of those Mansions that are near to me let them be driven out for the present Therefore let this suffice from the Scriptures themselves not to mention those particular Idea's and Manifestations that to some it hath been given to see these several Heavens which upon others cannot be imposed for to believe who yet have not those anointed Eyes given to see withal But surely there are some standing in the figure of the Body Whose Spirits have roved to and fro to see these several Mansions with Spirits of all sizes and degress who are herefor designed Only hereout excluding those who are for the Dragon's Kingdom Who do pass away in a reprobate sense out of the Body Those left-hand Goats have no portion within these Eternal Gates a deep Gulf is fixed It is only of the Sheep and Lambs that I am to treat who have found out this new and only Life path-way Who though they are not come to the top-stone of perfection before they see the dissolution of the body Yet having attained to a good degree they may come unto the very next Throne Region and there awhile stay till they have drawn and assumed a heavenly clarity that is such an Essential Body against which no exceptions by the highest Courts of Dignities can be objected These now are the highest degrees of those who before Perfection be wrought do cease out of the Mortal Body Then again there are of a lower degree of growth Now what reservatory is there for them who may be but young in the New Birth As to this it was clearly imparted unto my Intellect that such did enter into a more inferiour Mansion than Paradice for that was too pure and serene for such Therefore a lower degree is prepared for them till they do attain to an Increase of the Divine Nature They want not here their true Pastoral Teachers for the Spirit of Christ is every where with his own Therefore it was said that he went and preached to the Spirits in Prison that were disobedient in Noah's days For should all the old world have been cut off at once and sealed under a final condemnation the Attributes of God's Love Mercy Goodness Truth and Long-suffering would have been obliterated wherefore he must have yet had respect unto such after the dissolution of their bodies as had a sense in them awakened for compunction and sorrow for what Evils they had committed in their Bodies To confirm this that we might not be altogether out of hope for such as may die in the first beginnings of Regeneration it is given me to declare that if these pass out of the Body such cannot go indeed immediately to God For such will find it otherwise they must wait till they have got somewhat more then what they went out withall in this world and then shall they be admitted to see God Surely there is a Provision made for a perfect Salvation in another Principle besides this For which we have that word in Peter 1 Pet. 3. 19. by which also he went and Preached unto the Spirits in Prison Also these words seem to speak fully to this 1 Pet. 4. 6. For this cause was the Gospel preached to them which were dead which generally is applied to such as are living and yet dead in sins But by the foregoing verse it concerns the first Position verse 5. who saith the Apostle speaking of Christ is ready to judge the quick and the dead so that it implieth there is a Ministry belonging to the dead that are not here made perfect Much more might be enlarged upon some particular sights and manifestations that have hereof been given to some in the Spirit From hence ariseth this Objection If this be a Truth why was it not positively declared and clearly revealed as a foundational Doctrine To which it may be answered That the Infinite Wisdom did judge it meet to conceal this mystery because none might take advantage to turn the Grace of God into wantoâ—ness and thereby to neglect the present opportunity for working out their own Salvation in this present time which would make for a far and more exceeding weight of Glory Therefore left it was for the Worthy to have this Secret made known to them by the Spirit of Revelation who God foreknew would not take Liberty to continue in sin that this Grace after Death might be made manifest towards such as did stand in need hereof But now to great holy and aspiring Spirits these lower Mansions in their Fathers house are too mean who cannot be satisfied to be so many degrees remote any time after death from their God and Lord Jesus since Liberty is proclaimed to work through all while we are in this terrestrial Body For there will be more joy and acclamations in Heaven for one such as shall finish their work here so as to make a full conquest then for milions of Souls that in the invisible Regions must perfect what was lacking to compleat them here Oh said the Spirit it will be well worth your Labour and great Travel to break open this deep Gate and so to put on Christ your Lord as in his all-powerful body that ye may make hereof but one ascending flight This was the Mark that was after Christs ascending so eagerly aimed at and by some in that Age reached to For Christ could not lose the effect of his prayer in that he did make his request that those whom the Father had given him might be with him where he was that so they might see and possess the same glory which could not be till they had gotten the victory For to none else is the admission given into his Kingdom according to that in the Revelations to him that overcometh will I grant saith Jesus to sit with me in my Throne But this may be objected further Those who had the Holy Ghost poured down in such an eminent manner had their way made very easie who was as their fiery Chariot that cut their work short And if any now in this Age had such a high endued Power it might soon give them a translation out of all mortal impediments As to answer this The Holy Ghost in that day was given after a visible manner as a sealing Character displaying and acting forth himself in Gifts and Power and miracles but now the same Spirit works in its beginning after another manner where it falleth it doth all its mighty works Within before it will shew forth his power Without For if the Apostles had not been purified by the Holy Ghost and inwardly sprinkled with the Water of Life for Soul cleansing they could not have rejoyced in that assured hope of entring into the joy of their Lord and Master Then was it plainly opened to me by the Spirit that the Holy Ghost would not now in this latter Age act out his Mighty Deeds by any one till their Hearts were perfectly purified by Faith That Scripture being repeated to me who after believing were
Dispensation to come that shall answer to the Ierusalem above which is said to come down Here is a Mount Sion Church to be gathered out from among all Churches of Men by the preparing Ministry of an Elias Spirit who is to make ready against the Lord's return from that solemnized Wedding with the present triumphant Church Now what is meant by this Elias Spirit But such a Spirit as hath Power to transform and translate at pleasure This Elias is not an abstracted Ghost but is in Conjunction with a flaming Body of Light This was that which the Apostles eyed much in their Days and had the Revelation thereof but it was reserved for the latter Ages This pure abstracted ghostly Power did come upon them and did great things through their own Bodies but did not work to the height of a ghostly Body for then Mortality would have been over Cloathed with Celestiality Therefore it was reserved for a future Season This Apple is not yet fallen upon any one but is growing to the full golden Colour to give a full Body and Spirit to them For whosoever shall eat of this golden Apple shall be transmuted into a Body as of fine Gold And so who shall first partake hereof the Elias Spirit will soon operate to translate them from terrestial Things Then was this Question with me But who of all Flesh living now shall this great Elias personate Or ever come his Day to see Many various Visions and Prophesies and many Persons tending hereunto have been both in former and present times But oh dearest Lord when and how and upon whom shall this be accomplished seeing all so universally are slow of Heart to believe To know positively I dare not will lest I should grieve the holy Spirit remembring that Rebuke which Christ gave when his Disciples asked Whether he would at that time restore the Kingdom Who did not seem to be pleased that they did urge the thing so closely Which made me sober upon the like occasion though through the Vision and Revelation upon it I had some temptation to encroach upon that which is said to have the Mind of Iesus which had its Times and Seasons which waiting upon great things might be revealed And accordingly this Word in way of Answer sprang freely in me Go your way in that Measure and Portion of Spirit received and wait as Elias under the Iuniper Tree which signifies a Paradisical Preparation from which Tree all sweet Scents do flow as the holy Gusts thereupon do blow Which will send in that which will give a Rich and Pleasant smell to your God in order to somewhat else Oh who but those that are of an Elias Spirit that are weary and do make complaint of their mortal Terrestrial state and would know a Transmutation are fit for this which is here Prophesied of Then again this Word was spoken to me That the great Melchizedeck King who hath charge over the Houshold of Faith doth design before his own personal Manifestation in the World to depute and raise up some who shall be as the Seven principal Shepherds to go forth in the Power and Spirit of Elias to turn the Heart back again of the vagrant lost Prodigal Children to the Father of their eternal Spirits and thereby to reconcile the two different Principles That the Enochian state may be revived for a free walking with God by the Light of the one eternal Day to pass in and out not making reflect on upon this course material Body being supernaturally Cloathed upon with that which giveth holy Boldness to appear in that most pure Sphere Thus the Enoch and Elias Spirit are to arise upon some who will mutually together agree to break through this vile Principle though it be with Mountains rending and with Rocks breaking and Earth quakings All which make way for the dividing from that low terrestial state to incorporate with the very Body of God As to this query The Spirit hath only to say further thus Do not you put far away this Day through Fear and Unbelief but turn into the mystical Paradise and under the Iuniper Tree bemoan your disappeared Virgin Bodies which sweet unknown Solitude attend for its Restoration While you abide here the Angelical Powers shall minister spiritual Fare to strengthen you for what is further to be accomplished by you If you will hereunto fixedly wait then also given may be the deep magical Book in which Wisdoms Spirit will make you Skilful in the circling Planets appertaining to that invisible Element which governeth all belonging to the New Ierusalem with all its Inhabitants there Now then as any shall desire in Enoch's and Elias's Spirit to break away from this terrestial Globe let them faithfully Obey this deep Revelation â— with the Councel hereunto annexed April the 10th 1677. As I was in my Bed contemplating the unknown and invisible Orb of Glory longing for a Body with which I might have entrance thereinto While I was thus deeply mufing there first appeared to me a bright Cloud which gathered it self into a round Compass then it opened into various Colours wonderful Splendorous with numerous Stars which were only discernible as they did not so visibly appear because the brightness did overcloud them In the midst of this did suddainly break forth somewhat like the Figure of an Eye which did look terrible piercing through all with flaming Streams round it which were transcendently glorious Upon which I could not stedfastly look till I had closed my mortal Eyes which then for some space of time I did behold and then it vanished in the twink of an Eye then opening to see whether I could bear the glory of it it did retire out of sight with this Word What Flesh can live in this refining Element Then answered my Spirit True O Lord therefore the destruction of it I would see that I may come to live with thee in these New Heavens Why dearest Lord is this Crystalline Orb of Light let down only for view If we may not partake something of the Nature of it How is it that we have been so long lodged out of the sight of thee in this remote Principle if it must still be how can this vile Terrestial state be grateful to Spirits who did pre-exist in thee before all Worlds coming now to understand what is their true Eternal Dignity to live in such lucified Bodies free and unclogged of Corporeity After I had thus presented our deplorable Condition through the sight and sence of what was in the Idea of my Spirit I could not but move this Question to my Sovereign Creator Why such a pure Spirit generated out of the highest and super excellent Matter should unite with such course mean Corporal Forms acted by a mortal sensual rational Soul that governed it by the Starry Region To this deep Question the Spirit gave this Aaswer readily That the Immense Deity did hereby prepare high and worthy Ends in sowing pure Spirit into
a Mount which was all green and we were discoursing if we could come up there how we should then have escaped what we saw cause to fear For I did see many Vipers lie in our way and one did seem to fasten upon the Heel of my Fellow-traveller which I set my Fooâ— on and so escaped from it And as we passing still on after some space of time there fell a Dark Mist so dismal as we could not see each other which was very rerrible to me for we had lost each other but I saw it dissipated and the lost found again Upon this was opened unto me in what danger we were And it was said Pray for there is Cloud of Temptation that hath already essaid that the work might be retarded Moreover this word was with me Rise O Abigail with Wisdom and Might and give out what thou art withal replenished and thereby stop the ensuing Flood For all things do conspire from the Dark Kingdom to keep you from finding the way to my Holy and Separated Choir Therefore those dark Fumes and Smoak will rise that so you might not find your way into that mâ—niâ—ion-strength where ye will be secured out of all peril August the 18th 1677. After this I had a word followed me crying still in me Turn not out of the way of the Spirit Which the Morning before was in the Scripture Phrase given to me Walk in the Spirit or else it will little avail you to have transient visits from the Spirit only to give councel and instruction if it be not in every jot and tittle obeyed For walking implies that primarily Then was it shewed to me where and what were the Walks of the Spirit First they were walks very high and remote and private The Region or Climate was so pure that no gross earthly Spirit could have any consistency with it Then it was said again to me that such Spirits could only live here that had their first inkindled breath from this pure Element And such as are born again out hence can well agree with no other Air. These pleasant walks of the Spirit are all very lofty and those who stand in the low bottom of this Principle cannot see into that pure Sphere nor yet be walkers there For they are among pure Spirits all of one sort such as Ioshua was to have the priviledge to walk amongst If he would walk in the ways of the Most Holy and keep his charge and abide in the Inward Court The Angel protested he would give him walks among those who stand by the Lord. Which was no small preeminence thus to be among the Triune Society Even so it was to me â—estified That if we would but keep within the circle-walks of the Spirit we should be conversant with the Trinity And hereby it was said we should escape the hurtful influences of those who walk and live after the fleshly Birth For what we are conversant withal such we are For whether Spiritual or Carnal according to either it 〈◊〉 its impression readily Therefore this word came expresly Know and keep Company with your Bridegroom's Spirit That will bring you into high and worthy acquaintance indeed Now then consider ye stand now betwixt two Cross-ways the one is on the Right-hand the other on the Left the one ascends the other descends into this Worlds deep Now there are those who would keep their walks in both these ways sometimes they would be soaring up to God's Holy Mount then descending into the Foxes holds and dens where all unclean Spirits are And such as are of this sort will never make any riddance up to the Mount of Glory Therefore this word of Loves advice I give saith he that is the way of Truth to you who are called out of the Worlds walks That you stedily keep your Eye where the Spirit doth make his Tract for you and that you do keep on your daily pace Follow still the Measuring Line that doth ascend strait upward For there is no admittance herefrom to turn aside because great loss will be sustained To go backwards and forwards can produce nothing but wo and ill For no progress can any such make in this Ascending State And as these walks are high so they are very private and reserved No evil Eye can espy the Roads of the Spirit What of gross Corporeity can pierce into this bright burning Element where the pure in heart walk A strong enclosure here is so as no Beast of Prey can break in to disturb the solacements of â—â—rene Souls that have got in here they are secured by Cherubims who hold out for their Guards Flaming Spheres that so they may rest void of fear Then as to the pleasantness of Walks they are all smooth and plain A sound bottom they tread upon being all paved with solid Gold which is so transparent that its very reflexion gives light to walk by Then again of each side such Plants do grow as are known by Name They be most odoriferous sending out such sweet perfumes each Flower spinging out of the Spirits Root such as Joy Peace Love Meekness Gentleness and Faith with all tender Compassionateness encreasing to all perfect Good You may easily know when you are in the right Walks by these springing Fruits on either hand of you and by the high Throne Powers here greeting you with fresh and new discoveries of their Kingdoms Secrets None that have walked here can ever more desire to turn aside because they can see taste and feel in their degree what the very Trinity can make them blessed in from what they possess in themselves as immense Ioys that are unknown of which some daily droppings ye will still meet with For as ye do abide in the Spirits habitation Worthy things ye may expect which your Father doth secretly keep in his own Breast as ye are made meet for them To which end I will open a burning Spring within you which through a soft breath of Celestial Air shall maintain heavenly clarity Then will your God walk absolutely with you and will be henceforth no stranger to your habitation But then watch to it that when he come he may find you waiting there within that pure and all-indurable burning Sphere sucking and drawing still in the fresh gusts of Endless Love which may work up to a refining Element Whereby Paradise that hath fled away from this Principle may now again bud forth and recover you out of the Curse This is the very way hereunto therefore saith the Just One take all heed to keep in the Spirits Walks as you would see that renewed state of Liberty yet once again revealed in you August the 19th 1677. There appeared to me two Trees the one in a Field the other grew under the shadow of a mighty Tree as in an enclosed place with a Wall about it that was all set for Fruit the other was all blossomed but on a sudden a shaking Wind came and blasted the whole Tree
wholly bend the force of their Spirits hereunto may attain to great Wisdom and Knowledge and so bring forth that which may far outshine what is now existent in this Creation For till such deep magical Spirits are born who come to make Projection through internal sight of what is in the first cause of things the Kingdoms of this World with the Potentates thereto belonging will be too hard for you For that Grand Prince that ruleth and hath such command in this lower Sphere hath since the first Age of this World raised ten to one his Magnificent Seat in the Heart of poor deluded man So that they whose lot it is to live in this latter day have greater provocations to overcome as it is truly said the last days will be perillous indeed through the devises of the Evil One who in and by his Agents finds out new inventions to enthral and busie the Mind withal to prevent the taking in the true sense of what was and might be again that blessed state of sinless Liberty For such hath been this Serpents subtilty as to be a Lying Spirit in those who are Teachers to make believe the impossibility hereunto By which he doth keep his Seat of Supremacy universally hereby in the Mind For so long as this is he knows no Power of Soveraingty will outvy his Therefore this Councel of my Lord was expresly given And further this word this Morning was added hereunto That we should drink in this Pure Doctrine from the Spirit who said Be ye found faithful to the interest of your Lord's Kingdom that it may through you while in the World be so manifested in Wisdoms Force and All-spiritual Might through studying out all Divine Arts as hereby you may pluck down the Proud and Lofty from their self exalted Spirit in the Diabolical Might Your true Labour herein shall have such success as you may bring great acclamation and renown to your Lord and Saviour through all Worlds and to your selves Peace and Joy Honour and Dignity because many hereby will flow in into my Great Name When they are convinced that you do bear the Standard of my Spiritual Might in Truth and Righteousness Now therefore be vigilant according to what hath been revealed for the Love that ye have for my Kingdom to appear so in this World as all of the Old Dragons may come absolutely to be shaken and overthrown thereby For whatever ye do think this Prince of Darkness can suppress he will Who is so Mighty in this Low Region till Great Michael doth arise to give Crowns to those who have been long in the War To whom yet no Kingdom hath been given but do wait here in expectation for it and do not start from their Standard Such Oh such be ye that yet ye may be trusted with great Command to magnifie Great Michael in your mean estate September the 10th 1677. THIS Day I was calling my self to an account being sensible of that usual Springing Light that was something shaded and Revelations restrained for the space of a Week occasioned by dispersing thoughts and letting in and busying my Mind upon inferiour things of this Worlds concern Whereby I was made suspicious of a greater loss sustaining than any thing of this World could repay me And although there was nothing which I did engage in but what might seem very just and reasonable to the Eye of all Creatures yet that could not be my justification Because we were under an unknown Nazarite Law that was in special given and therefore accordingly we are bound to obey it who are concerned herein Hereupon I descended down into the deep Region of the Spirit where I did attend to hear what would be answered Which was again through Grace renewed For thus I did the inspeaking word hear Did not I by my Spirit oft declare that it would be hard for any one to keep my charge who had not first cleared all scores of this Worlds Accounts that so ye might have nothing to do but to attend fully your Lord's business who hath called you for such a Principal End out from all this Creation Service Henceforth then cease to be the Servants of Men for since the day of your free assignment of your selves His you are to whom you did your selves bequeath Upon this word I found a great conflict in my self having a great desire to depart and to throw off every weight that would tie and engage my Mind For I did well see an absolute necessity to be alone the Lord's servant and to give my self up in constancy to that new revealed Ministery though I should hereby incur all Creatures enmity For my Lord by a secret voice doth follow me close so that from Loves Charms I can hardly get loose Yea he drives upon us so hard as plainly we might see the Holy Ones design is to make a breach betwixt this World and us as foreseeing that none till then can aptly be for his use and service And verily this is the Cup that is given us to drink of and to leave nothing thereof behind It was what our Lord proposed to the two Sons of Zebedee who were ambitious to be equal in the Kingdom with him Who told them They did not consider what they did ask For if they did come to understand what a Death-cup they must first drink of they would not have climbed so high in their desires Therefore he dealeth plainly with them and shews them both the necessity and possibility thereof but gives the disposal of those Throne-instatements to his Father only It was also at this time spoken in me that we had begun to drink of this Cup wherein the deadly draught was which would crucifie us to this world but as yet we had but drunk the Upper part of it the Portion being so bitter we indeed could never get it down at once Upon which the Spirit giveth this advice Not to let one day pass without imposing upon our selves a draught out hence to take till all be exhausted and drunk out For the Cup is very deep and at the bottom thereof doth lie that which will us from this Principle absolutely unty Therefore let us not herefrom cease to drink each one to whom this Cup is given and no time let us lose for through continual sipping we shall see it lessen and so by degrees the effects thereof upon that which is to die will be felt O who will be so valiant and worthy in this Age as to hold out to the very last as the bottom of this Cup to see Then was it said to me There was at hand immediately for such another Cup wherein was the everlasting Water of Life The operation of which is not expedient yet for to be uttered till some have of the first Cup drunk all O Lord Jesu be thou to us what thou wert when thou didst take the last part of this Cup. September the 11th 1677. Being in great agony in my Head and Teeth
through a mighty flux of Rheum this exercised my Faith and proved my Patience internally for some days together and gave me to see I was under a mortal influence as well as all others To which in humility I bowed using yet some means to free my self from the present malady and grief that was upon me After which not being answered in the effect but my distemper still abiding I was convinced that I should have only applied my self to that Sovereign Name wherein my healing was to be found Upon which I prayed to the Divine Omnipotency owning my neglect herein in that I had not looked only for cure therefrom to bring down help For which cause I did believe that I suffered under the Starry Constellations with which the Grand Adversary did conjoyn and concur and send out his evil influences rejoycing to see any who thought themselves above his poysonous raies should fall under and be subjected thereunto with others universally The sense of which I deeply took in and found in my self a disquietment thereat uttering to my God many Complaints Upon which this word came to me saying When thou hast tried all ways and means know for a surety it is the touch of the Deity alone that must thee ease Hadst thou here first fixed thy Faith thou mightest have been released from thy mortal grief Therefore now get up upon the Legs of thy Faith and stand without staggering and thereby saving health may flow in This was a mighty word of support but much more ado I had to rally up my Faith to eye no other but this Invisible Power for ever September the 12th 1677. The next day I had a sweet respite from the raging force of that predominant humour which had so afflicted my exteriour part And in the Night I saw my self taken into a place of which it was said the Night shall not be known from the Day For though it was in the Dead of the Night yet for brightness it was as the Noon Day which light seemed to me to descend out of a quite different Orb than this visible Element And I felt presently therefrom a warm Beam sent from the pure Deity which did me exceedingly lighten so that for the present time I was as one out of the Body of ponderosity dreading again therein to be found For who can do less than despise their corruptible Image that is so subject to these outward elementary diseases of all kinds when once they come to know and feel in any measure and degree that one Element of which Celestial Bodies are framed which can know neither sorrow nor pain Oh how may we come to be constituted hereinto so durably as no more to see the vile nature of siâ— or putrefaction Is it lawful to have an expectation hereof before we lay these Bodies in the Grave Yea assuredly such a day there is to be which will swallow up the night of mortality that all of the one clear matter of that invisible Element shall be in such changeable Raiment as that it will us give to see the face of God in Clarity For this word was given into me that those who could hold out in a steady strong Faith might know in verity such a transformation so as to pass out of Corporality into an Aethereal Glory putting on that which can pass into the everlasting burning-day which no shadow of the night or mortality of death can approach But it was further said The putting off what should be in order hereunto would be very hard yet sufficiency will be given to some who are concurring in mighty Faith Therefore go ye on believingly such a change yet possibly to see September the 13th 1677. In the Night I had a Vision of the Doctor whom I did see in great concern about building a foursquare Room all of clear Glass neither Timber nor Stone was in any part to be added thereto And I viewed it from first to last till I saw it finished by his own hand Who with great alaâ—rity said to me Here we will wait in all reservedness till the Glory of the Son of God appear But I answered This will be hardly secure for we shall be seen through this Glass and envious Spirits will break in and so disturb our attending here No said the Doctor we shall here learn the Art of the Divine Magia whereby we shall keep all Invaders out Or else that indeed would not be a sufficient Fence for us in regard found there is none who are resolved to enter in there with us but we both will abide there till others of the same Spirit shall come into us September the 14th 1677. The Opening and Interpretation of this Vision Was given to me That this denoted the Doctors care and diligence in making provision for that which was of greatest consequence in his Eye by methodising first all things outwardly for this free and quiet assignment Though according to the present conjuncture of things this seemed then much to contradict and to prevent the same which was objected to me But it was answered again by the all-knowing Spirit That there was that so deeply inlaid that would thrust out whatever would detard from setting upon this more Principal Building to which all must give way This Glassy Room doth represent a pure and clarified Mind in the which we jointly wait together as in one Room being of one Mind and the same Belief upon the great Work minding one Calling and Election hereunto and not giving herein any account to any one that hath not Faith For I had advice that it would little signifie to make any publication hereof otherwise than Noah did to wit by an actual building for convincement that we are of those who are forewarned to withdraw from all of this tempting Region For a deluge upon the World is foreseen that will strip her naked of all her pompous appearances for all of this shall be once again desolate Therefore the Word pronounced a Blessedness indeed upon those who were found enclosed within this Glassy Ark. For it was testified that Noah 's Spirit would yet return again to condemn this present World and that it would be demonstrable in some one or other In whom a Spirit of Faith would stir as from the Light and Knowledge of what the Spirit of Wisdom dictates to them and so it will be given to One to proceed from It was also signified to me that such Preachers of Righteousness would rise near upon the third and last Ministration who will internally prepare the Transparent Court for the Holy Ghost by disappearing and winding off from that first Building Which is so thick dark and gross as through that no sight into matters of Celestiality could ever be attainable Therefore a Chrystalline Body is to be built up by the Tool of Faith to be an Eternal House for the Spirit to dwell and act in As of Enoch it was said he was translated by Faith so as he did
account of him But it was further revealed to me that he was that Alpha and Omega the Second Person who had his Existency from all Eternity and was in a high Priestly Order from the time of Adam's Fall and did Officiat in the Heavenly Sanctuary and real Tabernacle in the Heavens Whereof Moses had a Sight and Pattern given him to figure out according to the low Capacity which the Church in the Wilderness then stood in But this great Melchizedeck incarnated himself in Flesh that he might visibly make an Offering thereof to testifie that an end must be to that weak corruptible and unprofitable state as now henceforth is to be thereunto put by the crucifying what he had assumed that so that mean and despicable Image might for ever be demolished That the first perfect glorious Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedeck might again rise and be in full accomplishment in the Residue of the Anointed hereunto who for this cause are putting off their Vile Body that they might be counted worthy to follow their Melchizedeck King where they shall not only pay their Praise Offerings but receive there a most high Priestly Portion which is an unknown and vast Spiritual income of Riches which shall be brought from all Parts as obligatory Ianuary the 14th 1676 7. In the forepart of the Night being newly fallen asleep I saw the Heavens as it were part and rend and mighty Commotions in it The earthly Inhabitants in great Trouble running up and down as fearing some unexpected Change was coming upon them Which awaked me and there was immediately presented unto my view as breaking through a bright Element two glorified Bodies of a bright Beryl Colour in such a wonderful Portraiture as did excel all I had formerly of this Nature in Vision seen Upon which my Eye kept fixed without any surprize or fear and still it was brought nearer The one seemed in a Manly Vissage and the other as a Woman very Lovely in her Countenance then soon after two or three more broke forth and joyned themselves unto them as in like glorified Figures This Sight was so pleasing that I could not but Pray Oh that we might be added unto them For it was said Behold this is the Lamb and his Bride which first I did see Oh this great Vision had so mighty an Influence upon my Spiritâ— as grievous it was still for to be confined in the Corporeal Body only hourly waiting for to see its Redemption But it was said Abide Patiently till your Salvation shall be fully wrought out then you shall swiftly be cloathed with the self same Body all Spiritual bright and airy as my Bride for to unite in one Body with me Then I replyed Ah my Lord why must this Translation be so earnestly sought and still prolonged It was again answered it was so considerable a Change as could not be without passing through many further Degrees For Sin and Mortality would not be so easily vanquished while we did abide in this tempting Region Ianuary the 15th 1676 7. This Morning it was much upon my Spirit how to quicken our Progress so as to arrive to that Nuptial Conjunction which did open unto me in the Heavens The Spirit sent forth deep and strong Invocations for the Consummation of this high Matrimonial Unity that so we might together display our Loves and Joys to each other in that Spicy perfumed Bed of the Celestial Orb. Oh the Eccho's which I did hear in me sound the Spirit called to the Bride to descend down the Bride called for the Spirit to ascend Thus cry upon cry did as a pure cloudy Incense send out which brought this Answer down Oh ye who are in the betrothed Spirit why may not the assurance hereof yet a while stay your most eager and Spiritual Passions of Love till such time as your Vessels of Clay be turned into the fine Ophire Gold through the working forth of that Saphire Stone that is formed in you Which shall work through all in its degrees till it hath brought you up to that perfect Stature as ye may make challenge with holy Boldness to the Marriage-state according to that pleasant and glorious Manifestation which you did see in the Heavens Which was shewn to you for this very end that so you might see your own Nuptial Day solemnized Before the accomplishing of which yet great Commotions will be permitted as you did see in the Vision See first what is still left alive of your dying part that will mutiny For the Sensitive Life cannot consent that ye should be married away out of their known Linage and Country Therefore they will lie in wait to entercept all Messages and Love-Tokens from your Immanuel to prevent the success of so great a Wedlock change Therefore I the Spirit of your Lord do warn you that you turn away from all self and creaturely Parly The Serpent also will subtlely back with Arguments in forms of Flesh that so ye might grow cold in your Love and slack in your Faith but spur forward and faint not for the everlasting Gate is set open by Soveraign Command The Trumpet doth daily sound to enter into Love's Holy Ground where only the Friends of the Bridegroom shall attend you at the Banquetting Feast of Bread and Wine Now away and draw from all the cursed things of Iericho and you shall meet assuredly your Melchizedeck King with a full Cup of Blessing This receive as a faithful and true saying from the Yea and Amen Ianuary the 20th 1976 7 About the Morning-break as I was contemplating upon the change of the Body for Translation A further Confirmation was given with Joy and Peace unutterable in hope of this Glory to be revealed My Spirit praying that we might obtain Grace for to be admitted of the same Order with our great Melchizedeck This Word immediately sprung saying The way and manner for it hath been most evidently set forth and plainly taught you as my Spirit could demonstrate it unto you You can find no surer Footing then first to be found in the walk of Death Trace it then so throughly till you can see no more Earth yield ye up the utmost ends without any reserve For no mingling state after Death but all immaculate the Feast of Tabernacles to celebrate within the most Holy Place Therefore fear not to pass through this Valley for I the Spirit of Truth will assuredly finish this Mystery because you have applied your Hearts to me having sought Death as a Treasury trying all ways and means for to expire out But as a deadly Enemy that is loath to be conquered it still revives which makes you to suspect that you shall never get rid of this grand and last Enemy but it will still hang a weight disgracing and separating from your high Priesthood But seeing you have cast your selves wholly upon me your Comforter to be advised in this matter Now then know I will cast you with the free
