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The laws of paradise, given forth by wisdom to a translated spirit.
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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be Solemnized For I am now kept in suspence not knowing how long my Iesus in Paradise will yet prove me to try my Loyalty who like a desponding Lover would fain know the very Day and Hour that so I might get my self all in a readiness to meet my Beloved that when he calls I may not be surprized This is a Query that may be allowed tho' not as to the date or prefixed time to be resolved Hast thou not learnt how the Times and Seasons the Father still reserveth in his own Power who keepeth always this Prerogative to himself while he admitteth none to look into his Calender no not the Angels till they are ordered the Trumpet to sound for Proclamation when the Marriage Feast is ready Therefore go thou thy way and stand in thy Lot It is enough thou art chosen and elected hereto Thy present Business is to observe this Law of pure Chastity in which thou art to wait patiently the Motion of thy Bridegroom who doth not forget the Cry of the Spirit and Bride but suddenly may come e're thou art aware Therefore at all times watch and have thy Virgin Robe on and thou shalt not need to fear that he will stay long The Eighth Commandment WHereas it is said Thou shalt commit no Theft so by Me it is again confirmed as the Law of Paradise that thou this Rule also observe as it relates to thy God in the first place and in the second to thy Neighbouring Inhabitants in the Outward World where thou visibly art resident Now wherever there is a peculiar Property there may be an Offering of Violence by way of Robbery to it Here therefore understand that the Everlasting Father doth appropriate unto himself that which he will not give to much less be robbed of by any What is that You will say It is his Godhead which none are to assume to themselves after any manner whatever For in this doth absolute Soveraignty and Greatness of Majesty and Honour consist which are Essentially Appropriable to Him and to none other Wherefore of this high Sacriledge be thou aware and give not this Honour or rather steal it not away from that Holy Being to whom it doth belong But you will say Far be it from me ever to rob the most High of his Honour Knowingly thou wouldest not do it but I shall unfold to thee a most subtle and hidden way of deceit which the First Adam was guilty of so making it Hereditary to all his Posterity who by that first Act of Disobedience purloined from God his Maker the Glory of his Soveraignty and would have assumed the Godhead to himself by going forth into a Divided Essence to be wise in a Self-property which awakened the sinful Arrogancy to those sad Effects that are known throughout the whole Universe of Fallen Spirits to this very day For Adam committed this high Theft in Paradise and stole out there in the Divided Property from God with whom he should have kept in an Indissoluble Band of Unity whereby he lost his Godlike Power and Dignity which would have been appropriated to him had not he rent and gone out from the Eternal Essences of God the Abyss of his Being out of which he was generated to be a Mighty Potent King and Hierarchy in the Angelical and Paradisical World the which under God he was to have Ruled like a God uncontroulably and did so till it was lost most Cowardly Well but now in thine Heart I know thou sayest How may I bring back into Paradise this Honour Name and Praise which I would not for a Thousand Millions of Worlds be reckoned to rob my God of now that I O Mother see in thy Glass the Evil Consequences hereof If so then Call and Summon in all those Essences wherein stand the Virtual Powers and Mights which belong to thy God to whom thou art to return with them and to work in an Undivided Spirit according to the Operative Power which will work Godlike through all thy Properties unto the recovering of those lost Goods which the subtle Serpent together with the Harlotry Spirit of this World had Cheated thy God in Thee of But now Wisdom is come to direct how all should be cemented and gathered in again that so thou mayest not take from the Inhabitants of the Outward World any of their bitter unsavoury Morsels in all which lyeth hid to this day the secret Venom of that Evil Tree which the whole Universe of Spirits do still take and feed upon as if it were lawful for them so to do making it matter of Necessity or even of Ordination from the most High But that this is not so will soon be made appear when the Sun shall break forth the Day spring being now upon its Rising that shall convince the Unbelievers that there is quite another way for the Ransomed of the Lord to live Which way I will declare and open to thee that thou mayest take nothing of Egypt's stuff along with thee into thy Father's House where is All in abundance But these Treasures indeed cannot be come at but by the Key of Faith which opens and shuts and doth all here at pleasure bringing down and carrying up as a mighty Power which Spirit is God's only Familiar Friend that can do any thing with him Then with all gettings do thou aim at this which will make thee do Exploits indeed As it is my Gift and Skill to make this Key so it lyeth in thy power to turn it into the Lock which will make this Magical Door to fly open uniting the Divided Essences to act Miraculously The Ninth Commandment HEre thou art required not to bear false Witness against thy Neighbour but to love him as thy self being one with or nearer to thee than thy self But you will say Who is this my Neighbour Dost thou not know him thou that hast been so long an Inhabitant in the Paradisical Ground He is even that true Samaritan who hath poured in the Restorative Oil for thy Healing who hath taken the care of thee wholly and undertook thy Cure then when he saw thee wounded unto Death His Eye pitied and officiated in this Love Service as one that had a fellow-feeling of thy Calamity and Suffering under the Violence of Cruel Blood-thirsty Spirits under whose power thou wert fallen And seeing thee now in such imminent danger to lose thine Eternal Life he was immediately sent by the Everlasting Father to rescue thee out of the Hands of these Robbers that designed to kill the Heir of Life and Glory in Thee So here you may see who is that true Worthy Neighbour whom you are obliged to bear witness to and for and not against stedfastly bearing Record of the Truth from the Spirit of God's Wisdom dwelling in you which is the only True Prophet and Witness for Jesus in Thee Verily there are intruding Spirits that would come in as False Witnesses of whom be thou aware and be not found in the
