spirited for more wonderful Conquest and so subdue mighty Thrones and Powers in wicked places in the Spirit of him who is the Captain of the Lord's Host hereby to lead captive what hath captivated us And then let us meet our Melchizedeck King with all the Spoil thereof as a Trophy of Victory Who hath ready in his hand the reward of a Diadem and Crown which he hath reserved for such Conquerors This is the great Motive to animate our Spirits that so we might know it is not a light or momentary thing we do fight for but what is weighty and eternal All which is to make us in good earnest according to a Word which through me did sound saying Put not off your Armory that is of the Spirit at all for in that ye will make all Life-killing Darts to rebound back again no Weapon thereinto can pierce And know that in this Holy War my Peace shall be your Garrison Therefore hold out till the Kingdom is given up unto you which hath been kept away and still will be except the Prince of Might shall take it again in you by violence For which cause I am come to stir you up that so what was designed from Everlasting may now be positively claimed by my Spirit in you Know it is all pleasing to your God that ye should be found in such great Undertakings As your Spirit is great and from a high degree descended so answerably do ye aspire for no less then what you believe your Lord through Conquest in possession hath now obtained December the 11th 1677. A Presentation was given me evidently of an enclosed Rock upon which Floods of Waters did break in to quench a Fire that therefrom did spring so as this Fire could not get the mastery till a descending mighty Flame from the light Orb did come down to keep it and to drink up all those Waters which as Wave upon Wave did beat in but so powerful was the Celestial Flame that nothing more of the Floods were seen And there did distinctly appear a Figure and Form of a light flaming Body that did descend and upward again ascend to a Heavenly Firmament where it was said Now all is swallowed up in Victory December the 12th 1677. This Manifestation was very suitably presented to my inward Mind which was drawn up into a deep and serious consideration how long it might be to the full Conquest and Victory over the original Spring of Sin with all the evil Consequences that thereupon have fallen out While my Spirit was herein much exercised this came before me and brought a Message with it for our comfort and support who are enclosed in Faith's Rock which in particular applied and made out to us that the Vision did plainly speak to us Who though gathered into this Rocky place said the Revealing Word yet see ye are exempted from the violation of these tumultuous Waves which at times and seasons may break in upon my precious Ones As in him on whom no matter of Sin could be found yet there Temptations did sometimes abound who was still found in the Rock of the Deity And thereupon told his Disciples that because they had continued with him in his Temptations therefore he would give them a Kingdom because they suffered and were one with him in all Temptations not to fall under them but to get power over them that this gave Title unto the Thrones there mentioned Now from hence it was further opened unto me That the Fire which first sprang out that was so often damped by the Floods and quenched by being too weak to encounter them it was shewn me to be somewhat that remained of a pure and divine Essence that would still live in Nature as for to refine it and reduce it into what might make it like to God again But being so strongly beat upon by the gathering together of all Waters which doth encompass as a full Sâ—a Tide upon Tide still breaking in upon this Fire-Root out of which also would spring the fiery Branches of Faith that would transplant the Soul into a far higher king of living All which is opposed by the â—â—nundation of many Waters in which the great Leviathan moveth which also are the Seat of the Beast that doth make War together against that Holy Seed yet remaining within the Rock of a Heavenly Humanity So that it is in great danger to be often extinguished for here is two contrary Elements the one in strife against the other the boisterous Waters of the Senses awakened from the tempting Region of these various things which do so well suite with fallen Nature that they may well be too hard for that little Spark that striveth to rise but hath been beaten down as we in our selves have witnessed Whereupon we may expect a stronger force will come unto our help seeing such a strong resistancy is made in order to the stifling of that breathing Life which hath struggled to live in dominion and to prevail over all but hitherto yet found insufficient Upon which this Word of Counsel was given from the Holy Breath that we should so powerfully pray in the Spirit of Elias as to open the pure Fire-Element that the Holy Ghost might thence form out a fiery Breath to consume and drink up every Flood For against this strong and mighty devoâ—ring Flame what Waters can stand before it Now wait again to see the same Victory for God will descend in Everlasting Flames and the Bush of Humanity will all certainly be enlightned with his Glory The time of it is said to be nigh when as the Child of the Burning Element will quench all Waters and by his Flaming Might will pass into the Heavens and rend all Mountains of Flâ—sh and will dry up all Seas before him Who now shall have Faith in their Earth for these things to what a Seraphick state may it bring them up unto Therefore let us improve every such discovery and extend our Faith to the great Augmentor of our weak Flame that if possible such an encrease of Celestial Flame may make with us as to dry up all that hath encompassed our Rock It may now be a time and season when that such a bright flaming Body may be of stead unto us which can at pleasure ascend and secure frail Corporeity It may be well worth enquiring after the excellent Properties of such a divine Creature which doth move under the Cherubs Wing where it can pass to and fro unseen Oh let us further dive into this Magia for great advantage may be made for us to raise out here such a defence as may set us above all fear of Mortality in a day when Perils and great dangers are threatned as an overflowing Scourge to break in upon the World It is time for us to know where to hide where no destroyer may find us Which only must be within the Flashing Skreen of the Holy Deity or Trinity where we may walk in all
Lilly will sprout out of the Immaculate Body and shall be watered from the Heavens so fair and lovely that she will be elected for the Lamb's Bride and Mate who raised is to the high Eagle state who may have Power mount into the Heavenly Place and again be sent therefrom for such purposes and intents as here are premised She being big with such a travelling Seed as may break the Serpent's Head in dethroning him who hath got into the Heavenly Place Where now expect he will be cast out as strong travelling Powers do take hold upon this Woman These Pangs and Sorrows will differ much from those that were in Eve's day whose Sorrows greatly multiplied hereby through a natural vile sinful Body no hope whereof there is that ever it shall be destroyed till this Birth of Births doth grow to ripeness in any such one Who in Wisdom's Virgin likeness shall be bred up to the Wonder in Heavenly Places from whence all Wonders shall go forth For who but this Man-child shall be the Ruler of Nations in all Soveraignity no more under the Power of any Herod or Pontius Pilate to be arraigned unto Death For he is immediately caught up unto God and his Throne and from thence is to descend again to bring up the Remnant of the Virgin-Seed against whom the Dragon still makes War But to each one who belongs to this his Kingdom of Priests they shall be mightily born up upon his strong Eagle-Body so as all the Dragon's Floods shall be too short to reach this high Eagle-Nest which is prepared in the Heavenly Place Upon this Rock of Strength I saith the Amen will build my Virgin Church who shall know no more any thing of the Number of the Beast but shall be totally acquitted from Men of the earthly