will be impossible to carry this Evangelical Ministration in such an evil Region where the Cry and Plea of mortal necessities are continually heard as making it a lawful imposition upon the very illuminated Saints to puddle about Earthly things by which indeed the wayunto the most Holy hath been blocked up no open Face of God could through this muddy glass be seen as being the dark side of the Cloud which keeps from God by many removes and distances Therefore a healing Balsom for a continual bleeding wound the great and merciful High Priest hath sent down even the victorious reconciling Crown of the Priestly anointing which is in very truth his Essential Diety which riseth as a Fountain of purity overspreading the whole Humanity and consecrates it for both Tabernacle Ark and Altar in which the Holy Ghost officiates and accomplisheth the whole Divine service Now whatever Soul and Spirit shall be thus taken up and arrested upon Gods account to serve and minister about the Heavenly and most excellent things which belong to the Everlasting Priesthood for it is not to be thought that the most holy will allow or permit such to prophane what he hath Sanctified or the Living to be entombed with the Dead or the high sented Oyl which springs from the Holy Ghost to let in the noysom putrifactions from the loathed Kedar where all unclean Spirits do dwell Here is an absolute command to have no touch nor intermedling withal so as to ensnare or come into hazard of breaking the consecrated Vows For it is a true saying of that great Saint That we in this consideration do cease to be our own we cannot according to the Law of the Spirit dispose of our selves no not for an hour or day from our Lord and Master's Employ and Business further than as good and faithful Stewards we can give a satisfying account according to those Spiritual Circumstances we are bound in unto him The great and mighty King loveth to see all his Priestly train and attendants still about him in such an Holy order and Heavenly posture as they may be ready to be sent forth upon the most eminent services who can find employment enough for his Subjects and Ministering Spirits who takes it as a great dishonour to have this holy order bring their high profession to be brought into contempt by running into the cloud and thickest of vain rudimental things Nay more than this the restitution extends to the ordained and called ones upon whom the anointing hath been poured forth for the most Holy incense Offering they cannot be at liberty to fall in with those lawful and necessary concerns which pertain to the feeding and cloathing of the Body but if here at any time engaged the Spiritual part suffers hurt because it acts out of its own Sphear and divine property which should stand in Faiths essentiality where all our motions should be accompanied with the Principle of Faith in the Priestly Ministration for the supplying what is needful to the true Temple worshippers whereunto keeping and walking with God in a perfect way fulfilling all his Sanctuary institutions such are as Lillies to Spring and grow without toil or care The blessings of the Deep shall ever more abound and flow in while there is an abiding in the Faith hereof giving God full credit and running all fully upon his acconnt in this case The Truth is the Lord stands engaged to provide all sufficiency for his Servants whom he hath called from all other low inferior Services and Employes being himself in Covenant with the Priesthood of his own ordination Holy Paul makes use of it from the unchangeable Law that runs from Shadows and figurative Services till it comes to the Life and Substance Do you not know saith he that they which minister about Holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers with it They have a right hereunto according to a Law of divine Institution But the Proprietors of these worldly Goods do uot hold themselves obliged hereunto but do engross and take up all and if they let go any thing it is rather by constraint than a free and voluntary Offering But we are not to search too deep into this matter for Faultiness may be found among our own Tribe that lie within the circle of the Priestly Covenant in whom much Remisness and Shortness hath been found as to the ministring to the Necessities of the true dedicated Nazarites But we hope to see another Power and Spirit that shall bear rule which shall make the fast clasped Proprietors to become all free and open-handed according to the fore-going Prophecy that the Churl shall be made liberal yea so as to reckon nothing to be his own But here it may well be asked What is it that must come to loosen from this Self-bottom so as to unhinge this strong Gate that hath kept out from the Land of eternal Store and Blessing whereof Abraham's Seed in the Faith are Heirs This doth in part answer the Question which may produce the great change in narrow Spirit 's which is the Gift of the Faith of the operation of God which openeth from the Springs of Love which are spread abroad by the holy Ghost and kept as a live Coal that can multiply it self into a strong and vehement flame of Love which is the cherishing Root that makes Faith to become all fruitful beyond all exteriour sense and sight resting and considing in the creating Fiat which can call those things that are not to be and make a something of nothing This we may call the Riches of Faith that can make an increase where no visible Matter appeareth This is no common Faith it is no where found but where the holy Ghost hath planted himself for a Blessing and growing Revenue Who ever shall receive of this Gift and taste the Power of it will soon cease to grasp and love earthly and perishing things they will be constrained to offer and consecrate all that may be for the service and use of the holy royal Melcbizedeck Priesthood And though at this time little of this Spirit and Power doth appear in the World yet know of a truth from the Witness of Jesus that the long tircling Motion of the holy Anointing which hath hitherto but scattered his Sparks of Light is now in very deed upon the out-breaking Day of Life that what hath been only in sweet Love-Movings and transcient passing Powers that have in the very Altar-waiters ceased But we shall say now again Behold come and see the burning ghostly Body is risen that will turn all uncertain Motion into a fixed act of all flowing generating Powers But this the Lord hath shewed me This will be first appropriated to the high Priestly Order that can pass beyond the Vail to whom the Holy of Holiest stands open For there are different Degrees States and Oders in this last and new erected Priesthood in which
