To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
In the sobriety of a wise and under∣standing Spirit, that shall be your Advo∣cate to plead in the shining Face of a transmuted Body. In which the Majesty of Glory will very well know you, and hear all you have to offer, by way of request; because you bear no more the Image, Mark, or Name of what is ac∣cursed from the Mountain of Holiness.
The Situation of the Great King is seen of none, till they have put on the high Priestly Garment, upon which is writ∣ten the New Name, that is given in the Baptizing Water of the Holy Ghost, who hath sprinkled us from all Consciousness of Sin. Now then slack not, but drive forward, for this Verily is the Mark I your Death-conqueror do set before you. For it would be my Crown of Rejoycing, to meet you as translated out of this gross and Elemen••••••y state, which while ye are ranging and pudling in, I cannot be so clearly seen, nor afford to give out those more eminent and choice things, because you are not yet sapera∣ted from the vile Body, that so ye may be redeemed from all that is of a hurt∣ful Conversation. For indeed I would wholly appropriate you for my self, who being in a glorified state, must of necessity glorifie you, before I can shew my self in such a familiarity as is so desirable. For when I was in the World, for the accomplishing of the State of Humiliation, then the human Figure was proper, for to unfold suitably the Mystery of the Most High, and to relate it as Bearable in that Age. But now as a Prince and
Shepherd of a glorified Fold, I set in Heavenly Places, to call my own by Name, to pass away out of their dark Cloudy Bodies, and not to stay, till they fade away, and fall down as Houses of C••••y, as it hath been hitherto universally. Be∣cause this superiour Change hath not been believed in, nor the Foundation by a thorough Death, been understood in order hereunto, or surely laid, where∣upon the Rising Body that is to swallow up Mortality, hath not been manifested, but now observe those Deaths and Life-Rules, which have been set so evident∣ly before you, and you may possibly be changed into such a vigorous Spirit and Body, as to pass through that Glassy Sea: which is so brickle, which whoever can stand upon it, are probationed indeed to enter into farther Degrees of Glory, all in Light, the God of Light to see without any other Medium. Ah Lord, even so let it be.