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A95810	Unpremeditated thoughts of the knowledge of God, whom to know, is life eternal. With some discoveries of the mysteries of creation, in the six days work, and the seventh days rest. : To which is added, a short discourse concerning those two great principles of natural philosophy, matter and motion. / Humbly offered to consideration, by one of the Philadelphia Society, who calls her self Irena.	Institut de recherches européennes sur les noblesses et aristocraties.	1697 (1697)	Wing U92A; ESTC R185871	42,220	173

when old things shall pass away and all things become new And one admirable part of this Work is the bringing forth the New Heaven in us the New Firmament wherein is Light Serenity Calmness the Fire being tempered with the meek Waters of Quietness so that the wrathful property of the Fire is changed into a sweet peaceful Light but this Light Centre cannot be opened in us but by our blessed JESUS who hath the Key of David who opens and no Man shuts and shuts and no Man opens O! 't is our blessed JESUS who opens his own Light in us by his Spirit he causeth his glorious Light to shine out of the Darkness and to arise and to enlarge it self till our whole Body is full of Light There is a certain sign given to know whether the whole Body is full of Light If thy Eye is single our dear Lord tells us our whole Body is full of Light The single Eye is when we fix our Eye upon the Light on the Good first in God himself and in all the Creatures where it is scattered up and down but all from the same Root Now God himself beholds the Evil and the Good but he dwells in the Light So tho' we may see the Evil we must shut our Eye to it and open it to the Good thus stedfastly beholding the Light we shall be transformed into its Likeness However every thing is beautiful in its Season The Evening as well as the Morning is the Second Day And God said again Let the Waters under the Heaven be gathered together into one place and let the dry Land appear and it was so Then God said Let the Earth bring forth the Bud of the Herb that seedeth Seed the fruitful Tree that beareth Fruit c. and it was so And God saw that it was good And the Evening and the Morning were the Third Day In this Third Day 's Work there was a gathering together of vast quantities of Waters that made the Seas those mighty Oceans where the Wonders of God are seen by those who go down into the Deep in Ships Surely the Waters were at first the greatest part of this Globe of the lower World They yet remain very great tho' more Ground hath been gain'd since the first Creation as is plain in many parts of the World There remains in the Sea such a quantity of the Oleous Light or fiery part of the Chaos as ripens them and sometimes gains advantage and a little dries them up and lessens their Quantity This Substance when it is agirated makes the Sea boil like a Pot it often appears like Fire And who know the Nature of Salt especially Sea-Salt will know that this is so and they will know the meaning of that word Every Sacrifice shall be seasoned with Fire and salted with Salt which are equivalent terms Now in the separation of the Elements when the Light was carried upwards and much Water with it and the Waters were gathered together in this Globe the dry Land appeared the Light and Waters being separated from it the Earth appear'd but a Caput Mortuum a Dead Earth till the Prolifick Virtue was call'd forth by the Word of God and then it appeared that Heaven had not left the Earth without first imprinting alovely Image upon it There was left in it so much Life and Heat as quickned it to bring forth innumerable Vegetable Substances of various Size Shape Colour Fruits and Herbs and Flowers with great Variety of Taste and Fragrancy of Smell all to shew forth the Bounty and Magnificence of our Great Creator How freely did the Teeming Earth in this Virgin-state of Purity bring forth the various beautiful Forms of Vegetable Substances before it was Clogg'd and Burthen'd with the Curse The Earth we tread on as Contemptible as we are apt to think of it notwithstanding the Disadvantage it hath by the Fall of Man which brought the Curse upon it there is that Lustre Beauty Excellency in it that if the same Spirit that made it please to open our Eyes to see we shall behold with wonder Sure such Wisdom is worth our seeking and praying for which we have great Enconragement to do when we read of the great Wisdom of Solomon who knew the Nature of all Vegetables from the Tall Cedar to the Low but Sweet Hyssop The residue of the Spirit is with the Lord but for these things he will be sought unto and they that seek shall find a measure of Wisdom if not so great But we must dig deep for it as for hid Treasures and be thankful for a little It is a great blessing to have the Scriptures and any degree of the Spirit of God to open them to us in shewing to us the Wonders of God in the Creatures particularly in the gathering together of the Waters and setting bounds to their proud Waves saying Hither to and no further in causing the dry Land to appear and at the Command of God to appear with an admirable Verdure a beautiful Cloathing which was the end of the Third Day 's Work And the Evening and the Morning were the Third Day The Philosopher's Third Day 's Work is a Separation