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THE
Heavenly
Cloud
Now
Breaking
.
THE
Lord
Christ's
Ascension-Ladder
Sent
down
;
To
shew
the
way
to
reach
the
Ascension
,
and
Glorification
,
through
the
Death
and
Resurrection
.
By
J.
Leade
.
JOHN
20.
Vers.
17.
—
Go
to
my
Brethren
,
and
say
unto
them
,
I
ascend
unto
my
Father
,
and
your
Father
;
to
my
God
,
and
your
God.
London
,
Printed
for
the
Author
.
1681.
The
EPISTLE
.
Grace
,
Mercy
,
Love
,
and
Peace
,
from
him
who
is
the
first
begotten
from
the
Dead
.
TO
all
of
you
who
rejoice
to
die
daily
out
of
that
Life
which
is
essenced
in
Sin
,
Curse
,
Bondage
,
and
Sorrow
,
to
such
the
following
Treatise
is
commended
;
knowing
to
no
other
it
will
be
pleasing
,
but
them
who
have
received
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
that
hath
convinced
of
the
necessity
of
dying
,
out
of
the
Body
of
Sin
,
offering
it
up
as
a
whole
burnt
Offering
upon
Christ
our
Sacred
Altar
.
Who
is
it
then
that
would
grieve
to
die
thus
,
to
become
a
living
Sacrifice
,
for
so
great
a
Joy
and
Glory
as
will
hereupon
follow
,
as
will
be
matter
of
great
encouragement
to
go
forward
on
in
spiritual
dying
till
Sin
expire
,
whereby
secured
you
will
be
from
the
Serpent's
Sting
?
Who
can
therewith
reach
no
Souls
that
are
plunged
into
this
dying
Pool
,
where
Christ
the
Lord
hath
first
moved
,
to
purchase
a
full
and
perfect
Cure
;
to
heal
every
spiritual
Malady
which
the
Soul
groaneth
under
.
For
which
end
I
am
commissionated
,
as
both
Servant
and
Friend
to
my
Lord
,
and
Heavenly
Bridegroom
,
to
invite
you
to
the
great
Supper
of
God
,
and
the
Lamb.
A
Table
here
is
furnished
,
suitable
to
four
ranks
,
and
degrees
of
Persons
and
Spirits
.
The
first
Course
that
is
set
hereupon
,
is
the
broken
,
and
crucified
Body
of
our
Lord
Jesus
.
This
is
proper
Food
for
dying
Saints
,
who
by
eating
of
this
spiritual
Flesh
,
may
come
to
have
their
own
sinful
Flesh
to
die
,
and
moulder
away
;
for
it
is
known
,
and
experienced
,
as
we
do
daily
feed
upon
a
Crucified
Christ
,
it
devours
,
and
gradually
works
away
the
life
of
Sin
,
and
all
the
evil
Effects
of
it
.
Whoso
is
wise
,
let
them
understand
,
and
find
out
this
Mystery
,
and
discern
,
and
taste
the
Lord's
Mystical
Body
;
which
being
well
digested
down
,
the
Table
is
again
spread
for
such
,
who
are
risen
from
the
Dead
.
Now
what
is
it
comes
on
here
?
behold
and
see
;
Christ
the
Lord
presents
himself
in
a
Paradisical
Body
,
and
saith
,
Children
,
here
I
give
my
risen
Body
,
as
more
powerful
,
strong
,
and
pleasant
,
to
seed
upon
:
For
you
it
is
,
who
have
not
feared
to
encounter
the
Death
.
Oh
,
what
less
is
this
,
but
the
Marriage
Feast
,
where
the
Water
is
turned
into
Wine
!
and
by
the
Governour
of
this
Feast
,
ye
are
most
earnestly
called
upon
to
eat
of
this
transmuted
Body
,
which
is
so
restorative
,
as
nothing
of
putrefaction
shall
more
be
known
in
the
Soul's
Properties
.
Such
sweetness
,
and
pleasure
there
is
in
eating
of
this
Paradisical
Body
,
that
all
other
perishing
things
are
disdain'd
,
and
put
out
of
taste
.
What
joy
now
is
it
to
God
the
Father
,
to
see
his
Table
beset
with
risen
and
spiritual
Souls
,
saying
,
hasten
and
dispatch
;
also
from
this
Degree
,
taking
off
,
and
setting
on
that
,
which
is
proper
for
Ascention
.
Here
now
Christ
the
Lord
comes
down
as
a
mighty
Eagle
,
Body
rushing
,
without
spreading
Wings
,
to
bear
and
carry
away
the
Waiters
for
Ascention
,
that
with
him
they
may
go
up
to
worship
in
the
New
Jerusalem
,
there
for
to
hold
the
seven
days
Feast
of
Tabernacles
,
with
all
high
celebration
of
praises
.
Here
you
may
believe
a
Table
is
most
richly
furnished
,
in
the
most
high
and
excellent
degree
,
for
all
of
the
Lord
Christ's
ascending
Eagles
,
which
cannot
be
satisfied
with
any
other
prey
,
but
to
feed
upon
the
glorified
Body
,
which
filled
is
with
all
the
fulness
of
God
,
which
flows
largely
into
them
,
whose
Vessels
are
here
prepared
.
Now
then
,
in
the
fourth
and
last
Ministration
,
What
may
be
expected
in
the
great
Nuptial-day
of
this
Feast
,
when
the
Holy
Trinity
shall
descend
,
in
the
ascended
Angels
of
Time
,
for
the
celebration
of
the
Marriage
with
the
Lamb
,
and
Bride
?
What
Joys
and
Glorys
are
now
renewed
?
for
now
appears
the
glorified
Person
of
Christ
,
for
a
publick
owning
of
his
ascended
Ones
;
and
crieth
,
in
his
Fathers
,
and
his
Own
,
and
Holy
Ghost's
Name
,
saying
,
These
are
those
in
whom
I
will
be
glorified
;
the
long-sealed
Fountain
is
broke
open
;
the
everlasting
Mountain
droppoth
down
the
Powers
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
Come
all
ye
who
have
laboured
and
not
fainted
,
and
have
yet
kept
up
your
Faith
till
this
day
,
you
are
those
that
are
to
be
fed
and
nourished
with
all
the
choice
and
precious
Fruits
of
the
Tree
of
Life
,
and
are
ordained
to
be
those
Josephs
that
shall
give
out
of
these
Heavenly
Stores
,
and
maintain
an
open
communit
,
to
the
thirsty
and
needy
,
that
in
a
divine
Hunger
are
,
that
they
may
also
be
enriched
,
and
partake
of
the
same
Glory
with
you
.
This
is
the
Lord
Christ's
own
Prophesy
,
now
renewed
by
his
Spirit
,
and
is
sure
and
stable
,
and
nigh
to
be
fulfilled
in
those
,
that
shall
advance
on
,
to
all
of
these
Degrees
,
that
are
mentioned
and
further
enlarged
upon
in
this
little
Treatise
following
:
For
that
Day-spring
from
on
High
,
that
hath
visited
me
,
would
not
have
me
to
conceal
those
considerable
Heavenly
Mysteries
,
that
I
have
been
taught
in
by
the
Holy
Unction
,
having
well
assured
me
,
that
there
is
a
bright
Star
that
from
Heaven
shall
descend
,
and
closly
attend
all
these
practical
and
weighty
Truths
revealed
,
and
fosten
them
with
a
Golden
Nail
,
which
shall
not
be
moved
away
;
tho
I
am
made
to
know
also
,
that
this
Divine
Ray
shall
pass
over
some
,
and
glide
away
without
making
any
impression
.
The
which
sort
I
shall
spare
to
make
mention
what
losers
they
will
be
,
by
slighting
and
neglecting
this
feastival
Invitation
;
I
shall
leave
such
to
take
what
they
will
not
care
to
find
.
But
now
to
return
to
them
who
all
desirous
are
to
taste
of
those
choice
and
heavenly
Portions
,
who
most
readily
do
embrace
their
Lord
and
Bridegroom's
Call
to
this
continued
Spiritual
Feast
.
Know
it
,
that
for
you
,
great
Things
are
prepared
in
the
New
Jerusalem
,
there
to
have
Communion
in
one
Spiritual
Body
at
one
Table
,
each
one
according
to
their
measure
,
and
degree
which
they
have
attained
unto
,
without
grudging
at
one
another
:
for
you
may
see
how
the
Lord
Christ
hath
set
himself
forth
in
a
four-fold
transmutation
in
his
heavenly
Humanity
,
for
a
feeding
and
strengthening
Life
,
to
four
sorts
and
ranks
of
Spirits
,
that
all
may
participate
according
to
their
growth
.
1.
For
new-born
Babes
.
2.
For
Children
.
3.
For
the
young
Man's
State.
4.
For
Elders
or
Fathers
,
who
are
come
to
full
and
perfect
Age
,
from
whom
may
be
expected
the
generating
Power
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
to
go
forth
for
the
replenishing
the
New
Heavens
and
Earth
.
So
as
now
ye
may
see
here
is
suitable
provision
for
every
sort
and
degree
,
according
to
their
Calling
and
Election
in
God
,
for
Communion
in
one
Body
together
.
Oh
why
should
there
then
arise
such
emulations
,
strife
,
and
spiritual
Wars
,
among
the
Heaven-born
Spirits
that
should
meet
one
another
in
Harmony
,
Love
,
and
Unity
?
Great
is
this
Evil
which
hath
,
as
a
Leprosy
,
spread
over
all
Nations
,
Kindreds
,
and
Tongues
;
and
truly
the
Infection
is
got
so
deep
in
,
as
I
see
no
cure
here
for
,
until
the
mighty
Sealing
Angels
do
come
forth
with
Viols
filled
with
the
Love
Oil
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
to
pour
forth
every-where
that
;
so
that
the
Lord
Christ's
disjointed
Body
may
come
,
Bone
to
his
Bone
,
and
Member
to
its
Member
;
for
the
which
we
shall
not
cease
to
invocate
,
and
daily
intercede
for
the
Holy
Trinity
to
hasten
the
Saints
gathering
into
this
Unity
,
for
which
a
hopeful
approach
there
is
,
which
I
in
spirit
do
see
;
for
which
end
this
is
sent
out
as
a
Pilgrim
to
find
whom
it
may
meet
with
in
this
lonely
Walk
.
Oh
how
great
would
be
our
rejoicing
,
to
meet
with
some
fellow
Travellers
herein
,
that
are
resolved
in
God's
Power
not
to
grow
weary
or
faint
,
till
they
may
reach
the
top-step
of
this
ascending
Ladder
,
that
we
may
together
be
comforted
,
supporting
each
other
,
while
in
the
travelling
way
,
still
putting
off
,
and
putting
on
our
changeable
Raiment
,
that
we
may
sit
down
at
the
great
Supper
of
the
Lamb
,
whose
Joy
will
be
so
great
,
that
as
a
Bridegroom
,
he
will
come
forth
himself
to
serve
us
,
with
the
new
Wine
of
the
Kingdom
,
that
will
spirit
us
,
for
the
great
things
that
are
to
be
brought
forth
into
manifestation
;
which
things
are
now
upon
the
working
Wheel
,
tho
it
worketh
hiddenly
in
such
chosen
Vessels
,
whom
God
will
honour
as
his
faithful
Stewards
,
being
intrusted
with
the
great
Secrets
of
his
Kingdom
.
I
shall
now
conclude
,
with
all
true
servour
of
Spirit
,
and
Love
,
for
the
effectual
operation
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
to
attend
this
whole
Matter
and
Subject
,
which
hath
been
given
forth
.
It
was
my
purpose
,
that
some
preceding
Openings
and
Revelations
given
to
me
,
should
have
been
the
first-born
in
way
of
publication
;
but
the
wisdom
and
counsel
of
the
most
High
,
hath
changed
what
was
so
intended
,
and
hath
ordered
this
first
,
as
a
preparation
for
the
other
,
which
also
in
time
may
come
forth
to
disclose
yet
more
wonderful
and
hidden
Things
,
that
have
been
under
a
Seal
,
that
shall
be
broken
up
;
for
there
is
a
ripe
Age
coming
on
that
may
be
ready
for
their
Reception
.
In
the
interim
,
I
shall
be
waiting
for
the
knowledge
of
such
as
signatured
are
with
that
high
graduated
Spirit
,
in
the
which
I
would
be
known
and
found
as
a
Friend
and
Servant
to
my
Lord
Christ
,
and
so
to
all
my
fellow
Members
,
that
wait
for
this
great
Day
of
his
appearance
in
his
Saints
.
Even
so
prayeth
yours
,
in
him
that
was
dead
,
but
now
liveth
,
for
our
springing
Life
and
Joy
evermore
.
J.
L.
The
Introduction
to
the
Spiritual
Dying
.
THe
Spirit
of
Wisdom
,
Revelation
,
and
Prophecy
,
having
been
shed
abroad
abundantly
,
to
declare
many
great
and
wonderful
Mysteries
now
in
this
last
Age
;
hath
shewn
also
,
by
the
same
Spirit
,
the
way
for
Consummation
.
The
first
passage
hereunto
,
is
through
the
Mystical
Death
,
as
the
foot-step
to
the
ascending
Mount
of
the
following
Glory
.
But
before
I
shall
proceed
upon
this
Particular
,
it
will
be
necessary
to
let
you
know
,
what
hath
occasioned
the
setting
evidently
before
your
eyes
the
crucified
Body
of
Sin.
Upon
a
deep
sense
that
opened
in
me
concerning
the
three-fold
Bondage
and
Captivity
,
which
the
Holy
and
Royal
Off-spring
of
God
are
groaning
under
,
as
to
Spirit
,
Soul
,
and
Body
;
the
which
things
I
being
well
acquainted
withal
in
my self
,
could
the
more
feelingly
deplore
and
bewail
it
,
on
the
behalf
of
all
the
Elect
Seed
of
God
:
And
truly
,
the
Spirit
of
Daniel
came
upon
me
,
and
set
it
strongly
on
work
,
and
caused
me
to
set
times
often
apart
to
lament
and
mourn
,
as
beholding
under
what
a
Law
of
Sin
and
tyrannical
Bondage
the
Saints
are
under
;
in
a
three-fold
consideration
:
The
first
from
that
old
Serpent
,
which
from
the
beginning
introduced
the
original
venom
of
Sin
,
whose
vigilance
is
to
increase
and
keep
it
stirring
;
having
great
advantage
,
being
a
potent
Prince
in
this
World
,
from
which
he
presents
all
kind
of
Temptations
to
allure
withal
,
to
prevent
the
Souls
Restauration
,
by
holding
of
it
in
the
worldly
Charms
.
The
second
Power
,
which
under
him
doth
rule
,
is
the
Beast
;
that
is
as
the
oppressing
Pharaoh
,
that
consults
to
impose
such
weights
and
burdens
as
may
wear
out
the
Saints
of
the
most
High.
The
third
is
the
Airy
Region
,
of
which
it
is
said
,
he
is
also
the
Prince
,
having
infected
it
with
his
poisonable
Influences
,
so
as
the
very
outward
Elements
are
corrupted
,
as
they
do
contact
with
our
outward
Bodies
,
bringing
them
to
know
Sickness
,
Sorrow
,
and
Death
,
with
many
other
evil
Effects
.
All
this
being
set
before
me
,
my
Soul
in
me
was
sorrowful
unto
Death
,
and
so
great
was
my
heaviness
,
as
if
the
Sin
of
the
whole
relapsed
Creation
had
been
upon
me
:
and
then
with
all
this
,
there
was
this
farther
aggravation
of
my
troubles
,
to
observe
the
Strife
,
Wars
,
and
great
Divisions
that
are
at
this
day
enkindled
among
the
Sion-Professors
,
which
is
the
greatest
Evil
under
the
Sunshine
of
the
Gospel-Dispensation
,
and
to
be
seriously
taken
in
,
and
sonowfully
to
be
bewailed
.
The
which
came
upon
me
as
a
very
burthensome
Stone
,
which
hath
lain
on
me
very
heavily
;
and
being
for
some
time
under
this
exercise
in
mind
,
and
spent
,
praying
and
pleading
with
my
God
,
very
close
and
constant
in
this
mourning
posiure
,
refusing
all
Comforts
;
behold
Michael
,
the
Prince
of
the
new
and
everlasting
Covenant
appeared
unto
me
,
speaking
in
these
words
:
I
have
seen
thy
Soul's
contrition
and
humiliation
,
for
the
oppressed
and
desolated
Daughter
of
Sion
,
whose
hurt
and
wound
lieth
still
bleeding
:
I
am
come
to
inform
thee
what
is
to
be
done
,
for
the
putting
an
end
to
all
of
this
deplorable
Captivity
,
which
hath
lasted
thus
long
,
by
reason
there
hath
been
lacking
such
Sion-Mourners
,
that
might
be
seriously
affected
,
and
inwardly
afflicted
for
that
inherent
Root
of
Sin
,
as
not
having
searched
into
the
depth
of
the
infecting
Matter
,
which
hath
leavened
the
whole
Man
,
and
kept
him
under
this
tyrannical
Servitude
.
