who is it that shall it not see Much more I wait herefrom to be revealed For it was a significant Vision that doth bring along its own Meaning That so we might hereby be warned what God in the Earth will appear to do November the 16th 1677. I had this Night much inward Expostulation tending to my full and perfect Change into such a Spiritual Corporiety in which the offence of Sin might altogether cease For since the Holy Teacher and Guide hath been plain with me that without I here attain to be Born again so as no composition of the first original matter of Sin may spring till then I can have no free access nor be taken up into all Spousal freedom in the Love-Joys that are only known by such who are redeemed from all Sin For the Lamb the Bridegroom can take no other into the Marriage-Bed of inflamed Love with him but an immaculate Bride all Fair and Serene The Father hath charged him to bring no other into his Kingdom Now then said the Spirit you see that my striving in you is all to make you commendable that the Father himself may love you and be at perfect Reconciliation with your Spirits For this is the considerable matter to have the whole Trinity agreeing to take up and pitch their Pavilion of Light round about you Then expect such a change as never yet hath come November the 17th 1677. In my Night Sleep I was Praying and awakened my self therewith which when I came to my self I saw a White Hand reached out dipped in some pretious Liquor of a deep red Colour and it dropped thereof on my Breast Which presently brought forth that Word to me in the Canticles his Fingers drop sweet smelling Myrrh The which pure thing thing I did feel upon my Internal part oâ—â— to a rising Joy in my self Then this Word came to me Now take heed of going out amongst the Deâ—d If any thing of this kind doth touch you watch the time do not rest till a fresh stream of live Blood doth all your Inwards wash and perfume your Seperated place with this pretious Myrrh For your Lord can no more live or lie among them who do smell of the Dead November the 20th 1677. The Lord looked upon us and said he loved us and was touched in all our Afflictions and Temptations and that our Tears and Sorrows should not be forgot for all were treasured up that so when the Sowing time hereof shall be passed over Salvation and Victory and Everlasting Joy shall be returned to us November the 21st 1677. This was the Word of the Lord that was with me Let not the various Sounds and specious Gatherings of them among whom is an uncertain Sound move you from holy ground Where still do you wait in the Spirits Arbour for I have yet Secrets in an immediate way to impart Therefore scatter not from your known though unknown Walks to others So hereby I was to understand that in the still and silent state we were to keep till the clear Trumpet of the Holy Ghost might sound through us For nothing of this could be found in the mixed Assemblies Therefore it was shewed to me that after a while there would be a dispersion of the pâ—incipal Shepherds and Flocks till the Horn be filled with the unmixed Oyl of the Spirit by a true Prophet that must raised up be from and by the Mission of the greaâ— and mighty Shepherd Who will then anoint with Power each one of his Flock that none may be found in his Pasture of a barren Spirit For each one shall sound forth the Mystery of their own Everlasting Redemption out of the falleâ— Stage November the 22d 1677. As soon as I came out of Sleep after the Nights rest This word met me Oh that I might awake with thy Image perfectly then should I behold thy Face and not be reproached because of an ignominious Body Whereupon I considered the weightiness of the Word and it was opened unto me that it related to a Resurrection stare after a Death-sleep in the Grave of the Body of Sin out from which the Spirit awakeneth into the God-likeness Upon which there was presented unto me a clear Crystal in the figure of a Heart which hung by a Pipe through which a stream like Blood passed into the Heart which was said to be the pure Life-Seed that conveyeth it self from the Fountain-Heart of the Godhead As it is the Production of a Birth answerable to the very Heart of God which would be the true and original matter of a divine Nature In which only the Life of God should move as it did in the Person of our Lord Jesus Whose Heart was fed from the Heart of his Father and so ours from his when so purely generated as his from the Seed or Incorporating Power of the Deity For it was made evident to me that the New Birth-heart conceived in us must be from the Root of the same holy and unmixed matter and answerably in order to a full redeeming from the old polluted Heart out from which are the Issues of Death which is said to be the heart of Stone Now it was shewed me that Fallen Man did carry about him three Hearts As first the Heart of a Beast as it may be said of Nebuchadnezzar he had a Beastial Heart 2dly The Heart of a Man which comes up to Sensibility and to Rationality 3dly A Heart in which as to the outward Birth remains somewhat of an Eternal Essence as a Spark of Light which Adam had in Paradise and this we call Man's Eternal Heart And this in the highest Improvement is in much Imperfection and Instability sometimes in a raised Life towards God then sinking down as a Stone again into the Earth according to the outward Constellations that do mutually concur in the good and evil The effects whereof we have sensibly felt by an inward strife and war through the divided property of the Soul which moveth sometimes from the Heavenly Center towards its primitive Being before the Fall So as in this contest without conquest over the earthly part Millions of Souls have past away out of the Body And fearing least it should be so with us another Heart is shewn unto us For none of these can bring us near unto God And therefore remove and give them up and pray vehemently that we may see this old stoâ—ey Heart fail within us and then such a new Heart to which is annexed a pure burning stream which becomes a quickning Spirit Which will make essentially the great alteration so as we shall find our selves new-born perfect Creatures For it is of that high deified Composition of Purity as it forceth all polluted matter of contrariety from it to fly It is such a pure thing as it will be contracted into it self and live alone in an absolute dominion There is no allowance given for any of those forementioned Hearts with it to commix no more then Clay
rend and shake when ever it shall come to be displaced Hear now and consider ye whose lawful Objection is come before me it is granted to you that the everlasting Father through the Mightiness of the Spirit in the Lamb's Nature must displace for you the Root of this Oak that is so deeply rooted in the Ground of Nature But what Tool or Instrument will he take in his Hand but the Ax of your Wills Then a through stroak will he strike by the piercing Eye of his Spirit who seeth the very depth from whence its Essence doth proceed For without a discovery made where the Cause of this defect is nothing hereof could be made or for you wrought out Therefore the Lamb of God is come the Vail of Covering to unspread that so by the sparkling Fire of his Eye ye might see from the Depths beneath the Birth-Source of Sin which doth open wide Also with the same Eye ye may behold within the heights of Sion a flowing Ocean of molten Gold to this for healing do ye fly For no other Medicine can heal the Sâ—rpent's Sting within you These are the Golden Floods which by the Spirit are daily poured forth to drown the first Birth of Eve that so an end may be of that generating Source and her Womb for ever henceforth may come to be barren in you To which end Orders and Decrees are made in Heavenly Places that Virgin-Wisdom shall take place in her room and her Seed shall be destructive to the Serpent's and to all his Hierarchy and you shall see his Head-Power bruised to purpose when all Sin in its Originality shall be blotted out by the Hand and working Source of the Deity Who will give also to you the Key and Chain of Power that so in the Name and Authority of the Lamb ye may take hold on the Dragon and bind him and shut up his flowing Source of Evil and with the Seal of the Living God to seal him up that he may find no way to come out of his own Lake to corrupt or deceive you any more Then you will begin in all stillness upon the Earth the Reign of Christ within the pure Region of Wisdom's Climateâ— For in the Singular Number it will begin to work forth The Day therefore is near or far off according as ye are carried forth in Zeal Power and Faith hereunto giving up your selves totally to observe the Word of Wisdom In which whosoever are found so doing they shall all be Crowned with this Diadem of Power February the 22d 1676 7. This Word spake thus to me do ye joyntly put on the Body of the Love in which the Spirit of Jesus will make known the Father of Glory to you for an Everlasting Reconciliation as to Children new born February the 24th 1676 7. Feeling great Peace and Joy so long as I could restrain the moving acting Life of Sin then I did obtain near access to the most Holy during the seasons and times when I could reign over all the Region of Natural Sence Which the Interiour Spirit may thus keep upon its Watch-Tower so it would then be altogether a subject meet for the Holy Trinity to open the Depths belonging to their Immense Love-Being Which by reason of these Cloudy Vails are little understood for when I did measure my self at such a time when so raised as to desert all that might be called carnally rational then little enough I seemed to be so light and so free so purely sprightly to pass through the Glassy Gâ—te But while I am again cast into the Nature of a gross thick Body tinged with Sensibility then no Ability there is for me to pass where I would As the Day and Night be thus in a moment still of force to oppose each the other in the divided Property till the everlasting Day of the Spirit shall altogether dis-inherit the dark benighted Sense Whereof hopes given are by that Spirit who thus spake from my Lord Jesus putting this Question unto me saying How dost thou think it possible to know the Majesty who is encircled in such excessive Light whilst thou livest in so many Degrees below the Seraphick sphere For great is the remoteness that may be from hence to them Who altogether are confined to a Terrestrial state For in that Word is weight that divided hath the Spiritual in and from the Natural Who is uncapable to know discern or judge of any matter but what is his own that is which lieth within the Sphere of his understanding as a rational Man who is wise for himself Which Wisdom is all to protect and hold up and save what is to be cast down and be destroyed Thus the Serpently Birth of Wisdom will hold its own in opposition to the pure meek essential Being and Birth which is from the Spirit Who is a great Sufferer while he is so near adjoyned to the Natural Man who is a fit Recptacle for what this evil Principle can shake him withal which the Prince and great Commander of this World will enough of this trash and earthly stuffâ— load him withal to give the mind full employ to prevent that which is Sublime and Celestial Therefore in vain the Scripture hath not said None can know the Thoughts of a Man save the Spirit that is in him that is none can pry or reach into the subtlety of the deceitful Heart that is working and busie minding and Plotting to compass the heighth of earthly things to which his Life would wholly extend As desiring to know nothing more or above or beyond his Natural Sphere being satisfied with the sight of his Eye with the hearing of his Ear being wholly taken up with what is mistred from this mortal state which finds out a daily variety to hold this Life in Captivity Thus you see the Earthly Man made out he is distinct from the Heavenly He knows nor perceives nothing of the Spiritual Man's concerns but as living in one and the same Body hath great advantage to interfere and cast in many times his cloudy Reasonings This natural part as the Night doth cleave to the Day but yet they have their divided Court they may be possiby kept a part through the constant Watch and Calling in Wisdom's succour and aid Eve's Birth is yet permitted thus near Immanuel's Nature to live for probation For the Dragon must try successively upon every one his Temptation Which could not be if he had not recourse to Eve's depravity that hath lodged you in Elementary Bodies by which the Strife is occasioned For the Serpent doth make great claim to what he finds sticking and still abiding within the corporeal case Which hath so degraded you as to the Visibility of and from that God-like Image in which ye once were considered as now verily ye little differ from that low degree of the pure Animal Creatures but that your inward Mind is yet of a superiour Magnanimity that was still kept and preserved within
