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<HEAD>A true ALARM In weakne&s;s, unto <HI>Babel,</HI> from God, by his &s;pi-right minde in the &s;oul which liveth in God.</HEAD>
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<Q><HI>Thus &s;aith the Lord, Thou art well come Pen to Paper; the</HI> effects <HI>ouf this Truth &s;hall make them tremble that now do vaper, in religions, riches, and gay clothing.</HI> Which vaper is the &s;moke ouf the bottomle&s;s pit, nothing but lyes do a&s;cend out ouf it, which have no bottom in Truth, or in them&s;elves.</Q>
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<P>_REader, at the end ouf my Paper called, <HI>A Voice from heaven,</HI> I do &s;peak ouf the &s;pi-right knowing what the 24 letters do afford, either in the &s;ingle letter, or in the compacted word. It is true; for the &s;pi-right hath di&s;|covered in me, that there be many words that are not ouf truth &s;pelling, or ouf truth compacting, as they are compacted. The word is <HI>&s;pi-right,</HI> and not <HI>&s;pirit; &s;pi-right to-all,</HI> and not <HI>&s;piritual;</HI> and <HI>ouf,</HI> and not <HI>of.</HI></P>
<P>The Lord the Confounder cometh &s;wiftly to confound all mens talk, becau&s;e when they talk they do not under&s;tand name or nature which ouf they talk. The &s;pi-right ouf truth is the confounder. Who&s;oever hath the &s;pi-right minde, that &s;hall not be confounded. There is a great deal ouf talk ouf taking God his Name in vain: all do take his Name in vain, but the &s;pi-right minde in men, which &s;eeth all vanity in them.</P>
<P>The unfallen Angels, that never did deceive, nor ever was deceived, will have the government ouf the vailed &s;oul from the deceit which they are vailed with, by &s;ubjecting ouf the deceiver, to do according as the truth doth rule them, which is never to have any free-will to deceive or de&s;troy, but to become the true power his foot&s;tool. Then God is all in all, and the Wicked one hath the fall.</P>
<P>God doth not &s;peak to the &s;elf-minde ouf man, or in it, but doth clean&s;e it away; then he &s;peaks into his own minde in man, and his own minde receiveth him. God will have all clean&s;ed before him, as he is clean. The body ouf man is a Figure; the &s;oul in it is a &s;ubject or e&s;&s;ence, carrying or bearing the body about. This &s;ubject is to be no &s;ubject to that that gives it any &s;elf carnal minde, or &s;ubject to any other affliction; it is to be a &s;un to life, and not &s;ubject to death. When the unfallen power hath rai&s;ed it by his &s;pi-right minde up into him&s;elf, then man is not him&s;elf, he is in the eter|nal nature it &s;elf. There is the unfallen undeceiver, and the fallen deceiver, and the fallen deceived; the&s;e are di&s;tinct beings one from another. The undeceiver is a Mini&s;ter ouf his &s;pi-right to the &s;oul that lieth under the altar or carnal minde; which &s;pi-right in it being &s;et up, doth &s;ee or &s;pie all that is peri&s;hing, and that which is everla&s;ting. I the Lord will have no<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hing to wor&s;hip me, but my &s;pi-right in the &s;oul, which doth wor&s;hip me di&s;cerning what it doth. The man Chri&s;t &s;o called received the &s;pi-right without mea&s;ure into his &s;oul, which did &s;pi-right-to-all truth and lyes; therefore it was &s;aid, <HI>The Godhead in him dwelt bodily.</HI> There is but one mini&s;ter ouf the &s;pi-right into men, which doth by its mini&s;try di&s;cover all <HI>Babel</HI> in them to its &s;elf, within its &s;elf in them.</P>
<P>Men have a great many words fal&s;ly compacted, or &s;pelt, or under&s;tood, which they call <HI>Go&s;pel.</HI> The vain mind ne|ver &s;hall know any other Go&s;pel but his own <HI>Babel-Go&s;pel,</HI> which he hath &s;toln from other mens experiences to his own advantage, to deceive, &s;o far as he hath his own inclination in them to be deceived. Nothing in man can receive the &s;pi right, but the &s;oul, it being clean&s;ed ouf all that is contrary to it, it receiveth faith in God, or &s;pi right of God, which is the &s;ingle eye, everla&s;ting truth. The power or father ouf the &s;piright and &s;oul will purge out the carnal mind out ouf the &s;oul, and let nothing inhabit in his kingdom but &s;pi-right.</P>