transparent form of God having no more Shadow of Mutation to prevent those higher Degrees of Glorification which but by the ascended cannot be known or felt Hereupon I called all in me to account to be judged by the Superiour Will and Spirit of Light which gave me to see what was in Bondage and what was free that would not now be any longer in Bondage to the Condemnation of Sin Having that Word brought to me to search and find out that Salt Stone that would make all perfectly sound and savoury which the Corrupter had most subtlely defiled For I saw for every Sacrifice to be salted with this Stone of Fire was absolutely necessary for in it lay hid all Perfuming Sweets Therefore an express Charge came down to re-assume it to our selves as the choice Altar-Stone where the unknown Superscription should be written Oh then said the Spirit of Truth ye cannot ask any thing fruitlessly as ye have done do but will and it shall be done Oh that the Most High could have such as were so fixed in Body Soul and Spirit to this all-seasoning Stone of Wisdom as to trust them with this Jewel of Superiority so as to leave all Matters whether great or small with them in whom his Heart might rest That all and every Circumstance of things might be managed for those Ends and Services which might agree with the In-written Name that as a Fountain of Oyl doth run into those Vessels which are seasoned by this Salt Stone of Fire For know in Verity the most Holy hath no pleasure to see his own in this World to live and walk up and down in so mean a Capacity unskilful to set a Foot or Hand to what lieth in the Divine Magia Root Which you may lawfully stir up since for you Christ the Lord hath made the Way by ascending on High for to subdue all things under him that so of the same Power he might subordinately pass away from himself unto you Who calleth you to draw out the Purchase of his Death by like dying and by like immortal Living according to the penetrating quality Which by stirring up may effect thereby great and mighty things answerably to the Wisdom and Soveraignty of Holiness which all as in Inclosure doth lie about this holy thing for you You little know what a Principality is nigh to you but your Superiour Will hath yet somewhat that doth clog its Wheel which is designed for to be the running Chariot whereunto the Spirit of Infinite Might must joyn Now then by all means seek the unthralling of your Will for could nothing mingle therewithal but what did fall from the pure Deity how would you find God all-active in and through you But herein lieth the great Nicety to keep the Will-Spirit untouched that nothing from the Bryery Root doth twist about it if this is kept spotless and free what may you not find Power to do with the Most Holy Observe and keep this great Secret it is from great and high Love that I have given an insight to thee that so all Offences may be removed who would you should come to Reign over all of the Earthly Further of this I besought the Lord might be revealed For the great Depravation was in the matter of the Will for it was shewn me it was unequally yoked and had married strange Flesh from which there must be a Separation by Death Had not the Royal Will yielded to the tempting Eve but had kept its Priority how great and mighty a Lord might Man have been in and over the whole Creation of God having absolute Power in himself But hearkening to the Dalilah that is still acted by the Serpent-like Spirit to this day it becometh successively despoiled of this Lock of Strength and Power and so hereby the Shame of our Nakedness doth appear as to what Cloathing we might have been made known in Had not Adam thus lost his Dignity and so hereby brought forth Fruit unto Death running through all his Posterity in and after the Similitude of his Sin Which hath brought Impotency deflowring us of all that Spiritual Might of this we need no other Proof then what we do each one carry about with us But the great Thing is Oh thou who art promised as the mighty Restorer of this Breach What must we do who are so unavoidably overtaken with the same Thral and come bound with the same twisting Cords which hath altogether weakened the force of our Wills To this great Query as I humbly pursued so I had my desire resolved February the 7th 1676 7. This know and well consider that your Original is from high extracted Matter which is so Eternal that it cannot dye but it stands at the pleasure of the Will what way it will drive forth it self into For now it is a distinct Essence and had it not been corrupted from that simplified Being of Purity you could never have fallen into such an dishonourable state wherein the Royalty of your Power is so withdrawn as ye have no defence nor can make against those numerous Circumstances of Evils that do conspire where they may find degenerated ground for to work upon Now then yet for a more clear and perfect Information what further on your behalf is to be done that the choice faculty of the Will may come to regain its Primary Liberty that so it may have all powerful success as before it was enthral'd by the tempting Eve No other way there is but for the Will to be born again that thereby it may recover its Virgins Might and Force then every right Essence will move and open from pure Nature's Center This Birth is not according to the Will of Man but God Who out and from an infinite Pity and Love is come by Water Blood and Spirit to recover and lift up your relasped Wills that so they may stand upon their true native Prerogative being also set free from the flattering Dalilah which includes the whole variety of all attractive Delights from this Principle that as with Cords hath bound the Will down Oh now then as beloved of your God for ever drink in this Word of Counsel and herein joyn and work with the Spirit of your Lord Jesus who is come to perswade and allure you to fuffer joyfully the breaking up of your whole Earthly Family Which only consisteth of what is indged but lawful and expedient by the false Seers who are Babylon's Merchants But to you I have other things revealed and do incite you to be at variance with whatever will not consist with the new-born Will Who is to be matched with her who is the real Bride and Heir to whom a great Retinue doth belong of which Family you are to bear the Name only Therefore let it not seem grievous to rend and divide from what is of this evil World for verily hereby as God is true ye shall sustain no loss For your Superiour Will will hereby be so free chast pure
crazy Building you may take the Word of your Lord Jesus who by his Spirit is now come to tell you the material Matter of this House which you are to enter upon the Matter and Form of which is God himself Who hath had the Denomination of Old to be the Dwelling-place of his People and the Saints Pavilion throughout all Generations This Building is all of Saphire Stone having perfect measures of Length Breadth and Heights according to the Figure de-declared by Ezekiel who obscurely pourtraied out this high and wonderful Palace for the most holy Priests to enter in and to perform their daily Worship God is not a naked unfurnished House you will find it already provided to your Hand without any care or toil in first second and third Story with suitable Furniture to every place So that you will cry Oh how amiable are the Courts of Holiness Here you will desire to dwell for ever in him who doth so splendorously dilate himself to your Internal Senses that all may have a satisfying Content Now the next thing to be considered is to know what is here included in the Promise Ans. Here is included the whole Number of Divine and Celestial Relations promised upon a new Score of which Iob was a true Similitude who lost all in this very same kind and had all again restored as a Figure of this new replenished state All the Comfort that may be expected further from hence is Marriage-Union From whence Encrease may come without this the other will not altogether perfect the Joy Therefore be assured that Care is taken for this also there is a numerous Off-spring out of this Holy Habitation to be Born Your Father hath already made the Match before Hand before you do come thither All things while you are in this Principle are determined upon Oh! here you will know the unutterable Pleasure of a Bridegroom who will be so intimately tender over you that you shall say Never was such kind of Love known or fathomed when you shall know no more any Interposing Lover but can appropriate each other in all Purity A blessed exchange here will then be understood But yet there are higher Degrees of Joy when you shall bring forth after your own Heavenly perfect Likeness The great Blessing that is promised upon this Conjunction with the Virgin-Bride is Fruitfulness Ye shall also see of the travel of your Spiritual Bodies and therewith be satisfied Wisdom as a fruitful Vine upon the sides of this Eternal House and Building will spread forth her self Consider that of Isaiah which Prophecy is yet to be fulfilled Isa. 49. 20 21. In this time the Children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other shall say the Place is too strait meaning this earthly Principle they cannot thereto be confined they may look into it and pass through it as Strangers to shew themselves as Jesus did after his Resurrection but no continued Habitation for them is here v. 22. But thou shalt say in thy Heart who hath begotten these seeing I had lost my Children and was left alone This represents your dead and deplorable state once and the suddain and unexpected Restoration In that clause Where have they been So that a Nation and Kingdom of Priests seems to be born in one Day This is marvellous indeed when ye shall see your Spiritual Offspring as Olive-Plants about your Table set This must needs heighten your Peace and Joy in him who is your Tabernacle framer who hath such durable and pleasant Comforts provided in this Mountain of Holiness Besides there are also Brethren and Sâ—sters which are born with you from one and the same Eternal Spirit whose Loves are pure and immutable as God's Love is rejoycing Not envying at each others Degrees of Glory No grudgings there is though a Benjamin's Portion be doubled Among these nothing known is but an high sweet refreshing Harmony A blessed Family thus compact It may well make you groan to put off this Earthly House that so this Royal Society may be made known to you And as ye have been long herefrom kept as Exiles so let this true and faithful account which now is given by that Spirit who doth bear a true Witness hereof provoke you this Translation to seek and that withal your Might For the Emphasis lieth in that Word of your Jesus his Promise if you well observe which runs Now in this Time or in this very time signifying all Here to be made good Which will awaken great Persecutions as it is said strange Uproars within and without you Which the Prince of this World will raise when he seeth that any one shall in great earnest resolve to put off all that he can challenge right unto It is the earthly Sinful Body that he disputes for leave it him for after this manner he contended for Moses Body which God had hid Be ye henceforth Exiles here but real Inhabitants with God your appointed dwelling Place Leave this Principle and all what is its own care not but render up what you had from it For when you have quitted all doubt not but the hundredfold will come upon you according as hath been revealed Be you the first Adventurers here for it and ye shall be undoubtedly highly blessed The same Day I had this Word spake in me thy Soul is among tearing Lyons but a Daniel guard is about thee They shall make no Prey whilst thou dost fly to thy Rock for shelter thou shalt see their Mouthes sealed up forcibly February the 18th 1676 7. Arguments to plead with the Lord were given to me this Night Which I found was from the Spirit of Prayer that urged strongly and potently in me for our remove out of this Tent of vile Humanity into what I did in Spirit see Upon which I had this Word spoke to me Be patient in Hope stedfast in Faith ardent in Love and ye will move the Trinity to send forth Decrees for your enlargement Then again was given into me an Idea as the Dr. and I did mutually joyn in Prayer in and for the same thing that our Condition was like to Ionah swallowed up in the Belly of the Whale shut up in the House of Death enclosed in the Body of Sin round which the Seas and Floods did beat upon and the Deeps did roar and boil as a Pot of Ointment All which presented this World with the mutinous Spirits that are as the restless Waves that would as the Belly of Hell devour us if not bounded It was thus shewed to me that the true Prophetical Ionah was in us who was cast into this boisterous Sea which would drown the Prophetical Life but that the wise preventing Love of God hath provided for Ionah's safety in the very Belly of Death Out of this Grave the Lord our God doth hear our Voice though the Earth with her Bars are about us yet said the Living Word out from Corruption your Lives shall be brought Thus
rend and shake when ever it shall come to be displaced Hear now and consider ye whose lawful Objection is come before me it is granted to you that the everlasting Father through the Mightiness of the Spirit in the Lamb's Nature must displace for you the Root of this Oak that is so deeply rooted in the Ground of Nature But what Tool or Instrument will he take in his Hand but the Ax of your Wills Then a through stroak will he strike by the piercing Eye of his Spirit who seeth the very depth from whence its Essence doth proceed For without a discovery made where the Cause of this defect is nothing hereof could be made or for you wrought out Therefore the Lamb of God is come the Vail of Covering to unspread that so by the sparkling Fire of his Eye ye might see from the Depths beneath the Birth-Source of Sin which doth open wide Also with the same Eye ye may behold within the heights of Sion a flowing Ocean of molten Gold to this for healing do ye fly For no other Medicine can heal the Sâ—rpent's Sting within you These are the Golden Floods which by the Spirit are daily poured forth to drown the first Birth of Eve that so an end may be of that generating Source and her Womb for ever henceforth may come to be barren in you To which end Orders and Decrees are made in Heavenly Places that Virgin-Wisdom shall take place in her room and her Seed shall be destructive to the Serpent's and to all his Hierarchy and you shall see his Head-Power bruised to purpose when all Sin in its Originality shall be blotted out by the Hand and working Source of the Deity Who will give also to you the Key and Chain of Power that so in the Name and Authority of the Lamb ye may take hold on the Dragon and bind him and shut up his flowing Source of Evil and with the Seal of the Living God to seal him up that he may find no way to come out of his own Lake to corrupt or deceive you any more Then you will begin in all stillness upon the Earth the Reign of Christ within the pure Region of Wisdom's Climateâ— For in the Singular Number it will begin to work forth The Day therefore is near or far off according as ye are carried forth in Zeal Power and Faith hereunto giving up your selves totally to observe the Word of Wisdom In which whosoever are found so doing they shall all be Crowned with this Diadem of Power February the 22d 1676 7. This Word spake thus to me do ye joyntly put on the Body of the Love in which the Spirit of Jesus will make known the Father of Glory to you for an Everlasting Reconciliation as to Children new born February the 24th 1676 7. Feeling great Peace and Joy so long as I could restrain the moving acting Life of Sin then I did obtain near access to the most Holy during the seasons and times when I could reign over all the Region of Natural Sence Which the Interiour Spirit may thus keep upon its Watch-Tower so it would then be altogether a subject meet for the Holy Trinity to open the Depths belonging to their Immense Love-Being Which by reason of these Cloudy Vails are little understood for when I did measure my self at such a time when so raised as to desert all that might be called carnally rational then little enough I seemed to be so light and so free so purely sprightly to pass through the Glassy Gâ—te But while I am again cast into the Nature of a gross thick Body tinged with Sensibility then no Ability there is for me to pass where I would As the Day and Night be thus in a moment still of force to oppose each the other in the divided Property till the everlasting Day of the Spirit shall altogether dis-inherit the dark benighted Sense Whereof hopes given are by that Spirit who thus spake from my Lord Jesus putting this Question unto me saying How dost thou think it possible to know the Majesty who is encircled in such excessive Light whilst thou livest in so many Degrees below the Seraphick sphere For great is the remoteness that may be from hence to them Who altogether are confined to a Terrestrial state For in that Word is weight that divided hath the Spiritual in and from the Natural Who is uncapable to know discern or judge of any matter but what is his own that is which lieth within the Sphere of his understanding as a rational Man who is wise for himself Which Wisdom is all to protect and hold up and save what is to be cast down and be destroyed Thus the Serpently Birth of Wisdom will hold its own in opposition to the pure meek essential Being and Birth which is from the Spirit Who is a great Sufferer while he is so near adjoyned to the Natural Man who is a fit Recptacle for what this evil Principle can shake him withal which the Prince and great Commander of this World will enough of this trash and earthly stuffâ— load him withal to give the mind full employ to prevent that which is Sublime and Celestial Therefore in vain the Scripture hath not said None can know the Thoughts of a Man save the Spirit that is in him that is none can pry or reach into the subtlety of the deceitful Heart that is working and busie minding and Plotting to compass the heighth of earthly things to which his Life would wholly extend As desiring to know nothing more or above or beyond his Natural Sphere being satisfied with the sight of his Eye with the hearing of his Ear being wholly taken up with what is mistred from this mortal state which finds out a daily variety to hold this Life in Captivity Thus you see the Earthly Man made out he is distinct from the Heavenly He knows nor perceives nothing of the Spiritual Man's concerns but as living in one and the same Body hath great advantage to interfere and cast in many times his cloudy Reasonings This natural part as the Night doth cleave to the Day but yet they have their divided Court they may be possiby kept a part through the constant Watch and Calling in Wisdom's succour and aid Eve's Birth is yet permitted thus near Immanuel's Nature to live for probation For the Dragon must try successively upon every one his Temptation Which could not be if he had not recourse to Eve's depravity that hath lodged you in Elementary Bodies by which the Strife is occasioned For the Serpent doth make great claim to what he finds sticking and still abiding within the corporeal case Which hath so degraded you as to the Visibility of and from that God-like Image in which ye once were considered as now verily ye little differ from that low degree of the pure Animal Creatures but that your inward Mind is yet of a superiour Magnanimity that was still kept and preserved within
the interiour Faculties thought he outward Image of Glory did forthwith fade through the closing with the Temptation from whence Hope there is that the Stem of the whole and Eternal Matter being yet left for Attraction may assume again its lost Paradisical Body through the Gift of the Holy Ghost For if ye once come to recover your inward Spiritual transformed Might Power and Purity the outward at your pleasure will be for alteration For the way to the Tree of Life will be known by the Spiritual Man which being fed uponâ— will operate for another manner of Covert then a Goat-like Skin wherein is your deformity For the Spiritual Man born again will be so wise and knowing as it will lose nothing that doth belong to it upon Election though for a time Nebuchadnezzar-like driven out from his Paradisical Kingdom hath been to feed amongst the wild Beasts whose gross Body sucks in answerably what this low Element can afford him This is the earthly Mans Portion till he be Born again into the Spirit then he comes to a clear Understanding and sound Judgment and calleth over what Heavenly Revenue doth belong to him Another Heart and Spirit is returned which makes him for to see and loath that former Image wherein all of the Earthly was found conversing daily amongst Men in Beastly Shapes From which by the mighty Birth of the Spirit of Jesus you are returned to get establishment in your own Kingdom Who are true Heirs thereof through Love's Adoption but not being come to the full Age are not to have yet the Reins of Government wholly put into your Hand this is reserved for a full grown Spirit of Wisdom which will spring in you by degrees But this is now doing for you saith the deep searching Spirit a Catalouge is making out of what Goods and Spiritual Stuff do belong to you that so you may know what ye have to trust unto and so set your Heart thereupon Your Heavenly Father would not that you should be kept ignorant of what is your Eternal Dowry For the knowledge of this will act you forth answerably into all Deified greatness of Spirit as expecting such a Kingdom to come and such a Priesthood of the highest Order to be given to you All which is to make you for to bethink your selves how for to carry it while in this World ye shall be vied withal from mighty Powers and Principalities that Command all Delights and Pleasures that the visible Earth affords But these must be nothing available with you who do proceed from another Line therefore do you only mind the things of the Spirit none else can know them Therefore marvel not that they are despised by all other these special things are only registred in the Book of Life for you The deep searching Spirit may look here into who is privledged to take out of the Original Copy of your Father's Will what he hath alotted you in matters Eternal Upon this free Discourse and Conference which flowed as Oyl to make the Lamp of my Understanding for to burn bright that so I might be of a quick Sight in Spiritual Things yet more deep to see Who here could not be at rest till the Spirit would give to me a particular of those rich Immunities and Glories that so we who herein are concerned might wholly be taken up in a satisfying Joy with our own Spiritual things and mind nothing more of what is another's in Earthly things February the 25th 1676 7. IN the forepart of the Night I was moved to pray for the Priestly work to proceed forward in that the most inward Court might be manifested which was now upon the revealing Then said the speaking Word Lay aside all which now as a weight doth rowle upon you After this Word falling into a Sleep I saw the Doctor 's Figure cloathed in an Embroidered Robe like a Priest's Cope at which with great Joy I congratulated him hoping hereby he should come to have more open access into the most Heavenly Place For this Word was with me for him which was spoken to Ioshuah the High-Priest thus saith the most Holy if he shall walk in my Wayes and keep my Charge and abide in my Courts then shall he be a Priest over my House Even so Amen make thou him meet for it The Doctor and my self then being met at Prayer where we did feel the Life to move vigorously towards the Conclusion of the Doctor 's Prayer this Word spake in me Pray evermore and faint not for what my Spirit shall pray within you the same your Advocate doth convey to the Father with Incense February the 26th 1676 7. Somewhat before Break of Day I did see two Persons that were known to me in a Boat without Oars as upon a Sea Upon a suddain a great Wave of Water broke in upon them whereupon the Boat began to sink upon which the one unstripped himself to swim to save his Life and seeing it in absolute Peril leaped out upon which the other with her Cloaths took hold of his Arm and thereby plunged him into the Sea upon which I cried out saying Lord save him Upon which he did rise getting from that other who did take hold upon him Then a gallant Ship did him meet where on a suddain I found my self in and therewith great Joy did take in the Person that swam but the other could not be seen So after this we removed away with quick sayl to the desired Haven After which considering this strange Presentation to me what it should signify I had only this Word Take thou up this Parable and say How thou sawest Two in one Bed the One through great Favour taken the Other left March the 1st 1676 7. THis Morning this Word greeted me Oh! what of Flesh can live when the immense Deep shall be searched out by the Spirit therefore consider what it will be there to know the things of God apparently The anointing shewed now the great disproportionableness betwixt what was to be known of the things of God and that of Man who tho' he be degenerated and hath lost all Propriety in Spirituals yet is born an Heir to Terrestial things and hath such a Spirit as to understand how to contrive and make out for himself another Paradise to which he bends all his force and might to imitate what was lost and doth answerably effect great things by rational Wisdom and Industry as belonging to this Principle So that though he hath lost the Knowledge of God in things Celestial yet through Toyl and Care Sorrows and Fears he hath recovered temporal Revenues as his own to live upon and to take lawful Pleasure in Nay the Natural Man may go much further than all this who in the more sobriety of Morality from a Light within may be convinced of that Duty and Necessity and Fear that belongeth to that God in whom all Live and have their Being and therefore may shew by a kind of
Stone yet in the Earth again Who will open in some such first that in a seperated Mind and Spirit do wait herein as Virgins not as with a double Eye to look forward and backward up and then down no such unsteady Spirit will ever be taken in Therefore the Spirit of Jesus doth give you this seriously to weigh as a seasonable Caution who would that this Prophecy might be fulfilled on you Oh pray for Stability and constancy continually March the 8th 1676. A Vision which I saw I with another Person was walking and conferring about the things of God in a by-place where no resort of Creatures use to be nor any did we see But suddenly lifting up my Eyes upon a lofty Tree I saw an Eagle's Nest they bâ—ing fledged did all present themselves to view The old one was flown from them to bring Provision to them At which sight of these young Eagles we who walked together consulted how to take them and to bring them away as a Prize While thus considering how to climb the Tree we were on a suddain carried level with the Nest and did not know how we got so high But one Eagle I did see had fluttered out and hung by the Twig of a Tree all martyred the Legs and the Neck all Bloody and broke The rest suffered themselves to be taken though they were so strong and fledged as they might have flown from us But that other Person took the Number of them which were Six and I did receive them into my Apron and so as strangely we were let down from this high Place as we were drawn up to it After this I set the Eagles down and they did very tamely eat Bread which I did provide for them I did remember nothing further hereof March the 9th 1676. But when I came to call over this Vision with all the Circumstances of it much from the Lord was opened to me from it Whose Spirit did immediately open this as he did the Parable to his Disciples as when he appeared in Person upon the Earth For this Word did through me pass Thy Jesus is at hand in Spirit to give the meaning of these presented Similies that so a Teaching by and through all ye may obtain for the perfecting of what doth remain behind that so ye may be gathered up among the Eagle train with that mighty Throne Eagle to Reign The Interpretation of the Vision Then was the Vision which I saw thus Interpreted The lofty Tree which thou didst see in that desert Walk presents that living Tree whereto none can reach but such who be of an Eagle birth whose Eye is fixed steddily on high where that mighty she Eagle hath fixed her Nest as in the munition of Rocks there to hatch her Number Seven Who then is this that favour hath found and that leave should be given to build upon this Tree of Life where of the holy one hath given such charge to the watching Cherub In plainness of Speech then it is Eve her self that hath lain long as dead under the Tree of Good and Evil whose time of raising is very nigh But with what Body will she now be raised up Look and see what is Prophecied of her Then I was pointed to the 6th of the Canticles ver 8. Who is she that looketh forth in the Morning fair as the Moon clear as the Sun terrible as an Army with Banners Then again ver 13. which was opened to me to be the Resurrection Call to lâ—psed Eve Return return O Shulâ—mite return return Thuâ— the lapsed Soul of the inward eternal Man is this fallen Eve here she is called to return to her Restoration State that we may again see her as bringing forth another more happy Generation a true Eagle Off-spring indeed But how and after what manner shall this be My Spirit was in deep Query as also when it should appear Then it was thus said Know ye not that Eve lost her Virgin Eagle Body and so hath long been sown into a slumbring Death in Folly Weakness and Dishonour But now the Life-Tree hath so fluently conveyed it self in this long Vacation as to raise Eves dead Body in the Strength and Honour of the Eternal Virgin Wisdom of God So as old Eve will now come forth as a mighty strong terrible Eagle And henceforth will more wisely build her Nest than at first she did through the Lord's permission For now she will be dignified with the Spirit of Virgin Wisdom to outvie the Serpents Subtilty according as it is written She now will build her House or Nest more sure to wit upon seven Silver Pillars Which do present the seven Eagle Birds which were seen in Vision they Wisdoms fiâ—st Brood shall be through Eves Wombs Restoration who will bring forth a most glorious Church in the Earth without Spot or Wrinkle Wisdom hath made choice of Eve for to be her Mate that is the lapsed Soul of the inward Man whose Hand must help to build this Nest for her Thus choice Eagle Spirits will be raised up out of old Eves Dust for this use and service to be Members of this perfect Church on Earth You may evidently see with an Eagle Eye that thus and after this sort a new Virgin Body must be raised up by Virgin Wisdom in this World for the Spouse and Church of Christ and so for every Member of that Body and so consequently for every lapsed eternal Soul to be cloathed upon with its new Virgin Body Oh! who then will strive first to mount and fly up in Spirit liberty hereunto being granted from the Power of the risen Body to prepare the First Matter for this Nest Because this Tree of Life is so pure that nothing but what is of its own must come upon it Which are the young sprouting Twigs and golden Leaves whereof the matter is to be which are no other then as in the Mystery Hereby they signifie a pure solid weighty Off-spring of holy Cogitations Words and Actions Which do ye skilfully unite for this purpose bâ—inging nothing out of the low â—â—ruâ—â—y Principle to enclose here Then your defence will be mighty and sure and your Bread and Waters will be serene The true Eagle Bird need not fly far the Tree of Life so nigh here are still fresh Fruits upon the Branches from it by no means start aside but keep close upon the Nest. You cannot yet be able to conceive what here by abiding close may be brought forth from this vertual Eagle Body to wit Throne Eagle Powers mighty to ascend to the number seven But if any shall look again downward into this Principle to descend before it is fully Feather'd great damage and hurt will necessarily accrue as in the Similitude I did see Therefore cauâ—ion take and let none trust themselves that would be of this Number to wander out before their time Ye had need to be strong as Eagles to encounter with what aversness you may meet withal from this
think that That which is written and manifested from above in the crystalline Glass of Divine Wisdom is mere Confusion Therefore you must distinguish between Eve and Eve between the eternal Eve and the mortal Eve the one belonging to the inward eternal Man the other to the outward mortal Man and the Prophesie is only to be understood of the eternal Soul and not of the mortal Soul Secondly You must distinguish in the eternal Eve between her fallen state and her restored state for the Prophesie is not what she is at present but what she is to be in her restored state In the Third place You are to consider that the eternal lapsed Soul is unable to effect it but it is the Work of God's eternal Wisdom who will freely espouse her self to her again after this long time of separation and alienation and then she shall be the Mother of a holy Generation Her Womb shall bring forth no other Children but such as shall make their Nest upon the Tree of Life And these things premised and understood the Representation will be easily understood by Wisdom's Eagles and confirmed sufficiently by the Holy Scriptures For you may read that Adam and Eve were both created eternal immortal and incorruptible Creatures in their Paradisical state and they both were created perfect without any spot of Sin or blemish of Weakness while they stood in their Paradisical Innocency and they were both to have brought forth an eternal holy Generation a perfect Church on Earth had they remained in Paradise But sinning in Paradise they thereby lost their Virgin Power and so consequently their Virgin Birth and they could not bring forth a perfect Generation having transgressed and lost their Virgin Power through Wisdom's withdrawing and estrainging her self therefore they were driven out out of Paradise But now being banished from their Paradisical Power and having both eaten of the Tree of Mortality and having both of them both Adam and Eve cloathed themselves with mortal Cloathing with a mortal Spirit that is with a mortal Adam and with a mortal Soul that is with a mortal Eve and with a mortal Body of Flesh. Now the mortal Eve hath been very Fruitful in the Birth of her Mortality but the eternal Soul the eternal Eve that Eve typed out in the state of Paradise to be the representative Mother of a perfect Generation to make up a perfect Church on Earth The Womb of this eternal Eve hath been barren to this Day but now Wisdom Prophesieth and Predicteth that she will look upon this eternal Eve this eternal Mother and will make her the fruitful Mother of a joyful Generation but she will reject the outward earthly Eve and will make her Womb to be barren that hath exalted her self in the Multitude of her Children but they were only to be the Brats of Babylon But the Children of the eternal Eve shall be the Children of Mount Sion and the Children of the New Ierusalem And this is the meaning of this Vision and divine Presentation for to support those that wait for Wisdoms Day to appear in Eves Birth through the eternal Souls Restoration in Union with eternal Wisdom It is not only the inward Man the eternal Adam that is an eternal Spirit with his Mind Will and Senses that shall now be restored but also his eternal Eve this is his eternal Soul withal his Affections and Passions shall be also restored And though the holy Scriptures make mention chiefly of the first Adamical Man's Restoration but yet it also mentioneth Eves Restoration I say the Womans Restoration as well as the Man's It is also clear that the whole inward eternal Man shall be Restored and not only one part of him not only the Will-Spirit which is but the superiour part of the inward eternal Man commonly called the first Adam that sinned but also his eternal Eve that is the eternal Soul the inferiour part of the inward eternal Man called the Woman this shall be Restored also So that the whole Man with his Spirit and Soul with his Adam and Eve shall be Restored in the Day of his Restoration when divine Wisdom shall espouse and contract her self to the inward Man Oh blessed Day Come dear Wisdom and finish this Act of Restoration in the Body Soul and Spirit of the inward eternal Man who is hid within the outward March the 10th 1676. This Day we were set upon by that strong Warriour that had assumed a poor corporeal Shape to shoot forth his venemous Arrows in great bitterness for to disturb us Which Grievance I did present in Prayer to my God that these raging Spirits might be bounded My Spirit crying and bewailing this wrathful boyling Cauldron that the Infernal dark Powers had kindled the Fire hereunto that so unsavoury Fumes do Daily as Scurn herefrom rise I besought then the Lord that if by any means both she and we might be delivered from these Buffetings and serpently Stingings My Spirit crying Oh Lord what have we done that this foaming tempestuous Sea must still roar about our Ears Is it needful it should be so Then reveal thy Mind herein still further to us Upon which I quietly reposed committing the whole of this Concern to that mighty One from whom both the Help and Power must only come to allay all of this boisterous Nature About break of Day this Word came to me saying Behold and see it is but a Worm that is of no moment who thus troubleth you only the subtilty of the Serpent hath entred to work through it but if you knew your own Spirit of Might and Fortitude ye might easily it suppress and bring all of this under and â—o nought Then again this Word came saying To what end is that Nest prepared upon the Tree of Life Is it not that you might fly away from all these hurtful Beasts Why do ye walk upon their Ground corrupting your pure spiritual Minds while ye do talk with serpently Worms Consider that to you both is given an Eaglewing that whenever you will its Rayâ— out-spread it will soon release you from all prickling Thistles Therefore give charge to your fellow Eagle from him who is the holy Watcher that henceforth ye wander not out from that munition Rockâ— where ye have that which is more weighty to regard than all of this low Oâ—b Then this Word run like Lightnâ—ng through me Oh faint not but as mighty Eagles renew your Strength and then ye will have rest from out all Tribulation Then this Word immediately also followed Though the evil One moves in the form of a Worm yet fear not for ye shall bruise him as a Worm March the 11th 1676. In my first Sleep in the Night time many magical Workings and Ideas were presented to me As first a Figure of a Woman with a Crown upon her Head who seemed to me to be but of a small Stature but her Visage was bright as the Sun and clear as the Moon with a
