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A28527	Mercurius Teutonicus, or, A Christian information concerning the last times being divers propheticall passages of the fall of Babel and the new building in Zion / gathered out of the mysticall writings of that famous Germane author, Jacob Behmen, alias, Teutonicus Phylosophus.; Selections. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.	1649 (1649)	Wing B3409	51,513	57

unchristian fury and bloud-thirsty minde whereby shee destroys not her opposites onely but her own selfe and even that which shee thinks to better and maintaine Thing whereby men may now see how her whoredome hath been manifold and how the Devill had beset us with manifold Nets and how one whoredome runs in the opposition to another and are malicious bite and slay one another 24. For the Great Paine is come upon her and shee shall now bring forth the Great Iniquitie wherewith shee is fully pregnant and therefore shee cryeth out because of her wofull smart and shee speaketh of the childe which she shall bring forth viz. of Murther Covetousnesse and Tyranny shee uncovereth her faire feature as she is in the Heart Now he that will not know her for him there is no remedy 25. The Revelation saith Goe out from her my people that you may not be partakers of her plagues for shee hath filled her cup full with the Abominations of her whoredome in the Anger of God them shee shall drinke out and thereby be forced to burst her selfe 26. And this is that which I say of Babel that shee is a whore and shall suddenly breake in pieces and no stranger shall doe it the spirit of her own mouth doth strangle her her own Turba destroyeth her shee cryeth for vengeance and murther upon heresie and yet shee doth it not for God but for her Adulterous Bratt otherwise if shee did it for God shee would enter into his Command and Will of Love where Christ saith Love one another for thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples 27. The Kingdome of God stands not in any warre or revilings or in an outward shew in delicious dayes herein the children of God are not to be found but in love in patience and hope in faith under the Crosse of Christ there groweth the Church of God to the holy Ternary i. e. a new angelicall man hidden in the old and this is my certain knowledge briefly comprized concerning this Article in my writings you may see further of it 28. Secondly concerning Zion I say according to my knowledge as the Spirit sheweth it to me that there shall surely come an Ending of the Deceit and Zion shall be found yet onely of the children of faith not in generall as if no wicked man should remaine 29. For the Oppressour shall be a Cause that Zion is borne when men shall see how Babel is an whore then shall many children be found in Zion and seek the Lord but the Oppressour shall dog them at the heels and cry them downe for Hereticks also persecute and put to death and exercise their faith and where one is killed there shall ten yea an hundred rise up in his Room 30. But the generall Zion appeareth first in greatest misery when Babel breaketh it shall stand desolate and miserable and then the children of Zion shall say How hath the Lord forsaken us come we beseech you let us seeke his face ah let us depart from strife war and contention have we not alas made our Countrey desolate is not all provision spent are we not brethren wherefore do we fight we will enter into one Love and seek the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Strangers and Pilgrims and seek our native Countrey 31. In this Time verily a Zion shall be found and the Heaven shall give its dew and the earth its fatnesse but not in that manner as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Son of Man shall come that there will be faith upon the earth And although the children of Zion shall have a fiery deliverance that they shall remaine maugre the will of the Devill insomuch that God will worke great things as at the times of the Apostles yet it endureth not unto the end For as it was in the dayes of Noah when he entred into the Arke so shall the coming of the Son of Man be as it is written 32. But that the Holy Ghost shall be in the hearts of the faithfull in Zion I acknowledge and know it for Zion shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne he that would seek it let him seek himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and he shall finde whether Jesus be borne in him 33. If he finds it not let him enter into himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him those he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be manifest in him and he shall be borne with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda f Under the Crosse in disrespect and disesteeme of the world in the dark Stable not in g Not in the outward pleasures of the flesh Jerusalem as Reason faine would have that Christ should be borne in the old Asse the old Asse must be a servant and serve the New Man in Zion c. This wonderfull Prophesie following was written in a Postscript to a Letter dated the 20th of February 1623. 23. THe Tribulation and Destruction of Babel approacheth with exceeding vehement haste The Storme ariseth upon all Coasts There shall be an exceeding Tempest vaine hope deceiveth for the Destruction of the Tree draweth neere which is knowne in the Wonders 24. The a Domestick intestine homebred Fire hurteth its own native Countrey Righteousnesse and Truth are beaten downe Great Sorrow and perplexing Sadnesse doe b Scrue up themselves force themselves up 25. Men shall mourne for an empty ruinous old Cottage which is of no importance to Salvation and they shall be enraged for that Nest wherein Satan hath hatcht his c Pride coveteousnesse envy wrath and all f●lshood under an holy shew of Religion young 26. The Tower of Babel is found to be without foundation men suppose to hold it up with props but a winde from the Lord overthrows it 27. The hearts and thoughts of men shall be discovered for there cometh a Tryall from the Lord whereby the d T●tular verball hypocrite the Cain-like Christian who perswades himselfe from a blind faith that none is accepted with God but himselfe and such as he is the demure and devout Pharisee but his false bottome will come to light maugre his many words and swords mouth-Christian shall be laid open in his false heart and soule as a reed that is shaken by the winde seeing his heart is wavering now here now there because his false ground is revealed 28. Many shall betray themselves and through hypocrisie ruine both body and goods Hypocrites and mouth-Christians shall quaile for feare when their false foundation shall be discovered 29. The Orientall e The Turk shall turne a true Christian Beast getteth an humane heart and face and ere this cometh to passe it helpeth to teare downe the Tower of Babel with its claws

