Direction for such spiritual-minded Souls as do desire to be well acqainted with a life in God and therein to rest As the first Rule was to discharge and acquit all unnecessary clogs and weights exteriourly so This more interiourly which is by taking all care to clear away from the Heart and Mind the Scum that boileth from Corruptible Nature from whence Generateth multiplicity of profuse Imaginations that no stop can be put to but as the Spring of the holy-Holy-Ghost doth open and drown That chaffy dust which defileth the Temples body Now this skill the Soul must of the Holy Spirit learn that as fast as the puddled-matter of this Kind do rise in the mind so immediately dowse and bath thy self in the Springing Pool where from the Water of Life doth bubble up for That is our Healing and it is as near us as the other contrary Source And thus we may keep our Hearts all pure and clearer reserved to be the most Holy Sanctuary for the priestly-Priestly-Spirit to minister in and to make ready a Holy seperated place for GOD and CHRIST to manifest themselves in us Upon This account was the Holy Ghost promised and also given to prepare and make straight the crooked ways internally for Christ his Spiritual Humanity to take up in a pure mind As Iohn the Baptist went before to prepare and declare Him to be the Lamb of GOD to take away the Sins of the World that by Iohn's Ministry a Reformation and Repentance unto life might be given But all this was short of the Spirits Ministry as Iohn confessed which is now come to be revealed Christ being glorified in a body all spiritual He cannot come to Joyn himself with any Soul but where this Holy Spirit abides before-hand to refine and purge the floor of the Heart This is the office of the Spirit Now hence we do see our selves bound to treat This Holy Messenger kindly It is an Infinite valuable Gift Oh therefore prize Him at a High rate for by Him and through Him we have all Knowledge and Intelligence from our Father's House and all of that Heavenly Family We should never know any thing of That state of life which is after Death but as this good Friend the Holy Unction makes out from the Treasury of God's manifold Wisdom Therefore who would not for so great a benefit keep their minds all Vacant and Pure for such a Comforter to abide with them who can tell us of things that are yet to come as the time Present and Eternity and This he doth and will do still for those that love and delight in his Company I must say and leave it for a Living Testimony behind me that had it not been for This precious Sealing-gift of This Holy Spirit I must have spent my days in Gloominess and Sadness Sorrow and Misery Which by the received Gift of This Spirit my age of time hath been past away with much Peace Pleasure and Joy tho' often thronged in upon by this Worlds annoy which could never disrest me whilst I could but keep the Spirit with me who had ever more New things to bring out of his Store to quiet and pacifie what at any time was ruffled and so much disquieted in me This I have only made mention of to provoke such or as many as This Treatise may Read and seriously ponder it in the true Spirit then will they know from whence This is written and prize it greatly and wisely make provision for This self-same bright enlightning Star out from their Hearts to spring who will prepare the way for Christ the King to reign till he hath put down all that can be called Sin for to This end is the Holy Ghost given and still a giving but in various measures and degrees some one portion others double and treble according as a dedication and preparation of Soul is found where most stillness and privacy for a divine contemplative Life is fixed There this Holy Guest will frequently visit whereby it doth well inform and acquaint the devout Soul with what is doing and transacting in the Heavenly Country and Royal City which the Majesty of GOD doth enlighten with his Glory The Discourse the Spirit may maintain with us about this upper Worlds Affairs will mightily hold us and wind up our minds so as we shall fear to let them down into this defiling World lest it should raise a cloud of interposition betwixt the Heavens and us as too sorrowful it hath often been known therefore watch and pray and cease not to keep upon your Guard always But now it may be said This is a Glorious and high Priviledge to receive of This Spirit which bringeth out of GOD's Treasury things New and Old but the way to obtain this Gift is very costly for the Rules prescribed carry out to such a self Abnegation and Denounceation of a creaturely life in Flesh and carnal Sense that it is very rarely that any are able to obtain and retain this precious and holy Anointing whereby we come to know the secret and deep Things of GOD. True it is This Jewel will not be found in common earthly Ground there are several measures as I have mentioned for they that have no degree of This Spirit of Christ cannot be his but if there be so much of this Light as doth check and reprove of Sin and it be Obeyed Then the Spirit will manifestly multiply for Councel and Comfort and so go on to reveal himself clearer as he finds the Heart giving up to be his peculiar Place of Residence that so he may keep all in a sanctified Order in preparation for more extraordinary things to be communicated For the Spirit riseth higher and higher as the Soul is emptied of its own self It may be queried but is there any in this Age of Time that can give any instance of their being baptised with the holy-Holy-Ghost as in the Apostles days Yea surely the succession of which hath been witnessed by some or other in every age since although not in the same manner as with cloven Tongues and rushing Winds This visible Demonstration of the Spirit was to have its day and so pass away and now operates in a more Intrinsical manner and method in Vessels fitted out thereunto Therefore what was done visibly is now more invisible inspiring and opening as a glowing Flame in the Heart lying there as a live burning Coal which is known to us to be the true baptizing of the holy-Holy-Ghost which is in present feeling and when ever it is in its highest penetrating power it may acâ— forth it self in miraculous Deeds and Works as the present occasion may call for This has been known and experienced by some in this Age. Then again another evidence of the Spirit is Internals Gusts and Breaths of divine Air by which the Soul is often mounted up upon the wing of This Word or Breath of the Spirit and so gets up to the Heavens entring into the