of those Mansions that are near to me let them be driven out for the present Therefore let this suffice from the Scriptures themselves not to mention those particular Idea's and Manifestations that to some it hath been given to see these several Heavens which upon others cannot be imposed for to believe who yet have not those anointed Eyes given to see withal But surely there are some standing in the figure of the Body Whose Spirits have roved to and fro to see these several Mansions with Spirits of all sizes and degress who are herefor designed Only hereout excluding those who are for the Dragon's Kingdom Who do pass away in a reprobate sense out of the Body Those left-hand Goats have no portion within these Eternal Gates a deep Gulf is fixed It is only of the Sheep and Lambs that I am to treat who have found out this new and only Life path-way Who though they are not come to the top-stone of perfection before they see the dissolution of the body Yet having attained to a good degree they may come unto the very next Throne Region and there awhile stay till they have drawn and assumed a heavenly clarity that is such an Essential Body against which no exceptions by the highest Courts of Dignities can be objected These now are the highest degrees of those who before Perfection be wrought do cease out of the Mortal Body Then again there are of a lower degree of growth Now what reservatory is there for them who may be but young in the New Birth As to this it was clearly imparted unto my Intellect that such did enter into a more inferiour Mansion than Paradice for that was too pure and serene for such Therefore a lower degree is prepared for them till they do attain to an Increase of the Divine Nature They want not here their true Pastoral Teachers for the Spirit of Christ is every where with his own Therefore it was said that he went and preached to the Spirits in Prison that were disobedient in Noah's days For should all the old world have been cut off at once and sealed under a final condemnation the Attributes of God's Love Mercy Goodness Truth and Long-suffering would have been obliterated wherefore he must have yet had respect unto such after the dissolution of their bodies as had a sense in them awakened for compunction and sorrow for what Evils they had committed in their Bodies To confirm this that we might not be altogether out of hope for such as may die in the first beginnings of Regeneration it is given me to declare that if these pass out of the Body such cannot go indeed immediately to God For such will find it otherwise they must wait till they have got somewhat more then what they went out withall in this world and then shall they be admitted to see God Surely there is a Provision made for a perfect Salvation in another Principle besides this For which we have that word in Peter 1 Pet. 3. 19. by which also he went and Preached unto the Spirits in Prison Also these words seem to speak fully to this 1 Pet. 4. 6. For this cause was the Gospel preached to them which were dead which generally is applied to such as are living and yet dead in sins But by the foregoing verse it concerns the first Position verse 5. who saith the Apostle speaking of Christ is ready to judge the quick and the dead so that it implieth there is a Ministry belonging to the dead that are not here made perfect Much more might be enlarged upon some particular sights and manifestations that have hereof been given to some in the Spirit From hence ariseth this Objection If this be a Truth why was it not positively declared and clearly revealed as a foundational Doctrine To which it may be answered That the Infinite Wisdom did judge it meet to conceal this mystery because none might take advantage to turn the Grace of God into wantoâ—ness and thereby to neglect the present opportunity for working out their own Salvation in this present time which would make for a far and more exceeding weight of Glory Therefore left it was for the Worthy to have this Secret made known to them by the Spirit of Revelation who God foreknew would not take Liberty to continue in sin that this Grace after Death might be made manifest towards such as did stand in need hereof But now to great holy and aspiring Spirits these lower Mansions in their Fathers house are too mean who cannot be satisfied to be so many degrees remote any time after death from their God and Lord Jesus since Liberty is proclaimed to work through all while we are in this terrestrial Body For there will be more joy and acclamations in Heaven for one such as shall finish their work here so as to make a full conquest then for milions of Souls that in the invisible Regions must perfect what was lacking to compleat them here Oh said the Spirit it will be well worth your Labour and great Travel to break open this deep Gate and so to put on Christ your Lord as in his all-powerful body that ye may make hereof but one ascending flight This was the Mark that was after Christs ascending so eagerly aimed at and by some in that Age reached to For Christ could not lose the effect of his prayer in that he did make his request that those whom the Father had given him might be with him where he was that so they might see and possess the same glory which could not be till they had gotten the victory For to none else is the admission given into his Kingdom according to that in the Revelations to him that overcometh will I grant saith Jesus to sit with me in my Throne But this may be objected further Those who had the Holy Ghost poured down in such an eminent manner had their way made very easie who was as their fiery Chariot that cut their work short And if any now in this Age had such a high endued Power it might soon give them a translation out of all mortal impediments As to answer this The Holy Ghost in that day was given after a visible manner as a sealing Character displaying and acting forth himself in Gifts and Power and miracles but now the same Spirit works in its beginning after another manner where it falleth it doth all its mighty works Within before it will shew forth his power Without For if the Apostles had not been purified by the Holy Ghost and inwardly sprinkled with the Water of Life for Soul cleansing they could not have rejoyced in that assured hope of entring into the joy of their Lord and Master Then was it plainly opened to me by the Spirit that the Holy Ghost would not now in this latter Age act out his Mighty Deeds by any one till their Hearts were perfectly purified by Faith That Scripture being repeated to me who after believing were sâ—aled with Holy Spirit of
Promise Though in that day soon upon Christs ascending the Spirit of working power was suddainly showred down upon some as in the Acts mention is made who had no foregoing work of sanctification upon them Upon which it made the Apostles themselves astonished that the Holy Ghost should be sent down upon the Gentiles also who did not believe in the Lord Jesus But that is now ceased The giving forth of the Holy Ghost in this day will first produce inward effects and be a Spirit of burning seasoning the Vessels within and inflaming it with the pure fire of Love and Joy And then being all divinely leavened there will be found all sufficiency to do the most wonderful things easily flowing forth from the substantial body which by degrees may work it self fixedly through the humane form in great splendor and glory So from hence we are taught how the Holy Ghost hath his first inspiring work upon us To make all clean pure and perfect within our Minds and Wills For we shall be Witnesses what he doth first in and for us before he will shew forth by us the Seal of his great Power to what lies without us Who by signal Working Powers and Gifts are to be convinced and brought over to the Faith which will work by that Love that will be shed abroad by the Holy Ghost Whos 's first enkindlings and stirrings ye are saith the Holy and True to cherish and wait upon till ye are leavened throughout with Righteousness Light Love and Joy Which will make way for the going out of Wisdoms Power and God's all sufficiency in a more marvelous manner then ever Blessed highly are they whose lot it shall be to come up to the Mount of God's Habitation through all these degrees This word take along with you for certainty that it is possible for the close wise persevering diligent Spirits to see this great and mighty salvation in the Lord Christ's Kingdom in and through the ghostly power working mightily April the 28th 1677. This Morning awaking about three of the Clock my Spirit after some divine ejaculations was inkindled through the Love-melting Powers of the Spirit of my Lord Jesus which did pass as a burning Lamp through all my Intellectuals finding there matter to feed upon answerable to its own light property whereby refreshing was found After this I slept till five a Clock or somewhat more as by me surmised Then I was awakened with the beholding one in the figure of a man in a blue clear firmament enclosed as in an oval frame Rainbow-like his Countenance was grave and majestical facing me with great majesty Upon the sight of whom I did feel within me a mighty rapture of joy So I making to get nearer to this Person thus plainly portraied then he did further withdraw for such was the â—ervour of my Spirit that I would have proceeded into the very Circle where he was Who seemed to be in the very fashion of a man from the Loyns upward but I saw no Legs or Feet but he fixed his Light Countenance still on me which was no way terrible but all reviving Now I was expecting somewhat to be spoken from him but the voice was uttered within me saying thus This is the Sign of your Lord from Heaven that Jesus whom you have desired to see Upon which words I attempted again to break through to him upon which this Representation did pass away that I could no longer gratifie my spiritual Eye with this blessed Personality After whose departure I was left sad for I would willingly have left my corporeal form to have entred into that Oval Cloud where I might have joined the Hand of my Spirit with his But then it was again further revealed to me that if this sight was so pleasing and grateful what would the coming in of the Fathers glory be which would be much more then what I now did see Then this word spake in me go on to believe and ye who look for me shall yet further see greater things then all this Some days after this Vision it was further manifested to me that this visible Figure of my Lord Jesus did signifie the formation of himself in our corporeity which would be much more advantagious then in beholding him in a distinct Personality as without us till we can come to say as he is so are we Till which there can be no fixed view for a constant retaining of his now glorified Person in our Eye Now it was given me to understand that the Reason I could not be admitted to enter into that Oval Light where he was presented was because said the Spirit thou art not come to the same perfect state and degree in which you did him see wanting yet your more high clear and elementary Body so that ye could not possibly make your pass unto him But only hereby your Jesus knoweth that these transient sights would have a pure magical power upon you for the begetting of the same likeness within you that was shewn outward For it was revealed to me that all representations that did not work to this effect would be little available as to the fruition of the blessed Object it self Then I was cautioned to be heedful in this respect and to watch how to receive all powerful impressions hereby all which was for the bringing on the heavenly Birth to every degree of perfection Then no strange nor unusual thing it shall be to see the very express glory of the Majesty when you are Christed and all clothed upon with him Then shall ye see That in your selves which to others is invisible Philip could not see the Father in Christ while he was looking outwardly for some wonderful appearance of God in visible Glory he did not consider how uncapable he was of that sight but Jesus invites him to see and know the Father in the pure simplified humanity God will to all first manifest himself here in that which can assume the Christ-like Life which is the only light and medium in which we can see God Christ would have directed Philip to have looked for this Vision of God in himself but he knew he was not clarified in his Mind and Spirit for that species his Eys were not anointed the Holy Ghost not being yet given to him Therefore Christ directed him to turn his Eye inward to see the influence of the Divine Power and Presence of the Father in and by Christ. Who gave him this rebuke Have I been so long with you and yet have you not seen the Power of the Deity acted forth in me The Disciples were but of dull sight and flow of belief so that it was not the conversation of Christ although all holy perfect and good in his Visible Figure That did give the transformation till he did convey his Spiritual Body into them they could not rightly know him nor yet the Father in him Then the Spirit ecchoed this through me O haste
