sundred but as God dwelleth in the world and yet the World is not God a Principle severeth them and as God with his Anger dwelleth in the Creature and yet also in the hiddennesse with the Love among the Anger and yet the Anger receiveth not the Love 37. For I can say that God dwelleth with the Love in the Devil but the Devil cannot receive it the Love is his Enemy as the water is the Fires Enemy and yet the Fire dwelleth in the Originall in the water so God dwelleth in all things but the thing is not capable of his Love so also the Earthly Seed of Mary wherein Sinne was was not capable of the Deity but it hung as another Principle to the Inward Seed in which God manifested himself 38. The Inner Man which now became Christ THAT took our Sinne upon it self and hung the Body upon which he had Laid Mans Sinne on the Crosse as a Curse of God For there hung the first Adam which God cursed for the sake of Sinne on the Crosse with the curse of Sinne and dyed to Sinne on the Crosse and in his dying he shed the Bloud of the holy man in Christ into the Mystery of the Soul and of the Outward Man wherein Death was 39. For the holy Bloud was conceived in the Holy Spirit and was immortall it was conceived IN the water of the Eternall Life in the Tincture of Gods Light in his sweet Love and had resolved it self into and appropriated it self with the Bloud of the disappeared Image 40. Now when this Bloud fell together into Death then Death Trembled before this holy Eternall Life the Anger trembled before the Love and fell in its Poyson and Fierce wrath which held us captive into its dying according to the kinde of the fierce wrath 41. And yet there is no dying or ceasing to be understood but it went in the terrour of the Love up in the divine Kingdome of joy as a Light becometh shining out of an anxious hot Source or Quality where all anxiety taketh an End 42. The Fierce wrath which before was evill and angry that was now the cause of the great Fiery Love and Kingdome of Ioy for nothing must passe Away in Man he must remain as God created him in Adam but he must again be transmuted into that very Image into that very resigned will and be obedient to God 43. For the Scripture saith The Son of God Christ became obedient to the Father even to the Death on the Tree of the Crosse so wholly must also our humane will be broken in Christs death and the Anger in HIS Bloud be Transmuted into the Love 44. And that is it which David saith Thou wilt not let thy Holy ONE see Corruption or Consumption Now when he shed his holy Bloud in the true Image of God in Christ then became the Poyson of the Anger in Adams Flesh Soul and Spirit sanctified and transmuted into Love and the Devils Den of Robbery wholly destroyed 45. There enmity ceased and God became IMMANUEL Man with God and God with Man for here Adams Flesh became Tinctured prepared for the Resurrection for Death brake in the Eternall New-born Life of CHRIST out of JESU 46. And here the Gate of Death viz the Eternall Darknesse in Mans Body and Soul became broken open and the Cherubine with the Sword which did cut off the humane Life from the Light of Nature was taken away and the fountain began to flow out of Sion viz out of Christs Spring in the whole Man so that man could now henceforth drink of the Water of the Holy Element and Eat ex verbo Domini of the Word of the Lord. 47. Thus now we are to consider our Imitation of or following after him we cannot say that we can do what God in JESU did through CHRIST in breaking the way for us No WE can NOT shed heavenly Bloud and transmute the Anger of God into Love else if that were any way possible then we must also as a Curse be Nailed to the CROSSE and though that should be yet our inward Man is not exalted into the degree of Christ to be wholly like him 48 For JESUS viz the totall fullnesse of the Deity dwelleth in CHRIST without Measure and in him viz in his Mother MARY was the Limit or Mark of the Covenant which God blessed in Paradise into THAT God looked and through it Gods Imagination entered in through the Jewish Sacrifices 49. God brake death in peeces only through him but we must introduce our Imagination and desire into him that our Tinder of the faded Image in him may begin to glimmer or Glow in the Spirit and power of Christ which apprehendeth the true hunger of the right Faith wherewith Man through the glowing or glimmering Tinder which if it be sincere and earnest at length becometh a shining Light of God in JESUS can break the Power of Sinne in the Flesh and keep it in subjection as a Churlish unruly evill Dog which can NOT altogether be freed from ITS Malignity or Malice till it break wholly and altogether 50. That the Shell into which the Devil hath introduced his Imagination and had his Den of Robbery therein be altogether dissipated that there be no more life therein and then so soon as the outward Man dyeth that the Soul be freed of the Evill Beast THEN it hath the open Gate in its beloved Image in which Christ hath opened himself with the Divine Love-Fire 51. And then is the Union already there the Bride cheereth her Bridegroom viz the Noble Virgin in the Love of Christ being awakened again which taketh the Soul viz its loving Bridegroom and Man or Husband into her Arms of the Divine desire and what is there done I have no Pen to write it with It is more than humane or Natural to write that 52. What Gods Love and sweetnesse is which the converted Man if he enter into his Father again and acknowledge himself a Swineheard and bewayle his by past Sinnes and seeketh the Fathers Grace and Favour experienceth when Christ his Bridegroom sets upon him the Virgin-like Garland or Crown where the Pearl of the divine reception of Grace at first becometh sown 53. What Joy the Virgin hath when it obtaineth Life again and receiveth its Bridegroom Christ how very amiably and blessedly it presents it self towards the soul and comprehendeth the soul viz its Man or Husband in its Love at which indeed Soul and Body tremble in Joy 54. Which those only know who have been Guests in this Place and this Authour who in the Letter will be PERFECT and new-born only and meerly with a litteral skill and knowledge it is likely hath yet never experienced and scarce tasted the Supper of Christ 55. Seeing he is but a Litteral Saint and a Contender and moreover a high-minded despiser of the children of Christ in their unlike Gifts and his holiness is confined meerly within