<P>Thus &s;aith the &s;pi-right that doth &s;py all truth and all lyes in men, or in that power that is in combination to deceive his own whole creation, that liveth within his own inclination; he cannot deceive the &s;py, for in it there mu&s;t live no ly, or inclination to ly, for it doth a ly defy, &s;aying, Depart from me, I know you to do wickedly; thou &s;halt be re|probated for ever, never to live in union with God the true &s;pi-right-to-all fal&s;e no &s;pi-right or &s;eer ouf truth: this is the &s;on ouf perdition, that would be prying into all that the &s;pi-right &s;aith, that he may be the neere&s;t likene&s;s as he can be to truth, calling him&s;elf &s;pi-right, when that he doth abominate the true &s;pi-right that doth behold him in all his actions, feeing them: he is in rage and madne&s;s, he would not lo&s;e his cloke. The &s;pi right minde &s;aith, All in the &s;oul but me is a reprobate: I do &s;ee with my &s;ingle eye into thee, who&s;oever thou be; this is no my&s;tery to the true &s;py; but it is unto the ly, that doth wonder and peri&s;h eternally. All that ever did wonder, was and is the reprobate at his &s;elf, and at the everla&s;ting truth. The &s;pi-right &s;eeth all things, and there is no new thing to it, that is in God. &s;un, moon, and &s;tars. Here is a great deceit in the interpretation ouf this &s;aying, <HI>No new thing under the &s;un.</HI></P>
<P>Some &s;ay, All things ever were as they are, and that is the fool that doth expect any change in the world; one gene|ration goeth, and another cometh, and &s;o it will be forever, as it is now with men, living now as they do, in all maner ouf wickedne&s;s. There is a truth in that &s;aying, but for this interpretation, it is not ouf the &s;pi-right ouf truth; for the &s;pi-right &s;aith, that as darkne&s;s doth abound in men, &s;o the light is not to be &s;een in them, or is in them. Thus &s;aith the &s;pi-right, Light &s;hall &s;o abound in men, that darkne&s;s &s;hall not be &s;een in them, or be in them. The &s;pi-right is true, all men are lyers.</P>
<P>There are two &s;owers, two &s;eeds, one ground. The true &s;ower is the &s;ower ouf the &s;pi-right minde into the &s;oul, which &s;oul is the ground in the body ouf fle&s;h. The fal&s;e &s;ower is the cumberer ouf the &s;oul or ground with a fal&s;e conception ouf a carnal minde, having in it the fal&s;e &s;owers inclination to all maner ouf his evils. The word <HI>Woman</HI> is taken for the carnal minde, it is the bond-woman that mu&s;t be ca&s;t out from oppre&s;&s;ing ouf the &s;oul; which &s;oul is to be the free-woman, when &s;he hath received the &s;pi-right, without any darkne&s;s in her. Then the &s;oul doth not groan in the &s;trange wilderne&s;s ouf &s;in, but is &s;et free into Eternity, where nothing but &s;pi-right &s;hall inhabit: there &s;he is caught up into the heaven ouf heavens out ouf &s;in his &s;ight, which once with her did fight; there is God &s;pi-right.</P>
<P>And after the &s;oul hath received the &s;pi-right minde into it, and the carnal minde done away, then there is &s;oul &s;pi-right that &s;eeth God, it being the life ouf faith that it liveth, which is one with God in all things, &s;eeing him face to face, without any &s;hame or di&s;grace; all deceivers and their deceit mu&s;t not look him in the face, but with &s;hame blu&s;h with di&s;grace. There is <HI>a &s;avour ouf death unto death,</HI> which mu&s;t now be a&s;hamed ouf his &s;avoring or reli&s;hing ouf death, be|cau&s;e the Lord will raign over them, and will di&s;cover all that hath been hid, on the hou&s;e top, to all that is of the &s;elf-&s;ame wicked nature, as well as unto the righteous nature. The wicked nature never did &s;avour truth, nor never &s;hall; the righteous nature never did &s;avour the wicked nature, nor never will: it is a clean &s;oul that God doth &s;avour with his true mind, which is &s;pi-right, or di&s;cern right, or &s;ee right with the &s;ingle eye which hath in it all light: it is God the Fa|ther ouf life and light, which doth &s;pi-right ouf all things, for there is nothing out ouf his &s;ight.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By <HI>John Cole-venman,</HI> a Me&s;&s;enger ouf the God ouf Truth.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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