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A28521	The epistles of Jacob Behmen, aliter, Teutonicus philosophus very usefull and necessary for those that read his vvritings, and are very full of excellent and plaine instructions how to attaine to the life of Christ / translated out of the German language.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing B3404; ESTC R2334	183,592	232

Unity and seeke the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Pilgrims and Strangers and seek our native Countrey 31. In this time a Zyon verily shall be found and the Heaven shall drop downe its dew and the Earth yeeld her fatnesse yet not so as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Sonne of man shall come that there will be Faith upon the Earth And though the Children of Zyon shall have a fiery deliverance that they shall remaine Maugre the will of the Devill insomuch that God will worke great things as at the time of the Apostles yet it endureth not unto the end for as it was in the dayes of Noah when he entred into the Arke so shall the comming of the Son of man be as it is written 32. But that the holy Ghost shall be in the hearts of the faithfull in Zyon I acknowledge I know it for Zyon shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne hee that would seeke it let him but seeke himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and hee shall finde whether Jesus bee borne in him 33. If he findes it not let him enter into himselfe and seriously consider himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him these he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be revealed in him and he shall be born with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda in the darke Stable not in Jerusalem as reason faine would have it that Christ should be born in the old Asse the old Asse must become servant and serve the new man in Zion 34. But that in Foure hundred yeares there shall be a meer golden Age I know nothing of it it is not revealed to mee also the limit of the Worlds End is not revealed to me I cannot speake of any four hundred Yeares for the Lord hath not commanded me to teach it I commend it to Gods might and leave it for those to whome God would vouchsafe the knowledg of it seeing therefore I have not as yet apprehended it I rest satisfyed in his gifts yet I despise no man if he had a knowledge and command so to teach 35. For the fourth Book of Esdras is not sufficient as I understand to give a positive assurance to it yet I wait for my Saviour Jesus Christ and rejoyce that I may finde my Lord when I have him then I hope after the death of my old Adam fully to recreate my selfe in the Still rest of Zion and to wait in my God expecting what he will doe with me in his and my Zion for if I have but him then I am in and with him in the Eternall Sabbath where no strife or contention of the ungodly can any more reach me in my New man at this I doe in the meane time rejoyce in this miserable Vale of Tabernacles 36. The first resurrection of the dead to the thousand yeares Sabbath of which there is mention in the Revelation is not sufficiently made knowne to me how the same may be meant seeing the Scripture doth not mention it elsewhere and Christ also and his Apostles give not an hint of it in other places save only John in his Revelation but whether they shall be a thousand Solar yeares or how it may be referred seeing I have not full assurance I leave it to my God and to those to whom God shall vouchsafe the right understanding of it till God is pleased to open my eyes concerning these Mysteries 37. For they be Secrets and it belongeth not to man to make conclusions about them without the command and light of God but if any had knowledge and illumination of the same from God I should be ready and willing to learne If I could see the ground thereof in the light of nature 38. But seeing it behooveth me not to hide my knowledge of it so farre as I apprehend it in the light of Nature I will therefore set downe some Suppositions or considerable Opinions which are in my minde not positively to affirme but give it to consideration for good and wholesome instructions may be drawne forth thereby and t is also profitable for man so to search I will doe it in all syncere uprightnesse to see if we might attaine somewhat neerer the matter and perhaps there may be some to whom God shall bestow such a gift stirred up thereby to write more clearely 39. As first whether or no it be certaine that the World must continue Seven thousand yeares and one thousand of them should be a meere Sabbath Seeing that God created all in six dayes and began the rest on the sixt day towards evening whence the Jewes begin their Sabbath on Friday evening and Elias also saith that the World should stand but Six thousand yeares and Christ likewise declareth that the dayes of tribulation shall be shortned for the Elects sake else no man should be saved which you apply to the fall of