obtain the Dragon and the Beast hard War against him did make in conjunction with the Elements that did his outward mortal Life away take which did make out the Vision of the Child falling out of the Authors Arms. But the same Spirit is to revive in another and so to be taken up again which shall assuredly make good this Visional Prophecy in its Time March the 14th 1676 7. In this juncture of time upon these weighty Prophecies frequently opening upon me they indeed took up my whole Mind in Spiritual Debate for my self and that Nazarite whom the Prophecy did still eye for whom I was made to be concerned Because he was to be a joint Pillar to bear up and to declare this new Virgin Ministration which I did see would be mightily envied contradicted and warred against so soon as it should be brought to Light Nay while but uâ—to us revealing the Serpent doth work in many Wiles here against us of which still we have Warnings by Vision and Inspeakings As after Break of Day this by Presentation was shewn to me as upon the twink of an Eye I did espy a young Dragon out of a Hole of the Earth with Head Wings and Tail so speckled with black Venomous Spots as I could not bear to look upon it and while I was considering what should be done to destroy this Venomous Beast immediately from on high a young sprightly Eagle down did fly upon the Back hereof with such undauntedness as it had no power to resist the Eagles arrest Who did mightily tear with her Bill the Dragon's back and tail What further Victory she had I did not see the Vision hereof shutting up But this Word of Comfort was present with me saying See see after this manner ye will be relieved by your own eagle-Eagle-Spirit for nothing is like to the courage and strength of an Eagle Therefore when at any time this polluted Beast shall face to daunt and affright you gather up your Eagle-Might and be revenged in the first place upon that Tail wherein doth lie to you the greatest danger for there is both Sting Venom and Poyson and also subtle attracting Insinuationâ— These are very hurtful because not discerned therefore not feared or mistrusted As if his Head was set forward against you then ye could not but see his Mouth standing always wide open to swallow up what and whoever doth but look within the Circle of his Kingdom Of which ye have been aware and therefore have been kept by virtue of an unknown Angelical Guard from his Mouths foaming Rage Which this subtle Serpent knoweth well and therefore hath turned his Tail against you through a young one Who if possible might overcome your Virgin Spirits and cause you to turn down and fall in with the Dragon and Beast again after all chast separating Nazarite Vows and ascending Mights by which like Eagles ye fly to the Munition of Rocks Who with his Scorpion Tail will then surely circumvent you whose sting and power lieth there to hurt by Commission from the King of the Bottomless Pit Therefore your onset make like a right brood Eagle from your Tree of Life your Eagle-Eye will soon espy all Scorpion Spirits with their twisting Tails and then rend and tear with the Golden Bill of that â— strong Eagle-Spirit as as Sampson did the Lyon which he met with in the Way So Courage take to â—end away the very Sâ—ing in the Tail then ye shall proceed further unto the Head-Power till bruised under your Feet Of which this will be the assured Sign March the 18th 1676 7. This Morning this Word came to me Draw into thy Center-deep and see what lies there so precious so weighty and worthy to be dispersed forth that so thy Heavens within may be with that perfuming Saphire-Stone yet throughout more brightly inâ—lamed because the Virgin out there will first appear that must wear the Crown of Twelve Stars Take present care of the Heavens of your Mind and of that pure Unction-Oyl extracted out from that sweet Composition Matter that is not known by Name The rich Quality thereof is such as no Language here found can express but through contaction with it you will know the high Nature and Operation of it For from this unknown thing will spring the First-born Israelite where nothing of Guile shall ever be found Then was a new Charge for my self and the Dr. that we should draw a part from all Impertinent Fellowships because called to act forth a Superiour part as those who are designed to wait for the Triune Glory to â—ill our whole Temple Minds who will in our Heavenly Conversation be if nothing throngs in from this World For an instance hereof that Scripture was brought to me of the two Disciples when walking apart and only talking of Jesus their expectation of Restoration how immediately was he with them and expounded all things to them which was sealed with an inspiring Flame which gave Witness who made the Triune there who will still be with us as he is the Subject of our Discourse March the 19th 1676 7. I found my Spirit in a Disgust still against Eves Birth as it hung upon the Heavenly and Superiour part which I did feel to burthen it though the Virgin Nature did daily flow and spring through the Center of Vision and Revelation Whereby heaviness was â—pon my Intellectual Spirit so as I was made to pour out my Complaint in secret to my Lord Jesus Upon which after some Repose in the Night there was the similitude of a Man standing before me leaning under a Tree with a working Tool in his Hand as one worn out with Labour with a Dew of Sweat upon his Face he seemed to be so sick and tired and he entreated I would bear him a way from that place whereupon I took him up and carried him upon my Back but I could not long bear this ponderous Person but must throw him off else I perceived we must fall down together Whereupon it was said Carry him back to his own place who did come from the Earth and thereto he must return for to spend out his Life and dye that thou thereby mayst be fully discharged Which Idea had a considerable Speaking in it as it did plainly allude to the fallen Adamical state the meaning of which was clearly opened by the Spirit who said What hast thou here seen but that old Life Adam who was made out of the Dust and inferiour part of the Earth who is turned out from the Angelical Shape where he might have very near address to God his Maker But he did suck in that from that wretched Tree which hath made him so deplorable a Figure as thou didst see So as he is only meet to spend his days in toil and labour upon that Ground which is cursed for his sake so as nothing it will or can bring forth without Sweat of the Face Oh ye who are sufficiently sensible of this working
toiling Day into which all are fallen but can bear the Burthen as if it were indeed a Paradisical Sphere so lightly hath the whole Creation yet cared for its relasped state How choice and few are those that do seek herefrom to be released being of that Perswasion that the Earthly with the Heavenly must unseparably grow together as Twins Which is not so determined by the great God and Creator but he doth still expect that through the many depressions both in Spirit and Body some one or other are this long-run out time would be so weary of the Body of toil sorrow and Sin as to violate upon the Love Pity and Power of God the Father who cannot resist to send forth saving Succour to ransom such as still do fill his Ears with Cries and Groans for Redemption out of that which is the external Original matter of all and every kind of thraldom Hearken now and hear the Glad-tydings which is sent from your Father to you who hath taken notice of your travelling Sorrows while yoked with that Man upon whom Sentence is past that he might live by care and labour yet to you I say he shall not always and for ever be your clog There is a Birth of Strength upon the rising that will easily throw off this depressing Weight Yet a little while and the Iron-rod shall rule the Man of Sin so as to divide him from thee Many ways have been tryed to make him dye but all have been too short for he hath been a Warriour from his Original Sin-Conception and will keep the Field of this out-birth as he hath done from Adam's Day What hopes then say you that out of us he shall be thrown out for here I did object in Love Fear and Faith that many worthy Ones had striven hard to conquer by Death some of whom did go very far but scarce in any did this Death-Arrow so hit as to obliterate Sin altogether in its Root Then was it replyedâ— It is sufficient that one was perfect and just without Sin in a humane Figure then was that Scripture spoken in me Rom. 5. 19. As by one mans disobedience so by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous The Words were thus opened by the Spirit who said God revealed to Paul in his Day that nothing less was designed than a full and clear Acquitment from that first Man which did so naturally work in toyl and labour bringing only forth Fruit unto Death And who but that Man called the Branch shall answer to that defectiveness in abolishing the very Sperm of Sin that as nothing thereof could be found in himself so likewise in those who are elected for to be in joynt Heir-ship in the Kingdom of Mount Sion with him Whereunto he translates none till the old Adamical Life is laid in an everlasting Sleep of Death no more to awake for Contempt and Shame As often now it doth which hath stopped the New Ierusalem from descending down because once hath been perfect ready to meet this heavenly City Therefore saith the most Holy and True another manner of Church must be gathered from among Men who out of the Womb of that first Morning Star that is now upon breaking out a Star-like Off-spring is to proceed that shall go forth with the iron Rod of Power and dash in pieces every one of the Dragons Heads till this Church be born upon the Earth Who all are of Angelical Natures till then expect no Power over the Dragons and Beasts to reign To you who Numbred are to bear the Lambs Trophies stand to your Virgin Call fly not from her innocent White Colours whatever shall be here said against her If ye shall be the first born Star who shall shine upon Wisdoms Crown the Loves eternal Testimony for this end hath opened the clear Body of the Heavens that ye might understand what may be looked for in this Age. Therefore do you stand as mighty and immoveable Pillars for the Lamb and the Brides Church and great Indignation have against those that would it down decry Fear not those pushing Horns that war here against her she will make the glittering Sword of Power to be your defence against all your Enemies Be not troubled at the fewness of your Number for out of one or two that shall be perfect in their Generation a strange Generation may proceed who all mighty Warriours shall be for God and the Lamb to follow him in trampling down all earthly Powers Keep but up to your Leaders and ye need to fear no ill for invisible Seraphims shall still pitch a mighty Pavilion round about you March the 20th 1666 7. Thus ended this Revelation from the Vision I had seen which left a sweet perfumed Sence of Love Peace and Joy to feed upon Another Idea was presented to me from the History of Ahashuerus and Vashti his first espoused Queen Who by her act of Disobedience to her Royal Consort was banished his Throne This Word with great Power did through me sound A Virgin Queen among the Captives shall be found that shall be crown'd in the room of Vashti Then saw I one in the similitude of a Woman cloathed with Scarlet which was said This is one of Wisdom's Houshold who but she for the King of the New Ierusalem whose Garment is of an unstainable Dye From hence the Spirit made use of the whole literal Discourse Ahashuerus Vashti and Esther The most high Majesty hereby Figuring out himself having created and made for the Excellency and Glory of his Kingdom according to the state of so wise and infinite a Being That so he might take Pleasure in all the Glory and Riches of his Kingdom or Creation being all made perfect and good and high Princely Angels and Powers for Attendance As also Creating one more Noble Image as Male and Female who was in Election to be advanced to very high Dignity no ways inferiour to any Princely Spirit in the Angelical Figure But now the Sovereignty of the most High resolved to try this his new formed Creature with a Law of Restriction as from the Lord their Maker and Husband who might well expect a ready and punctual Obedience Who Vashti like was disobedient to the great King's Command and so thereby was turned into an earthly Eve and immediately banished out from the high Throne Presence For else it would have been an ill President if God should not thus have done the heavenly Hierarchy might have questioned God's immutability and thereby have taken advantage to deviate from those known Angelical Laws which the great Creatour had to them perfixed Thus much was opened of this Original Eve from whence the contradicting and slighting Vashti Spirit doth proceed The true Virgins Life which the first formed Man was once in is now as to him and all of his Posterity carried away as a Captive and sold for nought For this Virgin Nature was wholly taken away upon this act of Disobedience Who
them and saw them in that place no more A voice saying None here shall henceforth come but such as can agree to walk with thee perfectly And so the Vision broke up The Interpretation Some Days after I did further enquire into the more full meaning of this Vision why such should so conspire against my solitary reserved Life but especially that one who was in my Eye of more value because of a known Life of Truth and Integrity I found this written upon my Heart Their Eyes must for a while be with-held they will not you know till ye can get the new Name engraven as of pretious Stones upon your Forehead For it was secretly whispered to my Spirit that in some there might be a refined and spiritual Emulation as in others a more Gross and Sensual Both of which I had councel and caution how to walk with so as no occasion of stumbling might be given justly to the gainsaying Spirits Whose pryings were to see how we would walk while in the Wilderness state Out of which we were not to come till our beloved Lord should bring us forth as in another form wherein me might be known as those who are to live in another Sphere where neither the hissing Serpent or biting Adder will adventure to appear in that High-way where nothing which is unclean can pass It is only for those who have held out the Wilderness probation waiting in Faith Love and Patience till the jubilee Year In which the Ransomed shall go forth out of their solitary Place into the New Sharon where the Glory and Excellency of their God as a circling Saphir-bow will be for their Defence March the 23d 1676 7. This Word spake with great Majesty Behold I come quickly hold fast that which thou hast Upon which I considered what that thing was which was to be held so fast This Word then opened it self in great Force and Consequence to me for I was in great suspence among the many Gifts received what most primarily should be taken care of among those things which were intrusted with me Still my Spirit was harping hereupon waiting for a clear Resolve which this Morning was given to me by a distinct Word passing through me saying Hold fast that which is my Witness iâ— thee as the Gift of Revelation and Prophesy Which bind fast by the Girdle of Faith or else it may be wrested from thee for thou art not freed from the Serpent's Conspiracy Who by all subtlety would circumvent my anointed Prophets by mixing and casting in what is not of my Spirits pure intent Watchful then now be least that high spirited Wine which flows so readily from the eternal Vine should be either adulterated or stopped in its flowing Source Therefore from your holy Watcher take this following Rule and thereby you shall be able to keep the Crown of anointing upon your Heads in despite of the Serpent's Rage March the 24th 1676 7. To you then to whom this worthy portion of Prophesie and Revelation is given as what ye are to keep and hold fast till your Lord shall come it will be expedient to observe this Rule Take this Councel that Elisha gave the Prophet's Widow that had 〈…〉 all her living Furnish thy House and stock it well with choice Vessels of all kind that are fit for reception washed and wrinsed with the scented Water of Life Let no other Furniture be within the Mansion-house of the great Prophet but set all in Order ranck by ranck and expel every other thing Taking the Authority also to stop all of the nether sensual Springs and a way is to be found out to cut off those Pipes through which the muddy brackish Water of strong scented Reason issues out For if at any time while this pure Oyl is running this should happen therewith to mingle it would be like that Herb in the Pottage which made the Sons of the Prophets to cry there was Death in the Pot. Therefore obey this Councel when thou hast brought in all those Vessels that have been tried as Gold in the celestial Fire of God's Love Faithfulness and Truth then use thy Skill to suspend and stench the Bleeding of that old degenerated Vine Which when your Obedience herein is readily fulfilled then to you will be given that Precious Blood Ruby-Stone that will eternally put a stop thereto But at present all Care and Diligence is charged upon you that a restraint according to your present Ability may be put to all those sprouting Essences which are contrary to the Paradisical Nature Here is a Break for several Days in the Original April the 8th 1677. THis Word I was reminded of as a Prophesie to be fulfilled in this laâ—t Age of Time Rejoyce O ye Souls in what I am about to do which is to create new Heavens in your old Earth to change it into a spiritual Frame and Model wherein the holy Ghost that I will send down shall evermore abide and dwell Then shall ye bear the Name of Immanuel Now it is to be understood what the reason was why the holy Ghost could not transform the Soul before into its first Original Purity which was because the new Heavens were not yet Framed which do represent a Mind renewed and a Heart purified For that Scripture was opened to me If Christ be risen in you than hath Sin no Power over you but its Body sinks and dies away For till the Body of Sin be laid there can be no assuming of a celestial Body at least for duration Then again the great Prince and Shepherd had another design to gather up holy choice Spirits that had lived in mortal Bodies to come up after him to make up the Mount Sion Church in the invisible Heavenly Sphere And those that have kept fast the Word of Truth in Patience and have fought the good Fight of Faith if that they dye in the Warfare they shall loose nothing of what they have so far wrought there is a Reservation and a Place for such to perfect what is lacking For 1. Christ himself did not go out of the Body into the highest mansion of Glory but he first entred Paradise So likewise those whom the Father hath given to him must whether in the Body or out of the Body make their first remove thither to be fully made meet to be gathered up to the Fountain-head of all springing Wisdom and Glory A known Number here is to make up the Flock for this upper Fold whereof are the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles who are nominated to be Elders among that great Assembly who are moved out of Paradise to sit in heavenly Places with their head Prince and Mediatour To which holy Place there are some holy and perfect Spirits in every Age added as Saints breaking away from this Principle This now is a Dispensation of that Time mentioned of a gathering in of heavenly Spirits to Christ out of the reformed Paradise But there is yet a fuller Time and
to their future Posterity they had been in the same condemnation with the fallen Angels but the Eternal Word did even then incarnate himself for their help and recovery and to save them from sinking into that horrible Lake which the Serpent had prepared for them Thus did the Eternal Love immediately move towards them to free them out of the Dragon's Power whose design was to make them of their own Hierarchy in their Princely power of Darkness out from which the Lamb of God did redeem them Who from the Foundation of the World was the Salvation of God so still going on to the Ends of the Earth But while this new thing sprang in my understanding which seemed to differ from what I had formerly received as Truth I besought the Lord my Teacher to answer this Objection that was raised thereupon That if so immediately upon Adam's Fall the Eternal Word who is the new Birth-Seed did incorporate with Eve whereby power and ability were given to bring forth wholly after the Spirit how was it then that she should and did bring forth after the fleshly Image as appeared by the first Man which she brought forth in the wrathful Property first awakened In Answer to this I found Light at hand to resolve me As thus it did not seem good to the Wise Creator to obliterate and so presently to wipe off the Stain with which they by the act of Disobedience had blemished themselves Some marks of Displeasure the most Holy did still include them under as a Terrestial Body and to bring forth in Travel and Sorrow what should have been by Magical Power and Joy 〈◊〉 Celestial Angelical Forms but now as the effects of disregarding the Command of God they brought forth a mean and despicable Image according to their own Likeness But then I further queried but this Corporeity might have been Sinless 〈◊〉 Original Righteousness was also infused by the immortal Spark of Life entring in to incorporate with the outward Elementary Birth That Spirit which had so pure an Existency and was in free Liberty should come into a necessitated thraldom as in Cain was manifested As to this I also obtained Satisfaction that Cain had the Eternal Light of Life with him that did fore-warn him and convince him of the end and danger of Sin and that he was under Probation and that the Serpent had liberty still to â—â—â—mpt a new sutably to the Condition he wâ—s fallen into Who had an absolute Liberty of Will and Sufficiency of Power to stand his Ground as God said to him by way of Reproof If thou dost well shalt not thou be accepted but if not Sin lieth at thy own Door Which plainly doth declare that Cain should not have yielded himself Sins Captive So that in all Temptations you may know whither to fly even to that eternal Word within you who is mighty to Save who Is and Was from the Beginning the First and the Last Visible and Invisible Deity in Humanity and Deity out of Humanity all making and tending to the fullfilling and Manifestation of the Mystery which hath been hid in the Trinity Which Arcanum will be daily revealing in this latter Age. Then arose a further Query to be answered If Christ as a Seed of Life was infused into every individual Birth throughout the Line of Terrestial Propagation whereby a Sufficiency was found to bear down and overcome what the Serpent had introduced of this Venome and Sting of Sin add Death What further need was there of Christ to assume a Body and to be proclaimed in the World as a Personal Saviour by and through the offering up himself a Propitiatory Sacrifice for Sin If it could have been expiated by the Production of Internal Light and Life thus originally Springing according to that Scripture Christ the Light of every one that cometh into the World As this is a weighty and considerable Question so resolved it shall be from That which seeth into the first Ground of what cometh to be manifested in time Now then for these Reasons it was expedient for him who was nominated the Second Person in the Trinity to be exhibited in a corporal Form upon this Account First To declare the possibility of bringing in and acting forth an everlasting Righteousness in â—rail humane Nature which every way was beset and assaulted with Temptations from all dark Powers which from their evil Center did conspire to overturn Truth and Fidelity in this Immaculate Lamb for had the Dragon prevailed upon him here Mount Sion and the Heavenly Ierusalem should never have been revealed Secondly Then again for this Cause Christ was to be manifested in Flesh in God-like Power as very needful to become that great High-Priest to attone and make expiation for the Sins and Defectiveness under the first Covenant which was given in Paradise all since having sinned after the similitude of Adam's Transgression The holy Seed in them being weak through the Body which is included and falling under the gross Element which hath and doth in some much more then others choak and smother the Life and doth greatly cloud and darken universally this pure Light whereby the good part doth rarely get the Victory in any till they attain to a good degree of Illumination and Purification For this Spring of Light doth get through but by degrees for tho in it self its of great Potency yet need enough there is for Sins committed in the times of Ignorance and Minority before the Spirit comes to make the Soul understand it self from whence it is relapsed I say for the Remission of these Sins past through the forbearance of God not less then such a Sacrifice was your Jesus for you to become In the Third Place Then as Christ fulfilled all Righteousness in his Humanity for an Example to his fellow Breathren so they might come to the unity of the same perfect Life by the same perfect Spirit which was in him through the dying Life For thereby your Lord Jesus obtained a super-additional force and power of Spirit to give and shed abroad into you for the working out a full Liberty and Salvation For seeing his pure Life-Seed was under oppression he also came into a Body of Flesh to relieve and free it from the Bondage of Sin and Evil and also the very Mortality antecedent thereunto according as it is written delivering them who through fear of Death were all their Life-time subject to bondage Which no way could be effected but by Death destroying Death First in the humane Figure of your Lord Jesus who hereby shewed you the way to do mystically that so thereby you might escape the Second Death through the Resurrection which is said to quicken Mortal Bodies Fourth Place Now then further consider that thâ—s was the very great and primary end of Christ coming into a Body of Flesh to transfigure and to shew the way of Immortalizing of it as he did his own after his Resurrection when he ascended into
the Kingdom of his Father Then this was also noted to me from hence that had not Christ come down into a Body the highest Saint could have attained no higher State than Paradice though endued with all the internal Excellency from the Word of Life as a Seed incorporating with it For their highest dimensions was Adam's Paradise beyond which Region neither Patriarchs nor prophets did arrive before Christ's appearing in the World Therefore you see Christ imbodying himself in a Terrestial Form brought forth many considerable Advantages if they may now be considered of by the wise hearted so as to wait and expect the fruits of that additional Spirit that is some degrees higher than any Seraphick Flame of Light Believe it and know it that this Breath of Fire breathed and sucked in will melt away all your gross Metalline Corporeity April the 18th 1677. The True Shunamite As soon as I awaked in the Morning this Word spake in me What is to be done for thee Wouldst thou be spoken for to the King This Word I pondered often upon what should be the meaning hereof and for what intent it did so speak Which after some days was thus resolved that such who signatur'd are with Spiritual Generosity and Largeness of Love answerably to that Shunamite who was so careful of Elisha as to provide for his Entertainment even so grateful would Christ the true Spirit of Prophecy be unto them who have such a Proof of Love and Esteem for him as to furnish out a most holy separate Place for this Prophet still to turn in into First then it was given me herefrom to observe that this Shunamite as she did understand him to be a Man of God gave him great Reverence and would not lodge him in her own mixed Family as judging none there worthy of his Conversation and therefore did on purpose build a place of Apartment for vacancy that this holy Seer might have opportunity for enquiry with the Deity Therefore she took care he should not be disturbed Then further this Word came unto me as not only for Council but for Information that Knowledge was taken of such a true Shunamite who was in Council with her Eternal Mate that had prepared according to this similitude for this Spirit of Prophecy a most holy inward place with a true Spiritual furnishment of what was necessary to tempt this true searching Seer to take up here his abode Then was it shewn me what I did not know to be in my self so clearly thus figured out dstinctly by way of Allegory First a new Edifice on purpose was framed by the wise Master Builder in us Then a Table-Heart in which the Law of Love was written Then a Bed for to give ease and rest to our Beloved that he might not be as a wayfaring Man Know this in each of us so furnished out as his own home where we might retire to him in the Light and Spring of Understanding Which is the Candlestick and Candle fixed in us before-hand without which no comfortable abode for this Prophet would be in us Then again the Stool signifies a quiet fixation with us without weariness a blessed contentation In that there is but one Seat it shews that here is an excluding of all other out of this Place The Elisha Spirit admitteth none to sit with him in his Lodging for this sitting or waiting posture is proper for the Spiritual Diviner that night and day may minister hereupon Upon this I did receive an approbation or Sealing Word for good Hope and rich Consolation to us who could witness that large generosity of Spirit in Love to this Prophet before whom we are called to stand Who did put indeed and verify this Question a second time unto me saying What shall be done for you who have cared all this Care for me in giving me a place of Apartment where nothing might mingle with me Tell me now what I shall speak on your behalf whether to the King or Captain of his Host The King here represents God the Father the Captain your Lord Jesus the Elisha Spirit the Holy Ghost Either of them both can be heard at all times Therefore see that ye be free in Humility with your Prophet Now having such a Grant made to me I consulted how to act the part of a wise Shunamite though I could and might take herefrom great Liberty yet I am taught to weigh all my Request that nothing rash or unadvised may proceed from me Oh my Lord and great Prophet I cannot compare with the Shunamite in all things who said That she was in her own Land and People But we may be said to be on some account as exile Captives while living in Elementary Bodies also in a Land under Babylonish tribute which is very grievous to the Supernal part Who knows its own true Nativity as seeing through the Glass of Eternity what we once were in pre-existency But now as existing in Forms of Mortality it cannot be said that we need nothing further in the highest degree of this Terrestial state Therefore in blushing Fear and holy Modesty I did declare the Sense hereof to my Prophet If now my Lord will speak for this unto the great and mighty King and Captain of the Lord's Host that we may have release out of all Babylonish thrall and be brought back again to our own People to dwell in the Heavenly City What greater express of kindness can be compassed for us by the Prophet But the Spirit of Elisha replyed to me There is yet a greater thing then this of which thou hast made no mention that must go before it Which is the one pure Elementary Birth for that which is born from beneath of fleshly Corporeity can never be gathered among those Celestial Denisons till immortaliz'd with pure and Aethereal Bodies Ah my Lord if so what hopes can there he for us who are so united unto this out-Birth Then said the Prophet Be quiet and still and after a while this pure Birth that is all of Spirit may freely Spring in which you will pass where you so much long and desire for to dwell But then this was further revealed that many would be the cross workings of this Worldly Element therefore very wary we must be to avoid all Minglings with it For we stood here upon a very nice point therefore know and be only conversant with this God-Man from whom is diffused that which is of pure Birth Impregnancy that will excell in Perfection all of former Births Yet said the Prophet consider further this If you do attain to this Birth know while ye are in this Principle it is not out of all danger Hazards do attend it as in the case of the Shunamite while but in the Childish state The Four Elements may specially be in strife against the Life hereof when the Elisha-Power may be with-drawn away Therefore keep up all Love and sweet Correspondency with this Spiritual Prophet that ye may
a Refuge have in whatever may happen for present or future time or may fall out upon you making use of this his great Friendship at all times when need doth require who hath a reviving Breath for Life still to inspire So then according to what hath been revealed herefrom do you make use hereof in a wise and understanding Spirit April the 20th 1677. I did see a Vision which was thus presented as the form of a Hand which seemed to be grasped very close out of which sprung a living Creature peeping through the Fingers and so by degrees did quite break through the Fingers First appeared the Head as in the Likeness of a young Dove but the Body was of the colour of a Ruby having Wings and Fire-sparkling Eyes which as soon as it got through the Hand it mounted away as into the Air where I saw it no more This thing seemed very strange to me and for some days the meaning was concealed having other Ideas intervening wherein my Intellectuals were exercised But this being brought to remembrance there was something considerable to be understood from it as by the Spirit of Wisdom and Light was made out very significantly The Interpresation of this Vision As first by the Hand which represents Strength Power and Activity as when God is said to do any marvellous or unusual thing it still goeth under the denomination of his Hand As it was upon Ezekiel when he was in the Visions of God his Hand was said to be upon him And again The Hand of the Lord is nor shortned but said to be stretched out as a strong over-spreading Hand Therefore after the similitude of a Hand the Creating Power doth go forth as in Vision it was shewn thee what in time might be effected Then this Question was put to me What now dost thou believe that living Creature to be which was so wonderfully formed in the Hand Ah my Lord I do make no conclusion hereof I wait singly to participate of thy Mind whose sweet Voice and Sound I through thy Grace am learned in and do hereunto attend Therefore speak my Lord yet again Then did this Word pass through me after the manner of a Spirit 's Speech saying The Living Creature which did break away through the Hand doth figure out that which is of great import as namely a Cherub Birth Whereof the Elisha Spirit hath Prophesied should be brought to pass where the least expectation might be As in the case of the Shunamite who was strangely surprized when the Prophet did her greet herewith Even so unexpectedly will the Earth be blessed with such a Birth that shall be hatched under the mighty Hand of Power which will ascend straitway to this Mountain high And it was further hinted to me that as I could not see nor understand any matter contributed to be the substance of this Living Creature so it must be here Which as I was considering of in my self that Scripture was struck upon me It is the Stone that is cut out without Artificial working or known matter Therefore said the Spirit so consider of it this is that holy Breath that none indeed can tell from whence it comes nor whither it goes it resteth upon whom it self willeth and there contracts incorporeal matter that so a Body Cherub-like may go forth from under the overshadowing Hand Know of such like the New Heavens and Earth are henceforth only to be furnished withal Therefore for certainty that Word will be made good Behold the Face of all things will renew But how No otherwise but by the Powers that shall go forth from this Cherub-Birth That when once got through will numerate as those mighty Angels of the Resurrection who will be of great force to pour out the Vials of Wrath upon the Dragon and Beast Who hath had his Root and Seat in man's inward part and there hath made all the defilement Therefore Vengeance upon the Beast will be ere long taken because he hath been so mingled not only with gross Sensuality but also with the Serpently Property That all now who are herein found who are designed for the Kingdom of Heaven must suffer under the Violation of this blest Birth whose rising will be the fall of what is Fleshly For saith he that maketh all things Yet once more an End is come of all Flesh before me A New Creation is to succeed out of and from under the hiding Power of the Almighty Hand in such who now cloathed are with this present Creation in such rough Beast-like Garments whereof they are ashamed Therefore it is that such mean perishing Coverings which are not so much as Moth-proof they do seek to make comely to each Mortal Eye but here is a Birth of another Nature and Consistency that neither needs nor will accept of any of this vile matter from the grosser Elements knowing well that course Linnen which is spun out from thence will no way become such as must pass into that City Which is so bright and clear where nothing is worn but what is Aethereal and trausparent The Light there is such as soon makes a discovery of what is contrary Then said my Spirit Ah my Lord thou hast spoken of great things to come happy is that Age who shall see such a Birth-day as this But this question my dear Lord resolve to me which is this What hath made this Spiritual Birth thus long to stick in the World Ans. Because this out Birth by way of Natural Generation hath now had such a long circling Life in the deep impression of the Stats that it is rooted as a strong Oak that would give way to no other but to the flaming Ax of this Birth of the Spiritâ— Which by reason of long custom and habit is grown too stubborn and strong for the young plant seed to deal with it It meeting with many disadvantages both as to place and Persons and constitution of things in and from this Principle That so it need to be no wonder that this Birth find such difficulty in any for to get through But this old oaky Birth shall not be only lopped by degrees and the root of the matter left still to spring from generation to generation in those who are allotted for Redemption No know you Jesus will not have it run by natural Course to the end of Time Thus his Trumpet hath already sounded to awaken some that did as others sleep in the dust who are risen to a better hope seeking to be cloathed with immortal Robes To such as first do look and do keep close under this hand of power this Cherub-Birth will appear and then let not such fear that their old terrestrial Birth shall their more superior and heavenly Image outwear The wise in heart are given to understand these things who are diligent to enquire when this Birth will be perfected April the 22d 1677. About the break of day there appeared to me as upon a Mountain a stately
