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A55474	Theologia mystica, or, The mystic divinitie of the aeternal invisibles, viz., the archetypous globe, or the original globe, or world of all globes, worlds, essences, centers, elements, principles and creations whatsoever by a person of qualitie, J.P., M.D.	Pordage, John, 1607-1681.; Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.; Hooker, Edward.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2968; ESTC R8838	181,392	278

or suppositions of what are as cunningly as commonly called convenient contrivances innocent indifferences and orderli decences under the plausibl praetext placent notion specious name prudential guise and fair construction of that famous Euangelic Canon or Rule the grand Ecclesiastic Cynosura sciz Let all things be done decently and in order Which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at best is not so much an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I humbly conceiv and offer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 purely for sweet dear holi hevenli Peace sake and in a sens and conscience of mi by mee as yet beleeved dutie omnibus singulis qibuscunqe fortassean seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu Sacerdotum seu Praefectorum nominibus titulis indigitentur insigniantur Which Words so rendred to procede in the waie of Peace and Truth a Conjunction which I wold ever call Copulativ and make if I could perpetuously Consummativ som Godli and learned Writers upon very probabl reasons Scholar like tendred which I like and wit● out ani bitter reflection which I love and not wit● out accurate retrospection inspection and circu●●spection as to the design of the Apostl's discour●● and their very serious meditation and ruminati●● on the scope of the Text with fervent supplicati●● after Consultation too of the best Commentators 〈◊〉 the place thro' the supplies of the Spirit of Grac● and in the name of Christ the Wisdom of the ●●●ther to God the Father of Lights and the Spiri● of all Flesh which I cannot neither mai loath hav● after all apprehended and thereupon do beleev That if the Reading were according to natural D●●cencie and Scripture-Order in the room place o● stead of decently and in order those foregoing word wold be much more consonant to and with the S●●gnificance of the Original and by consequen●● tho' stil under Correction of more illuminated Head● ● be assented and consented to specialy by the Church of Christ coming out of Mysterie-Babylon gathered or scattered as the fairest and best interpretatio● and exposition O who wil giv that our sight 〈◊〉 be happily cleared by this smal foretast or ani ●●ther as Ionathan's was by tasting a littl honie from 〈◊〉 end of his Rod and who can tell but it mai speci●● if wee look up for Eie-salv from Heaven whi●● our Eies are looking upon the letters and words and not be wholey taken up with the Letter without the Spirit which wil quicken us and put Life into our Spirit otherwise wee mai li dead at the letter til wee di The Word of Life wil be most welcom to enlivened Spirits O that the Spirit of Praier were raised agen from the dead as one mai sai what happi hopes then shold wee have of a glorious and spiritual Resurrection after so great a death hath passed upon the Churches Oh it is high time to begg as for Life that the Blessed Spirit wold come as Floods upon dri ground since the chois Gardins of the veri Saints for want of Spiritual dewes from Heven are withered that the Churches mai be as watered Gardins and the Saints and Servants of the most High mai at less'st at last like the Willows by the water-courses grow up evn into him in all things who is the Head of everi man and over all things to the Church which is His Bodie the fullness of him who filleth all in all and who wil make good His Great last Testament-Promiss of a doubl portion of his Spirit in a plentifull and powerful effusion thereof in the later glorious Ministration to counsil and comfort suppli and support the Saincts til the conspicuous apparence of his Personal Praesence without which his Praesence which can be no less wheresoever it be than Spiritual no Communions Ordinances or ani extern Administration can be effectual Let us all therfore look upon it as one main work of the daie to set Faith at work on the Promises and be earnest with the Father of Spirits to send down a special Unction from on High for the new spiriting of His Peopl e●n that other spirit which Caleb had Seeing a commune Spirit wil never carri them fully thorow in the work of their Generation Let us al prai that the Golden Pipes mai more and more empti their golden ill out of their selvs from the Olive-tree and that thei who desire and endevour to keep the Commands of God and the Testimonie of Iesus mai be anointed with the Oil of Gladnes in more abundant mensures Prai wee all that the Spirit of Glorie mai com down and rest among and upon us as a Refiner's fire to purifi us for our Gold is dim and our fine Gold changed considering Hee who hath the seven Spirits is too visibly turned aside from our golden Candlesticks that so wee mai offer up pure offerings in truth of Righteousnes and holiness beeing renovated in the Spirits of our minds which mai be placent to the Lord as in the daies of old Prai wee all for I praefer it before Preaching in this our Daie and set wee upon the Gates of Heavn with an holi violence knocking daie and night for the Devil is com down in great Rage wrath and violence throwing round about and that with grandest furie his fieri darts toward his Catastrophe or period Hee sadly foreseeing the short time hee hath to rant or rage in O Tri wee all what Power we have with the Father of Lights to set his Power on work to shake the Powers of Darkness in this hour of Tentation that is com upon all the