World 173. Thou hast set him for a Regent or Governour over thy Works of Wonder and given him no Commandement nor Law but this that he should not bring himself into own Lust and Willing but should only Work and Will in thy Will given to HIM in thy Power and not bring himself into own receptibility to Prove Trie or Experiment Good and Evill that the fierce Wrath of the Fire and the Might or Power of the Darknesse might not awake in him and destroy the Noble Image and change it into the Sharpnesse of the Earth but should only Will and work in thy Will given to him in thy Power 174. But seeing our first Parents through Satans in Speaking of Lies have turned away from thy Willing and brought themselves into own willing and against thy Commandement proved Good and Evill and suffered themselves to Lust after the perceptibility and own receptibility Whereby the Anger and fierce Wrath awaked in them and destroyed the heavenly Image and turned it into an Earthly Image like the Beasts 175. Therefore hast thou O HOLY GOD given us thy Commandement and Law and set before us therein the heavenly divine form of full Obedience signifying what we have been and what we are in the Apostacie become And requirest of us that we in our Will should out of all Powers or Faculties and Senses or Thoughts only cleave to thee and work with thee alone 176. Yea thou requirest of us the Noble †Talent Pledge viz the Soul which thou hast in-breathed out of the inward Power of thy Name and Will and willest that the Soul which is flowed forth from thy Power may alone continue in thy Name and Power and Co-work with thee and it self use no other strange Name Will nor Lust but only and solely of that out of which it is flowed forth 177. That it Totally cleave to its Center and bring its desire only and solely into thy Love and with thy Love with thee rule over all thy Works and it self receive no own rule or dominion without thy Love and Co-working that it be thy Instrument wherewith thou governest all Matters Things or Substances of this World 178. It should introduce its Trust into no other Power nor Might also make Nothing its own peculiar also Image or form it self with Nothing For it is a Ray or Beam of the Almighty and should rule perfectly over all things as God himself and yet not in own self receptibility of its own Will but in and with God and use the body for its Instrument which should be a Manager of thy Creatures Thou hast given all to him for a Sport or Scene and Joy and subjected it under him 179. All this O Great God! thou settest before us in thy Commandements and requirest of us according to thy strong severe Righteousness and Eternall Truth upon pain of Eternall punishment that whosoever keepeth not all thy Commandements and Laws and continueth in thy Ordinance he shall be Cursed and be Seperated from thy Countenance and not see thy Glory Eternally nor come to thy Rest 180. O Great holy God! thou who art a Consuming Fire what shall I poor miserable Man who am full of disobedience of own Will and Lust and have no right Love or inclination towards thee say before thee What shall I answer thee when thou settest me before thy Judgement and tryest my Heart and Soul 181. O Dear God! I can doe nothing I stick in the slime or mire of vanity even unto the inwardness of my Soul thy Anger is burning in me In me live all Evill Beasts with their Lusts 182. O LORD my Lust in Soul and Body hath Imaged it self into * All Evill Beasts or Vices them and I am before thee a Worm and No Man also I cannot with this Imaging come before thy Countenance much lesse to thy holy Name viz to the Center of my Soul out of which it is sprung forth 183. I am ashamed in this Vizard before thy Countenance and have no Righteousness in Me towards thee I am become unfaithfull to thee and have broken my self off from thy Will and brought my self into own self Will. 184. And stand now before thy Countenance as the Lost Prodigall Sonne who is become a keeper of Swine and have lost the fair Garment of thy Power and every moment Eat with the Devils Swine the husks of vanity and am not worthy to be called thy Image and Similitude For I cannot be obedient to thee out of my own self powers or faculties I am in my self without thy Grace only a Source or Quality of thy fierce Wrath and Anger 185. But yet I rejoyce at thy great Mercifulness which thou out of thy Holy Name out of which my Soul is flowed forth hast turned to us again Yea thou hast opened the Gates of thy Eternall Vnity and poâ—red it into my Soul which destroyeth thy Wrath and breaketh the Monster to pieces 186. Yea thou hast with this pouring-in of thy most Inward Holiness and Sweetness impressed and imprinted the Name JESUS in my Soul which hath assumed or received my Soul and Humanity and is become obedient to THEE in my stead and hath fulfilled or satisfied thy Commandements and strong severe Law with perfect Love and Obedience 187. Therefore I come now with Thanksgiving to thee O Holy God and pray thee to make this thy bestowed Love of thy in-shed or poured Grace in me Great that I may now in this New Grace-Love be obedient to thee and fulfill thy Commandements and Law with the Obedience of JESUS CHRIST with his Love My Lord JESUS hath implanted me again into thy Name out of which my Father Adam had rooted me up 188. Therefore I now come in and with him to THEE and Comfort my self that I in him in his in-dwelling and in-ruling Grace and Love am and live in thy Obedience and that I in him can rule over Sinne Death the Devill the World and all Creatures and am become again thy right expresse Image and proper peculiar Portion in him my Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST 189. O DEAR GOD rule thou now through this in-poured Love of thy Grace in MEE and doe with and in me how thou wilt Only mortifie daily my evill Creatures in my Flesh and bind or unite thy self eternally with my Soul and Mind as thou hast done in the Humanity of JESUS CHRIST 190. I will readily leave my Evill Beast in the Flesh to the Earth till thy bringing again and Restitution Only cloath my Soul and Mind and bring the same into thy Obedience that it may seek and honour no other Name but only the Holy Name JESUS which in me fulfilleth thy Commandements AMEN The * Note this is according to Luthers Catechisme the 2. otherwise the 3. Commandement Second Commandement Thou shalt not misuse the Name of the Lord thy God for the Lord will not leave him unpunished that misuseth his Name 191. O Dear GOD This Commandement doth
28. Question What are the Principles in the Spirit of this World Of the Superiour and Inferiour Substance 29. Question What is the Sperme or Seed of the Generation of all Things 30. Question What is the distinction or difference of thâ— Sperme or Seed between the Metals Stones and Vegetables viz Hearbs Trees and Mineral Earths 31. Question How is the Conjunction of the Feminine and Masculine Kind Effected whence their Seed and growing exist 32. Question What is the Tincture in the Spermatick Kind or Species whence the Growing and Lustre Exist 33. Question Out of what are all Creatures of the Mortall Life become Sprouted and Created 34. Question What was the Archaeus and Separator of their Kind or Species and Property which hath formed and still at this day doth form them 35. Question What are the Six dayes work of the Creation and the Sabbath 36. Question What is the difference or distinction of the Mortall Creatures And what is their Chaos wherein every Generation or Species liveth and wherein they are become distinguished one from another 37. Question To what End and wherefore did the Mortall Creatures come to be 38. Question Out of what * Gen. 2.7 to the 22. as to the Body did Man become Created 39. Question What was * the breathing in whence Man is become a living Soul 40. Question What is the Immortal Life in Man viz the Soul And what is the Spirit of Man and the outward Life in this World in him 41. Question What is the Idea or Expresse reflex * Gen. 1.26 Image of God in Man wherein God worketh and dwelleth 42. Question What was †See the 40. Questions of the Soul Quest 39. 