and last Appearance when he shall come to judge the quick and the dead where will pass just and righteous Sentence according to every ones Work yet will this Iudge reserve in himself the liberty to Release and Remission give to all that in fiery Purgations have passed and are humbled thereby Take notice of what the Apostle Paul speaks of in this Matter to be saved so as by Fire and as to that great Objection made from Christ's Words Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Punishment which is opposed to the short Limits of this World and admits only of number of ages which Suffering and Punishments there may yet be yet it is not to be beyond the Time of CHRIST the LORD's compleating and delivering up the Kingdom to his Father for GOD was is and so hath designed in CHRIST to reconcile all to himself which was at odds with him for it is not to be the least doubted but the Efficacy of Christ the second Adam by the merit of his Blood-shed and his Spirit given therein which will make all good again which the first Adam had made evil Much more I might inlarge but I hope this may suffice only to consider That Scripture of the Romans Chap. 6. Ver. 14 15 and 16 which is enough to clear and satisfie that the Plaister provided is much broader than what the Wound of Sin hath made This O Reader who ever thou art know I have been hereto from a heavenly Power driven to clear up and vindicate the Royal and Generous Goodness and love of the Holy Trinity agreeing all in Vnity for the reconciling and bringing back again into themselves whatever of a spiritual quality was scattered and divided from them which in the Dispensation of the fulness of Time will be made manifest to the wonderful Amazement for all of GOD's Creation to Love and Praise and Exalt and pay their Adoration to their merciful Creator that hath compleated such an Vniversal Redemption only suffer this Word of Caution and Councel That none presume to turn This Grace of GOD into a vitious and careless way of Living For Anguish and Terrour of Soul and Suffering will be upon them here and hereafter all which may be prevented in the time of this Life by an inward Circumcision in Spirit and mortifying the Evil Nature bringing it into a Subjection to the Law of the Spirit of Holiness For I must solemnly Profess to all such as do loosely and vainly live That they will have no part in the first Resurrection but be cut off from all those pleasant and unconceivable Ioys and glorious and filling Springs of refreshing from the Presence of GOD and the Lamb which in this present Life may be tasted as the first Fruits of the full Harvest I do this aver as from what I have known in my own Particular That if there were no Reward of a future Blissful happy State when this Life shall end I should think it a very great Felicity to have a present Participation of the Spirit of Christ and thereby be cloathed with his Divine Nature and live in the present Enjoyment of all those Ineffable Immunities that I have here given a Real account of according to Experience which I do hope and pray with all Power of Prayer That what hath been by the Holy Spirit of Imanuel unfolded here may be Received and Entertained as the golden Oyl from the Dropping Olive-Tree that as the anointed Ones of the LORD do multiply for a priestly Kingdom here upon the Earth The which Subject hath been Treated of and Published by the Author in 1683. Entituled The Seven Seals ' broke open by Divine Revelation some of which are yet to be had in my possession and as the Day of the Spirit does more get up and shine forth in this present Generation in Heart and Mind which only can be expected from such upon whom the Anointing is poured forth plentifully That may be so well stored with That Pure Grain and golden Seed as they may as Sowers go forth to Sow it every where Oh how were it to be wished and how much would it be my Ioy to know such powerful Sowers in this our Day which may bring forth a pure white Lilly Crop of Spirits with whom Christ our Kingly Shepherd may walk and feed Then he will be no longer a stranger to his Fold here upon Earth but be well known to be our feeding Pasture continually But I shall here now stop and with this Word conclude as if it were my last Dying-Speech which I do direct to all Ranks Sorts and Degrees and more especially to them who are Called and Liberty have to exercise a true Spiritual Ministry That they may know what This Season and Time may call for being now past the first and second Number of Time and are come to the Half-time Therefore go forth with your anointed Shield and with your Horn fill'd with Oil of the Spirit Spare not to sound your Trumpets of the Spirit that may gather in from the utmost parts of the Earth that they may both see know and partake of this Dawning and Day-star rising first in our Hearts and from thence lead most rightly where we may our Princely Redeemer see Eyé to Eye in Kingly Majesty For the which end it is Incumbent and chargeable upon you to propogate this fore-runner of our Lord Christ which is the Spirits ministry as the One and All that I have to leave and commend to you who Lovers and Walkers are in this Spiritual way which hath been here described by the May 12 th 1694. A Flower from the Paradisical ground hath appeared the Nature and Property of which is never to fade or die for its descent is from on high which is the Lord the quickening Spirit from Eternity THis is the Plant that has put forth it self distinct from the outward Nature in me well known it is by its pleasant Scent qualifying with Fragrant Love so very sweet and mild that it harmoniseth the Soul to that degree That it feels no other life than a Ghostly Deity That is the Root which feeds this Rosie Flower of the Mind with a certain kind of Balsamick Vertue that so its beauty is of a Blushing freshness always Now herein lieth the greatest of all Mysteries That under the Covert of a mortal Humane form such an anointed Cherub should There live and move as having the fire-sparkling Eye that pierceth into the Heavens there to view and see what is of its own Kind and Property transplanted into That upper Region for known it is to me that Spirits Pure and Separate from this gross Earth may be both with Christ the Head and with his body of Saints who in the Heights of Glory are Yet mutual Greeting and Conversation allowed may be as springing from one Eternal root and ground coupled together in Loves golden Chain of Everlasting Unity But it is given me to understand that such Saints which are yet in the
Body that is yet Corporeal they must be highly spirited and much estranged from themselves as considered in an outward creaturely Life for That part must be silenced and shut up when ever the Soul in this Body would hold a Communion or spiritual Conference with the Kingly Shepherd and That upper Fold Now from hence it is to be concluded they must be High Graduated Souls that are priviledged to come up Here to this Heavenly Court Every Spirit according to its growth and attainment so it will be ranked with such as are above each one joined to its like in Heavenly places for so it will be whilst in the body of time and when There from separated Oh my Friends who ever This comes to know they will little care for any other Society but what is above for Christ being Glorified He mightily doth draw pure Spirits to be with him as their most proper Center and Dwelling-place The body of Sin and Flesh hath been indeed a great Impediment to such Heavenly-minded Souls that in this Liberty of Mind for a spiritual flight would be but the Mill-stone of this Earth doth bind and keep them down so as they cannot ascend The Question then is what must be done to get free to hold up this all-desirable Correspondency with GOD and CHRIST and all the Heavenly Family I can give no other Direction than what my self have been taught in and in some degree have put into practice so as whereby I have found this All-secret Pass or way for my Spirit to enter and abide in the Inward Tabernacle of GOD's delightful Presence which is as a foregoing Pledge of what I may hope and expect to take up in when this my Body shall break away Therefore that I might excite all Holy well-minded Souls that are such Lovers of their Life CHRIST That they would not be bereaved of his Company during the Time allotted to live in this outward Body Then let them observe these Rules which I give as my Experience First lay aside all Vexatious Worldly Matters that are a Cumber and Weight upon the Mind take in nothing that is not absolutely Necessary be contented with a little of the World that thou mayest have much more of GOD. And if possessed thou art of a plenty of these outward Things be sure to give a Proof of thy Alienation from them by giving them all up as an Offering to the Temple-Builders to promote and furnish the Inward Sanctuary which the Holy Spiritual-minded Souls are to make up Therefore to be Encouraged in That it may be by such as do more plentifully Things of this World enjoy And bless GOD That they have such a Prize put into their Hands as to Honour GOD and propogate the Revelation of his Kingdom by supporting such as GOD hath Indowed and filled with the Spirit of Wisdom Revelation and Prophecy with all Purity of Conversation Sure I am it would be a most sweet scented Sacrifice to GOD if any there could be found that were thus so largely and well disposed in Mind that so a