all places and companies became very tedious and unpleasant to me where I was prevented of feeding the flame of my Love from the beautifical enjoyment of his presence The truth is I had sucked in such a sweet Savour through a most intimate Friendliness to which my Lord condescended for the Joy and Love-delight of my Soul that I could scarcely admit the giving my Conversation to any in whom I could not see his all-aimable Spirituality for which alone I reserved my self For indeed I could willingly have attended it day by day continually without any intervening Night But my Bridegroom after all this ingratiating of himself to me did often prove those two great Witnesses in me of Faith and Love which as two twins did grow up out of the fresh Sharon which was renewed within from whence they did with great strength and loveliness spring But many hard Encounters and rude Assaults they were fain to bear and first in this respect my Lord Jesus having begotten his own lively Signature in me by his often appearing and so passing in himself as an Essential rising Body that naturally cared only to move and act in the Sphear of High and Heavenly things and at no time to be found out of that Circumference in which to be thwarted and prevented was my very great tryal having reference only to God in this matter on whom my Faith and Love was exercised for having all outward vacancies and advantages that might cherish and nourish up this Lilly-Birth according to its native kind which neither could agree to go out into the gross muddy and infectious Air of this noysom Keder or Worldly Region But so it was that my Lord suffered it thus by reason of many temporal necessities wherein I was constrained to spend my time which should wholly have been employed upon a more worthy and considerable account than to serve the Table of the outward Man which I looked upon as very low and mean in comparison of that High-born Heir whom I carried as an invisible Glory under the Vail of contemptible Corporeity And upon this consideration God tried his own begotten Love whether it would hold out under all damps checkings and suppressings both inward and outward which it met withal for I apprehend I had so great an interest and hold of the Almighty that it had been an easie thing to have had all needful things to come to serve the free born Spirit and not be engaged in the Toil and servile Care after the Rudiments of the present fallen and self-ingrossing Generation the Customs and manner of which my Spirit had long since been made to descent from in obedience to the Law of Faith which I continue to keep up unto expecting all Income of Blessing there-from And though hitherto the Lord hath exceedingly proved me herein yet now the thousand-fold is beginning to break in even by that pure and only Love-dominion which I do feel opens in the highest leavening Property for it reacheth to the Bounds of the everlasting Mountain of God's immutability of Love from whence it springs And what may it not multiply and produce as it goeth on still conquering all Enmity where-ever it meets it as having overcome it in its own soulish Essence and so may do the same in others who groan and travail for the same being but weak in Love and so not able to out-wrastle Love's opposite This is and will be the signal Motto whereby that perfect thing called Charity will be known which seeketh not its own Dignity and Tranquility in heavenly Places there to reign in the Love alone but most ardently seeks it for its fellow-Members even when rejected and fought against for this is the new Gospel-Law so urged and pressed by the Lord and his Apostles in their day as knowing it was the only means to plant us again in our own pure eternal beginning where nothing but perfect Love was known Oh! this is of such import and weight as I cannot but from the feeling sense hereof set forth the exceeding Sweetness that is to be found in it when it comes of a Conqueror as having been tryed by God himself and by our fellow Disciples which is more piercing than any Tryals from others Yet all this will not quench the right Spirit which is tinctured with the God-head flame of Love It is so strong that it works over all Choakings and Water-Floods that would drown it Thus having given a most true and experimental Account how the Kingdom of Love came to reign in Dominion for all Shakings of this pure Plant rooted and fastened it as an invincible Rock as in reference to God the Beeing of Love so likewise towards all my fellow-Members growing up in all their various degrees in this Body of Love fulfilling that Royal Law which is to love one another from a pure Heart not superficially or feignedly but with such a Love as wherewith God our Father hath loved us who caused his Love to enter in our Enmity and did thereby slay it and reconcile a depraved Nature which stood out in all Refractoriness against his Grace and Kindness Now after this sort we are to love one another even