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<P>GODS Truth <HI>is faith|full in what it &s;peaketh unto</HI> Sin <HI>and</HI> Death: <HI>Jt giveth it not too bad a name, becau&s;e</HI> truth <HI>is ju&s;tifi'd by him, which is ju&s;t; therein it hath a crown of</HI> Life, <HI>and &s;hal have, though death like &s;warms of Wa&s;ps are reund about it.</HI></P>
<P>Wirtten by one called, <HI>John Cole-Venman.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed in the yeer, 1658.</P>
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<P>THere is much talk of Chri&s;t being a Sa|viour, without under&s;tanding what the Soul mu&s;t be &s;aved from and unto; the &s;oul being under deceit and torment, it &s;tandeth in need of truth and re&s;t; the Saviour by pla|cing truth and re&s;t in the &s;oul, wil level &s;o that none &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;s more then they want, he will fir&s;t level the inward by ca&s;ting out the thief-mind, then the&s;e outward riches will fall into nece&s;&s;ities po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion: its the &s;ouls nece&s;&s;ity that mu&s;t be joynt-heir with Chri&s;t in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing. Its father hath power to brui&s;e the Serpents head and body, which doth with|hold from nece&s;&s;ity to its lu&s;t; which lu&s;t or thief-minde is in&s;tituted by the Serpent to do all wickedne&s;s, he cau&s;eth &s;ome to &s;train at a gnat and &s;wallow a camel, and they do fal&s;ly a&s;&s;ume they &s;in not, when &s;ome of them have many &s;laves and acres of land, hou&s;es, hor&s;es; linnen, wollen, corn, wine, oyl, and flocks of cattel, and all manner of the fruits of the earth, that nece&s;sitie is kept in &s;laveri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> from them. This murderer and thief doth act all evil in &s;corn and contempt of truths u|nion, which it hath in it &s;elf, and it wil fil the &s;oul with it &s;elf, to the down&s;al of that young Harlot that doth &s;train at a gnat; which <HI>gnat</HI> nature hath a lu&s;t in it, and it doth &s;wallow all that it can from the &s;lave nece&s;sitie to its &s;elf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> de&s;truction; that which is in more ha&s;te for the true Sun for to &s;hine, then it ha&s;teth in it &s;elf to &s;hine, mu&s;t be by its beams con&s;umed. Its a common thing for the young Harlot to &s;ay, <HI>Minde the light in thee;</HI> now &s;aith Truth;
<PB N="3" REF="2">thy ly-light mu&s;t be putout, nay, &s;aith &s;he, <HI>I am &s;ent of God to fore-warn thee of evil, and to turn thee to the light.</HI> This fal&s;e lye-light in its coming in exhortations doth a&s;&s;ume per|fection therein.</P>
<P>Truth-union doth hold &s;ome &s;ouls from the mother of Harlots, and her daughters, &s;o that their threatning wooing exhortings is all as rubbidge in their way.</P>
<P>The yong Harlot doth transform her &s;elfe like truths appearance in words, and in &s;train|ing at a gnat: there is no &s;training in truth|union, the &s;training is in that which doth dre&s;s or &s;hape its &s;elf like truths government, that it may the more bewitch that which can be be|witched.</P>
<P>The yong Harlot falsly loves or lu&s;ts for to have all her kindred for to commit adultery with her, calling them harlots and ba&s;tards if they do not.</P>
<P>The true Spou&s;e hath been very often woo|ed to commit adultery with her, &s;he &s;aying, &s;he was the Spou&s;e of Chri&s;t, and did loath to commit adultery.</P>
<P>The mother of Harlots have many daugh|ters as bad as her &s;elf, all the daughters do fall out one with another, and with their mother, crying, <HI>Harlot, harlot, harlot</HI> Truth knows that &s;he that is a &s;haping her &s;elf like it in words, is the beautiful yong Harlot which wil &s;tand again&s;t the union-nature longer in &s;ome <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ouls then others. None that live with God do lodge with her: Them that true union doth hold, they can be bold <HI>all her evills to
