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A55474	Theologia mystica, or, The mystic divinitie of the aeternal invisibles, viz., the archetypous globe, or the original globe, or world of all globes, worlds, essences, centers, elements, principles and creations whatsoever by a person of qualitie, J.P., M.D.	Pordage, John, 1607-1681.; Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.; Hooker, Edward.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2968; ESTC R8838	181,392	278

or suppositions of what are as cunningly as commonly called convenient contrivances innocent indifferences and orderli decences under the plausibl praetext placent notion specious name prudential guise and fair construction of that famous Euangelic Canon or Rule the grand Ecclesiastic Cynosura sciz Let all things be done decently and in order Which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at best is not so much an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I humbly conceiv and offer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 purely for sweet dear holi hevenli Peace sake and in a sens and conscience of mi by mee as yet beleeved dutie omnibus singulis qibuscunqe fortassean seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu Sacerdotum seu Praefectorum nominibus titulis indigitentur insigniantur Which Words so rendred to procede in the waie of Peace and Truth a Conjunction which I wold ever call Copulativ and make if I could perpetuously Consummativ som Godli and learned Writers upon very probabl reasons Scholar like tendred which I like and wit● out ani bitter reflection which I love and not wit● out accurate retrospection inspection and circu●●spection as to the design of the Apostl's discour●● and their very serious meditation and ruminati●● on the scope of the Text with fervent supplicati●● after Consultation too of the best Commentators 〈◊〉 the place thro' the supplies of the Spirit of Grac● and in the name of Christ the Wisdom of the ●●●ther to God the Father of Lights and the Spiri● of all Flesh which I cannot neither mai loath hav● after all apprehended and thereupon do beleev That if the Reading were according to natural D●●cencie and Scripture-Order in the room place o● stead of decently and in order those foregoing word wold be much more consonant to and with the S●●gnificance of the Original and by consequen●● tho' stil under Correction of more illuminated Head● ● be assented and consented to specialy by the Church of Christ coming out of Mysterie-Babylon gathered or scattered as the fairest and best interpretatio● and exposition O who wil giv that our sight 〈◊〉 be happily cleared by this smal foretast or ani ●●ther as Ionathan's was by tasting a littl honie from 〈◊〉 end of his Rod and who can tell but it mai speci●● if wee look up for Eie-salv from Heaven whi●● our Eies are looking upon the letters and words and not be wholey taken up with the Letter without the Spirit which wil quicken us and put Life into our Spirit otherwise wee mai li dead at the letter til wee di The Word of Life wil be most welcom to enlivened Spirits O that the Spirit of Praier were raised agen from the dead as one mai sai what happi hopes then shold wee have of a glorious and spiritual Resurrection after so great a death hath passed upon the Churches Oh it is high time to begg as for Life that the Blessed Spirit wold come as Floods upon dri ground since the chois Gardins of the veri Saints for want of Spiritual dewes from Heven are withered that the Churches mai be as watered Gardins and the Saints and Servants of the most High mai at less'st at last like the Willows by the water-courses grow up evn into him in all things who is the Head of everi man and over all things to the Church which is His Bodie the fullness of him who filleth all in all and who wil make good His Great last Testament-Promiss of a doubl portion of his Spirit in a plentifull and powerful effusion thereof in the later glorious Ministration to counsil and comfort suppli and support the Saincts til the conspicuous apparence of his Personal Praesence without which his Praesence which can be no less wheresoever it be than Spiritual no Communions Ordinances or ani extern Administration can be effectual Let us all therfore look upon it as one main work of the daie to set Faith at work on the Promises and be earnest with the Father of Spirits to send down a special Unction from on High for the new spiriting of His Peopl e●n that other spirit which Caleb had Seeing a commune Spirit wil never carri them fully thorow in the work of their Generation Let us al prai that the Golden Pipes mai more and more empti their golden ill out of their selvs from the Olive-tree and that thei who desire and endevour to keep the Commands of God and the Testimonie of Iesus mai be anointed with the Oil of Gladnes in more abundant mensures Prai wee all that the Spirit of Glorie mai com down and rest among and upon us as a Refiner's fire to purifi us for our Gold is dim and our fine Gold changed considering Hee who hath the seven Spirits is too visibly turned aside from our golden Candlesticks that so wee mai offer up pure offerings in truth of Righteousnes and holiness beeing renovated in the Spirits of our minds