of the Elements that his Dry Ground appears with a Vegetative Life in it which if he pleases will spring up in his Glass There is in his Ground Beautiful Colours Pleasant Scents and his Earth while in this state may not be Unprofitable or Unfruitful but may be made to bring forth Increase in not Unprofitable Fruits nor is his Verdure unpleasant to behold This is a short Account of the Philosopher's Third Day 's Work A better Hand may supply the shortness and imperfection of it The Third Day 's Work as it is wrought Internally in bringing forth the Fruits of the Spirit is excellently described in the Scripture There is the good Ground spoken of that brings forth Fruit abundantly some fifty some sixty and some an hundred fold It is a blessed thing to have the good Ground in us the Ground that stands out of Dying out of Repentance tho' it was once covered with the Waters it is not now laying again this Foundation of Repentance but they go on to bring forth other good Fruits that they may be rooted and grounded in Love that they may take Root downwards and bring forth Fruit upwards Fruits of Righteousness Fruits of Renown that they may be as Trees planted by the Rivers of Waters bringing forth Fruit in due season How short are many Christians of this Work How then shall we attain to the Seventh Day the Sabbath of Rest However the Work of this Day is very good And the Evening and the Morning is the Third Day Now the Fourth Day 's Admirable Brightness appears before me with such Splendor as is ready to dazle my weak sight wonderful Brightness hinders our sight as much almost as Darkness O glorious Sun of Righteousness arise in my Soul Enlighten my Darkness Let the Shadows flee

Unpremeditated THOUGHTS Of the Knowledge of GOD Whom to know Is LIFE ETERNAL WITH Some Discoveries of the Mysteries of the Creation in the Six Days Work and the Seventh Days Rest To which is added A Short Discourse concerning those Two Great Principles of Natural Philosophy Matter and Motion Humbly offered to Consideration by One of the Philadelphia Society who calls her Self IRENA London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle next Door to the Meeting-House in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street and at the Bible in Leaden Hall-Street 1697. TO THE Most Illustrious And Excellent BENTIVOLIO My Unknown Friend Illustrious Stranger PArdon my giving You a Name since You have not been pleased to make Your Self known to me by any Pardon my not giving You a Name and Titles which might better suit Your High Quality Possibly I might not see thorow Your Disguise However suffer me Great SIR to make Use of this Ignorance to cover my not knowing how to converse with a Person so much Above me I take the Opportunity of Your Vailing Your Self to Approach You As we can better behold the Sun when it Vails it Self than when it breaks through the Clouds Whatever might a little hide Your Greatness no Outward Cloathing could hinder me from seeing the Excellencies of Your Mind The Idea I received of that Encouraged me to pay the small Homage of Presenting these Papers The Mixture that is of mine in them shews the Darkness and Barrenness of my Mind and greatly needs Your Charity and Humility to cover its Imperfection What there is in them worthy Your Observation is not mine but as it is Freely Given and Passively Received If I have any sight at all I tasted a little of the Honey of the Heavenly Canaan and my Eyes are Enlightened My blind Eyes have been Anointed with Eye-Salve and I see tho' it be but little Men as Trees Excellent SIR Accept this small Tribute Accept it as an Expression of Gratitude for the most High and Noble Favours Receive it as the Greatest Act of Charity and Humility You can Exercise especially if You please to pardon my calling You my Friend who am not Worthy to be The Meanest of Your Servants IRENA THE EPISTLE TO THE Reader I Have no Great Man to present these few Sheets to whose Name might make them pass into the World with more Grandeur It may be with some this might gain a little Esteem or Applause But this I seek not What is mine in this Paper is not worth Presenting to any Body What is from GOD it is most fit I should offer up to Him with my Self Which I do Freely Wholly and Heartily Receive from me Lord the All that Thou hast given me which I humbly prostrate at Thy Sacred Feet With a Thank-Offering to Him that Lives and Reigns for ever and for ever Reader Thou knowest not who I am And if thou didst know my Outward Person thou wouldst know a poor vile contemptible sinful Creature What Treasure I have is in an Earthen Vessel that the Power may be known to be of God If thou receivest any Teaching in the Reading this Paper if thou feelest any Quickning give GOD all the Glory who alone is Worthy Dear Reader I am Thine in our Blessed and Glorious JESUS Unpremeditated THOUGHTS Of the Knowledge of GOD. IT is the Duty of all Mankind to know GOD the blessed Creator and Former of all things and there is in Man in his Creation and Constitution a Power innate or inherent of knowing GOD and therefore the very Heathens are left without excuse if they know Him not For the holy Apostle St. Paul exhorting them to feel after him if haply they might find him tells them He is not far from us for in him we live move and have our being So that this is the