in the holy Ghost And the Colossions who had waited for it and believed in that through which it was revealed the Apostle was in the same Faith Coloss. 1. 12. 13. Who hath made us meet partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light who hath delivered us from the power of darknesse and hath transformed us into the kingdome of his dear Son And those things were seen in the body and witnessed in the body And the Apostle to Hebrews saith He that believes is entred into the rest And this and all these things were feeled within by the seed immortal the birth immortal and they that witness the birth immortal to live in them One said He hath made us joynt-heirs with Christ who is the King of eternal glory and they were Joint-heires with him of the kingdome that fades not away and all that ever comes to see the kingdome of God in the spirit which is spiritual must wait in the spirit and in its manifestation that so God and his Kingdome and the things of Gods Kingdome may be felt and seen and enjoyed in the spirit which is glorious Object All this which thou hast spoken may some say is the kingdome of grace and that we hold there is a two-fold kingdome the one of grace here the other of glory hereafter which none comes to enjoy glory or any part of it in this life or in the body Answ. People hath long been blinded with confused distinctions about names and being full of imaginary thoughts and conceptions have brought forth foolish and unlearned distinctions and that which God hath joyned together they would separate grace is glorious and glory is gratious he that can receive it let him the kingdome of God which was like a grain of mustard-seed afterwards it became a great tree the tree in its strength and glory and height is more glorious then when it s in the seed yet the seed and the tree is in nature and quality and kind one if the kingdome be in dominion in purity and power and glory is not here unity yet a greater measure yet still the dominion is one the power one the glory one and the thing one wherein grace standeth and glory standeth wherein the kingdome standeth grace is glorious Eph. 1. 6 7. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children and to the praife and glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved In the Fathers house there are many mansions places in the kingdome of God there are many heavenly places and they that walked to the praise of his grace came to sit also in heavenly places Eph. 2 6. through grace salvation through grace glory comes to be revealed in the earth Isa. 6. 3. The Earâ—h is full of his glory he that makes heaven and Earth glorious is glory it selfe from whence grace aud every degree of gloly receives its being the least measure of Gods strength and power is glorious and to be gloried in in the Lord by all that have seen it Things might be declared which God hath revealed which is not lawful for me now to utter for as one star differs from another in glory yet all glorious even so is it with the children of the resurrection who are quickned and made alive and raised from the dead and fashioned like unto his glorious body partakers of the glory of God of his kingdome of his power the power is his in which the kingdome stands the kingdome his wherein glory stands the kingdom power and glory stands all in him who is the glorious God and the God of eternal glory who is revealing his power his kingdome and grace and his glory unto all that patiently wait upon him in that which yet is as a grain of mustard-seed they will come to feel his presence his power and glory revealed in their hearts through the spirit and injoy God in his kingdome in his power and in his glory and through faith shall see the weight of his glory which God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ will reveal unto all that patiently wait for his appearance and in his appearance Obj. But some will cry out grievous blasphemy and error what I think you look for no other glory but in this Life nor for no other Kingdome but what you enjoy in this life thus I know dark spirits reasons Answ. The Saints looked not afâ— any other glory but that which stood in eternal life and in the immortal Life and in the incorruptable life and the Country they sought after was that which God was the maker and builder of and they looked and waited to receive of his power in which the Kingdome standeth and did in this life I do not say the full weight of glory and to know and injoy and to be made partakers of his eternal dominion and authority is that which all the Saints in measure witnesse and in due time came to injoy through faith for by faith they saw him who was invisible and the things of his kingdome which is invisible spiritual and eternal but to speak of the carnal corruptable life in the flesh who are dead while they live there that life neither the kingdome nor the power nor the glory of God is revealed to them not till after the death of that life and till after the death of him who hath the power of death which is the Devil which ruleth in the hearts of the children of disobedience where all the mysteries of Gods kingdome is hid from their eyes and ever shall while in that state and so let the Serpent be blind and they that have an eare to hear blessed is that eare for the kingdome of God is come nigh unto many and the salvation of God and the power of Christ is seen by many honour and praise unto him everlastingly who is the onely Potentate that puts down all authority under his feet that God may be all in all but first every one must come to feel the kingdome which is as a little grain in himselfe and in it believe before any can come to