English Behmenist (a follower of Jakob Böhme) and nonconformist mystical writer, best known for The Way to the Sabbath of Rest (a devotional-theosophical guide to inner regeneration) and associated with the Philadelphian milieu (a network of dissenting, 'esoteric Christian' seekers who gathered around John Pordage and the visionary writer Jane Leade, emphasizing inner illumination, divine wisdom, prophecy/visions, and a hope for spiritual renewal).
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Full title: The way to the Sabbath of rest; or, The soul's progress in the work of the new-birth
The Dial's edition: 1761
"The soul enters into the internal paradise, where Adam lived before his fall. In this spiritual region the curse is not manifest, there being a perpetual spring."
A meditative treatise on the soul's journey toward spiritual rest—the inner Sabbath where striving ceases and divine peace is found.