quality Therefore I give this Word to you in particular that ye may know there is somewhat of Grace to you peculiarly by this Prophecy which is upon renewing Therefore consider hereof and ponder it deeply for to the pure chast Virgin Mind much of this may happen suddenly You daily from the Unction have received much in order hereunto which Golden Talent I do expect should be improved that so ye may further be trusted with more considerable Dignities and Powers tending to Wisdom's Star sparkling Crown which to none is given till they be quite driven out of the Worldly Principle If now then ye can ascend with all your Might to this Tree of Life you may find quick Removes to him who is that Ghostly overshadowing Power who can impregnate with this last all-saving Birth O saith the Spirit that hereunto ye could give your selves without further debate to the glorified Person of your Jesus that the issue might be to wit a glorious Son of Might brought forth to all Wonderment March the 13th 1676. Now as concerning the latter Vision whereof I gave a Narrative according as I had magically seen it The Interpretation whereof was after this manner given to me this is the Child that is born from the Heavenly Virgin Womb after all those spiritual and deep â—ravels Moreover it was said to me Dost thou not remember that thou didst ask some Years since a Son of God with great earnestness aâ—d engagedst to dedicate him to be a Temple Priest and Prophet if herein thou mightest be answered Though thy Petition was not granted in that way as to have a Son by earthly Generation but much better it shall be if thou shalt see the travel of thy Soul and Spirit in the Birth of a pure Nazarite given unto thee from the Lord. Which is a thousand degrees beyond what once thou were greatly sollicitous after to wit a fleshly Birth Since which time much hath been wrought for thee Wisdom hath so highly favoured thee as to cast thee into her Virgin Mould or else no way capable to embrace such a Man-child who shall have Power to do great and mighty things on the Earth and to hold up the four Winds an Elias Spirit to shut and open the Heavens Such a one God will need upon the Earth to have but none could yet arrive to this mighty high and glorified state the mortal Spirit hitherto so hindred and the Dragon hath raised great Seas of partition and hath brought down such with his twisting Tail as were ascending for Heaven for out of Mount Sion's Heaven Wisdom's deputed Virgin Woman is to descend with all accomplished Power and Perfection of Holiness Then what manner of Child thinkest thou this must be Who is begotten by the Eternal Word of Truth and is daily to be brought up a Nazarite by the pure honey Dews and Milk from the Virgin Breast that so his strength may hereby daily grow Happy thou and blessed wilt be called if such a spoiless Nazarite Lilly thou shalt bring out of thy Spiritual Womb. At which I tell thee who am the All-Seer the Serpent doth heave mightily against it there is daily plotting to make hereof an abortive nay when thou hast him in thy Arms it may slip away Which for Caution was shewn that thou mightest take hereof sure hold because this Holy Birth is designed to be in that Person to whom the Serpent hath had long Indignation but through great heed and daily watching and care he may keep out from this last prepared hurtful Snare Who then shall indeed bear the Banner of Victory over all his and thy home-bred Enemies Who if obedient to his Eternal Virgin-Mother in all things which shall proceed from the Law of her Mouth may then be the Man of Wonder indeed But before-hand take thou charge on his behalf lest he suffer any Dalilah to come near his Head with a Rasor where only his strength doth lie if so all will be undone as ye did see in the case of Sampson This holy spiritual Off-spring must be for the Conversation of Masculine Virgins who are of his own rank and sort For whatever shall from this low contrary Sphere interfere with this holy Nazarite the Marks and Spots thereof will be obvious upon that smooth shining Skin to his disgrace Therefore let him abide in that Milk-white Nature answerable to his Birth still keeping washing with the Water of Life that so Wisdom may have great joy and delight in her first-born in the Earth Seven ecchoing Voices I did hear in me to declare who it was should Personate this Nazarite Birth If he could clear himself from all clogs and weights then said Wisdom who but he my first Born Heir shall be This Word of Truth do thou give him for Meat to eat no other but what doth proceed from the pure Unction in his Heavenly Nature in him as he can digest it and as Wisdom's Springâ— Well flowing thence continually in him This Person noted so oâ—â—â—n by me did not arrive to this Perâ—ect Degree so as Wisdom's First-born to be though he reached far yet not able was he while in this Principle he lived the Crown-Number to
Territories so as to lay them waste in this terrestrial state Then this word was further given me Oh the Sinless state will do it Then there were in way of Vision several Papers as written upon to my view and a Voice spake Get them signed with this wonderful Name and then you may have what you will granted by him who carries the Treasury Key This much answered to a word which sometime I had before of getting Bills of Faith subscribed to Then was further opened unto me the great freedom and efficacy that we might have by Entring our selves into this Name or rather by its entring into us for the dispersing all its Powers Oh what singular advantage it is to have such a rich Banker to charge upon while we are in this Foreign Country and necessitous place as to answer to all just requirings as soon as the Father seeth but his or his Sons Name to any Petition there is no scruple of answering to it Christ told his Disciples that hitherto they had asked nothing in his Name Verily the same may be said of us We have often pronounced this Name literally but that hath been little available But we have not so asked as to breath forth all pure flames from this Name without any of the old Name mingling with it for if so then immediate effects would follow For if at any time all pure Inspiration did open from this Name what is there to be named that we might not be able to work and do through this great Name Alpha and Omega Oh might we come to be known by that and no other Name abiding in us then whatever was 〈◊〉 by us on Earth should be surely confirmed in Heaven It is well 〈◊〉 ou◠looking into this Mystery and making our aim at this White Mark that will bring to us so considerable a Prize as hath been so freely revealed to us by the Spirit that so through this Name we might be Conquerors over this whole Principle August the 25th 1677. This Night somewhat before break of Day I did verily believe there lay one by me in the Bed At which I was put into some fear but then it appeared to be the Figure of my deceased Husband Who discoursed many things to me challenging Conjugal Love and the renewing of that old affinity which was betwixt us with manifold circumstances thereupon attending At which at first I was somewhat disturbed but I took courage and discoursed with him and told him I fear'd to have Union with any inferiour Spirit till they had got up to the highest perfection and asked him several questions concerning which he seemed to be silent and could not give me satisfaction as to his being in that full growing state for the compleatment of this glorification But still I beheld him magically hovering about me and he asked me for a Bible While I thought that he was now above that way of knowing God which I urged much that he might now know as he was known but he gave me no answer thereto Then he proved me with some small Pence which seemed to be like Gold which I set light by and did not receive them as not understanding wherein they could be of service to me aiming at greater things from Wisdoms Treasury After I had said that since his decease I had made choice of an unchangeable Mate for whom I must now be and for no other but as they are compleated in his glorified Body where I should rejoyce to know him and to meet him Upon which he disappeared And then coming