Moses and the Prophets have spoken in the Spirit 30. He must not be so blind as to look upon it as the Jewes and Babel doe who make onely of this History Conclusions of reason in respect of the Election of God as if God had thus onely chosen to himselfe a sundry and peculiar Nation or sort of people to be his children the Election of God passeth upon the figure onely shewing what people should bear the figure of the inward kingdome of Christ in the outward in which people God would set forth and manifest the kingdome of Christ externally the Jewes have had onely a mirror and type hereof externally and so likewise the Christians who looked upon Christ in the flesh as a meer pure man 31. These figures have remained very speechless to the world even to this last time and that from the purpose of God being man is such a piece of meer vanity and flesh and so soon weary of the Pearls and afterwards comes to trample them under-foot Therefore God hath dealt with man in Types and Parables as Christ also did when he came upon the earth He spake all these mysteries in Parables for mans unworthiness sake 32. But now at present there is Great Cause as all the Prophets have prophecied thereof that the same should be made manifest and the Cause is this that in this Last Trumpets Sound the * * * Rev. 10.7 mystery of the kingdome of God shall be finished and the bride of Christ viz. the wise virgins shall be prepared who shall meet the Lord in his Appearance and it betokens the day of Christs Coming when he will appear with the holy Citie the New Jerusalem and bring home his Bride Therefore the mystery of the Kingdome of God must first be unfolded and explained out of its Types and become wholly manifest 33. And this will be the fall of the fleshly Sinfull man in that the man of Sin must be made manifest as Saint Paul plainly prophecieth thereof * * * 2 Thess. 2.3 that the child of perdition shal be revealed to all Nations speeches tongues and the Beast with the whore shall go into the bottomless pit that is when the Kingdome of Christ becomes wholly manifest then the Beast and the whore of flesh viz. the false Bond-woman with her scoffing Son stands in great shame and is Judged of Every one as an whore in the Cage that Every one scornes and scoffs at 34. As indeed hitherto men have reviled Christ in the outward Image of Simplicity in his children and members in which Reason hath seen and known no more then Hagar and Ismael in their miserable banishment under which notwithstanding the voice of the Angel hath been which they have scorned and mocked in the foolish plain simplicity under the vail and have set up the mocker Ismael in Christs stead which hath been onely an Antichrist Now this mocker and Antichrist shall be revealed under this Trumpetts Sound and be cast out * * * Or by of the children of God into the * * * â—â—te Abysse this Babel shall see in a short time Declareth the Spirit of the wonders of God 35. We see all an excellent figure of this in Abimilech that when God will manifest himselfe to a people how he terrifies them in the midst of their Sins and appeareth to them in Anger as to Abimilech in the vision and to Moses in the bush of fire and also to Israel upon the Mount Sinai also in the fire and also to Elias in the fire and winde where allwaies the rebuke of Gods wrath is fore-signified how God doth bruise the hearts of men that they may feare and tremble before him as here Abimilech when the Lord appeared to him by night in a vision and threatned him by reason of Sarah he was astonished and told the same in the eares of his people and the people were sore afraid and Abimilech called Abraham and made a Covenant with him 36. This is an excellent figure and pregnantly intimates how God terrifieth the Enemies and comforts poor dejected nature when it quails for fear and turnes its fear into Joy and how the miserable and afflicted if he be honest is at last drawn out of misery and affliction and how at last his Enemies who before he thought to be his Enemies must serve him and advance him so wonderfully doth God lead his children if they do but endure Temptation and continue under the Cross of Christ in humility and not look upon Selfe-revenge but put on Patience in hope and persevere stedfast in the faith at last all a mans adversaries must see and acknowledge that God is with the man and that the world hath dealt wrongfully and unrighteously with him 37. Also this is an excellent emphaticall figure how Abraham when God would punish Abimilech did pray unto God for Abimilech and made reconciliation that God did bless Abimilech and this whole Hystory stands in the figure of Christ and holds forth how Adam and Christ are together how Christ is come into the Selfe-assumed Kingly own-hood or selfeness of man and terrifieth Sin and Death and how the poor corrupt nature doth turn it selfe in the horror and acknowledgement of Sin to God as here Abimilech turned unto Abraham and how it then giveth the kingdome of nature for a possession unto Christ and the inward figure in the Spirit of Moses who was the Type and figure of Christ who yet pointeth out of the Fathers property upon the Son in the flesh viz. in the humanity can be understood no otherwise then even thus It is the true Ground CHAP. XLVII Of the Covenant of Abimilech and Abraham shewing what the same is in the spirituall figure and what the Spirit in Moses under his vail doth here point at A very pretious and excellent Gate to the Children of God in Beer-sheba 1. COurteous and friendly Reader know that if a man should write many hundred Bookes of the history of Abraham yet he could not sufficiently express the abundant richness which lyeth hid under this figure but we will afford a little Service to the children of God in their weakness and somewhat unvail this figure being otherwise it is not to be understood by the naturall man and yet the Lord doth thus lead us in Grace to the understanding thereof therefore I shall here lend and give him the hand thereto observe it well there is couched under it a peerless matchless Pearl which shall here stand open and yet also continue hidden which cannot be purchased with the goods of the whole world it is hidden unto Reason The outward figure in the Text of Moses stands thus 2. And it came to passe at that time that Abimilech Gen. XXI v. 22. to the last verse being 34. and Pichol the chief Captain of his host spake unto Abraham saying God is with thee in all that thou doest Now therefore Sweare unto me here by God that thou
and V for the S is the character of the holy fire and the V is the character of the efflux issuing forth or Emanation out of the fire 43. Thus the Name Jacob was in the fullness of time in the Ens of Mary changed into the Name Jesus which understanding hath been as dumb and dead both to the Jewes and Christians being no Nation doth any more understand its own language and contend onely about the Compaction of the formed nature of the outward name and understanding the Mentall Tongue none will learn to understand how the same hath formed imprinted and * * * Modelized Ideafied it selfe in the words and Names in the sensuall tongue and yet the whole understanding lyeth therein without opinions if we were not so very blind and shut up in ignorance suffering selfe in pride to rule and govern us we should soon attain to the deepest understanding but the Antichrist beareth the supremacy therefore Esau onely ruleth in the understanding Gen. 25.27 28. 44. And Moses saith further And when the children were grown up Esau was a cunning Hunter and a man of the field and Jacob was a * * * Honest. plain man and dwelt in Tents and Isaac loved Esau and loved to eat of his venison but Rebecca loved Jacob. O thou wonderfull God how very simply and plainly are the greatest Mysteries typifyed and deciphered who can be able to understand without thy Spirit from whence it was that the pretious man Isaac in the Type of Christ loved the naturall man in Adams corrupt Image Esau more then Jacob in the Type of Christ in his figure if thou hadst not in thy knowledge vouchsafed mee to understand the same I must be here even stark blind but it is thy Counsell O Lord that we know thee and thy time is born that thou revealest the Secrets 45. Moses saith that Esau was an hunter and a man of the field and the Father loved to eat of his venison and loved him above Jacob here stands an externall figure as if Isaac loved Esau for his Activeness cunning skill or worldly exercise and loved him more then Jacob so wholly hath the Lord the heart of the wise and of his children in his hand that his children must not in their will doe what they please and oftentimes well understand but what God wills 46. Also we herein see how oftentimes God withdrawes the Mysteries from the most holy that they must be even children in them and although they beare the divine play in their Hands and t is their work and exercise yet they must have a child-like Heart in the understanding thereof as it may be seen here in Isaac 47. He loved Esau more then Jacob why so the Ens of Christ lay in him which ruled him for Christ should love his Enemies viz. the corrupt Esau and his naturall children him he loved more then his divine nature for he brought his divine nature into the death of the corrupt Adam and loved * * * Not his sin in the nature but his poor undon nature by sin which he by death freed from sin and death Adams corrupted nature more then his holy Ens which he for mans corrupt natures sake gave into the fire of Gods Anger that so he might redeem it in his Love of this Isaac was here a figure in the Image of Christ who loved his Hunter in his Evill nature more then Jacob he did not love his iniquity but his child-like nature to which he would do much good as Christ loved us in our Adamicall nature and did us good he did not Love us according to the will of Sin in us as Isaac also did not therein Love his Son Esau but according to the Fathers nature and property according to the child-like filial nature The inward figure stands thus 48. When Isaac intreated the Lord that his Rebecca might conceive his naturall desire with the * * * Earnest longing lubet of the divine Ens of faith entered into Rebecca whereby Rebecca was opened and so the naturall Love of Isaac which was environed with faith was propagated in his seed and opened it selfe in Esau Isaac's love did not open it selfe in Esau as to his corrupt nature I say not according to the kingdome of the nature of this world but according to the Covenant according to the Second Principle viz. according to Gods kingdome which the externall nature in him had not as yet apprehended as the divine Ens in Abraham did open and manifest it selfe according to the Second Principle and not in the mortall corrupt Adamicall nature of the outward world the like also is here to be understood in the figure in Esau. 49. Not that Esau did receive the Ens of Christ in the Covenant as Jacob but his Fathers Love-desire in which the hidden Covenant stood unmoveable now there was thus a Conjunction with his Fathers naturall Love for Every property loveth its own likeness especially if the likeness be proceeded forth from the Essence or thing Loving as Esau was conceived in Rebecca of his Father through his Love-desire 50. And it even denotes that the divine Ens in Gods Love in Isaac loved the miserable humane nature to redeem it therefore God manifested his Love in Abrahams faith and introduced the same into an Ens so that this same Love which God gave to redeem mankinde should Love the humane nature in its shut up abandoned condition as in very truth the true reall Adamicall nature ordained by God was shut up in Esau and on the contrary the kingdome of the wrath had the outward dominion Now to redeem this the spirit in the Covenant through Isaac's nature Loved his Son Esau viz. the filial nature and not onely because that he was an Hunter of the creatures 51. Yet here also by this Hunter we are even to understand the same as is set down before concerning * * * Gen. 10.9 Nimrod who was a mighty Hunter before the Lord for this whole description of the first book of Moses is Gods Spirits figure type or representation where he * * * Or Sets forth as in a Map playeth with the kingdome of nature and then also with Christs kingdome and he hath so pourtrayed delineated and typifyed the Acts of the holy Patriarchs under his figure that we may clearly see in all the histories the glance or allusion of Gods Spirit how he hath delineated and set forth to the life the kingdome of Christ and the kingdome of nature and also the Devills kingdome in the wrath of the Eternall nature and neither the Jewes or Christians hitherto have had a right understanding of the same which among the Patriarchs was rightly understood in its true meaning 52. But afterwards when their children and posterity gave no heed unto the same but disregarded the true understanding and loved their Evill nature more then the spirit in the Covenant then the understanding was
that so he might have great respect in the City Babel and therefore they build themselves strong holds and make great bulwarks and walls to defend and keep the Image and flatter themselves in hypocricy and understand and meane by the contrived and painted Image the God Maozim viz. the fat-belly God and pleasure of the beast viz. of this whores Image they set the Image upon the Towre for the shew of their holinesse and therewith they are very devout in glistering appearances before God as with a peculiar Selfe-born God but they immure the Beast within their Stone-houses that it may be secure and there fat it selfe 64. What is now this beast with the whore it is halfe-devill which hath its Kingdome upon the Earth and it is half beast this evill Beast hath devoured man viz. the Image of God 65. And for this cause God became man that he might destroy slay and nullifie the works of the Devill and we must put on this divine humanity and destroy the Devills Kingdome in us and mortifie all Images otherwise we cannot see God the living word must mortifie the literall Image 66. The living word is therefore become man that the literall Image might dye and the first man which was formed out of the living word in Gods Image might be regenerated anew in Christs Spirit viz. in the living word and if now he be borne then all the Image-teachers are more prejudicall then beneficiall to him for they introduce their Images onely into the Temple of Christ and destroy the Image of God 67. And let this here be declared concerning the children of Nimrod and the Towre of Babel as the Spirit hath so given us to know and we doe admonish the Reader in Love to prove and examine himselfe he shall finde where he is this is not written to reproach any but thus the Spirit speaketh with open mouth and sheweth what all things are from whence they come and into what End they shall goe 68. But the reason why so much is written of the Beast and the Whore of Babel is because it is at its End and shall soone be broken in pieces therefore it must be revealed that men may see and know it for Babel falleth not unlesse that all whatsoever hath made the Images doth likewise fall all Images Opinions and Sects of Religion together with the Beast and whore must fall else there is no Cure or remedy 69. Men have for a long time been a patching and pieceing of it and have verily thought to have made a virgin of the whore but her whoredome hath thereby been onely adorned trimmed up and made the greater if this whore shall fall then all Sects which are onely the Images of the whore must fall down and come to naught together with Beast upon whom she rideth every man must break down and destroy the Images and Idols in himselfe and where they will not doe it there the zeale of the Lord doth it 70. How very finely doth the whore at present perck up its head and being it heareth that the spirit doth intimate great and glorious things of Zion viz. of the Adorned holy bride of Christ then it thinks that it is the faire childe which God will bring into a golden Temple wherein there shall be a brave Golden Time and meere joy pleasure and delight and it looketh about to see from whence this faire Temple of God should come into which it should enter and become a virgin it hearkneth continually from whence these holy People should come who as it supposeth should make a Golden world 71. But it thinks not to leave off from its covetous voluptuous whoredome and be converted no! it groweth worse and worse and more unchaste and abominable full of blasphemies so that there is scarce any good at all in it and it standeth before God as an arraigned condemned whore 72. Hearken thou Adorned and crowned Babilon full of evill and wickednesse in the sight of God and his Angels we have heard a watchman say Away the city together with the Towre of the whore and the beast is fallen and judged of the most High thou shalt not see the city of God for ever unlesse that thy children doe put off and cast away the defiled Garment full of shame and fall down wholly naked and bare without any Image at the feet of the most High and turne unto him such as these may indeed see it but as for others who hope for golden mountaines and seek for Temporall honour money and pleasure of the flesh not any of them AMEN 73. Reason will here in the above mentioned Text where it is mentioned that a true Christian must dye to all Images Opinions and Selfe-knowledge and be wholly annihilated in himselfe begin to speculate cavill and say that we doe forbid man the naturall knowledge and externall Rationall wisdome whereby men doe Governe the life and all things of this world and if this were so all understanding would be abolished 74. Unto him we declare that nothing is hereby taken away or abolished in man neither understanding skill or Art for all these arise out of the divine wisdome we doe not nullifie the expressed Word of the formed wisdome but onely the Beast which will rule in divine contemplation viz. the beast-like will of Selfe and selvish ownhood and propriety which is departed from God which honoureth it selfe as a false selfly God and cannot beleeve or trust in God This is even the Antichrist which hath * * * 2 Thess. 2.4 set himselfe up in Gods place and we withall doe teach that man must wholly dye to the Antichristian Image that he may be born again in Christ with a new life and will which new will hath might and ability in the formed word of nature to see and behold with divine eyes all the wonders of God both in nature and creature in the formed wisdome 75. For if the Antichrist dyeth in the Soul then Christ ariseth from death for he resteth in the five vowells in his grave viz. in the mentall-tongue which dyed in Adam and lieth captive in Antichrist when this same ariseth from death in the mentall tongue and is made alive then he openeth all the treasures of the heavenly wisdome in the Sensuall tongue so that man doth far more clearly understand the spirits of the letters viz. the formed word of nature in all the three Principles then he did before in the Antichristian whores child 76. For the new birth is indeed effected and broughâ— to passe in the mentall tongue viz. in the disappeared Image of the heavenly humanity but it Tingeth and casteth away the false antichristian Image of the naturall humanity viz. of the spirits of the dumb sencelesse letters and doth make them all sencelesse and dead in their selfe-hood and gives them their own life so that they doe behold themselves in the new humanity and make all their assumptions and formations in the new humanity 77. These
not two we understand not herein the grosse beastiall man full of the Serpents Ens which shall not inherit the Kingdome of God John 6. but the true man which God created in his Image 10. Let Master Sophister or wiseling of Babel looke us right in the face and see what spirits child we are we understand not the Beast but the man Christ which dyed in Adam which was againe Regenerated out of Abrahams Seed and deprived death of its might and destroyed Hell in man and slew the Death in us and arose againe from death and liveth for ever the same we meane by a Right Christian and not Calves and Oxen Dogs Adders Serpents Toads and the like who would with their Beasts of vanity be outwardly Adopted and Regenerate children of God no such Beast cometh into heaven onely and alone and none else but a Christ viz. a childe of Christ which is born of Christs flesh and bloud * * * Rev. 22 1â— without are Dogs 11. Therefore Let it be told thee O Babel thou ridest upon the Dragon of thy own contrived halfe devillish and halfe beastiall tongue in thy own words and will and hast not Abrahams faith viz. in the received and formed word which became man but thou howlest with the Dogs and wilt with thy snarling jeering contentious dogs-will in a strange childe be Abrahams heir 12. But God said to Abraham thy servants childe shall not be thy heir but he that is begotten out of thy loynes who is borne of the Faith of Righteousnesse he shall be Gods heir and not the Son of the bond-Woman viz. the Strange introduced grosse beastiall Serpents Ens. 13. And God said to Abraham I am the Lord that hath brought thee out of VR of the Chaldees to give thee this Land to inherit it Genesis XV. v. 7 8. c. to the 17. but Abraham said Lord God whereby shall I know that I shall possesse the same and he said unto him take me an Heifer of three years old and a Shee-Goat of three years old and a Ram of three yeares old and a Turtle-Dove and a young Pigeon and he tooke all these and divided them in the midst and laid each Piece one against another but the Birds he divided not and when the fowls fell upon the Carkases Abraham drove them away and when the Sun was gon down a deep sleep fell upon Abraham and lo an horror of great darknesse fell upon him and he said to Abraham by this thou shalt surely know that thy Seed shall be a stranger in a Land that is not theirs and they shall be compelled to serve and be afflicted 400. yeares but I will judge the Nation whom they must serâ—â—â— and afterwards I will bring them out with great Substance and thou shalt goe to thy fathers in Peace and be buried in a good old Age but they shall come hither againe after foure Generations for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full now when the Sun was gone down and it was darke lo a Smoaking furnace and a fire-flame passed between the pieces Here the right figure of Christs Offering for the humanity is represented and also his suffering and death his persecution and also his victory is deciphered herein and likewise the Man of Sin and vanity intimating how he must fill up his measure and whereunto each is appointed 14. God gave Abraham the Signe how it should goe with his Seed in that Abraham said Lord God! whereby shall I know that I shall possesse the same then God set the figure of the Seed before him for he had comprehended it in his Faith which was made his righteousnesse and shewed it him in a figure for the Offring signifies the Offring of Christ the three sorts of Beasts viz. the Heifer Shee-Goat and Ram each three yeares old betoken the part of the outward humanity of the time viz. out of the limus of the Earth 15. But that they must be three yeares old betokens the whole outward threefold man of the Sulphur Mercury and Salt viz. the three properties of the three Principles which lye in the Earth in one Essence or Substance 16. And that Abraham divided these three beasts and laid one right over against the other Signifieth the twofold limus of the Earth viz. the Grosse property out of the darke worlds property and then Secondly the limus out of the heavenly worlds property which lieth in one Compaction in the Earth whence man was created as to the body 17. But that Abraham divided them signifies that the grossenesse which Adams desire introduced must by death be Separated from the purenesse of the humanity and one must lye right opposite to the other and be divided from one another each into its property as light and darknesse are divided and yet are neer one another 18. The Turtle-Dove betokens the poore Soule captivated in this beastiall property and the young Pigeon signifies the inward disappeared humanity of the poore Soule which shall become young againe in the offring viz. a new birth 19. But that the two Doves were not divided but offered whole Signifieth that nothing shall be taken from the Soule and from the inward man of the heavenly limus they shall remaine whole and entire in their Substance and be offered whole to the Angry fire of God in Christ and be brought quite through the fire of Anger through death viz. through the great darknesse and horrour of death and hell as this was the figure thereof 20. When Abraham had set forth his Offring he fell into a deep sleep and horror and great Darknesse did encompasse him the sleep Signifieth the death of Christ and the horrour the wrath of God viz. the Abysse of Hell and the darknesse the Darke world into this the word which had given in it selfe into Abrahams faith to be a Seed of the children of God should enter with the Offring in the whole humanity both with soule and body and â—esigne it selfe up wholly to the Anger of the father to be devoured 21. And the Enkindling of the fire which passed between the Pieces was now the holy fire of God which came forth out of the holy burning viz. out of the Love-flaming word which gave in it selfe to Abrahams faith in the humanity of Christ in Soul and body when he stood in the fathers Anger in the death and darknesse in Hell and cast the humanity in Soule and body unto the Anger and changed the Anger into Love-fire for the wrath of the father according to the Eternall nature of the darke world which was enkindled in the humanity must in the humanity receive such an holy Ens wherein the Anger might in its fire be changed into a light or Love-fire 22. This holy Ens in the word of faith must enter into the great horrour of Gods Anger for the Soule stood therein essentially in its property it is out of the fathers fire-property out of his Strength and omnipotence viz.
of the outward life these must go with Isaac that is with Christ in the old Abraham that is Adam to the offering of God and Abraham that is the man Adam in his children must himselfe cleave the wood upon which the offering must be burnt that is when he confesseth Christ then he cleaves the hearts of the wicked who run with him to the death and the Offering of God for Adam in his humanity clave Gods Love and Anger and now also Abraham must cleave the wood for the offering for Christ should also cleave death and life asunder and offer up himselfe upon the cloven wood of death and life unto Gods Anger 10. And on the third day Abraham lift up his eyes Gen. 22.4 and saw the place a far off Heere the Spirit pointeth at the sleep of Adam wherein he slept to the Angelicall world and on the third day after his falling asleep when as now the woman was made out of him and the fall effected he saw Christ viz. the place of God in the Covenant a far off also herein is included the Resurrection of Christ on the third day where he saw his place where he would and should offer and give up man to God his Father viz. the last Judgement and the finall offering a far off also it signifieth that Abraham in the Spirit saw the offering of Christ a far off viz. above 2000 yeares then to come And that the Spirit saith Abraham lifted up his eyes on the third day and saw the place is nothing else but that Christ did again lift up on the third day our humane eyes out of the Grave from the dead unto God and also that it was yet a far off in the dayes of Abraham thus the Spirit doth allude with the outward figure at that which was and is to come Gen. 22.5 11. And Abraham said unto the two young men which he took with him Abide you here with the Asse and I and the Lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you The figure of it internally stands thus The two young men must tarry there with the Ass and not go at this time unto the offering onely Abraham and Isaac must perform that that is we poor children of Eve must abide with the first and third Principle of our life this our time with the Ass viz. with the outward Body here in this world but Christ in Isaac and Abraham in Adam must go forth to the offering that is Christ stood in Abrahams viz. Adams Person and also in his heavenly humanity who should onely go and offer up the offering of his Body to the Anger-fire of his Father and worship for us unto God his Father therefore he said he would go yonder that is when he should offer up his life he would go yonder that is to God and worship for us unto God 12. This points at his Ascention according to the humanity when he had finished the Sacrifice he went * * * Yonder or to that place thither and worshipped in our assumed humanity unto God his Father that is our assumed Soul in divine power and property doth pray and intercede for our weaknesses and ignorances unto and before God Therefore saith Abraham we will go yonder and worship that is we God and Man and when we have worshipped we will come again to you that is we poor children of Eve must in the mean while tarry with the Asâ— untill the time of its offring and Prayer be out and then he comes again unto us when we have finished the course of the outward Asinine life 13. Also it intimates very pregnantly that he when the Time of the Offering in Prayer is out will certainly come again unto us from the place whither he is gon and dwell visibly with the creaturall humanity among us as the two Angels said unto the men of Israel * * * Note Jesuses comming again Act. 1.11 Yee shal see this Jesus come again in like manner as he is ascended which time is now neer and his voice to prepare the bride hath already sounded and therefore hold not this for an uncertain fiction the Morning Star and Messenger of the Annunciation is Appeared Gen. 22.6 14. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering and laid it upon Isaac his Son and he took the fire in his hand and the knife and they went both of them together The inward figure stands thus Adam had divided and rent asunder Gods Love and Anger in himselfe and brought himselfe with the creaturall life into the Anger which had amassed the earthly vanity to it selfe now the Spirit of Moses doth here point at this figure how Christ should take our introduced Sin upon himselfe and carry it to the burnt-offering 15. And Abraham took the knife and fire Abraham denoteth Adam who took the fire of Gods Anger into himselfe and the knife signifieth Death that Christ should be killed and offered up in Abrahams that is in Adams Anger-fire to the Father and it clearly denotes that Abraham that is Adam should do it to Christ for Christ should be offered up of man being the man Adam had taken on himselfe the fuell viz. the Sin for the offering therefore also man viz. the Jewes must offer it up to the Anger of God that so man might be Atoned by man understand by the humanity of Christ. 16. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said My Father Gen. 22.7 8. and Abraham answered here am I my Son and he said lo here is the fire and the wood but where is the Lamb for the burnt-offring And Abraham said my Son God will provide himselfe a Lamb for the burnt-offring and so they went both of them together The pretious figure is thus The Spirit here playeth in Christs person who was come in great humility into Adams humanity and presents himselfe to his father in Adams essence with his heavenly humanity and saith behold my father here I have taken on me the Sin and death in the humanity here is now the fire of thy Anger viz. the divided life's formes of mans property Selfehood and own will in this now I have the fuell wherein thy fire of Anger burneth here now I have the wood viz. the Sins of all men and also thy fire to the offering where is now the * * * Sheep Lamb viz. the Patient Lamb which shall be offered up in this fire and Abraham answered from his strong faiths Ens God will provide himselfe a Lamb for the burnt-offering and they went both of them together 17. Here Christ doth in Isaac's figure present himselfe in our assumed humanity to his Father and saith where is now the Lamb for the true Peace offering but the faith of Abraham had apprehended the patient Lamb which lay in Isaac viz. the heavenly humanity which God would open in the Ens of faith in our disappeared and also heavenly humanity and said
God would provide himselfe a Lamb for the right burnt-offering and hereby he secretly points at the heavenly humanity which God would introduce into Christs humanity viz. into our humanity which should be the Patient Lamb that God would provide for himselfe which Abraham had already apprehended in faith and hints at 18. And that the Spirit of Moses saith They went both of them together understand unto the offering betokens our Adamicall humanity and Christs heavenly supernaturall humanity of divine essentiality that both these should go together to the offering of God as Christ offered on the Cross his heavenly humanity in our humanity to the Father and with the heavenly reconciled ours captivated in the Anger of God and preserved it in the fire of Gods Anger as the Gold is preserved of the Tincture in the fire 19. And when they came to the place of which God had told him Gen 22.9 10. Abraham built there an Altar and layd the wood in order upon it and bound Isaac his Son and layd him on the Altar upon the wood and Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his Son This is now the right Earnestness viz. the figure how God would binde his Son by Adams children viz. by Abrahams children the Jewes that is he would binde our Sin and lay it upon the wood that is hang it on the Cross viz. on the figure of the holy Trinity which was become in man an woodden earthly Cross whereas before the life's cross viz. the figure of the Deity was spirituall and holy in Adam but in the earthly lust it had made it selfe earthly and as t' were woodden thus also the death viz. the dying of the holy Cross in man must be again offered up to God upon a woodden earthly Cross and be again changed out of the earthly death into the holy spirituall figure 20. Christ should not be slain but hung up on the Cross pierced through in his hands and feet for the Anger of God was awakened in the conversation and workes of our hands and feete and therefore also Isaac in the figure of Christ must not be slain and also burnt for he was not the right one but the figure onely in our humanity for he could not accomplish this offring in its powers and it denotes that we are indeed bound with Christ and laid upon the wood and also must dye for Christs sake but with our death we cannot attain this offering as Isaac also could not effect that but the Ens of faith in Abraham and Isaac out of which Christ arose the same did effect it and can yet now in these dayes effect it in the Christians in Christ in his humanity in us 21. And as Isaac was represented in Christs figure as if he were to be the Sacrifice even so Every true Christian must with Isaac enter into Christs figure he must willingly resigne himselfe into Christs death and binde his Sin with the will in the Spirit of Christ and offer it upon the Altar of Christ and with a full and free will dye wholly to Sin then cometh the voice of God as it came to Abraham and to Hagar in the wilderness of Beer-sheba and saith Do not any thing to nature viz. thy Son now I know thou beleevest God 22. But it must come so far with the penitent Sinner as here it did with Abraham and Isaac where Isaac was layd ready bound upon the wood and Abraham took the knife to slay him There must be a very reall sincere earnestness in this matter the sinfull man must binde the Sin with all his thoughts and minde and give himselfe wholly into the process that he will now dye unto Sin and offer it up in faith and confidence to God in Christs death he must take the knife with Abraham into the hand that is he must wholly take and fasten into his minde to Do the work of earnest Repentance in dying to Sin It must come to the reall and effectuall practice and not onely come before the Altar and say I am a Sinner God hath offered Christ for mee and yet keep the sinfull will but he must binde sin in Christs death and lay himselfe wholly with all power and strength on the burnt-offerings Altar upon the wood 23. The evill earthly will must be bound and resigned up with Earnestness and cast upon Gods Altar in Christs death and be also offered up in Christs dying and not onely comfort the sinfull man and flatter it with Christs death saying God takes away sin from us in Christs satisfaction and merit wee need onely comfort our selves therewith and apply it from without to our selves no no but wee also our selves must dye to sin in Christs death and put on Christs offering in his death and as an obedient Isaac wee must cast our selves on Gods mercy in the spirit and will of Christ and arise in Christ in and with him that God may justifie us from the Altar of sin-offering with Isaac in Christ which is the true offering in the figure of Isaac 24. Not as Babel teacheth There must be an entire and sincere earnestness and not onely a comforting and applying promises of consolation but we must with Abraham obey God and then we put on Christs suffering and death and Christs death avails onely in us and here 't is truly said Yee are saved by grace in Christs merit The will of Selfe attains it not but that which entereth into Christs death and dyeth it must come to the death and mortification of the own selfe-will the Soules will must be an utter destroying enemy to Sin in the flesh viz. to the lust of the flesh there must be an opposite enmity between them else Christs death is * * * Note To whom Christs death is not profitable Gen. 22.11 not at all profitable to any 25. And Moses saith The Angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham that is when man resigneth up his will wholly and willingly desireth to obey the voice of the Lord having given himselfe into Christs suffering death and reproach that he now will in the cross and suffering hold still and stedfast to God under Christs Red * * * Ensigne Banner then God calleth man with a * * * Twofold double voice as here he did Abraham where God said unto him Abraham Abraham that is he calleth to him in his own Voice in his word and also in the voice of the humane Essence that is he openeth to him the divine hearing in himselfe so that he heareth God from without in his word of his Servants and also from within in his own life's word viz. in the SensVAll Voice which was divided in Babel by the children of Nimrod and formed into the spirits of letters where the mentall Tongue was then compacted Here it ariseth again in the uncompacted SensVAll Tongue so that man heareth what the Lord speaketh in him of