<PB N="4" REF="3">unfold, without being by her power controld.</HI> Her Mother and her Si&s;ters do all cry her downe, &s;aying &s;he is not worthy to live; they all hate her for her beauty, becau&s;e &s;he is almo&s;t like the Spou&s;e of Chri&s;t in words, not in deeds.</P>
<P>The yong Harlot can but mend evill old <HI>Adam;</HI> by her exhortations and in&s;tructi|ons, and wooings and threatnings, &s;he doth fright &s;ome unto her obedience, in &s;etting them to look to her Ly light in them.</P>
<P>This Harlots power is the tree of good and evil: and this is the cau&s;e why it's called a tree of good and evil; it rejoyceth &s;ome, and it woundeth others: it &s;tarveth &s;ome, it &s;ee|deth others: it giveth &s;ome too much of the earth and its fruit, and others too little: it giveth &s;ome the be&s;t of things, and others the wor&s;t: it maketh &s;ome great Landlords, and others Slaves: it cau&s;eth &s;ickne&s;s and health to its people: it cau&s;eth &s;ome to depart out of the body, and &s;ome to live its life therein: it cau&s;eth its &s;lave <HI>Nece&s;sity</HI> to come to its ty|rants, to &s;ay with his hat in his hand, <HI>What curious works shall I do for you?</HI> alas poor Ne|ce&s;&s;ity, thou ha&s;t a hard Ma&s;ter, its not long that he &s;hall reigne over thee.</P>
<P>At the fir&s;t fall this tree or power did exalt &s;ome of its fruit-eaters higher then other; &s;o that tho&s;e exalted ones did thieve from the re&s;t the greate&s;t part of the earth, and its fruits, &amp; did cau&s;e them to make Laws which yet are in force by the &s;ame tree or power, to the oppre&s;&s;ion of all poor men.</P>
<P>This gold and &s;ilver ticket they cau&s;ed to
<PB N="5" REF="3" MS="y">be quoined in oppo&s;ition to the want of poor men, &s;o that they was quite &s;hut out of all, un|le&s;s they would come to be their &s;laves, and tenants, then they &s;hould have &s;ome of the fruits of the earth, or their ticket of gold or &s;ilver, or any ticket that was in force.</P>
<P>Its &s;o yet, that the gold and &s;ilver ticket are the devils Ticket, and true wanting nece&s;|&s;ity is Gods ticket, for it &s;hall purcha&s;e of him what&s;oever it needeth, one day without the Devils ticket; yet for pre&s;ent its ordain|ed, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> nece&s;&s;ity &s;o long as its in its enemies country, it &s;hould carry its enemies ticket.</P>
<P>This was and is contrary to the tyrant, for he made Lawes that they &s;hould not have his ticket, or any of the earth, or its fruits, with|out being his &s;laves: the tyrant &s;aid and doth &s;ay to nece&s;&s;ity, if thou wilt not be my &s;lave thou &s;halt not eat: Now &s;aith Nece&s;|&s;ity, thou ha&s;t &s;tolne from me all that thou po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e&s;t, that is more then thy Nece&s;sity wante&s;t. Now &s;aith the tyrant, I have made a Law for thee, if thou take&s;t any thing back from me, thou &s;halt be hanged till thou art dead, and if thou wilt not work for me but go a begging thou &s;halt be whipped Thus is poor Nece&s;&s;ity the Devils &s;lave, unle&s;s the God of uprightne&s;s doth take it into his ble&s;&s;edne&s;s; his ble&s;&s;edne&s;s is thus, Neede&s;t thou truth and re&s;t, or any of the earth, or its fruits, he will &s;upply thee one day without thy death-obedience, for its not to him that death obeyeth.</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="4" MS="y">The young Harlot &s;aith, &s;he is Chri&s;t, God life, light, and all good, when he which is &s;o &s;avoureth nothing of her, he &s;avourelh life unto life, or a clean &s;oul.</P>
<P>All her inward and outward preachings are uncertain; for they do not give to the &s;oul the union-nature of God, but are enemies to it.</P>
<P>The young Harlots threatning and exhor|tings doth evilly reform the Aegyptians mindes, but its righteou&s;ne&s;s that mu&s;t lead them to <HI>Canaan,</HI> not anie thing of that mind &s;hall enter therein, becau&s;e its Reformation maketh nothing but lies.</P>
