of Blessing but will seek to dispoil her from her greater more weighty and eminent Riches with her true Honours through the subâ—…le Pretences that all these by her given are provided to gratifie the outward mans Exigencies who hath need of all these things Which smooth Arguments have deluded Multitudes ingulphing them deep into an irrecoverable Pit of Perdition Of which common Snare O ye that are called and culled out to live upon another Fount and Spring take good heed it is for such as you thereof to be aware It is for you not to be here caught but still to go to Jacob's Lot observe therefore and diligently enquire when you are to depart out of Babylon and when the set-time is that your Laban's Service shall expire Now my charge unto you is that when I your Jesus expresly alarm you to take your leave of all and from all things and to make a quick dispatch after me that you linger not out your time with so many Taking of Leaves and long Salutes whereby to express so hard a Come-off from this Evil World For my Spirit will hide nothing from me but doth give a true account how your Mind and Will stands towards me He is that impartial Spirit of Truth who on both sides is faithful who does as well take of yours and snew to me as of mine to you He cannot and will not make any force without the free consent of your own Will nor treat with you any otherwise then by Love's Entreaties and those many considerable Advantages set before your true Spiritual Eye which in this Light of the anointed One ye may spy without defraud or hindrance And as for thee O Shulamite what thinkest thou doth thy God and me more disgust then when my Spirit bringeth this Report to my Ear that thou canst not yet give full credit to thy Espoused Lord and Husband without wavering My Spirit tells me that Love is not grown so perfect yet in thee as to cast out every questioning thought which makes thee so oft in Jeopardy For couldst thou undoubtedly believe in my Faithfulness and highly great and all-sufficent Responsibility to answer to all and what-ever relates to thee as thou standest in thy exiled state I say if in this perswasion my Spirit could thee fix thou wouldst openly decry down the Beast and his great Benefactor who doth sit on him to give Rewards out of the false pernicious Magick Cup and thou wouldst only look to thy own Eternal Dowry from the Hand of her who is all over cloathed with Strength Glory and Majesty thereby to cover those who are lodged in the Bridegroom's Heart True it is ye have not only witnessed a good Confession with your Lips but have also in some degree given the Sealing Proof by bringing out the first ripe Fruits O know ye who are my Garden Plants for what end are all my Golden Dews to you conveyed through my Spirit Are they not that ye may see this fruitful Tree of Life within your own Lebanon to spring both for Food and Healing Whereto ye are brought by that Spirit and Power which is in mine Elect who are given by the Father to be jointsharers with me in the third great and blessed Lot of pure Breath and Heat from the everlasting Deity Even so to us my God do them this infuse richly according to thy Word October the 6th 1676. This Word came to me saying None but my Eunuchs who are seperated and have cut themselves off from all other People can know how to sanctifie to me a Sabbath of Rest whereby they may cease from the toil of their own Hands In this Day their Strength will be to sit still to feel the all-piercing Unction that hath such a high and wonderful slight as to effect all work without cry or noise This I tell thee Oh Soul as a Secret in thy Ear for in this lieth a deep Mystery which is only known where the Train is purely laid running as out of a Spout from the all-flowing God-head into the pure Eunuch Spirit Who hath suffered a dismembring for the Life of Holy Generations sake through the secret unknown way of co-operation and essential contaction by which the holy thing that is of Ghostly Authority comes in this manner existent in and through Nature's frame to get in such who are thus qualified to shine forth as Day-Stars in the Lamb 's Celestial Firmament After the Spirit had revealed this unto me it said Who but such potent and high raised Spirits pointing to some one or other known by Name should be called out to bear his Name and to shine in Wisdom and Power as Lights before the Gentiles that thereby the Sons of Strangers and Aliens may come to joyn themselves to the Day-Spring from on High which though in the Clouds of Mortality yet known may be by the fruitful operation of the Spirit of Jesus which worketh mightily in contradiction to Reason's Eye Reserve your selves therefore still to hallow my great Name in keeping within the Walls upon which the Guardian Cherubims are set for your defence that there ye may keep my Sabbath from polluting no Burthens must there be carried through And so you will know the beginning of my Eternal Rest. October the 7th 1676. Being upon some occasion interrupted in my Spiritual Calling by touching with that which was ungrateful to the pure Spirit of Jesus he told me That he was of that Seraphick Nature that he could not delight to be where any worldly trafficking Spirits did resort having a disgust to what-ever did spring from this fallen accursed Principle And therefore it was agreed that I must keep his Temple-Habitation pure for that no reception must be there but for the Holy Trinity The outward Court where the common Senses flutter up and down is sufficient to take in what is to be considered for the Mortal Man Who also might well be cast upon the Spirits care and firmly relied upon For such in whom this is so shall grow and spring as a Sabbatical Lily without any thought how their Food and Cloathing do come in Ah! upon this my Spirit cryed Lord I have been a long while getting up my Faith to this pitch but cannot come to the degrees of this all-conquering Faith which may thrust out every tittle of an Earthly Confidence Which I well know are as the miry Rushes that have been a stop to this rising Lily which groweth no where but out of Faith's unweedy Soil Thus by way of Expostulation in Prayer I presented what the Spirit shewed to me was short and defective and did impede the success of the Work going on jointly by the Lord's undertakers Who were thus animated and counselled by his Spirit After that I had supplicated and owned the good Hand of God in joyning me to one that had a good degree of Love Courage and Constancy to go forward with a fixed Eye to the Mount of Transfiguring Glory this Word spake to
