against its full powerful and unlimited Propagation that through its free and unlimited Operation it may lead all unto the Blessed state of Everlasting Vnion with the Holy Unlimitted One where there is no more Transgression nor Curse Now if any particular King Prince or Ruler should further adde to his perswasion saying This is the Truth and the true and living Way in which only the Holy One can be known and worshipid aright and therefore I am henceforth resolved and resigned in my whole Soul to live walk and worship in the same But whereas I have a Kingdom Province or Territory under my Authority Quest What shall I do to these People to make them be all of this mind Answ Thou having found the true and living way blessed art thou having found it if thou walkest and abidest in it therein to be led from degree to degree day by day more and more into the likeness of Him who anew createth thy Soul within thee for herein thou shalt reap a plentiful harvest of his Wisdom in thy Inward parts which will give thee in the Day of Brightness to see that He draweth all into Himself with the Cords of the Power of Love in his Glorious Wisdom whose Counsel will accordingly instruct thee to retain the perfect similitude of his Glory and therefore shall draw all by the same love of Wisdom into the same Light and Virtue of Love and Wisdom and in none other Power shalt thou work with any man besides that by which thy Maker worketh in thee for else thou wilt degenerate and go utterly from the likeness of thy Creator as the wicked and rebellious Rulers of the Earth do to Envy Imprisoning Persecuting Killing Murdering and spilling of Blood all which stand in the adulteration and separation from and in the cursed enmity to the Life of thy Creator which is Peace Love and Mercy and thus instead of seeking to draw others to Him thou thy self wilt run like a Fugative and Vagabond from Him and bring guilt upon thy own head by shortning the dayes of such as thou dost imprison and persecute to whose Life thou art not able to adde a day and for killing that which thou canst not make alive again And there also the weighty price of Souls will be charged grievously upon thee for which thou canst never make satisfaction and if through thy Cruelty thou shouldst turn any to thy self it is but unto that life which is wholly cursed and therefore keep thee towards all men as thy Creator keeps towards thee loving all men as He loveth enemies and hath greatly loved thee and wait upon thy Creator praying to Him for all men like as a long while He waited upon thee for thus thou growest into His true Similitude and mark the end in His Time he who formed and renewed thy Soul in Himself will do the like to many more of thy Region and Dominion and then as the Soul of thy Maker was rejoyced in thy Return unto Himself so wilt thou have an exceeding Joy in their Return unto Him also for whom thy Soul travelleth and thirsteth in secret fervent desires And as in this Particular so in every Particular Case walk thee as one that is moulded into a new frame like unto the Holy One thy Maker and in so doing thy Fruits will be abundant to His Praise and He will take pleasure to enrich thy Soul with His Everlasting Vertue and Treasure of Wisdom and his Spirit of Power and Glory will rest upon thee Yet in respect of the Universal Publick Service of the Holy One Quest How may it be ordered in relation to Assemblies and Congregations Answ Whereas the Eternal Wisdom of all Power is but one infinit Spirit of Love all that draw into Unity with Him must certainly draw into an infinit Love and Vnity one with another in which state that the Unity may be held in the Joy of Eternal Love the Power of Wisdom sets in this Order first appointing convenient Places for Publick Assemblies and next determining convenient Times wherein the Congregations may be kept not by constraint or violence for as the Love of the Eternal Virtue and Power of Love is free in Himself towards every Soul so requireth He that all Souls should be like Him ready in heart and free in mind to assemble together and not in any other way or manner because neither the Constrainer nor the Constrained retains the perfect similitude of his Love and Freedom but are in the degenerated Will wherein every Sacrifice is abominable And when both Place and Time is appointed for Publick Congregations all that are united in the Eternal Vertue as one Soul and Mind and Members of one Spiritual Body must needs congregate and flow together to the end of nourishing and cherishing their own flesh for waiting together in the one Spirit of Holiness and Eternal Power the Power will arise in and among you and the Word of Life will go forth of the mouths of many on which the whole Body will feed and by it be cherished and nourished unto a Life af Immortal Purity Joy and Glory So that when all have found the experience of this sweetness in the Order of Assemblies as we have found will make them flow even as we fly in the Spirit of Unity unto the Holy Congregations