to my exteriour sense I understood in what a Magia Trance I had been After which about four a Clock I found my self all inspired for Prayer that I might learn to understand what the Divine Will was hereby And as I was considering in my Mind of that departed Spirit that appeared magically unto me This morning it was spoken to me thus I have now proved thee whether thou wouldst be for me and for no other Spirit inferior to me who am the Lord thy Redeemer that hath given and shed my saving Name into thee Which is a considerable earnest of what I further intend as thou abidest in Nazarite Chastity knowing no Spirit more but what can mate it self with me in high Celestial Unity Therefore hereunto watch that at no time supplanted thou be of what is designed by holding out in loyalty upon every account For I should not take it well that you should run into any one if distinct from me though an Angel whose Habitation may be in a more high and heavenly Sphere Remember a check for this was given to the beloved Iohn whose heart was apt to run into the Angel that shewed him the great Visions therefore was he bid to worship God and to keep nothing less in his Eye than the Supream Deity albeit that it is in a glorified humanity From hence I took occasion for to make this Objection to my Lord If thus We must be dear Immanuel allotted for thee alone Why is it then that thou with thy all-taking Humanity and Personality will not dwell with us constantly as to be a covering to our Eye and a perpetual attraction to our Minds For through absence of thee we often find that temptation gets ground for verily all our Spirits are for mutual association therefore when thou dost retire from us we are then apt to fall in with somewhat that is near unto us For thou thy self knowest that we are constituted of such working stirring Esseces that must spend themselves either upon what is essentially good or evil as either of these have greatest affinity with and dominion over the Mind And if through a superior light we swerve and turn aside from all that is grosly earthly and that is of known sin yet here we may be nevertheless at a disappointment of that express and actual conversation with Thee as thou art now a transfigured Corporeity So as great is our present disadvantage hereby Oh Lord Jesus August the 26th 1677. This reply did spring from the Spirit of the true Bridegroom Dost thou then imagine or concludest therefrom that I the First and the Last do impose upon you a severe Law of Loves Loyalty in allowing and giving you no liberty to make any contract with either Angel Spirit or Creature dividedly from your Lord and Saviour Whose now you are by what he hath for you wrought Let it henceforth be of all acceptation to you as a pleasing restriction though accompanied with the disadvantage of my remove from you as in mortal forms ye are Yet dear souls let not this lesten your Loves to me who am and will be to you ever the same as if I were in a visible form of Humanity Let it suffice that I have planted my Sublime Nature within you where you may have all pleasurable conversation if ye turn in thereunto Where I will not fail to meet you and greet you with fresh joys and loves
Jesus and so both do agree to pass and see the goodly Spaces of Eternity whether all things be so as hath been reported of concerning the matters of Christ's Kingdom To which we are annexed Heirs and therefore concerned to take our flight thither to view all within the New Canaan For our Lord did know that a sight before hand of this Inheritance would greatly satisfie As it was with the Queen of Sheba who gratified both her Eye and Ear in the state of Solomon's Kingdom Now then may not we in the Spirit of Faith and rising power of Christ's Spirit come to have such a pass over Iordan's flowing River Hereupon it is cleared up to me that it is most lawful and expedient to take such a heave or flight in the Spirit For which end in obedience to the counselling Word which to me was dropped in Let us then be as a goodly Ship who would launch into the Ocean deep and would swim upon the broad Waters all tackled and trimmed and pitched within that no place may be found for bleaking and our pure and white Sails stretched out all in a readiness lying at the very Haven upon the Anchor of Hope waiting to see when the Gusts and Breath of the Holy Ghost will turn our Ship about and blow all South that we may suddainly be cast upon the Rock of Pearls and Precious Stones in that Land Beulah that is so little known But who now must be hither our sure Pilate but he that hath already there been even that bright Star that can steer through Fire Water and Air having himself broke through all these and so will do no less for us if we shall be found in such a ready posture as here hath been described Now let us give all place to this Ioshua-Spirit in our Bark who will make a remove for us out of the Wilderness He doth but wait for the mighty Birth to be here brought forth that so we may pass away jointly and altogether It was further also denoted to me that all the murmuring and unbelieving Spirits should be wasted away in the Wilderness who have murmured through fear and distrust For these can have no share with us whether they be with or without us all are excluded none but Ioshua and Caleb will enter in with us to view and will have possession with us in the Land Beulah December the 7th 1677. A very curious Question did stir in my Spirit why such a concealment of the Heavenly Things was in this time of our Lord's mediating Priesthood And why no more visible Effects were produced upon his Members on Earth as to the Resurrection-day For since the Apostle's Age little hath been wrought in any miraculous way further then by internal Light and Spiritual renewings and the Love of God shed abroad with the Blood of Spriukling which is the highest degree that yet any have arrived unto But all this did not appear to me to be thâ—t which the perfect Restoration must further make out nay what the Apostles saw and heard in their time who had the first Breathings from Christ after his Ascension Yet all then and since have been exceeding short of what is in reserve to be revealed As I do know this from a sure Word of Intimation and so herefrom my expectation hath been greatned and the Pool of my Mind stirred and troubled and somewhat as from a central Fire boiling up to clarifie that and so the gross thick and dim Eye might be single and piercing to see if possibly into its own original body of Light That so hereby a clear Aspect might be of what hath been acting and working in order to the Consummation of another more pure and perfect Creation Thus being upon an internal search into matters of this high Nature this Word was brought into me saying Why art thou troubled that such long respit hath been as to the Manifestation of the absolute Reign of the Lamb that was slain because his Might hath not been shewn nor his Power wrought nor his Wonders done in the Earth Yet now look for a greater Overturn then ever through the whole fallen Creation This long cessation shall not nullifie it for this Kingdom will have its revealing Day for the Golden Sand of the half hours Silence is running out apace which must be first expired out in Heaven It was then given me to understand that this Half Hour of Silence hath been ever since the Holy Ghost appeared in Cloven Tongues of Fire upon those who in a travelling Birth did here wait for it upon the Lord's Promise For since that time little news hath been heard from Heaven only the Beloved Iohn had the last great and signal Revelation from Jesus Since that only such a Ministration hath been which hath taken up their Testimonies in a still and private way opening the Mind of the Spirit in the Doctrine of the Old and New Testament But for a new and fresh Word that may be said to come immediately from the Lord which hath not been before truly it may be said as it was in Samuel's time that the Word of the Lord iâ— pretious in this day We may travel from East to West from Nation to Nation and scarce find a true Seer with whom the expressâ— Word of the Holy One is Some hidden ones under the stuff of this Principle there may be