I
have
waited
in
the
Office
of
Mediatorship
,
for
such
Soul-afflicted
Mourners
to
come
up
unto
me
,
to
spread
and
shew
me
all
their
internal
woundings
,
from
first
to
last
.
Let
it
be
known
,
that
it
hath
been
a
grief
to
my
Spirit
,
that
I
have
not
been
more
servently
sued
unto
,
and
made
use
of
for
easing
the
Burdened
;
for
there
hath
been
a
secure
carelessness
,
that
hath
made
them
carry
it
lightly
off
.
But
a
consumption
is
determined
upon
the
whole
Man
of
Sin
,
and
thou
hast
been
all
well-pleasing
unto
me
,
in
that
thou
hast
presented
the
whole
and
full
of
the
relapsed
state
,
in
a
sensible
and
sorrowful
Spirit
,
which
is
acceptable
.
I
have
also
taken
notice
of
this
trouble
and
concern
for
the
disunity
among
my
own
Sheepfold
,
whereby
they
have
rent
and
divided
me
in
Spirit
,
all
which
springs
from
the
bitter
essence
of
Sin.
Therefore
in
order
hereunto
,
do
thou
signify
what
way
must
be
followed
for
restitution
,
and
setting
together
my
disjointed
Members
;
which
cannot
be
accomplished
,
but
through
the
passage-gate
of
Death
.
Which
from
me
thou
art
commissionated
to
declare
,
as
I
have
revealed
it
to
thee
,
and
as
thou
hast
the
practical
knowledge
of
it
;
being
what
is
designed
by
the
Father
,
as
I
am
the
Way
unto
it
,
to
bring
forth
Life
,
and
Redemption
through
it
,
which
promised
was
from
the
first
wound
of
Sin
,
that
was
introduced
by
the
Serpent
into
Adam
,
which
all
fully
is
to
be
healed
by
conformity
to
the
Death
with
me
,
going
forward
in
the
four-fold
Process
;
as
the
inward
Spiritual
Death
,
Resurrection
,
Ascension
,
and
Glorification
.
This
I
leave
with
thee
first
to
publish
before
the
other
part
,
as
the
Foundation
that
must
bring
up
to
the
Top-Ladder
,
that
hath
been
given
by
Vision
and
Prophecy
,
to
see
and
understand
:
So
hereby
shall
the
utmost
Salvation
be
wrought
out
by
the
Mystery
of
Death
,
finishing
with
the
following
degrees
,
which
putteth
an
end
to
all
of
that
Evil
,
the
Fall
hath
brought
in
,
as
having
reserved
this
as
the
highest
wonder
that
is
to
be
brought
into
manifestation
.
Go
thou
on
,
nothing
doubting
,
having
Faith
in
me
,
who
will
always
be
with
thee
,
and
also
among
my
Mourning
Flock
every
where
:
Even
so
come
Lord
Jesus
.
Thus
you
are
given
to
understand
by
whom
I
am
led
forward
,
to
open
and
lay
a
sure
Foundation
for
the
new
and
heavenly
Restauration
,
even
in
that
living
Word
,
which
died
out
of
flesh
,
but
now
ceaseth
not
to
live
to
send
forth
his
renewed
Springs
,
and
is
at
hand
to
reveal
and
expound
all
things
,
which
may
gather
in
the
lost
and
scattered
Flock
,
for
the
bringing
them
into
God's
Tent
and
Tabernacle
of
Rest
,
which
only
can
be
,
by
passing
through
this
four-fold
Ministration
.
I
shall
take
them
as
they
lie
in
their
own
Degrees
and
Order
.
First
,
To
shew
what
is
a
spiritual
inward
Death
that
must
be
passed
through
,
by
such
as
do
look
for
a
reigning
Life
with
Christ.
And
for
this
,
it
cannot
be
made
out
better
,
than
that
worthy
Apostle
hath
done
it
,
as
you
will
find
in
the
sixth
and
seventh
Chapters
of
the
Romans
,
laying
down
full
and
clear
Arguments
,
shewing
the
necessity
for
a
Spiritual
Death
;
so
as
we
need
not
doubt
but
it
will
be
granted
:
in
the
next
place
we
are
to
consider
,
how
it
shall
be
effected
.
I
would
not
fright
any
,
if
I
tell
them
,
it
is
at
the
first
on-set
,
bloody
Work
:
where-ever
this
Sacrificing
Knife
doth
come
,
it
will
touch
to
the
quick
.
But
then
consider
in
whose
hand
it
is
put
;
our
Emanuel's
,
whose
love
we
may
well
confide
in
,
who
acteth
this
tragical
part
by
the
Lance
of
his
Spirit
,
and
will
fall
only
upon
the
viperous
Body
of
Sin
,
to
let
out
the
very
heart
blood
of
it
:
so
it
must
be
,
for
there
is
no
favouring
that
Life
,
that
hath
made
all
this
to
do
,
as
in
reference
to
God
and
our selves
,
spoiling
and
defacing
that
pure
Angelical
Image
,
in
which
the
most
Holy
One
took
such
delight
to
see
his
own
Similitude
in
;
But
now
so
changed
,
that
it
may
give
God
cause
of
repentance
,
that
ever
he
made
such
an
unstable
Creature
to
grieve
his
Spirit
;
upon
which
account
we
must
be
driving
out
from
his
Face
and
Presence
,
to
live
in
that
awakened
Principle
of
Good
and
Evil.
But
here
is
a
Door
of
Hope
opened
for
such
as
are
weary
and
oppressed
,
and
are
willing
to
give
up
their
whole
degenerated
Life
unto
Death
.
But
you
will
say
,
If
we
must
suffer
at
this
rate
;
to
what
end
did
the
Lord
Christ
offer
himself
as
a
Propitiation
for
Sin
,
in
his
own
Person
,
if
our
sinful
Life
must
go
also
for
it
?
In
answer
to
this
,
take
notice
,
That
tho
our
Lord
Christ
was
made
a
visible
Sacrifice
for
Sin
;
yet
he
never
intended
that
should
excuse
any
one
of
his
Members
from
a
conformity
and
fellowship
with
him
in
his
Death
,
knowing
his
Death
for
us
would
not
do
alone
,
without
coming
by
his
Spirit
,
to
put
the
Sin
to
death
in
our
Flesh
;
and
so
jointly
he
becometh
Salvation
to
the
utmost
,
he
having
no
sin
to
put
to
death
in
his
own
Body
,
and
so
was
a
living
Type
and
Example
for
us
to
follow
.
But
it
may
be
still
objected
,
Who
is
able
to
go
through
such
a
full
and
total
death
,
to
all
that
infection
of
sin
,
which
the
first
Adam
brought
in
?
We
must
say
,
No
one
is
sufficient
,
but
the
mighty
God
and
Saviour
,
as
by
his
Spirit
coming
to
incarnate
himself
in
our
Flesh
,
who
hath
the
Key
that
openeth
this
mystical
Gate
of
Death
,
and
thereby
to
pass
us
through
the
Vail
of
the
Flesh
:
And
for
your
comfort
know
,
he
goeth
not
to
work
violently
all
at
once
,
but
considers
our
mold
and
frame
,
and
allures
the
Soul
into
it
by
degrees
,
shewing
and
setting
before
it
the
absolute
necessity
for
it
,
forcing
all
of
love-incitements
to
follow
him
in
this
track
of
dying
,
despising
the
shame
and
contempt
of
it
,
as
by
Faith
seeing
what
glory
,
honour
,
and
immortality
of
Life
with
Christ
will
ensue
hereupon
.
This
is
then
only
our
business
,
to
intervert
our
Life
into
Christ
our
Lord
,
for
him
to
offer
it
up
in
us
,
through
his
Eternal
Spirit
,
as
he
did
in
his
own
personal
Body
,
who
laid
it
down
freely
:
so
now
he
wooeth
the
Soul
to
a
voluntary
assignment
of
the
whole
Man
of
Sin
for
expiation
;
so
that
when
the
Heart
and
Will
is
gained
and
brought
over
,
dying
Work
will
not
be
so
grievous
and
terrible
,
as
many
have
feared
:
I
can
assure
you
,
from
my
own
experience
,
having
been
long
and
deeply
exercised
herein
,
knowing
that
great
comforts
and
supports
will
meet
you
in
your
dying
Agonies
,
through
internal
infusions
,
that
may
be
felt
as
a
burning
Spirit
that
runneth
into
every
part
,
till
it
giveth
ease
to
the
burthened
in
sin
,
and
will
not
leave
it
,
while
there
is
any
thing
of
an
evil
essence
remaining
,
if
the
Soul
agrees
and
gives
consent
thereunto
.
And
truly
,
a
well-informed
Soul
,
that
lies
under
any
powerful
constraint
of
Christ's
Love
,
can
do
no
less
,
but
herewithal
comply
,
and
deliver
up
the
accursed
Thing
;
and
when
it
cometh
to
this
,
what
a
hopeful
dispatch
will
there
be
for
the
cutting
off
every
Member
in
the
Body
of
Sin
?
O
,
where
shall
we
find
a
wise
and
valiant
Jael
to
smite
Sisera
,
aiming
at
the
Head
,
Life
,
the
very
Root
of
Sin
in
its
original
!
Oh
,
how
do
I
hear
the
echo
of
some
good
willing
Spirit
about
me
,
thus
saying
,
Seeing
you
have
presented
the
necessity
of
Crucifixion
,
and
the
great
benefits
thereof
;
and
have
rightly
placed
the
Lance
of
Death
,
as
in
the
hand
of
him
that
hath
given
such
a
full
proof
of
his
love
and
naturalness
unto
the
fallen
Off-spring
of
Adam
,
We
have
now
an
open
Ear
to
hear
further
what
the
Particulars
are
we
must
die
unto
,
and
I
most
readily
shall
herewith
comply
;
as
from
the
Center
of
Light
,
and
experimental
Knowledg
,
give
forth
a
Narrative
hereof
,
as
reducing
this
inward
Death
to
three
several
Branches
.
As
first
,
The
Animal
,
Rational
,
Sensitive
Life
.
Proceed
we
to
the
first
of
these
,
which
is
the
more
gross
and
right-down
earthly
Life
,
consisting
of
a
beastly
Nature
,
of
bruitishness
and
worldly-mindedness
;
loving
and
embracing
the
vain
empty
Honours
and
Riches
of
this
Principle
;
bringing
forth
such
cursed
and
vile
Fruits
as
these
,
namely
,
Arrogancy
,
and
an
Evil
Covetousness
,
Self-promotion
,
Wrathfulness
,
Slandering
,
Revengeful
,
and
Evil
Surmisings
,
Cruelty
,
Oppression
,
Unmercifulness
,
with
much
more
of
this
kind
;
all
which
is
to
be
most
deeply
deplored
,
that
such
a
Life
as
this
should
shew
its
face
,
where
any
thing
of
a
God
is
known
,
and
a
Christ
revealed
,
for
redemption
out
of
all
these
bitter
Fruits
;
and
that
instead
of
dying
out
of
them
,
there
is
a
living
in
them
;
and
so
becoming
insensible
of
their
Weights
,
Fetters
,
and
Chains
,
all
which
is
a
most
dangerous
state
to
continue
in
,
and
not
to
make
haste
to
die
out
of
them
.
But
we
are
persuaded
better
things
of
them
,
who
are
enquiring
to
find
out
the
Passage-gate
of
Death
,
knowing
they
dare
not
allow
themselves
to
live
in
any
one
of
these
,
but
as
any
matter
of
this
kind
does
spring
unwillingly
,
for
to
Arraign
,
Judg
,
Condemn
,
and
deliver
up
unto
the
piercing
Nail
of
the
Cross
,
as
a
testimony
that
they
have
abrogated
the
gross
Evils
,
and
will
not
cherish
and
harbour
what
the
Serpent
will
hereby
challenge
place
in
the
Soul's
Essence
,
and
will
keep
his
Hold
;
Therefore
on
that
Men
in
good
earnest
to
die
,
will
neither
touch
,
taste
,
nor
handle
any
of
these
poisonable
Fruits
.
Now
we
proceed
to
the
Rational
Life
,
which
is
reckoned
to
be
a
wise
,
sober
,
righteous
Life
,
and
therefore
not
to
be
laid
aside
;
being
as
a
King
that
would
govern
the
whole
concerns
of
the
Soul
,
both
as
to
heavenly
and
earthly
Things
,
determining
all
Matters
and
Causes
.
Why
then
it
may
be
alleadged
,
if
he
be
such
a
prudent
Ruler
,
What
Exceptions
have
you
against
him
,
that
he
must
fall
under
Death
?
But
know
it
,
from
the
Lord
,
and
that
of
a
truth
,
that
the
Serpent
lies
more
hid
in
this
than
the
other
.
It
is
in
some
,
as
a
grand
Idol
set
up
in
the
room
of
God
:
Nay
,
it
is
so
subtil
in
its
Counsel
,
as
you
can
hardly
know
it
from
the
true
and
superior
Wisdom
;
for
it
will
have
Righteousness
for
its
Covering
.
Therefore
none
,
but
a
high
enlightned
,
and
well-instructed
Soul
in
God
,
can
have
a
right
discerning
of
this
great
Supplanter
.
And
that
he
may
be
known
so
to
be
,
here
is
a
first
and
second
Charge
brought
in
against
him
.
First
,
Although
it
may
be
granted
,
that
he
carries
an
appearance
for
God
,
and
eternal
Things
,
and
that
with
Zeal
too
;
yet
there
is
such
a
near
alliance
to
the
worldly
Interest
,
and
earthly
Property
,
as
there
will
be
a
holding
fast
in
the
mixed
Property
,
putting
heavenly
Things
in
one
Scale
,
and
earthly
Things
in
the
other
:
if
they
can
go
upon
even
ballance
,
then
the
Rational
Spirit
carries
all
smoothly
,
as
wise
in
his
Generation
,
not
being
willing
to
lose
his
part
,
either
for
Spirituals
,
or
Temporals
;
but
the
worldly
Interest
shall
be
sure
to
be
followed
close
.
For
if
they
cannot
consist
together
,
but
the
one
must
be
laid
down
,
then
Wise
rationality
will
soon
shew
himself
that
his
Birth
is
but
from
the
Astral
Region
,
it
is
of
no
higher
descent
,
but
from
the
Womb
of
fallen
Time
,
and
therefore
a
Spirit
not
to
be
trusted
.
The
second
Charge
we
bring
in
against
the
Rational
Life
,
is
the
great
Enmity
,
that
he
stands
in
to
the
Spirit
of
Faith
,
which
curbs
and
nips
it
in
its
first
buddings
.
For
as
long
as
degenerated
Reason
lives
,
this
Plant
can
never
thrive
or
prosper
;
for
it
is
ever
more
casting
in
choaking
Doubts
,
as
in
the
case
of
Nicodemus
,
How
can
a
Man
be
born
again
that
is
old
?
And
as
in
Elisha's
Time
,
when
the
Famine
was
so
grievous
in
Samaria
;
the
Prophet
then
declaring
,
how
Scarcity
should
suddenly
be
turned
into
Plenty
;
the
unbelieving
Lord
of
Reason
presently
stands
up
,
If
God
should
make
Windows
in
Heaven
,
can
this
be
?
so
as
unbelief
prevented
him
from
seeing
the
Accomplishment
.
So
it
doth
at
this
day
;
therefore
if
we
would
have
any
great
and
wonderful
thing
effected
,
either
for
Time
or
Eternity
,
we
must
shut
out
Reason
as
a
treacherous
Counsellor
;
and
there
is
no
way
,
but
to
give
him
up
for
spiritual
Martyrdom
,
for
the
sharp
Ax
of
the
spirit
to
do
execution
upon
him
.
But
you
will
say
,
This
is
too
severe
a
Judgment
wholly
to
cut
him
off
;
for
he
may
be
regenerated
,
and
made
subordinate
to
the
Life
of
Faith.
