THE AVRAVJOHN His THEOUS ORI APOKOLIPIKAL Or Gods Light declared in Mysteries Salem Ori ad te Israel Beware of false Prophets that come to you in sheeps clothing but inwardly are ravening wolves But behold Christ hath told you By their fruit you shall know them Beloved God is love and love is light and in it is no darkness at all So then know he that is in light acts in love not lust and he that acts not in love is in darkness even till now I will pour out my Spirit in the last days and that Spirit shall be your alone teacher saith the Lord my God Jehovah Ire ad te O England Theauraujohn Tanni Dedicated to the Army and the risen people in all Lands coming forth in the first fruits in the Evangelical operation Rev. 14.1 And so a lamb stood on Mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand having his Fathers name written in their foreheads To these is the dedication of this Book and their eyes behold the Truth none else I have added to this Book the particular Charges in the Indictment against Captain Robert Norwood and myself and my Defence against the Charge London Printed for the Author and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1651. Dearly beloved THe word grafted in our souls makes oneness in unione in our lives and conversation for God teaches us to be like himself in love Dearly beloved I am constrained to publish to the view of the world the writing I have declared It is to a tittle without alteration as every Epistle stands in his place without adding or diminishing one tittle upon my oath I will affirm though sometime I was out of my self yet the Charge of calumny upon me being so great I am forced to declare my greatest weakness which might have been in obscurity But I beseech the courteous Reader know that the great sound and name of things are not the very things themselves for if so Christ and his Apostles suffered justly all whereas charged upon them but Christ and his Apostles were one truth and the dark world persecuted them even unto death now know that the new heaven and the new earth is not yet erected in the generality and till that work of Grace and power come there is and must be enmity betwixt light and darkness condemn not things by another mans sight but know that thou whosoever thou art must be saved in thy own sight and light and not in another mans Every man must give an account of himself but brethren I am accounted a blasphemer now I am come to try the truth in your Gospel the Gospel in me that you account blasphemy hath made me act strangely and whether truly or no according to the truth in the same Gospel I commit to judgement Now if you condemn me for blasphemy and my actions are the very substance that Gospel or writing points at or unto I say that then my blasphemy is holiness and you are found blasphemers with your high cry of holiness Now brethren I must have you come from your high cry of names and by things you are and must be justified and I will put in my actions in the balance because I am but one and many against me First know that after fourteen weeks in humiliation in fasting and Prayer frequently Then the power fell upon me in my shop and smote me dumb then after blinde and then dead in the beholding of hundreds of people then I was corded and bound in my bed and then I received instruction which afterwards I was forced to put the same into action which was this Distribute all to the poor Release all pawns without advantage give back to them that were not able to redeem fain to proclaim if I had injured or wronged any man to restore him four-fold according to the Law Brethren the name of this would not serve me for I was forced to act the thing I durst not act any thing O beloved the Gospel is peace in it self but 't is a fiery Law to flesh and blood Now how have I walked since my affliction can any man charge me either for drinking swearing whoring or deceiving or lying or uncivil walking which do you know and all the world that blasphemy is the root on which them names depend and where a godly life is there these actions are not to be found and where godliness is not in the root or soul these are and will be for know that blasphemy is onely the tye in the soul of man loosed from its principle of obedience and from that loosness comes a dissoluteness in life and take Christs own word which is this By their fruits that is actions you shall know them Again what end or advantage have I sought to my self ever since as my Epistles will declare now I say the love of Christ hath constrained me hereunto which is not blaspemy but love in truth without deceit Now brethren you that are so high in holiness in name I come to see what things you declare for the Gospel is not a lying name but an over-powring and commanding thing who amongst you is gone beyond this blasphemy I have stated and who is but short of what I have spoken and done he is a blasphemer and a perjured man for 't is written Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain and have ye not all learned and heard that it is not speaking but doing is the justification of him that doth it and a declaration to the world that God hath done his work in him from whence this doing doth proceed So then be ye hearers no more deceiving your own selves but doers O how many high expressions of Christ and holiness and the Lord help you before five pound to help to relieve him in need nay five shillings now if you say that the Gospel is true I say 't is made a lye by you for that being truth commands thee not to speak without acting and thou speakst all and acts not which action is the life of the Gospel and in truth and indeed how many of you are without the Gospel for your cloak Jam. 1.27 Pure religion and undefiled before God even the Father is this To visit the fatherless and widows in their adversity and to keep himself unspotted of the world Brethren this is a metaphorical expression but I will give you the literal meaning that is this the fatherless hold in it all that are in need for as the Father is the staffe on which the whole Creation depends so the fatherless amongst us is all that are in want so as God in his mercy and love condescends to our relief so to condescend to the fatherless is no less then helping all in need the widow is but the same for to give out to the capacity of our knowing our duty that we may be left without excuse for