THE Enochian Walks with God Found out by a SPIRITUAL-TRAVELLER Whose Face Towards MOUNT-SION Above was Set. Gen. 5. Verse 22 Enoch walked with God and was not for God took him WITH An Experimental Account of what was Known Seen and met withal there As to an Essay to a further Revelation of an Immense and Infinite Latitude of GOD's Love to the Restoring His whole Creation and How and after what Way and Manner we are to Look and Wait for this Last Appearance and Coming of our Mighty GOD and Saviour CHRIST JESUS O come and see what the Holy One in His Spirit is working down and revealing in order to His Appearing Written by IANE LEAD in this Year 1694. P. J. DE LOUTHERBOURG Printed and Sold by D. Edwards in Nevils-Ally in Fâ—tter-Lane 1694 Imprimatur Iuly 24. 1694. D. C. AN Introduction and Apology To the following DISCOURSE MY Friends who in the universal Love of the God of Love do dwell to you I doubt not but the Matter of this Discourse may find Acceptance as it is a Message from above of good and Glad-tidings to the whole Creation from the beginning of Time to the final End and extension thereof for God's bounteous Grace will thereto reach But this Love doth express it self not only by saving and delivering from an endless Punishment as the just Merit of Transgression and Disobedience which is proclaimed to the whole Adamical fallen Race by him who was made an Offering for Sin But be it known God's Love is not so clearly seen or illustrated If O if Here it should stop in this visible way of Redemption by Christ but it must go much deeper in bringing forth a new created God-like Similitude in the Soul that what was dimunished and disappeared may be repaired by the Birth of the Holy Ghost conceived and so springing up Intrinsical for a thorow Renovation in every part of the Soul This you will find to be the whole scope and drift of what is written here God having Taught me by his Spirit in this great Mystery of Inward Redemption I found my self Impulsed and under a Constraint to make it Publick before my Disease being aged 70 Years that so this Treasure might not die with me not knowing but that it may be my last Farewell to this World Therefore have hastned to do my Lord and Master's Work whilst the Day spring from on high doth shine upon me if the outward Day of my Life is lengthened out to me it shall all-improving of it be as my most delightful Employ being called to it from on high Now to come to the matter in hand as to the Title which this Subject doth bear it is not an outward flourishing sound but from a most Essential and Experimental ground from which this goeth forth which if otherwise in my Circumstances I should not have rendred my self publick For every Wo her Head 1 Cor. 11. 5. But Christ being my Head-covering I have both Commission and Munition-strength upon which I shall proceed and go forward and say something as to the first part which is the Spring-flower of the Mind Essenced in a Never-dying Root which renders the face of the Mind perfect in Beautifulness for Love and delight to him who is the Express brightness of the Father's Light in which you will as in a Glass see the Royal Degrees and Spiritual Assents with Festival Entertainments in the Spirit so prepared that may be for an Inviting Imitation to the Heaven-born Spirits as also to them that are yet unborn that all may labour in such a heavenly Habit of Mind for to be found The next part which I have to commend to the Reader is according to the Inscription of the Book The Enochian Life that so hidden and unknown hath been yet by the Spiritual Pilgrim and Traveller found and may still be found by such as shall cease from walking after the Flesh and Worldly ways and resolve to take up to walk with God in the Spirit For if once you can clear and get off here from these low clogging and heavy sandy ways then you may enter into these high and pleasant Walks with GOD which when you are once come into you will meet with those various Sweets and Delights that will Ingage you to keep to them because good Company you will here meet if but few among Mortals yet numerous of the Heavenly Society will walk and talk with you from those upper Regions whereto your Travels tend of the which I have given an Account for Encouragement and Motive to draw up Holy and separated Spirits Hereunto who have Liberty and Opportunity to know beforehand the Riches and pleasant Things of this Heavenly Country to contemplate upon them for which End I have joyned and added to this first Part what was opened and revealed to me last Year 1693. where you will see a particular Knowledge and Experience of what the Saints yet abiding in this lower World may enjoy of Communion with Holy and Separated Spirits of the Higher World which may be of great advantage Also a little Tract lately manifested in what way and manner we may expect the LORD IESVS his Appearance about which so many prophecies and sounds in this present Age have gone forth I have according to my Gift laid the sure Foundation for both his present and future Appearance in the World Sure I am he doth and will send his Messenger before his Face which is the Spirit of refining Fire to prepare for his more Visible and Splenderous coming in his Kingdom to make Kings Priests and Prophets to Reign in and with Him on the Earth and when we shall see more of this multiplying Oyl of the Holy Ghost poured forth upon those that are Lookers for this Blessed Hope and most glorious Reign of Christ then we may expect he may be drawing near Therefore in order hereunto all Publick and private Pastours and Teachers should know what to go forth with and declare and Preach up the Ministry of the Spirit to make ready all Nations People and Languages to call them in and by the Power of the Everlasting Gospel the which powerful Sound may reach in Christ's Spirit to the Free and Bound whether in the Body or out For this Gospel will so far extend beyond the Limits of time to Creatures in ages yet confined of the which Latitude of redeeming Love you will in this Volume find declared of being also a revealed Truth which I was not from the World to conceal And as for those Scriptures that may be alledged against it they were to me Interpreted This Point to reconcile and thus opened that as the LORD CHRIST did go and preach to the Spirits in Prison that were disobedient in the days of Noah or before and since who in Bonds did remain in low Regions at whose appearance did Then find deliverance or else to what end did he preach to them as you may see in Peter and so again at his second
which God the Supream Majesty opened to be the Glory of it to which the lower Ranks and Orders of Spirits were sometimes admitted to worship There Thus is this Holy and Heavenly Assembly Imployed and Exercised with all variety of Motion tending to a Divine Adoration to the Rock Eternal which does multiply amongst them most Amazing and renewed Wonders which gives perpetual Matter to renew Love-Admirations So that I was given to understand that in this World was no cessation of Spiritual Vocation for out of God's infinite Depth and Fulness should Matter still renew and also with Power be endowed as fixed in the Humility all skilfully and learnedly to act and do after the manner and way of God their Life Root and Being subjected always to the Laws of of this New VVorld and Kingdom But Liberty is granted to many of this holy order that of the highest Saintship are to communicate to them who are not yet come up to their degree they may help them much in order to the bringing these their Fellow-Members higher up the great Saints will much delight in this Office and Service to their Fellow-Members for their Joy cannot be compleated until all come up unto the Unity of Love in a pure deifick-Deifick-Spirit Now to make out this there was shewn to me some chief ones in the Ministry of Love as Enoch and Abraham Iohn the Apostle and Paul with others of their Order that had golden Vials given to them to pour forth for Annointing and Healing and Peter with some of his Rank to unlock Centers and set free those who in those upper Regions wanted to be perfectly set free and in this lower VVorld also Now follows an enquiry whether there may not be a correspondency and intercourse maintained by these Holy and devout Souls who are departed this Body as to any Love or Pleasure in it living yet here such assuredly are very capable to hold and to have a holy League and very near Affinity with the glorified Person of Christ and with the heavenly Frame of Glorified Saints which have put on Bodies of Immortality for the high Illuminated Souls spirited with Christ's Spirit Here but yet abiding in Bodies Corporal they may have liberty of recourse by the Spirit into the divine and light Principle where the antient VVorthies