and seek to be baptized by the Holy Ghost that ye may both know and be perfect in the Father and in the Son then may you see God in Christ apparently God in God sometimes in an immaculate Nature and sometimes in the essence of a Spirit out of Nature From hence learn to see your selves all fully in Christ as anointed by the Holy Spirit into him and then you will not make complaint for want of the visibility of his glorified Person When ye shall see your selves in him and know him in your selves as the express Image of the invisible God Then you cannot but walk in the constant sight of that which is all beautiful comely sweet and ravishing For then ye will never care to turn your Eyes nor set your Foot out of this pleasant Habitation when the Holy Ghost shall be ever in you the Tabernacle of God May the 1st 1677. The Original Language THIS Morning it was much impressed upon me that though all Watchfulness and pure Conversation are the product of a Spiritual Birth yet there must be something besides willed by him who is said to have received gifts to dispose of as a purchased possession for us He is ascended to the Fountain head where all diversity of Gifts are commandable that may be of great profit and use to his Mystical Body which thereby may come to the perfect Unity For it was given me to consider that our Lord Jesus though born into the humanity all immaculate yet was afterward signally anointed with the Holy Ghost before he went upon his Ministerial Function which gave him power to effect those great things in the World So that though he was born of the Holy Ghost yet there was a further Sealing Power contributed by the Father For when the Jews were offended that he made himself equal with God he confirmeth it by this evidence that the Father had shewed him all things that himself could do from which sight as a peculiar Gift he did work hitherto such works as did bear witness of the Supream Power of the God-head While my Intellectual Mind was exercised upon this Subject and withdrawing from my outward animal sense I did see in a paper figured out the forms of two Angelical Persons folding up a Vail or Covering which had been spread upon a Writing that was given me to read Which was plain and legible but I could not understand the Language it was said to be Seraphick This Writing which was so fair was turned into a Blank and then again appeared as in a manuscript which I was very solicitous to have read But it was revealed to me immediately that this was a high and peculiar gift that did belong only to that which was born out of the Lilly root Which mast be brought up where it must hear this Language spoken frequently till which no knowledge there is in the Divine Magia For Spirits who had these deep wonders to shâ—w could not make any intelligent hereof till they had learned this Seraphick Language both to hear and speak withall and so I was left in the demur hereof Only this Writing I saw taken by the hand of a Person to whom I said give it me for it belongeth not to you which I presently gave to the view of anotherâ— that was present but neither of them could find out the Language of the Writing By which my Spirit did conclude that we must proceed to a further learning for to know what is in the heights and depths wherein all lawful and allowable secrets are couched to be understood Had not Moses been taken up to God forty days and in that holy separated Mount been all new organised he could never have understood God's speech unto him so as to comprehend and know how to make an interpretation and how to bring it down unto the people by translating it out of the Seraphick tongue into the formal speech of terrestrial organical Creatures So from hence it was given me further to see that there was a New Ministration which I had not looked into that was of great expediency May the 2d 1677. This next day being the second of May waiting upon the further opening of this Vision and making my application for our enrichment with this heavenly gift it appearing to be of great use and consequence I presently found my self environed with a body of Light with a noise as of rushing waters which were called the Seraphick sounds for I felt a mighty sweet influence from them Finding my Spirit sinking deeper into this heavenly center whereout did arise gusts of Air and Flames of Celestial Fire with springs of Water as a fountain of Joy and dust of Gold all sparkling and herewith mingling and this was a wonderful presentation All which I did as sensibly feel to strengthen to quicken and enliven the inward as I often naturally felt the influences of the outward Elements upon the outward Body to cause Dulness Pain Grief and Sorrow And further there was a Voice that did distinctly eccho in me that all these influencing Powers from the heavenly Body did come down to enrich and make fat the Soil and Magical Ground in which the unction Birth was rooted For this Pure and Aetherial Body which hath commixed it self into such a high Essentiality is designed to feed revive strengthen and rejoyce what is of its own Elementary Body Therefore it is meet for such in whom this New Birth is raised that they do often bring and lay it where the warm beamings of our Sun may overshadow it that is that the quint-essential power of all things may send forth its strong spiritual influences upon it so hereby it may grow mighty and and strong to relieve the depressed Life from the grosser Element which hath enkindled whatever is of torment trouble and strife Therefore cryed the Spirit whatever ye do let this be chiefly minded For your liberty and redeeming Power lieth in this fair Lilly springing from the feeding Life of this bright Elementary Body Which your Lord said he gave for the Life of the World for hereby it can only be renewed again May the 3d. 1677. This Morning being the third of May something more did open to me of the Vision That whereas â— saw a Vail folded up by the two who were in long Garments girâ— about with Girdles which I omitted before to mention Who were figured out to be Angelical Messengers sent to draw away and to wind up the Covering that had overspread the Writing By this it was signified that there was one remove made in order to the understanding and knowing what was further therefrom to be revealed For already there was much of the Vail removed which hid the meaning of the Spirit in that visible Writing which alluded also to the Scriptures but was now upon the removing that so the true intent of the Spirit might come to be known And further it was moved in me why I could not read when the
till they could get through the vail where they might come to the lively Oracle leaving the lower Principles and Administrations as to the very knowledge of Christ in his first appearance Who hath left the whole Creation still groaning and waiting to be delivered from the present mixed and imperfect state Such I mean in this Creation as are here fore-ordained to a more high grown state as to be minding and waiting for that blessed hope and more wonderful and glorious appearance of Christ no more to leave us in the weakness of sin and corruptibleness This hath had its long day in the world its Sun is upon setting and then but one short interposing Night will be before the everlasting Gospel-day shall break forth whose Breath is at once all redeeming power So it was further shewed me that there should not be another Christ revealed but the same that was in a more high and transparent manner Who as the mighty God and Saviour is to compleat the work of Salvation through a more perfect Ministry that shall be committed to elected Angels that shall be sent forth in such a Gospel-seal as none shall be able to counterfeit For this word as a secret was given me to hear That the Gospel that in these last Ages since Christ was preached to the Nations of the World was not of that force and might as to overthrow the Seal of the Beast and thereby to recover man out of his deep relapse For though somewhat of this all-powerful Gospel did for a little moment after Christ's ascention break through with the Holy Ghost as some first fruits thereof yet it soon retired and shut up again But the Spirit said expresly Be ye of good chear whom God doth greatly love and know this gloomy day is far spent there is but a short night before the everlasting Gospel shall break out Then be ye Watchers till this Morning do dawn put on your armour and be not as others who slothful are not believing to such a Gospel-day But pray that ye may be intrusted with the first openings of this Gospel-breath which will devour and lay waste the Kingdom of the Dragon and the Beast that so in the Power and Splendor of a glorified Christ ye may come to reign on and over the Earth This everlasting Gospel will soon gather in its own heavenly Train but in Hope Diligence and Patience do ye remain for it May the 13th 1677. The Glassy Book In the Night when the outward Senses were reposed I saw at a distance a reserved or separated place which was as light as the Firmament and there I saw the figure of a Book it had no Clasps or Seals upon it neither was there any thing therein written that I could perceive but the Leaves appeared all as transparent as the flaming light After this came forth out of that bright Orb a Flock all in white Robes in a triumphant posture rejoycing about me with pleasant bright Countenances and would have me repose my self in the same alacrity with them but I was more sad and ponderous and could not move with that agility which they did with their Airy Bodies But I soon did feel a mighty influence from their Bodies though at their first appearance I was as one surprised but such was their great affability and friendliness towards me that in a little while I was in their liberty and joy Which no sooner I was made sensible of but they told me they must withdraw unto their own place I then desired they would not leave me but let me go along with them which they could not permit at this season This brought heaviness upon me again May the 15th 1677. Being together met for the mutual enkindling of the Life and Power in each other while the Doctor was breathing out what was given him from the Spirit This voice uttered it self in that time All flesh shall see the Glory of the Lord several times it passed through me The next Morning the Doctor being at prayer I heard mighty internal sounds and one distinct shout which was astonishing which was so loud an acclamation as I never had the like before May the 17th 1677. Then being in the Morning in prayer together the word thus moved in me saying Let the Glory of the Lord return unto his Sanctuary May the 18th 1677. In the Night in my first sleep I saw