4. b a shape in him as a Kingdom of God or of Christ which is the upright being or real form it self full of all Love 13. Till unto this same day namely till that the light of life as a true being an upright righteousness be come unto the man doth the daily God-service for the sins cause endure in the holy so long also (r) 1 Co. 3. b remaineth the vail before the most holy namely till the holy be performed or ministred in his full course of ministration with upright daily oblations which are acceptable unto God 14. But this daily offering or gift which the man is Debtor to offer in the holy or that wherein God hath a pleasure is not alone the outward for God hath (s) Ps 40.50 never willed nor required the same without the good will of the heart 15. Therefore it is a spiritual offering proceeding out of (t) Psal 11. c Isa 57.66 a lowly and humble heart and the beginning of the same upright offering soundeth even thus in every man that is good-willing towards God and towards his righteousness 16. O God I come and have a lust to (u) Psa 40. a Heb. 10. a do thy will 17. Now when the man findeth himself thus minded and desireth to enter into the service of Love and his requiring in this sort is his heart prepared and altogether become willing to (x) Mat. 16. c Luk 9.14 c take up his Cross and obediently to follow after the (y) 1 Pet. 2. c crucified and killed Jesus Christ in the belief under the obedience of his love till unto his death even the death of the Cross (z) Rom. 6. Col. 2. b. and to be baptized into the same death whereby to enter even so into the life out of the deadly sin (a) Ioh. 3. a Rom. 6.8 b 2 Cor. 4. through the second birth from death Wherethrough he is likewise made free The true holy of the holy and true Tabernacle of God is the belief tending to the mortifying of the sin in the after following of Christ till unto the second birth from the death the which is the willing obedience of the belief which holy and his service or obedience in the belief wherein the death of the sin cometh to pass is the very true holy and the right difference between the most holy and the fore-front or delivered from all choosing of this or that according to his own will or pleasure saying with his whole heart 18. O GOD (b) Act. 9 a WHAT wilt thou have me to do 19. Behold in such a mind intent or inclination to the obedience of the belief and to continue (c) Eccl. 2. a Math. 24. â— stedfast therein till unto the death and to the new birth from the death consisteth the mans conversion to his God and he becometh so clean turned about from his selfness that he is like unto (d) Mat. 18. a 1 Pet. 2. a a new born babe that hath no manner of self-wisdom or self-willedness but that liveth only that life that is given and brought unto him by God In such a manner is the man meet also to come into the Kingdom (e) Ioh. 3 a of God to enter thereinto 20. But behold with such a heart and mind cometh the man unto the (f) Deut. 6.10 b. 1 King 15. true obedience which God regardeth And so through Faith he goeth out of all deadly corruption or perdition and cometh into the life of his God in the everlasting immortality in all Love and is filled with all fulness of the holy Ghost (g) Rom. 8. b and inherriteth with Christ all the treasures riches of God and of (h) Isa 33. a Col. 2. a the spiritual and heavenly goods Those verily are the promises of God the Father through Jesus Christ to the blessing of all the generations of the earth 21. By this means as is said the man cometh again to his soundness and to his (i) Ioh. 8. d precious freedom whereunto (k) Gen. 1. c Sap. 2. c Eccles 17. a God hath created him from the beginning as being unbound or untyed from all vain and unprofitable things The tenth Chapter NOW when as the service of the offering in the holy hath once had his full course with such a good will as is aforesaid and the debt-offering sin-offering and death-offering is all through the like-suffering of Christ accomplished on the Altar through the belief then (a) Isa 25 a Math. 27. 2 Cor. 3. b doth the vail as opening asunder divide it self from before the most holy and so there is then discovered in the most holy the mercy-seat the Ark of witness and the heavenly bread with many costly treasures pertaining to the most holy Sanctuary and all that sanctified likewise that is in the holy with the (b) He. 9 10. sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ the high Priest for an everlasting forgiveness of sins 2. That verily is the New Testament of the grace of God touching the sins of the people even as God hath promised the same to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah for a stedfast and continuing Testament 3. This high Priest over the house of God is the old antient one in the holy and godly understanding and is the (d) Col. 1. first born of all creatures (e) Rom. 6 a Phil. 2. a who was slain with the death of the Cross and hath suffered in the holy for the sins cause and is (f) 1 Cor. 15. c Col. 1. b as the firstling risen from the death where-through he hath prepared the everlasting life for all his Believers which follow after him in the holy (g) Mat 16. c Rom 6. a 1 Pet. 2. till unto the death of his Cross 4. He himself verily is the Light and Life that is everlasting which was (h) Ioh. 1. a Psal 210 a with the Father from the beginning and is at the right hand of the (i) Heb. 1. a Almighty in the heavenly being or estate who also as high Priest entreth into the most holy maketh alive his believers from (k) Rom. 8. b 1 Cor. 15. b Eph. 2. a. b Col. 1.2 b the death and (l) Eze. 36. c Isa 44. a Ioel 2. c Act. 2. b poureth forth the holy spirit of his love abundantly over them The true most holy of the holy and true Tabernacle of God is the Love the everlasting life and the perfection from which most holy in his service that is in the making alive from the death in the pouring out of the holy Ghost and in ministring of the spiritual and heavenly good the vale is put away whereby to inherit the everlasting life of God in his cleerness in the same service ministred under the obedience of the Love of the holy Ghost which most holy in his service maketh right difference betwixt the living and the dead
openeth it self asunder when the foregoing service in the (e) Heb 9 c holy is accomplished 2. For the vail before the most holy cleerness of the Godly being of Jesus Christ and before his spiritual and heavenly goods departeth not away from before the cleerness of the most holy (d) Heb. 7 8 9.10 unless that the former God service in the holy have first his full course the which is the accomplishment of the daily God-service in the holy in the (e) Mat. 16. Luk. 9. c taking up of our Cross in the willing obedience to the belief for to continue therein obediently till (f) Mat. 10 2â— unto the end that is till unto the (g) Rom. 6. a Phil. 2. b. death of the Cross 3. Which death of the Cross of Christ and to be implanted or incorporated into Christ with the same like death and so (h) Rom. 6. a Col. 2. b. baptised or washed into his death is verily the (i) Math. 28. Mar. 16 b upright Baptism unto salvation wherein the man is rightly baptised or washed according to the truth of the holy Scriptures and so then (k) Rom. 6. a out of the same death regenerate (l) Ioh. 3. b or born again as a new Creature in Jesus Christ 4. For that the same (m) Tit. 3 b 1 Pet. 3. c baptism is the right font of regeneration serving to the washing away of the sin wherethrough the believing man who doth with Christ according to the flesh lay away mortifie and (n) Rom. 6. a Col. 2. c. 3. a bury the sin in the flesh is made alive again with Christ and also according to the spirit in upright (o) Luk 14. Eph. 1. a. 4. b righteousness and holyness and so through the second birth from the death or the resurrection of Christ he becometh holy and altogether renewed in the spirit of his inward mind and the (p) Act. 2. b. holy Ghost poured upon him in whom Christ also with the cleerness of his Godly being getteth (q) 2 Cor. 4. a Gal. 4. a a shape or form By