the Earthly Life in our selves for to the Conquerors the Glassy Sea and the New Jerusalem as a reward will be given for it will open within the Soul-Center Let us remember our Calling We were called to Fight with our inward Spiritual Enemies for the Garland of Paradise aad for the Garland of Flowers which were wont to be given to the Conquerors And we are to contend for the the Crown of Pearl which is Christ's perfect Deity in his Eternal Humanity in our Souls we are yet to strive with all earnestness for to obtain the Banner of Victory over the Hell Sin Death and Curse in our Souls by reigning with the risen Lamb 〈◊〉 dominion over all Devils and wicked Babylon from whence we are called to Separate from Yet Good and Evil are wrestling within us Day and Night in Strife Life and Death Light and Darkness are in Contention who should Reign and which should have the Dominion therefore in the Unity and Harmony of the Love we are to persevere till we see Christ's Coronation-Day till he in us and we in him come to see him Crowned and all our Enemies under his Feet This will be our Reigning-Day indeed when Hell and Sin and Death and Mortality in us shall be swallowed up of Immortal Life and Glory When we shall know but one Heavenly Life moving and acting through every form of the Soul Seeing such a Ministration is left us by Christ on this the Grave to be enjoyed when the Seventh Angel shall sound his Trumpet and it is so near us and we near it let us give all Diligence all Watchfulness all Labour for the Possession of it Then Christ within us and Christ without us will meet in one Center of Glory and both will make up but one Wonder These Lines I hope will be no Block in your Christian Progress If a Spark of Love-â—…ire inflame your Soul to seek after the Center of Perfection in Christ I shall rejoyce Christ in us can do it in a moment by opening the Glassy Sea in the Soul's Property This is the Mark we are pressing after as fellow Travellers Wherefore we make our selves Strangers and Pilgrims to this Earthly Principle I commend you dear Soul into the Arms of our Emmanuel who will bring his Constant and Faithful Seekers to be with him in his Kingdom of Glory So I rest Your fellow Traveller in the Patience under the Cross J. P. II. Mr. T. B's Testimony of this Dispensation THis Dispensation does not only keep us close to the Person and Offices of our Lord Jesus Christ but with it or in it is conveyed the very essential Grace or the Body Spirit and Power of Christ to abide in us as a constant Spring of Divine Teaching and of Spiritual Sensation and as the true and great Root of Regeneration which is Christ in us the Hope of Glory So that in this Dispensation we do essentially and vitally enjoy that which many other Christians do but discourse of and breath after as a thing mostly unknown keeping close to it iâ—… purifies us Soul and Body and leads us most directly into Mount Sion or the Heart of God this is most essentially true and a long considered experimental Testimony T. B. FINIS Errors Corrected Page 7 line 22 f no read now p 8 l 8 r Parabolical way and yet p 9 l 1 f Indea r Idea p 13 l 5 for Objection r Object p 32 l 19 f r while p 33 l 13 dele to p 34 l 4 dele as p 37 l 17 f r p 53 l 4 f This r This is p 64 l 19 f 1675 r 1674. ibid l 21 r is not to be p 65 l 4 f Eternity r Emnity ibid l 16 f Fuition r Fruition p 76 l 23 f is r are p 80 l 22 f Trusty r Trustee p 81 l 3 dele do p 87 l 13 f World r Word p 93 l 15 f Security r Purity p 94 l 24 f working r wonderworkingly p 95 l 7 f Promise r Province p 96 l 4 f belingrings r Beleagerings ibid l 7 f cleaving to r cleaving close to ibid l 20 f strong hold is the r Strong hold is is the. p â—…8 l 18 f with me r with mine sâ—… Chariot p 100 l 25 f aimable r amiable p 106 l 7 f Life r Leaf p 107 l 19 f was hither r was upon the fiery Wheel hither ibid l 2â—… f thy r this p 108 l 20 f Corruppter r Corruption ibid l 8 f mingled hereupon By r mingled Hereupon by p 110 ult f Coagulation by r Coagulation or mixing by p 115 l 7 f set r sit ibid l 19 f our Ap r our spiritual Appetites p 116 l 10 f terrour r fervour p 119 l 18 f into one Spirit I was r two into one Spirit was p 112 l 19 f Spirit or Wisdom r Spirit of Wisdom ibid l 18 f meet r neat ibid l 21 f was to pr. r was in great concern to pr. p 123 l 3 f akin read a Kin. ibid l 14 f which r in which ibid ult Spirits will be p 125 l 4 r propagation through ibid l 7 f Man-God r God-Man p 127 l 8 f Shion read Heshbon p 128 l 6 f Court r Covert ibid l 13 for the in outw r in the outward Lifes Form p 133 l 8 f passive process r passive Process dele to commate ibid l 18 19 f shall by r shall be by p 131 l 16 for uncloyed r unclogged p 132 l 4 f Serenity r Security p 134 ult for to be r fit for to be p 142 l 2 f nativity r maturity p 143 l 15 f ceased r seized p 144 ult for dance about r Star-glance about p 853 l 19 f believe r believe it p 156 l 11 f Salvation r pointing to the Doctors Salvation p 154 l 23 f whether r whither p 159 l 26 f we are all r we shall wear all p 162 l 21 f for any praise of r and way of p 163 ult f believing r blessing p. 166 ulr f to that r to be the. p â—…67 l 18 f in Bonds r and Bonds p 168 l 13 f to him to his r to see his p 170 l 18 f unto r unto you p 172 l 12 f are Found r are to be Found p 177 l 21 f away r a Way p 180 Col 1 l 3 f Ex. 28. â—…7 r Ex. 28 17. ibid Col 2 l 5 Rev. 19 20 21. r Rev. 20. v. 19 20. ibid Col 3 l 8 f or r and. p 182 l 14 and 28 13. r Ezek. p 187 l 12 f the Bride r as the Bride p 194. l 〈◊〉 f will r will the p 203 l 3 f Secretaries r secret Rays p 204 l 10 f hold of r hold on p 221 l 12 f besides r besides me p 229 l 18 f Freewill r Fewel p 231 l 6 f upon you impressed you 〈◊〉 upon you impressed you are p 234 l 18 f is r are p 236 l 17 f over r overcome p 237 l 5 〈◊〉 repass r repast p 241 l 2 f didst steer and run r didst see râ—…n p 243 l 23 f which r with p 245 l 24. f who it r who is p 250 l 1 for Mountain r Mansion ibid l 3 f driven r you have been driven p 252 l 11 f an r no. ibid l 25 f shall r shall be p 253 l 9 f Revelation r Revolution p 266 l 2 f came it r came in ibid l 7 f numerously r numerously ibid l 12 f circling r circling Eye p 269 l 6 f Aim r Arm. p 271 l 8 f Covenant r Covenanter ibid l 23 f comes r came p 274 l 9 f of r after p 277 l 16 for yea r yet p 278 l 11 12 f Horan r Horon p 281 ult 282 l 12 f For out-proceed r For out of the Thundering Voices glances of Light from the Majesty will proceed p 288 l 14 f so r am p 295 l 3 f Mounts r Mount Sions ibid l 28 f whither r whether p 305. l 12 f hear r here p 319 l 21 f looking r footing ibid l 22 f their r there p 321 l 21 f we r he p 322 l 16 f to r so p 326 l 9 f King r Thing p 334 l 5 f contaction of his r contraction of this p 336 l 5 f their nature are r in their nature they are ibid l 10 f Mutations r Mutinees ADVERTISEMENT WHereas some Things have been Scandalously set forth and Printed under the Name of this Author to the Reproach of Truth and the Dishonour of that which is Holy it is thought fit for the putting a Stop to such Impostures and the Evil which might thence ensue to give a Catalogue of the Books which the Author hath hitherto Published 1. THe Heavenly Cloud or the Ascension Ladder 4to 1682. pag. 40. 