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The laws of paradise, given forth by wisdom to a translated spirit.
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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THE LAWS OF PARADISE Given forth by Wisdom TO A Translated SPIRIT The LAW shall go forth of ZION Mic. 4. 2. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street 1695. ERRATA PAge 65. line 17. read by the Decease of my Father I came to be involved But not being able to be long Absent from THE PREFACE TO a certain Person that for many Years had been led wonderfully in the Ways of God it came to pass that one day upon a deep Contemplation of the Paradisical World there appear'd in the midst of a most bright Cloud a Woman of a most Sweet and Majestick Countenance her Face shining as the Sun and her Vesture of Transparent Gold who said Behold I am God's Eternal Virgin Wisdom whom thou hast been enquiring after I am to unseal the Treasures of God's deep Wisdom unto thee and will be as Rebecca was to Iacob a true natural Mother for out of my Womb thou shalt be brought forth after the manner of a Spirit being Conceiv'd and Born again This thou shalt know by a new Motion of Life stirring and giving a restlesness till Wisdom be Born within the inmost parts of thy Soul Now consider of my Sayings till I shall return to thee again Then after three days the same Figure appear'd in greater Lustre and Glory to this Person bearing a Crown on her Head and spake to this effect Behold thy Mother and know that thou art to enter into Covenant with me to Obey the Laws of the New Creation which shall be revealed And upon this a Golden Book being Seal'd with Three Seals was by her presented to the said Person declaring that in it were declar'd the deep Mysteries of the Divine Wisdom which had been Sealed up from the past Ages and were now to be opened and manifested to her Children that should be found willing to receive and to observe such LAWS as she should deliver forth in the New Heart and in the New Spirit After Six days the Vision again return'd and the Virgin Queen shew'd her self in most Mighty Majesty being attended with a numberless Train of Virgin Spirits and with a very great Army of Angels and this Person was call'd by Name to come and view Her with her First-born Children and invited to join with them To which there being a ready and hearty Consent given the said Person was immediately admitted into their Number Then said the Divine Virgin I shall cease to appear in a Visible Figure to thee but I will not fail to Transfigure my self in thy Mind and there open the Spring of Wisdom and Understanding She also promis'd that by the Opening of this Spring there should be reveal'd Great and Wonderful Things that were to be made Publick in the Appointed Day And so exhorting to Vigilance and Obedience to those Counsels and Laws which should be given out from her she disappear'd having first receiv'd such an Answer as the Blessed Virgin Mary gave to the Message of the Angel Gabriel from this Person who was encompassed about with the Heavenly Host and made a Spirit of Light And as the Law was given to Moses of old being taken up to Mount Sinai to converse with God so in like manner it hath pleas'd the same God our Father to give forth in these Last Days the Law of Paradise to This Spirit who was some Years after this caught up on purpose into Mount Sion to receive it There is no doubt to be made but that these holy Commandments so receiv'd will carry along with them to many Awaken'd Souls the Evidence of their Divine Original And as for such as from the many horrid Abuses that have been made through Pretensions to the Holy Spirit cannot believe that there either is or can be any True Inspiration at this Day in the World I doubt not to convince the Sober amongst them and all such as are willing to humble themselves before the Truth of the Possibility Expediency and necessity of Revelation to be again restor'd in a Particular Discourse which is design'd to come forth very shortly As for any Particular Objections against either the Manner or the Matter of these Laws then when they shall be Proposed it will be time to consider of them Now let us who know that the Law is spiritual Rom. 7. 14. be altogether spiritually-minded and worship him who is Spirit in Spirit and Truth The MOTTO WIsdom I have sought and Wisdom I have found And now I wear her as My Garland and Crown THE LAWS OF PARADISE CHAP. 1. The Delivery of the Law in Ten Particulars given forth by Wisdom to a Translated Spirit THese are the Laws of Paradise which must be observed by All who set footing there according as they were declared and given forth by Wisdom as I was in the Spirit Who thus spake unto me Having caution'd thee that thou maist not be secure telling thee that the Tempter and the Tree are both here I Wisdom bid thee take good heed considering thou art yet but a Stranger and knowest not the Constitutions Orders and Worships required by the King of this Holy Land Lest therefore thou shold'st miscarry here as did the First Adam and many more since who have come thus far after the Similitude of the Second whom the Dragon hath plucked down again awakening in them the Essences which were slain by the Death I do now present to thee out of my peculiar Love CHRIST thy Looking-glass In Him behold thy self who was thy Dying Pattern and now must be thy Living Spirit to act answerable to Him Bodily and Spiritually And as he was in Paradise Invisible and in this World Visible in like manner as now thou art so the same Law which was enjoined by the Father to Him is expresly to be observed by thee Not one Jot or Tittle is to be abated therein For here the New Covenant is to be re-established in which the Laws of pure and uncorrupted Nature are again revived which were Engraven upon the Heart before Sin entered to obliterate them And as this Internal Law of Liberty was lost in Paradise so in all Ages it could never be found by any till they returned thither again to fulfil the whole Righteousness hereof through the Birth Power and Spirit of JESUS that hath imprinted the Law of Eternal Nature upon the Fleshly Table of a pure Heart which becometh a Law of Life unto it self that none need to say Know the Lord from henceforth if once come to know themselves after the Law of this Paradisical Life which I will give thee out as GOD gave to Moses in Ten Particulars that what is given thee may answer to the Out-spoken Word from ME Who for a General Benefit do require thee to Record these following Precepts purely as they flow from my Unknown Deep The First Commandment THou shalt own and bear witness to the True God manifested through his Virgin Wisdom as come to restore Nature