which mai be placent to the Lord as in the daies of old Prai wee all for I praefer it before Preaching in this our Daie and set wee upon the Gates of Heavn with an holi violence knocking daie and night for the Devil is com down in great Rage wrath and violence throwing round about and that with grandest furie his fieri darts toward his Catastrophe or period Hee sadly foreseeing the short time hee hath to rant or rage in O Tri wee all what Power we have with the Father of Lights to set his Power on work to shake the Powers of Darkness in this hour of Tentation that is com upon all the Dwellers upon Earth and to help us in the Discoverie of that now above 5000 years experienced Master of the Black Art transformed too often into the most dangerous white Devil yea an Angel of Light tho' disguising himself and setting his face in secret so the Holi Mother-Toung to be then less'st in sight when without doubt most at work that so hee mai soonest defile and safest beguile us and wee not aware of him while wee shal like those mentioned in the Apocalyps be taken with the fine hair of the Locusts which asscended out of the bottomless Pit that stung them as Scorpions with their Tails O let the Remembrancers of the Lord who loveth to be put in Remembrance of the good thing promised make mention thereof before him that the Hyperpanonomous Iesus the Christ the Lord of Righteousnes the Lord of Lords Tzion's King and King of Kings mai be set upon this Holi Hill that the Heathen mai be His inhaeritance and the uttermost Parts of the Earth His Possession taking to himself his great Power and Reign and put the Government upon his shoulder and arise to shake the Earth yea and the Heavens terribly once

in some Part of his Writings he giveth an hint of and so from what he in the still Eternitie saw and heard he wrote behold who can the Copy and then but not be●ore compare the Writings therewith and the Springs in him did daily sill Of this I was Witness being conversant then with him and making Remarks and taking Observations with all Exactness possible of those wonderful Transportations he had or rather they had him for the space of three Weeks together insomuch as I can do no less than bear my Testimony concerning his Spirit 's Height whilst his outward Bodie lay in passive Stillness in this visible Orb. Surely we may conclude he was as another Moses in som sort taken up into the Mount with God as a Friend and Favourite of the most High where he did see hear and learn these so deep and excellent things which are by great Care and no less Conscience brought forth to Light Therefore pious Reader be satisfied that here is a true and real Draught or Copie taken from the Original yea drawn by the blessed A●thor out of the Original of all Worlds where he saw what he saw in pure Abstraction of Spirit The Publication of which the Author intended before his Dissolution being incouraged thereunto by the above-named Doctor his true hearted and right worthy Friend who well understood his Worth Writings and Spirit as well if no● better than any Man living as also readily promoted by another Person who therefore is in the Prefatori Epistle very honourably mentioned and most worthily and nobly decyphered and described if not perfectly delineated Both of them jointly rejoicing that they had found out such an one so abundantly filled with God's blessed Spirit of Love Wisdom Holiness and Meekness and influenced so extraordinarily by the same sufficiently apparent in the Gifts and Graces he was endued and adorned with Whereupon they could not choose but freely offer both of them their Assistance the one his Head and Pen the other his Hand and Purse to go thorow with and carry on the Work for the easily-foreseen universal Benefit Nor can I doubt but both of them will receive no small Reward from the hands of Him who will not suffer only a little cold Liquid or as we reade in our English Bible a Cup of cold Water given to any of the little ones in the Name of a Disciple to drink to be unregarded nai not him whosoever he should be that gave to such an one thereof to go unrewarded for our Lord expresly declareth his Mind therein and that with this Asseveration Verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his Reward Yea I have good Ground moreover to believe that the same good Spirit of Grace and Glory that lived in and rested on the Author may multiply on them both also even so and Amen O Lord God And let the Residue of the Spirit to all the just and faithful ones come for the perfiting what this Author had so clear a Prospect of in his enlightned Eye Now give me leave good Reader to conclude with this holy Challenge to all that are Lovers of heavenly Truths mystical or plain if any be of that high Evangelical Order he was of come forth bear your living Witness and go on and forward valiantly to the furthering and strengthning and finishing the great Work which this Author was daily labouring in Let us speak and write love and work fast and pray for a continual flowing down of that pure and holy Unction for the consummating in and amongst us that which this holy and heavenly Man left to be fulfilled and accomplished which verily will be Ioy Praise and Glory even to him who according to the