Dwellers upon Earth and to help us in the Discoverie of that now above 5000 years experienced Master of the Black Art transformed too often into the most dangerous white Devil yea an Angel of Light tho' disguising himself and setting his face in secret so the Holi Mother-Toung to be then less'st in sight when without doubt most at work that so hee mai soonest defile and safest beguile us and wee not aware of him while wee shal like those mentioned in the Apocalyps be taken with the fine hair of the Locusts which asscended out of the bottomless Pit that stung them as Scorpions with their Tails O let the Remembrancers of the Lord who loveth to be put in Remembrance of the good thing promised make mention thereof before him that the Hyperpanonomous Iesus the Christ the Lord of Righteousnes the Lord of Lords Tzion's King and King of Kings mai be set upon this Holi Hill that the Heathen mai be His inhaeritance and the uttermost Parts of the Earth His Possession taking to himself his great Power and Reign and put the Government upon his shoulder and arise to shake the Earth yea and the Heavens terribly once

in some Part of his Writings he giveth an hint of and so from what he in the still Eternitie saw and heard he wrote behold who can the Copy and then but not be●ore compare the Writings therewith and the Springs in him did daily sill Of this I was Witness being conversant then with him and making Remarks and taking Observations with all Exactness possible of those wonderful Transportations he had or rather they had him for the space of three Weeks together insomuch as I can do no less than bear my Testimony concerning his Spirit 's Height whilst his outward Bodie lay in passive Stillness in this visible Orb. Surely we may conclude he was as another Moses in som sort taken up into the Mount with God as a Friend and Favourite of the most High where he did see hear and learn these so deep and excellent things which are by great Care and no less Conscience brought forth to Light Therefore pious Reader be satisfied that here is a true and real Draught or Copie taken from the Original yea drawn by the blessed A●thor out of the Original of all Worlds where he saw what he saw in pure Abstraction of Spirit The Publication of which the Author intended before his Dissolution being incouraged thereunto by the above-named Doctor his true hearted and right worthy Friend who well understood his Worth Writings and Spirit as well if no● better than any Man living as also readily promoted by another Person who therefore is in the Prefatori Epistle very honourably mentioned and most worthily and nobly decyphered and described if not perfectly delineated Both of them jointly rejoicing that they had found out such an one so abundantly filled with God's blessed Spirit of Love Wisdom Holiness and Meekness and influenced so extraordinarily by the same sufficiently apparent in the Gifts and Graces he was endued and adorned with Whereupon they could not choose but freely offer both of them their Assistance the one his Head and Pen the other his Hand and Purse to go thorow with and carry on the Work for the easily-foreseen universal Benefit Nor can I doubt but both of them will receive no small Reward from the hands of Him who will not suffer only a little cold Liquid or as we reade in our English Bible a Cup of cold Water given to any of the little ones in the Name of a Disciple to drink to be unregarded nai not him whosoever he should be that gave to such an one thereof to go unrewarded for our Lord expresly declareth his Mind therein and that with this Asseveration Verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his Reward Yea I have good Ground moreover to believe that the same good Spirit of Grace and Glory that lived in and rested on the Author may multiply on them both also even so and Amen O Lord God And let the Residue of the Spirit to all the just and faithful ones come for the perfiting what this Author had so clear a Prospect of in his enlightned Eye Now give me leave good Reader to conclude with this holy Challenge to all that are Lovers of heavenly Truths mystical or plain if any be of that high Evangelical Order he was of come forth bear your living Witness and go on and forward valiantly to the furthering and strengthning and finishing the great Work which this Author was daily labouring in Let us speak and write love and work fast and pray for a continual flowing down of that pure and holy Unction for the consummating in and amongst us that which this holy and heavenly Man left to be fulfilled and accomplished which verily will be Ioy Praise and Glory even to him who according to the Flesh died but now liveth among the perfect in Spirit who also waiteth for the bringing up those that shall make up the Number of the Church of the First-born who are enrolled in Heaven of the Number of which let us strive press and pursue to be that the Love-Hallelujahs may in our Day be sung to him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb who is crown●d King in Love's Kingdome where only I would be known and found also truly Yours in that pure Fellowship Into which the Lord himself vouchsafe to lead you So heartily prays I. L. THE PRAEFATORI EPISTL By one Who is studiously ambitious and earnestly contentious as wel if not more to promote the common Salvation as these o● ani other uncommon Mysteries the most abstracted whereof is never without Moralitie moving upon the Affections Christian Reader FOR so in nature unfeignedly as in Name professedly I wold have you to be Miscalled you I hope I have not in this Compellation If I have then are you utterly incapacified as to the Concerns of these Mysteries and Sublimities So bold am I to tell you and such and Anointed one am I whatsoever Iudgment mai pass upon mee or if I be not yet do ●prai resolv endevour