the man should live in peace and joy and in all upright Love and should not know nor take on any thing without the same but live only therein and not dye 10. If so be now that the man knew nothing without the same forementioned life nor took on any thing besides the same whereon to tye his heart wits and thoughts or understanding Then should he know taste and feel nothing else but all good Also walk in all Love Concord and Peace and so have (m) Gen. 1.2 b the whole earth in subjection under him and govern uprightly to the life all whatsoever is upon the earth according to the commandment or word of the Lord. 11. For that same is the life and the freedom of the manly generation for the which many creatures do sigh and long there-after which upright freedom of the children of God doth now come unto us according to the Promises because that all manly creatures might assemble them with us to the same rejoyce them with Godly joy in the same and live in all truth and upright righteousness 12. Behold the same was unto the man in the beginning (o) Gen 2. a Phil. 3. b 4 Esd 8. f Apoc. 2. a a Tree of life in the middst of the Paradise of the Lord for that he should live and that (p) Sapl 1. b it should go well with all that which God had created 13. But now when the man would know the good and the evil and had eaten of the same tree then (q) Gen. 3 a tasted he both the life and the death the which God had forbidden him because he should not eat nor tast of any other thing but of the good that is of the life and not feel any evil or death but should live unto his God in the life for that (r) Sap. 1. b it might go well both with himself and also with all what God had created 14. Whatsoever now therefore is taken on besides the same good or life whereon we do witness that is the evil the death or the destruction the which God hath not willed that it should be upon the earth for that the man might stand perfected from all evil and destruction 15. But now hath the man through that same prepared to himself the driving forth out of the Paradise of God and caused the peace to cease upon the earth also brought himself and all what is upon the earth into (s) Gen. 3. b much calamity and misery and is utterly estranged from the way directing to the Tree of life and so is taken captive in all kind of deadly and damnable fruits 16. That verily is the knowledge of the good and evil which he himself hath taken on and (t) Dan. 9. Math. 24. 2 Thes 2. it is the confused abomination which standeth in the holy place whereout all violence calamity and grief is come upon the earth 17. If the man now will (u) Ezek 14. a turn himself away from all the abominations of the wicked world and humble him rightly under the Love and her service then shall he likewise through the administration of the holy word of the Lord and his requiring have his regard unto the inward upright life whereon the word pointeth for that is Gods living being or substance it self and he shall also according to the requiring of the word try or examine himself diligently in his inwardness whether he can perceive yet still remaining there any ungodly or deadly being which is not the life or that serveth not the life unto the life but which (x) Eph. 4. b is minded to destruction through the lusts of error 18. So long then as the destruction besides th preservation of the life is looked neto or esteemed of by the man and that likewise the death besides the life the evil besides the good and the bondage besides the freedom is known tasted and felt so shall the man in his obedience to the requiring of the word of the Lord daily (y) Mat. 10. d 16. c Mark. 8. Luk 9 14. take up his Cross on him with the life die the death or the evil and bury the same according to the word of the Lord and so shall he by means of following the life in his like behaviour or (z) Ro. 6. a Phil 3. b death of the Cross become planted into the same good life who suffereth the death of the Cross by the evil 19. Out of which dying of the death or of the evil which death hath brought the death unto the life and hath had the dominion over the same the life riseth up again and cometh gloriously in Lordly manner against all his enemies 20. Even thus now through the rising up or resurrection of the upright life out of the second birth from the death the man also is raised up (a) Ro. 6. a from the death or born again out of the death for that he might live and not dye any more 21. Upon which resurrection of the dead according to the Scripture all Believers of the life do likewise hope and long thereafter for the life shall swallow up (b) Eze. 13. 