where we meet with Reluctancy and Gain-sayings to the killing and opposing of this pure thing yet Charity that is begotten of God in us will suffer and bear and rise up a Conqueror through all Beatings and Quenchings And truly whosoever hereunto arrive and can fixedly keep upon the Throne and uncessantly Reign over all Assaultings and Contradictions of this kind in themselves and out of themselves they may well and really conclude that the perfect thing is come that will redeem from all Evils even from the wrathful Root of Enmity from whence all Self-Love Envy Haughtiness Covetousness and Bitterness do proceed Now Love's-Birth rising in its strong Might in the Soul as that eternal anointed Christ who is come to condemn Sin in our Flesh yea the very Root and Source of all Sin and we shall certainly know the falling away of the Man of Sin thereby for Love is that which irrecoverably sinks him into his own bottomless Lake from whence he can never rise any more But it may be said this is a rare and wonderful thing indeed But is it attainable during this time of Mortality Yea assuredly or else the Lord Christ would never have urged it and commanded it so frequently both in leaving it as his last Charge and suming up the whole Law of Perfection in love to God and our fellow-Members preaching the same Doctrine by his Spirit in the Apostles after his Ascention according as it is by St. John and St. Paul abundantly recorded Read their Epistles and you will find what an Eminency is put upon this Gift more than all others Now the holy Ghost brings in Charity as distinct and more excellent than them all The holy Inspiration thus opened it That Charity is of that high Extraction and so purely descended that
no defiled thing can ever enter it Its consistency is an invisible Body as thin as Air as piercing as a Flame an all-moving acting and vigorous Spirit of Power and Life that can go in and out as an invisible Breath which no mortal Eye can see only its force may be felt as a Seraphick Heat that burns as a Refiners Fire in our Corporality to the end that it may tinge it with the holy Ghost's property This is the true and faithful delienation of this perfect thing called by the Apostle Charity Where-ever this comes it makes all imperfect things flee before it but it strengthens and confirms every Plant that is sown by the Spirit and makes them appear above Ground which have long lain buried under it It is the King-flower of the whole Paradisical Spring that protects the whole transmuting all into one entire Body of Love that doth extend and give forth it self in all spiritual Bountifulness according to its high Nature and Property It is not shut up to it self upon any consideration as to what it poslesseth and enjoys for it holds nothing in Propriety whatever its Lot is but all is free to the Disciples of the same descent and birth with himself this Love cannot with-hold from any of their Necessities for it seeks not its own Then it hath also a virtual Power as made to inherit the best of Riches and Substance of the everlasting Kingdom to conveigh and freely distribute of this inexhaustable Treasury to impoverished Souls and to relieve them that are in great Distress which Power can pass in as an high virtual Balsom to heal the Wounded who are under the striking of the Scorpion-Sting of the Serpent For this Love is a ministring Flame where holy Passiveness and Humility are as the open-Door for its access and there cherish and feed it with what its present degree doth require Charity is furnished with all sorts and stores it is God's Steward upon Earth whom he dare trust with the Care of his Houshold who are in spiritual Hunger and Nakedness It is a most infallible truth that God will appoint such holy Overseers in his new-born Church that shall recover the Apostolical Spirit and Power that hath been lost out of the Earth and it shall rise as a more bright Morning Star and multiply it into a Generation that will be all lovely in which God may see himself For which end the Kingdom and Dominion is already come into some and prospering to this expected degree treasuring up now for a full Bank in store against that Day in which our Son of Man will again appear in the Heavens for the delivering up the Kingdom to the Father that so God who is Love may be all in all But in order to the accomplishing of this last and finishing Mystery there shall arise a Melchizedeck Priesthood which shall know the way into the Holiest of all concerning which we shall come to declare after this subject is finished for it springs out of Love's-Root in us For this is the most clear and undeniable witness of Truth when Light and Revelation and Life of Enjoyment meet together then Declaration carries Power and Authority with it But to return to the present thing what can be said sufficiently of it that so if possible the reign of Love might come to spread it self as a Net to gather in for the Priestly Kingdom Some other