who is the strength of the woman the woman and man one in him that is Christ The next is A Virgin shall conceive and bring forth her first born and they shall call his name Emanuel I give you this though the Text doth not hold in full what is this the intendant is Christ Who is this Virgin it was not Mary and it was Mary that you have confined Christ to be born of T is the spirits intent the whole birth born and brought forth in the whole creation was is and to come the same this is Mary that is perfection for where Christ is born a pure Virgin doth conceive and bring forth for he himself is Virgin birth and bringer forth of himself Now you whose reaches are tied to the traduced not understood letter called Gospel or word of God you begin to swell Let not swelling turn to rage but desire knowledge of him who is the true Expositor of his own intendants Now to come to your name Christ confined to Jerusalem I am a Jew of the Tribe of Ruben begotten by the Gospel by the life of Jesus Christ Jah Jehovah L Emanuel a One Tele Thre-on Pell Sanah Eloah Ad Eval Allu Haso Apal Venat On Sele Tran All these names in their Tongues and Languages the same and but one name that is God or Christ both one one both I say the man Christ suffered as you say so say I you understand not that do I Christ was born of the Virgin Mary was put to death suffered by the hands of wicked men rose from the dead descended into hell would you have any more I acknowledge all this Saith one Text He sitteth at the right hand of God and maketh intercession for us That I deny and charge it blasphemy but before I prove the blasphemy know them words is the sealed book not opened yet therefore minde I beseech you for Jesus sake that is your own word and my spirit mark that state To begin with the first that I have declared Christ was put to death and suttered by sinners here lies the ridled riddle First Christ created all things is the life of all things he could not dye for with him the whole creation nay God himself in that state it must stand thus for the divinity of Christ Secondly the humanity of Christ could not dye thus if the humanity must dye then the whole altogether the whole creation no part left nothing nor no earth for that is Christs humanity as well as we Now know you hold that Christ must be perfect God so say I then know that two perfections at once cannot be that is to say two Gods for names make not things but things make names there must be a living thing before a name there is another Mystery one of the greatest in the Scripture Know my learning is not of man nor by man but I am taught of the living God who is the true Expositer of his own intendants He desended in hell where was that coyned at Rome from the Papal diabolical doctrine the Panther that is a destroyer ineagling is quick catched and the carrying the Ty or catched into that fatal place The spirits denomination was the Panther or the ineagling the Tye into that fatal place the state was let down to me in them words at first I cannot reach it my manhood yet for know he that created all things was all things and is all things how can he be said to go into any local place for the intendant Jesus must descend into one place but Jeius must descend into Hell what is that that descent is into us who are Hell or Devils for ye are of your father the Devil what is the Devil he is not love then you know what is the contrary in man Christs descent into Hell was to redeem us t is true in the intendant for know they and we are but one spirit he descendeth now into us as he did then into them for his descending into our Hell is his own resurrection in us in him by one the very same spirit if the spirit of Jesus be in ye ye are risen from death to life so saith the true Scripture But now to that Text that saith He sitteth at the right hand of God and maketh intercession for us I charge it to be absolute blasphemy Thus God is one in the unione his Deity glorifie me with the glory that I had with thee before the world was There was but one God is but one God one glory in himself that is to say himself in himself Can one God intercede to another no Neither hath God hands neither any fear neither any place for he is all and nothing this is God Now for you to speak God truly you cannot for thus the all of the creation the beauty strength wisdom excellency and knowledge cannot spell his name All named together is his name that spell â—ehovah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus Christ died not he suffered not he sinned not he saved not by any act that was done for the life of all things could not suffer which was his divine essence the humanity could not dye then the whole creation and God himself for if the 