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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95810	Unpremeditated thoughts of the knowledge of God, whom to know, is life eternal. With some discoveries of the mysteries of creation, in the six days work, and the seventh days rest. : To which is added, a short discourse concerning those two great principles of natural philosophy, matter and motion. / Humbly offered to consideration, by one of the Philadelphia Society, who calls her self Irena.	Institut de recherches européennes sur les noblesses et aristocraties.	1697 (1697)	Wing U92A; ESTC R185871	42,220	173

a Woman in Governing a Family which is usually allowed them is Honourable and Comfortable if it is faithfully and prudently managed But Women are capable of other Employments than these Their Mother Wisdom who hath builded her House and hewn out her seven Pillars hath called simple ones to come in hither and she doth not exclude Females but they may receive the Law from her Mouth she will open her hid Treasures to them and shew them that Wisdom is better than Gold yea than much fine Gold better than Rubies that the Merchandise is better than Silver and the gain thereof than much fine Gold If Man did but know himself he would soon find Wisdom's Golden Mine If Man did but know and would consider his Divine Original his admirable Make in his Paradisical state that his outward Form was so lovely his Noble Soul was easily seen through it surely he would not behave himself unseemly towards his own Body which is a Temple for the holy Ghost to dwell in as the blessed Apostle tells us And did Man and Woman consider though now they are in a distinct Existence they were once One and when they are United in Marriage come to be so again surely they would behave themselves well in that Relation each in love and honour esteeming the other especially let the Woman be careful to perform her Duty for she was first in the Transgression she hath the more need to watch and pray that she enter not into Temptation When this Relation is thus lived in with this regard to themselves and one towards another it is a holy happy state and if ye be holy the Apostle tells us then are your Children also holy Jacob Behm that enlightened man saith Endeavour to get your Children good Souls This state so lived in is not unbecoming a Paradisical state and certainly entails a great Blessing upon Posterity But notwithstanding there is an Excellency in the Paradisical state yet the Heavenly is most Excellent wherein there is neither Male nor Female Bond nor Free but we are all one in Christ Jesus Our blessed Saviour tells us In Heaven there is neither Marrying nor giving in Marriage but we shall be like the Angels in Heaven And as all Variety proceeds from Unity so they must return to Unity again Christ himself shall deliver up the Kingdom to the Father and God shall be all in all Unity is the Beginning and End of all things and Rest is the Beginning and End of all things which leads me to the Seventh Day 's Rest The Evening and the Morning was the Sixth Day Now let all Creatures praise the Lord my Soul shall bless him while I have a being Glory to him that sits upon the Throne for ever and ever Amen Hallelujah The Lord Omnipotent reigns Let the Earth rejoyce and the multitude of Isles be glad Rejoyce O my Soul Rejoyce in the Lord evermore The Wise Mans Sixth Day is When his Work comes to Animality shall I say It hath then a Paradisical Body and rather more then so for it can penetrate Bodies and it is not the Property of Bodies to have Penetration of Dimensions But draw a Vail here lest Unhallowed Hands Touch or their Eyes See Whoever is a thirst let him come If he is not athirst for Gold but for Wisdom he will find Wisdom's House Open to Receive the Hungry and Thirsty And for such she hath prepared a Feast she hath mingled her Wine and made ready her Delicacies The Internal Sixth Day 's Work is When we come to the state of Manhood To be a Man in Christ Jesus is a blessed happy state nay to be a Babe in Christ is so but much more to be a strong Man There is Food prepared for all these states Milk for Babes Meat for Men strong Meat for strong Men when we grow up to the measure of the stature appointed to us in Christ Jesus All true Life and growth is from our being united to Jesus Christ our Head who will perfect and compleat his Body Now to our blessed and glorious JESUS who is able to perfect what concerns us and to sanctifie us wholly in Soul Body and Spirit To Him be Glory Honour and Praise for ever He will in his own time bring us to the Day of Rest the perfect Number Seven And God Rested the Seventh Day So God blessed the Seventh Day and hallowed it This Seventh Day was a Day without Clouds It is not said of the Seventh Day The Evening and the Morning were that Day as it was said of the First and so on to the Sixth Indeed the Natural Day that appears to this lower World is as other Days and to those who dwell in the mixtures of Light and Darkness Good and Evil nay they love Darkness rather than Light to them this Day hath not much more in it than other Days But the All-glorious God tho' he condescended to work and operate in this Principle wherein is some mixture of Darkness and we cannot but say