or purpose or at les●'st desire or wish to be No mo at all of this yet this beleev wee all of us that it is a most rare Thing in it self were there neither Rewards nor Punishments to be realy and truly Religious in the Old waie which is the Good waie out of which there is no Rest. But you mai sai who cometh here whence you what Religion are you of you are I beleev a pure one Wel for me if I be However to the Quaestion not asking you who made you an Examiner and in Meekness and Fear as I ought I answer and that in the Words of a Servant of God and of the Lord Iesus Christ viz. I am of that Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father which is to visit the Orphans and Widows in their Tribulation and to keep mi self unspotted of the World Of which Faith or Persuasion Iudgment or Mind was blessed Paul in whom alone were evn the Apostles All who further acquainteth you that Christ Iesus his Master and Lord was of the same as to the whol Church which Hee loved and gave himself for that He mought sanctifi it c. not having spot or wrinkl or aught of such but that it shold be holi and without blemish or rather Amomous so the Word is that is irrepre●ensibl safeguarded from the bitings of Momus one of the feined Gods among the Gentils who wold be ever carping such was the suarl of his goodli Godhood at everi thing and who is I fear worshipped evn among our own selvs So Idolatrous or superstitious are wee all almost becom But more particularly if that mai be more for your Satisfaction and to let you know by the waie that neither the insinuating Iesuit hath deceived mee nor perilous Books poisoned mee nor fantastic Teachers seduced mee nor corrupt Church-men carried mee away with everi Wind of Doctrine I here publicly to the Interrogatorie about mi Religion repli Sir I am of that

leave you in the Work that we have bin travailing in together for do not think my being tak●n away shall stop it for it shall live and flourish And doubt not but God will raise up that good Spirit that hath bin a guiding Light in and to me in some others that shall assist and go forward with you for the finishing of that great Mysterie which we have mutually rejoiced in But be you stedfast abiding in the Faith thereof according to what hath been made known b● the Spirit of our Lord and Saviour touching these Things And so he concluded with a desire to speak with his trusty and dearly beloved Friend Dr. Ed. Hr. concerning the Publication of the Writings which his Mind was much upon who also declared his Mind some small Time after in my hearing to the Doctor concerning them as leaving them in trust with no other though some Breach of his Will did after happen which will be sad indeed should the same not he repaired that so his Will mai be fullfilltd concerning his Writings so left in trust After he had thus delivered his Mind his animal Spirits grew hourly faint and weak yet as he was able many refreshing Speeches and gracious Sentences came still from him both to his near Relations and other Friends then about him who performed their dutiful and Christian Part to him for which they received his Blessing and had his Praiers to God in their behalf Much more might be recited but I shall forbear further Enlargement and refer the Inquirer to those living Testators to whom this Author was sufficiently known It may now be expected that we should give some more Satisfaction as to the Life of this Person how he carried it as to all holy Deportment both towards God and towards Man For as his Light was great and eminent so his Life is answerably to be measured I shall not affirm it to be so perfect as nothing of defect could be found therein he was a Man that might be subject to Passions and Infirmities as Elias was yet this I can boldly and as truly say on his behalf since the Time of my acquaintance he groaned and travailed hard in himself after the Birth of Perfection forward pressed he towards the Mark of the Resurrection which was still in his Eye daily preaching it to himself and others being of late Years more than ordinary in Mortifications and daily Dyings to all things that came in as the Effect of the Fall And indeed for the later Years of his Life he took up so much with God as he cared to be very little known among Men alwaies excepting his dear Friend Dr. Ed. Hr. whom he would not willingly be without at home even when most retired I say he cared not to be known in the World as a Preludium to his not long staying among the Inhabitants thereof For thus far I made my Observation upon him that I often saw the Spirit of his Mind translated and was gone up beforehand as it were to prepare a Mansion for his Soul which then groaned to be set loose from so unagreeable a Bodie yet as little so by reason of its habituated heavenly Inclination and sometimes extraordinary Exertion and Elevation as a mortal Bodie could lightly be Hence it was that he so often let fall this Expression Olr how little do I care to live without I might come to put on the Bodie of the Resurrection by and in which I might do the Will of God in this lower World with as great Libertie Alacritie and Constancie as Mount Sion's Saints now in Glorie Thus in grand Soul-Introversion and Body-Exertion he spent this later part of his Daies delighting much as the Dr. E. H. and several more know in an abstracted Life and coveted Solitude withdrawing from his publick Ministery wherein he had formerly exercised himself but of late after the Example of the holy Apostle Paul he retired to a little convenient Place of his own yet not refusing any that would come for spiritual Direction and Counsel freely giving as he had freely received from the Lord● Thus painfully did he labour in the Vineyard of his own Soul and for others in the Name of the Lord. In the Time of this his Solitude he writ more as much more as