know the Kingdome or wherein it consists and after it be known in its measure yet this is far short of glory in the fulness so many may come to be partakers of the power in some measure yet this is far short of the eternal weight of glory He that believes is entred into the rest and made partakers of the heavenly gift and of the heavenly power and of the heavenly grace which is glorious and doth witness a heavenly place in Christ Jesus and yet many enemies to be subdued and much of the heavenly habitation which they see not which comes to be revealed as there is an abiding in the faith which stands in Gods power in which the kingdom stands the mysteries of God and of his kingdom comes in due time to be revealed through death they come to be known that is to say through the death of death for Israel the true type after they passed over Jordan and had taken Jericho and Ai and had made an entrance into the land yet there was many enemies to be subdued and much land and possessions which they were not made partakers of long after even so after there be of the true rest enjoyed and possessed an entrance made into it yet there is many enemies to be subdued and much of the heavenly inheritance to be enjoyed by them that stand in the power which giveth dominion over sin the devil hell and the grave and they come to be made partakers of God and so the enmity being slain man comes to enjoy God who is eternal life and comes to receive the crown immortal which God the eternal power and strength giveth in due time to them that wait in patience and in faith through which the immortal inheritance comes to be revealed to all the children of light And so to conclude in few words this I say unto all who are longing after God and waiting to feel his power keep in your minds to the pure measure of Gods holy spirit and therein wait to see his kingdom and his dominion and to be made partakers of it which brings the world to an end and will let you see to the end of it too before it was and him who is now glorified with the Father in the kindom of God with the same glory he had with the Father before the world began and who so comes to the end of the world and to the beginning again comes to see him and his glory and the kingdom of glory which fades not away which who so comes to enjoy are eternally happy THE END ERRORS PAge 14. l. 9. blot out of p. 25. l. 20. for Angei r. angel p. 32. l. 24. for presumptions r. presumptious p. 33. l. 8. f. he r. the the same p. l. 12. for undeclareble r. undeclarable p. 46. l. 23. f hit r. his p. 71. l. 27. f. soul. r. fold p. 86. l 25. f. ntichrists r. Antichrists p. 99. l. 18. f. power r. popery p. 101. l. 11. f. neral r. funeral p. 124. l. 10. f. our r. your p. 156. l. 3. f. corrupt ble r. corruptible p. 160. l. 24. r. a moment f. moment p. 208. l. 12. f. cnrst r. curst
and Eternal glory happy is he that believes and abides in patience unto the end Now since the dayes of John the Kingdom of God hath been Preached and as many as were ordained to Eternal life believed and many in the day when Christ was manifest in the flesh believed unto whom he declared the mind of the Father and by him was the Father glorified he fulfilled the Law and did many works and miracles by the power of the Father and herein was the Father glorified and them that did believe in him their faith was strengthened and he opened the mystries of the Kingdom of God unto his Disciples and bore witness and prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem and of all their worship and said no more at Jerusalem nor at Samaria but the time was coming when they that worshipped the Father should worship him in spirit and truth and declared against the Pharisees righteousness and said to his Disciples Except their righteousness did exceed the Pharisees they could not enter the Kingdom of God and yet the Pharisees performed all the outward things commanded but were in the idolatry and did not believe in the life Now he declared of his suffering many things also how he would go away and how he would come again and would not leave them comfortless but these things were hard to be believed then by his Disciples and further he told them he must be betrayed and suffer and rise again and when the hour was come that he was betrayed when he was with his Disciples even the same night he was betrayed he took bread and broke it and blessed it and said take and eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me and after he took the cup and after he had Supped saying this is the cup of the New Testament in my blood as often as you drink it do it in remembrance of me 1 Cor. 11. 23. 24. and Matthew Mark and Luke declares the same and this was reall bread and reall wine which was a representation of that which was to be enjoyed in the spirit and never intended for any further thing but as a figure or a representation of the bread of life and of the cup of blessing which afterward they came to be witnesses of and as oft as they eat and drank they did shew forth the Lords death till he came Now this was practiced among the Disciples after he was risen from the dead and did converse with them at many times and exhorted them and comforted them and instructed them and told them that they should be witnesses of his name unto the ends of the earth and gave them commandment to teach all Nations and Baptize them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost and did promise to be with them to the end of the world and told how the Comforter would come and that the Father would send him in his Name even the spirit of truth which was with them and should be in them to be their teacher leader and guide and bring all things to their remembrance Now that which he gave them as a figure and to be a sign unto them of the clearer manifestation of himself which afterward came to be fulfilled and they witnesses of it who grew up in the pure invisible being and did see the mystery through the Revelation of the spirit which did more clearly show unto them the mysteries within the vail for as I said of water it was a sign of a good thing to come so the bread and the cup was also a sign of a good thing to come as all outward figures were but they that did believe and grew up in the faith in the seed Christ they came to see the substance in whom all figures ends in and had communion with him within the vail after he was ascended where he was before now the Apostle he spoke as to wise men judge ye what I say 1 Cor. 10. 