been understood All which shall be made good when the Soul shall be brought forth as a well tuned Instrument new strung and qualified in the deified man where the holy Spirit moves every Property according to the central Wheel in its new begotten Form which is set free to run its Races in the Sphere of Light where weak Mortality with its sinful Essences are out-run and left behind in the Fall Let not this seem strange or impossible for in the Deep a Mean is found for the bringing forth of this long buried Seed which hath long waited to arise in its original Body of essential Perfection and harmoniz'd Powers that it may appear that God is come to move and shew himself in the Covenant of his Love according to the Preordination in the heart of Christ for by him we do obtain this Resurrection in order to all the following Glories which the holy Spirit shall bring with him even so Anon. This Instruction being so immediately from the Lord carried great weight with it and made me resolve to wait upon the working Power in my inward Deep for the reducing of every divided Property to Unity for I was fully convinced that this Uniformity must be the Temple in which the holy Spirit will appear for the bringing of all working Powers to a heavenly Consort and Agreement I sate upon this day by day and as I found great drivings thereunto from the South Wind of Heaven so strong Storms were raised from the North with roaring Seas that lifted up their Waves to scatter and make void this holy Enterprize in injecting divers Temptations that such a thing as this could not hold or abide but would have its Overturnings and Changes for that nothing less than a God can always be in an equal Temperature and that this was rather the full effect of the holy Spirits coming than a Preparation for it Thus was I puzled and tossed to and fro in my Mind as if I were put upon that which could never be brought about or carried through to the desired End But the Lords Word was mighty and powerful to press me forward to this sweet and well ordered Composure of Mind to abide in an equal Temperature notwithstanding all that might come in to discourage me whether from those visible things or from the dark Principality which is much more hurtful in regard that they as Spirits can shoot in their Darts before we are aware so that this bath been my watchful Exercise for some days to resist what would have done Violence to that which in Concord and Peace would ever unshaken remain The holy One according to his friendly way and manner of Visitation did after all this exceedingly comfort and strengthen me to maintain his right of Conquest over all that which yet is left to vex and awaken Anxiousness or any Fear or Turmoile in the Soul My Jesus thus spake Consider and know thou art to hold fast what I have purchased by the fore-passed Death in thee as having assumed that Body of Sin to offer it up for a consuming Sacrifice once for all as was shewed in the Type of the visible Body which is now done again in the invisible So that you are to reckon and account your sins virtually done away they can claim no Law either to reign or condemn Look upon all Motions of this kind to be at the check of the Spirit who hath again quickned the dead and will no more give way to that which came in to flesh for to destroy And therefore let none pretend a necessity of continuing in that which hath brought in Confusion and Disagreement seeing a Redeeming Spirit is come down to renew and gather in the lost again to the divine Beeing from whence they did proceed at first pure as God is pure to which degree of Perfection that we may be restored again is the end of Christs Mediatory Office not only without but within us where the Body of Sin hath been yielded up for an Offering This confirming Word Christ the Lord who is arising left with me for them who have been in the Death with him that we henceforth may know our selves in him to be acquitted and released from all Claims which the evil Powers and Properties can make for upholding that Kingdom where the Beasts Throne is which consists of envy wrath strife from all which by an eternal Decree of the Lord Jehovah you are set free and brought into the Harmony of that Kingdom where the springing Joy from the Peace of God doth run as a River that hath its Division through all Properties for to bring them to the heavenly Unity whereby the Creature is set free from the Bondage of Sin and a wafaring Life according to the Pattern seen in the Mount of Vision to which my Spirit hath been oft taken up to see the wonderful Plat-form of the New-Jerusalem The Vision of the New-Jerusalem The Lord took me away from my mortal part and shewed me the Scituation of this great Glory and said Behold and see the Pattern of the heavenly Houses and Mansions which make up the New-Jerusalem where the Glory of the One only God doth fill all with the essential Light and Splendor of his divine goodness I shall as I am able describe what I did see in the Heavens of this Mother-City for so it was named to me who is to bring forth her first and free-born to replenish the New Earth and Heavens It appeared as a