what is now brought forth into publick View wherein are many great and mystical Truths that were opened unto him from the pure central Light that rose from the morning-Star● whereof this Tract sheweth somthing though but as a Glance of what lieth hid in the fuller Bodie of the Golden Remains which some-bodi● doth retain for the present which when they shall see Light as we will yet hope they mai the will appear as the Express of a deep Spirit which had great Libertie of access to and Abilitie of diving into the infinite Ocean of divine Mysteries through the favourable Guift of a faithful and bountiful Lord the Almighty God Therefore he being so greatly good let not thine Eye O Reader be evil nor let any one stumble or be offended at either the Author or matter Method or Expression but give place to that pure Light which gave him such an Understanding and Sight If the Meat be too strong for thee thou hast liberty to refuse and maist set it by till thou art grown stronger in Spirit it was the Author's Iudgment not to impose he left that for the Lord alone to dispose the Mind for reception But doubtless it is prepared as a living Portion for such as hunger after spiritual Dainties and heavenly Mysteries Let me therefore beseech you to be censureless till the Day of the Lord cometh without Clouds to arise in the Heart of your Earth so as to clear up all doubtful matters of this kind observing the Doctrine of that large spirited Apostle which is To abide in that Spirit of Love which can hope believe and bear all things and cover and comprehend what we mai not yet perfectly understand or reach as not being happily come to that clear inspection of things thereby to be so imboldned as to pass Iudgment with an infallibility thereon but rather give room and grant Christian Liberty to and for the various Gifts and Operations of the Spirit in each one For sure I am it is that which will secure us in the Peace of God which passeth Understanding which will guard our Hearts from the evil of Controversies which this Author did study to avoid though of sufficient Learning and Ability to manage them yet of late Time kept himself from all such Ingagements quietly resting under the droppings or rather Pourings of the holy Anointing Of which I shall give you some particular as the ground-work of this Subject here treated of being the Knowledg of God out of Nature and yet to be known in the Globe of eternal Nature This you must know he came to understand by his Spirit being caught up into the still Eternitie for several Daies together which

hast put and set a Iewel a fair one evn of grea●e●● price and highest value O how far then from the right are unmercifulness uncharitablnes hardheartednes strife rancour envie judging censuring slandering backbiting speaking or whispering evil specialy of and against Persons and Things neither known to thee nor understood by thee How far I sai from right I dare not take upon mee to judg This onely I sai to such Practicers what Christ did to those Hypocrites who could discern the face of the Skies Yea and why evn of your selvs judg yee not what is right Now if such things be right then surely nothing's wrong Let 's all like Devils fight and damn i th' cursed throng God Christ and th' Spirit ' spite and mock'em in a Song Yet stil I shold beleev it to be the better safer and wiser waie to humbl our selvs under the mighti hand of God taking holi Iames for our council in the case and praepare to meet our God who is a God of Iudgment and a consuming Fire and everlasting too into whose hands to fall it is a fearfull thing Hee likewise beeing the living God and no Person-Respecter but recompensing everi one according to his work If wee therefore wold not fall short of felicitie here and hereafter let us fall out of hand upon dooing and mainteining good works and for ever abandon falling on or out with one another but if there be a wise man among us and one indued with knowledg let him be persuaded by and with blessed Iames to shew out of a good conversation His Works with me●kn●s of Wisdom evn tha● Wisdom from above which first truly chast and pure is further more pacific qui●t not rigid for its own right moderate obsequious p●rsuasibl yi●lding full of mercie and good fruits without disceptation o● controversie not doubting certen without Hypocrisie not stage-plaier like not dissembling its judgment not a●●ing ani waie counterfei●ly O that wee were thus wise a●d in the meeknes of this wisdom walk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 simus let us go to a●d fro' one another pass things easily to and agen having such a praesence of mind alwaies as to becom all things to all men with the Doctor of the Gentiles that Omniformist who tho Hee were free ●rom all y●● Hee made himself a servant to all that Hee mought gain the moe by all means save som. This hee did ●or the ends of the Evangelie When s●al such glad Tidings befall us bless Church and State O what a glorious state shold wee and our Churchmen and women and Children and all things els be in Of this pure temper wa● the Autor as you mai see evn by that littl hee speaketh to the Reader b●fore this Discours yea renownedly clothed with the meek Spirit of our only Lord Iesus the Christ the Author and Finisher i. e. the Beginner and Ender not of our your or their but of the Faith with reference to all times and persons according to the tenor and T●stimonie of the Scriptures of Truth I must tell you it agen The Autor had the Spirit of meeknes with the Faith and Lov which is in Chri●t for the excellence the of knowledg of whom his Lord hee su●●ered like another Paul as is wel known to all sciz who knew him the loss of all things which hee reckoned at no higher rate than Dogs-meat but not such as is givn to dogs in ●hese daies which good Christians wold be glad of that hee