in JEHOVA but with the Will of JEHOVA viz with the Voyce of the Word in the Impression of Nature which in the Eternity is only a Spirit but with the Moving of God in the beginning of the Creation of this World is in the Spirit become a Substance viz an own self Principle 215. Man is not become Created and Manifested in CHRIST without the Divine Manifestation in him CHRIST was yet in JEHOVA viz hidden in JESU in the out-speaking Word as a Power of the Deity 216. JEHOVA that is God hath moved himself in the JESU viz in the Lust or Longing of the eternall Desire viz with Gods Heart and generated and Manifested CHRIST in the Humanity as a Treasure of Divine Power and Wisdome 217. For Mary said to the Angel Gabriel to the Prince of Gods Wonders when he brought her the Message that she should be impregnate or conceive with Child How should that come to passe for I have known no Man The Angel said the Holy Spirit will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will overshadow thee thou shalt be impregnate with Child and generate or beare a Sonne whose Name thou shalt call JESVS he will be great and be called the Sonne of the Most High whose out-going hath been from Eternity 218. This was the Originall of CHRIST in the eternall Word in the Power of the Most High of all which hath moved it self and out of and in the JESU viz in the desire of the Divine Love generated the CHRIST viz the Champion in the Battle between Gods Love and Anger Not so as that the power of CHRIST was not from eternity in the Word It was indeed but not manifested in such a property as a Breaker of Death in pieces 219. God generated to himself the breaker of Death in peeces out of the Fountain of HIS Self hood For in the Creation there was no Death so there was also no breaker of Death in peeces With Sinne came Death into the World and through the Breaker in pieces of Death it came out of the World again 220. In Adam was JEHOVA the great All being All-substantiall God manifested but not in the Forme of the breaker of Death but in the Power of his Spirit according to Love and Anger according to the property of the Fiat viz through the glimps of the Tincture of the Fire and Light as an expresse Image of God 221. Adam was not God himself he was not Created in the Trinity in JEHOVA as a Self-subsisting God as this without writeth he was made an expresse Image of God in CHRIST visible and Manifest but without Divine Knowledge and that God first Manifested the Treasure of this Wisdome in Adam when Christ became Man 222. No! God Created Adam to the Eternall Life in Paradise with Paradisicall source or quality and Perfection he forbade him to eate of the source or quality Evill and Good he Created a Perfect expresse Image in the Looking-Glasse of the Eternall seen Image without Substance The Power JEHOVA viz Gods the Fathers Love throughly enlightened him as the Sun through-enlighteneth the whole World 223. The Divine Sun shone through and through Adam in his heavenly substantiality viz in the pure Element and outwardly the Outward Sun enlightened him neither Heat nor Cold touched him for he stood in equall Harmony or accord in them the Pure Element held the Four Elements swallowed up and Captive in it self as the Day the Night and this Man shall not perswade me that God was not manifested in Adam he is indeed manifested in all things but according to every things Property 224. In the Property as Adam was Created God was manifested in him but when he Manifested the Center of the Anger in him then God put enmity against the Evill and manifested the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser in Man which before without Sinne was hidden in Gods Power and was in the Divine Vnity in the Love of God in JESU Thus this Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent became set as a Mark or Limit to Man into which he should turn in his Desire 225. Not that Man should become the JESUS or a God but that we should carry our Faith into him and in our Desire receive into us the CHRIST who hath broken Death in pieces that he may make our Soul and the faded Image in Adam living the Divine Life in himself 226. For in JESU the Eternall Sun shineth forth through the CHRIST JESUS is JEHOVA that is God and Christ is the Mediatour between Gods Love and Anger 227. To CHRIST is all Power given from JEHOVA or JESUS JESUS hath given the divine power to CHRIST not that CHRIST should bear the Power or Authority to or for himself but GOD who is a Spirit he useth the Christ for an Instrument whereby he takes away the Power and Authority from the Anger JESUS is the Power or vertue of CHRIST which giveth the CHRIST the power or authority For in own self authority CHRIST did Nothing upon Earth for he said at the Crosse when the Jewes Hung him upon it Father forgive them for they know not what they do 228. And when he raised Lazarus up he said Father hear me yet I know that thou hearest me alwayes And David said in Spirit He hath set the Lord before him therefore shall Irest secure there he meaneth CHRIST that he had set before him the JESUS or JEHOVA wherein CHRIST resteth 229. Now Christ is a Regeneratour or Restorer of that which is Lost he is not come for the sake of the Earthly Man that he should keep THAT in its Dominion but that he might regenerate that in Adam which when he awakened to sinne disappeared and dyed concerning which God saith That Day thou wilt eate of the Tree of Good and Evill thou shalt dye the Death he dyed to the Divine World and awakened to the Outward-World viz to the Sinne-House full of Misery and Ever dying source or quality 230. He would not generate the sinne-Sinne-Life anew for he dyed away in his Body of OUR sinnes-Sinnes-Life which in the Regiment or Dominion of the Four Elements was existed with the Sinne in Adam and brought our true Life of the pure Element aloft again his death was our Life The Four Elements held us Captive in the Anger but he brought our Life of the Four Elements through Death forth in the Element again and made for us in the humane Life a path or Way to heaven again 231. Now we must follow after him and also dye away from the Life of the Four Elements aforehand yet first of all receive Christ in us who introduceth us through the Death of our Dying into his Way or Path through Death into the pure Element 232. This outward Visible Body cannot inherite the Element of God unlesse he break that in pieces aforehand but if we have put on CHRIST in the Faiths Desire he introduceth our Lifes Essence into
the Holy Trinity hath been hidden to all Creatures and yet is through the second moving of the Deity as a holy sweet Love-Sun become manifested 15. I must not say that in the Person CHRIST viz in the Man according to his humanity according to that part which he hath on him from us Men from our Body and Soul that is on to the Deity on to the Divine Substantiality or Heavenly Corporeity taken on to him That the Creature is ceased and taken up or that the Creature Soul and Body from us Men is unmeasurable 16. No for such a One is not our Eternall High Priest which I could never more see in the Form of Man for the Men when he went to Heaven said Ye shall SEE this JESUS come again as he is Ascended 17. Only the Deity in him and the Christ understand the divine property together with the Heavenly divine substantiality wherewith he saith John 3. 