Birth being extraordinary and marvelous so soon as it was but noised abroad Councel was taken for to destroy him nay he had much ado to live out his determined time but as he preserved himself by his inward virtual Body upon every storm and assault The world that lieth in the evil of darkness could not bear such a Light to live amongst them whose life was that which did reprove them Therefore it is no needless question to ask of the most high Wisdom how in this Age such a Birth may be succoured and sustained till it hath got a body of might and fortitude which no weapon can destroy or hurt The resolve must be fetched up from the deepest of all centers as it is a matter of the most primary consequence to them who have such a Birth in such a dangerous Principle for to bring up a Birth which is from the power of the overshadowing hand Hence then for satisfaction to this Query saith the all knowing Spirit be it given you to understand That every Birth of what kind soever brings along with it through the wise Provision in Nature it s own nutriment That which is of corruptible seed hath what answers to it of its own perishing Quality What feeds on flesh either as to its fleshly mind or body shall suffer loss to purpose though all the care be to prop and nourish it to make it a well favoured piece of mortality Which to the most holy is a strange Similitude which he hath no delight to see or know his own any longer in Therefore he inciteth and calleth to look after another Birth that may be all of Quintessential matter of the very Nature of the Deity such a pure thing may have corporal humanity a while for its visible case As your Immanuel had assumed as the garment of Sackloath in which he humbled himself for the sins of the world and for that end sacrificed it Who though he took it up again it was for the manifestation of greater wonders by it through various changes which it was made the subject of For in that sometimes he was known and then again in such a figure unknowable to them who were daily conversant with him Who after that the pleasure and design of the Father was in that body finished then the power of the inward spiritual body was manifested to anatomise the visible humanity for that was not to pass into the Heavens From all which learn we to discern where the Christ like birth with his spiritual body is though clouded with a corporeal figure And that ye may not be mistaken take these special signs to know where it is truly fixed or impressed First then know this overshadowing hand through which this birth doth spring incompasseth only what is Paradisical ground there it drops in its golden seed This ground in its true native Virgin pureness must be separated from the common cursed matter of what produceth the earthly birth These two different soyles are to be found in the first Adam's generative off-spring but it is so mingled and overrun with the dark muddy element that great care labour and painful industry is used for its recovery out by the wise and learned Spirit in the heavenly Chymistry rightly to prepare for this holy Birth Which will be easily known from the course and rudimental that is in the image of the earthly For first here is a pure conception as from the high and pure radical infusive Spirit that quickens the Virgin soil and so cooperates it into a spiritual Body that it may be all of one and the same pure clear undefiled subtile matter with the quickning Spirit that you may know what that is which contributes to the Christ-like Births wherewith it will be one and the same that it may degenerate in nothing from the first perfection and pattern of his Life But only this heavenly man may be excused from that personal suffering in the tragical part as an outward death Which will not be required upon the same account having finished the mystery of the mystical death through this Birth taking place and bearing dominion over the outward But now to resolve that Question What this Birth that is from above which is coagulated into one unmixed matter must live upon in the house of humanity Which for a time it must be brought up in as Christ himself was and tempted with the evil fruits that will be daily proffered from the market of this world but yet in no danger though in minority For it is left under the guardian Spirit who warns it what to abstain from whose nature and composition is of such heavenly essentiality that it inclines naturally to obey the Paradisical laws Which is the second character of this New Creature Then again in the third place while but in its Infancy it will suck of no other but its Eternal Virgin Mother lay it to any other and it will be sick to Death And if at any time contrary Food is forced upon it it doth presently Vomit it up Then when grown to a further degree of strength not only the pure Milk of Wisdom its Mother those living Precepts of her Word but the very Body of the Deity which is the spiritual Flesh Christ spoke of and the Blood the Milk of the Word But when come to that Age as to be able to take and feed upon that Body that is extracted out of the very Being of all Eternal Spirits of what kind must this be brought forth but even such a Celestial Body as Christ told them could never taste of Death For as he did live by the Father by feeding upon the very power of the God-head So likewise that Birth which was of this extraction should live eternally by feeding it self upon his divine Flesh. Your Fathers saith he did eat Manna and are dead but I the Bread of Life will sustain you and thereby immortalize you if ye henceforth do feed upon no other but me the Tree of Life It was further revealed to me That the Mould and Paradisical Matter was found in us and brought out of all dispersions into one holy lump formed and quickned by that pure azure stream or breath which did present it self by way of Vision And this in process of time might come to be no less than God manifested in our fleshly forms of Corporeities therefore let us be careful and watchful over it and to hide it under the sheltering hand of the everlasting power forasmuch as it is enclosed with a terrestrial form as its house where the light of the Sun Moon and Stars of this Visible Region did break in and thereby would assume a government over it which might bind and keep it under as upon the outward elementary Spirit This was my fear and jeoperdy Concerning which the everlasting Comforter did satisfie me declaring This was a free birth not subject in any respect to the rudiments of this world because that nothing of
these essences did therewith mix Nâ— depravity in the Nature of sin was here infused Therefore this Birth may stand upon its royal freedom for to be born free from sin is a great and mighty thing Therefore know your New Birth-prerogative and come not under the power of what this holy inspiring breath is come to set at liberty from For the true Heir is a Son of Liberty in bondage to nothing when once he comes to know himself he will then assume that Sovereignty which shall make the corporeal life bow unto him Nay as this encreaseth and grows up to its princely greatness this Land will be too strait For out of Egypt God will call this his Heir through all terrestial Walls and Gates to come up unto that free City where the Trinity in Majesty will give out their sealed Commissions for what this Birth of might and excellency hath further for them to do in this low Region For that which hath been as the high builded wall of Perdition betwixt these Principles and the Mountain upon which the New Ierusalem stands by such strong Angels as these you shall see broken down without tool or weapon and passage made which the Eagle Eye of this Birth will spy and will be so skilfull as to know its way through the cloudy Air to mount Sion Hill the mystery of God in both Principles to fulfill April the 27th 1677. In the Morning after the Doctor had prayed I awaked and sunk down into the center of Life And there appeared unto me a pure azure blue streamâ— which was said in me was that Spirit and Breath of Life that must put the grosser Element to flight Then it was further opened to me that from this perfect thing would go forth an enriching Mist that should renew the face of all things in such whose inward ground was measured out by the Golden Reed of the Spirit Then was further shewed me the twofold nature and property of this Breath That as it could quicken and be a seed of Life in matter meetly prepared for it So likewise this Breath would extinguish that Life which worketh in contrariety against it According as it is written Oh Death I will be thy Death When all conclusions be tried for the expiation of the earthly birth there is no other that can so eternally anatomize it as the Body of Sin may be said to cease and not to be but by the Spirit of the Lord blowing upon the fleshly form of it which seemeth to be so goodly Verily this Life hath been too hard for all other weapons that have been tried upon it since the full outward death could not conquer this Life of Sin As Christ told the Iews if they did not believe on him as the resurrection of another Life they should die in their sins So as the mortal death cannot quit from that second death which follows that corrupt Birth-seed which was not in this Life demolished But then from hence this doubt will arise Who is it that hath left this Testimony behind them of all past Generations that before the mortal death did overtake them they had first cleared themselves of that vile and corruptible birth of sin Sure saith the objective Spirit if this be strictly examined how few or scarce any will be found but did mortally die before the inward body of sin was totally expired If so how then could they immediately pass where nothing that ever was of the polluted Nature of Sin could come in As to this obscure and deep Query of which I my self with others have been universally ignorant as not finding out the several reservatories that Spirits did pass into The letter of the Scripture not opening so positively what relateth hereunto as plainly to determine this doubtful matter But it hath been kept dark in the foresight of the most holy wise God Who hath left himself free to give the key of the knowledge hereof in what Age and to such in that Age as shall be worthy of such secret My Spirit hath been often solicitous with the Lord for this thing as in case my Body mightâ— break from my superior Spirit and the Mortal part die before the evil essences which are called Sinn be extinguished as to their very originality then into what Orb shall such a Spirit enter that may be almost but yet not quite got free from every relick of sin The Key of this unknown Door was hereupon put into the hand of my Guardian Spirit the mystery hereof to unlock that this great secret might be revealed and that hereby the Elect might be undeceived Who have nothing less believed but that though they should not come to see and feel sin finished through everlasting Righteousness coming in as a Conqueror Yet wheâ— got loose from this temporary life they should strait ascend into that principal City of the great King Which was once my belief according to that tradional manuduction that I was under But since of meer great and unparalled Love another deep is discovered from out of which a sure and pure word of Revealation hath sprung both as to this and other Obscure things And that the opening of this Truth might not go forth only in the authority of a private Revelation when indeed there is need enough for all Spirits to be tried that do take this Covering For this cause a Scripture foundation was given to confirm and ratifie what was so freely inspired into the mind As first that word was given to me to consider of as in the 14th of Iohn 2d verse In my Fathers house are many Mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and when I have done that I will come and receive you to my self From which words it was given me thus to understand that by House the Spirit doth signifie the Locality of God's invisible Kingdom that hath various Regions for dwelling places as it is said there are many Mansions in which are degrees of Glory Solomon in the mirror of Wisdom had an account thereof when he had built that Magnificent House and Temple for the Most High Which made him as in a Spiritual Extasy cry out The Heavens of Heavens cannot contain thee So it is said of our Lord Jesus that he ascended up above ALL Heavens By all which we may conclude that there are degrees of Heavens and yet all within the Celestial Sphere For Adam before he had awakened the sinful essence was an inhabitant in one of the Heavens which had the Title of A Paradise because of its serene and fruitful soyl But yet God's local Habitation was not here but he sent forth his influencing mist and here did with Adam and Eve frequently commune while they were undefiled but they being once found in the depravation of this purity this Heaven could not bear their corruptible Image for the worm of mortality could not here live Upon which God said Let them out
sâ—aled with Holy Spirit of Promise Though in that day soon upon Christs ascending the Spirit of working power was suddainly showred down upon some as in the Acts mention is made who had no foregoing work of sanctification upon them Upon which it made the Apostles themselves astonished that the Holy Ghost should be sent down upon the Gentiles also who did not believe in the Lord Jesus But that is now ceased The giving forth of the Holy Ghost in this day will first produce inward effects and be a Spirit of burning seasoning the Vessels within and inflaming it with the pure fire of Love and Joy And then being all divinely leavened there will be found all sufficiency to do the most wonderful things easily flowing forth from the substantial body which by degrees may work it self fixedly through the humane form in great splendor and glory So from hence we are taught how the Holy Ghost hath his first inspiring work upon us To make all clean pure and perfect within our Minds and Wills For we shall be Witnesses what he doth first in and for us before he will shew forth by us the Seal of his great Power to what lies without us Who by signal Working Powers and Gifts are to be convinced and brought over to the Faith which will work by that Love that will be shed abroad by the Holy Ghost Whos 's first enkindlings and stirrings ye are saith the Holy and True to cherish and wait upon till ye are leavened throughout with Righteousness Light Love and Joy Which will make way for the going out of Wisdoms Power and God's all sufficiency in a more marvelous manner then ever Blessed highly are they whose lot it shall be to come up to the Mount of God's Habitation through all these degrees This word take along with you for certainty that it is possible for the close wise persevering diligent Spirits to see this great and mighty salvation in the Lord Christ's Kingdom in and through the ghostly power working mightily April the 28th 1677. This Morning awaking about three of the Clock my Spirit after some divine ejaculations was inkindled through the Love-melting Powers of the Spirit of my Lord Jesus which did pass as a burning Lamp through all my Intellectuals finding there matter to feed upon answerable to its own light property whereby refreshing was found After this I slept till five a Clock or somewhat more as by me surmised Then I was awakened with the beholding one in the figure of a man in a blue clear firmament enclosed as in an oval frame Rainbow-like his Countenance was grave and majestical facing me with great majesty Upon the sight of whom I did feel within me a mighty rapture of joy So I making to get nearer to this Person thus plainly portraied then he did further withdraw for such was the â—ervour of my Spirit that I would have proceeded into the very Circle where he was Who seemed to be in the very fashion of a man from the Loyns upward but I saw no Legs or Feet but he fixed his Light Countenance still on me which was no way terrible but all reviving Now I was expecting somewhat to be spoken from him but the voice was uttered within me saying thus This is the Sign of your Lord from Heaven that Jesus whom you have desired to see Upon which words I attempted again to break through to him upon which this Representation did pass away that I could no longer gratifie my spiritual Eye with this blessed Personality After whose departure I was left sad for I would willingly have left my corporeal form to have entred into that Oval Cloud where I might have joined the Hand of my Spirit with his But then it was again further revealed to me that if this sight was so pleasing and grateful what would the coming in of the Fathers glory be which would be much more then what I now did see Then this word spake in me go on to believe and ye who look for me shall yet further see greater things then all this Some days after this Vision it was further manifested to me that this visible Figure of my Lord Jesus did signifie the formation of himself in our corporeity which would be much more advantagious then in beholding him in a distinct Personality as without us till we can come to say as he is so are we Till which there can be no fixed view for a constant retaining of his now glorified Person in our Eye Now it was given me to understand that the Reason I could not be admitted to enter into that Oval Light where he was presented was because said the Spirit thou art not come to the same perfect state and degree in which you did him see wanting yet your more high clear and elementary Body so that ye could not possibly make your pass unto him But only hereby your Jesus knoweth that these transient sights would have a pure magical power upon you for the begetting of the same likeness within you that was shewn outward For it was revealed to me that all representations that did not work to this effect would be little available as to the fruition of the blessed Object it self Then I was cautioned to be heedful in this respect and to watch how to receive all powerful impressions hereby all which was for the bringing on the heavenly Birth to every degree of perfection Then no strange nor unusual thing it shall be to see the very express glory of the Majesty when you are Christed and all clothed upon with him Then shall ye see That in your selves which to others is invisible Philip could not see the Father in Christ while he was looking outwardly for some wonderful appearance of God in visible Glory he did not consider how uncapable he was of that sight but Jesus invites him to see and know the Father in the pure simplified humanity God will to all first manifest himself here in that which can assume the Christ-like Life which is the only light and medium in which we can see God Christ would have directed Philip to have looked for this Vision of God in himself but he knew he was not clarified in his Mind and Spirit for that species his Eys were not anointed the Holy Ghost not being yet given to him Therefore Christ directed him to turn his Eye inward to see the influence of the Divine Power and Presence of the Father in and by Christ. Who gave him this rebuke Have I been so long with you and yet have you not seen the Power of the Deity acted forth in me The Disciples were but of dull sight and flow of belief so that it was not the conversation of Christ although all holy perfect and good in his Visible Figure That did give the transformation till he did convey his Spiritual Body into them they could not rightly know him nor yet the Father in him Then the Spirit ecchoed this through me O haste
Vail was removed seeing I had sound that favour as to have that covert taken off that had darkned and hid the Heavenly Mystery from the understanding Why might it not be given me to know also what was in that Inscription Answer To this it was whisper'd by a soft voyce that there was something in that which was yet to be kept secret it contained that whereof the Scripture had made no mention and therefore it was presented to me in an unknown tongue and language which should be learned in its time and understood being reserved for its proper season For as there was a new song that none could learn but such as were perfectly redeemed from the earth so verily there is an everlasting Gospel that none shall understand the language of but such as are made again all new from this pure extracted matter Which will be all spiritually organised whence they shall be apt then to hear and learn what is yet concealed by the Deity for a future day of Manifestation This is only your present business and work to gather in more golden soil to inrich your Land that your Lilly-birth may arrive to a spotless perfection Then with clear Eyes ye shall see what is written within the Table-mind of the Spirit for this is the day when there shall be no need of teaching one another Wisdoms-birth carrieth that Lamp which never goeth out All of her Births will have the light Element evermore encompassing them so that whatever may come forth in Proverbs or Dark-sayings the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation is at hand to interpret None of her Off-spring shall be brought up illiterate but shall be taught in their own Mother-tongue who shall come to be a People of a Pure Language and Seraphick Speech Therefore saith the Spirit consider of all those things that may make you acceptable and meet here for it For it is the Fathers pleasure that in this very Principle this great change should be wrought in reference to this immortalized state Upon this Birth then will be hung all those sparkling Stones and beautifying Gifts that will be the true Royal Stamp upon you But this caution take be sure to carry a deaf Ear to all that will solicitate you herefrom Remembring while ye live in this Aery Region the Prince thereof will readily mingle his corrupt elementary matter with your will Spirit then in danger is all to be turned into a blank as in Vision ye did see Therefore watch and keep to that which will keep your Lilly-birth herefrom May the 7th 1677. Being met together in the Power of the Lord to breath out to each other what was opened from this Life-spring Just upon the concluding part thereof I saw in Vision a Covering passing before me the ground was scarlet all set or wrought with studs of sparkling Gold with this word going along with it Of such like as this will be the Furniture of that place where the Most Holy will dwell Then in Prayer I had a suddain aspect of a Countenance who looked all pleasant and this word came with it and said Iesus lookâ—npon them and said Ye are not far from the Kingdom of God May the 8th 1677. This Morning a shivering influencing Power and Presence was witnessed about my heart After which this salutation I had in the known speech of that which did so gird about the Intellectual Mind uttering these words wilt thou make a full dispose of thy Spirit Soul and Body unto thy Lord who is willing to assume all to himself that he might make it his proper Workhouse But consider well and be not rash in this thing for if thou dost contract to make all over unto me thy true Immanuel then nothing is henceforth hereof to be parcelled out from him who is come to be a Purchaser for the whole that none may come in for any part besides me For I have a sufficiency of stock to set all awork In this your Jesus will be properly all who well knows upon what account he demands to have all turned over to him to act work and do wholy after the pleasure of his own Spirit For while the exteriour Will and the rational Mind with all their train of senses do but in part bare rule and here up and down float though giving their Vote according to the moral and sober part of things all those must give place to another Birth that will excel all this Righteousness Now you that are come to that degree of knowledge as to discern the right-hand Gate from the left Who have been sometimes under the Discipline of the Spirit as also sometimes under the Gifts aud Powers from the Celestial Orb to you then who have thus tasted the Lord is gracious can ye give up all propriety in your selves to be in very deed no longer your own Being come to that grown Age as to make a true sale of your selves to such a Purchaser as is come to buy without Mony or Price or any thing of this Worlds Merchandise You are now known to him and he to you who now proffers to give his own Life for yours Oh who would not strike up such a bargain as this is that so henceforth for you to live it may be Christ. Who will at another rate manage your very corporeal state and upon much better advantages then ye have done while ye live under this Starry Regions influences which is the light and might of the Man of Sense and Reason whose Sun must so go down as never more to rise When this Day-star appears in you all the exteriour Lights will go out May the 9th 1677. This day my Spirit was cast into a very serious and deep debate about that Proposal which was the other morning so audibly made by the Spirit of our Lord Jesus unto us Whose Faces hereunto were set and our Minds hereunto inclined I had another onset by the Friend of him who most willing is to become our Bridegroom Who still urged this thing mightily concerning the actual passing away of our selves so as to be entirely the Lords moving it again in this word Who who can come as a very Christ to be who stands in humane property but those who have bequeathed themselves away as to move from another Life in which they may in winged Power go forth I found my Spirit as in Peter's frame when our Lord repeated the question so often and so suspiciously concerning his loving of him Even so verily I found my Heart troubled and my Spirit grieved that my Lord did by his Spirit press this thing so hard upon me as if my Love and Will were hereunto doubted of by this my Lord from whom knowingly I would reserve nothing that could be demanded from me Whose Love-fervour hath been so strong as to give away my whole Spirit to him who I do believe will renew another more pure and powerful Spirit in us Then was this by the Spirit further spoken in me
True it is that thou lovest the Lord thy God with thy whole Soul and Spirit which is more then all Burnt-offerings or Worship though spiritually instituted yet this is not enough For Love as it may work in an ardent Spirit by and through internal flowings to the Object may stop again This many have reached unto and yet have doubted in it again Therefore God would have a pledge left in his hand something given him as a fruit of Love to wit Life it self must seal the Truth hereof as going along with it Christ was put upon giving this proof to his Father not only in bare love but by laying down of his Life for which saith he I am beloloved of my Father Iohn 10th So as God had this proof from him so he expects the same from you who if you love the Father and Him then his Commands will not be to you grievous Ye will then observe all the Antecedents belonging to this Law of Love Which Love rightly born carrieth a mighty force with it it cannot deny or keep any thing back from that which it is centred in as hath been evidenced by those great Saints before Christ's Manifestation and since As Abraham he did unfeignedly love God when he forsook his own People and Land of his Nativity to go where the Lord gave him a word of Command to go yet this was not sufficient but ye did see God would prove him further as in Isaac's death Which when God saw that he stopped not in that which touched the very Life nay then said the Lord Because thou hast done this thing in blessing I will bless thee I am now sure thou lovest and fearest me and therefore God will be thy exceeding great reward which the Patriarck did fully witness in his day Numerous instances might be added out of the Scriptures hereunto as also the late and private experiences of holy Souls that have been obedient to that true Prophet and Seer that daily giveth and maketh known the Councel of God Under which seal opening ye are come To which Spirit of Wisdom give now an obedient Ear saith the Holy and True Upon this I made my application in great earnestness according to that Power and Life that stirred in me being greatly distressed to know what was further to be given up and parted withal that consisted in the power of our own Wills having gone far in the self-abnegation suppressing and keeping under the earthly part that so sin could not reign but be kept under condemnation So as to this degree some are come As I was thus silently in the Spirit of my Mind parling this word was uttered to me All this is acceptable but the very giving up of the Life must be that my Name may be written in the very Blood thereof and be returned in a Life-quickning Spirit again Then will the property of that which was dull dark and corrupt become all light vigorous pure and Chrystalline as the Spirit of Christ was in the Corporeal Figure The same Mind which only respects things that are above in the Fathers Kingdom of Glory is to be in you as it was in Jesus your Lord. For this is the sum and head to which all Prophecies and Revelations tend even the finishing of this Mystery Christ the Light Wisdom Power and Righteousness of God Which can be brought to pass only by giving up and laying down our Life as to all sensitive properties which is the highest and most resolute act of the Will-spirit to give its Name up thus and to subscribe your Spirit Soul and Body in the Blood of that Life that must die that so Christ may be only alive in you And albeit while ye are laying down with great reluctancy that Life which is so agreeable to this terrestrial Life because of contempt and dishonour that it suffers hereby As your Lord in his Crucifixion went through so by your spiritual mystical giving up your Lives though as to this worlds eye in shame rebuke and weakness yet in Truth and Verity it shall rise in Strength Victoâ—â— and Power in Ghostly Majesty whereby ye will possess the Gates of your Enemies This is most wonderfully deep if it may be fathomed by the Spirit in you May the 11th 1677. My Spirit entred into a deep sense upon some occasion that was administred how apt it was for such who had taken upon them part of the Ministry to ingross and confine it to Persons and Sexes and to bring down the superior Spirit and Light under the inferiour Government of the low and mean Spirit that respecteth man and savours that Glory which is after the Flesh. For Christ told the Jews they loved the praise of men more than that of God in that they sought honour from one another as the great and learned Rabbies who in their high learning despised an illiterate Christ as they called him From whence I did observe that the leaven of such a Spirit might be ready to mingle with some in this present Age though partly illuminated in and through the knowledge of the Mystery of God in Christ As I was pondering I say and considering these things in my Mind and making request that nothing of the exterior might have wherein to glory but that God would appear in such as little and nothing were in their own account and that all Flesh might be silent that Spirit might only go forth in its own Power and Clearness Upon this I had a full gust come in upon me with this word speaking in me There is a Gospel that nothing of man shall mingle with that shall only be intrusted with such Child-like Spirits For which nothing of the Creatures Testimony will be needed for it will be the Breath of an irresistible Power of which none shall be ashamed Then was that Scripture the next Morning spoken to me Be not slothful but followers of them who through Faith and Patience inherited the Promises Which word was taken up by the Spirit and spoken audibly unto us upon the account of thatâ— which opened before in way of Prophecy as to that unmixed Ministration that should arise in some qualified for it Of which much was revealed in the discoursive way of the Spirit that there was now given to all an open Door that would look hereinto from that in the Heb. 6. v. 11. where Paul directs this word in general to the whole Body consisting of Men and Women And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope to the end Here is none left out but both Sexes implied Whose work and labour of Love in Ministring to their fellow Saints according as they had tasted and received of the heavenly Gift God was not unrighteous to forget Therefore from hence he did incite them to go forward not excluding the Female but laying it as a weight upon both Male and Female as all one in the Spirit to shew the same diligence
till they could get through the vail where they might come to the lively Oracle leaving the lower Principles and Administrations as to the very knowledge of Christ in his first appearance Who hath left the whole Creation still groaning and waiting to be delivered from the present mixed and imperfect state Such I mean in this Creation as are here fore-ordained to a more high grown state as to be minding and waiting for that blessed hope and more wonderful and glorious appearance of Christ no more to leave us in the weakness of sin and corruptibleness This hath had its long day in the world its Sun is upon setting and then but one short interposing Night will be before the everlasting Gospel-day shall break forth whose Breath is at once all redeeming power So it was further shewed me that there should not be another Christ revealed but the same that was in a more high and transparent manner Who as the mighty God and Saviour is to compleat the work of Salvation through a more perfect Ministry that shall be committed to elected Angels that shall be sent forth in such a Gospel-seal as none shall be able to counterfeit For this word as a secret was given me to hear That the Gospel that in these last Ages since Christ was preached to the Nations of the World was not of that force and might as to overthrow the Seal of the Beast and thereby to recover man out of his deep relapse For though somewhat of this all-powerful Gospel did for a little moment after Christ's ascention break through with the Holy Ghost as some first fruits thereof yet it soon retired and shut up again But the Spirit said expresly Be ye of good chear whom God doth greatly love and know this gloomy day is far spent there is but a short night before the everlasting Gospel shall break out Then be ye Watchers till this Morning do dawn put on your armour and be not as others who slothful are not believing to such a Gospel-day But pray that ye may be intrusted with the first openings of this Gospel-breath which will devour and lay waste the Kingdom of the Dragon and the Beast that so in the Power and Splendor of a glorified Christ ye may come to reign on and over the Earth This everlasting Gospel will soon gather in its own heavenly Train but in Hope Diligence and Patience do ye remain for it May the 13th 1677. The Glassy Book In the Night when the outward Senses were reposed I saw at a distance a reserved or separated place which was as light as the Firmament and there I saw the figure of a Book it had no Clasps or Seals upon it neither was there any thing therein written that I could perceive but the Leaves appeared all as transparent as the flaming light After this came forth out of that bright Orb a Flock all in white Robes in a triumphant posture rejoycing about me with pleasant bright Countenances and would have me repose my self in the same alacrity with them but I was more sad and ponderous and could not move with that agility which they did with their Airy Bodies But I soon did feel a mighty influence from their Bodies though at their first appearance I was as one surprised but such was their great affability and friendliness towards me that in a little while I was in their liberty and joy Which no sooner I was made sensible of but they told me they must withdraw unto their own place I then desired they would not leave me but let me go along with them which they could not permit at this season This brought heaviness upon me again May the 15th 1677. Being together met for the mutual enkindling of the Life and Power in each other while the Doctor was breathing out what was given him from the Spirit This voice uttered it self in that time All flesh shall see the Glory of the Lord several times it passed through me The next Morning the Doctor being at prayer I heard mighty internal sounds and one distinct shout which was astonishing which was so loud an acclamation as I never had the like before May the 17th 1677. Then being in the Morning in prayer together the word thus moved in me saying Let the Glory of the Lord return unto his Sanctuary May the 18th 1677. In the Night in my first sleep I saw the Doctor in a place wide and spatious it seemed to have no limitation either by Walls or Gates and I being alone with him suddainly a great throng of people did come in upon us So then the Doctor said this multitude will not be dismist till they receive somewhat of that which the Lord hath made us Stewards of Then did the Doctor preach that which was of great force and power so that they appeared to be very attentive thereto Upon which I awaked and the word said that there should be a clear and pure Gospel Ministry not by man nor after man but by and according to the Revelation of Jesus Christ. May the 19th 1677. This Morning the Mystery of the Glassy Book which was revealed unto me by way of Vision in the 13th of this Instant was opened very conspicuously For as I was walking in the solitude of my Spirit this stirred again in my Mind being presented with this Scripture We all as with open face beholding as in a Glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same From whence it was manifested unto me That this Book did represent the Spirit of the Lord Jesus which was the mirror by which we only could see the Father's Glory And further in that this Book was different from all other Books because there was nothing therein written which was more marvelous and gave me occasion to query with my Lord about it What this Book was which had no Seals upon it nor any engraving in it Then was it thus resolved me That it was that which would put an end to all other Books it was beyond all literal Ministrations they would not be needed when this Chrystal Glass was revealed This would be the sum and substance of all Times finishing Mystery according to that in the Revelation mentioned of the Book which was open in the Angels hand which Iohn saw when the seven Thunders uttered their voices and he was ready to write but till the dispensation of the fulness of time there was a prohibition The Glass that compriseth all Wisdom Knowledge and Sight of Eternal things being given forth or held out for such who do really prize the substance which is the Living Word it self and that above all Shadows Sounds and Declarations Christ is to arise to them higher from a sealed Book to an open one that is from Letter to Spirit giving himself not only as a Book to read but to eat down Ye shall tast this Chrystal Book and thereby come to be in the express clarity of it all clear in Judgment and
