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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96698	The saints paradise or, the Fathers teaching the only satisfaction to waiting souls. Wherein many experiences are recorded, for the comfort of such as are under spirituall burning. The inward testimony is the souls strength. / By Jerrard Winstanley.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1648 (1648)	Wing W3051; Thomason E2137_1; ESTC R208352	60,120	145

first creation which was the habitation where they were seated these are faln from their excellency and are become Devils or evill Angels or spirituall powers of darknesse I shall declare what I know by Angels that fell they were those glorious lights and sparks of glory shining Angels of light in their severall measures and degrees which God had placed in the humane nature Adam before his fall As his love of God delight in God Peace and rest in God humilitie before God obedience and selfe deniall before God and all such like these all lived in God for he was the Center from which they came and to which they reflected back again they being all alive within Adam and Adam being alive within them But when Adam hearkened to the whispering of that a spiring selfishnesse that was the serpent which twisted it self round about the tree Adam and every glorious light that was in that humane creation and when Adam or indeed any man or woman doth give way to self and eat of that fruit that is delight in self above the King of righteousnesse in man then those glorious Angels left God their habitation and took up their glory within the circle of humane de●●ed flesh and so become enmity against God For now the mans love is turned from living in the King of righteousnesse to live in corrupted flesh it is become a selfe love and so envious against God his delight and his joy is become self delight he glories in himself which is his pride his obedience doth live in himselfe for he gives way to all the whisperings of the flesh and lusts within himself but disobeys the command of righteousnesse within him And further his sincerity is turned into hypocrisie and his imagination works strongly how to please the flesh in the motions of it not how to please the spirit of truth and holinesse And now those glorious sparkes which were Angels of light while they lived in God and reflected upon him are become Angels of darknesse or legions of devils murtherers or deceivers according to their many degrees and measures while they live in unrighteous flesh and reflect upon the disobedient creature to maintain and to honour the being of the flesh before the righteous God that governs in the flesh thus they are faln And these devils or deceivers for indeed pride covetousnesse and the imagination of proud flesh doth deceive every man they are reserved in chaines of darknesse c. These chains are the dispensations of Gods wrath through his righteous Law for upon every one and upon all of these faln Angels the righteous sparks or breathings forth of the righteous Law like a flame of fire turning every way meets with them bindes them keeps them in and restrains them within bonds so that God hath these powers of self-seeking flesh at his command they cannot appear nor act but by his leave Pride self-love envy hypocrisie subtilty cruelty cannot act but by his leave and when he doth suffer them to act then his righteous Law is presently made manifest following their heels like fire burning up the stubble For God never suffers these devils to appear either within a man or by some violent way to break forth of men for the hurt one of another but he makes use thereof to ruine and destroy that power of darkness even that poysonous power of covetous flesh And they are called chains of darkness in opposition to the Law of perfect love and liberty for while these Angels lived in God they had no restraint for love God and thou art at liberty thy whole soul is free and no bondage lieth upon thee But when thou lovest self and flesh then all thy powers run self-ward and then the flaming sword which is the righteous spirit of burning doth flame upon thee burns thee and restrains thee and holds thee under bondage But how long Till the Judgement of the great day that is till the power of Christ do make it appear to the mans clear knowledge that self and flesh is the devill and serpent and by his power of righteousness doth not only judge and condemn that serpent but casts him into the lake of fire and consumes him to nothing as if his power had never been and so sets the creature free according to the mysterie of God And here note that the restauration or salvation which is pointed at in the letter of the Scripture doth lie in the restoring of the creature Mankinde from the power of these Angels of darkness and Mankindes redemption lieth in the breaking of those chains of darkness asunder and so taking him into the life liberty and peace of the King of righteousness As thus Whereas in this present poysoned estate of Mankinde in which flesh glories it self as in self will delight and self-love subtile imagination and the like they do all work fleshward and selfward and the masculine powers that rule the soul appear to be envy hypocrisie pride anger self-seeking subtilty and such like And the spirit of truth who is the Father by whom the creation man doth live move and hath his beeing doth lie buried under that unrighteous fleshie power But now in the restored estate which the Father hath begun to work and which his people wait for compleatness of I say now All the powers of the soul as his love delight and peace c. run God-ward again and is centured in the Father again And those powers of the flesh as pride covetousness rash anger love of self and imagination working to advance all these which are as I said the Angels of darkness in man These are now in this day of judgement condemned and destroyed trod under foot and buried out of minde like a dead man without beeing And the Lord alone is exalted now in this day of restauration which is the day of his power This indeed is the mysterie of all King flesh and self is dis-throned and the King of righteousness in flesh hath begun to take the Kingdom and doth raign and will raign and his dominion shall spread and endure for ever and ever for though he take the Kingdom by strength out of King flesh his hand yet none shall ever be able to take it out of his hand again for of his Kingdom there shall be no end And seeing people are not yet taken off from looking upon other mens knowledge I shall mention this one Scripture which if people did feelingly understand the distemper of their spirits would presently be healed It is this Light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evill The world is mankinde and every particular man and woman is a perfect creation of himself a perfect created world that if a particular branch of mankinde desire to know what the nature of other men and women are let him not look abroad but into his own heart and he shall see so that I

