect but a new Generation of Heavens and Earth The Magia worketh in this manner saying Let the old Tabernacle with all its shadowy Appearances pass away and be no more And it is so for the force of the out-going Spirit incorporates with the Word and makes it Essential whether it be expressed Vocally or no the Co-centred Decree passeth into and though the Spirit carrieth all Power with it either to nullifie or make void or to give a new Plantation and an heavenly splendorious Formation upon Creatures and Things for a lustrious Transformation of what is fading and dying that so Immortality may be renewed whether in Rationals Animals or Vegetables The matter of the one Element is so immerced and coagulated in a Magical Spirit that it is able to give a Life where the very Face of Death doth appear whether dead as to a Spiritual Life according to that saying And you hath he quickned who were dead in Trespasses and Sens. Who is this in the Person of Christ but the same holy Ghost in his out-going Power that through our Persons so influencing and given a Resurrection to a dead Life whether in our selves or others as cause requires Then also as to the very mortal Life to prolong it and to secure it from Pain and Sickness Yea from Death it self But this quickinmg Spirit is only appropriated to such as have dyed and suffered with Christ in the Flesh and thereby have overcome the World Therefore let none think that they can come to this degree of Power Might and Dignity till they are Born again from the Dead that is a cessation to the enkindled Life from the Stars which generate earthly Motions and Thoughts which work in a way of Sensuality from which there must be a departing in reference to those great Things which are to succeed I have been often brought to see the limit of the first Born Life that doth consist between Time and Eternity in the stirring Essences of Sin whereby I am made so wisely knowing as not grieve or to have any Reluctancy upon the sentence of a total Expiration of such an injurious Life as keeps me out of God's Tabernacle-Body where I can no more dye Whereupon the holy Ghost out of the Virgin-Body doth cry and call to such who would come to be all Magical to offer up their first-Born rational Life for a Sacrifice And then of a truth we shall bring other kind of Fruits and Offerings and no more as Tributaries and Servants to Sin Beast or Dragon but be freed through the rising Birth that will mount and fly over all those who kept the other under great Fear and Bondage but in this we shall come to be Kings in God's House and of his own Family Oh! what hath been here let down by Golden Drops from the Head-Fountain Let it O God mingle all forcibly for Life contaction with the more noble part within us that so this great and perfect Tabernacle may be according to its own secret way compacted indissolvably where we may securely dwell and nothing of Violence Oppression or Fear but receive Power from the rising Body of the holy Ghost to bear down and expel whatsoever is against us This is what the Lord hath by a signal Word averred and he will see it fulfilled as in any one such a Spirit of Resolution shall be found to go forward in this great Enterprize to encounter and rush through every Throng that would stop and put them by who are ready to venter their All for it Now somewhat may be said as to those high Ends for which God is resolved to raise his principal Magia First to redress comfort and relieve the groaning Creation which is in spiritual travail even such who are in Famin and Death in Agonies Sorrow and Heaviness through divers Temptations and the Buffetings and Wiles of Satan To these the Magical Balsom shall be given for Cure from such as are first risen in the tabernacle-Tabernacle-Body of God They shall bind all evil Spirits and there shall go forth a virtual Power from them to do as if Christ were in person there And in the second place this Power shall extend it self to the taking away of all outward Maladies of the Body and all Sufferings relating to Penury and Want and all Weariness Toil and anxious Care for the Needs and Requirings of the Body A further addition to the former subject Know then that as in a miraculous way this will be made as healing Waters from out of the Threshold of the Sanctuary that shall recover the dry and parched Earth to make it bud and flourish as it did before the Curse did overflow it Take it inward as to spiritual Fruitfulness or otherwise as to the outward Elementary state Great also will be the Trust that will be granted by the mighty Jehovah for mannagement for his little Flock sake and put into the Hands of some that are to be set apart as good and principal Shepherds indeed who can both let out and lay down their Life for the elect Sheep which are to be gathered in not by Sounds or Words but by a Magical Impregnation which can send in a Breath of Life to quicken what is as dead This is now what we are in a daily expectation of from the rich Furniture which will come down with the tabernacle-Tabernacle-Body Oh come holy Souls and let us be in a watchful posture for I do see in Spirit that the Morning of this Day begins apace to clear the bright Clouds do open the face of our Heavens appear the separating Vail is all rending away that out of the first Tabernacle we may pass and within the most holy place fixedly stay where we shall have no cause to fear that God will henceforth move away because we our selves shall be brought up to that height of Purity that all Offerings shall be most pleasant and powerful from the everlasting Flame of the holy Altar from whence ascending Powers will go up to bring
eternal Rock there to be fed and nourished with its own Nature-Milk and Honey of Love till it become strong and able to encounter and overcome all its Opposites that it may reign alone as Monarch of the Soul My Friends who-ever you be that shall read this experimental Writing know assuredly that if you can but find this burning Star of Love risen nay if you can but feel the Glowings and Enkindlings of heat in the center of your Hearts it is more to be valued than all other spiritual Gifts Powers and divine Ornaments which pertain to the new Creation then we may boldly despise and contemn all worldly Dominions and all the Joys and Delights of sensual Love For you must know it is such a Sacred and Coelestial Seed coming immediately from the heart of the Deity as cannot admit any thing of defilement or pollution to abide with it It soon leaves the Soul if any thing be taken in which cannot abide the burning touch of this Altar Coal But here it may be asked What is this Love which is so highly exalted above all Heavenly and Earthly things Sure there must be some rare transcending Quality in it not commonly known that makes you press it so vehemently Truly well I may yet not I but the essential Love it self doth move me to open the Mystery of it which happily hath not been understood as now by breaking up the Fountain of it that so it may plentifully run forth for giving the Light of the Knowledge of it doth but make way for the very substantial Body it self to rise sensibly in its flaming Quality Take this further account of it that it is known for to be the most holy and pure Generation of the immaculate Virgin of God for which is prepared a Virgin-Womb that this Birth might be the choice and and undefiled One of her that brings it forth It will not be now at Christ's second Birth as it was at his first then his Vissage was marred more than any mans he was a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief and there was no Form or Comliness in him which made him to be set at naught and greatly despised though without Sin or Guile but being found a Sufferer under it therefore could not be exalted till he had slain the Enmity and wrought out Victory and thus he hath his first Birth in us which must precede his second But there is a vast difference between Christ's first and second Coming Many Ages are passed wherein the Saints have only known the Birth of Christ in them after this weak suffering dying and reproachful state The Apostles upon whom the holy Ghost was poured forth after a most signal manner by which Christ gave witness in them of his Victory and Exaltation enabling them to work miraculously yet notwithstanding they were not got beyond the suffering Birth of Christ in themselves for they only had the Revelation and Fore-sight of his appearing in Power and great Glory but they departed this Life and did not see the sign of the Son of Man to take up in them for a visible Reign and Kingdom that might redeem out of all Tribulation and so it hath continued until this day But yet there is not to be found a Generation so prepared and made ready for the second Coming of Christ as was in that day which might make us doubt whether the coming of Christ be so nigh because this Birth of Love is so hardly found in any risen up to an absolute Dominion which is a sure Introduction to the Omnipotent Reign of Christ in this visible Earth in the inward Properties of the Love Flock But you will say The Apostles and those that were Converted by their Ministry were all in the Dispensation of Love and were in expectation of having the Kingdom restored to Israel in their day and what was the reason then that Christ's second Birth did not rise in them To which I Answer That it was thought meet by the Father of Wisdom that all of that Generation should drink of their Lord's suffering and dying Cup as he often hinted unto them when Personally with them though they had a general Spirit of Prophecy concerning his glorious Reign in which he would appear in his Saints And then again it may be demur'd upon Whether those Elders themselves had compleated their own Regeneration and so were perfectly arrived to the Throne-Do minion of Love as fixed Overcomers St Paul Peter and John that were most eminent amongst them seemed to have somewhat more in their Eye than to what they had attained and so were still a pressing after it But however it may be concluded that they had gotten the Start before any that are known this day yet it seems that hitherto Love's Womb hath been shut up from bringing forth Children of the Resurrection at least to any thing that is manifestly known But for this we may have good hope that if indeed it be Born in any one and made strong to maintain its Right Superiority over the whole inward Creation ruling as God by whom it is certainly avouched that a Virgin Spirit shall be given to such for eternal Generation who shall be able to raise and quicken the holy Grain of Love that lieth as dead that so Love may see her Off-spring to multiply exceedingly unto all perfect Purity Such an holy Congregation and Society being once raised to reign upon Love's-Throne together they will be as so many raised Banners which will be terrible to the Nations which stand without the circle of Love Now by all this we see what hath hitherto put a stop and caused the Lord to delay his coming and will still till perfect Love be come to burn up every Image in the Mind that is not engraved by God's own Finger It is certainly to be concluded that Charity is the golden Wash baptizing Pool out of which Souls do come all Ruddy and White Clear and Bright to whom the Lord may say My Dove my fair One my Undefiled come away the Love-Scarlct-Dye hath washed thy Blackness away so that now thou art all fair in my Eye This is a Prophecy which hath now in some its fulfilling and will have more abundantly as this Spirit of burning Love takes possession of Hearts and then the very Face of God will be the Covering by which we shall see and know what before we were ignorant of as to our own pure Love's-Nativity which was fore-known in Christ before the World of Wrath and Bitterness did shew it self And thus by the first and second Birth of Christ in us all will come to be restored to a glorious new Creation where Love shall dye no more nor Sin live which brought in Curse and Sorrow and estranged God from us Now is not all this a most perswasive Motive to the Love-Flock where-ever scattered that God intends to bring them to this Love-band of Perfection that so we may know one another as God's
signal Demonstration by opening the divine Magia whereby the holy Spirit comes to act in his own place viz. in the ascended Body of the Resurrection from thence to go forth and work his Wonders such as yet were never wrought which will be the Introduction into the fixed Glorification for to be Co-centred in the ascended triumphant Spirit the Glory of which is attributed to the Lamb of God of whom it is said That he is worthy to receive Blessing Wisdom Power Strength and Glory for the effecting of so full and perfect a Redemption all which shall be assigned to the glorified in Christ who in the Royal unchangeable Priesthood shall be confirmed as going up from Glory to Glory till swallowed up in Glory Power Might and Excellency the manner of which is defined as the Close of all that hath been treated of in this Book as the finishing Testimony which at present was given me from the Lord of Glory Therefore so receive them in Faith and Love for this is the day of Gods Revelation who sends forth this as a fore-going Harbinger who according to his Promise will soon follow to fulfil all the rich and precious Things prophested herein and therefore calleth upon his scattered Stones to get together to Harmonize in the Eternal Light Love and Purity provoking each other to go on forward in this four-fold Process of our Lord Jesus arising out of this long Night of Slumber for the Day is broken and the Morning-Star may be discerned Consider to what a Life of Glory and Immortality ye are called it is great and wonderful indeed yet know the East-Gate now will open to those that earnestly knock thereat so that there is a certain possibility to get up unto all these Degrees of Glory Wherefore let none doubt but be girded with the Omnipotency of Faith which will rid the way swiftly leaving all unbelieving Loyterers behind A Race we have to run some may not be yet set out others newly engaged and others a good way in the Race but blessed are they who shall at the Price first come that so they may return to strengthen and encourage their Companions in the Race who may see the Rosie-Garland of Victory in their Hands and the Diadem of precious Stones as the Price which they have won which doth well deserve to be run hard for not delaying so much time as to look behind being once set out but so run that we may obtain But it may be questioned Who and where those are which are so resolute and strong in Spirit as to hold out to the end of the Race For this none can be found indeed but such as are arisen with Christ from the dead he is must become the Racer in us for all other Legs we run with will soon tire and be weary therefore set not out till Christ your Life and Strength be risen as a Gyant refreshed to run out this conquering Race where ye may come to lie down under the encompassing Glory as in an everlasting pleasant Shade possessing all those high and wonderful Immunities Glories Crowns Joys Gifts Powers in the Holy Spirit who will magnifie his Office in acting and working all in the Body of the Resurrection concerning which I shall no further enlarge but refer you to what is treated of in the former and this the following Revelations I shall now cease and shut up all in that springing Fountain from whence this bundle of Revelations did proceed having a good Hope and certain Perswasion that the Lord will be with his own Testimony in a light Ray spreading over all the