the Glorified Body of Jesus that is able to subdue every thing unto it self This verily is that Kingdom which is so much talked of and so little every where understood but less still pressed after which is in this Book and in that also of the Revelation of Revelations Published now ten years Ago so Essentially and Fundamentally declared as nothing Higher nothing Deeper can upon this Subject be ever laid down whether in Time or in Eternity And because Solomon whose Reign was as a faint Sketch or Type of the Glorious Reign of the true Jedidiah or Beloved of the Lord built himself a Royal Palace in Lebanon which was a fruitful and a well-watered Soil and most beautiful for its scituation where he made Gardens and Orchards planting in them Trees of all the variety of most excellent Fruits also Cedars and Fir-Trees for Building with great Water-works Pools of Water and Fountains with a fair Tower also looking toward Damascus and with a Vineyard of Red-wine where he entertained his Shulamite Queen and her Honourable Women Therefore is the Palace or Mansion-house of the Great KING the true Solomon or Prince of Peace here Parabolically represented to be raised up as in a New Lebanon whereinto the Tabernacle of the Eternal Wisdom coming down from God out of Heaven with all its Furniture is brought and the Children of the Lamb's Bride are figured out to grow up by the sides of this House as the Branches of a fruitful Vine or as so many several Lillies from one Stock or Olive-Plants from one Root according to the manifold proportion and diversity of the Divine Seed cast into the Ground of Nature by the Great Seedsman Whence the expected Kingdom of the Messiah in Restored Nature which is called the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven is according to the Spirits Mystical Dialect compared to a Vineyard to an Olive-yard to a Garden of Lillies and to a Corn-field and is expressed by the various figurations of a New Eden of a New Canaan of New Heavens and New Earth of Fountains and Trees and Plants of all sorts of Canals Aqueducts and Rivers of Pleasure of Tents Palaces and Temples of a Mountain of a Rock and of a City of Sion Lebanon and the Hills of Spices of new found Countries descended out of the Heavens or by the Creating Word in the Divine Magia made to appear as a new Sharon and a new Havilah and a Beulah of Jerusalem of Bethel and of the Southland of Etèrnity of the Pleasures and Grandeur of a Rich Powerful and Wise Prince such as Solomon and of all the Badges of Royalty and Scenes of Magnifiâ—…t Glory that do as in a shadow precede attend or follow the Marriage and Reception of a Royal Bride But this Heavenly Kingdom this Marriage-supper of the KING this Inauguration and Coronation of the Lamb and of his Bride to the Kingdoms of the Earth and to the lost Dominion and Soveraignty over the whole Six days Work is not to be expected but after very great and mighty Preparations many forerunning Signs of the Son of Man coming to us in his Fathers Glory and the Six Ascending Steps to the Throne of the Great Solomon All which are most difficult to pass so that few if any have been able in many Centuries to hold out to the last Degree or Ascension-step to this Throne But they have fell short of the PHILADELPHIAN Crown and of the high Prerogatives thereof viz. the being made Pillars and Principal Supporters in the Descending Temple of the Most High God the bearing the Name of JEHOVAH by an Essential communication of the Properties Powers and Dignities of their Eternal Father opened to such in JESUS and by a most Real Intimate and Vital Penetration of that most glorious wonderful Name burning in the Bush of their Humanity and putting forth it self in Imperial Acts and Deeds Their bearing the Name of the New Jerusalem-Mother that Free-woman which is above and demonstrating livelily its Inscription by an utter defacing of that of the Mother of Babylon and of the Beast upon which she rides and by a Majestick environing Brightness as of the Sun a subduing the Moon with all that is sublunary and mutable under their Feet and a wearing upon their Heads a Crown of Twelve Stars wherein so many Royal Pre-eminences and Ghostly Powers are contained The bearing the Names of the Foundations of this City the Names of the Tribes of Israel and the Names of the Apostles of the Lamb and the bearing lastly the New Name of Jesus that â—…o Man knoweth but he himself who with his own Finger hath written it on their Vestures and on their Thighs that so in all things they may be made like unto him their Head-Life by the all-powerful working of His Spirit with which they are sealed There are but few found who have so much as an Ear to hear what the Spirit saith to this Church of Philadelphia the First-fruits of the Lamb or even but to receive the Promises of the Holy and True One who is now at this instant with the Key of DAVID Opening gradually this blessed state in a few chosen Names so that none shall ever shut it more And he is shutting up in such the Dark Abyss and wrathful depraved Nature so that it can never be again Opened But still fewer are they who have not only an Ear to hear but also an Heart and Hands to Act whatever the Spirit saith and who dare to adventure on to the laying hold of such a weighty Crown as is that of the First-born And even of those that do so adventure forward for this most High Prize some do stop having attained to the First Degree others rest in the Second and others in the Third as thinking that they are already got to the Sixth and so want nothing but to be taken presently to sit with their Lord in his Throne Some are willing at the end even of the first days work of Regeneration or Spiritual Creation to enter into their Sabbath and without having passed the Works of the other Five Days to sit contented with the first productions of Divine Light upon the Soul Some who have beheld one or two or perhaps three Signs of the coming of the Son of Man have not had patience longer to wait for all the Signs but have thence peremptorily concluded â—…hat he was come to them and that his Kingdom was in them before a Redemption has been wrought out from the lapâ—… Nature or before the very Head of the Serpent has been bruised in them and slain by the Virgin Seed of the Wisdom of God in the meek Second Holy Principle of Light and Love which by the Inspired Penmen of Old is expressed by that most soft and yet most victorious Name JAH Hallelu-JAH For the prevention therefore of all such Miscarriages and for the undeceiving of those who think it a light thing to be a King's Son or a King's Daughter it