City sounded upon one square Stone whose Dimensions were very large It was all paved with light flaming Colours appearing like so many various sparkling Stones inlaid on the great Foundation Stone which gave forth a luster as if so many bright Suns had been there Towards the Verge or out-side of this square Stone were seen many Seraphick Bodies wreathing Arm in Arm and several rows of various spiritual Forms of different Ranks and Stature These Rews appeared like the Stories of a building which were carried up higher higher in a square Figure till it was wonderful high upon the Heads of the most inward glorified Bodies a Covering was spread by one more Diaphanous and of greater splendor than all the rest the Height of his Person was higher by the head then all the other who called to me out of this most glorious Building To take good heed of all I had seen for it had a further meaning which I was to have revealed when driven by the Spirit into the light Mystery where all deep things do open Oh my dear Lord be thou an All-springing Testimony within and from this New-Jerusalem My Spirit being drawn out for a further Enquiry concerning this New-Jerusalem state what the Appearance of it to us did signifie for this present time the Foundation Stone thereof gave forth this Word That such a City the mighty Cyrus would himself be the Founder of upon the visible Stage of this World although there be little appearance
the holy Ghost will appear to be all which according to our received Instruction I shall give a description of and how it may be known who are the called and chosen of God hereunto For each one ordained hereunto will have the Foundation Seal the Priestly Mark which shall be the known Character which no one shall obliterate or deny And as to the outward Sex there shall be no distinction though the Typical Priesthood admitted none but Males in its day All of that is done away for Signs and Figures in this Ministration do fly away like a Cloud Male and Female are alike here therefore the holy Ghost doth include both in one swallowing up all in the Newness Strength Power and Glory of his own springing new Birth according as it is witnessed Where there is neither Male nor Female but Christ is all and in all who is the quickning Spirit and the true Evidence that will shew forth it self according to their grown up measure and degrees For Persons here signifie little Wisdom's Purity and Power in the Spirit is all that God respecteth in his Priestly Offerings We must know that these Priests are of three Ranks or Orders constituted and ordained by the great high Priest who yet continues in his mediating Kingdom till the whole be brought up and finished for mutual Glorification with him The first and lower Rank is of those who are not yet got beyond the Son's Ministration who are yet conscious of Sins and Transgressions committed under the first Covenant according to the similitude of Adam's Transgression running from that putrified Line for whom a necessity there is to come under the divers Watchings Separations Attonings Blood-sprinklings that so they may be qualified to come within Mount-Zion's circle where no Sin-offering is needed but in order unto the rising up to the successive degrees of the Melchizedeck Order the whole Burnt-offering is required the Goat must dye and the sinful infected Life must expire amidst the Altar-Flames For a continual Offering of this kind must be till the whole Body of Sin be consumed for whilst any thing of that abides and works in its circling Motion there are required new and fresh Attonings Pacifications and Blood-sprinklings till the one Offering comes it self to be offered up once for all which acquits from all Sin and makes meet prepared Vessels to come to in the first degree of Purity whose Consciences being purged there-from all consciousness of Sin may come up with boldness and full assurance of Faith in that anointing which is shed forth to cleanse from all Sin reconciling and making all Scores and Reckonings even as in reference to God the most holy and justifier of those who are made partakers of Christ in his Prophetical Kingly and Priestly Office For where-ever the Lord comes to offer himself up through the eternal Spirit by his own Body that are fully perfected For as under the Levitical Ordinances prescribed by God it was appointed for the Priests only to bear the Ark so under this Covenant-Ministration none but the spiritually consecrated Priests that are of this Order can bear the living Testimony of Christ's risen and spiritual Body which goes forth with great Power where-ever it comes to make Rocks break and Islands flee away and Waters to divide all which makes way for the bringing up to the last step of the all Priestly Throne to sit down with Christ in heavenly Places at the Right-hand of the Majesty on high where we are to consider those who of this holy high and separated Order are here become the Tabernacle Ark and Altar and the most inward holy place where Christ the anointed hath so poured forth himself that he is to be known in them as no other than God the holy Ghost officiating and accomplishing the most holy Service as in the Person of the great high Priest who having perfected Holiness comes in the open Face of the most inward separated place where God is manifest and no Spirit nor Soul can ever come to know or meet God but here according as we have it from the Mouth of the Lord himself who told Moses That here in this holy place he would commune with him and appear in his Glory But alas who is able to see at first glance into this high exalted degree of an high Priestly Calling It is so great and wonderful that it makes the Light of all fore-going Ministrations to look dark and dim as far excelling all as the Substance doth the the Shadow But before we proceed to set forth this third and last degree that brings so into God let us consider further of