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
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
do you understand but what perfection is and it admits no help no desire no lust now judge ye seriously of your own riddle and when you are return'd from me declare to your lying Ministers saying That they are lyers in tongue though the truth be in the heart for they prate they know not what I desire but any or all would engage me in any matter of Old or New-Testament surely they have taught to a fair end that they dare not maintain what they have spoken otherwise they are content to live upon the prey of the people and hold that but this I know I shall shorten their methods and put an end to their Tythes for people will nor neither shall they be blinded any longer to part with their labour for the telling of a lye by the Priest Now you may say to me You finde fault with them and you teach the same now I answer I teach not that you may all perceive by my weakness in defending any state know if it were a composure of man by learning then man could answer the objection but know this day that God hath raised up unto you the Prophet that was promised in Mal. 7.5 but that is not in our insert but the coherence is one with Mal. 3.2 but who may abide the day of his appearing for he is like fullers sope a refiners fire he shall even fine the sons of Levi now I beseech you minde who is the spirits intent in me to drive at but at the sons of Levi and their work which as the Lord lives I must effect for which work since I saw and spoke to you I have a stronger strength added to my name that is Eval alsiel Scholars when I sound L hebraick you know what it meaneth But to come to the woman and the mystery and the inticement spoken of in Genesis or the intire meaning this is the spirits meaning for this you say was wrote by Moses which I say was not my Negation is as strong as your Affirmation nay stronger for say you Moses entered not the Land what is meant by Moses and the Land in the true hieroglyphicy to hold qualification with its inherent diameter Scholars that word diameter must in that state be read backward as well as forward for as Genesis is a denotatâ—on stammeringly of things below so 't is a point of compass in the spirits hand to shew the celestial center 〈◊〉 which center is all things perfect and from that center all even it self came forth now it is perfect in its center and imperfect in its demonstration for 't is Gods weakness in his appearances which taken up into its regency all 't is perfect But go come to Moses the original of that word is Musshah that is a proper word in the hebrew the derivacy to cause the composure of the word is from the hebrew Alphabet wrote 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now Scholars read Musshah from them three radical radaxes then you will see what Moses is and what the import of the word beareth in his originality 't is thus much a dark discovery of the truth in light now Moses tyes up less in his inclue then his true originality will bear Well you say he entred not into the Land why by reason of being impeded with darkness which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he braick wrote and where God gives a name if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be there he is impeded and after him shall a discovery of a higher nature be manifested The next that came was Jesus a Saviour or a Redeemer to raise the truth out of Moses his darkness or dark discovery but how comes Christ that very C is his impede that is the humanity that locked in the divinity this will not serve for all men are locked in flesh but the word Christ is derived into English from the Greek word Kristos now the ancient Greek wrote it that is the same with the hebraick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though not the Character a derivacy in strength from the hebraick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 kof so the strength of import was the same in the Greek as Massah in the hebrew for they were but one in one strength for the Greek is understood from a true derivacy from the hebrew is as true as the he brew is if it be held in meeter and method which must be done by one spirit in both tongues and all tongues as I have laid down before But to come to Moses and that story of Genesis the woman first I say Moses wrote not Genesis thus that book was wrote before Moses time five thousand years and you write but five thousand years and odde since the Creation give me leave to put one question to you How long was it since there was a God You will say ever I say not Ever stops in the center but God Is that Is all time and all things at once ever the same in that state ever will stand but Enock the seventh from Addam what wrote he for he was higher then any where is the hieroglyphicks he wrote in where is that there was such a man your riddle saith and that man wrote more then all the Old and New-Testaments and we have none of them where are they the ancient Jewish root have them in the East Orcades in the clue of the Moon under Saturn this state is strange to our Astronomers but at length we shall see this product produced Now Moses led the children of Israel from Egypt to Canaan that I grant but for him to write Genesis I deny prove you that he did and then I am satisfied But to come to the verity of the mystery inserted 'T is this Gods letting down his royal essence in appearances which lies involved in these words Theos-ologi that is Gods light in his declared Creation now that word is proper Genesis for now I come to propriety of speech Now the woman cited in that riddle and named Eve do but minde the weakness of the combine for that word lies open in the very originality of it to misprision Now to come to grapple with you in that citation it is necessary that we state the point that cannot be evaded from this rule I lay down to demonstrate forth from that you cannot deny God created all things say you No say I there is one thing essencied in all things that are Minde the being of your termed things Now you look that I must keep to the riddle or Scripture as you tearm it well I will though I know but the Scripture yet I know beyond the insert there inserted that is not neither hath a foundation though there inserted and stated Now the man say you God made of the dust of the earth I pass that for greater maxims sake But the woman the poor woman deceived by the Apple and her meetness of help was destruction to both Weigh it well and bring forth true judgement to determine in truth but