Sequestration and Dedication of devout Spirits might be maintained for fulfilling the Will of GOD here on Earth as it is in Heaven Ecchoing to the Saints in the upper World in Loving Praising and Admiring paying all Homage and Temple-Worship in GOD to GOD and the Lamb. I have been and still am of the same mind That if such an holy convocation could be brought together in a perfect Accord and Oneness of Spirit a great witness would be given to it and mighty things would succeed upon it But woe and alas and may therefore a Wailing be taken up that the pure Spring of Life in Souls hath been stifled and choaked by the Earth I have made it my sorrowful Observation how deeply buried in the Earthly Life the greater part of the Creation is in their several Ranks and Degrees the Higher Order in this World that hath all advantages by fulness of all desirable Things that this World can afford whereby they have opportunity to attend the high and heavenly Calling being they can subsist and live without the Toil and Labour which others are necessitated to be imployed in Therefore let the Great and rich Ones of this Temporal State believe and know It is incumbent upon them and GOD expects no less from them That they principally Honour GOD with their Substance and seeing GOD hath given them such Liberty and Command of their own Time Highly to prize it and make sure to themselves the Pearl of the Kingdom for That Treasure may go along with them into the Heavenly World when they must leave all that belongs to this Outward Now I have a Word given me also for the lower Ranks that indeed may have a more lawful Plea for want of Time and Liberty being ingaged in Business that must give a Livelihood and therfore they cannot be so much at leisure to wait the Motions of the Heavens To this the Spirit of CHRIST gives this Caution and Councel Take heed lest the Cares for the bodily part do not eat out the Life and Spirit and so bereave it of all that is spiritual-feeding and cloathing for the Soul and so be put by and excluded from commensing the degrees of the Heavenly Vocation and Calling and loose all benefit of conversation in Heavenly Places Therefore be watchful and suffer not the Outward to justle out the Inward Put but one Grain of Faith into thy Stock of outward Things and eye GOD Therein and the Blessing of Increase shall come on thee for the Just shall live both Spiritually and Temporally by his Faith We have instances of what the Spirit of Faith hath produced when GOD hath been confided in It hath produced a thousand fold more than all the Study of the Head and Labour of the Hands And as this Lilly of Faith shall get up and free it self from the Twisting-strings of Sense which hath bound it Solomon in all his Glory shall not be compared unto This Sprouting-Lilly-Day of the Heirs of Faith They who shall be born into This Faith they need not be thoughtful for any Temporal Thing for all Blessings in abundance will be brought in Therefore labour not so much for that perishing Mammon but rather for That white stone of pure Faith that fed many Thousands with Bread Remembring the LORD's Doctrine viz. Take no thought what to eat or drink or wherewith to be cloathed The LORD knew that by the Spirit and Power of Faith there should be a Support and Supply of all necessary Things But it may be said This kind of Faith is yet but very rarely in any one Sprung Well grant it so to be for the present yet it is a Truth that there is such a faith that hath been and shall most surely be revived again in them who willing are to die to all That which hath choaked and stifled yea bound this Lilly of Faith down Now to proceed on to the second Rule for
thing This I advise as my own Experiment and being found thus tender and fearful of being misguided you will be sealed or have this Witness-Seal that shall agree with the Record in Heaven and the Scripture-Record Here upon the Earth whereby you will be setled and established upon a sure Eoundation in This shaking and perilous Time wherein as it is said in Daniel many shall run to and fro to the Low Here and Low There by which that will be tried But so far as I am made acquainted with the Mind of Christ I cannot but give my Judgment that it is more safe for each one in His own Lot and Pitched-Tent of the Spirit in themselves for to abide till the Seventh Angel shall the Right and True Trumpet sound Then the right gathering of Eagle-Spirits where the bright Body of Glory will through all Clouds appear and as the Everlasting Sun shine forth at once to be seen throughout the whole World as This outward Sun in our visible Firmament so This Son in the one Invisible Element shall from Himself enlighten the whole Earth that as Doves they may fly to their Everlasting Sabbath of Rest. Even so let us be found waiting for This blessed and glorious Appearing of our Mighty God and Saviour in the which Mortality shall be swallowed up of Immortality Even so Come Lord Iesus quickly saith the Spirit of the Bride who is making her self ready to come to the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb where in Spirit I do beforehand see the Feast of Joy and Melody that prepared is Therefore my last concluding Word and Prayer is that you may all upon your Watch-tower keep and be careful that you let not any thing of This Worldly Stuff make you fall into a Deadly and Dangerous Sleep and so be prevented of a present possession of Those Ineffable Felicities and Sweet Immunities that in This little Volume is made mention of In the which Hope that to whom This that is written Here is and shall come may Caution and Excitement be to Gird up close and remember to keep unspotted from This World And so you will have right to eat of the Tree of Life So Farewel FINIS Iuly the 16. 1693. AS my mind was environed with a Divine Light which opened the great design of God's Love in the Redemption of the fallen lapsed State of all Mankind That Scripture being set before me in Corinth 15. 43. Rom. 5. 12. to the end The first Man was made a Living Soul the second from the Lord from Heaven was made a Quickning Spirit And so as from hence it was shown to me that the first created Image and Form was never intended for an Abiding-State if admit he had continued as he was first created God from before the Foundation of the World purposed far higher and more excelling Glory for as much as a Spirit transcend in its Quality and Essence more than That which is of a Soul in its consistency Christ the Lord being one Eternal Spirit in and by Which we are raised out of the Fall and quickned into Spirit whereby we come to partake of an United Purity Wisdom Power and Glory with him But here it may be said this now is not evident or come forth to all the whole World which seemeth yet to lie in an Apostatiz'd State Io. 2. 2. It must be so for a time and time and half time and then the finishing of the Transgression and Sin will be For then will Christ the eternal Root of Righteousness in all and over all spring So as an Vniversal Restoration to all fallen Angels and Spirits in Bodies and out will by Christ the quickning Spirit be set fiee Eph. 1. to 10. But of This Jubile an allowance of time will be for the working out this more general Salvation for many are the degrees of purifying which all Souls must pass through and such as do neglect their Day during the time of this Life as to the New-Birth and Regeneration there is a Law of Necessity for them to go through it after the time of this Life in Centers and Regions which are provided in other Worlds which are to be passed through But herefrom ariseth an Objection that if it be so that the Grace of God be of this Latitude as to save All Universally it may open a door for giving a presumptuous Liberty to some because Grace has thus far reached as to have any hopes of Redemption after this Life is ended Now as to This let all know that it is a Punishment and Hell enough to see their Fellow-Creatures entred into Rest and Joy and they in Labour and Work having all to do that tends to a Renovation and how long they may be in Punishment It will be according as the Wickedness of their living Here have been in all manner of Evil and Sin Numerous Years may spend away All which time they live excluded from the Lord's Presence of Joy All which may be Argument and Motive unto all to improve their Mortal day which if they knew what others do possess they would not lose what may be enjoy'd of the Powers of the Eternal world while abiding in this very World which is a Forerunner and sure Pledge of what after the Dissolution of the Body shall be entred upon which Here for encouragement I do give some instance from what some have attained unto who have first given up for lost the many Lives for to live That one Life which is Christ which only gives Rest from a Restless World and weary Life For whereever God in Christ in the Spirit doth abide so purely they may often be taken up in the Spirit into Heavenly Court There to see and view what makes up the Heavenly-born Family But take Notice such as comes up here will find themselves as another Translated Enoch that may keep their Walks with God in which Path of Light may be seen the Seraphims and Cherubims guarding along up to This Sion-Seat of Glory In which filled up with Light-streamers of Glory delighting the Heavenly Train of Saints There all appearing in Robes of Glittering Garments which Here do follow Christ their Head in great Order according to every One's Degree Rejoicing with Him by whom they have overcome and gotten Victory over all Worlds now to reign as Kings with Christ their Mighty Lord and King this Mount-Sion-World thus open-fac'd and was seen Then saw I all these Innumerable Throne-Princes their Homages and Obeysance given to the High and Lofty Alpha triumphing forth Redeeming-Praises Oh how pleasant it is to see what an United Love-Hermony from the Highest to the Lowest degree of These Glorified Saints all with Crowns but some more highly Dignified as Kingly Priests which had Breast-Plates set all with Stones that sparkled out with Sparks of Fire These all next to the Glorified Person of Christ had their Golden Tents and their Temple to Worship the Form of which was only a more Christaline Light
