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The tree of faith: or, The tree of life, springing up in the paradise of God; : from which all the wonders of the new Creation, in the virgin church of the first-born of wisdom must proceed. / By J. Lead.
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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those that are with thee united must fashion your selves unto living only upon what Fruits this Holy Land which is by thee now seen doth afford Therefore did I call thee to come to this Tree of Faith not only it to view but having hit the Mark thereof to feed that so a Spiritual Body may to thee renewed be of an Incorruptible Nature and Kind answerable to the various sorts of Fruits which will restore Nature to its Antient and Vigorous Beauty that hath looked to be altogether withered and consumed § 18. Upon my Further Inquiry at Wisdom's Oracle what might be the Qualities Properties and Natures of these Fruits of Faith and how we might be enabled to take of them having a Right thereto as Natural Denizons that have a Dependence wholly upon what this Heavenly Country of Immanuel doth afford and produce that so we may have no Occasion to look back from whence we come or to be tempted to lust again after Mortal Fruits among the Fallen Spirits From which state we have been called forth to live on this Precious Tree of Faith the several Properties of which I will now open by Name according as they have been to me declared to the end that I and those that with me in the same Spirit cojoined be may here satisfie our whole Internal Appetite and in all Parts and Degrees be made compleat as we shall hereof Magically in our Spirits be able to eat Now the First Quality applicable to this TREE is Magestical Glory the Second is Fathomless Wisdom the Third is an Almightiness of Power the Fourth is Transparency of Light the Fifth is Perfection of Purity the Sixth is Soveraignty of Will the Seventh is an All-excelling Goodness the Eighth is Infinite Natural Knowledge the Ninth is an All-seeing through the Incomprehensible Eye the Tenth is an Essential Generating working Spirit the Eleventh is an Omnipotency of Creation giving New Existences where nothing did visibly appear the Twelfth is Immutability of Love which worketh in and through all these Thus have I given a true Dimension and Description of this Immense and Restaurative Tree springing up from the Seed and Root of Faith which will bring Dead Souls to Life again and do all the Wonders of the New Creation-Church by the Great Philadelphian Worthies when they shall be made to appear On it the First begotten Son of Wisdom did continually feed which made him a God-Man indeed who is not contented of these unknown Sweet to tast alone but cries and calls to his Sister and his Spouse hereof with him to partake that so it may have the same operation and effect on her Godlike to be according to the Pattern of her Lord CHRIST Whose Image lively drawn I may thus see Through Participation of this Spicy Tree § 19. Some considerable time afterward I was again call'd in Spirit to view this Tree of Faith and the Tree now seem'd to be enlightned with a bright Body which appeared standing in the midst of it and it bore all those several mentioned sorts of Fruits being therewith most richly laden but none were yet Ripe or fit for Eating But the Bright Body in the Tree said Go call such as willing are to wait for the Transmuting Power to act forth the Amazing Wonders of a God Let such with thee come and sit under this Tree till the Fruit into Gold ye shall see to be turned Then eat thereof ye shall and Power will be born suddenly to do and act in the Property and Nature of the Holy Ghost For this must Transmute and alter the whole Inward Part for that it will be no less then the Leaven of the Deity it self Whence this hath been frequently repeated to me that this kind of Power which we would have must proceed from a deep Ground and Root which is no less then the Godhead § 20. Also at another time I felt a mighty stirring Life of Faith get up which did overtop all Self-Reasoning whereby I found a Pass for my Spirit to enter nearer still to the Aimed Mark which is the Central Power And while I was in Prayer that my Bow might abide in Strength and that it might also be given to my Fellow Labourers to hold it out with me for Assurance of this there was shewn me the Bow in a Blew Cloud descending and it was put into my Hand All Crystalline the Bow appeared to be with Seven Golden Arrows belonging to it Then was it said to me Arise Arise now put on thy Strength for the Arm of the LORD in thee shall stretch the Bow and make the Arrows fly where the Invincible Power doth lie For the Work shall not be starved for want of Power to feed and strengthen it while two or three do stand in one Spirit knit Therefore to you each one this Bow of Faith is given with the Sevenfold Arrow Try and see whether at the Seventh Attempt it may not the Power hit and all the Twelve Degrees of Faith arrive at Now put thy Hand hereto and be very nimble and quick make the first Onset that those others who aiming are at the same thing with thee may also reach this weighty and worthy Prize That so in the Lord ye may rejoice together in such a goodly Habitation and Golden Tent to celebrate the Praise of Great ELOHIM who hath this Power down sent to display and make way for the Gathering in of his Priestly Flock and Royal Train that shall no longer at the Worldy Spirits Gate knock and wait This came to pass in the 25th of the Month January in the Year MDCXC § 21. After seven Days being upon the First of the next Month the same Vision was renewed to me and I strongly felt the Impulses of the Spirit driving me forward towards the Mark which seemed to stand very fair to be hit as inviting us who in One Faith were knit to try and prove Where our Seven Nazarite Locks of Strength do lie which answer to the Seven Spirits and Powers of the Tri-Un Deity For the Seven Arrows specified in the former Vision do all of this signifie as that these are to be a Guard upon each Arrow according as from the Bow they shall be made to fly For with my Lord I discoursed this matter concerning the Thorough-Pass of these Seven Arrows Querying whether I or any one that principally aim'd at the same thing with me had shot them home to the very Center-Point Then upon this Inquiry the Spirit of my Lord told me that Five of them had already hit the Mark but that two yet remain'd which were to make the grand Breach and Onset where the Rich Prize was to be taken And the Spirit shewed me further what stopped the ascending Might of these two remaining Arrows which was a muddy Gulf that stood in the way which I beheld and it was said That this did signifie the Lake of Self-Reasoning Spirits which the Starry World from Without doth qualifie with what of