the high priest Iesus Christ the new and liuing way is prepared for us through the â—imple that is to say his flesh Heb 10 5. And that same verily is (r) 1 Co. 13. b. 2 Cor. 3. b the cleerness of the true being and of the holy spirit of Jesus Christ where through one beholdeth and inheriteth in the spirit the Love in her vertuous nature that most holy as likewise the fulness of the riches of God the Father in the heavenly being or essential form 6. Behold and consider that is the true (s) Ioh. 11. c resurrection from the death according to the Scripture (t) Ioh. 17. a through the which the living God of heaven and his Christ is known according to the Spirit and Truth 7 It is true the (u) 1 Cor. 15. c. same is sown in the mortality and it riseth up in the immortality And God giveth it a body after his own pleasure and that of the seed of his own body 8. See that is the everlasting life against the death And the (x) Eze. 13. b 1 Cor. 15. f Heb. 2. b conquest or victory against the Hell and against all the enemies of the life whereby all those that follow after Christ have or possess that life and (y) Ioh. 10. b that in fulness 9. That is verily the (z) Heb. 3.4 a. Rest of life which God hath reserved or kept and is left in store for the children of God as a perpetual inheritance in the last time according to the Promises The fifteenth Chapter THE true most holy of the inward Tabernacle or Sanctuary of God is the Love for that (a) Rom. 13. Col. 3. b is the perfection (b) Rom. 6. a the incorporating into God in the spirit the (c) Ioh. 17. everlasting life (d) Col. 2. b and the fulness of all the riches of God 2. If one now be not (e) Ioh. 1. a born anew then can he not see the Kingdom of God Ioh. 3. 3. Therefore if there be a new (f) 1 Pet. 2. a Gal. 6. c creature in Christ then is the old (g) Isa 43. c Apo. 21. perished or worn out behold it is all become new but that altogether of God who (h) Col. 1. b hath reconciled us with himself through Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 5. 4. The Lord our Almighty God hath gotten (i) Apo 12. the Kingdom let us rejoyce and be glad and give (k) Ioh. 9. him the honour for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his bride hath made her ready and it is granted unto her to cloath her self with white glistering silk and the silk is the Justification of the Saints Apo. 19. 5. The Members or Commonalty of the body of Christ in the love which are (l) Act. 2. Rom 8. b Eph. 1.4 c sealed with Christ in the true being through the spirit of Love is (m) Apo. 21. a living Tabernacle of God wherein God liveth and worketh In the which the fore-front the holy and the most holy is revealed or made known according to the spirit 6. In which true Tabernacle of God also the (n) Deut. 32. song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb is sung and it soundeth even thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 EMÌ„ANVEL God and Man Loue The everlasting life the perfection in the service of the holy gratious word vnder the obedienâ— of the Love God with the man is vnited the man with the God head namely in the everlasting mind being all with God 〈◊〉 christ it is of one being with the man all what is manly be it the being will mind is then minded w th the God head so it is all one God the man one being one will one thought or spirit one hart one everlasting life Behold here the tabernacle of God is in men hee shall live in them they shal be his people hâ—e himselfe shal be with them for he is their God Apoca 21 the Kingdom of God shall not cvm with outward shew men shall not say Behold here or there it is for behold the Kingdom of God is inwardly in you Luke 17 this saith the Truth of God who loveth mee he shall keepe my words and my father shall love him and wee shall come to him and make an habitation in him John 14 7. Great and wonderful are thy Works Lord (o) Ier. 10. a thou Almighty God righteous and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Lord who should not fear thee and praise thy name for thou only (p) Levit. 19. art holy Apo. 15. 8. Consider now how that the mans knowledge is but (q) 1 Cor. 13 a peice-work or a thing unperfect the which among those that do yet remain divided or as broken off is
the man should live in peace and joy and in all upright Love and should not know nor take on any thing without the same but live only therein and not dye 10. If so be now that the man knew nothing without the same forementioned life nor took on any thing besides the same whereon to tye his heart wits and thoughts or understanding Then should he know taste and feel nothing else but all good Also walk in all Love Concord and Peace and so have (m) Gen. 1.2 b the whole earth in subjection under him and govern uprightly to the life all whatsoever is upon the earth according to the commandment or word of the Lord. 11. For that same is the life and the freedom of the manly generation for the which many creatures do sigh and long there-after which upright freedom of the children of God doth now come unto us according to the Promises because that all manly creatures might assemble them with us to the same rejoyce them with Godly joy in the same and live in all truth and upright righteousness 12. Behold the same was unto the man in the beginning (o) Gen 2. a Phil. 3. b 4 Esd 8. f Apoc. 2. a a Tree of life in the middst of the Paradise of the Lord for that he should live and that (p) Sapl 1. b it should go well with all that which God had created 13. But now when the man would know the good and the evil and had eaten of the same tree then (q) Gen. 3 a tasted he both the life and the death the which God had forbidden him because he should not eat nor tast of any other thing but of the good that is of the life and not feel any evil or death but should live unto his God in the life for that (r) Sap. 1. b it might go well both with himself and also with all what God had created 14. Whatsoever now therefore is taken on besides the same good or life whereon we do witness that is the evil the death or the destruction the which God hath not willed that it should be upon the earth for that the man might stand perfected from all evil and destruction 15. But now hath the man through that same prepared to himself the driving forth out of the Paradise of God and caused the peace to cease upon the earth also brought himself and all what is upon the earth into (s) Gen. 3. b much calamity and misery and is utterly estranged from the way directing to the Tree of life and so is taken captive in all kind of deadly and damnable fruits 16. That verily is the knowledge of the good and evil which he himself hath taken on and (t) Dan. 9. Math. 24. 2 Thes 2. it is the confused abomination which standeth in the holy place whereout all violence calamity and grief is come upon the earth 17. If the man now will (u) Ezek 14. a turn himself away from all the abominations of the wicked world and humble him rightly under the Love and her service then shall he likewise through the administration of the holy word of the Lord and his requiring have his regard unto the inward upright life whereon the word pointeth for that is Gods living being or substance it self and he shall also according to the requiring of the word try or examine himself diligently in his inwardness whether he can perceive yet still remaining there any ungodly or deadly being which is not the life or that serveth not the life unto the life but which (x) Eph. 4. b is minded to destruction through the lusts of error 18. So long then as the destruction besides th preservation of the life is looked neto or esteemed of by the man and that likewise the death besides the life the evil besides the good and the bondage besides the freedom is known tasted and felt so shall the man in his obedience to the requiring of the word of the Lord daily (y) Mat. 10. d 16. c Mark. 8. Luk 9 14. take up his Cross on him with the life die the death or the evil and bury the same according to the word of the Lord and so shall he by means of following the life in his like behaviour or (z) Ro. 6. a Phil 3. b death of the Cross become planted into the same good life who suffereth the death of the Cross by the evil 19. Out of which dying of the death or of the evil which death hath brought the death unto the life and hath had the dominion over the same the life riseth up again and cometh gloriously in Lordly manner against all his enemies 20. Even thus now through the rising up or resurrection of the upright life out of the second birth from the death the man also is raised up (a) Ro. 6. a from the death or born again out of the death for that he might live and not dye any more 21. Upon which resurrection of the dead according to the Scripture all Believers of the life do likewise hope and long thereafter for the life shall swallow up (b) Eze. 13. 