according as he hath made the same with Abrabam and his Seed 25. Now when men have read this saying and heard such a sentence to wit that God will work things by his righteous spirit they must then have regard to the counsell that directeth the way to God and from the heart follow the same with humble souls c Rom. 12 still persevere in prayer untill the coming of the promises d Tob. 4. Rom. 13. and not consent to the sin but so take heed to such a healthfull grace as being out of Gods mercy called to the very same according to the promises 26. For aforetimes the heathen were no people of the God of Israel but were e Eph. 2. strangers in the Testaments of the holy Fathers and in the inheritance of the godly promises and f Eph. 4. 1 Pet. 4. every one walked his way in ungodlinesse and in sundry Idolatries and were ignorant of the Lord. 27. But the everlasting God of Israel forgot not his Covenant g Luk. 1. but was mindfull of the oath which he had sworn to Abraham his beloved to a blessing of the Gentiles and looked on h Act. 17. the time of their ignorance and did in like manner for a season cast off his people and shew his hearty love on all the Generations of the earth or heathen and caused a joyfull message through his Christ to be published unto them i Mat. 3. Luk. 3.13 Act. 2.3 to a repentance and amendment from their offences calling and bidding them k Eph. 2.3 to be co-heirs with the Citizenship of his people Israel l Esa 2. Amos. 9. Zach. 8. Act. 15. that unto his people Israel he might prepare him an upright people also out of the heathen according to the promises and foreshewing of his holy Prophets 28. Hereon ought all Generations of the earth to have regard and duely to consider whether they do accordingly take heed aright to their calling which is out of grace come unto them from the bountifull God of Israel and whether they do also with lowly hearts as those that are unworthy the same humble themselves for to obtain the right m Ioh. 1.3 1 Pet. 1. birth of the righteous spirit out of God to be fellow brethren with the children of the house of Jacob for to serve the living God and in those daies when n Act. 3. the refreshing shall appear from the presence of God to celebrate and glorifie the same God of Israel with them what time as he ingrafteth his branches into their right stock again who for the Gentiles sakes have been broken off and scattered p Lu. 21. Rom. 12. untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles should be come in the treading down of Jerusalem have her end and so all Israel be saved according to the promises 29. Therefore let us have a right regard to our calling and separate our selves according to the spirit from the foolish course q Rom. 1 Eph. 4 5 1 Pet. 4 vain walking and ignorant boasting of people and humble our souls to the grace of our calling 30. For if God in times past spared not his own people but did cast out break off and scatter them abroad for their stiffeneckednesse and prides sake and r Act. 13 Rom. 11 rejected the hearthen in their roome how much lesse will he then spare the proud heathen but cast out break off lay wast and scatter them and in their stead receive his own people Israel again that they may serve him all the daies of their lives Å¿ Luk. 1. Eph. 4 in such righteousnesse and holinesse as is pleasing unto him they shall be his people and he God with them shall be their God from Generation to Generation everlastingly 31. For thus saith the Lord concerning Israel t Esa 59 Rom. 11 there shall come a redeemer unto them in Sion and to them that turn them from fin in Jacob saith the Lord and I make this Covenant with him saith the Lord u Esa 59 my Spirit which is in thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart from thy mouth nor from the mouth of thy Seed and childrens-children saith the Lord from henceforth for evermore 32. In those daies shall the treading down of Jerusalem have an end and the vvord of the Lord shall be fulfilled concerning her and unto her he said x Esa 60 arise Jerusalem be bright for thy light cometh and the glory of the Lord ariseth upon thee then also will the Lord cause himself to be heard even to the worlds end y Esa 62 And they shall say to the daughter Sion Lo thy Salvation cometh behold he bringeth his Treasure with himself and his revvard is now prepared before him they shall name them the holy People the redeemed of the Lord and thee O Jerusalem they shall call the visited and not the forsaken City 33. Lo these are the promises concerning Jerusalem and concerning Israel in the last time let every one take heed to his time according to his calling through Jesus Christ and the end or principal scope of all