never be off on their Knees as to Prayer and watchfulness Then after some large Conference with the Spirit which cannot be brought forth in words There was presented to me in sight a wonderful great Wheel which seemed to spread over the whole Earth the Colour was as a Ruby-Red and it was full of Eyes round the circle of it very piercing Then it was said to me This presents God the Almighty working Wheel of which there is no beginning or end so I saw a living Spirit moving in the Wheel hoisted up as between the Heavens and the Earth then saw I four small Wheels descend out of this one of the same colour and had Eyes also then I enquired Ah Lord tell me what this meaneth And it was answered These are the Charriot-Powers which pass through all things in Centers high and Centers low and to whom these Wheels shall be joined unto they only shall be able to act the great Wonders of time then saw I where they descended and rested for a while and then they went forth and were lifted up by the great Wheel which as a Loadstone drew them up and my Spirit was presently gone to them and presently the Angelical Center stood open and from thence my Spirit was carried by these Wheels into the Apostles Center then into the Son's Center then into the Father's deepest deep of all Centers where I was to center and abide till the Wheels went forth then my Spirit should go with them who would be Eyes to see what way and whither my Spirit was to go do and act for it was said to me Now no Creaturely Will can move here for the Holy Spirit assumeth all Will Power and Act here and then no defeat is to the high holy pure Enterprize which you together in the Faith and Love co-working with these Wheels it shall be as the spreading of the Net aright and casting it to the taking of a worthy and rich Prize so go forward on and prosper February 10. 1694. § 49. This Morning the Vision of the Four Wheels appeared again which moved in the Four Elements each one being carried upward by a Spirit that was as a bright Flash of Lightning The which considering in my Mind with an inquiry hereupon made it was told me That they did represent the working Wheels of Nature that the All-powerful Spirit doth drive upward to reach the One Eternal Element which being touched with it would penetrate through the whole Bodily Man that was made up of the Four Elements Then did I see these Four Elements expire into one great terrible Flaming Wheel that spread it self over the whole Heavens and in the middle of the VVheel there were Seven Eyes § 50. Which I waiting upon was thus opened to me that the gross Earthly Part in the nature of the Four Elements should by the Spirit of Christ who took upon him the Elementary Body so come into ours as to wind them up by a strong Circling Motion as every Part may be so touched as to be tinged with and to partake of the Superiour Properties and Powers of this pure and unmixed Element and so be swallowed up in this Great Governing Wheel that ruleth over all the lower Wheels with all the Planets which thereto do coagulare and work For all by Outward Nature are under their Power and Empire till got free by ascending up to this upper ruling Wheel with its Seven Eyes Concerning which it was told me that they were the Seven Supercelestial Planets or Constellations that did govern and controll all in this lower World and its Planets This is that which will reach to Redemption of the Body § 51. Much more the Spirit of my Lord discoursed me upon this Matter which must be concealed till my Outward Elementary Wheels shall fully expire into the upper and superiour Wheel Only this I may declare for the present time that the upper Flaming Wheel with its Seven Eyes as a Loadstone is drawing mightily some known to me that have been touched therewith And it will not rest in its wheeling Motion till they shall be as to their weak Elementary Life changed into the One Superiour Element whereby the Heavenly Constellations shall predominate over all of these outward Ones which hitherto have reigned over the Elementary Part that yet lieth Unredeemed February the 12th § 52. This Day being much drawn inward in the Spirit of my Mind this word met me Arise and ride upon the Mule of Faith stand over all that is Elementary There is a Thing to be done by some that in the Crown Number do stand who shall the Land of Havilah command but Abraham's High Faith for this must spring February the 14th § 53. VVhile I was in a deep Introversion about this Matter this Word spake in me saying There is a Birth that is upon breaking forth that shall bring the Blessing of mighty Increase to present and succeeding Generations Sarah in her Old Age is near her time of bringing forth the Heir who must possess the good things of the Upper and Neather World Understand thou then what this meaneth the Old Age is an arrivement unto the Mystery of Faith Now excite thou those that are of Good will to encourage themselves with the Hope this good Old Age to see as mighty Hero's in this Faith that so ye may bring forth the Blessing to the weary and oppressed Gird up I say and take heed ye do not falter or turn out of Faith's way then shall ye bring forth a Nation as in One Day § 54. Now as some of us were hereupon waiting together and while one was in Prayer there appeared this Vision from the Light World From the which the Virgin descended and met an ascending Spirit that was pressing and expecting to come up to the Mount Sion Orb unto the Glorious Lord. But there was a stop by the Descent of the Virgin of that Orb who appeared to us in great splendour and congratulated us saying Thus I know whereto ye would in your Spirits have arrived but I am come from your Lord to make known the Thing which ye have long been in travail for And now I do appear to you for this purpose that you may be overshadowed with my Virgin Nature which may be the Womb all sanctified for the conceiving of the Holy Ghost which will be the Lordly Birth in Spirit And as he was brought forth in the Fulness of Time by a single Personal Virgin so now in Plurality in Virgin Spirits to multiply upon the Earth that so Evil Births may sink and dye as these Virgin Births shall rise And therefore to you who in holy Dedication are this Counsel is given Observe from this Day how this Birth in you shall go forward on and therefore watchful each one of you be And after this Saying she cast a wonderful bright shining Ray of Glory as we were sitting together upon each of us § 55. Now at her first Appearance St.
