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A49980	The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L.	Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1688 (1688)	Wing L915; ESTC R224149	138,032	220

forty D●…ys just so long as Christ was tempted in the Wilderness and that also by all the three Principles When a Twig groweth out of a Tree the form of it is like the Tree indeed it is not the S●…k and the Root but yet it is like the Tree So also when a Mother bringeth forth a Child it is an Image of ●…er So we mu●…t understand that the Soul is in the form of a r●…nd Globe according to the Eye of God through which the Cross goeth and which divideth it self in two p●…rts viz. 〈◊〉 t●…o Ey●…s standing B●…ck to Back viz. a holy divin●… Eye and a wrathful hellish Eye in the Fire t●…is it s●…ld shu●… an●… secretly reign therewith through the Anguish viz. through Death in the second Principle in Love. We mean the 〈◊〉 in the Fist Principle according to the original hath the form of an Eye and yet two-fold like a Heart wherein there is a C●…ss And in the second Principle it is a Spirit and a whole Image as the outward m●…●…s And in the third P●…inciple it is a Glass of the whole VVorld all whatsoever is contained in Heaven and Earth every Prop●…ty of every Creature lieth therein for that Glass is like the Firmament and Stars Of the Power and Ability of the Soul. WE know that what soever cometh out of the 〈◊〉 and is the ground of it s●…lf can 〈◊〉 it self 〈◊〉 things But though the Soul be a Twig out of the Tree 〈◊〉 now it is become a Creature and is its own it is an Ima●… of the whole for when a Child is born then the Mothe●… and the Child are two VVe mean thus God's Spirit an●… the Spirit of the Soul are two Persons each is free from 〈◊〉 other and yet both stand in the first beginning each hath 〈◊〉 own Will. The Soul originally is greatly powerful it can do much but its Power is only in that Principle wherein it is for the Devil cannot reign over God. The First Power of the VVill of the Soul is it frameth its own form in the Spirit also it can frame another Image in the Spirit out of the centre of Nature it can give another Form to the Body according to the outward Spirit for the inward is Lord of the outward it can change the outwar●… into another Image but not durable For Adam's Soul having let in the Turba of this VVo●…ld that if the Turba see a strange Child it riseth up against it instantly and desiroyeth it it continueth to endure only so long as the inward Spirit can subdue and over-power the outward And this Form is called Negromancy a Transmutation where the inward over-powereth the outward for it is natural and we understand that when we shall be changed that change will be made thus by the same Turba which hath the first Fiat in it Secondly if the Spirit were an Angel the similitude of God yet the VVill can make it a proud Devil and also make a Devil an Angel if it sink it self into Death into Humility under the Cross and cas●… it self into the Spirit of God and so submit to his Government then it sinketh into Eternity out of the Source into the still nothing which is yet all Thirdly The Spirit of the Soul hath power to ent●… ●…other man into his Marrow and Bones viz. the Sulpher and to bring the Turba into him if he ●…se so far as every one is not armed with the 〈◊〉 of God but is found naked in the Spirit of this ●…rld as may be seen by Witches Fourthly It hath such power if it be the Child of 〈◊〉 that it can lead the Turba captive and can pour out upon the House of the Wicked as Elias did 〈◊〉 Fire and Moses before Pharaoh for it can throw own Mountains and break Rocks This you must understand to be so far as that thing capable of the Turba by awakening the Wrath then 〈◊〉 is possible but if not and that the Spirit of God be 〈◊〉 a thing then it cannot be for it would pour Water ●…pon the Turba of the Fire which would then be as it were dead and its power would lie in Derision And therefore Heaven is a middle between God and Hell viz. between Love and Anger and was created out of the midst of the Waters so that the Devil cannot rule with his Turba the VVater turneth his purpose into derision as the false Magick and blinded Inchantment are drowned in the VVater The Fifth Power of the VVill or Spirit of the Soul is that it may or can seek all VVonders that are in Nature viz. all Arts Languages Buildings Plantings Distraction Knowledge it can command the Starry Heaven as Joshua did when he commanded the Sun to stand still and Moses the Sea that it stood up also he commanded the Darkness and it came it can make an earthly Life as Moses made the