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I heard this Night, in my sleep, a Voice, calling me, saying, Draw near, that so you may know great and deep things. Upon which I was awakened, and saw a clear Glassy Trumpet held out: and a great Councel was held by some, that all were in privacy in a reserved place, only I did hear their Sounds and Voices, but I could not see their Persons. After which, musing hereupon, because all pas∣sed away, before I could make any thing
hereof; The word said, Yet for this Secret, thy Spirit must launch and wade ••nto a deeper Ocean.
Upon which my Spirit sunk unto a good degree into the still Abyssal Cen∣ter, out from which all Light of Wisdom doth open. And this pure Glassy Trum∣pet was made mention of again. For it was said, That none should ever sound this Trumpet, but such, who could at∣tain to walk and move upon Faith's ho∣ly ground. Then took I occasion here∣from, earnestly to interceed; and while I was praying for this Mystery of Faith to be revealed, it was spoke in me, Thou seek∣est that, which is so weighty and mysti∣cal, that time must be allotted to draw, or extract out of the full and perfect Number of Coessentiality of Spirit, which is attributed to the Holy Trinity. Into this thou must search and dive, for thy Spirit is of the same Eternal Line and Nature; and it may recover, what it hath lost by descending into this terresti∣al World, of which course matter, thou hast formed a body of flesh about thee: wherewith be content for a while, till the pure spark Faith shall refine it for thee, and make it all sublime.