righteousnesse z 1 Tim. â— is the love wherein the promises of God are established and that same is the true a 1 Joh. 3.4 token of the birth out of God through the righteous spirit It is true 34. It is also there in the same book recorded b 1 Glasse that those which are taught by the righteous spirit are no longer servants of the Prophets which forsooth some have read or heard thereof and have by that meanes forsaken the requiring of the Prophet call Word of the Apostles of Christ before they were according to the mention of the Word confirmed in their calling and through the perswasion that they had the truth or Spirit of God they are stopped out of their calling turned to the liking of their owne opinion c Rom. 1. Eph. 4. and so become vaine in their understanding 35. Some would needs account themselves free through the Spirit d 1 Glasse 3.4 before they have tasted or known the Spirit of Promise and so have run forth before the time and have not by their wisdome understood the promises of God nor the calling of the Gentiles 36. When the man now regardeth not his calling according to the requiring thereof rightly but looketh about to some other understanding and will count himself free through the spirit before the first or foregoing service which e Gal. 3. Heb. 7. directeth or leadeth thereunto be accomplished or fufilled by him then forsaketh he the service of the fore-witnessed or foregoing Word and goeth forth in a liberty which yet is false according to his own spirit before he hath fulfilled his servantship in the service of the fore-going holy Word f Luk. 21. wherein he should possesse his soul with patience g 1 Cor. 11 and so shew forth the death of
or knowledg until that he were endowed and illuminated in his spirit through the obedience of the requiring of the serviceable Word with the eternal and living [k] 1 Iohn 1 Word of God the Father and (l) Iohn 15 and 17 Ephes 3 2 Pet. 1 incorporated to the upright and lovely Being of the Love of Jesus Christ 4. Whilest then that the man is so unmindful of this and bringeth forth always so presumptuous boldly out of his good-thinking prudency or industry and out of the imagination of his knowledg his own word counsel and will so much and manifoldly witnesseth forth the same for truth and even so according to his manly wisdom out of the mind of his flesh goeth on therewith and because he thinketh that his cause is right willeth nor desireth not any thing else so must I other-whiles let the man alone or suffer him to go forth therein for a season waiting when he will come to a better mind and behold with long-suffering how it will go with him 5. Therefore for the Peace's Cause to â—he end that I would not contend with any man I keep often silence among many and let passe in my patience and long suffering all false witnessings against me and even so abide waiting for the right time (m) Ecl. 3 wherein the gracious Word of Truth the Discipline or Chastising erudition might be gladly hearkened unto and beleeved of the Man to reform the Man even so in convenient time with long suffering and to prevent him with the upright Wisdom and holy Understanding if happily he might by that means be found worthy of the Grace that the Lord would open unto him the Door of the upright (n) Eph. 1 Understanding and give him yet once to understand that he ought to keep silence and become utterly dumb in himself and first of all to hearken unto the upright serviceable Word of the holy Understanding that cometh forth (o) Isaiah 2 Micah 4 out of the holy Jerusalem and leadeth in unto the Godliness to shew forth upright fruits of Repentance to give over himself to become obedient thereunto and even so to become (p) Eph. 4 taught o bediently in the upright Wisdom of the lovely Being and in the holy Understanding of the Godliness and so then to testifie thereof 6. O that the Man gave himself to stilness also had regard with diligence and fervency and that (q) Mat. 11 in humble manner to the service of the gracious Word under the obedience of the Love and desired to do the (r) Psal 40 Acts 9 Will of the Lord so should he then verily learnwell to note or perceive wherein the Lord hath placed his Heart Being and Minde and wherein He hath declared or revealed himself together with his Light Word Spirit and Truth And that it is also wholly the Will of the Lord that Men (Å¿) Isa 42 Mat. 3 17 should hear and believe his Word Spirit and Truth there-out and that Men ought also to assemble them as obedient (t) Iohn 8 1 Peter 1 Iames 1 Disciples of the Word thereunto 7. If now the Man once marked and understood this same aright so should he then also verily if he had a (u) Psal 40 Acts 9 lust to doe