13. He was come from Heaven THIS is uncreaturely and yet IN every Man as an own Sun yet only in one point which shineth forth out of the fountain of this Sun indeed from no place or space but the place of this holy revelation or Manifestation is in ALL Men the Center of the Originall 18. This SUN is in all Men but this Sun is not revealed or manifested in all Men but only in the Desire to the Point which is CHRIST which point is JESUS out of JEHOVA 19. But concerning the Holy woman or wife which this Authour mentioneth which is holy and PERFECT wherein the Man CHRIST becometh generated needeth also a farre other Explanation 20. And though he sets down the Holy Christianity to be the woman or wife which I blame not yet a Man must not speak that concerning the outward Earthly Man for the Earthly Man is not Christs Spouse or Wife but the inward Spiritual which faded or disappeared in Adam the Heavenly which Christ as viz the Holy SUN vivifieth 21. But this Authours writing is altogether Contradictory and runnes counter against it selfe for here in this Point he writeth of this Spouse or Woman and Body thus which he NOT outwardly prepareth createth and maketh new but in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart from the beginning of the world instantly after the Fall in Grace Love and Mercy yes in the Faith espouseth betrotheth and uniteth to himself and prepareth it for his Eternall Rest In like manner also this holy Man CHRIST JESUS the Innocent Lamb of God yes the Triune highly praised Sonne of God God himself which was slain from the beginning of the world IN all Faithfull and Saints according to the Testimony of the Scripture 22. Before this Authour hath set down in another place that if CHRIST became manifest or revealed in Man then Nature falleth Totally away Now he sets it down that CHRIST in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart hath from the beginning of the world espoused and united himself with the Saints in the Faith which indeed were true if he did not speak it concerning the Man CHRIST but concerning the Promised CHRIST in the Covenant which first in Time fulfilled the Covenant 23. For Not CHRIST the Man who in the Time in the Limit of the Covenant manifested or revealed himselfe was slain in the Holy Patriarchs but the Children of Faith in whom the Covenant became manifested 24. CHRIST hath once given and offered up his holy Life in the sweet Love to his Father into his Anger which was manifested in the Humane Property and with the Love broken the Anger to pieces He hath not dyed in ALL the Saints from Adam to this time and suffered himself to be slain and put to death Only the Children of the Faith of the Covenant have suffered themselves to be put to death according to the MAN of SINNE that the word of Life in the Covenant in them might put on the new promised Life which would manifest it self in the Covenant with the future Sun of the New Life in the Spirit of the Covenant 25. So that when Christ would manifest himself in the Covenant in the Flesh he also in that Covenant which had manifested it selfe in them would be manifested in them with the divine Substantiality viz with Christs heavenly Flesh 26. For even after the Resurrection of Christ when he had assumed the Humanity and slain death it was not CHRIST that dyed any more in his Members in the Christians or was slain but Adam in Christs Death that Christs Spirit in the Soul and the holy Man might Live When Christ becometh born then should the Man of Sinne continually Dye till at last when the Outward body departeth it WHOLLY ceaseth 27. But if Christ the Lamb of God were become slain in the Old Patriarchs then the reconciliation was performed IN them and then it cometh not solely and onely from the Sonne of MARY 28. Abel was NOT the Lamb of God which was slain for Sinne Christ dyed not in Abel but in the BODY which he received from MARY 29. Abel and all the Martyrs dyed as to their own Bodies for the sake of the Covenant which opened it self in them they were slain and dyed as to their sinfull Adamicall Body and not as to the Holy Body which was shut up in the Covenant which Christ when he would manifest himself in the Covenant would manifest it to be an Eternall Life and holy Flesh in which he would dwell and be the power and Life thereof 30. When the Holy Scripture saith CHRIST was slain in the Saints then it understandeth then Members of the Body of CHRIST according to Christs humanity which HE the Christ assumed It understandeth not the Triune God that should suffer it selfe to be slain from the beginning of the world for doubtlesse God cannot dye That which dyeth is only the Body of Christs Members according to the humane Creature and not according to the Spirit of Christ 31. The Spirit of Christ hath therefore manifested it self in the Humanity and slain Death in his assumed Body that the Gates of Life in us should be opened for if I be murthered for the sake of Christs Name and the Testimony thereof then doth not Christ dye in me but Adam dyeth in Christs death and Christ in my dying becometh first rightly manifested 32. My dying is Christs Resurrection in ME for I dye away to the sinfull self-hood or Nothingnesse and live to the Resignation in the Spirit of Christ 33. Therefore this is a voyd and groundlesse thing that this Authour writeth that the Man Christ the Innocent Lamb of God God himself which from the beginning of the world according to the Testimony of the Scripture was slain in all the Saints and faithfull c. 34. The Triune God is not from the beginning of the world slain in his Saints the Scripture saith not so but the Faithfull Men were slain for Christs sake and NOT the Triune Christ IN them
world which giveth Life to all Creatures but in the Curse of the vanity viz in SINNE lyeth the Evill Child which Adam awakened and manifested 101. But what kinde of Whimseyes this Authour hath that He will not allow the Divine Tincturing and Transmutation to consist with the New Birth and contemneth and rejecteth ALL that it cannot be enough discerned why he giveth forth so altogether Blind and absurd Matters 102. He telleth us of a totall New strange Creature which is generated in CHRIST if that were so then we could not at all say that Christ had taken on himself our Flesh and Bloud Much lesse the Soul then also he might not at all be called The Womans Seed How should we then be partakers of him 103. Hath not Christ taken on him my Creature how then hath he in my Flesh slain Death and quenched the Anger of God but if he hath taken on him my Creature what kind of strange New Creature should enter into me 104. I know of no strange one It were directly contrary to the Article of the Resurrection of the Dead I must not speak of another Man of another Creature but of a TRANSMUTATION of the Course stone into Gold the unholy into pure holinesse 105. If that must be done then must the right Artist in ME Come viz the Holy Spirit with the divine Tincture which is Christs Bloud wherewith he brake in peeces the vanity of our Humanity and brought our right Life forth through Death 106. I must be Tinctured or else I cannot be Transmuted If Christ do not Tincture me with his Bloud then my HOLY Paradise-LIFE remaineth faded or disappeared in Death but if he doth Tincture ME then the Holy Spirit in me becometh stirring who CAN in Christs Flesh and Bloud Transmute ME according to the Inward Paradise-Man 107. God had not to do about a strange Creature in that he became Man but about that which in Adam he created in Paradise Job saith In this MY Flesh shall I see GOD and my Eyes shall see him and NOT anothers 108. My Own Essence of the INWARD Man is in this Life time tinctured and Transmuted and my OUTWARD Mortall Man is Tinctured with Christs Death to DYE and the MYSTERY of the outward Man viz the Fift Essence or QUINTESSENCE understand the Outward Spirit WITHOUT the Abomination wherein the Four Elements stand in Equall agreement in One Will and Substance is Tinctured for the Last release and Resurrection of the Dead which transmutation will be effected at the Last DAY 109. This Man Imageth or frameth a Phantasie in himself and Thinketh he is no more what he was his Nature is totally gone from him he is