<P>When the tree [or power] of life &s;hall give the &s;oul its word-conjunction, then this tree or power of life goeth forth in Mini&s;tra|tion to fulfil its words effect, then down go|eth this tree which is good and evil in its &s;elf, to its &s;elf, and it mu&s;t be a pri&s;oner to the tree of life, then all tho&s;e &s;ouls that are its &s;laves &s;hall go free: So &s;ure as God ever did an|&s;wer any expectation of his promi&s;e made, &s;o &s;ure he will an&s;wer the expectation of his promi&s;e now made to &s;ome &s;ouls that have received of mea&s;ure of his minde.</P>
<P>The young Harlot and her children doth &s;corn to own their kindred, they &s;corn to &s;ay Grand-mother, Mother, Si&s;ter, Aunt, Co&s;en, but do call Whores, Harlots and Ba&s;tards.</P>
<P>If any of her kindred do lack <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ood or rayment, &s;he is no more free of her &s;uperflui|ty then anie of her kindred are. Some of her next Si&s;ters are more kinder to all the
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y">kindred then &s;hee; for they have often woo|ed the Grandmother for her Grand children, and for their young &s;i&s;ter, telling her, Our &s;i&s;ter and her children are the greate&s;t &s;uffer|rers for <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> on earth: the old Harlot an|&s;wers, It's not &s;o, they are di&s;obedient to me and <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> yet being much wooed &s;he lets &s;ome of them go.</P>
<P>This Harlot appeareth where the <HI>Divine Nature</HI> doth, and doth &s;hape it &s;elf as neere it as it can in all its appearances: if I meet with this <HI>Harlot,</HI> &s;he loathes mee, becau&s;e I do not commit <HI>Adultery with her,</HI> &s;he &s;aying, <HI>That I will be made to do that which I call A|dultery:</HI> She hath many hangers on her that would be very much fal&s;ly refre&s;hed if that &s;he would let them commit <HI>Adultery</HI> with her in her <HI>&s;ecret chamber.</HI></P>
<P>Shee hath many that were once of her bo|die, that do now grieve her, yet they are not e&s;pou&s;ed to <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI> There are &s;ome of her fal&s;ly reformed Kindred, that love her for her beauty, that makes the <HI>Harlot</HI> proud. Some do think &s;he is not &s;ent of God, but do verie much di&s;turb her in her adultery, in tormen|ting her by her mothers and &s;i&s;ters power, &amp; &s;hee an&s;wers them with the like, though &s;elf-righteou&s;ne&s;s cannot &s;ee it.</P>
<P><HI>God tormenteth no &s;oul, but bringeth the tor|memtore into &s;ubjection to him, and delivereth is to him&s;elf: The cormentors are evill Angells, that do not carry fleth, but do govern &s;ome &s;oul|e&s;&s;ences by ingrafting their nature in them to do what they plea&s;e, unle&s;s the redeeming An|gels
<PB N="8" REF="5" MS="y">do prevents by their ingrafting their nature; which nature it all goodne&s;s and true &s;trength, without is the &s;oul is dead. I do not &s;ay the mo&s;t beautiful Harlot is the mo&s;t abomination of the earth, but the will be when the is ca&s;t out of tho&s;e &s;ouls that are to be the fir&s;t fruits to the redeemer; for pre&s;ent her mother, and &s;ome of her elder danghters under her, are the mo&s;t obomination of the earth, yet their mother doth keep all of them in &s;ubjection to her as much as she can.</HI></P>
<P><HI>When the mother is ca&s;t downe, the daughters will &s;trive who shall be greate&s;t, and this strife will be till all be down, but the younge&s;t &s;i&s;ter then the will be the abomination of the earth, &amp; will rule over all &s;ouls that are not e&s;pou&s;ed to Chri&s;t, the will be the la&s;t Harlot that shall adulterate the &s;oul.</HI></P>
<P>This is verie little minded <HI>to wit,</HI>
<Q>The redeeming Angels have a greater mini|&s;tration on the evil Angels to &s;ubject them, then they have on their captives to redeem them.</Q></P>