hath seemed good to the Most Wise God and Father of our Spirits to raise up according to the necessity of this present day an Instrument by him fitted through many Fires and Waters and through all manner of Temptations both in the Heighths above and in the Depths beneath and immediately instructed at Wisdoms Oracle for so great a Work as the education of the King's Children and the leading them up step by step to their Fathers Throne that they may be Kings and Priests upon the Earth unto God and unto the Lamb for ever and may from the Righteous Virgin Earth spring up as Plants of mighty Renown in a well-watered Paradise and as Olive-branches continually empty the Golden Oyl out of themselves and drop their fatness for maintenance of a Perpetual Light in the Sanctuary that was before darkned This will easily be seen to be the Drift of these Writings by any one that is but a little skilled in their Dialect And it is no contemptible Providence of the All-seeing Eye of Etâ—…rnity that this Book after having laid so many years as in the dust should now come to be brought forth into the Light in such a Critical Juncture of Time and in this very Year which is full of great Expectations on this hand and on that To which nothing is given me in Particular to say but only this Word of Caution to the greedy Expectants and Waiter for some Outward visible Revolution in Church or State Let such be Sober in their Hopes and take good heed to themselves of their Observations or Calculations and let them not lay too great a â—…ess upon any external Delivâ—…ance how great soever or upon the Rise or â—…ll of any Earthly Monarch Potentâ—… 〈◊〉 State neither let them seek for the Kingdom of Christ in their own Will nor according to certain preconceived Notion â—…d Images nor binding it down to any Sect or Party in the so called Christian World for they shall find iâ—… no where but in the Triumphant Resignat on of Jesus Christ. When therefore they shall be certain that they have drunk of the 〈◊〉 â—…me Cup which he did drink that they 〈◊〉 passed through the strait and wrestling Gate of Death that they are entirely passed from all their Own into the Liberty of the Divine Will and have broken down every Image and Boundary that Man as Man hath set up then let them know that the Kingdom of Christ is near to them and upon its very breaking forth in much Glory Majesty and Power And when they themselves are thus got without the Walls of the Great City Babylon then and 〈◊〉 before let them expect the Descent of the New Jerusalem out of Heaven For most assuredly to none but Virgin Souls to the true Nazarites that for the Hope of Israel do wait in the Inward Temple Day and Night with their Lamp-spirits ever burning that so they may be ready to go forth at their Bridegroom's Call to meet him to the Lillies of the Vallâ—…y who though they neither Reap or Spin for themselves are yet arrayed more gloriously than Solomon in the Immaculate Robe of the Lord their righteousness yea to none but the Undefiled Doves that are in him made all beautiful and fair and that having washed themselves seven times in the Pool of his Blood are thereby set apart and redeemed from the Earth to be His Companions will this Beloved City come down Of the Truth of which every one must necessarily be convinced that doth but consider seriously the Process that this Author hath been Led in according as the same from these ensuing Memoirs may be gathered in order to the drawing down the Powers of the Heavenly Worlds and the unsealing the Fountain of the Holy Ghost and the Book of the Refurrection Neither can this Jerusalem Glory be disâ—…erned by any others or after any other method than is herein laid down from the Opener of that Principle let them look never so long about crying Lo here in the East or Lo there in the West For this High Promotion of Wisdom's Children cometh neither from the East nor from the West neither out of the North as some some are gazing after it at present nor yet from the South But the Lord cometh from TEMAN where the glorious Virgin Principle is Unlocked whence the warm holy Supernal South-wind doth blow upon the Gardens of Lebanon and cause the Spices to flow out whither the Patriarch Abraâ—…am always directed his Travels and where Jacob saw the Ladder of Heaven and the Gate thereof The Key of which Gate is there presented by the Hand of Divine Wisdom to all her Children to whom she crieth aloud standing at the entry of the Celestial City and proclaimeth the Joyful JUBILEE inviting them to return Now from their Captivity and Presently to come forth from the Tottering Babel which is founded upon the Sands and to enter with her Key into this City which hath Foundations For this She standeth in the top of the Heavenly Places and putteth forth her Voice to them at the coming in at the Doors for this She meeteth them in every Path layeth hold on them that having tried them with her Laws they may enter in Hereby and feast at the Table which she hath furnished for them But alas I see that the most even of those that have been enroll'd under Her Discipline will be not a little afraid to lay hold on this Key of the Kingdom when it is reached out to them and will shrink from it beholding how large it is and that it is made full of all Solid Gold even as this very Author did at its first Presentment as thinking it impossible for any ever to bear the Weight of it Besides this there is a Mercurial Serpent which twineth himself about it whose Life can be destroyed no otherwise but by the Royal Antidote of the Unicorns Horn. Let not any therefore think it a Light thing or easily Attainable to bear the Key of the Government on their Shoulders But let them examin thoroughly tâ—…e several Progresses and Steps of this Author in order to its Attainment that are Recorded for the space of about Six Years in This present Volume Of which it must be confessed that much has bcen Lost so that the Links of Wisdom's Chain may often seem to be broken But as the greatest Architect Statuary and Painter of these Last Ages is said to have become so Excellent meerly by his Observations drawn from a most Imperfect Maimed Statue or Bust being the Work of a most Exquisite and Masterly Hand so it is not at all to be despaired but that there may be found also in This Day some of Rare and Excellent Abilities of Spirit who notwithstanding any Imperfections or Maimings of this Spiritual Register or any Defects in its Exterior Habit of Languge or Style may by the assistance of their Supream Tutor ' draw forth even from the Disjointed Parts of This Work such an excellency