totally a New Creature inwardly and outwardly and that is totally false and groundlesse 110. His earthly Man is not Christs Bride in Gods holinesse but he is Christs Bride in Christs Death so farre as he is capable or partaker of that 111. But while he will needs be Perfect and cursorily passe over Christs Death and be already risen again in Christs Death he truly in the Self-hood goeth back with Christs Death into the 〈◊〉 112. I wish him from my Heart that his Body visibly were capable or partaker of Christs Death for in that I live in my self-hood I do not rejoyce but I rejoyce in this that I in my self-hood stand in CHRISTS Death and continually DYE 113. And I wish that I yet might totally dye to self-hood that my self-hood might be totally resigned up into God and I be only an Instrument or Tool of God and knew nothing more of my Self-hood 114. But that this Authour mentioneth that he is altogether dead to self-hood and is the Glorious Type of Christs Bride which God would manifest upon Earth in this Last Time totally inwardly and outwardly holy PERFECT without vanity blemish or Sinne we would readily allow him to be so if he would sufficiently assure us of it 115. But upon his supposititions insufficient groundlesse literall demonstration whereas yet he doth not understand How the Scripture speaketh we shall not be able to beleeve him unlesse we see the Paradise upon him and see that he is dead from the outward world and do use it no more 116. For no conceit availeth but Feeling by Experience and so 〈◊〉 all the while he liveth in the vanity and perplexeth himself in the vanity and is affected with strife we beleeve him NOT neither can we beleeve him in regard of Christs word which warneth us that we should beware of those that give forth themselves to be CHRIST 117. And if one did go about in doing Miracles and did live still in the vanity in Evill and Good yet then we must say that he is a Mortall Man even though he were inwardly holy and New-born in CHRIST 118. The Golden Mountain which he promiseth in this Tabernacle the old Adam might or would readily allow and put on if it were possible and that God would do so with us 119. Also we would very heartily esteem him for the Type and the first born of the Adamicall Bodyes if it were he that could manifest or perform so great a promise upon OUR Mortall Bodies or if he could but manifest it on HIS own 120. But that he saith we can not see it on him we should beleeve it none can assure us of it I cannot beleeve him unlesse he assure me of it that I may conceive it is true else I take it to be an Imagination 121. What the Spirit of GOD signifieth concerning the Last Sion hath another A. B. C. we understand it NOT to be with clarified Transfigured or Glorified Bodies wherein the vanity shall be totally Dead but concerning the Fall of Babel and that the end belongeth to the Beginning NOT the Two Tinctures turned into One according to the OUTWARD Man but we understand Eve in the REPENTANCE and in the simplicity for the evill Lust or Longing which SHE had 122. His marriage State or City which he supposeth to be is only an Eve his SION is a Vale of Misery in Care Toyle Labour and Necessity For Winter and Summer Day and Night Seed time and Harvest shall not cease as was said to Noah till the Great and Terrible DAY of the Lord shall COME 123. Also thus the Mountain of God viz SION is in the whole world where there be honest vertuous people that fear and Love God HE himself is IN the Honest Men the marriage City of GOD must be in MAN as also the Temple of CHRIST where the HOLY SPIRIT teacheth 124. We need no conceit nor running up and down the City of Gods Habitation IS every where where honest Men are together as Christ saith Where TWO or THREE are met together in My Name there am I in the midst amongst them 125. But seeing he speaketh of a visible holy Seed and woman of Christ and will have that to
then I may better comply with him therein 157. Seaventhly But that he saith God was not manifested or revealed in the First Adam He First manifested himself in CHRIST with the Deity in the Humane property and so casts away wholly the first Created Man in his Nature and bringeth a totall new and other Man forth out of Christ which is not at all the First which is wholly wrong and erroneous and he should demonstrate it by the Holy Scripture or else we will not grant it to this New Bride 158. For although the first Man fell wholly into Sinne as to Body and Soul yet we should Consider what Sinne Is viz this is Sinne that he departed or went out from the Order or Ordinance wherein God Created him 159. He went out of the Free Resignation in which the Name JESUS in the Divine Light was Manifested in him and manifested in the Flesh the Anger of God so that it began to qualifie or operate and took in wholly the Life in the Flesh of the three Principles For the Souls Will went forth from the Resignation from the JEHOVA or JESUS and so the Substance also disappeared wherein JEHOVA was 160. Thus the Outward Earthly body became accursed that is the through-pressing power JEHOVA which before made Paradise in the Flesh that departed from the Flesh into it self and so came the Death and dying into the Flesh 161. For the Eternall Life stood in JEHOVA viz in the Name JESU wherein man was foreseen before the time of the world that it would manifest it self again in the Humane Soul and make the disappeared Image of the Divine Substantiality living again and receive that into it self and would be the CHRIST therein Else it must follow that the sinfull Soul were become wholly rejected or cast away 162. If the Originall of the Regenerate Man were wholly strange what would become of Job's word where he saith I shall see God in this my Flesh and my Eyes and not a stranger shall see HIM 163. No strange Man it is that shall arise from the Dead but only that which God Created in Adam in his Image in which God himself took mercy and compassion on him again and for that purpose moved the Name JESUS in the humane property which assumed the Womans Seed on him and therein quenched the Anger of God in the Soul in the Fathers Property with Heavenly Bloud and became a Pestilence to the Devils Poyson in the Soulish Property and a sting of Death to Death so that Death must dye in his Death 164. For JESUS with the CHRIST brought the Life out of Death and Anger it is written He is made unto us Righteousnesse and Redemption understand the CHRIST but he which hath been from Eternity in Eternall full or Equall Omnipotency and the Creation of all things he cannot be made to be Righteousnesse for he is himself the Creator but this CHRIST is out of JESU or JEHOVA whose out-going is from Eternity become in our Flesh made to be Righteousnesse and Redemption from the Anger of God 165. Now that which is made beginneth it self in the Making indeed out of the Eternall for the Soul hath introduced it self into Time viz into self-hood but CHRIST who out of the Eternity out of the JESU became born in the Humane Property he brought it again into himselfe into the Eternity out of the Time viz forth out of the corrupt or perished Source or Quality of the Mercury 166. CHRIST was not in the Person from Eternity but in the Power in the Name JESU he was from Eternity in the same co-equall Substance with God and this strange Bride shall not