〈◊〉 of the subsistance be taken away the subsistance is dead for the humanity is all things the divinity the life of all things and they cannot be separated Christ is the life of God and if the creature can destroy the Creator which is the life of it self judge ye it may cause its own likeness to suffer that is a part of the humanity of Christ so Christs body being part of the humanity of God it suffered as man and no more for he was the transcendant pipe in which the Deity passed through to illustrate the will of his own commandings he was the first birth of the brethren the anointed above his fellows that was spiritual that could not suffer undeniably For know if God could suffer then he is no God but man he saved not by any act that was done for minde the acts of humanity cannot satisfie divinity or thus the obedience of man cannot satishe God for then you would make God weakness as you are weakness so by consequence you are as great a God as the eternal being which I deny and you will not affirm for the spirit of Jesus look to your own state Jesus is a Saviour a Saviour cannot suffer for then no Saviour minde and the Lord give you understanding For if he could be angry no God for anger is weakness that is in us not in God if he should but think at such a time he would satisfie himself for the sins of the people then that thought makes him no God but do you know that you were when you were not that that now you are and shall be God is unchangable for know that which we account to be is not and that we account not to be that is for though we be dark in our selves
radack in the Lunan constellative or the constellative of the Moon 35 What is the inlet into the Philiades in his operative part 36 What is the Tobass Celestial or alclu in the spheres in their Trines Celestial 37 What is the end of all Querie from God to man from man to God from both to one MY ANSWER Added to the CHARGE against Me. Brethren THrough the great Calumny of aspersion laid upon me I am forced to publish to the world what I have declared and withal I have added my Defence against the copy of my Indictment that the Book it self will manifestly declare how they have traduced my words through ignorance or envy what I did declare and this is a command Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbour And in judgement and righteousness onely shalt thou swear For I am a holy God and will visit the false swearer I have inserted all the points in the copy of the Indictment 1 They charge me with A dissoluteness in living and breaking all humane society Now for living that is obeying what God hath commanded know that no man is perfect but there is a closure and consenting to all that is commanded which is declared by outward actings and for that I shall not desire any favour at any mans hand but this I desire you to search my life in actions thtorowly and I shall prove unto you a Looking-glass whereby you may discern your own spots and foulness and wilful failings So much for the first Charge 2 The second Charge is That I deny Gospel-Ordinances To which I Answer That I do not nor cannot for the Ordinances of the Gospel are in truth the power of God upon whom soever it lighteth it maketh them obedient to the commands of God and that is love distributive and to that I say I was forced to make a distribution a releasing and a satisfaction now this was Gospel in power which power you my persecuters know not for ye have the name Gospel but the power of it is not known unto you for then you would love the afflicted help the needy but alas your Gospel lies in your head by parratlearning and not in the heart wrote by digitus Dei in Cor allah that is the Gospel is not in your hearts writ by the finger of God for if it were persecution would cease and acts of mercy would flow and deceit vanish your constant guest or constant inmate So much for the second 3 The third was That I said That the Bible was a riddle And I leave it to the world to judge of is it not a riddle a mystery a Microcosm to the world nay to you if not a riddle and a thing that you understand not wherefore is not obedience due unto it rendered for you make it worse then I do For a riddle is as proper a word as mystery but you make it a lye by your not obeying the things therein commanded and declare your self-actions to be truer then that for if you know it to be true wherefore not adored by you But ye cry the name Gospel high but you are a Gospel to your self-ends for the truth in the Gospel is doing deeds of mercy and not in disputing names of dead letters and for the translations they are false in many places and one thing stated for another thing intended that many knows 4 The fourth is that I should say That there is no such thing as Hell as your Ministers hold forth You will see in my Book what is spoken to it But I say Hell is not as the Ministers hold it forth neither as it is denoted in your insert Hell is a separation from an enjoyment and give you the definition and that is all that can be said but I refer you to the Book to see what I have said and know that there is nothing but must be denoted in word and then the main Quere is What that word doth include in it self and what the spirit doth intend in that word it is not what we conceive to be but what it in truth in it self is and thus none but the Spirit is able to make forth or define 5 Fifthly That I said The soul of man is essencied in God I say first There is a God that cannot be denyed then this God essencying himself in every created appearance and again all