It was opened further from this Vision, concerning this Gulf, that when Faith's Life comes to be strong, it will run the whole hazard of sinking into the deep Abyss, where no bottom is, but God's immensity. Where the outward Senses will be drowned, which have been so long the parting Cloud betwixt God and the Soul. Here possibly we may come to loose that Life, that hath made all the strife and enmity, from which, we have now studied in Christ's Light, to be free'd therefrom. The Spirit doth it evidently shew, that this is the true and safe way to ingulf and suspend the Man of strong reasoning. Which satisfies the saying of our Lord, He that will thus venture to loose his Life, shall keep it to Life Eternal. We have many ways tried the sinking and overturning, the depraved Life of Nature, from its own first conception, but could never bring it to such an annihilation, as no more to receive again. This is an advantageous Gulf to shoot, whereby the earthly Life is sunk, that so by a forcible rebound, the superrational Life may move upwards to its own Essential Light: I say, that it may move pure, and free, and unclogged of sensuality. Then we may pass and be most friendly entertained, by the everlasting Father of pure Spirits, who will know us again in that more refined and excellent State. Which may transcend the very Angels, whose familiarity will be common to us. Ah my Lord shall this Vision according to this Interpretation be made good unto us. Let us not then delay to hazard all for so great a God.
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