Darkness of those Minds that shall attend and receive without Prejudice what is written though to some it may appear Obtruse Deep and Mystical and hard to be understood yet to others who are come under the teaching of the same Unction it will appear plain and easily apprehended and that the Spirit will bear record with us of what was and is and yet is to come Now the things yet to come is that Powerful and Princely Reign unto Glorification which hath long been prophesied of and now again with an Affirmation that the Lord will suddainly be upon us to take unto him his Kingdom which nothing of the Beasts Reign shall mingle Oh! Holy Precious and Elect let us not Sleep but set our Morning-Watch for Tydings are come to make all things ready for him Let it appear who the Wise Virgins are by their making themselves ready to meet the Lord not only for a Visit or Salvation but for an Eternal Marriage and an un-interrupted Nuptial Fruition and so to be ever with the Lord or rather the Lord to be ever with us as his dear Bride perfectly redeemed from the Earth as it becometh her thus Holy and Blameless to be found for the everlasting Priestly Celebration and Holy Ministration in no other Temple but what is called God and the Lamb where the only true Spiritual Worshippers are found and from whence our Praise-Offerings will spring as from the bright Sphere of Glory that swallows up Darkness Death Sorrow Contempt and the Curse in a full and total Victory for the Hopes of which and first budding Fruits now shall conclude with high Acclamation Glory Salvation and Praise to God and the Lamb that cometh to Reign evermore even so and Amen Known to be Yours in the unsealed Book of Life which none can shut again J. ☞ Lead and E. H. follows The Introduction IT was in my purpose to have suspended as yet any further manifestation of the Revelation that still followed me and would have hid the golden Talent only for an encrease in its own invisible Ground from whence it open'd at first till such time is it might come forth in the multiplying Number of the holy Spirit to seal up the glory of all that had gone before in Vision and Prophecy but Christ the bright Banner of Glory stood before me and said Keep in Record the Journal of the now raised Life according to the Profession then art going on in and know that what hath and it further to be revealed shall be sealed with a mighty Witness conquering all Opposition where-ever it shall rise Wherefore go on and forbear not writing for it shall be as the unclouding of the present dark Day and many shall come in at the brightness of its rising though it now seems to be under an Eclipse Thus was I afresh enkindled from the All-pierciug Word of my Lord who knows for what end he moves me horeunto tho I still objected against it as fore-seeing no Passage for such high Mysteries nor likelihood of their Reception in that Love which is void of censuring and therefore would rather have hid these heavenly things in their own Centre But seeing it hath pleased the Lord to over-rule my Resolution I shall be obedient to his Word as believing it may extend to the benefit of some who are known to himself who will not difesteem
the preciousness of the Spirit for the Vessels sake wherefore I shall no longer be backward to reveal what is of great weight and importance as being well assured that the Lord Jesus will go along with me till I have fulfilled the Declaration of the whole Mystery I feel the divine Agent that works mightily in holy separated Souls and Minds driving on to make way for what is yet behind in reference to the manifestation of that Kingdom which now the Lord is about to restore in his Saints and therefore gives forth fresh and lively Ideas of it that pure Minds may be excited to look for its coming in their New Earth and Heavens which are to be garnished as with Purity so with Dominion and Power even the rising Body of the holy Spirit which must restore all things which have been in Confusion Now what goeth before to make ready for this hath been already set down by the Golden Pen which is dipped in the springing Unction to which more considerable Revelations are added by him who saith He is come to make all things New being ready to give forth the Promise of the Father in the Ministration of the everlasting Gospel I say the faithful Witness and Ground of all Mysteries minded me of his Charge to his Disciples when he was to disappear to the outward viz. That they should wait at Jerusalem the holy City in Harmony Concord and Oneness of Mind with great confidence and love to each other A deeper search the holy one doth make in them who in this last Age are waiting to be endowed with the full acting Body of the Deity which will be manifested in a different manner than in the days of the Apostles that being by way of Gift coming down as a Shower but now those who shall be endowed with this signal Blessing must have it by way of a Birth in them The Apostles were to wait at Jerusalem which was a figure of the Principle of Light where all Natures and Properties are harmoniz'd to an equal Temperature all Faculties are spiritualiz'd and purged from their Drossiness and reconciled to each other in a sweet Love-accord It is plainly shewed me that the holy Spirit will have his Birth in a peaceable Habitation where the conquering Life of Jesus by his dying and rising hath first made its way by reconciling the Properties of Nature and bringing them to a divine Harmony by which renewing Nature into a soft and sweet Mildness causing all Contrarieties of Spirit to cease by subduing it to the Light-Principle Wherefore it is but in vain to expect the Establishment of that Kingdom which the Birth of the holy Spirit will bring to us till this thorow Work be wrought that we may come to Unity in our selves and with one another which is a very high Perfection And truly from hence I have been informed where the Birth of Power hath stuck and why so many Faculties fruitless Births have been brought forth Wherefore let not our bribed Senses or the Spirit of Unbelief so far delude us to make us believe that the holy Spirit will open its Birth but according to what hath been by the Lord himself revealed But it may be objected That if the Terms be so hard it looks as an Impossibility to obtain it because nothing of the evil Qualities and striving Properties must remain which are not so quite allayed in any but may be stirred up again into Motion Pray therefore let us know what Provision hath been revealed against this that it may beg it a Hope and Belief in those who are yet in the Division and Strife the Good warring against the Evil and the Evil against the Good being divided betwixt the Night and the Day as the greatest Saints are For Answer to this Objection the Spirit of the Lord hath searched and found out a Cure which will bring the broken and divided Estate of the first Adamical Birth into Unity Harmony and pure Liberty I shall as I am able bring it sorth in the same Model it was given to me for a true seeing Glass by which I was directed to fathom the deepest Ground of my eternal Soul and to find out its true essential Properties as they were derived from the unmixed Purity of the one pure Element This pure eternal living Soul thus breathed by God into an Angelical Image and formed into an Organical Body from the one pure Element all which was to be seen in the first Paradisiacal Man But when Lucifer prevailed by darting in his hellish Fire it left such a Sting which hath poysoned all the inward Essences of of the very Immortal part and therefore the Wound is found so deep that no Medicine can be found to reach it but Christ the in-breathed Word who only can reach the Soul 's original Ground and being the Creating Fiat can alone make all Nowagain according to the highest Uniformity of the express Deity And this cometh first to be known in a fiery Ray of Loue-Light that discovers where the Root of sin doth lie and so when the Spirit of the Soul comes by the Word of Life to understand its own Original and by what means it hath been corrupted and captivated it is made full-willing and eager to strike in with that Christ which riseth from the Centre-Light in its own Soul to redeem and reconcile all to himself that was alienated from him in the Birth of Strife Thus Christin us is our Peace indeed who hath made of both and all one New Creature having abolished the Law of Enmity blotting and rcoting out sin by the same degrees as his own righteous Nature enters in which restores all peaceable Concord So that the Spirit who is made Partaker of this Gift of God hath put on Royal Liberty and being clothed with Christs essential Body finds it self unloaded of all sinful weights and moves swifty in the Circle of Light and runs its Races through the unknown Spaces and Christaline Spheres where other Worlds do appear with all their glorious Objects Ranks and Orders which must needs make this World look base and vile to a Soul that is come naked and free out of the original Womb as begotten again from the dead rising in a perfect clarified Body of Light and being quite recovered from that desperate lapsed state that would have sunk the Soul into everlasting Death Thus you see by what means the disagreeing Properties of Nature may come to be harmoniz'd as in the beginning God must become Man and by his consuming fiery Property destroy original Sin which is the first Engine that moves the Wheel of Strife and Division in the Soul which Fire is Gods choice Instrument when set and tuned by his hand who gave it a Beeing out of Eternal Nature into which it must be dissolved again that it may be a meet Instrument for the holy Spirit to play such Tunes and Triumphant Sounds and teach such new Lessons as have not hitherto
shall I get rid of this Body I would fain exist in that pure Essence with thee where nothing of this lump of Earth might prevent my constant Walks in those high Places with thee whose presence will make these outward Elements to flee away from the superior Spirit The Holy One replied Be not troubled at thy Binding Mortality for I will descend in this fiery Cloud into thee as a baptizing Fire which shall take away the gross Impurities of the Senses that thou mayst be clarified in order to thy Codeification which will manifest the out-spreading Name of thy Emmanuel whereby thou shalt receive Power to ascend through Fire and Air and continue that all-desireable freedom of Communion with the holy Trinity And though none in a Body of Flesh and Six can come up to me yet Grace Pity and Love do move to descend in the Spirits flaming Cloud to make the way free that such may have a Pass who account no Place their Rest or Dwelling besides me Wherefore pursue and watch to drink in of this pure Spirit of Burning which will clear and take out of the way whatsoever hath kept from ascending into the Holy City Whilst these Words were in spoken from the Anointing I felt a sensible rising and spreading over all my Heart Head and Body as if all were covered with a Cloud of Sun-heat giving out light by which I could soe what was inwardly done as well as feel it Then it was further spoke in me that I should take notice that this was also the bright Garment of the Sun Such is the Nature of this secret flaming Matter that it seeds strengthens and clarifies a naked Spirit all at once Then was I inquisitive to know the Substance or Ground of it but it was replyed Meddle thou not with that only receive it passively and Co-operate with it when it ariseth and then walk with and draw in the feeding Fire and Air and when it resteth in its own place rest thou with it and be assured it will not leave thee till it have concentred thee in the Deity This light flaming Cloud encompassing me gave this further Revelation to shew what the Holy One is about to do in order to the laying of the Foundation of this strong City in which the mighty God will pitch his Tabernacle and settle his Rest forever Many Types Images and foregoing Figures of this Jerusalem have been given through the several Ages of the World but the Heavenly Thing it self hath not been brought forth as no wt will be because the set time approacheth For the trying burning Furnace is kindled and the Wind of the Almighty forcibly blows up the Flames thereof in the center of the Soul of every one who are the Elect Members of this Holy Corporation Now is the time for the Spirit of Burning and Judgment to prepare each Stone which is designed for this super-excellent Glory No connterfeit Gold or reprobate Silver can pass through this Furnace which is ordained to prove whatsoever comes to be built on this Foundation The mighty King sends forth his Decrees to fulfil the ancient Prophecies concerning the return of the long Captivity of these who belong to this Mother-City that they may know their original freedom and no longer abide as Captive-Exiles among the Babylonians in Confusion and Reproach And what sign will the Lord give for this but by loosing the last Seal under which doth lie the rich Bank and vast Treasury of Wisdom Spirit and Power which shall so vigorously carry on this New-Jerusalem-Building that all the Powers which the Dragon and Beast can raise by their Agents visible and invisible shall but turn to their Shame and Confusion when the Lamb ariseth to open the Seventh Seal under which the most precious things even that fine transparent Matter lies hid to be manifested in due time for the beautifying of this divine Building But here an Objection may arise and question this revealed Grace and proclaimed Liberty to the Children of the Captivity who are now called to sit upon this heavenly Building which is this That the time is not yet and that the last Seal is not so near breaking open and who is it that can give a Sign for a Testimony that this Decree is already gone forth To all which the Spirit of Truth gives this Answer who best knows what he hath wrought in order hereunto in the Central Deep of some Elect Vessels who are not to make any out-cry until the Mystery be fully finished in them know that the time is at hand wherefore let none look afar off or run out from themselves and neglect their own Vintage at home but regard how near the Grape is to ripeness which contains the Wine that is to be drunk at the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb who charges it as a great over-sight upon those that are Regenerate that they have put this Day afar off not discerning the Lords Body who is quickned from the dead in them who are passed from Death with him and so are put in Subordinate Commission with the Lamb to break open all those Seals which shall make way for the descent of the Holy City For what in John's Revelation is mentioned concerning these things is very obscure and mystical and there is no fathoming of it to the utmost until the Lord himself come with the Plummet-Line of the Holy Spirit to measure out the meaning Though there are some who have been favoured with this Light of Revelation by means of which they understand what lies hid under those Allegorical Expressions and through the opening of the Seals have discovered those rich Jewels which were concealed under that dark Covert the opening of which Seals I shall set down in order according as it was acted in my own particular through my Soul 's waiting with the Lamb's-rising Power in a particular experience of my own in the divine Mystery At the opening of the first Seal the Spirit of Faith came forth to encounter with the fearful and unbelieving Spirits that set before me an Impossibility of ever reaching to a Paradisical Purity and Mount-Zion-Dignity and was kept under a great Fear and Perplexity under the dominion of Unbelief until this first Seal was broke open for thereupon the strong Lyon of the Tribe of Juda set me free to run the Race of Faith unto the end giving in this Caution to take care to be well mounted on this Horse of the Spirit of Faith and to hold fast to him who rides on it who hath the conquering Bow in his Hand to shoot his Arrows into those unbelieving Spirits that would still keep us in Doubts and Perplexity At the opening of the second Seal all Peace Pleasure and Joy were taken away from the Earthly Life and withal such a Light broke forth which made me see the vile Abomination of an earthly state compared with the Perfection of the Divine Life so that now I rejoyc'd in nothing more than