distinated and appointed by the Spirit of Wisdom Again in respect of Government Seeing the Creator of all things is an Infinit Wisdom must absolutely therefore be the Author of Order and not of Confusion Quest By what Laws then shall all Nations be ruled and governed for the preserving all things in meet and pure Order Answ Order and Government is of the Life of Eternal Wisdom Therefore in relation to the Love which keeps in the true Order whereby the true Government comes to be known this may you all understand He that created all Things and Kings I call the KING of Kings and of Glory is the One Almighty Ruler over all his Creation and Workmanship and requireth that all should be subject to his Government whose Law is but one which as I have shewed is written in the inward parts which is the Light of the Sun of the Soul that was before Transgression was and leads into that state where Transgression is not This only is the true Law that is to rule in all inward parts to rule all Minds which rules all Members and the Minds being ruled by it all the Members become subject unto it whereby the whole World of Mankind comes to be drawn into the Likeness of the Life and Power that created them in which state Transgression is not so here the Law is a Saviour and not a Judge which Law thus teacheth to wit Do unto all men as ye would that men should do unto you And again it alwayes teacheth That all Kings Princes Rulers and Iudges should keep to the true similitude like unto their Creator in matter of Judgement by a Law and
of them the which they having fulfilled quieting themselves as it falls in a sphear or degree lower here unto them the Promise is fulfilled which was prophesied of to the Jews saying from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same Incence and Sacrifice shall be offered in the Temple of the Eternal Power Moreover As all men abide in the same Power of the Rising of the External Sun through a careful and constant watch of the mind in it they will come to see it arise in such a glory that as first the Light of the Moon that ruled the night became as the Light of the Sun which ruleth the day So the Light of the day that is now spring from on high shall be as the Light of seven dayes abiding as an Everlasting Glory of Brightness even for ever and ever and then will their Maker make his Tabernacle among them and they shall be his Temple and Habitation and he will be their Dwelling Rest Peace Joy Life and Glory eternally Amen Quest Hereby all men may see the true Worship ond Sacrifice what it is and in what Life and Power it is to be performed to find acceptance and answer concerning which if any should say that I have neither told them the matter nor the manner nay nor the times plainly in which man shall worship in Prayers c. Answ To such I answer Touching the matter of Prayer It is to be understood that Prayer is a Petition or Desire poured forth for something that is needful either to a mans own particular state and condition or else that is necessary for other men Now seeing the whole Creation stands in the alone disposal of the glorious Wisdom of the Cretor of all things he therefore knows best what is needful unto every mans estate which no man of himself doth know neither can know what is necessary for himself or any other Soul but by the pure and immediate openings of the Light in the Soul which purely doth proceed from the eternal glorious Wisdom therefore I teach no man words but labour to lead all men to the understanding of the eternal Wisdom and Power within them in this Light to wait that in his Life they may feel the Risings of the Power of his Wisdom which then may give utterance of words unto a man that were never known before by a man even such words as shall be suitable to the state of want either of himself or others and sometime also for the preservation of all souls in the blessed state all which in the good time of the Eternal Wisdom shall be answered who cannot deny himself nor that which is of his own Nature and performed in his own Life and Power So then this in brief no man of himself knows what to Pray for as he ought but the Spirit of Light of the Eternal-Wisdom helpeth the sanctified man's infirmities that is to say his weakness of knowledge and giveth unto him either sighs groans thoughts or words which answereth his Eternal Will in the Power of Wisdom which is the true matter of Prayer whereby every man's Formality and Will-worships comes to be abolished wherein also much may be understood as to the manner and time seeing it leads out of prefixed words and times that likwise stand in the adulterated will wholly into the will and time of the Eternal Wisdom in which still as a motion is inwardly found the matter was given and so his purpose comes to be revealed and known In this order of Worship all People may be thorowly satisfied That that which a man receives in the Eternal Power and immediately from the Eternal Wisdom into a sanctified Vessel is a Matter and Worship at a real certainty and