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  JANUARY 1. 1678. A CRYSTALLINE FIGURE DESCENDS FROM THE SEA OF GLASS.
  by Jane Lead
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Summary: The sermon describes a vision of a new creating power,
symbolized by a Crystalline Figure, and the birth of the Holy Ghost,
which represents a new creation and the fullness of a Glorified
Humanity.

Topics: "Holy Spirit", "New Creation"
Scripture References: Genesis 1:1, Ezekiel 36:26, John 7:38, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Revelation 21:5

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Jane Lead preaches about a vision she had on New Year's Day, where she
saw a new creating power symbolized by a figure in transparent glass
descending from the Sea of Glass. This figure transformed into a plain,
from which water flowed and covered the land, symbolizing the Holy
Spirit's work of renewal and transformation. The vision emphasized the
sowing of the Holy Ghost in receptive hearts, bringing forth a new
creation in spirit and body, pointing to the beginning of a new creation
succeeding the old.

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On New Years-Day, upon the break thereof, this Figure was presented to
me, as the Model of a new Creating power, and opened by an Image of
transparent Glass, which descended from the Sea of Glass, and stood as
upon a Mountain of Earth, which after a very little season mouldered all
away, and became a plain. And then it was said, Now observe, and see
what will follow. And out of the Belly of this Clarified Body did flow
Water, that became as a great River, that covered all the plain, which
soon drunk these Waters in.

And then the Word, said, Spring O Ground, and bring forth another
Creation; Then did there rise from the same figurative Body, a pure
Light, which sprung within the case of Glass, from the Loyns upwards to
the Head, and out of the Mouth a fiery Stream did proceed, which
descended where the Waters were drunk in. And it was given immediately
by the soft whisper of the Spirit, that this would be the sowing of the
Holy Ghost, in a plain and leavened Ground, which would bring forth,
after its own kind, as to Spirit and Body; The Lord my God hereby did
also signify much to me, which draws the mind to wait attentively, to be
made the Subject matter, that may be formed into the like transparency
which doth so naturally flow from the fullness of a Glorified Humanity.

Now he is said to be the beginning of that new Creation, which is to
succeed the old.

Ah my Lord, who shall enjoy the first Fruits of this pure mingling of
the Glassy Sea, from whence the Birth of the Holy Ghost does flow so
freely?

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