these appearances essencyed in God doth appear from these words In him we live and move and have our being now Priests your rule will be confounded thus know nothing below himself can bear or hold a state in competition with the Lord who is all and yet nothing this is Jehovah who is nothing and yet the thing in things not of the things nor by the things but he the life of all things and he in regency and essency and in derivacy and definacy and still he is unmoveable always for ever to come the same and yet Jehovah cyphered is his name here is one of my makka demical expressions allegorically alluding to the point into which all points but to come down from this sphear God is a spirit you say the soul is a spirit I will be one with the simple or I will dwell with the meek spirit saith the Lord now how is a spiritual dwelling not to be defined by natural men for they hear and understand not so saith the true Scripture a spiritual dwelling is being intirely one for these bodies of clay hold us at a distance as witness the spirit derivative in its growing to be in unione that is into the Essence regency in these words the state lies we groan and would be unclothed that mortality might be swallowed up of life these are both pointing to that oneness which is in God in unione Now know that the soul is spiritual light and light is God now by this rule envy would say I say that the soul is God no 't is in us a derivative from God essencied in God and at the unmoddeling every figure it s figured in returns to the essence Regina or God raigning and is one in the unione in glory transcendent for ever now know in a spiritual being that is light it is in oneness with that great light it came forth from this One or God letting down his oneness caused that oneness to appear in appearances now the appearances retracted the oneness is received into himself so then that light in the derivacy is taken into the essences regency and then unione a beginning and an end no end but a beginning neither beginning nor end but the middle and that is the center and that is God in his reigning all 6. That I did say that The Old and New-Testament was false and interwoven Know that is easily answered for the whole printing is mans connexion or interweaving together and for the Translation it is false in many places I say so still and in the point of Jesus our Saviour is the main 7. I
said That God must save the divel This state is altered to what I declare my Book will show it I say that Christ came to save men-devils devils men Christ said as much if duly understood for I come not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance is there not in our understanding a devil in this word Satan did not Christ say unto Peter Get thee behind me Sathan or devil get thee behind me you know that there is but two spirits in your account as good and bad then know not of God then of the devil there is your state stated short Make you what you will of it 't is not what you conceive but what it in truth is 8 That I said that God had just mercy to save all and no more He that saith the contrary is a blasphemer for I say God had just strength to create and not a tittle more and just mercy to save his created and not a tittle more what a height in Christs School are ye seeing that this is a paradox to you I need not go no further for to search the reason of your dark actions for if you did know God you must know him to be just and just is perfection and perfections is just for if he were in himself more or less then know he could not be perfect or if he were more at one time then at another he could not be just and God is a just God and holy perfect God and because you do not know God as he is in himself but you have a God of your own gotten by learning and by hearing therefore you persecute them whom God hath taught himself and planted himself in by his spirit of light 9. That I said that the New-Testament is a lye So in the truth of true speech it is for you say It is the holy Gospel of Christ and the holy word of God and I say It is but a name of dead letters set together with much interweaving of mans invention and more many places translated to hold up the Pope and the Clergies supremacie and burdening the People to their tyranny and It is not Unione in it self therefore not Gods declarative in truth of name for a name is but a shadow of a substance which substance is Christ the Lord you understand me not nor one in ten millions knows not truly what Christ is nay not one in the Creation now are you stound or are amazed I will prove it against all opposers therefore 't is not looking for an outward Christ at Jerusalem but a living life of righteousness within your selves that gives you sight towards Christ this you say 't is the word of God and I say 't is dead letters set together and is that whore that hath deceived the Nations now know that truth which is Gods Gospel of peace to the soul is not got by hearing an outward name named by a Priest for naming what God hath done in me cannot confer the substance thing to you which is Christ in the soul the name doth deceive you but the substance cannot for it is Gods strength that is Christ the Lord taking you into himself then that is true Gospel not wrote in and upon Paper but upon the soul of man but my book will open it in the first and second part to the full view of all men here lies the state you say that the Testament is the word God I say it is but the name of the word of God and much false spelling in it and I say God is the word himself