first and most universal Way that God hath vouchsaft Mankind whereby to know him this Principle of Light implanted by God in his Nature And doubtless the Heathen by turning into this Light do find it increase and they being faithful to it do receive a further Enlightning as appears by several instances we have of such as have attained to great Knowledge of God of Themselves and of the Nature of Things My scanty Reading affords me the knowledge o● but few of these Excellent Persons but those I have a little knowledge of I very much admire as that Excellently Divine tho' Heathen Philosophe● Hermes Trismegistus who had so early a Knowledge of God as before the World was blest with our Divinely Inspired Moses his Writings the Excellent Hermes had a profound Knowledge of God and Nature as who reads his Book turning in to the same Light will find I shall only instance in what he saith of holy Stilness and Silence a thing which I fear many Christians are so unacquainted with that they hardly know there is such a thing from their own Experience tho' certainly it is the true ground of all Spiritual Activity Another that occurs to my thoughts is the famed Aristotle who certainly knew much of God and Universal Nature tho' some good and ingenious Men will hardly allow him any great Character But to shew their Skill in arguing or sometimes for want of understanding the deep Philosophy of the Ancients they impose their own imagination as the sence of such a Philosopher which it may be was foreign from his thoughts and this fancy of their own they ridicule and bring the Unthinking World into an ill Opinion of the Author and his Writings without just ground As some Persons Sir Charles Woolsley and others writing against Atheism do mention Aristotle's saying the World is Eternal as a gross piece of Atheism indeed to say it is Eternal in the sence they make Aristotle speak is irreligious and irrational to say the World is Eternal in this mutable state of Causes and Effects Generation and Corruption but certainly the wise Antients had a more deep sight than this they saw the World had a Divine Eternal Original in God and this and many more excellent Truths they saw more clearly than many of us who have the Happiness to be born in the Christian World and to have the second and more excellent way of knowing God by the Revelation he hath made of himself in his written Word We can never be enough thankful for the sacred Writ that holy Men of old spake as they were inspired by the Spirit of God and instructed us in the knowledge of the Name Nature Attributes of God in the mystery of the Creation Production or Birth of the World in Genesis Chapter 1. and many other places of Scripture The blessed Apostle St. Paul saith quoting the Heathen Poets We are his Ofspring the Holy Scriptures do also instruct us in the knowledge of Gods Providence and Government of the World in many Ages and Generations with the Admirable Connexion Beauty and Harmony of his Works and Ways of Providence an account of which the Scripture is full of

God created Man in his own Image in the Image of God created he him Male and Female created he them There is a great Mystery in these words which none but the Spirit of God can unfold not only Man but 't is obvious to us many other Creatures were thus made Male and Female the very Lights of Heaven are so made as saith Van Helmont in a little Book of his This I say not to shew my Reading no I have done with that vain-glorious Mind but I am made to value the Teachings of God I receive from others as also those which are more immediate to my self The fiery Male Lights as the Sun and others and the cool and watry Lights as Venus and the Moon with their Female Lights do by their various Motions Conjunctions and and the like perform strange Wonders in the Heavens above and in the Earth beneath by their Influence and Effects also our Terrestrial Sun and Moon and other Watry Lights which inhabit our Earth do also perform strange changes and alterrations in their work-house the Caverns of the Earth and doubtless had Man the Wisdom restored to him which he lost by the Fall could he return to his Paradisical State and regain his Empire over the Creatures he might with his own hands by rightly applying Agent and Patient these Fiery Active Lights and Passive Cool Lights our Sun and Moon or our unripe Watry Moon be enabled to perform Extraordinary Effects such as might free himself and his Fellow-Creatures in a great measure from the Burthen they groan under I would not boast beyond my line to say I have done much of this with my own hands but I see something of it in the Spirit and if it please the Great and Good God the time may come when I may be enabled to do more by receiving further Teachings either immediately from the Illuminations of his Spirit or by the Enlightenings of some Person so Taught but I find it a hard thing to come out of the Fallen State out of the World of Mixtures out of the Wisdom of this World so Purely so Fully as to be made Fit for the Blessed Teachings and Illuminations of the Spirit of God though I know the Wisdom of this World is Foolishness with God yet while any thing remains of the Fallen Nature we are apt to be taken with that which we think a Fine Curious Image in us or our own Reason and Imagination But this must be broken to pieces