assurance and in no wayes dubious and therefore may well be believingly received and perfectly owned by a man whilst all other sort of Worship if the eyes of men were but a little open to see it must needs be doubted because it is of that which a man knows not what nay nor can say that his method matter time nay nor yet his own person or soul hath any acceptance of the unknown thing that he doth worship in his vain imaginations Yet it is in me to instance another uncovered Case that in its nakedness every man may discern between the true and the false Worship and accordingly chuse the better if their hearts can take an affection to the better All People upon the face of the Earth may take one set form of words manner and time and in that custom pray all dayes of their lies and yet live and dye in enmity one to another as it 's this day manifest among many Sects that have set-forms of words manner and times appointed for Worship yet are of these minds some of them flattering others of their Brethren and Fellow-worshippers to their faces whilst they hate them in their hearts and revile them behind their backs And others of them there are that love one another to day for the sake of the corruptible things and the same persons on the morrow seen fighting one against another to gain the most of the corruptible things or a seat of presumption one above another and so rest in envy and malice one towards another even unto death this is the spirit of the power of darkness and all the Prayers and Worships in it stand in the adulteration and separation from the Life and Power of the Eternal Immutable Love and therefore is absolutely manifest to be the Cursed state But all People drawing to worship in the Spirit of the Power of Light which is the Eternal vertue of Love and Vnity here must certainly be found unanimous prayers with joynt hearts or rather as I have formerly shewed with one heart and soul because the one Spirit and power of Love makes all but of one soul so to every Prayer and Supplication in this Spirit all souls in the same Spirit say Amen in Truth and when they are according to every mans occasion separated and departed in body one from another yet still they are together as one individual body in the individual Spirit of eternal love and unity and thus they live in the body to the end and thence for ever in the same Spirit rest everlastingly out of the body without end These therefore I call the true Worshippers in the true worship and is the Blessed State Because as the first stands in the Adulteration and Degeneration from the true likeness of the holy Creator and therefore impossible that that state can have acceptance of him so this latter mentioned being in the true likeness and therein finding the true Unity with the Power of Brightness in which the Worship is performed and therefore must infallibly have acceptance of him From this Testimony which stands not only in the Letter or Declaration but in the power of an Endless Life and Unity it appears without controversie that this and only this latter
mighty Power until which there was no Enmity Envy Discord nor Cruelty known in the Earth but man was at Peace and Unity in his Innocency with the Holy One Therefore the Original Cause of Discord Envy and Cruelty was Transgression and the Chain thereof to this day among Men is the Power of Darkness For the sake therefore of your Redemption I am again pressed in Spirit to remind all with the Power that breaks the cursed Chain of Darkness which is the Light that is able to do it as all draw their minds into it and dwell in it in their inward parts and restore again into that state which was before Transgression was in the perfect Freedom and Liberty from Envy Enmity Discord and Cruelty in the Glory and Brightness of Innocency where the Wisdom comes to be received which keeps and preserves the Peace Love and Mercy in the Everlasting Power and Vertue of Life and here the Earth that once was the Kingdom becomes the Footstool and Heaven becomes the inherited Kingdom for ever which cloatheth the Soul with a Garment ten thousand times ten thousand fold brighter than is the Glory of the visible Sun for the Rayment is the perfect Glory of the Eternal Splendor which wraps it up as with the swadling of the Rainbow of Joys which is the Eternal Fruit and Benefit of the Blessedness of its Change from the nature of Discord Enmity and Cruelty to the Spirit of Peace Love Vnity and Mercy from Corruption to Incorruption from Folly to Wisdom from Darknesse to Light from Condemnation to Iustification from Death to Life Yet furthermore for the opening of the Counsel of the Mystery of Salvation O all ye Kings Princes Rulers and People every-where throughout the Earth know ye in your selves the Light of the Eternal Sun of Glory to be the bathing and washing Fountain that is able to make the Soul in every Thought even as white as Snow and feel it in your selves as the Refiners Fire which is able to purge you until you be made as pure as the Gold that is seven