Lice and Frogs also Serpents and other Wonders It hath Death in its Power so that it can over●…ower that if it ride in the Charriot of the Bride viz. the VVill of the holy Ghost it can bridse and overcome the Devil if its VVill be in God there is noth●…ng can be named that it cannot subdue The Souls power was so potent before the Vanity that it was not subject to any thing and so it is powerful if the understanding were not taken awa●… from it it can by Magick alter all things whatsoever are in the world's Essence and introduce them into another Essence but the vanity in the outward Airs dominion hath brought a 〈◊〉 thereinto so that it doth not know it self it must in this Life time be it●… own Enemy that it may learn to be humble and continue in the divine Harmony and not become a Devi●… And so the Dev●…l can do nothing to it for he is proud Spirit and would be above the VVonders 〈◊〉 God but an humility can bind him after this ma●… ner every man may escape the false Magician an●… also the 〈◊〉 for no Po●…er can touch him i●… whom God 〈◊〉 Whether the Soul be Corporeal or not Corporeal THe Tincture is the tr●…e Body of the Soul for the Soul is ●…ire and the Tincture ariseth from the Fire and draweth it again into it self and allayeth it self therewith so that the wrathful Source is quenched and then the Tinct●…re subsisteth in me●…kness For the Soul hath no Essence nor Power in it self but the Fire and thus VVater proceedeth from the me●…kness of the Tincture The Fire is desirous and where there is a desiring of the original there is a finding of the original Thus the ●…ire findeth VVater in the Tincture and turneth it into Sulpher according to the Power of all the seven Spirits of Nature and this is a VVater of Life And so we see that the Blood is the House of the Soul but the Tincture is its Body The Soul only beside the Spirit is a Globe of Fire with an Eye of Fire and an Eye

of Light which turn themselves backward into one another as the VVheel in Ezekiel that could go on every side though Babel hath contrived another meaning about it but a blind one without a Spirit 〈◊〉 the meer Soul is not co●…oreal but in its Tin●…ure a Body groweth whether it be a heavenly or a ●…ellish Body and yet is not a Body which can be com●…rehended outwardly but a virtual Body the divine ●…ody Christ's heavenly Body the heavenly ●…lesh which he giveth us to eat in his ●…estament But the outward Spirit it the Soul do not hinder it but let it in bringeth its Imagi●…tion into and spoil●… it o that another strange ●…mage cometh to be in 〈◊〉 Spirit in the ●…incture acco●…ding to the contents 〈◊〉 L●…st as the covetous come to be a Wolf the ●…ous a Dog the proud a Ho●…se Peacock or other 〈◊〉 also Toads Adders Serpents a●…d other Worms and creeping things Now ●…ods Sp●…rit receiveth not their Images so long as they continu●… such Of the Propagation of Soul viz. how it cometh into a Child in the Mother 's Womb. THe VVoman hath gotten the Matrix viz. the Tincture of Venus or Tincture of Light and the Man hath the Tincture of Fire which you may perceiv●… by the eager Imagination of both towards one another For the S●…d in the Essence eagerly seeketh ●…he Life the Man 's in the VVoman●… in Ve●…us and the VVoman's in the Fire in the original of Life For they must now propagate as Beasts do in two Seeds the Man soweth Soul and the woman Spirit and being sown in an earthly Field it is also brought forth after the manner of all Beasts Nevertheless all the three Principles are in the Seed but the inward cannot be by known the outward for in the Seed the Soul is not living but when the two Tinctures come together then it is a whole Essence for the Soul is essential in the Seed and in the Conception it becometh Substantial Thus the S●…ul cometh not at all into the Body or is breathed into it from without but the three Principles have each of them its own Artificer one working Fire in the centre and the other maketh VVater 〈◊〉 the Tincture and the third maketh the earthly MisteryMagnum and yet it is no new thing but the very Seed of Man and VVoman and is only conceived in the mixture and so only a Twig g●…eth out of the Tree The Soul is not every time new created and breathed in but is propagated after a human manner as a Branch groweth out of a Tree as I may better render it as a man 〈◊〉 or sow●…th Seed and so a Spirit and Body groweth out of it And this is only the difference that the three Principles are alwayes in str●…fe about Man each would fain have him So that many times a wonderful Turba is brought in while yet he remains in the Seed But if the Parents both ●…ather and Mother have their Souls