those that are with thee united must fashion your selves unto living only upon what Fruits this Holy Land which is by thee now seen doth afford Therefore did I call thee to come to this Tree of Faith not only it to view but having hit the Mark thereof to feed that so a Spiritual Body may to thee renewed be of an Incorruptible Nature and Kind answerable to the various sorts of Fruits which will restore Nature to its Antient and Vigorous Beauty that hath looked to be altogether withered and consumed § 18. Upon my Further Inquiry at Wisdom's Oracle what might be the Qualities Properties and Natures of these Fruits of Faith and how we might be enabled to take of them having a Right thereto as Natural Denizons that have a Dependence wholly upon what this Heavenly Country of Immanuel doth afford and produce that so we may have no Occasion to look back from whence we come or to be tempted to lust again after Mortal Fruits among the Fallen Spirits From which state we have been called forth to live on this Precious Tree of Faith the several Properties of which I will now open by Name according as they have been to me declared to the end that I and those that with me in the same Spirit cojoined be may here satisfie our whole Internal Appetite and in all Parts and Degrees be made compleat as we shall hereof Magically in our Spirits be able to eat Now the First Quality applicable to this TREE is Magestical Glory the Second is Fathomless Wisdom the Third is an Almightiness of Power the Fourth is Transparency of Light the Fifth is Perfection of Purity the Sixth is Soveraignty of Will the Seventh is an All-excelling Goodness the Eighth is Infinite Natural Knowledge the Ninth is an All-seeing through the Incomprehensible Eye the Tenth is an Essential Generating working Spirit the Eleventh is an Omnipotency of Creation giving New Existences where nothing did visibly appear the Twelfth is Immutability of Love which worketh in and through all these Thus have I given a true Dimension and Description of this Immense and Restaurative Tree springing up from the Seed and Root of Faith which will bring Dead Souls to Life again and do all the Wonders of the New Creation-Church by the Great Philadelphian Worthies when they shall be made to appear On it the First begotten Son of Wisdom did continually feed which made him a God-Man indeed who is not contented of these unknown Sweet to tast alone but cries and calls to his Sister and his Spouse hereof with him to partake that so it may have the same operation and effect on her Godlike to be according to the Pattern of her Lord CHRIST Whose Image lively drawn I may thus see Through Participation of this Spicy Tree § 19. Some considerable time afterward I was again call'd in Spirit to view this Tree of Faith and the Tree now seem'd to be enlightned with a bright Body which appeared standing in the midst of it and it bore all those several mentioned sorts of Fruits being therewith most richly laden but none were yet Ripe or fit for Eating But the Bright Body in the Tree said Go call such as willing are to wait for the Transmuting Power to act forth the Amazing Wonders of a God Let such with thee come and sit under this Tree till the Fruit into Gold ye shall see to be turned Then eat thereof ye shall and Power will be born suddenly to do and act in the Property and Nature of the Holy Ghost For this must Transmute and alter the whole Inward Part for that it will be no less then the Leaven of the Deity it self Whence this hath been frequently repeated to me that this kind of Power which we would have must proceed from a deep Ground and Root which is no less then the Godhead § 20. Also at another time I felt a mighty stirring Life of Faith get up which did overtop all Self-Reasoning whereby I found a Pass for my Spirit to enter nearer still to the Aimed Mark which is the Central Power And while I was in Prayer that my Bow might abide in Strength and that it might also be given to my Fellow Labourers to hold it out with me for Assurance of this there was shewn me the Bow in a Blew Cloud descending and it was put into my Hand All Crystalline the Bow appeared to be with Seven Golden Arrows belonging to it Then was it said to me Arise Arise now put on thy Strength for the Arm of the LORD in thee shall stretch the Bow and make the Arrows fly where the Invincible Power doth lie For the Work shall not be starved for want of Power to feed and strengthen it while two or three do stand in one Spirit knit Therefore to you each one this Bow of Faith is given with the Sevenfold Arrow Try and see whether at the Seventh Attempt it may not the Power hit and all the Twelve Degrees of Faith arrive at Now put thy Hand hereto and be very nimble and quick make the first Onset that those others who aiming are at the same thing with thee may also reach this weighty and worthy Prize That so in the Lord ye may rejoice together