That
indeed
may
be
allowed
upon
the
Animal
Man's
Account
,
to
order
and
govern
those
low
and
terrestrial
Affairs
,
which
the
fallen
State
hath
necessitated
into
,
if
he
may
be
bounded
there
,
but
not
to
clime
higher
:
For
in
no
case
must
he
be
admitted
,
as
to
the
inward
and
sublime
Matters
of
the
Spirit
,
and
Soul
,
because
the
way
of
its
Restoration
depends
so
much
upon
Faith
,
which
crosseth
the
who●e
course
and
grain
of
Reason
.
All
his
refining
and
regenerating
,
can
never
make
him
serviceable
to
help
the
Soul
towards
its
translation
for
degrees
of
Perfection
,
its
Birth
being
of
an
incredulous
Nature
,
looking
hereupon
as
unattainable
for
the
Soul
to
regain
what
it
hath
lost
;
so
here
is
enough
to
lay
him
aside
for
in
all
spiritual
Matters
:
For
as
Rationality
was
not
in
Adam
before
his
relapse
,
so
he
had
no
occasion
to
use
subtilty
or
craft
,
all
things
were
provided
to
his
hand
.
So
now
in
the
way
of
our
return
to
the
more
transcendent
Liberty
and
Glory
,
for
which
the
Holy
Ghost
operating
in
the
power
of
Faith
to
perfect
,
will
admit
to
have
nothing
contributed
from
the
Rational
Spirit
.
Nay
,
the
time
is
coming
,
when
he
shall
also
be
put
out
of
his
Stewardship
for
the
very
outward
Man
;
for
it
is
very
rare
to
find
a
just
Steward
in
the
use
of
this
worldly
Mammon
.
And
therefore
God
will
settle
the
Power
for
all
blessing
and
increase
for
the
bodily
requirings
upon
the
Spirit
of
Faith
;
as
that
in
the
Saints
shall
get
up
to
its
superiority
,
all
of
the
worldly
Goods
which
now
are
ingrossed
,
where
the
corrupted
Reason
bears
rule
.
Therefore
it
will
be
worth
our
care
and
vigilance
,
in
keeping
our
Stock
,
going
on
upon
Faith's
Bottom
,
as
in
reference
both
to
heavenly
and
earthly
Things
;
deposing
the
Rational
Spirit
,
as
to
all
power
and
claim
to
the
superior
Transactions
betwixt
God
and
the
Soul
;
only
allowed
he
may
be
,
for
the
present
necessity
,
as
a
hewer
of
Wood
and
drawer
of
Water
,
till
we
shall
discharge
him
upon
this
servile
account
also
.
Now
you
see
what
a
full
charge
is
given
against
the
Man
of
Reason
,
which
may
be
a
sufficient
inducement
to
die
,
as
we
are
able
from
day
to
day
,
unto
him
,
till
fully
dead
.
The
conquest
of
which
will
produce
wonderful
and
miraculous
working
Powers
,
which
in
its
piace
and
order
shall
be
made
out
more
fully
to
you
.
Now
we
fall
upon
the
third
particular
,
which
is
the
Sensitive
Life
;
dividing
it
into
three
Branches
;
Exterior
,
Interior
,
and
Natural
.
I
shall
begin
with
the
Exterior
;
as
first
,
the
lusting
Eye
,
that
delights
to
please
it self
in
visible
Objects
,
Shadows
and
Figures
of
Mortality
,
minding
outward
adornings
,
and
settings
out
of
a
poor
piece
of
Mortality
.
These
are
tempting
Objects
for
the
very
Heart
and
Mind
to
be
tainted
withal
.
For
the
outward
Eye
is
as
a
wandring
Star
,
it
glides
up
and
down
to
please
its
own
unsatiableness
,
among
all
the
various
gross
and
perishing
Things
,
that
in
this
evil
World
can
be
found
.
So
every
depraved
sense
doth
pursue
its
own
vain
delight
and
satisfaction
.
But
of
this
more
gross
part
of
Sensuality
,
I
shall
not
further
enlarge
,
knowing
that
it
hath
been
sufficiently
set
forth
,
and
decried
down
by
the
godly
and
pious
Ones
.
I
shall
pass
on
to
the
Interior
Sense
,
which
is
in
part
renewed
and
enlightned
,
so
as
for
to
escape
the
Pollutions
,
which
the
gross
sense
falls
in
withal
;
this
being
an
inward
sober
sense
,
comprehending
immortal
and
divine
Things
:
but
yet
it
is
so
nearly
annexed
to
the
Man
of
Reason
,
as
being
the
very
Body
of
that
Spirit
,
and
can
have
no
congruity
with
a
Life
of
Faith.
So
that
here
comes
in
a
hard
struggle
,
as
to
the
matter
and
case
of
a
Soul
in
its
looking
for
Redemption
out
of
the
Body
of
Sin.
Here
now
the
good
sense
,
that
is
awakened
upon
this
account
,
will
very
aptly
run
out
it self
into
a
despondency
,
as
seeing
,
feeling
,
and
tasting
the
strength
and
bitterness
of
sin
;
so
as
it
may
raise
such
an
uproar
and
mutiny
in
the
Soul
,
as
will
not
be
for
some
considerable
time
quieted
and
allaid
.
But
you
will
say
,
This
is
good
and
necessary
to
be
immersed
into
such
a
deep
sense
of
sin
.
It
is
in
some
degree
to
be
granted
,
that
an
effectual
sorrow
for
sin
,
is
to
be
allowed
from
divine
Light
and
Conviction
;
that
is
,
awakened
by
the
Holy
Anointing
:
thus
it
was
with
the
Saints
of
old
,
crying
out
to
be
delivered
from
the
Body
of
Death
and
Sin.
And
what
penitential
Psalms
did
that
Holy
David
in
this
sense
make
;
but
mind
all
along
here
was
no
sticking
there
,
but
soon
acquitted
their
sense
,
flying
up
to
the
operating
Spirit
of
Faith
,
as
David
and
Paul
did
in
the
same
case
;
crying
,
Thanks
be
to
God
,
that
giveth
us
victory
through
that
Blood
,
which
cleanseth
from
all
Sin
,
springing
from
the
Vein
of
Christ's
Life
opening
within
,
that
washeth
out
the
pollutions
of
sin
.
For
should
not
a
Soul
hasten
out
of
this
working
sense
of
Sensibility
,
it
would
soon
be
overwhelmed
.
So
that
if
in
the
life
of
this
good
sense
,
any
should
too
long
abide
,
what
an
anxious
and
sorrowful
Life
would
they
know
?
Therefore
what
saith
the
Spirit
of
Jesus
,
Believe
,
and
ye
shall
enter
into
your
rest
;
for
insensibility
you
will
find
none
.
Now
to
speak
to
the
Natural
and
bodily
Sense
,
this
hangs
close
as
the
Skin
unto
the
Flesh
,
it
affords
an
unwelcome
constancy
,
as
resolving
not
to
leave
the
Soul
,
unless
mortality
comes
to
be
swallowed
up
of
Life
.
This
sense
indeed
is
apt
and
fit
for
such
an
inferior
mortal
state
as
we
are
fallen
into
;
a
low
and
earthly
sense
doth
well
agree
with
a
low
and
earthly
World
;
But
oh
!
what
enlightned
Spirit
,
that
hath
been
in
the
Divine
Seeing
,
can
take
up
here
.
For
it
is
the
great
and
only
impediment
to
all
of
Divine
Vision
,
Prophecy
,
and
Revelation
,
(
for
now
all
three
degrees
of
Sence
we
include
)
.
They
are
as
a
dark
gathering
Cloud
upon
the
Center
of
Light
,
and
a
strong
Inclosure
,
to
keep
the
Spirit
from
passing
into
that
Principle
,
where
the
Trinity
,
and
all
the
Holy
Train
of
Angels
,
Seraphims
,
and
Cherubims
,
do
attend
God's
Throne
.
This
I
soberly
aver
,
from
a
particular
Experience
,
that
no
Soul
or
Spirit
can
come
to
have
a
plain
and
open
view
of
a
glorified
Personality
,
as
seen
and
known
in
the
Heavenly
Sphears
,
but
as
their
sensible
part
is
suspended
,
and
laid
as
in
a
dead
sleep
,
during
the
time
that
it
is
in
broad
open
sight
,
of
such
an
express
Glory
.
Indeed
there
are
representations
of
heavenly
Objects
,
and
things
in
a
lower
degree
,
which
may
consist
with
the
bodily
sensation
,
as
introverted
into
calmness
,
and
sweet
stilness
.
Then
the
Spirit
of
the
Soul
stands
in
a
powerful
capacity
for
divine
Seeing
and
Hearing
,
and
this
is
very
frequently
known
,
and
enjoyed
by
Saints
in
this
present
time
.
But
that
,
which
is
the
most
certain
knowledg
,
and
sight
,
and
hearing
,
is
,
when
the
whole
sensitive
motion
of
Soul
,
Spirit
,
and
Body
,
is
entred
into
a
transical
,
eternal
Nothingness
;
then
it
knows
,
hears
,
and
sees
,
as
in
God's
Glance
,
and
Light
of
Eternity
.
Thus
it
was
with
Duniel
,
Paul
,
and
John
;
they
were
struck
out
of
their
Senses
,
while
the
Visions
lasted
upon
them
.
So
it
,
hath
in
these
last
days
,
been
witnessed
,
That
when
the
Lord
had
any
special
Revelation
to
give
forth
by
his
chosen
thereunto
,
how
hath
the
Element
of
Reason
shut
up
,
and
the
Stars
of
sparkling
Sense
fallen
down
,
as
not
consisting
with
a
purer
Spirit
,
descending
from
God
,
with
great
and
deep
Revelations
,
that
his
Mind
and
Word
might
not
be
adulterated
,
which
is
the
more
sure
way
for
it
,
even
through
the
sensation
of
the
senses
.
But
here
doth
meet
me
an
Objection
,
that
thus
happens
upon
some
extraordinary
account
,
that
any
are
so
caught
up
out
of
their
senses
;
but
it
is
not
expected
it
should
be
durable
,
as
you
seem
to
drive
at
.
You
cannot
blame
us
if
we
do
;
for
did
you
know
what
it
were
to
be
but
one
hour
from
the
working
motion
of
Sense
,
by
which
ye
might
really
and
substantially
find
your self
entered
into
the
very
beatifical
Vision
of
God
,
you
would
never
care
for
to
know
your
sense
more
.
This
doth
but
agree
with
that
good
saying
of
St.
Paul
,
Knowing
that
while
we
are
present
with
the
Body
of
Sense
,
we
are
absent
from
the
Lord.
But
we
shall
be
sober
,
and
not
run
you
out
of
your
sensitive
Life
all
at
once
;
except
some
sudden
Shower
from
the
Heavens
shall
fall
and
drown
you
,
as
it
hath
for
some
time
done
,
upon
the
good-willer
hereunto
,
which
would
heartily
congratulate
further
Witnesses
hereof
.
But
to
set
by
at
present
those
great
and
eminent
Effects
of
cessation
from
Sense
,
which
is
not
the
lot
of
every
Saint
,
nay
,
very
few
,
that
may
as
yet
know
open
Vision
,
and
yet
will
find
their
Names
written
in
the
Book
of
Life
.
But
seeing
it
opens
a
Door
,
and
makes
way
to
have
more
clear
knowledg
,
and
familiar
access
to
God
,
and
the
glorified
Person
of
Christ
,
and
the
high
Order
of
Angels
,
let
this
be
a
powerful
motive
,
to
be
dying
by
degrees
,
from
that
Life
,
which
is
separating
and
eclipsing
the
Face
of
God
,
wherein
all
Peace
,
Joy
,
and
assurance
of
Love
is
injoyed
.
But
here
meets
me
this
Question
;
Who
is
it
that
can
die
out
of
their
own
sense
?
For
so
great
and
glorious
are
the
advantages
of
it
,
that
if
we
could
find
the
Passage-door
out
of
them
,
we
would
not
stay
in
the
molested
,
and
troubled
Sense
.
For
this
,
I
shall
give
you
what
hath
been
effected
in
my
own
experience
,
which
I
found
great
remedy
and
help
in
this
case
,
as
being
instructed
by
the
Spirit
of
Jesus
herein
,
which
brought
me
to
famish
the
life
of
low
mortal
sense
;
first
,
avoiding
all
that
might
feed
and
nourish
it
up
,
drawing
out
of
all
multiplicity
of
worldly
Concerns
,
which
tendeth
no
higher
than
the
exterior
Life
,
denying
every
thing
,
which
was
not
of
an
absolute
necessity
;
for
as
dying
to
all
superfluity
,
that
sense
doth
work
upon
,
and
you
will
find
it
will
grow
weak
,
and
gradually
expire
,
and
go
currantly
on
for
the
anatomizing
of
every
mutinous
sense
,
so
as
there
may
not
be
so
much
as
an
evil
Essence
left
.
But
indeed
,
while
this
is
but
doing
,
and
not
throughly
done
,
the
senses
will
be
striving
,
and
casting
up
muddy
Waters
,
that
cloudy
the
divine
Sight
,
and
stop
the
inward
Hearing
,
whilst
you
stay
amongst
the
noise
and
throng
,
that
from
this
worldy
Region
do
all
incompass
.
Therefore
I
can
give
you
no
other
hopes
to
get
victory
over
the
sensitive
Life
,
but
by
starving
it
coming
out
,
from
all
the
gross
Matter
which
feeds
it
.
Indeed
there
may
be
a
quenching
and
silencing
of
this
stirring
motion
,
before
there
be
an
arivement
to
the
high
degree
of
annihilation
for
fixation
;
which
is
a
good
introduction
,
and
as
daily
exercised
herein
,
may
come
at
last
to
depose
what-ever
will
not
consist
with
that
most
excellent
Life
of
Faith
,
which
is
the
only
Ministry
,
which
the
Lord
Christ
doth
set
on
foot
a
fresh
now
in
this
day
.
Therefore
let
it
not
be
thought
a
strange
and
severe
Doctrine
;
blessed
are
those
that
are
able
to
receive
and
practise
it
,
there
will
be
no
loss
;
sor
as
this
Sense
dies
,
the
fresh
and
supersensed
Life
will
spring
.
There
is
one
Sense
more
,
which
we
must
not
omit
to
speak
something
of
;
which
is
,
the
Dolors
,
Pains
,
and
Griefs
of
the
Elementary
Body
,
which
may
abide
where
the
finful
Sense
is
much
wrought
out
,
which
must
be
allowed
till
this
corporal
Figure
is
changed
;
as
sensible
hunger
,
and
thirst
,
and
want
of
this
and
that
refreshing
for
the
outward
Body
,
carrying
symptoms
of
mortality
;
impediments
of
this
kind
,
may
be
,
and
yet
sinless
.
Christ
the
Lord
,
was
not
without
the
sense
of
this
,
hanging
upon
his
outward
Corporiety
;
so
as
we
cannot
expect
to
be
loosened
here-from
,
till
something
else
do
sollow
;
but
yet
carried
through
chearfully
in
hope
of
the
Redemption
of
the
Body
also
.
Here
then
we
shall
conclude
,
as
well
agreeing
with
that
precious
saying
;
Gal.
2.
20.
I
am
crucified
with
Christ
,
yet
I
live
,
yet
not
I
:
Mind
how
he
calleth
that
word
back
again
;
do
not
think
it
is
I
,
whose
life
did
consist
of
the
animal
,
rational
,
sensitive
Being
,
that
is
worn
out
and
dead
;
I
live
upon
another
Root
,
though
I
appear
in
this
very
Elementary
Body
.
I
have
changed
my
Life
of
Sense
,
for
that
high
graduated
Life
of
Faith
,
in
which
I
please
God
,
and
am
beloved
,
finding
all
acceptation
with
him
,
and
therefore
never
desire
for
to
know
the
disharmony
of
Sense
any
more
.
This
is
the
victorious
Triumph
of
a
Spirit
and
Soul
,
that
hath
got
over
that
low
Sensibllity
!
Here
is
a
new
Model
indeed
,
you
will
say
;
but
who
is
it
that
hath
put
off
the
Body
of
Sense
thus
conqueringly
?
We
shall
not
determine
who
hath
done
it
;
but
we
may
determine
,
that
except
it
be
done
,
or
doing
,
there
is
no
Foundation
laid
for
Resurrection
or
Ascention
.