<P><HI>The young Harlot &s;peaks of redemption and &s;ubjection, and knowes not where the true power placeth either.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The true Angels act is redemption to the &s;oul, and &s;ubjection to the evill one that doth ingraft his &s;in again&s;t the &s;oul Angell or E&s;sence.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The young Harlot doth &s;peak much again&s;t the carnal Libertine called</HI> Ranter, <HI>&s;ome of them are now her Pro&s;elytes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Where that loath&s;ome, filthy Harlor called Ranter, deceived one, thee will thou&s;ands, when
<PB N="9" REF="5" MS="y">the is ca&s;t one of tho&s;e &s;ouls, that are to be the first fruits to redemption.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The true Spon&s;e shall very much rejoyce in being alone with Christ.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The young Harlot, and &s;ome of her &s;i&s;ters do &s;ay, they deny &s;elf, they being, but &s;elf cannot do it: When Chri&s;t cameth to them, he will shew them that neither they nor the &s;oul can do &s;o; nothing but him can deny &s;elf, the poor &s;oul can do no|thing; its like a dead thing carryed from death to life. When the breath of life shall breath on the &s;oul, &s;o that it doth con&s;ume all the breath of death that was there, then it may be &s;aid of a truth there is a living &s;oul.</HI></P>
<P><HI>As &s;ome &s;ouls now are, they are part in life, part in death, yet they go not forth in the true powers mini&s;try, till they be as lively as the pow|er of life, then they have its word-conjunction, till then the &s;oul it a middle nature betwixt the oppre&s;&s;or and the redeemer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ble&s;&s;ed is that &s;oul that hath Gods look to &s;ee what is his, els all is vanity.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Man in his be&s;t estate in being governed by the evil Angels, is wor&s;e then vanity: for whom they ble&s;&s;e, in the event it doth prove the greate&s;t cur&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Vanity as it &s;tandeth out of vexation of mind in this or that, &s;o that it doth not abu&s;e any in the inward principle, or outward things, that do belong to its or their nece&s;sityes. Sure eternity is neer to this vanity, and will bring a con&s;um|mation on it &s;uddenly. Then to the wonderment of all perishers, eternity will appear with an ar|my of &s;ouls with its word in their mouths, which
<PB N="10" REF="6">power of eternity will effect in their &s;peaking: Our fathers ho&s;t when they appear, no Beelzebub can hold up their armies again&s;t them; no evill angels can &s;tand un&s;ubjected before them: no cap|tives will they make afraid of them, but the evill Angels that are not in flesh will &s;o far as they can ingraft feare in oppo&s;ition to their &s;oules re|demption. The&s;e belzebubs, make their own people afraid of one another, and of the lover of their &s;oules. At the fir&s;t, the&s;e belzebubs were all as one in their fir&s;t fallen union, and &s;o did continue a &s;pace of time, but at the la&s;t they did fall out one with another, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">id rai&s;e their creation in ar|myes, and did cau&s;e them to fight: who should have mo&s;t of the earth and its fruits, for their fal&s;e right; as the length of time the&s;e belzeebubs will Joyne againe in their fir&s;t fallen union, at which shall &s;tumble every one: &s;o far as they &s;tand out of true union. They will cau&s;e all their people to a|gree as one, to make war again&s;t the lamb. The young harlots head it di&s;tinct from her body, and it doth commonly commit adultery in a more &s;ecre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> manner then her body doth know of; her heads &s;e|cre&s;ie will be the height of abomination when it shall come forth in its practice, it will bla&s;t all deceit but it&s;elf deceit, and will incompa&s;s all &s;ouls that are not e&s;pou&s;ed to Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>This harlot is in &s;ome &s;ouls that God wil have to be his fir&s;t fruits.</HI></P>