which Babel knoweth nothing nor can know nor will know but climeth up continually in the compacted tongue on the Towre of Babel into an Heaven of humane Selfehood and hath put Christs garment outwardly upon it selfe but it hath not the twofold voice therefore also it doth not hear when God calleth Abraham 26. And Abraham Answered Here am I and he said Lay not thine hand upon the Lad neither do thou any thing unto him Gen. 22.12 for now I know that thou fearest God and hast not spared thy onely Son for my sake That is thus when man hath wholly resigned up his Selfe viz. his own will or Son and put it wholly to the mortification in Christs death then the nature of man falls into Sadness for it hath lost its right its own law and will then saith the Spirit of God by the Soul do nothing to thy nature now I know that it is given up and resigned to me and that the Soul hath now * * * Plerophory an assurance of confidence in God and is fully bold even to leave the outward life for Gods sake and give over its will to mee in Obedience as here Abraham had fully resigned up his will unto God he would now do whatsoever God commanded him 27. And as Abraham did not spare his Son and would have given him up unto death so also God did not spare his Son and gave him to death for us even so should wee also not spare even our own will but rather be willing to leave all whatsoever the own will hath taken possession of and delights in and willingly dye to all Temporalls for Gods sake let it be Principality Dominion or Kingdome Temporall Honor or Goods or whatsoever it may be that is our dearly beloved Son all this a Christian must give over and resigne up in the minde and account and esteem himselfe onely a Servant therein yea esteem his outward life not for his own but in his Minde depart from and forsake every creature and then he lyeth bound upon the wood of the Burnt offerings Altar and waiteth for the Voice of God from Heaven which calleth to him and becomes the Voice and Mouth of his life and this is truly with Abraham to beleeve God where God beleeves in man and then God saith Now I know that thou fearest God and puttest thy trust in him alone for the humane will sincketh into the most pure Being of God 28. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and lo a Ram was hung in a thickett by his hornes Gen. 22.13 14 and he went and took the Ram and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his Son and Abraham called the name of the place * * * Jehovah-jireth The Lord seeth as it is said to this day upon the Mount where the Lord Seeth This is the golden figure which sheweth that the killing death and dying doth not reach the true man but onely the Ram with his Hornes which sticketh in the flesh and bloud in the Thornes of Sin and it chiefly denotes that the true * * * Text. Soules-man humane Soul in Christ and his children shall not dye in this burnt-offering of God but after that it hath resigned up the will of Selfe then God openeth its eyes that it seeth the Ram behinde it viz. it spieth the will of the wilde evill flesh and learnes to know it which will sticketh with its pushing beasts-hornes in the thorny Thickett of the Devill in flesh and bloud viz. in the desire of the vanity of the world in Selfefull Lust This the Resigned Soul seeth and offereth it up for a burnt-offering in the stead of the true Nature for the right nature is delivered in this burnt offering from the Ram of the flesh the Hornes are the injections oppositions and assaults of the Devill and the thickett of Thornes is the Serpents Ens which the lust of Adam hath introduced 29. Thus wee must understand in this figure that the whole man in Christs person should not be given to the Anger of God as if the Adamicall man should be wholly consumed and devoured by it no but the wild Ram onely the Enmity the opposite will the property of Apostacy and Rebellion but the life's Essence should remain forever the same Adam which God created unto Paradise the same shall remain eternally but the division or dissonant disunion of the life's formes in that they are rent asunder and brought into the property of Selfehood whence strife and enmity is arisen in man I say this evill Ram viz. this introduced infection vain desire and adverse will must be offered up in Christ in the fire of Gods Anger This was the Beast for the burnt-offering The Lamb of God in Adam shall not be consumed in the fire but it must onely shed its bloud it must immerse and sinck it selfe wholly with the humane nature into the One viz. into the Eternall Nothing without all nature and then this place is called here the Lord Seeth that is when the Ram is offered then this place is afterwards the Temple of God where the Lord Seeth 30. And the Spirit of Moses speaketh very hiddenly hereof and saith Hence it is said still to this day upon the Mount where the Lord Seeth the Mount is the life's nature where the Lord hath seen not onely in Abraham and Isaac but he seeth in Christs spirit yet at this day upon this Mount in the children of God when the Ram is offered up then the Spirit of God seeth through nature as the Sun through-shineth a Glass or as a fire through-heats an Iron 31. Therefore a man ought not to be so foolish as to torment his whole life in his repentance and conversion and to offer it up in the fire of death without Gods command but he must onely sacrifice the Sin and Selfe-Love of vanity he must offer up onely the Ram and not do any violence or mischief to nature not strike whip and beat it or creep into a corner and suffer the Body to * * * Note starve for hunger no he must not out of his own purpose Give the Image of God to death but the Ram he must he meritts not any thing by plaguing martyring and torturing himselfe for God hath bestowed his heart to that end to redeem us from Pain and Torment 32. When the Soul with the Right nature hath tamed it selfe from the Ram of the flesh then it must Sacrifice the Ram to the death of Christ but it must remain stedfast in great humility in the Resignation in God and not any further afflict and rack it selfe either with doubts or with any other externall inflicted tortures and also give nature its necessary nourishment and not Enfeeble and distemper it selfe for it is the Temple and the Image of God but it must daily and continually mortifie the Ram in the flesh viz. the selfish lust of the evill flesh and
e e Manifest or come about borne and the beginning hath againe found the End it shall be manifest for a witnesse unto all Nations sheweth the Spirit of Wonders CHAP. IX Of the Fall of Lucifer with his Legions 1. ALbeit selfe-Reason might heere cavill at us and say we were not by when this was done yet we say that we in a Magicall manner according to the Right of Eternity were really there and saw this but not I who am I have seen it for I was not as yet a Creature but we have seene it in the Essence of the Soule which God breathed into Adam 2. Now then if God dwelleth in this same Essence and hath from all Eternity dwelt therein and manifesteth himselfe in his own mirror and looketh back through the Essence of the Soule into the beginning of all Beeings what then hath Reason to doe to taunt and cavill at mee about that wherein it selfe is blinde I must warne Reason that it would once behold it selfe in the Looking-Glasse of the understanding and consider what it selfe is and leave off from the Building of mad Babel it will be time 3. The Fall of Lucifer came not to passe from Gods purpose or Appointment indeed it was known in the wrath of God according to the property of the darke world how it could or would come to passe but in Gods holinesse viz. in the light there was no such desire manifest in any such property otherwise the holy God must have a devillish or hellish wrathfull desire in his Love which is nothing so but in the Centre of the Eternall nature viz. in the formes to fire there is verily such a property in the Darke impression 4. Every good Angell hath the Centre in him and is manifest in a creaturall Property in one degree or other in the Centre what property is f f f Chiefest most predominant or manifest greatest in the Creature according to that it hath its office and Dominion 5. Yet the Angells which were created out of the degrees of the Centre were created for and to the light the light was manifest in All and they had Free will from the Manifested will of Gods will 6. Lucifer had still been an Angell if his owne will had not introduced him into the fires-Might desiring to domineere in the strong fiery-Might above and in all things as an absolute sole God in darknesse and light had he but continued in the Harmony wherein God had created him what would have cast him out of the light 7. Now Reason saith he could not then tell me who compelled him was he not I preethee the most glorious Prince in heaven had he introduced his will into the Divine Meeknesse then he could have been able to stand but if he * * * In his own will which was from the Eternall will was both the possibility and Ability would not then he could not for his owne desire went into the Centre he would himselfe be God He entred with his will into Selfe g g g Selfe-hood or Selfenesse and in Selfe is the Centre of Nature viz. those properties wherein his will would be Lord and Master in the house 8. But God created him for his Harmony to play with his Love-Spirit in him as upon the musicall Instrument of his manifested and formed Word and this the selfe-will would not 9. Now saith reason how came it that he would not did not he know the Judgement of God and the fall yea he knew it well enough but he had no Sensible Perceivance of the fall but onely as a bare h h h Or Noticnall Theory in the Mystery of his minde knowledge the fiery Lubet which was potent in him did egg him on for it would faine be manifest in the Essence of the wrath viz. in the root of fire the darknesse also eagerly desired to be creaturall which drew Lucifer its crafts-Master in the great Potency of fire indeed it drew him not i i i Outwardly from without but in the Property and will of his owne fiery and darke Essence the Originall of the Fall was within the Creature and not without the Creature and so it was in Adam also Selfe-will was the beginning of Pride 10. Thou askest what was that which did cause it in himselfe Answer his great beauty and glory because the will beheld what it selfe was in the fiery mirror this Lustrous glance did move and affect him so that he did eagerly reach after the Properties of the Centre which forth-with began effectually to worke for the Astringent Austere Desire viz. the first forme or property did impresse it selfe and awakened the compunction and the Anxious desire thus this beautifull Star did overshadow its light and made its Essence wholly Astringent rigorous and harsh and its meeknesse and true Angelicall Property was turned into an Essence wholly Austere harsh rigorous and Darke and then this bright Morning Star was undone and as he did so did his Legions and this was his fall 11. He should have been wholly resigned in the holy Power of God and heare what the Lord would speake and play by his owne Spirit in him this Selfe-will would not doe and therefore he must now play in the darke yea his will is yet opposite albeit now after the fall he cannot will viz. to resigne to the divine will of the light for his meeknesse whence the Love-will ariseth is shut up and Entred againe into a Nothing viz. it is retired into its own Originall 12. Now the Creature still remaineth but wholly out of the Centre viz. out of the Eternall Nature the free Lubet of Gods wisdome is departed from him that is it hath hid it selfe in it selfe and letteth the wrathfull fire-will stand as hapned to Adam also when he imagined after Evill and good then the free Lubet of the holy worlds-Essence did disappeare in his Essence 13. This was the very death of which God told him that if he did eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evill he should dye the very same day thus it was in Lucifer he dyed to the holy divine world and arose to the wrathfull world of Gods Anger 14. Thou saist wherefore did not God uphold him and draw him from the evill inclination I preethee tell me wherewith should he have poured in more Love and meeknesse into this fire-Source then had his Stately light been more manifest in him and the Looking-glasse of his owne knowledge had been the greater and his owne fiery Selfe-will the Stronger I pray was not his High light and his own-selfe-knowledge the Cause of his fall 15. Should he then have drawn him with Rebuke was it not his purpose aforehand to rule the magicall ground as an Arstist his Ayme and endeavour was for the Art that he would play with the Centre of the Transmutation of the Properties and would be and doe all whatsoever he alone pleased had he not known this he had
figure of Adam in Paradise are the forty yeares in the wildernesse where Israell was tryed in the Law with the Heavenly Manna whether or no they would be obedient to God that the Anger might not so much devoure them The Third figure is the true reall one viz. Adams hard t t t Combate encounter with Christ in the wildernesse where he stood in Adams stead before the Devill and Gods Anger where he did eat forty dayes magically viz. of the u u u Text of the Verbum Domini word of the Lord in which Adam also was tempted whether he would remaine wholly resigned unto Gods will Christ was Tempted in Adams x x x Place or liew stead in Adams Temptation and with all that whatsoever wherein Adam was tempted as shall be mentioned hereafter 23. The fourth Figure are the forty houres of Christ in the Grave where he awaked Adam out of his first sleep The fift Figure are the forty dayes of Christ after his Resurrection in the last Proba where the humanity was last of all tryed whether it vvould now stand and be wholly resigned in God being that death was destroyed and the invvard humane life new-borne in God 24. These five figures belong unto the five degrees of nature from the first forme of nature even to the fift viz. to the holy Centre of the Love-birth if it were not too large we would set it forth very clearly it shall be shewn in its place 25. These forty dayes Adam was y y y Or stood in the Proba tryed in his Innocency whether or no he would or could stand to possesse the Throne of Lucifer as an Hierarch and Prince of God but seeing God knew that this would not be he determined to move himselfe with his deepest Love in this Adamicall Angelicall Image of the inward holy man which did z z z Vanish or withdraw disappeare in Adam and to regenerate him anew viz. in the seed of the woman understand in the Love-desire's Seed wherein Adam should have impregnated generated or brought forth himselfe in a Magicall manner In this seed the Mark or Bound of the promised Covenant a a a Or with in Christ was set who should restore the Angels-Image viz. the divine man as it is effected 26. These forty dayes Adam viz. the Soule of Adam in the flesh vvas tempted betwixt three Principles for each Principle drew the Soule in the flesh and would have the upper-hand or Dominion 27. This was the Right b b b Tryall Probra of what the free will of the Soul would doe whether it would remaine in the divine Harmony or whether it vvould enter into the Selfehood Here it was tryed in Soul and body and drawn by all the three Principles each vvould accomplish or vvorke forth its wonders c c c With or by him in him 28. Not that the three Principles did stand in un-equall measure and weight in Adam they were in equall weight in him but not without him moreover the Devill was very busie in Gods Anger in the first Principle vvith his false Desire and introduced continually his Imagination into the Soule and into the outward flesh viz. into the Limus of the Earth and insinuated it into the first Principle viz. into the fiery property of the Soule even into the Eternall Nature whereupon the first Principle in the soule was moved to speculate it selfe in the Devills Imagination or glasse of phancy viz. to contemplate in the magicall birth how and what Evill and Good were how it would relish and be in the * * * In the dissimilitude or various disparity of the properties which were without it selfe unlikeness of the Essence whence the Lust did arise in the soul 29. Viz. The Earthly lust to eat of the manifold properties did arise in the outward part of the Soule and in the inward fiery part of the soule the lust of Pride did arise to know and prove evill and good desiring to be like God as the Devill also did when he would be an Or crafts-master Artist in the magicall birth after vvhich Adam heere also lusted 30. Albeit Adam did not desire to prove the first Principle as Lucifer hath done for his lust was onely bent to taste and prove evill and good viz. the vanity of the Earth the outward Soule was awakened so that the hunger entred into its mother where from it was drawn and introduced into another Source 31. And when this hunger entered into the Earth to eat of Evill and good then the desire in the Fiat drew forth the Tree of Temptation and set it before Adam then came the Severe command from God and said to Adam thou shalt not eat of the Tree of the Knowledges of good and evill in that day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death 32. And Adam also did not eat thereof in the mouth onely with the Imagination or desire he did eat thereof whereby the heavenly Tincture disappeared which stood in a fiery Love and the earthly one did awake in the outward Soules property whereby the heavenly Image was obscured 33. Thus the magicall birth was spoiled and it could not then be although Adam f f f Or had stood stood in Paradise yet it had not availed g g g Or them him for in the Imagination or hunger after evill and good the outvvard man did awake in him and obtained the Dominion then Adams faire Image fell into a Svvound and drew neer to the h h h Or Rest. Cessation of its operation for the heavenly Tincture was captivated in the earthly desire for the outward desire impressed into it its essence out of the vanity whereby the man was darkned and lost his cleare pure i i i Constant permanent Stedy Eyes and Sight which was from the divine Essence from whence before he had his sight or Seeing 34. Now Moses saith that the Lord God said it is not good that this man should be alone we will make an help meet for him vvhen God had created all creatures with the vvhole creaturall host Gen. 2. v. 18. Moses saith and God beheld all things which he had made and loe it was very Good and confirmed all to its propagation but heere he saith of man it is not good that he should be alone for he saw his miserable Fall that he could not magically propagate himselfe and said we will make an help for him CHAP. XIX Of the * * * Or framing building of the Woman shewing how Man was ordained to the outward Naturall Life ANd Moses saith God caused a deep steep to fall upon the man and he slept and he tooke one of the ribbes out of his side Gen. 1. v. 21. and built a woman thereof and closed up the place with flesh Moses saith the woman was made of a rib out of Adams side who vvill understand this without divine light
his side and the halfe Crosse in the x x x Or skull Head which was the life's birth-Crosse whereon Christ destroyed death The Matrix of the heavenly part was in Adam y y y Or Magically Magicall that is moving in the Essence but the outward part of the outward world was made fleshie and both were mutually bound or espoused to one another as the Time with the Eternity the Holy part was in heaven and the heaven it selfe and the outward fleshie part was in the outward world in z z z in the matrix of the third Principle matriee mundi 16. Thus the Female property was in the Fiat extracted out of Adams Essence as his dearest Rose-garden and he kept the limbus celestiall and terrestriall according to the Eternall Fathers manifested Property viz. the fire-soules matrix's property and the woman kept the part of the Spirits Soules-property the woman had the Centre of the angelicall world in her disappeared part of the Soul-like property viz. the manifested Love-word viz. the fift property of the Eternall nature and the man had in his limbus the divine fire-world viz. the centre of a a a Or to of the light world the Centre of all beeings 17. The mans limbus which he kept when the woman was made out of him was the Fathers property according to all beeings and the woman out of or proceed from the man was the Sons property according to all beeings understand the heavenly part both of the limbus and matrix therefore Christ became man in the womans part and brought the mans part againe into the holy matrix so that the limbus and female matrix were againe one b b b Or person Image viz. a manly Virgin above and in all the three Principles as a creaturall formed God in whom the Eternall unformed God dwelt with universall fulnesse both in the formed and without the Formed divine creature or God-man for thus was Adam also before his Eve and so must we also be in Christ if we would be the Image and Temple of God 18. Now when the pregnant matrix was taken from Adam the woman was every way formed with such members for propagation as she is at this day and so Adam also for before vvhen Adam was Male and Female he needed no such members for his birth vvas Magicall his Conception moving in the Matrix was to be done through Imagination for the Fiat was manifest in him 19. And the bestiall wormes carkasse of the bowells with the formation of other inward Principall members pertaining to the earthly life was hung upon Adam in stead of the female Matrix and the like wormes-carkasse was also hung upon the woman in stead of the heavenly limbus that they might stuff in a deale of vanity and live like the Beasts seeing they did so eagerly lust after Evill and Good 20. Reason will object against me and say God created Adam in the beginning such a man and even with all members as he now is which notwithstanding it cannot make out or demonstrate seeing the soule is ashamed of this beastiall property also I would faine know of this selfe-full Reason whether or no such an Adam if he were created so miserable destitute naked and bare unto this beastiall life were created to eternall life without defect and also without need distresse and death and whether this Sinck or filthy carkase of earthly flesh and bloud were the Paeadise and Temple of God and how could he have been able to defend himselfe from hurt and ruine for such a beast-like man may be drowned in the water and burnt in the fire and also crusht to pieces with Rocks and stones 21. But if thou saist that God did vvell know that it should be so with Adam therefore he created him so at the very first Against this the Scripture declareth saying God created man in his Image yea to the Image of God created he him not to the beastiall Image what Sin would God have imputed or charged upon man if he had created him in a beastiall Image what then would the new birth availe him to what end then should he be borne againe The new birth containes in reall Summe this That the Angelicall Image must be borne againe which God created in Adam God formed Adam in the Image of God and though he knevv that he would not stand yet he appointed him the Saviour who should bring him againe into the first Image and therein establish him for ever 22. Novv it plainely appeares that Adam stood in the Divine Image and not in the beastiall for he knew the property of all creatures and gave Names to all creatures from their essence forme and property He understood the Language of nature viz. the manifested and formed Word in every ones Essence for thence the Name of every Creature is arisen 23. Now being he knew how the vvord of Power was c c c Text stood in the forme formed in every creature thereupon we cannot esteeme him d d d Or make a meer animall of him as the schooles in their brutish reason doe who understand not what Adam was before he lost the Image of God Beastiall he was vvithout doubt Angelicall for none other man shall arise but such an one as Adam was before his Eve God created him perfect but he stood not in the Proba whereupon it must now follow that God suffered him to fall into the outward Magick and ordained him to the Image of this world and set him into the naturall life viz. into the e e e Degeneration and Regeneration Corruption and new birth for in heaven there is neither Male nor Female but all one kinde in peculiar Love vvithout further propagation in an Eternall Confirmation 24. This therefore doth set forth unto us that Adam dyed in Paradise as God said unto him if thou eatest of the Tree thou dyest he dyed to the holy heavenly Image and lived to the awaked beastiall Image For now vvhen Adam did awake from sleep he was indeed still in Paradise for the vanity in the flesh and Soule did not yet actually and effectually worke and was yet dumb still and sencelesse untill they did eat of the forbidden fruit and then the earthly Dominion began to rise then the vanity awaked viz. the formes of the life each in its selfehood and forsooke severally their mutuall harmony and forthwith heat and cold fell upon them for the outward Image or being did assimulate or ensource with the inward and the heavenly Image at last quite disappeared which in Adams sleep and also in his awakening did yet live both in Adam and Eve but in a very obscure and impotent manner 25. Adam in his Perfection while he was man and vvife and had the magicall conception in him did amuse himselfe on or Imagine after the Beasts and introduced himself into beastiall lust to eat and generate according as the beasts doe and so likevvise the Fiat
heavenly pomp a Queen of Heaven and Princess of the Beeings of God apprehended and formed in the Fiat of the divine desire through the fire in the light in like manner as Hierarch Lucifer was so and Prince Lucifer sate in heavenly pompe in the Serpents Ens who had infected the Ens out of which the Serpent was created and therein awakened the darke worlds property viz. the Centre of the Eternall nature whence evill and good doe take their Originall but when the Good did in the Fire sever it selfe into the light and the Evill into the darkness the Serpents Ens which vvas good was then infected filled and possessed with the darknesse and from hence cometh its Craft 30. For even such a craft the Devill desired which also tooke him in the Eternall-Speaking word in such a property and confirmed him therein to y y y For ever Eternity for it is also a Wonder in God how an Evill could come to be out of a Good that the good might be known and manifest and the creature might learne to feare before God and hold z z z Willingly submit to still to the Spirit of God that he onely might act and worke in the Eternall-Speaking Word and make and doe what he please with and by the creature 31. And to this End Lucifer was swallowed up in the wrath seeing his free will went forth from the Resignation and departed from Gods Spirit into the Centre to be its owne selfe-full maker and creatour that the Angells now have an a a a Warning Text Looking glasse example in this revolted fallen Prince and Puissant Hierarch for the Kingdome of God which is peculiarly and properly called Gods Kingdome stands in the deepest Humility and love and not at all in the wrathfull fires-might but in the lights Ardent might viz. in Power 32. But the Devills Kingdome after which he longed and laboured stood in the wrathfull fires-might but the same was b b b In the beeing Essence or Substance Essentially taken from him in his place and he was spevved out into the eternall hunger of the darkness 33. And that he had infected and possessed the Ens of the Serpent which was so crafty may be seen in its Body which is onely a dry hungry Skin and fills it selfe with poyson in the Taile in which property the great craft ariseth and therefore the Serpent carrieth the poyson in the Taile which may soone be pulled off in that the same in the beginning was introduced into its virgin-like Ens. 34. For the Serpent is therefore called a Virgine according to the Right of Eternity because it hath both Tinctures which is in no kinde of earthly creatures besides but it is now in the curse of God yet if the Artist knew what its pearle was he would rejoyce at it yet by reason of the worlds false desire which seeketh onely the false magick it remaines Hidden also it is not manifest that the wicked may beare his Rebuke 34. For the Pearle of the whole world is trodden under foot and there is nothing more common then the same yet it is hidden so that the holy Ens might not be introduced into an ungodly one which is not worthy of it and so Gods power and Word in the Virgin-like Essence be thereby brought into a Serpentine Ens as it is to be understood in the Serpent enough for our schoole-fellowes 36. Thus we doe fundamentally understand the Originall of Sins birth how Sin was borne and opened in the Humane Word and how God is provoked to anger in his Expressed Word by the Humane Re-expressing for man beareth the Word which created Heaven and Earth in his Ens for the same word is brought to Substance 37. Now God hath inspired into mans Ens viz. into the formed Compacted Word the living Soule viz. the c c c Or understanding Originall out of all the three Principles as a Spirit of the formed Word this understanding hath now power and might to re-conceive and to Generate againe a formall Voice in the Ens viz. in the Formed Compacted Word 38. But being the Serpents craft viz. the Devills introduced desire became manifest in the Ens of Adam and Eve viz. in their Compacted and formed Word thereupon the free will doth now draw forth from this Serpents Essence meere Adders poyson and death and formeth its word therein unless the holy Ens or Seed of the woman be again awakened in the new-borne Love of God in Christ then the free will may conceive in this same holy Ens and bruise the head of the Serpents and Devills Ens in the Anger of God that is reject and abhorre the evill will which desireth to Idea and imprint it selfe from the Serpents Ens in the formation of the words and bruise it in the will of the Thoughts with the Ens of the woman viz. of Christ and esteeme it as the Devills Mire and Dirt which in the children of God is a continuall Combate and strife between the Ens of the Serpent in the flesh and betvveene the Regenerate Ens of the heavenly part 39. Also know this Every Thought which is formed in the Will so that a man consenteth unto lies or any thing else which is false or if his will hath conceived and contrived any thing that is uniust and he bringeth that contrivance into the desire that he would very willingly doe it or express it in the false Evill formed word if he could or knew how and yet must let it alone either for feare or shame sake this same is all Sin for the will hath formed it selfe in the Serpents Ens. 40. But understand it well if a good will doth d d d Or forme it selfe conceive in a good Ens and yet the evill desire doth adhere to it and willeth to poyson the good if then I say the good conceived will overcometh the evill and casts it out that the evill cannot also be formed or received into the Compaction or Substance it is no Sin and though the evill desire which adhereth to the good be Sin yet if the good will doth not close with it and bring it into Substance but rejects it out of the good will as an Evill then the sinfull desire cannot come into Essence and the good will hath not hereby wrought any Evill if it hath not consented to the Craft of the Serpent 41. Every Sin is borne of the strange Ens if the free vvill departs from the Ens vvherein God hath created it then the Sin which is conceived in the will in false desire and brought to Essence in the Ens of the will so that man would faine doe wickedly or unjustly if he could but bring his intent to pass is also great in the sight of God but if it proceeds so far as to hurt and injure any one by word or deed then the Sin is double for it is formed in its owne Ens and formeth it selfe also in that
Inheritance which we have received from Adam and Eve and that is the cause that the Body must Dye and wholly putrifie and entet againe into its first Ens for the Serpents Ens must be wholly done away it cannot inherit the Kingdome of God 56. The first Ens in the limus of the Earth which was coagulated in in the Verbum Fiat must be wholly renewed in the Spirit of Christ if it will possesse the Kingdome of God but if it remaineth captivated in the Serpents Ens it shall never be any more manifest understand the holy Ens which disappeared in Adam and was captivated in the Serpents Ens whereby Death came into the flesh 57. Therefore a man must consider what he speaketh thinketh and doth least he conceive his Thoughts in the Serpents Ens and frame a will in the Minde in the Ens of the Serpent for else the Devill doth set himselfe therein and hatcheth a Basilisk viz. an hellish forme in the word 58. For all wrath which is conceived in man for Revenge doth primarily arise in its Centre out of the nature and property of the darke world viz. in Gods anger and formes it selfe further in the Serpents Ens to Substance let it be what zeale it will if it brings it selfe into a wrath to its owne Revenge it is formed in the Ens of the Serpent and is devillish 59. And though the same were a Prophet and an Apostle and yet would bring himselfe in the wrath to his owne Revenge then this Substance is formed from the Anger of God in the Serpents Ens and goeth into the wrath of God and the Anger of God is therein zealous which oftentimes doth so stir up and forme it selfe in the holy children of God that * * * The Saints they must against their purposed will bring down the Turba upon the house of the wicked also upon his Body and Soule as may be seene by Moses upon Chorah Dathan and Abiram whom the Earth swallovved up so also by Elias in the Fire concerning the two Captaines over fiftie whom the fire devoured also by Elisha and many other Prophets 60. And there are many remarkable examples to be found concerning this in in the holy Histories how oftentimes the children of God have been forced to carry the Sword of the Turba in them a great example whereof we see in Sampson and also in Joshua with his warres and likevvise in Abraham how the zeale of God did enkindle it selfe in them that they in their spirit of zeale have oftentimes awakened the Turba magna in the Anger of God and raised great Rebukes judgments and plagues upon whole Countries as Moses in Egpit did with the plagues upon the Egyptians 61. But we must heere distinguish if the zeale of God should awaken it selfe in an holy man without his purposed will and give him the Sword of Gods anger such a one differs much from those who in their owne Thoughts contrive and plot in the wrath and introduce the Conceived or purposed will into the Serpents Ens and make it to Substance for that is Sin yea though the g g g The greatest Saint most holy man should doe it 26. Therefore Christ so emphatically and punctually teacheth us in the new birth Love Humility and Meeknesse and would that a Christian should not at all Revenge Note also not be Angry for he saith that whosoever is angry with his brother is guilty of the judgement for the Anger is a conception in the Serpents Ens which must be cut off by the judgment of God from the Good Being and whosoever shall say unto his brother Racha shall be in danger of the Counsell for the desire of * * * Or Revenge Racha ariseth in the Centre of the darke fiery wheele of the Eternall nature therefore in the fire-soule there is a forme of the fire word in manner of a wheele like a madnesse and the soules fiery-forme stands in the Racha as a mad furious wheele which confounds the Essence in the Body and destroyes or shatters in peeces the understanding for every Racha desireth to destroy Gods Image thus the soule hangeth on the wheele of the Eternall nature viz. on the Centre of the horrible Anxious birth as is before mentioned concerning the Centre of the birth of nature 63. Moreover Christ saith Whosoever saith to his brother thou foole shall be in danger of hellfire this is thus wrought when the Conceived will hath formed it selfe in the furious wrath of Gods anger and introduced it into the Serpents Ens then it standeth in the furious wheele as mad and if it doth now purposely goe on and so forme the word and casts or speaks it forth against its brother and enkindles in him also an hatefull enmity in the Serpents Ens the same burneth in his Expressed Word in the fire of Gods anger and he is guilty of it for he hath enkindled it in his Racha 64. Therefore said Christ if thou wilt offer thy Gift goe first and be reconciled to thy offended brother or neighbour for otherwise he bringeth his wrath into thy offering and withholdeth thee in thy desire towards God that thou canst not reach the holy Ens which else washeth away the Turba in thy Enkindled vanity 65. For the Word foole is in it selfe in the Essence nothing else but an enkindled wrathfull fiery wheele an outragious madness and he that so calleth his neighbour without a cause he hath brought forth a word in the fire-wheele in Gods wrath and is guilty of it for the forth-produced word is arisen out of the Ens of the Soule and Body 66. Every word vvhen it is formed doth first awaken its owne Ens whence it taketh its originall then it leads it selfe forth through the Counsell of the five Senses against its brother now whosoever useth such a wrathfull devouring fire-word against his brother he soweth into the Anger of God and is in danger to reape the fruit which he hath so sown when it springeth up and groweth 67. Therefore take heed and beware O Man what thou thinkest speakest or desirest to doe looke vvell alwayes in what zeale thou standest whether it be divine or onely of thy own poysonfull nature thou Father thou mother thou brother and Sister which proceed and come from one bloud from one Ens and mutually Assimulate each with other as a tree in its branches thinke and consider what kinde of Sound or tune thou introducest into the vitall Ens of thy fellow-twiggs and branches whether it be Gods Love-word or his Word of Anger if yee doe not destroy the introduced Evill againe with Love and introduce againe the Love Ens into the Anger to overcome and reconcile it then the Substance must come * * * Or before into the judgement of God and be separated in the fire of God as the Devill is Severed from the good Ens and so shalt thou oh wicked man with thy vvicked formed Word
