fire of God must doe it for they remaine in one Mystery till the judgement of God every one at the houre of the Resurrection shall come forth in his owne Mystery and he shall see his workes before him and feele them in him 100. It is not understood that they shall answer for their selves selves with words for the Kingdome of God consists and proceeds in Power and albeit the ungodly shall cry out Woe upon his abominations and Seducers yet every mans worke shall bee Summoned in POWER which shall either rejoyce or torment him 101. Now the old body of this World is the Mystery of this World and the new body is the Mystery of the Divine light World and the soule is the Mystery of God the Father and the Earth with the Elements hath also both Mysteries which shal be moved through the Principle of the Father 102. And then the doores of the Mysteries shall be set open and each shall give and set forth its Figures which it hath swallowed up for the Principle of the soule must stand before the judgement with both the Mysteries 103. Happy are they which shall have the body of Christ in the Mystery of the wrath or fire of Gods anger they shall have the soules fire or the Principle of the Father surrounded with the light World and illustrate with the Majesty they shall feele no paine or hurt and shall passe unsensibly through the fire and there the outward or third Principle shall be proved and all earthlinesse or falshood shall remaine in the fire but the workes shall be renovated in the fire and freed from their earthly source and soyle and then the earthly Mystery remaineth in the fire and is a food of the fire whence the light ariseth and the Righteous looseth nothing 104. For the works of love which were brought forth in the new body doe passe with the spirit of the soule through the fire and remayne in the Divine Image in the source of the light and they of the third Principle that is of this World doe remaine in the fire-source of the Soule 105. But that which hath been wrought and acted in an wholly evill and malicious manner in the third Principle and yet in this World hath not been renewed by earnest Repentance and Reconcilment toward his Brother that falleth unto the centre of Nature that is the root of the darke World 106. But the workes of the ungodly shall not be able to remayne in the fire for the fire swalloweth them downe in it selfe to the darke Centre Viz. the Originall of nature wherein the Devills dwell and thither also goeth there-soules fire being the Fathers principle for this fire of the soule shall have no matter to make it burn aright but it shall be as a quenched darke painfull sourse-fire onely as an anguish that would faine produce fire this is called Gods wrath and not a principle a death or a dying source 107. For the principle of the father wherein the right and true soule consists is a flaming fire which giveth light and in the light is the pretious Image of God for that light doth qualify and sweeten the burning light with the essentialty of Love so that it is a pleasing delight and a cause of nature and of life 108. Therefore I tell you that you should not thinke it strange or misunderstand it when I or any other let it be Theophrastus or who it will write that man shall stand before the Judgment with his body which he had here I perceive very well that you have not as yet understood my Writings in the Book of the Threefold life and also in the Booke of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ which treateth of Christs suffering dying and rising againe and how we must enter into his death and arise out of his death you shall finde it cleare enough explained and enlarged but seeing you have them not yet at hand be pleased to have patience you may very likely get them to read and then you will be freed from your perplexity and deepe searching in this manner 109. For they lay their ground much deeper then your apprehension is in this doe but read them right you shall verily find what the Mystery is what the magicall Bysse and Abysse is also what the Being of all Beings is there needs no consulting with one or another he that understands the great Mystery whence all Beings have proceeded and doe still proceed he doth not encumber himselfe with such large circumferences 110. You have undertaken a very hard labour which doth nothing but perplex eat up and consume your life it is wholly needlesse he that findeth and knoweth the great Mystery he findeth all things therein there need no literall demonstration God Christ and the eternity with all wonders do lye therein the Holy Ghost is the Key to it are you in the new birth as you say then there is no need of such hard seeking with such hard labour seek onely Christ in the Manger in the dark Stable when you finde him then you shall indeed find where he fitteth at the righ hand of God 111. Searching onely doth nothing the Phylosophers Stone is a very dark disesteemed Stone of a Gray colour but therein lyeth the highest Tincture would you search out the Mysterium Magnum then take before you onely the Earth with its Mettals and so you may well finde what the Magicall or Cabalisticall ground is 112. The deep and Mysticall numbers which otherwise no man is able to fathom or finde out lye all in the Mystery but hee that findes it searcheth not after the numbers he taketh Gold for Earth and doth as one that hath a costly Treasure lying in an obscure place the Manger and