the Will of the Lord endeavour himself with good will thereto and even so become assembled therewith turn his hearing to the same and out of the sound of the witnessings of the same (x) Pro. 4 take to heart the wisdom of Instruction and even so growing up therein to the (y) Eph. 4 old age of the Man Christ learn there-out to speak rightly the holy (z) Wis 1 2 Understanding â—f the godly Wisdom 8. For verily the true Jerusalem which in Times past descended in sumptuous and gorgeous garnishing (a) Apoc. 21 from Heaven and where-out the Word of the Lord is (b) Isa 2 25 Ier. 31 Micah 4 promised to go forth is risen up therein with his glistering Clearness In which Jerusalem the holy Hill of Sion where-out the Law of the Lord is promised to go forth and whereon the (c) Lev. 26 2 Cor. 6 Apoc. 12 15 21 Isaiah 2 Micah 4 Temple Tabernacle or House of God is builded becometh exalted above d all Hills and manifested to be a Nurce of the Children of Jerusalem 9. And that same heavenly State with all that is of one Being therewith is verily the (e) Luke 17 Rom. 14 peaceable Kingdom and Mercy-seat of all Beleevers in CHRIST the which is from the Grace of God come unto Us now in the (f) Isa 16 Heb. 5 last time according to the Promises 10. In which undisturbable and fast-stablished Kingdom (g) Rom. 14 Apoc. 12 that is come unto us full of Peace and full of all spiritual and heavenly Goods all holy Soules and godly Understandings do (h) Isa 35 51 60 61 65 66 Ier. 23 31 33 live and inhabite with all Triumph Glorâ— and Christian Joy free and without anâ— Fear and there-unto also all Men thâ— are good of wil to assemble them thereto are called and lovingly bidden 11. Oh that the Man understood this same aright i Deut. 32 Isaiah 48 So should he then assuredly with all good-willingness of his heart k Heb. 5 humble himself before the Throne of Grace and soveraign Majesty of God take heed unto the Word of the Lord there-out hear beleeve and good-willingly obey the same honour laud praise and thank that same God which hath prepared all this for us which also liveth from everlasting to everlasting l Apoc. 4 7 and sitteth upon the seat of his Majestie and spread abroad every where the great Acts and wonderful works of God as also rejoyce him with great Joy for that such a Throne of Grace and Saving-health is now in these last perillous times appeared come and declared m Apoc. 21 out of the heavenly Being upon the Earth unto the Children of Men n Luke 2 which hope on God and on the Comfort of his Salvation and that also therethrough the o Mat. 6 Luke 11 will of the Lord is accomplished on Earth as in Heaven CHAP. VI. O Ye Children of Men consider well now hereon and have a good regard thereto and take the same yet once effectually a Deut. 4 Prov. 4 to heart namely how that presently out of this very Throne of Grace which is appeared and come unto us now in the last Time in the most holy of the true Tabernacle of God to an everlasting Stool of Grace b Apoc. 21 upon the Earth the Glorv of the Lord becometh manifest and his c Isaiah 2 Micah 4 Law Word and Will according to his godly Truth expresly witnessed 2. For that cause have now a distinct Diversity in whom Gods Spirit and his Word is revealed or manifested and in whom it is yet unrevealed 3. For consider where God
from the beginning [o] Jerem. 7 John 14 Apoc. 21 and chosen you to an House for my Dwelling to which glorious lordliness with Me ye cannot come so long as ye resuse the Obedience of my gracious Word and [p] Heb. 10 despise my Spirit of Love and so hearken to your selves and pass forth after the direction of your own Iudgment 8. O ye children of men saith the Lord consider and call to mind yet once what ye all have been thus long and yet are so long as ye have heard and beleeved your selves or whilst that ye yet dayly do hear and beleeve your selves and abide [q] Ephes 4. estranged from my Service of Love and upright Being 9. And if ye now desire to come again unto Me and to your upright Being and State then hear nor beleeve not your selves any longer but hear and beleeve my [r] Joh 5 and 8 Word that in my Service of Love floweth sorth out of my Mouth 10. Submit you [s] Eccles 7 1 Pet. 5 there-under and do according to my Counsel saith the Lord so shall ye then come to right again also enjoy my Goodness and inherit all my Treasures [t] Mat. 13 Col. 2 and Riches 11. O ye children of men saith the Lord Wherefore will ye thus abide so gladly by your selves seeing ye are always so much deceived with your selves For by your selves ye find nothing else but [u] Jer 7 9 John 8 Lyes and [x] Is 5 9 Darkness where-through ye divide intangle and destroy your selves 12. But by Me and by my