mought win Chri●● a●d be found in Him not having his own Righteousnes but that which is by the Faith of Chri●t that Hee mought know him and the power of his Resurrection a●d the Fellowship of his Su●ferings beeing made conformabl to his Death if by a●i means Hee mought attein to the Resurrection of the dead Which undoubtedly Hee maugre all whisperings backbitings censures or praejudices of unbeli●f to the contrari did did follow after and to t●●●●●●citie of mortalitie atteined the nearest to ●● o● all that in this Age I have known or heard of Thus much I can testif● since mi acquaintance with him for Hee was not onely a bare liver by the Faith of Iesus but in the Work and Service of Love Faith's best demonstration and the Law 's Fullfiller a true Laborer and as to winged Mysteries if I mai speak mi sens witho●● essens a littl incarnate Cherub or rather S●raph or that I mai not excede the words of Truth and Holiness to the extending in the less'st the lines of Modestie a very highly mystic and transspiritualized Person A specimen of which not more great than just and due Eulogie and Encomium this Tract tho' a smal one is Which Writings Hee before his Asscension to the Spirits of Iust men perf●ctly sancti●ied advised and consulted with mee about as is sufficiently known not only to his Hous-keeper but to his most agreeabl and supersensual Companion and Fellow-laborer in the Evangelic-angelic Work viz. ● L. mi Praecursor or Prae-Epistoliz●r and a daili Exsp●c●ant to be clothed upon with the heavenli Bodie to com down from above waiting in the Spirit for the fullnes thereof and who hath not long since appeared in to or from the World pleace to take which Praeposition you best approv in an Heavenli Cloud A product fairly and fully meriting the Titl as is clear notwithstanding the Cloud to ani spiritual Discerner Favor mee with somuch freedom as once agen to affirm that the Autor excluding all other by what names or Titles soever dignified or distinguished or wheresoever praesiding or residing in Court Citie Camp or Countrie committed these Papyrs according to the certen knowledg of the Person ut supra hinted or lettered to the custodie and Correction so continued under correc●ion be it spoken and so confirmed was his confidence herein of Mee who highly ●steemed him in love for his Works sake not forgetting evn this which now thro the Divine Providence according to mi trust word or as som wil have words too is now com forth with an open face to public view from its recess or privacie ●ere hearken and heed hereto by the wholey unasked therefore freely of●ered benignitie and generositie of which I am a witness and which likevise witnesseth the dignitie and Divinitie of the Soul and Spirit of the Person so acting viz. W. B. that famous Anti-Satánic Athleta Anti-Daemoníac Pal●strita and Hell 's black Regiment's Antagonist yea moreover ●●●●aptive's Redeemer and the mani-mani poor and needi oppressed and distressed People's most readi and praesent Refuge and Asylum wheresoever hee resorteth tho' more principaly at the place of his Residence at Wilminton in Kent Where beside or rather about evn all the Countrie over Hee is wel known and wel nigh from everi quarter or corner thereof addressed unto as an honest diligent expert long experienced and very successfull ●hysician Let this brief Character of this gallant generous resolute

and religious man be I prai kindly admitted and accepted from mi welmeaning meanness til a larger and fairer appear which when it doth wil be but his due tho' his modestie I mai safely sai wil not be abl to suf●er it such is the tenderness of his Spirit v●sibl enough in ani thing that mai but verge toward his own advantage whom therefore I wold willingly more discover to the World to which hee doth so much good and in which hee hath done so great things and declare his Name in words at length and not as now in letters were I not afraid that his humili●ie wold be thereby highly o●●ended which doth and can endure all things except his own Eulogiums and Commendations To the Sun-●hine of which and his manifold virtues I have onely lighted or tinded tho' ex officio this my Rush-ca●dl which is one I must confess to mi shame of the shortest less'st and worss'●t For this do I here humbly crave his candid construction and heartily beg the boon of his pardon beeing too sensibl of the great need I have thereof albeit I mai haply go without it in that I have so openly and boldly as beeing without his leav or knowledg attemted tho' but this unless by the seasonabl request and importune intercession of som intimate Friend or other it mai happily com to be givn to mee I am not so sage as to foresee how hee wil handl mee for this mi fool-hardiness nor can I praesage what the event mai be His Resentment of this mi boldnes wil be so great I must now run the Risc the hazard jacta est alea. I must take mi Lot how fair or foul soever I be in his Books As to this praesent Book I am bold to sai I foresee such clearness there is in mi eies the Crystal Streams thereof going to be perturbed by the over diligent and silthily dirti feet of mani grim and ugli Satyrs which seem to mee to call for and to have already praevaled with several faln Angels ●o mingl with them and becom their Coadjutors ●nd Coagitators that so these purely fluent Wa●ers mai the more suddenly and surely be made mere stagnant and putrid Puddls or most foul stinking Pools Nevertheless I adventure herein to praedict tho' I be no Prophet nor the Son of a Prophet for all the possibilitie probabilitie or proximitie of the feat or fact the impossibilitie for all this of the accomplishment yea I am more than confident for I am Sure that the contamination thereof by their so complotted commixture wil prove no other than a Chimaera unless I mai add as I beleev it wil be a slurr and blurr or a