who will not be known till the Lord calls them out to unfold boldly his Mind For this is an Age that can as little bear as any formerly such Truths as will shake their whole righteous Foundation as it may be so termed and others whose Lives and Loves are in that which must also be laid wast in the common destruction which is coming upon all visible things Therefore never more need then now is for true and anointed Prophets to enquire how things are going in the invisible Kingdom For all the Plat-form is first laid there how things in this external state will be Therefore it is needful that some must be here truly prepared for it and should never be off their Watch-tower but be listening continually For it was said upon the enquiry of a Spirit That the half Time of Silence was now upon breaking up and mighty Powers would begin to work Therefore let the regardful understand the present Motions of the Heavens Though our Lord Jesus is shut up from all mortal view yet the effect of those invisible Workings may be known in our low Heavens and may be felt by such whose Hearts are bent and full stretched out to the Heart of a glorified Jesus these will attract down Light and so the lower Heavens may so contact with the upper as to become all privy to the great Affairs Counsels and Designs which are stirring within the Globe of Eternity But the Query is By what way or meanâ— shall any one come to be so Inseeing that yet have upon them the thick film of Mortal Sense Answ. 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the Eyes of many and even of our Brethren as we still esteem them as the Dung of the Earth and as the Offscouring of all the present Forms of Religion because we have believed they Word and have listened to thy Voice calling unto us in the Evening of this Sixth Day Wherefore dealest thou thus with us O Lord our God Surely thou answerest us Why are ye so jealous of mine Honour as if the Times were not in mine Hand and the Seasons ordained in my Counsel Arise and hold not your Peace though ye be but the Offscouring of the Earth and lie as among the Pots Blow ye the Trumpet and cease not till I shall appear Suffer me to plead my own Cause and at my own time Remember my Servant John that I sent to prepare my Way how he wrought not any mighty Deed yet was sound faithful in his Ministration and prevailed abundantly Think not that I am slack in performing my Promises of destroying the Adversary that Man of Sin by the Ghostly and Miraculous Powers going out of my Mouth as streams of Fire For 〈◊〉 my Promises are at hand to be fulfill'd Hold but fast unto the Endâ— and rejoice greatly that ye are counted worthy to suffer shame for my Name Wherefore we shall not be Solicitous what may be Said or Thought of us by Any Our Part is Defensive not Offensive and so Only but with respect to the Honour of God and the Immutable Truth of his Word And therefore it will be incumbent on those who would oppose us to shew the Invalidity of that Charter which we pretend to have from the Mouth of Christ himself Luke 11. 10 13. Matth 5. 48 compared with 1 Cor. 13. Iohn 16. 10 12 13 14. compared with Chap. 17. 20 21. and Acts 2. 17. 39. Or to produce but any one Testimony either out of the Old or New Testament which they themselves dare to rely on for the Final Cessation of Revelation and Prophecy in the Church of God either with the Apostles or shortly after or even after several Centuries of Years as the more Moderate and Learned do Assert Or else to shew that what we do profess to have thus learnt when rightly understood is Clearly contrary to what is conâ—â—'d in the Law or in the Gospel or to some thing deliver'd by the Holy Prophets or Apostles Either of which if these Gentlemen can prove they will do much towards the Sapping and Overturning the whole Foundation upon which we stand But till this shall be done all this other Labour will be but in vain and instead of retarding will but serve more Vigorously to promote the Work that is undertaken and carried on by some that are of a Nehemiah Spirit and not to be daunted with big and terrifying Words If there be then any Dissatisfied as to the Contents of this Volume or of the former or other Writings hitherto Printed of this Author let them if their Dissatisfaction be out of a Zeal for God and the Truth of Religion consider with cool and sedate Thoughts whether there be not as good a Ground in Scripture for the Expectation and Belief of such a Kingdom of Christ to come as is herein expressed and said to be revealed by the Powers of the Holy Ghost as there is for many of the Opinions in Religion which they do receive and Articles which they have subscribed to Let them consider what is the Sanctification of the Divine Name on Earth to be daily Pray'd for and therefore to be believ'd in what the Coming of the Kingdom of our God on Earth and what the Doing of his Will on Earth in like manner to be Pray'd for and Believ'd in as to the very same degree that it is in Heaven that is both with the same Oneness of Spirit the same perfection of Purity and the same Vniversality of Extent with respect first to the Name of the Father to be sanctified by such as shall have receiv'd the Seal of the Adoption of Children secondly to the Kingdom to be manifested which must be in the Power of the Father and thirdly the Will to be performed which must be by the Holy Ghost ministring in the inward Sanctuary which he fills Let them consider what other Systems do say as to these matters and then let them examin what a System may be drawn out of this Book when well digested and fully comprehended After which let that which is hence drawn be compared with those and both together be compared with the Sacred Scriptures taken in their easie plain and natural Sense without running to or depending upon the Glosses Interpretations or Comments of any whatever Let them further consider whether in these Scriptures there be the least Footsteps to be found for such a prevailing Opinion as is at this day grown in a manner Universal amongst us that the Prophetical and Miraculous Gifts of the Spirit were design'd by Christ for the establishment only and Foundation of his Church and not for its Building up and Perfection in the Work of the Ministry till all should be brought hereby into the Unity of the Faith and the Knowledge not only of the Mysteries of Religion but a full conformity to the Stature of Christ in the most perfect and stable Model of it concerning which much is spoke both here and in The Message to the Philadelphian Society It is to be confessed that there are indeed several things that will be apt to shock the Readers at the first view who have not had any such Experiences in themselves but chiefly through the Strangeness of this Parabolical and Mystical way of Writing which is fallen under as great a Disreputation in this present Refin'd Age as it was of Esteem in the first Ages of the Church But upon a most nice and accurate Examination these Stumbling Blocks will either all or for the most part moulder away of themselves And whereas it is generally Objected against every one that steps out of the Vulgar and Ordinary Road and speaks but of any Divine Favours above what are common That all proceeds from the Root of Pride in them variously transforming it self you may be Here assured that there is the most Solid ground Established by what you shall read in these so Peculiar Memoirs for the Humility of the Cross without making it to interfere with Faith or Hopeâ— or to impede the Progress of any Generous Design for the Good of this Nation of Christendom and of the whole World And no where better you may find what a vast distinction there is of a True and Christian from a False and Beggarly Humility Another thing that may recommend this with the other Treatises of the same Author is that there will not herein be found any vilifying or reproaching the Sacred Customs among Christians any Lessening or Derogating from any Institutions either of Christ or of his Apostles as is usual unto Some but a just Deference to the truth of the