the two lower Orders which to this Priesthood do belong what their Qualifications are and from whence called out The first Rank is of those afore-mentioned who have been under the Altar-Purifyings and divers Washings and blood Sprinklings and perfuming Oyls by which they are made perfect and clean and become such who have no more Conscience of Sin for the Fountain-spring of the Life-Blood stands ever open Christ in his bubling Spirit by which he maintains a sinless Purity of which sort God chuseth and ordains his Tabernacle-Ministers who are made meet to officiate about the holy things offering up the holy Incense and Heave-offerings keeping all the Laws and charge of the Sanctuary presenting only what is consecrated unto the Lord in order to the expelling of every defiled thing Now great is the Dignity of this very lowest degree forasmuch as they are made partakers of Christ and in him are become Mediators of the New Covenant wherein great strength is found inasmuch as Christ in Spirit is made the surety of this faultless Testament which gives great boldness to plead for Remission of Sins in the behalf of others who yet remain in the sinful imperfect state who being ready and free to intercede from the pure unfeigned-Love on their behalf may come up to be the highest also in this divine Function Now to mention the Service and Office of the second Order who are such as take not this Honour unto themselves but are chosen anointed and separated by the heavenly Ordination these are those who are set apart for God's Sanctuary to be pitched in the midst of them out of which they are not to depart because the Crown of the anointing Oyl hath been poured forth upon them which is no less than the Sanctification in the holy Ghost Here waiting in their perfect God-like Order who can set no desiled thing before their Eye as David speaketh Thou hast set the Godly Man apart for thy self God appropriates all that are of the Priestly Order to himself he forbids them to be Servants to men nothing of a divided Service is here to be pleaded for no going back to bury their Dead or to be defiled with them It was the blessing which Moses pronounced upon the Tribe of Levi Let thy Urim and thy Thumim be with thy holy One who said of
good whatsoever we part with on his account as there are some who can witness to Gods Truth and Faithfulness in this matter A Third Caution is for those who are got out of the Throng and Incombrance of worldly Multiplicity and have thrown off all those weights and sins which do so easily beset them they must know that all this will not fully secure them though it be a very good Ground-Work and greatly advantagious for the rearing up of Gods perfect Tabernacle within them for the following Glories to rest upon it but be advertised from the holy and true fore-sight of the Spirit of Jesus who knows the Dangers and Perils which attend this state also which though they have escaped the worldly Bondage and earthly Pollutions yet spiritual Defilements may remain which are of more dangerous consequence than briary Cares and worldly Distractions for we have not only to do with a Birth of Flesh and Blood but there are internal Powers and Principalities of an higher Descent which joyn their Forces with the rational Spirit which is the more wise and sober part in man and therefore most readily take upon them to prescribe Laws and Rules for the superior Soul to walk by who finding it self fallen stands in great need of an Help and Guide to bring it out of this wretched Plunge and confused State being convinced by Christ the true Life and Light risen within how the case stands with it and thereby made eagerly desirous to be set free from those inward usurping Powers which come with all deceiveableness to circumvent and keep the Soul in the strong hold of a rational Sense which must be quitted And now the enlightned Soul feeling the Malady so great and so painful looks out diligently for a speedy Relief and is ready to embrace every Physitian that doth profess to be skillful in the curing of Souls whereupon comes in a second danger of which ye will do well to take heed that is to be cautioned from whom you receive Spiritual Medicine and whether they be such who have the true Balsom and Tincture of Life to give forth from the very Unction of God resting in them for no other can be profitable unto you All who have not this Soveraign White Stone which knows only how to pour out his Name as precious Oyntment from Vessel to Vessel are Physitians of no value Therefore while ye in the state of Minority are and have need to be under Pastors and Teachers till you are come up to the highest Form ready prepared and qualified for the great Master Teacher to undertake you even the holy Spirit who will perfect whatever was lacking in other Teachings and through other Mediums for which direct your Eye waiting in a peactable Concord and silent Harmony in your own Jerusalem within whereupon written is to be Holiness to the Lord in every Property and then you will come to know the fresh Pasturesprings which are only under the breaking-up-Seal of the holy Unction where no defiled foot hath ever come to raise the Dust to discolour this golden Stream This is the Ministration which you will find the following Openings to point out and lead to and though as yet it be an unbeaten Path which the Lord hath by his Instrument now declared and made known in way of Vision and Prophecy yet it is the true Day-star that will give its own light and witness Therefore let the Wonderers Despisers and Contemners take heed of making a Mock of that which the Alpha and Omega will own and stand by as his express Mind who prohibited the publisher hereof from altering the way and manner of the revealing of these great and deep things Therefore you have them unpollished in their own naked Simplicity as they were every day revealed given forth not in the dress of