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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

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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Power it delays to come down to us though his Arm hath been made bare and wrought great deliverance yet now being withdrawn we wist not what is become of this Unknown God that keeps in such a Circle as we can not break in to him Therefore saith the Unbelieving Israel We will make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