this to congeal and mix in its number weight and measure For indeed ambitious I am this choice Drink always to have by me that hereof I may take at pleasure and also give thereof to the Thirsty which in Wisdom's choice are thereof worthy And as I was thus spreading my Requests before the Holy Mercy-Seat within the new raised Tabernacle I heard a Voice from thence speak Anoint every Vessel within my Sanctuary that all may be sublimed and scented with that Ointment which Wisdom hath within thy Tent made Then in this interim I did feel somewhat break and fly as if a bundle had been untied Myrrh and Spikenard more pleasant to the Nostrils could not be then this Somewhat did diffuse it self so richly as if it would dissolve me into its own Balsamick Nature Oh how affected was my Spirit with that Oily Burning upon the Altar upon which the Seven Lamp-Spirits do draw forth Matter to feed upon the Tabernacle needed no other Light then what from hence did shine Thus surrounded in Love's Pavilion I did set refreshed from what here did flow in all throughout me warming This was a good requital for my earnest and all attentive waiting within the Sanctuary not out-departing therein meeting with all satisfying Provision which doth invite our Spirits here to abide till the Spicy Liquor be fully ripe which upon the preparing is against the Great Day of the Feast This made up is of such choice Rarities as may well provoke our Appetites having Intelligence before-hand at what a high rate our Table is to be furnished After the finishing of the tabernacle-Tabernacle-work an order from the Heavenly Court did come forth for a Convocation of a Seven Days separation to be held by us who are called lawfully for to strive to be Masters of the Divine Art according to Wisdom's high Philosophical Rules Therefore in order to the perfecting of this Balsamical Medicine and Restorative Elixer this Counsel further she did to me give forth saying Watch Pray and Wait within the Sanctuary gathering together as in one all the Spicy Powers to make a Perfumed Incense to offer upon the Altar from which Celestial Fire will arise which will make you Pray in the Holy Ghost with flaming Terrour which only will effect the Blessing upon this your so great Undertaking for which uncessant Invocations are breathed forth from the Cloven Tongue rising from the Altar-Fire which is the efficacious Spirit of Prayer that as a Flame inspired through the Ghostly Breath doth mount and pass through all things no Principle can bind or detain it but swiftly it pierceth and prevaileth when the Oily Incense after this manner is mingled with it therefore as ye would Prevailers strong potent and mighty be with your God for to ask and receive let the Flaming Incense still your Advocate be and then your Intercessions of like force will be as those of Moses and Elias in their Day as ye will see now then a set and an appointed time let there be for these Holy Offerings to be brought unto the Altar Draw near ye Holy and Seperated Ones and dedicate it with what is unblemished multiply seven times seven your pure Meat and Drink-Offerings till that you no more conscious are of Sins defilement within this Sanctnary dwelling where forbidden is all Servile-working during the time that this solemn Convocation is celebrating December the 28th 1675. An Understanding was now given to me to know and discern the Root and Seed of that growing Mystical Body into which the Kingdom of God was to descend which would finish and put an end to all imperfect things because it consisted of all Faith Power Purity Wisdom Strength and All-sufficiency to make compleat the comers hereunto that so their might be an absolute Dominion within our selves and a gathering into one Body all Spiritual Ghostly Operations which are of impregnable Force and Might till the Kingdom after this manner shews it self all lieth under the vail of Obscurity and is little perceived or owned in one more than another be they never so intirely Holy till the Deity springs and shoots forth it self into a Body that can naturally act like to its Omnipotent Being without limitation Oh who are hereunto yet come and what are all Attainments till hereunto we have reached our Measuring Line can it dive and search into the deep Abyss of the great Wonders of the Immense Being the whirling Wheel of my Spirit finding no staâ—… for it self in all it had seen known possessed and enjoyed still stretched forth it s expatiated Mind after that which was still in reserve and kept by the strong Rock of the Almightiness to whom with a fresh on-set I resolve to make my Application as not to be put off with any thing less than the Kingdom and Reigning-Power of the Holy Ghost for which I had run thus hard and could not stop the Chariot-Wheel of the high graduated Will which would all Attempts make to grasp in with Love-violence this my fair wise rich and noble Bride well knowing her Dowry was so great as it would do more then ransom meâ—… from all Sins and Earthly-Tributes perfectly to set me free and also Enfeof meâ—… into that Estate to which pertaineth such Lordships and Dominions as are not subject to Times Chance or Fate all which are Motives sufficient indeed to make us press hard this Prize to take We need not murmur or complain that this matchless Dove and Oriental Pearl so hardly is obtained when well considered no less we can conclude her highly worthy the Lamb's Bride and Spouse to be only peculiarly reserved for being the Royal Princess and Queen upon whom the Crown is to be fixed including all Celestial Dignity and Throne-Powers thereby confered to make this Bride all-desirable from which lustrous Presentation of her perfect Comlinesâ—… and Beauty into one Spirit I was all inflamed making complaint bemoaning our selves how we might possibly compass the obtaining this matchless Virgin-Dove for our Spouse and Bride who with her piercing fiery Arrow of Love had us wounded so deep as no Cure throughout the Circumference of this lower Sphere could be found though attempts and proffers numerous was not wanting to beguile and take off our Eye charging highly blaming us for aspiring to love so high far beyond what Reason could judge to be aquivelent with our mean Estate But all this nothing availed or could Wisdom's Lovers pacifie whose Quivers did daily upon us let fly thereby still to attract us more nigh Knot upon Knot through familiar communion was here tied as an assured Pledge that to her kind Intimacies we might arrive as we hard upon this worthy Princess did ply January the 3d. 1675 6. Upon whose Encouraging Aspects and Love-drawings I made my Address in the behalf of my self and that other distressed Lover that allowed I might be to ask so great a Boon as her Royal Self to be ours unitedly Oh dear Sophia how would this repair our