unto me that none could or ever should come to the opening of the seventh Seal till all this were fully finished and I must give Witness that it is a doing and it doth not seem grievous because of what is to succeed and follow when the next Seal shall be opened Thus I have been driven on according to Experience and Revelation to open the mystical meaning of what is written in the Revelation according as it is to be fulfilled in Holy and Heavenborn-Saints though I also well know that their opening will cause a terrible Day of Wo to the Rebellious and Unregenerate for they who shall then be found in the Beasts Kingdom must look to fall and go into Perdition with him for as there are inward Vials to be poured forth so there are outward Vials to be poured forth on the World which I could enlarge upon but that it is not my Commission being otherwise instigated Besides the Lord shewed me that to every Seal there is an Eye opens within which is therefore called upon to look inward where the great Mystery is to be opened and as every Seal hath it's Eye so the Ear hath its sounding Horn which is filled with Holy Oyl which makes Kings and Priests in Gods Tabernacle These are the Trumpets that give the most certain sound for Time to end and the everlasting Kingdom of the Alpha and Omega to begin in that Soul where the sixth Trumpet shall sound upon which so ows the loosing of those Angels that have been bound who are to fight the Lamb's Battel and to revenge his Quarrel For the great and last War will be upon this sixth Seal opening and the Lord did testifie it would be such as in no fore-going Seal had been known But he said withal I am the Lord strong and mighty who will prevail and wholly overturn the Kingdom of the Dragron and Beast Continue thou whilst I am doing this in the most holy secret of my Beeing where the constant Mediatorship and Offerings may go on as the strength of an Army that shall all overcome through the burning Incense that is mingled by the Angel whose place is to stand alwayes at the Altar no hurt or suffering by all this Constagration shall touch the Jewel that lies hid in my Deity that would shine forth again in the Body of its Native Virginity as before time was wherefore suffer thou all this Vulence on thy Elementary part as knowing that it will not at all disturb the inward Temple-Worship and Communion of the pure Spirit But now as of old time in the first elect Church and People God was ministred to and worshipped in a dark formal mixed manner going up and down in a moveable Tabernacle till Solomon's day where the Typical Temple which was to be filled with the Glory was built even so since the time of the Son of Man's offering up himself the holy One hath walked in Clouds and hath been worshipped after an imperfect rate and therefore he hath prepared a burning flaming Day for all his Vessels to pass through to know whether they be Sanctuary proof or no For the Lord is carrying on a pure Jerusalem-Worship in truth and substantiality Rejoyce all ye who shall stand the tryal of this sixth Seal in order to it Now according to this divine Interpretation of the six Seal we may know how near the end of time and the passing away of the old Heavens and Earth in our selves are for that it is we are to look to at every Seals opening For from the first to the last there is a sounding Trumpet to bring Ruin and Desolation to the first six dayes Creation because of sin and the Curse which came in by the Serpent's sting by which means the Beast hath created his Kingdom and corrupted the whole Principle of time which the holy One hath suffered now so many thousand Years during which all Just Men dyed indeed in the Faith of this Prophecy but attained not to that degree which is to usher in the heavenly new Jerusalem in her Glory But the Lord is now stirring and in good earnest is sounding his Trumpets for Battel and there is that in us which doth witness he is going on gradually to unmake and dissolve all of the first Creation for the Lamb will not much longer carry the weight and burthen of a sinful Creation he hath in some already sounded to Judgment and will set himself free thereby and the Spirits and Souls of those who are resolved to follow him through every Seal till they shall overcome It was given me to observe that there are six Engagements to which six Overcomings do answer mentioned in the Revelation and to every Conquest a most high and wonderful Reward promised all which is to encourage to follow him cheerfully who is our Leader who hath sworn that time shall be no longer than till he hath gotten the Victory over the Beast and Whore and hath destroyed the Dragon's Kingdom in every Property within us who are elected to reign in his Life with him on his Throne with a rain of new created Powers in the Properties of the redeemed Earth in the Souls Essence and then we shall know how unconfined the Lordly Dominion over all outward things is even over all the Beasts of this visible Earth who must be subjected to the Lamb who hath taken his Victorious Crown and put it on the Heads of the holy Warriors that have passed through all and are come to the last Overcoming that gives entrance into the seventh Seal As I was collecting in my Mind the near approaching time for the manifestation of this great Overturning which is to bring in the overflowing stream of Christ's Kingdom into the Overcomers Behold I did see and hear the Voice of him from whom the first Heavens and Earth die flee away who uttered these Words As there hath been a long and tedious War between the House of God and the Serpent's Brood together with the Harlot and Beast who have maintained their envious War on the Ground of fallen Nature but now come and see the Place where they shall lie bound in perpetual Captivity And immediately I was all filled with Light from the opened Centre of the peaceable Kingdom that flows in as a virtual Life felt in the Quality of the pure glassy Sea with Sounds Powers and Lightnings as if all of the old Earth were now drowned in this bright Ocean and rollowed a bright Star with a Voice going forth which said The Lamb rising out of this new Elementary Sea overcomes the Serpent and Beast with all their Seed and this will be their Deluge to an everlasting Victory So from hence it was demonstrated that the Beast hath his Sea wherein the great Leviathan sporteth himself and casts out Floods to Persecute and make War against the Virgin-Seed whose Element is mild and sweet Temperature of the glassy Sea The other out of which it is said that the
Beast did rise is a terrible tossing working Sea where all the worldly Spirits drive their Traffick for to make Babylon pompous and great who ever loves the Earth and are admirers of the Beast who gives Riches and worldly Honours to such as serve him but oh come here and see how he must fall with his whole Hierarchy Wherefore let none trust to his Kingdom which in one day shall be made desolate through the fiery Judgments Here are two Seas at strife one against the other turn your Eyes inward you who are the Lamb's Warriors and witness bear to these two Seas meeting within the Ground of Nature The Sea of the Beast contains great abundance of Riches according to its perishable kind besides there is an overflow to the Merchants of it that are in a free Trade to uphold that worldly Kingdom wherein all Nursery of Sins-Wuchcraft is maintained But according as I was called upon to come and see how the Beast and all his rich trafficking-Sea is to be dryed up as the Lamb of God shall fill his Vials from out of this glassy Sea and pour them upon it when all its Pomp and Riches shall sink as a Mill stone never to rise again Oh? at this let all our Nations rejoyce within us as this Vision is fulfilling Now follows another great Mystery which I was called upon to look into concerning the seventh Seal wherein lies hid the Reward and rich Price which though not yet given in Possession yet the Holy One hath seen it expedient to reveal it by breathing sorth this Word in me saying Come thou apart and Sanctifie a Fast tonelling nothing of the Leaven which is found in the House of fallen Nature abstain from any other Cup but what I the Anointed shall sill unto thee from the burning Sea of Glass which will be a Lamp to give Light and perfect Knowledge in the most hidden things that everlasting Wisdom hath hitherto sealed up For to you who are come to the sixth Seal and to your burning Elements in the heat of that melting Furnace these further Secrets are disclosed for the Consolation who shall hold out in this last Battel-Race for Conquest Therefore put on your Life-Armour day by day and continue in the Fight for joy of that which is now revealed as your Reward taking all care to abstain from the Leaven of Imaginations which may stop the Sluce of Revelation in its Purity The empty Bowl with light burning Oyl began to come in and became a rising Spring which did give light to the dark Socket of my Understanding within and the first thing that was shewed me was an open Book written within and every one of the seven Seals broken and it was in the Hand of the God-head-man who said Come and read what the seven Wonders which my faithful Witness did declare of in his day of Revelation which were then to be sealed up because the Day of their fulfilling was so far off But now in this present time there hath been such a servent heat of flaming Intercession which hath made all these Seals to melt away that the Secrets contained in the Book might be opened and made known This Living Book which was presented to my view to read was the glorified Person of the Lord Jesus who did now appear to reveal what was sealed up in the seven Thunders His presence was not terrible as appearing under the Vail of pure Humanity where he hides me as in the Clifts of his own Spiritual Body whilst he talketh with me who thus said Thou art come to a deep Knowledge for here the greatest Good highest Beeing stands unsealed to the introverted Eye of thy Spirit that can enter into the Light of Eternity where the Looking-Glass of all Mysteries does stand open Now the cry of the first Thunder was this Behold how the six dayes Creation is come to its limit and Man ceaseth to be being returned into the Eternity of his own Spirit there to rest in God while the Number of the Beast is summed up and his Kingdom furnished with the Ordinances of Day and Night which take place in this changeable Element from whence the Craft and Subtilty of Reason doth arise to uphold and maintain the lapsed earthly Life All which there will be no further need of according to what the second Thunder doth utter The second Thunder uttered as follows Come and see who out of the Bed of passive stillness do now arise and come forth all new and immortalized to rule as Gods in an immutable Creation These are they who have been exercised in great Tribulation and lain as dead under the Seals but they are come to live and take the Lamb's Power to reign in Gods Omnipotency which is the only Instrument they shall play upon to subdue all inwardly and outwardly For they are now put in Commission under him who is come to judge the Quick and Dead and to remove all things wherein the Serpents Brood hath been nourished The cry of the third Thunder is this Ho! come ye whose Names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life The way is all cleared and the great River Euphrates is dryed up for to give Passage to the Holy Land where the Tree of Life shall meet you with its flowing Fruits whose savour leaves a perpetual Sweetness and such a strength of Joy as will make you know the Feast of Tabernacles it come indeed with God alone for to celebrate and keep The Walls all ranged are with Seraphims that are appointed for your Guard to usher you into an higher Sphear and more magnificent place than this which was the Seat of the first Paradisival Man where you are to make but your forty dayes stay For an higher Orb doth descend as a Cloud to take up the Elders that have their Throne-Seats prepared in the great Jerusalem City which is the settled Rest where no more removing is feared for there is an indissolvable Link all fixed in a Co-operating Power which never shuts up The fourth Thunder opened thus unto me by way of Vision I saw seven Golden Candlesticks branched out from a Suid of Gold and each Socket appeared empty and there came one in the appearance of a Jaspher-light and poured in some sparkling Liquor and there arose a shining burning which sent forth Flakes of light very numerous running up and down like Lightning so as nothing could contain them nor prevent them from going whither they would then was it cry'd in my hearing What hast thou seen but the great Wonder of the fourth Thunder disclosing the fiery Lamps that are appointed to be fixed in renewed Nature which are so impowering that on whomsoever they rest they may act and do whatsoever they will into For the Concord of these seven Spirits is of that force as they can save or destroy bind or loose they are the seven proper Powers that must make out who are God's Co-deified Ones and