are who would most willingly meet and confer with us about the things pertaining to our Progress to the Kingdom of Christ they are very free to discourse us in what may refer to a perfect Life that so we may be made meet to come up to them in unity of love to God as in Triune-Deity which filleth all There with a full Body of Light But it may be asked how and after what way does Spirits accompany Souls here that are Spiritual Is it by Apparition or com-mingling by Spirit In answer hereunto according to my present measure and experience I find it very rare in this latter Age that they visit Souls by visible Apparition though sometimes they may as Moses and Elias appeared to the Lord Christ since whose Ascention all of this kind is transacted more Invisible and Essential by passing in the way of a Spirit and having and influencing our Souls through which there is a sweet congruity and a reciprocal Love which is also in our Spirits towards them that hereby they often draw up to them our more Superiour Angel to be in Heavenly Places with them being very affable and friendly to shew their Princely Thrones and their delightful solaces and enjoyments they have from the perpetual motion of the Triune-Deity Now as any Soul here below do find Christ their Root of Love in them as their true Original for securing their Love first in the eternal Father and Spirit in Christ the Lord then most easily may we without being guilty of Spiritual Idolatry in this pay a veneration of Love and high respect to these great Potentates that have Power to befriend us upon many Accounts that we may need their assistance For during the time of our Probation in this Life so it is altogether expedient that we get acquaintance with the Servants in this high and Heavenly Court for they may do us many Kindnesses as they are in Offices of great trust from their head Prince and King it is made known to me that holy and good Souls have lost much as to the knowledge of Divine Arts and Holy Skillfulness to do and act forth the wonders of the heavenly Power in manifold VVisdom as Christ Moses and Elias and the Apostles in their day did Now it may be demanded what in Scripture have you to authorize this Assertion or Revelation First we bring you that of the Hebrews We are come to Mount Sion to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just Men made perfect See further hereinto Heb. 12. 21. 22. If there were no more it speaks full enough to the purpose to the confirmation that the Saints here upon Earth are allowed to come up to the Mount Sion perfect Spirits in Heavenly Places and do maintain a holy Conference mutually as there is to be Instanced in the fifth Chapter of the Revelations verse 4. How that the Elders talked with the Apostle Iohn and did show him several things Chap. 7. ver 23 24. And likewise in Daniel where Daniel asked questions and heard one Saint from the Heavens speaking one unto another for resolving of Daniel in his Enquirings so that here is a cloud of Witnesses to back it besides what of this kind is known by some in this present time and Age who do obtain and retain several of these Heavenly Intelligents whereby Knowledge is communicated and the Invisible things and objects there made manifest to such as are in Corporal Figures Now to instance somewhat relating hereunto in the first place we give you to understand whoever they be who would this Priviledge know and come to enjoy with holy Angels or separated Souls they are to be freed and sequestred in Heart and Mind from all mortal Entanglements as if they were divested of a gross Body with its Impediments and so reserving themselves in a most Inward Purity of Heart and Mind without which habit of spirituallity there is no commencing of this acquaintance with either Angels or Patriarchs Prophets or Apostles or any Evangellical Saints since those Ages for they having put on Incorruption and Glory and quite redeem'd out of the Earth they will not touch no more with such as are defiled with corruptible things now such Persons that stand thus pure and clear they may have much Assistauce from these Throne Spirits and Powers in their way and travel to their Heavenly Country for those Angelical Spirits that once liv'd in Flesh do more nearly sympathise with us in all our Infirmities and therefore all feelingly they tenderly consider our tempting-state and give themselves out most readily for our help nay they are Advocates and do remind the Lord Jesus of their Prophesies that
they may have their fullfilling upon us Of this sort and degree they are the choicest and greatest in the Kingdom of our Lord and have very stately Pavillions which are pitched round the Majesty of the Jehovah God whose Pavillion is so dreadfully bright being mingled with numerous Colours so oriental and fine that as glittering Stones they do shine and above this is spread a wonderful Element which dilateth it self all over these upper Heavens it seemeth to consist only of a transparent golden Mist which giveth a marvellous golden lustre for the Pleasures and Delight of the Inhabitants of this Heavenly Orb Here sometimes the Lord Christ enters into the Father's Royalty and the Holy Ghost and the seven Spirits which appear as radient and sparkling Flames and when I enquired about them what their Office was one of the chief Elders told me they were the seven Invisible Counsellors and mighty Powers equal with the Trinity by which the old Heavens and Earth should pass away in Mortal Creatures and also in the room of which should spring all new This new mold of Creatures both here and elsewhere in other Regions are by these seven Spirits to be performed and also by the going forth of these seven fold Powers that are to do the great wonders in the highest Heavens and so passing down to this lower Earth which time for their sending forth I was informed approach'd very near wherein they should be seen to move and turn all Spheres upside down Now the next marvellous appearance that opened was the Virgin Her Place and Mansion was pitched betwixt the Supream Majesty of the Father and the Throne of Glory of the Lord Christ Her Beauty and Comeliness being great cloathed with the Clouds in which there was such a silver brightness and on them fixed Stars of Gold with golden Hair hanging down with a Crown upon her Head more excelling than others and numerous Virgins the honourable ones such as loved and ministred to the Lord Christ here on Earth and also to her These had Seats round about Hers it would fill up a great Volume to give a Particular of the greatness of the Glory and Magnificency of this Heavenly Court a thousand degrees of Blessedness it is to have a Place and a Name enter'd among this Assembly Now it was shewn me that this Glorious Virgin was She of whom the Lord Christ was born in Flesh who is the Figure of the eternal Virgin which was from Eternity by whom is recover'd all of Eves Generation of Lost Births in which the Virgin-Purity was deflowred but out of this Virgins Womb brought forth and made manifest in time Angellical Births again for a new created Host of spiritual born Creatures begotten by the Holy Ghost wherein the unfathomable Mystery of the Wisdom and Love of God is made manifest to the lapsed state which came in by Adam and Eve so that we are to reckon our selves born anew into the unity tending to all Purity of Perfection with Christ our First Born from the Dead and for to appropriate this Eternal Virgin for our supernatural Mother It is to be observed those Words which our Lord did let fall when he was upon the Cross to the beloved Iohn saying to him Behold thy Mother which was the Virgin Mary who was the