2. The Revelation of Revelations an Essay towards the Unsealing Opening and Discovering of the Seven Seals the Seven Thunders and the New Jerusalem State 4to 1686. pag. 130. 3. The Enochian Walks with God found out by a Spiritual Traveller 4to 1694. p. 38. 4. The Laws of Paradise Given forth by Wisdom to a Translated Spirit 8vo 1695. pag. 69. 5. The Wonders of God's Creation manifested in the Variety of Eight Worlds as they were made known Experimentally to the Author 8vo 1695. p. 89. 6. The Messâ—…ge to the Philadelphian Society whithersoever dispersed over the whole Earth together with a Call to the several gathered Churches 12ves p. 108 1696. 7. The Tree of Faith or the Tree of Life springing up in the Paradise of God from which all the Wonders of the New Creation must proceed 12ves p. 122. 1696. 8. The Ark of Faith pag. 33. See the Preface to the Laws of Paradise This having been found without any Date of the Year and the Author having forgoten when it was cannot find any one that more nearly succeeds the foregoing one * The Laws of Paradise were hereupon given down * The Father
Law of Sin hath Dominion so long as he liveth So from hence the Spirit did testifie that nothing less then a Thorough Death would put me into a Capacity of this Marriage with the Lamb. For he will match himself only to a Virgin Spirit incorporating and thereby changing into his own pure Humanity and this is a Begetting into a Living Substance which springeth through the Death of the Old Which as the Grain that dissolveth in the Earth and generateth a New Body so in like manner doth the New Creature spring forth which indeed is Christ our Life whose appearance will put an end to Sin in us Now what brought in the Curse the Care the Toil and the Impotentcies which distress poor Man in this his fallen estate but a Deviation from his God And while in this state he stands as a Debtor to Sin being under the Dominion of it this maketh him obnoxious to all the Calamities which do attend those that live in Bodies Elementary But now to hear of a Possibility of a Putting off of this Body of Sin this is good Tidings indeed and verily the Prophet which is risen in me hath prophesied that such a Day is at hand And that I shall be a Witness of Jacob's Star arising and shall see for my self and not for another Then shall that saying be fulfilled Death is swallowed up in Victory even the Death of that First Husband who so long hindred my Marriage with the Lamb. Who by a New Law from Mount Sion hath set me free from the Law of Sin and Death Be astonished O ye who are Wounders and Despisers of this Grace which I now see is near to be Revealed For the Garments of the Bride are making ready and it is granted to me to see in whose hand they be O Wisdom to thee is committed only the Ordering of this Wedding Garment which of divers Colours shall be that known from all others may be the King's Daughter who under thy Teaching and Discipline is committed April the 20th 1675. The Shulamits Debate Expostulation with Wisdom OH my Mother how is it that thou hast shewed me of the Glory of thy House and of the Honour Riches and Dominion of thy Kingdom and hereby hath allured and drawn the Spirit of my Mind that I cannot turn my Eye from thee my Senses being refined and with thy Life close touched that I altogether incapable am to join to Baal or to immerse my self with the druggy polluted Life of this outward Principle which hath no consistency with that transparent state where unto thou hast called me with thee to have my Conversation as one that hath obtained Grace to be sirnamed by thee and admitted into the secret of thy Counsel in order to some peculiar Service for thee If so why is it I am yet straitned in force and power What signal mark do I bear to demonstrate my holy and consecrated Calling to wait in thy Pavilion What Commission have I from thee to shew whereby all unbelieving and gain-saying Spirits may be convinced and put to silence true it is I have had free Communications through Transportation of my Spirit but what is this without fixation and Seal of the Power which may bear Record of its own Omnipotency working forth to redress all Maladies and Grievances seeing I have taken upon me to plead suffer me yet a little to empty and unload my self to thee whom I well know to have the tender working Bowels of a Mother and numbrest all my Complaints the first Argument is from thy free choice of me calling me out of all Nations Tongues and Peoples no more to know my Fathe'rs House or the Land of my Earthly Nativity but to renounce and seperate from all attending thy Appointments only at whose Knee I have been for some time brought up to hear and learn the manner of the worship of my God which is expected in a different Living All-Powerful Ministration which to know is indeed Life but to act forth from that Life brings the Joy Peace and Glory which will be the Renown of Wisdom's Nursery among whom I have thus far found favour as to have her Friendly Salutations with Word upon Word sealing Instructions to me but this is not enough Oh the Spirit and Breath that goeth forth with all Influencing Powers to create new Forms of things this I know will give the express signature of a Godlikeness putting forth through Nature's contemtible Appearance Here is surely a matchless Glory to break forth the highest Mystery which was ever unveiled the best and choicest of all Wisdom's Treasury yet to be brought out for such as pursue and make it their only one Interest minding and regarding nothing else Oh my Mother while herein have I busied my self in putting and throwing off all Weights that I might come a naked Spirit unto thee How have the pernitious Necessities cryed for the out-part to have Right done it to act and work and plot in Reasons Counsel-House as the manner is of all which live in the gross Animal Body is known to thy all-viewing Eye which runneth to and fro and what my Conflicts have been and still are while I have studied to evade and make my escape through the Throng of Worldly-Wise Reasons Guard who have by order of their great Prince watched me in every going out and in when with my only Friend I would my Time secretly in all sweetness spend contrivance hath not been wanting to draw me down to wear again the dark Linsywolsey-Gown I being well aware through divine caution These are the Pirats that have lain in wait for me to take what Substance