swadling cloaths of Christ are more acceptable to him then the whole World with its Figures or externall pompe and glory he hides the Numbers themselves for the outward Kingdome must accomplish its wonders 113. Wherefore should the earthly Mystery be unvailed before the time enquire of the Magists who have understood the heavenly and earthly Magia wherefore they have kept the Tincture secret and not revealed it there is no other cause at all but that the World is not worthy of it so likewise it is not worthy of the Numbers of the Mystery 114. Therefore God hath hidden them from us that the earthly Mystery might accomplish and fulfill all its wonders on us and that all the Violls of Gods anger be poured forth on us how can a man undertake to reveale such secret things without the consent of the Mystery indeed he tampereth about the outside of the Mystery but if he comes in he must have the will of the Mystery 115. The outward instigation to manifest and reveale the Mystery proceedeth from the Starres for they would faine be freed from vanity and they drive mightily in the Magicall Children to manifestation therefore we must prove and examine the instigation
soul as a triumph as he goeth forth from God the Father through the word or mouth of the sonne that is from the Heart of the sacred Ternary out of the Divine essentiality and thus he goeth or proceedeth forth out of the being or essence of the noble lilly-twig which springeth forth and groweth out of the fire of the soul which lilly-twig is the true Image of God for it is the new-born or regenerated spirit of the soul the spirit of Gods will the Triumphing Chariot of the holy spirit in which he rideth into the sacred Ternary into the Angelicall World 39. And with this twig or Image of God renewed in us as is before mentioned we are in Christ without this World in the Angelicall World of which the old Adam hath no understanding or perceivance also it knoweth it not as the rough stone knoweth not the Gold which yet groweth in it The Gate of the true knowledge of the Threefold life 40. Man is the true Similitude or Image of God as the pretious man Moses testifyeth not onely an Earthly Image for the sake whereof God would not have become man and put forth unite and espouse his heart and spirit in deepest love after the fall unto it but he is Originally out of the Being of all Beings out of all the three Worlds Viz. out of the innermost Nature-world which is also the most outward and is called the darke World whence the principle of the fiery Nature taketh its rise as is declared at large in my Booke of the threefold life 41. And secondly he is out of the light or Angelicall World out of the true Being of God and then thirdly he is out of this externall World of the Sunne Stars and Elements an entire Image of God out of the Being of all Beings 42. His first Image stood in Paradise in the Angelicall World but he lusted after the externall World that is after the Astrall and Elementall World which hath swallowed up and covered the precious Image of the internall Heaven and ruleth now in the similitude as in its owne propriety 43. Therefore 't is sayd You must be borne againe or else you cannot see the Kingdome of God And therefore it is that the word or heart of God entred into the humane Essence that wee with our soule might be able in the power of the word or heart of God to beget and bring forth againe out of our soule a new Twig or Image like unto the first 44. Therefore the old Carcasse must rot putrifie and perish for it is unfit for the Kingdome of God it carryeth nothing but its owne Mystery into its first beginning that is its wonders and workes understand in the Essence of the first Principle which is immortall and incorruptible being the Magicall fire of the soule 45. And not this alone but he must bring and unite the End with the Beginning for the externall World is generated out of the internall and created into a comprehensible Being the wonders whereof belong unto the Beginning and they were knowne from Eternity in the wisedome of God that is in the Divine Magia not in the Being or essentiality but in the mirrour of the Virgin-like wisedome of God whence the Eternall nature doth alwayes arise or take its Originall from Eternity 46. And to this end the poore soule standeth in the prison of the Astrall and Elementall Kingdome that it might be a Labourer and reunite the wonders of the externall Nature with the light World and bring them into the beginning and though it must now be bruised and pressed and endure much yet it is the Servant in Gods Vineyard which prepareth the precious Wine that is drunk in the Kingdome of God it is the onely cause of the understanding that the desire worketh in the Mystery and manifesteth and bringeth forth to light the hidden wonders of God as we see plainely how man doth search out and reveale the wonders of Nature 47. Therefore we must not be amazed and strangely perplexed when as many times the noble Image is hid that we cannot receive any refreshment or comfort but we must know that then the poor soule is put into the Vineyard that it should worke and bring the fruit to be set upon Gods Table 48. It hath then a Twig or Branch of the wilde Vine given unto it it must trim and dresse that and plant in into the Divine and Heavenly Mystery it must unite it with the Kingdome of God this is to be understood thus 49. As a plant or grift that is set doth worke