Now
then
see
your
way
,
and
in
what
you
are
to
be
exercised
,
in
order
to
what
is
to
follow
,
Christ
the
Lord
hath
beaten
the
Track
;
he
is
again
returned
in
Spirit
,
with
great
and
mighty
Power
to
carry
you
through
,
as
ye
give
up
,
and
let
him
take
your
Wills
,
and
give
consent
to
demolish
,
and
pluck
that
off
,
which
hath
been
as
a
twisting
Briar
about
the
Lilly
,
which
is
to
be
transplanted
,
when
got
free
from
the
Valley
of
Death
,
to
the
Mount
of
Immortality
,
and
open
Vision
of
God's
Face
in
Glory
.
Thus
you
have
had
the
true
dimensions
,
what
it
is
to
be
died
unto
,
which
will
finish
and
compleat
the
whole
Mystery
of
Death
:
pronounce
,
we
may
,
blessing
,
joy
,
and
glory
to
the
Overcomers
.
Who
can
shew
these
dying
Marks
,
as
hath
bin
described
?
Who
shall
now
keep
them
from
the
presence
of
God
and
the
Lamb
,
for
right
they
will
have
to
possess
and
inherit
all
things
,
in
heights
above
,
and
depths
beneath
?
One
thing
more
we
shall
further
add
,
which
may
be
worthy
of
our
taking
notice
of
;
That
there
is
a
space
of
Time
limited
for
such
,
who
have
accomplished
this
mystical
Death
,
to
be
buried
.
As
Mortals
when
they
die
,
they
bury
their
Dead
out
of
sight
:
so
it
is
with
those
who
are
departed
out
of
the
Body
of
Sin
;
there
is
for
them
a
quick
dispatch
by
those
,
who
are
yet
alive
to
all
that
which
they
are
dead
to
.
Take
them
under
what
fellowship
or
form
you
will
,
there
is
no
agreement
between
the
living
and
the
dead
;
the
dead
are
very
unpleasant
Company
,
as
being
sensless
and
actless
,
as
to
Matters
and
Things
relating
to
the
fallen
Life
and
Principle
;
and
so
being
unserviceable
,
they
may
well
be
forgotten
and
deserted
by
Persons
,
Fellowships
,
and
Societies
,
that
are
out
of
the
dying
Order
.
We
need
not
think
much
at
it
;
for
was
it
not
thus
with
the
Lord
Christ
,
when
he
went
to
suffer
and
die
?
Did
not
most
of
them
,
with
whom
he
was
conversant
,
forsake
him
?
and
some
followed
afar
off
,
keeping
only
a
love-inspection
on
him
,
as
John
&
two
or
three
more
:
others
were
afraid
they
could
not
bear
to
see
the
Crucifixion
.
So
it
was
,
and
so
it
is
at
this
day
;
there
is
a
kind
of
an
horror
,
to
see
one
a
dying
from
all
pleasant
joys
and
things
delectable
,
and
invitable
,
and
reckoned
lawful
to
be
injoyed
;
but
a
Soul
and
Spirit
that
hath
been
under
Christ's
Discipline
,
understands
other
things
,
and
does
know
that
the
Fall
hath
brought
in
the
Poison
of
the
Curse
,
which
hath
spread
it self
through
the
whole
Creation
.
Paradise
is
hid
,
and
fled
,
and
cannot
be
known
,
but
to
the
risen
from
the
Dead
;
and
therefore
look
from
one
end
of
the
Earth
to
the
other
,
and
gather
up
all
into
one
scene
or
representation
for
allurement
;
and
alas
!
what
is
in
it
,
but
bundles
of
thorney
Cares
,
that
lie
at
the
root
of
every
pleasant
Flower
,
that
suck
away
the
life
and
sweetness
of
it
?
Therefore
in
a
true
sense
it
is
matter
of
Joy
and
Glory
,
to
die
out
of
that
Principle
,
where
we
live
as
banished
exiles
from
God
,
in
curse
,
woe
,
and
misery
?
and
then
why
should
it
be
such
a
reproach
,
and
shame
,
to
suffer
crucifixion
hereunto
?
Oh
that
the
face
of
this
Covering
might
be
taken
off
,
especially
among
those
that
are
Fellow-members
of
the
dying
Body
of
the
Lord
Jesus
.
It
is
meet
they
should
encourage
,
and
not
despise
it
in
one
another
;
it
is
enough
for
the
worldly
Spirit
to
cast
contempt
,
but
fellow
Saints
should
rejoice
in
nothing
more
,
than
to
see
a
crucified
Christ
in
one
another
.
There
is
great
need
of
all
strengthning
Angels
to
incourage
to
hold
out
upon
one
open
Stage
;
the
on-set
of
inward
Fears
and
Temptations
will
not
be
wanting
at
such
a
dying
hour
.
Suggestings
will
rise
from
within
,
and
speak
in
the
suffering
Soul
,
as
the
Thief
did
to
Christ
;
If
thou
beest
the
Son
of
God
,
save
thy self
:
Let
the
Deity
secure
,
and
save
the
Humanity
,
and
let
it
not
die
so
ignominiously
.
But
all
this
must
not
move
a
living
Christ
in
a
dying
Soul
,
who
sees
deeper
,
and
beyond
the
visible
appearance
,
and
therefore
will
go
through
it
,
and
despise
the
Despisers
.
But
now
here
follows
a
grave
silence
,
in
which
there
is
great
questioning
,
and
a
demur
among
the
very
Disciplehood
concerning
the
Resurrection
,
most
doubting
;
so
as
here
comes
a
black
Cloud
of
Dissertion
;
while
no
Resurrection
appears
,
Censures
and
Judgments
run
from
one
to
another
.
We
expected
,
saith
one
to
another
,
that
great
things
would
have
been
shewn
forth
upon
the
finishing
such
a
Course
;
that
a
present
Redemption
would
follow
.
Thus
it
must
be
suffered
and
debated
a
while
;
for
Christ
is
as
buried
in
the
Soul
out
of
sight
,
feeling
and
sensation
,
which
is
the
highest
degree
of
Spiritual
Death
,
far
more
proving
than
the
dying
to
the
whole
sinful
,
and
worldly
Life
.
As
Christ
the
Lord
committed
his
Spirit
to
the
Father
upon
the
giving
up
of
the
Ghost
,
so
it
is
with
the
dying
Soul
,
its
Spirit
is
given
up
,
and
hid
with
God
in
Christ
,
and
so
the
Soul
may
remain
in
a
Grave
,
silence
,
darkness
,
and
confinement
,
under
the
weighty
Stone
,
and
cannot
move
,
till
the
Spirit
returns
from
the
Father
and
the
Son
,
to
give
its
quickning
Life
for
a
glorious
Resurrection
.
Therefore
fear
not
,
but
be
comforted
from
the
Lord
ye
holy
Souls
.
Whoever
have
wrought
out
Death
,
or
are
upon
working
out
,
according
to
what
hath
been
described
in
the
three-fold
dimensions
,
you
have
no
more
cause
to
doubt
of
your
Resurrection
,
than
Christ
in
his
own
Person
had
;
for
ye
are
hereby
become
Christ
's
dead
Body
,
and
therefore
the
same
Spirit
which
raised
him
,
must
and
will
raise
up
such
as
are
dead
in
him
;
but
some
there
are
that
may
lie
longer
bound
in
the
Grave
than
others
;
but
then
it
is
,
because
there
is
not
a
thorow
Death
in
all
members
and
parts
of
the
Body
of
Sin
;
for
else
they
could
not
be
long
detained
,
the
Witnesses
must
rise
at
the
third
day
.
Therefore
by
what
hath
been
declared
,
let
us
examine
our selves
,
by
shewing
forth
the
Lord's
Death
till
he
come
,
for
life-quickning
.
But
it
may
be
said
,
while
this
is
doing
,
and
not
finished
;
What
if
the
mortal
Death
come
and
prevent
the
manifestation
of
it
in
this
World
?
Why
,
if
it
should
,
nothing
that
hath
been
wrought
shall
suffer
loss
upon
this
account
;
for
after
dissolution
,
the
Soul
immediately
ascends
to
be
joined
to
that
Body
,
that
doth
consist
of
the
Angels
which
are
of
the
Resurrection
,
who
before-hand
are
translated
with
Moses
,
Enoch
,
and
Elias
.
Therefore
so
far
as
any
have
attained
,
it
will
be
accounted
for
in
that
invisible
World
;
and
so
will
have
no
cause
to
repent
,
except
it
be
,
that
they
did
not
set
upon
the
dying
Work
sooner
,
for
carrying
of
Time
before
them
,
for
the
finishing
with
Christ
the
whole
Process
.
But
now
we
will
leave
our
Dead
in
the
Lord
,
as
those
that
have
ceased
from
their
own
Works
,
and
are
in
the
still
rest
with
God
;
and
although
the
living
Inhabitants
of
Mortality
and
Time
,
do
leave
and
forsake
them
,
they
need
not
be
careful
,
for
Christ's
own
Life-guard
of
Angels
are
about
them
,
to
comfort
,
watch
,
and
secure
,
and
at
the
third
day
to
roll
away
the
Stone
,
to
make
way
for
the
Dead
to
come
forth
.
And
who
shall
them
first
know
and
see
,
but
the
faithful
Lovers
and
Believers
,
that
have
watched
the
Sepulchre
,
and
would
not
go
from
it
;
attending
there
,
in
Faith
and
Hope
,
for
their
Friends
return
from
the
reproachful
Death
,
to
a
Life
all
new
and
incorruptible
,
joyous
,
and
glorious
?
This
is
the
hidden
Treasure
that
lieth
in
the
darkness
of
Death
,
and
will
be
a
Jewel
,
even
to
them
that
find
it
;
and
though
the
Grave
may
obscure
the
beauty
and
sparkling
shine
of
it
;
yet
know
,
it
will
appear
in
a
three-fold
transparency
.
As
it
hath
died
to
the
three-fold
Life
of
Degeneratedness
;
so
it
shall
be
quickened
and
restored
into
the
Glory
of
the
Father
,
Son
,
and
Spirit
.
Thus
you
have
had
the
Passeover
of
the
Lamb
dressed
,
and
set
before
you
,
and
commended
to
you
by
the
Lord
,
the
true
Passeover
,
through
such
as
he
hath
here-for
chosen
,
and
set
apart
to
receive
and
give
forth
,
as
from
Light
and
Experimental
Knowledg
.
For
I
would
not
be
a
taken-up
Instrument
to
declare
of
Death
,
unless
I
had
first
tasted
it
;
and
I
must
give
it
this
good
Word
and
Credit
,
that
although
it
was
tart
and
bitter
in
the
beginning
,
so
as
I
had
some
struggle
to
get
it
down
;
yet
through
the
daily
exercise
of
my
Mind
,
and
bent
of
my
Will
hereunto
,
through
and
from
the
Holy
Spirit
's
Conviction
,
I
was
made
throughly
resolved
in
it
,
and
then
it
went
on
pleasant
and
smooth
,
and
the
grievousness
of
it
was
turned
into
joyousness
.
This
I
speak
,
not
by
way
of
boasting
,
but
for
comfort
,
and
encouragement
to
such
as
are
in
fear
to
adventure
to
go
through
all
the
parts
and
degrees
of
it
.
I
shall
conclude
this
Subject
with
this
Petition
;
Lord
Jesus
increase
the
number
of
thy
dying
Flock
,
and
that
the
Earth
may
not
cover
her
Slain
ever
,
but
cast
out
her
Dead
to
spring
up
in
thy
Life
,
O
dear
Emanuel
.
LEt
none
now
fear
,
or
supprest
be
,
If
they
shall
see
Death
from
the
Life
of
Christ
to
spring
,
To
put
an
end
to
sense
of
Sin
,
And
to
bring
in
the
supernatural
Thing
.
What
welcome
News
do
our
Ears
hear
?
We
need
not
fear
;
Though
to
us
fierce
approach
each
Death
,
Stops
Rational
and
Sensual
Breath
;
And
no
Pulse
more
beats
in
us
here
beneath
.
This
is
our
Hope
,
and
Way
we
count
,
To
Nebo's
Mount
:
In
which
bright
,
and
glorious
place
,
We
shall
behold
the
shining
Face
Of
God
,
with
all
those
Saints
who'ave
run
Death's
Race
.
The
Universal
Law
's
gone
forth
,
Of
excellent
worth
:
All
that
's
born
in
Sin
must
die
,
Natural
,
and
Spiritually
;
Or
else
no
part
have
in
Christ's
Monarchy
.
Who
would
not
leave
his
mortal
Breath
To
embrace
Death
?
What
are
dying
Sigbs
,
or
Groans
?
But
for
a
moment
are
those
Moans
,
When
Love
new
Life
brings
to
those
Holy
Ones
.
What
we
see
,
to
you
we
boast
;
In
Death
's
no
Ghost
T'
affright
,
as
it
suppos'd
may
be
;
A
Feast
't
is
to
the
Faithful
free
,
Who
shall
through
it
to
rise
a
new
Life
see
.
Here
follows
the
Resurrection
.
NOw
having
laid
the
Foundation-Stone
with
Christ
in
Death
,
the
Arch-Angel's
Trumpet
soundeth
for
a
Resurrection
in
Spirit
,
Soul
,
and
Body
.
There
hath
been
a
foregoing
Resurrection
in
the
Spirit
,
which
hath
been
frequently
known
,
being
more
sublime
,
apt
,
and
ready
to
fly
and
mount
up
to
its
own
Ether
.
This
I
have
experienced
,
while
my
Soul
hath
been
under
bindings
,
heavy
,
and
ponderous
.
But
now
for
the
foulish
part
to
get
up
,
is
a
more
difficult
case
,
because
it
cannot
rise
,
till
it
hath
a
Spiritual
Body
all
new
organiz'd
.
For
although
sown
in
Death
,
a
natural
sinful
Body
,
dishonourable
,
and
vile
,
and
must
lie
in
the
mystical
Grave
,
till
all
of
this
be
mouldered
away
;
That
so
,
both
in
new
Matter
and
Form
,
it
may
rise
,
and
come
forth
according
to
the
working
of
the
Heavenly
Mystery
.
For
herein
a
Soul
is
to
be
wholly
passive
,
can
contribute
nothing
to
this
new
Frame
and
Model
,
all
that
it
is
to
do
,
is
to
cease
to
do
.
God
knows
how
to
give
to
the
Spiritual
Seed
a
Body
after
its
own
Kind
,
that
it
may
be
suitably
cloathed
upon
;
for
the
honour
of
the
Resurrection
,
of
which
,
I
shall
now
present
to
you
a
Plat-form
in
these
Particulars
.
First
;
How
it
is
raised
,
and
by
whom
;
and
to
what
State
;
and
the
inscription
which
it
beareth
after
the
Resurrection
,
to
be
known
from
others
.
To
the
first
Particular
;
which
is
,
How
,
and
after
what
manner
the
Dead
in
Christ
are
raised
;
There
is
a
secret
infused
Breath
,
after
the
manner
as
is
expressed
by
Ezekiel
,
that
gave
Life
to
the
dry
Bones
,
which
do
very
properly
figure
out
the
Resurrection
of
the
Soul.
To
which
we
may
add
,
that
which
the
Lord
Christ
also
discoursed
to
Nicademus
,
of
the
Birth
of
the
Spiritual
Man
,
as
born
again
from
the
Dead
;
so
indiscernably
it
cometh
,
as
none
can
see
how
this
pure
Breath
entereth
in
,
but
as
it
is
felt
for
a
quickening
Life
.
For
as
a
Child
that
in
a
natural
Womb
lieth
passive
,
and
contributes
nothing
to
its
own
Life
;
so
it
is
with
one
that
is
born
from
the
Dead
,
as
to
the
matter
of
its
new
consistency
,
which
is
from
the
superior
and
incorruptible
Element
,
which
fashioned
is
within
this
gross
bodily
Figure
,
as
airy
,
thin
,
and
of
a
transparent
purity
,
in
which
the
Spirit
and
Soul
moveth
:
But
upon
the
first
awakening
to
Life
,
it
may
stir
but
weakly
,
so
as
a
Soul
may
not
discern
its
own
quickening
Life
,
because
of
stirring
so
slowly
;
but
yet
all
the
Motions
are
working
in
a
right
and
due
order
,
increasing
in
strength
from
the
eternal
Root
and
Fountain
of
Life
,
and
so
comes
on
daily
to
grow
strong
in
every
organical
Faculty
.
And
as
it
died
to
the
corrupt
,
animal
,
rational
,
sensitive
Life
,
and
hath
lost
all
of
that
;
so
it
hath
regained
to
a
thousand
sold
advantage
,
by
the
Resurrection
,
into
a
new
Principle
:
which
we
shall
make
out
,
and
illustrate
for
motive
hereunto
.
1.