and see how it will stand there Thus if God can be angry in his essencial essence I say he is no God for anger is weakness and God Is and that is all strength and therefore no anger what can God be pleased in his essencial essence then no God for God is neither pleased nor angry both pleased and angry and yet neither pleased nor angry for God Is and Is is God here is a mystery that is not made known to the sons of men unto which I shall not speak at this time onely know that in perfection there is neither pleased nor anger for more or less not perfection I am that is perfection therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed 14 And that I said that Sin is Gods highest praise Thus sin is weakness which is the creature in his corrupt estate now comes light from God and doth cast forth this sin or weakness and then plants light then from that that was dark that is sin did raign there grace doth raign to the glory of God in a transcendent measure because 't is the work of the third person but the unione spirit if not sinful we needed no mercy from sin obstruction is righteousness raigning and so sin doth elosterate the strength of Gods mercy and Gods mercy doth elosterate sin to the full viewing of its ugly deformity this is safe nay your own Scripture for we being taken into light praise God for our deliverance that is redeemed from death and placed in life then we value Gods mercy and not before 15 And that I said God was little before the fall and the fall of man did raise God Now this point is clean traduced and never such a word spoken as the Epistle will show The point was this that it is said that man fallen was to be raised to a greater glory now I demand what greater glory could man be raised unto when man was wrapped in the essence of God before he came forth in appearance you must hold in all Gods declaratives him to be the perfection so man can but be raised to the same state and no more for God is neither greater nor less but always one always the same Brethren had you been in the Gospel as you are too much in the name of it not knowing the substance you would have commiserated my sufferings not persecuting me without a cause but God is just and in his good time he will restore my breach Luke 12.33 Sell that ye haâ—e and give almes have you not read thus but who practises according to the command Yours to serve you and the Nation Now know all people That blasphemy is this and no other that is for man to deny trine or Trinity and Unity in Trinity and there is no other blasphemy as thus for man to say that there is no God and for man to deny the operative Trine or Trinity these are accounted blasphemy and there is no other Now you are not to draw consequences to prove or produce evidences for if not denying in plain English words the God or Godhead thus named though no man living knows what it is yet in that state it stands stated that if any man shall deny the Trinity and Unity in Trinity it is death by the Law and do you but read thus that the Sun is of the Father is blasphemy in our English tongue for of is a Negative proper in our English writing though you read it an Affirmative would you be glad to suffer for wrong pronounncing God no the Law requires it not but 't is the devil envy got into the heart and head of the notional called Christians now before this time you have heard me disclaim the word Of as it is in print in my Book called Anroran Tranlagorum For God hath caused me to write all and not speak to dispute you are my witnesses now I come and refer you to your belief that is thus written and the Catholick Faith is thus That we worship one God in Trinity and in Unity and Unity in Trinity saith the writing there is one person of the Father another of the Son another of the holy Ghost there is the Negative denying the Affirmative in that state I prove it thus the Father is one the Son is one and the holy Ghost is one and not three ones but one onely one who is the all three in unione Brethren I desire that this main maxim in divinity may be resolved though stated by the mad man thus How you can assert from a spiritual unione a person or from a spiritual Trine three persons for know you that in the spiritual essence that there can be no person and yet three intire ones and these three one in unione and this Trinity I shall speak a little to what is discovered to me in this mystery and refer it unto them that have a clearer eye and deeper judgement for God hath confounded my knowledge as a man but as my desire is that truth may flourish and that mist we are in received by tradition from Rome as our Books are too full of their subtile pointings which I see plainly and in this that I shall speak to is the main First know that there is one essencial offence from whence all things descencially descended into created appearances this is undenyable by any Now to state this essence in a person 't is to confine nay vilisie the living life it self for know that the living life in the whole Creation cannot be person but spirit now God is a Spirit therefore no person judge ye for God Is and Is Is God that is all can be spoken so much for the Father the Son is Secundus viva vita the second living life in the Creation Now know that Christ saith I am the life of the world Now I would not have you think that I intend that that Jesus that you account and I know suffered at Jerusalem that he as he was then was the life of the world but the light of life in the soul of that Jesus as he was one with the Father in the regency or raigning essence so and no other was he the life of the Creation do not deceive your selves with a body of your own earth the Son of God was this upon whom thou seest the Spirit descend that is he this was spoken to John the Baptist Now brethren I would not have you to state an adorative opinion upon the Books called Scripture for know that they were but wrote by men and they themselves point us to a higher discovery that shall be manifested that is the calling the Jews and the preaching the everlasting Gospel as it is said in the last days saith God I will pour out of my Spirit and your sons and daughters both old and yong shall Prophecy saith the Lord. And what height of mystery is not yet known nor how God will teach in the last days is not manifested but in a transcendent manner