Knowledge It will then be connatural to prophecy and reveal whatever is seen in the Eternal Glass of all Wonders Oh not to hear only but to live the Word of Truth which is all sweet to that part which retaineth the Divine and Pleasant Savour of God in his Transparency but it is bitter indeed in the Bowels or Heart of the Earth it cannot be well digested there the operations are so pure that it will work out the internall gross matter that hath the thick darkness over all brought that so all of one entire clarified piece might be come in the Nature of that Glassy Book Which is an all-seeing Light from that one everlasting day to see universally and infallibly Then was it set much upon me to seek when and how and upon whom this finishing Mystery might be witnessed For it did seem to me that this would not be a dispensation till the end of Time because the Angel who had the Book compassing both Sea and Land protested Time should be no longer then till the seventh Angel be ready to sound his Trumpet which is not yet in any part of the Creation effected Therefore this unsealed Book will be given to none till the seven Seals of the Written Book be first broken up These are the Conclusionsâ— that may be gathered from the Holy Writ Therefore this clear and unsealed Book as it alluded to that in the Revelations may not be reached unto in our Age. So then to what end was this Vision of the Book opened and shewn if not for particular Propriety that we might hope not only to see this Chrystalline Book but for to be the Glass it self Thus arguing upon or from my inferiour Light I did sensibly feel a more high and superiour Light in that very instant of time overshadowing me saying Will ye of that sort also be Do ye see this Chrystalline Day so far off as to give up the last breath of your hopes as if God had set the bar of his decree here against you so as not to look for that Angel to stand upon your Earth and Sea with this unsealed Book in his hand Answer Far be it from you such doubts to entertain who have felt already the gathering together of this Glassy Sea and commixture of it for a sublime Body of Glory which beyond the Age of all Time shall be manifested If ye can but endure the purgation of the Glassy Fire which will make serene and pure for it is of the same Flame and inkindling Light of the immense Deity so as it is there a bubling Spring of Fire which will strongly renew it self in you Oh pray that this Fiery Oven ye may come to walk that then nothing impure there may remain but such like burnings may all creaturely things devour which cannot be a subject Matter for the heavenly Power to work upon May the 20th 1677. Then saw I in the Idea of Light two great Fiery Wheels with two more less Which moved by them that wrought uncessanty as a Clockwork having their Spring-motions and from thence the Chrystalline Substance began to appear Of which transparency that which is called Wisdoms Glass is made out And none ever did or can see any part of the Celestial Beauty of Holiness without this Wheel come in them to be formed Which was declared to me to be the creating Power and energy of God who produceth those little Wheels to work act and move answerable to the great ones Then it was spoke in me Behold and see in these Wheels the whole foundation-work of the New Creation For hereout will come that Spirit who shall appear as a flash of Lightning that will burn through Flesh and Bones Rocks and Stones that will be all at liberty resting only in habitations of purity These lesser Wheels care not to live out of the great Wheels as the center of their Springing Life which they will still turn into for they must all connaturally work act and move together Then was it made out to me that the two great fiery Wheels was the eternal out-flowing Deity manifesting it self in the working Wheel which presents the clarified Body of Infinite Wisdom which moves always in Light and Fire-celestial all whose works are wrought through Fire because of clarity Then was it further opened what the two other Wheels were in their property The one was our own Eternal Spirit as it is come back again to live abstracted out of gross matter and nature The fourth Wheel is the Chrystaline Pure Corporeity in which this Divine Life-flash will move it self conspicuously So as now all four will be incessantly in their working power when Wisdom's Glassy Book shall be found in any one Which is as a new organical Body that hath all radical Powers and Senses as a rising Morning without Clouds being as that Wheel with Eyes fixed round about them May the 21st 1677. My Spirit upon this Manifestation sunk down as into a Central Flame requesting to abide in that until Iehovah's Wheel had abstracted the grosser part from my self Oh what can us separate here-from but the fervent burning of these Wheels For the Idea's thereof by these Mystical Similitudes are far from satisfying without the very inkindling powers hereof be felt that can only mount us from this Earth â—hen was it revealed to me further that these Wheels had not in any of these late Ages run in the pure fire of conjunction For where all four are found in any one Person incorporating together there Wonders will be wrought For then Gospel Ministers will go forth as mighty flames of Fire Then cried I Ah! my Lord when and in whom shall all these Wheels meet together It was said by the Springing word within me that it would be accomplished in them that were numbred in the Glassy Book Which was not to be read but tasted and felt Therefore this Councel of the Spirit was given that whenever we did feel in our selves any breath of Sacred Fire rise which opens from the great Wheels then our own Spirits that is a Spark also of Celestial Fire should abstract and presently herewith mix and then possibly it may fall into the deep abyssal center Which will bring forth all these working Wheels in their order which will work high and powerful If ye steadily join all the force of your superiour will and in no part be divided then will you feel these Wheels begin to be in their separating quality burning up all that is not of the nature of the Glassy Sea Then this Rule I also received that we should forbear to be drawers of water from the Sea of this World for that would quench and damp this Fire and especially before it hath got the dominion and mastery but then it is above all floods nothing can drown it when all Powers Celestial are united together Another Rule given was thatâ— we should make daily application for full vials of Oyl to be poured forth that is much of
the sweet sappy flowings of the Spirit as Rivers of Oyl which will make all these flaming Wheels work up to a Seraphick height so as hereby to look terribly for Glory and Beauty for Perfection May the 23th 1677. As we were met together at prayer I had the presentation of a Golden Cup out of which did rise a flame of Light as Fire bubling beyond the Brim of the Cup and it was thus spoke who so are able let them drink of it Upon which I considered hereof expecting a further explanation of this Vision Which this Morning thus opened it self that the Cup which was all of Gold presented Christ in his pure Corporeity who had been tried through all Fires and thereby was made a meet Vessel to retain the essential Spirit of the pure flaming Deity that springs high beyond the bounds of humanity as the Fire did above the Cup. Then it was revealed and uttered by a still voice that as I did see the rising of this Fire even so should be the flowing of the Holy Ghost For it was his Fiery Baptism wherewith many should be sprinkled from its going out Oh my Lord why was this Cup tendered for those who were not able to drink down this Spirit of Fire Would it might be our lot Who surely would rejoice to drink down a full draught hereof Oh dear Jesus that by thy self thou wouldst hand this Cup unto us as once thou didst in the figurative way to thy Disciples After I had much after this manner inlarged my self in Spirit to my God and Father the Word then spake in me Ye must first arrive to this Golden Degree then ye shall be flowingly filled with this high spirited Flame Christ the Lord is here â—ory our Example Now then take good heed to those great fiery working Wheels which will frame for you this Golden Vessel Suffer gladly the mighty force of them which will form this Golden Cup in each one where the heavenly and pure elementary matter is prepared Be only found in your diligency and then your great Work-master will be under an engagement to finish this unknown Mystery That so ye may be Golden Cups of Blessings to your self and others May the 26th 1677. In the night being cast into a sleep I saw this Golden Cup again which was presented to my intellectual sight some days before as I was in prayer Now again passing from one to another some few Persons of us being met together The Person that handed this cup to us was in the Garb of an Officer with a Gown and when he came to give it to me somewhat he seemed secretly to whisper which the rest were not to hear which I thought carefully to observe but when I awaked I could not remember any thing of the words which I did believe was of concern I only well retained the Ministrator of this Golden Cup which did not flame out as it did before but there was an Oyly Liquor of flame colour in it which tasted like to pleasant Wine After I was come out of this Night Vision I waited what would be spoken herefrom further to me which interpretation was presently given the Officer personated our Lord Jesus to whom the great Majesty had given the Power of Administration For there is no true Sacramental Institution but when he is present himself who knows those Sanctuary Vessels of his own Body that be thereunto affixed and who are separated from all common use He walks amongst the Golden Cups to convey Flaming Spirit and pure Oyl of Light he doth not put off with dead heartless Signs but letteth in his flowing Nature as Spikenard that when any have drank hereof they do feel an inebriating Spirit that burns as fire upon the Altar of their hearts as a signal witness that the right Administrator hath opened himself in a Celestial Fire-spring Which is the Pool of the Holy Ghost from which every Sanctuary Vessel is to be sprinkled Take ye heed hereto Iune the 1st 1677. This Vision was just upon the Doctor 's taking a House THIS day I had a very deep sense opened in me upon a Vision of several Pits that were filled with muddy Water so thick they were together that my self with some other Persons could not know how to pass without peril of falling into some one or other of them But our way lying through this place we could no way avoid but we must go through it Which was very hazardable irksome and grievous but through fear and heedfulness watchfulness and prayer we did get through And this word I did hear speak saying This shall also turn to your salvation through earnest prayer from the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Then again this night I saw as two of us were going upon our way with great earnestness to be at the end of our Journey there fell a suddain showr and stopped us so as we feared lest the night should come upon us before we should reach the place we were designed to This Vision did plainly speak out there was some present danger at hand which made me desire to be apart to know the mind of the Spirit herein bemoaning those Dicissitudes which might happen for our further probation Then was it shewed me that those Pits which I saw were promising advantages from the Earthly Region Which stood open to plunge us into their deep Abyss as which would drown our superiour Life in their muddy waters For this word came to me while I was considering hereof Escape here for your Life sake for what have you to do in the way of the Assyrians Upon which I prayed earnestly that we might be kept from the many evil occurrences that might happen upon the removal to an outward habitation which I foresaw might be hurtful for the present to our Spirits For which cause those things were presented for how would the Prince of this Earth and Aiery Region triumph to see us who have disdained his Kingdom and all the preferments of it to be catched by any baits from it For I heard this word say in me there would be a great acclamation from out of the bottomless Pit could they but bury your fire-sparkling life therein Therefore fear always while you have any thing to transact where Satan hath to do Then as to the Showr that came while we were journying on it was opened to me that as to the working-wheel of Fire there might be some stop For there was nothing more injurious than floods of Water upon fiery Wheels that is heavenly Spirits involving themselves with earthly things though good and lawful to others yet not to us who had the Nazarite Vow upon us and under such Laws and Institutions as were not made known to others Therefore that which might be justifiable in them would not be to us because under great Light Revelation and Direction The Spirit in us bearing witness hereunto that is to be of great binding Force and Powers to keep us
as one entire Body of Glory Iune the 6th 1677. This Morning about four of the Clock awaking with a raised Mind ready to entertain discoveries from that invisible Orb to which my whole Heart tended to I found my self suddenly carried out of my animal sense and several idea's did open to me from the Upper Region I saw in the Firmament of the Heavens Bright Figures like Half Moons and great rolling up and down of the Starry Heavens which seemed to be in a troubled Commotion Then there were great fears at the sight hereof among the lower Spirits of this Region Then I saw somewhat like a Standard set up with a Writing upon it proclaiming War with all the Inhabitants upon the Earth And about these I did see Bows and sharp Arrows and because I saw this Piller or Standard at a distance I thought it was or might not be real and so I went to it and touched it with my hand and read the Writing which was Controversie with the Nations of the World Then after this I saw the Clouds of Heaven pass away and various Persons of great Majesty descended down to the place where the Standard was set and they appeared as those that were Judges of the Earth And two or three of them made towards me to have spoke with me and their Presence was terrible that I shrunk away For my mean Corporeity was very inconsistent to their Glorious Personalities And this word followed This is the Lord who after this Tribulation will come with his Ancients to raign over the Earth Iune the 7th 1677. Then this word did speak through me Haste and pass away from Paradisical Righteousness to Sion's Glory For let your Condition seem never so mean and low yet verily designed ye are to work through all vicisitudes till Palms of Victorious Glory in the hand of the great Alpha and Omega be given to you which will make you to be the admiration of all in the higher and neather Regions Then these Rules were given expresly in order hereunto 1st Suffer gladly the Transplanting Power to crop off all what it finds superfluous dry and sapless 2dly Permit no other Pruning Hook to come near any Branch of your superiour Life-trees but that flaming word of the Spirit that knows rightly to divide betwixt the dead and the living 3dly Seek and make application to the Most High for an impregnable fence while these Fruits are ripening there will be required an invincible gard or else the subtile Foxes and Beasts of Prey may get in for to make spoil In the 4th place Then again watch not only against the Invasions from what Ministers from this visible Principle but from a near and more inward Center whereout the Serpent may move and twist himself while yet you are but in the Paradisical Property For in this first Transplantation lieth all your danger Therefore if all the Fruits of this mystical Life-tree can but reach to a Golden Hue so solid as to become a fixed Seed then ye are out of all hazard and fear But cast this Seed into Earth Air Water or Fire it will attract to it self out of every thing a bright consuming Glory Then this word was added saying Weigh and consider this mystical thing for here lieth the highest state of Perfection Observe the Most Holy in all his removes within your Heavenly Plantation for every new ingraffing from the Mighty Arm of Power will be an evidence that he will not leave you till Scions ye are made as Branches of this Saphire glorious Tree Iune the 8th 1677. This Morning this word was given me to feed upon saying I the Most Holy will Tabernacle with with a Spiritual Mind My Life and Peace as a Spring will bubble there The carnal and earthly Mind is Satan's seat the pure Mind is God's Throne Now choose which of those you will give place to for accordingly your Mind must be ordered If for the high and most holy Society then all Spiritual Then was that Scripture repeated to me For to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace Which life of Carnality is enmity to God who will be evermore a Stranger to such who shall know nothing of his Love Joy Goodness Power and Sweetness For if they commune with earthly Spirits and things of this terrestrial being then such dark influences are left upon their Minds as make them altogether unmeet to talk with God or to take in of those Species which tend for transfiguring the Soul into a bright body of Glory When the Mind is pestered and overcharged with thoughts that tend only for this gross elementary Life there is no room for the Holy Ghost that proceedeth and cometh from such a wonderful being of holiness as the Father of Spirits is Iune the 17th 1677. I saw a Ball of Fire and out therefrom went Flakes of Fire and fell amongst thorny Bushes so as they were no more being consumed by the Flame And it was said to me these are the particles and dispersive Powers that will go forth from the substantial God head to devour the Shrubs of the Earth Then after this internal sight I was as in a sleep where much combustion strife and spiritual Labour for the attainment of somewhat that was of Eternal Consequence And such was the clamorous onset of earthly Spirits that for a time I found my self sunk down into a dark Vally Upon which I awaked with great perplexity Then after this I saw in way of Vision a rich Golden Sledge set up and I was to slide down upon it And a voice cried Fear not for an end to all weariness and travel will come when this out of the Heavens shall descend Iune the 23th 1677. Sarah and Abimelech This Morning as I was recollecting my interiour Powers and Faculties which I found had been somewhat scattered by being let out and employed upon secular concerns and which I found was as going upon Thorns grievous and unsavory Upon this my Spirit made application with Soul-meltings for Life-recovery and restitution to those wonted familiarities and divine discoveries wherein consisted all my peace life and satisfaction Upon which my care now was how we who were under a peculiar obligation should discharge our selves of all and every weight that had beset us For it was presented to me that while we were gathering together what might accommodate our outward man as Paul did the sticks to warm him after his perilous voyage even so we upon necessary and lawful things being employed were in danger of the poisonous Vipers which would stick so close to our hands as we should be constrained to awaken and call up the Most Holy Adjuring Power of the Mighty God Whereby we might be able to cast them off before they infected our pure eternal Life-blood that so we might proceed forward in our Spiritual Work For this word was spoke why seek ye to dwell in ceiled houses and let the most holy in
your selves lie waste Then again this word met me Take heed of the Commonsewer that corrupteth the whole Earth that it break not in upon you For it is a Noah's flood it will sweep all away that are out of God's Ark. Upon which warnings I guirded up upon my Watch-Tower to hear what would be further opened to me Having had somewhat yesterday passing through me upon Abimelechs taking Sarah from Abraham The Meaning of it was this day made out further unto me the Spirit taking up that Scripture as in way of a Parable to shew us the danger in passing through with the Virgin Mind amongst Foreigners and Strangers though not intending to take it up as a dwelling place but only to sojourn as Abaham did in Gerar. Iune the 24th 1677. Now after this manner the Spirit did parly or commune with me Know that ye have had a call to pass out from among the throng of the worldly Spirits whereof Abraham was a type whom God called to sojourn as a Stranger removing from place to place till he did come to live alone by himself and to be planted as a Root for a mighty Off-spring Wherefore the Most High had designed him and so Abraham with his Sarah went through the Philistines Country and was in danger to have had Sarah violently taken from him who was to bring â—orth the blessed Seed Even so it was opened after a high mystical manner that this Abraham did represent the Spirit of Faith whom God would bless and make fruitful through Marriage-union with the Virgin Wisdom And it was further shewâ— me that there should be a Male and a Female that would be made choice of to bring forth an eternal spiritual Off-spring for a true Church Which should be known from all others by terrible things wrought in righteousness through the Ghostly Power breaking forth And therefore note and observe said the Word of Life whether or no God in the Spirits voice hath not spoken to you to come out of the Chaldeans Country considered both as to the vain evil conversations of Persons without and to internal Spirits within the Region of the Mind from both which there is to be a real departure out And as there are two Persons that are thus to be deputed visibly who are to wiâ—hdraw and and plant themselves as out of all other gathered Fellowships of the World So are they to be extraordinarily endowed in giving proof of Love Faith and Obedience to him that hath power thus to dignifie and make blessed God knows Abraham was such as one as would approve himself in all perfect walking before him and answer whatever Trust was committed to him by the Most Holy and just one to keep every Charge and Command given as did appear when he came out of his own Land to go where he knew not Now it was from hence revealed that those who shall be counted worthy to bring forth a pure spiritual Generation must come out internally as well as externally from that Native Country where numerous Spirits that have no Visible Bodies do dwell and have their concourse in the Mind after a magical manner Now here will be the trial for to go through their Eartbly Regions and not be hurt For no sooner did Abraham falter in his Faith through fear but his Spouse was taken away which if he had kept up in the majesty and authority of Faith and had owned her then the dread of that Power and Spirit of Faith and the Virgins Beauty and Innocency would have been upon Abimelech so as there would not have been any attempt of that kind From whence this was a warning councel in particular unto us given in our present journying on through strange People and Nations which lie in our way before we can come to Hebron the City of David our King And these are mystically opened from within us as occasions offer from without For the Prince of this World knowes herein he hath great advantage while but passing through his Dominions he will have one device or other against those who are designed to pitch their Tents remote from his Territories Therefore he doth bestir himself to raise all Forces to stop their Progress that if possible he might keep them under his Arbitrary Power Seeking always of subtilty to weaken the hand of Faith by alluring away the Virgin Love and so he would make a separation For in the pure conjunction of Faith and Love they are knit together as the Bridegroom and the Bride to travel together till they obtain the promised Seed To whom all excellency of strength doth belong and Wisdom to govern those Nations that would usurp an evil Power over the blessed Seed Oh saith the living Oracle take heed of denying your pure heavenly Mate that is found in the comely dress of Love Purity Meekness simplicity and holiness For this is that vertuous Woman who is a Crown to her Lord and Husband She will never depart from him without she be disoâ—ned through fear and incredulity None shall imbrace her but the Arms of Faith If she at any time be violated from her true Abraham she will be as the Ark that will bring plagues and and death upon those that would engross her to themselves from him whose true Spouse she is Therefore consider this O ye to whom this word and councel is givenâ— Keep up Faith in its own true Royalty Fear not Earthly Powers While ye must pass through their Land Trust in Iehovah your sheild Forfeit not that Dowry which the Virgin Spirit of Love will bring to you Be watchful to strengthen what is in you already wrought that ye may not lose what ye have thus far â—un and suffered for even so you will find the Sealing Power from the Amen Iune the 30th 1677. The Birth of Cyrus The Voice of the Daughter of Sion cried in me what ailest thou who art travelling for the Birth of Power Faint not for it is a God Almightiness that will be the issue of all those internal pangâ— of her who is travelling in the greatness of his strength Every Arm of created Power is too short to bring it forth God must bring forth God Then queried my Spirit where and how and after what manner will be so marvelous a thing Sure nothing of mortality can compass such an Immensity as a Gods excellency in this World to be manifested No said the Spirit of Councel the Terrestrial Man cannot have any share herein either to conceive or bring it forth But yet such may be the high act of Love in the Most Holy as to open his Mighty Name Iehovah through that mean form of Mortality and send forth somewhat of a deified express of his Existency in terrestrial Creatures so as to make them signifie unto the World what power it is that moves through them Who have been in strong and unwearied travel for this all-saving Birth of Almighty Power For indeed such a Birth is needed in the
World that may deliver from all the evils of it There is nothing but an Omnipotent Force will conquer the sinful Authorities that have been so long in Government over all the Creation Therefore what are ye to look and wait for but the Birth of this Mighty Prince Cyrus to arise in and to go before you for it is by meer strength that he must prevail to subdue all Nations whether they be within or without Many have been the forerunners of this by inferiour Births which ye have passed through As those of Regeneration and Divine Inspirations and Productive Revelations all in order hereunto But all these have been too weak and too short to deliver out of the Servile Spirit The Babylonish Power doth yet keep and serve it self upon you and will not let you go free till this Mighty Prince doth arise to remand you back unto your own Land and native Freedom again Thus I did evidently see nothing but the all-saving Arm could pluck us back again And moreover this word was with me and in me spoken Pray for the Cyrus Might to be joined with the Nazarite Wisdom of Purity for without Power ye cannot perform any of my Pleasure in subduing the Babylonish Power that hath enlarged it self over the whole universal state of things It is well for the elected ones in this World that their Redeemer is now a Mighty King over all Kingdoms And this day is drawing near for the revealing of this his shut up Power that hath been reserved with him in the Heavens By reason of which a sorrowful bondage and servile Life hath been upon the very Nerves of the New Ierusâ—lem Who are now sensible and do now cry unto this Mighty Cyrus to appear and to break for them this Babylonish Yoak which hath made them so long groan and mourn as being made to serve with rigour under the Prince of Darkness Who hath had a long Reign through his Agents in this Principle but his Time is â—igh worn out Of which this is an assured hope when a deep sense is upon any of the Children of the Captivity As upon Daniel and Ieremiah Ezra and Nehemiah who set themselves to enquire for that Messiah who is to restore and gather together the Stones for to build the Mystical Ierusalem Verily to such as do sigh and mourn for all the Abominations of Desolations which they see to be of Authority To such I say the Most High will have respect not only to reveal but to intrust the Scepter of his Kingdom with them Who he knows will sway all in righteousness according to his own heart They shall be his Kings and Savâ—ours upon Earth Yet once again they who are of a Daniel Spirit wholly addicting their Minds hereunto and in nothing else taking pleasure but in diving into the Secrets of the Most High that if by any means they might find out the Jubile-year of release when the Mourning Tribes might return again to their own possessions even they shall be chose hereunto Oh the wise in heart after this do look waiting in true spiritual abstinence as Daniel did that so eternal Secrets may be revealed unto them Know ye how beautiful would those be who shall bring news and glad-tidings hereof from the Most Holy to the Mourners in Sion That the Lord is indeed without delay coming for a full and perfect Redemption to the Groaning and Oppressed Creationâ— Even so Lord Jesus come quickly Iuly the 1st 1677. THIS Morning after some special Manifestations and intimate Communion with the invisible Trinity whereby my Spirit was as ingulphed into this sweet Celestiality of that which passeth all understanding This word uttered it self Is it not good to dwell here where the Covert is all Love and defensive Power Oh call in others with thee here to meal if you do delight to sip of this Cup of Divine Pleasure and then according to the vigour of Spirit felt herefrom dispence hereof And commend it to him who is a noted consecrated Vessel to take in of the same with the unknown Rarities which the Father doth â—rovide for his own Houshold that so no cause ye may have to wander out of his rich and fat Pasture While keeping here your Shepherd will you feed and by his Golden Crook will you guide and translate out of one glorious place to another till ye shall come into the beloved City This blessed winding in of my Spirit was an introduction hard usage of the King of this Bottomless Pit who would keep them evermore in bondage and would not that they should ever remember that once they had a pre-existency in that Paradisical World of Liberty Iuly the 2d 1677. But now the Ancient Records are brought to Light whereby it is given to the Wise among the Children of the Captivity to understand their high and eternal Nativity and that for the cause of sin they were brought into this dark and evil Region yet not so as for ever herein to be included till natural death doth release as they would persuade For no such Decree did ever go forth from the Throne of the Most High For after this dark grisled Globe with its natural Inhabitants all which like troubled whirling Wheels do grind the Faces of one another there shall another arise which shall set free from this Old Creation Captivity Upon which there was a mighty cry by some that here were sealed to the day of Redemption saying Holy Lord God of the Sabbath let us come to rest with thee For in six days labour we have been and now full weary we are of sinful thrall and cannot but remind thee of the promised Liberty which is for to be brought to pass by the travelling Daughter of Ierusalem Then was portraied before me a Mourners Zion-eye beholding a bright flaming Globe upon the rising of which the other Globe like a dark Stone sunk down before it into a bottomless depth And this was in the sight of the right-born Israelite who here was suddenly snatched out and translated into a higher and more quiet Sphere Oh here was indeed the Sabbath of the 7000 years all here were clothed in white lying down as Flocks by their Shepherd of all Princely Might all fastned together in a Golden Chain to shew there was no more to be a dividing for the Sheep never more was to be scattered out of this eternal Fold For nothing but Seraphical Pleasure is here with the highest Peace Joy and Rest from all former Toil Labour and Sorrow And the Law of God as a Gulf is here broke up and drowns all in its own Sea of Endless Love This is what was presented for the inforcement of our travel in Spirit for Sion deliverance out of the Babylonish servitude which now is throughout the whole World Iuly the 3d. 1677. Then was it with me to enquire with earnestness Oh my Lord when shall be this Zions Reign All things yet in visible view appear in a dull sluggish
Posture The Prince of Might yet hath no Birth in the World for to bring into existency this New Creation Who then shall be the beginning of this Celestial World seeing that from some one or other the Birth of this Creating Power must go out Oh by whom shall Iacob's Star arise that is to bear the â—â—cepter of Power and Dominion that is to overturn the whole Scene of present things which hath been under oppression Iuly the 11th 1677. As to this some days after I was answered with good and comfortable words that we might not sorrow as those who do see nothing of this rising day For while my Spirit was groaning in the Kingdom of Tribulation and Patience I heard this sweet saying The Birth is Love That shall restore the Kingdom of Ioy and Power And as it doth grow near the Pangs of Love will flow upon you which will be Sions mighty deliverance Therefore revive when Loves throws do take hold upon you for it certainly foreruns the breaking forth of the Son of Ioy and Strength who will rule the Earth and ease the Nations of their Burthenâ—â— Griefs and Torments Then was somewhat opened to me of the Mystery of a great Key which I did see in way of Vision held out unto me which was so great and weighty that I made question in my self whether I could carry it and was loth to take the burthen of it not then understanding the intent why it was shewn and tendred But this Morning considering hereof a voice did sound through me This is the mighty Birth-Key which shall open the New Ierusalem Glory No terrestrial Being can it hold for it is all massy and refined Gold that will open the seven-fold Wonder and unlock every unknown Treasury which hath been sealed from the foundation of the World â— hen was it highly impressed upon me what this Key did further signifie unto us Then another word did swiftly put forth in me saying Those to whom this is given will have power to bind or loose to shut or open to kill or save alive and also to charge or discharge from the guilt of siâ— For it is the Key of Knowledge and sound Judgment and acteth absolutely in the express Power of the Most High to fulfill every jot and tittle of his Eternal Will God the Father will well satisfie himself in such whose propriety it shall be to possess this all powerful Key Ah my Lord is there any â—ow abiding in corporeity that is so eyed by thee to be an Instrument to act in the Power of this mighty Key Sure no Prohibition or Decree is gone forth but some one or other may be designed by thee hereunto in this Age. But then the Spirit said they must be such as are annointed with that high Composition Oyl which at once doth clarifie and perfume as an attoning Incense whose flame never goeth out till this Key be wrought out in the Fire Center Then was this word of Councel given unto me Set a work all your present force and might it will be worth the laying out all your cost and labour hereupon You have an all-skilful Guide that is master of this Mystical Science but he loveth not to have to do with any Spirit that is divided with one Eye looking forward and with the other backward He knows he shall never have Honour or Credit by such as are halting between two Principles sometimes rising up in the Fiery Wheel of Faith then sinking down in the Leaden Scale of Sense which bringeth back what Faith hath brought forward Which is the great Energy that giveth the formation to this all-sovereign Key that is prophecied of but none have been found here for worthily qualified of many Generations past Therefore neglect all things of this low Region that so you may make this your entire business From which let there be no starting as ye would enjoy the blessed Projection of this Key that will open for you and will unfold to you the 1000th Number in Wisdom's Roll. Iuly the 12th 1677. As my Mind was contemplating of the great advantages that an Eternal Almightiness would bring in to such who would thereby endeavour wholly to deâ—â—â—â— and make an end of sin There was suddenly a very fit similitude set before me in order to this to shew what would be effectual thereunto There appeared a bright Jasper Body or Person in the middle of whose Breast was set a Pipe of Gold Colourâ— and two more each one out of his side the one was of Scarlet Colour the other White or Glassy This was a very suitable Idea to the present concern of thoseâ— who did know themselves to be under a mourning state of indigency upon an eternal account For whose revivingâ— this word did further proceed Whoever there be who do thirst to drink out here in nakedness of Spirit let them draw near for only pure simple naked Spirits can suck here After this Voice the Intellectual Spring did freely run and made me capable of more deâ—p reception concurring with the tâ—â—e Inspiratour who did give me to understand the use and operation of these conveying Powers shewing what the Virtue of each Pipe was As first that in the midst of the Breast signified the sending forth the â—â—ction of Spirit The Scarlet Colour'd Pipe the Bloodâ— that is the Life of the Heavenly Body anâ—â—â—â—d to it The third Pipe was the 〈◊〉 Water which keeps and maintains all in an immaculate Life of Purity Out of these the Divine Nature is extracted And who ever do not lay their internal Spirits to suck out of these Pâ—pes can never arrive to any strong Spiritual Stature For what doth it avail to have the knowledge and revelation of this in Mystery and be at a spiritual distance herefrom If Jesus while iâ— visible Corporeity had not lain close to his Fathers heart drawing continually although highly Fssenced in Spirit yet he could never have grown if he had not derived fresh Infiniteness of Strength and Power to hold up the God head Soveraignity in the Manhood So likewise the Spirit herefrom did teach us that we should strive to reach to the heart of Iesus in Spirit Here did meet me this Objection But how shall we thus abstractedly have access in our Spirits to our 〈…〉 is in his Personalâ—â—y all 〈…〉 and we in bodies of 〈…〉 so that we know not how to meet him This Question was thus resolved me These Pipes like Iacob's Ladder were fixed for descending Powers to descend through them It is granted that we cannot reach up to our Lord till we have a full grown Spiritual Body Therefore this mystical way of conveyance is contrived to bring us up to that high degree of fellowâ—hip with the Trinity though no congruity there be as to the visible Body Yetâ— there is that Spirit in us which by the drawing down this Life sustenance may recover its ancient sublime and paradysical Body which consisteth not of Flesh Blood and Bones
but of an immortal Virtue Power and Strength answerable toâ— what will suit with the Heavenly Jerusalem State Then was it further shewed me That through these three Conveyances did run all and every weighty precious thing that was now inherent in God the Son For want of understanding and not finding out the way of this mighty attraction from the head-substance We have discovered the shame of our Nakedness wearing only the vile cloathing which is infirm and weak obnoxious to all evil and death fit and meet only to walk and converse with Creatures of a mean and inferiour sort such as this World is replenished withal But now a Summons is to call and shew unto us what will qualifie and furnish â—s out for a higher Society as when the pure native Life of a compleated Christ is sucked in by us then shall we be as he is not longer in a condition of â—â—â—â—ering sorrow and indigency but of God-like Authority Which will be the Sealing Commission of the Everlasting Gospel Prerogative that will no more go forth in weakness but in the finishing Power of a mighty Salvation Seek and pray ye for such a triumphant day Iuly the 13th 1677. We being met together in Prayer owning and presenting our many deficiences as to Spiritual Abilities This word was spoke to me Apply your selves to Christ your Treasure who is made of that Lineage and Nature that he might consider the better those who are of his own Spiritual Flesh For none else could so naturally care for them as he who had assumed that Nature which was liable to weakness temptation and all distresses And as your Lord Jesus did out-grow all this and swallowed up mortality and all infirmities by attending thereupon so changing his Corporeity into an Aetherial Spirituality whereby a Translation was obtained by him into Mount Sion Glory So was it advised me from that Spirit that standeth always in the Spirits Councel That an express charge was given by the Father unto the Lord Christ to take care and provide for us also after the like manner as having received all infinite fulness from the Godheads all-sufficiency for the same that so he might be able to do for us according to his â—â—boundless Power Aâ—d therefore he hath invited us to urge it close upon him our appointed Trustee that so we might be brought up through all the several changes to the same perfect and all powerful degree even till we come to possess the self same beatifical Vision of the whole Trinity in Glory For it is so willed by the Lord your Creator that he should now raise you up by his secret Spiritual Intrinsical Operations to his own Heavenly Stature till that ye may be presented faultless as he himself is Therefore let none glory in Christ as their saving Iesus till they can come to witness his Life-blood in them thus redeeming and cleansing them from every blemish For till this be done Christ cannot bring them into his Fathers presence to sit down as his Bride in heavenly places there with him Now is there an open Door to you set wide open for you to enter through his re-entring into you Make all present advantage thereof in him who is your Spiritual Banker Iuly the 16th 1677. These weighty intimations coming from our Lord are well worthy of all observation from us from whose great Love they do come to perâ—ect what is yet to be done for us For while the Ear of my Spirit as the Oracle of God doth stand open clear and free from the twisting stuff of all low imaginary things the voice of the Most High doth frequently cry through me From whence I can conclude that the Spirit of Revelation is not in this Age alâ—ogether excluded For this word did 〈◊〉 a-fresh speak to me I the Lord 's Annointed will give forth the residue of my Spirit for which do ye who are one in Faith steadily wait Then after this Voice it was discoursed in the way and method of a Spirit how that the latter Crop of the Spirit should be much greater and more plentiful than what was in the first fruits after our Lord 's Ascending which was but as a â—â—ower or sudden â—light which soon again stopped For after the decease of the Apostles iâ— soon began to withdraw and a long restraint hath been as to what they witnessed in their day All that can be said of what hath been enjoyed by the highest order of Saints since the Apostles days is but a sowing into the Spirit through divine and radical Light entring in for conviction illumination thereby to make the conversation more pure and shining which hath been wrought from the belief of that Testimony left by these holy ones who were immediately inspired with the Annointing Vpon which to this day there hath been a total and full resting as if God had nothing more to reveal to all eternity to any Which is not so For the Scriptures or rather the Spirit of them did point out in them to a greater reserve of Spirit that was to be poured forth But till then saith one in his Epistles Ye do well to take heed as to a present measure of Light which in this long and cloudy day seemeth great and lustrous but there is a Star to rise out of your own hearts that may outshine all that hath gone before if you watch to it The Vision may there speak though it hath been hitherto silenced and that partly through unbelief but the same Spirit of Revelation shall much more in this last Age revive again For through Grace and Love deeply imprinted it is given me to believe in another rising day of the Spirit according to old and new Prophecies Some breakings forth hereof are already witnessed And that we might have further grounds of hope who do fly hereunto for fresh teachings and discoveries of the Mind of God I did see a Vision of a bright oriental Star which did spring as out of the low center of the Earth at which I marvelled and I called one to rejoyce with me to see the Effects of this rising Star as also another Person to the view hereof I did with joy call in And we beheld it till it did enlighten the whole Earth with its Beams which it did cast forth as if it had been the Body of the Sun The last Vision of the Star explained This sweet Manifestation this divine Opening or Vision was granted to me to view that so the end why it did appear might be known First it was shewed me that as the Wise Men â—â—d see in order to the Birth of Christ in the Flesh his Star rise and go before them till they came to Ierusalem even so this Star did in its rising signifie the mighty Birth of the Spirit which would open through the womb of the earthly property Where the Spirit hath been long 〈◊〉 â—â—d its Glory clouded as in the dark gross Body of sensual Corporiety but it