perswade us that God was not manifested in Adam Indeed not in CHRIST but in JESU whose Exit was from Eternity 167. The Soul went forth out of JESU into own selfe-will but God took mercy and compassion on it and promised yet once to move himselfe in Man with the Name JESU and in Man to generate the CHRIST out of Gods and Mans Substance 168. NOT out of Sinfull Flesh from the Outward world but out of the Divine Flesh which in Adam when he entred into the outward Earthly disappeared and dyed so that the outward only hung to him 169. For in the Outward Flesh was the Death in THAT should Christ break death in Peeces and New Generate in him the Whole Man as God Created him not introduce a strange one but to heal the broken Reed 170. As a Grain of Seed is sown into the Earth out of which a fair Stalk groweth with many fruits where the Essence of the Grain giveth forth that Stalk and the Shell or Husk only dyeth so also in Man the husk of Sinne only dyeth the humane Essence in the Name JESUS in the CHRIST which became manifested in Man becometh that very CHRIST not the King or the Stock but a little Twig or Branch out of that very Stock 171. Therefore this Man cannot perswade us except he demonstrate it to us that CHRIST the Expresse Image of God out of the Stock of the Love his Mother was generated from Eternity and was an Expresse Image of God 172. But in this he was the Expresse Image of God from Eternity viz in the Figure of Man in which Figure God Created Man with beginning and Creature there the Image of the similitude became known in God and even in the Name JESU which in this Looking-Glasse of the Expresse Image in the power of JESUS would become a CHRIST 173. The Life of Christ began it self with the second Moving when God moved himself according to his Heart in the Humane Property in the Eternall seen similitude of God in the JESUS and gat the Name of CHRIST as a Saviour or healer of the Sore and not from Eternity 174. For the similitude of God which was Seen in Gods wisdome from Eternity and known in the JEHOVA wherein God created Man that was before the Times of the world without Life and Substance and was only a Looking-Glasse of the Image wherein God saw himself how he might be in an Image 175. But when JEHOVA moved himself in this Image and Similitude then God manifested his Life in this Looking-Glasse in humane Property then was CHRIST conceived and generated or born for according to the Humanity he is called CHRIST not according to the Deity before all Creatures 176. According to the Deity he is called the Eternall Word of the Father for it is written The Word became Flesh Not Christ became Flesh Christ is that simple Servant of which God saith in Esaiah Who is so simple as my servant He became the Servant of God by whom God brake death in Peeces and destroyed Hell 177. This Christ is ascended up to Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God as a Prince of God and beareth the Eternall Name of God which is there called JESUS or JEHOVA 178. He is the High Priest
the Fiat viz in the hunger of the desire Material and originateth out of the power of the Flesh and of the Spirit both of the Man and of the Woman 93. In the Man the Spirit is fiery that soweth the Fiery Tincture in the Woman the Spirit is watery according to the Light that soweth the Spirits Tincture in the Inward Kingdome the Image of the faded Substantiality and in the outward the Aires property out of the abomination of the Earthlinesse 94. Her seed is in the outward totally Cagastrish or drossy but if She be Holy then it is in the Inward according to the saded Image Iliastrish that is halfe Paradisicall for it beareth the Rose-Garden wherein God became Man it beareth according to the second Principle the house of PARADISE but in the Outward Principle it beareth the Childe of the existed abomination out of Adams Lust and in the Third Principle viz in the Earthlinesse it beareth the Dying viz the Death and Earthlinesse 95. The Man beareth in his Seed in the first Principle the Fire-world viz the Fathers Property out of which the Father manifesteth his Sonne viz his Love viz Venus'es Matrix that is the second Principles Property in him but in his Seed not manifested but only as a Glimmering Tinder or Mother so far as he is holy and in the Third Principle he beareth in the Sulphur and Mercury in his Seed the awakened Anger of God in which the abomination against God existed and became Manifested in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Womans Property 96. These Properties become with the Seeds of Man and Woman in the Conjunction brought into ONE there the TWO Tinctures receive one another in great Joyfulnesse as it is found by experience when the Seed goeth forth How the Tincture lifteth up it self in Joy whence mans Life is moved as a Joyfull aspect enough understood by those that are OURS 97. And the Two Tinctures espouse themselves thus instantly in the Sulphur of the Seed into One and awaken the Mercury viz the Work-master of the Life so that he laboureth in the Seed and awakeneth the Lifes forms in the Sulphur 98. And if the Mercury be not potent enough then it draweth the Mothers Menstruum to it self and bringeth it into the Seed of the Conjunction then it maketh the Seed in Menstruo to be FLESH in which yet there is a materiall poyson and the great abomination against the holynesse and purity as is sufficiently understood by all Lovers of Mysteries what kind of poyson lyeth in the Menstruum which desttoyeth and poysoneth any tender plant of the Earth as is undenyable 99. Now in this Menstruum and poyson is the Seed come to be Flesh and both the Tinctures are therein and have their nourishment from their Substance and the true Life in Soul and Spirit existeth out of THAT 100. Where now in this is the totall holinesse without blemish according to this Authour Let him shew it me here and then I will esteem him for the Bride of Christ as he will needs be so in his outward Flesh 101. The Scripture saith Man is sown in dishonour but riseth up in power Here is understood the second Principle in which the Word of Life standeth together in that Espousall but not in the Evill sinfull Flesh which is full of kindled affections and false or wicked desires 102. But if the Seed be of wicked Parents then is the Mother Tinder in the second Principle not stirring but if the Parents be Holy then is the Seed manifested in the Threefold Life viz in the Threefold Essence but if not then is the Divine Mother or Tinder not Manifested according to the Love-power but onely according to the Anger and according to the outward world 103. And though it be so that honest marryed people beget children and joyn themselves together with Love-desire yet it hath NOT this meaning or understanding That the Imagination or Desire of Man and Wife is holy and that Christs Spirit driveth on the Imagination as this Author supposeth Indeed the Noble Soul is ashamed of it 104. The Imagination ariseth out of the Tinctures which kindle the Mercury with their Lust and the Mercury kindleth the Spirit of the Life and now existeth the Lust and Will in the Heart viz a vehement desire the tenderer the Complexion is the Nobler also is the Tincture in its sweet desire 105. But if also it be shot with a fiery Dart in Venus'es desire then is the Life kindled so that it is as it were