Motions may be further urged as these Would you be always in a serene quiet and peaceable Frame and Constitution of Mind so as no vicissitude working-Cross or Turbulency towards you whether from Gentiles Barbarians or Israelites all which may give nothing of Disturbance where Charity is predominant and why so This is very marvelous never to be perplexed and never to be put out of Harmony Objection But how can this agree When as our most perfect Pattern was said to be troubled and his Soul was sorrowful unto Death as also that Afflictions are not joyous for the present First We will Answer this main Objection as to Christ our Lord in his Agonies You must know that all this was on this side his Resurrection observe that and it was to shew that he had the sensible Passions of our Humanity and that he was on our behalf to feel a sinless Grief and Sorrow and to be really touched with these kind of Infirmities or else how could he make Provision through and by Love's Conquest If he had not been in Temptation and in Encounter with all Despite and Defamations but yet he maintained his own Peace which was the Fruit of Love through all and was reconciled to all the cross Dispensations that met him in the World For it was this perfect Love that carried him through to bear and suffer all things and was for our Example and Encouragement to express during the time of his humane Minority those sensible Dolours and Passions but he comes of a victorious Champion and tells us That he had overcome and assureth us That in him we shall have a most fixed and firm Peace though in the World exercised with Tribulation So from hence it is to be admitted and allowed that in the time of our Minority before Love is in its perfect degree risen it cannot be otherwise expected but we may be liable to Grief Sorrow Commotion Fears and Jealousies and so up and down in an uncertain Motion tossed to and fro in our Minds and all this because Love is but little weak and low of Stature it is not got up into the Throne of Dominion so as to govern all by the Law of Love yet such are not to be hopeless or of doubtful Mind as desponding ever to see the Resurrection of Love so as to possess its peaceable Immunities Know whoever you be that are made willing to venture the loss of all for to arrive at this Pearl of Charity that you shall most surely find it and great rejoycing there will be at the finding of this lost Groat Indeed the House of the Soul must be first throughly searched and the natural Self-love must be swept out For what is that which we must lose but even all Rubbish Filth and Dross that so our Hearts being emptied and cleansed from all these the King of Love may enter in with his full Train wherein we may know nothing but Concord Tranquility and a springing Treasury of all Goodness Wherefore let all holy and pure Minds be stirred up to wait for the dropping Dews which fall from the one eternal Element to bring this Plant of Loves Kingdom forward even unto its full height of Perfection and be tender of its first Buddings for it hath many subtil Enemies both at home and abroad It is the Heir and therefore is conspired against for can but the envious Spirits find out where its Birth doth spring they will attempt to kill it whilst it is but an Infant for which cause it must be hid in the Clefts of the
eternal Rock there to be fed and nourished with its own Nature-Milk and Honey of Love till it become strong and able to encounter and overcome all its Opposites that it may reign alone as Monarch of the Soul My Friends who-ever you be that shall read this experimental Writing know assuredly that if you can but find this burning Star of Love risen nay if you can but feel the Glowings and Enkindlings of heat in the center of your Hearts it is more to be valued than all other spiritual Gifts Powers and divine Ornaments which pertain to the new Creation then we may boldly despise and contemn all worldly Dominions and all the Joys and Delights of sensual Love For you must know it is such a Sacred and Coelestial Seed coming immediately from the heart of the Deity as cannot admit any thing of defilement or pollution to abide with it It soon leaves the Soul if any thing be taken in which cannot abide the burning touch of this Altar Coal But here it may be asked What is this Love which is so highly exalted above all Heavenly and Earthly things Sure there must be some rare transcending Quality in it not commonly known that makes you press it so vehemently Truly well I may yet not I but the essential Love it self doth move me to open the Mystery of it which happily hath not been understood as now by breaking up the Fountain of it that so it may plentifully run forth for giving the Light of the Knowledge of it doth but make way for the very substantial Body it self to rise sensibly in its flaming Quality Take this further account of it that it is known for to be the most holy and pure Generation of the immaculate Virgin of God