That by Houses the Spirit that spake in Jesus then did aim at a further thing then an outward material Habitation Houses for shelter are harmless and without Offences But it is that Earthly House spoken of which is the Body of Sin which harboureth the whole Tribe and Family who are from the fallen Birth From which evil Seed a Corrupt Generation hath sprung and sheltred themselves therein There is Father and Mother Husband and Wife Brethren and Sisters as the most Holy Spirit declared saying All these in a compact are being of one Blood and Life strong Animal and mighty Rational and all these do lawfully plead for their establishment as in such who are refined from the more gross Pollutions not considering their own Originality that all do proceed from a corrupt Being and it is not the suspending their Evil Properties at sometime not suffering them to break forth washing that over which beareth the stain of a Leopard Spot This is too short and defective for to race the Foundation of the House and Linage you are called upon to pull it down The Incitement is to that superiour Will upon whom all these Combining Powers have encroached It therefore must act a Sampson part resolving to make a Battery that so a final Conquest may appear upon the visible Stage resolving to break the Brood though you do with them sink down into Death Call up your force the mighty strength of Israel is at hand yet once more to avenge you by not only shaking but by removing the Pillars of that House which hath been a receptacle of all this Evil Fraternity from which to go out ye are commanded Let not your Noble Will take any notice of their subtle and pretended Abnegations or upper Washings which cannot change the Blackamore It will be an Ishmaelite at best though a faithful Abraham's Son part thereof may bear yet because of a divided Seed born from the Aegyptian nothing of Wisdom's Inheritance it must ever share all of that is reserved for her own true Heir who hereupon will rid all of the Hagarites Offspring not one shall dwell in Isaac's Court. Thus I was made to understand the scope and drift of the Spirit what it was to forsake all it is no less then to be dead to all and to come so far in this Death as to strike at the very moving cause of what hath given Life unto these degenerated Plants at which very Root the Flaming Sword will pierce that so the Original Matter may be throughly consumed Ah blessed Lord such a deep Wound in that hidden part whereout all of this strange earthly brood begotten was do thou now give us from thy great kindness such a deadly stroke that no more of Life may ever stir from that Center and give unto us a release from that Ishmaelitish Family to all Eternity Ah dear Lord Jesus February the 14th 1676 7. Being this Night much carried forth in full Sail of the Spirit of Faith which was the more set afloat from the contradicting and opposing Spirits who were raised as so many Pyrats that did attempt to take away our Prize after this manner it was presented to me that the most Holy One had built for us a passing Ship to sail upon the broad Heavens to fetch home the rich Cabinet-Treasure that is disposable by Wisdom she giving out upon every arrival fresh Lading Now the Serpent this seeing said If we let them alone in this way of high and Spiritual Traffick then they will come to a mighty Increase For if the good and choice things of Mount Sion should be brought into this Principle and the worth of them should come to be understood then Babylon's Wares could not bear that rate that now they do Therefore said the blessed Comforter Marvel not that wait is laid by that Evil One who in several Vessels as a Man of War doth strongly stear them Who deem it but just and lawful to riffle and despoil what are prohibited as unlawful to be brought in into this earthly Region The wise and learned Rabbies of this Age do take Counsel how to prevent the Landing of these uncustomed Goods that are not Liceâ—sed after the known Traditional Laws But at this be ye not terrified who well know your Merchandize is good and valuable and in its time it shall have Vent amongst those who hereunto are elected Therefore your goodly Ships rigged with Flying Banners of Faith do you not fear still to send forth for Guardian Hosts of Spiritual Powers shall surround you Only this let your Bow of Faith abide in strength and do not give the least ground to what would dis-settle you Trust in the Most High as your Strength and ye in Unity shall find an Almighty Defence February the 14th 1976 7. Being upon a deep Consideration how and after what manner our God would give witness that we are chosen as Paul and Barnabas for a special Work and Ministry in this World it was answered me It should be known by a great Gift that should come upon us February the 15th 1676 7. Then this Word came to me saying For as much as ye have with one fixed Mind for my Truth and Honour stood expect Prophecies shall to you be made good It was again thus to me said That by Constancy we should wear out every Enemy with this Word of Charge to hold the Helm of our Ship fast for it would then bring us to our own Country Coast. Where we should be beyond the fear of every lurking Pyrate February the 17th 1676 7. The second part of that of Mark 10. 30. was by the sweet Flowing Unction expounded to me being the reward of what should ensue upon the denying and forsaking this whole earthly Life giving and taking a general Release from it This Word came as a Preface to it Know that the most mystical and deep Sence of this Scripture is now opened unto you who are beloved of your Lord not only for the enriching of your Minds with right Knowledge and Understanding but to give firm ground to stand upon And hereby to believe as from a sure and fresh Word of Prophecy which ye may expect the accomplishment of upon the laying down of your Lives and suffering a real devestment of all thereto pertaining The summ of which is the putting off the House of this earthly Tabernacle that ye may be cloathed upon with this House which is here mentioned in the Plural Number Houses to shew that there is variety of Habitations to take your delight and pleasure in But what manner of Buildings are these Houses the material matter of them you would willingly know First by a true description from such a one as is already entred into them who is so gloriously settled herein as he it is who doth invite you to be his Neighbourhood saying to the Conquerors Come up and sit with me in my Throne Now then till you have laid down your Earthly Tabernacle of this
Dispensation to come that shall answer to the Ierusalem above which is said to come down Here is a Mount Sion Church to be gathered out from among all Churches of Men by the preparing Ministry of an Elias Spirit who is to make ready against the Lord's return from that solemnized Wedding with the present triumphant Church Now what is meant by this Elias Spirit But such a Spirit as hath Power to transform and translate at pleasure This Elias is not an abstracted Ghost but is in Conjunction with a flaming Body of Light This was that which the Apostles eyed much in their Days and had the Revelation thereof but it was reserved for the latter Ages This pure abstracted ghostly Power did come upon them and did great things through their own Bodies but did not work to the height of a ghostly Body for then Mortality would have been over Cloathed with Celestiality Therefore it was reserved for a future Season This Apple is not yet fallen upon any one but is growing to the full golden Colour to give a full Body and Spirit to them For whosoever shall eat of this golden Apple shall be transmuted into a Body as of fine Gold And so who shall first partake hereof the Elias Spirit will soon operate to translate them from terrestial Things Then was this Question with me But who of all Flesh living now shall this great Elias personate Or ever come his Day to see Many various Visions and Prophesies and many Persons tending hereunto have been both in former and present times But oh dearest Lord when and how and upon whom shall this be accomplished seeing all so universally are slow of Heart to believe To know positively I dare not will lest I should grieve the holy Spirit remembring that Rebuke which Christ gave when his Disciples asked Whether he would at that time