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 28th. 1676.

I saw again in a Vision, a Stream from this pleasant calm Sea, of which I men∣tioned, that for want of being suitably shod, we could not pass over to it: which gave much Exercise to my Mind there∣by, stirring up matter of Enquiry and Intercession to my God, pleading from the Spirit of Jesus, why that Gulph should remain, betwixt this Ocean-Trea∣sury and us, Who had now declined, and turned our Faces from all Things Terrestrial, that so we might come to possess what Wisdom's Glass had opened of this Scene of Glory? This being the Matter of my Contemplation, after

which in the Night, falling into a Tran∣sical Sleep, of a suddain I found my self in a Boat, that did run with the greatest swiftness, that neither the Bogs nor Quicksands, which formerly I saw, could stop it. For the Waters from the Sea had risen high over all, bringing me safe and secure to this Sea-shore; where I was to sit down fixed, upon the Moun∣tain of Precious Stones, there to choose and pick out, what was of greatest value. And when I came to my Spiritual Sense, waiting for the Interpretation of this Vision, it thus spake in me. The Ocean Sea which thou didst see, doth present God the Immense Deity, who contains all full, rich, and weighty Sub∣stance and Treasury: who by no Cor∣poreal Spirit could ever be reached; for there was a Gulph and Eternal Separa∣tion between, as this boggy miery Pas∣sage did present, thereunto: But only by Sion born Spirits, whom I have seen in the true Sorrow and Mourning, because hereunto they could no Path find, for sure footing, whereby might be attain∣ed this rich Mine, where all the desi∣rable Good doth lie. Now in tender∣ness and compassion unto thy sorrowful

Spirit, this Arm and Stream hath risen, which represents thy Jesus, who from the Ocean-Love of the Immense Deity, doth to thee flow to bring thee back to the Head-Fountain, where thou mayst come to know God the Holy Ghost, covering thee as the Waters do the Sea: till when upon this Jesus fix, who this lovely Mountain of all Precious Substance is. Where be thou sure now to look, turning over every Stone, till thou come to find that only Saphire Stone, which will change gross Mettals, into bright trans∣parent Gold, and shine through dark Bodies a flaming Light. These things presented are to the Eternal Eye so to speculate upon, as thereby thy whole Mind may be transmuted over hereunto, in order to the fulfilling of what in Vi∣sion thou hast seen.