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 7th. 1666/7.

This Word came also to me, I again will choose a Disciplehood upon the Earth, who shall know me in my inward Spiritual Figure, as I was known in for∣mer

times, by a terrestial Voice and Shape. Now I will walk again upon an invisible Earth, where none but the Spi∣ritual Man can understand my Speech, or see my transformed Shape. To such who are my chosen Disciples, I will ap∣pear familiarly. Behold I am upon a new Election, to call such who are found in the Crown number Roll. Now one by one, till an encrease may be of this ho∣ly Priesthood to the Hundred and forty four thousand. Blessed are they, who are the first foundation Pillars of this Virgin Church, upon which, I can allow to be found neither Wrinckle or Spot, for if Faulty, I cannot be their Head, to walk among those, who in any wise are De∣fective. For the Case is now clean alte∣red of what it was in the days of my In∣fancy, when I broke forth in the fleshly Form, it was of necessity a Tribulated suf∣fering State should succeed after me, that so Sin might expire through daily Dy∣ings, which did take great effect among my Disciplehood in that Age, but they deceasing before he reaching to that per∣fect Date, of what was to be the Churches glorified State: Now something greater and more perfec•• is to be revealed, after

so long and cloudy a Day of Apostacy. A sparkling Star shall rise out of that Orb and Climate, whereof it shall be said, this is Wisdom's fruitful Day; out of whose eternal Morning Womb, ye shall see bright Stars of Glory generated for a glorious Temple. Who then will now sound this my Trumpet, and will call to break away from their iron Yoaks, to come to be dignified, as hewed Pil∣lars for Wisdom's Temple to be built up∣on, Oh! what saith the Spirit, who shall I find that can say, accept of me for holy Use, who without shadow of change, will no more turn into this World. For such a Pure and Apostolical Foundation the Father of Spirits will lay for his cor∣ner Stone, yet in the Earth again. Who will open in some such first, that in a seperated Mind and Spirit, do wait herein as Virgins, not as with a double Eye, to look forward and backward, up and then down, no such unsteady Spirit will ever be taken in: Therefore the Spi∣rit of Jesus doth give you this seriously to weigh, as a seasonable Caution, who would that this Prophecy might be ful∣filled on you. Oh, pray for Stability and constancy continually.