humane Wisdom no they are of another descent and the spiritual Ones in God will feel know and taste from what Treasure-House they proceed And as for others we do not heed their Judgment only shall be found in hearty Prayer for their true enlightning that all may come to know what the Love-Trumpet doth now sound for is it not that both Earth and Sea may give up their long buried Dead and that his cursed Ground may no longer shut up the dead in Christ Are not these Tidings brought from the bright East that the Lord is coming to bring forth himself in a new and marvellous Resurrection such as never was yet and therefore hath before-hand sent his holy Spirit of Prophecy to proclaim what he intends to fulfil according to his antient Purpose and Decree and for this end hath shewed what Gates are to open to give entrance into this All-fruitful Sharon where the scattered love-Flock hath been hunted and chased as panting Harts shifting their Pastares and yet not finding where to lie down and be at Rest which indeed can never be expected till through the Seven Seals ye do come where the full glorious Resurrection Day ye shall witness through all things becoming New where the holy Spirit your Over-seer and feeling Life shall ever and always be known for fixation in the Resurrection State And though the Saduces be numerous that have no Faith ever to see this first Resurrection which is from the Body of Sin to be made free giving witness hereunto first by being begotten alive from the Dead according to the Scriptures You hath he quickned who were dead in Trespasses and Sin Therefore it is not incredible to us that God should raise the Dead see Rom. 4 5 7 Chapters but each one in Christ's Order for allowance must be given for degrees for as the Death is gradually so is also the Resurrection perfected through received Acts of Power a Similitude whereof we may see in the visible Sun which doth not attain its Meridian height at his first rising and so the Body of the Resurrection doth not at once but by degrees advance to its full height of Lustre and Glory So as we must give way to Measures and Degrees in all sorts whether in dying or rising all opening one Everlasting Mystery of Glory in the Powers of our Lord Jesus who will bring all one after another up to Glory Now then let each one prove his own Work wrought in God whether in Death Resurrection Ascention or Glorification for these are all linked together though not attai ned or reached but in their own Order still going on from the first Step to the last the way for the Attainment of which you will find described according to the measure of the Spirit given for Manifestation of these long hidden Truths that have lain under the Seals where you will find the Path that leadeth into the Death and the loosing therefrom through the seventh Seal opening for the Resurrection which the seven Thunders do plainly express and so proceed on to the ascending Reign in Christs Kingdom which is great and magnificent giving its own
order to the revealing and making out this high and peculiar Priest-hood it is expedient I should declare in what a living figure it appeared to me or rather to somewhat which was raised up to be as a clear burning Lamp of Love which was capable of this great and marvelous sight which did open from the very God-head Beeing in whose Body of Light and Glory this Priesthood in the Heavens was clearly manifested to my Eye sight which is the ground work I shall go upon according to the express which the great Melohizedeck Priest hath set open and made teachable hereby for the benefit and service of that Holy and Royal Tribe that shall hereunto be numbred For in the present Age wherein the most precious have their Call to come out from what is vile temporary and Soul cankering against the Love minding of Earthly things and as to the more refined religious dress where the Viper of sinful Hypocrisie which hath had a fair covering spread over it in every changeable Ministration which refers to an outside Holiness till from this there be a departing and entering into Love's substantiality there can be no bearing part in this peculiar and Royal Priesthood But let us go on to describe it according to the Mount Zion Pattern which we have seen and the Words which were heard from thence The Vision of the Heavenly Tabernacle I was carried in Spirit where I saw a light flaming Glory unfolding and opening it self larger and more conspicuous and in the midst of it an Abysical Deep from whence there was a working flowing Sourse in a restless Motion flashing up transparent Matter so sparklingly glorious for Colours as if all manner of precious Stones had been comixed in the Matter then did appear numerous Persons gathered to the Glory of this flowing Sourse from the Virtue and Power that rose out of the Deep which was as the Resurrection of pure heavenly Bodies bright and clear that stood there to receive and drink in from this Abysical Deep then was it asked by that translated Spirit that saw all this What was to be understood by all this and it was answered It is the flowing of the Deity that is ever generating forth for begetting and renewing what is like to its own Beeing and the sparkling Matter that so continually flashed out was to consecrate the heavenly Order of Kingly Priests which would be the very Tabernacle-Glory upon them for this Priestly Kingdom under the highest degree of anoiming are for to be And who-ever can pure and abstractedly come up and lie near the flowing of this Abysical Deep are under the Ordination for Kingly Priests and so near to God as nothing shall them be denyed for which they shall interceed for great Power they will have within their own command for they are Spirited very high by daily drinking in this deified Matter In this Vision there was no formal Temple Tabernacle or Alter to be seen but God in his Virtual Power Light and Purity filled the