1 Cor. 15. the death in victory in all his Believers which be incorporated or planted into him and so bring his enemy under him according to the Promises 22. For all what is not the true life that is against the true life and whatsoever is against the true life that is the death and the enmity unto the true life is also an enimy unto God and to the Lamb which enmity is minded neither according to the true being or nature of God nor of the Lamb nor yet according to the upright righteousness of the true life which true being of God and of the Lamb together with the upright righteousness of the true life ye may behold in the endless (c) Apo. 5.20 b book of the Lamb which is full of writing both without and within written with the finger of God and it is the everlasting life whereon we do witness The eighteenth Chapter THen when as thou O thou precious man hast looked into both these Natures Books and writings inwardly according to the spirit namely the straying being of the wicked world and the good being of God from eternity which good being is the (a) Apo. 20 21. b book of the Lamb written by the God of life besides the which the straying being which destroyeth through the lusts of error is come in place and written by the Devil the Father of death So judge then with the truth which of them it is that ought to have the superiority or preheminence in us for the od of life vouchsafeth unto us nothing else but all God life love and peace 2. Therefore let us be agreeably minded with the same good being of God and Love the good being for wherefore do ye receive and take unto you the destruction and why will ye in perditional manner perish
desolation and pittied the same so exceedingly and lamented there over before the most high so heard I a mighty (a) 3 King 19. Act. 1. a. sound or noise proceeding out of heaven and it rushed like a tempestuous wind with great force over the earth in such wise that the earth was afraid and quaked by reason thereof And many which lay and slept under the earth (b) Ez. 37. Dan. 12. b. 4 Esd 3. d. Ioh. 5. c. 1 Cor. 15. f. 1 Thes 4. l. awaked some to everlasting life some to perpetual contempt and reproach 2. Now I marvelled greatly at this vision and said O God how (c) Isa 17. a Rom. 11. wonderful and incomprehensible are thy works before all understanding of the flesh 3. Behold this miraculous workâ— come to pass among us upon earth because that the Prophecie should be fulfilled (d) Dan. 12. that was said unto Daniel the Prophet in times past come to pass in these last times 4. And I looked and behold Daniel who according to the word of the Lord had rested a long time even until this same last time (e) Dan. 12. stood up and appeared and came unto me in his part and office for to keep and execute the judgement against the abominations of desolation which were grown up on the earth And the Prophesies which according to the word of the Lord had remained (f) Da. 12. b. sealed to all unto this last time were opened and their mysteries revealed in clearness 5. And through this Revelation and opening or declaring of the Prophesies I was greatly afraid For inasmuch as I saw no righteousness of God to have the upper hand upon the earth But that the iniquity did (g) 4 Esd 14 15. a. Math. 24. lord or bear rule generally and Reigned on the earth therefore was greatly perplexed and altogether feeble and comfortless in my self fearing least that I should perish with all the ungodly of the wicked world for the manifold iniquities cause which I beheld so to abound over the whole earth 6. For through the opening of the Prophesies that were sealed too there was revealed unto me that all those that dwelt upon earth were departed away or estranged (h) Psa 14. a Rom. 3. b. from the living God and his truth And moreover before the (i) Isa 29. b. opening of the Prophesies that were sealed up no man upon earth how prudent or wise soever he was had any understanding in God nor yet had learned or understood any of Gods holy knowledge 7. This same seemed before me very terrible yea even to be a very horrible thing to look into because that the misunderstanding or the ignorance touching the Being of God and the ungodlyness had so multiplyed it self upon earth therefore was I very exceedingly afraid and became marvellous faint-hearted and strengthless And I continued lamenting greatly over the same and grew likewise altogether comfortless in my self 8. Now in the time while I was grown thus utterly void of comfort in my lamentation that I made because of the great wrong that I saw upon the earth so did there appear in my sight (k) Dan. 8 9 10. the Angel Gabriel and he came unto me but he continued not with me still in my sight 9. But so long as he was with me and that I beheld him I was comforted by him but when he departed from me and that I saw him not then had I no rest peace or comfort in my soul Also no people on earth could comfort me saving only Gabriel 10. For when he came unto me and talked with me I was of good chear And if Gabriel had not strengthened or comforted me then could I not have remained alive For there was shewed unto me both fearful and wonderful things the like whereof I had never seen or heard before 11. For the dead arose out of (l) Eze. 37. Math. 27. the grave and lived And the ungodly made manifest their own condemnation through their unrighteousness wherein they had lived unrighteously and they descended into the (m) Apo. 9. a 20. b. bottomless pit to their condemnation for evermore 12. I beheld the misery of the ungodly but I could have no compassion to the extending of any remorse or pitty towards them (n) Apo. 18. c but rather rejoyced me for their infelicity and condemnations cause For they were well worthy (o) Ap 16 a of the same because of their wickedness 13. I also rejoyced me greatly (p) 1 Cor. 15. c. Apo. 20. a. in the Resurrection of the righteous because I saw they rose up so gloriously from death and went into the everlasting life And for that their domination was with God and the Lamb for I saw that they were both worthy of that and likewise to Reign upon the earth 14. With these Righteous ones after that they were risen have I spoken and eaten and drunk with them (r) Dan. 12. b Sapl 3. a. Math. 13. c. their bodies glistred like the clearness of the Sun And they have spoken secret things with me namely of the mysticalness of God of the Kingdom of heaven of the true resurrection of the Godly men of their joy in the everlasting life And of the purging of the earth in the judgement of the dreadful Almighty God which cometh over all ungodly (s) Jude 1. Being or nature 15. The which Almighty God hath more made up him self and coming over the earth he cometh (t) Mal 3. a. with righteousness like as the same God hath spoken thereof by his servants the Prophets in times past for to save his people to the end that those which are worthy of the Life might live for evermore and so may reign everlastingly upon (u) Apoc. 5.16 18 19 20. the earth in all love Also for to damn those in the everlasting death which are not his people who for their wickedness cause are worthy of damnation and of death To the end they may no longer reign upon the earth with their unrighteousness But that they might be banished or put away from the earth and damned and buried in the hell and that the bottomless Pit may even so with them be shut up and their condemnation to endure for ever and ever The third Chapter WHen as I now beheld such a calamity of the deadly or damnable estate hanging over the children of men for their sins cause and that such a dreadful judgement (a) Heb. 10. c of the Fires vehement cruelty was coming unto them to a suppression of the enemies of God And that such an unfortunate state of misery the which the Lord hath also let me see taste and feel hung over their heads Then was I sore grieved and afflicted in my heart in such sort that I became exceedingly dismayed or uncased and could well have vouchsafed that there had been no man upon the earth because of the wo and grief which I saw