1 Cor. 15. the death in victory in all his Believers which be incorporated or planted into him and so bring his enemy under him according to the Promises 22. For all what is not the true life that is against the true life and whatsoever is against the true life that is the death and the enmity unto the true life is also an enimy unto God and to the Lamb which enmity is minded neither according to the true being or nature of God nor of the Lamb nor yet according to the upright righteousness of the true life which true being of God and of the Lamb together with the upright righteousness of the true life ye may behold in the endless (c) Apo. 5.20 b book of the Lamb which is full of writing both without and within written with the finger of God and it is the everlasting life whereon we do witness The eighteenth Chapter THen when as thou O thou precious man hast looked into both these Natures Books and writings inwardly according to the spirit namely the straying being of the wicked world and the good being of God from eternity which good being is the (a) Apo. 20 21. b book of the Lamb written by the God of life besides the which the straying being which destroyeth through the lusts of error is come in place and written by the Devil the Father of death So judge then with the truth which of them it is that ought to have the superiority or preheminence in us for the od of life vouchsafeth unto us nothing else but all God life love and peace 2. Therefore let us be agreeably minded with the same good being of God and Love the good being for wherefore do ye receive and take unto you the destruction and why will ye in perditional manner perish
At that time shalt thou swear uprightly and holily without hypocrisie as true as the Lord liveth and the heathen shall be blessed in the Lord and make their boast of him The twentieth Chapter BUT if any one now should determine in his heart to turn him unto God to cleave unto the Love and to enter into the Kingdom of God and yet for all that doth with his will hold his heart tyed unto any thing of all the abominations above named he doubtless cannot come to the Kingdom of God nor be perfectly incorporated to the being of the righteous spirit and of the Love neither yet can his name be written (a) Apo. 5. b in the living book of the Lamb with the commonalty of the Love which Book is in the right hand of him that liveth from everlasting to everlasting which commonalty of the Love whose names are written in the living book of the Lamb is very lovely delightful and peaceable and with them also is our fellowship through the Love of God the Father and by reason of his mercy shewed on us 2. And with the same commonalty all those likewise have their fellowship which do humble themselves with us under the Love and her service and through the service of Love do hear believe and stand obedient to the holy Doctrine and godly information whereby to become understanding through the wisdom and holy knowledge thereof and so do intirely love exercise and assist the same service of Love for that it might be spread abroad generally among many 3 Howbeit not according to every ones self-mindedness or drift of his own mind as in a Love towards himself according to his own proper knowledge (b) Deu 12. a or good-thinking but to come to one manner of obedience under the true Love of God the Father and that altogether to an (c) Eph. 1. a unity in the peace also not with any division of heart but for to become of one mind with each other through the Love to the end (d) Isa 57. b Luk. 10. a that the peace in that sort might be prepared concordable upon the earth under the obedience of the Love according to the Promises and that all our names might be written in the book of the Lamb and that we might be partakers of the being or nature of the same commonalty of Saints whose names are written in that same Book and might have our fellowship with the Lamb and his Saints 4. Unto which Book of life and his holy writings we do humble our selves under the Love and her requiring and so do learn of the Love the true humility and (e) Math. 11. c meekness of heart according to the wisdom of all those whose names are written in the living book of the Lamb in as much as their wisdom only is delightful unto the God of life The new good world with her servants and fellow-companions 5. For in that same Book of the Lamb whereunto all our hope and longing standeth that it might even with fervent affection and good-willingness of heart be looked into and be read by many there is written and found therein (f) Gal. 5. c Eph. 4 a Col. 3. b 1 Pet. 3. b Love peace joy Gods will or Law heavenly truth faith righteousness meekness gentelness friendlyness long suffering patience fear of the highest God understanding and wisdom 6. All these forementioned Saints have a lust even with whole heart for to procure and prepare all those which love the good life and the everlasting truth unto the Love for that they might every one become assembled together under the Love and it might even so both inwardly and outwardly go well with all people which live under the Love and that altogether in unpartial love 7. Which upright commonalty of Saints is not inclined to raign over one another but to stand serviceable one towards another and also towards all those which submit themselves with them under the obedience of the Love because that the holy understanding and the knowledge of every good exercise might as (i) Eph. 2. c 1 Pet. 2. a a perfect good building come to light or be made manifest under the obedience of the love 8. Behold such a nature and upright service of unpartial love have all those whose names are written in the living book of the Lamb which service stretcheth not to a renting and scattering like as the false services according to the nature of the hearts of the self-love do stretch and have their drift thereunto who do serve and live only unto themselves in a private mind of self-love O no for the children of the upright Love do neither rend nor scatter but gather together 9. Also they seek not (k) 1 Cor. 10. c