God was in the Darkness yet he dwells not in the Darkness he dwells in the Light he Rests there he entred into his own Light Principle and Rests there God is Light and in him is no Darkness at all He is Love Anger is his strange Work so it should be with his Children Anger rests in the Bosom of Fools If a Prophet or Prophetess have a Command from God to go forth with a Message of Wrath a Denuntiation of Threatning they must be obedient but they must not rest in it they must not stir up the Wrath they must rather qualifie it with the Meek Love of JESUS there they may Rest in him they find Rest to their Souls I did in the beginning of my Writings say something as I was enabled of the Rest and Repose of the glorious Deity before his going forth into Manifestation or Operation It was then and is now an harmonious Stillness a sweet Repose only now there is an Additional Joy The Lord saw his Works and they were all very good He was pleased to behold his Works having so much of his own Image of Goodness in them this causeth Joy in God himself And tho' Sin did Cloud and Vail this Image yet the Lord in infinite Mercy and Wisdom did by Jesus Christ restore the faln Creation of Man break down the middle Wall of Partition not only between Jew and Gentile but between God and Man And our blessed Lord Jesus himself is the New and Living Way by which we enter in within the Vail now When one Sinner returns there is Joy in Heaven over one Sinner that repents and the Father receives the Prodigal with Joy till at last the whole Work shall be accomplished and every Creature of things in Heaven things on Earth and under the Earth shall bless and praise the Lord for ever O what a blessed Sabbath will that be But who can express any thing of it Only the Lord makes a poor weary

thee shall be called the Son of God This answer Mary could only receive by Faith and Intellectual Light And to strengthen her Faith he further tells her With God all things are possible What our Belief commonly called the Apostles Creed saith of this Mystery is very Excellent that he was conceived by the Power of the holy Ghost in the Womb of the Virgin Mary Doubtless the Substance of the Virgins own Body was the purer for her being a Virgin and a holy Woman yet it was much purer when the holy Ghost came upon her the Spirit of the living and Eternal God the Virgin Wisdom the true Virgin Mother did not as in the Birth of the World produce the Substance purely from her self this would have been Creation but the holy Ghost did penetrate the Substance of the Virgin and did purify and rarisy it that it was a holy Thing indeed that was born of her It was a great Honour and Priviledge the Virgin Mary was made Partaker of and doubtless a good measure of the Spirit of God did abide upon her but this power of the Spirit did not rest upon her but it did abide upon that holy thing which was born of her our blessed Lord Jesus Now this miraculous Work the Conception of our Lord is the second time the Spirit of God the holy Ghost performed the Office of a Mother in such an immediate and extraordinary manner and as the Conception was wonderful so doubtless the Thing conceived was extraordinary the Body of our Lord was a very pure and in a great measure a spiritual Body and yet a true Body for no Substance is the less true but the more so for being Spiritual The World and all things in it as it came immediately from the Spirit of God in its first Creation was very good and therefore true and substantial for nothing can be Good but what is True And now I see how Truth Being and Goodness are One Words I have before heard but never understood till now After the Fall Man and the whole Creation sunk more deep into Materiality but thereby did not become a more real and substantial Being but a more shadowy one as it went farther from the Light Now Matter when it is most dark shadowy and at a distance is capable of being reduc'd to a spiritual state by the Power of God through the Merits of Christ by the Operation of his Spirit for he shall change our vile Bodies and make them like his glorious Body Wonderful changes do pass upon Matter in this lower World by Natural Productions and Alterations and also by Artificial ways As I my self have seen and handled Matter changed from putrified vile stinking to beautiful sweet and in a degree rarified and refined and I believe far greater things of this kind may be performed than I have yet seen And I know Substances freed in any degree from the clogs of Materiality may perform extraordinary things How much more might the Body of our Saviour that never was so strongly fettered perform Wonders while he was on Earth in the Body after his Resurrection and now since his Ascension especially being in all these various states united to his Divinity The Body of our blessed Saviour is now in the blessed State of Glorification and I will not dispute what he can do but I do not at all believe he will change this most glorious bright shining Body of his into Flesh Blood and Bone and give it us to eat and to drink raw whole with I know not how many Absurdities that some profest Christians dare to mention but I hope this is far from any to believe there is no need of this the Flesh profits nothing the Spirit quickens and