chief Dowry which she makes Inquisition for and therefore of all low amorous entangling Loves we had need to be well aware to one only Mate we must for ever cleave and so bear his Name and so we are all his Royal state These Counsels still daily followed me since his deliverance out of the Snare and Pit of Death so did I believe to see all Cords would be broken for that Word came to me the 20th Instant I will arise saith thy God as in Mount Perazim that he may do his Work his strange Work and bring to pass his strange Act. This Scripture was brought to me and opened thus being much stated and presented as our Cause was parallel with David whom God highly approved for that being newly settled in his Kingdom after great Wars was again invaded by the Philistines and having brought up the Ark of God enquiring had a resolve that his Enemies should be subdued before him as he acknowledged saying That God had broken in upon them like the breaking forth of Waters therefore they called the Name of that place 1 Chroâ—… 14. 11. Baal Perazim Now this by the Prophet Isaiah is called over and made mention of Prophecying for such a Manifestation of his Rising Power yet to come when again he will set his Hand as in our Day to recover us out of the Hand of the Spoiler Being much distressed for the Work least these Inundations should stop the Life-Wheel either in them or in my self going forward this sweet Word was opened to me I will arise as in Mount Perazim your Enemies shall know ye do not go out in Battel without a God's Armory Your Ark which is rising will and shall make all in you and all without you to reâ—…l stagger and fall before you for I have yet greater and more mighty Deeds and strange Acts to appear in for my own renown in by and through those in whom I find a David's Spirit and Heart according to my own with such shall not only go forth my rushing Sounds but strong Powers to effect and bring to pass strange and mighty Acts whereby it shall be known in whom my Temple-Glory resteth I will now arise to give my signal Mark of Honour to my defied and contemned ones my Spirit shall begin to move even now at times as ye shall look and wait for it within the Tent of Nature as the forerunning Scatterings of that promised all Chostly Dominion and Power that is very ready and near to be revealed to the pure Jerusalem-Worshippers and constant Waiters upon whom my Eye will be to confer upon them this great Dowry which will not be entrusted but with most constant Attenders in the pure Temple-Body of Jesus waiting and offering upon that Altar within being determinated into a stable fixed unchangeable Mind and Spirit This is that which is expected from you both whom Wisdom hath with her Love-guile caught in with her Golden Cords that ye may to this great state of glorious dominion reach though it doth cost you so high as the death and breach to all other Lives wherein the vain empty solacements of this visible State stood in the despising of which no Repentance shall ever be but Reward upon Reward after all Tribulations out of your Mother Wisdom's Treasury shall you fetch out whatever good and profitable things you shall thereby espy to use and spend to the account any praise of my Glory March the 25th 1676. This Morning I felt mighty strong Gusts and Powers come into me which ascended out in Prayers that the Sign might follow to give the demonstration of our particular Election and Calling as it did upon the first Gospel Professors that we might have Power to cast out unclean Spirits So to co-work and mingle with the Meek and Eternal Life-Essences of the Lamb as that we may be able to send forth such vertual Rays of Powers and Sweetnesses for our own and others Safety Guard and Relief For I heard this Word Go not out without your Shepherd's Bag and his Staff for out of an Invisible Store ye must spend and bring out from your own Heavenly Country and Father's House as unknown and Strangers in this Land where your outward Feet do stand who will not trust or credit further to you give then they shall see that ye have got with you Great Cesar's Decree and Superscription upon your Coyn written round about with that Name I am the Alpha and Omega This will O my Dove Spirits with you every where pass and all your Enemies and all that are alieâ—…ated and Strangers to you now shall seek to make a Covenant League and Peace for why they will cry the Name of God wherein all the believing doth lie upon the Foreheads of these is written most visibly This is the Strange Work that I am for you bringing to pass if ye still will guided be by Wisdom's Counsel and her bright Eye ye shall to this most high Degree arise and thereby Honour you Spiritual Parentage Henceforth forbear to sort your selves with what is not of the same most inward Fold with whom your great Shepherd doth walk and can only with new risen Spirits talk and be open and free as lodging in one Heart of Purity together for mutual Joys and Embracings highly Magical whereby you will draw out most mighty Force and Strength to aid and back whatever in my Work and Service ye are intent upon as thou hast witnessed already a good Confession of me so still maintain Truth 's liberty stand up in the Christ-like Might and in him thou wilt tread down strength and nothing shall be too hard for thee Thy defence and security shall be from the flowing Oyl running through the Unicorn that mighty is to push and batter down all exalted Towers which now will be raised against those who my appointed Standard-bearers are to proclaim my Flag of defiance in the view and sight of such as live in great despight decrying down my Paradisical Laws Liberties and Kingly Rights March the 26th 1676. The Lord's Day we met together by our selves a Word was spoken for the Measuring-Line to compare and measure our selves by the perfect Love which casteth out all other Fears and Loves but that which is Above and of the Virgin-Purity where the danger was shewn of Treachery to forestall this chaste Love from our Love for our Jesus Much in power was sounded forth to this purpose and whom it did hit it was a good Word to such March the 27th 1676. This Morning great Emanations flowed in upon me from out of the Vital Center as the springing Flowers from the Rivers of Joy Out of the Sanctuary this Word of Comfort opened that though Balack had called out Balaam to curse you that are my choice Seed yet I Wisdom as your good Guardian-Angel have stood to resist him and have frustrated all the Tokens of the Diviners The depths of Satan began mystically to work calling the furious Might as
