with your own Name upon it which may advance and establish you in the like state of Glory For so it is ordained that all that are mine should improve their own stock of Life and so each one wear their own Crowns not coveting any thing out of themselves because I have enough to give to every one of my Children even a full Revenue so as there shall be no occasion of grudging one at another But their Growths Degrees and Gifts may be different according as in my own wise Counsel I shall see meet to dispence who will be Uncontroulable giving no account to any Creature but will confer my Favours upon such as I see and know to be most diligent For which they shall have no cause to repent who have their Minds wholly inclined and bent toward ME and who unto these my Laws do entirely cleave which Laws without a Mosaical Vail I now present that thou mayest behold the good Will that I do bear unto thee and unto such as love and know My Name so as in pure Nazariteness to separate for the Work which I have cut out for you to imitate exactly as approving your selves in all things willing to please Her who will be your Crowning Reward III. But I must not forget to caution thee concerning that Out-birth Neighbour lest thou shouldest covet that which is his Right in this Outward Principle Where he also hath a great Lordship and a Might-Soveraignty over all whatever the Visible Earth doth bring forth Here is in this World likewise a Temporal Kingdom consisting in Riches Honour and Majesty with Dominion over their Fellow Creatures where-from I set thee free CHAP. II. The Opposition which this Translated Spirit met with during the Delivery of these Laws AS I was strictly engaged to attend the giving out of Wisdom's Paradisical Laws that opened in me like a Flaming Shower which drowned the Old World that a New World might in the room of it spring up my whole New Man walking up and down therein and drinking of that pleasant River Pison which waters this new-entered Land into which no Earthly Stuff must be admitted I could not yet be free from molestation For tho' Sin that strange deformed Monster must look for no welcome here being for ever Banished this Holy Place yet after Death in several Shapes he threatens still to haunt me often saying he will be avenged of me for that I have exposed him to a violent Death for the making my way into Paradisical Freedom Therefore he transforms himself now into a Spirit and pursues me and would bring all my dead Works after me that so I might be restless even here where according to the Eternal Law of Liberty I should rest from all Fear and Care This occasioned somewhat of Complaint which I brought before my Mother Wisdom telling her That after Death I did hope I should have been freed and that all Wars should have ceased when I was once got in within this Gate But replied her Witness the Spirit of Prophesie in me I never said Death would acquit thee so as that no Temptation at all should molest thee through the subtilty of the Serpent who hath liberty to prove thee Here in like manner as he had liberty to prove thy dear JESUS who for this end suffered him that he might give proof of an unconquerable stedfastness during the appointed time that he was in Paradise to abide So must thou here expect that the Man of Sin may by the Angel of the Bottomless Pit be though dead again assumed and may make War against the Angel of the Covenant As it is said There was War in Heaven as of Old so Now again in thee Therefore to the Law and to the Testimony which within thy Heavens do open do thou give good heed that thou mayest prevail and come off a Conqueror by the keeping of the Commandments and the Faith of JESUS The last Battel which is to be fought is in this Paradisical Field Thou art now to engage in a single Combat Therefore to thee I bring my Flaming Armour which is Love and Faith by which thou wilt only an Overcomer be Remember that Charge of Honouring thy Father and Mother and do not thou them disgrace For now thou art upon the Publick Stage where the whole Hierarchy of Throne-Powers do thee view to behold how thy Michael in thee will Fight against the Dragon with his Fiery Might The Honour of thy God is much herein concerned that thou do over the Beast and the False Prophet prevail defying the Number and renouncing the Mark of his Name that nothing any more he may be ever able to claim in thee For through Victorious Faith holding out thou wilt see him Cowardly sneak out of Paradise Since he will not care to abide there if he see thee resolutely fixed in the Spirit of my Might who foreseeth all his cunning Slights by which he would pluck thee down out of Paradise Then saith he my Design would take place