Word and Service of Love ye find the true Being of my Dwelling together with the Truth the Wisdom and all good Counsel to your Preservation also the Light of Life [y] Eccles 24 the lovely Being of the Love and the everlasting Life to your Joy and Felicity 13. For that cause to your Preservation take now good heed to the gracious [z] Jer. 31 Word that I presently in this very day through my holy Spirit and Service of Love [a] Isaiah 2 and 26 Micha 1 and 4 set to be heard and set forth before you out of the Tabernacle of my Dwelling 14. And even so for my Loves cause saith the Lord wherewith I have always loved you [b] Mat. 16 Luke 9 14 forsake now your selves and all your own Word Will and Counsel and hear and believe only my Word that floweth from Me out of my holy Spirit and Service of Love for otherwise ye cannot come to my Dwelling 15. Therefore [c] Isaiah 2 Micha 4 Zach. 8 come now all unto Me saith the Lord and assemble you all to the House of my Dwelling namely to the House of my Love where-out I let my [d] Isaiah 2 and 26 Word be heard and wherein I have the Seat of my Majesty 16. Come now all hither and for my Loves cause [e] Mat. 16 forsake wholly your selves or your own life and all what ye your selves and for your own selves cause have taken on and all that is Mine [f] Psal 24 and 146 or that belongeth to Me bring unto Me and lay it all down before the [g] 1 Pat. 30 Acts 5 Feet of my Majesty even the House of my Love and acknowledg that it is all my [h] Psalm 24 and 50 Propriety or very own 17. When ye now have done all this saith the Lord then plant all your Hearts in the only Heart of my gracious Word and holy Spirit of Love to the end that ye all might become (i) Iohn 17 Acts 4 one Heart Being or Mind in Me and that I likewise with my gracious Word and holy Spirit of Love may even so dwell (k) John 14 2 Cor. 6 Apoc. 21 live and walk in you all 18. For thereto truly the Service of my Lovestretcheth which I now in the last time extend so graciously on you and even thereto I have also loved and elected you all O ye generations of men to the end that ye all through the Service of my Love might be assembled again unto me in my godly Being and have love and peace among each other 19. Wherefore seeing now that this is the last time [l] Joel 2 Acts 2 of Grace in which saith the Lord I let my voyce go forth to the end that every one may come to my Rest so [m] Psal 95 Heb 3 4 harden not your hearts in any case this day in the hearing of my voyce that ye abide not without this my holy Rest which is published unto you and whereunto ye are courteously bidden But become turned about thereunto in your heart and minde and to enter into the same so gather you now altogether unto my house of Love and to my holy Tabernacle or man of God [n] Ier. 31 Ezek 37 wherein I as a glorious God with my perfect Godhead as with my Christ at my right hand and with my holy Spirit of Love my true Being do live dwell and walk and wherein we as one true Deity have revealed and [o] Iohn 13 and 17 glorified us to the end that ye all now may become consubstantiated or conformably united in me as one Man of God and inherit my Rest with all the Children of God 20. For verily I say unto you saith the Lord whosoever now in this very day of my Love assembleth him not to my house nor becometh with his heart graffed [p] Rom. 11 or planted into my heart he shall not enter into my [q] Heb. 4 Rest nor yet for evermore inherit or inhabit with my children of Peace the worthy pleasant Land which I have promised unto them and [r] Math. 25 prepared for them from the beginning of the world neither yet obtain either in this time or in any time to come any Grace of Salvation Life of Peace nor true Love nor yet become [s] 2 Pet 1 one Being with my godly nature but all such which so abide without me and my holy house or communality of Love shall be [t] Ier. 17 and 22 and 25 Wisd 17 scattered abroad and brought to confusion and bound [u] Mat. 25 2 Pet. 2 with the bands of darkness in the horrible Destruction and so abide [x] 2 Thes 1 estranged from the Light of my lovely face for ever and ever 21. O ye Children of men saith the Lord harden [y] Psal 95 Heb. 3 not your hearts in any case in the hearing of the voyce of my Spirit in the Service of my Love but come now all to this my [z] Isai 12 and 55 Apoc. 21 and 22 Fountain of Life and refresh [a] Ezek 36 Heb. 10 your heart and minde in the same and in her out-flowing waters for the same waters which flow there-out [b] Iohn 4 and 7 Apoc. 21 and 22 are my safe-making waters of Life to the satisfying of all thirsty Souls after the Righteousness and the
