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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49870	The laws of paradise, given forth by wisdom to a translated spirit.	Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.	1695 (1695)	Wing L786; ESTC R222655	24,432	80

to its own Eternal Originality which consisted in Light Purity and Power And thou shalt have no other God live in thee but JEHOVAH whose Arm alone hath redeemed and brought thee into thy Primitive Liberty and Soveraignty again through the Internal Dying as the acceptable Propitiation The Second Commandment THou art not to Frame or Carve out in thy Mind a strange God tho' it may be after an Heavenly Likeness worshipping thou knowest not what or whom The Fallen Essences would make a God like unto themselves Gross and Elementary with which the Earthly Sense might be familiar and have recourse to for supply in a gross Visible manner owning the Invisible Creator in word but denying the Faith in his Omnipotency through the going a Whoring after the God of Reason bowing down and worshipping the Rising Sun which governeth the Day of this Fallen Creation the Apostate Spirits still crying in Man's Nature as of old Vp make us Gods which may go before us that we may have our sensible sight fed As for this Invisible Working Power it delays to come down to us though his Arm hath been made bare and wrought great deliverance yet now being withdrawn we wist not what is become of this Unknown God that keeps in such a Circle as we can not break in to him Therefore saith the Unbelieving Israel We will make choice of a God for our selves after our own Likeness Now from this high Idolatry thou art prohibited upon pain of losing Wisdom's Blessing For thy God will not bear or suffer any one whom he hath placed in this New Land to have any other God but himself who is Jealous of his Honour and who will be trusted to and rested upon and have the whole worship and subjection of the Will and adoration of the Mind not admitting either Sense or Reason to be his Rival Faith without doubting and Love unfeigned is the Sum of this Commandment which observe thou with all fear The Third Commandment LET none dare to make mention of the most Holy Name in their Mouths that are not with their Hearts incorporated into it Oh! what a Covering hath VVisdom's all-piercing Eye seen this Sacred Name vainly to be made and highly to have been abused by many dead rotten Spirits that have put it on as a Mantle to hide their VVitchcrafts and Spiritual Sorceries which is one of the greatest of Grievances this day to thy God It is not so ill taken from the unbridled and Profane Spirit as from the civilized Righteous one whose Leaven be thou aware of And understand from me what weight this Name beareth when not taken in vain but to good purpose as thou art required now to do according to these my Directions I. First Suffer thy Restored Creaturely Being as being become a New Believer to be Baptized and plunged throughout into this Name which is the Golden Pool where the Holy Ghost opens his Fiery Stream And he invites to drink down this precious Name or else all will be in vain No Unbeliever is capable of this Fiery Baptism for the solemnizing of this holy Seal must according to what is Recorded follow after Believing II. A Second Rule is That thou maist receive and bear this Name worthily give it place that it may all over-run thee in such wise that thou maist disappear and be hid in it so as nothing may be found but this Holy Flaming Name purifying every Property turning all into a Godlikeness as becomes this holy Place Thus will you come to know what is the Effectual VVorking of this Name as it is written not only VVithin but upon the Forehead being all over cloathed therewith This is no less than the Establishing the New Covenant making good this Promise I will be to thee a God and thou shalt be to me a People to shew a cementing into each other so as there shall be no need for such as are come here to say Know the Lord for his Name is now become One and All knowing himself in Thee to be IEHOVAH acting in a restored simplified Nature as of old time After this manner it is only worth taking and bearing the Name of thy God To which take thou heed and drink it in The Fourth Commandment THis is a considerable Duty that thou art charged to call to remembrance minding whereto thou are called to solemnize an holy Sabbath And since none but those who are Dead can cease from their Working Properties this Commandment reacheth only the Children of the Resurrection that know nothing of serving in the Martha-like Carefulness Here must be a Rest in Paradise yea all that smells or favours of the six days Labour which entred in with the Curse of Mortality is to be ceased from I say all sinful Workings either in Mind or in Body we are to rest from not doing our own pleasure or speaking our own words This is that true Inward Sabbath we are called to sanctifie our God with This is a Truth but there is a Rest which reacheth further than all this But you will say wherein and from what must we cease Pray give us the Particulars of it I. The First is this A Total Cessation from the Working Property of Reason the motion of which must be stopped Here is no occasion for it in this New Paradisical World It is Forbidden Fruit to the Children of the Resurrection that must live one and the same Life with JESUS and with the Angels that is a Divine Magical Life strictly bound up to the Mystery of Faith here to be revealed Thou must as one alive from the dead forget all those Morsels of Mortality which maintained the sensitive Properties and which are only allowable for the Inhabitants of the Earth II. A Second Particular is That not only thy Eternal Spirit and Mind rest from Labour and Commerce but also thine Outward in whom live the Working Essences which would be continually Trafficking like a whirling Wheel that is never at rest These are the Son and the Daughter the Man-servants and the Cattel within the Gates of the External Man that are prohibited working having fulfilled the time hereof in the six days Working Properties being now entred into this holy Sabbath where nothing must be known but such a Life as can take pleasure in loving the Lord thy God with all thine Heart No Work being required of thee but to believe and rest upon his Omnipotency to bring all into thy hand Thou needest not to wander out from the Tabernacle which the Lord hath pitched to gather Provision it shall be rained down into thy Tent if thou continuest in this holy Rest of Believing The Fifth Commandment HEre thou art required to honour thy Eternal Father and Wisdom thy true Natural Mother which hath brought thee forth and up to that stature and degree in which thou now art Hence no less is expected from thee and as my Fear and Love is with thee so my Honour must be thy great Concern that so