Representative of the Eternal Virgin So that from this it may be concluded that the Lord doth transfer this priviledge of Adoption whereby we may entitle this Virgin for our true Mother Now then from hence let us consider what great good we may expect and promise our selves from this our eternal Virgin Mother that now is very great in Wisdom Majesty and Power who cannot but be more naturally sympathising with her Children who are to be brought up after that high born degree and quality in Wisdom and Sanctity as may be after the similitude of their Virgin Mother Now no little care and concern is upon her as may relate unto her Childrens divine and spiritual Education to keep them up to it whilst they are in this perillous tempting evill World and whilst they are making their passage through it therefore seeing we have such mighty paternal Powers in heavenly Places as the Triunity of the Father Son and Spirit with the Virgin Wisdom and the seven Spirits and the Court of Ministring Angels and all the Evangelical Spirits to be our Friends in this most Holy and separated Place that all concurring together may fetch us off from the Earth and the temptations which therefrom do beset us with Legions of Spirits also which invisibly do wind and twist their false Injections into our Minds upon which account excited we are to make use of all these securing Dignities for our help The next thing to be considered of in relation of this new off-spring that are thus born from on high and yet are found to live here below in Bodies Elementary The Query is from hence what is to be their Business and Employ seeing none in the Heavenly World do remain idle therefore it is expected that all of Virgin Wisdom's Children here upon Earth should be in somewhat or other exercised which may suit and agree with their Eternal and Spiritual Descent which is proper to them that are quickned and made one Spirit with the Lord from Heaven Heavenly We are not in this Place to meddle with the outword Man's Calling what do pertain to him in this World but here to give out the Rules of Divine Wisdom as to her Children which are in number Three The first is that they learn to know themselves as to their original Pre-existency in God the Father and brought forth through the VVomb of the Eternal Virgin a pure simplified Spirit The second Rule is to consider and contemplate the triune God as the Father of such Spirits holy and sure seeing the glass of the works of his Creation in his manifold Wisdom made manifest therein as Love Power Omnipotency with all goodness and kindness to what he hath Created A third Rule is that we study from all this Knowledge to come to love and bluss fear and adore paying all Reverence and practical Conformity to the Life of Christ all which will lay a Foundation for what is to follow as tending to what is needful to accompany this high and heavenly Calling which may answer to the Kingdom of the Saints in the upper World which are the gifts which have been much lost and have had their cessation among the Saints in these late Ages but now the Virgin Mother calleth upon her Children to be looking after the restoration of them that so they may be employed and exercised in the works that Christ the Lord speak of should follow those who did believe in him which are to to be the sealing Witness of the Holy Ghost's coming and going forth in acting Powers through Mortals Now it may be asked what are these Gifts that are so needful and proper to Wisdoms Children The first
far admitted into Thy Presence and Liberty to ssk a Boon of The for Thou knowest well what occasion I may have Thereof being yet in the Region of time where obvious I am to Assaults and Temptations manifold All be it illuminated in a good degree of Light in Thee yet subject to drawings down by Spirits from this World and the Astral Kingdom that may pervert by mingling with the Super-Celestial Part of the Heart Knowing and observing in my day what Miscarriages among great Inlightned Saints have been who as bright Stars hath shined and then again under a Cloud have been Therefore O my Lord premising these things I in Fear and Humility am and dare not trust my Self at any time lest that a Slip out of the Right-Way should be Therefore This is my principal Request to Thee that Thy Spirit may be my constant Overseer Guide and Teacher as Imediate from the Father and Fountain of Wisdom Flowing from Thee then no Errings from the Truth can be This is the one absolute needful Request for we stand all upon a nice Point and if the Petition of Solomon was so grateful to God in His-day then I in no wise do doubt Oh my Lord to ask of Thee the Spirit of Truth which promised by Thee may never cease to be the Oracle fixed in me and all that do desire to be led Rightly for it is already by Thee given as a Caution to beware of transformed Lights that do pretend to the Right yet Thou only art the True Light springing from within Essentially And as Thou hast this Record been in me Oh multiply of This Spirit of Wisdom and true Revelation yet more fully so that what remains yet of Thy Councel and Mind to be further declared and known may still as an Enlightning-Beam pass through me and with them also who mutually shall in Enoch's Walks be found with their faces towards Sion the Court of Thy All filling Majesty Oh! Evermore find Room and Place for me and all of Thine that love thy Appearance To see Thee as Thou art will surely change us into the same Similitude of likeness unto Thee for so it becometh each one that still would keep their way open and free for Conversation with all the Priviledges that to the dilating of the Kingdom which shall be given forth with the holy-Holy-Ghost as the sure Pledge of all those Perfections that may agree with Oneness of Life and Spirit with Thee my Lord. Thus I have offered my Requests and do commit my self to Thy Disposing in all Terrene matters and Things Here follows the Kind and Courteous Reply of the Souls Immanuel ALL Hail with Love Peace and Good will to the Virgin Spouse who is in Spirit come up here to make Request for That which so much is in congruity with the Father's Heart and mine This answer therefore receive that This Thy Petition shall be fulfilled on my Spirits part who shall not fail to open in thee what hath lien under Seals of Secrecy Do thou but attend Him and He will attend thee and whoever shall watch in their hearts His movings for He is the bright Mornning-Star who is to be the Conduct and Leader of my little Flock now in my personal absence from this lower World where the Evil-tempting Tree doth in all Souls spring Therefore great need they have I know of This my Anointed Shield that may be a defence upon every Onset of perverting Spirits of which in danger all are while in this Body Elementary Therefore I have provided This Spirit of Truth to be with thee for Councel and Comfort also to Guard thee up to me where thou mayest know and see by this Glass of the Spirit what I am a doing and making ready for the present and future Day when uncloathed of the Garment of Mortality also But for the present come and see and taste of the Heavenly-Fare and Powers and Joys of my Kingdom The Spring of Life and Love shall rise so high as to drink thy Spirit up Thus with me thou shalt feast and sup and never empty away to go which shall be such an Encouraging motive as will make thee to bend all thy Force still in Spirit to be with me Thy Lover in my secret Pavilion where thou mayest have liberty of discourse with me in those weighty Affairs that do pertain unto the New-Jerusalem-State So then Oh Spouse of mine if This thy Entertainment is thou wilt fly as a Spark of Light to the