will verily work it self through And the more wise and excellent in Spirit shall first see it and feel its rising effects upon themselves as their Birth-Star Which shall multiply unto the seventh Number which only qualifies to stand within the Circle Throne of the Most Holy The seven Stars which are mentioned to be held in the hand of Jesus your mighty Prince of Peace are to be distributed as the Badge or Inscription of such as shall be so perfected for a free pass into the Jerusalem-glory there to be in Oneness with him without robbery to their Kingly Priest in all his Thronely Principality and to be added to the enrolled numbers of the Ancients which are come to be Victorious over the World through great Tribulation So ye will be followers of him through this Rising Star Iuly the 17th 1677. The Seven Ascending Steps This Morning the Living Word spake in me Thou dost not yet sound the meaning and depth of that which is further to be understood of the Residue of the Spirit but I am come to search and give thee further knowledge herein As thus the Golden Cask of this Rich Oyl hath been in part let forth seven Pipes for the venting hereof are as an Emblem to present the seven Spirits that hereout do proceed Now well observe how many of these Spirits have been drawn out of the Golden Vessel which represents the Body of the Deity either in the foregoing or present Age and you will see what is come and what is yet more to come till the seventh Number be finished First consider the Prophecies and Promises how they run in the Scripture Roll. The Spirit is distinguished with seven Properties or Operations and Working-powers each of these Spirits hath their Office and Ministration as dividing to each one in the Body of the Spirit according to the measure of the Gift of Christ. As First The Promise of Grace and Supplication is to empty out it self Then a Spirit of Love Joy and Peace is the second Thirdly a Spirit of Consolation of Prophesie and Revelation Fourthly A Spirit of Councel and Sound Mindedness Fifthly A Spirit of Truth Wisdom and Knowledge Sixthly The Spirit of Faith for Heating Internally and Externally and doing thereby Miracles of all kinds The Seventh This is a Creating Spirit that goeth forth to give Being and Existency to what seemeth not to be it works on this hand and on that and yet nothing which is inferiour unto it self can it see It works all in a silent still way what it speaks it effects and what it effects speaks forth what it is It needs no Orator to go before it to declare from whence this Holy Breath of Almighty Power doth move it resteth where it will yet unseen yet felt known tasted to good purpose where-ever it abides it being the head principle Spirit that governeth and sendeth out the foregoing Spirits and uniteth them into one entire Spiritual Body Now said the Most Holy Inspirator I have here shewn to you the seven Ascending Steps by which you must come up to your Mansion Glory to your Throne Dominion to be what you were designed for to be from before all Worlds Come now and see what process you have made hereunto and how many Degrees ye have taken Comforted ye may be who do ascend up here together in Faith though many attempts and that strong ones have been to pull you down and to prevent your further ascent But be strong and resolute this day from that power already received that you may go up and stand upon that last pâ—ved stone of Wisdoms strength and might Which will bring Majesty and Honour to you but Horror Confusion and Shame to what ever hath sought hence to draw and plunge you in with them into the dark center of this dismal Sphere The which evermore fear and avoid as the Dragon's Cell where he loves to dwell Iuly the 18th 1677. This day much refreshment from the bright beaming Countenance of my beloved Lord through free converse with him came thereby to my Spirit My Spirit being moved to plead propriety in what the Father had given unto him Whom after the way of Spiritual Sight I did behold a smiling Face looking through a ray like to the Sun and a voice spake I will see you Face to Face that you may hear my voice then will your Joy be daily full Then this word I did hear It is well you now do believe that all Spirit and Mighty Power is with me to provide for those whom my Father hath given me in charge I am no engrosser to my self of this Ierusalem treasury but do will that ye should be joint-heirs with me in the same Body of Glory But it is the vehement strong thirsty Ones who can draw out that Life which I now do live in and that in the highest degree of Perfection Which makes me stand up in the head fountaincapacity to impower gifts of great consequence according as you are able to partake of them Oh that you would lie close in your Spirits to that Breast which is in pain by reason of its fulness till it hath emptied it self with the sweet lusciousness of the Gospel Milk When tasted it will make you be always lingring and strongly desiâ—ous hereof The office of my Spirit is like a true and faithful Nurse to lay and to give the Mouth of your own Eternal Born-Spirit hereunto but then of it self it must draw and ye must not be discouraged though at first it doth not come so flush But some pains must be taken by you in this Spiritual Exercise before the Breast of Life will open fluently But when herein you have once got the victory the Bottles of Heaven will run free emptying forth the very marrow and strength of the Deity What else think ye can make great strong and powerful in the Divine Nature but this very Life-substance which by the Mouth of the Spirit highly magical is constantly attracting Then will ye be answered in what you have been so long in Soul-travel for Iuly the 19th 1677. This word was with me early in the Morning Pass on ye Worthies of the Lord through all measures of my Spirit till you come to all seven Degrees Rest not in the shallow parts or streams before ye come to float in the place of the Broad-waters where the Spirit will be to you unmeasurable For though it is an undiscernable strength yet in it lieth the whole omnipotent force both of saving and destroying creating and nullifying This Power will be inherent in them upon whom the seven united Powers shall rest and dwell Which indeed will make you excel the very Angels as to dignifying Power which never was their natural dowry as it was yours in the beginning but that you have lost through sin and earthliness entring in which hath made you thus feeble impotent and weak that you can do nothing till these my seven Spirits do come each one gradually in
their course to renew your strength through the mutual concurrence of your wills Which to me I your Lord do own you have given in Therefore my Spirit I am moving upon the Face of your inward Deep till the whole mystery of the Celestial Figure shall again be restored Therefore I am calling the Eye of your Minds inward that so ye may take knowledge how many steps you have gone up to this Throne and so be encouraged to pass forward You are arrived to the third measure which is the Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation here is a pleasant standing because you have prospects of the unknown Scenes of Gâ—ory great advantage is from hence because you do live in the divine Idea's of what is contained in the invisible Sphear Yet far be it from thee to â—ake up rest here or like Moses for to die in journying to the Land where the New Ierusalem doth stand Yet four 〈◊〉 higher there are which have been seen in the Mount of Vision Who then now as high descended Spirits will in mighty Faith attempt them and renounce what ariseth of fear and doubt As Faith and Love are the Wheels that do hither bring so fearfulness and unbelief do the Wings of the Mind bind down Oh how flow of heart have you been to believe what of these Ministrations hath been so frequently prophesied by my Spirit Come forward on and put forth that little grain of Power which you have already in your selves and see what you can make hereof The more you act it forth the more it will encrease For as the Ministration of Immediate Revelation doth more clearly immerse you into the knowledge of what is unknown So the Mystery of the highest degree of Faith must necessarily therefrom begin to work and that in such a way as may be a sealing to what is revealed for manifestation For a let into invisible Species of things cannot but quicken up Faith and make it strong in God by which it may easily yea most naturally act and go forth in mirâ—culous Deeds for confirmation to others of what by a bare Testimony will not be believed in a residue of Spirit For this is also surely reserved which is the sixth step to Sions Glory But before this can be perfected in any one that do look Here for it they must be of a through grown experience in the Life of Revelation These Gifts will not come down by sudden rushing showers as it was in the Apostles times But henceforth they will be Consequents which will follow those who do gradually grow up from the very Birth-day of the Spirit into all the sublime perfections of Holiness as their constitution into a Christ-like Nature For it is the Root of that Heavenly Matter from whence Gifts of this kind do proceed and will in such pure and sanctified Vessels be inherent For they only stand in the Light Councel and Will of the Trinity ready to obey and execute his Will here on Earth as the Angels of the Presence who truly and faithfully do go forth in the Light Power and Force of the seven Spirits whose fortitude it is to secure from all the wrathful conspiracies which are in this evil World Iuly the 20th 1677. This day upon a foregoing Word which opened it self in me as we were met together to breath the Life to each other a superaddition thereof was given me The word was from that of Jesus crying in the great day of the Feast If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink then out of their Bellies shall flow Rivers of Living Waters speaking of the Spirit The Jews Feast being the Feast of Tabernacles was highly at that day solemnised from which the Lord did take an occasion to invite to another manner of Feast presenting himself as the principal Dish to feed upon and Well of Life to draw the Waters of Salvation from It was again revived to me in this word You are come to the festival day of the Spirit Set by it esteem it spare not to take your fill Tell me Oh ye that beloved are what from this Heavenly Table where all variety of Spirit is what is most relishable to your Heavenly Palate Had not I known you to have been in the vehement hunger and thirst after that Food which is all Spirit and Life you should never have drawn near to my Table For to others this kind of Fare has been little understood or tasted of and therefore not desired It is the pure Birth of the Spirit that can only live upon that which is Spirit as none can know the things of God but the Spirit so none can taste God but what is born of God What else did your Lord Jesus live upon during the time of his abiding in the humanity but the Essential Power of the Deity He still drew it in as the Invisible Bread of Life which he had to eat that the World knew not of Now said the Spirit unto me It will be to you according to what you believe or thirst for or after whether for the Milk or the strong Meat of the Spirit For this is called the Feast of the Spirit because it multiplies it self into Corn Wine Oyl Milk Hony Marrow and Fatness There is nothing that can be named for refreshing and strengthning which the Spirit of Jesus doth not afford to the strong in Faith Then again a further Information was given concerning the Ministration of Revelation that though this Mount of Divine Vision was not to be for ever the fixed Rest of such who are under such a dispensation which must be owned as a high and rich Prerogative Yet warning I had this day hereupon still to wait For the Spirit did expresly speak that we were come but to the shallows of that unmeasurable Deep our Feet did but yet stand upon the Golden-sea brim and that we must yet abide a while upou this Chrystalline Stone till launched into the deep ocean of all Manifestation and Knowledge of what is within the Vail Where all things of the Temple Glory are to be seen not as in Metaphors or Figures but in their own express Beings as the heavenly things themselves Then through the Oracle-ear this word did sound to me Ye have not yet known what it is to be wholly contracted into the Spirit that is as if you were without a Body of animal sense and changed into an unmixed Body of Spirit For thus it was with Iohn when he saw and talked with the Alpha and Omega Then the word of Jesus was made good to him as one of them who did not see death till he had seen the Son of Man in Majesty coming in the New Ierusalem Glory But this he could never have beheld if he had not been changed for the time being into a Spirit Which had so penetrated through his gross material Body as that he knew himself only in a Body of Light Therefore he called it the Lord's Day such a
day as the dark Night of an earthly Body must fly away from For it could not abide when though but in the Vision of so immense a Glory that dispersing it self so variously into the Images of what so long had lain unseen Even so verily deeper may be your entrance into the Heavens to hear and see what there is reserved as your Dowry among those High-Throne Principalities which Iohn did see Fear not I say through this bright day to pass though the night of your Body of earthly sensuality shall by degrees pass away Care not to hazard all that so as ye may be taken up still in the Visions of the mighty Alpha where new Scenes of Glory may open to you daily Iuly the 21th 1677. As we were in Prayer met together this word passed through me which plainly thus spake These are the wrestling Spirits O Father that will not let me be at rest till they have possessed the Kingdom with me This word did not a little revive me and added a renewed strenght to urge the more full Manifestations of this Kingdom and that we might still our force unite who have been hitherto so prosperous in our way through recourse by prayer Which being done in Faith hath great and mighty influence with God Iuly the 22th 1677. This Morning I had this further Presentation pourtraid out to my Internal Eye The Figure of a Fleshy Heart with many Eyes and a Mouth from whence issued out a white Stream like a Breath From which it was said draw near and receive in what floweth out here which I assaid to do magically as well as I could Then when I was come to my inward understanding Spirit to know what this might signifie This word did pass through me This Breath is thy Spirits Meat by which ye are to live day by day This Vision contained very much in it which was made out as it was cast up and called over again in my Mind afresh teaching being herefrom given unto me How this was the new Heart which would be as the Well of deep Waters in whomsoever it was fixed Many were the worthy Properties which do belong to this Heart For it was the Figure of the very Heart of God the Son lively discribed in the rising Magia Then were the several Working-Powers and Properties manifested unto me and I was also made to understand what I never before did sound For it was whispered to my inward Ear saying Thou little thinkest or perceiveth what lieth concealed within these Triangles An immense Treasury is here couched Who can fathom his own heart much less this which is so all-seeing Now to give the several Properties of the Heart full of Eyes First Property No slumber doth happen on them at any time For flumbring and sleepy Eyes argue a state of weakness but these are perfect Eyes strong Eyes in their full strength and clarity Second Property They are watchful Eyes waking Eyes looking every way unto the heights above and down to the depths beneath and to the bredths and lenghts of what in all the World are seeable Third Property These Eyes are discernaing and piercing Eyes The wonderful excellency of these Eyes is this because their faculty is to pierce into things so as nothing can be hid or concealed from them This all-seeing Heart was with the Prophets of old from whence they were called Seers When Gehazi would have hid from Elisha the gifts of reward received from Naaman faith Elisha went not my Heart with thee There is no hiding from the Eye of the Heart Samuel from this inward sight could tell Saul that his Asses were found and how that he was designed for a more weighty business than to look after them having the matter of a Kingdom to propound to him from the Lord. Fourth Property The Eyes of this Heart are clear single pure Eyes and purged from every Mote It is the peculiar property of this Heart to see God and this Heart hath a Mouth in it to speak from and it speaks to the Most Holy and it hath an Ear to hear also therefrom So that it is both a seeing hearing and speaking Heart therefore God sets a value upon such a good Heart Such a Heart Caleb hâ—d and David had which Heart much answers to God's own Heart for it is God's own Heart in man's Heart As it was said by one We have the Mind of Jesus it is as if he had said we have the Heart of Christ. Therefore the New Covenant runs all upon a New Heart Gods Heart in man's Heart making man's Heart a New Heart All the Revenue of Eternal Life is Entailed upon what issues from a renewed Heart made new from God's Heart indwelling in man's Heart Here verily you are come to the grand business for what the whole tenure of all Prophecies and Promises points out unto is to this seeing hearing and speaking Heart as it belongs to the New Creature which is God's Heart in Man's Heart making it a new Heart For God's Heart or Christ's Heart is the warm Life-motion that floweth through man's own inward Heart Thus God's Heart in man's Heart makes man's Heart a new Heart and a good Heart and makes man's Heart a seeing hearing and speaking Heart When man's Heart is made single clear and pure purified from every mote of imperfection and from all sin and self then it can see God and hear God and speak to God For it hath the Heart of Christ in his own purified Heart David foresaw the worth of such a Heart when he so earnestly prayed for the creating a clean Heart in him It is a meer act of Creation by first raising or putting forth a power to dissolve the old dark earthly stony Heart which the new Heart of Christ must come in the place of For there cannot be any agreement betwixt them while they are together For till the old Heart is worn out by degrees Oh what strife war and contention is between them so long as the earthly part can hold it out as is found by the Saints experience till the Heart of Jesus comes fully to be fixed in the old Heart Then from the sight of Christ's Heart-Eye in our new Heart the pure Life will stir essentially and such Spiritual Motions will spring as great Peace Love and Joy will come in upon you as a bubbling Water of Life Fifth Property From Christ's Heart in a good Heart made good the new World and the Nature of Paradise is placed there and this new World is always provoking the good Heart by internal Species of Heavenly things generated therefrom answerably to what the Mind is employed upon and raised up into As in an old unregenerated Heart this earthly World is placed in the midst of it provoking the Mind with those earthly species that riseth from it to a close with them So here new Idea's arise and are abundantly brought forth from the Divine and Heavenly World placed in a new and
regenerated Heart Which the Spirit of a good Heart feeds upon miraculously while this Worldly Heart doth see nor tast nothing hereof So strong so high are Zions Walls that are built for these holy Hearts that no groveling Spirits nor low earthly Hearts can tast any thing of their Seraphick Life Whose natural soil it is to live like the Hearts of Beasts breathing after their perishing Fodder and sensual Pleasures but this Heart from Jesus in a Regenerated good Heart is created for better things It knows its own true temperature to be such as can no more lust after what is terrestrial Because it hath been so much touched upon by the Divine Flames of the most Holy Altar Because also it hath been so often impressed from the sealing Powers of the Deity Whose breath doth so strongly move as to maintain upon the good Heart a pleasant soft Fire burning as a signal Witness that a Sacred Presence liveth there for whom is provided the best of Celestial Chear Also because the creating Word may still renew a fresh Life with all its secret and unknown Retinue of pure Spirits that may be refreshing to the Solitary who indeed have made their choice to live in the Heart of Jesus till with their inward Eyes they have spied where that only massy Gold-stone of all-working Powers doth lie Which is only sounded by these Hearts but to raise up this all-golden Power is not found out by them till they are come to have more innate Union and Communion with this Heart For by virtue of their Co-Union there will be co-working For thus it was betwixt God and Christ there was but as one Heart betwixt them in which they did in all things agree From whence it was said hitherto the Father doth work and I work that was by a mutual agreement going out in acts of Power from deep Councel and Wisdom as foreseeing all events of things So it will be between Christ and a Christian when they have co-union of Heart then there will be co-operations together bâ—tween Christ and a Christian Co-union of Heart is when Christ's Heart dwells in a Christian Heart and the Heart of a Christian is one in Union with Christ's Heart Then will follow intimate communion and co-operations in harmony together Iuly the 23th 1677. This word run through me as a burning stream saying Seek make out with all speed for a partnership with this perfect and all-powerful Heart For it will not only discover a Spiritual Substance by a Reflective Light but it will give an Inherent being in it self Hence it is that Wisdom's Pearly Stone doth shine and hence all her Divine Magia doth work Let it not stagger thee that little hitherto thou couldst do as to works of Eminency that might demonstrate the Heart-Power of the Deity See what wanting hath been the Heart of Jesus is a Seal must be set upon thine that what as his may be thine in an absolute propriety Such an innate life of conjunction will be of most wonderful consequence Consider now then and know nothing is more expedient than to be found in this most perfect and all-seeing Heart that all you do may be wrought herefrom Then further it was testified that it was not the sudden flights of the Spirits up into this Heart which would do or perfect the remainder of what was to be finished For in that there might be an uncertain motion as our own Hearts sometimes being up and then again down by reason of which so little hath been brought to pass For a steady Heart and Mind is Wisdom's Pavilion where she dwelleth Therefore this caution and word of Councel the Spirit did give that when carried up at any time by the Spirit into the Heart of Jesus there to fix for ever and there to abide till so knit as Twins of Hearts to grow up together in then Powers and Gifts there will spring Iuly the 24th 1677. The word of Admonition was given unto me Take heed unto the Spirits Doctrine and continue stedfast in the things which ye have learned and have been assured of knowing of whom ye have received them From these words it was shewed me that it was not sufficient that we were under the distillings of the Spirit-doctrine to drink it in so as to let it pass away again but this word of Truth was to dwell and to be deeply rooted in us as it is brought forth into a plain discovery by way of Precept For in this day the Word of the Lord coming to any one immediately is so rare and pretious that God looks that they whom he shall herewith favour should more than ordinarily set by it and wisely observe and make great improvement of this more excellent Ministry For every slight neglect or disobedience is weighed over as done agaâ—â—â—â— the Love which not being answered by the fruits of Love again will cause the Spirit to retire to its own center Therefore henceforth live by every word that shall proceed from the Spirit This Councel did very much reach my Soul engaging all the Faculties of my interiour Mind lest at any time I should let slip any word so expresly spoken unto me from the Spirit for it is love and grace worthy of all acceptation And I must own it is good dwelling under the droppings of this Fruitful Bough which is loaden with all sweet Hony-dewes that no sooner are touched with the twig of Faith but the Eye of the Heart is both enlightned and is therewith highly refreshed as with its true natural food Therefore One many Ages past experienced this when he cried out Oh how sweet are thy words unto my taste yea sweeter than hony unto my mouth The respect that the Most Holy and Worthy Ones will have for this Living Testimony will be evidenced by a disrespect and a real disgust to whatever is not given out from a fresh annointing For the Right-born Spirit trieth all by its tast it can know old stores that has not that juicie Life and vigour in it like Fruits that have been long plucked off from the Tree or like a Flower that hath lost its true Life-scent by being cut off from the springing Root and so both Fruits and Flowers though once fresh and good in their proper time yet when laid up and their moisture gone and dried up are no longer so And this is well known and discerned by such a Spirit as has liberty to go into the Vineyard and Garden of God to pluck fresh and gather according to present spending And although there has been a living upon an old Store laid up yet know it is not to be so always The seven years Famine of the Pretious Word and Ministry of the Spirit is come to an end with some already Who have made use of it for those ends designed which was to sow their ground with it and that by the hand of the true Seedsman the Spirit who hath made choice of good and well-prepared ground to
cast in that which will bring up a fresh Crop of Spiritual Plants and so still As it was in an inward Idea shewn me A Field of Corn when ripe it sheds it self into the same ground out of which it sprang and so renews Food again Even so the Eternal Grain of the Living Word sowes it self and thereby we have it fresh in all its springing variety Now who once have a Seed of a right kind and a Ground or Holy refined Mould choicely separated from all vile and earthly mixtures they may promise themselves such a wonderful rich encrease as thereof not only to feed the Mouths of their own hunger but may furnish others with this Life-bread which springeth out from this Celestial Grain Which will not come up barely as it enters into the pure soil but it will be still shooting up and altering it self till the gross Body of it be changed into a more excellent property even so the Celestial Grain sown in good Ground will not come up bare Grain but it will bring up with it the Stalk of Plenty and Fruitfulness with it self even the one Stalk with sevenears which number signifieth the seven Spirits before the Throne in which subfists Perfection Iuly the 26th 1677. I saw in the Night Vision a Measuring Line and it was in the hand of a Child who hereby was to fathom aâ—deep Ocean Over which some were designed for to pass and were commanded to follow this Child clothed in white Linnen in a swiming posture without fear For there would be no danger so long as the Child with the Measuring Line went before us as our Guide Then answered my Spirit I am not skilful to swim over such deep Waters as these are and how may we trust our selves with one that seemeth to be of so little stature as that of a Child Then when I came to consider of the Vision I was made to understand the meaning of it Why a Child must be the Guide and Leader of such as were to swim from one measuring deep to another till they had reached to stand upon the Rock where the everlasting hidden Power was Then said the Word know thou herefrom that it pleaseth the Ancient of days to take up the form of a Child to shew there must be all Innocency and Passiveness no resistency noâ— repugnancy of Will for contradiction God will fill such with a Spirit unmeasurable and make them skilful Guides to launch the Ocean deep to fathom the secrets of the Immense Treasury None can be Swimmers here but such as little are who are come back to a Child-state All that are within this Compass of the Measuring Line are ruled to search out what its Length shall give forth day by day For that Ancient Spirit which was said did move upon the Face of the Waters to bring forth the first Creation doth now move through a Figurative Body of a Child-like Spirit to fathom that Wisdom Knowledge and Power as may bring forth the New Creation Which is to be more splendorous than all foregoing Monarchies which have been known in all Worlds From this then learn who they are that shall be greatest in Trust Power and Dominion and who are to have the Golden Line of the Spirit committed to them even the Child that is clothed in white Innocency of which Child-like Spirit you are taught hereby to be Iuly the 31th 1677. This Night I dreamed of a Person that was unknown to me who came and put a Piece of Mony in my hand and said go with this and recover that Estate that hath been so long kept out of thy hand I was much taken with the kindness of this Stranger and as I was considering how to effect it I awaked And thereupon found my Spirit in a dispose for Prayer breathing forth according to the present sense that was upon me and indeed it was a mere Ghost-like Power that moved me and made request freely in me After this my Spirit sunk down into a deep immersement with somewhat of a high Celestiality that I felt as a Covering upon me which drowned all my outward sense During which time the Heart which I had formerly seen as in a fleshly Mold was now presented with a Golden Case on it Which was some few days past intimated or called by the name of a Caul of the Heart Upon which I had several matters of importment glansed in upon me which this Morning were more clearly made out in the Divine Magia This Heart thus clothed upon was presented in a wakeful Vision as the piece of mony was in my natural sleep and I heard this word saying Oh here is inclosed within this Heart that which will fetch back all those riches of eternal substantiality which was forfeited into the hands of the great Landlord who is Owner and Possessor of Heaven and Earth and is relapsed ever since Adam's day Which none from his time could ever buy out the full and perfect Revenue hereof till a Marriage Union was entirely made with this perfect Heart Which was thus further amplified by the Spirit That the Heart was of it self to be considered distinct from the Caul so figured out in a fleshly form as it first did appear unto me Which signified the gift of the New-born Heart for softness ready to take in what Impressions the Creator would make upon it Meekness and Gentleness being the matter of its Composition its Element which it liveth in is the Water of Life from whence the Pulse thereof doth beat and work It swims in its fire-spark of Life in Shiloh Streams of all â—ove and Joy and so it is suckled with 〈◊〉 meek Water of Chrystalline Purity Which rendereth it meet for to be the Eternal Virgin that reviveth again in Mother Eves place Somewhat of the Root of the first Created Matter being left in Adam's Line and Posterity which in some who are foreknown in the Love-decree will have it awakened and thereby obtain it through strong Attraction which can never cease working through internal violation Which indeed proceedeth from the Fountain-Heart of Jesus that now stands in the room of the degenerated Adam Who by dividing from the Heart of God had lost his spiritual force and might for communication of Goodness to his Off spring So that there must of necessity be found another way of conveyance to feed and supply the awakened Hunger which is very mystically introduced in None can any thing thereof discern but such as are centered in the very Life-vein of the Holy Trinity from whence the true feeling and feeding is known The Talent that Christ makes mention of is thus to be understood A spark of Celestial Life is to be found in the Embers of Naturality in us which being sought out and found and separated from what would have extinguished it then becomes desirous of an Inkindling For if it abides alone it will die therefore it would attract a help for to maintain its Life which is
while I was viewing it Then it was cried in my hearing Transplant this Tree or else never to Perfection will any 〈◊〉 come answerable to that Tree Let it be fixed under the warm shade of the almighty Tree for fruitfulness From this presentation I was given to understand somewhat that answered to that matter of doubt which was often raised in me what was the Reason that such a fair progress should be made of growth in this Tree richly flowred from the very Life-sap with beauteous appearances Which in way of similitude answers to the state of a Soul that hath the Life-root in her but its plantation being out of the warm shelter standing bleak and open to the sharp blasts on every side cold storms beating upon it cuts off the tender Blossom which would come to substantial Fruit. This was shewn me to be the very cause why so many holy good Trees of Righteousness could not reach to the full grown Fruit but withered off in the very prime of their spring For by fruitfulness here I was given to understand something above and beyond a pure and lively Conversation and a shiâ—ing forth in those known Ornaments of Love Joy Meekness and Patience These I may call the sweet scented Blossoms here many one stops and goes no further on but sheds them abroad And then by the mortal Life commixing with the cold sharp Element of this visible Region are they generally cut off before any such high degree of all-fruitful Power is got up unto As was expressed in former Ages when their Fruit was apparent from the root of God's Almightiness Our Lord means this fruitful Birth of Power when he telleth them of the absolute necessity of their abiding in him as the Branch upon a Tree As much as if he had said ye can do no mighty works till you come to be brought under me as that out-spreading Tree of Life If so as he told his Disciples ye abide in me and my words abide in you then ask what ye will and it shall be done From hence it may be truly inferred that the eminent fruitfulness which God the Father may come to be glorified in consists in a large and full ability to do and act such things as Christ himself did in his assumed humanity who was a Tree of all kind of Fruitfulness Now by this Vision it was also thus given me to know that the Tree which did stand in the wild field of Nature with a Fence did well signifie the true Life-off-spring of the Most Holy who might proceed to such a degree But while walking in the open bare Principle of this World where storms of all kind of Temptations would set on it it is altogether improbable that any such could come to any ripe powerful fruitfulness Therefore the Voice did cry from the upper Spheres in Loves Compassion for a Transplantation to be made that so the designed fruitful Plants might come for to be shaded under the great and mighty Lebâ—non-Tree O what less will this be but a very Translation from one Principle to another where Life of another kind will most naturally â—low not a weak deficient barren fruitless Life but a strong invincible all-powerful Heart of Righteousness in the Faith-opreation of the mighty God Who to this Tree shall make all Shrubs and even Cedar Trees of the outward Principle to bow when as your Branches shall sprout out with such Christ-like fruitfulness Suffer ye gladly then the gentle pluck even by that good hand though ye are hereby severed from the very Root of this Earth Because ye well see that the Destroyer and Despoiler of all your desired fruitfulness lurks at the bottom of that ground as a subtle Serpent making new offers of Temptations to beguile you Therefore the Holy Watcher cries still fly away from his Inchanted Tree August the 20th 1677. I have great Soul-wrestlings about a restraint from the Broad Walks of the World The former part of the Night I spent thus being made sensible of the divine pleasurableness of keeping to the Narrow Track of the Spirit I was then greatly thoughtful how we that were as in the midst of a thicket of wild thorny Briaâ—s should pass out as untouched to get into that privacy of walking with God according to the late words of Councel received from the Spirit which word followed me still In the midst of these solicitations that sprung in me I was overset with a drousiness upon my animal sense And immediately I saw my own Person with another got up a good height upon a mighty Bank where some stragling Houses were and we were minding to do and act some petty matters and concerns in them Of a sudden I looked down and beheld a Sea at the bottom floating and a Voice cried Hast way for here is no stay This Bank with all its Buildings will be overflown when the Sea breaks in With that I was afraid and called to my Friend with me to draw up higher for here was no standing for us the danger was so imminent Then was shewn to us through some degrees of ascent a place all plain of each side railed in into which we designed to make our way with all expedition But the ground being parched and bare and slippery we were constrained to stay each other by the hand till we came to that pleasant Walk which was so secured as before was mentioned where we were without fear Then were we in another Region all encompassed with a bright Element with two Globes all with spangling Sparks about them Which was a Vision so Glorious as could not well have been born if the bodily senses had not been suspended that so the Spirit might actuate free in its own Specie Whereby it may positively be concluded that the activity of the corporeal faculties are a great impediment to Divine Vision Therefore taught I am whenever I would attain any thing of this kind that then I must be slain to the exteriour imaginariness and that an absolute death is very meet in this case For there by the Spirit of the Mind is made free to slide down into its own Abyss from whence it was before it came into Nature August the 21th 1677. This Night I heard a Voice cry within me I am Alpha and Omega this is the Name by which I will be known unto thee Which sound awaked me and thereby quickned up all the internal Powers of my Mind to attend the meaning hereof Which as from a Spring thus opened That to know the Lord Christ by this Name would be of a very considerable advantage to us upon several accounts For consider what this Name carries and bears on it signifying everlasting Power Strength and Fortitude I am saith he not only to be known in my Weak Ignominious Suffering Dying Name but in my Living All-powerful Name especially to them who are now to be raised up by me to this state of Celestial Dignity as to be anointed Kings and