40. Also Myster Magnum ch 25. ver 16. And the 14. Epistle ver 14. quere the Epistle in English Paradise wherein God Created Man Is it alterable and a Creature Or doth it stand in the Eternal Ground 43. Question Why did God in the Beginning Create but ONE Man And not instantly a Man and Wife at once as other Species are 44. Question Whether was the first Man in such a habit of Condition Created to Eternal Life or to change or alteration 45. Question What manner of Image was Adam before his Eve in what Form and Condition was he when he was neither Man nor Wife but both 46. Question Whether had Adam before his Eve Gen. 2. from the 7. to the 22. also Masculine Members and such Bones Stomack Guts Entrails Teeth and also such things as we now have 47. Question If Adam also had been thus as we are now How was it possible that he should stand in such a Manner in impassibility and incorruptibility 48. Question Had Adams Eating and Drinking been after a Paradisicall Manner without care and necessity or want if he had stood out the Tryall or Proba 49. Question Whether also should Adam have Eaten such Fruit in Paradise as the Heavenly Food after this Time shall be Or whereinto should he have Eaten Where should that have remained Or what would have become of it Seeing all Substances of this World are earthly and transitory and he only was an Eternall Heavenly Image and needed not the Vanity 50. Question Whether also did The four Elements govern Adam in his Innocency or but ONE only in the Equality of the four Elements also whether did he feel Heat and Cold before he fell 51. Question Whether also should any thing have been able to kill him or destroy him 52. Question What should Adams State and Condition upon Earth have been What should he have done if he had Continued in Paradise 53. Question What was the Earth with its Fruits before the Curse when it was called Paradise Gen. 3.17 54. Question Whether also should it have been possible that the propagation should be effected without Man and Wife being * Luk. 20 3â—.36 in the Resurrection from the Dead they shall be neither Man nor Wife but as the Angels of God in Heaven Math. 22.30 55. Question How should it have been possible that a Man and Wife should have remained Eternally Or whether would God have altered and changed this Creature Man Seeing in the Eternall Life they shall be like the Angels Whether also Adam in the beginning became Created in that very angelicall Imaging or in another Imaging that shall rise again and live Eternally 56. Question What were the Trees in Paradise which were †Gen. 2.9 amiable to behold and good to be eaten of 57. Question What was * Gen. 2.9 the Tree of Life and also the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evill each in its Power Essence and Property 58. Question Wherefore did God Create these Trees seeing he knew well that Man would lay hold on them and so hurt himself thereby 59. Question Why did God †Gen. 2.17 forbid Man these Tree What iâ— the Cause thereof 60. Question Why should Man * Gen. 1.26 rule over all the living Creatures or Beast of the Earth how should that have been and to what End 61. Question Why did God say †Gen. 2.18 It is not good for Man to be alone whereas yet in the beginning * Gen. 1.31 he beheld all his Works that he had made and said they are very Good But concerning Man only he said It is not good that this Man should be alone why was it not Good 62. Question Why did †Gen. 2.21 to the 24. God suffer or cause a deep Sleep to fall upon Adam when he built or framed a Wife out of his Rib What doth that Signifie 63. Question How became the Wife or Woman made out of Adam What doth the Rib out of his Side signifie out of which God made the Wife or Woman as Moses writeth 64. Question Whether also did Eve receive a Soul and Spirit from Adams Soul and Spirit or a New strange One especially and severally given from God 65. Question How was the dividing of Adam into the Wife or Woman effected 66. Question Why * Gen. 2.23 did Adam take his Eve instantly to him and say That she was his Flesh How could he know her 67. Question What was the Serpent on the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evill which seduced Eve Gen. 3.1 68. Question Why did the Serpent perswade Eve and Not Adam to Lust after the Fruit What was the Fruit on which they both did Eat Death 69. Question What was the Sinne Gen. 3.6 and how is it become a Sinne So that it is Enmity against God 70. Question Why did not God hinder that See the Answer to the 9. Question that it should not be done or Committed Seeing he had †Gen. 2.17 forbidden it to them 71. Question How * Gen. 3.7 did Adam's and Eye 's Eyes become opened so that they saw that they were Naked which they did not know before 72. Question What was * Gen. 3.8 Adam and Eves Shame that they hid
Earnest Praying if we would obtain any thing from God a right true Repentance and in-turned Humility For right Praying is a receiving of that which the Soul desireth concerning which Christ saith From henceforth the Kingdome of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force to themselves Math. 11.12 43. For which cause I will set down a brief Form of a Confession or Preparation how a Man should prepare himselfe when he will bring his short Prayer and Requests before God 44. For he may as well be heard in a short Prayer as with many words if his heart stand right in the presence of God It needeth not long Prayers or many words but only a Beleiving or faithfull repentant Soul which with totall Earnestnesse giveth it self up into the Mercy of God into Gods Compassion For one onely sigh worketh with God if the Will standeth nakedly or purely before God and hath cast away from it the Earthly Garment viz the false or wicked Lust This for an Intimation to the Reader and for a quickening stirring to him 45. For there needeth not to be used just such a Form of Confession but the Holy Spirit will well enough make a Form for him in the heart when the Will in true earnest Sincerity turneth it self to God 46. Only for an Introduction to every one who doth not yet know how a true Prayer should be fitted I will set down this Confession to direct his Soul therewith and I will commit the work of Confession together with the Praying to the Holy Spirit in every Soul which is truly and rightly Earnest He will well enough make for him a Confession and Prayer if any doe but earnestly sincerely and rightly come to the Gate where GOD the LORD in Man Speaketh operatively Then he will find it so A Confession and Right Acting or Working of Repentance before Gods Countenance 47. O Deepest of all Greatest Unsearchable Holy God! Thou who out of meer Grace and Mercy after the terrible apostacy of our first Parents with thy great Love and Mercy in thy Sonne JESUS CHRIST hast manifested thy self in our Humanity and in him hast made an open Gate of Grace again for us poor Men to thy Countenance and abolished Sinne and Death in his Bloud and callest us now to such Grace as a Mercifull God we poor Sinners now should only Convert again and come to thee and thou wilt quicken or refresh us Math. 11.28 48. I poor unworthy sinfull Man come upon the invitation of thy Word and acknowledge to thee that I am not worthy of such Grace which thou offerest us For I Stick in the Slime of Vanity and am Laden with vain Lusts of the Flesh and own-self Will my Sinnes have captivated and obscured me so that I neither tast nor see thy Grace in me also I have no Right Trust or Confidence nor Faith towards thee and have totally given my self up into the vanity of the World and of the Flesh and am compassed about therewith 49. I have defiled my fair bright Garment which thou hast put on to me in the Baptisme with the Lust of the Flesh and lye in the Devils Net captive in thy fierce Wrath. Hell setteth its Jaws wide open against me and my Conscience gnaweth me thy Judgement standeth alwayes before me and the Bands of Death wait upon me 50. I lye in the slime and mire of Sinnes and Vanity so that also I neither know my Sinnes nor can