Babel and to the time of Zyon but it seemes as if Christ sp●ke of the fall of the Jewes and the end of the World and foresheweth an evill End 40. Also Christ saith that it shall be at the time of his comming to judgement as it was in the dayes of Noah where men did Marry and were given in Marriage now we know very well as the Scripture testifieth what manner of wicked World was in the days of Noah that the Deluge must come and destroy them This would intimate and denote a very meane Sabbath 41. And though a man should otherwise expound the words of Christ concerning his comming yet that would not be sufficient to prove it being also that the Disciples of Christ doe alwayes represent the End to be nigh and Paul saith That the end should come after that Antichrist is revealed 42. But that the Resurrection of the dead and the last Judgement should be understood of both namely that the righteous shall arise to the thousand yeares Sabbath and among them some ungodly and that Gog and Magog at the End of the thousand yeares should fight against the Saints it seemes to run quite contrary to the light of Nature 43. For first I cannot apprehend how the first Resurrection must come to passe seeing the Saints shall have their workes follow them according to the words of the spirit besides wee know very well that all our workes are sowne into the great Mystery that they are first brought forth into the foure Elements and so passe into the Mystery and are reserved to the judgement of God where all things shall be tryed by fire and that which is false shall consume in the fire and the figures shall fall unto the Centre of Nature Viz. the darke Eternity 44. But if mens workes shall follow them in the first

the true Image may appeare to Gods honour and deeds of wonder and cause the faire sprout of his Lilly to grow in us in the Paradisicall Garden of Jesus Christ 2. Noble Right Honourable Sir my humble and most willing Service with hearty wishes of all temporall and eternall prosperity premised I have received by the Bearer your Man a measure of Corne which you have sent unto mee and I thank you most kindly and I pray God Almighty Blesse you in abundance for it 3 Being Noble Sir you are so humble and doe not looke upon and regard what the World doth and also you doe not value the subtilty or pert prudency of the high but you seek and labour after that which the Lord of Heaven buildeth albeit it appeare foolishnesse in this World but it seemeth good in his sight to drive on his worke in meane low plaine and Childlike people that he onely might be exalted and no man might have wherewithall to boast and you likewise may surely hope for the same knowledge which is more beautifull and excellent then all pompe and riches of the World for all whatsoever is temporall doth leave and forsake Man but the honourable Garland or Trophy of Christ doth not forsake man in death but it bringeth him to the heavenly tryumphing Hoast of Angels into his right eternall native Countrey or home 4. Now seeing we know and exceedingly well understand that we are onely Pilgrims in this World in a strange lodging in very great danger lying captive in a sore and hard prison and must continually feare and expect death therefore Noble Sir you doe very well and deale more wisely then the prudent of the World in that you looke about you and endeavour after your Eternall native Countrey and not after the Pompe Power and Riches of this World as generally the high and great Ones doe 5. I make no doubt but that you herein shall obtaine a very faire Garland from the Virgin of the eternall wisedome of God which if it come to passe will be of more value and acceptance with you then all temporall riches and this whole World with all its Being and Splendor of which Crowne or Trophy of Sophia if I had no effectual knowledge I would not write for of the wise of this World who onely out of selfe pride without Gods spirit doe arrogate and attribute all knowledge and understanding to themselves I have not onely poore thankes but also nothing else but derision and scorne at the which I doe rejoyce the rather in that I beare reproach for the Name and knowledge-sake of God 6. For if my knowledge had beene gotten in their Schoole then they would imbrace and love their owne but that it is from another Schoole therefore they know it not and moreover they despise it as they have done unto all the Prophets Christ and his Apostles this shall not trouble or turne me aside but as I have begun I will depend on my God and Creatour with the greater earnestnesse and fixed resolution I will commit my selfe unto him let him doe with me what he please 7. I attribute no wisedome unto my selfe moreover I rely not upon any purpose or intention of reason for I see most plainly and finde it as cleare as the Sun that God goeth clean another way to worke 8. Therefore if we deal in a childlike manner and not in our reason but onely depend one him with true desire and right earnestnesse