7. Yea the same costly Treasures the Riches of God the most precious and most pure beauty hath God kept for Israel to their salvation and (l) Isa 60 61. Ier. 31 33. Eze. 36 37. joy in the last times to the end to reveal the salvation of life (m) Act. 12 a out of the heavenly being or essential estate 8. In which most holy there are likewise remained over all the precious riches of God the Father the unspeakable Treasure which far surmounteth all manner of garnishing of beauty namely (n) Exo 25. c Rom. 3. c Heb. 5 a the mercy seat prepared with the fine Gold which Seat continueth standing for ever unmoveable moreover the (o) Ex. 25 26. Apo. 12 a. Ark of witness wherein the Law of the Lord lieth even as he (p) Deut. 9. b. hath written the same with his own Finger which continueth for ever unbroken unchangeable And the (q) Ex. 16. a Psal 68. Sapi 16. c Ioh. 6. d. heavenly bread of life even as God himself hath given the same from heaven unto his people to a satisfying their hunger the which doth not consume or wast away but remaineth ever uncorruptible for evermore for a witness unto posterities that their fore-fathers were fed out of heaven with the same bread There are yet in the same most holy the manifold costly vessels of the most holy riches every one of the most fine Gold All these were still remained over in their perfect beauty and not one of them was polluted or defiled 9. But this sumptuous garnishing and all these riches of the Godly heavenly beauty have been hidden a long time for the wickedness cause of the uncircumcised and they must also inasmuch as the iniquity grew on even till (r) 4 Esd 5 a 14. b. 15. a. Math. 24. b she was come to her full height and had gotten the upper hand necessarily remain hidden because they should in the more beautious and glorious manner come to light and be revealed again in the last time namely when the iniquity of the uncircumcised is even to her utter ending approached or come neer at hand 10. Which iniquity shall now fall and perish through the revealing of these heavenly beauties for God will with his Arm or strength and with the Arm of his Saints and with all his sumptuous garnish get the upper hand 11. Wherewith he also sheweth the just judgement of his Justice or righteousness For (s) Ier. 30. the ungodly shall no more bear the dominion And all whatsoever submitteth not it self under the Love nor standeth serviceable thereunto shall be rooted out that they corrupt none or marr the earrh any more 12. But the Love shall flourish (t) 1 Cor. 15 everlastingly in her service because that the Lords people Israel which he himself hath chosen for his (u) Deut. 4. c 32. a Isa 19. c Ier. 51. c. own heritage as likewise all good willing ones which stand submitted under the obedience of the Love may be comforted and so may behold everlastingly the goodness or loving kindness of God his Father extended through his love which bountiful goodness the God of life hath foreseen to accomplish upon his people even as he in times past hath spoken the same by Moses his servant and by the mouth of his holy Prophets The fifth Chapter ALthough now that the Levites the Priests the Prophets or Preachers and also the people are all fallen or estranged from the true God-service and that the daily offering hath ceased for a long time and the holy of the Tabernacle of God layn utterly waste with abominations of desolation yet (a) Ier 17. b Lam. 5 b is the most holy notwithstanding remained over pure and unspotted and the high Priest (b) Heb. 5 b 7. b 8 a 9 c which continueth a Priest for ever is also found faithful and true for he hath still remained stedfast in his mercy seat in the most holy 2. They are all shrunk away (c) Psa 14. a 53. a. Rom. 3. b. and changed themselves there is not one remained standing or righteous but are all turned away either to the right or to the left side and many by reason of their ignorance have born the strange yoakes of the beautified God services 3. But this everlasting Priest remaineth stedfast like a stony Rock whose feat endureth from (d) Psa 45. a Heb. 1. a. everlasting to everlasting as a perpetual Saviour to an eternal curing or reconcilement for the sins of his people for his God hath annointed him to be an high Priest and a true Mediator betwixt God and man and to (e) He. 7.8 a 9. a. b. c. be an everlasting Minister of the spiritual and heavenly goodness to the end he might save the poor and miserable man who through sins or offences lieth be wrapped in the death and to make him alive through him and to set him up again (f) Rom 8. b out of the death 4. In which spiritual and heavenly service ministred under the obedience of the Love the holy becometh consecrated again by the same high Priest namely (g) 1 Pet. 1â—â— Heb. 9 b. the sprinkling of his own blood for an everlasting Testament and so it is all washed and sanctified or cleansed through his blood 5 That verily is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and Christ and the New Testament (h) Mar. 16. b Apo. 14. a. that same was also published in times past for an everlasting forgiveness of sins unto all those that believe thereon 6. Behold this high Priest is the life everlasting which was with the Father of life in the beginning and is revealed unto us in the heaven namely in the bosom of his Father and we (i) Ioh. 1. b. do behold his glory even a glory as the only born Son of the Father full of grace and truth 7. We do witness also that he is the true Messiah or Christ which was preached in the World in times past and likewise published of him in his coming (k) Isa 9 a. Luk. 1. d. that he should be a King or Prince over the house of Jacob for ever of whose Kingdom also there shall be no end 8. He is a Saviour to all people that believe on him And the (l) Act. 4.10 c. salvation is or cometh only by him and by none other neither in heaven nor yet upon the earth for he is (m) Rom. 8 10. Isa 13. a. b. 1 Pet. 2. c. the end or the accomplishment of the Law upon whom all the Prophets of God have witnessed from the beginning of the world and he cometh in glory like as is written of him 9. He it is (n) Is 13. a. b 1 Per. 2. c. which suffereth for our sins cause in the holy and beareth our sins and so hath like (o) Ioh. 10. b a faithful Shepherd given over himself in the same holy to be an offering for