Here
is
felt
a
Divine
Animation
of
Life
,
that
runneth
into
pure
,
high
,
union
with
the
Holy
Trinity
;
there
it
concenters
,
as
finding
all
pleasurable
,
and
satiating
Delights
,
which
it
can
know
no
bounds
nor
excess
in
.
The
chaste
Eye
may
be
allowed
all
fully
to
gratify
it self
upon
Heavenly
Objects
,
without
controul
;
nay
,
now
it
may
be
taken
with
its
own
Beauty
and
Comeliness
:
whereas
before
in
the
other
state
,
there
was
matter
of
abhorrency
,
having
reason
enough
to
despise
its
own
Image
;
but
now
to
admire
it self
,
as
having
put
on
the
fine
Robe
of
the
Resurrection
.
And
whereas
self-love
was
in
the
old
Body
to
be
abrogated
and
denied
;
here
it
is
all
lawful
to
be
owned
,
for
now
it
loves
the
Holy
Trinity
in
it self
,
and
every
spiritual
Member
belonging
to
that
eternal
Body
as
it self
;
and
as
to
all
Dignification
and
Riches
,
Fulness
,
take
it
as
to
what
lieth
within
the
Circle
of
the
Superior
Heavens
,
those
precious
things
which
the
Sun
and
Moon
,
that
in
the
one
pure
Element
is
fixed
,
do
put
forth
for
Blessing
and
Increase
;
and
then
as
to
all
of
this
lower
Orb
,
as
cause
requires
,
for
any
use
of
them
;
they
are
all
made
subservient
to
the
Resurrection-State
;
the
Holy
and
Just
One
can
well
confide
in
a
Soul
,
that
is
fully
risen
,
to
make
him
Ruler
over
much
;
knowing
of
what
Spiritual
Temper
it
is
raised
up
in
,
that
will
not
abuse
its
Trust
,
either
as
to
eternal
or
temporal
Revenues
:
Here
is
no
engrossing
in
a
partial
Spirit
,
to
any
thing
wherein
it
is
intrusted
,
as
a
Steward
for
God
;
as
giving
all
freely
out
in
love-Community
.
In
the
next
place
;
What
is
to
be
considered
for
the
loss
of
the
subtil
Spirit
of
Reason
,
that
managed
all
things
by
exterior
Craft
;
For
this
comes
now
in
the
high
gradiated
sound
Wisdom
,
which
cometh
from
the
Father
of
Light
,
by
the
which
he
made
all
that
of
a
visible
consistency
,
is
out
of
Nothing
.
This
outvies
,
and
puts
Rationality
to
the
blush
,
which
moved
all
upon
the
Wheel
of
earthly
and
visible
Things
,
that
included
,
are
under
the
Curse
;
for
this
hath
no
other
Matter
to
work
upon
.
But
the
superior
Wisdom
,
that
connexed
is
to
the
Body
of
the
Resurrection
,
that
cooperateth
with
the
eternal
living
Word
,
that
createth
all
things
anew
,
calling
those
things
to
be
,
which
were
not
;
there
is
no
Matter
or
Cause
obvious
to
any
outward
Eye
;
for
the
Matter
it
works
upon
,
is
not
gross
or
tangible
,
but
all
AEtherial
and
Spiritual
,
where
God
singly
is
the
only
productive
Cause
and
Ground
,
through
effectual
operation
,
for
the
bringing
forth
into
Essences
,
and
Substances
;
according
as
this
Wisdom
shall
in
the
Spirit
and
Soul
lay
its
Platform
in
order
to
the
restoring
that
Virgin
Nature
,
and
Godlike
Simplicity
,
that
have
been
defloured
through
the
subtilty
of
Reason
.
It
is
not
to
be
said
what
Wisdom
cannot
do
,
as
it
is
in
Marriage-union
with
God's
Omnipotency
;
where
then
it
will
not
go
forth
naked
,
but
all
cloathed
with
Power
and
Strength
,
to
effect
strange
and
marvellous
Things
,
by
way
of
Plantation
and
Regulation
of
this
old
Creation
,
that
now
lieth
drowned
in
the
Earthly
Craft
,
and
Babylonish
Confusion
;
all
which
must
fall
,
as
this
day
of
Wisdom's
Resurrection
comes
to
be
manifested
;
for
what
shall
be
able
to
stand
,
when
she
opens
her
Principle
,
where
the
Powers
of
Eternal
Nature
will
all
be
set
awork
to
cloath
the
old
face
of
Things
,
with
a
new
spring
of
unfadable
Glory
?
Oh
,
there
is
great
need
for
this
day
of
Wisdom's
Resurrection
,
that
so
this
old
corrupt
figure
of
Things
may
pass
away
;
for
the
which
many
Prophesies
we
have
had
from
Christ
the
Lord
so
many
Ages
past
,
as
signified
by
the
beloved
John
,
testifying
the
desolation
that
must
come
upon
the
great
City
Babylon
,
where
all
the
worldly
Merchandizes
have
been
carried
on
!
Oh
what
a
sudden
destruction
will
come
upon
it
,
as
in
one
Hour
,
when
that
the
Mighty
Angels
of
God's
Wisdom
shall
descend
,
having
great
power
to
burn
and
consume
,
shake
and
dissolve
the
earthly
Frame
of
Things
;
at
which
the
Children
of
the
Resurrection
shall
not
be
dismaid
,
but
rejoice
to
see
this
long
expected
day
,
through
which
all
shall
be
governed
by
the
Spirit
of
Wisdom
and
Revelation
.
Now
we
come
to
the
third
Particular
,
which
is
the
restoring
of
the
lost
Senses
in
a
supernatural
way
.
For
a
risen
Soul
and
Spirit
have
all
the
sensation
of
a
Spiritual
Body
;
this
is
very
high
and
unconceivable
to
any
,
except
it
be
to
such
as
have
been
caught
up
,
as
out
of
the
earthly
Body
;
(
as
is
mentioned
by
Paul
)
to
know
something
of
it
before-hand
;
which
may
happen
before
the
full
and
total
Resurrection
be
attained
;
as
there
are
some
that
have
,
and
so
can
the
more
knowingly
define
it
,
after
what
manner
this
divine
Sensation
doth
shew
forth
it self
.
It
is
an
advance
,
upon
some
consideration
,
beyond
the
Life
of
Faith
,
and
all
Visions
and
Representations
,
which
were
through
that
medium
:
For
it
now
ceaseth
to
see
through
that
Glass
,
which
presents
heavenly
Objects
at
distance
and
so
but
dimly
;
but
in
this
Spiritual
Body
of
the
Resurrection
,
it
sees
in
the
Light
of
God's
Eye
,
as
being
translated
into
that
principle
,
where
one
perpetual
everlasting
Day
doth
shine
,
where
it
doth
behold
greatness
,
goodness
,
and
purity
,
as
being
entered
into
the
same
.
This
is
a
broad
open
sight
,
that
do
change
from
Glory
to
Glory
;
this
was
it
that
made
that
worthy
Apostle
,
having
known
something
of
this
Glory
,
when
he
was
caught
up
to
the
third
Heaven
,
press
so
after
the
Resurrection
,
to
be
in
that
Body
,
in
which
he
might
know
no
more
absence
from
the
Lord
;
for
in
this
sense
he
speaketh
,
1
Cor.
5.
7.
We
yet
live
by
Faith
,
and
not
by
immediate
Sight
;
and
although
Faith
is
the
great
moving
Wheel
that
must
run
us
up
to
this
Resurrection
,
as
its
Operation
is
in
the
Power
of
God
;
but
then
it
hath
done
its
Work
,
having
received
the
end
of
our
Faith
,
which
is
the
Resurrection
of
our
Spirit
,
Soul
,
and
Body
;
so
as
now
it
may
be
given
us
to
understand
,
that
spiritual
Sensation
upon
this
account
excels
the
Life
of
Faith
,
for
it
is
a
Translation
,
where
we
do
see
,
Eye
to
Eye
,
and
hear
as
we
are
heard
,
and
know
as
known
;
what
of
eternal
and
heavenly
Objects
were
invisible
,
are
most
clearly
obvious
hereby
,
exercising
every
particular
Sense
,
as
Tasting
,
and
Feeling
,
the
essential
Power
,
Goodness
,
and
Sweetness
of
a
God
,
whereby
unutterable
pleasantness
is
injoy'd
,
without
the
least
shadow
of
interrupting
Fear
or
Sorrow
.
When
once
got
beyond
the
Resurrection-probation
then
it
can
go
out
of
Time
into
Mansions
of
Eternity
,
as
often
as
it
pleaseth
.
But
it
may
be
questioned
,
Whether
any
shall
ever
arrive
to
such
a
Resurrection
,
before
this
visible
Body
be
dissolved
,
as
the
manner
of
all
the
Earth
is
to
die
?
For
this
,
we
shall
Answer
you
in
Christ's
own
words
,
That
such
as
shall
be
accounted
worthy
to
obtain
that
VVorld
,
and
the
Resurrection
from
the
Dead
,
they
can
die
no
more
,
for
they
are
equal
unto
the
Angels
,
Luke
20
,
35
,
36.
So
that
Mortality
may
come
to
be
swallowed
up
in
the
Body
of
the
Resurrection
.
To
which
agreeth
that
saying
of
Paul
;
All
shall
not
die
the
mortal
death
,
but
he
changed
,
even
this
visible
and
vile
Body
transfigured
:
Therefore
it
is
no
incredulous
thing
,
though
it
hath
yet
been
so
rarely
seen
,
because
the
way
hereunto
hath
not
been
walked
in
,
as
the
Spirit
of
Christ
hath
shewn
;
for
few
there
are
that
have
got
through
the
Death
,
and
fewer
that
have
reached
the
Resurrection
:
But
the
Time
is
at
hand
now
,
when
as
the
principal
Shepherd
will
quicken
the
slow-pac'd
of
his
own
Flock
,
that
are
yet
so
much
behind
in
the
dying
,
and
rising-Work
;
who
will
give
forth
of
his
Spirit
in
greater
abundance
,
for
the
finishing
of
this
great
Mystery
.
This
is
verily
the
strange
and
new
Thing
that
will
spring
,
in
which
an
everlasting
God
will
be
evidently
seen
,
for
highest
wonder
and
praise
.
All
this
now
considered
,
who
would
not
only
and
altogether
set
hard
on
upon
the
Eagle
rising
Body
,
which
the
Lord
our
only
Life
and
Resurrection
is
compared
unto
?
But
,
queried
yet
further
,
That
if
we
could
see
any
precedent
for
it
in
this
present
Time
,
it
might
gain
a
belief
for
this
great
Thing
you
declare
of
.
Answer
,
Whether
or
no
there
be
any
in
this
Age
,
that
can
give
proof
of
such
a
Resurrection
?
We
shall
not
decide
that
,
but
hope
and
believe
,
what
is
not
yet
made
manifest
may
in
time
be
.
For
the
mortal
Figure
being
upon
a
rising
Spirit
and
Soul
,
and
not
changed
,
must
necessarily
be
a
cloud
,
and
a
hiding
of
the
excellent
Perfections
that
are
there
;
but
if
nothing
of
this
kind
could
be
produced
,
this
must
not
make
void
the
true
Doctrine
of
the
Resurrection
.
It
is
sufficient
that
Christ
the
First
Fruits
,
is
risen
for
us
to
follow
after
.
We
shall
add
one
more
Evidence
mentioned
in
the
Revelation
of
John
,
of
the
raising
the
two
Witnesses
,
of
which
there
are
various
Interpretations
:
but
that
which
may
be
grounded
upon
as
sure
,
and
firm
,
is
,
Christ
in
his
Deity
and
Hamanity
,
in
which
he
riseth
in
the
Soul
,
where
he
hath
bin
slain
,
and
hath
lain
as
dead
in
the
properties
of
degenerated
nature
;
which
cleareth
by
whom
we
do
come
to
be
raised
,
even
by
and
through
the
nighty
Power
of
the
Deity
.
Now
it
follows
,
to
what
we
are
to
be
raised
unto
.
Is
it
not
to
sit
in
heavenly
Places
with
Christ
?
and
to
have
all
our
conversation
there
,
and
to
have
nothing
more
to
do
with
the
state
of
things
below
?
For
the
Angels
of
the
Resurrection
are
now
only
for
high
Communion
&
Fellowship
with
the
Trinity
,
and
those
of
their
own
Spiritual
raised
Order
.
They
can
contract
no
low
Unions
with
Creatures
,
nor
walk
among
the
Dead
,
hor
immerse
themselves
with
any
thing
,
while
they
go
in
and
out
among
Mortals
,
that
should
lessen
the
Dignification
they
are
raised
unto
;
for
there
is
a
Probation-time
betwixt
Resurrection
and
Ascension
,
as
our
Lord
Jesus
herein
did
show
us
in
his
own
Person
,
who
went
in
and
out
forty
days
,
before
he
ascended
into
his
high
Throne
of
Glorification
,
taking
care
to
secure
himself
from
being
touched
:
No
,
a
beloved
Mary
must
stand
off
at
this
Time
,
left
she
should
detain
from
Ascension
.
All
of
which
deportment
of
our
Lord
is
for
our
Example
,
to
be
very
cautious
what
we
touch
,
taste
,
or
handle
,
of
those
perishing
Things
that
we
are
risen
from
;
or
permitting
any
indeared
Thing
,
to
lay
the
weight
of
their
Concerns
upon
us
;
for
here
is
Enoch's
Life
so
walking
with
God
,
as
not
to
be
.
But
you
will
say
,
How
can
such
a
high
raised
Life
consist
with
the
present
Model
,
and
Circumstances
of
Things
in
this
Creation
,
where
there
must
be
care
,
industry
,
and
trafficking
in
these
low
things
,
for
the
service
of
themselves
and
one
another
?
This
indeed
is
a
considerable
Mountain
,
which
hath
kept
down
Christ's
risen
Life
in
his
Saints
,
which
Faith
in
God
must
only
remove
.
But
to
answer
this
grand
Objection
,
you
are
to
understand
,
That
this
is
a
state
of
Life
wholly
peculiar
to
such
,
who
are
born
again
from
the
Dead
:
For
it
is
not
to
be
expected
,
that
others
can
altogether
live
so
untouched
,
and
unconcerned
in
the
Affairs
of
this
mortal
Life
;
But
them
who
are
in
special
called
out
of
the
worldly
multiplicities
,
and
imploys
,
for
to
be
God's
anointed
Priests
,
and
Prophets
,
and
Messengers
,
to
act
and
live
after
such
a
Spiritual
way
of
Consecrations
,
different
from
others
,
that
are
not
assigned
to
this
holy
Separation
;
although
with
Moses
it
might
be
desired
,
that
the
whole
Heritage
of
God
were
ordained
Prophets
,
and
instituted
for
more
high
and
heavenly
Services
;
which
we
may
hope
shall
be
wrought
out
in
time
,
by
the
mighty
redeeming
hand
of
our
Sion
King
,
who
will
first
begin
with
them
who
freely
can
leave
all
rudimental
things
,
and
give
up
for
holy
Dedication
,
as
is
expedient
for
all
,
who
of
this
high
Calling
and
Profession
would
come
to
be
.
I
must
say
it
is
great
,
it
is
worthy
,
and
exceeding
joyous
,
and
honourable
;
blessed
are
those
that
can
get
discharged
from
all
low
and
earthly
Impediments
,
to
follow
and
mind
this
Heavenly
Vocation
,
which
turns
to
the
best
of
accounts
;
which
in
the
conclusion
will
prove
the
most
gainful
Imploy
and
Calling
.
But
to
return
where
we
left
;
As
to
the
watchful
,
wary
deportment
that
is
required
betwixt
Resurrection
and
Ascension
;
for
it
is
the
last
Probation
,
therefore
it
concerns
the
risen
Soul
to
be
very
cautious
,
to
keep
up
to
the
Celestial
Region
,
improving
all
those
sublime
Faculties
that
it
is
raised
in
.
We
may
observe
,
that
our
Lord
,
after
his
Resurrection
,
did
shew
himself
only
to
the
Brethren
going
in
and
out
,
giving
among
them
but
short
stays
,
having
other
Worlds
and
Spheres
,
to
visit
the
Inhabitants
there
:
So
it
is
with
the
risen
in
Christ
,
who
are
his
living
Witnesses
,
who
do
appear
to
their
Fellow
Saints
,
to
their
great
astonishment
;
declaring
,
the
Lord
is
indeed
risen
in
them
:
and
where
a
doubtful
Spirit
is
that
doth
question
the
truth
thereof
,
they
are
able
to
shew
the
apparent
Marks
for
evidence
.
