A fountain of gardens watered by the rivers of divine pleasure, and springing up in all the variety of spiritual plants; blown up the pure breath into a paradise, sending forth their sweet savours, and strong odours, for soul-refreshing. By Jane Lead.

May the 22d. 1676.

These Internal Openings and Manu∣ductions following me still, so as they would hardly give room, for any thing of a Worldly Sense to enter in; contra∣ry Seeds in my inward Ground could not be born, there being something in me that was now grown so strong, as to resist, and throw out all other light and scruffy Grain. For my Granary must be reser∣ved for the one pure Birth-Seed, accor∣ding as my Jesus hath his Mind to me revealed. Who said expresly, Come, come, shut up the Grates and Windows

of thy low, carnal, earthly Senses, by which the Light of the Mortal Day doth enter in, to rule, according to the man∣ner of this World's Inhabitants. Know ye your selves, who have my new living Birth upon you: Impressed you are un∣der the Charter and Laws of the Jerusa∣lem free; born from above, and not from beneath; though in the World, yet not of it. This Birth of Life is a meer Stranger, all its care is to keep it self, that the Evil One may not touch him, nor mislead him, through introdu∣cing his false Light into you, as his Ra∣tional Star within this low Orb, to bind you under these Planets, that rule over the fallen outward Birth. Which now you are to reckon your selves freed from, by this Aurora, the Morning Birth of this great and Everlasting Days-Man. The Light that now is breaking open upon you, is to give a sight into that City and new Creation, to which ye do belong. For ye are under quite ano∣ther kind of Government, having taken upon you that high Apostolical Professi∣on, which enters you into and makes you partakers of that high calling. For here is a Spiritual Service and Employ

allotted, for every Sion born Spirit, so soon as they are grown up to the under∣standing part. As the outward rational Spirit and Body, as soon as grown up and capable of Traffick and Commerce, are their own Crafts-Masters in, and over things Temporal; by which Cor∣poralities do subsist: Even so likewise see what Calling the great High-Priest and Apostle took upon him, as our Pat∣tern, so soon as he was grown up in Wisdom and Ability, so as to take upon him the Office and Function, whereby he might set upon the Work and Busi∣ness, for which he was sent into the World by God the Father. Who never was found sloathful or negligent in Spi∣ritual Business; for he was always found in Spiritual Action, working the Works of his God and Father in his Day.