and I should have Wisdom in derision that hath no better provided for her Children but left them thus to be foiled by the Dragon See now how this Evil One will if thou shouldest fall reflect upon GOD thy Father and ME thy Mother Therefore dear Child for our Honour stand that so thy days may not be short in the Promised Land To which thou wilt surely come if thou canst hold out all the appointed time of Temptation Then another Remove thou shalt see where no more shalt thou to the Dragon's Fury be exposed but shalt the long and everlasting Day inherit and keep this Sabbath without end rejoicing according as thou shalt here Meritoriously vindicate that Name of Mine which to the World is an unknown Secret I was also further Encourag'd by Wisdom against the great Opposition which I felt when waiting for the Opening of the Sixth Commandment there appear'd to me all on a sudden while She was giving her Counsel and Charge a glorious Circle with all Flaming Colours Upon which I looked very stedfastly It continu'd a good space as well as I might guess near upon half a quarter of an hour before it vanish'd This Circle consisted of various and wonderful Colours the inmost part of it was all clear and bright as the Air without a Cloud Then spake Wisdom's Spirit in me What hast thou seen here but the Magical Eye which is an All-seeing Globe that includeth all Light Power and Might within its Circle so that there is no need to go out for any Supply for that all lyeth within the compass of this All-generating Eye And like as thou didst see it rise in a Moment so shall it give new Existencies from its own in the twinkling of an Eye This is the manner of Paradisical Living quite different from the Way of the Inhabitants of the Outward World who live upon the Mouldy Bread of Sense upon whose Breast they hang and cannot endure to be plucked from
THE LAWS OF PARADISE Given forth by Wisdom TO A Translated SPIRIT The LAW shall go forth of ZION Mic. 4. 2. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street 1695. ERRATA PAge 65. line 17. read by the Decease of my Father I came to be involved But not being able to be long Absent from THE PREFACE TO a certain Person that for many Years had been led wonderfully in the Ways of God it came to pass that one day upon a deep Contemplation of the Paradisical World there appear'd in the midst of a most bright Cloud a Woman of a most Sweet and Majestick Countenance her Face shining as the Sun and her Vesture of Transparent Gold who said Behold I am God's Eternal Virgin Wisdom whom thou hast been enquiring after I am to unseal the Treasures of God's deep Wisdom unto thee and will be as Rebecca was to Iacob a true natural Mother for out of my Womb thou shalt be brought forth after the manner of a Spirit being Conceiv'd and Born again This thou shalt know by a new Motion of Life stirring and giving a restlesness till Wisdom be Born within the inmost parts of thy Soul Now consider of my Sayings till I shall return to thee again Then after three days the same Figure appear'd in greater Lustre and Glory to this Person bearing a Crown on her Head and spake to this effect Behold thy Mother and know that thou art to enter into Covenant with me to Obey the Laws of the New Creation which shall be revealed And upon this a Golden Book being Seal'd with Three Seals was by her presented to the said Person declaring that in it were declar'd the deep Mysteries of the Divine Wisdom which had been Sealed up from the past Ages and were now to be opened and manifested to her Children that should be found willing to receive and to observe such LAWS as she should deliver forth in the New Heart and in the New Spirit After Six days the Vision again return'd and the Virgin Queen shew'd her self in most Mighty Majesty being attended with a numberless Train of Virgin Spirits and with a very great Army of Angels and this Person was call'd by Name to come and view Her with her First-born Children and invited to join with them To which there being a ready and hearty Consent given the said Person was immediately admitted into their Number Then said the Divine Virgin I shall cease to appear in a Visible Figure to thee but I will not fail to Transfigure my self in thy Mind and there open the Spring of Wisdom and Understanding She also promis'd that by the Opening of this Spring there should be reveal'd Great and Wonderful Things that were to be made Publick in the Appointed Day And so exhorting to Vigilance and Obedience to those Counsels and Laws which should be given out from her she disappear'd having first receiv'd such an Answer as the Blessed Virgin Mary gave to the Message of the Angel Gabriel from this Person who