for which is prepared a Virgin-Womb that this Birth might be the choice and and undefiled One of her that brings it forth It will not be now at Christ's second Birth as it was at his first then his Vissage was marred more than any mans he was a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief and there was no Form or Comliness in him which made him to be set at naught and greatly despised though without Sin or Guile but being found a Sufferer under it therefore could not be exalted till he had slain the Enmity and wrought out Victory and thus he hath his first Birth in us which must precede his second But there is a vast difference between Christ's first and second Coming Many Ages are passed wherein the Saints have only known the Birth of Christ in them after this weak suffering dying and reproachful state The Apostles upon whom the holy Ghost was poured forth after a most signal manner by which Christ gave witness in them of his Victory and Exaltation enabling them to work miraculously yet notwithstanding they were not got beyond the suffering Birth of Christ in themselves for they only had the Revelation and Fore-sight of his appearing in Power and great Glory but they departed this Life and did not see the sign of the Son of Man to take up in them for a visible Reign and Kingdom that might redeem out of all Tribulation and so it hath continued until this day But yet there is not to be found a Generation so prepared and made ready for the second Coming of Christ as was in that day which might make us doubt whether the coming of Christ be so nigh because this Birth of Love is so hardly found in any risen up to an absolute Dominion which is a sure Introduction to the Omnipotent Reign of Christ in this visible Earth in the inward Properties of the Love Flock But you will say The Apostles and those that were Converted by their Ministry were all in the Dispensation of Love and were in expectation of having the Kingdom restored to Israel in their day and what was the reason then that Christ's second Birth did not rise in them To which I Answer That it was thought meet by the Father of Wisdom that all of that Generation should drink of their Lord's suffering and dying Cup as he often hinted unto them when Personally with them though they had a general Spirit of Prophecy concerning his glorious Reign in which he would appear in his Saints And then again it may be demur'd upon Whether those Elders themselves had compleated their own Regeneration and so were perfectly arrived to the Throne-Do minion of Love as fixed Overcomers St Paul Peter and John that were most eminent amongst them seemed to have somewhat more in their Eye than to what they had attained and so were still a pressing after it But however it may be concluded that they had gotten the Start before any that are known this day yet it seems that hitherto Love's Womb hath been shut up from bringing forth Children of the Resurrection at least to any thing that is manifestly known But for this we may have good hope that if indeed it be Born in any one and made strong to maintain its Right Superiority over the whole inward Creation ruling as God by whom it is certainly avouched that a Virgin Spirit shall be given to such for eternal Generation who shall be able to raise and quicken the holy Grain of Love that lieth as dead that so Love may see her Off-spring to multiply exceedingly unto all perfect Purity Such an holy Congregation and Society being once raised to reign upon Love's-Throne together they will be as so many raised Banners which will be terrible to the Nations which stand without the circle of Love Now by all this we see what hath hitherto put a stop and caused the Lord to delay his coming and will still till perfect Love be come to burn up every Image in the Mind that is not engraved by God's own Finger It is certainly to be concluded that Charity is the golden Wash baptizing Pool out of which Souls do come all Ruddy and White Clear and Bright to whom the Lord may say My Dove my fair One my Undefiled come away the Love-Scarlct-Dye hath washed thy Blackness away so that now thou art all fair in my Eye This is a Prophecy which hath now in some its fulfilling and will have more abundantly as this Spirit of burning Love takes possession of Hearts and then the very Face of God will be the Covering by which we shall see and know what before we were ignorant of as to our own pure Love's-Nativity which was fore-known in Christ before the World of Wrath and Bitterness did shew it self And thus by the first and second Birth of Christ in us all will come to be restored to a glorious new Creation where Love shall dye no more nor Sin live which brought in Curse and Sorrow and estranged God from us Now is not all this a most perswasive Motive to the Love-Flock where-ever scattered that God intends to bring them to this Love-band of Perfection that so we may know one another as God's