of love truth and onenesse is near at hand and that England Scotland and Ireland so set at liberty from the bondage of the serpent within and the dispensation of wrath without shall be the tenth part of the City Babylon that shall fall off first and bow down at the feet of the Anoynting which is the wisdom and power of God that rules in flesh as Esay prophesied but whether God will manifest so great a work in this kingdome or no at this time his will be done but this I know much may be said of the workings of Gods power in this kinde in particular mens experience and as the father enlarges his hand this manifestation of his love will spread There is more hopes of a bitter storming spirit to be brought into God as this kingdome is generally full of then of a smooth close fawning hypocriticall self seeking fearefull spirit that playes of all sides for self-ends sake God received persecuting and bitter spirited Paul to mercy when as he let hypocriticall self-seeking Simon Magus go by as it were not counting him worth the minding All that I shall say is this you Saints of God that taste how sweet the love of the father is bear patiently with hot spirits God doth beare with them for he suffers more then you he is called the great long sufferer and when Gods love begins to shine forth upon them he can and it may be wil make some of them to out-strip you in experience of his love good will and power and so fill them abundantly with the spirit of joy But some do object against what I have spoken and say are not those Angels which fell devils distinct from God as man is distinct from God as Jude speaks And the Angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation he hath reserved in chaines of darkness unto the Judgement of the great day To answer this First I shall note that as heaven is set before us in a two-fold glory so are Angels As first every particular Saint is a true heaven or place of glory not only because the Father dwels in him but because he dwels in the Father likewise as thus the Father delights in him and manifests himselfe to this his son and his son by the clear sight and feeling of this manifestation is filled with joy and glory in his Father so that here is a mutuall fellowship of joy and oneness of love between them And this is Gods Kingdome even for flesh to be filled with Gods glory and indwelling presence in love and this is heaven in a lesser sence Secondly the whole City Sion is true heaven or a place of the fathers glory which is but the perfection of the former joy for as the father dwels and rules as a King of righteousnesse and love in one Saint so he dwells in all and all of them dwell in him as he enjoyes them for his delight so they enjoy him for their delight And as all and every one of them sees enjoyes and glories in the Father so they see enjoy and glory one in another every one knowing seeing and sweetly rejoycing in the unity and oneness of each others spirit it being the spirit of the father nay the father himself who is the spirit that fills all in all and knits them together into one body treading down all oppressing powers of the flesh for ever under their feet and this is heaven in the largest sence which every particular son and daughter of the father shall enjoy hereafter though they are now scattered abroad among the Sodomites of this unrighteous world that vexes their pretious soules from day to day And as heaven I say is set before us in this two-fold glory so the Angels are set before us in a two-fold glory likewise For first the particular sparks of glory or heavenly principles in man which the father hath set as lights to make known himselfe in his Saints as love humility sincerity content and rest in God and such like these are Angels and Angels of glory too because they are sparks of glory issued out of the father into earthen vessels and makes them to become the salt of the earth and light of the world Then secondly Men that are wholly taken up into God are called Angels such as have all their sences spiritually exercised in the father that can see hear taste smell and handle the excellent and glorious father and so Jesus Christ being a man so taken up into the father for he was a man fully anointed the God-head dwelt bodily in him he was called an Angel the Arch-Angell and Angel of his presence for he was the glorious sparke and light of the father And when men shall be and are so taken up into God they are called Angels and Angels of heaven too because the father dwels and glories in them and they live dwell and glory in the father and these are the Angels which the father sends to do his will As first the severall measures of his spirit are sparks of his glory as love joy humility sincerity and peace in God and such like these are particular Angels which the father sends down into humane flesh to keep it in all his wayes that it may not desperately blasphem God and so dash against the rock and such Angels as these every son and daughter of the father doth enjoy more or lesse and if it were not for these temptations would presently overcome them but these are spirituall powers from God that keep them upright in all their wayes and which makes them differ from the world And then for men that are wholly taken up into God as Moses and as Christ was they are ministers or Angels which the father sends forth to speake and do his will before and in the world therefore let the world in these dayes learne meeknesse and wisdome and lay aside their envy lest in the day of account they be found beating and killing such as the father sends in his name But now to answer to the objection We are to note that Angels in this latter sence which are men taken up into God and made perfect can never fall from God and so become Devils and enemies against God for this is the work of redemption which is unchangable and the father dwels and rules in them and hath bruised the serpents head in them never to revive again in them and they likewise live and dwell in God whose power treads all enemies under their feet And they have the sparks of glory or Angels of light within them which are the severall measures of the fathers spirit poured into them which remaines for ever and they themselves are Angels of light sent from the father to do his will here in this low condition of weak flesh But now Angels in the former sence which are divine sparks of glory planted in humane nature in its