into his Minde Temporall Goods for his own property he is no Christian but a childe of the Serpent for he suffereth his under branches to wither and keepeth away his sap and power from them and will not work forth fruits by his fellow-branches 82. We doe not hereby meane the wicked Idle Crew which will onely suck the sweet and not worke and bring forth fruit themselves in the Tree that they should be pampered to exercise pleasure and vanity but we speake of the twigs which stand in the tree and co-operate and would faine grow and beare fruit from whom the great branches of this world doe withdraw the Sap and hold it in themselves that they as leane overdript twiggs doe wither by and under their charge such are the rich Potentates and Nobles with them the Spirit of zeale doth heere speak so far as they doe keep and hold their Sap within themselves and suffer their small branches to dry up and wither and wholly withdraw the Sap from them they are branches on the tree of the Serpent which is grown up in the Curse of Gods anger and is reserved for the fire of Gods Anger saith the Spirit of Wonders CHAP. XXIII How God re-called Adam and his Eve when they were entred into Sin and vanity and awakened in the Serpents Ens and laid upon them the * * * Estate or calling or Ordinance Order of this toilsome laborious world and ordained the Serpent-bruiser for an Help or Saviour to them NOW when Adam and Eve had eaten of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evill and were become Monstrous by the Serpent Moses writeth of it thus Their eyes were opened and they knew that they were naked Gen. 3. v 7. and they sewed Figg-leaves together and made themselves Aprons Heere the Soule did even now know the monstrous Image and was ashamed of it that such a grosse beast with grosse flesh and hard bones should awaken or shew it selfe with a beastiall wormes-carkase of vanity in their tender delicate Body and they would have covered the same from the eyes of God and for shame crept behinde the trees so very ashamed were they of the foule deformity of the beast for the Beastiall Ens had swallowed up the heavenly and got the upper hand which they had not before known now they could not tell for shame what they should doe 2. The Serpents craft would not Heere cover the shame but did lay it onely more open and accused them as revolting faithlesse Rebells for Gods anger did awake in them and arraigned them now before the Severe judgement to devoure them into it selfe as into the darke world as hapned to Lucifer 3. And this is the * * * State Condition or Thing which caused the Earth to Tremble c. Place whereby the Earth trembled in the death of Christ and the Rocks clove in sunder Heere Gods Anger shut up the holy Ens of the heavenly humanity in Death which Christ vvhen he destroyed death on the Crosse did againe Open at which the wrath in the Curse of the Earth and rocks shooke and trembled 4. And heere was the Soare combate before Gods Anger in which combate Christ in the Garden when he prayed and was to overcome this Anger did sweat drops of bloud when he said father if it be possible let this Cup passe from me but if it be not possible but that I must drink it thy will be done 5. Christ on the Crosse must drinke dovvn this wrathfull anger which was awakened in Adams Essence into his holy heavenly Ens and change it with Great Love into divine joy of which the drinke of gall and vineger being a mixed Draught which the Jewes gave him was a type signifying what was done invvardly in the humanity of Christ. 6. For the outward Image of man should also be redeemed from the Anger and death and again arise out of the Earth therefore Christs outward humanity from the Kingdome of this world must also drinke of this Cup which God the Father had filled to Adam in his anger the same Christ must drink off and change the anger into Love therefore said Christ is it possible then let it passe from me but it was not possible to overcome the anger unlesse the sweet Name Jesus drinke it into it selfe and change it into joy then said Christ Father thy will be done and not the will of my humanity 7. Gods will should also have been fulfilled in Adam but he exalted his ovvne will by the Serpents craft now the Humanity of Christ upon the Crosse must give this own selfe-will unto the Anger for to devoure it but the holy name Jesus brought it into the death of selfehood that it must dye in the wrathfull death and enter again through death in his Resurrection into the true Resignation viz. into the divine Harmony 8. Adam when he had awakened the Anger in him stood in Paradise in great shame and scorne before God and all holy Angells and the Devills did mock and deride him that this Image of God which should possesse his Royall Throne vvas become a monstrous Beast and into this Scorne Christ must enter and suffer himself to be reviled mocked spit upon whipped crowned with Thornes as a false King for Adam was a King and Hierarch but become false and Rebellious 9. Heere Christ stood in his stead and was condemned to death for Adam also should have been judged by Gods Anger Heere Adam that is Christ in Adams humanity stood in his stead Adam should have been rejected as a curse even as a scorne before Heaven and Earth and and in Sum the vvhole processe of Christ from his Incarnation unto his Ascention and sending of the holy Ghost is Adams estate what Adam had merited as a malefactour Christ himselfe must take upon him in Adams person and bring againe the life out of death 10. Adam was made by the word of God but he fell from Gods Love-word into his Anger-word thus God out of meer grace did again awaken his Love-word in the deepest humility Love and mercy in Adams wrathfull Image and introduced the great Love Ens into the Ens of the awakened anger and changed the Angry Adam in Christ into an holy ONE 11. Moses describeth it very clearly but the vaile lyeth before the beastiall man that he doth not know him for he saith And they heard the voice of the Lord God Verse 8 which walked in the Garden when the day grew coole and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the Trees 12. Moses saith they heard the voice of the Lord God which walked in the Garden what is now this voice which was or stirred in the Garden for Adams eares were dead to the Divine hearing and were awakened in the wrath he could not in his own might heare any more Gods holy voice for he was dead as to the Kingdome of Heaven as to the
divine holinesse as God told him in that day that thou eatest of this Tree thou shalt dye 13. The voice was Gods Anger which forced in to Adams Essence when the day became coole understand the Eternall day in Adams Essence vvas awakened in cold and heat threfore now they heard the voice of God the Lord in his Anger in their Essence for the Turba was awakened the Tone or Hearing of the darke world did Sound or ring its sad knell 14 But that which walked in the Garden and re-called Adam was another voice which brake forth out of the Anger and walked or moved in the Garden for the word which Der walke◠gieng in the Garden im Garten is the difference or note of distinction and signifieth the voice JESVS proceeding from * * * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 JEHOVAH the voice was * * * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nomen Quatuor Literarum That Name of foure Letters TETRAGRAMMA but that which walked in the Garden was TON viz. the Centre of the light world and the voice TETRAGRAMMA is the Centre to the fire-world viz. the first Principle and the TON the Second Principle as fire and light are one but they Sever themselves in their coming forth to manifestation into a twofold Source the like also is to be considered concerning this 15. The voice of the fire-world entred into the Essence of Adam and Eve the same they heard therefore they were afraid and crept among the Trees but the voice of the light-world is this whereof Moses spake which Der walked gieng in the Garden im Garten the holy voice walked in the Garden of Paradise for the Word * * * Text Der. which Der denoteth the Person of Christ who vvalked in the Spirit in the Garden and went forth from the fires Centre vvho took possession of Paradise and would invest Adam again with it 16. Therefore saith Moses now and the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him Verse 9. where art thou wherefore said he not Adam and Eve where are ye no He called to Adam viz. to the first Image which he created in Paradise and not unto the man and woman for He that called was He which walked in the Garden viz. the word of the light-world the voice of the Second Principle which called back againe in and from the enkindled Anger and espoused it selfe again unto the disappeared heavenly Ens that it would araise and stir up it selfe againe therein in the Name Jesus viz. in the deepest love of the Deity and unite and manifest it selfe in the fulnesse of time in the disappeared Ens with the introducement of the holy divine Ens of the heavenly worlds Essence thereinto and open Paradise again and in the meane time bruise the Head of the Serpents Ens this Serpent-bruiser said to Adam where art thou 17 Now saith Reason He saw him well enough wherefore said he then where art thou he did indeed see * * * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam but Adam did not see him for his eyes were departed from * * * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adonái from the divine vvorld into time viz. into the outward world into the Serpents Ens both evill and good into the Death and Corruptibility out of these Monstrous eyes Adam saw in the property of the Fires Tincture but the property of the lights Tincture which he had wretchedly lost said unto him where art thou Adam which is as much as if he had said Seek me and see me againe I am come to give my selfe again unto thee Verse 10. and Adam said I heard thy voice in the garden and was afraid for I am naked 18. This Calling him was nothing else but the voice or Sound of the holy word introducing it selfe againe into the vitall light else Adam could not have heard this voice therefore he said I am naked and afraid 19. Of what vvas he afraid he felt in him the world of Gods anger and feared that it would wholly enkindle it selfe and devoure him as hapned to Lucifer therefore he trembled at the Call of the holy Voice as the Anger trembleth at the Love as may be seen on the Crosse of Christ for even heere was the feare and dread of the Serpent for she knew the voice which called into Adams Ens and feared before the face of God for it knew or perceived the falsehood which was in it which it would hide 20. And God said who told thee that thou art naked that is Verse 11. the Serpents Ens hath told thee that thou shouldest imagine after the beastiall property and awaken the same 21. And we see heere very clearly that Adam knew nothing of this naked beastiall property in his innocency but if it had been manifest in him surely he had then known it but now God saith to him who hath told thee it hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat Did not I charge and command thee that thou shouldest not awaken the property of nakednesse in thee wherefore hast thou by Lust brought thy selfe into the Beastiall property did not I create thee in the Angelicall property wherefore art thou then become a Beast in my Power have not I made thee in and through my word why hath thy own free will changed my Word 22. And he said Verse 12 13. the woman which thou didst joyne with me gave me and I did eat of the Tree and God said to the woman wherefore hast thou done this and she said the Serpent beguiled mee and I did eat Herein it is plainly and clearly laid open that the Devill in the Ens of the Serpent did deceive Man as it is before mentioned and that they both Adam and his wife were made monstrous by the Serpent 23. For God said to the Serpent by whose property the Devill had made himselfe a Seat and habitation in mans Image because thou hast done this be thou accursed above all cattle Verse 14. and above all the beasts of the field upon thy belly shalt thou goe and Dust shalt thou eat all the dayes of thy life 24. But heere the vaile lieth before the face of Moses who passeth by the Serpent and doth not describe what it was but seeing now God said unto it that it should goe upon the belly and eat earth and no Law was given to it in the beginning thereupon we are here well able to finde what it was being it was the most suttle Beast among all the Beasts and slew Eve her virgin-like chastity that she lusted after the beastiall copulation thereupon we understand in the Serpents property the desire of carnall brutall copulation and all unchastity wanton uncleannesse and Beastiall Whoredome of man 25. For it viz. the Serpent in its inward limus whereinto the Devill introduced his desire * * * Or had been was a virgin-like Ens understand in the good part of the heavenly
at the marriage of the Lambe doe understand what kinde of intire inward great joy and Love-delight is therein and how s s s Excellently with surpassing beauty glory and delight dearly the Bride receiveth her Bridegroome in his pure cleare and bright fires property and how she gives him her Love-kisse unto others this is dumb 16. When Reason heareth one speake of Paradise then it understandeth onely a certaine place apart and it is even so there was a certaine place which was called the Garden in Eden where Adam and Eve were tempted and from which place they were driven after the fall but yet the whole world was such a Paradise before the Curse yet seeing God knew the fall the holy Paradise was onely opened unto them in one certaine place for to what End should the whole world bring forth Paradisicall fruit seeing there was no creature upon the Earth that was capable to enjoy the same 17. But Adam and Eve were however brought into Paradise that although this first Body should fall and come to ruine yet they and their children might by the new Regeneration in the Spirit of Christ enter in again through this fire-Sword this Mystery is exceeding Great 18. For Prince Lucifer before the time of the Created Earth sate in the heavenly Ens in the Angelicall world in the Place of this world wherein the Ens of the Earth was comprehended in the Fiat and brought into a Compaction his false Imagination had t t t Made it subject to infection and pollution tainted the limus before the Compaction it was the place of his Hierarchies now the outward body of man was taken out of the limus of the Earth in the Verbum Fiat and formed according to the property of the humane life which was in the Word the word formed by or through the Fiat the Ens or limus of the Earth according to the forme of the humane soulelike life which was in the word and being God had set himselfe through his word to be judge against the false Infection and desire of the Devill to judge him and his enkindled whickednesse which he had brought to Substance the judiciall u u u Or Sword of execution Sword was already in the limus of the Earth whereof Adam vvas made 19. For when God created the Earth he x x x Certainly appointed and set a time founded its time when he would keep the judgement and sever the evill from the good and give the evill for an habitation to the Apostate Prince but being the Good in the occluse Earth was without heavenly creatures seeing its Prince was cast out God created Adam an other Hierarch out of this good Ens to be a Ruler of this place and hence came the Devills Envy against Man and all good creatures of this world 20. But now we are heere to consider of the Apostacy of man with the Sword of the Cherub for Saint Paul saith we are chosen in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world was laid and even heere this saying of Paul doth belong God knew that this Ens of which Adam was to be created was already somewhat subject to false lust by reason of the Devills introduced desire therefore God y y y foresaw or provided for chose this limus in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world out of which he would make man that he would through the judgement of the flaming Sword bring it through death and through the fire and wholly burne away the false infected desire of Lust and regenerate him anew in Jesus in his deepest Love in his Word in Jehovah that is opened out of Jehovah and introduce a new limus into the tainted one and bring them together quite through the judgement of the fire-Sword and purge and purifie them wholly and throughly 21. And heere also is Christs descention into hell where the Love of God in Christ entered into this fire-sword and changed the wrath into Love and did also destroy the sting of death which was insinuated into the limus of the Earth out of which Adam was created according to the outward humanity and this fire-sword had its raising and Originall in the Corruption of Lucifer 22. For albeit Adam was created as to one part out of the heavenly Essentiality that was in the word of mans life which was inspired and breathed into his outward and inward limus yet this fire-Sword lay hidden as a glimmering incentive in the earthly limus of the outward body which also assaulted Adam so that he lusted against the command of God and the Kingdome of Heaven in which incentive the Devill also introduced his desire into him and provoked him to fall which being God well knew that the poore man would not stand he ordained an help and Saviour in Christ to guide and bring him into that holy Ens whereinto he should be brought viz. into the true Sabbath and Eternall rest 23. Indeed Adam was set wholly perfect in equall harmony and accord and brought into Paradise to try if the soule could have overcome the incentive of vaine lust and therefore the tree of temptation was represented to him to see if it were possible for the soul to over-power this contamination of lust and remaine wholly and fully in the likenesse and harmony 24. But it was not possible therefore Christ must afterward z z z Undergoe this Proba come into this place and be tempted forty dayes in the wildernesse in Adams Ens and in his new introduced heavenly Ens to see whether the fire-soul would stand in perfect purity and being it did now stand in Christ the new intoduced heavenly Ens did destroy the sword in the death of the outward body of Christ and brought the outward body which he in Mary received from her Seed quite through this sword of the Anger of God into the holy Ens and in this Power the outward body did arise from death and got victory over death and this fire-sword and tooke the fire-sword into its power wherewith at the end of the world he will purge his Floar as a judge over Devills and men as well as of the Earth 25. For the maine ambition was about the fire-Sword for King Lucifer had changed it from the pure clear light into fire wherewith he willed to domineere and rule as a God but God sent to him another Prince and King who tooke it from him and thrust him from this Throne and should turne this Sword in the Ens of the Earth againe into the divine property and cast out and judge the Devill with this Sword 26. And there is not such a silly and narrow Meaning of the fire-sword as hitherto hath been generally understood although it hath been hidden by the Counsell of God yet we should now open our eyes and deeply consider what this manifestation importeth that it doth even foretell and signifie the judgement of this sword that he
will come who carrieth it in his mouth and it is also a messenger declaring that Babell shall soon come to its End by this Sword and be given to this Sword to be devoured 27. Now saith reason wherefore did not God examine this Ens afore out of which he created the Earth and man out of the same Earth before he created the Earth and man forsooth deare Reason heere thou hast hit the matter right Gods Omnipotence and omniscience must serve thy turne whereby thou art able to bring all things into Gods will as rationall phancy dictates hearken o Reason dost thou know whence the Earth is generated thou saist through the Word viz. in the Verbum Fiat I say so too now what was this word Here looke upon the Earth and the whole Creation and thou wilt see what the desire of the word hath brought into Essence out of the spirituall Ens thou wilt every where see good and Evill and finde out Gods love and anger 28. The Word was a full Spiration from the spirituall fire-and light-world according to which God calleth himselfe a Strong jealous angry God as to the fire and a mercifull Loving God as to the light 29. Now if God should have a a a Nulled abolished or taken away quelled the first Principle viz. the fire-Source in the Ens of the Earth out of which it was created whence should the light have its might doth not the Father viz. the fire-world beget the Son viz. the light-world but now being the word in the fire-world was vehemently enkindled by Gods motion to the Creation as we may see by the Coagulation of the Stones if we were not blocks and had onely calvish understandings wherewith then should this Fire but especially the enkindled Ens in the Coagulation be reduced and brought againe into the light into the Equall Temperature and harmony Gods Love must then onely doe it 30. Now how will or can a creature viz. a fire-soule or Angel come into a creaturall being or formation if the fire-Source were not moved and stirred in an especiall manner Like would onely then remaine in Like and if it be onely a meere Likenesse then it hath its Sport with and in it selfe as it was from and in Eternity and therefore the unchangeable God hath moved himselfe according to the fire and light and stirred up the fires property that he may make him a play and melody viz. a formed Word out of himselfe that there might be a play before and in the un-formable Word 31. Now we doe here understand this that if God should have againe introduced the enkindled Ens out of which the Earth and man were created into the un-formable Word viz. wholly and fully into the likenesse into the Love then no creature might have been produced or brought forth for every Soules-Spirit yea the Angels and vvhatsoever liveth must be a stirring or working fire 32. Now no fire-Soure can be generated out of the perfect likenesse unlesse the likenesse doth move it selfe yet the Eternall likenesse viz. God had before moved himselfe in his Mystery with the creation of the Angelicall Thrones now if he should have changed this motion which was Enkindled and also poysoned by the Hierarck Lucifer with false distemper into Love before he had created the Earth and man then he must yet once more have moved himselfe according to the fires property if he would have created another Hierarck and Angelicall Prince 33. But being that might not be he created the Earth and out of the Earth Man out of the first motion and breathed into man the Light-and fire-soule out of that breath of his manifested and moved word viz out of the first motion for out of the first motion of the word another Prince should come into the princely created Throne of Lucifer and take in and possesse the first motion 34. And God appointed the Judgement to the first motion and tooke away Lucifers Domineering Fire-Sword and gave it unto Adam and afterward introduced the deepest Love of God in Christ into Adam and brought the Moved Word againe into the likenesse viz. into an Eternall Confirmation and gave Adam in Christ the Fire-Sword over the fallen Prince Lucifer 35. For Adam viz. the corrupted limus of the Earth should in Christ its first enjoyed Prince judge with this flaming Sword as Christ hath told us that the Saints shall judge the world understand the Enkindled Ens of man and of the Earth should judge the false Prince of Lies who had perversely changed the Truth in the holy Ens into Lies and corrupted it with such false desire 36. But beeing the Ens of man was corrupted and could not God out of his deepest Hiddennesse introduced the most holy Ens into the Corrupt Ens of man viz. into the heavenly part and brought the outward part also through the Sword of the fire and death into the inward into an Eternall likenesse or temperature And thus there is heere a Looking-glasse for Reason if it be illuminated of God It will then understand us heere but if it be not then there is not any possibility to understand this 37. And we faithfully and seriously warne the caviller and carper not to say it is a blasphemy let him first put away his Calvish and Beastiall Eyes and looke us heere in the face before he takes upon him to censure and cavill at us it hath far another A. B. C. then Reason hath It must have its Birth a degree deeper 38. Thus we are able very well to understand the casting out of Adam wherefore he was tempted and driven out of Paradise being his Ens was somewhat enkindled by the Devills poyson he could not possesse Paradise and therefore God drove him out from thence with the Sword of judgement into death and corruption and yet gave the promised word of his deepest Love to be with and in him in the Ens of the heavenly worlds-being for a sure and certaine Covenant wherein Adam and his children should Trust and beleeve that at the end and accomplishment of this time he would in this Incorporated Word bring them againe with the introduction of the holy Ens out of death through the fire-sword and clean cut off the false infection and lust with the Sword of judgement and set them as Angels of God in the place of fallen Lucifer and this is the mystery of the Angel and Sword of Paradise 39. The Angel did beare the Name of the Covenant out of which God would manifest Jesus viz. the High and Almighty Prince and it was even this Angel which afterward wrought many wonders upon the Earth who was with Abel Sem Enoch Noah Abraham and Moses who appeared to Moses in the fire-sword of flame in the bush and brought Israel out of Egypt and went before them in a fiery Pillar by night and in a cloudy Pillar by day who gave them the Law in the fire and at last brought them by Joshua being
of these Serpentine wolvish Pharisees and also of the verball Titular Christendome 16. As the false Serpents-child is a monster and fool before the Angelicall world so likewise the children of darknesse doe account and esteeme the children of the light for fooles for there must be a contrary that the one might be manifest in the other if the Anger had not taken hold of the humanity and devoured it into it selfe then the deepest Love of God would not have been manifest in Man 17. But thus the Love taketh Cause by the Anger to overpower and prevaile over the same with its motion and manifestation as the same may be known in Christ the true Son of God gave himselfe into our Image which was awaked in the Anger that so he might be made manifest with his Love in the Anger and change the same into joy 18. Christ gave our humane Image to the Anger of his father to be devoured in death and brought his life into death and yet manifested his Love in the life which death had devoured and brought forth the life in Love through the death as a Grain of corn which is sown into the earth the same must dye in the earth but out of that mortifyed grain growes a fair new body even so the corrupt body of Adam shall and must be offered to death and the Anger and out of the Death and Anger the body of the divine Love shall be manifest 19. It was exactly Typified and prefigured in Cain and Abel how it would be in the Succeeding and future generations being Abel outwardly did beare the Earthly Image and yet in the Spirit he was an Image of heaven his outward body in the Corruption was onely a e e e Text Larva or strange disguâ—sed person visard before the outward world for there was another Spirit hidden therein which was not of the outward worlds Essence and property therefore because he was not wholly a right childe of the earthly world it would not suffer him being as a strange childe in it for the Devill was Prince in the wrathfull Essence in this world who would not that a childe of the light should spring forth through the wrathfull Essence and be in his Garden 20. Thus the Image or person of Cain and Abel is a true figure of the false and then also of the holy and true children of God of the outward Sinfull corrupt and mortall Man and of the inward now regenerate holy man when Christ with his Love-Kingdome ariseth from death out of the disappeared Ens then Adams earthly Image must dye in Christs death and if it now be that the outward body must yet live it is onely a scorne and foole before the Heavens Image and so also before the naturall f f f All naturall men life of this world 21. For so soon as Christ is borne the Sinfull life is condemned to death and standeth in scorne and open shame before all the false children in the Anger of God as an whore in g g g At the house of correction or whipt through the streets Bridewell whom other whores likewise help to deride and scoffe at and yet they doe but onely judge and condemn themselves thereby for if Christ be born then the judgement passeth upon the false beastiall life and that man must stand in the judgement of God as a malefactour and be termed a foole a Heretick and be jeered scoffed and reviled yea even utterly defyed and slaine that the Monster may be judged before Gods Anger but those that doe it are the children of the lusty pampered and well-fatned Anger of God whom the wrath of God useth for its Instrument for God is a Spirit therefore he accomplisheth his judgement by a materiall h h h By some outward substantiall meanes or Persons Image 22. For so soon as Abell did in his Offring put on or attract the Love of God in the Covenant anew into his humane desire and comprehended or amassed the same into his Essence then forthwith the judgement passed upon the externall mortall Man and Gods Sword of Anger tooke him which Cain executed and slew the outward body of Abel and at this time also the judgement passed upon the false Image of the Anger in Cain for he stood there and cryed My Sins are greater then can be forgiven me 23. This doth now hint and point at the figure of Christ how the Anger of the Father must i i i Or swallow up devoure the life of Christ in death and when as the Anger had devoured the life in death then the holy life of the deepest Love of God moved it selfe in the death and the Anger and devoured the death and anger into it selfe whereat the Earth trembled and the Rocks clove asunder and the Graves of the Saints opened 24. And so likewise the Love-fire k k k Good and evill now mixed and in contest one with the other and the Anger-fire in the place of this world which wrathfull fire was enkindled in the Creation when the Apostate Lucifer fell shall at the Last Day be again changed into the Divine joyfulnesse and be Avalled or swallowed up in the Love understand it shall be thus in the third Principle where Love and anger doe strive this Time one with anorher but l l l Lucifer HE remaineth in the darknesse in the first Principle 25. The true Cause wherefore Cain murthered Abel was by reason of their Offrings and worship of God viz. Religion as this Contention continueth still to this day the Cainicall Church is not yet one with the Abelicall 26. Now saith reason I see it well enough that all contention and strife ariseth from Religion but what is the ground and most undoubted cause and reason thereof behold this is the Cause set before thee the false Serpents childe which is Evill and good and then set before thee the virgins-childe borne of Christ and then thou hast the fundamentall Cause exactly drawn to the life before thine eyes 27. The Cainicall Church drives a suttle Trade with externall Ceremonies and will appease God with some externall thing or other it will be outwardly an accepted and adopted child it must down right be called honest godly holy and heavenly it adorneth and trimmeth up it selfe very finely and standeth mightly upon its Calling which it hath it selfe Ordained and Instituted it makes a very specious and Renowned shew in the white sheepes cloathing and therein lodgeth the High Priest of selfehood without Christs Spirit and rules and masters the worke of the outward letters and whosoever learneth to transpose and compose the same boldly and bravely according to their forme of forged opinions he is an high Priest in their Office and Order he putteth Christs garment of innocency on him for his Cloake and Covert 28. The other party of the confused cainicall Church cryeth out and holdeth forth the Goodly glistering childe to m m m
and seven and yet ye have the Word in one Number wherein the c c c Or the understanding of all things whole understanding is contained yee have it moving upon your tongues yet ye cannot comprehend it 66. And the Reason is that you will onely speake out of Seven and seventy and seven viz. out of the wrath which hath divided the tongues and doth Avenge the Life of Lamech Seventy and Seven times in your Tongues and Speeches but if ye would d d d Or enter into goe unto the Centre and open your eyes then you would see how the babilonicall Whore leads you captive by her String and how she hath set her selfe over the life of man with e e e One Copy hath it seven seventy and seven seventy and seven numbers and hath wholly hidden our Sister Naema with the Numbers that the Beast of the Numbers might Reigne and rule in the wrath of God over the life of our Sister Naamah 67. But we have heard a watchman say Away the Beast with the whore which stood upon the Earth in Naamahs stead is quite fallen and given to the Presse of the Seven-fold f f f Vengeance Racha in the Seventy and seven c. the Racha ariseth up in Lamech and goeth through the seventy and seven and this none can hinder AMEN 68. For Naamah shall be manifested to all Nations tongues and Speeches and even then out of the Seventy and Seven there shall be but One word of understanding for the life of man proceeded from ONE onely word of God and hath formed and divided it selfe in Selfe-hood in the Spirit of the wonders of the vvorld into Seventy and Seven properties of the Onely Word Novv cometh the time that the life's beginning shall againe enter with the Spirit of the wonders and Speeches into the End viz. into the Beginning and therefore the childe of the wonders which hath given it selfe forth g g g Or before in the Sight of God must be made manifest in the Vnity 69. And being that the free-will hath given it selfe into the vanity of the Speeches and the multiplicity of the Powers and defiled and slaine the life of the Onely Word the Racha proceedeth forth from the Murthering Spirit through Seventy and seven untill the Beast together with the Harlot be consumed and devoured vvith the fire of Gods Anger 70. And then Tubel-Cain findeth his Sister Naema in Golden Attire and Ada rejoyceth in her Son Jabal who is an Heardsman for Lamech hath again found his children which he left in the Racha and the Pride of Selfe and also the craft Deceit and Suttlety of the Serpent ceaseth * * * Or for Then Every Beast shall eat its Own Pasture the Time is neare HALLELV-JAH CHAP. XXX Of the Line of the Covenant THe Line of the Covenant is not so to be understood as if the Covenant fell onely upon this Line no the Covenant * * * Passeth upon belongeth to or is Entailed upon befalleth the onely Life which was in the word before the times of the humanity the Line of Seth passeth onely upon the manifestation in the flesh in which line the Word in the Covenant would externally manifest it selfe in the flesh but the Spirit proceeding from the Centre in the Covenant falls as well upon Cains line as upon Abels yet in Cains line in the Spirit and in Seths in the externall mouth or manifestation viz. in the formed and conceived Word that is in the office and ministry of Teaching and Preaching for Seth was sprung forth according to the Spirit out of the Covenant where the Spirit moved it selfe in the incorporated Word in the Covenant and Cain was comprehended under the Spirit of nature 2. For by Cains line the Arts were brought forth to light which were a Wonder of the Divine wisdome Contemplation and formation viz. of the Formed Word through and in nature and in Seth the word was brought into a formall Life viz. into a spiritual contemplation wherein the word of God did behold it selfe with the wisdome in a spirituall * * * Forme or Figure Image and in Cains line it beheld it selfe in a naturall formed Word and both Serve to set forth the wonderfull deeds of God 3. Not as Babel judgeth that God out of his purpose and determinate counsell hath thus predestinated and chosen one Part of men in his Anger to condemnation and the other Part to life they that so judge are yet under the Number Seventy and Seven in the multiplication of the word for the Promise was Given to Adam before Cain was conceived the Covenant touching Grace rested in Adam and Eve but the Spirit of Sanctification and Regeneration by Christ passed onely upon the Seed of the Woman viz. upon the Seed of the Kingdome of Heaven which was shut up that is upon the lights Tincture upon the Matrix of Venus wherein Adam when he was Man and Woman should have propagated himselfe in Peculiar Desire and Love which seing it could not be by reason of Adams strong Earthly Imagination was taken from Adam and made into a woman 4. But when the woman became earthly the heavenly Part of this Matrix which was to the producement of the heavenly birth was shut up in death into which Matrix the word of God did again incorporate it selfe with the Covenant to open and manifest himselfe in this Matrix with a living and heavenly Seed and to destroy the Power of death 5. For the word would not open it selfe in the formed word of nature viz in Cains Generation but in the disappeared heavenly Ens and by the same revived and requickned heavenly Ens that is by the VVomans Seed of the heavenly Part bruise the Serpents Head viz. the Devills introduced desire in the wrath of nature that is overcome the wrath and curse of God in the Generation of Cain and Seth. 6. The word in the Covenant did open it selfe in Seth and Abel it being as a Voice of the Teacher and Cains Generation should in its life receive this Voice and impresse it into its Life so that it might produce the New Regeneration but that many of them have continued in death and contemned this Voice is long of the free-will which suffered it selfe to be held by the Devill in the Anger of God and still to this Day doth suffer it selfe to be held in that the Cainicall will doth Love nature and Selfe too much 7. For if the free-will of the Soul will apprehend the Word in the Covenant then it must Dye to its naturall Selfehood and selfefull Will and be wholly Resigned to the Own will in the Covenant that it may with its Desire follow the Word and Spirit in the Covenant as the same doth lead guide and move it 8. And This Cain is very loath and unwilling to do he will be a Selfish Lord and with the desire doth figure and shape a