into which none can come to see or hear what passeth by way of Prospect or Communication but what and so much as I am ordered to declare I shall faithfully give out according to the mind of my Lord who sees the effect that shall follow all these Revelations given by him The Prophecy of the Thousand Years Reign mentioned in the Revelations was set before me and opened As to the Time Persons and Place much Controversie hath been concerning this Mystery which I shall not meddle with but shall only faithfully declare what the Morning-Star hath expresly revealed from his own Mouth who with this Salutation began Awake ye who have been under Death and Judgment know ye not that my Reign is near The fore-going Prophecy must have its fulfilling and there are those who are a ripening for it upon whom my Kingdom shall be fixed Wherefore do thou warily observe the following Particulars which are the fore-going Signs of my Personal Reign whereby it may be known how near it is The first particular concerns those Persons in whom this Reign is to begin who are such as have been Beheaded suffering an inward spiritual Martyrdom for the hope of a Resurrection in a god-head-God-head-Body and Spirit The manner of Death is here to be taken notice of they are said to have been Beheaded that is who have their Head Life where the rational Understanding is seated and from whence all sensible operation go forth cut off and separated from them because by means of it the Dragon and Beast have found place to establish their Kingdoms in Man and have been hereby in all Ages upheld the main of the Serpents strength having alwayes lain in the Craft and Subtilty of Reason which is the Fore-Head mark of the Beast Who then are they who have known this honourable Death from the flaming Sword in the Hand of the Cherubim but those who shall heat the Resurrection-Trumpet to let them know their Thrones are set and their Conquering-Crowns to their new-risen Heads are fitted and that all Power and Judgment is given unto them to personate the mighty King Jesus here upon Earth For Christ the Lord shall have no need in his own particular glorified Person to come down amongst the Inhabitants of the Earth There is something to be done first by them who are to Personate him in the Kingly Dominion his transparent Body is such as will not till this first Reign be finished be any way bearable to the present consistency of things which must be first sublimed It is sufficient that the Lord is come in his witnessing Power and Presence through a new-risen Life with and in his Elders for to reign in the Majesty of his all-governing Eye which pierceth as devouring Flames and burning Coals of Fire which run from each to other and from one end of the Earth to the other If the Lord will but supply the visible Humanity with a mighty flow from the Deity and with a witnessing Omnipotency it will be sufficient and considerable Glory Next we are to consider where the Reign of Christ is to be manifested to wit in renewed Natures center which is made all Seraphick in the Souls inward Essence from whence the Serpent and Beast are cast out and have no more place they are in this latter Reign chained up though in the fore-going dominion which the Lord had in the Soul he was alwayes in Contest with these potent Adversaries who exerted all their strength to keep their hold in the mixed frame of Nature all of which being now overturned they have no place where to establish their Dominion So that now all Strife ceaseth because the Lord alone doth reign in Peace over all the Region of Light For now the Soul is Born a new into the light World and is most firmly established in its Kingly Power which is not from received Gifts or Powers as in the day of Penticost but all comes in with the risen Birth from whence the Powers do naturally and uncessantly flow and therefore out of all danger of mutability which might threaten a disappointment of any thing that is agreed upon by the Kingly Soul with his seven counselling Spirits which do continually stand before the Thorne in the inward Heavens which by the scattering Coals from the Deity are made as an enduring burning Element where the Glory of Christ's Personality may be seen but no otherwise detained as to his individual Person but as the same likeness is risen by virtue of the creating Word in his Members who are intrusted with this active powerful Body suitable for the management of such a Kingdom in which the Soul at first reigns invisibly over all its inward Motions and Properties as over People Nations and Languages all which by Wisdom's Power are kept in a God-like temperature such as may express the Lord is come to Personate himself in a righreous and peaceable Government such as never yet hath been in the World since Adam lost Paradise Objection But shall this be an Universal Reign And after what manner shall it be Modalized in this visible Creation That which is Internal and Spiritual will not be so much taken notice of though it comes to this height of Perfection for it may be hid amongst a small Number yet may be known but only to one another the generality still abiding under the Beasts Power and Name which is his accursed Nature This Query was answered me in plainness of Truth thus That this glorious Reign would not be Universal nor break out all at once but gradually from the burning Unction which prepares Christ's way and makes room for his Kingdom There is much to be done first and here must a Beheading go before and a plucking up all that hath made desolats and after all this a coming up again in the Resurrection which is a rare attainment indeed for it is a Resurrection to a state wholly sound and sinless even the same to which our Lord was raised after Death The Prophecy doth not say That all the dead were raised up to reign with Christ a Thousand Years but it is expresly declared that the rest of the Dead did not rise till the Thousand Years were expired from whence it was cleared up to me that many may be going through this Spiritual dying and yet continue dead whilst others are raised according to that Word Blessed are they who are partakers of this first Resurrection so that it will not be Universal But besides this there are those who are Unrighteous of whom it is Prophesied Let him that is unjust be unjust still these shall in no wise enter into Christ's Kingdom but be shut out of the holy City which shall rule over them For this Kingdom shall not only be inward in the Properties of the Soul but shall also exercise its dominion over this visible Principle and those who are unconverted shall be as Stubble before the bright flaming Cherubims who in the Lamb's Power shall reign
find it self in another form of Life and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principality before Jehovah's Throne attend 〈◊〉 to know the counsel and decrees of the Soveraign Majesty under whom is mannaged all inferior Government which shall be committed to those who reign with Christ the Lord Oh! this will be a wonderful time indeed For while the Lord is opening these things to me I am as one sunk into the Abyssal Ground where I am as nothing till he put forth a piercing Ray from his flaming Eye to fetch my Spirit up again who thus spake unto me Stand thou up and hear and declare the new Model of my Reign and let it be published for it is time to awaken those who are ordained for the first Resurrection that they may no longer sleep in the day break of my appearance And do thou solemnly see thy Heart to the great Immunities that are revealed not only for speculation 〈◊〉 for sulfilling where great Earnestness shall be found Thus the 〈◊〉 One set home his Word and causeth it to pass through a Vessel that is nothing to be accounted of whereat my self stands amazed what should move the Lord thus to appear and hold such a free Converse and leave such weighty things in trust with me Oh! What can be said but that it is the Good-will and Pleasure of my Christ and King who will change Tin and Dross into Gold as it pleaseth him The Fifth Property of the Holy Ghost is that whereby the Soul gets free from the striving Elements and comes to Rest and Peace all Wars and Combates ceasing The Soul having got up these four ascending Steps towards the Throne can now look down like a Tower of strength terrible to all the lower Inhabitants round about It is a Palace compacted within it self knowing nothing but a serene Peace and Concord neither Dragon nor Beast do so much as attempt to come here for Love and Peace is their Hell and Torment Christ's personal Reign in his Saints consists of Peace Power Love Joy the holy Ghost moveth in the mild and meek Property from the Water of Life that captivates the Enmity and Strife and shuts up the dark Center with all its Spirits This carries a two-fold meaning for first it is to be understood of that Love and Peace which possesseth the whole inward Hemisphere of the Soul and in the next place of the same Love flowing forth and diffusing it self through all the Subjects of that peaceful Kingdom which Christ will establish in the high Angelical Harmony of Love The Sixth out-flowing Property is the Omnipotence of God exerted in the renewed part in an absolute and Almighty Dominion that admits of no controule Here is no need of going out to borrow Gifts or Powers which are now fixed in the Soul to manifest the Wonders of the Magia which hath been shut up in Wisdom's Principle whose Virgins Crown of Power is sent down as a signal Testimony of the Kingly Reign that must prevail over all the Earth The bright flaming Standard of Christ's Personality will be of that Magnificence as to draw home the dispersed and scattered Flock which hath suffered Violence in this Babylonish Kingdom A Jubile will be proclaimed by them to whom this Dominion shall first come They the Head-Kings and Leaders are appointed to shine forth as Stars that shall bear such sway in God's Omnipotency as shall make all the Elect to haste and fly to this Kingdom as Doves to the Windows where all occasions of complaint about the Necessities of Life shall be cut off because Wisdom's Store-house shall from the Inherent Omnipotency abundantly supply whatsoever is needful of this kind The Paradisical lost Power shall be restored in a higher degree than ever to the end that Self-Love and Propriety may be taken away which cannot enter into Christ's Kingdom for the Lord hath averred That none who are thus spirited shall ever his Kingdom inherit The vast and inexhaustable Treasure of divine Riches cannot be enjoyed in Propriety but only in Loves Communion The Seventh and last Property of the holy Ghost that gives witness to Christ's Reign doth consist in a Life of Praise Exaltation which goeth forth in the Angelical Tongues Powers and Sounds of so many persumed Offerings paying an everlasting Love-Tribute of Joy to the Antient of Dayes by and in whom they are come to reign over all Kingdoms in this World in Christ's personal Power The New Hallelujahs from the Fire-breath of the Holy Ghost shall be the Holy Sport and Coelestial Play of the Children of this Kingdom All their Works shall speak forth the Praises of the Most High for Wisdom's Spirit will act so high and in such a mysterious manner as hitherto hath not been known all which miraculous Powers have been reserved to make up the Glory of Christ's second coming in his Representatives here on Earth For if the Lord should not in this manner demonstrate his God-head-Power in his Saints they would be set very light by and it would be a vain thing to assume the Title and Name of Kings without anointing Power suitable to it No Dominion whether inward or outward can be maintained without Loves-Omnipotency And truly my Lord hath assured me that he hath made large and full Provision for this Day who upon some private Objections of my own said to me Be thou nothing doubtful concerning all the great Things of my Kingdom which have been opened to thee from the Center of Light they have been revealed for a ground of Faith The Head of the Dyal is moving towards the fixed Hour which will manifest all these working Powers of the holy Ghost Wherefore do not streighten thy self nor any to whom this Word shall come but run out in a spacious large Belief answerable to Loves-Power and the ability of the object to whom the Eye of Faith is directed For wonderful things are upon the Wheel by which you may know it is high time to put forth your Hands to raise and awaken that which hath been so long asleep This was the concluding Word of Counsel from the Lord. The fore-going Properties is that which makes way for the Reign of Christ in personal Power and Glory which is now the great thing to be waited for as the End and Consummation of all that hath been revealed in the bare discovery of which we are not to rest but we are to press forward to enjoy the Fruit or Product of it in the inward Center where Christ will be manifested in his Personal Glory and Power For the driving seeking Spirit will not be at rest till it can put on its resurrection-Resurrection-Body It knows that hitherto notwithstanding all its Refinings and Dyings to sinful Self and the World it yet remains a naked Spirit which must return into the Virgin-Womb of Eternity there to be regenerated into an heavenly Corporeity from the one holy Element out of which Christ's holy Personality is taken This is the
rich Garment with which the Sion-Kings are to be arrayed and thereby will be distinguished from those who stick fast in corrupted Nature and are not regenerated into this bright Image and from those also who though they are regenerated according to the inward man yet being intangled in the Thickest of the many things are fain to stay behind till those who by their hard pressing forward have overcome the World Beast and Dragon Therefore be first instated in the Lord 's personal Power for the Lord assured me that this would be the way he would take in this present Age to instate some who are known to him in his Personal reign that they may enjoy here on Earth their first Heavens to the terror grief envy of such who have been hard cruel in the dealt's Kingdom restraining their good things from the Lambs of Christ's Fold Here it will be as in the case of Dives and Lazarus they shall see those who were most despicable in their Eyes to be greatly beloved and honoured as being intrusted with a Kingdom in which they shall reign as the true Born Co-heirs with their Head Christ bearing rule over all those who have been their Oppressors in this World It was also revealed to me That there were others which stood in a mixed state and divided between the two Kingdoms of Light and Darkness but yet followed after the Mark and Crown these would scarce believe that such a Commission as this would ever be given to any appearing in a mortal Form to be crowned as Co-heirs with the Lord in his Personal Glory But the just One hath shewed that thus it shall be to convince and provoke to Emulation these last spoken of that they also may make haste to be made Kings and Priests to God The grand Query after all that hath been revealed concerning the Reign of Christ in his Saints is this Where this Government shall be pitched It is an ancient Scripture-Prophecy that Judah shall reign with God for he is faithful with the Saints The Scepter shall not depart till Shiloh come who is the King and Law-giver that is was and is to come And to whom will he come first of all but to those pure Virgin-Spirits who travel to bring forth Christ spiritually as the product of an invisible Almightiness which will appear to be that Man-Child which is to rule the Nations with the Rod of God's Power in this World and do far greater Wonders with it than Moses ever did with his For the eternal Magia shall bring forth all her Plants of renown The highest Wisdom shall be brought into manifestation and replenish the Earth a-new that God may walk in the midst of it and no longer be unknown to its Inhabitants who are refined from their Dross and thereby got a free and open entrance into the Jerusalem from above The partition Wall must be broken down that Christ above and Christ beneath may joy n together for mutual Joy and Fruition But here it may be objected How can this be as long as the Body is yet Terrestrial for an Earthly Body cannot ascend to the Lord's Glory I Answer That therefore a new Body is prepared even a Heavenly such an one as Christ had who could change his Form how and when he pleased So he appeared to Moses and Elias in his transfigured bright Body and then came down again in a terrestrial Body to the sight of Mortals which Power shall be renewed again in those who shall personate Christ upon the Earth they shall ascend and descend at pleasure and transmute themselves readily which state will much excell all Visions of the glorified Person of Christ for without this Coelestial Body we cannot hold out in that Sublime and Seraphick Communion hid with Christ which shall be in this Kingdom of the Saints Wherefore there is such a Body prepared which shall be able to pass into the invisible Orb where the King of Glory dwells It is given me to see this approaching day in the Spirit if the Representation thereof be so glorious what will the thing it self when actually accomplished This report which the holy Ghost doth give of it doth