the Doctor in a place wide and spatious it seemed to have no limitation either by Walls or Gates and I being alone with him suddainly a great throng of people did come in upon us So then the Doctor said this multitude will not be dismist till they receive somewhat of that which the Lord hath made us Stewards of Then did the Doctor preach that which was of great force and power so that they appeared to be very attentive thereto Upon which I awaked and the word said that there should be a clear and pure Gospel Ministry not by man nor after man but by and according to the Revelation of Jesus Christ. May the 19th 1677. This Morning the Mystery of the Glassy Book which was revealed unto me by way of Vision in the 13th of this Instant was opened very conspicuously For as I was walking in the solitude of my Spirit this stirred again in my Mind being presented with this Scripture We all as with open face beholding as in a Glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same From whence it was manifested unto me That this Book did represent the Spirit of the Lord Jesus which was the mirror by which we only could see the Father's Glory And further in that this Book was different from all other Books because there was nothing therein written which was more marvelous and gave me occasion to query with my Lord about it What this Book was which had no Seals upon it nor any engraving in it Then was it thus resolved me That it was that which would put an end to all other Books it was beyond all literal Ministrations they would not be needed when this Chrystal Glass was revealed This would be the sum and substance of all Times finishing Mystery according to that in the Revelation mentioned of the Book which was open in the Angels hand which Iohn saw when the seven Thunders uttered their voices and he was ready to write but till the dispensation of the fulness of time there was a prohibition The Glass that compriseth all Wisdom Knowledge and Sight of Eternal things being given forth or held out for such who do really prize the substance which is the Living Word it self and that above all Shadows Sounds and Declarations Christ is to arise to them higher from a sealed Book to an open one that is from Letter to Spirit giving himself not only as a Book to read but to eat down Ye shall tast this Chrystal Book and thereby come to be in the express clarity of it all clear in Judgment and
the sweet sappy flowings of the Spirit as Rivers of Oyl which will make all these flaming Wheels work up to a Seraphick height so as hereby to look terribly for Glory and Beauty for Perfection May the 23th 1677. As we were met together at prayer I had the presentation of a Golden Cup out of which did rise a flame of Light as Fire bubling beyond the Brim of the Cup and it was thus spoke who so are able let them drink of it Upon which I considered hereof expecting a further explanation of this Vision Which this Morning thus opened it self that the Cup which was all of Gold presented Christ in his pure Corporeity who had been tried through all Fires and thereby was made a meet Vessel to retain the essential Spirit of the pure flaming Deity that springs high beyond the bounds of humanity as the Fire did above the Cup. Then it was revealed and uttered by a still voice that as I did see the rising of this Fire even so should be the flowing of the Holy Ghost For it was his Fiery Baptism wherewith many should be sprinkled from its going out Oh my Lord why was this Cup tendered for those who were not able to drink down this Spirit of Fire Would it might be our lot Who surely would rejoice to drink down a full draught hereof Oh dear Jesus that by thy self thou wouldst hand this Cup unto us as once thou didst in the figurative way to thy Disciples After I had much after this manner inlarged my self in Spirit to my God and Father the Word then spake in me Ye must first arrive to this Golden Degree then ye shall be flowingly filled with this high spirited Flame Christ the Lord is here â—ory our Example Now then take good heed to those great fiery working Wheels which will frame for you this Golden Vessel Suffer gladly the mighty force of them which will form this Golden Cup in each one where the heavenly and pure elementary matter is prepared Be only found in your diligency and then your great Work-master will be under an engagement to finish this unknown Mystery That so ye may be Golden Cups of Blessings to your self and others May the 26th 1677. In the night being cast into a sleep I saw this Golden Cup again which was presented to my intellectual sight some days before as I was in prayer Now again passing from one to another some few Persons of us being met together The Person that handed this cup to us was in the Garb of an Officer with a Gown and when he came to give it to me somewhat he seemed secretly to whisper which the rest were not to hear which I thought carefully to observe but when I awaked I could not remember any thing of the words which I did believe was of concern I only well retained the Ministrator of this Golden Cup which did not flame out as it did before but there was an Oyly Liquor of flame colour in it which tasted like to pleasant Wine After I was come out of this Night Vision I waited what would be spoken herefrom further to me which interpretation was presently given the Officer personated our Lord Jesus to whom the great Majesty had given the Power of Administration For there is no true Sacramental Institution but when he is present himself who knows those Sanctuary Vessels of his own Body that be thereunto affixed and who are separated from all common use He walks amongst the Golden Cups to convey Flaming Spirit and pure Oyl of Light he doth not put off with dead heartless Signs but letteth in his flowing Nature as Spikenard that when any have drank hereof they do feel an inebriating Spirit that burns as fire upon the Altar of their hearts as a signal witness that the right Administrator hath opened himself in a Celestial Fire-spring Which is the Pool of the Holy Ghost from which every Sanctuary Vessel is to be sprinkled Take ye heed hereto Iune the 1st 1677. This Vision was just upon the Doctor 's taking a House THIS day I had a very deep sense opened in me upon a Vision of several Pits that were filled with muddy Water so thick they were together that my self with some other Persons could not know how to pass without peril of falling into some one or other of them But our way lying through this place we could no way avoid but we must go through it Which was very hazardable irksome and grievous but through fear and heedfulness watchfulness and prayer we did get through And this word I did hear speak saying This shall also turn to your salvation through earnest prayer from the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Then again this night I saw as two of us were going upon our way with great earnestness to be at the end of our Journey there fell a suddain showr and stopped us so as we feared lest the night should come upon us before we should reach the place we were designed to This Vision did plainly speak out there was some present danger at hand which made me desire to be apart to know the mind of the Spirit herein bemoaning those Dicissitudes which might happen for our further probation Then was it shewed me that those Pits which I saw were promising advantages from the Earthly Region Which stood open to plunge us into their deep Abyss as which would drown our superiour Life in their muddy waters For this word came to me while I was considering hereof Escape here for your Life sake for what have you to do in the way of the Assyrians Upon which I prayed earnestly that we might be kept from the many evil occurrences that might happen upon the removal to an outward habitation which I foresaw might be hurtful for the present to our Spirits For which cause those things were presented for how would the Prince of this Earth and Aiery Region triumph to see us who have disdained his Kingdom and all the preferments of it to be catched by any baits from it For I heard this word say in me there would be a great acclamation from out of the bottomless Pit could they but bury your fire-sparkling life therein Therefore fear always while you have any thing to transact where Satan hath to do Then as to the Showr that came while we were journying on it was opened to me that as to the working-wheel of Fire there might be some stop For there was nothing more injurious than floods of Water upon fiery Wheels that is heavenly Spirits involving themselves with earthly things though good and lawful to others yet not to us who had the Nazarite Vow upon us and under such Laws and Institutions as were not made known to others Therefore that which might be justifiable in them would not be to us because under great Light Revelation and Direction The Spirit in us bearing witness hereunto that is to be of great binding Force and Powers to keep us
as one entire Body of Glory Iune the 6th 1677. This Morning about four of the Clock awaking with a raised Mind ready to entertain discoveries from that invisible Orb to which my whole Heart tended to I found my self suddenly carried out of my animal sense and several idea's did open to me from the Upper Region I saw in the Firmament of the Heavens Bright Figures like Half Moons and great rolling up and down of the Starry Heavens which seemed to be in a troubled Commotion Then there were great fears at the sight hereof among the lower Spirits of this Region Then I saw somewhat like a Standard set up with a Writing upon it proclaiming War with all the Inhabitants upon the Earth And about these I did see Bows and sharp Arrows and because I saw this Piller or Standard at a distance I thought it was or might not be real and so I went to it and touched it with my hand and read the Writing which was Controversie with the Nations of the World Then after this I saw the Clouds of Heaven pass away and various Persons of great Majesty descended down to the place where the Standard was set and they appeared as those that were Judges of the Earth And two or three of them made towards me to have spoke with me and their Presence was terrible that I shrunk away For my mean Corporeity was very inconsistent to their Glorious Personalities And this word followed This is the Lord who after this Tribulation will come with his Ancients to raign over the Earth Iune the 7th 1677. Then this word did speak through me Haste and pass away from Paradisical Righteousness to Sion's Glory For let your Condition seem never so mean and low yet verily designed ye are to work through all vicisitudes till Palms of Victorious Glory in the hand of the great Alpha and Omega be given to you which will make you to be the admiration of all in the higher and neather Regions Then these Rules were given expresly in order hereunto 1st Suffer gladly the Transplanting Power to crop off all what it finds superfluous dry and sapless 2dly Permit no other Pruning Hook to come near any Branch of your superiour Life-trees but that flaming word of the Spirit that knows rightly to divide betwixt the dead and the living 3dly Seek and make application to the Most High for an impregnable fence while these Fruits are ripening there will be required an invincible gard or else the subtile Foxes and Beasts of Prey may get in for to make spoil In the 4th place Then again watch not only against the Invasions from what Ministers from this visible Principle but from a near and more inward Center whereout the Serpent may move and twist himself while yet you are but in the Paradisical Property For in this first Transplantation lieth all your danger Therefore if all the Fruits of this mystical Life-tree can but reach to a Golden Hue so solid as to become a fixed Seed then ye are out of all hazard and fear But cast this Seed into Earth Air Water or Fire it will attract to it self out of every thing a bright consuming Glory Then this word was added saying Weigh and consider this mystical thing for here lieth the highest state of Perfection Observe the Most Holy in all his removes within your Heavenly Plantation for every new ingraffing from the Mighty Arm of Power will be an evidence that he will not leave you till Scions ye are made