Humility A Sinful disorder brake forth and the Luciferian-Spirits got against the Creator who hereupon turned them out of the Pure-Angelical Principles so as they must remain Apostates from God till their Number of Punishment shall be finished Now from hence came the Infection of All Mankind These Fall'n-Angels envying That New and Heavenly Image For God after This made and brought forth to Replenish and fill up the void and empty Spaces of the Light World Man whom he had Created in their Room Upon which they did Conspire how they might involve This New-Created Being in the same Fact of Disobedience with themselves for they were Subtle-Knowing-Spirits and understood better than Adam of what Consistency of Principles He stood in And that through Temptation set on the hidden Essence of Evil might be awaken'd in Him For He was Essenced both in the Good and Evil and so became more easily corrupted and defiled Thus we give the Enquirer an Answer to the Question How Sin at first came in Now it remains to let you know How this Poyson of Sin that hath infected All of Adam's Posterity shall be allayed and expell'd The original Cure hereof is so known that I need not set That forth being generally believed that Christ came in the Flesh to be a Propitiation for the Sins committed in the Flesh. But now a deeper Thing than This I have to declare and make known as Thus. We know all Outward-Births have been conceived in Sin And yet somewhat of Good from the Original Root of Nature hath therefrom in every one sprung forth Now know and consider there is no other way to make a Perfect Cure but by taking the Sting of Sin out and that by another Birth conceived within the Soul which is Christ the Quickning-Spirit that which is a Sinless Birth And as that groweth up and becomes strong in Spirit the Sinful Part wythers and dies away Thus Christ the God-man works out Sin within the Properties of Fall'n-Nature And so compleats Redemption Victoriously For that which is thus born of God overcomes the World 1 Ep. of Iohn Chap. 2. But here meets me a Question viz. Is Christ to be conceiv'd and born in every one for Salvation so Intrinsically Yea surely This is and must be the Foundation-Seal whereby God the Father will own and rescue us a being the Express Image of his Beloved Son But again it may be Objected That I have verified that God's Love is so great and large as All Fall'n-Angels and Spirits shall be Redeemed But the Question is How can that be when so many die without any Appearance of this New-Birth you speak of It is so that millions of Souls do so out of this World pass away and much to their Loss and Suffering it will be Yet know The Root of the eternal God is every Soul tho never so Vile and Evil in this Body they have lived in and so died For Christ is the Light that hath enlightned every one that cometh into the World John 1. 0 that this Light and Life of Christ hath been shut up and Sin hath got uppermost yet Christ the eternal Spark of Life will save Himself in all that have Apostatiz'd from Him Nothing shall suffer Loss but the Fuel of Evil-Works that cannot pass through the Judgment and Burning And if this Life be passed over and little or nothing of This done There must be a remaining in a Fearful-Expectation of going through this Terrible Refining-Work after this Life in Regions so appointed for that end Oh! that all careless desperate Soul-Adventurers that know not the hard Tugs they must go through to clear and get off what they contracted of Vile-Matter and Evil-Deeds in this Life Therefore let All be warned to Mortify and Renounce the Earthly-Birth that so they may escape the Fiery-Indignation that will come upon the Workes of Iniquity Oh! now then whilst you have Day with the Everlasting Sun-shine of Love in your Souls Turn into it and it will Clarify and Brighten you that so Saved you may be out of all Future-Punishments and Entrance find into the Joy of our Lord which may be known now in This present Time in the Heavens of a Pure-Heart The happy Felicity of which I have already set forth in this Treatise So hoping This may give Satisfaction to the Impartial and Sober-minded for Information into the Mysteries that have been under a Veil which is now rending away for the which break of Day Let us earnestly Pray A Visional Appearance or Prophesy Iuly 15. 1694. I Had a sudden Representation came before me of a round Globe like an Oval that had four Circles and with in the first Circle was a Pure white Glass of Light in which there appeared the Personal Prince of Glory with a numberless Number of bright Bodily-Figures with whom the Elders were They had got Victory over this World who departed in the Faith of what they now enjoy And the Circle that was encompassed was of a bright flame-colour Then next to This was an Azure Blue-Circle and here appeared the Faces only of numerous Persons that are yet living in Bodily Figure in this World who some are known and others unknown to me and the Motto that was written on their Fore-Heads was These are Those who are waiting for to break through into Mount-Sion-Principle where Christ the Lord with all that are Redeemed out and from the Earth are Then in the third Circle which appeared like Pale-Lightning there open'd Seraphims and Cherubims bright Angels very numerous that ascended and were appointed as a Guard always Ministring to Those And did see them break their Circle and come amongst Those who pressing were into the Light-World The fourth Circle was a more Dark Dusky-Colour And here were those who were yet to be gathered in and born again Some among them were known by Face to me they were yet but moving in the Dark-Principle as shut from the Light All of This was conspicuously opened unto me And as I was waiting further upon the Vision as it shut up and opened again the next Night Then I saw One Mighty-Potent-Angel break through the Circle where the Glorified-Person and their Elders were and a great Shout there was crying The Principle of Salvation is broken through and now the Beast's Kingdom will quickly go down and worthy is this Mighty Conquerour to receive with the Lamb of God Power and Riches Wisdom and Strength Honour Glory and Blessing For the way is broken through for such to follow after who in the same Spirit of Faith are acquitting their Sensual Reasonings Then did I see many striving to enter in but could not till they had relinquished the Name and Mark of the Beast which is this worldly Principle with all it s Polluted Immercements` and Babilonian Trafficks which by the sight of this All-Conquering-Angel were prevailed upon so to do Then a Free Pass was made for many known by Figure and Name to enter in and to receive Mutual-Power to Multiply and Spread Mount-Sions Glory over the whole Face of this Earth So will all Nations be made to flow in at the Rising of this Bright-Orient-Spirit for great Powers are moving from the Heaven in very Deed. Oh Mighty Jesus Thou art This Circle-Breaker by and in such whom Thou wilt assume and take up to open the Fountain of Great-Wonders by the which the Lost-Purity shall again come to be Restored and the Heavens as a Curtain over the whole World spread This is a Prophetical Vision the fulfilling thereof draweth near Therefore it seemed good to me to add it to the foregoing Part. The Author has much of this kind lying by her in Manuscript that may yet come to light as God shall open an Effectual Door for more to be Revealed that may Conduce and make Ready the New-Jerusalem Bride to be married to the Immaculate Lamb of God for the which I say to all Come Oh come away with speed The lifted up Standard of Christ the Trumpet of whose Spirit does now Sound that the Dead in Sins may live again in a New-State from the resurrection-Resurrection-Life of Christ who cometh down in a Fiery-Baptizing-Cloud By which He will enter into Souls who willing are to have This Sin-Defiling-Garment taken away The Oil of the Spirit is still flowing but must now stop for the present till Vessels shall be found and made ready to take it in For the which the Incense of Pure Prayers shall still ascend up to Heaven FINIS THis Book is to be Sold by the Author Iane Lead living at the Lady Mico's Colledge right against Stepney Church and at her Daughters Barbary Walton at Mr. Mileman's in New-street at the End of Dean-street right against the 3 Tuns And if any one be disatisfied in any Point handled in this Book The Author is ready to give answer thereunto while she is yet Living * Note well from hence * The Gospel is preached to the dead or Souls departed †Ch. 3. 19. 4. 6. 1 Cor. 3. 13. * Or Christ the Lord.