THE LAWS OF PARADISE Given forth by Wisdom TO A Translated SPIRIT The LAW shall go forth of ZION Mic. 4. 2. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street 1695. ERRATA PAge 65. line 17. read by the Decease of my Father I came to be involved But not being able to be long Absent from THE PREFACE TO a certain Person that for many Years had been led wonderfully in the Ways of God it came to pass that one day upon a deep Contemplation of the Paradisical World there appear'd in the midst of a most bright Cloud a Woman of a most Sweet and Majestick Countenance her Face shining as the Sun and her Vesture of Transparent Gold who said Behold I am God's Eternal Virgin Wisdom whom thou hast been enquiring after I am to unseal the Treasures of God's deep Wisdom unto thee and will be as Rebecca was to Iacob a true natural Mother for out of my Womb thou shalt be brought forth after the manner of a Spirit being Conceiv'd and Born again This thou shalt know by a new Motion of Life stirring and giving a restlesness till Wisdom be Born within the inmost parts of thy Soul Now consider of my Sayings till I shall return to thee again Then after three days the same Figure appear'd in greater Lustre and Glory to this Person bearing a Crown on her Head and spake to this effect Behold thy Mother and know that thou art to enter into Covenant with me to Obey the Laws of the New Creation which shall be revealed And upon this a Golden Book being Seal'd with Three Seals was by her presented to the said Person declaring that in it were declar'd the deep Mysteries of the Divine Wisdom which had been Sealed up from the past Ages and were now to be opened and manifested to her Children that should be found willing to receive and to observe such LAWS as she should deliver forth in the New Heart and in the New Spirit After Six days the Vision again return'd and the Virgin Queen shew'd her self in most Mighty Majesty being attended with a numberless Train of Virgin Spirits and with a very great Army of Angels and this Person was call'd by Name to come and view Her with her First-born Children and invited to join with them To which there being a ready and hearty Consent given the said Person was immediately admitted into their Number Then said the Divine Virgin I shall cease to appear in a Visible Figure to thee but I will not fail to Transfigure my self in thy Mind and there open the Spring of Wisdom and Understanding She also promis'd that by the Opening of this Spring there should be reveal'd Great and Wonderful Things that were to be made Publick in the Appointed Day And so exhorting to Vigilance and Obedience to those Counsels and Laws which should be given out from her she disappear'd having first receiv'd such an Answer as the Blessed Virgin Mary gave to the Message of the Angel Gabriel from this Person who was encompassed about with the Heavenly Host and made a Spirit of Light And as the Law was given to Moses of old being taken up to Mount Sinai to converse with God so in like manner it hath pleas'd the same God our Father to give forth in these Last Days the Law of Paradise to This Spirit who was some Years after this caught up on purpose into Mount Sion to receive it There is no doubt to be made but that these holy Commandments so receiv'd will carry along with them to many Awaken'd Souls the Evidence of their Divine Original And as for such as from the many horrid Abuses that have been made through Pretensions to the Holy Spirit cannot believe that there either is or can be any True Inspiration at this Day in the World I doubt not to convince the Sober amongst them and all such as are willing to humble themselves before the Truth of the Possibility Expediency and necessity of Revelation to be again restor'd in a Particular Discourse which is design'd to come forth very shortly As for any Particular Objections against either the Manner or the Matter of these Laws then when they shall be Proposed it will be time to consider of them Now let us who know that the Law is spiritual Rom. 7. 14. be altogether spiritually-minded and worship him who is Spirit in Spirit and Truth The MOTTO WIsdom I have sought and Wisdom I have found And now I wear her as My Garland and Crown THE LAWS OF PARADISE CHAP. 1. The Delivery of the Law in Ten Particulars given forth by Wisdom to a Translated Spirit THese are the Laws of Paradise which must be observed by All who set footing there according as they were declared and given forth by Wisdom as I was in the Spirit Who thus spake unto me Having caution'd thee that thou maist not be secure telling thee that the Tempter and the Tree are both here I Wisdom bid thee take good heed considering thou art yet but a Stranger and knowest not the Constitutions Orders and Worships required by the King of this Holy Land Lest therefore thou shold'st miscarry here as did the First Adam and many more since who have come thus far after the Similitude of the Second whom the Dragon hath plucked down again awakening in them the Essences which were slain by the Death I do now present to thee out of my peculiar Love CHRIST thy Looking-glass In Him behold thy self who was thy Dying Pattern and now must be thy Living Spirit to act answerable to Him Bodily and Spiritually And as he was in Paradise Invisible and in this World Visible in like manner as now thou art so the same Law which was enjoined by the Father to Him is expresly to be observed by thee Not one Jot or Tittle is to be abated therein For here the New Covenant is to be re-established in which the Laws of pure and uncorrupted Nature are again revived which were Engraven upon the Heart before Sin entered to obliterate them And as this Internal Law of Liberty was lost in Paradise so in all Ages it could never be found by any till they returned thither again to fulfil the whole Righteousness hereof through the Birth Power and Spirit of JESUS that hath imprinted the Law of Eternal Nature upon the Fleshly Table of a pure Heart which becometh a Law of Life unto it self that none need to say Know the Lord from henceforth if once come to know themselves after the Law of this Paradisical Life which I will give thee out as GOD gave to Moses in Ten Particulars that what is given thee may answer to the Out-spoken Word from ME Who for a General Benefit do require thee to Record these following Precepts purely as they flow from my Unknown Deep The First Commandment THou shalt own and bear witness to the True God manifested through his Virgin Wisdom as come to restore Nature