is with me embarked So that Perils on all kinds do beset but this my Ark above all Waters doth keep floating a Man of War is within which will keep this Vessel from being a Prize to the subtil Man of Sin pitched within and without by Wisdom's Skill no fear of leaking while I thy bottom am so saith the Amen Thus encountring fresh with Temptations and strong Gusts from the cold North which I feel many times blow so sharp as if they would put back the Spring from coming on upon which only my Hope is entertained which keeps up my Spirit from fainting Thus while I was pleading and pressing hard for the finishing Power to come down that might put an end to all Strife whioh is from the Root of Sin Here is a Break by the loss of the Original Therefore O Shulamite do not thou judge thy Furnace to be too hot it well becomes thee the same with thy Lord in all things to be who in thee beareth and endureth and suffereth Were it not that hadst high Conjunction with the Deity thou wouldst not stand in that Enmity universally to what from the Root of Iniquity doth spring How much better is it to be numbred with thy Jesus amongst the Transgressors and to bear the Sins of others rather then thy own that the Evil One may
then in all former Ministrations whatever Oh now then to my Call and Cry within you take special Recognizance it is my Elijah's Voice that the Way of the Holy Ghost might be made plain and strait Take heed no Lyon or Wolf so much as once set their Foot on it Make your Watch still strong for slimy muddy Pits are on each hand the great Levia than there doth under Water lie waiting to see if here you do set your Feet awry For this subtle Serpent doth well know hereby all former and present Prophecyes will be prolonged if not cut off So that if by any means he could Ingulf you within this noisome Pit where all devouring Fish of Prey do lie which still would be eating out your Belief and Confidence in what do's lie beyond the Border of the Senses he will not fail to do so Because it is not for the gross but for the pure and immaculate Eye only to espy those Celestial Glories Whereof not only to the Sight I do here you my beloved Lambs invite but come I say and tast what in my upper Banquetting-House is to be found to which ye yet so high never ascended where the Ghostly Body upon the Crystalline Sea is set But stay yet ye must and ye must it not touch with unwashen Hands with strong scented Oil your Finger must drop while in this Dish ye them dip to give proof ye are a prepared Guest who have put on the Bridegroom your Robe this will be your Tickets Testimony that right you have to eat of this choice Mess which only for the Bride and Bridegroom are set forth Though with many sweet and pleasant Fruits I have out of my Paradisical Garden you fed and with the Spirit of the Vine I have your Thirsts often satisfied yet none like or to be compared to this Therefore it is reserved as the strong Meat which only those that are come to ripe and perfect Age can bear thereof to eat Therefore go thy way and be comforted that ye are entred into Love's Eternal Calendar and may assuredly of this last and great Gift partake as ye shall in the bright Temple grow reaching to the full Stature of your Jesus To which Coming fear not but your Father will equally dispence the Holy Ghost as his free Benevolence Grow grow get up to this high Nativity with all speed The Most High hath great need of such worthy high Disciplined Spirits to go forth bearing the Heavenly Trophy and Banner of Glory which may take away fallen Nature's reproach How much will it be the joy of Wisdom your Mother to see you come up through all Tribulations to inherit the Antient and Royal Seat near unto that Great King your Prince and Personal Saviour through the introducing of his pure Spirit and Nature without which ye never had been capable of so high a Calling as to have fellowship with him not only in the Knowledge but in the joint Possession without any defraud as ye shall see impartially when this Ghostly-Dove with her Cherubin-Wing doth with all Power upon you rest so as no more from you ever to flye or withdraw O run hard still cry knock and call I will assure thee from the Word of a God it shall abundantly answer to all A Memorandum March the 13th 1675 6. FRom the 6th of this present to the 13th I have been exercised in great Conflicts upon and through a sudden surprize upon the mortal part of my Companion and Fellow-Labourer in that Paradisical Husbandry he being smote and struck as with a Leviathian Dart upon his Animal and Vital Spirit the first time was on the Monday being abroad upon his returning home which went over again The next Day about the same time a Feaver took him and in great Violence ceased on his Heart and so he wrestled a good space of time in great Anguish which so affected me that I drew in and awakned a great Travel for his escape from these Sorrows of Death which had so ceased upon him I having had some warning of an imminent Danger and Peril which I saw the Night before he was first affâ—…cted and came down to advertise him hereof before he went from home As thus there was a deep Pit with great Swelling Waters under which the subâ—…il Levia than with his outstretched Jaws did lie to grasp in such as near there did walk Now the Doctor with my self being that way to pass I heard a word uttered Be ware come not too near it is a dangerous place Upon which I watchful was and took good heed and avoided it that the Doctor might not therein be ingulphed but draw off with all speed Which did predict there was some Danger nigh this being the Pit of Death as by the effect thereof soon did shew it self But the mighty Jehovah hereunto a Counter-check did give to reverse what the destroying Angel was upon executing For this second assault was very grievous being upon Tuesday which did abide on his vital Spirits from 4 in the Afternon till 10 at Night In which interim a Daniel's Spirit did come down which in us did Pray with mighty fervency winged up by Faith as knowing that in this ascending Power stood our help For after I had ceased and the Doctor began to Pray I saw a bright Star dance about his Bed and a Word came with it unto me I have heard and I will deliver for my own Name sake out of the present Jaws of Death This was a signal Evidence that Saving Health was near and that in this Hour of Exercise Jesus with his Healing Vertue would appear which soon after was witnessed So the Pains for that time were asswaged and he slept that Night and the next Day had respite So as we did hope this Storm was gone over But on Wednesday Night he found himself ill again So together we did seek the Lord for his Counsel whether or no he might venture upon some outward means to help to remove that violent Humour which by that strong Leviathan would have grasped away his Life For without permission from the Court and College of our Spiritual Physicians we dared not to adventure because we had committed the whole Cure of this deadly Wound to those All-healing Soveraign Powers While then we were supplicating and soliciting to know the Mind of Wisdom â—…erein this Word came It is suffered â—…n condescention to the instability of â—…our Faith however by Grace the corruptible Drugs shall be changed in their Constitution and Quality for else they in this case could not be available For know that my secret Medicine must be the Preparative Then after this the Doctor was free to take a Powder which gave him two or three Vomits and Purgations On Thursday Morning after which he was very cheerful and thought himself to be eased of his weight and talon which had so terrified him but after he had Dined it beset him again more fiercely and violently then at