numerous company that made up the Priestly Body which was termed the God-head Fraternity No particular Christ here I did see but as he was said to be the Head and the Power that made them shine as so many burning Lamps before the Throne of the Fathers all-piercing Eye of Glory There were degrees amongst this Holy Preistly fellowship some in a higher others in a lower order But the Testimony of Truth Love and Purity did open through all as one entire Ark of the Heavenly Body compacted together sounding forth New and wonderful Laud and Praises different from all others who in the Heavenly places did worship the Lord God Almighty This was a lively express and manifestation of the Everlasting and unchangeable Priesthood which the Holy Ghost will build up and appear all in it and therefore is come before hand to open the Scene of it and to give Rules to direct in the Way which leads thereunto according to this substantial ground which opens from the Central Eternity from whence all perfect things must spring out again in this faded and corrupted Region For which a most Holy and Royal Priesthood is ordained that is to be the Salt of the Earth to send forth their seasoning for Life where Putrifaction unto Death hath reigned Now we shall proceed and give forth what hath run in as a Fountain sending forth its Springs It is then assured to us by an irreversible Covenant that a Kingly Priesthood shall in this latter day stand upon the Earth An Election and Call from the Holy Ghost is going out for to effect the same who only knows where the true born Nazarites are and where the sanctified in the Water of Life do lie who will be brought out as baptized Ones into this Holy Priestly order so that it may be evident to all to know who they are and to acknowledge their Priestly Royalty each one in their various order and degree for power and eminency for which there are several Rules Characters and holy Missions that will make out where all these pure clear lively Stones are connexed together for a ruling and governing Priesthood in this visible Earth These are of the Election hereunto that may yet be hid amongst the Stuff of Babylon's confusion A David may be keeping of Sheep an Elisha Plowing with a yoke of Oxen till a special ordination come forth for anointing to a more high worthy and honourable Employ in which the business will be only to have to do with God and therefore is set apart and sanctified only for that use ceasing from all througing Cares and seculiar Services and a withdrawing from all defiling things of this kind Whoever feels the touch of the Life-coal that sets the only matter of the Souls eternal Essence a burning they will soon find what separation is made and can henceforth no more favour the low vulgar gross and Earthly concerns from all which this Priestly Function doth set free as called and anointed by the most Holy that is head of this separated Congregation therefore it is but meet that the Body should answer hereunto that as our great High-Priest is passed into the Heavens being found perfect separate from sin and Sinners so likewise all appertaining to this heavenly order will be known in their pure consecration For the Spring of the Spirit will rise from within to cleanse every instrument that must be used about the Tabernacle service because God will have nothing to come near Him but what hath Holiness engraved upon it which doth imply a coming out of what is common and defiling that nothing of this corrupting Nature may be found amongst the Priestly Tribe For these are designed and appointed to deal with God in all weighty Spiritual matters belonging to the Restoration and that may erect the New Jerusalem state in this very World Therefore there is to be an extraordinary Call of the holy Ghost for the impowering and fitting out hereunto for else it
Unction which will take the Chair that so this holy Ordination may take place in great Soveraignity The holy and just One hath reserved his last and most wonderful sealing Testimony for to go forth from the Unity of an holy Priestly Spirit which is so far perfected as to stand no more in need of Offerings for Sin because he who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are made all one in this Ministration for if they come not to a sinless state they cannot be of this high Priestly Order because to it a Key is given which must open all the twelve Gates before-mentioned And without all Controversie great is that Power that shall be here concentred for our exalted Christ who is passed higher than the Heavens hath recovered Power to transfer himself in his divine Purity and excellent Might unto this elected Priesthood which shall be visible here on Earth This is the true Mount-Zion from whence Decrees Laws Judgments and holy Statutes shall go forth from the Urim and Thummim sound Knowledge and Understanding and the Certainty of the words of Truth hence shall proceed so that it will be a most sure and safe Oracle in all difficult Soul-cases and to determine all Doubts and Difficulties for of Old the Israel of God would not venture upon any Concern nor attempt any Design without having first enquired at the Priests Mouth who only was to give forth the Mind of God which will now be again renewed for those who are not admitted to this high Calling of the holy Priesthood for such honour these Saints shall have above the lower Ranks as being not ordained by man nor after the Law of a carnal Commandment but by the impressed Seal of the mighty God Here need no Epistles of Commendation the Powers of this Priestly Dignity will be sufficient Orators to recommend them for great Signs and Wonders will be acted forth when the Temple-Body of the holy Ghost shall come down and open it self in the Priestly Ministration every Branch of which will have its multiplying Fruits for the Praise-Offering of the Sanctuary I shall now declare what the Testimony of Truth