basefoul Iilt upon themselvs Nai further shal conclude it never feacibl til that veri daie when I shal behold the dazling Beams of the glorious Sun in its Zenith darkned by the mere steams of som Dung-Hill lieing on the lowest ground But enough if not too much of this dirt and ●ilth Now not to be dirti miself however not so dung-hill-bred as to account so wretchedly of the Reader as if Hee were unworthi to have ani accompt of the Book or to giv a●i ●aus wher●by the Publisher thereof shold be thought so av●rs from Apologies as to judg all of lit●l value much less to condemn all evn the best with som G●andees as idl and useless at best at less'st far below Prudence by waie therefore of obviation praevention praeoccupation and anticipation in companie with a fair praesolution of som praemised objections which it is not improbabl mani ill-natur●d and ill-mind●d men mai make evn to the suspecting or at fair●st scrupling if not severely quaestioning first how honestly this worthi Writer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 came by these high Mysteries and grand Arcanums viz. Th● Knowledg of what in the ensuing Pages is argued and discoursed then What necessitie of th●ir beeing now or at ani time exposed and published This I here offer and praesent To the First mi Respons is tho' not dubious yet doubl h. e. Negativ and Affirmativ Thus Hee as a Philosopher not falsly so called and a Divine indeed came to the reception perception and cognition or rather introspection intuition and introreception of the praementioned Not by reading or poring on Books or Manuscripts nor by the teaching of men brethren or Fathers nor by ani conferring with Flesh and Blood but by the pure Revelation of the Holi and Blessed Spirit of God who is the Sercher and Reveler of the deep things of God as St. Paul testifieth Now in regard I have mentioned the Reve●ation of the Spirit I cannot apprehend it an imper●inence to speak somwhat of yea inlarge so much ●he more upon the several sorts and different kinds ●hereof as properly praelimina●i antecedaneous ●nd very requisitly assistent to the advance of the ●nquisitiv Reader 's judgment and belief of about ●nd concerning these divine rarities mysteries and ●ublimities The first waie is by Vision when the Spirit of God praesenteth the heavenli species or ideas to the ●ntern senses of the inward man Quid quaeris ●rudite Lector vin quid species vel Idea potiùs sci●e certiùs ut queas consulas Platonem velim cui ●uid esse videatur audi Idea est earum quae naturâ ●unt inviolabile immutabile immortale aeternum ●xemplar Vide porrò si dubius animi es Aug. L. lxxxi quaest 46. This of Vision I look upon as one of the ●owest Form or Degree The second is by Illumination when the Spirit of the mind is thorowly illustrated or enlightned by a Raie or Beam proceding from the Holy Spirit and purely apprehendeth the Truth and the veri Sens of the Blessed Spirit beside and without ani praesentation of extern Objects Of these kinds the glorious Apostle Paul maketh plain mention where Hee saith I wil com to Visions and Revelations 〈◊〉 the Lord. The third is by Transportation or if you wil n●● bear with that Term Translation When the Spir●● of the Mind is in veri deed truth and realitie rap● and caught up transported and translated tran●scendently and divinely into the veri Principl 〈◊〉 self there to view introspect and comprehend 〈◊〉 wel as apprehend the Wonders of Iehovah AE●●● him the ever adorabl holi and blessed Triune● Deitie Of this Degree the same glorious Apo●● telleth us when hee declareth that Hee was caug●● up into the third Heaven into Paradise whe● Hee heard wordless Words so the Graec most emph●●●●ticly Words unutterabl unexpressibl unspea●●abl un●●oidabl Nihil heic nisi vota 〈◊〉 persunt This is an higher Degree than either 〈◊〉 the former the pair praeceding beeing far inferior 〈◊〉 this for here as much as possibly you mai or can mi●● the veri Spirit of the Mind is elevated supersens●●●ly and superrationaly sublimed or lifted up to 〈◊〉 into that Principl where the things theirselvs do ●●aly subsist have

of a more sublime Origination or as wee vulgarly of an higher Descent Is it not so Why Do not the Golden Rules delivered by antient Philosophers seem to set forth as much How came those famous Lights of Wisdom set up almost all the World over Nai what issue is there of the pretious Dictates of our gracious Saviour and His holi Apostls who spake as never man or mere So●●● spake Nai what becometh of the Image of G●● impressed on Man at the first and wherein setti●● the Angels apart hee excelleth the whol Creation● NB. When the holi Iesus the Christ of God vouchsafed and condescended to be conversant among men Hee made it his chief Work what Christia● wil be against the ensuing Truth to improve the mind and spirit of man farr above the hight of the Soul's Reason and wee are so farr from conforming to our Blessed Lord's cours as Reason it self if 〈◊〉 sens almost is yet too sublime for us except so●● few who Apparent rari nantes in Gurgite vasto as the Poet singeth bravely looking up and beari●● up their Heads in this Universal Sinking towar● and I prai God it mai go down not wofully further ●● dolefully deeper than the Profundities of Sh●● out of which som are saved Com along with me● kind Reader if thou be not quite tired and ma●● use of the strongest legs of thi reason nai exercis● the Brains of it yea let the Head and Crown of 〈◊〉 asscend to that of AEternitie leaving farr below those effects of curiositie and accidental emergences the Arts and Sciences liberal falsly so called and highest natural Philosophie too upon which the Great Diana of this Mechanic Age h. e. Natural Theologie is reared buoied hoisted built up and let thi Reason I sai soar aloft evn if possibl up to AEternitie beeing environed with Time as it is a