cloathed with Christ's ●…lesh and divine ●…ssentiallity then it cannot be for Christ saith A good Tree cannot bring for●…h evil Fruit yet the Turba in time ca●… enter in with the Reason So also an evil Tree cannot bring sorth good 〈◊〉 that is if both the Parents be evil and held captiv●… by the Devil then an evil Soul is sown but the Principles cannot yet judge it nor the Turba neither it i●… indeed an evil Chi●…d ●…t if it turn it may with th●… Imagination e●…ter into the VVord of the Lord. Consider this ve evil Parents ye gather Money for your Children get them good Souls that is more necessary for them How and where the Soul is seated in man also of its Illumination THe Soul is in God conceived in the Heart and the VVord which conceived it was in the Heart viz. in the centre and so it continueth in the Figure and in the Seat as it was comprehended by the Fiat an●… so it is still at this day It dwelleth in three Principles but the Heart is its original it is the inward ●…ire in the Heart in the inward Blood in the Heart and the Spirit of it which hath a glance from the Fire is in the Tincture for it is cloathed with the Tincture and burneth in the Heart The Soul is indeed seated in the inward Principle but it ruleth even in the outward viz. in the Stars and Elements and if it be not an Ape and suffer it self to be captivated it hath power enough to rule them and if the Soul demerse it self into God the outward must be obedient to it The outward Essence reacheth not the inward into the Soul but only by the Imagination There is nothing else in this world no 〈◊〉 ●…or Sword that can touch the Soul or put it to death but only the Imagination that is its Poyson for it originally proceedeth from the Imagination and 〈◊〉 in it eternally The Soul is thus enlightned it is in this world and ●…lso in God here in this Life it is a Servant of God's wonders which it should open with one Eye and with the other bring them into the beginning before God and set and cast all its doings into God's will and by no means say of any thing in this This is mine I am Lord of this for it lyeth if it say so All is God's thou art a Servant and shouldst walk in Love and Humility towards God and thy Brother for thy Brother's Soul is a fellow-Member with thy Soul thy Brother's joy in Heaven with God is also thy Joy his Wonders are also thy Wonders For in Heaven God is all in all he ●…deth all the holy Ghost is the Life of all there is meer Jo●… there is no Sorrow there all is Go●…'s one rejoyceth at the Power Brightness and Beauty of another there is no Malice nor Envy for all that remaineth in Death Hell. O how cheerful is the Soul when its a●…ish sourcè of Fire tasteth God's Light how exceeding courteous it is O how it boweth it self before God. Whether is the Soul of a new-born Child without Sin HOw can a Soul be born pure it cannot be it bringeth the Turba with it into the World an●…●…s ●…ful in the Mother's ●…omb Yet the Soul is not wholly forsaken of God so far as ●…he Father and Mother are ho est and in God for it cometh from the Soul of the 〈◊〉 and Mother And although a Child dye in the Mothers womb without Baptism yet it is baptized with the Spirit of the ●…ather and of the Mother viz. with the holy Ghost which dwelleth in them and the Turba is destroyed in Death for the Faith's part passeth through to God. But the matter is far otherwise with wicked Parents if the Child dye in the Mother's Womb the Soul of it falleth into the Turba and reacheth not od to Eternity it also knoweth nothing of him but it is a Life according to the Essence and Property of the Parents And yet it doth not

thou shouldst grow afright●… and disheartned or shouldest think that I had forsake thee yet I will be w●…th thee and preserve thee for tho●… thy self knowest not what thine office is thou must 〈◊〉 this time work and bear Fruit thou art the Root this Tree Branches must be produced out of thee whi●… must all be brought forth in anguish but I came for together with thy Branches in their Sap and bring for●… Fruit upon thy Boughs and thou knowest it not for t●… Most-high hath so ordered that I should dwell with a●… in thee Involve thy self therefore in patience and take he●… of the pleasure of the Flesh break the will and desire thereof bridle it as an unruly Horse and then I will often visit the●… in thy fiery Essence O noble Bridegroom stand still with thy Countenance towards me and give me thy rayes of Fire bring thy desire into me and kindle me and then I will bring the rayes of my Love from my Meekness into thy fiery Essence and kiss thee forever I will bring a Garland for thee out of Paradise with me for