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7. Letter.
Dear Friend,
SOme glimmerings presented, to the children of love, clothed with darknesse, bewildernessed in their spirits, passing through the fiery tryall, or crucifyings of flesh, or things of the first Creation, unto the the Ca∣naan of rest, or to a more higher, fuller, and excellent glory.
First considering the severall dispensations of the eternall God: how hee hath severall wayes and in divers manners, made out him∣selfe to a creature, as Genesis Chap. I. and 2. the law, or righteousnesse of the first creation, in which God had communion with man, and man with God, yet rather with a Creator, then with a Father, and that in the outward court, or first creation, not in the inmost, or holiest; and Paradice it selfe being but an image, of the excellency, of this first Creation.
Man being fallen, or deprived of this per∣fection, which was accomplished through the