<P><HI>When this harlots power shall receiue all bolze|bubs into conjunction with it.</HI></P>
<P><HI>As it was at the fir&s;t begining of the fall: then thee will be the head of the deuils captives in flesh the evil one will dre&s;s and shape her &s;o that none shall know her but gods light.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="11" REF="6"><HI>Nothing can &s;ee but light, nothing can live but life; nothing can love but love nothing can a|bide Chri&s;ts coming, but the &s;oul; if it hath any thing in it that is not as upright as Chri&s;t, that shall not abide there.</HI></P>
<P><HI>This young harlot doth hang forth a &s;igne, and deth &s;weep before her dore, that makes her very much re&s;pected by her devout kindred: thee will as much as shee can furnish her hou&s;e with that that is like trve good, whereby shee may invite all that pa&s;s by her to come and fea&s;t with her, in|ward and outward Idolatryes, thee Calling them by the name of trve goodne&s;&s;e; she is alwayes a&s;|&s;isted by the father of her intre&s;t to worke her de|&s;igne again&s;t the &s;oul, and trve union in it; shee and &s;ome of hee &s;isters are the theiues that goe be|fore Chri&s;t with their mini&s;tryes, in biding men looke to them to be an example or pattern This harlots nature is &s;o proud, &s;aying shee Rules in heaven and hell: its but her own fathers heaven and hell that shee can or ever mu&s;t live in.</HI></P>
<P><HI>For ever, all fal&s;e mindes shall be shut cut of the hoaven of heavent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thus &s;aith truth, tru&s;t not him that would be tru&s;ted, till his &s;oul is a&s;cended into the holy angels word and pewer, in conjunction to redeem from deceit, torment and de&s;truction.</HI></P>
<P><HI>He that hath an ear to hear cannot but hear.</HI></P>
<P><HI>When nature hath receiued its Change, it will not be tyed unto any Crab-tree neither will it that fore&s;t range, where nothing but crab-trees g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">w, becau&s;e every thing that it meeteth withall there, its the &s;ouls &s;oe.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="12" REF="7"><HI>The decei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er doth a&s;sume a ripene&s;s in the &s;oul, in oppo&s;ition to righteou&s;nes, and all harlots are acters theirin to adulterate the &s;oul; when the beauty full harlot is ca&s;t out of &s;ome &s;ouls, and no|thing but Chri&s;t there, then his mini&s;ry is a clean sw eeper of &s;ouls and will bind all divells that did foul them in the inward principall, in giuing &s;ome a mind to in&s;laue the nece&s;sity from its proper right.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Many harlots haue &s;poken again&s;t the bea&s;t, &s;ay+ing they were &s;ent from God, but he would not be|leiv them, but keeps them in &s;ubjection, and shal do till Chri&s;t hath his mo&s;t powerfull mini&s;tery in for<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">, thou the bea&s;t and all harlots and fal&s;e prophets shall joyn with him that will drag them along to fight again&s;t the lamb and his army.</HI></P>
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<P>READER, its the true &s;pirits &s;py-right mind that gives life to word, And makes knowne what the 24 Letters do afford, Either in the &s;ingle letter, or in the compacted word.</P>
<P>The Lord cometh to confound all mens talk, becau&s;e when they talk they do not un+der&s;tand name or nature which of they talk. The &s;pi-right of truth is the confounder. Who&s;oever hath the &s;pi-right minde, that &s;hal not be confounded. There is a great deal of talk of taking God his name in vain: all do take his name in vain, but the &s;pi-right mind in men, which &s;eeth all vanity in them.