Mortal Shame Here Re-aspiring from their humble Vale To meet the inclining vigorous scented Male In their Dewie Fruitful Bed Their Sharon Rose the Virgin Lilies wed Whom as with strict Embrace inwrapt They lock within their Flowery Lap A Stock of Graces numberless proceed A Spring of lesser Beauties breed The clear tralucent Forms all Shade disdain Disclosing freely to be seen The Wonder-World within Each Argent Nerve and ev'ry Azure Vein The beauteous Love-Eye burning in the Heart From whence Loves Centres endless multlply As thick-set Spangles of the Sky Raising a Sting of Joy in ev'ry Part. In ev'ry Point a Venus bright Each Star a World of new Delight Opening an unexhausted Spring of Bliss Each Nymph her self a Paradise So fine so pliant the external Mould That ev'n therein the brighter Soul With all its Graces Train Imprints it self distinct and plain And as in Fabled Streams Where Silver Currents roll On Orient Pearl and Sands of Gold Displays her rich inestimable Gemms Which free exposed to view In their untarnisht native Hue Reflex thrâ—… Bodies Chrystalline In their transparent Mirror shine But deeper yet and more amazing Fair Out-shines out-flames thro' her Express the Only Sons refulgent Character Now now ye Paradisial Nymphs appear The Virgin Queens Attendant Graces Deâ—…r Arise arise and shine Illustrious Brigade Of Heroines Divine In Terrible-Majestick-Gay Parade With Orient Beams of Light Scatter the miâ—…y Gloom of Night And banish every black Infernal Shade Arise and shine Illustricuâ—… Heroines Cherubick Phalanx bright of Amazons Divine Arise Arise and Shine Hast Hast away And let your well-trim'd flowing Tresses fair Waving in wanton Ringlets Gild the Air Ont-beaming Sun-bright with pellucid Ray And as they loosely move Fan'd by fresh Odorous Gales of Love With Heavens warm Gentle-breathing Zephirs Play Hast to Proclaim The Great the Good the Now-Revolving Day Amen Hosanna Hallelujah Hast to Proclaim The Period-Circle Full of Endless Faâ—…e The Great the Good the Now-Revolving Day For this we shout aloud we sing we pray Amen Amen Hosanna Hallelujah Hero's fall back again Lead up the Virgin Train And Hand in hand as Love-pair'd Twins advance In Sacred well-pac't Mystick Dance Tracing on holy Ground Circling Jehovah's Altar round Where Ay Love-Incense burns Goodness and Grace abound Whence Living Coals out-fly Generate and multiply Seraphick Ardors ev'ry way to impart To each bright-flaming and Love-melting Heart The quick Celestial Fire 's Straight their Sweet-warbling Tongues inspire While ev'ry Voice and ev'ry Trumpet sings Glory to the Returning King of Kings Lov 's Golden Aera Now Now Now begins Now Now in ev ry Breath in ev'ry sound The Universe around Loves Everlasting Gospel rings Glory to the Returning King of Kings Loves Glerious Aera Now Now Now begins Fresh springing still th' Inspir'd Harmonious Vein Tunes up to higher Key and loftier Strain In more Inchanting Layes Varying new Hymns of Praise Jointly th' ascending Voice and Soul to raise Ev'n till they both aspire And join with the Seraphick Quire And under Gods bright Eye In Influence serene they lie Dissolv'd in Rapturous Hallelujahs As that sweet little Chorister that flies And singing mounts the Skies Till all his Breath and Song be spent Then down he falls in sweeter Languishment So do Angelick Souls in Sounds aspire They mount and Sing Upon the Doves bright Wing That gently fans and feeds th' Ethereal Fire All Emulous to win the steep Ascent The mighty Mountains Seven Those Lilie-deckt and Rosie-flowring Hills Form'd by th' All-bounteous Hand of Heaven Its Darling Sons with meer Delight to fill Till in Melodious Ravishment Their Powers their Voice their very Soul be spent The Light Becomes too blazing bright The Bliss Unsufferable is Then down with speed they take their humble flight In Adoration deep yet but retire Tâ—… embrace more Near and be exalted higher Now Loves last sweetest Mystick Death to try Rapt in sublime Exstatick Joys Expire Intranc'd and Silent lye Thus in soft languent Slumbers sweet true Sleep That Rests in Gods Abyssal Deep The rest in Visionary Dreams they See They Tast they Feel What is unknown Immense Unspeakable Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee That sets each world of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim aloud the Mighty Jubilee O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread its Fame thâ—… Woods and Hills and Plains The Isles and Seas around Let Sportful Eccho's play And dancing all the way Swell and Intune the trembling Sounds anew All well-tun'd Voices raise To great ELCHAJAH's Praise Peace to all Worlds dear Love to Man to God hiâ—… Honour duâ—… O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread his Fame the Woods and Isles and Seas And Heaven and Earth around Too long too long the wretched World Lies wast in wild Confusion hurl'd Unhing'd in ev'ry part each Property Strugling disrang'd in fiercest Enmity The whole Creation Groans And Labouring with Perpetual Toil In Man's Rebellion vile Her own Hard Fate bemoans But now shall Natures Jaâ—…r Cease her Intestine War Now shall the long Six working Days of Strife â—…ttain their Line and to their Crown arrive At last set free In peaceful Rest of Sabbath true Heav'n and Earth created new â—…o Celebrate a Universal Jubilee Concord divine now meets in ev'ry Part. And Love subdues and Reigns in ev'ry Heart Ore all In Summ or Individual Triumphant Harmony Triumphant Love In Sweetest Unity Combin'd together move Ev'n from the Zenith high Of the clear boundless Empyrean Skie The Throne of God â—…own to Earth's inmost Central deep abode â—…ll is Concent and perfect Amity All in Proportion due In Weight and Number true Ev'n from the Zenith high Th' All-radiant Throne of God â—…own to Earths inmost central 〈◊〉 Abode â—…othing but Love but Love and Harmony â—…here every Voice and every Trumpet sings â—…lory to the Eternal King