the sin whereby (p) 1 Pe. 4. a to draw and arm us to the same mind and so we to offer up our sins through the daily offering in the holy and to burn the same upon his holy Altar The which is his cross or patience in the holy 10. So even thus doth Christ through himself namely through (q) Rom. 9. a Eph. 2. a. Col. 1 c. 2. b. the incorporating us into his death of the Cross prepare the life and peace for us making us free and washing (r) Heb. 10. c. us from the evil conscience And so we obtain through him in that manner a free entrance into the holy for to accomplish the God-service in the holy to inherit the abundant riches of God the Father and the everlasting life The which cometh unto us plentifully and appeareth in cleerness if that we for our parts do (t) Mat. 16. c Luk. 9.14 c daily take up our Cross with Christ follow after him in the holy and so become (u) Rom. 6 a baptized in his death Rom. 4.5.8 a. to be an offering for the sin whereby to be (x) Col. 2. b. justified from the sin through Faith that meerly by Grace not by Works 11. Behold such a manner of offering and daily God-service in the holy is no doubt very convenient for us to use and perform For so then namely in the performance of the daily offering or God-service in the holy there appeareth or cometh to us in the spirit the spiritual high Priest or Christ according to the Spirit who is not of this earth neither of flesh and blood but of the heavenly God-head the same high (y) Heb. 7 8 9 10. Priest is also very needful for us because he is faithful and remaineth for ever 12. Whose service or high Priests office is not outward according to the manner of the foregoing service of the Elders administred among the unregenerate or unrenwed men as in the letter and with the letter or with speakable words but his service cometh to pass in the new birth of the inward spiritual and heavenly man (z) Heb. 7 8 9 10. with the ministration of the spiritual and heavenly goods according to the spiritual and heavenly Priest-office 13. And to that end namely to bring men to the new birth of the inward spiritual heavenly man have the outward ministrations of the Elders the foregoing with the man (a) Gal 3. c. 4 5 a under the which he to the training up of him in all good nurture and order is kept and taught even unto the new birth in Jesus Christ through the which he doth then likewise live and walk in (b) Luk. 1. g. all upright righteousness both inwardly before God and outwardly among men and to such an upright (c) Ioh. 3. a. Titus 3. b. birth or the outward services or administrations of the Godly testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love a foregoing office or (d) 2 Co. 3. a light unto the man which witnesseth declareth and holdeth forth the godliness unto him as in a Glass And so then the man if he believe the requiring of the fore-going service and desire to stand obedient thereunto becometh prepared thereby to the same godliness and taught to the Kingdom of heaven And that is the same ministration which (e) Gal 3 c 4. a. Heb. 7. b. reacheth to the spiritual and true being in Jesus Christ And it is the upright Priests office of the Elders of the holy understanding which in its office or service hath the foregoing to the (f) Ioh. 3. a. 1 Cor. 4. b. Gal. 4. b. new birth in Jesus Christ as is already said which services are all witnesses and directions unto the very true and spiritual office in the Spirit And although the same services being ministred in the letter and through the letter or serviceable word do bring (g) 2 Co. 3. b a great illumination and clearness unto the unilluminated ones yet are those same for all that no more but a serviceable shaddow proceeding from the spiritual and heavenly service of the great glory and cleerness of Christ in the inward being and form 14. For Christ according to the Spirit hath (h) Heb. 3.8.9 a. an higher function or office or a more excellent service and a greater lighâ— or clearness then hath all flesh and blood writing letters or speakable words For he is a Minister or an high Priest in the Spirit (i) Heb. 8 a. 9. a. b. c. as a Minister of the spiritual and heavenly goods as is before said For he himself is the (k) Heb 1. a. right heir in all the riches of God his eternal and Almighty Father 15. Behold this high Priest is spirit and life the true (l) Isa 9. a King and a faithful Lord a peaceable prince And not this or that without us But he (m) Act. 17. c is in us all which believe on him according to the truth And we all which abide stedfast in the faith have the life through him who is neither unfaithful nor falling away like unto a man For he doth not shrink nor fall away either from us or from his Father but through the Love (n) Mat. 28. c Ioh. 14 b. continueth with us and with his Father for ever 16. Also he is not changeable in his office or ministration like as are the children of men who do one while setup one thing for an obedience or for a God-service and that altogether without the service of Christ and his Love and then again some other thing which directeth not to the true life of Christ nor unto the upright being of his Love 17. But his service will and commandement is both now presently and at all times like as it was in the beginning and it shall so remain unchangeable for evermore For his Commandment Will and Precept is (o) Da. 6.10 Math 22. d Ioh 15 b. 1 Tim. 1. a nothing else but the love and the life of godliness And that is the old commandment from the beginning (p) Ioh. 2. a And it is the new commandment as being for to come or for to be made manifest in this same last time in the obedience of the requiring of the service of Love 18. Therefore seeing now that this high Priest which is invisible but yet is known in the spirit hath such an unchangeable commandment or service among us in the ministration of the service of his Love So standeth he likewise firm and immovable towards us in the same service to an everlasting reconcilement for our sins as a true (q) 1 Tim. 2 a Heb. 9. b mediator betwixt God and us 19. He himself also is partaker with us in suffering touching (r) Heb. 2. b 5. a. our griefs and purgeth us in his service of Love through himself and through none other or any other services 20. Therefore hath God likewise sworn unto
for in that same service doth the resurrection of the righteous life from the death come to pass or is wrought and that is the joy of life proceeding out of the heavenly being in the Kingdom of God the Father with Christ in the everlasting life to an everlasting blessing and that is the perfection of all that which goeth before and the most holy of the true Tabernacle of God and Christ 5. This high Priest in the most holy namely in the Love the everlasting life and the perfection is a King (m) Psa 110. Heb. 5. a. b. c 7. c. 8. a and Priest for ever according to the order of Melchizedeck as an everlasting Saviour unto to his people to their eternal reconciliation with God the Father and he himself doth through himself herit them or make them heirs in the everlasting life and that is the establishing of the true Testament which continueth firm for ever before God the Father 6. For through the light of the same Testament is Gods Law Ordinance or Doctrine (n) Psa 40. a Isa 51. a Ier. 31. d Heb. 8.10 planted in the hearts of the Believers and given unto them in their minds And God remembreth no more of all their former sins and that is the establishing of the promises of God the Father and of the belief of Jesus Christ 7. Among those children of the New Testament or holy Gospel the vail is (o) Isa 25. a 2 Cor 3. b put away from the most holy and the precious garnishings of the spiritual and heavenly goods declared and brought unto them as an everlasting heritage of God and Christ and they namely the children of the New Testament be taught in that sort to the Kingdom of God and made heirs in the everlasting life (p) Ro. 12. b Eph 4. a Col. 3. b 1 Pet. 3 a and have nor use any thing but Love Peace and Unity one with other and a good conscience in Jesus Christ through the holy Ghost the Love of God the Father which God (q) Rom. 5. a Tit. 3. b hath poured abundantly into their hearts 8. Behold (r) Apo. 12 a that is the true Jerusalem which descended from heaven and also the most holy of the true Tabernacle of God which is prepared of God from everlasting and which by Gods grace is come unto us in this same last time In the which Sion is established (s) Isa 2. a Mich. 4. a out of the which the Law and the word of the Lord proceedeth (t) Isa 1 c Zach. 8. c And unto the which all people which have a lust toward God shall assemble them and rejoyce them therein according to the Promises For it is the Fountain of life full of all vertues and the undisturbable (u) Dan. 2. Kingdom full of all Love peace and godliness wherein that song (w) Apo. 19. a Allelu-jah is sung for an everlasting song of laud unto God 9 Behold this Kingdom full of all pure beauty full of light and life and