the end of dayes shall purge the floar the Ninth number is the heavenly Tincture of the fire and light and the Tenth number is the Love-fire viz. the Triangle of the holy Trinity in the majesty Signified enough to those that are our school-fellowes The 40. Questions it is explained at large in the Fourty Questions of the Soule even the Philosophick discourse at the beginning and entrance of the same Questions 21. Out of these Ten properties of the Names in the line of the Covenant the Oracle viz. the divine voice was made manifest in Abraham and therefore the Spirit of the Lord commanded him to goe from his own Countrey and from his kindred for the voice of the divine manifestation with the Messiah or Christ should not come forth out of his Kindred viz. out of his owne bloud but out of God but yet in him lay the vessell viz. the Ens in which the divine voice would manifest it selfe and therefore because another Seed should be introduced into his owne feed viz. an heavenly Ens Joh. 3. he commanded him to get out from his kindred and fathers house 22. For the possibility and Ability to the divine manifestation did not stand in mans Ens but in Gods but mans Ens must come thereunto that so Adams heavenly disappeared Ens might be quickned in Christs living Ens and in Christ arise from death therefore God said to Abraham get thee into a Land that I will shew thee here the Spirit signifieth that he should not see God in his fathers Countrey that is in the earthly man but in the Land which the Lord would shew him in his Seed which was another Seed out of the divine Ens in this strange Seed he would blesse his own seed that is tincture it with the divine tincture of the ninth number in the Sacred Ternary even with the Tincture of the holy spirituall world 23. For thus said the Lord to Abraham Gen. XII 1 2. Get thee out of thy Countrey and from thy Kindred and from thy fathers house into a Land that I will shew thee and I will make of thee a great Nation and I will blesse thee and make thy Name great Thou shalt be a blessing I will blesse them that blesse thee and curse them that curse thee The Great Name which he would make him in his seed that was not to be understood onely as to the Kingdome of this world for Abraham was onely a stranger upon the Earth and must wander up and downe from one place to another and possessed no Princedome or Kingdome as the great Names of the Gentiles out of the Sensuall compacted tongues for he was to be a stranger and Pilgrim upon the Earth in the promised Seed and blessing for Christ said also his Kingdome was not of this world 24. But the great Name which should be a blessing wherein God would blesse all Nations was the hierarchy of Christ in the Covenant which would open it self in Abrahams seed This was an Eternall great Name of a Royall Hierarchy of an Enthroned Prince in divine Power and Omnipotence which should rule over the Curse for God said he would curse them that cursed him viz. the apostate revolted Devills and all wicked men who would curse this holy Seed and blessing upon their Head this Seed should tread 25. And here under Abrahams great Name and blessing the person of Christ is wholly to be understood for he said in thee all Nations shall be blessed and thou shalt be a Blessing Now all the families of the Earth could not be blessed in the outward mortall man of Abraham for Abraham dyed and his children and grand-children were a long time strangers Servants and bond-men in strange Countries as in Egypt for three hundred years and upwards and had no Scepter till under Moses who also was no King but a Prince of God which Princedome continued unto King Saul where they would indeed have a King against Gods command and will whom notwithstanding God did afterward reject and set up David to be King out of the propheticall spirit in the compacted Mentall Tongue under Christs person who should bring forth and manifest the geat Name and Eternall Blessing 26. But here now we are rightly to understand what the Person of Christ should be under this Name and Blessing not wholly a stranger or another person which should not be out of Abrahams and Adams Seed as some doe erre concerning it and install or set Christ onely in the promised Seed viz. in Abrahams promised Seed wherewith the poore captive Soul would be little benefited also hereby the * * * The Resurrection of our Earthly Bodies Resurrection of the dead out of these our present bodies would be wholly nullifyed 27. For if Christ were wholy another then also another or wholly a strange person must be borne in us out of Christs seed and flesh which would not be I or my selfe but wholly another man as some doe Erre that we are so borne of Christ as the dew is out of the morning which indeed is true but my I-hood or personality which was created in Adam out of the divine Ens viz. out of the good part of the Ens of the Earth which came forth also out of the heavenly worlds being as to the good Ens into a Coagulation must also be therewith joyned as the like is also to be understood in Abraham 28. For God said in thee all Nations shall be blessed he said not alone in me but he said I will blesse thee and make of thee a great Nation and make thy Name Great and thou shalt be a blessing thou thy Self shalt be it that is Christ should become Abraham and Abraham Christ. 29. For the Seed which disappeared in Adam and dyed to the mentall life into which God engrafted or incorporated the Limit or Aym of his Covenant with the quickning Word the same is that into which God would introduce his Blessing viz. the living divine heavenly Ens and would blesse Abraham and Adam and their children in this re-quickned Ens or disappeared Seed and make them truely alive the living Ens of the word in the Covenant and the Adamicall disappeared Ens in Abraham should become one person and body for the same are one kinde of Ens. 30. But the poysonfull malignant Sensuall desire which the Devill had made monstrous had shut up this holy Ens in Adam in death and covered it with the grosse earthly property like unto a fair piece of Gold which were changed into Lead so that one would say the Gold is dead and gone and t' were truely so indeed if the Artist did not again redeeme it 31. Thus likewise the heavenly Artist would not reject Adams disappeared Gold and make clean another new thing but he tooke his own Tincture and of his own Gold out of which he had made Adams Gold and tinctured Adams Gold with his own Gold even with his Tincture that is
Abraham in a vision and established the Covenant with him in his Seed and how Abrahams faith laid hold of the Covenant which God accounted unto him for Righteousnesse and how God commanded him to offer Sacrifice and what is thereby to be understood MOses saith After these things it came to passe that the word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision and said Gen. XV. Vers. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. feare not Abram I am thy Shield and exceeding great reward but Abram said Lord God what wilt thou give me seeing I goe childlesse and the steward of my house hath a Son this Eliezer of Damascus and Abraham said further To me thou hast given no Seed and lo this son of my servant will be mine heir and behold the Lord said unto him he shall not be thine heir but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowells shall be thine heir and he commanded him to goe forth and said looke towards the Heaven and number the Stars canst thou number them and he said unto him even so shall thy Seed be Abraham beleeved God and that was counted to him for Righteousnesse 2. In this portion of Scripture lieth the Root of the Christian Faith for God said to Abraham that he was his Shield and Reward that he would give him the seed out of his loins God would be Abrahams reward and give him a Son of his own whose Seed should be as the Stars in heaven which are innumerable and his Stewards son should not be heir viz. the Animall humane Seed full of the Serpents Ens shall not inherit but Gods Reward Gods Ens He would give in his Reward into his Seed viz. into the Power of his loines which should be a Seed like unto the Stars of Heaven he looked upon the Seed in the Covenant viz. upon the Eternall Kingdome which should be as the Stars in Heaven so pure bright clear and innumerable and this Abraham beleeved and it was imputed to him for Righteousnesse 3. Beleeving here is this much viz. he received and laid hold of the word he tooke it into his desire viz. into the humane Ens the Aym in the Covenant in the formed Compounded word viz. in Abrahams nature and property Received the Speaking word of God viz. the Promise and both these were formed into One and in this One Abrahams faith was Right for God counted the word which Abraham received into his faiths desire unto him for Righteousnesse for propriety and for Justification 4. For thus received or in-taken word justified the creaturall word viz. the expressed created word understand that word which had formed it selfe in the humane property and brought it selfe into a creature and put it selfe forth out of the Three Principles into an Image in which Image the Selfe-will had through desire and lust elevated it selfe with the darke worlds property viz. in the fire of Gods Anger and introduced it selfe into an Earthly grossenesse into which Grosse Image the Devill also had introduced by the Serpent his Ens will and desire 5. Now the living Eternall-Speaking holy word came forth out of the Light 's and divine Love's property to help this Ens this compacted Word and created Image and became its Reward this same Abrahams naturall word and power received into it selfe and this same Word of God intaken and fixed in the desire justified Abrahams Corrupted word it was his Righteousnesse the same destroyed the Anger and ruinated the Devills desire and will understand in mans Ens viz. in the formed word this was effected 6. For there is no Faith without Gods word and power therefore Abraham did now take Gods power and promise into his Ens in him and formed or conceived the same into a Substance of his Spirit this was the Faith of Justification that Gods word and the humane will and desire came into one spirituall Substance Thus God accounted the Received or in-spoken Apprehended Word unto Abraham for Righteousnesse viz. for propriety and this is the ground and root of faith that he tooke in or imprinted Gods promise into his desire as his very own and let not the same passe from him in Doubt as Jacob did who tooke the word of promise into him and said I will not let thee goe untill thou dost blesse me and wrestled the whole night with the word of Power untill he obtained victory so that the promised word gave in it selfe to him for propriety viz. to a blessing or a great Reward as here in Abraham 7. Thus understand us very accurately the Incorporated word of the Covenant in Paradise which God promised to Adam concerning the bruiser of the Serpents head did here at present wrestle through Jacobs formed word of the humane property with the new promised word viz. with the living word which did at present move it selfe in him and would that the corrupt humane Ens might be blessed with Gods Love that the wound might be healed and it did long and pant after the fulfilling of the Covenant that God would be pleased forthwith to introduce the holy Ens of his heavenly essentiality into mans Essence that Christ might be born out of Gods and mans Essence therefore Let Christendome know that Faith is not onely an hystory or knowledge but a reall Substance 8. Faith is nothing else but the uniting of ones will to God and the receiving of Gods word and power into the will that so both these viz. Gods will and mans will become both one Substance and Essence that the humane will be even Gods will and even then Christ in his Suffering death and Resurrection is accounted unto his own humanity for Righteousnesse so that man becomes e e e Viz. Christ· Christus or the Anointed understand according to the spirituall man and thus we put on Christ in Abrahams faith and are twiggs shoots and branches in his vine and the Temple of God he that teacheth and beleeveth otherwise is yet in the compacted un-contrite or un-cloven Tongue of unbeleefe in the whoredome of Babylon 9. This is the true reall ground of our Christian faith that as Abraham put on Christ in the faith so we also at present doe receive and in our heavenly part of the humanity put on Christ in his humanity according to the heavenly worlds Essence in the same flesh and bloud which Melchisedech represented and brought to Abraham in the heavenly bread and wine viz. in the Type thereof yea wholly receive it into our Ens of the heavenly worlds Essence which dyed in Adam and become alive therein and arise from death in Christ and dwell very essentially with our spirituall man in him and even then he is our own Righteousnesse we in him and he in us Onely One Christ One God One Faith One Tree in the Paradise of God in the Stem which is God and in the Power and vertue thereof which is Christ and in the branches of the tree which are we Christians wholly One Tree
these point at the Kingdome of Nature which hath its Originall out of the Fathers property and must alwayes be the first if a creature shall be brought forth or to the producing of a creature 3. Afterwards comes the Kingdome of Grace which taketh in the Nature as first there must be a fire ere there be a light the fire begetteth the light and the light maketh the fire manifest in it selfe it taketh the fire viz. the nature into it selfe and dwelleth in the fire 4. The like also we are to understand concerning the two properties of the humanity viz. in the Two Principles according to fire and light viz. according to the Fathers and Sons property according to the Anger and according to the Love both which are in one essence 5. But being mans will had subjected it selfe to the Kingdome of Nature the kingdome of nature did now also represent its property in mans Image to the Highest God especially in this wonderfull Man Abraham in whom the Spirit and Word of God moved it selfe now the figures of the Eternall Principles viz. of both wills were represented out of one man to the word of God which had brought forth and formed all essences viz. the revolted disobedient will in Ismael and the holy obedience which sprung forth from the Power of the received word of faith in Isaack 6. Two types were here set forth viz. in Ismael the poor sick distempered evill corrupted Adam fallen from the will of God and in Isaac the Image of Christ was represented which was come to help the poor corrupt Adam and to introduce his Apostate will into death and mortification and purifie the same again in the fire of God and regenerate it anew in the Love-fire and in the first Onely eternall will of God where the Father and the Son are one onely will and essence in the wrathfull Anger-fire and in the Love-light-fire 7. For with the motion of the divine property when God moved the Nature and creaâ—ed the creatures the two properties viz. of the Love and the Anger in nature did sever themselves so that the mystery of God viz. the invisible spirituall World might be manifest and come into a wrestling Love-striving sport in the strife and Counter-will 8. For if there were but one onely will then all essences would do but one thing but in the Counter-will each exalteth it selfe in it selfe to its victory and exaltation and all life and vegetation stands in this contest and thereby the divine wisdome is made manifest and comes into form to Contemplation and to the kingdom of joy for in the Conquest is joy but one onely will is not manifest to it selfe for there is neither evill nor good in it neither joy nor sorrow and if there were yet the One viz. the onely will must first in it selfe bring it selfe into a contrary that it might manifest it selfe 9. The like also is here to be understood concerning Isaac and Ismael for Christ must be born of Abrahams seed and the corrupt man must also be born out of this Abrahams seed whom Christ should help and save 10. For Christ viz. Gods word and will took unto him on his holy heavenly Ens mans revolted Ens and will and brought the same in him into the mortification of selfhood even into the Root whence man 's revolted apostate will did arise in the beginning of his creation viz. into the wrath of the eternall nature into the Fathers property as to that nature and regenerated the revolted humane will in the same fire through the Love-fire and united or Atoned Gods Love and Anger viz. the divided nature in the humane will which nature in the creation of the world had introduced it selfe into a Contrary to the manifestation of the Wonders 11. Now understand us here aright according to the very acute depth Christ must be the King and Hierarch viz. the Humane Prince in the Eternall Kingdome and the Kingdome was his own Peculiar now his Subjects viz. his Servants must be other persons then He all which must introduce their will into him as into one Stock He must be the Tree which should give to his branches viz. to the rest of mankinde Sapp Power and Will that so they might bring him forth fruit but being the branches on his Tree which was himselfe were become Evill he gave himselfe into their evill essence and put forth his power and vertue in them that so they might become good again and flourish in him 12. And that this might be effected the Tree and the Branches of the Tree must be distinguished or â—everized that so the wonders of the formed wisdome of nature in this Tree might not cease and come to nought for which wonders sake God had moved himselfe to the creation and severed the will of nature viz. his formed word into a Contrary 13. Isaack was conceived in the Ens of Christ viz. in the apprehended or formed word of Faith of Abrahams Ens in the faith and stood in the figure of Christ he was not wholly and onely out of the heavenly Ens but out of both together out of Abrahams Adamicall Ens and out of the conceived or apprehended word of Faith and Ismael was out of Adams Ens of Abrahams own nature according to the corrupt property he was wholly out of the essence of Abrahams soul and spirit but not out of the apprehended word of Faith which passed upon Isaac 14. Now Ismael was even as his father Abraham before the conceived word of faith and should also take or receive that same word of faith in the desire out of Isaacs heavenly divine innate or imbred word and bring it to a Substance of faith in him for God anointed the humanity of Christ and the humanity of Christ anointed his boughes and Branches viz. those who also bring their desire into him and so they also come even to the same â—â—â—ction wherewith God anointed Abrahams seed in his faiths desire 15. Thus the figure of Christ was represented in Isaac and Adams figure in Ismael and in Abram God and Adam did stand as t' were opposite God received Adam again in Abram into his Covenant word and will and out of this same Covenant word and will which Abraham received of God in which Abram was justified Christ was born who received Ismael and all the poor corrupt children of Adam who do but introduce their desire into him into his word and heavenly Ens and delivered them to his Father viz. to the bosome of Abraham into which his Father had imbosomed or immersed the eternall holy word of divine Love wherein standeth the Compassion over us the children of poor Eve 16. Thus understand us now aright in this concerning Abrahams Bond-woman and concerning the Free What doth that mean which was said to Abraham * * * Gen. 21.10 Gal. 4.30 The Son of the bond-woman shall not inherit with the free it was not onely spoken concerning the outward inheritance
eternall blessing that is to say not the gross earthly beastiall Man which is conceived and born in the lust of the flesh out of the Beastiall lust of Man and Woman which did involve or insinuate it selfe into Adam according to the Brutish and beastiall property of the divided life's Essence upon this the Covenant and blessing doth not passe but upon the Ens of the Word formed out of the heavenly worlds property out of the Limus of the Earth not upon the introduced Serpents Ens out of the dark worlds Ens and property but upon the Soule and its right Body which was created to it in Adam 2. And we here see by the Circumcision the Types that the beastiall copulation of man and woman is an abomination before the holinesse of God which yet is boarne withall by divine patience and permission seing now it cannot be otherwise with Man he having lost the magicall birth of Paradise for here God set forth the figure in the Circumcision that every Male must be circumcised on this member of the propagation of the masculine seed in that man soweth his own will out of the property of nature in his seed therefore God set forth the figure with the Circumcision both of the earthly Seed and also of the member and will for the spirit in the Covenant must out off through Christs death this figure in the inward spirituall man together with this beastiall will and desire 3. For the beastiall gross earthly Seed of the man or woman shall not put on the Covenant and blessing as Christ also said but He * * * Joh. 1.13 who is not born of the will of man nor of the flesh but of God the beastiall birth with its members must be cut off through the Temporall death and dye in the spirituall birth through Christs death and be buried in the eternall death viz. in the nothing 4. But being the Covenant of God had incorporated it selfe in Abrahams seed to a propagation God did here set before him by the Circumcision the person of Christ in whose death this Beast and Monster should dye and out of his death a new Angelicall form should come forth for the Circumcision was not the Atonement but the apprehended or conceived Ens of faith was the Atonement out of which Ens of faith Christ should be born but the Circumcision was the Signe that the Ens of faith in the word of God should cuâ— off the earthly Seed 5. For the living word of God looked into the Covenant and in the Covenant the humane Seed of the heavenly part lay disappeared and in the disappeared Ens stood the Aym or Limit of the new Regeneration in Christs motion where the word of the divine Tincture and power would again move it selfe in the true humanity created in Adam and also it did move it selfe in the Spirit of the children of faith so that they were received and accepted of God in the Spirit upon the Promise of the motion or manifestation of the shut-up Ens as dear innate children Note 6. Not that they had put on Christ in the flesh before his manifestation but indeed the same Ens in their faith and this same received or in-taken Ens of Faith was the Circumcision which circumcised the heart and minde and rent in twain the sinfull vaile and pointed at the cutting off of the earthly introduced Serpents Ens in Adam viz. of the earthly Seed and the earthly members to the Beastiall propagation it shewed that Christ when the incorporated Ens of faith should manifest it selfe in the humanity should and would cut off this Beast and destroy the life of death and hell therein 7. We must not look upon the Circumcision onely and barely as a signe or figure for it is the Seal of the Covenant which stood as a Seal imprinted on the Ens of faith for the Spirit of the promised word to the new-birth was in the Seale as among the Christians it is in the Seale of Baptisme 8. And therefore God said that soule that shall contemn this Covenant shall be rooted out from among his people and commanded the Natives and strangers to be Circumcised although they were not of the Seed of Abraham to signifie that the Covenant passed upon all people who would but receive the Ens of faith even there the Circumcision should be don 9. For that was not the right Circumcision which was don outwardly on the flesh but it was the Signe onely of the Circumcision the true Circumcision was effected in the Ens of faith in the Covenant in the power of the word and Holy Spirit where the word in the spirit of Christ doth cut off the Serpents Ens from the right humane Ens of the heavenly Part viz. it cuts off the Ens of the dark world introduced and insinuated through Adams evill desire and the Devils in-flying poysonfull desire 10. The Baptisme of the Christians and the Circumcision of the Jewes hold wholly one and the same Right among the Jewes the Circumcision was effected or performed in the word of power the Holy Spirit baptized them with the holy fires Baptisme understand it baptized their true man corrupt and withered in Adam the same was Tinctured with this Baptisme viz. in the Ens of faith for the Ens of faith was the Baptisme of the Jewes where the Holy Spirit did inwardly baptise them unto Christs humanity 11. But now being this same word of faith viz. the Ens of faith hath put on the humanity and quickned it in it selfe to life this same Spirit doth now Baptize with water pointing at the humanity of Christ Note for the water of eternall life viz. the heavenly worlds substance was disappeared in Adam and made alive again in Christs heavenly Ens being also the water of the heavenly Powers introduced into our in him assumed humanity therefore the humanity of Christ was the first-born from the dead 12. And with this same heavenly water which Gods word and power introduced into the humanity of Christ from heaven understand from the holy spirituall world viz. from the Second Principle the Holy Spirit of Christ doth baptize the Christians in their Baptisme of water which externally is also but a Signe of the internall Seale in which Seale the Holy Ghost baptizeth 13. And therefore Christ hath appointed the Seale of the Circumcision into a baptisme of water being the fire-baptisme in the Covenant is become manifest in the water of life in the humanity so that this fire-baptisme viz. the flaming-Love-word is made flesh therefore Christ said John 3. We must now be born anew through the water and spirit else we shall not see God 14. For in the water wherein the flaming Love-word in the Ens of the Covenant hath manifested it selfe in our heavenly disappeared water which is become incarnate all the children of Christ must be new-born and take this water in their faith's desire in which water the eternall flaming
Love-word of God hath incorporated it selfe this same water baptizeth the inward man which disappeared in Adam to the new regeneration Note how wee are Baptized into Death and the earthly beastiall half-Serpentine-and-Devillish man to mortification and Death it circumciseth the poor captive soul and putteth the Covenant and humanity of Christ upon it in the inward spirituall man now disappeared or withered as to the kingdome of heaven 15. Understand it aright yee Jewes and Christians you have but one onely baptisme the Jew is baptized inwardly on the soul in the Ens of the Covenant and circumcised on the disappeared Ens of the Right heavenly humanity viz. the Serpents Ens is cut off from the heavenly Ens in the Power of the word's humanity and the flaming Love-spirit in the Ens of the word Tinctureth the true humanity and baptizeth it with the in-taken or conceived Ens of Faith the Faith in the Spirit of God baptizeth it with its heavenly water 16. And the Christian is baptized even with the same very word and water in the faith it is wholly One and the same onely this is the externall difference that God hath appointed and established the Covenant of Circumcision in the baptisme of water being that this fire-baptisme hath manifested it selfe in Christs humanity in the water of life 17. And that you may yet see that they are both One Christ was circumcised as a Jew and was baptized as a Christian thereby to declare that he in his Love revealed in the humanity had manifested the fire-baptisme in the water viz. in great meekness and long-sufferance and changed them into One. 18. The Ens of faith was not yet become incarnate among the Jewes therefore God gave them the Signe of the inward Circumcision by the cutting off of the outward fore-skin that so they might have a Signe that the Holy Spirit in the Ens of faith in the Covenant would cut off their Sinfull birth whereby they were the children of Grace in the Ens of faith 19. But this same Ens of faith was first made flesh among the Christians in Christs humanity and is also now incarnate in the children of faith in their true man the Christians do now in their faith's desire put on Christ viz. this Ens of faith which the Jewes did also put on in the flesh in the heavenly flesh viz. in the heavenly living water in the divine manifestation 20. This water is the heaven wherein the onely holy Element is the motion and essence it is Christs viz. Gods holy corporeity viz. the formed wisdome of the forth-breathed or formed word of the divine powers Gods living eternall speaking word which is a spirit and the divine understanding which again attracteth to it selfe its own forth-breathed essence viz. the forming of its wisdome 21. The fathers will draweth the Soul which is a fire-breath out of its fire-spirit unto it selfe and the Sons will draweth the noble Image created out of the wisdome viz. out of the heavenly essence to it selfe and the Holy Spirit draweth the whole moving humane understanding to it selfe so that it is a God-Man and a Man-God God made manifest in an Image and this is the Image of God and thus also the Circumcision and the Baptisme is to be understood which in both is the ground and chiefe corner stone to the new-birth among the Jewes and Christians 22. Now in that the Males were to be circumcised and not the Females Note Why Miles onely Circumcised Why Males and Females both Baptised and yet all are to be baptized among the Christians is thus to be understood as followeth mark it aright ye Jewes and Christians and all other Nations we tell and declare it unto you all for ye are hereby called the Time is come about that the Antichrist must dye 23. Adam was the Image of God he was man and woman and yet neither of them before his Eve but a masculine virgine in peculiar Love full of chastity and purity The Tinctures viz. the Power of the fire and light according to the property of the Father and Son were both in each other as One in an uncessant Conjunction of desire wherein stood the peculiar fiery Love-desire 24. But being the Devill assailed the property of the fires-Tincture and brought his false desire thereinto so that the fires-Tincture was divided in the properties of the eternall nature each property on the centre gave it selfe forth into its Selfehood whence the selfly revolted will and the false lust did arise which lust desired to prove the dark worlds essence viz. the earthly essence out of the dark worlds desire and to tast in it selfe how the same would relish if evill and good each manifest in it selfe were together viz. in the dis-Temperature without the divine One hereupon the false fiery desire shut up the property of the lights Tincture with the introduced vanity of the Devills desire and with the earthly hunger after the vanity proceeding from the dark worlds essence in the earth and in the Elements so that the heavenly female or right virgin-ike life was extinct in the Ens of the light 25. For the Holy Spirit departed from the introduced vanity and so the holy matrix viz. the heavenly Generatress disappeared and the mother of the outward nature viz. the outward naturall woman understand the property of the woman got the upper dominion in the birth so that Adam must now be divided and figured into a man and woman 26. But being the fiery property of the Tincture which now hath the dominion in the man and is called man by reason of the fathers property was the cause of the poysonfull infection so that the Tincture of venus viz. of the woman or the light was mortified and being he introduced in himselfe the abomination of lust into the womans property whereby afterward the woman viz. his Eve did so eagerly lust after evill and good and began the earthly Eating Thereupon we are here to consider that this same fires-soul viz. the mans Tincture must be baptized again with the divine Love-fire that so it might not introduce the Ens of the Devill and Serpent insinuated into the masculine Seed so poysonfull into the womans matrix it must be tinctured and baptized again with the divine Love-tincture viz. with the holy Love Ens which came to pass in the Ens of faith in the promised incorporated Word of the power of God 27. But the Woman viz. Adams virginity was now transformed or formed out of Adams nature and essence into a woman or manness and in her the holy virginity disappeared as to God viz. the Tincture of the Love and light did still remain but as it were dead or disappeared for the outward mother viz. the elementary mother lived now in its stead in her and was the Generatress of nature which must receive Adams viz. the mans Seed into it selfe 28. Into this disappeared heavenly Tincture of the light viz. into the true
light from the new-birth of Christ in the heart which comforts it in its forsaken condition and helps to nourish and cherish it and tells it that it shall not dye but become a great Nation but not in its innate and inbred heritage viz. in the evill Selfe-will but in Beer-sheba that is in the true Contrition in the wilderness viz. in the valley of teares in the desertion that is the poor nature must work in this forsakenness and in its present banishment and exile from the sensible and full enjoyment of Paradise bring forth much fruit which fruit the Angel brings again into Abrahams Tent to be a sojourner of Christ. 13. That is we must understand when Christ is born in man he rejecteth the vanity of nature with the will which worketh and desireth vanity and maketh the naturall will to be Servant whereas before it was Lord and Master but Nature standeth in the wilderness in the vanity of death encompassed with Sin and now it must work and bring forth fruit and yet it looketh upon it selfe as wholly impotent and as one wholly cast out from the inward spirituall will of Christ and in it selfe it seems as one foolish and contemned of the world and every way beaten off from its own will and then it begins even to sinck and quail in it selfe and to leave off from its own will and all things are of small esteem with it That which before did rejoyce it that now is against it and it stands allwaies as if it should dye it hopeth and doubteth that is it hopeth amendment that it might yet once be delivered from the scornfull contempt and be set again into the honour of its selfehood but it dryeth up also it s well of water and Gods anger appears in its sight that is all its friends depart from it with whom before in its Temporall goods and prosperity it had pleasure respect and honour so that it looks upon it selfe as continually a dying 14. And when this comes to passe then it is right in the way to Beer-sheba and wandreth in the wilderness for it knowes not what it shall do it is every ones scorn whatsoever it lookes upon rebukes it for a fool in that its power is taken from it that it must now forgo the beauty riches and honour of the world and all whatsoever might advance and preferre it in Temporalls and yet it would fain have them but yet it is drawn from them by the inward man in Christs spirit and * * * Blamed or upbraided reproved in these Temporalls for unrighteous and abominable 15. And then indeed it enters right into Beer-sheba viz. into the Contrition of the heart and setts reason by the empty water-pott of Hagar and goeth a stones cast from its Son Ismael viz. from the own desire of nature and stands and compells also the thoughts of nature and will not give any thing any longer to its own children viz. to the Sences and cogitations of the minde but casteth them away as children that now must dye a stones cast that is a while from it selfe that it might not see the death of its children so wholly doth Hagar viz. the nature with its Son give up it selfe to the minde for the mortification of the selfehood of the own will sits also and mournes in it selfe in Beer-sheba viz. in the broken and contrite heart and wholly despairs of its Reason would fain dye that it might be but freed from the miserable forlorn condition 16. And then when it is thus prepared that it quite despairs of its Selfe gives up it selfe wholly into the death of selfehood then cometh the Angel of God to Hagar that is to the poor forsaken and dying nature and saith What aileth thee Hagar God hath heard the voice of the Lad where he lyeth arise take up the Lad and hold him in thy hand for I will make him a great Nation and then God openeth the eyes of Hagar viz. of nature and shee sees a well of water and then filleth her bottle with water and gives the Lad drink who growes in the desart and is a good Archer and dwels even in the wilderness of Paran and must take an Egyptian wife The inward exceeding pretious and worthy figure of this stands thus 17. When man hath put on Christ in Faith and is entered into right true Repentance and hath in his minde forsaken the whole world even all its honour goods and things temporall then the poor nature of man doth thus stand in the mortification of selfe as is above-mentioned concerning Hagar and her Son for it desireth also to dye even to the Senses and cogitations of the minde and to enter wholly into Resignation 18. And when it stands thus in the thoughts of death having given up its will and cogitations into mortification then the inward Voice of Gods Word manifests it selfe in the Minde and * * * Thoughts meditations Senses and even there the divine word heareth the voyce of the childs crying viz. the troubled disconsolate Minde in its * * * Cogitations meditations thoughts for it soundeth therein in the divine voice and saith in the divine voice to nature viz. to Hagar What aileth thee thou troubled and perplexed nature fear not God hath heard the voice of the Lad viz. of thy thoughts which thou hast offered up in the desire to God Arise that is lift up thy selfe to God in this resignation and stand up in the voice which hath gratiously heard thee and looked upon thee and take thy cogitations viz. thy Son by the hand of faith and guide and govern the powers of the Minde they shall not dye but live and go for I will make them a great Nation that is to a great divine understanding and capacity in divine Mysteries and God openeth unto nature the fountain of living water so that it receiveth into the Bottle of its essence in it selfe of Gods well-spring and therewith it gives the Lad viz. the Sences or powers of the minde drink 19. And then God is with this Lad of the Thoughts and he groweth great in the wilderness that is in the corrupt nature the right discreet and intellectuall child groweth great in the Spirit of the Lord and becomes an Archer that is an Archer of the Lord and his brethren who shootes the Birdes of prey and the wild Beasts understand he shooteth down out of his Spirit the evill beasts and birds in his brethren with the holy Spirit he teacheth them and reproveth them with divine Arrowes 20. But he must dwell in the wilderness of Paran viz. in the corrupt flesh and in the wilderness amongst ungodly People and there he must be an Archer of God and his Mother viz. nature gives him an Egyptian woman that is nature layeth a fleshly woman by the noble Minde born in Christs Spirit with which the noble new-born Minde must sit in wedlock and be plagued with this Idolatrous fleshly
his Son to whom he had given the whole * * * That is all mankinde humanity for a peculiar possession and say thus being I have given thee the Power in the humane property which is mine to be thy own Swear now unto me by God that is deeply binde thy selfe therewith into an essentiall Oath or One Eternall Covenant that thou wilt not shew any unkindness to my nature in the humane property nor to the children viz. to the Branches which spring forth anew out of their property nor to their Nephewes or grand-children that is to those children who spring out from the wild property where oftentimes a wicked husband or a wicked wife are joyned together the one being ungodly and the other honest but according to the kindness which I have don unto thee even unto thy Image in that I have restored unto thee again this heavenly matrix which in Adam was captivated in my wrath and disappeared from thy Image in my Anger thou shalt do likewise to mee and unto the Land that is unto the outward man wherein Gods children bear the heavenly Image that is unto the Land wherein thou sojournest 13. For Christ is a stranger in our earthly humanity and our earthly humanity doth oftentimes make our children or grand-children strangers to God there the Father of nature in the Souls property said unto Christ he was a Stranger in Our Land as Christ also said that his kingdome was not of this world that is of the earthly man but Christ should shew kindness in this Strange Land understand the strange humanity and not reject the children which should be born therein as the Father had don to his Image of the heavenly humanity which disappeared in Adam this Christ should Swear unto God as he also sweareth in the Prophet Ezekiell * * * Ezek. 33.11 As true as I live I will not or have no delight in the death of the wicked or sinner but rather that he should turn and live for Abraham in Christ viz. in the figure said I will Swear that is I will do it 14. And Abraham reproved Abimilech because of the well of water which the Servants of Abimilech had taken away by force that is Christ reproved the Soul that the Soules servants viz. the essence of nature had taken away the well-spring of the Essence from the heavenly corporality viz. Christs body in Adam whereupon the heavenly Image dyed or disappeared for Christs holy fountain of water sprung up in the Soules fiery Essence but the Soules Essence had taken this fountain of divine Sweetness into its own Selfe-full power and changed the same in it selfe to another property 15. And Abimilech answered that is the Soul I wot not who hath don this that is I did not know that the Devill had deceived me that the false lust was arisen in the very Essence of my nature and who hath don this hurt also thou didst not tell it unto me that is thou didst not declare unto me that thy Image was in me that this holy divine fountain was thine which my Servants viz. my Essences have * * * Turned it to a selfish own-hood taken it to selfehood moreover I heard not of it but to day that is thou hast not revealed to me that this fountain is thy Seat save to day onely that is to day where thou dost again manifest thy selfe in me in Adam with a Covenant of Grace where now I heard thy voice in mee 16. And Abraham took sheep and Oxen and gave them to Abimilech and they both made a Covenant with each other that is then Christ took his sheep that is children and his Oxen are the Gentiles the sheep are the children in whom the Covenant was manifested viz. the Jewes and gave them to the Father and made between Christs Spirit and humanity and between the Jewes and Gentiles an eternall Covenant that it should be one humanity and not two 17. And Abraham set seven lambes apart by themselves These seven lambes are the seven properties of the naturall humanity of Christ which he did manifest in our humanity and in that the Spirit saith by themselves signifieth that Christ in his humanity of the seven properties is a distinct Person so that wee men viz. Jewes and Gentiles who come to his Grace ought not to say we are Christ but we are his house in which he dwells the Power of the holy fountain of water is his we are onely branches on his tree he is with the seven lambes of the divine property * * * Or by himselfe apart in us they belong not to mans selfehood 18. Onely in the Right Resignation Christ and man is wholly One when mans will wills nothing any more without Christ but gives up it selfe wholly in Christ then it is dead to Selfe and Christ onely liveth in it also it doth signifie that his creaturall Person with the seven properties of the humanity shall dwell among us as a distinct Person as eternall high Priest 19. And Abimilech said what mean these Seven Lambes which thou hast set by themselves that is God the Father made an allusion through the Essence of the Soul in this figure with Christs figure in Abraham and said what mean thy seven properties of our divine nature by themselves Wherefore being thou shouldst regenerate mankinde dwell in them wilt thou also sett forth thy seven properties of our divine nature in a distinct humane person and Christ answered in the figure of Abraham Thou shalt take Seven Lambes from my hand that they may be an Eternall Testimony unto mee that I have digged this well that is to say Christ speaketh to his Father in mans Person thou shalt take the figure or the Image of my seven properties of the humane creature for an Everlasting Testimony that I in my Suffering and death have again digged the well-spring of Eternall Life in the humane property that mans new-digged fountain of life is mine 20. And the Spirit in Moses speaketh wholly under a vail therefore or from hence the place was called Beer-sheba this is the very pretious place where God the Father and his Son in the humanity sware both of them together the place was called Beer-sheba viz. a bruising of death by the will of him that liveth and seeth in the disappeared humanity where in Christs humanity which he assumed from us men death was bruised and broken in pieces and the well-spring of Love did flow forth again out of the living God in our bruised humanity of the heavenly part into the Soules creaturall-fountain now the spirit of Moses speakes here very pregnantly that the place was called Beer-sheba where the Testimony of this Oath viz. a fountain of Grace was eastablished 21. And the place of God at Beer-sheba is shewn to us poor men where God the Father hath made an Everlasting Covenant with us in Christ Jesus viz. in the penitent Contrite Soul when the poor
