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 9, 2024.
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February the 18th. 1676/7.
Arguments to plead with the Lord were
given to me this Night. Which I found
was from the Spirit of Prayer, that ur∣ged
strongly and potently in me, for
our remove, out of this Tent of vile
Humanity, into what I did in Spirit
see. Upon which I had this Word spoke
to me; Be patient in Hope, stedfast in
Faith, ardent in Love, and ye will
move the Trinity, to send forth De∣crees
for your enlargement.
Then again was given into me an Idea,
as the Dr. and I did mutually joyn in
Prayer, in, and for the same thing, that
our Condition was like to Ionah, swal∣lowed
up in the Belly of the Whale,
shut up in the House of Death, enclosed
in the Body of Sin, round which the
Seas and Floods did beat upon, and the
Deeps did roar, and boil as a Pot of
Ointment. All which presented this
World, with the mutinous Spirits, that
are as the restless Waves, that would as
the Belly of Hell devour us, if not boun∣ded.
It was thus shewed to me, that
the true Prophetical Ionah was in
us, who was cast into this boisterous
Sea, which would drown the Prophe∣tical
Life, but that the wise preventing
Love of God hath provided for Ionah's
safety in the very Belly of Death. Out
of this Grave the Lord our God doth
hear our Voice, though the Earth with
her Bars are about us, yet said the Living
Word, out from Corruption your Lives
shall be brought. Thus Death shall not
at all hurt you, let not your Souls faint,
but direct your Prayers to the Holy
Temple; that so through great fervency,
from these nether Depths you may there
into enter, and from Death's Bands ye
shall beloosed. The Body of mortality,
as the Fish, shall vomit you up, when