in such a goodly Habitation and Golden Tent to celebrate the Praise of Great ELOHIM who hath this Power down sent to display and make way for the Gathering in of his Priestly Flock and Royal Train that shall no longer at the Worldy Spirits Gate knock and wait This came to pass in the 25th of the Month January in the Year MDCXC § 21. After seven Days being upon the First of the next Month the same Vision was renewed to me and I strongly felt the Impulses of the Spirit driving me forward towards the Mark which seemed to stand very fair to be hit as inviting us who in One Faith were knit to try and prove Where our Seven Nazarite Locks of Strength do lie which answer to the Seven Spirits and Powers of the Tri-Un Deity For the Seven Arrows specified in the former Vision do all of this signifie as that these are to be a Guard upon each Arrow according as from the Bow they shall be made to fly For with my Lord I discoursed this matter concerning the Thorough-Pass of these Seven Arrows Querying whether I or any one that principally aim'd at the same thing with me had shot them home to the very Center-Point Then upon this Inquiry the Spirit of my Lord told me that Five of them had already hit the Mark but that two yet remain'd which were to make the grand Breach and Onset where the Rich Prize was to be taken And the Spirit shewed me further what stopped the ascending Might of these two remaining Arrows which was a muddy Gulf that stood in the way which I beheld and it was said That this did signifie the Lake of Self-Reasoning Spirits which the Starry World from Without doth qualifie with what of
warring against the Law of Faith and next to this is the Law of Righteousness which the Apostle mentions And which must also give place unto the Law of Faith All Righteous Works must be excluded for only the Righteousness of Faith must here stand Now if we look in and examine how it hath been with us we shall find we have been in bondage to both these Laws which have carried it very severely towards us So that before Faith came to be revealed in what a dark imprisoned Life were we kept There was no Comfort nor Satisfaction in all strict Observation of the Law of Righteousness no more then in the Law of Sin and Carnal Sense so that it is time for us to look out for another Law which may redeem us out of both these which is this revealed Law of Faith Which will become a New Birth-Nature as is mentioned in the 26th Verse becoming all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus and so Born from the Virgin-Womb of the Jerusalem-Mother § 34. So that you may plainly understand the drift of God our Father is to bring us up in the Faith from the very Day of our being born into it so that we as little Children must learn the Rules of Faith like as in the first and natural Birth we were brought up habitually and inherently in the rational corrupt sensibility and indeed were bound by that Birth and under the Laws also of righteous Rationality and sober Sensuality Which although good in its kind and to be obeyed and subjected to till such time as the Royal Birth of Faith comes to be Born then is to be sounded the Jubilee Hour the Hour and Day of our Release is come then no longer are we under those Laws which was the manifestation of bondage curse sorrow heaviness to Death From this first Husband we are by the Law of Faith set free that so we may gradually come up to that Vnity of the Faith as to come to be in great solemnity married to him who is the full Body Life and Resurrection of this Faith so that by this divine Matrimonial Continuity fruitful Births of Faith may be that may bear the Name of God's Angelical Hosts For none else can ever be capable to do the great Works and Wonders which are to be manifested in him while under the covert of a Mortal form but such as have the Live Coal of Faith conceived in their Hearts and put into their Hands whereby they may go forth to tincture and to touch and leaven from the Vertue of the central Marriage-Union which may bring forth the flaming or blown-up-Coal of the Holy Ghost which always the Birth of Faith doth precede as a Forerunner By which all Miracles may then most easily be wrought which must the last redeeming part of Mankind clear up and finish For all Dominions and Powers in the Worlds of Death Darkness Wars and Strife shall and must evidently by the Holy Ghost in Faith's Power and Might be put under and to flight Even so let it be in Faith's Spirit pray we § 35. Waiting further in Spirit upon this High Matter the Oracle of Witness again open'd in me after Three Days and it said Go forward do not slack to promote and to draw forth for an United Body in the Faith together to stand For hereunto are ye called to Accord and Believe in the One only Saving Name JESUS and such as with thee so shall avouch the Everlasting God their God only to be the Blessings of Faith upon their Heads shall flow Then hold forth do ye mutually a clear Testimony hereof by giving up your selves in way of Pure Seperation as in a Silent Wilderness there to attend for what is yet to come from the Seven Fountain Throne Spirits Which way being to light such Precious and Unutterable Things as have been kept from all vulgar sight Therefore I say in Faith's Tent together abide and to no other Business your Minds apply that so a Praise ye may be to Elohim Great who will assuredly own and stand by you in the Work he hath appointed you to which followed is to be close and uninterruptedly O therefore Courage take my Called and Anointed Ones that hereby raise up ye may that Glory which under a Cloud of Apostacy hath lain and withal count it all Joy that ye who thus agreed are together to see and