so long till it putteth forth its branches and then its fruit so must the twig grift or scion of the soule which standeth overshadowed in a darke valley continually labour that it might come to bring forth fruit which is the noble and precious knowledge of God when the same is growne in it that the Soule knoweth God then it yeeldeth its faire fruits which are good Doctrines Workes and Vertues it leadeth to the Kingdome of God it helpeth to plant and build the Kingdome of God and then it is a right labourer in the Vineyard of Christ 50. And thus that of which I teach write and speake is nothing else but the same which hath beene wrought in me otherwise I could know nothing of it I have not scrap't it together out of histories and so made opinions as the Babilonicall School doth where men Eagerly contend about words and opinions I have by Gods grace obteined eyes of my owne and am able in my selfe to worke in Christs vineyard 51. I speake plainly and freely that whatsoever is patcht together from Conjecture and opinion wherein man himselfe hath â—o Divine knowledge whereupon he makes conclusions that I say is Babel an whoredome for conceit or thinking must not doe it yea not any opinion or conjecturall apprehension but the knowledge of God in the holy Ghost 52. The Children of God have spoken as they were driven by the holy spirit they have planted many and divers Trees but they all stand upon one root which is the internall Heaven none can finde the same unlesse he likewise stand upon the same roote and therefore the externall Heaven cannot finde them out or explain them by art 53. The words of the holy Children of God remain as an hidden Mystery unto the Earthly man and though he thinkes that he understands them yet he hath no more then a darkesome hystoricall glimps of them as we see now adayes how men doe wrangle and contend about Christs doctrine and worship and fight about Gods will how he must be served whereas he is not served or worshipped with any opinion but in the spirit of Christ and in truth men serve God 54. It depends not on what ceremonies and manners we doe use every one laboureth in his worke and gifts from his owne Constellation and property but all are driven and lead from one and the same spirit
body is in the Dominion of the Stars and Elements according to the source of this World 7 Thus we are Gods Image and likenesse who himselfe is all Should we not therfore rejoyce Who will separate us from God if the soule be in God where no death or destruction is 8. Therefore my deare faithfull Friend and Brother in Christ I esteeme it great joy unto me that I have found a precious plant of God of you of which my soule smelt and thereby was strengthened when the Oppressour would have torne it out of the Land of the living when it lay under the Oppressours and the Thorny Plantâ— of Antichrist intended to devoure us 9 But as God commeth to helpe the branches which stand in him with his power that they might not perish albeit Devill and Death doe storme against them so they must spring forth againe through death and the wrath or fiercenesse of the anger and Sting of death and though God bestow the most noble and precious hearbe of his Garden upon it yet his will must stand what is sowne in him that must grow in him 10. This we know in that he hath given his heart Viz. the most precious plant in himselfe to become Man for us to a strong sweet savour of regeneration in him that when we were in death we might be able to spring forth with and through him out of death in God his Father and bring forth the fruits of Paradise 11. Being then we know that we are the Plants Fruits or Nurserie of God let us not feare any thing but continually grow in the life of God and bring forth fruit to Gods honour and deeds of Wonder we shall enjoy them eternally 12. And being we know that our pretious life standeth in great danger betweene the Kingdome of Heaven and the Kingdome of Hell lying Captivall to both in this time of life therefore we must walke warily and circumspectly that our Pearl may not be broken we must not let the Savour of wrath into us for to corrupt and spoil us whereby the pretious fruit is hindred in the growth and God should complain of us that he is like a vine-dresser that gleaneth and would faine enjoy the pretious grapes 13. Therefore let us be watchfull to fight against the Prince of wrath that the pretious Grapes and fruites of God may growe in us in which God may have a good smell and tast that we may be a Pleasant sweet savour to him in Christ 14. We shall well enjoy it when we are rid from the vanity of this life and then we shall live and spring up in God and eate of the pure life of God without defect and he will be our food and we his that so there may be a pleasant mutuall Paradisicall growth in one another we in God and God in us in the eternall source of the holy life in Gods Nursery wherein is meere perfection in pure love 15. For which cause we labor so earnestly and suffer the scorne and contempt of the World that while our earthly life springeth in death our heavenly life may spring forth through death that so the earthly life may appeare before the heavenly as a scorne which indeed is not worthy to be called a life comparing it with the heavenly 16. And therefore we suffer patiently in the earthly life and rejoyce in the heavenly in hope that we shall be freed from vanity and then we shall be well refreshed