of Kings â—…oes Golden Aera now now now begins Now now in every Breath in every Sound The Universe around Her Everlasting Gospel â—…ings â—…lory to the returning King of Kings â—…ves Glorious Golden Aera now now now begins Now harmless thro the Skie â—…et the sweet whisking treble Lightnings fly Full Base frm Shoar to Shoar Shall in deep Thunders Roar â—…ot Death not Horror now but Melody Now Mighty Bard sing out thy Sonnet free Nor doubt it true shall be Come Thou and joyn Thy loud Prophetick Voice with mine `` Ring out ye Chrystal Sphears `` Now bless our Humane Ears For ye have Power to touch our Senses so `` Now shall your Silver Chime `` Move in Melodious time And the deep Base of Heav'ns great Orb shall Blow From the bright Zenith high Of the clâ—…ar boundless Empyrean Skie From the All-radiant Throne of God Down to Earths inmost central deep Abâ—…de Nothing but pure Concent and Unity All in Proportion due In Weight and Number true All Universal Love and Harmony This Globe Terrene no longer turn'd Askanee Hitch't in her Poles shall now direct advance And thro
Elementary requirings and accordingly make Provision as the rest of my fellow Creatures in the World which were under the Government of that great Monarch Reason to whose Scepter all must bow that live in the Sensitive Animal Life These and such Arguments I was assaulted with and pursued as Jacob was by Laban when he took his Flight to return to his Father's House so greatly distressed was my Spirit seeing it self so oppressed that it could not tell where to make its escape or how to discharge my self from being a Subject to his Starry Kingdom as I stood in the Line of Nature I was under the dominion of the Starry Region in the strife of the four Elements which brought in the Curse where Care and Fear and the toil and labour of the Body did consist Saith the Prince of the earthly Life How wilt thou acquit thy self from my Laws and break thy Brother Esau's Yoke from off thy Neck Thus in obedience having drawn up my Charge and having good proof and witness hereof I presented it to the view of my Mother who said Are these things so indeed I shall advise with the Deity how to destroy them out of thy inward Coasts seeing thou dost not join or take any part with them but hast brought in Evidence against them as Traytors to the Crown Dignity and Dominion of the Lamb whose Power they would depose him of in his chosen and elect Seed and though these evil seducing Spirits think their Mountain so strong that it is never to be moved yet know their Day of Judgment is hastening on apace and they will be given up to be tryed by the Fiery Law which issueth forth from the Ancient of Days who hath appointed a Day in which he will avenge his Elect that cry mightily to him as oppressed by these invading Spirits Be of good Comfort the Judge is nominated the Jury is chosen by whom the Verdict will be given therefore bâ—… true to the Interest of my Son who iâ—… appointed to judge the World in thee and to cast out Hell Sin and Death the Beast and his retinue into that Lake where there shall be no return out thence to assault thee more with their Dregs and Poysonous Floods This is to be done by joining Issue and Power with me who am come to help thee against the great Leviathan who makes War most where he sees his Time of Reigning is almost worn out and that he must have no more place who thinks it very great Injustice to be cast out of Man's Nature before the laying down the Mortal Body But oh to thee let me commend this present state that in my Virgin-Purity thou mayst still be found for I delight thee all fair to see then with my presence frequently I would visit most satisfiedly wherein you tell me all your Joy doth lie Then droop not but most pleasant be as those whose Name and Place is ever with me Call in also those who of doubtful Heart are apt to be Unanimously go forward remembring what the true Nazarite is to be of Holy Courage and Divine Magnanimity no more must such hang down the Head or to feebleness of Mind give way but the Power display which in the Seven Locks concealed are it is but needful that you all Force do draw out for while these Earthly Spirits do border upon your Land they will be scouting out therefore without my proved Armour dare not with them to parley this is the Charge I shall leave with thee August the 10th OH the Wrestling Wheel that I did feel moving to grind the Earthly part down setting all at Variance in me that so it might still keep uppermost and subdue the numerous Hosts that would my Will have forced for did that but yield then the Field where the Treasure and Substance is concealed would obnoxious to the Robber and Spoiler be who hath watched the Prize to take from me Therefore in variety of Temptations I placed am to prove whether or no I can stand and let the Waves still beat and go over me and no ill fear while the Ark of Faith about doth inclose me the great Swellings of Jordan shall not afright me while I do see the strength of Salvation so nigh that willeth and bringeth to pass according to the out-flowing of the Omnipotency which from the new-born-Will most prosperously effecteth all things Then will it be seen what the Conjoyning of the Eternal Constellations bringeth forth upon the hidden Man through their Fiery Drivings which now thrust forward for Consummation that I might see the issue of what I have been made to hope and believe and pray for Though Prophecies and Revelations do for a time most delightfully entertain the Internal Senses yet short they are of the Body which consisteth of the Heavenly Things themselves as it is well said Prophecies Tongues and Faith and Hope shall have their Cessation but the Kingdom of the Love all Concord the bright Bodified Spirit that hath received Dominion as a super-addition is beyond the Priestly and Prophetical Office But while I was reaching after and inquiring when I might expect the coming down of the Seven-Throne-Powers which are the Pillars of this Kingdom by whom it will be established for ever in the Perfection of Righteousness the Word said to me Rest a while these two are the foregoing Ministrations that will make much for the third the Holy Order of a Priest to give attendance in the Tabernacle is no light thing to be near to the Majesty of Purity which requires a perfect Consecration For the Holy Being will have none about him to minister to him but anointed Ones from whom may be smelt the Spicy Perfume that so nothing of the dead unsavory part may be felt this will qualifie for the Ordination of the Power Here wait till made perfect then thy own Hands shall be sufficient for thee whereby thou wilt find ability to fetch in out of the secret Tower where is kept for every full grown one this presented great Jewel of Power which I dare not to any commit till they perfectly become wise of a sound and unchangeable mind to keep secret what the will-pleasure of the Deity is to have from the unworthy to be concealed no unfaithful Dalilah ever more shall here with be intrusted which of a double mind be which goeth after any Lover besides me therefore make proof of Truth Love and Loyalty in a fixed Virginity before this discovery be made forth in Verity but this know the true Nazarite is with Him who will not be deceived in his choice as the figurative Sampson was This mighty Man of strength will take none into his Bosom but such as may be confided in Therefore if thou wouldst his Dalilah be of perfect Beauty with spotless Chastity which will well please this mighty Prince of Peace who will not thence refuse thee when well assured that thou hast declined and forsaken thy Father's House and Kindred