15 16. the cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the communion of the blood of Christ the bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ and v. 17. for we being many are one bread one body for we are all partakers of that one bread mark all they that did believe though they were many yet they were one bread one body and were all partakers of that one bread which bread was the flesh of Christ John 6. 48. I am the bread of life and Joh. 6. 51. I am the living bread that came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever and the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world Now I speak unto wise men and let the wisdom of God in them manifest judge what I say for where the body of Christ is witnessed and the flesh of Christ known they know that which all the figures ends in the Manna that God gave to Israel in the wilderness they died that did eat thereof which was as pure a type of the hidden Manna as lively a type as bread outward which was but a type of the of the flesh of Christ and both they that did eats the Manna and they that eat the bread outward and drank the cup outward are both dead but he that eat the flesh of Christ and drinks the blood lives for ever and he that eats the hidden Manna hath overcome death and lives for ever and feeds upon the bread of life feeds upon Eternal life Now this is a mystery to the Papists who are idolaters who have sprung vp in the Apostacy though they have Scriptures as it was to the Jewes John 6. 52. who strove among themselves and said how can this man give us his flesh â—o eat and so the Papists who strives about the flesh of Christ and his blood and yet have the Scriptures and they say it s in the bread and in the wine after consecration so they worship the imaginations of their own hearts not deserning the Lords body and have killed thousands and taken away the lives of thousands because they would not confesse their idol to be of God And the protestants they are setting up the bread and the wine and contenting themselves therewith and are making an idol of it and comes not to discerne the body of Christ but one saying he hath a carnall body and another a fleshly body another a mystical body another sayes his body is devided from his members and so speaks out of thick darknesse their own imaginations and hath not communion with the body of Christ neither knowes the flesh of Christ which is the bread of life which is given for the life of the World Iohn 6. 51. And as godlinesse began to work and the mystery thereof in the dayes of Christand the Apostles wherein the Lord discovered much of his wisdom and power
hath transgressed the life and hath disobeyed the light in your consciences is head in you and above the pure that will not recommend you unto God neither can you have any access or acceptation with God in that state till you come out of the waters upon which the Whore sits which is unstable and boisterous and reels too and fro and unsetled which is all to be dried up and all the springs cut off that nourishes and you must come to the Rock before you know any thing that will endure to build upon which rock is Christ who abides for ever but you are all gone from that which should give the knowledge of him in your selves and doth not retain him in your knowledg neither that which gives the knowledge of him the light of his Spirit which shines in your hearts making manifest in your hearts the intention of your hearts when motions unto evil do arise This must you all come to before Gods salvation or redemption you come to know in your selves or have the witness of Gods holy Spirit without which there is neither seal nor evidence nor assurance enjoyed or felt of the love of God The time of restoring is come and many are restored again into Gods Covenant and are delivered out of the jaws of death and feels him who is the healer of the Nations and the restorer of the desolate places to dwell in but first you must come to see those places made desolate wherein the wilde nature lodges before you come to have a share in the restoration Come off these barren mountains where you are feeding to Christ the life of men who hath lightned you and wait in it that you may feel his mind in your selves and the signification of the Spirit of truth from your own spirits or else you will still erre for lack of knowledge and perish for want of understanding and so lay down your heads in sorrow The Kingdom of God and of his Christ declared in some measure as it is revealed what it is and where it is to to be waited for and how it cometh to be revealed to them and in them that believe that all who are waiting for it may know wherein it consists and so receive the end of their hope and the end of their expectation and know the Dominion which hath no end THe Lord hath prepared his throne in the Heavens and his Kingdom