to its own Eternal Originality which consisted in Light Purity and Power And thou shalt have no other God live in thee but JEHOVAH whose Arm alone hath redeemed and brought thee into thy Primitive Liberty and Soveraignty again through the Internal Dying as the acceptable Propitiation The Second Commandment THou art not to Frame or Carve out in thy Mind a strange God tho' it may be after an Heavenly Likeness worshipping thou knowest not what or whom The Fallen Essences would make a God like unto themselves Gross and Elementary with which the Earthly Sense might be familiar and have recourse to for supply in a gross Visible manner owning the Invisible Creator in word but denying the Faith in his Omnipotency through the going a Whoring after the God of Reason bowing down and worshipping the Rising Sun which governeth the Day of this Fallen Creation the Apostate Spirits still crying in Man's Nature as of old Vp make us Gods which may go before us that we may have our sensible sight fed As for this Invisible Working Power it delays to come down to us though his Arm hath been made bare and wrought great deliverance yet now being withdrawn we wist not what is become of this Unknown God that keeps in such a Circle as we can not break in to him Therefore saith the Unbelieving Israel We will make choice of a God for our selves after our own Likeness Now from this high Idolatry thou art prohibited upon pain of losing Wisdom's Blessing For thy God will not bear or suffer any one whom he hath placed in this New Land to have any other God but himself who is Jealous of his Honour and who will be trusted to and rested upon and have the whole worship and subjection of the Will and adoration of the Mind not admitting either Sense or Reason to be his Rival Faith without doubting and Love unfeigned is the Sum of this Commandment which observe thou with all fear The Third Commandment LET none dare to make mention of the most Holy Name in their Mouths that are not with their Hearts incorporated into it Oh! what a Covering hath VVisdom's all-piercing Eye seen this Sacred Name vainly to be made and highly to have been abused by many dead rotten Spirits that have put it on as a Mantle to hide their VVitchcrafts and Spiritual Sorceries which is one of the greatest of Grievances this day to thy God It is not so ill taken from the unbridled and Profane Spirit as from the civilized Righteous one whose Leaven be thou aware of And understand from me what weight this Name beareth when not taken in vain but to good purpose as thou art required now to do according to these my Directions I. First Suffer thy Restored Creaturely Being as being become a New Believer to be Baptized and plunged throughout into this Name which is the Golden Pool where the Holy Ghost opens his Fiery Stream And he invites to drink down this precious Name or else all will be in vain No Unbeliever is capable of this Fiery Baptism for the solemnizing of this holy Seal must according to what is Recorded follow after Believing II. A Second Rule is That thou maist receive and bear this Name worthily give it place that it may all over-run thee in such wise that thou maist disappear and be hid in it so as nothing may be found but this Holy Flaming Name purifying every Property turning all into a Godlikeness as becomes this holy Place Thus will you come to know what is the Effectual VVorking of this Name as it is written not only VVithin but upon the Forehead being all over cloathed therewith This is no less than the Establishing the New Covenant making good this Promise I will be to thee a God and thou shalt be to me a People to shew a cementing into each other so as there shall be no need for such as are come here to say Know the Lord for his Name is now become One and All knowing himself in Thee to be IEHOVAH acting in a restored simplified Nature as of old time After this manner it is only worth taking and bearing the Name of thy God To which take thou heed and drink it in The Fourth Commandment THis is a considerable Duty that thou art charged to call to remembrance minding whereto thou are called to solemnize an holy Sabbath And since none but those who are Dead can cease from their Working Properties this Commandment reacheth only the Children of the Resurrection that know nothing of serving in the Martha-like Carefulness Here must be a Rest in Paradise yea all that smells or favours of the six days Labour which entred in with the Curse of Mortality is to be ceased from I say all sinful Workings either in Mind or in Body we are to rest from not doing our own pleasure or speaking our own words This is that true Inward Sabbath we are called to sanctifie our God with This is a Truth but there is a Rest which reacheth further than all this But you will say wherein and from what must we cease Pray give us the Particulars of it I. The First is this A Total Cessation from the Working Property of Reason the motion of which must be stopped Here is no occasion for it in this New Paradisical World It is Forbidden Fruit to the Children of the Resurrection that must live one and the same Life with JESUS and with the Angels that is a Divine Magical Life strictly bound up to the Mystery of Faith here to be revealed Thou must as one alive from the dead forget all those Morsels of Mortality which maintained the sensitive Properties and which are only allowable for the Inhabitants of the Earth II. A Second Particular is That not only thy Eternal Spirit and Mind rest from Labour and Commerce but also thine Outward in whom live the Working Essences which would be continually Trafficking like a whirling Wheel that is never at rest These are the Son and the Daughter the Man-servants and the Cattel within the Gates of the External Man that are prohibited working having fulfilled the time hereof in the six days Working Properties being now entred into this holy Sabbath where nothing must be known but such a Life as can take pleasure in loving the Lord thy God with all thine Heart No Work being required of thee but to believe and rest upon his Omnipotency to bring all into thy hand Thou needest not to wander out from the Tabernacle which the Lord hath pitched to gather Provision it shall be rained down into thy Tent if thou continuest in this holy Rest of Believing The Fifth Commandment HEre thou art required to honour thy Eternal Father and Wisdom thy true Natural Mother which hath brought thee forth and up to that stature and degree in which thou now art Hence no less is expected from thee and as my Fear and Love is with thee so my Honour must be thy great Concern that so