tempted the man and the temptation entered into a ground which was blessed before and good in the motion of the life of the Power but she having transgressed contrary to the command the man received it contrary to the command without the motion of the Power or the life which all was to move in he also going out of the power received it in and seed upon knowledge without the life without the power out of the truth he became one with the woman one with the Serpent who went out of truth and abode not in it and they all were disjoynted and cut off from the Life and the power and hear was the beginning of the father of lies and of him who spoke of himself out of the power out of the truth and his beginning is without foundation now he that is wise in heart read his generation or who made him now appeared the Angel of the bottomless pit and not before and made war against the power against the Lamb and so the heart of man was turned away from obeying and feeding upon the power to obey and feed upon knowledge without the Life or power and here was the first transgression out of the power and the motion of the light which made all things good and so as this knowledge was fed upon and grew man died unto the Life unto the power and wisdom and dominion that he had over all that God had made he lost and so died unto the power and lived upon knowledge without the power and now became afraid of the power because he was in the transgression of it And thus the Serpent who was most subtle went out of the truth and acted in sin and led into transgression and so there became fear where was none and shame where there was none and nakedness where there was no nakedness before the power was died unto which was their clothing in righteousness and there was a hiding place sought by him who before iniquity needed no hiding place and this is the foundation and beginning of that seed in the transgression which shall call to the mountains to cover them and to hide them from the wrath of the Lamb. Oh how is man degenerated now and grown quite out of the pure quality and kind and nature in which he was made now afraid of the power that made him which before he had union with was his Life and gave him dominion and this fulfilled upon man he was planted a noble vine a holy right seed now become a degenerate plant of a strange vine now when the Lord appeared and examined him and man knew his fault that he had acted against the power yet that which acted in transgression would excuse here is the fruit of the Devils work transgresse and then hide and excuse it and so the woman put it off to the Serpent he was the beginner of it but if she had stood in the power he would have had no place nor his counsel but they all went out of the light and Life into the knowledge without the Power and Life and so the curse came upon all Now the man cursed and the ground for his sake and the woman cursed in sorrow to bring forth and the Serpent cursed the beginner of iniquity cursed above all the beasts of the field to go upon his belly and dust to be his meat for ever and an enmity put between the seed of the woman and his seed for ever and an eternal decree passed against him for ever and he made war against the seed of the woman which the Lord promised to bruise his head now came the miserable estate in that which led him into transgression grew and he in it and to be at unity with it then came hard ness of heart and then came the world to be founded in his heart and he grew in the devouring beastly nature to follow the earthly imaginations of his heart and became earthly and fed upon that which the beasts of the field fed upon And now the Lamb came to be slain since the foundation of the world now was man driven out from the tree of Life and out of the garden and could no way come there again he had no right to it the Lamb being slain and he was cut off to wit man from him which before gave him peace and from the Power in which he was made he was driven out from and the sword set that go what way he could he could not come into the Life again the image of God lost then the joyful day was lost and rejoycing in the Lord at an end then the day of peace was finished and perpetual misery and wo come in then unity with the Lord of glory gone and now shame and contempt came and woful misery Now Hell was formed and the botomlesse Pit sprang up and the Angel thereof ruled and advanced and the Lamb slain and now the Lake was prepared and Tophet ordained now came the day of angnish of pain of wo sorrow and misery blackness and darkness terror horror fear on every side and the day of great perplexity Dominion lost power lost Authority lost peace lost joy lost health lost unity lost with God and unity lost with every creature and endless misery brought in Alas alas what is become of him who was the Son of God now become as the beasts that perish now a vessel of wrath a dishonourable vessel Oh unspeakable losse forfeited all Life and all gone into plunged into the deep pit of endlesse misery driven from the presence of the Lord from blessednesse happinesse into cursednesse and misery never to come to Life again but through the losse of Life man in honour in dominion partaker of eternal riches and the durable riches now turned out of all and become vile in the sight of the Lord and hath forfeited Life and all eternal life and he who was in perfect freedome become a bondman a slave to the Devil and to noysome lusts he who was Lord over all now become a servant to all and every creature he who was in dominion in the power of God now become base and vile He who was the Image of God now become the image of the Devil he who was heir of life and felicity now become inheritor of death and endlesse misery he was partakers of the unchangeable love now partaker of wrath he that was in the covenant of life in which he had union with God and all the Angles and all the holy host of God now hath union with unclean spirits which are cursed from the presence of the Lord for ever he that had union with all Gods creatures hath lost the union with all being gone out of the power in which all was created and moreover now in enmity to it and joyned to him who hath the power of death which is the Devil and now drawes iniquity as with a Cart-rope and vanity as with a cord and he who was joyned