Direction for such spiritual-minded Souls as do desire to be well acqainted with a life in God and therein to rest As the first Rule was to discharge and acquit all unnecessary clogs and weights exteriourly so This more interiourly which is by taking all care to clear away from the Heart and Mind the Scum that boileth from Corruptible Nature from whence Generateth multiplicity of profuse Imaginations that no stop can be put to but as the Spring of the Holy-Ghost doth open and drown That chaffy dust which defileth the Temples body Now this skill the Soul must of the Holy Spirit learn that as fast as the puddled-matter of this Kind do rise in the mind so immediately dowse and bath thy self in the Springing Pool where from the Water of Life doth bubble up for That is our Healing and it is as near us as the other contrary Source And thus we may keep our Hearts all pure and clearer reserved to be the most Holy Sanctuary for the priestly-Priestly-Spirit to minister in and to make ready a Holy seperated place for GOD and CHRIST to manifest themselves in us Upon This account was the Holy Ghost promised and also given to prepare and make straight the crooked ways internally for Christ his Spiritual Humanity to take up in a pure mind As Iohn the Baptist went before to prepare and declare Him to be the Lamb of GOD to take away the Sins of the World that by Iohn's Ministry a Reformation and Repentance unto life might be given But all this was short of the Spirits Ministry as Iohn confessed which is now come to be revealed Christ being glorified in a body all spiritual He cannot come to Joyn himself with any Soul but where this Holy Spirit abides before-hand to refine and purge the floor of the Heart This is the office of the Spirit Now hence we do see our selves bound to treat This Holy Messenger kindly It is an Infinite valuable Gift Oh therefore prize Him at a High rate for by Him and through Him we have all Knowledge and Intelligence from our Father's House and all of that Heavenly Family We should never know any thing of That state of life which is after Death but as this good Friend the Holy Unction makes out from the Treasury of God's manifold Wisdom Therefore who would not for so great a benefit keep their minds all Vacant and Pure for such a Comforter to abide with them who can tell us of things that are yet to come as the time Present and Eternity and This he doth and will do still for those that love and delight in his Company I must say and leave it for a Living Testimony behind me that had it not been for This precious Sealing-gift of This Holy Spirit I must have spent my days in Gloominess and Sadness Sorrow and Misery Which by the received Gift of This Spirit my age of time hath been past away with much Peace Pleasure and Joy tho' often thronged in upon by this Worlds annoy which could never disrest me whilst I could but keep the Spirit with me who had ever more New things to bring out of his Store to quiet and pacifie what at any time was ruffled and so much disquieted in me This I have only made mention of to provoke such or as many as This Treatise may Read and seriously ponder it in the true Spirit then will they know from whence This is written and prize it greatly and wisely make provision for This self-same bright enlightning Star out from their Hearts to spring who will prepare the way for Christ the King to reign till he hath put down all that can be called Sin for to This end is the Holy Ghost given and still a giving but in various measures and degrees some one portion others double and treble according as a dedication and preparation of Soul is found where most stillness and privacy for a divine contemplative Life is fixed There this Holy Guest will frequently visit whereby it doth well inform and acquaint the devout Soul with what is doing and transacting in the Heavenly Country and Royal City which the Majesty of GOD doth enlighten with his Glory The Discourse the Spirit may maintain with us about this upper Worlds Affairs will mightily hold us and wind up our minds so as we shall fear to let them down into this defiling World lest it should raise a cloud of interposition betwixt the Heavens and us as too sorrowful it hath often been known therefore watch and pray and cease not to keep upon your Guard always But now it may be said This is a Glorious and high Priviledge to receive of This Spirit which bringeth out of GOD's Treasury things New and Old but the way to obtain this Gift is very costly for the Rules prescribed carry out to such a self Abnegation and Denounceation of a creaturely life in Flesh and carnal Sense that it is very rarely that any are able to obtain and retain this precious and holy Anointing whereby we come to know the secret and deep Things of GOD. True it is This Jewel will not be found in common earthly Ground there are several measures as I have mentioned for they that have no degree of This Spirit of Christ cannot be his but if there be so much of this Light as doth check and reprove of Sin and it be Obeyed Then the Spirit will manifestly multiply for Councel and Comfort and so go on to reveal himself clearer as he finds the Heart giving up to be his peculiar Place of Residence that so he may keep all in a sanctified Order in preparation for more extraordinary things to be communicated For the Spirit riseth higher and higher as the Soul is emptied of its own self It may be queried but is there any in this Age of Time that can give any instance of their being baptised with the Holy-Ghost as in the Apostles days Yea surely the succession of which hath been witnessed by some or other in every age since although not in the same manner as with cloven Tongues and rushing Winds This visible Demonstration of the Spirit was to have its day and so pass away and now operates in a more Intrinsical manner and method in Vessels fitted out thereunto Therefore what was done visibly is now more invisible inspiring and opening as a glowing Flame in the Heart lying there as a live burning Coal which is known to us to be the true baptizing of the Holy-Ghost which is in present feeling and when ever it is in its highest penetrating power it may acâ— forth it self in miraculous Deeds and Works as the present occasion may call for This has been known and experienced by some in this Age. Then again another evidence of the Spirit is Internals Gusts and Breaths of divine Air by which the Soul is often mounted up upon the wing of This Word or Breath of the Spirit and so gets up to the Heavens entring into the
Celestial Globe of Eternity while its outward body remains in time This is known to some For as there was an outward personal going up to the visible Jerusalem to eat the Feast of the Passover which was a Type of That great Day of the Feast which is now kept the in New-Jerusalem above where the Lord Christ in his Spiritual Humanity doth appear keeping up the solemnity of That Spiritual Feast with the body of his Saints There and sometimes doth admit of pure Spirits that yet in the body of visible Flesh are to come up for to view the stately Order and Government of That Feast and to taste thereof This is the true eating of the Supper of the Lamb and drinking the Royal Wine of the New-Testament with Christ in his Kingdom which puts an end to all Symbolical Ceremonies Blessing Joy and Glory we may pronounce to all which Called and Invited to come up to feed upon This Pascal Lamb. They will never care nor desire to go out here to take up in lower Administrations for This is the Sum and Substance of all to feed upon the Quintessential Body and pure Blood of the Grape that as often as it presseth it self out it filleth again for a continual emptying forth so that none that is come up here may Thirst any more This is the True Feast of Tabernacles which I have here described to you for no one can go up here without putting on their Tabernacle-Body which is the flaming Heart of the Holy-Ghost But now methinks I hear some say at the Reading of This Oh! You have mentioned a high and lofty State which is as a new thing that hath not been declared as that in this present Life there should be found any to ascend to the New-Jerusalem to feast and worship GOD There This you will say belongs to the Enochian Life but That Age of the World is not yet come so as to know a Translated State We grant it that it is not common only peculiar to some that in Enoch's Spirit are raised to walk with GOD and so are taken up in the Spirit wholly But we may hope This day of the Spirit is coming on whereby it shall be known more universally in the which Angelical Spirits shall ascend and That Divine Princicple shall open that now hath been so long shut up Then you will know a New-state of Living that you never knew before for it will turn the Love of all mortal Things out of the Hearts-door This will in very deed be known Seeing we have thus far proceeded in opening This Divine Mystery we shall not stop here but go on to reveal and communicate to such as desire to be Fellow-Travellers with me to This Holy City the New-Jerusalem the Track having been shewed unto me not by Vision only as in past times In my printed Book of Divine Revelation There you may see what I had by way of Vision Printed in 1683 but now the Spirit hath moved it self in another degree to bring forth Vision into an Essential Fruition which ratifieth That Scripture Psal. 84. Verse 7 They shall go from strength to strength each one appearing before GOD in Sion Now This I find is to be taken in a two-fold Sense as to That part which is to appear before GOD in Sion The first is while yet in the body of Corporiety The second is when stept out of it so as no more to return again to it Now hence I yet not I but the Spirit of my JESUS shall lead you on to the first part knowing well the way and have taken the measures thereof by the Measuring-Line in the Hand of an Angel unaccountable to any but the Travellers thereto Some heads and propositions I shall lay down in order hereunto that our Fellow-Travellers may not fail to find sure footing The First is what Preparation or Qualification will be requisite for such intended Travellers Secondly What kind or manner of way Thirdly The several Stages or Rests by the way Fourthly Their arrival to This City of GOD. And Fifthly The Welcome and Entertainment the Travellers meets with There from all the Great Assembly of Mount Sion the Court of GOD. First then it is to be considered what this Traveller must be Not a Gross tangible Body but a Spirit that