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The heart opened to Christ Jesus. Translated out of High Dutch for the good of all men.
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Knowledg and our Mystery yea this is the most precious Way and Means of Salvation which now towards the End shall be shewn to all Men in the Gospel of the Kingdom of God which shall be preached in all the world for a witness and then shall the End come Mat. 24.14 Finally this is our only true and saving Religion Faith and Confession before God and all the Elect Angels and Men according to which we are Children viz. Children of God fellow-children with the only begotten Son of God and Children of the Spirit Our glory is not in Paul Cephas or Apollo no We are Children and not Men Fools in this world and not wise men Babes and not great and deep-learned Masters Doctors and Rabbies to such the Promise is given and not unto the prudent wise and learned of this world No but it is hid from them and revealed unto Babes viz. who the Father and the Son is Ye humane learned among all Sects do nor know Christ for ye know not Love for unto him that loveth he will reveal himself Therefore whosoever among you seemeth to be wise in this world let him become a fool that he may be wise We must all turn back again and become Children otherwise the Kingdom of God comes not nor appeareth in us nor we come into it Ye can convert no man to Christ unless ye your selves first turn back and become like Children We must begin from below and not from above otherwise we shall fall Therefore it is the lowly and humble which the Lord looks upon both in Heaven and on Earth And thus let us humble our selves in our selves submiting our selves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt us in due time leaving all other things to him for he will order all things for the Best CHAP. IX Wherein Mans true Conversion consisteth and which way to attain it NOw what shall we say further Beloved Brethren in the Lord seeing there is a very great Alteration at hand Is there any Sect at all that can serve our turn or avail us any thing at all No for all such mind is humane and carnal and not the mind of the Spirit and therefore not known of God How then Whatsoever is of humane mind must fall of and in it self for it is not the mind of the Spirit nor is it the mind of Christ that we be of Paul Cephas and Apollo but that we be divine This is both the mind of Christ and of his Apostles of which the Apostles themselves witness and say We have the mind of Christ But what is that mind of Christ To speak thereof simply as Children It is to be at unity in Love of one mind in knowledg and of one spirit in Christ Moreover what is our belief and opinion of this Mind This viz. that if all shall become Christians whether they be Heathens Turks or Jews c. let them be called in humane mind and manner what they will I say if we all shall turn and be converted to God and become one Flock and have one Shepherd then all these Superstitious Idolatrous and old Adamical names must down be forgotten and rooted out that the Name of the Lord only may be named known and confessed by every mouth tongue and heart of Man for it is written Unto me all knees shall bow saith the Lord and not unto Baal for I will root out the names of Baalim and unto me every tongue and mouth shall confess that I am the Lord and I will not give mine Honor to any other nor my praise unto Idols True it is that the time is coming and at hand that all the world shall be converted to the Lord for when the Lord hath accomplished his Determination and poured forth his fierce Anger and Indignation upon all the world then he shall turn to the people a pure language and cause to be preached to them with amiable lips that they may all call on the Name of the Lord to serve him with one consent Zeph. 3.8 9. Therefore God punisheth one Sect by another and with another so that they amongst themselves know not what they do being ignorant of the Councel of the Lord not observing that the Lord hath gathered them together as upon a threshing floor that he may thresh them with all manner of plagues and then shall he satisfie his Anger and cool the fire of his Jealousie Zeph. 3.8 And when the time of the Gentiles is thus accomplished and their fulness come in then the Lord shall have mercy upon the whole House of Israel again and call them by an Everlasting Gospel He shall gather them and bring them back again out of all Countries and bring them home into the Land which he hath sworn unto their fathers with an everlasting Oath and Covenant and together with the whole seed of Abraham he shall convert all Gentiles unto Himself and thus restore the Kingdom of Israel to Everlasting Glory Then the Lord shall appear glorious in his coming and renew and regenerate the whole Creation and then we shall know the exceeding Virtue of the blessed Birth of our Saviour and great God Jesus Christ which hitherto in his Mystery hath been hid from the wise learned and prudent of this world until this day of the Revelation in which the whole World and Creation receiveth its Conception from above through the Revelation of Jesus Christ the Son of the Man in Heaven in his day by the preaching of the Everlasting Gospel After which Conception the whole World shall then also bring forth the Child of Righteousness in the Regeneration and Renovation of all things in a new Creation and Creature where all that is old shall fade like an old garment be clothed with Salvation and Righteousness for the Wedding of the Lamb in the Paradice of God Therefore all ye that love the Mystical Wisdom be assured that the time is come in which all things must be made manifest reproved and judged by the Light The time of the seventh Trumpet is come in which the Temple of the Lord shall rightly be known opened and seen and in it the Ark of his Covenant The Kingdoms of this World shall all all all be destroyed and shall belong peculiarly to Christ and to his Saints Satan the Dragon and wicked one together with the Beast which hitherto and as yet no man knoweth but those that have the Spirit of Prophecy shall be cast down shut and sealed up in the Pit or Abyss for ever Hallelujah Now when the time of the Manifestation cometh being also now already then we shall plainly discern and acknowledg that hitherto we have been but children in knowledg even carnally minded in the knowledg of Christ in all our wit wisdom learning and Scholership we shall then hear spoken and preached far far otherwise of the afore-named seven Points then hitherto we have heard for then verily Men shall speak with new tongues of the great