and put all our confidence in him then we obtain sooner the noble Virgin of his wisedome then in our sharp inventions and acute reasonings for when shee cometh shee bringeth true Wisedome and Heavenly understanding along with her and without the same I know nothing 9. But seeing you have a great delight to read such Writings concerning the highest being and as I hope it is Gods providence therefore I will not withhold from you what the cheifest good hath put me in trust withall but shortly I will send you something that is more full for there is a very wonderfull and excellent Booke begun concerning the life of man which if the Lord please to continue his hand over me shall clearely open what man is and what he hath to doe to obtain the cheifest good 10. For it goeth very clearly through the three Principles and sheweth the whole ground so that a man unlesse he will willfully of himselfe be blind may know God and the Kingdome of Heaven and also himselfe likewise our lamentable fall and also the restauration in the life of Jesus Christ and it shall especially treat of the fair Lillies which God will bestow upon the last World which will be very pleasant to be read 11. And though I know not sufficiently the full and whole ground what it shall be yet I see it in a great depth and I hope if God grant so much grace not to give over till it be finished and also for the future finish the promised writings which are now kept back by the Oppressour as also my Exposition upon Moses where the great wonders of God shall be clearely manifest to the light of the Day the which God will freely bestow and afford unto the last World 12. However at present all is in Babel and there shall a great rent be made yet let none despaire for as God helped the Children of Israel with Consolation in the Babilonicall Captivity and sent them Prophets even so shall now also Lillies grow up in the midst of Thornes and this is wonderfull 13. Also none need thinke that even now the whole Destruction of the City Babel shall come to passe there shall verily be an exceeding great Rent such a one as men now doe not beleeve for the Antichrist is not wholly revealed though verily in part 14. Men shall suppose that they have wholly rooted him out and after some sorrow great joy shall follow and they shall make Laws and Covenants together with severe sharpe Articles of Religion yet for the most part for the advancement of their Honour and Might and men shall suppose that the holy spirit of Heaven speaketh and now there is a golden World yet it sticketh full of Gods Anger and is still in Babel and the true Essence of the right life in Christ is not yet therein 15. Also the Rider on the Pale Horse shall come after and cut off many with the Sickle yet in the meane time the Lilly springeth in the wonders against which the last Antichrist shall raise Persecution even then commeth his End for the appearance of the Lord terrifieth him 16. And then Babel burneth up in the zeale and Anger of God and the same is wonderfull of which I have no power to write more plainely yet at that time my Writings shall be very serviceable for there commeth a time from the LORD which is not from the Starry Heaven 17. Blessed is he that seekes the Lord with full earnestnesse for he shall not

nature beginneth and then the Hell in man is destroyed and the Serpent is troden under foot whence great unquietnesse persecution and reproach from the Devill and the corrupt World doth arise against the outward sinfull man and even then the outward sinfull man must suffer it selfe to be condemned and judged to damnation by the children of Anger and by Gods severe justice in the anger seeing that another man liveth in him which is not like and conformable to the outward mortall man and so Gods Justice executeth its judgement in the anger upon the house of sinne and also all the Ministers of Gods wrath doe helpe the execution thereof 27. And even then Christ helpeth to beare the yoak and man is Sacrificed in Christs processe contempt and scorne in his suffering and death to the justice of God in the anger and becomes conformable to Christs Image 28. The holy Scripture witnesseth in all places that we are justified from sinnes by Faith in Christ and not by the workes of our merit but by the blood and death of Christ which indeed is so taught by many but rightly understood of few that teach us so 29. We are taught indeed an imputed grace but what faith is and how it is begotten and what it is in its Essence reall Being and Substance and how it layeth hold on the merit of Christ with the grace herein the greatest part are dumbe and blinde and depend on an Historicall Faith James 2. which is onely a bare knowledge or literall conjecture and therewith the man of sinne doth tickle and comfort himselfe and through an imagination and blind perswasion doth flatter and sooth up himselfe and calls himselfe a Christian though he is not yet become either capable or worthy of this so