powerfully constrain the Soul to put in its whole stock of faith for it The sum of all these Discoveries concerning the Reign of Christ must be terminated in the Virgin seed Eve's lost chastity will produce a new Generation to whom this Kingdom shall be committed in trust This was revealed from that Vision which Holy John saw of a great wonder in Heaven a Woman clothed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet and a Crown of twelve Stars on her head Many interpretations have been made of this Vision which here I am neither to approve of or condemn but to mind the opening of the living Word who is present to explain whatsoever is obscure to those who turn aside from the Wisdom of the flesh and receive the united drops as they fall from the Heavenly Cloud to which is required a well purified vessel in which no taint of putrifaction doth remain This was a Proviso given me to observe throughout all this Ministration which made me set time a-part to prepare the vessel before I could see the Cloud break and send down its shower upon my ground This I mention for their sakes who are in this Ministration of Revelation Now to proceed to what the Lord hath opened to me from this figure of the Woman who is represented here as travelling in Birth intimating to us that as by a Woman a finful off-spring was brought forth in which Sorrow Sin and the Curse had dominion so from this Eternal Virgin-Wisdom a birth is to be born in which nothing but Joy Life Blessing and Eternal Power and Dominion shall take place This Virgin Adam had in himself before ever Eve was taken out of him but she with-drew as soon as Adam looked outward as if he were not sufficient of himself to encrease and multiply for the replenishing of Paradise God having created him Male and Female in himself But this design was overturned and Eve's Generation is now multiplied over the face of the whole Earth from whence Paradise with the Virgin is fled yet a wonder is now again seen in the Heavens which we are to declare to our own little flock which brings such tidings of Joy as doth far excel that of Gabriel to her who was the blessed amongst Women as being defigned to be the Mother of our Jesus in his fleshly appearance But now by this Virgin he is brought forth in another appearance as a mighty Ruler and Potentate over this Earth who is really and truly to fulfill whatsoever was tipified in Solomon's Reign David's Wars must cease which cannot be till this everlasting Virgin hath brought forth her Man-child who is to possess what Adam and Eve have lost of Paradise and Mount-Zion Kingdom All which is to be restored by the Virgin who is not limited to Male
or Female for she may assume either according to her good pleasure for she is both Male and Female for Angelical Generation But here it may be asked What is this Virgin Whence is she How can she introduce her self into that Nature where her pure chastity hath been violated This last indeed may be accounted a wonder above our hopes and expectation which yet she is in a rendiness to do as is well known to them who have understood her and preferred her above all things as being well assured that like as all Bliss and Peace sted away with her so upon her return all good will come back with her again As to her Nativity it is from everlasting before the Creation of Heaven or Earth She was before all as being the Co-essential creating Power in the Deity which formed all things out of nothing and hath given a dignified existency to all those Seraphick Glories which move within her own Sphear who are the product of an unsearchable Wisdom for the replenishing of those superior Worlds which are little known in this where we are out-casts neither can we be acquainted with much glories till we be born again out of her Virgin-Womb for so it must be before ever we come to be Christs in conformity with Christ our Head A Marvelous thing the Lord hath revealed to me concerning this Woman which holy John saw viz. that she represents Gods Spouse and Mate from whom the highest Birth the Eternal Word of Wisdom did go forth as the mighty Alpha and Omega in a distinct glorious personality known to himself in God and the Everlasting Virgin before any thing of the heavenly Hosts were created For he stood equally in the Counsel of the Father and Virgin for the bringing of the whole Creation into a figurative manifestation Now for what is all this but to discover the mystery of this Woman that she is the eternal Virgin who will essentially introduce her self into those who are prepared and appointed to enjoy her She will confer her Sun and Crown of Stars upon her Representatives Here will be brought down the one elemental Robe and the quint Essential Root will again be found which will give a most glorious Luster and all renew the gross vile matter as heing the acting Wisdom to shew forth Gods wonders all which reserved are until her day She is looked for as Gods fruitful Bride to bring forth Christs personality in plurality as so many immaculate Princes ruling in God Just cause will be found if we consider this Principle wherein the Serpent with so much bitterness wars against the Virgin and her Seed why her Off-spring as soon as born is caught up to Heaven from whence the Dragon is cast out and where the Iron Rod will crush him and be too hard for him and his adherents Her Off-spring will appear all Virgins with her own lustrous Son who is the first-born amongst the Kings of the Earth and Heavens Oh the high and majestical Glory which shall proceed from the Virgins Womb with whom is the blessing that will abound in fruitful Gifts and high working Powers from the Magia ground Eve's Conception in Sorrow shall not here be known for this Virgin never was disobedient or broke Faith with God who is her Husband the fruit of whose travel is Blessing and Joy through the whole Generation that shall be Born of her She shall be the Mother of the true Virgin-Church wherein no mixture of Will-Worship or False Doctrine shall be found But it may be queried How can this heavenly Virgin endure to come down upon this defiled Earth for to multiply her Off-spring in it For without doubt the Serpent and Dragon will violently rage against her which we have experience of in our selves when he crowds into our very Heavens with all evil Beasts at his Heels waging War against us Yet nothing of all this shall be able to prevent God's purpose who will appear with his Virgin in the divine Body and cover her with the one Element which will torment all evil-evil-Spirits and wear them out who can as little endute her Virgin-Purity as the Virgin-Spirit can bear their Poyson Therefore a separation is made as we read that the Woman had a Place prepared for her in the Wilderness which signifies the Spirit of Faith which carries it from off the sensual Ground where the Concourse of fluttering Spirits of all kinds are wherefore this is no place for God's Virgin to stay in she may be in danger of having her Chastity violated or of being drowned with the wrathful Floods of the Dragon The Serpent will not cease to make his attempts with more subtilty than eyer because by this introduced Virgin-Spirit his Head-power shall be crushed and his Seed dis-inherited but the Virgin-Spirit shall mount like an Eagle and so escape the Dragon's deluge A Fountain is opened in the Desart of which the Soul which is in union with the Virgin shall drink instead of the muddy Waters of the Earth which she loathes Pleasant Food is provided in this Wilderness by God himself and his Christ. The Lord affords these Dainties to the abstracted Life where the Virgin-Spirit is a stranger to sensitive Self within as well as to the enchanting World without Here it wants no good company for its never without heavenly Visitants because it reserves it self chiefly for converse with the Deity from whom she expects all her Blessing and Encrease And thus the Soul shall spring and multiply where the Virgin hath realized her self Her Wilderness shall become a rich Sharon-Pasture a Land of unknown Plenty where Gold Silver and precious Stones shall be as the Dust under the Feet of these holy separated Virgins Also within and without their feeding shall be on Power Joy and Peace till the division of Time shall come to an end in which a further Mystery will be understood But oh let all this be first sully witnessed Here follows a further Advertisement from him who is come to fulfill old Prophesies in the substance of his own Person that is Born of the Virgin from whom we may expect the perfecting of that which all fore-going Ministrations and Manifestations have left short in regard of those wonders which shall be effected in this latter Age. To which end Christ hath opened the Center-Eye that can pierce as deep as the Deity where this Virgin lies with all her Glory who ever since Adam's day hath been obscured because she would not trust her self with any Mortal only some of her shining Rays have now and then been scattered into holy Souls a taste of which hath been given as the first Fruits of what is reserved for Christ the Lord's second Birth-day where shall be provided a Penticost-Feast according to the royal and heavenly state of Jehovah's Bride and Mate Oh! how unable am I to bring forth in Words what hath been shewed me of the later Fruits that Wisdom's Children shall feed upon in that day
now existing in gross Corruptibility For as Transformation first passeth upon all the fallen Properties of the Soul's Essences so it will go out and renew whatsoever doth stick in the Curse even all Vegetable Animals and Minerals together with the Body of fallen Man All these I say shall be sublimed and transmuted into a simple pure and paradisical Figure Colour and Taste quite of another Nature than what they now have Thus the Disciples of Wisdom by means of this tincturing Spirit shall bring in a new Creation by way of Transformation The Mystery of which none can ever find out but Wisdom's Magia who are under her Discipline and do lie in her Bridegroom's Bosom In the second place they who are transformed into the Virgin 's Nature will not only be able to separate the Curse from the outward Creation so as Death and Corruption shall be tasted no more because healing Waters will flow from the glassy Sea and encompass every place where Wisdom's Off-spring shall pitch their Habitation but they shall also be able to trans mute all gross Mettals into transparent Gold so as it shall be far more plentiful than in Solomon's time This very gross Earth on which we nowtread shall be made Chrystalline The River that was divided into four Heads which have been cut off ever since Adam was turned out of Paradise shall now be made to return again with a full Stream to bring forth the Seed of Gold Bedellium and the Onyx Stone in a sparkling Glory Mansion-Houses here shall be built and goodly Tents pitched which shall excell all the Structures which ever yet have been for these dwelling places shall be Magical sometimes visible and at other times invisible according to the pleasure of the blessed Inhabitants who dwell therein in everlasting Security These shall live alone and shall not be numbred amongst the Nations who live without Wisdom's Gates If any Sodomites shall attempt to break in upon them devouring Coals shall be scattered to terrifie and consume them though destroying of any be their strange work and also disagreeable to the Nature of Love and the peaceful Region wherein they live yet upon just occasion Power will go forth in this way for their defence Moses was a meek peaceable Man and yet he was made a terror to AEgypt He had no way to subdue Pharoah but by shaking his Magical Rod which alone could do more than whole Hosts of armed Men And this will be the way of God's appearance to keep under the wild and bruitish sort of Men who are as ravenous Beasts greedy of Prey Wherefore the Paradisical Planters will know how to deal with such whilst they are commissionated to go in and out amongst them and it will be their daily business to deliver the Israelites from bondage and thrall and that by displaying Jehovah's Wonders in such a manner as that Age shall require which shall be in an higher degree than ever hath been done here before For though the Miracles of former dayes were great and excellent as those which were wrought by our Lord and by the Prophets before him as well as Apostles after him such as were the healing of the Sick the raising of the Dead the restoring of the Lame the making of the Dumb to speak the Deaf to hear and Blind to see all which were both inwardly and outwardly performed by our Lord upon the Soul as well as the Body yet the Lord hath given full assurance that not only all these shall be revived but that the Magical Center shall open in a greater degree of variety than heretofore So that the greatest Wonders are yet to be manifested which we are appointed to wait for till this Projecting Gate shall open upon us where all Miracles will be brought forth a fresh for the Crown and Glory of the Virgin-Bride and her followers Which Gate Lord Jesus hasten to open for such who are under thy strong and powerful Drivings In thy Light sweet Sophia we are come to a discovery Where long have lain our lost forgetten Doury Those Coelestial Gates which now open stand Hath giuen us a view into the wealthy Land Where all things in the divine Magia stand In that place there is no working with Tool or Hand For all in Spirit there do act from that Power Which nought of the Earthly Craft can Severe Joy we then now in sight of this blessed Day Wherein Wisdom's Wonders so richly display But is may be asked When shall this be And who amongst the now Living shall see I tell thee for surety some there are in Corporeity To whom she will with her golden Key in Soveraignity Thus shall unlock the precious stoney Rock fully Where the Ocean-Treasury of her Deity lies hiddenly Oh! hear Virgin-Wisdom's call and cry Who skill'd would be in her Mystery A new Way of Manifactory stands open I see Such Treasures as the World's Wonder be A Ship laden within that God himself again Will enter in to seise upon those heav'nly Gems Ah blessed sale for such rich Goods imbark'd here For what less than the acting stone will appear Is there Merchants as are not Transitory That understand Wisdom's Manifactory Who hiddenly have increased their Store And do studdy these Sciences yet more and more That so they might to those eternal Gems reach Or else Redemption will not be compleat For putting an end to the Toyl Care and Sweat By passing through all of Wisdom's twelve Gates Come then away holy Souls and separate From all drossy Things that do captivate And you will find such a Pearly Price That will make you flourish as in Paradise The golden River there-from will flow That all the essential Goodness ye will know For in Wisdom's Principle there doth lie That which will make the worldly Craft to flyc Upon the close of this subject I had renewed again from the Person of my Lord a firey Shower that did fall as the dropping Rain from the holy Ghost to refresh and bring up what hath been sown by the former Revelations which is to be looked for as the effect of every true discovery And I desire the same plentiful Shower may come down upon them who shall receive and read the Words of this Prophecy For a most wonderful and strange time is at hand and doth call upon us to leave the Moabitish Land and to engrave our Names on every one of Wisdom's Gates that so we may claim a right to enter and not be only Spectators and Admirers without of the great Riches and Glory to which Magical Spirits are advanced But we are yet to open a more inward Ear to hear the Message which the Lord hath expresly 〈◊〉 for his Elect who are watching at Wisdom's Gates from thence to ascend one step higher that they may be enclosed in the Magical Eye of the holy Ghost where the highest Wisdom is to be learnt and vnderstood and actually practised for the planting of a new Paradisical Nursery and