times tryed and therefore wait in the Operation thereof that you may see its blessed Effect in which Righteousness will run down as Streams and the Knowledge of the Glory of the Eternal Wisdom will cover the Earth as Waters cover the Seas and here you will come to see your selves as the Christal Chanels through which the living Waters of the Fountain of Heaven will be a continual Current the sweet Streams thereof overflowing the blessed Vallies within you and watering every Plant therein making all things fruitful in you and among you fruitful in Truth fruitful in Hope Faith Love Mercy Peace Fear Humility Meekness Patience Content Prayer Praises Thanksgiving Knowledge Wisdom and all Vertue this will be a Beauty in your Faces and a Diadem of Glory upon your Heads in which the Wonderful Counsellor will take pleasure to speak unto you in His Mysterious and Oraculous Language which shall be but one throughout all the Earth and will open an Incorruptible Eye in you even to see the Glory of his Eternal Face which will overcome you with Joyes and ravish you with Eternal Pleasures as a Generation that is carried up out of the Earthly Places Verily I cannot express the Sweetness as my Soul possesseth it within in the Spirit what besides my own state saved in the Eternal Sun of the Soul Oh! my Ravished Mind in the consideration of the Day wherein Nations shall imbrace the Heavens of all Love and plentifully suck the Milk of her Breasts which gives the nourishment of Eternal Life Oh! the Everlasting Consolation which the Children of Brightness shall possess and inherit in the Bosom of the Eternal Glory even for ever and evermore Amen And now Are not the thoughts of this Glorious Salvation Vnity Peace Love Ioy and Pleasure of Life which may in this way be found possessed and enjoyed to the End among all People and Nations upon the face of the Earth and in and with the Glorious Brightness in the Heavens above enough to perswade woo and compel all Souls even with one draught of the Cord of Love to receive and imbrace it as they may sink down into the Deeps and consider in what a good time their dayes are fallen into wherein so glorious a Way is now come to be opened in such plainness clearness nakedness and easiness wherein they may all attain to every tittle of the Benefits yea and a thousand fold more than the tongue of man can mention exceeding all that is before said inserted and written Surely methinks he that would miss a Portion of the pre-cited Blessings and eternal joyous Inheritance for want of looking for it in the True Way being so faithfully spoken unto him as to within him and therefore so easie to be found as not to look without himself to seek and find it must not only confess himself to be a Fool in his own heart but also as a Devil in his continual words and works and seven-fold worthy of Condemnation under the power of Darkness and Death unto its Pit of the burnings of Wo and Torment for ever and ever What therefore might I more say that the Dead might hear and live or that Rocks might rent and become hearts of flesh to perceive and understand for the Word is quick the Voice is piercing and the Life is powerful in and under which I rest in the pure perfect and blessed Peace hereby shewing forth in measure my Spirit and Soul created anew in the Holy Love unto all Nations and Peoples without respect of persons upon the face of the whole Earth wherein I stand clear whether they will hear or forbear By that all Kings Princes and Rulers are in the Light come thus far some may haply make forth their Convincement of the Truth saying It is certainly true and evident that an Universal Peace and Unity Love and Amity cannot be perfectly and purely had held and enjoyed among all Nations besides in the one Principle that unites to the Eternal Power in his own Life and Nature for He only being the Glorious Wisdom that created all things must necessarily be the alone Preserver and Upholder of all things and whatsoever stands united unto Him in the Life abides in the Perfection of the Peace Love and Mercy of the Immutable Spirit of Wisdom and Glory And none other way can there be unto Blessing besides the Light in the Conscience which is given of the Eternal Wisdom for a Way and Leader unto all Souls Quest But what doth this Light end and abolish Answ It endeth all the Wisdom with its effects and fruits which stands in the Adulteration and Separation from the Eternal and unlimited Wisdom of Holiness and Brightness It endeth all Customs Traditions Wayes and Worships and whatsoever may be thought that stand in the degenerate and cursed nature and breaketh all Bryars and Bulwarks of limitation that stand in the Curse as a fence