Soul will win the Virgins Heart For here indeed is manifested a full proof of Love's affiance by coming out from and renouncing all the Charms of the Daughter of Babylon who hath used all her Art to fright her from attempting ever to enter this Gate She hath through all Ages rescued from the Serpent's twisting toil and brought many back to enter into her Gates again Wonderful it will be to see any one come of a Conquerour here for this is the most perilous Gate because of the Gulf which stands before it The mortal Spirit whose Affection is joyned to gross Elementary things cannot pass this Gulf without suffering loss it is a Life that cannot be saved but must be swallowed up But Christ our Life will swiftly pass through as a fiery Charriot and the naked Soul with him who hath resisted all those Temptations which would have hindred his entrance into this Gate which is the very winning of that Field where Wisdom's Gold of Opher and unknown rich Substance doth lie Oh! who is it that will hold out the Encounter at this Gate It may be truly said That many have striven to enter but because they would or could not leave behind all mortal Burthens and come quite naked out of Babylon they were not able to enter This is that which hath dis-enabled many to enter and will continue to do so except the Christ of the mighty God enable us to pass and then we shall with freedom and ease come up to the third Gate The third Gate is Translation by Fixation in Wisdom's Land or Principle The Center of the Virgin Wisdom may often open and take up the Soul and Spirit into it and then be shut again and the Soul let down into Babylon's Principle This I say may happen often before the Soul comes to be fixed in Wisdom's Orb. But when the Soul is fixed in the Heavenly sprouting life of its Emmanuel and translated into a pure Nazarite Virginity which knows nothing more of the fallen Birth Here the Soul stands in another Principle having got firm footing in Wisdoms Land Here a goodly Lot is cast for the conquering Soul who will find all riches stand before her in Wisdoms Treasury without either bounds or limits Whatsoever is of use or service is there laid down at the feet of a translated Spirit as the return of her Adventure and Trust in that day whilst she was under the Temptation of the glistering Stars of this Elementary Region all whose Promises were but as a snare and bar to keep from knowing this high Translation Oh! what a welcome Feast do I see already prepared within this Gate to satiate both the Eye and Taste The Virgin comes and salutes the Soul with a Loves entercourse saying Come now and inherit Substance with me ye who have been in weary Travel to attain this fixation Gate I behold you in the face of the Bridegroom by whose means you are arrived here Now in his Name ask and have See now what Honour and Preferment you shall have in my Kingdom which will recompence a thousand Fold for the loss you have sustained in the World from whence you are come out As you did give credit to me upon the Word of my Testimony and the fame which was brought to your Ear though as yet you possessed nothing of what 's intended for you But here is now what will weigh down and recompence all your Sufferings when you resisted manfully those busie Spirits that would have blocked up your way but in strong Faith you have broke through all Let your Victory be assigned to him who hath the opening Key for to let in from Gate to Gate All this is from the dropping Lips of Sophia and her Bridegroom who now stand ready to open the fourth Gate The fourth Gate is called the Bountiful Gate From hence the richest Gift is brought forth that ever hath been received since Adam lost his Virgin who now here gives her self again to the Soul Oh great is this Benignity who could ever have hoped for such degrees of Advancement after so long a day of Desertion night of Apostacy An Eccho sound we now do hear that she will appear in her Bounty But to whom shall this Gate open stand to receive this Liberality from her hand Is it not for Ruth who hath forsaken the Moabitish Land and come to be fixed there whence her eternal Nativity is derived where she is no sooner arrived but she is decked with all the Virgins Ornaments which are the various Accomplishments in all supernal Powers and high Abilities to act in a divine Omnipotent manner whether in a corporeal form or out of it as shall be judged moet with reference to Place Time or Persons and according to the Region where the Bridegroom with his Bride shall be whether in the Heights above or Depths beneath where his and her rejoycing shall be in each other through the breaking opening of the Center from whence the Virgin-Tincture as a warm Fire-blood doth flow in every Vein a nourishing Life is felt passing through every sense This is that Gift which the Virgin will bestow upon the fixed Soul for a greater Manifestation of God's manifold Wonders throughout the habitable part of this Earth where the whole Trinity in Wisdom will assume a