except we do eat the Spiritual Flesh and drink the Spiritual Blood of Christ we have no part in him Not Flesh and Blood in a more gross sence than our Saviour ever had to give us but in such a sence as a spiritual Man by a spiritual Discerning may receive Lord evermore give me this Bread not only two or three times a year once a month or once a week or only in a piece of Bread so qualified and blest do I desire it but that it may be my daily Food that I may live upon it I can no more spiritually live without it a day than I can live without my daily Bread I desire continually to feed upon the hidden Manna and to drink the Wine of the Kingdom and to feel more of that blessed Promise made good in me that our blessed Jesus gave forth to those that believe on him That out of their Bellies shall flow Fountains of Living Waters I would have my spiritual Sences always exercised about spiritual Objects my Eye stedfastly fix'd on my blessed Jesus Here I must set down a Love-Desire and Breathing after Him Ah blessed Jesus Let me see thy Face Let me draw near to thy most Holy Place With Wings of Eagles let me mount on High There to behold thy Bright Divinity Tho' I am here encompassed with Clay Let me behold the Dawning of thy Day Shine forth O Lord from the Center of my Heart Let Light Divine fill me in every part O fill my Soul with thy Celestial Fire With thy pure Spirit do thou me now inspire That I may sing and bless thy Holy Name And may return to thee thy own pure Flame I will return to thee my Love my All Be always ready to obey thy Call Write in my Heart the Royal Law of Love That whilst Below I may be like those Above Whose blest Employment is to love and sing Hallelujahs to their Heavenly King Now I will joyn with this most blessed Quire With them I 'll Praise with them I will Admire O Holy Holy is the Lord for he Gives Life from Death he sets the Pris'ner free Vnbind my fetter'd Soul that it may be Above the Earth and Materiality c. Let all the People praise thee O God let all the People praise thee thy Saints shall bless thee While I have a being my Soul shall magnify thy Name thou hast done for me great things and that my Soul knows right well Tho' I am nothing nor can do nothing nor know nothing but in thee and by thee I cannot praise thee without thee thou art my Life thou hast begotten me again to a lively hope and through the Riches and free Grace of my God to a poor sinful Creature a worthless Worm to me is this Grace given to become the Child of God and to know this third and last Work of the Spirit of God in performing the Office of a Mother in making me partaker of the New Birth and to know what it is to be born again not of Water nor of Blood but of the Spirit of the living and true God Words are empty things and perish in their own sound but it is a blessed thing to be enabled with the holy Apostles to say What we

away In thy Light let me see Light Strengthen my Optick Faculty that I may look within the Vail and behold Thee Thou Sun of Suns the Brightness of the Fathers Glory I can see but little of Thee I can know but little of Thee I cannot Comprehend Thee do thou Comprehend me Surround me with thy Brightness Gather me up into thy Self that Inferiour Lights may be under my feet that I may no longer be governed by their Influences but may be under the immediate Conduct of thy Light World where they need not the Light of the Sun for thy Self is the Light thereof When shall it be said to thy Church Arise and shine for thy Light is come Even so come Lord JESUS come quickly And God said Let there be Lights in the Firmament of the Heaven to separate the Day from the Night and let them be for Signs and for Seasons c. and let them give Light on the Earth And God made two great Lights the greater Light to rule the Day the lesser Light to rule the Night He made also the Stars and God set them in the Firmament to shine upon the Earth and to rule the Night and the Day and separate the Light from the Darkness And God saw that it was good God by his Spirit made the Heavens and by his Spirit he garnished and embellished the Heavens The Firmament was before a beautiful Looking-Glass it was an admirable one indeed when the lovely Forms of Bodies of Light were to be seen in it God said Let there be Lights in the Firmament This was not only to Adorn but for many admirable Uses for Signs and for Seasons They sign and signify out much to the Inhabitants of this lower World they have a Voice to us if we could understand it there is no Tongue nor Language where their Voice is not heard but how few understand the Language They were to give Light on the Earth Light is one of the most comfortable Blessings we have it is one of the good Gifts that comes from the Father of Lights If it were ask'd Hath the Light a Father As Job was ask'd concerning the Rain We might answer It hath a Divine Original For the Firmament is a Mirror as it shews to us the Births and Representations of the upper Light World the Supercelestial Sun and Moon and Stars the seven Spirits of God the seven Golden Lamps shew themselves in their various Lights and put forth their Influences in the visible Heavens from thence they are conveyed down to our lower World and we have our Sun and Moon and Stars in the Earth we