with consolation what we have beene faine here to sow in tribulation and trouble we shall reape in great joy 17. Wherefore my very deare Brother in the life of God in which you stand you are more acceptable to me that you have awaked me out the Sleep that I might goe on to bring forth fruit in the life of God and afterward to rejoyce therein with the Children of God 18. And I give you to understand that after I was againe awakened a very strong Odour was given to me in the life of God and I hâ—pe to bring forth fruit therein and to awaken the sleepy as God hath awakened me out of the sleep wherein I lay 19. And I entreat you for the holy life sake of God in Christ that for the future you would not be faint or weary but animate and quicken up your life in Christ that our spirits may be apprehended and understood which cannot be without the Divine Power 20. For every one speaketh from his Essences in the Wonders of God according as his life is enkindled in God and no man can bring us to an understanding but the onely spirit of God which in the day of Pentecost did in the mouth of the Apostles change the tongues of all Nations into one that the languages of all Nations could understand the tongues â—f the Apostles whereas they spake but from one tongue but the heart and spirit of the Hearers were opened in God that they all understood them every one in his owne language as if the Apostles had spoken in their language 21. Thus it is onely 〈…〉 God that one spirit can apprehend and understand another 〈…〉 feare me that in many places of my Writings I shall be difficult 〈…〉 understood but in God I am very easie and plaine to the Reaâ—â—r if 〈◊〉 soule be grounded in God from which knowledge I onely Wâ—â—e 22. For I have veâ—◠〈◊〉 from the historicall Art of this World and I write nor for the Pride and Honour sake of their Art for I am not begotten of their Art but out of the life of God that I might beare fruit in the Paradisicall Rose-Garden of God 23. And that not for my selfe onely but for my Brethren and Sisters that we might be one holy body in Christ to God our Father who hath loved and chosen us before the foundation of the world was layd 24. Therefore as Christ spared not his life and so also his true Disciples but did freely Preach the Kingdome of God albeit they suffered scorne and death in this World for it and that onely for the sake of the heavenly Kingdome so must we not feare so much the temporall scorne and death for the heavenly lifes sake and so pray that God would deliver us from all evill and give us unity in one minde 25. But I am sorry that I am so difficult to be understood of you in some points of my Writings and I wish that I could impart my soule to you that you might apprehend my meaning 26. For I understand that it concerneth the deepest points on which the maine depends where I have used some Latine words but my meaning resteth in truth not barely in the Latine tongue but much rather in the Language of Nature 27. For it is opened unto me in some measure to sound out the Spirits of the letters from their very Originall and I would very gladly give you the meaning and interpretation of those words which I have
the true Image may appeare to Gods honour and deeds of wonder and cause the faire sprout of his Lilly to grow in us in the Paradisicall Garden of Jesus Christ 2. Noble Right Honourable Sir my humble and most willing Service with hearty wishes of all temporall and eternall prosperity premised I have received by the Bearer your Man a measure of Corne which you have sent unto mee and I thank you most kindly and I pray God Almighty Blesse you in abundance for it 3 Being Noble Sir you are so humble and doe not looke upon and regard what the World doth and also you doe not value the subtilty or pert prudency of the high but you seek and labour after that which the Lord of Heaven buildeth albeit it appeare foolishnesse in this World but it seemeth good in his sight to drive on his worke in meane low plaine and Childlike people that he onely might be exalted and no man might have wherewithall to boast and you likewise may surely hope for the same knowledge which is more beautifull and excellent then all pompe and riches of the World for all whatsoever is temporall doth leave and forsake Man but the honourable Garland or Trophy of Christ doth not forsake man in death but it bringeth him to the heavenly tryumphing Hoast of Angels into his right eternall native Countrey or home 4. Now seeing we know and exceedingly well understand that we are onely Pilgrims in this World in a strange lodging in very great danger lying captive in a sore and hard prison and must continually feare and expect death therefore Noble Sir you doe very well and deale more wisely then the prudent of the World in that you looke about you and endeavour after your Eternall native Countrey and not after the Pompe Power and Riches of this World as generally the high and great Ones doe 5. I make no doubt but that you herein shall obtaine a very faire Garland from the Virgin of the eternall wisedome of God which if it come to passe will be of more value and acceptance with you then all temporall riches and this whole World with all its Being and Splendor of which Crowne or Trophy of Sophia if I had no effectual knowledge I would not write for of the wise of this World who onely out of selfe pride without Gods spirit doe arrogate and attribute all knowledge and