as Branches of this Saphire glorious Tree Iune the 8th 1677. This Morning this word was given me to feed upon saying I the Most Holy will Tabernacle with with a Spiritual Mind My Life and Peace as a Spring will bubble there The carnal and earthly Mind is Satan's seat the pure Mind is God's Throne Now choose which of those you will give place to for accordingly your Mind must be ordered If for the high and most holy Society then all Spiritual Then was that Scripture repeated to me For to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace Which life of Carnality is enmity to God who will be evermore a Stranger to such who shall know nothing of his Love Joy Goodness Power and Sweetness For if they commune with earthly Spirits and things of this terrestrial being then such dark influences are left upon their Minds as make them altogether unmeet to talk with God or to take in of those Species which tend for transfiguring the Soul into a bright body of Glory When the Mind is pestered and overcharged with thoughts that tend only for this gross elementary Life there is no room for the Holy Ghost that proceedeth and cometh from such a wonderful being of holiness as the Father of Spirits is Iune the 17th 1677. I saw a Ball of Fire and out therefrom went Flakes of Fire and fell amongst thorny Bushes so as they were no more being consumed by the Flame And it was said to me these are the particles and dispersive Powers that will go forth from the substantial God head to devour the Shrubs of the Earth Then after this internal sight I was as in a sleep where much combustion strife and spiritual Labour for the attainment of somewhat that was of Eternal Consequence And such was the clamorous onset of earthly Spirits that for a time I found my self sunk down into a dark Vally Upon which I awaked with great perplexity Then after this I saw in way of Vision a rich Golden Sledge set up and I was to slide down upon it And a voice cried Fear not for an end to all weariness and travel will come when this out of the Heavens shall descend Iune the 23th 1677. Sarah and Abimelech This Morning as I was recollecting my interiour Powers and Faculties which I found had been somewhat scattered by being let out and employed upon secular concerns and which I found was as going upon Thorns grievous and unsavory Upon this my Spirit made application with Soul-meltings for Life-recovery and restitution to those wonted familiarities and divine discoveries wherein consisted all my peace life and satisfaction Upon which my care now was how we who were under a peculiar obligation should discharge our selves of all and every weight that had beset us For it was presented to me that while we were gathering together what might accommodate our outward man as Paul did the sticks to warm him after his perilous voyage even so we upon necessary and lawful things being employed were in danger of the poisonous Vipers which would stick so close to our hands as we should be constrained to awaken and call up the Most Holy Adjuring Power of the Mighty God Whereby we might be able to cast them off before they infected our pure eternal Life-blood that so we might proceed forward in our Spiritual Work For this word was spoke why seek ye to dwell in ceiled houses and let the most holy in
through a mighty flux of Rheum this exercised my Faith and proved my Patience internally for some days together and gave me to see I was under a mortal influence as well as all others To which in humility I bowed using yet some means to free my self from the present malady and grief that was upon me After which not being answered in the effect but my distemper still abiding I was convinced that I should have only applied my self to that Sovereign Name wherein my healing was to be found Upon which I prayed to the Divine Omnipotency owning my neglect herein in that I had not looked only for cure therefrom to bring down help For which cause I did believe that I suffered under the Starry Constellations with which the Grand Adversary did conjoyn and concur and send out his evil influences rejoycing to see any who thought themselves above his poysonous raies should fall under and be subjected thereunto with others universally The sense of which I deeply took in and found in my self a disquietment thereat uttering to my God many Complaints Upon which this word came to me saying When thou hast tried all ways and means know for a surety it is the touch of the Deity alone that must thee ease Hadst thou here first fixed thy Faith thou mightest have been released from thy mortal grief Therefore now get up upon the Legs of thy Faith and stand without staggering and thereby saving health may flow in This was a mighty word of support but much more ado I had to rally up my Faith to eye no other but this Invisible Power for ever September the 12th 1677. The next day I had a sweet respite from the raging force of that predominant humour which had so afflicted my exteriour part And in the Night I saw my self taken into a place of which it was said the Night shall not be known from the Day For though it was in the Dead of the Night yet for brightness it was as the Noon Day which light seemed to me to descend out of a quite different Orb than this visible Element And I felt presently therefrom a warm Beam sent from the pure Deity which did me exceedingly lighten so that for the present time I was as one out of the Body of ponderosity dreading again therein to be found For who can do less than despise their corruptible Image that is so subject to these outward elementary diseases of all kinds when once they come to know and feel in any measure and degree that one Element of which Celestial Bodies are framed which can know neither sorrow nor pain Oh how may we come to be constituted hereinto so durably as no more to see the vile nature of siâ— or putrefaction Is it lawful to have an expectation hereof before we lay these Bodies in the Grave Yea assuredly such a day there is to be which will swallow up the night of mortality that all of the one clear matter of that invisible Element shall be in such changeable Raiment as that it will us give to see the face of God in Clarity For this word was given into me that those who could hold out in a steady strong Faith might know in verity such a transformation so as to pass out of Corporality into an Aethereal Glory putting on that which can pass into the everlasting burning-day which no shadow of the night or mortality of death can approach But it was further said The putting off what should be in order hereunto would be very hard yet sufficiency will be given to some who are concurring in mighty Faith Therefore go ye on believingly such a change yet possibly to see September the 13th 1677. In the Night I had a Vision of the Doctor whom I did see in great concern about building a foursquare Room all of clear Glass neither Timber nor Stone was in any part to be added thereto And I viewed it from first to last till I saw it finished by his own hand Who with great alaâ—rity said to me Here we will wait in all reservedness till the Glory of the Son of God appear But I answered This will be hardly secure for we shall be seen through this Glass and envious Spirits will break in and so disturb our attending here No said the Doctor we shall here learn the Art of the Divine Magia whereby we shall keep all Invaders out Or else that indeed would not be a sufficient Fence for us in regard found there is none who are resolved to enter in there with us but we both will abide there till others of the same Spirit shall come into us September the 14th 1677. The Opening and Interpretation of this Vision Was given to me That this denoted the Doctors care and diligence in making provision for that which was of greatest consequence in his Eye by methodising first all things outwardly for this free and quiet assignment Though according to the present conjuncture of things this seemed then much to contradict and to prevent the same which was objected to me But it was answered again by the all-knowing Spirit That there was that so deeply inlaid that would thrust out whatever would detard from setting upon this more Principal Building to which all must give way This Glassy Room doth represent a pure and clarified Mind in the which we jointly wait together as in one Room being of one Mind and the same Belief upon the great Work minding one Calling and Election hereunto and not giving herein any account to any one that hath not Faith For I had advice that it would little signifie to make any publication hereof otherwise than Noah did to wit by an actual building for convincement that we are of those who are forewarned to withdraw from all of this tempting Region For a deluge upon the World is foreseen that will strip her naked of all her pompous appearances for all of this shall be once again desolate Therefore the Word pronounced a Blessedness indeed upon those who were found enclosed within this Glassy Ark. For it was testified that Noah 's Spirit would yet return again to condemn this present World and that it would be demonstrable in some one or other In whom a Spirit of Faith would stir as from the Light and Knowledge of what the Spirit of Wisdom dictates to them and so it will be given to One to proceed from It was also signified to me that such Preachers of Righteousness would rise near upon the third and last Ministration who will internally prepare the Transparent Court for the Holy Ghost by disappearing and winding off from that first Building Which is so thick dark and gross as through that no sight into matters of Celestiality could ever be attainable Therefore a Chrystalline Body is to be built up by the Tool of Faith to be an Eternal House for the Spirit to dwell and act in As of Enoch it was said he was translated by Faith so as he did
such an incorruptible state that should never see death was by us to believed in Iohn 31. 26. And whosoever believeth in me shall never die believest thou this Many more to this purpose were called over and interpreted which may come forth in their season these for the present may suffice These Holy Scriptures give us to know That we as to our visible Bodies are in a strange deformity out of which we may lawfully hope to be redeemed And whoever have Faith herein without wavering may certainly see such a translation For this word did sound in me According as your Faith extends so it will in this respect make an alteration Oh who but such as are mighty in Faith shall live to see the old Mark of of the Beast worn out and the Fathers Name planted and engraven on us Which will make us as the sparkling Stones of a Crown lifted up and as an Ensign where the place of our Habitation by the Most Holy shall be appointed October the 1st 1677. The Mount of Elijah UPON this I did much strive to thwart my Sense which was in great mutiny against this Gospel transmutation And as my Faith did get up so Reasons Club did beat me down so passing some hours in great controversie here-about in my self After my natural repose I saw my self with some others standing as on a Hill where no visible fence was but the loftiness of the place Which the Inhabitants that were in the Plain below observing us there to walk were in great indignation and summoned us for to come down to share in what was in common Which not yielding to they provided Instruments of War as Arrows and Guns to shoot at us which passed over us and beside us so that no harm befell us For we withstood them all in great confidence of that fortitude which those lower Inhabitants could see nothing thereof And the shout of the Voice went forth The Spirit of Elijah will be seen again on the Mountain of Faith October the 4th 1677. This Morning it was thus spoken in me Into what Heart hath the mystery of Faith wrought forth it self in the true Nature of Creating Faith No resurrection it hath had in these last Ages Therefore ye do well who now are searching for it be wise to undermine what hath as a Mountain prest it down For it is that which will bring back what was banished out of Paradice October the 5th 1677. I heard this Night in my sleep a Voice calling me saying Draw near that so you may know great and deep things Upon which I was awakened and saw a clear Glassy