must thus take up Enoch's Walks separated and translated from a Terrestial Life to a Celestial This is our Spiritual-traveller's first alteration an Earthly Creature turn'd into a Spiritual And now we come to enter upon the way which looketh at first onset as the Valley of Baca that openeth the Floodgate of Teers and being now so environed with the Light of the Spirit that hath discovered to it an inward and outward Deformity degraded of its Angelical Image by the root of Sin in nature springing so that this Mourning and Sorrow not to be repented of And while in this first beginning-way the Soul will have many Enemies to encounter withal and Temptations from within and without and the more assaults will come because it is to rend away and leave the Walks of This Evil World and to betake it self to This New and Living-way But let not our fellow travellers be discouraged but guird up and go forward this days Journey will have its end though it may go heavily on this first day the second will be more lightsome and refreshing if it do but hold out this Probation and wrestle it out as Iacob did Then the Angels of GOD will meet the weary Traveller and accompany it throughout its way There are seven Angels or they may be called seven Spirits that are appointed to be the Guard of the travelling Soul whilst in this dangerous way I shall name them as I my self have found them a Fortitude of Strength in all my Journey on to this very Day So it may be to the Undertakers that will precisely keep to this Perfect-way The first of these Seven qualifying Spirits and Powers for a Guard is Holy Passive-Patience This is an absolute necessary Companion in this way No holding out without the Indowment of a Patient Mind that may hold out against all Contradictions and what will make offer to pull down from this High and Heavenly Walk The second is Deep or Meek Humility keeping low and humble for That secures the Traveller For GOD hath great Respect for a Soul that walketh softly and steadily The third Qualification is a Lively Hope which is as an Eye within the Soul carrying a Prospect of the Heavenly Sion That mightily strengthens it and bears it up Fourthly a Super-Celestial Wisdom that directs manages and governs the Soul as to the fittest times and seasons for Journeying on that is when to stop and when to remove on forward as the matter shall require The fifth is the Spirit of Faith This is a most Excellent Companion that carrieth through all Difficulties because it is the Evidence of Objects of things in the Heavens not visibly seen It is Wings
far admitted into Thy Presence and Liberty to ssk a Boon of The for Thou knowest well what occasion I may have Thereof being yet in the Region of time where obvious I am to Assaults and Temptations manifold All be it illuminated in a good degree of Light in Thee yet subject to drawings down by Spirits from this World and the Astral Kingdom that may pervert by mingling with the Super-Celestial Part of the Heart Knowing and observing in my day what Miscarriages among great Inlightned Saints have been who as bright Stars hath shined and then again under a Cloud have been Therefore O my Lord premising these things I in Fear and Humility am and dare not trust my Self at any time lest that a Slip out of the Right-Way should be Therefore This is my principal Request to Thee that Thy Spirit may be my constant Overseer Guide and Teacher as Imediate from the Father and Fountain of Wisdom Flowing from Thee then no Errings from the Truth can be This is the one absolute needful Request for we stand all upon a nice Point and if the Petition of Solomon was so grateful to God in His-day then I in no wise do doubt Oh my Lord to ask of Thee the Spirit of Truth which promised by Thee may never cease to be the Oracle fixed in me and all that do desire to be led Rightly for it is already by Thee given as a Caution to beware of transformed Lights that do pretend to the Right yet Thou only art the True Light springing from within Essentially And as Thou hast this Record been in me Oh multiply of This Spirit of Wisdom and true Revelation yet more fully so that what remains yet of Thy Councel and Mind to be further declared and known may still as an Enlightning-Beam pass through me and with them also who mutually shall in Enoch's Walks be found with their faces towards Sion the Court of Thy All filling Majesty Oh! Evermore find Room and Place for me and all of Thine that love thy Appearance To see Thee as Thou art will surely change us into the same Similitude of likeness unto Thee for so it becometh each one that still would keep their way open and free for Conversation with all the Priviledges that to the dilating of the Kingdom which shall be given forth with the Holy-Ghost as the sure Pledge of all those Perfections that may agree with Oneness of Life and Spirit with Thee my Lord. Thus I have offered my Requests and do commit my self to Thy Disposing in all Terrene matters and Things Here follows the Kind and Courteous Reply of the Souls Immanuel ALL Hail with Love Peace and Good will to the Virgin Spouse who is in Spirit come up here to make Request for That which so much is in congruity with the Father's Heart and mine This answer therefore receive that This Thy Petition shall be fulfilled on my Spirits part who shall not fail to open in thee what hath lien under Seals of Secrecy Do thou but attend Him and He will attend thee and whoever shall watch in their hearts His movings for He is the bright Mornning-Star who is to be the Conduct and Leader of my little Flock now in my personal absence from this lower World where the Evil-tempting Tree doth in all Souls spring Therefore great need they have I know of This my Anointed Shield that may be a defence upon every Onset of perverting Spirits of which in danger all are while in this Body Elementary Therefore I have provided This Spirit of Truth to be with thee for Councel and Comfort also to Guard thee up to me where thou mayest know and see by this Glass of the Spirit what I am a doing and making ready for the present and future Day when uncloathed of the Garment of Mortality also But for the present come and see and taste of the Heavenly-Fare and Powers and Joys of my Kingdom The Spring of Life and Love shall rise so high as to drink thy Spirit up Thus with me thou shalt feast and sup and never empty away to go which shall be such an Encouraging motive as will make thee to bend all thy Force still in Spirit to be with me Thy Lover in my secret Pavilion where thou mayest have liberty of discourse with me in those weighty Affairs that do pertain unto the New-Jerusalem-State So then Oh Spouse of mine if This thy Entertainment is thou wilt fly as a Spark of Light to the Body that is the Body and Fulness of all Light These are the Sweet-Meats I shall leave with my Espoused ones to feed upon for a refreshing support till a further day shall break though through the shadow of Death which shall consummated the Everlasting Marriage-Feast with me thy Christ and Living-head with all the Royal Society and with Myriads of Angels that shall their Trumpets of Joy sound at the Lamb and Brides-Nuptial-Day and Marriage-Feast So Ends these Hony-Drops from the Mouth of our dear Immanuel Now by all this which hath been declared you may see the Blessed Issue of an unwearied and Faithful Traveller to the City of our God which may Invite and Allure such as have not yet set their foot in This way and for them which have to make the same progress which will requite a thosand times over the Loss and pains here sustained in the way Oh ye that are Friends and Lovers of this way and would arrive to be Fellow-Citizens in the Court above with God and Christ and the numerous Company of Spirits Pure and Glorious There give me leave before I conclude to commend these following Motives for Incouragement to set forward and go swiftly on in this Path of Life The First Motive is a full assurance of all Love-Acceptance with Dear Embraces and most free Communications all Veils and Bars taken away thy Lord Christ upon this Mount will shew Himself and talk with thee as God did with Moses Only thou must put off thy Shoes because it is holy Ground you will walk upon as much as to say come Here all Bare Pure and Clear leave all at the foot of the Mount that would contract of the worlds Earthly Dust then shall you know hear and see That which is so ravishing for the feeding of all your divine Senses that you will say It is good to Tabernacle Here and so it may be permitted for so long time as you can abide cloathed with the Transfigured Robe of the Spirit of Christ but That will be but at certain times and seasons but it will be enough to know such a thing as This is and yet in the Body of Corporiety Now then the second Motive is that Hereby It is made acquainted with This Heavenly Country before it quite leaveth its Mortality in this low World it is an high and extraordinary Priviledge to see and know its place and company beforehand for our Lord Christ is very free to shew unto the spiritual-minded the