down such Gifts as will all abundantly enrich more than came down in the day of Penticost for they were but the first Fruits and did but continue a little while but here is such a Shower of the Eternal Powers to fall down upon this second Call to the Jerusalem waiters as shall bring forth the Harvest of the Lord's Joy whose Spirit for the ripening of these Fruits doth work most powerful What is to be done by us but only to drink in the falling Dews and dropping Showers and to grow as Lillies that may know neither Heat nor Draught Toil nor Care Hasten oh God! and send thy Angel Reapers for some Fields do begin to 〈◊〉 White whose ripe Fruits may into thy Store-house be brought as the first Offerings for the consvmmating of all those great and mighty things which thou hast taught us in this little Volumn of thy Life 〈◊〉 Here follows a high ravishing Communion with the Trinity enjoy'd but receive it not as an Elivation but from a Spirit â—â—â—â—â—ated as into another light Region the half of which is not to be expressed which was here enjoyed Some Throne of the most Holy is now pitched in the center of the Heart of Jesus as in conjunction with my Heart from whence such issues of Life do flow which renew a perpetual Spring of Joy For the Lord pronounced the fulness of all Blessing from the circle Throne of his Presence bedewing me with the Water of Life from the glassy Sea mingled with the Fire of Love assuring me that the Curse which is annexed to fallen Nature should now flee away from God and the Lamb's Throne which Throne the Lord hath chosen me to be unto him in which the Scepter of his Kingdom should rule over all in the divine Omnipotence Upon which Thunder-cry which passed through my Heavens all Nations Tongues and Languages Spirits and Powers did give up to him who is come to fix his Throne and to create all things new and to confirm his Covenant in the newness of the Spirit and to nullifie all of the dead and fruitless-Life which stands in the Letter-Precept which could never destroy the Root of Sin It is now made known from the Word of Truth that nothing else shall ever fetch out the Serpent's Sting but the overflowing of the burning Oyl from the Sea of Glass which is broken up by the violent stroke of the holy Ghost All Sanctifications and Renewings are imperfect and changeable till this doth come to rise as a covering to make the gross Body transparent So now then we are to observe that when-ever God shall come in very deed to enthrone himself in any there will be felt this burning Sea from which the firey Lamps do proceed which guard the Throne Oh! it is the great and high attainment that a Spirit vail'd with Corporeity can look for to have God come down in his Throne-dominion and to cast down all other Thrones in which the dark firey Spirits have acted their part in the inward Tent of the Mind all which now to be destroyed and consumed by the pure flaming Throne will sufficiently witness that God's Kingdom is now got beyond Words is sprung up in a feeling Power Oh! the Joys Pleasure which my Soul doth feel in its first rising which is infinitely more precious than hath been related though by Christ's own Personality whose appearance did so variously describe the Glory of his Kingdom to me but now to come and bring it into me will in due season produce other things than what hath been believed or expected by the Staggering Fearful who have cryed The Lord doth yet delay his coming so upbraiding and beating his fellow Servant crying for Signs and Wonders without which they can own nothing But let all such slighting Spirits know that the Throne and Kingdom of the Lamb may for some considerable time be forming fashioning furnishing and enriching with Glory and all this carried on very secretly till the whole Mystery of the Kingdom be first inwardly compleated before it come to make a visible Show by a terrible acting of Wonders And know that such as are come to feel the Kingdom in its invisible Powers and the seven Lamps of Fire burning and are set down with Christ upon the Throne reigning over and judging down all Nations in themselves shall have Judgment and Power given them over all that have villified and set light by them in the day of their outward Rule and Authority whilst the suffering Lambs of God were in their Minority But careful we will not be concerning Judgment given or Dominion exercised as yet out of the Throne of the Lamb in our selves but must follow on till it be fully perfected and the Kingdom established It is the present Business of our Day to watch to have every Lamp fed from the glassy Sea that so springing in the Light Love-Flames a Chrystaline Throne may be maintained for the whole Deity For verily whilst such a thing as this is felt and witnessed there is a most ravishing Tranquility Oh! what is greater than to have Christ seated upon his Throne within us All things then must needs be in a peaceable and holy Order and blessed Subjection Happy are they whose inward Eyes are opened all this to see possess and enjoy even when retired out from all Creaturely Society and so translated into and among the Seraphick Spirits in heavenly Places Since my apartment to be alone a full Concourse doth now continually meet me even such Company as makes me spend my hours and dayes with all spiritual Mirth and Joy For I am now come in truth without Flattening or crackling Sparks that go out again unto the everlasting burning Throne of the Deity where just and perfect Spirits do use as so many lesser Flames most numerously as God's encompassing Host ministring all that may delight me So that I find I am to be reserved for God's Throne-Conversation which is as the seven dayes Feast of Tabernacles wherein nothing of servile work is to be thought upon This is a time of an holy Convocation and for celebrating the Praises of the Lamb who alone hath wrought the Victory for us Oh! what shall let now but that all within me may give the Trumpes-sound and great shout that the Lord Omnipotent is come to Reign Rejoyce ye Heavens without within and round about for the Lord Jehovah hath only done it He hath made Wars to cease and keeps the Enemy without the Gates Oh mighty Prince and Saviour thou art entred into thy Throne-rest Thou art become Lord of the Sabbath indeed and therefore thou hast Power to Eternalize it as a Memorial of thy redeeming Blood which is become the quickning and reigning Life Maintain my Love evermore in this new governing Sphere with thee for never knew I such a pleasant state as since the time thou hast brought thy Kingdom into me to rule over all in Peace and Love and keep every Spirit
no defiled thing can ever enter it Its consistency is an invisible Body as thin as Air as piercing as a Flame an all-moving acting and vigorous Spirit of Power and Life that can go in and out as an invisible Breath which no mortal Eye can see only its force may be felt as a Seraphick Heat that burns as a Refiners Fire in our Corporality to the end that it may tinge it with the holy Ghost's property This is the true and faithful delienation of this perfect thing called by the Apostle Charity Where-ever this comes it makes all imperfect things flee before it but it strengthens and confirms every Plant that is sown by the Spirit and makes them appear above Ground which have long lain buried under it It is the King-flower of the whole Paradisical Spring that protects the whole transmuting all into one entire Body of Love that doth extend and give forth it self in all spiritual Bountifulness according to its high Nature and Property It is not shut up to it self upon any consideration as to what it poslesseth and enjoys for it holds nothing in Propriety whatever its Lot is but all is free to the Disciples of the same descent and birth with himself this Love cannot with-hold from any of their Necessities for it seeks not its own Then it hath also a virtual Power as made to inherit the best of Riches and Substance of the everlasting Kingdom to conveigh and freely distribute of this inexhaustable Treasury to impoverished Souls and to relieve them that are in great Distress which Power can pass in as an high virtual Balsom to heal the Wounded who are under the striking of the Scorpion-Sting of the Serpent For this Love is a ministring Flame where holy Passiveness and Humility are as the open-Door for its access and there cherish and feed it with what its present degree doth require Charity is furnished with all sorts and stores it is God's Steward upon Earth whom he dare trust with the Care of his Houshold who are in spiritual Hunger and Nakedness It is a most infallible truth that God will appoint such holy Overseers in his new-born Church that shall recover the Apostolical Spirit and Power that hath been lost out of the Earth and it shall rise as a more bright Morning Star and multiply it into a Generation that will be all lovely in which God may see himself For which end the Kingdom and Dominion is already come into some and prospering to this expected degree treasuring up now for a full Bank in store against that Day in which our Son of Man will again appear in the Heavens for the delivering up the Kingdom to the Father that so God who is Love may be all in all But in order to the accomplishing of this last and finishing Mystery there shall arise a Melchizedeck Priesthood which shall know the way into the Holiest of all concerning which we shall come to declare after this subject is finished for it springs out of Love's-Root in us For this is the most clear and undeniable witness of Truth when Light and Revelation and Life of Enjoyment meet together then Declaration carries Power and Authority with it But to return to the present thing what can be said sufficiently of it that so if possible the reign of Love might come to spread it self as a Net to gather in for the Priestly Kingdom Some other Motions may be further urged as these Would you be always in a serene quiet and peaceable Frame and Constitution of Mind so as no vicissitude working-Cross or Turbulency towards you whether from Gentiles Barbarians or Israelites all which may give nothing of Disturbance where Charity is predominant and why so This is very marvelous never to be perplexed and never to be put out of Harmony Objection But how can this agree When as our most perfect Pattern was said to be troubled and his Soul was sorrowful unto Death as also that Afflictions are not joyous for the present First We will Answer this main Objection as to Christ our Lord in his Agonies You must know that all this was on this side his Resurrection observe that and it was to shew that he had the sensible Passions of our Humanity and that he was on our behalf to feel a sinless Grief and Sorrow and to be really touched with these kind of Infirmities or else how could he make Provision through and by Love's Conquest If he had not been in Temptation and in Encounter with all Despite and Defamations but yet he maintained his own Peace which was the Fruit of Love through all and was reconciled to all the cross Dispensations that met him in the World For it was this perfect Love that carried him through to bear and suffer all things and was for our Example and Encouragement to express during the time of his humane Minority those sensible Dolours and Passions but he comes of a victorious Champion and tells us That he had overcome and assureth us That in him we shall have a most fixed and firm Peace though in the World exercised with Tribulation So from hence it is to be admitted and allowed that in the time of our Minority before Love is in its perfect degree risen it cannot be otherwise expected but we may be liable to Grief Sorrow Commotion Fears and Jealousies and so up and down in an uncertain Motion tossed to and fro in our Minds and all this because Love is but little weak and low of Stature it is not got up into the Throne of Dominion so as to govern all by the Law of Love yet such are not to be hopeless or of doubtful Mind as desponding ever to see the Resurrection of Love so as to possess its peaceable Immunities Know whoever you be that are made willing to venture the loss of all for to arrive at this Pearl of Charity that you shall most surely find it and great rejoycing there will be at the finding of this lost Groat Indeed the House of the Soul must be first throughly searched and the natural Self-love must be swept out For what is that which we must lose but even all Rubbish Filth and Dross that so our Hearts being emptied and cleansed from all these the King of Love may enter in with his full Train wherein we may know nothing but Concord Tranquility and a springing Treasury of all Goodness Wherefore let all holy and pure Minds be stirred up to wait for the dropping Dews which fall from the one eternal Element to bring this Plant of Loves Kingdom forward even unto its full height of Perfection and be tender of its first Buddings for it hath many subtil Enemies both at home and abroad It is the Heir and therefore is conspired against for can but the envious Spirits find out where its Birth doth spring they will attempt to kill it whilst it is but an Infant for which cause it must be hid in the Clefts of the