<PB N="13" REF="7">The unfaln Angels, will have the government of vailed &s;oul from the deceit which they are vailed with, by &s;ubjecting of the deceiver, to have no freewil to deceiv or de&s;troy, but to be|come their foot-&s;tool. God doth clean&s;e away the evell minde, then he &s;peaks into the &s;oul &amp; it receiveth him. God will have all clean&s;ed before him, as he is clean. The body of man is a Figure; the &s;oul in it is a &s;ub|ject 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 carnall minde, or &s;ub|ject to any other affliction; it is to be a &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> to life, and not &s;ubject to death. When the un&s;allen power hath rai&s;ed it by his &s;pi-right mind up into him&s;elf, then man is in the eter|nal nature: There is the unfallen undeceiuer, and the fallen Deceiuer, and the fallen deceived; the&s;e are di&s;tinct one-from an|other. The undeceiver is Mini&s;ter of his &s;pi|right to the &s;oul, that lieth under the alter 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.</P>
<P>The Lord wil have nothing to wor&s;hip him but the &s;pi-right in the &s;oul, which doth wor&s;hip him di&s;cerning what it doth, the man call'd Chri&s;treceivd 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 God|head in him dwelt bodily.</HI></P>
<P>There is but one mini&s;ter of the &s;pi-right into men, which doth by its mini&s;try di&s;co|ver <HI>all Babell</HI> in them to its &s;elf, within its &s;elf in them.</P>
<P><PB N="14" REF="8">Nothing in man can receive the &s;pi-right mind, but the &s;oul, it being clean&s;ed of all that is contrary to it, it receiveth &s;aith in God, or &s;pi-right of God, which is the &s;in|gle eye, everla&s;ting truth. The Father of the &s;pi-right minde and &s;oule will purge out the carnal mind, 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;pye, for in it thore mu&s;t live no ly, or inclination to ly, for it doth a ly defie, &s;aying; thou &s;halt be reprobated for ever, never to live in uni|on with God the true &s;pi-right to all fal&s;e, no &s;pie-right or &s;eer of truth, which is the &s;on of perdition, that would be prying into all that the &s;pi-right &s;aith, that he may be the neare&s;t likene&s;s as he can be to truth, cal|ling him&s;elf &s;pi right, when that he doth abominate the true &s;pi-right that doth be|hold him in all his actions, then he is in rage and madne&s;s, and would not lo&s;e his cloke. The &s;pi-right mind &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 repro|bate 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.</P>
<P><PB N="15" REF="8">There is a great deceit in the interpretation of this &s;aying, <HI>no new thing under the &s;un.</HI> Some &s;ay, all things ever were as they are, and that is the fool that doth expect any change in the world; one generation goeth, and another cometh, and &s;o it will be for e|ver, as it is now with men, living as they do, in all manner of wickedne&s;s. There is a truth in that &s;aying, but for this interpre|tation; it is not of the &s;pi-right of truth; for the &s;pi-right &s;aith, that as darkne&s;&s;e doth a|bound in men, &s;o that the light is not in them. Thus &s;aith the &s;pi-right, Light &s;hal &s;o abound in men, that darkne&s;&s;e &s;hal not 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 of the &s;pi-right mind into the &s;oul. The fal&s;e &s;ower is the cumberer of the &s;oul or ground with a fal&s;e conception of a carnal mind, having in it the fal&s;e &s;owers inclination to all manner of his evils. The carnal mind, it is the bond-Woman that mu&s;t be ca&s;t out of the &s;oul; which &s;oul is to be the free-Woman, when &s;hee hath received the &s;pi-right, without a|ny darkne&s;s in her. Then the &s;oul doth not groan in the &s;trange wilderne&s;s of &s;in, but is &s;et free into Eternity, where nothing but &s;pi-right &s;hall inhabit; there &s;hee is caught up into the Heaven of Heavens out of &s;in his &s;ight, which once with her did fight.</P>
<P>There is God &s;pi-right.</P>
<P><PB N="16" REF="9">And after the &s;oul bath received the &s;pi-right mind into it, and the carnal mind done a|way, then there is &s;oul &s;pi-right that &s;eeth God it being the life of 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.</P>
<P>There <HI>is a &s;avour of death unto death,</HI> which mu&s;t be a&s;hamed of his &s;avouring of death, becau&s;e the Lord wilraign over the wicked nature: The wicked nature never did &s;a|vour truth, nor never &s;hal; 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 its &s;elf all light.</P>
<P>It is God the Father of life and light, which doth &s;pi-right of all things, for there is nothing out of his &s;ight.</P>
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