high a title but is onely a titular Nominall Christian externally cloathed with Christs Purpur-Mantle of whom the Prophet speaketh saying They draw neere to mee with their lips but their heart is farre from me And Christ sayd Not all that say Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but they that doe the will of my Father in Heaven 30. Now Christ alone is the will of the Father in whom the acceptation o● grace and adoption confisteth and none can doe the love will of the Father save alone that onely throne of grace Christ himselfe as the holy Scripture declareth no man can call God Lord without the holy spirit in him 31. For we know not what and how to pray before God as wee ought but he even the holy spirit in Christ maketh intercession for us with unutterable sighes before God in our selves as it pleaseth God we cannot attaine any thing by our willing and knowing he is too deeply hidden from us for it lyeth not in any mans knowing willing running and searching but in Gods Mercy 32. Now there is no mercy but onely in Christ and if I shall reach that mercy then I must reach Christ in me are my sinnes to be destroyed in me Then must Christ doe it in me with his blood and death with his victory over Hell Am I to beleeve then must the spirit desire and will of Christ beleeve in my desire and will for I cannot beleeve 33. But he receiveth my will being resigned to him and comprehends it in his owne will and bringeth it through his victory into God and there he intercedeth for the will of my soule in his owne will before God and so I am received as a child of grace in his will of love 34. For the Father hath manifested his love in Christ and Christ manifesteth that same love in my will being resigned to him Christ draweth my will into himselfe and cloatheth it with his blood and death and tinctureth it with the highest tincture of the Divine power and so it is changed into an Angelicall Image and getteth a Divine life 35. And forthwith that same life beginneth to hunger after its body which body is the degenerated fiery soule into which the will in Christ is entered so that the new life in Christ doth now also tincture the soule whereby the soule in the spirit and property of this new will obtaineth a right Divine hunger and is made to long after and desire the Divine grace and begins to behold and consider in the spirit of his Divine will in Christ what shee is and how shee in her propertyes inclinations and dispositions is departed from God and lyeth captivate in the wrath of God and then shee acknowledgeth her abominations and also her deformity in the presence of Gods Angels and findeth that she hath nothing wherewith shee is able to protect her selfe for shee sees that shee standeth in the jawes of death and hell encompassed with evill spirits which continually shoot the strong influence of their evill desires into her to destroy and corrupt her 36. And then she diveth into that same new-borne spirit of the will and wholy immerseth her selfe into very humility it selfe and so the spirit of Christ taketh hold of her and bringeth her into the spirit of this new will so that the soule essentially and experimentally feeleth and findeth him whereupon the Divine glymps and beame of joy ariseth in the soule being a new eye in which the dark fiery soule conceiveth the Ens and Essence of the Divine light in her selfe and thereupon hungreth and thirsteth after the grace of God and entreth into an effectuall repentance and sorrow and bewaileth the evill which it hath committed 37. And in this hunger and thirst it receiveth Christs flesh and blood for the spirit of the New will which in the beginning entered into the grace of Christ and which Christ received into himselfe becommeth now substantiall and essentiall by the magnetick impressure hunger and desire of the soule 38. And this essentiality is called Sophia being the essentiall wisedome or the body of Christ and in this the faith in the holy Ghost doth consist Here Christ and the Soule beleeve in one Ground 39. For true Faith doth not consist in thoughts or in meere assenting to the History Viz. That a man impresseth or imagineth in his minde to himselfe that Christ is dead for his sinnes and by an Historicall apprehension or blind perswasion of a particular Election clingeth to his merits and righteousnesse without the innate righteousnesse of Christ and life of God essentially working in him and begetting him to a new creature for Faith is a receiving of the promised grace in Christ it receiveth Christ into it selfe it doth impresse him into its hunger with his heavenly flesh and blood with the grace which God offereth in Christ 40. Christ feedeth the soule with the Essence of Sophia Viz. with his owne flesh and blood according to his saying whosoever eateth not of the flesh of the Sonne of Man he hath no life in him but whosoever eateth the same he abideth in him 41. And herein the Testaments of Christ and also the right Christian Faith