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city_n	abide_v	bear_v	zion_n	36	3	9.3474	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28518	A consideration upon the book of Esaias Stiefel, of the threefold state of man, and his new birth written anno Christi 1621, by Jacob Behmen, otherwise called Teutonicus philosophus.; Bedencken über Esaiae Stiefels Büchlein Von dreyerley Zustandt des Menschen unnd dessen newen Geburt. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.	1653 (1653)	Wing B3400; ESTC R21020	39,297	158

A CONSIDERATION Upon the Book of ESAIAS STIEFEL OF THE Threefold State of Man and his New Birth Written Anno Christi 1621. BY JACOB BEHMEN Otherwise called Teutonicus Philosophus LONDON Printed by John Macock 1653. The Open Fountain in the Heart of JESUS CHRIST be our Source and Constant Quickening 1. MOst Honored and much Esteemed Sirs in the Love of Jesus Christ and in the Union of his Humanity my Singular Friends and Brothers It is meer Joy unto me and the Recreation of my Soul that I do now perceive from divers places that the most precious Tree of Christ our Salvation hid through the fleshly Anti-christ beginneth again to green from the very Root through all the Gates of Darkness in the midst of the Captivity of Babylon Much more do I rejoyce in the Outgreening Plant of its Amiableness and Loveliness Power and and Vertue since I find my self also to be a little Twig on the same Tree and that it is so sweet and pleasant and I see this with great admiration that it as it were in the midst of the Night beginneth to green forth with fair Twigs yea that in the midst of the Winter Lillies and Flowers grow 2. Is not this contrary to all Outward Reason that an old desolate broken house that continually expecteth by the Tempest to be thrown into heaps beginneth to become New again and set forth its first youth as if it had never been old We see now the first shape of this Tree how it was in its youth and how in the age and youth of it there is one Shape Power and Vertue Is not this a great Wonder 3. We became in our First Mother that bare us all blind and are now in our old age in the end become seeing again in the Mothers bosom We became dumb and lost our Mother-Tongue and find it now in our old age again so that we know our Mother in and by the same and can speak with her out of her own Tongue Ought not we justly highly to admire that we were in our Mother and knew her not that we have been such a long time blind in her and now become seeing in the old age 4. But shall we speak of our Old age No We are a New Branch born of our first Mother We were a dryed Branch on the Tree but the Mother hath brought into us her Sap and Vertue and brought forth a young Twig out of her self wherein she will have Joy and through which she will bring forth her fruit yea she hath born a young Son out of the Old he shall not be blind neither go out from her but abide in her house for he is her only Heir in whom she hath Joy 5. Loving Brothers Let us rejoyce and be glad in the Lord that our City Jerusalem in Zion is now a building again in which our Mother dwelleth and shall also be our Everlasting Habitation 6. Sithence then Loving Sirs and Brothers as I perceive you stand also with us in the greening Essence and have received a seeing Eye therefore I desire to refresh my self heartily in my Members in the Essence of my Mother with you in our new Life and I beseech you that you would understand it no otherwise then in true Sincerity and Love as one Member is bound to the other 7. That I thus will speak with you is not done to ascend above your gifts nor to exalt my self above you because a sharper understanding is given me of the Divine Mystery but rather take it thus viz. that I am not become your Breaker but rather a Beam in our Building in the House of the Mother of us all not through Humane Reason or Art but he that hath Power hath so ordained it even He that doth what he will 8. Now a House must not only have spars and beams but also Stones for the Foundation and it must have divers Joynts Now if the Lord placeth one for the Foundation or Corner-stone and useth another about the Building then we ought to learn to acknowledg the one the other every one according to his gifts and not to despise or reject one another in regard of the unequal gifts as is practised hitherto for a long time in Babel But rather consider the good and benefit of the House and that the one Juncture must not be as the other although it is all one within another and is together but one House 9. To me it is given to understand and to speak of the Ground to another of the whole Building of God as in a sum Yet the Ground and the Whole House is but One it comes from One Spirit and all serveth for the Wonderful Manifestation of God 10. Therefore if I shall speak with you out of my gifts and shew you the House within I desire you to understand and take it Lovingly I do it not out of Levity and Presumption but in true Knowledg given to me of God for benefit and bettering that our Pearl might be found and the Enemy that hath so long detained us captive be choaked in his own Poyson that we may learn to know the Wonderful God in his bottomless Wisdom and delight our selves in him as Children like as a Branch on a Tree in his Essence and Power which Joy and delight is a greening in our Lives Essence Therefore you will not interpret it otherwise 11. You have sent me a Book to behold my self and also your Friends and request me to open my knowledg thereupon unto you which doubtless in my Writings which you have in your hands might be to you already sufficiently opened and understood what I would thereupon answer you Yet seeing it is for Gods Glory and the Benefit and Salvation of Man I wil give you a short and summary Answer unto it and further refer you to my other Writings 12. Of the Author himself who indeed according to mine outward Man is unknown to me yet in the Spirit is not a Stranger but born out of my Mothers Essence and Power I see say and know so much out of his Written Words which without doubt are also his Spirit and full Will that he indeed hath wholly given over himself as he also throughout mentioneth of himself into the Mothers bosom and desireth nothing else but the Mothers Life and Spirit 13. And that indeed the Mother-spirit is in him as in the old and yet now in a new greening Essence doth keep the old in the grim Qualm Prisoner and is so sunk down with the old Essence that he cannot know himself in that he supposeth he is wholly and totally and throughout new and without sin and spot This is truly and rightly said yet only according to the Inward new Man born out of Christ but not according to the Mortal Corruptible Man which the New holdeth captive in him as through-piercing and wholly overshadowing him 14. The Old Stock or Husk understand the Body which Adam by his Imagination into the