was encompassed about with the Heavenly Host and made a Spirit of Light And as the Law was given to Moses of old being taken up to Mount Sinai to converse with God so in like manner it hath pleas'd the same God our Father to give forth in these Last Days the Law of Paradise to This Spirit who was some Years after this caught up on purpose into Mount Sion to receive it There is no doubt to be made but that these holy Commandments so receiv'd will carry along with them to many Awaken'd Souls the Evidence of their Divine Original And as for such as from the many horrid Abuses that have been made through Pretensions to the Holy Spirit cannot believe that there either is or can be any True Inspiration at this Day in the World I doubt not to convince the Sober amongst them and all such as are willing to humble themselves before the Truth of the Possibility Expediency and necessity of Revelation to be again restor'd in a Particular Discourse which is design'd to come forth very shortly As for any Particular Objections against either the Manner or the Matter of these Laws then when they shall be Proposed it will be time to consider of them Now let us who know that the Law is spiritual Rom. 7. 14. be altogether spiritually-minded and worship him who is Spirit in Spirit and Truth The MOTTO WIsdom I have sought and Wisdom I have found And now I wear her as My Garland and Crown THE LAWS OF PARADISE CHAP. 1. The Delivery of the Law in Ten Particulars given forth by Wisdom to a Translated Spirit THese are the Laws of Paradise which must be observed by All who set footing there according as they were declared and given forth by Wisdom as I was in the Spirit Who thus spake unto me Having caution'd thee that thou maist not be secure telling thee that the Tempter and the Tree are both here I Wisdom bid thee take good heed considering thou art yet but a Stranger and knowest not the Constitutions Orders and Worships required by the King of this Holy Land Lest therefore thou shold'st miscarry here as did the First Adam and many more since who have come thus far after the Similitude of the Second whom the Dragon hath plucked down again awakening in them the Essences which were slain by the Death I do now present to thee out of my peculiar Love CHRIST thy Looking-glass In Him behold thy self who was thy Dying Pattern and now must be thy Living Spirit to act answerable to Him Bodily and Spiritually And as he was in Paradise Invisible and in this World Visible in like manner as now thou art so the same Law which was enjoined by the Father to Him is expresly to be observed by thee Not one Jot or Tittle is to be abated therein For here the New Covenant is to be re-established in which the Laws of pure and uncorrupted Nature are again revived which were Engraven upon the Heart before Sin entered to obliterate them And as this Internal Law of Liberty was lost in Paradise so in all Ages it could never be found by any till they returned thither again to fulfil the whole Righteousness hereof through the Birth Power and Spirit of JESUS that hath imprinted the Law of Eternal Nature upon the Fleshly Table of a pure Heart which becometh a Law of Life unto it self that none need to say Know the Lord from henceforth if once come to know themselves after the Law of this Paradisical Life which I will give thee out as GOD gave to Moses in Ten Particulars that what is given thee may answer to the Out-spoken Word from ME Who for a General Benefit do require thee to Record these following Precepts purely as they flow from my Unknown Deep The First Commandment THou shalt own and bear witness to the True God manifested through his Virgin Wisdom as come to restore Nature
to its own Eternal Originality which consisted in Light Purity and Power And thou shalt have no other God live in thee but JEHOVAH whose Arm alone hath redeemed and brought thee into thy Primitive Liberty and Soveraignty again through the Internal Dying as the acceptable Propitiation The Second Commandment THou art not to Frame or Carve out in thy Mind a strange God tho' it may be after an Heavenly Likeness worshipping thou knowest not what or whom The Fallen Essences would make a God like unto themselves Gross and Elementary with which the Earthly Sense might be familiar and have recourse to for supply in a gross Visible manner owning the Invisible Creator in word but denying the Faith in his Omnipotency through the going a Whoring after the God of Reason bowing down and worshipping the Rising Sun which governeth the Day of this Fallen Creation the Apostate Spirits still crying in Man's Nature as of old Vp make us Gods which may go before us that we may have our sensible sight fed As for this