your own Honors sake i 1 Ioh. 12 which ye seek at the hands of the unregenerated Men and more esteem and covet then the honour of God many of you will not acknowledge the same nor yet confess your Blindness 6. Ye k Ier. 6 8 Ezek. 13 comfort your selves apace with Lyes and provoke even so Gods righteous Judgment to come upon you In which l Iude 1 Judgement it becometh now discovered unto you and ye are let m 1 Cor. 4 to see or it becometh made known unto you in your hearts That ye all which are of the Earth and have resisted the Truth of the Life have spoken presumptuously against the Lord despised the Love in her lovely Nature and upright Service n â— Heb. 10 and blasphemed the Spirit of Love which is the true Holy Ghost 7. Behold it shall now in this same Day o Acts 17 1 Cor. 4 Jude 1 of the righteous Iudgment of God wher-through all false Iudgments Unrighteousnesses become made manifest be given unto you to see into orplainly to perceive all this your falshood or horrible Iniquity And the recompence for the same shall likewise O ye false earthly Men fall upon you p Isa 13 Wis 5 Luke 21 with much Affliction Distress Misery and Woe in all your hearts 8. If ye now then perceiving well all your Falshood and in the time of your Affliction and distresse lay not your selves prostrate to a q Psal 110 1 Cor. 15 Bench for the Lords feet before the Seat of the Majesty of God but will needs with your false Iudgments and Unrighteousness bear the Dominion against God and his Majesty So shall ye yet nevertheless whether it be then with your will or against your will be trodden down as the Enemies of God r Psal 91 Rom. 16 with the feet of the Saints and laid under the feet of the Lord. 9. For our God the Lord of Hoasts cometh presently s Esa 3 Mat. 25 Iude 1 to Judgment and will plainly shew and make known the House of his dwelling namely that the Heaven and the heavenly Man is his t Isa 66 Acts 6 Seat and the Earth and the earthly Man the Bench of his Feet even as the Lord hath spoken the same in times past through the mouth of his holy Prophets CHAP. XV. O Ye good-willing Hearts a Amos 5 Micah 2 Mat. 24 which have now in these last perillous Times adjoyned your selves with a good Will under the Obedience of the Love with Us Litle-ones and Elected ones of God! Consider well presently on the Strangers which have nothing else in their minde but b Psal 10 and 52 56 and 58 and 120 subtilty and guilet and also on all such as come in with all c Phil. 3 Self-seeking with their fleshly d Rom. 1 Lusts and Desires and with their good-thinking e Ier. 7 1 Cor. 1 and Self-wisdom besides our holy Communiallity of the Love and then at the last when as they are aware that the gracious Word is against or contrary to their Selfe-seeking and Good-thinking separate them again from Us and from the Word and Requiring of the Service of Love Yea consider well what a Nature Being or Disposition they shew forth and how that they to the lenting f Rom. 16 and dividing of our Communiallity of the Love make up themselves against us and our godly Doctrine so shall ye then finde out in the Deed and Truth that all such doe make manifest themselves with their Self-wisdom and g Ier. 7 9 11 and 13 good-thinking Knowledge to be contrary minded against the holy Word of the Spirit of Love and also turn them away from the true Obedience of the Requiring of his Service 2. For that cause take now good heed and beware of all them that with their Self-wisdome or Imagination of the Knowledge h Rom. 16 besides the Doctrine of the godliness which is taught you through the Spirit of Love institute or bring in according to the self-seeking of the Flesh their strange or forged Doctrines and false Dealings wherewith they breed Division and cause Offence and separate you from such persons But abide stedfastly grounded in our most holy i Eph. 3 2 Tim. 1.3 Beliefe of the Love of Christ k Mat. 10 and 24 Heb. 12 and persevere therein even to the End that is till unto the lovely Being of the Godliness 3. Turn not aside in any case to any forreign Being without the Love fall not away likewise from the Service of the Love for the ignorant ones cause which make often times by reason of their disorderliness discord and offence and for that cause also they must as the matter or case requireth be l Gal. 6 2 Tim. 2 and 4 punished chastised and instructed Also become not sluggish nor careless with the m Prov. 6 and 24 slothful persons but with diligence and lust of your heart unto the upright n Mat. 22 Eph. 1 4 Righteousness and Holiness submit you always obediently and humbly under the godly Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love until that the gracious Word and his Love be planted in you o Iam. 1 with meek-mindedness the which is