Virgin-humanity to bring all what hitherto hath been confused into-order again The Government of the bruitish Spirit must give way to her day who comes to overturn all Merchants with their Merchandize No Wares of the Assyrian shall be brought through her Gates neither shall any Sale of the Harlot's goods be mingled with her Treasures but a vast separation there shall be as between Paradise and this World where all things stand in an anxious Birth but that other Sphear is blessed with a perpetual Spring of all pleasant things which we shall know and understand in their variety in the next Gate which now we are by the steady hand of Christ led up to that we may see the utmost Latitude of Wisdom's inward City and come to know all the goings in and comings out at these Mystical Gates The fifth Gate bears the Title of Wisdom's Factory of all that is mannaged by her Magia from her own stock and Principle being very different from all the Merchandize which is used in this visible World which is wholly shut out of her Gates for none can drive an earthly Trade but such as bear the Mark and Number of the Beast here in this outward Principle Wherefore Wisdom will take none to be her Factors but those who have renounced all Babylonish Trade which is maintained by bearing the Mark of the Beast from the introduced subtilty of Reason A new and wonderful Way is prescribed to them who shall have the Mark and Name of the Virgins white Stone by which they shall be impowered to drive a free and mighty Trade within this heavenly City which shall make all Babylon's Wares grow
down such Gifts as will all abundantly enrich more than came down in the day of Penticost for they were but the first Fruits and did but continue a little while but here is such a Shower of the Eternal Powers to fall down upon this second Call to the Jerusalem waiters as shall bring forth the Harvest of the Lord's Joy whose Spirit for the ripening of these Fruits doth work most powerful What is to be done by us but only to drink in the falling Dews and dropping Showers and to grow as Lillies that may know neither Heat nor Draught Toil nor Care Hasten oh God! and send thy Angel Reapers for some Fields do begin to 〈◊〉 White whose ripe Fruits may into thy Store-house be brought as the first Offerings for the consvmmating of all those great and mighty things which thou hast taught us in this little Volumn of thy Life 〈◊〉 Here follows a high ravishing Communion with the Trinity enjoy'd but receive it not as an Elivation but from a Spirit â—â—â—â—â—ated as into another light Region the half of which is not to be expressed which was here enjoyed Some Throne of the most Holy is now pitched in the center of the Heart of Jesus as in conjunction with my Heart from whence such issues of Life do flow which renew a perpetual Spring of Joy For the Lord pronounced the fulness of all Blessing from the circle Throne of his Presence bedewing me with the Water of Life from the glassy Sea mingled with the Fire of Love assuring me that the Curse which is annexed to fallen Nature should now flee away from God and the Lamb's Throne which Throne the Lord hath chosen me to be unto him in which the Scepter of his Kingdom should rule over all in the divine Omnipotence Upon which Thunder-cry which passed through my Heavens all Nations Tongues and Languages Spirits and Powers did give up to him who is come to fix his Throne and to create all things new and to confirm his Covenant in the newness of the Spirit and to nullifie all of the dead and fruitless-Life which stands in the Letter-Precept which could never destroy the Root of Sin It is now made known from the Word of Truth that nothing else shall ever fetch out the Serpent's Sting but the overflowing of the burning Oyl from the Sea of Glass which is broken up by the violent stroke of the holy Ghost All Sanctifications and Renewings are imperfect and changeable till this doth come to rise as a covering to make the gross Body transparent So now then we are to observe that when-ever God shall come in very deed to enthrone himself in any there will be felt this burning Sea from which the firey Lamps do proceed which guard the Throne Oh! it is the great and high attainment that a Spirit vail'd with Corporeity can look for to have God come down in his Throne-dominion and to cast down all other Thrones in which the dark firey Spirits have acted their part in the inward Tent of the Mind all which now to be destroyed and consumed by the pure flaming Throne will sufficiently witness that God's Kingdom is now got beyond Words is sprung up in a feeling Power Oh! the Joys Pleasure which my Soul doth feel in its first rising which is infinitely more precious than hath been related though by Christ's own Personality whose appearance did so variously describe the Glory of his Kingdom to me but now to come and bring it into me will in due season produce other things than what hath been believed or expected by the Staggering