more than halfe Mad with Love Thoughts and yet knoweth not what is happened to it 106. Must all this now be holy then would the Secret WHOREDOMES where oftentimes one vehemently and fierily loveth anothers Wife and in like manner one Woman anothers husband and so is shot with this Dart be also Holy also when two young persons look upon one another whence instantly Venus shooteth with her fiery Dart then must that also be Holy whereas indeed the Dart often goeth forth in false or wicked Lust 107. And though it be at the best yet it is a thing that is in all Beasts it is Naturall Men find some Beasts that are even ashamed of it wherein it appeareth that Nature it self is ashamed of it and when men will give it the best and rightest name then it is called an abomination before Gods holinesse being a thing existed out of Sinne through Adams-Fall which indeed is boarn with all under divine patience seeing it cannot be otherwise of which we could take many Examples in the Holy Scripture 108. Look upon the people Israel when God would give them the Law at Mount Sinai and manifest or reveal himself with his voyce then he commanded the Young People which were loaden with such burning Lust to abstain from their WIVES and that pointed not only at the Marriage work but also at the * Imagination 109. When David came to Nob to the Priest Abimelech and there was no Bread but the Holy Bread the Priest said to David if the young Men had abstained from Women then would he give to them and David said the Women were left these Three dayes 110. Herein Men have a very cleer example that even the People of David ought not to eat of the holy Bread if they had touched Women then were they unclean and David had shut up the Women therefore from the Young Men that they should not be Made unclean with the Women through burning and Lust for they were in the warres that they should not be an abomination before God and so God suffer them to fall in Battell 111. And Saint Paul saith 1 Corinth 7. 5. concerning Marryed persons That they should not depart one from another unlesse it be with both their consent that they may apply themselves unto Prayer Saint Paul meaneth that Men should FORBEAR the Marriage work when they will Repent viz enter into true sorrow with Prayer before God It is just
the Name JESUS is the holy divine Life viz the Divine Seed out of the word of the Deity the Womans Seed is his assumed Substance 81. And therefore HE is called the Womans Seed because he is from the woman viz from the heavenly Virginity which faded or disappeared in Adam and as to another part from the outward worlds substance in which the Name JESUS viz Gods seed destroyed or brake in peeces Death and Gods Anger 82. The womans Seed is a totall humane Seed from Soul and Body but it must be rightly understood as to THAT Seed wherein Adam might have generated Magically if his Longing or Lust had not plunged it self into vanity Evill and Good and awakened the Abomination as is before mentioned and here following in the Fourth Point 83. Now if I will in this place speak so highly of the divine Womans Seed then I must distinguish Gods and the Womans Seed and must rightly shew How Gods Seed viz the Name JESUS out of the word of the divine Sound or Life hath united it self with the womans Seed and given up it self into ONE Person which is called CHRIST 84. The Name JESUS is the anointing of the Womans Seed and in the anointing he is called CHRIST the Sonne of God the Seed of the Woman hath a given power and the Seed of the Woman is under or beneath God as the Body is beneath the Soule but the Name JESUS is the Giver 85. This Authour mixeth ALL TOGETHER and that for TWO Causes one is because himself doth not rightly understand it the other because he may advance all humane things and give forth himselfe onely for CHRIST viz for the Divine power and Omniscience and therefore he rejecteth all ART and PRAYER it self and calleth it a Forgotten thing as if it were without power or powerlesse and did not attain that which is Eternall 86. He will needs perswade us that the Womans Seed CHRIST God and Man is according to BOTH Natures totally ONE and that will HE Himself be But the humane Nature continueth indeed Eternally beneath the Diety though it is not devided for all that yet the Substance is not AS the Spirit 87. God with or by creating Man hath not created to himselfe a GOD which is of his own Substance but an Image of a Similitude according to himself viz a Manifestation of his unsearchable divine Substance in which he manifesteth himself to his own Joy of himself and Deeds of WONDER 88. And hath given to Man again to seek and to reveal or manifest the wonders of God in THIS worlds substance to his viz man 's own Joy delight and longing pleasure that God might be praised known and acknowledged in ALL works and Substances or THINGS HEre followeth The Authour Esaiah Stiefel's Fourth Point of the Fourth Text. 1. HItherto hath been Mentioned How Christ the Triune highly praised God and Man the holy Seed the living substantiall powerfull word of God hath appeared according to Measure from the beginning of the world in all the Saints his wife or woman and been manifested in the Eyes and Hearts of the Faithfull 2. Hereupon now it is rightly acknowledged by all the Called Elect truly faithfull Christians that this most holy womans Seed the Eternall Birth of God before all Creatures the Triune highly praised Sonne and living totally substantiall powerfull word of God and most holy Seed of the totall fullnesse of the Triune Deity 3. In the holy body and woman or wife of God the pure chast undefiled Virgin MARY humane Nature yet through and in the FAITH of the New-and re-generated holy pure flesh and bloud in unity hath taken to himself the pure humane Body and Soul to the undivided Eternall union and united it 4. And hath been generated and Manifested in and out of the faithfull Love and Wife or Spouse or Woman of God the Holy Virgin Mary a little infant and visible holy Creature the Sonne of God and Man in ONE Person 5. And as the greatest and least yes the totall fullnesse of the Divine Substance in the kingdome of Heaven from the least to the greatest here upon Earth in the Flesh of the least of all and most despised and unworthy generated in the Holy divine Unity such a Man and little childe which is equally in the Most high highnesse of all the great Triune GOD and LORD 6. This Perfect holy Seed and Word of God in one holy pure undefiled Person God and Man in the union of the woman Body and Soul through the Faith out of God and this his holy Seed regenerated viz the right Bridegroom which hath united and taken to himself the Bride of all faithfull good divine holy Flesh and Bloud in his holy humane Person 7. Concerning which the faithful witnesse John the Baptist and Fore-runner of Christ mentioneth this He that hath the Bride is the Bridegroome 8. In this perfect totall divine totall humane holy substance in one Person hath this Triune God and Man CHRIST JESUS delivered his wife or woman of his Body yes faithfull Body and Soul to and in a Masculine and Feminine Person who from the beginning to the end of the World have put their FAITH and trust in him in this his holy becoming Man or Incarnation from all Sinne Death Devil Hell world and ALL worldly Lust of the Flesh and of the Eye