obtain that high Love-Prize which others have negligently lost and which a warning may be to hold out and to Conquer the Temptations of a Mortal State § 36. As this Word came in the Figure of a Crown was lifted up upon the end of a Scepter which cast from it a Glance of Transparency of Glory And then the Word came anew and said Behold and see this shall be the Reward of Unwearied Waiters in the Faith who for a Kingdom are seeking and deserting all Visibles Such as these who seek out and wait Believingly and who through this Belief are made to forsake all shall come infallibly to inherit and postess the Scepter and the Crown with CHRIST their Head Prince of Righteousness Wherefore gird up ye who are Lovers of and Waiters for the Lamb 's victorious Day to be revealed in you that so glorious Representatives in his Life ye may come to be in the Kingdom of Conquest and Victory The which holding out to shall and will endear you to the Heart of your God and Father actually who hath waited for to see who so Valiant could be as to break through every Cloud of Temptation and in no wise be prevented of the great Felicity which by this Victory of Faith is to be § 37. Then was I for some time afterward followed still with this Word saying Fear not but go on to perform what hath been in the Platform presenâ—â—â— to thy Mind For the Heart of thy God will strengthen and cojoin such with thee as of a Gideon-Might and Spirit approved are in Valiantness for that which undertaken is now to be Thus having been encouraged to stand up unmoveably in that Faith which is of Divine Operation and not to be afraid in the least or wavering in the Belief of the Promises which have been given of Old Times and which have powerfully been renewed to me I have been made to hasten from one Degree of Faith to another and to shoot continually Arrow after that so at last I might obtain the Prize by aiming at the Unity of it in hitting the Point which for these many Years I have been Aiming at § 38. Thus having râ—â—â—ved Line upon Line and Prophecy upon Prophecy for my Eucouragement I was still upon the most inward Debate with the Lord Christ or rather with his Agent the Spirit why the Word of Revelation and Wisdom in the Prophetical Sense opened should not be attended with Miraculous working Powers For indeed that is the great Thing that the Mystery of Faith moves hard for namely to bring the Eternal
for certain is the only thing that will bring the long expected Redemption to its finishing End § 46. After which as from a New Gust the Eternal Word open'd it self Expresly in my Heart's Center informing and declaring the High Prerogative of such a Spirit in whom the Power of Transmutation did lie For in whom ever this comes to be witnessed it is no less then the Seed of the Trinity retained in the pure Matrix of the Virgin Wisdom which driveth forth till it cometh into Transubstantiation Nothing goeth beyond this for as much as it is the Beginning Strength Might and Excellency of the Father of all Spirits who generateth in Nature this High Birth of Power the true Heir of Faith as it did appear in the Immaculate JESVS How great is this Secret and to whom hath it been Revealed or who hath found this Wonderful Stone True it is that in all Ages it hath had its Seekers but none have digged deep enough for it Every Arm for these many Hundred Years hath been too short to reach it Now unto thee who art duly upon the Inquiry and watching for the highly precious Gate to open while thou art knowing in thy self the Invalidity of all other foregoing Births and Powers that yet have been rested upon as if this had been attained to which thou art now pressing to find within the Borders of Immanuel where the Seven Baptizing Pools are to be passed through before this Transmuting Stone comes to its perfection of Colour And though several of them thou hast been plunged into yet know this that there remain Three Which were shewn me to be Blood Oil and Fire The Four that I had passed through were first the Pool of Conviction secondly Repentance thirdly Renovation fourthly passing my Spirit over by pure Dedication By all which I was made meet to enter upon the last Three Baptisms which would finish the whole Mystery of the Incarnation The Bloody Pool is the Dying with JESUS the Offering up thy self through his Spirit to which end the many Lives are to suffer Death without pity or sparing any one of them as they were allied and in concord with the sensitive Root from whence they all do spring haply thou mayest believe thy self to have pass'd through every Death I grant that thou hast done so in thy Will yet art thou not come to an actual open and Triumphant shew hereof perfectly so expiring as to a Total giving up the Ghost of that Birth which was out of the Womb of that which was from the Earth earthly and into which it must be again delivered up through Death Now no more would I have thee to draw any Breath of Life from that Principle which is the Gulf of Seperation but to pass undauntedly through this Pool of Blood which is the Fifth Cirling Pool that surrounds that Wonderful Tree of Faith and Life which thou hast seen § 47. Now having after some Years pressing forward since this last Manifestation passed through these Deaths in a good Degree as hath been witnessed the Lamb having been slain in me gives a Resurrection of a New Life which standeth clearly out of all that is of the Out-Birth and that consisteth of the Astral Reason and Animal Sense which the being dead to gains the wonderful Conquest that maketh way for the being plunged into the Pool of Oil. Which Oil is the Matter and Essence from which the Holy Ghost doth spring Then passing from this to the Pool