which God the Supream Majesty opened to be the Glory of it to which the lower Ranks and Orders of Spirits were sometimes admitted to worship There Thus is this Holy and Heavenly Assembly Imployed and Exercised with all variety of Motion tending to a Divine Adoration to the Rock Eternal which does multiply amongst them most Amazing and renewed Wonders which gives perpetual Matter to renew Love-Admirations So that I was given to understand that in this World was no cessation of Spiritual Vocation for out of God's infinite Depth and Fulness should Matter still renew and also with Power be endowed as fixed in the Humility all skilfully and learnedly to act and do after the manner and way of God their Life Root and Being subjected always to the Laws of of this New VVorld and Kingdom But Liberty is granted to many of this holy order that of the highest Saintship are to communicate to them who are not yet come up to their degree they may help them much in order to the bringing these their Fellow-Members higher up the great Saints will much delight in this Office and Service to their Fellow-Members for their Joy cannot be compleated until all come up unto the Unity of Love in a pure Deifick-Spirit Now to make out this there was shewn to me some chief ones in the Ministry of Love as Enoch and Abraham Iohn the Apostle and Paul with others of their Order that had golden Vials given to them to pour forth for Annointing and Healing and Peter with some of his Rank to unlock Centers and set free those who in those upper Regions wanted to be perfectly set free and in this lower VVorld also Now follows an enquiry whether there may not be a correspondency and intercourse maintained by these Holy and devout Souls who are departed this Body as to any Love or Pleasure in it living yet here such assuredly are very capable to hold and to have a holy League and very near Affinity with the glorified Person of Christ and with the heavenly Frame of Glorified Saints which have put on Bodies of Immortality for the high Illuminated Souls spirited with Christ's Spirit Here but yet abiding in Bodies Corporal they may have liberty of recourse by the Spirit into the divine and light Principle where the antient VVorthies are who would most willingly meet and confer with us about the things pertaining to our Progress to the Kingdom of Christ they are very free to discourse us in what may refer to a perfect Life that so we may be made meet to come up to them in unity of love to God as in Triune-Deity which filleth all There with a full Body of Light But it may be asked how and after what way does Spirits accompany Souls here that are Spiritual Is it by Apparition or com-mingling by Spirit In answer hereunto according to my present measure and experience I find it very rare in this latter Age that they visit Souls by visible Apparition though sometimes they may as Moses and Elias appeared to the Lord Christ since whose Ascention all of this kind is transacted more Invisible and Essential by passing in the way of a Spirit and having and influencing our Souls through which there is a sweet congruity and a reciprocal Love which is also in our Spirits towards them that hereby they often draw up to them our more Superiour Angel to be in Heavenly Places with them being very affable and friendly to shew their Princely Thrones and their delightful solaces and enjoyments they have from the perpetual motion of the Triune-Deity Now as any Soul here below do find Christ their Root of Love in them as their true Original for securing their Love first in the eternal Father and Spirit in Christ the Lord then most easily may we without being guilty of Spiritual Idolatry in this pay a veneration of Love and high respect to these great Potentates that have Power to befriend us upon many Accounts that we may need their assistance For during the time of our Probation in this Life so it is altogether expedient that we get acquaintance with the Servants in this high and Heavenly Court for they may do us many Kindnesses as they are in Offices of great trust from their head Prince and King it is made known to me that holy and good Souls have lost much as to the knowledge of Divine Arts and Holy Skillfulness to do and act forth the wonders of the heavenly Power in manifold VVisdom as Christ Moses and Elias and the Apostles in their day did Now it may be demanded what in Scripture have you to authorize this Assertion or Revelation First we bring you that of the Hebrews We are come to Mount Sion to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just Men made perfect See further hereinto Heb. 12. 21. 22. If there were no more it speaks full enough to the purpose to the confirmation that the Saints here upon Earth are allowed to come up to the Mount Sion perfect Spirits in Heavenly Places and do maintain a holy Conference mutually as there is to be Instanced in the fifth Chapter of the Revelations verse 4. How that the Elders talked with the Apostle Iohn and did show him several things Chap. 7. ver 23 24. And likewise in Daniel where Daniel asked questions and heard one Saint from the Heavens speaking one unto another for resolving of Daniel in his Enquirings so that here is a cloud of Witnesses to back it besides what of this kind is known by some in this present time and Age who do obtain and retain several of these Heavenly Intelligents whereby Knowledge is communicated and the Invisible things and objects there made manifest to such as are in Corporal Figures Now to instance somewhat relating hereunto in the first place we give you to understand whoever they be who would this Priviledge know and come to enjoy with holy Angels or separated Souls they are to be freed and sequestred in Heart and Mind from all mortal Entanglements as if they were divested of a gross Body with its Impediments and so reserving themselves in a most Inward Purity of Heart and Mind without which habit of spirituallity there is no commencing of this acquaintance with either Angels or Patriarchs Prophets or Apostles or any Evangellical Saints since those Ages for they having put on Incorruption and Glory and quite redeem'd out of the Earth they will not touch no more with such as are defiled with corruptible things now such Persons that stand thus pure and clear they may have much Assistauce from these Throne Spirits and Powers in their way and travel to their Heavenly Country for those Angelical Spirits that once liv'd in Flesh do more nearly sympathise with us in all our Infirmities and therefore all feelingly they tenderly consider our tempting-state and give themselves out most readily for our help nay they are Advocates and do remind the Lord Jesus of their Prophesies that
was This should be effected by Dying out of Creaturely Censation whereby a vacancy of Place for the Holy-Ghost to rise and spring and move as One Entire Spiritual Body within for so it will be when ever there is a cessation and a rest from the whirling Thoughts and Motions which from the outward Astral Birth is This will be the manner of my coming in this Latter-Day to stand upon the Earth which thus emptied is and refined by the Fire that never dieth which Fire is that Seed of God that shall multiply it self to bring your Christ forth numerously to overspread this World till all shall be formed a new Thus shall each one become a Christ or an Anointed from this Deified Root opening within their own Soul And when this Life of Christ shall out-grow its Minority and come to Maturity of Wisdom and Strength then it shall be known what you are made Heirs to and shall possess while in the age of time you do remain for Christ fully Grown will bring such Gain as Trains of Heavenly Powers will open and fly like Lightning that shall reach from one Nation to another by which the dark Corners of the Earth shall become light This is the New and Living Model which your Lord Christ will now begin to manifest himself in Therefore hereunto Let the Holy Anointed Ones be ever waiting for me till Power come over all that is Nature and Creaturely Spirit Seeing I have Oh my Lord Liberty of Speech further to proceed for Enquiry into this deep condescending Love of Thine what upon my Spirit do move which is How the ardent Soul that so great a lover of Thee is may have frequent admittance into Thy Council-Chamber to know hear and learn what may be conduceable to such an high degree of Unity as hath been mentioned by Thee For thou art so over cloathed with Greatness and Majesty that it is no light or easy thing to maintain such Accesses unto Thee as required is in so high an Import as this is For to know the Secrets that do concern the Kingdom of Thine and my Joy and Glory in Thee O my Lord be pleased in This to satisfy me Which was answered most sweet and mildly of my Lord in these words O thou Soul of mine thou hast searched deep for to find a Path of Life that few have found because it is all Holy Ground where none but Spirits that have put on my Spiritual Body can ascend and keep their feet steady in this Track which I to God the Father did freely pass and so may you as I in you this Risen-Body shall quicken up That so as hereby you may know it is not my Personal Glory that shall prevent such Spirits in this their humble and Love attempt For I your Lord do well know it is but expedient you should thus keep up your acquaintance with me For great will be your advantage hereby in taking and receiving from Me such fresh and wonderful Supplies of Wisdom and Knowledge in the Heavenly Mysteries as shall satisfy and quiet the Mind in the middest of an unquiet and disturbing World And now I have informed you in what you are priviledged in take all care to keep this way of the Spirit all free and clear that your Flight may not be stopped so then you will keep your Dwelling securely above with me in the Heavens and need not be careful what happeneth to the World beneath for your Mountain Scituation in God shall never be moved Therefore only happy unutterably are they who knows me thus for to be their new living and ascending way that as with my Spiritual Body they may go in and out taking what is for their present use which they may have from me all free as coming in the Faith of Sanctity Now having taken in these Communications from my Lord I found a precious feeding hereupon and did feel such a spreading and quickning Life come upon me as if all were filled with Christ in every part which may be compared to Elijah's stretching himself upon the dead Child which was made alive thereby Thus the Lord Christ draws a lively Draught of Himself in every part in the Soul and nourisheth it with his own Royal Blood which runneth thro' every Vein by which we know we have put on Christ in his Resurrection-Spirit and inward Body to which Perfect Thing coming Redemption is Finished Highly blessed are those that shall arrive hereunto By all these Manifestations I see the Day of Love is breaking out to compass the whole Earth and Christ will no longer a Stranger be for so he doth Prophesy in me That in the Holy-Ghost he will in this Last Age of the World more wonderfully appear therefore I am press'd in Spirit to Excite all that love and longeth for to see feel and know Him as a Present Counsellor and Comforter that they would thus prepare by Pureness of Heart and Mind waiting for this Love-Star to rise and multiply it self to numberless Stars of Love and Power that may a Heavenly Host be to proclaim the Glory of Christ's Kingdom Even so Come Thou Mighty King of Glory and make us Kings to Reign over all That of the Earthly Life as so redeemed by Thee Thou Lamb of God to whom the Hallelujahs is given A Post-Script Being a Question put to the Author which is this viz. Q. GOD being so Pure Holy and Good in Himself How comes Evil and Sin to be awakened since God is the Original from whence All Created Beings have proceeded As now both Angels and all Rational-Creatures are infected therewith all As this was answered privately so it is thought necessary and serviceable for the publich Satisfaction of All in General to be incerted Here being of a weighty Concern for to be Resolved in which is not from the Reach of Man's Knowledge or Wisdom but from the Revelation of the Spirit of Christ so given in and in This wise opened viz. A. That the Great and Mighty God and Creatour had all Principles and Centers both of Light and Darkness in Himself with Good and Evil Death and Life But all of These tho seeming contrary were bounded in Unity and Harmony So that the Darkness did not mingle to Ecclips the Light Nor the Evil to lessen and diminish the Good Or the Death to be hurtful to the Life The Divine Wisdom kept All in their Place and Station Vnviolated in Himself But what the Mighty God Procreated and Generated out of Himself Angels of That Kind which kept not their first Station they derived from their Creator All Essences both in the Light and in the Darkness and were very Noble Potent and Great But being now Distinct and apart from their Original Root The Being of God They found a Power in themselves to awaken what Principles or Essence they would standing in a Free-Liberty either to the Good or to the Evil But not being watchful to keep All in our Bounds in a meek