converting you without that written word by his free mercy which is Christ a substance and not a lettered name for you may learn the name and deceive your selvs not having the thing which is Christ the substance converting you unto himself now I speak Allegorically and you understand literally so you wrong me and cause my true innocent and harmless intention to suffer Brethren let us not fall out in names but let us live honestly in things 10 I said that he that added or diminished to the Book of the Revelation there is a curse stated on them which I say is not in the truly true original but added by the Pope to cause an adorative worship to be tendred to he knew not what and that is blasphemy thus for man to state a word to cause obedience to that word stated is blasphemy because it is stated in the seat of God and is not God and this is the whole book called holy and 't is an Idol robbing God of his glory for there is none holy but the Lord and no created or made thing is holy but God alone where is your holy named Gospel in letters there is not two holies but one holy that is God and holy is not names of letters but the Lord living by his spirit in the souls of men and not confined Brethren out of love not for lucre of gain have I communicated what God hath made known unto me and my desire is that you should not shut your eyes against the light preferring your own reason and self-will wedded to the letter of whose translation you know noâ— ye shall all be taught of me saith the Lord but you will have your God out of them written dead names called Scripture 11 And that I said that there is neither election nor reprobation That I say still for know God Is and Is is no chuser or refuser but Is search you that out Onely I give you this Query How could God chuse when all was wrapped in the womb of unione you say From all eternity declare you the product and then I will answer for in this state I lye barred in unione without product 12 They say that I said that God was not for ever Which I protest I never spoke and though it is not lawful for to draw consequences to prove or produce evidences yet in your own Charge you say that I said The soul was of the essence of God and say that the soul cannot suffer minde what you make that is the soul God in denying what I truly spoke for that that cannot suffer is a God for all things must suffer but one thing and that is God and the suffering of all things to that God is the due homage they ow unto God as he is their Liege Lord. Now I say before all men you my accusers are blasphemers and I am not but rage not I can pass it by God give you more light to see the beauty of his excellency that you and I and the whole body may be gâ—thered into one then peace 13 I said that God was neither angry when men did ill nor pleased when they did well Ye weak Babes who in your weakness do ye liken God unto Is he like man The lowest of men Nay weakest men I desire you to bring anger and see how you can make it stand in Gods perfection and bring pleasing to Gods justness
we are light in him and when we are light in our selves then is our greatest darkness thus God doth stain the glory of man you must be captivated by his love that is your restoring to life for in this main scope of scripture for want of knowledge is the Nations loss that God may have mercy for they have stated the humane body God to suffer to the divine Deity God when it is but one very thing for the divinity and humanity make up perfection and that is God in unione and we have made them by accounting two Gods hanging one in another The word is proper according to your own riddle Ox te sabdi el dele mem The God is alone all in all things minde that state well So minde these two states Selos in rem a sabar the heavenly thing cannot suffer Humanitas in rem saddi ne The humanity could not satisfie for the thing O a palaram in sam madaous in selous in aberemus soas alah al The high living light could not suffer to it self So that riddle of bondage to the creation is unridled if understood and believed that is my Gods work and not mine for my work is alah al to unseal the hidden mystery in the Scriptures added by mans invention and false construction and when this is done Behold and see for I Theaurau John did behold and have seen the precious pearl the souls delight O the Apples of life that my soul thirsts after oh the paradaical fruit O so â—â—â—ah halalujah al oh the divine being is the inravishment of the soul oâ— the evangelical injoyment in the paradaical essence O amorum in sobao se O the the lovely divine being is in it self O the pictures of gold in apples of silver O the perfume in Paradice is the injoyment of himself O beloved our loveliness is there But my brother John saw the new Jerusalem descend what is that it is to attract our souls to its lovely center this is the time that the new Jerusalem should be letten down which is the light and knowledge in the everlasting Gospel they shall all know me how they shall all be taught of God that teaching is knowledge that knowledge is God the new Heaven the new Earth wherein dwelleth righteousness for where knowledge lays the foundation Jesus Christ erects his Throne O a saba ormoas sabdial O rest to wisdom wisdom rest Epistle VII Beloved WE disagree in names and not in things For thus we account the natural man when the Scripture calls the spiritual man that is to say man risen out of the corruptible estate for now man is man in tearm or name accounted by man that is in the account of his own figures for we are