of Fire which also opens it self from this being a Fiery Seed from the Deity and so coagulating together it makes up a Deified Body which only can be capable to live in the Supercelestial Air of the One Element This we may entitle the Divine Magical Body whose Motions and Operations are all subsisting going forth in pure Acts of Faith For that is the Life that the Risen in Christ are called to to live by alone for as much as by this they are always ascending above the Earth as if they had no more to do with it bringing down by Faith all needful Things out of the Store-house of Heaven while yet they are in Bodies Terrestrial Our Spiritual Merchandizing is only to be upon the Fruits of Faith's Tree which will bring in both for Food and Cloathing abundantly while there is need for it But there is an Age coming as this Tree of Faith grows up in Persons in their inward ground to its full ripeness when the Fruit being eaten thereof Magically will Transfigure the very Elementary Body and give it a Radical Ruby Glory so that Mortality shall be hid in Immortality which is the Garment that may last the Thousand Years Reign of CHRIST and may be said to be the First Resurrection Body whereby Death shall be swallowed up All this will be effected by the Mighty Operation of Faith which subdueth all things to it self and changeth this visible Body into the Likeness of the Glorious Body of our Lord JESUS For when this Faith shall be wrought up to its highest Perfection it will be such a Prospective-Glass through which the Glorified Person of our Lord and the Father in him with the Virgin Wisdom and all the Saints shall so appear before the Spirit 's Eye that according as it is written beholding the Glory of the Lord as in Glass we shall be changed from Glory to Glory for when we see him we shall be made like unto him Thus hath it been shewn to me what the wonderful Effects of Faith shall do in its Time and Age. But it may be said who shall live such an Age as this to see To which I Answer though this be Prophesied in me yet it is not Determinated whether as to my own Particular I may it in my Age of Time see For I rather think that I may pass into Faith's Mystery where with the High VVorthies of Faith who died in the Faith not having received the Promise but seeing it afar off rejoyced in Spirit as I do hoping that others in the succeeding Age or Ages may this Transformation of Bodies know which Joy will be so to me when I into the Heavenly World translated shall be having put on Glorification which I do now already see my Superior Angel in the Mount Sion Kingdom cloathed withal in which my Rest and Satisfaction in assurance hereof do remain not knowing whether it may not be my Lot with the Elders and Worthies of the Faith to descend with CHRIST again upon the Earth to Reign The 4th of January 169 A Continuation of what further hereupon followed § 48. THis divine Opening was with me holding me in converse for some Hours in my Spirit saying Though the staff of Time for an expected deliverance seemeth to be broke yet cast not off the work you are called to abide and stand together in and understand it is the prerogative of God to change Times and Seasons who under no bounds of Time will be that his depending Creatures may
the Signs of the Superiour Heavens do signifie out as much that the Time is very near at hand for the Accomplishment of all these for which End there was shewn to me an Ark in the Figure but which was declared to me in the Mystery to be no less then the Substance of the whole Triune Deity who would suddenly send forth Ambassadours from themselves that are to be as the First Fruits and Representatives of the Bride to gather in all such as were to make up the whole Jerusalem Bride whose Habitation is prepared in Wisdom's Wonderful Paradisical Principle § 3. Wherefore it was not long after I had received the first Manifestation and Figurative Opening of Faith's TREE from the Spirit of Faith growing up in me before I had further Notice given me of an ARK into which Faith's Archers who had hitten the Mark were to be received in For in a little more then a Year after that I had this free Communication with my Lord concerning it which follows And notwithstanding the latter Part of this amongst many other of my Papers has been lost yet this which hath been by the All-wise Giver of it preserved for that end will I know be of some Service and Use and therefore have I been prevailed with to insert it here though I am not able to recal what either went before or followed after it February 21. 1687. § 4. Being upon my Internal Watch in the pure stillness of my Mind this Word came to me saying The Ark of Faith which the Lord hath been these many Years in raising and building is yet not persued and as little understood although Warning upon Warning and Sound upon Sound have gone forth for preparing and building such an Ark which may flote upon the broad River of the Holy Ghost Then was I touched at this saying of my Lord as being conscious how he had opened to me this effectual Door and Mystery of Faith charging me to keep to the Rules of it which upon this Word I questioned whether I had kept up to so precisely as I had received command to do Whereupon the Spirit pray'd in me Lord God Omnipotent if I have been negligent shew it me with much more to that effect in which my Heart was enlarged to pray about it Then was it in this wise revealed and answered me Thou hast been learned and taught as another Noah to prepare and build an Ark of Faith in this Invisible World therefore slack not but go on forward and I will strengthen the Studs and Stakes thereof which shall be as stable as Gold that shall be laid in as a firm