restore us perfectly to our Angelical State Even so blessed Dove and Bride break up this in us who are waiting here upon this Ocean shore for this new Spring-Tide Oh let it open upon us wide and we will not be afraid though it shall violate us away from all visible Ties from which we do now see we must be parted and separated For we can never see thee till we do withdraw out of gross Corporality that so cloathed we may be with Jesus that Celestial Body who is our Bridal Garment of which we shall not be ashamed when God our King shall call us to view and examine who the prepared Brides are for the New Jerusalem Marriage to which we now are summoned May the 30th 1676. This Day upon some occasion ministred from the outward Astrum of this World's Principle was stirred up a secret embroil that for some space of Time I was held out so as I could find no entrance for my Spirit among the Seraphick Quire where my Attendance was required Morning by Morning to hear and learn for my further Instruction in the Eternal Magia Which I felt as a deep bundle of Life-Treasury beginning to open But such a wise subtle pure swift Breath or Mist it is that it shuts up and does withdraw so soon as any thing of a Mortal Sense upon it doth fly It is such a high glance of Magisterium that it will refine out of all gross fleshly kinds whatever No parley with External matter this unknown Power will endure as my dear Inspirator hath anew shewed unto me and hath given me caution not to prevent its Descending by mingling the Will-Spirit who is chosen for its Mare with any low inferiour sense of things which may grate upon it Whoever comes to be highly Learned in this Philosophical Art must be trained up from their Spiritual Birth Infancy and hereupon wait continually for to know For the Divine Spell is a Mystical Thing and of that principal weight as the whole Mind Will and Heart must hereunto be engaged and all is little enough to turn this Cherubim Wheel of the Magia still about For which you must after the manner of a Spiritual grown Body labour hard till ye have the Mystery of this Art fully attained It is beyond all things that ever yet was named Therefore strive hard for it but ye who are yet but young in this Art may be ignorant what kind of Stock you are to work upon know then to thee this Mystical thing I will reveal that thou mayest not the Nature hereof Mistake It is an Immaterial Nothing and yet giveth Being and Existency to All things moving and piercing through the whole Body of the Creation yet not discerned generating all things anew through a Virtual Life quickening Breath this comes in and goeth forth without Sound and Noise It is communicable only to such as have covenanted and firmly bound themselves to be made by it Wise Subtle Pure Spiritual Discerning also in all Sublimities whereby proof may be given what Magical Coals of Fire are kindled that ye may scatter and make to fly as directed by Wisdom's Eye Of this ye may know yet more deeply as ye from this Holy Root still weed out all light and scruffy matter May the 31st 1676. In the Night I was as on a suddain surprized with a round Ball of Light that fixed it self upon a Post or Pillar which seemed to be on each side of me and where-ever I went they moved with me very lustrious and shining as a Star in a Cloudy Night I could go no where but they circled about me the Light was terrible but not hurtful yet pleasant to the single Eye that was opened This in way of Vision was given to espy and immediately after this Transient Sight passed away and that Scripture opened upon me Isa. 40. in these words The Lord shall be to thee an Everlasting Light which shall drown and swallow up all fore going Day-breaks which have had their several Sun-risings in thee by degrees which are true and good in their Day But behold here is yet a Prophecy to be fulfilled which shall be as the Light of Seven Days put together What or who shall be able to live and walk in such a Firmament of Light where there will be no Intervenings of any shade of Night Know then there is such a holy conceived high-born Being which yet is clouded under inferiour Lights and subjected to them for some Season till it hath accomplished the first working Properties of the Seven Days Creation Wherein Day and Night must by their Proper Sun and Moon be governed and all transacted according to the motion of the Planets the Out Birth being under their controll in the divided state betwixt the Day and the Night sometimes it is light and sometimes dark one hour is Spiritual and Heavenly the next Carnal and Earthly But to this God in the Lamb who is that one Everlasting Day is now coming to put an end as to the first Creation-Light in such who have ceased from those Works that have been wrought by the Sun and Moon-Light of the fallen gloomy Day which hath overspread the whole Creation Out from which ye are assured to come and to sit down under the bright-shine of this uneclisped Body of the new Creation-Light Hereto coming once to fix your former Sun and Moon will blush and for very shame-pull in their Heads and all their twinkling Stars will forth with withdraw as ye shall surely see when you will find your selves in another Orb for enclosed ye shall be with the Seven Lamp Spirits before and behind which are the Light of the seven days New Creation out of Sion to hold parallel with the Seven Days Creation in Paradise Which abolished must be and whose Sun must set at the rising of this sevenfold Sion Glory which to the Lamb's Birth will anew open and upon it rest For which great thing ply your God and Father hard that so ye may in this bright Cloud of Glory be carried up out of sight from all Terrestrial Lights By which ye â—…ould by no means come to behold Eterâ—…al Objects But in this Light of the â—…verlasting Bride ye can see into every Mountain of the New Jerusalem as your own native Country from which driven and scattered into this mixed state between Day and Night while standing thus indeed ye could never find Mount Sion's Path. For Paradise is to this but as a glimmering Glow-Worm not a City that had Foundations was ever erected there which plainly declares the Most High had not his fixed Residence there For out of Sion the whole Majesty of the Trinity will shine by which Light ye can only see your way for Return unto your lost home Ohâ—… the excessive Joy which Paradisical Inhabitants will know who can the conquering Gulph get through and comâ—… into this Jasper-like City where sighâ—… and fruition of God the Bride and thâ—… Lamb produceth most unutterable