a token of my Love and put it upon thee in which thou shalt rejoyce But I give thee not my Pearl for a possession during this time Thou must continue in Resignation and hearken what the Lord playeth in thy Harmony in thee Moreover thou must give Sound and Essence to thy tune out of my strength and virtue for thou art now a Messenger of his Mouth and must set forth his praise and glory O kiss me with thy desire in thy Strength and Power and then I will shew thee all my Beauty and will rejoyce and delight my self with thy sweet Love and shining Brightness in thy fiery Life but the Crown of Pearl wherewith I crowned thee I have laid that aside for thee thou must wear it no more till thou art become pure in my sight The Soul saith further to the noble Sophia O thou fair and sweet Consort what shall I say before thee let me only be commended unto thee I cannot preserve my self If thou wilt not now give me thy Pearl I leave it to thy Will give me but thy rayes of Love and carry me through this Pilgrimage I am satisfied now that I know thou art with me in all my Troubles and will not forsake me O gracious Love I turn my fiery Countenance to thee O fair Crown fetch me quickly into thee and bring me sorth from unquietness I will be thine forever and never ●…part from thee CONCLUSION MAn is the greatest Arcanum or secret Mistery that God ever wrought he hath the figure and is the similitude shewing how the Deity hath exgenerated it self from Eterni●…y out of the si●…rce Wrath out of the Fire by the sin●…ing through Death into another Principle of another Source o●… Q●…ity 〈◊〉 is he also exgenerated out of Death again and grow●… ou●… o●… D●…ath again into another Principle of another Source and Q●…lity and Virtue or Power wherein 〈◊〉 is quite free from Ear●…hliness And it is very good that we are with the earthly part falle●… home to the Earth inasmuch as we also retain the divine part for so we are wholly pure and come wholly perfect without any Lust. Sugg●…ion or Infection of the Devil into the Kingdom of God again and are a much greater Arcanum or secret Mistery then the Angels We shall also as to the heavenly Substantiality excel them for they are flames of Fire throughly illustrated with the Light but we attain the great Source or Quality of the Meekness and Love which floweth forth in God's holy Substantiali y. Therefore they do very wrongfully and fasl●… who say God wille●…h not to have all men in ●…eaven He willeth that all should be saved or helped the Fault is in man himself that 〈◊〉 will not su●…er himself to be saved or helped And although many be of an evil Inclination that proceedeth not from God but from the Mo●…er o●… Nature if they lay the blame on God they lye God's Spirit with-draweth it self from no man. The noble 〈◊〉 them standeth hidden in the noble centre ●…n the divine Principle and they can very well with their ●…illing go forth out of the earth●…y Substance and Malicc o●… Wick●… into the willing of God. But they wilfully and obstinately let the fierce Wrath held them for the proud stately self-honouring Life pleaseth them too well and that holdeth them also After this time there is no 〈◊〉 more but in this time while the Soul swimeth and burneth in the Blood it may welt be for the Spirit of God goeth upon the Wings of the Wind. God is become Man. The Spirit of Go●… goeth with the willing into the Soul it de●…reth the Soul it setteth its Magia towards the Soul the Soul needs only to open the Door and so it goeth voluntarily in and openeth the noble Grain to the Tree of the Christian-Faith Cast away your Evil or Wickedness and enter into meekness press into the Truth and Love and yield thy self up to God and so thou wilt be saved or helped Thou wilt s●…y I am kept back that I cannot Yes indeed that is right thou willest to have it so the Devil also would have it so Art thou a Champion why dost thou not strive or fight against the Evil But if thou sirivest or sightest against the good thou art an enemy to God. Art thou an Enemy then thou art no Friend if thou be a friend then forsake thy enmi●…y and hatred and go to the Father and so thou art a Son. If thou sayest I am of an evil Source or Quality and cannot I am kept back Very well let the evil Source or Quality be as it is but go thou with thy Will-Spirit into God's Love-Spirit and give up thy self into his Mercy Thou wilt once well be ●…reed from the evil Source or Quality Concerni●…g the evil Body which sticketh full of evil Affections there is not much to be done if it be inclined to evil do it the less good give it no occasion to wantonness To keep it in subjection is a good Remedy to be sober