ruleth over all his dominion is an everlasting dominion and without end God is a Spirit his Kingdom is spiritual his habitation is suitable to his own nature he is immortal his Kingdom is so he is light his dwelling place is so a pure scituation in which there is no uncleanness nor ever shall be It 's eternal dignity it is an immutable being that remaineth always in it's purity and pleasantness Eternally glorious it consists in power in righteousness in purity in joy in hope in peace in life in vertue eternal in quietness it s a quiet habitation it is incomprehensible unsearchable and indeclareable words are too short they are but as sounds as vails It is unexpressible in it is the treasure-house of wisdom out of which all that believe in him who is the King of eternal and immortal glory comes to receive of his wisdom of his life of his power vertue righteousness and comes to enjoy him who is the fulness that filleth all things whether visible or invisible whether terrestrial or coelestial his power is over all his dominion is over all who is eternally blessedness it self and felicity it self who makes all that believe in him to partake of his kingdom of his grace of his power of his dignity of his dominion and of his glory coelestial but these things are hid from the world who are not redeemed from the earth neither never looks to be while they are in the body Unto such I say Gods kingdom you shall never see nor enjoy while you are in that faith which is reprobate but may be truly called unbelief although you imagine a glory and a kingdom in your earthly minds and dream of a thing to come suitable unto that wherein your glory now standeth but that will all fail and those imaginations will be confounded and dissolved into nothing because they are centred in that which is out of the truth Christ and so are without ground or bottom and are out of that which should give you the sight and knowledge of God in your selves and his kingdom Christ when he taught them that followed him exhorted them that first of all they might seek the kingdome of God even while they were in the body Mat. 6. 36. The Pharisees were gazing abroad in their earthly knowledge although they had the Scripture that declared of Gods kingdome yet they knew it not and this generation is the same who are in the same nature and in the same wisdome which is earthly and litteral and they are imagining as the Jewes were and are loe here and loe there in this observation and the other and look to see it there Nay Christ said The Kingdome of God is within you to the Pharisees He bad them and others seek it first what strange doctrine was this might the Pharisees say he saith the kingdome of God is within us and yet bids us seek it Need we seek that which is in us may professors say Yea it 's like a pearl hid in the field it s like a grain of mustard-seed among many great seeds which is not easily found it 's like a piece of silver lost in the house among much rubbish till that be swept away thou wilt not find it thou must dig deep sweep clean search narrowly before thou find it although he did say to the Pharisees The kingdom of God is within you he did not say they were possessors of it or that it was theirs but to the Disciples whom he taught to pray in faith thy kingdome come and they came to find it that which they prayed for that pearl that groat that grain of mustard-seed which it was like and having found it and believed in it he saith unto them Mat. 5. 3. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God And in Luke 6. 20. And he lift up his eyes on his disciples and said blessed be ye poor for yours is the kingdom of God They had seen it and were possessors of it it was theirs And Christ said unto his disciples There are some of you standing here that shal not taste of death till ye see the kingdom of God come in power And his words were fulfilled they declared what they had felt and seen and some of them said The Kingdome of God is not in word but in power And Paul to the Romans writes Rom. 4. 17. who was also made partakers of the same power and the same kingdome he spoke his knowledge of it and sayd It 's not meat nor drink but righteousnesse and peace and joy
and Earth bowed their knees to the Lamb to the Power and this was then fulfilled at the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow both of things in Heaven and things in Earth and his Name was now the Word of God and this was in the beginning and the Word of God is the Power of God and now both the Celestial bodies and terresterial bodies were all subject to the Power and all the works of the Lords hands were finished and he rested and all both things in Heaven and Earth rested in the power and all kept holy-day and rejoyced Though the Heavens and the Earth were created and all things wrought and finished yet the world was not begun that lay in wickedness which the Devil is the God of neither was the Power which is Christ the mystery hid neither was the Lamb slain yet Now after all was made and created and were good and blessed and indued with power life and vertue according to the purpose of his heavenly will which is eternally pure yet was not the lamb slain nor the mystery hid which is the power wch is Christ for what should slay him or what should hide him he that reads let him understand this that I speak of cannot be reached unto with that Wisedome that stands in time which was not in the beginning with God that is shut out but the wise in heart shall understand knowledge and the prudent shall know what hath been in the beginning and of his wonderful works in the dayes of old and of the mystry which was before the world began when