Flesh died but now liveth among the perfect in Spirit who also waiteth for the bringing up those that shall make up the Number of the Church of the First-born who are enrolled in Heaven of the Number of which let us strive press and pursue to be that the Love-Hallelujahs may in our Day be sung to him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb who is crown●d King in Love's Kingdome where only I would be known and found also truly Yours in that pure Fellowship Into which the Lord himself vouchsafe to lead you So heartily prays I. L. THE PRAEFATORI EPISTL By one Who is studiously ambitious and earnestly contentious as wel if not more to promote the common Salvation as these o● ani other uncommon Mysteries the most abstracted whereof is never without Moralitie moving upon the Affections Christian Reader FOR so in nature unfeignedly as in Name professedly I wold have you to be Miscalled you I hope I have not in this Compellation If I have then are you utterly incapacified as to the Concerns of these Mysteries and Sublimities So bold am I to tell you and such and Anointed one am I whatsoever Iudgment mai pass upon mee or if I be not yet do ●prai resolv endevour or purpose or at les●'st desire or wish to be No mo at all of this yet this beleev wee all of us that it is a most rare Thing in it self were there neither Rewards nor Punishments to be realy and truly Religious in the Old waie which is the Good waie out of which there is no Rest. But you mai sai who cometh here whence you what Religion are you of you are I beleev a pure one Wel for me if I be However to the Quaestion not asking you who made you an Examiner and in Meekness and Fear as I ought I answer and that in the Words of a Servant of God and of the Lord Iesus Christ viz. I am of that Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father which is to visit the Orphans and Widows in their Tribulation and to keep mi self unspotted of the World Of which Faith or Persuasion Iudgment or Mind was blessed Paul in whom alone were evn the Apostles All who further acquainteth you that Christ Iesus his Master and Lord was of the same as to the whol Church which Hee loved and gave himself for that He mought sanctifi it c. not having spot or wrinkl or aught of such but that it shold be holi and without blemish or rather Amomous so the Word is that is irrepre●ensibl safeguarded from the bitings of Momus one of the feined Gods among the Gentils who wold be ever carping such was the suarl of his goodli Godhood at everi thing and who is I fear worshipped evn among our own selvs So Idolatrous or superstitious are wee all almost becom But more particularly if that mai be more for your Satisfaction and to let you know by the waie that neither the insinuating Iesuit hath deceived mee nor perilous Books poisoned mee nor fantastic Teachers seduced mee nor corrupt Church-men carried mee away with everi Wind of Doctrine I here publicly to the Interrogatorie about mi Religion repli Sir I am of that

and broken loos upon us publicly got above ground to act its part here on the stage of this World But I draw the Curtein and go and glad I can escape too so and leav it to the Angel's Iudgment but the God of this Age I mean the Devil's Commandment He who is filthi let him be filthi stil Nevertheless let him remember withal that he must and shal who is thus his most humbl and obedient Servant remane nolens volens without evn the veri Gates where dogs are of the holi Citie the New Ierusalem For there is no entrance thereinto but by these Gates What then wil the woful consequences hereof be No less nor more nor other than these that when the inexorabl Messenger whose Name is the First Death shal com as certenly and yet as uncertenly hee wil and uncloath and unflesh him too the Second Death when the first hath doon shal follow and Hell which hee shal find to be more than a Bugbear or Scarcrow when hee goeth thro' the Gulf that empti place void space or great fixed passage to it H●ll I sai once agen becaus I wold not have him forget where it is least hee unhappily fall into it shal must and wil have him and hold him fast too whatsoever loos opinion hee in his Life-time here on Earth mought have b●en of as to it or grant it shold or could not yet he falling in and it beeing confessedly the lowest part of the created World and under the waters too and that farr beneath the Sea in a much lower place vorago or as abovesaid Abyss moreover if the Scriptures of Truth mai be credited a Craving beyond the Hors-leeche's two daughters the Grave or the barren Womb the Earth or the Fire and hid and horribly dark and a certain definit dolefull place But how deep tho the remotest from heven the most high God alone knoweth To repete for the sake of a persisting and persevering Sinner by waie of caution shold Hell have no hands to hold him or were there no keies to these Chambers of Death wherewith to lock him in both which are as fals as Iudas or the Devil yet stil I cannot sai non obstante nor stil in the sens we most commonly take it if there were no more nois than the wailing and gnashing of teeth there Yet stil I continue and procede to ask and let him answer what can hee hold on when in or what can hee hold by to help him to get upward much