the Salvation of your Souls and the establishing of the Promises of God the Father 4. For in the same upright Being God will bring unto you all his treasures p Mat. 13 Col. 2 and heavenly goods also all peace q Iohn 10 and the everlasting life abundantly It is very true 5. O ye holy ones of God thou lovely Communiality of the Love fear not but be now of good cheer upon the earth against all your enemies For behold r Isai 35 your God cometh to be avenged on all your enemies for to lay them that they may be troden down under the feet of your Lord and and Saviour Jesus Christ and even so in your s Mat. 19 John 3 second birth out of the holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ to transport or yeeld over the Judgment and Dominion upon the earth unto you and your Saviour Jesus Christ to the end that ye with him and he with you and your Saviour Jesus Christ and with his holy Spirit should from henceforth world without end reign with t Apoc. 5 and 22 Righteousnes upon the earth and u Isaiah 3 Wisd 3 Jude 1 judg the same with equity according to the Promises CHAP. XVI MAke you to the flight a Isa 52 Make you to the flight yea get you now all out of the way ye enemies of the Lord and his Service of Love and give the Lord with his holy ones b Isa 40 and 57 and 62 his room Yet shall ye not escape the Vengeance of God 2. For the Lord cometh forth now in mighty power with his righteous Judgment upon the earth for to purge the same of all her
weeds yea even now in the right c Mat. â—3 Time of Harvest the Lord cometh d Mat. 24 and 25 with his Angels for to root out all Weeds from off the Earth 3. O God e Apoc. 14 smite now in with thy Sickle and begin even so with thy Angels to reape the whole Earth For the weed is become ripe f 4 Esd 4 upon the earth and his Eares are thorough dry for that cause root the same now clean out for whereto or to what profit hath it his place among the good Wheat upon the Earth for as much as there is not any good to be looked for there out 4. Behold the g Mat. 13 Weed is the manifold sort of Lyes against the Truth of God the many manner of Iniquities against the Righteousness of Christ and the unmeasurable ungodlines of all Ungodly against the Godliness and against the true Being of the holy Spirit of Love which are all worthy h Apoc. 19 to be rooted out from the Earth and condemned in the i Mat. 13 and 25 2 Peter 3 hellish Fire 5. For for this same Weeds Cause k Gen. 3 Heb. 6 the Earth hath been thus long cursed and the good Wheat which the ignorant Reapers have also judged to be the Weed and worthy to be rooted out or could not often times discerne the one from the other l Mat. 13 Luke 8 oppressed or kept under 6. Therefore the Lord cometh now m Mat. 13 and 24 in the End of the World and maketh a plain difference and a right discerning betwixt the Weed and the good Wheat Yea the Lord hath made up himselfe and he cometh now in the right or due time n Isa 66 Mal. 4 2 Thes 1 with the heat of his burning Fire for to consume with his Fire all the Weeds and to empty or disburthen the Earth thereof to the end shee might come again to her Blessing and upright Fruitfulness o Psal 18 Ier. 10 Nahum 1 Mat. 24. Luke 21 2 Pet. 3 where through the Earth is now moved the Heavens troubled the Elements melt with heat and the Token of the coming of the Son of Man appeareth in the Heaven 7. With which Rumor or rushing Noise of the Power of God and his Holy ones p Mat. 24 1 Cor. 15 1 Thess 4 the last Trumpet doth also presently give forth her sound through whose blast of her vehement sound and through the appearing of the Coming of Christ q Dan. 12 Iohn 5 1 Cor. 15 1 Thess 4 the Dead stand up or arise unto the Judgment of God In such sort that Daniel the holy Prophet is also risen up r Dan. 12 in his part for to execute now in the last time or ending of the World the Judgment with God and his Righteous ones s Isa 3 Iude 1 upon the Earth against all ungodly to the end that they all together with the Works of their ungodliness might now become rooted out and condemned like as there is written thereof 8. Rejoyce now in this same Day t Apoc. 18 all ye holy Prophets Angels and Apostles for this is the u Deut. 5 Nahum 1 Day of the vengeance of our Lord and God for to revenge the Blood of his Holy ones x Mat. 25 Apoc. 16 that the Sinners have spilt or shed upon the Earth for to declare or reveal his Holy ones again gloriously upon the Earth to the end that they might y Peter 3 inhabit the same peaceably in all love and reign there over or z Apoc. 5 and 22 judge the same with Righteousness from henceforth World without end CHAP. XVII O All ye a Prov. 6 and 24 Mat. 25 Sluggish and Slothful which have walked thus