have our Sun Centralis as some Philosopher calls it I think Sandivogius Some other Enlightned Person saith There is Heaven above and Heaven beneath know this and be happy I mention this in this place because the Mineral Kingdom hath some share in this Fourth Days Work for when the Lights of the Firmament were made to shine forth being a Reflection from the most glorious Upper Light World they did not rest there so but that they put forth Themselves into a Birth into a Reflection or Mirror in this Lower World but here the Christal is so thick it is hard seeing through it the Fall hath so much mudded this Principle this Lower Earth Besides our Sun and Moon are but the Reflection of a Reflection the Shadow of a Shadow Therefore we must dig deep for this Wisdom as for hid Treasures and we shall see Wisdom hath builded her House so as to lay her seven Pillars deep in the very Foundation in the very Center of all things I was ready to wonder that the Mineral Kingdom was not described as well as the Creation of the Vegetable and Animal in this first Chapter of Genesis till my Eyes were opened to see it did belong to this Fourth Day 's Work And now I see more clearly the deep Significancy of Joseph's Blessing which hath contained in it the Sweetness of Heaven above and the Deep lying beneath the sweet Increase of the Sun and of the Moon Lord after this sight let me no more think any of thy Creatures mean or little let me be always thankful for the least of thy Favours Nothing can be little that comes from Thee thou Being of all Beings Thou hast nothing little to give All thy Works are wonderful in Wisdom hast thou made them all Thy Footsteps are glorious thy Footstool is richly adorned All thy Ways are Pleasantness all thy Paths are Peace I desire to be in Subjection to Thee thou Father of my Spirit that I may live that I may live to praise live to love and to adore thee for ever The lower Sun Moon and Stars that inhabit our Earth are for the use of Man especially a wise Man who knows their Original Nature and Use and when he intends to improve them for the health of his Body or benefit of his Estate he makes them to shine in his Firmament and they are to him for Signs and Seasons by which to govern his Work they are to enlighten his Earth to make it fruitful to bring forth their own bright Forms till his véry Earth is throughout enlightned and comes to be it self a bright shining Sun This Fourth Day 's Work is figured out in Man who is the Little World in the Frame of his outward Body as is said in the 12th of the Ecclesiastes Whilst the Sun is not dark nor the Light nor the Moon nor the Stars The Fall of Man Eclipsed the Lights and laid them liable to Darkness It entied into the very Soul and Spirit and darkned the Light there But when the Spirit of the Lord comes to work the New Birth the New Creation this Fourth Day 's Work comes to be known in the Soul O who can express the glorious Splendor if it When the Lord himself comes to be a Sun and a Shield When the Sun of Righteousness doth arise with Healing in his Wings The Dawning of this Day the Morning Redness the Sun Rising Who can express the unutterable Sweetness and Strength that is felt in the happy Soul that is thus shined upon But to have this Sun shine brighter and brighter to the perfect Day to increase into the Light of seven Days O may a poor low humble Soul that feels a little Refreshment from the Beams of this Sun lie prostrate till it feels that it is throughout penetrated and filled till it is cloathed with the Sun and hath the Moon under its Feet that it may go forth in the power of this Sun as a Giant refreshed with Wine and as a strong Man to run a Race O my Soul lie low prostrate thy self at the Feet of thy JESVS in silence wait his pleasure stir not up thy Beloved till he please He hath sometimes visited a Soul with such Favours as hath made it sing silent Waiting I do find A Treasure opens in my Mind Turn in my Soul turn in and see The fulness of

hard than hardest stones Here lies shrieking tortur'd Souls Vnder ugly Spirits Controuls Now those that thro' all this can see A lovely beauteous Harmony Must be Baptized of the Spirit And his Tincturing Love inherit The Lamb is made a Sacrifice But out of Death he does arise And in his rising gives a Spring Of Light and Life to every thing The Captiv'd Soul he did set free In Life and Immortality Such as in darkest Chains are led Are now arising from the dead To dry and ghastly Bones does give Power to Arise and Live The Tortur'd Souls he does unbind The foulest Spirits are calcin'd But now my Soul fall down and praise Before the Antient of Days The Praises of the Lamb proclaim Exalt and magnifie his Name The Holy Spirit do thou adore Who opens thus his hidden store The Three in One I 'll Celebrate All things in Love he did Create Those who are Objects now of woe They may have Cause to think it so All Creatures now bow down and fall Before the Father of us all And his high Praises with me sing Who is our Everlasting King A Short Discourse Concerning those Two Great Principles of Natural Philosophy Matter and Motion IT is the fault of many Ingenious Persons in their Discourses of Natural Things that they only Speak or Write of them in their Second Causes and not ab Origine