restore the Kingdom Who did not seem to be pleased that they did urge the thing so closely Which made me sober upon the like occasion though through the Vision and Revelation upon it I had some temptation to encroach upon that which is said to have the Mind of Iesus which had its Times and Seasons which waiting upon great things might be revealed And accordingly this Word in way of Answer sprang freely in me Go your way in that Measure and Portion of Spirit received and wait as Elias under the Iuniper Tree which signifies a Paradisical Preparation from which Tree all sweet Scents do flow as the holy Gusts thereupon do blow Which will send in that which will give a Rich and Pleasant smell to your God in order to somewhat else Oh who but those that are of an Elias Spirit that are weary and do make complaint of their mortal Terrestrial state and would know a Transmutation are fit for this which is here Prophesied of Then again this Word was spoken to me That the great Melchizedeck King who hath charge over the Houshold of Faith doth design before his own personal Manifestation in the World to depute and raise up some who shall be as the Seven principal Shepherds to go forth in the Power and Spirit of Elias to turn the Heart back again of the vagrant lost Prodigal Children to the Father of their eternal Spirits and thereby to reconcile the two different Principles That the Enochian state may be revived for a free walking with God by the Light of the one eternal Day to pass in and out not making reflect on upon this course material Body being supernaturally Cloathed upon with that which giveth holy Boldness to appear in that most pure Sphere Thus the Enoch and Elias Spirit are to arise upon some who will mutually together agree to break through this vile Principle though it be with Mountains rending and with Rocks breaking and Earth quakings All which make way for the dividing from that low terrestial state to incorporate with the very Body of God As to this query The Spirit hath only to say further thus Do not you put far away this Day through Fear and Unbelief but turn into the mystical Paradise and under the Iuniper Tree bemoan your disappeared Virgin Bodies which sweet unknown Solitude attend for its Restoration While you abide here the Angelical Powers shall minister spiritual Fare to strengthen you for what is further to be accomplished by you If you will hereunto fixedly wait then also given may be the deep magical Book in which Wisdoms Spirit will make you Skilful in the circling Planets appertaining to that invisible Element which governeth all belonging to the New Ierusalem with all its Inhabitants there Now then as any shall desire in Enoch's and Elias's Spirit to break away from this terrestial Globe let them faithfully Obey this deep Revelation â— with the Councel hereunto annexed April the 10th 1677. As I was in my Bed contemplating the unknown and invisible Orb of Glory longing for a Body with which I might have entrance thereinto While I was thus deeply mufing there first appeared to me a bright Cloud which gathered it self into a round Compass then it opened into various Colours wonderful Splendorous with numerous Stars which were only discernible as they did not so visibly appear because the brightness did overcloud them In the midst of this did suddainly break forth somewhat like the Figure of an Eye which did look terrible piercing through all with flaming Streams round it which were transcendently glorious Upon which I could not stedfastly look till I had closed my mortal Eyes which then for some space of time I did behold and then it vanished in the twink of an Eye then opening to see whether I could bear the glory of it it did retire out of sight with this Word What Flesh can live in this refining Element Then answered my Spirit True O Lord therefore the destruction of it I would see that I may come to live with thee in these New Heavens Why dearest Lord is this Crystalline Orb of Light let down only for view If we may not partake something of the Nature of it How is it that we have been so long lodged out of the sight of thee in this remote Principle if it must still be how can this vile Terrestial state be grateful to Spirits who did pre-exist in thee before all Worlds coming now to understand what is their true Eternal Dignity to live in such lucified Bodies free and unclogged of Corporeity After I had thus presented our deplorable Condition through the sight and sence of what was in the Idea of my Spirit I could not but move this Question to my Sovereign Creator Why such a pure Spirit generated out of the highest and super excellent Matter should unite with such course mean Corporal Forms acted by a mortal sensual rational Soul that governed it by the Starry Region To this deep Question the Spirit gave this Aaswer readily That the Immense Deity did hereby prepare high and worthy Ends in sowing pure Spirit into
these essences did therewith mix Nâ— depravity in the Nature of sin was here infused Therefore this Birth may stand upon its royal freedom for to be born free from sin is a great and mighty thing Therefore know your New Birth-prerogative and come not under the power of what this holy inspiring breath is come to set at liberty from For the true Heir is a Son of Liberty in bondage to nothing when once he comes to know himself he will then assume that Sovereignty which shall make the corporeal life bow unto him Nay as this encreaseth and grows up to its princely greatness this Land will be too strait For out of Egypt God will call this his Heir through all terrestial Walls and Gates to come up unto that free City where the Trinity in Majesty will give out their sealed Commissions for what this Birth of might and excellency hath further for them to do in this low Region For that which hath been as the high builded wall of Perdition betwixt these Principles and the Mountain upon which the New Ierusalem stands by such strong Angels as these you shall see broken down without tool or weapon and passage made which the Eagle Eye of this Birth will spy and will be so skilfull as to know its way through the cloudy Air to mount Sion Hill the mystery of God in both Principles to fulfill April the 27th 1677. In the Morning after the Doctor had prayed I awaked and sunk down into the center of Life And there appeared unto me a pure azure blue streamâ— which was said in me was that Spirit and Breath of Life that must put the grosser Element to flight Then it was further opened to me that from this perfect thing would go forth an enriching Mist that should renew the face of all things in such whose inward ground was measured out by the Golden Reed of the Spirit Then was further shewed me the twofold nature and property of this Breath That as it could quicken and be a seed of Life in matter meetly prepared for it So likewise this Breath would extinguish that Life which worketh in contrariety against it According as it is written Oh Death I will be thy Death When all conclusions be tried for the expiation of the earthly birth there is no other that can so eternally anatomize it as the Body of Sin may be said to cease and not to be but by the Spirit of the Lord blowing upon the fleshly form of it which seemeth to be so goodly Verily this Life hath been too hard for all other weapons that have been tried upon it since the full outward death could not conquer this Life of Sin As Christ told the Iews if they did not believe on him as the resurrection of another Life they should die in their sins So as the mortal death cannot quit from that second death which follows that corrupt Birth-seed which was not in this Life demolished But then from hence this doubt will arise Who is it that hath left this Testimony behind them of all past Generations that before the mortal death did overtake them they had first cleared themselves of that vile and corruptible birth of sin Sure saith the objective Spirit if this be strictly examined how few or scarce any will be found but did mortally die before the inward body of sin was totally expired If so how then could they immediately pass where nothing that ever was of the polluted Nature of Sin could come in As to this obscure and