sets free in the liberty from Sin and unites the Soul to the Original Glory from whence it is descended Wherefore this appears to be the true and undeceivable Hope in which the Soul witnesseth its Purification and the true Faith which gives Victory over Sin which is the Blessed State but all other Faith and Hope in the Life of Corruption under the Power of Darkness is that which deceivably perisheth the Soul and is the Cursed State Yet besides this Declaration of the Power which unto every Rational Intellect may appear plain clear and manifest doubtless thousands who of a truth this day do live in the Light and are directly led and guided by it together with this Witness can experimentally testifie at large that they in substance Truth and very deed have found and constantly do find it redeeming delivering and saving them from all verbal and actual Sin and from all resignations of mind unto Sin in which formerly they were held under a woful Captivity by the predominating Power of Darknesse these therefore are they to whom the true and living Sun of the Soul is truly and rightly known who answerably to the true and living knowledge do worship in the true and living Way and these are all of one mind and soul living joyntly and unanimously in one individual Spirit of Brightness which created all Souls and in this Life are at peace together for ever So here are no Quarrellings nor Wranglings Stirs Brauls Fightings suing nor persecuting one another for the visible created things which in the Worlds nature are corruptible and cursed neither can such a thing be among them because the free Law that is in them leads to the nourishing and cherishing each other as flesh of the same flesh and bone of the same bone being all Members but of one incorruptible body And ye know that no man hateth his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it much more therefore they though many yet being moulded from the corruptible into the incorruptible Spirit of Light and Glory are become but one living in the Unity which is everlasting as Members meetly composed to shew forth the Glory of the Eternal Sun of the Soul in the endless Life of Love Concord and Peace Thus having shewed the Way or Redemption from Sin and sanctifying the Soul unto its Creator which leads unto the true Knowledge in a pure Union with its Creator I would next shew the true and living Worship according to the true Knowledge which I have received from him in the true Way The first step of which as I have before said is To bow down and encline the Mind unto the Light which inwardly enlighteneth the Soul and the next step after bowing down the Mind unto it is To wait in it to know the Mind made subject in all Obedience unto it whereby the perfect work of Sanctification may be thorowly wrought in you that ye may be all made meet Vessels Tabernacles and Temples to receive the Virtue into which make the Sacrifice Service and Worship accepted of the Holy Eternal Power before whom you draw near to offer for except the Sacrificers and Worshipers be of the nature of the Holy Power to whom they sacrifice that their Worships may be performed in the same both the Adorations and the Adorers are but a stink in the pure sence of the holy Life of the Eternal Power and Sun of the Soul and this you may all easily know for if you put Christal Water into a stinking noysom unprepared Vessel the Water immediately corrupteth and partaketh of the stink of the Vessel and being poured forth is unfit then to be put into another clean Vessel lest that Water that was first sweet in its own simple nature should defile the other Vessel thereby and the like is if Excremental Water should be first put into a clean Vessel c. And since it is so much lesse then can Corrupt Sacrifices or Sacrificers have any Acceptance with the Holy One for in such a thing he should be no more Holy but as one that is joyned in unity with the Defiled and Unclean which thing can never be because as I have shewed of his Eternity and Immutability But ye by waiting in the Light in all pure and living Obedience wiâ—l come as pre-cited unto the true purification and Renovation of the whole Mind and Soul which bears the fleshly Tabernacle or Temple about it Again Waiting in the Light with your Minds turned in all singlness into it in your inward parts being patient in that state and condition of Waiting and standing a while in holy Content in that step of the true Worship of the Eternal Power who spake to the Hebrews saying To obey is better than Sacrifice you will at length in His Glorious good Pleasure come to feel the Rising of His Glorious Power in you which Appearance I call The Dawning of the Everlasting Day for it is to be understood that all the time of the Darknesse is the time of the Night of which Sin and Corruption are the Clouds which bar and bolt men from the Glory of the shining Day yet in that state of the night there is a secret power set to rule which dispensation is called the Light of the Moon that as the visible Moon was created to rule the Night in the visible appearance even so the Invisible Light was put into the Invisible Soul to rule in the time of darkness and ignorance by which power though the whole world stands in a Chaos of Confusions and because of the darkness they know it not yet the World is preserved so as that every man thirsteth