their self-ness but much rather that every one might be nourished and fed out of the Love and her service for to become a commodable Kingdom of the Love and that the one may serve the other to that effect for that is might go well with every one and that altogether in the Love and in the peace of Jesus Christ 10. Furthermore there is written in the same book of the Lamb foresightfulness quietness natural equity lowlyness of heart constancy (l) 2 Pet. 1 a discreetness measurableness orderlyness contentedness open-heartedness simplicity justness or uprightness good-willingness (m) Mat. 5. a 1 Tim. 1. a purity of heart clean conscience honesty civility or modesty obedience concord stedfastness kind-heartedness (n) Phil. 4. a helpfulness serviceableness to the vertue peaceable conversation Gods praise laud glory eternal life and heavenly delightfulness c. 11. Now for to have our fellowship with the same commonalty of the upright Saints of God (o) Ge. 1.2 b thereunto doubtless was the man created from the beginning because that such a precious excellency and such a Kingly Crown of delightful beauty should have the dominion over him 12. For those same and all they which are like unto them of nature and disposition their names verily are every one written in the living Book of the Lamb who do neither worship honour or serve the (p) Apo. 13. a Dragon or the high-minded beast for the name of the most high God is written upon them which God only they do (q) Apo. 7. b. 21 22. a serve honour and worship from everlasting to everlasting they stand all likewise as lights of life in the beholding of God their Father 13. Behold that same holy people of God or Christ or such like is the (r) Isa 64. a house of Israel (s) Eph. 2. b. the Citizen-ship of Jerusalem and the family of Love and they are every one likewise the true (t) Isa 66. b children of Sion where the God of life hath his holy Tabernacle in whom (u) Lev. 16. 2 Cor. 6. b he dwelleth liveth and walketh And they shall be the Lords people for ever and ever And he himself God with
sins are ascended up even unto heaven and now shall her descending or fall be even into the bottomless pit 16. For the self-wisdom or self-mind of the flesh which hath exalted her self very high against the Lamb even as though she were Gods wisdom (f) Apo. 5.13 b hath killed the Lamb from the beginning of the world and likewise his members the (g) Apo. 6.12 b 16. a innocent guiltless blood and so for a time hath gotten the upper hand upon the earth but now must she fall and go under whereas contrarywise the Saints of God shall (h) Apo. raign for ever according to the Promises The ninteenth Chapter SEing now that the Saints of God have (a) Apo 6.12 13 16. suffered with the Lamb for a certain time and have been killed upon the earth therefore is the book of the beast most loved and read everywhere (b) Apo. 17. b 18. a men have lived according thereto but forasmuch as it is all now made manifest through the (c) 1 Cor. 4. a light or day of the Lord so becometh the book of the (d) Apo. 18 19 20. beast to be found a false book full of deceit and subtile falshood whereunto also all false men all wicked hearts of the Scripture-learned ones and all false setters forth and preferrers of religion have their lust and affection bent 2. For of all the names of her felfness or private holyness and of all her false hearts and Scripture-learned ones together with all the nature of the heathenish distraughtness who do every one even joyntly with each other serve and worship the beast there is not (e) Apo. 13.17 a. 20 21. b one written in the living book of the Lamb for the names of the people that serve and worship the beast whereby the Dragon hath had the dominion are (f) 2 Pet. 2. all names of darkness and of the good thinking wise and disobedient ones and are all likewise (g) 1 Ti. 4 a spirits of errour as being all one and of one manner of substance according to one manner of nature 3. That same verily is the cord or chain of darkness or the band of the Devil wherein all good thinking wise ones and false hearts which do neither fear the living God of Israel nor stand obedient to his requiring are captived or caught bewitched therewith tyed thereunto and (h) 2 Pet. 2. a. b. Apo. 20. b led with the same even into Hell the which is the everlasting death and damnation from the which God hath willed that the man should keep himself and serve only the living God that (i) Eze 18. d he might not dye but that it might everlastingly go well with him and that he might live 4. The names of the people of the evil wicked world The wicked world with her servants and fellow-companions who are written in the book of the Dragon that murderly beast are these envy division contention or discord high-mindedness or pride subtilty deceit craftiness unquietness cruelty arrogancy disorderlyness masterfulness mischieveously disposed violence honour or vain-glory stubbornness resistance unto Gods nature in all disobedience wrathfulness presumptuous boldness churlishness bitterness maliciousness commotion or uproar treachery striving fighting persecuting lying war or battle vexing or troubling cursing swearing destroying spoyling oppressing killing murdering dishonest dealing unreasonableness or injustice gluttony unchastity whoâ—edom adultery knavery buggery thievery unprofitable searching high