Trumpet held out and a great Councel was held by some that all were in privacy in a reserved place only I did hear their Sounds and Voices but I could not see their Persons After which musing hereupon because all passed away before I could make any thing hereof The word said Yet for this Secret thy Spirit must launch and wade â—nto a deeper Ocean Upon which my Spirit sunk unto a good degree into the still Abyssal Center out from which all Light of Wisdom doth open And this pure Glassy Trumpet was made mention of again For it was said That none should ever sound this Trumpet but such who could attain to walk and move upon Faith's holy ground Then took I occasion herefrom earnestly to interceed and while I was praying for this Mystery of Faith to be revealed it was spoke in me Thou seekest that which is so weighty and mystical that time must be allotted to draw or extract out of the full and perfect Number of Coessentiality of Spirit which is attributed to the Holy Trinity Into this thou must search and dive for thy Spirit is of the same Eternal Line and Nature and it may recover what it hath lost by descending into this terrestial World of which course matter thou hast formed a body of flesh about thee wherewith be content for a while till the pure spark Faith shall refine it for thee and make it all sublime October the 8th 1677. The profession of Faith was still urged upon me as the only Gift which would renew all things out of the old frame of Nature For the teaching unction did further reveal to me the supereminency of this Golden Grain of Faith which is the product of the Deity where-ever it shall be found Therefore I had a charge in these words given me saying Suffer not so rich a Talent as this to be hid only in and with the Sacred Trinity Come Oh thou restless Mind and I will shew thee where and how thou must feel this Creating Breath in its first beginnings of Life These Rules therefore observe constantly First Then know that the Center of this high extracted Spirit of Faith lies in the Golden Ocean deep of Love So then herefrom take notice that only a mighty vehement Spirit of Love shall bring forth the Life-acting Body of the Holy Ghost which indeed will all be manifested in Loves strong ardency See now then in what ground this choice Pearl be found the meer strength of Love must give entrance where this almighty Dowry is Love raised up to its first Virgin Purity will make Faith descend in all it s asâ—umed Majesty Love and Faith have an overcoming Omnipotency attending them God will suffer himself to be conquered by the Spirit of Love and Faith as he saith concerning the work of my hands command ye me Nothing can God detain from such if they remain in the ardency of this meek Love-fire as in a still flame Therefore through the augmentation of this pure burning Breath of Love which as an ascending Spirit can pass into the very secret abyssal Deep to draw into it self that very Faith by which all things have received their existency Such a Spirit sent forth in the cooperation with Love will effect that transparent formation which may well become the pure Beaming Glory of the Blessed Trinity Therefore receive this from the true and faithfull Witness That Love is and must be as the circling Ring in which this sparkling Stone of Faith will fix it self as a signal Monument Wherefore now see a pretious bundle of Love is all necessary as a prepared Vessel into which the highest drawn Matter of all Spirits may be put This pure essence of Faith can live or lodge no where but in the Virgin Bosom of Charity Which is so comely and innocent as a trueâ— qualiification hereof cannot be nominated God is Love and therefore how can he be strange or unknown where the sâ—ame of his own essential property is sound No doubt but to such all-transforming Faith will be givened as a Golden Balsom to heal that which is demolished As witness the Body of frail Mortality which is shue out from all those that are of Aeâ—herial Forms and Angelical Figures Let this Medicinal Stone be of all value to you for renewing of Immortality that ye may be like those of that high
is hereby to be revealed only as this pure Spirit comprehends its own Original from whence it proceeds infinitely and so sounds and finds infiniâ—â— things contained in the immense Being By vertue of a new Covenant tye which the Spirit of a new and perfect Heart is for ever under the obligation of a Love constraining Law from which there may be no departing But while upon these Myrrh-dropings my Soul was feeding this Word for Confirmation was added What if this may become such a time of Love as by passing by to look upon thee I shall Swear unto thee and not repent that I thy God will be unchangeable And will enter into such a Covenant as thou mayst henceforth become mine Then shall I know what to do with thee for further Glory and Excellency For in that thou wilt be commendable to thy God whose Eye only can take pleasure therein Then was presented a transient sight to wit a Pool wherein I was bid constantly to wash and bathâ— for the Word signified that such Virtue was herein as it would make White the very Blackamore's Skin and cleanse away every Leopard's Spot For it is a Bath of burning Oyl that will the first Birth of the earthly Heart to purpose try and melt away that so all pure Spirit of Life may spring and a body of a shining Skin as a Cherub-Covering be given For it was revealed to me that this should be done unto us as we were become the Lord 's by League and Covenant Whence it stood upon the Honour of the Lamb and of his Kingdom for us to be found all clear and perfect through this Pool of Balsoming Blood that throughly Baptizeth all who are in the true Memberhood of his Body November the 28th 1677. A holy and pure Communion and freedom being maintained in a Spiritual way betwixt the Spirit of the Bridegroom and the Spirit that is preparing to be the Bride of the Lamb thus it was manifested by this similitude presenting before my in-seeing Eye a Golden Charger and in it somewhat of a Spirit of an extracted Virtual Matter upon which fell a sparkling Star as from the Invisible Orb and caused the Liquor in the Charger to flame up And I heard presently the Word say Come my Spouse and draw near for here is provided Heavenly Chear Behold the Lord the Spirit is presented here in a Lordly dish wherein the true Body of your Jesus is both tastable and discernible Whosoever of this are able to drink in it will make them Spirits as all burning Flames Upon which great things were further opened in the Magia Line Which could I have but totally acquitted all those motions that concur to sense-awakening I might have given an account of an infinite space into which my Spirit was launching but was driven back by some stirring Essence that would not let my Spirit pass naked and pure in But this Word came tho thou canst not pass now yet thou shalt after thou hast eaten of this Lordly dish Which will turn Nature into Spirit then thou may into the secret ranges of all eternal heights and depths as an Eagle flye and see and know what lies beyond the Starry Sky November the 30th 1677. This divine Speculation which I had begat a mighty Magical drawing into those infinite heights and depths which did but just open upon me but then shut up But my Spirit did make again a fresh onset if by any means I might pass into that profound light Orb according to the Nature of a Spirit For an eccho did cry in me from that Sphere that the holy Trinity was there in the highest dimensions of Glory Which was a sufficient motive to attract my Spirit out of this vile Corporeity from which I found much resistency For I perfectly felt somewhat therefrom did rise that did bind my Spirit I was in great struggle for some hours for the Spirit wrestled for a full Liberty Then came this Word saying By all these Encounters the way will be made Only keep thy course strait on towards the everlasting deep Gate according as ye shall feel the Wind of the Spirit driving thereunto and so wait with it to moâ—e Oh to have a spirit in a Body of Flesh to be as free as a Bird which can when it will fly from his Nest This was to me a new revealed thing by which great discoveries may be made in the invisible Region who have been altogether Strangers to what is transacted there because the sensitive Soul doth claim such a Marriage Union with the Spirit that neither what is present or what is to come must sever them This is the Law of degenerated Nature which lawfully may be broken For the Spirit of the Soul is not for ever to be confined to the soulish depravity when once it comes to know and understand that it is a pure Grain let fall from the Deity into the soulish property Then it will not suffer it self to be imprisoned as under a Mountain-weight No sooner doth it spring and rise above the Ground as an ear of Corn which doth grow ripe but a separation from the earthly part or ground may be made by the mighty Lord of the Harvest who will come to reap where he hath sown pure Spirit And that in the very time of this exteriour Elementary Being Christs Last Day of Resurrection and Ascention shall appear through the Might of this precious Grain of the Deity by which I mean the Eternal Spirit of the inward man which is a Spark descended from the Deity and it differs from the eternal seed of Christ's Deity which is incorporated with this for its Resurrection and Ascension sake This spark of Eternity the Spirit of the eternal Soul belonging to the inward man will free it self from all and every corporeal tye For no â—errestrial Image though accomplished with all external Righteousness can ever attract this superiour spirit to be in a conjugal Union because it is too much below therefore it now seeks release from it as being ashamed of all and every circumstance concurring to the outward Life which would hold it so fast But Wisdom and Counsel is come from him who will be Salvation to the ends of our Earth His Spirit it is that hath called us from the other to an eternal conjunction with that wherewith it might most suitably agree so as to raise and heighten the Spirit to such a high degree of sublime purity as that it might pass as swift as a thought into the deep space where the infinite Globe of Eternity might come to be conspicuous with the glorious Trinity and with all those innumerable Spirits who incompass the Throne-Majesty Such Visions of Glory Spirits have been carried into while in the Body and so it shall come to be again and that more frequently and durably For upon an earnest enquiry hereunto it was revealed unto me by this Word The Way of the East should be prepared and the Gate thereof
