Sermons & Devotionals by Jane Lead

As I was exercised in my Mind, in and about the Heavenly Things. This came into me. I know it is a time of distress and perplexity with them, who are struggling against this Worldly Sea, that it might not overwhelm, but now it is also the time of God's Love, that will work all through for you. Be bu... Read More

THE Word this Morning came to me thus: The Love-Chain is not to be unlinked betwixt God and you, while the Spirit is the only Eternal matter and quality. Therefore it will take hold so strongly, as to draw and fix within the circumference of the very immense Love, from which the Enmity is separated.... Read More

This Word visited me in the Morning, saying, Be ye well assured, the Lord hath respect to what, his own hand hath wrought in you, formed, and framed. From thence will the Glory of God's Tabernacle appear, as ye are watchful. Be aware of the Concision, that worketh by and through the Tempter, that pa... Read More

This Word in the 2d. of the Revelation, was called over in me, He that overcometh and keepeth my Work unto the end, to him I will give Power over the Nations. It was a passage that I had not taken notice of: the Opening of which was very significant. Enquiring what was meant by this Work, it was thu... Read More

When I came out of my Natural rest, and had recovered my Spiritual Sense, this Word came to me, Did ye know, or were able to comprehend that only Jewel, which is lodged within the deep of a pure Heart, ye would it watch Day and Night: to prevent all false Spirits that would it betray; though too hea... Read More

Thus spake the Blood-Laver; within thee is thy Life-spring, that must keep the Holy and Separated place all pure. For the Book of the New Testament must open there, and be of great force, because dedicated by the Life-Blood of the Testator. Therefore look to it, for therein lieth all the Evidence fo... Read More

I Heard a Word Crying, Oh LEBANON, where art thou to be found? Who knows thy Situation? Then suddenly the Aspect of a desert-Forrest-like Place did present it self, where only inhuman Creatures did run up and down, answerable to the wild Plants that grew there. Whereupon I did look on it in great So... Read More

In and towards the Morning, I heard a mighty Cry, thus uttered it self in these Words: The great and notable Day of the Lord is begun, and it will not end, till the Lord Christ come. Now all Nations will put their Hands to War against the Lamb, but as Grass they shall wear away; for the Strength of ... Read More

There was presented the Formation of a visible Body, as out of fine mixed Matter, thin and clear, and every Member formed as the Potter pleased. So the Figure of a Man was thus modellized before my Eye, in all Comeliness; no one part defective: But there was no Life. And I was call'd upon to take no... Read More

I did see the crawling Worms at the Root of the Vine-Tree, still very busie to prevent its springing to its perfect Degree. Which brought great anxiety into me, taking thought how to free it, from what would suck the springing Sap, as it did rise to feed every Life-property withal. For such are the ... Read More

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 G... Read More

From the open flowing Spring, as beholding in a Crystal Stream, how, and after what manner, Redemption is to be wrought out. (For which the piercing Unction doth bore the Ear for to hear, what is further to be yielded in order hereunto;) This Word in a pure soft Breath did run through, giving a char... Read More

My Spirit meeting with some things inferiour to its Birth-descent, which to conform unto was much disagreeing: yet it must be born at the present, for the outward Image's sake, because all in order to Redemption is working out. For hereby I am made to inquire, Where does lie the redeeming Power, tha... Read More

T H E P R E F A C E. To the Holy Inspired Saints, who are made partakers of the Heavenly Gift and Revelation of the Divine Mysteries. TO you who under Wisdom’s Discipline have been taught and exercised (more principally) is this little Tract Commended; as knowing you are in a deeper Capacity to rece... Read More

A N Introduction, and Apology To the following DISCOURSE. MY Friends, who in the universal Love, of the God of Love do dwell, to you I doubt not but the Matter of this Discourse may find Acceptance, as it is a Message from above, of good, and Glad-tidings to the whole Creation, from the beginning of... Read More

Forasmuch as the Author of this Diary hath been led up to the Watch-Tower, as a foreseer of that great and notable Day Prophesied of, relating unto the Manifestation of the descending Powers of the Holy Ghost, preparing and ushering in the Glorious Reign and Kingdom of our Emanuel: which so near app... Read More

The E P I S T L E. Grace, Mercy, Love, and Peace, from him who is the first begotten from the Dead.. TO all of you who rejoice to die daily out of that Life which is essenced in Sin, Curse, Bondage, and Sorrow, to such the following Treatise is commended; knowing to no other it will be pleasing, but... Read More

THE Vision that appeared this 8th of October, 1678. The Signification thereof much followed me: and the Spirit would not let me bury it, in the Depths of that understanding, from whence it opened, without writing the Interpretation thereof. Which was thus revealed to me, That this fair and comely Im... Read More

T H E P R E F A C E [ Written by Dr. Francis Lee.] handwritten To a certain Person, that for many Years had been led wonderfully in the Ways of God, it came to pass that one day upon a deep Contemplation of the Paradisiacal World, there appear’d in the midst of a most bright Cloud, a Woman of a most... Read More

T H E E D I T O R T O T H E R E A D E R. BLESSED are the Poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven, is not without the greatest Reason prefix’d in the Front of that Heavenly Doctrine, which in the Greatness of the Majesty of Love, is deliver’d to us by our Blessed Master, from the Mountain... Read More