temporal and Eternal Damnation through his holy Passion dying and bloud shedding 9. And through his Innocent Death hath rescued from the Guilty Death and sinfull will and out of the shameful Kingdome of the abominable Satan Thief Lyar and Murtherour and set us in his own kingdome of Glory with himself to the Eternall Endlesse Joy and holy peace out of the Eternal Satanical sadnesse misery anguish necessity disquietnesse hatred envy and enmity of the mischievous Devils yes set us in the Eternal rest and blessednesse or Salvation 10. Now as this Perfect Triune Seed and word of God the totall fullnesse of the Deity in visible union of the Humane yet faithfull Nature a little Infant hath been and appeared which according to the testimony of the Scripture like other faithful Children grew to visible palpable greatnesse and was received to wisdom Age and Grace or favour with God and faithfull Men. 11. Which also the most holy high divine Triune Majesty exalted in and to himself from hours dayes and years in his visible Holy Person Gloriously and also at last here upon Earth visibly through his holy innocent Suffering and Dying Joyful Resurrection and Ascention made PERFECT and himself presented for a perfect Man or Husband of his totall Bride all the faithfull Holy Flesh and Bloud of his totall Church or Congregation in holy undivided Eternall Unity 12. And as he was from the beginning of the world in all Saints his Woman or Wife and faithfull Flesh and Bloud viz a child and Sonne of God of the Faithfull Flesh and Bloud of his womans Seed
He mentioneth that MARY was totally sanctified and Perfect before CHRIST was conceived Now if the Faith could have attained and have discovered the Perfection and Totally have new Generated Man that he had been united with and in God in Body and Soul in Totall perfect holinesse then Christ had come in vain 7. And his suffering and Death had not been profitable to us if the FAITH could have broken the Anger of God also Death and Hell and have appeased the Angry Father and have quite taken away the abomination in the vanity of the Flesh 8. Also if CHRIST viz the Word of God had totally inwardly and outwardly taken to himself a holy and perfect Body and Soul upon Earth wherein had he broken Death And in WHAT Body had he taken on himselfe the SINNES of All Men And in what Body then hath he dyed to Sinne WHAT Body became a Curse on the Crosse 9. If it had been only the holy Perfect Body then would Gods holinesse have made it selfe a Curse and our Restitution had been only a Sacrifice which might well have been done in the Faith or through the Judaicall Sacrifice O it must needs be an Evill God who will not suffer himself to be appeased unlesse he revenge himself upon his Perfect holy Substance 10. Else why should he lay all SINNE upon one holy perfect Man and cause his fierce wrath to be shewn upon him and so Revenge himself such an understanding this giveth if we say Mary was in the Faith in flesh and bloud in body and soul totally perfect and totally united with the Holy Divine Substance 11. But seeing the Omniscient Authour here spoiles his breath therefore we will here in part a little blow up our sparkle and unfold the Mystery better 12. King David said In Sin was I born and in Sin did my Mother conceive me and this David it is out of whom MARY was born viz out of the Seed of David of the Seed of Joachim her father and Anna her Mother 13. Now if MARY had attained in the Faith the highest Perfection why not also David and the Patriarchs in whom was the Holy Ghost as well as in MARY 14. And though this Authour indeed determines that they were totally Holy and Perfect yet their Sinne and Mortallity moreover their Infirme life in Sicknesse Care perplexity and necessity will not permit that in which they all lived in the Curse and abomination in the vanity of the Earthly Flesh which abomination in their dying was first broken and ceased as to them 15. In the Abomination of the vanity there is not by far any totall perfection but Sinne and Death as David witnesseth of himselfe as also all the Patriarchs 16. But concerning MARY and CHRIST this is the true understanding MARY was the Limit of the Covenant of God in Paradise instituted after the Fall That Covenant stood in the true Image which faded or disappeared in Adam when he manifested or revealed the vanity in his outward Flesh 17. Concerning which God said The day that thou shalt eat of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill viz of the vanity thou shalt dye the Death which also instantly came to passe he dyed to the divine world and awakened to the Earthly world in the vanity 18. For the Soul viz the true Life of the heavenly substantiality entered with its Desire into the Abomination then the Divine Light departed from the Image of the heavenly Substantiality and now it stood in Death as a Nothing and this true Image it is which God from Eternity hath beheld with his holy Spirit in the wisdome but without Substance which he created into Substance that is brought Substance into this Image from the Three Principles 19. But when the Spirit of the Three Principles viz the true Soul went from its Eternall Image of the purity into the Abomination of vanity viz into the Earthly Substance and awakened the same in the Forms of Nature and manifested it in the Flesh then the fair Image disappeared and stood again in the hiddennesse at its Eternall Limit without knowledge and perception of the Earthly Adam in Abomination 20. But seeing Gods purpose was that this fair Similitude of God should stand Eternally before him in Substance as a beloved Scene of his Joy and a Similitude of the Eternall Substance and Spirit therefore he promised to move himselfe yet once and with his highest Love and Humility viz in the Center of the sweet Love in the word of his Sound to manifest the Image in Substance again 21. Now in MARY lay the disappeared Substance in the Covenant this was the dry Rod of Aaron which grew again in One Night and bare Almonds as is to be read in Moses 22. Now when the Angel came to MARY and brought her the Message that she should be impregnate with Child and generate or bear the Saviour of the World though indeed she wondered how it should come to passe yet she said Behold I am the Maid-servant of the Lord let it be done as thou hast sayd that is she gave up her will and desire into Gods will he should doe what he would 23. And in this Point hath the Center of the voyce of God according to the deepest Love of the hiddenness of God in the Image of the disappeared substance with the Introduction of the divine heavenly substance of the Paradise and Element and all whatsoever the Deity in the Holiness containeth manifested it selfe in the Natural seede of MARY 24. Understand in the seede of MARY of her spirit and Flesh wherein lay the soules and bodyes Essence viz in Venus'es Matrix in the womans seede as it was promised in Paradise also to Abraham and to David 25. Now understand us aright what the cleere Deity hath received to it selfe not Marys sinfull Seede in which death became broken on the Crosse indeede it had received it to it selfe but in another Principle 26. The pure Holy Deity was alwayes from Eternity in Eternity surrounded with the substance of the Heaven in the inward viz. with the Holy substance that very holy substance hath the voyce of the holy Deity with the Moving of the Word introduced into Marys disappeared Substance understand into the Seede of Mary and united it selfe with Maryes substance in the Covenant of God 27. For John the 3. he sayth None goeth to Heaven but the sonne of Man who is come from Heaven also I am gone forth and Come out from God into this world Now the cleere Deity needes no coming for it is in all places before hand it needeth only to Manifest it selfe to or in the â—â—ace and all whatsoever cometh that is substance but God in his Trinity is a spirit without substance as to what he is solely in the Deity 28. Therefore when God would move and Manifest himself in his Covenant in Maryes heavenly disappeared substance then came he with the substance and manifested himself