in their first Root and Fountain the Divine Being who is the Source of all Being Blessedness and Happiness and I doubt not this hath been the fault of some who have had in their Minds a high Adoration of the Ever Blessed God Yet this neglect hath been a great Evil in Three Respects First That they have not as they ought acknowledged God in all their Ways and did not begin with him who is the Beginning of all things Secondly By this they may have misled some of the Illiterate and Unthinking World in making some ready to doubt of the First Cause because these Men who they value mention nothing of it others think ill of the Men and the Truths they Discourse of because the Ground of all Truth is left out in their Writings Thirdly This kind of Philosophy cannot be solid and substantial wanting a good Foundation I hope in what I have to say about Matter and its Diversification about Motion and the Origine Order and End of it will be all plainly deduced from the Almighty Goodness the beginning of them and return'd to him who is their Rest The Learned Mr. Boyle tells us in his Book called The Origine of Forms and Qualities that the World is made of one Universal and Catholick Matter which is a great Truth but few or none tells us what this Matter is much less what it was indeed some tells us it was Nothing why then it is so still 't is not better than in the Paradisical State of things indeed it is nothing compar'd with its Original it is nothing if it were possible to separate it from its Root but since that cannot be I will write of it as something or else my Discourse would soon be at an end for of nothing It should have but little to say Matter is a continued Emanation from the Visible Heavens which are a kind of middle Natures between Spirit and Matter they are Spirit compar'd with Matter and Matter compared with Spirit What Communications are between these middle Natures and the Glorious upper Light World I will not now Discourse but I am sure they have their Life Light Power Virtue all from thence which if the Visible Heavens did not convey to this Lower World it would be brought almost as near nothing as some Men imagine it once to have been The Scriptures teach us the best Natural Philosophy when they tell us the Light is the Life of Man and doubtless it is so of all other Creatures not by shining upon them but by shining in them being their substantial Root and Original the Sun as a second Cause was not made only to Illuminate the World to shine upon it but to be the Parent or Father of Vegetables and other Creatures that do inhabit the Earth the Sun doth impregnate and stir up the Vegetive Faculty of the Earth and causes it to bring forth first the Root of an Opacous Colour like the Earth in which it is fixt lighter than that the Stalk grows up out of the mixture of the Nitrous Azure Air and the Sulphureous Yellow Earth which being mingled causes the Verdant Stalk and Leaves and by a greater Maturation and Ripening of the Substances is produced the lovely Red or Purple the Glory of the Vegetable Kingdom How the Sun and other Luminous Bodies do produce Minerals and and are Conducive to Animal Births I shall not now Discourse each part would make a large Tract that these Congregate Bodies of Light are Conducive to the Production of things and are the most excellent active Second Causes is obvious almost to our very outward Senses but there was a time when these bright Bodies had not a Being as they now have and then they could not produce other Beings nor give Being to themselves the Light that is the Life of Man is also the Light and Life of these Creatures of this bright Sun and Moon he is a Wise and All-powerful Agent who gave them their shining and when he withdraws his Influences the Sun shall be turned into Darkness and the Moon into Blood before the great and notable Day of the Lord come as the Holy Scriptures tell us And though we have not seen this particular change here mentioned we know not how soon it may be and however we have seen enough Alterations upon the whole Face of Visible Things to make us know they are not perfect Beings and did not make themselves but are made and governed by a Perfect and Intelligent Being The Second Principle to be Discours'd of about Matter is That the great Bodies of Light and other Creatures of Bulk do consist and are made up of lesser Bodies which we may call Atoms Corpuscles or Particles these little parts of Matter have their determinate size shape scituation colour in order to constitute something of greater Bulk Beauty and Service the Texture and Joining together of these are contrived by a Wise Agent to conduce to a Noble End The motion or moving of these little Particles did at first conduce as a Second Cause to the making Varieties of Creatures and it is now highly conducing to the Changes that pass upon all material things which brings me to the Second Head of Discourse I principally intended which is to say something of Motion Matter had an Occult Principle of Motion hid in its Nature not being made of a dull insensible nothing out of I know not what imaginary empty space but was made of an active Substance yet it did not actually move in a regular determinate Motion till the Spirit of the Living God Moved upon it and