Invisible Working Power it delays to come down to us though his Arm hath been made bare and wrought great deliverance yet now being withdrawn we wist not what is become of this Unknown God that keeps in such a Circle as we can not break in to him Therefore saith the Unbelieving Israel We will make choice of a God for our selves after our own Likeness Now from this high Idolatry thou art prohibited upon pain of losing Wisdom's Blessing For thy God will not bear or suffer any one whom he hath placed in this New Land to have any other God but himself who is Jealous of his Honour and who will be trusted to and rested upon and have the whole worship and subjection of the Will and adoration of the Mind not admitting either Sense or Reason to be his Rival Faith without doubting and Love unfeigned is the Sum of this Commandment which observe thou with all fear The Third Commandment LET none dare to make mention of the most Holy Name in their Mouths that are not with their Hearts incorporated into it Oh! what a Covering hath VVisdom's all-piercing Eye seen this Sacred Name vainly to be made and highly to have been abused by many dead rotten Spirits that have put it on as a Mantle to hide their VVitchcrafts and Spiritual Sorceries which is one of the greatest of Grievances this day to thy God It is not so ill taken from the unbridled and Profane Spirit as from the civilized Righteous one whose Leaven be thou aware of And understand from me what weight this Name beareth when not taken in vain but to good purpose as thou art required now to do according to these my Directions I. First Suffer thy Restored Creaturely Being as being become a New Believer to be Baptized and plunged throughout into this Name which is the Golden Pool where the Holy Ghost opens his Fiery Stream And he invites to drink down this precious Name or else all will be in vain No Unbeliever is capable of this Fiery Baptism for the solemnizing of this holy Seal must according to what is Recorded follow after Believing II. A Second Rule is That thou maist receive and bear this Name worthily give it place that it may all over-run thee in such wise that thou maist disappear and be hid in it so as nothing may be found but this Holy Flaming Name purifying every Property turning all into a Godlikeness as becomes this holy Place Thus will you come to know what is the Effectual VVorking of this Name as it is written not only VVithin but upon the Forehead being all over cloathed therewith This is no less than the Establishing the New Covenant making good this Promise I will be to thee a God and thou shalt be to me a People to shew a cementing into each other so as there shall be no need for such as are come here to say Know the Lord for his Name is now become One and All knowing himself in Thee to be IEHOVAH acting in a restored simplified Nature as of old time After this manner it is only worth taking and bearing the Name of thy God To which take thou heed and drink it in The Fourth Commandment THis is a considerable Duty that thou art charged to call to remembrance minding whereto thou are called to solemnize an holy Sabbath And since none but those who are Dead can cease from their Working Properties this Commandment reacheth only the Children of the Resurrection that know nothing of serving in the Martha-like Carefulness Here must be a Rest in Paradise yea all that smells or favours of the six days Labour which entred in with the Curse of Mortality is to be ceased from I say all sinful Workings either in Mind or in Body we are to rest from not doing our own pleasure or speaking our own words This is that true Inward Sabbath we are called to sanctifie our God with This is a Truth but there is a Rest which reacheth further than all this But you will say wherein and from what must we cease Pray give us the Particulars of it I. The First is this A Total Cessation from the Working Property of Reason the motion of which must be stopped Here is no occasion for it in this New Paradisical World It is Forbidden Fruit to the Children of the Resurrection that must live one and the same Life with JESUS and with the Angels that is a Divine Magical Life strictly bound up to the Mystery of Faith here to be revealed Thou must as one alive from the dead forget all those Morsels of Mortality which maintained the sensitive Properties and which are only allowable for the Inhabitants of the Earth II. A Second Particular is That not only thy Eternal Spirit and Mind rest from Labour and Commerce but also thine Outward in whom live the Working Essences which would be continually Trafficking like a whirling Wheel that is never at rest These are the Son and the Daughter the Man-servants