full of all delightfulness and riches of God the Father and of Christ hath been long hidden and unknown for the sins cause of the people by reason of which sin the children of men have not beheld this glorious cleerness neither can they endure the beholding of the same delightful cleerness 10 Because now of this blindness of the darkness which hath covered the earth because of the unwillingness of the manly generation therefore hath the eter rich bountiful God been forced to reserve or keep secret all those things in the holy and heavenly beâ—ng (x) Eph. 1. b which riches of God the Father are now notwithstanding coming unto all good willing ones which love the peace for an everlasting heritage according to the Promises 11. With which beauty of the heavenly riches of God God is now in the last time a drawing of us all unto him to wit all we which are good-willing towards him and his righteousness and which for the peaces cause do submit our selves under the Love whereby to make known unto us through his Love and through the declaring of his heavenly riches his holy will to an health to the earth and to the honour and glory of God and verily now in the last times to a joy and peace in all love to the end to prepare in that manner under the obedience of the Love an everlasting peace upon earth according to the Promises 12. Therefore (y) Deu. 32. a rejoyce you ye heavens and earth which hope upon God For behold (z) Isa 62. the salvation of God is now come that it may be revealed to the (a) Psa 112. a Eph. 1. b Heb. 1. b renewing of all things that are waxen old for (b) Isa 61 66 2 Pet. 3 b Apo 21. a the new heaven and the new earth wherein righteousness dwelleth and which perpetually continue before God upon which men have waited according to the Promises do now come with triumph in glory 13. In which very same time (c) Isa 28. a the Lord will be a lovely crown and glorious garland unto his people that remain over and a spirit of equity unto those that set in Judgement and a strength unto those which come again from the battle to the gates 14. Even thus verily in those daies shall God perform all good towards Israel and establish among them all what he hath promised and covenanted to them in times past by the mouth of his Prophets 15. For the chastisement executed for the sins cause over the Lords people and over the miserable and comfortless ones over (d) Isa 54. a whom all tempests do happen or come shall cease and they shall revive all beauty peace and delightfulness and be (e) Psal 45 a 1 Ioh. 2 c annointed with the oyl or ointment of joy for the Scripture the Law and the Prophets shall be fulfilled and not broken and it shall come to pass over the world and also over the Lords people even as it is written thereof The Lord grant us mercy and lead us into his wayes Amen The eleventh Chapter HEre have we figured forth unto you ye dearly beloved a certain circle In the which we have described unto you in writing and figuratively set forth both the way of the heathenship or of the uncircumcised ones (a) Mat. 7. b Luk. 13. c which leadeth or reacheth to the everlasting death and condemnation whose death being or estate is the strange being before or in the sight of the Lords people Israel As also contrary wise the simple and plain way (b) 4 Esd 7 a Math. 7. of the good-willing hearts to the righteousness which leadeth to the entrance of the true Tabernacle of God in the spirit and reacheth to the everlasting life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cursing Blessing The Inward Man Through the righteousness of the life is the man simple of heart humbled to the wisdom vndâ—â— sâ—â—â—â—â—ng to
the vpright virtue 〈◊〉 â—atient in the â—â—pâ— to the godlyness â—â—â—k minded faythfull and cometh also with the feare peace â— joy to God to â—â—â—vâ—nly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 everlasting The forth goâ—ng in the heathenisâ— impurity bringeth the man to the six of Death The forth goâ—ng in the feare of God the Obediâ— to the ordinance of the lord 〈◊〉 bringeth the man to the Righteousness of the Life The sin of death bringeth the man into all Ignorance hipocrisy 〈◊〉 falsehood into all chosen holyness according to the pleasure of the 〈◊〉 and is therein â—ratefull bitter and cruel and also dispaireth and so â—o maâ—â— to the destructionable calamity and to the divel hell and Condemnation (c) Psal 4 a 2. If the man now have by Gods grace gotten a good will to enter into the upright way directing to the everlasting life then must he with his heart (d) Isa 51 b 2 Cor 6 b Apo. 18 a depart out of the heathenship or uncircumcision and out of the straying being or nature yea from all what is not any being of God also separate himself from the darkness and turn him (e) Isa 55. a Ier 18.25 a 35. b Ezek 18 d. Ioel 2. b to the Lord his God namely to the God of life the (f) Ioh 1. true light full of light and life who hath created both him and all what is an thing (g) Luk. 1.2 b. c. likewise fear the same living God and circumcise his heart from (h) Deu. 10. b. 30 a all manner of darkness namely from all abominations of desolation which do separate the man from the living God 3. See or annoint your eyes with eye-salve that ye may see (k) Deu 1â— b. Ier. 4. a circumcise your selves or put away the foreskin of your hearts and continue not stiff-necked for that ye may rightly understand and know the true life which is a life unto you and may live therein 4. For even therefore because that the life might now in the same day through our (l) Deu 30. b Eccles 25. a most holy servlce of the Love be understood from the death and the light known from the darkness So have we out of the Love to the righteousness described and figuratively set forth even in the most evident manner here in the same Circle both these wayes both of death and of the life and all the ends whereunto each one hath his passage or course The which the inward man entreth into or liveth there whether it (m) Exo. 18. Rom. 6.8 a be then the deadly sins extending to the eternal death or else the righteousness to the everlasting life 5. Hereunto next adjoyning followeth the Figurative description or declaration of the inward Tabernacle of God according to the spirit after the which we do treat at length in large manner of both these natures which do bring in either the death or the life and we have likewise signified or marked out by writing the names both of the confused and of the Godly being or nature Take it to heart for it yieldeth to every one of us either the death or the life The twelfth Chapter THE true fore-front of the house of God or of the true Tabernacle (a) Deu. 10. c Eccles 1.26 is the fear of the living God serving to a turning away from the sin and from all heathenish foolishness Through whose service and through the obedience of the requiring thereof the man becometh circumcised in his heart in (b) Heb. 12. a 1 Pet. 24. a the laying away of the sin in the flesh and to the obtaining of the knowledge of the truth of God entreth into the way of peace Feare God The Way to the Truth In this same service of the holy and gratious word vnder the Obedience of the Love in the feare of God cometh to pass in the hart and minde the vpright repentance of the man to the living God and so walking in the fears of God he is circumcized of hart and is turned away from all the bewiching of the heathenish being that he may not be bewitched or taken with any destruction but be prepared to the entrance into the Sanctuary of God Jer 4. Eezek 4.4 wherefore repent you with all your hart in the spirit and feare the Everlasting invisible God which is the bgining to come to the Wisdome or the first entrance of the true Tabernacle or house of God in the spirit Whereof God himselfe is the Workman Turne ye not therefore from the lord in your hart nether trust in men nor take flesh for your Arme or Strength and so inherit the Cursing 2. For the same circumcision of the (c) Phi. 3. a Col. 2 b heart is the true circumcision which cometh to pass in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of man but of God Rom. 2. c. 3. Therefore (d) Ier. 4 a circumcise the foreskin of your hearts and be not hence forth stiffnecked any longer Deut. 10.8 4. Plough (e) Eze. 10. b upon the new and sow not among the thorns circumcise you unto the Lord and put away the foreskin of your hearts ye men of Judah and ye people at Jerusalem Jer. 4. a. 5. There shall none (f) Isa 52. Ioel. 3. come into the Lords sanctuary that hath an uncircumcised heart and an uncircumcised flesh Eze. 44. b. 6. Therefore shall the Lord thy God circumcise thy heart and the heart of thy seed (g) Deu. 10. c Math. 22. that thou maist love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul that thou mayest live Deut. 30. 