not after the blood of his neighbour which if there were not an invisible and secret Power of the Light ruling in the darkness of the Night the whole Earth would outwardly become as an Ocean of Violation and her face be overwhelmed with Blood yea what might I say Murders would reduce all men to the last man and what would he do even Murder himself also under despairation of the former works of his hands But all men now coming to grow in mind and soul out of the Night into the glorious Light of the Sun of the Soul which opens the Everlasting Day through waiting in it will come to feel the rising of the Power unto a greater beauty and splendor whereby they will come to see the Light of the Moon to become as the Light of the Sun which is arisen in the open day and finding the operation of it encreasing in the inward parts breaking them forth either into brokenness and contriteness of heart or the spiritual praise of the Eternal power or forcing them to pour forth Supplications and Prayers unto Him or in his dread to sound the Trumpet of his Voice declaring his Jubilee and acceptable year which is at hand this I still call the rising of the Eternal Sun in his glory and brightness in them and they in this performing the duty required
retained in the Lamp alwayes burning and giving light to the whole Soul it may turn into the darkness of folly and filthiness and again may become adulterate and degenerate from the Life of Incorruption and Immortal Unchangeable Glory which is the Cursed State Wisdom therefore smites the stroakes of Death upon the head of Presumption and keeps the Watch upon the Watch-Tower of the Light which discovereth the Approach of the Enemy and retains the Fear as a strength for Courage and cloathes the Soul with the humbleness and contritedness of heart for with such the Immortal Power dwelleth in whose immutable strength the Salvation and Preservation is witnessed so in Him the Redeemed have the continual enjoyment of a surpassing Sweet and consolating Repose and Rest First in the knowledge that the Gracious Power that hath united them unto Himself in the Life of Incorruption and Innocency can never vary change nor altar from his Grace Love and Faithfulness and next though a change may be which cannot be by the unchangeable King of Glory unless it be first by the degeneration of Man's weak and mutable mind from his Power of Holiness yet the Soul in the fear and watchfulness out of the Presumption and Arrogancy in the ground of Meekness and Lowliness comes to grow in such a strength of the power of Hope Faith and Trust in the Immutable Preserver of the Low and Humble that in the living and sensible perswasion it comes to utter through its assurance of the immediate Unity that neither Afflictions Tryals Tribulations Temptations Reproaches Buffets Wounds Tortures Prisons Life nor Death Principalities Powers Heights Depths Things present nor Things to come shall be ever able to separate the Soul from its Life and Vnity in and with the Immutable Preserver and King of Glory in the Joy of his Everlasting Virtue Ah! who therefore would not run as a Greyhound in the course and flow as the Floods of the Spring-Tyde yea and fly as the Dove to her Nest unto that which unites with the Original Fountain of all Excellency Wisdom Sweetness and Joy to be swallowed up in its Ocean for ever Oh! the Felicity of Consolation in the state of Redemption how can my weakness declare its Ravishing Power forasmuch as in the state of the Souls Restoration unto the first Beauty Glory and Vnity with the King of Glory there is found a Tower of joyous Safety far exceeding the Safety that the first Man had in his state of Innocency knowing that though he was innocent and pure yet wanted the knowledge of the mutability and changeableness of his Soul from the Power that only could preserve it in the Immutable Life and therefore the Concupisence said Ye shall not surely dye which was a Lye by which the Innocency was beguiled and overcome to taste of the fruit of knowledge in his own flesh and then in the Losse he saw not the Recovery but clouded himself more under it by covering the defiled parts but whereas the Soul now sees its unity with the Immutable Glory and knows the changeableness of the Souls of all Men out of the Vnchangeable Power and comprehends the Power of Darkness with its Works and Perdition and also knows the Power of Redemption from Curse Restoration to Blisse and Vnion with the Immutable Glory I say in the knowledge of all this which Man in his first state of Innocency knew not stands more glorious armed and securely fortified on the Watch-Tower of the Light in the pure fear than the first Man in his state of Innocency did And by how much also the Mercies Pitties Compassions Love and glorious Wisdom of the Creator is now revealed in his work of Redemption Restoration and uniting the Soul of man again unto Himself in the power of his quickened Spirit these Walls of the Eternal Love which the united Souls now enter to within is a Glory Fort