Fearful who have cryed The Lord doth yet delay his coming so upbraiding and beating his fellow Servant crying for Signs and Wonders without which they can own nothing But let all such slighting Spirits know that the Throne and Kingdom of the Lamb may for some considerable time be forming fashioning furnishing and enriching with Glory and all this carried on very secretly till the whole Mystery of the Kingdom be first inwardly compleated before it come to make a visible Show by a terrible acting of Wonders And know that such as are come to feel the Kingdom in its invisible Powers and the seven Lamps of Fire burning and are set down with Christ upon the Throne reigning over and judging down all Nations in themselves shall have Judgment and Power given them over all that have villified and set light by them in the day of their outward Rule and Authority whilst the suffering Lambs of God were in their Minority But careful we will not be concerning Judgment given or Dominion exercised as yet out of the Throne of the Lamb in our selves but must follow on till it be fully perfected and the Kingdom established It is the present Business of our Day to watch to have every Lamp fed from the glassy Sea that so springing in the Light Love-Flames a Chrystaline Throne may be maintained for the whole Deity For verily whilst such a thing as this is felt and witnessed there is a most ravishing Tranquility Oh! what is greater than to have Christ seated upon his Throne within us All things then must needs be in a peaceable and holy Order and blessed Subjection Happy are they whose inward Eyes are opened all this to see possess and enjoy even when retired out from all Creaturely Society and so translated into and among the Seraphick Spirits in heavenly Places Since my apartment to be alone a full Concourse doth now continually meet me even such Company as makes me spend my hours and dayes with all spiritual Mirth and Joy For I am now come in truth without Flattening or crackling Sparks that go out again unto the everlasting burning Throne of the Deity where just and perfect Spirits do use as so many lesser Flames most numerously as God's encompassing Host ministring all that may delight me So that I find I am to be reserved for God's Throne-Conversation which is as the seven dayes Feast of Tabernacles wherein nothing of servile work is to be thought upon This is a time of an holy Convocation and for celebrating the Praises of the Lamb who alone hath wrought the Victory for us Oh! what shall let now but that all within me may give the Trumpes-sound and great shout that the Lord Omnipotent is come to Reign Rejoyce ye Heavens without within and round about for the Lord Jehovah hath only done it He hath made Wars to cease and keeps the Enemy without the Gates Oh mighty Prince and Saviour thou art entred into thy Throne-rest Thou art become Lord of the Sabbath indeed and therefore thou hast Power to Eternalize it as a Memorial of thy redeeming Blood which is become the quickning and reigning Life Maintain my Love evermore in this new governing Sphere with thee for never knew I such a pleasant state as since the time thou hast brought thy Kingdom into me to rule over all in Peace and Love and keep every Spirit
in his glorified Saints and Angels It is fully assured me that God hath taken into his Eye and Love election at this very day those who shall come to sit in Princely Majesty and great Dominion in the inward Regency of the Soul conquering the thwarting motions of sin and their own Passions for Faithfulness Truth and Love to carry through here will be signs and evidence sufficient what God will further exalt unto In the interim whosoever have attained to the first Kingdom in Wisdom Sanctification and in the excelling Charity know that these will give the mighty onset for enterance into the utmost bounds of this overlasting Kingdom which we shall not think it only sufficient to pray for but to be doing all that is required for it in all comely order and fixed resolution to hold fast what we have already gotten that none may supplant us of that which will be the lifted up Crown to be seen every where upon the heads of the anointed Ones Here follows divine Openings of the Reign and Kingdom of the Love Having been exercised for some considerable time in the Prophetical Office and Ministration from the spirit of Revelation as my writings bear witness concerning the Kingdom of Christ in its suffering state first of all then in its rising up through tribulation unto victory for dominion and glorification through the Love Now the degrees which lead hereunto have been sufficiently described in The Heavenly Cloud Printed in 1680 by the Author which hath had most forcible effects for the bringing in and establishing of this Kingdom wherein and to whom this Spirit of prophesie was given for a sealing evidence that the Spirit of Truth being the Spring of those foregoing Revelations which are now to be confirmed by