for I tell you ye great Admirers of Reason ye glory in your shame for it is but the Principle of the fall'n Nature 'T is said God breathed into Man the Breath of Life and he became a Living Soul Man received immediately from God an Intellectual Light and this Light was the Life of Man Adam while he stood acted according to or from this Principle When the Creatures were brought before him he did not enter into the Reasoning why this should be Named so and that otherwise no from his intellectual Sight and Knowledge he saw their Natures and gave them suitable Names immediately Had Man stood it is plain he had been governed according to this Principle by immediate Revelation and Positive Command by the Soveraign Will and Wisdom of his Creator as appears by the Command And the Lord God commanded the Man saying Of every Tree of the Garden thou mayest eat but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil thou shalt not eat of it This Command is positive But Woman through the Subtilty of the Serpent entred into the Reasoning why she should not eat It was pleasant to the Eyes and good for Food and a Tree to be desired to make one wise The why wherefore how and for what brought in the deplorable Fall O how are the Mighty fallen How are the Mighty fallen How is our Gold become Dross God made Man upright but he hath sought out many Inventions Vain Man would be wise but he is like the wild Asses Colt snuffing up the East-Wind of Vanity and Emptiness When Man would remove himself from the immediate Conduct of the Wisdom and Will of God and would be guided by a Wisdom and Will of his own by his own Reason he broke himself off from God and instead of a Branch of that Noble Vine he became a degenerate Plant. And I tell you Till we return back by the way we came out of this blessed Paradisical State we cannot be happy but this is a way the Vultures Eye hath not seen nor can Reason comprehend it for the Natural Man perceiveth not the things of God neither can he they are spiritually discerned But when a Man is brought to say Lord I feel my self in a bewildred fall'n state of Darkness and the shadow of Death I see thy lovely Image defaced the Tabernacle of David fallen to the ground thy Light in me vailed and covered I feel my self broken off from thee my true Root and Original I would fain return to thee but I know not how Reason cannot shew me the way Then the Lord comes and seals Instructions gives his Spirit enlightens the Man and tells him No Reason cannot shew the way to Me it carried thee off from Me But come now lay down thy own Reason thy own Wisdom and Will lose thy own Life that thou may'st save it and I will shew thee a way my Wisdom hath found which thy Wisdom or Reason could not for the Wisdom of this World is Foolishness with Me but I have found out a way will cause in thee Wonder Admiration and Joy Then the Lord Enlightens our Minds in the reading the Scriptures the Revelation of the great work of Redemption of Man by Jesus Christ our Lord his Son our Blessed Saviour the Mysteries which are Revealed in the Sacred Scripture concerning our Blessed Saviour from his Conception to his Ascension are so Deep and Mysterious that the Plummet Line of Reason cannot fathom them but they are Revealed to Babes by the same Spirit in which they were written there is certainly a great Mystery in the Conception of our Saviour The Person chosen by God to have this Great Honour of being the Mother of our Lord was a most Excellent Holy Woman and Pure Virgin Mary the Espoused VVife of Joseph but Mary at first found difficulty to receive the Message the Angel brought this Great and Mysterious Revelation of the Mind of God concerning her and She was troubled at his Saying and She cast or reasoned in her mind what manner of Salutation this should be after the Angel had given her a further account of his Message which was wonderful She again asks How can this thing be in Luke 1.34 The Angel Condescends to Enlarge and to Discover the Mystery more clearly and in v. 35. And the Angel answered and said unto her The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the Power of the Highest shall Overshadow thee Therefore also that Holy Thing which shall be born of

heavy laden Soul to feel something of it in himself when we die in the Lord and rest from our Labours When we die into the Lord out of all things besides we shall know what it is to Rest and to rejoyce with Joy unspeakable and glorious To rest from our Labours and to have our Works follow us this is not a working for Life by Legal Performances it is rather a working from a Principle of Life where the Works follow and go not before the Life But there is something more than this there is a State of Rest and Joy wherein the Works of the Spirit that are wrought in us when the Lord works in us to Will and to Do follow us and are set before us to cause in us Joy and Rejoycing To look back upon our own Works which are performed from a Legal Selfish Princiciple causeth no true Joy nor Rest but rather lifting up in Pride and Self-will But in the true Work of the Spirit tho' we may go forth weeping bearing precious seed we shall return rejoycing bringing our Sheaves with us These Fruits of the Spirit Love Joy Peace follow such a Soul into the Rest and sweet Repose it attains here and also into the Rest which remains for