and the Cattel within the Gates of the External Man that are prohibited working having fulfilled the time hereof in the six days Working Properties being now entred into this holy Sabbath where nothing must be known but such a Life as can take pleasure in loving the Lord thy God with all thine Heart No Work being required of thee but to believe and rest upon his Omnipotency to bring all into thy hand Thou needest not to wander out from the Tabernacle which the Lord hath pitched to gather Provision it shall be rained down into thy Tent if thou continuest in this holy Rest of Believing The Fifth Commandment HEre thou art required to honour thy Eternal Father and Wisdom thy true Natural Mother which hath brought thee forth and up to that stature and degree in which thou now art Hence no less is expected from thee and as my Fear and Love is with thee so my Honour must be thy great Concern that so
Therefore take good heed thou dost it not mistrust or deny For herein was the Transgression of that Chosen Generation whom JEHOVAH by his Wonder-working Deeds would have convinced and made to understand that no other Fountain Blessing they should ever stand in need of having given so many proofs of his All-sufficiency bringing them even through the deep Red Sea that so they might have no cause to question but that the same Almightiness would still be their subsistence in all places by the means of which the barren Wilderness should have been as a fruitful Lebanon had they not revolted God intended no less than miraculously to feed and cloath them but the Inundation of Sense overwhelmed them with such Diffidence as turned that which would have been a Paradise into a waste howling Desart as the Reward of Unbelief This Instance I have set before thee that cautioned thou maist be to hold out the set time of Probation in the pure Faith of Dependance on the Almighty Power that then will be a perpetual springing Paradise be thou wherever thou wilt with fresh and new Ideas of Powers and Love-joys which will always thy pure Spirit greet Receive now this Charge from Me who say unto thee Live only by the Virtual Power of the Generating Word which reneweth Bread every Hour as being that true Multiplying Virtue which beware thou do never more quench or kill For in this lyeth the Precious Gem the All-acting Stone which only can give the Remove to Mount Paran The Seventh Commandment THou art not to break the Marriage-knot which is tied betwixt thee and the Lord thine Husband to whom thou art betrothed through the Eternal Spirit For it is an high Breach of the Covenant of Love which is established upon immutable Promises on God the Father's part and on thine Wherein there is a passing over to each other before Witnesses that bear Record in the high Court of Heaven of this Espousal betwixt Thee and my Beloved Son the Heir of all the Riches of Heavens Glory Now seeing this Royal Match is made and concluded on by consent of the Everlasting Father and of Wisdom thy Mother who could not propose a more Honourable Worthy Person to unite thy Spirit unto thou art required to abide most Constant and Loyal to Him and never more so much as to look upon or entertain any other Lover thereby to defile the Marriage-bed in committing of spiritual Adultery which doth consist in these following Particulars I. First in the Lust of the Eye after this or that Creaturely Object which soon betrays the Heart stealing it away insensibly before it is aware of it In great Temptation thou dost here stand having such variety of Objects still to court and captivate thy Mind from thy True and Royal Consort who watcheth every Motion and Affection thereof which way it worketh being a very Jealous Lover and one who is resolved to prove thy Constancy in this time of his absence He therefore permitteth this and that Dalilah to allure and subtilly to encroach into thee that he may know what is in thine Heart And according as in this time thou dost carry it so will the Decree come forth for a further proceeding as to the Consummating part II. The Second Caution I have to give thee is not only to make a Covenant with thine Eyes but also with thine Ears For all Enchantments come in through the Senses which though even in Paradise are yet obnoxious to be ensnared as Adam was with his Eve by their means Who taken with the sight of their Eye and entrapped with the hearing of their Ear were drawn on by one Sense after another even to the tasting of Eternal Death and the cutting asunder hereby the Golden Link which gave them the heavy Fall out of Paradise into This World This was the Effect of the Adulterous Eye and Ear. Stand then upon thy guard with fear see thou be not snared in by