possession him who is the Author and Spring of this Almighty Faith that can do whatever it pleaseth Therefore it is said seek and ye shall find that is we must grow from one ground of Faith to another and not give over as fainting and disponding till we ascend from Faith to Faith so near to the heart of God our Father as to affect him with such Faith as worketh by Love that so the grand mystery of tâ—â—s all-effecting Faith may be both revealed and dispensed as a Gift unto us and then we have the Substance of whatever hath been hoped for September the 29th 1677. As the Doctor was in Prayer this word passed through me Ye shall be marked with the Fathers Name then no slaughtering weapon can harm you Upon which word I much exercised my Mind diving to know the Spirits meaning what that Mark would be and after what manner it might be imprinted on us And I as attended with all heedfulness the rising Spring of pure Revelation it was thus given me to understand That to be marked with the Father's Name is no less than to be transformed into a Virgin Body The bearing of this Name in the Forehead was shewn to me would be the putting on a visible Form of God as considered in a glorified Figure Which may admit of such a kind of pure matter as hath not been seen or understood therefore it is well said none can know or conceive what they may be changed into Iohn in his Visions saw the Lord in several appearances of Lustre and Glory There are degrees of Celestial Clothing Esaiah had a sight of God that made him cry out he was undone seeing the disprotionableness betwixt the brightness of a sparkling Glory to a dark polluted Being Likewise Ezekiel saw the flaming Majesty of Glory that the very Seraphims covered their Faces at Upon which the Spirit did set it home upon me that we might not over-rate our selves while the Lamp of our Eternal Spirits were but yet under the covert of a dark earthly Pitcher For no Glory can shine out till that be broken away from the internal Flame that lieth hid within Which is the true and right begotten Spirit who when it comes to call over its high and eternal pre-existency considering what it was before it came into this Body and taking in the Divine Sense hereof is not at rest while yoaked and hanked with such course and putrified matter as these fleshly Bodies do consist of Seeing therefore a Promise is left us both in general and in particular for returning in to such a refined corporeity as may best agree with the pure Trinity Let us draw up hereunto with full assurance of Faith that so we may hereby reach to this all-securing Mark which will redeem us from among the Inhabitants of the Earth and give us entrance to our own Heavenly Place What is it that hath made all to die and leave their Carcases unchanged in the Region of this Wilderness but the resting satisfied in that corruptible form of Flesh in all its diseased properties There hath been only a talk and a belief concerning a Redemption but all the highest have reached no further than a Regeneration in Part and an illuminating of the Mind But where is there that fair Image of the Heavenly that shall never fade nor die that our Lord verifies he would raise up in the last day Which was declared to me to be a Resurrection out of the Grave of that Mortal Body which at present we visibly carry as a Sepulcher in which there may mistically lie hid such a Spiritual Body as only the Trumpet sound of all-powerful Faith can bring forth into visibility That so to some it may be given to see the breaking through of that which may resemble the Glorified Figure of him who is the First-born from the dead This is that Body in which the Lord Christ did the Will of his Father and we can never expect to go on to do it but in the like Figure of all-powerful Spirituality In which the Life-quickning Spirit may have a suitable Organical Body to actuate it self according to â—ts own original purity Who by coming into a terrestrial Form that is only animated by a Life which is from this visible Element causeth the great contest and strife so as the Spirit cannot do or act according to its own eternal property The which we now coming to understand do see how by this animal Life of sense we are bounded and limited from this we are made to seek after our disappeared and paradisical Body And truly were it not for the provocation and strong instigation which I feel again from him who would be unto us altogether this immaculate body I have enough strong Temptations from my sensitive part to acquit all such hopes and expectations and to be satisfied with a mixed state as to the one part heavenly and the other part earthly the whole term of Life here But having had so many remembrances by Voice and Vision that constrained me to pry into this Mystery and having many Testimonies from the Holy Scriptures to confirm what was secretly revealed which came in and were opened to me to prove the certainty and and lawfulness of such a Hope as cannot make ashamed I am not suffered to let go the Faith and shall only in brevity mention those which were brought before me As first That of the 17 of Matt. Christs own Transfiguration as the first fruits of this New Ierusalem state Then that of the 3d of Iohn 6 7 8 verses That which is born of the Flesh is Flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit though this hath been hitherto understood only of the Birth of the Mind and of the Souls Regeneration yet a much deeper thing hath been manifested to me to which I must give ear to wit the Fleshly Birth brings forth the Feshly Body but the Spirits Birth brings forth a Spiritual Body I am not ignorant of the many Objections that will be made against most of these Scriptures by all such as only do look through the vail of sense Then again that of the 1st of the Cor. 15. beginning at the 12th verse to the end of the Chapter That whole Chapter is to be understood according to a transforming sense Then the 2d of the Cor. 5th Chapt. 1 2 3 4. all which shews the expectation of the Apostle in this matter Then again Rom. 8. 23. v. waiting for the Adoption to wit the redemption of our Body That of Iohn 6th Chapt. 49th verse Your Fathers did eat Manna in the Wilderness and are dead 50th verse This is the Bread that cometh down from Heaven which a man may eat thereof and not dye 58th verse This is that Bread which came down from Heaven not as your Fathers did eat Manna and are dead he that eateth of this Bread shall live for ever These pretious Scriptures did fully learn and satisfie me that
such an incorruptible state that should never see death was by us to believed in Iohn 31. 26. And whosoever believeth in me shall never die believest thou this Many more to this purpose were called over and interpreted which may come forth in their season these for the present may suffice These Holy Scriptures give us to know That we as to our visible Bodies are in a strange deformity out of which we may lawfully hope to be redeemed And whoever have Faith herein without wavering may certainly see such a translation For this word did sound in me According as your Faith extends so it will in this respect make an alteration Oh who but such as are mighty in Faith shall live to see the old Mark of of the Beast worn out and the Fathers Name planted and engraven on us Which will make us as the sparkling Stones of a Crown lifted up and as an Ensign where the place of our Habitation by the Most Holy shall be appointed October the 1st 1677. The Mount of Elijah UPON this I did much strive to thwart my Sense which was in great mutiny against this Gospel transmutation And as my Faith did get up so Reasons Club did beat me down so passing some hours in great controversie here-about in my self After my natural repose I saw my self with some others standing as on a Hill where no visible fence was but the loftiness of the place Which the Inhabitants that were in the Plain below observing us there to walk were in great indignation and summoned us for to come down to share in what was in common Which not yielding to they provided Instruments of War as Arrows and Guns to shoot at us which passed over us and beside us so that no harm befell us For we withstood them all in great confidence of that fortitude which those lower Inhabitants could see nothing thereof And the shout of the Voice went forth The Spirit of Elijah will be seen again on the Mountain of Faith October the 4th 1677. This Morning it was thus spoken in me Into what Heart hath the mystery of Faith wrought forth it self in the true Nature of Creating Faith No resurrection it hath had in these last Ages Therefore ye do well who now are searching for it be wise to undermine what hath as a Mountain prest it down For it is that which will bring back what was banished out of Paradice October the 5th 1677. I heard this Night in my sleep a Voice calling me saying Draw near that so you may know great and deep things Upon which I was awakened and saw a clear Glassy Trumpet held out and a great Councel was held by some that all were in privacy in a reserved place only I did hear their Sounds and Voices but I could not see their Persons After which musing hereupon because all passed away before I could make any thing hereof The word said Yet for this Secret thy Spirit must launch and wade â—nto a deeper Ocean Upon which my Spirit sunk unto a good degree into the still Abyssal Center out from which all Light of Wisdom doth open And this pure Glassy Trumpet was made mention of again For it was said That none should ever sound this Trumpet but such who could attain to walk and move upon Faith's holy ground Then took I occasion herefrom earnestly to interceed and while I was praying for this Mystery of Faith to be revealed it was spoke in me Thou seekest that which is so weighty and mystical that time must be allotted to draw or extract out of the full and perfect Number of Coessentiality of Spirit which is attributed to the Holy Trinity Into this thou must search and dive for thy Spirit is of the same Eternal Line and Nature and it may recover what it hath lost by descending into this terrestial World of which course matter thou hast formed a body of flesh about thee wherewith be content for a while till the pure spark Faith shall refine it for thee and make it all sublime October the 8th 1677. The profession of Faith was still urged upon me as the only Gift which would renew all things out of the old frame of Nature For the teaching unction did further reveal to me the supereminency of this Golden Grain of Faith which is the product of the Deity where-ever it shall be found Therefore I had a charge in these words given me saying Suffer not so rich a Talent as this to be hid only in and with the Sacred Trinity Come Oh thou restless Mind and I will shew thee where and how thou must feel this Creating Breath in its first beginnings of Life These Rules therefore observe constantly First Then know that the Center of this high extracted Spirit of Faith lies in the Golden Ocean deep of Love So then herefrom take notice that only a mighty vehement Spirit of Love shall bring forth the Life-acting Body of the Holy Ghost which indeed will all be manifested in Loves strong ardency See now then in what ground this choice Pearl be found the meer strength of Love must give entrance where this almighty Dowry is Love raised up to its first Virgin Purity will make Faith descend in all it s asâ—umed Majesty Love and Faith have an overcoming Omnipotency attending them God will suffer himself to be conquered by the Spirit of Love and Faith as he saith concerning the work of my hands command ye me Nothing can God detain from such if they remain in the ardency of this meek Love-fire as in a still flame Therefore through the augmentation of this pure burning Breath of Love which as an ascending Spirit can pass into the very secret abyssal Deep to draw into it self that very Faith by which all things have received their existency Such a Spirit sent forth in the cooperation with Love will effect that transparent formation which may well become the pure Beaming Glory of the Blessed Trinity Therefore receive this from the true and faithfull Witness That Love is and must be as the circling Ring in which this sparkling Stone of Faith will fix it self as a signal Monument Wherefore now see a pretious bundle of Love is all necessary as a prepared Vessel into which the highest drawn Matter of all Spirits may be put This pure essence of Faith can live or lodge no where but in the Virgin Bosom of Charity Which is so comely and innocent as a trueâ— qualiification hereof cannot be nominated God is Love and therefore how can he be strange or unknown where the sâ—ame of his own essential property is sound No doubt but to such all-transforming Faith will be givened as a Golden Balsom to heal that which is demolished As witness the Body of frail Mortality which is shue out from all those that are of Aeâ—herial Forms and Angelical Figures Let this Medicinal Stone be of all value to you for renewing of Immortality that ye may be like those of that high
Order who can behold with great freedom the Face of God and may have room to continue among that Royal Society Then search and try your selves hereby whether you have this Faith of Activity which will go forth in all Spirit and Life There hath been a great mistake about that which is called Saving Faith whenas there hath been no Salvation wrought by it because the old form of a sinful Body hath not been put off thereby the whole professing Number of Christianity hath very much dâ—ceived themselves in a dead actless Faith but to you it is given to search and seek that ye may find the quickning Spirit of Faith Which ye shall know by its working effects St. James in his Epistle gives a true Character of it when he speaks of Abraham 's Faith which was evidenced by Works by which Faith was perfected Henceforth saith the true Author of it Let mighty Works and Deeds justifie the Spirit of belief according to what degree it is risen Contend for the ancient prerogative which was with the Saints of old for it is that Energy of God by which all in you must be created new to the magnificency of your Saviour who will first appear to you by this Spirit of Faith that so you may raise your own dead and set at Liberty that which hath groaned under the first Adamical Birth This pure extraction of Spirit may have a hidden Birth in those who are in the Life of perfect Charity and they not know at first that this worthy Gift is there For the very hour and time of this Golden Balsom droping in may not be perceived by the Vessel or Person that receiveth it As Christ told Nichodemus that this Holy Breath none could perceive its coming in or going out so Christ in the Spirit doth again confirm this word And this Councel is given to you who are stirred up here for to wait seek and pray know it may be with you e're you are a ware Your Obedience will be fulfilled in sending up constant flames of Love to the fountain heart of the Blessed Trinity In which at one time or other the Breath of the Holy Ghost will mingle and then in pure humility you may try to excite its Power forth so as it may be brought into no derision But first find such ability as your Lord did when he said Lazarus come forth which was Faiths undeniable Seal which both lawful and expedient is for the Lambs followers to receive Be you now then such as need not be ashamed of this lively Hope and steddy Profession of this Faith of God as an Inspiring Breath which will certainly give a high and wonderful witness No impossibility in this Vocation will be understood because its Working Tool is the Creating Word After this free and open discovery let into my Mind I found Faith and Love winged up as a Twin Spirit springing that if possible this superexcellent Gift might be so given unto us that confession might be made to the Lord that this Spirit of Faith is truly risen therefore great and mighty things do shew forth themselves though for a long season it hath been hidden October the 9th 1677. The Interpretation of the Vision upon the first day of October As to this Vision the Interpretation thereof plainly is read in the Book Within which beareth the living Testimony hereunto signifying those living Acts of Faith which sometimes have carried our Spirits up to Elijah's Hill Where not only Batteries are from the potent King of this low Region but he doth make war with and by his Agents as taking notice we are those which do separate from his Kingdom Therefore we may expect nothing less but a Beleagering throughout especially when they perceive that we are such as would overturn that indeared Life of Sense that hath been maintained so long in its range in opposition to Faith's Sâ—veraignty But while here we stand like Elijah upon Faith's Mount we can command Invisible Bands Chariots and Horsemen of Fire that will come in to help upon Faith's Alarm and so shall all weapons of War be frustrated Therefore fear not ye who are upon Faith's Ground saith the Almighty But the word of his Councel thus spake in me rather beware of those more close and subtile Enemies that are within your own house which will every moment make war upon those lofty aspirings and ascensions of Faith they are more dangerous Enemies who can so swiftly raise indeed up the strong Forts of Reason and can display all their Faith-destroying Arrows to wound the Heart and Life thereof Threatning if ye still hold out and will not again descend into the gulf of Sense then ye must be liable to the peril of Famine Nakedness Poverty and all kind of Reproach If ye will not yield to the Laws of Reasons Kingdom such Destructions must necessarily befall you Now then for caution said the Spirit of Life cast up the Accounts of present and future times and in the clear Eye of Light thou both backward and forward maist make discovery that such Arguments as these have frighted down thousand thousands of Souls which otherwise would have kept Faiths Ground Therefore at this very day among the professing part of Christianity such a Faith is only of reputation as will not expose to loss shame and disgrace but can fall in and hold correspondency with what is agreeable to the animal Body But hearken ye who do so much search after this life consider if you will adventure up to this Hill what shots not only from the World below but what will break in as Floods from all dark Centers to bring you back to live in the warm habour of Sense and Reason Then this word further arose from the pure motion saying Therefore now that ye are diving for this pretious thing I would that no mistake should be upon your Mind if you would come to recover that Life that Adam had Which was indeed an unmixed Life of Faith before the relapse did take hold upon him I say if ye will fix your Minds to this Life then stay and lean your selves upon this Faith-alsufficiency and do not think to carry two Lives in one Body that are contrary to each other For this Spirit of Faith can only agree with what is willing to bow and be all friendly with it as a suitable Maâ—e unto it Canst thou saith the Spirit of Faith walk out as Abraham Isaac and Elias did with me they saw nothing before them as to the visible but Earth and Air and yet nothing mistrusted but confided in what was not seen who therefore were abundantly recompensed Such as these who have put out the Eye of their Sense and have thrown away the Crutches of Reason doth the Spirit of Faith seek to walk with that so they may live upon Hony out of the Rock October the 10th 1677. There was this Morning a place presented to me like a Garden where many sorts of Flowers were
shall be given you October the 25th 1677. Oh ye with whom is my charge this is no season to stop in the Way neglect not the Day in which the Mighty One in you may rise again upon whose Shoulder the Key of the Government is laid to open for you the Everlasting Gate October the 26th 1677. The first part of the Night I spent in recollecting and calling over this whole Weeks Transactions which I had little satisfaction in Because it was not upon such a Service as it was meet I should ever and always be found imploied in For whatever of the necessary concerns of this temporary Life did call me off from this Heavenly Calling it became as Gall and Wormwood and brought a heaviness upon me So that I made my â—pplication in the deep inward sense hereof that if possible no more such Earthly matters should croud in upon us Who had so much avowed our selves the Lords Servants only to be and therefore our Spirits could no otherwise be but troubled when hurried by that which was so great a Set-back to our Spiritual Profession that is in imitation to our Lord Jesus in his Holy Priesthood While I was considering the closeness of this Work I was cast into a Sleep and I was suddainly awaked by one that called and said If you do not take good heed and quicken your Pace a dark Mist from the Earth will rise upon you and then you will be prevented of entring into the Third degree where is no Eclipse Which Word I took hold off for it came very seasonably Some space of time after in the same Night I went in Spirit to One that also was herein concerned with me to give him a Spiritual caution and be moaned with him the loss of time And the same Person whose Figure was named to me appeared in a White Garment â—ullied with black dust so taking notice hereof it was advised to put it off and another to be put on But it was spoken in my hearing That will also be deâ—iled without you keep in that upper right-Hand way where no miery Waters overflow nor Winds do blow to raise the dust below Upon which Wâ—â—â—d I considered never to walk in the 〈◊〉 of this World and to keep our Nâ—izâ—â—itical Life unspotâ—ed would be a mighty Victory Having such hoâ—â—â—â— Provocations to be herewith overcharged and so our Minds corrupted For we have but one Heart which if it be chased as a Roe and Hâ—râ— upon the barren Hills and thorny Deâ—â—rt â—f this World where will the most Holy find a rest for himself in us who will noâ— set one Foot into the door of our Minds if we be parâ—ing with coâ—tâ—ary Spirit that â—asâ—eth into us earthly Fumes and Vapours Thus I was made to see the biâ—ing of the Serpent at our Heel as we did walk in the Way of the Earthly Inhabitants So my Mind was made serious and watchful herein lest herewith overtaken our Hearts invaded upon should be Therefore this way of prevention was revealed unto me that we might preserve the Virgin-Purity for her true Mate in these following Rules The First Rule I had given was to be true to the Solemn Contract and Espousal Vow which we had made to wit to be the only Bride to the Lamb. 2dly To be found always at home in the Spirit in a waiting posture setting all things in order minding only the entertaining of this our betrothed Husband sending out burning Floods of Love to bring him into the close centre of the Heart In the third place Be found in clean and whiâ—e Linnen that he may be delighted with your Innocency and Nazarite Purity Then another sort of a higher degree may be put upon us as was shewed me In the 4th place Have always that which may be most pleasant to his tast therefore bring forth those choice Fruits which the Tree of Love and Life doth bear And then it was testified unto me that this holy Order maintained would give us an escape and no trouble should be in our Habitation because the Lord Iehovah Shammah will dwell in us and will cut off all that attempts us to invade October the 27th 1677. 1. Upon an occasion of disturbance by a disquieted Spirit in the Family I poured out the sense thereof unto my Lord in Prayer why such a grieving Thorn should be our troubler So I committed all to him who I did believe would clear me from all unjust Clamours in Truth and Innocency After which I found a suddain sweet Calm and peace brought into my mind Which caused me to repose in a quiet natural Rest. In the Morning this Word came in to my support Be not dismayed at the Blast of the terrible one who hath poured forth Hellish Fury Be still found in the Long suffering and Patience and then this shall all turn to the furtherance of that Work which is decreed in Everlasting Counsel whereby the remainder of Wrath shall be restrained Though it is not taken well that such Insolency is permitted over thee 2. After this this Word was given in also saying Speak to Iosedech for to be strong servent and steady and nothing fear but to be faithful the Priestly Charge and Work For then â—aith the Lord I will be with him and he shall assuredly prosper according to the Covenant made when he dedicated himself mine only for to be in Nazarite separation 3. Then this Word visited me Yet once it is a lâ—tâ—le whileâ— and there will arise out of the Everlasting Priesthood that which shall shake all Nations in Earth Sea and dry Land Set therefore your Hearts hereunto with all watchfulness and diligence 4. As we were met together I saw a Flame pass through the Room and presently the Word spake All these must first be purged with Fire before they can stand with the Lamb upon the Mount October the 28th 1677. 1. This Morning I did feel in my self mighty Openings from the pure center of Love and Joy with some encouraging Words which did pass through me Afteâ— I had Prayed the Word to me was Go forward for I have accepted thee and I will be known Thy God in the Light of the Altar-Flame in Verity 2. Again it was said Appear thy self therefore insuch a Work whereof thou needest not be ashamed as having seen that Pattern in the Glass of Wisdom To which Eternal Idea keep fixed thy Internal Eye and thou shalt bring forth to Perfection that which hath been in the Perspective part October the 29th 1677. After my first Sleep being still somewhat drowsy and hardly come to my awakened Sense I saw a mighty great Hand lifted up upon a wonderful high Pole This sight was so amazing that though it was so high as it seemed to touch the Clouds yet I could see it very distinct as a large Hand When I came hereof to consider what it should signifie the Word was thus given This is the Lord's Hand which lifted up shall be and
who is it that shall it not see Much more I wait herefrom to be revealed For it was a significant Vision that doth bring along its own Meaning That so we might hereby be warned what God in the Earth will appear to do November the 16th 1677. I had this Night much inward Expostulation tending to my full and perfect Change into such a Spiritual Corporiety in which the offence of Sin might altogether cease For since the Holy Teacher and Guide hath been plain with me that without I here attain to be Born again so as no composition of the first original matter of Sin may spring till then I can have no free access nor be taken up into all Spousal freedom in the Love-Joys that are only known by such who are redeemed from all Sin For the Lamb the Bridegroom can take no other into the Marriage-Bed of inflamed Love with him but an immaculate Bride all Fair and Serene The Father hath charged him to bring no other into his Kingdom Now then said the Spirit you see that my striving in you is all to make you commendable that the Father himself may love you and be at perfect Reconciliation with your Spirits For this is the considerable matter to have the whole Trinity agreeing to take up and pitch their Pavilion of Light round about you Then expect such a change as never yet hath come November the 17th 1677. In my Night Sleep I was Praying and awakened my self therewith which when I came to my self I saw a White Hand reached out dipped in some pretious Liquor of a deep red Colour and it dropped thereof on my Breast Which presently brought forth that Word to me in the Canticles his Fingers drop sweet smelling Myrrh The which pure thing thing I did feel upon my Internal part oâ—â— to a rising Joy in my self Then this Word came to me Now take heed of going out amongst the Deâ—d If any thing of this kind doth touch you watch the time do not rest till a fresh stream of live Blood doth all your Inwards wash and perfume your Seperated place with this pretious Myrrh For your Lord can no more live or lie among them who do smell of the Dead November the 20th 1677. The Lord looked upon us and said he loved us and was touched in all our Afflictions and Temptations and that our Tears and Sorrows should not be forgot for all were treasured up that so when the Sowing time hereof shall be passed over Salvation and Victory and Everlasting Joy shall be returned to us November the 21st 1677. This was the Word of the Lord that was with me Let not the various Sounds and specious Gatherings of them among whom is an uncertain Sound move you from holy ground Where still do you wait in the Spirits Arbour for I have yet Secrets in an immediate way to impart Therefore scatter not from your known though unknown Walks to others So hereby I was to understand that in the still and silent state we were to keep till the clear Trumpet of the Holy Ghost might sound through us For nothing of this could be found in the mixed Assemblies Therefore it was shewed to me that after a while there would be a dispersion of the pâ—incipal Shepherds and Flocks till the Horn be filled with the unmixed Oyl of the Spirit by a true Prophet that must raised up be from and by the Mission of the greaâ— and mighty Shepherd Who will then anoint with Power each one of his Flock that none may be found in his Pasture of a barren Spirit For each one shall sound forth the Mystery of their own Everlasting Redemption out of the falleâ— Stage November the 22d 1677. As soon as I came out of Sleep after the Nights rest This word met me Oh that I might awake with thy Image perfectly then should I behold thy Face and not be reproached because of an ignominious Body Whereupon I considered the weightiness of the Word and it was opened unto me that it related to a Resurrection stare after a Death-sleep in the Grave of the Body of Sin out from which the Spirit awakeneth into the God-likeness Upon which there was presented unto me a clear Crystal in the figure of a Heart which hung by a Pipe through which a stream like Blood passed into the Heart which was said to be the pure Life-Seed that conveyeth it self from the Fountain-Heart of the Godhead As it is the Production of a Birth answerable to the very Heart of God which would be the true and original matter of a divine Nature In which only the Life of God should move as it did in the Person of our Lord Jesus Whose Heart was fed from the Heart of his Father and so ours from his when so purely generated as his from the Seed or Incorporating Power of the Deity For it was made evident to me that the New Birth-heart conceived in us must be from the Root of the same holy and unmixed matter and answerably in order to a full redeeming from the old polluted Heart out from which are the Issues of Death which is said to be the heart of Stone Now it was shewed me that Fallen Man did carry about him three Hearts As first the Heart of a Beast as it may be said of Nebuchadnezzar he had a Beastial Heart 2dly The Heart of a Man which comes up to Sensibility and to Rationality 3dly A Heart in which as to the outward Birth remains somewhat of an Eternal Essence as a Spark of Light which Adam had in Paradise and this we call Man's Eternal Heart And this in the highest Improvement is in much Imperfection and Instability sometimes in a raised Life towards God then sinking down as a Stone again into the Earth according to the outward Constellations that do mutually concur in the good and evil The effects whereof we have sensibly felt by an inward strife and war through the divided property of the Soul which moveth sometimes from the Heavenly Center towards its primitive Being before the Fall So as in this contest without conquest over the earthly part Millions of Souls have past away out of the Body And fearing least it should be so with us another Heart is shewn unto us For none of these can bring us near unto God And therefore remove and give them up and pray vehemently that we may see this old stoâ—ey Heart fail within us and then such a new Heart to which is annexed a pure burning stream which becomes a quickning Spirit Which will make essentially the great alteration so as we shall find our selves new-born perfect Creatures For it is of that high deified Composition of Purity as it forceth all polluted matter of contrariety from it to fly It is such a pure thing as it will be contracted into it self and live alone in an absolute dominion There is no allowance given for any of those forementioned Hearts with it to commix no more then Clay
is hereby to be revealed only as this pure Spirit comprehends its own Original from whence it proceeds infinitely and so sounds and finds infiniâ—â— things contained in the immense Being By vertue of a new Covenant tye which the Spirit of a new and perfect Heart is for ever under the obligation of a Love constraining Law from which there may be no departing But while upon these Myrrh-dropings my Soul was feeding this Word for Confirmation was added What if this may become such a time of Love as by passing by to look upon thee I shall Swear unto thee and not repent that I thy God will be unchangeable And will enter into such a Covenant as thou mayst henceforth become mine Then shall I know what to do with thee for further Glory and Excellency For in that thou wilt be commendable to thy God whose Eye only can take pleasure therein Then was presented a transient sight to wit a Pool wherein I was bid constantly to wash and bathâ— for the Word signified that such Virtue was herein as it would make White the very Blackamore's Skin and cleanse away every Leopard's Spot For it is a Bath of burning Oyl that will the first Birth of the earthly Heart to purpose try and melt away that so all pure Spirit of Life may spring and a body of a shining Skin as a Cherub-Covering be given For it was revealed to me that this should be done unto us as we were become the Lord 's by League and Covenant Whence it stood upon the Honour of the Lamb and of his Kingdom for us to be found all clear and perfect through this Pool of Balsoming Blood that throughly Baptizeth all who are in the true Memberhood of his Body November the 28th 1677. A holy and pure Communion and freedom being maintained in a Spiritual way betwixt the Spirit of the Bridegroom and the Spirit that is preparing to be the Bride of the Lamb thus it was manifested by this similitude presenting before my in-seeing Eye a Golden Charger and in it somewhat of a Spirit of an extracted Virtual Matter upon which fell a sparkling Star as from the Invisible Orb and caused the Liquor in the Charger to flame up And I heard presently the Word say Come my Spouse and draw near for here is provided Heavenly Chear Behold the Lord the Spirit is presented here in a Lordly dish wherein the true Body of your Jesus is both tastable and discernible Whosoever of this are able to drink in it will make them Spirits as all burning Flames Upon which great things were further opened in the Magia Line Which could I have but totally acquitted all those motions that concur to sense-awakening I might have given an account of an infinite space into which my Spirit was launching but was driven back by some stirring Essence that would not let my Spirit pass naked and pure in But this Word came tho thou canst not pass now yet thou shalt after thou hast eaten of this Lordly dish Which will turn Nature into Spirit then thou may into the secret ranges of all eternal heights and depths as an Eagle flye and see and know what lies beyond the Starry Sky November the 30th 1677. This divine Speculation which I had begat a mighty Magical drawing into those infinite heights and depths which did but just open upon me but then shut up But my Spirit did make again a fresh onset if by any means I might pass into that profound light Orb according to the Nature of a Spirit For an eccho did cry in me from that Sphere that the holy Trinity was there in the highest dimensions of Glory Which was a sufficient motive to attract my Spirit out of this vile Corporeity from which I found much resistency For I perfectly felt somewhat therefrom did rise that did bind my Spirit I was in great struggle for some hours for the Spirit wrestled for a full Liberty Then came this Word saying By all these Encounters the way will be made Only keep thy course strait on towards the everlasting deep Gate according as ye shall feel the Wind of the Spirit driving thereunto and so wait with it to moâ—e Oh to have a spirit in a Body of Flesh to be as free as a Bird which can when it will fly from his Nest This was to me a new revealed thing by which great discoveries may be made in the invisible Region who have been altogether Strangers to what is transacted there because the sensitive Soul doth claim such a Marriage Union with the Spirit that neither what is present or what is to come must sever them This is the Law of degenerated Nature which lawfully may be broken For the Spirit of the Soul is not for ever to be confined to the soulish depravity when once it comes to know and understand that it is a pure Grain let fall from the Deity into the soulish property Then it will not suffer it self to be imprisoned as under a Mountain-weight No sooner doth it spring and rise above the Ground as an ear of Corn which doth grow ripe but a separation from the earthly part or ground may be made by the mighty Lord of the Harvest who will come to reap where he hath sown pure Spirit And that in the very time of this exteriour Elementary Being Christs Last Day of Resurrection and Ascention shall appear through the Might of this precious Grain of the Deity by which I mean the Eternal Spirit of the inward man which is a Spark descended from the Deity and it differs from the eternal seed of Christ's Deity which is incorporated with this for its Resurrection and Ascension sake This spark of Eternity the Spirit of the eternal Soul belonging to the inward man will free it self from all and every corporeal tye For no â—errestrial Image though accomplished with all external Righteousness can ever attract this superiour spirit to be in a conjugal Union because it is too much below therefore it now seeks release from it as being ashamed of all and every circumstance concurring to the outward Life which would hold it so fast But Wisdom and Counsel is come from him who will be Salvation to the ends of our Earth His Spirit it is that hath called us from the other to an eternal conjunction with that wherewith it might most suitably agree so as to raise and heighten the Spirit to such a high degree of sublime purity as that it might pass as swift as a thought into the deep space where the infinite Globe of Eternity might come to be conspicuous with the glorious Trinity and with all those innumerable Spirits who incompass the Throne-Majesty Such Visions of Glory Spirits have been carried into while in the Body and so it shall come to be again and that more frequently and durably For upon an earnest enquiry hereunto it was revealed unto me by this Word The Way of the East should be prepared and the Gate thereof
