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.

Iune the 8th. 1677.

This Morning this word was given me to feed upon, saying, I the Most Holy will Tabernacle with with a Spiritual Mind. My Life and Peace as a Spring will bubble there. The carnal and earthly Mind is Satan's seat, the pure Mind is God's Throne. Now choose which of those you will give place to; for accordingly your Mind must be ordered: If for the high and most holy Society, then all Spiritual. Then was that Scripture repeated to me, For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Which life of Carnality is enmity to God, who will be evermore a Stranger to such, who shall know nothing of his Love, Joy, Goodness, Power, and Sweetness. For if they commune with earthly Spirits, and things of this terrestrial being, then such dark influences are left upon their Minds, as make them altogether unmeet to talk with God: or to take in of those Species, which tend for transfi∣guring the Soul into a bright body of Glory. When the Mind is pestered and

overcharged with thoughts, that tend on∣ly for this gross elementary Life, there is no room for the Holy Ghost, that pro∣ceedeth and cometh from such a won∣derful being of holiness, as the Father of Spirits is.