7. If thou (h) Deu. 10 c Isa 19 b wilt turn thee O Israel then turn uno me saith the Lord and if thou wilt put away (i) Jer. 15. b Zach 1. a Mal. 3. a thine abominations from before my face then shalt thou not be driven out but then shalt thou without hypocrisie swear rightly and holily as true as the Lord liveth and the heathen shall be blessed in him and make their boast of him Ier. 4. a. 8. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God (k) Mat. 4 b Luk. 4. a him shalt thou serve him shalt thou cleave unto or depend upon and swear by his name he is thy praise and thy God Deut. 6. a. 10. b 9. Behold the Heaven and the Heaven of all Heavens and the earth and all what is therein that (l) Psal 24. a Ier. 27 a is the Lords your God O Israel and Iudah (m) Deut. 4. d yet hath he had notwithstanding a lust only to your Fathers and loved them and chosen their seed after them namely you above all people Deut. 10 b. 10. O all ye people fear the same God for he is that God which hath created (n) Gen. 1. a Ioh. 1. a all whatsoever is any thing for truly all heathenish bewitching is nothing but foolishness Their wisdom and Laws are
in misery and in unrestfulness O ye children of men turn you to the (e) Deu. 30. c life with humble hearts and in like manner to the Love that ye may live 3. Awake up I pray thee O thou precious man for behold death and life (d) Deut 3. b Eccles 15. c Ier. 21. a evil and good destruction and preservation damnation and salvation the old wicked world in the which all wickedness dwelleth and the (e) Isa 61. b 1 Pet. 3. b Apo. 21. a new good world in the which all love peace and righteousness dwelleth is held forth or presented unto thee and figured out before thine eyes therefore choose or incline thou now unto that which thou seest or knowst to be Gods righteousness extending to the laud and praise of his glory and apply thy self to live only the same that (f) Deut. 6. a o. b Math. 4. thou mayest serve and live unto the Lord thy God only 4. If so be now therefore that any one do look into or esteem the being of the Devil the treasury of iniquity (g) Sap. 2 4.14 b Rom. 1. c 2. a. and the form or fashion of the wicked world to be an upright life tending to the praise and glory of God and if it be the same whereunto God hath created the man to have that raign over him then let him incline and stick unto it and serve the same only and let him separate himself from all what is contrary thereunto and accompany him with those that are of one mind with the iniquity or with the wicked world that he may beare or receive either his salvation or condemnation with those that are his own members which are agreeably-minded with each other and let him (h) 2 King 18. c halt no longer on both sides nor feign nor dissemble before the upright Love which is held forth and proffered unto him 5. But if now any man do look into or esteem the Being of God or Treasure of vertue to be the salvation of men tending to the land and praise of the godly glory and so understandeth or perceiveth that (i) Gen. 2. c Sap. 2. c Eccles 17. a God hath created the man to that end that the same should raign over him So let him then likewise submit himself obediently under the Love and incline or cleave wholly to the same good being even with a fervent good will that he may serve the same only (k) Deut. 6. a 10. b. 30. a and live only unto the eternal God 6. For to that purpose is the service of the word both by writing and by speech under the obedience of the Love administred unto men to assist them to the life of God and to the eternal truth because they should live in the same truth and life as in a Treasure of vertue and that altogether in a lively meek minded being or nature but not to the end to catch to snare nor to bring any one into bondage therewith or to (l) 2 Cor. 1. c 1 Pet. 1. a raign over his faith O no but in him free or at liberty to yield to the obedience of the Love and to the (m) Luk. 1. g Eph. 1. a righteousness of Faith because the righteousness of Faith which God esteemeth of might by that means be set up in the belief under the obedience of the Love And that the peace might appear upon the earth according to the Promises 7. For that cause to the end that the life of the eternal truth might be manifest and that the mans understanding might be planted into the same life therefore do we through our service of the holy word as by an inclination of the Love take (n) 2 Cor. 10. a captive all understandings under the obedience of the Love 8. To that end namely for the Love and the good lifes sake shall men also hear and believe the service of the holy and gracious word administred under the Love But with their spirits they (o) Isa 53. 2 Cor. 6. b shall depart out of the evil or that which is perditionable and enter into the vertue of the life 9. For the outward writings or speakable words which be testified or ministred unto the man out of the inclination of the Love to do him service and stretch to the incorporating of him into the vertuous nature are all figurings forth of the upright righteousness and godly word who in their service do go before the man and guide him to the living book of the Lamb which lieth hidden in (p) Apo. 12. a the Ark of witness namely within our hearts and consciences for there inwardly in the spirit is the life of God formed or written according to the truth 10. And that same life of God is the (r) Apo. 5. a book which John saw in his Revelation which was full of writing both without and within and which also was shut or made fast with seven seals for which books sake John wept because there was none found worthy neither in heaven nor upon the earth to open to read nor to look into the same book 11. Howbeit in the midst among the Elders or wise there stood a Lamb in manner as though it was killed and he took the book unto him and all prophesies testified of him with triumph and joy saying Thou (s) Apo. 5. d art worthy to receive the book and to open his seals for thou being killed hast bought us with thy blood 12. John hath also heard a voice of many Angels (t) Dan. 7. b Apo. 5. b whose number is many thousands of thousands saying with a mighty great voice the the Lamb that was killed is worthy to receive power riches wisdom strength honour praise and blessing 13. Behold this living book of the Lamb is a book of spirit and life and (u) 2 Cor. 3. a not a book of the sinful flesh and death for it is the (x) Eph. 5. c Apo. 14. commonalty of the Lamb in the spirit 14. Which Lamb is the living being of God it self the which was driven to (y) Isa 53. b 1 Pet. 2. a suffer and the book of life occasioned to be shut (z) Apo. 5. a with seven seals because of the great Dragon which is the (a) Apo. 12. murderly beast namely the self wisdom of the flesh unto (b) Dan. 7. Apo 11.13 a whom power hath been permitted to kill the Saints of God but the same power is now even in the uttermost or last time (c) Apo. 17.19 20. b taken away from her for God showeth his power and dominion against the same in the restoring or setting up again of his Saints (d) Eze. 37. Dan. 12. Apo. 2. whom he raiseth from the death 15. Verily now it shall no longer prevail with the Dragon how murderly soever the beast be neither shall her Kingdom which is full of abominations prosper any longer for her (e) Apo. 18.