Body that is the Body and Fulness of all Light These are the Sweet-Meats I shall leave with my Espoused ones to feed upon for a refreshing support till a further day shall break though through the shadow of Death which shall consummated the Everlasting Marriage-Feast with me thy Christ and Living-head with all the Royal Society and with Myriads of Angels that shall their Trumpets of Joy sound at the Lamb and Brides-Nuptial-Day and Marriage-Feast So Ends these Hony-Drops from the Mouth of our dear Immanuel Now by all this which hath been declared you may see the Blessed Issue of an unwearied and Faithful Traveller to the City of our God which may Invite and Allure such as have not yet set their foot in This way and for them which have to make the same progress which will requite a thosand times over the Loss and pains here sustained in the way Oh ye that are Friends and Lovers of this way and would arrive to be Fellow-Citizens in the Court above with God and Christ and the numerous Company of Spirits Pure and Glorious There give me leave before I conclude to commend these following Motives for Incouragement to set forward and go swiftly on in this Path of Life The First Motive is a full assurance of all Love-Acceptance with Dear Embraces and most free Communications all Veils and Bars taken away thy Lord Christ upon this Mount will shew Himself and talk with thee as God did with Moses Only thou must put off thy Shoes because it is holy Ground you will walk upon as much as to say come Here all Bare Pure and Clear leave all at the foot of the Mount that would contract of the worlds Earthly Dust then shall you know hear and see That which is so ravishing for the feeding of all your divine Senses that you will say It is good to Tabernacle Here and so it may be permitted for so long time as you can abide cloathed with the Transfigured Robe of the Spirit of Christ but That will be but at certain times and seasons but it will be enough to know such a thing as This is and yet in the Body of Corporiety Now then the second Motive is that Hereby It is made acquainted with This Heavenly Country before it quite leaveth its Mortality in this low World it is an high and extraordinary Priviledge to see and know its place and company beforehand for our Lord Christ is very free to shew unto the spiritual-minded the
is the Testimony of Jesus the Lord which is the gift of Prophesy which is of very great use and service to the Church here on Earth to have a foresight and knowledge of what things are yet to come that all may be warned who are the Friends of the Bridegroom to make ready for his Kingdom and Appearance which now in very deed is knocking at our Doors Blessed are them that understand the voice of Prophecy and have it in themselves The second Gift is to have the Gift of Revelation opened as a spring that flows with Heavenly Doctrine for a true Teaching-Ministry to go forth with to give feeding from a fresh Pasture which hath not â—â—â—n defiled by unwashed Feet the Holy Spirit do now in some foretell such Principal Shepherds are now to stand in this Latter Day upon the Earth that shall not speak from Litteral Tradition but from the Revelation of the Holy-Anointing the pure and most excellent words of Wisdom which will not be in the weakness of the Lâ—â—ter but in the strength and power of the Spirit so made known The third is the Gift of Vision which is not by sight of the mortal Eye for that is too gross to see Spiritual Objects Now to describe the most pure and right kind of Vision is to have Eyes within fixed in the head of a bright and clear Understanding through this Organ of sight from pure and divine Light God in Christ may be seen and Christ as in the Glory of the Father and the Eternal Spirit streaming forth from both Father and Son Sometime thus seen all in One and at other times Distinct and yet never divided Thus is the Holy Trinity seen through the Pure Christalline Globe of the Eternal Wisdom Oh ten thousand degrees of Happiness to such as are thus Divine and Spiritual seeing so as to be taken up in viewing and speculating the Celestial and Light-World as filled and furnished with such variety of all amiable Objects as Seraphims Cherubims and several Degrees of these about God's Throne with the numerous Company of Angelical Spirits which once did live in Mortal Forms are There to be seen all cloathed with Bodies of Spangling-Light What the eye of the Spirit and Mind doth Here see may well draw and effect the Heart abundantly Now to proceed to the fourth Gift which is the Key that openeth the Kingdom of the Power which being endowed with do coe-work with the Powers in Heavenly Places for binding and loosning shutting up and opening which Power will be granted for to act and do mighty and marvellous Wonders according to what by the Saints in former Ages have been carried forth in this World to do And sure such is the present Time and Age which we now live in that do call for Greater and more marvellous Works than yet have been done Seeing that the Confusions and distresses throughout all Nations look so dreadful upon us that all Need there is of an Eliah's Spirit to arise up amongst us that may turn the Hearts of Fathers to Children and pour out Oil for Reconcilement and healing the bleeding Wounds of Wars and Divisions kindled up into a Flame through all Nations which only the strong impowered Angels that are filled with Spirit of Anointing shall in this Latter Day rise for the quieting these North-Winds that from these Tempestuous Seas of this World do so furiously blow for it is seen that Deliverances to this Nation will not by Carnal Weapons of Slaughter be effected but by the lifting up of the Standard of God's Spirit of Power only Now for the coming forth of which Power we are looking and hastning for in order to the making way for that Kingdom of Peace and Love that must over the whole Earth spread Even so Come Lord Jesus to reign on the Earth in thy Saints powerfully The fifth Gift is the laying on of Hands by such as are Baptised with the Holy-Ghost which being filled with may convey and let into such prepared Souls which have waited for it they may Hereof partake and be inspired from such a virtual fiery Touch and therefrom be so highly Illuminated and Deified as to be made New Creatures in very deed From this Ruby Tincturing Dye a God-like Purity and Power may suddenly arise to Anatomize and burn up the gross corrupt and earthly part For we do experimentally find that all Spiritual Medicines are too short and weak for the rooting out the Venom of Sin till the Holy-Ghost do enter in to refine and purify the Vessel within which may upon some come in more immediately by God's own Hand and then again by a Medium as the holy-Holy-Ghost shall take up any to convey himself by their laying on of Hands which is not to be understood barely of the outward hands but as the inward Power and rich Virtue in the Spirit of Faith and Prayer shall be breathed forth for so it was when by the Apostles in their Day the Holy Ghost was given forth Oh how Great how Worthy is this Gift being the Root and Spring from whence all miraculous Works both inward and outward do proceed Now from this Holy Anointing the Healing-Gift may also spring for the curing of all bodily Infirmities for as much as the Mortal Form and Figure which we bear is the Temple of the Holy-Ghost and it being of a corruptible Matter of Flesh and Blood subject to putrefaction and thereupon painful Diseases do breed yet this often helped hath been and Cures have been performed upon the impotent Body by the Omnipotency of the Holy-Ghost moving through Mortal Creatures as we have numerous