viz. the free gift of the Father doth dwell in the inward true man which God created in Adam yet the gross Beast viz. the earthliness and vanity shall and trust in every respect be cast away from Christ yea Every man who desireth to be a Christian must cast out the earthly will which longeth and breatheth after vanity and Selfe â—â—st 21. As Abraham in this figure did not spare his owne children but cast them out so likewise a Christian must not spare or forbeare his children viz. his own lust and vaine desire and all whatsoever doth hang or depend thereon but dayly and hourely cast them out by the understanding out of the true Temple of Christ viz. out of Gods free gift and crucifie the old Adam else if it be not thus effected the old selfe-willed Adam crucifyeth Christ in him and so Christ indeed must hang on the Cross and be putt to death 22. And this figure also Concerning Abraham's casting out his naturall children doth signifie that when Christ viz. the true Isaac came into the flesh viz. into the humanity Abrahams naturall children viz. the Jewes should under the kingdome of Christ be cast out from the naturall goods viz. from all Dominion from Countrey and Kingdome and their Rule and Dominion should cease for the Dominion belongs onely unto Christ viz. to Christendom for Christ brought an Eternall Kingdome with him the goods were all his as Abrahams goods belonged to Isaac 23. And although it hath not dominion over all as Isaac had possession and rule of that onely which his father left him for the naturall children of Abraham born of Kethura became afterwards heathen and ruled over the outward goods as children of the outward nature yet Abrahams children who were in the Covenant under Circumcision must when Christ did manifest himselfe be cast out to signifie that the earthly man also viz. Selfe in the Serpents Ens which is on the children of the Covenant must be cast away from God 24. Thus in Abraham and his Son Isaac the figure of the Kingdome of Christ was represented but when Christ came into the flesh God putt away the figure and took from the externall children of Isaac the outward goods of the Land Canaan to intimate that now the holy Land of Canaan is become manifest where Isaac's children shall take possession of the true promised inheritance in Christ and no longer have the figure onely but the Essence of the figure viz. the perfect substance and now forsake the outward goods with the figure and putt on Christ in the flesh 25. But that the Jewes viz. Isaac's and Abrahams children viz. the children in Christs figure did not all turn unto Christ when he did manifest himselfe in the flesh hath this meaning God gave them the law of nature where in the law the Government of nature was understood externally and internally Christ viz. the Covenant and the promised free gift of God in Paradise so that the law of nature was to be Christs Sojourner and the true man also was to live under the law of nature in a * * * Note Right rationality and yet bring his own nature into Christs house and thus the figure of the law must continue among some of Abrahams children viz. amongst some of the Jewes to signifie that the law is Christs Sojourner 26. Understand that the nature of man shall remain for it is not so rejected of God as if clean another new man should arise out of the old but the new man shall arise out of Adam's nature and property and out of Gods in Christs nature and property so that man is become an Adam-Christ and Christ a Christ-Adam a Man-God and a God-Man and therefore the figure continued still among the Jewes and for this cause they were not all converted to Christ that so nature might keep its figure and due right for it shall deliver up its children under the Law viz. the figure of Christ to God the Father in Christ but its figure shall be proved in the fire of God so that it shall be known who hath been the true child of the naturall Law in the figure of Christ that hath been born in the spirit in the law out of the figure of Christ and who hath not 27. It is not hee that hath the words and Title of the law that is a Jew born in the figure and in the law but he who is born of the promise in Abrahams faith he that liveth in the figure of Christ viz. in the law in profession and practice with mouth and heart the same the law of God in Christs figure hath comprehended and will bring him into the fullfilling of the figure 28. For it doth not onely depend on mans knowing that Christ hath given himselfe into the law and is become the fullfilling in the law as the Titular Christian boasteth but it depends on Gods * * * Ordinance Order on the mercy of God whosoever hath been a true Jew and hath put on Abrahams faith in the law he hath putt on the Ens of Christ which Abraham conceived or apprehended which Ens of faith the humanity of Christ hath fullfilled and it is hidden to him what it is for he worketh in the office of nature in the law of God which Christ hath taken into himselfe and fullfilled so that he serveth God in the office of nature and the Office of nature serveth Christ for it is become Christs own propriety 29. For unto him all power is given both in heaven and on earth Matth. 28. under which power the office of nature also is in the law for God in the spirit of Christ is Even the selfe same who gave the law and the office of nature to do Righteousness together with the figure of the kingdome of Christ with the Ens of faith to Abraham and Moses and he is also the very same who fullfilled the Faith and the law 30. Thus the Jew worketh in his faith in Christs office viz. in the Law wherewith Christ governeth in nature and hath putt on Christ in the Covenant and in the Ens of faith in Christs figure which Christ hath fullfied 31. For the Christian who confesseth Christ in the flesh worketh in his Faith in the flesh of Christ and hath the Law of nature viz. Gods officer to do uprightly in his faith for Christ ruleth in the Law of God which he hath fullfilled and made a Servant in his children and killeth the law of Sin through the fullfilling of his Love in his bloud and death both in them who live in the dominion of his Law and also in them who live in the dominion of his Conquest as the Christians do 32. For the faith which presseth or cometh in unto God in the law in the figure in the Covenant the same cometh unto God in the Ens of Abrahams faith out of which Christ was born and he that cometh in unto God in the fullfilling of the
gave in themselves into the barrenness of the matrix in Rebecca and opened her whereupon she conceived both natures properties from a twofold seed of Isaac 24. Not that we are to think or understand that Jacob was wholly conceived of the Ens of faith but as well of the Adamicall Sinfull nature as Esau onely the kingdome of Grace in the Covenant set forth its figure in the Ens of faith in him and in Esau the kingdome of nature viz. the right corrupt Adamicall nature did set forth its figure not as a separation sundry partition or Rejection but to signifie that Christ should be conceived and born with his holy divine Ens in the Adamicall corrupt nature and destroy death and the strong hold of Sin together with the self-raised desire to ownhood and propriety in selfe and mortifie the same with the Love desire in the divine Ens and ruinate the Devills rampant fort of prey which he hath built up to himselfe therein and change the wrath of God according to the eternall nature in the Centre of the dark fiery worlds property into divine love and joy and Tincture the Adamicall nature with the holy Tincture of the Love-fire 25. Therefore the corrupt Adamicall nature in its Type was represented in the wombe in Esau with the type of Christ in Jacob and they both must be formed of one seed to signifie that Christ should give in himselfe to our corrupt nature and redeem our corrupted right Adamicall nature from corruption and introduce it into his own holy nature in himselfe 26. Also God did represent in Esau the figure of his wrath and the Devills Might who had possessed the kingdome of nature in man and shewes how he would fight and exercise great enmity against the Ens of faith and the kingdome of Grace which should deprive him of his strength 27. Reason saith wherefore should God permit the Devill to fight against the kingdome of his Grace hear and hearken thou very blind and altogether ignorant Reason Learn the A. B. C. in the Centre how Gods Love and the kingdome of Grace and Mercy would not nor could not be manifest without Strife and Enmity and then thou hast here no further Question go forward into the centre of this Book and thou findest the ground 28. And when the strife between the two kingdomes began in these children in the wombe so that they strove or spurned against each other Rebecca became discontented and troubled at it and said * * * Gen. 25 2â— 23. If it should be thus with mee wherefore am I with child and shee went to enquire of the Lord and the Lord said unto her two Nations are in thy wombe and two manner of People shall be separated from thy Bowells and one people shall be stronger then the other and the greater shall serve the lesser 29. These two Nations which were conceived of one seed in Rebecca are on one part the Man of the Adamicall selfish nature in Selfness viz. the Originall of man and on the other part the new spirituall man regenerated of the kingdome of Grace in the Covenant these came out of one seed one out of the Adamicall nature onely and he was the Greater or Elder viz. the first man which God created in his Image which became corrupt and dyed as to God the other came indeed out of the same Adamicall nature but the kingdome of Grace in the Ens of Faith had given in it selfe unto it as a Conquerour and this was as to the Adamicall nature the younger but God was manifest in him therefore the greater should serve and be subject to the lesser who was the Least according to the humane property but the greatest in God 30. And yet we do not see that Esau was subject to Jacob but it is the spirituall figure shewing how the kingdome of nature in man should be broken by the children of God and made subject to the kingdome of Grace viz. to the divine humility and wholly dive it selfe into the divine humility and be born anew of the humility thus the Spirit of God shewed this by the Answer to Rebecca saying that it should be a striving or fighting kingdome where indeed the first corrupt man being the greater or elder in nature should strive against the lesser viz. the Spirit of Christ in his lowliness and humility and persecute him but the Adamicall man must at last be obedient and subject unto the humility of Christ if he will be Abrahams child and heir but if not then he must be so long cast out from Abrahams and Christs goods till he doth humble himselfe and freely yeeld under Christs humility and forsake the own-hood of the greater and elder Selfe and Enmity assumed in Adam 31. By Rebecca's trouble discontent impatience and regrett in that she runneth to enquire of the Lord wherefore the strife was in her that the children did so struggle together is signified thus much unto us that when Christ doth manifest himselfe in the Adamicall nature then begins and ariseth the strife of both these kingdomes viz. the Devils kingdome in Gods Anger in the Serpents Ens and also Christs kingdome when Christ bruiseth the Serpents head then ariseth great disquietness in the mind for the Serpent stingeth Christ viz. the new birth on the heel and then ariseth this kicking and spurning viz. a lamentable and wofull distresse and then saith reason in the minde with Rebecca if it should be thus with me wherefore am I entered into the divine Impregnation into Repentance am not I thereby come onely into disquietness and thereby become a Fool to the world and to my reason also and then ariseth the combate and Sathans bruising in the minde with Anguish and grief and then the minde knowes not whither to betake it selfe but runneth into Penitency and asketh the Lord wherefore it goeth so with it 32. And then the Lord shewes him in his language that Christ now is in him in hell and assaulteth the Devills strong rampant fort of prey whereupon there is such contest and disquietness in him and shewes him how his reason and the Adamicall nature viz. the greater part of his life must be broken and dive it selfe wholly into Resignation into the deepest humility into the process of Christ under his Cross and become a stranger to it selfe yea it s own Enemy and go with the Reason and the Greater Adamicall will into its Nothing 33. And when this is don then Esau viz. the Adamicall nature is indeed born and cometh forth alwayes first but Jacob viz. the spirit of Christ cometh soon after and deprives Esau of the kingdome and power and maketh nature a Servant and then Esau viz. nature must serve Jacob viz. the spirit of Christ then it is even here as the Son said unto the Father * * * John 17.6 Father the men were thine and thou hast given them mee * * * Joh. 10.28 and I give unto them
viz. the first Adamicall depraved man for the first Adam had lost his first birth given him out of the divine Word in the creation and could not any more be blessed out of his Centre 11. For the Soules will was broken off from the Eternall word of divine holiness and had given it selfe into the Centre of the first Principle viz. into the wrath of the Eternall nature into the SeVeration of the speaking word viz. into the opposition and contentious Contrariety whence also Isaac blessed Esau with the word of Strife when he said unto him in the blessing Thou shalt live by thy sword and break thy brothers yoke from off thy neck signifying that now the depraved nature in him was become a Servant of Gods Anger and should now beare and manage the Combate which Adam had raised up in the life's properties and be a Servant of the same 12. But that Isaac did not understand this thing and would have blessed Esau with the blessing of the Covenant and given him the Scepter in Zion doth shew unto us that Isaac and all the holy children of God although they be born again of the New-birth in the line of the Covenant do not apprehend and understand the internall ground of their Essence wherein the kingdome of God worketh and is in power so as to be able to do any thing thereby in Selfe-will but God turneth this internall ground of the place of God as he pleaseth and the Soul must see to what he doth as here Isaac must see to what the Lord had blessed by him Gen. 27.4 13. For Isaac said to Esau That he should make him ready Savory meat such as he loved to eat and then his Soul would bless him but now this blessing stood in the Line of the Covenant in which Christ should spring forth not in the Soules might but in Gods might for the soul of Isaac and of all the children of Adam were as yet with the Soules root on the band of Gods Anger which Anger this internall incorporated Line of Grace should destroy in Christs death and wholly incorporate and unite it into the Line of the Covenant 14. Therefore the Soules will in Isaac should not propagate the blessing of this Covenants line and give it to the kingdome of the * * * Or soules Soul-like nature viz. to the first-born Esau and first Adam for the soul was a cause of the destruction the fires-tincture received not the might and strength of the new vertue for its might should be broken viz. it s proud Lucifer who likewise is the very same but the lights tincture which disappeared in Adam when the fires might introduced dark earthliness thereinto which Tincture sprang forth again afresh in this Covenants line in the power of the in-spoken and promised incorporated word of Grace the same had the might and power of the Blessing 15. The seed of the woman viz. the lights tincture and vertue should bruise the head of the fiery Serpent and change the soules fiery might into a meek Love fire the fiery Soules will shall and must be wholly transmuted and turned into meekness 16. As this disappeared lights tincture was brought from Adam into the woman viz. in to Eve which when it was in Adam was his fair Paradisicall Rose garden of peculiar Love wherein God was manifest and being now the figure of the new birth was represented in Isaacs Blessing therefore also his wife viz. the blessed Rebecca must come as one who also stood in the Line of the Covenant and set forth the right figure of Christ viz. Jacob in the place of the blessing to signifie that Christ should be manifested in this Covenants Line in the Seed of the woman viz. in the lights and fires-Tincture and assume the soules nature from the power of the light that so he might rule over the fiery nature of the soul and change the same into the power of the light 17. Now Rebecca Isaacs wife was here in this place a figure of the virgin Mary who brought forth Christ viz. the blessed of God who should bless Esau and all the Adamicall children and it was so ordered by the Lord that Rebecca should so carry it for she understood that the blessing viz. the scepter of Israel did rest in Jacob. 18. For being the scepter in Zion lay in the seed of the woman viz. in the virginity the same scepter was here also stirred in the seed of the woman so that a woman must bring forth the Covenants line to the place of God the Fathers blessing which was in Isaac and the mans will viz. the Souls naturall fire-will must come behinde and be a servant of Gods wonders and see what God hath don with him 19. But that it appeareth to be as a deceit or cunning Suttlety in that Rebecca did so instruct and put on Jacob to take away the blessing from Esau as if shee Loved Jacob far above Esau therein Reason hath blind eyes for through the Devills cunning the curse came into the world and through the divine cunning in the Love the destruction of death and hell came again into the Soul the divine cunning killed the Devills cunning 20. Understand it aright all cunning ariseth from the lubet or desire the Devills cunning arose from the false lubet or lust so likewise Gods lubet came again into the womans seed into which heavenly matrix the Devill had insinuated his lust and destroyed the devills lust 21. It was of God that Jacob obtained the blessing wholly contrary to the minde and will of Reason for he stood in the figure of Christ and Esau stood in the figure of the depraved Adam 22. Therefore Esau was an hairy or rugged man signifying the monstrous beastiall property which had awaked in the Fall through lust Now when Adams lust had brought it selfe to substance then the flesh became gross and beastiall Thus the beastiall part swallowed up the heavenly in it selfe and death was manifested in the flesh and we see here in this figure very clearly typified how it should be 23. Isaac would bless the beastiall man in Esau this God would not the divine blessing belonged to Christ but the depraved Adam could not be capable of receiving the blessing of God unless Christ take this rugged beastiall skin or form which Adam had put on as here Jacob could not be blessed unlesse he had on him the hairy Beast-like skin 24. God the Father set before him our misery in his Covenant in Christ in our humanity which he assumed for Christ must enter into our humanity Note and walk in our hairy form and destroy our death of the beastiall property as it is written * * * Isa. 53.4 Matth. 8.17 1 Pet. 2.24 He took on him our sickness and laid on himselfe our Grief 25. For as Isaac took hold of his son Jacob in his hairy skin and felt whether he was his first-born Son to whom the
the humane Ens and Substance in the power of the Eternall word 15. In which word the Holy Name Jesus viz. the highest Love of the Deity hath unfolded and manifested it selfe in our humanity which he hath assumed which sole Love of God in the Name Jesus hath overcome the wrath of the Eternall Nature in our soules which is from the Fathers property in the Anger and hath changed it into the Love of the Divine Joy and hath broken the still Death which hath severed us from the life of God and hath manifested the Divine life of the highest holy Tincture in the Eternall speaking Word of the Divine power in Death and hath made Death to be Life and so our Soule in this Divine power is together penetrated and pressed through Death and the Anger of God 16. And it is in no wise to be so taken as some say that the substance wherein the Word is become Man proceeded not from Adam but as some Erroneously say the virgin Mary proceeded not from Mankinde shee hath outwardly onely taken upon her a humane Body from Anna and is not of the seede of Joachim but is an Eternall virgin chosen by God for this purpose before the world was 17. This Text teacheth us otherwise where God sayth Through Thee and thy seede not through a strange Divine seede onely but through thee and thy seede with the entrance of the Divine substance Christ should break Death in Adams Soule and Body and destroy Hell in Adams soule and body which was manifested or revealed in Paradise 18. For heere lay our Sicknesse and Misery which Christ tooke upon him as a yoke Christ sacrificed his Fathers wrath which was kindled in our humanity and awakened his highest Love in our humane and his holy Bloud his holy Tincture entered into our humane Death and Tinctured our in Adam faded heavenly substantiality which faded in Adam when he brought earthlinesse and the false will thereinto and raised up our faded heavenly substance with his heavenly living substance so that Life sprung up through Death and this was signified by the Dry Rod of Aaron 19. Therefore that is not the true meaning as some say Christ hath assumed a soule from the Word in the Eternall virgin Mary so that Christ as one come from God and his soule in the Humanity of Christ hath one and the same beginning 20. They were indeed united in the Incarnation or the becoming Man so that they are inseperable but the true Ens of the soule which the word assumed in the Name Jesus was of us Men from the female Tincture viz. from the true Adamicall soule yet from the property of the Light which was severed from Adam and put into the woman that this property of the Light might transmute or change the fiery Masculine property againe into the Love and Divine Humility and that the Masculine and feminine property might be quite changed into One Image againe as Adam was before his Eve when he was neither Man nor woman but a Masculine Virgin 21. Therefore Christ tooke his soule from a Woman viz. from a virgin and yet was a Man so that he rightly stood in the Adamicall Image and brought the averted severed properties of Life in which our will had broken it selfe off from God againe into the Temperature and union viz. into that ONE 22. For Adam turned his will from the onely will of God and Jesus Christ tooke our soule againe into the onely will of God and turned the will of our soule in our Humanity which he assumed into the onely will of God againe 23. But that the Reader may be throughly and fundamentally informed what our soule and what the Word that became Man is compare one with the other it is thus Our soule before the beginning of the humane * * * Soulish soules creature was an Ens of the Word of God in the Word Joh. 1. and yet it was inspired or inspoken from the speaking word of God into the humane Image in a Naturall and creaturely Life and formed in an Image of the Eternall speaking Word This Creaturely Life of the soule turned it selfe in Adam away from the divine speaking into an owne will and speaking and was in this respect broken off from the most unsearchable Substance and seperated from God 24. Into this Seperated Word viz. into the soule The onely Eternall divine speaking word gave it selfe in againe and turned the will of the soule againe into the Eternall one viz. into Gods Eternall speaking Therefore the soule is indeed from the Eternall word but Christ viz. the highest Love of the Deity did not take a new soule out of the Eternall speaking but our soule viz. the word which was once spoken or formed in Adam viz. our humane Soule into his Love-speaking in the Grace and union of the Deity 25. God spake againe into our poore fallen soule in Paradise immediatly after the Fall the Covenant and Roote of his highest Love and Grace through the Word as a Centre of Grace to Conception and to the New Regeneration 26. And in Abraham he Manifested the Covenant which Abraham layd hold on with his desire and received it after a spirituall manner as an Ens to the Tree but it lay without Substance in Man onely as a spirituall Forme and Modell or Idea of the Powerfull Word 27. Which word in its spirituall Figure in the virgin Mary was at the Limitt viz. at the End of the spirituall forme where that same spirituall forme of the Word of God was comprehended in a Substantiall Ens and therewith also in like manner Our humane substance as to the soule was comprised in the Image of the Word and as to the substance of the Body in a humane * * * Frame or Formation Building forme and was a selfe subsisting God-Man 28. This comprised Spirituall Image which was the Seede of Faith which Abraham laid hold on in the Faith was invested on Isaac and from Isaac on Jacob and to Jacob sayd God * * * Gen 28.14 Through thee and thy seede shall all the People of the Earth be blessed viz. through this seede of Faith which Jacob had received from his father Isaac in this Line of the Covenant which Line of Faith had incorporated it selfe in the Humane Property according to the inward ground of the second Principle viz. in that Image of the Heavenly worlds substance Extinguished in Adam 29. In which incorporated Ground the limitt of Gods Covenant remained in a spirituall forme till Mary and was propagated from Man to Man as from Adam and Eve along to Mary and there the Word of the Divine Power was moved and Essentially assumed our humane Flesh and Bloud together with the soule and quickened the Extinguished heavenly Ens in the seede of Mary as to our Part which manifestation penetrated and pressed also into Maries heavenly substantiality so that shee became living as to that heavenly virginity which disappeared
in Eve and in this living virginity viz. in Adams heavenly Matrix God became Man 30. And this is the * * * Luk. 1.42 Blessing of Mary above all other women that shee is the first from Adam in whom the Heavenly Matrix became Opened in which the Dry Rod of Aaron rightly budded viz. the kingdome of God shee is the first in whom the hidden virtue was manifested for in her the Limitt of the Covenant in the spirituall Image or Type was at an End and in her it was fullfilled * * * In or by with our Humanity 31. Neverthelesse she is truly the daughter of Adam Abraham Isaac and Jacob both as to the Humanity and as to the Covenant of the Spirituall Figure and in her Conception when the Inward incorporated Image or Type of the Inspired or Inspoken Covenant of Grace which was layd hold on in the Faith did assume our humane property then was the kingdome of Christ * * * 1 Tim. 3.15 Manifested in the Flesh. 32. Wherein afterwards the faithfull put on Christ in the flesh in their Faith yet onely as to that heavenly Image Extinguished in Adam as Mary did where Christ Embraceth the poore soule in his Armes and encompasseth them with the Power of God and infuseth and floweth in with his Love into them which Love preserveth and defendeth them from the Anger of God from Sin Death the Devill and Hell 33. This is a briefe summary of the true Ground what the Spirit of God hath prefigured and Typified by the Patriarchs in that he hath lead them so wonderfully and hath thus alluded with the figure of Christ how it would come to passe afterward 34. For Jacob was now the stock out of which the Great and wide Tree of Israel should spread abroad in the dividing of its Branches as a Genealogie therefore must he goe away from his Fathers house and take wives of his fathers Genealogie viz. of Abrahams brothers sonne that the People Israel viz. the Line of the Covenant might come of One stock 35. Now when * * * Gen. 28.16 17. Jacob awaked from the Dreame of the Divine Vision where the Lord appeared to him and Established the Covenant He sayd Surely the Lord is in this Place and I knew it not and was afraid and sayd how Holy is this place heere is no other then the house of God heere is the Gate of Heaven This is a Figure shewing how it would goe with Gods children when God were manifest in them that they continue to be in feare and trembling and suppose God is a farre off and hath forsaken them 36. For where God withdrawes himselfe in Man there will alwayes sinne and the Anger of God be first manifested in that Man so that he will acknowledge and tremble at his sinne and enter into Repentance then appeareth to him Gods friendly countenance and comforteth him for if the soule goeth forth from sinne then Gods Grace entereth into it and then it sayth surely the Lord was with mee in my Anxiety and I knew it not now I see that the Lord is with the troubled Heart which is troubled in a Divine zeale or jealousie There is the place of God and the Gate of Heaven 37. Further it signifies how the highest Love of God in this Covenant in Christ would be immersed into our humanity and how the humanity of Christ would be conversant in trouble in that he tooke upon him all our trouble and misery and how the humanity of Christ would be astonished before the Anger of God and Hell * * * Luk. 22.39.44 as was in the Mount of Olives where in his Agony he sweat a bloudy sweat and Christ in his humanity said * * * Mat. 26.39 Father if it be possible let this cup passe from mee where instantly the Gates of God appeared and comforted the humanity As heere to Jacob when he must in trouble depart from his fathers house in feare and trembling at his Brother Esau who lay in waite to murther him all which is a figure concerning Christ when Gods Anger in our humanity did lie in waite to murther him that he would be in an Agony heavinesse and distresse and how he would pray to his Father and how his Father would Comfort him all which was done before * * * Or his Passion he was crucified especially in the Mount of Olives in which place this Figure of Jacob was fullfilled 38. And as * * * Gen. 28.18 Jacob tooke the stone which he had layd under his head and set it up for a Remembrance and powred Oyle thereupon so hath Christ set up his anguish or Agony for a remembrance to us poore Men and powred forth his Oyle of joy and Victory upon it in our troubled terrified hearts and of that same ‖ ‖ ‖ Agony and a troubled heart because of sin stone hath Erected his Church for a continuall remembrance of all which this Type of Jacob was a prefiguration 39. Which Jacob signifieth in plaine words where he sayth * * * Gen. 28.20 21 22. If God will be with mee and defend me in the way which I travaile and give me bread to eate and Cloaths to put on and bring mee home with peace to my Father then shall the Lord be my God and this stone which I have set up for a Pillar shall be Gods house and of all which thou givest unto mee I will give the Tenth to thee where he clearly under this figure signifieth the Leviticall and afterwards the Evangelicall Priesthood as it would be hereafter CHAP. LVII How Jacob came to Laban and kept his sheepe for him fourteene yeares for his two Daughters what the Spirituall Figure of Christs Bride conteined under it signifieth how God sets Jacob in Christs figure and so sporteth with the Type of Christ. Vpon the 29 Chapter of Genesis Gen. XXIX 1. WHen Jacob must now in sorrow goe away from his Parents and so avoyd his Brother Esau and commit himselfe to God in the blessing of him then God brought him to his beloved Bride with whom he spent a while in Joy with Patience till he returned againe with Great Riches to his Father 2. This is first a Worldly History and * * * Or President Example under which the spirituall figure of the kingdome of Christ is represented for if the poore Sinner turne to God then he attaineth first of all the Blessing viz. the Baptisme of Christ whereby the Holy Ghost Baptizeth him in the Inward Ground and * * * Secondly then it setteth him in the processe of Christ under the Banner of his Crosse and biddeth him goe forth from his Fathers Adamicall house of sinne and make towards the Path of Christs Pilgrimage 3. And there he must lay the hard stone of Reason under his Head and rest and sleepe upon this Stone of Reason that is Reason must stand still and the Minde
was astonished at this Warrier viz. the Anger of God as may be seene on the Mount of Olives as Jacob was astonished at the Anger of Esaw 4. And as Jacob divided the Heards into two Parts because of the wrath of Esaw that if Esaw should smite one Company the other might Escape so also was the humanity of Christ divided into two Substances viz. into a Heavenly whereof he speaketh John 3. saying * * * Joh. 13.13 He was come from Heaven and was then in Heaven and also into an Earthly from our flesh and bloud that if the Anger of God did smite the one Part viz. our Humanity with Death yet the Heavenly Part should escape the wrath and penetrate through Death and therein make our humanity living for the Messengers which Jacob sent to Esaw are nothing else but the Prayers of Christ which he sent through the Anger of God into his Love viz. into the Mercy that our humanity might finde Grace and favour with God 5. For as Jacob sent to Esaw saying he had been long abroad with Laban even till this time and had with him Men-servants and women-servants and Camells with other Cattle that he might with all this finde Grace and favour with his Lord Esaw so also Christ sayth to his Father in our Humanity viz. in Adam which he hath assumed he hath been long abroad absent from the kingdome of God and hath †††Borne Generated or begotten brought forth in the kingdome of this world in Gods works of wonder many Images out of the divine wisdome through the formation of Nature that he might with these formations of wonders finde Grace and favour with God seeing these wonders were brought forth through the Nature of his manifested wrath that so they might come to the Eternall divine vision and Contemplation 6. But the Anger went to meete him in the * * * 4 Elements four Elements and would devour the Earthlines and Evill of them for Esawes four hundred Men signifie nothing else but the wrath of Nature in the four Elements of the Body and they went to meete the Humanity of Christ when Christ was bringing the Created Image of Adam in Our Humanity into God viz. into Paradise then would the wrath of God first kill the Adamicall Image that it might no more live in the kingdome of Anger seeing it was to live in God 7. * * * Gen. 32.9 10 11. And as Jacob humbled himselfe before God and sayd O God of my Father Abraham and God of my father Isaack Lord thou who hast sayd unto mee returne againe into thy Country and to thy kindred and I will deale well with thee I am unworthy of the least of all thy Mercy and all thy faithfullnesse and truth which thou hast afforded unto thy servant for I had no more but this Staffe with which I went over this Jordan and now I am become two Bands Deliver mee from the hand of my brother from the hand of Esaw for I am afraid of him least he cone and smite mee with the Mother and the Children so also Christ humbleth himselfe in our assumed humanity before God and though God in the Prophet David in our assumed humanity †††Psal. 110.1 hath bidden him sit at his Right hand untill he hath layd all his Enemies under his footstoole yet he humbleth himselfe even as Jacob did before the Anger of Esaw so also did Christ before the Anger of his Father 8. And as Jacob sayd When I went over this Jordan I had only this staffe but now am become two Bands so also when Christ viz. the Eternall Word of Divine Love came to us in our humanity then it was only the staffe of divine Grace but in our humanity in the servile house of Adam he was enriched with two Bands viz a twofold humanity the Heavenly extinguished in Adam and the Earthly from the Limus of the Earth therfore he sayth in this twofold humanity as Jacob sayd to God O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaack O Lord thou hast sayd unto mee returne againe into thy Country and to thy first kindred I am lesse then the least of all these mercies which thou hast bestowed on thy servant to signifie that it was onely in Divine Mercy that these two Bands viz. the twofold humanity returned home againe into its first Country of Paradise to the Angelicall kindred 9. And when Jacob had humbled himselfe before God and his brother Esaw * * * Gen 32.13 14 15 16 17 18. He stayed there all night and tooke of that which came to his hand for a present to his brother Esaw two hundred Shee-Goates and twenty Hee-Goates two hundred Ewes and twenty Rams and thirty Milch Camells with their foales forty Cowes and ten Bulls twenty Shee-Asses with ten foales and put them under the hand of his servants every heard by it selfe sayd to them goe on before mee and leave roome for one heard after another and he commanded the formost and sayd when my brother Esaw meeteth thee and asketh thee to whom dost thou belong whither goest thou and whose these are that thou drivest thou shalt then say they are thy servant Jacobs who sendeth them for a present to his Lord Esaw and he followeth behinde after us 10. This Type is now the great Earnestnes whereby the Spirit of God in the figure poynteth at the future for this Present of Jacob to his angry Brother Esaw poynteth at the Place and condition of Christ when he should appease the Anger of his Father then he must first send these Beasts in our implanted Humanity for an attonement which should be presented to the Anger of God 11. But these Beasts which Christ sent to the Anger of God before his passion and Death were our implanted Beasts viz. Pride Covetousnesse Envy wickednesse Lying whereby one Man slandereth disparageth disgraceth shamefully censureth with words discourageth suppresseth and exclaimeth against as wicked and ungodly and summarily all abominations of the Devill and the wicked World 12. These Evill Beasts are in Adam in sinne all awakened and become living These very Formes or Conditions of Life wherein Adam generated his Evill Beasts wherein the Temperature of Nature was rent asunder Christ tooke all upon him in our humanity as they are well intimated in the figure of Jacob by five hundred and Eighty 580. and sent them to the Anger of God for an Attonement when he was redeeming the Humanity from these Beasts 13. And these Beasts were as to Christ his being despised scorned spit upon whatsoever the Jewish Priests did to him were all our Beasts which Christ in his Body gave up to the Anger of God as if himselfe were the Transgressour and yet had generated none of these Beasts in his will But Adam had generated them and Christ tooke them on him as a Lamb and presented them to the Anger of God on his body