and to lead a temperate Life is a good Purgation for the evil Ass not to give it that it lusteth after to let it fast often so that it may not hinder Prayer that is good for it it is not willing but the Understanding must be Lord. for it be●…reth God's Image This Latine doth not relish well 〈◊〉 the ●…ional world in the Lusts of the Flesh. Reader who lovest God know that a man is the tru●… similitude of God which God highly loveth and manifeste●… himself in this similitude as in his own God is in man the middlemost But he dwelleth only in himself and if it be so that the Spirit of man become one Spirit with him then he manifesteth himself in the Humanity viz. in the Mind Thoughts ●…nd De●…rings so that the mind feeleth him Else in this World he is very

four Complexions whereinto less Wickedness is introduced for it is always in combat against the Devil knowing him to be very near Neighbour for the Darkness is his Habitation Therefore doth he so willingly assault the Melancholy Soul striving always to keep it either in Darkness or else to throw her down Headlong from the Hope in God that it may dispair and make away it self For he knows well what the Soul can do if it once kindle God's light in it self for then it fires his Garison over his Head whereupon he remains in great Ignominy and his Deceit is made manifest There is no Complexion wherein the Devil's will with all his sly Suggestions lie more open to the clearest discovery if the Soul be once kindled in God's Light then in the Melancholy as they that in the storming his Fort have felt his onsets well know For they then in their enlightned Complexion see quickly what a shameless impure Harpy he is After that he desires not to come near the Soul except he finds it secure and returning to feast it self again in the house of Sin. then he comes as a fawning Spaniel so as the Soul knows him not strows Sugar upon its Viands holds forth to it nothing but shews of Friendliness and ●…iety till he can bring it back again out of God's Light into the Complexion that it feed upon its unwholsom sad-making nourishment O how cunningly doth he lay his Nets for the unwary Soul as a Fowler for the Birds oft he frights it in his Prayer especially in the Night-time when 't is dark injects his Imaginations into its that it thinks now God's wrath ●…eizes upon it and will throw it into Hell Then be makes semblance ●…o have power over the Soul as if it were his ●…hough indeed he hath not power to touch one Hair of the Head except it disappearingly yield it self over into its hands he dares neither spiritually take possession of it nor touch it only darts his Temptations into its Imagination through the Complexion For this is the reason why he so assaults this Soul viz. because the Complexion-chamber is dark for into the Light he cannot intrude his Imaginations 't is man's Sin must give him entrance but into this Complexion he finds an easie and most natural entrance it being of a nature so near that of his own most desired home because its dark desire produces Darkness in which fear is an Inhabitant by reason of the ●…ild Earth except in this respect he hath not one spark more of right to or dominion in this than the other Complexions He can accomplish in the Imagination than only to'a●…right the man and make ●…aint-hearted if the Soul through dispair do not give over it self to him then he induceth the man at last to make away himself for except the man first cast away himself he dare not lay Hands on him The Soul hath its free choice or will and if it with-stand the Devil and refuse consent however des●…rous he be yet hath he not so much power as to touch the outward sinful Body 〈◊〉 boasts himself indeed as if he had this power but he is 〈◊〉 Lyar for had he such power he would soon shew it but ●…tis not so Christ by his entrance into Death and Hell's ●…kest Dungeons set upon the Gate of Heaven for all Souls each one hath now a free entrance the Devil 's ●…rong Cords where with he fast bound the Soul in Adam is ●…roken assunder by the Cross. O how unwillingly does he hear ●…he Cross mentioned which seriously applyed in the work ●…f Mortification is his most deadly Pes●…ilence The Devil is ever objecting to the Melancholy man th●…●…niousness of his Sins and thereupon seeks to perswade ●…im there 's no possibility of attaining God's grace favour Therefore that it only remains he disappearing stab drown 〈◊〉 hang himself or murther another so that he may gain ●…n approach to the Soul otherwise he neither dare nor can ●…ouch it He dare not force thee nor indeed hath he any power to ●…ouch the Soul during this Life For Christ hath