instances both in the Old and New-Testament and also since Christ and the Apostles by Saints of a lesser Degree who have been useful to those upon Sick and Dying Beds who have been raised up most miraculously And this Power will still attend to the Worlds end such holy Souls as can retain their Vessels this All-healing-Balsam having Love-Pity to their Fellow-members may much release and help in greatest Extreamity But this Power is not at all times commandable by any Creaturely VVill The Apostles themselves could not act it forth upon the Sick but as the Holy-Ghost moved upon them neither can any that received this Gift but as the holy-Holy-Ghost stirreth this Healing-Pool within them which watching to Healing-waters may flow forth to effect all Cures bodily which is a great Immunity belonging to VVisdom's Children that are observant to all her Rules and Commands most willingly Thus having given an Account of what the Spirit of Christ hath given in as to what is expected and required for the accomplishing such as are to make up for an Espousal Bride to him Therefore it is absolutely needful that we should be furnished out with such Powers and Gifts as may qualify for such an High Marriage-Union with the First Begotten-Son and Heir of the High God who doth most willingly give out and bequeath these five golden Talents here mentioned
that so a Stock of Spiritual Goods being taken in may be to support and carry on the Heavenly Calling withal which if found diligent in may mount to a mighty Encrease for the making of a Dowry so great and large as may somewhat agree with him with whom we are to be matched unto So here we see what is appointed and cut out to be the Saints Business and Employment which is not mean but high and noble answering to that of the glorified Saints in the VVorld above who will in this Holy Calling our Factors and Correspondents be and meet us frequently And as those who are more skilful and knowing in This way than Mortals can be will very friendly the Ignorant inform and such among us that may be more knowing still somewhat more secret and deep out of the Eternal Virgins Center may us meet By all which the Saints here upon the Earth may hereby be made meet for to be Companions to them of high Degree in Heaven I shall now this Subject conclude praying with all Prayer in the Spirit for an Increase of the Number of such as may be diligent Followers of This High and Mighty and most advantagious Calling Happy and blessed thousands of degrees are such who chusing are made Partakers of this heavenly Vocation and that shall so prize the Priviledge hereof as to set light by all that shall hinder and stop the freedom of This All-spiritual Employ wherein exercised as high born Spirits they may be in Love with the Eternal Unity The Manner of Christ's Appearing HEarken O Daughter of Sion Behold thy Bridegroom cometh no more a Servant but to be served by all Flesh The Word that was manifest in Flesh reign in Spirit to Prepare for Christ's Kingdom to come into a visible Dominion Here upon the Earth by Signs and Miracles wrought by the Spirit in forms of Flesh to confirm Christ the Lord is Coming to appear in his Saints to set them over the Earth For to the Daughter of Sion the Dominion shall be restored through Marriage Vnion with the Lamb of God This is the first Resurrection of the Holy People which shall be the Trumpet-Voice that shall awaken the rest that lie Dead in Sin THe Hour of God's Judgment will thus come upon the Evil Nature that hath hitherto reigned in Man the Spirit shall be so fully poured forth upon These first Risen-One as to go forth with a quickenning Life to raise the Dead Spiritually and Bodily This shall be the Terrible Day of the Lord for the condemning and destroying not Persons but the Sin in Flesh so it is declared unto me which will be fulfilled in its Season and Time which time will be when the wind of the Spirit shall rise more strongly for the holy-Holy-Ghost is to be the latter day Glory prophesied of and the Expected Kingdom of Christ to be manifested Here upon the Earth in which he will Reign Personally in his Saints who anointed are first with such measures of the Spirit that do highly sanctify which do prepare for this great Day of the Thousand Years Reign Prophesied of but whether it be so to be understood according to our number of Years is not to be determined but glorious Reign in the Spirit there will be before Christ in His glorified Person will come distinctly upon the Earth to turn it into a Paradise to make these lower parts of the Earth glorious upon which in the last of times he will stand and model it into a Christalline Land which will be New-Earth and Heavens as declared of in Scripture is So from hence it is made known to me what the work and business of our present Age and Day is which is to pass daily through the Baptizing River that may drown and keep all of Sin down that the Spring of Righteousness may rise for the true washing of Regeneration Then will the Holy-Ghost be renewed and set up his Reign in Souls and will exercise Power and Dominion so as it shall be known Jehovah-Shammah the Lord and Mighty King liveeth and reigneth Here for this must be the Forerunner of that more great and notable Day of Christ as to his Appearance in his own Personal Glory It is advertised me that there is much to be done in the Kingdom of this World by a more plentiful Effusion of the Spirit then yet hath been Therefore each one in their own Jerusalem within be waiting for the Spirits Day which is the great Increase and mighty Power that will turn the World upside down Therefore nothing is more expedient for the hastning this Blessed day of our Lord's Appearance Therefore all that are Watchmen and Holy-Seers to sound out That Trumpet of the Spirit that may gather the Dove-Spirits together to wait in Love-Unity that the Thousand Years Reign may have a speedy beginning and entrance upon the which it will follow as enquiries made into This Spirits Reign and Dominion shall hereunto be encourag'd Even so and Amen in the Spirit Come Lord Jesus quickly A Dialogue betwixt Christ and the Spirit of my Mind which was upon Enquiry whether I might not be Initiated into a present Dowry and Spouse to my Lord to partake of the Heavenly Possessions which he Himself is Inheritour of as the Father's Heir And it was replied unto me Yea surely It will so follow to be to the Soul that has put on the Deiformation of Christ the Lord such hath a Good and right Claim to His Person and Possessions And when thus believed and apprehended Liberty is granted for to draw out of this Stock and Treasury as the present occasion shall require for out of this Fulness an Emptying into the most holy and sanctified Vessel may be most easily proportional to its Growth and Degree For my Lord said to me You are not ignorantly to suppose that I willingly do hold back from that which stands in Unity with me But there is a Cause if any stop be Then replied my Spirit Oh my Lord Let it be given to me to know and understand where the Obstructions hath lien Answered I was That the Veil of not Knowing and not Believing the Things reported of which do of right belong unto my Virgin Spouse also wanting are holy Boldness and Courage to come freely and take what is mine and make it your own For be it Known to Thee It is far from Me to ingross to My self what the Father hath so much and liberally bestowed on Me was it not that I might give out as Plenteously Therefore come with full Assurance of Faith to Me and ye shall receive Grace for Grace Wisdom for Wisdom Love for Love and Power for Power As I have obtained and received of my Father in Heaven so you from Me all answerably Pondering in my Spirit these words of my Lord's I Replied How shall it be that a Spirit should thus be mingled and made one Pure Lump with Thee so as nothing of it self for to be Answered it