bewail them For they have hidden me from thy Countenance and I have only yet a little sparkle of the living breath in me through thy drawing which desireth thy Grace 51. And I come now before thee with the Lost Sonne and the Publican in the Temple and fly to thy Mercy and pray thee in my weak power through the Bitter Suffering and Dying of my Redeemer JESUS CHRIST whom thou hast Set before thee for a Grace-Throne and offerest us thy Grace through his Satisfaction that thou wouldst receive me yet again for thy Child and Heir in thy Sonne and wouldst awaken for me a right Earnest Repentance also Sorrow and Grief for my former committed Sinnes in my Heart that I may goe out from the wicked way or Conversation and turn my heart totally and altogether to THEE 52. O Great God strengthen I beseech thee my weak Faith in Me rouse my heart I pray thee that it may acknowledge and bewaile my manifold Sinnes Touch thou my poor Soul with thy Power that it may acknowledge it self that it standeth deviated and turned away from thee 53. O thou Breath of the Mercifulnesse of God doe thou draw me to thee through my Redeemer Jesus Christs Death and Resurrection and abolish my Sinnes in his Bloud and Death and make my poor Soul living in his Bloud and wash it clean from its Sinnes that its desire may presse into thee O thou Holy God! and fetch Power out of thy Spring or Fountain of Grace 54. Awake thou I pray thee in me a right hunger and thirst after true Repentance and Sorrow for my former committed Sinnes that I may hate or be at Enmity and angry against them and turn my self to Thee 55. O thou great deep of Mercy I am afar off from thee and cannot reach thee in my weak Power turn thee to me I beseech thee and comprehend my desire into thee and kindle it O Lord that I may tast thy Grace 56. Forgive I pray thee my Trespasses and Sinnes and heal my weaknesse bruise I pray thee my Heart and Soul that I may acknowledge and humble my self before thee Be thou I pray thee my beginning to Conversion and lead me upon the right path that I may walk with thee 57. Give me I pray thee thy holy Spirit in my Soul and Spirit and Sanctifie me in thy Grace As thy beloved Sonne Jesus Christ hath engaged to me saying My Father will give the holy Spirit to them that pray unto him for it Luke 11.13 Also Knock and so it will be opened unto you Math. 7.7 Luke 11.9 58. Now come I poor Sinner upon the Invitation of thy Word and take to me thy Saying in my Soul and Heart and will not leave off from thee unless thou blesse me with JACOB 59. And though indeed my Sinnes are many yet thou art God and the Eternall Truth which cannot Lye where thou hast Spoken in the Prophet Isaiah If we Convert and Repent then we shall be snow-white as wool Isai 1.18 60. Upon thy Saying I trust and give my self totally and altogether up to thee and pray thee receive me into Grace and bring me to thy Children who walk in the way of the Living and let me walk with them and enter into thy Commandement give me a true humble and obedient Heart that may alwayes fear before thy Anger and Sinne no more 61. O thou Well-Spring or Fountain of all Grace what shall I say before thee Or why should I flatter my self and comfort my evill Will
SEVERAL Treatises OF Jacob Behme Not printed in English before according to the CATALOGUE here following viz. I. A Book of the Great Six Points As also A Small Book of other Six Points II. The 177 Theosophick Questions The First Thirteen Answered III. Of the Earthly and of the Heavenly Mystery IV. The Holy-Week or a Prayer-Book V. Of Divine Vision To which are annexed the EXPOSITION Of the TABLE of the Three Principles Also an EPISTLE Of the Knowledge of God and of All Things And of the True and False Light With a Table of the Revelation of the Divine secret Mystery Englished by JOHN SPARROW LONDON Printed for L. Lloyd at the Castle in Corn-hill 1661. THE PREFACE To the ENGLISH READER SEveral of the Writings of this Author Jacob Behme have been published in his native Tongue the German and were so loved and desired at the first notice of them about the year 1612. by some noble vertuous and learned Persons who procured Transcripts out of the Library at Gerlity where the Primate Gregory Rickter had commanded it to be kept that it should no more come to the Authors hands again that beyond his expectation they wrote to him to know whether he were the Author of them and upon his Answer in return they ceased not to solicite him to further writing according to his high knowledge in the deepest Mysteries which he performed from the year 1619. to 1624. in which year he departed this mortal life For it appears by the History of his life and in the Catalogue printed at the end of his Book in Answer to the forty Questions of the Soul that he wrote to the number of Thirty One several Treaties whereof some have been studyed by persons of Learning some Ministers as well as others in Muscovia Sweden Poland Denmark the Netherlands Germany France Spain Italy even in the City of Rome and â—â—ry many in England with good satisfactioâ— to their thirsty Souls concerning true Religion and the way to salvation and Twenty One of them have been formerly printed in the English tongue To some yet there remaineth still the complaint that they are hard to be understood though those that have diligently perused his Books have attained very satisfactory resoâ—â—tions to their destres in most deep and difficult Divine and Natural Mysteries and they that account them most obscure are such as cast their eyes only superficially here and there upon some part of them but those that have gotten a Tast and relish of his illuminated spirit of Understanding appearing in his writings are very eager after any thing of his that remains yet unpublished for whose satisfaction therefore here in this present Volum are Five more peeces of his besides Three other that were printed formerly but not from so exact Copies as now and besides a Table belonging to the Epistle concerning the true and false Light not printed before They are all of very high worth The This is the Siâ—th Book â—n the Catalogue of his writings FIRST is called An Exposition of the Great Six Points containing the knowledge of the Greatest Mysteries in Eternity and how they may be apprehended in the things of this outward visible world more deeply and yet more particularly then in his other writings Especially how Darkness in the eternal Original doth co-work to the Manifestation of the Eternal Light and Glory in Heaven and yet in Hell is the eternal Torment and consuming Fire of the wrath of God where the Devil and his Angels Rev. 20.10 together with the Beast and false Prophet and all the wicked shall be tormented for ever and ever Also how we may in this life while we live in flesh and blood depâ—rt from the Tree of Darkness into the Tree of Light but after this life how there is no possibility to change our capacity we leave this outward world in And this so convincingly that any that is desirous may know how to enter infallibly into the exercise and participation of the Tree of Eternal Life in which consideration we may see how this whole world is a Looking-Glass of the Two eternal beginningless worlds both the Light and the Dark world in one another as One The Four Elements being Fire Air Water and Earth In Heaven these are substantially Love Humility Patience and Meekness and in Hell they are also substantially Wrath Pride Envy and Covetousness and so all things else that are contained in the Four Elements and dwell or grow therein are also according to the manner of Eternity in the Two Eternal Worlds The other is a Small Book of Six Points also wherein are matters of highest depth and of the greatest Concernment to mankind to be known fundamentally as he hath written of them For First As the outward man is constituted of Blood and Water by which his outward life is fed and preserved so the Soul hath in the outward Blood and Water an Eternal which belongeth to the eternal life and therefore was the Blood and Water which flowed out of the Side of our blessed Lord