A fountain of gardens Vol. II. Being a continuation of the process of a life according to faith, of the divinely magical knowledge, and of the new creation. In mutual entertainments betwixt the essential wisdom, and the soul in her progress through paradise, to Mount Sion, and to the new Jerusalem. By J. Lead.

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A fountain of gardens Vol. II. Being a continuation of the process of a life according to faith, of the divinely magical knowledge, and of the new creation. In mutual entertainments betwixt the essential wisdom, and the soul in her progress through paradise, to Mount Sion, and to the new Jerusalem. By J. Lead.
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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London :: printed, and sold by by the booksellers of London and Westminster,
1697.
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Mysticism -- Early works to 1800.
Spiritual life -- Early works to 1800.
Christian biography -- Early works to 1800.
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"A fountain of gardens Vol. II. Being a continuation of the process of a life according to faith, of the divinely magical knowledge, and of the new creation. In mutual entertainments betwixt the essential wisdom, and the soul in her progress through paradise, to Mount Sion, and to the new Jerusalem. By J. Lead." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A49867.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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Ianuary the 25th. 1676/7.

Oh from hence I did see with what Bodies we must enter withal, into the Mystery, that is on the other side of the Glassy Sea, for there the Thrones were shewed me, that were placed for the Conquerors. Who could be able to say with their Jesus, I was dead and slain, but now Life is rising evermore, then also will follow the Keys of Death and Life, to open and shut Heaven and Hell, as the Hand of the Spirit will. Thus having great and manifold Discoveries, of what was to be possessed after Death, we came easily henceforth, to be recon∣ciled to all the deep Demensions there∣to beloning. For the Lord had dealt with us and carried it much after the manner as he did with Moses, who upon the Mount of Vision, had shewn unto us the New Heavens with all their Pri∣vileges and Glories, also with the New Ierusalem, and King thereof; and though Moses was prohibited entring into that, which was but a Shadow of what he really passed into by Death's

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Transmutation, yet God did him no wrong by all that, thereby to translate him out of the Mortal Principle, into that of Duration: which he had often Sights, Gusts, and Tasts of, while he was in the Corporeal Figure, and he enjoyed the Image of good things to come, as he passed through the Worldly Sanctuary.

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