them will be their God and (x) Apo. 21. a wipe away all tears from their eyes and will put away (y) Isa 61. a their contempt from them they shall also serve the strange nations no more but only the Lord their God 14. They have doubtless been constrained a long time to suffer with the Lamb for the wickedness and ignorances cause of the people but now (z) Baruch 5. b doth the Lord bring them again with joy that they may rejoyce them in the holy Israel even as it beseemeth the children of light to do who do rejoyce them only in their God 15. This verily is the blessing which was published and affirmed unto all generations of the earth according to the Promises for that they might be all saved through the Love of God the Father which blessing and salvation they do all now obtain if they do believe the word of truth and stand good of will and humble them under the Love and her service The one and twentieth Chapter BEhold and consider ye dearly beloved both these forms natures or beings which are here figured or set forth unto you before your eyes even according to the life namely the (a) Isa 1 a Apo. 9.12.13 a. murderly seed of the high-minded beast or the names of the people that are her members which do raign in the perditionable world which is full of blood-guiltyness of the innocents and also the names of the people of Israel or house of Love the high commendable seed of the (b) Apo. 7. a. b 14 15 19. a benignity or loving kindness of the Lamb the which hath even hitherto (c) Apo. 6 b. kept and born the patience with the Lamb because of the wicked 2. Verily the house of Israel or the commonalty of the Love the elected Saints of God do follow after Christ their King even (d) Ro. 6. a. c unto their death and also to the life for they do in like manner bear the cross of the Lamb and therein keep the word of his patience They likewise even according to the obedience of the Lamb do shew a faithful obedience (e) Phil. 2 a till unto the death namely unto the death of the Cross whereby to obtain the dominion with the Lamb over the sin death hell condemnation and the world to the end they might in like manner through the Lamb and the death of his cross keep the victory against (f) 1 Cor. 15. f all their enemies 3. With which Saints of the lovely and upright being the (g) Isa 60 61 62. 2 Pet. 3. b now coming or new world shall also be inhabited in a perfect delight of God in all Love in (h) Eph. 4 a unity of peace and in upright righteousness and holyness which God esteemeth of But the ungodly shall perish or weare away out of the Land of the living for that the Land may be inhabited in rest and peace and with triumph and joy for evermore to the laud and praise of the glory of God according to the Promises 4. Therefore O all ye people look now into both these forms natures and beings and choose either the one or the other of them whom ye will incline unto whether it be (i) Deut. 30. Ier. 21. a Eccles 15. the death or the life the Devil or God the old wicked world or the new upright world and then cleave only to the same to the end that ye may sever your selves accordingly and so express thereby with whom ye do hold or stand agreeably minded or what ye do love (k) 3 Kin. 18. and halt no longer on both sides 5. If therefore you will incline or cleave to the Lamb or that ye look into or esteem his being to become a godly being then love the same with a single and humble heart standing submitted to rhe Love and so depart out of the death into the life put your trust in God in your proceeding on to the same life (l) Ioh. 5. c Rom. 6.8 b and stand firm in the hope of your salvation 6. But if ye be yet young or weak and unable for to live in the good or if ye be yet over-mastered by the evil against your will for God is both reasonable and courteous and if the man be of a good will then doth God require no more but that the man will still remain stedfast in the same good will for unto such a good willing man doth he (m) Phil. 1.2 b bring his power and strength for that the man should with the same obtain through Faith and that in a suffering manner the righteousness against the sin 7. Therefore possess your souls with (n) Luk. 21. c patience rest believing and continue in the hope and ye shall assuredly in the patience evidently perceive that the evil waxeth weak and that your soul shall be sound or whole 8. Shew or let it alwayes appear what ye love namely the good or the evil for look what one hunteth after that he catcheth and whatsoever one loveth of that he is willing to hear some speech or tydings and he is desirous also to be with the same for no man would willingly be separated from his best beloved therefore judge your own selves now and look rightly into your selves according to the truth to note what ye love and with what ye would willingly be and have your fellowship namely (o) Psal 8. b with the good being of God or with the pernitious and naughty Being of the wicked and deceitful world 9. If now therefore ye love and stand inclined unto the good being (p) Psa 34.13 d Amos 5 b then forsake the evil or ungodly being and separate your selves quite and clean with all your will (q) Isa 52. 2 Cor. 6. Apo. 18. from the evil or iniquity departing out of the same from day to day and be patient in the hope till that all the ungodly being do go under and perish or consume to nothing in you 10. This is our Cross which (s) Math. 10. d. 16. c Luk 9.14 we ought daily to take up in the belief And so in that manner to follow after the vertue of the godlyness Also to love the wisdom and the Information and not reject the chastisement (t) Prov. 3 b Heb. 12. a or correction of the Lord that meeteth with us the whilest our hearts are yet captivated with the sin and (u) Eph. 4. b blindness 11. Behold even such according as of meer Love we have testified herein is the right way to the God of life and to his righteousness from the which (x) Psal 14. Sap. 5. Rom. 2. b the man is departed and estranged In which way the man being in his estranging from his God is by (y) Eph. 2. a Gods grace called and bidden to come again unto his God through the belief or confidence in God touching the salvation to the end he should according