shutting up the glory of the Law and Gospel in a most glorious glory magniphiciencically expressing his truth out of both them dark vails so long by us contended for Heva Assa al oli mem This Hebrew state I open not not that I want light Brethren ye priests ye would be always talking the conversion of the Jews but you would never have it come to pass as you have pratingly prayed for the conversion of the Jews and now you begin to persecute Us Jews all this is because you are afraid your trade of lyes must down now brethren I would not have you be angry because the Gospel is love if you be true Ministers that is truly called then know Christ hath preached in you this lesson Fly from anger But I shall state six Queries to which you shall do well to answer ye Priests my brethren First How came the holy Apostolick calling conferred to you for above this sixteen hundred year together and the world never knew nor heard of it brethren you are men that will hide nothing that may advance the glory of your trade Secondly You must be Ministers of Christs second coming and that is in greater signs and miracles then before as all the Scriptures manifest and what have any of you done but tell us over dead names Thirdly What have you to do to make a trade of the Apostles dead names as to abuse their writing in exhorsism being you have not their spirit that that was truth in them is a lye in you for they were that spirit of which ye have and are but the dead name Fourthly Ye deny the Scripture making your self-will Scripture and under that name you cloak your covetousness and are perjured men for Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain and let all the people judge do not you exact Tythes from your brethren that Gospel Ministers have no warrant to do So Gods word is taken in vain because his word is your colour to act your own will and word and Law in and by he that but nameth Christ must depart from his evil way and you preach Christ to maintain your evil way Fifthly Whom Christ called and sent they never studied for the light of study is but the witch of the minde deceiving the simple man in the same body for know if by study Christ can be attained then not Gods free gift for God giveth wisdom to the simple and maketh the tongue of the stammerer speak plainly mysterious mysteries yet unlearned this I know and from sense I speak this is a riddle to you Ajaxk al Saby oli el dele mem Who was my teacher here None but the Lord I read no books though I am mad I tell you by madness I am instructed â— was as serpentine wise as any of you but God hath destroyed it in me me in it and I am become a fool and a babe Sed selose in Re aggarim el pethrat alvi sene accorata The English though I understand not the Latin nor Hebrew here is another riddle yet the English of that state is this But the heavenly light doth give light to view the deep mysteries of it self in the terrestrial Creation now you will say this mad man speaks some Latin some Hebrew and some greek and confound in broken words this reason I render you 't is to confound you great ones Rabbies I mean Now know that the spirit is not confined but speaks one intire language in the whole Creation combining and conjoyning all languages into one truth what think you to that reason is it not strange Now know that my teacher is my God who hath afflicted and broken me for his own use to confound you and all men for know that in England Babel is a declining and covetousness raigning Sixthly Wherefore if ye were the Ministers of Christ do you flye to the secular power to defend your cause with their sword and not commit your cause to Christ willingly rendring a reason of your Faith being intreated earnestly thereunto This know that Christ you own is a dead Christ as your selves declare by reason that your strength lies in the Magistrates sword now then speak plainly that we may know that the Magistrate you serve and his sword is your Christ nay I will give you a plainer definition you are many of you Magistrates and Ministers of Christ but you hang him by your sides Are ye not turned mercinary Captains Now show me in your word of God that ever your master Christ whose servants ye pretend to be ever preached with a sword to convert men into another world I desire a Text in the word of God to bare out these actions nay I pray you give me leave you have got swords that if now men will not pay Tythes you are able to fetch them in your selves I beseech you bare with me if I tell you the truth have we not all ingaged against Popery and to show the zeal we have against it we have made holes in all our Church Windows in show of abolishment ye Statesmen this is but Mince and Commin but the great thing of righteousness is neglected this day I say by your own Acts Covenant and Engagement That whomsoever in this Nation or in our Dominions doth pay his Tythes according to what he did customary that man or men are perjured persons and the Law of the Land requires their ears and the Law of God they shall not escape again they that raign by forcing men to pay Tythes are perjured by the Law and Engagement they have made I say not I but the Lord wo unto the perfideous generation that maketh a Covenant of deceit and themselves condemn themselves by the same Law I beseech you by the mercy received that this may be broke off 't is now time and hightime to turn from evil for the harvest is ripe and the sickles is ready Selat â—ry a saba arri nedat me The divine light cannot be measured by humane learning Arri sele oli supuit nedat mecum Nor the divine light stoupe to mans capacity Ye grudging Priests at my name and me I challenge ye all to dispute in the mystery That is in the divine expressing Evangelical The light the depth in mystery magical In earth in aire in fire or water In Orbes in Earbs or any material matter In Sun in Moon in Star or Stars or all The depths beneath the sphears Celestial Exse me non literas homo Sed devitie insperati alvat Hackkarim elvah halileuah sam Arbi selorum madad allah al Vita madad ai el sonarum Alma a facti osonet me The English out of this mysteyous state is this The lightest light that ever shone Is now letting down from Unione Which shall unvail mens lights to see The onely one that they in Unione be FINIS My Book called Arorau Tranlagorum will show my discenting from all Sects printed the 25 of February 1650. It will clear many points of aspersion laid on me Yours to serve you in love Theaurau-John Tanniour the Jew Eval alsiel Sabbah Skribahjail