displaced that is be changed 26. This signifieth especially how the Repentant Man must enter upon this Combate of Jacob and so wrestle with God and Man in the Spirit of Christ in Gods righteousnesse in the Anger And when he overcometh then will the Ham of his fleshly selfe-will be broken that he must goe up and downe in this world as one halfe Lame that cannot well walke in the way of the world but goeth halting as if his limbs were halfe broken with which the wantonnesse and vanity of this world is driven on for the Spirit in the victory of Christ toucheth his Thigh that he is halfe lame in the Pride and Malice of this world and never regardeth it more but goeth up and downe as a despised lame Man who in the Pride of the world in their haile or frolick Jollity little regard but hold him for a lame halting Man who cannot follow the Garb of the Antick tricks conceited jests and lasciviousnesse of this world but he hath wrestled with God and Man and is with this victory touched and Marked 27. This the Pride and wantonnesse of this world understandeth not for it goes up and downe still in Gods severe righteousnesse in the kingdome of Nature in the might of the Fire in selfe-will and thinks it selfe very well till the Judgement possesseth its place then must the poore soule stand in the Eternall Judgement and live in paine and Torment 28. And as Jacob stood in the wrestling and had his Thigh touched that he halted then the Man sayd to him Let mee goe for the Day-breake dawneth but he answered I will not let thee goe except thou blesse mee 29. This is first the figure of Christ when he yeelded himselfe up in the righteousnesse of God in the Fathers Anger so that the Anger according to our humanity slew him then sayd the righteousnesse Now let mee goe for at present the Eternall Morning breaketh forth in mee But Christ had taken hold of the righteousnesse and sayd I will not let thee goe except thou blesse the humanity againe that the Judgement may cease except thou bring the Morning of thy inward power forth through the humanity that the Curse may cease and that Man may wholly stand in the divine working againe in the Blessing 30. Secondly It is the faire Type or Image shewing how it goeth with the Repentant Man when he giveth himselfe up through earnest Repentance into this Combate of Christ in Christs suffering and Death in his victory and in the Spirit of Christ wrestleth with Gods severe righteousnesse which continually assayleth him in his Conscience 31. For Gods righteousnesse in the Conscience sayth let mee goe thou art dead in sinne and hast no part in the divine Grace thou hast purposely and wilfully sinned and set the Grace behinde thy back now thou art mine praying will not availe thee I will not let thee in thy conscience attaine the Grace thou wilt obtaine no comfort more from God the morning will no more rise to thee in thy conscience for thou art a childe of Death Now leave off and let me alone that I may shutt thee up below in the dungeon or chamber of death 32. When this comes to passe then the poore soule wholly immerseth it selfe into the death of Christ and giveth it selfe up to the severe righteousnesse of God into the judgement for the judgement layeth hold on it But the soule catcheth hold of the incorporated Grace in the death of Christ and diveth therewith into the most inward ground of the judgement of God in which ground God's Love is broken forth through the righteousnesse and through the judgement viz. through the eternall night and hath made that same night in man to be day 33. Into this day viz. into the Abysse without all humane possibility or ability it diveth as a childe that neither can nor will doe any more that is too unworthy of all Grace and must indeed give it self up to the judgement but with this diving the soule yeedeth all its utmost will and ability and is in it selfe as it were void of nature and creature and falls againe into the Word wherein it stood in the eternall speaking before it s creaturely nature 34. For Gods righteousnesse and judgement hath no deeper ground then meerly the creaturely life but when the will of the soule yeeldeth it selfe up in going forth from the creature and sinketh into the Abysse then is it again as a new childe for the Abysse in the eternall speaking word out of which the highest Love and Grace of God hath manifested it selfe layeth hold on it and penetrateth into it as the Sun doth into the Ens of an hearb whence the hearb becometh half Solar or of the nature of the Sun Thus in this diving the soule in its will is half divine and then it wrestleth with God's severe righteousnesse in flesh and bloud and will over-power the Anger of God 35. Then saith God's righteousnesse in the conscience let me alone that is leave off and slay me not for thou seest very well that the Divine morning ariseth in mee cease from striving against the judgement of God But in the right combat the soule saith to God's righteousness I will not leave thee except thou blesse mee that is except thou givest mee the promised Grace out of the Death of Christ in his conquest that I may put on my Saviour Christ that he may be mine and I his And then thus saith God's righteousnesse as to Jacob What is thy name And then the poore soule nameth it selfe according to its owne creaturely name As Jacob did heere when he called himselfe Jacob But as the Lord said to Jacob Thou shalt no more be called Jacob but Israel that is a Tree of life Thus also saith God to the soule Thou shalt no more have self-names in mee but thou shalt be called a Christian in Christ viz. A branch in the Tree of Israel * * * Joh. 15.5 A sprout on the vine Christ For thou hast fought with God and man and hast prevailed Thou hast overcome Gods righteousnesse in the wrath of the Anger in thy Combat in the Spirit of Christ and art now an essentiall Christian and no more a titulary and verbal or Mouth-Christian from whom Grace is yet farr off 36. And Moses saith further †††Gen. 32.29 30. And Jacob asked him and said Tell me I pray thee what is thy name But he said wherefore askest thou what is my name And he blessed him there And Jacob called the place Pennel For I have seene God face to face and my soule is * * * Healed preserved The inward holy Figure standeth thus 37. When Jacob with the desire of faith in his wrestling apprehended the morning or Day-breake of God in the Spirit of Christ and †††Joh. 8.56 saw Christ a farr off without the creaturely humanity Then he said What is thy name But Christ said
then Christ divided his Deity and his humanity viz. the heavenly worlds substance which he brought from God in Our humanity and the kingdome of the Naturall humanity from Adam into two severall Principles for the Deity as to the Omnipotency stood yet still therefore sayth the Humanity on the Crosse * * * Mat. 27.46 Mark 15.34 Psal. 22.1 My God why hast thou forsaken mee 5. The two wives of Jacob with their children signifie heere in Christs state and condition the twofold soule viz. that from Time and that from Eternity and the two handmaydes with their children signifi◠heere in this state and condition of his the Heavenly and the Earthly corporeity viz. Lea in her bleereydness signifieth the * * * The spirit of the world in the Dust of the Earth· Spiritus Mundi in Limo terrae wherein the Corruption in Adam was effected wherein God promised the destroyer of the Serpent and wherein Christ should be manifested and therefore in Lea the Line of Christ viz. the destroyer of the Serpent in the type and prefiguration was borne viz. Judah and Rachel signifieth the Extinguished Ens of the heavenly worlds Substance wherein the true soule dwelleth which faded in Adams Fall and became unfruitfull as Rachel till God in the Spirit of Christ made her fruitfull as was done to Rachel 6. And as Jacob set the handmayds with their children formost so was the Earthly Image in the humane Nature set formost in the suffering of Christ which should passe through the sharpnes of Death next after would Lea that is the Body out of the Limus of the Earth wherein the Destroyer of the Serpent lay in the suffering of Christ follow and after that Rachel viz. the heavenly Limus with the Prince Joseph that is with the true Adamicall Image of the Divine worlds Substance and the Name JESUS passed into the suffering of Christ before as Jacob before his wives and childrens 7. And as the Name and power JESU viz. Gods Sweetnesse and Love saw and felt the wrath of God in the humane flesh and soule then the Name JESUS bowed it selfe through all the Seaven Formes of Natures Life wherein the Anger of God was become manifest that is he then pressed Essentially through the Centre of Nature through all the Seaven Formes of Nature quite through the wrathfull fire-source 8. As Jacob bowed himselfe seaven times to the Earth before the Anger of Esaw and appeased Esaw in this humility so also heere the Love in the Name JESU appeaseth the anger of the Fathers property in the fire in soule and body for the Naturall Life from the Spirit of the world viz. the soule from time which was breathed into Adams Nostrills must yeeld up its naturall Right and dye as Jacob yeelded up his riches and also his outward Life to his brother to do what he would with him thus also Christ yeelded up our Life to the anger of God and left it willingly but the Name JESUS went before and brought our Naturall Life quite through death and tooke it to himselfe againe and triumphed with our Naturall Life over and through Death 9. And as Esau his brother in this humility and submission ran to meete him and fell about his neck and kissed him and in great compassion wept upon his neck So also in like manner when the essence of the anger of God kissed and tasted the sweet love in the Name JESU in the bloud of Christ then it was transmuted and converted into such great compassion towards mankinde as Jeremiah in the Spirit declareth where he speaketh in this figure * * * Jer. 31.20 Ephraim my deare childe my heart is troubled I must have compassion on him Where he speaks concerning this compassion 10. And when Esaw wept upon Jacobs neck †††Gen. 33.5 6 7. He lift up his eyes and behold the women with the children and said Whose are these with thee Jacob answered They are the children which God hath bestowed upon thy servant And the handmayds drew neare with their children and bowed themselves before him Lea also drew near with her children and bowed themselves before him afterwards Joseph and Rachel drew neare and bowed themselves before him The inward Figure stands thus When the anger of God held man captive in the darknesse then was he not in the anger known to God's holy Image but when the love in the suffering of Christ in the humanity brake through the anger so that the anger was changed then the onely God looked on it againe in his Image and spake to the Name JESU saying Who are these that are with thee And JESUS answered God and sayd They are the children which God hath vouchsafed and bestowed upon his servant 11. For heere Christ presents himselfe as a Servant of God with his children that are borne in him in the Faith viz with us poore children of Eve and there passed through the death of Christ and were presented before the countenance of God first the handmaids with their children that is man that had been sinfull he sets him first in Gods countenance which Jacobs handmaids doe signifie 12. Afterwards there pressed forward the line of the Covenant with the spiritual Lea viz the first created Image out of the Limus of the earth wherein the * * * The 5 wounds of Christ. five Prints of the Nailes the wounds of Christ stood they should be shewne to the onely God that therein he should receive the handmaids children who all bowed themselves before God 13. Then afterwards came Joseph with his Mother viz. the Image of the heavenly world's substance and bowed before the onely God which had been angry with him 14. Men should not understand this in divided figures types or Images but as the properties of the humanity are manifested before God through the suffering of Christ in one onely Image viz. in Christ's humanity in the kingdome of the Restauration or Redemption viz. in the kingdome of heaven The reader should understand our sence properly for we write heere in the vision of all the Three Principles how it went and still to this day goeth with the new birth Our exposition will not beare any dividing of the figure or Creature wee understand it in one creature 15. Our earnest and hearty consideration is this that we may see and understand how we poore children of Eve were brought through Christ's suffring and death and set before Gods countenance and how first the soule with the body of sin must passe through death and in the Resurrection come againe with the body before God where the body from the Limus of the earth is esteemed strange in the presence of God Therefore it is prefigured in the type in the condition of a handmaid and then presently in that body the Prints of the Nailes the suffering of Christ is sett before God Out of which death of Christ the faire Image created in Adam appeareth
Jerusalem the overthrow thereof and the earnest judgement draweth neare the measure is full the anger burneth Sin hath killed the understanding that they * * * Have no more sense or understanding no more perceive or feel the understanding these children are blinde concerning it and alwayes say this is a golden Time it will be good for us and not so come to passe thy Prophets among thee are esteemed fools and mad men till that be done unto thee and till thou thy self doest what they have said unto thee 12. Beware now and leave off to warr about the whore that the Lord may call thee with Jacob and bring thee againe to his holy Altar in Christ Jesus Put away the Idols viz. the opinions and build thine heart to be an Altar in the Temple of Jesus Christ then wilt thou be brought away from the murthers and the feare of God will come upon those men who would pursue thee as is to be seene by Jacob. But if thou wilt not leave off to make warr about the whore then wilt thou together with the whore come to shame and desolation 13. But learne to know her shee giveth Sichem occasion to uncleanness for shee runs out of her house and seeketh lovers Behold her Pride tear her Ear-rings from her neck wherewith shee boasteth and then shee will no more thus shew her folly bereave her of her Idols bury them with Jacob build thy self an Altar in thee and bring thy children to the offering Bid them not strive for Dinah but leave Dinah to the man with whom shee hath bedded else it is in vain to make warr for her virginity for it is manifest to all people that shee hath play'd the whore 14. Marke what is told thee it is high-time her shame can no more be covered for shee hath brought forth the Bastard doest thou not see it and doest thou not know the whore with her child then thou art blinde 15. Shee sitteth in high honour among men and cries all haile to her self This is shee to whom thou prostitutest thy self and forsakest thy God and his Altar Jesus Christ in thee take pity on thy self and behold the misery how this whore hath sate in stead of the Altar of God in thy soule and hath taken thy body and soule in possession and rideth upon thee as upon her Beast shee leadeth thee with her Reignes and thou seest it not thou say'st likewise it is right O thou evill beast full of thy whores Pride how will the Lord throw thee together with the whore to the ground as is to be seene in the * * * Apocalyps Revelations 16. The Spirit heere further setteth downe an excellent faire figure shewing how God manifested himself to Jacob after he made the Altar in Bethel and called the place El-Bethel viz. an Angelicall Engelische dwelling Gen. 35.7 where God conversed with Jacob in the forme of an Angel Engel as the high tongue renders it that God spake with him in vision in an Angels forme viz. in the Angells forme of the future humanity of Christ and signified to him that †††Gen. 35 10 11 12. he should no more be called Jacob but Israel that is a Great Tree or company of Nations him hath God thus blessed that he should possesse all this Country and he shall be so great that even Kings should proceed out of his Loynes whereby he signifieth concerning the future Kingdome of Israel and of Christ how it would come to passe 17. * * * Gen· 35.14 And when the Lord had spoken with Jacob in that very place Jacob set up a Pillar of Stone which signifieth the Temple of Christ as also the Temple at Jerusalem in a Type prefiguring Christ also the true Christian Church among the Christians that from the word of the Lord Men would build a Place and Pillar where they would assemble and declare the Wonders of the Great God and call upon him there and offer up the drink offering of Prayer there 18. And the Spirit sayth further * * * Gen. 35.13 So God went up from him when he had spoken with him that is when he had appeared in a visible Forme in the Image and Type of Christ he with-drew and hid himselfe againe in that Royall place from whence afterwards he would manifest and make himself visible in his Seede in this Figure in the Humanity 19. †††Gen. 35.15 And Jacob called the place Bethel viz. an ‖ ‖ ‖ Or Condiscention humiliation of the Deity in the Humanity so that the Divine Altar becomes manifest where a Man offers praise and thankesgiving to God And the Spirit by Jacob concerning this Bethel pointeth at the future Bethlehem where Christ should be borne Man as this place Bethel was exceeding highly esteemed by the Patriarchs which all pointeth at the Future Bethlehem where the true Altar Christ should be erected and built upon which Jacob and his Fathers and Children had offered in the Faith and prefiguring Type and under it God led them in the visible Type from thenceforth till the appointed Time that this Altar was erected at Bethlehem by the Birth of Christ. 20. And the Spirit in Moses speaketh instantly very darkly thereof in this Figure and sayth * * * Gen. 35.16 And they went from Bethel whereby he pointeth at the going forth from the figure of Christ that Men should goe forth from this figure to the Birth of Christ and sayth * * * Gen. 35.16 And it was a field breadth from Ephrath where Rachel brought forth and shee was in hard Labour at the Birth 21. This Field breadth signifieth the time that is between that and the Altar of Christ as Adam was gone a field breadth from the Altar of God that is out of the Spirituall world into the Earthly where it goeth very hard with Rachel viz. with the humane Nature as to the Patriarch Benjamin that is to bring forth a Christian that even the Old Adam must dye and perish in this Birth as Rachel dyed when shee bare Benjamin 22. Which Benjamin signifieth that when wee erect Gods Altar in us so that Christ dwelleth in us then is Benjamin that is our Last Man or second Adam borne then dieth the Old Mother who hath generated the kingdome of Nature in Man and the New Spirituall Man is manifested 23. This Benjamin is borne after Jacob is first gone out of Mesopotamia as the Spirit hath prefigured the Type of Christs Passion and Victory by Esaw and Jacob in their Meeting and it was a figure of the Apostle Mathias who was Elected to be an Apostle in the stead of Judas after Christ had first consummated his Passion and Ascention into Heaven 24. And it is a figure shewing how Man must first enter into Christs Passion Death that the Altar of Christ must first be erected in him before the Humane Nature from Christ can be borne for
†††Matth. 27.5 Judas must first in his falshood and Treachery in the old Adam with sorrow for his committed sinne hang himselfe and as to his owne ability despaire and dye and then will Benjamin viz. the new Creature in Christ first be borne and * * * Acts 1.26 Mathias viz. the first Created Adam be Elected an Apostle 25. For Mathias was indeed borne before the Passion of Christ and was with Christ but he was then first an Apostle when Christ in him was dead from sinne and Judas had hanged himselfe thus also the Adamicall Man which shall be an Apostle or Christian is indeed borne aforehand before Christ suffereth in him but Christ must first arise from the Dead in him and Judas viz. the Serpents will must hang himselfe and dye to his owne evill will in the Death of Christ and then first is the ‖ ‖ ‖ Adams Man a Christ. Adamicall Man a Christian It is not the Historicall Man by an imputed Grace wherein Judas still liveth under the Purple Mantle of Christ that is a Christian as Babell playeth finely under the vayle concerning the virginity of her Daughter Dinah that the faire dainty Damsell may play the whore and finely sleepe with her Pandor Judas and lye with her Lovers in the Bed of Fornication 26. Great things are prefigured in this Text for the Text sayth †††Gen 35.17 18. When shee was in sore Labour in the Birth of Benjamin the Midwife sayd to her Feare not for thou shalt have this sonne also But her soule being ready to depart that shee must die shee called him Benoni that is shee looked upon the inward ground upon the New Birth what he would be in Christ and regarded not the Name of the outward Creature 27. For Benoni is altogether a Spirituall Name after an Angelicall kinde and manner for shee sayd in Spirit when the Midwife comforted her concerning it that shee should have this sonne also I have him no more in the world the outward passeth away and it pointeth at the Angelicall New Name * * * Gen. 35.18 but his Father called him Benjamin as with the Name of this world that he should represent how a Christian must be borne under the Crosse of Christ in smart paine at which also his Mother looked as if shee should say through smart paine and sorrow wee come to Life as this sonne of my smart and sorrow 28. Then sayth the Spirit †††Gen. 35.19 20. Thus Rachel dyed and was buried in the way towards Ephrath which is now called Bethlehem And Jacob set up a Pillar upon her Grave and that is the Pillar of Rachels Grave unto this Day This is a secret mysticall Figure that Rachel dyed and is buried at the Citie Bethlehem and it signifieth that shee shall there rise againe through the Birth of Christ for Christ should there be borne 29. And it is signified that when wee shall flie to Bethlehem to the Birth of Christ then shall Benjamin viz. the New spirituall Man be borne of Rachell viz. of the Mother of the Old Adamicall Man in the Spirit of Christ and then presently will the Mother yeeld up her birth-right to the Spirit of Christ and die to her right of Nature and then will the Spirituall Eternall Birth begin and Eve passe away for there Jacob setteth up the Grave-stone or Pillar and the Spirit sayth it is her Grave-stone unto this Day to signifie that it poynteth at the future and that this Grave-stone should continue and Christ be borne there where Rachel died 30. In this Historie of the Acts of Jacob wee see cleerly that the Spirit hath in this description a figure under which it signifieth For Rachel was big with Benjamin when Jacob departed from Laban when * * * Gen. 31·34 35. shee sat upon the Idol-Gods when her Father sought for them and shee sayd it is with mee after the manner of Women so that I cannot rise up before thee But now the Text relateth how Jacob first pitched his Tents before Sichem and dwelt there and afterwards went first to Bethel and then Rachel brought forth so that it appeareth that the Spirit speaketh wholly in the figure for the Acts doe all follow very Orderly one after another in the figure of Christ as it hath come to passe with Christ which ought well to be Observed 31. The Spirit of Moses sayth further * * * Gen. 35.20 21 22. And Israel went forth and spread his Tents on the otherside of the Tower of Edar And it came to passe when Israell dwelt in that Land that Reuben went and slept with Bilha his Fathers Concubine and it came before Israel What manner of figure is this which is very deeply hidden but the Circumstances make it as cleare as the Sun 32. Israel went on the other side of the Great Babylonicall Towre and dwelt there with the Children of that People which may well be a pretty way from Ephrath Bethlehem but the Spirit hath heere its figure under which it signifieth that is when Jacob had taken away the strange Gods from his people and also their Ear-rings and buried them and built the Altar of the Lord Converting to God and were sitting in Rest and Ease then the naturall fleshly Man turned againe to the Lust of the children of Babel even as the Text sayth 33. Jacob went and dwelt there and then Reuben lay with his fathers Concubine viz. with Bilha Rachels handmayd the Mother of Dan and Naphthali and committed * * * Blutschande Incest which was worse then that of Sichem with Dinah but the Spirit hath thus with this action presented a figure pointing at the future how it would come to passe how Israel would turne away from the Divine Ordinance from the Altar of their God and mixe their fathers Worship and service of God with Naturall whoredome viz. with heathenish Sacrificing to Idolls as is to be seene by Jeroboam and the Spirit signifieth thereby that the first Adamicall Man would have onely fleshly desires and Lusts. 34. For Reuben was the first sonne of Jacob by Lea viz. by her of whom also sprang the Line of Christ to signifie that every one that would be called Jewes or Christians and are Generated out of those stocks would forsake God and lye with their fathers Concubines viz. commit fornication with the Idolatry humane Inventions and bablings of the Pharisees and Scribes and with their Lawes and Cannons and forget the Truth of God and of his Commandements in their Hearts and †††Einbilden make to themselves Images of these imprint those whoredomes in their Hearts Lusts. 35. For Reuben was indeed Jacobs first sonne as Adam also was the first Man but the Line of Christ was not manifested in Reuben as also not in Adam but it was manifested in Abel and in Judah and as Adam in Spiritu Mundi in the spirit of the
with their writings and teach the Lay people their unchastity and scorne so that one Christian learneth to scorne another out of the holy Scripture and trim their scorne with the writings of the * * * Holy Men Saints Of this it is rightly sayd Reuben thou art my first strength but thou hast climed up upon my Bed and defiled it with unchastity thou hast used my Concubine viz. my formed Word to thy whoredome and hast made of the Churches of my Children a whore-house and hast defiled my Marriage-Bed which I have in the Churches where I beget my children 43. This the Spirit of God signifieth cleerely by the declaration of the Patriarch Jacob Gen. 49. where he sayth thus concerning these Churches and their sacrifices * * * Gen. 49.3 4. Ruben thou art my first sonne thou art my first power and my first might the chiefe in the Offring and the chiefe in the kingdome he was unstable therein as water thou shalt not be the chiefe for thou hast climed up upen thy fathers bed and there hast thou defiled my bed by thy climing up 44. The Spirit speaketh cleerly in this Text for Ruben signifieth the Ordnance of the first Churches viz. the power out of which it was built that is the first power of the Christian Church or Congregation and is Gods Concubine by which he dwelleth but their Ministers are climed up into Gods Marriage-Bed and have gotten the Concubine to themselves and taken her into their power and have gotten her with childe with humane fictions fleshly honour and voluptuousnesse and it sayth cleerly Thou art the chiefe in the Offering and in the kingdom for so it must needs be when the whoredome is committed but seeing Reuben exerciseth whoredome with the Churches it sayth thus Thou shalt not be the chiefe for he was unstable therein as water and signifieth thereby that he would give himselfe to fleshly Lust and selfe-Love and that in unstability and in that regard is rejected of God 45. Thus the Spirit signifieth under this figure how this Concubine viz. the Church would be reproached with its first power viz. of its owne children so that it will be said by the Churches it is a spirituall whore-house which a Man must distinguish from the Temple of JESUS CHRIST for the Spirit sayth thou shalt not be the chiefe neither in the offring nor in the kingdome and thus shee hath lost the true * * * Jus Divinum Divine power by the whoredome of her Ministers and standeth at present rightly as a deflowred one that is made a whore which is dispised of Israel for her unchastity which is practised by her which is cryed out upon by almost every one each party crying out against the Church of the other for a whore-house as is enough manifest and all Libraries are full of such a Cry and Men at present are ready to storme and fall in upon the whore-house 46. But let this be said to the children of God that the Churches hurt no man and they were instituted out of a Good meaning by the first Christian power and were very good and profitable and they need not be thrown downe and demolished if Ruben would but leave his whoredome whereby he reproacheth them that her Ministers might be renewed and not give forth that they are the Ministers of this Concubine of God without the Vnction of the Holy Ghost as is now done onely for temporary honour and pleasure sake which are as profitable to the Church as a fift wheele is to a Wagon unlesse they goe with five wheeles to their Wagon where the fift moveth in the Aire and entreth with their Contention into the Abysse of Hell 47. The Stone-houses of the Churches have no greater holinesse in them then other houses for they are built of Stone and such Materialls as other houses are and God is no more powerfull in them then in other houses but the Church or Congregation that entereth thereinto and there meeteth together and there binde themselves with their prayer into one body in Christ whose Type and Resemblance the Church is that hath the holy Temple of JESUS Christ in it 48. Their Songs of praise and thanksgiving are the Cradle of the childe JESUS CHRIST in which the childe Jesus is rocked with unanimus consent in the Hearts of Men and not within the bounds of the Church which is a dumb and dead Thing 49. Its Ministers are no more then all other Men but the power and vertue that is powred forth in the Vnction of the Holy Ghost hath the power in the offering and is the Key 50. Whosoever will worthily enter into the Church must bring with him the Temple of Jesus Christ within him or at least he must fully take such a resolution and purpose that he will bring it out with him in his Heart otherwise his going in and coming out is but a committing of Spirituall seeming holy but indeed Hypocriticall whoredome and is no whit the holier when he cometh out and had as good have been standing in the Market shewing his pride in his fine cloathes for the people to see him and then perhaps he had not caused many honest hearts to Erre 51. This wee had a purpose to signifie by the knowing of this Figure that a Christian should not looke upon the shew of Churches but consider that the Church is but a †††Fâ—â—bild Type Resemblance of Christ and that he is not a Christian that entereth into the resemblance and approveth of that but he is a Christian that wholly giveth himselfe up into Christs Incarnation Suffering and Death and dyeth to his hypocrisie in the Death of Christ and riseth from the Death of Christ in a New Will and Obedience and who according to his inward ground is and liveth in Christ who himselfe becometh the Temple of Christ wherein Christ worketh with his power and vertue and thereby killeth sinne in the flesh such a one is a Christian in Christ and may rightly enter into the * * * Or Type Resemblance of Christ and exercise his Christianity therein such a one will heare Gods Word and keepe and ponder it in his heart 52. And though a Cowes Lowing in its sound should declare the Name of God yet Christ preacheth in himselfe but none that is dead can awaken another that is dead nor †††Mat. â—5 14 Luk 6.39 one that is blinde shew the way to another but both will fall into the Pit saith Christ. 53. Further the Spirit of Moses sets downe in its figure the Death of the Patriarch Isaac and sayth * * * Gen. 35.27 28 29. And Jacob came to his Father Isaac to the Head Citie in Mamre called Hebron where Abraham and Isaac were strangers and Isaac was an hundred and eighty yeares old and gave up the Ghost and dyed and was gathered unto his people This is a figure shewing that the children of
mixed himselfe with the daughters of Heathenish Kings and took them to wife and allowed his Heathenish Women to set up their Idolls Images for Idolatry in the high places at Jerusalem 46. In this eminent figure the Spirit signifieth that Man is fallen away from God and meerly Idolatrous that Adam and all his children in their own Nature are such a beastiall adulterous and Idolatrous Generation and in this King Salomon represents the Line of the Covenant subjoyned with these heathenish Idolatrous adulterous Concubines who in their own nature were but an abomination in the presence of God to signifie that Christ out of this Line of the Covenant should set himselfe in the middest amongst the Heathen and teare Idolatry out of their Hearts and Convert them all to Christ. 47. Also to signifie that God did beare with the wise Heathens under the Patience of the figure of Christ and that he did represent by the Jewes onely a prefiguration or Type of the Temple of Christ and that the Jewes in their Nature were but Idolatrous adulterers as well as the Heathens onely that in their Law they had the Type and prefiguration of Christ in their Sacrifices and Offerings at which the Covenant had respect shewing how God would redeeme and purifie both Jewes and Heathens from Adams abominations and Idolatry and that the one people in his sight were as the other no whit better but every one of them were the evill Adam Therefore the Spirit represents them perspicuously in the figure of Salomon in the Line of the Covenant * * * Rom. 11.32 that he may have mercy and compassion upon all for Christs sake who should fullfill and accomplish this Line 48. And heereby is signified to the Teachers in Babell part of whom account Salomon damned in regard of those Heathenish Idolls that they themselves lye under the vayle as the Jewes did under the Type of Christ and doe really understand the Scripture as little as the Jewes and stand in Contentious Idolatrous whoredome in the presence of God as Salomon with his Concubines did and the Jewes 49. For Salomon had the Law but at length with his heart he committed whoredome with the Heathenish Womens Idolls and so doth Babell who calleth her selfe a pure childe pretending the Name of Christ and striveth zealously and vehemently about it in Opinions and all the Opinions about which shee contendeth are Salomons Heathenish Women and Idolls and no Polemick or Contentious Opinion is any whit better 50. For Christ sticketh in no Contentious Opinion but in the Line of his Grace he is entered into the midst amongst us and if wee receive him then he taketh us also in it to himselfe and there needs no strife or Opinion about it but this one thing he requireth of us that we continue in him and then he will continue in us and that we love our selves in him as he loveth us in himselfe that all of us may be clensed from the wrath of God in his Love and that his Grace and Love may wash all of us that come to him from our sinnes and Idolatrous abominations and make of Judah Thamar David Salomon and all the children of the Jewes Heathens and Christians a pure Virgin prepared for himselfe by his love in his Bloud which he hath bestowed upon us in his Grace that we may acknowledge and put on him in that love and be one Spirit and body with him and then Adam is helped and restored againe 51. The Spirit of Moses in the Text sayth further thus †††Gen. 38.24 25 26. After three Moneths it was told Judah saying Thamar thy Daughter in Law hath playd the Harlot moreover behold shee is with childe by whoredome and Judah sayd bring her hither that shee may be burned and when they brought her forth shee sent to her Father in Law and sayd from the Man whose these are I am with childe and sayd Doest thou know whose this Ring these Braceletts and this staffe is Judah acknowledged it and sayd shee is more righteous then I for I gave her not my sonne Selah yet he lay with her no more This is a powerfull figure shewing that whoredome is an Abomination in Gods sight and how God sets mans sinnes before his eyes and here it signifieth this to us that the Adamicall whoredom and Abomination are manifest before this Covenant of Grace and that Man in such abominations is guilty of Hell-fire as Judah judged his Daughter in Law Thamar to be condemned to the fire and knew not that he himselfe was the whoremonger who stood in the like condemnation 52. And heere in this figure the Spirit presenteth Mens false Judgement that they even doe the same thing which they condemne as heere Judah condemned the whoredome of Thamar to the fire and saw not his fall that he himselfe was guilty to signifie that Christ also had set himselfe in the Judgement of the world in this Line of the Covenant as a righteous Judge who would seperate right from wrong and condemne the whoredome and Idolatry of the world But on the other side we see in this figure how Thamar presented the pledge viz. the Ring Bracelett and staffe before the Judgement and before the severe sentence of Judah and therewith did overthrow Judahs determinate sentence and still his wrath that he must take compassion on her and justifie her 53. Thus also stood this figure before God in the Inward Ground in Judah and Thamar with Adam and Eve for Adam had brought himselfe into fleshly earthly Lust and committed whoredome with his feminine property through his Imagination in a beastiall manner and had forsaken the heavenly Magick way of the divine wedlock therefore also the heavenly woman dyed as to him and in the stead thereof the earthly beastiall one awaked with whom he now useth the beastiall manner in whoredome This God presents in him viz. in Adam himselfe in his Judgement and would condemne Adam to Death as indeed Gods righteousnesse then condemned him 54. But the re-incorporated Eve in the Covenant of Grace which hath incorporated it selfe in Eve viz. in the faded seede of the Woman from the heavenly worlds substance presented it selfe before the severe Judgement of God and sayd to Gods righteousnesse behold I am with childe from the Man whose these are that is behold I have taken Adams Soule Spirit and Body for a pledge when I joyned my selfe with him and am betrothed to him and have received the Fathers Nature in the awakened anger into my Love and am now with childe of the Humane Nature and shall bring forth a God-Man 55. And when the Fathers Property in the Soules Nature in the Anger knew that the Father had sowen himselfe againe into the Grace viz. into the New Eve in the Covenant then sayd the Anger of the Father in the Soule when this Grace went to meet it to this new Eve Thou art more righteous then I for I have caused