understanding to themselves I have not onely poore thankes but also nothing else but derision and scorne at the which I doe rejoyce the rather in that I beare reproach for the Name and knowledge-sake of God 6. For if my knowledge had beene gotten in their Schoole then they would imbrace and love their owne but that it is from another Schoole therefore they know it not and moreover they despise it as they have done unto all the Prophets Christ and his Apostles this shall not trouble or turne me aside but as I have begun I will depend on my God and Creatour with the greater earnestnesse and fixed resolution I will commit my selfe unto him let him doe with me what he please 7. I attribute no wisedome unto my selfe moreover I rely not upon any purpose or intention of reason for I see most plainly and finde it as cleare as the Sun that God goeth clean another way to worke 8. Therefore if we deal in a childlike manner and not in our reason but onely depend one him with true desire and right earnestnesse and put all our confidence in him then we obtain sooner the noble Virgin of his wisedome then in our sharp inventions and acute reasonings for when shee cometh shee bringeth true Wisedome and Heavenly understanding along with her and without the same I know nothing 9. But seeing you have a great delight to read such Writings concerning the highest being and as I hope it is Gods providence therefore I will not withhold from you what the cheifest good hath put me in trust withall but shortly I will send you something that is more full for there is a very wonderfull and excellent Booke begun concerning the life of man which if the Lord please to continue his hand over me shall clearely open what man is and what he hath to doe to obtain the cheifest good 10. For it goeth very clearly through the three Principles and sheweth the whole ground so that a man unlesse he will willfully of himselfe be blind may know God and the Kingdome of Heaven and also himselfe likewise our lamentable fall and also the restauration in the life of Jesus Christ and it shall especially treat of the fair Lillies which God will bestow upon the last World which will be very pleasant to be read 11. And though I know not sufficiently the full and whole ground what it shall be yet I see it in a great depth and I hope if God grant so much grace not to give over till it be finished and also for the future finish the promised writings which are now kept back by the Oppressour as also my Exposition upon Moses where the great wonders of God shall be clearely manifest to the light of the Day the which God will freely bestow and afford unto the last World 12. However at present all is in Babel and there shall a great rent be made yet let none despaire for as God helped the Children of Israel with Consolation in the Babilonicall Captivity and sent them Prophets even so shall now also Lillies grow up in the midst of Thornes and this is wonderfull 13. Also none need thinke that even now the whole Destruction of the City Babel shall come to passe there shall verily be an exceeding great Rent such a one as men now doe not beleeve for the Antichrist is not wholly revealed though verily in part 14. Men shall suppose that they have wholly rooted him out and after some sorrow great joy shall follow and they shall make Laws and Covenants together with severe sharpe Articles of Religion yet for the most part for the advancement of their Honour and Might and men shall suppose that the holy spirit of Heaven speaketh and now there is a golden World yet it sticketh full of Gods Anger and is still in Babel and the true Essence of the right life in Christ is not yet therein 15. Also the Rider on the Pale Horse shall come after and cut off many with the Sickle yet in the meane time the Lilly springeth in the wonders against which the last Antichrist shall raise Persecution even then commeth his End for the appearance of the Lord terrifieth him 16. And then Babel burneth up in the zeale and Anger of God and the same is wonderfull of which I have no power to write more plainely yet at that time my Writings shall be very serviceable for there commeth a time from the LORD which is not from the Starry Heaven 17. Blessed is he that seekes the Lord with full earnestnesse for he shall not
time given me out of his wel-spring of Grace 3. And albeit I have no ability to doe it at my pleasure yet my minde is so wholly enkindled in its Centre that I would very heartily and readily impart it to my bretheren in Christ and I continually entreat the Lord that he would be pleased to open the hearts of men that they might understand the same and that it may come in them to a right quick essentiall and living effect and operation 4. And from a syncere intention I would not conceale from you that I since the new Yeare upon the desire of some learned men and persons of quality have written a treatise of Election or of Gods will concerning man and so expressed and inlarged it out of such a ground or deep soundation that all Mysteries both of the outward visible Elementall and then also of the hidden spirituall World may be therein discerned and thereunto I have in an especiall manner alleadged the sayings of the holy scripture which speake of Gods will to harden and then of his un-willingnesse to harden and so tuned or harmonized them together that the right understanding and meaning of the same may be seen 5. And it is so proved