the Lamb was in glory the Son in glory Christ in glory the first born of every creature and was born before the world began he that hath an ear to hear let him hear when all that God had made and brought forth by the word by the Power was blessed and stood in the Power then did the Lamb sit in his throne then was he the delight of God and God in him and all that was made by him rejoyced in him here was love here was glory here was purity unity and a sweet harmony joy peace love eternal life Gods power ran through all All was good Christ was not now hid he shed himself abroad and all things was partakers of his power in which they were made here was happinesse blessednesse joy dominion everlasting and eternal felicity innocency purity and perfection and man in it God in it the Lamb in it man in it after his own image the Mystery of godlynesse was not hid there was nothing to hide it or overshadow it no vail no covering but righteousnesse was manifest and was the covering of all inocency the cloathing of all purity the robe of all and life the dwelling place of all and all the works of his hands rested with the Father with the Lamb with the Word with the power with Christ in glory with the Father in the etenall glory whereby all was upheld in purity unity harmony answering the pure will of God and man had power to answer the will of his Maker which he received from God the Father of life by the power in which he was made and to abide in the will of God for ever and herein he and all things in heaven and the whole family thereof and all the holy host of God bowed to the lambs power and he reigned the Angels were subject to the first born of every creature before the Angels or before any thing was made he was his age who can declare or his generation his age runs paralell with eternity with immortality and came from the eternal womb from the bosome of the Father where he is even where he was before the world began he that reads let him understand now the power ruling in all and over all all was in peace and was blessed Now the Angel stood in his power moved in his power and all the Celestial bodies went in and out at his command and moved not nor stirred not but when he moved this was then fulfilled let all the Angels worship him and so they did reverenced him were subject to him sang and rejoyced in him triumphed in in his power and all the Holy Host moved at his command and marched on in his strength to performe his will to accomplish his everlasting purpose and to fulfill his eternal decree and gave glory to him who sate upon the throne of righteousness and judged in righteousnesse for ever and ruled in righteousness for ever there was joy in heaven the Father rejoyced the Son rejoyced the Angels rejoyced the morning stars sang the the Sons of God shouted for joy the holy Host gave praise and all praised in the firmament of his power in which they stood moved walked lived and accomplished the pure perpetual eternal decree of their maker Moreover the terrestrial bodies were all subject to him he reigned in all over all moved all gave Life to all and was the Life of Adam of the male and the Female and then was this fulfilled even then which was spoken in time though by him who was before all time who was the life of all things I say he lived then and because he lived man lived also for he was his Life now Christ the power reigned over all and all in the Lambs power were subject in a sweet harmony answering the pure will of their Lord their King that lived for ever who was upon his throne in the heavens and now his kingdom was over all there was joy in heaven there was peace on earth the good will of God was done In Earth as it was in heaven Oh beautiful oh glorious oh comly oh admirable oh incomprehensible was the glory my tongue can not expresse and time would faile me to declare the eternal exellency which God hath revealed by his spirit and that which I see is not Lawful now for me to utter now was no mountaines nor hils to hide the mystery but it shined upon all in all over all and above all was not hid As I said there was now no hiding place that could or did overshadow the mystery of godlinesse for the eyes of all things looked upon him whether Celestial or Terrestrial and all and every thing according to its kind rejoyced in the Light of his countenance and of his power was glad and gloried in him for then there was not an other he that can hear let him Now the Earth rejoyced and the floods clapped their hands now the great deep smiled all things that was therein the springs thereof laughed which flowed forth as though they had issued out of a womb now every thing that had breath lived praysed the Lord neither was there any thing but bowed and submitted to their Maker and he Lord and King over all yet in eternal glory yet let the wise in heart understand this was in the beginning and though it was in the beginning yet this was when