them hearken not to any other Voice but what thy JESUS through ME shall to thee speak by whom thou art prohibited to confer with any other well-knowing of what dangerous consequence such a Liberty would prove It would provoke thy Lord to Jealousie who cannot bear that thou shouldest be familiar to talk with any other Spirit For as much as the Serpent is most subtle and seeks many ways to make a Prize of thee watching to break the Royal Band of this intended Marriage-Union which hath been so long contrived by Me and which I would now see Finished Let therefore my Counsel take place with thee so as thou neither taste nor handle those inviting pleasant Fruits that seem to say Come eat of me try whether I do not excel all whatever is in Paradise who have all that is capable to suit the Palate of thy Sense Why shouldest thou deny thy self to taste hereof depending only upon what the Spirit of Faith must bring down to thee which also is not always present with thee to be commanded to run to and fro on thine Errand as occasions require But I will be sure never to fail thee who am thine old Lover and Friend Why then shouldest thou forsake me for one that is unseen and that cannot be handled sensibly After this manner O my Bride wilt thou be exercised if that so by any means thou canst be drawn away to break thy Faith with me who would fain knit thee wholly to my self so as thou maist not regard at all this Spirit of Reason that thus seeks to flatter and entice thee from me who have plighted my Troth unto thee never to forsake or cast thee off if thou thy Virginity do retain and suffer thy self by none of these fine twisted Cords from Me to be drawn down For thy JESUS cannot admit any other Lover to sit in thine Heart And if at any time a Stranger he shall find there know that from thee he will take the same most unkindly Although they may say perhaps they are the Friends not the Enemies of the Bridegroom being of a more Spiritual Train yea such as are perfumed with a Paradisiacal Scent against which thou must also stop that Sense For it is possible to commit Adultery with Seraphick Angels if thou awakenest any Lusting Desire to them more than to thy Iesus So beware then of running into any Spirit though never so sublime for there is more danger in this than in those Objects that are of a more visible gross and earthly Dress thinking with these who are Spiritual thou maist be more free and more bold True it is thou mayest but yet here it is good to be limited that thou be not circumvented and suffer thy Virgin Head to be deflowered Wherefore from all keep thy self an unspotted Mirrour and so shalt thou come to be the Chaste Bride of the Lamb and to enjoy the Nuptial Bed But after all this methinks I hear this Question in thee to arise How long shall it be before the Marriage shall
it though they suck in thence the Curse and Poyson of God's Anger which came in when the Paradisical Life ceased But to thee that art come out and separated from these my Counsel is that thou entirely rest and depend upon this Divine Magical Eye and never wander out from it so will it become to thee thy Basket and thy Store So will it be to thee thy Fountain-blessing and thou shalt need to know no more and to take care of no more than what this will give forth to thee For it is an endless Procreating Source that still puts forth New Births altogether Supernatural to which belongs a pure sublime organical Body having highly irradiated Senses with uncorrupted and divine Rationality such as is grounded upon what is Seen and Known by This Eye Hence may be demonstrated the Singularity of those Holy Beings which are generated from this Source and Origine Here also may be added the Perfect Animal and Vegetable Life with the Sensitive and Rational they all making up the New Creature or Paradisical Man but after a much different manner than that after which they are in the Degenerated or those that are departed from the Faith Which Faith is here again to be restored through a Magical Operative Life that maintains its own Being after a wonderful manner cutting off all occasions of contracting more with a sinful state For there is here no coveting any Mortal or Perishing Things which the Low Rational Life stood in need of But thou being Born into this Seraphical Nature which looks only in to God whose Eternal Stores stand open and free for thee to come and take of as thy proper Right hast no need to go to any other Fountain Now as Christ said All that the Father had was his so is it thine by virtue of the same Spirit of Christ in thee who never crouch'd to this World for any of its unrighteous Mammon and who would not disparage his Father's House-keeping to