less up and out out agen Hic labor hoc opus est But to help a littl at this dead lift and it is but a very littl and that badly too Hee need not fear falling into it for hee and such as hee is so continuing and forgetting God shal be turned into nai rather than that shold fail brought cast and thrust or drivn down into Hell that Hell on the other side and far beyond and below the profundities of Sheol where the Gehenna of Fire is and where are to speak a litil of it the profoundest sorrows the Plaguiest miseries the worst entertainment 〈…〉 olt damned Companie whose veri languag● 〈…〉 h oo o wo and at most and best Belching 〈…〉 sphemies for ever ever This is but littl to what the Scriptures tell Of this confounded dreadfull place of Hell But what is meant mai som sai by all this Nothing but that wee mai not walk amiss But enter through the Gates to th' Citie of Bliss Where the AEternal Tabernacles are Whither Christ is ascended to praepare Mansions for his Discipls that there Hee And thei together mai for ever be For in this high this holi happi place Thei 'l see Him as Hee is evn face to face ' O strive wee then strive all to enter in ' 'T is onely violence doth heven win ' And keeps through Grace from Hel● the Devil and Sin ' Not that altho' the Gate yea and the Waie ' Be strait and nar●ow as the Scriptures sai ' The difficultie must in these two li ' Not so 't is in the Persons Ask you Why ' Becaus I see so is the Scripture's mind ' Where in th' next words Few there are it do find That is the waie Away then with such thoughts Which lai the hardness there Thei 're good for noughts T' affirm th' access hard is the Devil's Sons High violation of God's Providence Wee All as wel for as by Him were made Then how can Goodnes infinit be said To hold from us conceal'd the needful thing The better part that shold us to Him bring Since that 's the prime intent of our Creation The contrari Blasphemous Defamation No no. The Tree of Life in Paradise Th'AEternal Life's tru Type doth in a trice Sweetly and clearly make it to appear Becaus wee know 't was not forbidden there The Freedom givn to it and t' all the rest Except the Tree of Knowledg 't is confest Wel-weighd much aggravate's the first offens But sweeten's heighten's Divine Providence And since the Goodness in the Deitie Is full the same and ne'r can lessen'd be For all that wretched horrid Hellish Baul● Men wors than Adam make about his fall Wee wel mai think concei● conclude the waie It self 's not so perplex'd as Pulpits sai But less'st of all can it conceived be That finding this right waie shold as wee see Be made depend on curiositie Of Arts and Sciences on Knowledg which Created in pure Adam such an itch After Divine Perfections ' highest Pitch To be like God This Satan wel did know Wold bring him with a vengeance down below That 't was his fall Preachers your selvs less show Leav quaestions curious much more those uncouth The Word is nigh Thee evn in thi Mouth And in thi Heart we need not stretch climb Reach That is the word of Faith which wee do preach That if thou with thi mouth shalt Christ confess And in thine heart beleev and that no less God rais'd Him from the dead Thou shalt sav'd be This Gospel is this the Evangelie Not Learning's Gunpowder School-subtiltie Here no divisions are no offenses here Repugnant to sound Doctrine do appear Which who make wee 're to mark void ev'ri where Priests no Divisions sow less spread abroad O studi peace with truth Keep to th' Right Road. All captious notions long deductions shun Do not torment the Text nor from it run With Words don't darken Knowledg that 's not good The pure milk of the Word don't turn to blood Don't wrong us of our food for that 's too much Lai not on us those burthens Yee 'l not touch Christ's yoke is easi and his burthen light Hee speak's write's Love Yee love to speak and write And yee ●gno what ● Howso'er don't make us fight Dear Reader this Digression pardon prai Yea think that truth and I

more for the introducing and setting up that Kingdom which cannot be shaken and the things that shal remane according as is Prophecied O when shal the sounding of the Seventh Angel be heard as the great voices in Heaven all the world over sai-ing The Kingdoms of this World are becom the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and hee shal reign for ever or into the Ages of the Ages And how long O Lord holi and tru shal the good old Promisses to be renewed in these later daies rest unaccomplished Oh when shal the Saviours com upon Mount Zion to judg the Mount of Esau and the Kingdoms be the Lord's and the Lord rais up Carpenters to break the Horns that scatter Iudah so that no man can lift up his Head and put the Honor upon his Saincts to expedite the Iudgment as it is written with a two-edged Sword in their hands and the high praises of God in their mouths to giv Blood to drink to the Woman who is drunken with their Blood and the Martyrs of Iesus and destroi that great Citie which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth and overcom all his and their Inimies in the Blood of the Lamb that so at last the loftiness and haughtiness of men beeing bowed down and made low The Lord alone mai be exalted in his Daie Here permitt mee kind