from all sin in this life and so leads them on to Perpetual misery misery will be your end and in the day of the Lord you shall witnesse this to be true But to return to the beginning again where there was no sorrow but pure joy and peace both in heaven and earth but I goe hither and thither as the spirit leads and shall speak as it gives utterance though but here a little and there a little yet shall it be in truth and righteousnesse How peace joy and delight possessed every thing that God had made every thing which he had formed glorified God their maker with one consent in the beginning before the world was framed that lay in wickednesse NOw the Lord rejoyced in all the works of his hands which he had made and rested and all that he had made rested in the power whether Celestial or Terrestrial and rejoyced in him walked in him in the motion of the power of the life they were happy and partaked of the life that indures for ever and happinesse immortal and knew no evil for there was none there was no hell yet prepared Tophet yet was not ordained neither the Devil had yet any being at all there was no wrath no sorrow no condemnation no death vexation grief or perplexity no pit of darkenesse no Angel of the bottomlesse pit no shame no tribulation no anguish nor paine no misery and in a word there was nothing that did destroy but all in quietnesse in peace in life in power in wisdome glorifying him which sat upon the Throne the Lamb who was living and the life of the male and the female and of every thing that God had made by the power subsisted in the power and in the motion thereof was good purely good and here was the goodnesse of him who was eternally good manifest in all above all and over all God blessed for ever even then the heavens rejoyced and the innumerable company of Angels was hearty glad and all the holy host sang for joy with a living voice which none that stands in time ever yet heard or can learn then the earth and all things therein that moved had life were in pure solace and mirth and pleasant joy unspeakable all knit together in unity and harmony in one consent as one family and were one body and there was health in the body and it was pure and comly and perfect and pleasant to behold crowned with Dignity covered with righteousnesse beautified with the comlinesse of the Lamb who was the life of all and now man had right to the tree of Life while he moved in the power and went not our Oh happy state oh beautiful state oh admirable state eternal felicity oh glorious state life it self the life of all and all in the life moving in the power and man right to the tree of Lifâ— while he lived in the lambs power had unity with his maker with all the Creatures that God had made was in Gods pure dominion and authority and ruled all over all things that God had made in Gods wisdome thus in short was the state of all things in the beginning as they were created and brought forth and these be the generation of the heaven and of the earth and of all things that therein are in the day when God created them when the Father was glorified when the Son was glorified and when man was in glory and honour and in dominion created in the Image of God and yet there was no evil Time would fail to speak of the state of all things in the beginning as it was and as it is revealed by the spirit of truth but in that which I have declared they who have a good understanding may take a glimps of the happy state of all things as God hath revealed them by his spirit which I never received of nor from man but by the holy spirit of God which was in the begining with God which saw all this and was an eye witnesse of this before the world that lies in wickednesse began and he that hath an eare to hear let him hear and blessed is his ear How man lost his state and dominion and unity with God and all the creatures and how the Lambe came to be slain and the world that lies in wickedness came to be formed and founded and how the curse came and the wo upon the Serpent which was blessed before and upon man and woman and the ground that received the temptation which was blessed before in the motion of the Power came to be cursed and how endles misery came in upon all in the transgression declared to them who have a good understanding NOw the Serpent was more subtle then all the Beasts of the field for that was his nature in which he was created and it was good in the motion of the Power and therefore Christ said be wise as Serpents yet as harmless as Doves and though the Serpent was wise and subtle more then all the beasts of the field till he acted and moved without commandment and out of the motion of the Power he was not cursed he that can receive it let him But he moved in the subtilty and wisdom out of the light out of the Power and went out of the truth out of his place without commandment or authority from the Power and acted and spoke of himself out of the Power and out of the truth as it it written John 8. 44. when he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it now he knew there was a law and command not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil for God had forbidden it now he went out of the Power without commandment of his own accord without motion now he went and talked with the woman and she was good before being in the motion of the life and Power she also looked out and not in the Power and reasoned with him out of Power contrary to Commandment beyond the command or before the Power and said unto the Serpent we may eat of all but the tree of knowledge of good and evil we may not eats least we die this she knew and the Serpent knew now the tree of knowledge was good in the Powers motion though not to live upon or for food for it was not good for food therefore God the truth the life the Power did forbid to taste of it or to eat of that tree but the Serpent out of the Power and the woman out of the Power hearkened to him that was out of the truth who turned the truth that God had spoken into a lie she joyned to the tempter and hearkned unto him and eat of the tree of knowledge without the Power and she looking out and the eye ran out from the life from the Power and was deceived and did eat of the knowledge without the Power without the life and she also