hath spoken in me which is this That whatever God is or can do the same will appear in and amongst this Priestly Order Visions Proverbs and Similitudes must cease which as leading stars have been under the Son's Ministration this being the fulness of time in which the Father will shew himself plainly without any Figures or Shadows in the substantial Body of Power uncessantly flowing from which the New Creation must bud out in a fresh Glory and all of the old fade and dye away But here it may be objected Where are there any to be found of this Royal Priesthood who may give forth a Sealing Evidence in this present time They have indeed been long predicted of but we would fain see some really instated in this high Order For Answer to this I say there may possibly be some who are advanced to a good degree of this high state and who have passed through the first and second Order all which is an inward secret purifying work from Sin and holy Ground made ready for the Righteous Branch in its Lilly-beauty to spring which may be done without any great noise for where Christ is come to offer himself once for all then the next thing that follows is the coming of the holy Ghost to reign all in all wherefore we will believe and hope there may be some under this peculiar Ordination though dispersed and unknown who are all ready to enter upon the third Degree which is the spriritual Rule and Authority for it is no less than a perfect Regeneration that bringeth to this Gate because whoever enters here must first have shaken hands with a worldly Conversation no more touching any dead thing wherefore this state is not common or easily attained but by such who are touched by Love and anointed for this holy Melchizedeck Order of their calling to which none shall ever have cause to Repent for great are the Royalties that will follow according as hath been declared The Spirit of Prophecy spake thus to me expresly as the close of this subject saying I will chuse a Disciplehood yet upon the Earth a gain who shall know me in my inward spiritual figure as in former time I was known in a visible Humanity by Voice and Shape but now I am come to appear and walk upon invisible Earth which none but the spiritual Man understands my Speech or sees my transformed Shape to such who my chosen Disciples are I will familiarly appear for behold I upon a new Election am who the Alpha and Omega is to call together such whose Names are sound in the Crown Number Roll one by one till to the hundred and forty four Thousand for the increase manifestation of this most holy Priesthood blessed are they that shall be the first Foundation Pillars hereof so saith the Yea Amen for this will be the Virgin Church upon whom no Spot ar Wrinkle shall be found for if found faulty I cannot be their Priestly head for the case is clean alter'd of what it was in the day of my visible Corporiety which was the first dawning of my Day in which the mixed and imperfect things among my Disciplehood could not so suddenly fly away therefore a suffering state was to succeed after me that so sin by its daily dyings might expire which among my old Disciplehood in that Age great effect did take but yet deceasing before reaching to the full and perfect date of what was to be the Churches primitive state now something greater and more perfect is to be revealed after so long and cloudy a Night of Apostacy where there has been a going back instead of going forward but there is a Star that shall arise out of the same light Orb whereof it shall be said Behold Wisdom's Day through dark Clouds doth appear out of whose Virgin Womb bright Stars of Glory generated are innumerably to make up that Temple-Church all fair and christaline terrible as an Army with Banners that shall display my Strength and Power This is the Trumpet sound of Christ the Lords Spirit to such who of this high and holy Order are that they may break away from their Iron Yokes and be unbound from all Terrestrial things for to come to be received into this new Disciplehood and with the Lord to have all freedom of Speech Oh! where shall we find any that shall for this high and spiritual degree all they have and are here for to resigne that as fixed Pillars for this first born Church they may come so to be Lord Jesus it is thy golden Crook that must take hold I see for such a Priestly Ministry I shall before I conclude answer some Queries that may arise in the Minds of some as they read these Prophetical Revelations who may require some further satisfaction concerning the truth of these things
greet them whom we discern to be of a high and lofty stature having shot forth their Branches in great lustre and glory as having got beyond all declarative Revelations and Teachings as not receiving or needing any but what their own center of Light will supply them withal here-from inclining to slight what lies in bank and store with their fellow-Labourers for this same Treasure to such this word is sent that they carry it in great humility and lowliness of Mind prefering each ones gift before or as their own maintaining all sweet and lovely Fellowship with those of lower or higher degrees in mutual Concord and Harmony for the maintaining a holy Fraternity and spiritual Neighbourhood although each Saint may have a full Provision and plentiful Portion of Spirit in themselves so as they have no dependance on another yet love is freely communitive and disperseth it self in great variety so as what one Saint is gifted and furnished with the other may want of that sort and kind and so a heavenly Traffick and Correspondency may be maintained feeding and feasting with each other on the various Fruits as all springing from one Stock and Tree of Life for it is experienced that much increase of the holy Anointing hath flown forth by the converse and declaration of divine Inspirations from one Saint to another the which hath begotten a new and