figures one of another and a one figure of the Deity by Creation this is the outward figure man but the in-being figure is the life of this outward figure and the living of that is God in us which is in Scriptures called man or the image of God or the Trinity in man figurative which figure nay which life is God Jesus our Saviour For to give a narration of that whole contested for not understood for understanding causes contests and disputes to cease that 's concerning man fallen from light to darkness and man restored from darkness to light what do you understand by the sealed book there lies something to be declared that is the everlasting Gospel to be preached this the word holds forth Now what is this but a greater discovery to us of the light of God in us men and women that thereby we may discern and know the mystery of the sealed book which is the Scripture or word of God as you call it to unvail the vailed truth that lies hid and buryed by mans invent on and that lye took off and then that truth in its first purity intire inserted with illustration of it and the connexion of that truth that God is a bringing forth in man for ye shall all be taught of me saith the Lord. Now here is stated the high mystery of all that hath been so contested for in the world since man was 't is short but minde I beseech you for the mystery is all in the thing and the Spirit must guide you to the true light of the discovery discovered Nos se exce in meam gloria adoramus We in him did behold his glory and did worship this was before we came forth into bestial bodies to which text holds this declarative it is imbodied in them words when the Angels praised me and sang together Jobs words This was before a visible Creation Now those angels fell the word will hold with the original thus they fell because they descended into Vegitables and left their first habitation Here is the mystery how did they lose their first state They disobeyed the command what was that Love for the duty of heavenly injoyment is love in perfection Now they detracted from that how could Angels detract as it was a Creature yet purely the life of them essenced in the Creator for though the life of them was essenced in God by acts Evangelical yet detracting for know there is a motion in every state or thing but that one of which all the Creation are but semblances He stands and all the Creations move and their motion is their homage due to God by Creation yet the life of all them are essencied in God Now the detraction caused a diminution of that glory they possessed in that state And do you and all the people and Nations know that that way is and them Angels became men and that was Addam in the Garden though essenced in God still Now my Hamah holds more full and an unione state Now the Angels fallen created them bodies to act in as fleshly bodies to act in proved from this text The Sons of God came in to the daughters of men and saw them beautiful Now how was that it was thus the motion in them did assume unto themselves a comliness that was but weakness that text makes this forth for they sowed fig-leaves to cover their nakedness with that is the truth and God himself is witness Now you will say man made himself I intreat you minde if I am essencied in another there is acts of my own from that essency as I am a descent descended from that essential essence which is God himself still know mans detraction is in himself absolutely free onely the life of the being is essenced in God Well now when these Angels were imbodied in flesh a command came from that essence that is to say from the Lord Creator to his first second and third descent Look now here is work none but the livened or living by and in the new living life of God can reach this high mysterious truth which stile is the Trinity in the humanity Now this Law was weak in an equal ballance ballancing the Creature and it self just just just to destroy
one another to save both Now this was the called Christ or God which by illustrating in light into the invisible principle to cause a resurrection of himself or as you say his image in us to a living life in himself This is Mary this is Jesus and no other for know there remains the true figure of the Trinity in man that cannot be defaced quite that is the tye in man to God as soveraign and that tye in man looks for mercy from that soveraign which is thus much the tye acknowledges digression inlivened is remission that is Christs resurtection in us this is Christ and no other which is Gods mercy taking us into himself and then an unione is made for beloved be not so stupid in this point to think that God could die or suffer for know you all know the soul is chief and that ye say never dyes but is in joy or sorrow Now you state this name Jesus to be a Saviour what a madness if duly considered it is To think that a Saviour could die then your Saviour is less then your own soul so then by this rule your soul is a greater Saviour then he that should save you Thus brethren the same thing according to your belief being mans lye I beleeved it stood for it but when the Lord came upon me in power and called me to the Ministry of his truth he smote me dumb blinde and dead and my sufferings were unexpressible then I saw the sufferings of the body of that man Jesus my brother Now let me tell you many men suffer more then he did I beseech you minde I speak truth let not received opinion delude you but desire God to enlighten you that you may set your spirit upon the truth of the thing and not be deceived by the name