of Comfort was given that we should here cast the Anchor of Hope for the passing through every Door of our own Senses till we had got beyond the Vail of Flesh into the Circle-Body of the Holy Ghost which is appointed for our present Mansion and Dwelling Where no more working Source shall open to disturb our Peace and Joy Our Life sustainment shall be effected by the holy Seraphim day by day till the half time shall fully be expired Then it is given me to see and to believe that guarded along we shall be out of the Wilderness by this Angel of God's presence who hath promised he will not leave us but see us safe within the Everlasting Gate This is only the charge that is left us to observe at present that we keep the Inward Court of our Minds from all polluted things and as hollowed Vessels to take in what from God's own Table as a daily portion is sent in Who will never fail to give what shall seal us for the day of this full redeeming Power Therefore upon this promise we are to hope and quietly wait for he will come with the shout of a King to the pure and Virgin-Spirit wherein Love and Faith have looked for him Therefore be not weary not faint in your minds for to you the Son of Righteousness will appear for full Salvation December the 22d 1677. This Morning I saw a Hand with a Pen writing upon a little Square like Steel or Slade which was repeated to me saying Despise not that holy degree to which my Spirit hath wrought you Know ye not that the Holy thing which is rising out of the Center must have time to work through all that dark matter which doth lie in the vail of Flesh. Therefore patiently give way to that which will go its own pace for the Spirit doth well know its own tract And if you wholly trust him for your guide he will bring you to the right Door which shall never more be shut upon you December the 23d 1677. I was invaded in my Mind with that which would have awakened a distrust concerning the Consummation of that perfect degree into which I have been thus far wrought up unto through Internal Purity attained Yet finding the Waves of Sense apt to break in upon this I was made to pray with all vehemency lest the Spark of Faith should hereby be quenched So after much strife this Word came in for comfort saying thou shalt yet Honour the Lord thy God with that substance that will open out of Wisdom's treasury Abide but firm and unmoveable in the Heavenly Calling from which expect the Blessing of the encrease for the bringing in of that which will assuredly bring joy and ease to the heavy and oppressed in Mind December the 24th 1677. My Spirit deeply sympathized with one that was in travel with me for the Revelation of Christ's Heavenly Kingdom Who in bindings and spiritual droughts famine passing often through with me therefore obliged to be fellow-helpers of each other in every Hour of Tryal and Temptation I besought the Lord and made enquiry on his behalf and this Word on his behalf was given in saying I have heard the bemoaning of Ephraim against whom a Confederacy of Spirits have been working but they shall all be broken as a Potters Vessel while he in Love and Faith adhereth fearingly to my living Word Then know that he the Ephraim may of the Righ-hand Blessing come through all Tribulations to stand in Victory with the Lamb upon the Mount of Joy and Liberty To which dear Lord bring him through all that which would hold him under and depress him Oh that oily Pool that can soon the dark stone dissolve let it rise and spring that we may find our way made free and clear up unto thee forever to be conversant in Spirit with thee all Heavenly One December the 25th 1677. This Word visited me saying How great is the goodness that is treasured up for those that love and long for the mighty God and the everlasting Saviour Therefore dress and trim your selves every Day for your Bridegroom who doth take great pleasure to find you all comely sitting at the deep Manifestation Gate and there waiting Oh sweet Jesus if thou wilt this Gate open and give us out thy Love from thence then we will not remove because of the sweet and pleasant savour that do's issue forth from thee Oh come with all pulling force that as a bright Cloud we may be of a dissolving Nature for all Love's impressions from thee that we our selves may be one with thy Celestial Nature unchangeably December the 26th 1677. This Word was opened in me this Morning saying After all knowledge and believing in him with whom your superiour Life lieth hid Now your great business and concern is to travel for its manifestation in and according to redeeming Power By which it may appear in its own native liberty and act for it self in Soveraignity as having put on the Lord Jesus as your Cloathing of Power For nought else will commend you in the sight of Men. December the 29th 1677. Upon the Consideration of A. W's Prophecy it was advised me that we should have no part with her in divine Justice nor be Agents in the avenging property in desiring Plagues and Vials of Wrath to come so immediately upon the Formal Churches It was shewn me that it was not the Time nor the Manner revealed yet how they should be overturned God had permitted her though a Lamb of Christ's Fold to be sifted and tryed through the opening of a Center from whence Spirits did strongly thus prophecy as to the time and manner and did upon her Spirit impress the time and so deceived her herein The Lord restore her and give her a more distinct discerning of Spirits from the several Centers from which Sounds and Voices do proceed The Kingdom of Love cryed the Voice in me is that which will open and be strong to prevail Even that Ministration of Love shedding abroad by the Holy Ghost is to drown and quench the Wrath and Angels that are strong and powerful in the Compassionate Love the Lamb of God will raise up to be eminent for trust in the agitating and managing of the great Spiritual Affairs belonging to his Priestly Kingdom that is upon its revealing to be more visible and shall mightily prosper in the hand of such who are the pure and meek of the Earth Who thereby do open the Love-Center whereout the Unction of Prophecy and true Revelation do's infallibly proceed for their direction December the 30th 1677. Upon some Considerations which were weighty upon my Mind concerning the daily expectation of that Kingdom which by the Holy Ghost comes to be manifested And calling over many foregoing things which as to this might usher in the Temple-Glory which is so beautiful and desirable to Spirits that are waiting here for it This was shewn me from hence that Vision
crazy Building you may take the Word of your Lord Jesus who by his Spirit is now come to tell you the material Matter of this House which you are to enter upon the Matter and Form of which is God himself Who hath had the Denomination of Old to be the Dwelling-place of his People and the Saints Pavilion throughout all Generations This Building is all of Saphire Stone having perfect measures of Length Breadth and Heights according to the Figure de-declared by Ezekiel who obscurely pourtraied out this high and wonderful Palace for the most holy Priests to enter in and to perform their daily Worship God is not a naked unfurnished House you will find it already provided to your Hand without any care or toil in first second and third Story with suitable Furniture to every place So that you will cry Oh how amiable are the Courts of Holiness Here you will desire to dwell for ever in him who doth so splendorously dilate himself to your Internal Senses that all may have a satisfying Content Now the next thing to be considered is to know what is here included in the Promise Ans. Here is included the whole Number of Divine and Celestial Relations promised upon a new Score of which Iob was a true Similitude who lost all in this very same kind and had all again restored as a Figure of this new replenished state All the Comfort that may be expected further from hence is Marriage-Union From whence Encrease may come without this the other will not altogether perfect the Joy Therefore be assured that Care is taken for this also there is a numerous Off-spring out of this Holy Habitation to be Born Your Father hath already made the Match before Hand before you do come thither All things while you are in this Principle are determined upon Oh! here you will know the unutterable Pleasure of a Bridegroom who will be so intimately tender over you that you shall say Never was such kind of Love known or fathomed when you shall know no more any Interposing Lover but can appropriate each other in all Purity A blessed exchange here will then be understood But yet there are higher Degrees of Joy when you shall bring forth after your own Heavenly perfect Likeness The great Blessing that is promised upon this Conjunction with the Virgin-Bride is Fruitfulness Ye shall also see of the travel of your Spiritual Bodies and therewith be satisfied Wisdom as a fruitful Vine upon the sides of this Eternal House and Building will spread forth her self Consider that of Isaiah which Prophecy is yet to be fulfilled Isa. 49. 20 21. In this time the Children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other shall say the Place is too strait meaning this earthly Principle they cannot thereto be confined they may look into it and pass through it as Strangers to shew themselves as Jesus did after his Resurrection but no continued Habitation for them is here v. 22. But thou shalt say in thy Heart who hath begotten these seeing I had lost my Children and was left alone This represents your dead and deplorable state once and the suddain and unexpected Restoration In that clause Where have they been So that a Nation and Kingdom of Priests seems to be born in one Day This is marvellous indeed when ye shall see your Spiritual Offspring as Olive-Plants about your Table set This must needs heighten your Peace and Joy in him who is your Tabernacle framer who hath such durable and pleasant Comforts provided in this Mountain of Holiness Besides there are also Brethren and Sâ—sters which are born with you from one and the same Eternal Spirit whose Loves are pure and immutable as God's Love is rejoycing Not envying at each others Degrees of Glory No grudgings there is though a Benjamin's Portion be doubled Among these nothing known is but an high sweet refreshing Harmony A blessed Family thus compact It may well make you groan to put off this Earthly House that so this Royal Society may be made known to you And as ye have been long herefrom kept as Exiles so let this true and faithful account which now is given by that Spirit who doth bear a true Witness hereof provoke you this Translation to seek and that withal your Might For the Emphasis lieth in that Word of your Jesus his Promise if you well observe which runs Now in this Time or in this very time signifying all Here to be made good Which will awaken great Persecutions as it is said strange Uproars within and without you Which the Prince of this World will raise when he seeth that any one shall in great earnest resolve to put off all that he can challenge right unto It is the earthly Sinful Body that he disputes for leave it him for after this manner he contended for Moses Body which God had hid Be ye henceforth Exiles here but real Inhabitants with God your appointed dwelling Place Leave this Principle and all what is its own care not but render up what you had from it For when you have quitted all doubt not but the hundredfold will come upon you according as hath been revealed Be you the first Adventurers here for it and ye shall be undoubtedly highly blessed The same Day I had this Word spake in me thy Soul is among tearing Lyons but a Daniel guard is about thee They shall make no Prey whilst thou dost fly to thy Rock for shelter thou shalt see their Mouthes sealed up forcibly February the 18th 1676 7. Arguments to plead with the Lord were given to me this Night Which I found was from the Spirit of Prayer that urged strongly and potently in me for our remove out of this Tent of vile Humanity into what I did in Spirit see Upon which I had this Word spoke to me Be patient in Hope stedfast in Faith ardent in Love and ye will move the Trinity to send forth Decrees for your enlargement Then again was given into me an Idea as the Dr. and I did mutually joyn in Prayer in and for the same thing that our Condition was like to Ionah swallowed up in the Belly of the Whale shut up in the House of Death enclosed in the Body of Sin round which the Seas and Floods did beat upon and the Deeps did roar and boil as a Pot of Ointment All which presented this World with the mutinous Spirits that are as the restless Waves that would as the Belly of Hell devour us if not bounded It was thus shewed to me that the true Prophetical Ionah was in us who was cast into this boisterous Sea which would drown the Prophetical Life but that the wise preventing Love of God hath provided for Ionah's safety in the very Belly of Death Out of this Grave the Lord our God doth hear our Voice though the Earth with her Bars are about us yet said the Living Word out from Corruption your Lives shall be brought Thus