spiritual Generation as in former Ages so in this sending forth divine sparks of Light and Love for the gathering in of the holy priestly Train that are to make up the Temple-Glory till the which shall come to be compleated there will be all need of this holy in spiring Breath to be breathed from one to another whether by vocal Voice inspeaking or converse as the holy Spirit shall go forth in its various operations for the edifying of the Body of Love for a holy Convocation to the Lord. In the hopeful Expectation of which I have been driven to disclose these great and deep secrets being assured That this Generation shall not pass away before there shall be a fulfilling of what hath been revealed prophecied of in this little Tract and blessed are they that shall have their lot and portion herein There is a rich Bank yet behind from whence the oily Springs do fill that may be emptied forth when Vessels are made more fine and ready thereof to take in for the which we shall wait and seek to find some such for to partake of that rich and weighty Prize that yet lieth in the secret eternal Mine for there is Vally deep which under the Water of Life doth lie that will bring forth the fruitful Olive Plants that shall be there fed and nourished hiddenly till of a strong and full grown stature in Spirit and Power they may come for to be then will they shew themselves to the true Israel of God universally that the Priestly Kingdom may come for to spread and flourish every where in power and great glory sealed with Mission of the holy Ghost acting and going forth in signal miraculous working Powers for confirmation of the truth of this Dispensation in such a way as none shall resist nor any dark Magician shall be able to counterfeit for so strong and impregnable is the Foundation of this Temple-body of glory that neither Dragon Beast or false Prophet shall be able it to undermine it being built and compact together of precious Saphire Stones transparent for Beauty and Glory the Jasper Stone being both Foundation and Covering thereon then will the shout of a King be heard in the Land of Salvation Oh! ye holy and elect of God where-ever you have been hid appear if you have put on your anointed Shield promote and help forward this royal Priesthood wherein the lively express of the holy Ghost is to be manifested Oh! that some fitch might be known that hereto do give themselves and mind no other thing as the Lords approved Work-men that may come to build up the inward Priestly Temple whose Furniture and Glory shall be the Gifts and Powers of the holy Ghost And now what have I more to do but to wait in hope that the pure flaming Spirit may henceforth go forth to gather in this Priestly Host who as in a reathed Chain of Love united may be inseparable that so we may come to take our degrees of Prophets Priests and Kings for the making good what hath been in this Treatise revealed which though in the form of a dead Letter yet O God as the Auther hereof did in the writing meet with a mighty flow of the anointing Presence so let the same out-flowing Spring accompany such whom thou hast ordained to be taken into this holy Priestly Order to which give thy Amen O great High-Priest to whom the Glory hereof doth belong Even so let that Kingdom come into this World that shall consist of Kings Priests and Prophets with all such Righteous Plants let the whole Earth be plantd for Joy and Praise to him who is the Antient of Days Hellelujah to him who is KING of Kings THE END As you may see in the Book entituled The Heavenly Cloud by the same Author Meaning the Book of the Heavenly Cloud Acts 1. 4. Ephef 1. 10. Rom 6. 14. Rev. 11 10. Rom 5. 12 Gen 3 5. Isa. 55. v. 1. The opening of the first Seal Rev. 6. v. 1 2. The opening of the second Seal Rev. 6. v. 3 4. The opening of the third Seal Rev 6. 5 6. The opening of the fourth Seal Rev. 6 7 8 Paâ—â—icular experiences coâ—â—â—rning this seal opening The open ing of the fifth Seal Rev. 6 9 10 11. The opening of the sixth Seal Rev. 6 14. to the end chap 7. Rev. 2. 3. The seventh Seal shown by way of Vision some space of time after the opening of the other Seal The seventh Seal is included in the seven Thunders opening as the effect of this Seal The frst Thunder The second Thunder The third Thunder The fourth Thunder The fifth Thunder The sixth Thunder The seventh Thunder January 2d 1682. So soon as desired that is to be understood carried up in a Spiritual Transportation First Property Second Property Third Property Fourth Property Fifth Property Sixth Property of the Soul Seventh Property Rev. 121. Meaning Wisdom who is God's esposed Virgin For this Virgin-Nativity see into she Wisdom of Sedemon Chap. 6. 7. Which five Gates were the 5 Sences spoken of before Now proceed we to the following Gates By Sophia is meant Virgin-Wisdom See Rev 18. 11 12 c. The word Magia is the created Power of the-Holy Ghost so to be undestood as often as named A weighty Expression from Emmanuel Methinks I hear some say This is such a new Model as is wonderful strange Pray open the Mystery of it yet more fully Answer I only can give out what the Measuring Line of the Spirit hath fathomed and no more Magia is the Faith of the operation of the Holy Ghost A fresh Prophetical opening upon this subject Seven days of Solitude from all of mortal Society as might be avoided The which hath induced the Author to publish these divine Secrets Col. 3 12. The General Epistle of John ch 16. 17. ch 4. 7. 8 â— 10 11. That is Love's Infancy before it grows strong For the Kingdom was here delivered up and God became all in all Which Body is the Ark of the living presence soto be understood Mal. 18. 18. Joh. 20. 23. That is by incorporation with Christ their sinless Life all Purely acting in them How blind to time must that eye be Who would see the glories of Eternity Sure those who Heaven most desire They from all of the Earth do most retire