and Saviour when he was pierced with a Spear as he hung upon the Cross so effectual to the healing of the Breach made in Adams Side in his stâ—ep when it was become not good for Man to be alone and all the frailty of Mortal Man afterwards which will also bring forth his Resurrection at the Last Day Secondly It Treats succinctly and summarily concerning Election and Predestination of Good and of Evil wherein is shewn how by the eternal power of God that is through Christ in us we may in this life come out from evil with our Souls into the eternal Election of Grace and Predestination to life which is the Love and Mercy of God or else by rejecting and forsaking the Drawing of that Power within us cast our selves into the Eternal Predestination of Condemnation and Perdition into the darkness and Death which is the wrath and Anger of God Thirdly It intimates how Sin is Sin by shewing how it is the life in the manifestation of the Power of the dark world contrary to the constitution and creation of the Creature which was created in and for the Light by the exorbitant rising up of Self-Nature the Fire to be predominant over divine Nature the Light in the Self of the Creature Fourthly How Christ will at the Last Day deliver up the Kâ—â—â—dom to the Father when he hath put all dominion under the Foot stool of Christ then shall Christ deliver up his kingdoâ—â— who is now Lord of All to the Father and God shall be All in All outwardly and visibly as he is now but inwardly hiddenly and invisibly to us in this Coâ—ruptible world Fiftly What the eternal Magia or Desire is which maketh frameth and imageth both in the dark world and in the light world according to the Quality of Each for as the Thoughts are framed in the Mind so is every thing figured in its own substance in its own world Therefore our
all times bring that to Effect which he fain would and findeth the desire to Abstinence and Repentance or Amendment so that a constant enduring desire after Gods Mercifulness floweth up in him so that he fain would doe well if he could 64. This Man may conceive and assuredly know that Gods Fire glimmereth in him and continually Laboureth towards the Light it would fain burn and alwayes giveth Essence to the Wiek or Flame but becometh damped by the Evill Fruit of this World which Adam hath introduced into us 65. And so now when the outward Evill Body with its damp breaketh so that it can no more hinder the glimmering Wick then the Divine Fire kindleth it self in its Essence and the divine Image becometh figured again according to the strongest Source or Property which Man hath here brought into his desire according to his strongesâ— Property 66. But if he continueth not in this before mentioned Conquest but letteth the Strife sinke and Fall he may very dangerously and desperately perish 67. * Note The Third proof or tryall is that a Man know in what Substance or Figure he standeth if he findeth that he hath a constant desire †Or according to God after God and that his desire is so potent that he can break the Evill Essences as often as a quality or Source becometh kindled and turn it into Meekness that is passe into Patience 68. So that he * Or is potent hath the Command over his Substance or doings And letteth all go and fall whatsoever in this World shineth and Glistereth who can doe good for Evill who is potent over all his outward Substance be it Money or other Goods to give thereof to the Needy and for Gods truth sake to leave it or forsake it all 69. And willingly for Gods sake to yield up himself into Misery in assured hope of that which is Eternall to him the divine Power floweth up so that he may kindle the Light of the Kingdome of Joy therein which there tasteth what God is he is the surest and beareth the Noble Image with heavenly Substantiality †NOTE IN himself even in the Time of the outward Body 70. And there is JESUS born out of the Virgin and that Man Eternally dieth not he letteth only the outward Kingdome go from him which in this time was an opposition and hinderance to him wherewith God hath covered him for God will not * Matth. 7.6 cast the Pearles before the Swine they are hidden in him 71. That New Man standeth not in this World also the Devill knoweth him not only he is enraged at its Essence which withholdeth in the Inward Center For it hindereth him that his Will is not done 72. Therefore he irritateth and provoketh the Evill Beasts-Men against him that they plague him and persecute him so that the true Humanity Continueth Covered Further of the Fift Point The Eighth Chapter The right true humane * Or Substance or the right Substantiall Man Essence is not Earthly nor out of the Dark-world But out of the Substance of God 1. IT is generated meerly in the Light-world it hath †2 Cor. 6.14 no Communion with the Dark or outward * Luke 6.26 there is a Great Gulfe Cliffe or Fort between viz Death 2. Not in this sense that the true Essence lyeth not in the outward Man it lyeth therein for it was given to Adam in an Image 3. But it is shut up and lyeth in Death cannot qualifie or operate hath also no stirring or Moving in it self unlesse it becometh stirring in the power of the Deity as it became Stirring in the Virgin Mary through Gods Moving and Entring in There came the right Humane Essence to Life again 4. So also in us the right humane Essence becometh not stirring unless we become born out of God in Christ 5. In the Baptisme of Infants the Word of the Deity Espouseth it self and letteth it self in with them viz in the Covenant and the first stirring in this World is as an Ember or Tinder in Wood or Fewell which beginneth to Glimmer 6. But the Wiek becometh often afterwards darkened and put out or extinguished Also it is in Many not very capable as to †Or those who are what is begotten of totally wicked * Or Parents Essence 7. For Christ said †Matth. 19.14 Mark 10.14 Luke 18.16 Suffer little Children to come to me for of such is the Kingdome of God Not Dogs Wolves Toads or Serpents but Children and those in whom the Essence is not totally Devillish whereas many are steeped or Baptised in the Anger of God of which the Parents are guilty For * Matth. 7.16 Luke 6.43 an Evill Tree bringeth forth Evill Fruit saith Christ 8. And although †Matth. 18.11 Luke 19.10 He is come into this World to save or make blessed that which is lost yet it lyeth in the Essence as to what will suffer it self to be helped 9. For a Beast-Man may indeed attain the Image if he convert and suffer the Word which became Man to draw him If not then he continueth in his own beastiall Essence an Evill Beast 10. Yet also not in such a sence as that the Baptisme did lay the first ground to the humane Essence and were altogether the first Mother Ember or Tynder of the divine Fire No that it is not For a Childe becometh from the Essence of the Parents a Spirit as also Flesh and Bloud together with the Espousall or uniting of the Constellation of the Spirit of the Great World Majoris Mundi at that very Time 11. When a Childe in the Mothers â—ody or Womb hath attained the Life then instantly glimmereth the Divine or Hellish Essence out of the first proceeding forth and Originall 12. * NOTE And while there is any small Ember Wiek Glimpse or Tinder of the divine Essence Stirring the Child is capable to receive the Baptism And though indeed it should die and should not be baptised yet is the Mother Wiek Glimpse or Tinder in Gods Mysterie and glimmereth in Gods Kingdome and becometh kindled in Gods Fire for it dyeth in the Mysterie of the Father and glimmereth up in the Mysterie of the Sonne who became Man 13. The Parents Baptisme and Covenant is its Baptisme and Covenant the Atonement or Reconciliation is Effected in the humane Bloud in the right true humane †Or Substance Essence Gods Word or Heart hath given it self into the inclosed shut up dead humane Essence 14. Not into the Earthly not at all into the Earthly part but into the Heavenly Part not into that part which Adam with his Imagination introduced which is Earth but into that Part which was given to Adam out of the Angelicall World which he with the Earthly Seeking Longing or Malady destroyed and poysoned and therein the Seeking or Longing became Earthly Gross Beastiall Flesh 15. That very part hath the right humane Essence and in that