was This should be effected by Dying out of Creaturely Censation whereby a vacancy of Place for the Holy-Ghost to rise and spring and move as One Entire Spiritual Body within for so it will be when ever there is a cessation and a rest from the whirling Thoughts and Motions which from the outward Astral Birth is This will be the manner of my coming in this Latter-Day to stand upon the Earth which thus emptied is and refined by the Fire that never dieth which Fire is that Seed of God that shall multiply it self to bring your Christ forth numerously to overspread this World till all shall be formed a new Thus shall each one become a Christ or an Anointed from this Deified Root opening within their own Soul And when this Life of Christ shall out-grow its Minority and come to Maturity of Wisdom and Strength then it shall be known what you are made Heirs to and shall possess while in the age of time you do remain for Christ fully Grown will bring such Gain as Trains of Heavenly Powers will open and fly like Lightning that shall reach from one Nation to another by which the dark Corners of the Earth shall become light This is the New and Living Model which your Lord Christ will now begin to manifest himself in Therefore hereunto Let the Holy Anointed Ones be ever waiting for me till Power come over all that is Nature and Creaturely Spirit Seeing I have Oh my Lord Liberty of Speech further to proceed for Enquiry into this deep condescending Love of Thine what upon my Spirit do move which is How the ardent Soul that so great a lover of Thee is may have frequent admittance into Thy Council-Chamber to know hear and learn what may be conduceable to such an high degree of Unity as hath been mentioned by Thee For thou art so over cloathed with Greatness and Majesty that it is no light or easy thing to maintain such Accesses unto Thee as required is in so high an Import as this is For to know the Secrets that do concern the Kingdom of Thine and my Joy and Glory in Thee O my Lord be pleased in This to satisfy me Which was answered most sweet and mildly of my Lord in these words O thou Soul of mine thou hast searched deep for to find a Path of Life that few have found because it is all Holy Ground where none but Spirits that have put on my Spiritual Body can ascend and keep their feet steady in this Track which I to God the Father did freely pass and so may you as I in you this Risen-Body shall quicken up That so as hereby you may know it is not my Personal Glory that shall prevent such Spirits in this their humble and Love attempt For I your Lord do well know it is but expedient you should thus keep up your acquaintance with me For great will be your advantage hereby in taking and receiving from Me such fresh and wonderful Supplies of Wisdom and Knowledge in the Heavenly Mysteries as shall satisfy and quiet the Mind in the middest of an unquiet and disturbing World And now I have informed you in what you are priviledged in take all care to keep this way of the Spirit all free and clear that your Flight may not be stopped so then you will keep your Dwelling securely above with me in the Heavens and need not be careful what happeneth to the World beneath for your Mountain Scituation in God shall never be moved Therefore only happy unutterably are they who knows me thus for to be their new living and ascending way that as with my Spiritual Body they may go in and out taking what is for their present use which they may have from me all free as coming in the Faith of Sanctity Now having taken in these Communications from my Lord I found a precious feeding hereupon and did feel such a spreading and quickning Life come upon me as if all were filled with Christ in every part which may be compared to Elijah's stretching himself upon the dead Child which was made alive thereby Thus the Lord Christ draws a lively Draught of Himself in every part in the Soul and nourisheth it with his own Royal Blood which runneth thro' every Vein by which we know we have put on Christ in his Resurrection-Spirit and inward Body to which Perfect Thing coming Redemption is Finished Highly blessed are those that shall arrive hereunto By all these Manifestations I see the Day of Love is breaking out to compass the whole Earth and Christ will no longer a Stranger be for so he doth Prophesy in me That in the holy-Holy-Ghost he will in this Last Age of the World more wonderfully appear therefore I am press'd in Spirit to Excite all that love and longeth for to see feel and know Him as a Present Counsellor and Comforter that they would thus prepare by Pureness of Heart and Mind waiting for this Love-Star to rise and multiply it self to numberless Stars of Love and Power that may a Heavenly Host be to proclaim the Glory of Christ's Kingdom Even so Come Thou Mighty King of Glory and make us Kings to Reign over all That of the Earthly Life as so redeemed by Thee Thou Lamb of God to whom the Hallelujahs is given A Post-Script Being a Question put to the Author which is this viz. Q. GOD being so Pure Holy and Good in Himself How comes Evil and Sin to be awakened since God is the Original from whence All Created Beings have proceeded As now both Angels and all Rational-Creatures are infected therewith all As this was answered privately so it is thought necessary and serviceable for the publich Satisfaction of All in General to be incerted Here being of a weighty Concern for to be Resolved in which is not from the Reach of Man's Knowledge or Wisdom but from the Revelation of the Spirit of Christ so given in and in This wise opened viz. A. That the Great and Mighty God and Creatour had all Principles and Centers both of Light and Darkness in Himself with Good and Evil Death and Life But all of These tho seeming contrary were bounded in Unity and Harmony So that the Darkness did not mingle to Ecclips the Light Nor the Evil to lessen and diminish the Good Or the Death to be hurtful to the Life The Divine Wisdom kept All in their Place and Station Vnviolated in Himself But what the Mighty God Procreated and Generated out of Himself Angels of That Kind which kept not their first Station they derived from their Creator All Essences both in the Light and in the Darkness and were very Noble Potent and Great But being now Distinct and apart from their Original Root The Being of God They found a Power in themselves to awaken what Principles or Essence they would standing in a Free-Liberty either to the Good or to the Evil But not being watchful to keep All in our Bounds in a meek
