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A43281	The paradoxal discourses of F.M. Van Helmont concerning the macrocosm and microcosm, or, The greater and lesser world and their union set down in writing by J.B. and now published.; Paradoxale discoursen ofte ongemeene meeningen van de groote en kleyne wereld en speciaal van de wederkeeringe der menschelijke zielen. English	Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.; J. B.	1685 (1685)	Wing H1393; ESTC R9542	180,034	376

Scripture as may be seen Prov. 1. 6. and Chap. 25. 2. Eccles. Syr. 39. 1. Math. 13. 34. 35. 1 Cor. 13. 12. Even because the outward man hath onely an outward understanding and therefore can onely understand the outward and not the inward 1 Cor. 2. 14. 15. And therefore the Scripture was written in this Parabolical way that we from thence might take occasion to pass from the outward into the inward from the Body and Letter into the Spirit and by this means become Spiritual I have many years since communicated and discoursed the Contents of this Appendix to persons of several perswasions to try whether the same would be received and put in practice amongst any of them but they all with one accord told me that the same was impracticable and impossible forasmuch as none would be able to return an answer to all the questions which in case this way were introduced would be propounded and therefore must needs be the cause of numberless contests and disputes By which answer of theirs they tacitly acknowledge that they keep the Door fast lock'd which leads to the Steps of Wisdom Without any further considering whether it be likely that our Saviour or his Disciples could leave us any Commands but what were possible to be obeyed and put in practice c. Wherefore notwithstanding these discouragements and in hope that what hath not been done hitherto may be done and put in practice hereafter I have here briefly set down the same together with a short Introduction concerning the Education and Instruction of Children As also added Christ's Hundred Commandments of which by the constant use the Children may have them as it were engrafted in them by the careful and loving Mothers direction to read and write them over daily instead of their Horn and Coppy Books that so they may serve them all their Lives time for their true guides Which practice the Lord grant may tend to his most Holy Names Praise Honour and Glory CHRIST's Hundred Commandments c. 1. JEsus said unto him it is written again Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Mat. 4. 7. And Jesus answering said unto him it is said Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Luke 4. 12. 2. Then saith Jesus unto him get thee hence Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve Mat. 4. 10. And Jesus answered and said unto him get thee behind me Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve Luke 4. 8. 3. And said unto them that sold Doves Take these things hence make not my Fathers House a House of merchandize John 2. 16. 4. Marvel not that I said unto thee Thou must be born again John 3. 7. 5. But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him John 4. 23. 6. And saying the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand Repent ye and believe the Gospel Mark 1. 15. 7. Afterwards Jesus findeth him in the Temple and said unto him Behold thou art made whole Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee John 5. 14. 8. Search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testifie of me John 5. 39. 9. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven Mat. 5. 16. 10. But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the Judgement and whosoever shall say unto his brother Racha shall be in danger of the Council but whosoever shall say Thou Fool shall be in danger of Hell fire Mat. 5. 22. 11. But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery already with her in his heart And if they right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into Hell And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into Hell Mat. 5. 28 c. 12. But I say unto you That whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of Fornication causeth her to commit Adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth Adultery Mat. 5. 32. 13. But I say unto you Swear not at all neither by Heaven for it is God's Throne nor by the Earth for it is his Footstool neither by Jerusalem for it is the City of the great King Neither shalt thou swear by thy head because thou canst not make one hair black or white But let your communcation be Yea yea and Nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of Evil Mat. 5. 34 c. 14. But I say unto you That ye resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek turn to him the other also And if any man sue thee at the Law and take away thy cloak let him have thy coat also And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile go with him twain Mat. 5. 39. Luke 6. 27 29. 15. Give to him that asketh thee and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away Mat. 5. 42. Luke 6. 30. 16. But I say unto you Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you Mat. 5. 44 c. Luke 6. 27 35. 17. Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect Mat. 5. 48. Luke 6. 35. 18. Take heed that you do not your alms before men to be seen of them otherwise ye have on reward of your Father which is in Heaven Therefore when thou dost thine alms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the Hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory of men Verily I say unto you they have their reward But when thou dost alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does Mat. 6. 1 c. 19. And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as the Hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the Synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men Verily I say unto you they have their reward But thou when thou prayest enter into thy Closet and when thou hast shut the door Pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly Mat. 6. 5 6. 20. But when ye pray use not vain repetitions as the Heathen do for they think they shall be heard for