long very unlustly as though ye had been drowzie of sleep in the Service of the Love and had very litle love unto Gods Righteousness yea which have been so over-careless or negligent that ye have not taken the Service of the Love and the upright Righteousness of the same any thing at all to heart in such wise that by that occasion your field whilst ye have been so slothsul is waxen barren of the good Corn and your Vineyard likewise of the good Wine b Prov. 24 and and are overgrown with Nettles Thistles become yet now once awaked c Rom. 13 Epnes 5 and make your way or steps speedy for to enter into the Life of the upright and lovely Beeing of the Love ere ever the Door of the lovely Kingdom and Paradise of the Lord whilst ye come forwards so sluggishly and drowsily d Mat. 25 be locked or shut-to 2. For behold e Ezek. 7 the end cometh yea the end cometh swiftly on and the last time is now at hand after which f Apoc. 10 time there shall not be any Salvation of the Life nor health of Souls more to be obtained 3. O ye foolish people which are now so sluggish call to mind the foolish Virgins how they neglected their time g Mat. 25 for to gather or prepare them oyl in their Vessels and how that they for that cause when the time appeared or was come that every one which had oyl and light in his Vessel or Lamp should enter in with the Bridegroom must abide without the lovely Kingdom of the Bridegroom 4. Verily in this same day of the Love of the true Bridegrooms coming it will also go in such like sort with you all ye foolish and sluggish people which follow so incessantly your own counsel will and freedom h Rom. 1 Ephes 4 1 Pet. 4 2 Pet. 2 according to the mind of the flesh and have no regard to the Sanctification in the Spirit wherein the godly Oyl becometh brought unto us 5. Therefore look now to it betimes and take good heed unto the i 1 Thes 4 2 Thes 2 Sanctification in the Spirit or unto an upright Being and Mind to the end that the like happen not unto you as chanced to the foolish Virgins 6. Behold k Heb. 3 and 10 presently in this same day ye are yet all warned respect well therefore this same l Prov. 6 2 Cor. 6 Gal. 6 Heb. 12 time of Grace whilst there is yet Grace and Comfort at hand and to be obtained and have a diligent regard unto the Service of Love and what the same requireth 7. Verily it requireth not this nor that according to the flesh of the worldly dealing nor according to the dealing of the false hearts and unregenerated hypocrites but m Ephes 4 an upright Being in the Love of Jesus Christ that is to become n Luke 1 released from all ownedness or selfness and hallowed o Rom. 12 1 Thes 4 and justified in the Spirit of our Mind through Jesus Christ and his Service of Love 8. Whosoever then in all Obedience of the Requiring of the gracious Word and of his service of Love
or be justified therefrom and might live thereby with God the Father to an everlasting peace according to the promises 10. This communalty or believers of the good life were as children of the belief and obedience t Mat. 26.28 Acts 2.4 joyned together to a bringing in to the same life under the service of the holy Word and the hand reached them thereunto with the Christian ceremonies of Baptisme and the Supper of Christ which Christian ceremonies were administred unto them out of the word of life and observed by them to obedience yet not for the ceremonies but for the upright lifes sake which being afterward to come was u Infra 23 required therewith And thus the Christian ceremonies were not the everlasting commandement of God but the word of life was it 11. Howbeit the ceremonies were annexed thereunto for an assistance x Gal. 3.4 Heb. 7 and bringing in of the believers into the life as is aforesaid even as the same is prefigured unto us by the ceremonies of the Catholike Church of Jesu Christ to the intent that the believers of the holy word and of the good life or Christ should through the service of the ceremonies y 2 Pet. 1 have regard to the same word of life being afterward to come 12. Even thus for the good lifes cause and for the mans sake are the true Christian ceremonies of the gracious word and of his service of love now in the last time annexed unto Gods everlasting Commandement for an assistance of all them to the z 2 Pet. 1 entrance of the upright life which believe in Jesu Christ and humble themselves to the service of his love to the end they should be brought thereby to the life which is Gods everlasting commandement and still abideth namely to a Deut. 10 30 Mat 22 love our God with all our hearts and our neighbour as our selves and to obtain the same b Rom. 3 Eph. 2. through the belief even as it is preached and written because no man should trust upon the ceremonies and find himself deceived by being without the upright life 13. Neverthelesse after those daies of the fore-said ministration of the Christian ceremonies many c 1 Tim. 4 Tim. 3. 