the People of God Lord Let me know such a lasting permanent sixt Rest as may not have Evening nor Morning but may be a Day without a Cloud that I may have thy Light shining in me brighter and brighter to the perfect Day when thou wilt be my Light for ever The Wise Men whom God himself hath Enlightned are the only Wise Men and the most Happy having the inward Repose which the World cannot give nor take away Wisdom enables them to work and when their Work is come to the Seventh Day of Perfection they rest from their Labours their Work which was bulky and laborious comes to be easily portable pleasant Employment which they account rather Rest than Labour and the effects of their Works and the Work it self follows them where-ever they go and so mighty Works shew forth themselves in them as in their glorious Lord and Master who promised that the Works that he did they should do also Now these Works shew forth themselves in them more in their Patience Stillness and Rest than in all their busie Working 'T is but little Man hath to do in inward or outward Working when he hath committed himself and all his ways to the Lord. Now it is a blessed thing to feel any beginnings of this sweet Day this holy happy state of Rest within tho' it may not be brought forth thro' the whole Person But the Lord is the Rock and his Work is perfect He will perfect what concerns those that trust in him Wait patiently on the Lord O my Soul for he will give thee Rest for the Days wherein he hath afflicted thee O that the Peace of God that passeth all Vnderstanding may guard my Heart and Mind that no Storm nor Tempest may break in that I could retire into my strong Hold as a Prisoner of Hope waiting for the Redemption of my Body and not mine only but of the whole groaning Creation that the Year of Jubilee may be known to them when there shall be proclaimed Liberty for the Captives that the Creation may be brought forth into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God O happy time when Jerusalem shall become the Praise of the whole Earth when the Lord shall set his King upon the holy Hill of Sion when our King shall be exalted by and upon a People who are as a barren Mountain nothing in themselves that so our King and our God the blessed JESUS may Reign to whom all Power in Heaven and Earth is given and of whose Dominion there is no End To whom be Glory and Honour and Blessing and Praise for ever and for ever Amen Hallelujah Great Lord of Lords and King of Kings Thou mak'st my dry and thirsty Earth to sing And in the Desart causeth a New Spring Awake my Soul and sing Jehovah's Praise Who giveth Life and from the Dead doth raise Mercy and Goodness are in all his Ways Hymns IN lowly Meekness I will dwell The Lilly of the Vale is sweet Ofttimes the loftiest Cedars fall And then alas their fall is great The Sp'rit that in the Myrtles moved Is a pure breath of holy Air Sometimes these Shrubs are visited Whilst higher Trees neglected are Come my Beloved o're Mountain top Come skipping o're the highest Hill Let thy Winds on my Garden blow Do thou with sweets my Spices fill When thou bright Sun vouchsaf'st to shine On my Beloved Sharon Rose It hath its sweetness all from thee And with thee takes a sweet Repose It opens as the Morning fair When thou bright Sun art pleas'd to appear Then shuts up all its hidden store Till thy Sight does again draw near Thus I 'm a Garden clos'd to all A Fountain seal'd to all but thee Lest little Foxes should spoil my Vine The tender Grape planted by thee And lest the Silver-running Stream That is pure as it comes from thee Should mingle with the muddy Earth Partake of its impurity Hymns OH how shall I the praises sing Of our great God and glorious King Vnless his Spirit doth indite What I should sing what I should write His Spirit doth Secrets Reveal He opens the Mystick seventh Seal The seventh Seal the seventh Thunder Opens in me a sacred Wonder He leads me to the Centre deep Where Spirits dark their Prison keep Yet in this doleful Night does dwell A Light that Conquers Death and Hell For from the dark and hidden Ground The Light arising may be found I have seen a darksome gloomy shade Aweful and Majestick made But at Sun-rising with his light Hath been more pleasing to the sight With the sweet and lovely Green Guilded with the Sun between So have I seen a Picture fair Made by Artists Hand more rare When from darkest shades I see The Light arising to a degree Most perfect pleasing and most sweet Made from Variety so great So have I heard a pleasing sound Arising from deep Gamuts ground But Oh my spirits how they fail When I in this vast Ocean sail Now I 've a deep and hidden sense From the Centre to the Circumference Most holy Spirit keep me still I may be guided by thy will Oh how can I describe the fall My self so great a Criminal Darker than night darker than shade Or all things else that have been made More sad than Musicks deepest ground I must my Lamentation sound And from this doleful dismal Cry I would call all the standers by To see this sad and tragi●k sight Which may the hardest Spirits fright Here you may see a Lamb lye slain With the deepest sharpest pain There you see Spirits Captive led Sure they are free amongst the dead Here are Spirits led in Chains Vnder cruel torturing pains There lye dry and ghastly Bones With hearts more