first place know that the Author of it is far from the humour of pressing his Sentiments upon any one And again that herein we have chosen rather to follow the free Order of Nature and the manner in which it came from the Author in Discourse than to follow School-inventions And in the last place the Reader may be pleased to consider that in case this Work should have been set down fully and at large the few leaves of this Book would not have been able to contain it but would have made a great yea rather many great Volumes Nature her self being so great a Book as she is But yet if in one or the other ●●ace of this Treatise some further Information may seem to be wanting the same may be met with in other parts of it where upon occasion the same thing is again mentioned for to avoid all superfluity of words forasmuch as in this Discourse the End conformably to Nature is contained in the Beginning and the Beginning in the End And therefore neither can any due or right Judgment be passed concerning it from any one particular passage therein nor indeed without a considerative and oft-repeated reading over of the whole Book Nor that I would go about to deny but that some faults may be here found properly to be attributed to my self as well for want of skill and capacity with reference to the Language I not being a German born as especially by reason of the weightiness of the things themselves which therefore I doubt not but will be easily pardoned me Not to mention now the haste in which I did it by reason of my unexpected departure out of the Land after I had undertaken it Moreover seeing that for want of another this Treatise hath been now Translated into English by a Hollander it is not improbable but upon this account also some failures may have slipt in which the Reader as he meets with them is desired favourably to pass by And because we had a great desire that he would be pleased to comply with our desire of having his Picture engraven in Copper printed in the front of this Book to the end that a stop might be put to the cheats of many who make use of his Name to deceive people and their fraud detected Forasmuch as the same was done to my knowledge by a certain person at Paris about five years since who pretended to great and extraordinary Cares and at first by this means got great sums of money but afterwards was fain to slip away in secret whereas it is notorious that Van Helmont never received either money or monies worth for the like or any other testifications of his Friendship In like manner we have heard of another here in London a Lieutenant-Colonel who pretended to have married his Sister and that by this means he had obtained many rare and excellent Medicines but when Prince Rupert in presence of the said Van Helmont did send for this Lieutenant-Colonel to come to him and speak with his Brother-in-Law he excused himself and withal declared that what was reported of him was a mistake and that it was not his Sister but a Servant of the House whom he had married Wherefore we supposed that his Effigies placed before the Book might prevent such an abuse for the future but we found he was not resolved to gratifie this our request at present but upon our importunate instance he at last consented to another Request of ours viz. to the end that many ignorant persons who are very liable to mistake might be rowsed out of their dream that for a testimony of his outward manner of Life the Patent of Honour freely given and granted unto him by the Emperour and the Roman Empire should be printed at the end of this Book And forasmuch as all this is now published with the will and consent of the Author he expects that the generous and truth-loving Reader will be pleased well to consider what is here set down according to the circumstances before-mentioned and so pass an impartial Judgment upon all in the same manner as the said Author promiseth that whensoever any in kind love shall better inform him to take and receive the same with a like affection to the end that Truth which for so long a time hath been strange and unknown to the greatest part of Europe may at length be manifested and the Publick Good promoted Dat. Lond. Octob. 5 1684. J. B. A Low-Dutch HYMN of ADAM BOREEL presented by him to the Author of this BOOK who had it translated into English I. O Heavenly Light my Spirit to Thee draw With powerful touch my Sences smite Thine Arrows of Love into me thraw With flaming dart Deep wound my Heart And wounded seize for ever as thy Right II. O sweetest sweet descend into my Soul And sink into its lowest Abyss That all false Sweets Thou may'st controul Or rather kill So that Thy Will Alone may be my Pleasure and my Bliss III. Do thou my Faculties all captivate Vnto thy self with strongest tye My Will entirely regulate Make me Thy Slave Nought else I crave For this I know is perfect Liberty IV. Thou art a Life the sweetest of all Lives Nought sweeter can thy Creature taste 'T is this alone the Soul revives Be thou not here All other cheer Will turn to dull satiety at last V. O limpid Fountain of all virtuous Lear O Well-spring of true Joy and Mirth The root of all Contentments dear O endless Good Break like a floud Into my Soul and water my dry Earth VI. That by this Mighty Power I being rest Of every thing that is not ONE To Thee alone I may be left By a firm Will Fixt to thee still And inwardly united into one VII And so let all my Essence I Thee pray Be wholly filled with Thy dear Son That thou thy splendour mayst display With blissful Rays In these hid ways Wherein Gods Nature by frail Man is won VIII For joyned thus to Thee by the sole aid And working whilst all silent stands In mine own Soul nor ought's assay'd From self-desire I 'm made entire An Instrument fit for thy glorious Hands IX And thus henceforwards shall all Workings cease Vnless't be those Thou dost excite To perfect that Sabbatick Peace Which doth arise When self-will dies And the new Creature is restored quite X. And so shall I with all thy Children dear While nought debars Thy Workings free Be closely joyned in union near Nay with thy Son Shall I be one And with thine own adored Deity XI So that at last I being quite releas'd From this strait-lac'd Egoity My Soul will vastly be increas'd Into that ALL Which ONE we call And One in 't self alone doth all imply XII Here 's Rest here 's Peace her 's Joy and holy Love The Heaven 's here of true Content For those that hither sincerely move Here 's the true Light Of Wisdom bright And Prudence pure with no self-seeking