order to the revealing and making out this high and peculiar Priest-hood it is expedient I should declare in what a living figure it appeared to me or rather to somewhat which was raised up to be as a clear burning Lamp of Love which was capable of this great and marvelous sight which did open from the very God-head Beeing in whose Body of Light and Glory this Priesthood in the Heavens was clearly manifested to my Eye sight which is the ground work I shall go upon according to the express which the great Melohizedeck Priest hath set open and made teachable hereby for the benefit and service of that Holy and Royal Tribe that shall hereunto be numbred For in the present Age wherein the most precious have their Call to come out from what is vile temporary and Soul cankering against the Love minding of Earthly things and as to the more refined religious dress where the Viper of sinful Hypocrisie which hath had a fair covering spread over it in every changeable Ministration which refers to an outside Holiness till from this there be a departing and entering into Love's substantiality there can be no bearing part in this peculiar and Royal Priesthood But let us go on to describe it according to the Mount Zion Pattern which we have seen and the Words which were heard from thence The Vision of the Heavenly Tabernacle I was carried in Spirit where I saw a light flaming Glory unfolding and opening it self larger and more conspicuous and in the midst of it an Abysical Deep from whence there was a working flowing Sourse in a restless Motion flashing up transparent Matter so sparklingly glorious for Colours as if all manner of precious Stones had been comixed in the Matter then did appear numerous Persons gathered to the Glory of this flowing Sourse from the Virtue and Power that rose out of the Deep which was as the Resurrection of pure heavenly Bodies bright and clear that stood there to receive and drink in from this Abysical Deep then was it asked by that translated Spirit that saw all this What was to be understood by all this and it was answered It is the flowing of the Deity that is ever generating forth for begetting and renewing what is like to its own Beeing and the sparkling Matter that so continually flashed out was to consecrate the heavenly Order of Kingly Priests which would be the very Tabernacle-Glory upon them for this Priestly Kingdom under the highest degree of anoiming are for to be And who-ever can pure and abstractedly come up and lie near the flowing of this Abysical Deep are under the Ordination for Kingly Priests and so near to God as nothing shall them be denyed for which they shall interceed for great Power they will have within their own command for they are Spirited very high by daily drinking in this deified Matter In this Vision there was no formal Temple Tabernacle or Alter to be seen but God in his Virtual Power Light and Purity filled the numerous company that made up the Priestly Body which was termed the God-head Fraternity No particular Christ here I did see but as he was said to be the Head and the Power that made them shine as so many burning Lamps before the Throne of the Fathers all-piercing Eye of Glory There were degrees amongst this Holy Preistly fellowship some in a higher others in a lower order But the Testimony of Truth Love and Purity did open through all as one entire Ark of the Heavenly Body compacted together sounding forth New and wonderful Laud and Praises different from all others who in the Heavenly places did worship the Lord God Almighty This was a lively express and manifestation of the Everlasting and unchangeable Priesthood which the Holy Ghost will build up and appear all in it and therefore is come before hand to open the Scene of it and to give Rules to direct in the Way which leads thereunto according to this substantial ground which opens from the Central Eternity from whence all perfect things must spring out again in this faded and corrupted Region For which a most Holy and Royal Priesthood is ordained that is to be the Salt of the Earth to send forth their seasoning for Life where Putrifaction unto Death hath reigned Now we shall proceed and give forth what hath run in as a Fountain sending forth its Springs It is then assured to us by an irreversible Covenant that a Kingly Priesthood shall in this latter day stand upon the Earth An Election and Call from the Holy Ghost is going out for to effect the same who only knows where the true born Nazarites are and where the sanctified in the Water of Life do lie who will be brought out as baptized Ones into this Holy Priestly order so that it may be evident to all to know who they are and to acknowledge their Priestly Royalty each one in their various order and degree for power and eminency for which there are several Rules Characters and holy Missions that will make out where all these pure clear lively Stones are connexed together for a ruling and governing Priesthood in this visible Earth These are of the Election hereunto that may yet be hid amongst the Stuff of Babylon's confusion A David may be keeping of Sheep an Elisha Plowing with a yoke of Oxen till a special ordination come forth for anointing to a more high worthy and honourable Employ in which the business will be only to have to do with God and therefore is set apart and sanctified only for that use ceasing from all througing Cares and seculiar Services and a withdrawing from all defiling things of this kind Whoever feels the touch of the Life-coal that sets the only matter of the Souls eternal Essence a burning they will soon find what separation is made and can henceforth no more favour the low vulgar gross and Earthly concerns from all which this Priestly Function doth set free as called and anointed by the most Holy that is head of this separated Congregation therefore it is but meet that the Body should answer hereunto that as our great High-Priest is passed into the Heavens being found perfect separate from sin and Sinners so likewise all appertaining to this heavenly order will be known in their pure consecration For the Spring of the Spirit will rise from within to cleanse every instrument that must be used about the Tabernacle service because God will have nothing to come near Him but what hath Holiness engraved upon it which doth imply a coming out of what is common and defiling that nothing of this corrupting Nature may be found amongst the Priestly Tribe For these are designed and appointed to deal with God in all weighty Spiritual matters belonging to the Restoration and that may erect the New Jerusalem state in this very World Therefore there is to be an extraordinary Call of the holy Ghost for the impowering and fitting out hereunto for else it
first place they are crucified to all mortal and temporal things that would invite and steal away the Mind and weaken the strength of Love to God that are perfectly unhinged and loosened from all of this kind which is so great a Sorcery and Witchcraft by which Millions of Souls have been bound down so that they could never expect this Resurrection state for to reach it A second Character is this That as they are become dead to all the evil appearance of things so in some respect to the show and seeming Godliness and formal state of the first Temple-building with all its Ceremonial Ministrations which can never make the Comers thereunto perfect Till these be removed no place for the temple-Temple-Body and Tabernacle of God to come down from whence the everlasting burnning Incense and Praise-Offerings are to ascend Now from these two Branches numerous Fruits of the Spirit will spring by which you may know the high Priestly Off spring who must needs appear as bright and terrible as an Army with Banners eschewing and denying all of the changeable state of things whether considered in the heavenly Constellation or in the earthly Retinue nor staying in any state or Ministration till got-up to dwell in the munition of Rocks where neither Water nor Bread shall ever fail This and much more might be enlarged upon as the first Buddings out of the Priestly Lillies which are to grow without care and toil and therefore all-worthy to be cared for and if there shall be a carelesness or neglect of this Duty as to the present Season wherein outward things may be for the promoting of this high Priestly fraternity if no open heart here for shall be found God would not fail to bring in by some other way and shut out the earthly Proprietors that may overslip their Day in that they have omitted to consecrate their principal Substances to the use and service of this holy Stock through which their blessing would have been For the Lord who is King of the whole Creation observes well who bring their free-will Offerings of this kind Let not this seem as a Dare tinkling Sound for the weight of a God is in it who will certainly flow in through this rising Priesthood with such fruitful Powers and Gifts as they may be able to bless many with the Blessings from the holy Ghost and know the Temple-Body is here for a raising the golden Nail is fixing wherein the Soveraignity of a Kingly Priesthood in this approaching time and age is coming to be established The Lvon out of Zion is roaring to gather in his Priestly Prey blessed are they who are come to know the Thunder of his Power and do it obey taking hold of that Horn that is filled with the Priestly Oyl which may give true separating Mark to the elect Sheep the time being far spent in the hopeful expectation for all these great things to be fulfilled No other thing will now suffice after all this Light and Revelation but to be found the living Epistles which is the sure engraving of the holy Ghost as it was said that the writing of the Law was by the finger of God even so yet once more again God will copy out himself not in a dead Draught but in a lively acting Power For this end a strong gust of Wind from the third Heavens doth blow to open this fair Rose and Lilly which is yet in its bud and although long it hath been hid and kept under by the Thicker of wild Plants yet now the Love devouring flame is come forth to kindle upon them that this holy thing may come to stand single and alone from every twisting Bryar and Thorne that hath shaded overtopped this sprout of Life which is to run up unto the high Throne of the everlasting Priestly Dominion where all Boldness and Freedom is to enter the most holy place and what is that but the most secret Tabernacle of the most High wherein all pleasant Joy and Rest in Love-Communion is known Can we but come to put on this Priestly Robe Admittance then we may have to speak with God at any time But who is it that can be priviledg'd for such an immediate Access but such as wear the pure Ephod and the most holy Breast-place where is that Urim and Thummim the shut-up Oracle all open to such doth stand through which Gods Mind is well understood Of such Qualifications as these is that third and top stature of the Melchizedeck-Priesthood in which the Ark of the Testimony doth open that all difficult Points will decide either in reference to God or Man This is that last and wonderful Ministration beyond which nothing is to be looked for for it brings fallen Man back again to what he was designed before this visible Creation was brought forth May it not be permitted us to say and that not without good Authority That fallen Man is to be restored to a degree above the Angels for unto which of the Angels said he at any time Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee And Let all the Angels of God worship him What is here appropriated to Christ the same appertains to all that are of his Life-Line begotten from the same incorruptible Word to the same joyn Pre-eminence at which the fallen Angels to this day great Indignation have and therefore they are so busie and active in this present proving Time watching to beguile tempt and supplant all of this Priestly Crown as those do well know who to any good degree of this new springing Birth are come they have Thousand Wiles and subtil Baits to tempt withal from this present World by which they have great advantage to bind still under their Power striving to keep the Creature still in Enmity with themselves to God their Creator introducing still of their poysonous Sting which is become the bitter Root of Sin which the holy Ghost can only pluck away and heal again the infected part for what but a Spirit can enter into that deadly thing for Cure and Restoration against which all the fallen Angels do greatly war and struggle for they would still keep in their Scorpion Sting But the Love-Compassion of the everlasting Father hath made such Provision as to have it drawn out where Foundation building is laid for an holy royal Priesthood The Soveraign Ointment is all compounded and made ready for the perfecting this Cure at which all evil Angels whether visible or invisible who in the earthly sinful Principle do remain may envy and be in pain but no power have to hurt or thrust in their Leviathan Hook to wound again such a defensive Virtue there i found in this boyling Oyntment which works it self to such an height of Spirit as no malignity of sin is able to abide with it So penetrating it is that it throws out every black Moat that from this low blustering Region is blown in upon it And thus the holy Ghost is become
the true working bubling Spring that maintains a divine clearness with wonder in which God the holy Ghost will make himself manifest in a more full and perfect manner than what ever in former Ages hath been witnessed Where-ever this powerful and piercing anointing shall first work through it will do no less than produce those creating Powers that shall another World renew God yet once more is to move himself in this Mystery from which such a Conflagration is expected that nothing more of the old Earth or Heavens shall remain For there is a Day that must burn as an Oven blessed are those in whom it shall have its enkindling wherein all dead fruitless Works shall be burnt up which makes room for the seven governing Powers of the holy Ghost to go forth whether in the Arch-Angel Trumpet-Sounds or Lightning-Voices Earthquakes Bindings Loosings Shuttings Openings working on this and on that hand as unperceiveable yet all things effecting through the impregnable motion of this invisible Operator Of this sort will be the New heavenly Hosts that created are again by the holy Ghost all lively sparkling Stones that are in their invisible Nature as fiery Flames that can go hither and thither to act according to the will of the great Elohim This is now the thing that we are day by day looking out for its all-powerful springing all other flourishings in the very Courts of Holiness in the use and exercise of divine Ordinances and solemn Convocations they are not to be staid in though they seem to be as the goodly Tents of Jacob. God the holy Ghost comes to move higher from his own essential creating Word by which he makes New Heavens that shall forever remain and no more subject be to vanishing It will be the last and greatest proving to the Saints themselves to have their Heavens not only shaking but melted all away which may be compared to an out spreading Garden of various Flowers which look pleasant and delightful but they are what must fade and dye these Garnithings are not to be trusted to for as Grass they will wither Something else that is stable and durable Iam taught and made to look for which is nothing less than the Creating Word of the holy Ghost that may be as a New Coyn'd Mint that will an ever alting Treasure renew which the Sun and Moon of these visible Heavens must bow unto All the Glory of Flesh rejected is when pure Breath and Spirit in a Body of Air shall as out of the Valley of dry Bones appear and move as a Coelestial Wheel both upward and downward carrying and bearing up as an anointed Cherub that may mount and ascend and face the supream Glory of the Lord Almighty This is the high Adoption that the Spirit in the living Creatures do move from the earthly Center up straight forward being circled about with the unfadeable Body of the immutable Heavens to whom the Heaven of Heavens will open and descend to take in such Royal clothed Priests that have put off their changeable Heavens and are all clothed with substantial Power If any one ask How this shall be and when VVe can only direct you to wait at the High-Priest's Gate by whom our inlet into all of this high inconceiveable working Powers in the holy Ghost which will the separating Description make and show by real Evidence who it is that from men and the Earth are in truth all fully redeemed Before we can give over this subject we are to make known for the Priestly Election sake that they may be strengthened supported and encouraged in their process from the knowledge of these special Royalties which to them do belong it having been specified what are the high Qualifications of this high Priesthood who must no more look down towards the creeping things of this Earth for here you must consider the Enochian translation these Priests being designed for the company of God the most holy separated Beeing for there is a real taking into God to be experienced and a ceasing from the Life of Sin Now for the bringing up hereunto there must be a passing through until the Holiest of all be entred into But now come we to describe what this holy Function stands chargeable withal as also the Dignity Power and Pre-eminence which doth attend it Every High-Priest taken from men is ordained in things pertaining to God that he may offer Gifts and Sacrifices for Sin This is a Charge which to this New