Humility A Sinful disorder brake forth and the Luciferian-Spirits got against the Creator who hereupon turned them out of the Pure-Angelical Principles so as they must remain Apostates from God till their Number of Punishment shall be finished Now from hence came the Infection of All Mankind These Fall'n-Angels envying That New and Heavenly Image For God after This made and brought forth to Replenish and fill up the void and empty Spaces of the Light World Man whom he had Created in their Room Upon which they did Conspire how they might involve This New-Created Being in the same Fact of Disobedience with themselves for they were Subtle-Knowing-Spirits and understood better than Adam of what Consistency of Principles He stood in And that through Temptation set on the hidden Essence of Evil might be awaken'd in Him For He was Essenced both in the Good and Evil and so became more easily corrupted and defiled Thus we give the Enquirer an Answer to the Question How Sin at first came in Now it remains to let you know How this Poyson of Sin that hath infected All of Adam's Posterity shall be allayed and expell'd The original Cure hereof is so known that I need not set That forth being generally believed that Christ came in the Flesh to be a Propitiation for the Sins committed in the Flesh. But now a deeper Thing than This I have to declare and make known as Thus. We know all Outward-Births have been conceived in Sin And yet somewhat of Good from the Original Root of Nature hath therefrom in every one sprung forth Now know and consider there is no other way to make a Perfect Cure but by taking the Sting of Sin out and that by another Birth conceived within the Soul which is Christ the Quickning-Spirit that which is a Sinless Birth And as that groweth up and becomes strong in Spirit the Sinful Part wythers and dies away Thus Christ the God-man works out Sin within the Properties of Fall'n-Nature And so compleats Redemption Victoriously For that which is thus born of God overcomes the World 1 Ep. of Iohn Chap. 2. But here meets me a Question viz. Is Christ to be conceiv'd and born in every one for Salvation so Intrinsically Yea surely This is and must be the Foundation-Seal whereby God the Father will own and rescue us a being the Express Image of his Beloved Son But again it may be Objected That I have verified that God's Love is so great and large as All Fall'n-Angels and Spirits shall be Redeemed But the Question is How can that be when so many die without any Appearance of this New-Birth you speak of It is so that millions of Souls do so out of this World pass away and much to their Loss and Suffering it will be Yet know The Root of the eternal God is every Soul tho never so Vile and Evil in this Body they have lived in and so died For Christ is the Light that hath enlightned every one that cometh into the World John 1. 0 that this Light and Life of Christ hath been shut up and Sin hath got uppermost yet Christ the eternal Spark of Life will save Himself in all that have Apostatiz'd from Him Nothing shall suffer Loss but the Fuel of Evil-Works that cannot pass through the Judgment and Burning And if this Life be passed over and little or nothing of This done There must be a remaining in a Fearful-Expectation of going through this Terrible Refining-Work after this Life in Regions so appointed for that end Oh! that all careless desperate Soul-Adventurers that know not the hard Tugs they must go through to clear and get off what they contracted of Vile-Matter and Evil-Deeds in this Life Therefore let All be warned to Mortify and Renounce the Earthly-Birth that so they may escape the Fiery-Indignation that will come upon the Workes of Iniquity Oh! now then whilst you have Day with the Everlasting Sun-shine of Love in your Souls Turn into it and it will Clarify and Brighten you that so Saved you may be out of all Future-Punishments and Entrance find into the Joy of our Lord which may be known now in This present Time in the Heavens of a Pure-Heart The happy Felicity of which I have already set forth in this Treatise So hoping This may give Satisfaction to the Impartial and Sober-minded for Information into the Mysteries that have been under a Veil which is now rending away for the which break of Day Let us earnestly Pray A Visional Appearance or Prophesy Iuly 15. 1694. I Had a sudden Representation came before me of a round Globe like an Oval that had four Circles and with in the first Circle was a Pure white Glass of Light in which there appeared the Personal Prince of Glory with a numberless Number of bright Bodily-Figures with whom the Elders were They had got Victory over this World who departed in the Faith of what they now enjoy And the Circle that was encompassed was of a bright flame-colour Then next to This was an Azure Blue-Circle and here appeared the Faces only of numerous Persons that are yet living in Bodily Figure in this World who some are known and others unknown to me and the Motto that was written on their Fore-Heads was These are Those who are waiting for to break through into Mount-Sion-Principle where Christ the Lord with all that are Redeemed out and from the Earth are Then in the third Circle which appeared like Pale-Lightning there open'd Seraphims and Cherubims bright Angels very numerous that ascended and were appointed as a Guard always Ministring to Those And did see them break their Circle and come amongst Those who pressing were into the Light-World The fourth Circle was a more Dark Dusky-Colour And here were those who were yet to be gathered in and born again Some among them were known by Face to me they were yet but moving in the Dark-Principle as shut from the Light All of This was conspicuously opened unto me And as I was waiting further upon the Vision as it shut up and opened again the next Night Then I saw One Mighty-Potent-Angel break through the Circle where the Glorified-Person and their Elders were and a great Shout there was crying The Principle of Salvation is broken through and now the Beast's Kingdom will quickly go down and worthy is this Mighty Conquerour to receive with the Lamb of God Power and Riches Wisdom and Strength Honour Glory and Blessing For the way is broken through for such to follow after who in the same Spirit of Faith are acquitting their Sensual Reasonings Then did I see many striving to enter in but could not till they had relinquished the Name and Mark of the Beast which is this worldly Principle with all it s Polluted Immercements` and Babilonian Trafficks which by the sight of this All-Conquering-Angel were prevailed upon so to do Then a Free Pass was made for many known by Figure and Name to enter in and to receive Mutual-Power to Multiply and Spread Mount-Sions Glory over the whole Face of this Earth So will all Nations be made to flow in at the Rising of this Bright-Orient-Spirit for great Powers are moving from the Heaven in very Deed. Oh Mighty Jesus Thou art This Circle-Breaker by and in such whom Thou wilt assume and take up to open the Fountain of Great-Wonders by the which the Lost-Purity shall again come to be Restored and the Heavens as a Curtain over the whole World spread This is a Prophetical Vision the fulfilling thereof draweth near Therefore it seemed good to me to add it to the foregoing Part. The Author has much of this kind lying by her in Manuscript that may yet come to light as God shall open an Effectual Door for more to be Revealed that may Conduce and make Ready the New-Jerusalem Bride to be married to the Immaculate Lamb of God for the which I say to all Come Oh come away with speed The lifted up Standard of Christ the Trumpet of whose Spirit does now Sound that the Dead in Sins may live again in a New-State from the Resurrection-Life of Christ who cometh down in a Fiery-Baptizing-Cloud By which He will enter into Souls who willing are to have This Sin-Defiling-Garment taken away The Oil of the Spirit is still flowing but must now stop for the present till Vessels shall be found and made ready to take it in For the which the Incense of Pure Prayers shall still ascend up to Heaven FINIS THis Book is to be Sold by the Author Iane Lead living at the Lady Mico's Colledge right against Stepney Church and at her Daughters Barbary Walton at Mr. Mileman's in New-street at the End of Dean-street right against the 3 Tuns And if any one be disatisfied in any Point handled in this Book The Author is ready to give answer thereunto while she is yet Living * Note well from hence * The Gospel is preached to the dead or Souls departed †Ch. 3. 19. 4. 6. 1 Cor. 3. 13. * Or Christ the Lord.