Adams impurity that he is become earthly and hath committed whoredome before me and I have not given Selah for a husband to the New Eve that is I have not given the Word of the New Regeneration by and in the Law therefore hath Thamar that is the New Eve under the time of the Law layne and Copulated with Judah and his children for and about the soulish or animale and humane Nature and left Selah viz. the Law standing in the figure and the Grace of the New Eve in the Covenant hath alwayes joyned and mixed it selfe with Gods children as is to be seene in the Saints especially in the Prophets who outwardly lived under the Law and exercised themselves therein and yet alwayes joyned and mixed themselves with the New Eve in the Grace and yet lived not to the Law but to Grace 56. And this is the powerfull figure in this place shewing how the Covenant of Promise in Judah and the awakening of the Covenant in the Womans seede stand alwayes set one opposite to the other and lye and Copulate one with the other in the Love pointing at the future manifestation in the flesh in Christ. 57. For this figure of Judah and Thamar in the inward Ground is nothing else but this that outwardly the adulterous evill Adam with his fleshly Eve is represented in the figure viz. outwardly the Man of sinne with a sinfull figure and inwardly the betrothing of the New Eve in Regeneration 58. And the Spirit speaketh further in Moses and sayth * * * Gen. 38.27 28 29 30. And when Thamar was about to bring forth behold Twinnes were found in her womb and as shee was upon the Birth one of them put forth a hand then the Midwife tooke a Red Thrid and tied about it and sayd This is the first that cometh forth but when he pulled back his hand his brother came forth and shee sayd Wherefore hast thou for thy will made this breach and his name was called †††Pharez Perez Afterwards his brother came forth who had the Red Thrid about his hand and his Name was called ‖ ‖ ‖ Zarah Serah 59. O thou wonderfull great God who art so high and deep how simply and to the capacity of a childe dost thou modellize thy wisdome to us What is all Art and Witt of humane Greatnesse before thee who dost so very much condescend bow downe and humble thy selfe and presentest thy deepest wisdome and highest profundity in a childish simplicity which may justly shame all humane State and selfe-wit when they see so great Mysteries of God stand in such Childishnesse 60. O World how foolish art thou that thou Elevatest thy selfe in a blinde life and still cleavest to the husk and seest not what thou art and understandest not the Divine Simplicity and then how wilt thou apprehend the Divine Depth O leave off thy witt and cleave to simplicity that thou mayst yet obtein a childes understanding and be not accounted in the sight of God more unwise then the Beasts which remaine in their cloathing and condition as God hath Created them O thou World why sleepest thou in the Devills Armes who succles and dandles thee in himselfe and bringeth thee to his will and life by his might O doe but see it 61. This potent figure in these Twinnes one of which put forth the hand which the Midwife bound a red Thrid about and thought it would be the first but it drew the hand back againe and his brother came forth prefigureth this to us how Christ in this Line of the Covenant assumed the humane Nature and so the humane Nature according to Adams right and selfe-will in this world first puts forth and manifests it selfe about which Adamicall Nature in the humanity of Christ must this red Thrid with the shedding of his Bloud be bound 62. When this is done then must the humane Nature with its right draw back againe that is Adams will that was gone forth must againe returne into the Mothers womb viz. be turned in to the Word and then cometh the inward New Adam forth after which followeth the Adamicall Nature with the Red Thrid then sayth the Mother to the New Adam in Christ why hast thou for thy will made this Breach for thy will sayth the Mother not for thy will sake but for the sake of that which driveth thy will forth and Adams will goes back thus hath the will in the Covenant of Grace powerfully broken through the strong Barre enclosure of the first Principle viz. of the Kingdome of Gods Anger for the Good Will in Adam was shut up in Death and in Hell and in Christ he rent that powerfull Rent and brake through Death and Hell back againe into the Kingdome of the Eternall Nature and turned it selfe forth againe into the Naturall Life so that the Kingdome of God was againe manifested in the Humane Life 63. This the Spirit represents by Thamar in the Line of the Covenant and modelizeth Christs breach through Death and Hell how that should be and by this premodelling was the whorish will of Thamar and Judah healed and their children of whoredome in the Line of Christ were Espoused into the Covenant of Grace 64. In Esaw and Jacob stood the figure how according to Nature Adam had the right of the Kingdome and how he squandered it and is therefore in his Naturall Will thrust out from the Kingdome of God and how Christ came to help him Here now stands the figure shewing how Christ hath gotten the Kingdome and turned Adam back againe and in Adam turned himselfe forth so that now Adam is called Christ and presents himselfe very excellently in the figure of Joseph and this standeth fitly and rightly between in the intervale of Josephs history 65. For Joseph is the figure of a Christian and this of Judah and Thamar is a figure shewing how a Christian springeth out of Adams Nature and how Adams Nature is turned in againe and Christ turned forth and how this Image of a Christian Man in this world is covered outwardly with the Earthly Adam so that men cannot know it also how thus Christ in Adam tooke his Guilt upon him and how Adam must be marked with this Red Thrid which Mark is rightly the Pledge that Judah gave to Thamar And I would have the Reader of this admonished in Love not to reject our Exposition of this Text but to consider it and looke narrowly and perspicuously into it and then he will well perceive who was the Expositour if he be worthy of it CHAP. LXVI The Most Excellent History of Joseph how he was sold to Potiphar what befell Joseph and of Josephs Chastity and feare of God Vpon the 39 Chapter of Genesis JOseph was brought downe into Aegypt and Potiphar an Aegyptian Gen. XXXIX 1 2 3 4 5 6. Pharaohs Officer Captaine of his Guard bought him of the Ismaelites who brought him thither and the Lord was with Joseph and
Kingdome so also God sets him in his Kingdome and ruleth by him and giveth him his Sealeâ—Ring viz. the humanity and Deity in the Love of Jesus Christ to his soule and causeth him to ride in the second Chariott after him that is where Gods Spirit goeth there alwayes goeth such a Man after it and the Devill Death and Hell dare not touch him any more for thus he getteth power over the Devill Death and Hell and also over his mortall flesh and Bloud as Joseph over the Land of Aegypt 51. And as Joseph quickly withdrew and built the King Granaryes to lay up provisions so also such a Man who according to his inward Ground sitteth in the Kingdome of God buildeth for God his Lord many such Humane Houses viz. Mens soules in which he layes up in store the Divine overplus which God giveth him in Christ Jesus viz. the Divine knowledge and wisdome with good Instruction Doctrine and Life so that his Doctrine spreadeth abroad and multiplieth as sands in the Sea so innumerable spreading branches his Pearle-Plant putteth forth that many hundred thousand soules Eate thereof as of Josephs provision in the Famine 52. And then Potiphars Daughter that is the Daughter of the Priest of ON viz the true Christianity is given him for a Spouse which he is to cherish and Love and * * * Gen. 41.50 begetteth of her these Two Sonnes as alwayes travailing in this way and then they walke with washed hearts as Joseph before the time of the Famine in Aegypt begate of his wife Manasseh and Ephraim and so it was represented to him with these Names how God had in the house of his misâ—ry caused him to grow great and gave him much 53. And then also a childe of God sets open his Chists of Treasure when the famine cometh that the Anger of God sifteth the world as Joseph did his Granaryes and imparted to his fellow Twiggs therewith out of his Chists of Treasure that they perish not in that Famine CHAP. LXIX How this Famine went through all Lands and how Jacob sent his sonnes into the Land of Aegypt for Corne and how they came before Joseph and how he shewed himselfe to them What is thereby to be understood Vpon the 42 of Genesis Gen. XLII THis fowrty second Chapter of Genesis concerning Joseph and his brethren is a figure shewing how such a Converted Christian which hath already entered with Christ into his processe and hath now overcome in the end also forgiveth and rewardeth his Enemies with bounty who have brought him into Christs processe with their persecution and wicked devices and Councell and how also their sinnes are set before them and how they are brought into Anxiety and Necessity and how in the End of Meere Grace they are released from paine and punishment and how God is so gracious to them upon their conversion that he not onely releaseth the punishment but blesseth them with his Gifts and Benefitts as heere Joseph did to his Brethren 2. But then next is also represented in this figure how Earnestly and severely God sheweth himselfe against sinne as heere Joseph against his brethren and yet God is not earnest to punish the repenting sinner according to the sharpest severity but he setts himselfe strictly against the soule in its Conscience that sinne may awake and be acknowledged and that Repentance may be the greater that Man in such terrour may be humbled for sinne and quite depart from sinne and be angry with it and utterly hate it when he knoweth that sinne hath so terrible a Judgement in it The Historie sayth thus 3. * * * Gen. 42.1 2 3 4. But when Jacob saw that there was plenty of Corne in Aegypt he sayd to his sonnes Why doe you looke so long about you behold I heare there is plenty of Corne in Aegypt goe downe thither and buy us Corne that wee may live and not dye Then the †††10 Brethren Ten Brethren of Joseph went downe that they might buy Corne in Aegypt But Jacob would not suffer Josephs brother Benjamin to goe for he sayd some mishap may befall him 4. Now this is a figure first shewing that when Man findeth himselfe in the Divine Anger in this Famine that as to Righteousnesse he is in want as Jacob and his children in the Famine then the Father sayth in the Conscience to the Soule why lingâ—rest thou so long looking about thee Goe downe into Repentance where there is plenty of Righteousnesse in the Death of Christ where Christ giveth righteousnes for and instead of thy sinnes if thou heartily turnest to him And thus the Father bestoweth his will and introduceth it in to the Sinners Repentance and Conversation 5. But Benjamin Josephs Brother that is the humanity of Christ he giveth not to it presently therewith Hee first bestoweth upon it its sinfull Brethren that is He giveth it first his terrours into its Conscience and hideth his Comfort in his Grace viz. the true Benjamin Josephs brother from the * * * Sinfull affections properties of sinnes and sendeth the properties of sinnes viz. those wherein sinnes have been wrought and Committed after Grace to buy this Corne of Joseph viz. of Christ. 6. The sinner must himselfe enter upon it and with Earnestnesse enter into the Suffering and Death of Christ and dye from his sinnes in the presence of Grace in the Prison of Gods Anger and cast himselfe upon Josephs viz. Christs Mercy and Grace and not stay without and say with Christ there is plenty of Grace and so tickle and comfort himselfe with Grace No that quickneth not the poore soule thou must goe downe into Aegypt to thy injured brother whom thou hast cast into the Pit by thy sinnes within thee and must in great humility come into his presence though thou wilt not suddenly know it till he in his Mercy shall give thee to know it and then thou must in Christs Power Might and Glory which he gat in his resurrection buy Corne for the poore soule that it may live and not dye as Jacob sayd to his Children 7. And Moses sayth further * * * Gen. 42.5 6 7 8. Thus the Children of Israell and others with them came to buy Corne for the Famine was also in Canaan but Joseph was the Ruler of the Land and sold Corne to all the people in the Land Now when his Brethren came to him they fell downe with their faces to the Earth before him and he saw them and knew them and carried himselfe strangely towards them and spake roughly with them and sayd to them Whence come yee They sayd out of the Land of Canaan to buy foode but though he knew them they knew not him yet 8. This now is the first state and Condition of the poore soule when it turneth to Christ to fetch foode from him then he looketh upon the soule in its will totally in its Essence to see whether the free-will had sett
it selfe towards him and now if the soule be Converted then he knoweth it but first he terrifieth the Conscience and setteth himselfe roughly and seemeth strange towards the soule as he did towards * * * Mat. 15.26 the Cananitish woman and hideth his Grace from the soule till it shed forth its Repentance and boweth its face in the presence of Christ and acknowledge its transgressions and totally bow downe it selfe to the Pit of Judgement and yeeld it sâ—lfe into Gods Anger and punishment and to the Dying of it selfe 9. And then Christ looketh into it and layeth fast hold upon it with the strict hand of Gods Anger but his Love and Grace hideth it selfe therein and that is it which stirreth up the sinnes of the poore soule and disturbeth them so that it is terrified and afraid in the presence of God when the soule standeth and cryeth to God then sayth Christ in the Conscience who art thou behold thy selfe now whether thou art worthy of me as Joseph did heere when he sayd who are yee and set himselfe roughly and strangely towards them 10. * * * Gen. 42.9 And Joseph thought on the Dreame which he had dreamed concerning them and sayd to them ye are spyes and are come to see where the Land is open that is Christ thinketh on his Mercy and on his bitter Passion and Death and sayth to the soule thou art a spie and comest to mee onely to see where the Gate of my Grace is open but that shall not helpe thee thou must doe otherwise thou must first Enter into the Gate of my Suffering and Death or else thou art but a spie and wilt see the Gate of my Grace stand open that thou mayst cover thy selfe with it as with a Mantle thou must be in Earnest or else thou wilt be but treacherous to mee and take my Grace into thy Mouth 11. * * * Gen. 42.10.11 And Josephs Brethren answered him and sayd No my Lord thy servants are come to buy foode wee are all one Mans sonnes wee are honest and true Men wee thy servants were never spies That is thus much in the Figure before the properties of the soule in their vanity rightly know themselves when the Anger of God is presented before their Eyes viz. passeth into their Essence then the soule thinketh it is wrong that is done to it for it thinketh if it comfort it selfe with the Merits of Jesus Christ and beleiveth on Christ that he is the Son of God and hath satisfied for the soule then it ought not to be blamed for a Divine spie and unrighteous Hypocrite it is righteous through the Justification of Christ seeing it beleeveth the same that it is applyed to it for its benefit 12. But as †††Gen. 42.12 Joseph sayd to his Brethren No but yee are come to see where the Land is Open thus also the Spirit of Christ blameth the Essences of the soule for it proveth them that they are not yet broken and have still selfe-desires in them and will instantly lay hold on Grace viz. the Open Gate which availeth not the soule it must first enter into Christs suffering and Death and put them on first through earnest repentance and conversion of its will and then it may enter through the Open Gate through Christs wounds and Death into his Resurrection 13. Further * * * Gen. 42.13 14 15 16 17. Josephs Brethren say wee thy servants are †††12 Brethren Twelve brethren sonnes of one Man in the Land of Canaan and the youngest is still with our Father but one is not in Being Joseph sayd to them that is it which I told you yee are Spies in this will I prove you by the Life of Pharaoh Yee shall not goe from hence except your youngest brother come hither send one of you hence that may fetch your brother but yee shall be prisoners so will I prove your saying whether your wayes be in truth or not for if not then are ye spies by the Life of Pharaoh and they put them together in Ward for the space of Three Dayes The inward precious Figure standeth thus 14. When the soule doth thus draw neere to Christ and will instantly put on his Resurrection then sayth the Spirit of Christ in the Soules Essence this is that which I told thee thy Essences are spies by the Life of God in this will I prove them whether they come to mee in a faithfull and right Path and whether they bring with them to mee their youngest brother viz. the true Josephs brother that is the Incorporated line of the Covenant of Grace in their in Adam faded heavenly Substantiality viz. the Incorporated ground of Grace which was effected in Paradise so that the Soules Essences with their most inward Ground turne in to mee and in mee else they come but as Hypocrites and spies of the Gate of Grace 15. This is rightly called fetching the youngest brother for that same Incorporated Grace in the Promise Effected in Paradise is the soules youngest brother which it hides and covereth with sinne and in the beginning of its Repentance it leaves him at home †††Or with by the Life of God 16. Therefore sayth the Text of Moses very secretly Hee will prove them by the Life of Pharaoh which is as much as to say in the figure by the Life of God with whom this youngest son stayed behinde him must the repenting Man bring along with him to the Port of Grace or else he must lye * * * 3 Dayes Three Dayes shut up in Prison till he bring him as Josephs brethren did that is else must the †††3 Principles Three Principles in Man lye so long in Prison in the Anger of God and cannot buy divine food unlesse they have this their youngest brother with them that is the Gate wherein Christ in Man in that same Image of the heavenly worlds substance which faded in Adam ariseth from Death wherein he may have his dwelling place 17. Thus a Man is proved by the Life of God when he turneth to God to try whether he turne wholly and altogether to him and bring this incorporated ground of Grace with him wherein Christ will and shall manifest himselfe If not then sayth Joseph that is Christ to the soules Essences yee are but spies to the Life of God and search onely for the Justification of Man from the sufferings and Merits of Christ that is yee learne onely the Historie and take the precious Covenant of God in your Mouths and flatter your selves with Christs satisfaction and remaine still onely as spies of Grace but that shall nothing avayle you or helpe you though likely you may spie out the Kingdome of Christ my Anger and Righteousnesse in my Zeale and Jealousie shall yet hold you in Prison with all the Three Principles as long as you bring not the most inward ground of your Substance along
now no more as spies before Joseph but as earnest hungry Men viz. with an Earnest hungry Life which from all its powers and vertues hungereth after Gods Mercy after the food of Jesus Christ. 22. Heere now beginneth the earnestnesse in feare and Trembling and this is the true going forth after heavenly food wherein the Conscience stands in anxiety and Reason despaires of its owne ability and thinketh alas God is angry with mee where shall I seeke for Grace I am not worthy of it I have trampled it underfoote I must stand ashamed before God Into what Deepe shall I goe where I may dare to lift up my face to God and bewaile my wants to him 23. Then comes the poore Conscience in need and with trembling before God and hath not many Confessions or words for it accounteth it selfe too unworthy to speake one word before God but setteth it selfe before his face and boweth downe to the Ground and thus in it selfe demerseth it selfe into the Most meere and deepest Mercy of God into Christs wounds suffering and death and beginneth from its most inward Ground to sigh and to fly into Grace and wholly give up it selfe thereto as Josephs brethren came thus the second time before Joseph and fell downe before him 24. And when Joseph saw them thus that they were all there and stood so humbly before him he had so great Compassion upon them that he could not speake a word neither but turned him and wept And this is the state and condition wherein the inward ground of the heavenly worlds substance which faded in Adam into which God a-againe inspoke or inspired his Word of Grace in Paradise for an Ensigne Banner Mark and Limitt became living againe in this Compassion wherein Christ is assuredly borne in Man in this ground and now instantly ariseth through his sufferings from Death in Man and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father which right hand is the fiery soule from the Fathers property in the word of the Eternall Nature and presenteth the soule in this ground before the Anger of God and satisfieth and filleth it with Love 25. And heere a Christian beginneth to be a Christian for he is one in Christ and is no more a spie and verball or Mouth-Christian but that is in the most inward Ground and heere Simeon is loosed and * * * Rom. 8.1 there is no more Condemnation to those that are thus in Christ Jesus although perhaps the Outward body is in this world and subjected to vanity yet it hurteth it now no more but every fayling which it now committeth in the flesh must turne to serve for the best to it For now it beginneth to kill the works and contrivance of the flesh and continually to Crucifie the Old Adam for its whole life is now a meere repentance and Christ in it doth help it to work repentance and bringeth it now to his Glorious feast or Banquett as Joseph did his brethren when they came againe to him when he commanded to make ready and gave them of his Table 26. Thus now Christ feedeth the Converted soule with his flesh and bloud and in this feast or Banquett is the †††Rev. 19.7.9 Wedding of the Lamb whosoever hath been a Guest heere he understandeth our sence and minde and no other doth they are all of them but Spies though perhaps they suppose they understand it yet there is no right understanding of this feast or Banquett in any Man unlesse he hath been at it and tasted of it himselfe for it is a very impossible thing for Reason to apprehend it without Christs spirit in himselfe who is himselfe the food at this feast or Banquet of Joseph 27. And it is told thee Babell in thy spying by Josephs feast or Banquett that thou deludest Christendome in that by this feast thou pointest them to the Resurrection of the Dead thou Errest a Christian must * * * John 6.53 eate the flesh of the sonne of Man here or he hath no life in him †††1 Cor. 15 28 In the Resurrection God will be all in all ‖ ‖ ‖ Col. 3.1 Christ sitteth at the right hand of God in Man heere and presenteth him with his Body and with his Innocent Bloud that was shed and that he covereth the soule withall and floweth into it with the same when Gods Anger will stirre being instigated by the desire of the flesh 28. O thou poore old Jacob of †††Or inspecting Spying Christendome let thy hungry sonnes who are very leane for great hunger in the Conscience goe to Joseph keep them no longer back in thy feare what I pray thee is thy feare thou supposest that if this Ground should come to light in the world thou shouldst loose thy sonnes whom thou lovest but who are thy sonnes there is thy owne honour in that thou thinkest to sit in the Stead of Christ upon Earth Also there is thy Lucifer of fleshly honour which thou takest care for and thy countenance is dejected about it if a man should require an Apostolique Life from thee and seeke thee in the Processe and Imitation of Christ it pleaseth thee better that thou livest in honour and voluptuousnesse of flesh in Spying and honourest thy Belly and so bringest thy poore Christianity under a vayle 29. O thou poore old Jacob trouble not thy selfe so about temporall momentany things see how it went with old Jacob when he let all his sonnes goe from him to Joseph how Joseph caused him to be fetched to him and did so much Good to him and his children and nourished them in the famine and placed them in a better Land and so it will goe also with thee if thou wilt let thy sonnes goe to Joseph but if thou wilt henceforth keepe them back longer then thou must starve thou and thy children and be famished in Misery sayth the Spirit of Wonders by Josephs feast or Banquett 30. O Israell Mark this Text very well it concerneth thee and hath cleerely concerned thee but that thou art yet blinde in thy hungry misery and waitest for the sword of the Turba that shall awaken thee since thou wilt needs have it 31. Every one thinketh if three parts of Men were destroyed then I should have good dayes with those that remaine and then wee would be honest and vertuous and leade an upright honest life Also men gaze about to see whence that Salvation will come which is so much written off and say and thinke Salvation will enter into the Lust of the flesh from without Men alwayes gape for an Earthly Kingdome of Christ. 32. O Israell if thou knewest these present times wherein thou livest in blindnesse thou wouldest repent in Sackcloath Ashes thou lookest for the * * * Signall-Star such a Starre as lead the Wisemen to Christ. Matth. 2.2 Signall-Starre and it hath appeared it shineth whosoever hath Eyes may see it it is indeed as
bigge as the world is and yet Men will be blinde Enough to those that are Ours 33. And as Jacobs children spake much with their father concerning Benjamin and promised to bring him againe he sayd at last * * * Gen. 43.11 12 13 14. If it must be so let it be so and take of the best fruit of the Country in your Sacks and carry downe a Present to the Man a little Balsam and Honey and Spices and Mirrhe Dates and Almonds take also other Money with you and the Money that was put above in your Sacks againe carry with you it may be it was done by mistake moreover take your brother arise goe againe to the Man and the Almighty God give you Mercy before the Man that he may let your other brother and Benjamin goe but I must be as one quite bereft of his children 34. This now is the figure that is above explained and wee see a very Excellent cleere Type and Image therein shewing that Jacob commanded his sonnes to take with them of the most precious rich and costly fruit of the Land and carry it with them to Joseph in which the Spirit pourtrayeth in the figure how the Christian Church when it seeth it selfe in such Trouble and spirituall Famine hunger and want and now is on the way of Repentance should carry these good fruits with it before God viz. Hope Faith and divine affiance and not wilde fruit as Covetousnesse Selfe-willed Lust and Hypocrisie but a purpose and resolution towards Truth Righteousnesse Chastity Love and Meeknesse 35. Thus must the Old Man take a resolution to goe in such a purpose to Joseph that is to Christ and then hee yeeldeth up all his sonnes for the Journey of this Pilgrimage and sayth Now I am bereaved of all my Sonnes I have nothing more in the desire of fleshly voluptuousnesse I have yeelded them alltogether into the will of God 36. Also wee see in this figure how Jacob commanded them to take with them againe the unrighteous money that they had brought back in their Sacks and restore it againe thus also must a Man who will be or is a Christian put away from him all unrighteous things all that he hath gotten to himselfe by subtilty craft and wrong that he should repay againe or else indeed give it to the Poore 37. For that which he giveth to the needy and miserable that suffer want he giveth to the hungry brethren of Joseph and the heavenly Joseph receiveth it in his hungry brethren and fellow-Members and returneth it to him againe manifold as Josephs Steward gave them againe the Money which they carried home in their Sacks the first time and brought it againe and sayd Peace be to you your fathers God hath bestowed Treasure on you 38. A man must put away all unrighteousnesse from him if he will enter in to the Wedding of Jesus Christ Hypocrisie and flattery in comforting ones selfe avayleth nothing it must be Earnestnes and this is that which keepeth Men back from the wayes of God even their walking upon the wayes of Hypocrisie and flattering themselves whereas they should leave off and forsake unrighteousnesse and Extortion and restore that which is gotten by falshood thus they have cast the Purple Mantle of Christ over the crafty wretch and covered him with the satisfaction and merits onely that the Theefe may live under that Cloake 39. O thou poore Christendome how hath Antichrist deluded thee with this Cloake and Covering O flee away from him it is time The Covering will not avayle any wicked and unrighteous person so long as any is such a one he is the Devills Servant 40. A Christian is a New Creature in the Ground of his Heart his Minde is bent onely to well-doing not to steale Else were Christ by Consequence accounted a Theefe in Man Let but the Mantle of Christ fall off and restore what thou hast stolen and gained and extorted with unrighterusnesse and injury and cast away the old Quarrells strivings and * * * Law-suits Litigations from thy soule and goe naked and empty under the Crosse to which Christ hangeth and looke upon his fresh bleeding wounds and take his bloud into thy hungry soule and then thou wilt be healed and redeemed and released from all want else no comfort of Satisfaction and Merit will helpe thee All true Comfort is but this that a Christian comforteth himselfe that he shall in this Repentance in Christ Jesus obtaine a Gracious God and that shall even be his Comfort that he may not despaire 41. The satisfaction wherewith the unrighteous comforteth himselfe and sayth My works avayle nothing Christ hath done all I can doe nothing and continueth under such Comfort in sinnes that is the Devills fishhooke whereby he catcheth his fish with Christs Mantle 42. Christ had his Purple Mantle on him when he was in his suffering but when he hung on the Crosse he had it no more much lesse in his Resurrection so also should a Man take this Mantle about him onely when he goeth into Christs Suffering and Death in Repentance in Repentance it is onely avaylable and no way else that a soule should wrap it selfe up in it when it is ashamed in its sinnes before the face of God 43. All that is taught and beleeved otherwise is deceipt a fable and Babell All teachers that teach otherwise are but servants and slaves of the Belly and the fishermen and a Deceipt of the world of these let Men beware for he that will be a Teacher must also be a true Christian that so he may also thus live in Christ Else * * * John 10. he is a Theefe and a Murderer that climeth up some other way into the sheepfold of whom Christ speaketh 44. And Moses sayth further Gen. 43.15 16 17. Then they tooke their Present and the double money with them and Benjamin and arose and went into Aegypt and presented themselves before Joseph and when Joseph saw them with Benjamin he sayd to his Steward bring these Men to my House and stay and make ready for they shall eate with mee at Noone and the Man did as Joseph sayd unto him and brought the Men into Josephs house 45. This now signifieth thus that hee that hides himselfe under the Mantle must come forth and bring his unrighteous wrong gotten Goods againe and come before the face of the heavenly Joseph and come naked and empty of his I hood or owne ability and bring the right Benjamin that is in him along with him then Joseph draweth neere him and seeth him and commandeth his Steward viz. the Spirit of Power to bring these Men into his house viz. into his Humanity and then the Lamb of God shall be made ready and these Men or the Lifes Essences of the right soule shall eate at Josephs Table with him at Noone then it is Noone when the high Light of Grace shineth as at Noone or Midday in the soule and heere
generate the other Men out of himselfe in that likenes but when that was not done God cursed the power that was given to Man so that the will of the Creatures is opposite to him seeing he would have them to misuse them and would no more be a Lord of the Creatures but mingleth his Love also with them whereupon the foure Elements captivated him and made him also a Beast as to the Body and thus now he runneth on in the will of the Curse 32. For he is Gods Image but he * * * Imageth modelleth oâ— figureth fashioneth his will into a beastiall Image and disturbeth the Order of God from what it was in the word of Creation he suppresseth the right true will of God and setteth his own will in the place he is with his will an Enemy to all Creatures and all Creatures are his Enemies 33. And therefore must the divine will in Man be now borne againe in such anguish in the Opposite will and the right divine will of the New Birth must suffer it selfe to have the Enmity of all Creatures and therefore because Man beareth in his Body a Beastiall will wherein the beastiall Opposite will together with the Curse is manifested and so now the Life in the Curse is at Enmity with the Life in the Peace and will not suffer it in it selfe 34. But if the Beastiall will in the flesh could be wholly broken and killed then the Curse would cease and so no Creature could be at Enmitie more 35. But seeing this cannot be therefore must Man stand in Strife and endure much evill to will in him from without and to will much evill out from himselfe in and towards that which is without him and so standeth in strife between evill and good and in evill and good and liveth in the Strife of the Elements and also in the strife of his own willing that God gave him 36. For he complaineth alwayes that wrong is done him and yet himselfe is a wrong will and the right will which he obtaineth in the Regeneration is not his owne naturall willing but it is the willing of the Grace of God which is manifested in his willing which willing dayly killeth his naturall willing and blameth Man by Gods instrument with the children of the Anger openly 37. Moses speaketh further and sayth * * * Gen. 44.7 8 9 10. They answered him and sayd Wherefore speaketh my Lord such words It is far from thy servants to doe such a thing Behold the Money which we found aloft in the Sack wee have brought to thee againe out of the Land of Canaan how should wee then have stolen out of thy Lords house either Silver or Gold Hee with whom it is found among us thy servants let him be put to Death and moreover wee will be the servants of my Lord Hee sayd let it be as ye have spoken He with whom it is found shall be my servant but ye shall be quitt 38. This Figure now sheweth how the Conscience desireth to Justifie it selfe when it is apprehended by the wrath of Gods Anger that either when God with his plagues in Nature also many times in the hiding of his Graces or through the evill World blameth it and representeth it unrighteous then it will alwayes Justifie it selfe that wrong is done it 39. For if it have once turned toward Grace and broken it selfe off from ungodly Courses then it thinketh no Evill at all shall happen God is bound to protect it and the world doth it wrong when it reproacheth it as wicked it ought no more to be subject to plagues and punishments and it accounteth that honesty and Righteousnes whereby it stealeth Grace from God and reckoneth it for its owne as if it were no more Guiltie of Sinnes 40. Also it excuseth it selfe towards the world when the world will impute Sinnes and Blasphemies to it as if it were guilty then it will needs dye or be put to death or the like as Josephs brethren did who knew nothing of the Theft and did not understand neither that all their unrighteousnes and their stealing of Joseph when they stole him from their Father and sold him stood in the Sacks of Josephs gifts viz. were manifest before the Eyes of Joseph so that Joseph knew and understood their Theft and therefore caused them to be held for Theeves and caused them to be pursued as Theeves and fetched them back againe and set them before the Judgement 41. But in stead of their Theevery of their committed Sinnes whereby they had forfeited their Lives Joseph caused his Silver Cup to be layd to the Gift in their Sack and caused them to be blamed for the Cup which they would not confesse The Figure standeth thus 42. When a Man as is above-mentioned becometh a true Christian so that God giveth him his Grace then he layeth his Grace hiddenly in the Sack of his Body in the Essences of Life and moreover layeth therein the Cup of the Crosse and blameth it no more in Conscience in respect of its manifold committed sinnes for he hath utterly destroyed them with the Grace of forgivenesse and filled the Sack of his sinnes with Grace for the hunger of the poore soule but it layeth now the Cup of Christ to its Charge that it is Guilty of that viz. of Christs being scorned also of his Suffering and Death that he hath brought Christ to the Crosse with his sinnes that it is verily Guilty of the Cup of Christs Crosse and not wholly righteous 43. For when God by his Grace forgiveth him the * * * Mortall deadly or killing sinnes sinnes unto Death then he causeth this Cup of Christ to be layd aloft in the Sack seeing Christ himselfe hath the Guilt of these sinnes layd upon him and hath taken them upon him therefore now this Man is guilty of the Cup of Christs Crosse in which Christ must tast and drink out the Anger of God in Man and Gods righteousnesse requires of him to enter into the suffering scorne Death of Christ that he should dye with Christ and give himselfe up to his scorne and suffer with Christ. 44. But seeing he cannot doe that and is too weake to enter into such sufferings in the Anger of God therefore hath Grace put this Cup also into him that he might drink of Christs victory and Prophesie or Divine of Christs suffering and Death and make them knowne 45. But Gods righteousnesse which now requireth Man to be in the processe of Christ viz. in Christs Sufferings and Death and yet findeth him not alwayes in his Conversation and Will therein accuseth him for a Theefe who carrieth the Cup of Christs Crosse but as a Theefe in the Sack of his Lifes Essences and chargeth him of Theft if he walke otherwise then in the Processe and Imitation of Christ. 46. For Christ hath received Man into his Sufferings and Death and turned away the righteousnesse of Gods Anger and introduced him