unto whose goods they are received in grace as strangers 74. For as Ishmael did not goe to Isaac for the inheritance which properly belonged to Isaac because the Lord was in him who freely bestowed it upon him and set him as a Steward but would have it of the Father even so the Turkes have turned themselves from Isaac viz. from the Sonne to the Father and will have the inheritance of God from the Father 75. Now the Father is manifest to us in the Sonne and when they now doe call upon the Father he heareth them onely in his Sonne viz. in his voice manifest in the humane property and they yet serve the Sonne in the Father 76. For we men have no other God at all without Christ the Sonne for the Father hath manifested himselfe toward us with his voice in the Sonne and heareth us onely through his voice manifested in the Sonne 77. Now when the Turkes worship the Father he heareth them in the Sonne and receiveth them to adoption in the Sonne in whom God hath onely manifested himselfe in humane property and in no other property besides 78. Now saith Reason How can they attaine to the adoption of Christ when as they will not have the Sonne to be the Sonne of God but say that God hath no Sonne heare O man Christ said Whosoever speaketh a word against the Sonne of man to him it shall be forgiven but he that blasphemeth the Holy Ghost to him it shall never be forgiven that is as much as if he should say 79. He that reproacheth the humanity of Christ in confidering it as his own flesh to him it may be forgiven for he knoweth not what the humanity of Christ is but he that blasphemeth the Holy Ghost the onely God who hath manifested himselfe in the humanity wherein Father Sonne and Holy Ghost are one onely God he hath no forgivenesse for evermore that is he that rejecteth the onely God he hath quite broken himselfe off from him and is become his owne 80. Now the Turkes doe not blaspheme the holy Spirit who manifested himselfe in the humanity but they reproach the humanity and say a creature cannot be God 81. But that God hath wrought and done wonders in Christ that they confesse and blaspheme not the holy Spirit that hath wrought in Christ viz. in the humanity blindnesse is hapned unto them so that they walke under a vaile 82. Now saith Reason God hath taken away the Candlestick from them and rejected them Heare O man What was the cause that God as he threatned by St. Paul did take away the Candlestick from them and shut them up under the vaile thinkest thou that it was done without his foreknowledge without his will no it was done with his will 83. He permitted the Kingdome of Nature to give them a doctrine of Reason The cause and ground that the Turks deny Christs deity seeing Christendome became blinde in respect of Christs person and did wrangle and jangle about Christs humanity and put all manner of scorn disgrace and reproach upon it as it fell out among the Arians when they denied his Deity and the Bishops in their covetousnesse did apply his merits in his humanity for the belly-sake to their belly-orders and did practice all manner of lewdnesse and prophanenesse even with swearing cursing and witchery by his suffering and holy wounds so that there the holy Name of God which had manifested it selfe in the humanity was abused thereupon God did hide himselfe from them in their understanding so that they first became blinde with the Arians in respect of the Deity of Christ 84. But afterward when as they would be onely blinde beasts he hid himselfe also from them in respect of the humanity by the * The Doctrine of Mahomet Turkish Religion so that they were wholly bereaved of the Candlestick of the world and it went with them as the Prophet said to Israel under their King Ah! I must give them Judges as in former times 85. Thus the King of light in the humanity was withdrawne from them and the Judicature of Nature was given them againe for a guide and Governour so that they turned againe into the Mothers wombe viz. into the roote whence man was created that is to the onely God so that the Name and knowledge of the holy humanity of Christ is yet put out with them 86. And that they might not use the same so vainely and uneffectually for swearing and false defence they must againe enter into Hagar as into the Mothers wombe and have now verily been a long time a people run away in their mother Hagar from Abrahams house viz. from the humanity of Christ 87. But know and declare this as a word of the most High A Prophecy concerning the Turks conversion knowne in the sound of his Trumpet which he hath prepared to awaken all Nations and to visit the face of the whole earth that the Angel of the Great Counsell viz. the holy voice of Christ is not departed from them eternally to forget them so little as a Mother can forget her childe that shee should not againe have pitty upon the Sonne of her wombe albeit he were disobedient to her 88. For as the Angel came to Ishmael being yet in the wombe when his Mother fled from Sarai and did enrich him with a blessing and worldly Dominions and bad the Mother with the childe returne to Sarah Thus likewise when the Eastern Countries entred againe into the Mothers wombe with their knowledge of Religion God gave unto them in the Kingdome of Nature power and authority over the Princely Dominions of the world for to possesse and rule them under the light of Nature till its time and then they shall come in againe with great joy and with great humility to Abraham viz. to Christ 89. And not in the forme of the Babylonicall formall literall Christendome in their invented and contrived Orders which are onely Letter verball outside Christians so that a Testimony and some outward footsteps of Christ and his Kingdome have still continued upon the earth but they shall be borne in Spirit and in power for they are the lost Sonne which is wandred away from the Father and is become the Swineheard 90. But when the Angel shall bid them Returne they come in the humility of the lost Sonne returning to the Father where then the great joy shall be kept by Christ and his Angels that the dead is made alive and the lost is againe sound and the true golden juball-yeare of the marriage of the Lambe ariseth up among them 91. And albeit the Elder brother who hath continued in the letter doth grumble at it in respect of the different forme which he hath made to himselfe for the most part for his belly and honour yet they are not moved at it they are merry with the Father 92. If now then we truely compare painted Christendome and the Turkes together and looke upon them aright