part of that Prius and Posterius without which the beginning and end of ani beeing cannot be conceived to be not as it is defined the Measure of Motion which had a Beginning on that Foundation that of an AEtern Beeing of Beeings nothing beeing abl to make it self Reason existeth subsisteth standeth buildeth and finisheth I mean concludeth That AEternitie it self is but what it is the imbecillitie of ani rational Facultie is such as it cannot possibly comprehend i. e. how ani thing shold have beeing without beginning and ending yet such a beeing there must be or no God there must or can be and where now wil Reason be I fancie and you know what hath been written already of Phansie that Reason notwithstanding all the sublimitie and vivacitie Phansie can afford or give to it in all its best conceptions like a sorri-silli Guide doth but lead mee with confidence and leav mee in confusion in a dull dark Labyrinth or Maze in a Maeandrous passage or Place Hence evn the most Metaphysic Subtilissimoes after that thei have fatigated or quite tired and wearied and but worsted themselvs with their Divisions and Subdivisions I must affirm thei have not arrived at so much of immodestie as to make Reason the adaequate measure of Truth but do ultimately resolv it into a Conformitie with the Divine Intellect which a Plat●nist wold after this manner as one more excellently expresseth and exactly humoreth than that ut supri lateiné by waie of an Exegemátic Character thus● That there is an AEternal Mind that comprehendeth th● intelligibl natures species and ideas of all things whether actualy existing or possibly only and that comprehendeth it self and all the extent of its own Power ●●gether with an Exemplar Platform of the wh●● World according to which Hèe produced the sam● What of all this Why dato concesso the Praemisses granted and allowed yet stil the Conclusion wil● and must be in spite of all our Reason assisted with the clearest imagination wee are no less in the dark for unless notice be vouchsafed to us by the AEternal Mind of what is conformabl to His infallibl and infinit Intellect there wil be littl or no certentie of Truth obteined by us Such is the peculiar Province of Revelation which is the tru or praetended foundation stil of all knowledg whatsoever Moreover it hath all the benefit of Philosophie and natural Religion's light in its best progress of Reasoning in its highest Zenith exaltation elevation sublimation and Acme to be silent as to a further and unfailing ratification from Divine Testimonie and the Transscendence of the Objects proper quarto modo to an Apocalypsie which giveth it freer admission and maketh a more solid valid and durabl impression upon our intellect Tho' wee acknowledg when all is don how magnificously soever wee bragg and vapor and taper of our Reason or Faith Intellect intelligibl Ideas and aeternal Verities these wil never conduct us to enter into Paradise or our Master 's joie but only as these are conjoined with our affections which commix co-incide and as it were identifi with that grandest and Divinest Mysterie of Love sciz God made Flesh which gave as one superexcellently the Angels new Anthems a new Scaene of Knowledg and consequently a new Heven So much if not too much of the distinction of these Powers and of that refined one of Soul and Spirit in man I sai Man who certenly is more than is conteined in that old definition Animal Rationale if hee were no more than Animans intellectuale tho' were I worthi to define Him it shold be rather by Religiosum than by either or both mentioned Nai seriously thinking considering and ruminating of the Rarities and Merits of his Creation by Iehovah AElohim who breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Lifes and who as the Father of Spirits formeth that in man I can scarce forbear calling Him Animal Divinum tho' I be not such an Animal without the facultie to think nai and to foresee this definition deemed forthwith by the acute as unphilosophi● yea the Terms doomed o● however if not so adjudged yet to speak favorably impleaded as carri-ing in their veri Bowels a self-duelling by som chiefly those who have b● great Labors procured unto themselvs a deep-read● confusion of thought Let mee complete this Paragraph with the three constituent Parts of man according to the Apostl's Philosophie or Iudgment in that Praier of his where mention is made of Bodie Soul and Spirit which Spirit or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what it signi●ieth in the New Covenant or Testament the Places at the Bottom and mani mo do tell But to interpret it as most do by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Graces of the H. Spirit wold make the Apostl's Praier so impertinent improper strange if not ridiculous unless those Graces had at ani been found blame-worthi that I cannot but appear most exceedingly blameabl miself shold I add one Word to contra-argue it However let mee add the following words tending toward the conclusion of this prodigiously prolix

