The wars of David and the peaceable reign of Solomon; symbolizing the times of warfare and refreshment of the Saints of the Most High God. To whom a priestly kingdom is shortly to be given after the order of Melchizedeck ... first published in the year 1700 ... Containing: I. An alarm to the Holy Warriors. ... 2. The glory of Sharon. ... To which is now subjoined, several extracts ... from 'The fountain of gardens',--by the same author. : zedeck set forth in two treatises / written by Jane Lead.

  • Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
Date:
1816
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Credit: The wars of David and the peaceable reign of Solomon; symbolizing the times of warfare and refreshment of the Saints of the Most High God. To whom a priestly kingdom is shortly to be given after the order of Melchizedeck ... first published in the year 1700 ... Containing: I. An alarm to the Holy Warriors. ... 2. The glory of Sharon. ... To which is now subjoined, several extracts ... from 'The fountain of gardens',--by the same author. : zedeck set forth in two treatises / written by Jane Lead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tturc; has kept as it were a calendar of these observa. Uions, and from year to year did make her calculations ffrom the same, at the beginning of every New Year, so Hong as she had her eyesight ; has been almost continually ccxercised under great temptations and oppositions, and Ibeen fighting (he good fight of faith from her youth up- vwards ; has been above threescore yqars called by God, after a manner more than ordinary, and to herself ex- ceeding strange, as wall as to others, unto a life which tthe world knows not, and cannot judge of; and has Ibeen above half the time under the more immediate and (constant visitations of the spirit of zeisdom and revelation, as what hath been already published doth testify. And it is to be observed that though she was baptised, tand educated in the Church of England, in which all the (extraordinary stirrings of the Divine Spirit are too gener- ;a!ly slighted, and by some blasphemed, it pleased the wis- (dom of God more illustriously to break forth in the imanner of her conversion, in the sixteenth year of her tage: and so to give an evidence that the voice of the (eternal Word of God, speaking to souls in a distinct <and sensible manner, is real and substantial, not imagi. inary ; being to be distinguished by such, who cannot be !supposed to have had any pre-conceived notions about it, but must have the prejudices of education directly against it, and all external motives not to attend to it. Thesober and moral conversation in which she was nur- tured, was not aufficicnt to give her any rest, when this voice spake first to her : which was very suddenly and surprisingly. For it was in a time of great festivity, at the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, (according to custom) with music and dancing, in the house of her father, where was a concourse for that end of the gentry, when of a sudden grievous sorrow was darted as fire into her bowels, and she was made to consider that this was not the way to be conformed to Christ, or to remember his birth aright; and a soft whisper gently entered into her, saying, CEASE FROM THIS, l HAVE ANO- THER DANCE TO LEAD THEE IN; FOR THIS IS VANITY. Upon which she was as constrained to give over abruptly her dancing, and so presently with-