Good Upon which no Corrupter ever came or could come or with any of these Springing Essences was ever mingled hereupon By the Serpent no Poysonable Rays were ever here at all scattered it is a Place which ever from his Eye was hid by the Divine Constellations All which Plants here thou dost see from one Seed do after their kind thus multiply in this Variety Now for the Holy Ointment which I would give thee skill to make Go first to that Bed where the pretious Thyme is included and take there seven Handfuls thereof then take the like quantity of the Baulm of Hope and of the Sweet Majoram of Patience according to the same perfect number as the two former To these let there be also added the Spirit of Mints Power the Eye-bright of All-seeing the Rue of Fortitude and the Hyssop of Purity These do thou gather when the Sun-Beams are in their greatest heighth and Influence and extract the Juice out of them and so dissolve it with the Kidney-Fat of a choice Deer that must be slain on purpose for this use This thou wilt know is to be obeyed and yielded to though it be even thy dear Sensitive Life which for this Composition must be dissolved the Death of which is only Serviceable for so Secret an Use. Hereupon a soft gentle Fire from the Altar is to be taken and then diffuse in the Golden Vessel of the pure Humanity and thou shalt see what a fragrant Restorative Ointment this will come to be whereby all Cures shall be wrought Practitionally the Knowledge of this Art being engrafted in thee as a Natural Scyon co-inherent within thy inward parts to transmute and make all that which was of a divided Property to be of one pure and rarified Sort and Constitution as relating to the healing part which through the whole Manhood is to disperse it self to settle all again in its first Primitive Order Then again here is another secret greatly requisite to be learnt as the Spicy Oil which is the Spirit of Spirits extracted and drawn out from the Seven Spirits mentioned the Ingredients to this are deep and worthy of Inquiry which cannot be illustrated but by way of Metaphorical Description which the wise and apt under Wisdom's Manuduction will soon understand for that all the Materials are lying or growing so close about thee within this Physical Garden which may be called the Eflux of the Deity which evaporateth through every Plant and Tree which groweth here from and by which ye may understand the high and precious Quality of whatever you shall a Composition make out Hereupon did arise a Query Whether it might not be as effectual to take of these Plants and Trees as they naturally grow in themselves for an healing Balsom and Liquor for the restoring of Life without mingling them in a Confectionary way To this I was answered thus by the holy and profound Artist that said Through the uniting of many Spirits Powers and Vertues into one sublime Substance there is produced an Almighty Force and Strength which would not be while they continued in their separated Essences but through the Coagulation by the Hand of Wisdom into one Quintessence it would have its vigorous penetration as in the accomplishment hereof ye may witness if ye wax not saint but persevere with all diligence and not be turned aside though you do meet sometime with the Waters of Strife but hold out or all is lost which already is wrought For I would not that either of you who so voluntarily your selves to me have bound should grow weary till I your Work have crowned having chosen you out of my Olive-Ground to sprout that so ye may to each other empty forth what I your Fountain have blessed you with as a fruitful Womb to bring forth even that mighty Lordly Sprout which will make your Heavens and Earth to shout and all the Hosts of them to praise and celebrate the Rising Star from the East therefore with all fear and care go on and persevere till that all things shall be put under him who is born in you the King of Salem against whom great Conspiracies will be but as he in you shall grow up he shall them all defeat through the Crown of this anointing Oil which I am to shew thee how to make First then come with me into my secret Lebanon where the Beds of Spices are and take thee seven Ounces of the Mace of Grace of like quantity of the Spikenard of Love the Camphore of Peace the Heart-cheering Cloves of the Saffron of Joy the Noble Frankincence of all Faith the Myrrh of Triumphant Victory the Casst of a Sound Mind and Perfect Heart Take all these and put them under the grinding Wheel which maintaineth its uncessant working Motion within thee till they come to be an Oily Substance mixed into one perfect Lump then diffuse all in the Juice of the Pomegranat for a certain time adding hereunto the Powder of Gold of Pervilium which is to be mixed with the Magistery of Pearl and the Ruby-Spirit all which close in a pure Crystalline Bottle into which nothing ever before was put and set it constantly under the Sun-shine of thy Heavens for the perfect Clarification thereof Which at the tenth number will attain to the full height of a Life-quickning Spirit Having taken good notice of this Mysterious Receit I lay'd it up in me as a Precious Jewel resolving to follow the Rules of this Intrinsick one and to make an experiment hereof if by any means it might be brought to a Triune Body of such sublimity All which must be wrought in the Tent of the Virgin-Wisdom where no soiling thing must interfere while this Composition is in doing And only Sanctuary Instruments I did see must be used here Having then order to discharge all out of this Celestial Place no Servant which appertained to the old and first Tabernacle I durst to admit for my aid or help or in any service therein to imploy Now all that are to rest within this Place where the Glory of the Majesty does it self unfold with the first Balsam must be anointed thus to me it was declared Oh the great Purity that I did see was required in ministring about these Holy Things it cutteth off quite from all Intermedlings in a putrified Earthly State the Eye so single and clear is through this Ointment purifying it that it cannot bear any more to behold in it self either Spot Blemish or Wrinkle knowing well none else in the Tabernacle of God's Holiness with him can live Therefore in the Oil of Consecration I am appointed for to abide and to drink of this Liquor of Life which suddenly may ready be through the diligent Hand that prepareth it as I do both feel and see which maketh my Spirit so intent hereupon that while the great Artist is at work I know not how my Eye to take off that so I may be able and skilful after the same manner