which holds nothing but the thing is the life of God the mercy of God taking you into it this is Jesus our Saviour the son of the eternal God Brethren that I speak here I shall declare to the whole world and all things I speak is set down in writing and I am ready and do desire that the whole Assembly of Divines if they please to except against any point If I prove not by the true Scripture confounding the false falacie of men inserted in the book called Scripture I am willing to suffer I desire no more favour And from this day know I am not mad as they have accounted me but 't is the blindeness in them that counts it madness in me The name Jesus hath deceived the Nations taken from this word in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Massah which heighth of expression is thus much in the full 't is the all-saving the all his things this is the true text as the Lord lives from Massah That text with this text The seed of the woman shall break the Serpents head And a vigin shall conceive and bring forth Now let me say that both Mary and Jesus is both perfect names but Jesus is no name but the thing of things he is the life glory excellency of the Father He is the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost as you call them but calling doth not confirm it to be so for many a time a false name is put upon a true thing But I beseech you brethren let me speak truth to you for I cover after you not yours I preach not to prey upon you that is to inrich my self by constraint from you as too many of our diabolical dumb dogs Tythe-mongers I mean do for they misunderstand this text Feed my people and instead of feeding they fleece the people to your shame the Ministers of the Gospel as you call it to you I speak for doing is the true demonstrative of what we are in Christ for know we in England have got the name Jesus in our mouth which is a lye unto us for doing is Jesus for not be that heareth my words but he that doth what I command he is Christs disciple Now let me tell you brethren our Saviour in the most of us lies too high in us the word is proper thus Christ in the head is a lye without being in the heart that is to say in curious terms and names but without action from the heart 't is a lye and nothing but a dead vanishing but if Jesus be in you ye are risen from death to life how is that thus the head hath lost the strength of the name and the hands from the heart by declaring distributing acts of love and relief to the necessity of the poor that is the thing there is not one among you but is a namer of Jesus but how few are ye that do as he hath commanded Brethren till ye be doers ye are a lye and are deceived your Religion is of the devil for ye name Jesus to effect another end but love is Jesus acting by a living distributing life to his members But let me tell you there is a day of vengeance a coming from the Lord to try all flesh and purge all dross and then the door shall be glorifyed and the sayer or lyer shall be tormented Now this in the presence of God and his elect Angels I can speak in truth of heart I have coveted no mans gold or silver nor nothing though since the Lord hath called me to preach and declare the truth in the everlasting Gospel no mans breach and suffering like mine both in body and estate yet I joy because I know my work shall be rewarded which is I know multitudes of people are to be gathered by my ministry before the great overflowing scourge come Beloved all things below himself and my work in him to declare to you the people that the Lord will deliver out of bondage is doing to me all things to me but love to you received from him is dead and not esteemed of by me O my soul is drawn into that fountain of love which is God and from thence being thereby enlighned I account all things at a true value for before we are enlightened we value things not as they are but as they seem and so are deceived for we account that to be which is not in truth and then nothing Now beloved John in his Revelation when he let down the mysterious mystery his eye reached us and this day we are in for he said that the everlasting Gospel should be preached which is the love of God but in such a powerful manner that it should turn all things up and down to make an inlet for it self And know sufferings brings man to stability and the lifted up fatteth for the day of slaughter which Saint John saw when he had wrote this book called the Revelation of God Now mind there is not one of all the rest was so high for mystery as he was and yet his is called the Revelation which is meant a declaring cleerly to the understanding of men now if that be the Revelation
therefore true but if you will make a devil from whence had he his originy you will say from God well then ad Gods word the Creation is good Gods word is himself therefore true now how and what and where was this devil the first original that you know of was in the story of Creation in Genesis do you understand what Genesis doth import 't is thus much the genuine understanding in the practick part of Theos-ologi now many of you are as neer in the name Genesis Genesis is an Hebrew word compounded of all compounds for 't is wrote from the Hebraick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in mophes that is the tyed strength or combinings combined into short simblems or radiases that in a short scope all may be viewed that was the Prophets Cabalesterial inclue and their methodical method that was much upon the â—â—undation of hieroglyphicy that is to say a short map to view