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.

March the 1st. 1676/7.

THis Morning this Word greeted me, Oh! what of Flesh can live, when the immense Deep shall be searched out by the Spirit; therefore consider what it will be there, to know the things of God ap∣parently. The anointing shewed now the great disproportionableness, betwixt what was to be known of the things of God, and that of Man; who, tho' he be degene∣rated, and hath lost all Propriety in Spiri∣tuals, yet is born an Heir to Terrestial things: and hath such a Spirit as to under∣stand how to contrive, and make out for himself another Paradise; to which he

bends all his force and might, to imitate what was lost; and doth answerably effect great things by rational Wisdom and In∣dustry, as belonging to this Principle. So that though he hath lost the Know∣ledge of God in things Celestial, yet through Toyl, and Care, Sorrows, and Fears, he hath recovered temporal Reve∣nues, as his own to live upon, and to take lawful Pleasure in: Nay, the Natural Man may go much further than all this; who in the more sobriety of Morality, from a Light within, may be convinced of that Duty, and Necessity, and Fear, that belon∣geth to that God, in whom all Live, and have their Being; and therefore may shew by a kind of upright moral Conversation, the Law of God written in their Hearts according to the Letter.

As it is said, their Conscience accusi••g or excusing according to Truth or Fal∣shood acted by them; for by Nature things contained in the Law may be done; so that you may take in this higher degree of things into the knowledge of the Spi∣rit of a Man, as an earthly Man, and yet not able to receive or comprehend the more high, wonderful and deep things of God. It is only possible to that which is the

meer Birth of the Spirit, distinct from the Earthly. Now then, said the most holy Anointing, that ye may know, that this Spiritual Man is born, shall appear, by what shall be revealed unto it.