be totally without blemish We desire to see a sign or token thereof let him Set that before us that we may acknowledge it and see it on him and THEN we will beleeve him 126. And let him leave others whom God hath gifted in Part undisgraced else we will say of him that he hath neither Part nor Perfection but only a bare Imagination and Vain spiritual pride which is instigated by the driving of Satan who fain would erect such a flattering seeming Holinesse 127. Seeing he perceiveth that the Man of Sinne shall be revealed or manifested therefore he will set such a Glistering Chappell neer it That Sinne might no more be known or acknowledged and that he might still under such a Glistering Cloak have his hypocrisie and Church totally Blind in Sinne. 128. For that is the Devills manner when he seeth that Sinne in Man becometh manifested or discovered then he casteth over Sinne 〈◊〉 a fine Glistering Trimmed or adorned Cloak and giveth it into 〈◊〉 perswasion that he is Holy Perfect and Righteous 129. Thus he layeth the Man of Sinne in a Fine soft Bed and covereth him with Christs Purple Mantle to try whether he might under such a cover sift and betray him Thus will he also do at this Time for he observeth that the Man of Sinne shall be manifested and that Babel shall be discovered 130. Therefore he cometh very finely and Lovely Covered with a shining Luster or appearance and would cover the Adamicall evill child totally that it should no more be called sinfull it shall deny its sinfull Name in the vanity and call it self totally Christ and holy and saith it is a Lye if the Earthly beastiall Man calleth it self after its own self Beastiall Property 131. O beloved Brethren and fellow Members of Christ all that read this be faithfully warned and admonished cover NOT the Man of Sinne with Christs Purple Mantle and lay him not at all in his Bed of Best but uncover him continually before GOD and cast him dayly and hourly into the GRAVE into Christs Death CRUCIFIE him without ceasing all the while ye live in this vanity of this Flesh 132. Let him have no REST hold him for your Enemy who hath devoured your Noble Pearly Jewel viz the PARADISE presse generate or pierce him with Christs Death that you may attain your Pearl again out of Christs Death in his Resurrection out of this Tabernacle where it lyeth shut up in Death acknowledge your selves only for poor SINNERS before GOD and go continually with the Prodigall lost and yet returning Son to the Father and pray to him for Grace 133. Our whole life should be a continuall RESISTANCE 〈…〉 even a continuall SINNING and though indeed the 〈…〉 Branch new generated or Born IN Christs Spirit 〈…〉 yet the Earthly Man IN Soul and Body sinneth and which continually to break or destroy the Noble †Rose-Bud again and altogether obscure it 134. The more Divine OYL is introduced into the 〈◊〉 Rose-Bud out of the Wounds and Death of CHRIST the fresher and fairer it groweth and the fairer it Blossomed 135. Here is the Field where the fruit groweth let man be perswaded to such sluggishnesse and to lye on such a soft Bed as to think he IS fairly grown and quite or full BLOSSOMED O No no by no means 135. But continually without ceasing draw divine 〈…〉 selfe in the Greatest Humility from and out of Gods Love 〈…〉 Honey out of the fair Blossomes or Flowers for as soon as 〈…〉 cure or carelesse and thinketh he is HOLY Honey then the 〈◊〉 bringeth to him Poyson in the vanity which the own-self 〈…〉 own self Lust or Longing sucketh into it self 137. The Man that would fain grow and bear fruit in Gods Kingdome can not do better then to suck all his power and vertue which he will use for the growing or Springing of his Life through CHRISTS Bloud and Death and continually cast his vanity to the Ground before the Truth and Clarity of God and continually be as if he were a DYING where he mightily presseth on to the Death of SINNE 138. * No City or place of REST belongeth to Sinne and vanity for so soon as Sinne Resteth THEN groweth the desire to vain Lust or pleasure But while the Death and destroyer or Breaker in pieces is UPON it then it dyeth without ceasing away from vain Lust or Pleasure and the fair Rose-bud groweth out of this dying which becometh carryed in GODS Hand to a Joy and rejoycing of the DEITY 139. Dear Brethren I have made this explanation out of a 〈◊〉 mind not at all with intent to scorn or disgrace the †Authour for I know his miserable confusednesse more then he doth himself and wish him from my Heart that he will yet be humble and know himself that he yet standeth in the Field or Soil where the fruit groweth and not boast himself before the time of fruit 140. For most certainly and truly there will be A SION as I then my self Hope that the Man of Sinne will be manifested or revealed and seek himself in GODS MERCY then must follow a constant continuall Repenting Life wherein Man knoweth and acknowledgeth himself to be in the 〈◊〉 and continually presseth from vanity out from vain Lust and pleasing into Gods Mercy 141. The poor sinfull Man must only with the poor Lazarus Lay himself at Gods feet under his Table and at his Dore and desire the Crummes from Gods Table and continually cloath himself in the Ganaanitish Woman with Heart and totall Mind 142. NO Flattery or Hypocrisie attaineth the Pearly Jewell for it lyeth buried in NO place but in the Death of the Earthly MAN THAT must be gone and then it is manifested the Adamicall Death must be changed into Christs Death if any would find the Pearl of Christ 143. CHRIST prayed to his Father so that he sweat a Bloudy Sweat when he would brake or destroy Death in the Flesh Now if we will bee and his Children and be generated or born out of HIS Death then 〈◊〉 we also dye with him in his Death and continually introduce our 〈…〉 great desire into HIS Bloudy Sweat and drown the awakened vain Lust and Pleasure IN his Bloudy Sweat 144. It must be sincere and earnest and not comforting and flattering Hypocrisie NOT to say to the Old Adam Thou art Christs Flesh No NO only Say †In me lyeth Sinne and vanity O God have Mercy upon Me in CHRIST thy dear Sonne and break and destroy my SINNE and VANITY in thy Death and bring me in HIS victory and Resurrection forth out of Death 145. Make thou Sinne and Death Nothing and grow THOU in CHRIST forth out of ME bring my Soul forth out of the Jawes of Death and vanity in CHRIST that I may 〈◊〉 to THEE and NOT to my selfe 146. Man in self-hood should ascribe no Divine Substance or Thing to himself but in all things give the honour to God and account himselfe