very part is God become Man that very part hath the * Covenant Ground of the Angelicall World for it hath its Originall out of the Angelicall World 16. But if as Many times wicked Parents wholly steep demerse and plunge themselves into the Anger of God and so beget Children Then indeed is their Seed shut up in Death and hath nothing of a right humane Essence in them which moveth it self but only that which the Constellation in the Spirit of the Great World Majoris Mundi hath in it self 17. †NOTE And there indeed is the divine Power somewhat stirring but the Anger 's power is Set in Opposition and it is very hard yet it is very possible for Gods becoming Man or Incarnation is set and presented to ALL Souls in the Lifes Light 18. But the Baptisme containeth somewhat Else Gods Essence viz the Water ef Eternall Life generated out of Gods Meekness must stirre the right humane Essence with Adam shut up or included in Death and must give in it self there as a New Life or a Living Essence Gods Water Must baptise the Holy Ghost must be the Workmaster 19. But I say according to my knowledge that the Water of the Eternall Life upon which the Holy Spirit * Hovereth or Hatcheth moveth is hardly given in to the poyson of the fierce wrath and of Death where there is not an Essence of desire within 20. I say thus that also a Child as soon as it hath the Life in the Mothers body or Womb So farre as the divine Essence which standeth in the heavenly part is stirring is clearly Baptised by the Holy Spirit and reacheth or attaineth the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ 21. For the Baptisme standeth not in the Preachers authority that the Holy Spirit should wait upon him for the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ waiteth not upon Mans authority but upon the Limit or Mark that God stuck or set in his Covenant 22. The Limit or Mark became blessed Therefore †Luke 1.42 said the Angel to Mary Thou art the Blessed among Women the Limit or Mark Stuck in her that became blessed and that blessed her also when Gods Heart made the Limit or Mark come stirring 23. That same Limit or Mark reached back even unto Adam and forward even to the Last Man and when God became Man then became the Limit or Mark in the heavenly Part stirring not in Mary alone but also in Adam and Eve and all their Children which have given themselves up into God they became all Blessed in the Limit or Mark. 24. For that is the Covenant of Grace which God instituted with Adam and Eve that very Covenant stood in all and every humane Essence but not in the Devillish 25. But the Baptisme is the Seal that God hung or annexed to the Covenant as in the Old Testament Circumcision was God giveth in the Baptisme divine Water to the humane for an Earnest or Pledge and Seal 26. But the Covenant is plainly there before the Baptisme it is made in Paradise yea * 1 Pet. 1.20 Eph. 1.4 before the foundation of the World As soon as a Soul in the Mothers body or womb is stirring so that a Principle and a humane Soul is generated or born so instantly it is in the Covenant 27. For Christ hath given himself into Gods Fire into the Principle and fulfilled the Covenant and is become the †Or Pâ—â—â—ne Earnest or Pledge of the Testament 28. That same Pawn or Pledge waiteth upon no outward Ordinance or upon the outward Mans conceit but as soon as a Soul is generated or born out of the Principle it is in the Prey of the Testament so farre as the divine Life in the Soul is stirring 29. But not in the Wicked Souls there must the Divine Life first be generated or Born Gods Anger devoureth Many a Soul and that yet in the Essence ere it attaiâ—eth or reacheth the Principle and therefore because it is out of false or wicked Essence from the Evill Seed of the Parents Objection 30. Reason saith What can a Child do to it that the Parents are wicked Answer Yea also what can God do to it Standeth it not in the power of the Parents to beget a Childe What Can God do with it that Whores and Whoremongers crawl together 31. Though indeed the false or wicked Tree doth not thus alone arise out of this Line or Lineage but also in the Marriage Is not Man Free If he awaken no Life then his Seed continueth an * Or Ground of Substance and Life Essence 32. Shall therefore God for the Childs innocency sake cast the Pearls before Swine Doth not the Kingdome of Heaven stand towards it it may enter in God †Or hindereth it shutteth it up from None 33. But an Evill Man is shut up in Body and Soul why also not in the Seed The Seed is truly the Fruit of his Body If a Man would reap good Wheat a Man must needs then sow Wheat but if Thistle-seed be sown then a Thistle groweth out of it And must God then change that into Wheat 34. Hath not the Sower power to sow in his Field what he will Or wilt thou say What can the Thistle do to it that it is a Thistle and pricketh It ought not to be among the Wheat but it groweth up together of it self 35. God would indeed be at quiet if no Thistle-Childe did grow it is also not his Ordinance * Luke 13.25 38 39. but the Devill soweth Weeds among the Wheat viz into Mans Mind Why doth Man let him doe that and destroyeth himself so that his Essence becometh a Thistle-seed and beareth Weeds for the Fire in the fierce Wrath of God 36. Also it lyeth not all in the Seed but in the Field or Soyle Many a Noble Grain of Corn perisheth in the Evill Field's or Soyle's Essence 37. The Heaven with the Sun giveth to all Vegetables or Sprouts Life and Power the Sun maketh no Weed also it desireth none but the Essence in the Field or Soyle maketh many somewhat Else and destroyeth the Good So also in Man 38. Many a Curse sticketh which one wisheth to the other when the other hath stirred up or provoked the Curse and is capable of it or Lyable to it as indeed is common among wicked married people who wish the Devill and Hell Fire to one another 39. If they both be wicked should not also their wicked Wills be done to them that they should beget wicked Children There is not any Good in them how then should Good proceed from or out of them 40. What can God doe to this Doth he not set his Word and Teaching before them and maketh their destruction known to them If they will not regard it Then let them goe whither they will thus also is their Seed and so many a Childe is Generated or born a Thistle and Evill Beast And is Baptised in the Anger
Fire if it abide in that Fire 27. And then that Life is Regenerated either as to the Dark-world or as to the Light world in which soever the Will kindleth it self And upon that passeth another Election or Predestination And that is the cause why God causeth us to be taught and so doth the Devill also each of them willeth that the Will of the Life should converse and kindle it self in his Fire And then the One Mysterie taketh hold of or receiveth the Other The Third Point Of Sinne. What Sinne is And how it is Sinne. 