But
you
will
ask
,
What
are
they
,
that
so
we
may
not
be
deceived
in
them
?
First
,
You
may
know
them
by
their
swift
Motion
,
and
sublime
Faculties
,
going
in
and
out
as
Strangers
,
no
longer
dwellers
upon
the
Earth
:
their
Home
is
properly
with
the
Lord
,
and
can
with
their
invisible
Spirit
and
Body
,
pass
through
divers
unknown
Spheres
,
some
times
more
immediate
with
the
Deity
;
and
other
times
with
the
Orders
of
glorified
Angels
,
and
Saints
of
high
Degree
,
that
have
got
beyond
Mortality
;
and
then
again
return
to
be
seen
and
known
of
such
as
are
in
this
lower
Orb.
The
truth
is
,
they
are
so
spiritually
greatned
,
by
the
birth
of
the
Resurrection
,
that
they
cannot
but
despise
all
mortal
,
terrestrial
appearances
of
things
in
this
low
World
;
although
while
living
in
it
,
subject
to
the
just
and
necessary
things
of
it
,
in
all
moderation
;
while
corporiety
in
its
visible
Figure
does
remain
:
for
Christ
himself
did
in
his
humane
Body
appear
after
his
Resurrection
,
and
did
eat
common
Food
with
his
Disciples
,
to
prove
all
this
might
consist
with
a
risen
Life
.
Then
again
you
may
know
the
risen
in
Christ
,
by
their
designing
only
great
and
noble
Enterprises
;
they
having
got
so
much
of
God's
Nature
into
them
;
that
they
are
straitned
till
they
bring
it
forth
into
manifestation
,
in
way
of
fruitful
Powers
,
acting
God's
great
wonders
upon
the
visible
Stage
of
this
World
:
in
order
to
which
,
they
always
do
keep
the
Ladder
of
Ascension
steady
in
their
eye
,
knowing
their
stay
is
not
to
be
long
before
their
way
will
be
made
to
the
everlasting
burning
Throne
of
God's
open
Face
;
as
being
thus
qualified
,
they
do
stand
in
all
readiness
for
Ascension
.
But
we
may
add
this
by
way
of
Information
,
that
there
are
many
degrees
of
risings
,
and
liftings
up
,
in
order
hereunto
,
which
often
may
be
so
strongly
beset
with
a
watch
of
unbelieving
Spirits
,
which
may
beat
the
Resurrection-life
back
.
This
has
been
known
by
such
as
have
been
hard
pressing
forward
to
be
of
the
Resurrection-Flock
.
In
this
I
speak
my
own
Experience
,
as
finding
it
the
greatest
Impede
;
for
when
the
Mystery
of
the
Resurrection
was
first
opened
unto
me
,
and
incitements
from
my
Lord
,
Christ
set
home
upon
me
,
that
as
he
raised
up
himself
personally
,
so
he
would
me
spiritually
.
No
sooner
did
I
begin
to
entertain
a
belief
herein
,
but
I
had
Legions
of
Spirits
came
about
me
to
make
all
void
,
as
not
attainable
in
this
present
time
,
discouraging
and
weakening
my
Faith
;
but
the
mighty
God
stood
up
in
me
as
a
flaming
Wall
,
driving
back
that
floating
sea
of
Sensibility
,
and
invading
Spirits
,
shutting
and
binding
them
out
of
his
own
risen
Body
.
Now
then
by
all
this
that
hath
been
declared
and
proved
by
Scripture
and
Experience
,
we
hope
it
may
fasten
a
belief
of
this
Truth
,
and
leave
a
provocation
for
getting
up
upon
this
Resurrection-step
,
by
which
an
high
advance
and
great
assurance
is
given
,
for
the
third
Staff
of
Jacob's
Ladder
to
set
foot
upon
,
of
which
we
shall
go
forward
on
to
describe
.
The
Resurrection
.
YE
Angels
rise
from
Death
,
come
up
yet
higher
.
Mount
to
the
place
of
the
Seraphick
Quire
,
And
there
,
without
all
anguish
,
and
all
pain
,
In
God
your
Temple
full
of
Joys
remain
.
Ye
who
the
Vails
of
Flesh
have
broken
through
,
Your
blissful
risen
Glory
still
pursue
.
Oh
ye
High-born
,
arisen
from
the
Dead
!
You
now
are
rais'd
,
to
live
with
Christ
your
Head.
No
more
below
cast
down
on
things
your
Eye
,
That
in
the
worldly
Dust
do
groveling
lie
:
For
Soul
,
and
Spirit
,
still
must
upward
flee
,
And
seek
the
Bosom
of
the
Deity
.
What
Trumpet
's
this
,
which
soundeth
now
so
loud
?
Comes
not
the
sound
from
the
Etherial
Cloud
?
Calling
the
dead
in
Christ
to
come
away
,
And
to
shake
off
the
heavy
fleshly
Clay
?
Up
,
up
ye
Souls
,
that
shine
like
Morning
bright
,
From
whence
is
banish'd
quite
black
Death
and
Night
.
Come
now
with
me
,
a
Secret
I
'le
unfold
,
God's
glorious
Body
you
shall
all
behold
!
Your
Senses
all
shall
new
enlightned
be
,
And
exercised
in
Divinity
:
In
glorious
Heaven
,
where
low
and
mortal
sense
,
In
risen
Spirits
,
shall
be
banish'd
thence
.
Here
follows
the
Tract
of
Ascension
.
HAving
passed
through
,
and
got
over
the
Resurrection-step
,
and
held
out
the
Probation-hour
;
the
Heavens
do
open
,
and
the
bright
Cloud
breaks
,
as
the
open
Gate
for
Ascension
,
to
receive
the
Spirit
and
Soul
that
hath
put
on
its
risen
Body
;
it
is
now
to
be
parted
from
the
Earth
,
and
carried
up
to
have
conversation
with
the
Holy
Trinity
,
and
all
those
princely
Dignities
in
heavenly
Places
.
Oh
what
Angelical
Sounds
,
and
winding-up
Powers
,
that
do
make
a
Soul
all
restless
,
till
it
comes
to
its
own
prepared
Mansion
!
With
what
Love-Zeal
is
it
now
fired
withal
?
Every
motion
is
all
ascending
towards
its
own
Center
;
for
now
it
is
very
painful
to
live
any
space
of
Time
,
out
from
the
Heavenly
Element
,
and
it
is
judged
as
expedient
for
a
risen
Soul
to
depart
mystically
and
spiritually
,
as
the
Lord
Christ
did
personally
;
nothing
must
or
can
long
detain
it
.
All
Dues
,
Debts
,
and
Demands
being
cleared
in
Christ
,
the
Life
and
Resurrection
,
who
also
hath
ransomed
the
Soul
from
Death
,
so
as
that
the
Evil
Accuser
can
bring
no
charge
against
a
risen
Spirit
,
having
once
died
to
his
Kingdom
;
no
nor
any
of
his
Worldly
Agents
,
that
would
readily
lay
wait
of
earthly
Cares
to
keep
down
,
from
mounting
up
to
the
Lamb's
Throne
;
but
they
have
nothing
to
do
in
that
Principle
,
in
which
ascending
Spirits
are
center'd
,
as
moving
straight
forward
,
not
looking
back
or
down
any
more
to
what
they
are
now
redeemed
from
;
keeping
pace
,
and
maintaining
their
Walks
with
the
Holy
Trinity
,
being
so
refreshed
and
satisfied
,
both
as
to
Place
and
Company
,
that
they
mind
and
study
no
other
thing
,
but
to
become
as
fixed
Pillars
,
no
more
to
come
out
,
being
answered
there
to
the
fulness
of
all
Joy.
But
here
it
may
be
queried
,
With
what
Body
do
you
ascend
?
If
your
mortal
Figure
be
yet
confined
to
stay
in
this
visible
World
,
How
shall
it
be
discerned
when
you
do
ascend
?
In
Answer
to
this
;
No
gross
earthly
Eye
,
that
looks
at
things
according
to
outward
appearances
,
can
indeed
discern
the
Lord's
Mystical
Body
,
which
is
put
on
for
Ascension
;
no
one
can
be
in
the
true
Perceivance
,
but
such
as
are
in
the
same
free
and
light
Principle
;
others
are
not
to
see
it
or
know
it
,
till
they
come
to
descend
in
the
Tabernacle-Body
of
the
Holy-Ghost
;
then
they
shall
be
confessed
and
owned
by
them
,
who
are
doubtful
and
unbelieving
,
as
questioning
all
of
this
internal
Ascension
,
because
not
known
experimentally
.
But
blessed
are
they
who
know
themselves
in
it
,
and
are
received
as
out
of
sight
,
to
be
very
much
with
Jesus
their
Lord.
How
is
that
,
you
will
say
,
to
be
out
of
sight
,
and
yet
in
sight
amongst
mortals
?
You
are
to
understand
it
thus
;
That
the
Soul
and
Spirit
in
the
secret
Divine
Body
,
which
it
puts
on
in
the
Resurrection
,
is
so
highly
soaring
and
moving
,
as
the
Cherubim-Wheels
mentioned
by
Ezekiel
,
lifted
up
by
the
Spirit
,
and
ascending
from
the
Earth
,
as
neither
caring
or
minding
worldly
Matters
more
.
It
hath
no
patience
to
demur
its
stay
,
such
worthy
and
glorious
Objects
,
as
all
amazing
it
doth
in
the
Spirit
's
Eye
behold
,
that
it
is
so
enkindled
in
flames
of
Love-desire
,
as
it
can
take
in
no
check
nor
controul
to
detard
it
from
Ascension
.
Oh!
what
is
given
us
for
to
descry
,
though
yet
appearing
in
a
mortal
Vehicle
,
as
relating
to
Ascension
;
at
the
entrance
of
which
Gate
do
stand
numerous
Angels
and
Scraphims
,
with
Flags
of
Victory
,
to
give
to
each
ascended
Spirit
;
shouting
with
Joy
of
Salvation
,
that
is
now
wrought
out
:
Then
doth
this
Holy
and
Heavenly
Train
usher
in
the
Ascended
,
and
bring
them
close
up
to
the
Throne
of
the
Lamb
,
who
all
in
Jasper
Light
and
Glory
doth
appear
,
rising
up
from
his
Throne-Seat
them
for
to
meet
,
and
shews
each
one
their
reserved
Crowns
and
Thrones
,
given
them
for
their
Instalment
.
Oh
we
must
be
silent
,
for
we
can
find
no
words
to
set
forth
what
Love
,
Joys
,
and
Embraces
,
do
mutually
pass
betwixt
the
Lord
Christ
,
and
the
ascended
Ones
.
No
measuring
out
of
any
Heights
,
and
Lengths
,
and
Breadths
of
Love
,
which
is
enjoyed
here
in
the
highest
Solacements
;
it
may
be
well
and
truly
said
,
it
passeth
all
understanding
.
But
this
is
not
all
,
there
is
yet
much
more
to
be
done
and
conferred
by
the
Father
of
Ascending
Spirits
,
whom
the
Lord
Christ
presents
unto
him
,
and
saith
,
Behold
,
and
see
them
whom
thou
gavest
me
,
are
come
up
after
me
,
being
no
more
of
the
World
than
I
am
:
Therefore
,
O
Father
,
confer
upon
them
what
thou
hast
done
upon
me
.
At
which
sight
and
request
,
the
supream
presence
of
Glory
seems
all
well-pleased
to
behold
the
effect
of
Christ's
travel
through
Death
and
Sorrow
,
thus
to
save
and
redeem
.
Upon
this
then
there
is
a
Council
held
jointly
by
the
Holy
Trinity
,
all
agreeing
in
one
,
as
to
what
Immunities
and
Gifts
that
are
to
be
conferred
,
with
all
those
promised
Rewards
,
which
do
belong
to
the
Conquerors
,
for
the
encouragement
of
the
rest
of
the
Elect
Flock
to
pursue
Ascension
also
.
But
here
the
Lord
,
and
great
High
Priest
,
as
more
nearly
entrusted
,
acts
the
part
of
an
Advocate
,
and
makes
Demands
from
God
the
Father
,
for
all
those
eternal
Land-Revenues
setled
by
fore-Ordination
,
upon
those
whom
he
had
recovered
and
raised
from
the
Death
of
Sin.
Whereupon
a
Cry
does
go
forth
from
an
ascended
Soul
,
as
the
Widow
Woman
,
whose
Son
Elisha
raised
to
Life
;
who
in
a
time
of
Dearth
and
Famine
,
sojourn'd
in
a
strange
Land
;
which
when
again
returned
,
cryed
to
the
King
to
have
her
House
and
Land
restored
again
;
shewing
her
Son
and
Heir
whom
the
Prophet
had
from
Death
brought
to
Life
.
Thus
it
is
with
a
Soul
that
hath
been
banished
from
its
ancient
heavenly
Inheritance
;
for
which
Christ
the
now
glorified
Mediator
sueth
,
that
there
may
be
a
return
of
all
spiritual
Revenues
and
good
things
;
at
which
the
mighty
God
and
King
appoints
his
Angelical
Officers
to
search
the
everlasting
Records
,
and
to
bring
forth
the
ancient
Deeds
,
which
to
the
Resurrection
and
Ascension-state
do
belong
;
every
Name
therein
to
be
found
,
which
are
predestinated
unto
Glorification
.
For
Christ
the
Lord
hath
a
most
lawful
Plea
,
and
doth
now
make
claim
for
the
Tree
of
Life
also
,
to
stand
all
free
to
be
fed
upon
,
without
any
prohibition
;
for
as
Adam
sucked
in
Death
by
that
other
Tree
,
so
here
is
confirmation
in
eternal
Life
;
and
as
Adam's
Angelical
and
Paradisical
Body
was
changed
into
that
which
was
mortal
and
vile
;
so
by
virtue
of
feeding
upon
this
Tree
of
Life
,
we
shall
again
reassume
a
pure
and
unfadable
Body
,
far
more
transparent
than
he
had
in
that
first
Creation-state
;
which
may
be
made
out
clear
in
the
various
Properties
of
this
Tree
of
Life
,
which
we
shall
draw
up
the
number
of
.
The
first
Property
,
It
gives
a
single
,
clear
,
and
christaline
sight
,
to
behold
Celestial
Glories
,
without
any
medium
.
Secondly
,
It
gives
a
supernatural
hearing
,
it
comes
to
understand
the
Heavenly
Language
,
as
from
Eternal
Nature
spoken
;
which
Language
is
in
corrupted
Nature
now
quite
lost
,
and
can
only
be
restored
in
the
Ascension
.
The
third
Property
is
,
the
most
profound
and
deep
Wisdom
,
which
doth
most
highly
excel
and
outvie
all
the
craft
and
subtilty
sucked
in
from
the
Breast
of
fallen
Eve
,
whole
Children
have
herein
been
nourished
up
in
a
shifting
way
of
worldly
Wisdom
,
which
shewed
it self
in
Adam
and
Eve
,
when
the
Lord
called
them
to
an
account
for
their
disobedience
to
his
Command
.
All
which
subtilty
must
die
and
fall
away
,
when
God's
Wisdom
shall
be
restored
again
.
The
fourth
Property
of
this
Tree
of
Life
,
it
gives
an
everlasting
and
unchangeable
Righteousness
,
as
a
white
Robe
that
covers
from
Head
to
Foot
,
suffering
no
more
spot
of
the
Earthly
Life
to
fall
upon
it
.
The
fifth
Property
is
,
an
unutterable
ravishing
Pleasure
,
and
Joy
drawn
in
as
the
sweetness
of
the
Dew
,
which
lies
always
upon
the
Branches
of
this
Tree
,
the
precious
favour
hereof
never
departs
from
the
Soul
;
it
is
all
Paradisical
Power
.
The
sixth
Property
is
,
a
flowing
torrent
of
Love
,
which
knows
no
bounds
;
it
expatiates
it self
from
lengths
to
breadths
,
and
from
heights
to
depths
;
it
runs
through
all
degrees
first
and
principally
;
it
runneth
it self
into
its
own
original
Being
of
Love
,
where-out
it
comes
all
covered
with
Love
,
Sweetness
,
and
Amity
towards
all
,
to
scatter
among
all
Fellowships
and
Societies
,
these
pure
sparkling
Powers
of
Love
received
from
the
Deity
.