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
sure binding and a Wedlock-tye betwixt bright raised Spirits and me till the Great Day of the Visible Marriage shall be Solemnized in the Free Jerusalem Till which hold ye fast and take good heed that not one of these Links on your parts be broken if but from any one of these ye should unlink ye would fall down by the way and never to me ascend But I know that Wisdom is thy Friend who will not suffer thee to break from me She is a busie Agent still to spur thee on her Law of kindness is found to me thy Jesus in thy Heart which will give an Ascending Might that so ye may come down again in a flaming Body of Light Which is the only design of Wisdom that blessed Engineer who by these Golden Links draweth you continually nearer to her City This was further Opened in the Seven following Days by Wisdom but the Copy is here Deficient May the 1st 1676. The New Book Opened Or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS THis Morning my Spiritual Informer came and presented to my view a Book wherein great and hidden Secrets were writ telling me here was neither Parable nor Allegory but the plain Doctrine of the Everlasting Gospel Into which it was said it is given thee to look for it is an Epistle of good-will and love to thee and thy fellow Waiter that ye may come to a right and genuine understanding of those weighty things which lay concealed under the Vail of the Letter The summ of which is the Incarnation Dying Rising Ascending and Glorifying of thy Jesus All which being finished in his own Personality I now look to see that all should be actually wrought in you to which end I have poured out of my Spirit upon you which may bring you up through all to me Read then and see in Wisdom's Glass what is contained in this Book for a further instructing of thee into a Gospel Death and Rising into Victory Many are the Deaths ye have passed over and I grant every Death hath brought forth a rising Body so that ye are come so far as to bear the very Image of the Heavenly Man in which the Life-Seed doth spring But this is not all you are to aspire unto but you are here to dye with Jesus For in all those foregoing Deaths you had not that fellowship as ye shall have with me when I am grown up in you For I the Just One died for the Unjust so I must Personate this dying again in you after a Paradisical manner sowing my own pure Grain and Seed into the Mount Sion Ground For as it is said such as the Seed and Soil is such a Body in the Resurrection it will be and such a Body it will produce And although you come thus to dye in the Lord I mean in your Lord Jesus Christ in whom your Life lies safe and inoculated there will be no danger And while you are sowing here be not as others without Hope for indeed you sow not that Body which shall be to the account of a Bare return as Spirit for Spirit or Body for Body For though it was sown a single Seed yet it shall be various and manifold though the Seed is sown contemptible yet it shall rise honourable and though sown as weak yet it will rise mighty in strength So mighty potent strong and honourable this Resurrection will be as it will bring forth the Seed sown with another manner of Body then what hath yet been known For ye shall know all Blessedness indeed by thus dying into me fear it not therefore but valiantly spill your Life and mingle it with me then shall ye know a cessation to your own busie-acting Properties For that Spirit which dyeth into me ceaseth to Sio sweetly sleeping and slumbering in Sion's Golden Dust till I my secret Trump shall sound with the Vial of Life quickening Oyl poured in which shall make the dead in you to come forth with an unchangeable habit and form of the Holy Ghost of which I speak I will after this manner raiâ—…e up at the last Day which day to thee is very near if thou canst sink and dye so totally into me who do promise to thee long here lay buried thou shalt not be This is the Connexion to the former Part. Before I the LORD will move again to the finishing of the last glorious Mystery the first that can dye thus into me shall rise as the first Fruits out of me into a Body Celestial and mighty Powerful For my Seed shall never Corruption see it shall soon rise into a Mount Sion Body Lay but the Ground-work hereunto sure and ye shall see and feel another Spirit and another Form after this passive Sleep For after it ye shall awake in that Image which shall be no more despised being all compleat and giving proof of my Resurrection and Life Oh blessed are they who can say that they were dead in me and are alive evermore to Reign with me in my Kingdom waiting for me their Lord from Heaven to bring them thither For in this new risen Body I shall not be ashamed of thee it is so Signatured into the Father's Nature of Purity that in it thou mayst freely ascend to me Where I will in the Light Airy Region meet with thee and bring thee through all the Pearly Gates O come resign and dye know me no more out of this Dying and Resurrection State Thus Death is not Metaphorically but Really the last Enemy that is to be destroyed Here Sing ye may that dwell in Sion's Golden Mold and triumphantly Cry Oh Death by this Spiritual dying I am mortally become thy Death and so swallowed up as you can nothing of it see Go go preach thou this for the Everlasting Gospel to such as have an Ear to hear it rejoyce and give Glory to God on high Now when the Hour of this Judgment shall fully come by ushering in the New Jerusalem freedom through the Streets of Nature This Gospel Ministration which is all Love Grace Mercy and Peace by those shall then be proclaimed who do partake of this Resurrection as the first Fruits They shall be honoured with this Message to all those who in this Noah's Age are asleep in their dark Prison-Houses For an Almighty Voice I in you my Sion-born Spirits will utter forth to call in more to know this Death-Liberty and Life-Resurrection and Ascension into all Fellowships and free Communions with the High Eternity and Me the chief Head of all Sion's new risen Body Whereunto being come no other Banner will I display there but that Love which casteth out all Bondage and Fear May the 6th 1676. In the Morning being the first Day pondering and considering this last Opening which shewed me the necessity of dying into my Jesus and of sowing the Seed of my Eternal Spirit as an unmixed Grain sifted from all Chaffiness or Cockle or any such thing for to twist about it Thus the Word said