28. A Thing which is but only ONE hath neither Commandment nor Law but if it mixeth it self with another then there are two Substances or Essences in One and there are also two Wills one whereof runneth contrary to the other and thence ariseth Enmity 29. Thus we are to consider and Conceive of the Enmity against God God is simply One and Good without any Source and although every Source is in HIM yet not Manifested for the Good hath swallowed up the Evill or that which is Contrary into it self and keepeth it in the Good by Compulsion in Subjection as a Captive where the Evill must be a cause of the Life and of the Light yet not Manifested but the Good slayeth or Mortifyeth the Evill that it self in the Evill may dwell in it self without Source or Perception 30. The Love and the Enmity is but One only Thing yet each of them dwelleth in it Self and that maketh Two things Death is the Partition-Wall between them both and yet there is no Death but this that the Good dyeth from the Evill as the Light is Dead to the Source of the Fire and feeleth the Fire no more 31. Now thus we may in the Humane Life fathom or search out Sinne for the Life is Singly One and Good but if there be another Source therein then what is Good then that is an Enmity against God for God dwelleth in the Highest or pretiousest Life of Man 32. Now no unfathomable thing can dwell in that which is fathomable for as soon as the right Life awakeneth the Source in it Self that is not like unto the Abysse wherein there is no Source And so immediately the One separateth it self from the Other 33. For the * Note Good or the Light is as a Nullity or Nothing but if Somewhat cometh into it then that Somewhat is another thing then that Nullity or Nothing for that Somewhat dwelleth in it self in the Source for where there is Somewhat there must be a Source which maketh and preserveth that Somewhat 34. Thus we are to consider of Love and Enmity Love hath One only Source and Will it desireth only its like and not Multiplicity for the Good is singly ONE but the source or Quality is Manifold and whatsoever humane Will desireth much that fillâ—th that One in it Self wherein God dwelleth with the Source of Multiplicity 35. For the Somewhat is dark and darkneth the Light of Life and the One is Light for it loveth it self and there is no desire after any thing More 36. And thus must the Will of the Life be tending and endeavouring into the One viz into the Good and then it remaineth in one only Source but if it Imagineth in or after another Source it is pregnant or in travell with that thing which it lusteth or longeth after 37. And if then that thing be without an Eternall and Ground and Foundation and in a Frail Corruptible Root then it self seeketh a Root to uphold it that it self may remain for all Life subsisteth in the Magick Fire and thereupon every Substance must have a Fire wherein it Self burneth 38. And then that Thing must make to it self a Substance according to its Desire that its Fire may have food to feed upon Now no Fire-Source can Subsist in the * Note Free-fire or Fire of the Liberty for it reacheth not that because that is ONE of or by it Self 39. Whatsoever would Subsist in God must empty it Self of its own Will it must have no Fire burning in Self but the Fire of God or the Divine Fire Note must be its Fire Its Self will must be united in to God so that the Will of God and the Will and Spirit of Man may be but One and the Same 40. For that which is one is not at Enmity for it hath but one only Will whithersoever it goeth or whatsoever it doeth that is all one with it 41. One only Will hath but one only Imagination and yet the Imaginatâ—on maketh or desireth that which is only like it self And thus we are to understand Concerning the Contrary or Opposite Will 42. God dwelleth in ALL and there is NOTHING that Comprehendeth him unlesse it be one with him and if it departeth out of that One then doth it depart out from God into it Self and is somewhat else besides God Note and that Divideth or Separateth it Self And hence the Law doth exist that it must either goe again out of it Self into that One or else be separated from that One 43. Thus It may be known what Sinne is or How it is Sinne viz the Humane Will which separateth it self from God into its own Selfnesse and awakeneth its own self and burneth in its own Source and so that †Self Lust and Desire own Fire is thus not capable of the * Divine Longing and Desire divine Fire 44. For all that the Will entreth into and will have as its own that is a strange Thing or Substance in the One only Will of God for the Will of God is All things and Mans own Will is Nothing but if it be in God ALL is its own also 45. Thus we know The Desire of Lust to be Sinne For it Lusteth and so departeth out of One into Many and introduceth Much into the One It willeth to possess as its own and yet should be at Liberty and without Willing By the Desire Substance is sought and in the Substance the Desire kindleth the Fire 46. Now every Fire burneth out of the Property of its Substance and then is the Separation and Enmity generated For Christ said †Math. 12.30 Luke 11.23 He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad for he gathereth without him and whatsoever is not in him is without God 47. Thus we perceive that Covetousnesse is Sinne For it is a Desire * Extra Deum without God and we see also that Pride is Sinne for it will be its own and separateth it self from God viz from the Only One 48. For whosoever will be in God must walk in HIM in his Will For seeing we are in God but One in Many Members therefore it is against and Contrary to God when one Member withdraweth it self from the Other and Maketh it self a Sole and only Lord and so there be two Lords and the One Severeth it self from the Other 49.
teach before the people concerning the Kingdome of Heaven in Similitudes or * Mark 4.13 33.34 Mysterium Magnum ch 46. ver 31. Parables 115. Question Why hath not Christ himself described his Gospel with Letters in writing But only Taught and left it afterwards to his Apostles to write it down 116. Question Why must it be the very * Mark 10.33 Math. 27.1 41. High Priests and Scribes or Scripture learned who taught the People that must speak against or contradict Christ and would readily mock him and condemn him continually to death Why must not the worldly Magistracy doe it or the Common people What doth that signifie 117. Question Why must there be such a way and processe observed toward Christ †Mat. 26.67 ch 27.26 to the 34. with Mockings reproaching derision or scorn and scourging before his Passion Why did God suffer that to be so done 118. Question Why must the very Teachers of the Law bring Christ to the judgement and yet must be put to Death by the * Math. 27.2 Heathenish Magistracy What doth that signifie 119. Question Why must Christ suffer and †Mat. 27.50 dye Was God to doe it for such a Revenge sake that he might attone and reconcile or appease himself could he not otherwise forgive Sinnes 120. Question What is the Figure of the Two Murtherers Luke 23.33 which were hanged on a Crosse on Each side of Christ And why must Christ dye on a wooden Crosse and Not otherwise 121. Question How †Heb. 2.14 Phil. 2.8 did Christ slay Death on the Crosse with his dying How came that to passe 122. Question Why must Christ * Ioh. 19.31 34 and 20.25 Col. 2.14 be nailed to the Crosse And why Must his Side be opened with a Spear out of which Bloud and Water ran How doe these signifie in the Figure 123. Question Why must Christ †Math. 27. from 39. to the 50. be reproached on the Crosse 124. Question Whether also was the divine Power * Ioh. 19.34 in the Bloud which Christ shed or poured unto the Earth 125. Question Why did †Math. 27.51 Three Principles ch 25. ver 44 45. the Earth Tremble when Christ hung on the Crosse 126. Question What did †Luke 23.46 See the 37. Question of the forty Questions of the Soul the Darknesse signifie which at that time came over all Nature 127. Question Wherefore did Christ in his Death * Luke 23.44 Mysterium Magnum ch 23. ver 3. commend his Soul into his Fathers Hand What is that Hand of God 128. Question Why did some * Luke 23.48 Convert and turn again when they saw what was done at the dying of Christ and the High Priests not Why must they be blind and hardened to this work 129. Question What was †Acts 2.27 31 Heb. 2.14 Christs going to Hell where he overcame Death and the Devil 130. Question How did 〈◊〉 * 1 Pet. 3.19.20 preach to the Spirits which in the Tiâ—â—â—oah believed not 131. Question 〈…〉 â—hrists Rest in the †Math. 27.63 64. ch 28.1 Luke 24.1.7 Grave signifie 〈…〉 lye forty houres in the Grave 132. Question 〈◊〉 must * Mâ—th 27.64 65 66. Christs Grave be guarded with W â—â—â—rs What doth that signifie that the Hiâ—h Priests would resist or oppose Gods Power and Might and would keep Christ in the Grave 133. Question Why did the Evangelist say that * Math. 28.2 to the 9. the Angell removed the Great Stone from the door or Mouth of the Grave Could not Christ have risen else out