seek any Benevolences from Creatures that lived upon Self-propriety Him therefore herein I present to be thy Example who had a Body Terrestrial as thou hast but his Celestial Paradisical Man had Keys to open all the Treasures either in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath But I know thou wilt say This is too wonderful for me to aspire to or to expect Nay not so For whatever thy JESUS acted here and did thou mayest not fear to imitate That which is Formed in thee will certainly drive thee to this if thou dost not check it by Unbelief The Nature of that Holy Thing which is Coagulated within will contend for this its High Prerogative and not always as it were Ass-riden be subject to Bestial Properties and Earthly Spirits Who must all to that New Name written within Vail themselves and Bow And that so it may accordingly be I will not fail to aid thee with my Magical Eye Which shall give Skill in this for thee to try How good it is to live by Faith's supply CHAP. III. The Opposition which this Translated Spirit met with After the Delivery of these Laws UPon the giving down and opening these Paradisical Laws I was beset with a Seditious Party that would have stirred up a Mutiny in me to contradict this worthy and precious Covenant so as it might not take place or be of force with me Saying These were intolerable Impositions that none could or ever did reach to the requirings of them And what was I Or where was my Sufficiency more than others that I should hope or expect the Accomplishment of them in my self This was to go into a Legal Dispensation and turn the Covenant of Grace into Works again so to Yoak and Fetter my self within the Confines of these strict and severe Laws and then where was the Liberty that was to come in by JESUS to set me Free He having satisfied the Law for me that I might not be obligatory to it Come come cried the King-crowned Beast away with these Innovations and receive my Laws in the performance of which there will be Ease and Rest. Dost thou not see how peaceably all my Subjects live under me that bear my Mark and Name Who are like them great in Fame and mighty through Honour and Riches which they obtain by observing my Orders and Rules Which I will give to thee who would have thee Great in my Principle and not Despiseable as now thou art I. Whereas it is said thou must have no other God but One and that thou must own him as thy Creator and none other before him this I will permit and thou art not prohibited herefrom Nevertheless thou art not so strictly tyed up here but that thou mayest own Subordinate Powers under God and obey Nature's Laws for its Self-preservation This is but equal and therefore do not slight these Laws that are founded upon Reason's bottom but Sail thou with its Tide as thou desirest Blessing and Prosperity in this World Is it not great Folly in thee and in such as do join with thee to be Singular and to observe such Laws as none are able to agree with you in that wisely intend to maintain their Interest as to the Friendship and the Favours from the Kingdom of the World which as thou hast a Terrestrial Life and a Mortal Body thou dost stand in as much need of as any of the Natural Off-spring whatever Now hath God said indeed unto thee that thou must neither Eye nor have reference to any other either in the Heavens above or in the Earth beneath but must live upon him for all singly and undoubtingly by a Spirit of Faith alone This is a Law for Angelicks but not for Creatures that bear Mortal Shapes who are fallen under the Line and Dominion of the Starry Constellations It is unavoidable thou must bow and be subject subordinately unto the Starry Heavens which govern and constitute and give forth Right Laws being such as consist very well with refined Reason which you would exclude And then what will become of you when you shall forsake the Order of Sense and Reason which your New Laws call Low and Earthy Must you not hereby needs bring all into Desolation and Ruin upon your External Comely Station and be a By-word and a Derision to all your Fellow Creatures that you will before your Eyes see fair and flourishing Branches thriving through obedience to the Laws of this my present and visible Kingdom For I do not defer my Rewards but do give them as soon as their Work is done neither do I keep my Subjects and Children in such suspence and waiting for what they do not See so awing them in the mean time as they must not so much as look awry or be Company for any other but Seraphicks O who can such a Life as this bear while living in this Mortal Sphere Oh come out and regard not this self-destroying Covenant which will infallibly make a Breach and set all at