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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95692	Theologia Germanica. Or, Mysticall divinitie : a little golden manuall briefly discovering the mysteries, sublimity, perfection and simplicity of Christianity, in belief and practise. Written above 250 years since in high Dutch, & for its worth translated into Latine, and printed at Antwarp, 1558. Whereto is added definitions theologicall and philosophicall. Also a treatise of the soul, and other additions not before printed.	Randall, Giles, translator.	1648 (1648)	Wing T858; Thomason E1162_2; ESTC R210095	77,165	196

except he first performed and suffered all these things which were by Christ performed and suffered and if Christ attained not to this before he first endured and suffered the death of the body and all other things that belong thereunto then surely no man can nor ever shall attain to this so long as he is mortal and subject to pain For if this thing had been the best and most excellent thing or if it could or ought to be that man in this life might attain hereunto then surely it should first have been performed in Christ for the life of Christ was and is the best and most excellent life also the best approved and most dear unto God of any that ever was or shall be since that this neither ought nor could be done in Christ it shall never happen surely to a man in that manner as to be truly the best and most excellent It may be thought and called so but that is no reason why it should be so CHAP. XXVIII How we must understand that to a just man no law is to be given IT is also said that a man can and may transcend all vertue all Ceremony Ordinance Commandment Law and Justice so that he may depose shake off and abolish all these things here something is true and something is not true which must be thus considered Christ was above the life of Christ and above all Vertue Ceremony Ordinance c. The Devil also is above all those but after a diverse manner Christ was and is above all these things if you thus understand it all words deeds ceremony actions and omissions of actions silence speech suffering and whatsoever happened to Christ was not necessary to him neither did he stand in need of them neither did they confer any profit at all upon him and the same was and is the reason of all vertue ordinances justice and the like for whatsoever is or might be attained unto by these things all that is before in Christ and there in readiness and if you thus understand the case then it is true in the same sense that saying of Saint Paul is true and so to be understood Those who are endued carryed and lead by the Spirit of God are the sons of God and not subject to the Law the sense of which words is this they are not to be taught what they should do or leave undone seeing the Spirit of God which is their instructer will teach them sufficiently neither is any thing to be commanded or enjoyned them as to do good to shun evil or the like for he that teacheth them what is good or not good best or not best the same I say doth command and enjoyn them likewise to retain the best and quit the contrary and they obey him accordingly Hereupon it is that they need look for no Law Doctrine or precept for another reason also they need no law by means whereof to obtain or get profit to themselves for whatsoever might be obtained or gotten by these things or by the help of all the creatures or by speech words or works either in eternal life or to eternal life all that they have obtained already If you understand the cause on this manner it is true that a man may become more higher and excellent then all law and vertue and also then the works and knowledg and strength of all creatures But if you affirm that other which is that both ought to be done I mean that both the life of Christ as also all commandments laws ordinances and the like ought to be layd aside and cast off and to be neglected contemned and derided then is it false and full of lyes CHAP. XXIX Of the true and false Lights and of perseverance in the life of Christ NOw some will say If neither Christ nor any other man can obtain any thing nor reap any profit by the life of Christ nor by all Ceremonies and Ordinances c. for whatsoever may be obtained by those things that they have already what further cause is there why they should not leave off to do these things or why ought they to use these things afterwards or handle or have them any longer in account This is to be observed that there are two Lights the one a true the other a false light the true light is the eternal Light which is God or else it is a created Light which is notwithstanding Divine and is called Grace and this is the true Light The other is a false Light which is the Light of Nature or natural light But why the first light should be true and the other false it may be better observed then either written or spoken Nothing appertaineth to God as to the Divinity neither will nor knowledg nor satisfaction nor any thing at all that can be named spoken or thought but to God as God it appertaineth that he ●ay himself open know and love himself that he manifest himself to himself in himself and all this is God and that he is an offence and not an action as being without the creature And in this opening and manifestation is the distinction of persons But where God as God is man or where God liveth in some Divine or Deified man there is something belonging unto God which is only appertaining to him and not to the creatures and God is that in himself without the creature originally or essentially not in form or action and yet God would have this same to be put in practice for therefore it is that it might be conferred to action and so exercised for what then should it be should it be idle what then should it profit for that which is of no use is not at all Now this neither God nor Nature would have But if God would have this exercised and brought into action and that this cannot be done without the creature it is then necessary that it be so done What then If it were neither this nor that nor if it were neither any work nor action or the like what should it be or what should God himself become to be or what should he himself be Here you must return and abide lest by crawling as it were so far you be brought to that pass at the last as not to know which way to turn or by what means to creep back again CHAP. XXX That God is one and simple good and only to be loved NOw this is to be observed God as he is God is good and goodness it self and is neither this good nor that good but here something is to be marked which is somewhere either here or there and that is not in all ends nor above all ends or places Also that which is sometimes to day or to morrow is not always nor every time nor above all times and that which is something either this or that is not all things nor above all things Now understand this after this manner If God were any thing either this or