and demonstrated that I hope in God that it shall give furtherance and occasion to take away that strife and controversy in the Churches which is known and manifest that the time is nigh and at hand that the contentions about Religion shall enter into the Temperature but with great ruination of the false Kingdome in Babel that hath set up it selfe in Christs stead together with other great alterations concerning which although men now will hardly believe me yet in a short time shall really appeare and shew themselves and this beloved Sir I would not for your further consideration and christian meditation omit to hint unto you c. THE THIRTIETH EPISTLE IMMANVEL 1. MY very Christian Brother and Friend all Cordiall wishes of Divine Love and further illumination with true persevering constancy and patience patiently to endure the Crosse of Christ premised 2. God in the very beginning of your knowledge hath Sealed you with the mark of Christ unto a further confirmation and hath Crowned you to be a Champion that you should worke as a true owner in his Service 3. And I exhort you as a Christian that you would with Prayer and supplication commit the cause to God in patience and stand qnietly under the Crosse of Christ and be diligent in your Talent entrusted to you you shall see great wonders and your Talent will be more and more pleasant and beloved for so Christ hath also taught us that we should forsake all for his Name sake and cleave onely unto him for he requireth a pure resigned soule in that he will dwell 4. You have no cause to be amazed or terrifyed God knoweth well for what use he employeth you commit your selfe onely to him in Patience and strive against reason which gainsayeth and contradicts and so you will dye unto the World and live unto Christ and then you will exercise your warfare aright for his loves sake and therefrom gain the Noble Crowne of eternall life where we shall rejoyce and injoy one another eternally 5. God hath planted him a Rose Garden in your young heart take heed that the Devill sow not thornes and thistles therein there will soon come another time that your Rose-bud shall bring forth its fruits strive not to be in Office but stand still unto the most high to what he will have you let the smoak of the Devill passe away rejoyce rather at this reproach in the mark of Christ c. THE ONE AND THIRTIETH EPISTLE Our Salvation is in the life of Jesus Christ 1. DEARE Sir and Christian Brother all faithfull Cordiall and syncere desires of my spirit of true Divine light power and knowledge with intimate joy in the Divine contemplation and in our Eternall fraternity in the life of Christ 2. I have received your Letter which you sent and I rejoyce in the Lord my God who doth so richly and abundantly impart his grace unto us and so open our hearts that we in the conjecture of our Gifts desire to Search into his wisedome and wonders 3. And your tendred friendship is very pleasing and acceptable to me and according as this letter doth import I acknowledge you for a springing and very desirous branch on the Vine Christ and also for my member and fellow twig on this Corall and I wish in the power of my knowledge that it may be a true constant and immoveable earnestnesse as I make no doubt but the pretious Coralline branch of the new birth is begotten in you out of Christs spirit and wisdome 4. Thereupon I also would faine with all my heart impart my little sap strength and influence out of Gods gifts unto my fellow-branches and twigs and helpe to quicken and refresh them in my weake power and also receive enjoyment of their gifts as we are obliged and bound mutually to doe for each other both from the command of God and also in the right of Nature unto which I am in an especiall manner driven in my gifts and for which sake I have spent much time and paines yet in great desire longing and delight and it hath been continually my earnest hope and the very drift and ayme of my desire to serve my Brethren in the Lord in the Vineyard of Christ 5. And though I am a simple man and un-expert and un-experienced in Scholastick Learning and Arts neither have I ever been â—ayned up to exercise my selfe in the workes of high masters and to comprehend great Mysteries in my Reason but in my outward occupation I have been a Tradesman wherein I have honestly maintained my selfe a long time yet my inward occupation and exercise hath with very earnest strong desire entred into the mortification of my sinfull man inherited from the corrupt Adam how I might dye to my selfehood and selfe will in the death of Christ and arise in his will to a new spirit and will of Divine renovation of minde and understanding 6. Thereupon I once so strongly and sixedly resolved rather to for one my earthly life then to desist from this Purpose and Combate and â—hat I have suffered therein and therefore the Lord knowes who so led me through his judgement of my sinnes but afterwards Crowned me with the fairest tryumphing aspect of his Divine Kingdome of joy which to expresse I have no Pen sufficient but doe willingly beteeme and heartily wish it to the Reader of this Epistle and to all the Children of God 7. And from this Tryumphing light or joyfull convincing illumination of God that hath been given to me which I hitherto have written for many yeares for I obtained therein so much grace as to see and know my owne Booke which I my selfe am Viz. the Image of God and moreover to