The
seventh
Property
produceth
an
absolute
,
free
,
and
eternal
Liberty
of
Will
,
which
stands
fixed
in
God
,
knowing
no
restraint
or
bondage
;
for
what-ever
it
willeth
or
decreeth
is
made
good
,
because
it
moveth
in
the
Will
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
Eighth
Property
is
,
the
serene
Meekness
,
and
tender
Mercifulness
let
forth
,
as
from
God's
own
nature
of
Goodness
,
to
Objects
that
may
require
succour
and
help
,
whether
upon
an
Interior
or
Exterior
;
if
in
spiritual
desertion
and
temptation
,
how
readily
is
the
Balsam
Tincture
of
this
Tree
given
sorth
,
to
heal
and
cure
the
wounded
in
Spirit
,
that
so
they
may
find
present
Cure.
Ninthly
,
Here
is
the
donation
of
durable
Riches
and
Honour
,
which
is
so
infinitly
great
and
glorious
,
as
it
draws
a
black
Cloud
of
Contempt
upon
all
the
Babylonish
Treasures
,
that
have
been
gotten
and
raised
by
earthly
Science
and
Craft
.
Tenthly
,
Know
in
Truth
and
Verity
,
here
is
an
eternal
springing
Bank
,
that
will
never
be
spent
out
,
for
it
is
the
Generating-Revenue
,
which
the
Holy
Trinity
spends
upon
,
and
freely
does
receive
the
ascended
into
Community
,
to
share
in
this
springing
Gold-Mine
,
where
there
will
be
no
need
of
digging
,
nor
labour
,
either
of
Body
or
Mind
;
there
will
be
no
occasion
to
say
,
What
shall
we
eat
or
drink
,
or
where-withal
shall
we
be
cloathed
?
The
Lilly-Time
is
now
here
come
,
that
all
of
this
kind
will
be
supplied
from
God's
flowing
Fountain
of
all
precious
Store
,
that
will
confer
such
a
plenty
of
dowry
Riches
and
Honours
,
that
cannot
be
degraded
,
nor
plucked
away
from
the
Ascended
.
Which
as
a
Ship
they
will
sail
with
out-spread
Banners
of
Conquest
and
Victory
,
floating
upon
the
Throne-River
of
Life
,
daring
all
Sea
and
Land
Enemies
of
this
worldly
Principle
,
whose
strength
is
rottenness
,
and
cannot
stand
before
the
Ark
of
God's
moving
Power
,
in
which
his
Kingdom
shall
be
established
.
The
eleventh
Property
of
this
Tree
of
Life
,
is
known
by
sending
forth
sweet-scented
Odours
and
Perfumes
,
a
compounded
Spicknard
,
which
is
so
strong
and
powerful
,
that
it
is
all-penetrating
:
So
deep
,
that
it
toucheth
and
doth
influence
,
and
is
an
Antidote
against
all
Putrefaction
of
Sin
,
and
the
evil
Consequences
thereof
;
the
very
out-breathing
Words
,
are
all
perfumed
with
the
Oil
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
which
sends
forth
a
virtual
healing-Life
,
among
whom
they
converse
with
in
a
Spiritual
Sense
.
The
twelfth
and
last
Property
,
which
is
the
consummating
Glory
of
all
,
is
an
unceasant
flow
of
immortal
Life
,
which
fed
is
from
the
Christalline
River
,
proceeding
from
the
Throne
of
God
,
which
River
doth
encompass
this
Tree
for
fixation
,
that
so
no
more
Death
,
nor
Curse
may
be
known
,
but
all
swallowed
up
in
Victory
,
according
to
the
Vision
which
the
beloved
John
saw
,
how
that
this
Tree
grew
in
the
midst
,
and
of
either
side
of
this
River
,
signifying
it
to
be
the
Holy
Trinity
in
their
distinct
Variety
,
springing
up
for
a
feeding
Life
to
the
Spirit
,
Soul
and
Body
,
which
hath
reached
to
Ascension
.
Now
then
by
all
that
hath
been
opened
and
revealed
of
the
wonderful
Properties
of
this
Tree
of
Life
,
can
it
do
less
than
inforce
most
ardiant
longings
and
aspirings
,
to
go
on
forward
to
all
of
these
Degrees
?
Oh
let
not
this
low
Elementary
Kingdom
,
with
all
its
subtile
Inchantments
,
and
binding
Weights
,
keep
down
any
that
are
of
the
Resurrection
.
The
Ascension-gate
,
our
Emanuel
hath
passed
through
,
and
doth
cause
it
to
stand
open
for
all
that
have
good
Will
and
servent
Love
to
come
up
after
him
.
What
though
as
yet
there
may
be
but
few
Presidents
that
have
reached
this
Ascension
Mark
;
the
Serpent
with
his
twisting
Tail
having
drawn
down
many
ascending
Stars
:
let
not
that
discourage
,
but
rather
fire
our
Zeal
the
more
,
and
watchful
be
to
avoid
his
Subtilty
,
who
is
not
wanting
to
lay
numerous
Stumbling-blocks
in
our
way
;
but
through
the
Spirit
of
Faith
,
there
may
be
a
striding
over
all
,
taking
up
courage
and
holy
resolution
in
this
ascending
way
.
For
something
I
do
see
breaking
forth
as
the
Light
of
a
new
Day
,
and
by
the
great
Alpha
and
Omega
it
is
testified
,
that
what
by
his
Spirit
hath
been
revealed
,
shall
not
go
off
as
a
dead
Seane
,
shewn
only
in
literal
description
,
and
so
foulded
up
again
.
No
,
a
more
lively
draught
the
Holy
Ghost
will
draw
upon
the
Hearts
and
Spirits
of
those
who
are
born
again
;
this
being
now
the
very
Time
wherein
our
expectation
groweth
big
,
for
bringing
forth
the
Heir
to
all
of
these
Heavenly
Immunities
which
hath
been
mentioned
;
and
what
the
tenor
of
the
new
and
everlasting
Covenant
runneth
upon
,
wherein
a
new
Heart
,
and
another
Spirit
,
in
which
God's
own
eternal
and
pure
Nature
will
be
restored
,
so
as
to
abolish
the
very
Root-Essence
of
Sin
,
which
no
verbal
Ministration
,
or
doctrinal
Precept
could
reach
,
nor
intellectual
Knowledg
,
or
Vision
,
that
giveth
divine
Seeing
,
and
speculation
of
heavenly
Objects
and
Things
:
All
of
these
have
the
cessation
and
termination
;
but
that
which
is
the
surer
ground-work
,
far
excelling
all
,
is
to
find
our selves
rooted
and
effenced
in
the
birth
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
which
is
firm
,
stable
,
and
unchangeable
,
wherein
the
Issues
of
a
new-springing
Life
will
go
forth
in
every
motion
,
putting
a
stop
to
all
profuse
and
impertinent
Imaginations
,
that
from
Nature's
Root
has
been
put
forth
.
Such
a
signal
Change
we
in
our selves
shall
find
,
when
the
Lord
from
Heaven
shall
descend
for
to
bring
up
to
Ascension
,
and
will
for
ever
maintain
his
Superiority
and
Kingly
Power
over
all
Principalities
in
this
Worldly
Region
;
putting
all
things
under
,
which
hath
exalted
themselves
above
him
.
This
is
the
unreversible
Decree
of
our
great
Sion-King
,
wherein
the
ransomed
shall
passively
stand
,
for
the
ruling
Scepter
of
the
Holy
Lamb
of
God
,
to
take
all
kingly
Power
into
his
own
hand
,
to
manage
a
pure
,
righteous
,
and
peaceable
Kingdom
,
of
which
there
shall
be
no
end
.
This
is
that
great
and
mighty
over-turn
,
which
we
are
looking
and
hastning
for
.
The
Ascension
.
WHat
is
this
rushing
sound
which
I
now
hear
?
The
fiery
Chariots
whirling
through
the
Air
,
For
Souls
to
mount
up
to
the
Heavenly
Station
;
And
there
for
to
put
on
their
Glorification
.
Mount
risen
Souls
,
and
not
in
Eden
stay
;
Life's
Tree
doth
for
you
all
its
Fruits
display
.
Fear
not
,
be
bold
,
as
Cherubs
mount
apace
;
Ascend
on
high
into
your
native
place
.
Love's
Heart
stands
open
;
it
is
there
alone
,
You
'l
see
God
Face
to
Face
in
his
bright
Throne
;
Where
you
shall
Pleasures
feel
,
Life
,
Joy
,
and
Peace
,
For
you
prepared
,
that
will
never
cease
.
Mount
then
the
Ladder
,
and
to
Heaven
ascend
;
There
lies
the
Treasures
,
that
shall
never
end
:
Whose
endless
Riches
so
shall
take
your
Eyes
,
All
temporal
Wealth
for
it
you
shall
despise
.
The
Income
everlastingly
shall
flow
;
And
of
the
end
of
Wealth
no
one
shall
know
.
In
this
Ascending
State
,
all
Spirits
are
Free
from
all
Thought
,
disburthen'd
of
all
care
:
For
in
this
glorious
,
and
this
wealthy
Land
,
An
endless
Store
,
and
Bank
doth
open
stand
;
Which
still
does
multiply
,
increase
,
and
grow
,
As
it
does
from
the
God-head
Fountain
flow
.
Upon
Ascension
and
Descension
.
EXpect
now
that
Day
of
God
,
which
as
a
fiery
Oven
and
molten
Heat
,
shall
come
upon
the
old
Heavens
and
Earth
not
only
to
shake
,
but
dissolve
them
;
such
a
signal
change
will
be
effected
through
the
fiery
Baptising
Cloud
,
in
which
the
Holy
Ghost
will
descend
the
second
time
upon
the
New
Jerusalem
Waters
,
who
called
and
fixed
are
to
mind
no
other
thing
but
Ascension
,
to
receive
Power
from
the
most
high
,
for
to
do
Works
of
Glorification
,
which
none
can
be
capable
of
,
but
such
as
are
separated
and
redeemed
out
of
the
Earth
.
The
Apostles
were
commanded
of
the
Lord
Christ
,
when
he
intended
to
pour
forth
the
Holy
Ghost
,
wholly
there
to
tend
;
upon
which
they
accordingly
received
the
first
Fruits
of
it
.
But
now
where
shall
we
find
a
holy
separated
Fraternity
,
that
in
pure
Concord
and
Unity
of
Love
,
do
together
wait
for
the
residue
of
the
Spirit
,
to
do
the
great
Works
of
God
in
this
Earth
,
which
hath
lain
so
long
barren
from
bringing
forth
any
of
this
kind
of
fruitful
Powers
?
Therefore
it
is
but
all
necessary
to
provoke
to
such
a
gathering
in
Spirit
,
and
ascend
together
unto
the
Mount
of
Olives
,
as
apart
from
all
worldly
Impediments
hereupon
,
for
to
wait
till
the
bright
glance
of
the
Ghostly
Majesty
shall
again
break
forth
in
Power
and
great
Glory
,
that
we
may
shew
our selves
to
those
of
our
Brethren
,
who
yet
in
the
Kedar
of
a
worldly
State
do
dwell
,
to
invite
them
out
of
this
imbondaged
Life
,
where
the
sorrow
and
servile
droil
do
attend
.
Who
then
shall
of
these
glad
Tydings
first
bring
,
but
such
close
and
servent
Seekers
that
have
set
the
Morning-Watch
,
looking
for
the
East-gate
to
open
,
which
hath
been
the
six
working-days
of
Man's
Labour
shut
?
all
of
which
is
to
cease
,
when
the
great
Prince
of
the
Sanctuary
shall
rise
and
ascend
in
us
,
to
enter
into
the
most
holy
and
inward
Court
,
as
that
one
perpetual
Sabbath
,
where
we
come
to
rest
from
all
our
own
Works
;
that
the
Holy
Ghost
may
act
,
and
do
all
in
the
most
Holy
Place
in
us
,
as
an
Offering
well
pleasing
to
the
Father
,
who
accepteth
such
Worship
only
,
as
performed
is
by
this
most
excellent
Spirit
.
Therefore
how
lightly
and
unavailably
are
all
our
Actings
and
Workings
to
be
set
by
,
till
the
Power
of
the
Holy
Ghost
comes
to
move
all
pure
,
strong
,
and
effectual
?
for
nothing
will
or
can
hold
out
or
abide
,
but
what
is
wrought
up
to
the
numberless
measure
of
God
the
Holy
Ghost
:
Therefore
this
golden
Reed
is
given
to
be
our
Measure
,
from
thousands
to
thousands
,
till
the
living
Waters
from
under
the
threshold
of
the
Sanctuary
do
rise
as
an
unpassable
River
,
to
drown
all
that
is
drossy
and
earthly
,
so
as
nothing
may
live
there
,
but
what
is
of
a
Godhead-appearance
.
Now
then
let
us
go
on
to
pursue
that
,
for
which
the
lively
Hope
is
begotten
in
us
,
not
looking
back
to
any
vailed
or
shadowed
Ministrations
,
which
could
never
perfect
what
we
in
the
everlasting
Counsel
of
the
Holy
Trinity
are
design'd
unto
;
for
know
it
for
a
Truth
,
from
the
Yea
and
the
Amen
,
that
the
now
vile
drossy
Man
shall
be
made
all
Gold
,
through
the
tincturing
virtue
of
the
Deity
entring
into
him
:
This
is
the
amazing
Wonder
which
is
left
for
the
Holy
Ghost
to
bring
about
.
But
who
are
the
elected
hereunto
,
as
Subjects
upon
whom
this
shall
first
be
wrought
upon
?
It
may
be
further
queried
,
There
are
various
fore-running
Qualifications
which
have
been
already
mentioned
,
as
in
the
Death
,
and
following
Process
.
This
only
I
shall
further
add
,
That
those
who
are
chosen
in
God
for
to
be
the
first
springing
Plants
of
this
new
Creation
,
there
will
be
given
to
them
a
mighty
Spirit
of
Faith
,
and
a
clear
and
satisfying
Perswasion
,
that
this
great
,
thorow
,
and
marvellous
Change
is
to
be
effected
,
and
for
this
they
must
be
cast
as
into
a
new
Spiritual
Model
,
fitted
out
by
the
Spirit
of
Wisdom
,
and
so
found
in
a
believing
and
waiting
posture
;
for
let
none
imagine
this
will
fall
upon
any
suddenly
,
but
they
will
have
a
foregoing
Work
for
it
,
and
know
a
great
change
in
the
secret
of
their
Souls
inward
part
;
which
is
all
necessary
,
that
through
cleansing
Work
,
there
should
be
a
getting
through
,
to
make
ready
for
this
great
and
last
Baptising
,
into
the
pure
Nature
of
the
Deity
,
who
then
will
discharge
all
our
bodily
Exercise
,
as
to
the
most
Holy
Things
,
wherein
fault
might
be
found
;
because
performed
from
a
mixed
ground
,
where
Good
and
Evil
in
contest
was
.
It
shall
no
more
be
said
,
The
Spirit
and
we
together
do
work
,
for
Man
must
come
to
the
end
of
his
days
Work
;
for
the
Holy
Ghost
doth
take
upon
him
to
do
this
great
Work
,
which
appertains
to
Glorification
,
in
those
that
are
come
thus
forward
on
to
cease
to
their
own
Works
,
and
doth
see
the
utmost
ends
of
their
unprofitable
and
dead
Earth
,
and
can
no
more
act
from
that
mixed
Property
,
being
made
to
know
another
more
excellent
Ministry
,
by
uniting
now
with
the
seven
Forms
of
eternal
Nature
compacted
,
and
made
up
for
a
pure
Ghostly
Body
,
where
all
Ability
and
God-sufficiency
will
shew
forth
it self
quite
of
another
sort
,
than
while
under
internal
Purifications
,
and
Soul-cleansings
,
which
were
always
a
doing
,
and
never
done
,
nor
could
ever
be
expected
,
till
the
Holy
Ghost
comes
to
fix
his
own
Body
,
which
will
go
forth
in
various
working
Powers
,
which
I
should
unfold
as
they
have
been
revealed
unto
me
;
but
not
knowing
yet
any
that
can
bear
or
receive
such
wonder-working
Powers
,
they
must
lie
a
while
under
the
Seal
of
Secrecy
,
till
it
be
known
who
are
worthy
of
them
,
which
God
will
reveal
to
us
in
his
Time
;
for
the
bringing
forth
a
new
creating
Store
,
that
hath
in
bank
been
treasuring
up
,
for
those
that
shall
meet
me
in
this
high
and
heavenly
Track
,
who
have
left
this
visible
and
fadable
State
,
for
the
more
sure
and
weighty
precious
Things
,
which
the
Day
of
the
Holy
Ghost
must
and
will
bring
in
;
to
which
Lot
,
the
Wisdom
of
God
hath
charged
us
to
stand
,
and
not
to
let
the
Golden
Stone
which
is
left
in
trust
,
as
unadvisedly
to
slip
out
of
our
hands
;
but
wait
for
him
to
work
upon
it
,
who
only
is
mighty
,
able
and
skilful
to
use
it
,
by
opening
the
wonder-working
Virtue
of
it
.