vain boasting ambition dissembling hypocrisie Sectuarishness framed or chosen holyness idolatry false God services false Laws blasphemy self-wisdom swelling in minde curiousness self-mindedness unadvisedness mens commandments giving credit to the imaginations of the good thinking in the spirit unbelief to the gracious word of the Lord despair doubtfulness accusing ignorance bondage of the heart to something without the nature or being of God vain comfort slothfulness mens fear covetousness niggardlyness undiscreetness scoffing or mocking dis-favour self-Love 5. There is yet moreover (q) Rom 1. d 1 Pet. 2. a back-biting or evil reporting of others whereby to make them seem odious and contemptible before the people and to cause themselves to be had in favour and well-liked of 6. Behold such a nature hath the partial Back b ter who doth yet oftentimes for all that greatly bewitch the people with his abominations as with a show of holyness which witchcraft is full of foolishness and is an unprofitable delusion even like as are all vain games also table-playing maskings or mummeries c. and are also unedifying even like as are all manner (r) Eph. 5 a of rude light behaviour disorderly toying and unseemly jesting all which likewise are names of the people of the wicked world furthermore there is also death darkness false spirits devil hell and condemnation c. 7. These and such like are the abominations before God and the pernitious mischief to a destruction over the children of men and for one to yield or apply his heart hereunto is the falling off and the turning away from God 8. That is finally the perverse and wicked nature (s) Deut. 32. a. c. which hath corrupted every thing and stoln from the man and quite defaced in him the mind of his God and corrupted his understanding through the affection born to the knowledge of good and evil by which manner the noble understanding of man is become bewitched with the abundant lying being in such sort that the man can very little understand (t) Deut 32. Isa 44. Ier. 5.8 a or comprehend for it entreth too too little into the consideration of his heart for to come rightly to the conversion or turning again to his God for be continueth even generally cleaving fast and depending with his heart upon one thing or other that is not God because he doth not quite and clean forsake the Idols and their services nor thrust nor chase them out of the Temple of his inward mind But stands affected either to this or to that according to the imagination of his own understanding and so serveth the God-service or God himself falsly 9. That same is it verily which God hath oftentimes rebuked by the mouth of his Prophets (u) Isa 1 b 28. b. 29. 57. b. 58. a. 59. a. b. Ier 2 3 4 5 6 7. Eze. 5 6. Amos 1. b Mich. 6. a because that the people of Israel when they would seem to turn them and to use God-services did alwayes incline their hearts towards one thing or another that was not God and served that which God never commanded or required 10. Therefore hath God also in times past witnessed unto them by the Prophet Jeremiah which mind of God remaineth perpetually for thus saith the Lord as an everlasting continuing word 11. O Israel (x) Ier. 4 a. if thou wilt turn thee then turn thee unto me saith the Lord And if thou wilt put away thy abominations from before my face then shalt thou not be cast out
A FIGURE of the True Spiritual TABERNACLE According to the inward Temple or House of God in the Spirit Whereunto is added the Eight Vertues or Godlynesses Set forth by H. N. and by him perused and more evidently declared The Temple of God was opened in heaven and the Ark of his Testament was seen in his Temple Apoca. 12. Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people And he God himself with them shall be their God Apo. 21. 1 Cor. 3. 2 Cor. 6. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. The Preface SEeing now that God hath extended his mercy on us and through his grace (a) Exod 25. Eze. 40.41 42.43 44. Apoc 21.22 revealed and made known unto us in our Spirit his true Tabernacle or Temple wherein his Holy God-service is uprightly ministred according to the truth Therefore are we become occasioned or moved even out of Love to witness our Figure forth writingly (b) Ex. 25.31 Eze. 43. Act. 7. c. Heb. 8. a. in Letters this present Figure or Pre-figuration of the same Tabernacle or Temple of God together with his true services in the Spirit namely in the fore-front in the holy and in the most holy before all lovers of the truth and of the true God-service and to set it forth under the obedience of the Love 2. The bearing of which true being or form in the Spirit is (c) Ex. 29. c. Jer. 23. a. 30. b. 31. d. Eze. 36.37 that which God regardeth and requireth of the man For even therefore namely to the setting up of this same true God-service in the Spirit under the obedience of the Love hath God the Father through his benign or hearty Love revealed or declared in (d) Mat. 13. b Ephes 3. a. Col 1. c. heaven his true Sanctuarie or Tabernacle unto us as also the fore-front the holy and the most holy of the same And granted to discern and understand the mysterie or secretness thereof and also chosen us to the ministration of the same under the obedience of the Love to the end that now in this last time (e) Isa 2. a. 60 61 62. Jer. 31 33. Eze. 36 37. Ioel 