deep Query of which I my self with others have been universally ignorant as not finding out the several reservatories that Spirits did pass into The letter of the Scripture not opening so positively what relateth hereunto as plainly to determine this doubtful matter But it hath been kept dark in the foresight of the most holy wise God Who hath left himself free to give the key of the knowledge hereof in what Age and to such in that Age as shall be worthy of such secret My Spirit hath been often solicitous with the Lord for this thing as in case my Body mightâ— break from my superior Spirit and the Mortal part die before the evil essences which are called Sinn be extinguished as to their very originality then into what Orb shall such a Spirit enter that may be almost but yet not quite got free from every relick of sin The Key of this unknown Door was hereupon put into the hand of my Guardian Spirit the mystery hereof to unlock that this great secret might be revealed and that hereby the Elect might be undeceived Who have nothing less believed but that though they should not come to see and feel sin finished through everlasting Righteousness coming in as a Conqueror Yet wheâ— got loose from this temporary life they should strait ascend into that principal City of the great King Which was once my belief according to that tradional manuduction that I was under But since of meer great and unparalled Love another deep is discovered from out of which a sure and pure word of Revealation hath sprung both as to this and other Obscure things And that the opening of this Truth might not go forth only in the authority of a private Revelation when indeed there is need enough for all Spirits to be tried that do take this Covering For this cause a Scripture foundation was given to confirm and ratifie what was so freely inspired into the mind As first that word was given to me to consider of as in the 14th of Iohn 2d verse In my Fathers house are many Mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and when I have done that I will come and receive you to my self From which words it was given me thus to understand that by House the Spirit doth signifie the Locality of God's invisible Kingdom that hath various Regions for dwelling places as it is said there are many Mansions in which are degrees of Glory Solomon in the mirror of Wisdom had an account thereof when he had built that Magnificent House and Temple for the Most High Which made him as in a Spiritual Extasy cry out The Heavens of Heavens cannot contain thee So it is said of our Lord Jesus that he ascended up above ALL Heavens By all which we may conclude that there are degrees of Heavens and yet all within the Celestial Sphere For Adam before he had awakened the sinful essence was an inhabitant in one of the Heavens which had the Title of A Paradise because of its serene and fruitful soyl But yet God's local Habitation was not here but he sent forth his influencing mist and here did with Adam and Eve frequently commune while they were undefiled but they being once found in the depravation of this purity this Heaven could not bear their corruptible Image for the worm of mortality could not here live Upon which God said Let them out
as one entire Body of Glory Iune the 6th 1677. This Morning about four of the Clock awaking with a raised Mind ready to entertain discoveries from that invisible Orb to which my whole Heart tended to I found my self suddenly carried out of my animal sense and several idea's did open to me from the Upper Region I saw in the Firmament of the Heavens Bright Figures like Half Moons and great rolling up and down of the Starry Heavens which seemed to be in a troubled Commotion Then there were great fears at the sight hereof among the lower Spirits of this Region Then I saw somewhat like a Standard set up with a Writing upon it proclaiming War with all the Inhabitants upon the Earth And about these I did see Bows and sharp Arrows and because I saw this Piller or Standard at a distance I thought it was or might not be real and so I went to it and touched it with my hand and read the Writing which was Controversie with the Nations of the World Then after this I saw the Clouds of Heaven pass away and various Persons of great Majesty descended down to the place where the Standard was set and they appeared as those that were Judges of the Earth And two or three of them made towards me to have spoke with me and their Presence was terrible that I shrunk away For my mean Corporeity was very inconsistent to their Glorious Personalities And this word followed This is the Lord who after this Tribulation will come with his Ancients to raign over the Earth Iune the 7th 1677. Then this word did speak through me Haste and pass away from Paradisical Righteousness to Sion's Glory For let your Condition seem never so mean and low yet verily designed ye are to work through all vicisitudes till Palms of Victorious Glory in the hand of the great Alpha and Omega be given to you which will make you to be the admiration of all in the higher and neather Regions Then these Rules were given expresly in order hereunto 1st Suffer gladly the Transplanting Power to crop off all what it finds superfluous dry and sapless 2dly Permit no other Pruning Hook to come near any Branch of your superiour Life-trees but that flaming word of the Spirit that knows rightly to divide betwixt the dead and the living 3dly Seek and make application to the Most High for an impregnable fence while these Fruits are ripening there will be required an invincible gard or else the subtile Foxes and Beasts of Prey may get in for to make spoil In the 4th place Then again watch not only against the Invasions from what Ministers from this visible Principle but from a near and more inward Center whereout the Serpent may move and twist himself while yet you are but in the Paradisical Property For in this first Transplantation lieth all your danger Therefore if all the Fruits of this mystical Life-tree can but reach to a Golden Hue so solid as to become a fixed Seed then ye are out of all hazard and fear But cast this Seed into Earth Air Water or Fire it will attract to it self out of every thing a bright consuming Glory Then this word was added saying Weigh and consider this mystical thing for here lieth the highest state of Perfection Observe the Most Holy in all his removes within your Heavenly Plantation for every new ingraffing from the Mighty Arm of Power will be an evidence that he will not leave you till Scions ye are made as Branches of this Saphire glorious Tree Iune the 8th 1677. This Morning this word was given me to feed upon saying I the Most Holy will Tabernacle with with a Spiritual Mind My Life and Peace as a Spring will bubble there The carnal and earthly Mind is Satan's seat the pure Mind is God's Throne Now choose which of those you will give place to for accordingly your Mind must be ordered If for the high and most holy Society then all Spiritual Then was that Scripture repeated to me For to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace Which life of Carnality is enmity to God who will be evermore a Stranger to such who shall know nothing of his Love Joy Goodness Power and Sweetness For if they commune with earthly Spirits and things of this terrestrial being then such dark influences are left upon their Minds as make them altogether unmeet to talk with God or to take in of those Species which tend for transfiguring the Soul into a bright body of Glory When the Mind is pestered and overcharged with thoughts that tend only for this gross elementary Life there is no room for the Holy Ghost that proceedeth and cometh from such a wonderful being of holiness as the Father of Spirits is Iune the 17th 1677. I saw a Ball of Fire and out therefrom went Flakes of Fire and fell amongst thorny Bushes so as they were no more being consumed by the Flame And it was said to me these are the particles and dispersive Powers that will go forth from the substantial God head to devour the Shrubs of the Earth Then after this internal sight I was as in a sleep where much combustion strife and spiritual Labour for the attainment of somewhat that was of