to the Lord and to the Lamb now joyned to the Dragon who makes war against the Lamb he that had union with the seed the heir of all things now hath union with the seed of the Serpent the first borne of wickedness heir of condemnation and everlasting vengeance who is driven from the Lords presence and curst for ever and to be tormented from the presence of the Lord for ever Now the world set in the heart and the heart gon out after earthly things even things that perish and now his life grew in that and after that which sadeth his delight on transitory things in lust in pleasure and wantonnesse delighting in the flesh hath forgotten God his maker and now dishonours him Oh let the heavens mourn and let the earth be without joy letâ— hils lament and the vallies be grieved let gloominesse cover the face of the deep let the floods be sorry and springs lament let all thau moveable take up a lamentation and let it be for a lamentation for ever misery is spread over all the earth is polluted and defiled and all is out of order disjoynted from the Lord and great confusion and perplexity is come upon all and the whole creation grones and travels in pain in grief and sorrow and all is made subject to vanity the oppressor bears Rule the Land mournes the Lamb is slain the serpent and his seed rejoyceth and triumphes all is filled with violonce the seed suffers the Lord is is grieved the Angels mourne the proud and presumptions is now counted happy and now the worker of iniquity set up to be a Ruler and a Law-giver now to man and in man who before had the Lord to be his Law-giver and his King Oh woful change oh sad state oh deplorable condition gone from honour and glory into perpetual misery and contempt and here all the whole Earth and all mankind may read themselves as in a glasse in what state they are in in the fall in the first nature in the disobedience time would fail me to expresse the misery and the sad estate of all mankind in the Curse yea it is unexpressable and undeclareâ—ble and unfathomable and incomprehensible by the sons of men in the unbelief but God hath revealed to me by his spirit that which is now spoke and he shall beare me record that my witnesse is true also that of God in every mans conscience when the book of conscience shall be opened and the secrets of all hearts revealed shall bear witnesse that this is true How sin entred and death by sin into the world and now man dead while he lives and all is dead works that man brings forth wherein the state of all the Sons of men may be seen and their works in the fall NOw the serpent being more subtil then all the beasts of the field in presumption of himselfe moved without the power and formed a thing without the power and began his work and brought a lye being gone out of the truth sin conceived and a lye conceived â—e is the Father of it and not the power he spoke of himselfe who was gone out of the light motion or the powers acting man also his eye being abroad out of the life and power lâ—t in the temptation upon him but if he had stood in the power as God had ordained him and commanded him and had not moved out of it he would have seen when the serpent or any other thing had gone out of the power and have still had dominion over it and though it was evil in the serpent to tempt who moved without commandement from the Lord yet if man had stood in the power he had kept him out and it had been no sin to him neither condemned should he have been and so that blind doctrine of the world and the teachers thereof is a lye who have said and taught that God ordained him to fall and upon this account that so Christ might be revealed and that his Son might be honoured for if man had not faln say they there had needed no Saviour This is ignorance and blindnesse he created man in his Image to stand in the power and ordered and commanded him so to do and to glorifie him who made him to stand in the dominion over all the works of his hands And this doth not make Christ uselesse or of no use yea he was of use before and was his life and the life of all things and what if I say salvation the wise will understand the unlearned will say what needed their salvation when there is no sin yes there needed salvation preservation in that state that he was made in that he might be upholden in that state and saved from any thing that might hurt him in that state so as to weaken him that he might not have power to fulfill the will of God and to glorifie his maker Ob. But some may say he was not saved and preserved but was created and left to himselfe to order himself whether he would stand or fall Ans. I say whose was the fault that he was not preserved and saved in that state was it in God nay and that he was left to himselfe is also as false and unlearned he left him in the power and in the dominion everlasting and commanded him to stand there and he was not to goe out of it but to act in the motion of the word and in the power by which he was made which was Christ who was glorified with the Father before the world began I say according to Gods appointment and ordination man was not left to himselfe but to stand in the power and authority of the word wherein man had power to fulfill the will of God and keep all in order according to Gods appointment but he going out of the power contrary to Gods command giving heed to the woman and the Serpent who were gone out of the command before I say he of his own accord going out when the power commanded him not to harken to any such thing but on the contrary forbad him so let in a lye and believed the woman and the serpent and so went from his preservation and protection and salvation so was catched in the serpents snare who abode not in the truth Ob. But then some may say he had a voluntary will to doe as he would and was not that will good Ans. The will was good in it self as it stood and went out in the lifes motion but moving or acting contrary to the motion of the life was not good for that was out of Gods order and appointment for nothing in man or without man of all that God had made was to stir or act without commandments now the Son was not honoured by mans faling but both the Father and the Son was dishonoured and now the Son or power was not revealed by the fall but vailed as from men so the fogy mists of darknesse is scattered