me Suffer these Wheels to turn in thee though it be painful rejoycing that ye are come to dwell under this Cherub-Covering where under abiding with all wariness the Eagle-Bird may fly out thece in great Might Strength and Glory Which Words I took great Observation of for much is to be understood therefrom as is to be believed in by us whom it concerns This Day in the Evening at our own private Meeting in which the Lord did much appear with us it was given me to speak from the new covered Earth which was once as a solitary parched Ground but now it was shewed me that it is now become all covered with the utmost variety of springing Flowers all flourishing which will still abide in us so long as the Water-Courses keep their due springing Tides with the Spiritual Constellations opening from the Cherub-Bride who dwelleth in that hot Beaming Body of the Sun that reneweth Life to every growing Plant that is brought forth under the Cherub-Tent Oh here I did see in some few a fruitful Field or Soil and a full replenished Garden which invited him who is our true Seeds-man in to view and see what might be more eminent and excellent in us to engage his walking presence with us In whose company we do witness the out-breathed scent of what is planted by his own Hand November the 4th 1676. This Day going out I suffer'd loss meeting with some scatterings which for that space stopped the Wheel-work which being sensible of I had no quiet till the holy Watcher came down and moved it forward again clearing all that did clog and made it move heavily This Word with an Emphatical Power to me came saying Oh wherewithal shall a Young Man cleanse his Way but by taking heed unto my Word which was further confirmed by another ecchoing Voice a little space after Regard this as a seasonable Warning So that from hence it was fully set home upon me that every speaking Word from under the Cherubim Oracle from whence the holy Sound does pass the Light thereof is to be obeyed in all things And it would be as the Burning Wheel refining and making pure for no longer then our Minds and Hearts as the High-way of the Spirit are cleansed can I said the Holy One walk there For my delightful Pace is through the green and flourishing Path where on either side Plants of Righteousness do stand all in their Youthful Statures November the 5th 1676. This Morning it was said to me There was a secret reservatory where the hiding of all the Armory Power was Then something of a strong fenced Place standing upon a Hill was shewn me which was so high that it would be very difficult thither to ascend Which caused great thoughtfulness in me In which interim of time the Dr. coming in to Pray this Vision passed away and I understood nothing more of it that day But while the Dr. was in a very contrite frame so expressed by Prayer this Word concerning him was spoken The humble Person I will save whose Cause I have heard and will plead Which giveth a new Sealing Witness to all former Words that the Love-Eye looketh still towards those that are lowly of Heart taking heed to the inspeaking Word watching daily thereunto November the 6th 1676. This Night the Wheel-motion was very restless in me to find out this Armory Power of which I had a presentation greatly sollicitous was the Spirit of Prayer pleading to find an entrance into that secret place where I was assured the hiding Gifts of Eternal Powers were concealed Which being found that would then by a willing suffered-force be fetched out to effect the great and high intent of that mighty Cyrus who will be raised as that principal Shepherd to go before us unto this strong fenced Place Who said unto me Be still thy Time is not yet fulfilled to enter this Tower of Strength There is an Eagle-Bird under the Cherub Wing which is a hatching for which you must wait a while till it is all fletched and flig that only can mount you up It must be this Eagle Eye that can fly so high to face this secret Place upon which the Sun-Beams do lie so hot that no other can come nigh her It is but fruitless Labour to climb up with a ponderous Body to the top of this Mountain Therefore keep close and warm under the Dove's Wing and your Spirit will answerably grow into the Nature of a swift flight to reach to this place Which is called by the Name of Shammah the everlasting Armory of Wisdom and Strength lieth there to be drawn out by such as can assume the Eagle-strength Oh hereunto watch with all heed and keep under the overshadowing Wing that ye may come hereunto at one Flight that ye may be out of all further care and fear This is so strong a Fort that commands all Worlds that stand under it They will indeed find the impregnable Power who do attain the full growth of this swift winged Might Then it will be in your own Power to scatter and make fly whatever opposeth you from the Spirit of Enmity all which shall be subdued from the Armory of this strong Tower that henceforth to you who are diligent Seekers shall be opened Look and see for the Eagle-Shell is assuredly upon the crackling November the 7th 1676. At this time it was much upon my Spirit to seek and make after that which might evidence not only to our selves but to the unbelieving World round about us that the Life-acting Power was with us For else whereby should we be able to make out our conjunction with the Spirit but by stretching forth the full Banners of it as the great Testimonial Witness of the mighty Presence taken up in us As I was deep upon this Consideration this Word from the Lord came to me saying What more signal Sign can you desire to demonstrate your true Spiritual Birth by then this that you have not heard of and seen the Sign of the Son of Man in the Heavens as Distinct from you But behold this is given you the very same to be which in its time will shew it self to be the Son of God by and through the Resurrection from the Dead Till which time ye must suffer under a Vail in Conformity like to your Jesus who was of no reputation in the World as giving him no Credit nor Honour till by Death they saw the Vail rent and the Earth shake then they began to be convinced that this must needs be the God-Man Even so on thou must proceed to give witness by thy Death mystically as he did naturally give proof thereof by Rocks rending and Earth-tremblings which will be at the yielding up of the Ghost This happily somewhat hath been reached to but yet there must be an open shew thereof Crucifixion is a lingring Death let the Blood and Water so freely out-run from thee that may bear Record to all that thy