In
the
mean
time
we
are
taught
to
hold
out
our
six
working-days
,
till
the
seventh
Year
of
this
Sabbatical
Rest
is
come
.
Blessed
are
those
which
are
arrived
to
the
sixth
and
last
day
,
in
a
ready
preparation
and
hopeful
expectation
,
that
the
East-gate
will
open
to
give
an
entrance
into
that
good
Land
,
where
we
may
be
as
those
true
Rachabites
,
no
more
to
Build
,
or
Plant
,
or
Sow
into
a
corruptible
Soil
,
nor
any
more
to
drink
of
the
Wine
of
any
adulterated
Vine
,
wrought
out
by
the
sweat
of
the
Brow
;
but
come
to
reap
all
of
those
rich
,
good
,
and
plentiful
Things
,
which
are
made
ready
unto
our
hand
,
according
to
that
saying
of
our
Lord
Christ
unto
his
Disciples
,
I
have
sent
you
to
reap
that
whereon
you
bestowed
no
labour
,
(
Joh.
4.
38.
)
referring
here
unto
the
Gifts
and
Powers
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
which
so
fluently
were
shed
abroad
and
given
in
that
day
.
So
again
,
much
more
will
be
known
,
when
the
residue
of
the
Spirit
shall
be
poured
forth
,
a
rich
prize
shall
be
possessed
,
even
such
a
living
stock
for
subsistance
,
as
shall
be
blessed
with
the
multiplying
Power
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
After
this
way
will
God
for
his
own
Houshold
provide
distinguishingly
;
but
for
this
it
is
given
us
to
understand
,
there
will
be
such
a
kind
of
Faith
given
,
as
shall
run
up
as
high
,
and
extend
it self
as
large
,
as
an
Almighty
and
Infinite
God
can
answer
unto
;
for
such
a
Spirit
of
Faith
is
all-necessary
for
the
accomplishment
of
such
mighty
Things
;
therefore
we
may
be
provoked
to
pray
uncessantly
for
this
Gift
.
Thus
we
have
defined
some
part
of
the
Glory
that
doth
follow
upon
Ascension
,
through
being
fixed
in
the
Body
of
the
Holy
Ghost
;
by
whose
glance
of
Light
it
is
given
us
to
see
another
Degree
,
how
that
the
Ascended
and
Glorified
,
are
again
to
descend
,
to
show
and
declare
to
their
fellow
Saints
,
what
Dowry
they
are
by
the
Holy
Ghost
possessed
with
to
serve
their
Lord
and
Master's
appointment
with
here
in
this
visible
Principle
.
This
is
a
secret
written
in
the
Book
of
Life
,
upon
which
there
hath
been
a
fast
Seal
:
But
now
the
Lamb
of
God
is
in
Spirit
come
to
break
it
open
,
that
we
may
read
&
know
the
great
Royalties
,
which
he
hath
redeemed
us
to
enjoy
.
We
in
the
first
place
are
to
remind
and
make
observation
,
that
when
any
great
and
mighty
change
was
to
be
wrought
and
effected
upon
the
Earth
,
it
was
to
be
done
still
by
Angels
that
descended
from
Heaven
,
as
mentioned
is
in
Holy
John's
Revelation
,
Rev.
18.
1.
&
20.
1.
which
is
not
to
be
understood
or
limited
unto
those
Angels
,
which
never
knew
a
Birth
in
Time
,
whose
descent
was
ever
in
Seraphick
Figures
;
but
more
properly
to
the
Angels
of
the
Resurrection
,
that
have
passed
through
the
ten
days
Tribulation
,
and
have
overcome
through
the
Blood
of
the
Covenant
.
These
are
those
whom
the
mighty
God
will
imploy
for
the
replenishing
of
a
New
Creation
,
and
coming
down
with
the
ghostly
Powers
to
lay
the
Foundation
for
the
Mount-Sion
Glory
;
and
it
could
never
be
expected
that
this
great
over-turn
,
and
change
upon
the
confused
Babylonish
State
of
things
,
as
now
standing
,
should
be
effected
,
till
Angels
of
Time
had
ascended
,
and
again
descended
,
as
having
obtained
personal
conjunction
,
and
Power
from
Christ
their
Head-life
,
to
act
as
his
Representatives
in
this
World
,
shewing
a
Godhead-Commission
beyond
and
above
all
worded
Testimonies
,
by
Signs
,
and
Deeds
of
Wonders
;
all
which
are
reserved
till
elected
Angels
do
ascend
to
receive
a
mighty
impowring
from
the
Holy
Trinity
.
This
is
the
finishing
Mystery
that
is
waited
and
looked
for
,
that
so
the
ruinated
and
apostratised
State
of
Creatures
may
be
restored
to
their
first
Principle
,
where
the
New
Jerusalem
will
open
and
descend
,
then
shall
the
Priestly
Kingdom
be
revealed
,
and
its
Government
be
known
,
and
managed
by
the
Saints
of
the
most
High
,
who
after
Ascension
must
have
some
space
of
Time
for
their
Instalment
and
Fixation
in
the
Powers
and
Gifts
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
that
they
may
not
transiently
come
and
pass
away
again
,
as
formerly
they
did
,
but
be
established
and
founded
as
upon
a
Rock
immutable
.
For
as
the
Heavens
have
received
the
Lord
Christ
out
of
visible
sight
,
so
it
will
these
ascended
Angels
,
till
they
be
confirmed
for
Kingly
Dominion
:
for
their
visible
Figures
may
be
scen
by
Mortals
,
while
their
inward
transformed
Spirits
,
Soul
and
Body
are
translated
out
of
sight
,
and
are
taken
into
the
Heavens
.
But
it
may
be
queried
,
Whether
those
that
may
hereunto
attain
,
shall
be
secured
from
the
Mortal
Death
?
To
this
each
one
must
stand
to
their
Election
and
Lot
,
as
known
to
God.
We
cannot
say
any
thing
more
as
from
the
Lord
,
but
only
this
;
we
have
received
good
Assurance
that
if
Bodily
Death
should
overtake
us
,
while
upon
this
Ascending
Ladder
,
there
will
be
a
considerable
advantage
,
that
an
open
access
by
Christ
the
Lord
is
made
for
such
as
die
in
the
Faith
hereof
;
who
will
find
a
free
pass
through
the
mortal
Death
into
that
Mount
Sion
,
to
be
received
where
the
Lord
Christ
,
and
the
high
Order
of
Holy
Patriarchs
,
Prophets
,
and
Apostles
,
are
before-hand
gathered
.
And
therefore
slack
not
your
Work
,
but
pursue
forward
on
,
for
nothing
shall
be
lost
,
but
all
runs
on
upon
account
according
to
each
one's
measure
attained
;
although
it
must
be
granted
,
that
such
as
shall
continue
in
this
visible
Body
,
till
the
whole
Process
be
accomplished
,
they
will
be
more
eminent
Instruments
to
glorify
God
in
a
World
that
lies
under
Death
and
Curse
.
For
here
comes
in
the
very
Redemption
of
the
visible
,
weak
,
and
impotent
Body
,
which
shall
not
die
dishonourably
,
as
the
manner
of
the
whole
Earth
hath
been
;
but
be
changed
,
and
Mortality
swallowed
up
of
Immortality
,
and
so
all
Rule
and
Authority
put
under
,
as
personating
the
Lord
Christ
in
the
Earth
;
according
as
it
is
prophesied
,
That
Judah
shall
rule
with
God
,
and
be
had
in
admiration
by
Dignities
,
Principalities
,
and
Powers
;
such
Honour
will
the
descended
Angels
have
.
I
shall
omit
any
further
enlargement
upon
this
particular
,
having
reserved
it
for
another
part
,
which
is
to
follow
this
,
wherein
greater
things
will
be
discoverable
for
the
sakes
of
those
who
have
a
living
Portion
therein
.
But
as
to
what
is
at
present
communicated
,
let
it
be
accounted
of
as
weighty
and
considerable
to
provoke
,
and
stir
up
all
pure
Minds
to
meet
harmoniously
upon
this
Ascending
Ladder
,
where
one
Saint
may
call
to
another
in
the
Attractive
Power
of
Love
,
to
go
up
together
.
Oh
where
,
where
shall
we
find
such
,
that
so
highly
raised
in
the
Spirit
of
their
Minds
are
,
and
that
will
agree
to
run
and
hold
out
this
heavenly
Race
with
us
,
till
we
reach
the
Descension
to
bring
down
Glorification
!
Is
there
not
a
sealed
Number
here-for
?
Oh
God
bring
them
into
manifestation
and
knowledg
of
each
other
,
that
as
clustered
Grapes
we
may
be
all
filled
with
the
Wine
of
the
Spirit
,
that
ready
is
to
be
pressed
out
for
the
chearing
the
weak
and
faint
,
that
also
are
Members
of
this
Body
of
the
Lord
Jesus
,
which
yet
remain
in
an
humbled
suffering
Life
,
crushed
down
under
sin
.
We
should
now
conclude
this
present
Subject
,
but
there
meets
me
one
Objection
which
I
am
to
give
answer
to
,
which
is
this
:
You
have
here
discoursed
of
a
high
and
wonderful
State
of
Ascension
and
Descension
for
visible
Glorification
,
How
come
you
to
understand
the
way
of
it
,
without
you
were
actually
ascended
by
a
Cloud
of
Glory
,
coming
down
to
receive
you
out
of
all
mortal
sight
,
after
the
manner
of
our
Lord
Christ
?
We
answer
to
this
,
You
are
given
to
know
,
there
is
an
Ascension
in
Spirit
,
which
beats
the
Track
for
the
Soul
with
its
Resurrection
Body
to
follow
after
:
For
who
knows
the
way
of
Spirit
,
it
flies
as
a
Bird
in
the
Air
,
no
Mortal
can
discern
;
it
is
of
that
sublime
quality
,
as
it
can
easily
pass
into
the
Principle
of
Light
and
Glory
,
for
a
prospect
and
view
of
that
Celestial
Orb
,
which
is
to
descend
into
Time
for
the
manifestation
of
what
is
to
be
Eternal
;
and
thus
it
is
given
to
some
to
be
taken
up
in
Spirit
,
for
to
make
discovery
of
what
lies
cancealed
in
Superior
Regions
,
as
not
yet
understood
:
so
as
from
hence
we
may
give
satisfaction
to
this
Query
,
how
truly
and
safely
we
may
declare
,
and
open
these
mysterious
Deeps
concerning
Glorification
,
although
the
Holy
Ghost's
Descension
is
not
yet
,
He
having
not
Ascended
in
personality
,
but
only
in
Spirit
,
but
not
in
Soul
,
and
with
a
risen
Spiritual
Body
.
For
there
we
must
keep
a
distinction
,
and
not
pretend
to
any
thing
beyond
what
is
attained
;
for
I
may
have
a
Revelation
of
what
is
designed
and
purposed
,
shall
be
accomplished
by
the
Power
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
as
ground
for
Faith
to
work
upon
:
but
while
this
is
not
done
,
so
as
Spirit
,
Soul
,
and
Body
are
made
one
entire
Angel
for
Ascension
and
Descension
,
till
then
it
is
to
be
appropriated
only
to
the
swist
flight
of
the
Spirit
,
that
is
as
a
Heavenly
Spy
sent
before-hand
to
be
a
Speculator
,
to
be
hold
the
Pattern
of
those
Heavenly
Things
,
which
are
to
be
replanted
,
in
like
manner
and
order
here
in
this
World
,
by
and
through
the
creating
Word
descending
from
on
high
,
into
the
low
,
meek
,
and
pure
in
heart
,
with
whom
the
high
and
lofty
One
will
tabernacle
withal
.
for
generating
with
New
Heavens
and
Earth
,
which
is
the
effect
and
consummation
of
all
Spiritual
Sight
,
Vision
,
and
Revelation
,
as
the
purer
production
of
the
Holy
Ghost
in
fruitful
Powers
exerting
forth
.
This
is
the
substantial
Thing
which
in
greatest
valuation
is
with
us
to
be
,
as
for
to
be
pressing
on
in
the
Lord's
Spirit
,
to
attain
and
possess
what
each
step
of
this
Ascending
Ladder
will
bring
up
unto
.
For
far
be
it
from
any
,
who
have
known
translation
in
Spirit
,
to
see
and
hear
what
is
in
the
Heavenly
Sphear
,
to
abide
and
stay
here
,
without
waiting
for
such
a
Body
as
may
be
exercised
in
the
Holy
Ghostly
Might
,
or
else
will
never
turn
to
that
advantagious
Account
,
which
is
to
be
greatly
desired
upon
our
mighty
God
and
Saviour's
renown
,
that
he
alone
may
be
exalted
and
glorified
in
his
Saints
,
filling
up
the
full
measure
of
it
in
his
elected
Dove-Flock
,
who
by
me
hath
sent
,
for
to
declare
unto
them
,
that
he
stands
all
ready
to
receive
,
and
in
Glory
to
instal
each
one
of
our
ascending
Angels
,
and
to
descend
with
us
for
the
establishing
an
everlassing
Kingdom
,
where
Joy
,
Triumph
,
and
Glory
shall
be
the
new
Song
,
which
the
redeemed
from
among
Men
shall
to
their
mighty
God
and
Saviour
sing
.
Thus
I
am
now
returned
in
Spirit
as
a
Heavenly
Spy
,
to
make
report
of
those
substantial
,
high
,
and
worthy
precious
things
,
which
I
have
seen
and
sound
in
the
Love-deep
,
and
unmeasurable
spaces
of
Eternity
,
which
hath
all-fired
my
Soul
to
be
cloathed
with
that
Body
which
may
effect
all
,
which
the
Spirit
hath
been
made
to
see
and
understand
;
for
which
good
assurance
is
given
to
all
that
shall
unite
,
travel
,
and
journey
on
together
with
me
in
the
Love-harmony
and
Spirit
of
Faith
,
shall
and
may
see
that
Key
suddenly
to
come
down
,
that
will
open
the
Ascension-Gate
,
where
we
may
pass
in
one
by
one
as
meetly
herefor
prepared
,
Now
who
,
O
God
,
to
this
Holy
Resolve
will
come
,
that
may
gird
up
,
and
as
mighty
strong
Elijah's
,
out-run
all
the
Ahab
Chariots
,
that
entreth
but
into
Jezrcel
?
1
King.
18.
46.
Even
so
let
thy
mighty
Hand
,
O
Lord
God
,
be
upon
thy
Ascending
Angels
,
which
are
thy
Chariots
,
which
all
swift
do
move
,
as
driven
on
by
the
Whirl-wind
of
thy
Spirit
;
for
which
set
our
Eye
be
fixed
steady
evermore
;
so
Amen
.
The
Descension
.
OYe
Spirits
of
the
Augelick
Race
,
That
must
descend
,
why
stay
you
in
that
place
?
Descend
,
and
with
your
presence
chear
the
Earth
,
It
languishes
,
and
waits
for
this
new
Birth
,
That
by
your
heavenly
Powers
its
Sons
may
be
Releas'd
from
Bondage
,
Thrall
,
and
Misery
.
O
mighty
Prince
,
and
Saviour
!
in
the
end
Thou
wilt
with
flaming
ministring
Spirits
descend
,
Who
in
this
World
shall
Kings
,
and
Monarchs
be
,
And
represent
thy
Power
and
Soveraignty
?
Thy
Kingdom
then
descended
they
'l
proclaim
,
Whilst
they
as
Kings
,
and
Priests
,
rule
in
thy
Name
.
O
bow
,
O
bow
ye
Heavens
,
and
come
down
!
O
Prince
of
Peace
descend
in
thy
bright
Throne
!
Wonders
and
Signs
shall
through
the
Earth
be
burl'd
,
From
the
four
Quarters
of
this
outward
World.
All
earthly
Craft
shall
then
be
brought
to
nought
;
And
Wisdom's
hidden
Stone
to
light
be
brought
.
Those
Glorious
Saints
,
whom
Christ
then
represents
,
Shall
all
be
clad
in
Glorious
Ornaments
:
In
brightness
and
in
glory
shall
shine
free
,
Where
nothing
is
of
Earth's
obscurity
.
Th'
Elected
Seed
shall
all
be
then
brought
in
,
Christ
then
shall
reign
,
and
put
an
end
to
Sin.
FINIS
.