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[January 2d. 1682.] MUch and free Communication I had with the Lord this Night, and a Cloud of Light appeared in me, which raised my hope higher; I had also many Queries satisfied. Then there appeared to me a pitched Standard, which reached from the Earth to the Heavens, where its top was hid; it resembled a strait ascending Flame; and it was signified, that this was the Standard of Overcoming Power, which no earthly Warrior would venture to engage with; for its Dominion reached from the Earth to the Heavens; and this Word was added, Stick close to it, and move not from under it, for it will be a shelter from the Storm which is coming on, with a flowing Sea of Troubles, raised by the wrathful One, whose Kingdom is Division. This Motto and Inscription also was given out from the Sealed Book Within, as follows: In Christ I live, in Christ I dye, that I may cease from Sin, and beastial Properties: that so the first Ground of Life may rise over all, to immortalize the Reign of Christ. Words no more as empty Sails spread out shall be, but become the Thundering Air of an Almighty Power, which is Christ in his Essential Spirit, who wonders from the Heights above and Depths below, will in his time shew: Look and read the circle Line, and the most marvelous things may further know and find. Upon some inward Conference, a little after with my Lord about the Shipwreck’d-Bark of Nature, which still upon the foreign Coast doth lie, and is often in Jeopardy by reason of some Tides, which might make the Vessel spring-a-Leek; the Lord did immediately come in with these Words, saying, Make reflection, and ponder well my Grace and Love, which hath been so great, as to lay in my Life so deep with thine; that thou canst suffer nothing but I do call it mine. Thy broken Vessel shall be renewed into its Original: when all of sinful Properties shall be drowned in the Alpha and Omega, who is the beginning and the end of Time; and who will open the sealed Mine, where the unsearchable Riches shall freely abound, even as in the state of Innocency, where nothing of necessity or want was known: All this going on, and advancing in the moving Circle of the Deity; all that is required of thee, is to be steady in the highest float of Faith. My Spirit was then let down into the deep Center and Circumference, where the personal Glory met me, with whom I had great Felicity, to behold the Shepherd with his Fold, who friendly saluted me; for though a naked Spirit, I was not despised by such dignified bodies; though I was made very sensible of the want of such a glorious Body. And as soon as I desired it, I was forthwith * imbodyed as in the same Glory, and was joined to the Heavenly Train. [Margin note: * This is to be understood, carried up in a Spiritual Transportation.] I rejoyced greatly that I had made a slip out of the vile Garment, though but for a while, though I was to take it up again, and appear amongst the Inhabitants of Time, till my course was fulfilled. This bright Cloathing is only bearable by Jerusalem Natives: And though these were the all-desirable Flocks, that I would chuse to abide withal forever; yet I found a prohibition at the present, that it must not be desired. This royal Priestly Garment being reserved till we be called into the immediate View, and have Communion with the most Holy of Beings: who did not bring me hither to send me away empty; but gave me the taste of the choice Fruits of that unknown Climate. The refreshing taste of which is left upon the Center-Mouth of my Heart: From whence the Life-Fruits should spring evermore, as was said to me; with an Advertisement to wait till Wisdom’s Garden in the Soul be planted, and richly furnished with those blossoming Powers that may draw the high and lofty One to look down and walk there. Oh! what are these forcible Powers which I feel winding my Spirit deeper in; where Inquiry was made, What would be the sign of the Center-dwellers in the most Holy of Beings, which should need no Witness from Man, (for that was poor and insufficient)? Wherefore be quiet and still, and cease from all Creaturely Evidence, and look for the Witness of the unsealed Book, to exert the seven flowing Properties of the Holy Ghost, which will out-vive all worded Testimonies that are so fluent in this Age: Wherefore a more sure Seal is provided, that will remove all Doubts and Suspicions, of which festival Cup I was called to drink, from the hand of him who is appointed to fill it out, as the last and great Reserve, which shall silence all Controversies, and doubtful Disputations, and ratifie and confirm who they are that are Born again to act, move and live from a new generating Spring, that worketh away every thing that defiles, and makes obstruction: Which seven evidencing Powers were revealed to me, in which the Personal Reign of Christ would consist.

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