Covenant Priesthood doth still belong for whoso meet to deal with God and to make intercession as the Pure and Merciful who have themselves been encompassed with Infirmity and passed through divers Temptations who but these can know how to have Compassion of the Ignorant and Knowing also that have turned aside from the Sanctuary of Gods Presence and Walks and thereby have lost their peace and joy therefore God hath as well provided in this case Priests and Mediators on the Earth as he hath provided that great High-Priest who is entred into the Heavens for the self-same Prevailency and Power will be found in and amongst this holy and undefiled Priesthood because where-ever Christ in his spiritual Body is present with the breathing Power of the holy Ghost it implies great Efficacy in every Oblation and Prayer which in their behalf shall be put up Thus a Spirit of attoning is appropriated unto the Melchizedeck-Pristhood from whom more fruitful Powers must branch forth for further service in their Place and Office There is also an Absolving Commission given That whosoever's Sins they remit they are from all Guilt discharged as pronouncing it in the Person and Power of him to whom the holy Ghost was given without Measure and who after his Resurrection breathed forth this Power upon his Disciples That whatever they bound on Earth should be bound in Heaven Hereby communicating his Priestly Power and Authority that as he the Son of Man had power to forgive sins so might they also have on Earth after his Departure to carry on their Apostolical Dispensation which only lasted for a while and being lost a feigned Form was set up in stead of it without any sealing Effects of Spirit or Power Thus the Shadow hath held up without any living presence in Babel which boasts of a Key which never yet could open nor give Enlargement to those who were bound in the Cords of Iniquity for how should they who are not purified themselves help or succour their Brethren And though this true thing hath been abused by the Arrogant and Self-exalting Spirit that with this Priestly Robe covers all manner of filch and Uncleanness all of which will come to bear its shame and have its Overthrow as this True and Royal Priesthood shall rise in Power in the true Tabernacle where the holy Ghost will present the Priestly Offerings and this is that which upon sure grounds we know is now reviving again the most Holy will bring forth his Priestly
The first Objection that meets me asking How and after what manner are these great and deep Mysteries revealed and made known for we are in doubt whether any since the Apostles days can have so pure and clear a Discovery of the Mind of God by way of Vision or Revelation As to this I Answer The thing is weighty and may be allowed of to search and follow this Query close and home for too many there be that are Pretenders to the Gift of Prophecy and Revelation whereby they put a cheat upon themselves and others and bring themselves under that Wo of taking up the Lords Spirit for their covering which is the greatest of all Evils to be under a spiritual Fraud Therefore I say let every one search try and examine from what ground and spirit they come forth as the Oracles of God to give his Mind out for assuredly they will be called to a severe Account by the Spirit of Truth Now as to this I will assure thee O Querior whoever thou art it was my great fear and jealousie even upon my first entrance into this Ministration and was made well aware of the wiles and subtilties of Satan that was ready enough to mingle his Deceits with Truth but divine Wisdom was my Counsellor and Cautioner and her Spirit became the Conduct to Truth and Separater she still throwing out what would not bear the touch of the burning Stone which Wisdom had placed in the Center of my Heart by which a wonderful Light of Manifestation did spring for the knowledge of the Truth in the deep Essentiality of it the Way Method Measure and Rules of it as experienced by me I shall demonstrate for the service and benefit of such as are true Seekers and fervent Lovers of Truth how they may come to know the true Revelation of the Spirit of Christ from those mixed Spirits that are apt to inject their Motions and so mudy the pure Springs of Revelation for know it is a nice and difficult matter to know the Spirit 's speech and voice in his day since Christ the Lords ascending than what it was before when as the Word of the Lord came expresly to the Patriarchs and Prophets articularly by immediate Voice God was very familiar in way of Speech as with Araham Moses and so to the Prophets till Christ's time but now in these last days he speaks to us by the Spirit of his Son which is the Spirit of Truth and Comforter that is the Spirit we are to try and to be proved by whether or no he is come into us as a Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation which you shall know first by way of Preparation of the inward Mind for the speaking Word or Oracle of God must have a most holy separated place distinct and apart from the outward Man for there is to be prepared an inward Temple body else no expectation of the holy Ghost without a suitable Body be prepared for him as the living Ark in which the Oracle of Truth may open and shew the Records of the Heavens But it may be further queried How can this Temple Body be raised up and kept so spiritually as to be distinct and separated from the mortal body with its senses and earthly Motions I Answer Herein indeed lieth the great Mystery of all Mysteries how to keep the spirit of the outward birth with all his infecting Multiplicities from rushing into the inward Court where the Soul and God are to be in private Counsel together for if there be a breaking in of the troubled Sea of thoughts this is that which adulterates the pure revealed things and brings a false covering upon them therefore I shall give these following Rules as they were given me by the holy Anointing when I first sought this Priviledge of divine Inspiration I was counselled as to the outward state of things To avoid as much as I could the choaking intangling Cares of this Life and also to sequester my self from all wordly Conversation and give up Spirit Soul and Body in pure dedication the which I can say in my measure I have been obedient to and have found good things as to the spiritual part have accrued thereby which I shall never have cause to repent of let my losses be what they can be as to the worldly lot of things Now the next Rule which is more interior and Evangelical as to the inward and holy place of the Mind For this take more special care and keep the outward Birth at distance from the superior and inward birth call in your heavenly guard upon it enter into no Parley with the outward Man of Reason concerning spiritual matters for you will find him a false Prophet and no way consonant to this Ministration the Soul is waiting upon therefore to watch and be in a defensive Posture against all invasions of this kind Then again take a further Caution concerning a more finer subtiltier sort of imaginariness which comes in the appearance of spirituality here lieth the greatest danger for mistake when seeming good Motions do rise and spring and yet but from the Astaral Kingdom but they are sometimes so divine as you can hardly discern them from the true teaching of the holy anointing there are Spirits that will put on such a Priestly dress like those that rose up against Moses the Lords infallible Prophet saying Are not we spiritual and therefore may be admitted into the secret of God with you and there give our Verdict as front the Oracle of God Thus we are in danger to be encompassed with Spirits so finely clothed as they would think much to be refused but where the Urim and Thummim of sound judgment in such is come that can only discern and taste Spirits of all sorts of Qualities Natures and Degrees for I well know a Mind may be replenished with knowledge and understanding of divine Mysteries from the outward Tongues receiv'd and taken in and yet have been kept strangers to the flowing Springs of Wisdom and Revelation within from whence the certainty of the true Prophet is to be known therefore let every one look to it what they speak teach or write for it will pass through the inward ground for trial where the fiery Region will prove it But now I shall come to describe the true and more certain way of divine Openings and Revelations know then where holy Consecrations and special Separations as the foregoing Preparation to this high Ministration those are as such may come to feel in themselves one essential Birth of Life to spring which is not to be catched in by verbal Comprehension Knowledge or Understanding No such thing But the Spirit of Truth and Revelation openeth himself in the fiery Essence of the Soul in a sweet silent stillness where out all thoughts are excluded then doth the light Ray of the Deity rise and overshadow and fill the Temple of the Mind with light and glory then will the soul sink away deeper
deeper into the abyss being where the greatest of Wisdom's secrets are to be known when the spirit of the Soul can after this manner steal slide away from time and mortal day then open stands that gate that given entrance to behold the glorisi'd beings to hear the languages of that light world which none else can hear but them that are got out of the noise of all other hearings into that still and silent deep where most pleasant joyful Voices and Sounds are heard which entring through the several Orgains as a siery Bresth and nothing of vocal Words is either required or needed there Now then by this you may judge that pure and unadultered revelation and vision of a true sight is not so quickly rushed into nor easily attained it is a great and peculiar Gift and also requires great watchfulness and attenders upon it if any would enjoy and hold it incorruptedly And that there may be no deceit in this matter when you come to try your own and other Spirits take this observation further with you If any one brings out a Prophecy or Revelation take notice what defensive power and guard it hath upon it The beloved John when he had all those visions and revelations he gives an account how they were seen and heard by him for saith he I was in the Spirit on the Lords day and a good proof there was of it as much as if he had said That it was neither Mans nor Mortals day that did rise and inclose upon him but the one everlasting Day or Ancient of Days in whose Light he had the glorious Prospect of heavenly things themselves Thus he was in the Spirit which was his defensive power and guard to keep out all ether trifling Spirits Observe this further it is a much different thing for the Mind and Spirit of the Soul to be caught and taken up into the spirit pure and abstractedly for then it is secured from mixtures but when the holy Spirit is come only into the Property of our Souls giving sorth lustrous Light and Revelation in speaking fluently yet hazardable to be twisted about from the self-promoting Essence that ready and apt is to dash in upon the divine inspiring as soon as it arise from its own center deep This I speak knowingly having traced through the deep Meanders before I arrived to know the true and certain way of Revelation by which now I am put out of doubt concerning the true Oracle speaking in the Soul as to my own particular watching thereunto with heedfulness for the keeping out all fluttering Spirits that have their birth and nourishment from the astaral and elementary Region that can go in and out for proving till we are got beyond their Kingdom Now indeed when the spirit of the Soul meets with such a pull up into the Spirit as the beloved Disciple then it is out of all fears but this is very rare they are high favourits that do frequently meet with such transportations but the other is more common and frequent to Saints that lovers and enjoyers are of that Ministration for whose sakes I have been impulsed to open these secret things that they may put on their impregnable strength of defence for the preserving this great immunity as the choicest of all of Gods favours and that incorruptedly as from the pure spring of the Spirit then you will find every faculty tinged with the fiery Glance of the holy Ghost as you see by the dark hard body of Iron being inclosed with Fire it is so penetrated therewith as it becomes as one and the same fire flame but you must keep and feed it there as the Salamander which always liveth in the fire after this manner doth the holy Ghost with his invisible flaming Body penetrate through the spirit of the Soul that it is encompassed with Light as the Angel which is said Rev. 19. 17. standing in the Sun all appearing as the very Sun of glory therefore highly valuable it is for any Saint to get such a clothing of the Spirit upon them for nothing of Adam's weak or impotent Nakedness can here be seen but all glory strength and power will be your habitation therefore these are gifts to be much set by and desired and not slighted or despised Now having given a plain and experimental account of this nice and difficult Point which I hope may have reached to the satisfaction of the doubtful I shall now by virtue of a heavenly Commission given me from the Lord give counsel and caution to three sorts and degrees of Persons The First of this is to them that do question Whether there be any Spirit of Prophecy or Revelation given forth since the Apostles deceased as believing all dyed with them This would be a sad and deplorable thing if God should since that Age cut off the spring of Revelation from its original that so the Sheep and Lambs of Christs flock should no more expect to be fed from the fresh springing Pastures where no footing hath been as also to drink of those flowing Rivers of Life that renew daily from the fount of the God head let such but call to mind and consider those many Scripture-Prophecies and Promises concerning the continuation of this Gift unto the very end of time both in the old and new Testament I shall mention only some of the latter John 14. 16 17 18. 2 Cor. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 2. 10 11 12 13 14. John 2. 28. Heb. 8. 9 10 11. Many more than these Scriptures could call up for confirmation of the continued run of the Spirit throughout all Ages Christ by his Spirit comforting us saying Lohe would be with his to the end of the World Now as from the Lord I beseech you not to eclipse the light of the Day-star 2 Pet. 1. 19. in your own Souls nor quench the Spirit nor despise Prophecying then may the witness of Jesus rise in you to confirm this most glorious Ministration as a burning Lamp of Revelation A word of Love-caution is to another sort of Persons who are entred into this Ministration in its first degree and are under the Spirits discipline and teaching the word of Counsel from the Father of Spirits is this That they keep precisely to the Rules and Laws of the Spirit for there will be expected from such more shining and singular Conversation shewed forth in a self-denying Life dying to all of those mortal things and sensual enjoyments that strangle and choke the fiery Breath of the holy Spirit to stop it from kindling further and deeper in the Soulish Essence that so there may be a coming up to a mighty Increase and Fruitfulness in the love and unity of the Spirit having all tenderness to support love and cherish each Olive Plant that springeth out of this Eden Garden which is watered by the holy Mists and dropping Dews of the Spirit Now to the third sort this word of Wisdom and Counsel doth