THE Enochian Walks with God Found out by a SPIRITUAL-TRAVELLER Whose Face Towards MOUNT-SION Above was Set. Gen. 5. Verse 22 Enoch walked with God and was not for God took him WITH An Experimental Account of what was Known Seen and met withal there As to an Essay to a further Revelation of an Immense and Infinite Latitude of GOD's Love to the Restoring His whole Creation and How and after what Way and Manner we are to Look and Wait for this Last Appearance and Coming of our Mighty GOD and Saviour CHRIST JESUS O come and see what the Holy One in His Spirit is working down and revealing in order to His Appearing Written by IANE LEAD in this Year 1694. P. J. DE LOUTHERBOURG Printed and Sold by D. Edwards in Nevils-Ally in Fâ—tter-Lane 1694 Imprimatur Iuly 24. 1694. D. C. AN Introduction and Apology To the following DISCOURSE MY Friends who in the universal Love of the God of Love do dwell to you I doubt not but the Matter of this Discourse may find Acceptance as it is a Message from above of good and Glad-tidings to the whole Creation from the beginning of Time to the final End and extension thereof for God's bounteous Grace will thereto reach But this Love doth express it self not only by saving and delivering from an endless Punishment as the just Merit of Transgression and Disobedience which is proclaimed to the whole Adamical fallen Race by him who was made an Offering for Sin But be it known God's Love is not so clearly seen or illustrated If O if Here it should stop in this visible way of Redemption by Christ but it must go much deeper in bringing forth a new created God-like Similitude in the Soul that what was dimunished and disappeared may be repaired by the Birth of the Holy Ghost conceived and so springing up Intrinsical for a thorow Renovation in every part of the Soul This you will find to be the whole scope and drift of what is written here God having Taught me by his Spirit in this great Mystery of Inward Redemption I found my self Impulsed and under a Constraint to make it Publick before my Disease being aged 70 Years that so this Treasure might not die with me not knowing but that it may be my last Farewell to this World Therefore have hastned to do my Lord and Master's Work whilst the Day spring from on high doth shine upon me if the outward Day of my Life is lengthened out to me it shall all-improving of it be as my most delightful Employ being called to it from on high Now to come to the matter in hand as to the Title which this Subject doth bear it is not an outward flourishing sound but from a most Essential and Experimental ground from which this goeth forth which if otherwise in my Circumstances I should not have rendred my self publick For every Wo her Head 1 Cor. 11. 5. But Christ being my Head-covering I have both Commission and Munition-strength upon which I shall proceed and go forward and say something as to the first part which is the Spring-flower of the Mind Essenced in a Never-dying Root which renders the face of the Mind perfect in Beautifulness for Love and delight to him who is the Express brightness of the Father's Light in which you will as in a Glass see the Royal Degrees and Spiritual Assents with Festival Entertainments in the Spirit so prepared that may be for an Inviting Imitation to the Heaven-born Spirits as also to them that are yet unborn that all may labour in such a heavenly Habit of Mind for to be found The next part which I have to commend to the Reader is according to the Inscription of the Book The Enochian Life that so hidden and unknown hath been yet by the Spiritual Pilgrim and Traveller found and may still be found by such as shall cease from walking after the Flesh and Worldly ways and resolve to take up to walk with God in the Spirit For if once you can clear and get off here from these low clogging and heavy sandy ways then you may enter into these high and pleasant Walks with GOD which when you are once come into you will meet with those various Sweets and Delights that will Ingage you to keep to them because good Company you will here meet if but few among Mortals yet numerous of the Heavenly Society will walk and talk with you from those upper Regions whereto your Travels tend of the which I have given an Account for Encouragement and Motive to draw up Holy and separated Spirits Hereunto who have Liberty and Opportunity to know beforehand the Riches and pleasant Things of this Heavenly Country to contemplate upon them for which End I have joyned and added to this first Part what was opened and revealed to me last Year 1693. where you will see a particular Knowledge and Experience of what the Saints yet abiding in this lower World may enjoy of Communion with Holy and Separated Spirits of the Higher World which may be of great advantage Also a little Tract lately manifested in what way and manner we may expect the LORD IESVS his Appearance about which so many prophecies and sounds in this present Age have gone forth I have according to my Gift laid the sure Foundation for both his present and future Appearance in the World Sure I am he doth and will send his Messenger before his Face which is the Spirit of refining Fire to prepare for his more Visible and Splenderous coming in his Kingdom to make Kings Priests and Prophets to Reign in and with Him on the Earth and when we shall see more of this multiplying Oyl of the Holy Ghost poured forth upon those that are Lookers for this Blessed Hope and most glorious Reign of Christ then we may expect he may be drawing near Therefore in order hereunto all Publick and private Pastours and Teachers should know what to go forth with and declare and Preach up the Ministry of the Spirit to make ready all Nations People and Languages to call them in and by the Power of the Everlasting Gospel the which powerful Sound may reach in Christ's Spirit to the Free and Bound whether in the Body or out For this Gospel will so far extend beyond the Limits of time to Creatures in ages yet confined of the which Latitude of redeeming Love you will in this Volume find declared of being also a revealed Truth which I was not from the World to conceal And as for those Scriptures that may be alledged against it they were to me Interpreted This Point to reconcile and thus opened that as the LORD CHRIST did go and preach to the Spirits in Prison that were disobedient in the days of Noah or before and since who in Bonds did remain in low Regions at whose appearance did Then find deliverance or else to what end did he preach to them as you may see in Peter and so again at his second
that makes the Soul fly so High that nothing of the crawling Earth worms can reach to molest or hurt it The sixth Divine Power that attends the Traveller is the Live-Coal of Flaming-Love that so vehemently Longeth to arrive to the visional Fruition of GOD and CHRIST with all the glorified Train of Blessed and Perfect Spirits This Love-Gale is so Mighty strong that it makes the Soul pull up and run swiftly in this Race Seventhly That which doth most compleat this Holy Guard is Impregnable Strength and Power for if GOD did not take care to Fortify the travelling Soul with His own Invincible strength there were no possibility to reach this Mark of the New-Jerusalem-State but Christ the Lord takes good care and will not omit to provide Munition-strength for accomplishing this Heavenly Journey for Christ the Lord longeth more to see the Soul-traveller safely landed in his own Bosom of Love than the Souls desire is to appear before him So by this mutual Love-Agreement the Everlasting Knot of Marriage-Union will be tyed when there once it is arrived Now then by this time you see what the Company is that will support the Soul in its Travels but the Chief of all is Christ in Spirit that walks in This Holy qualified Soul as in the midst of the Seven Golden Candlesticks The second Proposition is what Stages or Rests that may be allowed the weary Traveller to take up in a while which are Three This second Days Journey is more easy and refreshing the Walks gives a sweet Smell from the Evangelical Promises giving assurance by the Atoning Blood of the Covenant that all Guilt of Sin is obliterated whereby the Soul is Incouraged and Comforted But from this it passeth on to a Second Rest which is the Record and Seal of the Spirit That which was now from the General Promises Literal is not to be staid in Christ in Flesh withdraws and will be known no more in That Figure but in the All-filling Power and Presence of Spirit whereby the Soul shall know him in Her-self So He does then become Salvation to the purpose No outward Application of Christ is of That Availance as a Christ within who pours in His Saving-Name as Oyntment which performs the Cure of the lapsed State of the Soul because an inward Disease must have an Intrinsical Medicine that may penetrate through the Inward Parts that all may be made whole This is the intended Redemption by Christ and nothing less will set the Soul to Rights again so as to give it Boldness to come to appear before That great Assembly of perfect-Perfect-Spirits Mount Sions-Kingdom Now we proceed to the third Rest which is yet more pleasant because it is Paradisical As the Travellor passeth through this Country there are various delightful