ground of truth sets up an Idol and prefers an Idol above the life and so are in the Idolatry But let none mistake that I say water is an Idol nay it is a good creature of God or that I say Iohns baptisme with water was an idol nay he was in the power and spirit of Eliah and his baptisme a figure of a good thing which was to come which afterward was received by the diseiples and Christs words made good unto them Iohn indeed baptized you with water unto repentance but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire not many daies hence that was Christs baptisme I am not Ignorant of the many and great contests in this age that have been about these things and I know many scriptures that speaks of baptism all which I have searched narrowly with the measure of Gods spirit given unto me into the true ground of things the true state of each administration and in this thing I am satisfied fully that the baptisme with water was Iohns baptisme and not Christs and the baptisme of the spirit is Christs and not Iohns I have no desire to wrangle or Jangle about words or contest about shadowes but that all may come to know him in whom all ministrations ends in and there will be peace and satisfaction to wit in Christ But to say some thing to the main bassis and foundation which Priests and Separatists builds much of their arguments upon the last of Mat. and the last Goe teach and baptize all Nations in the Name of the Father Son and holy Ghost as for all the Priests about their baptising of Infants here is no ground at all for here is first teach and then baptize and here 's no infants neither and so I know what consequences hath been drawn from this by the unlearned in their imaginations but them that hath the least measure of true light will not take a consequence to build a foundation on for this is contrary to their own rule they say the scripture is the Rule then their consequence is not the Rule and if the scriptures be the Rule let all people of your parishes know if you can by the Scripture shew when John or any Disciple of his or Christs baptized infants and taught them Principles of Religion â—0 years after but they are willingly ignorant that sees not you to be idolaters and as to the Baptists separates who builds upon this for their water baptisme they are as groundles as the Priests and all their Arguments are as invalled as the rest for here is baptizing the Nations in the Name of the Father in the name of the Son and of the holy Ghost and any who are judicious or wise and are in any measure of Gods pure wisdom will not say that the Name of the Father is water or the Son or holy Ghost is water the name of God is I am and a strong tower and the Name of the Son is the word and the word is the power but this is not water but further they say the Disciples had received the holy Ghost and did baptize with water after and they were Baptized with water after they had received the holy Ghost they bring divers Scriptures to prove this I shall not deny but Peter Baptized with water and Paul two or three families and thanks God he baptized no more and said he had declared the whole counsel of God and he makes not mention in all his Epistles that baptisme was any part of his command neither in all his counsel to the Churches any where doth he exhort either Timothy or Titus or Apollo or any of the brethren to Baptize with water but as for Peters Baptizing with water I know no more command he had then Paul as for the commission which Matthew writes of Mat. 28. and 19. and that Mark mentions 16. 15. there is no water and so it s the Baptisme of John I grant and Christ bearing witness to John that he was a Prophet and did baptize many and therefore he or they in honour to Johns Ministry might baptize some as well as Paul did circumcise Titus and and then in 1 Cor. 7. 19. said it was nothing and again in another place neither circumcision nor uncircumcision did avail but a new creature and because it was a figure which people did not Idolize so much then as they did circumcision for the weakness of the people for a time and the wise in heart may understand that when any representation or figure outward was set up it was not easily denyed again nor an easie thing to be laid down when the thing signified was come for many of the Jews believed in Christ and were said to be brethren and yet they came from Jerusalem and troubled the Church of Galatia and would have brought them under the figure circumcision again and the Apostle in Gal. 4. asks them now when ye know God why turn ye again to the beggarly Elements Circumcision observing dayes moneths times and years I would ask the moderate a question whether water be not an Element and pertains only to the Elementary part in man which is to passe away and be dissolved when the seed is raised up whose nature is not elementary but Celestial I shall say no more to them at this present who are contentions who are so zealous for their water upon so weak a ground but take heed that while you are striving about your outward water you neglect not the washing of regeneration and the cleansing of the spirit many have been baptized but which of you hath received the holy Ghost there is not one among you dare own or witness an infallible spirit but rather counts it an error that any should speak or witness or look to enjoy any such thing in these dayes well I say unto you your day is a day of darkness and gloominess you live in and thick darkness covers your tabernacle for who ever have received the holy Ghost or spirit of truth in any measure are led by that which is infallible and not fallible and if you look not for this you are no sons notwithstanding all your washing the outside for as many as are the Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God and this is witnessed praises to the Lord for ever the Lord is unto his people an everlasting light and this is the sum that water is owned to be a figure of the one baptism and was an Element and pertained to that which is Elementary but the Elements shall melt with fervent heat and be dissolved in the day of the Lord and then the seed comes up which is heir of the promise which is nourished with the water of life which is not an Element nor Elementary but is Celestial and springs up in them that believe unto everlasting life and comes to be born of the water and the spirit and enters into Gods Kingdom dominion power life wisdom excellency