perfumes the Breath of all your Prayers so that your God may smell that which may bring down Blessings according to your Will Being so compounded in every part with the Spikenard and Altar-Fire as to be one continual ascending Power and perfuming Pillar of sacred Fire With which my dear Lord do thou mightily shine upon those who appointed are hereunto and them more highly inspire September the 18th 1676. Having for some few Days met with some exercise of Illness upon my outward man whereby I was made sensible how great a disadvantage that was to the Spirit of the Mind to do its Office and Work in as to its House and Habitation where it displays it self making the very outward Animal Spirit of the Body intelligible of Divine Things which when depressed by Sickness is much otherwise for that then the receptable Comprehensive part is much shut up The feeling of which made me bewail the defectiveness of this outward Body because it was disproportionable to that high graduated thing which acted within it Upon which I sought the Lord with great earnestness to give such soundness to the Terrestrial Man as it might answer to the Spiritual Operator who was the moving Wheel After some little space of time I heard this Word run mightily through me I am thy Saving Health which shall arise and get the Victory over thy present Infirmities To which Word I gave credit and did see all the dark Magick Influence flâ—… as a dark Vapour from me A hail Body is of a necessary connexion to a sound Spirit for the Lord's Service whereby the Heavenly Calling may be perfected Against which the working Powers of that grand Enemy are always at work by one wile or other still to prevent me running to and fro as a most busie Agent but to my God I did fly who said he would spread over me the healing Covering of his Soveraignty for my security Then I prayed for the Guardian Power to surround them who with me were obnoxious to the stroke of the Dragon's Enmity letting his Arrows fly every way upon the Heaven-Setters But it was said Fear not for on them also is set an impregnable Guard Thus I was comforted over all Fears Distresses and Tribulations being assured no Weapon should prosper against the Work which we were charged with For if on our parts we did not flag the Right Hand of Strength and Power did engage to be with us and for us even so Amen let it be O Lord evermore September the 20th 1676. The Expostulation of the Spouse I was in a Spirit of Mourning for the Personal Absence of my Lord whose Representations and Touches had awakened and drawn all the Virtual Powers of my Spirit after him insomuch as I took freedom to tell him whom my Soul thus loved that sith he had after such a high and total manner engaged my Heart unto him above all others that now it was but right and equal he should marry me and so in every respect answerably provide and settle me according to the greatness of that Marriage state Preferring also to him this Argument that it was his own free offer to Love first or I should never have presumed to have claimed such favourable Aspects or such kind of Spiritual freedom with one so much raised above me But verily now since my Lord made the first Proposal and thereby hath gained my Interiour Will with all its attending Affections it is now but reasonable that I should be answered in my Foundational Hopes and Expectations Which are not grounded upon old recorded general Promises but upon new and particular Words dropping fresh from the Mouth of my Jesus or else those deep Impressions had never took hold of me so as to make me set light by all Creatures and Things Believing I had made such a choice as was sufficient to answer to every requiring and to set me free from the Servile Bondage to these sort of Creatures that knew nothing of the Mystery of Faith I did set home these and many more Arguments upon my Lord with all ardency and I said that I did now look for Performance and entreated further that he would consider that the Honour of his Fidelity was herein concerned For I had declared to the World that I was his and he was mine by Covenant and Contract and therefore with what shame should I come off who had rejected all Loves and Lovers for to tye my Spirit in this Espousal Knot to this great Heir and Prince of Glory unto which Royalty I did believe er'e long I should be invested If my Jesus would be true unto me according to the various Promises left as an Earnest with me Who being so right and just a Person as I had no shadow of ground on his part to suspect neither would I knowingly act any thing defectively on my part or delay the mutual Nuptial Day which would make much for the Praise of such a restored Glory Therefore I was much importunate with my Jesus that he would do now and act according to the earnest Expectation of the New Creature and the Honour of his exalted Name that it might be no longer derided or defamed by those who would rejoyce to see wholly self-denying Spirits frustrated of their Bridal-Joy and Coronation-Day And that he would be pleased so to act as now to let them stand upon the visible Stage of Dignity as they have been of Reproach and Defamation despightfully used for their Bridegroom's sake As also to bring off all their disgraceful Calumnies who hath now the disposal of all Princely Majesty to put upon his present disguised Bride September the 21st 1676. I having after this manner unburthened my loaded Mind by way of Expostulation hearkening what answer herefrom would proceed to a suspended Lover I heard this Answer Here now follows the Bridegroom's Answer by his Spirit Oh thou desponding Lover I perceive thou art still upon the doubtful and questioning part suspecting my Truth and Loyalty lest I should despise and slight thee in thy mean estate First thou hast charged me to draw and steal away thy Heart not only from thy self but from all others so as thou sayest thou art as a lifeless useless actless Creature having emptied all into me so as now nothing will suffice but the Conjugal Knot to be knit or else thou thinkest thy self never sure of me Thus I have born thy Love-passionate Charges and thy unkind Surmises because I had deferred upon deep grounds best known to my self the publication of my determinate Marriage with thee But O Soul may it not suffice thee that I do maintain all intimate Friendship with thee and though I cannot as yet make a visible Personal Appearance for duration and for demonstration to the World Yet in and by that faithful Witness and true Unction I am still present with thee I am no Stranger to thy Affairs my Spirit gives an Account of all things unto me I have left all of thy