Entertainments Ministring Angels and Spirits that in This Divine Principle do meet the Soul There also are the Sharon's Walks adorned with the Spicy-Beds that gives forth their Ravishing Odours This sometimes opens in the Soul with Sweet-Tastes and Refreshing Draughts for the Godhead Diffuseth it self through All of That Climate so as many Spirits are made vigorous and Joyful knowing nothing but an All-filling Sweetness all calm and still in the mind free from the terrifying Cares and Combustions of this World though in it yet forgotten by it at least during the time it is round beset with this Light and Heavenly Paradise so that the Soul is afraid to be disturbed as to the lower Descent into mortal things again Now we come to the third particular which is the last remove that bringeth up to That Mount-Sion which is mentioned in the Hebrews Thus the unwearied Soul goeth on from strength to strength and is now come to the Fourth particular That is to the Arrival to appear before GOD in Sion This is a High and Glorious Arrival This is a Rest never to be disrested of Now open do the everlasting Gates to receive the faithful Traveller that hath held out its Probation-State It further remains to give you an account as the fifth particular of the Traveller's welcome up There The first Appearance are the Angelical Order that stands before the Throne who commanded are to Usher in the Arrived bringing forth the Royal Robe which is all Pure and Light without spot of the Fallen-Night which giveth the Soul an Holy Boldness to appear in That New World or Principal of Light as becomes all manifest So as Christ the Kingly Priest doth to the Soul Appear and as a Bridegroom Greets it with such a kind of Love-Gratulations as followeth My Bride and Spouse I joy to see thy Soul in my Righteousness and that thou hast past through a dangerous Evil Tempting World and hast escaped with That tender Life of Mine in Thee by which thou art come up a Conquerour here and now behold and view the Gloâ—y of my Kingdom which the Father hath placed me in and over all Principalities Powers and Dominions both in the Heights above and in the Earth below so as I can give to whom I will to Possess with me Ioy for Ioy and Glory for Glory with me as I have received of my Father so freely I give to thee and as many as from an evil World shall break and get away and in a Pure Naked-Spirit in Loves flame Thus ascend Ask now Oh Spouse of Mine what it is that I should further for the do I give Thee Liberty to ask most free for thou hast found favour both with the Father and me Whereupon the arrived Traveller-worships and Bows before the Throne of GOD and the Lamb and in great Humility doth make this Reply saying in the Language of the Spirit Oh my Lord I am come up to this degree but sensible I am it is all of Benignant-Grace and Love from my GOD and Father and thy Spirit O Lord Christ that my Conduct and Guardian-strength hath been in This my Journey One great proof I have had of a mighty Strong Guard with continual supply from Thy Fountain-Heart or else I had fainted and failed by the way The consideration of it takes such deep Impression upon me that I am at a loss and know not wherewith to pay my Debt-Offering of Thanksgiving unto thee my God and King only accept of what I have which is beyond all Sounds of words that are too finite to express praises for such Boundless Goodness which my Spirit hath tasted so largely Hence it is now that I do study to offer That unto Thee which hath been refined and purified by the Spirit of Love-burning given from Thee unto me This then which is of Thine Own receive for I joy to pass it all away as my true Thanksgiving-Offering unto Thee No part shall I keep back from Thee had I ten thousand Immaculate Lives to give up to Thee all would be too little to run their strength of Love into Thee who hath wrought out so great a Redemption for me And now my Lord seeing I am thus
to a present account of Peace Joy and Glory But yet we have somewhat further to declare as to the Clearing and Vindicating of the Infinite and Unsearchable Love of our God to the whole Fallen-Race as to Angels that have had their time to deceive and tempt all Mankind which shall have its Period and End for All must be redeemed and restored to their first Estate at the winding up of all the various Scenes which were to manifest the Wonders of God's Wisdom in Love Power and Righteousness But you will say This is only a private Revelation though it be yet I know from whence it is and if I were not upon sure ground I should not dare to have declared it knowing it 〈◊〉 â—tumble many but I must pass That and must not baulk a Truth gâ—â—en me to make known for the squemish Stomach's sake but with all tenderness bear with such as may make scruple hereof for I my self did the same till by Divine seeing and hearing I was satisfied in this Point But that you may not be altogether left to my bare Testimony Mind That Scripture in the Ephes. 1. and Verse 10. That in the fulness of Time he might gather together in Christ all things that are in Heaven and Earth consummated in him whom the Father hath sealed for the Restitution of what Sin had brought into a disorderly confusion Some Scriptures more I could here bring which are mentioned elsewhere by me briefly tho' not Here. Oh my Friends what more joyful Tidings can come to our Ears than This one Everlasting-Age that shall swallow up all those Ages wherein Sin and Death hath reigned with all those miserable Effects that have been ever since the Creation of this World But a new and wonderful Model God will bring forth in a new-created State Behold saith the Lord ` I will make all things new the End shall return to its Original-Primary-Being let none grudge that the Grace of God of this Latitude is as to make a compleat Restauration for as there was neither Sin nor Center to it so it must be again when the Hour of God's Iudgment shall come to pass a final Sentence thereupon to cast all into That Lake and Bottomless Pit where all of Sin and Death Sorrow and Curse shall become a Non-Entity Then nothing of Diabolical Spirits any more God's Offenders and his Creaâ—ure disturbers or Tormenters shall be all This in the Prophesy of Eternity will be known and Everlastingly rejoyced in as a fore-runner of This Blissful Iubile the Trumpet of the Everlasting Gospel of Love Peace and Reconciliation to every Creature capable thereof in Flesh and out of Flesh that are not yet fully redeemed This Gospel is not a bare Sound to be heard only with Ears It is a Spirit that enters in and gives the power of a resurrection-Resurrection-Life to the Dead that could no way raise themselves neither in Bodies nor out as is found in their several Confinement will hereby be loosned and set free But it may be asked when shall such a general and universal Restoration be as for all Apostatized Spirits and Creatures to be in favour and friendship with their God and Creator again Now in answer to this Query as to the time it is known only to God in the Secret Cabinet of his Councel only it is thus far revealed unto me that it will be at the finishing of the great Mystery when all Souls will have passed throuâ—â—â—heir Purgation in their several degrees that lacking is here for in all Cenâ—â—s are found Souls that shall be brought into a purified State by thorow Humlliation for all their Misdeeds And also when generating according to fleshly Births shall cease in this World Then this general Redemption will be compleated and the Mediating-Office of our great High Priest shall be at an end so that he hath nothing more to do but to deliver up the Kingdom thus compleated to his Father that God may be All-in-All possessing and satisfying himself in all of This his New-creation which will amount to a Perpetuity of Endless Joy from the various wonders and pleasures that will fill up Eternity with tuned Instruments of Praises to the Holy Trinity in their Unity as it was from the Beginning Thus I have given you a true and single account of what in my Spiritual Travels I have seen known and understood by being admitte into That Heavenly Court at certain times and seasons and shall leave this living Testimony to the Spiritual-minded hereof to judge For no other can receive or fathom this deep Wisdom of God I shall only leave This Caution and Advice as my concluding part The Caution is to those who would of the First Resurrection-Fold of Christ be as mentioned of hath Here been that they do not cavil and dispute the Holy Spirit away from them by their doubtful Jealousy concerning the Brightness of its Rising in the Pure in Heart and so thereby may prevent themselves of This most valuable and precious Gift who only is the true Intelligencer of God's Mind and the Breaker open of the Sealed Treasures that are of That weighty Import that a Soul that hath found the Good and Sweetness here will fling all Impediments away that hinder its manifestation and operation in the Mind But it may be objected there are many deluded Spirits that pretend they are of God Therefore it may admit of a Doubtfulness and an Enquiry to know the Right Spirit True it is This may well be granted to try the Spirits but then it must be by such as are of the true Spirit of sound Judgment and Discerning that can themselves give a Proof that they Here live and do walk in Christ his Spirit And that you may know where This your Anointing is poured forth by the Fruits that such bring forth which renders another kind of Life than can be imitated by a false Magus who may and do go forth with Erroneous Alarms and Empty Sounds which is to be Lamented and Mourned for that it is at this Day so frequent which fulfilleth the Scripture that Thus it will be as a forerunner of Christ the Lord's drawing near and that the ends of the World are upon us But nevertheless there is a Spirit of Truth that according to Christ's Promise is and will be plenteously poured forth also in This latter Age tho' permitted is the false and mixed-spirited which is a design of the Adversary to nullify and make void what is from the true Spirit of Christ. But let not This stagger or baffle us out of our Right to a Portion in this blessed Spirit but let it put you upon an Earnest seeking and a most watchful Survey what Spirits enter you to suppress motions so ready and numerous all which bring them up to the Throne in an humble Scrupulosity that the Lord in the Spirit may give forth right Judgment what is Pure of Himself and what not that may be tumbled in as a mixed