2.3 b. Mich 4. a. Zach. 8 a. Act. 2. the truth or verity of the same Tabernacle of God should alwayes and for evermore be ministred among the children of men under the obedience of the Love to a consecrating or sanctifying of the fore-front and of the holy and to the setting up again or restoring of the (f) Dan 9. daily offering which hath ceased for a long time for which cause likewise the fore-front and the holy hath been so utterly ruined or laid wast with abominations among the children of men 3. Which consecrating or sanctifying of the fore-front and of the holy as also the setting up of the daily offering and of the true God-service among the children of men cometh to pass altogether to (g) Eph 1 a. the laud praise of the glory of God and to the salvation or blessing of the children of men namely to those men which are good of will also believe on the Love submit them humbly to the requiring of the service of Love and so have a lust to the establishing the Promises of God the Father Take it to heart To the Reader Vnto the single-minded ones whose love is agreeable with us in one spirit of the Love be health and peace ALthough yee dearly beloved that our intent and purpose was to make but a small preamble or prologue before the beginning of the Glass of righteousness yet is it now notwithstanding fallen out otherwise For the Prologue is grown to be more then we our selves meant it should But yet the labour bestowed therein hath not been tedious unto us (a) 1. Cor. 13. a. For the Love maketh all painful travel and labour easie and her service is not tedious neither doth she think any time too long wherein she may further the good 2. Therefore is our hope also that it is all come to pass for the best and shall likewise be looked into by every one for a very profitable labour unto edification in asmuch doubtless as it is all serviceable to the inducing or guiding in of men to the holy understanding of the Glass of Righteousness and to the Love 3. Also I did not purpose to let this Figure of the true and spiritual Tabernacle go forth with the Glass of righteousness but to set it forth with other writings after the publication or going forth of the same said Glass 4. But for as much as we have seen into or perceived that it was very needful profitable and serviceable to publish or set forth the same Figure to give thereby an intelligence or understanding of the inward spiritual Tabernacle and to be a furtherance of the mans salvation Therefore could we not through the inclination of the Love conceal or keep back the same any longer But have for the Loves sake unto the Righteousness placed the same to stand next after the introduction to the holy understanding of the Glass of Righteousness And next before the beginning of the book of the said Glass by which occasion the Prologue is become so much the larger 5. Yet is our hope notwithstanding that neither the good willing Reader nor any one else will stumble or take offence at the muchness or plenty of writing that is used before the beginning of the Book but rejoyce them so much the more therein and take a greater pleasure and liking therein then if we had left out the same For it is doubtless a more plain declaring or opening of that forenamed Book intituled the Glass of Righteousness 6. It is true that it doth not accord or sute very well to make large Preambles or large Prologues Howbeit we have least esteemed of the Clarkly form of congruity or artificial sutableness But have much rather had our respect bent unto that which is serviceable unto the good and to the holy understanding whereby to reveal the (b) Eph. 1. b. 1 a. 3. a. Col. 1. c. riches of the mysteries of God the Father extending to salvation and to testifie (c) 2 Pet. 1. b. 1 Ioh. 1 a. that which we have seen with our eyes and heard with our ears 7. But although now that we do not utter forth or write the same according to the artificial skill or Clarkly cunning of manly wit Nor yet with painted or flowred words or garnished speech of the renowned wise or famous Clarks But even with a plain and mother or common style or form Yet is notwithstanding our request that the Readers or Hearers of the same our writing would not take offence thereat and so in any such respect despise or make less account of our labour because it is plain and not practised or set forth according to the skill
also divided or as a thing broken off from the incorporating to the Love the very perfect being or substance In like manner is also the prophecying yet are they both namely the knowledge and the prophecying serviceable unto the man in the fore-going service before the true being and do witness unto him (r) Mat. 13. b Luk. 8. a as in a secret word the cleerness of the Love or of the true being 9. Unto which true being the knowledge and the prophecying do point in the service of the holy word as that the same is coming to the Believers in uncovered cleerness of God whereby they (s) 2 Cor. 10 3. b. may behold the same from face to face and to continue heirs therein with all the Saints of God for evermore 10. And that is the Love the true being and the perfection of all the riches of God where Christ the spiritual and heavenly high Priest is a Minister unto us in (t) Heb 8 9 b those same spiritual and heavenly goods For (u) Ro. 11. b of him through him and in him are all things to whom be praise for evermore Amen 11. Now at the end of the ministration of the former Tabernacle when as the same perfection (x) 1 Cor. 13. b cometh unto us or appeareth (y) Isa 60. 