established upon the Ghostly Nativity Instead of a Terrestrial there shall be a Celestial greatness of Dominion from this Birth-Lily springing that hath like the two Witnesses been long slain in the Seed and buried over with Earth so as forgotten in the World But now expect the raising of them up in each of you who shall stand as Olive-Trees before me still naturally flowing out with your Golden Oyl it shall not be as formerly by way of Gifts now and then but this Fatness and Olive-Sweetness shall spring out of your own Root being hereinto fully changed Then will you know the constant and fixed state and no more want your Eternal Bride and Mate December the 9th 1676. A mighty Saying was ecchoed to me brought forth out of the Counsel-deep pronouncing it should be our Lot to live by the Sword and Bow of Might by which Jacob of old took great Spoil out of the Hand of the Amorite Which was thus opened unto me that this Word came to me to let me understand that our Blessing and Portion would come in by meer Conquest For thus said the Holy and True Behold and see here is the Gift that I give to you as a Father's Blessing which is the Sword of my Spirit and the Conquering Bow whose Arrows are all of Gold with these expect ye must get your Living and also bring into me your God your worthy Prey Now therefore gird on this Sword that is so richly oiled with the purest of Unction and go forth all prosperously It is not only a defensive Weapon but it will cut down and destroy and resist every Balaam Spirit which standeth in your way None ever was possessed of this Sword but that strong Potent Will-Spirit that knew the Way to the Golden Pool of Oyl there still to bath it whenever occasion is for it to burnish and display The sight hereof will cause all about you to stand in fear and awe when they shall see you are so God-like armed with strength of Power which is so commandable that all resistency will fly away against it Oh this is that Spirit Weapon which makes riddance first within thy self it will suffer no Amorite or Cananite near its Borders to dwell But Gideon-like make havock hew and cut down every Grove where false Worships hath by blind Zeal been set up But verily the Day is near for the Sword of the Lord in Gideon's Hand to appear which will make a quick riddance in the Earth The Lamp of my Spirit in your Earthen Pitchers is now seated though the time hath not yet been for them to shine out by reason that the Olive-matter of the Holy Ghost is not yet come to that Perfection to sound forth the Trumpet for the total Victory over all Centers and Worlds which shall certainly be conquered by this out-going Birth But while this is perfecting here is Conquering Work that ye may not sit idle but now to go on every day somewhat to effect Therefore another Weapon is given into your management which is my Covenant Rain-Bow which will be to you of great consequence if you have skill rightly for to use it The use of an Eagle Eye that may this great Birth-mark espy Here lieth the grand deep-sighted Wisdom to shoot forth such a Golden Shaft as may hit and thereby make way for Wisdom's first-born to come forth through sending out this mighty Arrow of all precious Faith Nothing like this you will find will be of travelling force to help you out in your Births Agonies which upon you will come before you can imbrace this Ghostly Body imbodied with a Soul and Spirit That will spring all a new from the creating Word imbodied in a corporeal shape Which for a time shall remain a high degree of Wonder For to see the Ghostly Power to send forth through contemptible Humanity that high scented Breath of Air which may be felt tasted and smelt with whom it is resident Then this Question in me arose Ah my Lord when shall these Powers be set awork so as the doubtful in Heart may somewhat hereof see and we thereby from all upbraidings be set free I was thus answered The Day is not to be put far off for now is the acceptible time for Salvation to be wrought There is conquering work still to be done within the Flaming Sword must cut down every Briery Root and burn up every Thorny Thought which do near this Lily Birth spring and vanquish all vaporous Clouds that thicken the Heavenly Air with all the gross Animal Life of Sense which is the greatest of Impediments It is that Esau that holds Faith's Birth by the Heel that it might not break forth Therefore in the strength of Jacob's Angel do you strongly wrestle for by his Sword and Bow you must make your way and Conquest gain that so you may command both the Heaven and earthly store For Heirs of all Worlds ye will be then gird up and go forth all armed the munition of the Spirit is with you so as nothing can harm you who carry the precious and essential Root of Life in you Even now while but in it its Younglings day it is yet it will be a defence of Glory that now and then will sparkle through by which it may be known that in you is intombed a Precious Stone a White Stone that hath the Virgin 's Name engraven on it which must be for the Lamb a Spouse and Bride Therefore the Cry of the Spirit is Prepare make ready and Pray fervently for your Everlasting Birth-Door to open that the Heir of Glory may enter therethrough Even so let it be December the 10th 1676. The sweet living Pool this Night was mightily opened and stirred by the holy driving Spirit that brought choice and super-eminent good things out of the high Kingdom 's store saying also to me Come tast and see how you like the Heavenly Country-Fruit that is ripened from that unmixed Element Draw up unto my Table for you shall sit with me after the manner of a Spirit and eat such things as are set before you For I your Lord must take special care to feed and nourish those that are with Young with the highest of Birth degrees And indeed I did according to this Salutation find a sweet and pleasant tast to my Spiritual Appetite and a satisfying fulness Hereupon followed an occasioned great enlargement of Soul-magnifying in Prayer which at this time was more then usual mingled with an oily Incense Which feeling I took all advantage to put forward for the holy Birth-issue in each other who were noted in the Life-Book as was at this season asserted to me with many other Words of signal Favour that so we might have no cause to repent our Choice in being professed Traders for Wisdom's Merchandize which would turn to that account that we should not be ashamed of though now for it under disrepute as not understood or known but God will reveal us in his