of the Grave 134. Question What is the Power of Christs Resurrection through the Death How * Col. 2.14 15. did he make a triumphant shew of Death on his Body What was it then that he did with it 135. Question What manner of †Rev. 3 8. Door hath Christ through Death in our humanity opened in the Anger and Righteousness of God whereby we may enter into God How is that done 136. Question What doth the Pilgrimage * Luke 24. from the 13. to the 31. vers Journey of the two Disciples from Jerusalem to Emaus signifie where they complained in anxiety for their Master and yet Christ walked among them and enquired of them and taught them And yet they knew him not 137. Question Why did Christ after his Resurrection first appear to †Mark 16.9 10 11. John 20.14 to the 19. a Woman and not to the Disciples 138. Question Why did Christ * Luke 24.42 Joh. 20.19 26. after his Resurrection eat of the †broyled Fish with his Disciples And Entered into them through a shut door and taught them 139. Question Why did not Christ after his Resurrection shew himself to Every one But to some only 140. Question Why did Christ * Act. 1.2 3. Three Principles ch 25. from the 75. ver to the 98. after his Resurrection Converse forty dayes upon Earth before he went or was taken up to Heaven What doth that signifie 141. Question What is †Math. 24.51 Mark 16.19 Act. 1.9 Three Principles ch 25. from 98. verse to the end Christs going or Ascention to Heaven That he did visibly ascend Whither is he arrived and where is he now at present 142. Question What signifie * Acts 1.11 the Two Men in shining Garments who said ye Men of Galilee why look ye up after him this JESUS who is taken from you to Heaven will come again as ye have seen him Ascend or goe to Heaven Acts 1.11 143. Question †Three Principles ch 26. verse 1 2. thence to the 13. Why must * Acts 2.1 His Ascention was forty Dayes after his Resurrection or the Passeover or Easter And ten Dayes after his Ascention to the Day of Pentecost which was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quinquagessuna dies the fiftieth day or seven weeks day or the Morrow after the seventh Sabbath which was called the Feast of Weeks or First-fruits Math. 26.2 Mark 14.1 2. â—uke 22.1 John 13.1 the Passover was the fourteenth day of the first Month. Exod. 12 1â— Levit. 23.5 Numb 28.16 in the Month Abib Exod. 13.4.23.15 and 34.18 the Feast of the first Fruits of thy Labours thou hast sown in the field Exod. 23.16 the feast of weeks Exod. 34.22 And from the Morrow after the Sabbath of the Passover you shall count Seven Sabbaths that is seven times seven which is forty nine and the Morrow after maketh fifty dayes Levit. 23.15 16. Numb 28.26 The Feast of Weeks Deut. 16.9 the Disciples of Christ yet wait ten Dayes from his Ascention for the sending of the Holy Ghost Why was not that done Instantly 144. Question What is this that the Disciples must †Luk. 24.49 Ioh. 15.26 Acts 1.4 wait and Continue together till the Holy Ghost came 145. Question What is the Feast of Acts 2.1 to the 4. Pentecost How was the shedding or pouring forth
the fierce Wrath a Source or Quality of Heat Cold Hardness Sharpness Sting Bitter Anguish and Woe or Torment viz the perceptibility the first Principle a meer Hunger and Thirst a desire of Vanity and Lyes a Stink of Poyson and Deaths Quality Source or Torment 5. This Fire is like a Brimstone-Fire which burneth in stink and poyson for it is the dying Source Quality or Torment of Death viz the Death and Hell which became Manifest or Revealed in Lucifers Fall or Apostacy 6. But SATHAN * Reve. 12.9 which seduceth the whole world as Christ saith that is now this false Will of the ownness the first Principle viz the will of Hell a Ground of Lyes and Contradictions and Gain-sayings a leading off from the Good an universall Spirit of the hellish foundation and yet it is no Created thing or Creature but it is the false Mind in the Hellish Foundation viz the hellish Skill or Knowledge 7. And although it hath in like manner Devils of such Properties and Names which are also Princes in their Legions for they have †Or figured Imaged themselves in the hellish Property 8. This Ground is their Life and that holds them captive in it self and as the Properties of the hellish Foundation are manifold so also are such Princes under them ruling in the same Properties 9. Thus also BELIAL is the Source of false Lust or wicked Longing to uncleanness and inordinateness 10. BEELZEBUB is a Source of Idol-Gods and of false Imaging 11. ASMODUS is a Spirit of fury or * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Distractedness Senseless Madness and so forth Which all of them are Qualities of the Hellish foundation Where indeed there are also such Creaturall Spirits in the Hellish Foundation 12. But LUCIFER is the Pride or Stateliness viz the Source of climbing up 13. All these Properties are also in Man awakened after the Fall when he turned himself away from God and they have Imaged formed or figured themselves by or with Man 14. The same is †Rev. 12. â— the Dragon the old Serpent with whâ—â—â— MICHAEL viz the Figure of the divine Power hath striven and thrust out him together with his Legions from the Holy Name and in Man Striveth the Name IESUS against this Dragon 15. This Strife is no Creaturall Image-like being Thing or Substance indeed it hath gone forth against the Image-like Kingdome of the false Lye-Spirits which would rule and domineer in the divine Name It is a Strife between IAH and NEIN or No between the Image-like Anger and the Image-like Love between the first and second Principle 16. In this Strife must the divine Character of the IDEA overcome if * Viz the Character of the Eternall IDEA in which Man is foreseen or Elected in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the World it will be an Angel In this strife is Adam faln And in this Strife did the Name JESUS in the received or assumed humanity in the Wilderness Maintain the Battle or Strife against this DRAGON where he was tempted forty dayes and at last in Death totally overcame him 17. This Strife was with Moses on Mount Sinai in the Fathers Property in the Fire when he stayed there forty Dayes where Israel was Tempted to try whether they would or could stand in the Fathers Property 18. But being that might not be then Israel fell away and Made an Idol-God viz the Golden Calfe upon which the Tables of the Law were broken thereby signifying that the humane Will of the ownhood could not overcome or prevail against the Foundation of the Anger that must be no otherwise then put to Death and through Death be introduced again into the Holy Name 19. Whereupon CHRIST must dye and bring the Will of Man quite through Death through Hell and through this Foundation For the own receptibility of the own Will may not subsist in God For if 〈◊〉 Will be to subsist in God then it must be imperceptible and unpassive that it my dwell in the Fire and yet not be comprehended by the Fire 20. As the Sun in the Elements penetrateth or presseth through and through all and kindleth it self in the Elements and yet its Light indeed continueth to it self Or as the Fire Gloweth or Blaseth through and through Iron and yet it becometh not Iron But the Iron is only an Object or Subject wherein the Fire Elevateth it self and inflameth it self so very clear must also the Will be which Gods Unity is to possesse that in it there be no receptibility 21. For as soon as it passeth into receptibility then such a DRAGON viz the Hellish Foundation existeth in it It must presse clearly through the Anger-fire and only over inflame it self in the Fire without receptibility so then there continueth two clear in one only Ground viz the Fire and the Light in the Fire the Nature viz the Motion and in the Light the Spirit of the willing viz the true power of the Unity of God 22. Thus may Love and Anger stand in one only Ground unsevered and be totally one only thing as men are thus to consider and conceive of God and of the holy Angels 23. Now understand this Question thus that the power of the Anger the IAH and NEIN