unlock●… the Door of Grace it now stands open wide to the poor Sinner ●…hile he lives upon the Earth this Door of Grace stands open ●…n the Soul. Christ hath in his Soul broke open the Iron-gate that was ist shut up in God's wrath Now all Souls have a communion and correspondance with this Soul they all come from 〈◊〉 and are altogether one Tree with many Branches his ●…reaking open of that Prison is from him gone forth upon all ●…ouls from Adam till the last men the Door of Grace stands open to them all God hath shut it up to none but those th●… will needs exclude themselves The sign or work of his ingress into the Man-hood is manifest to all Souls the sam●… will be a witness over all ungodly men in the Judgment day which they have despised Though our Sins saith Esaias were as red as Blood yet stands the Door of Mercy still open for in the Sinne●… conversion they shall be made as white as the snowy Wool. Therefore let no Soul think the measure of mine Iniquities is full God hath forgotten me I cannot be saved No i●… cannot be so he hath engraven it in his Nail-pierced-hand●… it is a Sprig of the great Tree of all Souls and 〈◊〉 an invisible commerce and communion with all as the Branch with the Tree while it lives in this world so long as it is cloa●…ed with Flesh and Blood it remains yet in the Tree Of the Temptation arising from the Complexion and Influence of the Stars IF the inward anguish or terror of Soul be not accompany●… with a kind of outward terrifying astonishment th●… is the Devil not there present but 't is the Souls amazement which is affrighted at the inward risings of the dark Abiss 〈◊〉 Principle of God's wrath in it It thinks of●… when the Melanchol●… Complexion is kind●…ed by some angry sower Influe●… of the Stars that the Devil is there when indeed there i●… no such matter When he comes 't is either with vehem●… astonishing Terrors or in an Angels behaviour or rather i●… a flattering posture like a fawning Hound All Temptation comes not from the Devil especially wi●… Melancholy men but the most part of that afflicting Sa●…ness comes from the Imagination of the Soul which bei●… necessitated to dwell in dark Melancholy Habitations 〈◊〉 wonder if it be easily surprised with heav●…ess so as to 〈◊〉 God hath forgotten it and will have none of it For the Melancholy Complexion is dark and hath no 〈◊〉 of its own as the other Complexions have yet is not this Du●… ness essential to the Soul but is only its ●…onesom Tabern●… ●…uring its Pilgrimage here on Earth nor doth the Soul's Holiness and Righteousness consist at all in the Complexion ●…ut in the inward heavenly Principle where God ●…wells ●…or as St. Paul saith Our Conversation is in Heaven Now

this Heaven wherein God dwells is not manifest in the outward Complexion but only in it self viz. in the second Principle It oft happens that the holiest Souls are in this manner overwhelmed with Sadness and this not without Gods special permission to the end they may be proved and strive the more earnestly after that heavenly Crown of Victory which is given them in this Life as a pledge of their everlasting Felicity For when the Soul takes Heaven as it were by Storm and wins her Crown the Gift of the holy Ghost after a constant persevering stedfastness in the fiery Conflict her Crown of triumph is much more noble and pretious then that which is not obtained till after the bodily Death for the Revelation of Jesus Christ saith To him that overcomes will I give to sit with me upon my Throne as I have overcome and am seated on my Father's Throne Therefore let no man thus tormented with anguish imagin with himself in the assaults of the Complexion that it ●…mes from God's wrath and want of mercy in him which is a meer sancy of his own Complexion in the Stars For we ●…ell see that the vilest ●…atted Swine of the Devil's herd that wallow and bath themselves day and night in the filth of Sin are not so full of Sadness not so assaulted with this kind of Temptations the reason is because they have an outward light in the Complexion wherein they dance before the Devil in an Angels likeness So as long as there is but one little spark of Light glimmering in a man's Heart which ●…s God's Grace and would gladly pertake of Salvation the Door of Gods Grace stands yet open For he who is given over by God whose Sin is come to the full measure he is not at all soli●…ous after God Man or Devil but is stone-blind runs on carelesly in a course of lightness without fear ●…s himself upon a customary practice of some outward Service of God goes a Beast into the Sanctury and com●… again a Beast out there is in him no true divine knowledge