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 5th. 1676/7.

Rules given, how a Spiritual Man is to walk towards God, and those that are without; who are not in the discerning of the Lord's Temple-Body, into which there must be no thrusting in that which is unhallowed.

FIrst, as to the Lord, the Spiritual Man stands in that high Relation, as he is perfectly under the Law, and type of such an Eternal Obligation, as to do no∣thing but by Counsel, Commission, and Ordination, still having recourse to God, as his Father, and to the Lord Jesus, and to the Spirit of Wisdom, who is at hand to direct every Thought, Word, and Motion. Be chast keepers at home (is a Spiritual Charge upon the Spiritual Man) in God, his Habitation. Where all his Content and Pleasure is to be ta∣ken up, not gadding with the Eye of his Mind out of this Spiritual Holy Place.

Now as to Crea••ur••s, how to walk to them, who are of the Earth. All care is to be had, to maint••i•• a wise and holy

distance, as our Lord Jesus did, giving no offence to the Caesars of this World about their Dues. But have no Fellow∣ship or Conversation, more than what is of absolute Necessity. For he can hard∣ly match our spiritual Man to any Being, that will suit it but God himself, into whose Bosom it will fly, like to an eage•• Bird. Remembring we are to be re∣deemed from Men, and not to walk as Men in the Flesh, but as those, who are justified in the Spirit. Keeping Company with the Flocks that are come forth all washed in the Blood of the Lamb, who is that Shepherd, who will sound his sweet ecchoing Trumpet of Peace, Love, and Joy, wherewith we may be so inebri∣ated, as not to go out of this Fold to o∣ther strange Flocks, where only Goats are, who are excluded from the great Shepherd.