THE TREE of FAITH OR The Tree of Life Springing up in the Paradise of GOD From which All the Wonders of the New Creation in the Virgin Church of the First-born of Wisdom must proceed By J. Lead Matth. 13.32 It is the Least of all Seeds but when it is grown it is the Greatest of Herbs and becometh a TREE LONDON Printed and Sold by J. Bradford in Jewen-Street near Crowder's-Well 1696. TO THE READER HAving given an Account of the Confusion of the Babylonish Forms being rejected by the Head Shepherd from whom an Angel is gone forth that hath sounded the Trumpet to proclaim That all Formal Worships set up by Man and constituted by Rational Inventions as a Shadow must pass away For nothing in this Day shall stand but the Power and Spirit of the Lamb that will cast up his Church into no other Mold but that in which he himself in his Resurrection-State did Appear So that the Gathering together of his Flocks from all Parts shall be for the making up this Resurrection Church as New born into the Faith For which Reason I have here superadded a Manifestation which some Years since was given me which I judge may now be of as General Vse to make Publick as it was first for my own Particular Information and Instruction whence it was never design'd to see the Light But seeing that this Church that hath been describ'd by the Spirit of Christ is to consist of the Branches of Faith growing up from the Root and Stock of Abraham it was found very Expedient that this should follow the foregoing Treatise Because the New Creation which is to be brought forth must have their Consistency of Life by the Faith of the Son of God that as he was in this World so may also his Bride and Spouse be acting in the Holy Ghostly Property to do the Wonders which the Last Age of the World is to produce For it is expected that mighty Deeds and Works shall be wrought by this New Risen Virgin Church such as have and such as never have been For the Patriarchs Prophets and most highly Spirited in the Faith and Love Power and Purity shall again descend to assume Persons that are of this Resurrection Life so to do all the Worthy Exploits according to the Lot in which each Antient Saint did stand All which shall be renewed again for the state of the Prophesies relating to Christ's thousand Years Reign which will overspread the Earth with the Kingly Prophetical and Priestly Train I had some thoughts of Obliterating the beginning of this little Treatise being only a Private Recollection of my Spiritual Travels which I have used to make from Year to Year but I quickly check'd my self herein for that it was mov'd upon me that it might be Vseful and Beneficial to some Souls and for a Pattern to excite them to the Recollection Wherefore I resolved to let it go without any Alteration according to its full and Genuine Sense J. L. THE Tree of Faith c. § 1. BEing come to the Conclusion of this Year 1686. recollecting and making Observation from one New-Year to another of what hath passed both in reference to the Internal Attainments Growths and Degrees arrived to in Spirituals and what hath happened by special Providence concerning the outward Bodily Man both which I have for some Years kept a Memorandum of for my own private satisfaction taking special notice how the Work of God hath gone on in order to the perfecting of what my Soul hath been these many Years in great travail for but in special for what hath been in sight and view through the Spirit of Prophecy declared unto me since 1670. in the which Year and so forward on to this time entring upon this New Year I have found the working Wheel from the strong Hand of the Most High and have driven hard on for the bringing back of my Soul into Eternal and pure Nature's Originalty again the which to be plain is no less then to be Born again into another World where this visible Birth in Sin with its world is as forgotten and shut out no otherwise remembred but to give occasion of the greatest Wonder and admiration of that great and infinite goodness that hath unfettered and set the Soul free to be born into a divine and spiritual Body so to dwell and inhabit in the high and heavenly World where my Correspondency hath been maintained much since the Year 70. gaining Year by Year some increase and higher degree of Wisdom and Understanding in the secret Mysteries of Eternity as to what doth lie hidden there which through our abstraction of Mind and watchful Attendance in new Varieties from that World do present themselves § 2. Now as to this last past Year many have been my Internal provings and secret Combates that have followed me hard to shake my Faith as to the great and wonderful Revolutions relating to the accomplishment of a full and perfect Redeemed State among Mortals here to be seen and known in order to which I have been followed with renewed Predictions and Promises for the keeping up and open the Springs of Faith which otherwise would have been stopped therefore I must proclaim the goodness of God who hath kept the stock of Faith going on in me for the hopeful consummating of what is yet behind which are great and weighty things worth waiting upon which if succesfully I may attain will quit all suffering loss of what ever can be called Earthly and Terrene in sensible things which are of this World only among Mortals seen from all which I have been much called from as finding every Year hath renewed upon me great abatements and weariness of Life and Love to all perishable things A good reason there is why because the Heavens do before me open stand by which my Mind and Spirit is so well entertained by the Objects there seen with all substantial Varieties that I need not care any more to look out for these § 3. When at any time drawn and pluck'd away I am by strong motives from this World then great Wo Pain and Trouble do me possess for so it is when at any time I am out of the Heavenly Places where now only my Life doth lie within that secret Cabinet of Eternity preferring that as my chief and only Excellency So I resolve to go forward by the Power of the Most High this ensuing Year for what of this kind may multiply and prosper in my Hand mightily For the which all care and strict Watch I see must be that so I may not overslip my Day acting accordingly as Power doth move and rise the which is to be attended upon Day by Day as God shall clear up the way otherwise all Attempts are but in vain which set upon may be as I have proved by what hath been undertaken contrary to this all high and approving Eye Therefore Wisdom doth me teach in a passive brokenness of Will