and Fortress infinitly exceeding that of the first Man's state of Blisse in Innocency Yea I might even speak as a tongue without end of this matter and yet never speak enough of the revelation of the Power appearing in Glory to the Redeemed Restored and United Souls how far it surpasseth that of the knowledge of the first Man in Blisse who in his state of Innocency before Transgression was could not know what Pitty Compassion Mercy and Reconciliation was being not then in a condition of the service of such properties and qualities that were hid in the Eternal Wisdom of Glory who though He was dishonoured at first by Transgression yet such is his infinite Wisdom that He gains Himself the greater Honour through the Power of his Redeeming Man out of Transgression Wherefore the discovery of the face of Glory being now the more excellent and greater the Walls and Bulwarks of Love must needs be the stronger and the Unity infinitely nearer and dearer than the tongues of ten thousand multitudes can ever utter or express which may be joyfully received as the Everlasting Consolation of all Consolations by all the Innocent Lambs who through the Glorious Redemption do know their Vnity in the Immutable Power that created them Who therefore thus in brief can witness to every Opposer and Gain-sayer that questioneth their state and condition We are in the Immutable Life and Power Finally The knowledge of Unchanableness only consisting in the Eternal Power cuts off the strength of all Insults of Reproach by the seed of enmity cast upon the Truth and the Redeemed People that do abide walking in it because one or two or a few have turned from it like the Dog to the vomit and the washed Swine again to the wallowing in the mire which cannot stand upon the Immutable Power or Principle of Holiness because if all Souls should turn from it as it is a manifest Light in every Conscience yet the Light and Truth changeth not but is still the same in it self in Nature Power Vertue and Glory which no man can justly deny though vailed clouded and in greater measure hid from the mutable Soul that is turned from it Nor can Reproach or Infamy justly stand upon them that abide in the Unity with the Immutable Glory because by the Power thereof they are preserved out of evil walking before all men innocently not giving any occasion but of good reports to fill the mouths of all men Therefore if any man should reproach me and my Brethren whilst we continue and persevere in the Life of Restoration united to the Unchangeable Holiness because others one or two or a few are gone out into the Defilement and Curse this sheweth that he which so reproacheth us stands disunited unto and adulterated from the Life of his Creator who is the Power of Equity and entred into the power of the blackness of Iniquity giving false weight and false measure in the Ballance and Bushel of Enmity which is the Cursed State Because his Creator cannot do the like in the Ballance of his Sanctuary but is righteous to every mans cause So then the Reproacher by his own unrighteous reproach writes the mark of Guilt in his own Forehead and draws the sentence of Righteous Judgement upon his own head as a rebellious son of Enmity and Despiser of the life of Integrity And thus the Eternal Sun of the Soul Power Wisdom Holiness and King of Glory in Himself and in all his Redeemed People stands magnified honoured glorified praised and renowned eternally Amen THE END
his Jealousie and it is his Day to work and none shall let and he which rules against Him he will remove from the Throne for He will set up an Everlasting Dominion and Government and of his own Scepter of Righteousness even from end unto end of the four Winds of the Heavens Seven-fold happy therefore is that Soul that beleives in Him and suffereth for his Righteousness sake And is it not an unspeakable shame to a Ruler to persecute innocent Souls new created Souls in the Glory of the similitude of their Maker Is it not a woful shame to Rulers to persecute them that watch to recompence good for evil and to shew the deeps of the bowels of Love and Mercy to such as heaped upon them extream weights of Oppression and Cruelty Can Rulers answer the bonds of humanity in such acts Nay How then can they answer the power of Sanctity in them For the sake of Edification of all Souls to Three Questions more I am drawn forth in the Light to answer Quest 1 What are the first powerful Operations of the Light in the Soul after Convincement of Sin Answ JUDGMENT CONDEMNATION and DEATH of the Mind of Transgression which must of necessity be for the cause of the Righteousness of the King of Glory unto whom no life in Sin and Corruption can unite for the Soul going into it went out from Him into the Enmity against Him and His Law of Righteousness and no part of that can ever enter into Him because it was never of Him and because He hath infused a righteous Law into the Inward parts of necessity therefore there must be a power of Judgement to execute the Righteousness of the Law