a Mount which was all green and we were discoursing if we could come up there how we should then have escaped what we saw cause to fear For I did see many Vipers lie in our way and one did seem to fasten upon the Heel of my Fellow-traveller which I set my Fooâ— on and so escaped from it And as we passing still on after some space of time there fell a Dark Mist so dismal as we could not see each other which was very rerrible to me for we had lost each other but I saw it dissipated and the lost found again Upon this was opened unto me in what danger we were And it was said Pray for there is Cloud of Temptation that hath already essaid that the work might be retarded Moreover this word was with me Rise O Abigail with Wisdom and Might and give out what thou art withal replenished and thereby stop the ensuing Flood For all things do conspire from the Dark Kingdom to keep you from finding the way to my Holy and Separated Choir Therefore those dark Fumes and Smoak will rise that so you might not find your way into that mâ—niâ—ion-strength where ye will be secured out of all peril August the 18th 1677. After this I had a word followed me crying still in me Turn not out of the way of the Spirit Which the Morning before was in the Scripture Phrase given to me Walk in the Spirit or else it will little avail you to have transient visits from the Spirit only to give councel and instruction if it be not in every jot and tittle obeyed For walking implies that primarily Then was it shewed to me where and what were the Walks of the Spirit First they were walks very high and remote and private The Region or Climate was so pure that no gross earthly Spirit could have any consistency with it Then it was said again to me that such Spirits could only live here that had their first inkindled breath from this pure Element And such as are born again out hence can well agree with no other Air. These pleasant walks of the Spirit are all very lofty and those who stand in the low bottom of this Principle cannot see into that pure Sphere nor yet be walkers there For they are among pure Spirits all of one sort such as Ioshua was to have the priviledge to walk amongst If he would walk in the ways of the Most Holy and keep his charge and abide in the Inward Court The Angel protested he would give him walks among those who stand by the Lord. Which was no small preeminence thus to be among the Triune Society Even so it was to me â—estified That if we would but keep within the circle-walks of the Spirit we should be conversant with the Trinity And hereby it was said we should escape the hurtful influences of those who walk and live after the fleshly Birth For what we are conversant withal such we are For whether Spiritual or Carnal according to either it 〈◊〉 its impression readily Therefore this word came expresly Know and keep Company with your Bridegroom's Spirit That will bring you into high and worthy acquaintance indeed Now then consider ye stand now betwixt two Cross-ways the one is on the Right-hand the other on the Left the one ascends the other descends into this Worlds deep Now there are those who would keep their walks in both these ways sometimes they would be soaring up to God's Holy Mount then descending into the Foxes holds and dens where all unclean Spirits are And such as are of this sort will never make any riddance up to the Mount of Glory Therefore this word of Loves advice I give saith he that is the way of Truth to you who are called out of the Worlds walks That you stedily keep your Eye where the Spirit doth make his Tract for you and that you do keep on your daily pace Follow still the Measuring Line that doth ascend strait upward For there is no admittance herefrom to turn aside because great loss will be sustained To go backwards and forwards can produce nothing but wo and ill For no progress can any such make in this Ascending State And as these walks are high so they are very private and reserved No evil Eye can espy the Roads of the Spirit What of gross Corporeity can pierce into this bright burning Element where the pure in heart walk A strong enclosure here is so as no Beast of Prey can break in to disturb the solacements of â—â—rene Souls that have got in here they are secured by Cherubims who hold out for their Guards Flaming Spheres that so they may rest void of fear Then as to the pleasantness of Walks they are all smooth and plain A sound bottom they tread upon being all paved with solid Gold which is so transparent that its very reflexion gives light to walk by Then again of each side such Plants do grow as are known by Name They be most odoriferous sending out such sweet perfumes each Flower spinging out of the Spirits Root such as Joy Peace Love Meekness Gentleness and Faith with all tender Compassionateness encreasing to all perfect Good You may easily know when you are in the right Walks by these springing Fruits on either hand of you and by the high Throne Powers here greeting you with fresh and new discoveries of their Kingdoms Secrets None that have walked here can ever more desire to turn aside because they can see taste and feel in their degree what the very Trinity can make them blessed in from what they possess in themselves as immense Ioys that are unknown of which some daily droppings ye will still meet with For as ye do abide in the Spirits habitation Worthy things ye may expect which your Father doth secretly keep in his own Breast as ye are made meet for them To which end I will open a burning Spring within you which through a soft breath of Celestial Air shall maintain heavenly clarity Then will your God walk absolutely with you and will be henceforth no stranger to your habitation But then watch to it that when he come he may find you waiting there within that pure and all-indurable burning Sphere sucking and drawing still in the fresh gusts of Endless Love which may work up to a refining Element Whereby Paradise that hath fled away from this Principle may now again bud forth and recover you out of the Curse This is the very way hereunto therefore saith the Just One take all heed to keep in the Spirits Walks as you would see that renewed state of Liberty yet once again revealed in you August the 19th 1677. There appeared to me two Trees the one in a Field the other grew under the shadow of a mighty Tree as in an enclosed place with a Wall about it that was all set for Fruit the other was all blossomed but on a sudden a shaking Wind came and blasted the whole Tree
no other Medicine here prescribed for it but to wash often in those clear and pure Waters which do run from the Crystal Throne into one Pool This doing day by day minding when those Crystal Springs do bubble highest the strong force of which doth wash off the rough scales of Sense Then shall we become all seeing into what is both near and afar off as to the working of the divine Mystery This word of Counsel was also added that whoever did seek this great gift to know the Divine Magia in its Eternal Motion they taken up will be like Enoch to walk with God from among Men in an unknown Region where no evil Wind or corrupt Air may blow upon them These great and weighty Crown-Jewels which for the last Age are reserved will be conferred upon such separated Nazarites whose Walks and Conversations are in the Immanuel where the Vail and Face of the Covering will be done away when no need there will be of crying Come up and see for in the very Eye of Light we then shall comprehend and all Invisible things shall stand as naked before us But oh thou Lamb of God when shall thy Hand of Might be stretched out to bring these mighty things to pass for any one December the 8th 1677. This Word visited me saying How great is the goodness that is treasured up for those that love and long for the mighty God and the everlasting Saviour Dress therefore and trim your selves every day for your Bridegroom who doth take great pleasure when he finds you all comely and sitting at the deep Manifestation Gate Oh sweet Jesus if thou wilt this Gate open and give us out from thence thy Loves we will not remove because of the sweet and pleasant savour that from thee doth issue forth Oh come with all pulling force that as a bright Cloud we may be of a dissolving Nature for all Love's impressions from thee and that so we may see our selves one with thy Celestial Nature unchangeably December the 9th 1677. In the Night I had hard wrestling with somewhat which had brought an overcast of gloominess upon my Heavens which I could not well bear but did row as against Wind and Tide to get out of the danger of those Floods that did violently break in And through earnest and strong Supplications I was heard in that I fear'd For my Jesus to my aid did come in and in truth made all miraculously to be still within me and did charge with great authority all those troublers of my Joy and Peace to depart saying Who is it that hath any thing to do here where my living Name is engraven Have not I chosen thee for my own purpose What then do mean these strange Injections here to throng Fly O ye dark Clouds from my habitation for I will dwell in all Light with my separated Spouse who hath Covenanted within the Circle of a Love-flaming Heart still to wait for me her Lord. Accordingly so soon as I could thereinto retire a mighty sweet transfusion of Light did every where about me meet And this did verily usher in the whole influencing Body of the Trinity I was never made more internally sensible of their environing and out-spreading Banner which as in a moment was stretched out to secure me from the Waters which the Spiritual Harlot sitteth upon and that in and very near us For the Seat of all these whirling Imaginations are shewn me not only to be as an Accident now and then happening but this adulterous Spirit claims and would have a fixed Seat in the Mind and therein bring all her worldly Sorceries to infect the mind and betray it into the gulf of Perdition Which was prevented and kept off by the suddain and secret introducing Power of the Trinity that encompass those who are in fear of such overflowing from these bitter and brackish Waters For this I may give as a known experience and write upon it probatum est that we at no time are now necessarily exposed to be overcome with any evil of Sin though it lurks and beleagers very close For strong and mighty is now the Spirit of the Lamb who is assigned to come in for our rescue Therefore if we do earnestly implore for the Captain of the Lord's Hosts who is to deliver his Lambs from the Mouth of the Lyon that roareth for his Prey upon immortal Souls they will be delivered This often witnessed hath been that we might not cowardly fall under the Hand of the Man of Sin For this Word was given while I was in spiritual Combate Hold out for Victory I am your Life-guard and ye shall never perish out of my Hand There is nothing sure more pleasing then to see the Enemy of Truth and Righteousness so worsted and kept under Ground that he may lift up his Head no more within your Tent. Where then like Iael thou shalt be called Blessed of Women that art so skilful as to smite Sisera to the Ground never more to rise again There is a Nail within thy Tent which thou shalt be taught how to use it that so the full Execution may be upon the troubler of Israel by the united force of Barak and Iael together Barak signifies Jesus Christ the Prince of strength valour and might that makes Sisera to fly into that Tent where the Nail by Wisdom's Hand will surely be fastened Then not only the Song of Deborah but of the Bride and the Lamb will be sung When thus overturned shall be the whole Principality of Sisera's Kingdom that so nothing of his Seat and Throne within us may be found This for us the Lord is now doing and it is marvellous in our Eyes Being we are called out to be Followers of the Lamb in spiritual War till all shall bow and fall down dead before us that hath contradicted the absolute Reign of Jesus in us Let us go forth in that mighty JAH that is with us who will make all Kings and Nations to tremble before us as we shall move forward in that power Who hath promised that yet in the Wilderness we shall be secured till the mighty Prince thereout shall go before us as the CYRVS which shall perform all those great things promised concerning the bringing in and establishing of the everlasting Kingdom Which the Holy Ones hath so long kept out in waiting for this Man of Spiritual Might to go forth for the recovery hereof For hitherto little hath been done as to a full and total Conquest over those great potent Powers of Darkness that have withstood Michael and his Followers But this Word was given me That though it hath been so permitted yet now the Day of the Lord's controversie for full Vengeance was near upon those secret and home-bred Enemies of all Righteousness Therefore according to our present Might we should strike the Nail into the Head of the Sisera And this will give such a proof of divine valour to our God that we shall be