is secret that is most manifest seen by the mind that hath no body that hath many bodies rather there is nothing of any body which is not he for he alone is all things Which way shall I look when I praise thee upward downward outward inward All things are in thee from thee thou givest all things hast all things and there is nothing that thou hast not Thou art what I am what I do or say thou art all things and there is nothing that thou art not Good is in nothing but in God alone or rather God himself is that good always One is the beginning of all things for it giveth all things God wanteth nothing that he should desire it nor can any thing be taken from him the loss whereof may grieve him Nothing is stronger then he that he should be opposed by it nor equal to him that he should be in love with it so that nothing remains in his essence but only the good The good is only in that which is not generated God is the fulness of good or good the fulness of God Beauty in God is above comparison and that good is inimitable as God himself Every motion is in station and is moved of station There is nothing empty only that which is not is empfy and a stranger to existence That which is could not be if it were not full of existence that which is in existence can never be made empty God is nothing that can be named but the cause of all things God is to be worshipped by these two appellations Good for God is good not according to honor but nature and Father because of his making of all things Nothing can be like the unlike and only One neither hath he given of his power to any other Whatsoever is in the world is moved either according to augmentation or diminution Generation is not a Creation of life but a production of things to sense Neither is change death but occultation or hiding of that which was God is both act and power and there is nothing that is not God Things that appear not are hard to be beleeved Things most apparent are evil but the good is secret having neither form nor figure it is like unto it self but unlike all other things Unity is the original of all things as being the Root and Beginning Nothing is without beginning but beginning is of nothing but it self for it is the beginning of all other things Unity therefore being the beginning containeth every number it self being contained of none it begetteth every number it self being begotten of none other number Every thing that is begotten or made is imperfect may be divided increased deminished To the perfect there happeneth none of these That which is increased is increased by Unity Truth is the most perfect vertue highest not troubled by matter not encompassed by a body naked clear unchangeable venerable unalterable good Every thing that is altered is a lye for being changed it shews other appearances Man as man is not true for that which is true hath of it self alone it constitution remains and abides to it self according as it is But Man doth not abide of himself but is turned and changed age after age and Idea after Idea and this while he is yet in the Tabernacle and being in many appearances and changes is falshood Nothing that remans not in it self is true The first Truth the one and only not of matter not in a body without colour without figure immutable unalterable and always is But Falshood is corrupted Corruption followeth every generation that it may again be generated THE CONTENTS WHat is perfect and what is imperfect pag. 1 What is sin pag. 4 The sin of Adam pag. 6 That all good is only God pag. 7 Of the putting off the old man pag. 8 How the life of man is to be composed pag. 10 Of the two eyes of Christ pag. 11 Whether in this life eternal happiness may be tasted pag. 13 Except goodness be in man it cannot make man happy pag. 15 Of the desire of those who be illuminated pag. 17 Of Hell and of the Kingdom of Heaven pag. 19 Of true peace and happiness pag. 23 Of the fall of Adam and the amendment made by Jesus Christ pag. 24 What the old and new Man is pag. 27 That a man ought to attribute all good to God and evil to himself pag. 32 That a Christian life is the best pag. 33 Of the way to Christ pag. 35 That the life of Christ is envyed of humane wisdom pag. 36 The estate of a Christian is not to be expressed pag. 37 That the world is mad pag. 39 Of the way unto the life of Christ pag. 42 In what man true Christ is pag. 43 What it is to be rich in Spirit pag. 45 What it is to be poor in Spirit pag. 48 That all things are to be left and lost pag. 54 That the inward man is immoveably joyned with God the outward man notwithstanding is moved pag. 55 That no man in this life can be free from pain pag. 57 That to a just man no Law is to be given pag. 59 Of true and false Lights also of perseverance in the life of Christ pag. 61 That God is one and simple good and only to be loved pag. 63 That a deified man knoweth nothing but love pag. 67 That the will of man is prone to evil and therefore to be forsaken pag. 69 Of true humility and spiritual powerty pag. 71 That sin only is contrary to God pag. 73 That God in himself is impatiable in man he is patiable pag. 75 That the life of Christ is to be loved for it self not for reward pag. 77 That God is above all order pag. 79 The description of the false Light pag. 83 Who and what a deified man is pag. 92 Whether God may be known and yet no loved pag. 95 Of the true love of God pag. 100 That there is nothing contrary to God but mans own will pag. 106 Where the life of Christ is there is Christ pag. 109 ☞ To be content with God pag. 111 Whether sin is to be loved pag. 113 That Faith bringeth forth Knowledg pag. 115 Of mans own proper Will pag. 116 Why God created mans own will seeing it is contrary to the eternal will pag. 118 Why God created the will pag. 120 How the Devil and Adam challenge will to themselves pag. 122 That in what man the truth is in that man free will is also pag. 124 Treating of Christ and his Cross pag. 127 Of the Imitation of Christ pag. 129 How the Father draweth to the Son and the Son reciprocally to the Father pag. 131 How God becometh all things in man pag. 133 That God alone is to be loved and honored pag. 135 Certain grave sayings by which the scholar of Christ may search into himself and know what is to be sought and strived for concerning the true inward uniting of himself to the one supream good pag. 138 How to put on God by a most perfect way pag. 144 Perfection in the first second third and fourth degree pag. 145 The Communication of Dr Thaulerus with a Beggar wherein is contained the example of a perfect man pag. 146 An exact Treatise of the Definitions of the Soul pag. 151 Definitions Theological and Philosophical pag. 167