the present Reign of a risen Christ in some personalities which are shall be taken up for this end to shew it forth by that most excellent and perfect thing coming in which is the Love Dominion which hath exalted the same Propetical Spirit now with Christ upon the Throne and doth absolutely rule in Gods meek Love over the whole Region even to the utmost parts of the Souls inward Earth where now great peace is found the Government being carried on sereinly and calmely through the conquering Love which hath like a River overflowed the whole Earth But this was not so fully felt known and witnessed as of late The former Reign was maintained in an imperfect degree the spirits within were indeed under awe and check and unwillingly made subject to the Kingdom 's Laws that were renewed suitable to this most eminent and singular Ministration While sometime I was under it which was looked upon as sharp and severe the whole man being rein'd in very Straight would have gone forth into a reluctancy and so break all Harmony in the properties that should be found abiding in a new Model And thus indeed the Kingdom hath suffered violence and hath been hid in great strife as many Holy Souls may witness with me in the same case who are come thus far to the Dominion Which is a good and hopeful introduction to the ruling Scepter of Love in which will be found a far more pleasant and joyous Kingdom when all and every Spirit is brought over and subjected to the Love's Soreraignity in their order and place to their superior Governour to wit the Heaven-born Spirit who personates Christ upon the Throne Now to come to have every motion tinged with the fiery Love Balsom how will they run and fly at the very look of the Kingly anointed Eye where Love's rayes are so vehement as to captivate every thought to the obedience of the Lords Anointed King not in some but in all and every thing which will indeed make every Saint that hath attained hereunto walk worthy of God whose beeing consisteth in the Essentiality of Love and admitted for to be Gods fellow companion being in the center-Life of a Love dominion There must necessarily follow all Holy Boldness to come into a Christ propriety with God the Father as Heirs of all Kingdoms that are worthy of inheriting whether in the Mystery or out of it Love's Center opens through all and brings in an endless pleasure and Joy which cannot be by any worldly craft stolen away Therefore it is that most excellent thing that will heal and cure all within the Soul reconciling what was at variance whether in relation to God or to any of our fellow Members Therefore what is to be more desired or to be paralleled with I must solemnly profess that I have found such soveraign power and sweetness in the opening of this Love center that I cannot but commend it to others and seek earnestly to have more fellow-Commoners with me at Gods Table that there we may sit down together and feed upon the fruits of Love which are the Wine and Strength of the Kingdom For in very Truth I am come to witness Holy Paul's conclusion of it that it is the absolute perfect thing that works out all imperfection removing all sorrow and grief from the mind and heart For it is a strong and vehement heat that devours fear and anxity Oh! how doth it shelter and secure from all blood sucking vipers that they cannot prey upon the inward part of the Soul Because this is a love which cannot imagine into any evil thing and therefore nothing of the Serpent Venom can mingle with it which makes the Soul to know it self to be returned to its priminary concord and Virgin Simplicity But now it may be queried Whether I give forth the commendation of this High and perfect Love from Revelation or from divine and pure sensation I must acknowledge it is from both they are met together as proceeding from one Love Center which is the first glass wherein I saw the aimable Beauty and worthiness of this most excellent thing with all those advantages and great prerogatives attending it for it brings in no less than a Kingdom of sweet peaceable Amity and Love whereby I now sind an unspeakable benefit But it may be asked farther How comes this most precious and worthy thing to be wrought so essentially in the Soul as to be evermore ruling upon the Throne and as having got absolute conquest over whatsoever would stir up Trouble and Sedition In answer to this I shall give my own experience as one who hath obtained Grace of this kind after it was begotten by Species and Revelation and formed in me as a true Essential life Birth which I did sind daily grow up and encrease in Wisdom and Strength But then after that this Love was grown up to such a vehemency towards my God as known to me in the person of my Lord Christ from and through frequent visits and very intimate conversation which I did daily enjoy in an unknown and most singular way which in very Truth was so grateful and sweet that it drew up my superior vital spirit after him that