that seems to spread it self over a● through all his deep and Mystical writings The First Head What God is before the Globe of Eternity THE subject of this Chapter is What God is in the primary and original being of himself before the Globe of Eternity did exist Quest. If you ask me What this God is that was before the Globe of Eternity was brought into manifestation Answ. I answer That by God in this place I understand the Spirit of Eternity himself as he is an Eternal Unity and Simplicity But what this Eternal Unity and Simplicity of himself is who can tell but himself it being unknowable to any besides himself For no creature can comprehend an infinite unsearchable and incomprehensible Creator therefore none can know what the Spirit of Eternity is out of the Globe of Eternity but himself alone The first manifestation of himself is in the Globe of Eternity there he first becomes knowable to Intellectual creatures but without and beyond it he is as a Nothing to all created understandings being hid and wrapt up in his own unsearchable Mystery Wherefore we conclude That God considered as existing before the Globe of Eternity is absolutely unknowable to all Creatures and this leads me to the second Head or Particular which is handled in the next following Chapter The Second Head which makes the second part of this Treatise What God is in the Primary and original Being of himself in the Globe of Eternity before Eternal Nature's Principle was in Being IF you ask me what God is as he exists in the Globe of Eternity without and before Eternal Nature's Principle I must before I come to give you a more particular Answer to this Query advise you that the knowledge of God as he exists in the Globe of Eternity without eternal Nature is a very deep and Mystical Knowledge though it is true withall that in the Globe of Eternity God is much more Knowable than without it in the solitary abstracted Being of himself for so he is altogether unknowable and incomprehensible Having premised this I now come to answer the foregoing question by explaining these two following particulars viz. 1. What God is with relation to the Globe of Eternity 2. What the Globe of Eternity is wherein God the Spirit of Eternity doth manifest himself Which Particulars I intend to make the subject matters of two Chapters which are to make up this second part CHAP. I. Concerning what God is in relation to his existence in the Globe of Eternity THE Deity existing in the Globe of Eternity is nothing else but First A Spirit of Eternity and this Spirit of Eternity is an uncreated Essence for he could not be a Spirit without being an Essence and were not he uncreated He could not be the Spirit of Eternity Secondly Again the Spirit of Eternity or God as he ●s an uncreated Essence so he exists and subsists in himself and from himself for there is nothing before him or above him from whence he might receive his Being ●nd if there was he c●●ld not be God for the notion of a God in the sence in which it is here taken im●lie a first original Being or Existence that is before ●nd gives existence to all other beings being himself ●ndependent of them all And therefore it is that God ●●yles himself the Alpha and Omega the Beginning and ●he End the first and the last Therefore we must ●onclude that all Worlds and all Creatures derive their ●eing from this Spirit of Eternity and consequently ●hat the Globe of Eternity or Eternal World hath its ●xistence from him since there is nothing can be ex●epted from being the effect of this Universal all-com●rehending cause This the Scripture doth often in●ulcate to us 1 Iohn 3. By him all things are made and ●ithout him nothing was made And again Col. 1.16 All things were created by him and for him Now if this ●e so it follows that the Eternal World or Globe of ●ternity was also created by him And as the Spirit ●f Eternity is the Creator of the Globe of Eternity ●o by consequence he must be supposed to be before it as the cause is before the effect which neither may no● can be confounded together In the third place● I say that the Spirit of Eternity is the Essence of all Essences and the Cause of a Causes For this Spirit of Eternity is the one only tru● God from whom all other beings do at first deriv● their being and in and by whom they are continued i● their subsistence neither could He otherwise be the fir●● and the last the beginning and end of all things Lastly The Spirit of Eternity is an Eternal incom●prehensible and unmeasurable Unity Now this Et●●nal Unity is nothing else but pure Deity and pur● Deity is an Eternal Unity for as an Unity is the begi●●ning of all Numbers so is this Eternal Unity the b●●ginning of all beings Now if God be an Etern●● Unity it follows that there can be no more than o●● God because a plurality of gods would destroy t●● Nature of Unity Besides if t●●re were a plurality ●● gods there must be supposed to be many firsts a●● many beginnings and so the one only God the Sp●●rit of Eternity could not be this Alpha or first a●● beginning of all things But the Scriptures do pere●●ptorily assert that there is but one God so Deut. 6●● Hear O Israel the Lord our God is one God Concerning the Holy Trinity From this Eternal Unity the Holy Trinity is man●●fested of which I must speak somewhat in this plac● because they subsi●ted in the Eternal Unity of th●●●s●lv●s b●fore the Globe of Eternity was manifeste● and were the manifesters of it and therefore m●● needs be bef●re it Now we must know that the H●●● Trinity are inseparably united and do subsist in ●●● Eternal Unity of themselves and are co-operators in a● Generations and Creations whatsoever Concerning the nature of the Holy Trinity as they subsist in the Globe of Eternity The nature of the Holy Trinity considered in themselves as they exist in the Globe of Eternity without and before eternal Nature is a very great Mystery Many disapprove that the word Person should be applied to the Trinity because their Spirits in the sight of Vision and light of Revelation never could perceive any personality in the Holy Trinity And indeed nothing is more true than that there are no figurative persons in the Deity Neither doth the Scripture in any place tell us of three persons in the Trinity but when it speaks of the Trinity it expresseth it self thus There be three that bear record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy G●●●● and these three are one 1 Ioh. 5.7 Hence it is that Mystical writers instead of the word Person make use of the words of Number to signifie the Trinity by calling the Father Monas the Word Duas and the Holy Ghost Trias which may be ●nterpreted the first second