bottom Who further said to me That there was One known by Name that should have of the same Spirit of Faith to concur and build with me and so we should be mutually made able to strengthen one anothers Hands to carry on this great Work as Male and Female in one Person or Spirit to enter first this Golden Ark of the Presence when reared up for which we should receive further Advertisement as we should wait diligently hereupon § 5. Then it arose further in me by way of Query to propound some things relating to this Fabrick unto the Great Master and Builder hereof who answered me most freely to whatever my Spirit was made to Inquire But the Particulars of this matter being obliterated and passed away the same Divine Spirit that was then present with me and ready to dictate what was requisite by me to be known hath now after many Years revealed and brought again to my Internal Sight this Ark of Faith in the ensuing manner which I am commanded to declare and publish for the Information and Encouragement of all those that seek to be redeemed from the Earth and would enter into this Ark. February 18. 1695 6. § 6. The Virgin Wisdom founded a joyful Cry saying Come and see what an Ark is prepared for them that are Born into the Faith as mighty Hero's to act the Wonders of the New Creation which Ark is made in my New Paradise that hath not yet been inhabited whereupon great Floods came down from the Heavens as a Golden Rain which covered the Face of the Mountains as the Waters did in Noah's time drown the Old World So that there was a mighty Sea which was called the Love-Sea Yet did it not as yet universally cover the Earth Then after this did descend also this mighty Ark in which was Faith's great Conqueror Christ Jesus with Abraham Noah and all the High Elders of the Faith which floated upon this Sea This Ark was all of a most diaphanous fine Gold with Six Wings on each side branching forth from it so that it did Fly as well as Swim which Wings were full of Eyes Then was it said to me What dost thou think this Ark is sent down for but to take in and receive such as have looked for Redemption to be Saved from the Violence and Curse of the Old Earth and from the Malignancy and Venom of the Starry Kingdom A loud Cry and Call then came out of the Ark saying Come Hasten and escape for your Lives for here is a Shelter prepared for you while those that do slight this Call and have not Faith to fly away must in another Deluge be swallowed up which will be as the Waters in Noah's Day falling down upon them from the Starry Firmament while the Children of Wisdom's Kingdom who have obeyed her Voice shall here be kept having the Wings of Power which I had before seen given to them that they might fly into this Ark. Whereinto some Eminent in the Faith were received with great Acclamations and Embracements and these that first entred had great longings to attract in others after them which they waited here in hope to see February the 19th § 7. Then the Great Captain of the Ark of Faith Christ Jesus did steer the Ark which with flying Wings did swiftly pass and landed us in the New Paradise Where we were received by the Divine Magus's and Masters of the Faith who understood the Mystery of all Miraculous Faith This was a wonderful Place the like of which I had never seen for the Walks were all paved as with Transparent Gold and several Temples were here in which these Elders in Priestly Robes all glittering did pay their Homage to the Great and Mighty King by whom they did work all their great Works and give Existency to that which never had been Then were we led out to view the pleasant Trees and Groves for delight and recreation and the Trees did seem to be as of pure Gold and the Branches to be laden as with Diamonds and all the variety of Precious Stones Besides which there were Trees also laden with all sorts of precious Fruits for Food and Rivers with Fountains flowing with spiced Wine and Cups and Flagons round about the Fountain So we were called to drink at these Fountains and to eat of these Fruits being
me while the Eagle-Spirit is hatching her Young upon Faith's Tree § 9. Which Tree I find can grow upon no other Soil but a Ground all purely refined with oily Springs and Dews from Heaven which must its watering be Then will it spread and flourish all richly having fruitfulness in it self without any dependency Oh! this is the Tree that will us bless with Wisdom Strength and Righteousness for the which I find it in my Heart most earnestly to seek and pray that it may be most choicely kept and circled round about with the pure Love Fire blown up by the Holy Ghost Which may its shelter be from all the invading Spirits that so diligently do watch to break in to crop and suck away its strength For this O my God an holy awful fear is upon me because I do well know what damage and spoil it hath occured keeping it of low and little stature to prevent what might be the World's Conquest and great working Wonder Therefore now my God what is to be done for its preservation Make me privy in the Secrecy of acting so wise a part as few or none have in this later Age found out and why is it so but because no skilful Artist in this Mystery of Faith hath been made to understand the way for the preserving and cherishing this choice Golden Grain from whence this Tree of Faith might to its full growth attain § 10. For the which such Rules prescribed are and revealed unto me by the only wise Counsellor my Friend which if I can observe and obey I may then win the Dayâ— God's great working Powers thereby for to display much more then have been in former Days But the way is such an aversion to what in the whole Universe of Mankind is