Eternal Consequence And such was the clamorous onset of earthly Spirits that for a time I found my self sunk down into a dark Vally Upon which I awaked with great perplexity Then after this I saw in way of Vision a rich Golden Sledge set up and I was to slide down upon it And a voice cried Fear not for an end to all weariness and travel will come when this out of the Heavens shall descend Iune the 23th 1677. Sarah and Abimelech This Morning as I was recollecting my interiour Powers and Faculties which I found had been somewhat scattered by being let out and employed upon secular concerns and which I found was as going upon Thorns grievous and unsavory Upon this my Spirit made application with Soul-meltings for Life-recovery and restitution to those wonted familiarities and divine discoveries wherein consisted all my peace life and satisfaction Upon which my care now was how we who were under a peculiar obligation should discharge our selves of all and every weight that had beset us For it was presented to me that while we were gathering together what might accommodate our outward man as Paul did the sticks to warm him after his perilous voyage even so we upon necessary and lawful things being employed were in danger of the poisonous Vipers which would stick so close to our hands as we should be constrained to awaken and call up the Most Holy Adjuring Power of the Mighty God Whereby we might be able to cast them off before they infected our pure eternal Life-blood that so we might proceed forward in our Spiritual Work For this word was spoke why seek ye to dwell in ceiled houses and let the most holy in
White loose Garment girt about her with a seeming White Silken Girdle who came near to me saying Behold and see what ye may arrive to be in me And so passed away Then after a while there was a Child all Lovely and Fair put into my Arms it was all naked of a smooth shining Skin I could not see who it was that disposed it to me but it was unexpectedly let down into my Arms. I thought it to be very Weighty though but little so passing to go away with it it suddainly slipped through my Arms unto the Ground at which I gave a great Screek and with great Fear and Concern took it up again without much Damage March the 12th 1676. The Interpretation of the First Vision Concerning this Vision the Thoughts of my Head were for the space of time much troubled till the revealer of Secrets did expound to me the meaning hereof As to the first which was the Woman with the Crown upon her Head This was declared to be the Virgin-Bride of the Lamb who came to shew her self made fully Ready all Bright and Fair as the Queen and Princess of Heaven Who hath her place at the Right-hand of the Immanuel for so much as this Woman is the Glory of the God-Man who out of this masculine Nature is taken according to the Figure of the first Paradisical Man who brought forth that Eve that was the Mother of all that lived in the mixed Property of Good and Evil. All of which Off-spring the present visible World doth consist of which to this Day is under the denomination of the fallen Creation which hath been upon Restoring ever since the Relapse but not yet Restored What then has made it stick so long Where is that Woman whose Seed must bruise the Serpent's Head Is she not yet made manifest Yes sure she hath been known as to the first Figure hereof to whom it was said That this Eve or first Woman should bring forth her Seed in Sorrow It hath been also generally concluded That out of this earthly Eve that Royal Seed should come by which the Serpent in Nature should be destroyed which was so suddainly introduced both into Adam and Eve True it is that the genaelogy did so run from them to the Birth of Christ after the Flesh but yet not to be reckoned for Eves Seed though God said to the Serpent that he would put Enmity betwixt his Seed and the Womans But how is that to be understood Not in the Line of natural Generation Neither was it said that from such a Woman who lies under the Curse of Sin and Sorrow that this blessed Birth should spring therefrom Though in Truth and Substance a mighty and wonderful Birth was made manifest wherein a deeper Mystery hath been couched than to past Time and past Generations hath been Revealed But now the Hand of Love begins to move and the Covering is turning away off from such who are turned in to know the Treasures of eternal Wisdom The Spirit of Truth is verily at hand to drive and guide the pure Mind jointly with it self into the Ocean-Mystery which is God himself in his abstracted Deity whereinto separated Spirits may very deeply dive when they are departed from their Earthly Senses This deep thing which is upon revealing I found like a boiling Pot of Oyntment so sweetly flowing into my Intellectual part Upon which my Mind as all in a flaming Light was enlightned to see what under the Mantle did lie Who according to eternal Counsel was hereunto fore-ordained typically to be brought forth in the Line of Natural Virginity even a Man or Sorrows and acquainted with Griefs and subjected to Sufferings hiding and covering by a Terrestial Form that sparkling Star of the Deity Which also would have been obscured if he had not again risen from the Dead Which gave the Church a mighty Remove in that day from shadows into that which was more Spiritual and Substantial through the giving of the Unction Which hath from that Age striven mightily but the Man of sin still hath been too strong witness those Complaints to the very breaking Hour of Mortality in them that are highest in the Birth-Ministration of Jesus as working through humane Properties But then an Objection must rise herefrom If all this be too short what more is there yet to come Things now have long stood at a stay what may we from the mighty God and everlastingâ— Father more yet expect that so the Temple Body of Jesus may not still lie unperfected Well what more forceable can there be then Christ in the Flesh and Christ in the Spirit Ans. To this there is an Answer by the All-searching Spirit prepared there is yet a Virgin Woman to be revealed out from the Heavens whereof Mary that broâ—ght forth Christ according to the Flesh was but a Type For it was neither Eve nor she to whom the Promise was made concerning that Birth which should bruise the Serpent's seven headed Power There must be another Genealogy found out from whence the Serpent-treader must also come Look and see and you shall find hereof is recorded Rev. 12. To which place I was by that Holy Ghostly Seer referred as to a Foundation for this more Excelling Ministration Iohn seeing this in Vision so long since and nothing hereof yet produced let not that seem so marvellous in your Eyes for Times decreed are in the Spirit as known to God in what Age in the World this Blessing will be most seasonably brought forth Conclude ye may by Wisdom's Star that hath appeared in your Heavens that out-thence if kept pure and clear this great Wonder may follow according as ye did see in the late Idea But ah my Lord how is this to be understood sure this Woman is not to be manifested in any one Particular who is subsisting in a Corporeal Substance For she will come all arrayed in a Body Saphire-like and not in the garb of the Mortal Creature with the Globe of this Worldâ— under her Feet Therefore this Query meets with this Who living in this Principle may expect such a Ray of Glory for to become a Covering And this was Answered Wherefore dost thou think that it was cryed up for a Wonder if it was not upon some extraordinary change who though thus transformed into such brightness of Excellency yet she is called a Woman But the pure Heavenly Glory altogether covereth the Creaturely Being The sparkling Deity that was hid within becomes the great and high amazement a flaming Garment This also will be obvious to the right discerning Eye in this present Sphere from whence will arise the admiration and great questioning there will be from whence this Woman did proceed If any hereof shall make a doubt how it can ever be on Earth for Virgin Wisdom to draw over her Virgin Vail of Purity in some one or other so as expresly to Personate her Tell them from the Alpha and Omega such a spotless