in the place that it is put upon that which brake it which Power in Righteousness must absolutely bring Condemnation upon that mind which is the Transgressor in man and the Condemnation must as surely bring Death by the power of the Executor that no part of that Mind may evermore live but the Mind in which no Transgression is which was before Transgression was which must be perfectly wrought before Man can enter again into the first Similitude to unite with the King of Glory So here all may see the Judgement truly set up and executed in the inward parts bringing Death upon the Transgressor produced the benefit of a most Blessed Fruit viz. of Life Peace and Joy and openeth the door of the Fountain of Mercy giving the perfect knowledge thereof which then rejoyceth over Judgment for which cause of Mercy the Eternal Wisdom first instituted the Law and Power of Judgment to come fulfilling Righteousness in the Inward parts which thus appears bringing a Righteous Death upon an Unrighteous Life that by its Death a Righteous may for ever live wherein the Joy and Glory is partaked and inherited So then in the Judgment and Condemnation of that Life unto Death the Power and Glory of Mercy appeareth in the wonderful Wisdom that it might be for ever loved and lived in and the work of Wisdom admired and prized and the Worker of Salvation in the Power and most Excellent Glory of Mercy manifest in Judgement magnified over all everlastingly without end in all that love the Operation and accordingly are partakers of the sweet and happy Fruit of its Salvation in which the Unity with the King of Glory is witnessed Quest 2 Of every frame of Soul or fashion of Mind in Man which is the most certain of holding the Vnion and Fellowship with the King of Glory in Spirit Answ Watchfulness in Fear and Crosse Watch to fear the risings of the Concupisence which the Soul feeleth in the flesh towards the flesh and the World and also now lastly towards the Devil and there enter into that Internal Power which stands in the Crosse to the other Nature which will daily slay every carnal Affection in the first suggestion and appearance and break the Cockatrices Egg before the Serpent is hatched and thus all will come to see that the inward and visible Cross to the inward Mind of the World and the Flesh keeps the Soul clean out of the mind of the World and the Flesh in the mind of the Eternal Spirit Again Watch to fear in every Joy and Enjoyment of every Glorious and Heavenly Gift lest the Joy should slip out of the true measure and a sence of the Glory of the Gift exalt the Heart above the measure of the Light through which it comes and in which the Unity with the King of Glory stands and here all which come to see that Fear keeps every Joy and Enjoyment of Heavenly Gifts perfect to the measure wherein all Perfection is witnessed according to the proportion of all Gifts as they are given and come down from the perfect Giver So then the invisible Cross which keeps clean and Fear that keeps the Soul low and humble to the measure within in the Conscience will alwayes be found the safest frame and fashion of every man's mind to hold the most certain Vnion and Fellowship with the King of Glory as long as they are cloathed with the body of flesh untill it turns to the dust from whence it came and the Soul be from thenceforth cloathed and arrayed with the Glory of the Life of the King of Glory even for ever and evermore Quest Whether Man after being restored unto the Brightness of the first Similitude and entred into Unity with the Incorruptible Glory through death of the degenerated part may not fail from the Glory and enter again into the Degeneration and Curse Answ In the work of Creation it is to be known as formerly mentioned that the Soul of Man simply was not created immutable though clean pure and holy in a state of Innocency for the Eternal Wisdom reserved that Virtue Power and most glorious Property of Immutability in Himself only that He above all things might be known as the Supream Power over all the created things and accordingly feared loved obeyed and lived in which state I have shewed Man went out of and degenerated from and also have opened the direction unto the way and power of Redemption from the fall and losse and Restoration unto the first Similitude of the Holy One which unites with the Incorruptible Glory unto which state it is possible in the Light for all Mankinde to attain yet if they abide not in the immutable Power of Perservation that created their Souls but go from the unchangeable Life into the variable consultation with Flesh and its reason and sensual Wisdom they may return backwards as the Sea Locust and Canker and become as the Swine that was once washed but lo wallows again in the mire and the house may be clean swept yet except there be a Watch still kept seven unclean Spirits may enter that are worse than the former which were driven forth and a Virgin state may be attained unto but unless the Oyl of Wisdom in Watchfulness Diligence and Fear be