with his Guilt of Eternall Death into his innocent Death and is dead from the sinnes and wickednesse in himselfe and in this dying of Christ Gods righteousnesse in the Anger requireth a Christian Man to be 47. But if he walke out of this path and not in it then sayth righteousnesse thou art a Theefe and hast wrongfully got this Cup of Christ in thy Sack I will sett thee before my Judgement and Sentence as Joseph did to his brethren when he caused them to be fetched back to the sentence of his Judgement 48. Therefore hath a Christian who walketh under the Banner of Christs Crosse no Excuse when God by his Steward viz. by the Children of this world causeth him to be layd hold on in the righteousnesse of his Anger and chargeth him for a Theefe and an unrighteous person also for a Stranger Innovator * * * Novice Novellist Enthusiast Foole and the like when Men loade him with all his faults and the infirmities of naturall sinfull flesh and without ceasing blame him as wicked and unrighteous and condemne him to the damnation of the temporall and Eternall Death and though he is not in the sight of the world nor as to the world Guilty yet he is lyable to beare the scorne suffering and death of Christ after him as a Christian is lyable to take upon him the whole processe in the footsteps of Christ and to follow Christ therein and to suffer all in Christ and wholly to put on Christ in his derision contempt suffering and death and to beare his Crosse and scorne after him that he may enter into Christs Kingdome as a Member of the body of Christ that hath suffered with him and hath dayly dyed to the Anger of God in the Death of Christ from his actuall sinnes 49. For All Sinnes Blasphemies and untruths which are imputed to him wrongfully from the world which he is not outwardly Guilty of in the fact that he suffereth in the processe of Christ as a Christian and therein drinketh out of the Cup of Christs Crosse who hath innocently suffered for his sinnes 50. For if he be not guilty of them in his Life yet he is guilty of them in the inherited sinne and hath inherited them also in the seede out of which he is proceeded they lye in his * * * Ground of his Nature and Heart Ground he cannot excuse himselfe before God in the processe of Christ he is guilty of all Adamicall sinnes 51. But this is his Comfort that God manifesteth them by the children of his Anger in this world and so as a Curse by the Children of Anger fastneth them to the Crosse of Christ and in this Manifestation drowneth them in him in the Bloud and Death of Christ in that he still cleaveth to God as Christ to his Father and suffered himselfe to be accused of sinnes which he had not committed but had onely inherited them and so they were taken from him and given to the Anger of God in his Judgement that he might condemne them 52. For thus also Joseph in this figure appeased his just Anger towards his Brethren they were all Guilty towards him but he charged them not with their Guilt but charged them onely with his Cup for he had cleerly forgiven them all their Trespasses but onely concerning the Cup he would not hold them Guiltlesse and yet of right they were not Guilty of it but he had layd it in as his bounty and made them guilty of it 53. Thus also hath God given us his Grace of meere Love after that wee were cleerly guilty of Eternall Judgement and hath layd Christ and Grace in the Sack of our Life with his Suffering Death with his Cup of the Crosse concerning which he doth not hold us Guiltlesse wee are all Guilty thereof and have not this by a Naturall right but it is layd into us without our knowledge therefore wee cannot release our selves of it except wee cast Christ wholly from us and give our selves againe to the Anger of God and then Death Hell and the Anger of God make us Guilty and hold us captive in them but at present Man may lay hold on which he will 54. But that Joseph caused the Cup to be thrust into his Brother Benjamins Sack it hath this figure that Christ dwelleth in the inward Man viz. in his Paradisicall brother and hath this Cup of the Crosse in his Hand out of which the guilty soule and the Body must drink he thrusteth it into his brothers sack for that inward ground is his Brother but the other brethren must drink of it this brother of Christ holdeth it in him for he is Christs Member and habitation 55. Therefore sayth Josephs Steward by whomsoever the Cup is found he shall be my servant but ye shall be quitt viz. the inward ground the true Josephs viz. Christs brother hee is Christs servant who serveth his Lord and brother and must hold the Cup in his Sack the other * * * Conditions or qualities formes of Life of Nature are free and cannot hold the Cup for Christ. 56. For they are not the right Sack to put it in but the Ground of the Heavenly Worlds Substance is the Sack to which the Holy Cup of Christ doth belong which powreth the Ground of Nature out of it therefore must Josephs Brother be made guilty of the Cup because he stood in the figure of the inward Man wherein Christ would manifest himselfe with his Cup of the Crosse and so the other brethren viz. the poore soule together with the body be quitt and released from the Guilt 57. Therefore sayth Josephs Steward he is my servant who hath the Cup he shall serve mee but ye shall be quitt that is Christ is in this inward Benjamin Josephs Brother and serveth God with overcoming of Death and the Anger of God in Man and so all the other brethren viz. the Naturall Life shall be quitt from Guilt and Paine and it standeth excellently in the Figure 58. Moses sayth further * * * Gen. 44.11 12 13. And they hastened and layd every one his sack off on to the Earth and every one tooke his Sack off and searched and began at the Eldest and so to the youngest and there they found the Cup in Benjamins Sack and then they rent their Cloaths and loaded every one his Asse and went againe into the Citie 59. When Adam was fallen into sinne then the Law and Command fetched him back againe charged him with the sinne and Theft that he had eaten of the wrong fruit with a wicked mouth therefore must he returne againe into the Citie viz. into the Earth out of which the body was proceeded and there lay downe his Sack into the Earth and there Gods righteousnes searcheth into all the naturall Properties viz. Truth and righteousnes which availeth before God viz. the Image of Heaven and began from the first forme of Nature and so on
them sure enough but the Deluge or Floud and the fire of Sodom falleth suddenly downe upon them so that there is no escaping he that waketh let him watch and take care that he doth not sleepe for the Bridegroome calleth every where afterward the foolish Virgins will trim their Lamps but it is too late the hunger of Babell layeth hold and devoureth them in its Jawes 19. Moses sayth further * * * Gen. 46.28 29 30. And he sent Judah before him to Joseph that he might direct him to Goshen and they came into the Land of Goshen and Joseph made ready his Chariott and went up towards Goshen to meete his father Israell and when he saw him he fell about his neck and wept a long while upon his neck then sayd Israell to Joseph I will now readily dye now I have seene thy Face that thou yet livest This Figure standeth thus 20. Judah signifieth the incorporated Covenant of God in Man viz. the Divine Grace in Christ Israell sends this that is the whole Man before to the heavenly Joseph and uniteth it with him so that the heavenly Joseph in the incorporated Grace leadeth the Kingdome of Nature in Man viz. the Old Jacob and Adam into Goshen viz. on the way of Conversion into the Rest of Christ that he cometh to the right Goale or Mark where he findeth foode for the hungry Conscience viz. the right way to Salvation where there is right Teaching and Instruction there Goshen is neere at hand where the soulesitteth in fatnes and feedeth in the fatt pasture of Christ. 21. And when the heavenly Joseph viz. Christ seeth that the Old Jacob that is the Adamicall Man hath sent his Judah to him and afterwards cometh himselfe then he makes ready his Chariott that is his Operation with a powerfull affection to entertainment and goeth to meete the Naturall Man and when they draw neere together then this Joseph falleth about the Neck of this jacobs-Jacobs-Adam that is he layeth hold on his desire and Longing and filleth it with his Teares which he shed in his sufferings and in his victory brought through death into Eternall Joy 22. With these Teares of Joy he kindleth the soule of the Old Jacobs-Adam so that Jacob for great Joy weepeth a long while on Josephs neck viz. in Christs Teares of Joy and mingleth his inward Joy with the Teares of Christ with which teares of Joy the soule of the Old Jacobs-Adam is mightily comforted quickened and strengthened in himselfe in that he findeth that his heavenly Joseph in him yet liveth that he is not dead in the famine of sinnes or quite departed from him 23. Then sayth the Naturall Man Now I would willingly dye and give up all my right and willing now having seene and knowne my loving sonne Joseph that is seeing I finde that the New Man in Christ is become manifest in mee therefore now I would willingly dye to my willing of vanity in his power of Love as Jacob sayd to Joseph 24. And Joseph sayd to his Brethren and his Fathers house Gen. 46.31 32 33 34. I will goe up tell Pharaoh My brethren my fathers house are come to me out of the Land of Canaan are * * * Shepheards or Pastours heardsmen for they are people that are conversant about Cattell and have brought with them their small and great Cattle and all that they have and now when Pharaoh shall call yee to him and say What is your employment and businesse then shall ye say thy servants are people that are conversant about Cattle from our youth up unto this time both wee and our Father that you may dwell in the Land of Goshen for those which are heardsmen and keepers of Cattle are an abomination to the Egyptians The inward Figure standeth thus 25. When the Heavenly Joseph Christ hath manifested himselfe to the Soule and Adamicall Man so that they are come together and that they have received and imbraced one another then that same powerfull word in the Spirit of Christ which hath Manifested it selfe in Man presseth and penetrateth againe into the Eternall Fathers Property viz. into the Eternall Speaking of the Father which heere is as much as to say I will tell Pharaoh that my brethren together with all my fathers house are come to mee 26. For Pharaoh standeth heere in the figure of God the Father who is the Eternall King to whom sayth Christ viz. the word of Love and Grace that his brethren viz. the properties of the Humane Life from and with all its powers and vertues are come to him that is the Word Christ which is come from the Father into our Humanity through his power and vertue speaketh the Word of the Naturall humane Life into the Eternall Word of the Father which is heere called telling the King 27. For Christ is even the Fathers Steward over Man as Joseph was Pharaohs For Man is then manifested againe in God when Christ speaketh telleth and inspireth him into the word of the Father else man could not attaine God for the humane life is also proceeded from God the Fathers word for the Spirit of God spake and inspired it selfe from and by the word of the Father into Man Joh. the 1. 28. But after it came into a Creature and became Naturall John 1.4 it turned it selfe away from Gods Love-speaking or inspiration of Love and manifested it selfe in the speaking of Anger the power of Love speaking was extinguished in it viz. the Second Principle the holy generating or working of the divine power and was not able in its owne power and strength to enter againe into the Love-speaking that it might be able to speake or Generate the Divine Love-power it had rent it selfe off from Gods Love and brought it selfe into a Naturall speaking of selfe and vanity 29. And this did move Gods pitty and compassion and introduced his Love-speaking word againe into the Creaturely * * * Imaged framed or Created formed word of the Soule and humanity and that now is this Joseph whom God hath sent before that he should inspeake or introduce the humane life againe into the Eternall speaking word and make it manifest therein before the Eternall King he bringeth the humane word in the Fathers property into the Word of God and reconcileth the rent and severed humane word in the Fathers Anger-speaking with his Love that is he changeth the Anger in the word of the humane Life in his Teares of Love into the divine Kingdome of Joy and manifesteth the humane Life actually and workingly in God and that heere is as Joseph sayd I will tell Pharaoh that my brethren my fathers whole house are come to mee out of the Land of Canaan 30. For Christ is become our brother †††John 1.14 The word of Love became Man and dwelt in us and tooke Adams Nature upon him and therefore in this figure it is called his fathers house viz.
back and lay with his fathers Concubine and in falshood and wickednes copulated with her as the free will of the soule in Adam copulated with Gods Concubine in him by false and wicked Lust and became a breaker of Wedlock to God as Reuben did 17. And for the sake of this hath Adam viz. the first power of the Naturall Man in all Men lost the Kingly Priesthood so that the Naturall Man in his owne power and vertue can no more offer sacrifice to God also he understandeth nothing more of Gods Word or Kingdome * * * 1 Cor. 2.14 It is foolishnes unto him and he cannot apprehend it any more for he standeth in a poysonous monstrous Image which in this Adamicall property cannot inherit the Kingdome of God and hath lost the Kingdome of God and is now but a figure or similitude of this World and of Hell a Monster instead of the Image of God and shall no more be the chiefe in the Sacrifice and Kingdome but Christ in the New birth in him hath attained the Kingdome in the sacrifice and Government 18. The Naturall Man viz. the first power and vertue must be Servant and lay off the Monstrous whorish Image and be new-borne againe the Soule through the Spirit of Christ and the Body through the putrefaction of the Earth from which at the End of the * * * Last Judgement Day Day he shall be severed and be formed againe into the Image of God II. III. The Testament of Simeon and Levi. 19. * * * Gen. 49.5 6 7. â—he brethren Simeon and Levi their swords are Murthering Weapons my soule come not into their Councill and my honour be not thou in their Churches Assemblies or Congregations for in their Anger they have slaine a Man and in their stubborne selfe-willednes they have destroyed Oxen Cursed be their Anger because it was so vehement and fierce and their Wrath because it was so raging I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them abroad in Israell 20. In this Testament the Spirit very wonderfully taketh the two brethren together and represents their figure accordingly which ought well to be observed as also the Spirit of Moses in the 34 th Chapter taketh them together where he sayth * * * Gen. 34.25 26 27.29 Simeon and Levi took their swords and went boysterously into the Citty and slew Sichem together with Hemor his father and all the Males that were in the whole Citty and tooke the Women and children captive and spoyled all which might indeed be the Action and Robbery of two stout young Men but the Spirit hath in that place as also in this its figure according as Jacob sayth Hee would tell them how it would goe with them in after times 21. In Reuben the Spirit representeth before the Adamicall corrupt Nature that the first vertue and power of Man squandred away Gods Priesthood and Kingdome viz. the Kingdome of Heaven and defiled Gods Marriage-Bed and made a Bed of whoredome thereof but now in this figure the Spirit of God representeth a powerfull figure signifying how the first power of Man would neverthelesse desire to keepe its Priesthood and Dominion and what kinde of Priests and Rulers would be in this world in the Kingdome of Selfe-Nature 22. For out of the Stock of Levi came the Priesthood under the Law and of this the Spirit heere speaketh and joyneth Simeon to him viz. the worldly Dominion and sayth of them both as of one Your swords are Murthering weapons my soule come thou not into their Councill and my honour be not thou in their Churches that is Gods Living Word which he calleth his Soule shall not be in the Dominion of this Earthly World viz. in Mans first Naturall Selfe-power his holy Word shall not be in their Councills and determinations wherein they seeke only temporall voluptuousnes and riches neither shall it be in their Churches and Priesthood because they doe but flatter with the Mouth for he sayth My honour be not thou in their Churches 23. But his Church is the true Image of God from the heavenly Worlds Substance which in their Murther by the introduced poyson of the Serpent faded in Adam and is borne againe in Christ but seeing they would only play the hypocrite before God in the Monster of the Serpent and had not the Church of God in them therefore sayth the Spirit My honour be not thou therein 24. For Gods honour together with Christ Jesus shall not come from the Naturall Adam but from God and his holy Word these should be the Holy Church of God in Man viz. the Image of the heavenly Worlds Substance which dyed in Adam and budded forth againe in Christ in this should Gods honour appeare as when Life buddeth forth through death this was Gods honour but the selfe Adamicall will which was a Murtherour and murthered the heavenly Image in him shall not have this honour this honour shall not appeare in his Murtherous Will 25. In this Image the figure standeth cleerly which is pourtrayed in the * * * Revel 17. Apocalyps of the Great Seaven headed Dragon upon which the Babylonish Whore rideth where the Dragon and Whore are prefigured as one Image and it is even the same with this of Simeon and Levi and it signifieth in the Adamicall Corrupt power in the Monstrous Image the Government of Nature in selfe will together with the Sectarian hypocriticall Priesthood 26. The seaven heads of the Beast are the * * * 7 properties seaven properties of Nature which are departed from the Temperature and have attained †††7 heads seaven heads viz. a seavenfold will whence the Life is come to be in Strife misery sicknes and Corruption and the Whore upon this Beast is the Soule which is defiled as a Whore and entereth before God with this Whores Image and playeth the hypocrite in his presence 27. But the Will of the seaven-headed Beast giveth its power and strength to the Whore viz. to the Soule so that the soule sticketh full of Murther Pride whorish Lust and selfe-honour and in this Church and Den of Murther Gods honour will not be 28. This Figure and Magick Exposition concerning Simeon and Levi prefigureth to us the spirituall and worldly Dominion first in every Man whereby he governeth himselfe both in spirituall and Naturall things and secondly the Management and authority of spirituall and worldly Offices both in the Church and worldly matters whatsoever ruleth therein in selfe Adamicall power without the New Regeneration that beareth this Image in it viz. the Murthering sword where Men Condemne and slay one another with words 29. All scurrilous slaunderous libellous bookes wherein Men reproach and kill one another with words for the sake of the Divine Gift and knowledge are the Murtherous swords of Simeon and Levi also all unrighteous Sentences of worldly Judgement are the same and Gods honour and will is not therein 30. The Spirit taketh
and Man 42. And he sayth further for thy hand will be upon the Neck of thy enemies by this he understandeth and meaneth not onely the Jewes outward Enemies but that the hand viz. the power of Christs Grace would essentially actually and effectually be upon the Neck of Sathan and the Serpents Poyson and will in flesh and Bloud and evermore trample upon that Serpents head in his children of Faith 43. Also thy Fathers children will bow before thee that is before this Christ of the Stock or Tribe of Judah will all the Children of God stoope bow and pray to as a God-Man and Man-God 44. Also Judah is a young Lyon that is Roaring against the Devill and a destroyer of Death and Hell as a fresh young nimble Lyon mighty in strength and power 45. Also thou art come aloft my sonne and exalted by a Great victory that is after he had the victory over Gods Anger over Death Sinne the Devill and Hell he was placed at the right hand of Gods power as a Man-God and ruleth over all his Enemies 46. Also Hee stooped and couched downe as a Lyon and as a Lyonesse who will set upon him to rouse him up that is he hath so deeply humbled himselfe with his highest Love and rendred himselfe in our assumed humanity into the scorne and contempt of the fallen Man and stooped into Gods anger and suffered the Naturall Life to breake in peices and very patiently given his Strong Lyons might thereinto 47. But that the Text sayth as a Lyon and as a Lyonesse it signifieth the young Lyon of the Divine Word in the soule and the Lyonesse signifieth the Name JESUS in the most inward Ground of the heavenly worlds substance viz. the Noble Lyonesse of Sophia that is the right seede of the Woman from the Adamicall Lights Tincture which faded in Adam and in this Lyon was made living againe in divine power and associated it selfe againe to the Lyon viz. to the Soule 48. Also who will set upon him to rouse him up that is who can set himselfe aganst this Lyon and heavenly holy Lyonesse to rouse them up which are God over all and through all who will take away his power who is the beginner of all power strength and might Where is the Champion that can strive when there is no higher power to be had 49. Also The Scepter shall not be removed from Judah nor a Master from under his feete till the Champion or Saviour come and to him will the people cleave the understanding or meaning of this is twofold viz. outwardly concerning the Kingdome of Judah that the Jewish Scepter of its Kingdome should continue and they be a Kingdome till this Champion or Saviour viz. the Lyon with the Lyonesse viz. Christ that is this Covenant should become Man which is so come to passe that they held their Kingdome though it seemed often as it were quite overthrowne till Christ and then it quite ceased and there was another Master or Governour that ruled it for since that time they must be servile people for the Champion or Saviour hath taken to himselfe their Kingdome and is therewith entred in among the Heathen and hath called them also to himselfe 50. But the inward Ground is this that the Kingdome of Christ and his Dominion over Sinne Death the Devill and Hell will not cease nor any other Ruler or Master come from between his feet that is from the Covenant of God till this Saviour Christ should come againe to Judgement and sever his Enemies then shall he deliver up the Kingdome againe to his Father and then God shall be all in all therefore doe the Jewes in vaine hope for another Master or Ruler although indeed he will come to them also in the Time of his Revelation Manifestation or appearing which time is neere wherein the Kingdome of Christ will be manifested to all people 51. Also to him will the people cleave this is done already according to his humanity and will much more be done in his last manifestation that all people will cleave to him and acknowledge him when Babell taketh its End then will this be first perfectly fullfilled which dependance and cleaving to him at present the Images Imaginations or fictions of Opinions and Sects in Babell doe keepe back in that the strange and forreine People and Nations stumble and are scandalized at the Contentions and Disputations of Confounded * * * Or words of Jarring Contention Speeches and withhold from it 52. But when the Tower of Babell falleth on every side then shall all people cleave to him honour and serve him which dependance and cleaving to him supposed Christendom hath hindered by the Antichrist which hath a long time sate in the seate of Christ as an Earthly God when this ceaseth then will the Kingdome of Christ be wholly manifest which Men at present behold only in †††Or Opinions without certain knowledge Images this is understood by those of our society 53. Also hee will binde his Fole to the Vine and his shee-asses colt to the Noble Branch O thou poore sick old miserable Adam if thou didst understand this rightly then thou wouldest be delivered from all strife What is the fole and the shee-Asses colt The fole is the humane soule for the Young Lyon signifieth the power of the divine Word in the soule but the fole is the naturall soule which Christ should binde to the vine of the sweete tasted divine Love viz. the Eternall Speaking Word would binde this Fole the Creaturely Soules Word of the Soules Essence and Substance to it selfe and be marryed to it and the shee-Asse is the inward Paradisicall Man viz. the Divine Man from the Ens of the inward Ground from the heavenly Worlds Lights Substance viz. the Virgin Sophia 54. This shee-Asse which must beare the outward burthen of the beastiall Man upon it should Christ that is the Word binde to the Name JESUS viz. to Gods owne selfe-subsisting Substance viz. to the most Noble Branch which beareth the sweete wine of the Love of God 55. And this shee-Asse is the Temple of God wherein the Kingdome of God is againe Manifested in us it is †††Coloss. 3.11 1.27 Christ in us which is a shee-Asse in Man himselfe taketh upon him the burthen and sinne of Man and slayeth it through the Young Lyon 56. This Inward new spirituall holy Man is rightly the shee-Asses colt for it must be manifested through the soule as Light is manifested through fire thus a Man is to understand that the light is the fires Colt and is manifested through the fire from the dying of the Candle thus also it is to be understood in the Ground of the soule which is also a fire-Spirit 57. O thou poore Christendome if thou diddest understand this rightly and diddest presse into it so that thou also with this shee-Asse which faded in Adam stoodest bound to the foles Noble Branch what
againe the unfolded Nature in the Strife of Time into himselfe and draw it together into the Temperature and then would this Time have an End and Strife cease This wee desired a little to delineate for the Lover of Truth let him search further in the Spirit of God which searcheth all things even the deepe things of the Deity and then he will see our Ground in the Truth CHAP. LXXVIII Of the Holy Patriarch Jacobs Buriall in the Land of Canaan What is thereby to be understood Vpon the 50 Chapter of Genesis 1. THe Buriall of Jacob Genesis L. that Joseph should carry him againe into the Land of Candan after his Death and bury him with his Fathers and that Joseph went thither with a Great Company with all the children of Israell and many Egyptians it prefigureth to us Christs powerfull exit out of this world when the Adamicall Man after its death should againe be carried from this Egypt and house of torment into its fathers first Country into Paradise into which Christ will bring it 2. But that also many Egyptians went along with Joseph thither and accompanied him signifieth that Christ when he shall bring home his Bride into Paradise will have many strangers with him who in the time of this Life knew him not as to his person or Office and yet are sprung up in him in his Love which will all goe with Christ into Paradise and dwell and co-habite with him 3. Their weeping and Mourning signifieth the Eternall Joy which they should receive in Paradise as the Magi alwayes by weeping and Mourning prefigure Joy This funerall solemnity and what is to be understood thereby is declared * * * Gen 23. and the 50 Chap. of Mysterium Magnum before concerning Abraham 4. Moses sayth further in this Chapter †††Gen 50.15 16 17 18 19 20 21. Josephs brethren feared after their father was dead and sayd Joseph surely is wrath with us and will requite all the Evill which wee have done unto him therefore they caused it to be told him thy father Commanded before his Death and sayd thus shall yee say to Joseph forgive I pray thee now the Misdeeds of thy Brethren and their sinne that they have done so evill to thee therefore forgive the Misdeeds of us the servants of the God of thy Father but Joseph wept when it was told him and his brethren went in and fell downe before him and sayd behold wee are thy servants but Joseph sayd to them feare not for I am under the presence of God you thought to doe evill by mee but God turned it unto Good so that he hath done as it is at this Day to prâ—sâ—rve much people therefore be not afraid I will provide for you and your children so hee comforted them and spake friendly to them 5. This figure is a Mighty Comfort to the brethren of Joseph but seeing Joseph standeth in the Image and Type of Christ and his brethren in the figure of a poore Converted sinner therefore wee must expound this figure thus that is when poore sinfull Man who hath committed great sinnes and hath turned to Repentance and attained Grace and committed some fauâ—t againe then he is alwayes in feare and trembling before the Grace of God and thinketh God will impute his first committed sinnes to him againe and take an occasion against him by this fault and in that regard standeth in great anguish and beginneth to confesse his first committed sinnes againe and falleth a new at the Lords feeâ—e and entereth againe into earnest siâ—cere Repentance and bewayleth his first misdeeds as David did when he sayd †††Psal. 25.7 Lord impute not to mee the sinnes of my youth 6. But by this New Repentance and earnest Lamentation when the poore Man appeareth so very earnestly and humbly before God againe the heavenly Joseph is brought into such Great pitty and Compassion as heere Joseph was that he comforteth the poore soule in its Conscience saying it should not be afrayd all its committed sinnes should not only not be imputed but they shall also turne to the Best as Joseph sayd ye thought to doe mee evill but God entended good thereby thus God in Christ not only forgiveth the by past sinnes to the humble converted Man but he also addeth to him provision for him and his children with Temporall blessing and maintenance and turneth all to the Best as Joseph did to his brethren 7. In the End ‖ ‖ ‖ Gen. 50.24 Joseph desireth an Oath that when he shall dye that they will carry his bones along with them out of Egypt to his fathers which signifieth to us the Oath of God in Paradise that Christ God and Man would come againe to his brethren and stay for Ever with them and be their High Priest and King and nourish them with his power of Love and dwell by and in them as Joseph by his brethren and provide for them as his branches and Members Eternally with his power and sapp Amen 8. This is a briefe summary Exposition of the * * * Genesis first Booke of Moses from a right true Ground and divine Gift which wee have very faithfully imparted in a Co-operating Member-like Love and Care to our Deare fellow Brethren that shall reade and understand this 9. And wee admonish the Reader of this that when he findeth somewhat in any place of our deepe sence to be obscure that he doe not contemne it according to the manner of the Evill world but diligently reade and pray to God who will surely open the doore of his heart so that he will apprehend and be able to make use of it to the profit and salvation of his soule which wee wish to the Reader and hearer in the Love of Christ from the Gift of this Talent in the Ground of the soule and commit him into the Working Meeke Love of JESUS CHRIST Dated 11 September 1623. and then finished Praise the LORD in Sion and praise him all people for his might and power goeth through and is over Heaven and Earth Ha le lu-jah A Brief Abstract of the Sublime Consideration and deep understanding of the Mysterium Magnum Shewing how the visible World is a Streame and Reflexion of the Divine Knowledge and Will and how the Life of Every Creature hath taken its Originall and how the Divine Introitus going in and Exitus Out as to the Creature is EVery sensible and perceptible Life and Beeing or Essence Substance is come ex Mysterio Magno from the Great Mystery as from the streame and reflexion of Divine knowledge in which two things are to be understood viz. the Free will of the Abysse and the Substantiall One in the Will and how these two are a reflexion of the Abysse viz. a ground of the Divine Manifestation also how they are two and yet but one out of which Time and the visible World and all Creatures did flow forth and are become
but heere lieth the vaile before the brightnesse of Moses's face by reason of the unworthinesse of the bestiall Man 2. For we finde that the woman was taken and formed in the Fiat out of Adams Essence i i i Or out of his body and Soule both in body and soule But the Rib betokeneth Adams dissolution or breaking viz. that this body should and would be k k k Or destroyed dissolved for in the place of this rib Longinus's Speer must afterward when Christ vvas crucified enter into the same and tincture and heale the breach in the wrath of God with heavenly bloud 3. Now when Adams hunger was set after the earthlinesse it did by its magnetick power impress into his faire Image the vanity of evill and good whereupon the heavenly Image of the Angelicall worlds Essence did disappeare as if a man should insinuate some strange matter into a burning and light-shining candle whereby it should become darke and at last wholly extinguish so it went also with Adam for he brought his will and desire from God into selfehood and vanity and brake himselfe off from God viz. from the Divine Harmony 4. Even then he forthwith sunke dovvn into a l l l faintnesse or impotency svvound into Sleep viz. into an unability which signifieth the death for the Image of God vvhich is immutable doth not sleep whatsoever is eternall hath no time in it but m m m Or with by the sleep the time was manifest in man for he slept in the Angelicall world and awaked to the outvvard world 5. His sleep * * * Signifieth or was the reall type is the Rest of Christ in the Grave where the new regenerate life in Christs Humanity n n n Or was to must enter into Adams sleep and awaken it againe to the Eternall life and bring it out of time into the Eternall beeing 6. But the breaking or dividing of Adams Essence when the woman was taken out of him is the breaking or bruising of Christs body on the Crosse from the sixt houre unto the ninth for so long was the Fiat in Adams Sleep o o o Or a making the Sex of Male and Female in the Separating of the Man and Woman for in such a space of time the woman was compleatly finished or brought forth out of Adam into a female person or Image 7. And when Christ on the Crosse had againe accomplished this Redemption of our Virgin-like Image from the divided p p p Text from the Man and woman Sex of Male and female and tinctured it with his heavenly bloud in the divine Love He said it is finished for before he stood in Adams thirst As Adam did thirst after the vanity so Christ did now fill or satiate this thirst of vanity with the holy divine Love-thirst and turned about the will of the Soul that it might againe introduce its thirst into God and when this was brought to passe he said now it is finished and converted Christ turned back Adam in his sleep from the vanity and from the Man and woman againe into the Angelicall Image Great and wonderfull are these Mysteries which the world cannot apprehend for it is as blinde in them as a man that is borne blinde is to behold this world but he that Regardeth and findeth them hath great joy therein 8. Eve is the right q q q Understand as to the right life which was then manifest but afterward disappeared for in her lay the womans seed which was to breake the monstrous Serpent of the earthly Eve magicall childe for she is the Matrix in which the Love-desire stood in Adam viz. the Magicall r r r Conception Impregnation and birth she was Adams Paradisicall Rose-Garden in peculiar Love wherein he loved himselfe For the Amassing or conceiving of the Magicall Impregnation or Incarnation or divine formation of propagation was or did stand in the conjunction of both Tinctures 9. And God said after the eating of the Apple unto them the womans Seed shall bruise the Serpents Head the Ground and Corner-stone lyeth here in this Matrix for the womans Matrix wherein the divine formation stood was as to the Right life heavenly being out of the heavenly Essentiality vvherein consisted the Right Paradise 10. But Adam with his Imagination brought earthlinesse and vanity thereinto viz. Selfe-will and then the holy part viz. Venus's desire which was the divine Centre in the humanity viz. the manifested Love-word in the Image of God did disappeare in this Matrix therefore Eve s s s Out of or by reason of from this strange will introduced into the Matrix brought forth at first a selfe-willed proud murtherer for Adam vvith his false Imagination had introduced this vanity so also the Devills desire thereinto 11. But the divine Love-will vvould not forsake this disappeared Angelicall matrix and gave himselfe by promise thereinto with the Deare and precious Name of Jesus who should againe awaken it in the Holinesse's property and bruise the head of the Devills insinuated desire and false Rebellious will that is destroy and take away the Might of its life and introduce it againe through divine Love into the First life and even in this holy matrix which the word and power of God did againe awaken in the sweet Name of Jesus in the Seed of Mary in the t t t Ayme mark or limit Bound of the Covenant the Serpents poyson in the Soule and flesh was destroyed 12. And this is the Seed of the woman dear bretheren observe it it is highly known The u u u Text the promised marke of the Covenant Ayme of the Covenant of Promise was pight or set into this Matrix but Eve was not the very childe for the part of the Heavenly Matrix stood disappeared in her but yet it was in the Covenant of God as the dry rod of Aaron which budded forth afresh did tipify unto us 13. Shee was indeed the whole Matrix of Adam but the holy part was shut up in her and the outward part of the outwrrd world with evill and good viz. the matrix of the third Principle which had indeed an halfe soule-like property but captivated in the prison of Gods anger the holy Covenant of Love Rested in the disappeared part in the midst of the awaked anger from which Covenant the Propheticall Spirit in the old Testament spake and prophecied of the future opening or manifestation in the Covenant 14. The greatest mystery is to be understood in the formation of Eve for a man must very entirely and intimately understand and apprehend the birth of nature and the originall of man if he will see the ground for she is the halfe Adam not taken onely and wholly out of Adams flesh but out of his Essence out of the female part she is Adams Matrix 15. The woman received no more from Adams flesh and bones save the rib in