2 Pet. 2 fell away from the true belief of Christ or of the good life knowing no difference in Gods precept or commandement wherethrough there are now also many become vaine in their understandings in such sort that they themselves know not the meaning of the christian ceremonies nor yet to what purpose they were adjoyned to Gods commandement and by that occasion there is risen up for the Christian ceremonies cause much discord and debate even as heretofore it came to passe for d 2 Cor. 11 Gal. 1.2 3 4 5 6 the Jewish ceremonies 14. Wherefore seeing the services of the former Christian ceremonies after the Letter do bring in controversie and are not set forth or observed out of the word of life nor out of the love of Jesu Christ to the unity of heart in the love but out of the letter with different understandings and in diffention and cannot alone in themselves extend to any commandement of God therefore are not the believers of the good life namely the communalty under the obedience of the love of Iesu Christ bound as is rehearsed thereunto as of necessity outwardly to observe them but they stand free unto them either to keep or to omit them to wit e Rom. 14 as they serve them to peace and are edifiable unto men for Gods commandement f Ioh. 12 is the everlasting life and that is the very love it self even g Deut. 0.30 Mat. 19.22 Rom. 13 to love God above all things and our neighbour as our selves 15. Lo this to be short is the difference of the Jewish and Christian ceremonies and of those of the Family of the Love of Jesu Christ namely to what purpose their office or service is commanded and to what intent they are annexed to the everlasting Commandement of God and observed 16. Now there are likewise divers people that will not use some ceremonies because they judge them as heathenish or idolatrous services and as a forbidding of the Lord by means of abhorring and fear that they have of them least any harm or hinderance should hoppen unto their souls thereby concereing the which it also must be considered how and wherefore the same should be idolatrous services and a forbidding of God for every unright usage hath his occasion sense and signification 17. For whilest the heathen or the uncircumcised people are in respect of the knowledge of God become vain h Rom. 1 Eph. 4 blind and insensible as being utterly estranged from the upright life which God esteemeth therefore do they make or counterfeit unto themselves out of the vanity of their thoughts services and ceremonies which the vain hearts that understand not Gods Law and Ordinance are bewitched and bound with 18. So then the vaine corrupt and bewitched life which neither knoweth nor loveth the living God nor his i Rom. 1 Eph. 4 righteousnesse but is rebellious and unfaithfull to God is Gods forbidding And out of it have the blind people which know not the upright life joyned thereunto their services and ceremonies k Deut. 12 wherefore the contary life to God is the forbidding of the Lord to wit that men shall not believe serve nor be subject to the same and not alone the heathenish services and ceremonies in themselves 19. And for the bewitched lifes cause all is idol-service and against Gods will which such people as are held captive under it or in their inwardnesse are corrupted and bewitched by it do observe and use not for the services but l Esa 1.58 Amâ—s 5 Mic. 6 for their corrupt lives sake 20. For albeit they do out of such a bewitched life of unbelief take on them or counterfeit any thing which men call Jewish or Christian ceremonies yet it is not that which availeth before God m Eph. 2.4 because they are strangers from the life which is of God 21. Therefore seeing they are become n Rom. 1 vain and dark in their understanding insomuch that they know neither the true God or his true God-service nor the Idoll or his Idol-service therefore neither are their outward Gods which men call Idols in themselves o 1 Cor. 8 the right Idols but they are that they are neither are their services or ceremonies the right Idol-services For the Idoll and the Idol-service which God accounteth for such and shutteth for ever without him and his Kingdome and will not have it to be in his Temple or Tabernacle but inwardly to be rooted out p 1 Reg. 15. 1 Cor. 6 Eph. 5 Col. 3 is the depraved or corrupt life as is aforesaid by which corrupt life the people that are holden therewith are bewitched and tied to the unprositable and vain things which indeed