with your own Name upon it which may advance and establish you in the like state of Glory For so it is ordained that all that are mine should improve their own stock of Life and so each one wear their own Crowns not coveting any thing out of themselves because I have enough to give to every one of my Children even a full Revenue so as there shall be no occasion of grudging one at another But their Growths Degrees and Gifts may be different according as in my own wise Counsel I shall see meet to dispence who will be Uncontroulable giving no account to any Creature but will confer my Favours upon such as I see and know to be most diligent For which they shall have no cause to repent who have their Minds wholly inclined and bent toward ME and who unto these my Laws do entirely cleave which Laws without a Mosaical Vail I now present that thou mayest behold the good Will that I do bear unto thee and unto such as love and know My Name so as in pure Nazariteness to separate for the Work which I have cut out for you to imitate exactly as approving your selves in all things willing to please Her who will be your Crowning Reward III. But I must not forget to caution thee concerning that Out-birth Neighbour lest thou shouldest covet that which is his Right in this Outward Principle Where he also hath a great Lordship and a Might-Soveraignty over all whatever the Visible Earth doth bring forth Here is in this World likewise a Temporal Kingdom consisting in Riches Honour and Majesty with Dominion over their Fellow Creatures where-from I set thee free CHAP. II. The Opposition which this Translated Spirit met with during the Delivery of these Laws AS I was strictly engaged to attend the giving out of Wisdom's Paradisical Laws that opened in me like a Flaming Shower which drowned the Old World that a New World might in the room of it spring up my whole New Man walking up and down therein and drinking of that pleasant River Pison which waters this new-entered Land into which no Earthly Stuff must be admitted I could not yet be free from molestation For tho' Sin that strange deformed Monster must look for no welcome here being for ever Banished this Holy Place yet after Death in several Shapes he threatens still to haunt me often saying he will be avenged of me for that I have exposed him to a violent Death for the making my way into Paradisical Freedom Therefore he transforms himself now into a Spirit and pursues me and would bring all my dead Works after me that so I might be restless even here where according to the Eternal Law of Liberty I should rest from all Fear and Care This occasioned somewhat of Complaint which I brought before my Mother Wisdom telling her That after Death I did hope I should have been freed and that all Wars should have ceased when I was once got in within this Gate But replied her Witness the Spirit of Prophesie in me I never said Death would acquit thee so as that no Temptation at all should molest thee through the subtilty of the Serpent who hath liberty to prove thee Here in like manner as he had liberty to prove thy dear JESUS who for this end suffered him that he might give proof of an unconquerable stedfastness during the appointed time that he was in Paradise to abide So must thou here expect that the Man of Sin may by the Angel of the Bottomless Pit be though dead again assumed and may make War against the Angel of the Covenant As it is said There was War in Heaven as of Old so Now again in thee Therefore to the Law and to the Testimony which within thy Heavens do open do thou give good heed that thou mayest prevail and come off a Conqueror by the keeping of the Commandments and the Faith of JESUS The last Battel which is to be fought is in this Paradisical Field Thou art now to engage in a single Combat Therefore to thee I bring my Flaming Armour which is Love and Faith by which thou wilt only an Overcomer be Remember that Charge of Honouring thy Father and Mother and do not thou them disgrace For now thou art upon the Publick Stage where the whole Hierarchy of Throne-Powers do thee view to behold how thy Michael in thee will Fight against the Dragon with his Fiery Might The Honour of thy God is much herein concerned that thou do over the Beast and the False Prophet prevail defying the Number and renouncing the Mark of his Name that nothing any more he may be ever able to claim in thee For through Victorious Faith holding out thou wilt see him Cowardly sneak out of Paradise Since he will not care to abide there if he see thee resolutely fixed in the Spirit of my Might who foreseeth all his cunning Slights by which he would pluck thee down out of Paradise Then saith he my Design would take place and I should have Wisdom in derision that hath no better provided for her Children but left them thus to be foiled by the Dragon See now how this Evil One will if thou shouldest fall reflect upon GOD thy Father and ME thy Mother Therefore dear Child for our Honour stand that so thy days may not be short in the Promised Land To which thou wilt surely come if thou canst hold out all the appointed time of Temptation Then another Remove thou shalt see where no more shalt thou to the Dragon's Fury be exposed but shalt the long and everlasting Day inherit and keep this Sabbath without end rejoicing according as thou shalt here Meritoriously vindicate that Name of Mine which to the World is an unknown Secret I was also further Encourag'd by Wisdom against the great Opposition which I felt when waiting for the Opening of the Sixth Commandment there appear'd to me all on a sudden while She was giving her Counsel and Charge a glorious Circle with all Flaming Colours Upon which I looked very stedfastly It continu'd a good space as well as I might guess near upon half a quarter of an hour before it vanish'd This Circle consisted of various and wonderful Colours the inmost part of it was all clear and bright as the Air without a Cloud Then spake Wisdom's Spirit in me What hast thou seen here but the Magical Eye which is an All-seeing Globe that includeth all Light Power and Might within its Circle so that there is no need to go out for any Supply for that all lyeth within the compass of this All-generating Eye And like as thou didst see it rise in a Moment so shall it give new Existencies from its own in the twinkling of an Eye This is the manner of Paradisical Living quite different from the Way of the Inhabitants of the Outward World who live upon the Mouldy Bread of Sense upon whose Breast they hang and cannot endure to be plucked from