practised that it will be a difficult point to enter hereupon so as to hold on for here is required a crossing of the Tide and stâ—m of Nature in all its motions which do put forth and generate so aptly Against which resist in the Faith I must all stedfastly till Conquest be wrought out by the growth of this all-powerful Tree § 11. This hath been shewn me to branch forth it self in twelve rising Degrees for the Manifestation of the Antient Apostolical Faith which in this Age is to be recovered anew for the cutting short that Work which in thousands of Years many Holy Souls have been puzling and striving about while sticking in the weaâ— and low degrees of Faith From the consideration of which Relapse a mighty stirring up I feel so to press on as to reach to all of these twelve degrees which from that small Mustard-Grain Seed of Faith sown by the Spirit in me may to such a great and full increase spread out it self as may transcend the growth of all other Trees that in the Forest of this World do stand bound down with Iron Yokes and Bands now the twelve Degrees of this Tree in their distinct Properties were thus expressed unto me § 12. 1. The first degree of this Faith is to believe the apostacy and ruinous heap and matter of which the Body of Sin is contracted into 2. A second degree is to believe that this Degeneracy hath parted the Soul from God and made it a Stranger to all Knowledge and Possession of those high and precious and choice things which might have been the propriety of the Soul in God had it not gone out from him 3. The third degree is to believe there is left a Spark or Seed of Eternity in all Mankind which may incline and turn them in so to feel after God as to lament bitterly their own Apostacy 4. A fourth degree is to believe the Eternal Word was incarnated in Flesh for a Universal Redemption and Restauration out of this lapsed state through Faith in him for the begetting a Likeness and Conformity through an Essential Birth brought forth in Spirit all evidently 5. A fifth degree is to believe that there is an All-sufficiency in CHRIST thus conceived and brought forth in Spirit internally within the Soul 's essential part as may have power to purge refine save and cleanse the Soul from all its Sins 6. The sixth degree is to believe and expect the Holy Ghost to come to join and co-operate with this new begetting Birth for the bringing it up and securing it from all Assaults Peâ—â—â—â— and Temptations mainâ—â—ing an holy Clarification cheâ—â—â—â—ing and strengthning it till it be strong to go forth for Manifestration to shew it self to the World as thus regenerated 7. A seventh degree is to believe and witness that Christ his risen Life in the Soul doth become a death to the Body of Sin totally which we may call a Love Kiss whereby Christ doth sweetly and seceretly draw and part the Soul from all the dregs and relicks that appertain to a Lapsed Nature which is known by a power working supernaturally 8. An eighth degree is to believe that when all this is finished Christ will appear in the Soul without Sin and so present it unto the Father as a new created Wonder all compleated to be his Spouse and Bride rejoycing that the Marriage of the Lamb is come all things therefore being made ready 9. A ninth degree is to believe that Christ the Lord will not fail to perform the sacred Nuptial and Marriage-Union both for Time and Eternity with the Spirit of the Bride thus made ready and will own and confess her so to be his choice before his Father and the whole Assembly of Angels and Elders Principalities and Powers in Heavenly Places and also here upon the Earth shall so owned be for her Excellency as shall be an all-amazing Glory 10. A tenth degree is to believe that hereupon will follow all mutual Joys and Pleasures in Love Festival Banquetting which she is so taken up and ravished in as all former Mournings and Sorrows are forgotten coming no more into Mind so ineffable are the Bride 's So lacements with the Lord her Bridegroom 11. The eleventh is to believe that Christ will settle upon this espoused Bride all that is his that she shall have a mutual Interest with him in what the Father hath put into his Hand which is all Power and Wisdom to manage that power which reacheth to a dominion in and over all created Beings and Things whatever herein for certainty she will be put into a Joint-possession with the Lord her Bridegroom as her Propriety 12. Twelfthly and Lastly as the â—â—m of all is to believe undoubtly that after this Representive Bride of the Lamb so declared in thiâ— World to be by her Ornamental Gifts and fruitful Powers that will generously go forth for the multiplying and making up of the pure spotless Virgin Church here on Earth will the Lord from Heaven descend in great and high state to fetch his Bride the Church up to his Fathers House or Royal City for the consummating and celebrating such a Tryumphant Glory in Unity with the
