Lumen de Lumine: or a New Magical Light

patron with the Truth itself, and when the world shall submit to the general Tribunal Tribunal: a court of justice or the judgment seat of God., he will find his Advocate Advocate: a legal defender or intercessor, often referring here to Christ., where they shall find their Judge. There is a mutual Testimony between God and his Servants; if the Baptist John the Baptist, who the Bible says was sent to bear witness to Jesus. did bear witness of Christ, Christ also did as much for the Baptist: John 5:35 He was a burning and a shining Light.

This, Reader, I thought fit to Preface, so that if any Discourse Discourse: here referring to the author’s written arguments or philosophical treatises. of mine be traduced Traduced: slandered, misrepresented, or spoken of maliciously. hereafter, you may not expect my Vindication Vindication: a formal defense or proof that one's words were right.. I have referred my Quarrel to the God of Nature; it is involved in the concerns of his Truth. I am satisfied with the Peace and Test of a good Conscience: I have written nothing but what God has verified before my Eyes in particular, and is able to justify before the world in general. I have known his secret Light; his Candle A metaphor for divine inspiration or the "inner light" of the soul, common in 17th-century spiritual writing. is my School-master; I testify to those things which I have seen under his very Beams, in the
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