should stand open to such as could drink of the Brook in the Way And it was shewn by an Idea also that as yet there was a dark gulf fume from which did rise a thick smoke so that at present none could see their way till the Son of the Everlasting Morning doth wonderfully incorporate with our spirits to dissipate all of this Darkness through which force of Spiritual Might we may often come up to the Antient of Days and draw near and make Record of what we do apparenâ—ly hear from him For the Spirit doth affirm this that sound Truth Wisdom and Knowledge must from hence be let in to our Understandings and it will be much to our satisfaction when we shall hear and see what is without and beyond this gulf of Sense and Reason which have kept out of the Lamb 's fixed Kingdom And what will these storms be but the rushing Powers coming down through the Salvation-Horn which will be blown from God's Mountain-Habitation The sound of which is already heard to hasten for preparation to the Enoch's Translation That we may abstractively in Spirit and through the whirling strong Breath may be lifted up where our King and Lawgiver may deliver his Mind to us as face to face That we may come to know in certainty all those infinite and weighty Councils which have been long in great concealment so as they may run in as a flash of Lightning To which end the Star which I saw fall into the Golden Charger doth predict the high and mutual conjunction betwixt the Body and the Head-Throne-Prince The Vessel being all of pure refined Gold and spiritual matter infused therein together what must this make but a lordly dish for each one to feed upon This Star denominated was to be the Rose of Sharon that to the Spirit would give a pleasant Tincture to make it both white and ruddy Herein lieth the Mystery of all Mysteries according as it was revealed unto me through the virtue of this wonderful Commission This Rosâ—e-Star feeding it self from the matter which is so purely extracted as a Lamp feeds upon Oil and so both concurring makes a burning shining Light a Flame ascending might When this great and marvellous thing shall come by any one to be witnessed there will be no matter of doubt but the Gate of the East must be found at which we may go freely in and out as Princes Having right to follow the Lamb and to eat and drink with him in this lordly dish We shall then as Friends find entrance in where the Tent of his Glory is pitched to see hear and tast what hath been laid up in store for us from the Foundation of the World December the 1st 1677. Strong Instigations and travel in Spirit still attending me for the rising of the Star of glory in Eminency according to all that Prophetical Ministration under which Line we are cast and do find succour thereby through the fresh feeding Word of Life which within the first Watch of the Night thus spake saying The most High and Holy One seeketh and calleth up such to dwell with him in his Holy Tabernacle who have rejected and turned their Backs upon the Seat of the fine trimmed Babylonish Beast and will nothing therewith touch because it is under the Curse against which be ye ever zealous December the 2d 1677. I saw one cloathed in fine White Linnen and he had in his Hand a Censor and there was live Fire-Coals which were scatter'd abroad and it was said that upon whosoever they did light they should be inspired with a New Tongue to declare great things December the 3d. 1677. This Word ministred was Watch and keep the covering of the Spirit close girt about you against all Offences that may come abide still and quiet where the anointed Shield is given for your defence under the Banner of which abide close and hidden Be all pleasing and pliable to your internal Guide who is working to bring you into high and dear Friendship with the great and mighty Potentate to whom all Worlds must give obeysance Therefore only care and mind him who is so true and faithful as to raise and bring you into such Love and Favour that the God of Light may not walk as in a Cloud of Darkness but shew himself manifest to your Joy in peculiarity December the 4th 1677. This Word did spring in me saying Do you well consider what your Virgin Garment must be made of that no Moth may eat any hole in it For if any thing of the earthly Fleece should be interwoven with it it would damage the whole part Therefore all of one sort of fine Linnen let your Lord know you in upon which no Moth can come to eat Then it was further given by way of Command saying If ye resolve to follow the Lamb up to all perfect degrees then observe this as a new Commandment Take your self off from all old traditional Conformity which is after the manner of men who are after the Flesh. From such the Spirit calls to withdraw and to walk with him after another way according as divine Precepts shall be revealed December the 6th 1677. As we were in the Spirit of Supplication attending together a transient view of full ripe Sheaves was presented as a testification that we should bring of the first ripe Fruits as a pure Offering to the Lord according to what hath in the days of our sorrow heaviness and temptation been purely sown in the Spirit But it was also shewn me that this should not be accomplished till we had fulfilled our set-time in the Wilderness For this is an Ordinance that was given by God to Moses while Israel was yet in the Wilderness before they came into the good Land This instruction was for time to come sayingâ— Now behold the first Fruits of the Land which thou hast reaped thou shalt offer unto the Lord thy God So accordingly the first ripe Fruits of the Spirit must be wholly dedicated and brought into the Store-house of the Lord rejoycing and making everlasting melody in the Courts of Holiness as the Joy of Harvest Oh! this is the desirable day but who hath it seen because they have all dyed short before entring into the good and fruitful Land one Generation passing away after another as we have seen it But it is decreed eternally thus to be No assuredly no there is a Generation to come that shall not only sow but reap and pay their Tythe-Offerings to the great Melchizedeck King There is a Caleb and Ioshua who will out-live all the spirits of Unbelief Who have been faithful Spies to search and find out the virtue and glory of Mount Sion's Land Whereupon the Spirit did the History take up and did it mysteriously to our state at present very closely apply As thus that Ioshua and Caleb signified the Unity of the Spirit concurring in a strong Faith the Spirits of our Minds agreeing mutually with the Spirit of
spirited for more wonderful Conquest and so subdue mighty Thrones and Powers in wicked places in the Spirit of him who is the Captain of the Lord's Host hereby to lead captive what hath captivated us And then let us meet our Melchizedeck King with all the Spoil thereof as a Trophy of Victory Who hath ready in his hand the reward of a Diadem and Crown which he hath reserved for such Conquerors This is the great Motive to animate our Spirits that so we might know it is not a light or momentary thing we do fight for but what is weighty and eternal All which is to make us in good earnest according to a Word which through me did sound saying Put not off your Armory that is of the Spirit at all for in that ye will make all Life-killing Darts to rebound back again no Weapon thereinto can pierce And know that in this Holy War my Peace shall be your Garrison Therefore hold out till the Kingdom is given up unto you which hath been kept away and still will be except the Prince of Might shall take it again in you by violence For which cause I am come to stir you up that so what was designed from Everlasting may now be positively claimed by my Spirit in you Know it is all pleasing to your God that ye should be found in such great Undertakings As your Spirit is great and from a high degree descended so answerably do ye aspire for no less then what you believe your Lord through Conquest in possession hath now obtained December the 11th 1677. A Presentation was given me evidently of an enclosed Rock upon which Floods of Waters did break in to quench a Fire that therefrom did spring so as this Fire could not get the mastery till a descending mighty Flame from the light Orb did come down to keep it and to drink up all those Waters which as Wave upon Wave did beat in but so powerful was the Celestial Flame that nothing more of the Floods were seen And there did distinctly appear a Figure and Form of a light flaming Body that did descend and upward again ascend to a Heavenly Firmament where it was said Now all is swallowed up in Victory December the 12th 1677. This Manifestation was very suitably presented to my inward Mind which was drawn up into a deep and serious consideration how long it might be to the full Conquest and Victory over the original Spring of Sin with all the evil Consequences that thereupon have fallen out While my Spirit was herein much exercised this came before me and brought a Message with it for our comfort and support who are enclosed in Faith's Rock which in particular applied and made out to us that the Vision did plainly speak to us Who though gathered into this Rocky place said the Revealing Word yet see ye are exempted from the violation of these tumultuous Waves which at times and seasons may break in upon my precious Ones As in him on whom no matter of Sin could be found yet there Temptations did sometimes abound who was still found in the Rock of the Deity And thereupon told his Disciples that because they had continued with him in his Temptations therefore he would give them a Kingdom because they suffered and were one with him in all Temptations not to fall under them but to get power over them that this gave Title unto the Thrones there mentioned Now from hence it was further opened unto me That the Fire which first sprang out that was so often damped by the Floods and quenched by being too weak to encounter them it was shewn me to be somewhat that remained of a pure and divine Essence that would still live in Nature as for to refine it and reduce it into what might make it like to God again But being so strongly beat upon by the gathering together of all Waters which doth encompass as a full Sâ—a Tide upon Tide still breaking in upon this Fire-Root out of which also would spring the fiery Branches of Faith that would transplant the Soul into a far higher king of living All which is opposed by the â—â—nundation of many Waters in which the great Leviathan moveth which also are the Seat of the Beast that doth make War together against that Holy Seed yet remaining within the Rock of a Heavenly Humanity So that it is in great danger to be often extinguished for here is two contrary Elements the one in strife against the other the boisterous Waters of the Senses awakened from the tempting Region of these various things which do so well suite with fallen Nature that they may well be too hard for that little Spark that striveth to rise but hath been beaten down as we in our selves have witnessed Whereupon we may expect a stronger force will come unto our help seeing such a strong resistancy is made in order to the stifling of that breathing Life which hath struggled to live in dominion and to prevail over all but hitherto yet found insufficient Upon which this Word of Counsel was given from the Holy Breath that we should so powerfully pray in the Spirit of Elias as to open the pure Fire-Element that the Holy Ghost might thence form out a fiery Breath to consume and drink up every Flood For against this strong and mighty devoâ—ring Flame what Waters can stand before it Now wait again to see the same Victory for God will descend in Everlasting Flames and the Bush of Humanity will all certainly be enlightned with his Glory The time of it is said to be nigh when as the Child of the Burning Element will quench all Waters and by his Flaming Might will pass into the Heavens and rend all Mountains of Flâ—sh and will dry up all Seas before him Who now shall have Faith in their Earth for these things to what a Seraphick state may it bring them up unto Therefore let us improve every such discovery and extend our Faith to the great Augmentor of our weak Flame that if possible such an encrease of Celestial Flame may make with us as to dry up all that hath encompassed our Rock It may now be a time and season when that such a bright flaming Body may be of stead unto us which can at pleasure ascend and secure frail Corporeity It may be well worth enquiring after the excellent Properties of such a divine Creature which doth move under the Cherubs Wing where it can pass to and fro unseen Oh let us further dive into this Magia for great advantage may be made for us to raise out here such a defence as may set us above all fear of Mortality in a day when Perils and great dangers are threatned as an overflowing Scourge to break in upon the World It is time for us to know where to hide where no destroyer may find us Which only must be within the Flashing Skreen of the Holy Deity or Trinity where we may walk in all
safety though the whole Earth be laid in desolation Oh thou mighty Shield of Faith bear us up upon thy Wing Let thy Word oh Jesus which saith Come to me be sufficient to make us tread upon the Sea keeping off every boisterous Wave that would make us doubt Now then upon the broad Rivers oh mighty God let us come to thee and be afraid of no Flesh that would hurt or oppress Let thine who are environed with the Spirit 's Might make that only their Anchor-hold evermore December the 13th 1677. Do ye wait and expect the Word that was made Flesh fully to imbody in Spirit that so an engrafted Word may come to spring in you to Create new things and to command all old to depart away All this the Word God must do that is after a Creating manner December the 14th 1677. This Morning there was brought to my internal sight a Ring or Circle which was like a Jasper-stone for Light and sparkling Glory and within the Ring or Circle a Face of great splendour and Majesty did shew it self as in the twink of an Eye and withdrew again But this Word followed This is the Door that hath neither beginning or ending through which ye must enter Consider now and consult with what manner of Body it must be for nothing of a corruptible Form can ever pass here December the 16th 1677. As we were waiting together this Word came The Lord himself is come forth to serve you with the Bread and Wine as the great High-Priest to communicate and his Body to break which accordingly was experienced Therefore it is good at the Altar still to attend that so the holy Breath may there kindle the pure Flame through which may open his precious Name December the 18th 1677. An Interpretation of the former Vision In the Night my Spirit was carried inward taking in several Ideas of Heavenly things into my mind pressing hard to pass into the Circle-Door of Life But a sweet still Voice did eccho in me saying That pure thing only which through this Circle-Eye of Eternity did come down into Nature can be the Door of Entrance again as it circleth in its Blood-Life and thereby raise up it self and quicken it self into such a Spirituality as ye need to ask no leave to enter back to your own proper Place from whence your immortal part did proceed For now the Eye that is fixed in you will be both your Guide and Entrance hereinto if ye in Union will ever more with it keep and concur with it Then it shall carry and lodge you in the Bosom-Circle of Eternity as in a fiery Chariot The four Wheels upon which this Chariot doth move are Faith Hope Joy and Peace These will bear away the Lilly Branch to be planted where it may green and never fade because the River of Life runneth there evermore Oh when shall we be severed by this Chariot who would see it gladly that we may conclude thy Heart dear Jesus is towards us and that thou wilt live no longer without us For seeing none can enter into this Circle-Eye but in this Flaming Chariot that doth move upon four Wheels Let not the principal Agent be wanting but that all may concur together in us by that Ghostly Might that may give a suddain Flight to see that all satisfying Face which will make us feel everlasting pleasure And that no mortal things shall sever us from thee or come any more as a Vail between the Spouse and her everlasting King to hide the entring Door of Life December the 20th 1677. Great eagerness of Soul was renewed for the passing in through the Needle-Eye of the Glorified Humanity The Zeal and Love did wonderfully hereunto concur so as to devour and eat up all those strong Reasonings of Contradiction that else would be working in the Mind From which being in a good degree cleared through the Mystery of Faith working by the Spirits operation great calmness of Mind was known In which time the Circle-Eye did open again encompassing me round with waving white Clouds and one did descend and did pass through the bright Circle as an Arrow for swiftness in the Figure of a clear Body with a Branch in his Hand the Leaves whereof were shining as Gold the Fruits were as a Cluster were in variety of Fruits were growing together It was reached out and a Voice did after the manner of a Spirit speak saying This is Fruit from the Tree of Life that is now planted in the Land of Beulah Eat hereof and give forth and be blessed in it for ever Presently I did feel sensibly a little strengthning Virtue come in which I would have conveyed to another after a Magical and Spiritual way that was at a distance While I was in thoughtfulness hereupon the same Person was presented to me as if he had already hereof partaken for there was strengthning Meat given into his Hand wherewithal I did see him feed a Bird that flew gaping to him being all craving and hungry chirping still as it was fed at his Hand December the 21st 1677. After all which I was to attend the Effects of every such presentation This Morning I found my Mind wholly disposed for Introversion Upon which the Vision was more opened unto me For the Spirit did talk with me telling me that this was a manifestation to shew the Care Love and Friendship of our mighty Throne-Prince who does as truly convey the transmuting fruit invisibly from himself as the Tree of Life That so the introduced Birth of Spirit might grow and encrease it being its own natural nourishment without which it cannot live till it come up to a strong mans degree For that which is born of God doth feed only upon what may transform into a God-like Being Which is the Lord Christs office and business to heigten up to that that so there might not be any loss sustained by the fall of the first Adam in those who by this living Word are quickned again unto Life For it was opened unto me that none could be capable of this high kind of feeding but those in whom Christ was spiritually formed For this was all spicy and sacred virtual power to bring forth such Celestial new Creatures as may ascend up with the same swiftness as that Seraphim which did come down For it was said to such who are changed all Spiritual that inviting Word doth stand for ever good whosoever will to them the Door stands open to come themselves and take of the Tree of Life most freely And they will have the honour to bring down and give forth Heavenly Tasts and from their divine Bodies will go forth the healing Virtue As it was opened to me that these Golden Leaves had in them the Balsamick Cure to restore to a perfect divine Body where from all Soveraign Power should proceed immaculately according to that high state which our Lord is now in in the Body of Glory Therefore this Counsel and Word
of Comfort was given that we should here cast the Anchor of Hope for the passing through every Door of our own Senses till we had got beyond the Vail of Flesh into the Circle-Body of the Holy Ghost which is appointed for our present Mansion and Dwelling Where no more working Source shall open to disturb our Peace and Joy Our Life sustainment shall be effected by the holy Seraphim day by day till the half time shall fully be expired Then it is given me to see and to believe that guarded along we shall be out of the Wilderness by this Angel of God's presence who hath promised he will not leave us but see us safe within the Everlasting Gate This is only the charge that is left us to observe at present that we keep the Inward Court of our Minds from all polluted things and as hollowed Vessels to take in what from God's own Table as a daily portion is sent in Who will never fail to give what shall seal us for the day of this full redeeming Power Therefore upon this promise we are to hope and quietly wait for he will come with the shout of a King to the pure and Virgin-Spirit wherein Love and Faith have looked for him Therefore be not weary not faint in your minds for to you the Son of Righteousness will appear for full Salvation December the 22d 1677. This Morning I saw a Hand with a Pen writing upon a little Square like Steel or Slade which was repeated to me saying Despise not that holy degree to which my Spirit hath wrought you Know ye not that the Holy thing which is rising out of the Center must have time to work through all that dark matter which doth lie in the vail of Flesh. Therefore patiently give way to that which will go its own pace for the Spirit doth well know its own tract And if you wholly trust him for your guide he will bring you to the right Door which shall never more be shut upon you December the 23d 1677. I was invaded in my Mind with that which would have awakened a distrust concerning the Consummation of that perfect degree into which I have been thus far wrought up unto through Internal Purity attained Yet finding the Waves of Sense apt to break in upon this I was made to pray with all vehemency lest the Spark of Faith should hereby be quenched So after much strife this Word came in for comfort saying thou shalt yet Honour the Lord thy God with that substance that will open out of Wisdom's treasury Abide but firm and unmoveable in the Heavenly Calling from which expect the Blessing of the encrease for the bringing in of that which will assuredly bring joy and ease to the heavy and oppressed in Mind December the 24th 1677. My Spirit deeply sympathized with one that was in travel with me for the Revelation of Christ's Heavenly Kingdom Who in bindings and spiritual droughts famine passing often through with me therefore obliged to be fellow-helpers of each other in every Hour of Tryal and Temptation I besought the Lord and made enquiry on his behalf and this Word on his behalf was given in saying I have heard the bemoaning of Ephraim against whom a Confederacy of Spirits have been working but they shall all be broken as a Potters Vessel while he in Love and Faith adhereth fearingly to my living Word Then know that he the Ephraim may of the Righ-hand Blessing come through all Tribulations to stand in Victory with the Lamb upon the Mount of Joy and Liberty To which dear Lord bring him through all that which would hold him under and depress him Oh that oily Pool that can soon the dark stone dissolve let it rise and spring that we may find our way made free and clear up unto thee forever to be conversant in Spirit with thee all Heavenly One December the 25th 1677. This Word visited me saying How great is the goodness that is treasured up for those that love and long for the mighty God and the everlasting Saviour Therefore dress and trim your selves every Day for your Bridegroom who doth take great pleasure to find you all comely sitting at the deep Manifestation Gate and there waiting Oh sweet Jesus if thou wilt this Gate open and give us out thy Love from thence then we will not remove because of the sweet and pleasant savour that do's issue forth from thee Oh come with all pulling force that as a bright Cloud we may be of a dissolving Nature for all Love's impressions from thee that we our selves may be one with thy Celestial Nature unchangeably December the 26th 1677. This Word was opened in me this Morning saying After all knowledge and believing in him with whom your superiour Life lieth hid Now your great business and concern is to travel for its manifestation in and according to redeeming Power By which it may appear in its own native liberty and act for it self in Soveraignity as having put on the Lord Jesus as your Cloathing of Power For nought else will commend you in the sight of Men. December the 29th 1677. Upon the Consideration of A. W's Prophecy it was advised me that we should have no part with her in divine Justice nor be Agents in the avenging property in desiring Plagues and Vials of Wrath to come so immediately upon the Formal Churches It was shewn me that it was not the Time nor the Manner revealed yet how they should be overturned God had permitted her though a Lamb of Christ's Fold to be sifted and tryed through the opening of a Center from whence Spirits did strongly thus prophecy as to the time and manner and did upon her Spirit impress the time and so deceived her herein The Lord restore her and give her a more distinct discerning of Spirits from the several Centers from which Sounds and Voices do proceed The Kingdom of Love cryed the Voice in me is that which will open and be strong to prevail Even that Ministration of Love shedding abroad by the Holy Ghost is to drown and quench the Wrath and Angels that are strong and powerful in the Compassionate Love the Lamb of God will raise up to be eminent for trust in the agitating and managing of the great Spiritual Affairs belonging to his Priestly Kingdom that is upon its revealing to be more visible and shall mightily prosper in the hand of such who are the pure and meek of the Earth Who thereby do open the Love-Center whereout the Unction of Prophecy and true Revelation do's infallibly proceed for their direction December the 30th 1677. Upon some Considerations which were weighty upon my Mind concerning the daily expectation of that Kingdom which by the Holy Ghost comes to be manifested And calling over many foregoing things which as to this might usher in the Temple-Glory which is so beautiful and desirable to Spirits that are waiting here for it This was shewn me from hence that Vision
and mighty as by its Conjunction with its Bride may out-spread into a wonderful fruitfulness more terrible then whatever hath been displayed to the check and rebuke of all and the best of those Mortals that yet are come no further than to a lame and divided Property of Will who nothing of Might can do February the 8th 1676 7. It was further discoursed to me the great and mighty Effects that would accrue to that Will which could from its Original Purity spring passing as a Golden Arrow with mighty swiftness nothing thereof touching by the way to spoil its force and with a fixed Eye dertermining to bring about that very thing which the Arrow of the Will is gone into Which verily will have the same success that our Lord had when he said I Will such and such to be made whole All those great and marvellous things which have been done in the World before and since Christ's time have been by the Act of the Will as delivered from the Poysonable Web of Mortal Self Oh then how free is it in it self to summon in the mighty Force which is laid up in God's strong Tower for the unbyassed Will to draw out to act and do upon the Holy Ones account as a just Steward entrusted with a power of so high a Nature as all Matters to determine in the Counsel of a simplified Will This was shewed to me as a great and wonderful Prerogative into which the holy Driver made me search and still further to pry into the Mystery hereof opening that Scripture to me in the Revelations Whosoever will let him come and take of the Waters of Life freely The force lay all in the Will taking and recovering by lawful Violences the Crown of Immortality and Life that hath during the Captivity of the Mind and Will been out of reach and sight But now our dear Immanuel in Spirit is come to unbind and set our Wills free revealing what the clog and stop hereunto hath been which hath prevented the going forth of the Will-Spirit in Soveraignty Who this more said Yet I will give thee a deeper Sight that ye may see what hath lain as upon the Mouth of the Cave which hath kept down the rising Power of the Will that it could do no mighty things February the 10th 1676 7. As I was Considering in my self to wing up in the Power of a Free-will according as it is said There is a willingness in the Day of God's Power and making an Enquiry throughout all the Regions of my Mind how in this matter it stood with me I found the Will deficient much after the manner as the Apostle Paul in the 7th of the Romans gives a Character in which is presented a divided Will in an uncertain Motion which argued great Strife Weakness and Imperfection Which by no means was to be found in us staying here For said the revealing Unction To this end I have manifested unto you the adjoyning Power of Supremacy Which must be looked after as the Bride-Mate of the Will which addeth the Dowry of all-sufficiency in the Lord's Work and Business to go forward uncontroulably carried up in the Chariot of the free willing Spirit that trampleth all down before it Upon this Word of Counsel I had a mighty Voice with it crying thus in me with many Ecchoings following upon it saying You now know the way why is it that you still stay with the viler sort try and see every day what force ye can raise for your Revenue to that Heavenly born Family where is nothing but Peace and Unity with Palm Trees of Victory and Wells of Salvation that so ye may come to tast that which is so sweet while you are yet but in your way The smell and sight of Paradise will you first entertain through the perfect Death of the mortal Life and a while must stay with those lower Inhabitants well viewing that native Place and Country for somewhat that was lost there shall be upon recovery as soon as you there appear Then the Tree of Life will invite you to eat of it that so Immortality may be regained Then your Souls and Spirits are with Bodies suited for a higher Degree to come up among the greater Dignities For Paradise is as your Bride-Chamber where ye must put on again your Virgin Body February the 11th 1676 7. After this Call to Paradise the Spirit presented that Scripture to me Mark 10. 28 29. and opened very powerfully to me every Sentence of it as shewing we both should sustain no Loss by acquitting all those Particulars there mentioned The occasion of our Lord Jesus giving forth the assurance of a better exchange upon the very fore-going of what was in present view and possession This Query was started upon the coming of the Young Man who had as he thought bid fair for the Kingdom of God supposing none could go higher then to observe and keep all the Commandments but our Lord had a more searching thing to try him withal which he was not aware of when he so confidently moved his question The Answer to which brought great Anxiousness that no doubt he repented him that he urged such a Discourse whereby as in a Glass he might see the impossibility of inheriting Eternal Goods till that he was stripped of all that whereby he was inriched from this lower state of things Which made our Lord to cry out of the great Hardship and Difficulty that would be to quit all to follow him to come to be no more of the World then he was but as a Stranger not having any dwelling place but to pass through it as a foreign Country only biding so long as to do the Lord's Message and perform his Work which ought to be our end and design For the whole drift of our Jesus in and by all his Life Example and Doctrinal Admonition was still to wind us off and ungraft us from out of the strange degenerated Vine from whence we so readily suck that Life from which a Death is to come upon But to come to what was opened to me from Peter's asking Christ so bluntly what they should have upon the account of forsaking of all for him Which seemed to be a pretty selfish Question but however our Lord overlooked that giving an high encouragement to whomsoever shall by forsaking of all give proof of their Love to him and esteem of the Heavenly Treasury above the Earthly Now upon the Call and Cry which I had follwed me to draw off and come away from what would make a Prey of us My Heart ecchoed back again saying Ah Lord how is it possible we should put off all so quickly when so deeply engaged and settled as House-keepers amongst the Inhabitants here below as not seeing our selves capable of passing into another Sphere because we do bear gross Bodies Upon which the Spirit brought those Words to me As first Whosoever shall forsake Houses that Word in Particular was thus interpreted
That by Houses the Spirit that spake in Jesus then did aim at a further thing then an outward material Habitation Houses for shelter are harmless and without Offences But it is that Earthly House spoken of which is the Body of Sin which harboureth the whole Tribe and Family who are from the fallen Birth From which evil Seed a Corrupt Generation hath sprung and sheltred themselves therein There is Father and Mother Husband and Wife Brethren and Sisters as the most Holy Spirit declared saying All these in a compact are being of one Blood and Life strong Animal and mighty Rational and all these do lawfully plead for their establishment as in such who are refined from the more gross Pollutions not considering their own Originality that all do proceed from a corrupt Being and it is not the suspending their Evil Properties at sometime not suffering them to break forth washing that over which beareth the stain of a Leopard Spot This is too short and defective for to race the Foundation of the House and Linage you are called upon to pull it down The Incitement is to that superiour Will upon whom all these Combining Powers have encroached It therefore must act a Sampson part resolving to make a Battery that so a final Conquest may appear upon the visible Stage resolving to break the Brood though you do with them sink down into Death Call up your force the mighty strength of Israel is at hand yet once more to avenge you by not only shaking but by removing the Pillars of that House which hath been a receptacle of all this Evil Fraternity from which to go out ye are commanded Let not your Noble Will take any notice of their subtle and pretended Abnegations or upper Washings which cannot change the Blackamore It will be an Ishmaelite at best though a faithful Abraham's Son part thereof may bear yet because of a divided Seed born from the Aegyptian nothing of Wisdom's Inheritance it must ever share all of that is reserved for her own true Heir who hereupon will rid all of the Hagarites Offspring not one shall dwell in Isaac's Court. Thus I was made to understand the scope and drift of the Spirit what it was to forsake all it is no less then to be dead to all and to come so far in this Death as to strike at the very moving cause of what hath given Life unto these degenerated Plants at which very Root the Flaming Sword will pierce that so the Original Matter may be throughly consumed Ah blessed Lord such a deep Wound in that hidden part whereout all of this strange earthly brood begotten was do thou now give us from thy great kindness such a deadly stroke that no more of Life may ever stir from that Center and give unto us a release from that Ishmaelitish Family to all Eternity Ah dear Lord Jesus February the 14th 1676 7. Being this Night much carried forth in full Sail of the Spirit of Faith which was the more set afloat from the contradicting and opposing Spirits who were raised as so many Pyrats that did attempt to take away our Prize after this manner it was presented to me that the most Holy One had built for us a passing Ship to sail upon the broad Heavens to fetch home the rich Cabinet-Treasure that is disposable by Wisdom she giving out upon every arrival fresh Lading Now the Serpent this seeing said If we let them alone in this way of high and Spiritual Traffick then they will come to a mighty Increase For if the good and choice things of Mount Sion should be brought into this Principle and the worth of them should come to be understood then Babylon's Wares could not bear that rate that now they do Therefore said the blessed Comforter Marvel not that wait is laid by that Evil One who in several Vessels as a Man of War doth strongly stear them Who deem it but just and lawful to riffle and despoil what are prohibited as unlawful to be brought in into this earthly Region The wise and learned Rabbies of this Age do take Counsel how to prevent the Landing of these uncustomed Goods that are not Liceâ—sed after the known Traditional Laws But at this be ye not terrified who well know your Merchandize is good and valuable and in its time it shall have Vent amongst those who hereunto are elected Therefore your goodly Ships rigged with Flying Banners of Faith do you not fear still to send forth for Guardian Hosts of Spiritual Powers shall surround you Only this let your Bow of Faith abide in strength and do not give the least ground to what would dis-settle you Trust in the Most High as your Strength and ye in Unity shall find an Almighty Defence February the 14th 1976 7. Being upon a deep Consideration how and after what manner our God would give witness that we are chosen as Paul and Barnabas for a special Work and Ministry in this World it was answered me It should be known by a great Gift that should come upon us February the 15th 1676 7. Then this Word came to me saying For as much as ye have with one fixed Mind for my Truth and Honour stood expect Prophecies shall to you be made good It was again thus to me said That by Constancy we should wear out every Enemy with this Word of Charge to hold the Helm of our Ship fast for it would then bring us to our own Country Coast. Where we should be beyond the fear of every lurking Pyrate February the 17th 1676 7. The second part of that of Mark 10. 30. was by the sweet Flowing Unction expounded to me being the reward of what should ensue upon the denying and forsaking this whole earthly Life giving and taking a general Release from it This Word came as a Preface to it Know that the most mystical and deep Sence of this Scripture is now opened unto you who are beloved of your Lord not only for the enriching of your Minds with right Knowledge and Understanding but to give firm ground to stand upon And hereby to believe as from a sure and fresh Word of Prophecy which ye may expect the accomplishment of upon the laying down of your Lives and suffering a real devestment of all thereto pertaining The summ of which is the putting off the House of this earthly Tabernacle that ye may be cloathed upon with this House which is here mentioned in the Plural Number Houses to shew that there is variety of Habitations to take your delight and pleasure in But what manner of Buildings are these Houses the material matter of them you would willingly know First by a true description from such a one as is already entred into them who is so gloriously settled herein as he it is who doth invite you to be his Neighbourhood saying to the Conquerors Come up and sit with me in my Throne Now then till you have laid down your Earthly Tabernacle of this