Body of Saints that are in Heavenly Places before hand even such a Glory through the Spirit until we come there into the very same Glory as Christ had with the Father before the Worlds were which is too great to be known here § 13. Thus having had all the Degrees and Branches of Faith's Tree opened and set before me for Tryal Examination and Information not only in particular for my self but for such as do agree to ascend with me and go forward on to all these Degrees for the which God hath chosen some one or other that are made all willing to give up hereunto by waiting upon it until the great Operator shall bring forth this Tree in its full stature that the Eagle-Spirits may find all variety of Food for themselves and therewith greatly increase in all kind of Substance without being beholding to the World for it hath been testified unto me and that from a sure Hand that the Eagle and her Brood shall in all Worlds have command for the which I received an express charge to wait all believingly with such as hereunto are with me to agree for the full accomplishment of those Gifts and miraculous working Powers which so long have been silenced and laid asleep and by whom are these to be awakned but by the close setters and constant feeders upon Faith's Tree who are not to hitch off and on for if so the Work of Faith will never go on § 14. The Spirit of my God hath opened this Sense deep upon me for the bewailing of Faith's apostacy and how that the Jerusalem waiters in this Spirit have been along time scattered and carried captive into Babylon and the most holy Vessels and Things prophaned so considered in a Spiritual Sense and the anointed Holy Place where the great High Priest's entrance should be is greatly demolished and made common for unclean and worldly Spirits to pass in and so hath brought in great confusion Now it is much set upon me to strengthen the feeble Hands of Faith 〈◊〉 the recovery of this All commanding and Powerful Life which may bring us back from so great a Relapse for the which end it is averred by the Spirit that there is to be maintained one continued Act admitting of no Cessation as to what may be agreed upon to have Faith in God either for binding up what hurtful and pernicious is to hinder the process or going on of those perfect things yet behind then again for the unbinding and loosning of those mighty great and Heavenly Powers that may make us terrible as an invincible bright Army of flying Banners which as light Flashes may go forth on this Hand and on that as directed they shall be for the securing saving and delivering those who sorrowing and mourning are under Sin 's oppression and the worldly captivity § 15. Now hereupon followed this Vision there being put into my Hand twelve Arrows and a Bow the Bow seemed to be of pure Gold and the Arrows tip'd with Gold and directed I was to make my aim at this Tree of Faith which was the Mâ—rk to shoot at Which keepâ—ng my Eye upon stedily the true Archer the Spiâ—iâ— in me did let fly one Arrow after another till I came to the ninth Arrow which all did well hit and then there was a stop and I could to no higher degree go but was commanded to gather up those Arrows and give them into the Hand of them who were to come up to the Unity of this Faith With the same Bow and Arrows one who designed in special was did follow on to try with great industry and did hit the first and second and then attempting the third Degree the Arrow fell somewhat short for want of a fulness of Faith Whereupon I standing by directed the holding of the â—ow so heeding and observing well she reached the third Degree Then the other one came on to try with the same Arrows appearing in great resolution and hit the first Degree and going upon the second was pulled away which made a present delay Then did the other that had shot to the third Degree stick to it and after one or two onsets got to the fourth Degree then saw I her stop and it was said Be not hereat dismayed for Strength will renew though the Arm too weak may be yet lay not down the Bow but hold it steadily and through constant Exercise the Arrow will not fail to fly from the Hand that diligent shall be till it do attain to all Degrees For it was testified unto me thâ—â— there must be a continual keeping up and bending the Bow of the Mind that so we may all of this Faith's Treasure find and although to the Eye of the World nothing of this is seen they looking upon the true Archers of Faith in great derision saying That they are come to be desperate indeed that have nothing to live upon but what Faith's Tree must bring forth for such are look'd upon as a forlorn hope Oh far be it that this any discouragement to us should be for the Lord hath said it again and again that if any can hereunto reach come to an all-full perswasion then the whole World could not contain the Treasures which this Tree of Faith for us should command that so proved it may be who are the wise in Heart who have made it their choice to learn and exercised be in the Art of Faith only § 16. At another time I was alarm'd out of my Sleep with a Voice that cried in me thus O the Restaurative Tree of Faith And when I came to consider of the Word and the Meaning of it Wisdom's opening Key was put into my Hand to unlock that Place where this Precious Tree doth stand It did now appear to be enclosed by it self and a most lovely fair Tree it was the Body whereof seemed to be all of sweet smelling Cinnamon and in the Hollow of it there was a strong scented Perfuming Oil which did produce Fruit of the same Kind all of a Spicy Nature the which was shewn me to be of Twelve Sorts But this Fruit appeared different and more various then what I had ever seen in all former Representations Which made me very Inquisitive praying that I might know the Mind of Divine Wisdom in that Surprizing Word which came so suddenly upon me For I could no way be satisfied with any Visions or Magical views of things barely and without Interpretation § 17. Which through a renewed Glance of Light from her Orb I obtain'd an Understanding of And it was thus said to me O Spirit what makest thou here How dost thou think to live now that thou art departed out from the Earthly Region where thy Sensitive Life was maintained through the industry of the Rational Mind From these pleasant Things of the Earth thy Soul is now gone out and thou must eat of them no more For here is quite another Way and Manner of Living which thou and