the Land by there in Genesis according to their germine lighted light in that age for cleerer and higher discoveries are in me to come forth for no less then the full opening both Law and Gospel and shutting them together in one intire truth though now they lye jarring one against another by reason of expositions made by men but the thing is one the truth in both one that is truth but not all in both but in both false through mans invention which will be opened in the great day that is but thus much the illustration of Gods truth that is the resurrection from dead Anni selorum in sabeah el zedeck alphi elosterationem induo in enim una reamus in se segoas sal almenienna in transaluorum in rem sabie pelma aurauret eloah al et el seke em The English derivacy from this golden number being the five oriental languages the year of glory to the earthly man that is Peace let down from God on high but war and discord it shall beget because of its transcendency at length the Lion and the Lamb by it shall be made one no hurtful thing shall in my mountain be for I the Lord will alone be King But for the demonstration of the Devil In Genesis 't is said he was more subtile or wise then the rest of the beasts I intreat you minde but your own words or you are the same beast that he was for he was the quick life and motion in the bestial body which is but darkness which is but a confused Chaos before that light of the spirit of life rise and cast down and cast forth this Gyant of our own understanding and God erect his center in the cleer manifestation of his glorious excellency and then and not before you see your beastlike knowledge by reason of the inward indowment you are higher inlightned and organised otherwise then other bestial bodies are but all one dung in the center of dung that are you to the two own but 't is true therefore by men ought to be owned Now to know this subtile beast in the field in Genesis was the lustful desire that took hold within the woman for what representation soever outwardly cannot attrackt the eye of the soul unless it be unruddered or loosened from the tye of obedience within for if obedience eye his principle the devil that lustful deceiver desirer destroyer cannot act nor seduce us Now there is a mystery in Genesis concerning the woman you would have me keep unione onely Eve and she the mother of us all I shall adde but one hebraick sentence to hold my intent though locked from you and I will plead with your named Eve but my knowledge is locked in this state Avil seal sine sean them four words will hold me true though I discourse with you in your sained truth thus say you Eve was Addams wife made of his rib and that you know is crooked the woman was straight and not crooked then for Gods works are straight and perfect works the maxim will hold straight But to come to terms in knowledge it would be Quered who wrote the book called Genesis or Theos-ologi which word will hold the declarative of God but now 't is written 't is not Gods declarative for to come home Gods declarative cannot be written Thus God commands man to write gives him what he should write still this is not Gods declarative for we the living simblims or figures we are Gods declaratives and that writing is but a dead name of the living things of the thing that thing is God the living life of all things But to come to the woman in the called Garden she took an apple and it was death and it was death to them both I beseech you all people minde this abominable aspersion cast upon the great true holy and righteous Jehovah for God saith your riddle saw that it was not good for man to be alone but saith the same riddle Let us make man in our image who was that was spoken to Now fetch your Greek names and then comes persons in one essencial essence but I pass from that point that is too high for our English Scholars to deal with but let 's come to the woman that God first saw it was not good for man to be alone but he would make him a meet help to destroy both I beseech you mind in many places the translator hath represented the glorious God Creator to have less wisdom then a weak man nay a very lying Ideot ye stand out for your translated Baal for the lying translation because 't is wrote so therefore 't is so say you But I Theaurau-John say 't is a lye though writ so I will prove it so and all men living that stand in deâ—ending it so Now I beseech you judge judiciously and doth the woman stand in your riddle a meet help for the man certainly you understand not Gods word for you will make God to be a lyer or cheater or deceiver but whatsoever you tearm him to be less then truth the all truth you do indeavour to undignifie him for he Is that Is truth it self neither going backward by detraction or coming forward by elosteration but he is Now you may say What is he the highest expression if duly understood and considered the main that can be said he Is and that is the all things in appearances visible and invisible and yet not visible for the inlivening life of all things is not seen that is the essencial being of God in that appearance and the outside appearance is moved from within the inmost spirit But to come to this poor woman liking an apple and it brought death saith your riddle or Bible in that place of Genesis give me leave to treat with you I say there was no Apples neither Trees I prove it to your own state for you say God made man perfect in the Garden then know there cannot be a help in perfection for that destroys perfection neither Apples nor fruit for meat for