(Octob. 26. 1679.) I feel the Divine Agent, that works mightily in Holy separated Souls and Minds, driving on to make way for what is yet behind, in reference to the manifestation of that Kingdom, which now the Lord is about to restore in his Saints: and therefore gives forth fresh and lively Ideas of it, that pure Minds may be excited to look for its coming in their New Earth and Heavens, which are to be garnished as with Purity, so with Dominion and Power, even the risen Body of the Holy Spirit, which must restore all things which have been in Confusion. Now what goeth before to make ready for this, hath been * already set down by the Golden Pen [Margin note: * The Heavenly Cloud.], which is dipped in the springing Unction: to which more considerable Revelations are added by him, who saith, He is come to make all things New; being ready to give forth the Promise of the Father, in the Ministration of the everlasting Gospel. I say, the faithful Witness, and Ground of all Mysteries, minded me of his Charge to his Disciples, when he was to disappear as to the Outward, viz. That they should wait at Jerusalem [Margin Note: Acts 1:4], the holy City, in Harmony, Concord and Oneness of Mind, with great confidence and love to each other. A deeper search the holy One doth make in them, who in this last Age are waiting to be endowed with the full acting Body of the Deity: which will be manifested in a different manner, than in the days of the Apostles, that being by way of Gift, coming down as a Shower; but now those who shall be endowed with this signal Blessing, must have it by way of a Birth in them. The Apostles were to wait at Jerusalem, which was a Figure of the Principle of Light, where all Natures and Properties are harmoniz’d to an equal Temperature, all Faculties are spiritualiz’d and purged from their Drossiness, and so reconciled to each other in a sweet Love-Accord. It is plainly shewed me, that the holy Spirit will have its Birth in a peaceable Habitation, where the conquering Life of Jesus, by his Dying and Rising, hath first made its way by reconciling the Properties of Nature, and bringing them to a divine Harmony; by which he reneweth Nature into a soft and sweet Mildness, causing all Contrarieties of Spirit to cease, by subduing it to the Light-Principle. Wherefore it is but in vain to expect the Establishment of that Kingdom, which the Birth of the holy Spirit will bring to us, till this Thorow Work be wrought, that we come to Unity in our Selves, and with one Another, which is a very high Perfection. And truly, from hence I have been informed where the Birth of Power hath stuck, and why so many fruitless Births have been brought forth: Wherefore, let not our bribed Senses, or the Spirit of Unbelief, so far delude us, to make us believe, that the Holy Spirit will open its Birth, but according to what hath been by the Lord himself revealed.
But it may be objected, That if the Terms be so hard, it looks as an Impossibility to obtain it, because nothing of the evil Qualities, and striving Properties must remain, which are not quite allayed in any, but may be stirred up again into Motion. Pray therefore let us know what Provision hath been revealed against this, that it may beget a Hope and Belief in those who are yet in the Division and Strife; (the Good warring against the Evil, and the Evil against the Good,) being divided betwixt the Night and the Day, as even the greatest Saints are.
For Answer to this Objection be it known; the Spirit of the Lord hath searched and found out a Cure, which will bring the broken and divided Estate of the first Adamical Birth into Unity, Harmony, and pure Liberty. I shall, as I am able, bring it forth in the same Model it was given to me, from a true seeing Glass; by which I was directed to fathom the deepest Ground of my Eternal Soul: and to find out its true Essential Properties, as they were derived from the unmixed Purity of the pure Element. This pure Eternal Living Soul, thus breathed by God, into an Angelical Image, and formed into an Organical Body from the one pure Element, was to be seen in the first Paradisiacal Man: But when Lucifer prevailed, by darting in his Hellish Fire, it left such a Sting, which hath poysoned all the inward Essences of every Immortal part; and therefore the Wound is found so deep that no Medicine can be found to reach it but Christ, the in-breathed Word: who only can reach the Soul’s original Ground [Margin note: Ephes. I.10] and being the Creating Fiat can alone make all New again, according to the highest Uniformity of the express Deity. And this cometh first to be known in a fiery Ray of Love-Light, that discovers where the Root of Sin doth lie; and so when the Spirit of the Soul comes, by the Word of Life, to understand its own Original; and by what Means it hath been corrupted and captivated, it is made full-willing and eager to strike in with that Christ, which ariseth from the Centre-Light in its own Soul, to redeem and reconcile all to himself, that was alienated from him in the Birth of Strife. Thus Christ in us, is our Peace indeed, who hath made of both, and all, one New Creature; having abolished the Law of Enmity, blotting and rooting out Sin, by the same degrees as his own righteous Nature enters in, which restores all peaceable Concord. So that the Spirit, who is made Partaker of this Gift of God, hath put on Royal Liberty: and being clothed with Christ’s Essential Body, finds it self unloaded of all Sinful Weights, and moves swiftly in the Circle of Light, and runs its Races through the unknown Spaces and Christalline Sphears; where other Worlds do appear, with all their Glorious Objects, Ranks and Orders. Which must needs make this World look base and vile to a Soul that is come naked and free out of the original Womb; as begotten again from the Dead, rising in a perfect clarified Body of Light, and being quite recovered from that desperate lapsed State that would have sunk the Soul into everlasting Death.
Thus you see by what Means the disagreeing Properties of Nature may come to be harmoniz’d, as in the beginning: God must become Man, and by his consuming fiery Property destroy original Sin; which is the first Engine that moves the Wheel of Strife and Division in the Soul: Which Fire is God’s choice Instrument, when set and turned by his hand, who gave it a Being out of * Eternal Nature [Margin note: *What is here to be understood by Eternal Nature, and how to be taken in a sound Sense, may be seen at large in an Admirable Piece, called Theologia Mystica, or the Mystick Divinity of the Eternal Invisibles. by J.P. M.D. Printed in 8ov. Anno 1683. the very same Year with the First Edition of This: but a little sooner.], into which it must be dissolved again, that it may be a meet Instrument for the Holy Spirit to play such Tunes, and Triumphant Sounds, and teach such new Lessons, as have not hitherto been understood. All which shall be made good when the Soul shall be brought forth as a well tuned Instrument, new strung & qualified, in the deified Man; wherein 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 will bring with him: Even so Amen.
[Novem. 15. 1679] This Instruction being so immediately from the Lord, carried great Weight with it, and made me to 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 sat 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 Spirit’s coming, than a Preparation for it.
Thus was I puzzled, 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 Lord’s 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 in these 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 hath 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.
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