or No Gods Love and the Imaged formed or figured Anger of the Eternall Nature of the Centrall Fires-will have striven one with another In which Will Lucifer with his Angels sate and would be a Lord and also was a Cause that this Centrall Fire-will Imaged or figured it self into a DEN of the Dragon that is into a hellish foundation This God permitted that he might punish the fallen Angell and hold him captive therein to stop or hinder him that he should not disturbe the Creation More or further The Twelfth Question How are Men to consider or conceive the * Or Eternall peculiar Councill of God in the Divine Vision or View Being the Spirit searcheth all things Iah or Yes even the Depth of the Deity as St. Paul saith and yet this standeth not in Mans ability that is in the Creature and yet is possible How may a Man really understand this Ground of the Deep Vnity Answer 1. COurteous Reader this Question is therefore added here because the unenlightened Mind hold it for unpossible to be able to know such hidden secret Mysteries in regard it cannot apprehend them and thereupon reproacheth and ascribeth it to the Devill Therefore we will for the Sake of the Love of our Neighbour a little expound it To try if Men will become seeing and understand the Deep Sence 2. Reason runneth in meer Imagibility after a Creaturall Manner and Kind and supposeth That God hath in his Trinity Consulted what he would Make and how it must and should goe with it or what should become of it upon which it will conclude or determine the fall of Lucifer and of Adam even in a certain limit that God hath so ordained in his predestinate
and Desire I desire no Comfort from thee in my earthly evill Will but pray thee out of all my power which yet is in me mortifiâ— my Earthly Evill Will and let it no more live before thee For it desireth only hypocrisie dissembling or flattery and own self Love and is never sincerely upright before thee It giveth thee good words and pretendeth Truth and yet is a Constant Lyar before thee 62. Give me only thy Will that I may will nothing without thee Doe thou with thy Will tread down my self evill Will to the ground and let me in thy Power co-will and act with thee 63. O LORD what shall I in my vanity pray for from thee I pray for Nothing from thee but for the dying of my Saviour JESUS CHRIST That thou wouldst put me to Death in his Death and make me living again in his Resurrection in him that I may no more walk or converse according to my Spirits Will in me but in him That I may be his Temple and Dwelling-house that he may lead and conduct me so that without him I may be able to will or doe nothing 64. Unite thou and bind me with him so that I may be a fruitfull Branch on his Vine and bear good Fruit in his Power into thy Promise I sink my self down totally and altogether Be it done unto me according to thy Word and Will Amen A Thanksgiving and Prayer When a Man after such Acting Repentance findeth the divine Power in himself 65. O GOD thou Well-Spring or Fountain of Love and Mercy I glorifie and praise thee in thy Truth and Thank thee in my Heart that thou presentest to me thy Countenance again and lookest upon me unworthy and Miserable Wretch with the Eyes of thy Mercy and givest me a Ray or Beam of Comfort so that my Soul CAN hope on Thee 66. O thou Infinite Love of JESUS CHRIST thou who hast Broken Death in our Humanity and changed Gods Anger into Love to thee I give up my self totally and altogether My Soul Laudeth and honoureth thee It rejoyceth it self in thy Power and Love that thou art so Good and Gracious My Spirit sporteth in thy Power and joyeth it self in thy Truth All thy doing is right and Truth Thou rulest over Sinne and breakest the Power of Death Thou holdest the Might and Power of Hell captive and shewest us the Way of Life 67. None is like thee O LORD Who releasest the Captives out of the Pits and Graves of Death and refreshest the Miserable Thou givest them drink in their Thirst and givest them Water of Eternall Life Thou directest their Feet in right Paths and guidest them with thy Staffe The dry parched Places of the Heart and of the Soul thoâ— fattenest and bedewest with thy Rainy Showers and givest them Water of Mercy 68. Thou makest them living in the Midst of Death and settest them up before thee so that they live before thee Thou thinkest on the Mercy and Covenant which thou hast made with us through thy Bloud and Death and forgivest us our Sinnes 69. Thou pourest into us of thy Power so that we acknowledge thee and givest us Food of the Eternall Life whereby we become quickened and continually hunger and thirst after thee This now my Soul acknowledgeth therefore it praiseth thee and exalteth thee in thy great Might and Glory 70. O thou Well-Spring or Fountain of Divine Sweetnesse comprehend or receive my Soul into thee and fill my Spirit with thy Love and bind me to thy Band that I never more depart from thee Strengthen I pray thee my weak Faith and give me an assured Hope and Confidence 71. Cleanse I pray thee my Heart and Soul and give me Chastity Modesty and Purity in my Conscience that I may be ashamed of Sinne before thy Countenance and depart from it Mortifie I pray thee all Evill Lusts in me that I may cleave unto thee with clean and pure desire and walk in thy Will 72. Keep and Maintain me I pray thee in thy Power and acknowledgement and give me an humble Heart towards thee and my Neighbour so that I may alwayes acknowledge and love thee Help also that I may Love my Neighbour as my self through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. AMEN A Prayer to the Great Fire-burning Love of God shewing how rightly to Pray for it O Thou Holy GOD thou that dwellest in a Light that None can câ—â—â— unto but only the Love of thy Sonne Jesus Christ which thou hast out of meer Grace poured into our Humanity in JESUS Christ Wherewith thou hast loved us poor Men before the foundation of the World And hast through this Love redeemed us from thy fierce Wrath and from the power of Death and of Hell and offerest us now this Love through thy Sonne Jesus Christ in thy Fire-flaming Spirit that we should pray unto thee for it and thou wilt give it unto us 74. I poor unworthy Man acknowledge my self in◠〈…〉 worthy of it But seeing thou hast manifested or revealed 〈…〉 in our assumed Humanity and callest therewith the poor * Luke 19.10 1 Joh. 4.2 3. 2 John 7. lost Sinners And art* Come in the Flesh so that thou wilt seek them in their Sinnes and Miseries and thereby deliver them from Sinne and save them as thy Word teacheth us this Therefore come I upon the invitation of thy Word and receive thy Word and truth in my Heart and Soul and Comprehend it in me as thy Free-Gift and pray thee O thou Fire-flaming Love of God in the Covenant of JESUS CHRIST freely given to us poor thirsty Soules kindle also my poor Soul with this Love that it may attain a New Life and Will and become delivered out of its Prison and Captivity of thy Anger and out of the Jawes of Death 75. O thou fiery Love of God thou who hast in our Humanity broken Death and destroyed Hell and brought forth our Souls victory in Christ through Death Thou who hast at †Acts 2. the holy Pentecost moved in the Apostles Mouths and Hearts in fiery flames and kindled all thy Saints and done thy Miracles or Works of Wonder by them Thou that lovest and preservest the whole World and all thy Creatures To THEE I come and give my self wholly into thee 76. O thou great Fountain of God Open thy self also in the Spirit of my Inwardnesse and kindle also in me the Fire of thy Love so that my Spirit may burn in thy Love and acknowledge and praise thee therein 77. O thou great Holinesse through the Merits of my Saviour JESUS CHRIST through his Bloud and Death I presse in me to thee and give my self up into thy Flame Through his Resurrection and Ascention or going to Heaven I bring my Will into thee and give it up to thee totally and altogether Doe thou with it how thou wilt Doe but deliver it from false or wicked Lust and break its power that it may only look upon thee 78. O thou holy Power