but all his Religion is a meer outward Custom and Chimarea of man's Brain which he sets up to himself as an Idol and imbraces it as his Holiness The sorrowful Soul troubles and torments it self because it cannot presently in the point of its des●…re dig up in it self the Fountain o●… the greatest Joy it sighs and bewails its sa●… condition thinks God will have none of it when it cannot palpably feel his presence it sees other men that walk along with it in God's fear that yet are cheer●…ul enough and supposing this cheerfulness of theirs proceeds only from a divin●… Fountain of Love and Light in their Souls is concei●…ed that 〈◊〉 is not accepted with God but rather rejec●…d by him because 〈◊〉 doth no●… presently upon its Conversion which it expected feel in its Heart the like comfortable effects of the refreshing presence of God. Before the time of m●… enlightning it went even thus with me I stood out a hard conflict before I obtained my precious Crown of Victory and then did I first learn out this experimental knowledge th●…t God dwells not in the outward fl●…shly Heart but in the Soul's centre in himself then was I also first aware of it that ' 〈◊〉 God which had laid hold on me and drawn me to him in my first desire which before I was ignorant of thinking the good desire had been my own Property and th●… God was indeed far from me But afterw●…rds I saw him and rejoyced at the unspeakable Grace and Love of God and now write the same for a Caveat that they by no means fain●… or di●…ir when the Comfor●… del●…ys his coming but rather think of that of Davi●… Heaviness may endure for a Night but Joy cometh in the Morning Have a cer●…ain assured con●…idence upon Gods promise and however thy mis-giving Heart say No yet let not this asfright thee For to believe is not to be filled with Joy in the fles●…ly Heart and outwar●… Complexion that the fleshly mind and spirit be so jocond that the very Heart and R●…ins leap fo●… joy this is not Faith but these are only some Love-em●…nations from the holy Ghost within a divine lightning which hath no s●…ability but after a short resplendance disappears For God dwells no●… in the outward Heart or Complexion but in himself in the second centre in the Jewel of the noble Image of God's likeness which is hidden in this outward world Dear Soul think no other when the anxious property of thy Complexion thus kindled by the Stars begins to move but that thou then stands as a Labourer in God's Vineyard thou must not stan●… idle but be working thou dost God ●…herein a great and very considerable piece of Service and t●…y labour is this th●…t thou overcome the Temptation by an unmoveable Faith however no comfort appear in the outward Heart to support it be not deceived 't is not Faith to give a●…nt to what I see and feel but this is Faith to trust the hi●…den Spirit and believe the truth of its words maugre all the Contradictions of blind Nature The Soul that 〈◊〉 lockt up in the dark Chamber of the Melancholy Complexion should not dwell long or scarce at all in Speculations about the wrath of God nor give it self much to solitude but rather spend its time in Godly Conferences For so the matter of those friendly and profitable yielding sufficient entertainment to the working Phansie 't is by this means handsomly diverted from its torturing Cogitations For no deep speculation is in this state prositable for it which seeing it cannot turn it to its health and comfort 't is better let it alone Also the Melancholy Mind should with great care avoid Drunkenness for when the Body thus loads it self with Drink then the earthly power of the Drink taketh the Complexion Chamber totally in then do●… the Soul with the Imagination to its great hurt feed upon the earthly Prop●…rty kindles its Fire therewith and rejoyceth for 〈◊〉 short time in it But when that man becometh sober again after his Drink then stands the poor Soul as most desolate and more then ever forsaken of God for it loses in the overflowing of th●… earthly Property the divine Imagination and Desire for th●… Spirit of God will not have his dwelling in the earthly Imagination I speak it as a most certain ●…ruth which I have 〈◊〉 well grounded knowledge of in the centre of Nature and deepest Principle of Life The Soul must be content to remain in Sorrow for a little time for while it sits contentedly in the House of Mourning it is not in the House of Sin. But alas what is it How soon will it be at liberty from its sorrowful Prison and have the victorious Crown of everlasting Joy set upon in Head O Eternity thy duration is of vast extent What is it for a Soul to be a small moment in sadness