Apokrypta apokalypta velata quædam revelata : some certain, hidden, or vailed spiritual verities revealed : upon occasion of various very prying and critical queries concerning God, the devil, and man, as to his body, soul, and spirit, Heaven, Hell, Judgement &c : propounded to George Fox, John Perrot, Samuel Fisher : and after that (with a complaint for want of, and stricter urgency for an answer) re-propounded to Edward Burroughs : by two persons, choosing to notifie themselves to us no other way then by these two unwonted (if not self-assumed) titles, viz. Livinus Theodorus, and Sabina Neriah : which truths (as there inspired by the spirit of God) are here expired in love to the souls of men / from ... Samuel Fisher.

Query 12. What is that City that hath no need of the light of the Sun, nor the Moon to shine in it, &c.? And where is its s••••tua∣tion? And what is that honor and glory, which the Kings of the

Earth must bring into it? And in what manner must they perform it? Also, how, and when shall they that are saved, be made inhabi∣tants of it.

Answ. What need ye Query this of us, if either ye heed∣ed the Light in you, which manifests all things in their proper seasons, to such as wait in it; or if ye had wel heed∣ed that very Scripture either, out of which your Query seems to be fetcht, and founded? Where ye may as wel read what that City is that hath no need of the Sun to shine in it, as that it hath at all no need thereof, where it's evidenced to be those Saints of God that follow the Lamb, who is their Light, the new Jerusalem which is above, the mother of all the free∣born Children of God, which is as a Bride adorned for her Husband, with whom the Tabernacle of the Lord is, and with whom he dwels; and as for the scituation of it, is it not ex∣presly said (as in the Vision it was seen) that it comes down from God out of heaven? therefore 'tis a state here on earth, else also the Kings of the Nations could not be said to bring the glory of their Nations into it; i. e. to serve it with their glory; for it is to come to pass, that the Kingdom and nation that will not serve thee (saith the Lord, Isa. 60. 12.) shall perish, yea that nation shall utterly be destroyed) Whose glory that they are said to bring into it, or to serve it with, or minister to it withal, is not any of those unlawful, or sinful lusts, plea∣sures, or licentious liberties, wherein they glory as in their shame (for as in maximâ libertate est minima licentia, so it's said, That no unclean thing shall in any wise enter thereinto, neither any thing that desileth, or worketh abomination, or maketh a lie) but their gain and substance, which the Lord himself saith he will consecrate to the God of the whole earth, and to the service of his truth, as they before in their blind minds consecra∣ted it to the service of their Lord God the Pope, and the set∣ting up of his trashy Traditions: For the Lamb, who is the Light of his holy ones, who are this City, is worthy to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing, and all created things; for, for his sake they

are, and were created, Rev. 5. and for those that are with him on mount Syon, who are called, and chosen, and faithful, who are his Priests and Ministers (non nomine tantùm tenus) not in name onely, as the Popes and the Worlds Idol-shepherds are, but (reapse) indeed and in truth; who, as the Lord saith, Isa. 6. 6. shall eat the Riches of the gentiles, and in their glory boast themselves, improving the excellencies of the outward Creation in wiser ways, and to much better uses and ends, than such Drones as the Popes Divines, who have devoured the good of all Lands, under a meer pretence of serving Christ, in the service of their own lusts and bellies. And whereas ye ask, When shall those that be saved be made the Inhabi∣tants of it? I answer, So soon as ever they are saved from the sin, which is that alone that slayes the soul, and sepe∣rates it from its part and portion there; For blessed are they that do his Commandments, they have right to the Tree of Life, and to enter in through the gates into the City, without the which are the Dogs, who draw back from the truth, and lick up their old Vomit; who for all their dreaming that they eat and drink in the day while the Lord's Visitation passeth over them, shall yet wander to and fro for meat, and grud ge that they can never be satisfied; and at evening when they awake, and see the Sun is set upon them, they shall return, and grin like a dog, and go round about the City, but never enter to have any share in it, being clambered up above the Door, which is the Light.