2 Pet. 1 c as a day-light from on high then doth also the peice-work or that which is in part as likewise the childish understanding touching the Godly things cease or leave off with us for the being of the man (z) 1 Cor. 15. b Eph. 4. b or the old age in the manly understanding of the new birth in Jesus Christ layeth off or putteth away the childish comprehending it is very true The sixteenth Chapter TO the end now that all understandings might be satisfied and that the Books of the mystery namely the discerning into the being of God or the holy of his Saints and the discerning into the Devils being or the abomination of desolation of his wicked members might (a) Apo. 5. a not still continue shut Therefore will we out of an inclination to the Love discover shew or witness out of that sight which we have in the truth so much as we can and perceive to be profitable the beings and properties of them both whereby we may also reveal the secret treasure of the Devil (b) Apo. 9 12 13 16 17. and the Dragon or the Beast of the bottomless Pit that false Prophet which hath seduced the whole world and made her drunken with his unchastity so to disclose or display in evident manner before the eyes of all people that false and ungodly nature And nakedly or apparently to shew wherein he hath covered or hid himself hitherto in the world with deceit and falshood And with what manner of form or property of his wicked members he hath dwelt in the hearts and minds of men 2. Wherethrough the man hath in so divers manners committed whoredom and Adultery (e) Ier. 2. d 3. a. Eze. 16. c Eze. 4.5 a against his God and so through the bewitching of his mind wit and thoughts hath served the (d) Ap. 9.13 14 16 17. beast of the bottomless pit honoured the Devil and worshipped the Dragon even in that place where he should (e) Deut. 4.6 b Mat. 4 b. serve and honour his God only by reason whereof it is grown everywhere full of abominations of desolation the which (f) Mat. 24. b 2 Thes 20. hath gotten and possesseth the holy place like as the Prophet Daniel (g) â—an 9. c hath spoken thereof with which horrible fashion or monstrous disposition of the enemies of God the whole world is governed (h) Apo. 14. a 18. a. b and therein are all heathen drowned or overwhelmed 3. Even thus hath the wicked corrupt nature who laboureth to destroy it all a long time held forth his own book or his own wisdom as a book of life or consolation before the man for a delight or pleasure unto him and hath taken him captive or bound him under the same which book are the bands of the Devil and the (i) 1 Pet. 2. a Apo. 20 a chains of darkness 4. Therefore is the Lamb killed (k) Apo. 5.13 a. b from the beginning and thrust out of his Kingdom and the strangers have possessed his (l) Psa 78 a heritage with unrighteousness laid his Kingdom wast with their abominations trodden down the living book of the Lamb with feet not willing or allowing that the man should look into read or live the same 5. See in that manner is the mans upright understanding of the truth stolen away from him and he is turned into a corrupt or false understanding and into a lying being or estate and the strangers who through their falshod have possessed the heritage of the Lamb have also comforted the man with a vain and false comfort because that the book of the Lamb might alwayes continue shut and the seals thereof never to be opened (m) Apo 5 a for when as his seals be once opened (n) Apo. 6. b 20. b then cometh forth the Judgement according to the truth 6. Now when the seals of the book of the Lamb be opened and that the same book is read then become the names of the Saints manifest which are written in the Book of the Lamb and through the Lamb and the Saints illumination or brightness there becometh likewise seen and known the great and manifold deceit of the wicked enemy that Adversary unto God 7. Through which light of the Lamb the enemy of God must lose and leave the seat of his possession even thus is then his peace taken away from the earth and he himself as a destroyer rejected on the earth for to be destroyed which hath eretimes corrupted and destroyed the earth 8. Therethrough now cometh the killing upon earth and the murthering among all ungodly ones in such sort that through their impugning or resistance against the Lamb their punishment cometh over themselves and they fall to be many dead bodies upon the earth 9. See in such manner do then the Kingdoms (o) Apo. 12 a of the world become the Lords and his Christs who shall raign for ever and ever before whom all Elders or wisdoms do fall down and worship him which liveth for ever and ever witnessing and saying unto him (p) Apo 4. b Lord thou art worthy to receive praise honour and power for thou hast created every thing and for thine own sake they have their being and were created 10. For seeing now that Gods Judgement is (q) â—oh 8. b acccording to the truth and not according to the judgement of men therefore do we find very truly according to the truth That Gods secret mind and judgement is far different from the mind and judgement of men 11. Therefore it is in no wise possible for any man to know (r) 1 Cor. 2.