Reader to speak a word or two or mo as to the parts and pietie meekness and humilitie conscience and judgment of this illuminated Autor specialy as to Forms and Ceremonies and Controversies Hee was then as far above all kinds of Church-divisions differences or indifferences yet stil keeping the unitie of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace as the Light of the Sun at middaie is above that of the Glow-worm at midnight For Hee lived specialy in his later years wholey givn up to God If at ani time hee discoursed it was Love Life Spirit and if hee proponed ani Quaestions to ani those were to the best of mi information and when by him of mi memorie alwaies heart-serching to tincture and quicken them in lieu of heart-separating Quaeries to turmoil or deaden them Hee walked with the best Charitie at this daie ever when abroad to provoac perpetuously to lov ' and good works and to visit som very sick Souls who lai languishing under spiritual Consumptions in the Name of the Lord. Nor could hee be found without a bright purely discerning Eie and a brave chois heart not barely enlightned but blessedly inflamed beeing and living such a Luminarie as moved in a much higher and diviner Orb than to mee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men haply wil giv credit tho' the Powers of the World to com fell somtimes wonderfully on him and wrought in Him prai peruse and profoundly ponder His beloved 2 of Cor. v. to the 14. to such an Elevation and clarification of his veri mortal Bodie when hee was fervent in the Spirit of Praier that I fear and therefore forbear to express least it shold be reputed by som those principaly who despeir of atteining such perfections or arriving at ani such Hights theirselvs so consequently are more readi to beleev it a Sp●ritual Romance tho' I mi self have more than once been thereof an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Testis oculatus Eie-Witness All this while now where is the wonder To mee there is no more in it than the Bubbling up in a Quick-spring It is true where there is no stirring up of the Grace of Christ in ani there the Grace of Christ wil never stirr up ani Fire that lieth covered under Embers wil not rise without beeing blown into a flame There is never ani Exsultation of Spirit where there is no Actuation of the Graces of the Spirit O the incredibl intern exercitations and extern exertions of the veri visibl form of som Persons thei are so divinely transformed O that I had the Wings of a Dove that I mought flee away c. cried St. David a man after God's own Heart and most like him when hee was lifting up his all to God in hearti Praiers and high Praises Doth not the veri Creature wait with an outstretched neck or rather with the Head put forth or thrust out for the manifestation of the Sons of God And shal the Sons of God theirselvs whom the world knoweth not and whose Life is hid with Christ in God neither have nor doo ani thing extraordinari in themselvs nor in the work the Lord is carrieing on in the World which is high and heavenli much above the World It is very observabl in the Dove that it casteth its Head this waie and that before it taketh its flight But that which is reported by the Humanists of Oryx a kind of Goat in AEgypt is most remarquabl that it is so affected with the fear of scorching heat at the rising of Sirius i. e. the Dog-star that it standeth with tears in the Eies as if it seemed to deprecate the intolerabl heat thereof and to thirst with an unquenchabl desire for som humiditie and refreshing moisture from heaven What is there nothing wil make a man excellent above his Nighbor yea sure and that visibly too if hee be righteous or els Solomon's sight was not right Not so much as a gaietie in the looks of a godli man above another not a littl Wisdom to make a Sainct's Face to shine a littl more than ordinarily is discerned Wisdom doth somtimes as it were magicly transfigure a man as hath been found in experience Hence not unlikely that Topic Proverb among the Spaniards There are two Magicians in Segura the one Experience the other Wisdom tho' I wel know Italie is the School of Prudence for it is said that whereas the French is wife after the fact the Dutch and English in the fact the Italian is wise before but an Englishman Italionat is a Devil incarnat Tru it is yet it doth not appear what the Sons of God shal be shal it therefore at no time appear that such Sons of God there be Never acknowledgedly acting in the Demonstration of the Spirit and Power What are becom of all the Promises and Prophecies concerning the later Daie-Glorie Where is the shining forth of your good Works that men mai see those and glorifi your Father who is in Heavn Is it not dreadfull for children of the Daie to walk as dark Lanterns nai wors to put out their lights within likewise that thei mai not see themselvs Wil not the Lord God serch such as with Candles O arise yee Sons and Daughters of Tzion rows up your selvs and lift up your heads for your Redemption draweth nigh A Christian must be so alltogether or not at all Hee must be throughly pure the veri Name of Christ taken upon him obligeth him against a depraved conversation hee must depart from iniquitie Up then and be dooing and let